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POETICAL.

( From the Warsaw Union.) NIL DE3PERANDUM. "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'' Come worn and weary-hearted, And sit beside refreshing streams And beauteous bowers Where Jesus feeds his lambs. There pride, and pomp, and power, Shall lose their mighty sway; And 'm d the overreaching done Of Godi first glorious temple, His holy light shall beam. O, ye that "labor and are heavy laden," Come thou and rest beneath this olive branch, And talk with me the mystic story: That out of nothing brought this wonder-working world, Replete w ith mysteries that baffle all our thoughts; Yet firm they stand as rocks far out at sea, . And willtill time shall be no more. From mystery wc came: to mystery we go! Oh! Christ hadst thou not come And burt for us the prison bars, '' And set the captive free; Uut now, oh! now, far o'er life's' stormy ?ea, The beacon light appears, To guide our feeble, erring step?. Amidt life's drk and thorny paths, Into a haven full of peace. O, mourning soul, that feel how dark the world can be, Come, sit ye here, and list to this sweet waterfill, And telling o'er your sufferings here, You too, shall leam how grand A thing it is to suffer and be strong; Then shall ye know how perfect joy Can crown thy head with halo all unseen, Ard make for yon e'en here below A Paradise of heavenlj bli. Warsaw, Ind. Minnie. EARLY LOVE. 0 thought of human love, that o'er All thought of earth still rises bright ! 0 glimpse of still diviner Ugh', That from the far, immortal höre Of thy blest heaven to childhood came, And fell unfathomably deep Into the curta;ned eye of sleep, And kindled their the unconscious flame ! Still as the years come and depart, 1 hear thy silvery voice and soDg, Chanting forever, freh and strong, The first green lyric of the heart. 1 stood upoL the ocean's strand, And watched the waves receding there; Coming and going, break'ng where The children pl.iy on the moytl sind. White flail j appeared f ir out at sea, Like ?peck? upon a world of blue ; And further sinking, lo-t to view. How calm, bow clear, how sileutl) .' We san along the unshaded hill, We gang along the sounding shore ; A voice wa3 sp:aking evermore In dreams, when everything was still. O spell of love, that lies so deep Over my soul, by land or sea ! The burden of rr.y Mn shall be, Sleep ever softly, softly ideep. - . ' SCOTCH ARGÜMEK TFOH MARRIAGE. Jenny is poor, and I nm poor, Vet we will wed so say no more ! And should th bairnies to um comeAs few that wed but do have someNo doubt that Heaven will stand our friend. And bread, as well as children, send. 5?o fares the hen in farmer's yard ; To live alone site find it hard ; I've known her weary every claw In search of corn among the straw; But when in quest of nicest food, She clucks among her chirping bi Old ; With joy we see the self-same hen Hut scratched for one, could scritch for ten. These are the thoughts that make me willin To take my girl without a shi ling ; And lor the self-sarot cause, you see, Jenny resolved to marrv me. What the Republicans Prophecled. The Republic press and orators, during the last Presidential campaign, propliecied that the election of Lincoln " Will give peace and quiet to the country, of which it is sadly in need ;" That all branches of industry will revire, bu siness will be good and wacs high ;" That "it will kill off the here, of recession fcr'! time to coim Ti'. t "it will strengthen the Union, restore confidence and friendship between the people of the North and South ;" That 41 he will have an economical and pure Administration, and so conduct the affairs as to reinaogurat the times of the earlier PresidentJ. WHAT THE DEMOCRATS morilECIED. The Democratic press and speakers on the other hand, toi3! the people that the election of Lincoln Would result in the disruption of the Union ; Would result in the destruction of trade and commerce ; Would widen the breach between the North and South ; Would throw" ths' laboring masses out of employment ; Would bring down the price of produce, and increase the taxes of the people : And, worse than all, would be likely to create a long, bloody, and expensive war between the sections. Reader, Lincoln was elected. Jndge for your elves whether th Republicans or Democrats wert correct in their prophecy. The Worcester Tr-nscipt stitesthat a wealthy gentl-man of that city, who has a nephew in the rebel army at Se wall's Point, has mailed a letter to General Butler, offering $500 for the head o( bis traitor relative. . Dem. This wcalthy genlkman may be a patriot, but we are more inclined to regard him as a brute, des litute af tbo ordinary ini:nile o humanity.

LETTER FROM JIM BIRD. Fkexd Plat: Sence mi last lettur tu you I ben a redin the rezolushuns uv the Publckin Cownty Convenshun. Fact iz. I war thar, but ther wos so much tawk I cudent onderstand it, an the fust time I got a chance I red the rezo!ushun3. Thars wun thing I cant an wont swollen Wen I voted fur oil the publckin officers big an litte!, it wos with the onderstandin that we wus fur re speach an are press. I se bi the Tribun that thre paprs in St. Luis hez bin stopt bi the guverument. Tim publckins hez tore tu peces the dimcrat papr in Bangor iu Mane, an ono in Concord in New Harasher ; an the Gran Jary in Nu York is a tryin tu stop thre or 4 paprs thar. An the paprs iz oil ful uv counts ur men bein mobd an rode on rales n oleho-ses, an bused shameful coz tha aint puhlekins. I thot mebby tha mite be Use til lately. Wen I red the pubkkin rezolushbns tha sed tha wos fur fei h Ire speech as wos consistent icith publick safety. Now, cf publckins is afrade uv free speech an free press, thar's suthia rong in ther crcde tumithar. Its mi noshen that ef a thing's right, t'e more pepei hear on't the more tha Fe its rite; nncf its rong the moie tha kin se Its rong. I dout no ranelV, but wen men sez to me I'm "sich a t'ule that cf pepei tawk an prent wat tha pleze, that I cant tel rong frum rite," an a'mt tu be trusted tu makeup mi own mind," but "sum uther publekin must du it fur me," und mast sa tu uther men hoo is ritin ar priniin that "tha must rite nn print what sum publckin thinks is rite an nuthin else," rite thar Jml'iun; and Imereddy- td'fite wun or a hundercd to put down Fich a eperrit. I winked fur fi e ppecch an free pra-s. It wos gud publckin doctern. Kf it wos gud then, its gud now; an no dimcrat or publekin hez a rite tu. sa tu rnny uther dimcrat or publekin wot h i shal a or wot he dial prii t. The pepei aint scch fules yit that tha kin be lead bi the noze ur bi a li; an ef the publekms want tu make jech a rule, thars suthin mity bad in em tmwhar, an tha are frade to trust the pepei. Ef that's ther game tha cant n;aVe the pepei trust them. Ime a publekin, hut I kint a tory nur a tireril nur a church bipt; an I hope ev ry man in this yer nashun hoo is cowered nuf to let enny man or set uv men tel him to bleve this ur that, an tu tawk this or that, or eU kepc hiz mouth ehet ma git the janders or suthin els an die rite off cos he &nt fit to liv unly mong digger ingiu. I never wud a bleved that enny publckin wud a ben mene nuf to tawk such a doctein. Wy hoo giv Mattiuly an Fillips an Jo nsun an the rest on em hoo got up them rczolushuns an spoke to cm at the convenshun, enny bettr pens than Iber nabers? Hoo g;:. them enny bettr nolege uv the Iowa ur rites uv men ur uv the histry uv the country ? Ur hoo made them enny bettr juges uv wot is gud tu tank an prent than ennybody els? Ther' men plenty, livd here as long as tha her. Men plenty got as muh tu luc by bad tawk and printen as tha her. Men plenty hoo luv this nashuu as much as tha lin du at ther best, hoo dout bleve as tha du; an hoo giv them Icve tu sa tha ar trator fur tlevin diferent, an tin must tawk tu Lte em ur dri up'f Tact is Im jiit a bilein; an the more I rede sech 6tuf, the madder I git; an ef the pepd is go:n tu set down undr sech tawk Ime a yaller lizzard ef tha ortent tu hev a blind ram fur a King as cudent be tied an w us oilers a buttin an plenty uv subjecks oilers lu his wa. 1 wosut moren baf a mind to bleve publekin did want tu mak pepei bleve as tha did by force

tel last wcke wen Jim Thoirpson had a fus with Sam Wolf. I was thar in town as witnis in cort, an I had tu sta oll nite. I eene ther fus an beam their tawk; an Ime ulode ef tha woscnt a set uv reglar devils. Ther wos members uv the church wantin tu hang an kil ithout judge ur jury ur law I dident se Jim du nuthin moren Ive sene a hunderd men du an nary fite cum outen it; but 6um whiffets aa hez got nuthin tu lusc an thinks tha git notist, aggd on a fus, an tha got wun up, an then colldout fur the pepei tu hang the damd se scshers, an sed ef dimcrats didnt dry up thade hang cm oll. 1 never beam eech fules. Tha mite hang wun ur tu, but ef that game begins thar wil be more publckirs hool fite agin ecch duin than kin be found fur it. Ef tha ar fur law, let em tan by the law. Ef tha ar fur mobs then tha ar agin guvernment; an fur tcun I aint with em Sech kind uv things is a kiilin the party; an fact is I cant go it. I cant be a dimcrat ether, but Ime fur fre speech an fre press oil the time, pece ur wor, an ef that cant be had then the man ur men ur party hoo prevents it is bound fur a hot piase herearter, an ull be shure tu git thar, an bo cu3t on atli us long as the u.mc lasts. Fact is, I bin a tawkin with Jerusha; an she has bin a te'in me these yer things an tha luuk so much like ther oil tru that I bleve em. Ef tha ar tru will yu print cm? mi ef tha wont let yu print wot tu plese, an tri tu stopyu, ef yu wil send fur Jim Bird he ul stan by yu ur enny uther man fur that r te as long as he hez got a leg left; an thar is hunderds ut more uv the same sort an more cummin evry da. Ef yu tawk ur print tresin ur enny uther b.ul stuf, Jim Bird wil indite yu ur convict yu ef he hez a chanse on a Jury a sune as he ul fite fur fre spef ch. An that is the wa tu du the bisnis, an the man hoo wants tu du it enny uther wa is a cowerd an a trater tu law an a fre guveiumiut. Y urn, in a bad umcr, Jim Bird. Congressional Appiopriations. The following is very nearly a correct list of the appropriations made by Congress during the session which haajust cjoed. The closing item may vary slightly: the others arc exact: Army, .flF5.29G.397 Naval , 30,171,525 2"5,37:i 529,000 200.000 145.0(H) 10,000,000 21)0,000 1 ,200,000 10,H)0,(K0 105,000 20,309,000 2.000 2,000,000 1,500,000 100,000 4,000,006 Legislative, Sundry Civil ......". National Loan, Polic Baltimore, Purchase or Ann Field Fortification?, Side-wheel Steamers Arms and Ordnance, Fortifications, contingent, Naval, additional Exhibition of Industry Arming loyalists in Disloyal States,. Armed Shi pa, ic........ For additional Loan, Miscellaneous, about Total, .$266,103,296 The True Gsit. A Tennessee captain In the rebel service, in a private letter written after the battle at Bull Run, says : "Icarne up with a little fellow from Illinois, who was only slightly wounded in the leg. He said he wanted aid seut him quick, as he wanted to get well so he could fight us again. I got down from my horse and gave him some wa'er I had in my canteen, and Ind a tirgron sent to him. He a brT bov."

The Battle Field Near SCacassas.

THE CRAVES OF TUE FLAIN. From the Richmond Enquirer. The writer of this, on Monday last, passed over the scene of the battle on the 21st, near Bull Run. It was gratifying to find, contrary to rumors which have gained some circulation that the dead, not only of our army, but the enemy, have all beeu decently buried. In the whole area of that terrible onset no human corpse, and not even a mangled limb was to be seen, the earth had received them all, and, so far as the human combatants were concerned, nothing rem üued to tell of those who had fallen victims of the shock of battle save the mounds of fresh earlh which showed where they had beeu laid away in their last sleep. Many of these mounds g;vc evidence of the pious care of surviving comrades. Enclosures were bi'ilt around the graves, and branches of evergreens cover the spot. Sometimes boards marked at the head aud foot, on which were carved or painted the name and fellowship of the deceased. Sometimes boards nailed to a neighboring tree told that the ground adjacent contained the fallen of a certain regiment or company. Numerous dead hores scattered over the area, showed where the batttries of flying artillery were captured or disabled, or where soine officer was dismounted. The prostrate fences, too, served to mark the track of the battle. Where the infantry crossed they were broken down so that a man might step over, and wide gaps showed where the artillery carriages had thundered tlong. The ground, too, tramped bv the feet .of rushing men and horccs, evidenced where the struggle had been fiercest. Of relics of the. battle, already but few remain. The field has been searched and gleaned by daily crowds of visitors seeking for momentocs. A few b illets that had run their errand, some fragments of exploded bombs, a haversack, and a few other things, were ail that an extensive ramble brought under our view. Cancseut from the battle-field are also considerably in demand. The enemy's column of advance, as shown by the battle ground, presented a front of about one mi.e. Their onward march from the point wiiere they encountered our advance bodies to the limit where they met our full line, and the full battle was joined and the fate of the day decided, was alwuta mile and a half. A parallelogram of about a mile by a mile and a half, therefore covers the scene of the great conflict. '. . In this area are included five dwelling houses ; all of these which we visited bore evidences of the storm which raged around them. Many were killed in the yai d of the bouse of Mr. J. DcDugan. A bul'et hole in a chamber door remains a momento of the battle. His family escaped just as the battle joined. But it was on the hill south of the turnpike road, where th enemy's farthcrest advance was checked, and where the final issue was fought, that the enwrapped dwellings showed most plainly the lury of the fight. A houe here, late th abode of a widow lady, Mrs. Judith Henry, was riddled with cannon and muske t shot. Hissing projectiles from the cannon of our enemies had passed through the walls and roof, until the dwelling was a wreck. It is a sad story that we tell. This estimable lady, who had spent here a long life, illustrated by the graces that adorn the meek Christian, was now bed ridden. There hhc lav amid the horrid din, and no less than three of the missiles of death that ßcoured through her chamber inflicted their wounds upon her. It seems a strange dispensation of Provi dence that ne whose life had been so gentle and secluded should have found her end amid such a storm of human passions and that the humble abode which had witnessed her quiet pilgrimage should have been shattered over her dying bed ! Yet even amid such terrors. Heaven vindicate its laws. When the combatants had retired, the aged sufferer was still alive, and she lived long enouph to say that her mind was tranquil, and that she di.-l in peac. a peace that the roar of battle and the presence of death, panoplied in all his terrors, had not disturbed. Noble matron! hundred yards to the right of the house of Mrs. Henry lay five horses in a heap, and near by another heap of as many more. Here a portion of Sherman's battery made its last advance. Just as it reached the top of the hill, our riflemen approaching in the direction, reached it too. At once they poured in a fire which cut down horses and men, and made the pieces unmanageable. The gallant boys followed the fire with a bayonet charge, and the guus were :kcn. It was here that Lieut. Ward fell. The cannon were taken and retaken several times in the lurious fight, hut the horses had been killed, and the cannon could not be removed nor used. Sherman's battery was not lost ; some other battery is here alluded to. On the left of Mrs. Henry's, distant about a fourth of a mile, is a neat house belonging to a colored man named Robison. A cannon ball drove through this also. Between these two is an orchard of small tree where Hampton's legion fought and suffered so severely. Their graves are here. One of them, which covers the remains ol a near rcl tive of Hon. S. L. Orr, is marked by a broken musket placed as a head-stone. Away on the extreme northern verge of the battl-gronnd is the pine grove in which the Geor gia regiment met the enemy's advance. The gallant baud there witk-tood the enemy 'a columns until nearly surrounded. They then retreated, not from those iu the front, but from those who were closing around them. In this p ne grove there seemed scarce a tree that was not struck by the enemy's balls. A number of Georgians fell here, and their graves are close by. In the grove was pointed out the ppot where Lamar Jell. In the tear was the dead charger of the Lamented Gen. Bartow, killed under him, himself to fall soon after. But the Georgians suffered not their heroes to fall unavenged, for they piled the giound before them with the slain of the enemy. The Republican orgm in Indiana, the Journal at Indianapolis, was aa early and persistent ad vo cate of letting the Southern Slates go out of the Union if they wanted to ; soon after the editor an. nounced that he had got a " Jeff. Davis half dollar" (how many more he did cot say ;) and now it seems that the President of the Journal company is a cousin of the notorious Ben. McCulloch. These are suspicious circumstances. If the Jour nal, were a Democratic instead of a Republican p.r er, the concern woulJ probably have been de mol'uhed befnr pot

"Mcbj and Treason." Wc have ever endeavored to treat the Journal with firmness and courtesy in our business and personal association , but an article in its issue of yesterday absolves us from all further cons, derations ofthat nature. We shall deal with it hereafter with the weapons of its own choosing. From its own columns wc have proven the Journalto be the advocate and apologist of disunion. To secure official patronage it is guilty of moral treason of deserting a position deliberately taken, and which, day after d iy, week afler week, month after month, it advocated with all the ability it possessed. Now it has the impudence and villainy to charge upon others treason, for expressing sentiments less objectionable than its own. If treasonable sentiments deserve the h alter, long ere this the editor of the Journal would have been hung as high as Hamm. And he probably

would have been, if his dirty and worthless carcass was worth that much consideration. Yesterday, iu an article under the head of " Mobs aud Trea?on," the editor of the Journal proves himieif to be cither an ignoramous or a knave. He charges that we "desire a mob to as ault the office." And what reason does he put

in our mouth ? We quote his own words : A de- j sequent suffering, they ouht to have an opportustruction of the office by a mob, " w uld enable : nily of saying so by voting for men holding their

it to recover from the city the value of the establishment ." The editor of the Jonrnal professes to be a lawyer. If he knows anything aout law, he is well aware that the city is not responsible for damages committed by mobs. 1'ct he seeks to create the impression that wc invite the destruction of our office by a mob ' to secure it a sale on good terms.'' It is a good maxim, that if a man is found false in one thing, he is unworthy of belief in all things. H iving thas shown him to be a great liar in one respect, it is fair to infer Mut he is a " dirty dog and a preat liar" in all thin-;. The editor of the Journal says that his paper only lives by stealing. It "steals" from the city, it " steal" from the country, it " steals from tha State, and it " steals" from iis subscribers by lying to them and giving then worthless tradi for their money. What else would be expected from a man conceived in sin ! lie calls his associate editor a "fool," a fellow destitute of brains." and his associate is " goose" enough to submit to such indignities. As an offset, we believe that the sociale reciprocates t':e sentiment, and he is justified in so doing. A pretty pair of birds they mast be to entertain such opinions of each other and "dit the organ of a respektable party ! If there ever was a specimen of intensified meanness, and of moral, mental and bo.Jilj corruption and filthiness, it is furnished in the person of the editor of the Journal, the central orgm of the Republican party of Indiana. We shall do justice to the subject hereafter, State Sentinel. Wk alluded, a day or two since , to an article in a prominent New York journal (the Evening Post) on the alleged scarcity of laborers at the West, and the advice which it pave to the thousand out of employment in the E istern States, to come hither in the search of work. In a subsequent number of the Erening Tost the suhject is fobowed up and elaborated upon at considerable length, from which c are led to infer that there is to be a systematic attempt made to foist upon the West a vast number of the paupers of the East, to be fed, clothed, and housed during the coming winter. The Post states that there are many thousand unemployed laborers in New York, that the almshouses arc full, that the meins of the wealthy sie limited compared with former years, ar.d that unless something is done to relieve the city and the Eastern States generally of these unemployed persons, great and unparalleled suffering must enäe. The remedy it proposes is to send the paupers and the unemployed generally to the West, where, it assures us, there is a " great dearth of common farm labor," and that " much of the fine harvest will not be reaped in time," for the want of this labor. The Post then goes on to discuss, at great length, the question of providing means for transporting these unemployed laborers to the Western Elysian, fields, where their labor is so much in demand. We need not rejK?at that all those statements are delusive, whether intended to deceive or not, an that all those who are induced to emigrate to the West in anticipation of procuring any sort of employment are des'ined to a cruel disappointment. There are thousands of worthy men already in the West who would gladly accept any kind of labor at the lowest wages, but who cannot procure it. The crops of wheat, oats, and hay have all been harvested, and there are pleiuy left to gather the corn, dig the pota'.oe-, and feed the hogs. Our farmers will be Li poo. condition to hire extra help this fall, though we hope they will do so to the greatest possible extent, for the s ike of their suffering and unfortunate fellow creatures of the town and cities, who have been fur so m uiv months out of employment. Our farmer do n it yet know where the are to fin 1 a mirkct for their prodt.ee, and till they do so it is not proSablc that much wheai will be threshed or corn gathered. Wc deeply commiserate the poor of the grt Eastern cities, and our people would be glad to assist in their r lief if they wcrciua condition to do so. But auch is: not the case. We have ou own poor to relieve, with little or no means to do it with. To send the thousand of the E i st who arc out of employment, to tho West, under present circumstances, is tosend them to cerUiu destruction, lite East is wealthy, has nearly all ihe spare capital of the country, and the moneyed men there must contribute liberally to the supMrt of the poor and the unemployed. To attempt to throw this bunion upon the West U as me m and cowardly as it will prove ineffectual. .Vrte Albany Ledger. We can see no good reason why the Republican party fhould covet a fusion with other pa i tics in those States in which elections are soon to transpire. Mr. Lincoln has assuredly give no evidence of a desire to effect such a fusion, but, on the con trary, has by all his acts repudiated every thing of tho kind. When called upot at Sprinjfeld by a venerable and distinguished Union nun of Kentucky, nnd urged to call into his cubinct one or more representatives of the conservative sentiment of the South, the President abruptly terminated the interview with the remark : Sir, do you suppose I am going to take my enemies imo my Cab'net ?" In his In-iuguril address he declared that the Chicago pl.ilform was a law unto them (those who elected hi m) and unto mo,' and in his MemeeMgeb delrrcil tint tbo'e who were suf-

ficiently powerful to elect a President were strong enough to put down rebellion. From all this, as well as from the civil and military appointments of the President, it is quite evident (hat Mr. Lincoln has no desire to ' fuse " with his opponents, and wc sec no cause for his friends entertaining any such desire. The Republican party took the ground that their principles were heaven-born and correct, and that the people would sustain them. Such being the case, they obght to be willing to' go before the people and ask for an endorsement of their acts, instead of seeking an alli.ir.ee with Dem öerats. The conflict in which the nation is engaged is thercsnlt of the Humph of the Republican party, and is the first fruits of their victor. If it is palatable to the people, they will give evidence of it by sustaining the President and his policy, and the Republican party will achieve all the clory, for it will justly belong to them, and it would not be right for Democrats to claim any portion of it for themselves. If, on the other hand, the people prefer peace to

war; an honorable compromise to a conflict of years duration ; a revival of commerce, trade, and manufactures to the present etajntion and conown views. ' Democratic committees have no right or pawcr to enter into bargains and arrangements looking to a fusion with their opponents. They were ap pointed for no such purpose. The people of the North are united in a desire tj preserve the Union, bat it is idle to attempt to conceal the fact tint there is a very wide difference of opinion as to the best moans of accomplishing that object one side believing that it is only through war and bloodshed that the en 1 can be attained, and the other believing that it can better be done by the oflVr of a compromise to those so lately our brethren. Committcs and party leaders may make whatever" fusion " arrangements tbey please, but these differences will st:ll exist, and sooner or later w ill find expression through the ballot oox. It is useless to attempt to iguorc them. yew Albany Ledger. A Spec'men of Republican-Lincoln No Partylsm. The Albany ÄVcu and Atlas, after showing the manner in w hich Democrats had fought for and rallied around the Government, to save it from the bad position in which it had been placed by their Republican opponents, illustrates the way in which Democratic generosity has been met by the Republican AdministraMon. It say of it: ' The Administration party here has shown no similar magnanimity. It has never risen above party, and has never shown the slightest sign that it has been conciliated or appeased in spirit by the patriotism of its antagonists. " President Lincoln commenced by declaring in his Inaugural, and as a preliminary to taking his Constitutional oath, that tie Chicago Platform was 'a law to htm.' " He removed Democrats wholesale from office, merely became they were Democrats. "He appointed worthless partisans to high places abroad Schurz, Burlingame, Castus M. I Clay, kc. and filled many at home with creatures of the same kind. - His party took advantage of their accidental majority to pass the Morrill Tariff a suicidal measure to the business interests of the couutry. " lie carried his party discrimination into army appointments, excluding 'I'emocrats from the regular service, and Assigning to them a few nominal nnd unimportant comruonds in the volunteer organization. " A system of jobbing and contracts was organized for the purpose of rewarding partisans at the" cost of the Treasury, and of the suffering anj doprivation of the troops. " In his recent Message he assailed fundamental doctrines of the Democratic creed, and gave out that his ' clcclion was to be vindicated by the war ; and that this was its main object ! The spectacle of a partisan Administration narrowing itself and embittering its passions, and of a patriotic people raising above all considerations but country, and spreading its broad bosom to the foe to protect it, ii one that is full of instruction." After being guiUy of this eonduct, the partisans of the Administration in Ohio already have the audacity to tum round and ask those upot. whom ihey have been making war to turn in and vote a ticket upon which their names arc placed. Ohio Democratic State Convention. The following is the platform adopt ed by this body, August 5th, ISO'I: The Democracy and other Union men of Ohio, in Convention assembled, adopt nnd declare the following resolutions as the base upon which they appeal to the pitr'otic Union and liberty loving citizens to rally in upiort of the ticket this day presented: 1 Resolved, I. That the civil war by which our country is at present disturbed is the natural offspring of misguided sectionalism, engendered by fanatical agitators North as well an South, and that the Democratic party has equally opposed the cxtreriista of both section., and having at all times zealously contended for the administration of the (General Gdvernfhent within its c institution I limits, that party is in no way responsible for calamities that hive resulted from a dcpurtnM from its doctrines and disregard of Us warning adv:oc. 2. That in this national emergency, the Democracy and ether Union mcr of Ohio banishing all feelings of passion and resentment will recollect only their duty to the whole country, that tl.is war should not be waged in conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of tue Cot htiiiiiion, an J to p rserve the Uton with all the dignity, equality and righ'sof the several States unimpurxl, and that as sooa as these objects are accomplished, tho war ought to cease. 3. That while we deem it the duty ef every citizeu to support and sustain the Government constitutionally admiuUtered, we recommend that the Leg fclatures of the several Slitej adopt the proper measures for calling a National Convention and restoring and preserving the Union. 4. That the corruption extravagance, incompe tency and favoritism shown in the administration of the War Departments of tha State and Fcdeeral Governments deserve and receive our unqual fied condemnation, and ought to be immediately ' orrcete 1 and rcfoi ed. ?. That the volunteer roUieu -Hi?, at ihe call

of their conntry, promptly went forth to do battle in defen?e of the Constitution and Laws, and in many cases have been compelled to go under inexperienced officers, are entitled to our thanks for the gallant manner in which they have discharged their duties. 6. That the privilege of the writ of haheas cor

pus Is ono of the great bulwarks of freedom, and that no citizen can be legally deprired of the benefit thereof except by Congress, and then only in case of rebellion or invasion when the public safety may require it; and that the late attempt of the President of the United States to suspend the privilege cf the same, is unwarranted by the Federal Constitution. An attempt wns made to reconsider the vote adopting the resolutions, in order to strike out the phrase adding "other Uniou men" to the Democracy, but a perfect storm of opposition was raised, r.nd the attempt wa abandoned. Lore Scene. Mr. Poppa paid his two hundred and sixty-sev enth visit to MIfs Clarissa Cooler t'.e other even ing. He found her in a rocker, alone in the parlor; stole his arm around her alabaster neck, and sipped the nectir of her cherry lips; a proceeding there was not the least harm in, considering they had come to an agreement, and were generally icpcrted to be engaged. Tlw lady took it quietly even indifferently, to judge from the lassitude of her attitude iu the rocker, her lazy use of her fan and her exclamations of something between a heigh ho and a ya hum. Commonplaces were disposed of. Then followed a silence, broken only by Mr. Popps slapping at the tnusquitocs, and Miss Clarisia finning herself unceaViigly. At length Popps proposed a promenade, and ice cream, Clarissa declined both, adding, '1 wish to stay at hooe, for I havesomething particular to tell you.' Indeed!' said Pop.js; 'what is iC dear? 'You expect our wedding to take place intlirce weeks, don't you ?' 'To be sure I do . Well, I araswry to disappoint you, but I must doit. I cannot inirry. Good heavens, Clarissa! what are you fayirgl' Dn't interrupt me. I mean I can't marry just yet awhile not for some months to cone.' 'Why, Clarissa, what's the meaning of all this? You gave me your positive promise, nnd said nothing stood in the way. I am all ready and worried with waiting. Why did you put it off, dear?' That you will have to excuse my telling you I hive a good reason for it I have thought the matter over weil and my mind is made up. WWl that satisfy you?' Popps mused awhile. Clansa kept her fan going. Finally, Popps spoke. Xo, Clarissa, it won't satisfy me. You post pone our wedding, and refuse to tell me why. If you have a reasou for it you ought to let me know j tt and maybe it would satisfy me. But I wont be satisfied without the reason. Weil, then, you'll have t) remain uusitisfied. I tell you I have a reason, and a good one what more du you want?' 'I see how it is I've courted you too long I didn't strike while the iron wa3 hot yon are tired of me, and wish to get rid of me. Well, if that is your wish, go ahead.' Mr. Popp?, you're a duuee you're a fool!' Majbe I am and m ivbe I ain't, said Popp3, rising with his temper, 'but thi I'll say, Miss Clar ssa if vou don't tell me why you postpone the wedding for a few months, youmty postpone it forever so far as I am concerned. Tell me, Clarissa; else I swear that, when I leave this house tonight, I will never set foot in it again" Well, then you'd better go. Very well. Good night, Miss Cooler. Topps reached the door. Clarissa followed him. nd seeing that he was in earnest, criei to him to I stay. Popps came back. Clarissa pui her head on his shoulder and cried. Popps melted. Popps spoke first. Well, dear, w hit's the matter?' 'Oh, I think you're so unreasonable and cruel! Ii deed, indeed, I have a good c iusc for putting off our marriage but I cannot, I must not tell you what it is. Oh, dear Air. Topps, do excuse me!' And she cried ä little more. Well. Clarissa, tell me this. Do you put it off to please your father or any of your relations?' No they know nothing of my determination.' Do you put it off on account of anything concerning me?' No. Do you want to go anywhere, or do anything particular, that will keep you from marrving?' No. In God's name then, Clarissa, what do you waat? Why keep me in this suspense? Oh, Mr. Popp?, you're so cruel! Maybe I ought to tell you the obstacle but I can't, In Iced, I c.tn't!' Just as you please. Miss Cooler.' And Popps again picked up bis hat. 'Oh, Mr. Popps, pray don't go yet awhile!' Then, Miss Clarissa, tell me the obstacle. Topps was evidently determined; Cl irissa put her head on hi shoulder laboring under a strange agitation. Several times she essayed to Fpeak. At length she breathed into his ear these fearful words: 'The weather's too liol Popps, when our sprite left, was advocating a trip to the Allegheny Mountains. General Wool ThcTro) Times, of the 12ih inst. says : ' We announce with the most lively satisfaction that all doubt with inference to the orders from Washington to Gen. Wool is at nn end. lie this rcorn ng received from tho Wrar Department a notification that he had been ap pointed to the command of the Department of Southern Virginia headquarters at Fortress Monroewith directions to report kimself for duty immediately. He wiil leave this city for his post of duty on Wednesday. What is a Ambulance? An ambulance is a light carriage, the body being mounted upou two wheels, and supported by two very light elastic springs. It is a little over six feet in length. There are cots for two inside, with beds, head pillows, kc. Tbfc top is covered with black oil cloth, but the body and running gear are painted red. The ambulance is intended for one horse, with a scat for the driver in front, and being very light, though strongly built, can bo driven along rery rapd'j "vithout Injury to the wTitrridefl.

ATX SORT 3 OF ITEMS. A young Wide Awakerwho went to board a few weeks in FairfieM, Conn., has returnoJ to the city and saya lie found such a nest of secessionist! there that he couldn't stand it.' And yet tlire is not, of course, a single secessionist in Fairfield. The silly young man don't know the difference between a Union Democrat and a secessionist. Every man who is not an Abolitionist, Hi;d wlu does not wish to eterrally destroy the Union by war, these ninnies call a secessionist. While one of our Chiplains of the array was repeating this line ol the Lord's prayer 'Give us this day our daily bred'--a soldier added with a loud voice 'fresh If Congres9 does not provide some despetato and immediate means of raising funds, we aro afraid Old Abe and his Cabinet will soon get very loausomc. Tne Xm Y. Tribune calls our soldier at

Bull Run 'brawling runaways.' which, it strikes us, is a poor return for the bravlighting that was really done on that unlucky held. We wish the editors cf tho Tribune would try tln-ir hands in the next battle. Why should they send thousands of poor feliuwd out to hs shot in lighting their battles, while they remain snug and safe in their arm chairs at imn? The Portland Ab:e titer, the organ of the Republicans of Maine, says: Wet consider it very doubtful if the Republican party as now organized, will exist until the civil war is over.' If ihe Democratic party boldly takes the stand for truth, the Republican parly will be beaten in two-thirds of the north drn Slates in this fall's election" The salem, Massachusetts, Sunday Dispatch says: What do the public think of members of Congress etationiog themselves coolly upon a biil with opera glasses and spy glasses to see their fiiends, like tfpariaus, 'Ilutchered to make a Rom.in holiday"? From tha way these Congressmen run. the public wiil piobably think they wiil nevr be caught in uch a ecrape again. They will not tight, (fiemselres 'to save the Union not they. Among the dispatches received at tho Washington office. Wednesday, was th following, addressed to a member of one of the legimenls q-iiriered at Arlington Height?: New York, July 2.3, 1CC1. Your wihj wishes to know if yu are dead, alive or wounded. If dead please send on the body. A cavalry company, composed of young I sdies, has lecently been formed in Piltstield, Mass.. under the name of 'Di Vernon Phalanx.' Miss Pinkie Pomoroy is Captain, and Mkd Anna Kipp is the Lieutenant. We should hate awfully to be run over and rendered uußtj'or service by a cavalry of pretty girls; but nevertheless, we think we should ataud our ground aud present arms. "Traitors." Tho disunion Abolitionists are profuse in their abusj of lb members of the Democratic Union Stat convention. The God-forsaken, hell-do-serving scoundrels who hold the liberty ef the degenerate nroes ab jve all Con6li'.u lions and law, call all who subscribe to the resolutions adopted at that convention traitor and dUuniouists. Abolitionism is ramp tut, it seeks to trample upon law, disregards the rights of private property, lias no regard for the blessings of persoual security, and endeavors by mob violence to rob loyal American citizens of 11 they hold near and dear: It is high lime every peaceable, law abiding ciiizou, was prepared for self-defence. Every step that Abolition n gains adds to its insolence. Its approaches inut be resU'.ed, or one year hence the people of the Northern States will be under the vilest despotism lhs world has ever known. Holmes CY, ( 0.) Farmer . Vindictiveness Against Dern)crat. Under this head the Albany, X. T.J Argus and Atlas' has an excellent aritcle in which it savb: "At no time bince the foundation of the Government has party virulence so raged against Democrats as now. During the Alien-and-Sediiin-reign cf John Aelams, here was no 6uch vindicliveness displayed. When Democrats were punished for opinion's sake, it was by law, and the cases of conviction were few. Now the vengeance of parly U administered by a mob. and it purposes to make all its enemies it victims. This virulence and violence is manifested mostly in the Republican press. Wholesale abuse, coarse pithets, chirges of treason and disloyalty, insolent threats of punishment, are elaily uttered against Democrats, aud with risug vehemence of tone and recklessness ol elemeanor. It 14 evident that the Administration party intend to browbeat their enemies, and put a Stop to the discussion ol measures and principles, by violence. Indeed they do not hesitate to own it. At ihe same lime the most ullr.t views of consolidation, the roost latitudenaiian coustruciioiis of Constitutional duty, and tho most lax vitws of governmental obligations, are put forth by the anti-Demo-cralic press, littering revolutionary doctrines, broaching opinions at war with all responsible governtnantg, and appealing to to lawless passions against the law. the administration press seem to regard all license of language tolerable, rxcept ecch as is heard in defense of the Constitution. These expressions indicate along hoardad hatred of Democracy -a halted that riot only includes all the members of the party, but its pnnoiples; and the explosion of ttis pent up antipathy is proportioned to the length of tirm in wliiVi it b H?n held in resrint."