1 1 BY S. J. EOW. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1861. VOL. 7.-N0. 50. THE SUNBEAM IN THE CHURCH. Jt sweetly stole through tinted pane With mild and mellow light. And stayed within the sacred fane, As though it loved the sight. It played on childhood's cloudless brow, In warm and rosy rays, And gave the mother s pahd cheek The bloom of other days. it touched the old man's silver head With amber's softest hue, And followed o'er the hallowed font A peaceful rainbow threw. It lit the sculptor's classio group. On monumental stone, And lingered long with faith and hope, And round the mourner 6hone. It o'er the blessed alter hung And crowned the priest with gold ; A royal robe the surplice seemed, And fell in purple fold. More bright than Aaron's breastplate glowed The holy book of Uod, And gems bestrewed the very floor Whereupon the people trod. E'en thus tha Spirit's living light With all our lives surrounded. And wo that heavenly gift may seek Within the Chucrh's bound. Then come, by font and alter come, With faith and works of love, And darxest days shall brightly beam With radience from above LOVE AND WAR; APHTSICIAS'SSTORY. It was during the height of tho excitement which the war of 1812 bad awakenod all over our country, that I was one evening called Irora a brief moment of repose upon the sofa, after a fatiguing day. When I entered my office, I found a tall, slender youth pacing the floor with quick, irregular steps, apparently greatly excited. I suppose- that the calm, al most cold manner, which I instantly assumed might have bad a sedative effect upon him, for be ceased bis hurried tramp and came forward, although be was still perceptibly trembling ; but, as evidently, not lrom any lack of cour agerather with excess of that quality, if one might judge by the light within bis dark eye. 1 have observed that the bravest sometimes tremble under any strong emotion. He briefly stated bis errand, lie had en listed in the army ; but, unfortunately, as he seemed to think, his nearest friends thought bini too feeble in organization and too trail in health to undertake it, and had procured a kubstitute, expressing their earnest desire amounting to command that he should stay at home. He had thereupon resolved to come from home to be thoroughly examined by a city physician, and so submit to his decision as to the expediency of such a course as that of be coming a soldier. I looked at tho young man before mo with an earnest desire o relieve the anxiety under which ho seemed to sutler. He was very handsome, with dark) wavy hair, finely-cut features, and eyes black and piercing. 1 did not like the quick, shifting color that came and went on bis cheek ; but, excepting that, aftvr a long and strict examination, I saw nothing which could physically prevent him from following bis inclination in joining bis regiment, which he stated was to go immedi ately. With what rapture he received my decision I have no words to relate. He wrung my hand a dozen times, almost shouted bis thanks and bis joy, and then in a momentary re-action the poor fellow actually sat down, covered bis f"ce with his hands and sobbed. I saw the glittering tears roll out between bis fingers, ud kucw at once that be was one of those beings "made up of tire and dew," whose, rich, rare natures yield thoroughly to tho pressure of strong emotions. They melt, it is true, but it is a4 iron melts, lrom tbo powerful and irre sistible beat within. He had walked several miles to see me, and after hearing his whole story, 1 forbade him to leave my bouse that night. Soon we were seated together around a small table which Mary had set by the parlor fireside, by my re quest, and her fresh green tea acted as a com plete soother to his nerves. H proved to bo tho son of an old college mate of my own, who had married one of .Vary's dearest friends. It was not at all strango that I had lost sight of Austin Rea, nor that Mary had never seen Jane .Norwood since her marriage. Such things happen every day. New scenes, new associations, new du ties and new trials, new hopes, new disap, pointments all these, it they do not destroy the memory of old friends, are still sad hin drances to its refreshmcnt,unless their presence is about us. And so it happened with us. Now, 1 saw my old friend and Mary saw hers, revived in the person of this youth, to whom my heart had warmed from the beginning, with a strange and unaccountable ardor. He soon attained perfect ease in conversing with us about his family, and told us in a man ly and unembarrassed way, that his parents nd sisters were not the only ones he should leave mourning for his absence. There was a certain Agnes Dale a fair, dove eyed, gentle girl, who would weep if tho soldier