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sentence of exile was pronoun-,0„/ -130*-,:_ 4,, % ,zl-4
iniquity of Secession ..was cons‘.4i4j-012.4.ir t:;-k-,
against the inhabitants of a thiratl":67lo)4 /4./„Q
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territory of the State;`, Men guilty of -xitige-e
that of entertaining certain.' opinions.' I`44is t S
all-.-army after arnay.W,aa , gent into Western Vir-
ginia last yearl4l,exeente the decree of proscription
rrher villages were-burnt, her fields wasted; and
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some of her prominent. citizens. .dragged to Rich-
mond and immured ein a felon's gaol. The same
state of things exists'in _East Tennessee. Wherever
throughout the South a Union man ventures to -
avow hinieelf, the' Commengaol, the scourge, some-
times the halter, Ole. fate. I know the press at
the South affects • to . deny. :the . truth of ' Parson
BrOwnloW's statements:. I own, I could not my-
self at first hdlieVe that such atrocities could haVe
been practised ,hy men
.processing to be Christians
=nay, 4y.pprsens inf the kig,liest civil and mili-
tary stations. i3ut lam Well persuaded, from nu- _
merous other arid independent sefirces of informa-
tion, that his nen-ill:Its itre true, Mr. Benjamin, the
Confedera'.-e*zieerel'ary' of tAte, by it letter of Ihe
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25th of last No..Vembe,r, adcimssed to the officer in
"mriia'd. LA Kfic;.vitle, directs tiat at all ' I,risezera
of war taken among the traitors oi E,:st Ten-
vesse9! (ao, he,designate,sthe grec; t
.mass Of the loyal
people of that region), , Wiio can be identified as
sabiaae;nnaernilgyabgyed in
drumhead court-martial, and,
bridge-burning;' are to be
guilty,,executed On the spotby hanging.
havingtifriefa9u
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It would be well to leave their bodies hanging in
the vicinity of the burnt bridges !' This most
humane Secretary seeins_to have forgotten that one
of the 'first acts of his seceding friends in Baltimore
was to burn the bridges on the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Railroad, to prevent the troops of the
United States from marching to the defence of
Washington. It is needless to say that this cruel
order was as cruelly executed; while throughout
the South thousands of. Union men have been driven
into exile, and other thousands are forced into the
rebel army, or are languishing in prison, or fleeing
befoFeitheir pursFerscto the caves in the mountains.
If we now shrink discomfited, from the contest,
iwp surrender these our, loyal friends and brethren
to exile, confiscatienond death. No, fellow-citizens,
there remains no alternative hilt a short and vigor-
ous,.or a protracted and languishing prosecution of
the war; Shall it be the firstor shall it be the last ?
Will you' let it go down
,a legacy of sacrifice and
sorrow to your children, or will you not rather
finish it this very year ?: . You can if you will ; you
hge.the means and the men, if you but choose to
emiloY them; I rejeice4O behold, in `this great out-
pouring of the people, the assurance that you aro
determined that, as far as depends on you, the work
shall be quickly done ;. and• in-lieu of any words of
exhortation ouzmy part; which I know you do not
need, let me give you ttraminiscence from the time
that tried men's souls. Boston, as you well know,
,was in the year 1775 and a part of 1776 occupied by
British troops, and besieged by the American
army under 'Washington. The great qUestion
was hoW the. enemy could be 'best assailed, and
among the measures proposed was the bombard-
ment of the town, then almost wholly built of
wood. The richest man in Boston, John Hancock,
was then President of the Continental Congress,
and as such transmitted the orders of that body to
Washington. ' You will notice the resolution,' said
he in his letter, ' relative to an attack on Boston.
This pasSed after a most serious debate in a com-
mittee of the whole house, and the eXecution *was
referred to you. May. God crown your attempt
;with success ! I most heartily wish it, though in-
dividually I may be the greatest sufferer.' The fact
is, all his property consisted of real estate in Bos-
ton ; the destruction of the town would have made
him a beggar. Fellow-citizens, he was the occu-
pant of yonder house. Were he living, he might
from his windows witness all this glorious sight;
his eyes would swim with tears of gratitude to
Heaven, as he beheld yonder banner of the Union
floating in the breeze I his'ears would drink with
rapture _the patriotic strains that have cheered us
this afternoon. May the- proceedings of this day
and this hour be suck that his pure spirit, and that
of all his sainted associates, the Adamses, and
Franklin, and peerless Washington himself, may
ook down upon us with approbation."

ANOTHER HISTORICAL BEC7'III-

In the printshops may still be seen occasionally a repre-
sentation of the Emperor Napoleon brought to a standstill
lay one of his own sentinels, in consequence of his inability
to give the password. The veteran who, in obedience to his
orders, was so near running his bayonet into his Majesty
has been recently received at Fontainebleau by the present
Emperor, who, according to the French papers, conversed
with him a considerable time, and, among other questions,
asked him, "Though you did not know it was the Empe-
i•or; would you really have shot him 2" To which tho
veteran replied, "No, Sire, I would only have wounded him
with my bayonet." The account which Coluche, the sen-
try, gave of the affair was as. follows :—" It was in 1809,
after the victory of Ebersberg, that I was posted at the en-
trance of a half-destroyed building, in which the Emperor
had taken up his quarters. My orders were not to allow
anybody to pass unless accompanied by an officer of staff.
imputed to
In the evening a person wearing a gray overcoat came to..
wards my post and wanted to pass. I lowered my bayonet,
and called out ' Nobody passes here.' Those were the
words I used, and I never added ' even if you 'were the
lilaittelesince, corporalbeca huismself,' e
I did Emperor be-
fore me. The person came on without seeming to notice
ht my bas on
what I said, and I then brought et to the charge,
Emperor returned to his quarters
taisothknagowbeeln hwradongthfuelly
and called out, If thou takest another step I will run my
4bayonet into thy stomach.' The noise brought out the
• if to the guard-house. You are lost,
said my comrades; you have committed an assault
all, that to the court-martial.' The Emperor
wholemanydb Io
ywo,
af theo a
r staff, 0 the
nu. the Emperor I' Stop a bit,' I said, ' what of my orders ?
ancl, when I came into his presence, he
I:siiihit°l4l GeflcerPteciiindie,r, thou mayest put a red riband in thy
button hole
I give thee the cross 4 Thanks, my Empe-
r I answered, but there is no shop in this country
Where
I can buy the riband." Well,' replied the Emperor,
with ,
'a
smile, 'take a piece from a woman's red petticoat ;
'that will answer the purpose just as well " Coluche con-
tinued to serve through all the campaigns, when he was not
confined to the hospital by his wounds, till the concluding
battle of IN aterloo, after which he was discharged, returned
to his village, and resumed his occupation as an agricultural
labourer. On his recent visit to Fontainbleau his only in-
troduction was his portrait engraved by Madame Viardot
Garcia, the distinguished singer. As already mentioned,
he was received by the Emperor with great cordiality,
and by him presented to the Empress, the Imperial Prince,
and the whole Court. Previous to his departure the Em-
peror asked him if he wished for anything, to which Colucho
is said to have replied, " I no longer desire anything ; now
I have seen yea all lam satisfied. I will only beg of you
to give me your three portraits," a request which the Em-
peror promised him should be complied with,

NEW AFRICAN BISHOP.--The annual report of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, which will be issued in the course of a few days,
States that there is reason to believe that the bishopric of
the Orange River Free State, South Africa, so long pro-
jected, will be established before the end of the year, and
also that a body of missionaries will be on their way to
plant new missions of the Church of England in indepen-
dent Kaffraria and in China.
DANGERS OF RIFLE PRACTICE.—A gentleman
I handed in to our office yesterday a rifle or carbine bullet,
which he had found on the grass close to the Queen's Drive,
beyond the south end of the Hunter's Bog, and which,
from its position ani shape, had evidently impinged upon
a rock or stone at the bead of the Valley and flown off across
the ridge. This shows the necessity of those stones and
rocks being removed at this place, as now that practice is
so frequent the risk of such stray bullets is much increased.
Scotsman. .

If "wine maheth glad the heart of man," we tak, it for
granted that the best is that which will most increase a man's
hilarity. Now the Vintage Wine Company have introduced
into this country a really excellent beverage in the "Xeres
Comida Sherry," and as we have heard theoretically and
proved practically its virtue, we can safely recommend it as a
wine " of cheap and super-excetent quality.—Warwick and
Leamington Times. [The price of the wine referred to is
its. and 20s. per dozen. It can only be had at the CompanY's
offices, 14, Bloomsbury-street.]
and °often be-
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