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They have not onlwfailed . published evirt wedhesp ay bt' to heed the positive warnings ot General WM II JACOBY, ... j McCIellan.but they have also failed to prof OffiCB on Main St., Irii Square belOW Sarfeet. 5t by tbe bitter experiences of three year TPUM?-T,n nnitur. n-ronnnm ifnai.i of war. Time aud again have the rebel within six months from the time of subscri- bing : two dollars and fifty cents if not paid :. u : .u. ...i . i. f . within the year.' No subscription taken for a less period than six months ; no discon tinuance. permitted until all arrearages' are paid, unless at the option of the editor. 7 he terms of advertising will be as follows : One square, twelve lines, three times, $1 00 Every subsequent insertion, 25 One square, three months, ...... 3-00 One year, ... 8 00 CD r i (t i n a I o e tr n . , For the Star of the North. ' T3E W0RES OF GOD. BY TUMBLER. Where e'er we rove O'er hill or valley green, The works of Him who formed the earth. On every hand are seen. Twas He who formed the lowland pliirt, And reared the mountain peak ; Who made the cloud to brin:? forth rain, The dew that fall so sweet. -. He made the glowing sun To illuminate oar earth ; Hit hand directs the silvery moon, -Twas he who gave.it birth. The stream that flows so clear Along the verdant beach, Is caused by that all powerful arm That overshadows each. The forest shade i His, The cooling breeze ihe same ; Through works of goodness he deierves A high and glorious name. He dries tis widow's tear, He hears the orphan's groan, Aud ever lends a willing ear To those He deigns to own. His care is o'er His whole creation, His goodness has no end; And to the cries of the dis:ressed His ear in mercy lends. Th en poor deluded soul, . Cai all your care on Him, For He who numbers all your deed, Can cleanse you from all sin. Ashbury, Columbia co., July 28, 1864. Gen. ScCIrllan's Foresight. The last rebel invasion of Maryland fcr nishes another in-tance o( the perils which have come upon the country by the neg lect on the part of the administration of '.he warning given by General McClellan in the very first year of the war. HaJ the plans ol that officer been faithfully carried out, not one of the four invasions of Mary land would have occurred. Alter he ar rived on the peninsola with hia army, and while he supposed General Banks was siill under bis command', it wjlLha remembered that he- Issued an order to that officer for his guidance in protecting Marjlaud and Washington from any attempt of the rebels by way ot the Shenandoah valley. He had previously sent Colonel Alexander with di rection lo see if fortifications could not be thrown up in such cf the gaps of the Blue mountains as would help detain a reSel ar my marching into Maryland from tht di rection. . General Banks was directed to post his troops at certain points. Hj was also ordered to keep, hia cavalry const intly iu motion down the valley of the Shenan doah rq as to be warned of any approach of the rebels. This order was dated March 18, 1862 ; before, in fact, the actual open ing of the second campaign of the war -When the administration relieved Gen. Mc Clellan of control ojer General Bank's ar my, they entirely overlooked the wise pre cautions which he took in guarding the back-door to Washington. .In fact, this Shenandoah valley is the true gate for an invasion oi the North, as the rebels subse quently discovered, and as General McCIel lan's wise prescience had foreseen. When Mr. Lincoln himself took the control of (he armies out of ihe hands of General McClel lan, in addition to ordering the latter officer to approach Richmond from the North,.- be also detached troops from the army of the Potomac, which were sorely needed those under General McDowell to protect as he said, Washington. But where did he place these troops T In the Shenandoah valley 7 No j.they were located at Fredericksburg at which point they were about of as much use as they would have been in Portland, Maine! The forty thousand men under General McDowell were utterly thrown away, as was discovered when "Stonewall" Jackson made his first famous raid up the valley, driving back Banks to the Potomac river. The troops of. General McDowell were utterly useless. "Genera!" Lincoln had ingeniously managed to deplete our army by just forty thousand men. They were denied to General McClellan, and put in a position where they were ot not the slightest cie in defending Washington. The curious reader who wiH peruse Gen. McClellan 'a official report will know how clearly he foresaw, before the campaign opened, that the Shenandoah valley was the true line of. approach .upon Washing ton. He will also remark how far-seeing were the preparations he made to prevent the rebels ever getting beyond Chester or Aldie gaps. If, the reader will follow still further the course of the campaign in Vir ginia, he will find that what General Mc Clellan foresaw before the campaign open ed',' the admicislration has' cot been able to the Shenandoah valley, ! carrying desolation to the homes of the I ' - people of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and striking terror throughout the whole North because ot the menace to the capitol ; yet to this day even the slightest precautions have not been taken lo zaard aaainst this disaster. Every time the rebels have ad vanced upon the valley they have not only not been impeded, but, through the most profound stupidity, the administration, has collected stores of all kinds at Martinsburg for their special accommodation. We be lieve it can be proved that in their various raids up the valley the rebels have been able to procure 6tores to the amount of ten millions of dollars at that one point. The northern gate of the valley has never had a sufficient force to guard it, or a compe tent General to retard the progress of the rebel armies. There is probably not in all military history so marked an instance of prescience as that which General McClel lan displayed before the campaign opened, or so conspicuous an example of downright stupidity as has been shown by the admin istration in not guarding the Shenandoah valley so as to prevent an invasion cf the Northern. States. This quality of foresight as to the con duct of the war marked all of General Mc Clfllan's.military acts. If the reader will peruse his instructions to Butler, he will find that the latter was directed, immedi ately upon the capture of New Orleans, to put his army in motion, and take posses sion of Jackson, the capitol of Mississippi, and fortify it. If Butler had obeyed Gener al McClellan 's orders, and had then taken Jackson and fortified it, the codntry can un derstand what fearful losses would have been saved in the subsequent campaigns against Port Hudson and Vicksburg. In the very 6rst year of the vrar,the trans-Mississippi region would have been cut off from the confederacy, and all the cattle and stores of Texas would have been lost to the rebel armies. But Butler preferred lo stay in New Orleans, and quarrel with women and foreign consuls; and to him is to be credited the dreadful waste of blood and treasure which the capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson subsequently entailed. In the orders to General Buell it will also be noticed that General McClellan pointed out to him the importance of seizing as soon as he could Eastern Tennessee, and that the capture of Knoxville and Nashville was of ihe first moment. The orders to General Sherman touching what he wasexpecteJ to do at Port Royal reads like a prophesy. What General McClellan said should be done was done, simply because he foresaw that it .was the only thinhauH4d''fJe' done " Wf call attention to these facts because we realize how keenly the country has suf fered since that soldier-statesman has been withdrawn from the military service of the j country. Every lebal victory in Maryland j and the waste of treasure and life it costs t to drive the enemy from that State, is an indictment filled with the most damning specifications against the present military administration at Washington. Old Abe fought magnificently and des-; perately in the trenches of Washington last week. So his lickspittles say, although it is not yet known whethpr he really at the time, was aboard a gun-boat in the Poto. mac, or at Philadelphia or Harrisburg. Nevertheless, his fanciful exploits would supply the subject matter for a splendid epic poem. Who will grasp at immortality by writing it ? One of his positions is said to be thus when the rebels had left: Sleeves and pants rolled up. hat and boots lost, a big black bottle near by behind a stoue, the right eye blinked and arms Abe I Linco. A contraband guarding the "Big Black" and a "proxy" volunteer reading the original emancipation proclamation to the rebels ten - miles eff, make up the back ground of the picture When the "fight" was over Old Abe called for a "uegro song," after which the Government" was made a Major General on the spot by the President. The contraband was rllowed to keep the bottle its contents having dis appeared, as a relic of the "times that tried men's pantaloons. The "proxy" threat ened to follow op the rebels and slaughter ! them, but was dissuaded, and appointed lo bunt Abe's hat and boots, to do which he received a commission of Brigadier Gener al. Lebanon Advertiser. Pcnctualitv. When Hamilton was Washington's Secretary he was ordered to meet the Commander-in Chief one morn jng at sunrise. Washington was first on the spot, and waited five minutes before Hamilton appeared. The Secretary apolo gized by saying that "somethina was the matter with his watch." Another appoint ment was made for "the next morning which was similarly broken. Hamilton again covered his negligence with a complaint against his watch, to which the, punctual soldier replied : . .''Then; sir, yoa must either get , a new watch or I must get a new Secretary." On one occasion the first Emperor Napo leon invited his staff cf the Marshals of France lo take dinner with him at 2 o'clock . The .emperor at the moment the clock struck sat down to the table alone. He was a quick eater, seldom appearing at the ta ble more than ten minutes. At the end of the time his . staff appeared. He arose to meet them and said : "Messeurs, it is now past dinner, and we will immediately proceed to business ;" whereupon the Marshals were ooliged lo spend the whole afternoon in planning a i new campaign on empty stomachs. j armies surged up From the New York News. THE WALPCEC1S DAXCE AT WlSMMiTON. l. The night was heavy and mirk, The moon shone dusky red, Tne air had an oior of sulphurous smoke And of corpses newly dead. And I saw in fact or dream, Or both confused in one, A dance and a revel and maniac rcut Too hideous for the sun ; And out of it came a cry : "Elood! Blood! Blood! "Let the witches caldron boil "With a nation's tears for water ! "Blood! Blood! Blood! " "Slabby and thick as mud, "To sprinkle the hungry soil . "For the carnival of slaughter ! " !...- . II... J Beneath the caldron cracked A pool and whitl ol flame, Around the caldron gambol 'd and howl'd A crowd without a name. Fierce war zealots and preachers, Bufibns, contractors, thisvee, Liars, blasphemers, and parasites As thick as the Summer leaves, . ' And still they clamored aod shouted, . " Blood ! Blood I Blood ! "Let the hell-broth sputter and boil "With a nation's tears for water ! " Blood ! Blood ! Blxd I " "Slabby and thick as raudj "To sprinkle the hungry coil "For, the carnival of blaughter! " . III. Naked, obscene and cruel, They screamed and jibei and roar'd, They knew their God waa the Devil, Their King and Chief and Lord ;. . And they worshipped, at bis footstool And said, "Thy kingdom come, "When the world shall be to the strongest, "And be ruled by beat of drum, . ''Drum beat and flash of cannon ! "Biood! Blood! Blood! "Let the witche's caldron boil "With a nation's tearc for water ! "Blood ! Elood ! Blood ! "Slabby and thick as mud, "To sprinkle the hungry soil, "For the carnival of slaughter ! " .. , ,1V. One tall, and bony and lank, Stood forward trom amongst the rest, And told a ribald story With a leer to give it zest, And said, "Our fire burns feebly, . ' We must pile it.up anew ; "Tell me the luel to feed it with "Ye iriends and comrades true ! " And they shouted with mad rejoicing, "Blood B aod ! B'ood ! "Let tle wuche's caldron boil. "With a nation' ieari lor v. uier j - "BTooi ! liiood! BlonJ ! ''Slabby and thick as mud, ",To sprinkle the hungry Boil "For the carnival of slaughter! " V. He cut down ihe Constitution That grew so fair and well, And chopped the gracious tree to logs To 'feed his fire of hell. He threw in the crackling caldron With a satisfied "Ha! ha! " Reason and Honor and Justice, Liberty, Right and Law; While his greedy comrades shouted "Blood ! Blood ! Blood ! ' "Let the witche's caldron bojl "Wiih a nation's tears for water ! "Blood ! Blood ! Blood ! "Slabby and thick as mud, "To sprinkle the hungry noil "For the carnival of slaughter ! " VI. 'Let the old men die in their beds, 'Let the children grow and thrive, 'We crave the blood of the young and strong To keep onr dance alive. 'We crave it and will have it. 'Though the wives bewail and mourn, 'And the mothers sob in anguish, 'O'er the graves of their first born, ' 'TU the afterbirth of a nation ! ' "Blood ! Blood1 Blood ! . . "Let the hell-broth sputter and boil, "With a nation's tears for water ; "Blood ! Blood ! Blood ! "To sprinkle the. hungry soil "For the carnival of slaughter !" VII. What more they did and said New times may render plain, But if Retribution come not, Gibbet and rope are vain. Gibbet and rope and dungeon.' Or the whip in an boneat ba .d, To lash such coward dregs and 6k urn Affrighted through the laud. Meantime the streets re-echo Their furious cry for blood ! And the witche's caldron boils With a nation's tears for water ! Blood ! Blood! Blood! Slabby and thick as mud, And. debts and troubles and toils, And the carnival o! daughter. Ithuriel. Lincoln has issued a proclamation ap pointing the lit Thursday in August, as a day for humiliation and prayer. The next proclamation is for 500,000 more men and boys to be slaughtered, which will be an additional cause for humiliation,, prayers and tears. Let the war be stopped and there will be no necessity for the appointment of days of humiliation, but everybody, except speculators aud their liLet, will join in a day of thanksgiving. Mr. Lincoln PrsTes tbe War a Crime. So far as enr observation has gone, there is no journal in the North, not excepting those of Abolition tendencies, that attempts to sustain the position to which Mr.Lincoln in his manifesto, "to whom it may con cern," has committed the Executive Gov ernment of the United States. This is not strange ; for however much the Abolition press, may seek to justify their doctrine in the general course of journalistic dispu tation, with reference to its application to a stated and practical plan of compromise, they shrink from the fearful responsibility of interposing a mere social theory as an insurmountable barrier to negotiation. We are sure no prominent public man was ever fco completely isolated from his fellow countrymen upon a question of vital impor tance as is Mr. Lincoln in respect. to his as sertion of the "Abandonment of slavery" as an imperative condition of interseclional diplomatic action. The Canada conference is the all absorbing theme. It is discussed in all it phases, and has revealed all the varieties and shades cf individual opinion. But no man within our sphere of observa tion has echoed the fatal sentiment of that Executive manifesto. No'man except the Chief Magistrate of the Republic, is so cal loas to his country' welfare, so reckless of consequences and so impenetrable to expe diency, justice and humanity, as to endorse the ultimatum that leaves no alternative but war till one section or the other is crushed and powerless under a conqueror's heel. If misfortune was less everwhelming, if the wounds of our country did not claim all the sympathy that human nature can bestow we could pity that unfortunate man who, conspicuous as the chief .magistrate o! a mighty people, is still more Conspicuous by his crime and folly. Wielding a power above that of all his predecessors, a power that our fathers would not have trusted to the pure patriot and incorruptible statesman iu whose person the Executive govern ment was inaugurated, this typ9 of offi cial degeneracy finds no betfer use for au thority than to bring contempt upon himself and ruin upon his country. When that arrogant demand for the aban donment of slavery went iorth over the land, fast after it followed the yet more imperative demand for the abandonment cf Lincoln. If the angel of retribution had proclaimed his condemnation, it would not have been more effectually pronounced than it - has been by the convictions of the people, awaked by this climax of folly to three years ot mal -administration. He now stands in direct opposition to tbe solemn pledge made to the peple at bia in auguration, that be woald not "directly or indirectly interfere with the institution of slavery in tbe States where it exiele," and he has violated the law of the land as in terpreted by himselj when, at the threshold of his Executive career, hs confessed that he had "uo lawful right" to do that which be has now unlawfully done for the purpose of baffling' those peace . influences that stand in the way of his personal aspirations. This shameful trifling with the interests of a suffering people cannot go beyond the point that it has now reaahed. The people should not and they will not endure it. They have been called upon to offer five hundred thousand more human sacrifices from among their kith and kin at the altar of civil strife already reeking with the blood of a thousacd hecatombs; and now they are called npon to assist at tbe formal bap tism cf. those horrors, giving them the name of a war for the ''Abandonment of Slavery." From the hour when that decres was maie known, every blow dealt upon the battle field is given Tor the abandonment of la very and in no other cause. It is so written above the signature of . Abraham Lincoln, as the "Executive .Government of the Uni- j led States." No proposition "will be re ceived and considered" that does not em brace the "Abandonment of Slavery," and as no peace is pAssibie until some pioposi- ; lion shall have been "received and consid ered," it follows that the war has been for mally and officially declared an Ami-Slavery crusade, aiming principally, if not ex clusively, at the "abandonment of slavery." Mr. Lincoln, in his capacity as the "Ex ecutive Government of the United States," has heretofore declared that, The right of each Slate Id order and control its own do mestic institutions, according to its owu judgement exclusively, , is essential to the balance of power on which the "perfection and endurance of our political fabric de pend." Therefore, a war against the "do mestic institutions'.' of a State, if successful, involves the destruction of a principle that is "essential" to the "perfection and endu rance of our political fabric". Is it right for the people lo support a war that assails a principle upou which their political secu rity "depends ? " But the Executive Gov ern mant has pronounced this war to be for tbe "abandonment of slavery," that is for the destruction of a "domestic institution" that each State has the "right to control according to its own judgment exclusively.'1 Tbe people of the North are then fighting to destroy their own principle of govern ment, to destroy the ''rights of States," to destroy that which is essential to Republi canism, and upon which the "endurance oi their political fabric depends." If there is public virtue enough in the people to de sire that their political fabric shall endure, if they have patriotism enough to desire the preservation of principles essential to tbe maintenance ol their liberties, tbey mnst oppose this war for tbe "abandonment of slavery." If they have not the courage 10 do so, they 'deserve that their political fab ric should be overthrown, and that a mili tary despotism be raised upon its ruins. New York Daily News. The Great Demoeralio Plot and Dark Con spiracy Discovered in St. Louis. When a man is about to play the role of military.usurper or tyrant, and destroy pop ular liberty beneath the iron heel of despo tism, it is necessary that he