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The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-28
Style,

There is no model style. What is pleasing in
the diction of one author disgusts US in copyist.
Every writer is his own standard. The law by
which we Judge of his sentences, must be deduced
from his sentences. If the sty lie indicate the char
acter, it is relatively good; if it contradict the
character, though its cadences are fautless, it is
still bad and not to be endured. We may quar-
rel with a writer, ii We please, for possessing
tasteless nature, but not with the style which
takes from that nature its form and movement.
The tread Of Johnson'S style is heavy and eon-
orous, resembling that of an elephant or mail
clad warrior He is fond of leveling an obstacle
by polysyllabic tattering-ram. Burkes words
are continually practicing the broad-sword exer-
else, and sweeping down adyersaries with every
stroke. Addison draws up his infantry in orderly
array, and marches through sentence after
sentence without having his ranks dis
ordered or his line broken. Luther's words are
&" half battle :" his "smiting, idiomatc phrases
seem to ceave into the very secret of the matter"
Gibbons legon8 are heavily armed, and march
with precision and dignity to the music of their
own tramp. They are spendidly equipped but
nice eye can discern little rust beneath their
fine apparel. Macaulay, brisk, keen, lively, and
energetic, runs his thoughts rapidly through his
sentence, and kicks out Of the way every word that
obStrucis his passage. lie reins in his steed only
when he has reached his goal, and then does |,
with such celebrity that he is nearly thrown back
ward by the suddenness of his stoppage. Jeffrey
is a fine lance, with sort of Arab swtness in biz
movements and runs an iron-cad horsemar
through the eye before he has had time to clos,
his helmet. 1alfourd's forces are orderly and dis
cplned and march to the music of the Dorlal
flute. Those of Keats keep time to the tones o
the pipe of Ph9bus. Willis words are often tip
sy with the champagne of the fancy; but evel
when they reel and stagger they keep the line Q
grace and beauty. Webster's words are thunder
bolts, which sometimes miss the Titan at whom
they are hurled, but always leave enduring mark
where they strike.
Words are not, when used by master, til
mere dress of thought. They are, as Wordswort
has happily said, the incarnation of thought. The
bear the same relation to ideas that the bod
bears to the soul A thought embodied and en-
braiaed in fit words, walks the earth living bt
ling.-E. r. HhtPple.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-28
Cloud Painting.

Clouds form one of the most beautiful studies
IN Nature. More gorgeous than the flowers
grander than the forests, mighter than the rivers
gentler than the zephyrs, they change from gloom
to glory, from leaden unto golden, as silently as
the passing Of a soul.
No elder down was ever so light no fleece
was ever so fair granite and grim, to-day, Tyrian
and mother-of.pearl, tomorrow. In the morning,
a breath that seraph in full song might have
breathed; at night, bank the worlds red roses
might have grown on. Pleasure Clouds rain
Clouds clouds of an hundred guns. This one
might have issued from the chimney of the old
homestead at winter sunrise that is as grand
as the pillar of flame that went before the host in
the wilderness. Mountains covered with snow,
crags dripping chrysolites, plains sowed with gold,
wales full OF night; breath Of sparrow, song OF
the stars waves Of the sea, walls of Aabaster,
marble of CarraIa; pennons of princes, banners
for armies, NANTES for Tempest and robes for the
dead. Moulded by the fingers of the winds, they
blossom in the sunshine, petals of the hower-eup
of Heaven.
We build our castles of the granite of cloud,
and we stand on the lodges that glow under the
sandals Of day, it steps from cliff unto cliff into
Heaven. PAlettes, whereon Evening paints the
gone morning from memory y the visible song
of the Day that is dead ships of the sea OF
Heaven quarres out OF which we hew Paradise,
are they all. When we think that morning cloud
is like life we are sad, but when we see it waiting
in royal array in Gods western gate, we are glad
again, for we think how beautiful it may be when
dying Chicago Journal.
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9Or the Gbiloren.
Having Your Likeness Taken.

Some children went into saloon with their
father to have their daguerreotypes taken. The
two little girls had theirs, and Georges turn
came next. The man told him where to stand,
how to place his hands and which way to look
to hold up his head, fix his eye on certain
point, and keep still. His cap had fallen on
the floor, and at the very moment his picture
was being taken his little sister stepped for.
ward to pick it up, when George gave her a
kick and such look Well, that look was
taken; and the likenesses were all put up in
little cases and carried home.
'This is my George exclaimed his mother
on examining the pictures and coming to his.
Horrld cried his eldest brother. Whose
cross scowling face is that ? asked Uncle Ned
when the pictures were shown to him. What
young savage is this p asked Aunt Emily
when they were shown to her. AS you may
suppose, George was terribly ashamed of his
picture he was 50 mortified at having it seen
with the rest, that he did not know What to
do A more disagreeable picture perhaps you
never saw and the worst Of it was there was
no mistake about its being a true copy. The
sun does not make mistakes. and then to
have it always kept and shown as his
Did you ever think, children that the world
is Gods great daguerreotype saloon, whero We
are all having our likencsses taken for all cter.
nifty :? And it is not only our looks and atti-
tudes which will be taken, but all our thouphts
and feelings will show in the picture. Anger.
envy, SelishnesS, Jealousy, unkindness will all
be faithfully and indelibly put down there by
One who never coyersup or fatters, but takes
us exactly as we are. We cannot seem better
or more beautiful to his eye than VIC really are.
When we are tempted to do wrong or to give
way to angry feelings, let US stop and ask,
How will this look in that picture of me which
is to last forever?
am afraid if we should see faithful pic
lures Of ourselves sometimes the sight would
often hll us with surprise and shame, as it did
George. Remember then, that every day yoa
live your likeness is being taken for eternity.
Every morning when you rise from your bed.
stop and think, am having likeness taken
to-day which is to last forever, and must try
and have it a good likeness.
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NUMBER $50

That is man of capita},' say the world
pointing to an unscrupulous and successful
swindler. Capital what is capital {? Is it
what man has p? Is it counted by dollars and
cents, stocks and shares, by houses and lands F.?
No! capital is not what man has, but what
man IS. Character is capital honor is cap-
ltal. That is the most fearful of ruin when
character is gone, when integrity is sold, when
honor is bartered for miserable mess of
earthly pottage. God save US from ruin like
this Perish what may-perish gold, silver,
houses, lands-let the winds of misfortune
dash our vessel on sunken rock, but let IN
tegr'ty be like the valued keepsake the sailor
boy Iashed with the rope round his body, the
only thing we care to save. Let me die but
let angels read, if friends cannot afford to
erect the gravestone, Here lies an honest
man.
Let Samuel's manly piety be ours. The
happy cultivation and combination of the act
i've and passive virtues, the blending of the
inner with the outer life not a negative saint
ship. like that of the men of Meroz, Judges y.
23,) but the harmonious intermpgl;ng of dill
gence In business with fervor in spirit, serving
the Lord; kind in heart, strong in faith, and
pure in spirit; but all crowned and beautified
by giving glory to God. The true Christian
is not like the pyramid. with its naked sides
and tiers OF monotonous stone but rather like
the Alp, its majestic slopes feathered and
studded with forest and cave, shady rock and
impld stream ; where the chamois may bound,
and the birds nestle, and the foxgloye hang its
bells, and the weary pilgrim rest and sake his
thirst. while its diadem of snow, glorifyiDg all,
is bathed in the cloudless azure Of hcaven-
ReU. j. r. Macduf.
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nltsCclLanp.
Charlotte Bronte.


Inc Worid oenaS with minute tenderness over
the story OF that woman VINO nad no beauty ana
no blessing out on the Yorkshire mooFS' we
pity her Tor tne q'sma Scrahny School OF her child
hood' Where tooo Tor tne outer ana the inner ,lle
was aI'ke hata' ana vrIsly' and m9uidy' we
pity her tor the lonely drudSerNS so helpless and
SO hopeless out IN brussels as we see ner SIT down
to 1t, WhIe her wings oeed beating the bars OF
her cage and the music scars within her,
And t.. the ,.i, life still still %rags dr. her downward
wbS. is anc fvIs' within ,' n her "ty, growing
Coarse to sympathetic clay"
Our lips tremble as we see that striving after
some touch grace and beauty to deck the hard
gray house, though It embody Itself in no better
thing than bright little frock and pair of tiny
red shoes--yet to see the poor blossom of grace
and beauty shrjyeIIng in the fire, put there and
held there by father harder than the house it
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THE BEST BEAUTY COMES UNsoUGHT.-Per-
haps the short, hasty gaze, cast up any day in the
midst Of business, in dense city, at the heavens,
or at bit OF a tree seen amid buildings-ga2es
which psrtake almost more Of sigh than look
have in them more of intense appreciation Of
the beauties of nature than all that has been felt
by an equal number of sighl-seers, enjoying large
opportunity of seeing, and all their time to them
selves Like prayer offered up in the midst of
everyday life, these short, fond gazes at nature
have something nconceiyaby soothing and beau
tiful in them.-Helps.
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1)oetrp.
" To Give is to Live"

or ever the sun is pouring his god
On hundred worlds that beg and borrow
His warmth he squanders submits cold,
Ris wealth on the ..vmes of want and sorrow.
To withhold his largness of precious light
Is to bury himself in eternal night
To give
Is to live.
The flower shines not for itself at all
Its joy is the joy it freely diffuses
OF beauty and balm it is prodiga,
And it lives in the life it so sweetly loses,
No choice for The rose but glory doom
To exhae or smother, to wther or bloom.
To deny
The seas lie nd silvery rain to the land,
The land its sapphire streams to the ocean
The heart sends blood to the brain of command
The brain to the heart its lightning motion
And ever and ever We yield our breath,
Till the mirror is dry and images DEATH
To live
Is to give.
He is dead, whose hand is not opened wide
To help the need Of human brother;
He doubles the life of his lifelong ride,
Who gives his fortunate place 10 another
And a thousand million lives are his,
Who carries the world in his sympathies.
To deny
Is to die.
# Throw gold to the far-dspersing wave,
And your ships sail home with tons of treasure
N Care no. ior comfort, all hardshps brave,
And eyening and age shall sup with pleasure
Fling health to the sunshine wind, and rain,
And roses shall come to the cheek again.
To give
Is to live.
What is our life ? Is 1t wealth and strength
II we, for the Masters sake, will lose it,
We shall find it a hundred fold, al length,
While they shall forever lose who refuse it
And nations that save their union and peace
At the cost of right, their woe shall increase.
They
A grave.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-07-17
From Gen. Lees Army.

+ 1t is understood that dispatches were re-
ceiyed by the Secretary of War from Gen.
eral Lee, on Saturday .evening, but for some
cause they have not been given to the pub
lie. Those familiar with their contents as
sure US. however. that they are Of the most
cheering character, and speak Of the condl-
ton of the army as but little mpaired by
sthe severe fighting at Gettysburg Our
losses there are acknowledged to have seen
heavy, but it is claimed that the victory res
ted with our arms up to the time Of the re-
Itirement Of our forces. The fights Of the
two first days are represented to have been
very decidedly IN our favor, whilst on the
third day our troops stormed the first line OF
the enemy and carried his works, which
were found untenable without subjecting
the army to a loss not justified by the re-
suits to be attained.
The retirement of the army was effected
in most admirable order, and was not inter-
rupted by the enemy as is Legged in the
Norhern journals. The loss Of our army
in the three days fighting, it is thought,
would not exceed ten thousand in ail-klll-
led, wounded and captured Dispatch.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-07-17
Asst Quartermaster Generals Office,
Richmond, Va, 18th June, 1868.
TAX IN KIND

TO FARMERS AND QUARTERMASTERS.-
me following is the system adopted for the
coiection OF the tax in kind
An officer of the Quartermaster Generap. D..
partment is assigned to the special charge of tho
SUBJECT controlling Quartermaster. with the
rank OF MaJorls assigned to each State, and Post
guartermaster, with the rank of Captain to each
Congressional District, where it is practicable to
collect the tenth.
Each Congressional District will be subdisided
by the Post Quar- termaster in charge of it into Sec
tion5, Tor the convenient delivery by the taxpayer
OF his quota OF produce, and agents will be an
pointed by that Officer to take charge of the de.
pots to be established in each Section.
Before these 'epots can be established, or the
assessments required under tte law be made, the
crops OF small grain hay and the clio of wool for
the present year will have been secured.
To relieve farmers from the risk and inconyen-
fence OF storing the G6fernrnent portion as well
as to obtain immediate supplies for the use of the
army, the Department authorizes and reouests
farmers residing near posts where Quartermasters
are now stationed to deliver the governments tenth
or any part of it, 10 that Quartermaster
Under the law, farmers required to deliver
their tenth at depots not more than eight miles
from the place reproduction. If they will deliver
cnder this request, the Government will paw for
the transportation in excess of eight miles, The
Quarterinaster receiving produce under the rule
will give receipts to the producer as evidence that
SO much OF his tax IS paid. And as the Pos: Quar-
termaster OF the Congressional District is response
bic for the tenth after the has established
| and made it known to him, the Quarterrnaster 10
whom the produce is delivered will $50 receipt for
it to the Post Quartermaster of the District, who
will endorse copy of the receipt upon the asses.
sor's estimate before transferring it the agents at
the receffinS depot.
LAKkIN SMITH,
Quartermaster Gen'l in charge.
June 90. 1s63-lm
gas~ Lynchburg. Abingdon, Wythevie and
Stounton papers will copy for one month and send
bills, accompanied with this advertisement, to the
nearast Quartermaster.-Lync Rep.
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WICK SRURG.

Vicksburg has fallen, after one Of
the most heroic struggles recorded in
history against an enemy six or eight
times larger than the garrison. Mum
berless times have the columns Of the
enemy been led to the assault to meet
the same fate, a desperate and bloody
repulse. Not a man in that garrison
but has made a foeman bite the
dust, if we believe northern reports,
and it is utterly impossible, from the
number Of assaults and the determined
resistance met with, to make any 9th
er supposition than that q large NUM-
Der were killed and wounded. Heroic
defenders Of the "City of the Hills
no blame can attach to you You
fought against the vast hordes Of the
vile fanatic ut Washington successful
ly, nor would they have ever taken
your batteries by assault so long as
such brave men defended them, but a
more insidious foe was to be contend
ed against-fa furnishing hunger and it
alone conquered you. It was expect
ing too much to suppose that unas-
sisted and Impoverished you could
hold Vicksburg forever but that there
was some GOOD CAUSE or SOME ONE
cENsURABLE for the delay in attempt
ing to relieve you we have no doubt.
We will learn it all in good time.
We reserve for a future time to speak
Of the effects of the fall of this Post.
May its immediate effect be to re-
double our efforts and prove that a
determined people, defending their lib
critics. in the face Of all obstacles, are
and will ever be invincible.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-07-17
SIMMER THE SECOND.

The Editor Of the; Spectator at
fenpfs to show the existence Of a
question Of veracity between Col. a.
". Hartman and the Editor of the
Vindicator, in reference to q state
lment made by US, in speaking of the
capture and destruction Of property in
Western Virginia by our forces, viz. !:
that nwe saw q beautiful silver set
captured and senta as present to Mrs.
Col. A. w Hartman. " It will beseen
that we did not state who captured or
sent it. The Spectator says if this
statement is true it follows necessarily
that Gel. Iiarman was guilty Of send
ing as a present TO his wife, property
which belonged to the Confederate
States. We assert that such q con-
clusion does not follow-which any
one, whose prejudice does not control
them, can see. Col. H. is not men
toned as sending itsnor can it be IN
ferred from our statement that Col
II. did send it.
When it was charged upon us that
we had said Col II had captured and
sent it, we stated, what we were in
formed at first, that it was captured
and sent By a private in the 18th Va
Cavalry, 1--WE referred to Mr Hogan
and that consequently we could not
have said Col. Il. captured orTsent it;
both Of which would have been IN
| true, nor did we know that Col. Har-
man had ever. seen this ware before
| his arrival at home, or that it was not
sent as u present, until we read the
proceedings of the Court Of Inquiry
published in the Rockingham Regis
ter, as we have never conversed with
ICol. II. on this subject. Hence it
will be seen that we cast no ssimputa-
tions" upon the character of Col. II.
or any one else, and that the statement
Of Col. FL. that he did not send it as
a present to his lady does not conflict
with our first statement at all, as we
lad never referred to him in the mat
fer This much ne have deemed it
necessary to gay in reference to the
question of veracisy and we have done
with the controversy tilro' the papers
which the public have long since tired
Of, and which the Editor o. the Spec
tator seems determined to prosract,
with a motive apparent to the COM
munity,) and to seek revenge for his
chastisement in a paper war, rather
than in a way less annoying to the
public. We leave the matter with the
Editor, caring little what sympathy he
may excite by the issue, Sumner-like,
of weekly bulletins of his condition, or
what capital he may make By the
MANLY introduction Of his adversary S
name in every article he possibly can.
We would like exceedingly to see
the malicious spirit, which prompted
the article against us, have its full
vent in another way, and if the Editor
feels SO greatly aggrieved because we
repealed the charge of a want Of pa
triotism in the people of Augusta,
made by him, and his malice can over
come his cowardice sufficiently to de-
mand the satisfaction (whenever he
may choose) which he seems SO desi-
rous Of having, he shall most assuredly
be accommodated.
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srR.AyED OR STOLEN!

4nNs SATURDAY NIGHT, JUNE 2sTH, from
~ the subscriber. a snail. BLACK MARE. ratl-
e. u lder size has two white hind lgs half way up
to her knees has a small scar on her hips works
We'll, has a slight impeachment in her gait when
trotting s he is compact, and about eight. years
old aud does not carry up well, in good order
Also a SORREL HORSE, about years old, no
marks recollected except star in his forehead, has
liaht forctop name and tail, and lopes we'll
and believed to have saddle-haul: carries up
wen, has a trim set OF limbs. in low order. Both
horses were shod we'll. / viii pay liberal re-
ward to any ore who viii give me any information
that will lead to their recovery.
JOS. T. MITCHELL,
JulvlO.-2t Stanton, Va.
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$4,000 REWARD

| DANAWAT from the subscriber living
IL South River near STARTS Draft, on Saturd
night the 10th dar OF May, three negro men of t
| following description viz:
GILBERT, about five feet six inches high, We
black, with fine set of teeth, very polite VIII
spoken to, and 26 years old. He had on when
left Osnaburg ants and shirt, and has also tax
with him fine black suit
SA.u about five feet FIVE inches high, Of ia
brown color, big nose, good teeth, and sbo
eighteen wears old,
PRESTON, about five feet four inches hfg
very black. with sharp features, good teeth, =
aoout Is years old. u
have every reason TO believe they are maxi
king tn cir wav down the Valley.
| will pay the above reward for the apprehd
sion of the three, or 81, 900 for Colbert.
JOSEPH PELTERl
May 10, 1868 If.
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A. F. KINNEY, Clk.
July 10, lsGs.-4w

VIRGIN A.-At Rules held in the Clerks Of
fice Of the Cireuit Court for Augusta County
the 9th day OF Jay, 1868.
Nm r. McCutchen-Pl aintih5
AGAINST
James 6. Meek and Martha K Gollady, admins
tfa1rix of jonathan GoIlady, dec'd-D efendarts
the Defen ant Meek in right of his vile in real and
personal estate descended from jonathan Gollady,
deed, to satisfy Plaintiffs demand.
The Defendant, James G. Meek, not having en-
tered his appearance, and It appearing by satsfac-
tory evidence that he is not resident of this Com
monwealth 1t is ordered that he appear here
within one month after due publication of this
tee and do what is necessary to protect his in
terest. A CoPY-TEsTE.
july 10, 1SG3-4w
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SKULKERS.

3
Col. Davidson requests us to notify
the people Of Staunton that a num-
Der Of soldiers have applied to citizens
of the town for food, asserting that
they could get nothing from the au-
tholities, and that they are slzulkers,
and not legitinlafaly absent from their
commands, and that persons applied to
will confer favor upon him by re-
ferring all such to the Office Of the
Commandant of the Post, where all
7legitilnatelv absent from the army can
draw provisions. He has no reference
to the sick and wounded whom it is
the part Of humanity to assist at all
times.
Generals Pender, Hood and
Anderson, wounded in the battles Of
Gettysburg Pa have arrived at Sta,ln-
ton We are glad to learn that their
wounds are not serious, as we could
lily spare them from the service.
Gen. Jenkins has arrived at Harris
onb1lrg and is notsin the hands Of the
enemy as they stated He suffered
some Inconvenience in returning bu
is doing well at present and we hope
will soon be in the saddle again.
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yTlRGINEA.-At Rules held in the Clerks 0

YlRGENEA.-At Rules held in the Clerks Of
fee Of the Circuit Court for Augusta County,
the 9th day Of July, 1868.
James Cooper-PlainttH,
AGAINST
James c. Meek, and Martha Gollady. administra-
.trix OF Jonathan Gollady, dead ,-Detendants.
The object OF this suit is to attach the interest OF
james G Meek, in rig ut Of his rife, in the estate,
real and personal, left By Jonathan Gollady, de-
ceased.
entered his appearance, and it appearing by salts
factcrs evidence that he is not resie ent of this
I COMMONWEALTH 1t is ordered that lie appear here
within enc month after due publication of this no
tice and DO what is necef sary to protect his inter
rest.
F. KINNEY, elk.
.Jnlv 10. 1sGs.-tw