tht ,Vl:tootager. j a m . w. s. Joials mt.,. 'Ow Coyntry, One Constitution, Ono Qestiny." lithinktlAnSl Va room, JAN. 13, 1864. IPOlriplipipipliglrr =x 11464. SEN. ogoseE B. MoCLEL,LAN, uksyset I* the Decision of the Democratic No digital Convention.) - . mod M ita Z aih tlie n7 w is er g 9 1144 1 1 C f:; tlea of the Vaipa and the mad et year asihniality eed rowsisii• se eftrAMPO , • GSM akcirfyxplow. jnirdlerke Constitution and the Union! yelise terillieri. 'Tilley stand, they indent sued together; if they Cecil, they !mu* Mi terther: 9 -.Daniel Webster. Mil Now Law Firm It will be risen, by their card on the first polo si' to-dayas paper, that our young AO*, D. SIT: HMS and JAMS INGMUM, bsris - Unfired into partnership in the pritdotal die law in the several Courts of thill county, and in the posemaion of sof- Om' did* spinet the Government far teasing.%Aouater, Back Pay, &c. They Writ Ming Msof iatefirky, energy end ripmefigr, sad will give faithful attention to alPhealanamtrightd to their cape, We have itr iiiiAlittn fn commending tigan tq ttv inhilikaeB pf gsr friends. • , • Oft Owtim's felloiriag is an abstract of Gov. t glib:stage sent to the Legislature on last, Jan, 7th : The Gresernor t after alluding to the God' laWsings which Al mighty Go d' has bestowed upon us 141,S jaw, pre to the '. lir the financial condition of" irty ore .5- .>e indebtedness amounts to tilittrninci'and half millions. lEth eqo the 'State has paid its interests in pain or ifs equivalent, but the Governor 1. -0 91 1 rie, , .n4scarefultd and immediate ) 11 0„ OtantlitriPon or the Legislature to the 0044 A, oil expresses the opinion that litta CiaWamWealth will have fulfilled her obligations by providing for the mew' at interest in the currency of the GoyernMent. lie deems the policy coin to foreign and currency ko .. • loan holders as wholly un •4,- gad foun44 on no legitimate prin .-, , • other financial recommenda z•,, is on the gross receipts of all Canals and mining comps utt; to the recent inaysion of the • * •, " Governor ' returns 'thanks to ork! an 4 liow Jersey for their •' ' • . . • OR yites the y attention .9f gio • - to . the deploralge conct?tion of .people of Rasp Tennessee: e renews his' recommendatOu for a ro4;ioo of the Militia Laws, and, trusts di*l. a reasonable time be allowed, the State's qttota will be filled by volunteers. 'Aug,4o6tebas 'already sent 277,409 men to tho kid for general and spe4al ser yice. Jb o rp . • Governor continues as follows t i bia unnatural rebellion may be and effectually crushed, we lie r the obligation of the one per piga!aat -duty, that of vigorously sup ourV Government in its measures s4, o a io nad. To the full extent of my • aallividual ability, it shall be ,td, and I heartily rely on your 4PPlradjfk Ire Wlit of Hobos, Corpus. re Sillarringfon, of Indiana, introduced on into Congress on the }7th w i restalece.to t be suspension of wit of ibligiMkOorpen, dealaring such e ansPe.usiYa thriAnti &Mee, where the courts of justice are not obstructed; to be Contrary to the progressof the age, despotic , and sabwersive of the el ementary principles on which the goli -600144:0i )111344 ; .4 - • .lilF WOW 01 We aryiticia and destructive spirit Oat Lisa seized upon members of con gress as weal as s large portion of the peo: pis, it may not be noising tludtheSe emi nently conservative and proper resolutions Wire rejected by a vote of 89 to 67. The Draft. }decent advice fron Washington state that Aisik draill,ll4iitActailitetiPostrooned, apihimilesitials are tlutt.est l aosive efforts will ba4,011 by Eicelit to secure the s* 411110 Oohlatstlrhig; Is* bides4oi sent a message to Gon g//4 figamigaspai the *thitansion the ' ; iit !slai relA t tt .il3er th . o . n:T= ' -‘,::::`,.:3-'-11.1 ii , i. . -• Gen. • :: : % )ii:111,., , ilia 1) 6 4 nomingt i ' . ~ : ' ' 44414 * . Y: '.4,4, 1 4, 44., 4 4- A c .4006: is 1 0 0 ,19 !.: ' :10 be *dad, sid we hive The Home Journal. The &at No. of the new Volume of this ad w s umsa c r ik wonky, patented by limes * litr.-TWYeton St., N.:T., at $2.60 per ans!lnk -is on qtc * a .: It is magnificently inigind, and its &agents are varied and Interilia, without doubt, the best paper of the kind in the country. The Late Cold 6pell. From all parts of the country come reports, by teleiaph - aud mail, of terri bly severe weather since Friday last. A very heavy snow-storm has been pre vailing throughout the West, and rail roads are blocked up in all directions.--, In Buffalo a flood has submerged a part of the city, doing immense damage.