should have some pretext to justify him in ihe 'enter prise. He must bo able to giro ccme reasons, however feeble anoT' puerile, to excuse his conduct and paliata it in the eye? ef the world. The ascertainments of great plots and conspiracies 'upon ihe part of an adverse influence or party, lo subvert the Government or overlurn society, is al- ways opportunely made upon tbe eve of preconcerted or intended usurpations. When ihe sanguinary and cruel leader of the French Revolution desired to immolate fresh' victims upon the guilfotine.and drown in a osa of bloed their political antagonists, they invariably (discovered plots and atro cious conspiracies against the State that were about to be carried into effect by their innocent victims. . W'hen the cry of a plot or conspiracy was raised by these men, it was instinctively known that some great national crimp was about lo be perpetrated some act of unu sual and infernal atrocity. When the religious and political zealots of England wished ta' directjgovernraental and popular fury to tbe Catholics, they rl ways paved the way by a "hellish and dev elish Popish plot" against ibe good people of ih e realm. What reader of hietory does not remember the infamous plot of that character, discovered by Titus Oatec, in tbe latter part of the rein of King Charles the Second, in 1680 1 Improbable and extrav agant as it was, carrying oroia its face the marks of falsehood and imposture, yet it was greedily received, and Isd to a crbsada against innoceut and unoffending Catholics, in which ihe most horrible villainies were practiced. v."1. c Seeing ihe soccsfs of the perjured scoun drel, Oates, others of like character rushed in, and had their conspiracies and plots, which were even more absurd and foolish than that ol Oates. .There is hardly i dark er page tn tbe history of England than that which records these vile and execrable im postures. Human nature is the same in all ages.and the means employed by bigoted fanatics and cruel factions and Administrations to wreak their vengeance upon their oppo nents, are usually similar, j' !' . We have noticed in tbe progress cf the war that the most arbitrary and oppressive acts of the Government, and the most des potic proceedings, have always been usher ed in by the announcement tnal they were necessary to prevent ihe Democracy from carrying out tome terrible derign agaist the public safety. As those who have bid money always know the precise place to look for it, so the Lincoln editors, agents and spies, have for the last three years been prolific' in their discoveries of the Golden Circle ard other dat'k, treasonable ocgariizaiionb of the Dem ocratic party against the "pure, upright and innocent" Administration al Washington. Tbe military bastiles and dungeons of the country are full of victims oi arbitrary and irresponsible power, conveniently arrested and kidnapped upon the Claim thai they be long to some shadowy -;ik! imaginary or ganization to subvert the Constitution and laws. It is by the light of the past we are to judge of the present and ihe future. We know what is meant and intended when wicked and unscrupulous men accuse their political opponents of plots and conspira aies. ; The latter can always be manufac tured to order by base and lying spies, and can have the greatest publicity through a hireling and mercenary press. We know that something atrocious was in contempla tion when the St. Louis Democrat, the other day, asked the President, in effect to pro claim martial law over the North, and usurp dictatorial power in name as well as in fact. - ''"'. We are confirmed in our 7iew by the Bil ly rigmarole and absurd stuff which that paper publishes and telegraphs all over the country as a great Democrat plot and con spiracy. .No man of the least sense will believe it. It bears the mark all through it of villainous invention and imposture, and only is designed by its originators as a basis for a fresh crusade upon the patriotic and constitutional Dsmocracy of the North, who, instead of trying to subvert, are now diligently engaged in seeking to preserve from destruction some relics of -our old re publican. Government, and to nave society from fresh arid renewed convulsions. Cin cinnati Inquirei. A young partner in a firm on India street concluded to raise a substitute, and applied to a stout darkey who was standing on the opposite corner,' whea he received this re ply, "Lor bless you, I've got eight hundred dollars home for to buy a white man my self." Good Neighborhood. A farm was lately advertised in a Western paper, in which all tbe beauty on the situation, fertility of the soil, and salubrity of the air, were detailed in the richest glow of rural description, which was farther enhanced with this N. B There is cot an Attorney within fifteen miles of tbe neighborhood. - Old Abe has split rails, tbe Union and his party. . General Butler's key to Richmond. A .. Why the Eorth has Failed. t The absence of " precautionary measures to rtpoVihe re-advanco of Early's invading army haa caused even the Black Republic can press to assail the administration for imbecility and improvidence, it is certain ly humiliating for the advocates of this Ab olition war to be compelled, in ihe foarth year of hostilities, to recognize tbe inca pacity of the ruler oftheir own choice and creation to provide for the safety of the Fed eral Capital, and to protect tbe soil of one of the most powerful and populous ot tlje Northern States. . In view, of the oft boasted superiority ot ihe North in wealth, numbers and material resources, the actual condition of military affairs is the more suggestive of incompe tency becaass the struggle has been arro gantly proclaimed by Mr. Lincoln to be one of conquest, admitting no termination ex cept in the total annihilation of a social institution. .How far removed the present position is from the realization of the de testable scheme, is demonstrated by the fact that at every point-the Federal arms are now baffled, disco.-rfitted and imperilled by the exhaustion consequent upon repeated decimation, while the 'foe, all the while economizing their numerical strength, are able td sweep with. impauiiy over the fields of the North, gathering oar harvests to their own cses, driving off our cattle to the cor rals of ihe South, emulating oar deeds of incendiarism, and placing 'Washington in greater danger of capture, than Richmond is or ever has been. 1 For nearly four year of such desperate warfare as the world! has never before wit nessed, tbe powerful and affluent North haa assailed the South', with armies more nu merous than those which Napoleon overran Europe, overthrew Kingdoms and Empires, destroyed aod created -dynasties, and revo lutionized the political systems of one half of Christendom. That fell the resources within the control of the Federal authority have been employed without stint is evi dent from the enormous and unprecedented eXpenditures'for naval and military purpo sas. The financial fabric of the North tot ters beneath the load imposed upon i', to supply the machinery of war and to subsist the millions that have been enrolled under Abolition banners. Science and invention have been taxed to the utmost to provide 'engines of de struction. The strength and intellect'o' man, given to him by a bounteous God that be might develop op'otUearth the attributes of His divinity, have been exerted to the last degree as instruments to deface and de stroy these created in His image, and to transform earth into a counterpart of Hell. What has resulted ? Years of mutual slaugh ter, of accumulating bate and bitterness, of the fruits ot the earth destroyed and the habitations of man desolated ; years of in dividval agony and 'sorrow and of general suffering, with a future ell darkness or lighted only with the signal glare of ruin. And as the fourth year nears its close, tbe South utters and strikes defiance wherever assailed, and tramples the soil of the inva der with the desolating tread of a counter invasion. Does this denote impotencv or inferiority on the part of the North t Not so. Listen to the murmur that goes forth from the masses, and it will attest that the heart of the North is not jn this struggle'. ' It is not ihe North last assails the South, it id a fa naticism that wars asinst reason, humanity and the popular opinion. ' In a war sanc tioned by the people, not Pennsylvania,nor Maryland, nor any Northern State would ever be reduced to the humiliating condi tion of dependence upon an imbecile Fed eral Administration to protect their homes from a handful of bold invaders. The farmers would quit their plows, the mechanics their tools, the merchants their ledgers, '.he lawyers their briefs, the cler gymen their pulpi, al! manner of men their various avocations, to grasp the sword and the gun, and hurl invasion back. From eery oiher State the people would hasten to the rescue. There would be no necessity to enforce an odious conscription.ufor the willing hearts of freemen would respond without ether dictation than a natural im pulse, and the invaded territory would re sound with the tread of volunteers. As it i, the people repudiate the purpose of the strife, arid look on without venturing a blow, while their villages are burning and their grannaries pillaged by few hun dred recklass horsemen-. Tbe Administra tion fight this war with cannon and Layon bU, but the heart of the people is oot with them to insure victory. Tbey must depend upon the mere machinery of physical force moved into action by military discipline, but uninspired by the co.iviction of the light aud devotion to the principle at stake The soldiers of the North could not be cow ards in any cause ; it is due lo -their natural' courage and endurance that they have cur led laurels in a cause that has oot the pop- , ul&r sympathy. New York DaVy News. Attachment. Women are snid to have' stronger attachments ' than men. It is not so. - A man is often attached to an old hat ;: but did you ever know of a woman having an attachment for an bid bonnet ! Echo answers, never ! . . . r Some unknown Philosopher, illustrating!, pictures ot innocence, cites the case of baby biting iu own toe nail, aud a kme.i iq
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