i r J JL tt U. JACOBY, Proprietor. Truth and Kiht God and our Country. Two Dollars per Annum. VOLUME 13. BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY JUNE 2G, 1861. NUMBER 25. r "T w n ri T"i ft J 1 I ft STAR OF THE NORTH PUBLISHED ITIRT TVltbSlSPAT BT W. JI. JiCOBT, Office on aiaia St., 3rd Sqnare below Market, ' TERMS: Two Dollars per annum if paid within six months from the lime of subscri bing : two dollars and fifty cents it not paid within the year. No subscription taken fur a less period than six months; no discon tinuances permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. The terms of advertising vill be as follows : One square, tw elve lines, three times, SI 00 Every subsequent insertion, ...... 25 One square, three months 3 00 One year . 8 On Choice poetrn. . ; GENTLE AXNIE EAT. I'm sitting by thy grave to-night, : I'm weeping bitter tears; For ah sterns sorrow's withering blight , Hath d roned the hopes of years. Deah came in an untimely hour To steal my bud away; Now blossoms in a heavenly bower My gentle Annie Ray. The night wind sighs around thy tomb, The willows o'er thee weep ; The summer flower in beauty bloom Where thou art laid to sleep. The smile has vanished from my brow, My heart is sad to-day ; The world is sad and lonly now, My gentle Annie Ray. y I mingle with the brave and fair, In fashion' biilhant throng; The graceful form I see not there, No more I hear thy song. An angel form and sweeter strain Now call my soul away ; I know in heaven I'll meet again " My gen'le Annie Ray. A SOLDIER'S STORY. I was rather disappointed, if the truth must be told so indeed we were all at liome at 'my kinsman's "scanty flow of words, when he returned from the Crimea campaign. As for the general story of the war I did rot want that from him, bet what bad per sonally befallen him ; for we knew that, though it was hard, indeed, to be promi nent in discharge of duty, or daring of dan ger amidst that flower of the world's soldier hood, he bad been noted as noieworihy, even imone such, bv those who had the i best means of appreciating his courage and his indastry. I have found this modest, rran'y si'ence, toothing personal exposure and achievment j an almost invariable characteristic of our noble fighting men. My reader will, there fore, kindly bear it in mind that the detail ed and curious narrative I put under his eyes here, is of my writing rather than of hie telling, short as it is. And I havo in tarwoven in it, so far as I know, nothing but authentic threads of recollection. I picked the matter for the spinning of them : on oj on out oi nis conversation, as an oiu woman might pick out o! a long hedgerow, at intervals, wool enough to furnish worsted , forsted for her knitting needless to work up into a stocking or a pair of mits. j He had been under fire continuously, for seven hours and more, on one of the msst hard-fought days of ail that hard-fought struggle, and. as he rode away at evening towards the camp, rode bare-headed, in reverent acknowledgement to Heaven for the marvel that he was riding out of that bail of iron, himself unhurt. J As for the unobserved incidents of that day's danger, from which a mercifnl pres ervation had been vouchsafed, they would be hard to reckon ; but upon three peveral ' occasions during those seven exposed ' hoars, it really seamed that the messengers of death avoided him, as in some legend they turn aside from the man who bears a i charmed life. There was a six-pound shot, j wu.cu U w uuut..j iug iuu I olteter eyes the projectile which threatens j his middle wichet. It pitched right wjfront , of him, and rose as a cricket-ball when the j turf was parched and baked, bounding clean up into the air, and passing right over his ' i j : . : . I : .v- untouched head. It fell behind h:m, and he looked at it for more than once that day, ! and, but for its convenient bulk, thought of j carrying it away tor a momenio. merei was a lour-and-twenty pound shot next, a! sort of twin-brother to that which, 6ome three weeks before had actually torn his forage-cap from off his head ; but it came loo quick for sight. He was that moment backing towards the chafts of an amuniiion cart horse, whose reins he held close to its jaw, as he spurred on his own to make it give way in the right direction Smash ! came the great globe of. iron, and aa the bones and blood and brains bespattered him, he almost fell forward ; for the poor brute was restive no longer; headless hor des don't strain against that bit, although 'tis just as hard as ever to back them into the fchafts. Then there was a moment, one of those of direst confusion, of what other than such soldiers as fought that