J Ml "W I'll II I II II Scwotei to IPoIitics, literature, Agriculture, Sennet, iHoralitu, aub eucral ihitdligcutf. VOL 20. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JULY 4, ISM. NO. 24 SchOCtl TEHMS. Two dollnrs per nnnumin advance Two doihtrs and a quarter, half yearly and if not paid be- NC) i) incTsdiscontinucd umii "n CXSKcltS (ten lines) ories.s' onc or three insertions, si oo". Each additional inscr- coj cento. Longer ones in pronrUoi I Having a general assortment of large, plain and or- jiamentulTypc, u care prepared to execute every dc scription of Car ls, Circulars, Hill Heads, Nolcs. filank Itcceipts, (tustic.es, Leg.tl and other Rl.uiks, Pamphlets. Reprin ted vvith nc.itiicss and despatch, oa rcasonahlctenns at this oHicc. . The "War "Worth all it Costs. War is an expensive luxury, nowev- or humanely and dircctly waged, it is a Berious drain upon the life of. a nation. w o,ii nf M. nrnsnnf fit r.,r ' le impoverished in many ways. With ,. , the best success, wc hhall espend nun- ' 1 i dreds of millions of treasure and enciiGce thousands of lives. We shall feel the brnises of the fl;nt fr nftnr 1 1, u rebellion has been icuu iuucu auu Fira0U uua been restored. -thousands of fortunes will be wrecked thoutauds of homes will bo made desolate thousauds of bright Published by Theodore c a rep rs wiiiDoarrc&teu. j.nc n!ourncrsuuu',uu5 mau uuiiicaf t.: 1. k . : ut i will co about the streets. r r m r y f i rinntiiwli r fx n r a rr llirifkriic cre has been the trial through which the country ha passed. j Will it pay the co-ti Yes a hundred a thousand fold if we come out of the ttruggle conquerors! If we succeed in ru"u" " and integrity ot which any man may well ; supposed possible duel. ihe case is m- pair that no hurran sympathy can as?uagc be proU'J. j variably so befogged with technicalities, iu many a grutlc lo?om. Tho wrecks The people of Pennsylvania will look which would make an attorney in tho will .lie thick around us tho charred for thj report with an interest common- Marine Court or Tombs blush on euggest and battered ruiu& of bih hopes cud surate with the. importance of this great . ing, that no honest man of average cour-i-ublimo endeavors will attest how ko- public improvement, which is of itself a 'age can feel a particle of respect for eith crbing out this nuaerablo rebellion " destined to pour into the lap of our beau wc exterminate the fatal heresy of i-eces-, tiful metropolis on the banks of the Del sion if we shall be able to teach treason ; aware, make the Philadelphia and Erie euch a lesson as historp5will never weary .Railroad ouo of the most important links of rehearsing if we shall succeed in con ! jn the great chain of improvements with vincing the world that, we have a govern-; which Pennsylvania i-; binding her inter ment, atroug enough, vigorous enough, : ests to those of distant territorio?, and determined enough, to overcome all com- with which she i3 also drawing into closer binations and attacks, whether from con .piracies within or invasion without; if wc shall be able to impress Christendom with the conviction mat our western empire is ; t'ailt upon a rock, n hich" no convulsion 1 can shake and no teaipest undermine; if wo shall be able to do this effectivejy, the War, no matter how long or how deeper Tilcly waged, will be the cheapest enter prise upon which the nation ever embark ed. Evry drop of blood that has been .fhed erery dollar that has been eipou vied every purpose t b -a t has been baulk cdaDd hope that has been crushed will fructify ioto future blessings. Wo shall emerge from the conflict stronger in all that gee? to make up the life of a great people. We .hall resume the calm pur suits of peace, chastened by the trial through which we have passed purified , , ti i I bv the smiction with which we have been! vi-itcd. We shail find ourselves cle' a-, , ,. . ii i - i tod to a higher moral plane and quick-1 vned by nofcler impuke to the perform-1 ance of nobler deeds. . We shall find our pelves less boand up in selfishness, less , , " .. , - , i the slaves of toil and business, less grove-j 1 . , .u ! 1 us in our taste, less earthly in our as-1 ' J i ! tormlnnlJnn nf thf wan will be tbe dawn of a new era in the his- toryof the country. Tbe republic enter uron a new saCe of its career. The . public heart will throb with more cnor. ous nulsations. Broader, higher, nobler issues will engage the attention of states- men A loftier standard of public mo- rality will prevail. A better class of pub-' J r ... . . . lie teachers will come upon the stage. i Purer aim- and more exalted conceptions of troth and justice wi 1 animate he peo- pie. The Kerliog netal of our Western : life purified as it were by nre, abstracted ine, puuutu u . - , j from the drofs that has so long tarni.shed .its lustre will .shrine out as it has never shone before. Albany Journal. Simplicity of Greatness. "Many years ago, the licentiates of Princeton Seminary were in the habit of -preaching at a station some di-tance froa that plaoo. Among their habitual hearers envelope, cannot ue usea ior postage. ?as a Bincere and bumble uneducated , A postmaster, under no circumstances, Christian lave, called Uncle Sam, who, 1 is allowed to open a letter not addressed on bis return home, would try to tell his to him. mistress what he could remember of the: When letters aro dissent, it is notlaw eercon, but he would always complain ful to charge postage for forwarding, that tho studonts were too deep and learn- All newspapers having worda written d for him. One day, however, he came on or in them, are subject to letterpost homo in groat good humor, saying that a ago. To entitlo papers to bo sent to bo poor unlarnt old man, just like himself na fide subscribers at half a cent each, a had preached that day, who be bad hard- full quarter's postage is required in ad 3y supposed was fit to preach to the white y&nce. people, but was glad he came for his sake, It is improper for deputy postmasters for lie could remember everything he said, to remove the wrappers of publio docu On inquiry, it was found that Uncle Sam's ments franked by members of Congress, ""unlarnt" old man was llev. Dr. Archi-i No paper, or other thing, except bills Said Alexander, who when he heard the or receipt of publishers, can be sent en criticism, sad it was the highest compli- closed in a newspaper, without subjecting ncnt ever paid to bis preaching. tbe whole to letter postage. Rojia fide subscribers to a weekly pa- 2rA singular disease has. made its per, whose post-office is in the mug lnwed to receive papers appearance among cows in tuo viciuuy vr . . ft . mi f damn WashinatOD at liiaston. xne onlv visible avmptoms aro a remarkable . ui rr- .i r iu :an j f . especially at morning milking, which is such as date or anything of tbe kind, sub the cause of much disappointment to far- jects it to letter postage. mers and milkmaids. It was unheard of preiious to tho advent of the soldiers, but JOTI'do Union detenoo commiuee o. , j -is nQW known as the "Army Drouth."- N. York city have expended, m equipping lor a pe.form nee oil J is now known as tho "Army It ha, not t0Ddcd bCJond a oir.lo of one stile. The Sunbury and Trie Railroad, By an act of the last legislature tbo name of this road was charu'od from tho tho PkUadclpkia and Eric Railroad, hich in dow its corporate title, and in w hich name it will hereafter trans- get aU jtg. businC33 An act of tbe saino legislation also authorized the Governor to appoint a commissioner, for the pur- nosn of nroprfidin. ovnr thn road, ovain- ino its radios, uoeido uDon the worK performed, and report to the Governor a full and accurate account of the condition of the road. After this report has been , ' made, it will be decided by tho Governor j whether tbo bonds deposited with tho 1 State authorities, securing the faithful ox- nonf,illirn nf ,hn ninnRV nnnpnnr:ntof1 v the Stato for tho completion of this road, can be lifted without damage to the Com- mon weal t b . In compliance witu the provisioni ot i.i.: ti,,:r,: . t r tills uwi oukuviiuiu: fcuu UIIUUIUI1UUUU -j ri::- u r t tho said Commissioner, the Govornor has iiiia uui nuiuuiiAiu" iub uiiuoiuiutuiiii ui appoioter Col. John A. Wright, who will ut once proceed to tho discharge .of the dutv thus a-siued him. Tn this onnnint- 'tnent tho intort of the Stato will be " . , . faithfully represented, as few men are :rni nr.: 1 Pfi,r nf r.nilronds tlir ntrn,tir,n nnrl operation. With this experience aod already wou uim a onaracter lor industry . . monument pf Pennsylvania enterprise The coantry it traverses, the immenso ro- sources which it will assist in developing, the new markets it will crcato along its ! line, and the treasure and travel, it is ' communication her own towus and cities. Ilarrisburg Tdcgiajk. Ex-Secretary Holt Sustains ment the Govern- Mr. Holt, who was for a short time Secretary at the close of the administra tion of Mr. Buchanan, publishes a letter in one of the Louisville papers, in which he avails the position of neutralit' as sumed by rTe Governor of Kentucky be tween the rebillious States and the Uni ted States Government. He shows that such a position cannot be sustained upon any just or patriotic prin?iplt, for the fed- leral government is either right or it is j wrong in maintaining the integrity of the 'Union at the point of tbe sword. How little ground there is for sccossien Mr. null ugmwbinuiv iu iuu luuuniui: ruj uo, ,, , ., , . , ,... ,. -4. CI , the year 1800 the hucitive olave law was Jutcd ffi0re faitbfully acd Bucce6fully during the preceding ten Sip-ce the installation of President . , . . ,. , Lincoln, not a case has arisen in which , r - - , . . i j the fusjitive has not been returned, and , L Lh .t. t ' ., that, too, without any opposition from tho people, Indeed, tho fidelity with which I i f rw o a nnnrctrtA1 fi Vin tl.o r.nllnr nf tlin . r .t preseni aam nwwauoD toemorce lUe Fru- V,SI?DS of th',S laW haS causcd :PerfeLct panic among too run away Maves tu ui frcc aod thJ h been eST ,D mtuues to anaua, unpursucu anu in multitudes to Canada, unpursucd and unreclaimed by their master. Is there found in this reason for a dissolution of i JnrB 'T8". ""' ""T f?UDTdT '.n th rcaaon for a dissolution of 'tholJnionl tbe Uoion I" rrnm n onI1aflrn mnn yolmes ' Tho truth ig thafc tfa P South by f ivosjase8 ext (qt thdisolution of TT . r , . . . , tbc Union, and that a conspiracy bad ex- . ' . ... A -i , t. - , ,,, i lUCllOU IU Urvaik up IUC touicui-iouj, mm !or without cause. It is and old and a jtruo saying, "where there is a will there is a way Wst-umce items, A postage stamp, cut from a stampod j, ,. , ; ..v.i:t. : n innntv in whiflh thev live. puuo"u iu free of postage a circular, Anv marK wito a peu uu 7 P" "BlS ' 0f that oity $425,000 f J efferson Davis. l0. tno object of his hatred and adhor- ' There are some important facts in thoirenop- He could Dot well have escaped history of this very conspicuous and very deepicablo person which bavo not yet been rnado known to the American public at largo, and which seem, to mo, to be worth communicating to tho world through the nowspaper press. They aro o - - ri x j . . , . ,. . interesting ana instructive, especially at tbe nrcsent time, a illustrating and de - tcoustratine uis character, and cono - quently, to some extent, the characters of, those who, well knowing him, selected him ad the Nena Sahib of tho Southern Sepoy mutiny, I do not think it worth while to go into tho details of his threatened duol with HnlnnnJ Rdicnrrf KUU f Tllinni innn deceased in the Governorship of that' Mississippi, in 1849 and 1850, and bad State) though a general reference to it is almost daily conversations with him in Droncr to show tho uudisDuted fact that're,atlon to prominent Miseiasippians. As having appeared in public to provone j . i : : i uuu eicuu a ujuiiui uuiuuul iu uitvutu correspondence he was availing himself of ncrr nnU.rc nn hhlri rn nunrlfl fho im. . - j r -r i pending consequences of hi3 rash rcpeti- tion of the vcrv stale trick of a Southern-, er bullvinc a Northerner in 'Congress, on the presumption that the man '.....: t.. t. xr.fi. gu j - u. n. dnnlirit id moro infamous hera than coward is in the South. 1 umii uoui ucu uum luiiun; . i i : j teDamg, or relative to, a proposed or i i m er party principle or acconda after the perusal. I have been friendly and iuti- mate with many men who bavo done these ,:n.. .!.: v.i silly things, but have never been able to J eeteeru or honor one of them after such a j performance I only refer to. Davis's affair with Bis sell to remind tho public that he "backed dowu" and backed out of a Gght which ho himself first proposed; and that ho re quested Colonel Bissell to allow bim to do so, on a pretext suggested and fur nished by bitnseif. It has teen repeatedly announced that Jefferson Davis will command the South ern Sepoys in person in tho campaign now commencing. I hope he will lead their army on their first battle- fori mean to bo there myself. But I very much doubt whether Mr. Da.is has the 1 courage to expose himself to the peculiar ' rik; not of immediate death, but of capture which he would incur in that position. Some of "our boys" are "bound'' to "have his carcass'' alivo, if it co.t a thousand of their lives, j By the way, if Jefferson Davi3 should ' lead tho Secession army in person, it is j to be hoped that bis memory (or cour age) won't fail him, as it did at tho bottle of Bueua Vista, when he omitted to give the thitd and essential command to throw his regiment into square: "By the right and left of flank battalions! To the col or marciiT" Tbo consequence of this hiatus valde dcjlcndus was, that his regi ment wa3 left spread in the form of a V, to receive tho charge of 4,000 Mexican cavalry, coming down upon thorn in full career, on the slopes of Buena Vista. survivors of that regimeDt know that nothing saved them from annihilation but their practiced, deadly markmansbip with rifles. per it was wcll for Jefferson Davis that Zacbary Taylor was his fatber-in law, fa fa unwilli jy P0 moreBrutus-like comi A sterner and a court.martial 0D lho epot thafc would have condemned him to bo shot fr coward5oe or other m0ral ineompe- '. 'tency In my opinion, Jefferson Davis should have. been court raartialed for his dis graceful misconduct in that battlo, as soon as it was decided. ..Perhaps ho would have been, but for bis peculiar re lations to Major General Zacbary Tay lor, whose daughter he had married by stealth, in opposition to tho expressed wisheB and positivo commands, of the father. General (then Colonel) Taylor said to his daughter- "If you marry Lieutenant Davis I will never seo your face again, dead or alive!" Tbe infatua ted girl, nevertheless, eloped with Davis, who had taken advantage of the friendly patronage of hia -commanding offioer, and violated the laws of hospitality by secret ly eaiuioe tho affections of his daughter. In such abhorence did Zaohary Taylor hold Davis that he hept his word with a firmness that may bo deemed pitiless cru elty. When in the courao of time, his disobedient daughter lay on her death bed, and sent to him a penitent message, entreating him to vieit her, that she might die in peace, with her father's blessing, or, at leat, his forgiveness, tho cinm rnnlw of the inexorable old man was: "I warned you that if you married that man. I would never sec you again, lisinff or dead, and I never willl" And so the. unfortunate lady died,unblest and unforgiven.by him When Davis came under the immedi atp nnmrnnni of his father-in law in the Mexican war, General Taylor refused to recognize him in ony other way, except officially, as in giving orders, and in oth mniiAN of nnrp.lv military form and Ll IU uhvih - j" J J duty. There was a two-fold obstacle to ly- I Z, and w."aUho o timo, know to . . . TV f --- -.n r y- r 1 n su?pioions o! ban motives or personal . tee'ng, in eithor view. 1 . A friend, to whom I read- the forego- ' ,nS a short time since, gave mo tho fol- 'lowing sketch of Davis' relations to an 0IU Mississippian, renowned for deiperato j , , Q rl fl fn, 1 1 1 o n A rt n m n . "Uttlc" wulili5c: Alexander ilo- , vlUDg olten proved himself, on tUC field ." uuu mu uuuuug giuuuu, a of battle and on tho man .of dauotloss and unsurpassed valor, Rowing an absolutely suicidal contempt . i aeatD 0D evei7 occasion that presented, rTe'KlllpH m n n v mnn wiffi hij nun linnrl and finally shot himself in the head I happened to bo in constant oommuni- oation with Colonel A. 11. McClanz of """'i ouentlv named, and tor him iHcljJuno on- tcrtainod most supremo oontenpt. i p 1 A I 1L . i I . "0 "- WBS UOl a man 0i true OOUr- ase- -that he wished to be regarded as a ouenat Jut 10 g,nng a ot duelist; but, in giving a challenge, would al"ays about for a non combatant, ' and would exorcise enouf enough prudence to ! creep oat of acceDtini? one from an an-1 a'tagonist over whom he had not n advantage. 111 fx l 'I ii ri r rntrl Ann t .v.uug ..u, u uuc uoua- , 1 "I am very sorry that I ever fought a duel. Tt is not a pleasant business, and yet I would like to Ggbt one more, with one man, and that roan is Jefferson Da vis, because I think tho United Statos will be .better off without him. But ho would not fight me; he is too great a coward. In fact, he is not now, never 1 was, and never will be, a brave man, in i the trua sense of tho word. He is a dan- -J M lTi! " I J J .1 geous ana wi.y poiuician, loaaeu uown with vanity and self conoeit, wishing on- , " f tor b,s own aggrandizement, and he cares not at what expense, or over how manv desolate households. He thinks of hiaitclf, and himself only; and I should not be surprised to find him one of these , days,ttaking such a step in publio as will place his neck in a halter; for ho is a bad man and a scoundrel, and I have fre quently denounced him as such, before tbo people of Mississippi, and tho dirty pol troon'and artful villain never bad tho courage to resent it." These conversations occured on board the ship Lavine, B. Gardener, master, on our pasago from New York to Valparai so. McClure was on bis way to Bolivia, as Charged'1 Affairs from tho United States. In introducing to the notice of the Sunday Mercury's readers these facts in the history of the arch traitor, I am not violating any rule of propriety which pro- touri thn "etrinflv nrivntn" moral delin- tests tho "strictly privato" moral delin queDcies of publio men. By common conseDt of all gentlemen engaged in tho business of writing for publication, and of all publishers, tho sins and errors of per sonal and domestio life arc not to be bla zoned to fife world, as a means of impair ing tho general reputation of any politi cian, how deserving his political course may bo of condemnation and moral re probation. As I said in mv article printed in tho lndcpenacnt, lew months ago, exposing tho systematic tueits or a laio college student, committed thirty-throe years since: "Had not that little thief (now a Senator in Congress) reproduced in pub lic life the morality, of his early privato life, tho secret of tho sins of his youth would bavo remainod bidden in tho bo somB of those who then knew, and now remember them." Tha Tribune, Times, and other papers say that my "little thief" was Judah P. Beniamin. now Attorney General of the Southern uoniederaoy 01 irauora ana pi- rt . t f t ex " i: rates. I did not publish the namo of the person described, but will promptly furnish it whenever the right man calls r i fc. upon me lor it. f When Benedict Arnotd (a man ot lar higher character as to courage truth and honesty, than any o mi presen imua tora at tho South) committed his bold treason , w , , . , . J . ,.f , through his whole .previous life to his ve- ry childhood, for evidence of bis innate total depravity; and incidents constitute an interesting and instructive portion of his published biography. I am doing no moro or less than a siraDlc duty m con tributine to the history of our time and i " untry thoso "characteristics ot Jetler-. n Davis and his coadjutors in treasou, theft, assassination, and piracy." Among them may bo specially mentioned David 1 " L J Ti i , L Youlee ex-ocnator trom Florida, oi,iini;u wuu j whoso early life I will give some similar j word the Lieutenant said to his -men.- sketches at my earliest leisure and con- ventence. I affix my namo to these statements, not merely on the general principle that anonymous charges aro entitled to no re- spect or belief, but because I am partiou- r" . 7 ' - . . r j larly desirous to furnish my proois ana onturitio, tn tho immo.liato "parti.-s in authorities to tho imtoodiato "parti iuterest," whenever they dare apply to me for them, Of no other person win l fnln nnn nnrifP in this connection. To those vsnora I accuse, I am impossible. lUUJ U II T J T D. Francis Bacon, M. D. N. Y. Sunday Mercury, A blacksmith recently made out a bill against one of his customers for welding with eteel two m'attooks. The son of Vulcan, who bad been more used to wiel ding a sledge-hamtaer than studying Dr. Kcndrick, wrote out the item in the fol lowing manner: "Tostealing 2 mad ducks two shillings." A Coldier's Emotions in Battle. Our citizens soldiers inexperienced in tho battle-field will find the most terrible , momenta before the combat begins. A soldicr-in his narration of personal ad ventures in. the Mexican War, published in "Howe's Achievements of America," gives.sotne interesting items under this head in his description of the battle of Palo Alto, the opcuing battle of the war. When all v?as ready, both armies stood efill for about twenty minutes, each wait ing for the ether to begin the work of death, and during this time, I did not see a single caan of tho enemy move; they 1 stood like statutes. j Wo remained quiet with two excep tions; Gen. Taylor, followed by his staff, rode from right to left at a slow paco, . with bis leg thrown over liko a woman, and as he passed each regiment, he Bpoko words of encouragement. I know not what he said to tho others, but when he camo up to where wo stood, he looked steadily at us. I fuppoao, to see what ef- , feet the novel circumstances in which wo j were placed had upon us, and, as he i t . havonpt :s thn thin.I" Tho otjjer exception was that of Lieut. Blake, nna rf flirt nnnmnirp nnlnninnrnfl f r I O gaUop aoug the enemy8 Hd0 in front of . t .. Doth armies, and count their guns; and so close did he go that he might have ; been shot a hundred times. Ono of tho officers of tho enemy, doubtless thinking be had some communication to make, rode out to meet him; Blake, however, paid no attention, but rode on, and then . returned and reported to Taylor. luus stood those two belligerent ar- mies, face to face. What were tho feel ings of those thousands! How many thoughts and feara 'were crowded into those few momenta! Look at our men! a clammy sweat is settled all over faces slightly pale, not from cowardly fear, but from an awful sense of peril, combined with determination not to flinch from du ty. These arc the moments in which truo soldiers resign themselves to their fate, and console themselves with the re flection that whatever may befall them they will act with honor; these are the moments when the absolute coward euf fers more than dcoth when, if not pal sied, he would turn and flee. Fighting is very hard work; the man who has pass ed through a two hour's fight, has lived thro' a great amount of mental and phys ical labor. , At the end of a battle I al ways found that I had perspired so pro fusely as to wet all my woolen clothing, and when I got cool, I was as sore as if I bad been beaten all over with a club. When tho bsttlo commences tuo feelings undcrf0 a change. Header, did you ever Q i c.9 t :. n sro vour honse on nrei xi so. it was then you rusbed into great danger; it was then you went over places, climbed over walls, lifted heavy loads which. you never could have lifted in your cooler moments; you then have experienced some of tho excitement of a soldier in battle. I always knew my danger that at any momont I was liable to be killed, yet such was ray excitement that I never realized it. All men are not alike; some are perfectly wild or crazy; others aro so prostratcd by fear that they are completo- onnervc(ian awful sinking or relaxa tion of all their energies takes place, aw ful to behold; they tremble like an aspen, sink into ditches and covert place, cry like children, and aro totally insensible to shamo dead to every emotion but the overwhelmning fear of instant death. We had a few, and but a fow, of Buch in our army. As the two arraies were facing each other it was remarkable to seo the cool ness of our men: there they stood, chew- . . . . . aboufc thc b . p , , fight; others allowing that they would, r.n il.unnna X'n T knnfc in V GVO On uuu unb w w j .vw. j- - j -j , rtilier of lho enemy, and happened , sMU a white curl of smoke a- sueccedcd by a booming sound and Tbc ' enemy fired very rapidly, and their balls J J about In all directions r, otherg strQck 100 t J uur oaiicriua - poured in upon them a perfect storm ot iron; .Lieutenant unureniii auu u,3 , ucgu iuu.. , - the first was fired, it made such a loud report that our men gave u uuiaucuiH. shout, which seemed to inspire, us with I .nnR.lnnon T nmilit hoar P.VP.TV vuen iuu u.au - il ' "&" '--i j another -- too tow, uiuu, uj ; third time is tue cuarnn a no mira anot, i was fired and I saw with my own eyes ; tbo dreadful effect of that and the follow- : chnta "Thnf's it mv hocBl" shOUteU (, -j - ! Churchill, jumping up about two reci, "you bavo thera nowl keep ner at tnat, and so they did, and every shot tore com- plate lanes throuch the enemy's line.; but they stood it manfully, inc iuu ouorua ;, . i fi r..ii- 'Php tn 1 1 ohoriifj of battle now raged; iwemv tuico t ..tiiAV. n,.l.,licd forth their iron hail. wt., ..rp ordered to lio down in thoti- grass to ovoid the shot; this puzzled tfcj&at Mount Holly-'oWtrdeparture of soma enemy, and they could not briog theirWvolunteera, by a strongfeinded woman guns to bear upon us, making our loss Eeiziug her bufband, dragging lit'ta from very small. Mauy were the narrow es-. the ranks, and cuffing biol on th'aenead, capes; one ball camo within six inches of ordering him to go uiorce. The poor fel my left side. Tho forco of the ?hot was low complied, but finally succeeded in e tremendous; a horse'u body was no obsta- luding her vigileuco, and went off with cle at all; a man's leg, waa a ruero pipe his company. stem. I watched ths. ehot ns.it struck the roots of tho grass and U was aston ishing how the dust flew. In about an hour tho grass caught fire',and tho olouds of smoke shut out the opposing armies from view. In tbo obsoarity the enemy changed their line, and tbo eighteen pounders, supported by out regiment, took a new position on a little rise of ground. As