VOLUME 13; STAR OF THE. NORTH ' publisher itirt wsmiPir bt W. U. JiiW, Office cii Eaia St,5rii Sqaare' 'iclow Market TERMS : Two Dollars per annum it paid "within six months from the time of subscri bing 4 two dollars and fifty cents ii not paid within the year. No subscription taken for a. less period than fix months; no discon tinuances permitted until all arrearages are paid,. unless at the option of the editor. The terms of advertising will be as follow : One square, twelve lines, three times, $1,00 Every subsequent insertion, ...... 25 One square, three months, . 3 00 One year, .80) Tho Pleasant "W orld. " This is a very pleasant world and very pleasantly made, curiously contrived in deed, to keep wide awake until we " round i( with a sleep." . '..There is an arrangement effected in tlie lastr way ia the world we mortals-should have thought of just by rolliog the globe over .and over. Of course we mean the day and night the light3 and shadows of life's fair perspective. Aside from the ne cessity 'wo feci of that almost' dying now and then, which we christian "sleep," what could possibly afford a grander series ; of surprises than the alternation of night and .day. Day : nothing but a lighted vestibule to something, wo know not what. Night: a short dim 'hall that leads us to another. And on we go, through this grand suite cf brilliant chambers with, ehadfowy passage .ways', between, until, wo have' ? explored thU wonderous castle of our mortal being. . "..What if it were one great, unbroken tayybow dull 'twod grow in life's long afternoon! How like a Monday would xistance be I Nothing made over new ; no dawning to await ; no' to morrow to dream of or to hope for; no surprise to quicken thought and heart, but just a steady blare of day an Arabia the liocky, without an " Araby the Blest." ''Tor our part, we are glad we arc igno rant ; glad we are not ubiquitous ; we would not have " the wins of the morn ing," if we could. This opening and shut ting of doors all through the world pleases U3. ' It i3 a poem without a piefactory argument ;! a play without a program me. 5 Were lifa and action "laid out;" thenr action and life would be a corpse, aad all we mourners should "go about the etreeU.' Chicago Journal. Chances of Battle. "At Waterloo," eaid Napoleon, "I ouught .to have been victorious. The chances were a hundred to one in my favor. But Ney, the bravest of the brave, at the head of 42,000 thou sand Frenchmen, suffered himself to be delayed a day by some thausanda of Nas sau troops. Had it cot been for this ' in explicabl inactivity, the . English army would . have been taken flagrant de'ictot and anihilated without striking a blow. Grouchy, with 40,000 mea, suffered Bil low and Blucher ta escape him ; and fi nally a heavy shower of rain made the ground so soft that it was impossible to commence an attact at daybreak. Had 1 been able to commence early, Wellington would have been troden down in the de files ' of the . forest before the Prussians would Lave had time to arrive- It was lost otherwise without resource The de feat of Wellington's army would have been peace, the repose of Europe, the recogni tion of the interests of the masses, and the democracy. - --j . .. .. . ... v "All Sorts of Paragraphs.' : ' ' Vaccination was ' first tried upon cop demncd criminals in the years 1772. The-interest of the national ,debt of Great Britain is over twenty-four millions pound sterling. rv Looking glasses were first made in Ven ice in the year 1800.' ' " c Iron was first discovered by th burn ing Mount Ida, one thousand four, hun dred years before Christ. . . ... .- , , Muslins were first manufactured in En gland during the year 960. 1 an oaK tree lives m a state of nature one thousand, five hundred years. Air eighteen hundred and sixty times lighter than water..;':. .r . Military uniforms were first adopted in France,by King Loui3 XIV. . - Xinea waa first discovered and made in Enar-d, in-1553. ' " ' The ' average coinage ; of the Vmint ,of fttreat Britain. for the last thirty years is clghtsen million, pounds i sterling per an- VJaEl. j- ' 2 ' i. .. : - . " i '' ' ' " ; 1 I-? When -Lieutenant Governor; Pat tersoa 1 was speaker :of the Massachusetts -Legislature, some dozen boys presented - themselves for the , place of .messenger, as usual at the r opening of , the house. lie inquired into their names, conditions, .that, he might make the . proper se lection, lie came,Mn the course of his 'exaraination; to a small boy about ten 'years of age, a bright looking ad. ; r "Vv'ell,sir,"jsaldlie; what