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- Tno. : Soldier's Home...
Thaf home is' leTi.'that dwelling fair,
- Where many a yonth in peace has dwelt;
The -many lriend f nrrounding there,...'
i.i Wbea called-away, bis absence felt.
A fathers eyes in tears have bent
As o'er his boy he cast a view, -A
mother's tenderf,heart is rent,
His Rand she clasps and bid adieu.-
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Both father, mother wait his call .
And many hours of sadness pas,
Yet they, in hope their boy'II not fall,
."Keceive new strength ol heart and mind.
But many chiUing winds will blow
And moy eyes will look in vain,
Before that son's released to co
Where war is;not, and peace does reigtt.
Many there are who ne'er can see
The home they left, the earth they trod,
Far in a Sootherr. clime tbey sleep ,
'Neath Old Virginia's sandy clod.
"Bat 'there V a home beyond the skies
, Wbere parents dwell and brothers mee;;
A home wb'ich'waf will net deprive
Those ol who faltbJul litejill tfeath.
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'Camp near Meade Station, Va.
' Jan;22d, 1865. J ' 1 ' . . ."
k . ;How Much do We Work. Who ever
thought cf making.soch a'calcnlation 1 No
"b:dy, till anymdusuious Frenchman recent
ly 'tovk op the subject; and he has.sei down
and made an accurate estimate of the part
of our sevetaMives employed about actual
labor. He takes hi subject at the age ol
'eventy-lwo. Allowing eight hours on an
"veraie, for sltep, that deducts at once
.twenty four j ear. For dressii g and on
dressih, on rising and going'to bed, waph
1 ihg and shaving half an hour .daily, makes
or and a 'half jearj. Then two hours
daily iot meals.our.t op six years. Love
-i making according to his calculation, will
average one hour daily, or three year. For
'society j idling, and amusement,' three hours
" more, op to childhood, the accidents and
. , ititeat.es of mature age, and like causes,
will deduct two hours on an average, mak-
ing six years. So that, in conclusion, one
hale hearty man of seventy years, has, in
.actnot been able to employ jn the posi
jtiva occupation ol industry mere than twen-
, ty-two and a half years ! -
! On the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, near!
' the Tennessee line, there lived a merchant
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.who also kept a I'ost otnee, ana oi ar. even
ing his store would be full of his customers,
ager '.o hear' the .news While reading
the paper to them one evening, he came
to paragraph as follows
"Owing. to the large nomberot emigrants
travelling westward, corn will probably
command a very high price."
One old gentleman at this point interrop-
ted him, and wanted to know what emigrant
' meant.-Th merchant stopped reading, and j
after stuoying for some lime answered: (
"We 1, my friend, to tell tbe troth, I don't
kno w, but I believe they are an animal be
tween "pbssom and a coca anyhow
they're death on corn !"
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- 'A Droll story is related or an nonesi otu ;
farmer, wdo, ln.attempiing io onvB UOm0 ,
bull.-got suddenly hoisted over a fence j
Becovering himseH, he saw the animal on
the other side of the rails,' sawing the air j
with his head ana necic, aou paw:ng tub
ground. The good old man looked steadily
t hirn a moment and exclaimed j "Darn
- your apologies, you needn't stand there
yon tarnal critier,'bowin and scrapin
you did it a purpose.aarn your cur.j p.ciu,.-
' . . i i .':t in t
Old Abe' "Fiast." As we have'often
given Old Abe's 'Iast" suppose wefavor
or readers with one of his first jokes. The
, following is said to have occurred long be
; - fore Mr. Linooln had become a man of note.
' Being in the woods hunting one- day, he
fell in with a most truculent looking hunter
,..,who immediately took sight on him with a
- f ifle. "Hallow !", saya Lincoln, "what are
..you going to dol" - ."See here my friend"
aid the hnnter 'fihe lolksin my settlement
ftoli me f f Ter?aV. . ,m1? 3,ier lhan 1
twas, then I mast shoot' him ; and' I've at
- ..last 'found him, so look out." ' "Well" said
' Ltncolaatter a good hook at the' hunter,
'sbootWay'; for if I'am uglier than you
are, I certainly dou' "want to Hire any.' long
er.'
