VOLUME 3. jftfot poetry. From the Lottitvilla Journal. FAREWELL. Farewell, farewell, a long adieu, I whisper ere you go; Its eeho falls upon my heart, Though whispered soil and low. Ilark, ye'. What mournful sound is that? It is the parting bell, And sighing, throbbing, on its breast, Lies my heart's s d farewell. Such a moaning and a groaning Is heard from this old bell. How it throbs and sadly sobs As it groans the long farewell. The gloomy hour comes rolling by When you and 1 must sever.' Wc, who have loved so long and well, Perhaps part now forever. The winter winds in black array Go wildly shrieking by, And as they pass their hollow voice Is whispering good bye. Hear the sighing and the crying Of the hollow winter wind, As round your heart, ere we part, Their icy aims arc twined. And must wc part ? Well, be it go; Alas '. 1 know it well The rod of separation moves, . Aud L hear the parting bell. We part, I fear, to meet no more Oil earth, where pleasures fade. Hut m\.-j we meet where crowns of light Aud wreaths of truth are made Where bright day ne'er lades away Where holy angels dwe 1 — Where spirits move thro' fields of love Where's breathed no sad farewell. £ctcrt £targ. THE FEDERAL CHAMELEON. A SKETCH OF SCOUTING STRATEGY. One evening about an hour after the sun had gone down a couple of stout men, dressed in soiled rebel uniforms, holding in his hand a good Aus trian rifle, tapped at the door of a small frame building near the C road in Virginia. The knock was answered by an old woman whose face was almost concealed %iy the tangled masses of her gray un oodlbcd hair. "And what Hlo you want here?" she exclaimed as her deep set eyes flashed on the two mon. "I haven't the smallest bit of johnny cake in the house to offer ye, for it was all-" "No, no," interrupted one of the sol diers, "we don't want anything to eat, but we want you to tell u», and in quick time too, whether or not you've seen a slight but strong looking slip of a man go by here of late." " Dressed in blue, and carrying a double-barreled rifle," added the other. "Hey, hey,!" cried the hag, lifting her hands and speaking in a sharp angry voice, "if you hadn't interrupted me, I reckon you would a heard uie speak of just now, as he was the very man who came here and bought all my cakes. It was about two hours ago, and—" "Which way did he go after he had jeft you ?'' enquired both men eagerly. "Before I answer that question, you must tell me who he is," said the old woman with the curiosity natural to her eex. "He's a celebrated Union scout whom we call the 'Federal Chameleon,' because he changes liis uniform so often. Some limes it is blue, other times grey, and he has even been seen wearing the disguise of an old farmer. He has shot more of onr men than is pleasant, and we have a roving commission from our colonel to go and hubt after him, and capture him, jf we can, either dead or alive. And •now we have replied to you," continued the speaker a little impatiently, "we de mand that you answer our questions and— "Demandinterrupted the hag in shrill piercing tones. "Is that the proper way to speak to a woman—an old woman At that ?" "Come, eomc, answer us if yon please," cried the soldier in a milder tone. "I iinean no harm—its only my way of speak ing." "Wdll perhaps I may forgive, and per haps not," said the old woman, shaking tar head. "How lar is it to your camp from here?" "What is that to you ? what has that *o do—' ■"There yoa go again with your cursed incivility?" shrieked the hag fteroely, •"hat you shall anawer ay question be fore you get another single word out of Die. Sow, then, how far is your camp from here, a*4 how many Men have you in and around fc? I intend to carry your fellows some corn eakes, d'ye see, and I want to kaow the number of wottths I have to code for." "Oh, in that case," said the rebel, "I May 12, 1866 ) The news from Memphis filled the soles uv the Dimocrisy uv Kentucky with un dilooted joy. There at last the Etbio piad wuz taught that to him nt least the spellin book is a seeled volume, and that the gospel is not for him save as ho gets it filtered through a sound constooslinel Dimecratio preecher. We met at the Corners last night to jollify over the brave acts uv our Memphis frends and I wiu the speeker. I addressed theni on the subjick uv the nigger—his wants, ntcd«, and capacities, a sulijiek, permit me to state, I flattir myself I understand. Probably no man in the Voonited States he* given the nigger more study, or devoted mom time to a paslient inves tigation uv this species uv the brute ereashen, than the undersigned. I have contemplated him sittin and standin, sleepin and wakin, at labor and in idle ness, in every shape in fact, ccptin e* a free man, wich sitqashen is toodisgustin for a proud Cauoashen to contemplate him, and when he aril before my mind's eye in that shape, I alluz turned shudrin away. I had proceeded in my discourse with a flowin sale. Its easy demostratin any thin your nwjcncc wants to belecvc, and wich their interest lies in. I hod gone on and proved concloosivoly from a com parison uv the fizzikle structer uv the Afriken nnd the Oaucashcu that the nig ger wuz a beast, and not a human bein. and that consekently we hed a perfcck rite to catch him, and tame hiui, and yoose him, ez we do other wild animals. Finishin this hed uv my discourse, I glode easily into a history uv the flood—ex plained how Noer got tite, and cust 11am, condcmnin bim and his posterity to serve his brethren forever wich I in sisted give us an indubitable warranty deed to all uv em for all time. I warmed up on this elokently.—"Be hold my brethren the beginnin uv Dim ocrasy." I sed, "Fust the wine (wich was the antetype uv our whiskey) wuz the beginnin. Wine (or whiskey) wuz necessary to the foundation uv the party, and it wuz forthcoroin. But the thing waa not complete. It did its work on Noer, but yet there wuz a achin void, — there wux no Nigger in the world, and without nigger there could be no Dimoc rasy. Ham, my friends, wuz born a brother ev Japhet and wuz like unto him, and nv course could not be a slave. Whiskey wuz the instrument to bring him down and it fetched him. Ham looked upon his father and wux cost, and the void wuz filled. There was nigger and whiakey and upon them the foonda shens uv the party wuz laid broad and deep. Methinks, my brethren, when Ham went out from the presence uv his father, black in the face as the ace uv spades ef I may be allowed to yoose the expression, bowing his back to tb« bur- dens Shem and Japhet piled unto him with alacrity, that Dimocrasy, then in the womb uv the future, kicked lively and clapped his hands. There wui a nigger to enslave, and whiskey to bring men down to the pint uv enslavin him. There wns! whiskey to make wen incapa ble uv labor—whisky to accompany horse racin, and poker playin, and sich nation al amoosements, and a nigger enst espe cially that he mite sweit to furnish the means Observe the fitness ur things ! Bless tho Lord, my brethren for whiskey and the nigger, for without cm there could be no Dimoer'wy, and yoor beloved speaker mite hev owned a farm in Noo Jersey and bin a votin the whig ticket to-day." At this pint a venerable old frccdinan who was a sittin quietly in the mectin aril, and asked if he wight ask a ques tion. Thinkio what a splendid opportoo nity there would be uv denionstratin the sooperiority uv the Caucashen over the Afriken race, I answered, "yes,"' gladly. "Wall! Mas'r," «cd the old imbecile, "is I a beast?" "My venerable friend there ain't nary doubt of it." ' Is my old woman an old beastcss, too?" "Indubitably," replied I. "And my children, is they little beasts and beastegses?" "Onquestionably." "Den a yaller feller ain't but half a beast, is he?" "My friend."sod I,"that question is"— "Hold on," seil ho, "wat I wanted to get at ii> dis: —dere's n heap uv yaller fellers in dis section, whose fadders must hev bin white men, and cz der mudders wuz all beastesses, I want to know whod det dcraint no law in Kentucky agin"— "Put him out!" "Kill the black wretch 1" shouted a largo majority uv them who hed been the heaviest slave owners under the good" old patriarkle system, and they wont for the old repro bate. At this pint a offioer uv the Freed mon's Rurow, who we hadn't observed, rix, and buslin with laughter, remarked that his venerable friend shood have a chance to bo hocrd. We respeck that Burow, particularly as the officers gener ally have a hundred or two bayonets within rcech, and chokin our wrath, per mitted ourselves to be further insulted by the cussed nigger, who, grinuiu from car to car, ri* and pcrceeded : "My white friends," scd he, "dat pears to be an objection to my reference to subjeck uv dis mixin with beasts, so I wout press do matter. But I askyoo did Nocr hev three sons 112" "lie did," sed I. " Uerry good, wuz dey all bruddcrg ?" "Uv course !" . ''Hum came from dc same fuddcr and mudderus deodder two?' "C er-t-a-i-n.l-y. "Well den it seems to mo, not fully understmdin tho seripter, dat if we is beasts and beastesses dat yoo .is bunsts and beastesses, also, and dat after all we is brudders." And the disgustin old wretch threw his arms around my neck and kissod me, eallin me his ''long lost brudder." The officer of tho Frecdnion's Buroo laft vociferously and so did a dozen or two soldiers in the crowd likewise, and the awjence slunk out without adjournin tho mcetin; one of em remarkin audibly that hti had noticed one thing, that Dimoerisy was extremely weak whenever it under took to defend itself with fax or revela shen. For his part, he'd done with ar gyment. He wanted niggers, because he cood wallop em, and make em do his work without payen cnj,.wich he coodent do with white men. I left the mectio house convlnat that the South, who worked the nigger, leav ing us Northern Demokrats to defend the system, hed the best end uv the bargain. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, Lait Pastor of the Church of the Noo Dispensation-! —An old fellow in a neighboring town, who is original in all things, especially egotism and profanity, and who took part in the law great rebellion, was one day blowing in the village tavern to a crowd, of admiring listeners, and boasting of bis many bloody exploits, when he was inter rupted by the question: "I say, old Joe, how many rebs did you kill during the war ?" "How many did I kill, Sir? how many rebs did I kill ? Well I don't know just 'jactly how many; bat I know this much —I killed u many 0' them as they did 0' ine!" —ln the exuberance of his rage at some one who had offended him, a veugo ful individual said: "By Jove, I'll have revengel'll give his little boy a tin horn." A one armed soldier in lowa cuts and cord* two and a half cords of wood per day. He offera a wager of fifty dol lars that he can split one hundred and fifty rails a day. Pittsburgh Female College. Annunl Kerinon by ihc Rev. llrrrick Johnson, nt Ch rial's M. E. Church. The commencement exercises of the Pittsburgh Female College, which began on Thursday 14th inst, embraced an an nual sermon, which was delivered on the afternoon of tho 17th inst., in Christ's I Methodist Episcopal Church, on l'cnn street, by tho Rev. Ilerrick Johnson, pastot of the third (N. S.) Presbyterian Church, of Pittsburgh. Tho pupils of the College occupied a portion of the cen tre aisle of the church, aud among their number was the graduating class of 1800, whose names nre as follows : Misses Ma ry T. Dihm, Classical, Allegheny; Olivia J. Smith, Classical, Sharpsburg; Vir ginia L. Stevens, Classical, Zcno, Ohio; Elizabeth Dalzell, English, Enon Valley; Eliza 11. Duffy, English, New Castle; Caroline 11. Lynch, English, Allegheny ; Elizabeth D. M'Ccy, English, Biairsville; Mary 11. Pumphrey, English, Pittsburgh; S. Elizabeth Smith, English. Sharpsburg, and Annie M. Steen, English, Pittsburgh. A few minutes before three o'clock, the Rev. E. B. Snyder, pastor of Christ's M. E. Church, Rev. I. C. Pershing. I). D., and Rev. Herrick Johnson, entered the pulpit, and the services were commen ced by a voluntary on the organ , after which the quartette choir rendered Ilum mell's solo and quartette ; "Thou art our Father," from Baumbach's sacred quat tette collection. The 990 th hymn com mencing . "Jesus »h«ll relj»n where'er the nun Does liiit successive journeys run," Ac.," was sung by the congregation. The Rev. E. B. Snyder then offered a fervent prayer, after which tho congregation sung tho 99Gthhymn, commencing: • "Hasten, Lord, the glorious time When beneath Messiah's sway," kc. \ The Rev. Herrick Johnson then deliv ered the annual sermon, taking the fol lowing text: "Wo to thee, O Land, when thy Kiog is a child." Ecrktiaifes, tenth chapter, ami sixteenth vcrsr. Tho rever end gentlemen's theme was . "The stabil ity of a Nation secured by the nental and moral activity of the governing power." He said, the land rcfcrrod to in the text is the"land"of Persia. The word"child'' did not mean a child iu years, but in un derstanding and in heart; in intellectual power; in wisdom and knowledgo. Ac cording to tho Israelitish standard ; ac cording to the standard of God's law, even the best of the Persian Kings were more boys than men. "They are not kings who have thrones, but they who know ho vto govern." One of the prophets of God, declared of the reign of Hczckiah, a king of Israel, that wisdom and knowl edge should be the stability of his times and the strength of his deliverances; wis dom, meaning among the old Hebrews, true piety—the fear of God. Historic fact subsequently confirmed and corrobo rated the prophetic utterance. Ilezeki ah, ascending the throne when his people wore pol'.tioally subject to the Assyrians, and morally under the bondage of idola try, and freeing them from both, was one of tho most worthy, honored and efficient kings that ever swayed sceptre. He was magnified in tho sight of all nations.— Great reforms, the overthrow of idolatry, the progress of public improvements dis cnthrallmcnt from grevinus political op pression, distinguished deliverances, and finally, years of uninterrupted prosperity and peace, make his reign memorable in history. He was buried in the chiefest of the sepulchres of tho sons of David, and over his tomb even tho King of Kings pronounced a glowing and peer leas eulogy. An understanding that qual ified him tor the high and perilous duties of sovereignty, and a heart aver loyal to Him who sways the sceptre of universal empire—in other words, knowledge and wisdom, these were declared by lerael'a seer to have been the stability of his times and the strength of his deliverances—the voice of the prophet is the voice of God. These possessed by the ruling power will secure the perpetuity of any people, and fix the foundations of government as upon • basis of adamant. This was the clear voice of history, ringing it down the ccn. turies, that these and these alone arc tho conditions of stable and enduring nation ality. "History is philosophy teaching by examples." Abstract prinoipla is of ten embodied and made concrete in his toric fact. Theories find form and ex pression in events and external truth is realized and made actual in the world's life, while piety and knowledge belonged to the governing power of th« nation.— Judah prospered. 80 have other King* doms of the earth. So will Amorwa.— But the government ip other cases has been a monarchy. Here, where is it ? In the people ! The poople is King Each mangoes to make up the sovereign. Here, therefore, wisdom and knowledge, td be tfce stability of our timc? ; fhould belong to the people. The people must not be "a child." Intelligence and God liness must permeate the en'ire body po~ litie—pervade aud leave the whole mass; ia fact, there must be a mental and moral activity throughout, all the ramifications of society, or icilh »M, those conditions of the governing power arc wanting, that secure the stability of a nation. This being true, it was well that ours was the age, and ours the land, and where such wide diffusion af knowledge is possible. We were standing in history where self aud representative Government, freedom of conscience, the separation of ecclesi astical and civil power, and. education lor the masses are no longer Utopean dreams of wild enthusiasts, but realizeJ matters of fact, challenging the world's recognition. It was true a curse is in tho world for plucking fruit off the tree of knowledge, yet that forbidden indulgence so perver ted conscience and beclouded reason, that to-day, ignorance was the curse of God. Tho world was being slowly educated up to this idea. To this tho race had been tending for eeuturies, and men were be ing oompelled to admit that in the broad est aud highest senso "ignorance is in deed tho curse of God— knowledge the wing wherewith wo fly to hoaven." Tho revorend gentleman adverted briefly to discovery, invention and reform as sever, ally contributing their quota toward this desired result, showing that wherever the governing pawcr lies, there must be in t*U!gtiue to discorn and virtue to adopt that which is wisest and best; that gov ernment must bo thus conditioned or free dom is lost in anarchy or despotism. The dangers that had threatened our Ameri can national life in tho past had arisen in largo part from ignorance. Whore ever discussion had been tho greatest, mind the most active, knowledge the most universal; wherever the cause of general education had been best support ed, there the pillars of State had stood the firmest. Hut, the education, lie said, must be of tho heait as wall as of the head. Moral as well a.< mental activity must character ise tho governing power. Koligion was no less essential than intelligence. Wo nocded and must havo a sanctified schol arship. Our philosophy—so much of it, at all oventafßi is political and practical, must ho pervaded by the philosophy of the Gospel and baptised with the spirit and power of true Christianity. An ed ucation with no heart in it was a perilous thing. Knowledge without religion was a Godless education. "History has scorod with her most precious oursos." "God only is great," said Massilon. True, and hence man is only truly great as he is like God. Revolutionary France declared the throne iu the heavens vacant, and made proclamation that there is no God. The Sabbath was changed to a decade, and the sanctuary to a stable. The Bible was paraded through the streets in mock solemnity and placed on a pyre to be burned. Society was reft of its safe guards ; the goddess of reason was en throncd for worship, and the maddest vi olence committed under the sacred name of liberty. If wo would pcrpetuato the basis of our government we must shun a godless education and a perverted Chris tianity. A genuine Christianity keeps side by side with learning. There must not be tho least compromise with infidel ity or skepticism- A president of one of our colleges rings out the true doctrine when he says : "Wo shall not apologise for cbrietianity, nor treat it even as a handmaid of natural science, but as the queen regent over all our studies and our lives ; our richest possession in lime, our only hope for ctarnity." Ho wished for the ear of every man of wealth in this begrimed and busy city, and exclaimed . "O, that the great beat of our trip-ham mers, and the busy r ; ng of our anvil, and the rattle of our machinery, and the buzx, and whirl, and roar of our busy life could be arrested long enough to make man feci that investments for mind aud heart yield a richer return and pay a better percent, than investments for stomach and pocket —that this community would be far moro advanced to-day, even in its material in terests, if its accumulated wealth, long ago, had been freely given to build up a university for young men and a college for young women, that should have com- | pelled for the State and nation their rec ognition as among tho foremost and most distinguished of tho hooies ot science and of sanctified scholarship in the land." Mr. Johnson then briefly discussed the proportion that tho individual should not be lost in the piasa—tho per Mtnin the people. We talked so much of tbe nation, the race and the age, that wo were apt to lose sight of tlio importance of the sepcrate particulars ol'which they are compose). It was a faul mistake to suppose that so long as a large majority of the people are intelligent snd hoof t NUMBER 29 wc * ro exposed to no (laagers. The re pent crisis through whiuh we have pass ed should teach us better than this.' In a laud like America, where people ia king, and where with every ( ehila there are glorious possibilities, there being no royal riiud to place and honor, woman's influence was the mightiest and most po tential. Upon her rested the responsi bility of deciding the question whether the king shall be "a child," or vitalised with tho energies, or ennobled and adorn with tha graces of intellectual and mor al manhood. llow important then that she should be pri.viledged with tho'most geuerous und thorough culture; that to the giaces of her person should be added the richer charraniental cultivation, and above nil, that her scholarship should b« baptised into the spirit and power of th.» holy religion o» Jesus Christ. The rev erend gentleman addressed a few words of congratulation and advice to the grad uating class, and closed his discourse. The oonclu ling devotional exercises were then observed, the congregation join ing in the 1031st hymn, commencing: ' while flrv all mankind we prat, Of I'Tefy rliiDf mi<| count, O, he.tr «-< for our native l*ml— TIIH lind lore the muwt." A Pen Picture of Thad. Stevens. Thaddcus Stevens is just coming in from his committee room, and looks so feeble, the great old man, it makes ma sorry. The men abroad who assail him with »uch ferocity, if they could see him now, would be quite disarmed. His spi rit is not bated, his sarcasm cuts as keen ly as ever, his wit flashes as brightly, his great intellect seems in no wise dimmed; yet the hand of Time lies heavy upon him. The will which never swerves, which always conquers and rules men, is powerless to resist the pressure of pain and the infirmity nf age. Although no casual observer would think it, Thaddeus Steve-;* is over seventy years of ago. A comely wig robs him of the hoary crown which always hallows tho head of age. His face in outlino approaches the Indi". an Type. The equsra, perceptive brow, the deeply-set eyes, the high cheekbones, the broad jaw and saturnine mouth are most marked. The fape in repose is stern, qnt not savage. The " sardonio smile" that wo read so much about is a very human and kindly smile, after all. Thaddeus Stevens' inimitable sarcasm and wit seem purely intellectual gifts, flames of tho held, free from all smoke of personal malice. ne will say the most savage things of a man's acts or opinions, without one emotion of ill will toward tqe man. He will annihilate * member in a speech, and then clapping him on the shoulder, ask the discomfited brother togo with him to Innoh. You hear of his many kindly deeds from those who know him best; of the gentle char ities which blossom along his private path, of tfie many poor boys whom he has lifted from poverty and obscurity to gire then help and a motixe in life. For many years he has been a powerin the nation, a leader in the House, marshaling in the van the hoets of liberty. No man is mora eagerly listened to. No man perhaps would be so positively missed if he ware to pa tin forevor from the Congressional Hall. He has siood here so long, his in tellect is so powerful, his personality so positive, his utterances so unique, his spirit so masterful, his memory will not pass away with his presence, nor his name with his generation. He is is one whose sayings will live long after bitn. Hie jeweled witticiama will be Bet in many a speech, and gleam in many a Congress, when tbe brain which pave them birth has gone back to dust. But the old lion of the House is fighting his last battles. One who has fought so long and so bravely does not like to con fess that he is at last worsted by Tim#— that even he has found a conqueror. To hrve lived in the world, to have been with it, and of it so long, to love it only to leave it, bow bard. To a heart broken by its own burdens, death comes a heal ing and a consolation; but to a man who has sought U> find the satisfaction of life in public spheres, whose activities have been expended ou the issues of the age, white the grand problems of his time re main unsolved, and tho east victories, of the future yet uncoasuannated—to him death is as unwelcome as it is irremedia ble. Such a man has no time to die.— Xeto York IntlrpvmleHt. —"Old Cooper" is a Dutchman, and like iu«ny another man, of whatever na tionality, has a wife that is "som#." One day the "old mau" got into some trouble with a neighbor, which resulted in% fight. The neighbor was getting the better of the "old man," which Coop er's wife was uot slow to see. The -old lu/in" was resisting hi? euemy to the best of his ability, when his wife broke out with: • I " "Lie still, Cooper ! lie still I.lf be kills .you I'll KUC him % damages J"