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TWO PICTURES.
!
Brightly flows the blue Potomac,
Through the IU iples gleaming :
O'er the golden clouds of sunset,
Eve's' fair star is teaming,
Lcnningon his trusty firelock.
Stan Is the picket, dreaming.
Dreaming of Lis New England
Home ami friends endearing' .
' ' Soon we'll meet," he murmurs fondly,
Hope lils lone heart eheering,
Knowing not that through the thicket,
Stealthy steps were nearing
L", a flash ! a quick dead rattle —
Fi.cuieus' builets flying,
Pierce the true heart of the picket,
On the green sward dying,
Par from all ha loved so dearly,
Cold in death he's lying,
Now upon the wetern hill-tops
Sunset's hoduis are streaming,
Through the floating mists of purple
Eve's lone star is beaming,
At <i farm door in New England
Stands a maiden dreaming.
Down-drop' eyes and red lips parted.
Curls h - r sweet face screening,
In her hand a fragile locket,
U'Cjitslje is leaning,
Down her cheek a tear-drop trcmples
Full of fonder meaning:
"Soon we'll meet," she murmured oftly
With a love undying,
Ail unconscious fcat her lover
Cold in death is lying—
By the blue Potomac's waters—
wind- o'er him sighing.
TIL L-: TWO L> I;AF LADIES,
1 had an aunt who purposed visiting me
, f>r t first time since mv marriage, and I
| don't know what evil genins prompted the
wickedness which 1 perpetrated toward my
w.ifo and ancient relative.
'• My dear.'' said I to my wife the day he
fort niv aunt's arrival '• you know aunt Ma
;ry e> coming to-iuorrow. Well, I have for
fotfen to mention a rather annoytqg circnm
i stance in regard to her. She is very deaf,
in*!, although she can hoar ray voice, to
which she is accustomed, in its ordinary tone
yet you will br obliged to sp >ak very load in
; order t. ho heard- It !'! he rather incon
venient at first, but 1 know you will do ever
ything that lies in your power to make her
stay agreeable."
I then went to John Thornton who loves a
j'-ke as well ns any person that I know, told
i tiiin to be at my houso at six o'clock on the
, fo 1 iwing evcronv. an 1 I then feltcoaaptritiye'
I 'y hippy.
i went to the railroad depot with a carriage
j 1 Eat day, and when entry way home with
my aunt, 1 said
'•My dear aunt, there is one rather annoy
j nig infirmity that Anna (my yifc ) has,
which I Ergot to mention before. Sl.e is
vi-ry deaf ; and though -he can hear my
voice, to which she is accustomed, in its or
dinary tunes, yet vc.u will be obliged to speak
extremely loud to her in order to be heard, f
am very sorry that she is so."
Aunt Mary, in the extreme goodness of her
heart, protested that she rather liked speak
ing loud, aid tint to do so would give her
irr.-at pleasure. I handed out my aunt, aud
she ascended the steps.
" I am delighted to see you, " shrieked iny
wife, who met us at the door.
Tee p.diccman on the opposite side of the
street was r tar tied, and my aunt nearly tum
bled down the step-.
" Kiss me, my dear," howled my aunt,
and the hall lamp clattered, windows
shook as with fever and ague.
1 looked at the window, but John Thorn
ton had disappeared. Human nature could
stand it n> longer. I p iked iny head into
the carriage, and went into strong convul
sions of laughter.
When I went into the parlor my wife was
helping aunt Mary to take oft' her bonnet
and mantdla ; and there sat John with his
long face of woe.
" Did you have a pleasant journey ?" sud
denly went off my wife like a pistol, and
John nearly jumped to his feet.
" Rather dusty," was the response, in a
war-hoop.
The conversation was long continued in
this strain. The neighbers for squares around
i must have heard it, for when I was in the
third story I heard every word.
In the course of the evening my aunt took
occasion to say to me
" llow loud your wife speaks. Don't it
hurt her 7"
I to d her that all deaf persons spoke loud,
and that my wife being u-ed to it, was not
effected by the exertion, and that they were
getting along finely.
