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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1863-09-29


The Commercials Fortress Monroe
letter states that deserters report the
whole rebel army going south. This
gained strength from the statements q
party Of our men who had escaped
from Belle Island and come to VIII
liamsburg. Va, to Gen. Onderdonk
commanding cavalry at that advanced
post on the Peninsula. Troops were
known TO be moving in large numbers
through Richmond and going sou h.
ward
Col. Trusion Polk, formerly u. S.
Senator from Missouri, with his wife
and two daughters, were captured at
Bolivar Landing, Arkansas, on the
10Th inst, and delivered over TO Gen.
Buford, commanding at Halena. Col.
Polk wa. Gen. Holmes Judge Advo-
cate General, and was with the rebels
at New Madrid, Corin,h, Iuka and
Cold Springs.
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Where Are We Drifting2

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Mr.. WEED is doubtless the author o
an article reprinted in another column
entitled Where are We-and Wher,
Drifting?" 1t is a grave and telling re
view and defense of his own course il
opposing the concerted and now appa
rently successful attempt to convert thC
war for national unity " into an abolition
crusade" This sagacious Republican
leader, who almost alone of his party for
saw the struggle and strove to avert it
since the war began has advised the pol
icy by which alone it could be success
| ful. Again he lifts his warning voice
against the radicalism which BODIES in.
eyitable destruction to the country
Again he protests against the proscrip-
tive and intolerant spirit of the abolition,
lists, who denounee all differing with then
as enemies of the country, and again he
asks, "DOes the experience o, a year and
half justify the hope that the rebellion
and be crushed and the Union preserT-
ed with united South an divided
North2"
We have few comments to make upon
this significant utteranee. 1t is the ear
nest protest of a patriot still bound by
old ties, still supporting the administra-
ton which invites and embraces the ruin
of which it was faithfully forwarned
The World supported the administration
persistently until to do so longer seemed
to US to be faithlessness to the Union, to
the Constitution, to the government.
Events have proved that our estimate OF
the force and drift of the radical current
which has swept Mr.. Lincoln and the
great bulk of his party into the vortex Of
abolitionism, into all unconstitutional,
illegal, and ruinous measures and cours-
es, was only too correct. There is no
hope for the country IL them nor in all
their works. When the power which
they have abused and the government
which they have prOstituted is rescued
from their hands by an indignant and
outraged people, then, and not till then,
will the first CLEAN and ray of hope dawn
upon a distressed and afflicted country.
Whether the dawn will brighten into day
and peace over an again united country,
God only knows. -Ne,0 York World.
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SH Sorts of c5op0 8raoipg.
Discoveries at Pompeii.

NAPLES, October, Is, 1862.
ANOTHER most important discovery in
Pompeii. It was made last Sunday, du-
ring one of those interesting excavations
which are now continually taking place,
and not far from the bake-house which
was recently brought to light. There
were few persons present, for the age Of
tOadyism and funkeyism has passed, and
special seem, for the most part, to have
been merged in the daily excavations, at
which all Victor Emanuel's subjects and
their friends friends may be present.
The directors and some men we're work
ing away in small, apparently poor
house, when their voices indicated that
great discovery had been made, and the
three or four visitors who happened to
be near we're Immediately invited to the
spot. In a small inner room, employees
and laborers are on their knees, working
with the utmost care, as if the finest por-
celain were being handled On the up
per surface of the ashes, which as yet
have. not been removed from the neigh
borhoOd, are standing boys and girls, and
men, with their baskets in their hands,
all labor suspended, while they are look
ing down on the curious scenes below.
The scene was, in truth, very piotur-
esque; and wonder that such a subject
has never been seized by an artist. But
what is it that has been foundl In an
extreme corner Of this inner room have
been discovered some human bones-a
rare thing in POmpeii, where most of the
population had time to escape. Further
researches-and it was interesting to OBJ
serve with what extreme care and deliea-
cy they were nducted-revealed yet
others, until the skeletons of five persons
were visible, four women and an infant,
all crouched up in a corner. The sex
and age of the victims, and the Fsry form
in which they we're found, are suggestive
of incidents and suferings which would
promise materials for an interesting tale.
The arms seem to have been olasped as if
all hope had been abandoned, and they
had come there to die, while the legs
were doubled up with the agony Of their
suferings. The mouth Of one skeleton
was open, distended, and hard must have
been the last expiring efforts of that poor
person. The infant was in the extreme
corner, where a mothers love, perhaps, {
had placed it, in the hope of It's there {
inding greater protection from the storm
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Democratic Candidates for Governor.

