Carlisle herald., May 27, 1864, Image 1

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DALE. b>E'
UNSEATED LANDS
JIY virtue of , -alwarrant frdm undete,the
hind and seal of b office of thaCommissibnere
of Cumberland County, and to me dirtinied
/the following tracts and lots of etisniitedi
Lands, situated in Comberland County, , State
of Pennsylvania, will be exposed to sale by
public vendue, on DioNDAy the 13th nair or
J:utte, 18q4, at the Court House, in the . bor
ough of Carlisle, county aforesaid,lind .con
tinned by adjournment from time to time,
until they are all field, or as much of each
tract or lot, as will,be sufficient to defray
the arrearages of the State, County, Road and
School Taxes due thereon, and costs.
HENRY S. RITTER,
County Treasurer.
Carlisle April 13, 1864.
No. Acres. Owners
SOUTHAMPTON
James Bowen's heirs,
John & Abr'm Roddy,
John Boomer,
Wm. Rankin,
FRANKFORD.
John M. Woodburn,
Hollenbach's heirs,
James McCulloch,
John Dunbar,
Samuel Kiner,
MIFFLIN.
•J. M. Woodburn,(Boyle) 6 70
(Mon) 73
It
14 (Barnes) 3 75
(Wharton) 928
(Marshall) 2' 85
(Norton) 5 71
(Lake) 1 41
(A. Gardner) 2 85
(King) 2 85
(W P Gardner 4 27
(S. Parker) 3 - 55
L. Parker) 9 23
(W. Parker) 1 10
(Buck) 3 20
it (McClintick) 3 65
44 (Paxton) 5 32
John A. Humrich, 3 40
John Nagley's heirs,
Daniel Sweiger,
Rhoads, LOng & Eberly,
Christian Eberly,
MIDDLESEX.
Daniel Coble's heirs,
Jacob Stoufer,
David Capp,
DICKINSON.
John Bolden,
Joseph Baker,
Jacob Grist,
Henry Kefler,
Adam Lerew,
Lloyd Myers,
Benjamin Malone,
Morrison & McCreary,
Peter Miller's heirs,
Howard Myers,
Michael Mentor, -
John Neeley's heirs,
Gilbert Searight,
Jas. Townsend,
Nicholas Wireman,.
Jacob Wolf,
David Duncan, (Penn.)
Jacob Grove,
Abraham Stoner,
Wm. Forbes, (Penn.)
Moore & Craighead,
John S. Myers, -
John Kline,
Samuel Woods' heirs,
Widow Albert,
John Brugh,
Noah Cockley,
Wm. Graham,
Samnel Gleim
Daniel Gitt, -
'James Greason,
Cyrus Myers,
Henry Myers, 11 90
Rogers (flaskel Agt.) (Penn.) 20 25
Racheel Weatheropoom, 48
Jacob Becher, 1 02
Brown & Creswell,
Wesley Biteman,
Francis Corleston,
John Ebert,
John Hemminger,
Wm. B. Mullen,
Moses Myers,
Beetem, Himes & Co.,
Cornelius Myers,
Dr. Marsden,
Isaac Montfort,
John & Henry Montfort,
Philip Smyers,
Alex. Young,
SOUTH MIDDLETON.
D. H. MedcatT,
John Mateer,
Daniel Wonderly,
Sheaffer & Keller,
West,
Elizabeth Bennett,
Banes Barbour,
Deardorf's heirs,
John Nicholson,
James Nicholson,
Zaeob Sheaffer,
John Meeleire's sea., heirs,
John Shanefelter's heirs,
H. I.Fannus,
Alex. Nailor,
A. Richwine,
Jacob Albright,
Benjamin Lerew,
NEW CUMBERLAND.
Northern C. R. R. Company,
UPPER ALLEN.
Trustees M. E. Church,
Philip Gusler,
CARLISLE
John Calio,
John Dunbar's heirs
George Wahl,
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315,
1000.
310
830.
66
SILVER SPRING.
H 47, • SILVER
And
Rober y,
Wm. P. Smith,
David McKinney,
Samuel Miller,PEN.
Robert i‘flueltse,
James M'Culloch,
Jacob Beltzhoover,
Henry Shenk's heirs,
MECHANICSBURG
David Lingfield,
LOWER ALLEN.
J. B. Haldeman,NEWON.
Cyrus Hoon,
Jane B.arribill's heirs,
IN
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3C)rsr 4:3-cocCll.l9.
SPRING,
GREENFIELD Sr. SHEAFER
INVITE the attention of bayerelo their
now stock of Dry Goods. it gm be Nand unsur
passed In all those features which comprise a finstelass
(neck. All departments of our business have been
much enlarged, especially that of
DRESS G-0 O_llS
arblatilerhiiiiiiiiitldint, is the moat extengive assort.
taint ever offered ih this town. We have now open,
ready for Inspection all the novelties of the 8ed16012, TIM
.-Peplins, all new shades and styles. ,ktmeambfques,
Thin and Plaids Plaid Boothia'. °Willies. Pe Lain",
beautiful ' stock. of ALPACOA,B, at astonishingly
? r ow prima. •
• DOMESTICS.
,prints, Bleached Muslin; Broad [teenage, Thinnels
viaghatee, Obeelle, Tickings,. Cottons/dee, &c o /to.
TI :
Suds'. and Boys' Wear,
clothie,Vaislmbriss. Jeand, Bummer Caselmeree,
We would call the attention of our friends more peril°.
eplarly to our immense stock of !dueling, Calicoes. Cot.
'Swedes, all bought lastwinter, before the late advance
*high will be sold at prices that defy • competition.—
pawns m ay rely on .getting great bargains at the
Monied'
O'RECNPIPLD A aI:WAFER.. •
Mara' .23, 1864
•
IfOlin 7—Peroons deslro u of examing our • 'dock will
pigeon be prtllicht,r,, And recolloot.our etoro is lu Zug'
luBding, 8; X. Oornor Marhet Oquare, Bound Mon, op.
ppp~tl.jtttter'e Clothing Bsoro. ~„ . ark 13,
" Y "S'FAMILY MEDI CINES, _ ;
„ , AZR , • I ALBT
VOL. 64.
A. K. RHEEM, Editor & Proprietor.
Taxa Due
$OO 55
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3 77
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A SCORE OF YEARS AGO.
Down by the breaking waves we stood,
Upon the rocky shore;
The brave waves whispered courage,
And hid with friendly roar
The faltering words that told the tale
I dared not tell before.
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I aske t d, if with the priceless gift,
Her love, my life she'd bless ?
Was it her voice or some fair wave,—
For, sooth, I scarce may guess,—
Some murmuring wave, or her sweet voice,
That lisped so sweetly "Yes."
And then in, happy silence, too,
clasped hor fair wee hand:
And long wo stood there, carelessly,
While o'er the darkening land
The eon set, and the fishing•boats
Were sailing from the strand,
It setinis not many days ago—
Like yesterday,—no more,
Since thus wo stood, r) love and I,
Upon the rocky shore;
But I was four and twenty than,
And now I'm forty-four.
The lily band Is thinner now,
And in bar sunny hair
I nee some silvery-lines, and on •
Hor brow some lines of care;
But, wrinkled brow, or silver locks,
She's not one whit less fair.
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The Behing-boati a score of years
Go sal ling from the strand ;
The crimson sun a score of years
Bets o'er the darkening land ;
And hero to-night upon the cliff
We'er standing hand in hand.
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"My darling, there's our eldest girl,
Down on the rocks below;
What's &r.nLeff doing by her alder
My wife sayr, "You should know:
Re's telling her what you told rue
A score of }'.ears ago."
ERIE
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pioa/lantorazo.
VirATKIN'S STORY.
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How long I had lain thus, whether
hours or minutes only, nursing these bit
ter thoughts, I cannot tell, when I was
roused by a movement on the part of the
American He put down his pipe, leaped
off the table, and, seizing a great log of
wood, threw it on the fast decaying em
bers ; then taking his bowie-knife out of
his belt, ho deliberately proceeded to
sharpen it on the hearthstone. When
the edge was to • his mind, he went back
to his seat on the table; and fixing me a•
gain with his relentless eye, addressed
mo as follows : "Dog of a pale-face, lis
ten ! Once I was a white man like thee,
but a Great Spirit came to me as I lay a-'
sleep—whence he came and what was his
name I cannot tell, for on these points
my mind is confused—and be laid on my
brow a finger that seemed to scorch and
wither up toy brain; and he said to me;
'Arise, anal go back to the wigwams Of
thy people, for thou art not a pale-face
Many moons ago thy fathers dwelt on
the praries, and fished in the great lakes,
and hunted the buffalo, and were braves
among the red men, and their blood runs
in thy veins. Get thee hence, and take
with thee the scalps of as many white
men as shall be given into thy hands; so
shalt thou be honored among thy people,
and thy name shall be Soan-ge-taha the
Strong-hearted.' And when the Spirit
had done speaking he put his hand in my
bosom and plucked out my heart of flesh,
and put in its place a smooth flint-stone,
worn and polished by the action of the
waves; and he said: 'Pity and fear shall
be alike unknown to thee. Go ; and the
first white man on whom thy eyes shall
rest after waking his scalp shalt thou as
suredly take to decorate the poles of thy
wigwam, when thou readiest the homes
of thy people on the wide prairie's of the
west.' Stranger, thine was the first face
that my eyes rested on after waking.—
When morning breaks in the east then
phalli I set out on the long journey before
me, and_ thy scalp shall go with me.—
Wagh I"
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I could not keep back the little sigh.
half a sigh and half a sob, that burst ir
repressibly from my heart as he. finished
speaking. There could be no doubt now
as to the fate in store for me. 0, bitter,
bitter for life's bright dream to end so
suddenly is utter darkness ! So young,
too ; and ah, so unfitted to die; I shut
my eyes, and my soul seemed to be sink
ing down throlgh endless depths of night
to where ncr yoke could over comfort me
—no frlendli , hand succor me—to the
ehadowless reOhns of death. But, bark
what was that ? The low, qauvering sound
of a human voice, weak and uncertain at
first, but gathering strength as it went
on ; neither very sweet nor very skillful,
but full of earnestness, and touched with
solemnity and depth of feeling that ap
pealed directly to the heart. It was the
poor deformed landlord of the lonely
bountry inn, singing a quaint, old•world
palm, learned, probably at the church a
thong the Fells. Coming at such a time,
•It-brought - tears - into my eyetll .---- 113d lifted
me +Nit of the depths of that terrible-des
pair, and gave me strength to look my
fate wore calmly in the face.
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Seven o'clook striking by the little
ouokoo.clook in the corner. Where have
I been and what has happened to me?
It was not a dream,
then ? Alas ! no ; for
I am still 'bound hand and foot to the
chest; but my - limbs, where the cords
'have out into them, have lost all feeling
by titno L and aro like the limbs of a
dead man. I have been unconscious of
my pt?Sition for the last few minutes un
conactous' of ,everything except some
'Vague,. blessed dream of 'home—the home
that I shall never see more. Still grim
and immovable, hideous as some Indian
bleb with hie, yelloW-painted face, Nettle
fordlits ad, before. At:Wilier half heir;
. and daylig,ht Will be hei6,'ind then
'i4b
i l ° pettraY•
W L W
[CONCLUDED.]
Thja thought was still lingering in my
brain'w.hen the American laid down his
pipe, steiVed on to the floor, and, going
to one con'er .of the room, brought thence
some short pieces of cord, which had
evidently been out and laid ready for the
purpose for which ho now required them.
With these he tied my ankles firmly to
gether, and cutting the longer cords which
had bound me to the chest he lifted me
up lightly, as though, I were a child, and
set me upright against the door of a large
cupboard which reached from the floor
almost to the ceiling and filled up a re
cess on one side of the fireplace. Then
passing a longer cord across my cheat and
under my arms, he fastened one end of it
to a large hook in the wall and the other
to one of the iron bar.. ih.it guarded the
window. Fixed thus,
it was impossible
for me to stir ; indeed, had my ankles
been free, I could not have walked an
inch, so numb and dead were they through
having been bound for so long a time.
"Truly," I thought, "my last moment on
earth is at hand."
The American retired a few paces, to
contemplate tbe effect of his handiwork,
and something like a gleam of satisfaction
lightened up his murderous eyes as he
looked at me. He then walked slowly
backward till he reached the opposite wall
of the room, and drawing out his bowie
knife, he felt its blade with his finger for
a moment, then quickly- raising-his-arm;
he flung the knife with a deadly aim
straight at me as it seemed. Involuntari
ly, I shut my eyes, and the same instant
the blade whizzed past my left ear and
buried itself in the soft wood of the door
a few inches from my neck. I breathed
again, and opened my eyes. The Amer
ican uttered a solemn guttural "Waghl"
of satisfaction, and drew his tomahawk
from his belt. I would not close my eyes
this time, but setting_ my_ teeth_ firmly
together, kept my glance bent on him,
though my heart seemed to stop its beat
ing while I gazed; and the next instant
the tomahawk came rushing through the
air, and crashed into the cupboard door,
a few inches to the right of my throat.
Again the American gave utterance to
the same singular sign of satisfaction as
before. I had scarcely time to wonder
at my second .escape, before I saw him
draw his revolver from his belt, 'and take
a sort of rapid, half aim at. me, "All
over with me this time!" I muttered to
myself ; but even as the words escaped
me, I felt the wind of the bullet among
my hair, and knew that I was safe for the
third time.
"One!" said the madman, gravely, as
his arm went up again to the line of fire,
and then the second bullet stirred nay hair
and buried itself in the door above my
head. "Two !"said the American, senten
tiously, as he strapped his gaudy rug more
closely around him. I now began to com
prehend that, in accordance with Indian
usage, this was a sort of torment, prelim•
hairy to the grand catastrophe. Suppose
he were to miss his aim? I whispered to
myself. Why even in that case, the end
of the tragedy would but come a few min
utes sooner; anyhow, he would doubtless
tire in a very short time of playing with
his victim, and would inflict the final
eoup, and so bring the business to an end.
But bullet number three brought my
thoughts to an abrupt conclusion. In
this case, I suppose, the shot swerved
slighly from the line it was intended to
take, as it came nearer than the previous
ones had done, and carried with it a por
tion of my hair.
"Three!" said the American. "Bad !"
Shots four, five, six and seven rapidly
followed: by which time my head was
hemmed in, as it were, by a circle of bil
lets. When the last hot had been fired,
Nettleford crossed the- room, drew his
knife and tom ihawk carefully out of the
wood, and replaced them in his belt.
"Circle the first !" he said, protruding
his hideous visage to within an inch of
my own. "Circle the second will"—.
He did not finish his words but nodded
his head ominously three times, and then
went back to his forther place on the other
side of the kitchen, and began to reload
his revolver.
But hardly bad be set about the opera
tion, when both he and I were startled
by hearing a low weird voice outside the
doer calling him softly by name—a ghost
ly, passionless voice, without infleotihn or
modulation of tone.
"Soap-gc-taha," said the voice, "Soan
ge-taha, cease what at thou about, and
come hither!"
I could see the madman's fade pale un
der the paint with which it was smeared,
and a sudden fear tremble in his eyes.
'Motionless and rigid as a statue he stood
listening for the voice to come agaio.
"Soan-ge-taba," repeated the voice,
"brave son of the red-skins, why dost thou
linger? The Great Spirit that visited
thee in thy'sleop gives thee a saored hatch
et. With it thou shalt slay many white
men. Come forth, and seek is where it
has been had_r.eady_to_thy-hand.___Thou
shaltfind it in a sweet-lituelling box , of
-cedar -wood -in the straw-thatohed shed
olose to the house. Soan ge-Mha, come
—notoe--oomel" and with a low wailing
sound the voice seemed to die gradually
away in the distance.
It sounded so weird and unearthly in
the gray stillness of early morning, that
for my own part, perfectly unable to ac
count for it as I was, I could not help
feeling strangbly thrilled and moved; as
for the American, he looked like a man
stricken, by sorue mortal terror, with big
drops of sweat standing on his brow, afraid
to stir, and eqlially afraid to disobey the
ghostly sum mons.
Again was the summons repeated - in
faint far amyl accents: "Soan-ge-taha,
come , -come come!" The American
dared 'disobey . no longer. Ile laid his
empty revolver gently on the ilodf, and
CARLISLE,' PA., FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1864.
tightened his girdle'rounil his waist, felt
that his knife and tomahawk were ready
to his hand in case of need; and then un
bolting the door, with a last soared and
trembling but a half suspicions glance at
me, as though suspecting some treachery
on my part, he opened the door and slip
ped noiselessly out into the gray dawn.
Scarcely had the peadook's feather which
decorated the head of l Soan-ge-taha disap
peared through the door, when light and
light and agile as an acrobat, the hump-
backed landlord swung himself by a
pendant rope through the trap-door of the
loft to the ground. With a single bound
he reached the open door, and in another
instant it was shut and bolted against the
madman. Not a word - did he utter till,
with wonderful,rapidity, he had seen to
the fastentOgs of every door and window
in the house; then he gave vent to a
smothered "Hurrah," and drawing a knife
from his pocket proceeded to out the cords
with which 1 was bound.
I could hardly believe in the reality of
whatl saw; the wholeaffair was so incom
prehensible that, for(tioine moments, I could
regard it as nothing' more than a wild va
gary of my own overwrought brain. But
when I saw the cords fall at my feet and
felt that I was free, the snddea rush of
happiness was more than I could bear,
and I remember nothing more till I
found myself lying on the carved chest
again, -with- the la ad lordls—friend lyr face
bent over me while doing his best to bring
back my scattered senses.
But the madman was back by this time,
conscious that he had been made the vic-
tim of some trick; and the first sound
that greeted my returning consciousness
was a ferocious yell of minglia rage and
despair, which burst from his lips as he
fluna ° himself against the stout old door,
which quivered visibly under the shook,
but refused to give way. Finding his
e - fro - it - trar
"no - avail, die neap triecTdii`a
strength against the windows; but, they
were even more impervious to his attacks
than the door had been, being grated with
iron bars, and further secured inside by
stout wooden shutters. Then, in a red
hot fury of raging madness, he tried, one
after another, every door and window that
opened into the Louse; but they had been
too well secured by the vigilant landlord
to afford any chance of ingress. Baffled
at every point, the madman's . rage found
vent in a series of terrific yells; mingled
with curses and threats of direst venge
ance against both of us. Then, for a time,
everything was still, and vie breathed
more freely.
"But hew did it all happon,ilattio.son
I said after a time. "I confess I can't
understand it all. And that mysterious
voice,which chilled me to the very mar
row, can you explain what that was?"
"Easily enough sir. The voice you
heard was my voice." Seeing my stare
of astonishment he Went on; with a little
laugh : "You see, sir, this is how it was.
When I was a young fellow I was a ser
vant to a well known conjuror and ven
triloquist, and traveled up and down the
country with him. After a time I found
out, quite by chance,as I as trying to
imitate him one night; thtiX possessed,
in quite uncommon perfecti,on, the ven
triloquial 'acuity. I practiAod it a g6od
deal after that, entirely for myown amuse
ment, though there were not Wanting peo
ple who said I might have made my for
tune by it had I been so inclined. Be
that as it may, however, I grew heartily
sick of that vagabond sort of a life after
a while; and as my old woman, whom I
was courting at that time, refused to have
me unless 1 would settle down at home
again, why, I did what I have never re
gretted doing—l sacrificed fortune for hap
piness, and hero I am. Well, sir, when
I woke, some time in the night, up there
in the loft, where I was sleeping comfort
ably enough on a shake-down, I heard
some curious noises below, which induced
me to get up cautiously and look through
the trap. There I saw you, fastened
down on a chest, and that rampaging
painted devil standing over you and laugh
ing like some hyena gone mad. With
that I quietly pulled up the ladder, think
ing he might perhaps want to serve me
.the same way neat. A minute or two
later you opened your eyes, and you know
what happened after that as well as I do;
only you don't perhaps know that after
that madman shot at me I found a little
crack in the floor, just over where you
lay, through which I could hear god see
everything without being seen myself.
When he was firing at you in that blood
thirsty way I was alt in a '.quake of pity
and terror, net seeing auy way by which
I could help you in the least ; for to have
ventured out of the loft, with no weapon
but a little pocket knife, would have been
merely sacrificing my own life without
doing you the least good ; when suddenly
it flashed across my mind—and it was
more like a flash of light from haven
than anything else—to try the effect of
my old powers of ventriloquism, which
d,_indeed,_ grown-somewhat-rusty-for
want of use. The thought was not well
out of_ my bead before I gotta us sou
heard ; and words seemed given to me in
.a wonderful way, of which I had never
any experience before - „, as if ,poinething
above and beyond' me were speaking
through my lips. <And now
.' he's outside
trying his best to get in again : ; but I
don't think he'll manage it. , Dark ? he's
at the window again."
Nettleford, in fact, come back at that
moment, and again tried' his utmost to
effect an entrance both at back and front,
breaking the silence every now and then
with a true mad-man's more terrible
:to hear than even aii Indian whocip.
<After a< time, when all was silent again',
Mattinson climbed up into the loft, find
yanking a watohtower of the window in
its sloping roof, from that elevated posi
-009 reported to we the progreas.of the
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siege, He had not been long at his post
before he reported that the American had
just entered the stable, which stood a
short distance from the house; a minute
or two later, mounted on the bare back of
my mare, and with nothing but a halter
to guide her, Nettleford galloped out of
the yard, and flinging a parting yell at
the house and its inmates, disappeared
at a headlong pace down the white road.
We kept within doors all day, thinking
that the departure of the American might
be merely a ruse to draw us from our re
treat. Toward nightfall a company of a
dozen people, among thorn our landlord's
wife and daughter, all came up together
from Overbarrow, whom we welcomed to
our temporary prison with thankful hearts.
The same evening, by the favor of a.kind
ly farmer who-ndertook to drive. me.
over, I found myself at Hawthorpe
Before the following morning thestortn,
whioh had been threatening for several
days came down in earnest, and was re•
membered ns one Of the most terrible
which had been known in those parts for
many years. Six weeks later, when the
thaw came on, the bodies of Nettleford
and my mare were found at the foot of a
precipice among`" the hills, over which
they had gone headlong in the storm.
Papers found among the effects of the
American enabled us to communicate with
his friends, From what we learned sup
sequently it -would-appear that , he. had--at
one time been confined in a private lunatic
asylum, but had ultimately been discharg
ed as cured; that his insanity was. sub.
posed to have been occasioned in part
from a blow on the head receivei during
a frontier skirmish, and rti .part from dis
appointment and wounded self-love at be
ing jilted by a beautiful Indian girl with,
whom he had fallen in love during his
wanderings. His friends were wealthy,
and they took him—sleepinj, , his last sleep
--ioross tire — Alin - tie, to reEWin — tte grave
of his fathers. Peace to his memory !
As for Mattinson, he is now, thanks to
the generosity of, my then prosperous etn•
ployer, the landlord of the Rose and
Crown, the largest and best known inn
within twenty miles of Hawthorpe. '
For the Carlisle Herald,
The Position of the Snake, or
Pseudo-Democracy.
Democratic wind•roills, Loco Foco blow
pipes, Copperhead scribes, Pharisees, wire
workers, etc. so.—.do sometimes under
take the hopeless task of defining, the
position'of their party; but when they do,
Oh; what en-Justice they commit against
themselves arid thd whole "human fami
ly"—Conservatives included.
-We here intend to — "weigli tlic bat=
lances" a few of the hypocrital, and false
expressions and sentiments, with which
the nleaders" and "barkers" of the above
notorious compound "arrangement" at
tru.pt to affect the publiaTheart
t /: l y re-install themselves in power.
When we see it stated that "the Dem
ocratic party stands to day, where it, stood
in 1790; and has never changed its prin•
&pies, or its name," we earnestly turn to
History, and there find recorded that in
the year 1790, there were but two parties,
the Federal and,the Republican, which
latter, some years after, changed its name
to the Democratic party. Therefore it
has •changed its name. But when they
say, they have never changed their prin
ciples, why it is really enough to make a
horse laugh. Please compare the prin
ciples and sentiments, as held by the im
mortal Jefferson, an earnest Abolitionist,
and father of the old Democracy; and
then those of Frank Pierce, that con
temptible tool of Slavery and tyrants; also
compare, "the Union must and shall be
preserved," principle of the firm and fear
less patriot Andrew Jackson, with the
traitorous assertion, that "there is no
power under the Constitution, whereby
to enforce the States to obedience" of the
false and fickle old demagogue James Bu
ohanan. Many more such instances of
diametrical changes in that no-principle
party might be adduced ; but the above
are sufficientto convict the guilty criminal.
We will venture to say, that if some of
the old Democrats who have long since
passed away, were brought out of their
graves, and were to meet with some Cop
perheads in a foreign land, they would
dispute as fiercely and oddly over the prin.
.ci - ples of the democratic party, as did the
travellers in the East, over the color of
the Chamelon ; it is a well known lact that
that animal changes it color repeatedly,
but not its name; verily then we have a
• Chamelon party i. e. the Modern Dem
ocrats. Again it is like unto a "double
bowed Steamboat" which can run up or
down stream, withoitt so much as the
trouble of swinging around, as an honest
boat would do. Of late years, said Boat,
has been making a number of trips "up
Salt River &a.," What a false pride mys
tifies the Opposition with the idea that
it "never changes" and the Conservative
vying, that it "stands still" in the old laud
ItfifrksTWithlWi; — "progressiiiii":- - -GIAT
law, is sinful ; with them circumstances
never-alter-eases)--but they can-exclaim
with the wild Ass's colt, that they chew
their cud, and suck the teat, (govern
ment) and neigh at the sight of oats,
(whiskey) the same this present day, as
'did their progenitors, when they stood and
pawed the floor of Noah's Ark. We can
not close this question, without contras
ting the "position lield by that noble
hearted ahristian and patriot Lewis Cass,
once a mighty-man among the Democrats,
who was a Free sailer, a term snynony
mous with- the modern Abolitionist, _and
that slavery worshipper James Buchanan,
who to please his masters "the petty ty
rants of the_Seuth" became a second
Nebuchadnezzar, and did - set up In image
of Porknelis on .the famous pains of Kan
.9oS, then the - American Nebuchadnezzar,
gtGg J 411300 I, gathered together the Sen.
TERMS:--$l,BO in Advance, or s2' within the year.
ators, the Representatives, the Governors,
the Generals and Captains, the Judges,
the Treasurers, the Counsellors, the Sher
iffs, (and even petty policemen) and all
the Politicians and Rulers of Provinces,
were gathered together unto the dedica
tion of the Black God of Slavery, that
the Despot Buchanan had set up Then
a
Herald (New York) cried aloud. To
you it is commanded, 0 people, nations,
and languages. (Irish andDatch includ
ed,) That at what time ye hear the sound
of the voices of Southern politicians, the
braying of donkeys expecting offices, the
howling 'of Northern dough faces, the
scratching of bribed Editors' pens, and all
kinds of unearthly and unrighteous music!
that ye fall down, and worship the black
Image of oppression and woe; that Bu
whanan the Despot, hath set up. And
whose failed] not down and worshippeth,
shall the same hour; bo cast into the
midst of a burning fiery furnace.
How well the programme was carried
out, no one need be informed, we all re
member that Governers Geary, Shannon
and Reeder, (if memory serves right)
who acted the part of the "three Hebrew
Children" and who would not fall down
and worship the image, of the Devil ;
were immediately cast into that burning
fiery furnace, Political proscription, which
was heated seven times hotter than ever.
But like those of old, their number was
-seen-to-in creasernotonlylirthe - Farnace;
but outside of it, till on this day their
'name is Legion, or perhaps, Union Lea
gue. As to that great Despot, Buchanan,
he has sunk almost into oblivion, and
although not exactly turned out to grass,
like his ancient prototype Nebuch ad nezzer;
yet he is regarded by all sensible men,
as a semi-Jackass.
We presume all candid gentlemen will
admit, that all societies, and parties, in
courseof_time,Ao-changedncrertain points
and particulars ; that the difference be
tween(the Progressive or Republican par
ty ; and the Rctrogressive - or Pseudo-
Democratic party, is that the former ad
vances with the improvements of theatre,
and the civilization of the world ; in other
words it changes from good to better ;
while the latter named party, recedes or
opposes the harmony cf nature, and the
laws of God Jehovah ; or in other words,
it changes from bad to worse, It is evil,
evil continually and everlastingly, in fact
its very nature is serpent like, it is snake,
and will be snake, in whatever "position"
youfind it; whether it he crooked,or coil
ed up, or a strait out Copperhead.
And now we would notice, that para
doxical term, "Abolition traitors" or as
their language implies, every body is a
traitor but the - iiiierves (the — Ctipperlieiila)'
Now at first sight it appears quite amusing,
but when we contemplate the awful pun
ishment, that will be meted out to any
person guilty of such moral blasphemy ;
guilty of asserting and declaring that,
which theyiknow in their own heart-tabe,
manifestly and absolutely false ; why a
sensation of pity, arises in one's heart,
fin them ; but alas ; they are beyond re
demption. There case is only parallel
with those Pharisees (sometimes called
Hypocrites) who tried to make the people
believe that Christ cast out devils through
Beelzebub the prince devils. But the
Saviour by a very simple aguwent, soon
con vineed them to the contrary; among
many other things, he said unto them
And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided
against himself; how shall then his king
dom stand ? Again, lie that is not with
me is against me, and he that gathereth
ttot-with nie scattereth abroad.
For a further account you will please
turn to the Scriptures book of St. Math
ew, chap. XII. 22 v. in fact it might do
some of the fallen Democracy good, to
read that noble old abolition I3ook, the
Bible, all through And thus it is with
the Adminisiration or Republicans they
could not cast out the Rebel and Traitor
devils as they do, if they were the
prince of Traitors and Rebels, for that
wouldbe unwise and unnatural. Surely
a person must be fearless, to utter such
sentiments, verily they ave no fear of
the "Judgment day." if you want to
find the rank weeds of treason, go to our
Halls of Congress, and harken to the
speeches of such degraded pimps as
Messrs. (unworthy) Long, Harris' Garret,
Davis & Co,when they deplore to God
their hope bat the Rebellion may suc
ceed. It' you: want any further evidence,
go search the colums of the Copperhead
press, especially " The Aye" of Treason,
at whose mast-heads flaunt all manner of
rebel mottos. One thing more we would
like to know of it single Abolitiunst or
Republican in the Rebel ranks.
Another expression in vogue, is "Peace,"
peace Ah I me, well the right kind of a
peace is a very good thing; but just to
think of that party, who inaugurated the
"war of 1812," most of the "Indian wars"
the . "Mexican war," and now wants to
have war with Gre.itßritain and France;
..±a_talk_abotaLpeace because of Christian
example! we would be struck dumb at
the manifest inconsistancy, if it were not
- that We tave — rinitl tint tiomeeinfe's - "Safari
transforms himself into an angel of
,light,"
only to commit great Deviltries in the fu
ture; no allusion to the opposition. But
they have never told us what kind of a
"peace" they intended; whether it would be
honorable or dishonorable, we suppose
--they-doret-care very—much— Peace,-the
only way to attain a permanent peace
is to ".conquer a peace" any ._-other
would be as foolish and delusive as to
bridge the crater of a volcano. As well
might ,an Engineer throw his massive
timbers and trusses, across the mouth of
Vesuvius or Cotopaxi, ..with the expecta
tion_ that. time alone will destroy .his,
structure ; as forour:Would-lie.sti4 B 9 3 9P•
to patoh up a low-downocriegraeciful„ col
temptible " Compromise," with half-
whippedßebele, murderers, robbers, slava
hOlding,Barbarians. . No, never. '
Again, "Thitf is only a war. for the .
niggers" is another slang phrase, EIG cm,
111011IY used by the Psendo or false Demee.
racy: That it will be a benefit to the
negro portion of our nation, we addmit, •
and are proud that we are not such Sel
fish beings, as to wish no good to any httt
ourselves. But bear in mind thatthe
tention, and the result of a thing, are not
always the same, the intention of our first
war with Great Britian, was not to sopa
rated,ourselves from her, but to establish
the rule, that there would be no taxation'•
without representation; but the rettUlt
was the uniting of the colonies, and their
Independence of the so-called mother
country,- and all other countries; now the ,
intention of the present war, was to Man.
tain this unity of the Nation, and the re
sult will be the abolition.of slavery, to.
gether with the restoration of the Union ;
making one of the grandest and sublimest
result of war, 'every record on the pages
of the world's History.
We too pray that God may hasten the
day, when this 'cruel war" will „cease,
but yet aside from all its bloody tale of
woo, sorrow, suffering, and despair, there
are things to be admired, war is not dread
ful in all, its aspects; we have not time to
dwell upon the virtues of heroism and
bravery, fame and earthly glory, the
mantainance of great and noble princi
ples, the sacrifices at home, the respect
obtained of foreign 'powers, and the ren
ovation of the. nation ;
and last but not
least, the breaking of fetters, and the free
ing of minds and bodies. To the ear of
the captive a sweeter music springs from
the mouths of the rifle-cannon, then ever
arose from the lips, of a plantation mis•
tress, and in the booming of the artillery
of the North, he thinks he hears tbe voice
Jehovah, proclaiming liberty throughout
all the land, and to all the inhabitants
thereof.
We had also intended to operate on
George B. McClellan, the "little Napo
leon," but as we have already extended
our remarks_ atud._fur_ther ._than...we_bad
anticipated, we will spare him for some
future occasion, for he must certainly feel
very sore, over the cut and thrust ne re
ceived from the Sanitary Fair Sword.—
Who has not marked the contrast between
fuss and feathers Junoir, in his "on to
Richmond" and our American Napoleon's
"Grand Advance." Not a drum was
heard, nor a bugle's note, not a single
shout or cheer. But a thought of home
and a trust in God, that God whom 'we
-all do fear,- ---And-steadily on-th eymarehek
while the nation prayed for them a victory.
We cannot close this article, without
a reference to the ''position'' past, prA
cot, and future, of the Rebels and Trai
tors in arms against the Government;
tongue, pen and pencil, language, and abil
ities, all fail to detect their situation ; the
article alone might be abld to give •us a faint
idea, by presenting -to cur view, a Sea of
Human Blood, with its long unbroken coast
of blacked Bones, while it is o'er hung with
murky clouds, and an eternal veil of dark.
ness divides it • from the outer world ; while
on its tempestous bosom, there floats a dark
suspicious craft, flaunting from its main-top
is the gory Flag of treachery. Jeff. Davis
and his cohorts man the piratical Bark.—
No star or compass have they to guide them,
the moon withholds her light, all is an ins
penetrable gloom save a beacon- fire that
burns to the Northward, where, on a bold
Pronidiitorrof - Hilinaii 'Skulls, the flames
are rising high and bri4ht, front its fuel of
Negro bodies and asylums, whilst around
this infernal fire, the, demons dance in hen
' dish glee. Tis'Seyinour Wood & Co's. band
of Traitor servants ; thitherward the black
craft is making, but see I a storm is gather
ing on the horistm, the lightnings flash, from
polished blades of steel, and wild thunders
rattle, while ten thousand bolts of death,
leap from the throats of artillery con the
Heights of Gettysburg ; the beacon fires are
suddenly quenched, and as the storm of van
geuce breaks tearfully o'er the Rebel craft,
she quickly tacks about, and steers for the
Bay of Dark Dispair, there to anchor in its
rough and bitter waters, hard by the delta
of the River of Widows tears, where a tem
rest of night ever blows, and the mourning
winds is the wail of the dying, while ever
and anon the orphan's cry is heard upon the
blast. The banks of that river are studded
with lone deserted cottages, and far as the
eye can reach grey tombstones rise in mem
ory of the departed ones.; while, like mid
night on Cotta's distant hills, ten thousand
ghosts shriek ou the hollow winds. S4CEI is
their conditiou, that is their "position."—
Sympathisers ales to the countrary notwith.
standing, and when they next set sail, it will
be through the narrow straits of Death, into
''the Lake of fire and brimstone;" and if
• they drag the old Sypathetic-scow, with its
mongrel crew along with them ;loyal eyes
will shed no tears, and loyal brisoins have
no sighs. AVALANCHE.
NO. H.
The Beene of Operatiorie.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal, who
resided for several years in Richmond, gives
the following sketch of the topographical fea
tures of the country in which General Butler
is operating :
• "If General Butler meets with no serious
check be will capture or destroy Richmond.
City Point is the weak spot of Richmond. It
Is but ten or twelve miles from Petersburg,
with a railroad to the latter place, and the Ap
pomattox, na,vlgeble for one hundred and Iltty
ton craft, running to the same point. Peters-
burg is twenty miles from Richmond, on the
railroad that runs through Weldon, Raleigh,
Columbia, Charleston to Savannah, which is
the great artery of supply and communication
of the Confederacy.
•Taking Petersburg, General Butler will
cut Lee'm main reliance to continue brittle, and
can move over pretty good ground direotly to
Manchester, opposite Richmond, and the pled°
would then be at his mercy. Or, making Pe
tersburg, by moving to the right he could
strike the railroad further north with' the
same result. ' Bermuda Ilundrectis the tee
minus of deep navigation on tho James, and
ie three miles above City Point. Full sixteen
feel of water can be found from mouth o_o4
James to Bermuda Hundred, giving ample
navigation for the navy and transports: If
any considerable body is - moving up - ttll3 Tet
nineula from West 'Point, Richmond may be
almost considered as a captured place. Miglity
consequences bang upon Butler's rear assault
upon the enemy's lines, and if he can hold ,his,
hand, the Rebellion will be substantially
forced back into Ithe Cotton States, where 'At'
would be' doomed, beyond a peradventure:" - ';';.
Lists TO IIIOHMOrD• •
COTTOOpOIIdOIaBTO uditaken in' supposing
that the •railrond, through Petersburg is
,Lhe.
only railroad connection RiL4ttnond hes with
the South. The railroad La and through Dan
ville, Va., has recently\ been pushed to ecint-
pletion and , most pr,obatd,y, jnet to provide
gainbc ,tiv . jutprruptiop of -- the,n,th9r,i9oo ,
Weldon or Peteraburg—,and now „oonneoe, ,
ItiehMtond with tho Southwest: Neither,wnuld,
the connection of itioltmond with the'Soutlt- -
; West be out off entirely, ,by th&ocuipation of
Dordonsvillo, since there is ainither
ing into that near Lynchhurg:—Peterobitiot
• .
Express.
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