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Sept. 11, 1881 —1 y.
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kne stock of S.asonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots
amid Shoes, end Notions generally.
Sept. 1 1861-Iy.
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'Dealer in Dry Goode, Groceries, Drugs, Notions,
Haniware, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses,
Iron and Nails, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps,
Wain street, one door east of the Old Bank.
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Motu street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
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• 'site the Court House. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
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Binh Building, Main street. Sept. 11, IBSI-4m
BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS
J. D. COSGRAY,
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she "Farmer's and Drover's Dank." Every style of
Snots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order.
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Igor Cash paid for good eating Apples.
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THE EMPTY CRADLE.
In the still and quiet chilinber
There's an empty cradle-bed,
With a print upon the pillow
Of a baby's shining head.
'Tis a fair and dainty cradle ;
Downy, soft, the pillows white.
But within the blankets folded
Lies no little form to-night,
• Once the mother sat beside it,
When the day was growing dim,
And her pleasant voice was singing,
Soft and low, a cradle hymn.
Now there's no more need of singing,
When the evening shadows creep,
For the cradle-bed is empty,
And the baby gone to sleep.
Little head that used to nestle
In the pillows white and soft ;
Little hands whose restless fingers
. Folded there in dreams so oft ;
Lips we pressed with fondest kisses,
Eyes we praised for purest ray,
Underneath the church-yard daisies
They have hid you all away.
Ah, the empty, useless cradle I
'We will put it out of sight,
Lest our hearts should grieve too sorely
For the little one to-night,
We will think how safe forever,
the better fold above,
The young child for which we sorrow
Resteth now in Jesus' love.
I'M OOMING HOME TO DIE, MOTHER
Unwelcome winds are sighing,
Within this distant West,
And wrapt in pain I'm lying
With vision-broken rest.
I often dream thy bosom
Is pillowing Ist head,
And wake to findnusion
Has gathered round my bed ;
But starting from my dreaming,
I check the rising sigh;
For I'm coming ho i me to die, Mother,
Coming home to die.
I long to see thee, mother,
And kiss thy dear, old cheek,
I feel there is no other
With whom I wish to speak
ino heart has half such kindness,
No voice such music's flow,
Why did I in my blindness
Cause you a moment's woe?
I know you've mourned me often,
But wipe the glistening eye,
For I'm coming home to die, mother,
Coming home to die.
Tell father that I wish him
To mark the spot for me,
Where Lulu used to kiss him,
And sing the Forest glee;
'Tis where the wild red roses
Perfume the summer air—
And when the life-scene closes,
Lay roving Altana there ;
O let the spot be lonely,
And hid from passers by,
For I'm coming home to die, mother,
Coming home to die.
My memory is clinging
To childhood's sunny hours,
And Lulu's voice seems ringing
Amidst the garden flowers ;
The moments seem to lengthen
As starting time comes near,
And hope begins to strengthen
With thought of leaving here.
So let the heart h► gladden'd
Our meeting hour is nigh,
For I'm coming home to die, mother.
Coming home to die. .
Nut Bizattaitg.
Parental Indulgence.
No children are ever so happy as those
who have been early taught implicit and
immediate obedience to their parent's
wishes, or will, or commands. Would that
parents more universally felt this! When
they suffer their children to disobey them,
they are absolutely teaching them to sin
against God, breaking one of his com
mandments, and one to which the promise
of long life is given. No wonder if God,
in just displeasure, remove the child from
such tuition. Remember what a solemn
and instructive lesson the Holy Ghost has
given in the history of Eli. There is much
danger, from an amiable wish to gratify a
child, of counterordering your own orders.
If you once direct a child to do a thing,
however unpleasant it may be to yourself
or the child, insist with firmness upon
immediate and full obedience. There
should be no demur nor delay. Prompt
obedience is as lovely in a child, as its en
forcement is dignified in a parent. The
firm and gentle constraint of parental
authority commands respect, and even in
spires reverence and love in the child to
wards the parent. Thus, then, if you de
sire your children should grow up cherish
ishing for you profound esteem and affec
tion, insist upon the filial duty—the duty
of implteit obedience—and commence
early. To begin right is the way to end
right.
A BIG FORCE.—At the Philadel
phia Arsenal they now have employ
ed eight thousand women on all
kinds of army clothing. Over six
hundred shoemakers are also employ
ed on knapsacks and other articles.
Dee** meanly five hundred
men art esgageiabont the yaad.—
The working foroas,44 oer
moorcelyoneed'throo hii
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNTZDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1861.
AFFECTING INCIDENT of RAILROAD
LIFE,
An old railroad conductor relates the
following touching incident of his own
life and the lives of the passengers saved
—the return for little acts of kindness
bestowed on the widow and the father
less:
"The western division of our road runs
through a very mountainous part of Vir
ginia, and the stations are few and far be
tween. About three miles from one of
these stations the road runs through a deep
gorge of the Blue Ridge, and near the
centre is a small valley, and there, hem
med in by the everlasting hills, stood a
small one and a half story log cabin.—
The few acres that surrounded it were well
cultivated as a garden, and upon the fruits
thereof lived a widow and her three chil
dren, by the name of Graff. They were,
indeed, untutored in the cold charities of
an outside world—l doubt much if they
ever saw the sun shine beyond their own
native hills. In the Summer time the
children brought berries to the nearest sta
tion to sell, and with the money they earn
ed they bought a few of the necessities of
the outside refinement.
"The oldest of these children I should
judge to be about twelve years, and the
youngest about seven. They were all
girls, and looked nice and clean, and their
healthful appearance and naliml o clelicacy
gave them a ready welcome. They ap
peared as if they had been brought up to
fear God, and love their humble home and
mother."
" I had often stopped my train to have
them set off at their home, having found
thein at the station some three miles
from their home, after disposing of their
berries."
" I had children at home, and knew
their little feet would be tired in walking
three miles, and therefore felt that it
would be the same with those fatherless
little ones. They seemed so pleased to
ride, and thanked rue with such lovely
thanks after letting them off near home.
They frequently offered me nice, tempting
baskets of fruit for my kindness, yet I
never accepted anything without paying
them. full value.
"Now, if you remember, the Winter
of 1854 was very cold in that part of the
State, and the snow was nearly three feet
deep on the mountains. On the night of
the 26th of December it turned around
warm, and the rain fell in torrents. A
terrible rain swept the mountain tops, and
almost filled the valleys with water. Up
on that night my train was winding its
way, at its usual speed, around the hills
and through the valleys, and as the road
bed was all solid rock, I had nb fear of
the banks giving out. The night was
intensely dark, and the wind moaned pit
eously through the deep gorge of the
mountains. Some of my passengers
were trying to sleep; others were talking
in a low voice, to relieve the monotony
of the scene. Mothers had their children
upon their knees, as if to shield them
from some unknown danger without.
" It was near midnight, when a sharp
whistle from the engine brought me to my
feet. I knew there was danger by that
whistle, and sprang to the breaks at once,
but the brakesmen were all at their,posts,
and soon brought their train to a stop.—
I seized my lantern, and found my way
forward as soon as possible, when what
3 sight met my gaze ! A bright fire of
pine logs illuminated my track for some
distance, and not over forty rods ahead of
our train a horrible gulf had opened it
self to receive us.
" The snow, together with the rain,
had torn the whole side of the mountain
out, -and eternity itself seemed spread out
before us. The widow Graff and her chil
dren had found it out, and had
,brought
light brush from her home below, and built
a large fire to warn us of our danger.—
They had been there more than two hours
watching beside that beacon of safety.
As I went up where the old ladrand chil
dren stood drenched through by the rain
and sleet, she grasped me by the arm, and
cried—
"Thank God! Mr. Sherbourn, we stopped
you in time. I would have lost my life
before one hair of your head should have
been hurt. Oh I prayed to heaven that
we might stop the train, and, my God, I
thank thee !"
The children were all crying for joy.
I confess I don't very often pray ; but I did
then and there. .I knelt down by the side
of that old woman, and offered up thanks
to an All-Wise Being for our safe deliver
ance from a most terrible death, and called
down blessings without number upon that
good old woman and her children. Near
by stood the engineer, fireman and brakes
men, tears streaming down their bronzed
cheeks.
" I immediately prevailed upon Mrs.
Graff and the children to go back in the
cars out of the storm and cold. After reach
ing' the cars, I related our hair-breadth es
cape, and to whom we were indebted for
our lives, and begged the men passengers.
to go forward and see for themselves. They
needed no further urging, and a great tee
ny Wiwi went, also, regardiessof the storm.
