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For the Democrat and Star.
Campaign Song, No. ?.
BY RAVEN.
AirTne Right of ' Maiu
Once our Fathers held a convention,
Guided by George Washington,
And I thought that I wotdd mention,
What a noble work was done,
They had fought the Involution,
On the glorious Union plan7 . t
Now they asked a constitution
Founded on the right of man.
Chorus Founded on the rights of man
Sages, less .than inspiration,
Show a better if you can.
Thirteen colonies united,
Independence for to eain,
And to each their faith they plighted,
That they would Iheir part sustain,
On many a hard and bloody field,
'Till the bird of golden feather,
Perched npon their battle shield, ,
Chorus O the good old constitution, &c
But the contest now was ended7
And the country's peace proclaimed,
Liberty had been .defended,.
m And a nation born and named,
"Now each State claimed independence
As the prize for which they fought,
And r.o one should have ascendance
But all have the boon they bought
Chorus O, the good old constitution, &.c.
Some were bordering on the. ocean,
And had commerce on the sea,
Others had machines in motion
Humming with their industry,
But the most were sturdy yeomen,
Hardy tillers of the soil,
All they asked of friends or foemen,
it Was the fruits of honest toil
Chorus 0, the good old constitution, &c.
now to bring each different section,
Into perfect harmony,
And give each their due protection
And to all true liberty,- ;''.-.! ,
Was the work before our sires. ,
To blend the many into one !
WTith the wisdom God inspires, ; ' ' '
Was the noble wonder doue, - - ,
CnoRUS O, the good old constitution, &e.
Now began-the nation's glory, -
The starry banner floating high, -Let
her greatness tell the btory, i .
Onward, onward was the ery, .
Onward,' on in each direction,1 1 "; '
And the watchman's cry was "well,"
'Till the cursed black infection, .
Broke the nation's inairic spell. '
Chorus O, the good old constitution, &d
Ruin raved with blood and. thur.uer,
And for years has held the :,ay, -But
w make; a mighty Lrffm dcr, : ;" . ;
If it has not had day,., ,
O, je son3 of toble sires, .: . '
2s7ow arise, the crises meet,
Fan the hanies of freedom's fires, .
Make the victory complete. . .
Chorus 0 ! the good old constitution
. . And its laws they yet shall own,
; - Wel have southern restoration,
Or we'll tear the castle down.
. To the Apprentice.
Aspiring apprentice a word or two in j-our
jar. If yoa. desire success in any matter per
ta'ramg to this life or the coming, you mu.t
have a prpoera determination that, God
Leliegour, you icill achieve success. You
tuyt poor, friendle?s, unknown your
clotkl ag scant, your stomach half filled your
jVlaee may be at the foot of the ladder ; no
batter. Whatcver.your position majr bey
do your dty in it, stoutly and persevenngly,
with your eye fixed far ahead and upward.
Keeping the purpose before you that j'ou
tcill rise, be obedient to your cmploj'er, at
tentive to your bu.sine3? 'obliging " to your
fihopinate, and courteous to strangers ; and
eize every opportunity to improve your
heart, your mind,' and your workmanship.
Bo everything well no slighting, no hiding
defects, aiming always at perfection. Watch
thosd who arfr skillful, and strive to equal
and excel them. Secure the friendship t f
all by deserving itf . Allow no opportunity cf
rendering a service to pass without improving
itj even if it cost you some labd and self-de-juaL
Be of use to others, even if in a small
way ; for a time may come when they may
be of servica to you. A selfish man may get
ahead faster .than you ; but Relfishness is con
temptible, arid you need not envy his suc
cess ; when ' you achieve your object nobly,
you will enjoy it, and he respected
Always bear in mind that character it cap
ital. "'To gain this, you must be to scrupu
lously honest that you would be as willing to
jut live eoals in jour pockets as a penny that
is not yours.7' Never run in debt ; do with
out what j'ou cannot at once pay r' even
though you should suffer somewhat. No mat
ter what theamountof yourearningsmaybe,
save a portion every week, and in.ve.-t is in' a
ijavings-bank of good standing : it will grow,
md will stand, you in good stead some day.
Better temporary abstinence arid constant
Jlentyafterward,than unearned present coi.i
brt and future perpetual wantv Never lie,
openly or covertly, Vy word or action. A lia;
may deceive his fellow.--God and hirase:i
never. Conscious of falsity, a liar can have
no self-respect ; without, self-respct, reputa
tion cannot be achieved. . .
With a noble purpose the end of all
your actions, and with action becoming your
purpose, your success is merely a question
of time ahrnys prorlJcd you : have some'
brain .and .abundant common sere. The
American lr inter. '
A Terrible Struggle for Life.
Attempted Wife-Murder by a United States
internal JCevetoie UJicer biocKing He
tails of Cruelty.
We mentioned in last everlin.z's news that
Jacob Sloughdecker, a United States inter
nal revenue oflicerjWas examined before the
JHavor on the charge ot assaulting his wile
with intent to commit murder. Jacob Slough-
decker is quite a young man, and his wife
was a pretty young woman. They are both
Germans, have a child abont six years old.
