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ESTATE OF ALEM MARK, DECD. etters of a-'ministraiiofi on the psiaie of Aiem Marr, Inte ot Seott tnp , Colum bia -cocn'j, deca-ed, have been jran:d by the ReiMer of said cnumy to Peter Ent, 1 rentiing in i'ni ireet, inwnsriji anu conn- ty nforesaiih All persons having claim or j t'enands at:aii si the esaie of iha decedent i re requested 10 present ihem duly anthen- ' tics ted to tl:e adihiriistraior for feitlenient, i ant' thof indebted to the estate will make ' payment forthwith to . PETER ENT,admr. Scott, May 28th, 1862. Opposite the - Court J2oue and next door to , THE ondcrsir.ed,ret'eci(ully inform his . friends and cnifmer that hn has opened V A ISew Exirber Shop. In Court Hou-e Alley, next door below , Ihe Orfice of the Columbia Democrat, where he will be hvp, y to wait upon all cu-tomers, and worn loci experience and strct attn- tio-i to bu-iness. he hones to merit and re- ceive a iinerai shares fit piioiic pa:ronage. xjr'AU things her 1 don in derencf and in order." THOMAS BROWN. !3'oombnr2. March 5. 162. t'OLU n 15 1 A tU RTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR. The Executive Comm'ttee of the Co4um- bi l County Agricultural Society, hae fixed upon me - , titi. ISlh. 17th. k ISlh (!ayi Of October J next, asthe time ol holdir.2 their SevenCi' Annual Fair, " " . CALEB BARTON, Pres't. : Ansust i3. I8fi2. TI'STRAYED from the premises of the -3-- subscriber, in Gr-enwood town-hip, ?v. - --- " r Columbia countv. on or about the 10th off July last, a jrnni uaHT RRn row AllUli M. Jill -r , marked w'uh while pots, 'and! fj;d on when she left, a yoke:G- with a piece of chain- attached. A libera! reward will be paid for any information vHieh will lead to her recovery. ; S.STADOX. Grrenwoo.!, Aug. 13. 1S62. T CAUTION. iJoiice "rs hereby given lhat Hester Hess wife of James He-s, has left his bed, and board without any just cause or provo cation and ail pernns are forbidden to trsut hut ort his cconnt. The parties restdo in Suarloaf township, Columbia county. JAMES HESS. .... "5ugirfoaf, Aos. 20, IS62. 5t. ; . , - E. IL LITTLE. . - - wr f jr k. &1 Or;c? in rou.-t Alley; formerly occupied by. Chatle R. ii.ick-lew., DEEDS, SUMMONS, EXECUTiOIiS, SUCrCENAb',, -oj proper desirableforis,fo-sa!e at the dies ofthe tar ofthe North.7 j-v 1 1 Paii, !essatthe option of the editor. ihe terms nf advertising will ve as follows : One square, twelve lines, three rimes, $1 00 Every subsequent insertion, ..... 25 One square, three months, . 3 00 One year, ...... . . . . . . .... 800 IIOIBLE WORTH. Tell me not that he's a poor man, That his dress is coarse and bare ; Tell me not his daily pittance Is a workman's scanty fare. . Tell jme not his birth'is humble, That his parentage is low : Is he honest in his action ? That'ia ull I want to know. I h:s word to be relied on ? Has his character no blame ; Then I care not if he's low-born ; Then I ak not whence his name. Would he lorm an unjnt action Turn away with scornful eye ? Would he then defraud another, Sooner on the scaffold die I Would he pend his hard sained earnings, On a brother in disiress ? Would he succor the afflicted. And the weak one's wrongs redress? Then he is a man deserving Ot my love andjmy esteem; And I care not what his birth place In the eye of me.i may seem. Let it be a low, thatched hovel ; Let it be a clay built cot ; Let it be a parish work-houe, In my eyes it matters not; And it others will disown him, As inferior to their caste, Let them do it ; I'll befriend birn As a brother to the last. FVom the Philadelphia Sunday lilercu-y. OrphtnsC. crrsnd Ceo. Pope's Campaign. After arriving near the celebrated molas ses junction, where a number of Mackerels j were placing a number of neT cars and lo- I comoiives on the track the object being j lo delude the Southern Confederacy iMo ( taking a ride in tlrem, when, i: js believed ( the aforesaid Confederacy would be.speed- iff. destroyed. .by.ope f . ttc.sal'.It ta2xtL?,,ac - ; cidents" without which a day on any j American railroad would bea perfect anom- j alj arriving there, I say. I took an imme- J el in, 'be wood but staid there, and vhen diate survey of the appointed field of strife. one lne Orange County Howitzers , was To the inexperienced civilian eye, my ' discharged wi;h ereat precision at a r por boy, everything appeared to be in a sta'e j er wno was caught sneaking into our ines of chaotic confusion, which nothing but the ,ne report was heard by - the Yeneiable milnary genius of our generals conld make Gammon-at Washington, caused that rev much worse. On all sides, my boy, I be- j prentl mari to telegraph o all the paper, held Mackerel chaps marching and conn- I lhat no one neeJ ,eel alarmed, ns h was termarshing, falling back, retiring retreating an n.t d making re'.rogade movements. Some ere looking for iheir re2iments. which had beccme mixed with other regiments ; ' some were insanely looking for their offi- cers as though they did not know that thb latter have resided permanently in Wash- ! ington ever since the war commenced; some were making calls on others, and here and there might be teen squads of Confederacies picking up any little thing thor miohl hinnpn n fimt ,. , . f ' , , . lunching upon a bottle and tumbler 0 (r ' '- " - - ' ' near me, 1 saluted him, and says I : 'Tell me, my veteran, how it is that you permit the Southern Confederacy to mean der thus within your lines ?" Tbe eenerai JookeJ oleratingly at rre . . . eai e' "i nave a plan to entrap tue Uoniederacy and end this doomed rebellion at one stroke. Do j'on mark that long train of army wag ons down there near by my quarters?" "Yes," pays I, nervously. "Well, then, my nice little boy," says the general cautiously, "I'll. tell you what my plan is. Those wagons contain the rations of our troops. It is my purpose to induce ,he celebrated Confederacy to capture those - tk. ...-. .ct..,: j- .t... ..... ii me won icue ia.Ky win uy un uiai, fayn the general fiercely, "It will be taken sick on the spot and we shall capture it alive." I could not but feel shocked at this inhu- man arunce. ray coy. ine soutnerners - L .'! c . have indeed acted in a way to forfeit all ordinary mercy, but still we should abstain from any retaliatory act savoring of demoni ac malignly. Our foes are at least human beings. Suppressing my horror, however I assum ed a practical aspect and says I: 'But bow are the Mackerel warriors to ubbi-t, my Napolean, if you allow the ra tions to go V - ! "Thunder V' says the General handing me a paper from his pocket, "They are to subsist exclusively on the enemy. Just pe rose this document, which 1 have just ful- roihated." - - Taking tne paper, I found it to be the fof Iowing : PROCLAMATION. Whereis, The rnctter of provisions is a great expense to ihe United States of Amer ica, besides offering inducemsnls for ane.t peeled raids on the pari of famishing foe men the Mackerel Brigade is hereby di- rected to live entirely upon the Southern Confederacr. eatics Tilm alive wherever found, partaking of no other food. The Brigade will not be perrniited to take any clothing wiih it on the march,' being required henceforth to dress exclusively in the habiliments ol captared Confederates. We have done with retrogade movemen's- No more lines of retreat wirr be kept open, and henceforth the Mackerel Brigade, is to make nothing bnt captures. By order of the ' s ;" General of Ike Mackerel Brigade. Green Seal This able document, my boy, pleased me greatly as an evidence that the war had iri deed commenced in earnest, and though at that moment I beheld some half dozn Confederacies ransacking '.he tent where the General kept his mortgages, his bank account, and other Government property, I felt that our foes were to be summarily dealt with at last. An orderly having finally given notice to .K f J.l . . . . ..I- vun.cneraciflg rummaging within cur lines to get in their proper places, in order ihat the battle might begin, the Anatomical Cavalry, under Captain Samyule Sa-mith made a headlong charge vpon a body of foes who were destroying abridge near the middle ol the field, and succeeded in oblig ing them to remain there. This brillitnl movement was the signal for a general en gagement, and a regimen t of Confederacies at once advnnced within oar lines and un quired the way to Washington. Having given them the desired mfornia-. tion, and allowed a number of similar rci merits to take position between the Mack erels and the capital, the General gave or ders for the Conic Section and the Orai'ce County Howitzers to fall cautiously bad in order that the remaining Confederacies might get between us and Richmond. Yon will perceive by this movement, my boy, we cut the enemy's forces crm pletely in two, compelling him to attack us either in the front or in the rear,giving him no choice of any operation save flink movements. Our plans being thus perfect ed, Captain Viiliam Browr. with Company ' "r-,""ci" ff was oruereu to charge into a wood near at hand, with a viewto induce some recently arrived reserved Confedera cies to take position in our centre, whi! still others would be likely to flank us on tho rinKt an.f auu ii-J!. I Yon mat remembpr Knv iTiof U t, ! heretofore been our mifortnne to fi'iht on j j " j t t na? '"e circumference of a circle, while the Confederacy had the irwida and this treat p!ra,e'P Khme was intended to produce result vice iwi. It was a great success, my boy a great 'ncce i-and nl,Ur"pv rris-ty fr-oml temelve inside the most complete circle on record, -y iSjarn rjrown not only, cl arg- rerf?cily safe, and lhat our victory was very complete. mai particular canger the- Venerable wmmon mcurreo, 1 cannot say, my boy, Dor what l,e knew at,0"t le battle, bt his dpa'ch caused renewed confidence all OTer lh? cot"try, and was a great comfort to his friends Having got the Confederacies just where we wanted them, the General of the Mack erel Brigade now dispatched ten vet ?rans under sergesnt O Pake to attack a few hun dred foes who intrenched themselves in an "keenly manner among our wagons. The Mackerels were well received as prisoners of war, and paroled on the spot, a proceed ing which so greatly pleased the idolized (hat he at once issued a second PROCLAMATION. Il must be understood that in his recent proclamation directing tie Mackerel B'iade to dine exclusively upon Southern Confed eracies, the General commanding diJ not intend that mch dining should take place! without the free consent of ihe aforeiaid ' head court martial, and there he fi ids out Confederacies. , what he is accused of . Military Commis- It mcst not be understood that the order t sions are summary tribunals, not much re concerning the confiscation of ConleJerate j strained by technicalities, and having a su garments is intended to authorize a forcible preme contempt for Constitutions and laws cotifscaotof such costums in opposition j and rules of evidence. General Hunter, to the free will of the wearers. 7 he General vf the Mackerel Brig ade. This admirable order, my boy, prcdnced great enthusiasm in the ranks, as no Con federacies had yet been cacsht, and there was some danger of starvation in the corps. And now my boy occurred that rnignifi cent piece of generalship which i destined to live forever in the annals of fame, and convince the world lhat our military lead ers possess a ' genius eminently bt'fi'ting every one of them for the next Presidency or any other peaceful office. " By skillful manoenvering the gifted general of the Mackerel Brigade had succeeded in cut ting the enemy's forces to pieces, the peices being mixed op with our owr army. Then came the words " Forward, double quick !" . Facing toward Washington our vangnard forced ihe Confederacies before tbem lo move right ahead. Swiftly following the vanguard,and evidently fancying tha; "it was flying before them, came a regiment of Con fedsraeies. Pursuing the latter, as though in triumph, appeared ihe Conic Section, Mackerel Brigade ; closely succeeded in itsxmrn by a regiment of Confederates in charge of out baggage wagons, faciig after whom was a regiment of Mackerels, and eo on to the end of ihe lines. 1 i You may ask me, my boy, with I which side rested the victory, in this remarkable movement t ' . ' That question, my boy, can't be" decided yel as the whole procession has tcarcely J reached Washington but the answer mav be said to depend very much upon wheth. erthe last regiment coming in is Mackerel or Confederate. The contest, my boy, lias assumed a prolound metaphysical aspect and the de velopement of a little more military genius on our side will tend to'. utterly confound our enemies nnd every body else. Your ponderingly, ORPHEUS C. KERR. Pfoclaraatiou ?io. 2. The slaves are allowed three months and a halt before they are converted into free men. Freemen have rvo such day of grace; for Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation No. 2 goes into effect at once and evreywhere. It de clares martial law throughout the North, with a Provost Martial and his deputies in each State and rounty. Itsuspends the writ of hn beat corpus, not in, specified regions but everywhere, in the case of suspected indi viduals. It decrees ,he trial of persons be fore ' Military Commissions." These are its chief.provisionSjineresting to every man, woman and child.in "he Northern Slates. Let ns, in a plain snd direct way, reduce these large sounding phrases and annuncia tions to their elements. What does martial law mean 1 It means, in plain English,the supremacy of the military to the civil au thority. When they do not come in con flict, the civil authority possibly may act ; but when they do, the civil authority must yield. The commanding genpral is the , FeJeral Mayor, and the provost martial the Federal high constable. If Mayor Henry is willing to do what the commanding general directs, then the Mayor may continue his functions; but if Mayor Henry .demurs, then General Montgomery, or some other General, may put the Mayor in custody. All constables are sntject to the provost martial, and (so say the order of the adju tan'-general.) must