We notice that the Democratic press in va
rious parts of the State, are already present.
ing the names Of several prominent Demo-
Gratis as suitable candidates for the next Gov
ernor of Ohio. We are pleased to see the
matter canvassed, and in a spirit of kindness
and unity. 1t is no time for any division
among true national men, but for united, har-
monious and patriotic action. We could
most cheerfuuy devote our best energies for the
election Of any one of the candidates named.
All whom we have heard mentioned are most
able and sound men, infinitely superior TO the
present incumbent There are some consid-
erations that would have great weight with
us. 1t is known to the Democracy Of the
State that at the last gubernatoriaI canvass, the
Hon. H J. Jewett was almost forced on the
Democratic ticket, to lead the forlorn hope at
a time when fanaticism, under the pretense of
saving the Union, swept everything before it.
Yet Jewett, in the darkest hour that ever
brooded over the Democracy of the State or
nation, stood up like young Hercules and
indicated the Democracy from the foul SLAM
derS Of a thousand serpent tongues. There
fore in our Judgment the man Who would
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uOw2 Have they grown wiser, or is your
own intellect dwarfed, or has your common
sense collapsed? If the North rejected abo-
lition as merely political test, will it be ac-
cepted when the lives of our sons and broth
ers and the preservation OF our country are
involYed2 five refused to follow one-idea
men" when it only cost US votes, shall we
commit all that is sacred and precious to their
leadership?
We ask these questions now in view of the
concerted efforts to narrow this mighty strug-
gle for national existence down to an aboli-
ton crusade We ask them in the hope Of
arresting a popular delusion which is drawing
tens of thousands of patriotic, devoted men
into vortex which bodies inevitable ruin and
destruction to themselves and their country.
We ask them, at this moment, in view Of the
studied attempt to classify all who. do not
work up to their standard, as enemies. And
finally, we ask earnestly, whether the ezpe-
rience of the first year and a half war, with all
parties heartily engaged in it, justifes the
hope that the rebellion can be crushed and
the Union preserved with a united South and
divided North ?-A7Bany Eseltng Journal
Jan. 81
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A Ruse of Old Sumner.

AN army correspondent writes:-Gen-
eral Sumner, on last Friday, despatched
twenty-five dragons on a fOraging expe-
ditiOn. They had not proceeded far be-
yond our lines, till a guerilla band of
rebels captured wagons and teamsters.
As soon as word came "a headquarters Of
the division, General Sumner ordered
ten wagons to be filed with armed SOL
diers, and to proceed to the same place
where the rebels had carried off their
booty, and to lie concealed in. the bottom
of their wagons. The ruse was success
ful. The gueriIlas, some forty in num-
Der, came upon the party, dismounted
and proceeded to capture, as they sup
posed, fresh supply of horses and wag-
ons, when our soldiers concealed as in
the Trojan horses, came out and captur-
ed every rebel and his horse, and soon
returned to camp with the enemy and
every prisoner, horse and wagon, which
had a few hours before been taken from
US. The incident created quite an anu
sing sensation.
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Original 9aftrg.
Lines on the Death Of Charley Miller,
AsuD ABOUT 4 TEARs AND MONTHS

TIN hall was crowded--not with glittering ranks
offashion's votaries; nor with care-wOr1 browsi
But with the innocent and loving sphere
Ofchndhood. Bright and eager eyes were following
The Pahn-ama's strange and snOw-clad scene,
Amid the youthful crowd one tiny boy
With glowing cheeks, and dark brown soullit eyes,
Gazed on the moving picture with delight, ..-
OH what a wondrsus tale he had to tel
OF ships and polar bears and seals, and ice-bergsi
But alas while yet his prattle sounded in her ears
This mother caught him, trembling in her arms
For suddenly, death-like pallor passed
Over his countenanoe, and dire disease
It's deadly work began-e'en in the midst OF life.
One little week had passed and might be seen
mournful train, preceded by a hearse,
vending its tedious way along the street
Where oft the Joyous bright-eyed boy had played;
And at the very hour, one week before
When little Charley gazed with such delight,
Upon the Panorama's moving scene,
We lowered his Iifeless body in the grave,
And sad and sorrowing, turned ourselves away.
And is this aTlY Is his career thus ended?
His short bright life, Of not i've years on earth
Extinguished in the cold and silent tomb?
oh no! We know his life is inst begun;
And when the clods were falling on his CONN.,
His spirit eyes were opening to behold
A Panorama bright, which never fades
They open on green fields, and fragrant flowers,
On landscapes gilt with Heavens pellucid ligh
While angels, with selestial grace adorned,
Received with Joy, this newborn heir OF Heaven
We shall not see his smiling face agaia:
Wen hear no more the patter Of his feeti
His little chair IL vacant at the board;
His childish pIaltle reaches not our ears.
But we can overcome our selfish grief,
Rejecting on his happy glorious home
And knowing that Our Fathers tender arms
Forever shield him from all want and pain.
FORBID them not the loving Savior said,
- But suffer little oues to come to Ne"
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Of ashes Tbich vas raging aronnd tbem

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Of ashes which was raging around them
and then penetrating into the most secret
recesses of every building Poor, help
less womenl they were too weak or too
feeble to escape, and had been abandon
ed by husband, father, brother-by every
male friend. There were bronze armlets
or bracelets round their feshless bones;
and by the side of them lay what we're
evidently the remains of a purse, in which
had been enclosed twenty silver Roman
coins and two copper ones. Of course
the material of the purse was imperfect,
and was reduced to mere tinder: still the
texture was perceptible, and this it was,
which contained the hurried gleanings Of
the unhappy party. There we're eOnsid-
cradle traces of cloth, too, in the ashes,
all around the bodies or skeletons: that
is to say, on the ashes there were impress
sions as of cloth which had been laid
over them and then exposed to fire. The
probability appeared to be that they were
the clothes of the wretched fugitives, for
there were impressions as it were of folds
Though great care was exercised in reno
wing every stone and mass of ash, I con-
slider the plan adopted to have been wrong
and injurious to the general effect. Thus,
instead of clearing off everything fhOri-
zontally from right to left I would have
removed all the ashes on the surface, and
have exposed to view the entire mass of
bones as they reposed after the last agony
was over. Another advantage of this
mode is, that it would have been easier
to discover the nature and the form Of
the surface on which they lay, though it
was decided that it was a bed. 1t was at
about the distance of two and half feet
above the level of the ground that the
bones were found; and by cutting away
the mass Of ashes, the outlines Of the
bed, or whatever it was, could be clear
ly discovered. Indeed, the holes in the
ground where stood the legs, were dis
cernible. Round what wight have been
the joints, we're still remaining bits of
iron; and on the upper surface and up
ward, there were signs, as it were, Of
similar to columns. Ofcourse
on the moment it was impossible to de-
eide precisely what the article of furni-
ture was, which now was pulverized, and
a little discussion took place as to wheth-
er it had been table or a bed, but opin-
ions inclined to the latter supposition,
and so let it be; but if SO, what bed,
and what a night of eternal repose it was
which closed around them under the FIRE
and ashes of Vesuviusl I have told you
all, perhaps, that is of interest regarding
this important and singular discovery.
It is Of rare occurrence to find human |
bones in POmpeii, and the form and po-
5ition in which these lay in themselves
ell a story. A romance tragedy has
been brought to light, and I leave il to
IN ADLER pen than my own to develope all
is mysteries.
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a Clorgyman's Joke.

Twas spending the night in a hotel at Free
port Illinois. After breakfast I came into the
sitting room, where 7 met a pleasant, chatty,
good -humored traveller, who, like myself was
waiting for the morning train from Galena.
We cony5rsed freely and pleasantly onsse7er-
al topics, until seeing two ladies meet and kiss
each other in the streets the conversation
turned on kissing, just about the time the train
was approaching. "Come," said he, taking
up his carpet bag, since we are on so sweet
a subject let US have a practical application.
III make proposition to you. I'll agree to
kiss the most beautiful lady in the cars from
Galena, you being the judge, if you win kiss
the next prettiestp I being the judge" The
proposition staggered me a little, and I could
hardly tell whether he was in earnest or in
fun; but as he would be as deep in it as
possibly could be, Iagreed, provided he would
do the first kissing, though my heart failed,
somewhat, as I saw his black eye fairly spark
lie with daring. Yes" said he, 9Th try It
first. You take the back car, and go in from
the front end, where you can see the faces
of the ladies, and you stand by the one you
think the handsomest and I'll come in from
behind aud kiss her"
had hardly stepped inside the car when I
saw, the first glance, one of the Ioveliest wo-
men my eye ever fell on. A beautiful blonde,
with auburn hair, and bright sunny face,
full of love and sweetness, and as radiant ana
glowing as the morning. Any further search
was totally unnecessary. Immediately took
my stand in the aisle of the car by her side
She was looking out the window earnestly,
as if expecting some one. The back door of
the ear opened, and IN stepped my hotel friend
I pointed my finger slyly to her. never dream
ing that he dare to carry out his pledge, and
you may imagine my horror and amazement
when he stepped up quickly behind her, and
STOPPING over, kissed her. with arelish that
made my mouth water" from end to end.
expected of course a shrek Of terror, and
then row generally and knock-down, but
when 1 saw her return the kiss
rs with compound interest.
Quick as a fash he turned to me and said, !
' Now sir, it is your turn )" pointing to a
ugly, wrinkIed old woman who sat
n the seat behind. Oh, you must excuse
mel you must excusemeI'' I exclaimed. 'Tm
;old this time. Igive up. Do tell me who
rou have been kissing" " Well" said he,
since you are man of so much taste, and /
luch quick perception, I'll let ye off," And
We all burst into a general peal of laughter as
le said, This IS my wife I have been wait
NC here for her. I knew that was a safe
He told the story to his wife,
Who looked ten-fold sweeter as she heard it.
Before we reached Chicago we exchanged
ards, and I discovered that my genial com
'anion was popular Episcopalian preacher
f Chicago, whose name I had frequently
card. Whenever I go to Chicago, I always
o to hear him, and heartier, more natural
nd more eloquent preacher it is hard to find
Ie was then but a young man; he is now
yell known as one Of the ablest divines in the
Yest-HuPsr'S Monthly
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stand up and yindicate the Democracy with
the capacity and power that Mr.. Jewett did,
in the hour Of darkness, when there was no
hope, ought to receive their appreciation at q
time when there is hope if not certainty Of an
election. It has been for many years the US
age Of the Democratic party to nominate can
didates for Governor the second time if they
would accept Of it, and our time-honored Gus.
toms would point to Jewett. We would not
detract in the least from any candidate, but
we must say that for purity of purpose, for
capacity to execute, and for patriotic devotion
to the principles Of the Democratic party, and
the country, he is the equal Of any man in the
State. The times demand a man Of superior
business capacities for the next Governor Of
Ohio, Without one Of the highest order, the
State viii loose immensely, and the peOpIs
viii have to make it up by taxation. We
want man who will stop all plumbers of the
treasury and who will vindioate and defend
the rights fthe citizens of the State, and see
to it that the Constitution is not abrogated in
Ohio, and the inalienable rights Of her citi-
zens trampled unedr foot by the usurpadons
of despotism. For these great purposes, we
look to Jewett as man whose promptuess
and energy would meet the times CTels-
vile Watchman.
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THE dispatches announce that there. VIII be.
some astounding changes at Washington, with
in the next twenty days. Let US guess at
what they viii probably be:
The President, Oyerpowerod by mental
mxieties, viii retire to the shades Of lunat:c
asylum.
HaIleck viii be sent to Corinth, to dig a last
ditch.
Stanton win call all the troops in the field
to protect his house.
Chase viii paint his back green, and try to
pass, as a legal tender, out of the Administra-
ton
Seward viii have the alternative to read
his 500 pages Of correspondence and the Pre-
sidents message, or retire.
The Attorney General viii try to get natu-
ralizatlon papers by painting himself black
because, according to his opinion, blacks are
citizens of the United States.
Hamlu will be arrested as fugitive slave.
The Secretary ofthe Navy viii have learn
ed of the loss Of the Monitor. f
The foreign powers viii make it an ulti-
matum that we shall recognize the South--as,
a part Of the Union.
An the slaves eInancipated by military au-
thority in the South viii be re-enslaTed by
JEFF Davis.
TIE telegraph win announce that most as
founding developments viii be made within
the next twenty days.-LOasisviHe Democrat
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CooL.-A gentleman from the coun-
try stopping at one of the hotels in Gin
cinnati, entered into conversation with
one of the boarders, asking questions
about the fare, &c. After few minutes
conversation, the boarder drew his cigar
case, saying: evil you take a cigar,
sir?" "WaIl, I don't mind if I do" was
the reply. The cigar was passed to him,
also the one which the boarder was smo-
king, for the purpose of giving him a
light. He carefully placed the first cigar
handed him in his pocket and took his
knife and cut off that end of the lighted
one which had been in the mouth of his
generous friend, and commenced smok-
ing, saying: 1t amt often that man
from the country runs afoul of as clever
a fellow is the city as you are"
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One of the best things which the Ohio
State Board of Agriculture did at its late
meeting, was to recommend to the differ
ent counties and townships in the State,
the establishment of farmers classes,
whereby an interchange of opinions can
be had by experienced agriculturists on
the different and best modes of cultiva-
ting and managing stock, and all other
matters connected with agriculture.
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THE Albany Journal says that "Gen-
eral Burnside's object was to feel the
enemy" The Louisville journal thinks
he felt him. fr
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THE Providence Press says that the
to amend the internal tax
law so as to include babies under the
head of manufactures does not seem to
meet with favor. The proposer is a
bachelor.