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General McClellan received one million,
efat uuiiuiou .uij l. -
dtei and eleven, voted. for President.. , What
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an rmv sf "disloyal" voters '
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The Philadelphia Custom 'House has
tsen robbed oYzidCQQ ia currency and
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BLOOMS FiTTRG. COLUMBIA
, The Tnrn of Life.
' ' Berween the years of forty and xy,
, man who has properly regulated himself
may be considered as iii the prim of life.
His matured strength of constitution renders
j him almost impervious to the attacks of
disease, and experience has giye.i sonnd-
, his :nd2ment Hi8 mni ln reR0lute.
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1 firm, and eaual : all his luncnons are in
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the highest order ; be assumes the mastery
over business ; he boilds np.a competence
on the foundation he has formed in early j have ihe senee of touch more fully develo
manhood, and passes through a period ot ' ped than those who can see. ' Draff a lew
life attended by many gratifications. Hav- j regiment of blind men to feel ihe portion
ing gone a year or two past sixty, he ar- j and strentth of the enemy. No exemptions
rives at a critical period of existence ; the j granted on (be ground that ihey ''can't see
river et death flows before him. aod he re- it."
mains at a stand still. But athwart this Blind and lame men might be drafted
liver is a viaduct, called The Turn of Life,' together, the blind men to go in battle car
which, if crossed in safety, leads to the val- rying the lame on their backs
ley of "old age," round which the river Men who have hist or.e or even both ol
winds, and hen flows beyond wiihont a j their arm., should no longer be exempt.
boat or causeway to effect its. passage. The j Government is prepared to arm any quanti
bridge is, however, corrstructed of fragile i ty of men on the shortest possible notice,
materials, and it depends opon how it is j Idiots shoaldn't be debarred the privilege
trodden whether it bends or break. G ut, j of serving their country in the ranks when
apoplexy, and other bad characters are also
in the vicinity to waylay the traveler and
iiurst him from the pass ; but let him gird
op his lions and provide himself with a
fitting staff, and he may trudge on in safety
wiih perfect composure. To quit metam
phor," "The Turn of Life" is a turn either
into a prolonged walk, or into the crave.
Tbe system and powers having - reacded
their utmost expansion, oow begin either
to close like flowers, at sunset, or break
down at once. One injudicious stimolem,
a single fatal . excitement, may it lorce it
beyond the strength ; while a careful sup
ply of props, and the withdraw! ot al that
lends to force a plant, will sustain in beau
ty and in vigor until night has entirely set.
: Tub Grkat MrTtav. The body is to
die; so much is certain. - What lies be
yond"? No one who passed the charmed
bocodry comes back to tell. The imagina
lion visits the realms ot shadows, sent out
from the windows in the soul over : life'
restless waters, but it wins its way wearily
back, with an olive leaf in its beak as a to
ken ol emerging life beyond the closely
bending horizon. The areat un comes and
goes in the Heaven, yet breathes no secret
ethereal wilderness ; the crest-ent moon
cleaves her mighty passage across the up
per deep, biit tosses overboard no message,
and displays no signals.. The sentimental
stars cha.l nge each other as they walk their
nightly rounds, but we catch no syllable of
their countersign which gives passasje to
the Heavenly camp. Between this and the
other life is a great gull fixed, across which
neither eye nor foot can travel. The gentle
friend, whoseveyes we cloe ir their last
sleep long years, died with rapture in her
wonder-stricken eyes, a smile ol ineffable
joy upon her lips, and hands folded over a
triumphant heart, but her lips were past
speech and intimated nothing of the vision
that enthralled her.
Which. is the Lower Animal. I it the
1 cow. or the owner or mat cow which i
turned out at night without shelter ; though
he can not but know such inhumanity is a
pecuniary loss to himsely.
Is it the hore or driver who permits the
animal while in a form of prespiration, to
be exposed to the biting blasts of winter
without su much as blanket?
II the feelins of kindness and enlightened
self-interest have anything to do in lraming
an answer, it will be that the cow thus
treated i superior to her owner, and the
horse thus exposed to his drier, who
should be placed between Ihe shafts lor a
day to see how he liked the hygieuic ex
ercise. , Bear in mind reader, that the
brute has feeling, has wants, as well as you;
and that for your own sake you can net af
ford lo ireal lower animals with cruelty.
-A Fable roa the Yocsg. Two springs
which i(j9ue(f from ,he 8ame mounlai(i be-
h COUfse ,02e,her . one of ,nern
lJok hgr way in a f leal and gent!e flowing
stream, while the other rushed along. with
a noisy and rapid "corient. "Sister," said
the latter, "at that rate you move, you will
probably be dried op before you advance
much farther, whereas, for myself, I shall
probably become navigable within two or
three hundred furlongs, and after distribu-
commerce am, wealh wnerever I flow
I shall majestically proceed to pay my trib-
ute to the ocean. So farewell, and patient
ly submit yourself to" your fate !" Her
quiet sister made oo reply ; but calmly de
scended to the meadow below, and patient
ly proceeded on her way. she increased her
strength by numberless li'.tle nils which
she collected in her progress, I ill at length
she was enabled to rise into a considerable
river; while the proud stream who bad
the vanity to depend solely upon 'her own
sufficiency, continued a shallow brook; and
was glad at last, to be helped forward, by
throwing herself into tbe arms of her de
pised sister.
A NeW; COCNTRRFEIT TREASURY NoTE
Pittsburg journal report that a tew coun
terfeit five-dollar greenback ia in circulation
there. 'Ilievery poorly executed, ihe en
gravings being qutie'eoarse and -roogb in
appearance. . The Goddess of Liberty on
ihe left hand, end ol .the note, and the
ground work around" the figure 5 oil the
ppper rigbt handsomer are very poony eu
trraed. and4Dresent a dim "and mixed ap
graved, and present a dim and mixed ap
pearaoce. , The green on.the baek'i of an
indigent shade, and onlike;the genuine.
Scggcslions for a Di aft.
Since the authorities have discovered
that men who are drafted aid are unfit lor
soldiers may yet te made in serve their
couniry as hospital nurses and various other
J capacities, I have reflected deeply upon
ibe subject, and am at length enabled to
submit the following-suggestions, which
the government is at liberty to adopt or re-
ject as it please :
t . It is a well known fact that blintf men
we have so many amongst our generals.
Draft all in the lunatic asylum the mad
der they get the better they fight.
Men who have aged and infirm mother
dependent upon them for support, shouhl
no longer, be exempt. They rend the old
women to the poor lioue most of them do
anyhow.
Dumb men ought to make th mot ser
viceabte aolJiers ; as they can't cry qnar-
ler,' their motto must be no "surrender ' '
It U absurd to exempt fat men, they are
well calculated to fill up the depleted ra;iks
of the army. ll you want to crush the ene
my by precipitating upon them large bod
ies of troops, let fat men be drafted by all
means.
Confirmed drunkards have been objected
to because they are not so anxious 10 whip
the enemy as they are to have ihe enemy
treat. A regiment of them armed with rifle
wbi-ky, aod sustained bv a battery of de
lirium tremens, would do great execution
to somebody . ' ' j
I have not heretofore favored the idea of !
drafting the other sex, but a bigrade of old
maids would certainly be uelul in repnls- :
ing the enemy. They are some tunes good
in an at'nck. i
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By all mean dralt Congressmen. They
might do a little good in the army, and j
they are of no. possible good where ihey are.
Kditors of war newspapers stiould be !
drafted in a body. They hare penned war
articles so long they should be ir ernselves
penned by, the "Articles of War."' !
Conscript all lawyers their charge wo'd
be most disastrous to Ihe enemy.
The Fih&t Shot Ever Madk. A British
plumber named Watts, retired to bed one
niaht as nsuitl, and had a most extraordi
nary dream. He, so far as his lancy paints
himself, crawled upon a church roof, abou:
to solder a delect in it, when b- one of those
unaccountable incidents which we take
very quietly when they come to us in ;
dream, down goes tbe ladle of boiling
meiar into a pool in the street below." "Try
again," says old honesty ; and he descends ;
to get his ladle and his lead. The former
is there sure enough, but the latter Is rep- I
rented by a myriad ol spheres. With1
real lead material, and his etes wide open, !
he goes through, next morning, the exact
process he has seen in his dream, and iu- I
aogurates the manufacture of shot: The ,
story goes oo to tell that the patent he bad t
for invention he sold for $10 010 and with j
lhat sum he budt, for the embellishment ol
her native city, a crescent ol houses, which I
mo viu.eii writs iu pome eilOUgil IO cnriS-
en "Wait' Falls."
A Remarkabe Case Among the inter
esting specimens collected in the medical
departmect ot Bowdoin College, a: Bruns
wick, Maine, is the ossified body ol an in
fant child, twenty-seven years old, which
haJ never been born, presented to the col
lege last spriug, by the late Dr. Prescott, t
ot Farmiogton. Dr. P. wa called to its'
mother, twenty revert years ago, out was j
obliged to leave it unborn, in which condi- j
(ion it remained until la-i i-pring, when tLe j
mother died, and he made a post-mortem
examination and withdrew the la;: us, nuw
an ossified body, weighing about six pounds.
Within that petiod ol twenty-seven years
that lady had become the mother of three
children, who are now living.
AkTEMcs Ward on the negro Filler Cil
tzuns : -I he Alnkan may be our brother.
Sevril hily respektable geutl-meo and sura
laienten lernaues, tei us so, and tor argy
men: sake I tnite be injuced to grant it.
though I dotit believe it, myself. But the
Alnkan isn't our sister, our wife, and our
uncle. He isn't sevril of our cousins, and
all onr wile's relashons. He isn't our
grandfather and our aunt in the country:
Scarcely. And yet nomeris persons would
have u think so. It is troo he runs Con
gress and severil of her public grocerry's.
But we've got the Alnkan, or he's got us.
rather,' now, what are we going to do about
it 1 He's an orlul' noosance. Praps he
isn't to blame for it. Praps he was created
(or some wise purpose like Bill Harding and
New England rum, but it's, mity bard to see
iu At enny stale be'a here and ' it's a pity
he couldn't go ort somewhares quietly by
by himself, whare he could graterfy bis am
bitioa in-rarins wase, without bavin a eter
nal'loss ktckl ep about him.
COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1865.
"is Jackson Did."
Jackson has admirers now in quarter
where he'could not have found them wfien
living. The abolitionists refer to his tret
ment ot the nullification question as a mod
el for Lincoln to follow. It is a pity he
won't do it; for, while Jackson did, indeed,
threaten to use the whole power of the gov
ernment to suppress the incipient rebellion,
he at the same time '-exhausted all the re
sources of statesmanship'' to remove all
cause of trouble. "Many," says Colonel
Benton, "thought that be ought to relax in
his civil measures for allaying discontent
while South Carolina held tie attitude of
armed defiance to the United States.- But
he adhered steadily to bis purpose ; and
promoted oy all the means in his power
the success of the bills to reduce the rev
enue" It was the olive branch and not the sword
which saved the Uhiou in- 1832 South
Carolina tad just caose for complaint, and
J,ickon knew it He did not think it jus
tified revolution, but demanded a remedy.
That remedy was applied in Mr. Clay's
Compromise Measures, which Jackson
warmly supported. Mr. Clay said :
The difference between the friends and
the foes of the Compromise is, that they
would, in the enforcing act, send forth alone
the flaming sword. Wo wnuld send out
that also, hot along with it the olive branch
as a messenger of peace. They cry out,
the law ! the law the law ! Power ! power !
power! We, too reverence the law and
bow to ih supremacy cf, its obl'ga'ions
but we are In favor of the law executed in
mildness, ad of power tempered with mer
cy." Base minds ascribed the patriotic ar
dor of Mr. Clay in advocating the Compro
mise to a.Tibitio'i
"Yes," he exclaimed. "I have ambition ;
but it is the ambition cf beinc the humble
instrument in the hards of Providence, to
reconcile a divided people ; once more to
revive concord and harmony in a distracted
land the pleasing ambition of contemplat
ing the glorious spectacle of a free, united,
prosperous ar.d fraternal people !'
There has not been a moment within the
last two years when Mr. Lincoln could not
have secured peace and onion, if he could
have been inspired by such a noble am
bition. Heroism of a Yocng Cirl.
On Friday night last, at Warrentnrg, Mis
souri, two men knocked at the door ol an
old man by the name of Bedicheck, livins
near Columbus, in this county, and de
manded admittance. His daughter, a young
lady some eih'een years of age, who to
gether with her fa'her were the only in
mates ol the house, ated what they want
ed. They would cive r.o satisfaction, and
she, on aoing to the window, saw ih at they
were armed with guns. She then told them
she would not let them in, but if one of
them would sel his gun down she would let
him in, at the same time saying to her faih
to be prepared for emergencies. After
coming in he walked to the fire, refusing to
be seated,, asked the old man if there was
any one else in the house except himself
and daughter, and was told ihre was not.
He then walked back and examined the
beds in the loom, returned to the fire and
says "old man. I have come here to kill
you," at the same time iiraiug a revolver
Irom his breast. The old man seized the
pistol with one hand and threw his other
arm around his waist, and beinii a strong
man ol his age succeeded in bolJing him
while his daughter ran to another part of
the houseseized a corn knife, struck him
a blow as he thinks on the arm holding
the pistol, somewhat disabling il, then fell
io work on his bead. In the mean time
the old man d'?rgagd himelf, seized a
sword cane, which he lortunaiely had. and
run the mi-creant throngh three times with
it, who, by thi time, was lustily shouting
murder, and calling to his friend to let him
out; his frie d run around the house to
another door and burst it in where he was
met by this heroic girl, and receiving a se
vere cot, was forced back. She shutting
and bolting the door in his lace and putting
up a curtain at the window lhat had lell
down to prevent his looking in, he then
fired some two or three ineffectual shots in
to ihe window which being high up, car
ried Ihe shots to the joiM above. He then
returned to the first door and broke lhat ii,
giving his Iriend a chance l escape, which
he managed to do, and he being aau met
by the girl, backed out, no doubt being ulad
to escape wrh what hi had already receiv
ed. Next murning it was lound that one of
the ruffians had died of hi wounds but a
short distance from the house.
A Yucno New England mamma, on the
important occasion of making her little boy
his first pair of colored trousers, coueived
the idea thai it would be more economical
to make them of ihe same dimensions be
hind and before, so that tbey might-be
changed about and wear evenly and so
she fashioned them. Their effect, when
donned by the little victim, was ludicrous
in the extreme. Papa, at first sight at the
baggy garment, "so learfully and wonder
fully made," burst into a roar of laughter,
and exclaimed, "Oh, my dear, how could
you have the heart to do it 7 Why, the
poor little fellow won't know whether be'
going to school or coming home."
Taopt men have the worse opinion of
WHY NOT ENLIST?
Why don't I enlist ? Ah, yon see,
I have reasons that answer me well ;
But there is my neighbor, yonng C,
Why he stays no person can tell !
So hearty and rugged and brave.
And little to do here, you Know,
Ho hasn't a house, nor a field,
And there isn't a reason to show.
'Tis true he's a pretty young wife,
With a sweet little babe in her arms,
Dut shall man riok the nation's dear life,
Because a frail woman huh charms 1
Ah, if he comprehend our need,
His wife and his babe would be kissed,
He wo'ld tear their whi;e arms from his neck
And come promptly op and enlist.
But I have a farm and a house,
And cattle and sheep on the hills,
How can 1 tnrn from profit and loss,
To think of a sick nation's ilk ?
What money I'd loose if I went
What chances for traffic and gain ?
Then think of the comforts of home,
And the camp and the carnage and slain!
But there is young Truman Le Loss,
Whose mother is widowed and old,
And he has but little to do,
Since their farm iiy the Sheri.7 a sold,
If he shomhl enlit?and net sol.
As many a one ha betore.
His mother could come on the town.
Or ak alms at the -wealfiy tnan' door.
'Tis shameful that such fellows a he
Should turn a deaf ear to the call,
That some should be slain by the fire
Cannot be the fortune of all !
If 1 only stood in his shoes,
With no fortune or kin to pro ect,
If I faltered to shoulJer my gun,
I ougtu to be shot lor neglect.
I am ready 10 cheer the olJ flag.
And toa up my cap in ihe air
So long as it costs not a cent,
By the Union I'm ready jo swear !
Let ihe blood ol the nation flow out
Like a river to vanquish the foe,
(.et each father and brother turn out,
(But the Doctor says I cannot go !)
A Card from Lient. Gut. Jacob, of Erntoekj.
Washington, Jan. 19. .To the editor of Ike
World : I find the following in the Globe :
"The Washington correspondent of the
(f'o'ld says Lieotenent Governor Jacob, of
Kentucky, who returns Irom Richmond with
Mr. Blair, predicts '.hat there will be a ces
sation of hostilities within two months, and
a proposal of peace upon some terms of re
union from the Confederate government to
ours " Your correspondent has been mis
informed : I never used snnh language nor,
the reverse, that I have heard as attributed
to me, "that the rebellion could not be
crushed." I will not attempt at this time
to state what t believe at larze. At the
proper time over my own signature. I may
give my impreiots. I da not wish to be
accountable otherwise I have two reasons
lor this. Firs', that erroneous opinions,
wi'hout being corrected, might prove detri
mental to the public interests. Second'y,
lhat I do not wish to do injustice to a brave,
determined people, who, when base men
in my own eovernment, notwithstandinar
that I had fought and bled in defense of my
flag and the unity of rny country, had me
kidnapned and forced within their line-,
treated me with disiingui-hed respect and
kindness. Nor did I accept their hospitality
with a lie upon my lips, that I was not a
Union man. I never pushed rny opinions ;
nor did I deny my principles when, inci
dentally, the conversation would lake that
direction, ind I was applauded for my can
dor. 1 shall ever feel gratelul for their kind. I
ness. A lew words more. Thee people
are learlully in earnest; they are not suff
ering lor the nece-aries ol lite; they be
lieve thai they have nothing to hope from
the present policy of Mr Lincoln, and lhat j
to fiht is io gain Unless the present pol
icy is materially changed, I predict a long,
bloody, and fearful war, lo which the pal
is but child's play. With statesman hip
and patriotism under Grid's blfcssmir, we
may yet resore lhat which is dear to every
patriot.' heart, the unity and happiness of
the American people. Very respeifully,
Kichaud T. Jaccb.
Decidedly Cool.
A lady, who had a some what Bacchana
lian spouse . resolved to frighten him into
temperance. She therefore engaged a
watchman , for a stipulated reward, .to car
ry "Philander" lo the watch-house, while
yet in a state ol insensibility, and to fright
en him a title when he recovered. In co.i
sequence of this arrangement, he woke op
about eleven o'clock, and lound himself on
his elbow. He looked around until his
eyes rested on a man sitting by a stove and
moking a cigar.
Where am I V asked Philander.
"In a medical college," said the cigar
smoker.
What a doing there ?"
"Going lo be cut up ?"
"Cut up how comes that 1"
"Why, you died ye-terday. while drunk,
r.nd we have bought your carcass anyhow
from your wife, who bad a right to sell it,
for it's all the good she could ever make out
of you. If you are not derd, it's no lault ol
Ihe doctors ; and they'll cot yoa op, dead
or alive."
"Yon will do it, eh 1" arked ihe old sot.
"To be sore we will now immediate
ly," was the resolute answer.
Polities in the Chorea..
Rev. Mr. Sleek, pastor of a Lutheran
Church at Dayton, Ohio, was snmmoned
before the Council of the Chnrch, on the
I8th day of November last, and the follow
ing charges were preferred against him as
a cause for his removal from the pastorate
ol the Church :
1. He preached the funeral sermon of a
Democrat who had been killed by violence.
2. He went on a visit to Pennsylvania,
about the time of the October election o
1863, and did not hurry back in time to
vote, according lo the wishes of the Coun
cil.' 3. He voted for McClellan, contrary to
the expectations of Ihe Council that they
had been led to believe thai be was a "Un
ion" man.
4. That while there were no objection to
his preac-bmg and prayers on .days of na
tional prayer and fasting,' that ihey were
bu.-Ii as none but a good Union man could
deliver yet in voting as he bad done, he
was inconsistent with himself.
5. That Christians were not found voting
as he did ,
6. He had been seen at a Democratic
mee ing, listening to a man speaking.
7. He was seen at 'he Democratic Head
quarters on the evening after the election,
listening! to the news.
H Tr.dt his intimate associates were Dem
ocrats. ,
9. That he preached a sermon on Cong'e
ational Peace.
10. That he ought not to have voted with
the Democratic party, beci'ie they were
enemies lo Christianity.
11. That McClellan was a traitor, and by
voting for him, he (the pastor) would be
regarded in the same light.
The above in a true copy of the charges
alleged against the Rev. Mr. Steck, and are
lying before us and can be seen and read
by any one else
Was ever fanaticism and bigotry carried
to a greater pitch ? In the whole eleven
charges, there is nothing whatever bot a
direct attempt to interfere with the rights
of conscience, and the solemn convictions
or the minister. He had never preached
politics. They admit that. His sermons
and prayers were unexceptionable, and it
was therefore a deposition to tyrannize
over tbe mind of man, lhat gave motive to
Ihis outrageous aflVir.
The minister left the Church, and with
him many members, who ren'ed a Hall,
which iscrowded with hearers, and the new
organization already outstrips ths old one.
"Whom the gorl mean to destroy they first
make rn ad." Fills Ci'y (Ar. ) Ilegistet
losketterj.
Bf JOSH BILLINGS.
I da consider musketeers
' The pes-ky of all God's cretnrs.
I have finally ketched it. I have bin
like a lam, led to the slacter, and had mi
bind sucked out ov me as tho it was onla
swete sider, and belonged to sumbody elsn.
I am a man ov peace, but low, and behold4!
There ain't a piece in me but it is bit, and
puckered, and lore.
When musketeers whisper in yore ear,
The devil's angels are huvering nere.
I retired last nite to restat the usual time,
On the left side nv me, and about 2 feet ad
jacent, la my wife. I dropt to sleep az a
snow flake doz the buzzum uv a Silvery
lake. ( I bev a faint idee that this last sen
tence lor luvliness kn be be beet bandy.)
I dreame 1 a good sized hot dream.
It felt like the breath ov a Kanada thissul,
Around mi hed a thing to whissel.
Suddenly I awoke. Tbe room wos full
ov yell and screems responsiv. I dasht
wildly across the room. I lit a lite. I
harked one ov mi most reliable. All wuz
still still as crow's nest in dead of winter
I gazed a caze as i ho I wuz trying to thred
the rong end ov a kambrick neadle. Awa
in the distance, solitare. alone, k!oe up to
the ceiling, chaw in his cud, sot a linle gray
enss. I dipt a core towel into a basin of
water and rung it out. I krept up under the
little gray cuss 1 tck ame and fired,
And hit the srot
Yiiere tbe I n::o gray cuss bad sot.
Awl wuz still aain. I onli: Ihe kindle
nd sought mi couch.
Islept agin, only as the virtuous kan sleep
At 'be very lime that Geti Butler was
before the war Committee on the Conduct
ihe War, at Washington, testifying that
Fort Fisher could no: be taken, Gen. Terry's
heroes were placing ihe Stars and Stripe
above ehat stronghold. Thus was the wind
taken out of our inflated humbug.
New Jersey is the only Democratic state
in the North and is the oi.ly one that is out
fo debt and has a cash balance in the Trea
bury. Glorious little Jersey !
Wht cannot the men who vote for the
war be induced to go to the war. Ihey can
end it, if they" will ; lor whether ihey kill or
get killed, ihe result is the same. We tell
them frankly that we shall not go, and we
don't know ot any Democrat who intend
to do-so Then, let the men who have laid
out thi work, take hold and do it. Mm
chtiter (N. II ) Union.
A Fike Fellow. The man who adver
tises in our paper ; the man who -never re
fuses to lend yoa money ; and the fellow
who is courting your sister.