wc moved on to the spot, a six pound ehot carried away tho lower jaw of Capt. Page, and then took off a man's head on the right, as with a knife. The blood of poor Page- wastbe first blood-1 ever saw-ho Tvaa- knocked down in tbo grass, and as he endeavored to raise himsolf he presented such a ghastly appearance that a sickly, fainting sensa tion oaaie over me, and the momory of that night I shall carry with me to my dJinS daJ- A lktle latflr MaJ.r RinS sold was mortally wounded at bis batte ry; I saw him just after it. The shot had torn away a portion of the flesh of his thighs; its forco was tremendous, cutting off both bis pistols at the locks, also the withers of his horse a splcnded steed which was killed to relievo him of his Bisery. The enemy tried hard butwith- f out avail, to hit our eighteen pounders. The battle continued until night put an end to tho Eceno. We bivouacked whero we were, and laid on our arms; we slept, however, but little thinking we might bo attaoked in our sleep. The enemy had been very severely handled owing to the superiority of our artillery. Tho gunners went into it moro . like butchers than military men; each stripped off his coat, rolled up bis sleeves, and tied his suspenders around his waist; they all wore red flannel shirts, and there fore, were in uniform. To sec them lim bering and uulimbering, firing a few shots, then dashing through the smoke, and then fire again with lightning liko rapidity, partly hid from view by dense clouds of smoke and dust, with their dark red sbirta and naked arms, yelling at every shot they mado, reminded me of a band of demons rather than of men. How the World is Governed. There arc about one hundred soperate ly" organised governments in tbe world at the present time. Nearly one-half aro monarchies in Europe; and of theso a largo proportion aro petty principalitiea and dukedoms, containining altogether a bout six millions of inhabitants. Of the governments of Europe, Great Britain is a limited monarchy; France is nominally constitutional, but in reality, an absolute monarchy; Kussia and Austria are abso lute. Prussia, Spain and Sardinia are limited, with two chambers of deputies. There arc only four republics in Europo Switzerland, San Marino, Montenegro and Andora. The threo latter contain an aggregate population, of not over 120, 000 people. Switzerland, secure in her mountain'fastnesses, is now, by common consent, left unmolested. The governments of Asia are all abso lute despotisms. Thibet has the name of being a hiearchy, but differs in no prac tical senso from despotism. In Africa, tho Barbary Staies, and all tbe varioas Degro tiibes, of whatever name, are ruled despotically.except Libe ria, which is republican, and may be an opening wedge of civilization on that con tinent. Thr3 experiment, with that of tho Island of Hayti, would seem to indi cate the capacity of the negro raoo for self-government. The great islands in the Southern and Pacifia Oceans aro mostly independent and despotic such is Japan, with a pop ulation of twenty miHioni. The Sand wioh and Society Islands in tho Southern and Pacifio Oceans belong mostly to the different European powers, and are ruled according to to their respective formB of government. Oa the American continent there is but one monarchical government that of Brazil which is, however, liberally con stitutional. In the three great geograph ical divisions of America, there aro now eighteen separate republics. Payment of Volunteers. The act of 15th May fixes the pay of the Reservo corps of Pennsylvania volun- tpora from that date. RO that n month's wag(ja jg Biroa(jv G th03e troop?, whioh . m feo promptiy paid to them on Monday nesl. i no rayuia&ter trcnerai, ixeury D laxwell, is now prepared to discharge , tb;3 ,crvic0 and ag ?00IJ o3 tne Assistant Pajma9tcr9 have filed their bonds, tho . - . i. :11 woru ot aisDurseroeoi. wm uoiumcuue. I Wo uuderFtand that the selection of these , As9,Ht(ints win do govemeu euureiy wua , a regard to mo capacity ui luegcutiemeu t0 hQ named in this connection, and that, when the ll5t 19 announced, among them bo fouod a00Je of tho very best and m0,t competent men in the State. rrn "".1U,J u .u - tuorized to oDnounco this speedy payment Qf volunteers, and wo have a right ajSQ tQ C0Dgr8tulate the soldier who is in tho service of a commonwealth that thui ir appreciates and requites his services. Considerable tnent was oreated
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