4- .-.1 : v U . U. JACQ3Y, rublisLir. Trntli and Right God and our Country. Two Dollas per Ann n. VOLUME 15. BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 23, 1863. NUMBER 9. ( ) 1 Mill. it PUBLISHED 1TI8T WKSJTXSDAT BT i " WM. II. JACOBY, ... fj.fiee cn Sain St., 3rd Square below Market, TERMS: Two Dollars prnnum it paid : within six months from the time of subscri bing: two dollars and fifty rents if not paid . within the year. No subscription taken for - a less period than six months; no discon tinaar.ee permitted until alia rrearages are ; paid, unless at the option of the editor. . Ike term$ of advertising vriS be as follows: , One square, twe've lines three times, 5.1 00 THyery subsequent insertion, ..... 25 ' One square, three months, ...... 3 00 One year, .. ., ....... . ...,800 Ctjoite poctrn. GIVE H B1CI CUE OLD COSBASDER. c Give u back oar old Commander, Little Mac, the people's pride ; Let the army and the nation In 'heir choice be satisfied; With McClellan as oar leader, Let os strike the blow anew : Give os back our old Commander He will ee the battle through. Chorus Give as back oar old commander. Let him manage, let him plan With McClellam as our leader, We can wish no better man. . Men may fiaht for fame and glory, ' Some may fight just "for the tin," Giro as then our noble leader, Let as fight bat fight to win, Uncle Sam has lots of mo.,ey. Mighty stores and many men ; Yet the people "think it funny1' We should be repulsed again. Chorus. Pope he made a dash lor Dixie;. Said he'd set the darkies free ; Bui he hasn't done a'ready . What we did expect to see, Down upon the Rappahannock, Burn-tide went with army bold Tho' repuls'd, he did his duty, Acting just &s he was told. Chorus. Congressmen may plan and twaddle How the fighting should be done; Ball Run taught them to skedaddle, Ely took too slow a ran, Editors, oar men of wisdom i Lay the plan for Richmond's fall: Greeley knows just how McClellan Could have bag'd the rebels a!l. Chorus, Down in Dixie he may lead as, We will follow any route ; : Still the learned War Department Gives the order Right about. Lincoln's great on Proclamations, Stanton councels Uncle Sam, Halleck does as their adviser Generals; some a perfect sham. THE DESPOT'S EDICT. There was a time when the annual Mes sage of a President of the United States was designed for the instruction, guidance and benefit of the white race for whom the Re public was created ; to-day we publish a President's Message that, while it insulting ly ignores these topics of .vital interest to the white citizen, is devoted almost exclu sively to suggestions and theories relative the negro. If anything could inspire the chief magistrate of an enlightened, people witli statesmanship and sense of duty, such inspiration, one might hope, would have resulted from the contemplation of the des olation and ruin that have been wrought wiibin the space that assion and preju dice have give lo the horrors of civil strife Millions of American citizens will this day peruse the President's Message with the hope of fiading therein something sugges tive of a termination of the hideous scenes of the past thirty months. How bitter will be the disappointment to discover nothing i..r--;M nA tmnrootir.MA ntan , for the consummation of abolition ! The Meanwhile, from day to day, we have Massage is rambling,-vague and evasive -canned the columns of the "War Demo opon every subject but this. Its greater j cralic" journals with cariosity and expect ation, brief as it ts, is devoted to details i disconnected with our domestic troubles. But the very first sentence that Mr. Lincoln dedicates to the subject of our sectional diSerences,' brings him in contact with the negro question, and from that point to the conclusion, Lhare is no fact, no argument, no theory advanced that has not in view the realization of the scheme of emancipation. The "policy of emancipation" "and of em ploying black soldiers" is first alluded to in connection with onr political situation, and having beau thoroughly exhausted, gives place to the labyrinthine outlines of a plan jo make abolition the imperative condition of reconstruction. -v No unprejudiced mind can dwell upon ttis part of the Message without the convic tion that Mr. Lincoln has determined to prosecute i.'lia war hereaftur exclusively in the interest of emancipation and according to the extreme purposes of the Radicals. If the intention" were openly avowed,. one Slight give the man at least the tribute due in boldness ; but there is a low cunning ex hibited ia parade of sophistry that jars upon t!i3 fcslingi as something which, when a ' 5c:a:sd w:ih ideas of oCcial digaity and icsor, bring shame and humiliation to the entire people. The plot, for ir is nothing hi33 than a treacherous and despicable plot, ii not developed ia the Jlescase proper. To give it it osce the fores of an executive ec'ict, h-3 appeaia a proclamation, purport i ia be one of amnesty, but in reality de- f .