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F3'RO3"O"VV R IZJ ATTITT.
EY BTEU.A, OC I U'KAW'AN'A.
Ye tinper etrarpely, winter snow.*,
Though the sort south gnle tomes and goes,
Ami ardent stmhsams tempting lie
beneath a witching April sky,
To lure ye from the valleys w : de,
And hill-rifts where ye love to hido
No welcome gu^it,
Ye were, at best,
Though autumn doffed his 3-cllovr vest,
And flung a-down his yellow crest,
Low at yonr feet, at earth's behest.
Ye came as subtle tyrants come,
And many n j >you< ]ij> grew dumb;
Tons .- id to know,
At one fell blow
So many boj.es laid low,
Deep buried in eternal snow.
Our uiantlcs. then, we closer wrapt,
Aul hurried through thjj_cheerless streot,
Then to our fires': les, shining, crept,
To listen ro the rattling sleet,
And dream of these Arcadian bowers,
Where purple first hungdippe 1 in gold,
An 1 clinging vines and -lately flowers £
Lent their own beauty to tire hours,
That o'er their Eden fragrance roiled.
No, welcome gucT,
Ye were, at bet,
Yet. journeying from a far-offshore,
We smi'ed, all gravely, and confessed,
Though still an uninvited grtc t,
YYe could 111 less, we vr aid no tuore,
Than bow our Lea !- upon our breast,
Anl with the -tormy visit o'er,
Wtv, -e pageantry mi raid haunt our rest,
AuJ chute their .-jiirit -k:k and sore.
I never loved ye, winter-king,
Though pain:' rave, ~u 1 { ets sing,
Of briili nits rjre,
An i jewels fair,
Bright glittcriug in the frosty air :
And all a-glow,
O'er tnoow-inuched snow,
Gii le bla-liiug ladle;-no i dashing beau,
Whispering low dreain-wor is as tiicy go :
An i boy ho d fair,
At ah sunny hair,
Builds mow-waited castles iu the air:
And skaters whirl o'er tr,/.cn l ike,
With hearts in flame, tie, ugh linger® ncho:
An I all t:.e world danoo jubilee,
The grt.cn leaved ruuiroei life for me!
No joy there seems iu * dleti tkics,
V> here Boreas on lies toi.d couch lies,
An i, !i n-like, shakes his proud mare,
With savage roar, o'er hill ami j lain :
An 1 with one I • an i. hmhe- the song—
That should to April rills In 1 ng :
And stamps with angry, maniac foot.
Each Springing blade, a a 1 struggling root,
Y'et ye, pale monarch, linger still—
I Lear your trea i on y inter hill,
Aud in my spirit feel your chid.
Lay down your sceptre anl depart !
I long to see the violets start,
Aud feel the sunshine in my heart!
Lift your cold touth from off my brow,
That I may see the daisies grow,
And watch the blue-birds on the wing,
Anl the pa'.e buibs that upward spring
Beneath my v.ay vrar l feet, that climb
The wild-paths in Ajril time.
Down from your throne, Oh haughty king,
Nor stay a hoary, hated tiling.
Back to your own relentless shore !
Your cold, stern ways have wearied me :
I would not yield ye homage more,
Nor bend again a willing knee.
But beauty's queen,
With gracious mien,
Hiding 'niong .uthcrn slopes away,
Shall come, as best betits a queen,
In mantle docked with sprays of green
An i iliating veil of summer sheen,
And we will own her royal sway.
Select Sdoni;
V'hY,.
THE soi.ptrnrs LETTER.
* BY T. S. ARTlirit.
" When did you hear from Thomas ?"
A young lady ha t stopped at the door of a
small house, standing on the outskirt ofa vil
lage in Pennsylvania, and asked this question
of a woman who sat working on a coarse gar
inenfj
'•lt's moro than two months since I've had
a word from him," replied the woman in a
half-troubled, half-complaining tone. Then
rising, she added, " Won't you come in Miss
Annie?"
