33-, 11717. 11331.611 r. t OLUMB XXI. POI 3 is A.2i. 81111IMBR DYING! On the scarlet mountains yonder, Summer lies down to die, She gathers her robes of splendor, Around her royally ; Her tender, porpling mosses Pillow het' ro • al heed• -ller myriad, gentle grasses Are sweeping aboutber bed. It failed, the precious promise ' Of her beauty's golden reign; It came, the less the longing, The silence and the p tin; She was cruel hi her splendor, She mocked us in its reign; She held her cireless carnival • • Above our idol slain. 'Tis not the hand that crown's us, The hand held out to bles-; 'Tia the hand that robs and wrongs ue, Th•tt we oftenest,'c'etrees; Still 0 beguiling 1-ummer, We o'er thy beauty lean, Islrei,ditlet rob us, yet we love thee --- Dierrowned,hail thee queen. Al passionate fervor faded, With eyes at last serene: - Turned toward thy conquer, Autumn. Thou-art-dyingyOrourqueent All that thou, gayest to us. In the mourning's gracious glow, All that thou, host taken from us. Only our God can know. TEFAISTERIM - NATUR BY THEODORE TILTON The waits of Gol ate fair for naught, Unless our eyes, in seeing, - See hidden in the thing the thought • That animates its being. The outward foam is not the whole, But every heart is moulded To image forth an inward soul, That dimly is unfoldej. The shadow, pictured in the lake By every, tree that trembles, Is cast for more than just the sake Of that which it resembles. The dew falls nightly, not alone Because the meadows need it, But on an errand-of its own, To human souls that heed it. The stars are lighted in the skies Not merely for their shining, But, like the looks of loving eyes. Have meanings worth divining The waves that moan along the shore, The winds that sigh in blowing, Are sent to teach a mystic lore Which men are wise in knowing. The clouds around the mountain peak, The rivers in their winding, Have secrets which, to all who seek Are precious in the finding. Thus Nature dwells within our reach. But, though we stand so near her, We still interpret half her speech. With ears too dull to hear her. Whoever, at the coarsest sound Still listens for the finest. Shell hear the noisy world go round To music the divinest. Whoever yearn's to see aright, Because his heart is tender, Shall catch a glimpse of heavenly light In every garthly splendor. . So, since the universe began, And till it shall be ended. The soul.LA Nature, soul of Man, And soul of God are'haeridedi le__••••••••• NICI.SO/3/ ZNEAALN-Ir• Reverses "Burleigh" writes from New York to the Boston Journal: Leaning on the granite pillar of one of our hotels yesterday. I saw a well dressed young roan=-not over thirty, he was very (intuit. His friends, souls of them among our most respectable ciiizens, were trying to 'induce him to go home. Not lost to all self respect, he said: "I am drunk-,I won't go home." Two months, ago he was reputed to be rich, His balance over in the bank was large. He could any day draw his check for libo,ooo Oue of the sudden blows that upset the staunchest craft struck him —he took to the bottle and his sad is .easily . predicted. One can Gout on his ton fingers the New York business men who for thirty years have had uninterupted success. But New York is full 'of wrecks of men, who, because they could not pity their notes, have flung away character, talent and all. In one of the. tobomente of this city dwells a manful, one who, since .1 have been your correspondent, was A belle at 'Saratoga- Her- stay -is .ffte old one'—business reverses— the bottlt—por and. woe. Oa the floor of one of. our most crowded' team:abet houses, covered with rage, the husband of this lady wen found by s no ble .heartod man who sought him out to save him-if he can. And yet a few years ago he was one of our brightest merchants. .WAINESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSV LV AMA, FRIDAY HORNING, STEMBKR '27. 