JUL BI S. J. ROAV. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21,1861. VOL. 7.-N0. 51. 1 s A PSALM Or HF2. Tell me not in nournful numbers, 'Life in but an empty dieam 7 For the eoul is dead thatslumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal. -Pust thou art, to dust return'st," Was not spoken, of the soul. JS'ot enjoyment, and not sorrow, la our destined end or way ; But to act. that each to-morrow, finds us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting. And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Jn the world's broad field of battle In the bivouac of Life, Be not like the dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero In the strife! Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead ! -Act act in the living present ! Heart within, and God o'erhoad. Lives pf great men all remind us Ve'can make our live's sublime ;' And, departing leave behind us ; Footsteps on the sands of time. Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall tako heart again, Let us, then, be op and doing, With a heart fur any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LYNN : ITS WITCHES, PIRATES ASD TREASURE SEEKERS. Bustling and busy, prosaic, but lurnishing the scenes and materials for many a tale of fiction, and made up of a wonderful jnmblo of t.hoe manufactories, fortune-telling,and pirate liuunted glens and rocks, sober reality and romance, sea beach and forest few places in Xtw England affords more of interest to the curious traveler. Were it not for the bright eyes and demure faces of the really pretty girls ono meets, a walk through tho business srreets of Lynn would bo dull in the extreme. One sign duplicates another, simply varying names, and changing the black letters on one, to while, or gold, or shaded, on others, near ly all have the same import, and indicate a grand depot of one branch of New England trade. Even tho pleasant and shaded side streets have little shops adjoining many of the houses, with, perhaps, a sign that seems to have strayed from the grand army in the -business streets, and, getting lost, stuck des jierafely to the fence or shop corner. There are frequent piles of sun-blackened scraps of leather the sidewalks and streets are strewed with it, and the air seems to be tinctured like that ot a great boot and shoe store. Here was born, suckled and reared, this branch of industry in America and its pro geny aro now scattered Yankee fashion all over the bread land. Here, too, was erected tlia first iron foundry, and built the first fire engine in tho country. But statistics inter est the general reader as little as manufac tures the mass of travelers. Lynn furnishes much of attraction to both, apart from and beyond either statistic or manufactures. High Rock is almost the first object that Attracts the attention on entering the town. It is owned by the well-known "Band of Brothers," the Uutcbinsons, who have their residence on one side of it. On the other aide, under the rock, dwelt the far-famed Xoll Pitcher. Once, there was no person in America that did not know of her no breeze of the world that flung out the folds of our starry flag that bad not caught her name from some one's lips. It was as familiar as that of Washington, with which it has been, (and most incorrectly, Associated it was the.theme of many a sailor's yarn spun in the forcastle, or used to enliven the tedium of the midnight watch. The roof under which she lived still .shelters indignent humanity the room in which she died is still shown to visitors, to gether with veritable relics, including the ap that covered Tier black locks, and the tea cup Irom which looked forth futurity to many a bright-eyed lassie. One looks at the crack ed and carefully preserved piece of ware al most with veneration. To the imaginative, it possesses Glendowcr's art is like the sunken casket of tho Eastern tale. It peoples the room in the early twilight with forms long since gone to rest beneath grassy mounds, and under the flowers. It brings to mind the early history of New England, strongly tinc tured with superstition and intolerance. From its shallow depths swarm forth sturdy farmers, seeking the aid of the Seeress, in recovering mislaid pocket-books or strayed cattle the bashful country youth, twisting, jtmeasily, in his chair, and awkwardly twirling his fingers and hadkerchief while the tea grounds assume the fateful shape, and await ing half in dread, half unbelief, the words of the oracle. We can see the trembling form of the half-frightened, half-laughing maiden, hardly daring to look at the aged face bend ing over the remains of the evening draught, now pregnant with a fearful meaning. The little table that she ate many a meal froni(since used as a wash bench, but now preserved with the other relics,) stands in tho room and fan c? groups about it the forms of Robert and Mary Pitcher and their family. Ruth, the ra-tfen-haired, black-eyed daughter, "A perfect beauty, as barnsome as a picture," as sho is described by those who knew her--and other daughters and sons, whose decendants rank Jo-day among "The most respectable paopla jntown." Those whose memories reach tack so far re member .Moll Pitcher dying in 1814, at the ge of 75, with hair whose raven blackness 's unbroken by a silver thread, and an eye (ul of tho fire of a strong nature. Nona aro hving who remember her as Mary Diamond, that she possesod considerable beauty is ell authenticated. The muslin cap, however, brings us nearer than all the rest to "Aunt Molly." One wonders, as the Sogers press the fabric, if no scorn of her credulous dupes er throbbod in the busy brain beneath it. Human joys, cares and sorrows, each throb bed and beat beneath it scorns and jeers, Perhaps, saddened the heart, and wet the cLeek it touched the carea and fears of wife jDd mother the great unwritten history of a tinman heart and all brought nearer, softened 7 years and the grassy tnonnd of the cbnrch J,rd, by the ancient piece of muslin. Near- lf tluit h" k00 wrtten ' ner nM no foiin uion in fact, and the world knows of her on ly as Witch and Fortune teller, not as wife and mother. It never beard of Mary Dimond, bright-eyed and beautiful, waking tho echoes in Pirates' Glen and on Dungeon Rock, with her merry laughter. Fiction, and even grave history, have twined the romance of supersti tion about her name like ivy about a mould ering ruin. Many a writer has built' stories up on the slightest foundation of an incident of her life, and used her name without regard to fact, solely from the dictates of luxuriant fancy. To this, however, she owes her wide spread fame. The facta would show a not un common life for times when woman's life was ceaseless toil that manytmen of tbejpreseiit day would shtink from varied certainly by her reputed power, in the exercise of which she made many shrewd and some lucky guesses. She sleeps in an old churchyard near the com mon, but there is nothing to mark the spot. There are those living who remember her peaceful death and her burial but the story of her sudden removal by the devil in a cloud of sulphurous smoke will outlive them all. The old house is now occupied by an old lady named Cheever, a daughter and son. Her narrative ot the history ot the place for the last half ceutury is very interesting. The romance of the poor is peculiary her own. All her years (66) have been passed in Lyun, and never save on two occasions has she left its precincts, and then only to neighboring towns. But even this experience is made in teresting by the story of early privations and a long life of toil, the struggles of widowhood and cares of a large family. When a maiden, her fortune was told by Moll Pitcher, who, af ter the stereotype fashion, promised her two husbands and nine children, ot which seven were to be by the first. This part of the prophecy was fulfilled, but she quaintly says she shall not expect the other two even if she gets another husband. Twilight had darkened into night, snd the moon silvering the leaves, rendering darker the shadows beneath, when, one evening, I stepped across the humble threshold, after some hours passed over the cup and cap and in listening to tales of the olden time. From high in the air floated down an indistinct strain of music that sounded ghostly in tho still night. 1 would fain have believed that the spirit of the old Fortune teller hovered a bout the scenes of her life and awoke the ac customed echoes with tho old cradle songs sung to the baby Ruth and although I knew that some lovers on the summit of High Rock were breathing a song to the night, time, and associations of the place, all favored the spir itual theory, and as the music died away, in my heart 1 bade adieu to the numberless spirits I had summoned from the cracked tea cup. Old ocean roared a dirge for them and lullaby for me, when I sank to rest. Lynn boasts also of a living treasure-seeker. Most persons have read and listened incredu lously to tales of these deluded men, who have imagined sailors foolish enough to bury money, and themselves wise enough to find it. Superstition clings about the legends with all its early force, and the gold is always supposed to be guarded by demons whom silence ren ders impotent, but an uttered word gives pow er to transfer the treasure to another hiding place. The story on which the man's labors hi question are founded in this: Four piratos occupied a glen now called ''Pirates' Glen," near the Saugns river in this place, and after some years of undisturbed possession, K-ere one day surprised by a boat load of the Kings's troops from a cutter, and three of them cap tured, carried to England and executed. The fourth, named Thomas Neal, escaped to a rock some two miles to the north, in which was a large cavern, and where a quantity of treasure had been previously placed by the pirates, where he lived pursuing the trade of a shoe maker, (even the legends of the town smack of cowhide,) and occasionally coming to the village for articles of food and clothing. The great earthquake of 16 split the rock, and forcing an immenso piece into the mouth pf the cavern, buried alive the miserable man with his treasure- The rock has since been known as Dungeon Rock. Some years ago one of the Uutcbinsons, who met with success in digging a well on High Rock by clairvoyant directions, under took, from information derived from the same source, to blast a passage through the rock into the supposed dungeon, and laid out a good carriage road to the spot, a distance of between two and three miles. This was soon abandoned, when Hiram Marble, who was be fore, an iron-founder in tho State of New York, determined to pursue the enterprise. This was nearly ten years ago, and be still continues bound to the rock. At first begun from curiosity, perhaps credulity, his labors were ere long directed by the spirits of the buried pirates and others, through a "medi um." Ten years of blasting and boring have not been without their effect upon the rock of hard porphyry, but as I believe the spirits give little encouragement of the desired re sult. There is but one way to look at a place of this kind, and that is through tho eyes and with the feelings of an implicit believer. From the moment the feet strike the rock, all scruples and unbelief must be banished. A lamp and a guide ready, and we enter the dark passage, and half feeling our way down a sloping ladder for some twenty feet, enter the passage, which is about six feet high and four wide, damp, almost wet, and cold as a grave. The red light flashes upon the rough sides and roof, revealing the effect of many a ham mer stroke or blast, and the voice sounds hol low in the echoes that come back to us from the end. One hundred and ten feet into the very bowels of the rock we press how much further lie the buried bones and treasure 7 We are treasure-seekers, now, every inch, and ea gerly examine the walls and sound them with the loose pieces of stone at our feet. We lis ten w ith greedy ears to the ta'.o of our guide, and cast half fearful glances backward where the flickering light pjays on the rough Wall, looking like gliding spirits in the gloom. Here, where this bend takes place, a stratum of a different and softer stone was foretold by the spirit?, and the alteration in direction was ordered. Ten years of mining carrying stone to the open air, and pumping out the constantly accumulating wet, has taught pa tience to Marble that we treasure seekers of an hour do not possess. We think it would be by far the best way to lay a few barrels ot gunpowder at the end of the passage, and blow the rock open at once, but our guide shakes his bead the spirits say nothing bnt patience to eager haste. Half reluctantly we leave the place and soon the bright sunshine is drying the moisture from onr clothing, and restoring warmth to the chilled flesh. In the house we are shown oil portraits of the former ocenpants of the cavo, painted by spiritual mediums. Two are women, one of them dark and Span ish lookin'g, with large dark eyes. The re mains of both are in the cavern. We are also shown a sword-hilt, the blade rusted off, and a knife found soou after the blasting com menced. Thus far we are undoubted' treasure seek ers, and even as we stand upon the summit of the rock to see the beautiful prospect visible from it, we half imagine yonder white sail specking the dark surface of tho ocean to be the pirate bark a' sort of Flying Dutchman, although no storm is raging to conjure it np. The chink of the coins we place in the old "graybeard's" hand drives away all the ro mance, and we resume our doubts as men from a bath put on their accustomed clothing. We cannot help remembering that a shrewd man, as Marble undoubtedly is, could collect almost a fortune by the same pretensions he makes. lie charges no fee, leaving all remu neration to the generosity of his visitors ; but undoubtedly collects much money, and could continue to do so for years without firing an other blast, and then a discovery of human bones, or an old coin, properly blazoned forth in the prints, would renew the excitement and the golden crop. That he commenced the search fairly 1 have no reason to doubt per haps labored for years, spending in the fool ish project all he received from the credulous or curious. At one time he issued a sort of receipt that he would givo for any amount of money a sympathizer chose to aid the pur suit with, promising to pay when the gold was found ! He never paid the printer, however, who executed the work. Ten years of actual labor in any pnrsnit or for any object, takes off all the gilding, and rubs off the ornamental. I doubt very much if Marble ever dreams of finding any more treasure than comes from the pockets of visi tors. The spiritual part of thotory is just such a pretext as a shrewd but unprincipled man would adopt: I very much doubt his be lief in what he relates. He may once have believed in spiritual communications he may once have labored honestly after buried gold, but he has discovered a far more productive mine in men's pockets, and ht works it. It may be a blind superstition that chains the man to the rock, but I do not believe it. The rock is well worth visiting on account not only of the story connected with it, and the passage hewn into it, but also on account of the fine prospect from its top, and it has many visitors. Lynn numbers among its oth er attractions a beautiful beach, which adjoins that of NaMaut; and the drive from Boston to the city is unusually pleasant in summer. Who votes for a dinner party in Dungeon rock ? Portland Transcript. Expertness or Chinese Thieves. We make the following extract, showing the expertness of the Chinese thieves, from "Life Among the Chinese," a recent work by Rev. R. S. Maclay, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church : "A foreign ship captain was once dining at the table of a foreign merchant in China, when the conversation turned on this subject, and a number ot illustrative anecdotes were recited by members of the company. Among the in cidents related was one in which it happened that the burglar had entered the room where the occupant was sleeping, and bad stolen the laid off clothing of the sleeper without dis turbing him. The captain received this story with staunch incredulity, and declared with emphasis that he defied any person to enter a room where he was sleeping without awaking him. "Why," said the gentleman at whose table he had been dining, "There is a Chinese thief in this city who can steal the sheet on which you are sleeping, without awaking you." "Impossible," cried the indignant captain. The merchant, however, was in earnest about the matter, andit was finally agreed that the captain should 'spend a few nights in a desig nated room ot the merchant's house, just to test the matter. In accordance with the arrangement, the thief was informed of the circumstances, and was assured of safety if caught on the premises during the timo specified. The captain occu pied the room one or two nights, and nothing transpired to disturb his repose. The succeed ing night, about two hours past midnight, the thief approached the windows of the room in which he slept, and finding all quiet within, cautiously made his entrance. It was a hot summer night, and the sleeper in his night cloths lay about the middle of the bed, leaving his person only partly covered with a thin counterpane. Softly approaching the bed side, the thief removed the counterpane, and then addressing himself to the sheet on which the sleeper was lying, he began in the gentlest manner to fold it up in narrow piles lengthwise. In a few minutes the last fold of the sheet came close up against the form of the sleeper. And now came the most difficult part of the performance. It was comparatively easy to fold up that part of the sheet not in immediate contact with tho captain's person, but how to remove the part beneath him without disturb ing his repose. Taking a straw in his band the expert gently tickled the sleeper till he rolled over. He then coolly walked of with his trophy. The Virginia Militia. The following ex tracts is from the Charleston Mercury,a army correspondent, now in Virginia : "The militia are being mustered in to-day, and many of them came into it with considerable reluc tance. There are some who have no ardent sympathy for the cause. They will fight for the South, of course, if obliged to fight, but they have the feeling thatiil had not been for South Carolina there would have been no ne cessily for fighting. Many others can badly spare the time. Their oats is unharvested ; their othei crops are still immature; they have no hands to work them but their own, and it is truly a matter of serious inconveni ence and injury to be obliged to turn ont. Yet in this section there are many who can fight, and who can be spared to fight, but who will not unless they are compelled to it. Be sides this, with the militia will come ont the ordinary fire arms of the country, wbicb will not come without." N A great fire occurred in London on the 22d of June, which destroyed property to the a monnt of 10,000,000. There has been no such destructive conflagration in that city since the great fire of 1666. SPEECH OF HON. K0BERT J. WALEEB, OF MISSISSIPPI. The following exttacts from the speech of lion. k. j. walker, delivered at New York shortly after the fall of Fort Sumter although somewhat behind time will, no doubt, be read with much interest by those who have failed