— In Chicago, the mercury, on Saturday, fell to 28 below zero, and in St. Louis the cold is unparalleled, the thermome ter on Saturday standing at 24 below, and the river being frozen so as to per= wit sleighs to mass, Two soldiers were frozen to death at Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. The soldiers in camp at In dianapolis suffered considerably. A number had their ears and feet frozen. On Thursday night fora• rebel prisoners were frozen to death while asleep in the pars at Jeffersonville. At Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the storm Rpened on Thursday, with a pow, driv ing snow. Friday morning the moron ry had fallen to the almost incredible degree of thirty-eight below zero, Fahrenheit. On Saturday morning it Was 36 below zero. The only casualty in that locality was that of a woman beinarozen to death while driving a team between Rerlin and Rosendale, Winnebago county.— There are many cases of frozen hands and feet, and ears. From Rockford, 111., we learn that on Friday, Jan. Ist, it WAS so intensely cold, that it was impossible for man or beast to:stay out more than a few minutes at a time. It is reportell that one man was frozen to death, ana several so badly frost Wien in the extremities that they will have to have feet and hands ampu, tated. Advices from St. Paul, Minnesota, Rtate that on the 3d inst. the . mercury was thirty degrees below zero, and thirty-eight during th© night. The army register thermometer, at Fort Snelling, which is on a high bleak bluff, marked fifty below zero yesterday. A register which .has been kept since that fort was established in 1812, shows that this degree of cold has been reached but twice during that time. At Milwaukie, Wisconsin, the ther mometer has ranged from thirty to thirty-five 4egrega !plow gere, with a driving wind most terrible to encounter. Frozen ears, noses and feet are innurner ible, and many persons were picked up insensible on the streets. Ears and feet were frozen while going but a few blocks. Many employees of the railroad were badly frozen and crippled for life. Accounts from Springfield, lii., state that several soldiers froze to death at camp Yates, and the stage-driver on the route between that and Virginia was found dead on his box ; guppq,e4 to have frozen to death. Two men were frozen to death on the Railroad near Fort Wayne, Ind. At Madison, Wisconsin, on the morn ing of the 2nd, the thermometer stood at 34 degiees below zero, and at the Harvey Hospital the mercury congealed. The oldest settlers have never experienc ed such intensely cold weather. Gov. Seymour. Gov. Seymour, in his lath message to the New York Legislature, goes into the consid eration of national affairs at length, and fif ter asking what has been accomplished by the Government., in the territory wrested from rebellion, says c !Tut one course will save us from Nationll ruin. We must ad- here to the solemn plodges made by our Government, at the outset of the war. We must seek to restore the Union and uphold the Constitution. To this end, while we put forth every exertion to beat down armed re- hellion, we must use every inductee pf wise statesmanship to bring back the States who now reject their constitutional eidigations, we must put forth every honorable induce ment to the people of the South to assume again the rights and duties of American cid- Puship. We have reached that point in the progress of the war for which we all have 'struggled. We now stand before the world a great and successful military power. Wise statesmanship eau now bring this war to a dose upon tile terms solemnly avowed at the Outset. geed falai tp the public creditors, to all elasse eitizez*A44 to the worid, de mends tjaa,t this slkenld be done. The triumphs won 4y our seld,ier,s ,should be fol limed up ar i d secured by the p&ace-rnaking policy of tlieStktesn;ien in the cabinet, In no 'other way can we save the Uhion.'! Penneylvo* keg!s!atvie. On the sth hist'. the Iftiu:e eldcted Speaker, H. C. Johnson. The vote was as follows : 11. C. Johnson, AborldiAtist ? qty- two; C. L Peashing, Democrat, forty:five.- 7 The Senate spent about. three hours ballot ing, *salt: John P. Penni, sixteen ; Omar. sixteen. When this dead look will end 'no ono can k4l. lif.r. Oyster offcred a proposition that the f ilepublioanstaice the 4posker, and' the Dens 4estimis iiiiitreei4, and •difide MI the 'unbar' 7441114 s '.''' Thrs its' V OliOreelt it a* -: I , ;Nita' osoA .t . ,K. -#;;-.11., , ,t4eiL .l- 1, Ilium` on I ,l aitila if Chicago hos ix - • „ mutat a negro for s eduction. Clerk to t* .CorniMira. JESSE 4UL, *el., Tp., hos beiltimxiiiited 'Ake Coin n iasionem vice B.„. NG. T. RILL rirk is a "roab-water” Depocint, a very clever val courteous gentleman, and well qualified for the position. Parson Browntow. Parson Brownlow; at 'the outbreak of this' rebellion, published the linox 7 vide Whig. We ,recollect the tone of that paper for a time. An exchange has reproduced a few extracts from the Parson, dated the 13th of April, 1861 : We have become satisfied that the weakness of the President and infamy of his counsels will result in a complete and final separation of all the slave States from the Union, and in a bloody civil war. And again: An unwise, unpatriotic, not to say * reckless, Abolition course is being pur sued (at Washington,) which will crush lout the Border States, and finally cause the North and the South to drift away from each other. And yet again : We were pleased with Lincoln's In augural, anit have to record our deep re grets that its conservative, peace-loving and sound nationality of sentiment is not to be carried out. The new admin istration we feel confident will prove, in a very short time,' to be an atheistical, deistical abolition swindle. The parson has about as much sense nQw is he had then, when he was very naturally supposed off for Secret Societies The Harrisburg Patriot and Union-recom mends the following: "Hitherto we have discountenanced and opposed any secret or ganization of the pemocratic party—but on the principle of fighting the devil with his own weapon, we now withdraw that opposi tion; and, as the only means of success, re commend that some plan, as little objection able, as possible, ho devised for forming se cret Democratic associations, with a view to more perfcit, organization awl united action. And And let be dune soon—the sooner the bet ter," What it will Take. Ta show how much of the vote of each State in rebellion will be necessary to form Ow one tenth required for the formation of lggal State Governments under the Presi dent's proclamation, the following table is given : Total vote No. re- States. in 1860. quired. Alabama 90,347 9,031 Arkansas 54,053 6,406 Florida ... 14,347 1,487 Georgia ..... .. 106,365 10,887 Louisiana 50,500 4,050 Mississippi 69,120 6,912 Tennessee 145,333 14,534 North Carolina 06,280 9,623 Texas 62,986 6,298 Virginia and South Carolina are not in cluded in this list, because the former is not mentioned in the proclamation, and the lat ter nevcF caste presidential votes, except by Legislature, Dead, Sleeping, Alive and Kicking. Wendell Phillips, in his recent speech at the Cooper Institute, New York, said among other things : "Stunner's theory is that the States are dead, nothing but territories; Robert Dale Owen's theory is that they are not dead, but sleeping ; Seward's theory is that they are alive and• kicking, only liicking'on the wrong Ode." He might have added that Lincoln's theory embraces the whole three above nannid. Sometimes heregards them as dead and acts accordingly : again he treats them as if they were temporarily dormant ; and anon, they are live, kick ing States, and to be. Y The desire to make the war an agency for destropinc , slavery, more than for restoring the Union, is the author of those conflicting theories. If the war was prosecuted for the latter purpose as its primary and great object, there would be no diffi culty in assigning the States their true position ; nor, we may add, in adopting al* of policy in harmony with the constitntion.—Cia. Enquirer. TPA 4L4'TAND/IVIL FRAUDS. -It is stated that the investigations growing out of the frauds in the Quartermaster's Department at Alexandria are still progressing, and new candidates for the Old Capitol present them selves daily. Nearly all the contractors, to : gether with the Quartermasters and their clerks, are now in that institution. The Secretary of War expects to have the enOre party before ti4e investigation closes, The 'Widen says : "The frauds, it is Wlieved, are far more extensive than was at first supposed. prom The f4cr. 1140, the officer whose deity it was to purchase forage for the army had appointed Ins brother inspector of hay, and a son of the principal contractor inspector of grain, there is every reason to believe that no means have been neglected whereby money could be made at the expense oflthe Gov ernment." MR. SEBASTIIVAT, cp AuksmB4s,---A corres pondent of the St. Louis Republican, who has recently conversed with lion. W. K. Sebastian, formerly Senator from Arkansas corrects the current, reports as to Mr. Se bastian's intention of claiming a seat in Con gress as follows : ,"He declared himself in favor of reunion on L,nnorable terms under the sacred old 'Union se. it was, and the Constitution as it is.' 