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assesssssss
And looking remarkably hearty
For a widow so young in her weeds ;l
Yet I know that she was snfi‘ering sorrow
Too deep for the tongue to express,'— -
Or why had she chosen to borrow
So much from the language of diess?
Her shawl was as sable as night, . .
And her gloves were as dark as her shawl ;
And her jewels—that flashed in the light—
Were as dark as a funeral pail;
Her robe had the hue of the rest,
(How uiceiyit fitted her shape !)
And the grief that was heaving her breast
Boiled over in biIIOWs of crapei
What tears of vicarious woe,
That else might have sullied her face
Were kindly permitted to flow
In ripples of ebony lace !
While even her fan in its play
Had quite a lugnbricus scope,
And seemed to be waving away,
‘ Theghostof the angel of hope i,
" Yet‘rich as the, robes of a queen, ‘
Was the somber apparel she wore;
I’m certain I never had seen
Such a sumptuous sorrow before;
And I couldn’t help thinking the beauty,
' In mourning the loved and the lost,
Was doing her-Conjugal duty
Altogether regardless of cost!
One surely 'would say a devotion
Performed at so vast'an expense,
Betrayed an excess of emotion
That was really something immense ;
And yet, as I viewed at my leisure,
These tokens of tender regard
I thought—it is scarce without measure—
The sorrow that goes by the yard!
Ahl grief is a curious, passion ;
' And yours—I am sorely afraid,
The very next phase of the fashion
. :Wiil find it beginning to fade; -
Though dark are the shadows of grief,
The morning will follow the night,
Half-tints will betoken relief,
'Till joy shall be symboled in white 1
Ah well—it were idle to quarrel
With Fashion, or ought she may do;
And so I conclude with a moral
And metaphor warranted new :—
When measles come handsomely out, -
The patient is safest, they say ;
And the sorrow is mildest, no doubt,
That works in a similar way!
___——.H.....h———
Mating.
. . or war. 3. common. ,
For the dear love that kept us through the night,
And gave our senses to Sleep’sgentlc sway ;
For the new miracle of dawning light
Flushing the East with prophecies of Day,
- We thank Thee, oh our Godi
For the fresh life that throughout beingiiOWs
With its full‘tide, to strengthen and to bless ;
For cal'm,‘ swoct thoughts, upspringing from repose,
' To hear to Thee their song of lhankfnlness,
We praise Thee, oh our God i
Day uttereth speech to Day, and Night to night
Tells of Thy power and glory i—so would we,
Thy children, duly, with the morning light,
And at still eve, upon the bended knee,
Adore Thee, oh our God l' V
. Thou how’st our needs—Thy fnlness will supply; -
Our blindness—let Thy hand still lead us on _ ‘
Till, visited by the Dayspring from on high, . .
One prayer—one only—“Let Thy will bedone !”
We breathe to Thee, oh God!
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Wonderfully Made.
The microscope- discovers to us 'that
the mold on bread and other provisions
in damp, warm weather is a denselforest
in miniature,” f and .‘has its’j‘regular trees
and trunks and branches, with their-buds
and leaves, and flowers" and fruit. It
proves that the butterfly is covered with
' feathers; so’ beautiful and gorgeous in
their tints, that no painter can ever hope
to equal them ; each hair is seen to be a
' » hollow tube, and . the softly-feeling skin is
overhiid with scales like those of 'a fish ;
so-tiny are they, that i a- single grain‘of
sand will flcever dozens of ; them,:au‘d each
toprotect their months from being plug-
ged upby dust and. dirt, and to shield
{them from disorganization byoverheatp
or destructive chillincss by-suddehblasits
The thin-‘
from the fierce cold of winter.
nest gnaze of our stores, when thrown
ever the face, exposed to a keen and bit-
ter wind, affords a degree of relief scarcely
scale of the skin is of the nature of'horn,
and like impervious to dust, and wind,
and water; and yet being firmly at-
tached to the body at one edge only, the
perspiration oozing out from under it,
raises the free edge, and thus escapes
from the body, loaded with its impurities
two or three pounds a day. Laborers
who do the blowing in glass works lose-
_ by weight very near four pounds in a
single hour 1 the perspiration streaming
through twenty-five hundred pores to
each square in‘chgof the human body, or
seven millions of pores in all, which, if
twenty-eight miles in length, (Seelour
book on SLEEP.) 'If a fish is' deprived Of
its scales, it will be chilled to‘deatli;
and reasoning analogically, and knowing
to, that human skin-scales are dissolved
by the alkali of the soap, u-man may
wash himself too much in soup and water,
may actually wash away the scales of
his body, leaving the pores so unpro-
' tected against heat and cold and obstruc-
tions, that death will inevitably ensue:
indeed, physiological research proves,
that if a third of the skin is removed
from the body by scalding or otherwise,
a'fatai termination is unavoidable. 0b-
servant persons know how soon the skin
becomes pale, shriveled, and tender, even
on the harder hands, if kept a great deal
in common cold water. These are sug-
gestive considerations for those who have
been led by plausible ignorance to be-
indispensable to health and longevity.
Hall’s Journal of Health.
«Qua
w- A Western paper has the follow;
ing atrocious advertisement :
“To Rent—A house on Melville ave-
nue, located immediately alongside of
fine plum orchards, from which an abund-
ant supply of the most delicious fruit may
be stolen. dining the season. Rent low
and the greater part taken in plums.” ‘
sealeliugturn Covers hundreds of pores; '
credible from so frail a material; but a '
and its wastes, to the average extent of ,
joined together, would make a Canal 'of:
lieve that continual water sloshings are'
Paras Tun Gssrnnasn was self-willed,
imperious, passionate, and hadno more
patien'ceithn'n a dog when you snatch
away his bone, or a eat when you’re try-
ing. to strangle her. 'He would have -
been insufferable had not Heaven, in its
mercy, given him a Wife who was amatch
. for him. She was. headstrong, quarrel-
some, discontented and morose—always
ready to keep quiet when her husband
preserved silence, and just as ready to
scream at the top of her voice the mo-
ment he opens his mouth.
. .It was a great good fortune for. Peter
to have such a spouse. Without her,
would he ever have known that patience
is not the merit of fools?
One day, in the mowing season, when
he came home, after a fifteen hours’ of
hard work, in worse humor than usual,
and was swearing, cursing and exccrating
all women and their laziness, because his
soup was not yet ready for him, his wife
exclaimed : .
‘FGood heaven l Peter, you talk away
at a fine rate. Would you like to change
places? Tomorrow I will mow, instead
of you, and you stay at home here and
play housekeeper. Then, we’ll see which
of us will have the hardest task and come
out of it best.” ’
“Agreed!" thundered Peter; “you’ll
have achance to find out, once for ali,'~
what a poor husband has to sufi'er. The
trial will teach you a lesson of respect—
,somcthing you greatly need.”
So the next morning, at daybreak, the
wife set out for the field, with ~the rake
.over her shoulder and the sickle by her
side, all joyous at the sight of the bright
sunshine, and singing like a lark.
Now, who felt not a little surprised,
- and alittle foolish, too, to find himself
shut up at home? Our friend, Peter the
Graybeard. Still. he wasn’t going to
‘own himself beaten, but fell to work churn-
ing butter, as though he had never done.
anything else all the days. of his life. '
It’s no hard matter to get overheated
when one takes on a new trade, and Peter
' soon, feeling very thirsty,lwent down.in~
to the collar to draw a mfig of beer from'
the cask. He had just knocked out the
bang and was applying the spigot, when
he heard an'ominous crunching and grout-
ing overhead. It was the sow, devastat-
ing the. kitchen.
Peterthe Graybeard, as be rushed poll-.-
meil up the steps, with the spigot in. his
hand. ' , What a spectacle was there! the;
churn upset, the cream spilt all over thé‘
floor, and the huge sowfairly wallowing
in the rich and savory tide,
Now even a wiser man- Would have lost
all patience: As for Peter, be rushed
upon the brute, who, with piercing
screams, strove to escape ; but it was a '
day to the thief, for her - master caught
her in'the doorway and delt her so well:
applied and vigorous a blow on the fskull‘
with the-spigot that the sow fell dead on
the spot . . . 1
As he drew back his novel weapon,
now covered with blood, Peter reColl‘ect-J
ed that he had notIclosed the bung-hole;
of the cask, and that all this tlmehis
beerfwasruhuing to waste. Sodowu he:
'rushed'again to the cellar. - Fortunately
the beer had ceased to run, but theuthat
was because not a drop remained in the
cask. l . f U ',
He had now to begin his morning’s
Work again, and churn some more butter
if he expected to see any dinner that’day.
So Peter visited the dairy-house, and
there found cream to replacew'hat he had
just‘ lost.’ At it he , goes- again, and
chorus more vigorously than ever. But,“
in the midst of his churning, he 'rememJ
hers—Fa little. too late, to be sure, but bet-_
ter late than never, that the cow Was still in
the ...'stable, and that she neither had
food nor water, although the sun was
now high above the .horizon. Away he
runs then to the stable. But experience
has made him wise. “I’ve my little child
there rolling on the floor. Now, if I
leave the churn, the greedy scamp may
turn it over, and something worse might
”easily happen!”
Whereupon he takes the churn on his,
back and hastens to the well, to draw
water for the cow. The well was deep,
and the bucket did not go down far
enougtho ' Peter leans with all his
'mig’ht,'in hothaste, on the rope, and
away goes the cream out of the churn,
over his head and shoulders, into the
well!
“Confound it!” said Peter, between
his teeth, “it’s clear I’m to have no but-
ter to-day. Let’s attend to the cow ;it’s
too late“ tpl',‘take her out to pasture, but
there’s a fine lot of hay on the house
thatch that hasn’t been out, and so she‘ll
lose nothing by staying athome.”
To get the cow out of the stable and
put her on the house-roof was no great
trouble, for the dwelling was set in a bol-
low on the hill-side, so that the thatch
was almost on a level with the ground.
A plank eerved the purpose of a bridge,
and behold the cow comfortably install-
ed ‘in' her elevated pasture! Peter, of ‘ '
course, could not remain upon the roof
to watch the animal; he had to make
the mid-day porridge and take it to the .
mowers. But he was a prudent man,
and did not want to leave his Cow expo-
sed to. the risk of breakiug’he'r bones,
en below. Having efi‘ected this,he de-
scended himself, and, entering the kitch-
en, attached the other end of the rope to
his own leg. _ .
“In this way,” said he,“I make sure
that the cow will keep quiet, and that
nothing bed can happen to her."
He now filled the Reine, dropped into
it a good “lump” of lard, the necessary
vegetables and condiments, placed it on
the well-piled fagots, struck fire with
flint and steel, "and was applying the
match to the wood, blowing it well the
while, when, all at once, crash—crash!
away goes the cow, slipping down over
the roof, and dragging our good man,
with one leg in the air and head down-
ward, clear up the chimney.
would have become of him, no one can
tell, had not a thick bar of iron arrested
his upward flight. And now there they
are, both together, dangling in the air,
the cow outside and Peter within; both,
distress. . ~» -
As good luck would have it, the wife
was just as impatient as her husband, and
when she had waited just three seconds
to see whether Peter would bring her
porridge at the stated time, she darted
ofi‘ for the house as-though it were on
fire. When she saw the cow swinging
between heaven and earth, she drew her
sickle and cut the rope, greatly to the
delight of the poor brute who now found
herself safe again, on the Only sort of
floor she liked. It was a chance no less
fortunate for Peter, who was not accus-
tomed to gazing at the sky With his feet
in the air. But he fell smack into the
kettle, head foremost. It had been de‘
creed, however, that all should come out
right with him that day; the fire had
died out, the water was cold, and the ket-
tle awry, so that he got off with nothing
worse than ascratched forehead, a peel-
ed nose, ,_and two well-scraped cheeks,
and-thank heaven! nothing was broken
but the saucepan? ‘
When his better half entered the kitch-
on, she found Master Graybeard looking
very sheepish and bloody.
“Well! well l” said she, planting her
arms a-kimbo, and her two fists on her
hips, “‘who is the best housekeeper,
pray? I have mowed and reaped, and
here I am as good as I was yesterday,
- - . h"! o .- M. Cook, Mr. Ste Jet
“Oh, heaven! my butter’s brightly-med. w ‘9 y “r you r y
home, Mr. Nurse, where’s the cow, bud
where’s our dinner? If our little one’s
alive yet, no thanks to you. Poor little
fellow ?— what would become of it with-y
out kind and careful momma l” . .
Whereupon Mrs . Peter began to weep
and sob. Indeed, she “had need to; for
7is not sensibility woman’s field of triumph,
and are not her tears the triumph of
sensibility?“ " "" ‘ "
Tater bo'rd'th'e storm in silence, and
great souls.
n<.>e.—'—_
_ " _"Tne' Best Bed.
Of. the eightpounds which a man cats
vaud‘drinks ibi a-day‘,-it is thought that
not less- than? five pounds leave his body
through‘lthe. skin. And of these five
poundsagconsiderable per centage escapes
during-thernight while he is in bed. The
larger part-of. this is water, but in" addi-
tion there is“ much effete and poisonous
matter. This being in great part gas-
eous in form, permeates every part of the
bed. Thus, all parts of the bed, mattrass,
blankets, as well as sheets, soon become
foul, and need purification. The mattress
needs this renovation'quite as much as
the sheets. - ‘ . - , ,
,To.al,low‘ the” sheets to' be used without
mashing or changing three or six months,
would be regarded as bad housekeeping;
but I insist, if a thin sheet can absorb
enough _of the poisonous excretiOns of the
body to make it unfit for use in a’few
days, a thick mattress which can absorb
andretain a thousand times its much of
purified as often certainly as once in three:
months. , .
A sheet can be Washed; a mattrass
cannot be renovatedin this way. Indeed,
thereis no other way of cleansing a mat-
tr‘as's' than by steaming it," or'picking it to
pieces, and thus in fragments exposing it
to the direct rays'of the sun. I As these
processes are scarcely practicable, with
any of the ordinary mattresses, I am de-l
cidedly of the opinion that the good old-
fashioned straw bed, which can every
three months beichangsd for fresh straw,
and the tick, be washed, is the sweetest
and healthiest of beds.
If, in thewinter season, the porousness
of the straw bed makes it a little uncom-
fortable, spread over" it a comforter, or
woolen blankets, which should be washed
as often as every two weeks. With this
arrangement, if you wash all the bed
coveriug'as often as once in two or three
weeks, you will have a delightful and
healthy bed. , . '
Now, if you leave the bed to air, with
Open. windows during the day, andznot
you will have added greatly to the‘ 'swcct-'
.ness of your rest, and . in consequence to
the tape of your_he{a;lth-—,_-D_r. ‘D. Lawn
fl.‘ You ma'y"wish to get a "wife with--
out stalling; but what if the lady,pfter’
you find hermhappens to be. inwant of. a
{husband or t e same character ?
What .
too, uttering the most frightful cries of"
did well; for resignation is the virtue of-
, other the bitttle.
these poisonous .excretions needs to be. '
ind distracted states, but very, cautious
make itup forethe night before evening.
The following report of the victory of
Antietam has ‘ been fcrwarded to_ the
headquarters of the army by'Geueral
M‘Clelian:
‘ . Nuns Smarssuno, Sept. 29.
To Maj. Gen: W'. H; Halleck, General-
i'n-Clu'ef: .
Gunman—I have'the honor to'report
the following as some of the results of
the battles of South Mountain and Au?
. tietam:
At South Mountain our loss was 443
dead, 1,806 wounded, and ’16 missing.—
total, 2,325. At Antietam our loss was
2,010 killed, 9,416 wounded, and 1,043
missing-s-total, 12,409. Total lossiu- the
be ascertained from the number of their
dead found upon the field and from other
estimate:—— ' , .
Major Davis, Assistant Inspector-Gen-
dead, reports 3,000 rebels buried upon
the field of Antietam by our troops. Pref
vious to this, however, the rebels had
distant portion of the battle-field, proba-
bly atleast500. --- -
The loss of the rebels at South Moun-
tain cachet be'a'scertained with accuracy,
but as our troops continually drovethem
from the. commencement Of the action,
and as a much greater number of their.
dead were seen on the field than of our
own men, it is not unreasonable to sup-
pose that their loss was greater than
ours. Estimating their killed at" .500,
the total rebel killed in the two battles
would be 4,000. According to the ratio’
.of our own killed and wounded, this
would make their loss in wounded,
18,742. ' .
As nearlyas can be determined at this
time, the number of prisoners taken by
our troops in the two battles,,will, at=the
. lowest estimate, amount to 5,000. The-I
futeturns will no doubt show a larger
number. Of these, about, 1,200 are
wounded. This gives me a rebel loss in
killed, wounded and prisoners, of 25,542.
. It will be observed that this does not
include their stragglers, the number. of
whom is said by citizens here to” be large.
It may be. safely concluded, therefore,
that the rebel army lost‘at least 30,000
of their best troops. ‘ -
‘ From thetime our troops commenced
to march into Maryland till the enemy
was driven back into Virginia, we cap-
tured 13 guns, '1, caissons, 2-field forges,
2 caiss0n bodies,'39 colors, aud'I signal
lag. We have not lost a single gun or
sealer. ’ ' ’ . ' .
' on the battlefield of Antietam.l_4,000
small arms were collected.,,besides the‘
large numberfca'rried off: by citizens and
those distributed" on the" ground to ‘r‘e- '
cruits and other unarmed men arriving
At S0uth Mountain no collection of
haste of the pursuit from that point.
Four hundred were taken on the "oppos-
site side of the Potomac. ' . ‘
‘ ‘ Gno. B. M‘CtuLLIu,
Maj. Gen. Commanding.-
«0
Reserves AT Horne—The importance of
alarge reserve force at , home is more
and more attracting the public attention.
it is not unlikely that further demands
lnay'be made upon: the martial popula-
tion of the North. The better we are
prepared to meet it the more eficient'
will be the aid which we can render,
ind the less will be the probability of
calling it out. Among the contingencies .
thatnwe must take into the accountis=
thatofforeign intervention. With 250,
100 or 300,000 men under military in-
struction and preparing to‘go into the
ield if needed, the probabilities of foreign
intervention would be greatly diminished.
The great powers of Europe are fond of
intervening in .Msxico and other feeble
{about it in those where intervention
will be met with iron fleets on the coast
and on their own coasts, and with well-
oppointed armies on the land France
and England are constantly intervening
to prevent the things that both are con-'
stsntly doing, but they don’t intervene
In eachydther’s'afiairs.‘ Not a bit of it.
as fast. as tho workmen, thick as they
can stand on the decks or crowd upon
reserve force such as we are able to put
on foot, we may securely defy the world
in arms. The armies that could success-
fullyl'meet us, could not be transported»
so rapidly aswe could annihilate them ;'
and our iron vessels with on; new‘arma?
meats, would be a match forranythingf
that could attack us by sea. _ Every con-I
sideratiou' .of ' economy and .of security
presses us to organise a large reserve;
not-to be called into» the service unlem
organized not likely~ to be needed; but
its very existence of immense service in
:thepreseut, and of immense security for
‘thefuturc._-—1_’romdence‘ ° ', Journal. '
. WA Maine editorthus distinguishes .
. between. difi'eneut: sorts of patriotism;
.Some esteem itsvieet- to 'diejfor *one’s,
mum": otm'reser‘diit‘ameriicil'o
*for om «nurture ration-ends it
sweeter to live an one’s motu.‘
m battles, 14,794. The lossvvof the-
rebeis inthe two battles, as near as can :
data, will not fall, short of the following
.er'al,?who superinteuds the burial of the.
buried many of theirpwn dead upon the.
small arms washmade, owing to the '
With'the fleet that we are completing, -
the sides, can hammer it out, and, with a,
needed, and if promptly and ‘eficieutly-
Messrs. Editors: ‘My'subject may not
be very ‘interektiug' ' to’ you or the public
in general, but nevertheless, I shall ex.
press my;opinicu—not my opinion alone,
'but thous‘audsof others who have volun-
. tested the sustains! I have for three
yearsfi, _' .;
---My'subject is
mouse bounties ' voted by the different
town: to the nine months volunteers. I
would, if I may be.sllowed,ask why the
three years volunteers are. not voted .
such a. bounty by‘thedifl'ereuttowm to
which othey'belong? Is-vit' because their
services-are not worth ssmuChh or is it
because thepeople think'theyi'are‘ amply
provided‘for new? " ’ ' ' .
' .I'.:1i_ave" come- to the. conclusion that
both. government and thepeople think
the services of the three years volunteers
are of no accbuut, and that-they think
we do not need money. ' As it is nearly
five monthssinco we have received any
payment whatever. from thegoverument
which. we have: so‘ufaithfully' served-—
many of us for fifteen monthsé-iI ask the
public if this is right and just,.a_n'd in ac-
cordance with the law of our Nation?
Sincelour enlistment, we have undergone
almost everything without the slightest
murmur. ' Origg'Tybee"? Island we were
obliged to work‘hight' and day, scarcely
procuring five” ‘hdurs’ rest out-of twenty; '_
four for nearly three mouthsnz At the
finest the 'James Island affair, we did
all in our power, and underwent al-
most ‘cverythiug-r—but"'not even a thank
you have we received. ' .1 'co uld bring up
a score of such instances, but I decline
doing so. :' I am willing andready to un-
dergo anything- for - my country-”but I
wish to be used as one of her defenders.
I" believe all who have volunteered are
but the same “myself—they wish to re-
ceive some compensation, for their ser-
vices. -_ 3 _ I , j .
“ ,I would‘further inquire’fif‘ th‘é‘ithree
years volunteers are not mo re entitled to
a bounty than the nine months-men?
The former, at their :ccuntry’s call, en-
rolled their name's’as her defenders with-
out regard to. localities, and depended
upon the charity'of‘ the-people, but it
seems the people deem -,them' : not worthy
of charity. The bolterkgiwbeuf upon ”the
very verge of being‘drafted,ivery_reluc~
tantly volunteered, and the .peo ple 'deem-
.in'g them-worthy of much ch’a my; voted
them a bounty of from $50 to 3200.” Is
this right and just? I leave it to-the de-
cision of. the people, and hope they will
remember-us in theirzliberalityu'
I donor wish the’piiblic‘to-drawa con-
clusiou from this, that all regard for»
country is vanished; for, such is‘ not the
' ones. i: We all stand 'as‘ read y today—-
sud ~a_t‘_this very‘incmeuteetonfight-qand
lay-down our liven-if need be, for. the
.Union' and Constitution 'as- ever, ' and
shall," if Called upon, prove it "by actions
”fillasmrds.f. ‘ Al'g‘.N_; .
W‘ .
. ’ Tildka Animators-Here is .'~ «a
timid from Orpheus C. Kern; Having a1-
luded. to the inquiry which is . sometimes
mode as to where-the "wide-eawokes” are
in the present contest. He write: :4-
“To'o many of the wide-aw'ake's offthe
last campaign are indeed fastasleep now,
when their country needs them. I saw
one ofthem, sinmbering nearCulpepper
Court House last week. He was. sleeping.
with his right arm twisted in the spokes
of a disabled Cannon-wheel and 'a small
purple mark was on his right temple.
But he was not. alone in his forgetful
sloth, for near him, and rigidity egraspin'g
this disengaged hand, was or. Democrat,
slumbering tool ,
“The sight, I remember,_rendered me
so honestly indignant that 1 could not
help pointing it out to the chaplain. The
chaplain looked-a moment at the fusion
ticket before us. - .
“‘They sleep for the flag,’says be soft-
ly, ‘and may its stars shed pleasant dreams
upon. their loyal ‘ souls forever'l’”
-- , ' . o»-—' —— . _-
vfl" A blacksmith having been slang
dared, was'advised to apply to the Courts
for redress; ’He replied With true wing
dom : ‘I can, go into myshop and work
out a better character .in six, months
than I can :get in a court house in. a;
‘ This state of affairs cannot of course con--
whole year.’
«.wfl—
3- Letters of inquiry relating to the
pay-of soldiers in the hospitals or color-
-lough,.should be addressed to the Pay-.
master, General; relating to back pay
and the $100 bounty of deceased soldiers,
to the Second-Auditor ; relating, ~to the
pay of deceased teamsters or .other em:
ploycs of the Quartermaster’s department,
-or the pay for horses killed or lost in the
service, to the Third Auditor; relating
to the psyand bounty of personsgiu the
marine'or naval service, to the Fourth,
Auditor ;.vabout soldiers in army, to the
AdjutautGeneral. .If parties desirous
of information will only consult the above
table they will save themselves and the
clerks in the various unless a‘ great“ deal
of trouble. ‘ " , .
(8’ Is it not a' singular fact that the Union -
and Rebel amigo are now pigeon: .‘aurl‘oogpg
' eacho or; across: very . .
3 llgllifiohn'firown’s first blood was shed!—
No spot in Virginia has yet become so deeply
? "th blood-oi her none as Harriers,
- .deergyln “Penguins ismiue,.naith-rne lord."_
i ‘ W' _ ' ‘,.\u' .
j 7 The 'New. York Corcoren. dinner,
(«all was hover eaten, by the way,) Cost-
tiieci ‘ 583.20 of'which $1563" went'for
' liquorf'ya‘n‘gbigurs." . They - drink -' a: great deal
NQNZMQIIDI' cat . at; those , sumptuous rc-
Home
:in« regard-to the ehor- .
We have long ago- expressed the com
viction that slavery in thin country is
doomed ;‘fahd"the ‘adv‘eilt' or this procla-
mation we can scarce consider, under the
circumstance, as hastening its fate-i
Perfectly mad as the cotton States were,
in challenging a conflict for itsexteu‘siou,
the ferocious spirit they'have'showuin.
the fight has, ' little by, little, lost then)
the sympathies of the world at large;
until left alone as its especial champions,
and inadequate to sustain a much longer
struggle, it w0uld have perished, ulti-
mately, whether the Executive had moved
in the matteriu the way he has seen fit
todoor not. ' .
And as to its efl'ects upon the institué
tion in the border States, _ it is not at all
problematical. If Virginia or North
Carolina become free States by the terms
of the proclamation, the exemption re-
sulting to Maryland is of no practical
value whatever. With free States on
both sides of her, who would care to,own
negroes here? and what possible advan-
tage would we have over those obnoxious
to the terms of the President’s manifesto
in other States? As the matter 'stamls
even at present, negro property here Ito: be-
come so uncertain in. its feature, that in
many portion: of our mmwealth they
are 'a: good as free already. ~ I ' ‘
Front/1e Hartford (Ct) Gourmet.
Tun Year or. Joanna use Conn.—
* ~* * -Ws'rejoice most heartily that the
axe is laid to the reot of 'the‘tree. The
proclamation meets our views“ both in
what it does and in what it omitsto do.
Its limitationsshow that President Lino
coin means to preserve good faith to-
ward the loyal border s'lave'States. So
long as they are loyal their ‘slavesare'
safe ; let them become rebellious, and the
terms of the proclamation -will reach
them like their sisters in revolt.
, _ , From the Chicago Tribune. ‘
' So splendid'a vision has hardly shone
upon the world .since the days of the
Messiah. From the date of this procla-
mation begins the history of the Repub-
lic as our fathers designed to have it-_-the
home of freedom, the asylum of theop-
pressed, the seat of justice, the land of;
equal rights under the law, where eaCh
.man, however humble, shall. be entitled
to life, liberty and the-pursuit of happi-
ness. Let no one think to stay the 'gio-
rious reformation. Every day’s events
are hastening its triumph, and‘whosoever
shall place himself in its wayit will grind
him to powder. 7 '
From't/ie Washington Republican.
This proclamation will be receiv'ed by
the loyal States with a perfect furore of
acclamation. It will lose the President
a few latter day friends, who did not pro-
fess to become such until after his elec-
tion, and who have been. so. now only for
their own sinister purposes. -'But it will
restore to the President all his old friends,
and unite the sound portion of the people
in one solid and impregnable mass in sup-
port of the Union and the Constitution;
From the Phil. North American.
This proclamation of the President is
the decree of fate rather than the utter-
ance of any man, and no one who has
thoughtfully observed the course of re-
cent events could fail to forsee that the
cloud settling darkly around us would
very soon be lighted up. with a flash that
would mark the turning point of the ac-
cumulatiou. The storm is not over, but
it is no longer gathering. We can see
now that their is to be an end, and we
know the end is to be favorable to the
future unity and prosperity of this great
nation." _ _ .. .. _ .. . .
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
We have no doubt the' President’s
policy, as laid down in his proclamation,
will be approved by an immense majority
of the people of the United States who
are loyal to our republican form of gov-
ernment. They have been called upon
and are now called upon to make vast.
sacrifices for the general‘weifare Their-
blood is being poured out like water, and-
their treasure is being lavished by. hnn-‘
dreds of millions of dollars, to maintain
in the field an army greater than that of.
any of the military empires of Europe.
tinue indefinitely. ‘If any action canibe
taken respecting the sluves that will. tend"
to bring the war ton conclusion, that ac-
tion will be endorsed by the people with
an approach to unanimity. The most
conservative ‘ cannot complain that the
President has not shCWn, end is not shpw-
ing, an eminent degree of moderation.—-'
The rebels are now only informed that at
the end of three months the Government:
will'cease to recognize their slaves as
property. It cannot be. alleged that this
is not giving fair‘wnrning.
From the Cleveland (Ollie) Herald.
Now the issue is presented. Slavery-
‘is.to be interfered with—unless the rebels
ground arms ; and we invite the "butteifi
nuts” to toe the mark, make the issue,
and the civilizedw‘orld may look on while
the greatest contest the world ever saw
is to be decided—Fa contest in which the
loyal men of the-Union must battle with,
the slavery propagandists of the South,
uud'the powers“ of darkness, under the.
l guise of demoCracy, iu the North.
' ments, that
. under both 'caiis for‘three hundred thousand
said House in. 1860 b‘y-th'e pretty deal-iv.
vote “12,064 to avoscartéring, hens: been
unanimouslyfnominated to the-M30112.
On being notified ‘of his nomination, be ap-
peared and addressed the Convention as
foliowss— ‘1' ‘ ‘ 5-
-* Farrow ”Cruisers; I‘ 'have'come for
the purpose of thanking you" and accept-
ing your nomination. It is always grat-
ifying to a public-man to- be assured of
the" continued confidence of those whose
servant he is, but csmciall’ y so in times
like these when the wisest men differ on
questions of policy. .I had to
speak on thosequestions, and to criticise,
not in ,a .fulsome msnner, but as I thought
it deserved. 1:33 enacting. .oAfdthe rm and
the resent icy-0 t .8 Illin' on-
but Pinthe last, hour .1 have hesitated
whether ,to speak .8 I; had intended—
whether it were, proper to criticise now,
in this hour— of deepest, gloom, when we
know not where our amiss are, but
know that they are nowhere sauce-fol.
But, whether we” advise the Government,
or find fault with it, we must all do every
thing to strengthen the hands of our aa-
tiou.‘ j Let us not despair; life is not all
sunshine—it has gloom with joy, adver-
sity with proSperity-anor is the vi
always to the rjusté-human energy-and
earnestness will often wrest from, fats
‘what would. seem to belong to justice
alone. Possibly we have not yet suffered
enough; butlet'nonan 'faltsr ln'his loy-
alty to his Government.» matter how
he may crititise its policy; forvbc who
falters now is a traitor, not only to his
country, but to humanity and -to.bis God.
_ I have not determined whether to mask
as I had intended; perhaps when we
_‘ know the result of these few; days, I my
meet you and speak to you. 3' I hnve pros
tested against _the_._premnt policy, not
only to the people, but to the face of the
President and his cabinet, and on the
floor of-Congress, as those who know have
done me the honor-to read my speeches;
told them that they were exerCisiug too
much leuity at the ‘ request of border
statesmén‘not one Of whom, in my judg-
ment, has loyalty ,iu’his‘ heart. I have
accused the PrimeMinister to his face
for having gone back from the faith he
taught us, and instead of arming eve
' man, black or white, woo would fight for
this Union, withholding a well-meaning
President from - doing so until, as we ad-
vance into their country and our armies
dwindle away from miasma and disease,
they spring up behind us, and retake
what we «had, gained. They still hold
the Mississippi, and threaten us even on
the banks of the Ohio; all because the
slaves at home are giving them no trou-
ble—r-becaus‘e wears, at the point of the
bayonet, “keeping them loyal to their
masters instead of to the Unionl I told
these things to the President and Cabi-
net, and they replied—.“it may come to
this.” “Come to this I”. when 200,000 men
have melted away, and $2,000,000.000
spent: “Come to this!” when another half
million lives shall have been lost, and a
' billion of dollars more laid upon you in
taxation. I" cannot and wili‘not stand
this—and if you elect me, I shall vote
that every man be armed, black and
white, who can aidin crushing the rebel-
lion; that every inchecf rebel soil will be
.taken and sold to‘payfithe debt of this
war. I.‘wiil not go with'the President in
paying for all the slaves—ll did not vote
for his resolution—I- willnot vote to
for anyslave of a rebel! But I will up
hold. the Administration as far as possi-
ble—saying at ~:the. same time that it is
all invain unless they change. their pol-
iCy. ‘ Would it not be better that 15,000
armed slaves should lie funburled‘around
the battle-fields near Msnassasthsn that
your friends and mine should thus be
there? The rebels might have slain them;
they would have saved us, and our own
men would have gone fresh into action
and to victory. Yet at this sympathizerl
with treason at the North cry, "Aboli-
tionl” Abolition—yes! abolish every-
thing on the face- of the earth but this
Union; free every slave—slay every traio
tor—burn every rebel mansion, if these
things be necessary to preserve this tour-
ple of freedom to the world and to our
posterity. Unless we do this, we cannot
conquer them-» I. have spoken thus in
Congress; and in the last week, after a
few remarks of mine, the vote was 84 to
42—34 agreeing with me, where a year
ago not fifty could have been found, and
if I go back there again, if we have any
one left to fight. by that . time, the whole
nation will be with mel Either we must
pursue that policy, or the war will be
disgracefnlly abandoned at last, and our
country divided-and he is a traitor who
talks of separation on any termsl Again
I 'hank you—I have saidmore than I
intended when I begun, less than I silo
pected last night; but I have told you
these things that, even if my principles
be wrong, they shall ne'ver’be hidden.
Ascrsur Phenomena—According to
the translation from Michael Nostrada-
mus’ “Seven Centuries of. Prophecy,“ it
appears that he not only prophesied ' the
death of Charles l_of England, the estab-
lishment of the" French'Republic, the
deaths of Henry IV and Louis XVI of
France, giving the exact date of each, but
that, in 1861, a war viould arise in a
country beyond the- seas, that many
would perish, that there would be the
most intense hatred manifested, that the
war. would last four years, when both
parties would be utterly _ prostrated and
almost ruined, and then would: embrace
each other with great. joy and love.
Nostradamus died; in 1556; so far as
known he appears to have been a true
,prophet. _ , , . ,
- ., » f9?“ .
13‘, It aplfiars from , thentin oflcial stato-
aine has lied her entire quota
men. Her quota under the first was'seven
thousand, and all off the men have been in
thelield ,ior four weeks. sate Under the
last call fordrafied men, 7 iue’s quota was
. 'niuety-six-hu‘ndred. The mention; all been
raised‘ byzv'olunteering, and have been in
cam at Portland Au u and r
sincgsthe. 15th 9‘; Septcmw . W '
W A man named Nathan. Levi was re-
cently-arrest‘ed in Memphis for trading of
: eight hundred dollars counterfeit Confeder-
ate treasury notes for two hundred and forty
,doliars in‘blils'oni’llennessccsbsnka . lie was
discharged on the ground that Confederate
“notes were not money,"aiid‘ hence they were
no counterfeit: in the eye of the law.
..’_:..i_. ..._ ..... M.m.s. .
is?“
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