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IJJ'AII business in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, entrusted to them, wits receive prompt attention. tient. 11, 1861-Iy. J.A.J. BUCHANAN BUCHANAN & LINDSEY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Office on the South aide of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 1, 1862. R. W. DOWN ES' DOWNEY' & DIF.ONTOOINLERY ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, 117'0ffire in Ledwith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. M'CONNEI.L, J. J. HUFFMAN. BRVCONNELL surricAN. BTTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. ID — Office In the "Wright Douse," East Door. Collections, &c.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg. April 23, 1802-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building, adjoining the PostOlfice. dept. C. A. BLACK. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PtiELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. PHYSICIANS B. M. EILACHLEY, M. D. PIITSZCLELN dt. WITAGEON, Offiec—BlacUley , 2 Building, Main St., REISPECTFUI LY announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and viciuiJv that he has returned from the Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac tice of medicine at this place. Way nesburg, June 11, 1362.-13 . DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Bank Building, Main stre,i. Sept 11, 1861-Iv. DR. a. G. CROSS WOUI.D very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. Ile hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. EGG'S' RESPECTFULLY offers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and surgeon. ()dice opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention to business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. April 9. lOW. Dn. T. P. SEEZE.TADS. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Office in the old Roberts , Building, onposite . llny's Book Store. Waynesburg, Jan. 1, 1861. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinat purposes. Sept. I 1,1861-Iy. I!VIEROMANTS WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes tic Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. GEO. HOSKINS° N, Opposite the Court lipase, keeps always on hand a large stock of S.asonahle Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and Notions generally. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. ANDREW WILSON, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drogs, Notions, Hardware, queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Hoots and Shoes, flats and Cape, Main lappet. one door cast of the Old Bank. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries. Ilardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court House. Main street. Sept. 11, ISfil—ly. MINOR & Co., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro ceries, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House. Main street. dept. 11, 1861-Iy, CLOTHING N. CLARK,' Dealer in Men's and Boys' Clothing, Cloths, CaBSi ginres, Satinets, Hats and Caps, ar.e., Main stftel. op• posits the Court House. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. A. J. SOWERS, Dealer in Men's and Boys' Clothing, Gentlenten's Fur nishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, flats and Caps, Old Bankßuilding, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 m. BOOT AND SEVLIE DEALERS. j, D. COSGRAY, moot and Shoe maker, Main street, Thmrly oppusite' he "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style of vallerchrundShoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, J. B. RICKEY, Boot and Shoe inaker,Blachley's Corner, Main street. BOMB and Shoes of every variety always Oil hand or 'made to order on short notice. Sept. 11, 1861-4. GROCERIES & VARIETIES JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, dm, Glass of a sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. Ws 'Cash paid for good eating A.pp!es. Sept. 11, 1851-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, Malaria Groceriep and Confectionaries, and Variety Olinda Generally. Wileell's New Building, Main street. jj. BOORS. &a LEWIS DAY , s laillerilit &WS sad Miseelliassos Stiektia wart4aat Polpem apert One . irvelintsyt.of SABBATH PROFANATION IN LON DON AND PARIS. THE Foreign correspondent of the Christian Intelligencer, thus portrays the violation of God's day in the two greatest capitals of Europe : "London, the great monster city of Christendom, is at once the centre of magnificient charities and stupen dous evils. It is the heart of Euro pean benevolence, and from it goes forth in noble currents into all parts of the world the life-giving power of the Gospel. Well-doing is organized, aggressive, and effectiVe. hiding through London on a few favorable sunny days; surveying its vast, smoky, dingy, and forbidding pro portions; pressing through its thor oughfares; calling to mind its nu merous charitable institutions, phi lanthropic societies, and benevolent organizations; and running over its well-filled columns of contributions, we have been astonished at so much Christian life. And yet, what is it in London—Loudon so full of heaps of poverty, misery and abject wretch edness—London so noted for imposi tions, human sharks, impostures, and too, calculating, selfish worldliness F Ripples on the bosom of a corrupting, seething pond. WM. C. LINDSEY SAMUEL MONTGOMERY The Sabbath dawns. The church bells ring out deafeningly on all sides the hour of worship. Few hearts, comparatively, hail the joyous sound. Few, indeed, feel and acknowledge a beautiful custom in the Black Forest. There, whenever a bell rings, the peasants pause in their work, and en gage in prayer. Not so in London. Not so, even on the Sabbath morn ing. A goodly number, it is true, gather themselves up, and go forth to the temple of God. But what is this formal array of Sabbath-keeping, to the imposing hosts of Sabbath breakers—the thousands who stay at home, and the tens and hundreds of thousands, singly or in families, that leave the lanes, and alleys, and gloomy workshops, into some of which the sunbeam never enters, and hasten to the country, to breathe its pure air, see its rural sights, snuff as in childhood the sweet breath of flowery fields, and feel that they have room and light, and liberty again ? Alas, that the Church of England has slept, and now wakes to find that she has on her hands a harvest of death ! This gay metropolis of fashion, taste, and folly presents a striking contrast even to London. Sabbath breaking in England is a sin. It violates the acknowledged law of God, and the Christian character of the nation. In France, there is, strictly speaking, no such law or character to be violated. Sabbath breaking is a civilly-authorized form of gay life and the most absolitte self abandon. The same cries meet the ear; the same sights arrest the eye. Shops are open. Loungers occupy the chairs and fixed benches along the sidewalks. The cafes are full, and men sip their wine, or smoke their cigars, or discuss questions of business, polities and pleasure, under shady awnings, and leave the duty of attending on the mass, and visit ing the magnifieient churches, to some women, children, and an oc casional' man. Business is the or dinary care of the morning, but the afternoon is devoted to pleasure as. Parisians only can devote it. "Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die," is a polite sentiment. The people are nearly all idolaters of a refined worldliness; and those who go to mass, and worship at the altar of Mary, are only half in earnest.— God is not adored. I have seen no Catholic worshipper before the cross. The Immaculate Conception has done its work, and in France, as in Ireland, Jesus, as Mediator, has given place to our "flowery lady." The court acts right royally in the bad work, and, as a matter of worldly policy, provides a rich banquet of dissipating pleasures for the people. Military displays and races are au thorized. The Emperor, Empress, and the proud ones of the land, are present. I quote here, from Galig nani's Aressenger,n part of the."Strau ger's Dairy," as an illustration of what is officially done to encourage Sabb4th-breaking ; cc 70-Morrow,wSanday." "Parade for relieving guard at the Palace of the Tuilleries at 11 o'clock. "The Grand Water-works at Ver sailles. "Races In the Bois do Boulogne at "At the Louvre :—Galleries, Paint ings, Sculpture, 10 to 4 o'clock. At the Luzenahurg : all the Galleries of Paintings, 12 to 4-111.u.sce Napoleon 111. (Company Collection) Palais de l'lndustrie, 10 to 4—Palais de l'in dustrie, exhibition of the rich pro ductions of the French colonies, 12 to s —Cabinet of Natural History, Zoology, and lifineralogyjpat Garden of Plants, 1 to b—Hotel Cluny, Palais des Thermos, and Gar den, 11 to 4 —Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, 10 to s—Historical Gal leries and Palace of Versailles, and ervektt 4t4d 4'itit Trianon, 10 to 4," t --_~ j; tstEllansouz. LONDON PARIS WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1862. A NEWSPAPER CASE. The proprietor of the Rockport Republic, Mr. Beach, places on record the result of a civil cause tried in that village before Justice Davis, and in which he, the said publisher, was the plaintiff, and the defendant a farmer in the town of Hamlin. The defend ant had become a subscriber to the paper published by the plaintiff, and it bad been sent to him for about four , years and five months, during which period no notice was given to the publisher that it was not satisfactor ily received by the defendant. The main point of the defendant's defence was that he subscribed for the plain ' tiffs papertor a specified period, and although a portion of the whole of them beyond that period had been received by him, he was not bound to pay beyond the period of his original subscription. The jury, after hear ing the evidence in the case, decided that the defendant must pay the claims of plaintiff and costs of suit.— , The defendant had to pay the high ; est, or arrear rates of subscription. YOUNG PRISONERS, A Winchester, Va., letter says:— "Several of the Confederate patients are very young, and look more like schoolboys than soldiers. There is one young boy, about 15 years old, who is wounded in the shoulder, and who is almost continually crying from the pains of his wound. ; Sometimes his mind wanders, and he can be fair ly heard crying for that mother who is many miles away from him. His father is one of the richest planters in Louisiana, and the son volunteered in one of the regimcnt raised in that State. On leaving home his father sent a young negro boy with him as a servant. This negro has followed him continually, and no matter what time you enter the hospital, you will find him sitting alongside of hisyoung master. The boy, it is thought, will recover, but he will never again be fit to lead a soldier's life. THE LOWEST TYPE OF HUMANITY. The following extract is from an article on "Barbarism and Civiliza tion," in the Atlantic Monthly : On the Island of Borneo, there has been found a certain race of wild creatures of which kindred varieties have been discovered in the Phillip pine Islands, in Terra Del Fuego, and in South Africa. They walk usually, almost erect, on two legs, and, in that attitude, measure about four feet in height; they are dark, wrink led and hairy; they construct no hab itation, form no families, scarcely as sociate together; sleep in caves or trees; feed on snakes and vermin, on ant's eggs, on mice, and on each oth er; they cannot be tamed or forced to any labor; and are hunted . and shot among the trees like the great Gorillas, of which they are a stunted copy. When they are captured alive, one finds with surprise that their un couth jabbering sounds like an artic ulate language . ; they turn up a hu man face to gaze at their captor, and females show instincts of modesty; and, in fine, these wretched beings are men. BEAUREGARD'S BELLS The ship North American, which arrived at Boston on Saturday after noon, from. New Orlcans, brought the church bells from that city which had been gathered by order of Gen. Beauregard, and ordered to be cast into cannon. The following from a New Orleans correspondent is of in terest in this connection :—"One of the most striking objects which pre sented itself as our steamer reached the levee opposite St. Mary's Market was an immense collection of bells lying on the wharf, covering, it seemed to me, a quarter of an acre, and amounting in number to hun dreds. These were Beauregard's bells, sent in response to his call.— They were of all sizes, from very large church bells, weighing hun dreds of pounds, down to small plan tation and steamer bells." SMOKER'S CANCER.--- The Salem, Massachusetts Observer, learns from a reliable source, that a case of death by cancer in the mouth and throat recently occurred in a neighboring State, which was no doubt caused by excessive smoking. The deceased was a gentleman highly respected and esteemed for his many virtues. His sufferings were most dreadful.- 4t last the cancer, eating into the jugular vein, soon terminated his life. His age was fifty years. LIFE IN CANADA.—An editor in the village of .11.achel, 0. W., says : "Ono little garden patch" of ours was very profitable last season. The snails eat up the cucumbers; the chickens eat up the snaili; the neighbors' cats cat up the chiokens ; and now if we can only get hold of something that will eat up the cats, we will try it again. CROPS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA.-A correspondent in Weston, Lewis co., Va., says the wheat in that county is nearly ruined by the ravages of the weevil, and that not a fourth`of crop will be secured. Many farmers are plowing up their wheat fields, and pleating corn. Reports from other counties of Western Virginia, however, are more flattering, Wn---ITS HEROES AND HARPIES. some corpse." and that they uphold the war .mly because they hope to • ;•have it effect "what the Constitution "As the wild tempest wakes the slumber- failed to accomplish." We do not in sea ,; use our own phrases. We but quote g , from the leaders of political radical- Thou only teachest ,nat man can be !" i ism. We invite any American who So sings tha poet, and his words are true ; has at heart the true interests of the Full many a lesson eloquent and new Union, to recall a feu facts in the Has stern Bellona ; and with wisdom past, which are too near being for fraught gntten. We shall state nothing that will be disputed by even the radical Deeper than Minti va ever taught! men of the day. Lessons of Valor brilliant as the glare I The theory of radical abolitionists Of some wild meteor flashing through the propoundedas by its most eminent leaders was this, that the Constitu tion of the United States was a sin ful and therefore a detestable instru ment. They demanded the exodus of the slave over the ruins of the American Union. They avowed hostility to the constitution in all their meetings and their documents. The object o their exertions being the abolition of slavery, they recog nized no human law, treaty or corn pact as of sufficient force to stand in the way of effecting that result.— Part of the radical abolitionists were opposed to the introduction of the subject into politics—others fa- ! vored the idea. The result was a,! division of the ranks, and the forma- 1, tion of an abolition political party. ! By gradual but certain progress, the two elements virtually remitted, and radical abolitionists became politi- BY JOAN G. SAXE EVE Lessons of Faith that trust in duty done, Calm as the radiance of the morning sun ; Nay, e'en of Mercy—when around his bed, The wounded soldier hears the gentle tread Of her—the woman with an angel's art— Who smooths his couch and cheers his drooping heart Oh that the goddess who can thus reveal Man's highest glories, might his shame conceal; Nor, blushing, show us in the human race All that is sordid, cowardly and base ! In 'Washington she taught us to admire A statesman's wisdom and a'patriot's tire ; Then turned the medal, that the world might see A traitor's face—in Arnold and in Lee! 0, there are knaves, and "loyal" knaves at that, Who on their country's woes grow sleek and fat ; The pampered crew to whose unhallowed gains The cheated soldier owes his direst pains; Suffering—to swell their heap of shining gold— The pinch of hunger, and the pang of cold, And wishing oft some rebel's punctured head Had been his own !`Contractor's" in its stead A generous highwayman, it is said, Despoiled the rich 'to give the needy bread; A harlot has been known, at Mercy's plea, To do a deed of Christian charity; A pirate once—the curious tale is told— Released a captive, whom he might have sold To Turkish lust and bade the maiden go Free as the air, and•stainless as the snow ! But there are villains so supremely base, No friendly fiction names an act of grace To palliate their erime r —the shameless band— Sharks of the camp and "wreckers" of the OM lien who would trathe in the sculptured stones Inscribed as "Sacred" to their fathers' bones ; Nay, in the bones themselves—grant but a OEM Of ten per centaur in the current price! From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce. THE UNION ONE AND INDIVISIBLE The Union is the nation. The country for which we battle is the Union made by the fathers, on prin ciples which, if rightly appreciated by the people, would make it as per manent in duration as the world. If the war were over to-day, we should still have in our body politic the ele ments of discord, because we should have enemies of that Union among us. In seeking for a permanent establishment of unity and harmony, we must seek to convert, or eradi cate the men who are opposed in principle to that Union. It is a grand error to imagine that the re moval of slavery will remove all op position to the Union. The only basis on which men can unite in a government, is the basis of mutual interest and mutual yield ing. The same is true of States, eminently true of a large number of States banding together to form one great nation. The enmity to the Union is not local. It exists at the North and at the South. If any one doubts that Northern abolition ism is the ally of Southern secess ionism, a study of history will re move the doubt and stamp the truth of the alliance as an everlasting fact. It is true that somo men, good men, too, forgetting in the fierce excite ment of the present the whole histo ry of the progress, step by step, which brought us into the trouble, are disposed to look with leniency on the Northern disunionists among, us, because they so earnestly advo cate the war against the Southern disunionists. But we have said, and we repeat that no radical abolition ist is in favor of a war for the old Union, and no candid abolitionist will be found to-day who denies that be is opposed to a restoration of the Union as it was. We are living in the midst of a triangular war.— Southern rebellion attacks the Con stitution and makes war on its de fenders. Northern Union men, by hundreds of thousand's, rise to the defense of the Constitution, the old instrument of sanctified memory and world-wide influence for good, while a third party, professing to be for a Union, are acting with the steadfast purpose against the Ameri can Union, and when driven to the wall openly confess that they regard the Union with the abhorrence of a "Roman mix:anal chained to the loath clans For ten years they have contin ued their disunion labors as politi cians. They published their papers and documents with the memorable words, "The Constitution is a league with death and a• covenant with hell." They abused and vilified the memory of the fathers. We go back to one abolition meeting in Massachusetts as a specimen of hundreds that were held throughout • the country. A speaker named Foster thus argued : "Was it not that the only hope for the slave was over the ruins of this Government and of the American Church ? The dissolution of the Union was the abolition of slavery. Why not, then, address themselves plainly to their work ?" Another speaker, one Remond, ' said that : "Remembering that he was a slave holder, he could spit upon Washington. [Loud hisses and applause.] The hissers, he said, were slaveholders in spirit, and every one of them would enslave him if they had the courage to do it. So near to Fanueil Hall and Bunker Hill, was he not to be permitted to say that that scoundrel George Washington had enslaved his fellow men ?" ' And Mr. Wendell Phillips, the Apostle of abolitionism, and now the representative of the conditional Unionism, so elegantly illustrated by Governor Andrew, of Massachu setts, thus in an apolegetie manner, intimated that he coincided in the views concerning the "scoundrel Washi'ngton," and proposed to veil the statue of the greatest of men.— He said: "He should be loth to affix to the name of Washington the epithet which Mr. Remond did. He knew his defects—the effect of his evil ex ample ; but let us remember his times, his education—let us remem ber the good service he did once and again for the sentiment of liberty.— Washington was a sinner. It became an American to cover his face when he placed his bust among the great men of the world, for it was stained with a great gout of blood Yet he was a great man had great virtues, and he wonld not•give him the name of scoun drel because there were too many for whom they should keep that name.", And this was a meeting of men who are now pretending to the name of Unionists, who are upheld as bright and shining lights of patriot ism, who are received on the floor of the United States Senate with distin guished honor by the Vice-President! Is any other record necessary than that of this one meeting to show where the abolitionists were acting, and in what direction their exertions were laid out ? We have before us a host of witnesses, in the shape of speeches, resolutions, addresses and the like. But we refer to one be cause it shows net only that they were acting for disunion, but that they knew themselves even in 1859 to be co-operating with Southern treason, and accepted and acknowl edged the confederacy. We have before us the proceedings of a meet ing held in the State of New York, which is reported to have been at tended by a great crowd of people. The chairman of the meeting, the Vice-President and the Secretaries might well object to the publication of their names at this time, for it is not impossible that Home of them have repented of their grievous mis take and became loyal men in the Union. Their names are all before us in the report of their proceedings at this meeting, held in the State of New York, in December 1859. Among a series of fierce anti-slavery and anti-American resolutions, the following waiadopted "unanimously" as the record assures *, and with spontaneous bursts of whinge." WA. Whereas, the dissolutien. of the present imperfect and inglorious *ion between the free and slave States, would result in the overthrow of slavery and the consequent formation of a more perfect and glorious Union, without the incubus of slavery; therefore, "RESOLVED, THAT WE INVITE A FREE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE DIS UNIOINfISTS OF THE SOUTH IN ORDER TO DEVISE THE MOST SUITABLE WAY AND MEANS TO SECURE THE CONSUMMATION SO DEVOUTLY TO BE WISHED." Another resolution directed that the proceedings be sent to Governor Wise of Virginia, and the last resolu tion of this meeting, in a series of thirteen, was one directing the pub lication -of the proceedings in the country papers and in the Y Tri bune. We presume they were not . ad mitted to that paper, but it is a part of the history of the times that the men who acted in this meeting were also co-operating with the Tribune in the political campaign then going', on, and expected their affiliation to be recognized by that paper. But although their proceedings were not published, the Tribune had no ward of denunciation for the men who thus I openly proposed correspondence with Southern disunionists. 11Ye do not speak of it to blame the Tribune.— That paper was acting with a politi- I cal party for political success. But that which we have said is history. J When the government of the United Slates looked for Northern sympathizers with Southern rebel lion, did it examine the history of that meeting ? When it sought the men who corresponded with the South for the purpose of bringing about disunion, did it inquire into the rules of this New York meeting, which directed the opening of cor respondence on the subject ? The page of history which we have opened is black indeed. It may well appal the strongest heart, when we reflect on the extent to which this same radical disunionism has been permitted to go. But we have not opened it to discourage any one. On the contrary, it is to rouse the spirit of every lover of his coun try, every patriot in America, that we direct attention to this infamous story. Its lesson is one of love for the conntry and for the principles of its fathers. In times like the present their should be no mistake as to the j real dangers which menace the Re public, or orror in selecting those against whom to direct our endeav ors. Men should not be deceived by the flimsy pretense of loyalty which old time disunionists put on in the present troubles. It is truth, plain as daylight, which no man of the radical party will be found ready to deny, that that party is opposed to) the prosecution of the war for the Union as it was, and only in favor of it for the establishment of some sort of Union in which their views of sla very shall rule the whole country.— ID this very hour of our calamity, the glory of Massachusetts is dimmed by the voice of her conditional Unionist Governor, who tells the nation that it is doubtful whether Massachusetts will fight for the old ' Union, but that she is ready to fight for the freedom of the negroes of the South. But Massachusetts gives the lie to her Governor b 3 pouring out her soldiers for the struggle, and proving that all her valiant and pat- j riotic sons have not yet gone to the field, that she has more left, and • abundance, who love the Union of Washington. The entire North is, we believe, earnestly at work for the Union. The President is laboring for that Union Congress has pledg ed itself to conduct the war for that , ' Union. And that Uuion can never be made strong unt;l the " Disunion ' men of the South" are satisfied of j their impotence, and repudiated by the Union mon of the South, nor un- ', til the North with a strong voice and firm band controls and annihilates the disunion men here, who in the memorable words of Mr. Blair are "alders and abettors of the Southern Confederacy. " 818 COLIN CAMPBELL ON GEN. Mo- OLELLAN. The great Indian commander, now Lord Clyde, is perhaps the greatest military authority in Europe. His opinion of the conduct and ability of our commanding General is enti tled to weight, and we are glad to have it for the encouragement of the country, in these times A personal friend, and a gentleman well known in this city, writes a private letter from Paris, June 4th, as follows : "Mr. Mowatt dined with us a few days since. He is here with Lord Clytle, the greatest English General living. In a conversation which I. had with Lord Clyde, on Saturday, he stated that General McClellan had evinced more true Generalship than any man in our array. Lie said he considered Lim a splendid strategist and able leader." arir•To the question what is the weight of a million dollars in gold ?" an officer of the mint answers as fol lows : "The weight of one mil/ion dollars United States currency in gold, is 53,700 Txoy ounces. " This makes 3379 lbs. 20z., or nearly two tons and a quarter, reckoning 2000 lba. to, each ten. NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 6 DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE DUTY OF THE CITIZEN. The following letter from Daniel Webster to his overseer, John Taylor, will do, for its intrinsic excellence and applicability to the present times, to republish. It is a model production. It reads : Wasnmorori, March 17, 1852. "Joux TAYLOR : Go ahead. The heart of the winter is broken, and before the Ist day of April all your land may be plowed. Buy the oxen of Captain Marston, if you think the price fair. Pay for the dray. I send you a check for $l6O for these two objects. Put the great, oxen in a condition to be turned out and fat tened. You have a good horse team, and I think, in addition to this, four oxen and a pair of four-year-old steers will do your work. If you think so, then dispose of the Stevens oxen, or unyoke them, and send them Ito the pasture, for beef. I know not when I shall see you, but I hope be , fore planting. If you need anything, i such as guano, for instance, write to Joseph Buck, Esq., Boston, and he I will send it to you. "Whatever ground you sow or plant, see that it is in good condition. We want no penny royal crops. 'A little farm well tilled' is to a farmer the next best thing to a wife well willed. Cultivate your garden. Be sure to produce sufficient quantities of veget ables. A man may half support his family from a good garden. Take care to keep my mother's garden in good order, even if it cost you the wages of a man to take care of it.— I have sent you many garden seeds. Distribute them among your neigh bors. Send them to the stores in the village, that every body may have a I part of them without cost. lam glad that you have chosen Mr. Pike Representative. He is a true man ; but there are in New Hampshire many persons who call themselves Whigs, who are no Whigs at all, and no better than disanionists. Any man who hesitates in. granting and. securing to every part of the coun try its just and constitutional rights, is an enemy to the whole country. "John Taylor—lf one of your boys should say that he honors father and mother, and loves his brothers and sisters, but still insists that one of them shall be driven out of the fami ly, what can you say of him but this: that there is no real family love in him ? You and I are farmers; we never talk politics—our talk is of ox en, but remember this—that any man who should attempt to excite one part of the country against another is just as wicked as he would be who should attempt to get up a quarrel between John Taylor and his neigh bor, old Mr. John SaubOrn, or his other neighbor, Captain Hurleigh. "There are some animals live best in fire ; and there are some men who delight in heat, smoke, combustion and general conflagration. They en joy only controversy, contention and strife. Have no communion with such persons, either as neighbors or politicians. You have no more right to say that slavery ought to ex ist in Virginia than a Virginian has to say that slavery ought not to ex ist in New Hampshire. This is a question left to every man to decide for himself ; and if we mean to keep the States together, we must leave to every State the power of deciding for itself. "I think I never wrote you a word before upon politics. I shall not do it again. - I only say, love your coun try ; and when men persuade you to get into a quarrel with the laws of other States, tell them that 'you mind your own business; and advise them to mind theirs. John Taylor, you are a free man ; you possess good principles ; you have a large family to rear, and provide for by your labor. Be thankful to the Gov ernment which does not oppress you; which does not bear you down by excessive taxation, but which holds out to you and to yours the hope of all the blessings which liberty, indus try and security may give. John Taylor never write me another word upon politics. "Give my kindest remembrance to your wife anti children ; and when you look from youreastern windows upon the graves of my family, re member that he who is the author of this letter must soon follow them to. another world. DANIEL WEBSTER." The Rejection of Gen. Shields. The refusal of the Senate to con firm the nomination of Brigadier Gen. Shields as a Major General, has caused considerable stir among his friends in Washington. They say his past and present services entitle him to rank the same as Major General Fre mont and Major General MeDoWell. and that partisan influence alone has defeated him. INDIANNA TROOPS.—OId of 60,000 men sent forth by Indiana to assist in crushing out the rebellion, it is es timated that 0,000 have been already lost iu battle, arid by casualls and disease. Probably half as many more, who yet remain in the field, are permanently disabled by the hardships and exposures of milita,ry . life, and will ultimately have to be discharged.
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