The TlogatiSouuty Agitator : _ BY jjJjjH. COBB. Published everyWjlfeS«ro£rfitng‘and mailedtd r & xcB *p thoagb they may receive their mail at post-offices lo afed. in.otmnties, immediately adjfdning, for conven~ . , , ' x -tp . • ,-r- ■ - . >• v X2e : ’Aoitatob is L ITippSoiat Tioga .Co,f and circulates. in fink-' soriptTcns being'aa^b^pflypnce-pay':ByBtoin l >t,circu latej among ticfitef.bto^pllbo,interest of, advertisers to reacß.,’ as liberdlas'those off forod by any p»jier,'t)|feijital circulation in Northern Pennsylyania.' „ iil&'X crpss'.bii, IJte.jmargin of a, paper,.denotes that 4byah3oriptian r is atopi to .expire.^ J&frßiiptfs btini.bo stopped When the'subscription time expires, unless fhVageht orders tbeir tontinu aslaai...: _f_!; f.tfl , ;’7 ' JAS. LOWBBY * 8. P, WItSOS, A‘FTQRKfBYS at LAW, of Tioga, .Potter and. AtoKean coantjei. - .,■ [ Wellsboro, 3an. 1,1863.] A TTOiwfEY & COUNSELLOR At LAW, Jla. Coudersport, Pa,-, will attend the several Courts tn Potter »aii Mol£e»D--eoaDtieB. All business en trusted to his pare willreoelvo'prompt attention. He has the agepcj.of .largf tracts of good settling land and will attend of taxes on any lairds Jn said eoaotiea. ■ Jon. 28,1563.* HOUSE, - H Y. MaJ. A. FIELD, J..X ..Proprietor. /QUESTS. t»kctt.!to,and from‘the Depot free Vjfof* charge. . 1 ! [Jari. I, 1863,] PESrSsVtVAS.IA HOUSE, CORNER 0? MAIN J 6tREEI AND TUE AVENUE, Welfifcoro, £a. J. V. 81G0NY,.... TpHIS popular Hotel, having been re-fitted X and re-furnishedthroughout, is now open to the public as a first-class house. [Jan. I, '1863.] IZiAK AVALTOS HOUSE, Gaines, TPtga County, Fa. JI. 0. VEKM1LTJ5A,.......... r ..Proprietor. THIS is a new hp»el located within easy ac cess of the best. B£ii(ng and hunting grounds in Northern Pennsylvania.'! No pains .will bo spared for the accommodation of; pleasure seekers and the trav elling public. . .[Jaa. 1, 1863.] SSL WATCHtf'i CLOCKS AN® J HVELRI ! Repaired at i CO'S. STORE, by the jabaeriber, in the best|Wfipner. and at as low prices as 4he same work «an he dode for, hyuny first rate prac tical workman ic the Slat-e* iVellaboro, July WECLSBORO HOTEL.. B/B. HOLiX)AY i ... 1; Proprietor. TUB Proprietor having aguia taken of the above Hotel, spare no pains to insure 'the-comfort of guests a|id the traveling public. At tentive waiters alwaysTerms'reasonable. , WellsUoro, Jan. 21 ■ " %. 4? b' LE V, Watches, &c., &c.. REPAIRED «At' OJ.D PRICES. POST BUILDING, . KO. 5, jjfA’JO-y BUUCK. Wellsbcro, May-20,i16&3. 1 E. Kr ietACH,' BARBER & |H AIR- I )UESSER, shop OVER C ; if. MORE, MO. 4, Ulte'EON BLOCK. Wellsboro, June ' * flittVK ASA FEKW VIOKE. BAILEY HAVE had thcifl,*o)lll tluiJ-nughlv repaired mvd are rceeirrVg?fresh ground flour, lecd, meal; Au„ every day 4;o)cir sturu m town. Cash paid for alWkipita.bf griun. • . p,. j WUIpilT 1 BAILEY. Wcll.-boro, April-flflytfata. " “WooTCardi4gi|nd Cloth Dressing. THE subscriber Sdjfiirms bis uld customers ' and the public gefiertally tbat he is prepared to card wool and dress cUjtli at' the old stand, the coining season, baling the services of Mr. J. PEKT, competent and expei-i-enced workman, aTwPalso in- to give bis personal atluntion to the nutmegs, he will warrant all work done at bis shop. " Wool carded at five per pound, and Cloth dressed at from teff to [twenty cents per yprd as per ■color and finish. J* I* JACKSON. Well&buro, May G, n VKBLC SHOP. lAM ndw-receivirip; STOCK of ITALIAN and RUTLAND -J&AKBLB, (bought with cash) and um prepared to' BKCtsrufaciure all kinds of TOM TONES a»d MONUMEX PS 0.-' iHje lowest pficcs. ’ HAKVEY ADAMS..-ia-my umlioriiul agent and will sell Stone at the'. Mue prices as at the shop. / WE HAVE PUT ONE PJiIOE. Tipga, May 20, Ififi ; If. - A. D. COLE. JOmfcA. ROY, TXEALELIN Dliufcs AND MEDICINES, XJ Chemical., VartilA. Paints, Djes, Soaps, Per famcry. Brushes, Glasjj,. Putty, Goods, Pure Wine?, Brandies; and olher Liquors for medical use. Agent fdii the sdle of all the best Pat ent Medicines of ibe diy. Medicines warranted gen nine and of the - . . BEST [QUALITY. \ Physician's accurately compounded. The best Petroleum Oil* which is superior to any other Tor burning in •KorosvupLamps. Also, all other kinds of Oils usuolly kept ifl.'A first class Drug Store. FANCY in packages all ready compounded, for the Jfc of private families. Also, Pure Loaf Sugar for ri&lical compounds. Wellsboro. June 2-4, bS63-Iy. STATE NOltltlAl* SCHOOL, [For District, Pa-] . Hand Mansfield Seminary* Rev. D. A. 31.. Principal. ’Afr. . Assistant. .Mrs, H. S. Miss 11. A. Assistant. Assistant,'Teacher in Model School. Assistant,Jtfcd’Teacher of Music. The Full Term of institution will open Sopt. ‘2d. The \V.inter Tertl , Tbe Spring Term, 34*r<Ai Kth* 18fi4. Eiichltenn to continue thirteen ewceks. .; ; -* A Normal School C*««ae of study for graduation, .etnbraciog.twt) years, U adopted. Students for the Nor|hal Course, andforibe Clossi ,cal Department, are solicited; For particular?, oiWr*s}> R C v, \T. D. Tatlow, Mans £eld, Tioga Coupty Bend for a Circular. ' .