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DT ALFRED TENNTSOS.
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden" sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hilla I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a- little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
Till last by Philip's farm I flotv
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.
I chatter over stony ways,
In little Bharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bay3,
I babble on the pebbles.
With many n curve my banks I fret,
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With billow-weed and mallow.
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.
I wind about and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling.-
And hero and there a foamy flake,
Upon me as I travel,
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel.
And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.
I steal by lawns and grass plot?,
I slide by hazel covers ;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows ;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses ;
I linger by my shingly bars ;
I loiter round my cresses;
And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go.
But I go on forever.
THE FEDLRLCH?IHELE(H
One eveninp:, about an hoar after the
sun had gone down, a couple of htoutmcn,
drc-psod in foiled rebel uniform.0, each
holdiu in hit hand a good Austrian ritln,
tapped at the door of a email frame bui'.d
iiifr L'ear the C road in Virginia.
The knock was answered by an old
woman vrhoe face wa almost corccalcd
by fbe tungled uiastea o( her grey, un
combed, aud dishevelled hair.
"And what do you want hcah V the
exclaimed, as her deep set eyes flashed on
the two tnn. "I haven't the smallest bit
of Johny-cake io. the house to offer ye, for
it was all
"No, no," interrupted one of the sol
diern, "we don't want anything to eat j but
we want you to tell u, and that iu quid
time, too, whether or not you've seeu 5
flight but fitronej-Iooking slip of a man go
by here ot late r
"Dressed in blue, and carrying a double-
barrelled rifle, added tho other.
"Iley, hey!" cried the hag, lifting her
hands and speaking in a sharp, angry
voice, "if ye. hadn't interrupted tne, I
reckon yea would a heard uie speak of
him just now, as he was the very man who
came hero and bought all niv cakes. It
wag about two hours ago, and "
"Which way did he go after he left
you f" inquired both men eagerly.
"iiciore 1 answer that question, you
must tell me who ho is" said the old
woman, with tho curiosity natural to her
ecx.
"lie's a celebrated Union scout, whom
we call the 'Federal Chameleon,' because
he changes his uniform so often. Some
times it is blue, other times grey, aud he
baa even been seen wearing the disguise
of an old farmer. He has shot more of
our men than is pleasant, and we have re
plied to you' continued the speaker a
little impatiently, "we demand that you
answer our question, and '
"Demand I interrupted the hag, in
fhrill, piercing tones. "Is that the prop
er way to speak to an old woman like
"Come, come, answer us if yor please,"
cried the soldier in a milder tone. "I
mean no harm it my way of speak-
1U2 "
"Well, perhaps I may forgive, and per
haps not," eaid the old woman shaking
her head. "How far is it to your camp
from hero ?"
' What is that to you ? What has that
to do"
"There you are again with your cussed
incivility !" shrieked the hag, fiercely;
"but you shall answer my question before
you git another single word out of me.
Now, then, how far is your camp from
hero, and how many men have you in and
around it ? I intend to carry your fellows
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Henry Clay
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JULY
some corn cakes, d'ye see, and I
want
have
to
to
know the number of mouths
cook for."
"Oh, in that case' aaid tho rebel, "1
do not see any reason why I should not
satisfy you. Our camps, then, are five
miles from here, near the cross roads, and
our number may bo about five thousand."
"That will do," cried the old woman,
with a grin of satisfaction "yes, that will
do. And now you are sure that the man
who came here to buy his supper is the
one you are after V
"We are sure of it," for although we
have never seen the man's face, we'd know
him by the double-barrelled riflo, as no
body else in the Yankee army carries a
weapon of that kind."
"Ay, ay; it's the right one, then," said
the hag. "After he had finished and paid
me for his meal, he says tome : 'Friend,
I should like to put up here for the night
if you have no objections But as I did
not like the idea of accommodating a
Yankee any more than I can help, I said
there was no room for him, as I expected
visitors before many hours. 'Well, then
says he, 'can't you tell me of a place where
I can pass the night a little comfortably ?
Ye see he added looking towards hi."
double-barrelled rifle, 'I don't like to camp
out as it looks like rain, and this piece
might get hurt by it I know of no
place, I answered, ehort of four miles from
here, in an old barn, which is tight
enough, I think, to keep off the rain.
'Four miles is a pretty long distance said
he, 'and a3 I have been tramping about
considerable to day, I don't feel much like
carrying this heavy load so far pointing
to his knapsack as he spoke, 'will you bo
kind enough to let it remain till morning V
Well, yes, said I, hesitating a little, and
throwing a significant glance at the well
filled pocket-book in his hand. He un
derstood the look nnd gave mc a green
back dollar. All right, paid I, and he
then departed, saying he would call for
his luggage in the morning, after he
should wake from his sleep in the barn."
"Now, then, which will you do," con
tinued the worn", "go after him at once
or wait in ambush for him till morning V
The two soldiers drew back a few paces
and held a short consultation, after which
they advanced to the side of the woman.
"We will go now," said the one who
had spoken first ; "that is if you can
describe to us the exact position of the
barn'
"I don't think I could describe it so
you could find it in the dark," replied the
hag, "but as I am willing to do everything
in my power for the Confederacy, I will
go with ycu and show you the place."
"That's right," answered the rebel,,
"and we will see that you arc rewarded
for your zeal."
"I don't want any reward for helping.,
my countrymen," she replied. "I'm, al
ways ready to help along tho cause."
With these words she disappeared into
another room, but came forth in a few
minutes with a gray blanket thrown over
her shonlders.
"I took this out of the Yank's haver
sack," said she, with a short, dry laugh ;
"don't you think it becomes me '?''
"Aye, aye, my good woman, very much ;
but lead us on, if you please, for we have
co time to lose."
"Forward, march 1" she exclaimed,
imitating the voice of a man with stronir
lungs. "Forward, march ! Close
up
close up ! And she moved along the
roau at ine loitering paco so natural to a
person of her years.
The night by this timo had become
very dark. The sky was obscured with
thick, driving clouds, and tho wind
screamed and roared among the tall pines
that towered upon each side of the road
Occasionally a branch wrenched Ircm its
native trunk, would fall into the road with
a terrible crash, and more than once the
rebels started back and eocked their pieces
in the belief that the din was caused by
tne discnargo ol some laukee rale.
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the old
nag
on oue ot these occasions ; "it seems to
mo that you are very easily htartlod.
JJon t yon think your commander might
have placed a pair of bolder hearts than
yours on this expedition ?"
"You'd better keep a silent tongue in
your head, my good woman, until you
have had an opportunity to witness as
many battles as we havo," answered one
of the men ; "a good soldier is always on
hi3 guard."
"Aj'C, aye !" replied the old woman,
"but he fchould know how to distinguish
between the cracking of a branch and the
ring of a rifled musket."
The rebel did not relish the noise made
by tho loud, shrill tones of the female
guide, and in order to put an end to it he
controlled himself sufficiently not to reply
to her last remark. The party then con
tinued on their way in silence which
was not broken by either of them until
they had gone about three miles, and a
loud, clear challenge suddenly startled
tho rebels.
"Halt ! Who comes there ?"
"Friend I" answered the old woman, in
a rinnnff voice : "fricnu, with prisoners."
-."1 " . II. 5 1 - i t .
"We aro bctrayea jenea ner com
panions ; and, even as the worda passed
their lips, they were surrounded by a
dozen Union soldiers, one of whom carriod
a lantern.
As the rays of tho ligM fla ehed, upon
the hag, the rebels saw the gray hair, the i
blanket and the female apparel drop to
the eround, revealing the slight, but iron
like frame of a Union soldier in tho prime
of life.
"It is he, by !" exclaimed the pris
oners simultaneously as their glances
wandered to tho long double-barrelled
rifle which he now held in his band ; "it
is he the scout tho Federal Chameleon
"Aje, aye !" answered the latter, as he
leaned upon his weapon, with a quiet
smile, "you are trapped, sure enough,
thanks to my disguise, which is only one
of the many which I carry in my knap
sack. Allow me to express my thanks to
you lor the information you gave mc in
regard to the position of your camp and
the number of your men ; I have already
sent a message to my Colonel in relation
to the matter, and I perceive he has com
menced toct upon it."
And as he spoke he pointed down the
road where the dark outline of troops
forming into line might be faintly distin
guished. They were soon in motion, and in the
course of a half hour the booming cannon,
the rattling of musketry, and the cheering
of Federal troops proclaimed that the
combat had commenced. The din con
tinued for about an hour, when the pris
oners heard from others who wexe brought
to share their quarters that the Southern
troops had been surprised and totally
routed.
mm
Senator Lane.
Quite an effort is being made to lay the
suicide of Senator Lane to other than the
real cause, writes Mrs. Swisshclm from
Washington. When he was on his way to
Kansas, to settle tocre, he expressed him
self in favor of making it a slave State,
provided it would gmw hemp and tobacco
After ho was thero some time, he chal
lenged a man for calling him "an abolition
ist." He afterwards became entirely
identified with the ultra abolition party.
Soon after he betrayed his party by voting
to sustain President Johnson's veto, a po
litical and personal friend, Senator Leg
gelt, of Kansas, visited Washington and
called upon him. Lane said to him :
"Well, Leggett, how does'-Jim Lane
stand in Kansas ?"
"General, if you were to be elected next
fall you could not get two votes in the
State." -
"7s that so 7" he enquired, starting
forward in astonishment.
"It is so not two votes, General !"
On hearing this announcement thus
repeated, he arose, thrust his hands into
his" pantaloons' pockets, dropped his head,
and began walking rapidly back and forth
across the room. After some timo spent
in silence, ho said :
"Well, God knows, I did it for the best!
I did it for my friends, and now I don't
care how soon my Heavenly Father takes
me home !"
His first idea, on learning how hi con
stituents felt, was death. Perhaps no
other Senator was so hounded by office
seekers, and he was very energetic about
procuring appointments. He expected to
control the New York Collectorship, and
the patronage of his own State by joining
Johnson, and no doubt, had pledges to that
effect, from the Tennessee traitor; but
these were broken, as "Mr. Johnson ap
pears to have a Fpccial faculty for betray
ing his friends. Lane was very sanpuine
about building up a great Johnson party,
and, on Gov. Crawford s visit last
spring to the capitol, consulted him
about it. Crawford promptly refused
all lot or part in such party, and
the Kansas men here treated Lane and
his party with studied contempt. About
two weeks after his veto vote, Senator
Pomeroy, his colleague, called ou Presi
dent Johnson and was very cordially
received, and obtained the nomination of
three men. "When their names came up
in the Senate, Lane was greatly astonished.
He left his scat and went to another Sen
ator who was buying patronage with votes,
and said the President h:id betrayed them,
and it was not worth while to Etick to him
that he had nominated Pomeroy's men
instead of his. When he left here he
took his private papers, and pcoplo who
knew him apprehended suicide, from the
deep disappointment he evinced. He
betrayed his party to secure Johnson's
r T. T i . i-
favor.
juimson cetrayeu Mm, and und-
ing himself without influence, neglected,
insulted and coldly passed by the people
who had been wont to flock in crowds to
welcome him, ho sought refuge in death.
Ileprcsentative Clark, of Kansas, visited
tho State about the time Lane went home,
and was received with public honors and
acclaims, while Lane found himself a
private individual, and could not bear it.
The lesson will ecarcely be loot on ambi
tious politicians who may wish to secure
the royal favor of Andy the Great.
The "Old Flan1 is the title of a
spirited campaign paper published by
Messrs. M'Clure & Stoncr, Chambersburg,
Pa. Persons wishing to keep posted in
State politics, during tho canvass, will
find them served up in the most readable
shapo :s tuis spicy uiuo weesiy.
i Dan Rice has written n letter in
which he cxpre?se a willingness to accept
a people's nomination fyr Congress in the
19th District.
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20, 18CG.
A Salient RcImi tt nfowiu
Boolittlc, Kantian & Co., and
tlie J'liiladelpiila August Con
vention. f.
ATTOPNEV GENKRAl PPEED KEFUSES TO GIVE
HIS AID TO THOSE WHO ARE ATTEMPTING TO
BREAK UP THE UNION OBO AN1ZATIOX.
Washington, July 15, 18GG.
To Hon. J. 11. Doolittlc, Chairman, ,J-r..-
Sik : I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of the 10th inst.,
. .... "
witn a printed copy ot a call tor a .National
Union Convention, to be held at Phila
delphia, on the. 14th day of August next.
You request, in caso the call, and the
principles enunciated in it, meet my
approval, that I reply at my earliest con
venience. This language would seem to
imply that no answer is desired if I do
not approve tho call and the principles
avowed in it; in other words, that a fail
ure to reply may be interpreted as a dis
approval, not only of the call, but of each
and all of the principles announced in it.
This is a position iri which I am unwil
ling to be placed, when I approve of
many of tho principles set forth iu the
call and yet do not approve of the call
itself. I will briefly state my reasons ;
first premising that I do not recognize tho
very respectable gentlemen who have
made this call as the acknowledged organs
of the great Union party of the country.
Since the outbreak of tho terrific
struggle from which the country has now
emerged we have had a -National Union
party that has exhibited more devotion,
made greater sacrifices, and manifested
more unselnsh patriotism than any party
ever did previously in the history of the
world. That party is still in being, with
its organization intact, and its organs
known ; and as that party, by its faith,
its doctrines, and its exertions, has, in the
tace ot the propnesies ot half tho New
and all tho Old World, faved the Gov
ernment and the republican institutions
ot our common country from demoralize
tion, and indeed from utter ruin. lv vin
dicating at all hazards the primordial
theory of the eternal, indissoluble union
of the States, through which only can a
particle of the theory of State rights ever
DC maintained and carried out ; it would
appear to me to be still the only or at anv
rate tne most cuectuai means, as far as a
a party can do it, of finally adjusting all
the remaining minor and "unsettled mat
ters of reconstruction consistently with
the requirements of the theory mentioned.
This party is the same to-dav as it. wn
in the days of its trial ; the samo party
now as wnen. nut a tew short months aco,
it elected Lincoln and Johnson, and the
majority of the present Congress ; and as
I acted with it then, for nanmmint rno.
sons, my senso of duty demands that I
remain and act w;tn it now.
Tho pith and marrow of the nrosent
call, I should say, tends toward a conven
tion to lorm a party ior sustaining, not
the Government in its entirety (as has
beer, the mission of the Union party),
but a department of the Government.
And here I must take the liberty of add
ing, that I can hardby conceive of auy
sadder spectacle, under the cri-is of pres
ent circumstances, than that of the tried
Union party of this country becoming
dislocated and broken up by divisions, or
that of one branch of the Govern
ment of the country taking an isolated
position upon questions of deep and com
mon interest, and placing itself in hostile
conflict with co-ordinate departments.
For these and other reasons which
might be mentioned, I cannot join in the
call for the convention in Philadelphia.
I have said that many of the principles
stated in the call arc, in my view, unob
jectionable. I will n?t stop to criticise
those which aro objectionable, but content
myself with stating that the call fails to
take any notice of one of tho great issues
now before tho American people. I allude
to the question whether the several States
shall ratify or reject the last amendnJcnt
proposed by Congress to the Constitution
of the United States. This is a grave and
all-important question. The issue upon
it cannot bo avoided. It should be placed
fairly and squarely before the people.
The failure to take ground upon so im
portant and all-absorbing a question mu-t
bo attributed cither to a desire to avoid
the issue, or as a declaration of belief and
policy against tttc adoption ol tho amend
ment. Deing myself earnestly and deci
dedly in favor of the adoption of the-
mf I - - - -
amendment by the States, I cannot go
into an organization that would cither
openly opposo that measure or that would
smother it by avoiding its discussion.
I must also add, that no man is more
desirous than I am to attain the entire
restoration of the American Union, with
its practical workings in more perfect
harmouy and concord than ever, and the
surety, as far as mortal affairs can be made
sure, of endless perpetuity in the future.
Tho blessings to flow from such a Union
are countless and inestimable. . lut. such
aUnion, consistent within itself, maintain
ed by the universal consent of all classes
and tactions, and laughing to fcorn both
the assaults of foes internal or external,
and the ravages of time and change, will
only be obtained by sternly retracting
every departuro from, or compromise with,
the supreme and general idea of the
American fundamental law, the Constitu-
lv.wif AI1TASCE.
NUMBER 40.
tion. That general idea consists, in brief,'
of the political liberty and equality oh
mankind under tho law. Such, and'suc
only, can be the Union, the nationality
that will put in form tlie magnificent an
lofty dreams of the American continental
mind, aud fulfill in the future tho highest
efforts of the present and the past. It is
not the vague delusion that tho right3 of
the Slates need doctoring. The American
theory cuhniuates properly in the sacred
ncss of tho rights of individuals nf p1i
single individual. That, yfter all, is what
Washington carved cut with the sword,
and Jefferson, filtering it through his
subtle and free mind, drew up and put
on record with the pen.
It is well knowa that in the political
and legal history of the United States, the
only departures or compromises of tho
kind alluded to have been those in tho
interests of slavery, and of its manifold
incidents. I do not, of course, propose
to go over the thousand-tiracs-told talc of
the past sixty years. To-day, slavery, as
a confessed legality, is, as we all know, no
more. Dut some of the most important
of its incidents or compromises still re
main blots and incongruities upon tho
law. What equitablo reason can be given
why these incidents also should not bo
erased 1 Time was that when the brains
were out the man would die ; but now wo
see the Jimbs demanding to live and move,
as if the nervous centre still existed.
The persistent attempt to keep in the
Constitution the rule of an unequal and
unfair basis of representation is perilous
to the future peace of the country, and
will surely cause a chafing sense of injust
ice as it is continued. -
Furthermore, the high mission cf tho
Union party, as avowed" ia the Daltimoro
Convention, to "extirpate slavery," in
cludes the removal of all the hateful and
anti-popular excrescences engrafted by that
institution for its own selfish aggrandize
ment upon our free national laws and pol
ity. That high mission and obligation,
cannot be accomplished until all which
slavery has so engrafted is cut out ; for
until then slavcry is not "extirpated."
Earnestly sympathizing with the men
who look to a law of equal representation
as the only guarantee both for popular
rights and popular acquiescence, I would
feel myself out of place in a party that
favors a basis of representation giving
peculiar and unrighteous advantages to a
portion of the body politic, to the detri
ment and dissatisfaction of the whole.
Uniting with you and all pood men in
the soul-felt desire that peace, prosperity,
and that amicable brotherhood which is
moro than any worldly prosperity, may
soon prevail, and continue unbroken
through our beloved common country,
that, former enmities shall die out and ha
forever lost, and that all over the broaa
domain of America equal laws shall pro
tect equal rights to all mankind,
I have the honor to subscribe mvself
your obedient servant,
JAMES SPEKD.
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The Prussian "Needle Gun." The
"needle sun" of Prussia, of which we
have read so much, is a breech-loidcr.
In firing it there is a double force exerted
by gunpowder and fulminating or detona
ting powder. The lock is so constructed
that a pin or needle passes through the
charge of powder, and strikes upon tho
base of the ball, in the hollow of which
is placed the fulminating powder. Tho
explosion fires the gunpowder, and the
force of tho projectile is claimed to bo
terribly increased. It will, therefore, be
seen that the "needle gun" dispenses with
the percussion caps; the ball contains all
the detonating powder necessary, and
thereby there is a saving of valuable time.
The ramrod is also dispensed with. The
advantage claimed in the present cam
paign is that the Prussians can fire with
three times the rapidity of tho Austrian?.
lhis makes the odds in a battle tremend
ous, and to it is ascribed the Prussian suc
cess, lhere is no doubt that the Aus
trian? arc brave and stubborn, but they
cannot, by dogmatic slowness, overcome
the advantage of celerity.
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Irishmen arc invited to step into tho
ine of progress. The Fenians of Chicago.
on the 25th, Tesolved that "the Fenian
Jirotherhood i3 in favor of universal
ibcrty, and will support no party that
djes not stand up for the liberty of all
men. I he Senators ot the Jirotherhood
in the city declare that those who would
prevent liberty to Ireland cannot bo its
friends in America. e suppose, there
fore, tho Chicago Fenians are sound
Irishmen- There is hopo for Ireland.
The man who votes for John W.
Geary for Governor, will be performing a
like service for the safety of the Govern
ment as was rendered by the man who
volunteered to swell the army which Maj.
Gen. Geary led against rebellion.
The Pittsburg Gazelle has a subscri
ber who has taken a copy of that paper
for the last eighty years. He has a cer
tainty of going to heaveo, as the Gazette
says he has always paid his subscription
regularly.
An effort is making in Washington
to put forward General Sherman a tho
Democratic candidate for the next Presi
dency. His own consent has not, howev
er, been obtained co this use of his name.
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