Presently my wife said, softly
" A! f red. how loud your aunt talks "
44 Yi s," said T," all deaf people do. Y'ot:
get along weil together. Shu hears every
word you say."
And I rather think she did,
D ated by theirsuccess at being understood
they went at ir like hammer aud tongs, till
everything on tue mantle-piece fairly clat
tered) and T was seriously afraid of a crowd
•TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jeflersen.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., .WEDNESDAY, AUG'T 10, 1864.
collecting in front of my hop*e.
But the end was near. My aunt being ot
an investigating turn of mind, was desirous
of finding out whether the exertion of talking
so loud was not injurious to toy wife.
" Doesn't talking so loud strain your
lungs 7" said she, in an unearthly hoot, foi
her voice was not as musical as it was when
she w as 3'oung.
" It is an exertion," shrieked ray wife.
" Then why do you do it ?" was the an
swering scream."
" B.cause—because—you can't hear me if
I don't squalled my wify.
" W! *> 7"
My aunt faialy rivalled a railroad whistle
this time.
I began to thiuk of evacuating the pretni
ses, and looking around and seeing that
Jchn was gone, I stepped into the next rooni
and there he lay flat on his back, rolling
from side to side, with his li-i poked into hn
rib, and a most agonizing expression on her
countenance, but not uttering a sound. Im
mediately and involui aiiiy I assumed a
similar attitude, an i i 'fttiik, from the rela
tive position of onr teet and beads, and our
attempt to restrain our laughter, apoplexy
must inevitably have ensued, if a horrible
groan, in which John gave vent in his endea
vor to suppress his risabilitiy, had not be
| iraveii our hiding place.
In ru-died my-wife and aunt, who bv this
t lipie comprehended the joke ; and such a
scolding as I got then 1 never got before,
diid I hope never to get again.
1 know npt what the end might hate been
tt John-, in his endeavors to appear respect
ful and sympathetic, had not given vent to
such a diabolical noise, something between
a groan and a horse laugh, that all gravity
was upset, and we all laughed and screamed
in coneert.
ST. PATRICK'S BODY FOUND. —While the
workmen engaged in the rennovation of St-
Patrick's Cathedra 1 , Doublin, the oldest
church in Ireland, were digging up a p irtion
of the flooring in one of the aisles tlicy'dis
covered a large stone c >ffi i of curious WOTK
raanship, buried a few feet below the suf
fice. Tilt- coffin was opened, vvas found to
contain the skeleton of an ecclesiastic, su pos
ed to have hem buried there six hundred
vears? The skull was perfect, ami the
bones crumbled into du.-t when exposed to
tin. air. On the I'd "f the coffin there was a !
full length' figure of a Urdu pin his robes.
It was inspected by s< nu antiquarians, in
eluilunr Dr. Todd, who eXpr- -ed it ash'.s'
belief that -t wa* the original founder ' f 'he
cliurrh. St. Patrick . 11 is in good prc-erva
ti m. and tt is in every respect a most intpr
e.-ti'ng relic. When the church finished,
it wiii bo placed in a inost prominent posi
' tiun. because there is no more refnarkable
antiquity in the building — lri?b, Paper.
t 'isr The following is the story about
swapping horses" of which Mr. Lincoln
wa- reminded when his re-nomination lor the
Presidency was foimnlly announced to hitn.
A Dutchman undertakes to swim a mare and
colt across a stream, and not being a swim,
iner himself lie taxes hold of thy colt's tail,
and the tfio start to make the passage. The
colt, weak and immature, begins to show
signs of giving out about the time the tniidN
die of the stream is reached, and men on
the opposite bank crv to 'be Dutchman to
seize the tnare,s ta"l and relievo the colt, or
he will be lost. Longing anxiously about
him, and seeing the mare's tail beyond his
raach, h' 1 tightened his grasp on the Colt's
caudal extremity, and he replies to his in
leresteri neighbors, that " this is no place to
swap horse.-." The result, of course, is, that
Dutchman and Colt soon sink to what novel,
ists term a " watery grave," We are left to
nfer that the colt represents the almost ex
Inusfed Government, and the President, the,
drowning Dfitchma/i. It is not strange that
his re.nomination should have called this,
story to mind. The question for the pen.
pie ii whether there is not some way to save
the colt.