b your name!'' f j f John. Hancock, sir,'' replied the boy : 1 ; "What," said the- Speaker, "you are not iLe one that signed the Declaration of Independence, are you?" I "No, sir," replied the'lad, stretching 'hueli . to "hh utmost proportions, Vbut I vciM if I bad been, there." ; ."Yoa can be , cue of - the vats secgers," 53id thi Srcalrr. ' ' ' BLOOMSBUKG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1861. ' FrerdoiD of the Press. A correpondent ot the' Philadelphia It qnirer, writing from Washington on the 23d ok., says ' "The Administration decided to-day to take another step, which will be quite as startlinr at first as tho former, bnt which i I equally founded on sound poliry. 1 he constitution provides lor the ueedom ol speech and of the press. Bot it also provides for the privileaes of the writ of haboas cor pus. It has been found that the safety of the RepoDlic' required the suspension 0f that writ. The Administration is now sat isfied that the safely of the Republic re quires that those papers in the North which do 'not yield a hearty support lo the Gov ernmeni, and to all the measures of the Ad ministration, and which, by their smpathy with the Fonth, nourish at the North a hos tile leetins aaainst the Government, shall be suppressed. Attorney General Bates has been counselled on the siibjpct, and says that the Government would be perfect ly justified in doing so As this proceeding would only be a piece with the other high-handed, unconstitution al, nd equally unjust acts of the Adminis tration, during the past two months, no one need experience any surprise if this state ment, thongh eminating from an irrespon sible newspaper correspondent should be carried out lo ihe letter.- Already the Ad ministration has foreshadowed its policy in this respect. It has suppressed the J'ffcr sonian, at Westches'er and a religious pa per in Philadelphia the' Observer. It has stopped the New Yoik Daily New, while pacing through Philadelphia, in the mail taking it out of the mail by . an arbitrary act of a Government aent It has also ex cluded the A'(W l'oifc Actrj, freemen $ Jour nal, the Jcvrval of Commace, the Ley Bock, and the Brooklyn Eagle, lrom the mails; ihe Post-Master General having notified thee Journals, through the P. M. at New York, that their papers will not be deliver ed, or carried, from thai Post office. These proceedinas'have a grave stgnifioancey and indicate, beyond a doubt, that the Admin istration is proceeding gradually in the work of throtling the press. Subjugation is the word ! and every Northern man vho dot s not voluntarily throw, up his hat and huzza for Abraham Lincoln and the Chicago I'iai form, and who loes not indorse every act of the Administration, no matter how.un iust. or how derogatory it may be to- the liberties of the people, mast be coerced or j sut jusated. In this connection, we can -j ihe government endangered by the opposi not do better than to direct the attention of t'10n ; and no political convention has ever oor readers to the following article frorn the met'since the organization of national par Daify iVeurs, of Saturday last We wish ties which did not charge upon the oppo- every man, woman anu ciiuu ip ine iana coold read it: tCKGKSTIOKS CPON IN OLD SCBJKCT. Few people, perhaps, have seriously and temperately considered the true force and j benificence of those provisions of our Con-' stitution which haye attempted to secure to our country freedom of speech and free dom of the Press. These oft-repeated phra ses too frequejtly pass from the lips as stereotyped expressions, the meaning of wnicft is but little leJt. ihe privneges and RVOWedly devoted to the support of the which the guarantees of our Constitution Government. So as to the policy of the were intended to secure in these respects Administration in the present war. If that make the distinguishing differences be- j p0icv j3 baed npon good sense, upon right tween our own and the worst Government J anil jticp, ,he vojCe of no nprosi-ian press of the world. Without that difference, I can dfive ,Le peop!e rrorn ip;K,rt or en. America is no more free for the mass ot j tian?er i!s puccess. If the measure-, of the the people than is Aurtria or Spain. These j Administration are in themselves right and privileges, moreover, were guaranteed by ! expedient, they will bear discission and the fundamental law with special reference ,:?revail, and if otherwise they will not bo to times of public excitement and public j FUS1tair.ed. though our streets throng with da'nger. When the