The young lady accepted the invitation,
and as she took a proffered chair, said,
" Two months is a long time not to have
heard from your son, Mrs. Rogers. Where
is he ?"
The last news I had, came from Williams
burg just after the battle, lie sent me three
or four lines, to say that he wasn't hurt."
" And you've hoard nothing rince V
" Nothing Miss Annie. He may he dead,
or a prisoner, for all I know. Oh. dear ! dear !
It's worrying the very life out of me."
When did you write to him last?" in
quired the young lady.
Mrs. Rogers moved uneasily, and a shame
flush covered her face, as she replied,
" 1 haven't taken a pen in my fingers these
five years. They're all cramped with hard
work, and I couldn't write fit to be seen."
" A single line from your hand, Mrs. Rog
ers, blotted and scrawled though it might
hAva would hive otiu# So f In
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAPS RIGIIT.*-Thoma Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1863.
his fur away camp, as a most welcome visitor
fftmi home. Think of h'S comrades getting
letters by every mail, while there comes not
a word or a token for him." #
"Oh ! but Miss Annie, I've sent hirn two
pairs' of stockings knit with my own
hands ; and he's never so much as let me
know that he received them."
A letter should have . gone with them."
s,aid the young lady. " The stockings, if
the}' ever reached him, were bjjX dumb signs ;
a loving sentence, even if he bad been obliged
to spell it out slowly from among ill formed
words, would have spoken to his heart, and
warmed it with a living pleasure. Write to
Mrs. Rogers. Nothing that you
can send him wilt do Thomas half so much
good as a letter from his mother. A single
line will bo precious. Don't let him any
lunger'have the feeling, among his comrades,
that he alone has no ono to care for him, or
send hirn sweet remembrances."
" I don't believe I can write, Miss Annie,"
B nid Mrs. Rogers.
" Try. Have you pen and ink ?"
" No, Miss. As I told you just now, I
haven't had a pen in my fingers these five
years; and I don't believe I could compose a
letter, even if I had the skiil to write it out."
" You must try, Mrs. Rogers. It will nev
er <Io in the world for Thomas to go any lon
ger without a letter from home. I have a
spare ink-stand, and will step around for it."
And the young lady arose, saying as she
went out,
" I'll be back again in a iittle while, with
pen, ink and paper. Between us Thomas
must have a letter."
On Annie's return with writing materials,
Mr?. Rogers, still reluctant to undergo the
unaccustomed task of penning a letter, sat
down, and made sundry awkward attempts
to form words and sentences, byway of prac
tice, before essaying the epistle, which her
ardent young visitor had made up her mind
should be produced and mailed to the absent
soldier that day.
" Very well done! Of course you can
writesail Annie, encouragingly, as the
watched the efforts of Mrs. Rogers. " Now
take a sheet of paper, and just think you arc
talking to him. Write down whatever you
would like to say, and say just as much about
home, and what is going 011 here, that you
think would interest him, as you can call to
mind. Take your time to it, and don't feci
hurried. I'll come around again in the course
of an hour, and see what you've done. Then
we'll both go over it, and I'll make ail the
corrections needed, 60 that you can copy it
out fairly. My word for it, there'll be a
nice letter for Thomas, that will do his heart
good.
fn an hour, Annie catnc hack, as she had
promised. Mrs. R >gers had filled two pages
of paper with rather badly spel'ed sentences;
hut the matter was all right, as far as it
went. Annie made all needed corrections,
and then waited until Mrs. Rogers had cop
ied the letter, which she folded and directed
ft r her.
" Shall I mail it for you I"
" If you please," said Mrs. Rogers.
Anl the young lady went away, taking
the letter. Since learning that Thomas Rog
ers, whom she very well remembered had not.
once received a letter from bis mother, al
though he had been absent for over a year,
she bad felt pity and concern for the young
man, whom she remembered as a little wild
in his habits before be went into the army
This had made her the more argent that the
mother should do her duty. The letter was
as well as could have been expected under
the circumstances. Still, as Annie's thoughts
went off to the distant camp, and dweit on
the young man's particular case, it did not
seem to her all that he needed.
