VOLUME 3. £ctrrt poetry. FAREWELL TO MAJ. GEN. HANCOCK ON TAK ING LEAVE OF THE 2d CORPS. BT or 818 riCJHTBM. Ah with sorrow the lono mother i« parting ... tkr fond frvurtte child though a yoong hwpir bride, AimeTM the true friend when his comrade la starting For wealth or for glory o'er ocean's dark tld*— J*o our hearts now in sorrow dark shaddow oppressing, For the hero who guides ns t» conquest no mor«?, each eve fnunaa a tear arul e*rh bossom a bbMsing For Hancock, the pride of the bold Second Corps. Jffe remember the perils from which your skill «a»ed ns, Ilow yon felt for your troop* M the wire for nts son. alow, when foemen loud cheering with gallant pi life braved til, *■ I'on let! the fierce cfiarge and the victory w«n. Though life's pathway may lead thee to >tiil brighter For pure la the record and glorious the story Of Hancock, the pride of the bold Second Corps. Tarewell! oh. how painful to burst our connection, But dutv compelled it, and sadly we part; But nothing ran never the bond »»f affection That t>inmb/' Thus miserably perished John Pencil, who refused mercy when his own brother was the supplicant. Can any opo say his fate was not merited ? The True Issue. As the political campaign for the Con gressional elections opens it is essential to remember that the paramount question is still the reconstruction of tho Union.— The proposed tariff will be both vigor" ously attacked and defended within the lines of the Union party ; but the tariff question, however vital to onr prosperity when united, is necessarily secondary to that of Union itself. Wc have no right, therefore, to allow our fadings and con victions upon that subject to influence our action upon one which is more im portant. To vote for a candidate who is opposed to protection, or who is an abso lute free-trader, but who thinks that Con gress has no right to prescribe conditions for the restoration of the late rebel Slates to their full relations in the Union, is to pteler the lesser question to the greater. It is always possible to revise or repeal a tariff. Hut the conditions upon which reorganization is to bo founded can nei ther be amended nor abolished. The vital bond of the Union party is not financial but political. Those who hold with the Vrihunt for industrial pro tection for instance, or with the Eliciting Post for industrial freedom, nro both working together for certain great polit ical results which can be achieved only by their faithful union. If, therefore, in any Union districts the friends of the Tribune should say that they wculd vote only for n candidate who favored protec tion, and those of.the J'ust that they would vote for a Copperhead rather than j a Protectionist, they would givo thatdis •riot to th.i common enemy, and be re sponsible for the aonseqiionoc*. > Of course it is the duty of our frionds in Congress to make our burdens of this kind light. They can not honorably for get that the Uniou party is neither a free trade nor a protective party. The hoart-1 iest Union men differ radically upon tho tariff question. Whatever, therefore, by serious changes in the system, tends to excite feeling and acrimonious debate j upon tliis subject tonds to a division or paralysis of the pirty. Thus to increasa the rate of duties so materially that they become virtually protective or prohibi tive, and to pass the bill by a party vote, is, so far, to identify the policy of the Union party with protection, a policy wlitcii vast numbers of the party can not and will not support. Such an act is a stupendous political blunder. But if Congress makes so gross a mis take it need not be repeated by the party itself. Every individual Union man should reflect th;.t such an issue is not a party question, and while he would natu rally prefer a Representative who sympa thized with his views upon the subject, he must not forget that it is still better to take a candidate who is wrong upon the tariff than one who'is wrong upon recon struction. Our taxes must be high for many years to come. But we do not complain, because, wo say, they are tho price of onr national unity. Let us then first certainly secure that unity, and then we can proceed to discuss how we may most easily pay the taxes.— Bar pert Wffkly. —The Democrats who favor the Au gust Convention to be held in Philadel- phia, insist that in doing so, they yield none of their allegiance to their old party organization. What they want is to ben efit the Democratic by breaking up the Uepubliean party. What do the Repub licans who have beeu seduced into this movement, think of this position ? —lf it would take thiee lines to fill this column, how many would it take to make . a pie ? THE DEVIL AND THE LAWYERS. The Detll came up to earth one day. And into the court-house, he wended his way, Just as an attorney, with very grave fhee, Whs proceeding to argue the points iu the case. Now a lawyer, his majesty never had seen, For to his dominions none ever had been, And he felt very curiona the reason to know. Why none had been sent to the regions below. Twas the fault of lita agents.'his majesty thought, Why none of these lawyers had ever beeuCaught, And for his own pleasure had a desire, To come to tire (tirtli, MM the reason inquire. Well, the lawyer rosV wffli a visnge so grave, Made out his opponent a consummate knave ; And Ihe Devil was really greatly amused, To hear the attorney so greatly übased . As »Aou aa the speaker had come to a close, The counsel opposing then fiercely arose. And lieaflM such abuse on the head of the first, And made hiui a villain, of all men the worst. Tlius they quarreled, contended and argued so long, 'Twas ha rd to determine the one that wits wrong. And concluding he'd heard quite enough of the fuss. Old Nick turned away and soliloquized thus:— "If all they bav# aaid of eaeh other be true, Tho Devil has sorely been robbed of his due ; I'm satisfied now, 'tin all very well, For the lawyer* would rain the mornls of hell. "That have puzzled the court with their villainous cavil. And I'm free to confess, they have puzzled the Devil I My agents are right to let lawyers alone; If I had them, IWy'ij swindle me out of my throne." WIT AND WISDOM. —A round man may sometimes be cor nered . —A Cabinet motto—the more haste the lest Speed. —An object of "interest."—A girl whose interest is three thousand a year. —lf a man cheats thee once, shame on him ; 11 he cheats thee twice, shame on thee. —One who is half roan, half dog, will bow to the rich man, an J bow-wow to tho poor. ~ —Prentice asked, why don't the plan ets cut off tho comet's tail when it pass es them. They .all have axes." —lf a tuau is "steeped in poverty," won't it take all the strength out of him? Smith.—Brown's a regular wag, is'nthe? He's fond of cracking his jokes. Itobifon.—Yes, he cracks his, jokes—that's the reason they're so bad. A newspaper recently contained tho following, in its notices to correspondents. "Truth is crowded out of our columns this week." —"Shall I cut this loin of muttou sad dlewise ?" said a gentleman. "No," said one of his guests, "cut it bridlewise, for then I may chaneo to get a bit in my mouth." —JJooth, the tragedian, had his nose broken some years since. A lady once said to him, "I like your acting, but I cannot get over your nose. "No wonder" said he,"the bridge is gone." —A great j>oet says that "the moun tains stand fixed." We know, however, that it is no uncommon thing for them to ''slope." —Snooks says the prettiest sewing machine ho ever saw was about seven-* teen years old, with short sleeves, low dress, and gaiter boots on. —The latest remedy for baldness is to use brandy externally until the hair grows, and take it internally to cleucb the roots. —"Pompay," said a good uatured gen tleman to his colored man,"l did not know until to-day you had been whipped last week." ' Did'nt you, massa ?" re plied I'ompey, "I knowed it at di time." —"I never shot a bird in my life," said a friend to an Irishman, who replied, "I never shot any thtpg in the shape of a bird, but a squirrel, whfch I killed with a stone, when it fell into the river and was drowned. —"You have lost your babe, I hear," said ono gentleman to another. "Yes, poor little thing ! it was only fire months old. We did all we could for it We had four doctors, put mustard planters all over it, blistered its head and feet, gave it nine calomel powders, leached its tem ples, had it bled, and gave it all kinds of medicine, and yet, after a week's illness, it died." —Any one would suppose that the employment of sewing was the most peaceful and quiet occupation in the world, and yet it is absolutely horrifying to hear ladies talk about gtillettoas ! bod kins ! gatherings! hemming*! gorings! cuttings! whippings! lacings! cuffiings ! and bastings ! What a list of abomina bles! —A preacher of the brawling descrip tion was enlarging upon the beauties of an unsullied conscious and a pure heart before a congregation of whom some were Irishmen. "Let your aetions bo so pure," said he, "your conscience so clean, that if you had a window in your bosom, your neighbors could see not an impure act or even thought within your breasts, my hearers. Think, omy hearers, feel as though there were a window in your bosom;]—a window in your very bosoms" —"Misther Guiness," asked one of the congregation, half rising from his scat, "Misther Guiness, wouldn't a pane in the belly (.nswer the same purpose?" NASBY. Mr. Vanli), though not two Maj or Ueneral, Keportw to the President on the workings of the Freedman'B llureaii, Ac. CoNFEDERIT X ROADS, (wich is 1 in the Stait uv Kentucky, } In akordance with yoor esteemed re quest, dated the 25th, and received this morninsr, I to wunst proceeded to make doo inquiry, ez to the working uv the Kreedmen'B Burow, and the condishun uv the Afrikin citizens uv Amerikii de scent in this vicinity. The fact that a Abolihinist still holds the Post Orfis at the Corners, (wich place, by the way, I hav bin solicited to aksept) interfered materially with bigness I hed in hand. I to wunst tooted the horu, ez is cus tom when we hav religious servis, and callod my congregashun togather. They cum runuin in from the different grocer ies; and here another difficulty ensood. The groscry keepers wanted to know wat we was going to hev mcctiu on week days for ? They wuz willing to shut up door in meetin time on Sundays, ez they respekted the church and it give cm time to sweep outtho tcrbackor,et settery, but tlic'd be d d ef they wuzagoin to hev them pulled away from nourishment on week days. I sukseeded in passifyinem and went in at wunst egsaminin tho lead in citizens. Their testimony is ez fol lows : CAPTAIN SKEWER Wuz a nigger owner afore the war, and durin the late fratrisidle struggle wuz a qpptaiu the in Confederit. Wuz with Gideral Forest at Fort Pillow. Ilcz hod much experience with aggers. Bleeves cm to be adapted to the climit uv Ken tucky and much more able to stand the hot sun than the whites. When they wuz slaves never knowed em to refoose to work—know they alluz did work bccoz he generally stood over tlicui with a nig ger whip. Since they hev been free hez notist a change, until the Nigger Burow wuz cstablisht. Before this the'd take sicli wages as yoo chose to give them— and since then tho d d kethen will stand out about cz the whitcmen do, and wont take work unlo s yoo meet their view, wich made a heap of troubjp materi ally retarded the development uv the country. The Hurow hed corrupted the fetnalo niggers, ez they hed all bin legal ly married by tho Cliaplines to the men thoy lived with, and wuz sa sot on livin with cm, there's no use uv tryin to git a house wenuh onless yoo took her husband also, liis wife wuz now doiu degradiu work at home for want of help. Strong ly urged tho abrogashon uv tho Burow and the removal uv the Ablishun Post master at tho Corners. 11EACON M'OSATJI Wuz eggsamind. Wuz convinst in his own mind that the Afrikin wuz now out of h s normal sphere, and that tho infernal Burow wuz at the bottum uv it- Tho nigger, afore the Burow conn: round ' wuz docilo and easily controlled. His boy Joe wuz wunst a model nigger. He'd get upevory morning at 4A. M., {wich means in the mornin) and work every day till after dark. Kz soon cz he wuz emancipated,ez they called it and Burow came, 1 told him to get up ono mornin, and he told me impudently that he'd concluded ho woodn't. I undertook to chastise him with a fenco stako upon he turned and whaled me, and the Burow to wich I applied for redress larft in uiy face. 110 left, and is now drag ging out a misorablc existonoe in Ohio, on tho beggarly pittance uv two dollars per day, and my farm is runnin to wcedß. He conclooded by giving it ez his sol emn opinion that he novcr rood be rec onciled to the Government so long ex tho the Burow wuz tolerated, and the Ab lishnist held tho Post Orfis at tho Cor ners. OINERAL DINOIS. Considered the Burow.a iukibus upon the State. It interfered between master tcr and servant. Cood get along better ef the niggur was left in the natural laws wich regulates capital and laborers. Tri ed to keep his niggers, and keep em the past summer till ufter the crop wuz in, aud then tried cm for four dollars a month, with sJJdeductions for food sickncsß) and brifcen tools, et setery ez wuz just. BrotjKt tho niggers all out in my debt anddgeneroualy proposed to let them work it out chopping cord wood doorin in the wintor. Hauled mc up before the # Burow and wuz forced to pay them each 815 per month. Consider the Burow ez all that stands in the way uv reconstruction, though the removal of the Ablishun Pust Master at the Cor ners and the appointment of a sound con stitutional Demoerat wood grately assist in aleviaten the Kentuoky mind. I tried to git some nigger testimony but cood elicit nothin worth while. One nigger who spends the heft uv his time at the Corners was opposed to the Burow bccor it stopt rations on him. and Lnev, a oetaioon, who formerly belonged to and still resides with Elder (Jarvitt. (who is now absent cz a delegate to the South ern religious convention at Louisville) testified tho Burow "wnz no great sjiakes" becuz bein a widower and the father of all her children, and bein eE she s a free woman, she asks the agent to make tho Elder marry her and he woodn't do it. Hut sich evidence is irrelevant, and I didn't considor worth while both erin yoor ekslency with it. Both, how ever, strongly insisted on tho removal uv the Abolishun Postmaster at the Cor ners. • ABBLUM PETTUS. Wuz convinstthe Burow was against the prosperity of the State, and wuz un tfninin the moral and physiclc welfare uv tho nigger. It made him impudent.— !led some nv cm workin for hitn, and notist at noons and nites he'd find em with a spelliu Book aud a reader. Didn't blecve in readin. Coodn't /ead hisself, but had a cousin wun.it who learned, but ez soon ez he cood road he moved into Injeanny, quit the Democricy and bccum a lothsum Ablishnist. Ileer'd he wuz killed in the war, and served him right. Wanted to know what we would do when the niggers cood all read. Sposed we'd have to 'lect them to office, ez tho people ulluz selected sich when they cood find em. Didn't blecve in nigger equality, and wuz in favor of a imejiato change in the l'ost Offis at'the Corners. Captiu McSlathcr thought things lied cuui to a perty pass whjn a man coodu't lather a negro without bein hauled up aforo a bureau. Kurnel l'elter thought cf yoor oggs ellency cood witness the corrupshun that eggsistod in tho Hurow yood make short woek uv it. Why he whipped a nigger hand, more than he ought, perhaps, and he died of tho injoories. It wuz a ag gravate case. The nigger wuz sassy, and it cost three hundred and sixteen dollars to pervide for his family. That infamous liurjw mado me pay for their rasheus all winter, llcuskt indignantly if this wuz cr wuz not a free country, into which such things wuz permitted.— And the Ablishcn I'ostmaster at the Corners approved the tyranikle action, He demanded his removal. I eonsecve it to bo onneccssary to sub join further testimony. I kno not what luck yoor other Commisbenors may have had in askin testimony on thissub jick, but in this visinity there cant be no dout that there cant be that love for the Giivcrnmcnt without wieh free institoo sliens wont fluriah to any alarmin extent ontil this monster is squelched. The tes timony is unanimous, and them as I have egsaiuinoJ, arc representative men. Yoo hav notist.thc singular unanimity with wieh they all bore testimony to the necessity uv a chango in the Post Orfis at the Corners, I endorso all they say on th : s question, konsiderin that chango is ez necessary ez in the grate work of pac. ifyin and consiliaten tho South ez the removal of the Burnw Itsolf. In case a change is made, X would say for yoor guidance that I hcv bin warmly solisited to aksept tho position, and to pacify em at last yielded a reluctant cot sent. The fact that I never served in the Confeder it army may bean objection, but to offset that I voted for Vallandygum twice.* Ef possible send me a pardon at tho same time yoo send me my commishun ez Postmaster, for, ef the Post ()rfis don't pay I may want to run for sum other offis in wieh event that document would be essenshel to my*success, Trcoly yoors, PKTROLEUM V. NABBV, Lait Pastor uv the Church uv tho Noo Dispensashun. WHO 18 OLD. — A wise man will never rust out. As long as he can move and breathe, ho will-do something for him self, for his neighbor, or his posterity.— Almost to the last hour of his life, Wel lington was at work. So Were Newton, Bacon, Milton, and Franklin. The vig or of their lives never decayed. No irust marred their spirits. It is a foolish idea to supposo that wc must Ire down because wo aro old. Who'is old ? Not the man of energy; not the day-laborer in science, art, or benevolence, but lie only who suffers his energies to waste time, and the spring of life to become motionless, on whose hands the hours drag heavily. —We often hear editors accused of "ringing changes" Ike. It 'is easier in these times to ring the changes than to ring the change. —Working and thinking should go together, tho thiuker working and work, er thinking. NUMBER 33 "Kiver up Stranger." There is a SFOt in the southeastern part of Tennessee known as the "Fiary Fork of Honey Run." a delicious locali ty, no doubt, as the run of "hoogj" is, of course, accompanied by a correspond. iDg flow of milk and honey, or, at any rate, honey and "peach" is the evidepca of sublunary contentment in every place where they have preaching 1 "Hooey Run" ia further" christianized by' tho presence of an extremely hospitable fam ily, whose mansion, comprising one apart ment—neither more nor less—is renown ed for being never shut against the trav eler, and so our friend found it daring the chill morning air at the expanse of a rheumatism in his shoulder, its numer ous unaffected cracks and holes clearly showing that dropping the latch was a mere formality. The venerable host and hostess, in thtirown apartment, usually enjoy the society of two song, two daugh t rs, sundry dogs and niggers.aodas many lodgergas may deem It prudent to risk the somewhat cquivooal allotment of sleeping partners. On tho niplit in question, our friend, after a lienrty supper of ham and eggs, and a canvass of the Fiery Forkers—the old having pointed out his bod felt very weary, and only looked for an opportunity to "turn in," though the mosquitoes were trumpeting all sorta of wrath, and no net appetred to bar thani. The dogs flung themselves along the floor or again rose, restlessly, and sought tho doorstep; the niggers stuck thpir foot in to the yet ashes; the old man stripp ed unscrupulously, and sought his share of the one collapsed>looking pillow, and tho sons eavaliorly followed his example, leaving, the old woman, girls and strang er to settle any question of delicacy that might arise. The candidate yawned, looked at hi* bed, went to the door, looked at tho daughters; finally, in downright reck lessness, ho seated himself upon tho "downey," and pulled off his eoat. Well, he pulled off his ooat, then ho yawned, and then ho whistled, and then he callod tho old lady's attention to tho faot that it would never do to Bleep in his muddy trowsers, and then ho undid his vest, and then ho whistled again,and then suddenly an idea of her lodger's possiblo embarrassment seemed to flash I upon tho old woman, and she cried : "0 als, just turn your baeks round till the stranger gets Into bod." The backs were tnrned. and tho stran ger did get into bed in less than no timo, when the hostess again spoke : ' Reckon, stranger, as you ain't used to us, you'd better kivcr op till the galls undress, hadn't yon V " By this time our friend's sleepy fit wax over, and though he did "kiver up," as desired, somehow or other tho old coun* terpane was equally kind in biding bin blushes and favoring his sly glances.— The nymphs soon stowed away, for there were neither hoopg to unhitch nor oor sets to unlace, wlion their mamma, evi dently anxions not to smother her gueßt, considerately relieved him : '■You can unkiver now, stranger; I'm married folks, and you ain't afeared of ma I reckon!" The stranger happened to b« "married folks" himself; he unkivered, and torn* ed his back with trnc connubial indiffer ence, as far as the ancient lady was con cerned; but with regard to the gals, he declared that his half-raised curiosity in spired the moat tormenting dreams of mermaids that ever he expericncod. —A Teacher in one of tho primary schools at Brookficld, lowa, the other day, found among his list of juveniles one who was constantly engaged in some mischief, and at tho same timo was giren to swearing. Having utteted~an oath in violation of the teacher's rules, ho order ed the aforesaid juvenile to take his place in the corner of tho old ricketty school house "and placing a pair of ohl fashion ed iron tongs in his hand, ordered him to watch a bole in tho floor until he should catch a mouse, supposing it would be a great punishment. The little urchin gazeJ steadfastly at the aperatnre, while the teacher, with his face turned fVotn him, was engaged with tho other scholars. At last he heard the old tongs go bang! He turned his eyes quickly upon the youth, who, with a countenance beaming with excitement, yelled : "Master, I're got the darned little cussand, true enough, he had Mister Mouse fast by the head. —Neither false curls, false teeth, false calves, or tfren false, eyes aro bad M false tongues. —There is many a gcoa*:C» who can not dance or sing well. —Since man by Adam fell, so man bj Christ arose agaiu.