nation is quiet, and no ! ,he armcd j,pntfl of tho Government and great emergency is pending or at hid, free j our prisons overflow with its victims. speech and a free Pre? are of course harm- , T , r , less and need no Constitutional projection. , Lending to the Lord. A poor man, some It is only when our liberties "are threatened j 0f wl0i,e family were sick, lived near Dea that these privileges are endangered, and it con Murray, referred to in the tract, "Worth is only then that public discussion is most j nf A Dollar," and occasionally called at his a safety and a blessing. Without the good j house for a supply of milk. One morning will of the people no government can right- j he came while the family were at breakfast ly demand support, whether ia peace er 1. 1 r8. Murray rose to wait upon him, but war; and, assuredly, that good will cannot be justly gained without the utmost free dom of thought and expression. If the people rule themselves, they must do so rationally and with the free exercise of all the nobleel attributes of the rnind. Truth cannot suffer frorn investigation, nor from discussion neither can a just cause nor a just Government. In fact, a confiding trust in the conclusion and results of the free in terchange and communication or thought is the strength and support of jost men and just governments, at all times and every where j , and especially, in times of great trial.' . The consequences of a suppression of a press at the present trying time r in the his tory of the American Tnion can hardly be estimated. If.the press, is dangerous to the eiisieiice.bf the Government, then is public discussion equally dangerous. The princi ple is the same. So, also, it follows' that freedom in private discussion is a danger also freedom of private thought, especi ally in political matters, is but the germ ol action. The - suppression . of one press, therefore, that is published Within the pro tection of the 'Constitution, involves the principle that free public and private dis cussion, and even private opinions, are dangerous lo the existence of the: Govern ment, and may .'-also be suppressed, so far as the strong arm of.power can, reach them. In fact, the suppression of a press is itself but the invasion of the private right of(opin innsifice tbe object is not to suppress the mere publication of the newspaper, but to take from the citizen the privilege of. read- j lication of a newspaper is interdicted, the j attack is upon the readers of that paper, in volving a denial of their light to read any thing ( save that which is prescribed for them.,, . But there is another enlarged aspect in which this matter of a free press should be considered We refer to its influence upon the character and position of the press gen erally. Fo soon as the Government, in the exercise of its arbitratory power, shall do prive the people of one independent press, such newspapers as remain, become by that fact dependent, arid are published simply by permission. As the organs of public opinion, or of the opinions, of their pnb- J lioher, they become devested of titl to consideration or respect. Thpy become but the sewers through which flow opin ions dictated to them by their masters. Th eir editors dwindle to mere mouth-pieces pf others, without the r'ght to more than rattle their chains. The blow which de prives thRtn to human machines. Thir nobility as free and independent men van-ishes-with the first invasion of the right of their neighbors. The censorship which prescribes the boundaries of public discus sion is as necessarily humiliating and de structive to those who submit to that censor ship as to those who refuse, nince. whatev er the:r disposition, the sacred right of in dependence is taken away. The human being who submits to a degrading bondage because he likes it, is as much a slave, and much more abject and degraded, than the one who makes a resistance for the sake of freedom. The forcible discontinuance of one press, therefore, enslave all, and leaves them no attribute worthy of respect. Probably the freedom of the press and Iti tieemitn ir?jjccv.n ncci wnc iiif,i..o upon, except upon the plea of public ne cessity. It was the theory of Mr Jefferson, and ol the founders of the Republic, that no such necessity could exist in a Piepublican government, since the suppression of popu lar discussion could further a bad causo, and no other. It was argued, moreover, and riahtly, that if men in power were made the judges as to the existence of such necessity, there would be no limit to the occasions upon which the suppression of presses and of free discussion would occur. The practical wisdom of this view has been lully illustrated in the United Stales within the last eighty yeai. No party has ever held the reins of the government in its hands which did not professedly believe sing party a design to subvert Ihe Constitn- tion. The prper.t case does not differ essential ly from others, except that the executive has become possessed of a greater milita ry power. The emergency is grea it is true, public danger indeed exists. But the truth of the principle yet remains. A free press is dangerous alone to a bad cause If tliTe is any truth in the theory of our republican institutions, a bad press cannot overturn a . gootJ Government, much less a " pre-s tny ine deacon raid to her, "Wait till after breakfast." She did so, and meanwhile the deacon made some inquires of the man about his family and circumstances. Af ter family worship, the deacon invited him i to go out to the barn with him. When they got into the yard the deacon, pointing 1 to one of the cows, exclaimed, "There, take that cow and drive her home." The man thanked him heartily for the cow, and started for home ; but the deacon was ob served to stand in the 'attitude of deep thought until the man had gonesome rods. He then looked up and called out, "Hey, bring that cow back." The man looked around and the deacon added, "Let that cow come back, and yon come back tco." He did so; and when he came into the yard again the deacon said, "There, take your pick out of the cows ; I ain't going to lend the Lord the poorest cow I've got." Ga. Masenzer. . Pay your small debts. Don't , think they are not worth your prompt attention any the less because they seem trifling. Minutes make hoars, drops fill oceans, one by one the tiny types are set op to fill news papers, and just op. the same principle, the settlement of the little accounts owing him, may save the printer days of restless anxi ety, and countless business embarrassments. . ; AesAPtTib. The office of the Sunbury Democrat was cowardly assailed one night last week by a, number of rowdies; when the discharge of a pistol caused a general I m fMtntevto the dUeomfWr' ff J.r.vo.LL?' The Treadmill of life. I ' ' Frightful Disclosures. A good honest soul once said that "all; Dr. Harlow, Medical Superintendent of she wanted, when she got to Heaven, was the Maine Insane Hospital, has eliminated to put on a clean apron and sit stii " After some startling statistics. of madness, d?mon all, the idea is more profound than funny. ' strating the connecting links between dys There are times in every houskeeper's life pepsia and insanity in a .very impressive whn this would be the embodiment of par- manner. In a plain and lucid style he ex- adise. When the head throbs with plan ning, contriving and directing ; when every bone ache in the attempt to carry the pro gramme into successful execution ; when alter having done one's to draw to a tocus all ihe irifintesimal cobweb threads of care ful management, some new emergency h bom of ever) last attempt, till every nerve and muscle cries out with the old woman, for Heaven and clean apron ! Of course, afier a period of careful, free re.-t, this earth seems after all a very nice place to stay in but while the fit lasts, no victim cf unsuc cessful love, or of sea sicknesses more truly deserving of that which neither ever get heartfelt pity. It is well that it is not the prevailing feeling, else how cnn!d wo nil toil and moil as we do day after day, for six feet ot earth to engulf i t all at last. It is well that no pains-taking mothers and delv ing fathers, earth secrn so real. Were it not so, the wheels of this world wonld stick fat-t Funny fern. A Good Kanif. A good name is above all price. Have yon not fnuad it so, young man, you whose well known virtues have placed you in a position which you occupy with feelings of commendable pride. And you whose fane h.n been the target of envious tongue, have you not seen a good name to be the only breas; plate that i imprevious to the pois- 1 1 1'" ' .'itoma'.j. 1 1 , ati.l what are llese without a character? A light to render dareness visible ; a gilding, which, by contrast, makes the substance more revolting? Cherish it then, all who posses it, guard it careful y for depend upon this, its polity once tarnished, the un wearing effort will hardly restore it to its prestine lustre. Let it attend yon through the journey of lif, crowning your days with peace and happiness The reci'ude which won it will engrave upon your faca a letter of recommendation to the people of ever nation and tongue. And when the treasure is no longer needful to jon, it shall descend to your posterity, a legacy with which mill ion on millions would not bear to be com pared. The Little Okes Do you ever think how much work a child does in a day 1 How, from sunrise sunset, the dear li'tle feet pat- j ter around to us so aimlessly. Climb- j ing up here, kneeling down there, running) to another place, but never still. Twisting ' and turning, rolling and reaching und doub ling, as if testing every bone and muscle for future uses. It ii very curious to watch ! it. One wfm does so may well understand the deep breathing of the rosy little sleeper, ' I as w'th one arm tossed over its curly head, it prepares for the next day's gymnastics ! Tireless through the day, li.'l that tires, as the maternal love that so patiently accom modates itself, hour after hour, to it thous and wants and caprices, real or fancied. A busy creature is a little child. To be looked upon wiih awe as well as delight, as its clear e) e looks trustingly into face that to God and man have e-sayed to wear ma:-k. As it sits down in it little chair to ponder, precociously, over the white lie you thought it ''funny" to tell it. As rising anil leaning on your knees, it says, thought fullv, in a tone that should provoke a tear, not a smile "If I doirt believe "u." A lovely and yet fearful thing is that little child. Mrs Paiitington' rirLD We take the Visits the Tented following from the ISoston Pot: "Did the riiard present arms to von. Mrs ------ i - ( Partington ?" a-ked the commissary of her j os she entered the marques. . ' You mean the century,'' she said, smil- inc. "I have heard so much about the taint- ' cd field that I believe I could deplore an i attachment into line myself, and secure i 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 smi'e on his face did,and asked me il I would not go into a tent and smile. I told him we could both smile out side, when he politely touched his chateau and left me. The commissary presented a hard wooden stool upon which she reposed herself. "This is one of the seats of war, I suppose V she said. "Oh,what a hard lot a soldier is objected to. 1 Jon't wonder a mite at tho hardened influence of a soldier's life. What is that for?" said she, as the noise of the cannon Faluted her car. ''I hope t hey hain't firing on my account." There was a solicitude in her tones as she spoke, and she was infermed it was only' the Governer, who had just arrived upon the field. "Dear me," said she," how .cruel it most be to make the old gentleman came away down here, when he Uso feeble that he has to take his staff with him wher 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." The Washington papers are throwing out pretty strong intimations . that an onward movement-is soon to be made by General plains that the unhealthy condition of the stomach is chiefly attributed -to the dietetic habits of the American people, lhat a strong sympathy exists between the brain and the stomach and in conclusion argues that noth ing is more common than a xltranged state of the Momach and bowels, and that indi gestion and costiveness ate the invaliable adjuncts of Insanity. He finaly admits that all these predispositions can do counterac ted by proper care and attention a strict resimen, and the judicious use of vegetable medicines. The foregoing doctrine is noth ing more than an endorsement or coirob oration of tho teatmetit prescribed by Dr. Holloway fifty years ago, and still practised by him with the ereatest success in si! parts of the civilzd world. With the intu ition of a savant, Dr. 'Holloway, after great study and deep research, divined that the stomach was the parent source of nearly all disorders, snch a1 indigestion, headache liver complaint, mer.tal arjd bodily prostra tion, and his celebrated Pills were ihe glori ous result of many years scientific investi gation. Through the stomach and circula tion these Pills act on the general system. T hey purify the blood, renovate the diges tive organs, invigorate their action, and re store their natural tone and power. They stimulate the secretions r.f the liver, regu late the functions of the bowel, give buoy ancy to the animal spirits ; elasticity to the body, and health and vianr to the general paration, they can be prescribed with as much benefit for the infants as for the adult of either sex. "Weekly Jiurrwl" CetlTnTiw. Did you ever consult the mirror to ascer tain whether you