"I will write to him 1" she said, as the
case, continuing to dwell in her mind, pre
sented itself in stronger light.
" lie was once, for a 6hort time, my schol
ar in Sunday School, and that shall be my
warrant. So she wrote him a brief, but point
ed and earnest letter touching his duties as a
soldier and as a man. Not in a superior,
lecturing tone ; but in a kind suggestive way
and in language calculated to touch his feel
ings and arouse his better nature.
An officer sat in bis tent, near Gaines'
Mills Va., three days previous to the assault
on the right wing of our array before Rich
mond.
" In the guard-house again 1" he said, speak
ing to the orderly, who had just submitted
his report. There was regret, as well as dis
couragement in his voice. " What are we to
do with the man ?"
" You will have to order a severer punish
ment. Simple confinement in the guard
house is of no use."
" lie has in him all tho elements of a good
soldier," remarked the officer. "No one
goes through the manual better. lie is per
fectly drilled ; is quick, steady, aud brave.
At Williamsburg he fought liko a lion.
I cannot forget, that, to his prompt courage,
I owe my life. No—no—not severer punish
ment. Wo must bear with him a little lon
ger. What is his offence now?"
" He was away at roll call and his report of
himself is unsatisfactory. Tho man is restless
and brooding; and sometime# so ill tint urpd as
to make trouble with his comrades."
H TI a offiotf in thcxtgbt fat #rm® tinua,
110 was about speaking when a sergeant came
in wuh letters, a mail having been received,
In running his-cyea over them, the officer
noticed two directed to 1 homaa Rogers, the
soldier reported as in the guard house. He
held them for a moment in his Laud, and then
laid them aside with his own letters.
" Let me see yon in half an hour," he said
to the orderly. "We must do something to
reform this man. There is good in him, if wc
cau discover the way to make it active.
1 lie orderly retired, and tho officer became
occupied with his letters. After getting
through with them, word was passed to have
Rugers Lr.. uglit before him. He came, under
guard, but the guard was dismissed, and the
uian was alon? with il e officer, who regarded
him more in pity than in anger. The soldier
was a young man not over twenty years of
age ; of slender form, but compactly built, and
muscular. Even under disgrace, there was a
manly self poi-c about him that did not es
cape the officer's notice.
u Under arrest again I What have you to
say for yourself?" Tho officer tried to be
stern, and to speak with severity.
The soldier did not answer; but a look,
half d'igged, half defiant, was visible in his
face.
'• I shall have to order severer punish
ment."
There was no reply ; only a slight change
in attitude an i expression of the countenance,
that indicated a bracing of mind and nerve
more endurance.
'• When did you hear from home ?" asked
the officer, who did not remember to have
seen a letter a 1 dressed to Rogers until the
receipt of that day's mail.
'• Not for a long lime," was answered with
apparent surpiise at so unexpected a ques
tion.
" II re are two letters to your address."
And the officer, who had the letters in his
hand held them toward the soldier, who star
ed with etrange bewilderment, and received
tin in with a hand tLat trembled vieibiy.
" Sit down and read them,' 'said the officer
' j
pointing to a camp stool. The man sat down
showing considerable excitement, and after
looking cautiously at the delicately
written superscriptions, opened one of the
letters and glanced it through hurriedly.—
The officer's gaze was on him and hs read in
ID countenance the rapid play of various ctno
t ins. Then he oj* :ied the other letter which
was read twice. As he finished it he drew
his hand hastily across his eyes.
" From home ?" enquired the officer.
The young soldier stood up giving the ou
--al sign of respect, as ho answered in t'.ie affir
mative. Tne officer noticed that his face was
graver and paler; and that the late look of
dogged defiance had laded out.
" And now, Rogers, what have you to say
fir yourself ? will yon drive us to severer
punishment ? you know as well as I do, that
that discipline must be enforced." There was
r m jnstrance, not ar.gcr in his voice.
" Only thi-, answered the soldier, humbly,
yet in a firm voice. "I have wrong, and
am s< rry. Forgive me ; arid if 1 break a rule
of the service again shoot me."
" Spoken like a man and a soldier ! I will
trust you Rogers," said the officer; and dis
missing the guard, lie sent him to duty."
Two days afterward came that overwhelm
ing assault upon our right wing, and on the
next day the terrible conflict %t Gaines' Mills,
Among the coolest and bravest in ail the
tierce battles that followed, and among the
most enduring in the long nights of retreat,
was young Rogers. lie was with that body
at Malvern Hill under our deat dealing batte
ries, the fire from which staggered, and then
drove hack the rebel masses, whose desperate
courage in that maddest of all assaults, was
worthy of a better cause, Twice during
this series of battles, as once at Williamsburg,
had Rogers risking his own life saved that of
his ciptain; and in several of the conflicts, he
had shown euch coolness and courage, that
positions were saved which but for the infu
sion of his spirit into his comrades would
have been lost.
One day, about three weeks after the letters
were written to Thomas the young
lady whom we have called Annie, received a
reply from the soldier, dated. "In Camp
near Harrisons'Landing." It ran thus:
"A good angel must have put it into your
heart to send me that letter, for it came just
in time to save me. I wa3 in the guard house,
for neglect of duty and disobedience of orders.
I was reckless and desperate. All my
rades were getting word from home—letters
came to them by every inail—but no one
wrote to me, or seetned in the least to care
fur me. So 1 lost all respect for myself, grew
sour, unhappy, and indifferent to duty. But
your kind words—your talk about the past
time when you were my teacher—your 6trong
appeal to my better nature—your calm, true,
sweet sentences, dear lady ! stirred my heart
with new feelings, and filled my cyrs with
tears. I was before my captain, in disgrace,
when your letter was placed in my hands-
He waited for me to read it; saw that I was
touched, and, like a true man as he Is, forgave
offence. Then and there, I resolved to die
sooner than swerve a hair's breadth from du
ly. I have been ia fearful battles since, but
has k |it tne from harm. Tc-<!av, fir
bravery and faithful set vice in these "Mules.
? I r.v* boeri rr.ado'Bccond lientennrit. T'wuhe,
thanks to you, kind, good friend ! You have
saved one who came nigh being lost !"
Fair reader, is there not, in some far away
cantp, a soldier, who would be made bettor
or happier through a letter fronnyour hand ?
Think! If there is, write to him. Brothers,
sisters, write often to the soldiers who have
gone out from your homes.—They arc in the
midst of trials, sufferings, and
privations, and your words of love, your ten
derly manifested interest, your exhortiona to
courage and duty, cannot fail to do them
good.— Peterson's Mag.
THE IHISJIMANS SPURS— A Funny Slony.—
Many years ago, in England, when travelers
were wont to journey on horseback, aud sleep
two in a bed at taverns, the following droll
incident occurred a' Chester Two young bloo
ds stopped at the Red Fox tavern, and while
going up to bed late at night, (it being hot
weather.) they discovered the door of ono ol
the bed-ruoms open. It so happened that
a Scotchman and an Irishman were both
asleep in the bed ; and the Irishman had part
ly "kicked the kivver off" an 1 one of his legs
lay caked and nearly out ot bed. "I'll have
some sport now," said one of the bloods to
his mate, "if you'll hold the candle a minute."
Ihe candle was held while the young chap
went in, and, taking up one of the Irishman's
spurs, (travelers on horseback wore spurs
always in tin se day;,) buckled it on the heel
of Paddy's naked foot. He then gave Paddy'e
leg a pinch and hid himself behind the door,
Paddy (though not awakened) drew Lis leg
suddenly back, and in this way sadly dam
aged the Scotchman's uaked leg with the spur.
The de'el d—n you, (exclaims Donaid, rub
bing his leg,) an'ef ye dinna gang oot o' bed
and cut ycr toe nails, I'll soon be getting' up
and throw ye oot ih' winder, ycr loot!" Ttie
Irishman still slept soundly, nnd'eoon put his
leg back in its old position, when thy young
joker who had put on the spur stole up to the
bed and pinched his leg a second time. In
went the leg again, the spur striking the
Scotchman's leg, who now got in a terrible
passion, and began to pummel Paddy, exclai
ming, as usual, "Get Oot o' bed an' cut ycr
toe nails, ye loot J do you fash a Christian
mon to stan' such rough digging' I" This
waked up the Irishman, who at that moment
bringing the spur to bear on bis own other
leg, vaulted out of bed. II iviDg procured a
I'ght, he looked down at the spur with the
greatest astonishment. "By inn sowl, (*iid
be.) what a stupid fool is the hostler of this
inn; sure an' he tuk off me boots whin I
wint to bed, ami has left on one ov me spurs !
Strange it is I dile.'c notice it." This expla
nation begin satsfaetory to Donald, harmony
was restored, white the author of tho mischief
sneaked out of tho room to his own nest.
PoliticaL
Giving All and Comfort to the Rebels.
On the 14th of January, 1848, Mr. Lincoln
delivered, in the House of Representatives, a
speech, which was printed by J. &. G. S.
Gideon, of this city, and was circulated by
him amon® his friends and constituents, un
der his Irank, which contains the following,
tho italics in which are his :
" Any people, anywhere, being inclined and
having the power, have the right to rise up
and shake off the existing government, and
form a new one that suits them better. This
is a most valuable, a most sacred right, which
wo hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Nor is this right confined to caes in which
the whole people of an existing government
may choose to exercise it. Any portion of
such peopla that can, may revolutionize, and
make their oirn of ao much of tho territory
as they inhabit. More than this a majority
of any portion of such people may revolution
ize, putting down a minority , intermingled
with, or near about them, who may oppose
their movements. Such minority was pre
cisely the case of the lories of our Revolution.
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old
lines, or old laws, but to break up both and
make new ones."
This is the precise doctrine of tho seces
sionists, which they urge in their justifica
tion at home and abroad. It gives them aid
and comfort, because it emanated from the
new head of the Federal Government, altho',
if now uttered by one not a supporter of the
Administration, he would bo sent to Fort
Lafayette or Fort Warren as a criminal, lie
makes no exception, however wicked and un
justifiable the rcbell ; on may be. 110 makes
cvciything depend upon the will and power
of the rebels, and then pronounces it "right.'
This is justifying rebellion, against tho sense
and feeling of men in the wholo loyal States,
and to which we cannot give cur assent, cith
cr as a matter of principle or policy Consti
tutional Union,
&3TA darkey's instructions for putting on
a cuat, " Fust ue right arm, den de left, and
I den gib one g<-nt.rl eor.wulshgu."
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The following is going the rountftofth*
press. We* don't roach for its accuracy, but
it's a " good thing on Chase
We hear that our worthy President re
ceived a Valentine lately, ig the shape of a
picture of the American Eagle, with a finan
cial allusion. Ihe Bird of Freedom appeared
to be engaged in picking up gold coin, while
at the part of the bird most remote from his
head there was a pile of" Green backs," into
which this coin seemed to have been mysteri
ously transmuted.
The President, who takes such things
philosophically, and always acknowledges *
palpable hit with grace and good natnred
cheerfulness, went to his Secretary of the
Treasury, jfc),exhibit his bird in order that
the latter might enjoy the joke with him # '
Chase, however, was not disposed to take the
matter in the same spirit as tho President,
hut appeared to be much out of humor at this
hicroglyphical attack upon his department of
the Government. In tones in which ther®
was a slight admixture of irritability, he re
marked to the President that he Would like
to know who had made this unwarranted at.
tack upon his financial management of tho
affairs of the nation—that he feared that some
of his subordinates had got up this libel upon
him, and that he would give a hundred dol
lars to know who Lad done it. The Presi
dent, whose question asking proclivities aro .
well known said that the offer seemed liberal;
" but, Mr. Chase," said he " before I shall'
make up my mind on this eulject, will you
allow me to ask you one question V' " Cer
tainly," replied the Secretarj*," I merely
wanted to understand," said the President,
at which end of tho bird you propose to pay.
"Lt tu, Brute !" responded the head ofth®
Treasury Department, "Ifl am thus to be
ma le the suhjoct of ridicule, I must renew
my application to be relieved from my duties
as secretary." "0, never mind ! never
mird, Mr. Secretary," said the President,
•' we can soon remedy ail these difficulties.
All we have to do, after we „have 6uppress
ed the rebellion, is to turn the bird end for
end, and let the {?old and " greenbacks" re
main just they are and it wll come out
right." The Secretary, restored to good hu
mor, agreed not to re'gn unless Seward did.
How The Connecticut Klectlou was Carried
by the Administration,
The Newark Daily Journa' published the
following letter, written by a m. mber of Com
pany I, first Connecticut Artillery ;
We were yesterday (March 2'J) thrown
into great excitement by the report that two
hundred of our regiment were to be Sent homo
to vote at the election ; an order did come,
'to pick out twenty good reliable Republican *
from our company." Our officers told us that
the Quartermaster General of Connecticut
came on to Washington, and had an interview
with the head of the War Department, Mr.
Stanton and state ! to him that "Connecticut
would go for Seymour, unless the soldier*
could go home." And they made an agree
ment that as many as could be spared should
go home and vote. Mr. Stanton asked how ,
long it would take for the fourlougha to go
through their reguiar channels, and being told
it would take throe days, he said :
" Send their names to me, and / will put
them through in three hours."
And the men were accordingly picked out:
men that were "sure to vote for Buckingham;"
no matter if they had spent half their time in
the guard house, if they were sure to "rot©
,right" it was enough.
But as you may we'd suppose, we, who
were not of the same political way oif thinking,
did nut like it. We should not care if they
"would le'us go too, and vote for Seymour.
But that was not according to the programme.
So we made some pretfy loud talk—the con
sequence of which was, our commanding
officer went to Mr. Stanton and stated that.,
lie was afraid he would demoralize the regi
ment, and had :t stopped as far as this regi-,,
ment is concerned ; but I believe it was to
extend to ail the regiments in this vicinity.
So lookout lor a great influx of soldiors on
the Gist Monday in April.
lours, truly, Sektinkl.
Lincoln Opposed to I'eace and Union.
Mr. Vallandighara, of Ohio, in a speech
made since his return home, uses tho follow
ing explicit language :
"On the 12th cf last December, when
from the city of Richmond information camo
to the city of New York that there was a
disposition to compromise and return dele
gates to the National Congress, and ho obe
dient to the Constitution and laws, and thus
restore the Union as it was, the President on
that day, rejected the proposition, and the
damning evidence of that rejection exists in
New Y'ork over his own autograph; (cries
" hear, hear,"; but there is an obligation of
1 secresy at present, and the letter ha? no*
yet leen given to the public. The day after,
the federal army crossed the Piappahanaock
into Fredericksburg, under the belief that
Ilchmond was to fall, and thus end tho Re
hellion. The day previous, Abraham Lincoln
rijected all propositions to return, over his
| own signature; and the day alter, tho hopea
ef the blind man in the Whita House were
dissipated in the defeat at Fredericksburg
and the lose of 20,000 of our sons and broth
ers. He should have entertained the propo
sition on the 1 Gth of December, but he heod-
Je-sly and wickedly drove away ail overtures.
The above is fully cdrroh rated by tho
statement of Hon. Fernando Woo 1, of New
York, that
" Propositions for an armistice of paacw
had been submitted to the Prrid< on the
12 1 hof December last, which, had rkey been
accepted, wouj l have terminated t..e war by
the Ist of April, up n a basis RVtsfcclor/ to,
the people North ami South I"
Mr. Wrr ! also adds that H is only
"♦rained fmm publishing tho evidence %•.j*,
' lainthia statement "by the r,quest' tf
} one of the j 'i.-ciple < fleers of the (reborn
| invnt." ,
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VX3L. 2, NO. 37.
Old Abe's Valentine.