fight would have rec oned a moment of dismay a moment wherein regiraente! order itself was in part broken and confused; the guardsman min gled with linesmen, linesmen with blue coated artillery. There had been a fearful havoc among tnese nouie servants of the ueep-voiceu I cannon, and men were wanted to hand out shell from a cart he had himself brought op, replenished, to a breastwork. He call? ed in some of the linesmen. One of them rtood by him foot to foot, almost or actually in contact. . They were handing amunition, from one lo the other, as men do fire-buckets when fires are blazing in a street. lie learnt in one direction to pass on the load i he had just taken from the soldier's hand ; the soldier was bending toward the nest i man in the chain; a Russian shell came bounding with a wire, then burst and scat tered its deadly fragments with terrific 1 force. One of its great iron shrebs passed there was just room for it between his leg and the soldier's that stood next him. 1 TIlPV InnL'f(l P3(h mhsr in lha f-ira "A near shave that, sir !" said the man ''nearer than you think for, perhaps," he answered ; for he had felt the rounded sur face of the fragment actually bmse him as it passed, whereas its ragged edge had sha ven, vith a marvellous neatness, from his trowser, part of the broad red stripe up on the outer seam. I venture to give these minute de!als, be cause they may help other civillians, as they helped me, to "realize," as the call it now-a-daye, more vividly the risk of a day batlle,and the large drafts they draw upon a man's fund of nerve and composure, just as he siandsjwithout coming imo any close en counter. But at last the firing was done ; and.brtre headed, as I have raid, he turned and rode back towards the camp. It was before the famine period thereand though there was no superfluity of food, there was food to be had, and after that long day's fighting, men were in sore need of it. It was dusk, and he was lighting a can dle to sit down to his meal, when the voice of a French soldier called something like his name from the outside. He was him self a perfect master of that language, as the "Soldat de train" who stood outside found to his great relief upon his first utter ance of inquiry. The Frenchman held a mu!e by the bri dle, and cross the cream r"s back lay some thing which looked like a heavily parti colored sack. It was a far otherwise ghast ly burden. The body of an officer, strip ped bare of all but the trewsers, the dark clothed legs hanging one way, the fair skin ned naked shoulders and arms the other, the face towards liie ground. "1 was directed, rnon officer bring this poor gentleman's corpse to jou. They say that you were a lrier.d of his his name is Captain X ." Even at that early stage of the campaign such shocks had lost the startling effect of noveLty; nevertheless, there were fev names among those of his friends and com rades which it couId 6j)0ck and grieve him more to hear pronounced under such cir cumstances. The light was fetched. He raised the poor body ; then, with a sigh, let it once more gently down. There was a small round hole in the very centre of the forehead, whereat the rifis ball had darted into the brain of his hapless friend. He called an orderly and directed him to accompany the Frenchman to the dead He would himself soon follow man-9 tent and see to his reciving a soldier's obsequies. His weariness and exhaustion were such as to render it imperatively necessary that he should firet take his food, to which he returned, with what increased weights at heart who shall tell? It needs not that the tension of a man's nerves should be strung tight by the hand of battle lor him to know from his own experience what is strange, and awful, an J weird feeling ol the first re lexanon of them in the early after hours of responsibility, banger, or important crisis of decision. If apparitions, and visions of things unearthly be indeed mere fictions of mens brains, such after hours are jast those wherein the mind is readiest to yield to the powers of illusion. Illusion or reality more startling more unaccountable by far than it? Whether of the two was this? There entered at the curtin of his tent the jea(J man, towards whom, in some few minn,e!, more he shoud have been fchowiug lhe ,ast fad kindnet;(,. The lignt fe fuIl anJ c,ear upon hig face He ,ook off hig foragg cap he came in The broa(J whhe furehead gfcowed no longer any trace of lhe rder0U9 incrash of the baIl which had f!ain him. Into the dull glazing eyes the I'leam nf returned life ? Or tin ihf evps of "h flash Jif ,ik gQ ? "What made you send that Frenchman with my corpse to me ? At least, he would insist that it was mine." ,lX ! Good heavens! can it be you, indeed ?" "Who shonld it be? What ails man ? Why do you stare at me so l" yon "I cannot say what ails me, but I am surely under some strange delusion. It is not half an hour, surely, since I saw you stretched lifeless on a mule's back, with a rifle bullet between your eyes. What can i this mean ? Yon are not even wounded." "No, thank God ! nothing has touched me for this once'; but that the French sol dierdid youthen send him up indeed ?" "Indeed I did." Hideous comico-tragic episode in the aw ful drama of war ! They discovered by-and-by that their slain brother solder was no comrade of their own corps, but a brave officer of another army. Neither of them had known Lim personally, nor had- they heard before that between him and X had existed, in his liletime, the most remar kable and cIohh rppmManpoBn-h an :,t r is rarely seen save in twin brothers. A lawyer asked a Dutchman in court what ear marks a pig had that was in dis pute." "Veil, ven I first begame acquainted mil de hock, he had no ear marks except he hab a very short tail." AMERICAN MTIOWAUTY. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNION, The great American nation has, for near j three-quarters of a century, been recogniz ed and honored in the family of States as a first-class power. Its flag has carried our adventurous commerce to the four quarters ol the globe ; it has carried war and oppres sion to no nation or people in the circuit of the sun. Less romant ic than the French, less beligerent than the English, it has float ed from the brow of the republic as the en sign of peace, heralding at once the asylum ' of the oppressed and the home of the free, i The nationality it symbolizes is peculiar in its features and grand in its associations. It was founded or. the success of no milita ry or civil hero it was reared on the free j will and unbought fealty of millicns of peo- j pie, renowned, above all others, for intelli- j gence, thrift nnd independence. It is a na- j tionality of public sentiment, not less than , of public government. "I am an American ; citizen," i the proud boast of every son of 1 the soil. When tha: nationality was set up j as a target by a rebel army, and shot into , the dust, it was felt that the blow fell on i the heart of the American people. A deep ; sentiment of nationality was fired, and it ; will blaze until that flag is r:ghted. J Sentiment has its place and its influence; but man is not entirely made of sentiment; the judgment and the rea-on are his higher faculties, and demand to be satisfied. The . true nature of our Federal Government must be studied, with the rights and duties of the respective members. The argument of the rebels is,ihat secession is a riht.aml that in their condition, it wss a dot) ; that their Government is made up of the ser vants and representatives of the people; that we have made war on them, and that they justly use all the means God and na- Hire have put within their reach to repel force and assert their Liberties. Fy some Southern statesmen this right of secession ' is claimed as a Constitutional right, by oth ers as a revolutionary right; but standing on both, they claim that their position is impregnable. This is the sum and sub- ' stance ol all they say. The sentiment of such a people as ours needs to know that npon neither the one nor the other of these basis can they stand ; that on the ConstUu- tional basis they are wrong in theory, that on the revolutionary basis they are equally lame on facts. The right of revolution by an oppressed people cannot be questioned; it is at the foundation all ideas of national Liberty and public rights. It is the Right of force, founded in the instincts of man's nature, the source and fountain of all law and right. It exists only when a people i : oppressed with gross injustice and denied their rights, and there is either no other remedy at all or no adequate remedy Then comes the national Right of llevolu- tinn, like the individual right of self defenco and self protection. The rebels have had no grievances which could and ought not to have been redressed by the or.linary , remedial process of Government. Iiy this -strife of arms they strike a blow at the j whole system of Representative Govern- 1 inent. t Feeling the shallow basis for this pre- j text of extreme grievance with no repress ' but resort to the arbitrament of tho sword, ! that ultimate resort of an oppressed people, ; the rebels seek to establish their rebellion j as a mere exercise of a right provided for ' in the very structure of tha government, against which no organic law is pointed. ! If such a law exists, the American