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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 0, .1861.
YOL. 8AT0. 10.
THE DESTITUTE.
For a moment, brother, listen,
To the moan that oraeth up
From the thin lip of h! destitute,
Who drink life's anguish cup ;
There are brows as pale as ashes,
There are hearts as cold as snow,
ConHin? on life's dnsky highway
Look, and you will find it so !
There is many a lone, lone orphan,
Beating out the march of life
Mid the clamor and confusion,
All alone amidst the strife.
Treat them kindly, doign to lore them,
And thy mother's feelings prove;
Do not pass them coldly saying,
'-.Mine are all that I can love."
THE WIFE'S FORETHOUGHT.
A SKETCH FOR YOUNG MARRIED PEOPLK.
Anson Kimball had been married about a
month. Ills business was at tin making, and
lie had a shop of hi own, and his whole shop
was paid lor, so he felt quite independent, the
future looking clear and bl ight. II is wife was
one of those mild, loving creatures that hung
so fondly upon the interests and affections
of the hnsband, and whose soul may sink or
swim with the fortunes of the being it lias eho
nen as a partner. One evening the young
couple were sitting iu their comfortable apart
ment the husband engaged in reading, and the
wife woiking busily with her needle.
I must bo up early to-morrow morning,
Linnie, for our party starts shortly after sun
rise," said Anson, as he laid down his paper
and leaned back in his chair.
"Then you are going are you ?" rejoined
Linnie. There was just regret enough in her
tone to render her voice less lively than usual,
hut it must have been a keen observer that
could have noticed it.
0, to be sure," returned the young man in
a gay laughing tone. "You know the hands
In the old shop go on this salt water fishing
excursion every year, and of course I must go
with them. We can't take our ladies with us
on such a trip, but you shall have a good time
to make up for it."
"You musn't think Anson, that I envy you
the pleasure you anticipate, for I am eure
nothing can give me more satisfaction than to
know that you are enjoying yourself."
"I believe you, Linnie, and I assure you I
shall enjoy myself on this trip exceedingly.
So you will be happy too, eh ?"
"Certainly," returned the young wife ; but
the word seemed to-be spoken reluctantly.
"Come, Come, Linnie, you don't speak
as you feel. Now you don't want me to go,"
raid Anson, with a tinge of disappointment in
Lis tone.
"If you think It would bo for your good to
gorof course I should want you to."
"And how can it be otherwise ?"
"You won't be offended, Anson, if I tell
you ?,'
"Fob, what an idea. I be offended at you ?
Come tell me your thoughts."
As the young man spoke he moved his chair
to the side of his wife and put his arm about
lier neck.
"Well," returned Linnie, in an earnest but
yet pleasant tone, "I was thinking of the ex
pense." "Ha, ha, ha. The expense. Why It won't
be over five dollars at the farthest."
"But five dollars is considerable. You know
we are young yet, and all we have is the house
we live in, and your small shop.
"And is that not enough 1 IIow many of
my young friends are there who are not even
so well off as that 7"
"1 know you are fortunate Anson, but yet
none are beyond the reach of misfortune. For
a few years wo had better live ns economical
ly as possibly with consistent enjoyment."
"So I intend to ; but what is five follars
when compared with tho amount I shall be
able to lay up in a year ?"
"Why, it will make that amount some eight
or ten dollars short."
"That's strange logic, Linnie." .
"Not at all, Anson. Yon will spend five
dollars in money, and lose the time of two
working days."
"So I shall, but I tell you Linnie, I will
work enough harder to pay for if. when I come
back. So I may go mayn't I?"
This last sentence was spoken playfully, and
the young man kissed his wile as ho spoke.
"Of course yon may," returned Linnie, with
a smile; "but I suppose I shall have to go
without a little sum I had wanted."
"How much was it ?"
"Five dollars."
"O, you can have that of course, and more
too, if you want it."
"That will be enough."
Auson Kimball took out his wallet, and
handed his wifu a five dollar bill, and the con
versation then turned upon other and various
tuutters.
Anson Kimball was like thousands of others
who are situated in like circumstances. With
a free open heart he marked out his future
for a fieldjof enjoyment without taking care to
make much preparations for storms he might
be likely to meet on the way. And then again
like others, he mistook the character of life's
real enjoyment. He lost sight of some of the
higher and more noble sources of happiness,
and dwelt too much tin the satisfaction of the
physical appetites. True he enjoyed himself,
and he kept clear of all extremes, but yet he
failed to see that his enjoyments were nearly
all ephemeral that he was laying up little or
nothing for timo to come.
A year passed away and the annual fishing
excursion came in course along.
"Well, Linnie," said the young man, "to
morrow the boys go down to the harbor, and I
am going with them. 0 course you have no
objections."
"No," returned the wife in her usual pleas
ant tone, "if you can afford it."
"0, there's no trouble about that."
"Don't you remember the conversation we
had a year ago on the same subject ?" asked
Linnie.
"Yes; I remember you talked then about
'jiving money, but we ain't any poorer now
than we should have been if I had stayed at
home"
"But tell me, Anson, Lave you laid up as
edt kj(f,ur,"n t,ie Past car as yu ka espect-
"Why, as for that matter, I hav'nt laid up
ach of anything. The fact is Linnie, you
jjave drawn rather harder on mo than I ex
pected." ,"Bnt I havn't spent any more money for
nl'r' anirs and amusements than you have,
a3 I dont think ! have so much."
"I didn't mean to blame you, my dear. I
only mentioned the circumstances to explain
why I hadn't laid up anything. But never
mind, there's plenty time enougli yet, and be
sides we've enjoyed ourselves. I think after
this fishing excursion is over, however, I shall
begin to dock my, expenses a little, for 1 must
lay up something lor the next year."
"We certainly have every chance to save
money," returned Linnie, "for the house and
hop are ours without rent and we are free of
debt."
Anson Kimball started at that last remark
and turned his face toward the window, but
his wife did not appear to notice his emo
tions. "You know, Anson," cautioned Mrs. Kim
ball, "that you promised me I should have five
dollars when you went on another excursion,
and I shall certainly hold you to that promise.'
"Of course that is fair," returued the man,
"but do you need it now ?"
"Yes."
"What arc yon going to do with it ?"
"You won't be offended V
"No."
"Then to tell yon tho truth, I owe a little
sum.'.'
The young man looked earnestly at his wife
and though lie evidently wished to say some
thing about her running into debt, yet, for
reasons best known to himself, he kept quiet,
and handed over the five dollars. Anson join
ed his old shopmates on their excursion, and
when he returned he thought some about be
ginning to cut off some of his unnecessary ex
penses, but he introduced no new system of
operations. Once or twice he did refrain from
indulging some petty appetite, but soon he
settled brick into the old trick, and the small
bits of money slipped away as fast as ever.
Three years had passed away since the young
couple were married, and few could have wish
ed tor more social comfort than they had en
joyed during the greater part of that time.
For a month or two, however, the young man
ha.d been gradually more sober and thoughtful,
at length lie had become really sad and down
hearted. 11 is wife had endeavored to cheer
him up though she was unable to learn the
cause of his dejection.
One evening, just before dusk, Linnie sawr
two men pass her window and enter her hus
band's shop. One of them she knew to tie the
sheriff", and the circunutances troubled her not
a little. She waited half an hour for her hus
band to come to supper, but he did not appear,
and her suffering began to be acute. A thou
sand conjectures flitted through her mind, but
they brought her no consolation and at length
she determined to go to the shop door and see
if she could not overbear something of what
was passing, feeling that such a course would
at least bo pardonable.
Linnie stole out from her front "door and
went towards tho shop. Sho placed her ear
to the key hole and listened, but she could on
ly hear an Indistinct hum of voices, among
which was that of her husband. The latter
was evidently supplicating, for his tone was
earnest and impassioned. Soon there was a
movement of feet toward tho door, and Linnie
hastened back to the house and ere long her
husband entered. lie looked pale and troubled
and with a nervous movement of the muscles
of the face, as though he would have conceal
ed the grif that bore him down, he took his
seat at the table.
Poor Linnie watched her companion with
an anxiety almost agonizing, but she spoke
not a word nntil alter Anson had sat back from
the table. The food remained almost untouch
ed upon his plate when he moved away and he
would h;ive left the house had not his wife
slopped in'm.
"Husband," she said, i:i a soft, gentle tone,
at the same time hiving her hand upon his arm
and gazing imploringly into his lace, "what
is it that troubles you i"
"Nothing, Linm," half fretfully returned
he, as he made a motion as if to remove his
wife's hand from his arm.
"There is something, Anson I know there
is. Come do not keep it from mo.'
"There is nothing that you ueed know."
'But a wife need know all that can effect her
husb?nd thus. What is it Anson "
"It is nothing but my own business, and a
wife need not know all that."
This answer was harsh, and the tears gushed
to Linnle's eyes.
"My dear husband," she said In tender ac
cents, "to whom, O, to whom, should you tell
your sorrows if not to her who loves you better
than life itself?"
"Forgive me, forgive me, Linnie I meant
not to'wound your feelings. 1 am very miser
able and hardly know what 1 said."
"Then tell me all. Come sit down in my
easy chair, for yonr brow is hot and feverish.
There now tell me."
After the young man had taken the proffered
seat he gazed a moment into the face of his
wife, and a look of deep anguish rested upon
his features.
"Linnie," he said, "I may as well tell you
all, but you must not chide me, nor must you
despond, lor all is noto dark as might be. I
am deeply in debt, and to-morrow my shop,
and all that it contains, will be advertised by
the sheriff for sale."
"In debt," murmured the wife.
"Yes. During the last two years I have been
purchasing stock on credit, and paying for it
as it has been convenient. At first it seemed
an easy way of doing business, but it has prov
ed fatal ; for when I received the pay for my
goods I forgot, or, at least did not sufliciejitly
heed, that all the money was not mine. I for
got that more than hall of all the money I re
ceived belonged to tho men of whom I had
purchased stock. Two notes fell due day be
fore yesterday. The man to whom I gave
tliem sold them in the way of business to a
western firm, and now they must be paid. To
morrow an officer will be placed in my shop
and nearly every thing will have to be sold.
It is not the loss of my stock and tools that I
care about, for I have health aad strength, but
it is the disgrace of the thing. To think that
I should fail like this me a healthy, stout,
good mechanic."
"IIow much do you owe ?" asked Linnie in
a trembling voice.
"Both notes amount to four hundred dol
lars." "And havn't you any part of it ?"
"Only about fifty dollars that I can collect
readily."
"And if these two notes are paid you would
be safe V
"Yes."
"Then, thank God, you will not suffer ! ox
claimed Linnie. And overcome by her feel
ings, she sank upon her husband's neck and
burst into tears.
"Linnie, Linnie," . cried the young man,
"what do you mean ?"
"Wait a moment, husband."
The wife brushed the tears from her cheeks
as she spoke and left the room, and in a few
moments she returned, bearing in her hand a
small book. There was a bright smile upon
her face, and her husband looked upon her
Wfth astonishment.
"Here my husband," she said, stepping to
his side and placing the book in his hand at
the same time winding her arms about his
neck, "if you carry that to the bank they will
give you three hundred and seventy-five dot
lars for it."
"Three hundred and seventy-five dollars .'"
repeated the astonished man, hardly crediting
the evidence of his own senses.
"Yes, Anson," returned the wife, 'sinking
into her husband's lap, "that is money I have
been saving for the last three years."
"You saved it Linnie? But where could
yon have got it ?"
"You gave it to me yourself to spend for
trifles. 1 ou knew 1 have claimed my sharoof
such money. Do not blame me Anson, I fear
ed that you did not attach sufficient impor
tance to the aggregate of the small sums yon
were spending. Once or twice I would have
remonstrated, but you could not bo made easi
ly to see it. I was but a young girl, and I
feared to set up a will against my husband, so
I resorted to Jthis means of proving my posi
tion. O, my dear husband, yon cannot know
that sweet pleasure I experience now in find
ing that my experiment has been the means of
such good."
"If your pleasures is equal to mine,then you
must l)o happy indeed," exclaimed Anson, as
he drew his fond wife to his bosom. "God
bless you, Linnie, and make me able to repay
you for this. Now I see to whom you have
oweil the little debts you have sometimes con
tracied, and which I have helped you to re
pay."
"Yes," returned Linnie with a smile, "it
was to you that I owed them. And yet I have
not drawn quite so much from the amusement
fund as "
"Hush, Linnie. I know I have spent more
thnn I was aware of, but my eyes are open now
and I see it ail."
