THE MONTROSE DEMOCRAT, t S -PUBLISHED MU ESDAYSi BY 'arerritosiork.. OFFICE ON rtlnuq AvENtTs, TIIRBk noorts - ABort•ssl.m.'4 LIOTEL. • ; • • • ppr annum !ADVANCE ; otherwise 'SI will be-charged—and fifty cents per annum adtt , td to &meows, at the °Mine °Ube Publisher, to pay ,xpensc or collection, etc. Ai:mutat paynient preferred. it ADVER ; rISEMENII3 I will be inserted at the rate ofl.l periquare. of ten lines or leis, foi the fret three er,eks, and 25 amts for oath additional weck—pay down. 3terchants, and others, *lto advertise by the year, will be Charged at the foltowirig rah", Ili.; ' Per one :o:are. or r, one year. withehieat, and that hereafter,-no mol.e. tro 8 s would be per mittato leave the State," and has order-. ed all the ,North Carolina State troops home. Ile further informed the Richmond authorities that they could .ase, the rail ! roads in retreating-homewards, but they I would run their own risk or being inter:. eepted by a Union : force at any part of the State. The source.through which this intelligence comes leaves no doubt of the sUbstantial.aCettraey of the whole transac= tion., _ 'flails were an isolated case it might be I traversed by the claim of somethingfoe- , 1 culiar in the temper of the people of the Old North State. But it is not an isola ted case. It• is butt 'h short time since , a body of • South Carolina soldiery, true to the State-rights traditions which have -Of late been the "be all and end all" of her politics, refused to leave the limits' of the Suite in support of the Southern pause, alleging, as the Atignsta (Ga.) con t4tiono It st rep(Prt ed, that" they were en- liked to serve the State Of South Caroli nh,-:.lnd were willing to tight in her own deffinee, but that they Would net go out Of the State." The officers urged the stig Ma. that would rest upoti them for relit-s -ing to go where their country most need- ed their services, and the reproach Alley' would bring upon the State of South Car olina, which had been forentost iu -the work of resistance. Sheer appeals, how ever, were unavailing, and the malcon tents stubbornly refused-to leave the beim-. daries of the State. We are safe in predicting that 'there - will be a steady developement of the State Rights theory in the South, and that in Proportion as the rebellion wanes, this cardinal doctrine-Will'acquire new and pe culiar poWer. If the rebels,yrould only stick thithffilly to tlfe programme with which they set out, the fabric of rebellion would ere this have fallen to pieces of its own weight. But the Richmond usurp ers soon discovered that, though secession might be a very useful.' aid to break up •kt Government, it was a poor principle on which tar-found a new one, and the. "Con federacy" has for months been-such a -des potism as, there are few parallels to. The honest Southern devotees to State-Rights are, them Selves beginning to discover and deplore what they call the " great change in Out Government." The end will be that we-shall find this heresy a most import ant atiiillary in the rehabilitation of the Union. As the Confederate cause experi eneeS new reverses,_ it will -become very convenient to back determinedly on the "ireserved rights" of the States. The first gtep; in many cases,- will not be ley ' ally to theiinion,.but State Rights versos The Conffideracy. State Rights will be the middle term that will let.them down from rebellion to re-union'. :'The logical outworking of secession is to siwede froin seeession. It is -interestin g to sec how the Moral laws thus vindicate themselves— how vaulting ambition doth eterleap itself, and fall on the other Y. Times, ' Marriage of Blood Relatives. * • The state or Massachusetts desired, a few years since, to ascertain the number 1 of idiots in .the state, with aiview to make lar'rangements for 'their welfare, as well as ). to establish thd statistics of the case.. The I legislature sent out a. commission of inqui- - 4 