'Rut,' said he, I have no seat in the Senate, I was expetled by a resolution which was passed - on tic ialse statement that I was at the time Cohonel at a Rebel regiment.' Re ee4l that iii ever participated in the re bellion in any waY wryer;l44lhe c 0 4 ., List, myself in-tbit .aigen at .601411 to .as it ilkodiellaffrF 4.'"eat `thafe44lo.r•• • Ileasew A.aliina.—We iiee t Tri be te thitAt. /501: ,40101404 1, OM. - _ 114 0 11 * 4 . /MP _ltii , 4 Waters, and then abolition ITEMS, POLITICAL AND OTHER- WISE. Onnt Ware Virotiz—rglamhims. --- The House voted to day : For invalid pensiests .... $1,000,000 Frr pensions -to widows, mothers, children and sisters Thus—we start for only the second year's oporations of the war—with a pension list, only is part, of about : three and a quarter millions of dollars. This great appropria tion without a word of debate, and is but the beginning of more millions annually, of tax es upon generation after geuoration, and such are the products of the war.—[Wash ington Correspondence of New York Ex press. NO:L,,"Years ago had a colored man pre sented himself at the White House, at a Pres ident's levee, seeking an introduction to the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, he would have been, in all probability, roughly han dled for his impudence. Yesterday four col ored men, of genteel exterior, and with the manners of gentlemen, joined in the throng that crowded the Executive Mansion and were presented to the President of the United States."—Washington Chronicle. It Mr. Lincoln chooses to associate with negroes, and really regards himself no bet ter than one of them, we do not feel at lib erty to dispute the correctness of his opin ions.—[Age. The greatest power of endurance of such hardships as belong to a soidie,'s life belongs to men over thirty-five years of age; men from eighteen to thirty are ten times on the sick list where those older are only once. The records of the hospitals around Washington develop the fact that, aside from surgical cases, the patients under thirty-five are as torty to one over that age, consequent ly, a sound man of forty, and of temperate habits, will endure more fatigue and hard treatment than one equally sound at the age of twenty. Go in, second class. A Cnm.wiolf..—The Juniata True Demo crat has been making some very grave char ges against the enrollment board of that county, and it ppw states that one of the members called on the Governor, who told him that "he must bring a prosecution for libel or stand guilty." This is what the Democrat wants, and it pledges itself to es tablish "a chapter of malfeasance, swind ling, bribery, corruption, arid rascality- gent erally," The issue can scarcely be shirked after this defiance, and we trust that the truth will be speedily brought to light. THE PERILS OF WASIIINGTON.—The Chron icle says there are large numbers of women now in Washington who are suffering from extreme poverty— women • who came there to visit their sons, brothers, or husbands in the army, to recover the remains of those who have died, to obtain employment or the money due their relatives, but have not the means to take them home again. With these women it is now starvation or dishonor, and the Chronicle calls upon the charitable to render them immediate assistance. ANOTLfErc CALL FqR 800,000 Diva,--A Washington correspondent says a bill has been introduced into Congress "instructing the Pre f ;ident to call out 800,000 men, in additin to the 30Q,000 of the last Call. It is not expected that the contempla ted call will secure 800,000 men, but that it will get at least one-fourth of that num ber of soldiers, and $3OO each for the balance, which would be 200,000 men and $lBd,QOO7, 000 iu money." DONEISON IN Tnoura.E.—Andrew Jacksou Donelson, who ran for Vice President on the American ticket in 1856, is in trouble, hav ing said that ho would not trust Jeff Davis farther than a blind mule could kick. Ile was arraigned for this, but let off, and when he had returned home he found that his rebel friends had stolen all his corn and ba con. He is very bitter iq his denunciation of the Confederates. Mons TAxamoN.—A Washington dispatch says that Secretary Chase strenuously in sists on limiting the appropriation* to the means, and in providing by taxation every dollar appropriated beyond the amount, which can certainly be obtained by loans, and without tpo largely increasing the pub lic debt. ea.!A noisy ignoramus, who calls himself qackson Democrat," says he is, "in favor of a strong central government, which will make its power felt over every State." If there were any truth in spiritual knocking . )ye are sure that Old Hickory would knock the brains out of the impudent fools who talk such stuff in his name. CoNstwevwx.