-. . . i ...... m i hirai'oa ia its secaaea tiates taa i I rrr.s asw' Ccuutloas fcostild to I slavery. "A number of persons not less than one-tenth in number of the rotes cast in such States at the Presidential election of the year of our Lord J8I0, each having taken the oath aforesaid, and excluding all others," may "re-establish a State Govern ment,'' which "shall be recognized as the true Government of the State?" "And it is engaged as not improper that ioconstract ing a loyal State Government in any State, the name of the State, the boundary, the mb-divisions, the Constitution, and the general code of taxes be maintained, subject only to the modifications made necessary by the conditions herein before stated (those of. the Emancipation Proclamation), and such others which may be deemed expedi ent by the; new State Government." The suggestion is that it is not "improper" to retain tin old Constitution, bat the sugges. lion amounts to au invitation to do other wise. By observing the tenor of -'the oath aforesaid," it will be seen that no person can assist in the formation of these new State Governments who is not sworn to "abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed daring the existing rebell ion, with reference to slaves," and also "to abide by and faithfully support all procla mations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves, Patting this and that together, the simplest logician will perceive that it becomes int. possible for any Stale to return to the Union except coder the oath of its citizens to con sent to the abolition of slavery. - Is not this an effectual bar to reconstruc tion ? j not this a prosecution of the war directly for for the consummation of Eman cipation 1 Having sacrificed so much of their best blood and .undergone so much financial, social and political misfortanes with the prospect before them of years oj ruinous warfare, the people of the North cannot be blind to the propriety of establish ing some standard of reconciliation that it is possible for the South "to accept. Yet now we have it distinctly proclaimed by the Administration that the only avenue to re construction leads under the yoke of Aboli tion. Who shall say that is not the pliant tool of fanaticism, that it is in accordance with our Republican institutions for one- tenth of the voters of a State to remodel, ar.d in fact to re-create the laws and Constitution-o( the State, especially when it is within tae power of the. Administration, in the event ol military occupation, to flood such a Slate with me emissaries of its will ? So far from being stlf-government, the re alization of such a scheme would be worse than tyranny ; it would be the betrayal of the principle fought for by our fathers, by a mean and treacherous trick, which would eternalize discord, suspicion and haired be tween the sections. A noticeable feature of the Message is the absence of all allusion to the arbitrary acts of the Administration, to the suspension of Habeas Corpus, to the Conscription Bill and its ridiculous failure, and to the many de parture?, from our system of government which Lave been the themes for universal comment. These things have touched the popular heart to the core ; the public jour nals have dilated upon them unceasingly, they have been and are a source of general concern and anxiety; but our Chief Magis. irate does not condescend, to give them s passing nottce ; secure tit the military power be commands, he disdains to explain to excuse or to justify ; his official attention is too much preoccupied with that now confessed purpose : Emancipation at all hazards. Mr Lincoln's present Message reveals the Radical policy in all its disloyal, disunion and anti-republican aspects, and consigns its author to eternal infamy. N. Y. Daily News. The 'War Democrats." Several days have now elapsed since the publication of Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation Jiessage ana -ADoiuion r rociamation. c lOMwnain wneuior may wouia at once renounce tueir advocacy oi a war now confessed to be for the single purpose of Abolition, or whether they would still seek to justify their absurd doctrine by some miserable subterfuge and canning sophistry. We have examined the editorials of The World of The Journal ot Commerce, of The Express, not conceiving it possible that those ardent organs of a "War for the Union" could continue to advocate a pro. longation of hostilities, after the President had distinctly proclaimed that no "War for the Union" was being waged. Bat those journals seem postively to ignore this fact, which completely confounds and de molishes their theory, and while they com ment severely upon the disunion tendencies of the Message, still uphold the murderous and runious strife which according to their own argument, is destructive of ail the ele ments of Reconstruction. Mr Lincoln, th.jy admit, has postively. proclaimed the war to be hostile to Reunion, yet . they in sist upon the prosecution of this Anti-Union War. The inference is, either that there is no sincerity in their protestations of regard for the Union, or that being completely be wildered by the intricacies of the false po. sition they have assumed, they have, deter mined to ignore all troth and consistency, and to toss without rudder or compass upon the currents of the political maelstrom. At a time like this,, when so much de pends upon journalistic honesty and firmness nothing can be more despicable than a rAnnlrstinn (tf rusnnntihi t It v nr t, a rart rt f - J - - t - a public joarcal. GsaUsasa cl its 'War Democratic' Press, define your position and let the people know what principle yon are contending for ; or if you dare not own ; a principle, confess your unworthiness to guiae ana instruct tne paonc, ana aostain hereafter from comment upon political themes. You acknowledge the war to b conducted in the interest of disunion, so far yoa are in the right. Bat yoa support the war such as it is, tempering only your sup port with occasional denunciations of the Administration. .The fact is still patent that you support a war which you insist has every disunion attribute. How can the conclusion be avoided either that at heart yoa are disonionists, or that some eelfmh motive controls your boasted affection for the Union and makes yoa "palter with us jn a double sense V The World says that that Mr. Lincoln "has rendered a Union party in the Sonth impossible." In the face of that impossibility, why sanction a war so frought with misery and mistortuno f Why should The World demand that hun dreds of thousands of lives, billions of treas ure commercial prosperity, financial order, social happiness, political security, should be sacrificed in a mad endeavor to accom plish an impossibility! Perhaps The World thinks that reunion can be effected without a Union party at the Sooth. Does it pretend that such a Union would be de sirable, or that it would be possible without the entire overthrow of oar political fabric ? Oar contemporary does not intimate that a Union majority wocld be impossible, but a "Uoioa party,'' which means that, in its estimation, the South is and will remain unanimous in resistance to reconstruction. Does The World expect to prevail upon the Administration to change its policy ? Does it hope that some miracoleus agency will intervene between Mr. Lincoln and his fanaticism t Will that insensate wor ship of Abolitionism, which has intensified from year to year, until now it is the para mount, nay the onlj object of Radical exist ence, be relinquished by its idolators, and the pore flame of patriotism supply its place ? There is not a "War Democratic" organ that conceives so vain a hope, or that would haTe the effrontery to make it the excuse for prolonging the appeals to arms. The North is being decimated, tmprovereh- ed, ruined by a strife for which no b.?ter result is claimed, even by Mr. Lincoln, than the extenction of Slavery. The "War Democratic" organs admit the fact, deplore it, but cry let ns fight (on I We are fight ing to achieve that which is impossible, yet let as fight on ! They describe the Jugger naut in all its hideous aspects ; they call attention lo in as it rolls on through blood p.nd carnage, leaving desolation behind, while every hope of Union vanishes betore its path; they nay, Lo '.the accursed engine of the Republic's destruction, the in stru ment of disbnion, and they call upon the people to put their shoulders to the wheels and push it on. If the "War Democratic" organs, by some subtle reasoning, have discovered how it can be just for them to advocate that which they condemn. or how it can be wise to attempt that which they confess irnpos sible, we trust they will give their logic to the people. We ask them two plain ques tioos : Do they believe that the Admin istration design to prosecute the war for the restoration of the Union ? Do they sap port the war ? - If the first question be an swered in the affirmative, tbey belie their own words. If in the negative, how in their conscience, can tbey answer the second, except likewise in the negative ? Speak, geutlemen, and to the purpoae, so that, although but few may agree with you all may understand yoa ; and let the people after their President's direct repudiation of a "War for the Union," be no longer mysti fied by the sophisms of journals that still cling to that abandoned theory. N. Y Daily News. 'from Greenland'! ley Sonntains."' The late Dr. Raffles, in a letter to Dr. Lowell Mason, gives the following interest ing account of the origin of the Missionary Hymn of Bishop Heber, "From Greenland's Mountains,'7 which is now sang tho wide world over : "Heber, fhen rector of Hodent, married the daughter of Dean Shiply, Rector or Vi car of Wrexham, in North Wales. On a certain Saturday, he came to the house of his father-in-law, who resided at the rec tory or vicarage, to remain' over' Sunday, and preach in that church for the Church Missionary Society. ' As they sat conversing after dinner, the Deaa said to Heber, "Mow, as yoa are a poet, suppose yoa write a hymn for the ser. vice to-morrow mornicg " Immediately be took a pen, ink and pa per, and wrote that hymn, which, had be written in nothing else, would have im mortalized him.- He read it to tho Dean, and said i "Will that do?" "Ah," he replied, "and we will hsve it printed and distributed in the pews, that the people may sing it after the sermon.'' -"Bat," said Heber. "to what tnna will il go ! " - - " ' - v "Oh?' he added, "it will go to Twas when the seas were roaring." And so he wrote in ' the corner, at the top of the page, Twaa when the was were roaring." ."' - ; " ; The hymn was printed accordingly. : Laws are like cobwebs, which catch small flies but 1st wps and hornsw break throuzV The Dead Wife. Yes the wife yon loved so f oundly, cher ished so tenderly is dead. She lies in the shady room she loved so wel! ; but she heeds not now where they palace her. Yoa go in and look on thecalm and sweet face marble like in its repose no smile beams there on on your approach. The warm blood mounts no longer to the soft cheek. Yon press your lips wildly to hers, that for the first time gave back no answering pressure. Yoa take the little pale hand in yours, but the slender fingers clasp around yours no longer. Yon breathe the name that has ever been the dearest to yoa in the wide world, bat she bears your voice no more ; she is dead ! Tbey. robe her in a snowy shroud and lay her In a narrow coffin. Oh ! can you live while she is 'prisoned there, yoa wildly ask. ( The minister of God sajs a few solemn words weeping friends gather round to uke a last farewell, and when turned away yoa stand by her but for the last time. Can it be you must part with her forever; that yoa look for the last time on that deer face, press the last kiss to her cold lips ; but no tears come to your relief, and friends draw yoa away bat yoa watch the undertaker as he folds the muslin over that face, and torus the coffin lid closely down. Yoa feel as if yoa would suffocate, He does not heed, but puts the screws in qnickelt, tightly and yoa follow to the grave fhat yawns to receive the form clasped so maoy times to your heart. Yoa see them lower her in, and hear the clods with a doll hollow sound upon her coffin. Oh ! methinks there is no sound on earth that brings such feelings to tba heart, as the sound ot earth as it falls, covering the forms of those we love. Yoa seek your darkened home, but no white arms are clasped round yoar neck ; no sweet voice bids yoa welcome; no blue eyes look into yours speaking the love the lips do not always utter. Here is where she used to sit close by your side ; here the books she read : there her piano stands open with your favorite song spread ont ; bulrhe will sit by your side, read for yoa, play for yoa, no more forever. Yoa stand by the window look oat into the garden ; the flowers she planted are blossoming as brightly as if her band had trained them up this very morning, bat off beyond the garden yoa see the quaint church spire, and there close by, she slumbers. Yoa turn away and sit down with all this agony at your heart, and memory takes yoa back to the long ago, to the first bour of your acquaintance with ber, and yoa teel you loved her then and love ber now better than yoa can love one on earth. And you are right ; will ever be uearest and dearest. You any she re- member talking with her long ago, of death and of her saying she would wish to go first for she could never part with yoa on earth; and she bai gone first ; but can too live without hcb ? You read the letters' she penned to you in yoar absence yoa look on a tress of sunny hair severed after death, with a grief at your heart whicn will not be hushed. Years pass on, and another may bright en your home, but as yoa listen to her merry words and joyeous laugh, when the dark eyes look in yoar own, when ber hand is warmly closed in yours, the memory of the loved and lost will sweep. over your own heart until yoa forget the loving one by yoar side. Sometimes yoa see a face or form that resembles hers, or hear a voice low and soft as hers used to ' be and you find the young heart mouldering in the grave is as dear to yoa as ever; though an other fills ber place by yoar side, and yoa thought for a time you had given ber op. Bat no she comes often to yoa as yon sit by your cheerful fireside ; yon feel the arms circling round your neek, the soft lips pressed to your brow ; see the eyes so mild and - loving, looking down through yours into your soul ; yoa hear the low tones telling yoa again bow dear yon are, bat yoa start op nervously and look around on those gathered about yoa, trying to shake off the illusion as yoa remember how long she has been sleeping. Ah, the first true love of the heart never will, never can die out. It may be silent for a time, bat it will rise op like ghost to baant the hoars that might otherwise be happy. The heart, thank God, is locked away from all human eyes. Rep n.b lit an Dictionary, WRITTIW (BY SWIVEL,) IN 1860. "Freedom in Territories The right to steal from the Treasury of New York. Paramount issue Attending to other peoples business and neglecting oar own. Republicanism The principle that the people shall cot govern themselves. New York politics Niggers in South Carolina. Constitution of the United States A po litical myth. Slavery 1st. A machine used to elect men to office. 2d. A cloak to cover their iniquities af ter they are elected. - ,. Declaration of Independence A State paper got up to make negroes free, and to prevent white men from governing them selves. . ; . ". Rail sp lilting (iynomymout with Railroad ing) The primary meaning is public plun der. ' . ': '::'":; , Consistency Building up a Republican party to prevent a portion of the people of the Uaioa front governing themselves." From the Western Emporiam. AN EVENING REVERIE, One rainy eve I sat me down, beneath the murky skies, Where sleepy hogs were grunting, aoa tobacker sheds arise ; Where bull-frogs sing the loudest, and the lurid vapor shoots A thought was running through my mind, and water through my boots ; And as a sudden thunder-clap far id the distance sunk, Once more I roused my ideas, and this was the thought I thunk. 4 Oh, is there not some happy land a land beyond the seas Where pot-pie smoke in boundless lakes, and dumplins grow on trees ? Can gingerbread be found in stacks, and smear-kase by the ton ? And wben you do a job of work, you get the "ready John ?" Where Nature's lesson may be read in every . babbling brook ? Where bumble-bees don't sting a chap, and muley bulls don't hook ? Do people there get milk from cows, as much as from the pumps 1 Doescholic ever come about, the measels or the mnmbs ? Do lovers fear for rival swains, to "run them off the track V And do they find the girls at 'home, and never get the "sack ?" Do hatbands bear upon their snoots the mark of finger naiU ? Do lambs skip o'er the verdant hills, and xag their wooly tails 1 And in that land thats far away, do mad dogs ever bite 1 Can "green ones.' see the "Elephant," at fifty cent's a sight 1 Do scents of oys'ers reach one's nose, upon each passing breeze 1 Do people fear for bed bugs there, or ever dream of fleas 1 Do trousers rip without a cause or brogans pinch your corns ? And does the whiskey make yoa "yorked," at half a dozen "horns 1" As if that land were nigh, there came a strange and pleasing smell ; And then upon ray list'ning ear the sound of footsteps fell ; At length I heard a deep-toned voice, which seemed to mutter "Aye !" I looked around it was a goat it only hol lered "Bah 1' My train of thought was broken off my happy vision fled I quickley hustled to my feet, and scamp ered off to bed. Sew Express Line. Dunn Browne, array correspondent of the Springfield Republican, is a wag. If yoa doubt it, read this, his latest effusion : Great poiomac and rapidan through route ! Promptness and Dispatch ! Meade & Lee's Through Express, weekly line, between Alexandria and Culpepper; connections with principle points North and South (especially the Old Capitol and Libby prison). The subscribers having completed their arrangements and gotten their line into run ning order, will hereafter, until further notice, run their machines (te "Army of the Potomac" and ''Army of Northern Vir ginia") every week through from Culpep- ! per, Va., to Alexandria, Ya , and vice versa giving their personal atention to the runing ' of each train. Lee proceeding Meade at a ' propper interval on the out trains, and Meade preceeding Lee with similar regular ity on the in trains. The perpect familiarity ! ot these old stagers with the whole route in ' question, and the frequency with which j they have traversed it, enable them to cal- ; colate with perfect accuracy the time of arrival at the indicated points. Having gotten up all their locomotives and rolling stock regardless of expense, and putting them through night and day alike, they are enabled to disregard the ordinary draw backs of weather, slate of roads, &c , as those who do a smaller business cannot. Patronage reepectly colicited. G. G. MEADE, R. E. LEE. P. S. The line throng1) Pennsylvania has been dicontinued, in consequence of a painful collision which occurred there n July last, but as such things have been care- r . I 1 1 I tuny avoiuea ever sine). uu every precau tion taken for the future, it is hoped that an indulgent public will not remember that unfortunate occurrence to the prejudice of the company. Dunn Browne. Secretary. The man who was always behindhand has recently purchased several bottles of ketch-op. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, of Kentucky, are roported to be parents of twenty-two chil dren. Rather an extensive brewery. Some fellows deposit all their money un der their vests, in the form of victuals and drink and call that "investing" it. Generally, as soon as a man is supposed to have a little money, his wife gets too lame to walk, and must have a . car riage. The editor of an exchange says he never saw but one ghost, and that was the ghost . . , . 1 . ! of sinner, who bad died without paying for his paper. "'Twas horrible to look npon." Why is a drunkard like a bad politician ! Because he s always sticking his nose into measures to hart the constitution. Mant persons write articles and send them to the editor to be corrected as if an editor's office were a house of correction. Artemus Ward '.hinks it is a hard thing not to have a wife no genUa heart ta get 1 op ia the morulug aud stake the fire. Midnight Charge of the Mnle Brigade. A correspondent with the Army of the Cumberland writes as follows: During the advance of Hookers corn- mand upon the enemy near Lookont Moun tain, an incident happened that is worth re lating, and one which I believe has never been made public, notwithstanding the fact that it was at the time of its occurrence a subject of much merriment at the expnse of the rebels. You will remember that Hook er moved on Lookout Mountain very cau tiously from the west side. While engaged in the movement up th valley, owing to some cause, unknown to me, a stampede among the mules took place. It was in the night, when both armies were resting from the fatigues of the previous day, and the sentinel's tread was the only sound that disturbed the universal quiet. Rushing from the wagons, to the number of about thirty, the mules made for the enemy's lines like frightened sheep. The drivers were awak ened by the noise, just in time to witness the disappearance of the animals through our advanced pickets. The enemys pick ets were not caught nappisg. Hearing the mule brigade tearing across the valley, tbey mistook them for the Yankee cavalry, dis charged their muskets at the supposed ''Yanks" and fell back upon a batallion sta tioned a little in the rear of them, with the cry that the enemy were opon ihem. The battallion partaking of the alarm, sprang to arms only in time to hear the sound of the frightened males, whose race was not check ed by the volley from the pickets. They retreated also a short distance to a point where the whole brigade had stacked their arms, and were calmly dreaming of home and battle scenes. In rushed the battallion, more deftd than alive from the fright, with the exclamation, "Hooker has surprised us, his cavalry ib upon ns' The valiant sons of Mars did not wait to gather op their blankets or guns but made the fastest pe- dettrian time on record back to the main force, leaving apon the field for the mule brigade one thousand stand of arms, among which were three hundred new Enfield rifles, blankets, small arms, knapsacks, &c. Meantime our teamsters bad given the alarm and a force was sent out for the re covery of the mules, and in a few hours the expedition inaugurated the mules, returned ; to our lines wiih the valuable spoiU." Filling Up his Record of Infamy. Gov. Curtin pardoned the scoundrel who demol ished the Huntingdon Monitor, after tbey bad been justly convicted by a Court of jus- j like a prioce, and in a peculiarly reckless tice ;he pardoned the scoundrel who knock- i manner. ed down a quiet and peaceable old man in j Of bis military career, the less said the the doorway of the Danville Pos'office ; he j better, unless, indeed, Gen. Burnside sho'd pardoned the scouudrels who maltreated an j be qroted, bnt of that, never mind, attorney in Easton ; be pardoned the scoun- j Sprague did well, in raising and equip drels who so shamefully abused 'a citizen ' P'aSi troops. These were sent from his in Bloomsbnrg ; and he has just pardoned j State m within twenty four hours after the ten scoundrels in Allentown who assaulted i c'l vas made, and he deserves credit for and maltreated a young man. All the fore, going scoundrels had been convicted bv juriorsof their own choice, and heavily fined by the Courts of their respective dis tricts. Whv did Curtin nardon all these scoundrels ? Because the persons abused were democrats, and' because the scoun- drels who committed the outran, wer Loyal League Abolitionists. Acy man who has no more respect for justice than Gov. Curtin has, deserves something more than ordinary. He deserves,' if not assassin ation, an infernal cow biding. Selirugrove Times. How soon We Forget A leaf is torn from the trees by the rude gale, and borne away to some desert spot to perish. Who misses it from amongst it fellows ? Thus it is with human life. There are dear friends, perhaps, who are stricken with greif wben a loved one is taken ; and for many days the grave is wattered with tears of anguish. But by and by the crystal fountain is drawn dry ; the last drop oozes j back Bpoa tbe exnausted ,pring . BndTine h blegiRd hea,r , rr waIk i ' the closed sepulchre without waking a sin gle echo by his footsteps. Speakirq of muddy roads, a recent tour, ist says that the roads of Normandy remind him of a highland road in the West, where a friend avowed he once met a man sound ing a hole with the but end of a driving whip. He asked him what he was doing, ! he replied : "Sir, I have found my hat, bnt I have lost a horse and gig somewhere here." The saddest picture of the times is a roan forging his own chains by shooting for the Republican party. Every man who does it, is putting the shackles of despotism opoa his own and his children'slirabs, unless the better sense of better men can defeat him in bis eForts. The New Gospel or the War Depart- M,M- Thon lhaU hale Geo. B. McClellan j . fa .. fa aud wilh an th 0OO, - ' and with alt thy mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is lie onto it. Thoa shall hate Horatio Seymour. Upon these two commandments hang all the contracts and all the profit. Ont Sunday a yoang gentleman was ta ken into custody at Eaton, for playing cards, for which he was flogged. While the mas ter was in the act of flageilation,he gave sev- ral kicks and struffsiles. on the which the master said : "Go on, air , you shuffle and Ill cut." Who is the Husband of Miss Chase ! The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle thus daguer reotypes Senator Sprague, whose marriazo with Miss Kate Chase has occupied so much of the time of Washington newspaper wri ter: Mr. Spragne is a young man of vast here ditary possession accumulated by his father in the printing of calicoes, and so on, in the small but enterprising State of Rhode Island. Personally Mr. Sprague is not attractive -pecuniarily he is several millions. When a mere lad, he was taken . from school and placed in the cotton mill, where he soon became an expert in all the varied manipu lative and mechanical operation, as devel oped in the calico line, to an extent that warranted his friends in the belief that be would make a merchant worthy of his fath er's name, and not only keep what was left to him, but vastly increase his store. To this one branch of his education, young Sprague devoted himselt day and night, Bo th at, although comparatively ignorant of lbs ways of the world, and wholly innocent of even an approximate understanding of the arte and sciences, polite or vulgar literature? he was, at the time he attained his majori ty, one of the best-informed manufacturers in the country. Socially, he never amount ed to math, antil within theiast year or so. Retiring and modest, or rather, bashfal, he avoided the society of ladies, paid no atten tion whatever to dress, and was ragarded aa eccentric, and far on the road which termi nates in confirmed mierihness. Some three or four years since, the young mea of Rhode Island deemed it well to break up the "machine" which had so long controlled the Slate, and which had put in nomination Seth Paddletord for Governor They selected yoaug Sprague, whose fami ly friends werepossessed( as well as he, of vast wealth, which they would gladHy spend, to gain position. At it they went, hip and thigh, Sprague and Paddleford, money against money. It was estimated that the Paddlefordians were mulcted in the modest sum of $75,000. Corruption of the most unblushing nature was openly prac tised at the poll, and the whole Slate flash ed with the brilliancy of the golden drops. Sprague was elected, and, by the aid and comfort of an able Secretary of Slate (Bart- 'eu) an a distinguished prelate of tho Church, accquitted himself with credit. His long-closed purse was opened, and, with great generosity his messengers promised to the Prince of Wales that if he would visit Rhode Island, be should be entertained it. He was chosen Senator with but little ! lronbIe. although he was not of the required age. indeed, we doubt if be is yet old enough for the position, or will take his ' 8eat al lhe aPPraching session. He makes I 110 'Peche' ''he neither writes nortalks: I he W,U no1 contribute to the dignity of the Senate, for he is small, thin, and unprepos sessing in appearance ; he will not vote regularly, and just as Papa Chase tells him, and be will always regret that he forsook bis congenial factory, where he made a mark, and could hold his ewu with the best of them, for the marble halls of the legisla tors whom he can neither influence nor comprehend. However, he, the timid, shrinking youth, has added another success to his list. He has added the hand of Miss Chase. Coercion of Soldiers Votes. If citizen soldiers could vote without res traint, and under the influences which af fect their fellow citizens, there would bo no hesitation about leaving to them the choice of officials in civil life. But they are not allowed to choose their own officers much less to vote nnconstrainedly for civil officers. Here is an example of how the system works in practice : In Louisville, at the Exchange Barracks, an Ohio regiment was stationed at the time of the Ohio election. The vote of this regi ment was 308 for Brough and 2 for Yallan digham. Bt the hoar of 2 o'clock p. ra., I went to, the place oppointed for the Ohio soldiers to vote. Royal Taylor, the State asent officia-' ted. 1 asked iflhey had any Democratic tickets. They said they had not. 1 had a ticket in my pocket, neately folded, oa purpose for the occasion. 1 handed it to one of the officers. The man who pat the the ticket into the box had it in his hand the last I saw of it. I started back to the hospital. I got part way back, when an officer cought me and took me back ido the office, and said : "There is another man that voted for Vallandigham." -They took as down to the barracks and pot as in the guard house. We were summoned to appear before a coart-martial about 10 o'clock that night. The charge against me was, voting for Vallandigham. I plead guilty to the charge ; I wrote my defense and was then taken back to prison, and have been kept there ever since. At a social party one evening, the ques tion was put "What is religion ?" ' "Re ligion," replied one of the party, is an in surance against fire in the next world, foe which honesty is the best policy." I In raising the last 500 ooo soldiers 000,000 will be paid.ia bounty. .1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers