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MODERN KNIGHT ERRANTRY.
itten on reading the correspondence be
tween Frank ilughei and Gov. Seward.
Don Quixote on his steed
Attacked that monster mill ;
Don Quixote's fiery soul
In Hughes is burning still.
Deltoid his Rosinante,
"Democracy" by name ;
Behold lion liughes •the knight
In search of death—or fume
Tlmt Abolitiim mill,
A giant in his eye—
The monster's blood he'll spill,
Or in the effort die;
To aid his country's cause
Don Hughes is called in vain ;
His eye can only see
ne windmill on the pluin.
nis breastplate is a plunk
From Party's platform torn ;
Like one from some old bridge,
Which owes' hoofs hiive worn
I I is spear of awfal s'ze,
"A weaver's beam"
And on its handle read,
"Political Address."
Don Hughes on Seward calls,
lits prowes to behold ;
"110, Seward! here's a knight
More brave than knights of old."
Seward thus cool replies:
"Pooh ! Let the windmill go !
Employ your arms, Mr knight,
Against your country's foe!"
i'nri ULAN: REG IM Ii:NT. —Pru-slave ry
papers throughout the North have been
highly jubilant over the recent disband
ing by Gen. Hunter of his negro regi
ment in South Carolina, and have there
upon argued that the black race aro
unlit for soldiers. The cause of the
disolution of the let Regiment South
Carolina Uolored Volunteers was OIN
to the fact that the War Department
refused to grunt thorn rations, in accord
ance with the present policy of Mr. Lin
coln against employing negroes as com
batants. They hid previously subsisted
from the products of rebel plantations
and other means unconnected with di
rect Government supplies. As these
becarns exhaused, the War Department
was applied to. Upon its refusal, com
pany after company was discharged,
whtle the residue subsisted by the fait
failing process hitherto adopted. At
last a complete dissolution took place.
Or AN OLD PATRIARCH.—OId
Joe Bording, familiarly called Uncle
Joe, a negro, in the one hundred and
twenty-first year of his age, died at ti.e
poor-house in Muskingum county, Ohio,
the other day. Uncle Joe was the prop.
arty of Rev. Scott, on Strawberry Farm,
ralrEs.i county, Va., in the days of Gen.
TvVaslangton, and retained to the day o f
his death a sufficient recollection of the
Appearance of the General to give an
Accurate description of him. Owing to
.death, transfer and the profits arising
from the arrangeasents, he had while in
slavery seven different wives, in obedi
ence to the orders of his successive mas
ters.
rgar Hogarth's Print of the "March of
the Guards to Finchley," was originally
inscribed to king George 11, and a Copy
sent to St. James for his approval.—
The monarch is described as turning
from the print to a nobleman in waiting
with the question, "Who is this Hogarth
"t. painter, my liege." "Bainter ! I
hate baking and boetry too ! Neither
the one nor the other ever did any good.
Dees the yellow meao to laugh at my
Guards 1" "The picture, so please your
Majesty,mnst undoubtedly be considered
as a burlesque." "What 1 a bainter
burlesque a soldier ! He deserves to
be bicketed for insolence. Take his
trumpery out of my sight." The picture
was returned and deilluatell , te Frederic
the Great •
aluklitnbtnt "Vconsllltraltia afountal: getrotO to . Volitits, Yittraturt, agritulturt, Bolus of to gall, 'fait! afnttlligtntt, ft.
[From the New York Mercury]
GOT THE MEASLES.
"Well now, Miss Jones, you don't say
so l Who ever heard tell of such a
thing." -
"Yes, ma'am, its so ; she's been sick
abed now two days or more," returned
the prim housekeeper.
"And got the measles, teo—her, a
big, grown up girl She ain't very big;
but she's grown up ; leastways, I don't
think she'll ever grow any more. It's
dreadful dangerous. Where is she? I
suppose I can see her ?"