-i: i W, COCHRAN, the Board of Trustees. WM. HOLLAND,'jperetary. Mansfield, Asguet/ij, Insurance Agency. THE Insurance Company of North America hove appointed the umersigned »o agent for Tkitra bounty nad rieinrty.’," t As the high character anti standing of .this Compa- BJ give tie aisarancd't-f jfull proteelion to owners of property agaum the hazard of fire, I solicit with con fidence a liberal share; «f Vhe business of the county. i7slo'n 0 Z“ ir T? iß f^ )nl ' twl in ”«• “» «P i,al is 55«n,000, and Us a%sti in ISM as pereUtement Ist Jan. of that year ,«|551254,71g 81. ' ; ' CHARLES PLATT,,;.?..; .'...'...Secretary. ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President. Offle# of the Company 332 Walnut Street Agent Har jrlhbars.pn. JOHN V 7. OXIBBNSE7, ■ ■ , for riognCoanty.Pa, July 15, 1J63. , , ,>.* VOL..X. THE THE PEOPLE. A Poem Delivered Before, the Phi Beta ; Kappa So~ eiety of Hartford Univereity. The dram's wild roar awakes tbd land-,* the fife li calling shrill j Ten thousand starry banners blaze on- town, and bay, ,* and bill; Oar crowded streets are throbbing with the soldiers' measured tramp ; Among oar bladed cornfields gleam the white tents of the camp. -- * The thunders of the rifling war hash Labor's drowsy . t hobi/ . *■ ; t , ~-,, And heavy to the ground the first dark drops of bat* tle<com©.’ . ' The souls of men flame np anew; the narrow heart expands And woman brings her patient faith to nerve her eager bands. Thank God! we are not burifed yet, thoogh long in trance we lay. Thank God! the lathers need not blush to own their suns to-day. .Proprietor. Oh ! sad and slow the weeks went by; each held his anxious breath. Like erne who watts, in helpless fear, some sorrow great as death. Oh! scarcely was there faith Id God, nor any trust in man, While fast along the Southern sky' the blighting shadow ran. It yelled the stars, one after one; it bushed the pa- triot's song, And stole from men the sacred sense that parteth right from wrong. Then a red flash, the lightning across the' darkness broke, And with a voice that shook the land the guns of Sumter spoke : Woke, sons of heroes, wake! The age of heroes dawns Igain : - ’ Troth takes in band her ancient sword, and calls her loyal mfet. Lo! brightly o’er the breaking day shines Freedom’s A. R. HASCT. hidy star. Peace cannot cure the sickly time. All hail, the healer, War! Old Independence Hall gave back the thundering echo then, And foremost tit their country's call, sprang forth the of Penn. .That call whs beard by Plymouth Rock ; ’twas hoard in Boston Bay ; Then up the piny streams of Maine sped on its ring- ing way. New Hampshire’s rocks, Vermont’s green hills, it kindled into flume ; Rhode Island felt be 4 ® mighty soul burning her little frame : The Empire City started up, her golden fetters rent, Ami, meteor like, across the North the fiery message * M*nt i Over the breezy prairie land, by bluff and lake it ran. Till Kansas bent his arm, and laughed to find biumlt a man ; Then on. by cabin and by camp, by stony wastes and sands, i It ran exultant down the sea where the Gulden City stand?. And whercMi'er the summons came, there rose an an gry drb, As when upon a rocky const a stormy tide comes in. fclruightwny the father’s gathered voice, straightway the sons «r»v f e, With flushing cheek, ns when the East with red current glows. ' Hurrah ! the long de-pair is past ; our fading hopes renew ; The fog is lifting from the land, and 10, the ancient , blue! ‘ We learn the secret of the deeds the sires hate band ed down, To fire the youthful soldier’s real, and tend his green renown Who lives for country, through his arm feels all her forces flow, ’Tis ea-*y to bo brave for truth, as for the rose to blow. Oh ! Law, fair form of Liberty, God's.light is on thy brow. Oh 1 Liberty, thou soul of Law, God’s very self art thou ! One the clear river’s sparkling flood tbat clothes the bank with green ; And one the line of stubborn rock that holds the wa ter in— Friends, whom we cannot think apart, seeming each 'other’s foe • Twin flowers upon a single stalk with equal grace that grow. Oh I fair ideas, wo write your names across our ban ner's fold: For you, the tlpggard’s brain is fire; for you, the - coward bold. Oh ! daughter of the bleeding past! Oh ! hope the prophets saw! God give us Law in Liberty, and Liberty in Law I Full many a heart Is aching with mingled joy and pain, For those who go so' proudly forth and may not come again ; And many a heart is aching for those it leaves behind, Aa a thousand tender histories throng in upon the •mind. The-old men bless the young men and praise their ■bearing high ; The'women in the doorways stand to wave them bravely by. Ope Ufrew her arms about her boy, and said, “ Good bye, my son; God help thee do the valiant deeds thy father would have done.” One'held up to a bearded moo a little child to kiss, And suid, " I shall not be alone, for tby dear love and this/’ And one, a-rosebud in her band, leant at a soldier’s side; “Tby country weds thee first,” she said; “bo I thy second bride.” .- Oh! mother?, when, around yotfr hearths yo count your cherished ones, Atjd miss frum the enchanted ring the flower of all your sons; Oh ! wives, when o’er the cradled child ye bend at evening's fall, And voices which the bearrt can bear across the dis tance call; Oh I maidens, when, in the sleepless nights ye ope the little case, And look till ye can look no more upon the proud young face, Not only pray the Lord of Life, who measures mortal breath, To bring the absent back ansoathed out of the firo of death ; Oh? pray with tbat ■divine content which God’s best favor draws, That, whatsoever lives -or dies. Ho eavo His holy ' cause! So out of shop and fenn-houso, from shore and in land glen, ... Thick os the bees in clover time, are swarming armed men; Along the dusty roads In baste the eagpr columns come, With flash of awprd and musket's glenm, the bngle and the dftnn. Ho! comrades, see the 'starry flag) broad-waving at our bead.' Ho! comrades, mark the thnder.light on the dear em blems spread; ' Oof fathers* blood has hallowed it; *)Sm fcart of their renown; 4 And palsfed be the caitiff hand would pluck its glo ries down! HarrtfbJ hurrah 1 it Is on*.home, where'er thy colors flv J J ( We wiiTwilhtbeo~tire victory, or In thy eb'addw idle 1 Oh! women, drive the rattling loom, and galherln the hay; f ? !' For altthe.y'onUi worth love and Inlth are marshalled i for the fray. » rn the Sjctcnafon of tfce area of jFreehom anh the Sprrah of feeaftbgj&ef ortn. WHIIiE jTIIBEE' SHALL BE A 'WRONG UKMGtITED,, ANO "UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN”’ SHALL CHAsi, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE Select BY ELDEIDQE JEFFERSO* CUTLER. WELISBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, BA., Southward the boats are harrying, with'bannora witie nnfurlod, ■ . - - ■ '" u - i From whhre the stately-Hndkpn'JJpet* 'tho wealth Of half the world; From 1 where, amid faia clustered idea. Lake Huron’s waters'gleam; - From where the Mississippi pours an unpolluted stream; From’ wberd Kentucky's fields of corn bend in the southern air; From broad Ohio's luscious Tinea; from Jersey’s or ohardafair; From where, between his fertile slopes, Nebraska's river's run; Frora Peonsylrnnia's iron hills; from woody Oregon; And Massachusetts Jed the ran, as in the dayeof yore, Arid gore her reddest blood to-cleanse tho stones of . Baltimore. - Ohl. mothers,platers, daughters,spare the tcara ye fain wohld'shed ;' Who seem to die in such a cause, ye cannot call them dead. They live upon the lips of men, in picture, bust and song, And nature fcdda them in her heart, and keeps them safe from Wrong. Oh! length of days is net a boon the brave man proyeth for ; There are a thousand evils worse than death or any ' war— ' Oppression, wifti his iron strength, fed on the souls of men, ,' And License, with the hungry brood that haunt bis ghastly den. But like bright stars ye fill the eye; adoring hearts ye draw; Ob ! sacred grace of Liberty; ob ! majesty of Lav. Hurrah ! the drams are beating; the fife is coiling shrill; Ten thousand starry banners flame on town, and bay, and hill; The thunder’s of the rising war drown Labor's peace ful bum ; Thank Qod that we hare lived to see the saffron morning come— The morning of the battle call, to every soldier dear! Ob, joy! theory is “Forward!” Oh, joy! the fue is near f For all the crafty men of peace have failed to purge the land; / Hurrah! the ranks of battle close; God takes His cause in hand ! Female Costumes—Past and Present. The London Morning Star remarks upon past and present fashions as follows : “ "We do not seem likely ever to come to any basis of agreement ns tn the ridiculous in man ner* and in costume. It would appear to be the fate of the human race that its. little clans . blmll always seem grutef-que and ludicrous to each other. If Japanese or Siamese or any Annaniitc ambassadors should vihit this end of Kuiope fi\«* hundred vein? hone**, they will fumi'di ju*t :ia much food,for laughter — arid I ut for Oi iema! gravity may find ju-t as much to laugh—a- at this day. N«v, it beeius to he the do- m of each gf Deration that the une winch Mieceedis if stiall think its wnyn und more especially «N habits, utterly ludicrous and ab surd, What fight-on earth is nu-re droll and preposterous than the plates in a hook of fash ions of twent}-flw’, nay fifteen, nay tap years ago? Look at tin* coats which hunting beings wore induced to w?nr then—the boot-, she hate, the neckties ! Can it be that rational creatures, nay, that we uurelves, did really consent to make such gnj sof ourselves; and is it possible that any two men thus bedizened could ba\e met without mutual laughter? “ As fur the female costume of earlier days, it utterly defies description. Observe in uny old bookshop an engraving of some great ac tress as she appeared in the character ol liH videra or Mufdmia, with a waist immediately under her arms, the body of her dress repre sented by a mere zone or bandage drawn tight ly across, and the skirt, a long, close, lanky garment like a bathing-gown, or the popular costume of a ghost, and mantel bow any hu man eyes could ever have moistened to the sounds of pathos issuing from the lips of such a fright! Or to come a great deal later down, let any one just glance at the engravings in the earlier issues of Dicken’s works.. Kale Nickleby used to be a favorite of ours once, and we thought her a charming creature. We glanced at her the other day as she appears in an old volume of ‘ Nicholas Nickleby,' and we felt ashamed ever to have acknowledged one twinge of sentiment towards such a dowdy.- Her vast coal-scuttle bonnet, protruding a foot and a half from her forehead, like the Druse woman’s horn—only uglier by far-—is such as Mrs. Gump of 18C3 would be ashamed to put on even for a. midnight visit. Her dress, perked out behind by some mysterious agency, falls after this one protrusion,straight down in the shape of a sentry-box. “llow could we of to-day feel anything but contempt for such a costume, we whose refined eyes are delighted by the charming and rational spoon-bonnet, with its bocage. of evergreens and roses; whose civilized and enlightehed taste is gratified by the sight of the majestic crinoline so admirably adapted to the human figure, so sylphlike, so convenient to the wearer and all around, so secure against dangerous accident, so natural and beautiful in its undulations, to marvelously contrived to satisfy at bnce grace, delicacy and comfort ? Yet exquisite as these costumes seem to us, and deeply as we regret that Phidias never had an opportunity of im mortalizing in marble the outlines of a crino lined female, we cannot disguise from Ourselves the melancholy fact that an irreverent genera tion yet to come will mock at the costume of to-day as we do to that of yesterday. All men. and still mure all women, think all men and all women ridiculous bat themselves. The Pa risians need not satirize themselves through the mouth of an Oriental Their sons and daughters will hereafter laugh, quite simply and naturally, over a representation of the, most gorgeous state ceremony, the most bewitching costume of to-.day.” It is stated that green tarlatan is dyed with arsenite of copper to such an extent as to make the handlings sewing or wearing ofit dangerous. A gentleman writing to the London Times, says four of hie maidservants, while working upon articles of this fabric;, were attacked with nausea, .bleeding ofthe nose and irritation of the wyes.' .Tarlatan ie likely to be tabooed. Jl man ont West, who owns a large farm, says be stack 9 up all the bay fee can ont of 4<jor« and ihVremainder he put* id the barn. JKCsccUang. EMESMY MORKING, DECEMBER 9, 1863. aaolUitaU A CONVERTED REBEL. The Hon.E. W. Oantt of Arkansas, a well? known citizen' of that Stale, who has served in in the Rebel army and twice beeti taken pris oner by our forces, has issued a long address to the people of Arkansas, from which wa copy as follows: “Wz are whipped—fairly "beaten. Our ar mies are melting and ruin approaches us. Will continuing this struggle help us ? Every bat tle we might gain ought to wring tears from, the hearts of Southern men 1 We are just that much weaker, that, much nearer our final ruin. Anguish and sorrow and desolation meet ns whdrever we turn.' The longer the struggle the more of it. “ Don’t let yourselves be deceived with the hope that the United States will abandon the struggle. They can never do it. They have toiled