During their residence in New Orleans, pre
vious to coming to Mobile, the domestic cir
cle ot the bloughdeckertamily was very tur
bulent, and on one occasion the husband had
his wne brought before the courts of that
citron the charge of adultery, which result
ed in their, separation. They subsenently
turned up in Mobile, since which time they
have repeatedly been before the Mayor's
court and justices of the eace for difficulties
growing out ot their relationship as husband
and wue.
About five or six weeks ago Sloughdecker
had another quarrel with his wife, and took
the child away from her. She caused his
arrest on the charee with intent to kill, and
had him put under bond ol hve hundred dot
lars to keen the peace. ...
x. iew mguLs ago oiougnaccser went uown
4 r i ci r j- i i i
to the Fra cati, and met his wife there in
company with ayoung nun. On the day fol
lowing he addressed her a note requesting an
interview with her on Friday night at his
room in JJauphin street At the hour des
ignated, Mrs. Sloughdecker went to the room,
but did not meet her husband. She walktd
out and shortly afterward met him on the
public square, lhis was about nine o clock
at night lie greeted her with a pleasant
smile, and asked her to take a walk with
him. They started through the square, com
ing out at the .gate .leading up fet Joseph
street. The wife says that he hueeed and
kissed her during the walk, and never seem
ed to tilk so sweet to her as on this occasion.
He told her that he had made up his mind
to bury the past and unite once more with
her in eternal love. He also promised to give
her money and send her on a visit to his rel
atives, for the benefit of her health.
The wife kept on, and made several efforts
to get her husband to return, but fearine no
danger with him, she walked out to a bridge,
between the depot and the Magnolia yard,
which is quite secluded and lonely. Here
the husband suddenly turned on his helpless
wife, and made the horrible announcement
that she had taken her last step on this side
of the grave. He accused her of adulter',
and told her that he would dispatch her in
stantly if she gave any alarm. The horror
stricken wife went on her knees, and in the
terrible silence of that lonely spot, declared
before her God that it was false, and begged
him to name his authority. He drew a pis
tol and commanded her to confess it before
he killed her. The wife implored hiiu to
spare her life, and in her desperation grasp
ed his arm, when he dropped the pistol and
drew a large knife. He attempted to stab
her with it, but again her ami was strength
ened by Providence, and the well-directed
efforts of the would-be murderer were thwar
ted. Finding that both knife and pistol had
failed him, he caught his young wife by the
hair of the head and trie to choke her to
death, at the same time running his thvtnb
into her right eye and gouging it in a shock
ing manner. The unfortunate wonian fought
with de.peration for herlife, screalns
alarmed the fiendish hushand. Upon look
ing up from his victir he beheld a stump,
or some specter which confronted hiin in his
mind s imagination, and ran off, leaving the
prostrate, ttrm, of his half-strangled wife on
thebvi'ige. -
. Mrs. oioughdeeker continued her state
mer.t,, "that alter her husband had made sev
eral efforts to shoot and stab her he tore
J whole handfuls of hair out of her head, and
this hair was aiterward lound on the spot,
together with her net, shoes and some little
trinkets. He. was terriby enraged, andbc
; came infuriated after ho had failed in direct
ing the knife to her heart. To the nearest
recollection of the wife this desperate strug
gle for life on the bridge took plsce at about
eleven o'clock. Mrs. Slough decker's right
eye is horribly goujred, and she is suffering
intensely from it. Her neck is covered with
flesh wounds made by his finger nails while
choking her, and her body bears some severe
marks of violence. Several witnesses testi
fied to hearirg her screams on the bridge,
but they arrived too late to see the parties.
The Court held Sloughdecker in bonds of
$1 ,000 to answer at the City Court the charge
of assault with the intent to commit murder.
Mobile Register, July 5. -
A Boy Struck Blind for Blaspuemy.
The vengeance of the Almighty was visit
ed on a boy named Richards, on Sunday
week, says an English paper, in the most
awful and sudden manner. It appeared that
the lad, who is thirteen years of age, and
the son of parents in the most humble cir
cumstances, wa3 playing in the street with
four or five other lads about his own age at
'catand dog." Richards, and his compan
ions had been playing for some time, when a
dispute arose between them as to the
"notches" (or jumps) Richards had scored.
He declared that he had made more than
twenty, and his opponents protested that he
had not scored so many. High words and
bad language were freely used on both sides.
Each boy accused the other of falsehood, and
at length Richards, failing to convince his
companions of the truthfulness of his state
ment, flew into a violent rage and emphati
cally shouted, "May God strike me Wind if
I haven t made more than twenty, lie had
scarcely uttered the adjuration before he let
the "do?" dropout of his hands, and throw
ing up hisarms, exclaimed, "Oh dear, I can
not see." His companions ran to him, and
finding what he said was true, at his request
led him home where, on examination, it was
found that a thick film had overspread each
of his eyes. In this miserable condition the
unhappy youth has remained ever since, and
we are informed that there is little or no pros
pect ot his sight beirig restored. '
' The Tron-Clad 0ATn.-The Post-master
of Welborn, Florida, could not take the
tast oath, and so resigned. No white - man
or woman in town could take it. At last,
wanting a Posfc-ofliee badly, a negro was ap-
plied to, but when the oath was read to him
and explained, Pempey replied: " I cant
take it. I was a servant and confederate I
soldier during the war." All my pentimeriti
- ad . i.
are against them, and 1 wont have the place.
