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It perhaps ten days after the
second battle•of Manassas, that I visit
ed one of the hospitals, near W4iing
ton, for the purpose of ascertaining if
any of the disabled of my own com
mand had been born there, and, if so,
of speaking to them a kind, cheerful
word, always so grateful to a wounded
soldier. As I was passing through
the numerous wards, viewing with
feelings of sympathy and pride the mit e
tilated but patriotic and uncomplaining
sufferers, two strangers—a sister and an
aunt of one of the younc , heroes—ac
costed me, and asked if I would be so
kind as to come to the couch of their
relative, and stand by him while the
surgeon should amputate his limb,
which they told me had been amputa
ted a few days before, but, on account
of the arteries having commenced to
slough away, the physicians had deci
ded upon this as the only hope of sa
ving his iife. I followed them to his
couch. They were both weeping, lint
the wounded soldier, although suffer
ing intensely, met me with a smile, and
saluted me. I sat down by his couch,
and took his hand in mine. He told me
he was a sergeant the Fifth New-
York, (Duryea's Zottaves;) that he was
wounded late in the action, and left
upon the field ; that he remained where
he fell from Saturday until the following
Wednesday, "with no food, save a few
hard crackers, left in my haversack, and
with no water, except that which God
gave me from heaven, in rain and dew,
and which I. caught in my blanket."
The sergeant continued his story, after
a moment's pause, occasioned by his
suffering, by saying : "You know, col
onel, how God always remembers us
wounded soldiers, with rain, after the
battle is over, and \Olen our lips are
parched and our tongues are burning
with fever. On ,Wednesday, I was
found by our surgeons, who dressed my
wound, and placed me with other dis-•
abled soldiers in an ambulance, to be
sent to Washington. I arrived here
late on Thursday evening, when my
limb was amputated, and I—" The
sergeant again paused in his story,
and I begged him not to go . on. I no
ticed that his voioe becelme Weaker, and
his face more pale and deathlike, and a
moment afterward I observed blood
trickling down upon the floor from the
rubber ponchon on which the sergeant
was lying. lat once called the surgeon
to his bedside. lie examined the limb,
and, after consulting with other sur
geons in attendance, told me they had
decided that it was impossible to gave
his life ; that reamputation would be
useless; that the soldier was fast sink
ing from exhaustion ; and that, in all
probability, he would not surOve the
hour; and desired that I should Make
known their decision and apprehensions
to the aunt and sister.
.1 0. PITCHIE
JOHN PUELXN
With such, language as a soldier
might command, I Informed them that
the sergeant must soon rest. Tears
filled their eyes, and they sobbed bit
terly ; but their grief was borne as
Christian women alone can bear such
sorrow ; for they heard the voice of the
elder brother speaking to them, as to
Martha : "I am the resurrection and
the life : he that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live." The
sister, wiping away her tears and taking
a small prayer-book from her dress,
asked me if I would tell her brother
how soon he must die, and it I would
read to him •'t.he prayer for the dying."
I went again to the couch, and stood •
beside the dying soldier. "Sergeant,"
I said, "we shall halt soon—we are not
going to march much further to-day."
"Are we going to halt, colonel," sail the
sergeant "so early in the day Are
we going into bivouac before night ?"
"Yes sergeant," I replied "the march
is nearly over—the bugle-call will soon
sound 'the halt." The sergeant's
mind wandered for a moment, but my
tears interpreted to him my words.—
! colonel," he said, "do you mean
that I must so soon die ?" "Yes, ser
geant," I said ; "you are soon to die."
"Well, colonel, lam glad lam going
to die—l \rant to rest—the march has
not been so long, but I am weary—l
am tired—l want to halt—l want to be
with Christ—l want to be with niy Sa
vior." I read to him "the prayer for
the dying," most of which he repeated ;
and then the sister kneeled beside the
couch of her dying brother, and offer-
ed up to God a prayer full of earnest
ness, love and faith. The life-blood
of the dying soldier was trickling down
from the bed Side and crimsoning her
dress, while she besought the Father
that the robes of her dying brother
;night be "washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb." The prayer
was finished. The . sergeant said :
"Amen." We stood again by his bed
side. "Sister—aunt—do not grieve—.
do not weep, for I am going to Christ ;
lam going to rest in heaven. Tell my
mother, sister"—.and the soldier took
tiorn his finger a ring and kissed it
"tell mother, sister," said the sergeant,
."that.tbis is for her, and that I remem
bered her and loved her, dying ;"
and then he took another ring from his
hand, -kiased it and said : "Sister,
diva this teller to, yhom my 'heart is
tileAred; *id tell; her to come
to fitatftiio ' "An4l,- .ngkeyol,"
egg the =r!lirjttom. and
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WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864.
"tell my comrades of the army—the
brave Army of the - rot( +mac—that I
died bravely, died for the good old
flag." These were tie last words of
the dying soldier. His pulse no":
beat feebler and feebler, the blood trick
led fitster and faster down the :Aside,
the dew of death came and went, ab,l
flickering for a moment over the pallet
thee, at length rested—rested forever.
The sergeant had halted. Ms bivouac
now is ib heaven.
Great Brains in Small Bodies
, It is curious to remark how tiny, illing
people generally are to believe that a
person by much too short for a grenadier,
may yet be a great man. It is also
curious to note the delight which nature
seems to take in iterating and reiterating
the fact that a very large proportion of
the intellect of the age just passed was
lodged principally with men who fell
short of the medium size. Napoleon
was scarcely five feet six inches in
height, and so very slim in early life as
to be well nigh lost in his hoots and
uniform. Byron was no taller. Lord
Jeffrey was not so tall, and Campbell
and also Maore were still shorter than
Jeffrey, and Wilberforce was a less man
than any of them. The same remark
has been made of the great minds of
England, who flourished about the mid
dle of the 17th century. One very re
markable instance we may perhaps ex
hibit to the reader in a new aspect.
In August of 1780, sonic workmen
engaged in repairing the eharch of St.
Giles, Cripplegate, tumid under the floor
of the chancel an old coffin, which, as
shown by the sexton's register, had
rested undisturbed. for 116 years. For
a grown person, it was a very small one.
Its length did not exceed five feet ten
inches, and it measured only 16 inches
across at its broadest, part.. The body
almost invariably stretches after death,so
that the bodies of females of the middle
stature and under, require coffins of
equal length; and the breadth, even out
side, did not come fully to the average
breadth of shoulders in adults.
Whose remains rested in that wasted
old coffin? Those of a man most truly
masculine in his cast of mind, and one
of the most gigantic in intellect which
Britain or the world ever produced—
the defender of the rights of the people
of England; es a scholar, the first among
the learned of Europe; as a poet, not
only. more sublime than any other unin
spired writer, but, as has been justly
said, more fertile in true sublimities than
all other uninspirea writers put together.
The small old coffin disinterred from put
the chancel of St. Giles, contained the
remains of that John Milton who di9d at
his house in Mullin Fields, in the winter
of 1674—the all-powerful controversial
ist, who in the cause of the people,
crushed the learned Salmasius full in the
view of Europe—the poet who produc
ed the "Paradise Lost."—Millo's Hew:l
-s/0p Chrid.
How Men Act in Battle
A letter from a soldier makes the fol
lowing interesting comments on the
manner in which battles are - t)ught, and
explaining why it is that after a ter' ible
conflict of perhaps hours' dustier, there
should be so small a proportion of kill
ed and wounded.
If you were never in battla you
would not guess there were halt the
random shots fired that there al e.—
Why, sir, I have seen whole regim e nts
and brigades deliver their fire when I
was sure that they did not eveil wound
a single man. Such firii.g, besides
wasting the ammunition, does not in
timidate the enemy at all ; on the other
hand it makes them feel that there is
but little, danger, consequently he is
more bold, and livers his fire more
accurately. Besides,
if men ale allow
ed to make three random discharges it
seems to become a habit, and they be
come so excited at it that they would
oftener miss a man at ten paces than
they would hit him. Just in that way
battles are . often lost, while the com
pany commander, if he would only stop
it and show them t'iat they were doing
no good, they would soon become col
lected, and after they once knew their
folly, would of their own accord fire de
liberately, and probably save the day
after it had been comparatively lost.
Why, sir, in battle you often see
company commanders charging around
with their swords flourishing about
their heads, crying out. 'Give it to
thew, boys, give it to them !" mani
festing in themselves, and creating in
others, all the excitement possible Now
a second thought would show to their
better judgment that they were doing
morn harm than good ,for men become so
excited under such circumstances that
they would miss an elephant at ten
steps. You often see the above blus
tering around when the enemy are at
least off at a distance of one thousand
yards, and to hear the roar of musketry,
and the excited commanders, you
would think they would soon come to
a hand to hand contest. What is it
that excites a.man in battle?
. Why, it
is the danger. If you shoot at a man
once he is verymuch excited; shoot at
him a hundred times, and miss him
every time, and all his fear and excite
meet i 9 gone ; t3l4t, reserve your fire un
yoß pal—do some execution, and
whehlhey come fire into them, out his
clothes, wound his neighbor, kill the
abOna *in from him. and ret' tiny eee
itcaft, 'lefiethi , te.7.
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Sunshine in the House.
White we make it a daily duty to
get at least an hour or two of out-door
sunshine, and -failing., think it an impor
taut loss to health and length of life, let
us all aim to create an in-door sunshine
of the heart and hearth by a systematic.
determination to exercise toward evert•
member of the household the fullest
measure of all that is forbearing,
thoughtful, affectionate, generous and
lovely. Let everything that has the
most distant resemblance to a contemp
tittle whine, to a devilish fault-finding,
to a brutal boorishness and to a narrow
minded and degrading selfishness, be
considered as emanations from the pit of
darkness, where fiends and furies dwell;
then shall light be in every family
dwelling; cheerfillness in every face :
and the twinkle of gladness in every
eye ; while. every heart overflows with
a joy so pure, that even angels might,
envy its sweetness aad bliss. lint let
not this subject be dismissed without
every parent, every child, determining
to ask the question daily, with religious
interest, "How shall' I act and speak
this day, so as to bring the most sun
shine to tha heart and hearth of this ;
household ?" And fiercest indignation
be to the fretful wretcl\, fit only for a
solitary prison on bread and water, or
for a straightjacket, nine-tenths of
whose waking , existence is spent in
bringing clouds in upon an otherwise
happy household, by complaining and
flialt-finding, and bitterness and repin
which none but the low-born and
the vicious delight to indulge in: to
whom it is natural to snap and growl
as the tigi:est cur over his meager bone.
—/Ltlis Journal 01 Thulth.
A Touching Scene
We are ofleu, while in the p•aTorm
ance of duty brotD , a.t, to a know/edge of
the gOod As well as evil that lies deer
down in the human heart, only on spe
cial occasions to be called forth, as often
surprising the possess tr as those who,
knowing him from childhood, all life
long looked uDon him as a negative be
ing Yesterday, as we were making
our way through a street that shall be
nameless in this paragraph, inhabited
Only by the poor—the very, almost ab
jectly poor—our attention was drawn to
a little girl, of good face, sitting on the
last step of three leading to the hall-way
of one of the tumble down concerns of
which the street is comprised, the upper
one being occupied by a poorly-clad
woman, whose lace, though she slept,
gave earnest through the hard lines of
care abundant, that her early life had
been better spent. The place and the
hour led us to the belief that the woman
was drunk, and that the child was watch
ing for her recovery from the stupor of
"the liquor she had been drinking ail
day. Nearer approach to the group
made our surmises almost a (Jett:Duty,
and we accosted the child, asking her if
the, sleeping woman was her mother and
a drunkard. Not Withstanding the dirt
that covered her pretty face, the blush
that mantled it was plainly risible, and
in a moment we regretted having spok
en. "Mother is now poor and has to
work hard to support us," and she burst
into tears as she concluded; "but she is
good to us. She is tired, sir, and is only
resting herself, and I am it atching for
her, as she once watched for me She
is good, very good." The poor wo
man giving signs of awakening, we:left,
touched by .the exhibition of fidelity and
love as well as sens;bility, in one so
young. "I watch for mother, as she
once watched for me."—MempittS Argun
Why do we Shake Hands.
The learned D. Humphrey has giN en
us the solution to his frequently conject
ured pxoblein : He says—"lt is a very
old fashioned way of indicating friend
ship. Jehu said to Jehonadab : "Is
thine heart right as my heart is with
thine heart ? If it be, give me thhie
hand ' It is not merely an old-fashion
ed Custom, it is a strictly natural one,
and as usual in such cases, we may find
a physicial reason, if we only take the
pains to search for it. The animals
cultivate friendship by the sense of
smell, hearing and sight : and for this
purpose they employ the most sensitive
parts of their bodies; They rub their
noses together, or they lick one another
with their tongues. Now the hand is a
part of the human body, in which the
sense of touch is highly developed ;
and, after the manner of animals, we
not only like to see and hear our friend,
(we do not usually smell him, though
Isaac, when his eyes were dim, resort
ed to this sense as a means of recogni
tion,) we also touch him, and promote
the kindly feelings by the contract and
reciprocal pressure of the sensitive
hands. Observe, too, how this princi
pal is illustrated by another of our
modes of greeting. When we wish to
determine whether a substance is Per
fectly smooth, and are not quite satis
fied with the information convoyed by
the fingers, we apply it to the lips and
rub it gently upon them. We do so
because we know, by experience, that
the sense oftouch is more actively de
veloped in the lips titan in the hands.
Accordingly, when we wish ro redpro,
cite the warmer feelings, we are not
content with the contact of the hands,
and we bring the lips into the. service.
A shake of the hands suffices for. friend
ahip,, in nademonstrative fi4• ,
leastl buts kiss is the token-of
afire
tender affsciim,"
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The Horrors of War
An account in the New York Herald re
lating the exhaustion in Sheridan's division
atter his late battle, remarks :
"A large number of horses gave out dur
'in the lattir portion of the march. They
were shot, as is the usage in war, and - their
equipments destroyed, to prevent their being
of any benefit to the enemy.
A sal incident occurred on this day's
march. A rear guard was detailed to pre
vent straggling, and especially to see that
the dismounted men kept up. One poor fel
low, who had lost his horse, upon being urg
ed to go faster, replied that he "was pretty
well played out as well as his horse, and if
they wanted him to go much faster he might
as well shoot himself at once." This was
supposed to be a mere jest; but no sooner
was he spoken to again by the officer to
push forward, than lie placed his revolver to
his head and blew out his brains. I could
not lean his name, but think that he be
longed to one of the Michigan regiments.
A Great Cheese Region.
At a convention held at Rome, Onei
da co., N. Y., representatives were
present from 64 cheese factories which
employed 33,670 cows. Of these cheese
factories, 35 were in Oneida co. The
others were in Herkimer, Chantauqua
and Courtland counties. The largest of
these factories is that of Kenney &
Fraver, Courtland county, which has
1,600 cows, and the New Woodstock,
which has 1 200. There were nine
private dairies represented which have
together 416 cows The system of
manufacturing cheese upon 'a combined
plan, and on a large scale, is one of re
(ant origin, and this list shows how it
has absorbed the daily interest of that
10gi region
t --- Some lambs ought to run with the
flock fur twc or three weeks at least after
shearing. Tice ticks will all, or almost all,
leave the old sheep and go upon the lambs.
Then the lambs should be dipped in a strong
decoction of tobacco, soaking every part•of
the fleece. Randall recommends the Eng
lish practice of using arsenic water. "Three
pounds of White Arsenic pulverized are dis
solved in six gallons of boiling water, and
forty gallons . of' cold water are added." The
fleeces of the lambs are wrung out as dry as
possible atter dipping, while they lie upon a
dripping board, which is made of slats near
together and supported above a tight inclined
table which allows the liquid to flow back
into the dipping box. A flock may thus with
comparative ease, be cleated of ticks. Pre
cisely the same operation is a cure for scab,
but more thorough rubbing in of the liquid
into the affected parts is desirable.
Tsvo officers wounded in the bat
tle cf the ;:oth, at Petersburg, were
going home last Friday by the Erie
route. When the train neared Oswego
a well dressed lady, accompanied by a
child and a gentleman, entered the car
and took a seat in front of them. As
the officer talked over the recent en
gagements at Petersburg, informing
each other of various acquaintances
who had fallen, one remarked : "There
was Captain Warwick, of the 109th
New York, as brave a fellow as ever
lived ; he was shot through the head
and instantly killed." The lady re
fet rtd to immediately sprang from her
seat, and throwing up her hands, ex
claimed : "Oh, don't say that ; he was
my husband;" and then burst into an
agony of tears. This was the first
intelligence she had received of her
husband's death. The child with her
was his daughter, and the gentleman
his brother. There were very few dry
eyes in that car during the rest of the
journey to Elmira.
Another Siege of Vicksburg.
We find the following marriage notices in
a single copy of a ttle paper published at
Vicksburg :
In this city, May 13, 1864, by L. S. Hough
ton, Judge of the Probate Court, Mr. John
W. Wells, of the 11th Illinois Infantry, and
Mrs. Sarah Tun tall of. this city.
In this city, May 17, 1864, by L. S Hough
ton, Judge of the Probate Court, Mr. James
M. Blevins, of the 124th Illinois Infantry,
and Miss Nancy J. Alexander, of this city.
At the residence of Capt. A Auter, May
24, 1864, by L. S. Houghton, Judge of the
Probate Court, Capt. Phillip D. 'roomer, of
the 7th Missouri Infantry, and. Miss Julia A.
Auter, of this city.
A Model Farmer.
The West Greenville Argus says J.
Ross McLean, E8(1., of Salem tp., owns
and works a farm of but 50 . acres, and
we have been told that he is the only
farmer in that township who is assessed
with . an income tax under the Internal
Revenue law. The secret is that he
is an intelligent, scientific' agriculturist,
and makes every rood of ground count.
Naturally his 'soil is no better than his
neighbors, and yet he makes more clear
money off 50 acres than others do off'
150.
1165-A Lock of Washington's hair
was sold at the Philadelphia -Fairlor
$2O. It is said that Garihal4 eicham3t.
ed two matrasses in sending locks of
his hair to fair applicants, vitik, he was
in_ En gland recently.
glip' . A taut shetdd be" skimps the r;da imii
ptd
• - : though 7 were to heart' it; as he
liiiikill!t"claii ii• q!tikAke, thettirtil:i:
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Romantic Marriage.
The romantic marriage of an Indian
Prince is recorded in a letter from Al
exandria, Egypt, to an English paper :
The Maharajah Dludeep Singh is here.
When passing through Cairo, on his
way to India, with his mother's body,
he saw and fell in love with a girl at
the Presbyterian Mission School, the
daughter of one of the partners in a
leading English 'mercantile house, and,
after some hesitation on her part, the
matter is settled, and they are to be
married in a few weeks. The Ameri
can missionary tells me that she is one
of the most beautiful girls, both in
person and character, that he has ever
seen or known, and, like the Maharajah
him Self, Pl devout Christian.
A Snake Fight
A correspondent of the Wheeling In
telligencer, writing from Worthington,
Marion county, Va., relates that a re
markable fight took place in the church
yard of the Baptist church of that place
on last Sabbath. The fight was be
tween two snakes, a blacksnake and a
spotted rattlesnake. They were first
discovered by some children, who
spread the news of the deadly conflict,
and in a short time about fifty persons
were on the ground. The snakes
fought for about two hours and a half,
when at last the blacksnake seized- the
rattlesnake by the back of the neck,
and never let go the hold until the
rattlesnake gave up the ghost.
DEATH TIIROUGII PASSION.-A wo
man living at Windsor, England, nam
ed Scanwell, recently died through
passion She was in the act of pouring
out some tea, when one of her children,
aged four years, spilled some coffee on
the floor. Mrs. Scanwell immediately
flew into a passion, threw an infant
which she had in her arms on the floor,
rushed at the child who had spilled the
coffee, caught him by the arm, and flung
him with such violence that she nearly
dislocated his arm, causing it to bleed.
When a lady with whom she was
living remonstrated with her, she
stamped her fest and spoke in a very
loud voice. Suddenly gave she a loud
scream, fell on the ground, and almost
instantly expired.
following sad story we find
in an account of some of the firing
along Grant's lines on Sunday, giveu
in the New York Times: "A chance
shot to-day also worked some mischief
in the 2d Rhode Island Regiment.—
The term of this regiment was expired,
and it was going from the front, bound
for home. Having -got, as was sup
posed, well out of range, the order was
given to halt, and a moment after came
the rushinfr ball, bringing its death
message to two poor fellows who, al
el: faithful service, having escaped all
the dangers of the fight, were full of
joyful anticipations at the speedy pros
pect of being home again. Their fate
was doubly shocking."
HARD CP FOR FOOD —An officer who
accompanied General Hunter in his re
cent raid in the direction of Lynchburg,
informs us that the sufferings and ad
ventures of the soldiers are scarcely
paralleled in the history of warfare.
On the retnrn march hardly a blade of
grass was seen for' three days. The
soldiers fed their horses with corntitt
of their hands and ate only the gra;ns
that dropped to the ground. Oar in
formation saw men eating common tal
low candles with a most extraordinary
relish. Others dug up roots out of the
ground and plucked buds from the
trees for food.
C-..1"A singular marriage took place at,
Bucyrus, Ohio, the other day A
Captain Lewis was wedded to a Miss
Maggie McCracken. They had been
long engaged : the Captain was woun
ded at the recent battle of the Wilder
ness, and on hearing of it, Miss Maggie
left home and went to take care of him
—tended him and brought him home.
At the time of this marriage he was
strapped to a hoard unable to turn his
body. None but the brave deserve the
fair: and in this case certainly two
brave souls were united.
SC.IRCITY OF FA NM /IA NOS. —The
Western papers state that there is a
great scarcity of farm labor throughout
that region.. Farm hands cannot be
had and it is a rare sight to see a man
at work in the field. The want ofla
borers exceeds all former apprehension.
The work is being nearly all done by
women and children, the men having
gone into the army.
SW - A young lady at St. Joseph,
Mo., had a few days since made a hot
cooking stove, made her bread, and
was about placing it in the stove, when,
on opening the oven door, a large cat,
burnt, and in a dying state, jumped
out find seized one of the young lady's
fingers, inflicting a very painful wound.
After a minute, the cat released its hold
and fell dead on the . floor.
Iteir`The Milwaukee News says that a
large part 011ie farm labor of Wiscon
sin iO4.llllllkerformed by women. One
given, in a northern county,
.of a Arl fourteen years.old 'and a boy
Mill younger, iogging off a new field to
14nt_sith ova. Were the * . e, all
ead,:"Se 4tle country --ir"outd
.
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, Na 6
The Democratic National Convention
at Chicago.
The Chicago Times of Monday has a
pictorial cut representing the building in
which the Democratic National Conven
tion will be held in that city, on the 29th
of Aug. next. It is a temporary edifice,
erected for the occasion, and will be the
largest structure ever raised in Chicago.
The Times says:
"The building will be of gigantic
proportions, measuring 928 feet in cir
.cumference and 200 feet in diameter,
and planned to afford ample room for
15,000 people. Externally there will be
little to attract the eye. The National
colors displayed in profusion from nume
rous staffs rising around the roof will be
the only ornamentation visible.
"The enclosure of the immense amphi
theatre will be twenty -two-feet high.—
The roof, at its highest or central point,
will be elevated thirty-seven feet above
the g round. It will slope gradually un
til it falls to an elevation of twenty-eight
•
feet.
"The roof is here broken for the pur.
pose of ventilation, the remaining part
commencing from a point four feet be
low the overlapping cornice, which
forms the circumference of the central
or largest division of the building, and
from there sloping gradually to the outer
limits of the structure. The whole will
be entirely covered with patent felt roof
ing, so that even the continued recur
rence of the heaviest thunder shower
will not interfere with the comfort, of
the Convention."
Presiden't Lincoln recently declared,
in a public speech at the Philadelphia
Fair, that the war had lasted three years
and so fin. as he was concerned, it shoidil
last three years niore! How do the well
; meaning among his followers, who are
anxious to have the war brought to an
end, like the programme as Marked Oat
by Father Abraham? Three years more
of taxation, drafting, devastation, ruin, blood! God save us!
TIIEIR SOLDIER& —Says the Wash
ington correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune:
"A Maine regiment which arrived
here yesterday from the front, reported.
a very significant fact, and full of en
couragement to us, that they eaptired
recently out of a large rebel force abo*
one hundred, every one of whoM" was
either seventy years old, or thereabout,
or boys of fifteen."
Is the tact very eneouragving to us
when men of silvery locks enter theft-ay?
The next news will likely be that the
very women have unsexed themsehres
and are hurling bullets and defiance at
our armies.
WI UT IS A. DENtocruil—A Democrat
is one who believes in the sacred and in
alienable right of sovereign Status to rule,
themselves; who holds to the doctrine
that governments derive their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed,rw4o
gloried in the Union becauSe its author
ity was bases only on the free ConSeili
of sovereign and coequal sister Stateisr
and who hoped for universal happiness
throughout the world, because he saw
and felt the possibility of government
established by consent, and resting not
on the force, but on the unconstrained
affection of the people.
Cu: u: As Mrn.—ln abolition editor
says, 'if there had been no slavery tliere
never would have been an Abolition
ist." Following up the same thedry,
we presume if there never had been a
horse, the country would never
been cursed with horse thieves. It thttre
had been no sin, there would haVe: bee*
no necessity for atonement—no alcoh.oh:
there would have been no drunke4nos
—no water, there would have bees no ,
fish—and no God, there would have
been no world. The logic of the Aho;
lition editor is as clear as mud!
MADE TO PAY FOR THE OUTRA.OE.--•-
The Supreme Court has affirmed the de
cision of the Common Pleas of.Cumberl
land county, in the' case. of Kennedy vs.
Oswald and others. This is tie cele
brated Mechanicsburg case, 'in wliftli a
self-constituted f‘Vigilanar Committee",
arrested a Democratic citizen of Yorlcdan
suspicion of being a SeeesSionist, and
were mulcted in $l, MO damages. • . •:
Stir The office-holders resolve first to
sustain the proclamation of the President,
which abolishes slavery, anal, then they
want the Constitution . amended so as to
abolish it. As a matter of taste, we stag- .
gest that one abolitionik snfficient, and
their desire for another only ahowsjhat
they have no confidence iii the . firk.
sa-Thc profligacy in theflepartmen to
at Washington is considered the result
of the force of example. The Secretary
of State having boasted °lids Nate hell;
the followers of the Administration j pilp.
vilel themselves each with-a ltie Belle.
VirA Rev. Mr. Collins` ays: "Abra
"ham Lincoln is =instrument in the bawl
ut the Almighty." An imagism wag
says, "the Almighty heit-unfortenately
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Three Years More.
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