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T6 Cder Street, N,Y, Who will take all risk if properly directed i and you will receive them post paid, securely sealed from observation, by return mail. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY. DEMAS BARNES A CO., NEW YOK, Wholesale Agents. v4nW -ly. "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865. Jshlect THIRTY DAYS FURLOUGH. Captain John Warren bad returned with hia regiment, the gallant fifty ninth. The regiment came back to Princeton with only four hundred men out of the- one thousand stout hearts that responded to the first call for troops, only this small band of veterans remained to recite the deeds of daring and danger they had endured in a campaign of nearly three years. Captain Warren was beloved by hia men for he was one of those unselfish characters who shared the perils of the battle field, the weary march, and the many hardships of a soldier's life with the humblest private in his company. Being a thorough soldier himself, he never excused a lack of discipline in oth ers. His company was the model of the regiment. He taught his company that a soldier's first and last duty, was obedience to his superior officers. He was acquainted with both the practical and theoretical rules of hia profession; and had it been necessary for him to take command of the entire brig ade he was capable of doing it creditably. If we had more John Warrens in the time of our country's need, we should not have lost so many hardly contested fields, which have made the nation weep* How often would we havo been victorious instead of being driven back, if we bad only officers to lead the forlorn hope. In private life Captain Warren was the unobtrusive gentleman, kind friend, and char itable Christian. His personal appearance was prepossessing. He was afcove the medi um height, and if he had been drilled from his cradle a soldier he could not have been of a more correct carriage. Ilia features were heavily moulded, and his light brown hair was streaked with silver, fcr exposure had done the work for years. Captain Warren could not be called a handsome man until he smiled, and then it would have been a most fastidious person who would not have perceived how a smile transform his countenance. His smile was truly wonderful; it resembled the light ot the dawn of day breaking through the fast disappearing shadow of night. This gallant veteran however thought oth erwise before he left his native town. Not that he lOVL-J the Union less, but the god of heart had made him a prisoner, and the gal hint Captain wore the light but forcible chains of Cupid, ft occurred thus: Captain Warren was speaking to some brother officers who were standing in one of the principal thoroughfares of the town when a lady passed and looked at him several times as if she was acquainted. After walk ing several steps she turned her head quickly and glanced at him. This time he got a glimnse of her face, which he recognized as belonging to a lady whose acquaintance he made a short lime before his regiment re ceivcd marching orders ihree years before. Bowing to hia friends he walked rapidly and soon overtook the little figure that was walk ing so gracefully up the street. "Miss Morgan," he said, as they shook hands, "I am happy to meet you," "Captain Warren, lam delighted to greet you after so long an absence from civilized society.'' "My fair friend, I am happy to return to my native town and seek some repose for a soldier on his duty has but few pleasures It is strange that I have not seen you before, for I have attended qu : te a number of parties during the last week. Hare you turned Quakeress." "No indeed, sir," answered Miss Morgan ; I only returned yesterday from a visit to Phil adelpbia. "That accounts for my not meeting you before." He escorted Miss Morgan home. She invited him to call the following evening and ihev bid each other adieu for that day. Captain Warren became a frequent guest of Mias Morgan, and he soon spent every spare hour he hed in her society and was her escort in all her walks and drives. But all earthly pleasure must have an end, and Captain Warren found it ao when he receiv ed marching orders. A few evenings before hia departure he was seated alone with Miss Morgan in the parlor of her father's house. He thought he had never seen her more besutiful than she looked then, as she sat upon the sofa with the light of the gas shining upon her face.—- Her features were of that classical type that bore examination. Her eyes were dark ha zel, and had a merry mischievous expression. Her dark, chestaut curls shaded her pure white brow. She was of medium height, and her figure was finely formed.* "Do you know that our regiment positive* ly leaves on Wednesday 7" "I did not," replied Miss Morgan, "and I wish you were not going for three months." "So do I," said he. • "But," he continued, "what can'tjbe helped must be endured. 