NUMBER .16
Return of Mr. Blair Nothing
.Accomplished Toward Imme
diate Peace What the South
is fighting Prr, and on What
Terms It Will Stop Fighting.
From the Richmond Enquirer, January 8i. ; .
The second mission of Hou. F.P. Blair
to Ricamond is eDded, by the return of
that gentleman to Washington yesterdaj
morning. That nothing Las been accom
plished towards' an immediate peace. we
feel ju-tied in assuring our readers. The
enemy are willing to permit us to dictate
our own terms, provided only we will not
dissolve the Union. Any guarantee for
slavery, any constitutional provision for
its protection and extension, full compen
sation in greenbacks for all the ntgroes
that have been carried off during the war,
anything, everything that we can ask or
think will be freely granted, if only we
will consent to reunite with them. These
may not have been exactly Mr. Blair's
terms, but tbey embrace the eubstance
of h's niistion, and do not in the least ex
aggerate the extremity to which the ene
my are willing to concede us if we will
only return to tho Union. But these
terms cannot purchase our liberty. ' We
are not fighting for slavery, neither its
protection nor extension. We are will
ing to give up slavery for oht liberty. We
intend to be independent and free,ortobe
exterminated. The enemy will under
stand the earnestness of our people in due
time. As yet they do not fully know us ;
b-U they are learning fast. Ve are seek
ing a place among the nations of earth,
believing it to be a right secured to us by
our forefathers. Slavery has nothing
whatever to do with this war. We will
sweep the institution from before us the
moment it stands in the way of the ac
complishment of our liberty,' The enemy
might as well abandon the .effort to bribe
us with protection for slavery out of our
liberty. We admit that there are few
recreant wretches in these states who
would sell their liberty for their negroes
but our word for it, they are few and ut
terly contemptible. Resolutions may be
introduced into the Virginia legislature
looking to reconstruction, but they will be
rejected with a unanimity which will for
ever damn the wretched traitor that has
thm sought to bring shame and disgrace
upon the fair name of the state. When
they make their appearance it will be time
enough to speak of their authors and abet
ters in their treasonable work. They will
be found to be men of no earthly influence ; .
men who have maintained their places ia
the Legislature because the army had ta
ken into its ranks all the men fit for such
places. Those who would now entertain
propositions of reconstruction and remain
with murders of our eons and brothers,the
violators of our women, the wretches who
have burned our bouses and desolated our
titlda, are either already purchased up or
have fixed their own price upon their trea
son, and are satisfied they will obtain it.
It would be most mortifiying to see anv
such resolutions introduced, and we do
most earnestly hope that good sense may
prevent their being offered. The second
mission of Mr. Blair is the best evidence
that we can desire that our people have
only to be true to themselves and they will
eventually secure their freedom. When
Mr. Lincoln is willing to give up his love
for freeing negroes, and when he and hie
people are willing te give constitutional
guarantee for the protection of slavery,and
even to repeal all laws prohibiting it intro
duction into the ftee states, to pay for all
stolen negroes, there can be no better evi-
dence that the enemy are beginning to un
derstand that the job is too big. Stand
firm now. We have gone through th
ul v tw ltrns faith
ful to our cause as were the sons and bro
thers we cow mourn, and we shall soon
rejoice in the enjoyment of our liberty and
independencs. There is a compromise
that yet may open the way to peace.; It
baa been suggested that the United States
will acknowledge nur independence, provi
ded a treaty of commerce and a league
offensive and defensive for the application
of the Monroe doctrine to all the stated of
North America can bo agreed upon.
When that proposition is made, it will be
time enough to dbcuss if In the mean
time our readers may as well revolve the
subject in their minds, for it is not im
probable that it may become a living, tan
gible proposition before many months.
g&" In the House on Monday a resolu
tion was offered thanking the President
for removing Gen. Butler from command.
It was tabled by a vote of yeas 97 nay a
43. It is no wonder a curse rests on the
land when so many of its chief priests bow
down and worship 4the beast."
iSF The Dayton Empire geta off tbe
following on what it considera BrjTLxa'
present and future residence :
''General Butler'a present residence I
Lowell -bis future residence will Lw-