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POETRY.
From the Union.
WAR SONG.


BY ROBERT e. II. LEvERING.
respectfully dedicated to those patriots who ara
throwing aside party distinctions to defend theil
common country against Mexican aggression.
AIR" Our flag is there"
Our hearts are there! Our hearts are there!
With waving flag and deadly blow!
Our hearts are there! Our hearts are there!
The conq'rors of the southern foe!
Our country cals-we list the voice
With leapng soul and sinew'd arm;
Our spirits in the fray rejoice
With battle strength and battle charm!
Chorus
Our hearts are there Our hearts are there!
With waving flag and deadly blow;
Our hearts are there! Our hearts are there!
The conq'rors OF the southern foe.
Our country's dead of olden time,
The recent slain on southern sod,
Appeal our hearts to deeds sublime
For home, for country, and for Gop.
We bid farewell to ev'ry tie,
We echoing breathe the patriot flame,
For these to fight, for these to die,
And shield our glorious flag from shame.
Chorus-Our hearts are there, &c.
Though doubt and fear and blood Prevail,
And brewing clouds from foreign shore
Though traitors, with the foe assail,
The EAGLE BIRD was made to soar.
The spirit our forefathers swayed,
The starry flag the same endurss-
The same firm trust on HI au'n is stayed,
The final vict'ry shall be ours.
Chorus-Our hearts are there, sc.
o list the mighty tocsin sound,
On ev'ry wind its accents fly
The east and tcet have caught the sound,
The north and south repeat the cry;
The battle hosts to battle speed,
In union strength, in union heart,
With Spartan soul and Spartan deed
To blaze their names on glory's chart.
ChoruS-Our hearts are there, sc.
The prayer ascends for FREEDOM arms,
The cause is holy, just, and true,
With brlght'ning hope, through wars alarms
That Heav'n shallbea US cong ring through
The watch-fres burn on every heart,
Each kinding each with patriot fire,
Responding to each loud report
With sacred joy or holy ire,
h0ruS-Our hearts are there, sc.
Our spirits for the patriot dead
Shall weep around the nations urn,
Our hearts shall 10 the living speed
With wreaths on gory's field they won;
To distant time the truth shall spread,
This land is Heavens peculiar care;
TO FREEDoM true, to VICT'RY led,
As on she moves her conqring car.
ChorUS-Our hearts are there, &C.
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81 kno,o of no pursuit an tUhich more real and
important Struices can be rendered in any country,
than dyinlprOuing its Agricultme."-W ashington
The Ohio Cultivator. TOL. 2.
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STATE OF OHIO, MONROE, COUNTY, SIS:
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
In Chdncery.
Robert Robinson and Margaret Robinson, admins
traitors with the will annexed Of John Robinson
deceased; complainants.
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CAPTAIN CARPENDER.

Accounts have been received at the Navy De
partment from Commander Carpenter late as Au-
gust Gath He was then at Tuxpan, and, with his
officers and crew, was in good health. He writes
"The people here continue their kindness to u.s. and
the men are furnished with good quarters the
place affords"
His disaster did not result, as some have supposed
from any misplaced confidence in the Scotch captain
whom he had on board, but from the peculiar char
acter Of the coast He first anchored of the bar, in
five fathoms water Intending to send in his boats
the next morning. he desired TO get shore for
their protection, and found that he might safely
anchor in three and a half fathoms. Ia attempting
to drop the brig into that water, (under glib and
spanker,) she was lost. He was on the forecastle
looking out, with the lead heaving constantly
"Deep four" having been called, he supposed the
next cast would give him tho desired soundings; in.
stead of which, "quarter less three" was called. In
stanty seeing his peril, he ordered the sails to be
oosed, to back her of. The mantop-sail was hoist
ed, and aback, when she struck The sails were
then taken in, the weather anchor dropped, the
vessel lighened by throwing overheard shot
and pumping out water; and the largest kedge was
got out astem, for the purpose of keeping
her from forging further ahead. But these and all
other efforts failed, and the boats unable to live
in the surf alongside. The launch was stove by the
force of the breakers. The two cutters were with
Lieuts. Hunter and Bergman. Thus situated, with
no chance to save the vessel-exposed to the
elements, and with prospect of destruction to all
in case gale, or even heavy squall came on-he
received message from the shore offering them as.
sistance, if he would surrender with his officers
men, and vessel. He refused at that time to sur
render the vessel, but the following day felt himself
compelled to accept the offer.
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Of dslars. In other words, what was worth pre-
yious 70 the repeal Of the corn laws of GTeat Brit
ain which our proiectonlsts said would not benefit
us) Oul $50 millions Of dollars, 10 now worth 400
mIlllonsl
In The same time wheat -four has advanced one
dollar per barrel, The whole quantity of -four
in the United States s estimated at twenty-One mil
lions of barrels This gives increased value upon
the article Of -four Of tWeniy-one millions Of dol
lars,
Here, then, upon iteO articles Of agriculture has the
oeah Of the country been increased 0thta hs space "
ev days Of one hundred and serenity millions he
simple increase gf price Is than the iOh0is paus y
cotton aad tcOOI fabrics manufactured ia me country
during the last four years. (Here is "Tuln" and
"panIc" for YOU'D Ahd yet you will hear protee-
| tIonlsts talk Of "home market" home market
as good as any other market far as IL gossJ but
how much, would ask, do our manufacturing es-
Adjustments increase the consumption Of the coun-
try' A single county in Ohio, and another in Ten
nessee, would furnish all the manufacturers IN the
! Union with all the wheat and corn they could use
for year. Restrict US to a "home Market" as
| the wings propose, what would become OF our I'M
mense surplus Shame that these manufacturers
can think Of nothing but their own pockets.
| They say our farmers raise too much; and Mr..
Clay in bis late letter TO somebody who sent him a
piece Of oilcoth said that he "did not believe that
the free-trade scheme Of Great Britain IN opening
her ports for the admission of our bresdstufis could
| IN Inc hdot tnCfcdSt He w " OuF
agricultural productions" prophetic and sagacious
politician, this Mr. Clay)
Every arrival from Europe disproyes this foolish
assertion. Every gale watts to our shores orders,
not only from England, bat also from those eoun'
tries, which, according TO wing assertions, were TO
undersel US in all the markets OF Europe, for our
agricultural products, for our wheat, corn, our
rye, our pork, beef butter cheese, lard, &c, &c
| and yet the manufacturer who is daily hanging
about Congress for aid, for lhis assistance to
increase his wealth, would tie the hands OF the
farmer, restrict him to a poor, miserable "home
market E" and tell him that he raises too much.
II the Lews from Mexico, reported this morning,
is true that offers of peace have been rejected,
It to be expected by all classes and interests
that the President will hesitate longer, but will
order at once all the necessary force to make imme-
date attacks in every assaiable quarter As for the
mediation Of Great Britain, It is universally booted
at We are quite able to manage our own affairs.
LEDYARD.
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DISPATCHES BY THE PRINCETON.

Il
Many of the presses of Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York, are under an erroneous impression
about the dispatches from Mexico. They repeat
the report which was originally transmitted on Sun
day last by the telegraph from Baltimore, to this eff
feet;
| "A letter from the United States squadron IN the
gulf has been received in Washington, which gives
the substance OF the Mexican governments response
10 the peace proposition. They refuse 10 inter into
! nsgOAaiiOas until hs United States land and ndrdl
forces hare been ,0ithdraon from the territories and me
harbOrS Of .HsrieO We are assured here that this
is the answer which the President received yester-
day afternoon by government express from Pehsa
cola. Nothing new from Nauyoo."
The "New York Tribune" dashes of its edtori-
rial with the head "The offer OF peace rejected"
and follows it up with the following unwise, unpa-
trouc, unAmerican srticle
"Mexico has turned another leaf in the record Of
our dlsgraceful war She refuses TO negotiate for
peace until our forces Withdrawn from her terri
tory And who blame her, or refuse 10 ac-
knowledge that her course Is dictated by justice,
honor, and selfrespectl With what nation would
zoe consent To treat for peace with her troops inya-
ding our territory and her ships bloeksding our
ports! Should we not regard the very proposal to
negotiate under such circumstances the most ag-
gravated inSult%
The New York Tribune does not thus hesitate to
| take the side Of Mexico against its own country,
knowing full well that Mexico is one of the most
diatory and uncertain powers ia the word-that her
policy is procrastination-that she deals in swelling
pronuneiamsniOs and evasye diplomacy-that her
whole intercourse with ourselves proves such to be
the general character Of her negotiations that
to ourselves, under the circumstances in which we
are placed, delay would prove ncaeulable in ex-
pense, inefficient in its results, mseheyous in every
aspect. 1t would almost disband our army Of vol
unteers their twelve months service might expire,
before the protracted negotiation could come To an
end. In view Of these consequences, the President
declared in his message to Congress, whilst he an
nouneed his tender Of the negotiation, that he
would consent 10 no armistce, and to cessation
OF arms, until the treaty Of peace was made and
ratified Such is the true policy bound to
pursue. And yet the New York Tribune is absurd
enough to appeal to the pride Of Mexico ainst any
negotiation which does not involve the withdrawal
Of our advancing troops from her territories, and
our navy from her waters.
But the New York Tribune takes ground for
Mexico, which, as far as we are advised, she does
not take for herself. Whatever decision she has
made, II any, has not yet transprcd before the pub
lie.
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THE HOME MARKET.

We invite the attention OF our readers to the facts
and statements, on this subject, contained in the
letter of our New York correspondent and in the
article from the Evening Post, which we give be-
low. The Home Market" is now the very last hope
of the protectionists. How this pretence be kept
up the face of the immediate rise in the price of all
our staple products, which is produced by intelli-
gence Of any increased demand for them in the Eu-
ropean or English markets. If the home market is
adequate, anywhere nearly adequate, to our sup
ply why does it not fir prices of itselff Yet, how
opposite to this is the the showing of the
protectionist journals themselves. Here, for in
stance, is the testimony of the New York Elk.
press
"The New York Express of Saturday afternoon
says: The news from Europe has had the effect to
advance the price of cotton, -four, rye, and corn.
The market has been in excited state, and yester
day there good deal of business done. To-
day the views of holders appear to be above those
of purchasers, and there is less business DOING"
The wing prints teeming with similar state
ments yet they still keep up the parrot cry of the
home markell 1t is al in vain. The people cannot be
home, 80 directly, to their interests and their pros
perty.
STEWARDS sToRE-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
New YoRK, Sept 81, 1886,
To The editor Of The Union:
The great dry-goods A. L. Stewart & Co.,
opened this day his palace-like establishment on
Broadway for inspection and sale Of goods.
Ii is of the most chaste and beautiful build
ings in the country, and for the purpose intended
wholesale and retail-unsurpassed in the world. IL
is built in the purest style Of architecture, Of clear
white marble, is 80 feet broad, and about 100 feet
deep, and four stories high. They employ about
100 clerks, at expense of near $50, 1000 For
the accommodation Of the unmarried ores, they
have erected large fve-story building in the rear
Of the main one, as a boarding house, which is re-
pete with every accommodation, including a ply
sician French teacher reading rooms, library, &c.
&c. No expense has been spared to make the
whole affair perfect as it is possible to be. OF
course there perfect rush upon them to- day,
but il is Of those banks which invites run, and
every demand will be promptly met, for the pres-
dent and cashier never absent. ... .. .
During the week ending September Sd, there ar
rived at Liverpool (England) the following pro-
duce from the United States, viz; 26,775 barrels
Of -four; 37,l99 bushels OF wheat; 81 ,307 bushels
of corn 2,022 boxes cheese; 1,l4l barrels Of lard;
besides butter hams, pork, and clocks in any guam
tity. All this in the space of seven days Is Eng
land annexed" to the United States or not
During the last two weeks Indian corn has adj
Vanced in price in this market from so cents per
bushel to 80 cents, equal to 60 per cent. advance
The entire crop in the United States Of corn is es-
timated at 500 millions bushels, and the increased
value on this article alone TO our farming interests
is at the above advance Of so per cent, $50 millions
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Communicated


The slip from the Hartford Times, inserted Ia
your paper of Wednesday last, censuring the "old
officers of the navy who supposed to have
association with the Secretary, demands some no.
tce from the fact alone that it has appeared in the
Union-an importance attached to il which it could,
under no other circumstances, have acquired
IL the efficiency OF the measures of the late Sec
rotary of the Navy rest in its demonstration at
tempts to depreciate the services of those officers
who fought their country's battles, who fought the
navy into Its very existence, and further into ia
vor with the people, then, indeed, has the Hartford
Times a difficult problem to solve; in attempting
which, that paper undertakes acts of the late Sec
rotary, to which the navy at large will give its most
cordial appreciation and support. The late Secre-
tary may truly exclaim: "Save me from my
friends" il the Times be one of them; and rest
sured hat If evidence we're wanting on the part of
the navy to prove the importance of many of his
acts their sautary effects the service in general,
resort would be had to arguments more conclusive
and substantial than those based on the sandy
foundation of the Times. The editor of the Union
will sustain me in the assertion that these old Off
GERS" most warmly sanctioned acts Of reformation
Of the late Secretary, for the failure OF which the
Times must hold to an account the peoples repre-
sentatives, if it would indulge in language of cmi
nation and censure. The services Of these officers
demand no eulogy at my hands; they are blended
with the country's history, and therein indebly
impressed, that neither time nor the Times" can
bliterate tn an " ..'#.@HE.'
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ortland Argos Of Friday says:

DIsAsrER-U. s. BRIs WAsHIsGTos.-The steam
or Palmetto, from Philadelphia, arrived at Charles
ton on the 18th inst, reports that on Monday, the
l4h, at l2I O'Clock, boarded and supplied United
States brig Washington with boat, she having
lost boats, anchors, and carried away both mass,
thrown overheard guns, &c. The captain and
eleven seamen were washed overheard; she was
under jury masts, lat. rs 10, long 36 40. The p.
EFF hermaphrodite brig alongside the Washing
ton to render any assistance that might be required
Tuesday 18th, light w wind, heavy sea, exchanged
signals with brig bound south, supposed TO Charles
ton. Wednesday 10th, O'Clock, a. m, blowing
very heavy put her head to the sea and housed the
topmasts. Laboring hard, threw overheard the
deck load, engine would not work but by hand
wind N T. and increasing, blowing gale. 10 p. m,
tackled ship and ran before II with fore spencer set
and engine hooked on--yessel working much easier.
n5-The Washington was employed on the sur
yey Of the coast. Accounts have been this day re-
ceived in Washington which go to confirm the fact
of the disaster We shall ,of course, have particu-
lars Of the melancholy event.--UsIos.
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DEMOCRATIC IRoN-MAsrER.--G Gen. Houston,
VINO is extensively engaged in iron works in Centre
county, Pennsylvania, has authorized the contradic
ton Of statement put aAost by the ''panc-makers
that he had reduced, or was about to reduce the
wages of his hands. The Centre Democrat saws:
I'VE are authorized to contradict the statement
point blank. Gen. II. will not reduce the wages Of
the laborers in his employ. Should any reduction
be necessary, it will be taken from his own profits
not from the hard earnings Of the aborer and we may
add, that were manufacturers generally to pursue
similar course, II might in the end not only benefit
the country, but themselves - Baltimore yargu,
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communicated.
WASHINGTON, Sept, 90, 1916.

w WASHINGTON sept, ~, 1910.
| noticed in late New York Herald an
article purporting to have been written by
some person who processes TO have considerable
knowledge of the affairs of the Jackson democratic
Association Of Washington. There are three items
mentioned, which | deem it my duty to contra
dict, standing, as do, the presiding officer Of this
association First, the writer States that Mr.. Walk
err (meaning the Secretary Of the Treasury had d.
rccton Of the association in the campaign of 1874.
Secondly, that Mr.. Walker had recently submitted,
through friend, to the association, a tariff docu-
ment, Containing fy-eaf at its commencement ard
hat the association had Indignantly refused TO
cept IT, Thirdly, that resolutions HAD been offered
before the association, at their late meeting comp-
mentary to the administration and that they were
unanimously voted down. The three items, ! mott
positively Declare are founded on the least shadow
Of truth. FIRST Mr.. Walker had no direction of
the association during the campaign of 1914; neither
was he even a member The only service rendered
oy hun to the association, was that of ranking doc
uments, as also the same service rendered by some
few members of Congress who had remained at
Washington short time; the whole of which was
conducted in the most honorable manner was the
secretary OF the executive committee at that time,
and had nearly full charge of every document that
was sent out, consequently know well what trans
PRED. Second item; There have been no documents
sent to the association, neither has the association
received any from any other source-feeling them
selves FULLY competent to write and compile any
matter which they may deem proper to send out.
Third item There were no resolutions offered
prior, at their late stated meeting nor subsequently,
appertaining directly or indirectly towards the adj
ministration The only business transacted at their
late meeting was, the election Of its officers and
the only resolution that offered, was at the
close of the meeting1 carrying the desire of the
association, "as far practicablen that all the Off
GERS of the association should be filed by citizens
generally engaged in business of the city. This
resolution had design Of Casting any reproach
upon the administration or its officers. The mo-
tive was pure one best known to the association.
.. G. p. SENGSTACK.
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Extract Of letter, dated
BIRMSGHAM, Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania Sept. IL 1876

PehnsyIYahIaI sept. IT. 1910.
The democrats Of this section Of the State have
wheeled into line beautifully. was little alarmed
at FIRST standing almost alone on the tariff But 1t
all over now and there will not be so changed
in the county There is very little wing enthusiasm
in the country; the panic is failure, and nobody
believes now in the wing cry of ruin, except here
and there manufacturer whose capital is borrowed.
In 1874 the manufacturing interest was srrayed
against the man of the people-Jsmes X. Polk.
Other portions of the State will do worse for US
than Allegheny county. McCandess is acquitting
himself nobly upon the stump There is no back
ing out in him, and he defends his celebrated cellar
ion letter" as bravely as sold Rough and Ready"
fought the Mexicans. / fear the iron and coal re-
gions may be operated upon the election is at
hand. Yours, &c, &c.
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The Matamoros Flag states tina, a town is being
laid out by Mr.. Fl Clay Davis, an American, on
the eastern bank of the Rio Grande, Immediately
opposite Camargo. The proposed site is represent
ed as being on high bluff, at the head Of naViga-
ton, with facilities for manufactures, from the
great water power available, and situated in the VI
entity Of sheep country where immense quantities
Of wool are shorn.-- Phil Sentinel
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Hon. Samuel Bigger, late governor Of Indiana,
died recently at Fort Wayne Of congestive fever,
after a sickness but Of few days. The Indiana
polls Journal, in announcing the event, remarks
that his whole public career as legislator, Judge,
and governor, was distinguished by uprightness,
independence and ability; and that in all his private
relations, he was kind, generous, and honest,
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MAlSE,-The most whigish part Of the State has
been heard from. The Auas Of Friday morning
with POI towns, twenty more than the Portland
Wing paper Of the same day, gives figures from
for governor:
1915 19I5
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The Secretary of State arrived in Washington last
evening, and attended the regular meeting ofthe cab
met to-day. ... ..
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Total increase,

The democratic plurality in the above towns is q
967 and will be increased by the towns yet TO
IN. The Augusta Age says that, "though our can
date for governor may not be elected by the people
our party is by no means defeated. Mr. Dana leads
the highest opposition candidate by thousands of
votes and il not elected can fail but little short Of
majority over ALL We have a reserve force sufi-
cient To oyerWhelm the whole combined opposition.
That force yet be brought TO bear so as 10
The State. From the returns II Is apparent that IN
srge number of representative districts the people
have failed TO elect The number Of these districts
IL sufficiently large TO control the character OF the
House, and the election of governor, and possibly
filling the vacancies the Senate 10 control that
ody also "-BOsi0n Post.
The congressional districts stand follows In
the Let and 7th, Hsmmons and Williams, demo
crafts, } are probably elected In the 81, Belcher
(whg,) is chSh. 10; the remaining four districts.
no choice.
The Portland Argus Of Friday says:
"We have no additional information as To the
senatorial Districts but shall probably have more
light by to-monow's paper. Oxford and Waldo
have chosen six democratic senator's, Cumberland
roGably twoj and we shall, we hope, get two or
three from the eastern part Of the State. In York
and Penobscot there 10 no choice OF senators. The
wings have elected three in Kennebec, Lincoln aud
Somerset uncertain"
The Senate consists of 81 members.
The character Of the House is not yet deter
mined. Il contains Isl members. 80 wings and
IL democrats reported to be elected, aud in i3
towns no choice. Upon their second elections will
depend the political character Of the legislature.