— The examining boards have been instructed that incipient consump tion is not a disability that exempts a con script from military service. If a man has "galloping consumption," we suppose they will put him into the cavalry service : "No MORE PansinExp."—lforaop Greeley declared iu a great public assembly at the Cooper Institute in New York, on the evening of the 22nd Pec., that he was not sure that there would ever be another Pm ident of the United States. WY - Wendell Phillips is 'snot certain that slavery is dead until he sees it buried." The New Haven Register says if he will go to the "freedmen's" camps, along the Mississippi, he will see it buried at the, rate of 6pvero hundred a day. iiirA call has been issued for a meeting of the National Democratic popitaittee in New York on the 19th inst. to 4.x the time for the meeting of the Den c,cratic Conven tion to nominate candidates for the Presi dential of action, Jry Devils 'ls Taus.—The Richmond correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser writes : "IL is said Una the Presideatt weeon he heard otthe ,J34161i141110 of GO*. at LoDkoitt .1 4Oalittdo — ait4 . 10selomug sartloare . Itre oq the milk as muy of 700,900.Ernit904tea, 0114,110 , or Alh WS lika*, et wide!f- Dm** ah04,10%100. NO 1111114OOkkr 1311M4111600. akadrik *-`, liiidellirlaribleieleigi tnsuilifLed• approval of WealidP -John Brown and Tousaint L'Ouverture. ME se-Such is flit. %%retched condition of the atihtrabands—fifty thousand or more be lireeo.l44ltphis,Natojj*--..4llatAka*W them will tiolx4ily t o of toldi : huatii- 11 1 0 thb *inter. Edward Everett has been trying to persuade the President to reverse his unj4t and outrageous decision in the case of Fitz John Porter. 2,200,000 $3,200,000 Ber The son of ex-Secretary Cameron has just, after two years service, been placed on the retired list as an army paymaster, with a salary of $2,000 a year for ltik*-A gay contraband of Beaufort, told a newspaper correspondent that she was "the wife of the officers of the Massachusetts reg i went." There is a pressing demand fur white of ficers of negro regiments. Here is a chance fur our Abolition friends to offer their ser- ESE ta- A man sat down on the sidewalk in Quebec a few days ago and froze to death and people passing all the while. A couple announce in the Providence Post their marriage, and add to the notice— No cards—nor auy money to get them with." Hon. Wm. Whiting, Solicitor of the War Department, delivered an opinion, sometime since, on the question of liability to serve, of men drafted in Pennsylvania, in 1862, but who have never been mustered into service. The following is the opinion : "Militia men drafted under the laws of the State of Penn sylvania, not having been mustered into the service of the United States, cannot lawfully he treated as deserters. Inasmuch as the number of troops and the length of their ser vice in the different States, have been, or will be, taken into consideration by the Pres ident so as to equalize the same among the States in the draft which is soon to be order ed under the act of 1863, and as the deficit of troops of Pennsylvania will thus be made up, it is my opinion that no further proceed ings should be taken in relation to the per sons drafted last fall. AlWing to the will of Mr. Jas IL Roosevelt, ;i millionaire bachelor of New York city, latrly deceased, the New York correspondent of the .UostAn Post writes : 'lie most curious part of the affhir is that the legatee under the will (and the sole executrix) is a lady to whom the late lamented had been several times betrothed ; once, even so nearly married that the cards were out, the guests as sembled, and the expected bride on hand en reyle, but the very necessary bridegroom did not come to time.- The reason why never transpired, but the couple made it up again. SO the hap py tiny was postpoued—as it turned our ad eterniatcnt—but the inconsolable fiance was remembered to the tune of 5,000 a year for life and the profitable berth of executrix of a million dollar es tate. Such is lift. The bulk of the property was begneathed to found a hos pital in New York city. Extraordinary Elopement. [From the Wheeling (Va) Register.] One day last week, Mrs. Emma Goodwin, of Noble county, Ohio, started from her home to go to Pennsylvania, to visit some relatives residing in Greene county, in that Ntate, leaving her hus band and two small children, aged re spectively, about five and seven years and a hired girl "to keep house." Her husband amply provided her with flints to pay her way before her departure.