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P tux Tt SO, of all kinds, executed in the best style, add un reasonable Villas, at the "Messenger' J I) claw e Riaptu‘stmrg 'tu,sintss earbs. ATTOUNEYS •. PURMAN. J O. PITCHIE PURIHAIT & RITCHIE. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Virayntesburg, Pa. 7.St"-OrFirr.--Ilain Street, one door east of the old (link Building. tErk it ...us:Mess tu.,Grcene, Washington, and Fay rite Con o:ies, entrusted to them, will receive prong) nitentlon. N. it —Partic.ular attention wilt be given to the eel 4ectino of Pensions. Bnunty Money, Back Pay, and ()thir claims against the Government. R. A. M'CONNELL. • J. J. HUFFMAN. IWICONITELEi nurrraaN, BT7'ORNEYS COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. PC - Office in the "Wright 11. Lsc." East Door. 'ollections, &c.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg, April '23, DAVID CRA %V F4IIRD, Att - une; , and Counsellor at I.nw. Office in the Court N nay. Will attend pranintly to all business his care. Waynesinirg, Pa—July 30. 1863.-Iy. C. 1.13.T.ACF.. JOHN ['CELAN. BLACK & PIIELAN, ♦TTORMEVI AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. sept. OOLDECILSP WAR CLAIMS! D. R. P. HUSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WAYNESBURG, PUMA-, HAs received from the War Department at Wash inhoon city, D. C., nfficial comes oe the several laws passed L'y Congress, and all the necessary Forms and Insanction, too prosecution and collection of LA's , R()UN7'Y, BACK P.9P, due die char gee. cad disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, v. I, , ,:hers, fathers, sistets and broth ers, whirls [upon due notice] will be attend edte proimdly and accurately If entrusted to his care. Uffirc.N 2. Campbells Row.—April 8, 1863. g~elu3Si~~.RT~ Dr. T. %V. Ross, xii...... 3 -,..ii.....1.01. cie .lEittirgfacw., TVilyneslwrg, Greene .Co., Pa. grAFFIcE AND r; - .SIDENCE fry MAIN STREET, If cast, end ticarly opposite the Wright house. Way neshiog, Sept . 23,1803. --------- . A. G. CROSS Winy respectfully tender his services as a ilft PH CIAN AND SURGEON, to the people or Ilt'a7nt.lmrg end vicinity. He hopes by a due appre siatlon of human life and hennn and.r.d.li, I attention to business, to inerit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January S, leltii. ' reirROTE.A.N'TS. WM. A. PORTER, Whoiesale 'and Noppii Forriev and i). - nnes- P.y Main street. Sept. IL I X6l --i v. MINOR & CO., Dealer, in nor,dva and D.inn:stin Dry goods, Gro teries, git,,noware, ll:irdivarti and Notions, opposite th e Malt. Sept. 11, BOOT AND SNOB DEALERS J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe nvklier. Yirtiel street, n •arly oppo s ite The "Farmer's an.l Drover,. Bank." livery style Of Sao* and shoes constantly on hand or wade to order. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. GROCR.RIES & VARIETIES JOHN AILINNELL, Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goods Generally, Wilson's New Building, Maio street. Sept-. 11. 1861-Iy. • WATCHES AND JEWELRY S. M. .BAILY . rain street, opposite the Wright House keeps al ays on hand a large and elegant assortment of Watches an 4 Jewelry. 1117'Ilepairing of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry wil melee prompt attention Mee- 15. tstil-1y BOOKS. &c. LEWIS DAY,: Dealer in School and 1 1 4 isrell•:neoUs Books, StatitTh try, lak, Magazines and ?anent: One door east °I linrter'm Store, Main Strttot. Sort. ii IR6I IV. SADDLES AND HARNESS. SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, sow., Harness and Trunk Maker. old Bank Bwild •g, Main street. dept. 11, 1861-1- BANK. FAMERS' Sz. DROVERS' BANK, `Waynesburg, C. A. BLACK, Pres't. .1. LAZEAR, Cae lier DIOCAUNT IYA V, GVEDNESD•.Y sent. IL 11161—tv- ' ices'/autting, IDAitiV MAIL HACK RUNNING REGULARLY BETVEEN VIIISINE THE undersigned rekpectfully informs the generous Public, that having the contract for the carrying of the mail between the above poirts, he has placed upon the route two new and commodious flacks for the ac commodation of the frivoling, corontunitv, Clue wil leave the adtnn's Bocce, Waynesburg, every morn ing, Sundays except-.k, at 7k o'clock, and will arrive at Rites' Landing in time for the Boat to Pittsburgh, the other will leave Bites' Landing at the same time and arrive in Waynesburg at noon. No pains will be spared for the accommodation of passengers, FIMOTHY DOUGSIEIit., Proprietor. Illelfet 7th, 1861. no. 9. WAYNEVIBITIM STEAM MILL, the l p i tl i Tha r t e Z e i t irtiallt riu tarr M T41714 " MILL neWaynduburg, 'Pa., *here de will ilwdys fie found seedy scateomatelete atolls essorbaffillboll +llift phonon make ; Griadis; eaignet.sepos as by waterlaftls. , FLOrk" faqi eurinatitlY so head. Ontqatfortaa4iiiief4.