"And you do not blame mo for what has
been done ?" -. '
"Blame you ?" exclaraed Anson, imprint
ins: a warm kiss upon his wile's brow. Let
my future course show you how fondly you
jfie cherished, and how faithfully I will be
guided by your judgment."
On the next day Anson Kimball paid off the
two notes. He was an honored and respected
man, but he felt that ho owed it all to his
Wife's Forethought.
"List to the Mocking Bird." A strong
story is related by the Scott Legion" boy s"
at the expense of one of the captains attached
to their regiment. The story in brief is this :
"Shortly after the arrival of the regiment
at , our officers while messing near a hand
some dwelling were listeners to most beautiful
music. The unknown vocalist sang in tones
so soft, so tremulous and melodious, that they
strained their ears to drink in every note of
the air. In the day time they went by squads
past the dwelling.but saw no soul. Once they
pursued a sylph like figure to the very gate,
but, alas ! she was not tho lady sought lor.
And so they lived on, each night hearing the
music repeated ; and when it ceased ambition
and worldly - interest went out with them, so
that their dreams were filled with fancies of
the unknown face. One nigM, when gathered
together, the voice struck up again.
"By Jove !" said one, "this is agonizing.
I can't stand it. She must be discovered !"
Eager voices took up the remark, and W.,
detetmlned to reconnoitre the place. He crept
on tip-toe toward the dwelling, leaped the
garden pales, and finally undiscovered, but
very pallid and remorseful, gained the case
ment. Softly raising his head, he peeped within.
The room was full of the music he seemed to
grow blind for the moment.
Lo ! prone upon the kitchen hearth, set the
mysterious songstress an ebony hued negress
scouring the tin-kettles.
W's limbs sink beneath him, when the dis
covered, looking up, shouted :
"Go way dar, you sojer man, or I'll fly de
fry in' pan atyerhead. Don't stand dar peaken'
at dis child."
W. left instanter, the boys, who had follow
ed close in the rear, escorting him back to his
quarters with peals of laughter.
A Change of Tactics. Daniel Boone, tho
Kentucky hunter, used to relate that the hard
est fight he ever had was with a single active
Indian youth. Tho Indian surprised the old
hunter asleep in the forest. Boons woke only
in time to save his life by dodging behind a
tree. His gun was unloaded, and the Indian
was upon him immediately. "I dodged and
ran as well as I could." Boone used to relate,
"the Indian so close to my heels that I could
not get time to load ray gun. My knife had
fallen to the ground. The Indian was fully
armed and knew I had nothing. He kept me
moving ; and as 1 ran I had to load my gun.
That was the longest loading I ever did. It
took me an hour at least. At last I got the
bullet down, and then I changed my tactics
and made short work of the "cussed" Indian."
The rebel leaders caught the nation napping,
while they were fully armed and prepared,
and they have since kept it on the defensive,
warding off blows rather than giving them.
But the Government is loading now. It will
soon have its charge sent home. And when it
does assume the aggressive, it will make
"short work" of the "cussed" rebellion.
Rather Dispirited. A Savannah paper
says the likelihood of the rebel troops going
into winter quarters south of the Potomac has
a very depressing effect upon tho minds of the
people in that quarter. They had been prom
ised and expected that the rebels should winter
in Washington and Baltimore, and possibly in
Philadelphia; but now to find that they are to
stay out in the cold at Manassas, or compelled
to return to Richmond, must necessarily open
their eyes to tho delusion which has been
practiced upon them.
An old maid, on the wintry s?de of fifty,
hearing of the marriage of a pretty young la
dy, her friend, observed, with a deep and sen
timental sigh, "Well, I suppose 'tis what we
must all come to." , -
SLAVERY IN PENNSYLVANIA.
WHY IT WAS ABOLISHED.
The following article, setting forth the rea
sons why slavery was abolished in Pennsylva
nia, is taken lrom the Christian Instructor.
The "Instructor" says :
When every intelligent reader peruses with
a fresh inteiest, tiie history of the American
Revolution ; when we are now engaged in the
second war, for the principles embodied in the
Declaration of Independence, it may not be
out of place to answer the question at the
head of this article. This is all the more im
portant from the fact that ignorant or design
ing demagogues havo been in the habit of
misrepresenting the facts in the case. No
greater slander can be uttered against the
good people of Pennsylvania, than to say that
they abolished Slavery because it was profita
ble. The act of emancipation was one of prin
ciple, not promoted by mercenary motive.
The conscience of the Commonwealth, not the
pocset, originated and carried through the
measure. Of this the following statements
furnish ample evidence.
The first suggest ions of Legislative abolition
was made to the Legislature in the session of
1777, in the heads of a bill furnished by the
Executive Council. Hon. George Bryan, the
Vice President of the Council, in a Message
to the Assembly, November U, 1778, thus re
fers the matter: .... "In divesting the
State of slaves you will equally serve the
cause of humanity and policy, and offer to
God one of the most proper and best returns
of gratitude for his great deliverance of us
and our posperity from thraldom ; you will
also set your character for justice and benevo
lence in the true point of view to all Europe,
who are astonished to see a people struggling
for liberty, holding negroes in bondage."
Subsequently, Hon. Joseph Reed, President
of the Council, in a Message to the Assembly,
used the following language :
"We would also bring into yonr view, a
plan for the gradual abolition of slavery, so
disgraceful to any people, and more especially to
those v:hoh'irc teen contending in the great cause
of liberty themselves, and upon whom Providence
hat bestowed such emivent marks of its Javor
and protection. We think we are loudly call
ed on to evince our gratitude, in making our
fellow-men joint-heirs icith. j of the same ines
timable olcsstngs, under such restrictions and
regulations as will not injure the community,
and will imperceptibly enable them to improve
the station to which they will be advanced.
"Honored will that State be in the annals of
history, which shall first abolish this violation
of the rights of mankind, aud the memories
of those will be held in gratelul and everlast
ing remembrance, who ihall pass the law to
restore and establish the rights of human na
ture." The Assembly having failed to adopt the a
bove suggestion, the propriety of the measure
was again urged by President Reed, in a Mes
sage, Sept. 9, 1779, in which he says: "We
wish to see you give the complete sanction of
law to this noble and generous purpose, and a
dorn the annals of Pennsylvania with .their
bright display of justice and public virtue."
This agitation had the desired effect. Mr
Bryan, now a member of the Legislature, pre
pared and carried through an "An act for the
abolition of Slavery," which was adopted,
March 1st, 17S0. The preamble is as follows :
"When we contemplate our abhorance of
the condition to which the arms and tyranny
of Great Britain were exerted to reduce, us;
when we look back ou the Tariety of dangers
to which we have been exposed, and how mi
raculously our wants, iu many instances, have
been supplied, and our deliverances wrought,
when even hope and human fortitude have be
come unequal to the conflict, we are unavoid
ably led to a serious and grateful sense of the
manifold blessings which we have undeserv
edly received from the hands of that Being
from whom every good and perfect gift cometh.
Impressed with these ideas, we conceive that
it is our duty, and we rejoice that it is in our
power, to extend a portion of that freedom to
others which hath been extended to us, and
release from that state of thraldom to which
we ourselves were tyrannically doomed, and
from which we have now every prospect of
being delivered. It is not for us to inquire
who, in the creation of mankind, the inhabi
tants of the earth were distinguished by a dif
erence in feature or complexion. It is suffi
cient to know that all are the work of the Al
mighty hand. We find, in all the distribution
of the human species, that the most fertile as
well as the most barien parts of the earth are
inhabited by men of complexions different
from oun and from each other; from whicn
we may reasonabl?, as well as religiously infer,
that lie who placed them in their various situ
ations hath extended equally his care and pro-
lection to all, and it becometh not us to coun
teract bis mercies. We esteem it a peculiar
blessings granted to us, that we are enabled
this day. to add one more step to universal
civilization, by removing the sorrows of those
who nave lived in undeserved bondage, aud
from which, bv tho assumed authority of tho
King of Great Britain, no effectual legal relief
could be obtained. eaned by a long course
of experience from those narrow prejudices
and partialities we had imbibed, we find our
hearts enlarged with kindness and benevolence
toward men of all conditions and nations ; and
we conceive ourselves at this particular peri
od, extraordinarily called upon, by the bless
ings which we have received, to manifest the
sincerity of our profession, and to give a sub-
stancial proof of our gratitude.
"And whereas, tho condition of those negro
and mulatto slaves, has been attended with
circumstances which not only deprive them of
the common blessings that they were by na
ture entitled to, but has cast them into the
deepest afflictions, by an unnatural sale of
husband and wife from each other, and from
their children ; an injury, the greatness of
which can only be conceived by supposing
that we were in the same unhappy case. Jn
justice, therefore, to persons so unhappily
circamstanced, and who, having no prospect
before them whereon they may rest their sor
rows and hopes, having no reasonable induce
ment to render their service to society, which
they otherwise might ; and in commemoration
of our own happy condition from the state of
unconditional submission to which we were
doomed by the tyranny of Great Britain : Ba
it, and it is hereby enacted," &c. .
Here our Commonwealth, through her Leg
islature.deelare Slavery unjust, barbarous and
uncivilized, and impolitic; and that a. sense
of gratitude to God, consistency in thoso who
were struggling for tboir own liberties, and
sympathy for the wronged slaves, all required
tho complete abolition of the system. The
preamble is one of the most gratifying pages
in the history of Pennsylvania "a bright
display of justice and public virtue."
What Pennsylvania Has Dose for tue
War. The following figures, derived from
: official sources, show the number of regiments
aud men furnished by Pennsylvania since the
breaking out of the rebellion.
Under the first requisition of the General
Government, 25 regiments, numbering 2C, 175.
These were three months men. She also fur
nished four regiments called for by the United
States directly, for three years, or during the
war, amounting to 55'.)4. These men are, of
course, still in service. Also, filteen regi
ments, constituting the Pennsylvania Reserve
Volunteer Corps, comprising thirteen regi
ments ot infantry, one of artillery, and one of
cavalry, numbering 15,G53- She has now in
service. including the four regiments just men
tioned, and the Pennsylvania Volunteer Re
serve Corps, fifty regiments, of which six are
rifle- regiments, and six companies of infantry,
numfciing 50,407 ; six regimeuts ot cavalry,
number G028 ; one regiment and three com
panies of artillery, numbering 1515 making
an aggregate in service of 03,oS0. Add to
this the men who have enlisted in Western
Virginia, District of Columbia, volunteers in
the Maryland Brigade in regiments along tho
Northern border of the State, and in Philadel
phia, lor the regiments of other States, esti
mated at 6400 ihe above aggregate of men,
now in service, is C'J,080. Stio has now prepar
ing to enter the service, twenty-four regiments
of infantry, numbering 25,12b; five regiments
and four companies of cavalry, numbering
5050 ; and two companies of artillery, number
ing G12 making an aggregate of 31,090.
Of the regiments preparing lor service and
now in camp ready, sdio has nine regiments of
infantry, numbering &123; three regiments of
cavalry, numbering 3114, making an addition
of 12.837 to the now in service, and
showing Pcnnsylrani'tns actually in the field to
the number ot 82.817. When the remaining
seventeen regimen's and six companies, number
ing 18,253, now preparing, shall be ready for
service, which will bo within six weeks, it will
appear that Penny lvania's contribution to the
war, exclusive of the 20,175 three months
men, mustered out of service iu July last,
win be I0I,U0.
The quota of men called for from Pennsyl
vania by the Inst proclamation of the Presi
dent was 75,000. It will be seen bv the above
figures that she has exceeded the amount by
twenty-six thousand men !
Origin of the Hat. We owe the hat, as
we owe most of our manufactures, to Asia. It
was in Asia that men first learned the art of
felling wool, so as to compose the substratum
of the fabric. Wool, so long as it contains
the natural yolk or animal grease, refuses to
felt; that is, its fibres will not mat together
into a compact and close grained mass, such
as constitutes felt. hen the yolk has been
extracted by a chemical process, the wool has
a tendency to interlace Its fibers, and to ad
here firmly to the union thus formed; and
from a very remote period this secret was pos
sessed by the Orientals. The bats which are
constantly alluded to in Scripture those, for
instance, which were bound upon tho heads of
Shadrach, Meshach and Abeduego, when they
were cast intotheAssyrian furnace were gen
uine hats, but probable adorned by turban
cloths wound about them. I have seen the
self same hats tall, narrow cylinders of grey
felt, surrounded by a handkerchief or cloth,
on the heads of the Jew of Asia. Nor was
the usi of the hat a Hebrew monopoly. The
Kurds, Persians. Armenians and some tribes
of Turks and Tartars wear the hat, as their
fathers did in Saladin's day. The high lambs
wool bonnet of the Persian is but a brimless
hat, with 'a nap of exaggerated roughness.
The Nestorian Christains of Kurdistan wear
hats almost exactly similar to a battered Irish
caubeen only of a brown or dirty white color.
Throughout the East, the dervishes and wand
ering fakirs may be known by tho tall, narrow
hat of light hued felt adorned by a greasy rag,
and towering upwards like a chimney pot
Chambers' Journal.
Yankee Stratagem. During the Revolu
tionary war, two brothers form one of the eas
tern ports were commanders of privateers;
they cruised together, and were eminently
successful, doiug great damage to the enemy
and making money for themselves. One eve
ning, being in the lattitude of the shoals of
Nantucket, but many miles to the eastward of
them they espied a large Biitish vessel having
the appearance of a merchantman, and made
toward her, but to their astonishment found
her to be a frigate in disguise. A very high
breeze prevailing they hauled off indifferent
directions. Only one could be pursued, and
the frigate gained rapidly on him. Finding
that he could not run away, the commander
had recourse to a stratagem. On a sudden ha
hauled in sail, and all hands were employed
with setting poles, as if shoving his vessel off
a bank. The people on board the frigate,
amazed at the supposed danger they had run,
and to save themselves from being grounded,
immediately clawed off, and left the more
knowing Yankee "to make himself scarce,"
who, as soon as night rendered it prudent for
him, hoisted sail in a sea. two hundred fathoms
deep.
A SrcxKY Kentucky Girl. Captain Clay
pool living about ten miles from bowling Green,
is commander of a company of Home Guards,
lie had the guns of his company at his house,
but, on hearing of tho arrival of Gen. Bnck
ner at Bowling G reen, he sent them to Col.
Girder's camp In a neighboring county. The
next day a squad, dispatched by Buckner, cal
led at his house, and, finding only his daugh
ter, demanded the guns of her. She answered
that they were not there, and that, if they
were, she wouldn't give them up. They hand
ed her Gen. Buckner's order for the weapons,
and she tore it up before their laces. They
went to the. bncket and took each a dtink of
water, whereupon she threw the rest of the
water out of the bucket, and commenced
scouring the dipper. They concluded that
they could do io .better than to go back and
tell their General about their adventure, and
get fresh instructions. . j
"31 ore trouble coming," said Mrs. Parting
ton, laying down the paper, 'there's the State
of;Affairs, I suppose it will soon bo applying
for admission into the Union ?' and the old
lady resumed her darning with a look of patri
otic anxiety.
THE JOURNAL
THE WAR INCIDENTS AND NEWS.
Fifty Thousand Seamen. It is estimated
that in tho respective squadrons of the great
naval expedition. nearly all ot which has sailed,
or is about to sail, there are fifty thousand har
dy seamen, composed in great part of whale
men, for years accustomed to the terrible toil
and privations ot Arctic voyages; fishermen,
inured to the trials of the extensive Northern
fishing banks, and every class ot men familiar
with the accidents and excitements of the deep.
This vast army of weather-beaten soldiers of
the sea know only one motto that is.ubedirtice
to orders. They differ, in this respect, from
any of the new land levies, who, takeu from
easy walk of life, require time to acquire
submission to the rigorsof the camp. Imagine
a gunboat expedition, under the lead of turnip
dashing sailor, manned by these Northmen,
thrown into the bayous of the Mississippi, pre
cipitated upon the plantations of South Caro
lina or Alabama, burning with the recollec
tions of their country's wrongs, and recalling
the fearful atrocities committed upon their
New England brothers at Baltimore. Bull Run,
and Ball's Bluff!
Kansas City. The Santa Fc mail and Can
non City express reached here on Saturday in
advance of schedule time. Business dull
throughout the territory. The volunteer force
in New Mexico numbers now over thirty-tivo
hundred men, three thousand of whom are in
marching order and expect soon to bn employ
ed in active service. Their destination is to
wards Messilla, where thej expect additional
reinfoi cements. The Indians report a largo
tody of troops marching from the west, and
many think it may be the California force so
anxiously expected. If so they design on
their arrival attacking the force in that region
from Texas. The Camanches and Utal.s have;
been locking horns together near Maxwell
rauche, originating from a theft committed by
the Lltahs, in which they obtained one hundred
head of Camanche horses. The Camanches
followed to obtain their property and in the
struggle some of their number were killed.
The Indians on the Plains are now peaceably
disposed to the whites having received their
annuities at the hands of tfie agent.
New Mexico. The Santa Fe mail furnish
es the folowing additional items : About the
Is instant a company of New Mexican volun
teers, under Capt. Mink, was attacked in tho
night at Alimosa, 35 miles below Fort Craig,
by 110 Texan rebels, and their horses stamped
ed. Capt. Mink proposed to surrender bis
company, but his men dissented, secured
their horses and retreated to Fort Craig.
Subsequently about one hundred United State9
troops from Fort Craig pursued the rebels,
and overtook them, killed their captain
and ten men, wounded about thirty, and killed
thirty horses. The balance of Texans escap
ed to Messilla. Another band of rebels who
had been encamped on tho Arkansas river
were being pursued by a company of United
States dragoons from Fort Wise and a com
pany of New Mexican volunteers.
Compensation to Loyal Men. I learn that
the Pennsylvania Reserves, tinder Major Gen
eral McCall, as they supply themselves from
the fields and granaries of the Virginia farms,
acting under the instructions of their chiefs,
take an account of the supplies obtained ; thus
showing that even in the midit of this shame
ful and shameless rebellion the Government is
ready to compensate all loyal men who may
have been compelled to fly rather than remain
to give assistance to our troops.
The Battle at Fredericktown. Fifty
prisoners taken at tho battle oLFredericktown,
havo been put to work in the trenches at Capo
Giraeau: The report of Major Schofield. who
commanded the battery in the action, shows
that this victory was the most complete of any
yet achieved by our army during the war. Jeff.
Thompson escaped on foot, alter having his
horse killed under him. The rebel force was
about G000,while our own force was only 1000.
A Shameful Safety. "Glory be to God,"
shouted n excitable gentleman to John J.
Crittenden, "McCltllan is sending 20,000 men
from Washington to Cincinnati, for Kentucky.
We're safe now." "Safe '." exclaimed tho
veteran Senator, "doesn't it blister you.- tonguo
to tell it? Safe ! by Ohio and Indian troop,
while Kentuckians allow themselves to be pro
tected by others. It's a shame to old Ken
tucky, 6ir."
From Paducah. Three companies of th
Ninth Illinois regiment went to Sartoga, forty
eight miles up the Cumberland river, on Satur
day, and attacked a company of rebel cavalry
one hundred strong, completely routing them.
The rebels lost thirteen killed, twenty-four
prisoners, a-id fifty-two horses an-l all their
camp eqnippage were captured. Tho federal
loss was only two wounded.
The RrncL Blockade. The rebel steamer
George Page has gone as far up the mouth of
Quantico creek as she can, but is not yet half a
mi'e from the river. She is apparently a
ground. If so it will require a high tide to
float her. The rebel batteries were opened
upon the Maryland shore but without damage
to anybody on our side. It is believed that no
vessels have within the last twenty hours run
the rebel blockade.
Don't Pat. Semi-military gentlemen in
the habit ot sporting undress nniforms find
themselves in trouble in Washington. Tht
Provost Marshal's patrols ask all such for their
passes. When they answer that "they do not
belong to the army," the captain of the Guard
tells them that if they don't want to be put in
the guard house they had better take otf that
uniform.
From Cairo. A party of thirtv men of tho
Twenty-eight Illiuois regiment, while scouting
on Saturday, encountered a party or renel
cavalry and infantry, thirteen miles below Gai-
ro. A brisk engagement ensued, in winch
the rebels were routed with th io?s of a cap
tain and lieutenant, and several wounded. No
loss on our 6ide.
The Potomac. The steamer Pnsey came np
from the flotilla last night. Tho rebel steamer
George Page is now cooped up in Quantico
Creek as our batteries on the Maryland shore
bear directly on tho mouth of the creek render
ing it a matter of considerablo risk for her to
attempt an exodus.
Mason and Sljdell. The Sunday Chronicle
sivs : "Keliaoie information nas been received
at the State Department that Mason and Slidell
made their exit from America ria Mexico, and
not by the routo originally indicated."
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