end spent too much to see tho solution of the problem, and not foot up the figures. They scarcely feel the war at home. Their cities are more populous and thrifty than ever. Bor every man that dies or gets killed in battle, two emigrate to the country. Their villages and towns, their fields and country, flourish ns fresh as ever. They could sink their armies to-day, and raise new levies to crush us; and not feel it. “ How is it with us ? The lost man is in the field, hall our territory overrun, our cities gone to wreck—peopled alone by the aged, the lame and halt, and women and children ; while de serted towns, and. smoking mins, and planta tions abandoned and laid waste, meet us on all sides, and anarchy and ruin, disappointment and discontent, lower over all the land. “ lla\e no hopes from a divided North. It is on the surface —scarcely goes to tbe bottom of their politics, much less shaking the great masses of their determined people, llemem her, too, that much of the South is with them. There is no division as far ns fighting us is con cerned. The mildest of them simply proposes peace by reconstruction. That rejected, they are to press us with redoubled energy. Let us not, after all our misfortunes and blunders, construe the struggles between politicians fur place into sympathy for (lurches. But how could they propose peace? Who would bring I tie message ? To w hum would it he delivered ? And should the prof be made'and reject ed, we are that much worse off for it. We must propose fur we ought to Know when we have got enough of the thing. “ I am «sk*d if Mr. Lincoln’s Emancipation proclamation will stand. It you continue the hti uggle, certainly. He has the physical force at his d ; sposal to carry it out. If you cease now, you mnv nuve all in your hand**, or com promise on gradual emancipation. But let, 1 beseech you, the negro no lunger stand in the way of i he happiness und safety of friends and kindred. “The changes of sentiment upon this ques tion in the South have been curious. Not many years since, it was by nu means unusual fur the press and public men, as well as for the people generally, in the South, that tdavery wa* an evil, and regret that it should ever h-ive existed : expressing, however, no disposition or desire to be rid of it. Yet, a few years more—the demand for c ‘tton having in creased, the price nf negroes having advanced, and the agitation of the slavery question having increased in viiulencc —finds us defending sla very us a divine institution. VtJioic $ IttTwe, and other Southern papers and periodical?, with Senator Hammond of South Carolina, were prominent in this defense. Iheir object was to educate the Southern mind in this be lief. Such a course bus been vital to the exis tence of slavery ; -because, to concede that ne gro slavery was morally wrong, was virtually to concede the whole argument to the Abol itionists. As the controversy warmed, we be came sensitive. And so morbidly so, that the North might have threatened with \mpunity to deprive us of horses, or other property ; yet the whole South would bo ablaze if some fa natic took one negro. Such was public senti ment S mth, at tbe commencement of this most unfortunate and bloody struggle. But revolu tions shake up men’s thoughts, and put them in different channels. I have recently talked with Southern slaveholders from every State. They ore tired 1 * of negro slavery, and I believe they could make more clear money,-and live more peaceably, without than with it. As for the non-slaveholder of the South, I honestly thought the struggle was for him more than for hia wealthy neighbor —that to free the negro would reduce to comparative slavery the poor white man. I now regret, tfiut instead of a war to sustain slavery, it had qot been a strug gle at the battot-box to colonize it. This will clearly be the next struggle. “Let us, fellow-citizens, endeavor to be calm. Let us look these new ideas, and our novel po sition, squarely in the face. We fought for negro slavery. We have lost. We may have to do without it. The inconvenience will be great for awhile. The loss heavy. This, how ever, is already well nigh accomplished. Yet, behind this dark cloud is a silver lining. If not for us, at least for our children. In the place of these bondsmen will come an immense influx of people fpom all parts, of the world, bringing with them their wealth, arts and im provements, and lending their talents and sin*, ews to iDcretßS"our aggregate wealth, Thrift and trade, and a common destiny, wiH'bind us together. Machinery ic |he hills of Arkansas will reverberate - to the mbstocf machinery in 'New England, and the whirr of Georgia spin dles will meet responsive echos upon the slopes of the far-off Pacific. Protective tariffs, if needed, will stretch in their influences from the Lakes; to the Guff, .and from ocean to ocean, bearing alike, at least, equally upon Arkangian and Vermonter, and upon Georgian and Cal ifornian. ' Difference of section ahd local senti ihent will wear away and be-forgotten,-and the next- generation he more bumogenoua and united than any since the ‘days of the .Revolu tion. And the descendants of those bloody times, will read, with aa ,much .pride and little jealousy, of these battles of their fathers, is tlio English and Scotch absdendsnts^of-the heroes of Floddeb-6»l<t read of vteif wetttal. achievements in-itbe glowing lines of Scott, or. as the descendant* of highland and lowland chiefs, to their fathers conflicts in the simple’strains of the rustic Burns. , “Lei us five in hope; my ‘ grief-stricken brother, that the day is not' far distant when Arkansas will rise from the ashes of her deso lation to start on a path of higher destiny than with negro slavery she ever could have reached-: while the reunited government, freed from this cankering sore, will be more vigorous and powerful, and-mpre thrifty, opulent and happy than' thongh the soorge of war had never des olated her fieldB,;ormade sorrowful herhearth stonjesi • , ... “ The sooner we lay down our arms and quit this hopeless struggle, the sooner our days of prosperity will return. “ I hesitated long,'my fellow-citizens, before I determined to issue this address. I dislike to be abused and slandered. But, more than all, dislike to live under a cloud with those friends who have not yet reached my stand-point. And, besides, all f possess is in the Confeder ate lines. Their leaders will deprive my family of slaves, home, property —debts due me—in a word, reduce them from competence and! ease to penury. Aside from what I-have in side the Confederate lines, I could not pay fori the paper this address is written upon. But it; may all go. Did I desire future promotion, t and could bring my conscience to it, 1 would! do, like the Johnsons; safe from bullets and 1 hardships themselves, they assist in bolding you on to this hopeless nhd ruinous struggle, and, at the end of the conflict,- will come hack and say, “Island j rith you to the last! Honor mt and mine I” God deliver me from snoh traitors to humanity, and to the interests of our bleeding people 1 To me the path of duty is plain. It is to lend my feeble aid to stop this useless effusion of blood. And, though it beg gar my family, and leave me no ray of hope fur the future, I shall follow it. 41 1 have witnessed the desolation of the Southern States from one end to the other. This hopeless struggle but widens it. Each day makes now graves, new orphans, and new mourners 1 Each hour flings into this dreadful whirlpool more of wrecked hopes, broken for tunes and anguished hearts! The rich have mostly fallen. The pour have drunk, deep of the cup of sorrow, while surely, und not slow ly, the tide of min, in resistless cepe towards the middle chases 1 3 A f-w more campaigns and they will form a part of the general wreck ! Each grave und each tear, each wasted fortunejind broken heart, puts u that much further off from the object of the struggle, and that much further off from peace and happiness. ‘‘Viewing it thus, the terrible question was presented to me, as to whether I should con tinue my lot in .an enterprise so fruitless and so full of woe, and help hold the mas-c.- of the people on to this terrible de-pctisni of Dau-, where only ruin awaits 4 them, whether I should he a quiet observer of it ail, or lastly, whether i should assist in saving the remnant of you from the wreck. “ 1 have chosen the hitter. I*h ill send this addiess to every - hill and corner of the St n« # to the citizen and soldier, at hi nn j or in p b on, and shall send with it my priuri t" Al mighty God'to arrest them in their \ atliwav of blood and rum. Why trust Davis longer? II id he’twice our resources he would soil f.u). With success he would be a despot. But the whole thing is tumbling to pieces. Soldiers are leaving disgusted and disheartened, and whole States have gone hack to their home in the National galaxy. Maryland and Delaware will never again be shaken. Kentucky has entrenched her-.cH in the Union behind a wall of bayonets in the hamb of her own stur dy sons. Missouri b as firmly set in the Na tional galaxy as Massachusetts. Tennessee, tempest-tos.