trim r 1 1 i r 1 j l JLO IF. II. JACOB!, Proprietor.; Truth and Right Jod and our Country. Two Dollars per Acnnra. VOLUME 13; BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MAY 15, 1861. NUMBER 19. ATAF&nn i f i STAR OF THE NORTH PUBLISHED ITnr WXD1TXSDAT BT w. n. jambf, Office on 3IaInSt.,JrJSqnrae below Market,' TERMS: Two Dollars per annum if paid within six months from the time of 6nbscri- bing : two dollars and fifty cents if not paid ; "witnia tne jrear. ro subscription taken lor . a less period than six months; no discon Hin nances permitted until all arrearages are (paid, unless at the option of the editor. The terms of advertising will be as follows : -One square, twelve lines, three times, SI 00 Every subsequent insertion, . 25 '-One square, three months, . 3 00 "One year, . . . 8 Oo ' Choice IJoctrn. OUR UNION. ST BKLIA MCNAMCE. Ve sons ol Freedom, hear the caH, Hark ! 'tis our Union's cry ; ' Haste thee, haste thee, one and all, To ooi Country's rescue fiy ! Let the flag of our Union ware, Let the world admiring see, That, though the dangers must be brav'd Thou will light for our Country and be free Sons of Freedom, march thee on, Put forth thy noblei powers ; With faith in God, and courageneaa, The victory shall be ours ! May cowardice within thee die, May courage be instilled in thee ; $4 ay Hone be bending irom the sky, And cheer thee on to victory ! Free countrymen, defend thy rights, Be faithful ami be brave ; Let this one thought reign in thy breast, "Our Union we must save ! lint let ns hope the time is near, When all this strife shall cease; When mutual love shall move our hearts To love again in peace. THE HCSB1SDS TRAP. ST A TOCNG CLERGYMAN. I hid myself behind a log in a western swamp, waiting for ducks. Hnnters gen erally go after their game ; I prefer reading or enjoying the delightful scenery, until it comes to be shot in a regular and reasona ble way. Ducks mast be as fond of nature as of acorns and tadpoles ; the sequestered lakelet near which I was ensconced, one of their favorite resurts,being surpassingly pic inresqe. Silver gray trunks of enormous tJead trees were reflected in its surface as in polished black marble, which broken into rippling greaves of light by the purple, green, and golden drake, or the plainer, but cot less lovely duck, made too exquisite a picture to be broken by noise, unsavory smoke, blood, broken wings, and feathers. Everything round me was rich and strange, the arrowy polished tubes of the cane, the thick black vines, like anacondas, hanging s it were, from the skies; the light open iretwork of swamp foliage above, from which many birds poured forth flute-like and actually chromatic warblings; comic birds, uttering 6hort, odd-notes ; crimson and azure birds, not down in the ornitholo gies ; and mysterious woodpeckers, sound ing as if all fairy-land were carpentering. I -was resolved in my mind indeed, to take my abode in this enchanted solitude, when the discovery of an immense old hollow tump of cotton wood decided me. It was a perfect miniature palace in style, I named on the spot, the anti-arabesbue. The gnarled roots spread in triple pedestals like paws of mammoth loins, and in its knots and excresences might be discerned the faces and forms of beasts, monsters, hydras and chimeras dire. Here, beweath a roof of plaited cane and bark, I might pass my time in peace. (I was only eigh teen, and subject to terrible fits of misan thropy.) Even the winds should not dis turb my contemplation. Aquilone, Notus, Euros, Euroclyeon, the storm-wind, all are forever kepi out of the peaceful vales by the strong and stalwart cotton-wood and o&lc. The son Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hazin, may the soil lie lightly on his tomb,) re lates with infinite naivete, (may Allah ventilate bis evidence,) bow that, having determiued to lead a hermit's life, he went about searching for a suitable cave. Cer tain family considerations operated adverse ly to Mr. Hazic's design. I was not so auHonary. Hungry, I certainly was, and rny first care being to provide dinner, and sot wishing to disturb my beautiful duck pond,I searched the riverflats for wild geese. This proved, literally, a wild goose chase. As usual with game, its willingness to be shot seemed inversely as its value. Re entering the limber, : to hunt smaller ' and surer quarry, what was ray astonishment at beholding, winding along a cow-trail, a grave, orderly procession of these very wild geese following after a middle-aged severe looking woman, who was leading-them towards a clearing. "Why, madam, you seem able to bewitch those animalu. I have been trying all the morning to got within a mile of them." "Wai, my boy" she russeled round among 'em and caught these,, one way or another, "I tring 'em up ' every night to feed, on account of 'possums and coons, which 13 mighty bad among the poultry. 1 recon you're a preacher." 'Not yet" ' V" " - "I thought yon was a preacher, sure. Yoo look like one. -' You ain't a doctor ?" . "No." "Then walk in and take a chair. Sly old laanV poorly. He's stopped work ever since last fall, and tliis spring the garden was took down with kukkle burrs and dock, and me and my little girl's been cuttin' steamboat wood, but the steamboats don't run much now thar ain't been no rise these two months, Jane, drive them hogs away from the styew stew I don't know what I'll do if thar ain't no steamboat soon. I want to go up to town, bad, to git some "What is the matter with your husband?" "Fevernager." 'Fe oh, the fever and ague. Yes, I understand." "Oh. its some here thib fevernager, you'd better believe. You might almost cut it into chunks. 1 thought my old man would j a begged out last night, but he holds on wonderful." "You do not mean to say that he is dy ing?" "I don't mean to say nothing shorter. And I'm mighty sorry to lose him, loo. He cleared all this field all round back of the ' house, and them thar two fields in the bot tom. He kept iht-te acres a goin, to Joe Stebbins' one, but he warn'ta patchin' to Joe at cuttin' timber. Poor Joe ! I buried him in the fur corner of ihe turnip patch." "You buried him ?" "Married him one year and buried him the next." "What did he die of?" "Fevernager." I was shocked at the mechanical manner and facile emphasis diminishing with geo metrical rapidity toward the last sylablej with which she uttered this fearful word. "Joe warn't much at hoein, but he could knock the spots out of things, with an axe. Ha could cut more steamboat wood in one day than Bill Sparks could in a week." "And who was Rill Sparks?" asked I, with a dread presentment. "Bill was a husband of mine, too. He had money, Bill had, and he rented two forties of upland, and bought four head ol cattle. Yonder's two of them, now. I'm going to take 'em up on the next boat, to swap for groceries." " Did Mr. Sparks die, too ?" "Now, you don't think I'd a gone and got married, and him alive ? Of course he died. He was took down sudden, ketchin' drift-wood. My boy ran home about him, and went down with Jane, and we packed him ;o the house, and made him as com fortable as we could ; but it warn't no use." "Fever and ague, I suppose?" "Fevernager? You'd a said so, if you'd seen him shake. I gave him all the qui nine there was in the kubbard, and hen sent Jane to Mr. Skeggs' to bring al! the quinine he bad, and his hymn-book. He went ofT peaceable, and his last words was, 'where's Jimmy ?" "Meaning your little boy ?" "No ; Jimmy Sands, my husband before him. They had been great friends and I think poor Billy must have seen his sperrit, for the owls was whooping awful that night. Them two mules in the cabbage-path was Jimmy Sands,' and that thar mare, whose head is poken' out o' the corn-crib, is the same mare he married me off from." "Married you from off horseback ?" "Well, you'd a said so if you'd seen us. It was when I lived down to Stony, at the crossin,' with Sal. Sal, she heard some one a ho llerin and shakin' the gate one night, and thinking it was jist some stranger wantir. to git to staysail night, she never minded ; but the noise kept on so, that at last she poked her head out o' the dividing and asked what was wanting." "Are they any young gals here , as wants to get married ? I'm goinT down to the riv er bottom, I am, to live in the timber. I've got a mare and a mule, and lots of traps, and don't ask nothin' in return but plain cookin' and kerrect behavior." "Jane," says Sal, "what do you say ?" "Sez, 1, I'm willin', but I can't be mar ried without a preacher." , "He says there's a preacher out there with him."' "Ask him if ilV Mr. Skeggs ; I won't be married by nobody but Mr. Skeggs." "Yes, it's him." "Well, I struck a light , and put on my Sunday dry-goods mighty ' quick. Sal, she carried out a frying-pan of grease with a rag for a candle, "and we woke up Sal's uncle, old man Solomon, and so I got mar ried. Jim and I had to jine hands, and he on the mare ; he couldn't git down on ac count of the furniture and things bein' hitched all round him." "Bnt is this Mr. Skeggs a regular clergy, man ?" "Oh, reglar built. He and Jimmy met together at the crossing and it was him re ommended me. He got a sight of tin for the job, tool" "A large sum, was it?" "It wan't in money; it was tin cups Jimmy paid him with. Jimmy peddled tin cups round the country, and had two dozen left. Mr. Skeggs put 'em round his neck in a string, and we heard 'em rattle' on the prarie a mile off !'' ' "Well madam, I "did have some idea of living down in the bottom myself, but" "Down in the bottom ! . What, among those ponds of water? I see you livin' there ! A pound of quinine a minute wouldn't keep yoa alive two days ! If yon want a good buildin' lot, there' my two forties, I'll sell 'em cheap-a dollar and a half an acre." "I am not certain, after what yoa have related, that I could lire long, even in the uplands." ; "Not without you was used to it. Some can stand it, and some can'u . Now there's an old gentleman on- toJow?ij' tJLiM-K might stand it a couple o' year 'anyhow, Squire Spring. I reckon you know him , he's got a splendid wagon and team, and, they do say, he's got a hundred "head o' hosts. You never heard, did von?'' Cou'ld the woman possibly mean to com- ! , j . m pass the deliberate murder of Squire Spring? I wanted nothing farther to hasten my de parture. . The shades of evening were falling fast' the owl had already began to utter his long- drawn, frighfnl cry, a mingled whoop and howl, and reciving a few general directions as to my nearest way to A, 1 rapidlj ' left my newly chosen resjdence to rearward debating within myself whether or no it' was mydnty to inform the authorities of! the existence of this horrible husband trap, - - - - -i ' Tone of the Southern Press. The news from the North, as it gradually works its way down to the South, provokes expressions of violent resentment. The The spleen of the rebels at. the discovery of the sudden change of sentiment among their former supporters produce some cu rious effects. A NEW VIEW OF FORT PICKENS. j The reinforcement of Fort Pickens dis- pleases the Cofederates. They don't like the act, nor the way in which it was done. It was unpleasant for General Bragg to cease bragging and turn his back upon Lieutenant Slenimer but it had to be done. his "n'ng gear was given over to rheu The only consolation that is left to the reb- m&tism and gout, said all was "vanity and els is this we find it in the Mobile Adosr- i vexation of t-pirit." Solomon couldn't tiser : j whistle. If he could have puckered his "The Lincolnitish army on Santa Rosa1 J'P8 into a vent-hole for a regulaj whistle, Island will have an extra acreeable time he never coulJ h&ve Mt so unconscionably this summer, and we do no: think that President Davis need trouble himself to run them off. There is a volunteer and i gratis soldiery peculiar to tho clime that are whetting their weapons for the assault. These are the mosquitoes and sandflies, which i will effectively attack the Lincolnites. in utter contempt of their Fort Pickens and their 6and redoubts. Threy do not care for Columbiads or rifled cannon, but rush on to the attack regardless of danger, and are worse than any one of the seven plagues of Egypt. We can assure the Lincolnites who expect summer watering place experiences on Santa Rosa Island that they will be glad II be lad- ly willing to exchange the unremitting an noyance of these plagues for the excitement and danger of a regular bombardment There is no place on the face of the uni verse where mosquitoes and sandflies are more pesiilently atrocious than on Santa Rosa I-land." Moreover, they are to be alhirst. The AJvtrtner adds : "We pitty those eighty horses of the fly ing artillery, as the poor creatures are not to blame. There is no green thing for them to eat, they will be on allowance of water and soon be tormented to death by the in- , sects. We do not know that a more ingeni ously cruel warfare could be pracliied upon the Lin:olnits than allowing them to maintain '. their camp on Santa Rosa Island for the summer. They would beg us to come and whip them away before the summer was : over." A WAIL OVER GENERAL SCOTT. I The same paper regrets that General Scott has made up his mind to fight against the South. It says ; j "We