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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1861.
VOL. 7.-JVO. 35.
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THE DAISY.
The daisy blossoms on the rocks,
Amid the purple heath j
It r.lossoms on the river's banks.
That threads the glens beneath :
'The eagle, in his pride of place,
Beholds it by his nest;
And in the mead it cushions soft
.The larks descending breast.
"Before the cuckoo's earliest Spring
Jiis silver circlet knows.
"When greening buds begin to swell,
And icphyr melts the snows,
And when December's breexes howl
Along the moorlands bare,
And only blooms the Christmas rose,
The daisy still is there.
Samaritan of flowers! to it
All races are alike
The Switxer on his glacier height,
The-Dutchman on his dyke,
The seal-skin vested Esquimaux, -
Begirt with icy seas,
And, underneath his burning noon,
The parasolled Chinese.
The emigrant on distant shore,
'Mid scenes and faces strange,
Behold it flowering in the sward
Where'r bis footsteps range;
And when his yearning, home-sick heart
Woud bow to its despair,
It reads hi eye a. lesson sage
That God is everywhere !
Stars pre 'daisies that begem
The blue fields of the sky,
Beheld by ail, and everywhere, .
Bright prototypes on high.
Bloom on, then,-unpretending flowers!
A"nd to the waverer be
An emblem of fit. Paul's content
And Stephen's constancy.
A TALE FOB THE TIMES.
The January sun streamed cheerfully in a
cioss the crimson carpet of the snag little room
the fire glowed redly in the grate, and the
canary, whose cage hung in the window, trill-,
od and warbled as joyously as if he was in the
hind of cinnamon and spice cloves, instead o
the clime of snow and wind. And Mr. Wayne
as he buttoued up his overcoat and fitting on
his gloves, preparatory to facing the keen out
er air, glancing round, very much as though
lie would prefer staying with the fire and the
canary bird.
Just as he resolutely put on bis fur cap, the
doer opened and his wife came in one of
those bright-eyed rosy-cheeked little woman,
whom it is very eisy to spoil, and very dim
ult to control. The crimson merino dress
she wore was the prettiest possible contrast to
her peach blossom cheeks, and the white lace
rills at her throat and wrists were more be
coDiming I ban the costliest French emboidery
could have tecn, -while her tiny buck silk a
porn,- nil rtifllea and lace, and coquettish pock
-ts, might have been worn for use, but certain
ly, had rather an ornamental effect !
"Are you off already, Charlie ?"
Mr. Wayne nodded. "To be sure;, puss
These are t'mcs when a roan can't watch bis
business too closely."
Before you go, I want some money," said
the lady, reaching up to arrange her hus
land's cravat, with rather a conscience-strick
tn look.
"Money! what for?"
"M is. Arnold wishes me to go shopping with
Jicr."
"But you don't need to buy anything."
I know that," said Mrs. Wayne pettishly,
"but I want a little money, nevertheless, not
to nend, but to carry. What would Mrs
Arnold think if I went shopping with an emp
ty purse ?"
Mr. Wayne whistled ominously, and then
shook his head, as he sounded the depths of
tis pocket.
"I haven't any thing but a fifty dollar bill,
-Mattie !"
"I will take that, sir!" said Mrs Wayne, de
murely.
'Hold on, thongh I shall need that for
rent, next week."
"Well, you may have it only I want the
privilege of carrying it to-day. Don't be so
provoking, Charles one would think 1 was a
tin Id."
'And you are, in all essentials." said Mr.
Wayne, placing the bank-note in her extend
ed palm, and giving her a playful kiss as he
took his departure.
"If you please, ma'am, Mrs. Arnold Is wait
ing," said a servant, thrusting her round red
face through the open door.
"Tell her I'll be down In one moment."
Mattie Wayne turned the bill from side to
side, and looked thoughtfully at it. Dad she
not better place temptation out of her reach,
and leave it at home 1
"Nonsense! I shall not spend it" was the
next reflection, and Mrs. Wayne placed it in
her portemonaie, and ran up stairs to dress.
"It's a great bargain, ma'am," said the
shopman, stroking down the rich folds of the
cistimere shawl as it hung from the shoulders
of the lay figure. -
"Take it Mattie ! I never saw anything so
cheap," whispered Mrs. Arnold.
"But I really do not need it at present,"
hesitated Mrs. Wayne.