to see it heretofore. Mr. Walker said : The question is, shall this Union be main tained and perpetuated, or shall it be broken and dissolved? Cries of "Never." No question so important has ever occurred in the history of our race. It involves not only the fate of this great country, but the question of free institutions throughout the world. The case of self-government is now on trial before the forum of our country and of the world. If we succeed and maintain the Union, free institutions, under the moral force of our ex ample, will ultimately be established through out the world f but if we fail, and our Gov ernment is overthrown, popular liberty will have made its last experiment, and despotism will reign triumphant throughout the globe. Our responsibilities are fearful. We have a solemn duty to perferm we are this day ma king history. We arc writing a book whose pages can never be erased it is the destiny of our country and of mankind. For more than seventy years this Union has been main tained, and it has advanced our country to a prosperity unparalleled in the history of the world. Applause: The past was great, but the future opened upon prospects beyond the power of language to describe. But where are we now ? The world looks on with scorn and derision. We have it is said, no Gov ernment a mere voluntary association of in dependent States a debating society, or a moot Court, without any real power to uphold the laws or the Constitution. We have no country, no flag, no Union ; but each State, at its pleasure, upon its own whim or caprice, with or without cause, may secede and dis solve the Union. Secession we are told, is a Constitutional right ot each Slate, and the Constitution has inscribed its own death war rant upon its face. If this be so, we have in deed no Government, and Europe may well speak of us with contempt and derision. This is the very question we are now to solve have we a Government, and has it power to main tain its existence 1 This question is not for the first time presented to the consideration of the American people.. It arose in 1832, when South Carolina nullified the revenue laws of the Union, and passed her secession ordinance. In that contest I took a very ac tive part against the doctrine of nullification and secession, and upon that question, after a struggle of three years, I was elected by Mis sissippi as senator of the United States. A contest so prolonged and violent had never "before been witnessed in this country. It was fonght by me in every county or the State un der the banner of the Union. The sentiments contained in the many speeches then made by me, and then published, are the opinions I now entertain. They are all for the Union and against secession, and they are now the opinions of thousands of Union men of the South and of Mississippi. Applause. These opinions are unchanged, and deeply as I de plore our present situation, it is my profound conviction that the welfare, security, and prosperity of the South can only be restored by the re-establishment of the Union. I see, in the permanent overthrow of the Union, the utter ruin of the South, and the complete pros tration of all their interests. I have devoted my life to the maintenance of all their consti tutional rights and the promotion of their hap piness and welfare ; but secesston involves them and us in one common ruin. The rec ognition of such a doctrine is fatal to the ex istence of any Government of the Union; it is death, it is national suicide. Applause. This is the question now to be decided have we a Union or have we a flag are the stars and stripes a reality or a fiction have we a Government and can we enforce its laws, or must the whole vanish whenever any one thinks proper to issue the despotic mandate ? Is the Union indissoluble, or is it written on the sand, to be swept away by the first angry surge of State or sectional passion which sweeps over it ? It was the declared object of our ancestors to found a perpetnal Union. The original articles of confederation, by all the States, in 1778, declared the Union to bo "perpetual," and South Carolina (with all the States) then plighted her solemn faith that "the Union of the States shall be perpetual." And in modifying the articles by the forma tion of the Constitution in 1791 the declared object of that change was to make "the Union more perfect." But how more perfect, if the Union was indissoluble in 1778, but might at any moment be destroyed by any one State after the adoption of the Constitution 1 No, my countrymen, secession is not a Constitu tional right of any one State. It is war it is revolution and can only be established on the ruins of the Constitution and of the Union. We must resist it and subdue it or the Gov ernment will be but an organized anarchy, to be surely succeeded, as anarchy ever has been, by military despotism. This then, my fellow citizens, is the last great contest for the liber ties of our country and of the world. Ap plause. If we are defeated, the last experi ment of self-government will have failed, and we will have written with our hands the epi taph of human liberty. We will have no flag; we will have no government, no country and no Union; we will cease to be American citi zens ; and the despots of Enrope will rejoice in the failure of the great experiment of re publican institutions. The liberties of our country and of the world will have been en trusted to our care, and we will have dishon ored the great trust and proved ourselves traitors to the freedom of our oountry and of mankind. This is not a sectional question -it it not a Northern or a Southern question. It is not a question which concerns our country only, but all mankind. It is this ; shall we by a noble and united effort sustain the repub lican Institutions, or shall we have secession and auaracby to be succeeded by despotism, and extinguish forever the hope of freedom throughout the world ? God grant yon, my dear countrymen, courage and energy And. perseverance to maintain successfully the great contest. You are fighting the last great decisive battle for the liberties of our country and of mankind faint not, falter not, but move onward in one great column for the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union. Remember it was a Southern man, a noble son of Kentucky (Major Anderson,) who so glori ously sustained the flag of, our country at Fort Sumter, and never surrendered that flag. He bropght it with him to JsTew York, and. (here it is held in the hands of Washington, in that bronze column now before us representing the Father of his Country, and whose lips now open and urge upon us, as his Farewell Addres? to maintain the Cnstitution and the Union. And now, whilst 1 address you, the news comes that the City of Washington, founded by the Father of his Country and bearing his sacred name, is to be seized by the legions of disunion. Never. Never must or shall this disgrace befall us. That capital must and shall be defended, if it requires every Union man in America to march to its defence. And now, then, fellow-citizens, a desperate effort is made to make this a party question a question be tween Democnts aud Republicans. Well, fellow-citizens, I have been a Democrat all my life, and never scratched a Democratic ticket, from constable up to President, but say to you that thia is no party question. Cheers. It is a question of maintenance of the Govern ment, and the perpetuation of the Union. The vessel of state is rushing upon the breakers, and without asking who may be commander, we must all aid in her rescue from impending disaster. When the safety of my country is involved, I will never ask who is President, nor inquire what may be the effect on parties of any particular measure. Much as I love my party I love my country infinitely more, and must and will sustain it at all hazards. In deed, it is due to the great occasion here frankly to declare that, notwithstanding my earnest opposition to the election ot Mr. Lin coln, and my disposition most closely to scru tinize all his acts, I see thus far nothing to condemn in his efforts to maintain the Union. And now, then, my countrymen, one word more before 1 close. Cheers. I was trained to devotion to the Union by a patriot sire, who fought the battles of liberty during the war of the Revolution. My life has been given to the support of tho Union. I never conceived a thought, or wrote or uttered a word, except in its defence. And now, let me say, that this Union must, will, and shall be perpetuated ; that not a star shall be dimmed or a stripe erased from our banner, that the integrity, of the Government shall be pre served, and that from the Atlantic to the Pacif ic, from the lakes of the North to the Gulf of Mexico, never shall be suriendered a single acre of our soil or a drop of its waters. Loud and long continued cheers. The Cherokke Indians. We have a report, byway of Kansas, that John Ross, Chief of the Cherokees, has been killed. Some corres pondence which recently passed between him and Ben McCuIloch shows that he was so strongly opposed to the schemes of the Seces sionists that they had good reason for wishing to get him out of the way if possible. On June 12 McCuIloch wrote to Chief Ross from his head quarters at Fort Smith, Ark., that he had been sent "to take command of the dis trict embracing the Indian Territory," and to protect it from "invasion" by the people of the North. He concluded thus : "In the meantime, those of your people who are in favor of joining the Confederacy must be al lowed to organize into military companiea as Home Guards for the purpose of defending them selves in case of an invasion from the North. This, ot course, will be in accordance with the views you