They eeen*eturnedv aid their rawfeeen.
ewe; tefeStakifie at aveiltikided • Asia
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we had escaped. The ladies and gentle
men vied with each other in their thanks
and heartfelt gratitude towards Mrs. Graff
and her children, and assured her that they
would never, never forget her ; and, before
the woman left the train, she was present
ed with a purse of four hundred and sixty
dollars, the voluntary offering of a whole
train of grateful passengers.
She refused the proffered gift for some
time, and said she had only done her duty,
and the knowledge of having done so was
all the reward she asked. However, she
finally accepted the money, and said it
should go to educate her children.
The railroad company built her a neat
house, gave her and her children a free
pass over the road, and ordered all trains
to stop and let her off at her home when
ever she wished. But the employees need
ed no such orders ; they can appreciate all
such kindness—more so than the directors
themselves.
"The old lady frequently visits my home
at H—, and she is at all times a welcome
visitor at my fireside. Two of the chil
dren are attending school at the same
place."
GENERAL McOLLELLAN.
GEORUE B. MCCLELLAN was born
in Philadelphia on the 3d of Decem
ber, 1826, his father being an emi
nent physician of that city. At the
age of sixteen, or in 1842, he entered
the West Point Academy, and in
1846, at the age of twenty, was grad
uated second in his class. On the Ist
of July of that year he was brevet
ted second lieutenant of engineers.—
By an act of Congress passed during
the May previous, a company of sup
pers, miners and pontoniers was ad
ded 10 the engineer corps, and in
this company McClellan was commis
sioned. •
Brevet Brigadier General Totten,
Chief Engineer of the army com
manded by General Scott before Vera
Cruz, speaks of McClellan's genius
arid energy in that company in the
highest terms. His e:ertions in dril
ling the recruits who came into his
company to be prepared for the ar
duous labors of the Mexican war,
were indefatignble. With the aid of
but two other officers he succeeded
co perfectly in drilling the seventy
one raw men who had come into his
hands only two months before, that
on the 24th of September they sailed
from West Point reported by Gen.
Totten "as in a state of admirable
discipline."
During the war this company was
reduced to forty-five effective men
and two officers—one of whom was
McClellan. He is repeatedly men
tioned in connection with the corps
as exhibiting consummate patience
and ability. His company never
once lost its discipline, and perform
ed some of the most toilsome duties
of the war under very trying circum
stances. General Totten makes es
pecial mention of the labors perform
ed by McClellan before Vera Cruz.—
He speaks of him as "animating his
corps by his own devotion arid zeal,"
of the unsurpassed intelligence and
zeal with which he took his share in
the directfbn of the Beige."
i e At Contreras, McClellan was se
' lected with another engineer to re
connoitre the strong breastworks of
the enelny. They had their horses
shot under them, and barely egaped
capture by the Mexican pickets.—
When the action commenced McClel
lan was with Magruder's battery.—
While it was still doing splendid ser
vice, its commander, Callender, was
wounded. McClellan immediately
took command of it, and managed it
until it was entirely disabled, with
such success as to retain all its previ
ous reputation. General Twiggs im
mediately presented his lame for
promotion to General Winfield Scott,
and, after showing consummate bra
very in the ketion of Churubusco,
which took place next day, he was
brevetted first lieutenant. In the
next battle, Molino del Rey, his be
haviour was so gallant that he was
elevated to a captaincy. He declin
ed to receive it, and continued lieut
enant on the day of Chepultepec,
when General Scott mentioned him
as "winning the admiration of all
about him." He was the. first to en
ter the Alameda with a company
which he commanded and during the
day of the assault repulsed a body of
Mexicans greatly outnumbering his
own corps, with a loss of twenty to
the enemy.
He continued in active service
from the commencement of his com
pany's organization until General
Scott occupied the City of Mexico.—
He returned from the war with the
rank of captain and the command of
the company, now greatly augment
ed, of sappers, miners and pontoniers.
Between 1848 and 1851 he translated
from the French a manuel of bayonet
exercise, which has become the text
book of the army.
In 1851 he superintended the con
struction of Fort Dielortsr,p, In 1852
he explored the Red River, under
Captain Marcy, and nurtleyed the
harbors and rivers of Texas al senior
esig= on Ow *nit of Chin DitiWer.
In 1853 McClellan was employed
on the survey to ascertain the best
route for a railroad between the Mis
sissippi and the Pacific—also in the
exploration of the forty-seventh and
forty-ninth parallels of north lati
tilde. gained the commen
dation of Jett. Davis, then Secretary
of War.
For three years more McClellan
was very variously employed. After
executing a secret service commission
in the West Indies, and receiving a
commission in the United States
Cavalry, he was appointed one of a
military commission of three officers
to proceed to the Crimea and North
ern Russia, for observation on the
conflict then existing, and his report
on "The Organization of European
Armies, and the Operations of the
War," is thought by *Any officers a
most valuable work.
In 1857 he resigned his position in
the army, the peaceful condition of
the country seeming to demand his
services no longer, to take a place in
the management of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad as its vice president and
chief engineer. After three years
work on the road he became general
superintendant of the Ohio and Mis
sissippi line. He was acting on that
post when the rebellion broke out.—
Governor Curtin, with his peculiar
sagacity and knowledge of men, and
still recognizing him as a citizen of
Pennsylvania, applied to him to un
dertake the organization of the vol
unteer forces of this State; but he
had previously accepted a similar of
fer from Ohio. In the assembling of
the forces of the latter State, and in
placing them on an efficient war
footing, he exhibited so much of that
determination and originality which
had characterized his former services
in Mexico, that he was appointed
Major General in the United States
army, with the command of a de
partment which included Ohio and
Western Virginia. Since that time
his record is not history—it is the
present—Lan. Intel
Sketch of John Slidell.
John Slidell is a native of New
York State, where he was born about
1793. What would his father, hon
est old John Slidell, the tallow chan
dler,
of Broadway, say, were he to
rise from his grave, as the San Jacin
to comes up to that harbor with his
son a rebel and a prisoner? Going
to New Orleans "to seek his for
tune," the present John was enabled,
with the education which he had
previously received, to rise rapidly
in his legal studies, and was admit
ted to the bar soon afterwards. His
first public position was that of
United States District Attorney at
New Orleans, to which position he
was appointed by President ( Gener
al ) Jackson. He was elected fre
quently to the State Legislature, and
while a member of Congress was ap
pointed Minister Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Extraordinary to Mexico, as
a kst means of averting the war
which was just then on the point of
breakiia out with that country.—
His minrion, it is almost needless to
state s was fruitless. Senator Slidell
was an ardent partisan of the Amer
icanization project for the absorption
of the Spanish, Mexican and Indian
races by the Anglo Saxon and par
tially for this reason was appointed
by President Pierce United States
Minister to Central America. He
subsequently succeeded Soule in the
Senate, when the latter was appoint
ed Minister to Madrid, and held that
positi when Louisiana seceded.—
He wall offered the ministership to
Paris by Buchanan, but declined, un
doubtedly because he had plenty to
attend to at home. He is now a
member of the rebel Congress from
Louisana. , Mr. Slidell is a brother
of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, who,
while in command of the United Sta
tes brig-of-war Somers, during , the
administration of President Tyler,
hung Midshipman Spencer from the
yardarm, on suspicion of instigating
a mutiny on board the ship—a cir
cumstance which no doubt will be
remembered by our readers.
SKETCH OF JAMES M. MASON
James M. Mason is a native of Vir
ginia, and was born near Washing
ton, November 2, 1798. He gradu
ated in 1818 at the University of
Pennsylvania, and soon after Com
menced the study of law at William
and Maw College. He was admitted
to practice in 1820, after a ihort_pro
bation in the office of Benjamin Wat
kins Leigh, at Richmond. In 1826
his political career commenced with
his election to the House of Deleg
ates. Declining a re-election to this
position, he was chosen a member of
the House of Representatives, from
the district composed of Frederick
and Sbanandoah counties, and in
1847 was elected by the Virginia
Legislature to the United States
Senate—a position to which he has
been syressively elected every term
since, Tnd was to hold until next
year. On the breaking out of the
present difficulties he took a promi
nent part in their development, and
was chosen to the Confederate Con
gress from the Eighth District of
Virginia. Daring his term of office
in.the 'United States Senate he was
Qhairman'of the Clavamittee For-,
sign and was ,thameighl7,
posted on all matters connected with
our foreign relations.
Pennsylvanians in the 'Bela.
A careful estimate, lately present
ed to our readers, represented the
whole loyal population of the United
States to be about twenty-one mil
lions. Of this number about 2,900,-
000 are Pennsylvanians. It has just
been officially announced that the
whole velunteer force in the service
of the United States, is about 600,-
0011 Pennsylvania alone has fur
nished about 100,000 men, or fully
one-sixth of the %hole number, while
the proportion s . M. could properly be
asked for, is only about 83,000.
•Regiments from Pennsylvania are
serving in Kentucky, in Maryland, in
Northwestern Virginia, in South
eastern Virginia, in North Carolina
and in South Carolina. Probably
before long, other regiments may be
sent to Mississippi and the Gulf of
Mexico. The artillery and cavalry
force supplied by Pennsylvania is not
equalled by that sent from any other
State. The infantry, too, are uncom
monly well officered, equipped and
disciplined. The finest corps in the
army of the Potomac in Gen. Mc-
Call's division of Pennsylvania Re
serves, and yet many of our regi
ments sent to the field recently are
quite equal to them.
The cost of raising and fitting out
this great army has been less, con
sidering the numbers, than that in
curred by the other States. As yet
the Federal Government has not re
imbursed a dollar of this cost to the
State Treasury, though large sums
have been paid to other States.
It is without any disposition to
brag that we refer to the part of
Pennsylvania has taken in the war.
Her welfare and her principles are
all bound up in the Union, and she
can never do too much for its preser
vation. She has now furnished to
the Federal Government one-sixth of
her adult male population—no small
draft upon a people whose pursuits
depend upon their own manual labor.
If necessary, she can raise the num
ber one-half, and will not feel the
sacrifice as too great for the cause.
Deserved Tribute to Gen. McDowell.
Gen. McDowell, writes Russell in his
last letter, was in front of his tent at Ar
lington, for he prefers the canvass to the
mansion, philosophizing, too, under the
shade of the d i ne old trees, while his wife.
who had come out from the city to spend
a day with her husband, sat knitting in
side. Perhaps the world will not care
much about that, either ; but the name of
the General who commanded at Bull Run,
and who deserved a better fate than to
have it associated with defeat, is historical
for ever, and at all times the steadfast en
durance of misfortune has been considered
worthy of the respect of higher beings
than man. The zeal and warmth with
which M.cDowelt assists the young friend
and former comrade who has been placed
over his head, mark the generous nature
of the officer, who, in rising above a jus
tifiable military jealousy, has achieved a
rare conquest over a soldier's nature, and
over the innate prejudice of his profession.
I have the fullest confidence that the
General will justify every expectation
which may have been formed of him by
his friends when the next battle is to be
fought. Here he is now with twelve regi
ments under him. A few weeks ago he
commanded "the Grand Army of the Po
tomac;" his name was on every tongue; a
chorus of adulation and praise went up all
over the land in his honor. Such - is the
steady appreciation of the present and the
disregard of the past which mark the re
publican mind. But let him get a corps,
as it is said he will, and obtain some ind:
pendent success, and he will tap that ready
fountain which flows beside the waters of
Lethe, and will be covered with its pleas
ant but frothy showers.
Game in the Mountains.
Deer are said to be unusually nu
merous in the Mountains this year.
A few days since, F. B. Titlo, of
Uniontown, brought down a fine doe
near Fayette Springs, and
. T. H.
Lewis, of the same place, succeeded
in killing anarxstrous buck on Nig
ger KountkiT. It weighed nearly
two hundred and fifty pounds, and
was shot through the head at a dis
tance of eighty yards, the body being
tntirely concealed by a fallen tree at
ehe time. Later still, a party went
out for a few days hunting near Ohio
Pyle Falls, in the same neighborhood
and shot two large bucks. We hear
that they are equally numerous in
Blair and hambria counties, and that
already several fine ones have fallen
before the bullets of the hunters.
CUT HER THROAT. - Mrs. Mary
Huffman wife of Robert Huffman
committed suicide by cutting her
throat with a razor, in Edanville,
Erie county, on the 9th instant. She
was formerly the wife of Mr. Ethel
madine, who had for some reason
left her- Sbie had been married the
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NEW SERIES.--VOL. 3, NO. 26.
A. STRANGE BUT TRUE ETPRY.
A circumstance which fully
trates the saying that "truth is strap.
ger than fiction," recently , came be•
fore Judge Sherwood in the District
Court. Had it not been for the legal
question involved in the events to
which we refer, they would have
never, probably, had any publicity
given them. Some time since there
was a couple residing in this city,
who were surrounded by many bless. ,
ings. The husband possessed a com
fortable share of worldly goods, his
wife and himself were fondly st.
tached to each other, and together
they doated upon an only
The first blow to theirhappiness *As
in the loss of their little one who
sickened ' and died, leaving its pa-
rents heart-broken. The death of
the child fell like a shadow upon the
household ; the parents became un
happy, moodiness came in the train
of their melancholy, and absolute
aversion for the society of each other
followed. The soured and discon
tented pair finally determined upon
a separation, and a divorce was pro
cured.
After a time both married again,
and they became strangers to each
other so far as social intercourse is
concerned. It so happened that it
became necessary to remove the re
mains of the dead child from the
grave where it had been interred,
and the father was notified of the
fact. A handsome lot was procured
by the latter in one of the cemete
ries north of the city, and a day was
fixed for the reinterment. The fath
er notified the former wife, and the
mother of the child, of the circum
stance, and informed her by note,
that if she thought proper she could
attend the burial of the remains.
The mother accepted the invitation,
and with her second husband re
paired to the cemetery. The father,
with his second wife. was already
there. The little coffin was placed
near the open grave, and the parents
of its occupant advanced to it while
the second wife and husband stood
in the back ground. The couple
who bad been so long estranged and
who had again met strangely over
their dead hopes, gazed earnestly at
each other, the solemnity of the
hour 'revived their tenderness, and
falling into each gther's arms both
burst into tears. The re-interment
took place and the parties returned
to their proper homes.
eh the consent of all who wets
interested the father of the dead
child visited, on termiOnlof friendship,
his former wife, and they were in
the habit of riding out together.
Not long after this singular recon
ciliation the father of the child took
sick and died. Before his death he,.
placed in the hands of a friend two
city bonds, of a thousand dollars
each, to be handed over to his first
wife, in the event of his death. In
his will be appointed, as his exeeir
tors, the friend who was the custo
dian of the bonds, and his first and
second wives. The friend, in his ca
pacity of tristee, was uncertain as to
the legality of thegift under the cir
cumstances, and he made applieation
to the Court for a decision in the
matter, so as to secure himself from
loss. The legal heirs of the deceased
offered no opposition to the ante,
mortem bequest, and the Court de
cided in favor of its legality.
The famous scene of the reconcilia
tion of Mrs. Haller to ner husband,
in the play of the "Stranger," which
generally melts tender hearted spec
tators to tears, is inferior in respect
to genuine effect to this drama in
real life, which culminated beside. the
coffin of the dead child.
Removal of the Rebel Capita
The most notable event which has
occurred lately is the transfer of the
Capitol of the itinerant and peripit
tetic Secesh government, from Rich.
mond to Nashville. Three remove*
are as bad as a fire, the proverb says,
and there must have been weighty
reasons for such an important meas
ure just at this time. Washington
dispatches say that private intelli
gence received by the Government
states that the movement was caisevi.
by the general belief that soon our
army would march against that city;
and that it was deemed safe to re
move the archives of the rebel Con
federacy to a point less exposed.—
Sharing in this belief, many of the
higher families had already peeked
up most of their moveable property,
to be in. readiness to leave the city
in case of a deinonstation efourarmy
in that direction, and that as a con
sequence of this movement on the
part of the rebel governnient, the
rate of discount on rebel bonds hid
risen to thirty per cent.
We don't place any reliance in any
such news. The rebel government*
too proud and arrogant to display
weakness like that. Whatever may
be the motives, and they will SOWS
be known, the move will produce
great dissatisfaction in Virginks,,ell•
the only compensation that nat.
has enjoyed for being made 4
"chopping block of the North awl
South," as the Richmond Enftaing
terms it, has been the location of the
seat of government at Mkinimmat:4--
Take this away and there . • ~ lo•
the foolish Old . Do mWkilogi ,
tilliedathni of the