govern- ! ment is a rope of sand, and the American! nationality, to all intents save for sound and j fury, is but the merest bauble a nation ever ; became jnbelant over. Against this fallacy 1 is set the principle, deeply seated in the: very structure of our system, that we have a perpetual government, that the FeJeral constitution established forever the great ! American people ; that the covenant enter- j ed into in 1793, was a covenant running j with lhe land we inhabit, of perpetual obli ! gation and binding force. The fallacy of" State allegiance has ruined the fortunes of! many a rebel hero, and scattered the army i and navy into factions. We hear much on j both sides, with which we plainly declare we have little rympathy, of the cabalistic j words, sovereignty and allegiance. These words sound better under a despotic reign than under a government wholly free. Sovereignty is popularly enough described as the unfettered right of absolute control. This is an idea which belongs to a despot, rather than to governments of the people for the benefit or the people, with power delegated and carefully limited. Constitu tional power is, properly speaking, all the sovereignty there is anywhere in this coun try. There is no sovereignty anywhere but what the people have granted. Tne "sov ereign people" is a correct designation ; it can hardly be said, it appears to us, that the sovereignty of the State, or the sovereignly of the Federal Government, can be strictly accurate phrases. This mysterious kind of sovereignty which is so freely spoken ol seems to have nothing tangible. If a gov ernment has certain powers delegated to it, that government is sovereian in regard to those delegated powers. That is about all there is of sovereignty in a truly republican view. The divine rights of King, are rights which in this age and country cannot be recognized either in their bald deformity or their gilded charms. "Suppose the constitution," says Horace Binney, "is a contract, or compact, or con vention; &c, it is a contract of government J a constitution id jMiJ?-J'w"Ju. and design forever it comprehends the present and the unborn, through all gener ations posterity which is as unlimited as time. That any one can break it un rirrht- fully, or diniish its sphere of operation, is an absurdity. Bnrlamaqui says, in descri bing the essential constitution of a State, that i's first covenant is an engagement to j join forever in one body. The constitution of the United States was made by the peo ple, describing them by one description as the people of the United States not con federating or tying themselves together but meaning to form a union a unity a national congress as a people. Where does a part of this people get the right to with draw and renounce? No sound and intelli gent man believes it. Secession is a word to drug the conscience of ignorent men, who are averse to trea-on." If that Union could be severed to-morrow the same influence which formed i' would command its intant renewal. Upon that Union which thus makes us one people, hangs our prosperity at home and our im portance abroad; and, more. than we are accostomed to think, the progress of the age. And not interest alone, but the eter nal order of th ings would seem to bind us in union, "it is the political organization,'' remarks Francis Lieber, ''permeating an entire na'ion, that answers the modern po litical necessities and it alone can perform as a faithful handmaid, the high demands o! our civilization. The highest type, its choicest developement, is the organic un ion of national and local self government not indeed national centralism, or a nation al unity without local vitality. Our age demands coiin'ries as the patria both of r , ...... j Ireeilom and civilization and the greatest! political blessing vonchafed in England was her early nationality, together with her ear ly and lasting self-government. That illus trious predicessor of ours, from whom we borrowed our very name, the United States of the Netherlands, ailed long with the par alyzing poison of srj unction in her limbs, and was brought to an early grave by it. The patria of us moderns ought to consist in a wide land covered by a nation, and not in a city or little colony. Mankind has out grown the ancient city etato." All hail to American Nationality ! this day unimpaired by the rebellion of eleven States it Mill exists in alt the essential nronerities of its r--t being. Its key-note was struck when the announcement came from tho--e at the helm of State that no dismemberment of the Ke pjbbc, under any contingency, was an ad missible thing. The Union was cemented in an everlasting wedlock. From that Un ion came forth American Nationality, rnas terful and victorous. That union is the fo cus of our national glory ; and its thirty-four members are the stars lrom which fla.-hour nationality. That nationality forms a more splendid spectacle to the patriot friend of man, than all the constellations of eternity shilling in their majesty. Its simple dia dem is "More eorarona!' mr?je!ic3l 'hnn king". Who.-e loaded coronets exhaust the mine ?" Tfiis is the age of nationalities. Fired by our example, the oppressed ol the world have aspired to the dignity of nationalities. A splendid line of great deeds have illus trated the march of the race of man, and just now has calumniated in the restored liationality of Italy. Shall the first to set the example, and the grandest in the pro cession of nations, seller its nationality to depart, at the bidding not of a foreign foe, but of rebel traitors of the soil ? Rather let us dispute every inch of ground and every blade of grass. Those who now act the part of traitors will be deservedly recorded as the saviours of their country, "and ages to come must crown their monuments, and place them above heroes and kings in glory everlasting." In such a struggle, disaster, defeat and death can bring no disgrace. "His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." If we have not entirely misstated the ba sis of our American national life and the robust structure of our Union, those who have engaged in this rebellion have neith er the merit ofhor.crty or good purposes ; they are simply traitors. The imperial na tionality remains unmuiilated and undimin ished by secession and rebellion. Treason may have i:s day, and we may seem to see our nationality breathe low and short, but we may with fond recollection rehearse the grand words of Henry Grattan : "I see her in a swoon, but she is not dead ; though in her tomb she lies helpless and motionless, still there is on her lips a spirit of lile, aiid on her cheeks a glow of beauty "Thon art not conquered ; beauty's ensign Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks And death's pale flag is not advanced there.'' Loston fost. Smith, the Everlasting. Mrs. Hanson chanced to live in the vicinity of a theolog ical seminary, and some of the students found her bright home a very agreeable change from their bachelor rooms. A cer tain youth was acustomed to bore her with rather long visits ; and she saw him ap proaching one day, she exclaimed to her sister : "Oh, there comes that everlasting Smith!" In he came, and soon tried to ingratitude himself wilh her little son. "You don't know who I am,'" said he, ta king Master Edward on his knee. "Oh, yes I do," said the child, with a positive air "Well, who am I, then?" Arlcrans ward in the South. TiiiAi.R anu adventures. I had a r.arrer escape from the sonny ; South. "The swings and arrors of our rajus j fonin," alluded to by Hamliek, warn't noth- iti in comparison to my troubles I came pesky near swearin some profane oaths ; rnore'n onet. but I hope I didn't do it, for I promistshe ivhose name shall be name less (except that her initials is I'.etsy J.; that I'll j'uie the Meetin House at Daldins villa jest as soon as I can scrape money en ufl together to as I can 'ford to be piuss j in good style, like my welthy r.abers. But j it I m nrin f i -i! tr n ! orl aim I m ulriil I crM ' - i contmncr on in my present benited state for sum time. I figgered conspieyusly in many thrilling scenes in my tower from Montgomery to my humsted, and on sevral occasions I thawt, "the grate komic paper" wouldn't never be enriched no more with my lubri- cations. Arterbiddin adoo to Jefferson D , 1 started lor depot. 1 saw a nigirer satin on a fence playing on a banjo "My Afri- kin Brother," sed I, cotin from a Track I once red, "you belong to a very iuterestin race. iour masters is goin to war excloo- sively on your account." "Yes, bos-s'he replied, "and I wish 'em honorable graves 1" and he went on playin ; the banjo, larfin all over and openin his mouth wide enuff to drive in an oldfash ioned 2 wheeled chase. The train of cars in which I was to trust my vallerabie life was the scaliest rickyti est lookin lot of consarns that I ever saw on wheels afore. "What time does this string of second-hand coflins leave?'' 