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Year: 1861

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Year: 1861

Correspondence of the Buffalo Courier.


TIDIoUTE, Pa, April Is.
On the Buchanan Farm, Warren County
Pennsylvania. seventeen miles from Tidioute
where large number of oil wells have beer
sunk, within the past four months, with
great success, on Wednesday last occurred
one of the most frightful accidents that il
has ever been the province of newspap I
to record. The telegraph has furnished a
skeleton of the accident, but the details
have not yet been made public.


A well which had been drilled over two
hundred teet by Hswley & Merrick, had
struck oil, but the yield being less than
expected, the pumping was abandoned and
drilling recommended. Over one hundred
feet further were drilled, when at half past
five on Wednesday evening, sudden rush
of oil through the five inch and halt
tubing, threw out the drills and gushed up
in the air forty feet above the surface of the
ground. At the least computation it was
throwing from seventy to one hundred bar
rels an hour. Above this mass of oil, the
gas of benzine rose in cloud, for fifty or
sixty feet. As coon as the oil gushed
forth, all the fires of engines in the neigh
borhood were Immediately extinguished.
At about half past seven, as large num-
ber of men and boys were around the well
engaged in saving the oil, the gas from the
we'll which had spread in every direction
took fire, from the engine of we'll over
four hundred rods distant, when in a second
the whole air was in fame, with crash
and roar like discharges from a park oi
artillery.


As soon as the gas took fire, the head oi
the jet of oil was in furious blaze, and
falling like water from fountain over a
space one hundred feet in diameter each
drop came down blazing globe of boiling
oil. Instantly the ground was fame, con-
stantly increased and augmented by the fal.
ling oil. At once scene of indescribable
horror took place. Scores were thrown
fiat, and for distance of twenty feet, and
numbers horribly burned, rushing blazing
from the hell of misfortune, shrieking and
screaming in their anguish.


Just within the circle of the flame could
be seen four bodies boiling in the seething
oil, and one man who had been digging at
ditch to convey away the oil to lower
part of the ground was killed as he dug
and could be seen, as he fell over the handle
of the spade, roasting in the fierce element
Mr.. II. r. Rouse, of the firm Of Rouse
Mitchell and Brown, Of the village of En-.
terprise, Warren County, q gentleman largely
Year: 1861

sissippi Valley can never consent to be ex-
cluded from free access to the ports of the
Atlantic, the Pacific and the Gulf of Maxico.


Great applause.


Hence l repeat that [ am not prepared to
take up arms or to sanction policy Of our
government to take arms to make any war
upon the rights of the Southern States !;
upon their Institutions; upon their rights
OF persons or property; but, on the con-
trary, would rush to their defence and pro.
tect them from assault but while that is
the case l will never cease to urge my coun-
trymen to take arms to fight to the death
in defense of our indefeasible rights. Loud
applause. Hence, if war does come, it
is war of self defence on our part. 1t is
war in defence of our own just rights; in
defence of the government which we have
inherited as priceless legacy from our pa
triotic fathers in defence of those great
rights of freedom of trade, commerce, tram
sit, and intercourse from the centre to the
circumference of our great continent.
These are rights we must struggle for and
never surrender.


have struggled almost against hope to
avert the calamities of war, and to effect a
reunion and reconciliation with our brethren
in the South. l yet hope it may be done,
but l am not able to point out to you how
it may be done. Nothing short of Provi-
dence can reveal to us the issue of this great
struggle. calamitous-I fear it
will be. May we so conduct it, if COLI.
sion must come, that we will stand justified
in the eyes of Him who knows our hearts,
and who will justify our every act. We
must not yield to resentments, nor to the
spirit of vengeance, much less to the desire
for conquest for conquest or ambition.


l Isee no path of ambition open in a bloody
struggle for triumphs over my countrymen.
There is no path of ambition open for me
in divided country. Hence, whatever we
may do must be the result of duty, of con.
viction, of patriotic duty-the duty we owe
to ourselves, to our posterity, and to the
friends of constitutional liberty and self
government throughout the world. Loud
applause.