did not return. Yet I found that this gentle being bad never uttered a gingle word to keep him "thorae. Bravely she had bidden him go if his country needed him, and there was no rark of disease that would orevent him. A heroic girl he said she truly was keeping her tears hidden from him, and working for him, with her own dear hands, until his mother and sisters had taken the opposing side and begged nd prayed him to stay. He would not. trust to the worthy doctor who jogged around his five miles' circuit, with l's harmless medicines in bis saddle-bags, and ho possessed very littlo knowledge of that wonderful structure the human frame al though unrivaled in hi treatment of fevers nd coughs. So, be had made a feint of call ing upon an old uncle near the city and had Posted, up to Boston to "take advice," stumb lm8 by the merest chance upon me. I took him home the next morning, just to e Austin Rea once more, and Mary accom Pned me. It was a hurried call, but full of ia remembrances. I convinced the anxious Parents that all was right with young Austin. nd interceded with them for a cheerful con-j-Qt. The pretty Agnes Dale was staying ere and I made Her acquaintance, too, Promising the yonng soldier that I would be 'r fnend during his absence. eira 0 was ctnalIJ gone, 1 went down sam, taking her back with me on a visit which was often repeated. We became so much attached to this beautiful girl, that we were never happier than when her mild, peace lul face was lighting up our parlor. Having scarcely any relatives, she was delighted to be with those who supplied the place, as we earnestly desired to do to her. To us she could talk freely of the absent soldier, and, still better, she could more easily obtain news of the army and its progress. Still, the time wore on heavily ; and often the pale cheek and sunken eyes of Agnes at tested to a wakeful night or a night of painful dreaming. Austin was with the troops at New Orleans, under General Jackson. He bad been promo ted, and now Ensign Rea bore the colors of his country proudly, no doubt, as be should have done. His tall, finely formed figure must have been nobly conspicuous as standard bear er. The eighth of January, 1815, had passed : and soon after, we learned, disastrous news of our absent soldier. I call him ours, for so dearly had Agnes Dale wound herself about our hearts, and so pleasant were our remem brances of the brief time in which we had known her lover, that it really seemed as if they both belonged to ns. We Bad adopted tbem both as heart children second only to those human blossoms that clustered, by right oi birth, around our fireside. I read the news before I went borne and carried the paper that contained it directly to Agnes, bhe looked up eagerly. "Oh, that is good of you," she exclaimed, before she had read it. ' I hope you have good news." I pointed to the paragraph which detailed the events of the battle and gave tho names of tho wounded at the hospital. Among them was tbe name of Ensign Kea; and tribute was paid to the gallant manner in which he defended the flag he bore, even after be was struck down, clasping it to his breast, while it was bathed in bis blood. Agnea read it without a tear. "Brave heart and true ! " was all she could trust herself to say. We waited, of course, with tbe greatest anxiety, until we heard that the wounded soldiers were to be sent home.. As Austin's death had not been reported, we hoped a great deal and tried to imagine that bo was not seri ously hurt. This hope, however, was dispelled by a letter, written for him by some more fortunate comrade, and forwarded to my care. This was all he wrote : My Darling jSgncs : I am lying, badly wounded, intthe hospital so badly that I fear you will be horribly shocked, sbeuld I live to reach home once more. Prepare yourself for the worst. I am an object painful to behold ; yet the lore of life is not dead within me, nor will it be, unless you turn away from me in disgust. I cannot dwell on this. Austin." She sat as if transfixed, for a long time. At length she said : "Doctor, do you think that Austin believes that this circumstance can weigh an atom against my true love for him ?" I looked at Mary, who sat by Agnes with one hand in hers and the other wound care lessly about ber waist. That look decided my answer, as I felt the warm, loving gaze that met me. "Ask Mary, Agnes ! She can tell you best." And I loft them, whispering over the pour it contre of the question ; of which Mary after wards told me that she supported tlfe fur, and poor Agnes the against." No moan escaped the brave girl's lips that night ; but her cheek grew paler from this time until it resembled the waxen treasures that twine their long stems in our New Eng land ponds. And still there was the love-light in her eyes bright and undimncd as ever. It was the evidence of her hope and trust in God and in her soldier in God, that he would re store him, and in himself, that nothing in life could seperate his heart from her own. The pealing notes of the cannon had an nounced the glad news of the peace of 1815. Everj where, bells sounded upon tbe ear, borne through the clear March air. Every where, triumphant shouts were arising from assembled multitudes. A letter from Austin's faithful comrade told Agnes when to expect her lover. Again he had asked what, to him, seemed a fearful question if her love could survive personal deformity and distortion. "And what answer did you make ?" I ask ed smilingly. "I wrote Anstin that if enough of bis frame was left to bold his soul, I would marry him !" she answered, her eyes glisten ing with love and pride. We had to wait many tedious days. Ag nes wished to go home, to be with the parents of her lover ; or, at least she felt it her duty ; but they refused to have her come, thinking she had better stay to accompany him home, whenever bo should arrive, bo she waited. One day I beard, in my morning round of visits, that tbe wounded soldiers bad arrived in Boston harbor. A few moments after, I was upon the wharf, after sending a hasty note to Mary. I determined, long before, that Austin should come to my house, and, un known to Agnes, bad made all my prepara tions, intending to send for our old friends to meet their son there. Mary had so longed to carry out this little romance, that I could not disappoint her; and, moreover, I wanted to be with Austin and satisfy myself of bis injur ies, which he had but imperfectly reported through his.comrade's letters. Ah 1 was I not sick and faint when I enter ed that vessel ! I was glad indeed to escape from it, with two stout sailors bearing tny poor wounded friend. I found the easiest of coaches, into which I entered and received the exhausted frame, in my arms. It was in deed a wreck. "Look, Doctor !" said the poor fellow, faint ly, as he held up the armless sleeve that dan gled loosely from his shoulder. "And see here !" he added, mournfully, "I can never walk with Agnes again. I am a pretty lover for that sweet girl, Doctor am I not 1" And he tried to smile, as he pointed to his knee, from just below which his leg bad been severed. We were slowly approaching the house, and I only replied to him in monosyllables, lest he should lose his self control if I spoke to him of Agnes, or talked tenderly to him of his sufferings. I saw that he was already flushing and paling, alternately, and I abso lutely dreaded the meeting, least one or both of these sensitive and finely organized beings, should suffer beyond any mere earthly healing. As the coach passed the drawing-room win dows, I saw Agnes standing up, very pale and rigid, and Mary near her, apparently try ing to infuse some of ber own strength and gladness into ber. The sailors were near when the coach door was opened, and while they were lifting him out as tenderly as a wo man handles an infant, I ran into tbo house. "Courage, dear woman!" I said ; "it is a battered frame but it holds a noble soul." It was just what I wanted to do, to make Agnes cry. A burst of tears relieved ber, and she awaited patiently the men's entrance with their precious burden. Then she went up to the couch where they laid him, and re gardless whose eyes were upon her, she kiss ed tho still white brow, and parted the long wavy hair caressingly above it. Austin could not trust himself to speak, but be wept like a child. Mary and I left them together. Too sacred are such scenes for e- ven the dearest friends to witness. Were they married, do you ask 1 . Certainly Do you think that Agnes Dale could be false to that noble heart ? True, he generously re leased her but sbe would not hear of it ; and when the old father and mother came up, they witnessed the wedding with a great, calm joy at their hearts, that nothing else could have imparted. About one year after their marriage a letter with a broad seal arrived from England, decla ring Agnes Dale to be possessed of a large a- mount of property, invested in Stock in the Bank of England. The whole family repaired to England, and I have never seen them again Austin and his sweet wife still live and mod ern science supplied his deficiency of limbs with very tolerable substitutes, as I learn from their letters. CROOKED SPINES IN GIRLS. It is a sad fact, that nearly every yonng la dy in fasliionabie life has lateral curvature of the spine. This comes on at the age of ten or eleven, and continues slowly but steadily to increase, unnoticed even by a mother's watchful eye, till the child is really deformed ; one shoulder is much larger and higher than the other, and one hip higher, so that the dress-maker is obliged to put cotton in the dress, to make the back look flat and square. The boys their brothers, have no such trouble ; why should they ? The question may well be asked by every thoughtful parent. I answer that improper dress and other physi ological errors, in which girls constantly in dulge, produce this mischief. The dress of the girl is always tighter than her brother's, and this is begun while she is quite young, to give her form," the mother says, as if God did not do this when he made the child. This constant pressure upon the muscles of the spine, which are designed to keep it straight, causes absorption of those muscles, and as the right arm is used more than the left, the spine is drawn under the right shoul der blade, thus making it project. The mus cles are so weakened by absorptions, they can not bring the spine back to its proper posi tion, and you have a case of lateral curvature. In addition to this tight dress, I have seen gtrls of thirteen and fourteen with corsets on. Often these are adopted by thoughtless moth ers, in the hopo to straighten the child, but under their cruel pressure the difficulty rapidly increases, till the poor deformed girl is sent to a spinal institution to be treated. While this difficulty is gradually increasing tbo young girl is sent to school, to spend five or six hours each day bending over a desk,'and when she returns home, instead of being al lowed to play ball or any other active game in the open air, as her brothers are is placed on a high piano stool, where her toes but just touch the floor, with nothing to protect her back. In this position she must sit one long painful hour. Do you wonder she has a crooked spine ? I wonder that any escape, for all are obliged to pass through the same killing ordeal. Lewis s Gymnastics. Musquitoes and the Blockade. The editor of the Cincinnati Gagette is perfectly jubilant at the effect the blockade of the Mississippi has had upon Musquitoes. The editor says the "cool spell" may have had its effect in producing this happy state of affairs, but we verily believe we are indebted to the stoppage of steamboat connection between Cincinnati and New Orleans for no inconsiderable a- mount of it. Musquitoes are among the most unbearable of Southern hum-frigs. A correspondent of the London Times, speaking of Abdul Medjid, says that it is mat ter of history that no Sultan of tbe Ottoman race has been legally married since tbe days of Bajazet the Great : On bis capture by Timur, after the battle of Angora, the Sultana was treated with gross insult, and to guard against the shadow of a chance of such a disgrace re curring no inmate of the seraglio has for more than 400 years been a legitimate wile, accor ding to Mussulman law. It is said that Judge Wayne, of the U.S. Supreme Court, though a citizen of Georgia, is now in Washington for tho purpose of tak ing his accustomed seat upon the bench. In the general bankruptcy of character with which so many of the foremost men of that State have allowed themselves to be carried away by tbe secession mania, the firmness of this distinguished jurist is the more admirable. All honor to Judge Wayne. Senator Wilson at Bull Run. It is said that while Senator Wilson was masing his masterly retreat in Virginia, on being re pulsed by a teamster, whose wagon he sought to occupy, he protested, in plaintive accents, that be was Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts. Tbe response of tho teamster was to the point, "Henry Wilson be d d. I have kicked him off the wagon six times already." Sand for Bedding for Horses. Mr. Small, of Dundalk, Ireland, a veterinary surgeon, of considerable expeiience, states that sand is not only an excellent substitute for straw for horses' bodding, but supcror to straw, as tho sand does not beat and saves tbe hoofs of tho horses. He states that sand is exclusively used lor horses' beds in his stables. In the Italian war, it is said, officers went into . conflict armed and uniformed like pri vates ; this being deemed necessary, on ac count of tbe introduction of rifles, to prevent the commanders from being picked off. Why should not this practice be initiated with us If a servant will lie for bis master, his mas ter need not bo astonished if tbe servant lies for himself. BUTLER ON THE CONTRABAND QUESTION The following interesting letter from Gen eral cutler has been received at tho War De partment: "Headquarters Department op Virginia, ) Fortress Monroe, Jolt 30. 1861. t "Hon. Simon Cameron. Secretary of War Sir : By an order received on the morning of the 26th July, from Major General Dix, by a telegraphic order from Lieutenant General bcott, I was commanded to forward of tho troops of this department, four regiments and a half, including Colonel Baker's California regiment, to Washington via Baltimore. This order reached me at 2 o'clock A. M., by spec lal boat from Baltimore. Believing that it emanated because of some pressing exigency for the defence of Washington, I issued my orders before daybreak for the embarkation of the troops, sending those who were among me very nest regiments l nau. In the course or the following day they were all embarked for Baltimore with the exception of some 400 for whom I had not transportation, although I had all the transport force in the hands ol the Quartermaster here, to aid the Bay line of steamers, which, by the same order from the Lieutenant General was directed to furnish transportation. Up to and at the time of the order, I had been preparing for an advance movement by which I hoped to cripple the resources of the enemy at Yorktown, and es pecially by seizing a large quantity of ne groes who were being pressed into their ser vice in building tbe intrenchments there. I hsid five days previously been enabled to mount for the first time, the first company of Light Artillery which I had been empowered to raise, and they had but a single rifled cannon, an iron six pounder. Of course, everything must and did yield to the supposed exigency and the orders. This ordering away these troops from this department, while it weaken ed tbe posts at Newport News, necessitated the withdrawal of the troops from Hampton, where 1 was then throwing up intrenched works to enable me to hold the town with a small force, while I advanced up the York or James river. In the village of Hampton there were a large number of negroes, composed in a great measure of women and children of the men who had fled thither within my lines for protection, who had escaped from marauding parties of rebels who had been gathering up able-bodied blacks to aid them in construe ting their batteries on the James and York rivers. I bad employed tbe men in Hampton in throwing up entrenchments, and they were working zealously and efficiently at that duty, saving our soldiers from that labor under tbe gleam of the mid-day sun. The women were earning substantially their own subsistence in washing, marketing, and taking care of the clothes of the soldiers, and rations were being served out to the men who worked . for the support of the children. But by the evacua tion of Hampton, rendered necessary by the withdrawal of troops, leaving me scarcely 5,0.00 men outside the Fort, including the force at Newport News, all these black peo ple were obliged to break up their homes at Hampton, fleeing across the creek within my lines for protection and support. Indeed it was a most distressing sight, to see these poor creatures, who had trusted to the protection of the arms of the United States, and who aid ed tho troops of the United States in their en terprise, to bo thus obliged to flee from their homes, and tbe homes of their masters, who had deserted tbem, and become not fugitives from fear of the , return of the rebel soldiery, who had threatened to shoot the men who had wrought for us, and to carry off the wo men, who had served us to a worse than Egyt tian bondage. I have, therefore, now within tbo Peninsula, this side of Hampton Creek, yUU negroes, oOO of whom are able-bodied, 30 of whom are substantially past hard lab?r, 175 women, 225 children under tho age of 10 years, and 170 between 10 and 18 years, and many more coming in. Tho questions which this state of facts present are very embar rassing. "First What shall be done with them ? and Second What is their state and condition ? "Upon these questions I desire the instruc tions of the Department." "The first question, however, may perhaps be answered by considering the last. Are these men, women and children slaves ? Are they free? Is their condition that of men, women and children, or of property, or is It a mixed relation 1 What their status was under the Constitution and laws we all know. What has been the effect of rebellion and a state of war upon that status ? When I adopted the theory of treating the able-bodied negro fit to work in the trenches, as property liable to be used in aid of rebellion, and so contraband of war, that condition of things was in so far met as I then and still believe, on a legal and con stitutional basis. But now a new scries of questions arise. Passing by women, the chil dren certainly cannot be treated on that ba sis; if property, they must be considered the incumbrance, rather than the auxiliary of an army, and, of course, in no possible legal re lation, could be treated as contraband. Are they property ? If they were so they have been left by their masters and owners, deser ted, thrown away, abandoned, like the wrecked vessel upon the ocean. Their former posses sors and owners have causelessly, traitorous ly, rebelliously, and to carry out the figure, practically abandoned them to be swallowed up by the .Winter storm of starvation. If property do they not become the property of tbe salvors? but we, their salvors, do not need and will not bold such property and will as sume no such ownership ; has not therefore all proprietary relation ceased ? Have they not become thereupon men, women and chil dren? No longer under ownership of any kind, tho fearful relicks of fugitive masters, have they not by their masters' acts, and the state of war, assumed the condition, which we hold to be the normal one, of those made in God's image. Is not every constitutional, legal, and moral requirement, as well to the runaway master as their relinquished slaves, thus answered ? ! I confess that my own mind is compelled, by this reasoning, to look upon them as men and women. If not free born, yet free, manumitted, sent forth from the band that held them never to be reclaimod. : "Of course if this reasoning thus Imperfect ly set forth is correct, my duty as a human man is very plain. I should .take tbe same care of these men, women and children, house less, homeless and unprovided for, as I wou Id of the same number of men, women and chil dren who, for their attachment to the Union, bad been driven or allowed to flee from tbe Confederate States. I should have no doubt on this question, bad I not seen it stated, that an order had been issued by General McDow ell in his department, substantially forbidding all fugitive slaves from coming within his lines, or being harbored there. Is that order to be enforced in all Military Departments? If so, who are to be considered fugitive slaves ? Is a slave to be considered fugitive whoso master runs away and leaves him ? Is it for bidden to the troops to aid or harbor within their lines the negro children who are found therein, or is the soldier, when his march has destroyed their means of subsistence, to al low tbem to starve becauso be has driven off the rebel master ? Nor shall the commander of regiment or battalion sit in judgment upon the question, whether any given black man has fled from his master, or bis master fled from him? Indeed, how are the free born to be distinguished ? Is one any more or less a fugitive slave because be has labored upon the rebel entrenchments? If be has so labored, as I understand it, be is to be harbored. By the reception of which are the rebels most to be distressed, by taking those who have wrought all their rebel masters desired, mask ed their battery, or those who have refused to labor and left the battery unmasked 1 "I have very decided opinions upon tbe subject of this order. It does not become mo to criticise it, and I write in no spirit of criti cism, but simply to explain tbe full difficul ties that surround the enforcing it. If the enforcement of that order becomes the policy of the Government, I, as a soldier, shall be bound to enforce it steadfastly, il not cheer fully. But if left to my own discrctior, as 3-ou may have gathered from my reasoning, I should take a widely different course from that which it indicates. "In a loyal State I would put down a ser vile insurrection. In a state of rebellion I would confiscate that which was used to op pose my arms, and take all that property, which constituted the wealth of that State and furnished tbe means by which tho war is prosecuted, beside being the cause of the war; and if in so doing, it should bo objected that human beings were brought to the free enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, such objection might not require much consideration. "Pardon me for addressing the Secretary of War directly upon this question, as it involves some political considerations as well as pro priety of military action. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "Benjamin F. Butler." A Suggestion to Volunteers. The New York Ezaminer says. "A medical friend, whose European experience gives value to his testimony, and whose heart has been pained at the number of deaths which have already taken place in our army from the loss of blood from wounds begs us to suggest that the per chloride of iron, an article to be obtained from all our larger druggists, checks hemorrhage, even rfom large blood vessels, promptly and effectually. Four or five drops are sufficient to check completely the flow of blood from anything except the largest arteries, and a half teaspoonful will arrest bleeding even from these. He advises that each non-commissioned officer should bo provided with a small flat tin bottle of this, containing say a couple of ounces, which he can wear in his breast pocket, and that the bottle should have wound around it a little bat cotton, on which the iron could be dropped, or poured, to apply it. this simple device would have saved sev eial valuable lives at the affairs at Vienna and Great Bethel. Will not the Sanitary Com mission see to this matter." Southern Cotton and Northern Ship ping. In one of bis recent letters to the Lon don "Times" Mr. Russell relates a curious suggestion made by a French gentleman, now in New Orleans, to some ardent cotton plan ters there. He stated to them that even if tho blockade were broken by England and r ranee, as they hoped it would be, the availa ble shipping of these two nations would not suffice to carry the cotton crop to Europe, and that without the aid of the immenso mercan tile marine of the northern states southern cotton would lie and rot in southern ports, even were they onen." It is a calculation more curious than useful ; but it is another instance to show how accurately tho ties were fitted together which these rebels are endeav oring to tear asunder. A Very Huxiliatino Fact. A Memphis paper denounces the administration at Wash ington for its tyranny, because of the "humil iating fact that planters, farmers, lawyers, doc tors, artisans and thrifty industrious laborers gentlemen all, whether rich or poor are dragged to measure their lives with the out cast population of northern cities. "Dragged" is a good word for the process adapted to filling the rebel army. But our boys who volunteer will overlook the humiliation of fighting with such unwilling soldiers. Extemporizing an Artillery Company on the Field. Lieut. Col. Stahcl, of the Ger man Rifles, discovered an abandoned battery on the day of the battle, and instantly adopt ed it, forming an artillery company from his regiment to work it. Horses, caissons, guns, wero all left together, and Lieut. Col Stahcl believes that after thus disgracefully deser ting their trust, the former - officers and men will not bo likely to attempt a reclamation. He thereforo regards the battery as his own. Occupation of TnE Traitor Maury. Capt. Maury, who for tho last ten years has exhibited such a genius for stealing the honor of other's achievements, and who has been the pet of every administration for many years, is now engaged m planting submarine batteries in the southern harbors to destroy Federal ships-of-war. As we stand by the sca-shorc and watch tbe huge tides come in, we retreat, thinking we will be overwhelmed; soon, however, they flow back. So with tbo waves of trouble in the world ; they threaten us, but a firm resist ance makes them break at our feet.. You lost two legs in the army, you say "what did you gain by it ?" asked a gentleman of a Chelsea pensioner. "Single blessedness, sir," bo replied ; "for after that, no woman would marry me." Manv men die martvrs. and then have an immrtill inrlrrmnnf uru-m thwir lives. t j Qu.uuv (.uuwv ' just as tbe poor whalers are killed first and . j . . inca aucrwara. THE JOURNAL. . SUMMARY OF WAR NEWS The Quaker city picked up on the 7th near the capes, a small boat containing ten ship masters and seamen who had escaped from Fort Oregon, North Carolina. They giTo some startling intelligence of the doings on the North Carolina coast. At llatteras inlet there are three steamers and a pilot boat pri vateer. One of them, tbe Gordon, run the blockade at Carolina and of the whole coast op to llatteras inlet, ten days ago, since which time she has captured the brig Wm. II. Mc Gilnery, of Bangor, from Cardinas, with mo lasses, and the schooner Protector, from Cuba, with fruit. The names of the privateers are "Tbe Gordon" and "The Cotiee," a side wheel steamer formerly running between Old Point and Norfolk, tbe steamer "Marion," formerly a Norfolk pilot boat. All of tbem. are armed with rifled cannon. Those from. Norfolk -were taken by the canal to Albertnarle Sound. Newburn, North Carolina, is tho head quarters of these pirates. Ten gnn boat are being collected and mounted at Norfolk to be taken down the canal. Crews for them are being shipped at Newburn. A battle occured on the 6th at Dug Spring, nineteen miles south of Springfield, Mo., be tween the Federal forces under General Lyons and tbe rebel troops under Ben McCullocb. Eight of tbo Federal troops were killed, and thirty wounded. The rebels lost forty killed and forty-four wounded. General Lyon took eighty stand of arms and fifteen horses and wagons. A body of U.S. Cavalry, two hundred and seventy in number, made a charge on tba rebel infantry, said to have been four thousand strong and cut their way through tbem, and returned with a loss of only five men. The charge is described as most gallant as well as terrific. Several of the rebels were found with their heads cloven entirely through by the swords of our dragoons. The enemy re tired during the night, and General Lyon took possession of the field. A gentleman connected with Gen. Banks; division was at the Ford on the 3d, thirty-two miles below Sandy Hook, and reports that ba witnessed there the interesting spcctaclo of a Federal and rebel picket meeting midway in tho river. They exchanged a Baltimore Sun for a Richmond Enquirer, and, after taking a friendly drink together, exchanged canteens. The rebel picket stated that there were but four regiments at Leesburg, and these wera raw militia undergoing drill and discipline. He also stated that there were no large bodies of rebel troops north of that point or east of the Alleghenies. This, however, is in part discredited. The U. S. gun-boat Flag brought thirty-six pirate prisoners, taken from a rebel vessel of war off Charleston, on tho afternoon of tbe 1st instant. The rebel craft was sunk by a broad side from the United States frigate St. Law rence. Five of her men were drowned, but the remaining thirty-six saved, and are now prisoners. They wero put on board the Flag, where they have been heavily ironed and un der a constant guard. They are a villainous looking set of fellows. The vessel that was sunk was formerly the United States revenua cutter Aiken, that was seized by tbe seces sionist at Charleston, last November. The Navy Department is in receipt of a let ter from Commander Goldsboro, of the United States Steamer Union, dated Hampton Roads; August 5th. in which he says the brig ashore near Cape llatteras, about which there was so much speculation, proved to be the B. F. Mar tin, of Boston, which had been in tho posses sion of the rebels. Commander Goldsboro adds that the men were unloading ber, when he sent out a party who, after shelling tha place, set 3re to the vessel and effectually de stroyed her cargo. On the 13th of July off St. Marks. Florida the Mohawk captured the sloop George B. Stock, attempting to run the blockade. There were as passengers on board the wife, three children and servants of Adjutant General Holland, of Florida. Mrs. Holland claimed the secession flag to be ber private property, and secured it to her person. As the captain could not obtain poscssion of it without vio-, lence to a lady who was in a delicate situation, be desisted from taking the prize. It appears by other official advices from tbe Gulf Squadron that on the fourth of J uly, o3 . Galveston, the U. S. steamer South Carolina captured six schooners, on the fifth two, and ran ono ashore ; on the sixth one aad on tha seventh one, making eleven sail destroyed or captured. A portion of them had cargoes chiefly of lumber. Among other things cap tured wero thirteen mail bags containing ex press matter. The frigato Wabash has arrived from off Charleston for coal and water, having been re lieved by the Roanoke. She recaptured tha schooner Mary Alice, of New York, which had been taken by the piratical schooner Dix ie. Tho prize crew are now prisoners on tho Wabash. Sbo also took the brig Sarah Star, bound from Wilmington to Liverpool, with turpentine and rosin, and sailing under Eng lish colors. An Irishmen, a deserter from Manassas, who had been impressed into the rebel service, came within our lines fo-day. Ho says that tbe enemy retain their old position, but they are very badly fed, and much disorganized since tbe late battle. He also states that large numbers of men are being .impressed into tbe rebel service, foreigners especially being se lected. A detachment of the 28th New York regi ment surprised a squad of rebel cavalry at a house opposite tbe Point of Rocks on the 5th, killing three, wounding five, and capturing seven, with their horses. Tbe paity recrosscd the river without loss. It is reported that a considerable body of rebel cavalry re-occupied Martinsburg. . . The navy department will at once issue pro posals in connection with the construction of twelve side wheel steamers, and one or more of tho iron class vessels, recently authorized by Congress. Arrangements have been maae ior navmg divine service for the rebel prisoners here, at which they express much gratification. Tbe bark Glen, of Portland, with Govern ment coal, was captured a week ago and ta ken into Beaufort, North Carolina. Forty prisoners of warltaken by the rebels bave been sent to Raleigh, North Carolina, for . sife keeping. M demand's appomtmentas Brigadier uea- eral is very gratifying to his many friends. Jeff. Davis refuteslto release Messrs. Margajv and Harris till the war is over.
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