RATES OF ADVERTISING.
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STEINWAY' S PIANOS,
MBLODBONS, VIOLINS, OHITABS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, itccordcoua,
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PHOTOGRAPH PRAISERS. ALBUMS,
Large Pier and Mantle littnori, square and Oval Frames
of every description made to order. lieguilding dons.
Agency for Howe's Sewing Machines.
I:Er Sheet Muds sent by Mail. ostl-/
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to hie customers and the public at
nov22) MODERATE PRICES. dtf
W. HARRY WILLIAMS ,
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C,X.LEILITIE , AGENT ,
402 WALNUT STENST,
P JILL ..4.13 A* L P HI A .
General Olaims for Soldiers proipptly collected, State
Claims adjusted, Am, fac. mar2o-dlm
SMITH & EWING,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
THIRD STREET, Harrisburg,
Practice in the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. A. 0. RUTH,
J. B. SWING.
- r COOK ) Merchant Tailor )
ts 27 CHENNTIT ST., between Second and Front,
Rae Just returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES AND VESTINGS,
Which will be sold at moderate prime and made up to
order, and, also, an assortment of EMMY MAIM
Clothing and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goads.
nortl-lyd
DENTISTRY.
B. L ELM, B. B. S.,
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ZBY & KUNKEL'S EMIDENG, UP STAINS.
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TRACT AND SLNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORT I
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Depot fortheasle of Eitereoseopes,Stereoupopialrlaws,
binds sast finial Instruments. Also, subscription'
taken for religions publications. noBo4y
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FASHIONABLE
CARD WRITER,
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All Twiner of VITS/77/fG, WE RD .TNIV AND 8T1.51-
YESS CARDS germinated an the most artistic styles sea
most reasonable terms. - deel44ltS
'UNION HOTEL,
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HARRISBURG, PA.
The undersigned informs the public that he has re
etetly renovated and refitted his well-known " Union
ildirl" on Ridge avenue, near the Round House, and is
prepared to accommodate citizens, strangers and travel
ers in the best style, at moderate rates.
His table will be supplied with the beet the =abets
afford, and at his her will be found superior brands of
liquors and malt beverages. The very beat accommo
dations for railroaders employed at the shops in this
vicinity. falt dtfj HENRY BOSTGRN.
F RA'NKLIN HOUSE,
DA.ITIMORN, MD.
Ibis pleasant and oononodions Hotel has been tho
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
altuatad on North-West corner of Howard and Nraaddin
streets, slew doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. Nrery attention paid to the comfort of his
guests. G. LNIEGINRING, Proprietor,
(Late of paling Grove. Pik.)
THEO. F. SOHEFFER,
Rom CARD AND JOB PRINTEII
to. is messier STREET, HARRISBURG.
er Particular attention paid to printing, ruling and
al::of Railroad Blanks, lbsdfests, Insur ance Pen
&o.
Wedding, Vidting and Business Cards printed at very
tow prim in the best style. Ann
R OBERT SNODGRASS ;
ATTORNEY A T LAW,
Office North Third street, third door above Mar
ket, Harrisburg, Pa.
N, D,—reindon, Bounty and Military claims of all
Rinds pronecated and collected.
Refer to Rona. John O. Kunkel, David Mumma, 3r.,
and R. A. lamberton. my11.41/twem
WM. H. MILLER,
R. E. FERGUSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW:
OFFICE IN
SHOEMAKER'S BUILDINGS
SECOND STREET,
BETWEEN WALNUT and MARKET SQUARE,
apdawkd Nearly opposite the Buehler &nee.
T HOS. C. MAODOWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Price in the Exchange, Walnut at., (Up Stairs.)
Raring formed a connection with parties in Wash
ington City, wino are reliable business men '
any busi
ness connected with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful attention. m 6-7
Dit
- C. WEICHEL,
SURGEON AND 061:11.07,
RESIDENCE 'MAD NAAR NORTH STRUT.
He Is wow tally prepared to attend promptly to the
ditties of profession in all its brandies.
A 1.010 AID ULL 1111 00o881D1. 1111.010/11.2222113310 1
him iD promiebas fall and le satisfaction to
bliwbgHWAY thaltitkOull,betkediseaseOhronli
or mu otter nature. mlB-dawlY
TAILORING.