"Ton can lay it aside until you do ma'am,"
persisted the clerk. "That is tfie great advan
ce of these goods they never go out ' of
anion. Think or it a shawl like inis lor
twenty dollars! You won't have another
such chance for ten years."
"How I wish I had not bonght that India
wrapper of mine," said Mrs. Arnold, "I cer
tainly would have preferred this."
"I will take it," said Mrs. Wayne laying
'town her solitary note, and silencing her con
WK.r.re with the reflection "Charles can't
-'I' seing how cheap it is !"
"Vattie, do look at these silks !" exclaimed
another lady, who had fust recognized Mrs.
aync, "drd you ever 8ee anything with such
lstre and so cheap!"
Mrs. Wayne's eyes sparkled with true femi
nine rapture, as she glanced at the shining
o'ds, and from that moment she was a lost
joruan, as far as the change from the fifty
dollar bill went! Is it fair to bUme her
those who cast the first stone who do not
snow how strong is the influence at crowded
nporiums, cheap goods, and advising friends,
of h Wn rea-tn mfee8 them inconsiderate
iir ' nei8hbors less lengthy purses,
ask I tnate8 vou -ook 80 grave, Mattie T"
.n- s Arnold on their way home.
'ujd I look grave T I was only thinking !"
unly thinking only recalling the follv and
"fraragance of which she bad been guilty ;
ri-J feeling for the Erst timet the bitter ttinar
femora. Wh.at vould Charles say ? It I
was late when he came home, and Mattie had
not the courage to make her cortcssiou at
once.
"How is the business world to-day, Charles?"
she asked.
He shook his head. "Matters are looking
very badly we business men need every cent
we can rake and scrape together. And, by the
way, Mattie, I am a little sorry you went shop
ping to-day. Several men who bad advanced
me money, think I am able to pay at once,
when they have seen you looking at expensive
goods down town. And of course I kuew you
were only looking, for "
Mattie's face was scarlet.
"I have spent the money you gave mc,
Charles," said she ; "but "
His look of amiizement--almost horror
checked her for a moment,' but she went on
and related the whole story.
"Can you pardon my lolly?"
He rose and walked once or twice across tho
floor with a disturbed air.
"I shall have to do what I never did before
. ask the landlord to wait a month for his
rent," he said, with grave annoyance.
"Oh, Charles, if I had only left that, money
at home 1" faltered Mrs. Wayne.
"Mattie," said her husband, sitting down
beside her, and taking the little hand that
trembled so violently,"! thought how it would
be when you wanted the money this morning,
to make a show. Never be ashamed of an
empty purse, my dear, when you have no need
for a full one. This is a hard lesson for you,
but I shall not think the fifty dollars thrown
away if it teaches you prudence. Hereafter,
let us never allude to it again !"
"I shall not forget it. Charles," said Mat.
tie, her bright eyes shining through mist, like
a rainbow. She did not and the fifty dollars
was the best investment Charles Way ne ever
made.
As Incident. An incident occurred during
the cannonading of Fort Sumter, which lor its
peculiarity, deserves particular mention. Ro
ger A. Fryor of Virginia, ex-member of Con
gress, was one of the second deputation that
waited upon Major Anderson, lie was the ve
ry embodiment of Southern chivalry. Liter
ally dressed to kill, bristling with bowie-knives
and revolveis, like a walking arsenal, he ap
peared to think himself individually capable
of capturing the fort, without any extraneous
assistance. Inside of the fort he see-ned to
think himself master of everything monarch
of all he surveyed and, in keeping with his
pretension, seeing upon the table what appear
ed to he a glass of brandy, drank it without
ceremony. Surgeon Crawford who had wit
nessed the feat, approached him and said:
Sir, what you have drank is poison it was
the iodide of potassium you are a dead man.'
The representative of chivalry instantly col
lapsed, bowie-knives, revolvers, and all, and
passed into the hands of Surgeon Crawford,
who, by purgings, pumpings, and pukings, de
feated his own prophecy in regard to his fate.
Mr. Pryor left Fort Sumter "a wiser, if not a
better man."
A Brave Texas Girl. Here is a little item
from a late Texas paper showing the old pio
neer spirit still pervading the wives and daugh
ters of the backwoodsman "The party of In
dians who passed through Jack Parker and
Palo Pnto counties, marking their way with
desolation, and striking terror to the stoutest
hearts, drew up in front of t lie residence of
Mr. Eubanks, and were holding a parley, and
no doubt forming a plan to. attack the house.
There were no men on the premises at the
time. Mrs. Eubanks, her daughter and sever
al small children, were alone. The yard was
enclosed with pickets, about six feet high.
Miss Mary Eubanks, the daughter, with une
qualled presence of mind for one so young,
seized a shot gun, put on her brother's hat
and placed a bench near the picketing, so as
to peep over without exposing her body, and
then deliberately fired at the party, which
stratagem and heroic conduct doubtless saved
her own life and the lives of her mother and
little brothers and sisters, as the cowardly
scamps immediately fled, no doubt believing
the house defended by a body of armed men.
Men and Monet. The Suffolk Bank of Bos
ton offered the State $100,000 and the United
States $100,000. Old Massachusetts is pour
ing forth men and money to the contest for
Freedom as freely as she did in the Revolu
tion, when she sent more men into the field
than all the Southern States together. Juittle
Rhode Island shows the same high spirit. Th
Legislature unanimously voted $500,000 for
the war, the banks have offered $135,000 to
the State, and a single hrm in Providence has
offered $100,000. Pennsylvania, too, is doing
her duty. Men are plenty, and money is of
fered freely. The Philadelphia banks have
taken the $500,000 war loan at par, and thrice
as much could be had. A Pittsburg bank has
offered $100,000 to the State. John Covcde
offered $50,000; and a number of citizens of
Pittsburg, and in other parts of the State,
have offered like sums. So it is iiKall the free
States ; men and money are offered freely, and
without stint. Wo nnto the traitors of the
land, who dare to oppose the freemen of the
North, when once fully aroused.
A Salty Joke. A good joke is told on a
member of one of the volunteer companies
which went down to Pensacola. We think it
was a Mississippi company, and is said to be a
fact. Being accustomed to fresh water, livinz
in the interior, and not having been in the
Gulf of Mexico before, he was in blissful ig
norance of its briny properties. Getting up
in the morning, as usual, to perform his daily
ablutions, he drew a bucket of water, sat It
down near his comrades, and retiring for soap
and towel. Returning with the articles, he
sonsed into the bucket of water, hands and
face. The consequence can . be imasined:
Recovering from the shock, and rubbing tin
burning eyeballs, ho exclaimed, "I can whip
the d d rascal that salted this water ! A
man can't draw a bncket of water, and leave it
a few moments, without some prank is played
on him." Dabbing the water aside, ho left a
mid the shouts and jeers of his companions
who had been silently watching him. lie
soon found out his mistake.
A teacher asked a bright little girl, " What
country is opposite to its on the globe 7"
"Don't know, sir," was the answer.
'Well, now," said the teacher, "if I were to
boro a hole thro' tho earth, and you were to
go in this end, where would you come out ?"
"Out of tho hole, sir," replied .the. pupil,
with an air ot triumph.
A CURIOUS ST0EY.
A New York correspondent of the Buffalo
Commercial furnishes that paper with the fol
lowing curious and romantic statement, the
entire truth of which is vouched for by the
writer, who also gives the names of Governor
Morgan and the Chief Police as additional
guarantees of its correctness:
In 185G Thomas Shotwell, a young man of
respectable family, and the son of a wealthy
manufacturer of Leeds, England, became ac
quainted with and married J ulia Tillotson, the
only daughter of another rich manufacturer
of Sheffield. The union was sanctioned by the
paters and maters of both parties, and for a
few months the course of true love ran smooth,
and preparations were mado by the young
people to i set up for themselves, upon the
funds expected from their respective "gov
ernors ;" but a year after the wedding, the el
der Shotwell succumbed to the financial pres
sure he became bankrupt and his family
worse than beggars. The young wife's fath
er, finding his son-in-law penniless, Bet about
devising some means to get rid of him, qui
etly but effectually. The army- In the East
were in want of recruits, so a commission was
purchased for young Shotwell, and he was as
signed to the Regiment of Horse. Old Til
lotson, finding himself free from the incubus
of a "poor relation," devised how he should
make the separation between his daughter and
her husband perpetual. He first procured to
be published in the Service Gazette a report
of the death of the younger Shotwell. and by
a conspiracy with a post officer's clerk in Lon
don, succeeded in interception all communi
catiou between the youngsters.
In less th in a year after the publication of
young Shotwell s death; hi supposed widow
was induced to marry again, and this time to
a worthy and wealthy sea captain named Post,
engaged 111 the American trade., whom she ac
companied to New York in March last. They
had scarcely been there one month when her
second husband died, leaving her a fortune of
some '12,000. For some reason Mrs. Post
remained in this city, and boarded at a well
known and fashionable English boarding house
on Twenty-fourth street, where wo will leave
her to give a history of her first husband fitter
his arrival in India. Not being able to obtain
any intelligence from his wife, whom he truly
and devotedly loved, he gave way to his pas
sior.s, and endeavored to drown his griefs in
dissipation. The first news he received from
his wife was her marriage with Post. A ca
reer of dissipation followed this intelligence.
and in a drunken brawl he attacked and maim
ed a superior brother officer who playfully
rallied him on his domestic troubles, for
which he was court martialed and sentenced,
but upon the circumstances of the case being
made to the Governor General, his sentence
was suspended, but ho was cashiered and dis
missed from the service. He, too, found an
asylum in New York, almost simultaneously
with his former wife.
Having never been schooled to labor, and
having no vocation by which to earn a living
a stranger in a strange land, outlawed by
his own government his case excited the
sympathy of Mr. Wight, of the Par!: Hotel,
who generously gave him a home until he
could be put in a condition to earn for him
self a living. He finally was offered and ac
cepted a place as porter in a large dry goods
house in Dey street, but his continued dissi
pation entirely unfitted him tor his business
that ha remained but a short time, his dis
charge necessarily following.
Under tho circumstances it is not strange
that he should commit crime ; a forgery of bis
employer's name, his arrest and trial therefor,
his couviction thereof, and sentence and im
prisonment followed in Septemder lust.
On the day he left the city for the State
prison, he was visited by a reporter of a New
York daily, whose acquaintance he had form
ed at "the Park," and to whom he intrusted
a narrative of his life, and the custody of some
objects of curiosity and mementoes of affec
tion among them a Bible of a very curious
and costly design and workmanship. "That,"
said he, was a present from Julia on our
wedding day. I gave her one precisely like
it. Take it keep it for me, and if I should
uot survive the term of my imprisonment,
send it to my mother in Leeds, with the un
dying love of her unhappy son." lie was too
agitated to say more, and sobbing a last adieu,
was soon on his way to Sing Sing. Up to the
time of his final imprisonment he hail no idea
but that bis Jisliii," ud he termed her, was
the happy wile ot an affectionate husband, en
joying life in its fullness in Old England.
On New 1 ear's day, the reporter above re
ferred to, in going the rounds of "calls," vis
ited the boarding house of Mrs. P., on Twenty-fourth
street, and while there accidentally
saw a Bible upon the centre table, the very
copy ot the one intrusted to him by the con
vict Shotwell. lie took up the book, opened
it, and upon the fly leaf read these words :
"Julia, from Thomas, Leeds, England."
Here was a mystery, and just such an &be as
a reporter delights to contemplate and eluci
date. So, calling the landlady to one side, he
asked her concerning the ownership of tho
book, explaining his curiosity by stating that
he possessed one precisely like it, whose his
tory was a peculior oue, and as he understood
there were but two books of" the same pattern
in csiiUiiCe, he desired to know if these were
the two exclusives. He was informed that
the beck was borrowed from a lady guest for
adornment of the centre table for this occa
sion ; and what was more, was told that the
vvncr vorJd not prolyl Wy o!;jet to an expla
nation of the coincidence. Sending up his
card he was soon shown into Mrs. P.'s pres
ence, and with the characteristic freedom (not
impudence) of a reporter, proceeded to ex
plain the cause of bis visit to learn the his
tory of-tbat Bible, assuriug the lady that his
visit was not prompted by an idle curiosity.
Mrs. P., without reserve, gave such informa
tion as was desired j and in an after conversa
tion gave the reporter to understand that her
affection for her first husband, whom she still
believed to have died in India, was unchanged.
The reporter soon left, and it is unnecessary
to Ftatc thnt his next calling .plae was at the
houso of Mr. B., the agent of a well known
European banking firm in this city. The sto
ry of the two Bibles was soon told, and of
course Mr. B. was deeply interested, lie immediately-
called ; upon Mrs. P., and kindly
and carefully made known to her the story of
her husband's misfortunes, accompanying tho
intelligence with a promise, if she desired, it,
thnt no pains should bo spared to secure his
pardon. What was her answer ? :Noonewbo
knows woman's heart can doubt. She did de
sire it, and with heroic devotion set about ac
complishing it. In company with Mr. B., she
visited the victimized merchant, the District
Attorney, the Judge of the Court and the ju
ry, and telling the story of his and her wrongs,
obtained letters from each to the Governor,
soliciting the convict's pardon. Armed with
these documents, she proceeded to Albany
last week, and had an audience with Governor
Morgan, the result of which was, that with a
lighter heart and her husband's pardon, she
took the cars for Sing Sing, and on Monday
last had the pleasure of walking out ol the
prison doors arm in arm with the husband
whom she had long mourned as lost to her
forever.
The couple, thus strangely re-united, im
mediately took passage at New York for Eng
land, where they intend to reside hereafter.
Old Letters. Never burn kindly letters.
It is so pleasant to read them over when the
ink is broVrn, the paper yellow with age, and
the hands that traced the friendly words lie
folded over the heart that prompted them, un
der the green sod. Above all, never burn
love-letters. To read them in after years is
like a resurrection of one's youth. The elder
ly spinster finds in fhe impassioned offer she
foolishly rejected, twenty 3 ears ago, a foun
tain of rejuvenescence. Glancing over it,
she realizes that she was once a belle and a
beaut3', and beholds her former self in a mir
ror much more congenial to her last than the
one that comforts her dressing-room. The
"window indeed" derives a sweet and sileinn
consolation from the letters of the beloved
one, who has journeyed before her to the far
off" land, from which there comes no messages,
and where she hopes one day to join him.
No photograph can so vividly recall to the
memory of a mother the tenderness and devo
tion of the children who have left her at tho
call of Heaven, as the epistolary outpouring
01 their htial love. The letter of her true son
or daughter to a true mother, is somethii
better than an immage of the features ;it is a
renex of the winter's soul. Keep all loving
letters. Hum onI the harsh and cruel ones
and, in burning, forget and forgive them.
Choosing Husbands. When a girl marries
why do people talk of her choice ? In niuetj
nine cases out of a hundred lias she any choice 1
Does not the man, probably the last she would
have chosen, select her? A lady writer says :
'I have been married raanj years; the match
was considered a good one, suitable in every
respect age, position, and fortune. Every
oue said I had made a good choice. I loved
my husband when I married him, because he
had by unwearied assiduity succeeded in gain
ing my affections ; but had choice been ni3
privilege, I certainly should not have chosen
him. As I look at him in the easy-chair,
sleeping before the 3re, a huge dog at his
feet, a pipe peering out of tho many pockets
ofhU shooting-coat, 1 cannot but think how
different he is from what I would have chosen.
My first penchant was for a clergyman 5 he was
a flatterer, and cared but little for me, though
I have not forgotten the pang of his desertion.
My next was a law3er, a 3oung man of im
mense talent, smoothe, insinuating marners;
but he, too, after walking, talking, dancing,
and flirting, left me. Either of those would
have been my "choice ;" but my present hus
band chose me, and, therefore, I married him.
Aud this, 1 cannot help thinking, must be the
way with halt the married folks of 1113- ac
quaintance." ,
The Despotism of South Carolina. There
are no popular elections in South Carolina, to
this da. TJie poor whites nave never been
permitted to vote ; and even those who have
the required property qualification a free
hold of filty acres, or. a "town lot" only
choose members of the Legislature. The
Legislatue elects all the state officers and the
Judges, and also appoints the electors who
castjthe vote ot the State for President. To
keep the pooi whites from all share in the
government, it is provided, that no one shall
be eligible to a seat in -the Legislature, who
does not own five hundred acres of land and
ten negroes. This is the leading State in re
bellion agiiinst the lree institutions of the
counti'3', and these are the principles of gov
ernment a few of our heretofore leaders, pro-
lessing, but counterfeiting pure Democracy,
want to sustain.
Discovery of. Ancient Coins in New Or
leans. The New Orleans papers report the
discover of a collecfion of old coins in an an
cient Spanish house in the Second District of
that city. The story runs to the effect, that
an old negro woman had complained frequent
ly to her mistress about an evil spirit which
haunted the place, floor, walls and ceiling of
the kitchen, to her groat terror and the de
struction ot her rest at night. On Sunday
night, March 24th, this w oman locked herself
in the kitchen, with her little grand-son, and
began a search for money, which she natural
ly associated with the spirit. She dug under
the hearth and discovered a heap of old silver
com, the value of which has been estimated
by a broker at $1,G7Q. Who buried the mon
ey must remain a mystery. Tho money, of
course, falls to the lady living in the house.
Uses op Scripture Histort. God cer
tainly had a purpose in making history and
biography tho broad basis of all Scripture.
Is it not manifest that, by putting so largeja
portion of his Word iuto this narrative form,
he thereby sought to attract and interest the
youthful mind ? If so, it is well to profit by
the indication. It is wise to follow, in our
own instructions, the Divine pattern thus set
us. Religion never speaks more gracefully
than when she speaks by example. It is
chiefly through the living voice of example
that she speaks to the young in all the Scrip
tures To inculcate Bible truths, through
Bible characters, whether from the pulpit,
the press, or the teacher's chair, is to adopt
the Bible's own method of instruction. And
certainly it is one which experience proves to
be the most effective, as it is the most pleasing.
Union Speech of Gen. Wool. General
Wool made a patriotic speech at Troy, N. Y.,
on April 15. Ho closed by saying: "My
friends, that flag must be lifted up from the
dust info which it has been trampled, and
placed in its proper position; and again set
floating in triumph to the ' breeze. I pledge
yon my heart, my hand, and all ray energies
t6 the cause.' The Union shall be maintained.
I am prepared to devote my life to the' TTOfk,
and to lead you ja the struggle." v
THE N0ETH AND THE SOUTH.
There are few thoughtful Americans who
have not felt for many years that the Gordian
knot ot slavery would at some time ir other
be cut by the sword, but have hoped that that
period might be more distant than time has
proved. But it is a remarkable fact that some
of our distinguished statesmen have seen the
truth more clear', and though, from patriot
ic motives, they did not openl3 express their
presentments, they signified them to intimate
friends in confidential intercourse. In some
cases these views have been made public since
the death of those who entertained them. A
mongst the various instances of this sort we
may refer to Col. Benton's observation to a
friend, that the vast expense put upon Capitol
buildings was with the view that they should
early become the propert3 of the Southern
Confederacy. Mr. Madison told a friend of
his,' who .now relates flic circumstance, that
he would live to see the United States rent to
pieces by the question of slavery.
There is one point in all tbis that cannot be
too constantly remembered or too strongly
dwelt upon. It is that such an event could
not have como at a more opportune moment
lor the North. It comes at a moment 01 ex
traordinary strength, when an unusual defi
ciency of grain abroad, and a great superflui
ty of it here, enables us to make large exports
of Northern produce. Consequent, w hen a
stringent money market checks all imports,
and gives us the price ol onr exports in bul
lion, these exports having been on Northern
account, the specie is the property of the
North, and affords us a basis of extraordinary
strength for carrying on our operations. Add
to this that the probability of another .short
crop abroad, and of another abundant one
here, gives us a prospect of keeping down
exchanges over a long period of time, and of
retaining immense quantities of specie in this
country to strengthen everv movement. Nor
is this all; ty the inevitable laws of trade,
what specie is now in the South must come
North, and this is a tendeucy which all of
Jeff. Davis hnanciering.cannot avert, and, in
fact, will only precipitate ; for the rebel Ad
ministration, destitute ol mone3, and unable
to pay its soldiers and adherents, must at
least make a pretence of paying must pay in
promises to pay in paper. Now, it is the
nature of a bad irrenc3, when supiorted by
Government authority, invariably to drive
out a good one; and thus the specie reserves
of the Southern banks, now carefully hoarded,
will be drawn out by Mr. Davis, 011 one pre
text or another, and will find their way North
to pay for provisions which the Southern
States must have, or starve. In fact, a great
deal of the specie will be sent North. b3' its
present owners, as a mere matter of precau
tion, and to get it out of the reach of Mr. Da
vis clutches. Five millions are already in
the North, for safe keeping in this way. The
deficienc3' of money is already felt most a-
cutely at the South, and we see it in no way
more strikingly indicated than in the absurd
sources to which, in their desperate embar
rassment, they look for it. At the outset of
Secession, South Carolina attempted to raise
mone3 in Philadelphia, and was greatly dis
appointed at her want of success. The Mont
gomer3 Administration fully expected to ob
tain large sales for their bonds in Wall street,
where they were to have greatly tho prefer
ence over those of the United States. Such
a thing as their exclusion from the New York
Stock Board probably never entered the heads
of the rebels as a possible contingency. An
equally severe disappointment was caused by
the-announcement that a similar .exclusion
awaited them in London, where the rules of
the Stock Board peremptorily exclude the se
curities of all communities which have been
guilty of confiscation or repudiation. Foiled
right and left, no credit abroad, no money at
home, where do they now put their faith I In
the expectation of "large loans from British
ship-builders."
