Noland.
ANOTHER MILLION MORE !
—(Resolution in Congress.)
By DILL A. SMITH'
" And the Lord said unto Pharaoh, let my
people go,—BIDLE.
To arum! to tns! a million moo I—a million mon, or
more,
To carry food' to starving men, nut opo tho prison
door!
A million mon for Richmond I—to sot our brothers
free.,
And teach tho barbarous Goth that we've a Christian
chivalry.
Ho! toiler at the anvil—hol laborer at the plough—
Ilel every man who would not wear the mark upon
his brow,
!Forth, front your desks add- workshops—and, an the
lightning, leap
On the foul !lends that laugh to scorn our sons In dun
goon keep I
A. million men aro in the tiold,—a million trusty
ILl=l3
nave proved how well our people know to wield their
battle. bra n ;
A million gallant hearts have gone the Southron's
pride to lower,
But, we want another million—another million more I
The braves who fought at Malvern—who piled Antie
tam's livid,—
The glory erown'tl of Gettysburg, whose names to fame
we yield:
Thorn their dreamless sleepth' uuburiod dead of Chick,
amanita's plain
Call on you to tho roscue,--0, shall It bo In vain?
I list the hoploss mother's sigh for tho gentle boy she
bore—
God she cries, will none deliver?—to my arms the
lost restore ?
Sister, well in moth thou dost to weep and hoard the
scatter'd crumbs,
When thy playmate's plaint In hunger-calls from Lib
by's charnel conies!
And the old grey-headed father, how ho starts from out
his sleep,
As a pale spectre towards him all tremulous doth
creep ;
.I' , Twas his own good sword ho girt on him when going
to the fray—
The same old sword himself had borne In Israel Put
man's day
And well " the boy" had kept the faith—the trust, to
p Fed In him,
Since no'or dishonor vullied blade, nor taint Its sheen
MIMI
But when Burnside, at Froderirkshurg, wan sore re
pulsed by Lee,
They took the lad a prlsoner—and, this is him you see!
Hungry, and weary,and waiting, 0 warder! unbar the
gat
Let me but breathe the free, pure air, and Inc ready
for my fate;
But to starve and freeze In a living grave, Ohl 'tie a
fearful thing—
And only for loving the Union, and holding my coun
try king!
To arms! to arms! n million mon! a million men, nr
=II
To carry broad to famish'd men, and burnt their prison
door
A million men for anywhere, and to ride as the whirl
wind rides,
Over the bleared and bloated land where Slavery's votive
strides
O mon! If you have manly scuba; 0 men I If from the
duet
You would lift up our stricken flag and own that God
ERZ
nisei In your might, and, as a sod, enguipli this let,
rous thing;
For only truth Is right I'm sure, and God—not dot il,
king 1
A million men for Itlehuton.l! with Grant to lead tho
way—
So reads the resolution ; it pass? I trust it may ;
There's a million wtiatteQ "die.des yet that linger In the
sheath—
A million, and a million yet, .to leap out at the death I
Hal the tiger loves to lap the blood—the panther
prowls about—
But the heart where genetnus Ores are lit fears never
wrong to flout;
..kiiina - th - 6 word 141 spoken—gods l I Hoer - the-xurgimg
ranks
That will sweep the Beane idols to the Rio Gila's
hanks!
Bear your hearts then in your hands, men the thi,
to act has come .
Bare and swift Um avenging angel shouts the death
march to the drum !
From a thousand bills our watch fires fling their yie
tor-a:whinge out—
To horse! to arias! to haver! to ruin, and the rout!
Who says nay 1 whose footsteps (Altars et the thought
of desperate deeds?
When the reaper reaps, he turns aside to kill the not
FOlllO weeds!
Rend the Upas by the roots, men ! then to our cove
rant ark
The dove will bear the olive ',Much—the sunlight II ..sh
the dark
.pfigullxmccialo,
GROWLER'S INCOME TAX
BY T. S. ARTHUR
My neighbor Growler, an excitable
man by the way, was particularly excit
ed over his "Income Tax,' or, as he called
it, his 'War Tax.' Ile had never liked
the war—thought it unnecessary and
wicked; the wurk of politicans. This
fighting of brother against brother was a
terrible thing in his eyes. If you asked
him who began the war ?—who struck at
the nation's life ?—if self-defence were
not a duty ?—he would reply with vague
generalities, made up of partizan, trickery
sentences, which he had learned without
comprehending their just significance.
Growler came in upon rue the other
day, flourishing a square piece of blue
writing paper, quite moved from his
equanimity.
'There it is ! Just so much robbery !
stand and deliver is the word. Pistols
and bayonets I Your money or your life !"