**ol, Ikreator'efitifie. "Wail** 37 ime . 'll6 4, amilp ournat---Ptbotetl . :II olifits, Agriculture, Peraturt, foreign, pontos& anb' 6tittralAtiligente, ‘cirttt t: o From the Home Journal Only Seven Hundred Killed. Only seven hundred Robbed of their breath— Out of life suddenly hurried to death— On the red battle-field, Drenched ia their gore, They were stretched fearfully, Waking no more. There, mid the regiments, 0 Where cannon thundered, There lay the murdered men, Only seven hundred ! Sonic died in - miiiery, Writhing with pain ; Some, like extinguished lamps, Instantly slain. Piled up in heaps on heaps On the crushed grass, Wait they the human Hyenas to pass ; All unresistingly There are they plundered— That little band of them, Only seven hundred! Some have left families Flooded in tears— Left them in poverty, Sorrows and fears. Here widows and orphans Send up their sad moans; There fathers and mothers Bewail for their sons. By the hot cannon bell They have been sundered. Let the dead sleep—they are Only seven hundred. Thousands on thousands went Ont to the fray ; Thousands on thousands fell Since the first day. There have been streams of blood Poured out like rain ; Figures exhaust themselves Counting their slain. Is such a loss as this A thing to be wnndered Why make account of them?-- Only seven hundred ! "Man's inhumanity Makes thousands mourn." How long shall the savage firo In hie heart burn ? War hardens the feelings, Puts love under ban, And rouses up all of The devil iu man ; Till in all show of pity lie seems to have blundered, And, o'er crowds of the rnurdered,cries "Only seven hundred:" 4jiotellautouo. Growing Rich. `Your nephew, Felix Graham, is growing rich, I hear,' said my neighbor Jones, as he carried me to the depot, whence I was to start for my sister's son's. `Perhaps so,' was my brief reply : 'I do not know the state of his finances.' 'There is no doubt of it, I think,' be re joined. 'My brother met him last winter at the city s4l,ving bank, and saw him deposit a thousand dollars as the nett grains of his farming the past year. I hear he is driving a great business this summer, and .he will probably have another pile for investment when January comes ronud again. But you are going there, and will see fur yourself ; so, good-bye." I bad not visited Felix in four or five years. But having sent notice of my inten tion to go there by the early morning train, I was a little disappointed, on my arrival at the "Cross Roads," (which was the nearest station to his dwelling, and about two miles distant,) not to see the horse and chaise which had always been sent to me. However, there was a decent conveyance called the Grahamville Express, which would take me almost to my nephew's door ; and so I went along. The driver knew me, for the village had been my home before my marriage and removal to the city ; and he too, spoke of Felix Graham as a man to be envied for his steady and growing prosper • ity. hope to find him well, then,' I said.— 'When I missed him and the black pony at the depot, I feared something was the mat ter.' 'Ali, he was too busy to leave, I suspect. When a Man has made up his mind to be rich he can't stop for trifles, you know.'— And the expressman laugited as if the joke was as rich as the subject cf it, and • perhaps it was. My nephew's daughters met me as the wagon stopped, and welcomed me most heartily. Jane and Lucy were sensible, al fectiona‘e girls, fast grov f igir to w9manhOa Taking ,nty beg and band-lox in their. any *ey rsP.,r444l* to the , 4944 i tiNA 1 1 . ,a 1.3 u,s to Aim 41,sieetityp. ( 'W.,,moo%.l4oloo4taltacii 40 1 0. V4ti 9irik ~dyli or WAYNESBUR,G, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1864. `Felix expects us to manags such little matters,' she replied. 'He and the men aro so busy always, and their time is worth so much more than ours,' she added apologeti cally. I did not meet my nephew till supper was on the table. 'Glad to see you, Aunt Lois,' he said as he shook my hand furiously, and hastened to take his seat. suppose you expected me at the depot, but this is my cu cumber harvest, and every hour is worth so much gold to me. • I shall get twenty-five cents for every cucumber I can send to mar ket this week, and that will count up the money fast.' The complacent, self-satisfied smile with which this was said, was a reve lation to me. NEWSPAPER CAPTION 'have you read Mrs. -'s last vol ume?' I inquired of Jennie, as she sat for a few moments in my- chamber that even- have hardly seen a book since I left school two years since,' was the reply.— `Father says he cannot afford to buy them and I am too. constantly occupied through the day, and too weary in the evening, to read much if we had them.' The sigh which followed Jennie's explanation went to my heart, for I knew how she loved to read and study when I saw her .in her child hood. 