Sane men would never suppose that the
English Government would allow its snl jects
to aid and abet traitors, and thus bring the
two Governments into collision. But snni'y
is not a characteristic of the people of the
Gulf States at the present moment.
tVnothcr element of strength in the North,
at this juncture, lies in the new tariff, which
will operate, to some extent, as a check to
imports, at the same time that its higher rates
will place in tho hands of Government an un
diminished amount of revenue. At the same
time it throws manufacturing business into
the bauds of our establishments in preference
to those of Europe.
How different would have been our condi
tion if ibis collision bad come at a moment
when the North was suffering under excessive
imports, with grain high here and abundant
abroad when the South was rich w hen a bad
tariff had stimulated imports and checked do
mestic manufactures. This is now so far f rom
being the case, that there has been for a quar
ter of a century no period when the North was
better able to go through this trial unflinch
ing. And what are its first results ? South
ern commerce annihilated banks insolvent,
many with only three or four cents in specie
to the dollar of circulation that circulation
already at fifty per cent, discount, and rapid
ly declining public and private credit utter
ly annihilated, even tho suspicion of secess
ion sufficing to bring down the stock of a Bor
der State like Virginia to its present pitiable
figure cotton forced, to find new avenues to
market, and to pay freights to Northern rail
ways threatened, too, with damaging compe
tition from new fields of production abroad
and substitutes at home, whereas in the North
specie is so abundant as to be a drug banks
almost everywhere solvent the Government
teadered supplies of men and money far be
yond i's wants and commerce increasing, so
that the arrivals at New York far exceed those '
at any previous time. . , ,
We are far from wishing to underrate the
fearful crisis which is upon us. But we say
and jn saying it, we repeat the words of a dis
tinguished officer that excepting their sto
len arms and their secret conspiracies, no
States could be worse prepared' for war than
those now in rebellion, and no States, not ha
bitual provided with a standing army, in a
better condition for war than the Free States
of North America.
There are twenty-three special mail agents
in the Union, about one half of which have
been filled by the present Administration.
rA young girl' generally loses her' freshness
by mingling in fashionable society, as a bright
st re a a does by mingling with the sea.
TEESIELE CEUELTY.
The Montreal papers teem w ith accounts of
cruelty shown to prisoners in the jails of Can
ada East. Alluding to the Isle-aux Noix Re
formatoiy, the Advertiser says : "Poor boys
have been flogged there w ith rods cut green
from the woods (six dozen each,) until the
flesh was ploughed out ol their bodies, literally
cut out in pieces, and when the poor sufferers
begged lor mercy's sake that the punishment
might be inflicted upon their backs, even that
was denied them, and the strokes so delivered
that they would strike the hardest under the
arm and around the breast. The Warden
standing by all the while, and repeatedly giv
orders to "striktj hard." One poor boy in
particular received eight lashes, after he was
perfectlv insensible, and remained in a stato
of unconsciousness lor twenty-five minutes af
ter he was flogged and he was let down on the
floor. Another boj has been known to faint
three or four different times from exhaustion
and cruel treatment. It is also true that per
sons have been selected to inflict corporeal
punishment upon prisoners, against whom
they , were well known to harbor feelings of
strong hatred. Others have been confined in
dark cells for three months, chained to the
walls with ftro feet of chain, and are described
as in a state bordering upon insanity.
