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ABBOT* During the progress of the French Revo lution, there were two yarties which arose, and for a long time contested for the supre macy—the Girondists and the Jacobins— The mob of Paris was at the disposal of the Jacobins, and sustained them in their most atrocious measures. 'We must," said Mu rat, one of the leaders of the Tacobins, " strike into the hearts of our foes. It is our only safety." The Girondists attempted to arrest the progressof the frightful massa cre in which the Jacobins were engaging. They thus exposed themselves to the dan gerous charge of being in sympathy with the aristocrat. The strife which ensued, a strife involving life or death, was one of the most terrible recorded in history. Madame Roland was one evening urging Vergniaud to rally the Girondist party at ev ery hazzard to arrest the massacres. " The only hope of France," said she, "is in the sacredness of the law. Tli'S atrocious car nage causes thousands of bosoms to thrill with horror. All the wise and good in France, and in the world, will rise to sus tain those who expose the.ir own hearts as a barrier to arrest such enormities." '* Of what avail," was the sad reply of Vergniaud, can such exertions be ? The as sassins are supp rted by all the power of the street. Such a conflict must necessarily terminate in a street fight. The camion ar with our foes The most prominent of the friends of order are massacred. Terror will restrain the rest. We shall only provoke our own destruction." For several days the strife raged iw the convention with the utnost intensity, be tween tho Girondists and the Jacobins, — The party which could obtain the majority would surely consign the other to the scaf fold. M. Roland, the Girondist Minister of the Interior, was a man of great power, but Madame Roland, was a brilliance of genius scldi rn surpassed, prepared for him his speeches in the convention. France recog nized his marvelous abilities ; the one party regarded her with adoratiou, and the other with hate. Probably "hevcr before in the history of the world has a woman occupied such a position. It soon became evident that the rage of the Jacobins would descend upon Madame Roland, and she wa6 urged to es cape from Par is. The heroic woman replied : '• I am ashamed to resort to any such ex pedient. I will neither disguise myself nor make any attempt at street escape. My ene mies may find me always in my place. I owe my conn try an example of firmness and I will give it." She remained in Paris, and soon perished upon the guilotine. The convention consist ed of eight hundred members . Twenty-one of the most illustrious men of France were considered leaders of the Girondists. The Jacobins accused them of treason, and over awing the members of the convention by a mob, carried the accusation ahd condemned them to death. It was then voted that all Paris should bo illuminated in view of the triumph of lhe p- ople. At midnight the whole convention, in procession, traversed the brilliant streets, leading, to grace their triumph, the doomed Girondists. They were all then consigned to the Conciargeri, there to await the final trial Summer carne and went, while illustrious men lingered in their dungeons. With fortitude, the record of \vh ich has enabled their memories, they struggled to sustain each other to meet that fate which they knew could not be doubtful At length the hour of final triumph cone. With the most imposing military array of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, to guard against the possibility of any counter revolu tion, the prisoners were conducted in a long procession, two by two, to the judgment bar. It was the 30th of October, 1793. At elev en o'clock at night the verdict was brought in, and they were doomed to be led the next morning to the guillotine. As the sentence was pronounced, one of the Girondists, Va lane, plunged his dagger in his heart, and fell lifeless to the floor. Another m the de lirium of enthusiasm, shouted : " This is the m st glorious day of my life !" It was mid night when the victims we re conducted back to the Conciergerie. As they marched along, their voices burst into the Marseillaise Hynn, in tones which reverberated through the corridors of the prison, and echoed through the streets : "Co.tie, chit lren of your country, come, The Jay of glory dawns on high, And tyranny has wije unfurled Her I lood-staiued baunt>r in the sky." They wi re placed iiv one large hall, and the lifeless body of their companion was de posited in one corner. By decree of the As eernbly the remains of Valane were to be taken, with the rest, "to the guillotine, and the axe was to sever his head from the life less body, and all the headless trucks were to be interred together. Some friends of the Girondists immediately sept to them a sumptuous banquet, their final funeral re past. A large oaken table was spread. Ser vants entered with brilliant lamps. The richest viands of meats and wines were bro't in. Vases of flowers smiled where flowers never blooiped before ; and the most costly dishes appeared one after another, until the board was covered with luxury aua splen dor. "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG'T 31, 1864. In silence they took their places at the table. They were all tnen of brilliant