JDcuotjeb to fJoliius, literature, plgriatlturc, Stitntt, iHoraliti), ant nxcval Intelligence. VOL 20. STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JUNE 23, IS61. NOt22 Published by Theodore Schools. '"CllS. Two ilotlnrs per utinuiulii advance Two "ilolliirs and u quarter, half yearly anil if not.nnid be fore the end of the year, Two dollars and a li.tlf. No n;nersd!scoiitinued until allarrcaiagesarepaid, 'iXceplal Uic option of the Editor. ICTWlverlisemenls of one square (ten lines) or less, .one orthrce insertions, St 00. Each additional inter .ton,2j cents. , Longer ones in ptoporlion. tJ03 PRINTING. itiVin aqencral assortment of large, plain and or naindaUi Type, v. c arc prepared to execute every lie scriptfon of CanK Circulars, Hill Heads, Notes. Blank Receipts Justices. Leg.tl and other Blanks, Pamphlets. &c..piln, ted with neatness and despatch, on reasonahlctcnns at this office. From the Bo.ton Traveller. OFFICE .SEEKING, Experience of an Office-seeker, in which there is a great deal more truth than poetry. . Mr. Richard Rusty desired an ofFnc under the new Ad aiinhj-triition, and he went to Wa.-bingtoc to get it. At home, lluty was know as plain 4Diok" Diok R'ty, private in the "Vol unteer Minute Guard," at Square. Dick Ruty had 'tied his eeven dollar coat severely bearing a torch in the Wide j a Terjr DU3y aod' very saortf but has no Awake prooession-; he had served as uo- j doubt that Mr. Gray (whose duty it is to Jer Secretary at the town aud County ! attcnd to these things) can inform Mr. Conventions he was the very first man, Squamty "what to do about it." He in his neighborhood, who had thought of gnd jirt Qray SCD i,;m t3 jjr Green "Abe" for Prc.idunt, aud he determined jir Qreen forwards him to Mr. Bloo, to be "counted in, ' .-ure, after inaugura- WUo pPeaks-Enclhh very -indifferently.) lion. adii so carpet, jag iu uana, ouo i - . i i i fine morning recently, he iouaiojr ud Penovlvania found' hirnt-clf avenue in the reat city of "hacks ani magnificent dia tauces. Washington is a very fine place! Dick bad his "papers with hies, to wit, a few badly spelled and kom writjeu vouchers for his good cuaracter and "sterling po- tal principle-, and knowing himself his own esteem) sound on the goose, m.rcaehin Washington he sailed in lltiral (in ucon.reactnn,: Washington he sailed in for the little Government office be coveted in his native town. llaviug carefully euveloped hit cre dentials, he started them up iu the De partment to which they were addressed, and triumphantly sat himself down in the garrt t room of hi boarding house to a wait an auwer Jrom the Hon. Secretary. And thus he ivaitcd. Ooc day, two, three, five, a week ex pired. But no reply by post, as he had expected! No;?, this was a very singu lar circumstanoat(in Mr. Rusty5,s opin ion.) and the delay very unusual in his experience. Indeed, after a time, it came to look very.auch like slight to wards him. What could it mean! He wrote to inquire why his "little matter Lad not becu attended to. He got no frply to this either! Afc'ain be addressed the department upon the seme subject- I3ut be received no answer. This was an outrage. Whereupon having waited a uother week, ho determined, valiautly, to "know the reason why." Mr. Ru-ty had not omitted to stir op the Hon. Representative from his dis trict, (who assured him he would "look iuto bis ca-c,5") and then he waited once soore. lie found the county editor too, -abo chanced, to be alfO an applicant- for place, aud he promised to fittend to Mr. Ruty directly. And again he waited. Still no Ti plv. And thus four weeks run 1 'on. and Ru-ty's money ruu out j Astoni-bed and exasperated, he ttart- ; en at length for the Department in pcr ton. He found at leat sis hundred per- t.ons there before him, 3!1 rcligiouly bent upon an errand similar to his own. He waited six mortal hours in the great win- , dy passago-vay, win re he was squeezed, , elbowed, and jammed, und nearly suffo cated; but fctiil he struggled for hi . "turu." He got biiht of tho inner door . just in season to wo-tho Hon. Secretary emerge aua'paaS'.oui. to uis carriage iur home. Buioe8s was over for the day, and the.mob rushed down the stairs and retired! But Richard Rusty, of Squam, was a man of business; so he followed up his object next day, and the next, and the next. At last ho succeeded in getting imide, when the following colloquy eu Bucd: "Good morning. Mr. Secretary," says Rusty, confideutry, and he grasps the Secretary's hand like -a "Son of Malta" who has passed his twenty third degree. "Good morning," responds the Hon. Secretary blandly. "Mr. Rusty Richard Rusty, sir," adds our friend. "Yes, very happy, Mr. Rusty. From Indiana!" queries tho Secretary, silly. "No, sir no." 0h ab, no. From Illinois, then!" "No, sir. From Squam," says Rus ty, modestly. "Squam? Yep, yes. Squam Maine, I think!" "No, sir Connecticut." "Ah. yes. Very happy. I remember Yes, Con- necticut: Rusty Squam, I know, now." Mr. Rusty fidgets So does the Secre tary. Each is desirous to got out of the. other's presence as soon as possible. And Mr. Rusty is duly referred, with his papers, to File Clerk No. 21, who (be is informed) "takes charge" of his docu- stents. Rusty retires in high glee, In his own judgment, he has won. He waits again. Three days five, a week a fortnight, but he hears nothing; and then bo ventures to wait upon Mr. File Cleric No. 21, where he inquires a bout his "little affair." No 21 has five bushels of unopened letters on his table when Rusty enters. , "What name, sir!" he asks. Rusty, sir. - Richard Rusty." (Jur otrioo liOQtcr is not a uttlo nettled to learn, as he now doca for the firet mm a mm a a a time, from File Clerk, that Messrs. Bus- ty. Cuty, Duty, Fusty, Guoty, Husty, dusty, KuKty, (loger beer manufacturer,) Lusty, Musty, Nusty, and Pusty arc all before bim on the list of applicants; for unfortunately, our friend from Squatn is always down among tbo R's. But Mr. Kilo Clerk No. 21, is a pa- tient man, and polite. He has been in the office a dozen years, and "will do anything to oblige Mr. Rusty (except give him Boy lucid information.) And No. 21 refers the applicant to Mr. Jones, No. 44, next room overhead. Up goo's' Rusty. Mr. Jones sends him to Mr. Buff, fourth clerk, No. 56, up two flights further. Mr Buff knows nothing of Mr. "Rusty Squam's oaee, but thinks Mr. Drabb can inform him about it. Mr.l Drahh nan't sa nflrtnin hnt Artit th : patient to inquire of Mr. Redd, down stairs, three flights, end of third naasa ! ir .?u T?.. l. 1 IU IUU iiru, uuitUi ituilj UBS UV liumpsg with him, (and really couldn't use it if he had,) but find his man. Mr. Reed i. - - - Mr. Bloo dispatches him to Mr. Brown, (the thirty-seven Browns on tho same !uo lurr"um Hoor,) and Mr. Brown hands him over to beeQ you daytime and night-time, Mr. Black,- up stairs once more. Mr.'?n.the11tfCDtd Pla,P' or he taring battle Black knows nothing whatever of Mr. 1 It all for love-love of country, love of Rusty or bis papers, and never heard oV1?!' ,a u.u 1U" U'P them but civilly refer- him ba3k to joues wnero ho started from. j3y tujH time Richard Rusty is discus tedand thoroUfihlj bcatcn 0ft with rbun. j ni over tbe ,tone 8tai he couoluded t0 bQ to his I0dainos. ,n n tn his Inrla Next day he commences once more and Turns of the great Department build- fltirl rrtti Incf in Inn rrt 1 It f n rini,a nmrilnta ' ing Before be has time to get bis bear ing again office hours have expired, and he returns again to his boarding-house attic to ruminate upon the mutability of human affairs generally, and of ofEce seeking especially, concluding with tbe philosophical sontiment that "Jordon is a hard road to travel." Desperate, next day he finds "File Clerk No. 2," with whom he originally deposited bis papers, and indignantly de mands his documents. After waiting E( veral hours and making diligent search, with his papers in hi hand he is admit ted to the preseuce of the Secretary, with whom amid his dispair and disappoint ment Rusty has a bone to pick." "I'm Mr. Rusty," ho says abruptly, as be enters. "Glad to see you," responds the Secre tary. "Yes, I s'pose so," says Rusty. "Where from, Mr. Rusted?" "Where fromV exclaims the appli cant, who doesn't comprehend why the Hon. Secretary has forgotten him. "Squam, sir," be adds, vehemently. "Richard Rusty, of Squam." "Ah jee, I remember, Massachusetts yes "No, Sir! Connecticut. Exactly. New Engl.and When did you arrive, Mr. "Yes, yes. all same. Rusted!" "A month ago, 'n more. ' Now, what I'y like to kcow, sir, is, am I to haye my office?" "Office! WTht office, sir?" "What office?" roars Rusty, amazed "wluit office? Why, the one I asked for, of course!" overwhel'mned Well, really lur. Squam, we are with business, you ob serve ' "Rusty is my name, sir; Rusty if you please." i "Very very, indeed, I assure you," : says ths Secretary. "jSzV?" exclaimed tho applicant, per plexed. "Great confusion terrible rush for ev I crytbiog, you see, no time to eat or bleep I but your little matter will be duly at 1 tended to." ! "Can't you fix it now?" insiets Ru6ty. I "Impossible, until I can examine your ! vouchers." "Here they be," says Rusty, in tri umph. "Yos. Go to Mr. Filo Clerk No. 21 and-" j "No, I shan't," said Rusty, bravely. "ivo, sir! xou can t come that, you khow, no more on me! I've been there! He sent me to Jouos, ho to Drab, he to Brown, ho to Gray, he to Green and so on, to Blue, Gizzle, and Blaok. That's played out, Mr. Secretary. So, a'posing you sign, right here." "Really, Mr. Musty, I should bo glad-" "Rusty, sir." "Yes, Rusted, tihculd be glad but, everything in course, you know. Must have a system, you see." "Then you won't sign?" "Can't at present, really," says tbe Se cretary m -n:t.or- "Rinsf-. in his rapo. delib - erately tears his documents into ehrodsjgeous eyo, quiverless hp, and soldierly and scatters then in the irate exclaim-i tread a veritable daughter of the regt- ing "It's all right. Mr. Secretary. I've hnnn fnnlerl T liocn T come all the WSV froa Squam, spent nigh a hundred dol - la, worn out two good pair o'boots a- trotting up an down these stepp, abd I give up I do. I'll go homo to-morrow: r. m ana u you over eaten mo a-seekmg office in this high old town again, you just out j my throat, an' I won't grumble, ;bye,-Mr. Hon'able Sec'tary."s Good ' "Good bye," responded the bead of too , Department, with a smile, and Mr. Rich- ard JLluty retires, packs his carpet bag, and returns to Squara'a wiser and better man. How many "lticbard iiustys ' have re- turned from Washington this toason with such a big "flea in the ear" as the above denotes! Certes, more than one. J . J n i . . 1 LOVE, A LA MILITAIRE A Camp Wedding in Washington. BY ASA TRENCHARD. Love and war, of consequence goes to gether, ehcek by jowel. No man who is 1 not in love ought to enlist. The b0XD, love .guc 10 CD . .ue naJ and tD0 petticoat are twin sisters. If , a 9i n fi2bt for J0" mast gV J 7? 1 very 8iar W01CU S"er8 on lQai neiu 01 blue should be as a woman s eye, watcn-j ing with guardian jealousy the patriotism and prowess of the soldier, and every stripe -should tell him how rosy cheeks and fair foreheads are bending forward to get one glimpse of him as he marches on his perilous career. Marchede glorie! If you fall, you are crowned with laurel?, and oanonized at home; if you come back, victory perched on your banner, there is V"? ur " ,S l 3,au Mr.-L"u,u" - fame, camps, x nam uun uuu lucu luiuugu b if u The men sing a great deal and their is a song of lovever and always ?.S0S V0 0h l 8,rl 1 left be hlnd me Burns and Moore are v.erJ popular now, bcoeuse they wrote soldier- 1 .. 1 . T?.. 1 t . 11.: l But I J o n S" l0.ta,k of arnage-ama a la ! militaire. A marriage by night a stnjdier and the daughter of the Regiment. 'Do you not think a pen-and-ink-sketch of the scene, of tbe parties, of tho bridal-bridal-decked camp, the hazy flames and misty smoke rising to the. moon, disclo sing tho round, turfy circle, with bride groom and bride, and their brown and brawny companions in-arms, all brothers of the one and fathers of the other with tbe novel ceremony, worth looking at I I an invited guest, tho only one saw tho whole of it. You, my friend, my, patrons my reader,6hall havo it pictured here to tbo life. Rarissima ! Such things do not occur every day. Ring tbe stage bell I let the curtain . roll up ! clear tho stage ! there are tho player's !" Let the drum cease I Six bold riflemen, olad in blue, with scar let doublets over the left shoulder, bearing blazing torohes; 0 glittering Zouave', with brilliant trappings, sparkling in tbe light and then the hollow square, where march the bridegroom and bride: then seven ! rows of six groomsmen in a row, all arm- w - i ed cap-a2ne1 with .burnished .weapone, j n i. r ki. it.. ! i r i. r .. uaouiug uuwn iu lusweuiiuu . uniform; and all around tho grand regi , mem uarKeuuig me wnue leni-ioius, aa their ruddy faces are but half disclosed between tbo red and yellow glare of the fires and the soft, silver of the May-moon. (This is all, you will bear in mind, out in tbe broad, opeu air. The encamp ment occupies a conically-shaped hill top, flanked around the rear crescent by a wood of fan lea?cd maples, sprinkled with blossoming d.ogberries, and looking out at tbo cone upon the river-swards be low. The plaiu is full of mounds and ridges, save where it bulges in the centre to a circular elevation perfectly flat, around which, liko fagades about a court yard, are arrayed the spiral tents, illuminated in honor of the coming nup tials.) Tho bride is tbe daughter of the regiment; tbo-to be-busband a favorite sergeant. Marching thus, preceded by the two files of sixes, and followed by tbe glitering rows of groomsmen, the lit tle cortege has moved out of tho great tent on the edge of the circle, and comes slowly, amid tbe bold strains of tbat grand Dcr Meidschwnmcrnacldstrom, tow ard the regimental ohaplain. You have seen tbe colored prints of Jeuny Lind on the baok of tbe music of "Vice de la France." You bavb noted the light flowing hair, tho soft Swiss oye, tho military boddicc, tho coquctisb red shirt, and pretty, buskincd feet and on- i kles underneath. Tbe print is not unlike jthe bride gbe wa8 fair-bairedt bluo eyed, rosy-cheeked, darkened in their hue by exposure to tho sun, in just tbe dress worn by les files duregiment. She was formed in that athletic mould which distinguishes the Amazon from her oppo site extreme of frailty. You could, not doubt bcr capacity to undergo the fatigues and hardships of a campaign, but your mind did not suggest to your eye those grosser and more masculine qualities which, whilst girting the woman with strength, disrobe her of tho purer, more effemiuate traits of body. You saw bo- fore vou a vouni? pirl. anDarently about" i eighteen years of ace, with clear, coura- - - CD O I I incnt. The bridegroom was of the samo san- ft i ' A A.I.V. i bride. As be-marebed, full six feet in ih.eight, with long, light colored beard, high cheekbones, aquiline nose, piercing, i n 1 . ffmne. tiermanic tomnerameni as luc deoply-studded blue eye, broad should- . - ; era, long arms, sturdy Icg9f feet and hands ' of laborious ideelooment. cocked bat J ; with bluo plume, dark blue frock, with bright soarlet blanket, tartan fashiou o- J ver the shoulder, small sword, you would have taken him for a hero of Sir Walter, ! Jbaitb, had Sir Walter seen bim, he him- self would have taken him. In default . however, of Sir Walter, I make bold to appropriate him as a hero on the present occasion. Indeed, he was a hero, and ! looked like it, every inch of him, leading '!... If fp 1 . ., ' iui.b Bcii-sacnucmg girt up to me regt- awuur icanj to mo union ana never tec mac i snoulu DC sposeD or as one or a mental chaplain, with his robe and sur-j his foot in a Slave State again. While , class of youn men T Now in my friend ' plice&nd great book, amid the btarc of a , these men were prisoners at Washington half'playful reminiscence I sec the exem thousand anxious eyes, to tho music of ' they were allowed to write to their friendf, plifieation of a grca t fact in human na glorious old Mcndelfohn and the beatingjbut their letters wcro examined lefore tare. Atlantic Monthly. " of a thousand earnest hearts ! they were sent off. One of tbo letters! The music ceased; a silence as calm as( hn eilcnt moon hnM thn afrnncrn wilrl i - - i i i .i . , . , , , 1 place; itho fires seemod to sparkle less ' nn(j iitti ,;, 1 ! cloud paused in its course across tho sky to look down on the group below; the! cje?r voice 0f tuo preaoher sounded a- novo suppresseu breathing 01 the spcota- Jum liKe ueviis mey uou 1 uiiim nuom. tors, and the vague burning of the fagot ! -Lord how tho went down tho street, heaps; a few short words, a few heart felt! where they cut, an' blashed, an' h'hot. prayers, the formal legal ceremonial, and Our boys run like tho devil then J s tho happy "amen." you ought to have seen 'em cut up tbe It was done. The pair were man and street again liko blue devils it makes wife. 1 In rain -or shine, joy or borrow, jtny blood cold to think of it. They shot for weal or woe, bone of one bone, and iovery way-.-knocked us from our bosses flesh of one flesh, forever and ever Amen I The. groom's people formed a hollow square around the newly wedded couple. In one corner a gateway was left for the entrance of the men. Then came one by one the members of tbat troop, with a kind word each, as each touched the bride lightly ontho cheek, and grasped the tho bridegroom heartily by the hand of one the sworn fathers, of the other the friends and brother comrades in arms. Where washer mother I Gone! gonetd, bold-hearted and out-spoken Parson away off beyond those clouds that played Brownlow is the only one in Knoxville about the moon. There she stood, out in the open night, under the glare of the flames and the moon, without another fe male soul near her, a lone orphan, far from homo and the compaions of home. There she stood a single, brave-hearted girl, fatherless and motherless, save in the hearts of those thousand surrounding soldiers, who amongst the conflicting o motions of tbe march had not forgotten their vows to protect and cherish her, tbo daughter of the regiment. Thero she stood by the side of that stout, great bear ded man, tbe emblem of womanly faith, as she was the picture of womanly help lessness, a patieni follower of tho live! and fortunes of those brave men. r Tho drums rolled forth again. Tbe t - . mi fire8 fla9bed more proadlj. Each cheek skies plowed Driiinter tnan Detore. J.ne glowed with a nobler, purer hue. And here let the green baize fall on the circle oamps and camp-fires, and brown, braw ny heads, and hearts, and hands. A good time may be coming for them. Knnflfl Pittinp. a punrdian anpel. over a b restored, and prosperous country, j .Mrt;i nn:toA 0llm m unu t& ii auuuu. uuiiwiA iswwixw avw and unalloyed, out of the fires of bard- - J I t ' 8hi nnd daDger and a home, sweet with i c . . the blessing of conscience, patriotism and truth, all this perchance,- the smoko of ; battle and the clane of arms, may clim- I J w mer for them. Happy time ! Making a Traitoy Useful. Gen. Prentiss, tho commander of the U. S. forces