"First doo r up stairs, ma'am. But
she's asleep now, poor child. She never
slept any last night, and I don't like to
wake her; besides, the doctor said I
wasn't to let anybody see her."
'Oh! it's only me, you kaow ; and I
won't wake her—i'll go on tiptoe. I
just want to see if she has got the meas
les, and if she looks bad."
"So, up goes the red-faced Mrs. Jay,
and into the drat room, where lay the
unfortunate little "grown up" subject of
the measles, Miss Ellen Tyler by name,
who, hearing squeaky shoes, and the
door pushed open (Mrs. Jay couldn't
do anything softly if she tried), waked up,
of course, and opened her eyes us far as
the swelled lids would allow, to see who
and what was coming.
"You poor little creature:" she began,
'you're awake, are you! Miss Jones
said you'd got the measles, so I thought
may be you'd like somebody to come in
and talk to you a bit. It's only me ,
and I've seen lots of tn6asles in my time'
I remember Brown, that lived next door
to us in Stubville"—drawing up a chair
and seating herself in close proximity
to the invalid—"he was a shoemaker,
and he got the measles and they settled
in his neck; so when he got well he
vldn't turn his head no way. anfl if he
wants-I to look sideways, or behind him
he had to turn himself clear round.
Nleasles is awful disagreeable things,
these make any one feel so bad. 'Ain't
you warm with all them blankets over
you this hot day ? You mustn't take
any of 'em off, or put your bands out of
the bed,'cause if you was to get a chill,
and strike 'em in, I don't know what
might happen. Sarah Myers, my sis
ter's step-daughter, had them, and she
ketehed cold and only lived three days
after; but if they don't come out good,
it's almost as bad. I s'pose you don't
care if I open these shutters a minute.
it's so dark in here I can't see at all !"
and, suiting the action to the word, she
threw them wide open,
Poor Ellen turned her Pyes away from
the glaring light, wondering what streak
of bad luck had brought that horrid Mrs.
Jay, just when she didn't want to see
her, and answered :
—no less ;
"I'd rather you wouldn't, Mrs. Jay,
it hurts my eyes; and the doctor said
they roust be kept shot."
"Fudge, Miss Ellen I My children's
all had the measles, and I know all about
'em ; a littt le light won't hurt anything
and I should think you'd want to look
out the window, and see what's going on.
There's to be furneral go by here pretty
soon. Sally Wilson's dead, and I helped
them to lay her out yesterday. She had
a black walnut coffin, all lined with
white--it must have cost a good deal.
"Why, how hot your head is! and
your face is swelled ; but I don't think
the measles are out much, yet. Yon
shout drink hot punch and peppermint
tea, and keep a cap on your head;
though perhaps you don't never wear
'em ; and here's lemonade, with ice in
it I Of all things ! does the doctor let
you drink anything cold ? What one
have you got? I hope it is not Doctor
Noss 1"
"Yes, Doctor Ross; he is a nice man,
and he says the measles have come out
well replied," Ellen.
"What?" exclaimed Mrs. Jay, hold•
ing up her hands in horror at the idea,
"a homepathey doctor ! Did anybody
ever ? The worst one you could have
had I Why, they're nothing but quacks
any of 'ens. If I was sick, and did not
'spect to live the next minute, and there
wasn't any other doctor in ten miles, I
.wouldn't have Ross ! Now there's Miss
Blinker, an old miad that lives at the
west end--you don't know her perhaps
—she's had consumption or liver com
plaint for ten years, and about two
months ago she sent for Doctor Ross,
and he's been tending on her since ;
but I'm sure she won't live long now.
She looks bad. Her faze is as yeller
as my apron ; and the other day she
asked him to give her. some calomel,
and he wouldn't; but I heard him tell
Miss Snyder that all the calomel in
Mexen's stop wouldn't cure her.*--The
4;ie clilzittielift II:,
MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1862.
wretch ! He onght to give her calomel
—nothing like it when anybody's sick.
I've took a great deal of it hi mylife
in one shape and another—mostly blue
pills, and I always keep 'em on hand ;
believed they'd be good for you. I'll
bring you over some in the afternoon ;
if you take three tonight and three in
the morning they'd bring out the meas
les beautiful."
"I'm sure I'm much obliged," says
Ellen, submissively; "but I'm sorry to
make you so much trouble."
"Oh I I never spare trouble when any
of my neighbors is sick," returned Mrs.
Jay, complacently. "As doctor gall
says, there's never nobody dies in this
town without I've been visitin"em."
"There goes Miss Clapper," she con
tinued, looking out of the widow ; "I
met ber going in the stores as I came
by. If she knew you was sick she'd be
in here the first thing; but.l wouldn't
see her, if 1 was you. She's a real mis
chief•making old thing, always talking
scandal, and running down her neigh
bors, as if nobody was as good as her ;
she asked me the other day if I didn't
think you was exceedingly proud of your
looks; and rather big feeling, and if I
didn't think you had too many beaux
for a girl in your situation ? Not that
she ever saw you do anything wrong;
but you see things will look so some
times. She said you went to the con
cert with Mrs. Brooks, and only three
days after there was a city chap came
out to see you ; and that she could
swear that his horse was standing at
your gate till ten o'clock at night. Of
course, there wasn't anything wrong in
that; only you know you haven't got
any mother, or aunt, or older sister, to
look after you, and so people will talk.
don't say I side with Miss Clapper a
bit; but I feel dreadful sorry for you
being alone, without anybody to epun
eel you; and Miss Jones says your wade
always lets you have your own way.
Pm sure I hope you'll do well ; but if
I was you I wouldn't marry any of them
city fellows, with their kid gloves and
dandified sirs.• They make believe they
think an awful sight of you; but they
do that to every girl they know, and
sometime or other some of 'em will be
coaxing you to run away, or elope, or
some or other awful thing, and you'll
wish then you'd married some nice, so
ber young man like Tom Brown, or
Phil Peters, or my Jim, perhaps. If I
was a young girl, now, I'd rather have
one of our village chaps than a city
fellow any thee."
Mrs. Jay paused to see what effect
her advice had on Ellen, and assuming
a service, self-righteous expression, con
tinued, solemnly:
"It will be a good chance for you to
mediate on these things, now you're
sick,. and think about you ; and if yo'u've
ever done anything wrong, or been
careless, in meeting or thought too much
of dress, and inking at yourself in the
glass, any of those things, you ought to
feel sorry for it ; cause, if you should
get the scarlet-fever, or the measles
should strike in, you might be as bad as
Sarah Myers, and not live very long."
And Mrs. Jay crossed the room with
a virtuous air, as if she had been try
ing to do her duty.
"Oh what a beautifull little locket"
—taking it off tiee dressing table. "Who
gave it to you ? There's a picter in it
too. I suppose I can look at it ? How
much did it cost ? Why, it's a young
man I never see before, with curly hair
and whiskers, and mustachers. It's
some relation of Faun, I suppose ?"
"Yes, it is ! it's mine! Please give,
it to me 1" answered Ellen, almost rea
dy to cry with vexation and distress.—
"And won't you call Mrs. Jones for me
please ?"
"Yes, dear, in a minute ; I want to
look at your pew dress, Don't trouble
yourself any ; I will see that you are
taken care of. I think I heard Miss
Jones go out ; if it's anything I can do
for you, just let me know. Seven
widths in this skirt," pulling it out
from the half-closed wardrobe, "and it's
nearly three-quirters of a yard wide. I
never put but five or six in my girl's
dresses; and they're always full enough.
I think it's a waste of cloth, to put so
much in, specially when it costs a
great deal, and I know it wasn't less
than a dollar and a half or two dollars a
yard. Did you buy it yourself, or did
your uncle buy it for you ?"
Ellen had always congratulated her
self on, the possession of a pretty fair
share of patience, but now she felt • it
growing "beautifully lepr ; hnwever, she
manage to swallow her indignation, and
reply,
"No ; it was a present from my Aunt
'Fast:l4.2'
"Well, I thought you Wounld't be buy
ing anything that cost as much as that ;
I wish somebody would make my Busy
And such a present. The sleeves are
made up in new fashion. I haint seen
any like 'em here, yet. I s'pose you
won't mind if Ihave the pattern of them
will you! I can just roll it up and take
it home for a day or so, and let Betsy
Jane cut it out. She is the beautifulest
hand at cutting things you ever saw,"
and she rolled up the dress wall a
satisfied air; then, hearing something
in the street, she 'started to the window
exclaiming : "There, I believe that
funeral is coming now. It's a pity you
can't get up and come to the window.
No it ain't, either; it's only the rag
man, and Sile Smith's new carriage
coming up the road. Bile's sister had
the scarlet fever last winter, and she
got well her hair come out so that she
had to wear a silk cap on her head, all
the time, and if anybody looked like a
fright, she did. I wouldn't wonder if
your hair all come out when yen get
well, if you ever do. I know of lots of
folks that had the measles after they'd
grown up, and if it didn't kill 'em, their
hair always came out. That's better
than dyin', anyway, but you'd feel mighty
bad to loose all your hair, wouldn't you.
You've got so much—and then you
wouldn't have any to curl. Good gra
cious ! eleven o'clock ! is your clock
right? Who'd thought it was so late?
\A ell, I'll send Betsy Jane in with them
pills, and if I was you, I'd send fOr Doc
tor Hall—he's the best doctor in town
and Mows more about the measles
and such like, than your Doctor does. I
wouldn't wonder if them little pills ~of
his wouldn't turn it into scarlet lever.
I've heard tell or such things befo re.
Good mornin."
And away she went, banging the doo r
after her, and leaving the sick girl in a
state of mind indescrible and I don't
know but she might have worried her
self into a fever, or "struck"em all in,"
if Oil good-natured face of Doctor Ross
had not, just then, peeped in, like a ray
of sunshine, on her gloomy reflections,
and set her mind at rest on the measles
question.
STERLING PATRIOTIS3L-A lesson WAS
taught, recently, to "Constitutional"
and other southern sympathizers, by a
lady, who was not a Pennsylvania, but of
the moors of Cornwall. She atlpast can
appreciate the blessings of a free gov
ernment,. The enrolment Marshal pass
ing her house in the peformance of his
duty, found her in a court yard in front of
her residence. The htarshal raised the
latch of the gate :
"Good morning, madam."
"Good morning, sir."
"How many adults occupy this house."
"Four, in all."
"How many males 2"
"Not one."
"And who are the families, ma'am 2"
-"Myself and three daughters!'
"And have your daughters no hus
bands 2"
"Have you none ?"
"No."
"Have you no sons ?"
have two boys ; as fine boys as ever
yet broke bread."
"Where are they.".
"In the army of the Potomac, sir,
fighting under Gen. Banks, where every
young man should be who knows.the
difference between freedom and intol-
erance."
"The lady spoke with a strong Cor
nish accent. The Marshal observed
the fact, and interrogated her.
"I preceive, madam, you are a native
of England ?"
"I am, sir, and so were my boys:—
They never voted, sir, for the elder is
not yet 21 years of age. But. sir, they
were old enough to know that the no
blest altar ever yet reared to liberty
was in danger, arid they hastened to
save it. Other English lads went to
the British Consul to procure exemption
.
papers. but my boys wouldn't do it even
if I wanted them to, which I din't. I
am past 45 now, but if I were a man I'd
go with my boys. I wouldn't wait to be
drafted, nor fall back upon my age if I
was draftsd."
The Marshal took his leave, and on
inquiry fonad that the noble English.
woman had told the literal truth. Com
ment is unnecessary." .
We hope our LegislatniW«will pass, a
law; that, if a man runs upo'n, the bat
tle-field, his wife shall, be entitled to "a
divorce.
De volunteer system is better.tban
the ireft, for, as a general rule, it se
cures better fighters.
Established April 11, 1834_
A Polish Wedding.
As soon as the parties were properly
placed, the service commenced, and the
noble harmonies which had filled the
Church died away. The ceremony was
simple, differing in nothing from the
usual form used in all Roman Catholic
countries except that, instead of a plain
gold circlet being placed on the bride's
finger, as a symbol of eternity and of
the intention of both parties to keep
forever the solemn covenant into which
they have entered before God, and of
which it is the pledge, there was an ex
change of rings. The priest paused in
the service when he came to the words
"With this ring," etc., and then one of
the bridesmaids came timidly and grace
fully forward, and placed two rings In
the- open book which he was holding
in his hand. He took them up, one af
ter another, in his right hand, offering
up solemn prayers and pronouncing a
blessing over them. He then gave the
small one, which had engraved on it the
bridegroom's name, Mauritus Mechnacki
and the date of the year, to the bride
groom ; and the large one, having the
name ofJahasie Zalvianski, to the bride.
For one moment, while he pronounced
a few words in a solemn tone, they
retained them, and then Jahasie, lifting
her eyes to the bridegroom's, as if to
gather strength or firmness for the last
solemn act, they exchanged them—the
small one having his name s one on her
finger, while the larger on encircled
his. Immediately on entering the cha
teau, the bride's veil and wreath were
removed by a married. lady, and' re
placed by a cap ornamented with orange
blossoms, entirely concealing her-beau
tiful tresses. Meantime the bridesmaids
had been bitting around her. laughing,
whispering and i blushing. Presently,
she took the wreath, which one of them
had disengaged from her veil,and, fling
ing it amongst them, it fell on the
shoulders of a beautiful girl, who was at
once pronounced the "bride of the next
wedding." Just then, several beautiful
children of about ten years of age, hav
ing on their arms small silver filagree
baskets filled with tiny bouquets of
choice exotics, entered the saloon, and
going around among the guests, presen
ted one to each, with a gold pin to fas
ten it, having a head in the form of a
hexagon, each of the sides of which was
delicately engraven. On one side were
the initial of the bride ;on on the sec
ond, those of the bridegroom ; on the
third, day of the week ; the fourth, the
day of the month; fifth, date of the year;
sixth, the name of the district in which
the cermony had been performed, of
which they are ever after to-be preserv
ed as memet.toes.
MINTER; AND PHELPS FELONS :—The
rebel Adjutant Gen. Cooper, hasaissued
an order from the rebel capital severely
reprehending the plan of Gens. Hunter
and Phelps, in arming the slaves of
South "Carolina to fight against their
late masters. After several "whereases"
the order concludes as followsi: 'That
Mejor Gen. fluter and brigadier Gen.
Phelps be no longer held and treated
as public enemies of the Confederate
States, but as outlaws ; and that in the
event of the capture of either of them
or that of any other commissioned offi
cer employed in drilling, organizing or
instructing slaves, with a view to their
to their armed service in this war, he
shall not be regarded as a prisoner of
war, but held in close -confinement for
execution as a felon, at such time and
place as the President may order. 13y
order," &c.
ONE WAY TO RECRUIT.—At a recruit
king meeting in Western New York last
week one of the speakers had been urg
ing the men to sign the roll, and told
the women to hurry them up, when
. a
woman rose in.the meeting and address-.
ed her husband substantially as follows :
"Ira, you know what you said'before you
came here to-night—that you would en
list. If you don't do it, go straight home
and take off those breeches and let me
have them, and I will go myself!" Thin
brought down the house and brought up
Ira, who became a volunteer.
Lord PalMerston, it is discovered,
has made himself an especial object of
idolatry to all the old women of Tiver
ton, by his custom, on the morning after
his arrival at that place, of giving to
such as choo,se to oome for it a couple
of ounces of tea. If his tea gives ont•
before the women give in, then they
receive sixpence each' ta t purchase it
with.
Which of the feathered tribe lifts
the heavies weight k ? The Crane,
NO. 7.
What the Louisville Journal Says
When the Bon. A. 0. P, Nicholson,
formerly of the U. S. Senate, was ar
rested recently in Tennessee, by order
of General Negley, his loving wife bade
him rot in prison rather than take the
oath of allegiance. Ho affectionately
promised her to rot. No doubE he is
rotting. But we guess she keeps far
enough off not to smell him.
We wish a General Order might be
issued that every 4 officer or soldier who.
runs when he ought to fight should have
a letter branded upon his forehead, and .
that be himself should be allowed to•
choose between T and C—Traitor and
Coward:*
Christianity and Patriotism are de
scribed as twin sisters in the family of -
Virtue. But unfortunately they aro not
Siamese twins, bound by an indissoluble
ligature, for they sometimes travel is
different directions.
Albert Pike resigns his command in
Arkansas on the ground that he is un
popular with the Indians, and fat. Ha
must be afraid that his brother savages,
if they shou,ld get hungry, might eat
him. .
If any of our States or cities or coun
ties raise more than their quota of vol
unteers for , this war, the surplus will be
credited to them by the Lord for the
eternal war against the Devil.
_ . •
Mr. Bachanan has changed his mind
and concluded not to leave Wheatland.
His Wheatland neighbors say he is al
ways exciting pleasant expectations on
ly to disappoint them.
A Mississippi paper siieclilates upon
the possibility of Breckinzidge's being
cut off. Pity he couldn't be cut off just
back of his ears.
Go forth , and grasp the weapons of
your country. If you can't do that,
grasp the money in your pockets to aid
those who can.
Unless we proSecute this war to a
successful close, our country will soon
have no light but the "light of other
days."
The rebels raise their voices for free
government but lift their hands against.
it. "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the,
hands are the hands of Esau."
The fate• of Charleston, Savannah,
and Mobile, is like the orders tinder
which the New Lronsides sailed from,
Philadelphia—sealed.
Some men have jumped into the sea
to get out of the rain, and others are re
ported to have shot themselves to es
cape the draft..
After this war, crutches will be re
garded as insignia of honor, and the la
dies will prefer a one legged man to a
two-legged ono.
We hear a great deal about "Arkan
sas tooth-picks," but what's the use of
tooth-picks where there is nothing to.
eat ?.
If the rebels feared the Devil as much
as they do a gunboat, there might be
some hope of their turning Christians.
The country must have money,. and it
must have men. Luckily our people
have the one and are the other.
A true Union woman is lik a the su
gar we sometimes get—a combination
of sweetness and grit.
No sooner had Eve seen Sat(i)n than
she wished to clothe herself.
eir" What are you in jail for ?" asked
a visitor of a prisoner. He received the.
usual reply—" For nothing." " Well,.
but what did you do?" "I opened a
dry-goods store." "Opened a dry-goods
store !" said the visitor, "why, they could
not put youin prison for that." "Yes,.
butthey did though," replied the pris
oner ;" I opened it with a crowbar."
tkr Garrick, in order to cover his owi
stinginess is said to have spoken of his
partner Lacy's love of money ; and Mur
phy asked, " Why on earth doesn't Gar
rick take the beam out of his own eye,
before attacking the mote in , other peo
ple's I" "Ile is not slue," replied Foote,
'•of selling the timber•"
"Man proposes, and God disposes,'
said a pious aunt to her over-confident
niece. " Let a man propose tame if he
dare," was the response, "and I will dis
pose of him according to my own views,.
es he snits me."
Again creek has been entirely evacu
ated by the federal troops, everytbine
having been brought away that could b l / 4 -,
of use to the United States.