JUL
BI S. J. ROAV.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21,1861.
VOL. 7.-N0. 51.
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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