4ry, and the report lies, before us. One Hpassage, page 90, gives " the statistics Of ' seventeen families, the heads .of which, 1 being blood relatives,intermarried,"which lite bad '.occasion to inquire , about in the 1 discharge of his commission. . - . Nincty T five 1 ehil4ren were the issue of these seventeen marriages: Of ( tile :.9§ ' children, i • Was' a 1 dWarf, - 1 vas deaf, 12 were scrofulous and pany, - and 44 were 'idiots. Nature i3peakS 1 plain enough here; and - no considerations of sentiment, custom, or' prejudice. should drown her Voice. .. - - - -. . Ur' Letters from liilton Head inform us that the Government is now feeding at least s,ooo'negroes at a daily expense of alpout *lO,OOO 'per day- 7 or at•the rate. of 4tp,650,000 a year! • ' The W i nd of Cienori Balls. .-- -i ' . l`lia times haitti been, That when the brains were out tho;man would die, - t / And there an nd; but now, they doe again, With With twenty n ortal murders on their crowns, : And ptiticu a om our stools.',' So-with,th superstitions of sailors and soldiers. , .. 'Thy haVe more. lives than cats. The, brain s Ihave been knOcked out of this one man times, but here it-comes a gain:. . • Col. at Roanoke; body ; ergO, cd by the triin says the slull The wind ( anybody,for . which Is, tha • The air di.a stautly behii/ feet. This is pig plated beyOn! occurrences For instance from Fort Dt bet 'Ceti pilot htu > se . it, injurint., Ilia that ball at falls dead in the canimnidel 9 wound i's feund upon his : nys the ioldiel, he:ivaii kill . of the balls. Non sequitur; if a cannon ba,l never.. hurts many masons, the' first of there is no such thing. -placed by the ball ;closes in it, but bas.ne lateral cf . jved in varion4 ways, but is . d cavil or.qUestion, by the rn every severe cannonade. the dispatch! just received I 'nelson. l says "shot struek the. , f the St. 'mix., passing thro' 'he two pilots 1 logs, without ". Why did ilot the wind of east bark hiS stills ? ' The tact is hat military surgery abounds in cases whi h proves that .cannon balls pass in grazilig conflict with all Parts,ot a mans body, land never (14 the •slightest harm, except to the parts ; ritually struck. They have Sina'shed Orel* bats and' bel nfets, razino the hair; tbeyi have -cut oil' ears ylose t the skull; Lulls to the side ; one thigh close to the othjer ; and yet the adjacent parts are left as Sound as ever. Au instaiice is given (4a hear shot striking a link ot marching • in9n in the flank, taking. °tithe right leg of the first, of the third and of the Mb man,. passing of course latwcen the legi of the others, and yet the left legs of alp wounded men were uninjured, and the other men knew nothing abeitit it. ' , According to the wind, theory, the r legs should have been bad ly 'injured. • :• Mit how account-for. the death of men in action. w ose skins are unbroken, sava by the wilt ITheory Easily, :tl; thus : The 'vital iuternal or gans float, its it were,in a yielding medi um. Pres4your hand On the pit of a , in stom iph slowly and—you may dis place the organ without any pain or inju ry; but plant a swift blow there with your fist, abd you double the man up with pain; perhaps kill hiM outrightl. but there will not •be the slightest' outward mark ; II nee in boiing, a bkiw below .the belt is ndeed foul. 'Press hifititupon a mates left side, and the elasticity of the ribs, - .aidiid by. the \e lastic cartilages at each - end, allows great depression, to be Made--4consequently the Mart and units to be pushed aside; and yet everything counes back- to its place without pain or injury : but a swift -blow over the svne part withhit club, or a fall from a iiolse npon some hard - substance, I may fracture the ribs, ;drive the' sharp, brqken po nt.s through ;the membranes, or liven p, ralyze the heart and kill the man outright, without 16a-ving a blemish - on the "skin. , - Standing: oneein the bow Of a vessel, as she bor e r down upon