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VOL. 8.
A DESERVED COMPLIMENT
We clip the following from the money
article of the Philadelphia Ledger of
Friday last. The compliment is well
deserved, and we transfer it to our col
ums with our hearty endorsement :
Col. Thomas A. Scott, Vice President
of the Pennsylvania railroad, and now
engaged in important service connect
ed with the Government as the great di
rector of the movements of troops on
the Southern railways, is thus handsome
ly alluded to by the North American :
"Mr Scott has been appointed by the
Government to reconstruct the almost
demolished roads in Virginia over which
the Federal troops and munitions are to
be carried into the rebel country.—
When the first rush of soldiers found its
way to the Pennsylvania railroad, Mr.
Scott erected a line of telegraph to the
Governor's rooms at Harrisburg, and
there sat night and day, watch in hand,
superintending the running of the trains,
exhibiting powers of endurance literally
astonishing in so moderate a physique.
He is now in charge of all the railroad .
lines in possession of the Government
that lead to Washington. The 'work of
reconstructing' the damaged roads is so
rapidly progressing that the rebels are
already taking on consternation and dis
may. While a publication of all that
has been done would be improper, it is
well to say that under an exterior or ex.-
tream m Kiesty Mr. Scott has preform
ed tasks of the greatest importance to
the Government, and that no man upon
the side of the Union during the present
crisis has rendered more valuable aid to
General Scott than his Philadelphia
namesake."
GEN. LYON'S BODY . GUARD : One of
the principal features of Gen. Lyon's
march from Booneville, was his body
guard. This is described as composed
of ten atheistic St. Louis butchers, each
mounted on a powerful horse and armed
with a heavy cavalry sword and a pair
of navy revolvers ; each wears a light
hat turned up on the left side, and dec
orated with a white ostrich plume.—
Almost any time Geu. Lyon, accompa
nied by half-a-dozen of these savage
looking fellows, may be seen spurring
along the line, or a small squad of them,
or singly galloping fiercely to the front
or rear, or straight out into the open
country. If the General goes into a
house a half-dozen of them will be seen
in front standing like iron statues at the
bridles of their horses—if he scours
along in advance of the train the clank
ing of their long sabras is heard beside
him—stop where he will, there may be
always seen a stolid squad of white
planted horsemen awating patiently his
movements. They are fearless riders—
jump fences on a dead run, Jeap ditches,
gallop down steep decents, and, in fact,
never ride less fast than their horses can
run, unless compelled by some urgent
necessity. Independent of their duty
as body guards, they act as messengers,
scouts, & - .c., and in consequence, - have
plenty to do. They are commanded by
a Lieutenant, and from their appeo.rence
and daring horsemanship, will, if occa
sion demands, whip a dozen times their
weight in chivalry.
FEMININE REBELS.—The women in
Washington, it is said, are almost all se
cessionists, and in private circles among
the permanent residents of Washington
and Georgetown, hatred to our.existing
government and sympathy with Jell.
Davis are freely expressed feelings.—
The wife of a well-known Senator,though
not the representative of a slave or se
cession State, makes her hodse the ren
dezvous of rebels, and their schemes
are openly or rather freely planned for
giving aid and comfort to the . Confeder-
ates. Not only this, but disunionism is
openly preached from the pulpets, and
the fashionable Episcopal clergyman, at
whose church the English Embassy, and
many of our army officers and office hold
ers avow secessionists. Mr. Wills, in
his last letter from Washington, describ
es a very strange scene which he witness
ed at the religious gathering of the re
bels, where, it appears, a "fashionable
ladrs had the imprudence to rise from
her knees when the prayer for the Pre
sident of the United States was read,
to let the world know what she thought
of him, and where the clergyman had
the audacity to proclaim his own sympa
thy for rebellion in apology for reading
a prayer for the constituted head of the
nation.
-10 - The jail where John Brown was
imprisoned arid the scene of his execu
tion, are constantly visited by our vol
unteers.
NthcrAtnt rcusiltbaula 'burnt for fly 4rail fQ Cult.
MARIETTA, AUGUST 10. 1861.
F. F. Vs.—Fleet Footed Virginians.--
The boast of aristocratic. Virginians
that Pocahontas founded their families,
is but one among the bays around the
brows of the F. F. V's. The F. F. V.
has a reputation not only great, but
growing. He is renowned for his affec
tion for sherry cobblers, and his aver
sion to anything calculated to induce
either weariness or perspiration. If all,
the world were F. F. V.'s, the doom of
upon man would never have been fulfill
ed. Let him alone, and the cassimeres
of the F. F. V. would grow a crop of
mushrooms, while two small boys would
he necessary to pull his mouth open
whenever he wished to gap. Since the
F. F. V.'s have shaken off their indo
lence and taken to fighting, they show
that some things can be done as well as
others, and that when propelled by the
proper kind of fear, an F. F. V. posses
ses an ability to get over nearly as
much ground in a given time as a dum
my locomotive. For this reason, a po
etical friend suggests that the F. F. V.'s
have lately entitled themselves also to
fresh llurels as "Fleet Footee Virgini
ans." In their recent retreats beginning
at Philippi and ending with the last bat
tle, they have shown an ability to do up
their miles with a looseness only to be
surpassed by P. F. V.'s when Pennsyl
vania bayonets are perforating their coat
tails. Eye witnesses of these retreats
inform us that the speed on these occa
sions, of the Fleet Footed Vamosers,
would have done no discredit to an e
qual number of board yard curs, each
with its tail inserted in the cleft of a
split stick. Think of it, an F. F. V. six
inches in advance of a Pennsylvania
bayonet, passing milestones at the rate
of twenty per hour. Where's John
Randolph? Where's Pocahontas? and
how now about the sacred soil of Vir,
ginia ?
AN AFFECTING hiclocxr.—A few days
since, says the N. Y. Sun, the several
regiments of General Sickles'.Brigade
were sworn into the service of the Unit
ed States, by the administration of the
customary oath. Four regiments bad
been sworn in, and each one took the
solemn oath, accompanied and followed
with hurrahs. When the fifth regiment
was drawn up in line, an officer of one
of the .companies, stepping up to the
front, addressed General Sickles, and re
quested that his regiment might be
sworn in with prayer. It was too solemn
a moment for hurrahs. The General
told him that the chaplains were absent,
and there was no one to call upon to
perform the duty. The officer replied
that he 'would call upon one under his
command, if the General would give him
leave. Consent was given. The duty
was explained to the regiment, and the
officer called upon a youth, seventeen
years of age, to step to the front and
lead then in prayer. He immediately
took the place 'assigned him and engag
ed in prayer. The whole regiment was.
melted into tears, as well as hundreds
who were standing around as witnesses
of the scene. The men stood weeping
after the prayer was over. So deeply
affected was the General, that he sent
for the chaplains to come and witness
the scene. It was from his own lips that
these facts were derived.
Cr The general belief at 'Washington
is that Scott's huge army is about to get
in motion and take its winding way thro'
Virginia. The papers call it "the ana
conda." But the Virginians needn't be
afraid that it will bite then ; the anacon
da always "swallows its victims whole."
—Prentice.
115 - At a party recently given in Backs
county, five young ladies were weighed,
and the aggregate weight was seven
hundred and seventy-two pounds—aver.
age, one hundred and fifty-two pounds
each. They raise heavy crops in old
Bucks.
Or The reduction of price for faking
photographs is owing to. a discovery as
to. preparing the paper and a more pow
erful concentration of the sun's rays by
the lenses. What actually cost_3o cents
to the artists can be afforded at 1 cent.
A Beautiful Young Lady, named
A raminta Wilhelmina Smith, was found
in the camp of the Thirteenth Indiana
Regiment, at Indianapolis, on Friday,
in uniform, ready to march to Virginia,
She was promptly discharged.
cr. An Irish laborer was accosted in
the street recently and asked if , he was
willing to enlist. " Yes," said he, "aft
er I see some of you gintlemen's sons
enter the sarvice."
Term --C)]a.e Dollar a Year_
HEROISM or GE.N. SCOTT: In a speech
delivered at Newark, N. J., Judge Con
rad, in anSwer to a charge of cowardice
made against General Scott, produced a
document which was sworn to a few
years since, as part of the evidence of a
soldier at Lundy's Lane, who stated in
his affidavit that General Scott, after he
was wounded, rode to where the soldier
was stationed, " his neck, breast and
arms in a gore of blood, which ran down
his legs, and tickled from his boot upon
the ground," and said to the commander
of the line—" I am wounded and very
weak; I want one of your young men to
get up behind me and hold me on my
horse." A young man threw down his
musket, and at one spring leaped upon
the horse, and they swiftly galloped
away to the main body of the army.—
The excitement produced by reading
the document waS tremendous. Hun
dreds rose to their feet and gave most
vehement cheers, so that it was some
minutes before the speaker could pro
ceed.
Cot,. Sisaim.,who is doing such noble
service for the cause of the Union in
Missouri, the New York Commercial
says
"This gallant officer is but thirty-s . even
years of age, and a German by birth.—
He is a graduate of the military school
at Carlsruhe. He entered the regular
army of Baden, and was advanced to the
post of chief adjutant in 1847. His
sympathies with the first revolution in
Southern Germany lost him his commis
sion. He was appointed General-in
Chief in the beginning of the second
revolution, May, 1848, and led the for
torn hope of the liberal party with great
energy and zeal. He came to America
in 1850 ; was a Professor in Dr. Dulon's
Academy, and married Dr. Dulon's
daughter. He recived a call to a pro
fessorship in St. Louis, where he soon
became distingnished 'by his great mili
tary talents."
REMOVAL OP TUE BODY OF HORACE
MANN.-It will be remembered that it
was Mr. Mann's expressed wish to be
buried by the side of his first wife at
Providence, says the Boston Transcript
of July 8, which wish has been complied
with by removing the body from the
grounds of Antioch College, where it
has lain for nearly two years, to its
final resting-place. Without ceremony,
land in, the qvicliest possible manner, the
transfer was effected last week. The
body was found to be in a remarkable
state of preservation, the features re
taining all the expression of life.
FATAL FEASTS ON LAMB.-N: Clark,
of Salisbury, Conn., recently found one
of his lambs dead and badly torn. He
sprinkled strychnine on the body and
left it to be devoured by the murderer,
and on the next day visited his bait and
found a defunct bald-headed eagle, which
measured seven feet and four inches a
cross its wings from tip to tip. He a
gain visited the spot, and found a large
dead wildcat, and upon the third visit
he found two dead crows and a skunk.—
On the fourth visit he found nothing
but a—scent.
HEAVY VERDICT,-111 a late action a
gainst the Great Northern Railway Com
pany, brought by the widow of Mr. Pym,
a gentleman possessing considerable
landed property, who was killed on that
road in •con sequence of a defective 'rail
throwing the train in which he was trav
eling off the track, the jury fOund a ver
dict of $65,000, being $5,000 for the wid
ow, and $7,000 each for eight children.
WATER FOR HQRSES.—French horse
doctors have discovered that a horse can
live longer without Solid food than with
out water. He can live twenty five days
without the former, and but five without
the latter, though eating solid food. A
horse, which had been deprived of water
for three dhys, drank eleven gallons in
the space of three minutes.
A CENTENARY CELEBRATION.—The
dh
cendants and relatives of the widow of
the late. Daniel Hayes gathered at the
homestead, in Milton, N. H,, on the day
the old lady was one hundred years of
age. There were nearly 200 persons
present, including five of the fifth gener
ation.
A Sanswo REmAnic.—Barnum lays it
down as a rule, in his work on " The Art
of Making Money," • that "the proper
time to advertise judiciously is when others
don't. It strkes us that Barnum is very
nearly right, and his words we commend
to our business men when they seem to
need encouragements.
NO, 2„
MORE ABOUT GENERAL PATTERSON.-
A correspondent of the Washington
Star writing from Harper's Perry, July
24, tells this story of General Patterson
"The time of the two rgiments of the
Pennsylvania men was about expiring,
and General,Patterson had them assem
bled and begged them to remain ten days
with him. He assured them that he
would lead them to fight, and reminded
them they were in the face of the enemy.
They all agreed to stay. In his remarks
to the troops subsequently he said we
were the wet nurse to the army and au
thorities at Washington,and that he had
no orders to retain them over their tim,
from Washington; and if he bad, b:)
would not obey' them. He was their fa
ther, and be had pledged himself to pro
tect and retdrn them to their families,
and he was responsible to their brothers,
sisters, and mothers for their safety.—
He was not going to risk anything. lie
said, also, that Johnson had felled trees
and dug ditches in the road and he could
not get to Winchester, and -he was not
going to have a Bethel affair.
" Now, sir, let what reports say to the
contrary, there were but fourteen thous
and troops• in Winchester, and we could
have harassed them and destroyed the
radioed, and kept Johnon from Manas
sas Gap. But General Patterson allow
ed himself to be humbugged at Charles
town by parties interested making state
ments that there were forty thousand
troops under Johnson. Never was a
greaterfalsehood uttered, and he should
have known it. It is the universal opin
ion here that be got frightened, and is
not a sound national man. At Harper's
Ferry he soon dismissed the troops who
volunteered to remain, and did. He
would not wait until the government
sent up others. He found that he was
superseded, and he told them they should
not stop a moment longer, but should go
home to their families, adding that he
was tired of playing the wet nurse to
Washington."
VALUE OF TRAINED S OLDIERS.-Alli
son, in his history of Napoleon, cites
the language of that great general in dis
cussing the question of how mueli time
is reqired to make a reliable soldier.—
In a conversation respecting the naval
conscription, Truged observed : " Much
longer time is required to form a sailor
than a soldier. The latter may be trail
ed in all his duties in six month." Na
poleon replied : There never was so
great a mistake. Nothing can be more
dangerous than to propagate such opin
ions. If acted upon they would speed
ily lead to the dissolution of the army.
At Jemeppe 50,000 French were against
9,000 Austrains. Daring the first four
years of the war", all the hostile opera
tions were conducted in the most ridi
culous manner. It was neither the vol
unteer's nor the recruits who served the
republic ; it was the 180,000 old troops
of the monarchy, and the diScharged
veterans whom the revolution impelled
to the frontier. Part of the recruits de
serted, part died ; . a small portion only
remained, who, in the process of time,
formed good soldiers. Why have the
Romans done such great things ? Be
cause six years' instruction were, with
them, required to make, a soldier. A le
gion composed of three thousand such
men were worth thirty thousand ordi
nary troops: With fifteen thousand
such troops as the Guards, ,I would ev
erywhere beat forty thousand. You
will not find me engaged soon in war
with an army of recruits."
ita - During the Revolutionary. war,
Gen. Lafayette, being in Baltimore, was
invited to a ball. He went as requir
ed ; . but instead of joining in the amuse
ment, as might have been expected of a
young Frenchman of twenty-two, he ad
dressed the ladies thus : "Ladies, you
are very handsome ; you dance very pret
tily ;your ball is very fine—but my men
have no shirts." This was irresistable.
The ball ceased ; the ladies went home
and went to work, and the next day a
large number of shirts were prepared by
the fairests hands of Baltimore for the
gallant defenders of their country.
.
1 1 '01t, .I.OI3ACCO UHEWER.-A letter
from . the tobacco region of Virginia
warns the tobacco chewers of the North
again using "the Weed " prepared in
the, South, as they are poisoning it to
kill off the Noithern ,then faster than
they can hope to dd with powder and
ball. If it be true it is certainly very
important to those, who indulge in its
use, and we commend this notice' to their
careful consideration, leaving them to
judge of the valitabt the' information:
RELIGION-WHAT IS IT?
By BISHOP HEBER
Is it to go to church to-day,
To look devout and seem to pray,
And ere to-morrow's sun goes down
Be dealing slander through the town ?
Does every sanctimonious face
Denote the certain reign otgrace
Does not a phiz that scowls at sin
Oft veil hypocrisy Within 1
Is it to make our daily walk,
Aad of our own good deeds to talk,
Yet often practice secret crime,
And thus mis-speni our precious time
Is it for sect and creed to fight,
TO call our zeal the rule of light,
When what we wish is, at the best,
To see our church excel the rest?
Is it to wear the Christain dress,
And love to a]l mankind profess,
To treat with scorn the humble poor,
And bar against them every door?
Oh, no religion means not this:
Its fruit more sweet and fairer is—
Its precept this: to others do
As you would have them do to you,
It grieves to hear an ill report,
And scorns with human woes to sport—
Of others' deeds it speaks no ill,
But tells of good or else keeps still.
And does religion this impart?
Then may its influence fill my heart ;
Oh ! haste the blissful, joyful day,
Vhen all the earth may own its sway
CENSUS SCENES,—The late census led
to some queer scenes. The following is
one or them : "Who is the head of this
family !" asked an enumerator of an
Irish-woman. " That depends on cir
cumstances," said she. "If it's before
eleven o'clock, it's me husband ; if after
eleven it's meself." " Why this divi
sion ? " "Because after that he's as
drunk as a pipe, aad unable to take care
of himself, let alone his family." "What
is his age ?" " Coming next Michael
mas he will lank a.month of being as
owld as Finnegan. Yon know Finne
gan ?" " No, 1 don't, and if I did it
would't help matters. How many male
members have you in the family?
" Niver a one." "What,no boys at all 9'
"Boys is it ? An, znurther, go home.—
We have boys enough to whip four loaves
before breakfast." "When were you
married !" "The day Pat Doyle left
Tipperary for Ameriky ! AY! well do
I know it. A snushinier day niver gild
ed the sky of swate owld Ireland."—
"What was the condition of your hus
band before marriage?" "Divil amore
miserable. He said if I did give him a
promise within two weeks he'd blow his
brains out with a crowbar !" "What
was he at the time of your marriage—
a widower or a bachelor?" "A widow
er, did you say ? Ah ! now go away wid
your nonsense. Is it the likes of me
that would take up with a second-hand
husband—a poor devil, all legs and con
sumption, like a sick turkey? - A wid
ower, indeed I May I never be blessed
if I'd not rather live an -oveld maid, and
bring up my family on buttermilk and
praties,"
NEGRO SOLDIERS.—The Legislature Of:
Tennessee has passed an act "for the•-re-,
liefof volunteers," which authorises,the
Governor to. impress into; the army ; all
the free negroes of that stateletwen the
ages of fifteen and fifty years, being
sound in mind and body. These "vol
unteers" are to preforni such meniel ser
vices in the camp. as may be required,
and to receive therefor regular rations,
with eight dollars per month as wages,
This is all right, of coarse, as long as it
is done in the South, bat if e. free black
man in the north offers to shonlder , and
face death to assist-in mantaining the
supremacy of the Union, the cry is "at
once raised that the government is en
couraging the servile rebellion Of the
negro. It is time that such purile poli
cy was abolished, and every Inman being
who loves this country, permitted to
fight for its defence and perpetuity.
TIMELY LMGESTIONS.- The careless
ness of those in camp, as to personal
cleanliness, will frustrate the efforts of
the most skillful surgeon in the army to
maintain and preserve the health of the
soldier. A clean skin does as much to
protect the health of the stomach as
powder or pills. The man who is per
sonally cleanly will also be careful and
particular in his diet—two essentials
necessary to assist a physican in promo
ting health and strength in the soldier.
Those who nealect these are bound to
become victims to disease, howilver vig
ilant . and skillful may be their medical
attendance.
Cia," At Hartford, Conn., Samuel
Ad
ams, while laboring under a fit of insan
ity, ou Vbufsday, attempted to kill his
wife by shooting her with a pistol. He
then proceeded to a neighboring barn
and cut his throat with a pen knife.—
the wounds he inflicted on his Wife' are
very slight, while he died in &few min
utes after inflicting those upon his...own
person.
Cr The sword of a sWoralsA34ae
found sticking in the bottom or-'the'
steamship Golden 4ge when `she was
hauled up recently" in Panama for re
pairs. ' The' sword,of bone was, .thirteen
inches long; and driventhrongb. the cop
per and, both the outer-and; inner plapk
ing. The fish stabbed; the wrong. cus
tomer for once ;_hall it been a whale, all
would have been quite right.