I took the piece of paper from his hand
AO read ;
pIfILADELPIIIA, September, 1863.
RICHARD GROWLER, Esq.,
'llr. to JOHN M. RILEY,'
Collector of Internal Revenue 'or the
fourth District of Pennsylvania, O f fice,
427 Chetnut Street.
'For Tax on Income, for the year 1.862,
fls per return made to the Assessor of the
- Iristriet 1643,21.
'Received payment.
'JOHN M. RILEY, Col.'
'You'r all right,' I said,' smiling.
- 'l'd like - to know what you mean, by
all right 1' Growler was just a little of
fended at my way of treating this very
serious matter, serious in his eyes, I
mean . 'l've been robbed of, forty•three
dollars and twenty one cents,' he dontin-
Ind. • '.Do you say that it is all right
A minion of the Government has put
his hand into my pocket and taken just
so" much' of my property. - Is that all
right?'
The same thing may be set forth in
very, different language,' I replied. 'Let
me state the ease.' •
'Very well'—state it !" said growler,
VOL. 64.
A. S. RHEEM, Editor & Proprietor.
dumping himself into a chair. and look
ing as ill-humored as possible.
'lnstead of being 'robbed,' said I, 'you
have been protected in yOur property and
person, and guaranteed all the high priv
ileges of citizenship, for the paltry sum
of fourty three dollars and twenty one
cents, as your share of the cost of pro
tection.'
'Oh, that's only your way of putting
the case,' retorted Growler, dropping a
little from his high tong of indignation.
'Let me be more particular in my way
of putting the case. Your income is
from the rent of property ?'
'Ves.'
'What would it have cost you to de
fend that property from the army of Gen
Lee, recently driven from our State by
national soldiers ?'
`Cost we r Growler looked at me in
a kind of maze, as though he thought me
half in jest ?'
'Exactly ! What would it have cost
you ? Lee if unopposed,, would certainly
have reached this city, and held it; and
if your property had been of use to him,
or any of his officers or soldiers, it would
have been appropriated without so much
as saying—By 'your leave, sir ? Would
forty-three dollars and twenty one cents
have covered the damage ? Perhaps not
Possibly, you might have lost one half
to two thirds of all you are worth.'
Growler was a trifle bewildered at this
way of putting the case. lie looked pus
'You have a store on South wharves ?'
said 1. '
'Yes.'
'What has kept the Alabama or the
Florida from running up the Delaware
and burning the whole city front? Do
you have forts and ships of war for the
protection of your property Y If not,
who provides them ? They arc provid
ed, and you are safe. What is your
share of the expense for a whole year?—
Just "fatly:llo'oe - dollars and t we nty - otre
cents ? It sounds like a jest
U ruwler did not answer. So I kept
on.
`But for our immens armiese in the field,
and navy a the water, this rebellion
would have succeeded, what then ? thy()
you ever pondered the future of this coun
try in such an event ? Have you thoulit
of your own position ? of the loss or gain
to yourself'? How long do you think we
would be at peace with England or
France, if the nation were dismembered,
and a hostile Confederation established
on our ;._iouthern border ? 11'ould our
war taxes be less than now? Would life
and.-property be more secure? have
you not an interest in our great army and
navy, as well as I and everyot her mem
ber of the Union ? Dues nut 3 our safety
as well as mine lie in their existence.—
Are they not, at this very time, the con
servators of' every thing we hob' dear as
men and citizens 7 Who equips and pays .
this army ? Who builds and furnishes
these ships ? Where does the enormous
sums of money required conic from ? It
is the nation's work—the people aggre
gate in power and munificence, and so ir
re.sistable in might—unconquerable
Have you no heart-swellings of pride in
this magnificent exhibition of will and
strength ? No part in the nation's glory ?
No eager helping hand to stretch forth ?
Growler was silent still.
'There was no power in you or the to
cheek the wave of destruction that was
launched by fratricidal hands against us.
It' unresisted by the nation as an aggre
gate power, it would have swept in des
olation over the whole land. Traitors in
our midst and traitors moving in arms a
gainst us, would have united to destroy
our beautiful fabric of civil li-berty. The
government, Which dealt with all good
citizens so kindly and gently, that not
one in a thousand telt its tauch beyond
the weight of a feather, would have been
subverted, and who can tell under what
iron rule we might have fallen for a time,
or how many years of' bloody strife would
have elapsed before that civil liberty
which ensures the greatest good to tuein•
hers would have been again established ?
But the wave of destruction was met—
nay hurled back upon the enemies who
sought our ruin. We yet dwell in safety.
Your property is secure. You still gath
er your annual income, protected in all
your rights and priviliges by the national
arm. What does the nation assess to you
as your share in the cost of this security ?
Half your property ? No—not a farth
ing of that property !—Only a small per
, centage of your income from that proper
ty ! Just forty-three dollars and twenty
one cents ! Pardon me for saying it
friend Growler, but I am more than half
ashamed of you'
'And seeing the way you put the case,
I am more than half ashamed of myself,'
lie answered, frankly. Why thing your
view, this is about the cheapest invest
ment I ever made.'
'You certainly get more for your mon
ey than in any other line of expenditure.
Yesterday I had a letter from an old
friend living in the neighborhood of Car•
liile: The - rebels took from liim eiX fine
horses, worth two hundred dollars a piece;
six cows and oxen ; and over two hundred
bushels ofgrain. And riot content with
plundering him, they burnt down a barn,
which cost-him:nearly two thousand dol
lars. But for the army raised and equi
pped by the nation, in support of which
you and I aro taxed so lightly wo might
have suffered severely. How much do
you think it cost in money kor the pro
tection we have enjoyed in this particular
instance?
'A - million of dollars perhaps ?'
'Nearer ten millions of ,dollars. Prom
the time our army left the Rappahannock,
until the battle of Gettysburg, its cost to
the government could scarcely have been
.less than thd sum mentioned. Of this
bv.
sum, your proportion cannot be over three
or four dollars ; and for that trifle, your
property maybe your life was held se
cure.'
'No more of that, if you please.' said
Growler, showing some annoyance. You
are running this thing into the ground.
I own up square. I was quarreling with
my best friend. I was striking at the
band that gave me protection. If my
war tax next year should he a hundred
dollars instead of forty-three, I will pay
it without a murmur.'
'Don't say without a murmur, friend
Growler.'
'What then ?'
'Say gladly, as a mean; of safety.'
'Put it as you will, he answered, fold•
ing up Collector Riley's receipt, which
he still held in his hand, and bowing him
self out.
Not many days afterwards, I happened
to hear some one grumbling in my neigh
bor's presence about his income tax.—
Growler scarcely waited to hear him
through. My lesson was improved in his
hands. In significant phrase he pitched
into the offender, and read him a lesson
so much stronger than mine, that 1 felt
myself thrown quite into the shade.
`You have been assessed fifty-eight
dollars,' he said, in his excited way—
tifty-eight dollars !' One would think,
l'rum the noise you make about it, that
you had been roblud of half you arc
worth. Fifty eight dollars for security at
home and protectitm abroad ! Fifty eight
dollars as your share in the cost of defence
against an enemy that, if unopposed,,will
desolate our homes and destroy our gov
ernment ! Already it inns cost the nation
fur your safety, over a - thousand mil
lions of dollars ; and you are angry be
cause it asks fur your little pant of the
expense; Sir, you are not worthy the
name of an American citizen !'
'That's hard talk, Growler, and I won't
bear it !' said the other.
st. true talk, and youll—have. to. bear
it !' was retorted. 'Fretting over the
wean littlO sum of fifty eight dollars !
Why sir, I know a man who has given
la is right arm in the cause ; and another
who has given his right leg. Do they
grumble f No sir ! ,L never heard a
word of complaint front their lips. Thous
ands and tens of thousands have given
their sons, and wives have given their
hmhands —sons and husbands who will
never mole return ! They are with the
dead. sir, you are dishonoring yourself
in the eyes of all men. A grumbler over
this paltry war tax for shame I,'
L turned off, saying, in toy thought'.-
-'So touch good done ! i‘ly !Maimed
sinner Las becc.•.•c a preacher of riht
eouslies:s.'
A TRAVELLER, atitinL from Illinois,
states that in rettin , to the place of his
destination, he experienced all kinds of
goaheadativeness In the first place, he
touk a steamboat ; in the second, the rail=
road ; in the third, a mail-coach ; the
fourth, vial,: on horseback, the fifth, went
six miles on foot to Terra Haute ; and
was finally rider out of the village on a
rail. Ile says he don't know which to
prefer, out of the six ; but thinks the latter
method is unequestionably the cheapest,
though its acebmtuodations are most
wretched.
A NAVAL AI n.—A person on whom
the temperance reformation had produced
no effect, entered, in a state of exhilara
tion, a temperance grocery in a neigh
boring town.
''Mr ," exclaimed lie, "do you
keep—any—thing— to take here?"
"Yes," replied the merchant, "we have
sonic excellent cold NVfltk \ ir ; the best thing
in the world to take." •••,,
"Wcll,l know it," replied the Bac
chante, `•there's no one thing—that's
done so much for navigation as that."
E late Judge Peace, of the Supreme
Court of the State of Ohio was a noted
wag. A young lawyer was once making
his hist effort befbre hint, and had thrown
himself on the wings of his imagination
into the seventh heaven, and was seeming
ly preparing for a higher ascent, when the
Judge struck his rule on the desk two or
or three times, exclaiming to the astonish
ed orator, "[lola on, hold on, my dear sir;
don't go any higher, for you are already
out of the jurisdiction of the Court.
BREAD WITHOUT BUTTER.—Some fel
low enamored of a young lady named
Annie Bread, dropped the following from
his pocket—we expect :
Maus saw a five-pound note lying on
the ground but ho knew it was a forged
one, and walked on without picking it up.
He told Smithers the story, when the
latter said ; "Do you know, Diggs, you
have committed a very grave offence?"
"Why what. have I done ?"—'You have
past a forged note, knowing it to be such."
WHEN asked how he got out of prison,
a witty rogue replied : "I got out of my
.cell by ingenuity, ran up stars with agili
ty, crawled out of the window in secrecy,
slid down the lightning, od with rapidity,
walked out of the town with dignity, and
am now basking in the sunshine of liber
ty ,
COifE, Bill, it's ten o'clock, and I think
we had better be - going, for it's time hon . -
est folks were at home."
"Well, yes," was the answer, "I must
be off, but you needn't hurry home on
that account." •
A MAN in Orange county was found
ono night in a fulling mill, trying to climb
the overshot wheel, When asked what
he was doing, he said ho was trying to
get up to bed, but somehow or other the
stairs wouldn't hold still.
THE woman who undertook to " scour
tho wood,'•' gave up the job, owing to the
high price4of soh') and sand:.
belles their lovely graces spread,
Aud fops around them flutter,
I'll be content with Annie Bread,
Aud won't have any but her."
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY' 22, 1864.
A COLLEGE TALE.
In the archives of Bowdoin—meaning
by archives, in this case, the garret of
Maine Hall—is to be soon lin old and
faded flag. On a ground of white is a
bristling swine, done in dubious brown.
Astride this fierce animal, holding on by
the ears, is a full-uniformed military of
ficer. Above his head is the awful inscrip
tion, "Bowdoin's First I.leat s . Thereby
hangs a tale. Deeming that the history of
Maine veld be incomplete without
recital, we venture, at our -pail, to take
up this story of demi gods and heroes.
As early as 1820 the students were an
nually warned to appear "armed and equ
lidped as the law directs." Accordingly,
being incorporated into theitown COM -
puny, they occasionally improved the good
nature of the inhabitants by choosing, un -
der their astonished noses, students as
chief officers. Besides this, they in
dulged, say excellent old Indies with suit
able unction, in other "highly unbecom
ing and and indecorous tricks." It is
credible, also, judging what is past by
what is present, that there was no lack
of practical jokes. At last, it being rath
er too much for the towns-people to en
dure, the Legislature passed a bill ex
empting students from military duty.-
Then did peace, like the dews of' evening,
settle once more upon Brunswick. • its
citizens rejoiced in warlike dignities.—
They became corporals. .and lieutenants
and captains, and were happy. Uncon
scious innocent-little knowing the future
and the bellying cloud of disaster above.
But the military spirit was on the in
crease throughout the State. Valorous
ndividuals 'talked of slaughter, and of
glory won on tented field. "Our people
must become citizen-soldierti. It is the
only safety for a free people—the only
bulwark of our free institutions." And
the valorous individuals went on as ever,
conga e rings and - to conquer:- -As-there-•
suit of ail this, iii 1836 it seemed good
to the Legislature of-Maine to pass a law
requiring students to train. It seemed
good to them, also, to tnalse sarcastic re
marks, indicative of contempt, which
was not wise This act, contrary to cus
tom, went into effect soon after it was
passed. Of' course there was commotion
in college. Stump oratory was rampant.
Every man with gift of language and a
bility to collect together six others, gave
to sentiments of rebellion in firm and
determined tones, and backed them by
irrefutable arguments. But it is a sin
gu ar fact that even irrefutable arguments
do not always hold sway in this world,
an- ev ,saris t-setFre As l l-essssii.ns. _Every
student whs summoned sink or well, pre
sent or absent, it made no difference.—
Fur the select men were efficient and de
termined to sacrifice all things to duty—
having an eye likewise to the fines. The
eollegians s finding- that -stump -oratory.
eanie to little, held a meeting, heard
speeches, passed resolutions of a compli
mentary nature, and determined to train.
From that time it seemed as if college had
become a barrack. "Forward, march,"
"Right and Isft oblique," were the only
sounds to be heard. At dinner, instead
of' peaceful/request to pass the potatoes,
rang the warlike command to march down
that detachment of beefsteak, or order
out that platoon of potatoes, or squadron
or pie. Meantime, active meparation went
on bunind the scenes only sometimes,
by glancing at the windows, you might
see -hideous farina shrinking front sight,"
and fancy colleges had turned menage
ries, and all the animals got loose.
At length came on the eventful day.
The roll of' war-drums and roar of artil
lery heralded and usher_d in the dawn.
The rays of the rising sun slanted across
the baleful banners flung from the peace
ful halls of learning. The village spire,
forgetting to point_ heavenward, draped
its summit in the folds of a fearful flag,
on which you might have read the soul
inspiring, toe-disheartening " BELLUM."
The sun reached the zenith. From all
quarters the motley crowd poured into
the college grounds. Every man was a
master-piece. The ingenuity of weeks
had not been put forth in vain. Some
glowered in painted faces. Masks trans
formed some into fantastic demons. Gor
geous whiskers,
putting to shame all the
music teachers for miles around, bristled
on the cheeks of the " mailed minions"
of war. Through huge goggles leered
the mocking images of old age, and
around sides shaking with laughter wore
tied melancholy badges of despair. The
head-gear was equally varied. Broad
brimmed beavers, smart cocked hats, hats
of' every size, shape and fashion, from a
clown's bag to a general'inhapeau, topped
he ids brimming with wisdom. Pmines
of all styles—of old rope, feathers, bro Mes
and brushes—waved from tin caps and
chapeau de bras. One Peneinian, worthy
even of our time, mounted a helmet of
bark, from which floated down the ma
jestic pine bough=" pintos loquentes Boni
per." For arms they bore claymores and
oimctcrs, iron or wooden, rusty guns ren
- dared -- trustworthy - - by -- padlocks, -- hand - -
spikes,-poleaxes, scythes, brooms, baybn
ets, spears, ease-knives, and saws. And
had the,caloulus been born into the world,
that"sublime hstruinent"_.wi.uld have it 7
donned every hand. As for body equip
ments, every battle-field from Bannock
burn to Queenstown 'seemed to have
stripped its dead and furnished its share.
No eye ever before behold . stieh motley
groups. All,the nations and tribes, from
Lapland to Australia, vere mimicked and
caricatured to perfection. Thus the-crowd
_steed,_ each convulsed with
_:laughter at
the comical costume of the ether. .And
thus. equipped,„.they were marshalled in
order of olastos, the Pandan and.Pandow
by musical hands'marching in the vani
beneath a fl g inscribed, - "The de'll cam
•, •
BY T. B. REED
g*lo4o
TERMS :.-$1,50 in Advance, or $2 within the year.
fiddlin' through the town." The medical
class followed with a banner bearing an
armed skeleton, surrounded by the motto,
',/ildfrna est illediesna et praevletit."—
The seniors and juniors carried the flag
we have already described. The Soph
omores were cheered on ' - by the goddess
of Victory and Death, with the Motto,
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,"
and the Freshmen by a jackass rampant,
and beneath him, "The Sage ASS what
made the LAW."
Then counntnenced the march. Slow
ly swelkd the solemn strains from the
Pandean and Pandewdy. Standards wav
ed and horns blew most melodiously
Welcome worthly the noble commander,
who appeared just then to pluck the fade
less laurels of that fadeless tiny. He
merits particular description, says the an
cient chronicler, and so, having materials,
we describe him. On his head was a
diminutive hat. Over his shoulders
drooped the "waving folds" of an ex-tail
plume. Wooden goggles bestrode his
nose. Behind his back clattered an old
hat, a canteen, a tin kettle, a cigar -box, a
wooden firelock, and heaven knows what
else. His horse was a strange animal,
"compound of horse and jackass." Price
eight dollars as was afterward discovered,
for ho died on the field of glory.
Receiving with shouts of applause their
hero, who bowed to the very verge of equi
librium, the troops marched down Main
street, crossed into Back Stand, and pro
ceeded. to the place.° I training behind the
bank, where now a row of quiet ctotages,
each one just like the other, peacefully
rear their roofs—their commander amus
ing them meantime with comical remarks,
pleasant no doubt then, but unapprecia
ble at this present. Arrived on the ground,
the deep-mouthed cannon thundered them
salute. They were then drawn up around
their captain to listen to the roll-cull. "At
tend," commanded he, "and answer to
your names." The whole troop thronged
round'the affriglacd . officer. -- "Onc - at - a
time," trembled he in terpor-stricken
tones. The clerk called the first name.
"Here!" "litre!" shouted all the posse in
a breath. Next mine. "Ilene!" here!"
from all again The colonel, as before,
makes - a -- few jocose remarks which can
not be smiled at now. At last older was
restored, and the roll-call went on. Then
began the examination of equipments.
They stepped forward, one by one. "Mark
him down—no equipments," shouted the
captain, grown quite valorous now, find
ing no personal injury intended. The
spectators nearly split their sides, while.
rage was filling the hardened bosom of
the man of war. But what could he do,
when hia offieers were " , riiiniti , r
him like bears at bay ?" Th;s ended, they
were ordered to form a line. "We've
formed a line. but we can't keep it,"
mourned the valiant defenders of their
country. "Form a line, or match off the
- field;" -roared-the- despairing and discom
fited captain, biting his lips.
Loudly swelled the strains of triumph
from Pandean and Pandowdy. Wreath
ed with earliest victory and laurelled with
latest renown, the conquorors left the field,
.their swords unsheathed, their guns un.
fired, but their souls lifted heavenward
by the glowing consciousness of battle
done fur truth and right. So they march
ed on, through the verdant streets of
Brunswick and the shaded lanes of Top
sham, until they reached the college
grounds. There, as everywhere, noble
tongues were burning to eulogize noble
deeds,
"Fellow-students and soldiers," began
the orator, whose speech has come down
to our day ; "fellow-students and soldiers,
you hay° earned for yourselves and your
country never fading laurels. When dan
gers and perils thickened around your de
voted country, when her hardy yeoman
ry were no longer able to defend her soil
and her liberties, you have nobly stepped
forth to her rescue. You have doffed
your students' gowns and assumed the
mailed dress of war. You have exchang
ed the badges of literary distinction for
the toils and dangers of the battle-field.
You have extinguished the midnight lamp
and' lit in its plage the fiery torch of Mars.
If you have followed Minerva in the flow
ery paths of literature; if you have toiled
with her up the rugged steeps of science,
you have also followed het' in the ranks
of war and glory. If you.have twined
around your brows the prizes of poetic
distinction, you have also encircled your
temples with the wreaths of military glory.
Yes fellow-students ! side by side we
have followed in the career of literary
fame, and shoulder to shoulder will we
advance in the cause of liberty, law and
our country.
"Soldiers, you have deserved well of
your country, and think not but that she
will fully discharge the debt. Students
and soldiers, let this be our motto, 'War
and science, military glory and literary
distinction, now 'land i forever, one and
inseparable."'
Thus have we endeavored to collect
and preserve whatever might be valuable
laf a'scene and action—whiett•still-- lingers
in dim tradition about the college walls.
Of its consequences, it suffices to say that
it was the prime cause of that utter con
tempt into which general musters have
dalt within the bounds of Maine. Ad
to its immediate effects, no pen can do it
justice, for no pen can bring book the
quaint antics of the actors, the jolly laugh
ter of staid professors,_or fill again the
windows with the giggling groups, or lino
the sidewalks with the grinning sover
eigns.
Two gentlemen fishing—slarp . boy ap
pears. ". Well, sir, got any bites . ?--
"Lets of em." "Y-e.s—under yer bat,"
Race between boy and sundry stones—
boy a little ahead.
How East Tennessee Has Suffered
Under Both Armies.
From Col. Taylor's description-' of
Burnsido's campaign we make this ex
tract
" From before Zollikoffer ten miles
above Carter Station, Burnside fell bank
toward Knoxville, the Confederates cau
tiously following. From Buhl's Gap he
turned upon them, and drove them across
the Watauga, and beyond the Virginia
line. Again the Union forces retired
and again the Rebels advanced, each ar
my supplying itself from the country
around. Surging forward . and back,
these two armies four times advanced and
retrograded, widening at each uidvement
the desolation that marked their track.
What the Rebels spared the Federals
took, and what the Federals left was ap
propriated by the Rebels, and robbers,
who ibund rallying points and secure
hiding places in the mountains that skirt
the valleys, came in for their share of
the substance of this plundered people,
and completed their ruin. Thus our
cribs and smoke-houses, our barns and
dwellings have been emptied and pillaged
Our women and children have been di
vested of their wearing apparel, and even
the webs of domestic cloth in their looms,
'destined for winter clothing, have been
cut out and carried away. Our tanner
ies have fared no better. and the limited
thnount of leather, which might _have
shod a portion of our women and old men,
has been seized, and they are left bare
footed to struggle through thewinter."
THE DREOS OF AFFLICTION
" llel'eve me, East Tennessee has
drank its lull cup of suffering, and noth
ing seems left her but to drain its very
dregs. She has sacrificed everything
but loyalty and life ; she has endured
everything but dishonor and death, and
now destitution and famia, followed bard
by despair and death are already tremb
ling on the threshold of her sad homes;
flieir ifOors", to CoMPefe
the sacrifice and consummate the suffer
. ing
But, through all her trials, she has re
mained faithful ; persuasions, threats, in
sults, arrests, imprisonments, wounds,
stripes, privations, punishments, chains
and confiscations, gibbets, and military
murders, the clash of anus and the ",ter
ribleness of armies -w-i.th—laan-n4r
all the combined and concentrated 'hor
rors of internecine war marshalled on her
battle torn bosom, and never corrupted
her loyalty, nor driven her a line from
her devotion to the Government of our
fathers. Unprotected she • was by the
Government site loved, interior and iso
dise-mnd before,llle could o;tganize
she WaS seized and pinioned by a power
that uverudc all law, and trampled consti
tutional liberty unuer its feet. Choked
down under a reign of terror black as the
night of the Hobesperian dynasty, her
prund neck has felt the heel of despotism
more heartless and crushing than the
power of an autocracy. Her loyal peo
ple, because they could not do otherwise,
have submitted, for more than two dread
ful years, to a bondage their inmost hearts
abhorred—a bondage that fettered the
soul, and sealed the lips, and all but
closed the door of, hope. We breathed
but to live, and lived to pray " Oh Lord,
how long?"
Advice Gratis to the Slow Coach
Family
Don't take a newspaper, don't read one
of any kind. 1f yuu hear persons discuss
ing this or that battle, ask stupidly what
it all means. Emulate Rip Van Winkle;
steep your senses in mental and mural
oblivion, and pay no attention to what is
passing about you ; in this way you may
save two or three dollars— the price of a
news paper—and lose $2OO or $5900 by
not being informed about markets, sup
ply and demand, a thousand other things
as essential to an enterprising luau as
light and air. if you have any childeen
don't take a paper for them ; tell them
" book larniu ain't no 'count." Let them
tumble in the highway unwashed, un
combed, and in rugs and tatters. if they
don't graduate in the State's
.prison, it
will be through nu fault of yours. if
you are a farmer, plow, sow, and reap, us
your stupid old father did before you;
scoff at agricultural papers, and sneer and
deride at progress of all kinds ; then, if
you want to succeed in making other
people,. think that they are all wrong, and
that you alone are sagacious, it must be
that the world is curiously a wry, and
needs a reforming badly. The sooner
you undertake it, the better. By not
reading papers, you will succeed; if a
farmer, in having the finest crop or knot
ty, wormy apples that can be found ; po
tatoes that would take the prize at any
fair for rot; cabbages that are till leaves
and no head ; turnips destroyed in the
shoot by worms; hay mouldy and musty-,
because you despise a barometer and cut
it just as the nierotiry was falling; corn
half a crop, because you exhaust te land
with it for years and starve nature to
Auch_a _pitch _that_ .sha..had. nothing __t!a
yield in return ; all these calamities and
many more will befall you, because you
don't keep pace with the times. You
"call it 'herd luck;' but men of oommon
sense call your coursely - a name,you nev
er heard of—stupidity ; that's 'more
'book larnin.'
A man that does'not take a paper' of
some kind or another in this time of the
world, must expect to be a prey 'to all
sorts of, swindlers, a victim to bad man
agement, and out of spirits, out of pock
et, temper, money,• credit; in short,
everything under the sun that tends to
make life miserable. The newspaper is
the-great educator of the'people after all;
so lot us then ''exolaitni ' The Press' .For
ever.'
A Singular and Affecting ;71,
' ,
cident.
A.Ciecinnati paper says tha n t some three
years, ago a household'in the city of Cov
ington was thrown into . 'commotion by the
sudden disappearance.. of a daughter
.twelve years °lnge. ''She was tracked to
the ferry boat but whether she had passed
safely over or had been' drowned was not
disnovered. Patient and anxious waiting
brought no tidings of her. 'The frenziCid
and unhappy father, although in moderate
circumstances, sought the newspaper' f-'
flees, and advertised a reward of 1,000 to
whoever should.restore his missing ohild.
All proved unavailing. Some time after
wards the corpse of a young lady, was
found in the river near Nevay, Indiana,
and hearir b er of it he went there, but it
was not Iris daughter. •
Time wore on and no tidings came of,
the lost child. She was dead to them,
but they could not visit her grave. A
bout twelve month since the stricken
family removed to Mexico and 'took up
their abode in a country foreign in lan
guage and customs in features and in hab
its from that in which they had met with,
their great loss. It might wear away
their thoughts from sadly ruminating, on
the past, and enable them, in region de
voted to religious duties, too look more
hopefully toward the great future. There
they still aro.
NO, 4.
About a week since a steamer arriving
from Memphis was crowded with passen
gers who Were upon the guards straining
their eyes to gather into one look the mul
titudinous objects which throng the pub
lic landing. One however, a young girl
budding into womanhood, sought the out
er rail and looked wistfully over the na
ked shore of Covington to where, hid
way under a clump of trees, was the cot
tage of her childhood, hoping in vain to
see the curling smoke announce to her a
warm welcome within. Quickly she
passed over the ferry, where long since
she had disappeared No one noted or
knew her and she went without interrup,
tion to the door of her father's house.—
lt not her knock ; weeds had
grown up rank and rough where she had
left flowers, and no signs of human life
were to be found there.
- It was the turn now of the wayward
child to weep, and when, by inquiry, she,
found how far and almost hopeless she
was separated from her parents, she be
gan to feel uesolate. Piqued at some
chiding or some punishment of her moth
er, she had gone upon a steamboat, where
a female passenger hired her as a nurse.
After a little 'while the war broke out,
stopping all intercourse with the Sonth
by the river, and, though she.soon found
that, untried friends but seldom prove
steadfast in trouble, that the harsh:
ness of a parent is melting beside that of
a stranger, yet she was unable until late
ly to return. A kind lady of Covington
has given shelter to the wanderer until
her return is made known to her parents..
An English writer says :—One day
_wheal_ came home from visiting, my old
landlady told we that some one had been
down begging me to go up to old WPl's
house as soon as ever I could—he was in
great trouble. I started off at onee, ana
found him and his old woman both in
tears. I asked what was the matter.
" Oh, sir, we've had such a letter from
our Jack - in Africa:"
2 , :0w, our Jack. was a ;toldier, and had,
by good conduct, risen to the rank of
sergeant-major.
Ills letter was in a high-flown strain.
He had been evidently reading Moore
and other poets ; and - to had written
when the news of the threatened Chartist
riot on the famous 10th of April had
jest reached the camp. I cannot re
member all his letter, but this passage
occurs to me :
" BELOVED PARENTS — I have heard
of the terrible dangers that threaten my
native land. Perhaps ere now it has
been devastated by lawless bands of un
principled Miscreants • perhaps ere now
the humble cot in which I first drew
nurture has been committed to ruthless
flames. Would I were with you, to pro
tect my ancestral hearth ! I cannot be
with you; but, beloved parents, my soul
hovers over you, as the fabled Howl of
the Mohammedan ; and I do all I can,
by wish and supplication, to cast an regis
around you."
Of course I burst out laughing at this
high flown letter and their grief. They
started at my laugh. „.
What, sir, is all right ? We thought
summut terrible had surely happened ;
we never-heard &uch words afore. ,,
1 assured them all was right, and
translated the letter for them, to their
atnaziog comfort ; but I can assure you
that letter was shown to every neighbor.
ns " what our Jack could do," and doubly
treasured because they could not compre
hend it.
Gen• Grant in A Horse Trade
• A few Congressmen on the train to-day
entered into conversation about the merits
of different Generals in our army, in the
course of which one of them told the fol.
lowing story about Gen. Grant t• -
"I knew Ulysses Grant when he was a
little boy. We used to go to school toge
ther, near Georgetown, Brown county,
Ohio. The boys used to plague him
dreadfully about a horse trade he once
made. When he was about twelve years
old, his father sent him a few miles into,
the country to buy a horse from a Man,
named Ralston. The old man told ,
Ulysses to offer Rdston fifty dollars st
first ,if ho wouldn't take that, to offer
fifty-five dollars, and to go as high atittiz! ! ,
ty dollars if no less would make the
chase. The embryotic Majbr4etierat
started off with these instructions
inipressed --- up of liis mini: - Ile - dialed -
upon Hi , . Ralston, and told him he veiFt&•
ed to buy the horse.
"'How much did your father tellt yOn
to givo for him ?' was a very natural-hi
quiry from the owner of the steed. ' •
"'Why," said Ulysses,:he told me to
offer you fifty dollars, and if that wouldn't
do, to give you fifty-five, dollars, and if you
wouldn't take less than. sixty dollars,• 'to
give you that.'
"Of oourso sixty dollars was the lowest
figure, and-on payment,of_ that amount,
the animal became iltd property of the
young Napoleon."
We - seo an announcement of a, marriage,
of a Mr. Greenback. Now look out 'for
an issue of legal tenders."
Jack's Letter