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J». WAS80X.

FREII-ARRIVAL

NEW GOODS!

AT THE

OLD BINFOBD CORNER!

WAASSON & BINFORD

A"5

now in rcceipt of their Fall and Winter stock of

Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS!

CLOTHING,

Hats, Caps,

Boot8 and Shoes,

QUEENSWARE, CUTLERY, &C..&C.

LADIES' DRESS GOODS, BONNETS ANB RIBBONS,

Of all sorts and sizes, for Ladies anil Misso«.

French Flowers, American Flowers

Laces, Fringes, &c.

READY MADE CLOTHING,

Of nil kinds and styles for men and boys. Urine along your

Produce and Cash!

Farmer.": we will sell you

O O O O O S

AND AT AS

LOW FIGURES,

As house i?i this place can or dare sell. Give us a cull. April 7, IStiO-Dee. 15-1 y.

Study to JPlease!"

1IVT1. Ml O is m: TS O.V'

.CAB1NKT AND CIIAIR

W A E 0 0 S

tin.

7K have on linnd and make to order, fruin RUOD HII menu ."calcined material, and by superior workmen, following assortment, consisting of

Break fust, Dining, Card and CJJNTRU TABLES,

Plain and Fancy Bedsteads,

TUCKER'S PATENT SPRING BEDS, MATRASSES,

IVYfwIi

and \%%ork Stands,

REMEMBER:

We defy all Competition!

HTTWarorootns on Green street, ono door south of Campbell. Galey Harter's, [March 24. ISCO-tf.

No,

Commercial Block,

i/ mil) if a \m

AND

EVERYBODY! THE

undersigned bavins purchased the Dry Goods Stock of Grimes ,t liurbridge, are now receiving their

Fall and Winter Goods,

Which thoy aro determined to sell as low as any other house, to punctual men or for

CASH OR PRODUCE!

Wc ask all who visit onr market to purchase Goods to give us a oall. as wo are confident we can do them Kood. Our stock consists of

PRINTS, of all grades, DELAINES, 3IORINOS,

ii.vroRC. WBPTB11 JTIf•

DEBEGES,

Bleached and Brown Muslins,

Plaaacla of all kind*, Ginghitnta,

SHAKER HOODS, NET HOODS,

HATS AND CAPS, OF ALL KINDS,

Ready Maed Colthiiig:

Satinetfs, Cassimcres, Ticecds,

liniind"!

tJ-c.

BOOTS &c SHOES

For everybody, CUEAr! A fine stock of

Queensware, Glassware, Groceries, Knives 4- Forks, Tea «$• Table Spoons, iur

ererytWn«

can bccallcd for in

h*Unl ready and

happy to wait OB all his old fiend, a^and.

customers.

ALLEN BINFORH

Crawfordsville, Sept. 29. I860. nil-ly

QBOBGE D.ULKLEY. 11. U. MA«ON' HVBLBV 4c MASON,

Attorneys and Counselors at Law, \AflLL give elose attention to business entrusted to uiom, make prompt collections and quick

Particular attention paid to the settlement

°»fSgeedents' estates, fortclosaro of mortgages Ac. JUmce Wallace Block, over thc BeviewOffice. th* market affords can be fonad at

KEL8EY BRO.'S.

It puzzles many to understand it, chiefly because they don't want to understand it. Irrepressibles on the Northern aide can't abide the neutrality of this State. Sensi ble men on both sides see the justice of Kentucky's position.

A^party formed exclusively in one section of the Union, based on hostility to an institution in tho other, aiming to get the whole political power of the FederalGoreminent and control it exclusively upon its own sectional-ideas and notion*,in spite of the other, and in contempt and defiance of the other, was an unpatriotic and pestilent organization. It was never intended that one part of this Union should establish a domination over the other. It is ira possible for a Union to exist in such a con dition. Kentucky protested from first to last against -such an organization. We foresaw what it had a violent tendency to provoke. It would be just as well for the South to be governed by a despot at once as to be governed by the opposite scction of the Union. She would submit to a government in which she had no voice, or in which she had as well have none. This great wrong has been done in the Northrather attempted to be done. As we said Kentucky protested against it from the start, with almost certain forbodings of its consequences. No State looked on with more coolness at this mischievous and dangerous movement of the Republican party and none saw more clearly its disastrous consequences. She saw moreover that it was easy to meet the emergency and counteract the natural tendency of it. The result showed that the people of this country vjere against this movement, by a majority of nearly a million. Congress and the Supreme Court were against it. It succef\cd only in electing a President accidental^, and this wa3 accomplished by the conniv'ancc and contrivance of ambitious men South, who saw that they had lost power and jKttronage in the Union.

After the election, we had the Republican party wholly in the wrong, and the power to inflict the penalty upon the wrong. }Yc had the President a prisoner, without power to move on with his Administration. The Republican party had been often in a more favorable positiou, when it had one House of Congress and not the responsibility of the Administration. This sectional movement would have been broken down disastrously. Wo had it completely in check. Their game was played out and- could hardly have been revived in a generation. For reasons well understood, an Admini.'itratiou can not cxpcct its second Congress to support it. The causes for this were all aggravated in the case of Lincoln. lie was condemned by the legislative department at the start, and had still worse fortune to expect with the next. .So favorable an opportunity to break down and crush out sectional parties had not occurred since the origin of the Government. Instead of standing up to the duty of allegiance to their eountrv. and their duty to the Government their fathers made, watched over with anxious solicitude, and bequeathed lo their sons with many pray-1 ers and tears, part of the South ingloriously deserted. They denounced the perveron in it a in to an a or re in re a it fill to the Constitution itself, in refusing it gave them to correct! vice which threatened to pervert it.—

They played false, not to the Republican I

party, but. to patriotic everywhere.— didoyal States is as folldws: If they will not use the means their Constitution gives them to preserve it in its I purity, what security can the}' give, that I any Constitution will be better treated

What is the use of a Constitution, if those who live under it will not avail themselves provides to prevent any perversions of it .' We say a part of the South deserted, most unphilosophically, treacherously and meanly deserted, under the lead of a State which was mostly Tory

0f"the

means it

WHAT-NOTS, LOl'NGKS, SOFAS, Hickory. Cane, Wood and Sofa-Seat Cliail's and Rockers In fact every article of Furniture called for, which ,, we will sell cheaper than any other house in town.— {in 1 0, and not much better S1UCC whose Call and examine for yourselves.

political ideas are unlike those of any other State, aud can hardly be called Republican—a State long ambitious to break up the Union, and only waiting an opportunity, which this sectional party most unpatriotically gave her. They had Lincoln and his party iu the wrong in undertaking to establish a sectional domination and instead of holdiug him to a strict account for it, which they had the power under the Constitution their fathers gave them to do, they placcd themselves and the South in the wrong, and relieved Lincoln and his party.

The world will forget the wrong of Lincoln and his party, in looking at the guilt of choosing a bloody remedy when a peaceable one was at hand. This guilt will be augmented iu the mind of every patriot in this country, when he sees the fall of the best

Government on earth—an ocean bound llepublic—and" substituted in ivrcactlo.Vin Toxns. place despotism, now, aud perhaps, the! sacrifice of liberty forever.

l)ook at this spectacle and then blame thc neutrality of Kentuckv.

Wc condemn and detest the conduct of tho revolutionists but Republicans how much better are you Do you come iuto court with clcan'hands The secession-

ists have enabled you to shift the issue

you now fight to preserve the Government but you have not spent years abusing the South to preserve the Government j*ou didn't elect Lincoln to preserve the Government. You were not aiming at sectional domination to preserve thc Government.

Now, you Republicans, if you are successful in this war, what then Now you want to preserve the Government. That Kentucky desires to see done. She would give her last dollar and most precious blood to restore it in its integrity, and spend a million in bonfires to celebrate the event.

But if this war is successful on tho part of the President, what is to come are these sectional ideas, upon which your party is built, to be carried out Is it to be a victory of your party and your platform Is sectional domination to be established, and the Chicago platform to be the Constitution? Kentucky wants an answer to these questions the Union men of the South want an answer.

It's unreasonable and unjust to expect

NEW SERIES-VOL. XII, NO. CMWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JUNE,

the Union men of Kentucky to give men or money in this fight until we get an answer. We hare vague promises that no constitutional rights are to be disturbed but no definite guaranty of these rights has been offered. We believe the people of the North will give these guaranties, if they ever get a chance. We have indications of that but the powers that bo up to this have shown little more than sullen defiance. No compromise with traitors is.the cry. They need not utter that cry. Those they call traitors spurn a compromise. No compromise will ever be made by them.: It is the Union men of the South, and they area legion who ask these guaranties. They are as anxious to preserve the Government as the most anxious what is it to be when preserved 1 If this war, if successful, is to end in sectional domination, it is not our Government.— Let us have definite security against this, and there will be no neutrals among the Union men of the South.

We do not fear this sectional domination its impossible. There is not power in this country to establish it. The fight to preserve the Government is popular.— Millions would shed their blood for that. Kentucky would do it but in a fight for sectional domination, the Union men of the South must be conquered.

We want an understanding of this now it may save oceans of blood and treasure. Let's see what the Government is to be when it is preserved. Until then, not a man or a dollar can Kentucky furnish.— Federal laws will be executed, Federal rights respected. There is no need of forces to execute these laws or protect these rights. We can attend to that ourselves. Hut we want to know what's to be established by this war on the part of the Government. A satisfactory reply to this will do more to end this war than all the treasure and blood to be spent. Let the Administration consider this it is orth more than all its armies.—Louiseville Democrat.

A.-VOXIIKR TEST.

There is another test of the relative numerical strength of the parties to the war,—that of the white males between the iges of eighteen and forty-five years in the oyal and disloyal States. The requisite information iu this respect is furnished by the late census. The number of white males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the loyal States is as follows, in round numbers:

California 70,000 Connecticut 92,000 Delaware 22,000 Illinois 342,000 Indiana 270,000 Iowa 135,000 Kansas 21,000 Maine 125,000 Massachusetts ............ 246,000 Michigan 150,000 Minnesota 32,000 New Hampshire .... 65,000 New Jersey 134,000 New York 178,000 Ohio 468,000 Oregon 10,000 Pennsylvania 581,000 Rhode Island 35,000 Vermont 63,000 •Wisconsin 155,000

Total .... 3,800.000

The number of white males between

t|1L. agos 0f

,tween

eighteen and fortv-fivc in the

Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana .Mississippi.... North Carolina. South Carolina. Tennessee Texas Virginia

Total 1,113,000 The following is the number of white males between the of eighteen and fortyfive in what may be termed the neutral States:

Kentuckv 180,000 Maryland 120,000 Missouri 211,000

Total 517,000 The loyal States are altogether lo3'al. There is no division amongst their people as to the prosecution of the war. The disloyal States arc not altogether disloyal. There is more or less latent Union sentiment in most in most of them, while Northwestern Virginia is almost wholly for the Union Tennessee may possibly declare for the Union at the August election North Carolina is not hopelessly disunion, and Sam Houston says be looks for an car-

But on the supposi-

Vml llNiDl OV IJTMA1I1 TMUNfIBM UTIEVtB UIAJOK OEKX ncClELLAN SPLElf. DID APPEABAXCE cfTHE TROOPS.

The grandest military display ever witnessed in Indiana came off yesterday. It was announced in the morning papers that troops stationed here would be reviewed in the afternoon, on the open ground Northwest of Camp Sullivan, by Major General McClellan, and in that direction, notwithstanding the threatening appearance of the sky, and a slight sprinkle of rain, about two o'clock, a large portion of our population proceeded. Both branches of the Legislature adjourned and joined the crowd. They were early on the ground, and secured a good position on a rail fence where, by courtesy' usually extended to the press, we too, secured a seat. The two State regiments encamped at Camp Sullivan were invited to |oin in the parade, but as they have not yet received their uniforms, they preferred, not to do so, and volunteered to furnish guards to keep the grounds clear for the review—a delicate duty on an occasion where such eager interest was manifested by such a mass of people* and one which they executed satisfactorily. The common is about one half a mile long by. from one-quarter to onethird of a mile in width from east to west. A sufficient space was given on the cast for spectators, and sentries were placcd around the lines to resist any pressure from the spectators

About three o'clock the sky cleared, scarce rain enough having fallen to settle the dust, and about that time the regiments from Camp Morton began to arrive. They came on to the ground in fine style after their long march, and as the columns swept on to their places in the Hue, the sight was magnificent. A general buzz of approbation rose from the spectators as their eyes drank in the full extent of the display.— The troops marched splendidly—better than they afterwards did when passing in review.

The line was formed with the Seventh, under Col. Dumont, on the right the Eighth, Colonel Benton, next the Ninth

Col. Milroy, and the Sixth, Col. Crittenden, on the left. The Tenth, under Col.

Manson, formed in rear of the first line. p"

General McClellan, attended bv Briga-

dier General Revnolds, both on horseback, J.:!,

and Governors" Morton, Dennisou and

front of the field of colors, opposite thc •nJslnUlch

and thc line. The few movements of a '"f

review are very simple, but they were well i. .t.^'l^f M°"r

executed, and the alignment, stretching as

act. After riding down the line and re-

turnmg by the rear the reviewing party

and the mradc di«iii*scd

106,000 05,000 16,000 119,000 75,000 71,000 132,000 60,000 167,000 81,000 221,000

tiou that all the disloyal States are wholly will be, in comparison to it, a protracted disloyal, the relative strength of the com-

mts is as follows iu white males bethe ages of eighteen and forty-five: Loyal States 3,800,000 Disloyal States 1,113,000

rcpondcnince of

With these advantages on thc side of the Federal Government, the duaation of the war is very largely a question for its own determination.

tS" The mail cars on the southern railroads are now lettered C. S. Mail, instead of U. S. Mail as heretofore.

l®*Nearly nine hundred Irishmen have been enrolled as United States volunteers at St. Louis.

can onlv sav that for the practice thev stretch the cotton cloth

have had they did admirably, and this wc ortieim"th'mlnTlf oerh!1rCH UndeSs

same nine ne oxpies.eu ins aumnacion 01

soldier and he found it in abundance in ,t

the briUde of Indiana troops. The line J""

Inns the finest si«rl.t of tl.e d-iv The I

sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth regiments!

to their quarters, and there again thc inarching of such a mass of troops callcd

thousands to the side walks and windows'" and house tops to admire them.—Stale Sentinel.

FOBT PICKET'S.

M. W. Cluskey, corresponding with thc Memphis Avalanche, says it was believed at Montgomery last week that thc fight would commence at Fort Pickens. He says, writing on Thursday last:

I 6pcnt yesterday at Montgomery. It was cxpccted that last night General Bratrg would cut the floating dock loose

from thc navy yard, and sink it in the

channel. This, it is believed, will provoke I

{Uld

iovaiStates 2,687,000

The prep0tlderan of

the loyal States

is more than double thc entire numerical military force of thc disloyal States. As we have hitherto shown, the preponderance of the loyal States is greater in all other material rcspccts than it is in men. Thc loyal States have all the reqisites of war in exhaustlcss quantities quantities the disloyal States have few of them.

The whole embodied militia of

Great Britain is but 149,052 in number, a little more than one third of that of the State of New York. Considering the population of both, the discrepancy is remarkable enough, r.- f"-

bloody one. Gen. Bragg's batteries

-J .£17

THK BOLBIB'S

"SHKC.TKB.TVNT,"

AS VSKOBT THE FRENCH.

To the Editor of the ISfew York Tribune: SIR :—Next to scarcity of rations, the greatest inconvenience to which the soldier is exposed in active campaign is separation from the tents and baggage wagons. Exposure to wet and night dews is his greatest enemy. Sickness destroys more soldiers than do the ballets of the foe.— The soldier however, shonld always be in a condition to encamp at any moment upon any ground, and at the same time be protected from rain and dew. Experience has taught the French soldier to accomplish this in a great measure. The means were first employed by him-in Africa, and I believe were first suggested by Marshal Bugeaud, surnamed Cami du soldat," the soldier's friend. I would suggest the contrivance as one which should be adopted by our troops. Like the French soldier, the Americtn one should never be without it iu a campaign. The blanket alone does not suffice. India rubber goods are too heavy to be added to the kit.

The contrivance I allude to is extremely simple—is known to every sportsman, and is extremely light and cheap. Its cost need not excced 30 cents. It is called by the French the tente d'abri, or shelter tent. Every French foot soldier carries it. The additional weight to his kit is not over two pounds. This little tent has saved the lives of thousands of French soldiers. The English, whom we too blindly follow in military matters, have not adopted it, preferring to improvement the charms of red tape. The soldier tent consists, first, of two sticks, about 4 1-2 feet long, of tough wood, and not larger than the third linger. The best wood is perhaps ash. These two sticks are each divided in the center where there is a simple tin or brass ferule into which the other half of the stick is fitted as in the case of common fishing rods. Each soldier carries one of these sticks, which is pushed into the side of his knapsack. It may project some six inches .above his back, without ineonvenicnce, or the two halves may be separated and stuck in two parts into the knapsack.

Every two soldiers, therefore, have four sticks between them. 2d. Each soldier carrics, also, a strip of thick cotton or linen cloth of about 2 feet 3 inches broad and 6 feet long. The French carry shorter strips, inasmuch as their average stature is less than ours. These strips have strings or down the center, allowing them to be tied together, and overlap forming a roof four feet six inchcs wide. At the end of these strips are holes made round to fit on tho sticks, and a string to tie them thereto.- The sticks are sharpened at the end so that they may be struck more firmly into the ground. When the soldiers encamp they place these four in the earth and stretch the cotton cloth over them, inserting the sticks in the holes or tieing them by the strings. Under this cotton roof they stretch their blankets, (the French do not alwas carrv blankets, however) and the little tent affords shelter for tho men and their arms, at night, two soldiers occupying one tent. The tent thus fixed is about two feet high. The knapsack serves for a pillow. In wet weather the end of the little cotton roof of tente d'abri" over the feet- should be lower than the part over the soldier's head— thus forming a shed for the rain to run oft". Some carry an additional strip

arrived on tl*e ground and took post in the 1

ni '"f.

Yates, and Senator Trumbull in a barouch, inches broad icincUf illt0

t=)*

BS eir

center of the line. Brigadier General 1 '["P* J{ All united in entreating him not to persist Morris and his staff wero between them .buttonss

b". to".

f0."n Jf

ticd

together, and overlap

&IX

tn 1CSI-« rips

it did for nearly halfa mile, was very°cx- 'H 1°

arc

at the en(] soUi it

morc firm, into

^vYc Suck

took post again, and the brigade marched JL *11 *t prominent secessionist, wnose name

in tciiow iu column of companies. We Pi/T ,T t,!

1 tiein0 them u\ tile S.rings. Under tnis tnrr Jim Tiroipnf ViO*!ifinn Jinr? rpMtivn fn arc grateful to learn was the opinion ex-

pressed bv General McClellan. At the etch then blanket.,

same time he expressed his admiration of

^ro'\u''1

jm:,lwas

10W0ver an( th(!

the appearance oi the men. His keen „r„

military eye, fell upon thc material for thc

ab,01,t

was again formed after the march in re- 'Tnl™' lf

fcct

... tlu-r the end ot the little cotton root or

view—thc u?ual military salute was given!.. ,, ,,, ,i ..

!ithe

took Washington street, on the way back .!" 1

"Sh-

battle of the revolution will be fought. The mere destruction of Pickens is not in itself the great work of this prospective action. The battle which will afterwards ensue on the island—which is thirty miles long—is to determine finally the issue at Pensacola. Thc reinforcement of Pickens ». !a mistake. The English," as thc London an Am-tNTtniE OK ,UH. LL

West

rights during the war. The principal duty

of these fleets will be, as has been stated, to see that neutrals are protected in their national rights, not only from piracy, or legal priyateering, or from illegal blockades."

If Jeff. Davis' privateers should capture any vessels with British property on board as they-ar likely to do, it is believed by many the British Squadron will assist the American in:the blockade, and in the extermination of privateers.

lhe

'pi i' "V flower than the part over the soldiers stM.-ted to ^o un to the id-ice where HOIIK1 he regiments wheeling into column af- .' suiicu to ^o up to cue place uncre JIOUS °. i- heart—thus forming a shed tor the rain to ton li-id innninted tn sne-ik lifird mnn ter the review was dismissed and :ch ta-l„

r(V

I I i- run on. Some carry an additional strip prmvd MK thic «-mie GPII Violinl*king its separate line of march was per- ., ,»

e"?h s°l,d,cr carrymg

.1 .\ I whole strip, in order to form sides to thc

but it adds to comfort. A French regi- jiat

n]50U(.

mont Wl11

encamp by the above means in

thc cooking pots over the fires, and prepare the supper, and a whole regiment in order for thc night in an incredibly short space of time. French soldiers are the best campaigners, for they arc taught to be sufficicut unto themselves. The above little shelter tents are the sleeping places of thc soldiers in the absence of large tents, and suffice until the baggage wagons come up.

I have seen ihe French soldiors in campaign, and have observed the superiority

of their equipments and arrangements for

c00king.

I purpose hereafter "»o point out

t!l(? defcct of tho 0]0ti,jngi tin cniltfinn|

a fire from the federal troops, when I iuk- knapsaclc, and cooking apparatus of our ens will^be rcduced and the first bloody troops. It is especially in the cooking stoves that the military culinary department of our soldier is at fault£f£As to the dress of our men, it is in many respects most inconvenient but there is a strong tendency among our people to imitate thc parade look of the English soldier: It is

embraced flying artillery, and all the ap- Times once propcrlv observed, while they Washington corre-nondent of the Mbanv mirtenances for an ndenendent cntrafre- ..*u ashington contsponueni ot uie AlOan) purtcnances for an independent engagement outside of thc fort when a reduction of it compels its abandonment. So j-ou will perceive, unlike Sumter, the contest

arc competent to destroy Fort Pickens in thirty hours, after which the ten thousand noble volunteer troops in Confederate ^inia, spent a few days in Richmond last States will engage the enemy in a close,, week. He savs that all business is wholly desperate, and, as I feel assured a success- prostrate, and thc people staring wildly ful fight. {about as if the city bad been stricken with the plague. If two persons not well 8Sf The Washington correspondent of known, aro seen talking together on the the Baltimore Sun says I streets, they are slily approached by eaves"The British North American and

poppers and the subject of conversation

India Squadrons, detailed for the purpose demanded. Ill-forcbodings seem to haunt of watching over the interests of British them that they are doing something for shipping on the coast of the Atlantic

and

which they w.ll eventual be made to suf-

Gulf Steles, is commanded by Admiral fcr, while there_ is no well defined cer a.nSir Alexander Milne, and embraces two ,of accomplishing their undertaking ninety-gun screw steamships and eight the Government except among small war steamers. A French squadron those who believe the right of secession will undoubtedly be detailed for the pur-iclearfy established.^^ pose of looking after French commercial

THE HRIR OF THE KINO AND THE HEIR OF POVERTY. [These two -striking pioturc* are fall of the truth Poetry and Art:]

THE PALACE.

Over the moorland tho wind shrieketh drearlj,"" lee jewels flitter on he«tber and thorn yrsi't Pale is the sunlight that flashes out fitfully

Over a dome whero an infant is born.

Fold silken robes ronnd the little one carefully. Lay him to rest on his pillow of down atch o'er the sleep of that scion of royalty.

Born to inherit a sceptre and crown.

Shut out the light, that the room may bo shadowy, rold silken curtains around the proud bed, Ladies in waiting, step softly and silently,

Let not a word in a whisper be said.

Joy in the palaces, lighted so brilliantly. Beauty and bravery are reveling thore j"° j? tho jewel-wrought goblet foams daintily

All things proclaim that the king has an heir.

Joy in the village, church-bells ring merrily, Kockets are lighting the sky with their glare. Bonfires are crackling, cannons are thundering.

Children are shouting, "Long life to the heir,"

Down-trodden millions, go join in tho revelry. Go. in despite of the fetters you wear^ Vassals and beggars, and panpers right joyfully.

Flutter yonr tatters—the throne has an heir.

TIIE HOVEL.

Over the moorland the wild wind wails mornfnlly. Ice jewels glitter on heather and thorn: Pale is the sunlight that trembles ont fitfully

Over a hut whore an infant is born.

None hcods his wailing, although it sounds pitiful, None shield his form from the wind cold and wild Hnir to privation, scorn, misery and poverty.

Dark is the pathway before the poor child.

Child, with the spirit to live through eternity. Born to the yoke of the tyrant art thou Even the bread that is dealt to thee scantily

Thrice must be earned by tho sweat of thy brow

Cold is the hovel, tho hearth-stone is emberles*. Creaks the old door as it moves to aud fro O'er, the poor bed. where the mother lies shivering,

Busily flutters the white-fingered snow.

Pule is tho check of the plebeian sufferer, Passing from poverty'i vale to tho grave But ter by far she died in her infancy,

Ere to the millions she added a slave.

StU°K lh.r0uoh

Yes. she is pale, and her voico sounds huskily. Hedging in vain for a morsel of bread Hush it is over hor huart slumbers silently.

Grim famine stnnds by the p.-tlo mother dead.

Nam Hoimtoii All Right—A Patriotic Speech from llim. The charge that Con. Houston made a secession speech at Galveston is all false. He spoke in defiance of threats, and an eye-witness says:

About an hour before the time appointfor his address, he appeared riding

thc

i"'iucil'al

icn

sold cr

00 lollo|r friends

Afn-C

1 carr

street of thu

»vcrage sta- secessionists, but friends of the General,

cent°r- nll®w"

.city-

'ie alighted from his carriage,

ho stood for a few moments, fearlesly be-

fore the crowd, to eonvcrse with some

I followed him, with other gen-

adjoining office. There

wcro present about twenty most prominent

iu speaking, when it would inevitably be

at thc pcril 0

ln5:

'f5''

w»i

J)t

his life. The brave man,

however, had but ouo answer: "I have

es mac lived in vain, gentlemen, it I cannot now

SPCak

wbat 1

thil,k-

,.'l?,nerous

11...

not: ,r'T

blankets,

m!ic

f|or(i.s shelter

v,d ir rnnf 1 1 ifi Tho

it has come to

WC:111 D°W

the ground. When the Tnrominent secessionist whoso nam.

aS at

tho rcbol, of Texan,

Nichols, during this conversation,

questions to Houston, touch-

preseni position ana reiame to

,.t ju remarks he was reported to have

|e.

nic

asked Houston if he ever had

pff

i)....:,.

sam 1,1,11 Je

was

trft

_Ud\is was a peiiunous trait-

"lld

llminS

:,t

lurmn

dictatorial powers,

t0, hll,n

ltb a look of

withering

contempt, the old General replied: "I did

Ha-V

'iaud...:ntl,c

111

Prusencc

!Ulf

so ,UU1 1

o\er the teet-should be ]ic

oi (jod 1

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fight with thc untutored couragc of the ... race," know but little of the art of war Statesman says: Let us not imitate their dogged adhcrcnce ^ou get all the news, and more too, Into old customs and prejudices. telegraph, so that it is hard to make you -W. W. It. an interesting letter. But I should tell ,m -1 you that simultaneously with two or three roxoiTlox OF li it'll mono. Zouaves (disguised as they generally are)1

A prominent citizen of Petersburg, Vir-j going down to Alexandria and hauling'

seem trying

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thoughts of the hard times.

Thev get tighter than the money market. —Louisville Journal.

taT The Richmond papers swear fiercely that all the adherents of Western Virginia to the old Union arc traitors, and must be promptly punished as such. We will try to let our readers know when the hanging is to begin.—Louisville Journal.

19" A steamboat owned in Cairo, has been seized by Gen. Pillow at Memphis.

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quarter ot an hour. A soldier j{0 hall where hc was to speak, his fixes the tents, the others light fires, put frj(juda avoiding him for fear of injury

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down a Secession flag, thc veteran Abra*

bam, takin" advanta-^of Mrs. L.'s absence

mince-meat of the rebels! The consequences of such misadventure must be apparent to every vivid mind. Governor Seward will not consent to another such risky performance. He absolutely shrinks from the very contemplation of the additional burden and responsibilities that such a casualty would impose on him.

WHOLE NUMBER 990.

FA MO* IEOWI!lOWI AV«ltia A gentleman just arrived is this eitj from Knoxville, Tenn., brings intelligence of affairs in that city. He informs as that 2,500 Secession troops are stationed there, for the express purpose of overawing the Union men. It is a part of tbeir business to engage in quarrels in saloons, and in street fights, with all who are not friendly^to Secession. Two men were shot last week for no other offence than speaking"? words of loyalty to the Federal Government.

The house of the celebrated, bold-heart-: ed and out-spoken Parson Brownlow, is the only one in Knoxville over which the Stars and Stripes are floating. A few days ago two armed secessionists went, at 6 o'clock in the morning, to haul down the Stars and Stripes. Miss Brownlow, a brilliant young lady of twenty-three, saw them on the piazza, and stepped out and demanded their business. They replied they had come to "take down them d—n Stars and Stripes." She instantly drew a revolver from her side, and presented it, said, "Go on! I'm good for one of you, and I think for both "By the looks of that girl's eye, she'll shoot," one remarked. "I think we'd bet-" ter not try it we'll go back and get mot9 men," said the other. "Go and get more men," said the noble lady "get more men and come and tak* it down, if you dare

They returned with a company of ninety' armed men, and demanded that the flag should be hauled down. Bat on discovering that the bouse was filled with gallant men, armed to the. teeth, who woald rather die as dearly as possible than see their country's flag dishonored, the secessionists retired.

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When our informant left Knoxville, the" Stars and Stripes still floated to the breeze over Parson Brownlow's house. Long may they nave!—Louisville Democrat.

THE RKHKIJ COinniSSIONKRS IN BSCS LAND. A gentleman who was present, and heard what he reports, relates that the Commissioners from the Rebel States having been formally introduced to Mr. Bates head ot the House of Baring Brothers, the great financier told them to proceed. They commenccd with a most elaborate and glowing description of the resouroos and wealth of the Rebel States. After a pause—

Mr. Bates—Have you finished Commissioners—Not quite. [Then a speech from Commissioner No 2, aud a pause.]

Mr. Bates—Have you finished Commissioners Almost. [Then a speech from Commissioner No. 3, and a pause.]

Mr. Bates—Are you through Commissioners—Yes sir you have our case.

you say

Air. Batos—What States did composed your Confederacy Commissioners—Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana.

Mr. Bates—And Mr Jefferson Davis is your President Commissioners—He is. Wc are proud of him.

Mr. Bates—We kuow Mr. Davis well by reputation. He is the same gentleman who stumped his State for two years in favor of Repudiation, and justified the conduct of Mississippi, in thc U. S. Senate. We know thc gentleman, and although wo have no reason to be proud of li im or his antecedents, I think I may safely say, that if you have brought with you to London the necessary funds to pay off principal and interest, the repudiated millions owing to our people by your States of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, thcro is a reasonable prospect of your raising a small amount in this market! Our Mr. Sturgis will be happy to dine you at eight o'clock tomorrow evening Exeunt Omnes.

from the excited crowd. On arriving there he was told that it had been closed against him by thc owners, who feared its destruction by the mob. Houston replied that hc would speak in the open air then, aud walked fearlessly through the crowd to an elevated balcony, commenced his address without the least trace of agitation or Jiated Mississippi bonds on which there alarm visible on his countenance. After alluding briefly to the events which bad transpired since he was last at Galveston, he boldly vindicated his own character

]umnjss which had been heaped

upon him by some of the leading journals iu Texas. He then characterized the se-

While this scene was being enacted at the Barings, Mr. Dudley Mann waited upon our countryman, Pcabody, who holds three hundred thousand dollars of repu-

is due morc than six hundred thousand dollars of interest. Mr. Mann was very magnificcut and grandiloquent, but withal prosy and Peabody suffering from gout and Mississippi repudiation, lost his temper, and shaking his clenched fist at the

... Rebel, emphatically said If I were to

cession of ex as as iniquitous and preju- go on change and hunt up the suffering and dicial in every way to her best interests. starved widows and orphans who have been Hc said that though disunion might be in I

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thc ascendant now, there was a terrible honest debts, and proclaim that you are reaction to come, which would be heard, 11,ere to borrow more of our gold and silver and that he stood in a waiting attitude for, f0 \)0

There are two full nephews of Gen.

Scott in the second Mississippi regiment, at Lynchburg.

j®- The mail car3 on thc southern railroads are now lettered C. S. Mail, instoad of U. S Nail, ss heretofore

hy your infamous repudiation of

that time to come. Heve it is my duty to do) you would inevjitablvbe mobbed and find it difficult to AN

INCOLN.—-JLn,he

gain paid by repudiation (as I be-

INCOLN :-—Ihe r„ QOOD

escape with your life.

tbis

morning, sir.

FROM TEXAS.—Thc Freeport (Illinois) Rullctin extracts the following from a letter recently received from a friend in Texas. The letter was written April 30

You must know of course that we have undergone a great change in our surroundings people, climatc, seasons, customs institutions, &c., &c. It seems strange to

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on a Northern shopping tour, donned his from February right on through the year disguise, and stole out to the western por-1 f"51" nine or ten months peas, new potation of thc Federal District iu quest of Secessionists. Before he terminated his adventure, he passed more than one picket of the adversary^ and then returned without discovery or capture. When thc fact came out, as he might have known it would, the thought instantly occured to a thousand minds: What if two or three seutries had closed in upon him, taking him prisoner, and hurried him off to Montgomery,! to be mado the laughing-stock if not the

vegetables in the market,

toes, cabbage, turnips, beets, radishe»,' strawberries, blackberries, (I had no idea of blackberries in this country,) bananas, Havana plums, and a host of other things whose name is legion some parties have new potatoes every inontn in tho year— the real Irish potato. Reports from the country of the crops this year, were never more favorable. It is said the wheat in Northern Texas never looked so promising

Cotton is very fine. The

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corn in some small localities is being damaged by a weevil or bug, and a small worm, so that thc planters will have ta replant, and it is not too late. I have seen corn three feet high already. All the trees in full foliage long ago, and flower.?—beautiful flowers—every month inthe year, not only in the gardens, but on the trees that shade thc streets, which so

perfume the air that thc effect upon the sense is almost overpowering at times, especially when walking the streets of a pleasant moonlight evening, the air still and clear. By tho way, speaking of moonlight, I never saw th? moonlight so elear and soft sa here..