Z'*' A short tune ago in *he l-iyal city J
of Philadelphia, a "largely u;e*sed female
answering the description of an F. F. V.
hailed a Vine street car. Just as it stopped
to take her aboard a Union soldier stepped
out of the same car. On entering several seats
were vacant, and the won id be -lady inquired
in a very sharp tone: " Where did that sol
dicr sit I" No answer. Again but in a
more shrill tone than at first, the same
question was, " Where itd that soldier sit7"
Si ill no reply from any of the passengers,
the car going ahead, the " lady 8 ' st'll unseat
ed, when the same question was fairly spit
out between her teeth. u Where did that
man sit?" An honest Hibernian, quietly
seated near the unhappy female, and no
doubt desirous of relieving her in some slight
degree, replied, " Faith ma'am, he snt on his
end and took it away with him !"
—-4-- '
" Why is it," satd one of our school inarms
to a young scapegrace who had caused Her
much trouble by his bad conduct, •* why is
it you behaved so well when you first came
to school, and are so disobedient now 7 '
''Because," said young hopolui, looking up
into the teacher's face, " I wasn't mucu ac
quaintcd then," *
a XTISTT Aa • 1
EXECUTIVE MANSION. I
I WASIUNKTON, July 18, 18G-4. \
i To i chbm it miy concern ,
: Any proposition which embraces.the res
toration of peace, the interity of the whole
I Unkin.htid (he abandonment of slavery,and
I which comes by and xpilh a authority thai
!am control V e armies now at ira> agxiust
1 the United Elates, wilt be received and con
sidered by the executive government <>J the
United Wales,nu d will h tJ | JU >t by liberal
teimscn other substantial and collateral
points and the bearer or bearers thereof
shall havq safe conduct both wu)s.
AERAUAM LINCOLN.
Collate this "to wb>rn it]may concern 1 ' let
ter with Mr. Lincoln's past declarations and
avowals, ?.nd it will be difficult to restrain
within decorous language the sense, of moral
indignation which arises in c/pteuip fating its
unblushing and shameless peijury. Lighter
fernis d<> n<t fit. Ilis fjrst official act was an
oalh. a solemn oath, calculated to bind the
cor.cience of an honorable man and restrain
tlo acts of a dishonorable one. Many tunes
has Mr. Lincoln violated his oath. Let the
political casuists defend him. Now he vio
lates his oath "penly and publish •> his shame
His own w<>rds in past time, denying to lurn
self any such purpose as he is now accom
plishing, aae all that is necessary to convict
him of perjury. Other c* mmentary is use
less. Political opponents can afford to be
dumb. Out of his own mouth is the Presi
dent condemn* d. He has again and agin dis
claimed thar the object of this war was
abolition jhe has A gain nnd ag-un character
ized such a prostitution of the war for the
Union as lawless cod wicked : he has aocept -
i
ed the pledges of his party, whose platform
disavowed any such purpose in its creed or
hopes a* abolition by the federal g ivernmont;
to Ins party, to the dubfic, to Congress, he
ha- reiterated these disavowals • to freign
nations by the pens of his Secretary of State,
l.c has declared the same thing, b.auded
such a purpose a unconstitutional, and do
clared its impossill• tof accomplishment
even if united u by Congress, the people,
and the executive, for the reason that judical
authority would bo interposed to prevent
it.
Tho Washington Constitutional
Union floes not call Andy Johnson, tin- Lin
coln nominee for Vice President, a thief—it
only asks :
'• Did Johnson sanction afterwards the
stealing of ncgr>e-, the burning <f houses,
robhinJ houses of a'l the silver p'atc, all the
pianos 7Of course be did. He now occu
pies Mrs. Brown's house, n wid >w of w eaith
ami 4Yhai has become of an mi
uu :i-e amount nt silver plate which was
found in Mrs. Brown's house {
It strikes us tbese arc Tery inopportune■
questions to put conccrniijg a man who e;>
pects to be Vice President. Suppose he
should be elected, and that the people should
get the ugly idea into their heads that the
Vice President was a spoon thief. Would
not that he a very awkward state of things
IXFAMDUS VANDALISM. —It is announced in
the Republican papers with glee, that Gen
era! Hunter, when at or Charlottsville,
t irginia. burned the Virgin.a University, the
last relic of Mr. Jefferson's great mind
Out of respect to that greatest of statesmen,
i this old and time honored structure sh-mUI
have been spared, if for nothing eke. It is
a burning disgrace to the Administration
that it should snflvr malignity toward that
greet and good man. simply because he was
a Democrat and the author of our Dec'ara
lion of Independence to thus ruthlessly de
stroy that ancient edifice of learning and gll
that wa* in it. It is an awful'disgrace. '
Pi RPOSE or THE WAR RESOLVED, That
tl is war is not waged on their part in any
spirit of oppression, nor for any , purpose of
conquest or subjugation, for the purpose
of overthrowing or interfering with the rights
or established institutions of those States,
but to defend and maintain the supremacy
of the Constitution and to preserve the Un
ion with all the dignity; equality, and the
rights of the several States unimpaired ; and
that as soon as these objects are accomplish
ed the war ought to cease.—Resolution of
Hon. John J. Crittenden passed July 22>1
W-
The Republican Convention at Chi
cago. which nominated Mr. Lincoln,
this resolution :
Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate
of the rights of flic states and espec'ally the
right <!>f each state to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its
own judgment is essential to that
balance of power on vthicn the perfection and
endurance of our political fabric depend, and
we denounce the lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil of any state or territory, no
matter under what pretext, as auiorg the
gravest of crimes.
In his Niagara letter Mr. Lincoln now do
clares that the control over the domestic in
stitutions of the states confirmed to them in
our Constitution, and in the confederate
Constitution not less explicitly, shall be as
sumed by " an authority that C4ll control the
" armies now at war against f hc United
" States," and transferred to him who now
controls the snnles and uavies of the United
StA.tes.aud that othervv.-w ho wUI not jjstea
To av A , o
to overtures of p*ac *
•ti fr" TORAM .littoO
ty Said Seward ie tho well known
Dayton letter.
D is hardly ueceseary to add to this ineon
triable stall mi nt [that the rights of the
states and (he condition of every human be
ing in them would remain the same, the
U>.Wiiiv>D 6iicceo*lmg or failing] the further
fact that the new President, as well as the
ci ti7' tis through whose suffrage he has come
1 into the administration, has always repudiat
ed all d.stgrm whaieVer and wherever imput
! Ed to in til and them of disturbing the system
uf slaver) as it id existing under the C'onsti
tntijr at. 1 the laws. 'J'he case, however,
would not be fully presented if I were to
omit •> say that any such cfthrt <m nis part
woufl be unconsiitotiun&h and all hi® actions
in that direction would be prevented by the
judicial authority, even though they were
assented to by Congress and tite people.
Could language be more explicit? Yet
Compare this witß Mr. Liucoln's Niagaia
letter. He does thus interfere with slavery.
He persists in keeping thirty millions of
j people at war rather than listen to an over
! ture hi peace in which the abandonment of
| slavery is not the key note, and yet has thus
'publicly and officially avowed, over and over
I again, his repudiation of purposes now dis
[ closed, and the luviiess character of acts DOW
j boldly done.
The Coup d 1 Etat does not show a more
shocking poiifical Immorality. Other Pres
idents have been Inconsistent contradictory
and illogical. Mr. Lincoln is the first Presi
dent who has dared'to do that which, when
charged upon him; he had before repudiated,
branded as lawless, as a perjury, and is a
crime. Louis Napolean shed some blood to
get jxirrer, violated some oaths broke some
pledges. But he broke not half so many as,
Abraham Lincoln has confessedly broken,
an ! wh-re the present Emperer 6hed rills
of blood t+ie present President will pour
livers, if thirty millions of people are tube
kept waging the bloodiest and most gigantic
of the world's civil wars until the South
surrenders its property,, its prejudices, and
its local self-government.