80 I suppose I must be resigned to my fato. Come, tell me, Mary, I what were you doing at Anderson's Gallery the other morning, when I met you." , "Oh," replied she, blushing deeply ; "only hiving in ambrotype taken for 1 friend." "And did you not sit for some carte di visites it the same time ?" "No, I did not, for I am not so vain that I care about giving my photograph to every one that asks for it." "Mary," spoke the Captain with feeling. "I do not wish you to give it to every one but surely you are not going to let me go away without one 7" "How much would you give for my photo graph ?" asked Mary. "All that I am worth," he answered. "Well, I am afraid you won't get my pho tograph, for to tell you the truth, John, I, had this little ambrotype, taken for you, for I think auibrolypes look more natural than photographs." She handed him the counterpart of herself After looking at the piccure some momenta he kissed the fair original. "Mary, will you wear this little gold band in remembrance of me ?" he asked as he pla ced a plain gold ring upon her finger. I will, John," replied she, weeping. "Dear Mary, you must feel that I love you, though I would not be so dishonorable as to ask yoD to be my wife, for I may be either shot or maimed in the very next battle I" take part in; but if I live to return and you arc not married, I shall ask for what I now covet." Mary was unable to reply, for she felt how much she loved Captain Warren Wednesday came at last, and with it the departure of the Fifty ninth. Captain War ren snatched an hour from the duties of the day to bid Mary Morgan farewell. With a promise of writing soon he gave her a part ingembrace; and, drawing his cap over his eyes, he repaired to the barracks where his regiment was stationed. Mary saw the regiment pass her house on its way to the depot, and she watched the figure of Captain Warren until the tear* blinded her eyes. She hoped 1c r the best and she trusted in "Him who dueth all things well" to guard her lover from all dan ger. A week after the Fifty ninth left Prince ton came the terrible news that the regiment was cut to pieces." Mary anxiously awaited the list of killed and wounded. Alas ! her fears were more than realized. Captatn Warren fell at the head of his regiment while, trying to storm one of the enemy,s works. Mary after the first months of her grief, went to Washington and became a nurse in one of the hospitals. She frit that she serv e 1 her country by so doing. She was doing that which her patriotic lover would approve if he were alive. A VOLUME IN A FEW WORDS The following sentences contain a vast deal of wisdom in a small compass. They form the esserce of volumes compressed and ex pressed into a compact and terse paragraph. These maxims should be carried in the pock et book, and read every day or two till they become thoroughly familiar to all, and par ticularly to young men who are looking to a place in the world. Obedience to them will make any man's place certain and honorable ; "Keep good company or none. Never be idle, If your hands cannot be usefully em ployed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements Keep your own secrets if you have any— When you speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Gook eharac ter is above all things else. Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts. If any one speaks evil of you, let your life be so that none will believe him. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors.— Ever live, misfortunes excepted, within your income. When you retire to bed,think over what you have been doing during the day. Make no haste to be rich,if yon would prosper. Small and steady gains give com petency with tranquility of mind. Never play at any kind of game of chance. Avoid temptation, through fear you may not with stand it. Earn money before you spend it. Never run into debt, unless you see away to get oat again. Never borrow, if you can pos sibly avoid it. Do not marry until you ire able to support a wife. Never speak evil of any one. Be just beforo you are generous Keep yourself innocent, if you would be hap py. Save when JOH are young to spend when you are old Read over the above max ims at least once a week. KISSINO —Josh Billings says there is "one cold, blue, lean kiss, that always makes him shi/ertosee Two persons (ov the femail perswashun) who have witnessed a great many younger and more pulpy daze meet in some publick plase, and not having saw each other for 24 hours, tha kiss immegiate ly; then tha blush and larf at what they say to each other, and kiss agaid immegiately. This knd of kissing puts me in mind ov two eld flints tneing tew strike fire." "I suppose," said a quack, while feeling the pulse of bis patient, "that you think me a humbug." "Sir," replied the sick man," I perceive that you can discover a tuan's thoughts by his pulse. 1 ' Scenes of Horror. In the army of the Potomac there is a stockdae of logs, twenty feet high, and sharp eoed at the tops, and known as the "Bull Pen," in which captured deßeTters are con fined before execution. In it there are about sixly wretched men, awaiting their fate. Henry Clay Trumbull, Chaplain of the Connecticut 10th, thua writes of these shock ing scenes : Executions for desertion are common now-a days in the armies of the Po tomac and James. As many as sixty of the captured runaways have been confined at one time in the Provost. Marshal's prison camp of a single division. The "Bull Pen," as this inclosure is universally called, is a collection of teuts surrounded by a c'ose stockade of pine logs twenty feet high,r ed on all sides. Just at the right of it* en trance, outside of its walls, is a stnal; log cabin used as the condemned cell. The man who enters that goes out only to execution, j Sad stories of remorse and agony the walls of that low, dark, gloomy cabin could tell.— Soon as convenient after a deserter is ar est ed on his way to the enemy or rear, and charges preferred against him, he is tried be fore a general court tntfrtial. The saddest case is the latertL A boy not yet sixteen, born and brought up in the upper part of New York city, was met in the street by a hellish broker, and enticed away to Connecticut to be sold as a substi tute, He was far from being a bright boy, seemingly not full witted, but his childish ways were touchingly attractive. He said— and probably with truth—that until the j broker led him ofi he tad never passed a night away from his parents. Like a tired homesick school boy determined to play tru ant, he started to run home. Being arrest ed, he again slipped off; but was once mjre caught, as he exercised no shrewdness in his flight. Being tried and sentenced to death, he was put into the condemned cell in the evening, to be shot in the following morning. ; His boyish grief when told he was to die was heart-rending. With unaffected naturalness he sobbed out his lament ov c r his own hard lot, for the dear ones at home. "Me, so young, to go outside the breast works, and and see the coffin and grave there, and then be shot ! I don't want to ba killed. Won't the General pardon me ? ' On lining assured that hia execution was a certainty, he urged the chaplain, not to let his friends know bow he died, "for they'd feel so had about it," he said. "I suppose it would kill my father" (for some reason his lather scetncd closer to his heart than his mother.) ' I suppose it would kill 'em all. They'd be thinking of it nights, Don't tell 'etn about it." Once convinced that it was too late to obtain a reprieve—no official short of the department commander having the power to grant it and there being no time to obta-.u it from him, and having cried his cry out—he quiet ed like a weary child, and listened to all the chaplain could say to aid in preparing hitn for the eternal future. Kneeling on the soaked, swainpy ground, under the dripping roof of that gloomy cabin, in the dark and stormy night, he folded his fettered hands, and meek ly said his little evening prayer, and commit ted himself in seeming confidence to his Heavenly Father's care. Ho could not read, but he had been taught in one of the blessed mission schools of New York, and had a simple, child-like faith in God. Probably he had not been addicted to vici us habits He said, when asked about the way he spent his evenings, that he "always worked iu the factory daytimes, and when evening came he was tired, and went to bed early " His fa ther and mother prayed with him, and taught him to do right. "If your life should be spared," asked the chaplain, "would you love God and try to serve him ?" "Why, yes,"' he answered j" I always did love him, as though, in his childish trust, he had 1.0 caflse of enmity with the Father to whm he had been drawn in grateful confidence.— After his first bard cry, the thought of death did not seem to occupy him. He was too much of a child to fully realize. Just be fore he went out to be shot, he turned to the chaplain and asked, as in boyish curtos sity, "If I die to-day will my soul go right to heaven torday ?" Arriving at the field of execution he was not at all disturbed by the terrific preparations. He walked up to the open grave and looked inquiringly into it without a shudder, and then he turned to gaze at the firing party, as though he saw only kind-hearted comrades there. He kneeled again to pray, as calmly as if he were to lie down in his own little crib at home. Just as his arms were being bound a bird flew by, and he twisted his head around to follow with his gaze the bird to its flight as though he should like to chase it; ihen he looked back again at the bright muskets with softffind steady eye as before. "Let me kneel on the ground and rest on the o>ffin," he said as thev fixed him in position. "No, kneel on the coffin," was the order So kneeling there he settled himself down into a weary crouching posture as though he were to wait thus a long and tiresome time. He had hardly taken hia place before he fell back dead, with every bullet of the firing platoon directly through his chest three through hia heart. Ho uttered never & groan nor did hia frame quiver. Even such boys as that are here shot if they de sert. But are they guilty above tboeo who d tbem befe ? TERMS SB e.OO!T Eri CURIOUS DEVELOPEMENT Horace Greeley and ttfe Niagara p.u. Peace Conference. The Washington correspondent of the Manchester (England) Examiner and Times, writing under date of February 22d, says; I have just come into possession of a very curious document, and one, too, which lam confident will be peculiarly interesting to your readers, because it sheds so much Rght upon the connection which Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, had *lth the famous Niagara Falls peace negotiations of last July, in which ho figured so promi nently, together with Cornell Jewett and Messrs. Sanders, Clay and Holcombe. Ap parently this letter, which I need not say was never published here, was the initial move ment in the negotiations referred to.- Rew it is : New York, July 7 , 1864. . Mt Dear Sir venture to enclose you a letter and telegraphic dispatch that I re ceived yesterday from our irrepressible friend Bolurada Jewett, at Niagara Falls. I thhik they deserve attention. Of course, I do not endorse Jo weft's positive averment that hts friends at the Falls have "full powers" from J. D., though I (fc not doubt that he thinks they have. I let that statement stands! simply evincing the anxiety of the Conftfder-. ates everywhere for peace. So much is be yond dcabi. And therefore I venture to remind yod that our bleeding, bankrubt, almost dying Country also longs for peace—shudders at the prospect of fresh conscriptions, of further wholesale devastations, and of new rivers of human blood ; ai:d a wide-spread conviction that the government and its prominent sup porters are not anxious for peace, and do not improve proffered opportunities to achieve it, is doing great harm now, and is morally cer tain, unless removed, to do far greater in the approaching elections. It is not enough that we anxiously desire a true and lasting peace ; we ought to dem onstrate and establish the truth beyond'cav il. The fact that A. 11. Stephens was not per initted a year ago to visit aDd confer with the authorities at Washington has done harm, which the tone of the late National Conven 'io.i a. Baltimore is not calculated to counter act. 1 entreat you in your own time and manner to submit overtures for pacification to the Southern insurgents which the impartial malt pronounce frank and generous. If only with a view to the momentous elec tion soon lb occur in North Carolina, and of the draft to be enforced in the free States, this should be done at once. I would give the safe conduct required by the rebel en voys at Niagara, upon their parole to avoid observation and to iefrain from all communi cation with their sympathizers iD the loyal States ; but you may see reasons for declin ing it. But whether through them croth erwise, do not, I entreat yoa, fail to make the Southern people comprehend that you, and all of us, are anxious for peace, and pre pare! to grant liberal terms. I venture to suggest the following Plan of Adjustment. 1. The Union is restored and deolared perpetual. 2. Slavery is utterly and forever abolished throughout the same. 3. A complete amnesty for all political of ferees, with a restoration of all the inhabit ants of each State to all the privileges of cit izens of the United States. 4. The Union to pay four hundred million dollars (400.000,000) in five per cent. Uni ted States stock to the late slave States, loy al and secession alike, to be appointed gro rata , according to their slavo population re spectively. by the census ot 1860, in com pensation for the losses of their loyal citizens by the abolition of slavery, after ratification by its legislature of this adjustment. The bonds to be at the absolute disposal of the Legislature aforesaid. 5. The said slave States to be entitled henceforth to representation in the House on the basis of their total, instead of their Federal population, the whole now being free. 6. A national convention, to be assembled as soon as may be, to ratify this adjustment and make such changes in the Constitution as may be deemed advisable. Mr. President, I fear you do not realize how intently the people desire any peace consistent with the national integrity and honor, and how joyously they would haillta achievement, ard bless its authors. With United States stocks worth but forty cents in gold per dollar, and drafting about to commence on the third million of Union sol diers, can this be wondered at 1 Ido not say that a ju6t peace is now at tainable, thouah I believe it to be so. But I do say that a frank offer by you to the in surgents of terms which the impartial say ought to be expected, will, at the worst, prove an immense and sorely needed advan tage to the national clause. It may save ua from a Northern insurrection. Yours Truly, Hon ace Greelet. Hon. A. Lincoln. L lent, Washington. P. S L.t-u to'iug.'t it should be deemed unadvisable to make an offer of terms to the rebels, I insist that in any possible case it is uesirable that any offer they may be disposed to make should be received, and either ac cepted or rejected. I beg you to invite those j now at Niagara to exhibit their credentials t and submit their ultimatum. VOL. 4 NO. 36
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