expressed to me, that in case of an invasion from the North, you would lead your men to repel it. Should a body of men march into your territory from the North or if I have an intimation that a body is in line of march for the territory from that quarter, 1 must assure you that I will at once advance into your country, if I deem it advisable." To this, Chief Ross replied in quite an able letter, stating that he had no reason to believe tho United States desired to do anything what ever to their prejudice, and that his tribe must remain neutral. These were the reasons which he gave for refusing to consent to the organi zation of a IJome Guard : "1 It would bo a very palpable violation of my position as a neutral. "2 It will place in our midst organized com panies not authorized by our laws, but in viola tion of treaty ; and who would soon become efficient instruments in stirring up domestic strife and creating internal difficulties among the Cherokee people." Evidently fearful that McCulloch's blufl tone would not suit Chief Ross, David Cubbard, Commissioner of Indian Aflairs, wrote him at the same time, making the following sugges tion among others : "Your debts, annuities, etc., school fund due you nearly all are in bonds of Southern States, and held by the Government at Wash ington, and these debts are nearly all forfeited already by the act of war made upon the States by that Government. These we will secure you beyond question, if you join us. If you join the North they are forever forfeited, and yon have no right to believe that the Northern people would vote to pay you this forfeited debt." To this gentle hint the Chief replied in the same tone, and this rumor probably gives the sequel to his loyalty. Insolence Rebuked. A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing Irom Bedford Springs, narrates the following incident : "An interesting little occurrence took place at the Springs, a few evenings since. A secession family from St. Louis-came here for safety and to spend the summer, but made them selves obnoxious to visitors by the offensive parade of their traitorous sentiments. One of the young ladies of tho family paraded the house and walks with a "secesh" badge, and at last appeared in the ball room with it on. During the evening she took position with a secession partner on the floor for a cotillion, when her via avis left the floor and was follow ed by the balance of the dancers. Notwith standing this rebuff, she attempted it the sec ond time, with a like result. Next day, the whole family left the Springs in disgust." No Compromise. A patriotic Irish woman, who had reached the age of sixty or more, stepped into a store, the other day, and accos ted the propietor with, "Misthur is it true they're agoin' to Com promise 1" "I think not, Mrs. D. I have no confidence in any such report." "Well, I hope they won't too ; I've got one boy in the army now, flghtin' fur his conn thry ; and I tell yez, if I ever takes to having childern agin, an' they Compromise, the divil a soldier will X iver raise far 'em mare." An old maid in Missouri owns 3,000 acres of fine land on which she employs 30 bands. Why dont the old lady marry 7 she certainly has go-yd pounds for marrying. REMAKES OF W. P. HALL. Previous to taking the oath of office, Mr. Hall, the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri un der the Provisional Government who is Dem ocrat rose and addressed the Convention as follows : Gentlemen or the Convention, I appreci ate highly the honor conferred upon me by my election to the office of Lieutenant-Governor ot the State. When I reflect upon the em barrassments and difficulties which surround that position, I cannot but regret that your choice has not fallen upon another individual. I concur with the gentleman who has been elected Governor, and who has just addressed you, in deprecating tho state of things which now exist in the State cf Missouri. We aro in the midst of civil war, and I can only say that I will unite my energies with him to da all that we can to mitigate its horrors and shorten its duration. Gentlemen, it is scarcely necessary for me to say that my opinion as to the causes of ourdomestic difficulties has been sufficiently exemplified by my acts and words since I have been a member of this body. It can scarcely be necessary for me to say that in my opinion our difficulties have been produced almost solely, if not entirely, by an effort upon the part of certain of our officers and citizens to dissolve our connection with the National Government. I believe, gentleman, that to Missouri Union is peace and Disunion is war. I believe that to-day Missouri could be a peaceful as Illinois, if her citizens would have recognized their obligations to tho Constitu tion and laws of their country, and I am freo to say that I know of no reason why they should not so act. Whatever might be said! by citizens of other States, certainly Missouri ans have no right to complain of the general course of theGovernmentof the United States. I believe it to be a fact that there is no law of a general character upon your statutes that has been enacted since Missouri came into tho Union, but.had received the votes and support of the representatives of the people of this State. Whatever we have asked from tho Government of the United States has been given to us most cheerfully. We asked a lib eral land policy, -and we got it; wo asked grants for our railroads, and we got them ; wo asked for a fugitive slave law, and it was given to us ; we asked that our peculiar views in ref erence to the finances of the country should be regarded, and even that was granted. In, short, I feel I may safely say, that, if the peo ple of this State bad the whole control of tho Federal Government, if there had been but one State in the Union, the very policy which has been adopted by the General Government would have been adopted as best calculated to advance the interests of the State. It is truo. Gentlemen, that, owing to divisions aniontr us, private and sometimes public rights have been violated ; but I believe I cannot be mistaken as to the real cause of the troubles which aro now upon us. I believe there is no need, and there never has been any need, of civil war ia this State. I believe we should have bad none if the views of this Convention, as expressed in March last, had been carried out ; and I be lieve if we will return to these views, civil war will cease within our borders. It shall there fore, gentlemen, be my duty, my pride as well as my pleasure, to do all that I can for both the success and prevalence of those views in this. State while I have the honor to hold the posi tion which you have conferred upon me. Notwithstanding the denunciations we some times hear against the Government of the United States and the assaults made upon it, I am free to admit that, when I reflect upon the history of this State; when I remember its humble origin ; when I look upon the proud and exalted position that it occupied but a few months ago, my affections do cluster around the Government of my country. Asa Mis sourian, I desire no change in tho political relations that exist between this State and tho Government of the United States, and least of all do I desire such a change as will throw her into the arms of those who have proved unfaithful to the high trust imposed upon them by a generous and a confiding people. Mr. President, I am ready to take the oath. A De9pebate and Determined Suicide. A foreigner, named Frank Howard, who seems to bavc had no relations in this country, per petrated a most desperate suioido near Eaton, Ohio, on the 31st ultimo. He went to thy barn, set it on 3re, and, after the fire had got a fair start with the intention of removing every trace of himself, he cut his throat with, his razor, and immediately threw himself into, the fire. But loss of blood did not assuage the'pain ot burning. Human nature could not endure it, and, with his clothes burned off and his flesh literally on fire, he jumped into 4 well that drowning might take the place of burning. In this condition hia dead body was found. The Pirate Sumter. The Navy Depart, ment has advioes of the return of the pirate Sumter to New Orleans, through Atchatalya Bay. The Jeff. Davis is. tho only rebel war vessel known officially to be outside, as the Department is not apprised of the escape of the McRae. Fast steamers are on the way to, make the blockade of New Orleans effectual. Four pirates have been disposed of-the Sa vannah captured, the Petrel shelled and sunk, the York beaohed and btirned, an unknown vessel driven ashore by the transport Rhode Island. Of the last exploit there are no offi cial advices. Jcst and Patriotic. Henry King, a wealthy resident of Allentown, Pa., died a few weeks since, leaving an estate valued at $300,000. He died childless. He was a brother of T. Butler King, one of the Commissioners of tho Confederate States, now in Europe. Mr. King had made a will, leaving half of his property to his brother; but,' a few weeks before hla death, exasperated at the secession sentiments of his brother, he made a new will, leaving most of his property to bis wife, and the re-t mainder to cbaritabla purposes. The quickest method of taking the chair at a political meeting is to insult somebody. He will give it to you immediately over the bead. Better bring your mind to yonr condition than have your condition brought to yonr mind. If you have an acquaintance who can't tell the truth, get a musician to "strike tho lyre." The arctic regions are well guarded by po lice there is pole-ice everywhere there. A man's personality in conversation is humbug, for is it not all is bis I f
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