My friends, can say no more. To dis
cuss these topics is the most painful duty o.
my life. 1t is with sad heart-with 8
grief that have never before experienced
tnat l have to contemplate this fearful
struggle; but 1 believe in my conscience
that it is the duty we owe to ourselves and
our children, and our God, to protect this
government, and that flag from every as.
sailant, be he who he may. Tremendous
and prolonged applause.
Year: 1861

The course of Fletcher Webster has been
peculiarly magnanimous as we'll as patriotic.
He is removed from lucrative Office by the
government on one day, and on the next he
is out with plan to raise regiment to
sustain the government that removed him.
The blood Of the patriot grandfather and
the patriot father asserts itself unmistaka.
bly, in the veins of the living descendant
Boston Transcript.


The Boston Herald says that in one of
the companies attached to the regiment of
Col. Jones, was newly enlisted recruit, the
eldest son of widow in one of the country
towns, and who followed her son to the city
to take last look Of him until he returns
from the war. She did not come to urge
him to return to his peaceful home and
pursuits, but rather to cheer him with q
mothers blessing. Fearing that her son
might want for money during his absence,
the noble women raised a sum of money by
the sale of a COW that she owned. and being
admitted inside the lines just before the
troops left the State House, she pressed the
money upon her boy. 1t is almost needless
to say that her offer was declined, as the
Massachusetts troops will come to no want.
Such self-devotion and patriotism is worthy
of the mothers OF the Revolution.


At the Boston meeting to summon re.
cruits for Fletcher Websters regiment, the
following telling incident occurred: The
chairman notified the audience that SUBJ
scriptions would be received, when little
boy promptly came forward and said, "Ihis
IS from Stephen Decatur, sir." 1t proved
to be check for $lOO. The father stood
by and proved to be blind. He is an officer
of the navy, who lost his sight in the SER
vice, and nephew of Commodore Decatur,
of the last war. Nine cheers was given,
which made the halls ring. Five thousand
dollars were Immediately subscribed for the
regiment, which is to leave this week. One
hundred young ladies we're making garments
for the men. rzG Tc2H a8Hn


The Louisville Journal confesses that
never in any country did the banking insti-
tutions contribute so promptly and abund-
antly for the support of q war as the banks
of the East and North are now doing.
Nothing could be stronger evidence of a
fearfully aroused spirit among the people.
Year: 1861

On his way from Washington to Illinois,
Senator DOUGLAS delivered an address be-
fore the Indiana troops and the Legislature
of that State at camp Morton, indianapolis.
He then left for Springfield, Ill, where on
the 25th, in consequence of an invitation
unanimously rendered him by the Legisla-
ture, he delivered the following address,
on the duty of patriots, at the present crisis:


am not insensible to the patriotic mo-
tives which prompted you to do me the
honor to invite me to address you on this
occasion, upon the momentOus issues now
presented of the condition of our country.
With a heart filled with sadness and grief
l comply with your request.


For the first time since the adoption of
the Federal Constitution, wide spread
conspiracy exists to destroy the best gov
ernment the sun of heaven ever shed its rays
upon. Applause. Hostile armies are
DOW marching upon the Federal Capitol,
with the view of planting revolutionary
flag upon its dome, seizing the national ar
chieves, taking captive the President elect
ed by the hands OF the people, in the hands
of secessiOnists and disuniOnists. A war of
aggression and of determination is being
waged against the government established
by our fathers. The boast has gone forth
by the Secretary of War of this revolution.
ary government, that on the first day of
May the revolutionary flag shall float from
the walls OF the capitol at Washington, and
that on the 4th day of July the revolution
ary army shall hold possession OF the Hall
of Independence in Washington.


The simple question presented to us is
whether we will wait for the enemy to carry
out his boast of making war upon our soil,
or whether we will rush as one man to the
defense of the government, and its capita,
to defend it from the hands of all assaiIants
who have threatened it. [Great applause.
Already the piratical flag has been unfurled
against the commerce of the United States.
Letters of marque have been issued, appeal.
ing to the pirates of the world to assemble
under that revolutionary flag, and commit
depredations carried on under the stars and
stripes. Hostile batteries have been planted
upon its batteries custom houses have al
ready been established and we are requir
ed now to pay tribute and taxes without
having voice in making the laws, impOs-
ing them, or having share in the distribu.
tion of them after they have been collected.
The question is whether this war of aggres.
sion shall proceed and we remain with
folded arms, inactive spectators, or whether
we shall meet the aggressors at the thresh-
hold and turn back the tide.


So long as there was hope of peaceful
solution, prayed and implored for compro-
mise. can appeal to my countrymen with
confidence that l have spared no effort,
omitted no opportunity. to adopt peaceful
Year: 1861

When Freedom from her mountain height


Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,


And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldrick of the skies,
Aud striped its pure celestial white
With streakings of the morning light;
Then from his mansion in the sun
She called her eagle-bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land.
Majestic monarch of the cloud,


Who rearest aleft thy regal form
To hear the tempest trumpings loud,


And see the lightning-lances driven;
When stride the warriors of the storm;
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven
Child of the sun to thee tits given


To guard the banner of the free!
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle stroke,
And bid its blendings shine afar,
Like rainbows on the cloud of war;


The harbingers OF victory
Flag of the brave thy folds shall fly,
The sign of hope and triumph high;
When speaks the trumpet's signal tone,
And the long line comes cleaning on,
Ere vet the life blood, warm and wet,
Has dimm' d the glistening bayOnet,
Each soldiers eye shall brightly turn
To where the sky-born glories burn;
And as his springng steps advance
Catch war and vengeance from the glance:
And when the cannOn.mouthings loud
Heave in wild wreaths the battle-shrOud,
And CORY sabers rise and fall
Like shoots of flame on midnight's hall


Then shall thy meteor gla Ices glow,
And covering foes shall sink beneath


Each gallant arm that strikes below
That lovely messenger OF death
Flag of the seas on oceans wave
Thy stars shall glitter DER the brave;
. When death careeriDg on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
And frighted waves rush wildly back
Before the brOadside's s reeling rack,
Each dying wanderer of the sea
. Shall look at once to Heaven and thee,
And smile to see thy splendors fly
In triumph Ger his closing eye!


Flag OF the free, hearts hope and home,
By angel hands to valor given,


Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven!


Forever float that standard.sheet
Where breathes the foe that falls before us,


With Freedoms soil beneath our feet,
And Freedoms banner streaming DER US!
Year: 1861

WORLDS HAIR DRESSING IS essential to use with


the Restorer, and often times in young persons will
stop the Hair from falling 1t is the best dressing for
the Hair known, rendering 1t SOFT silky and glossy,
disposng it to cnr, and remain in any desired posi-
ton. Read the advertisement No other preparation
has such array of convincing testimony del 2v
Year: 1861

Ig- The first Cotton Blossom We have
seen this season, was from the plantation
of Col. j. V Cross, which was left at our
office Oh Monday last


Z. S.-Just az We go to Press, Uncle
Buck stepped in with blossom from the
plantation Of Josiah Foster, Esq. Both
were picked on the same iay
Year: 1861

We are permitted to make the following
extract from letter to Capt. WooDEUrF Of
the Little Rock Artillery Company. from &
friend at Little Rock, containing the graft
flying intelligence of the capture of Lyons
and the sinking of his boats at Boonville,
Missouri
Year: 1861

a. will SAY 10 YOU. that the dissatisfaction both
here and at Camp Walker is universal except one
company at the Camp, aud or two persons here.
/ he first cause of complaint the appointment
OF Your staff and other officers f;O!n your relatives
and that too before you reached your head quarters.
The second cause paint the cold reception
you gave the different companies that have march


ed to Camp Walker The third cause Of compla mt
Is the treatment some OF the companies have rece


we'd at Camp Walker. Some have 10 tents or shell
ter, and have been exposed to the rain and storms
for several days and have been compelled to shift
rs best they could \ fourth cause of complaint
that the encampment has been placed something
like one mile from wood water is alleged, -
place it upon your father in-law's land an the
fifth cause OF complaint Is. that companies raised
for SIX months YOU have insisted mastering them
into service for twelve months. These things ar
greatly to be regretted and should be corrected if
possible, without too great sacrifice. The success
OF our cause depends upon, to great extent, con
cert OF action interest, cause, our destiny


are one, and our salvation depends on concert of
action. We should both act one man ANY
dissatisfaction or contentious in army would,
IN my opinion be detrimental to our success. What


have said is not for purpose OF dictation but from


sense of duty 10 You, to my country, TO the cause
L have espousei, aud to the brave volunteers under
Your command. | have felt il my duty To point
out these causes of complaint, with the hope that
something may be done to remedy the evils com
planned Of Will further state nay opinion is that
strong etfoIts being made here to have YOU su-
persed- am well-satisticd that nothing short of
an entire change of policy will give satisfaction
Year: 1861

out and fortity every unguarded place, and
enable Inc more perfectly to understand ny
true position. Does my manner, my spirit,
my conversation in my pastoral visits, have L
tendency to draw my people nto closer fei-
lowship with Christ In the home circle is
aught but the meckness and gentleness Of
Christ manifested {! In all my intercourse
with tie world, do ever stand as firm, un-
yielding soldier of the Cross-eyer willing
to be counted fool tor Christ's sake? 1t is
written. " they that are Christ's have cruel
fed the Affections and usts Am g cluci.
fed with Christ 2" Am | as truly dead to
the applause, TO the scoffer, and powers Of
the world, as the glorifcd beings before the
Throne of God ?" In a word, " am seek
ing first the Kingdom of Heaven il al!
things ?" How many times have | resolved
TO follow the Lord fully. How frequently
have promised before God the Church that
holiness of heart should be mine at any cost
With what effect let my broken VOWS, my
untulfled promises answer in accents Of deep
contrition and sorrow. l pray for strength
to rise above this sinful, yacilating course
this poor, dying way OF living.


% Times without number have prayed


This only forgiye,''


With what effect, with what consistency
can | exhort my brethren and sisters o to
holy, while refusing to receive the sanctiFy-
ing power Of the Holy Ghost myself But
shall [ cease to preach Christ as full Saw
ior. As such will | proclaim Him 10 {. dying
ord and as such, bathe assistance OF His
grace will L receive Him. Be not angry
with me, 0 my Father but let me here, alone
before Thee again attempt io Thy strength
to renew my cousecration to Thee. Cast me
not away because of former urlaiihtulness.
Without Thee can do nothing, Thou sees.
would be Thine, entirely Thine. o LAM
of God come to Thee No longer will
by base ingratitudo resist Thy spirit and
grieve Thy love. Let me no longer refuse
the full benefit Of that blood that cleanseIr
from all sin. feel my chains, but have no
power to break them. Must ever thus re
main in sins cruel bondage? Blessed Jesus
Thine is the power No longer | doubt the
faithfulness of Thy word.


% Savior, to Thee my soul looks up,
My present Savior Thou


In all the confidence of hope,


claim the blessing nor.'i


do believe Thy blood, O my Savior,
cleanseth me, even me! Thine is the glory
| 's'Ts done Thou dos this moment save
With full salvation bless;


Redemption through Thy blood have,
And spotless love and peace


Help me now, my Savior ! that l ever
abide in Thee and be fruitful in all the graces
that adorn the Christian character, and may
| know that my labor is not in vain in the
Lord. 4 SINNER SAVED BY GRACE.
Year: 1861

4 SOLDIER SETTLING A GREAr QUESTION.
" I have a letter." said a gentleman, " writ
ten by one OF the soldiers who left here few
days ago. He was the hope and the pride
OF devoted, praying mother good young
man, as people say, but not Christian. The
young man went from here with no speciai
Seriousness on his mind. The very first let
ter be wrote back, he gave his devoted, faith.
full mother the joyful intelligence that he had
settled the great question: and he believed
that he had fully consecrated himself to the
service of God After his departure, the
PRAYERS and eutreaties of mother who was
as dear to him as life came back to him with
great power, as she had entreated him to De-
come reconciled to God. The question came
IN whether he would DC the Lords or no, and
he had settled it, as he hoped and believed, for
time and eternity.
Year: 1861

