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HAWKERS AND REDLERS,
• MaCIICO33E. 40017 T.
Xlthe act of sissenthly of March, 1834. Hawkers and
XI Pedlars in *Gene county are required to.procure
a4Mense -from the county Treasurer amnita/oy, or
udi
toy will be
)01 compelled
oolletted to pay the
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The following is the act as agreed to
by both houses:
"Further, to regulate and provide for
the enrolling and calling out the nation
al forces and for other purposes."
"The President of the United States
may at his discretion at any time here
after call for any number of men as vol
unteers for the respective terms of one;
two and three years, for military service;
and any such volunteer, or in case of
draft, as hereinafter provided, any sub
stitute, shall be credited to the township,
ward or city precinct, or election dis
trict, or of a county, towards the quota
of which he may have volunteered or
engaged as a substitute; and every vol
unteer who is accepted and mustered in
to the service for a term of one year, un
less sooner discharged, shall receive and
be paid by the United States a bounty
of one hundred dollars; and if for the
term of two years, unless sooner dis
charged, a bounty of two hundred dol
lars; and if for a term of three years, un
less sooner disc rged, a bounty of three
hundred dolls ilit one third of which
bounty shall be paid to the soldier at
the time of his being mustered into the
service, one third at the expiration of
one-half of his term of service; and in
case of his death while in the service,
the residue of his bounty unpaid shall
be paid to his widow, if he shall have
left a widow ; if not, to his children; or
if there be none, to his mother if she be
a widow. In case the quota or any
part thereof of any town, township,
ward or city precinct, or election dis
trict, or of any county not so subdivi ,
ded, shall not be filled within the space
of fifty days after such . call, the Presi
dent shall immediately order a draft for
one year to fill such quota or any part
thereof which may be unfilled, and in
case of any such draft, no payment of
money shall be accepted or received by
the Government as commutation, to re
lease any enrolled or drafted man from
personal obligation to perform military
service.
=I
.1 0. 11TV11111,
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"It shall be lawful for the Executive
of any of the States to send recruiting
agents to any of the States declared to
be in rebellion, except the States of Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, to re
cruit volunteers under any call under
the provisions of this act, who shall be
credited to the State and the respective
sub-division thereof which may procure
the enlistment."
The following is a continuation of the
bill:
Sec. 4. Drafted men, substitutes and
volunteers when mustered in, shall be
organized in or assigned to regiments,
batterie. or other organizations of their
own States, and as tar as practicable
shall, when assigned, be permitted to
select their own regiments, batteries, or
other organizations from among those
of their own respective States which at
the time of assignment may not be filled
to their maximum number.
Svc. 5. The twentieth section of the
bill entitled "An aot to amend an act
entitled an act for enrolling and calling
out the national forces, and for other
purposes," approved February 25, 1864,
shall be construed to mean that the Sec
retary of War Shall discharge minors un
der the age of eighteen years, under the
circumstances and on the conditions pre
scribed in sail section. Hereafter, if
any officer of tile United States shall en
list or muster into the service any per
son under the age of sixteen years with
or without ecnsent of his parents or
guardian, suck person so enlisted or re
cruited shall Le immediately and uncon
ditionally didharged upon' re-payment
of all haunts received; and such re
cruiting or mastering officer who shall
knowingly waist a person under sixteen
years of age, shall be dismissed the ser
vice, with fa eiture of all pay and allow
ances, and stall he subject to such fur
ther punishient %i s i court martial may
direct. - •
Sac. 6. Section Aird of an act enti
tled "An act to amend an act entitled an
act for enrolling and calling out tlAina
tional forces and for other purposes,"
approved February 24th, 1864, be and
the same is hereby amended so as to
authorize and direct the District Provost
Marshals under the direction of the
Provost Marshal General, to make a
draft for one hundred per oentum in ad
dition to the number required to fill the
quota of any district as provided by
said section.
Sec. 7. That instead of traveling pay,
all drafted Persons reporting at the place
of rendezvous shall be allowed transpor
tation from their places of residence, and
persons discharged at the place of ren
dezvous shall be allowed transportation
to their places of residence.
SEC. 8. All persons in the naval sect
vice 0A the United States who have en
tered said, eerziee duringothe present re‘
hellion, and whq have not been credited
to the quota of any town, district,
ward or State, by reason of their being
in said service, and not enroled prior to
February 24th, 1884, shall on satisfac
tory proof of their residence Made to the
Secretary of War, be enrolled and cred
ited to the quotas of the tqw4 w V . ' l,
district, or State in which they respec
tively reside.
• Sze. 9. If any person duly drafted
shall be absent from home in the prose
cution of his usual business, the Provost
Marshal of the district 511411 gone 'Wm to
be duly 1 0€184`i ii waist's' may fit, ail d
.1. .4
The Conscription Act.
:11 'A., it 'AY, AUGUST 3, 1864.
he shall not be deemed a deserter nor
liable as such until notice has been giv
en him; and reasonable time allowed to
him to return and repo to the Provost
Marshal of his district, but such absence
shall not otherwise affect his liability
under this act.
Sic. 10. and 11. Nothing contained
in this act to be construed to alter or in
any way to affect the law relative to
those conscientiously opposed to bear
ing aims or,to affect the rights of per
sons to procure substitutes.
The Words We Use.
Be simple, be unaffected, be honest
in your speaking and .writing. Never
use a long word w!iere a short one will
do. Call a spade a spade, not a well
known oblong instrument of manual in
dustry ; let home be a home, not a
residence ; a place a place, not a local
ity ; and so of the rest. Where a
short word will do, you. always lose by
using a long one. You lose in clear
ness, you lose in honest expression of
your meaning; and, in the estimation
of all men who are competent to judge;
you lose in reputation for ability. The
only true way to shine, even in this
false world, is to be modest and unas
suming. Falsehood may be a very
thick crust, but in the course of time,
truth will find a place to break through.
Elegance of language may not be in the
power of all of us, but simplicity and
straightforwardness are.
_ Write much as you would speak ;
speak as you think. If with your infer
iors, speak no coarser than usual ; if
with your. superiors, no finer. Be what
you say, aud, within the rules of
prudence, say what you are. Avoid all
oddity of. expression. No one ever
was a gainer by singularity of words,
or in pronunciation. The truly wise
man will so speak that no one will ob
serve how he. speaks.. A man may
show great knowledge of chemistry by
carrying about bladders of strange gases
to breathe, but he will enjoy better
health, and find more time for business,
who lives on the common air. When I
hear a person use a queer expression,
or pronounce a mune in reading differ
ently from his neighbor, the habit al
ways goes down, minus sign before it—
stsuds on the side of deficit, not of creel.
it. Avoid, likewise, all slang words.—
There is no greater nuisance in society
than a talker of slang. It is only fit
(when innocent, which it seldom is)
for raw school boys and one-term fresh
men to astonish their sisters with.—
Talk as sensible men talk ; use the eas
iest words, in their commonest mean
ing. Let the sense conveyed, not the
vehicle in which it is conveyed, be
your subject of attention.
Once more, avoid in conversation all
singularity of accuracy. One of the
bores of society is the talker who is al
ways setting you right ; who, when
you report from the paper that 10,000
men fell in some battle, tells you that it ,
was 9,900; who, when you describe
your walk as two miles out and back,
assures you that it lacked half a furlong
of it. Truth does not consist in min
ute accuracy of detail, but in conveying
a right impression ; and there.are vague
ways of speaking that are truer than
strict fact would be. When the Psalm
ist said, "Rivers of water run down
mine eyes, because men keep not thy
law," he did not state the fact, but he
stated a truth deeper than fact 'and also
truer.—Dean
Singular Discovery of a Sulphur Mine.
Oue of those great lines of volcanic
action which furrow the surface of the
earth extends from the Gulf of Mexico
to the Pacific, directly across the table
land before described, to within about
sixteen miles from the city of Mexico ;
and there exists a vei.y remarkable
series of extinct or dormant volcanoes,
through which the eternal fires of the
globe formerly found a vent. Popocat
epetl, the loftiest of these volcanic cones,
and indeed, the loftiest mountain in
Mexico, being 17,884 feet above the sea,
has not been in eruption within record •
-
ed time, but over its crater is still fre
quently suspended a cloud of sulphurous
vapor, and smoke is still occasionally
seen to izeue from its summit. Within
ita cavernous recer.qes are inexhaustible
deposits of sulphur - ouch have been
the source of considerable wealth_ One
was discovered by accident. A a es ..
pairing bankrupt merchant, who had
determined to put an end to his exist
ence by descending into the crater of
Popooatepetl, persuaded his guides to
loweShim into it by ropes. He be
lieved that he had only to breathe the
sulphurous fumes and die. Patising
rapidly into the vast chasm, he sudden
ly felt all oppression cease, and he found
himself in a spacious hall ornamented
by fluted ()plums of a glassy lustre,
and supporting a dome of glittering
yellow crystals lit up by countless flick
ering jets of gas! For a moment he
believed he had passed the portals of
death, and had entered another but not
a better world. He stood in a sulphur
cavern where the air was pure, the as
cending vapors being condensed at the
top of the crater. Giving a concerted
signal to the guides, he was rapidly
drawn to the surface. He had made a
great discovery, and he instantly per
(*llea 'that at might be made a source
of
,41(2.1**,* wealth. Tliv - sulphur
mine 'thus oingitlarir fauna speedily re
stored his fortunes, and he became one
of the richest merchmats Mexico.--
London Quarteri,v.
The Devil and Tom Walker--A Story
of the Last Centtsry.
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.
As Tom waxed old, however, he
grew thoughtful. Having secured the
good things of this world, he began to
feel anxious about the next. He
thought with regret on the bargain he
had made with his black friend, and put
his wits to work to cheat him out of his
condition. He became, therefore, all
of a sudden a violent church-goer. He
rayed loudly and strenuously, as if
eaven was to be carried by force of
lungs. Weed one might tell when he
sinned the most during the week, by
the clamor of his Sunday devotion.
The quiet Christians who had been mod
estly and quietly traveling Zion-ward,
were struck with self-reproach at see
ing themselves so suddenly outstripped
by this new-made convert. Torn was
as rigid in religion as in money mat
teas. He was a stern supervisor and
censurer of his neighbors, and seemed
to think every din entered upon their
account became a credit on his page.
Ile even talked of the expediency of
reviving the persecution of the Qua- '
kers and Anabaptists. In a word,
Tom's zeal became as his riches.
Still, in spite of his strenuous atten
tion to forms, Tom had a lurking dread
that the devil, after all, would have his
due. That he might not be taken una
wares, therefore, it is said he always
carried a small Bible in his pocket. He
also had a great folio Bible in his coun
ting-room desk, and would be frequent
ly fund reading when people called on
business; on such occasions he would
lay his green spectacles on the book to
mark the place, while he turned around
to drive some usurous bargain.
Some say Toni grew a little cracked
brained in his older days; and that,
fancying his end approaching, lie had
his horse newly shod, saddled and brid
led, and buried with his feet uppermost,
because that at the last day, the world
would be turned upside down, in which
case he would find his horse ready for
mounting, and he was determined at
the worst to give his friend a run for it.
This, however, is probably a mere old
woman's fable. If he really did take
that procaution, it was totally superflu
ous—at least, so says the authentic old
legend which closes his story in the fol
lowing manner :
One hot afternoon in dog-days, just
as a terrible thunder-gust came up,
Toni sat in his counting-house in his
white linen cap and India silk morning
gown. lie was on the point of fore
closiner a mortgage, by which he would
complete the ruin of an unhappy spec
ulator for whom he had professed the
greateSt friendship. The poor land
jobber begged him to grout a few
months indulgence. Tom had grown
testy and irritated, and refused another
day.
"Charity begins at home," replied
Tom, "I must take care of myself tii:se
hard times." •
"You have made so much motley out,
of me," said the speculator.
Tom lost his patience and his piety,
"The devil take me," said he, "ill have
made a farthing."
Just then there were three loud
knocks at the street door. lle stepped
out to see who was there. A black
man with a black horse, which neighed
and stamped with impatience i ,
"Tom, you are come for, said the
black fellow, gruffly. Tom sunk back,
but too late. He had left his Bible at
the bottom of his coat pocket, and his
big Bible on the desk, buried under the
mortgage he was about to foreclose—
never was a poor sinner taken more
unawares. The black man whisked
him like a child astride of the horse, and
away he gallodped iu the midst of the
thunder-storm. The clerks started af
ter him from the windows. Away
went Tom Walker dashing down the
streets, his white hat bobinc , up and
down, his morning gown flutterin g in
the wind, and his steedstrikindfire
out of the pavements at every bound.
When the clerks turned to look the
black man had disarpeared.
Tam Walker never returned to fore
close the mortgage. A countryman
who lived near the swamp reported that
in the bight of the thunder-gust he had
heard a great clattering of boob and
howling along the road, and that when
he ran to the window he just caught
sig - u+ of a figure such as I have describ
ed, on a horse that galloped like mad
across the tit'as over the hills and
down into the ifile.( ! k hemlock swamp,
towards the old Indiac.. fort, and that
shortly after a thunder-be:`-, fell in that
direction, which seemed to ee.t the
whole forest in a blaze.
The good people of Boston shook
their heads and shrugged their shoul
ders. They had been accustomed to
witches and hobgoblins, and tricks of
the devil in all - kinds of shapes, from
the first settlement of the colony, that
they were not so much horror-stricken
as might have been expected. Trus
tees were appointed to take charge of
Tom's effects. There was nothing how
ever, to administer upon. On searching
his coffers, all his bonds and mortages
were found reduced to cinders. In
plaoe of his gold and silver, iron chips
and shavings; two skeletons lay in his
stable instead of his half-starved horses,
and the very next day his house took
fire and burned to the ground.
Such was the end of Tear Walker
and his ill-gotten wealth. Let all grip-
ing money-brokers lay the story well to
heart. The truth is not to be doubted.
The very hole under the oak tree, from
whence be dug Kidd's money, is to be
seen to this day, awl the neighboring
swamp, and the old Indian fort is often
haunted in stormy nights by a figure on
horseback, in a morning gown and
white cap, which is doubtless the
. •
troubled spirit of the usurer.
In tact this story ha resolved itself
into a proverb, and is the chief origin of
the popular saying prevalent through
out New England of "The Devil and
Tom Walker."
Wool in Ohio.
In 1864, the number of sheep set down
to Ohio is 4,700,000. The fleece is esti
mated at full four pounds to a sheep;
which will give over nineteen millions
of pounds of wool, worth fifteen millions
of dollars. Immense quantities of wool
are imported into . the United States.—
Much of this is coarse wool, brought
from Buenos Ayres, Chili, Africa, &c
and not exceeding twenty cents per
pound in value. This is mixed with the
finer wool of our country, and used in
the manufacture of coarse woollen goods.
Of this species of wool, we imporistwen
ty-five millions of pounds per annum.—
The growth and culture of sheep must
for several years to come be a very pro
fitable business. Cotton will never,
perhaps, be as cheap as it has been, and
it will take some years after peace is re
stored to bring the cotton fields back to
their former productiveness. Wool
will, therefore, be more in demand, and
the greater perfection of woolen ma
chinery, in cheapening the manufacture,
will increase the consumption and the
profits of woollen goods. There is every
inducement, therefore, for fafmers to
raise sheep. A communication on the
subject in an Ohio paper says:
If a farmer has one hundred acres of
land—not very rich—he can keep one
hundred sheep on twenty acres, and by
keeping the best stock, can produce an
nually five pounds of wool per sheep, or
five hundred in all, which no matter
what the currency, even at the gold
standard, will hereafter always be worth
$lOO. He cannot get that money from
twenty acres in any other way, if not the
very richest of land. Many of the Eng
lish tenantry pay their rents with sheep
in this way. We ought to have added
that the wool is net profit, for the sup
port and the expense of keeping sheep is
paid by their annual increase.
A Good Reply.
A sturdy sergeant of one of the Mass
achusetts regiments being obliged to
submit to the amputation of his hand,
the surgeon offered to administer cl►lo
rofurm as usual ; but the veteran refus
ed, saying—"lf the cutting was to be
done to him, he wanted to see it," and
lying his arm on the table, submitted to
the operation without a sign of pain ex
cept a lit mer setting of his teeth as the
saw struck the marrow. The operator
as he finished looked at his victim with
admiral ion, and remarked—
You ought to have been a surgeon,
my man !"
"I was the next thing to one afore I
enlisted," said the hero.
"What was that r' asked the doctor
"A butcher!" responded the sergeant
with a glint smile, which, despite the
surroundings, communicated itself to
the bystanders.
A Salted Indian.
The body of a Pinie Indian was re
cently found, completely imbedded in
rock salt, four feet below the surface, in
the large salt fields near Sand Springs,
in Nevada. The Virginia (Nevada)
Union says: The body was in a state of
complete preservation, and, from appear
ances, had lain in the same position for
many years, or perhaps for ages. The
flesh was perfectly dry like that of a
"mummy, and it was evident that it had
been perlbetly saturated with brine,
which prevented its decay.
Garibaldi having opportunely found
out that the air of England was not ben
eficial to his health, has most wisely left
that country, and is now at the head of
15,000 volunteers, who have their head
quarters at Palermo, Sicily. It is stat
ed that with this force he intends march
ing on Rome, to free it from what he
calls clerical despotism, and restore it to
the United Italian Kingdom, under.
Victor Emanuel, of Sardinia. Garibal
di is in principle a Republican, and has
never sincerely agreed with the latter
sovereign in political opinions, and it
will be difficult to determine how they
will settle the matter. If the French
Make the Best of Everything.
We once knew a man whom neither
care nor sorrow seemed to affect ; who
at 60, had the digestion and flow of
spirits of 21; and who had acquired a
large fortune apparently without any ef
fort; who, in short, was the happiest of
men, and the envy of all who knew him.
"How is it," we said to him, •lhat
you are so fortunate? What talisman se
cures to you all these advantages!"
He smiled as he answered, "I have no
talisman, unless it is to make the best of
everything."
To make the best of everything!—
Like a key to a problem, the answer un
locked for us, at once, the whole of the
great mystery. Life is too short and
happiness too precious to consume the
one and throw away the other in idle
unavailing regrets. Even if ill fortune
swells into a flood, threatening to under
mine the very ground on which we
stand, is it not wiser to strive to bridge
the torrent than to wait bewailing our
fate till the water swallows us? The
weak and unstable succumb to destiny,
and are washed into oblivion. The wise
and brave, accepting circumstances as
they present themselves, plunge boldly,
like Horatius of old, into the stream,
win the farther shore in safety, and earn
immortal gnerdon and renown.
Few men, if any, eter succeeded in
life who have not learned to make the
best of' everything; and generally, their
success is in exact proportion to their ad
herence to the rule. Does a debtor
tail! Every merchant knows that it is
the best course, it the debtor is honest,
to accept his first offer of compromise,
and not to squander money in useless
litigation. Have you become insolvent
yourself? The worst thing you can do
is to give up to despair, and say that it
is folly trying to redeem yourself. Has
a friend misjudged you, or an enemy
clone you secret harm? on't lose pre
cious moments in sentimental grief over
ingratitude, or passionate threats at your
wrong-dyer; but go to work on the in
stant to shame your friend or disarm
your foe
Had Astor, when he was a poor Ger
man emigrant, made up his mid(' that
the attempt to be a millionaire, was ab
surd, he might have died a bezgar in the
alms-house. Had Washington, when
the British pursued him across New
Jersey with 30,930 troops, said that it
was hopeless to try to save America,
with his fragment of an army, his three
thousand tattered continentals, we might
all this day be in slavery to reat Brit
ain; but he said, "If the British cross
the Delaware I will cross the Alleghan
ies, and if they are victorious there I
will fly to the wilderness beyond," and
this resolution never to give up, but al
ways to make the best of everything,
led to the victory of Ti eaton, and the
freedom of the Republic
We are familiar with the people who
whine continually at tate; who believe
there never was a lot so hard as theirs;
yet those who know their history will
generally tell you that their life has bean
but one long tale of opportunities dis
regarded or misfortunes otherwise de
served. Perhaps they were born poor.
In this case they hate the rich, and have
always hated them, but without ever
having emulated their prudence or en
ergy. Perhaps they have seen their ri
vals more favored by accident. In this
event they forget how many have been
less lucky than themselves; so they
squander their little, because, as they
say, they cannot save as Much as others.
Irritated at life, they grow old prema
turely. Dissatisfied with everything,
they never permit themselves to be hap
py;-because they are not born at the top
of the wheel of fortune, they refuse to
take hold of the spoke as the latter comes
around, but lie stubborn in the dirt,
crying like spoiled children, neither do
ing any thing themselves, nor permit
tine others to do it for them.
Slake the best of everything: At
home, if wife or husband is cross--if
servants are careless—if children are ir
ritating—don't fly into a passion, for
that will do no good—but make the
best of circumstances, fulfil your duty,
and wait for happier times. If abroad,
things look unpromising,_ preserve a
stout heart, keep cool, and play your
hand to the best of your ability. even
if fate has the first move, which is always
the case, you have the second; and the
game may still be yours, .if you . pig./
skillfully and hopefully.—.Baitnnure Sun.
ziarA painfully interesti pair at a
Baltimore hospital are t o soldiers, one
'Jost both arms at
named Perio,
Charleston; t h e „,:iier named Smith, who
lost both lege at Gettysburg. man
w ife e closer companions, and they
their days together. The leg
:l,in feeds, dresses and attends the
without arms, and the armless man
ids the best ho can upon his legless,
'. The armless man attends church
Sunday, which the man without
can not do. His companion wishes
trchase for him a velocipede, that
May go to church together. They
not the money. Neither has home
latives able to to do any thing for
With all their deprivations, the
.est extravagance they indulge in is
1 for a vel, 1•r e, that they may
it together. 5i a armless man now
mi the legless one whenever they
nit, upon his back. The distance ! itir•Never hire servants who go in pairs as
the hospital to the church is too sisters, cousins, or anything else.
for such a means of locomotion. I jar - Never insult poverty.
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 8•
Tom Woods on Muslin.
Tom Woods of the Ohio Patriot al
ways writes to some purpose. Hear
him :
Must.rx —There has been considera
' ble joking upon the words "raising of
muslin," but it has now got so high that
those words are about played out and
people who don't want to white-wash
I and go naked, will be compelled to
raise something else. Unbleached mus
lins are selling at 75 cents in New York..
During the latter part of last week there
was a grand rush at the stores for cotton
goods, in the fear that there might be
still more extravagant advances. ' It
will not be long till it will take a poor
man two days work to get a yard of
muslin. By this time the brains of the
people sho.uld begin to act. They were
paralyzed for a while, but time enough
has elap:.ed for the thinking substance
to recover. Under the old Democratic
rule everything was cheap and times
were prosperous. War-is the cause of
hard times and high prices. Stop the
war, blot out the debt, and in two years
Democracy can bring back prosperity.—
If you want shirts, vote the Democratic
ticket. If you don't vote right, you
will show you are a shiftless fellow, and
your wife will be pretty much in the
same fix.
In coin menting upon the refusal of Presi
dent Lincoln to receive the rebel Vice Pres
ident Stephens, and in justifying the course
taken by Mr. Lincoln, the New York Tribune
asks:
What clause of our. Federal Consti
tution authorizes the President to re
ceive and treat with deputations from
any of our thirty-four States as the di
plomatic envoys of an independent for
eign power?
This is decidedly rich, and the idea
of Mr. Lincoln's doing anything or not
doing it because it is forbidden in the
Federal flonstitution will produce a
smile of derision all over the country.
Will• the. Tribune inform us "what
clause of ,the Federal Constitution au
thorizes the President" to issue a pro
clamation allowing one-tenth of the
population of a State to Control the oth
er nine -tenths, or to arm a servile pop
ulation against their masters, or to con
fiscate property, or to divide Virginia,
or to arrest citizens in the absence of
martial law without due process of law,
or to do a thousand other things which
have been done by Mr. Lincoln ?
The devil quoting scripture was nev
er more exactly paralleled than in the
above case of an Abolitionist quoting
the Federal Constitution.
Lincoln 'a Malignity.
The New York World makes the follow-
ing statement
"Lieut. Col. Bowman, who has had
charge of the Military Academy at West
Point, has been removed from that po
sition by order of President Lincoln.—
The reason for the rem - oval may be
found in the fact that as soon as it was;
known that Gen. McClellan was to de
liver the oration on the occasion of the
dedication of the site ofsfhe Battle
Monument, Gen. Cullum was sent on.
by the Administration to insist that *
another orator should be chosen. The
committee who had the matter in charge
refused, however, to make any change
after a forma) invitation had been ten
dered and aoepted. Lincoln and Stan
ton's sharp personal malice against 'the
general they had so wronged is at the
bottom of this punishment inflicted up
on Lieut. Col. Bowman.
This le one of the smallest and mean
est acts of one of the smallest and mean
est man who ever disgraced the Presi
dency--iays the New Hampshire Pa
triot."
One of the Many Trardiest.
The Nashville Times publishes a letAsir front
a young woman living at Martin's _Creek
Tenn. in which she -.,iettee a sad story (only
one of the litany)
about the quarrelling %S
-twpteu men who were once neighbors, and
t ' eke all quarrels between neighbors who have
taken difltrent sides in this war, the agaic
results in murder. In this case the man
killed was a Uniouist and the lover of the girl
telling the story. In the letter referred to,
this untbrtunate female, whose nature seems
to have been clianged by the demon of re
venge, boasts of going to the house of ono of
the men engaged in the killing of her lover,
.and there in the presence of the man's wife
and mother, shot hint tour times, standing
over him (as she says) "until he was dead.'
The horror of the whole affair was enhansed•
by the fiend like spirit seemingly evoked in
the heart of one belonging to a sex supposed
to be the possessors of a tenderness of spirit
even among barbarians, exempting them from
participation in deeds of vengeance and blood
gailtiness.
IMP A charitably disposed cotemporall
thinks "it is no disparagement to Mr.
cola that he was a rail splitter." Certainly
not; the folly is in his ever having undertak
en to be anything else.
?jolithal,
The Peace Mission.