-ed and bolt-men, under the guide of her great pilot, steers for her old-nioonng, and will be safely anchored before the leaves fall: while the rays of light from the old North State, flashing out fitfully from her darkness aerbss the troubled waves, shows that she stirs, is Dot lost, but is struggling to rejoin her sis ters. None of these States u*ill ever join the South again. Then, with crippled armies— with devastated fields —with desolate cities— with disheartened soldiers, and worse than all, with weak and corrupt leaders, what hope is left to the few remaining States, but especially to poor oppressed and downtrodden Arkansas ? None I Belter get our brothers home while they ore left to us. Open the way for the re- Xurh of husbands, fathers and s6ns, and bind op the broken links of the old Union. The peqple muat act to do this. 1 tell you now, in grief and pain, that the leaders don’t care for your blood. Your sufferings move them nut. The tears and wails of your anguished and be reaved ones fall on hearts ol flint! While they can make a dollar or wear an epaulette, they are content. Finally, with gjrief-stricken and sorrowful heart, I implore mothers, sisters, and daughters to nil their arts, in saving their loved ones from this terrible eoorge ere rain overtakes you and them irre trievably I While God gives me strength, daunted by no peril, and swerved by no consid eration of self, I shall give you my feeble aid ! * Hints to Parents. —Few parents realize how much their children may be taught at hopie by devqting a few minutes to their instruction ev ery day. Let n parent make a comp mom of bis child, converse with him familiarly, put to him questions, answer inquiries, communicate facts, the result 6f his reading or observation, awaken hie curiosity, explain difficulties, the meaning of things, and the reason of things— all. this in an easy playful manner, without seeming to impute a task, and lie be astonished at the progress which will be •made. The experiment is soisimple that none need hesitate about its performance. j“Wßi.p, Sambol; how do you like your new place?” ; “Oh berry well;-massa.”* “What.did you| have for. breakfast this mor ning?” Why, you rojsseshiled throe eggs „fojt herself An d ;g^j} ; nie de bro|f.’', •“ UitiNiSs Wavehfl^kloW' - j".--i [ ‘ L • Rates of Advertising, Advertisements will be charged $1 per square of 10 lines, one or three insertion*, end 2it eemirtcr avcry subsequent Adverfiecmeiitapl less than 10 lines considered as a square. The .subjoined rates will bo charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and-Yaarty advertisements; 1 Square,;.. 2 do* 3 . 'do.: ... - . . ,v.„ j jXl 4 Column,.. 8,00 9,50 12,50 4 do 15,00 20,00 26,00 1 do. 25.00 35,00 40,00 Advertisements not having the number of inter* tions .desired marked upon them, will bo published until orderoiTout and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, BilLlfeads, Letter Hinds, anti all kinds -of Jobbing done in country establishments executed neatly and promptly. Justices’, Constable's and other BLANKS, constantly on hand. NO. 16 [From Dennett’s Herald, Not. 6,] A VOICE FROM HELL. One of the most beautiful stories of Holy Writ is that of the temptation of Jesus, St; Matthew tells as that Jesus was led by the Spir it into the wilderness, and there the tempter came to him, but was repulsed and rebuked. “ Again,” says St. Matthew, “ the Devil taketli him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sbeweth him all the kingdoms of. the world, and the glory of them, and saith unto him, Alt these will I give tbeo if thou wilt fail down and worship me. Then saith Jesus onto him, Get thee hence, Satan; fur it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy-God. and him only sbalt thou serve. Then the Devil leaveth him, end, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.” Nearly .nineteen centuries after this wonder ful event we hud this same Satan, in the form; of a Brooklyn parson, troubling the world as he troubled Jesus upon the mount. His tail and his horns are concealed beneath the nppar- 1 rel of the period ; but his infernal spirit is as evident as ever. He has caused wars and con-, fusion, through the agency of this Brooklyn -parson and other parsons of thafstamp, in this chosen lend, which was once the most happy, - the most peaceful and the most powerful upon the face of the earth. Now, incarnated in the . body of Beecher, he has crossed the Atlantis and is trying to set ell England by the ears. Selfishly speaking, we wish him suoess. While he is busy there, we may posaiUy be able to repair damages here. Satan is a hard worker ; but he is not omnipotent, and cannot raise the devil in more than one country at a lime, if God and good men are working against him. England has been tampering with etil. for a long while past, and deserves all that Sa- I tan'can give her. While she is in agony we may he permitted to escape. It fellows, there fore, that England's extremity will be our op portunity, and that the ti-il of Satan to Lon-'' i don will aid the Union cause. Mr. Beecher is a true .satanic parson. Uis Christianity in a satanic humbug. Ills church Ir a satanic church. Uis followers are follow ers of Satan. Ilia disciples go to a eatanio school, lie offers them the political woild and the glory of it if the? will full diwn and wor ship him and his master, lie is nor,.-indeed, the l>e\i 1 himself. That honor is resencd for Wemhll Phillips. But the Devil pusse>°s him, tr-ivels with him and actuates him. The Devil hc-tows upon him that moving eloquence, that astonishing command °f language, that ability to raise a row at any moment and in any place, for which hi- admirers give him so much cred it. This explains his supeiiority as a diplo mat to th»- \\ i k<-ff, Jew it and Weed, and even to his Grace Archbishop These j.'*rs*-nag«‘R have been to Europe; but they iKvi.mplislod Ut'le or nothing, because they did not h.ive the D< \;l with tfotn. Some of them were accompanied by Mammon, oth ers by Mummery ; hut none u! them had the realD*ul. Beecher unduub’edly has. lie de tided a hide imp of Satan to manage his week ly paper during his absence, and took the gen uine Lucifer as his traveling c mipaniun. Ilia mlu-nt in England was mark-d by an earth .quake. Ihs speech produced a mrral 1 earthquake. If lie does not involve the Brit i"h i.-les in Pome tremendous disaster before his return, it will be because tin* English are tin* itiii-l luck? people upon the globe. One of the daily organs of Satan in this city ascribes to the Satanic parsons “ intense pas sion,” “ marvelous power of and ; “great flexibility,” These are Satanic qualities,’ The Organ aNo describes him as coatending with “a raging sea” of opposition—“ now soaring to overcome it, now sinking to’under mine Jr, now dashing in its teeth.” This is precisely the Satanic style of warfare. We, in (-or kindness of heart, have previouelyi spiken of Parson Beecher’s “ pluck.” It—is Satanic pluck which knows no fear because it has noth ing to lose and -everything to gain. Milton praise* Satan for the some quality. The Lon don Times says (hut Beecher appealed tor En glish sellUhneps. It is this human weak ness which §at»n generally plays upon, and this is the chord he attempted to touch when he offered Divinity all the kingdoms of this • world. Now are the fruits of Person Beecher’s efforts unworthy of this satanic inspiraation. He and such as be have wasted an ocean of blood already in their hypocritical defence of the rights of the black race. Desolate homes, widow’s tears, theories of poor orphafis and the lamentations of mothers will be his welcome when he again sets foot upon our shores. They, are his triumphs. He has assisted in causing them. Kay, he has done so under the of religion, and philanthropy, and has thus added a new leaf Ito his blood-stained laurels. Every one may serve Satan if he will; but it is not every one who can serve him as Parson Beech er docs, in the* livery of God. Still, in spite of all this,- we have hopes that the visit of the satanic parson to England will help the Union cause. Indeed this could scarce ly he otherwise,; for, by a providential arrange ment, Satan continually.trips himself op; his schemes wjrk against each other, and tire evil he does’ in one place counteracts the evil in another. Sn it will doubtless be with Parson Beecher. Uis visit has injured England a great deal, and may breed ..revolutions fthere; but all this will prevent foreign Intervention in our uffuirs and allow us to settle matters in our own way. Thus it is that the satanic par son in England helps to undo the work of the satanic parson in America. The Gihls,— The English pirl spends more than half her waking hours in physical amuse ments, which tend to devaljpo, invigorate and ripen the bodily powers. She rides, Walk?, drives nnd rows upon the water, rnns, dunces, plays, rings, jumps the rope, (brows the ball, hurls the quoit, draws the -how, keeps- up the shuttle-cock and rH this, without having it pressed forever upon- her mind , that she is thereby wasting her time. She doss (his every day, until it i becomes a habit which sbe.iriU follow up through life,. Her frame, ass natural consequence, is large,. her .muscular , system is in better subordination, bos strength more srtdinri»g>i4tt4 tb»;<nd><ddi taaef ofchse: tfoice healthier. 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