obey his orders. If du rir.r martiel law, the commanding general chooses, he may take possession of any houe in Philadelphia and do what he pleases with it. He not answerable to he Jaw, only to his military superii rs, and thy are a hundred miles distant from Washington. Such is martial law, which Mr. LincolnVprodamatioa says exists in j Philadelphia. The marshal, as an agert of tne war Department, claims the right to make military arrests; and jf Jude Cad wal'adn'r d?;es 15 ty he .o ic! rlglu, ihe marshal will, by virtue of martial law, exercise il in 8jite of the "denial. Such, we repeat, is martial law. What does suspending the writ of liilcas corpus mean ? Le'. us see. It meaus a de nial of the rL'ht to meet one's accuser face to face ; a right to know why a citizen is deprived of his liberty and locked np in jail A man is accused, orj an ex parte afTidavit, made before some magistrate who neither knows nor cares for its contents, or, as is the fashion, before some man who has no right to administer an oath or witness an af fidavit. It is eeat to Washington, and ' L. C. Ttrner' sends wo-d to arrest the man, and the arrest is made, and. he is hurried away to ihe Capitol prison, or kept in cus tody here ; and when be or his friends his wife or his children ask why ? what is the charge against him ? they are told it is none of his or iheir bu.ine, because the Presi dent has suspenued the habeis corpus act, and they mot submit. The suspension of the writ gives a glorious immunity to epies and informers and detectors, and stool pig eons, and all that brcod of noxious vermin which the stagnant pool of irresponsible power creates in profusion. Having secured the citizen and carried him ofT where neither wife nor children, nor friends nor relatives can trouble him with questions, he is brought before a "Military Commission" (so sajs Proclamation No 2 in to many words.) a son of erand drum- who, we see, is PresiJiJiit of one of them, might give a black man a fair trial, t ut will make short work with a white one. The poor citizen ventures a suggestion as to trial by jury, and his peers,nd his vicitiage,ar.d his distant witnesses : but he is pooh-poohed, and maybe he is told to prove his inno cence, and, failing in lhat, is sentenced to one ot the humane penalties ot military law not flogging, which has been aooiished, but a ball and chain, or perhaps to be shot, and so the matter ends. Now, this is the plain English of martial law suspension of the habeas cotpu, and the establishment of military commissions But something eUe remains to be consid ered. Who does tbe Proclamation say are to be arrested ? The old-fashioned rule was, that a man was penally rev'ponfible for "illegal acts." Misdemeanor is the legal term ris ing on the scale of yraviiy to felony. Both mean "illegal acts." The new Proclama tion says men are to be arrested and tried for "'disloyal practices,'' and the postscript of ihe Adjutant-General says "disloyal per sons" are to be arrested. Whai exactly is meant by "disloyal practice," as distinguish able from an illegal act or a "disloyal per son" from a criminal, it is hard to say ; but something is meant, and the public is left to the mysterious awe which these dark threats inspire no one knowing what he may not do to attract arrest, or what lie may not do to make him obnoxious to the new "holy office." It is, as ia eaid ol Mr. Lincoln's J No. 1, enough to make one thoughtful lo J find whither we are drifting. Our only ob ject is to staid, in plain and intelligible terms, the dreadful meaning we attribute lo these Executive manifestoes. Whether they will avail ic crush out the spirit of freedom which used to animate not merely the Democratic parly but the Amer ican people, we do not pretend to say. If they do, then we may as well get ready for No. 3, which will be that, on the second Tuesday of October, the people of Pennsyl vania shall not be allowed to vote, or, at least, that the privilege shall be confined to ihose,who are "loyal" to the Powers that "be. We hourly look for such a proclama tion. Ours is the day of downward prog ress, and we slip on carelessly almost &aj ly. Constitutional Union. The Surrender c Harper's Ferry. COLONEL MILKS KXCULPATtD. Currency has been given to scandalous rumors in connection with the above event, by which it is sought to cover. with infamy the memory of as gallant and loyal a soldier as ever drew a sword in defence of ihe country. Even Ihe officers who served un der him have not escaped similar calum nies. When. the facts come to be correctly ascertained, we believe it will be found that everything was done by our troops at Harper's Ferry that was possible for so small a force to accomplish azainst such overwhelming odds. The blame of the surrender rests not with the officers in com mand, but with the War Department. which failed to reinforce this important s ra egical point when it was in danger. McCIellan had too rnnch on hand at Sharpsbnrg to spare any of his troops without endanger ing his plans. It was for the War Depart ment to have despatched a sufficient force from Washington to enable Colonel Miles to hold out until the'rebels in front of Mc CIellan were either compelled to surrender or driven across the Potomac. Thus again to the insufficiency of the blundering of the deparment do we owe the lo-s of the ser vices of eight or ten thousand of our beot troops, and the facili'ating of Jackson's junction with Lee. which cost us the lives of several thousand more. Of what ue is il for ns to have good Generals if they are thus secortded ? A CLEAR CAUSE FOR COl'RT MARTIAL. If iho rocemlh,:i:y vf Prrcmlrl vif Harper's Ferry belong especially to any one officer, we think that Colonel Tom Ford, of Ohio, is that man. His abandon ment of Maryland Heights was the loss of the whole position ; for with those Heists in possession of the enemy all the other de fences of the townwere untenable. Nor does it appear lhat Ford made even a res pectable show of resistance to hold those Heights. Gen. McCIellan fought the suc cessful battle of South Mountain on Sunday the 14th, the cannonading ol which was, perhaps, heard in the same mountain range at Harper's Ferry, only some twelve or fif teen miles off. We know, at all events, that had our officers in charge of that poi lion held out till Monday night, instead of basely surrendering lhat morning, the be leaguring rebel forces would have been compelled to leave the place on Tuesday morning, as they did, to go up the river to the relief of General Lee. Thus, in holding Harper's Ferry a few hours longer, we should have saved to ocr Army of the Potomac from ten to twelve thousand men, some fifteen thousand rnus. kets and rifles, from fifty to one hundred peices of ar'ilery, and valuable supplies ol ammunition, provisions, wagons and stores ol alt kinds; but, above all, in connection with the?e troops and materials of war, we should have saved a military position equal in fifty thousand men to General McCIellan. Cut all was lost through this disgraceful ca pitulation, and Ihus the means and the way of escape were provided for the rebel army from Maryland, which otherwise wou'd have been cut off. From the fact before us, had our forces at Harper's Ferry been under the command of an officer of Jeff. Davis, the capitulation would not have been contrived more advantageously than it has been lo Gen. Lee. We submit lhat the abandonment of Maryland Heights by Tom Ford should be thoroughly investigated. We have had of late quite enough of these shameful capitu lations, with the smallest possible show of honest resistance ; nor until some exempla ry punishments are administered for such outrageous delinquencies can we expect any great success, In conclusion, while such incompetent, blaiher-skiting politi cians and adventurers as Tom Ford are as sisned to such important military trusts as Maryland Heights, we have no right to ex pect anything bat disappointments and dis grace. To make lager beer the following new re ceipt is given ; Take a barrel and fill it with rain water, put in a pair of old boots, a head of last fall's cabbage,two short sixes, a' sprig of wormwood and a little yeas'. Kaep it lor a year and then "dish out." "Why did yon come back ?" asked a sleek, well-fed citizen of a poor half-sick Federal soldier just returned from McClell &n's army. ''Why don't you. go ?" replied the soldier. A peddler being asked by a Iong.spindle, shanked wag, if he had any tin overalls answered . "No, but I have a pair of candle moulds that will just fit you." THE EMIGRANT'S DlIXC CHILD. Father I'm hunger'd ! give me bread : Wrap close my shivering form ! Cold blows the wind around my bead, And wildly bea's the storm, Protect me from the angry sky ; I shrink beneath its wrath, And dread this lorrent rushing by, Which intercepts our path. Father these California skies, Yen said, were bright and bland But where, to night, my pillow lies, Is this the golden land ? 'Tis well rny little sister sleeps, Or else the too would grieve ; Bui only see how utill she keeps She has not stirr'd since eve. I'll kiss her, and perhaps she'll speak ; IShe'll kis me back, f knf w ; Oh ! father, only touch her cheek ; 'Tis cold as very snow. Father, you do not shed a tear, Yet little Jane has died; Oh ! promise, when you leave rne here, To Jay me by her side ! And when you pass this torrent cold We've come so far to eee, And ynu eo on, beyond, tor gold, Oh think of Jane and me. Faher, I'm weary ! rest my heal Upon thy bosom warm Cold bio ws the wind aroend my head, And wildly oeats the storm. It Pays to Take the Papers. A capital story is told of an old farmer in the northern part of the county, who had been 'saving up' to take up a mortgage of S2000 heldacainst him by a man nearer the sea shore. The farmer had saved up all the money in gold, fearing lo trust the banks in thar-e war times. Week before last he logged down his gold and paid it over, when the following colloquy ensued. 'Why, jou don'i mean o give this S2000 in gold do you V said the lender. 'Yes. certainly,' said the farmer, ' I was afraid of the pe.-ky banks, and so I've been saving up the money in yellow boys,for this long time.' AH right,' responded the lender, 'only I thought you didn't take the papers, that's all !' 'Take the paper ! No, sir, not I. They have gone on so si nee the war's been agoing that I wont have one of. ihe d lish things about. But the money is all right, isn't it?' 'Yes, all right, S2000 in gold. All right', here's your note and mortgage.' And weft he might have called it all right as the premium on gold that day was 22 Tr rant., u.J hit- ,lvi Ultly WUiili the face of his bo:,d, but S440 besides, en ough to have paid for his village newspa per fi r himself and posterity at least three centuries. It pays to take the papers. Not tci Ik Guzdle . A notorious scamp was brought not long aao before an Onatidago Justice. He was accused of having come the " strap-game" over a native. The portly Justice wishing tr decide undersiandingly, requested the culprit to give him a sample of his skill. The party instantly produced a leather strap pave it a scientific whisk acros. the bench, and remarked : "You see Judge, the quarter under ihe s rap V "What !" interrupted the dignified func tionary, "do you mean to say that there is a quarter there V "Sartin !" was the replv. "No such thing." said the Justice. "I'll go you a dollar on il," said the pris oner. "Agreed !' said the Ber-ch. With accustomed adroitness the strap was withdrawn, when lo! there was ihe quarter ! "Well," said the nstonished Shallow, " I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen with my own eyes ! There is yourdollar, and you are fined jive dcllirs for . gamblins, contrary lo the stitue in such case made and provided !'' The elonaatcd countenance of the discom fited gambler required no additional evi dence to testify his appreciation of " tbe suck." Farming os Sharks. Connecticut boasts ot som "ood farmers. They have a curious way of do;i g things on snnrf.?,and the result of these operation sometimes offer a fine field for the display of logic. One ol their farmers leased to his son-in-law three acres of land to be planted wish corn and cultiva ted by him at the halves. In ihe fall the lessee said that was the poorest land he I ever worked on : 'for' saul he. "I worked hard all summer, and at harvest time,when we came to divide crop, I not only had no corn left for myself, but lhat logo and buy five bushels of shelled corn to make out my father-in-laws half.' Here is another case illustrating the workings of thin peculiar institution of doing things on shares : Farmer A happened to have more pigs than he could keep, while his neighbor B had more milk than he could dispose of. One day A brought two pigs over and deposited them in B 's pen; saying that he wished B to keep them, on shares, and thai he might keep thrm two months, and have one of them s his share. B replied that as he had plenty feed he would keep them four Months and have them both as of courne that would amount to the same ihina ! A left, saying lhat he suppo sed il was all right but guessed he wouldn't bring. iny more. "There's two ways of doing it," said Pat to him-elf, as he stood musing and waiting for a job, "if I save me four thousand dolfars I must lay up two hundred dollars a year for twenty years, or I can put away twenty ; dollars a year for two hundred years now i which shall I do!" From the Week'y Scotsman. The Confederate Forces and Prospects. The Times publishes a statement from George Saunders, late American Cpnsol in London, who has arrived in England by the Jura, direct from Richmond. .He has im portant advices from ihe Confederate Com missioners. He says: The army in Vir ginia numbers 200,000 fighting men.'wiih 400 pieces of well-appointed field artillery and 10.000 splendidly mounted and armed cavalry. The army was in fine condition, marching on the enemy and anxionslo give them battle, and no one in or out of the army doubted the result, . 150,000 in-, fantry and artillery and 12 000-eavalry are" in supporting distances in North Alabama," East Tennessee, and South Eastern Ken tucky, and were making concerted marches upon the front and rear of Buell's and Grant's armies, supposed to be less than 150,000. The Confederate cavalry, under Generals Forrest and Morgan, bad cot off the Federal reinforcements and supplies by river and rail, destoying the bridges, tun nels, trains, and transports from close prox imity to 150 miles in Buell's rear. It was confidently believed at Richmond that Gen... Buell's nrmy would have to capitulate. To hold St. Louis and Missouri against the Confederate forces would require 150,000 men. Acconnts from Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, and Mar land represent that the" young men are ready and anxious to lake up arms as soon as the Confederate army shall advance; lhat the Confederate Govern ment calculate upon adding to their num ber in the field not less than one hundred and fifty thousand from these States, they having furnished scarcely a regiment to the ' Federal army under the last call, and that the health of Richmond is particularly '' good." The Times believes tbe above state ment to be genuine. The FinnnxG Forcb of th Confederate States A writer in the Mobile Register gives the statistics of the fighting force of' the Conftderate States, professedly derived: from the United States census table of 1840 and 1850, and assuming that the ratio of increase from 1850 to 1860 is as great as lhat from 1840 to 1850. The census tables for 1S50 show that the fourteen slave states had a white male population between the ages of 15 and 50 of 1,470,000; and if the Stales increased as rapidly between 1850 and I860 as they did during the preceding ten years, their present white male popn-j laiion between 15 and 50 will re 2,030,000. "Assuming the census tables to be correct," says4he Richmond Whig, "we now bars in ilia fourteen Southern States, upwards of two millions of white males between the azes of 15 and 50, and it is idle to talk about conq uering them. Tbey ate not shopkeep ers, tatWrs, factorymen, button-makers. &c.t turned loose upon the world, and forced to -enlist from want: but they are use to hand ling the shot gun and rifle from the age of 12. Grant, bowever, that this estimate is ' extravagant, let us suppose that the ages of 18 and 40 should govern as the limit. Still this would not reduce us lo despair; for, by no rule of calculation could our fighting -forces be reduced to one million of men. ; This force can be kept in the field as long as the North may assail us, and it will not : interfere with our producing and agricultur al population. When the present crops are gathered, the South will not again feel any want of food for man or horse. Insub ordination among her black population, upon which the North counted so largely, does nol exist; our slaves can be safely trusted to the management of the boys un der 18 and tbe old men, and abundant crops be thus secured while our fighting men are in the field. Not so with the North. Whenever she puts anything like her military strength into the field she weakens her power to feed her people; and though her white population in I860 was 19.000 000, against 8.700.000 whiles of the South, and though she ought, therefore, to be able to send out two soldiers where we can send one, yet we question much if she can send out one million as readily as the South can. The prolongation o! this strug gle will develop more of the resource of the South than of the North." A Calt. to Arms. The following "excit ing" call to arms has been extensively cir culated in the State of Connecticut, United States: " Invalid Brigade! Pour in Patriotic Sona . of Connecticut, and fill up the Ranks! Glory, Hallelujah! Yonr Country calls! Let 'er call. Get your certificate, and join the glorious Brigade of General Debility" The first Regiment of this Bnsade will con sist of the following companies: Com pany A, Sapheads and Minors; Company B. Undertakers' Zouaves: Cora'y C, Crutch. Company, (in ambulances); Company D, Only Sons Company; Company E, Peace Guards in Private Carriage; Company F, Substitute Corps; Company G, Disabled Patriots ; Company II, Forty-six yearolders 'pet lambs'; Company I, Invited Guests, (foreigners); Company K, Canadian Volti geurs. There will be a 'grand inspection' of ihe corps on Saturday; every 'ill that flesh is heir to' is expected to be in tbe ranks. The Undertakers' Zouaves will form the right of the line. A few more men wanted for this company. None bnt able bodied men need apply. Each man will be armed with a pine coffin and a 'cerlifi cate !' Bouuty Land A Farm 6 ft x. 1, will be given to each recruit."
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