1 inquired of the depot master. He sed direckly, and I . ' . . . , , went in set down. I hadn't more n squatted afore a dark lookin man with a ' swinister expression onto his countenance i entered the cars, and lookin very bhurp at i me, xed what was my principles? "Se?e?h 1 answered "I'm a Dissoln ter I'm in favor of Jeff Davis, Bouregard, Edwards, the Devil. Mrs. Cunningham, and' all the rest of 'em V , ' You're in favor of the war?" "Certainly. By all means. I'm in fjvor of this war and also the next war. I've been in lavor of the next war for over six- I teen jear t" "War to the knive !" sed '.he man. "Blud, Eargo, Blud !" sed I, tho them words isn't oriernal with me. Them words was rit by Shakspere, who is. ded. His Mantle tell onto the author of "The Seven Sisters," who's goin to hav a spring over coat of it. We got under way at larst, an' proceeded on our journey at about the rate of speed which is gmrally chsarved ty properly con- ducted funeral processions. A hansurn yimg gal, witn a red rr.uskeier bar on the back part of her bed, and a sassy little black hat topt over her forrerd, U in the seatwi-.hme. She wore a little Sese-h fi.ig pm'd onto her ha!, and she was a going for to see . her trco iove, who had jmed the Southern army, all so bold nnd gay. She was chilly, and I offered tier my blanket "Father living ?" 1 axed. "Yes, sir." "(Jot any Uncles ?" "A heap. Uncle Thomas is ded, tho." "Peace lo Uncle Thomas' ashes, and Jark, was completed. Hut it was the an success to him! 1 will be your Uncle : cient flag of England that constituted the Thomas! Lean on me my pteity Sesesh j ba-is of our own American banner Yari er and linger in blissful rep .se !'' She slept ous other flacs had indeed been raised at as tcoorly as in her own housen, and didn't different times by our coleniid ancestors, dirlurb the soilura stillness of the night with i But they were not particular')' associated ary snore. At the first station a troop of Sojers en- j to. and made a part of the destined "stars for U aild hosv m have died fof u , ,Iow tered the cars and inquired if "Old Wax t and stripes." It was after Washington had ma!iy ,iv,. a:id dvil!g KiiJ) 5n their emhn Works" was on bord. That was the dis-j taken command of the freh army of the stic devotion to its honor like that your- respect!' stile in which they releir. d to me "Ilecawz if O.d Wax Works on bord," sez a man with a face like a doulle-brested lobster, "we're roin to hau Old Wax Works !'' "My illustrious and patriotic Bummers !"' sez I. giitin up and takin orf my Shappoo, ' it you allude to A. Ward, it's my pleasiu duly lo inform you that he's ded. lie saw the error of his ways at 13 minutes past 'Z yesterday, and stabbed hisseif witti a stuffed sledstake, dyin in five beautiful tabloos to slow music! His larst word perfeshernal career is over I more !" "And who be you !" was, My I jerk no "I'm a stoodent in Senator Benjamin's I rights and privileges which such a relation ; tour recently said to his wife who was to law olfiss. Fm goin up North to neal sum j implied. Yet it was by those thirteen J accompanj him from prudential reasons spoons and things for the Southern Army." j stripes that they made know the union p.lso 1 "My 'dear, inasmuch as this election is This was satislaclry, and the intossicated I of the thirteen colonies, the stripes of while complicated, and the canvass is close, I am troopers went orf. At the next station the ; declaring the purity and innrcence of their ' anxious to leave nothing undone that will pretty little Sesesher awoke and &e.l she j cause, aud the stripes or red giving forth j promote my popularity, so I have thought must git out ihsre. I bid her a kind adoo j defiance to cruelty and oppression. it would be a good plan for me to kiss a and give her bum provisions. "Accept my On the fourteenth day of June, 1777, it ; number of the han f-omest girls in every blessin and this hunk of gingerbred !"' I ' was resolved by Congress, "That the flag j place where 1 may be honored with a pub sed. She thankt me muchly and tript galy I of the thirteen United States be thirteen j lie reception. Don't you think it would b3 away. 1 tiers considerab.e human natur in a rr.an, and I'm fraid I thall allers giv aid and cemfort to the enemy if he cums to me in the shape of a nice young gal. At the next station. I didn't git orf so easy. 1 was dragged out of the cars and rolled in the mjd lor sevral minits, for the purpus of"tVmg the consect out of me," as a Seceslier kindly stated. I wis letup finally, when a powerful large 'Secesher came up and embraced rn'e, and to show that he had no hard feelins agin ne, put his nose into my mouth. 1 returned the compliment by placing my stummick suddenly agiu his feet, when he kindly made a spittoon of his able-bodied j face Actooated by a desire to see whether the Secesher had him vaxinated, I then fas- Li .? ZlijHXAC atiugA-Vl.fr lf t.f' mm ...l...uli ..I ii ' J butted our heads together for a few minits, , danced roiir.d a little, and sot down in a mud puddle. We riz to our feet & by a i suddeH & adroit movement I placed my left eye aginst the Secesher'a fist. We then rushed into each other's arms, and fell un- der a 2 boss wagon . I was very much ex- .' hausted, and didn't care about gitting up , agin, Dutttie man said lie reckoned I'd bet- ter, and I conclooded I would. He pulled j me up, but I hadn't been on my feet rnore'n two seconds afore the ground flew up and hit me in the lied. The crowd sed it was high old "port, I couldn't zakly see where the lafture carne in. 1 riz and we embraced I ... nr. 1 11.. ....( nni. ie Lweereu mauiy to a sx-ep oai.k, , when I got the upper hand of my antago- i ma and threw him into the raven. He fell j aooui mriy iee,i, striking a grindstone pretty hard. I understood he was injured. 1 hav en't heard from the grindstone. A man in a cocket ht cum up and sed . . r r . ! he felt as tho an anoloiiv was doo m Tnere was no mi8tal.e. The crowd had taken me for anolher man , j ,olJ Mm not l0 mPn.ion It axed him if ,lis wife a,)d Une oneg wa, ,0 Le aboat a!ld ol or, ,,ored ie ,rain u.fljch J)nd at ,hat 9n tnr .of.w,,, ? i . n i ( v it i.weiiMJi ii I.-. f fi'l till J ! wanted. It was the iiartiest meal I ever et. 1 was rid on a rat- the next day, a bunch cf b,.izin fire cracfcers Lem ,Rd ,Q tales. I was a fine Fpectycal in a dramatic pint of view, but I didn't enpy it. I had other advemers of a stardin kind, but why continner? Why lassera'e the Public Bo znrn with these hero thing? Suffysit to say I got across Mann & Dixe's lins safe at last. I made tracks for my humsted, but she with whom I'm harms! for life lailed to recognize in the emashiated bein who stood belore her the gushin youth' of forty-six summers who had left her only a fe-v montns atore. 15ul I went into the pantry and j,rfj rawt out a certin bottle. Raisin it to my lips, 1 ed, "Here's to you, old gil p I did it so natural that she knewed me at once. "Those form ! Them voice ! That crie(I; nishe(, n,0s arrr jt waJ . i. j,r e, ci,0 n , i i -.'j iuuiil iv'i 11 1 I cu& ten 1U1U a f UUil . j I cum very near swonnding myself j No more to day from yours tor the Terpe- J '.ration of the Union, ami the bringin cf the j Goddess of Liberty out of her present bad fix. A. Ward ! j History Of (lur Fla2. j ! Rev. Dr. Pctsum, of Roshnry, Mass, in ; j a late sermon, gave the sui.joir.ed sketch of ; The history of our g!onou old flag i of, exceeding interest, and brings back to ns a throng cf sacred and thrilling associations., I tne banner ot M. Andrew was bice, charg- , j ed wi h a white salter or cross, in the form j of the letter X, and was ued in Scotland as j early as the eleventh century. The banner j of St George was white, charzed with the : red crossed was used in England as early j as the first part of the fourteentn century. n i t . - , . , . ., , until Ireland, in 1-vl, was made a nirt of ' Great Hritain, that the present national fl.ig j of England, so well known as the Union with, or at Ieat. were not incorporated in- Revolution, nt Cambridge, thnt. January 2, I77y, he unfurled before them the new flag of thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, having upon one of its corners the j red and white croes of St. George and St. Andrew, on a field of blue. And this was ih standard which was borne into the city of Boston when it was evacuated by B.'iii-h troops and was entered by the . the ; the ' American army. Uniting, as it did, ! flags of England and America, it showed ; that the colonist? were not yet prepared to ! 1 sever trie tie that bound them lo the mother , country. By tha union of flags they claim- j ed to be a vital andul stantial part of the i empire of Great Dritaip, and demanded the stripes, alternate red and white, and that the union be thirteen while stars in a blue field." The resolution was made public. Sept. 3, 1777, and the flag, that was first made and used in pursuance of it was that which led the Americans to victory at Sar atoga. Hera the thirteen stars were arrang- ed in a circle, as we sometimes see them now, in oider better to express the Union oftheSta!es. In 1794, there having been two more States added to the Union, it was voted that the alternate stripes, as well as the circling stars, bo fifteen in number, and the flag, as thus altered and enlarged, was the one which was borne through all the contests ot the war of 1812. Bat it was thought that lhe flag would at length be come too large if a new stripe should be .i.v a roja. proc.am-Tion eaten apru ixtn, nol lhe American citizen been aMe'lo stand :7Cfi, these two rrosse were joined togeth- , benea-h its guardian folds and defy the er upon the ?ame banner forming the an j UoriJ i With what joy and exultation sea cier.t national flag of England. It was net men and tourist hr.v .,. Jt. ..or. permanent return hold be made to the original number of thirteen striDea. nnd that the" number of tars should henceforth correspond to the growing number of States. Thus the flag would tymbolize the Union as it might be a', any given period of its history, and also a it was ai ih ,.rv hnr of its birth. It was at the same time sua- gested, that these stars, instead of beirg arranged in a circle, be formal imo ;nlo star a suggestion which we occasionally see adapted. In fine no particular order seems now to be observed with respect lo the arrangement of the constellation. It is enough, if only the whole number, be there upon the azure fold the blue to be emble- matical of perse verence vi-ilance and ins- uco, each star to Horifv the elorv of tha - os-- State it may represent, and the whole to be eloquent, forever, of a union that must be "one and inseperable. " Time would fail me to enter more largely into the details of this history. Enough has been said to show, in some satisfactory measnre, the sources whence the materials of our flag were drawn. The old banner of England contributed iisco!or. Great men made it their study. Washington, Franklin, Morris, Adams, Sherman, and many more of their immortal compeers, gave it their thouaht and care. And then it had to be made a fart in the world by the conflicts, blood.-hed, and victories, of a seven years' war. It is the flg that was gazed upon by' the patriots of "the times that tried men's souls." It is the flag which they bore and followed into the thickest of the fight. It is the flag which they loved and honored,and which at last they compelled their proud enemies to acknowledge and repect. It is the fl.ig which became the symbol of our na ional independence and glory. And what precious associations have clustered around it since! Not alone did our fathers set up this banner in the name of God over the well-won battle-fields of the Revolution, and over the Revolution, and over the cities and towns which they res- a'so their descendants have carried it and ,au0,t ;t ; .-.: -ru .". v. . in vvuut .-i yi i i u tcv. 1 1UH . 1 Hit! U g LI " what clouds of dust ami smoke it has pass- ed what storms of shot and jshell what scenes of fire and blood ! Not alone at Saratoga, at Monmouth, and at Yorktown, but at Lmdy's Lane and New Orleans, at Buena Vista and Chepultepec. It is the same glorious old flag which, inscribed with the dying words of Lawrence, "Don't ive up ,Le thiD ws .... nn . . i;r;e by Cctr.modore Perry jt on the eve of a great naval victory the same old flag whicil ,.. rea. ch:f.,:n hnri, in ,- . to ,he proud ci!y of ,he Arecs anJ plameJ upoJ the heights of her national palace.- w.upi. jfave ha.,.is t , - , . ; regions of ice i:i the Arctic seas, and : nave hel h ,.? on the fUmmit3 of the' lof,y mountains in the distant west. Where has n ,l0l -orie the pril!e cf hs friend;, and the lem)r of ii3 ? U hal cooatriea and ' ttjlal bfc-s h:w it cot visile J ? Where has ; and -:ripes, and read in it the history of their nation s glory and received from it ti.'j fiill seti.se of security, aud dra.vn from it the inspirations of patriotism ! By it, how many have sworn fealty to their country! V hat bursts ol magnificent eloquence it has called from Webster and from Everett, what lyric strains of poetry from Drake and Holmes ! Ibw many heroes its folds have covered in deth ! How many have lived . j wour.ded sufferer in the streets of Baltimore "Oh! the flag the stan and stripe!'' And wherever that flag Las gone, it ha3 been the herald of a belief day. I: has been the pledge of freedom, of justice, of order, of civilization and cf Christianity. Tyrants only have hated it, and the enemies of mankind alone have trampled it t.i the earth. All who sign for the triumph of Truth and Righteousness, salute it." Heaped off bv his Wife. A distingnish- ed candidate for an oHice of h'.gh trust in a ! certain State, who is "up to a thing or two," ,' and has a keen appreciation of live beauty, 1 when about to set oil" on an electioneering i a good idea 4 Capital," exclaimed the devoted wife: "and to make your election a sure thing, while you are kissing the handsomest girl, I will kiss an ?qa? number of the hand somest young men." The distinguished candidate, we believe, j has not since referred to this p'easing means ot popularity. "Ah, John, my uncle has been in New York, and yourn hain't." "Weil, what of that my uncle has been in jail, and yours hafn't." L Said a certain individual to a wag, "The man who has raised a cabbage-he.nl has done more good than all!th8 metaphv- V'
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