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