M S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1862.
VOL. 8.-N0. 21.
OUK C0TJNTBY.
On rrimeal rocks she wrote her names ;
Jler towers were reared on holy graves ,
The golden seed that bore her came
Swift-winged with prayer o er ocean waves :
The Forest bowed his solemn crest, '
. And open flung his sylvan doors : .
Meck rivrt led the appointed Guest
To etutp the wide-embracing shores
' Till, fold by fold, the broidered land,
To swell her virgin vestments grew,
While Snges, strong in heart and hand,
Her virtue's fiery girdle drew.
O K.xilo of the wrath of kings
O Pilgrim Ark of Liberty!
The refuge of divinest thing, '
Their record must abide in thee !
First in the glories of thy font
J.et the crown-jewel, Truth, be found ;
Thy right hand fling, with generous wont.
Love's happy chain to farthest bound!
Let Justice, with the faultless scales,
Hold fast the worship of thy sons;
Thy commerce nprend her shining sail -Where
no dark tide of rapine runs!
Ho link thy ways to those of God.
So followed firm the heavenly laws,
That stars may greet thee, warrior-browed,
Ami storm-sped Angels hail thy cau.se '.
0 Land, the measure of our prayers,
Hope of the world in grief and wrong,
JJe thine the tribute of the years.
The gift of Faith the crown of song !
A GOOD DAY'S WOBK.
I've done one good day's work, If I never
do another," said Mr. Barlow, rubbing his
hands together briskly, and with the air of a
man who felt very much pleased with himself.
"And so have I." Mrs. Barlow's voice was
in a lower tone, and less exultant, yet indica
tive of a spirit at peace with itself.
Let us compare notes," said Mr. Barlow, in
the confident manner of on who knows that
triumph will be on his side, "and see which
has done the best day's work."
Voa, of course," returned the gentle
hearted wife."
"We shall see. Let the history of your
day's doings precede mine."
"No," said 3Irs. Barlow, "you shall give
the first experience."
"Very well." And, lull of his subject, Mr.
Barlow began :
"You remember the debt of Warfleld, about
which I spoke a few days ago 7"
"Yes."
"I considered it desperate would have sold
out my interest at thirty cents ou the dollar
when I left homo this morning. Ttow the
whole claim Is secure. It was a sharp practice :
but the thing is done. I don't believe that
another creditor of Warfield will get a third
of Ins claim.
"The next operation," continued Mr. Bar
low, "I consider quite as good. About a year
ago I took fifty acres of land in Lrie county,
fur a debt, at a valuation of five dollars an acre
I sold it to-day for ten. I don't think the
man knew just what he was buying. He called
to see me about it, and I asked ten dollars an
acre for it at a venture, when he promptly laid
down one hundred dollars to bind the bargain.
If I should never see him again I am all right.
That is transaction number two. Number
tlirce is as pleasant to remember. I sold a lot
of goods, almost a year out of date, to a young
country merchant, for cash. He thinks he
lias a bargain. and perhaps he has ; but I would
have let them go at any time during the past
six months at a loss of thirty per cent., and
thought the sale a desirable one.
"Now, there is my good day's work, Jenny,
nnd it is one to be proud of. 1 take some
credit to myself for being, on the whole, a
pretty bright sort of a man, and bound to go
through. Let ns have your story now."
The face of Mrs. Barlow flushed slightly.
Her husband waited a few moments and then
said ;
'Let ns hear of the yards of stitching, and
the piles of good things made "
"No nothing of that," answered Mrs. Bar
low with a slight veil of feeling covering her
pleasant voice. "I had another meaning when
1 spoke of having accomplished a good day's
work. And now, as my doings will bear no
comparison with yours, I think of declining
their rehearsal."
"A bursa in is a bargain. Jennv." said Mr.
Barlow. "Word keeping is a cardinal virtue.
co let your story bo told. Ion have done a
good day's work in your own estimation, for
you said so. Go on. 1 am all attention."
Mrs. Barlow still hesitated. But after a
little more urging, she began the story of a
good day's work. Her voice was a little sub
dued, and there was an evident shrinking from
the subject about which she felt constrained
to speak.
"I resolved last night," said she, "attcr
passing some hours of self-examination and
self-tipbraidirigs, that I would, for-one day,
try to possess my soul in patience. And this
day has been the trial-day. Shall I go on 7"
Mrs. Barlow looked up with a timid, half
bashful air at her husband. She did not meet
his eyes, for ho had turned them partly away.
"Yes, dear Jenny, go on." The husband's
buoyancy of tone was gone. In its place was
something tender and pensive.
'Little Eddy was unusually fretful this
morning, as you will remember. He seemed
perverse, I thought cross, as we call it. I
as tempted to speak harshly two or three
jime? ; but, remembering my good resolution,
J put on the armor of patience, and never let
'"a hear a tone of my voice that was not a
Ioring one. Bear little fellow! When I
went to wash him, after breakfast, I found,
jast behind one of his ears, a small Inflamed
toil. It has made him slightly feverish and
worrisome all dav.' Oh, wasn't I glad that
patience had ruled" my spirit !"
"Alter you went away to the store, Mary
&ot Into one of her bad humors. She didn't
ant to go to school to begin with ; then she
couldn't flnd ner 8jate . antj tnen ner snoo
Pinched her. I felt very much annoyed ; but
calling my good resolution. I met her ir
fitation with calmness, her wilfulness with
Patient admonition, her stubborn temper with
gentle rebuke ; and so 1 conquered. She
'ssed me, and started for school with a cbeer
countenance, her slate In her satchel, and
er pinching shoe unheeded. And so I had
tty reward.
"But ray trials were not over. Some extra
Jfashing was needed. So I called Ellen, and
ld her that Mary would require a frock and
o pairs of drawers to be washed out, the ba
3 ' tome slips, and you some pocket handker
A saucy refusal leaped from the girl's
quick tongne, and indignant words to mine
1 atience ! patience ! whispered a small still
voice. 1 stifled, with an effort, my feelings
restrained my speech, and controlled my
countenance. Very, calmly, as to all exterior
signs, aid I look into Ellen's face till sh
dropped her eyes to the floor in contusion.
"You must have toigotten yourself," said I
with some dignity of manner, but without a
sign or irritation. Jshe was humbled at once
confessed the wrong, and begged rav Dardon
I forgave her, after reproof, and she went back
to the kitchen something wiser, I think than
wtien l summoned her. The washing I re
quired has been done, and well done ; and the
girl has seemed all day a. if she were endeav
orlng to atone, by kindness and service for
that hasty speech. If I mistake not, we were
both improved by the discipline through which
we passed. ,
"Othei trials I have had during the day
some of them quite as severe as the few I have
mentioned but the armor of patience was
whole when the sun went down. I was able
to possess my soul in peace, and the conquest
of self has made me happier. This is my
good day's work. It may not seem much in
your eyes."
Mr. Barlow did not look up nor speak as the
voice or his ivitc grew silent. She waited al
most a minute for his response. Then he bent
forward suddenly and kissed her, saying as he
aia so :
"Mine was work, yours a battle mine sue
cess, yours conquest mine easy toil, yours
neroism . Jenny, dear, since ou have been
talking I have thought thus : My good work
nas soi lea my garments, while yours are with
out a stain, and white as angel robes. Loving
monitor i may your lesson or to-night make
me a better man. Your good day's work
gives a two-ioid blessing."
Petrified Inpiaji Eves. The Panama Slar
says : We have recently received, through
the kindness of a friend at Arica, Peru, a
quantity of petrified Indian eyes, taken from
the Indian burying grounds in that neighbor
hood, which aro probably as great a curiosity
in their way as has ever come to light. The
ball of the eye is exceedingly perfect display
ing the pupil and other parts very distinctly
It is apparently of a hard horny substance,
and peels off in thin transparent flakes. The
face of the eye presents a reddish hue with
yellow circles, and when reflected in the
light it becomes brilliantly illuminated. The
back part is of a bright, glossy, yellow tinge,
looking much like damaged pearl, but when
the outer flakes are taken off, the entire eye
becomes tlio color of bright amber, which it is
easily mistaken for. iliese eyes are found at
other times on the - ground of the cave or
grave, having fallen out after becoming dried
up. On the reference to books written on
Peru, we find that Trezier, who visited the
coast in 1712, describes the "Heacas," or
ancient tombs at IIilo and Arica, where- the
bodies were found entire with clothes on, and
frequently surrounded by gold and silver or
tiaments. The graves are desciibed as being
dug in the sand, about six feet in depth and
inclosed with a wall of dry stones, covered
with cane rods, over which a layer of earth
and sand is spread.
Singular Dodble Suicide. Suicide is one
of the "specialties" of the French people ;
but an Englishman and his wife he sixty-two
years old and she twenty-eight have proved
themselves not behind hand in this peculiarity.
I heir names were Kenrick ; the husband had
squandered a fortune of Jt'100,000, and, with
his wile, found himself in .Naples without
funds. So they decided to drown themselves,
and climed over the low wall of the public
gardens of the Villa Reale, where a semi-cir
cular space ovei looking the the sea is furnish
ed with stone seats, and descended on the
beach, where Mrs. Kenrick tied her dress
round her ancles and tilled it from the waist
with sand, Mr. Kenrick effecting the same
purpose by filling the bosom of his shirt, his
waistcoat and coat sleeves with sand and
stones, his wife supplying the necessary
strings and tape from her own dress. They
then tied themselves together ronnd the waist
with their pocket handkerchiefs, and deliber
ately lay down to die in the sea, which at that
point is not more than two or three feet deep.
They had the resolution to endure suffocation,
and their corpses were seen next morning at
daybreak.
Mr. Scmner's Speech: on the Trent Af
fair. The speech of Mr. Sumner in the Sen
ate on the Trent affair, was a masterly and con
clusive exposition of the triumph of American
principles as applied to international law. In
all his arguments nnd illustrations he left our
respected mother England "out in the cold."
He demonstrated that by all other leading
European Powers the American doctrine had
been recognized and admitted for many years
and that England alone bad opposed it. The
nconsistency of the present position of Eng
land, with her policy in all the past, was ad
mirably illustrated, and the conclusion that
Great Britain is now stopped from any future
assertion of her doctrine in reference to visi
tation and search, was brilliant and effective.
The speech was impressively delivered. The
galleries of the Senate were densely crowded.
Shipwreck on Shore. The anomaly of a
shipwreck on shore occurred at Lombard
street wharf, Philadelphia, to the ship "Es
ther," on Wednesday morning 8th. This ship
had finished taking in ber cargo on the eve
ning previous. Next morning 7 teetof water
was discovered in tho hold of the vessel.
Much of the cargo was damaged. Two
steam fire engines were promptly on the Bpot,
and, with the rapid unloading of the cargo
prevented the total sinking of the ship. The
Esther was destinedjfor Laguayra and had on
board 3,000 barrels of flour, 6,000 bushels of
grain, 1,000 boxes of herring, 1,600 kegs of
lard, 1,000 boxes of soap, 1,000 kegs of butter,
105 hogsheads of coal and 500 bundles of box
es. The whole carge was taken out, the grain,
which wag in the lower hold, was greatly dam
aged. .
Generous. "I will save you a thousand
pounds," said a young buck to an old gentle
man. "How ?" "You have a daughter, and
you intend to give her ten thousand pounds
as her portion, I believe." I do." Sir, I
will take her with nine thousand." ,
Isaac Jones, of Sheffield, Mass., although
102 years old, supports himself by sawing
wood at the rate of about half a cord per day.
He is so deaf that be has not beard thunder
for twenty years. - '
ADDEESS OF HON. L. W. HALL,
0a taking the Chair as Speaker of the Senate.
Senators : I thank you for the kind parti
ality which has raised me to the dignity of
your presiding officer. I accept the honor
with diffidence in my ability to fulfil your ex
pectations, but with the determination so far
as in me lies, to give to the position my indus
trious and impartial efforts, and I claim, as I
have no doubt J shall receive, at your hands,
indulgence towards myself, whilst you exer
cise forbearance and courtesy towards each
other. I cannot but be impressed with the
liveliest emotions of pleasure at this genOrous
confidence on your part, animating me anew
in the discharge of public duty; 1 yet feel
how idly I would employ your time in felici
tating myself upon the attainment of civic
honors, in this "awful and rugged crisis"
when above all personal considerations, the
salvation of the liepublic should engage all
our thoughts.
v e meet in stirring times. An epoch in
our National life is upon us. Events of vast
importance in quick succession cluster fast,
decisive, perhaps of our destiny of mankind
r or let this government be overthrown from
within itself, and who can say, but that its
great underlying principle, the capacity of
man for self government, shall be thrown a
side for the future, by the People of the world,
as a failure.
Our State is inseparably linked with all the
others. We share a common fate, either of
disgrace and ruin, or permanent power and
glory. All other questions of political econ
omy, or governmental policy, are merged in
the one great issue of National life or death
For what are all other interests worth, without
a government that can maintain itself 1
What other public calamity can be compared
to the .National overthrow ? Wars have visit
ed our country in time past, waged by the
savages oi tne forest, and the self-styled "mis
tress of the Seas." Pestilence has, at various
times wasled ; us public credit has gone down,
while succeeding waves of financial revulsion
swept the social state. Yet, blessed by a be
nign government, our country has outlived
them all. But where is the hope of resurrec
tion from the grave of National disintegra
tiou 1 We cannot be too. deeply, anxiously,
impressed wun me conviction that unless we
conquer in this struggle, all is lost. There
can be no peace unless we conquer peace. If
we should even tender the olive branch, a
thought which cannot be entertained for a
single moment, the rebellious States would
disdainfully reject it. All the sacrifice that
may be made in this war, all the treasure that
may be expended, all the evils that are insena
rable from it, and which the humane croakers
for peace are constantly aggravating, are
light, in comparison with the untold evils
which would follow a triumnhant rebellion
But if we could even agree upon a peaceable
separation, now long would peace continue 1
The disloyal Southern States intoxicated with
success, would be more aggressive, domineer
ing and unscrupulous than ever before. An
eternal conflict of jarring interests would en
tail interminable internal wars upon all our
posterity, whilst our weakened, divided, de
moralized condition would constantly invito
the aggressions of the grasping potentates of
Europe, if this government has not the pow
er of subduing a rebellion, it has not tho pow
er of preserving itself. It is now on its great
trial. Now is the time for the solution of the
grand problem. European monarchists point
to this country as the last great exemplifica
tion of the impossibility of a permanent repub
lic. Do they predicate the failure of our
country on the mere fact that civil war exists?
What Nation in all histoiy has been exempt
from it 1 Is it peculiar to Republics ? Then.
whence the civil wars that from the earliest
history until recent reigns, have time and a-
gam, ravaged and scourged the British Em
pire 1 Why is itLthat England safely moored
in that quiet cove of blest tranquility, a limit
ed monarchy, has been frequently torn from
her moorings and tossed madly in the seas of
revolution ? If a monarchy be the symbol of
strength and perpetuity whence the War of
the Hoses? Why has the blood of monarchs
in France so often glutted the savage ven
geance of infernal factions ? Civil war indeed
exists. A war on our part to put down an un
natural, ungrateful, matricidal, Hell-born Re
bellion. Long plotted, it has been hatched at
last into wicked life, and seeks, with treach
ery, falsehood, theft, robbery, arson and mur
der, ns its allies, to dissolve this blood-bought
Union, our priceless heritage from our fore
fathers. The magnitude of the contest, the
tremendous consequences of discomfiture, can
hardly be exaggerated. But who doubts the
result? Superiority, of strength, numbers
and resources, and the invincible will of a u-
mted North must triumph. As certain as
Truth and Justice . sit enthroned in Heaven,
there can be but one issue from this conflict.
Tho North may have to spend profusely her
treasures, and her patriotic sons pour out
their life-blood like water, but the Govern
ment must and will be sustained. The omens
are auspicious. Hitherto the Rebels, im
mensely inferior to the Loyalists in numbers
and aggregate wealth, have far excolled us in
energy and vigor. We were slow to appreci
ate tho true state of the case. Nor is it sur
prising. True to the Union and the Constitu-
lon ourselves, hereditarily and proudly loving
the one and religiously venerating the other,
we were loth to believe it possible that men
were so lost to the glorious memories ot tne
past and the bright hopes of the future, as to
recklessly and diabolically conspire to over
throw both. Six hundred thousand free citi
zens volunteers marshalled on tho battle
field in defence of the government, affords an
evidence of strength which the world has nev
er before witnessed. Let monarchists con
template the incredibly short time in which
this immense army has been raised, the dici
pline to which it has attained, the spirit of un
dying devotion which animates all, and learn
the lesson of our Kepnblic's strength.
The noble Stato which honors ns with seats
n this Chamber, has been true to her tradi
tional renown. More thanl 00,000 Pennsyl-
vanians aro now in the field, and wherever
they have had an opportunity of facing the
foe, their actions have shown them as martial
a spirit as they are distinguisned for dici-
pline. Of such gallant spirits, ready to die
for their country's nag, rennsylvania may
well be proud. We know that their names
and deeds will illustrate the brightest records
of this unhappy war, and that tbey never de
sert the post of duty, until victry wreaths its
laurels around their brows, and the restored
uona or union shall be,
"Unbroken as the sacred chain of nature
That binds the jarring elements in peace.
The present session will doubtless be one of
great impoitance. Whatever publie affairs
may demand our attentiou, (it is needless for
lie io surmise what they may be) it becomes
us to lift ourselves above all personal and
party interests and to act In that grave, dis
passionate and dignified matter, which should
ever characterize a Legislative bodv. From
my knowledge of the Senate, I confidently an
ucipaie mat the peculiar position will be ren
dered light and easy, by your cordial co-oper
ation in the maintainance of strict order and
the careful observance of parliamentary rules
Again I thank yon, Senators, for the honor
you hae conferred upon me, and doubt not
that mutual prudence and patience will enable
us to transact the business of the session
pleasantly to ourselves and to the welfare of
our constituents.
You will be good enough to indicate
Senator to administer the usual oath.
Lecture on Lincoln. The annual message
of John Letcher, Governor of Virginia, deliv
ered to tho Legislature of that State on tho 6th
instant, after abusing Secretary Cameron for
his proposition to use the contrabands in ar
my service, recites the rebel indictment
against tho President in this amusing style
"Tim history of Abraham Lincoln is a his
tory of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having for their object tho establishment of
an absolute tyrany over these" Confederate
States.
To this end "he has affected to render the
military independent of and superior to the
civil power."
He has combined with Pierpont and other
traitors in Virginia "to subject us to a juris
diction foreign to our constitution and unac
knowledged by our laws, giving assent to their
acts of pretended legislation."
He i3 endeavoring to quarter "large bodies
oi armed troops amongst us."
He is endeavoiing to cut off "our trade with
all parts of the world."
He is endeavoring to imposes "taxes upon us
without our consent."
lie is endeavoring to deprive us, "in many
cases, or the benefits of trial by jury."
"He has abdicated government here by de
claring us out of bis protection and waging
war against us."
"Ha has plundered our seas, ravished our
coasts, bnrned our towns and destroyed the
lives of our people."
"He is at this time transposing large bodies
of mercenaries to complete the work of death,
desolation and tyrany already begun with cir
cumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely
paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and to
tally unworthy the head of a civilized na
tion."
Governor Letcher is a wag.
The Government Financial Plan. The
following plan has been recommended to the
Government in lieu of the plan of the Bank
Committee. It appears to us to be practicable
and sensible :
1. Mr. Chase to be authorized to pay all
Government creditors in Treasury notes, bear
ing a very small rate of interest or none at all.
2. These Treasury notes to be alegal.tender
and to be redeemable in coin at the pleasure
of Government.
3. These Treasury notes to be convertible
into funded stock of the United States at the
pleasure of the holder, after a fixed period.
4. All demand notes now afloat to be a le
gal tender, and convertible on the same terms
as the new Treasury rotes.
b. A revenue to be raised by direct and in
direct taxation of not less than $150,000,000,
to wit ; enough, to,pay, first, all the ordinary
expenses of the government ; secondly, the
interest on the entire debt ; and thirdly, to
constitute a sinking fund which shall extin
guish the present debt of the United States in
twenty-five years.
The foundation on which this issue of gov
ernment paper would rest, is the taxation of
$150,000,000. This would retire the paper so
rapidly that there would be no large accumu
lations, and as soon as the necessity of such
large expenditures ceased, the taxes would
soon absorb the whole, when the taxes.conld
be reduced or abolished, as the necessities of
the case might raquire.
'1 he only thing in the plan we hesitate about
is the making the Treasury notes a legal ten
der. While the notes are kent at par. or near
ly so, no great hardship would occur, but in
any great deprecation of the notes, much in
justice might be done. We hope the subject
will be weighed well, as doubtless it will be.
A Brace of Sensible Canadians. The Co-
burg (Canada) Sun copies "with pleasure"
the following from the Kingston Whig : No
matter what the news may be of the aetion
the British Government may take of the Ma
son and Slidell affair, we entroat our readers
not to fret their fat with anv dread of a war
between Great Brflain and the United States.
Sensible men are at the head of both govern
ments, and know the horrors of war too well
to hasten into it without adequate cause.
Whatever might be thought of the war at
home, it would be very unpopular in Canada.
It is all very well for us to poke up the Yan
kees with a long stick when they brag of their
victories, and the press feeds its readers with
"Flop Doodle ;" but to fight with them is be
yond expectation. They are our neighbors
and best customers. Many of us are connect
ed with them in ties of blood and ties of busi
ness. They are a kind, hospitable, intelli
gent race of people if they would not brag
so much are our kindred, and the idea of
cutting each other's throats is utterly out of
the question.
Highway Robbery. Senator Wilson stated
to the Senate last week the astonishing fact
that one Cyrus Say more was appointed Brigade
Sutler in Sickle's Brigade and the other sut
lers were obliged to pay him $22,000 per year
and another man was appointed sutler to seven
regiment, and be was making $ 5,000 per
year by under-letting them. We have called
this highway robbery, but it is infinitely worse.
We hope the party concerned in it will meet
with that punishment which a crime so heinous
deserve. Itishigh time that the sutlers should
be driven from the army. They are worse
than pestilence, of which they are the cause.
The servant girls of the Free States con
sume more silks and French goods than the
whole Southern aristocracy.
HOW I CAME TO GET MAKRIED.
It may be funny, but I've done it. I've got
a no ana a Da by. bhadows departed oysle
stews, brandy cocktails, cigar boxes, boot
jacks, absconding shirt buttons, whist and
dominoes. Shadows present hoop skirts
band boxes, ribbons, gaiters, lone stockings
Juvenile dresses, tin trumpets, little willow
chaise, cradles, bibs, pap, sugar teats, para-
goric, hive syrup, rheubarb, costor oil, God
freys cordial, soothing syrup, senna, salts
squills and doctor bills. Shadows future
more nine pound babies, more hive syrup, etc.,
etc. I'll just tell you how I got caught.
was always the darndest, most tea custarcd.
bashful fellow yon ever did see ; it was kinder
in my line to be taken with the shakers, every
time 1 sa v a pretty gal approaching me and
I'd cross the street any time rather than face
one , 'twas'nt because I did'nt like the crit
ters, for if I was behind a tree looking through
a knot hole, I could not look at any one long
enough. Well, my sister Lib gave a party
one night, and 1 stayed away from home be
cause I was too bashful to face the music. I
hung around the house whistling "Old Dan
lucker," dancing to keep my leet warm,
watching tho heads bobbing up and down be
bind the window curtains and wishing the
thundering party would break up, so I could
get to my room. I smoked a bunch of cigars
and as it was getting late and mighty uncom
fortable I concluded to shin it up the door
post. No sooner said than done, and I soon
found myself snug in bed. "Now,"said I,
let her rip ! Dance till your wind gives out!"
And cuddleing under quilts, Morpheus grab
Ded me. 1 was dreaming of soft shell crabs
and stewed tripe, and was having a good time,
when somebody knocked at the door and woke
me up. Rap again. I laid low. Rap, rap,
rap i inen Lib sings out. "Jack, are you
there?" "Yes," said I. Then came a roar
of laughter. "Let us in," says she. "I wont,
says 1, "can t you let a fellow alone ?" "Are
you in bed?" said she. "I am," says I.
"Get up,"Jsaysshe.
"I won't,"say8l. Then
came another laugh.
By thunderaI began to
get riled.
"Get out.
you pctticoated scare-crow !" I
cried ; "can't you get a beau without hauling
a fellow out of bed i I won't go home with
you I won't so you mav clear out." And
inrowing a oooi at tne aoorii leu ueiier. mil
presently, oh ! mortal buttons ! I beard a still
small voice, very much like sister Lib's, and
it said : "Jack, you'll have to cet up for all
the girls' things are in there !" Oh, Lord
what a pickle ! Think of me in bed, all cov
ered with shawls, muffs, bonnets and cloaks,
and twenty girls outside the door waiting to
get in! If I had . stopped to think I could
have pancaked on the spot. As it was, I roll
ed out among the bonnet ware and ribbons
in a hurry, bmash went the milleuery in
every direction. I bad to dress in the dark
for there was a crack in the door, and girls
will peek and the way I fumbled about was
a death to straw bats. The critical moment
came. I opened the door and found myself
among the women. "Oh ! my leghorn !"
cried one. ,My dear, darling winter velvet !"
cried another, and they pitched in they pull
ed me this way and that, boxed my ears ; and
one bright eyed little piece, Sal , ber
name was put her arms around my neck and
kissed me right on my lips. Human nature
could'nt stand that, and I gave her as good as
she sent. It was the first time that I sot a
taste, and it was powerful good. I believe I
could have kissed that gal from Julias Cresar
to the 4th of July.