A Noble Horse. Grant Tborburn says:
I once saw a horse in the neighlorhood of
New York drawing a load otcoal, twelve hun
dred weight, in a cart. The lane was very nar
row. Tiie driver, some distance behind, was
conversing with a neighbor. The horse, on a
slow walk, came up to a little child sitting on
its hind quarters in the middle of the road,
gathering up dust with his little bands, and
making mountains out of mole-hills. Tho
horse stopped he snielled of the child there
was no room to turn off'. With his thick lips
he gathered the frock between his teeth, laid
him gently on the outside of the wheel track,
and went on his way rejoicing. And welt
might he rejoice he had done a noble deed."
Patent Arms. It is well understood that
Colt and others, holding patents from the U
nited States, have for a long time past been
suppbying th? South with arms of the most ef
fective kind. As those men are protected in
their manufacture of arms by letters patent
granted by the United States, it is the duty of
Congress at once to revoke their patents, and
make the manufacture of patent arms free to
all. Among the first acts of the Congress
should be the revocation of the patents of all
who have supplied rebels with arms. There
are men who would learn a useful lesson by
such discipline as that. Let us have a free
right for all to make the best aims!
Noble. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Esq., is a
mong those of the wealthy citizens of New
York who have offered to place money, ships,
and all they possess at tho disposal of the
Federal authorities to sustain the Government
in the crisis now upon us. This is not spoken
of as anything peculiar, for nearly all are of
one mind in New York ; but Mr. V. has prob
ably more property that can be made immedi
ately serviceable in the contest, and more that
is threatened by the system of pirac just set
on feet by Jeff. Davis, than perhaps any ocber
of onr millionaires, and he proffers it all to up
hold the Union and the Constitution.
Too near the utDGE. In a village in Pi.
cardy, after a long sickness, a farmer's wife
fell into a lethargy. Her husband was a wil
ling, good man, to believe her out of pain ;
and so, according to the ensiom of that coun
try, she was wrapped in a sheet and carried
out to 1)C bnried. But. as luck would have
it, the bearers carried her so near the hedge
that the thorns pierced the sheet, and waled
the woman from the trance. Some years af
ter she died in reality, and as the funeral pass
ed along, the husband would every now and
then call out "Not too near the hedge ! not
to near the hedge, neighbors."
Privateerino. Jeff. Davis has issued bis
proclamation in response to that of the Presi
dent offering commissions ami letters of marque
and reprisal to such as may applv for them.
Every man caught under his letters ot marque
will be liable to be hanged as a pirate. Nev
ertheless, our ship owners should be on their
guard. Ever port in the confederate States
ought to be blockaded forthwith. If there are
not national vessels enough to do it, let the
Government call lor privateers. Countering
tants will cure some diseases.
KE.MrcKi.-An immense Union meeting
was held at' Louisville on Thursday a-week.
Speeches were made bj Mr. Guthrie, former
ly Secretary of the Treasury, the venerable
Judge Nicholson and others. Resolutions
were unanimously passed declaring that tbo'
Confederate States had commenced war with
the Federal Government ; that Kentucky Is
loyal to the Union ; that Secession is a reme
dy for no evil; that Kentucky will not take
part against the Federal Government, but will
maintain a neutral position.
A Little History- Cassius M. Clay, Min.
ister to Russia, has offered hia services to the
Secrctary.of War, either to raise a regiment or
to serve as a private soldier in the ranks. Mr.
Cameron said to him, "Sir, this is the first in
stance in history that ever I heard of where a
foreign Minister volunteered to serve in tbo
ranks." "Then," said Clay, "let's makes.
little buton." A company of 100 volunteer
was raised and put under Clay's command.
Impessiox Made bt Northern Feeling.
The boldly-assumed attitude of the free States,
and the extiucfiou of all party lines, carry
terror into the ranks of the conspirators ; and
many who preached secession a week ago, are
now convinced that ft is all wrong.
Southern Opinion Prominent Southern,
men in Washington openly say that the Con
federacy committed a serious mistake in open
ing the fire upon Fort Sumter, as it will cause
a reaction against them by the conservative,
Union, and peace men of the South.
It is said that Huntington, the forger, is al
lowed to travel pretty much where he pleases,
instead of being kept closely in Sing Sing.
The other night he was recognized in Laura
Keenc's theatre, New York.
Of all eactbly music, that which reaches the .
farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving
Jbeart.
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