SAiLE .OiF
UNSEATED LANDS.
BT virtue of a warrant from under the
band andseal of office of the Commissioners
of Cumberland County, and to me directed
the following tracts and lots of unseated,
Lands, situated in Comberland County, State
of Pennsylvania, will be exposed to sale by
public undue, on MONDAY the 13th DAY OE'
JUNE, 1804, at the Court House, in the bor
ough of Carlisle, county aforesaid, and con
tinued by adjournment from , time to time,
until they are all sold, or as much of .each
tract or lot, as will be sufficient to defray
the arrearages of the State, County, Road and
School Taxes duo thereon, and costs.
HENRY S. RITTER,
County Treasurer.
Carlisle April 13, 1364.
No. Acres. Owners.
SOUTHAMPTON
10. James Bowen's heirs,
150. John de Abr'm Roddy,
457. 'John Bonnier,
10. Win. Rankin,
FRANKFORD
John M..Woodburn,
Hollenbach's heirs,
James McCulloch,•
John Dunbar,
Samuel Miser,
MIFFLIN.
. J. M. Woodburn, (Boyle) 5 70
(Moffit) 73
41 (Barnes) '3 75
(Wharton) 928
(Marshall) 285
(Norton) 6 71
(Lake) 1 41
(A. Gardner) 2 85
(King) 2 85
(W P Gardner 4 27
(S. Parker) 3 55
(L. Parker) 9 23
/I (W. Parker) 7 10
(Buck) 3 20
(MeClintick) 3 55
(,Paxton) 5 32
John A. Humrich, 3 40
,John Nagley's heirs, 77
Daniel Sweiger, 82
Rhoads, Long & Eberly, 3,87
Christian Eberly, 3 96
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 •tik McCreary,
Peter Miller's heirs,
Howard Myers,
Michael Mentor,
John Neeicy's heirs,
Gilbert Seariglit,
Jas. Townsend,
Nicholas Wireman,
Jacob Wolf,
,David Duncan, (Penn.)
Jacob Grove,
Abraham Stoner,
Wm. For bcs,..iye Rua
itoo're & Craighead,
John S. Myets,
John Kline, -
Samuel Woods' heirs,
Widow Albert,
John Brugh,
Noah Cockley,
Wm. Graham,
Samuel Glcim
Daniel Gitt,
James Greason,
Cyrus Myers,
Henry Myers,
Rogers (Haskel Agt.) (Penn.) 20
Rachael Weatkerspoon,
Jacob Becher,
Brown & Creswell,
Wesley Biteman,
Francis Corlestun,
John Ebert,
John Hemminger,
-Wm. B. Mullen,— - - -
Moses Myers,
Beetem, filmes & Co.,
Cornelius Myers,
Dr. Marsden,
Isaac Montfort,
John & Henry Montfort,
Philip Smyers,
Alex. Young, -
SOUTH MIDDLETON.
D. H. Medcaff,
John Mateer,
Daniel Wonderly,
Sheaffer & Keller;
West,
Elizabeth Bennett,
James Barbour,
Deardorf's heirs,
John Nicholson,
James Nicholson,
Jacob Sheaffer,
John McClure's sen., heirs,
John Shanefelter's heirs,
H. I. Fannus,
Alex- Nailor,
A. Richwine,
Jacob Albright,
Benjamin Lerew,
NEW CUMBERLAND.
Northern C. 11. R. Company,
,UPPER ALLEN.
Trustees M. E. Church,
Philip Custer,
CARLISLE
John Calio,
John Dunbar's heirs
George Wahl,
lA
315
1000
129
325
100
201.
- 31 a
130.
66
15.
15.
STINBII SPRING
Henry S. Hock,
Andrew Miller,
Robert Bryson,
HOPEWELL
Wm. P. Smith,
David BleKinney,
Samuel Miller,
9.
1.4.8.
PENN.
Robert IdeClnne,
James M`Cullocb,
Jacob Beltzhoover,
Henry Shenk'n heirs,
MECHANICSBURG
David Lingfield,
43.
12.
162. '
20•
LOWER ALLEN
J. H. Haldeman,
NEWTON.
Cyrus Henn,
Jane Barabill's heirs.
rir3r Goods.
SPRING, 1864,
GREENFIELD & SHEAFER
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Moak. All departments of our business hare been
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read for inspection all the novelties of tbe season, vla ,
Poplins,
ns, all new shades and styles. Mozambiquer
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,
Clothe, Cassimeres, Jenne, summer Casslinens,
ke
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ularly to our immense stook of Muslin, , Calicoes. Cot•
tonadee, all bought lastminter, before the late advance
which will be sold at prices" that dofy competition.—
pansonemay rely on getting- great bargains at the
store of
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March 23,1864.
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A YER'S FAMILY E '
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VOL. 64.
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GOTTSCHALK .CORRESPON
DE NCE.
Our readers, this week, says the New
York Home Journal, are treated to choice
fare—a first "Letter" from the hand
which inspires whatever it may chance to
touch—the pen and ink or the keys of
the piano. Gottschalk is a charming
writer as he is a marvelous player; and
we wish we could tell our readers, also,
how inspired we have found him, (in a
short visit he made us, at Idlewild,) as a
conversationist and an improvisator of
music. To be near him seems like wit
nessing the living of some different life !
Ilis thoughts come out inspired—either
from his finger's ends to the keys of the
instrument, or from his tongue's end to
your listening ear. His dark eyes, as
you look at him, glow with a sort of inner
light, and hie delicate features give won
derful expression to his language. To
hear from him, in written words, is won
derfully interesting to us; and we con
gratulate our friends of the Hume Jour
nal on our obtaining for them so gifted a
contributor to their pleasure.
MAY 14, 1861.
For a long time past I have been
promising myself the pleasure of writing
to you, but the problem has been how to
do so, when I have had to pass eight, ten,
fifteen hours, and sometimes more, every
day, on the railroad. In the month of
June, I gave thirty-three concerts in
twenty-six days. In fourteen months,
during which time I was off duty only
fifty cieys I gave more than four hun
dred, and travelled by railroad and steam
boat nearly eighty thousand miles; while,
in few weeks, I shall have reached my
thousandth concert in the United States
The very thought of it makes me shud
der
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You will remember Dumas' story, the
hero of which made a wager tnat he would
eat nothing for a month but pigeon:- The.
first week passed .off —very. weit -- ; -- rfuri - rrg
the second this insipid diet began to dis
gust him ; by the twentieth day he held
it in horror; while on the thirtieth (for
ho won his wager heroically) the very
sight of a pigeon made him - sick. lam
in about the same state _with my concerts.
The sight of a piano gives me the nausea;
and every evening
.tbat I find myself a
gain in face of the keyboard to which
destiny enchains me. 1 experienced the
agonies of the "thirtieth pigeon-day."
Meanwhile, I delighted to think that,
beyond the tomb, concerts will exist only
in the memory, like the confused recol
lectons We have in the morning of a
nightmare which has disturbed our sleep.
The Orientals people their paradise with
marvelous • houris ; the red--mturrfillt--h is
with verdant praries and forests of game,
where the chase is eternal ; for my part, I
like to imagine myself in a paradise wLcre
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piano concerts are prohibited, and the
"Carnival of Venice," with variations,
crime. On the other hand, I picture the
Styx only as a grand depot of all kinds
of pianos—upright, square, oblique, and
what not—a kind of Botany Bay for
hardened pianists, where a never satisfied
public insist upon hearing the ''Carnival
of Venice," with variations, forever !
What say you to that, Dlr. Ed:tor ?
Is the idea horrible enough for you ?
Doesn't it make you tremble in your boots?
If Ihtnte had known the piano, think
you that he would have omitted it in the
torments of his "Inferno ?" I fancy not
And if to the "Carnival of Venice" lie
had added "La donna e mobile." "Thou
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art so near and yet so far." "Cowing
Through tho Rye," and "The Maiden's
Prayer," of Mad'ile 13ardazewska. Imo
convinced that even Ugolina would have
congratulated himself' at not having had
to touch the keys during his sojourn on
this piano -stricken planet.
But, perhaps you don't know' "The
Maiden's Prayer.' It is a little stream
of lukewarm music, lightly tinctured with
the Italian, of an insipid savor and an
equivocal color, diluted to the limits
through four pages of commonplace, la
belled a "Reverie," and put up fur the
use of lymphatic and sentimental young
misses. It is a detestable drug, wilier:
is sold everywhere and sena better than
Drake's Plantation Bitters. From the
Gulf of Mexico to the St. Lawrence,
from the Hudson to Artemus Ward's
country of the Mormons, "The Maid•
en's prayet"' has raged for two years fear
fully. It is au epidemic which spares no
one, and the symptoms of which are more
alarming even than those of the "Bever-
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ie" of Roselien or "The Monastery Bells,"
which desolated America some years ago.
But these last pieces were, at any rat:,
discreetly restricted to the limits of the ,
piano ; one know where to find them, and
consequently how to avoid them. But
"The Maiden's Prayer," after having ex
hausted all, the pianos, appeared in a new
form, and raged worse than ever. It was
arranged in four parts, and sung in cho
rus; then a romance - we - a made of it; then
it was adapted to the flute, and success
ively to all tbe instruments in vogue, so
that now it is twanged on the guitar,
(the guitar having finally taken refuge in
America,) wheezed on her violoncello,
scraped on the violin, brayed on the trum
pet, squeaked on the flageolet and sighed
on the aocordeon. It has been ground
on the hamkorgan this year and -a half;
it frolics through the, fife, it howls through
the olarionet, and follows you even to the
army, where it is sggravated into a quick
step; The musical-journals give it as a.
premium to thoirsubseribers- 7 "La Prier°
d'une Vierge," in French "The Maid
en's Prayer," in English—with varia
tione, without variations; for . children,
for adults;
.published in New Yerk,,in
Philadelphia, in Havana, ("La plegaria
ds una virgen,") in Mayenoe. ("Das
geboe °incr . youngfrau ;) in Rome and in
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,Hamburg, with and without engravings.
Figaro su,
Figaro gin,
Figaro si,
Figaro la.
It is enough to turn one's head • my
very dreams are filled with it. &Bo's
"Tenation de Saint Antoine" is nothing
to it. I find myself nightly surrounded
with Polish virgins who, in the most pro
yoking attitudes, try to make me accept
an' arrangement of -Mlle Bardazewska's
work for the guitar. W ade retro virgo !
Take me back to the "Carnival of Venice"
and to "The Monastery Bells."
0 Mad'lle Bardazewska I you who are
a Pole (no one has a,tnamne which ends in
zewska without being more or less related
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to the Jagellons; d besides all the
Poles whom I- hay ever known de
scended from the jag lions except my
friend Pychowsky, who has.the modesty
to be contented with being a wan'of tal
ent, and Chopin, whose father was
French ; it is with these people as with
the innumerable musicians who claim re
lationship with Mendelsohn with Spohr,
with Rossini, and whom I have come to
class with the German barons and Rus
sian princes of Which we have a new crop
every year; but it occurs to me that lam
in the midst of a parenthesis, and that. is
about time to go on with my story, so
heare goes !) 0 Mad'lle Bardazewska!
you who are a Pole have you no pity
on a country for which Kosciusko has
fought ? And must we, after all our
misfortunes, be still exposed to "The
Maiden's Prayer"—wholesale and retail
—on the accordion, the piano, theguitur,
the flute and possibly (fur (leaven knows
what we are communing to) to the trombone
and kettle-drum? If it be true that our
natures find a certain'relief in the thoUght
that it is not we alone that suffer, let us
console ourselves with the knowledge that
even austere and intolerant Germany has
had its share of the plague, and tht.t the
p /Wisher of the detestable composition
itas...sold..more..than ...one-hundred -thous--
=and copies in the "Faderland."
Ignorant people in general, and young
misses in particular, (to wit, ninety-nine
h undreths oT our race,) are gifted with'an
infallible instinct for the arts. Give them
twenty compos itions (without the names
of the authors,) ton of which range from
excellent to'passable, and the ten others
from mediocre to detestable ; and it is
possible that they will not remark tl e
lii;st of the ten first, but that they will
seize with delight on the worst of the ten
second, you can bet your life. For ex
:J.:epic : the brindisiof "lone," the "Gran
Dio ' of "La Traviata," the "Donna e
mobile," "Kathleen Mavoureeen," and a
thousand other musical incongruities, the
, pop_u lad ty. of. which can be explained -on
no
other theory.
I said without the names of the authors,
because we are all of us more or less in
fluenced by great (or popular) names, and
many honest and sincere persons, who
shout with enthusiasm on hearing Beeth
oveu's symphony in C minor, if they were
not informed in advance of the name of
its author arid of its truly sublime char
actor, would yawn over it till they fell a
sleep.
All progress implying effort, ordinary
people are repelled by it, and accept ea•
gerly *hat enters the mind without cere
mony, without taking up much room, and
especially without requiring, before esta•
Wishing itself there, the bore of getting
rid of old ideas. There are not wanting
those who, believing in the theory (false,
absurd and pernicious as it is) that the man
perceives by intuition all the beauties of
art, pretend that, short of being deaf; any
one is competent to judge of music, and
that wha pleases the common ear must
necessarily be good, and what fails to
please it necessarily bad; on which the
ory a mere bricklayer would be compe
tent to criticise the Parthenon, a drill
sergeant to sit in judgment on a Napo
leon ; a stone-cutter to estimate a Phydias,
and a country schoolmaster (if he hap
pened to know Grammar) to fathom the
depths of a Bacon, a Shakspere, a Mon
taigne, a Pascal, a Leibnitz. The sense
of artistic excellence (it it be innate, and
that is far front being preyed) exists a
mong the majority even of civilized men
only in the state of germ or embryo. To
be developed it has to be carefully culti
vated
: to be perfected it requires a spe
cial education; musthave models, and,
if 1 may so express myself, a certain in
tellectual atmosphere, without Which it
weakens and dies, Then, again, itis not
every one who can retain that divine
spark which may be called the beau ideal
of art : which certain persons, after being
developed, it improves; with others it
deteriorates,
.Meyerbeer commenced by
writing "Marguerited' Anjou,"andarriv
ed at lust to the glories of "Robert" and
''The Huguenots." "Mithridates" is the
mere suggestion of a genius which after
wards gave birth to "Don li iovani," and
the first symphonic in C is a stammering
utterance of the authorof "L'Heroique."
But let it suffice for the apostles otin.-
nate taste for the beautiful to consult the
statistics of literature, and learn that for
one lover of Chateauliriand there are ten
thousand of -Lebrun ' • for one of Lamar
tine,
one hundred thousand of Paul Do
Kook; for one of Prescott, swarms who
prefer Abbott; for one of Thaokeray,
myriads who prefer James. -I might also
ask these apostles of the innate itthey can
read to day the histories which pleased
their infancy, and I conclude by saying
that not one of us could read again, with
out blushing, the works which delighted.
us in school, and the attraction of which
lost its force as we 'became familiar with
real literature.
I am afraid, Mr. Editor, that the:pres
ent letter will appear to you rather long.
Like everybody notaccustomed to writing,
I find it impossible to restrict mysalf
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CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1864.
This is an account of one of Maj.-Gen.
John Logan's men. Gen. John, when a
boy, was in the Mexican War. When
ire-return ecl -Ere - studict — law;:Wri thttttie
age of twenty five he was elected a Con
gressman by a vote almodt unanimous.—
His district included the whole of South
ern Illinois. Ilis•homeis in, Carbondale,
Jackson County. Ile was- the people's
idol. He knew everybody, and every
body knew him.. Ho can make a good
speech, he is. a first-rate lawyer, and is
OJIC Of the best dancers hi the'countiy.—
0, how he can dance. He looked like a
girl, and yet, with dark complexion, and
the blackest hair, every one took .him to
be part Indian. One mason why the peo
ple liked htm so well was becausdim was
a Democrat, and hated the Abolitionists.
He used to give it to them hard. Once,
when he spoke here on Popular Soverign.
-ty I asked--him -a - qtrestiolvor two; suuh --
as Lincoln asked aruglas at Freeport,
which cornered him; but he oallA me a
Yankee-Abolition-Preacher, which made
the people laugh, and say it was good for
me. However, they all went against
Douglas, and that was bad for Logan.—
Whcnever ho undertakes a thing he does
his best. At this time he commands in
Northern Alabama, and has his head
quarters at Huntsville.
When the war broke out he figured the
matter to see how it. was going, and then
went for the Government with his might,
soul arid .strength. Thousands deserted
him, and called him traitor ; other thous
ands stuck to him. Some of his relations
fairly shine with copper. He has a
younger brother, a good deal like him,
who is true. He raised one of the first
regiments, and became its colonel. It is
the 31st Illinois Volunteers. Then he
resigned his seat in Congress, and our
beautiful friend J. C. Allen took his
place.
In those early days of the war John
was at Springfield, when a Mr. Grant
came to him to tell his troubles. This
Grant was a tanner, and, having an idea
he could fight a little, had raised a regi
ment and brought it to Springfield, where
it was in camp. But the men had not
been sworn in, and finding it a harder
business than they expected, principally
on account of poor beds, they were gumg
to buck out and go home. This was Mr.
Grant's trouble. He couldn't see how
he was to get along. It looked as though
he.would have to go back to his tan-yard.
Perhaps Logan could help him. "Can't
you talk to them ?" said John. "No,"
says Grant. "I can. Call them together."
They had all heard of him. Ho made
a speech two hours' long. He told them
all about our Government, and how the
war commenced. The sweat rolled. He
jerked off his coat and handkerchief.—
You never saw a man work harder in your
life. He related stories which made
them laugh, and then he described a sol
dier's life in such beautiful language that
one would think no other life has so many
charms. *When he got through the men
were impatient to be sworn in for fear
they might lose the chance., This was
the way Mr. Grant got a start, and he
has done middling well sinoo, Thr now he
emnafands all the__Armies of the—Great
Republic.
A short time since John Logan's old
regiment—the 31st—came home on a
furlough to see the folks and to recruit.
One of the companies was raised on Rose
Prairie. Here lives Esq. Clifford; he is
an old settler, .has been a Justice many
years, for he can - read ; he has a largo
farm well managed; he is rich, and his
only*son Andy is an officer in the 31st.
The old man sat in the porch smoking
hie home-made tobacco, waiting for the
wagon. Andy into the
a few months be
fore he went nto the army, and his' wife
also sat in the poroh, while her baby, near
ly two years old, ran from herto itsgrand-_
lather. Susan's. father keeps store in the
village of R.O4Prairie : he is Postmaster,
and ona'of the bead men:'She can read
and write. Being brought up quite. a:
within the limits of any plan. I ruslion,
haphazard, and don't know when or where
to stop. I promise in future to stick
more closely .to my to ittes tie voyage.
They are less garrulous and less weari
some. You know that for many years I
have been in the habit of keeping a diary
of my travels. .My note-book has become
my intimate companion—a kind of silent
confidant, which has the immense advan
tage over everybody 1 encounter on the
road of listening to me without compell
ing me to make myself hoarse in replying.
Moreover, it listens without interrupting,
and is discreet to suoh an extent that, if
you had before you the ten or twelve
note-books that I have filled traveling from
the Gulf of Mexico to the St. Lawrence,
and from New York OD Minnesota, you
would get nothing out of 'them but un
_decipherable hieroglyphics, like those of
an obelisk. The jarring of the oars, and
the hurry with which I write, helps them
much, however, in their discretion. You
see everything in them, and nothing, as
in the clouds chased by the wind, in
which no two persons discdcr the same
thing—oneseeing a horse, another a man,
another a mountain, and another "the
elephant !"
In fact, T think my note-books would
gain something by being' sent in their
primitive state. Your imagination and
your esprit would hat 4 found in them
charming things, which the readers of
the Home Journal will seek for from my
pen in vain. You must remember that
I am only musician, and but a pianist at
at that ! This is more then enough to
excuse all my heaviness of style and awk
wardness of language. ,
L. M. G r OTTSCIIALK
From the New York Tribune
THE RETURNED VETERAN
lady, she never works out doors except to
pink cotton and to bind after the cradles,
and she holds up her head, as she might,
for she' is real handsome, and if any
women ever loved her husband, it is she.
"I don't knoW bow Andy would like
that kind of talk," said she, ''Tor he writes
in his letters altogether different."
"Don't you", be troubled, gal," said
Squire Clifford; "he writes so jest to
please the officers, for they open all the
fetters."
"I hope they don't open any of mine,
though there's nothing bad in them."
"You jest wait and , nee how I'll talk to
him • I'll bring him around, sure."
The Squire was a Peace Democrat. ,To
tell the truth, hebelonged to the Knights
of the Golden Circle, a lodge of which
was organized by the lawyers at the coun
ty seat; and, being' an influential man,
he and a few others bad made Rose
Prairie a hard place for Union men. It
astonished one to see how plain men,
honest in their dealings, and good neigh
bors, but ignorant, are made intolerant
by the designing. When Slavery made
the people ignorant, a foundation was
laid for every species of intolerance—even
of infamy and crime-
All at once the wagon came through
the yard with the horses trotting, which
they had seldom done before, and it was
filled with soldiers, who were the Rose
Prairie boys, and Andy among them.
Almost in a moment Andy bad jumped
over the bars„ and was near the porch,
when Susan gave a spring around his
neck, and would have thrown him over
if he had not been tall and strong, and if
he had not braced himself ; and there
she hung, lifted from the ground.
"Now, I want to see my boy," said
Andy, and ha gently held him up, and,
for the first time gazed upon him—gazed
upon him with eyes as clear and as full
of satisfaction as they were on the blessed
Fourth
,of July last, when, with his com
panions, he stood on the ramparts of Vicks
..
Ilis mother and his sisters also came
around him, and there was a great time.
They all kept looking at him. He was
older and tanned. There is scarcely a
person old or young in the whole North
who does not know the extra color of the
Vicksburg tan. It- is said the rebels.were
worse tanned - which is likely since Gen—
. rant its a 'tanner: - Andy . 's clothes were
so clean they seemed new, and the blue
cloth was very fine. The women thought
his beard was so funny„ for it was only a
little bunch around his mouth. They
could not keep their eyes off the bright,
round little buttons on his blue vest, and
his shining patent leather sword belt
His hair was cut so as to make him look
.anneal--as-snivel-as -General Logan. His - -
father was proud, ho knew his boy was
handsome and smart, but he had return
ed handsomer and smarter than he ex
pected After the first few words Susan
said little, for she began to hurry the sup
per, but one could see by the glimmer of
her eyes, under their lashes, that she had
pl Itsan t thoughts.
They then had a good supper. It sholld
have been good, for they had been prepar
ing victuals for several days. Everything on
the table, and around the house, looked as
though they had a wedding. It was very
nearly a wedding.
As soon as supper was over, the old man
commenced. Ah spoke of the wickednes of
the war, of high taxes,. of the overthrow of
the Constitution and the ruin of the coun
try, and concluded by saying we ought to
let the Suuth go. Susan and the women
tried to get him to talk of something else,
while Andy interupted and tried to expla,n ;
butt he would listen to nothing, and he talked
till be had nothing more to say. He made
out a terrible case. Then Andy said
"I see how this business is dad. Some o
them lawyers up to the county seat have
been learning you these things. And now
let me tell you, tho' they sounded mighty
big, thar's scarcely a word o' truth in'em from
one end to the other."
'•U'hat's this, what's this?" said the Squire
"Do you mean to call your father a liar ?
Say, Sir, am I a liar? Am I a liar 7"
.Andy's beach of beard began to ~o rk in a
qurioui way, and he waited a little before he
spoke.
" Who talks about liars but yourself?.
Shan't I tell you what the army would say of
you if you talked like that among them ?
tell you. They'd say ycu was a d—d trai
tor; and if you didu't happen to have a first
best friend by you, they'd string you up.—
And I'll tell you, too, we think a heap more
of nn out-anti-out rebel than we do of the
traitors at home, who, when we strike the
rebels a lick, help them to strike us back."
"You git out of my house. If you are my
own eon you shan't insult me in it. I've
done with you—you shan't have none of my
property—not a hail—out of my house— I'll
have nothing to do with you I"
"That suits me -if it does you. &part,
pick up what you want now, and leave the
rest for another time. We'll go to Bob Rey
nolds. lie's a good Union man. Your dad s
a Copper, I know. You'll hear a different
story one of these days, dad, mind 1 tell
you."
" You ,may go to the devil, for all I
MS
Andy hackled on his sword and stood wait
ing for Susan. She was running around,
taking - care of`ber thin - gal - her sisters-in:law
were helping -her; while Mrs. Clifford tried
to soothe her-husband. He would listen to
nothing; his son had turned out to be a Yan
kee nigger, and it must be he wanted a niwi:
wench—he wouldn't speak to himan d - he
never wanted to see him again.
. The bongo, lately sooy.ul, had become a
houso of mourning. All the women folks
cried; and the baby, seeing - something was
wrong, cried louder than any body else. '
At last Susan was ready, and crying she
left the house with Andy; and they went a
way through the'lane. In, addition to this
trouble Susan had another, which was on ac
count of a piece she had just got in the loom,
and she had thrown the shuttle only a few
times to see how it *otild`look i Her father
in-law had, planted a patch of cotton for het:
and ploughed it, and she bad hoed, picked,
got it ginned, and spentalmost all. Winter
in spinning and coloring. She was going to
have, a piece of check for. dressed for her
self and baby. 'Now she did not know what
•
.1 4 "nnms:--$1,50 in Advance, or $2 within the year.
Mr. Clifford being the most influential
man, they called on him first. After going
through a considerable long, smooth, and
slippery introduction, they told him their
business. He confessed he had changed
his mind, and he thought men of lear..ing
ought to know better man to be deceivin'
plain farmers who couldn't be ,expected to
know all about politics. And how could
they know when they never had much
schooling—and this was because the blas
ted old blavehuldels where they came from
didn't want no bchools. One of them, who
is figuring to go to th-t Legislature, let out, in
quite a speech filled :with genuine Copper
Democr ,cy, telling about Lincoln's tyranny,
the overthrow of the Constitution, high taxes,
the ruin of the country, and concluied by
saying we ought to let the South go.
"I'll tell you," said - the old man, what
they'd say o . you down in the army if you
talked that way to ''em—they'd say you was
a damned traitor ; and if you had no fust
best friend wiat you they'd string you up;
and it I was with them I wouldn't care to
help 'em. Them's my sunlit:milts, fair and
square."
"This is very stromge, Squire Clifford, very
strange indeed. Why, Sir, you belong to
our order of the Knights of the Golden Cir
cle, and you cannot have forgotten . the sol
emn oath you have taken; nor the dreadful
penalty which attaches to the violation of
that oath."
This made the Squire mad.
"Git out of my house you infernal scoun
drel--you traitor to your God and your coun
try. You lied to me to get me into it. Git
out of my house ! Aud if any of your Gol•
den Circulars touch a hair of me or mine,
I'll send for Andy and the rest of the-boys,
and, by the Jehoka, they won't leave u
grease spot of your whole gang. Git r:; at ' af
my house; I'll have nothin' t d a • with a
traitor to my country and tlAbffiag of the
stars and stripes."
The Iliwyer went--A.„Ley both went.
he was getting,nlis hoise, he said:
"G. , 72!. 1 4; Mr. Clifford. You've got to be
F - Yankee nigger I see, It must be you want
a nigger wench."
"Yea Ido ; I want a thousand of 'ems I
aiht afeard of.niggers as much as I was. Du
ashamed, though, I ever wasa traitor like
you is, Yea I was a traitor, and rhPlped - ta
tight agin 'Andy and Susan and her baby i there;
But thank Gbd in his mercy, I'm traitor .no
longer.",; • .
Itwould have done you good had Yoieeen
how pleased the women were to hear how
the Squire-gave the lawer his mind: •
Ifs man has nothinr, to say, he isintre
-to spend much time and many words in
saying it
EDUCATR the whole man—the bead,
the heart, tho body,—the bead to think,
the heart to feel, and the hodylo net,
would become of it. Perhaps the old man
would cut it ont of the loom.
They had gone quite a distance, when
Mrs. Clifford came into the porch and
called her.
"Susan, you forgot your pocket-handker
chief."
She went back while Andy waited. She
was gone a long time. Once she came out
lingering, then hastily went back. At last
she came running, and looking pleased, and
said his father .wanted to speak with him.
Ile turned, rather reluctantly, and found his
father' filling his pipe by the fireplace. "I
want to ax you one question, Andy. Answer
me now, fair. Sayin' nothin' about them
Northern chaps, ain't it. s a shame to us as
comes from the South to be fighting and
killing our kind o' folks, and Borns on 'em
our 'own kin."
"I don't want no dispute andlrouble with
you dad, but I can answer - that mighty sud
den. It is a shame—but the shame is theirs',
not ouru. It's they that's fighting us. We
didn't strike the first lick. We didn't want
no war, but they did, and they've tried to
break up the Gover'ment. When they want
peace, and to have things us they had-..'em
ore, excepting one little thing as has gone
7p, all they've got to do is to say it.' But if
they've a idy they can make two gover'ments
of one, that belongs to both on us, they've
got a bigg6r job on hand than they'd a idy
for,---in fact, the thing can't be did. I'll tell
you what all John Logan's men, and the
rest of the Bogen say, we say, we'll sweep
'ern from the lace of the arth afore we'll give
up to 'em. And we can do it."
"That's dreadful hard talk, Andy, but
there seems something in what you Say a
bout the first lick, I hadn't thought o' that.
I say Andy, you ain't going to desart your
old father kase he got riled and spoke kind-.
er sharp. Let's argerfy this business—l've
got the handsomest clover lot you ever seed,
and the primest wheat you ever set eyes on.
I want you to look at 'em. You shan't go—
w,hat a talk it'll make. We'll argerfy aed
keep cool."
So things quieted down. The women
were happy as crickets, and Andy went
through the story of the fights he had been
in at Belmont, at Fort Henry mid Fort Don
aldson, whet e Logan was wounded at Shiloh,
at the Big Black and Champion Hill, and
finally at Vicksburg. But even then he was
not done. There was not time tl'at evening
to tell all. In listening, the Squire was so
proud of his son and of the success of the
Northern Army, that ho almost forgot he
was a Democrat.
Next morning before they started, Sum;
had to show her husband her piece, and how
she could Weave. He left her weaving with
all her might. A woman needs strong
o - workjiaCtrindles, and, in weaving,
she gets them.
They went out to look at the wheat and
clover- The women saw them walking a
round, and at la,t stop by a 'pair of bars.
The old man held down his head a good deal,
as if Itsterling while Andy made gestures as
it engaged intelling something. When they
came to dinner, of greens and plenty of other
things, the Squire said:
"Old woman, if what Andy's been telling
me's true, there . s some inisiike_a.boat
Golden Circular business, and I've got to
look into it ; and if it's so, and it seems to
be so, then the lawyers to town has been
lying to me the cussedest."
When Andy's furlough expired, and he
had started to return to the army, his father
gave hint his best wishes and hoped his safe
return. He hoped too that he might be vic
torious over the Rebels in every battle.—
Susan held tip her baby as high as she could
that he might see it to the last. It would
be hard to undertake to tell how much en
couraged Andy felt.
Soon after this, it was talked about among
the Copperheads, that the furloughed sol
diers had been converting the people of
Rose Prarie to Unionism. and a couple of
lawyers came down from the country seat to
see about it.
'"Dividiim the 'Union paity." • •
Undtig this caption the st. Le ‘ uis Din:admit,
the paper. with which the' name of Senate*
GRATZ BROWN is always associated, recently ,
expressed some views Which are as startling'
ea / they are significant. Mr.'BßoWx, it -win
,be remembered, is the first of the signers to
the call• for a Convention of Radical Unionists
at Cleveland on the alst. inst. Tho sentiments
contained in this paper, therefore; may be
taken as an indication of the spirit that will
Fervade the Convention in question, as well
as the purposes it will seek to aocomplleb.
And that those sentiments'are what we have
characterized them—startling, will be BUM.
clently manifest from the following full quota•
Lion.
NO, T 4.
"Does any one claim that the Union party,
as it is said to be constituted, made up of
Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Salmon
P. Chase. Montgomery Blair and all the other
Blain, Edward Bates, Horace Greeley, John
C. Fremont, Thurlow Weed, Simon Cameron,
and soon down to the conservative secession•
ist of Missouri, who, through all the war, has
harbored rebels and voted the pro.slaver7
ticket, but who will now probably tell you he
is a Union man, and as likely as not a Linoelli
man—does any one claim that this conglettt•
orate is perfection ? We pity the delublon
of such an one, if such there be found. The
mantle of that. party, measured by the name,
covers element a most as conflicting as tire
and water. Chase and Blair are even mem
bers of the same Cabinet, although the breach
between them is bitter and notorious. But
ChaSe and Blair, or rather the Theirs; (be
cause the family is a political unit;) are mere
ly representatives of policies, which have as
much of contradiction in them as the men who
are their representatives and advocate*.
There is a radical policy, and there is a con•
servative'policy. There is a policy of politi
cal progression and a policy of politioalfte
actton—a policy which seeks strength through
schemes of amnesty and favoritism, in as
affilation with rebels, and a policy which seeks
strength, through vigorous war, in crushing
rebels —a policy which is unconditionally
anti-slavery, and a policy which is essentially
pro slavery. Now, as one of these policies
is wrong, and the other is right, what we in
sist upon is that the Union party shall make
choice between them, and our effort is to work
its purification by driving out the wrong.
This may involve division but it means security.
The conflict between these policies we believe
to be irrepressible, and a party can no more
live and be efficient for good which tolerates
their war within its bosom than a house can
stand when divided against itself.
"We believe that the Blair family is a Politi
cal fungus fastened upon the Union party,
drawing from its strength rather than adding
to it. We believe that there is a set of cor
rupt politicians—whom 'i'hurlow Weed and
Simon Cameron are instances—who, through
their connection with the Union party, have
been enabled to procare contracts and officals
fur theruselevs and friends, whereby the Gov
ernment has been swindled and the Union
cause immensely damaged ; and who are DOA
industriously seeking the control of theidirty,
but should be thrown off. We know that in
consequence of the only representatives of the
border slave States in the Cabinet being Mont•
gornery Blair and Edward Bates, both Con
servatives, -anti the ascendency which they
have been enabled to obtain and hold over
the mind of the President, the truly and radi
cally loyal and freedom loving int n of those
States have been most unjustly discriminated
against, and the progress of loyalty and-anti
elaveryism in them has been materially re.
larded. We believe such a misrepresenta.
tion of the Union men of the border States to
be an evil which needs correction, not after
an election, but now Now if the lopping off
of these branches can justly be said to in
volve the dividing of the Union party, we are
decidedly in favor of dividing the Union party."
We pass over, as being foreign to the pur
pose of this article, the ill concealed hatred of
ABILUIAM LIieCOLN nod of there who have been
supporters and not opponents of his Adminis
tration. Bad the Democrat confined itself to
the abuse of FRANK BLAtR, it might have been
credited with a patriotic desire to see a great
nuisance abated ; but when it makes such
sweeping charges as the above, we know that
bad blood has much to do with thorn
The tenor of the entire passage from the
editorial of the Democrat—a, few words of
vthich we have italicised—is not to be misun•
derstood. It means that those who think like
QaArz BROWN and the Demorrif, are in favor
of dividing the Union party if they 0812001
have their own way in directing its policy and
selecting its leaders. We have had our sun•
pioions that a few malcontents and prosorip•
Lives in our party meant just this ; now we
feel sure of it. There are a few selfish bigots
every where who would have all men think as
they do, cr back them to pierce. The Demo
crat displays this spirit.
The essential mistake which all sucttonsn--,-
as GRATZ BitowN make is, in supposing that
there is anything in the organization or his
tory of the 'Union party which requires it to
be united upon any other than the single •
issue of saving the Union. That party wati,
created on' the day succeeding the receipt of
ihe news of the firing upon Fort Sumter,
There had been no previoak consultation
Wilting politicians—no holding - ef
Cunrention 7 no declaration of principle . •
Created by the peril of the country, its soit
purpose was, to sate the Union. Demoorat '
and Republicans simultaneously and lei ..
stinctively forgot old differences, and wit*
their mingled • blood cemented the founds,'
tions of new party, nobler and grand&
than any the world had yet seen—a part
pledged to' support tht) govprnment of th
greatest (qui best of republics. These me
differed upon other questions, but they wer
united upon the one which swallowed tip 1
They were patriots, not partisans. d a is
The war has rolled on, and we
still have
'l
Union party—greater and st
ly believe, than ever. TI onger, we vert.
Co i .L
tain within its ranks party m ay
a"
their views of
•` many who differ ire
. ...ions that are purely secttl
ondary and .
: comparatively unimportant, but
it the uncompromising foe to rebel.
°r i and disunion. The large majority of
its members, however, are content to con
tinue to differ upon these minor-issues while
the necessity exists that they should work
together as one man in support of the kov•
ernment and the institutions of our fathers,
War . Democrats and Old Lino Whigs are.of 4
this party; Republicans and Abolitionists
are of it; Simon Cameron and Horace Gree•
ley, and General Dix and Daniel S. Main-
When
son, Benjamin F. Butler and William Lloyd
Garrison are members of it. Gratz Brown
and a few who are acting with him - lode
been m9mbers of that party.; but they now
give us to understand that, if they are not
permitted to indicate its policy upon goes•
tionii Purely political, und.te designate its
•
ei'llidistd•bearer in the next President• cans
tiheii are "deeidedl§ in , faver of diva,
ing the Unionparty.", In other words, if
they are not
• CilloWed to run the maqhine,
they are willing that it shall be run off the
track and smashed.
Do Selo gentlemen who are-eo•intent on