Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-12-25
Roads to Ruin.

It is the easiest thing In the world 20
find one of these roads, for they run in all
directions over the social plain. They
present, as the advertisements have it, "a
vide field for choice" They comprise
highways and bye.ways, roundabout
roads and cuts across lots, smooth paths
aud rough paths, ascents and descents !;
and as they iutersect each other at points
inHumerabe, travellers TO the common
terminus can turn out of the roed they
have started on into new one, at their
pleasure. The outfit for the journey, be
il long or short, is not Of much conse-
Quence since destitution and despair
await all who persist in pursuing it, Some
set cut with pockets full of gold; others
with their pockets empty, hoping to fill
them by the way. 70 some the Fiend
Speculation plays the Cicerone, MARSHALL
lag them to seeming Dorados in the dis
ance that melt into mOonshine as they
travel on. The Will-o'-t -the,wisp, Gam
bling with his rasteboatd signals, be-
gues others to the Drinks of prcipices,
whence they tumble headlong into irreni-
edlable shame. The Goblin Rum, heads II
caravan of self-destruc :iepists whose
name is legion.
All easily Lesetting sins" pull one 'cdy,
and betray their victims into one or other
Of the many roads to ruin. The only
trust worthy safeguard against their en-
Elements is resistance at TIE outset
When morbid appetite or inclination
pulls ruin-ward, brace the moral system
against it put manhood against tempts-
ton ask help from Heaven. Christian
Otstinacy is more than match for Satan
and all his agents. Misfortune is not ruin.
In that terrible word, in its true interrre-
tation is involved loss of character, of
self-respect, of moral courage, OF all that
renders life valuable. Beware of the first
step leading to such a consummation!
Touch ONE.-A correspondent OF one
Of our cotemporaries, writing from Web
ser Western Virginia, tells the following
rather tough yarn:
"While out scouting" he says, "a cap.
lain and sixty-four men were surrounded
by three thousand secessionists, so he
stretched his men out in long line, and
as soon as they fired they would jump be-
hini tree 1T the same time the captain
was believing out at the tor of his voice
ior Col, so aud so to bring up that bat
aion, tell Captain so and so to bring
those cannon here, and kept hclloing at
such fierce rate that the secessionists got
heightened, and general stampede took
place. In their flight they tire" away
blankets, ,knapsacks, ,revolyers and swords.
The captain hadn't man hart, but kill
ed seventy of them, found over one thous-
and blankets, about two hundred and NJ
y knapsacks, swords and reyolyers.
An INvEsTiGATIcNDEN is said
That General Patterson has, at length de-
handed a court of inquiry, and We are in
l0rmed that the necessary papers were
ssnt to Washington more than month
since. 1t is said that no response has as
get been received. Recently the matter
mas again been agitated by the General,
tut as before, without any definite results.
asa reason for this delay, Washington
correspondent states that ar investigation
night affect the character of Gen. Scott.
Inc friends Of General Patterson, on tho
o'her hard, allege that the demand for
court was preferred tefore Gen. Scott left
ae country, and declared that an official
report Of the campaign musts be obtains
ed-PhiIadelphia Press.
ksG> How quickly Democrats rally 20 the
support of the President when he places
aaself upon the platform of the Consti-
,.!uuon, Is shown in the general acclama-
,Ion ion OF the Democratic press, sustaining
n'm In his controversy with Fremont,