1307. ANTIETAM DEDICATION [From the Press.] • KEEDYSVILLL Md., 8ept...1.7 —The AU tietam dedication is over at last, and the least that can be said about it is the better for the honor of the loyal North The idea of tam ing a selectr ceremony into a political ova tion is repulsive to every patriot, but it was doubly so to-day when all the incidents con . meted therewith are considered Andrew Johnson, however, had another opportunity to observe what an object of dis gust be is, and will probably never forget his visit to Antietam. When in the course of the programme the poem was about to be_ read, loud cries from all quarters went up for — Gearr — and although Governor Swann en deaVored to be beard, it was impossible for him to-quiet the crowd, disgusted as they were with the speech of Bradford. At last the manager of the concern beg ged Governor Geary to quell the tumult, and_ as he stepped forward and requested as a personal favor that the, programme should ho adhered.to, cheers rent the air. Johnson was evidently alarmed, and to his feats may be traced ate brevity of his speech. _Before speaking, he asked a neighbor if any rebel dead were buried itrille cemetery, "No, sir," was the reply; 'uor never will - be." And yet Johnson could not resist alluding in his speech to the great men, as be termed them, of both armies who were buried there It is due to Geu. Negley, the commission er from Yearley lvania, to say that be had nothing to do with the arrangements, he having been entirely ignored by his copper johnsoo colleagues on the' cemetery commit tee, anti finally declined meeting with them. LiqUor stands lined the roadside up to the gates of the cemetery. and the graves of the Uttiou soldiers who died on th's field for their country were trampled upon by the ,re tu . - ted their lath th though the loyal Governors b out of the programme, I thank God they still have a place in the hearts of the people When you come to Pennsylvania next July t-the dedication of the — monument at Get: - lysburg we will tender you the hospitalities of the State, and permit every man to speak. We want to bear thanks to Almighty God for his preservation and care of this country. We will have no gag. We will have no pro gramme for this purpose. We have oo gag on our programmes ; but am not here to say anything on that subject. .Tbe orator of the day has presented, with eloquence and faithfulness, many of the hie torte incidents of the great battle we to-day seek to commemorate in the decimation of a cemetery in honor of the heroic aead, who "Vied that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, should not parish from the earth." the battle of Antietam was fought under citeuuustances of great .depression on the part of the Union forces The army of the Potomac ,was greatly demoralized by the disastrous cauipuig,ns on. the Peninsula and in Northern V irgiuia, and from the lose of 12,000 men who had just been captured at the shameful surreodor at Harper's Ferry. W title the same cii curnstances were calculated to, and doubt.ests did, auitnater the rebel ar tily with great euthusiam and dauntless do termination, so that when the first gun was fired at Autietam, Lee's army bad a basis_or- victory to begin_w — The effect then, which followed the don of the4Wo great armies upon this battle field mot be regarded as somewhat different from that io which we view - any other coo test which preceeded or followed it, and but little argument is required to show that the victory of Antietam, to be properly appre ciatei, must be measured by the, most liberal logic known to military ethics. As an evi• neuee, the Army of the Potomac suffered a loss of about twelve thousand in killed and wounded, while that aelinowle'dged by dr rebel army scarcely exceeded nine thousand; yet Lee was ouulpellett to fly, under the shadow of night, from before a foe - whom he had so dreadfully punished, and, thus oak• nowledging himself vanquished, admitted a mear aud indisputable victory to the Union arms. dad this battle resulted differently, both Wabhirigton and Baltimore .Would have been eipused, mid the rebel cavalry _could have relieshed their horse's in the waters of- the Susquehanna, and perhaps even in those of the Bunsen 'before the people of the North could have recovered from the, panic which had sussed upon the public mind. But thauks—uoutrusbered thanks—for the daunt less valor Of the glorious Army of the Pete- Mut', out only was the toe beaten ati,d . - the cutintry.saveil from deep humiliation, but theArrogabt assumptions of superior „valor, 'so vauntingly advertised by Lee and his followers, were utterly dispelled. and he and they iurced to fly - for safety :beyond - the waters "Li the: Nicotine. By Annetiiiir's thunderbolts the , Govern nrearreseaped the dangers by which it - Was menaced, and .the people 91 , .tked).15-th were saved from the terrible ravages'cif an invad ing army. Most apprOiria:te is :it then .that. a cemetery shouli be here prepared fur the , reception of the remains of the heroes who gave op their lives on this fte!<l that the ea- 41k.ri X23.c./E3variclerit 1r!"223.11. - 7 11TersnrEsipon,ww•r• don might live, and a suitable tnontimeof be erected to their memory. Whatever may be said of the Army of the Potomac, as cod heated with any of IN - 'Aber deede, that which must be said of if in connoctiab with the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg . will preserve its reputation in glory while martial valor is prized, and , individual a lortitude and heroism honored- among men I presume it will nbe Ifiy• deemed indllpro priate for me to place on record here the numbers of those military organizations of Pennsylvania which participated in this bat tle. I believe no such record has been made public, god, therefore, it affords me great gratification-trim - en a b I ed - to - ttlii - s tit th is opportuulty-to-assert-for - PconsY I vanis her proper share is the honors which Sur round this battlefield. These troops were as follows, via : The 3d, 4th, 6th i lBtb,and 16th Regiments of - Cavalry. Batteries A, B, and F, of Ist Artillery Reserve-Corps. Batteries C, D, and E, Independent Ar tillery. The 11th, 28th, 30th, 31st, 32d 33d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th. 40th, 41st, 42d, 45th, 46th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51at, 53rd, 5611), 61st, 69th, 71st, 72d,' 81st, 82d, 83d, 88i h, 90th, 91st, 95th, 96th, 100th, 102 d, 106th, 109th, 111 Th, 114th, 118th, 124th, 1 . 25,h, 1281 h, 180th, 132 d, 139th, 147tb, and 155th Infantry Regiments._ Making in all fifty regiments of infantry, five of cavalry; and six batteries of' artillery furnished by the Keystone State in the bat tle of Antietam. The official records and reports of the battle from which r derive these facts are rephlte with acknowledge ments of the splendid services rendered by these men in the great conflict, and as a Penn sylvanian I am proud thUs to adduce the facts of history, to prove that my native State, here,- as elsewhere during the:war, lent the full strength of her numbers, as well as theiufiuenee of_her-wiedorn i inrotirrying - t he Government to a glorious victory. Thus she was in the late war, thul3lt as he_e ever beco, and thur ...ins it will be with Pennsylvania whenever liberty or the perpetuity of the Union_is assailed. While thus careful to preserve the' record of Pennsylvania s participation in the 'events which make this locality classic: ground, no selfish feeling of State pride, no contracted desire to monopolise so great an honor for my own people, can induce me to deprave others of their full share of - the glory of An tietam. The loyal soldiers of the country won this victory, and the memories of the citizens of Maine, New York, Ohio, Mary. land, Michigan, lowa, or of other States who perished_here while contending for the Union, . e just as dear and will be hallowed as sacredly by the people of Pennsylvania as the memories of their own beloved eons who here Zia buried. The blood of the North, of the East, and of the West flowed in the same sacred stream, and broke from the same ranks to crimson the waters of Antietam, and when the chill mort.ing dawned upon the scene of carnage, the Union dead from every section were mingled upon the field of strife. They are brothers still beneath the same sod, and while the dew continues to ,fall from Heaven upon their union in the grave, our children and their ebiltima's children will come to worship atlbis shrine, to show their reverence fur the patriotic dead, and to express their grate ful admitatioa for the memories of those who perished that they might live as free men, in a preserved Republic, where "the will of the people is the law of the land." and where its execution is equally binding as a duty upon the most exalted as well as the humblest of its citizens. I have been speak ing repeatedly for the last two days, and will therefore conclude my remarks. There are bete Governor Fenton, the Grovenor of Maine and others, whom I have no doubt yen will be triad to hear. Hero were oriet) of "go on,' but Governor Geary withdrew after introducing Governor Fenton, of New Signs for Handkerchief Flirta tions'—Drawing across the tips—Desirous (A getting acquainted. Drawinp, across the eyes—l am sorry. Taking by centre—you are too willing. Dropping—We will be fricods. Twirling in both hands—lndifference. Drawing across the check—l love you. Drawing through the hands —I hate yuu. Letting it rest on right check Letting it rest on lett cheek—No. Twirling in left baud—l wish to' get rid 'of you. Twisting io right hand—l love another Folding wish to speak with you: Ovet the dhoulder=rFullow we. OpPosiie corners in both bands—Wait for me. Drawing across the forebead—We are watched., Placing on figlit 'oar--I have a message for you, Letting it remain on the eyes—You are. cruel. Winding round fore-finger—l am en gaged. Winding round third finser—T am mar ried. N., 8.. - Prio ace mikes perfect. CIIILDI4OOD.—Lot man enjoy wltat will in atter-life, if his, ohildhood have been .blessed with the ' care apd kindoeis of a 'jn 'dieious mother, there trill' come niements 'when the cup of pleasure will be dashed from his lips as tasteless, in conTarison : witli those hours of sweet and social intercourse. when he first learned to look for a prevadiug spirit in the realms of nature—to welcome all the animated and joyoua creatures of earth as members of his wide brotheraoud, and to hail the beams of morning as pledges of the inezhanstible beneficence which cre ated both- life and light; and ordained thorn as blessings to mankind. The Patriot aua the Denuigogue;, Ie ; 1863 President; Linooln spoke et, the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettyahurg , In 1867 President Johnson spoke at the ded. ioation of the Cemetery at Antietam. ,It is i worth !bile to compare the utteranees Of fie trio men on 'oecasione so nearly LINCOLN ♦T GETTYSBURG Fourscore and' seven years a;0 o tt r fathers biought foith upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposi tion-that-allim-M-a-iii-iii•;- • teil_equal-Rfiplausel-.- Now, we are engaged in a great civil War, testing whethei that nation, or any other nation so con ceived and to dedicated; can long endure. We are met on a great brittle field of that war; we are 'met to dedicate a portion of it as the final - resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting an d proper that we should do this. But, i n a larger sense, w e cannot dedi cate, Q e cannot conse crate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living a n d dead. who struggled here have coneecriited it far above our poor power to add or detract. [Applause.] The World will little note nor long remember what we may say here; but it can never forget what they did here. [Ap plause.] his for us, the living, rather to b e dedicated here to the unfinished -work-that-they - have thus i•.r so nobly carried on.- I t Applausii It is tat her -torus -- hereto e e Ica ted to the gm-at tack re mairing belore us; that from-these-honored-dead we take increased devo tion to that cause for which they here gave the last lull measure of de votion; th at vie here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain. - [Applause .]— That th e nation Isbell, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and the ttheUevernment of the pe ple, by the people and fir the people, shall not perish from the earth.— EL o n g continued ap• plause.] Why he did not do it It has lung been known of Queen Victoria that on all her excursions and ordinary ap pearances she so regulates.her dress, &c. as not to discourage habits of economy among her people. Al! such examples are noble and christiam Mr. Samuel Matter's habits oWiving were often the topic of remark among townsmen. Otis certain oceassion this subject was Made the staple of quite an interesting conversa tion between himself and a low of his- inti mate friends, when Id woo a little more than fifty years of age, and estimated to be worth half a million of dollars. it was in the front room of the bank, whore they were 'needs-- tomed to meet and discuss all sorts of things of interest At that time he lived in an otd wooden house which might have cost two or three thousand dollars—deeent and cons fortable, it is true. and much like the better sort of houses in the village, excepting, per haps halt a dozen. Ile also °Woad a good It itse and chaise, the common, pleatture ve hicle at that period in many ,parts of New &gland: I-Its friends told him it was not right for a man of 'bis prOperty to live in that style—that he ought to build a better house and keep a coach. Mr. Slatter replied much in the following manner: "Gentlemen; I admit that I am a ble to have a large and costly house; rich furniture, - and servants to take care of it, that I am able to have a couch with a driver and a footman to attend we. And it is not that lam miserly that I do not have them. .But it is a duty in me to set an example of economy to others and eapeoiallj to my chil dren. The world is too.inchoed to extrav; agauce. If the style you recommend is to b considered an evidence of wealth, and I were on that account to adopt it, others not able might follow my example, in order to be thonght•rich. In the con it might piece their ruin, while prudent and-honest people wou.d have to suffer for it. And you know I have six boys. If they live and have bul lies each will - want to live in as much style as his father- ' Now, if I am able to live' as you recommend, my property, when divided into six parts, might not be sufficient to,sup-: port aix,suekestablishtnents; besides, bash]. mess may not continue as good as it is at present.' I wish to set a good example for my children.' If they de not follow it the fault is not,mine. • . . , . ... . Afartner who bad e mp loye d green Em eralder, ordered him to give the mule some gore in the ear. Ou his timing in tLe far mer asked: ' - . •_. Pet, did you giro' the mule, the corn?" • "To be sure, I did" ' "How• did you give 11?"' "And Shure, as ye tould Me, 'in the ear.". "But how much did you give?'' • • "Well; ye . see, the orayther wouldn't bout% 'still, and kept switching kis Oars about so, so I vouldo't git bat about a fist full in both ears!" • JOHNON AT AiTIETAIIt. In ,appearing. r • you it is not for the put prise o f making ati lengthy remarks, but sim ply to express my appro. hation of the CereniOnies_ which have taken place -to-ritiy - My - trppearan on this, occasion. will ho the speech that I will make. M y reflections and ray meditations will be i silent coriaminion With esti, whose . - deeds we are here to com• memorate. I shall , net attempt to give utterance to the feelings and emo dons inspired by the ad dresses n d prayers which have been ' made and the hymns which have been sung. I Shall make an attempt at no such thing. lam mere ly here to give my coun tenance and aid to the ceremonies on this ocCa- Sion; but I must be per mitted t o express my libpo that we inay follow the example which has been so eloquently allu ded t. o this afterithon, and which has been so clearly set by the illus trious dead. When we look on yon hattle-field an I thinkof the binge men on both sides, who fell'in the fierce struggle of bat tle, who sleeps silent in their uraves. Yes, who sleep in silence and peace after the earnestsmill- hag ceased. Would to (iud w e of the 'living; could imitate their extra). pleTes - therfartileeping in pesce in their tombs. and live together i n friendship and peace.— Opplat.t. , e.l You, my ;ellow citizens, have my earnest wishes as you have had .my -efforts in time gone by, is the eau liest and most trying per ils to preserve the union of these States. to restore harmony to our distrac— ted and divided cbuiltry, and you shall have my la-t efforts in vindication of the flag of the Repub. lit and of the Constitu— tion of yotir fathers.— [. pplaumj liftijor•Gen: LogOn delitiered' a long and vigeroba speech at [Jinnillea, Ohio, on . Wed nesday, in Which' he mid. of Andrew John - .Tell me today if you bad 'Jeff:'Davis ' in the VreSidetitiei obait, Or Mr. Robert P. 'Lee; could- _ they 'hatre done more far the Rabies in this land than' Andretfi'lohnSon liiiir'sibee he has been President? If they 'cofitld, l I' Would like to know in 'What way they dohld'haSe done it. If Jeff. Davis had been Piesident, what Would he have done? lie would. hasie returned ail the property to the Rebles that they had lost. Andrew -Johnson-has done that. If Jeff; Davis had been _Presides' Lhet_wetthilave_pardo tied— ail the Rebles that asked him for pardon An. drew Johnson , has done that and more too If Jeff; Davis had been President he would have denounced alb Congress, and called theta a Pet of traitors: Andrew Johnson has 'done that. If Jeff. 'Davis-' had been President he would have appointed Rebel Governcrit doWn South to control those States. Andrew Johnson did the same thing. IF Jeff. Davis had . boob President he would have vetoed the' Freedmen's Burein bill. Andrew Johnson did that. lie would have vetoed the Civil Rights bill. Andrew John son did that, He would have vetoed the first Reconstruction act of Congress, and and all the other acts, which Andrew John. son has done. General Phil. H. Sheridan Philip H. Sheridan was born at the city of: Albany, State of New York in February, 1831. 'llls parents are natives of Ireland, county of Kerry. Their oldest child Patrick was also born in Ireland. About the year 1829, John Sheridan arra wire, with their first born bid farewell to their • native land and carne to America, their adapted and chosen home. They first located in Albany New_York,. where, as before _tatited.,—Fhil._ Sheridan was born. They resided there a bout fiVe years. While Phil, was ver young, is parents removed to Somerset Per ry Co ,0. The parents were' in quite lim ited circumstances , and Phil's early experi ence was that of other boys similarly situated When the turnpike was being built through Somerset, Phil's father used to own and drive a cart. Men of Phil's age toll us that they have often seen him hanging on his fa ther's cart, and-once in a while, when he would get to drive, be would be .highly de lighted. Phil must have been regarded as a very honest bay; for while very young in years, he wa's taken by John Talbot, a hardware merchant, to — serve in his store. He served satistnetorily about two years. After leavitigMr. T albot the subject of our sketch went to stand in the store of D. Whitehead a dry goods merchant of Somerset. Here we believe he remained until he was appointed a cadet at West Point. Gen. Thomas Ritchie, a farmer living five miles east of Somerset had been elected to Congress for the distriot composed of Perry, Morgan and Washington. Mr. Ritchie was a good judge of character. Ile was acquain ted with young Sheridan., took a fancy to him, and proposed to send him to Wait Point. Young Sheridan was willing and his parents agreed to it. The lawyer who drew up the papers in the case told me they were cot very sanguine that, he would be ae cepted on account of his 843. Ile was very small for his age. But he was anepted, and took his place as a humble student at this great military school. Death of Wide' Richard bireeaweiti residing at Seaford, Del , committed suicide at that place on Thursday, by, throwing himself into the 'riv ver. Gieenweli'wee known as ono of the men iinpliCated in the forcible entrance into the jvil of that place, and the ta king therefrom .of oneJarnes Wilson, a ne • groe who was arrested, imprisoned and await ing fritif for the murder of a girl, ar.d hang ing him in the jail yard. 'After he was hung-, shot and his throat cut, Oreenwell, who was a biitcher; out and carved him as though he were beef, and then toasted and burned the pieces to ashes. lie reserved the right hand of the Degree and carried it hOme with him. • lint what a change his takeia place.— Since , then the fearful judgement of th i n Al mighty seems to have visited him on all oc casions. About a year after this transaction' ho lost his wife by the most agonizing of Oaths—that of burning. Since the ds k ath oT his•wife Greenwell lost•his right barerby the cars pagssng over it. On several occa sions he came near•losing his life by being thrown from his carriage, two or three times 'being taken up as dead, • Finally on Thurs day, he,rptuarked to some person that "Gad Almighty Would not kill him,'arid ha would gn and drown himself'," which he did. lie was an Englishman by birth, and was , said to have been a desperate character be• fore emigrating to this country. fie was an infidel—did not believe in Gud or in a future ezistonze. Ile would stand up with an o• peu Bible ,in his hand and curse the God that made him, contending that blind chance formed the world and flied the planets in their spheres. Awful, indeed, has been his end, and fearful be the responsibility that meets him in that unknown future. SORMSV.— Sorrows sobers us, and makes the mind genial., And in sorrow we love and trust our friends more tenderly, and the dead becune dearer to us. And just as the stars shine out in .the night 'se there are blessed-forms . that look at us, in our grief, though before their features were fading from our recollection. Suffering! let no man:dread it -too math because - it is good for him and it will help to snake him sure of his beig hr.tnortal. It is not in the bright, happy day—but only in the solemn eight, that other worlds are to be seen shi ning in thais long, loog distances. And ,it san sorrow, ..that night .of the soul—that we are Tarthinit, and kodw ourselves' natives of finite and daughters of the Meier High: • • f2'. 4 C93 3Peritt. "S" eetv Concerning Happineae• floppiness may be defined as a possession ever soUght,bntseldom caught.- So far front being properly classified as subordinate to lice and liberty, it includes both these oondi dorm Fanny Fern discourses very philoso phically in its relation, thus: "I solemnly - aver-that the moment anybody tries to do or say a good thing, that moment he shall only experience throes of mortal .pain trying. If you build youself a beauti ful house, and make it a marvel of tsste and convenience, in one of its lovely chambers shall_your-dead-be-laid;and - you shall mu:l-d -er heart sick away_f .1 od_w_ith-a-strenz eart accept its company "This incessant striving b be happy!— Never—never shall mortals be so, till they have learned to give it over. Happiness comes. It will not be challenged. It glider) in only when you have closed the door, and turned your back upon it and forgot it. It Jays a soft hand - upon your face, when you thought, to be alone, and brings a 'joyful flu All of suprise to your cheek, and a soft light ~ your weary eye; an peace to your soul., "Olcistagers know the way to be ,blappv.is to give up all hopes to be so. In other words the cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit, unpretnediated journey; the un - ibw,lit conversation, or aeciuliotauce.' At Andersonvllle The first thought that ()marred to me when fairly inside was, "How small! Can it be possible that thirty thousand men wero ever thrust in here' I believe there ara twenty-seven acres in the enclosure, but I can only say that it seemed fearfully small. Just within the stockade are some sliet.'..s that might ,possibly shelter one hundred -men; - These were put — up - ,1 believe durine: •the hist four months of the prisoners' sta.' ttuil-Alterwertrito — oVy covering. provided for the poor_ faltows,'"exeept what they soot)d ed out with their own hoods. —A-n navr - wit, sclera° and eager Otiosity I glanced around, to take a general survey of the ground. An uneven piece of ground it is, sloping from both extremities toward the entre, wheie it is crossed by a little purling stream, at' which thirty thousand dying soldiers - lapped, or longed to lap. A large plot on both sides of the ,stream is marsh land, impossible to be used. Inside the stockade, and close at its foot, is a tol erably deep ditch, while portions , f t=o "desd-line" still remain, forming an inter circle. The ditch is grown up with flow ers and ferns, many of them very pretty I felt disposed to quarrel With the soil for pnducing such lovely thing..., Ohl hose mould itido so? Thorny and thistles, with the deadly night-shide, should alone grow in' the stockade at Andersonville! As I glanced stream], my eye was met in every direction by those gating sentry boxes, and I felt that, had I been a pris oner; I should h• delved into the earth if only to escape t relentless gaze of those pitiless guards. hen once 1 cast my eyes upon the ground, the fascination was tvu intense that I had difficulty in raising them again. Every spot' . trod was consecrated, by suffering and death. The ground w.is everywhere strewed with rags, old shoes, and bits of leather, washed into the soil by the rain and trampled in by feet. At every few paean, a little hillock, or a hula, told the story of how a man, accustomed to a New England or a Western home, had learned to live in a space a trifle larger than a eoffici—llours at Home. The Cincinnati Advertiser in a stirring ar ticle, smelling very stroogly of copper, sJid, "Every prediction we made about the war his been reritiecr! To which the Scioto Gazette responds as follows: "You predicted that the South could se cede without a war—hut it couldn't! Yon say tho North onuhl not fight—but it did? You soy one Southerner could whip five therners—hut he couldn't! ` l 7ou asserted that we had 121 Q power to co• eree them—but Ire had! You said that we never could conquer them—but we did! You predicted that a bushel of greenbacks would not buy a dinars—but it will! You, resolved that the war was a failure— but we succeeded! You asserted that the people of Ohio were opposed to the war, that they would elect peaceable Vallandighana--4ut they didn't- You are now predicting that you will car ry this State—but you,won't." A Wm.—When a man of' sense comes to marry, it is a companion who he wants, and not an artist; it is not- merely a creature whO can paint and play and sing and dance. ft is a being who can comfort and counsel him; one who can reason and reflect, and feel and judge, and discourse and discriminate; one who can assist him in his affairs, lighten his sorrows, purify his joys, strengthen his his principles, and educate his children. Such is the woman who is 6t for a mother, and the mistress of a family A woman of. the former desoription may OCeasi aria Ily figure in a drawing-room, and excite the admiration of the company; but is entirely unfit for a helpmate to man, and to train ap a child in way be should go. Slrroar gathers round great 8"•uIA as storms do around mouataia•; but, like them, they break the stortu and purity the air of the p!aiu beneath them. An Triohnian was about to marry a South ern girl hr har property. ,4 Will you kilo this woman to be your wedded wife 1" said the tnioisici. "res, your riversoce, and Ilia aagars too" said PO.: . • - NUMBER li
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers