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BY s. j. now.
CLEARFIELD, PA.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER - 4, 1863.
VOL. 10. NO. 10.
TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.
Sittioz Id the gathering shadows
Of the twilight's tender glow.
Well known fur ins come flitting by me,
Of the happy Jong ago;
Shadows that looked dim and vacant,
Into loved forms stem to glide ;
Old age. manhood, blithesome childhood,
Now again are by my side.
Thro' the time past faintly ringing,
Steals a mucio sweet and clear;
Startling up the olden echoes,
With their notes or merry cheer.
One by one the links of memory
'ienll? glide to place again,
Till io harmony completed,
Forms once more the golden chain.
Listen to the song that's swelling,
Faintly first, then clear and sweet;
TIIs of sorrows past forever.
Sings of happiness complete ;
5or shall cease the joyous measure.
Till with the bright throng abors,
Load the authain is repeated
On tii'U land where all is love.
OUK CLIMATE AND SACK.
In the recently-published volume of the
Trausactiou of the British Ethnological Soci
ety tbe question, '-Hu far Man is Cosmopoli
tu," is discussed by several writer!!, but
ruor particularly by .Mr. Hunt. White the
animals must useful to man have spread all
'er the habitable world, ethnologists are
forced to confess that the different varieties or
races of mankind are by no means capable of
the wnie diffusion. The power of acclimati
sation is limited in man. Captain II nil's Es
qditnaux sudercd intolerably from aNew York
summer, and could not endure permanent
transplanting to this temperate region ; and
whoever has had the ill luck to double the
Capo ot Good Hope with a crew of Hindoo or
Lascar sailors knows, to his sorrow, that the
Professor Draper has an ingenious specula
tion regarding the influence of climate on
government, in his recently published work on
the lotelectual Development of Europe. II
remarks that it is much more difficult to form
and to govern an empire extending over many
degrees o latitude than one of equal magnl
tudc whose greatest width is from east to
west. The variety of climates, lie thinks must
engender great differences In bodily and inte-
lectual habits; and indeed he gives some ex
aw pies which seem to prove the truth of his
position. But these are all taken from ancient
history, and are examples rather of the ex
treme difficulty of keeping nnder one joke
uations of J liferent races ud religions. It is
not impossible that, if slavery could have been
perpetuated in our Southern States, there
might have arisen in -the course of the next
hundred years a race ot men in those States
essentially dirferent from those of the free
States. But slavery was already, before the
war begun, doomed to a slow but sure destruc
tion ; und.a the Southern States became free,
their people would have become in all needful
respects homogeneous with those of the North.
Immigration from Europe, which has so pow
erfully a.-fected the character of the Northern
and Western people. will have its effect in the
South also, the moment that region is opened
to white laborers; and, aside from this, in
our case, the geographical formation of the
continent, the courses of our great rivers, and
the trend ot our great valleys circumstauces
which so greatly control political divisions
point nther to the formation of seaboard,
central and western empires, than to separa
tion into north and south. Mason and Dixon's
is the most thoroughly arbitrary liue ever
drawn across our country.
But when, with the destruction of slavery,
the southern states are thrown open to all the
influences which have made and modified
first touch of cool weather turns thesi brava northern society. then all will be readv for the
and nimble fellows info ssvery cowardsasa
pack of helpless curs. Let the Esquimaux and
liie Hindoos change places, ami neither
would long survive the transportation.
Nor are Europeans climate-proof. Captain
Kane was of opinion that he could have lived
with the natives in the Arctic regions ; but it
'. well kuown that Europeans and Americans
are subject to dysentery in the hot climate of
India; and the number of European children
raised ju British India is so small that the
J'iest English regiment In that country, the
Bombay Toughs," notwithstanding that mar
riages with British women are encouraged,
have rever been able, from the lime ot Charles
11, to this day, to raise boys enough to supply
diuoiini-i nod filers tor the regiment. Mr.
Hunt mentions the testimony ot Sir Ranald
Martin, thut a third generation of unmixed
Eurcpeaus is nowhere to be found in Bengal ;
from which fact It would appear that if the
-instant recruiting of adults from Great
Liitr.in were to cease, the English dominance
Ji India would quickly come to an end.