the hostile bat tery, my ye caught the first flash •.of a cannon, and quicker than One could wink twice, thelball came crushing through the bulworks,land smote doWn a comrade, be fore my- ear caught thefreport, }i_rhiehs he alas 1 was;too far gonetb hear. A twelve pound sh4t struck 'him full Upon the pel vis; but tieing partly spent in Splintering the wood its force - was further bro ken by his body, and it. fell to the deck wit him. No blood was drawn, but the internal parts ;were so \ smashed that her Was hardly goti,down to the cock pit alive:-) _ . . • , Soldieq . and-sailors hate. other super stitions a • out spent balls. The old • iSol diers lov to retail t4tuto the - recruit, upon NO m he looks doWn as sophomores do upon reshmen, or 4s- our regular off icers upo4 the volunteers, and with a little reaon, few of them ever having seen any and kluting,t for , the Mexican war was ut a poor so rtt of dress campaign, against. a poor weak criemv, in the whole of whichherd was less blood shed than 1 in a Napleonic skirMA'sb. - The old sol dier, I sajr, will tell Fon of_ the greenhorn, who, seeing a•spent ball just moving on the gromk-tried to stop it:with his foot, but had lt cut clean o`, - instanter; The fabt is-a ganhon ball partly spent ricochets and roll with just 'the- sane force 'as though it. had been :rolled by a man's band; an - no more. • The %force depends' upon its 'eight and telocity, ,of course. Mortawounds however,, without any ,bloodshedor.breach of the Ain` are not :commonly made by spent balls,; ' but by those haying great ve oeity; and accord ing to My theory they should-be more fre quent by smooth bore i than by rifled can.., non. The 1):,11s rotate swiftly or the axis as they fly, nd in diredtions according to the force acting upori them as they leave . : the gun. l' - , NoW dike a.V.-poull shot and hold t i . it before a' nan's thigh, lop the outside, or before his ribs, in such wise that' if you ' push it ftwariVand he stands firm, the bail will I ass, by reason of his flesh yield: ' ing, one ueh . ; tliat is by being pressed in-- , wards one inch. Thd ball will. thus have moved through a sp4ce before occupied 1 by flesh, kus bone, because it' passed slow ', lv, or tht parts yield fl, tind 'no - harm - is clone: 1 tit if that .imite man is standing firmly,. itnd that same l':-pound - shot, ' rushing tkwift as lightning strikes hint in till' sam direction iti may•roll 'over the skin - Wit out breaking • it,"lint neverthe less, dn. h it' inward. with such ;sudden shoek'as 1 ito paralyze fill vital action, - • and I even cr h the bone.; • . - - love' - thunderholt . could not strike a maa..de d more suddenly, or leave less sears.'. Sometynes it is found. - the internal j parts aie . rupturedj marked, and even pummel d to a dally; though Ater° were no otttw rd marks. IGenerall7, however, the dia loratiorfshOws ittielt, plainly on the surface in a ahoi.t, time after death. War has real. to `ors ; enough'; and a moving annon baltis a :fearful missile ;. but we #hould get rid of all surierstitions about iti 1 C . • I NO. -22. NEW YORK POLITICS. Daniel S. Dickinson, the Brenk- inridgi3 Democrat of the State of New -York•, was last year elected to lucratiyp State office upon a Union ticket. The ion party at that time ignOred.evo7 par ty question, Sand went befoie the people upon the single idea of a vigorous cation of the war. Upon such a plutforinl the ticket was successful by pearly a•linn-, 1 dred thousand majority. 3lr.Dickinsoh, and those Union Democrats who ac(6.1.1 witli-him then ;were_ entirely -grilling to keep up their organization as long as the war lasted, but it seems that!theiritepnb- I lican colleagues, as is usual with that par ty everywhere, desired to gii.e it an aho• iition coating. That is, as in Pennsyhiia- - • nia, the Republicans of NeNir - York - defre creation to regard them as the *at. party, when their designs • are4in3ply t7F effect abolitiovism,• and, all who are , not prepitr ed to assist them in their operation are=of course to be termed "sympmhizers with I treason." • Mr. - Dickinson very nicely• exposes these.gamesters, id a letter;- from wlicelt . we select. the following extraet.: I/ i i "Soon after the issue of certain le,sOlu tions by a Republican - committee, ronStst- , ing of Mr. Draper and others, recomtn4pd- - ; ink strict Repnblicap organization, action, I ttc., a .` Republican member of Assetntlyl in- i vited toe to meet a numbler of gentlemen i for the purpose of consultation,: touckfitg. the continuation of the, Union mormitent.! from last autumn, and J went there adeor- 1- dingly. The meeting' rwaS.Contposedi of both Democrats and Republicans, !atidl -more of the latter than . the former.. The sentiment seemed unanimous that the La ion of last fall should be- continued, tipon the same broad and generous--prinetples and basis as illen, until the close of pets war; and I was requested,. -urged to peti ‘ a brief address, to be signed by niemberS of ' the Legislature who concurred: in 1 this .view, for the purpose of calling a fate 1 Convention: Time address was to enibody the-sentiment Of the Union Convention of last fall—lwas to avoid all ,party:platferm lmiking; and to recommend that. - a l. the Union men, irrespective. of present pOliti= cal designation or shades of opinion i sl auld nnite.in furtherance of a common object. i . I consented to write the desired address: I. did write it; and at a subsequent ;Sitni lar meeting it was entirely and cordially approved,. and was put in type f 0 con venience, and the proof partially correct ed, though.it was not published.- I-heard that proof slips- were issued to . nietifbers of the Legislattire, though I had no Ifgen cy in it and no personal knowledgelcon-. cerniug it. , I soon after leirned thaV,Some •of those who begged me most persistent ly to pen this address; and who')tnost 'loudly, approved it wheri I produced it s were engaged in draWing .and shading, a doctrinal platform—seeing how faiftbey could depart from the. Republican creed• without missing it, and. low neari;they, f could come to " the Democratic pldiform without hitting it—and not being tin ad- . raker of this mode of treating subj4Cts-at nnitime,'and - espeCially at this, I t(lek no • Nailer thought Concerning it." -i! ~ 4 Utilizing Trifling Things, 1: It is surprising to what an extentiseem ingly useless articles are utilized to the inainifacturing arts.- Ye will ,preheat -a few examplea - to illustrate this point!: The proSsiate of potash is made in large quantities in Cineinnati.frOm.hoofs,j i horns and, other refuse of slaughter grunt+:#. , - Cow hair taken from hides in tanneries is employed for making plastering Mortar to give it a sort . of fibl.ons quality. 1! Sawdust is daily-sbld for sprinkling the -floorS of markets and various publiC beg; it is also used for ,packing- ie for shipment. 1) . The rays of worn-out shirtingqcalico dressess a 74- the waste of cotton factories. are employed-to make news paper. • The parings of skins and hides abd. the ears of cows,calveii and are cArefully collected and converted into glue. V . made fromfiner qualities of gelatine are made from ivd%y rapsing—the bones and tendons , of animals. Bones converted'into charcoal by roast ing in retorts are afterwards employed for purifying the white sugar with wbjeli we sweeten our coffee, &c. The ammonia' obtained from* the distil lation of coal in making ' gas is ei4loyed for saturating orchil and cudbear in mak ing the beautiful lilac colors that ae dyed on silk and fine woolen goods. . • Carbonic acid obtained in the d . Lion of coaltar is employed with Other acids to prodrice beautiful-yellow colors':oit silk and wool. , , . .... . . . , The shavings of cedar wood used in ma kino• pencils are distilled to obtain the . 0 Otto of cedar wood. . . Brass filings and old brass kettles are remelted and employed to make the brass NVork ofprintinglitesses, ptimps,Ae. ,Old horse-shoe nails are einpldyed to make the famous steel and twistlnirrels of fOwling pieces Coal tar bnimid and_made - int:o lamp.-- blapk. used for printing inlc,cOmmon black paint and blacking for shoe*, 4ke. k_ The cast off gauze dresses of Parisian belles are purclia . Sed.for . a mere afing and sent to the West India `lsland s; where they perforth a second duty of deOrating the sable daughters of the tropico. - Oyste r _shells are burned iu kilns. aMi afterwards nsed,inmaking cement,. . W'''lhe Brooklyn Eagle -pertinently remarks that ain . truth,tlut nc, party' men are about the only ones who are troubling 'themselves about party qUestions;" That is truo,not onl,y now but generally as it is the habitual Inn pay,,,y' man who is always hatching up solfewl party. "rhe Chicago Tribuile saYs- , that If the new constitution be 'adopted, Illinois Will be secured to the Deinimr;a4 for the. next thirty Pears: Negro immigration, zegro votmg, add office holding 2re to. be prohibited - rlbenee;the 'fears of are Trib nue and its party. ' :•• • JOB PRINTING. of ALL KINDS DONE AT TUEE - OFFICE OF 711 E ri MINEO C 3EL .A. f r , NEATLY ANDPP.OMPTLY, AND AT "LIVE AND LET Wile' PRICES - TIM office of the Montrose Dernocrnl bag recently beim supplied with a new and , choice a er;et of type. eta., sad We &renew lrefared . topprint ramphitt e 102=lall, etc., ate., in the beat 101 e, on hurt notice.. Handbill% • Poi3ters, 'Programmes, and :othr kinds of work in this line. done stemma ord, r Thisineks, Wedding, and Ball CAnns Tickets, ate., printed wlthiscancsa acd dtepatch. Justices' and Constables' Blauks, N ot (~ •Decde, and all other Menke, un baud, or priottd rirJob work and Blanks, tobr ps4d for or 1.1-ultyci _WHAT • IS LOST HT =DOLING. We begin to realize how much lost' to the Union cause by the elqlnge McClellan's - programme, after he reacj., , ,,i the :seat-of war. The Poston ibirtrthor, Republican paper, presents the case ole4:- : ly in the following paragraph :.• • • How far the plan on which Gen. \l,• Clellan has-been compelled to pr , . -ecd Virginia; is inferierto that which he j•r.-- posel to:exeiiute, is shown by the•regtili.. It is well known that the Gefielid proceed ed to the peninsula, with the escpectatioi that the naval- forces. won hi co-oper - ate ill both the York and James rivers, and•tl,at. WThrvell'i army would -also a4si-4 cutting Off the retreat of the. rebels. ti , um: still tffeet. to Aleny ,that any important change in the scheme Was made; ba;:. tluo 4 . , a matter ... Web does not- rcpt up;alc,u • jetture 'or upon any slender authority. The fact that.a change; destruetil e the whole Scheme . Of operations, was nia , Te, is known, and will.one day appear in e' i deuce Satisfactory to every one. Th , • - suit is, that instead a the capture t.i' na entire .army—a .result that was morally certain tinder the original plan, s , k soon the rebels suffered themselves tobe dran into the peninsula—we have a p 1 in to the ,enemy indifed, but nod, pable of being pushed to his annihilation, as under the original scheme. The .Ta:i,( , EmPr was not attempted - by our naval ces until, to be feared, the atte;upt I can become of little consequence. 3.17. 1 . Dowell's army is lost-for the , ktneral 31:1!-• poses- of the campaign, while - Banks .an•! Freniont are not in a - position to sui•;•::, tbe want, even if their slender fbrees-an.i line of operation permitted: The Albany Aryug• remarks:—Ml);.v. - ell's army. 'is lost to the campaitpi; at: theyebel army is saved from cliptnre.---- The - infinite mischief of the interferen,!e hardly all embraced in' this pre , .m:mt ssl- tenee.. The. rebel army in it, :etroa! Wastes . the country .it abandons, and stroys the - property of the inhabitam We lose - this much ; . anh we lose all th, time that the war is prdtratited t , h,, r.• treating forces falling hack to.tlit, mo-m -tain -ranges of the gulf States... Long ago, we heard that 31cClellan deposited 'With a cOntidential "fickil,La7 WashinittOn his policy Of the wln , l e :::r: so that tf he should fill in battle, or 1' • deposed by the cabal at Washington, ti ,• means of• Vindicating his reputation wo , i! ! 'be Still left. The campaign of the 311-i-- sippi, the .coast expedition, and the' rap. tare of the forts, as well the canipai ,, n Yorktown', .rere all laid' but m advanc, much as they have since eventliated i!! fact. 111caelfitti liiny be coMptillej to la , : • conrse - totthis statement, iti order to dieute the character-of his strategy in ,Iv of its-most critical and hazardous poin:, As it is, he and his army came within ace,of destruction oti Sunday, the 4th of May. s The e•hapl or is-a curious and - ~ novel one iii Americati' history, it: all admit when it is fully made known. ~ Noraki at the National Capital The Washington correspondent ofiir — - Chicago Tribune, the leading organ of t 1 L. Republicans at the West, thus testilits the corruption of . its Rea,' it„y,• who . declare that to expose public stalin is ifeasen • "The tone of morality here is com•i;:,3- ably lowerihan it ever has been bei;,r.•. This is admitted on all hands, and eau 1,.• prov,ed- 4 ,0r rather needs no proof, for IL, air is heavy with public and private guilt: A few years ago a high Austrian whose peculations were discovered, aplicd a lancet to his owe , veins, and snot her .similarly 'situatedbanged)thuself. Theri: is no such sense'of shame here.: An V I', i' - oner ' s jury in, Washington would verdict of insanity for such conduct, an.l verdict would be - accepted in good fait The Southerners as a class, had very sense of honor so far as the public trea , : , - ry is concerned. 'Floyd was an exolkti-: , —almost' a solitarY.exception to_ he When they held the power here there A v;t.. .comparatively little thieVing;and was discovered it, Was pl•otriptlY and denounced. There has been a chati „ ,.. dreadful change for the worse. Ti:,: frauds and attempted fraud. 4 in - the treaz ury, in one channel' and another, crone fast„and from such unexpc.cteitquartor , ,, Mat one is..bewihiered in contemplatin:.: them. Yet nobody has been brought' to justice, and . nobody seeilfs to think i: possible'that.anybody should be broil ;:f !I 7, to justice. "Oh, those rascally, contr3.3- ors ! ”-says some honest 'ltalian the.rm:ll districts. For every dollar wrougthry taken by a contrantor, five have bcti: t,il.• by py blie eervantt The Union as it Was. The radical men and newspapers ar. boldly getting their faces . against the Union. They havesonie concealed, haps because indefinite, idea of what sort of government they propose to establi , l , but they do but explain. - The Chica ! ,, , Tribune pronounces agahist the Union it was, and in - favor of 'the:Union as it t. be.' . The.enemies Of the- Union-, North and SiAth, are uniting tbra vigorous final struggle against it.. The true•Uni , t Savers, theeonstitutional men of the - c.:‘ thin, are rallying to the, support. •of ti.• Old Union' ligamst enemies on both side The Shibboletliby which to ktint- p:,t riot now is, "'are you for the. liti4ql-. , ! Washington, the Old Union, OA! Ameli can Union, one- and ,indivisible ?" Man hesitates; prevaricates, or ; explain• before - he says yes to that queStion, set him down as a disunionist. 'The New York Sun (rep;) says : . tremendous reaction against the 11E17111,1i can paity, as lately coustitutued, seem; t be in progress throughout the.eniire Gcr man population of • the Northwest: s lt lowa the 'Democrats are looking for tit,roi funds of German votes,where they acre had them hefore,and Minnesota,-Missour Michigan, and even in Ohio,. the. chant: of sentiment is astonishing. ' rirJobn Cochrane, who made a dun, of Himself by ltdvoeating, the idea of ant ifig.the negroes,:has been rejeeted by ti Senate as a Brigadier General. '