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God is Love.
3? REV. MARK E. RUDE.
Why so desponding, 0 my soul.
And monrnful like the widowed dove ‘i
Thy griefs is there none to console.
I When God hath spoken, “ I am Love f“
it
Both he not for the sparrow care?
The humblest e’en His fa'vor prove ;
“ Worth more than many sparrows are
My chosen,” saith the God of Love.
Great trials all His children meet,
Thus‘did the sainted ones above ;
But here they sought His mercy-seat,
And learned his ways. that they are love.
Be comforted, my drooping soul,
Trust in thy Lord, naught thee shall move ;
Though waves of trouble o‘er thee roll,
Thon'lt triumph in the God of Love!
GsonGsrowx, J one, 1862. ‘
v<°>to—
. Mother--“Vife--Siste1---Dmigliter
BY ANSON G. CEEST‘R.
Morin-.3! where the. sod is brown,
With the leaves that fluttered down.
When the latest Autumn came,
Stands 8. stone that bear's thy name!
Tell me if thy spirit comes,
Ever to its earthly homes ?
Tell me if thou c‘er hast smiled,
Since thy flight, upon thy child? '
Tell me if, when Slccp‘s sweet streams
Waft him to the Land of dreams,
Thou dost ever meet him there,
With a blessing and a prayer?
Tell me, does an angel yearn
For the rapture of return '
To‘the scenes. the friends it knew
Ere its pilgrimage was through 9
Will the crown the Mother won,
Be the heir-loom of the SOD}?
-Shall his wayward, faltering feet
Ever press the Golden Street?
Shall we wander, hand in hand,
Through the broad, Celestial Land;
Pluckii‘ig fruit from vernal'boughs,
While we breathe immortal vows;
Drinking from the Living River——
Blast together. blest forever!
,God is merciful and just ;
He will guard thy hallowed dust,
Till the Awful Throne is set,
Till the tribes of earth are met ;
And the God who cares for thee,
He will watch and succor me.
WIFE! three years have rolled away
Since our welcome wedding day;
‘ Tell me if, as then, thy heart
Finds in mine its couhterpprt?
If the buds of Hope,,that grew
on thy way when Love was new,
Brought the roses that they pledged—
If thy heart and home are hedged
With the joys that seemed to be
Linked with our futurity ?
Tell me, have I ever erred
I ii a look, a deed, a word?
Iii: erred than have must err—
Am not I its worshipper?
In thy happy smile I see
All that thou would’st say to me;
Keep thy secret-it is best
Garnered in thy loyal breast ;
Whilst I count my treasures o’er
Shall it be with open door?
’Tis enough for me to know -'
That my darling loves 9.19 89.
Susan i—sud my only one:
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Do thy love thoughts fly to me,
O’er the meadow, o’er the sea 9
Does the sun of childhood gleam
Soitlyen thy twilight dream,
And thy heart responsive move
To the call of childhood’s love?
Though the walls of absence hide,
Though its murky waves divide,
Though to Heaven ascends its bill.
998! 9.1.109 cherish his“ .199 a!!!“ i
For the loye of other days, ‘
For thy warnings and thy‘praise,
Forthy guidance and thy care,
For thy kiss, thy smile, thy prayer,
For thy faith, which struggles on,
Take a brother‘s benison.
Dis'tant buta few short miles
From the city‘s din and wiles,
Underneath a mournful tree,
Is an altar dear to me:
it is holy. as the place
Where 9.1.119 coal for??? 11.1.5 We
For beneath that sacred biking,-
Sleeps the daughter that was mine i
DAUGHTEBI on thy lowly bed
Sunbeams, flows and showers are shed :
But the sunbeams wake not thee—
Thine are eyes which cannot see!
And the dcws can never chill
Her whose hands and heart are still;
Nor the mfiié‘qi haul??? " " ‘
Please her quiet ear agaipi
Take, 011 Death! the ripened sheaves;
Take the stalks the binder leaves;
Take the clusters, rich with wine.
From the over-laden vine:
Take the fruit. in Autumn-’5 hours.
Take them all, but spare the flowers!
Sainted Mother! cherub Daughter!
Ye have crossed the Silent Water;
Ye are clothed in new attire.
Ye have won a crown and lyre;
Ye are bathed in light supernal,
Ye are blest with joys eternal.
Darling Sister! darling Wife i
Still we wear the bloom of life ;
Still we suffer, still we smile,—
We trust W? W? midi {Wildli-
Be it ours to watch and wait,"
At the threshold, at the gate:
Struggling on, by faith and prayer,
Till we fly to meet them there!
«c.-.
REBEL ANEcnorss or BURNSIDE —~Tlio
people ,ofNorfolk, and, indeed, through-
out the whole South, haye a profound
respect and a wholesome fear of General
Burnside, who, they maintain, is as ubi-
quitous as northern people suppose Beau-
regard to be. They positively assert
that during his entire crusade in North
Carolina‘he has been spy and scout, as
well as major-general, flag ofiicer, and
military governor. The people of Nor-
folk say that at one time Burnside came
into the. city disguised as a fisherman,aud
at another time in the simple garb of a
truck-farmer, by which be traversed the
city, observed the position and strength
of its defences, and obtained important
information for the government, while
trying to “sell fish and potatoesto Gen-
eral Huger, and distinguished citizens.
As a proof that these stories are con-
fidently belieyed, l will simply state that
I asked a sccesh lady the other day, if
she was not really surprised to see Gen.
Burnside on Main street. "Oh, no,” she
replied “be has been here before, when
there were greater obstacles in his way
than at present.”——Ex¢}tange.
..- _..___.- .‘.p.*—... . .
-——They, at length, appreciate Floyd’s char-_
acter at. the South, and cannot apparently
allude to him without hinting at his peculiar.
foiblc. A late Richmond paper says: “Gen.
Floyd; at a very early hour this morning,1
rode out to the lines for the purpose of do-'
ing anlittle amstéur fighting con his own
iage until we can apply their standard to
=the whole sex.
. to epplors all the sources ' of danger.—
: Yet let us be just.
'- mnu could habitually walk uninjured with
- a weight of twelve pounds of skirts sus-
- pended at llPl‘ hips,-—‘—Dr. Coale is res-
\ ‘From the Atlantic M'onflily.
The Health ot’our Girls.
(Continued from last week.)
Everything that follows in these pages
must therefore be construed in the light
of this admitted difficulty. The health
of our boys is a matter not hard to treat,
on purely physiological grounds; but in
dealing with that of girls, caution is
necessary. Yet, after all, the perplexi-
ties can only obscure the details of the
prescription, while the main substance it.
unquestionable. Nowhere in the uni-
verse, save in improved habits, can we
ever find health for our girls. Special
delicacy in the conditions of the problem
only implies more scdulous care in the
solution. The great laws of exercise, of
respiration, of digestion, are essentially
the some for all human beings ; and
greater sensitivencss iu the patient should
Tuot relax, but only stimulate our efforts
after care, 1dud the unquestionable fact
that there are among us, after the worst
is said, large numbers of robust and
healthy women, should keep up our cour-
In presence of an evil so great, it is
inevitable that there Should be some fan- "
tustic theories of care. But extremes are
quite pardonablc, where it is so important
Special ills shopld hays special assailants,
at whatever risk of exaggeration. 4g.
water-cures and vegetarian boarding-
liouses are the necessary defence of hu-
mauity against dirt and over-eating, so
is the most ungainly Bloomer that ever
drifting on bare poles across the continent,
a Providgatisl protest 359'lk§5 ghe fashion
plates. 1: is probable that, on the vbcle
there is a gradual amelioration in female
costume. These hooded, Water-proof
cloaks, equalizing all womankind—these
thick soles and heavy heels, proclaiming
themselves with pupil) ipgsculine ' emphasis
on the pavementotbese priceless ip‘dia-
rubber boots, emancipating all juvenile
femininity from the terrors of mud and
scam—all these indicate an approaching
era of good sense ; for they are the re-
,quisite machinery of air, eneroise and
health, so far as they go.
The weights of skirts and the con-
straints of corsets are still properly made
the theme of indignant declamation.-—
It is , impossible to
make postuine the prime culprit, when
we recall what robust generations have
been reared under the same formidable
panoply. For instance, it seems no wo-
ponsible for the statistics,—-and as if sal-
vatiou must tperefgre lie in shgulder-
straps. Yet the practice cannot be sheer
suicide, when the Dutch peasant-girl
plods bloomingly through her daily du-
ties beneath a dozen successive invoiucres
of flannel, So in regard to tiglit~lacing,
no one can doubt its ill-effects, since
even a man’s loose garments are known
to diminish by one-I'gurth hi: on ,aoity for
respirntlop. ‘hret inspect in be Shop-
windows (where the facts of female cos-
tume are obtruded too pcrtiuaciously for
the public to remain in ignorance) the
light and flexible corsets on these days,
and then contemplate at Pilgrim Hall in
Plymouth, the stout huelpram stays that
once engaged the stout heart of Alice
Bradford. Those again, were to those
of still earlier epoch as leather to the
chain armor, The Countess of Biicliau
was confined in an iron cars for life for
assisting to crown Robert the Brace,but
her only loss by tho incarceration was
that her iron cage ceased to be portable.
Passing from costume, it must be no-
ticed that there are many physical evils
which the American women share with
the'other sex, but which bear with far
greater severity op her finer organiza-
tion: There is improper food, for in-
stance. The fried or salted meat, the
heavy bread, the perennial pork, the dis-
astrous mince-pies of our farmers’ houses
are sometimes pardoned by nature to the
men of the family, in consideration of
twelve or more hours of outdoor labor.
For the iii-Ore sedentary and .delicate
daughter, there is no such atonement, and
she vibrates between dyspepsia and star-
vation. The only locality in America
where I have ever found the farming pop-
ulation' living habitually on olcsome
diet, is the Quaker region in Eastbrn
Pennsylvania, and I have never seen
anywhere else such a healthy race of wo-
men Yet, here again. it is not safe to
be hasty, and lay the whole responsibility
on the kitchen, when we recall the as
tounding diet on which healthy English
women dined two centuries ago. Con-
sider, for instance! the housekeeping of
the Duke of Nortliumberland. “My
Lord and lady have for breakfast, at
seven o’clock, a quart of beer, as much
wine, two pieces of salt fish, six red ber-
rings, four white ones and a dish of
Sprals." Digestive i'esoui'Ces which could
entertain this bill of fare might Safely be
trusted to travel In America.
The educational excesses of our schools
also, though shared by both sexes, tell
[much more formidably open girls, in pro!
portion, as they are kecner students,more
submissive pupils, and are given to study'
jibg'their lessons at recess time, instead of
shouting and racing in the open-air.—
They are also easily cuercvd into devo-
ting Wednesday and Saturday afternoons
1 book.
3 to the added atrocity-of music lessons,
l and in general, but for the recent blessed
: innovation of skating, would undoubtedly
submit to have every atom of air and ex-
ercise cliniiimted'l'rom'tliei-r lives It is
rare totind nu American mother who
habitually ranks physical culture first,
in rearing her daughters, and intellectual
commonly satisfied with merely a liege.
tive condition of be..lili. The girl is con-
sidered to be well, if she is act to ill to
go to school ; and she therefore lives from
hand to mouth. as respects her couStitu-
tion, and lays up nothing for emergen-
cies From this negative condition pro-
ceeds her inability to endure accidents
which to an active boy would be trivial.
Who ever hears of a boy’s having a lame
knee for a year by slipping on the ice, or
spinal disease for a lifetime by afall from
a sled ? And if a girl has not enough
of surplus vitfiy to overcome such tri-I
lies as these. how is she fitted to meet the
coming fatigpps of wife and mother,
These are important, if superficialfing-
gestions ; but there are other considera-
tions which go deeper. I take the spools]
provocatives of disease among the Amen.
ican women to be in great part social-w
The one marked step thus-achieved thus
far by our civilizatiou,'-uppears to be the
abolition of the present class, among the
native born, and the elevation of the
naval some ‘9 ill? use! son? 9? as
sic‘lessoos and sill; gowns. This implies
the disappearance of field labor for wo-
menfand. unfortunately, of that ,rustic
health, also, which in other countries is a
standing exemplar for all classes.-
Wherever the majority of women work
the fields it? tricked and“! are
constantly reminded that they 113le hold
their health by the tenure of some sub-
stituted activity. With us, all women
have been reluved from out-door labor,
—and are being sacrificed in the process,-
nptil they leorp to supply its place. En-
cept the'gracefal apd'y‘anishiog pprguit o
hep-picking, there is in New England no
agricultural labor in which women can be
ssidto be habitually engaged. Most
persons neger so? an incisions woman
making hay, unless in the highly imagl-g
native cantata Of “The Hay-Ma ers ;”
and Dolly the Dairy-Maid is , ming
to our children as purely idea! a being as
Cinderella. Wethus lose not only the
immedigte cfied, hot the indirect. . 63mp-
ple, of these out-door toils.
The influence of the sociald- transition
bears upon all-women ; there is another
which especially touches wives and moth-
ers. In European countries, the aim at
anything like gentility implies keeping
one or more domesiigs to icrl'grip hogtie-
hold labors ; but in our Free States 9??
any family aims at gentility, while not one
in five keeps a domestic The aim is not
a foolish one, though follies may accom-
pany it,—for the average ambition of our
people includes a certain amount of re-
fined cultivation ;—-it is only that the
process is exhausting. Every wogflfi
must hays a bent p’arléjlit Willi, 'hair-olOtb
furniture and a photograplnaibum; she
must have'a- piano or some cheaper sub-
stitute; her little girls must have em-
broidered skirts and much mathematical
knowledge ; her husband must boy? two,
and even three "not plieais every day of
his life; and yet her house must be in
perfect Order early in the afternoon, and
she prepared to go ont and make calls,
with a black silk (lien. and 9: seal-sass-
In the: evening she will so to. a cancer-3
or lecture. and then, at the end of all,
she will very possibly sit up after mid-
night with her sewing machine, doing ex-
tra shop-work to pay for little Ella’s mu-
sic-lessons. All this every “capable”
New England woman will do, or die.—
She does it, and ‘dies; and then we are
astonished that her vitiil energy gives out
sooner than that. of an Irish woman in a
shanty, with no other ambition on earth
but to supply her young Patricks with
adequate potatoes. _
Now it is useless to attempt to set back
the great social flood. The New Eng-
land hoqsekeeper will never. be killed by
idleness, at any rate 3 and if she is expo-
sed to the oppbsite- dougcr, we must fit
her for it, that is all. _ There is reason to
be hopeful ; the human race as a whole
is tending upward, even physically, and
if we cannot make our girls quite healthy
yet, we shall learn to do it by-and-by.—
Meanwhile we must hold hard to the cou-
viction, that not merely decent health,
but evm a high physical trainin r, is a
thing thoroqghly pgiscticab‘ie ”for both
sexes. I! a young girl can tire out her
partner in the dance, if a delicate wife
can carry her baby twice as long as her
athletic husband, (for certainly there is
nothing in the gymnasium more awazing
that. the mother’s left arm,) lllell it is
evident that the female frame contains
muscular power, or. its equivalent, though
it may take music or maternity to bring
it out. But other inducements lave
proved sufficient, and the results do not
admit‘of question. The Oriental bag/a5
dares, for instance, are trained from child--
hood as'gymnasts : they carry heavy jars:
on their heads, to improve strength, gait,~‘
and figure; they fly kites, to acquire
1“ statuesque attitude and graceful surpri-
ses,;” they must learn to lay the back of
thehand- flat ogaingt the wrist, to par-
.tiallybend the arm in both directions at
the elbow, and, inclining the whole person.
culture only second; indeed, they are;
_in the country than in the city ; it is un-
fioor with the hair. So, among our.
selves, the great athletic resources Of the
female frame are vindicated by every
equestrian goddess of the circus, every
pet of the pallet Those airy nymphs
have been educated for their vocation by
an amount of physical fatigue which their
dandy admirers may well prefer to con-
template at the safe remoteness of an ope-
ra-glass Dr. Gardner, of New York, has
lately contributed very important profes-
sional observations upon this class of his
patients ; he describes their physique as
infinitely superior to that of ordinary
women, wonderfully adapting them not
only to the extraordinary, but to the
common perils of their sex, “ with that
happy union of power and pli-ibility most
to be desired.” “ Their occupation de-
mands in its daily study and subsequent
practice an amount of long-continued
muscular energy of the severest charac-
ter, little recognized or understood by
the community ;” and his description of
their habitual immune in the crawls cf
vacuumed reminds one of the descrip-
tions ofsavage tribes. But it is really
a singular retribution for our prolonged
offences against the body. when our
saints are thus compelled to take their
models from: the reputed sinners—prize
fighters being propouaded as missionaries
for the men, and opera-dancers for the
women.
ere wé literally is laid. than that
dancing must be tho primary prescription?
It would not be a bad one. It was an
invaluable hint of Hippocrates, that the
second i. remedy is better than the
best, if t e patient likes it best. Beyond
all other merits of the remedy in question
is this crowning advantags, that the Ba-
tient likes it. Has any can bf exercise
over yet been invented which a.young
girl would not leave for dancing? “Wo-
men, it is well known,” says Jean Paul,
“ cannot run, but only dance, and every
one could more easily tench a, given pint
by danplpg thap: by walking}! ' It is prac-
ticed in t is country under immense dis-
advantages: first, because of late hours
and heated rooing i and segondly, because
some of the current dances seem equally
questionable to the morons and the phys-
iologist. But it is doubtful whether any
possible gymnastic arrangement for a
high-school would on thg whole, he so
pyoggcstlse at ahclé'soule exercise as a
Special hall for dancing. thoroughly vonti
lated and provided with piano and spring-
floor. The spontaneous festivals of every
recess-time would then rival those Ger-
man public‘rooms. where itis said you can
see a whole cempany waitsiqg like teeto;
mugs. with, the mildews aide open. at
four O’clock in the afternoon.
Skating is dancing in another form ;
both aim at flying, and skating comes
nearest to success. The triumph of this
art has been so astonishing, in the uni-
versality of its introduction among our
girls within the short space of four win;
ters, that it is 1’3?qu gecossary to'spbalk
of. it, encept to deduce the hope that oth-
er out-door enioyments, equally ,within
the reach of girls, may be as easily pop-
ularized.
For any form of locomotion leso vying-
ed than skating and dancing, the feet of.
Amerigan girls have hitherto, seemed
somehow uplitted by thnre. There is
every abstract W885“ why they should
love walking, 0!! this Hide the Atlantic:
there is plenty of room for it, the auntie
sent is large 3 the exercise, moreover,
brightens the eye and purifies the com-
plexion,——so the physiologists declare ;
so that an English chemist classifies red
checks as being oxygen in another form,
and advises young ladies who wish for a
pair to seek them where. the roses get
theng, out of doors—upon Which an im-
pertineut damsel writes to ask “ Punch”
if they might not as well carry the imita-
tion of the roses a little farther, and re-
main in their beds all the time? But it
is a lamentable fact, that walking, for
the mere love of it, is a rage habit among
our youlag women; and rarer, probably,
common to hear of one who walks habit.
call)? as much as two miles a day. There
are, of course, many exceptional instan~
ces : I know maidens who love steep
paths and. mondtaia rains, like Wads-
worth’s Louise, and I have even heard of
eight young ladies who walked from An-
dover to Boston, twenty-three miles, in
six hours, and of two in Ohio who did
forty-five, miles in two days. Moreover,
with our impulsive temperaments, a spec-
ial object will always operate as a strong
allurement. A confectioner’s shop, for
instance. A camp somewhere in the su-
burbs, with dress-parades. and available
lieutenants. A new article of dress 2" a
real ermine caplinay be counted as good
for three miles a day, for the season. A
deares. friend within pedestaian distance:
so that it would seem well to plant a cir-
cle of delightful families just in the out-
skirts of every town, merely to serve as
magnets. Indeed, so desperate has the
emergency become, that one might even '
'take ladies boom to be a secret device of
Nature to secure more exercise for the
occupants by compelling them thus to
make the circuit of each other. as the
two fat nobleiaep' at the French court
vindicated themsqlves from thp charge of
indolence by declaring that each prom.
shaded twice round his friend every
morning.
”awkward from the waist, to sweep the d
[To be Concluded in our meal
dressed to a stranger in town.
= fully before mailing them, examining the
‘rected to. it-
' miscarriaae 91‘ letters is found in the usage
, by the carrier.
' word in rebuke of treason and rebellion, and
Suggestions concerning Letters.
I wish to make a few suggestions con~
cerning letters, and mail matter generally
for the public benefit.- They are espe-
cially designed for letter writers in and
to places cf such size that everybody does
not know everybody else and his basi~
ness. And first, a word
CONCERNING WRITING Lsi'rsns. Q
Be careful to date your letter with
town and State, and to sign your name
in full, so that your- letter may be re-
turned to you if it fail to reach its desti-
nation. I have now before me a letter
addressed to "Dear Julia,” and signed by
“Fanny.” It is returned to the ofi‘ice of
mailing from the Dead Letter Office, and
contains a gold chain to be delivered to
“Fanny.” Perhaps I shall find “Fau-
ny” and return her the chain; perhaps
not ; but were her full name signed I
should not put a “perhaps to the'sugges.
tiqn. Write your name plainly. The
post-allies rating stamp will supply a do-
ficit in the date.
oosoaasmc ADDRESSED LsTrsas.
A safe rule in addressing letters is this
-—Do notpresume that. the post-office
clerks know as much about your corres-
pondents as you do. If you are address
ing a business man or firm of long stand-~
ing it will be sofer to presume him well-
kuowu ; otherwise it will be safer to pre-
sume him unknown, and to address him
with all reasonable particularity. Write
the name and town distinctly. Do not
address New Haven, Ct, when you mean
New Haven, VL, nor New Haven, N,
Y., when you moan New Haven, Ky,—
qu not qddthe County unless there are
two towns of the same name in different
counties of the same State. The post
ofiices in the county towns of the same
with the county, are weekly receiving let-
ters missent to them, simply because the
county name, is the most prominent fea-
ture. of the address.
If you are writing to a member of Mr,
gobs G. Williams’ family do not address
Mrs. Mary S. Williams, or Miss Fanny
Williams, unless you add “care of John
G. Williams,” or else name the street and
number at which yon cgpcct the car-tier
to deliver. the letter. It is a sorry com-
limeut to a man to presume that his
wife and children are so' notorious that
letters will reach them without special
address.
Correspondents sometimes endorse
“General delivery,” or "To, be kept till
called for,”'cpoa the face ofa letter ad-
This is a
good idea, especially when the person ad-
dressed ls a traveler or other transient
person, and often ensures the seasonable
receipt of the letter.
CONCERNING MAILING I.E'1"le}i_tS_,_
The other prelimioarics being properly
attended to, look your letters over care-
address of each, and noticing whether or
no they are properly prepaid by Stamp.—
Every considerable office in the country
is almost daily holding for postage busi-
ness letters andreceiviug letters mis-di-
A, very excellent remedy
for. the. annoyance resulting from the
of- uiaay banks and business men of print-
ing, or otherwise. endorsing upon the en-
velope the request that the enclosed lat
ter shall be returned to their address if
not called for within a specified time.
CONCERNING RECEIVING LETTERS.
The best way of receiving mail matter
is at the bog delivery. Next to this is
Last and most insecure
of all is the General Delivery. I say
”most insecure,” because that in nine out
of every ten offices in the country, a let-
ter will be delivered to any honest seem-
ing person who calls hi it, it being pre-
sumed that he is either the person ad.
dressed, or authorized to call for him.—
Besides this in most offices, the- letters
and papers are kept separately, and the
customer, who is hub to make daily calls
for transient papers which friends may
or may not send him, is liable to receive
his papers but tardily, if at all. If,
therefore, you or your family receive a
dozen letters a year, take abort, if prac-
ticable, if not, rely upon the letter car-
rier, and, accept the General Delivery
only because you must, not because it- is
your choice.
FINALLY.
‘ Remember that “to err is human,” and
that both the public and the post office
clerks are alike subject to human infirmi-
ties. And be sure you make use of the
"gracious gift of charity.”
0
w The Hartford Times is delighted with
the allandingham congressional address, as
it should be, for it is precisely in its style.—
The Boston Post denounces it; even the Al-
bany Argus gives it a sideway stab, because
it has the sense to see that it must prove a
mill-stone on the neck of the already heavy
laden democracy; the Buffalo Courier pro.
nounces it incomplete and unsatisfactory,be-
cause of its suppression of important truth,
and the Rochester Union declares itself
“unqualifiedly opposed .to the party move-
ment which it is the object of this add ess to
initiate." Yet the Hartford flames to is its
readers that the democrats receive this ad-
dress with favor. '1 they should it Would
be their'd'éatli. for the address says not one
silence in such a case is crime of the deepest
dye. This sort of democracy will not go
down.-—Spnngfield Republwa' n.
———9~.»¢———
—-A bill to repeal the personal liberty law
of Wiscong‘n was passed by the assembly of
that state, on the 13th inst, by a vote of 51
aces to 21 noes.
From Holbrook'a United States Mail: — A
.in the advance on Charleston, and both
_ --—A steamer left Cineinnatti on Saturday
hominy.
A dispatch, dated Gen. M’Clellan’s
headquarters Saturday evening, says:—
Tbe rebels, yesterday, after driving from
Old Church a'squadron of the 5th cavalry
proceeded to Garlick’s Landing, on the
Pamunky, river, about four miles above
White House, where they burnt two
schooners and some wagons, and drove
off the males. Here their conduct is re~
presented as barbarous, having killed sev-
eral of our teamsters without any neces-
sity. Those who failed to make their
escape were taken prisoners. From here
they proceeded to Tunstall’s station, four
miles from White House, with a view of
burning the railroad bridge. A train
which was passing down at the time was
fired into, killing 2 and wounding several.
A colonel, belonging to the Excelsior
brigade, was there taken prisoner, but
succeeded in making his escape during
the night. A paymaster jumped from
the train and hid himself in the woods
until morning, leaving $125,000 in the
cars. Tne train never stopped, but pass-
de on toWhite House. After destroying
the telegraph wire at this point, they pro-
ceeded to Baltimore Cross Roads, near
New. Kent Court House, on their way to
Richmond, crossing the Chickahominy be-
tween Bottom Bridge and the James
river about 2 o’clock Saturday morn-
ing. The force that accomplished this
was composed of 1500 cavalry and six
pieces of artillery, under Gen. Stuart,
most of whom were residents of this local-
ity, and thereibi'e were no strangers to
the roads. At White House, which is a
rendezvous of sntlerS and venders of small
wares, a regular stampede took place.—
Lient. Col. Ingalls, commandant at that
post, had all the corps ordered out, and
posted'in favorable positions to resist any
attack that might have been made. The
mail boat "Nellie Baker,” which left Sat-
urday - morning, was crowded with han-
gerson of the army and civilians, who
thought Fortress Monroe to be a more
congenial climate. At Old Church the
rebels had in reserve six regiments of
infantry with artillery. As soon as the
facts were known, pursuit by cavalry was
immediately ordered, but the enemy hav-
ing so much or a start, only five were
captured. Several arrests were made on
Saturday of citizens within our lines, on
suspicion of having given information to
the enemy,
o
MlLITARY.—Col. Cahill of the Ninth,
who has had but 700 men till recently,
writes home that be has filled his regi-
ment to the maximum standard (1040)
by recruiting loyal men in New Orleans.
The Twelfth and Thirteenth are also fill-
ing up their regiments in the same man-
uei'.
Brig. Gen. Teri-y commands the First
Brigade in Gen. Benbam’s division, now
before Charleston. The brigade consists
of the Seventh Connecticut, the Forty-
sixth and the 48th New York, and the
Eighth Maine.
The 6th and ’ith Connecticut are both
have been specially commended for their
good behavior. Col. Hewley speaks in
high terms of the good conduct of the
7th, and their promptness in obeying or-
ders, no matter how difficult or danger-
ous the duty may he. Notwithstanding
the exposure of the men, they are in much
better health than when in camp.
The following promotions have been
made in the Eighth Regiment :—Major
Applemau promoted to Lieut. Colonel
vice Andrew Terry, resigned; Captain
Ward to Major vice Appleman promo-
ted ; 1st. Lieut. Moore promoted to
Captain 00. D, vice Ward promoted ; 2d
Lient. Breed to lst Lieut. vice Moore
promoted ; lst Serg. McCall to 2d Lieut.
vice Breed promoted ; 1st Lieut. W. P.
Marsh, Co. A, promoted to Capt. Co. F,
rice E. G. Smith, resigned ; 2d] Lieut.
Marvin Wait to lst Lieut. rice Marsh
promoted ; and transferred, lst Serg.
Wm. J. Broacb to 2d Licut rice Wait
promoted.
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How to Find Wounded Soldiers.
For the benefit of those of our readers
who have friends among the wounded sol-
diers now in New York City, we copy
from the New York Post the following
account of the way to gain admittance to
them : ’
“Write on a piece of paper the name
of your wounded friend, with his compa-
ny and regiment, if possible, and hand it
to the policeman who attends the gate at
the south end of the Park. The express
business of thesepohcemen is to give advice
about wounded men. Don’t be afraid to
ask them Hand this man the name of
your friend, and he will take it into the
registrar, who refers to the book. If
your friend is in the barracks, you will.be
admitted without further formality, and
be will be sent for. li‘lie has been sent
to either the Bedloe’s Island or Ladies’
Hospital, you will be notified of the fact,
and the policeman will tell you how to
get there. If he has gone home, the
name of the railway or steamboat line
which conveyed him will be given you.”
no».
with a full cargo for New Orleans. This is
the first steamer which has left on that trip
since the beginning of the war.
—-—The keel of another iron-clad war vessel
similar in many respects to the Monitor, was
VOLUME XLV-éivUMBEa '25.;-
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A Rebel Raid Across the Chica-l - Thelkilled mid, Wounded at
Port'RepIIblle. '
Incomplete returns of the battle of
Port Republic, Show the following result:
84th Pa., 1 killed, 2 wounded, 30 miss
ing; 110th Pa., 1 killed, 4 wounded, 25
missing ; 7th Indiana, 9 killed, including
two captains, 123 wounded, 79 missing,
This regiment had only three, hundred
in its ranks. 66th Ohio, 20 killed, 60
wounded, 107 missing; 5th Ohio, 4 killed
60 wounded, 10 missing; 29th Ohio, 1'!
killed, 39 wouneed, 130 missing; 131: Va.
Cavalry, 1 killed, 6 wounded, 3 missing ;
Ist Ohio Artillery, battery H, 2 killed, 5
wounded, 3 missing, and lost two guns ;
battery L, 1 killed, 5 wounded, 5 miss-
ing. Samuel Cochran remained at his.
gun, firod it alone three times, making
great havoc among the rebels, then
knocked a rebel down with a. stone and
escaped.
The enemy’s lbss was very heavy.—
Four hundred of their dead, by actual
count, were found unburied in one field.
From the number of dead scattered on
other parts of the battle-ground, it is be-
lieved 100 more ot‘thejr dead are on the
field, making their loss in killed 600, be-
sides ofiice‘rs who were carried away.—
General Stewart was killed, Gen. Elsie
wounded, and Gen. Houghton mortiilly
wounded, and General Jackson wounded
in the wrist. '
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Influence of Hot Weather upon
Northern and Southern 801-
(lien-s.
In the medical statistics'of the army
from 1837 to 1854, transmitted to Hon.
J. D. Bright, President of . the Senate,
by Jefferson Davis, Secretary of 'Wai',
July 28, 1856,, on pages 509 and 621,
will be found a Statement showing the
power of endurance of a South Carolina
and a New York regiment, respectively.
South Carolina First Regiment,1,034
men, campaign of 1847, eighteen and a
half months’ service, loss by disease, 507;
New York Second, 1,063 men, seventeen
and a half months service, loss by disease
275 men. From this comparison of a
Northern regiment with a Southern
one, in a hot country campaign, it ap-
pears that a Southern regiment lost by
disease nearly twice as many as a New
York regiment in about the same length
of time, and the loss from all other causes
was one third less to the N ortbern'tlian
to the Southern regiment.
———~<¢»
FIGHT OF THE RAM FLEEr.—Tbe follow;
ing sketch from a correSpondent of the N '
Y.Times,-gives some idea of the character
of the River engagement preceding the
occupation of Memphis by our troops :
“Suddenly a hurried pulling, a dashing
as if Neptune himself was convulsiug
Father Mississippi, and out from. ameng
our ganboats, darted the rams Queen and
Monarch. With a speed that half buried
her prow under water, the former struck
boldly for the nearest Confederate. Im-
mediately the fire of every gun Was- direc’ '
ted upon our adventurous little vessel.—
But she passed safely, the balls intended
for her falling far beyond. On one vessel
—tbe nearest—our little Queen bore dowr.
with a terrible velocity. It‘appeared as
if at the shock both would be dashed to
pieces, the rapid current'aiding her pow-
e‘rful engines. A slight miscaicnlation
on the part of the Queen, and desperate
effort on the part of the rebel, enabled
the latter to barely avoid her destructive
adversary, and sent a shot through in
passing. The ram, however, with speed
andiminis‘, brushing its opponent’s
stern and knocking 011' some railing, dar-
ted thirty yards furtber on and struck the
Gen. Price amidships. The collision was
fearful, the rebel gunboat’s' side crushed
in like paper, and she careened until her
pipes almost dipped the water. Just
reaching land, she sank. The Monarch,
no less boldly than her compeer, dashed
among the rebel fleet, and singling out
the Lowell, under full speed struck fairly
near the wheel, her prow crashing far in-
to the hull, and remaining for a moment
fastened as in a vice. TheLocellinStant-
ly commenced sinking, screening heavily
on one side as the water rushed in.”
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The Lillie Boy and Popisls
Priest.
A popisb priest in Ireland, who is me.
king the Scriptures his daily study-and
is an advocate for the schools in that
country, which most of the priests oppose
lately met one of the scholars going to
school, and asked him what book it was
be carried under his arm? “It is a will,
sir,” said the boy “What will?” rejoined
the priest. “The last will and testament
that Jesus Christ left to me, and to ALL
who desire to claim a title in the property
therein bequeathed.” replied the boy..—-—
. "What did Christ leave you in that will I"
"A kingdom, sir."
kingdom lie?" It. is the kingdom of
heaven, sir." “And do you expect to
reign as a king there?” “Yes, sir, r8
joint licii' with Christ.” “And will am
every person get there as well as you?”
“No, sir none can get there but those
that claim their title to that kingdom
upon the ground of the will.” The priest
asked him several other questions, to
IV/zere . does that
, which the boy gave such satisfactory an,
swers as quite astonished him. t Indeed
said be, you are a godd litte boy: take
care of the book wherein God gives you
such precious promises; believe what he
has said, and you will he happyherc and
kid at Jersey City on Tuesday.
hereafter.”
Norwalk Chronicler