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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
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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.