were growing old to de tect, ifyou could a pair of feet, and a crow:s at that, at the corners of your eyes to see if that gray hair somebody charged you with having yesterday was nothing but a peculiar reflection of the light, and not much whiter than the ace of spades after all? 13ut the mirror is'tiothing to go to for infor mation; it reflects to very little purpose. If you would know what age is doing for you, look upon the face of a friend you have not t-een for ten years, and the story is a plain as a pike stall ! There is some thing or other about him jou cannot quite under Hand ; his features ate a little sharper, the expression of his eyes a little colder, of his j brow a little harder, of his mouth a little 1 firmer. To be sure his laugh haeti't gone, but then a tooth or two lias He is the ' same, yet not the same, but yet somewhat I harder and rougher. and not so much of him as of old. Hut the strangest of all his hand i That has grown older faster than his face. How soft and smooth it used to be, you remember, and plump a a partridge. There was a tracery of blue vains upon the buck of it, and you and- he used to read each ; other's fortunes and life journeys in the meandering currents that (1 wed on to ' qnitly jut under tho surface; but it is more 1 like a crow now. as if he used it in digging; then it is brown as October, the full rounded muscle has tdirnnk away from the veins, and they Mand out like ridges in a fallow. Veins, indeed, they look like a handful of whipcord. Thera is a knotty look arid ; a knotty feel about the joints, as if you were grasping a handful of walnuts. Then aian hi hair has grown wiry, or bri-tly, or gray, or thin, or something that it was not. for the j truth is it is growing upon an old head, j You think, as you look at him, i it pos , s:ble,"and he keeps you company with his ; wonder "how can it be'"' and in that look you have seen yourself as he sees you, as ! they all tee you, as you are. Fire Shells. Capt. J. Norton, in a communication to the London American, states that shells till ed uith molton iron, if kept for a few min utes "over time " become co'd and perfectly harmless as hot shot. Respecting his own fire shells, he describes them as follows: "I J charge my shells with phosphorus dissolved" j in risu,P,1"K?e 'of carbon, which does i.ot be- come damaged by time or. passing thronyh aier. 1 can ma.Ke inem 01 type or lusioie metal, both of which are brittie.and become fragmented without the aid of a bursting charge. On striking the ground or a plank oftimper, the fragments, being coated op the inside with the IiqniJ:burn with intense heat for a long lime. The shell may, more over, be charged with bullets of wool, which being saturated with the liquid, each will burn till consumed, and its ashes glow with fire for gome time after. My light muzzle-loading rifled field gun is well cal culated for throwing these iticendary shells so as to strike the grounJ a short distance in front of a hostile battery, where or) strik ing he ground they become fregmented, and the blazing segments are thrown for ward among ihe gunners and horses of the battery. They would operate in a similar manner on striking the inside of embra sures, or the port-holes of a man-of war." A young man named Neck his recently I been married to Miss Heels. They are now, therefore, literally tied neck and heels together ' A clersyman once prefaced his service wjih "My friends, let us ay a few words lir'ip,r'..,'''i.-b.T'ir'i'' ."miT'i " ' '- RED KIVEU VOYAGER BY JOHN C WH1TTICR. Out and in, the tiver is winding The links of its long red chain, Through t'elts of dusky pine-laud And gusty leagues of plain. Only at times, a smoke-wroath Willi the drilling cloud rock join The smoke ot the nunting-lodge Ol the wild Assinrtiboins ! Dreamily blows the north-wind From the land of ice and snow ; The eyes that look are weary, And heavy the hands that row. Aru1 with one foot on the water, Ami one foot on the shore, The an;el of shadow gives warning That day shall be no more. . Is it the clang of wild geese ? Is it the Indian's yell, That lends to the voice of the north-wind The tone of a tar-olf bell I The voyager smiles as he listens To the sound that prows apace ; Well he know- the ve-per ringing Of the bells of' St. liuuiface; ' The bell-of the Roman mission, 1 h it call Irotn their turrets twain; To the boatmen on the river, To the hunter on the plain. Ever so in our mortal journey The bi'ter north-wmds blow, And thus upon hle's Red River Our heart as oameu row. And wfien the angel of shadow Iles!s hi feet on wave aid fhore, And our eves 4. row dim with walchirrg, And our he. iris faint at tne oar - Happy is he who heareth Jhtr signal of his release ,n JUS bf.Uj,.j liieUQlU.fJjJC Modkhation In every locality there are certain Republicans far mote zealous than wise, who employ iritating, exciting and threatening language towards and in refer ence to democrats. The effect of this is in every way, unhappy. It impels men to assume ultra positions and to employ lan guage injurious to the individual who utters it and to the community in which it is ut tered. The indiscreet remarks th us begot ten are frequently and widly repeated and, generally, with exagqerations, additions and unfair coloring. Prom all this evil re sults 10 everything and everybody. The greatest danger to our State now i lhat it may soon be precipitated into civil war. The agents of the secessionists, ic ourS'ate who nre aiming to eulUt and commit a portion of our people to the scheme ol annexing New Jersey to the southern confederacy, find the ultra republi cans to be their inot efficient allies in their wicked and horrible scheme. Those ultra republicans, by threats of mob violence, and by unjust, ungenerous and provoking remarks in reference to really loyal and pa triotic men, get loyal men under excitement, into postions where the agents of eouthern confederacy can get them to throw their in fluence as the disunionists wish it to be thrown. Uliraism in one direction begets ultraism in ihe opposite direction. The times require the prudent efforts of all loyal men of every party. Democrats should not, under any provocation, permit themselves to be provoked into disloyal acts or words. Those republicans who are loyal and who desire to avoid ciil war in our Sta'e, should esnp:oy all their efforts to retrain their fcllow-partizans from those exce.-fes which culminate in mob violence and in dribing at d forcing loyal men under disloyal influences and into disloyal and unlawful positions Dinner, N J The IIeai.thv Man Ol ail tho know-nothing rerotis in this world commaud us to the matt who has' 'pever known a day's i!ltiets." He is a moral dunce, one who has lot the greatest lesso 1 in life, who has skipped tho finest lecture in that great school of humanity, the sick chamber. Let t him be verged i:i maihernalics, profound in metaphysics, a ripe scholar in thb classics, bachelor of arts or even a doctor of divinity; yet lie is or.e of those temleman whose education has been neglected. For all his college acquirement, how inferior is he in useful knowledge to a mortal who has had hut a nnartr' nrniil nr half a vear'a tiii j how illfinilel beow tne feow eretar9 who has been soundly taught his lic-doul-oureux, thoroujrhly grounded in the rhu matics, and deeply rcl in scarlet fever ! And yet what is more common than to hear a great hulking, fiorrid fellow, braging of an ignorance, a brutal ignorance, that he shares in common with the pig and bullock, the generality or whom die, probably, without ever having experienced a day's indisposition ! Hood. Qcalifications for OrncEK3 The board recently appointed for the examination of volunteer and army officers have resol ved upon a standard of qualifications, as following : "Fiehl officers must understand all that is' required of company officers, and also be able to answer questions regarding evo lutions of line, proper conjuncture, the ele ments of military engineering, the circum stances under which the oe of field anil lery is proper, and other such collateral in- I terrosations as the board of examiners think ' poperto propose. ' "Company officer must answer orally ! and correctly all questions on the manner 1 of instructing recruits , the use of the man- r nal of arms, the school of the soldier , the " "' NUMBER 36. ' ' ; J coge Fin'd lay oil 1 ohs. v " ; On Wednesday of Iai week, - the Jfor John K. Findlay, the President Judge of thi District, took occasion to address the Grand Jury upon the subject of mobs in an espe cial charge. . . Ha stared that on the Monday evening previous, fcj was engaged in fin room, heard shouting Bnd poise in the? t reels, hut supposed some political meeting was being held, it did not distnrb him until some per son came up to his room and told him what was going on. He then came oftl end saV that a mob was destroying, or in the language, of tha limes "gutting" a printing office. He went there anJ commanded the peace. He look ed around and saw crowds ef persons look ing idly on or making demonstrations cf approval, and he was surprised at persons he saw there withholding there disapproval but he could see no officer of tbe peace ': As to the law upon the subject, be said ; A mob is always wrong, it r.ever can ben'ikt. The country had witnessed with what una nimity and alacrity the whole North had rallied to the defense of constituted and con-; stitutional authority to support the Gov-, eminent, and in favor of law and order again-t rebellion and disorder. Yet whit do we behold ? Here in the North, in times like these it is notorious that a lawless rocb has violated the dearest rights of citizen. and set the Constitution and laws at defi-s ance. Do men kno that they are com mitting crimes which, if convicted of, might consign them to tbe Penitentiary for a terra o 7 jears, crimes but little below treason it, self. When an armed mob is doing i"s work there can be no neutrality. It is tho duty of every citizen to interpose and tba present it by afl ih'e p'ower they pobBena The Sheriff should have been there withti posse, summoned on the spot, and if any one refused to serve 011 that posse, he va liable to indictment and punishment. In view of thee facts, he wohld fay to the Sheriff, thus pnblicly. that if there was' any reason to apprehend a recurrence cf what had been so notoriously done, it was his duty to summon a posse sufficiently large to command the peace in any emer gency and hold them in readiness to keep the peace, for where mobs are there is no safety for any one and no liberty for the citizens Eiston piper. .. . One or tub Western Ocitoabt Nonets. M ister Kdatur: Jem bangs, we are sorry tu stait. hasdeseized. He departed this Life last mundy Jem wos generally considered " a gud feller. He did at the age of 23 years old. He went 4th without ary etrng. gle ; and rich is life. Tu Da we areas pepper grass, mighty smart in Morrer we are cut down like a cowcomber of the ground. Jem kept a nice sloar, wich hi w-fes now wa.ts on. His virchews wds rin merous to behold. Menny is the things we bot at his growcery, and we are happy to stait to the ndmirin world that he never cheeted, spshully in the wate of markrel, which wos nice and smelt sweet, and his surrivin wile is the same way. We never knew him tu put sand in his shngar tho he had a big sand-bar in front of his hons; nor water in his Lickurs, tho the Ohio River runs pat his dore. Pece to his remanes !: He leves a wife. 8 children, acow, 4 horses, a growcery stoar, and other qaodropeds to mourn his less ; but in the spalendid lang widge ov the poit, his loss is there eternal gane. . ! . Peace v. Wr. The New York Observer speaks as follows: "We are among the most earenst friend of peace. We would suffer wrong for lh sake of peace. But we see no possible so lution of the present complication of ocr national troubles, except in there adjust ment of the Union on the basis of the Con stitution. We deprecate the war spirit and desire to cn'tivate that feeling which will the most easily restore friendly relations with those who have cast off the bends cf allegiance their lawful government. But we cannot forget that the men who are now in arms against this Government initiated a causeless, unjustifiable and awful war; that the guilt of the war is chiefly on their heads and lhat we are solely seeking to uphold the Union which our fathers formed, and co which the future prosperity of the country depends. As religious men, the duty of al legiance to lawful governments and to u,r -press rebellion m as clear Id uj as Ike duty of obedience to the I iw cf God. All we ask, a the condition of that allegiance, is the fidel ity of the rulers 10 the laws , that they ar9 bound to obey as well as we. When Itiey disregard law the people may justly cd'.l them to account. And if we go through the war without counter-revolutions, and our country comes out of this life and strug gle re-ertablished and immprtal, we met stand firmly and nnited by the Constitution as it is, until it can be constitutionally mod ified, Our liberties are all gone when this instrument is trampled on by raters aud people. "We want peace .We pray for peace. But we must have order, law, governme.it, first. There is no peace to the wicked. To agree for a moment to any terms that shall recognize the right of any part of the country to retire at will from the burdens and obligations that devolve on all, is to consent to suicide, 10 fill the future of our history with war and to leave to oor chil dren a legacy ol confusion, anarchy and shame. ' ' ' ' " ' '"
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