— About the same time, Mr. George Tay lor, who resides in the same neigborhood and who was able to rejoice in the pos session of a handsome wife started west "on business," but somehow or other, he took the wrong road and ar rived in Wheeling about the same time with Mrs. Emma G. They remained at one of our hotels over night, passing as man and wife, and the next morning took the Pittsburgh train. It seems that, after two or three clays' travel, they brought up at Cleveland. Arriv ing just before meal time, after a hastily prepartal toilet they passed to the dining room and were seated near the head of the table—Mrs. Er = immdiately op posite her husband, and Mr. Taylor im mediately opposite his wife It seems that a day or two after Mrs: Goodwin left home. Mr. G. took it into his head to attempt to seduce Mrs. Tay lor from her "sacred allegiance to her lord," and induce her to elope with him in her husband's absence—in which it seems he had but little trouble in suc ceeding—neither of them ever dreaming that their companions were just then com mitting like acts of adultery. The scene that ensued after the mutual recognition at the Cleveland dinner ta ble was neither tragic nor ridiculous, as might be imagined; bat like philosophic people, who found themselves in "a very bad spell" would do, they quietly, and as if moved by some secret understand ing, withdrew to a private mop, where they arranged that each mite should take his own wife and go back to their homes and childrpn, and try and live wiser and -better Rim and women in the future. A correspondent of the Providence journal vouches for the efficacy of ice as a cure for diptheria, croup and all ordi nary intlamations of the throat. The manner of application is as follows : "Break up a small piece of ice in a towel, and put the pieces in a bowl, take a po sition qlghtly inclined backwards either in a chair or on a RA. Proceed to feed yourself with small lumps of ice, letting them dissolve slowly in the back part of the throat. A single application will often break up a common sore throat, which otherwise - wired have a course of two or three dap. In case of a hal sore throat, meth. lee frequently and freely. In camr4l itineration or diptheria, heap a 'saran ./nnsli vt loth coaatantly m4ofh t °,441s- owe 4116411.111 P 1i y.—Pare Important to Drafted Men. Romantic. Ice for Diptiteria. Bound to Satisfy t► Abolitionists. President Illineolit; according to the &kit j aco a ripaptes and letter writers, Wts delivered msolfover to their party `Tor better or worse.” A Washin: &patch to tho Cincinnati Gazette that Mr. Lincoln the other day in - . versation with several prominent West ern men, including the members of Mis souri, assured them that the Schofield gamble difliculty should be adjusted to the satisfaction of the Abdßitionists of that state. Old Coin An interesting discovery was made lately by a shepherd in a wood recently cleared, near Etain. France. It is a coin of Philip, of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, and therefore more than 2,000 years old. It is in gold, and weighs eight grains. On one side is a head of Apollo crowned with laurel, and on the other a personage in a car drawn by two horses. Below is a kind of vase on which is the word Philipi o.a m Greek characters. Before the Roma invasion, Greek coins were curren among the Gauls.—Gab:gnard. rEb-- The Boston Transcript publishes a sketch of Deacon John Phillips, of Sturhridge, Mass., who4Nl now in his one hundred and fourth year. This venerable Man was horn in Massachusetts when George H. was king of Great Britain. He was drafted in 1776, and served in the early part of the American Rev olution, and has a distinct recollection of the battle of Bunker Hill, which took place when he was fifteen years old. Ile has lived all his life on one farm, ate at one table, and during a space of ninety years has not had a severe sickness Q. 4l ),tomuutratiouT. FOR THE MESSENGER. West Virginia Correspondence. WEST VIRGINIA, Jan. 3d, 1864. Editors Messenger :—The New Year came upon us this time with a 'perfect rush," "like a house afire," as one said, or "cold as Lucifer," as was equally in appropriately remarked by another. At any rate, it is generally conceded here that, New Year's night and Saturday morning were about as cold as it gener ally gets, or as the Thermometer will permit You ask me why I don't oftener write ? The litct is we have very little