OFO. . 33C. Ma la lar 3EC
The subscriber is ready at PO. 94, ALLICKET
four doors below Fourth street, to ma k e
HEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING
any desired style, and with skill and promptness.
Parsons wishing cutting done can hare it done at the
lhorteet notice. sP27-dly
CHARLES F. VOLLMER,
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street, four doors above Second,
(Oproarrs WASHINGTON NM HOUGS7)
Is prepared to furnish to order, In the very beet style of
workmanship, Spring and flair Mattresses, Window Onr.
tains, Lounges, and all other articles of in Ms
r ice , on short notice sad moderate terunt, Ita=nex
patience in the bushman, he feels warranted In g a
share of patio patronage, readout of his ability to give
satisfaction. jan27-4111'
MILITARY CLATMS AND PEN
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The andersigned her, entered into on ansoriation for
the cutlasses of Malan Midas and the securing of
Penstoos for sounded and disabled soldiers.
Mader-in end Mnster-ent Rol* officers) Pay Rolle,
Ontimines sad Clothing returns. and all papers pertain
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orpedicriudy
Me In Ike Ixokenge Buildings, 'Walnut between
cmigua and Third streets, sear Omitis Hotel. Harris
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HARRISBURG, PA:, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1863.
titl atrid
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MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 186 g.
GROSS INE9UALITIES OF TER DRAFT.
The following from the Albany Arguiwill
be read with interest, beoause it is true, and
exhibits the rascality ,:f the Administration
(through its provost marshals and enrolling
officers) by figures, which cannot lie. The
same villainy is practiced as well in this State
and every other as in ,New York. The object
is to drain the country of Depocrats by con
scription, so as to render the success of the
Abolitionists in the State electionacertain and
.
easy. Says the Argue:
a It is fast becoming apparent why the en
rollment of citizens for the draft has been con
cealed from the people. The inequalities are
so gross tk , t they can , only be accounted for
upon the theory of deliberate fraud. IL is not
an error that draws one in ten of the electors
of a Republican district, and one out of two of
the electors in a Demociatic district. Yet the
inequalities of the,draft range as wide as this ;
and in all cases favor the RepubliOns, and fall
with exaggerated severity upon Demoorats.
"But a portion of the demands on the dis
tricts have been made known to 'the State au
thorities ; but as far as learned they reveal
evidence of gross partiality.
In the 27th congressional district (Steuben,
Cheniung, Allegheny) the Republican 'majority
in 1862 was over 5,000, the total vote cast
being 25,832, the number apportioned to be
dratted is 2,419. In the 4th district (New
York) B. Wood's the total vote cast was 12.,363,
the number of men to be tirafted is 5,.981, or
nearly fitly per. cent.
~ in , aiDemooratic district
to overballanee about ten.per cent. in a Repub
lican district."
[The other districts are taken up by the Ar
am', and ti'e same fraud in favor of the Aboli
tion party is shown to be poetized in each of
them. Then the Argus proceeds :1
"The voting population and the arms-bear
ing population are nearly alike in , the dis
tricts ; and their proportions are probably
equal.
"It will be seen that the numbers called
upon front the districts vary from 1,707 to
5,881; and the average draft from Republican
districts is about 2,000, while the call upon
Democratic districts is 5,000.
"This is not the mere discrepancy of error.
It is an organic difference, indicating symte
matte fraud, and operating as the most oppres
sive injustice.,
"In all cases of taxation upon property, a
uniform rate of assessment, an equal rule of
valuation, and a public access to the tax lists
are deemed essential elements of fairness.—
A government that should refuse those re
quests would arouse the indignation of the
people.
"In every civilised - government the electoral
lists are protected by the same guarantees of
publicity, by the right of inspection, the lib
erty of challenge, and the opportunity of cor-;
recti on.
" "In this assessment upon human life, in this
election to death, should there not be equal
publicity, and the same guarantees of fair
ness ?
"The character of the administration affords
no such guaranty. Every department has been
characterized by the most glaring, long con
tinued and unpunished frauds. Falsehood is
an avowed agency of administration. The War
Department suppresses facts and forges bulle
tins. Burnside, under the dictation of the
Cabinet, builds up his usurpations upon the
grossest of false pretences. Who will believe
that a concealed draft will be fair in such
hands, wheat all else is unfair ? Who, with the
evidence that ha's been wrung from unwilling
officials, will believe that the gross discrepan
cies of the draft were not deliberately devilled
with full consciousness of their irregularity
and injustice?"
[Communicated]
CAMP CURTIN Aug. 6, 1863.
Editor': Patriot and Union .
GENTLEMEN :-A private in the ranks is not
expected to possess .any of the mental attri
butes of the man. He is not allowed to speak
or write, nor indeed to think about anything
that concerns his comfort, his personal welfare,
or the interests of his country, if his reflections
should run counter to those of his superiors—
the shoulder strap gentry, known by courtesy
as officers. The man—the private—is a piece
of machinery, moving at the will of those who
wear the badges of rank, and (in too many
instances unworthily) carry commissions in
their pockets. I speak now with particu
lar reference to a class of officers—popin
jays, who delight in gold tinsel" and bras
trappings, flourish a showy steel "toad-sticker,"
which they never use against the enemy, de
light in long furloughs, the society of ladies
who, like moths, are "caught by glare," and
only come from their snug retreats to oteim the
honors of victory after it has been won by the
sturdy courage of the privates and those few
gallant and deserving officers who prefer the
field of glory, with all its dangers and hard
ships, to bar-room society, or the softer en
chantments of the drawing room or boudoir.
This popinjay class of officers is very numerous
and a great curse to the country.
The delayewhich unjustly - complained of—
our lack of success—everything, in short, which
has gone wrong with the army, is mainly at
tributable to a want of unanimity of sentiment
among officers and men, a lack of fixedness of
purpose and determined action on the part of
the administration, which lies its periodical
hysterical paroxysms, when the enemy are upon
us, threatening Washington, but subsides into
inactivity as soon as the "emergency" is over.
The opprobrium of the war has been the ap
pointment of unprincipled, incompetent, inef
ficient officers, who strut the streets of our
cities and great towns in all the vein glory of
turkey gobblers. These fellows belong to the
school of Falstaff, that illustrious sample .of
military &laity, official importance and self
indulgence: They keep their courage up to
the running point with "sack" or "hospital
water," drawn fromthe black long-necked.bot
dee in the flanitary stores, sent by mother!,
wives, daughters and sisters for the benefit and
comfort of their loved ones suffering from sick
ness or wounds. These affectionate relatives
and charitable friends never dreamed, when
for Warding their stores of wines; fruits and jel.
lies, that they were painpering the depraved
appetites, and furnishing the means to fuddle
the brains of officers more devoted to whisky
than to the sick and wounded. Yet such is the
fact. These men,these commissioned and epau
letted officers of the government, revel in the
luxuries sent to our hospitals for the relief of the
suffering, leaving
the poor private, wounded,
weak and "fainting by ,the way," and tram
pled under foot by the advancing army, or
lying with a parched, fetferish brow, on a
lonely hospital cot, far from the loved ones , at
home, and in hie fitful, delirious dreams imagi
ning his dear mother, wife or sister gently
smoothing his Pillow, and with angel whisper
ings calling him where .there will be no more
wars or rumors of wars.
There has been, ever since the rebellion
broke out, a systematic course of robbery and
oppression of the private soldier, rapping
through, all ranks of commissions. The Com
missary General and Government contractor
takes his tithes; thea comes the brigade and
regimental commissaries, and quartermasters,
for theirs;, and last, but not least in impertance
to the hungry, tired, war-worn private, is • the
company grub boss, w,lio draws full rations for
a full company, regardless of absentees, dis
pensing to each mesa the smallest possible ra
tion 'of salt horse and government pies, made
of middling flour and dried in the sun. The
balance he sells for his personal benefit or
trades off for morning bitters for himself and
the officers, who also draw their rations from
the company, taking all the prime cuts, not
forgetting, however, to draw full posy on pay
day. They are frequently served by gevern
ment-paid-clothed-and-fed-cooks, regardless of
the Army Regulations, which is a contraband
book to the ranks, they knowing well that it is
'only by keeping the men ignorant of their
rights that they can possibly hope to continue
their Course of oppression and petty robbery.
I am glad to say there are honorable exceptions
among those in command—men who are trying
to do their duty both to their country and the
'men under their authority ; and it is to this
redeeming leaven we are looking with longing
hearts to the time when, through their influ
ence, there will. be a regeneration of the army,
a general culling out and casting into obscu
rity of the petty tyrannical officials whose only
service 'has been to embitter the feelings of the
bone and sinew of our army, the musket bearer,
by ordering cruel and arbitrary punishments
for trifling offences, while they are daily doing
a thousand times worse, stealing the soldiers'
grub and drinking the hospital water.
Many persons at home have an idea that
playing soldier is fine fun—plenty to eat and
nothing to do. They have had the positive
assurance _of the officers that their eons and
brothers will be taken good care of by them;
that they shall never want for anything, which
promise is forgotten as soon as the sound of
the parting good-bye dies away in the distance,
while visions of short grub and the guird
house begin to assume portentous proportions.
Many, of our home-staying patriots will lash
themselves into a mighty military fever while
making a fighting declamation in some village
school house,urging their neighbors and friends
to shoulder their muskets and march to the
defence of our invaded hearths, and with an
old ,drum and cracked fife marching boldly
through the town, enlisting all who love the
pomp and circumstance of war—disinterested
lovers of their country and not a few, whose
stomachs need tapping to let out their extra
load of patriotism and .white whisky. But
when they come to march, the blathering fire
side warier is not among them—!te is non eat
inventus; hie business will not allow of his ab
sence, and hie wife •won't let him go ; he'll
wait for the draft and buy a`three hundred
dollar nigger substitute. Three hundred dol
lars is as good as any poor man, even if he is
one of Fedor Abraham's Coop, pets. Why
should le go fighting, endangering his life or
limbs for that paltry sum ; there are plenty of
poor deiila that haven't a red," let them go,
they had no business to be born poor. It is
high tine for us to awake to a sense of our
eituatisin to avoid the vortex of 'destruction
to which our mad policy is hurrying us with
fearfulvelocity. It is only by a union of all
classesi of the community, a fixed determina
tion toletand by the home of our fathers and
the Charter of rights they have bequeathed us—
the Colditution of the United States—that we
can evor hope to again become a free and uni
ted pedple, with the freedom of speech and of
the Hes forever guaranteed to us.
I remain, &e..
FREEDOIII.
There Seems to be in Richmond a little of
that ittolerance and insolence which buds in
the NW York press, blossoms in that of Phila
delphia, and bursts into full flower at Wash
ingtot. The Richmond Enquirer advises Davis
to suppress a North Carolina paper which ad
vomits reunion. Davie may not be so good as
Lincoln, in fact he may be as bad as any Re
publiian thinks him ; but he has brains. He
know; perfectly well the character of the peo
ple aid the principles they believe in. He will.
leaveto Burnside the suppressal of newspapers,
and tb Lincoln the treason of silence and the
monstrous infamy of ff ifs, ands, and buts." He
is ten times more likely to do what Frederick
the Great did. That king was walking the
street and came upon a crowd about a placard.
He stopped and read. It was a tissue of gross
libel, upon himself. He called a soldier, "Put
that PlaCard s little lower; so that the people
can teed it more conveniently," said he, and
passid on. Secure in the esteem of his people,
he soiled contemptuously at all efforts to injure
him. l
The sensitiveness which the Republicans be
tray* any imilb in a paper, at any discussion
of constitutional law, at any denunciation of
its palpable and repeated violations, is clear
evidpnce that their party rests tot on the con
victiene of the community, but on the terror
ism it Can exercise. Why was the last election
in Delaware held under bayonets ? Why wee
Kentucky canvassed and its rills held under
the Yoke ? Shiply because the Administra
tion was afraid of results. When the war first
broke out, and , the Administration pursued the
tenor of a constitutional way, we heard of no
opposition. But it chose to leave the easy,
safe course, and oatrage every principle of lib
erty, and having made an opposition necessa
ry., now treats it as an offense. A. man might
with as much Justice knock a stranger down,
and then curse him for groaning. Whatever
the other faults of the rebel President, he has
not intimated that opposition to his views is
disloyalty, nor affection for the rebel constitu
tion. a crime. It was reserved for the party
which shouted free speech to treat free speech
as an offense, to sapress discussion, and to
imprison "at caprice hintdreds against no one of
*ham his it dared to proceed before a jury.
The Republicans cry means, no rights to the
white, freedom but conscription for the black.
World.
Thera seems to be a growing desire among
the riclupart of the community for a strong
goeernment. By a strong government they
-understand one which keeps a large army and
navy, which has centralised power, whiob med
dles with the
. pursuils cf industry, and inter
feres with the ordinary habits of life. Of
course the people who . profess such ideas have
no accurate notion of the evils of
.such a gov
ernment, and, in fact, are careless of :them,
mistakenly satisfied that, whatever they rutty
be, the poor will bear the burdens and the
wealthy escape them. They forget that the
- government which is. the strongest is that
which rests on the broadest foundation. In
France three times within thirty years a very
sirong government, according to their views,
lam been overturned by violence. Charles the
Tenth attemptee to exercise the same officious
control over the press as the administration of
Mr. Lincoln actually did. Although supported
by a faithful and well-drilled army of two hun
dred thousand, three days sufficed to extinguish
the Bourbon dynasty. Louis Phillippe had an
army of four hundred thoUsand. Re, not one
half so much in violation of chartered rights
as this administration, attempted to repress the
popular expression of discon'tent peacefully
exercised. One day was sufficient to send, him
flying for his life to England, and to inaugurate
a republic. That system, administered by
theorists and visionaries, who sought to estab
lish a Utopia, vantehed in an hour. Ten days
before all these governments were snuffed out,
they were what is erroneously called strong
.governments. They were strong, but like
powerful steam-engines without safety-valves.
Stich machinery may work admirably for a
time, but they must blow up.sooner or rater.
Our government was like a pyramid ; it rested
on the interests of all the governed. Some
of the States found fault with this simple and
broad basis ; they wanted it to rest on the in
terests of a part, not on those of all: they
wanted to make it lean altogether on their side,
and the result is what we see. Not ortent
with tipping the pyramid, the minds we allude
to think it will stand better on its apex than
on its base, and are moving heaven and earth
to that end. In their notion, instead of the
government resting on the people, the people
are to rest on the government,. These ideas,
at present vague in the community, are taking
definite shape under the action of the admin
istration. In Jeremy Betham's work on falla
cies, there is one which he terms the ministe
rial fallacy : "Attack us, and you attack the
government:" - That fallacy the . administration
is cramming down the throat of the United
States at the point of the bayonet. Attack the
administration, and you attack the government.
Are 'you a Republican, you are a loyal man ;
are you a Democrat, you are a disloyal m‘m.
DJ you object to the exercise of power not
conferred by the Constitution, you are a•Sogitt.-
ern sympathizer. Do you_ hold your tongue,
there is treason in silence ; the loyal are they
only who applaud. Do you look to the great
safety-valve of discontent, the ballot-box; you
will find it surrounded by soldiers, and judges
instructed to discriminate between loyalty and
disloyalty. Do you say that you have been,
- always expect to be, and are now honestly and
heartily obedient to the Constitution • it is not
enough, you must own allegiance, 6.1(114 and
duly to something else. Do you inquire what
is that something else, so as to understand the
extent of the new obligation, no one can give
you more than • this answer : whatever the
officers of the government have done, and
y
whatever they, may think fit hereafter to do.—
And this paralysis of liberty, this abandonment
of every prbibiple of thought and action for
merly dear to the American heart, .which are
the result of little more than two.years. of Re
publican administration, seem to be accepted
by many otherwise intelligent people as a spe
cific against rebellion. In the war for the
Constitution to violate the Constitution, in a
contest for Unfelt to make Union daily more
undesirable, is a course of action which no one
of ordinary intelligence would suggest, nor
many of ordinary intelligence defend. But
always in proportion as a man reasons badly
he rages ; which will account for the fact that
our Republican friends call names and sigh for
a strong government.— World.
THREE HIINDREE DOLLAR CLAUSE.—The Abo
litionists are trying hard to make the people
believe that the three hundred dollar clause in
the conscription bill is the very beet feature
in that admirable statute, and: accuse those
who object to it of being disloyal. Thaddeus
Stevens, however, is certainly not a traitor, in
asmuch as he has always favored negro regi
ments, and believes that "John Brown's soul
is marching on," and yet be said in his speech
of February 24th :. Lilly this law every man,
whether, be has any conscientious scruples or
not, who chooses to raise $3OO and pay it into
the Treasury, may refuse to serve his country.
I do not recognize the propriety of conferring
such a right. * * I will exempt nobody, so
far as I am concerned, from serving his coun
try excepting those who are religiously oppo
sed to that mode of doing it. The rich man
who has no conscientious scruples, in my judg
ment, has no more right, when he is drafted,
to refuse to go and fight the enemies of his
country, than the poor man who cannot raise
$3OO to pay for, exemption. As the bill now
stands it amounts to that."
A PRIVATE.-
Tan ESCAPE or GEN. 'LEE —A Washington
correspondent of the Boston Commonwealth
says •The escape of Lee from the nerveless
grasp. of the Army of the. Potomac. is Still, of
course the theme of all tongues in the capital.
It need hardly be said that on , all hands it is
regarded as the greatest blunder of the war. Such,
indeed, were the precise words of Hr. Lincoln un
reservedly applied to it. The Vice President was
more emphatic ; and in the heat of the excite
ment on the ground, he declar,ed that this alone
threw the war into another year.
[What . a terrible pother they must have been
in, poor souls. Why don't they remove Meade
and try Fremont? So ire are to have another
year's war. Well, we thought so.]
MONSTER BLACK SNAILS KILLNR.--The Doy
lestown Democrat says on Thursday last while
Mr. Maury H. Shire and Henry N. Stoat, a lad
in his employ, were mowing On the old Bhive
farm in Niokamixon, the latter killed a bleak
snake whioh measured 14 feet 8 inches in
length, and over 12 inehes- in circumference.—
It attraeted much ourioskty, and was pronoun
ced the largest ever sees In that neighborhood.
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Ah ! dearest, if our tears were sba
Only for our beloved—dead
Although our Life's left incomplete,
Tears would not he so bitter, sweet,
As now !—Ah ! no.
dearest, if the friends whq die,
Alone were those who make ne sigh ;
Although Lle'tpurest is so fleet,
IffSighs would noebe to weary, sweet,-
As now !--Ah ! no
If oft more pain it did not give
To know that our beloved jive,
Than learn their hearts have ceased to beat,
Grief would pot be so hopeless, sweet,
As now !—Ah ! no.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A COURT MARTIAL. CENSURED.-It is under
stood that the court martial of which Major
General Hitchcock was President, in the case
of Resell B. Cashell, charged with furnishing
information to the enemy, returned a verdict
Of "not guilty." As the findings of the court
was not considered to be in accordance with
the teetitnony and facts, the War Departnient
issued an order dissolving the court, and se
verely censuring its members. —New York
Tribune.
That is the style, is it. The verdicts in the
case of accused persons are made up beforehand,
and.if the iebellious jury does not so find, itis
to be censured.
The English Judge Jeffreys used to swear
like a trooper at juries for not finding as he
ordered. He "severely censured" them. •
Sing peans to Stanton & Co., good folks !
Plain Dealer.
THE KENTUCKY ELECTION being over, the
order declaring martial law will now be re
voked. The votes polled, so far as we can
judge, are more than suspiciously sins% The.
way which this state has been engineered, is
patent, to all the world. Places where Wick
liff had adherents by hundreds are reporfed to
have given him three votes, fifty votes, and so
on.
Well, well ; we admire the pluok of the ad
ministration, and we commend to all Chris
tians the lamb-like docility of the unterrilled
(!k) Democracy. Coeur de Lion is now.Catur
de Sheep. Let us eat our pottage in peace,
and praise "God barebone" that we are per
mitted in this blessed land of liberty to enjoy
the untold beautitu4es of a republican govern
ment, State and national. We repeat it-.we
admire the way the thing is done, though we
cannot avoid humming, as refrain--. 4 It is a
long lane that has no turning."—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
THE LABOR OF GRANT.—People have been
wondering, says the New York Times, what the
ever-active, never-ceasing worker, Gen. Grant,
has been doing since the Fourth of July. • He
has not been airing his honors, nor parading
his laurels, nor blowing his trumpet—nor even,
Il
like erciles, after- the twelve labors, has he
subsided. The telegraph relietes our anxiety
for him. "Gen. Grant has perfected a complete
system of mounted patrols between Vicksburg
and New Orleans, which, with the gunboats,
afford ample protection to vessels." Thus has
this great soldier put the finishing touch to
the gigantic work which was begun by him
two years ago..
"0, dear !" exclaimed a bright girl the other
day, who had just entered the highachool, and
had to commit two pages or ancient history a
day. pity the generation of scholars who
are to come after me."
"Why 7" asited we.
“Because they will have to remember so
many more names of officers and places, dates
and battles, and numbers of killed, wounded
and missing.”
BOW TO ISOSEASE A FARM.—Rev.. S. King,
in a recent address to the California farmerb
rebukes what he calls their 'lust for immense
ranches.' He tells them that if they have fifty
acres and desire to have fifty more, theylishould
annex the fifty that lie beneath those they al
ready own, and gain their title to them by the
use of a subsoil plow. This is good advice,
applicable in all localities, as a man had better
increase his estate by thorough culture, than
by merely increaiing its superficial area.
Nobody, we venture to say, believed tntilitttnr - "
of going into the ranks. Such Mar Shrillgpfli
as Mr. Everett desire everybody else's aims to
go into the army but their own. • In thi "con
nection we have also the following:
" Wendell Phillips Garrison was among the
Boston conscripts. 118 paid his commutation
,
nuiney,"
IN LADY Mormon's memoirs a story is told
of a gentleman who was denoua cing a certain
Bishop, and concluded a violent, phillipio by
declaring that his Lordship was so beritical in
church observances that he would "eat a horse
on Ail'. Wednesday !" course he would,"
said a friend of the Bishop- 7 "a' course he
would, if it was a fast horse !"
Rom—The depth of rain that fell in July,
at Boston (not including the two last days of
thb month, on both of which it rained,) is pub-
Hobo from, the record of the rain -gauge, and
the resultrshows the astonishing amount ofl2-
inches. During a period of more than forty
years, nothing like it has been recorded.
JENNY JUNE, who is passing a. few weeks in
the country, says, "if a cow exhibits, in our
presence, the slightest preference for the side
walk, we leave it wholly to its discretion, and
take the high road as far off as is practicable."
This Quilp calls "the milk of human kind
ness."
PADDY WAS summoned to court for refusing
to pay a doctor's bill. Judge: "Why do you
refuse to pay ?" Paddy : "What for should I
pay ? Sure, did he ever give me anything but
emetics, and the niver a one could I keep in
my stomach at all, at all."
A. negro about dying, was told by his
.ter that he must forgive a certain darkey
against whom he seemed to entertain very bit
ter feelings. "Yes, yes," he replied—"lf I
dies, I forgive dat Riggs. ; but if I Bits well,
dat nigga must take car ?"
EDWARD EVERETT'S SONS NOT IN THE RANKS.
A paragraph has been going the rounds stat
ing that Edward Everett's two sons, who have
been drafted in Boston, were going into the
field. This is not the case. They both paid
the $3OO commutatioti.—Gazette.
Qum., who has an Englishman's antipathy
(though he is not an Englishman) to taking his
drink in a perpendioluar position, always takes
a chair before touching his toddy. "I can
stand drinking," says be, "but I can't drink
standing !"
Iv HAS been thought that people aro degene
rating, because they don't live as long u in
the days of Methuselah. But nobody can of
ford to live very long at the current prioei.
• Taxan is a rivalry relative to army corres
pondence in a Western city. The newspaper
that has the beet of it so far p ublishes "Let
ters from a Deceased Soldier. •
Garrison did more than any man in the coun
try to bring about the war, and now that it has
come, his sons refuse to fight in it I—Cincinnati
Inquirer.
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