' A Quaker, intending to drink a glass ' of
water, took trp a Bmaljtumbler of gin. He
did not discover his mistake until he got be
hind the door and swallowed the dose, when
he held tip both hands and exclaimed:
"Verily I have taken inwardly the balm of
Charge ! Democrats. Charge 1 1
Brothers in a holy cause !
Freemen, patriots son3 of illustrious
blood!
Side by side hand in hand arm to arm,
with a bold tront, torwe have done no wrong
let iis charge upon the fanatical element of
our country the history it has made. '
Shnulder to ihoulder
Hearta firm, etmng and true I
We neyer will be conquered
By a Union hating crew I
Would to God that some man with the
eloquence of inspiration might now step forth
to rivet home upon the abolitionists of the
land the nails they drove throush our nation
al wainscoating and paint the tragic history
of negroism as we have seen it through
years of bloody suffering, and dark hours for
the Kepublic.
Who are the traitors ?
Who are the oriiri nal disuniouists ?
Who are now making war upon the Gov
ernment :
Who are insultinrr a fallen foe?
Who are they who trifle with the destinies
of God-given America, and seek to cloy their
liendish hate on the mangled corpse ot an at
tempted Confederac'?
ho are the ones who stand up in the
Rump Congress and insult the soldiers who
fought the rebellion back to its lair, by say
ing the Union is not restored, and that em
becilf gutter-snipe legislation can do what
the prowess of American soldiers failed to
accomplish.
Jvet these questions be asked of those who
wallow with the rump Congress in its trea
sonable infamy'rathcr than stand like men
by the President in support of the right.
Let us stand true to the sacred principles
of Democracy, and charge home upon this
fanatical element, which is at war with the
L nion, that the only traitors now existing
are the fanatical members of the rump Con
gress and place hunters who indorse their in-
iamous act-?.
Charge home upon the element which is
opposing the country that they sought first
and last to divide the Union, and but for the
democracy ot the JNorfn. would have suc
ceeded.
These men sou eh t to
Break up the Union.
To make the South and North hate
each
other.
They warred upon the Constitution.
They ignored laws.
They broke their oaths of office.
They perjured theraselves before God and
man.
They meddled with that which concerned
them not.
They trampled the laws under foot.
They elected tyranCa and cowards to office.
They defiled a patriotic army with dishon
est Generals.
They turned a war of patriotism into a
crusade of plunder.
They put innocent men into prison and
guilty men in office.
n :i ... i ii i- it t
.-auuuLfn inousanus ot nrave men
on the alter of diabolism tmd military incom
petency. They took racp and money from the peo
ple under falaP pretences.
They k'L'ed our nyn, destroyed our prop
erty, .ud squandered the money we furnished
th'.ui.
They mobbed people for opinion's sake.
They murdered people in cold blood here
in the North for speaking their honest belief.
They have stolen cf the poor.
They have protected the rich.
They h;ive lied to the nation, and in drun
ken glee danced on the coffin lid of their
country till the corpse has been awakened to
a new life, and a life that will deal in ven
geance most terrible if the murderous dance
be not stopped at once.
They have draped the land in mourning,
populated deep grave yards, made prostitutes,
piled billions of taxes upon the working men,
filled the pockets of rich n,en with bonds ex
empt, from . taxation, and now flaunt the
scheme of their cowardly insolence in the face
of a people that fought while ourrulcrs riot
ed in drunkenness, tnat died on battle fields
while our rulers were stuffing ballot boxes in
the North.
Let these crimes and others we have not
room to mention.be charged home upon the
element now at warupon the President, and
upon the honest industry of the country
Nprth and South.
Democrats have not broken laws, ignored
oaths of office, and made ascive of the Con
stitution, through which to thru t negroes,
political Generals, army contracts and dishon
est legislation.
Democrats have made no war upon the
Constitution, nor have they told smutty sto
ries in the White House over the withering
victims of their hate, while the vultures of
desolation were howling and flapping their
wings over the country red with blood bro
ken hearted and staggering with grief.
Let these things be charged home to those
who rode into power shouting-
Free Speech 1 v
Free Press I
Free Kansas !
. Retrenchment and Reform !
How about Free Sjeech?
And a Free Press?
And a Free People ?
And how do yon like the arithmetical il
lustrations of the Black Republican retrench
ment and reform ?
Black Republicanism forced us into a war
to free negroes from happy slavery, and let
them rot in military camps, or be pensioners
upon us by enormous taxation. Tne negroes
are worse off to-day than ever before.
The country is worse off to-day than it
ever was before.
Our debts are athousand times greater than
ever before. , ,
Our ability to pay is less than ever be
fore. There is more mourning and wickedness
in the land now than ever before.
How do you like tike woikingof Abolltion
um. Answer, and tell tis, ye once happy and
prosperous workingmen, towhomwe are now
talking through the pen.
Tell us, farmers, mechanics, sons of the
forests, men of toil, and brother victims of
this 'great' God-and -morality party, which
did so much good in theory so much evil in
practice!
Charge these truths home.
We have charged them home for the last
four years.
He have defied their mobs, sneered at
their prescription, walked unharmed through
r.i. - : ljj t.ft.t - i.
attempts at assassination, heid aloft the ban
ner of Democracy, aod gathered javelins to
hurl in the face o osr comaion enemies till
the last tyrant or apoligist for tyranny and
wrong shall be driven from power.
! God hates cowardice ! r'
We have the right on our side we have
law, justice, equal rights and the record of
honest acts.
, It t.A.. V i ui.i ---
thA million who will bless us for wrestling
the sword from the hands of those who mur-
Hi-J liiliirvti 1.0. i . ...
Open wide the gates of the Republic-
open the doors of Hemocracv.
Hang out your glorious old banner of De
mocracy. Appeal to the people.
Dtt'v fiiir mMiiifi..
Stau 1 like men of nerve in defense of our
liberts, and charge upon those who will not
forsake the errors of their way, the truths
of the history they have written in blood and
pinned up with bayonct1
This is no time for abject crawling to kiss
the. foof of usurped power.
The future is to be bright, united and hap
py, or dark, bloody and terrible, as we may
choose. ; '
If Democracy, in the great struggle now
upon us, is successful the country is saved.
If not, we must wade to our inheritance
through blood here in the North, and the
scenes of the past will soon be re-enacted at
our own doors. BricJz Pomcroy.
For the Democrat and Star.
The Death of Liberty.
Taking my noonday rest, I picked up the
Democrat and Star and commenced read
ing the very excellent and comprehensive
little speech delivered by the editor on the
fourth of July, to the "Walls, Cases aTid
Chairs." I read until I came to the sen
tence: "They have murdered liberty."
When my eyes grew heavy and half sleeping,
half waking, I dreamed.
A beautiful woman stood Jbefore me. Her
form was tall and majestic. Her dark eye
was as piercing as the eagle's. Her brow
was noble, and her forehead broad and intel
lectual. Her skin was of that roseate hue
so peculiar to the pure Caucasian. She was
robed in tri-colored silk, with thirteen broad
stripes, alternating with red, white and blue.
About her neck Mas a string of thirty-three
star-like pearls. Each one had a color pecu
liar to itself. Yet the ra's of all blended
together in indescribable beauty and threw
around her form a perfect halo of glory. On
the golden clasp, that fastened them together
on her throat, was the "word "UNION.
In her lelt hand she held a man and a
scroll ; the map was. open, and I saw the
outlines of many States; and I wondered at
the curious manner the lines minded togeth
er, till I looked at the top ofjhe map, and
read: "Ephiribus Unvm." On the right
side. of the map I read: "A map of the
ocean-bound Republic. An Independent
Nation of Independent States, blended in
one glorious harmony, prosperous and free."
The scroll was closed, but on the outride I
read: "1 he Constitution and the Laws, the
Nation's guide, the pledge of the States'
Independence, and the citizen's ruarantre
"fl liberty." In her right hand she held a
wand, and from the eminence on which she
stood, her eagle eye seemed to take in a wide
range of country. She did not look in any
one direction any length of time, but with
"Eternal Vigilance" watched over the whole.
I noticed, too, that whenever she stretched
out her arm and waved her wand ""deserts
blossomed like the rose," "forests became
fruitful fields," and cities and towns sprang
up in every direction.. I stood looking at her
with wondering admiration, when a voice ot
dulcimer sweetness asked: "Do you not
know me? Your infancy was rocked in m
cradle. Your mother, lulled vou to child
hood's slumber, with songs resoundinc my
noble deeds. And in manhood your lieart
has often throbbed with delight, while con
templating my glorious achievements." She
lifted a small, jaunty cap from her head, and
there flashed out in letters of golden light,
the name, Liberty. I bowed my head with
reverence.- I bent my knee in submission,
and lifted up mv heart to God in heartfelt
gratitude, that lie had given to earth so fair
a being, and to man so good" a blessing.
I was aroused from my devotions by the
sound of a multitude of voices. I looked
and lo f a crowd was gathering from every
part of the vast area. They seemed in utter
confusion. Man with man toiling, and
brother with brother fighting, until the
whole country seemed one vast battle-field.
Especially on one side I could bear the
shouts of contending hocts, and see the dead
and dying strew the ground. But my atten
tion was more particularly directed to a group
of venerable looking men, who seemed di
rectly approaching to where Liberty stood.
They were headed by a tall, gaunt, bony
looking man, and they all seemed to have
portfolios, or rolls of manuscripts, so com
pletely stuffed, that their contents could not
Equality, Proclamations, Confiscation. Sub
jugation, Freedmen's Bureau," &c, on the
edges of the crowded leaves. . They drew
near the Goddess and asked : "Who are
you?" . She pointed to the title on her brow.
ik You are just the one we were seeking."