"Jack." said she, "we are sorry to disturb
you, but won't you see me home ?" "Yes,
I will," said I. I did do it and had another
smack at the gate, too. After that we took a
kinder tuitle-doving after each other, both of
us sighing like a barrel of new cider when we
were away from each other. "Iwas at the
close of a glorious summer day the sun was
setting behind a distant hogpen the chickens
were going to roost ; the bullfrogs were com
mencing to sing their evening songs ; the
pollywogs in their native raudpnddles were
preparing for the shades ot night, and Sal and
myself sat upon an antiquated backlog, list-
ning to the music of nature, such as tree toads,
roosters and grunting pigs, and now and then
the mellow music of a distant jackass was
wafted to our ears by the gentle zephyrs that
sighed among the mullen stalks, and came
aden with the delicious oder of hen roosts and
pig styes ; the lingering rays of the setting
sun glancing from the brass buttons of a soli
tary horseman shone through the knot hole
in the hog pen, full in Sal's face, dying her
hair with an orange peel hue, and showing ell
my thread-bare coat to bad advantage; one
of my arms was around Sal's waist, hand on
the small of her back. She was toying with
my auburn locks of jet black hue ; she was
almost gone and I was ditto. She looked
like a grass hopper dying with the hickups,
and I felt like a mud turtle choaked with a
cod fish ball.
"Sal," say 8 1, in a voice musical as the notes
of a dying swan, "will you have me V She
urned ber eyes heavenward, clasped me by
the hand, had an attack of the blind staggers,
and with a sigh that drew her shoe strings
clear out, and then squatted in my lap ; she
corkscrewed and 1 curnummuxed and rolled
n it. I hugged ber until I broke my suspen
ders. Well to make a long story short, she
set the day, wo practiced for four weeks every
night how we would walk into the room to get
married, till we got so we'could walk as grace
ful as a couple of Muscevie ducks."
The night, the company and the minister
came; the signal was given, and arm in arm
we passed through the crowded ball. W e
were just entering the parlor door, when down
went kerslap on the oil cloth, pulling bal
after me. Some cuss had dropped a banana
kin on the floor, and floored me. I split an
awful hole in my cassimers right under my
dress coat tail. It was too late to back out,
so clapping my hand over it we marched in
and were spliced, and taking a seat I watched
the kissing the bride operation. My groomsman
was tight, and he kissed her until I jumped up
to take a slice, when, oh, horror I a little six
year old imp bad crawled behind me, and
pulled my shirt through the bole in my pants,
had pinned it to the chair, and in jumping up
displayed to the admiring gaze of the aston
ished multitude, a trifle more white muslin
than was finally put to bed, and here all my
troubles ended.
An old bachelor, seeing the words "families
upplied" over the door of a shop, stepped
n and said he would take a wife and two chil
dren. . ....... .
THE JOUHNAL.
THE WAR INCIDENTS AND NEWS.
The Strength or tub Army It is ques
tioned whether the actual number of federal
troops in the field exceeded 550,000, as the
reports of the governors of States would seem
to indicate this number as more correct than
that of G60,000, stated by the Secretary of
Ws
ar. jMew lork, ci edited by Mr. Cameron
th 100.200 men. bv th renort f r:nrnr.
wit
M(
organ, allowing tor discharges, deaths, and
prisoners, has about S'l.nm. Sh ha. u Arm
more yet encamped in the State, however.
Ohio is credited by Mr. Cameron withgl,205 ;
G
uTeruor UCDmson SaVS She h fnrnil....l
77,
,844, of which 31.679 are within lir..mn
lii
mils. Pennsvlvania i r:-i;tr! m rm .
Governor Curtin says ber number is 93,577,
oi maKing any. allowances for discharges,
eaths. &c., which may reduce the number to
be neighborhood of 80.000. Innii,
the
owever, has, 16,038 vet encimn on hr
own soil. Massachusetts is set down having
rnished 2G.7G0 volnntr.. Th. .
shows the equivalent of about twenty-seven
regiments, and the allowance for louses and
scharres would, therefor no rimilit Kf
the number very much below the Secretary'
figure. We have, however, men enough, if
properly moved, to crush out the rebellion
speeuiiy.
Subsisting Rebel Families Some of the
olunteers from Western Virginia
recently visited their homes in Pittsburg and
.v.....v, cli u iLiai me government is actu- -Ily
8Hpnortioir the famili nf i;iut. t, .
have gone into the secesh army. While these
fellows are thus doing all they can to destroy
the Government and the country, their wivea
uw lamiuca, muugu open ana abusive Seces
r.onists as can be found, are kept from starv
ng by the Government arent. Th i
the story is that this kind ness is nil iinl 1
their hatred is not molified in the least and '
the women return their kindnesa by charging
ten times its value for every service, while the
guerilla bands to which tho men iu.irv
derany Union stragglers or pickets as remorse-
icasij na uiey wouui Riu snakes. This is a
rctty hard trial to the nation r tnn
that they sometimes retaliate hr H-itVir.
m J J M IH
prooertv for which
- wuv UCSVG IUO
impudence to demand special guards and
protection ironi our union officers, is -not
strange. We are carrying too mnch weight
n this war of one-sided cbaritv and r.nn.Uar.
ation of traitors.
L axe's Expedition. Gpnfral Jit T t. i,.
not yet fully completed the arrangements for
his expedition, but it it nnrtrtnni th.i
Colonel Doniphan's celebrated march across
me piaius io Mexico, during the Mexican
war. he will strike across the southwestern
border ot Missouri to the Indian country,
where a large force of loyal Creeks are resis
ting the oppression of the rebel dominion,
clear the countrv of all the mininm nf -ki
dom, and reinforced thus, cross the Bed river
At . -
uiw i nonnern country of Texas where
housands of the German nettl-ra art aii l
awaiting the appearance of the stars and stripes,
to rush at once to aims in its defence. Th
results of the expedition ran not h.. nw-
mated, as the rebels can by no means -make
uny resistance against me victorious march f
our army. It would reclaim Texas, and com-
lete the belt of loyal States that will h.m
the Confederates, and comnletelr urnu
heir embrvo CnTprnmpni it u.,i.i
. vu iu ni.,u
fulfill the celebrated prediction about "sur
rounding me siave states with a wall of fire."
A b amiliar Fire Don Smsr Tt, r
sylvania Thirteenth, or January 4th, thus speaks
ot a familiar canine. Our dog JacK, formerly
of tho Niagara Engi-e, Pittsburg, continues to
take greater interest in the regimental drills
and dress parades than some of- the officers
and men, but he committed an error in com
ing four Daces in front -!fprH- lr
order to "open ranks," owing to his hearing
ueiug aueciea oy a reeeni coid.; Jack never
misses a drill., corananv. nplmnt!jtt : i,..i-
gade, and puts to shame in this respect many
ucuct crseu in tactics man iiiniseir. Should
he return home in safety, although he may go
back to "running the machine," we predict
he Will "follOW the SOlerS" 'nrHnilnn.1.
as Dr. Jackson after the Mexican campaign.
The "Pensacat.a.'" .Tfc tvr
..w ww mm VBUC1
Pensacola," on the night of the 11th left her
ancnorage ai Alexandria, and proceeded down
the Potomac running the rhl M.wir,..
without any damages Twenty-two shots were
tired at her, none of which hit her.r Sh did
not return the Are. The lfn-M,
heavily laden with cannon and other appliances
oi war, aim muy prepared ior nostue service.
The rebels have for weeks past been reserving
their fire, in order either tn rlucim k
- - - .j Wj HJ I J VCSJCt
or prevent her nassn? on tf ih ptnr...n
they having previously boasted of their abili
ty a
Santa Fee. It is rrorfd f ht onnn i-ki
Texan, ti oops,-are marching to -attack Fort
Craig, and that the same are going to attack
run union, ron union is ncii prepared for
an attack, but it is feared that Fort Craig will
be taken, and that the Texana will n.1 r Jnrrt sin
Santa Fee.
Mator Brown." This -gentlemanr whA k.
been released on a parole of thirty days to
attend to some nrivate bnsin rMnm
the exoiration of hisnarnle? ami i i. a
that he has been granted an extension of ninetr
days by the Government.'
A Net Rebel Fun Afu (:.
w Baa iMili Cft nuilB
cross upon a red grourd, with stars above and
below the arms, is said to him mar1 ii rw
pearance at Manassas. Some think this is to
supersede the Stars and Bars' altogether.
PARSON BaowsT.ow."Wni. G. Rrownlnw.
of Knoxviile, Tenn., recently arrested and
el government, has been discharged from cm-
m .1 l i c. . . r ' z r
iuuj uj oruer v secretary Dvojauiin.
Removal of a Capital. Calcutta will be no
longer the capital of India, as it has been de
cided that the Governor and Council will re-
ide "in the hills." The site of the new cap.
tal has not been fully decided, Peonah and
Simia are talked of. Calcutta will then be
only the capital of Bengal 'whose Lieutenant
Governor will occupy the Government House,
while the local Council' will sit in the teats
formerly filled by the Imperial Leelslatnre.
The people of Calcutta are decidedly opposed
to the change.
Independence Owing fifty thousand dollars
whi;b you never intend to pay.
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