intel lect, and most of them eloquent. A priest, Abbe Lambart, who had gained admission, with his pencil noted down their words, their actions, their indication of heroism. — The repast was prolonged till the dawn faintly entered the grated windows. When the cloth was removed, and the fruits, the wine, and the flowers alone remained, the conversation became animated, with eccas lonally bursts of gayety. A few of the uu belivers in immortality endeavored thus to meet their doom. But it was hilarity mi. natural, and unworthy of the men and their Death is not a jest, and he who attempts to so regard it does but dishonor himself. " What shall we be doing at this time to morrow ?" asked Ducos. "We shall sleep," responded one, "after the fatigues of the da}*, to wake up no more. Death is but an endless slumber." " No," rejoined Fonchet, " annihilation is not our destiny. These bodies perish These thoughts never die. To-worrow, in other words, we shall think, feel, act. We shall have solved the problem of the destiny of the human mind." All turned to Vergniaud as by a common imoulse. ll;s discourse was long, and ha< been described as the most eloquent which was ever uttered by human lips. "Death," said he iu conclusion " is the greatest act of life. It intro iuces us to a noble existence. Were it not so, there would be something greater than God. It would be just man immolating himself uselessly and hopelessly for his country. No 1 Vergniaud is no great er than God. Ged will not suffer Vergniaud to morrow to ascend the scaffold but to jus. ttfy and avenge him in future ages. As the light of day penetrated the dun. geon, some sought a moment's sleep, others wrote a last line to friends, whild others gathered in groups for conversation. At four o'clock the gens d 1 arms entered with the executioners. The long hair was cut from thefr necks, that it might not impede the axe. Gensonne picked up a lock and sent it to his wife, saying : " Tell her that it is the only memorial of my love which I can transmit to her; and that my last thoughts in death were hers. Vergniaud scratched upon his watch & few jines cf tender remembrance, and sent it to the young lady to whom, iu a few days he was to be married. Five rude carts conveyed them to the scaffold. Eich cart contained five persons. The streets through which the sad procession passed was thronged with countless thousands. It was one of the most splendid of October mornings. As the carts moved the Girondists saug the Mar. sallaise Hymn. At the end ol each verse there was a moment's silence, and then the strain was renewed loud and sonorous.— Arrived at the scaffold, they all embraced. They then resumed their funeral chant. One after another ascended the scaffold, con. finning the son/ till his head fell Into the I _-t. There was no weakness. No voice faltered ; on each succeeding moment, as head after head fell, the song grew more faint. Vergniaud at last stood alone. Long confinement had spread a deadly palor over his intellectual features. He ascended the steps, the chorus having now died away into a solo of surpossifig richness. For a mo. ment he gazed upon the headless bodies of his friends. lie then, as he surrendered himself to the executioner, commenced anew the strain— " Come children of yoilr country, come, The day of glory dawns on high.' Tlie axe fell, an 1 his lips were silent in death. Thu- perished the Girondists. The history of the French Revolution, in all its sublime annals, has not a tragedy more thrilling. 4*5 — Gems ol Thought, If you would not render your children helpless all their lives, never compel or per mit them to help themselves. The louder tones in which some people ap peal t rea-on imply that reason is a great distance from them. The door between us and heaven cannot be opened if that between us and our fellowman is shut. Always bens witty as you can with your parting bow—your last speech is the one re membered. Absence is to love what fasting is to the body ; a little stimulates it, but a long absti nence is fatal. Superficial knowledse is like oil upon wa ter; it rbines deceitfully, but can easily be skimmed off. The loveliest faces are to be seen bv moon light, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. Not in unmanly characters does mildness charm, but in manly ones ;as energy dons, not in nnwomauly one, but in the unwoman 'y* . . Whose would feel the tenderest participa tion in joy, let him not look at happy children hut at the father and mother wflo rejoice to see them happy. A shilling idly spent by a fool, may he picked up by a w*ie uian, who knows better what to do with it ; so it is not lost. Women are fond of deferring ; men of go ing ahead. With the former we gam by ex hibiting patience ; with the latter, as with public functionaries, by impatience. Men of quick fancy more easily reconcile themselves to the loved one when she is "sb sent than when she is present. Well mated lovers are like the two wings of a dove, bearing one heart between them and always moving harmoniously. ANTI-SLAVERY EVENTS. Notwithstanding it was declared in tha beginning of the war, by the " Government," through Secretary Seward, that " the righta of the States, and the condition ofeveiy human being in them will remain subject to exactly the same laws and lorms of adminis tration, whether the revolution shall succeed , or whether it shall fail," the chief subject of legislation in the North during the last three years has related to the negro. The Boston Liberator recently printed the following list of anti-slavery events that have occurred since Mr. Lincoln's inauguration: 1. Emancipation in AVestern Virginia. 2. Emancipation in Missouri. 3. Emancipation in the district of Colum bia. 4. Emancipation in Maryland. 5. Slavery abolished aud forever prohibit ed in all Territories. 6. Kansas admitted as a free State. 7. Provisions made to admit Colorado, Nebraska, and Nevada as free States. 8. Organization of Idaho, Montane, Daco tab and Arizona as free Territories. 9. Recognition of the independence of Hayti and Liberie. 10. Three millions of slaves declared free by Proclamation of the Piesident Jauuary I, 1863. 11. All fugitive slave laws repealed. 12 Inter state slave trade abolished. 13. Negroes admitted to equal rights in the United States courts, as parties to suits and as witnesses. 14. Equality of the negro recognized in the public conveyances of the District of Columbia. 15. All rebel States prohibited from re turning to the Union with slavery. 10. Free labor established on numerous plantations in South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi Tennessee, and Arkansas 17. Schools for tiie education of freed slaves in South Caralina. Louisiana, Tenn essee, and in Eastern Virginia—where till within three years to educate the negro was punishable with death. 18 The wives and children of all slaves employed as freemen in military and oiher service of the United States made'free. 19. All negroes, bond and free enrolled as part of the military force of the nation. 20. The loyal people of Arkansas, Tenn essee Louisiana and Florida seeking a re turn to the Union on the basis ot freedom to ail and of the abolition and prohibition of slavery. 21. The abolition and prohibition of sla very by an amendment of the Constitution passed in the Senate b; tw>-thirds majority, and by nearly the same in the House. Lost by lack of three or lour votes, through the influence of Democratic members. 22. The nation through its representatives in Baltimore, Juns 8, made the abolition and prohibition of slavery the basis of its gov ernmental administration for the future. 23. The Federal Government forbidden to j employ any man as a slave in any capacity. 2t. One hundred and Sity thousand ne groes, mostly freed slaves in the pay and uniform ot the Government as soldiers. Tins list, long and apparently exhaustive as it is, is still incomplete. We are not cer tain that from memory we can supply the deficiencies, but we may mention at least a few additional items. Congress early agitat e l the question of the repeal of the law against the transportation of the mails by negroes. The Senate adopted an amend ment to the bill for organizing Montana Ter ritory, providing that negn.es might vote* A majority of Republican members in the House recorded thdmselves in favor of re taining this provision. To theso may be added the amendment of the articles of war so as to make it a high offense for an officer of the army to return a runaway slave to hie owner, and tho refusal to make it an offense of like character for an officer to entice away a slave ; the passage of a confiscation act, aimed at slavery ; tho sending of six hun dred free negroes to the Island of Avache, who finally returned alter a sea voyage at the public expense ; the bill to establish a Freedmen's Bureau at in immense cost to the Government; the various propositions to increase the pay of the negro soldier, with a manifest indillcrence about increasing the pay of white soldiers ; the President's am. nesty proclamation requiring citizens of re stored States to take oath to support all the Executive proclamations relating to slavery ; and finally, to cap the climax, the recent manifesto preventing any conference on the subject of peace unless commissioners from the rebel Government agree to abandon sla very, as well as consent to the complete in tegrity ol the Union, Yet with such a record as this tlie Repub licans claim to have " 6unk the partisan in the patriot," and call upon all to rally wi th them in supporting purely unconditional. Union principles !— Missour Re publican July 27th. When the news was received here that Chambersburg had been burned by the rebels, some of the abolition jacobins openly expressed their delight declaring that it was just what they wanted to hear of, as the '''copperheads" had suffered heavily in the loss of property,and it would operate to ex asperate the people of the North. Such dev lish malignity lurks only in the hearts of fiends. Shame Shame !.