Shelby Volunteer, Volume 19, Number 22, Shelbville, Shelby County, 19 February 1863 — Page 1

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VOL. XIX.-NO. 22. SHELBYYILLE, IND. FEBRUARY 19, 1863. WHOLE NO. 961

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I pvblUiMi wry Thmrartay moraine at Sujttiixi, helby Contjr, Indiana, by REUBEX SPICER. T E R MI S : INVABIARLT IN ADVANCE. If Ml pali the expiration of 6 month, . . MhI pid Ail th expiration of Cie year,... yyrM tefint U1 1 rifid'.y aJU-rei to. 1.73 2,00 RATES OF ADVERTISING: Tn line SonpmrieloriU equivalent in ipa" onfM ttIM a ,.ar. . i t 3w'fc im'i m I 1 y'r $1.2.-1 I 3.liJ...l0 I KUK) .rfeolomn. I 1 ' IIJ Column. I -T-T- i I-3JWJ . I I i i on I jtiT i -j.no i 20.00 35. i() TT5-tlc in tV nti.-e column will be charged per tent. ! ad t;ttn to the ahoe rate. -"r All lrBient lerti semen U nrait be paid for In a.lr Lwal 4Trtimtf mint V pai n a'lvunce. w rwniMt rron tnt the r-ATment of the rm a ,trU-n. lrcat aaervenwiiw win ,aU m ur for mrh Insertion. 1T-7 Annour.owr.enU of marriairet an 1 deaths cmelv a-Wertiiirg rate, will be chart! for all obituary Marks. . . 'Annottr.eirten1iiltO!ifor office $C-alway in a 1 ..tinr liberality will he exteniea i ... i of a relieiom an.l charitable mtur. Adrertiier will bo restrict I t liwir ieST.u. JOB PRINTING ! T crucial attention of hxniness won. and all othert rc lriaf amy ncie or Job Printing, uch aa Circular?, Haiicltoills, Posters, HI an Us oT nil kinds, Pamphlets, &c, U calle 1 to the fact that the VOLUNTEER JOB OFFICE tow fern refitted with a Full anl Complete assortment of Plain and Fancy Job Type, Borders, c, y Uie Latest and Most Approved Style", which. In the hands y eomnetent w.irtmen, enables me to exernre any variety of ! Printing the community may p'.c M to order, in a trio nurpasv.l for ne-uueM, o short i.aticr. and at pr. iefyinteompetition- A trial is rMictfully solicited. An ample assortment of Cards, Cap, Letter, a:.I colore I afor always on hand. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. MISCELLANEOUS. Shell)) Co. Auctioneer. H AVISO taken nut a liccroe under theNational F.xci Law a AnclM'tirtr for fcheUy County, 1 am prepare-! to attend t all l.uainets ia th.it line, and hereby nutily al. Mr tons selling at puhiic outcry without license, exipt at roTide4 in J la, thit they lay themselves lia'jit to a .ltf o. $00. Addr. JERRY WEAKLEY. HhelhyTilte, Pec. 4, r?t. HOIIIXS A. SO., BmUni Tru;s, Me-Lcinei, Paints, Oil. Glass, Fane .aMlt, Dye Stufi. PerftiTnery, B.wks, Sutionary, W a! f aper, Bruhe, Te-t, Concentraled Lye, Tobacco, Cigarttt. North side Public Square. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. MARTIN M. KAY. THO'S W. WOOLEN. Sh.-P'vville, Ind. Frauklin, lad RAY &. WOOLEN,

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WILL PRACTICE I.N FEDERAL AN D STATE COURTS On or the othM of them will always l found at thei ffl.Jfo. 10 k II Sew 4; Talbotfs Building, South of P..? em. Sov.6-i, riiii.ii .i-:fi.c9 Attorney at Law, Xotary Public 6K.YSRAT. COLLECTiyG AGKST. OfBn orer Forii' Store, rear of laor' OSSee, SUKLHY VILLE, IND- , It. F. WIVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Varta-Wst corner Public Square, over Forba' Stoi SHELBY VII LE, ISD. Trompt attention s'itsu to theolh-ction of claims, incit iBStUitrt claims for Bounty Mon.-y and fnious. At. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Will f ratecuU Pensions, Bounty aw Is, and aU otherclain a?iinnt the Ooverinnent. OFFICE, So. 30, LOUISIANA AVENUE. XrrmvfCt Itsn. CB. Smith, Secretary of the Interioi yn' a. aiua!D. j. Losoms mo.itooxsri . ATTOR XE Y S AT L A IT Will protloB in the 4 th and 5th Judicial Circuits, and Con m PUu CourU t:reuf, also in the Supreme and Fe ral Couru. Special attention s.ytn to the collection I vats. Office orer Dr. Robin' Drug Store, Shelly t 'e Indiana. HKTU It. fcat, Bavis, HAY DAVIS, ' ATTORNEYS AT LAW; COca la Ray Flouse, Shelhyrilla. Prwiapt ateectlon glTa to the collection of claims JA7IES IIARH1SOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW 015c orer Torhea' Store, prg ' BHELBYVILLE, IND. - E. II STOCKTOX, 71. !., Tjg rnnatly lecatadin 5helbyrille,in the prccticw of ii !EDICtr A?TD Sl-HUfKY, AfaaMaad Reai leuce on Washinston street, between I. cC C. vm9mma RR Dwpot and Public Square. ?mas lhorijs under any form of Chronic Disease, wili fta4ttthir adnoUge to giTfl me a call. So charge for ssafnati'n. TTT All pers'sn Indebted to me, whose iocounthaTebn ttMwat one yaar or onr, will please call and settle. mv: BIG HARD KORltIS, County Surveyor, TJJiniLAJVD, inELDY CO., 15 D. fk Fmlrlaad, or tan iia r,

Form Vanity Fmt. A SO.G OF A DBIOADICB. IT kavtkad 0itouffh of actio." Ttsimon. I wear a splendid uniform, 1 ride a splendid nag, I talk both loud and valiantly Of lienor and the Flag; But let the South beeasyitill, Her soldiers need not fear; Jsorihot nor blow shall lay them low While I'm a Brigadier. I canter gaily through the street Attended by my staff, Unheeding little vulgar boys Who hoot and stare and chaff: And such a staff! all foreign name Quite wonderful to bear ; Plain Yankee boys aren't good enough For such a Brigadier. I've Baron This, the Duke ofThat, And Prince of T'other too, And people ask me "what on earth I h.v for them to do?" 'Ti p ! in to all but vulgar minda I w..nt a kindred sphere, Ther ' n u ht like title, blood and ityle To aid a Brigadier. Xo bloody wounds and hurU for me I IVrhaps I am n sham, But Politic? and Influence Huve placed me where I am ; I give my dinnsrs, draw my pay,

Dnuk brandy, win, and beer, And mean to havsa jolly time While I n a Brigadier. Investigations pass me by, Committee raise no row, Xo one expects that I will fight, And, faith 1 1 don't know how; I'm not for use, but ornament, i?o each day I appear In buttons, braid, und gold arrayed, A fancy Brigadier. Thre are a plenty in the field Who really like to fight, Give mo but money and good clothes, And 1 11 be harmless, quite; Yet there is one thing on my mind That eows not very clear How can the Government afford llv ftvle of Brip-adier ? Definitions. Man, a conglomerate m.iss at hair, tobacco emokc, coufusiou, coinvit and boots. Woman The waiter, per force, on the aforesaid animal. Husband An instrument constructed to 1 owl over shirt-buttons that 'r'nt 10. Wife A machine made for darning stockings, making puddings, and sewing on shirj-buttonn. Father A beinrj who thrashes the boys, and won t "lork over as his olive branches desire. Mother A pleasant Bong; a sweet vision of childhood. Child A compound of delightful and listresMne: elements. Baby An invention for keeping peo ple awake of nights, and forthe aggrandzemeut of washer-women. Lincoln and Douglas. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Comman-ler-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that, on th fiit day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eiijhthunlied and sixty-three, all persons held as .laves within any State, or any designa ted part of a Slate, the people whereof hall be in rebellion against the United tates, shall be then, theneeforward and forever free, and the Executive Government of the United Slates, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom r-.f such persons, and will do no act or cts to repress such person, or any of hem, in any efforts they may make for heir actual freedom." Proclamation. Douglas, in his speech before the lllilois Legislature, said: "I will say to you now, with all frankness and in all sincerity, that I will nev-'!-sanction nor acquiesce in any warfare vhatever u jon the constitutional rights ' domestic institutions of the people of he Southern Elates. Applause. J On he contrary, if there was an attempt in nvade those rights, to stir up servile insurrection among their people, I would ush to their rescue, and interfere with vhatever of strength I might possess, to ietend them from such a calamity." 5r The Buffalo Express, one of Lin coln's Abolition organs in the State ol New York, denounces Gn. McClellan as i "traitor," and says "he ought to be hot." The vmdictiveness of the Abo litionists is unbounded. They seem to iave a satanic hatred for every man who is not in favor of their accursed scheme converting this horrible war into a mere war to overthrow slavery. All those who wish to restore the good old union as it was, maintain the Constitution as it is. nd let the negro alone, are "traitors, and "onght to be shot," according to these Union-Milling Abolitionists. The able actuary of the Sanitary Commission, Mr. E. B. Elliott, of Bos ton, has obtained statistics of casualties which will be read with mnch interest. From data furnished by certain field hos pitals he has deduced the following rela tive to losses by different kinds of mis sile". The ratio is per thousand : Bv cannon balls 3 Bv shells 155 Bullets .' 809 Others undetermined 33

Organisation of the Democratic Club in Brandy wine Township.

Whereas, claiming to be members of the National Democratic party, standing in political doctrine squarely upon the written constitution, and the Union of the States, as they were, and forever should be, and fully believing that we are the only political party, now in existence, which can and will maintain that Constitution an I Union of the Stales together, intact and in harmony. And recognizing as we do, the perfect equality of ail the white citizens of all the States under the Constitution, and their duty to yield obedieace to it, and their right to legislate as they please concerning their domestic institutions, subject to no other limitations, than the Federal constitution, and holding that the powers not expressly delegated to the general Government by the Constitution are reserved to the States and the people, and being opposed to all schemes of "compensated emancipation" or the abolition of African slavery by the general Government, and attempts of the present Administration, to free the blacks, and dignify them by the title of "free American citizens oi African descent," and placing them upon terms ot equality with the white race, believing the same to be unconstitutional and repugnant to onr system of Government, And whereas we deny the right of the President or of any other office of the Government to set aside any provision of the Constitution or the Laws, under any pretext whatever, regarding such acts opposed to the fundamental maxims of true liberty, and likely in the course of time, to become a potent sign by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the powers of the people, and to userp for themselves the reins of government. We believe also in the perogative of the people of the United States, to canvass public measures, and the merits of public men, and the freedom of speech and of the press aimiafjatall times to be tempetate and courteous in its ue. Therefore in order that we may have concert of action, and strength to carry out and disseminate the political doctrines and truths of the Democratic party, we do hereby form ourselves into an association to be known as the "Brandy wine Democratic Club" and for the purpose of carrying out the above views do adopt the following constitution and by-laws for its government. CONSTITUTION. Section 1st. This Association shall be known by the name and style of the 'Brandy wine Democratic Club," and its object shall be the advocacy and promotion of the doctrines of the Democratic party. Sec. 2nd. The officers of this association shall consist of a President, Vice Presi lent, Treasurer, Secretary and a Committee of Ways and Means, one from each Road District in Brandy wine Township all of whom shall be elected by the members of the Society at regular raeetiags thereof, and shall hold their respec tive effices for one month from and after their election, and until their successors are chosen. Sec. 3rd. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all the meetings of the Society, and through the Secretary to call special meetings of the same. when in his judgement the interests of the Society demand it. Sec. 4th. The Vice President shall preside at all meetings of the Society, in the absence of the President, and perform his duties generally, in case of his inabil ity. Sec. 5th. The Treasurer shall receive, safely keep, and disburse all money oi the Society, in such manner as the Socie ty shall prescribe through their Secretary and he shall make, to the Society, at the close of his term, a report of his official transactions, at the end of his terra, and pay over to his succesor all moneys in his hands belonging to the Club. Sec. 6th. The Secretary shall per form all the duties of such an officer, and keep a fair record of all proceedings of the bociety, give notice of all the called meetings by the President, as well as all other notices that may be ordered by the Society. Sec. 7th.- The Committee of Ways and Means shall, with diligence, inquire alter the general political and pecuniary interests of the Society, and devise all honorable ways and means for furthering the objects of the same, and raise all monies, by voluntary contributions, necessary to defray the expenses of the Society, from time to time, and pay the same to the Treasurer and take his recepit for the same, and to attend to all such other business as may be imposed on them by the Club. Sec. 8th. Any person may become a member of this Club whe is a Democrat from choice and principle, subscribes to Democratic doctrines and usages, and will use all honorable means to maintain the Constitution and Union of the States at all hazards, and to achieve the success of the Democratic Party and Democratic nominees. Sec 9th. All fnnds acquired by or belonging to this bociety shall be used only to the legitimate purposes of the Society, and by order of the same. Sic 10th. This Society shall have power by a majority of the members pres ent, to adopt from time to time any such By-Laws as it shall deem necessary to cany ont the objtcts of the tine.

Sec. 11th. This Constitution may be

amended at any regular meeting of tho bociety by a vote of a majority of all the members of the bociety. Sec. 12th. All members shall subscribe their name to this Constitution. BY-LAWS. lst.The Society shall hold its regular meetings on every Tuesday evening in each week, at its Club Rooms, or at such other place as the Society may direct. commencing at the honr of 6 o'clok 2d. It shall be the duty of all officers of this Society, or other persons author ised to create debts, for any purpose, to present the bills therefor to the Society, before payment, for its approval and allowance. 3d. Thetieasurer of the Society shall disburse no money except on an order drawn on him by the Secretary, signed by the President. 4th. -The President and Secretary, nor either of them shall draw and order for money on the Treasurer, unless the Society shall have previously ordered the same, and made the specified appropriation of money. Highly Important Disclosures The Position of Judge Douglas His Last Political Essay. The Hon. Henry May, member of Congress from Baltimore, an intimate, perscnal and political friend of Judge Docolas, in his late speech in the House of Representatives, made the .following important disclosures. He said : "Mr. Speaker, that eminent and far seeing statesman, the late Judge Doug las, avowed to me, in April preceeding his death, his solemn conviction that outpolitical Union was at an end. I violate no confidence in repeating his opinions, ince he assured me it was his purpose to publish his views at an early dy ; and if the sequel of his life may seem in conflict with these views there are those among his personal friends here on this floor who can reconcile his conduct, and show the conformity of his plans with a peaceful, though it might bo a revolution ary, solution of our national troubles. Judge Douglas, on that occasion, read to me an elaborate essay that he told me had cost him more thought and labor than any work of his life ; that he feared it was too long, and he wished both to abridge and simplify it so that, it might bread and understood by all; that he would revise it at Chicago, and then give it to his countrymen. Death, alas I denied this most patriotic design. "That essay ascribed our present situation to the aggressive spirit of Northern Abolitionism. It declared his conviction that the Union of our States as originally formed and maintained was finally destroyed, and no political Union could ex ist again between the free and slavehol ding States ; that such an idea must be abandoned, and a commercial Union founded upon the plan generally of thr Zoll-verein of the States of Germany, be accepted as the only practicable arrangement to secure peace now and hereafter. That masterly paper, every word of which I heard read by himself, ani which since his death I have endeavored in vain to procure for the benefit of its wise counsels to our countrymen, fulk explained the plan, operation and re-ult of the Zoll-verein, aud showed how, with certain modifications, it could be adapted to sustain all these principal causes an influences which have hitherto made the United States the hapiest and most pros perous ot nations." That pamphlet would be worth read ing, and is doubtless among his manu scripts. A Plethora or Silver. In the United States, for reasons we need not now explain, silver has uot risen to so high u premium as gold ; and brokers consequently find it profitable to exchange silver for gold, by an indirect process, in this country, where there is not the same difference in the value of the two metals United States silver is sent here to pur chase the bills of our banks ; these are turned into gold, which is sent back to the States ; an I the brokers make the difference between the current value ol the two kinds of specie there. For small change American silver has, to a certain extent displaced the bills ol our banks ; and the quantity of it incir culation is sufficiently great to create some inconvenience. It is not bankable except at a considerable discount ; and the inconvenience arises solely from this cause. A trader has a payment to make in the bank ; and hi silver is useless for the purpose ; except at the cost of the discount at which the banks receive it. Should the inconvenience become sufficiently great to render it net est ary to take somesteps to prevent the influx of a currency which is not a legal tender, some movement for that purpose will probably be made. No one refuses to receive a moderate quantity of American silver in payment ; but if any serious inconvenience should result from the large quantity in circulation, its current value will probably be reduced to the brokers value by that common consent which at present keeps it in general circulation at a higher value than is accorded to British

An Abolition General Threatens to Hake War Upon Northern Democrate. OE SERALjtflLROY AND THE INDIANA OlTtCXll OS THE ARMY RESOLUTION'S. Winchester, East Virginia, Jsn. 30. Editor Journal. I have just read the noble resolutions of my brother officers of Indiana in the gallant army of Rosecrans, who, having assisted by their he

roism in achieving the splendid victory over the traitor army under Bragg, turn round to rebuke the more vile and cow ardly traitors at home who, having taken advantage of tho absence of over one hundred thousand patriot soldiers to steal into Dower, are disgracing our State by their treasonable acts. 1 desire to thank those brave officers. who. knowing no party save that for the Luton, have adopted thee resolutions, which meet my most hearty approval. Any man, or set of men, who. in times like these, when our Government is en gaed in a deadly struggle for its exist ence a struggle which involves not only the fate of free government in our own country, but for all the world would attempt to disgrace and prostitute the name of Democrat by organizing a party under that name to oppose the govern nent and divide and distract tho people of the loyal oiaies, are traitors mucit meaner tuan those in arms who boldly and directly seek the destruction of the Government, for these pretended Democrats sneakingly and indirectly seek the same end by exciting prejudice against the Govern ment aud division among the people. Let these traitors of the Indiana Legis lature, and the Copperheads, Butternuts and K. G. C.'s throughout the State. who are giving aid, comfort and encour agement to armed treason in the South, read in the odium that has followed the memory of the Blue Light Federalist and Hartford Conventionists of 1812 some thing of the execration and detestation that will follow their memory down the stream oflifo. I join with my fellow-soldiers of the Union evcry-where in warning these trai tors at home that when we have crushed armed treason at the South, and restored the sovereignty of our Government over these misguided States ( which, under Godwe surely will do), we will, upon our return, while our hands are in, also exterminate treason at the North, by arms. u need be, and seal by the blood of trai tors, wherever found, the permanent peace of our country and the perpetuity of free government to all future generations. R. H. MILROY. We, the undersigned, Indiana officers at this place, most cordially subscribe to (he sentiments expressed in tae above letter of General Milroy. MARK L. DeMOTTE, Capt. A. Q. M. DAN'L MEECER, Division Surgeon. uOHN 0. CRAVENS. A. D. C. Z BAIRD, Capt. and A. D. C. The Beggars of Moscow. In Moscaw exists about forty thousand oeggars by profession rather a strong proportion in a total of three hundred ind eighty thousand inhabitants who hiefly ply their trade in the shops and galleries of the Gostinnic Dbor, a kind f Oriental bazaar. Ou every step you will fall in with women carrying their hildren with them, with persons dismissel from the hospitals, with burned out people from the ueighborheod, and that peculiar species of the Russian beggar vho appeals to your generosity on behalf f recruits and the starving families they have left behind them. The most impulent of all are discharged officials and soldiers, who are generally drunkards, covered with rags, and decorated with orders and clasps. Then, again, you meet old women carrying open coffins with t lem, and begging- alms to defray the rost of burial. Other women of the same stamp, applying to you in the name oi a ride who would like to be married, bnt vants a dowry. Peasants will stop you to enable them to buy a new horse, the old one having gone to the wall be tome accident or other; oldiers in full uniform, who have broken a glass in the barricks, clamor for a trifle to replace the departed one. To the secular members of the fraternity is admixed s strong proposition of monks and nuns, walking in the somber garments of their order, and asking a mite for the erection of a new chnrch, the restorition of a chapel or such like purpose. All point imperatively to the boxes, plates, coffins, prayer-books, altar-covers they present to yon with an eutreating gesture. Pilgrims and pilgrimesses, too, who have vowed to go to Palestine, to the Solovizki Monatry, or to the grave of the sacred Tychon, will accost you, each enlarging with great emphasis and considerable fluency upon the holy object of their joumey. EST "Now is the time to get up dobs," ss the boy said when the priuter'e dog chased him. Why is a fahionh!e lady's dress like an iron -clad ship 7 Because it is heavily pla(i)ted. One of the Shetland mares, imported by John S. Rarey. of (iroreport, Ohio, has a poi. .v.. :- . U 1 .1.. 11.. nv con mai i ijuuiy iut mwet pcf men of a horse in the world, being only twsat inehM in hAiffht and weiahin Ailvtw.n. ty one pound. The heft of this colt, whta la tiia ccsdiiica, cary weighs 75 puix

Card from Col. Carrington Respect

ing Desertions. Headquarters U. S. Forces, f Indianapolis, Feb. 2, 18C3. Owing to erroneous statements in cir culation prejudicial to good order and public quiet, the following statement is made respecting desertion and arrest of deserters : and the press of Indiana, as well as all good citizens irrespective of party affiliations or antecedent., are in vited to a cordial concurrence. 1. Deserters from the United States service, having voluntarily assumed their obligations, as contractors to serve the Government, for a consideration, have no excuse to screen themselves from their obligations. Failing to do service is bad faith to the Government and the people. 3. Screening deserters, or aiding desertions, is a high offence, bringing no protection to the party deserting, but sapping the very foundations of good order and social peace, and leading to disorder fruitless of good, but full ot mischief. 3. Deserters now absent, if promptly returned throughout the State, or surrendering themselves, will be recommended for kind consideration. Their friends should bring them, or urge them to come in at once. This is the manly way, und such as commends itself to every good citizen and lover of his country. Failure of absent soldiers or thvir friends to meet their just and legal requirements, will inevitably result in the arrest of of fenders wherever found, their immediate trial by general court martial, and the ex ecution of tho penalty affixed by sentence. 4- 1 he carrent statement that such ar rests, or the arrest of citizens who aid in resistance to the proper authorty, have any relation whatever to political questions or parties, are without foundation. It is simply a question of bringing back to their obligations parties now in default. whoever or wherever they may te. 5. The arrests in Morgan county just made were simply of this character. It was an arrest, without bloodshed, of three deserters, and some armed men, who. forgetful of their duties as citizens, hied . upon the proper authorities, legally charged with a legal duty, who .thereby placed themselves in an attitude of delib erate and offensive resistance to legiti mate proceos. Such arrests are common at all timet, whether of peace or war ; and it is hoped that no street reports will lead any, evea in times of an excited public pule. to misconstrue plain acta of duty an i shape them bo as to increase public excitement and foment disorder. It is very easy to learn whether any reported orders are issued from the.e headquarters, and it may be here assumed that none will be promulged that any good and loyal citizen of the United States will except to. It is also assumed that the people of Indiana are true and loyal to the Union, and thnt they will cheerfolly do their part to maintain the Government in these times of trial, and frown upon all resistance to legitimate authori ty as the only avenue of a safe deliverance through all the issues of this war. Henry B. Carrisoton, Col. 18th U. S. Infantry. Comd'gat Indianapolis. Trouble in a Kentucky Regiment. Reports are in circulation, through the press and otherwise, that a serious mu tiny recently occurred among the troops stationed at Frankfort, Kentucky, and that a collision between a Kentucky and Ohio regiment was the result. The facts, setting aside all erroneous newspaper re ports and rumors from secession sources, we learn from a reliable private correspondent at that place. On the 25th ult. the Twenty-fourth Kentucky regiment. stationed at Frankfort, received an order to proceed to Nashville as 1 join the Ar my of the Cumberland, under General Rosecrans. Pait of the regiment, comprising two hundred men, refused to obey the order, and loft town, carrying their arms and equipments with them. Instead, however, of going South to join the rebels, they disperse! to their homes, in some of the conntiex fear the State capital, where they were originally enlisted. A brigade of free State troops was in Frankfort on the day of the dem onstration, but made no effort to arrest the mutineers, because the brigade commander. Col. Gilbert, thought it prudent not to hazard a collision. Colonel Grigsby, of the 1 wenty-tourth, was not in camp at the time of the cccurrtn. and is, of coarse, not responsible for the defection in his regiment. The President's Proclamation was alleged by the n urines r to be the cause of their deseriiea. &. Louis Republican. WtLX. Raid. Said sn infidel Isdy ones to Lord Chesterfield, "The British Parlisment conits of five or six hundred of the best informed men in the kingdom. What, then, can be the leason they to!e rate such an absurdity as the Christian religion V "I suppose," replied hi lordship, "it is because they have not been aMe to substitute anything better in iu steal ; whea thwycan. I do not doubt that, in their wisdom, they will readily adopt it." And Lord Chesterfield, with all hb sayings, never said a better thing. i . . . . v-t.a & W hy is a lady who hat poega a sable caD at half rrne, like a solder absent on leave ? Because she has t lltxvrtov.