did not expect, nor in truth did we , desire, his active co-operation with our ar mies bnt we did hope that at least he ', would retire with dignity from the head of the Lincoln army, and refuse to lend them either countenance or support in the war which that government has so unnecessa rily and flagitiously provokeJ. We desired this quite as much for his sake as for our owu." WORE CUT OUT FOR THE NEW YORK SEVENTH The Mobile Resister (John Forsyth's pa per) indulges in this paragraph t "A New York paper says: New York loves the Seventh. It has distilled all its . best blood in it. We are glad of it, for it ; will meet the best blood of the South in : and around Washington. This city Mo ; bile has just sent forth four hundred of the flower of its youth to the same field of j struggle. Not a hireling among them, but . our brave brothers and 6ous, who have left homes and comfort friends and peace be - bind, to fight lor liberty of their people and honor of their flag. The North will fight this war with hired troops, the scum of her cities and rural districts, made starving by its war upon the South. We rejoice that New York has sent one corpt of 'its best blood ' For every life of our youth sacrificed, the loss of ten northern ruffians would be no equiva lent." A NEW FRIGHT AT THE SOUTH. A letter to the Mobile Register, dared at Shopiere, Wisconsin, on the 18th of April, develops a plan lor invading the South, whereat the Register becomes valiant and somewhat frightened. The following is the correspondent's story of the plot of the invaders : "Their plan of operation is as follows : Five or six hundred men will meet at the place of rendezvous in Kansas, somewhere near the mouth of the Pawnee fork of the Arkansas river. Some three or four of the leaders will proceed to Pike's Peak to drum up what additional recruits they can there. They will then return to the place of ren dezvous and take up their line of march to the irontier of Texas, where they hope to stir the Indians to .hostilities, and with their aid they intend to carry on the work of plunder in that section. - "The object of the expedition is thatof of land piraes. who will endeavor to ad vance their own pecuniary interests under the present distressed condition of the coun try. They intend to commence operations about the tenth of May. The other portion of the company intend to carry on their op erations somewhere along the west coast of Florida. I have not been able as yet to as certain the exact place ol operations of the last wing of the company, but I have found out this much : they are fitting out a vessel at Boston they will clear from that port with a load of ice, a:d, as soon as the get to sea. throw the ice overboard and repair to Florida." a line pharplt dhawh. The New Orleans Delta seeks to convince the people of Louisiana that two national- ites must hereafter exist. It says : "The fact is, the line is becoming dis tinctly marked between the two nationalites the North and the South. There is abso lutely no middle ground. The border itself political separation once declared, will be perhaps the most intensely national of all parts of the South. The gull will by fath omless and impassable, so long as the North shall cherish the insane idea of subjugation except for loathing and hate and warlike defiance and retribution. Whistle Your Way. Solomon, when he became used up, when blue as to condemn the good things of this wor,d as canity. The man wJl can thistle and sing is 6no? in h'13 ioots- Let care aSei poverty, and a carl-load of ills overtake him, and if he can whistle his way through the darkest hoursof his troubles, go on his course re joicing, and eventually turn up a trump ol the first water. Folks who can whistle, and do not, are mean, avaricious and unhappy. Judas Is cariot was not a whistler, We'll venture to assert that the owners of those wretched wcai" l,ai" ,uo "uu"" UV IUWI A . U . . . i . can 1 wnistie, ana tnat no man ever nearu ; them attempt it. There is too much genial j outspokeu goodness in a genuine whistler, J In amt ilia .1 i a n i- 1 1 Inn r C mAirt rm 4 n ! . , r ,. : That s so. If you are trading with a man ...... . , anu lie wuisues juviuuy uver uis uumnpm, he won't cheat you. He can't do it. He thinki too much of turning his tune to both ' er about turning the tables on you. So.loo, j with the woman who is about her daily task singing. She makes her home a para dise of good dinners, cosy comfort and white curtains. Nothing will go wrong with her. If she is vexed, she will sing off the vexation. If she is possessed of vanity, she will sing away the worse part of it, anil sing the other into a species of loveable pride. There are no sqnalling babies, cross cats, snarling dogs, butionless shirts, and marrow-bone suppers, in the house presid- ( ed over by a woman who tings at her toil, j Singing men are worth trebie those who ' go about their work morose and grouty and moodily, as if they were going to burry their dearest friend. The " Yo-heave-oh" of the sailors, accomplishes as much in hoisting the anchor, as their muscle. There is a world of strength in that same heave, oh !" Yo! ' The Albany Times in referring to the zcience of whistling says: "Whistling is an institution. It oils the wheels of care, and supplies the place of sunshine. A man who whistles has a good heart under his shirt front. Such a man only works more constantly. A whistling cobbler will earn as much again money as acordwainer who give way 10 low spirits and indiges'ion. Who ever heard a whistler among the'sharp practitioners of Wall street I We pause an answer. The man who attacks whist ling, throws a stone at the head of hilarity, and would, if he could, rob June of her ro ses August of its meadow larks. Such a man shonld be looked to." Therelore, take heart and whistle. Me thusaleh was a whistler, and whistled his age out nine hundred years. Solomon : . . . I n . 1 I A ..AAA ....... AA. AA man with a "light heart and a thin pair of breeches' is always whistling. A War Incident. Wrhile one of the Massachuetts regiments was in this city, on its way to Washington, a gentleman residing here met one of its members on the street. "Is there anything I can do for you sir ?" said the New Yorker, his heart warning toward the representative of the brave Mas sachusetts militia who 'had so promptly answered the call of their country. The soldier hesitated a moment, and finally raising on of his feet exhibited a boot with a hole in the toe, and generally worse for wear. "How came you here with such boots as that, my friend ?" asked the patriotic citi zen. "When ihe order came for roe to join my company, sir," replied the soldier, "I was ploughing in the same field at Concord where my grandfather was ploughing when the British fired on the Massachusetts men at Lexington. He did not wait a moment; and i did not, sir." It is unnecessary to add that the soldier was immediately supplied with an excel lent pair of boots. N. Y, Post LETTER FROM GEN. HARNEY. Washington, May 1, 1861. Mt Dear Sir: The report of my arrest at Harper's Ferry, by persons assuming to act under authority of the State of Virginia, has no doubt reached you. Upon my arri val at Richmond, under military ecort,Gov. Letcher immediately directed my release, with assurances, disavowing the act of his subordinates, and expressing regret al their mistake or abuse of his authority. The kind attention and civility received from him, lrom the escort that accompanied me, and other distinguished citizens of Virginia and esteemed friends whom I there met, compensated lor any personal trouble or annoyance ; yet I cannot but feel deep mor tification and regret that our country should be in a condition to expose any one Jo such an incident. It haa furnished occasion lor mistake or misrepresentation in respect to my views and sentiments, which a sense of duty requires to be promptly corrected. No belter mode occurs to me than by a letter addressed to yourself, as an esteemed per sonal friend. It has been represented through the pub lic press that I was a willing prisoner to the State of Virginia ; that I designed to resign my commission in the United States Army, throw off my allegiance 10 the Fed eral Government, and to join the forces of the Confederate States. Forty-two years I bave been in the mili tary service of the United States, and have followed during all that lime but one flag the flag of the Union. 1 have seen it pro tecting our lron'.iers, and guarding ourcoasts from Maine to Florida; I have witnessed it in the smoke of battle, stained with the blood of ga'lant men, leading on to victory; planted upon the strong-holds, and waving in triumph over the capital of a foreign foe. My eyes have beheld that flag affording protection to our States and Territories on the Pacific, and commanding reverence and respect from hostile fleets and squad rons and from foreign governments, never exhibited to any other banner on the globe. Twenty stars, each representing a State, have been added to that banner during my service, and under its folds I have advanced j fr0 m the rank of Lieutenant to that which I now hold. The Government, whose hon ors have been bertowed upon me, I shall serve the remainder of my days. The flag. , whose clones 1 have witnessed, shall never 1 . , . . . ., , ! be forsaken by me while I can strike a blow lor its defence. While I have breath .. . . , .i o . . , ,. . , . r I bition, by plunging the State into the vor I shall be ready to serve the Government of i r , . . . , . tex of revolution. tne united Mates, and De its laitniui, loyal soldier. Without condemning, or in any decree i criticising, the course other persons have ! deemed proper to pursue in the present 1 , 1 , . , . innptnm inir tin, rt n lit L' ia rlflin In mv is plain to own heart and judgment1. The course oU events that have led to the deplorable con- ' diiion in which our country now sUnds 1 has been watched by me with painful inter est. Perceiving that many of my fellow citizens in the Southern States were discon tented with the Government, tand desired some change to protect them from existing evils, my feelings have been strongly averse j to coercion, and anxious lor some compro- i . . t mise or arrangement tnat would restore peace and harmojiy. The provisions of the federal Constitution afforded, in my judg- I """" i...v,v,s a. j Convention of all the Slates, which might 1 "'" u.u ,u,.v..o diffref'ce8.. if ih.t could not be accom- Pd, m.ght provde for peaceful separa - lion in a manner becoming lriends arid brethren. So long as this hope of peaceful settlement oi our irouoies could De indulged . -reelmg(, ojoy and the voice of grief, the I have felt it lo be the wise duty of the j re?0iution of empires and the laps of ages, General Government to bear with patience i send no pounj with;n tnat narrow cell -outrages that no other Government could j Generation after generation are brou.ht and have endured, and to lorbear any exertion of , Uid by .heir suie ; the inscription upon force until the last hope departed. J their monumental marble tells the centuries But when the Confederal States with thal haTe pa9;,e(i away . Dul lo the sleeping seven thousand men, under cover of strong : dead the long interval is unobserved. Like fortifications, or impregnable batteries, as- a dream of the ni-ht wilh lhe quickness of sailed a starving garnsou ot seventy men in Fort Sumpter, compelled the banner of the United States to be lowered, and boast ed of its dishonor before the world, the ; state of the question was immediately changed. Instead of the Government co ercing States demanding redress ot griev ances by constitutional means, the case was presented of revolutionists waging war against their Government, seeking its over throw by force of arms, assailing public property by overwhelming force, laboring to destroy the lives of gallant officers and soldiers, and dishonoring the national flag. The question before us is, whether the gov ernment of the United States, with its many blessings and past glories, shall be overthrown by the military dictatorship lately planted, and now bearing sway in the Confederate Slates ? My hand cannot aid in the work. Finding ourselves in a state of civil war actually existing or fast approacing, some of my brethren in arms, citizens of sece ding States, and for whom 1 have the high est personal respect, have considered it their duty lo throw up their commissions and follow their States. In that view of duty I cannot concur. As an officer of the army and a citizen of the United States, 1 consider my primary allegiance to be due to the Federal Government and subordi nate to that is my allegiance to the State. This, as you are aware, has been the con curring opinion of the most eminent jurists of this icountry. It was the judgment of the Court ol Appeals ofSjrLaiL-axoIlg the highest conrt of Sou'h Carolina deliber ately decided that the soldier's and citizen's primary duty of allegiance is due to the United Slates Government, and not the Government of his State. Of late it has been contended that the allegiance dne by a citizen to the Federal Govern ment was dissolved when his State se ceded from the Union. Into that snare many have fallen. But in rny judgment there is