— Bedjord Gazet'e Efsr a lady at Brussels is known to be so extremely humane that she will not allow even hor carpets to be beaten, and was fright fully shocked on hearing a boy, who wa9 re lating astory about a donkey, tell his Com panion to cut his tail short ; and she actually j fainted away when a relative said he had I been killing time . * (From, the Patrtot A Union,) The Democracy Should Organize, Not a moment should be lost in organizing the Democratic party, in every township, ward or district in the State. In every school district there should be formed a Dem ocratic Association, and the school houses are good placvs to meet in. Get your neighbors whatever may tu their political creed, to come in and hear, and even allow them to join decorously in the discussions. Take several good, 6ound Democratic papers in these associations, and thus become acquain ted with the movements of the day, and be enabled to meet your opponents with facts and arguments. To facilitate this important and vitally ne cessary step, we Lave drawn up and given below a form of a Constitution, which may be varied according to the circumstances of the case. The Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee has desired us to ask of every Democratic paper in the State to pub lish this Constitution, and urge tho forma tiou of Democratic Associations in their im mediate vicinity. To such associations the State committee will 6end documents for dis tribution, at any time, on being informed of the post office address of the Chairman or Secretary. PREAMBLE. This Association is formed with a view to the strict and conscientious performance of every political duty, as citizens living under a wise and well-ordained Government which has descended to us from our Revolutionary sues ; and we seek, by free discussion and a frequent interchange of view=, to become im bued with the true spirit of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and of the United Stales,and our rights and duties under them, as also those of our rulers. For the well-ordering of the Association, we agree to and adopt the following regula tions : 1. The Association shall bo known and styled the (here insert the name agreed upon] of [w.re insert the name of the I unship, ward or district in which it is located.] 2. Stated meetings of this Associationshal! be held on the first Saturday evening of every month throughout the year. Special meetings may be called by the President or fixed by adjournment at any meeting, to a time and place certain, 3. The officers of the Association shall bo a President, a Vice President, a Secretary and Treasurer. The two last named offices, at the will of the Association, may be given to one person. The duties of the several officers respectively shall be such as usually apper tain to such stations. 4 Every person 011 becoming a member of the Association, shall pay to the Treasurer thereof the sum of .and the further sum of monthly, until otherwise order ed by a vote of the member". The money thus raised to be devoted to procuring for the ue of the members of the Association such books, pamphlets, or papers ns may be order ed by a vote, or to such other purposes con sistent with the objects of the Association, as may be aoproved of by a vote of the members present at any stated or special meeting; and the money shall be drawn only on orders sigr; 1 u y the President, indicating the pur pose of tlie appropriation. 5. This Constitution may be amended at any stated or monthly meeting, by a vote of a majority of the members present. NAMES OF MEMBERS. THE WORDS' WE USE. Be simple, unaffected, he honest in your speaking and writing. Never use a long word where a short one will do. Call a spade, not a well known oblong instrument of manual industry ; let home be a home, net a residence ; a place a place, not a locality : and so of the rest. Where a short word will do, you all ways lose by using along one. You lose in clearness, you lose in hon est expression of your meaning ; and, in the estimation of all men who are competent to Judge, you lose in reputation for ability.— The only true way to shine, even in this fa'se world, is to be modest and assuming,— Falsehood may be a very thick crust, but in the course of time, truth will tind a place to break through, Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us, but simplic ity and straignt for wariness are. Write much as you would speak : speak as you think. If w>th your inferiors, speak no courser than usual ; if with your superi ors, speak no finer. But what you say, and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are. Avoid all oddity of expression. No one ever was a gainer by singularity of words, or in pronunciation. The truly wise man will so speak that no one will observe how he speaks. A man may show great knowledge of chemistry by carrying about bladders ol 'trange gases to breathi, but he will enjoy better health, and find more time lor busi ness, who lives on the common air. When I hear a person use a queer expression, or provodence a natqe in reading differently from his neighbor, the habit always goes down, minus sign before it stands on ihc side of deficit, not of credit. Avoid, like wise, all slang words. There is 110 greater nuisance in society than a talker of slang. Tt is only fit. (when inocent. which it seldom is) for raw schocl boys and one term fresh men to astonish their sisters with. Talk as sensible men talk , use the easiest words in their commonest meaning. Let the sense conveyed not the veh'cle in which it is con veyed ,be your subpart of atten lion. Once more, avoid in conversation all sin gularity of accuracy. One of the bores of society is the talker who is always setting you right ; who, when you repoit from the paper tiiet 10, 000 men fell in some battle, telis you that it was 9,999, who, when you describe your walk as two niHes out and back assures you that it lacked half a furlong of it. Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression ; and there are vague ways of speaking thai are truer than sttict fact wouid be.— When the Psalmist said, '"Rivers of waters run down nunc eyes, because man keep not thy"law," be did not state the fact, but he stated a truth deeper than fact and also truer —Dean Alford. " Below we publish a few extracts from the noble and fearless letter'of SfaJ. Qen. Buell. The sentiments are the most consci entious convictions of & tried and gafldhtsol dier; and, as we] believe and Gn. Bui ell hints, a revel,tirn, as unfolding as R warn, of the real sympathy of the beat soldiers now' in our service with (he cause of coaftihitfoftAl liberty. The letter was addressed friend, by whose permission it was print- BEDFORD SPRINGS PA., . ) Suly, 10tb, tBG4 \ DEAR SIR :—The public bare seen no ofl cial announcement of the fact—though it ir no doubt by this time very generally known that I have resigned my commission in tho array. I have several times since been as sured that ray personal friends, and many who without the claim of personal acquniat. ance have taken an interest in my official career, foel that some explanation of the el*. ' cumstanr.es and motives of my action w due to them. Accepting this claim upon mo, 1 have already answered some of my friends*in substance as I do you now. * * The impulses of most men would approto my course in this matter; if it even roatod on no other ground than a determination not to acquiesce in any measure that would degrade me ; but I had a higher motive than that. I believed that the policy and means with which the war was being prosecuted was discreditable to the nation, and a stain upon civilization ; and that they would not only fail to restore the Union, if indeed they had not already rendered its restoration impossi ble, but that their tendency was to subvert the institutions under which the country had realized unexampled prosperity and happi/ ness ; and to such a work, I could not lend my hand. / Uj i' While there may have been more or less of personal ambition mixed up in the mow ment of secession, as there mnst generally be in the management of political affairs, yet I do not doubt that it was mainly determined by an honest conviction in the mi ode of then who engaged in it that tht control of the Government had passed permanently Into the hands of a sectional party which woufct soon trample on the political rights of the South; This apprehension was a bared in by a very latge portion of the people who did not favor secession, and who were so uexiete foa the preservation of the Union that CVn coercive measures, if tempered by justioe sad mercy, would not have estranged them.— Under these circumstances, the use oflftttltfc. ry force to put down armed resistance Wat not incompatible with a resoration of tbt Utf. ion with its former glories and affections, provided the means were employed in iWeJh a manner as to convince the people that their constitutional rights Would be respected.— Such a poliey, therefore, in the uee of force, If force must be restored to, had the manifoat advantage of weakening the power of the in.' bullion and strengthening the Government, independently of the moral force Wbieh. dignity and justice always leadto authority. A policy which recognised these principle* was wisely beclared by Congress in the Ima gining of tho war; and from a fervent denirs for the preservation of the Union, in which pride of our country sad all my interests' aSu citizen centered, not less than from a natural" impulse, I gave that policy my earnest* sap port. Unfortunately it was too often cheat ed of its dne effect by the intrusion of section t ai rancor, and the injudicious or unfaithful acts of agents of the Government ; and when at tho expiration of a year, a system of spolia and disfranchisement was inaugurated, the cause was robbed of its sanctity, and suoMffc rendered more difficult of attainment- a You have, in these few lines, an explana tion of the motives of my conduct -while I was in command, as well as of the step wtflilh after twenty three years of service, hat etotiid my career as a soldier, and broken up (He professional habits and associations te whidh I was educated, and in which I have pasted the larger portion of my life. lam very ffir from casting unfavorable reflections upon the thousands in the service, who, perhaps, with views simliar to my own, have uot chosen tiiy course. Few of them have been similMty situated ; and I rather commend the patience with which they have struggled on in position which must otherwise haxe been fillet! lty less scrupulous men, and ia which they might mitigate some of the calaraitien which they yet could not wholly prevent. ; iLe Very truly Yours, D. C. Brant. lit ■ j 1 1- 1J _ C , , , :. •. )S3 frX* Dr. Franklin, when a child, found the long graces said by his father very irk some. One day.after the wfnter'i provision had been salted, he said, "I think, father, I you said grace over the whole cask, once for all, it would been a vast saving oftirae," i" o mi* a* " • ■. ift dofifw fry Some Indiana soldteraoo w scowl In the mounlai ns of Georgia.eame upon a hemic occupied by an old women. J, Wcllf old Wo men, what are you— seceah V* saMHhfc- lend er. "No," said, the. "What then ?" "Baptist and always was," said the promptly.* VOL. 4 NO. 4 MAJOIi CCIIERAL AUfiLL.