Carlisle herald. (Carlisle, Pa.) 1845-1881, August 28, 1863, Image 1

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Not In a Hurry.
The author of the following unquiet° linos le not In
any particular hurry about "pegging out.' He express.
us In a feeling manner that clinging desire tor length
ened years which Is so natural to all men, from the
Jolly alderman up to the weary printer's devil and down
to the halt starved digger Indian. Although to thou.
sands of mankind Ilfe Is but nu empty thing, a "tale
told by an Idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing," yet the fewest of es, wish that tale to bo
;" all want it to last forever, like that
interminable one of Sylvan us Cobb's in the N. Y. Leift•
ger. We don't know the name of the author of this,
but give his recapitulation of the reasons which preju
dice him against dying during four specified soasous of
the year :
I wud knot dye In winter,
When wb skin punehle
110
When pooty gals air skating
Oar Holds of ire and sue—.
When oassige meet Is phrying,
hickry nuts ix thick;
Owe! who {cod think of tllghing,
Or oven gettin' sick 1
I wud knot dye in Spring time,
And miss the May moon' beam,
& the pooty !mugs of the little frogs,
Thu skylark's ;tidy scream;
When bunts begin thorn wobbling,
& tatars gin to sprout,
When tarkeys go a gobblerlng,
I wud knot then peg out.
I wud knot dye In summer,
k leave the garden saes—
The matted lain and buttermilk—
Thu knot plass In the grass ;
I wud knot dye In scanner,
When everything is hot,
leave the whisklejew
itps—
Owe! no, I'd ru ther Isnot.
I wud knot dye In orturn,
With peaches tit lot eating;
When the wavy kora Is wripe,
kandidatt , air treating,
For these an.l other a retINOTIP,
I'do knot dye in the phall,
& sense I've short it over,
wud knot dye a tall
I RATHER THINK I WILL
Oh frill tell you ()I a fellow,
Of a fellow I 1111Vo Sown,
{She is neither white nor yellow,
But Ile is altogether green,
lie has told Isle of a cottage,
Ufa cottage on a hull ;
And he begged we lo accept him,
Ilut I hardly think 1 will.
Now the tears the creature wasted,
Were enough to turn a will ;
Thou his name it isn't charming,
For its only COllllllOllll ;"
And he wisher; me to wed }dui,
But 1 hardly think I will;
And he begged me to accept him,
But I hardly think I will.
Oh, he whispered of devotion,
Of devotion pure and deep,
But it seemed no very Ally
That I nearly tell asleep!
And he thinks it would litfpleasaht,
As we journey down rise
To go hand In hand together,
But I hardly think Lulli.
Ile was here last night to see tne,
And he math, ao long a stay,
I began to think the 1/:ookhead
Never meant to go away.
At the firvt I learned to hate him,
And I knoW I hate hint Atli,
Tot ho urger mo to bar., lino,
But 1 hardly think 1 will.
I'm sure 1 woul.in't shn,,se
!tut the very deuce is in 11,
For he says it I reit.. him
ThAt he roul,Plit /ire a minute!
Awl you know tin" bt.,,,e,a Bible
Plainly Fa VS, •',1 , 3 11111,1'1 kill,"
So I've thought the matter over,
And - -/ rather dunk I will!
4,11 Olaaaa o.
FACT AND FANCY.
OR, A THEW{ 1" WORKED OUT
My refusal of Ashen' Alleyne was the
legitimate result of much romance read
ing and considerable nursing of ideals—
two exercises Whose ultimate issue had
been the establishment of my theory of
love, as applying to my own destined ex
perienced in the matter. Out from the
nebula: of men I kilt that one must come
whose face and figure should wear an in
stant pleasingness in my eyes beyond
those of any hitherto seen or to be seen
forever thereafter. Behind them would
lie surely a soul to the extremest limit of
fallible mortal capacity strotio , nd car
nest—a soul so high that thr ugh all the
years I should feel its hand at etched out
above me, prepetually leading the on to
the altitudes I should never else have
reached. What a scope for fancy lay in
delineation of the externals of this com
ing man! I never saw a handsome fea
ture, an air graceful or noble, but I ap
propriated it to him minus the draw
bhcki acccompanying its actual possessor.
But I was not an empty-headed nonen
tity by all means. The very fact of Ash
er Alleyne's having been satisfied at my
side in so many leisure hours of the past
two years was proof enough of this.
could keep pace with him, if not in the
man's deep stride, yet with the woman's
nervous multiplied step, in all themes of
which men and woineroalk• I had gone
with him abreast in threading the sub
tleties of Locke and Bacon's explanation
of the how and why, and wherefore of
the soul. And there were lighter hours
for crowning with flowers and poesy,
whose nooks, in their best and most eter
nal freshness, none knew better where to
seek than he. sitting at his side free
of heart, would listen as he rhymed the
passionate cadences of the love and long
ing the strongest hearts had so felt and
told of.
If in his heart there sprun. , up the as
sertion. " And thus I feel filM thee," the
response, "I fur thee," never echoed in
the faintest out of wine. ,Asker. Alley
ne was not a man to catch and hold the
fancy of fair women by their will as much
as his; he was in every outward
_particu
lar a plain man. One whom none are
surprised to find single at any age, and
he was getting past his first youth a lit,
tle. was not a fascinating homely
man, or a surfacely brilliant one in con
versation; though Whatever seemed viei
illy-to-wank-saying, he-always-said, altays
, He was in.nowise demonstrative, not
even in that often most effective particu
lar, the,eyeS He neve;r"lgmade eyes" on
any occasion ; indeed. I scarcely know the
polor of those, organs, though 1 rewewber
pnce,,seeiog,',his sycs- , --not turned on me,
liowelie:,-imithali::'‘.of)reSsionr I had nev
pr'behehl,l.644l;frirgiit or in them . before,
es .t.inklejitt.:prck:iirthe , story 'of some
Tuaturtrouit,whi)",:t,itips,c,c'the light in happy
benies," - _ltndftdt such , radiance, not for
lib: • I had.alwaYA lived in the filllest of
VOL. 63.
A. K. RHEEM, Editor & Proprietor
1....0_3
that kind of radiance and thitu ht there
must be a great difference in 1 is life and
mine to make such a lonesome em ty
look in his eyes possible; thinkin, also
that he must find his year after year of
boarding•house life even less heartsome
than most men. Yet, farther than friend
ship and its degree of sympathy went, it
was not my affair. And sot sat in his
presence, unthinking of him, my heart
mail-clad in far-off dreams of the man to
come and bles'kied things to be.
And I too thrilled and glowed as he
real words that stir. up women's hearts,
and wished with a yearning that was al
most a prayer, for the time when the full
realization of these dainty dreams should
come to me in the voices that read of them
—should glow upon me out of the eyes
which held the answering soul of my be
loved.
And like unto what similitude was' this
chosen one to be
So far different from the plain, grave
man, who one day, after his voice had
rung for me the last exquisite chime. of,
" The Lady Geraldine's Courtship," turn
ed to inc with the quiet of a cool nature,
or the still molten glow of an exceeding
great desire, ( I never thought which,)
asked me to make his life crowned and
radiant, as the generous Woman of the
rhyme had done that other man's So
far differeot was he from the man in my
dreams elect to make the at heart queen
and regent, that I with no thought. fir him
but nature's selfish cry, " Thyself first of '
all !" strong and instant in use, replied,
surprised, but unhesitating and calmly
" 011 no, Mr. Alleyne, that, nnver can
be"
He saw with evident unpreparedness
and pain how new and_ unthought of his
proposition was. We had tallied so well
in so many thoughts and pursuits, that he
forgot to take account of how much of a
girl's heart might be left-give over -to
dreams of which he could have no knowl
edge. Ile rose up from his chair, and
laid the book down quietly, and stood for
a minute before me, and said.
" I suppose pride ought to prompt me
to go out from before you at once arid
forever, even although I cannot tell you,
if I would, how great a gift God has dc•
ni:d the through your words. Some bet
ter man may win yoU ; but be sure of this
there never will be a man who through
every circumstance of his life could need
you more sorely ; to whom your life would
have been a richer endowment ; to whom
your love would have been a more suffi
cient possession; whose heart would have
folded you in more 'elosely,.or have been
wore entirely satisfied with you."
And o he went, and as concerned be•
ing worthily touched by thinii; or lifellng
a true estimate of their value, I heard his
words as it' 1 had not heard them ; though
they woke in me a sympathy which made '
me regret that he bad felt a necessity
through me which I could never fill, and
brought the best gill of his Lun,anity to
one by whom it was unneeded and unasked.
A man's position in society—what, peo
ple say of him, his appearance and doings
—has a nearer connection with most
young lady likings than they are aware
or would confess. True, there are women
who have grown into loving men whom
the world know not, or knowing, lidl to
favor; but they are somewhat the excep
tion. For a young lady to hear of a wan
possessing, in a full degree allotted to se
parate mortals, the gifts of intellect and
feature desirably in man, does not inspire
in her commonly the desire to avoid him
strictly. We all have an impression, intd
doubtless in the main correct, that the
verdict general society passed upon a
member is usually just.
I had found no occasion to gainsay it
; Ad - Ralph - Hasse!tine came to me bring
ing.-in' his face and figure, not only those
fair outlinss which one need but see to
read and improve, but general society's
verdict, of what I prized infinitely more—
a true and genial soul. Others had ap
peared thus furnished forth—but Ralph
Ilasseltine I I suppose few girls who
have nut'sed ideals have ever met any
thing specially like them ; but I do not
think any man alive could have come
nearer mine externally than Ralph Hal
saltine.
As I bad fore•dreaiued, the great Au
rora of passion flushed up into the waiting
sky of my simultaneous with his first
appearing. So speedily that I think I
b_gan to love him before he consciously
knew me at all. His voice attracted we
first. A little wearied by a rather slow
evening out, I had felt the played-out
laces and going into the book-room began
a search for somewhat with a fresher fla•
vor albeit it had lain a hundred years or
more,
Somebody played at the piano, and lie
careless,ly caught up the tag end .of the
tune and added words. It was a voice a
yearn , ° girl likes to hear, telling her, how
ever little she may annalyze the face, of
great store of life Alid_freshriess_anfrroad
*ss for passion. I turned from the
books and took position where I could
see him in the parlor. The figure,. car
ried with the subtle ease of gentle man
hood, seemed perfect. The soft light
from the chandelier fell on his graceful
_head
_and gave his locks the true hero'S`
purple black: -- I - know him, having-heard
his name and social fume before. I did
not find the latter belied when I met him
in the parlor-talk and_ presence that night
and thereafter.
I. began to wonder if it was at all thus
Asher Alleyne.had felt in our • first ac
quaintance ; for long before Ralph flas
seltino gave me vow for vow I loved him.
I loved hiit—the fact declared itself- in
me with still persistence when away.:from
him. :sprang up to my face in 'glow
ing assertion when I met him . 'ern? in
Ihl tLtFi 1s tN
the street. Around him centered the
gathered halo of all the truth and tender
ness, the depth and loftiness of soul which
I had ever SQOII or read as man's posses
sion. I loved him as only they love who
have readrwise books, have planned high
labors and great joys for their lives, and
feel sonic innate breadth of soul which
only needs right kinship to gain full ex
pansion. I felt•the fulfillment of my ut
most dream the night I felt his arm around
me, and his lips seal the " love you,"
they had just uttered upon mc.
It was a most fair fabric I began
straightway to weave New thoughts
and wishes revealed themselves full grown
in the light of this new Aurora. A wife
—ah, word most subtly sweet! The
light of one more happy home to shine
forth in the land. That' happy home—
there was one special pia - tire of it I had
at heart which I was continually stealing
in to contemplate. I was a scene of long
evenings alter daylights and their duties
overpast and well fulfilled One only be
side me, who should be to me as I to him,
lily sufficient posses=ion; having whom
lily heart should acknowledge no other is
the world outside, however active in!
work there might he, arid however plea
sant a welcome I might there have. Fur
this one should walk with me into all the
realms of thought and feeling—should
join me in all study and research common
to lean —should penetrate with me the
utmost limits of those spiritual glories
whereon a man can look and live. To
gether we would enter upon life—togeth•
er smile in its serene joys— and together
meet. and comfort one another under its
inevitable and thick coining woes. Ever
minding to help each other, keep in view
that it is not, to live care free and at ease,
but to show all souls within our our ut
most-reach that life is - worthy the-nohlest
and holiest living,--,sinee Christ .died for
it— that shall gain fur us at, Fist the inef
fable sentence, "Servants of God, well
done!"
Such union were indeed of love. We
could not be married at once, an.; the ten
der flowers of courtship had a whole year
to blossom in. What a blessed, prosper
ous season I felt this would he We had
taken one another, each instinctively con
scious of the other's merits; doubtless,
yet for all, as it were, upon trust
'Well, - Italph came to Me almost daily.
The warmest maid could not have desired
a more impassioned and demonstrative
lover; but I had an instinct that we could
not wisely spend a Year in caresses, even
if their zest and freshness did not fail us.
So for the most part I kept him seated
reasonably distant. And for me it was
joy enough to watch and catch in mine
now and then, the various expressicii of
a pair of the most matchless' eyes which
ever opened on the world ; getting by
heart the while every turn of his faee and
figure. But we can look our fill upon the
fairest picture, and this was Ralph Ilas
seltinc's pictorial phase ; and the
beholding it WllB riot the deepest hut»an
enjoyment, ph asant as it was
Two months of constant intercourse
wore off the dazzling novelty of our new
relation; and I began to feel the old
everyday spiritual and literary wants com
ing back. Wants not to be filled by the
most sparkling talk abou't the weather,
acquaintances, society in general, and
one's self in particular; and most curious
ly it seemed to me, it, was difficult to lead
Ralph off these topics, though I. had not
at first noticed his habitual adherence to
them.
I put into the hands of my handsome
lover—through college long ago--one of
the essays Mr. Alleyne and f used to read
together, begging him to adorn the learn
ed sentences with the beauty of his voice.
Flattered. he read a page or two, when I,
filler into full enjoyment of the ample
thoughts it held, was startled by his
throwing the book carelessly down with
the simple exclamation of "Bo l"
It was from this evening, I think, that
I began to feel the shade of the hand
breadth cloud rising over the serene at
mosphere in the sky of my love. It was
not the occasional, and so pardonably
freakish, disin Jinni-ion to consider weigh
ty topics, and take sober views of life and
its objects, the most efficient feel now and
then. The little gayeties and courtesies,
and successes of surfacelife, street and
drawing-room butterfly-life, seemed suffi
cient for him. He reigned a prince in
these, and it was for such supremacy so
ciety had given him his diploma. Under
an exterior which, in its winning grace
and perfection seemed the fitting out
ward type of noble actualities behind,
there lay a mind which, though not bad,
was light and shallovi
' But I bad built my" castle, 'en Es-
pangne' though it were, quite too firmly
to admit of its toppling about my ears at
once. Did I not love as I had so long
)lanned to love ? I I ad.not the divine in•
flatus entered in and possessed my soul as
thoroughly as that soul was capable of
being filled ? Then let that be sufficient
for me. But it was not. I fat plain
er and plainer every day. For physi- •
ical and earthly kind of love Ralph Has.
saltine answered abuntantly, and was
capable of - inspsrin ,, no higher save to
mind of fancy solely. It. had seemed to
Me that it would be so blessed to draw
nearer to hint mentally and - spiritually, in
those quiet hours when quiet talk
,was
'done,. But common talk done, with
Ralph, all was done.
Ile little thought how he startled my,
heart by a qUiet, careleis speech of his
about " how deucedly humdrum some
folks make their married dives ;" laugh
ingly deplaring, " we would show society
that people need not necessarily m'ope in
quiet for the rest of their lives in
,the
back parlor because they had unswored'
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, AuGusr 28, 1863.
. .
affirmatively, in the presence 4f witnesses,
some polite inquiries in the Piiyer Book.
His little wife need not thinkbe was go
ing to make her bury her beauty just be
cause she had given him it guardian
ship. No ; it would be •hisyfirst . ambi
tion to display his treasure—and himself
besides, I know you are thinking," he
added, gaily " Well, it will lbe but an
old trick of an old dog, who enjoys it too
• well to wish to be caught aneiif."
Ilis first ambition I When sort of
realization, then, was my heart picture
and life programme line t4' meet? I
would not believe—l absolutely would
not believe—that there was no more in
Ralph Hasseltine than he showed out in
those hours. Silently, anxiOisly, as if
the one hope of ray life depended on the
happy issue, 1 tried him test by test.
Ile was a pretty good ebristian, he
thought; neither lied our stole, and liked
church-going first-rate. It was delight.
ful, soothing and comfortable there at
first; and when the dotaine began to
make a fellow quake on the crimson vel
vet cushion, it carried out Oe rule of
contrasts capitally. It was not difficult,
to imagine the angelic element of relig
ion in the ladies' laces there,-unless the
sun threw the shade of a greed or yellow
window across them It was a self evi•
dent fact, he thought, that .if a fellow
minded his own business and did the test
he could, he would he saved ; and it was
only dyspeptic fools who bothured their
heads wi.li controversy and theological
metaphysics.
And, aceurdim , to my lover's standard,
he was doing the best he contd."—
l'erhapi: it was scarcely the province of
-his lady-love to ask hen what share. he
was taking in the worl•l's great, hard
necessary Christian work, which lay out
fitr his doing plain before. himi in what
particular his life dared froin that of
.those of old__Greece—and—Rome r , whose
. bitter condemnation was in being "
ors ofCase mitre than loveis 610ML" -.
If she did not ask I in], she asked her
self, with reluctant halt question, willing
to admit but one answer. That answer
did not at all come. Putting aside, as TI
w,as enabled to do in this strait of fife,
mere physical passion, I saw there was
nut that, in Ralph Ilasseltine which would
warrant me, as a Christian and true to
Gud, nor even as a woman and true to
him, in carrying unit the promise I had
made him to join my life to his and make
it even as his.
My life like his ! Why, he was the
contented epitome of the trifling, unre
sul.ing, to.day living existen4Tbus tr)-
itig to prune away in myself to give rout]]
for a worthier growth.
And yet how could i give him up, this
handsome, winsome, sunshine-loving mor
tal ? I let many weeksvlide by, nut see
ing or willing to see just -
(Conclusion next week.)
Address by Maj-Gen Dix to the Cit
iAens of New-York
lIE roUNSELS' . OHEDIENrE TO THE LAW AND THE
MAINTENANCE OF ORDEII.-4lli \YARNS AGAIN:4T
TIIh. CoN,EQUENCES OF DISORDER AND VlO
MEMO
TO TII E CITIZENS OF NEW YORK
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OP Tile EAST, }
NEW-YOUR . CITY, Aug 17, 1863.
The draft of men in this city to re
plenish the ranks of the army, in order
to complete more speedily the suppres
sion of the insurrection in the South,
having, in consequence of forcible resist
ance to the execution of the law, been
placed under my direction as command
ing officer of the forces of the United
Btates in this Military Department, I
have thought it not out of !Alice to pre
sent to you some suggestions for yourTen
sidereion friend s of the Union and of
the good order of society.
The law under which the' draft is to
be made is for enrolling and calling out
the national forces. It is founded on the
`principle that every citizen, who enjoys
the protection of the dovernment and
looks to it for the security' of his proper
ty and his life, may be called on iti sea
sons of great public danger to take up
arms for the common defense. No po
litical society can be held together unless
this principle is acknowledged as one to
which the 6uvern went may have recourse
when its existence is in peril. There is
no civilized country in which it is not
recognized.
The law authorizing the draft has been
persistently called a Conscription law by
those who desire to make it odious and de
feat its execut,ion. It is in no just sense
a conscription like that which was put in
force in the sixth year of the French Re
public. and abandoned on the restoration
of the Bourbons, on account of its op
pressive exaction. It is a simple law for
enrolling and calling into the service the
arms-bearing population of certain vges,
and differs in no essential principle from
the law authorizing the militia to be called
out, excepting that in the latter ease
complete organizations are brought into
the field. The object of the very provis
ions.of the law which aro most beneficial
to individuals has been most grossly per
vetted. If a drafted man finds it incon-
Venient to serve, he is allowed to furnish
a substitute, or-to purchase his exemp•
Lion from service by paying the sliest
sum of money for which substitutes are
ordinarily obtained. Both these provis
ions have the saine'liurpo , e—to - . previde
for cases of hardship; and if either were .
stricken out, these cases would be pre !
portionably increased in number .,
,
The draft about to be Made is.for one
fifth part of all persons-between twenty
and thirty-five years of 'ago; And of the
unmarried between thirty-five and forty
five. The entire clasS,.bkWeent - eighteen
and thirty five was long sin& drafted in
the seceded States; end the draft has re:
oently been extended to 'embrace nearly
the whole arins-bettring population. Corn-
pared with the burden they are sustain
ing, ours is as, nothing. The contest on
our part is to defend our nationality, to
uphold the institutions under the protec
tion of which we have lived, and pros
pered, and to preserve untarnished the
proud memories of our history, brief, it
is true, but full of high achievement in
science, in art, and in arms. Shall we,
in.-such a cause, shrink from labors and
sacrifices, which our misguided brethren
in the seceded States are sustaining in
the cause of treason and social disorgani
zation? For the honor of New-York, lot
us take care that the history of this re
bellion, more vast than any which has
ever convulsed a nation, shall contain
nothing to make our children blush for
the patriotism of their fathers.
Whatever objection there may be to
the law authorizing the draft, whatever
defects it may have, it is the law of the
land, and resistance to it is revolt against
the constituted authorities of the country
If one law may be set at defiance, any
other may be, and the foundation of all
government may be broken Up. Thot4e who
in the history of political societies, have
been the first to set themselves up against.
the law, have been the surest victims of
th, disorder which they have created.—
The poor hay?, a far deeper interest in
maintaining the inviolability of the law
than the rich. Property, through the
menus it can command, is power. But
the only security her those who have lit•
tle more than life and the labor of their
owe hand to protect lies in the supreom•
ey of the-law. On them` and on those
who are dependent on them, social disor
ler falls with fatal effect.
The constitutionality of the law author.
izing the draft has been disputed. Near
the close of the war 1 1814, when the
country was engaged in war with Great
Britain, a similar law was recommended
to Congress-by the Government-, - to - draft
men_ to till the ranks of the army, which
was gallantly battling, as our armies are
now, for the nations honor and life
Madison, one of the great expounders of
the Uonstit,ution, which he took a promi
nent part in framing, was President.—
Monroe, his successor, then acting both as
Secretary of State and Secretary of War,
addressed to the [louse of Represenatives
a lucid argument in support the right of
U tigress to pass such a law. Alexander
.1 Dallas was Secretary of the Treasury;
\Vin. Jones, Secretary of the Navy ; Re
turn J. Wigs, Postmaster-General f and
Richard it sh, Attorney General. The
measure could not well have received a
highet partysaction. All laws passed
with the established letrislative forms are
valid until declared otherwise by judicial
ttibUtials of cyMpetent jurisdietiOno—
Wh4t would become of a people in criti
cal emergencies if no law, could be car
ried into-effect -untiHt had inas - sod' - 'the
deal of the Courts? or if State or muni
cipal authorities could arrest its execu
tion by calling in question its conformity
to the provisions of the Constitution 1----
The President has promptly consented to
have it tested by judicial interpretation ;
but while the car of victory is moving on
and treason is flying before it, Gad for
bid that the State of New York, or its
constituted authorities, should attempt to
stay its progress until the judicial pro.
cess can be consummated. .
The accuracy of the enrollment in the
city districts has been impeached, and a
revision was immediately ordered by the
President, on a representation from the
Governor of the State. But as the men
are needed for immediate service, and as
the correction of the returns requires
time, the quota was ordered to be reduced
in all the districts—in some wore that
half the whole amount—leaving the ac
count for future adjustment. The reduc
tion in the quota exceeds in proportion
the alleged excess of the enrollinent, so
that no personal injustice can possibly oc
cur.
Under these circumstances, no good
citizen will.array himself either by word
or de,2d against the draft. Submission to
the law in seasons of tranquility is always
the highest of political duties But,
when the existence of the Government is
in peril, he who resists its authority cow-
mite a crime of the deepest turpitUde.—
tie is the voluntary instrument of those
who are seeking to overthrow it, and be
comes himself a public enemy. More-
over, resistance to the Government by
those who are living under its protection,
and are indebted to it for the daily ten
ure of their property and their lives, has
not even the palliation under which those
who lead the insurrection at the South
seek to shelter themselves; that they are
acting under color of authority derived
from legislaturq or, conventions of the
peop.e in their res[teetiVe States. With
us, resistance to the Constituted authori
ties is both treason alid. lawless violence;
and if they are any who thus combine to
reenact the scenes of cruelty and devasta 7
Lion by which this city has .recently been
dishonored, and to defeat by force of arms
the execution of the paramount. law of .
Congress, they will be treated as enemies
of the country and of - mankind.
Returning among yoti from a distance,
fello.w-eitizens, after more than two years
of military sei;fice in the_ cause of the
Union, to uphold which .this city has, in
all emergencies, stood forth with a man
ly patriotism 'wortby of - her high -posi
tion—having no feeling but to
. see her
good name preserved without blemish, no
Wish but that she may continue, as she
has ever been, the most orderly of the
great commercial towns of the age—l
have ventured to address to . you these,
suggestions; to exhort you to the Main , -
tenance of order, to obedience to the laws.
and to the quiet pursuit, of your accus
tomed•avocations, while the draft is in
progress.
Should these sugnstions be disretgard-
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TERMS :--$1,50 in Advance, or $2 within the year
While I was bisey' dyin' for me coun
try, I eaptoored a cussed- Heb. I court
marshaled hint, an' found him guilty 6v
treeson and Secesh in the Ist degree I
lard asleep two niter with we eyes opin,
thinkin' ov a punilintent severe enuff for
his high crimes. At limit a ides struck
me Altho' the verdict I was about to
pronouns unto hint was heavy, yet- I dc•
terntined put it into , eAgeonano, as a.
warnin' to all other traitors.
1 visited the Hob's prison, which was
a Big Implied, an' uddrest him in the
Bung Hole.
MEM
" Must I die ?" sez he ; "we, so young
and dirty ?"
" Not a die," sez I. " I hey a wore
terible fate in store fer you. The sell
tens ov this, Curt is, that you be taken
out ov this hogshed an' transported to
" Not New York City !" he interrupt
ed, in a voice ov anguish. "Oh ! don't
say New York City !"
" Those is the very spot," scz I—"a
inong Seymour's k'rens."
" 0, send me to—to—to—ennywheres, a
mongst the Cannihles an' -Gorrillers !
but don't banish me from home, frens,
nothin' to ete, to mingle with "the
ov . Nett'
_ol...,ttpase_ mei
spare me !!"
His cries were pittyful, but 1 coodn't
spare him. Not a spare. The edickt had
gone 4th, when the undersigned makes up
his mind to do a thing, thare is nothing
in the Confederacy kin turn him from it
—unless it be 25 dollars in gold, an' that's
as skurce an artakil in Secesh as loyalty
is in the Copperhead party.
"Come out, an' 'prepare to mosey, sez
The chap didn't answer, an', peepin in
the bung hole, I saw he had }hinted.—
The sentens was crooel, an' rue tender
hart was on the pint ov relentin', when
I thort it was my dooty to make a exam
ple ov him. 1 soused 4 buckets ov wa
ter into his prison on him, which revived
him a few.
" What makes you so lotFi to 's(isheate
with your friends ?" I arskt.
" 1 admit," Sez he, "that they air doin'
all for the Confedrit caws we could wish'
but we wood rather hey sick fiends at a
distance. 0, spate— kill me I"
He was led away by a disorderly sar
gint an' a 11th corporil, the very pickter
of despair.
Thus wood I carve all traituaj
I The other - day I cum in con set with a
New York Pease man—one ov Seymour's
(rends. He was a swearin,' t6arin,' low
looking' cuss . , like all Pease men.
" you'don't fork over those watch,"
sez he, makin' a grab at me time lie-
Peter, Pll swat you on the ear !"
That was putt oivil ; but that's the
stile OV Pease men.
" I'll givo you this," •sez I, pintin' a re
volver at his hed.
I was only goakin,' s'z he : "that's our
countersign, an' I thort you was one ov
us. What do you think about the
draft ?"
Wall," sez I, " I think it ore to be
pusht on with much energy tin' vigory "
"I guess they won't push it on to me
much. I'm exempt."
" You air," sez I. " What's the mat
ter ?"
' Why, sez ho, "I belong to the Pease
P4ty. I caved in the beds ov 10 nig.
helpt 2 Burn the Orphan Asylum,
an' stole things genrilly. I guess that ex
em is me."
I shouldn't wonder if it did," sze I.
I meant it would exempt him from de
cent society.
" Ef you warnt to becum a shinin' lite
in the Pease Party," he sed, "an have
Gov. Seymour WI you his frend, you
smash in tho heds - ov Diggers, burn Orfin
Asylims, butcher Union men,'an' kill U.
S Solgers ! Fernandy Wud an' the - World
thinks so•too."• •
".Dct all, Pease men amoos thaiselfs in
hose stile.?" I asks.
" Well," sez he, "they would of they
had a chance, and wasn't too cowardly."
" I think so too." )
Not feeliie inclined 2 becum a Pease
man, or any other kind v a murderer p
left the "Shinin' , ,„
I kin scarcely make it s appear 2,411in=
telligent mind that the back boadov the
rebellion air' completely broicen;bit
ed by any among you, and renewed at
tempts be made, to disturb the public
peace, to break down the barriers "which
the law has set up for the security of
property and life, and to defeat the exe
oution of the law which it is my duty to en
force, I warn all such persons that ample
preparation has been made to vindicate
the authority of tho Government, and
that the first exhibition of disorder or
violence will be met by the most prompt
and vigorous measures for their repression.
JOHN A. Dix, Major-General.
FROM ARTEMUS WARD JR.—Did you
know I enlisted for the Mergency I
did.
Arfter dyin' and bleedin' fer me coun
try 5 weeks an' 7 days, Ole Crisis an'
Mergency was declared lickt out of Penn
silvanie, an' we was mustered and pep
pered out.
We enjoyd lots of hard service an' hard
crackers while we was defendin' our hart h
stones. A few ? An' we experienced sum
ov the most frightful charges durin the
present "Crooel Rebelion" to use a in
tirely raw frace. The charge ov Boker's
Light Brigade into the Valley of Death,
an"fennysun's Black Regiment at Port
Hudson, was nothin' compared to it.—
Hardly !
It was a charge maid by tl , e: Harris
burg Copperheads.
They chargd us 10 cents for a glass ov
water to squench our thirst! Putty hefty,
warn't. it? liavt her.
" Prepare I". sed I, in low, guttere
think sevril ov its ribs have bin caved in ,
lately. I'll bbt harf ov my pile they her.
An' I bet I'm
Girls• Who Want Ettisinuads..
Girls, you want to get married', don't
you ? And, what a natural thing it is for
young ladies who have such a hankering
for the sterner smo.l It is a weakness of
woman, and for this reason she is Called
the weaker sew. Well, if you want to get
married, doti'g, for conscience sake, act
like fools about it. Don't go into a fit of
the nips every time you see a hat or pair
of whiskers.
NO. 34.
Don't get the idea into your heads that
you must put yourself in the way of every
young man in the neighborhood, in order'
to attract notice, for if you don't run af
ter tho men they will run after you.- -
Mar"hat.
A husband hunter is the most detesta
ble of all young Indies. She is full of
starch and puckers, she pues on many
-false airs, and she is so nice that she apL
s pears ridiculous in the eyes of all decent
people. She may be generally found at
meeting, coming in, of course, about the'
last one, always at social parties, invaria
bly takes a front seat at concerts. She'
tries to be the belle of the place, and thinks
she is. Poor girl ! You are fitting your- -
self for an old maid just as sure as the'
Sabbath comes on . Sunday. Men will
flirt with you, and flatter you, simply be
cause they love to do it; but they have
no more idea of waking you a wife than
they have of committing suicide. If I
was a young man, I would have no more'
to do with Such a fancy than I would with
a rattlesnake.
Now, girls, let Nelly give you a piece
of her advice, and she knows from expo-
Hence that if you practice it you will gain'
the reputation of becoming worthy girls,.
and stand a fair chance of getting respect
able husbands. It is well enough that
you I( arn to linger the piano, work em
broidery, study grammar, &c., but don't
neglect letting your grandma or dear
mother teach you how to make bread or
get a meal's yictua!s good enough for a'
king. No part of a house-keeper's du
ties should be neglected; if you do not
marry a wealthy husband you will need
to know how to do such work, and if your
do, it will be an advantage for you to ,
know how to oversee a servant girl, anti
intrust her to do these things as you
would have them (loi). In the next
place, don't pretend to be what you are
not. Affectation is the most despicable
of .accomplishments,- and- will -only -caustr
sensible people to laugh at you. No one
but a fool will be caught by affectation=
it has a transparent skin, easily to be seen'
through. Dress plain, but neatly. Re
me in be r that nothing gives a girl so'nio. ,
dent, becoming and lovely appearance as
a neat, plain dress. All the flumery and
tinsel work of the dress-maker and mil
liner are unnecessary.
It you are really handsome, they do not
add to your beauty one particle; if you ,
are homely, they only make you worse.—
Gentlemen don't court your faces and
jewelry, but your own dear selves.
Finger-rings and folderols may do well'
to look at, but they add nothing to the
value of a wife—ull young men know that •
It you know how to talk, db it naturally,
and du not be so distressingly polite'as to'
spoil - all that you say. If your hair is
straight, don't, put on the ending tongs
to make people believe that you have ne
gro-blood-in your-veins, If your-neek-is
very black, wear a lace collar, but d n't
be so foolish as to daub paint, thinking
that the people are so blind as not to seer
it ; and if your cheeks are not rosy, don't
apply pink saucers for deception, and be
come the gossip of the neighborhood.
Finally, girls, listen to the counsel of
your mothers, and ask -their advice irt
everything Think less3of fashion than.
you do of kitchen duties—less of romance
than you do of the realities of life—and
instead of trying; to catch a beau, strive
to make yourself worth being caught by
them.—ldly Gray.
FOLLOW THE RIOIIT.—No matter who
you are, what your lot, or where you live,
you cannot afford to do that which is
wrong. The only way to obtain happi
ness and pleasure for yourself is.to do the
right thing. You may not always hit
the mark, but you should aim for it, and
with every trial your skill increases.—
Whether you are to be praised or blamed
for it by others.; whether it will seeming
ly make you rich or poorer, or whether
no other person than yourself knows of
your action, still always and in all cases
do the right. Your first lessons in this
rule will sometimes seem bard ones, but
they will grow easier till finally doing the
right will become a habit,and to do wrong
will almost seem an impossibility.
TILE BEAUTY oF• A BLUM—Goethe
was in company with a mother and her
daughter, when the latter being reproved
'or some fault, blushed and burst into
He said :
MI!
" how beautiful your reproach has made
your daughter. The crimson' hue, and
those silvery tears, become her better than
any ornament of gold pearls. These may
be hung on the neck of any woman; but
those are never seen disconnected with
moral purity. A full blown rose besprin
kled with the .purest dew, is not so beau
tiful as this child, blushing beneath her
parent's displeasure, and shedding teats
of sorrow at her fault. A' blush is the
sign which nature hangs out to show
where chastity and hbnor dwell."
EVIL OF IDLENESS.—Nine tenths of
the miseries and vices of manhood pro
ceed from idleness . ; with men of quick
minds, to whom it is especially pernici
ous, this habit is commonly the fruit of
many disappointments, and schemes oft
baffled; and men fail in their schemes,
not so much for the tvant of Strength, aq
the ill direction of it. The weakest liv
ing creature, by concentrating his powers
on a single object, can accomplish some
thing; the strongest, by dispersing his
over many may fail to accomplish anything.
The drop, by continued falling, bores its
passage through the. hardest rock—.•the
hasty torrent rushes over it, and leaves no
;race, behind.:.;
m.The avaricious man is like the bar
ren sandy ground_ of the desert, which
sucks in ,all the rain and dews with greed
iness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants
fcir the benefit of others.
A. WARD,