occurring in this quiet corner of the moral vineyard worthy of record. Ev erything goes on so quietiy and smooth ly that one day is about the transcript of the next; and so we have nothing to excite us except a little railroad am : cident in the neighborhood occasionally, and fortunately as there is generally "nobody hurt," the excitement mongers have to soon give it up. But in the Knob Fork region, a few miles south of us, the good olks appear to be more enterprising. We often hear of some little stir or excitement over there, some times of one kind, sometimes of another. First, some cosssiiferable time back the "female women" of that renowned set , tlement concluded that things were go ing along altogether tos quietly, and a few of them, on fun intent, donned male attire—Uncle Sam's nnllorm, by the way—and in the ,;dead hour of night, when all nature was in calm re pose—when everybody was locked in the arms of Morpheus; or, to descend to more common language, was "sound asleep," or ought to have been—these ladies in breeches, mock representatives ; of the Federal Army, with musß'ets in ! their hands, broke into the dwellings of some of their neighbors, roused them, and arrested them in the name of the United States as suspected "Secesh."— I Now, though the men so abruptly "took up" were the near neighbors of the par ties that arrested them, so completely metamorphosed wesethey that though so closely connected even as brother and sis j ter, the captured never susvected the cap tors to ,be other than genuine bona fide soldiers, and therefore quietly resigned themselves to their flue.' At last, having I concentrated their prisoners at one j house, (that of a friend in the secret,) the soidisant soldiers gave themselves up to riotous fin, in which the priso ners were in no spirit to participate, un til at last our pretended soldiers got to making altogether too free with the per sons of some of the wives of the . priso ners—who had lovingly followed their lords—or in Knob Fork dialect they got to taking "foul holts" of these ladies. This was more than Knob Fork manhood could stand. They had quietly borne the summary midnight arrest, as they had good reason to be lieve, by reports from the outer world, that this had got t, be very fashionable; but to have their wives made Nye to in that rough sort of style, they were "cock sure" that was not Constitutional. So they made such forcible demonstra tions of their virtuous indignation as very soon brought these would be sol diers to their knees—very glad to ac knowledge they were "only women" after all. So ended a good night's fun —well got up and well carried on, al, fording matter for laughter still at and with all concerned. The next Knob Fork excitement was the midnight arrest of Alex. Minor, Esq., Post Master at that place, by sense half dozen disguised persons who, after overhauling the Post Office and rt.,- hewing Mr. Minor of his loose change, upon suspicion of his being "Secesh," swore him to support the Constitution aii4 the Union, and left hiss. Mr. Mi nor did not get the opportunity to make any special examination into the sex of hi 9 captors, the close proximity of their revolvers to his' head prechnting any thoughts of that kind, and making - him very glad to get rid of his - visitors at their earliest convenience, perfectly sat isfied with their abitence without know ing yhether they riightfnily wore the or Wet. ilitt4at 'Mae Amok teasation that ilac;SlMlONalKtia . tait-yottr *ewe grllli heweitteettval in. A traveßingwedeltaitisty; 00- story runs, had stopped at Knob Fork • sr* -4 "Hotel' to-real the %viler man, and a Greene county gentleman speculator, whilst partaking * tlie same table, and probably having been eating laurel (which is to be ha.CAti that, region,) used language so tsiseemly—so unfit for ears polite—as to very soon cause the dispersion of the wedding party from the table. Horses wore immedi ately got out, as the weddingers hoped to leave Greene County to this awn beauties, without any disturbance. list "little Greene" was not to be deserted in that way. He followed out to stop the "whole d—d thing," when the matter was brought to a crisis by- Greene County getting the measure of himself on the ground and the groom and b' male attendant, under the im pression, doubtless, of the truth of the old adage that ' discretion is the better part of valor," took to their horses and most ingloriously fled, leaving their la dies in the hands of the enemy. Afte , ,.% detaining his prize for some time, Greene finally permitted the frightened anti trembling fair ones to folloW their val orous companions, fully impressed, no doubt, with the rough eloquence; gal:: lout bravery and generous chivalry of Greene County's knight errant. I give the matter as I heard it from one who professed to be an eye g'itness—leaving flu-tiler details for some other "chrom-- der" of the sayings and doings of Knob Fork. The war, among other results, has apparently unsettled religious, as well . as secular, matters. We once had some thin., like preaching here, once in a while at least, monthly or oftener; but for the last two years we have been al most completely left toy-the tender mer cies of old Nick. About all the relig ious service we have had here for up wards of a year has been from so called "Latter Day Saints.' The preachers are from Wheeling. They are English men, laboring men, ;yid, though unlet • tered i men of very considerable intelli gence and fluency of speech. They claim to possess the power of the saints, or disciples of old, to work miracles, speak unknown tongues, heal the &c. They insist that the promise of miraculous power was given for the faithful chosen of all time, and not con fined to the disciples of Christ's own day. In the carrying out of their professed miraculous powers, they have wide margin to cover failures. They are said, when under "inspiration," to talk gibberish, which, of course, the hearers do not understand, as in such case it would not be the unknown tongue. In healing the sick, too, it requires perfect faith in the patient. They likewise have the loop-hole that they cannot always heal, because God has de decreed that all men must die ; and of. course, when the person's time has Dome, he must go. If the person recovers, the "Saint" claims the victory. We have had but little of their teaching in this immediate neighborhood, their ministra tions being principally confined to Snob Perk, where they have some members. They are charged with being "Mor mons." This they deny. They de nounce Polygamy and the Book of Mormon, and say that they hold only to the Scriptures as generally acknowl edged by Christian Churches, the Old and New Testament. But still they are suspected by many of postponing the more absurd of Mormon heresies to some future day when the Sy has got fairly in the web. Idß not pretend to how this is. The "Saints" travel as the Disciples of old—on foot, with. naught but their staves, "taking no ac count of the 'morrow," taking no money, but accepting such hosp)tality as nature requires. They certainly, therefore, have not made it a very "paying" bus iness, in a pecuniary, sway, let their ob ject be what it May. 4it I have strung out more nonsenhe' than I inkoaded, or you. i . knd, your gliders may ratio 11, What is Conscience? When a little boy, my father sent me from the field home. A spotted' tortoise is shal= low water caught my attention, and I lifted my stick to strike it when a voice within me said "It is wrong.". tithed with uplifted stick, in wonder at the ndw emotion, till the tortoise vanished from my sight. I hastened honie and asked my Inotikx what it was that toldine it was wroug. Taking me in her IntnA she said, "Some men call it conscience, but I prefer to call it the voice of God in the soul of Ulan. If you listen to it and obey it, then it will speak clearer, and always guide you right. But if you turn a deaf ear, or dipobey, then it will fade ont little by little, Ail leave you in the dark, without a guide." Idleneee is the mother of many wontun. children. They that do nothing, aro in the ready way to do that which is worse than noth i!la: It we hide our talent In the earth, we shall lose par treasure In heaven. A christiau should never say ho had r.etit. ing to do It was not for nothing, that we were cell ed out of nothing. Obituario. Departed this life, December 22d 1863, JOILN W. L., youngest son of Westley and Rebecca McClure, of Drinkard tp., aged 6 years, 8 months and 10 days. The subject of this notice was asexceed ingly interesting little bey, —one of those children we always loop to be with ; —gentle, mild and obedlent i both to parents and teach ers. De delighted in attending school, where he aple rapid progress .and bade fair to bc,carne a comfort to his friends and an honor to society. Bat thellestroyer came most unexpectedly to ail. Ilavtng just re turned from school la his usual good health, and by some means having obtained a small bu4 1 4 4 110•11111141111111011t** pnlitu.ig it in his aftioatia. PSololl4tagifrbood 310 11 '' and Ataimimet agtomme sniferng death in ft. very short• time. IPI Idleness. TEAC TIER
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