and can be no such right as seces sion of a State by its own act. The Govern ment of the Union can only be diseolved by by the concurrence of the Stales that fhave entered into the federal compact. The ooc trine of secession is destructive to all gov ernment and leads to universal anarchy. But supposing States may secede, and do stroy the Government, whenever the fancy j takes those who are strong enough to set up any arbitrary power in the State. Mis- ( souri, the State of my residence, has not seceded, and secession would, in my opin ion, be her ruin. The only special inter est of Missouri, in common with the Con federate States, is slavery. Her interest in that institution is not protected by the Fed eral Constitution. But if Missouri secedes, that protection is gone. Surrounded on three sides by Iree States, which might soon become hostile, it would not be long until a slave could not be found within her bor ders. What interest could Missouri then have with the cotton States, or a Confedera cy founded on slavery and its extension ? The protection ol her slave property, if nothing else, admonishes her to never give up the Union. Other interests of vast mag nitude can only be preserved by a stead fast adherence and support of the United Stales Government. All hope of a Pacific Railroad, so deeply interesting lo St. Louis and the whole State, must vanish with the Federal Government. Great manufacturing and commercial inter ests with which the cotton States can have no sympathy, must perish in case of seces sion, and from her present proud condition of a powerful, thriving State, rapidly devel oping every element of wealth and social prosperity, Missourri would dwindle to a mere appendage and convenience for the military aristocracy established in the cot ton State. Many other considerations might be offered to show that secession would be to ruin to Missouri. And I im plore my fellow-citizens of that State not lo be seduced by these designing men to hpnpmn lfiA inalrnmenla nf thJr mail am - Whether governed by feelings inspired by the banner under which I have served, or by my judgment of duty as a citizen, or by interest as a resident and property owner i . ... . , , . . , . . , . ., j in Missouri, I feel bound to stand by the ; Union, and remaining in the Union, shall devote myelf to tho maintenance of the Federal Government, and the perpetuation of its blessings to posterity. Yours, truly. Wm. S. Harnkt. Col. John O. Falion, St. Louis. The Flight of Time. "After death the judgement." We die; bnt intervening ages pass rapidly over those who sleep in the dust. There is no . plate on which to cojnt the hours of time. No ,onger ls u tol(, by daJ1) months, or year9 . for the panels which mark the!e perioa are nidden trom their signt. Jts ; flights is no lonser noticed bv the events , perceived by tne senses tor tne ear is deal j and tha eye is closed. The busy world of I ,ife which wakeP nt each morning and ceases every night, goes on above them, but to them all is silent and unseen. The thought) ,he mjnj ranges time and space almost within a limit. There is but a mo ment between the hour when the eye is closed in the grave and when it wakes to the judgement. Woman's Adyactajes.; Some of the advantages of women over men are as follows: A woman can say what she choses with out being knocked down lor it. She can take a snooze after dinner while her husband goes to work. She can go into the street without being asked to treat at ever) saloon. She can paint her face if it is too pale, and powder if it is too red. She can stay at home in time of war, and can get married again if her husband is killed. She can wear corsets if too thick other fixin if too thin. She can eat, drink, and bo merry, with out costing her a cent. She can get divorced from her husband whenever she sees one she likes better. She can get her husband in debt all over, until he warns the public by advertisements not to trust her on his account. CF The celebrated Floyd gun at Fort Monroe, in Virginia, was cast at Pituburg, Pa. It has a bore ot 15 inches ; its length is 14 feet, 12 feet length of bore. The ball weighs 420 pounds, and the weight ot the gun is 49.000 lb6. This ia an enormous Sirs. Partington's Visit to the Tented Field. We take the following from the BoMon Post : 'Did the guard present arms lo you, Mrs. Partington ?' asked the commissary, as he met her at the entrance of th marquee. 