Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 January 1862 — Page 1

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Tito Picket Guard. A lonely spot. Dark forc?t3 dense, For weary miles outstretched around; -And far the lonely path from hence That echoes back tho wagon's sound. 'Ilow monarch-like, leaf-crowned their forms, Uplift those noble pine and oak They know a hundred winter's stormg, But not the axraan's ringing stroke. A dreary night, nor moon nor star. Scarce yield one ray to cheer the gloom ; Away from camp and comradt s far, The picket where may be his torn)! The boughs ocrhcad low bending grow, The moss beneath is old and green; Amid bu-.hc3 crouching low He peers, death-still from forth between. His rifle rests upon his knee, And on the stock two firm hands press; Ah! well he knows how cheerily It heeds las finger's quirk caress. Three weary tours or more are gone: The Midnight must be drawing nigh; The brooklet at Lis feet runs on, He hears its murmuring melody. A eoothing sound! He thinks of home, Of lored ones, left at duty's call; And flocking round him there they come, The same old faces, forms and all. The gray-haired sire leans on his staff, The matron lives with God in Heaven He hears his brother's ringing laugh, Ilia sister's loving counsel given. But there is yet another still, A girlish form of simple grace; How beats h'S heart, his pulses thrill, Still gazing on that trusting face. Not long, a near, quick startling crash. And home, and friends, and all are lost, As, where he locked for foeman's flash, The prowling beast steals past his post. The eight wears on a full hour more Creeps drearily and slow away; He kn;ws to night the storm King dread No common revelry will keep. Long-echoed through those forest aisles, The ?nu tiling wolfr his warning braw, The answering cry from distant hills, The stealthy panther's haunt betrays. The flitting night bird's shr.llv scream. Defiant of the g itaVing blast, With hollow roar and fifful gleam, The storm around him bursts at last. A fearful storm! The niht is black. The torrent pours, the tree-tops reel, And, as it were dark doomsday's wreck, lied lightnings flieh and thunder's peal. The quivering leaves their showers distil. The swollen stream sweeps nndly on, The north-wind low is numbing chill To him that weary waits the dawn. It comes at lust Oh beam of hope ! Thank God, that doth the day restore; The sun mounts up the eastern slope, And, comrades, camp i. gained once more. Oii I v AVsiitinrOnly waiting till the shadows Are a little lorgcr grown; Only waiting ti1! the glimmer Of the day's last beam has flown; Till the niht of earth is faded Fron the heart once full of day; Till tho st ;rs of heaven arc brenking Through the twilight soft and gay. Only waiting till the reapers JIavc the last sheaf gathered home; V' r the summer time is faded, And the autumn winds have come. Q i'uklr, reapers! gather quickly T!if last rre hours of in? heart; For tin !!.:. f lift? ia withered, A:A 1 hi.-:! n I) tlejinrt. Only waiting till the angels Open wide the mystic gate. At wluxc fret I loii have lingered. Weary, p-wr, and des Aitc; liven now I hear the footstep, And their voices far a war; If they call me, I am waiting, Ouly waiting to obey. Only waiting till the shadows Are a little longer grown; Only waiting till the glimmer Of the day's las beam is flown; Then frem out th'; gathering darkness Holy, deathless star3 shall rise. Ily whose light my soul shall gladly Tread its pathway to the -k.ie.3Tho NoMm-i-'m rJVm-. I'fxn the hill he turned. To take a last fond look Of tin' valley and the vtüage chisrch, Au'I the cottage by the brook; He listened to the sounds Fo familiar to his car And the soldier lean"d upon his sword And brushed mvrsy a tear. iJestdc the cottage porch A girl was on her knees, he held aloft a snowy scarf Which fluttered in the Lieezc; f he breathed a prater for him A prayer he could not hear I!ut he used to bless her aa she knelt, And wipe away a tear. lie turned and left th spot; O, do not deem hin: weak, For dauntless was the soldier' heart. Though tears were on his cheek. Go, watch the foremost rank, In danger's dark career Ce sure the I and most daring there Has wiped away a tear.

Tlie Stone Fleet at ('Iinrletlon The Harbor l.ilcctually Closed. Correspondence of the New York Times. Steamship Caijawba, off Charleston,)

Dec. 21st., I8G1. j The raain channel of approach to Charleston harbor has been destroyed. Sixteen stone-filled hulks, placed checkerwise across tha passage, in the deepest water just at the inner and outer edge of the bar, are the mediums through which the righteous retribution has been rncasured out. The vessels which havo been sunk left Porr Royal last Tuesday, under the direction of fleet Captain Charles II. Davis, of the Wabash. They were nearly all condemned whalors some of them sixty and seventy years of age the queerest, qnaintest specimens of ship-budding afloat. On Thursday morning, tho light-house, which had loomed vastly through the haze the evening hefore, was not to bo seen ; but a look through our glasses showed us its ruins on tho ground. Tho fact explained a loud explosion which had been heard in shore soon after dark. Supposing that our whalers were first class frigates tomo to bombard tha city, the rebels had blown the light house up. that the bearings of the channel might be lost. The trick hurt nobody except themselves, but after all, light houses hencoforth will be useless establishments at Charleston. At 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, the channel had been buoyed, and the old Tenedos was soon afterwards towed to her final mooring3. The position chosen for her was at the northeastern edge of the passage, ana she was grounded whore there is eighteen feet of water At hi"h tide. Probably she is anchored aa firmly as her island namesake of the Egean Sea. The Leonidas was next sunk, in tho same depth of water, an eighth of a miio from the other. These two vessels formed the right and left flanks of tho barricading column, and the remaining fourteen settied comfortably down between them. The wrecks are not ranged in a straight line across the channel. That arrangement might prove an effective blockade for a time, but not permanently. Tha theory ofCApt. D avis was that the inl and waters about Charleston must havo a channel to the sea, anJ if the usual ones were artificially closed, another would naturally form. Ilia scientific mind devised another plan. The hulks are placed in three lines, chickerwise. This arrangement not only does not prevent the passage of the water, but forniä a seri?s of shoals, around which the tide will whirl and eddy, making an intricate labyrinth which no vessel could navigate. From Fort re .: roe. We mako the following extract from a letter to the Lafayette Courier, dated Camp Hamilton, Ya., Dec. 2D, ICC I: This Sunday morning, about C o'clock, as the. Newport News boat was on her way to the fort with a schooner in tow, a id about half tvay between the two placos, she observed a gunboat; takiiv it fur one O of ours, and paying little or no attention to her, until, to tho surprise of all hands, J there came a shot from her directly over ! the bo w of their boat, then another directly j over her, between the chimney and pilot ' . ; lioUSti. bile cut j'j-fSG from tlia sclioonAr in order to save herself, whftti a third! passed over her damage. KtlT!l Sil WJtlw.llf anv ... --.-..-. ... - I Those left on tho schooner put off in the small boat for the bherc the runboat o coming up and fastening on tho schooner and takirg her offa prize. This seems! slrango woik to be perpetrated in the midst, I may say. of a powerful fleet and almost under tha guns of one of the strongeät artificial forts in tho world, but it is nevertheless a fact, as it was witnessed by thousands of others as well as myself Then the fun commenced. One and then another, and finally in all eight gunboats twjavo cl ase, and for an houi or more the firing was very interesting. But the bird had llown, and perching herself under the guns of Se wall's Point, bid ours defiance. Theic were some two hundred shots fired in all. and the damage not worth mentioning. So end. another of their sharp .' I II ... 1 i news, r um pan.cu.ar3 may vary some from this but not much. Txiriiron Ten, CollVe, and Sugar. Tha President has approved the bill increasing the duties on tea, coffee, and sugar. It provides for a tax on all teas of twenty cents? per pound and on coffee of all kinds five cents per pound. On all raw sugar, cammonly called Muscovado, or brown sugar, two and a half cents per pound; or. refined sugar and sugar oandy eight cents par pound. On molasses six cents per pound. The law goes into force immediately. Water isn't a fashionable beverage for drinking yout ftioud's health; but i:s a capital one for drinking your own.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THUKSDAY,

rrraiv m-iiii n irn-rrn Fremont hi Ilcei lit rV. Church, On the Sunday after the arrival of Gen. Fremont in New York he attended Beecher's Church. The text selected wa9 conteined in the 20th chapter of St. Matthew, from the 25th to the 28th verses inclusive. After the sermon and the religious part of the exercises had been cone through with, the following, ss stated by the local of the New York Herald, u said to hare taken place, notwithstanding it was tho Sabbath dcy: 'At the conclusion of tho services the congregation again arose and a general rush was made for the pew in which Major General Fremont and lady Bat. Hundreds of hands were outstretched to greet him, and after submitting to a severe manipulation for about half an hour, he and company made their exit from the church, followed by the entire congregation. 'As soon as the Major Genereal and his party were seated in their carriage, the crowd got up a cheer and continued to surround the carriage, shaking hands with himself and lady until the patience of the latter was nearly worn out, and directions were given to the driver to go ahead, which he did, and the crowd followed the carriage nearly as far a9 Fulton Ferry, where the party get aboard and returned to New Yoik An exchange, in noticing this Sunday and church ovation to General Fremont well says: Now is not this making of religion a very mockery and a farce? Tho spectacle of a preacher and his congregation, in a church erected and dedicated to the service of the living God, thus diverting their attention from the solemn and impressive service which should have engaged them, to worship at the shrine of a political a lventurer, but recently dismissed from high milita y command for dishonesty and incapacity, must surely bring a blush of sham j to tho cheek of any one who has a truj regard for the advancement of religion and morality. Manifestly Mr. Beecher and his people are entirely ignorant of the text: 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' ' It is generally known, says the New ork Sautj Zeitung, that there id now concentrated on tho shores of tho Potomac a larger body of troops than has ever been concentrated in modern times, except in tho battle of Liepsic. Neither Gustavus Adolphus, nor Frederick the Great, nor Washington, nor Wellingto.n nor Scott, had ever under his inmediale command anything like the numb-.r which is now under tho command of Gen. McClellan. Frederick tho Great never led into the field more than 80,000 men at a time; but all U great battles were fought And won with bodies of troop? ranin between 30,000 and CO.000. Napoleon at Austrlitz, vanquished with C0.000 men tho united Russian and Austrian armies containing about 100,000. At Jena and Anerstadt there were 130,000 men under the command of the Emperor of the French. Tho bloody battle of Wagram, was fought with 150,000 men against the Austrians, and in the equally celebrated battle at Borodino about 120,000 Frenchmen were opposed to tho Russians. Tho decisive Initio at Waterloo was fought with only 80,000 Frenchmen a ! nrair.st I'.lnt.d.pr nnd Wal !Jmnn Tint 1, 0 I . . 1 CT' oaiii oi j.ieiiG Bei in moiion a fi-ntie army of about 500,000 men, Napoleon having under his command about 200,000, and the united forces cf Russia, Austria and Prussia about 290,000. It will appear Irom this comparison that the armies on tha Potomac were exceeded in number only by those vast armies which, on the plains of Leips'c, decided the fate of Europe. Ground ami .Lofty Tumbling. Ton days ago the Republican denounced as traitors every one who questioned the right and legality of tho arrest of Maton and Slidell. Tho word came that they were given up, and straightway Re publicans said itwa3 right to give them up and prevent war with England. Then, tho report was contradicted, and tho Republicans said they know Old Abe would never givo the rebels up they would never yield an inch to England. Then, again, came the authentic report that thoy were delivered up, and tho Republicans cry traitor at every man who don't justify it. If this ain't getting to bo a right smart chance of a country, then, we are no judge. "Kvery time they t im about they do jn?t so, Ami every time thjr jump about they jump Jiui. Crovr." llulmca Co. (O.) Farmer. A green oae, who had crossed the Atlantic, told a story of a storm, when tho rain poured down in such torrents that the ocean roso lix inches. 'There is no mistake,' Baid he, 'besides, tho captain kept a mark on the sido of the vessel,'

j A Defeat Instead of a Victory.

The Wheeling intelligencer of the 22d, says that the late battle near the top of the Alleghanies between Gen. Johnston on tho rebel side and Gen. Milroy on our side was a defeat to us instead of a victory. The first accounts were fictions, for it iurns out not to bo true that Johnston was shot through the mouth, neither did the rebels slip away in the night, burning their camp. The Intelligencer gives as facts the following: Gen. M. took part of some four or five regimentsthe 2d Virginia, the 9th and 1 2th Indiana, the 25th and 32d Ohio, marched from Cheat Mountaiu, to the Alleghanies, some thirty miles, and came upon the enemy in ambush, some two thousand 6trong, with his own men quite exhausted. Our men discovered at the first fire that a 'great mistake had been made. They had been led to expect a different meeting. Scouts had reported the enemy only about a thousand strong, and in a place where they could easily be taken. Our men were all eagerness to bag them. They supposed themselves double as strong as tho enemr. Instead of that, they were scarcely more than half as many. No wonde, then, that in finding their mistake, and coming on a heavy fire, one or two of the regiments flinched badly at first. The expedition was a volunteer one altogether, and companies were made up of the different regiments just as individuals offered. How many we lost docs not seem to be known with any degree of certainty. Most of our dead were left in possession of the enemy. Neither do we know their loss. It is only presumed that they suffered more than we did. It is well known, that the design of the expedition was frustrated, and we were compelled to fall back with the enemy Unbagged. A correspondent of the Ohio Statesman, who was in the battle, speaks of it as another repulse.' Twice did our friends drive the rebels, but after five hours fii'hling, and the giving outof the ammunition, our forces withdrew, leaving the dead on the field. A Craven Cry. "The Secesh are upon us. Jlo! niggers to the rescue ! Can it bs believed that there are American ficemen dastardly enough to raise aery like that? There is not a day wo do not hear if. It is bawled at ever)" point of tho compass, and comes down to us oven from the sacred walls of the capitol. They demand emancipation as a military necessity. In effect we are told that the twenty millions of the North are no match for tho six millions of the South that wo are doomed to defeat, unless we get tha help of tho black man. They do not like to havo it pat in just that style, but it amounts to exactly that. Short of that, their 'military necessity' would be a misnomer, and theit claim to abolitionizo under the war power, the bald est pretext. We 6ay that a viler insult was never heaped upon the Northern name. Tho worst libel uttered by South ern slave drivers does not equal it. If it be true that, with such numerical odds in our favor, and with the noblest cause that ever appealed to man, wo mnst crave the succor of the slaves ; if wo mu3t look to tho poor, blind, creeping African to help vindicate our birthright and stay us up in ourextremity, then let it be recorded, wo 1 - ol scorn too low lor us. We cannot court the allianco of slaves, without proving that wo are ourselves fit to be slaves. It is our heritage that is assaikd, pot theirs ; and if our own good right arms, with all they have, cannot protect it, we may as well at once advertise our degeneracy and to take our place as underlings. Emancipation as a military necessity! A military necessity! If emancipation must come, for the honor of our fathers, for our own independence, for the prospects of our children, for tho good name of free government, and for the dignity of the white race, let it take any shapo hut that. AVw York World. ' Sled Hot Miol. When red hot shot are fired, the ord nance used is elevated to the position desired beforo the gun is shotted. Tho pow der in the gun is kept from explosion by means of the wadding. Between tho ex. plosive substance and tho heated mass are generally three layers cf wad. That against tho ball w dry, and tho second wet, and upon the powder another dry piece rests. Tho ball is discharged very soon nftor being placed in tho cannon. Thero was a famous problem among tho Stoics, which ran to thi purpose: 'When a man says I lie,' does ho lie, or does ho not? If ho lies, ho speaks tho truth; if he speaks tho truth ho lies.' Many wero the books written upon this wonderful prob lem. Crysiphus favored the world with no less than six, and Philetus studied himself to death to solvo it.

JANUARY 9, 1862.

Propli'cej".We had an abundance of predictions that Mason and Slidell wonld not be given up ; but very few public men ventured to assert the contrary, and, when they did, were most unmercifully badgered for lack of patriotism. For instanoe, we find the following in the Congressional Globe's report of a debate in tho Houso on the 17th ult., regarding the disposition to be made of Mason and Slidell; "Mr. VALLANDIGH AM These men will be surrendered before three months, im the face of a threa:. I make that prediction here to-day." This raised a perfect storm about Vallandigham's ears, and cries of 'no no no,' re-echoed from all parts of the House. But the Ohio member understood tho administration better than did Stevens, Colfax, and the Tribune. Ex-President Buchanan, too, mad a similar prediction, and was soundly berated for it. A correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial who visited Wheatland ßoon after the ar lest, stated in a letter extensively copied at the time, that Mr. Buchanan 'hesitated not to 6ay that tho prisoners would of course be given up as soon as the facts came officially before the government. The ground of this opinion was that the British flag was the same iu its responsibilities on the sea that it is on the soil of England. The men under it were entitled to its protection. Human -Life. Men seldom think of the event of death until the shadows fall across their path, hiding forever from their eyes tho tiaces of loved ones whose loving smiles where the sunlight of their existence. Death is tho great antagonist of life, and cold thought of the tomb is tho skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to jro th rouf h the dark valley although its passes msty lead to paradise : and with Charles Lamb, we do not want to lie down in the muddy grave, even whh kings and princes for our bed-fellows. There is no appeal from the great law that dooms us to dust. We flourish and wo fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flower that blooms and withers in a day ha3 not a frailer hope upon life than the mightiest moiftrch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps. Generations of men appear and vanish as the grass, and the countless multitude which fills tho world to-day will to-morrow disappear as tho foolsleps on the shore. In 1851-2 Daniel Webstor uttered the following, which furnishes a lesson for the times: 'If I have attempted to expound the Constitution, I have attempted to expound that which I have studied with diligence and veneration from my early manhood to the present day. If I havj endeavored to defend and uphold the Union of States, it s because my fixed judgment and my unalterable affections have impelled mc, and still impel me, to regard that Union as the only security for general prosperity and national glory. Yes, gentlemen, the constitution and the Union 1 I placo them together. If they stand, they must stand together ; if they fall, they must fall togother.' Draft I lie Xcgroe. There is one way in which Congress could get rid of the offensive petitions which the niggerous Republican-Abolitionist are sending to that bodv. Pass a law requiring the signer of every free nigger petition to be drafted into the array, aud mada to perform guard and picket duty i&cessanlly, and allowed to hold intercourse with no one but niggers. This would rid the national legislature of a dirty nuisance. These nigger-worshippers are not in the array to any exteut, unless holding commissions, and some plan ought to be adopted whereby they could be com pelled to render the country a service, inStaad of being a disgrace to the ago we live in. Jfa comb Ea nie . Xottobc .Permitted to Hold OfHee. Wo make the following extract from the congressional proceedings of Tuosday : 'Mr. Morehead's resolution, instructing tho committee on Judiciary to report a bill providing that any person or persons engaged or employed in tho present rebel lion bo forever rendered incapable of holdirg any office of trust under t'io constitution and laws of the United States, was adopted 'My dear, what shall we namo bub?' Why husband, I-ve settled on the ramo of Peter. Oh, no,' he replied, 'I never liked Peter, for ho denied his master.' Well, then,' said tho wife, 'what name do you like?' I should liko tho name of Joseph.' Oh. not that,' said his better half, I can't bear Joseph, for he denied his mis-tress,'

Voiceless Verise. The world is rife with noble thoughts, That tremble on the tongue; The world U full of melody Unwritten and unsung. The mu6icof a march is sweet, But action is sublime, And you may lire a nnblcr verse Than can be told in rhyme ! Let lyres aud lutes, with tinkling breath, To love sick girls belong; The rythm of a well epent life Is sweeter far than song. I'm weary of the wasto of words Our world were not eo deadi If half our bard9 would cease to write, Aud live their verec instead.

What Manner ofltlan. Si mon Cameron, Secretary of War, fullv Comprehended the enormous crime and the enormous folly of the proposition to arm the slaves when he made that proposition in his report, for those enormities had been described ;n his presence by one of his. colleagues in the Cabinet. At the famous dinner to Georgr D. Prentice in Washington where Cameron first indicated the nefarious scheme, Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, promptly combatted it. 'Putting arms into slaves' hands!' exclaimed Mr. Smith. If this be attempted to any extent, tho whole world will cry out against our inhumanity, our 'savagery, and the sympathies of all mankind will be turned against ns, as they were againät tho blacks that raurdsred and drove the French from Hayt?, And, 'if it be attempted, the soldiers iu the army from Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois, all Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Pennsylvania nearly all, and from New York south of the Erie Canal, with the strong regiments from New Jersery, will, before God, protest against being, thus put on an equality with negro '8oldiersin their rauks.' These consequences weighed as nothing with Mr. Cameron, for he coolly proceeded to invite them, and at the same time to kindle a fire brand in the Cabinet, which, had not the President promptly quenched it, would have blowo up the whole concern (which of itself was perhaps desirable) and produced infinite mischief in the country. What manner of man must he b ? Chicago Times. A '"Chunk" or Wisdom. The Southern correspondent cf au exchange relates the following amusing story of the yellow fever in Mississippi: A gentleman from tho country who had been in Port Gibson 6ome time during the first week of tho epidemic, and was riding home at a pretty smart gaif, was brought up by a man running out of the house inquiiing : 'Say, havo you got tho rale yellow fever in town ?' 0h, yes ! theres no doubt of that I reckon, was tho answer. And is it a fact they've got the quarantine 'long wilh it? I'll swear, its bad enough to havo one disease, without another to help it along 1' This filled the gentleman on the road 'too full for utterance, and putting the switch to his horse, he was off to make the woods resound with his laughter. Reaching his destination he must tell it to a friend, a plain honest-hearted man, who, however, had neglected the 'rudi ments.' The incident wag too good to keep, and so he related it. Haw, haw, haw 1' roared honest John, -why, dod dum the all-fired fool's soul to thunder, didn't ho know that the quar antine was iiothir.g but the black vomit !' The last briek floored the news-bringer, and he ' rolled. ' The Earl of Shaftesbury, who makes great pretensions to abolitionism and evangelical Christianity, is reported, by the Albany Evening Journal, to comment on American affairs as follows : "I, in common with almost every English statesman sincerely desire the rupture of the American Republic. It has been tho policy of England to brook no rivalry, especially in tho direction of her own greatness. Wo justly fear tho commercial and political rivalry of tho United States. With a population of thirty millions now, they will soon, it not checked, overshadow Great Britain. We cannot look upon such a monstrous growth without apprehension." Old Abe's Daneiiig. The Leavenworth Conservative savs : A few years ago we wero eo unfortunate as to be present at a dancing party in the Hat town of Springfield, 111., and there were treated to the hideous tight of A. Lincoln, in "all promenade." We defy the most enthusiastic advocate ef salutary exercises to see Old Abe on a ball room floor without having his most primal principles severely shaken. Tears of anguish fill our eyes as we recall that terrible evenin

NUMBER 50 WHOLE No. 102.

Speak low, ladies, and yet always endeavor to be high-toned women. To bo ahead of time carry your watch behind votr. To sea how hard a man strikeiteil h'rm he lies. To keep from being dr-staad oat m the ravn.One Swallow does not make a Summer.' btft cms swallow often makes us want to swallow more. The man who tried to arrange his hair with a honey comb, has been Mying to catch a whale with a sandy hook What is the difference between a eehoof master and an engine driver? On trains the ramd the other mrnds th train. Arr old maid on the wintry side of fifty, hearing of the marriage of a pretty young lady, her frwnd, observed, with a deep and sentimental 6igh: Well, I supposo 'tis what we must all come to.' A gentleman was calfed upon id HptAcgize for words uttered in wine. 1 beg pardon said he, 'I did tint mean to say what I did ; but I have had the misfortune to lose some of my front teeth, and words get eut every bow aad tben without my knowledge From Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Jan. 2. Since Gen. Dumont issued his proclamation at Bardstown, Ky., Gen. Buell has issued a proclamation prohibiting proclamations or other similar addresses to the pttbiic bj Generals or other subordinate officers in his department. Col. Jeff. C. Davis, who recently captured so many rebels in Missouri, will be married to-night at the Third Presbyterian Church, to a daughter of Dr. Athon, of this city. Ho ha8 procured an order from the War Department aliowmg hi n to remain in command of his regiment, the Twenty-second Indiana. Brig. Gen. Reynolds and staff at rived in this city to-night on their way to Romncy. Va., where the General will take command. Col. WilUch hssr buried thirteen of hit men up to this date, since his fight on Green River. The Right or Every American Citizen. At tho recent term of the Bergen Co. Court, Judge Elmer delivered a charge in relation to treason, which the Bergen Co. (X. J.) Democrat says was remarkabl for its firm adherence to law and to the spirit of liberty. He charged that it is a right which every citizen has to freely criticise, to approve or condemn, the acts and measuresof an a 1 ministration, without subjecting him to the suspicion of being disloyal to his country, or rendering hira liable to the charge of treason. Disgraceful. TLe following appears in tho proceedings ef the United Statas Senate on Tuesday last: Mr. Sumner offered a resolution that tho committee on Patents inquire if any addditional legislation is necessary to secure to persona of African deacent thi right to take out patent?. Agreed to. Isn't that refreshing! Was there ever known such trilling whilst a nation was on trial for its existence? That this cowardly abolition fanatic dared, amidst a state of public anxiety such as existed on Tuesday last, to intrude a matter of ao trilling a character on tlie Senate of the United Stales, is a most deplorable evi dence of his callousness and degeneracy. Xewark Adooeate. A Desperate Xavnl l?ngaffcracnt In these war times some of the incidents of past wars become interesting. One of the most desperate engagements we ever read of occurred in 1757. On December 23d of that yar the British privateer Terrible, Captain William Dsath, of 2G guns and 200 men, eaptured a large trench ship after an obstinate battle, in which Captain Death lost his brother and sixteen men killed. A lew days after he fell in with tho French privateer Vengenrs, 3C guns and 360 men, who recaptured the prize, aifd having'manned her, both ships bore down on the Terrible, whose mainmast was shot away by the first broadside. After a desperate engagement, in which the french captain and his second mate were killed, with two thirds of hit company, the Terrible was boarded, when no more than 26 persons were found alive, IG of whom had lst a leg or an arm, and the other Jen were badly wounded. The ship itself was so badly shatterred that she could scarcely be kept afloat. There was a strange combination of names in this affair, as the Terrible wa3 equipped at Execution dock, was commanded by Death, wilh Dtvil for lieutsnaut, and Ghost for surgeon.

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