'You are working too hard,' I said to my nephew's wife as I followed her through the round of toil from Tuesday to Saturday.— 'With so many hired men to cook for, and such a dairy to tend, you need a stouter frame and stronger arms than you or the girls can boast.' `Yes, aunt, we are all doing too much,' she said, sadly; 'but Felix is so bent on getting rich, that he cannot afford to hire help in the house ; that would take off the profits be says ; and the wearied woman shooked her head hopelessly. Sabbath came, and with it the morning and evening family devotions, which 1 bad missed during all the week. I suppose my looks must have showed the surprise I felt, for my nephew attempted a hasty explana tion. We get no time for this, week days, Aunt Lois, as you must have observed. I have so many men on hand that I can't af ford them to lose a half-hour in the morn ing, and they don t value these things, you know. I have to keep a sharp eye to busi nesss, myself, to bring the year round about right. But I don't mean to give up my religion ; so we read two or three chapters on Sabbath, when we can spare the time better.' Monday morning my visit ll completed, and I started for home. Felix accompanied me to the depot, having business in that di rection. When we reached the cars, a pale and feeble soldier, who had lost a leg in his country's service solicited help. My nephew turned a deaf ear to the moving appeal, his whispered apology to me being the two facts that "he wanted to lay up $1,200 this year,' and that 'really government ought to take care of the soldiers.' When I reached my home, I sat down and wept ; and though I did not explain the mat ter to m neighbor. Jones, who came to meet me, I did say to myself, and I tell it in confidence, dear reader, to you, that it is my opinion Felix Graham is growing misera bly poor.—Springfieid Republican. The laudable curiosity of tourists, as well as the investigations of science. daily unfold phenomena hitherto sealed to the eye of man. On the shore of a place called Point Brule, in the vicinity of River John stands a rock washed by the waves of the St. Lawrence. Its outward or gen eral appearance presents nothing uncom mon or attractive, and certainly would not warrant the supposition that extraor dinary developments would reward a careful examination of its parts. A few days ago some gentlemen, whilst waiting for the steamer, procured a skiff, ar.d proceded slowly round the shore. Not a breath of wins disturbed the repose of the sea, but when abreast of the rock a dull and splashing sound, as if from its centre, attracted and riveted attention. Curiosity of course pervaded,and scram bling to the top of the ledge a scene, strange and unexpected, burst upon the view, a basin scooped out, perfect as from the hand of art, and with a probable circumference of fifty feet, literally swar med with living and and wriggling eels! ,Amazement having subsided the ques tion arose—how were these creatures fur nished weth water and food sufficient for their existence! Here again research sol ved the apparent mystery, and made all perfectly plain: About ten feet from the bottom of the reservoir an aperture ap peared communicating with the sea, and above the low water level, each re turning tide supplied a element and permitted the congregated millions. egress and ingress at pleasure. To count the myriads in their bosom home the discoverers think would involve a hopeless calculation, and viewing it in this light, pethaps it will be wiser to 'consider in . what- - way the knowledge -thus-obtained will benefit theq*blic..-=; Augers Chronicle. , &orb - livelrfor itht 4 4 ,4 4 4 - I.4tir 'That is too heavy for the girls,' I said, ri sing hastily to prevent it. But Mrs. Graham held me back. Strange Discovery. x.-..014' tit 4 t: *MOO be* 4 Scenes in Hospital. A Washington correspondent sends the following inside view of hospital life' Perhays your readers would like to visit (those who have not personally visited) I the hospitals in which the sick and ) wounded of our army are. If so come with sue to Campbell Hospital, which ! • is situated near the termination of the 1 Seventh street car route. This hospital contains about twenty wards, and is cal culated to accommodate about two thousand patients. We find a general air of cleanliness and comfort, which ! is gratifying to the visitor who has at heart the welfare of our brave wounded heroes, and also shows that the surgeon in command not only knows the value of these principles, but also sees that they ' are put in practice by those under him. Visitors are admitted from 10 A. AL to 'T t'. m. If vieitora by of the "softer" sex, you will probably be prompted to shrink back from going farther than the threshold. On either side of the long, wide room before you are rows of single beds, about three feet apart, with the heads resting against the wall, leaving a space through the centre of the floor about six feet wide. These beds are neat and comfortable, with clean white spreads over each. The wards are well ventilated. While passing through, the thought occurs that most of those patients are more comfortable here than they would be at home in their present state of health. To a lady there is at first a feeling of almost insurmountable repugnance to entering the hospital, which only a strong sense of duty will overcome. On the threshold, with that scene be fore you of long rows of beds, with sick and wounded men, the newness of the scene is oppressive; you falter , in your purpose; you lift up your thoughts for a moment to "Our Father" for strength and wisdom, that you may ! be enabled to say and do that whieli will comfort or soothe these sufferers. You will feel the propriety of wearing a cheerful face though the pain is hard at your heart. You approach the first bed on your right; here lies.a man with , his arm swollen to twice its natural size, with every evidence of losing it in pros pect. Does he suffer much? Generally the answer is "yes but I am fortunate in getting off so well; I might have been much worse." Next the patient on the left; he had a bullet in the leg, which has not yet been extracted. The wound looks venomous. After a word of comfort you pass to the next. He had recently suffered amputation just , above the. ankle, and the poor stump is snugly bound up. It is all he had left of that, while a bad wound in the other leg makes it doubly painful and difficult for him to move. But, brave man, he moves the stump over to the other side of the bed first (preferring to do it himself), and then turns his attention to the wounded one, in order to get that over also, and in answer to your expressions of sympathy, remarks with a grim smile, "I have patience enough with this stump, but this other one I have no patience with. I think it ought to behave itself, because it has a foot." In the course of your visit you speak with a young hero who had quite recently lost his arm, and in an- , swer to your surprise at finding him walking about cheerfully,he tells you that he walked about after it was amputated • as soon as he recovered from the effects 1 of the other. Another, who has but slight prospect of living beyond a week or two exclaims, as he glances at the first line of prayer for "Our soldiers on ! the Battle Field," "Yes, it we had some one to pray for us; that's what we want." He is assured that prayer is being offered up for them all over the land, and he replies, "I am glad, for we need it." He has tried to do his duty to his country, and wishes he bad tried to do his duty to his God early in life. Tm reply to your inquiry, he says that he wants to be a Christian, and that he has been trying for three weeks to become one, exclaiming, "Oh, how foolish it is for _people to put this off till the last." He is earnestly assured that even at ,the , eleventh hour his desire to enter into the kingdom is welcomed by the Father above; to try no longer, bat simply give himself just as he is to the Lamb of God, who died for all—for him. After a space of deep reflection, he replies, "I will try to do so—l do so." In all the wards you meet brave hearts, who bear intense suffering patiently, and even cheerfully. iChancellor Kent thus wrote: "We live in a period of uncommon excitement. The spirit of the age is restless, presumptuous, and revolution ary. The rapidly increasing appetite for wealth, the inordinate taste for luxury which it engenders, the vehe ment spirit of speculation and the selfish emulation which it creates, the growing contempt for slow and risodtrate gains, the ardent thirst for pleasure and amusement, the diminishing reverence for the wisdom of the past, the disre gard Of•the lassouo of experience, the authority of the inaghtraty, ambito ven erable institutions of ancestral policy; are so many bad symptoms of a diseased stab of the public Will this diseosoflokkip oiatiovissotwbstifoiedibitil the • • ; •,bisightionore file ; , • • jilhilisloiolie 4 I 01.11104‘ s; a rv—ro:f isiof A Noble Working Man of Olden Times. One May morning, in the year 1139, the inhabitants of the little French town of Saintes were both astonished and angry to see that a 'poor family had come to reside among them. They would have rejoiced to see a well-to-do household come, but they had no wel come to give to these poor people. On inquiry, the neighbors learned that the bead of the family was a paint er on glass, called familiarly Bernard. As he was a very quiet, industrious man, the fears that his family would be a charge on the town gradually sub sided. But there was something that they did not understand. The man was al ways kneading clay and baking it, and making various experiments in trying to glaze it.. Why. 0k0...1,1 Liu regular trade, and injure his wife and family by all this fruitless trouble, which never seemed to end in his mak ing anything worth looking at? But the silent Bernard was not a man that could be much interfered with. He was very sober, a keeper at home when the others were at the wine-house of an evening: So the. neighbors were con tent to call him an unsocial fellow, and began to eye him with distrust, if not dislike. How soon prejudice springs up in the mind, and how bad are its effects.— If these suspcions neighbors had been less hasty in judging Bernard, they would have found that he was a man to whom a great idea had come;' and that he could not rest until he had worked it out This Bernard was very relig ious, and his religion showed itself in his being in earnest in all that he did. he believed that God was honored by every faculty being dedicated to Him; and full of the belief that it was God's appointment that he should labor at his experiments, he continued to work on, unmoved by the jeers of some of his neighbors, and censures of others. Tbere were, however, some who pleaded with him that it was difficult to resist. These were his wife and chil dren, who, after they saw that the hus band and, father had failed in many of his attempts, implored him to give up his plans, whatever they were, and re turn to the pursuits that would provide for the wants of the household. In vain Bernard told them that if he suc ceeded in making what he was at tempting, that he should confer a great boon on the world, and, by God's bless ing, would enrich them ; they mourned over his fruitless toils as the delusions of of a madman. At length, when in order to heat his furnace, Bernard actually tore down the fence of his garden, and also ripped up the flooring for fuel, there was an out cry that the experimentalist was insane. Just as their patience was quite ex hausted, and they were ready to rush out and bring in those who Would carry the head of the house to some place of restraint, Bernard uttered a cry of joy, for he brought out of his furnace an enameled cup of a kind of pottery until then unknown. This was the work he had been toiling to achieve, and now success crowned his efforts. Directly the rumor of this discovery was made known. Neighbors saw its importance, and spread the tidings far and near. The king (Henry 111. of France) sent for the ingenuous workman and having assured himself of the great value of the discovery, gave him a pat ent, and put him at the, head of an establishment called the Royal Rustic Pottery—and the inventor became known as Benard Palissy, of the Tuil eries.* The prejudices Of his neighbors, and the poverty of his family all now passed away-. By his useful invention of en ameled pottery, he was the means of giving employment 'to hundreds, and increasing the conveniences of domestic life. For all the articles in use in the house, none are more. conducive to cleanliness and comfort than goad useful pottery. the possession of this we English people surpass the world, thanks to our Wedgwoods, .Spodes end Copelands, laintons and others. Bat in the'tirries we speak of; Bernard Pa- Easy was the inventor and benefactor who first gave to modern Europe speci mens of improved pottery.. Bat it was not permitted to this eer ily* man to enjoy in quietude the re sults of his long career of toil. When ho was old and lonely he had to bear ills testimony to the faith that he pm fessed. It was a time of terrible relig ious persecution, and the aged potter was shut up in the bastile. The king, who professed both to admire and like the ingenuous workman, visited him in prison; and, finding thati he could not alter Pallsy's opinion, he said, as he was about to take - leave f litm— "That he was afraid he Should be obliged to leave Paling in the hands of his enemies." The old man replied to the monarch: "You have said repeatedly, Sire, that you pity me. But I sincerely pity you. Be obliged—that is no royal expression, will toch you a kingly language.— Nor you, nor all your people shall oblige me to deny my faith. No, I will ; die first !" Surely among the hoorable claw of W• kers this MBA deatfves to tithektiv i letherabraW* o -72kiiath Work • ••• - .~ timik (firdt. The Beginning of Evil. Truths like the following can scarcely be repeated too often. We commend them to the readers of our paper.— Young men for the most part are but little aware of the danger which attends the beginning of evil. No one becomes suddenly abandoned and profligate.— There is always gradual prowess. He begins with slight, occasional departures tromrectitude, and goes from one de gree of guilt to another, until conscience becomes seared, the vicious habits of-in dulgence fixed, and the character forever ruined. Nothing is more obvious than this connection betwppn 11,„ ana consummation of evil ; and yet hardly anything is more difficult than to con vince the young of its reality. In en tering upon the wrong courses they have not the least expectation or fear of the dreadful issue. They mean not to proceed beyond the point of safety, and they have no doubt they can easily effect an escape whenever danger ap pears ; but ere they are aware, they are arrested by the iron grasp of habit, and ruined forever. Take, for example, the young man who occasionally thinks to excess in the social circle ; he does not dream that he is entering upon a course which will probably end in confit med intemperance. He means no harm ; he says of the sin, Is it not a little one'? There can be no danger in it. But soon his bonds are made strong, and he becomes the slave of a sottish vice. Thus it is with all vicious practices.— However slight at first, they tend, by a 'Strong and necessary impulse, to the point of utter depravity of principle and ruin of character. There is- no safety but in guarding against the first appearances of evil. To step upon for bidden ground is to throw one's self into the power of the destroyer; and if od interpose not to deliver, ruin is in evitable. It was a wise saying among the ancients, that the way of vice lies down hill. If you take but a few steps the motion soon becomes so momentous and violent, that it is impossible fpr you to resist it. "You Taught Me, George." Years ago, when a child, I attended the district or public school with other children of the village in which I re sided. One day during the recess, while engaged in some game with my companions, I deliberately took God's name in vain. My playmates were evi dently shocked to hear such language from one so young as myself, and one of them rushing up to me, exclaimed, "Who taught you such language?" ac companying his words with a push so hard as to cause me to fall to the ground. Recovering myself, I answered, "You taught me, George." lie turned away abashed and contbunded, exclaiming to himself, "Can it be possible I" Soon after this our school closed, and the playmate mentioned moved to a dis tant part of che State, and did not re turn to his native village until we had become men. One day, while recalling the memories of childhood, pleasant and unpleasant, I referred to the incident related above, and inquired if he remem bered it. "Remember it ? yes, that I do, as though it occurred but yesterday. Your. words never left my mind. The thought that I had been the means of leading my younger companions astray by my own evil conduct had never en tered my mind previous to this. Then my great sin in so doing so horrified me that, young though I was, I found no peace of mind or conscience until I con fessed my wickedness before God, and humbly begged His pardoning mercy, and became, as I trust, a true Chris tian." "Yes," said 1, "you tried the only way to obtain peace, permanent peace. I too felt the deepest sorrow for my sin in profaning God's holy name, and to this day I sometimes shudder when I think of it, and wonder what I shall an swer before the Judge of all the earth in the last great day. Alas, there is no answer to make. My only tiope is that Christ's blood may be applied; in an swer to my earnest prayers to wash away all stains from my guilty soul." I don't Like my Business. There is no greater fallacy in the world, than that entertained by many young men, that some pursuits in life can be found wholly suited to their tastes, whims and fancies. This phi• losopher's stone can never be discovered, and every one who makes his life a search for it will be ruined. Much truth is contained in the Irishman's re mark—"it is never easy to work hard." Let, therefore, the fact he always re membered by the young that no life wdrk can be found entirely agreeable to man. Success, always, lies at the top of the hill. If we would reach it, we can only do so by hard, persevering I effort, while beset with diffieulties of every kind. If you think you made a mistake in choosing the purr/it or pro fession yciii did, do not make another by leaving it. Spend ail your energies in workbag AM dinging to -it 'br Tot would to the life.heittituttenstaitted yon .1101143 midst of thileacia& If you leave to'llte.,Aink* eettilitt that you will go NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO, 18 WATCHWORDS FOR PATRIOTS. Mottoes for the Campaign Selected from Gen. McClellan's Wirteings. The true issue for which we are writeing is the preservation of the Union and upholding the laws of the General Government.—ln etructions to General Burnside, January, 7, 1862. We are fighting solely for the integrity of the Union, to uphold the power of our Na tional Government, and to restore to the na tion the blessings of peace and good order.-- InstructionB to General " You will please constantly to bear in mind the precise issue for which we are fighting; that issue is the preservation of the Union and the restoration of the full §rithority of the General Government over all portions of our territory.—/nstructions to Gres. Bull, Xovember, 7, 1861. We shall most readily suppress this rebei , lion and restore the authority of the GoVern ment by religiously respecting _the cenatitu r tional rights of all -:—instructions to General Buell, ..Vorember 7, 1861. Be careful so to treat the unarreed inhab itants as to contract, not widen, the breech existing between us and the rebels:—/n4truc tions to General Buell, ICorember 12, 1861. I have always found that it is the tendency of subordinates to make vexations arrests on mere suspicion. —lnstructions to General Buell, November 12, 1861. Say as little as possible about politics or the negro.—ineruct:oia to General Burneids, 7anuary 5, 1862. The unity of this nation; - the preservation of our institutions are so dear to me that I have willingly sacrificed my private happi ness with the singlaobject of doing my duty to my country.—Letter to Seeretary Stanton, October, 1861. Whatever the determination of the Gov ernment may be, I will do the best I can with the Army of the Potomac, and gill share its fate, whatever may be the task im posed upon me —Letter to Seeretark Cam eron, October, 18C1. Neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial organization of States, not forcible abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment.—Lst tor to President Lincoln, July 7, 1862. In prosecuting this war, all pri4ate proper] ty and unarmed persons should be strictly protected, subject to the necessity of military operations.—Letter to the President, July 7, 1862. Militaiy arrests should .not be tolerated. except in plates where active hostilities ex ist; and oaths not required by enactments constitutionally made should be neither de manded nor received--Letter to the Presi dept„Toly 7, 1.802. A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies.—Letter to tko President, July 7, 1862. If it is not deemed best to i.ntrust me with the command even of my own army, I simply ask to be permitted to share their late on the field of battle.—Dispatch to Genemblialeck, August 30, 1802. By pursuing the political course I Mitre always advised, it is possible to brine abaft permanent restoration of the Union-- a re union by which the wrights of both sections shall be preserved, and by which both parties shall preserve their self-respect, while they respect each other.— Gene-ral jrceleltan's Report. In the arrangement and condact of cam paigns the direction should be left to profea sioanal soldiers —General ifceldtzit'a port. lam devoutly grateful to God that my last campaign was crowned with a victory which saved the nation from the greatest peril it had then undergone,—Cenral ClePaies- _Report. At such a tiEne as this, and in such a strag gle, political partee,r6hip should be merged in a true and brave patriotism which thinks only of the good of the whole country.— Ge nerol Are Claimed lreet Point Oration. LINOOLN'S DEFEAT CONCEDED BY A LRA.D ING REPUBLICAN JOUENAL,--TllO Albany Statesman (Rep.) of last evening thus , anno 'laces the nomination and the effect of the nomination of Gen. McClellan : "In nominating Gen. McClellan the Dem ocrats place their very strongest man in the field--a man who "kill poll a larger army vote than any Democrat who could possibly be put in nomination. The, abuse which lif!Clellan met, with in the Convention from Mr. Harrison of Maryland, and other traitors of the same stamp, cannot fail to be beneG cial to the nominee with the better portion of the American people. "The Democrats having 'nominated Gen. M'Clellan, forces, the Republicans to do one of two things—withdraw Xr. Lincoln from the canvass, OR ELSE SEE TUE DENtocR.ITS CARET THE RLE,TION By AN OVEE , WIIELMING intoiottrn. As Mr. lAneoln cannel unite the party wa MU BB DaneaTitn." the inOst tiopolrir candidate the Convention could have chosen, .4 hilacielph,i4 Pres& • iveß. reudieiogthe Etetnocralic ltdate for Vice Presideiiiiipia'gentlannalt of decided ability, liberal acgtirmanta iip4y ttnstaited private reputation.--, Hew iti o k: Tribun.o. foliticat ECM
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