I he Jes, the gypsies and the Chine"? are
those among mankind who have shown tiiem
?i res possessed of the greatest pocrof ac
climatization, and Mr. Hunt ascribes thi3 to
tiieir leiiig what he Calls pure races." All
pure race support the influence of change
better than mixed races, he says ; and he cites
unotig other interesting examples the fact
t:iuf the s!atasticof disease and death among
ttie Jews aud other colonists in Algeria show
t.'nt the former are less injuriously influenced
ly the climate than any other strangers. It
:t curious that the Spaniards and Italians suf-t-red
less in the great iiussian expedition of
.Napoleon, than any other contingents of his
lull It i furious army.
Mr. Hunt tiiiuKs that the Anglo Saxon race
his a tendency to die out :n America, but he
Kives thi opinion upon invi.'ficieiit date. In
tiiose lew pails of New Englaud where there
lias been the least addition by immigration
s, for instance, ou Cape Cod, where a
vranger" was a rarifv until within the last
Lalt dt zen years, and the race was kept pure
the people did not deteriorate either in
mental or bodily vigor. The Yankee ot such
d Mricts as '-the C ipe" has developed pecu
liar traits of character; these are the results
of his manner of life, the products of his ne
ecsities ; but no one who is familiar with these
people doubts that they are as hardy, enter
I'.'istng and prolific as their English ancestors.
New England, wh'ch contains the only un
mixed English blood in this country, is, in
tiie true sense, our mother of States. The
New Eiglander is our Scotchman: he is
found everywhere away from home. South,
"est and Northwest ; and the Yaukees have
fore strongly developed than any Americans
"e colonizing" spirit for which the English
and Scutch are so notable. In almost every
free state there is a "New England Associa
tiwi;"'and one ol Mr. Douglas's sayings,
' V ermont is a good Slate to come froro,"had
higher significance than the author intended.
A or does the Yankee deteriorate when fie
"ves his New England home. He has great
'power of acclimatization," as Mr. Hunt
c3's it ; and the descendants of New Eng
Urders ir, the Western States maintain to a
arK extent the vigor and peculiar viitues of i
'ir Miners. i,ven id lie Sooth, while they
'e their virtues too often, they keep their
energy and thrift ; and not a few of the rebel
'"drrs are Yankees, or the decendants of
"nkt-es.
It is true that in the Southern States the
Anglo Saxon race seems to have deteriorated,
"e nd toilers and clay-eaters of Georgia
ail I the Carolinas are degenerate descendants
'"Z'ish, Scotch and Irish colonists, and it
'ay b aid that here is a proof of Mr. Hnnt's
ertion. But we believe the real cause of
.v Mj deterioration to be the deprivation of
' The Anglo-Saxon race seems to re
tire the widest liberty in oer to maintain
original stamina. As people of weak
og'peiisb quickly in close rooms, for Ihe
f't Ot the frtttth nnn air an n. ur f rwtt.la
formation of an American race. What that
race will be like is yet a matter of speculation ;
but we believe that in the western middle
States in the centre of the great Mississippi
valley some of its peculiar features are al
ready cropping out from the older layers aud
deposits.
the
trash" of
peasantry of Massa-
lies extlire nniler tihrfiifut anrt aniial ra
im is seen if we compare
SnB7K "' callea " poor "white
varouna with the
neither State has immigration
h Vi "ecl 'he race, but in that one
!' 'n lbC ,rUe BeD8e has never '
dtte f,oorer c,a!, weak in body auri
from .Krated iw n,i"d.hiie iothocther.where
C7M,,llMl days equality has been ac
he.,'I ged Dj ,he wid,l ty obtained,
iod t j M is " T'Soroua 'n body and
o u ';dy a the parent stock, If not more
Crotin'e no,her MBl,achusetts of South
nta .'a a hI' century the desceo
'JesmJ ,b"",0r bte trash" will be re-
S.thZ; . ma9 to tholr northern
SECBZTARY S P. CHASE.
Secretary Chase, in a speech at Cincinnati
on Monday evening Oct. 12th, in referring to
the cause 6od nature of our great contest with
treason and rebellion, said :
We are engaged in a great strnggle.bro light
upon in by no fault of the people of the Uni
ted States; and when I say by no fault of the
people of the United States,' I mean precisely
e laooring masses, lite me
chanics of the 'North have had no part In
(ringing on this war. The non-slaveholders
of the South have had no part in bringing on
this strife. It is a strife brought on by a con
spiracy of the few to rule the niany ; and it is
simply because they were not willing to trust
the people with iheir cause that they flew to
arms for the purpose of establishing a domin
ion where they could rule blacks ahd whites
separately from the Federal Government.
That is ail there is of the Rebellion. Now,
this conspiracy is not a recent affair. Wher
ever you find an aristocracy in any country,
and that aristocracy finds itself opposed by the
-people, it goea to war with the people. The
difference between our ritocracy and the ar
istocracias thut have warred upon the people
in oiucr couuiries is, mat cor aristocracy
happened to be established in certain portions
oi me country, l ney occupied certain States ;
and therefore it was that, when th- time came
for the aristocracy to reliel against the de
ino;ra- , iney succeeded tirst in carrying out
of the Union the most aristocratic of all the
Males namely. South Carolina; and then
isouth C troliua was followed by the other aris
iwi.iuc oiaies in succession, until we became
involved in this terrible war. Now, when an
aristocracy thus wars on the democracy, espe
cially if that aristocracy be a local aristocra
cy, like ours, there is nothing for it but to
meet the challenge which they throw dowu,or
suomn to aismemoerment. lhfs is the chal
lenge presented to ns and you. The question
in the West was, shall the aristocracy rule the
Mississippi? The question in the East was,
shall the aristocracy have the whole rea-coast
down to the Gulf? and the whole country
piononncea unanimously : 1 his shall not be.
And when they went to war to establish a sepa
rate aristocratic government, like the mon.
archial Institutions of the Old World, then
we went to war too. Now, then, the simple
question btfore-us is, is this country worth a
war? Are the hopes depending upon the
prosperity of Atuericrn institutions worth
enough to justify us in going to war for the
nation's lite l Is the life ot the nation worth
enough to justify us in goyig to war 1 Look
through the history of man, and tell me where
yon can find a people involved in a struggle
for a more noble object than that cf preserving
a nation's life. We mean to preserve the life
of this nation, too ; we mean to make it
thoroughly impossible, in times to come, that
a dissatfected faction fn any part of the country
can strike a deadly blow at the vitality of the
country. Cheers."
THE TENDEB MERCIES OF SLAVEEY.
An Incident of Life in Washington.
The following reminiscence of Washington
life, during the dark sad days when the Na
tional capital owned the usurpation of the
Slave-power, we find in the correspondence
ot the N. Y. Evening Post :
"Forty years ago, a wealthy planter came
from Florida or Lousiana, to reside in Wash
i ngton for a time, biinging with him a son, a
fine manly boy of thirteen or fourteen. At
the levees of his father, which were then fash
ionable, be received the caresses of the ladies
and the encouragement of the gentlemen that
bis age, intelligence and his father's position
naturally elicited. Of his .family, none ac
companied his father besides this son, in his
visits to Washington. In due course of time
the boy, on whom his father's affections were
evidently centered, was sent North, and was
there educated, graduating at U irvard or Yale
with an honorable standing in his class. On
his return to this city he avowed a love for
the North, acquired during his college life,
which was not restrained in its expression by
his father, who fostered and encouraged it
jealously , and readily consented to his per
manent residence there. He desired, howev
er, that tusson should remain with him here
during his owu -stay. An appointment was
procured for him as a clerk in the War De
partment, and be entered upon its duties.
Among the acquaintances formed at this
time was a gentleman from Pennsylvania, aud
the chief clerk of a bureau, who was the fath
er ol a girl yet in her teens,- lovable i i charac
ter, as well as very beautiful. Intimacy be
gat friendship, and it was hardly a matter of
wonder that love should follow. With the
blessings ol all they were married at St. John's
Church, In this city, it happened to be about
the first marriage that ever took place there :
and even now the long rows of carriaees. the
fair dunies and rich:altire, the music, the
crowded parlors, the splendor and joy which
crowned the wedding, are vividly depicted by
those who treasure the chronicles ol society in
those days.
The young man's father had bought and
furnished an elegant house for his children,
and they removed at once to their owu estab
lishment. Not long after the marriage, and
while in the full tide of happiness, the father
was called home, and left his son and daugh
ter, intending soon to return. They received
no intelligence from him for week after week,
which caused them anxiety, daily .increasing
to alarm. At last, one day, when the son
had just decided to go in search of his father,
a cut riage dashed up to the door, a young
man stepped out, and, followed bv the kheritf
of tbedismct, walked into the War Depart
futui, ana oeiore all bis companions, in th
uroaa iignt ot uoon, arrested the son as the
slave ol his father !
liie son solemnly declared that his father
had manumitted him, and that he had seen the
will long since in which it had been done
Ibis outrage shocked the sensibility of eve
an etleto slave community Mr. Mouroe
!. :.j ... j i ...
iieu x ieiueiii, ana o'neis Men in tiower,
used all the argument, all the entreaty tongue
woum uner, ouereu money wiiliout stint, for
the ransom ol one whom all loved and esteem
ed, and whose condition, to that hour, no one
nad dreamed. But the young man, possesed
oi an power in itie case, and the son of an en
raged family, mocked them, told them that
money was no object, aizunient and treatv
anse unavailing. What he had now obtained
was revenge, cf which nothing should foil
nun.
l ne i..tner tiad met with sudden death, the
wi II had been either coiicealed or destroved
and Ins pet son, in all appearance of Saxorr
birtli, with the exception ol a slight swarthi
uess common to all natives of the extreme
aoutn, was taken, chained as a slave, his
house and furniture sold, and accompanied by
uis oeauiinil, lieart-broken wife, faithful and
uuiaiteriog in this living doath, from the
fashionable circles of Washington societv.
carried to the "plantation," to toil in slavery,
oeneain me luiuriated lash of a vindictive
family.
Mr. Monroe assured him that a situation
should be given him if be ever could
his manumission or escape.
He never afterwards was heard from in this
district, for, as Napoleon said of convents-
the terrible mysteries or slave prisons per
ish unrevealed."
prove
Copperhead Arguments. Those opposed
to tne present Administration of the Govern
ment, make use ol the tears, the orphanage
and the widowed following in the train of war,
as arguments to advance their sensless peace
measures. 1 ney unblushingly overlook the
fact, which the world knows, that the rebels
fired the first gun in the war, and have, as yet,
ottered no indications or returning to loyalty.
They forget to name the fact that the great
pro Slavery Democratic party in the nation
inaugurated the war, without any adequate
cause, and that pro-ilavery Democratic bay-
i . .. . . .
oueis nave pui to aeatu monsands of our
brave sons. Let this be borne in mind, and
let no one be deceived by these self styled
"peacemakers," these rebels io disguise.
a lo every respect,
Those kind gentleman who have attempted
the ungrateful task of showing why Mr Jus
tice Woodward was not elected, and how be
ought to have been, are not very ingenious.
Can we not bave something profound and phil
osophical, instead of the pitiful old story of I
false returns, and fearful bribery, and intimi
dation of voters by an armed and ferocious
soldiery at the polls? If Copperheads were
candid It would easily account for its defeat
by its own disloyalty. The Union victory in
Pennsylvania is not anomalous ; it bet repeats
the triumph in Maine. Vermont, California, O-
bio, Indiana, and low.
Getttsboro Bounded at Philadelphia.
Yesterday, says Saturday's Phiiadelnhia
Press, a very interesting scene took place at
the Soldiers' Reading Room. Since the re
opening of the room, the ladies in charge
have been treating the inmates of the various
hospitals, who were able to spend a few hours
witn tnem, to icecream, and cke. and
uinner, wnere it was desired. Within a week,
seventeen u una red wounded soldier har
partaken of their hospitality. Yesterday a
uoui iwo nunun a and ntty were gathered into
their rooms, the lame and blind, and maimed
n was a sorrowiai sight' to see so many stal
wart men crippled for life. One could not
but remark bow large a proportion went unon
crutches. At one time twentv-four soldiers
sat around the dinmg-table, each with onlv
one leg; and all these were our Gettysburg
boys these were the brave shield that stood
between the rebel invaders and our fair citv.
About one o'clock Rev. Dr. Newton addressed
them for ten minutes or so. He spoke good
stirring words of thanks and praise to the men
who had saved us by shedding their blood
and then all joined in singing the doxology;
and then be lifted up bis hands blessing-wise
and said: "God bless you, soldiers of Gettys
burg!" I saw one rough old six-footer fur
tively draw bis sleeve across his eyes; there
were tears there; surely they bad watered bis
heart, and he was blessed. After this the
ice-cream and cake were served. The ladies,
with their dainty caps and aprons, tripping
hither and thither among the bine-coats, the
faces of the boys shining cheerilv as they
passed the saucer, and the joke made a picture
that did one s heatt good.
A Recent spirited buut in Ashtabula Coun
ty, Ohio, in which eighteen men weie engaged
on each side, resulted in the slaying of fifteen
hundred friskey little fellows on one side and
fifteen hundred and one on the other. A
close match and a big dav's work but it re
flects little credit on the prowess of the hun
ter. The fellows engaged in such a useless
and wholesale slaughter of game, are fairly
entitled to be rationed for a time on bread
nd water at the public expeoce.
EABBI MEIR'S WIFE.
The renowned teacher and exponder of the
law, Rabbi Meir, once sat a whole Sabbath in
the synagogue instructing the people. In the
meanwhile, bis two sons, both of unusual
beauty, and deeply versed in the law, died in
his house. His wife took tberu into her bed
room, laid them on her nuptial-bed, and cov
ered them with a white cloth. Toward eve
ning Rabbi Meir, on returning home .asked
her :
n nere are my sons, that I may give them
iu uiessiDg "
They tiave gone to God's house," she an
swered.
"I looked round for them rrprl t!ma .n
uia not see them," said the Rabbi.
.ueanwnile me wife had brought th
i i- i . ... . . --- o-- j
ngni ana me goblet with wine ; he blessed the
iignt and the wine; and drank from the goblbt
i urn ue asitea again :
"Where are my sons, that they may drink
irom the consecrated cup ?"
"They cannot be far off," answered bis wife
anasne brought up his supper.
v nen ne had finished the meal, and cheer
iu ny said grace, bis wife said : "Rabbi, with
jour prcmission, I will put a question to
you."
"Do, my dear wife,"said he.
"some time since, oue of our neighbors
gae me some jewels to take care of; now he
claims them back shall I give them nt ?"
"How could you put such a question to me?"
exclaimed liie Kabul. "Am I to teach you
the commonest rule of probity ? Not only
must you give the property back, but you
iuutgive ii wiiungiy and cheerfully."
i morgiu so loo," she said ; and opening
the door to the bedroom.she added : "Rabbi,
a inena nan connaed to us two jewels, and ho
uas aeinanaed them back."
Thsn she took off the cloth that hid the two
cead bodies.
"My sons my sons .'" cried the Rabbi ; he
wept and wailed.
she, turning her bead away, cried bitterly
too. But then, taking the hand of her hus-
baud. she said :
"Rabbi, did you not tell rno that property
connded to us we must restore willingly, nay.
cneeriuny. uncerluliy, e cannot and the
owner will forgive us but willingly, Rabbi
L,et us both say : "Blessed be the name of
tho Lord ! blessed be be who giveth and tak
ewi away I"
"Blessed be the name of the Lord!" re
peated the Rabbi ; "blessed be he who sriveth
and taketh away! But blessed be he also for
having given thee to ran. O merciful Lord !
without that gift of thine to me, without this
blessed woman, I should at this hour feel oir
slf alone on earth, and doubting even heaven
Bin she witu one hand presses mine, nd with
the other opens the gate that leads into thy
realm, so that I behold thee and my lost sons.
iiay sne be blessed forever and anon 1 And
Messed and praised be thou, my Father, my
rving, ruier oi tne universe f Amen."
REBEL TEEMS OF PEACE.
The Richmond Enquirer, of the 16th inst
in an editorial upon "Peace," says ;
--oc on our own terms, we car accept no
peace whatever, and roust fight till doomsday
lamei inau yieiu an ioia oi mem ; and our
terms are :
Recognition by the enemy of the indepen-
ueuce oi me loniederate States.
If : . I. J I . r M
1 1 no ra win oi lannee iorces irom every
loot or oorneuerate ground, including Ken
tucky and Missouri.
Withdrawal ot Yankee soldiers from Mary-
ana until that Mate shall decide, by a free
vote, whether she shall remain in the old
Union, or ask permission in the Confederacy.
Consent, on tho part of the Federal Govern
ment to give up to the Confederacy its brooor-
tion of the navy as it stood at tbe time of Se
cession, or to pay for the same.
i lelding up all pretensions on the part of
the Federal Government to that nor t ion of th
old territories which lies west of the Confed
erate Stales.
An equitable settlement, on the basis of our
absolute independence and equal rights.of all
accounts ol the public debt and public lands
and ot the advantages accruing from foreign
treaties.
These provisions, we apprehend, comnrise
the minimum of what we must reauire before
we lay down our arms. That is to sar. the
North must yield all; we nothing. The whole
pretension of that country to prevent by force
the separation of the States must be abandon
ed, which will be equivalent to an avowal that
our enemies were wrong from the first ; and,
ofcouise, as they waced a causeless and wift.
ed war upon ns, they ought, in strict justice,
io oe required, according to usage in such
cases, to reimburse to us the whole of our ex
penses and losses in tbe course of that war.
Whether this last proviso is to be insisted
npon or not, certain we are that we cannot
have any peace at all until we shall be in a
position, not only to demand and exact, but
also to enforce and collect the treasure lor our
own reimbursement out of the wealthy cities
n the enemy's country. Iu other words, nn.
less we can destroy or scatter their armies and
break up their Government, we can bave no
peace, and it we can do that, then we can, and
ougni not only to extort from them our own
run terms, and ample acknowledgment of
their wrong, but also a handsome idemnitv
for tbe trouble and expense caused to us by
theircrime."
THANKSGIVING PKOCLAMATI0K
Bt the President of the United States
or AMERICA :
me year that is drawiug towards Its close
has been filled with the blessings of fruitful
neids and bealthrul skies. To these bounties,
which are so constantly enjoyed that we are
prone io iorget tne source from which they
come, others have been added, which are of
such extraordinary nature that they cannnot
fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is
naouiiaiiy insensible to the ever watchful
providence of Almighty God.
in the midst of a civil war of nneonalled
magnitude and severity, which has sometimes
seeroea to provoke the aggression of foreign
oia.es, peace uas been preserved with all na
lions, order has been maintained, the laws
nave oeen respected and obeyed, and harmd
ny bas prevailed everywhere except in the
meaire oi our military conflict, while that
ineatre has been greatly contracted bv the ad
vancing armies and navies of th Hninn
Nuedful diversionsof wealth and ot strength
from the fields of peaceful labor to tbe nation
al defence have not arrested the plough, tbe
shuttle, or the ship. The axe has enlarged
the borders of our settlements, and the mines
are in u oi iron and coal, and of tbe precious
nielals, and have yielded even more abundant
ly than heretofore.
Population has steadily increased, notwith
standing the waste that has been made in the
siege, and tho battle field ; and the country,
rejoicing in tbe consciousness ol augmented
strength and vigor, is permitted to exo ct a
continuance of years, with a large increase of
ii eeuom.
No human council hath devised, nor bath
any mortal hand worked out.these great things.
They are the gracious gifts of the Most High
God, who,' while dealing with us in anger lor
our sins, bas, nevertheless, remembered mer
cy. It has seemed to mo fit and Kroner that
they should be solerunlv. reverent !v. and grate
fully acknowledged by the whole American
people.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in i
every part of the United States, and also those
wno are at sea and those who are sojourning
in loreign countries, to set soart and observe
the last Thursday of November next aa a dav
of thanksgiving and braver and nraisn to our
beneficent Father, who dwelleth in the Heav-
ens; and I recommend that. hil nfffl-inr
up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such
singular deliverances and blessings, thev do
also, with humble penitence for our perverse
ness and disobedience. commend to his tender
care all those who have become widows, or.
phans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamenta
ble civil strife in which we are unavoidably
engaged, and fervently imolore the interoosi-
tion of tbe Almighty band to heal the wounds
of the nation,and to restore if, as soon as may
be consistent with the Divine onrnoses. to the
full enjoyment of peaci, harmony, tranquili
ty, and union.
L. S.j In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal ol the
United States to be affixed. Done at the citv
Pf Washington, this third dav of October in
the year of our Lord one thousand eiirht hun
dred and sixty-three, and of tbe Independence !
of tbe United States the eighty-eighth.
Abraham Lincoln.
By the President.
Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State.
gtefts man's . Uowmat,
ar-
The War Department has at length made a
sensible modification of the President's Proc
lamation suspending the habeas cornns act.
and hereafter the civil courts will be allowed
to take cognizance as heretofore of all mui
for the discharge of minors improperly enlist
ed, and illegally detained by the military au
thorities. This announcement is made by tbe
Adjutant General in a disDatch to Mr. Simnn
Stern, a lawyer of New York, in relation to
the case of a minor in which he was interest
ed. This decision will afford uniihu ra.
lief to the community and Ieal nmfp union
and relieves from the President's Proclama
tion a feature that has rendered it difficult, if
not impossible to obtain redress for those who
cannot legally be detained in the army.
They havj sweet ladies down South. Thev
ars snnff-dippers, and tbey chew. A Tennes
see writer was helping play one of the "kiss
ing games" at a house warming, and be says :
After a lively chase I cangbt ber. and when.
just aa I was drawing the little angel into my
arms, preparatory to embracing her, she said,
uoia on minute watt till I take my tobac-
cer out of nv month."
DR. BSOWNSON OS THE N. Y. EIOTS.
In the October number of Brownson' a Review,
we find among the articles one on "Catholics
and the Anti-Draft Riots." An article on
this subject from such a Bourse is eminently
worthy of perusal. Dr. Brownson undoubt
edly wields an abler pen than any other Cath
olic writer in this country, and his r, rod nr.
Hons always find readers among thinkers,
whether they agree with him or not. He seems
to write what he thinks, no matter whether or
not it suits the church authorities. In bis Re
view he has taken a most decided stand in fa
vor of tbe Union, from the time the rebellion
broke out. In bis article on the July riots
he endeavors to clear tbe Catholic Church as
such from tho responsibility. He admits that
tbe rioters almost exclusively were Irishmen
and Catholics, but charges tbe responsibility
mainly on the Democratic party for arousing
them to do as tbev did.
We here give a brief extract from the
tide :
"these things they did not as Catholics
or Irishmen, but as adherents of the Demo
cratic party, as partisans of Horatio Seymour,
r ernando v ood, James Brooks, Clement L
Vallancjigham.and others, by their incendia
ry speeches, and by leading articles in tbe
Democratic journals, had for months been ex
citing them against the Government, against
tne conscription, against tbe war, and bad
worked them np to uncontrollable fury. The
shouts of the mob tell ns what was ItsffNimus,
under what influence or inspiration it acted,
and these were hurrahs for Governor Sey
mour, Fernando Wood, General McClellan
and Jeff. Davis. A Catholic layman or an
Irishman known to be a Republican or a sup
porter of the Administration was in no less
o auger irom me moD man a frotestaot, a na
tive American, or even a negro.
"Colonel O.Brien, so savagely murdered,
was an Irishman and a Catholic ; and one of
the best friends of the Irish emigrants in this
city a Catholic and an Irishman himself
escaped tbe fury ot the mob only by keeping
himself concealed. 'On the other band, Cath
olic Irish men volunteered to aid tbe author
ities in suppressing the riot, and were among
tbe bravest and most efficient in protecting
the lives and property of our citizens. No,
the mob was literally a Democratic mob, got
np at the instigation of the Democratic lead
ers, and led on by men in sympathy with tbe
enemies of tbe United States a simply pro
slavery Democratic mob. Not a Catholic
nor an Irishman, not a German nor an Amer
ican, who was not a partisan of the Seymours,
the Woods and tbe Vallandighams.not even a
Democrat not hostile to tbe war aud to negro
emancipation, had, any part in ii, either as in
stigator or actor."
t Robbert. The banking . office of Benson
fc "Wast, Waterford, Erie county, wti entered
on tbenightot tbe 8th Inst-,, and $25,000
stolen in notes, bank bills, drafts, checks,
to.' No clo 1 na hen obtained- t the
bnrgUrs. , -, ;
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE "JOURNAL.'
Letter from Fort Reno, Va.'
Fort Keno, Va, Oct. 28rd, 18M.
Dear Row j Yesterday everything, was
thrown into considerable excitement, conse
quent upon the occasion of the execution of
Dr. David M. Wright for the mnrder of Liaat.
Sanborn, of the JJd D. C. colored volunteers,
and who was respited one week from the 16th,
the original time appointed for tbe execution.
The excitement "SPaa somewhat intensified by
a bold attempt on the evening ot tbe 21st. of
the eldest daughter of thj prisoner to Cheat
tbe gallows of its victim, and defeat the ends
of justice, which were never to be exercised
upou a culprit more deserving of the halter.
Ever since tbe incarceration of the Doctor,
bis family have been permitted to visit him.
and by their presence alleviate tbe rigor of
his confinement. Upon the , evening of the
21st in quesliou,' Miss Wright, tbe eldest
daogtuer came as usual to visit her Father,
who was so soon to answer for his crime against
the laws of humanity. A short time after her
arrival, the lights ot the cell were extinguish
ed, a circumstance altogether unusual for tbe
Doctor while bis family, or any member of It
was with him after dark. This, together with
the fact that bis daughter had entered and had
not departed, created suspicion at once, and
the Lieutenant in charge took tbe precaution
to place an additional sentinel in front of tbe
cell door to watch the movements. But not
withstanding this precaution.the artful scheme
of the female was bound to triumph, and she
sncceeded ia attiring the father in one of ber
own dresses.after which she drew on hi boots
and retired to his bed and covered up all ex
cept the feet, which were left protruding aa
was his custom. All things being completed,
tho bold attempt ot carrying the plan into ex
ecution remained. This was only too near
being successful. Tbe Doctor passed the sen
tinel at the cell door without suspicion, and It
was only after be had passed the double sen
tries at tbe outer door, that one of them casu
ally remarked that tbe figure that had just pas
sed was very tall for Miss Wright, and It It
was her she must hare grown very fast since
she entered. This awakened suspicion In tbs
mind of tbe Lieutenant in charge, aud to make
assurance doubly sure, be determined to fol
low the retreating figure and satisfy bis sus
picions. He came up with tbe figure about
fifty paces from tbe jail, and upon lifting tn
heavy veil which concealed tbe features, be
discovered that it was no less a person than
Dr. Wright.
The Doctor finding bis scheme bad fatted,
expressed no surprise, simply remarking that
desperate circumstances required desperate
attempts." Upon returning to bis cell, tb
daughter was found in, who, on learning that
the artifice bad failed, was very much over
come and gave vent to her feelings in despair.
The Doctor commended ber to tbe care of tbe
Lientenant, who immediately escorted ber t
her residence. Yesterday at half past ten A.
M., tbe unfortunate man was launched into -
ternity. By good fortune I succeeded in get
ting a pass for Norfolk with , the determina
tion of witnessing the performances. , I arri
ved on the grouud.one and a balf miles south
or the city just as the last clerical rites were
being performed on tbe scaffold. This done,
the hands of the culprit were pinioned behind
him, after which be kneeled down and odered
up a short prayer in his own behalf. Upon
rising to his feet, the noose was adjusted, the
cap was drawn over bis lace, and in two min
utes thereafter the drop fell.
Owing to the length of the fall, which was
about six feet, there was not a struggle or tho
movement of a limb. After hanging forty
five minutes be was cut down, and taken io
charge of bis friends. To insure good order,
a considerable force of the military were pres
ent, consisting of five regiments of Infantry,
one battery and one squadron of cavalry. ,,Ev- .
cry thing passed off quietly, there being no' at
tempt at disturbance. Previous to being
swung oS the Doctor addressed tbe crowd
briefly, but I could oat hear distinct enough,
to get the drift of bis remarks. Being a mao
cf wealth, many stories are circulated as to
the stupendous influences brought to bear to
procure his release. One to the eSect, that
bis son-io-law (who was married In tbe Jail
few days ago) offered $40,000 is gold for bla
ransom. But this availed nothing. The laws
of justice and humanity bad been outraged.
and the blood of a martyred hero called aloud
for vengeance. Had tbe escape been success
ful, so lar as tbe military authorities of tbs
cily were concerned, it Is stated that It ws '
the intention to run the guantlet through tbe
lines, wnicn failing, gold was to be attain
brought into requisition to bribe the pickets. '
But he has now gone to bis account, and in
his death the Government bas got rid of art .
implacable enemy, which, though it does not
atone for tbe loss of a loyal brave, may stand
as an imperishable warning to all those wbo
think that Liberty will be subverted by covert
ly striking down its defenders.
Military news Is very scarce here at Present.
An expedition bas been sent out towards E-
lizabeth to support a small force we have a!-
ready there, as it Is rumored that tbe rebels
are concentrating some force thereabouts.
The weather has been pleasant for a long timn
back, but to-day the rain is falling freely.
The health of the men bure Is comparatively
good. Sergt. Reece of Clearfield County has
Leen discharged from this battery for Dhvslcal
disability. No braver soldier bas been in tbe
service. Tours truly. w.
A gentleman at St. Paul. Minnesota, hmm
produced, after long labor, alx antnmillA
figures, three of each sex. life size, and so
closely resembling living persons as te deceive
an out we closest observers. . Tbey play upon
musical instruments and mind their own
business a good deal better tfcan some Irvss
people we know of. - i : .
A district bas been discovered io Rnsa'av
of similar formation to that of tbe oil produ
cing region of Pennsylvania, and other parts'
oi America. -Go!. UOwax, tbe Yankee officer
wbo bas been, raising the .Russian fleet at
Sebastopol, bas obtsined a grant, of 60,000
acres, upon which be is to carry , oo his
explorations. - -
A six months. intsnVdlsturbed and Irritated
an audience at. Washington .Theatre for so
enure evening, and its parents at the elo
added the appreciative consolation that "Ham'
let wax h II of a play fo ebarg fty eesta
for."
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