Eosr In his first message to Congress, at
the ex'ra session in the summer of 1861, Mr
Lincoln said :
Lest there be -orne uneasiness in the minds
of candid men as to what is to be the course
of the government toward the Southern
States after the rebellion shall have been
>uppre>sed, the executive deems it proper to
say it w'li be his purpose then, as ever, to
be gu'ded by the Constitution and the laws ;
ind that he probably will have no different
understanding of the powers and duties of
the federal government relatively to the
null's of the states and the people, under
the Constitution, than that expressed in the
inauuurai address. He des'res to preserve
the pivvriMuen', that it may be administer
•d for all as it was administered by the men
who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere
have ihe right to claftn this of their govern
ment, and die government has no right to
withhold or neglect it. It is not perceived
that, in giving it, there is any coercion, any
conquest, or any subjugation, in any ju?t
sense of those terms.
Now avowing that the abandonment jf
slavery shall precede the acceptance of over
ture of peace, Mr. Lincoln's message can be
interpreted only as the confession thai he is
doing what " loyal citizens" have a right to
protest against his doing, and what he vio
lates the Constitution and the laws of the
Lnited States in doing.
JC2C" A gentletnan who, a few days ago
was a wandering over the ground recently
occupied by a portion of Gen. Earlyfoices,
engaged in the "-lege of "Washington," picked
up the note book of a Confederate soldier
containing, among other mutters, the follow
ing bit ot lyrical poetry :
tyu ih Meade to Lee,
•' Can you tell me,
Iu the shortest style of writing,
When people will
AM gel their fill
Ul this big job of fighting ?''
Quoth Lee to Meade,
" I can, indeed,
I'll tell you in a minute—
When Legislators s
And speculators
Arc made to enter in it."
Z,-3T Tn his inaugural President Lincoln
quoted from obe of iiis own speeches and re
iterated this declaration :
I have no purpose directly or indirectly to
interfere with the institution of slavery in
the states where it exists. I believe I have
no lawful right to do 60, arid I have no incli
nation to do so. I now reiterate these senti
meats, and in doing so I only press upou
tho public attention the inost conc'usive
evidence of which the case is susceptible that
the property, peauq and security of no sec
tion are to be iu eriy wise endangered by the
now incoming administration,
Mr. Lincoln uow justifies the rebels in
disbelieving these solemn asserv&tions by
proving that they were false. lie now does
what ho then declared he had no lawful
right to do, and, for tho sake of re-election,
confesses the inclination which he then disa
vowed.
&£~ A d oad mule, belonging to a Mem
phis citizen, was being hauled out of the
lines the other day, when a bayonet thrust
revealed the fact that tho carcass coutainod
GO,OOO percussion caps, a quanity of ammu
nition, and otfier contraband articles, which
somu rebel sympathizer hiui ttkou this means
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TXIRM9: fifI.OOPER
RO> T-OFFICE
The Now fYork World devqte* time, dol
umcs on Thursday to sho'w that letter* are
not safe in the post office, anJ instance* a
cu-u of A. Oakley Ilall, of New York,and a
case of Wfn'; ii. fteed, of Philadelphia ;
•'J ho first graill coup'de main tfhich was
known to thi pnlflie. \v a s the seizurd in tLia
Jty of all the telegraphic dispatches which
hitdohei-n sent or received/rota May 1, 18#1.
The documents seized were voluminous, aad
<3o?ibt the < fficfaß had a plescut time look*
in- them over ; lfrt 'nothing came of Ihetn.
ihe seizure was made. May 21; 1801, b> Or
ders from \\ aehiugieu.'' , ?
The writer accounts the great discrep
ancies in the reports of the number* upon the
army rolls— by the spies am; bogus detec
lives, every where in administration pay. *
4i Every fellow employed in tampering
with the mails, or employed with the pro
vost guards, under proteose of hunting de
serter-, hut. really to keep up the net-work fiT
opionage and corruption all ovei the North
and finally to force Abraham Lincoln on
the people foa anothea four years, some
how, no doubt, figures on the pay maatefa
lists."
" It has b.corr.c notorious, at;d it is'not a
matter of one year but of several, that Gen.
McL'hdlarfs letters are regularly opened, and
is stated on pre ty good authority—not Qea
McClellairs authority, however, but by peo
pie who profess to know." j
General Fiemont has also complained of
the 83mt v;!e treatn?en! of his correspondence.
Many instances are mentioned of Similar
tr. atment towards friends of those obnox
ious gentlemen. The World, after giving the
modus ope randi of opening letters, conclude!
by giving the law against detaining letter*
and robbing the mails. It is to be hoped
they will be euforced.
DRAFTS AND REINFORCEMENTS#
r lnere are two circumstances, which proTe
trying puzzles to readers unversed in the in
tricacies of military manoeuvres, and un
taught in the profundities of military criti
cism. We mention them briefly, with the
hope of obtaining satisfactory solutions from
claiming to be adepts in all the knowledge
requisite for raising and conducting armies,
and favor us with reiterated essays on both
subjects. '
The people of the North are represented to
be patriotically eager to rush to the battle
to crush the rebellion. How does it happen
then that tht.se who volunteer to serve in tho j
army must be bribed into the ranks by the
most exhorbitant bounties ? How dot* $
happen, that the seduction of the bribe—no
matter how great—fails to operate on the
intensity of the patriotic feeling, and con
scription must be resorted? These are tho
two branches of our first problem.
Being in comparative ignorance of the con- *
dition and movements of our grand army of
the Potomac, but reading every day of it*
flank movements and its constant discom
fitures of the enemy, we rsre in a quandary
to comprehend why it rsquires such frequent
accessions of rein A.rcements, We wish our
ignorance to be enlightened by some expert.
and we submit our queries in all the humili
ty of ignorance.— Ex,
The Kentucky Proclamation,
, ; - I - 1 .r .q*?W
The New York Herald in reference tqlh*
report Mr. L-ncoln intends to interfere
with the Democratic elections in Kentucky
remarks : . (ir > m
"'We would warn him that the employment
of his military pawor to control the political
elections of tbooountfv is a dingerous amuse
ment. Ceasar tried' it and lost his life ; Na
poleon and Cromwell tried it and euccoeded;
and wo may say the samp thus far for Nap®-'
eon the Thir l ; but what the end bfhte ca
reorwill be, remains to bedisclosed. Abra
ham Lincoln, however, is a gun cf muah
swialler calibre and shorter range than any of
these and we therefore admonish him that
should he attempt the despot's policy of put*
ting the ballot box, behind the cartridge box
it will be the most serious anl da usgi.Q* to 3
his prospects of are election of all.the blun
ders of his blundering administration."
_ - r : ; V- -Iff'
Exile of Rebel Women and Children, >
LotrjsviLLE, July 23.
Ihi Wednesday, about 200 rebel men, wo
men and children arrived here on the Nash-'
ville train. They are all ardent admirers of*
Jeff. Davis and the southern cause. They
were ptcutd up, "way down in Georgia," by'
order of M ij. Gen. Sherman, and forwarded
to this city, to be set north of the Ohio River
to remain dur.ng tho war. ;
Another installment of fifty rebel women
from Georgia arrived here last night.
Three hundaed thousand and fifty mom am
reported at Nashville, and will be forwarded
here on Tuesday next. They are to be sent - :! l
out of the United States.
.' I
GEN*. SIGEL UNDER AR*EST.—A Harsis
u; dispatch in last evening 1 * Philadelphia
Bulletin says : General bigei stated to aever- ■-'*
al of his friends that lie had been placed an
dtr arrest." t. } os w
A contemporary mentions the' arrest of a" -
woir.au in th? 6trret vrtth nothing on her
person but a love-letter aud a daguwvxypa.' i
Rather a poetic and pict ercsque cortume for
tha.nrtnpoiir.. Z, i <
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