Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-09

1OEM BY OOliN " lelDbEs biN NS'i'
mencement exercises of the Oakland College
ON Thursday, John r. Kidge delivered po-
en-, containing many beautiful thoughts
clothen in language of simple elegance. The
following is an extract:
"And many weary heart shall pine,
Through long and lonesome years,
And watch the light life decline
Amidst uncounted tears.
Far off among the mountains stern,
Shall thousands meet With blight,
And many "A raven lock shall turn
To hairs Of frosty white;
And many a lonely grave shall hide
The moulderng form OF him
For whom sad eyes are never drled,
With age and sorrow dim.
Yet though the wayside all be srewn
With sorrows and with graves,
The glory of the race is shown
BY what it docs and braves.
What though the deserts mouldering heaps
Alright the startled eye
What though in wds the venturer sleeps,
His bones uncovered lie.
'Tis not the living that have won
Alone Il e victory;
But each dead soldier, too, has uone
His part as loitily.
'Tis they the living and the dead
Who have redeemed our land;
Have cities reared the arts have spared,
And placed us where we stand.
The Col. ANDERSON AND SENATOR BRECkIN-
RIDGE SroRY.-The telegraphic dispatches
puportng to explain the absurd story trans
mitted from Harrisburg, that Col. Anderson
told Gov. Curtin that Senator BrecklnridSe
had signified his intention of of serving un-
der him in the army of the Union, do not
come much nearer the truth than the origl'
nal canard. We are credibly informed, says
the Cincinnati Commercial that Col Ander-
son feels annoyed by this nonsense. There Is
no foundation for the story, further than this:
Col Anderson and Senator Breckenridge are
old personal friends During the trip through
Pennsylvania some gentlemen inquired OF
Col Anderson whether he expected to be
cordially received by his old friends in ken
lucky. Ii said that he did, and mentioned
the circumstances of having letter tor, per-
haps, a message by a mutual friend, we are
not positively informed,) from Brecknrldge,
who politely assured him that 1T would give
him pleasure to meet him as an old friend and
Kentuckian, upon the soil of Kentucky. Out
of this the rumor grew, and the agent of the
Associated Press at Harrisburg dispatched it
to the country in the form we have seen.
OUTRAGE ON THE Son OF a SAN FRANCISCAN.
James l.. Crittenden, a son of A. 7. Critten-
den and Kentuckian-was recently subjec-
ted to an outrage in Richmond. Va. 1t APP
pears that he was suspected OF disoyalty to
the Old Dominion, and of course arrested
The cause was a remark made by him the
day before, when he heard that several CO.
lumbads We're being shipped from Richmond
to fortify the heights at Arlington, and pour
their hot shot in upon Washington. The re-
mark was a brave one "Y on must take care"
said the young man, "how you talk of such
things to me, or shall deem it my duty to
90 up to Washington and inform the au-
thorities" The story of his arrest and inn
prsonment, though another deep outrage and
full Cf thrilling detail we must omit her I,
An uncle, who resided at Richmond, was pre-
vented from interceding for the young man,
with threat that if he did his whole family
should be arrested and imprisoned. Finally,
petition was signed by some of his friends
for his release, and he was taken out to be
conducted to the Governor, to whom the pc
tition was to be presented. In short time
he came back, saying that the Governor was
too drunk to hear it that day, and SO the
poor fellow remained in Jail Subsequently
his friends procured his release.