'You mean the century,' said she, emil ling. I have heard so much about the tented field that I bclrcvi I could deplore an at tachment into a line myself, and secure them as well as an officer. Yon asked me if the guard presented arms. He didn't but a sweet little man with an epilepsy on his shoulder and a smile on his face did, end asked me if I wouldn't go into a tent and smile. 1 told him that we could both smile outside, when he politely touched his chateau and left me.' The commissary presented a hard wooden stool, upon which h reposed herself. This is one of the seats of war, I sup pose V said she. 'Oh, what a hard lot a soldier is objected to. I don't wonder a mite at the hardened influence of a soldier's life. What is that Tot?' asked she, as the noise of the cannon saluted her ear. 'I hope they ain't firing on my account.' There was a Solicitude in her tones as she spoke, and she was informed that it was only ihe Governor, who bad just arrived upon the field. -Dear me,' said she, 'how cruel it is to make the old gentleman come way down here, when he is so feeble he ha to take his staff with him where-ever he goes.' -She was so affected at the idea that she had to take a few drops of white wine to restore her equilibrium, and to counteract the dust from the 'tainted field.' What Senator Doolittle Says. Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, made A strong war speech at Racine last week, clo sing as follows : "I would be as forbearing as any. I have hoped and ptaved that this dreadful cup might pass ; but if it must be drank, God's will be done. "I would hope and pray and labor still for a peaceful solution of this great national trouble, but if blood must flow, if it be His will that we must 'tread the wine press of the fierceness of His wrath' before we reach the end, be it so ! We stand for the Union and the Constitution of our fathers ; for the light and glory of nations. We stand for constitutional liberty and equal justice to all mankind. "In such a struggle, if trne to ourselves, God the Almighty must be with us. ''Go on, then young men; not a day, not an hour, should bejlost; fill up the muster roll of your company, ready to make a part of the first regiment from Wisconsin. One of my sons, old enough to bear arms, is ready and eagefto join you. My son, go, with God's blessing upon you ; with strong arm and stout heart fly to its standard, re solved on victory or death." CFTo "shoot folly as she flies" requires a heavy load of common sense. rf A western editor complains of a con stant buzzing in the head. Probably his brain is bottle fliss. E? Every girl who intends to qualify for marriage, should go through a course of cookery. Unfortunately, lew wives are able to dress anything but themselves. HTA Pittsburg paper says ia on obituary notice of an old lady, that "she bore her husband twenty children, and never gave him a cross word." She must have obey ed the good old precept bear and forbear. tsrMiss E. says the firt time a youni? man squeezed her dress, she felt as if she was in a land where the rianbows come from. How poetic a little hugging make people. COT The papers relate an anecdote of a beautiful young lady, who had become blind, having recovered her sight after mar riage. Whereupon Snooks wickedly ob serves that it is no uncommon thing for people's eyes to be opened by matrimony. Worth Remembering. It is not what we earn, but what we save, that makes us rich. It is not what we eat, but what we digest, that makes us fat. It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. CFSome malicious scoundrel has pen ned the following : Eve did not know as much as her daugh ters of the present day. Had they been ia her place instead of being deceived they would have deceived the devil. t"F"Dad, let's go down to the alley and have a game at ten pins." "Ten pins ! What do yon know about rolling ?" "Me! why lean just roll your darned old eyes outin'five minutes." Idsr Blessed is he that is ugly in form and features, fof the girls shan't molest him. Blessed is she that would get married but can't for the consolations of the gospel are hers. B'essed are tha orphan children, for they have no mothers to spank them. Bless ed are they that expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed. Blessed are they who have no money, for they are net in danger ot b-?n mTti',ll . -J :- j- -
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers