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HONOR TO OUR WORKMEN !
PRIZE POEM---FROM THE HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL
Whom shall we call our heroes,
To whom our praises sing?
The painpered child of fortune,
The titled lord, or king?
They live by oth.•rs' labor—
Take all and nothing give :
The noblest types of manhood
Are they who work to live.
Then honor to our workmen,
Our hardy sons of toil,
The heroes of the workshop,
And monarchs of the soil
Who spans the earth with iron,
And rears the palace-dome ?
Who creates for the rich man
The comforts of his home?
It is the patient Toiler—
All honor to him, then
The true wealth of a nation
Is in her working men.
For many barren ages
Earth hid her treasures deep,
And all her giant forces
Seemed bound as in a sleep:
Thm, Labor's `Anvil Chorus"
Broke on the startled air,
And lo ! the Earth, in rapture,
Laid all her riches bare.
'Tie Toil that over nature
Gives man his proud control,
And purifies and hallows
The temple of his soul.
It startles foul diseases,
With all their ghastly trai n
Puts iron in the muscle,
And crystal in the brain
The GRAND, ALMIDIITY BUILDSR,
Who fashioned out the Earth,
Has stamped His seal of honor
On Labor from her birth.
In every angel-Rower
That blossoms from the sod,
Behold the master touches—
The handiwork of God!
Then honor to our workmen,
Our hardy sons of toil,
Th e heroes of the workshop,
And monarchs of the soil !
"(';
AN ECCENTRIC MINISTER.
Amusing stories are told of some
men richly gifted with every kind of
sense but common sense. But we
have never seen any incidents of this
sort quite equal to those told of an
eminent Scotch minister and Profes
sor, Rev. Dr. Lawson. His biograph
er, Dr. McFarlane, is 'responsible for
the following :
Dr. Lawson's most troublesome in
fir►nity was "absence of minl," which
was constantly leading him into com
ical perplexities. Some of the in
stances are laughable :
"lie had been sent on one occasion
by his father to Goldie's mill, about
a mile frnn Hallmyre, with as• ck
of grain, to be ground into meal for
the family, as was then customary.
The sack was laid upon a horse,
which George was instructed to lead
by a halter. He proceeded along
the road, never doubting that the an
imal was following him, but all the
while poring over the pages of a
book, or pursuing some train of
thought• The horse, • lowever, had
contrived to free* himself from the
halter, and George arrived at the
mill without either horse or sack, to
the astonishment of the worthy mil
ler,. who predicted that much good
could never come of a youth so
thoughtless alike of man or beast..-:
The horse was found quietly grazing
by the wayside, not far from his fath
's house.
"One very rainy day, as Dr. Law
son was trudging aim:lga road,afriend,
whose door he was passing, saw the
plight in which he was, and shoved
an umbrella into his hand. As he
went along, the rain still falling, a
person met him who noticed that the
umbrella was buttoned up in his
great-coat. Thinking that the um
brella had given way, he said: 'Doc
tor, I am sorry that your umbrella
has not served you in this heavy
rain.' Oh replied he, have a
good umbrella, but I have concealed
it here, lest it get wetted by the
shower.' "
"Mrs. Lawson and he were oncere
turning from a sacrament in the coun
try. As was the custom then, they rode
upon the same horse—she on a pad
behind him. At het request he made
a detour, that she might call on a
friend. Having slipped off the horse,
Mrs. Lawson went and made her call,
he promising to wait upon her re
turn. She was not long gone when
the horse quietly walked away, and
soon reached Selkirk. 'Here,' called
the Doctor to the servant, 'come and
help your mistress off.' The servant
looked surprised, and told him that.
btrs. Lawson was. not ugoithe' horse.
He immediately , rode. Wek and , toek
up hisvolik *he outruig . ..•tbe
best of her way homeward
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1862,
"Once the servant rushed into the
study, crying out that 'the house was
on tire.' Go tell your mistress,' said
he. have no charge of household
matters.' "
A REVOLUTIONARY HERO.
Correspondence of the Missouri Republican
Yesterday, while at Gen. Curtis'
headquarters I was introduced to a
most remarkable man—a surviving
hero of the Revolution, in his one
hundred and secpnd year, who serv
ed - with Washington and Marion
towards the close of the war. His
name is William Dotson, and his res
idence on the James Fork of the
White River, near Galena. The fol
lowing is the history he gives of
himself:—He was born near the
Dan River, Virginia, February 22nd,
1760, of Irish and German parent
age ; entered the army of General
Washington when a young man;
was at the siege of Yorktown; w•as
also with Marion and his men on the
Pedee, and fought the Tories of
South Carolina; was in the war of
1812, and fought under Gen. Pinck
ney ; took part in the battle of James
Island, on the coast of Carolina, in
which three British ships were sunk
by cannon shots from a fortification
made of cotton bales, the Wasp and
Hornet co-operating
with the land
forces—in which battle he was
wounded in the right hand. These
are his own recollections, as given
by him, and may not be in all re
spects correct, depending, as they
do, on the memory of an uneducated
man of great age.
Mr. Dotson says he has fourteen
sons in the Federal army, fighting
for the Government established by
Washington. Two of them are in
the army of the southwest, under
Colonels Phelps and Boyd ; the oth
ers were living in Indiana and
Illi
nois, and have joined the army in
their respective States. He has
been married to four wives, and the
last, a young woman of Missouri, by
whom he has several young children.
He is the father of twenty-two chil
dren, all living, the oldest being sev
enty-six years of age, residing in
East Tennessee, and the young
est three years old, by his
young wife, born to him in his 99th
year.. After the Revolutionary war,
he removed to South Carolina, and
remained there till 1820, when he
emigrated to East Tennessne. Here
he remained until 1823, when he em
igrated to Southwest Missouri. He
is a farmer by occupation, and he
and his sons have always performed
their own labor. They have never
owned slaves, nor used slave labor.
Once bought a slave, by an exchange
of property, but his wife was so• op
posed to it that he took him back,
and what be possesses is the fruit of
his own honest toil. He is still in
the enjoyment of vigorous health
and a sound memory, rides on
horseback and stands perfectly erect,
converses intelligently, and performs
a considerable amount of labor. Two
years ago, during the sitting of the
court at Galena, he run a foot race,
with a young man, in the presence '
of the Court and a multitude of spec
tators, amid the shouts and laughter
of the crowd at his defeated antago
nist.
He is about five feet four inches
in stature, and compactly built, and,
like Moses of old, "his eye is not
dimmed, nor his natural force aba
ted " There is no reason why he
should not live another fifteen or
twenty years. Ile is a strong Union
man, and was tempted to offer him
self for enlistment in the Union
army, but the rebels came and took
his horse and gull, and he gave up
his purpose, feeling that his fourteen
sons would do their own and his
share of service in putting down the
rebellion.
The rebels visited him and told
him that he was in danger, and had
better flee, but he answered them,
saying, "I have bought and paid for
my farm, and mean to live and die up
it. If you choose to kill me you
will only wrong me out of a few years,
and the deed will do you no credit.
According to the common course of
nature I ought to have died years
ago." They did not further molest
him, except to take an excellent
horse, his gun and tobacco. The
latter, be said, was a great privation.
He could not get along without it,
and thought they might have left
him his tobacco.
The old man appeared delighted
to see and converse with our troops.
Riding about on his horse he min
gles with the crowd, cracks his jokes
and laughs with great hilarity.—
Gen. Curtis has had his statement
taken down, and to which the old
hero has subscribed and made his
affidavit, and it is to be sent on to
Washington with a recommendation
for a pension the remainder of his
days.
Capt. Olney Killed.
Five companies of the Maine cav
alry were with Gen. Banks in his re
treat, and suffered severely. Among
theltilled was Capt. Jonathan CULey,
a son of Mr. Cilley:, who fell in Wash-
Wont,
.in 1837, An,
, 8, dal with Mr.
Graves. .
EX-GOVERNOR BROWN'S SPEEOH.
The speech made by Ex-Governor
Neil S. Brown, of Tennessee, at Co
lumbia, in that State, on Tuesday,
the 2d instant, to a large assemblage
of Union men, mention of which
Was made by telegraph, is published
in the Nashville Union. Neil S.
Brown has for many years been a
prominent public man in Tennessee,
of the Whig school of politics, and
has Aerved as Governor of the State.
He was opposed to secession, but
after it was assumed that the State
had gone out of the Union, he gave
his support to . the rebellion, and be
came one of the Confederate Milita
ry Committee which held its sessions
at Nashville. He gives his experi
ence of a rebel in very repentant
style. He says he did what he
thought was his duty, but "felt dis
consolate, heart broken, unhappy,"
and be eclares he "would* rather
die than lead a life made of .such
dark, and dreary, and bitter years as
the one which he had just passed."
He says that it :is his "deliberate
and settled judgment" that "the re
bellion is played out—is an utter
failure." His only brother is a pris
oner of war, and his two sons in the
Southern army, "and to-day be would
give his right arm to bring them
back." He spoke bitterly of the
conscript law. He said : "If I were
the rankest secessionist alive, I could
not resist the conviction that this re
bellion cannot be successfully mana
ged with Southern resources." He
told the people that if the war con
tinued the destruction of slavery '
was inevitable, and he was in favor
of stopping the war by submission
to the Government before the South
was totally ruined. The speech was
intensely interesting throughout,
and will have an important influence.
It may be reckoned as one of the
signs of the times.
The diversity prevailing in differ
ent nations, in reference to articles of
food, seems to confirm in its literal
sense the proverbial saying, that
"One man's meat is another man's
poison." Many an article of food,
which is in high esteem in one coun
try, is regarded in others with abhor
rence, which even famine can hardly
surmount.
One of our foreign exchanges con
tains an interesting article on this
subject, a part of which we condense
for our readers :
In the Shetland Islands it is said
that crabs and lobsters abound, which
the people catch for the London mar
ket, but refuse to eat even when half
starved.
Eels, which are abundant and of
good quality in Cumberland and West
moreland, and also in Scotland, are
regarded by the people there with as
much disgust as snakes.
Scallops, which are reckoned a dain
ty in Ireland, are hardly ever eaten
in England ; and although they are
abundant on many of the coasts, few
of the English have any idea that
they are eatable.
Cockchafers are candied, and serv
ed up with other confectionery by the
The hedge-hog no one thinks of
eating in England except the gypsies,
and some who have joined them, and
who report that it is better than rab
bit.
The sailors in the English and
Dutch whaleships do not eat the flesh
of the whale; but those in the French
whalers (with their well-known skill
in cookery)* are said to make a palat
able dish of it.
By almost all the lower classes in
England venison and game of all
kinds are held in abhorrence, and so
are fresh figs.
By the Australian savages, frogs,
snakes, large moths and grubs, picked
out from the wood—all of which_ the
English settlers turn from with di ,
gust, are esteemed as dainties; Ix
they are shockod at our eating ()-
tors.
Milk, as an article of food, (exce
for suuking babies,) s loathed by
South Sea Islanders. Goats ha
been introduced into several of t
islands; but the people deride th.
settlers with using their milk, ar
ask them why they do not milk th ,
sows. On the other side , dogs •
rats are favorite articles of food wit;
them.
These last, as it is well known, are
often eaten by the Chinese; who also
eat salted earthworms and a kind
sea-lu which most Europeans wi,
turn from with disgust.
Horseflesh, which most Europet,
would refuse to eat, except in great
extremity, is preferred by the Tar
tars 'to all others; and the flesh of a
wild ass' colt was greatly esteemed
by the Romans.
As for pork, it is on religious
grounds that Jews and Mohamme
dans abstain from it. as the Hindoos
do from beef. But the Christians ‘•
the East seem to have nearly
equal aversion to it; and the like I
vailed till lately in Scotland.
The large shell snail, called esi
got, was a favorite dainty with
ancient Romans, and still is so
great part of the South of .
though most Englishmen wt
harstarved before they would
I=l3l
DIVERSITIES OF TASTE.
In Vienna, the large wood-ants are
served up and eaten alive.
Small land crabs are eaten alive in
China.
The iguana, a large species of liz
ard, is reckoned a great dainty in
some of the West India Islands.
The monkey and alligator are eat
en both in Africa and South Ameri
ca; and some travellers, who have
overcome their prejudices, pronounce
them to be very good eating. A
large crocodile, or alligator, is said to
have a strong musky flavor, but a
young one tastes much like a skate.
Even when the same substances
are eaten in different countries, there
is often a strange difference in the
mode of preparing them. Both we
and the islanders use butter, but they
store it up without salt till it is ran
cid and sour.
Maize (the Indian corn of this coun
try) has been introduced into New
Zealand by the missionaries, and the
people cultivate and highly esteem
it. But their mode of preparing it
is to Europeans most disgusting.--
They keep it in water till it is putrid,
and then make it into •a kind of a
porridge, which emits a most intoler
able stench.
I heard a man who had failed in
business, and whose furniture was
sold at auction, say that when the
cradle and the crib and the piano
went, tears would come, and he had
to leave the house to be a man.—
Now there are thousands of men
who have lost their pianos, but
who have found better music in the
sound of their children's voices and
footsteps going cheerfully down
with them to poverty, than any har
mony of chorded instruments. Oh !
how blessed is bankruptcy when it
saves a man's children ! I see many
men bringing up their children as I
should bring up mine, if, when they
were ten years old, I shouldlay them
on a dissecting table and cut the sin
ews of their arms and legs, so that
they could neither walk or use their
hands, but only sit still and be fed.
Thus rich men put the knife of indo
lence and luxury to their children's
energies and they grow up fatted,
lazy calves, fit for nothing at twen
ty-five but to drink and squander
wide; and the father must be a slave
all his life, in order to make beasts of
his children. How blessed then, is
the stroke of disaster which sets the
children free, and gives them over
to the hard, but kind bosom of Pov
erty who says to them---" Work!"
and working makes them men
ANOTHER OHIO FIGHTING FAMILY.
Judge B. M. Piatt, of Ohio, now
83 years of age, had four granndsous
in the battle of Shiloh, two of whom
were wounded ; one—Major Ben Pi
att Rankle, mortally. He has had 8
of his family in the war since Presi
dent Lincoln has issued his procla
mation for 75,000 men. The old
man sitting in his arm chair, early
in November last, traced upon the
map the course subsequently follow
ed by the armies up the Cumberland
and Tennessee rivers. The more
distinguished son of the old man, in
a military point of view, is Col. A.
Sanders Piatt, who commanded the
Thirteenth Ohio in the three months'
service, and then raised a regiment
at his own expense and tendered it
to the President before Mr. Lincoln
had a law authorizing its acceptance..
He was ordered into Western Virgin
ia, fought two fights when fights were
rare, cleared the lower Kanawha
from rebels threatening the Ohio,
and so won the confidence of his su
perior officers that, upon their rec
ommendation, the President nomina
ted Colonel Piatt for Brigadier Gen •
eral. We regret to learn that ho is
now lying ill from exposure in his
several. campaigns.—Toledo Blade.
A LIFE THOUGHT.
"DO GOOD UNTO THY ENEMY."
"W. S., Eighteenth Virginia Reg,i
-' ment," writes, and the Richmond Dis
patch, of May 15th prints, the follow
ing letter, giving an account of the
treatment received at the hands of
our troops by the rebel wounded left
on our hands after the battle of Wil
liamsburg:—"The whole number of
wounded [rebel] was under four hun
dred. The Federal officers to a man,
and soldiers almost to a man, showed
the kindest disposition towards their
unfortunate prisoners, moving them
with tenderness, and frequently shar
ing with them the contents of their
haversacks. But in consequence of
the confusion resulting from the bat
tle and the constant movement of
their troops, there was for several
.days no issue of commissary or hos
pital stores, and the Federal soldiers,
as well as our own, suffered exceed
ingly. It is but justice to say that, if
any preference was manifested, it was in
fa cur of our men. It is proper to add
that our men were left under the care
of volunteer Northern surgeons, some
of eminent ability, and that after
supplies arrived they lacked nothing
in the way of attention or food—their
nurses beg unwounded confederate
prisoners, detailed for the purpose—
and that while their bondage seemed
to intensify their love for their cause,
it had also the effect of softening the
feelings of our soldiers towards indi
vidual Yankees with whom they were
thrown in contact."
ATTEMPTED SIIIOIDE,
On Saturday evening, a German
widow, and the mother of several
children, attempted to drown herself
in the canal, near the Federal Street
Depot, Allegheny, but was prevent
ed by the watchman at the depot.—
She Was taken to the Mayor's office,
where she told a very sad story.—
She stated that her husband died
some time since, leaving her with
several small children, and in desti
tute circumstances. She placed all
of her children in the Orphan's
Home, except the babe, which she
kept. • She got employment in a pri
vate family-, where she remained un
til lately, but they could not keep
her any longer, and she was obliged
to start out in search of a place.—
She did all in her power to get work, i •
but finally gave it up in despair.—
She
then waited upon one or two of
the Poor Directors, but getting no
encouragement from them, (as she ,
alleges.) she attempted to drown her- I
self. Mayor Drueprovided her with
a temporary lodging place, and ef
forts will be made to have her sent
to the poor farm,
A COLONEL KILLED BY A SENTRY.
Au unfortunate and painful acci
dent occurred the other night in Hal
leck's army, which resulted in the
death of Col. Tom. Worthington, of
the Seventh lowa Infantry. He
was officer of the pickets, and ap
proached the outpost late at night.—
The sentinel on duty, through culpa
ble inadvertence, neither halted nor
challenged him, but raised his mus
ket and fired, the ball entering the
Colonel's right eye, and passing out
under his left ear. He threw up his
hands, and exclaiming "0 my God l"
fell dead from his horse. Col. Worth
ington was a native of Versailles,
Woodford county, Ky.
'General Benregard's Official
Report of the battle of Shiloh, or
Ptttsburgh Landing, has appeared.—
He claims victory, but admits a loss
on bis side of 10,699, while rougly
stating ours at 20,000. It also ap
pears that the cowardice charge on
sonic of our regiments was no less
conspicuous in the Rebel array.—
Gen. 8., aftdr stating wherein lie
finds cause of gratulation, says :
"From this agreeable duty I turn
to one in the highest degree un
pleasant—one due, however, to the
brave men under me, as a contrast
to the behavior of most of the army
'rho fought so heroically. I allude
the fact that some officers, non
missioned officers and men, aban
ned their colors early in the first
to pillage the captured encamp
ts ; others retired shamefully
the field on both days, while
thunder of cannon and the roar
id rattle of musketry told them
at their brothers were being
,ughtered by the fresh legions of
enemy. I have ordered the
~es of the most conspicuous upon
is roll of laggards and cowards to
publishoo in orders.
"It remains to state that our loss
the two days in the killed outright
1728, wounded 8012, missing 959,
.:ing an aggregate of casualties of
699."
THE WORKERS.
The Chicago Tribune states that
Ice General Halleck took command
Pittsburg Landing, our army has
It, incredible as the story may
md, more than fifty miles of ep
mohments, and full two, hundred
les of wagon roads. Four paral
s, each more than twelve miles in
igth; three or four roads—wide,
!duroyed and bridgee—leading
Em the landing to each corps d' armee
4,i1 the works of our men, many of
horn never before handled a spade
an axe in all,tbeir
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 3.
THE FRENCH DEFEAT IN MEXICO.
The news received through San
Francisco a few days since is con
-1 firmed.by an arrival at Key West.—
The French have really been beaten
back from the Mexican capital. De
feated and surrounded, they have re
treated by forced marches upon Vera
Cruz, where, in the presence of yel
; low fever, they will make curt stay
enough, if transports be at hand to
carry them out of the country. An
) important Paris letter to the New
York Tinies, from "Malakoff," pur
ports to give the secret history of
the French expedition to Mexico,
and the true reasons why England
and Spain withdrew from the alli
ance. The French Enperor, left
alone, resolved to proceed. The ex
ternal inducements to this independ
ent action was the desire to restore
order and peace to the Republic.—
The Secondary, but partially veiled
motives, asserts Malakoff, were greed
of Sonora gold, and the dream of a
I Latin unification. The Emperor
1 has been slow to believe in there-ed
ification of the Union. The possi
bility of future trouble with the Uni
-1 ted States was quite omitted from
his dagnosis. This possibility has,
however, been suggested with much
plausibility by the, recent triumphs
of the National army ; and it has oc
curred to the Emperor that a pause,
long enough to ascertain the proba
ble event of our struggle, would be
' to the profit of his struggle with
Mexico. He has, therefore, sent out
orders to General Lorencez bidding
him suspend active hostilities, an or
der which, though the supposition is
not probable, may have reached him,
and, rather than defeat, caused an
abandonment of the march into the
Valley of Mexico.
When the news of the retirement
of the French army reaches Paris,
accompanied as it will be by such
items of American intelligence as
the dispersion of Beauregard's army,
the surrender of Memphis and Fort
Pillow, and the expulsion of armed
insurrection from the Valley of the
Mississippi, the wisdom of entirely
relinquishing the expedition will no
doubt present itself to the mind of
Napoleon.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN CLAY.
Captain Henry Clay, grandson of
the Hon. Henry Clay, died at Lou
isville on the sth instant, of typhoid
fever. The Louisville Democrat says
of him :—"Captain Clay was twen
ty-eight. years of age, and was the
eldest son of Col. Henry Clay, who
fell in the battle of Buena Vista. He
was, at the time of his death, assist
ant Adjutant General in Gen. ,John
son's brigade. He did good service
in the battle of Shiloh, and was high
ly complimented in the report of
Colonel Gibson, who acknowledged.
his obligation to Captain Clay's
judgment and courage, sayin g that
his conduct was worthy of his dis
tinguished ancestors. Soon after
the battle an sttack of typhoid fever
rendered it necessary for him to
leave the army. He expected to re
sume his duties in a short time; but
his warfare is ended." Ho was an
able, generous, well-educated and
popular young man.
A DETERMINED JUDGE.
Judge George W. Lane, of Hunts
ville, Alabama, who was appointed
by President Lincoln a year ago
judge of the Northern District of the
State, has written to Washington to
learn how he can draw his pay, and
referred to general Mitchell for evi
dence of his loyalty. But the Gen=
eral, in his dispatches to the War
Department, had anticipated him,
and had taken occasion to state that
when he took possession of Hunt 'will@
be was informed that the stars and
stripes had been flying for a year over
Judge Lane's house, and the shreds
were still there. The rebels had at
tempted to pull it down, but the de
termined attitude of the judge com
pelled them to desist.
oar The • Jewels of the Egyptian
Queen Ash liotep, who died eighteen
hundred years before .Christ, and
whose tomb was discovered by a
French archmologist in 1850-, will be
exhibited at the International Exhi
bition in London. When found at
G-ounah, the body of the Queen was
covered with objects in gold and sil
ver, such as a diadem of massive
gold, encrusted with precious stones,
elaborately chased with the heads of
sphynxes, and bound together with a
cord of gold wrought like a tress; a
collar of gold, having depending from
it three flies of solid gold, supposed
to be the decoration of the Egyptian
honorary Order of the Fly; two heads
of lions; and a boat of death mount
ed on wheels, and with little figures
of rowers .n silver. The sitter is
supposed to represent the deceased
Queen, and the chanter in the boat
is of gold; his finger is placed upon.
his lip as if enjoining silence.
Stir The dimensions of the United
States Capitol at Washington .are
thus officially stated : Whole length
of building, 751 feet 4 inches; length
of wings, including steps, 3'24 feet;
width of wings, 142 feet 8 inches;
width of old capitol, 352 feet tinches;
height of the dome abotre the base
ment floor, 264 feet; ground actually
govered, more than 31 sow.