"What can I do for your honors?" she ask
ed. "Get out of our way," was the reply.
She poiutcd to the necklace of pearls; they
tore it from her neck, and broke it in two.
She pointed to the map ; thoy obliterated
the boundaries, and drew a bloody streak
around the whole. She pointed to the "Con
stitution and the laws"; they snatched it
from her hand, and trampled it under their
feet, calling it an "agreement with death,
and a covenant with helh" They rent her
robe to pieces, declaring it a "flaunting lie"
and "hate's polluted racr." They wounded
her in many places, until she lay stretched
upon the ground, weltering in her gore, and
groaning in the latt agonies of a painful
death.
I had sprang forward to assist her, but my
arm was ruthlessly seized by a man in a blue
uniform, and a bayonet placed at my breast.
I noticed that others made like efforts and
were served in like manner. Having ac
complished their object, they moved on, sig
nalizing the others to follow. We were re
leased, and the war seemed at an end. Quiet
reigned throughout the country,
proache I to where Liberty lay, an 1
great joy found there was warmth
heart and life in the bod Others
l ap
to my
in the
of her
friends came forward and we chafed her
temples, bathed her limbs, and applied re
storatives. She revived, opened ncr eyes,
and smiled gratefully upon us for our efforts.
She soon arose, stood upon her feet and
said: "My friends, be encouraged. This i
my destiny. Truth crushed to earth will
rise again,' and Liberty born in a nation can
never die, so long as there are hearts throb
bing with love for her. I am now weak, but
I shall gather strength. My necklace shall
be restored and the circle of pearls enlarged ;
the Constitution is crumpled and soiled, but
not obliterated; it shall still be a guide to the
nation. My ghastly wounds will heal up, but
the 6CAR3 will be an eternal reproach to the
wretches who so basely attempted to murder
Liberty. Raven.
When a Baltimore lady is kissed, she says
she feels as though she had been taking chlo-
Astounding Developments.
The Radicals Preparing for Civil War at
the North More Blood-letting Required
to Cement the Union.
It would seem that blood enough has not
been shed to satisfy the Radical leaders.
There has not 3'et been entailed upon the
country enough debt, taxation and misery.
More horrible scenes must be enacted than
we have yet witnessed or experienced the
country must go through another purifica
tion of blood and fire to qualify it for its
great mission. We have already published
statements from Radical sources that vio
lence was intended by the Radicals if they
could not have their way. We now publish,
below, confirmation of "this intention on the
part of the Radicals. It is proof as strong
as Holy Writ of their diabolical purpose. It
is from the pen of Mr. Raymond, a Repub
lican memder of Congress, and who partici
pated in the late Congresssional Radical ca
cus. Mr. Raymond writes to the New York
Times, of which he is the principal editor.
He says, under date of July 15th instant :
"You may have noticed the passage in the
House, a few days since, of a resolution of
fered by General Paine, of Wisconsin, call
ing on the States to organize, disci dine and
equip their niilitia, and directing: that two
thirds of the arms, ordnance and ammuni
tion now under custody of the General Gov
ernment be distributed among the States'
the distribution among th3 loyal States to
take place immediately, and that among th&
Mates lately in rebellion to be postponed un
til further orders. The resolution came up
from the C6mmittce on Military Affairs and
was pushed to a vote, without debate or de
lay, under the previous question. It attract
ed a3 little attention in Congress as it has in
the country ; and the public will doubtless
receive with incredulity the assurance that
it was intended, by those who secured its
pass! are. .is th first step toward preparation
for another ciri I v.ar. Although no delate
was had upon it, members were urged to vote
for it by direct conversational appeals on the
floor on the part of the few who were privy
to its introduction. Some were told that it
was necessary to enable the Southern loyal
ist? to protect themselves ; others, that it
was simply a matter of detail in the War De
partment ; and others, that it was proposed
at the instance of the Secretary of Y ar.
An appeal was made by Kasson, of Iowa,
to allow debate upon it, as it seemed to be a
matter of importance, but this was refused.
"Most of the leading and reflecting Radi
cals in Congress take this view of the politi
cal future : If the fall elections result in the
choice of Northern Democrats enough to
constitute, when added to the members from
the Southern States, a majority of the
Hou-e, they assume that this majority, thus
constituted, will claim to be the Congress,
and will act accordingly, and that they will
be recognized by the President as the body
to which he willstnd his message, and whose
sessions he wiil, if the necessity should arise,
protect l-y military force. They assert, on
the other hand, that the Union members
from the loyal States if they constitute a
majority from tho.-e States will claim to be
the only legal Congress, and will, if necessa
ry, invoke an insurrection of the people to
maintain them in that osition. They do
not in the least conceal th(jr puriose, in the
event of such a collision, to appeal to force,
and to 'drive the rival Congress, with the
President and his Cabinet and suptorters.
into the Potoniac,' to use the language of
one of the ablest and most sincere ot their
number. If vou will recall the remarks f
Mr. Bolt WELL, of Massachusetts, in last
week's first caucus, you will see this move
ment clearly foreshadowed indeed avowed.
He declared his belief that an issue oforce
was rapidly appioachiug, and that we must
be prepared to meet it. He acts, and all
who co-operate with him in these mca-sures
profess, to act, under the apprehension that
the President intends to resort to force that
he means to disperse the pre-4nt Congress
on its reassembling in December if it refuses
to admit t,he Southern members : and Mr.
Farns worth ascribed to Mr. Skwakd the
declaration, that this Congress should never"
reassemble unless the Southern members
were admitted in support of thisbtlef. 1
need scaree'y say that Mr. Seward never
made any remark of the kind, nor that the
project ascribed to the President is purely an
invention, or at the best the crazy dream of
a political nightmare. But in either eascit
serves the same purpose. It covers, and is
held to justify, the determination to arouse
the North, and prepare for a resort to force
upon the assembling of the Fortieth Con
gress in extra or in regular session ; and this
determination is a voiced. And the resolu
tion to which I have referred, for an organi
zationof th. militia and a distribution of arms
in the Northern States, is the initial step to
its execution.
"I do not propose to comment upon .the
result of such a movement. It is obvious that
if any such contingency should arise. the
war would not be sectional, as was the last :
it would be a war of political parties, and of
neighborhoods. Not only have the great
body of the Union party in Congress no sym
pathy with these views and purposes, but
thoy are in the main ignorant and iucredu
ulous of their existence. That the extreme
Radicals entertain them, however, there is
not the slightest doubt, and we know from
the experience of secession in 1801, how few
men it sometimes requires to plunge a great
party or a great nation into war.".
A Lesson fob Dad. An old gentleman
farmer, who had two or three very pretty
daughters, was so very anxious of his charge
that he would not permit them to keep the
company of young men. However, they
adopted the following expedient to enjoy the
society of their lovers, without the knowl
edge of their father. After the old man
had retired to rest, the girls would hang a
sheet out of the window, which was quite a
distance from the ground, and the beau
would seize hold of it. and with the assist
ance of his lady-love, who tugged lustily at
the end above, would thus gain entrance.
But it so happened that one evening the girls
hung out the sheet rather early; for the old
gentleman, by some ill wind, was blown
around the corner, and spying the bed-eover-ing,
could not conjecture the meaning of its
being there. He took hold and endeavored
to pull it down. The girl, supposing it to
be one of their beaux, began to hoist, and
did not discover their mistake until the head
of the old man was level with the window
sill, when one of them exclaimed, "Oh !
Lord, it's dad!" and letting go their hold,
souse came the old man on the hard Etoncs
and gravel Ixdow, dislocating one of his
shoulders, which convinced him that his ef
forts to make old maids of his daughters
was not a matter so easily accomplished,
and, withdrawing all opposition to their
keeping company, he was soon a father-in-law
- ' - -
Love in a Printing Office.
I once heard an old "iour" remark that a
printing office wras no place for love making,
and 1 have since experienced tne train oi
the expression; being now perfectly convinc
ed that the flower of love can never bloom
in the midst of types, cases and printing ink.
It was my fortune once to sojourn for a
few days in the village of . Directly"
opposite the office was a pretty, white cot
tage, with a rose bush clambering around
the casement, and I was not long in making
the discovery that the aforesaid cottage with
the rose shaded window contained a fair in
mate a flower whose beauty outshone the
roses that clustered around the window. She
was the belle of the whole village. Her
name was Mary. I have a passion for the
name of Mary.
It was a beautiful summer morning, and I
had raised the window to admit the breeze
from the flower decked fields ; and it was not
long ere I perceived the cottage window was
also hoisted and the sweet little Mary was
sitting busily engaeed with her needle.' I
worked but little that morning. My eyes
constantly wandered toward the cottage
where little Mary sat, and all sorts of strange
fantastical notions whirled through my brain,
and I began to think I felt a slight touch of
what the poets call love, sliding in at one
corner of U13 heart.
A few days passed away, anJ chance made
me acquainted with Mary. On ! she was a
sweet creature ; she had a form that would
have shamed the famous de Medici a cheek
that outflushed the richest peach and lips
that would have tempted a bee from his hive
on a frosty morning. I thought as I azed
on her in mute admiration, that I had never
looked on one so exquisitely beautiful.' She
seemed the embodiment of everything lovely
and bewitching. Well, time passed on, and
one day Mary expressed a desire to visit the
printing office. ' Good," thought I, "what
a chance 1 I'll have a kiss there yes, there,
in the very midst of the implements of mine
art why shouldn't I ?" Jxive in a printing
office! Oh! there was something original
in that, and I resolved to try it at all haz
ards. Well, Mary came iuto the office, and I ex
plained to her the use of the various imple
ment of the black art the press, the roller,
the ink and the stands, and the boxes of A,
li, Cs. While she was looking at these mys
teries I took an opportunity to snatch her
little white hand; she drew it back and
knocked a stickful of matter into "pi"
',1 must have a kiss for that, my prett
ore," said I, and at it I went 1 managed
to get my arm around her waist, and in strug
gling to free herself, she upset a galley of
editorial a long article on Negro Suffraore.
Nothing daunted I made at her again.
This time I was more successful for I ob
tained the kiss. By Saint Paul, it was a
sweet one, and that little witch bore it
a like a martyr; she never screamed once.
But as I raised my lips from hers, she lifted
her delicate little hand and gave me a box
on the cars that made me see more stars
than were ever viewed b Hersehcl in his
telescope. Somewhat nettled, and my check
smarting with pain, I seized her about the
waist and said :
"Well, if you don't like it, just take back
that kiss!"
She made a desperate struggle to get
away, and, as she jerked herself from my
arms, her foot struck the lye pot, and over
it went Another galley of editorial was
sprinkled over the floor, and in her efforts to
reach the door, her foot slipped and she fell.
In her efforts to sustain herself, her hand
her lily white hand the same little hand
that came in contact with my ears oh ! hor
rible ! was up to the elbow in ink ! Shades
t f Franklin ! She slowly drew it from the
keg, dripping with ink, and asked what use
I made cf that tar. 1 began to be seriously
alarmed, and apologized in the best manner
1 could, and to my surprise she seemed more
pleased than angry ; but there was a lurking
devil in her eye that told me mischief was
afloat. As I stood, surveying the black cov
ering of her hand, scarcely able to suppress
a laugh at the strange metamorphosis, she
3uiekly raised it on high and brought it
own upon my check. Before I could re
cover from my r-urprise the same tiny hand
had again descended, and left its inky im
print upon my other check;
"Why, Marj," I exclaimed, "what are
you about ?"
"I think you told me you rolled ink on the
face of the form," she replied with a loud
laugh, and again her little hand lit upon me
taking me a broad slap in the middle of
my countenance, most wonderfully bedaub
ing my eyes. With a light step and a merry
peal of laughter, she skipped through the
door. She turned back when beyond my
reach, and her roguish face peering through
the door, shouted :
"I say, Charlie, what kind of a roller does
my hand make?"
"Oh," said I, "you take too much ink."
"Ha! ha!" she'laughed, "well, good, bye
Charlie, that's my impression."
I went to the glass and surveyed myself
for a moment, and I verily believe that I
could have passed for a Guinea nigger, with
out the slightest difficulty. "And so," said
I to myself, "this is love in a printing office.
The devil fly away withjuch love.''
The next morning, when the editor came
to the office, I rather calculate he found
things a little topsy turvey. However, that
made no difference to me, for I mizzled be
fore daylight I bore the marks of that
scene many a' day, and now when I see a
lady entering a printing office, I think of
little Mary and keep my eye on the ink keg.
A Two Legged Lamb. A correspondent
at Westfield writes us, under date of April
:23d, as follows : .
"Having seen many reports in the Agitator
of wonders. both in the vegetable and animal
kingdoms, I take the liberty to transmit you
the following, which I admit is rather tough :
"Charlcton Phillips, Esq., of the town of
Westfield' has a lamb about two months old.
In the extreme cold weather which we had
somo timo since, the lamb unfortunately was
frozen, so bad, at all events, that both hind
less rotted off, close to the body. 1 he lamb,
asa matter of course, was now in a very tad
predicament ; but however, after many fruit
less endeavors, it hit upon the following sin
gular mode of locomotion. The lamb raises
itself upon its fore feet, with the body at an
angle of about forty-five degrees, and in this
novel position it walks and runs with appa
rent ease. It also stands in this position
w hile feeding, and, strange as it may seem,
it will run as fast as any sheep in the flock.
The ease and grace with which it poises its
self, in its nearly upright position, would do
credit to a mountebank." Fx.
Awrcx. A lady in Cleveland, Ohio, re
.1.. n nltcsnrfvil in a. trail of saw
dnst behind her. If ladies trill wear such
Keep it beforfe the People.
WHO ARE FOR THE UNION:
On the 7th day of January, 18C4, Mr;
Rogers, Democrat, of New Jersey, in the
House of Representatives of the United
States, offered resolutions, declaring that a
State or
or States, "whenever they shall desire"
to return to the Union, and obey the Con
stitution of the United States and lawsmadd
in pursuance thereof, have a right to come
back, their jaws and acts of secession being
unconstitutional and void ; that we are for
the most united, determined, and vigorous
prosecution of the war, for the purbose of
enforcing the Constitution of tne United
States and a restoration of the Union under
the Constitution."
Mr. Stevens (disunionist) moved that the
series of resolutions be laid upon the table;
which motion was carried, by a vote of seventy-eight
disunionists all Republicans td
forty-two Unionists all Democrats. .
(See Home Journal, lat aenion, 38th totljr
page 115.)
What does this Vote mean? What does
it assert ? What docs it defend? It means
that the Republicans in Congress, and the
radical portion of the constituency they rep
resent, were in 1864, as they are in 1866, and.
will ever be, opposed to the return of any of
the rcbellious Siates to the Union, no mat
ter how submissive and repentant they may
be; it asserts that they (the rebellious States)
have no right to come back, although, we
lavished millions of treasure and piled up
whole hetacombs of lives to compel tliem to
come back ; it defends a war, which, by their
votes they declared should not be prosecu
ted for the enforcement of the Constitution
and the restoration of the Union. In a
word, this vote of the Republican part3 iri
Congress, proves them to be secessionists,
disunionists and traitors.
What else does this vote mean, assert and
defend? It means that the Democrats iri
Congress,and the conservative constituencies
they represent, were in 1864, as thev are iri.
1806, in favor of the return to the Uriiort of
all the States who obey the Constitution arid
the laws; it asserts, that this submission be
ing shown, they have a right td come back;
and it defends the war, as one which was
carried on for the sole purpose cf bringing
these States backj under the Constitution,
the Union and the laws. ,
The Republican disunionists say they shall
not come back ; the Democratic Unionists
say they shall come back: Geary represents
the Republican disunionists j Clymer repre
sents the Democratic Unibnists; Geary rep
resents Stevens, Sumner, and the "boys iri
black ;" Clymer represents Johnson, Cowan
and the " boys in blue." Stevens, Sumner
and the " boys in black" are dUuniow'sts
so is Geary. Johnson, Cowan and the "boys
in blue' ' are Unionists sc is Clymer. Yoth
for Clymer !
The New Tax Bill,
On Friday the President signed the nef
tax bill and the Internal Revenue depart
ment at once commenced complying with it
requirements. We give a synopsis of its
chief points and most important charges;
The tax on cotton is fixed at three cents
per pound. Gas Companies are allowed to
add their tax to customers bills till April 30
1867. Reapers, mowers; threshingmachines,
ami grain separators remain on the free list:
The income tax is allowed to stand as in
the cxistiig law, except that persons resid
ing abroad and doing business here will bo
required to pay the came tax as home resi-
dent. The exemption remain-t at $600.
Any change could not effect the returns of
last year, and as the next session of Congress
concludes before the year's returns are re
quired tube made, a change, ifadvisable, can
be made at that session.
Railroads, ferries, toll-bridges, &&, are al
lowed to add the tax to the rates of fare till
the end of next April, and while street rail
ways can increase their single fares one cent
to cover the tax, a proviso requires that they
shall sell tickets by the package with only the
exact tax added to the regular rate;
The paper question stands as fixed by the
Senate, viz : printing paper of all descrip
tions is free, and other paper is taxed three
per cent ad valorem.
The ta-t of one-tenth of one percent on all
auction sales is agreed to , the tax on ready
made clothing is fixed at two per cent ; and
tailors, milliners, shoemakers, &c, are to bo
exempt from tax, as in House bill, when
their work, exclusive of materials, does not
exceed $ 1 ,00 ) annually ; cordage, rope and
cable made of vegetable fibre are put on the
free li?t
On tobacco there wa no question, the
House agreeing to the Sonate amendment
making 15 cents per pound the rate on suio'
king not sweetened; stemmed or butted. The
only difference between the two, however
with resprvt to cigars, was on the higher
g Tides. The rates in full on cigars, kc as
agreed by the committer, are as follows:
Two dollars jcr thousand on cigarettes
short sixes, cherors and twisted lrcads whert
not valued above ?S per thousand- Four
dollars per thousand on cheroots, cigaretts
and cigars, when valued above ?S and not
above $12 per thousand, audfjur dollars per
thousand when valued above SI 2, with 2(
per cent ad valorem on the excess la value
above SI 2.
What the Aoe Wants. A writer says:
"The great want of this age is men. Men
who arc not for sale. Men sound from the
center to the circumference, true to tho
heart's core. Men who fear the Lord and
covetness. Men who will condemn the
wrong in friend or foe, in themselves as irt
others. Men whose consciences are steady
as the needle to the pole. Men who will
stand for the right if the heavens totter and
the earth reels. Men who can tell the truth
and look the world and the devil right in th3
eve. Men that neither brag nor run. Meri
that neither swagirernor flinch. Men whocan
have courage without whistling for it, and joy
without shouting to" brirrg it Men in whont
the current of everlasting life run's still, arid
deep, and strong. Men careful of God's honor
and careless ot men's applause. Men too'
large for sectarian limits and too stronger
sectarian bands. Men who do not strive,
nor cry, nor cause their voices to be heard
in the street, but who will not fail, ndr be
discouraged, till judgment be set ori tha
earth. Men who know their message ami
toll it Men who know their duty and do it.
Men who know their place and fill it Men
who mind their own business. Men who will
not lie. Men who are not too lazy to Work,
nor too proud to bo poor. Men who are
willing to eat what thev earned, and wear
what they paid for. Men who know irt
whom thev have believed. Men whose feet
arc on everlasting rock. Men who are not
ashamed of their hope. Men who are
h ( strong with divine strength, wise with ths . ,
4 I tt-'s. 1 - 9 1 pr"T'th from above, and lovip z
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