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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.
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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.
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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. ' ' ' ' " ' '"