at cairo is one of tho best of ficers in the sorvice prompt, energetic, and never disconcerted. A good story ' is told of his recent treatment of a traitor, which is deserving of a wide circulation. ! It is as follows: " Mr. James D. Pulley, a member of tho Illinois Legislature, from Williamson Conntv. was arrested at homo on tbe 3d i ' inat nni hrrmclif-. tn Dnirn iinrlor milif.n- '"0"- f. --- ry guard. He was oharged with active ly fomenting treason; aiding in the for mation of a company of 30 men, who left Williamson County a week ago, to join tbo Rebel army, and making a strong speech of encouragement to them just be fore their departure Mr. Pulley admitted tho speech, but denied expressing Secession sentiments in it, and in fact claimed that ho was a U-jho will give a little better." Tho grocer nion man. He ovidently expected that keenly alive to the weskness of bis.fellow his eaeo would be immediaicly disposed creatures, encourages this notion. "This of by administering to oath of allegiance, tea," he says,"would bo four-and-sixpence and then setting him at liberty. But j per pound to any one else, but to you it is Gen. Prentiss, after hearing him patient-j only four and threepence." Judging lv. pave this verbal decision: "From ev- j from my own observation, I should Bay idence on filo in this office there is ftroog . tbat retail dealers trado a gooa deal up reasou to believe that tbe charges against! on this singular fact, in tho construction vou are true. I bee you to understand 1 of the human mind, that it is inexprcssi- J. . J . .. 'it t-. . ) i- v. .. i : that nothing gives me more pleasure tbanly bitter to most people to believe that the arrest of a domestic traitor. We they stand on the ordinary level of havo bad.troublo enough with men of manity that, in tho mam they arc just that class; and it is time for them to learn like their neighbors. Mrs. Lrowu would that- no treasoti- will bo tolerated in the be filled with unutterable wrath, if it were State of.lllinoii. When the witnesses . represented to hor that the grocer troats are procured, you will be placed on cx-iber precisely as he does Mr,. Smith who amiuation; all reasonable facilities for do- lives one hide of her, and Mrs. Snooks, d if nuiltvJwho lives on the other. She would ho you will be handed oer to the proper au- thotlties. and Dunishcd as a traitor to your country. Iu the meantime you are 1 a prisoner, bhu win vu uijiojuu upuu u uuguubii " H i j 1 our fortifications. Guard, taite this man granieu sdc is qunu u.uv. , wm b(j FerioQ!(jy curtaiicd, L'uj-wc aro to tbe guard-house, supply him with a quito superior to them. Human beings , fortfe and can stand this now shovel and a whcol-barrow, and keep him do not like to bo classed at least with . ghook jtej. beUor tjau tkc reDel-;r-at work upon the redoubt." As a man the class to which they bo ong. 0 be j Tfao fc (hemlhe of intelligence and position a leading classed at all painful to an average ; .g y Tdoline; spirit Mr: Pulley was evidently tho t ight mortal, who firmly believes that there j b person to make an example of. It will never 'was such a leiug in this world. 1 - 77"" have a healthy influence upon, the few remember ono of the cleverest friends I Uler 10 t a fashionable bovago. but active traitors who still infcst South- have-one who assuredly cannot be class- for drinking your friend hca.th, -butiit, em Illinois. !cd intellectually, txcept iu a very small is a capital one-'for druing;,voiru. How the New York "Vol anteeris Aston- . m-mm a a 151160.1116 V lrgmiaiis. At the fkirruish at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, headed by Lieut. Tomp- kins, several prisoners were takeu by our troops, as has already been stated. An officer who assisted at their-capture Kays that they" behaved tn a very uutuauly manner, begging in the most abject style for their lives, and protesting that they ooly served in the rebel ranks upon com- pulsion. One of them declared if bo could only bo liberated this time he would t lti aL- TT J i . rau on as follows: "Talk abont fighting! wbcW. tDV G dl One COU'DanV of them ' j - - i j "vr vi. r 1 1 . i. : . i i1. New York fellows can whip a thoQand of our me bv Gd. that's so: I'll swear ' 'it on a bible. You ought to havo seen ; 'em. Look heyar, recon I wanted to get out of the way. Sure's you're born, they're took pistols andBabers away my G d, bow they fit. Why Sir I'll swar on a bible them South and North Carolina fellows thatjs with us aint no account. They wont obey nobody no dieoipliue the blasted Yankees will lick them ev ery time." Parson Erownlow's Daughter. A gentleman jut arrived at Knox ville, Teun., brings intelligence of affairs 'in that city. I be bouse of the eclebra- over which the Stars and Stripes are float ing. A few days ago two armed seces sionists went, at six o'clock in the morn ing to haul, down the stars and stripes. Miss Brownlow, a brilliant young lady of twenty-three, saw them on tbe piazza, and stepped out and demanded their bus ness. They replied they had come to "take down them Btars and stripes." She instantly drew a revolver from her side, and presenting it said, "Go on! I'm good for one of you, and I think for both."' "By the look of the girl's eye, sho'll shoot one remarked. "I think we'd better not try it; we'll go beck aud get more moo," replied the other. "Go and get more men," said the no ble lady; get more men, and come and tako it down if you dare!" Thoy returned with a company of nine ty armed men, aud demanded tbat the flag should be baaled down. But on dis covering that the house was filled with gallant mi n, armed to tbo tcetb, who would rather die as dearly as possible than see their country's flag dishonored, the secessionists retired. When oar informant left Knoxville, the stars and stripes still floated to the breezo over Parson Brownlow's house. Long may it wave! Chicago Jour. What we Hate to Learn One thing very hlowly learnt by most human beings is, that they arc of no earth ly consequence beyond a very small cir cle indeed tbat nobody is thinking or talking about them. Almost every com mon placo man and woman, in this world haB a vague but doeply-rooted belief that they are quite different from anybody else, and of courso superior to everybody else. It may be in only one respect thoy fancy they are this, but that one respect is quite sufficient. I believe that, if a grocer or silk-mercer in a little town has a huudred customers, each separato cus-. tomer lives on under tho impression that the grocer or silk-mercer is prepared to give him or her certain advantages in buying and soiling which will not be ac corded to the other 99 customers. "Say it is for Mrs. Brown," is Mrs. Brown's di rection to her servant, when sending for some sugar; "say it is for Mrs. Brown and i. .... . . , t still more angry, if you asked her what earthly reason there is why she should in tt'on mere i u, ---- - any way bo distinguish ceyonu ims. bnool: and Mrs. bmirn. ouu wm h She takes it for . , , and elevated data trlltoi: bow mortified 1 . 1 bo was, when a very clever boy of iix- ' teen, at bt-inii classed at all. He had told a literary Indy tbat he admired Ten.- nvson. "Yes," said' tho lady, "I am not surpricd at that; there is. a class of joung men who like Tennyson at your age." f It went liko a dart to my friend a heart. ' Class of young men, iodrcd I Was it' for this that I outstripped 'all competitors at school, that I have teen fancying myself a unique prenomcnon in nature, different at leatt from every other beinr that lives .1 . T , ,i r The Military Circle aronnd Washington. Tim fnrpns t finf. hnun liithprrr hnon n'rn. tecting Washington from within, are now tronrHin t. Cm Uhn,it On th hPichtK -.mw ... l,w .. ,. , which surrounds tbe city, there is now chain of oamps forming a great circle of fifty miles in circumference. They, are at distances from each other varying from half a mile to thrco miles. Standing on tbe dome of tbe Capitol and looking around on tho Maryland side, tho observer will see a suotcssion of groups of wbito tents dotting tbe sides and puromits of tho hills on George town Heights, an Kalorama Hill, on the' heights faoing the President's House, on Meridian Hill, on Seventh Street Park, on the hill at Eckington, on tbe hill at Soldier's Home, on Capitol Hill, at the Navy Yard, and on Axylum Hill. Cast ing then his eye across tbe River to the Virginia shore, ho vull see tbo same cir cle continued and prolonged by succes sive camps near Alexandria, at Four Mile Run, at Roach's Spring, on the hill overlooking tho Long Bridge at Arling ton Houte, and two or three more at in tervals along Arlington ' Heights, thus carryiug the circle clear round again to Georgetown. Tho enemy who advances a step insido of this circle falls into a trap. A signal gun from any one of the camps will be instantly taken up and repeated around the entire ring, and tbe wholo can be un der arms at ten minutes notice. Besides, being an advantageous arrangement for the defence of the city, ttm is eminently healthful for the troops. These cool and airy Heights are salubrious all summer long, and are the favorite locality for the - oui.tr t seats of citizens. Many a. hith erto quiet ruralresidence is now sur mouuted by the flag and echoing to tho drum, having been by the fortunes of war suddenly turned into a regimental headquarters'. Loss and Gain. The heavy hand of the Government has at last fallen on the Rebel States, and their mails are stopped. This will be a blow whose force wo cannot appreciate, because wo have never felt its conse quences beyond the blocking of a rail road by a freshet or a snow-storm, when" the interruption of even a few days occa sioned the most vexatious embarrass ments. But to the South its couseqaen' ces will be of tbe most serious character. All correspondence with the North js en ded. Loyal hearts will suffer in commoQ with those who caused this ruin. Busi ness men wl suffer even more, and mer cantile circles at tho North must experi ence a share of this inconvenience. Tho sham Post-Office Department can do lit tle to supply tho regular cails thus sud denly stopped. They may be carried on the railroad routes but the interior towns will continue victims of this postal block ade until the Government re-establishes its authority The interdict is sweeping and salutary. Tho Southern people do not oonstitute a reading community, nor a letter-writing ono. The Government ha always carried their mails at a loss, and hence they cannot maintain tho mail service themselves, even at double post age. Last year it lost the following sums in twelve Slates: Texas, Louisiana Arkansas', Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi, North Carolina South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, '578,103 357,693 289,608 252,351 255,235 251,904 128,850 140,500 165,744 107,218 196,042 .011,278 J.UIIUCDSCVI Here is 33,424. 8S5 fnvod at once, ex cent tho fraction needed to coutinue the I - I ... ,.1. w arA Wn.tnrn TT. ( ,q reboHo0j the idoa of tbo 1 South being able ta,carry its own mail , maI.B door is th e greatest bam- ofhe daj But( 0Q ha othor handf al tho North wiU no longer find bcr j uewdpapers araong our pilo of dai- j eJohange3. Our own pestiferous j tbnt nt reason for Southern - , ,. J;n , , csentatfona?of Northern facts and ; N 1 lt , dnranstia , fceiDE8. No more letters from domcstia ; Q be hCnt a The circula- , .. , aua ,i 1:, rnorj nun ui vui mieiwuj uuu iim.hi r mhj
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