At the Bul's Run fight Massachusetts boy
mad a hand to hand conflict with rebel, when
one of the Fire Zouaves came up and with his
bowie knife made short work of the rebel. One
of Ellsworth's Zonaves captured rebel and
finding some difficulty in taking him into camp
ran bayonet through him.
Year: 1861

"And conquer we must, for our cause it is Just,
And this be our motto, in God is our trust
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall


wave,
Ger the land Of the free and the home of the
Year: 1861

Fortunately We had clear sky and the
light of the moon to aid US, though not un-
frequently the black walls Of the noun
taias shut cut her light altogether. We
cheered our lonely way through dense
forests, dark ravines, and along mountain
sides, by singing patriotic airs, and never
did the sentiment seem more impressive
than now, as the mountains echoed back
the words:
Year: 1861

THE EFFECT OF SHor.-A shot does not make
a hole of its own size right through wood, but
indents it, the fibres springng back after the
shock Generally, the course of shot can only
be traced by a wire, sometimes by u hole as
large as a mans finger. The damage most
often happens in the inside of a vessel, in
splintering and breaking the wood, after the
main force of the shot was spent. Forts
Hamilton and Richmond, which are about :.
mile apart, with a vessel lying between them,
could not, with their guns, send shot through
two feet of its timber. There is rarely an in :,
stance where u ship was sunk by solid shot,
Hot shot and shells do the mischief the after
will sometimes make apertrrea cf several fee I
in extent, through the sides of vessels.
Year: 1861

In Noticing the elec ton of municipal officers
yesterday, we stated that all the old incum-
bents were reelected, save the former High
Constable, and that 'he declined, fearing a
defeat" The language is susceptible of an
in depreciation that we did not intend !; this
We say no less in justice to the late incum-
bent than ourselves. We meant to say that
In popular election defeat Is never ascer-
tanned till the close of the polls and the
counting process is gone through with In
other words, the late High Cons table acted
hastily in throwing mp his hand before the
end of the deal. That's all.
Year: 1861

Church Extension. The Baptists of this
city have organized a society for establishing
churches in various portions of this city
Thus far their effort in this direc ton has been
decided success. The new interest, under
the of Rev. T.. J. Willis is in very
prosperous condition. We understand that il
is proposed to build a house of worship on
Clay street, at n cost of some S20. coo. Other
denominations are putting forth efforts in this
direction, so that soon we may hope to see q
nice church in every community
Year: 1861




A gentleman is man who is gentle. Titles-gra ceul
accomplishments superior cuture-princely wealth
great talents-genius do not constitute with all
the attributes needed to make gentleman. He may
be awkward-anguar, homey or poor-and yet belong
to the uncrowned arstociacy. His face may be bronz
ed at the forge beached in the mi-his hand huge
and large-hs patched vest like Josephs coat of many
colors-and he may still be true gentleman. The
dandy is dry goods sign, and not gentleman for he
depends upon honor and virtue for his passport to the
best circles of society I" The man who has no money
is poorhe who has nothing but money is poorer than
he, and is not gentleman. Some of the most dstin.
guished men in the world of etters-n the world OF
art-have been neutrality-suspicious. lgar-ungentle-
consequently not gentlemen.


You are plebeian," said patrician to Cicero
| am plebean," said the eloquent Roman " the no.
bllty OF my family begins with me that of yours will
end in you" hold deserves to be crowned
with honor whose life is failure and he who lives on
y to eat and drEk and accumulate money is failure.
The world is no better for his living in it. He never
wiped tear from sad face-never kinded fire upon
frozen hearth repeat with emphasis he is failure
There flesh in bis heart he worships no God but
gold Even here at the South there are persons who
deem it discreditabe and ungenemany to labor hence
vast multitudes of young men shrk the yoke of toll,
and rush headlong into professions and positions for
which they are totally disqualified.


There is true dignity in labor, and no true dignity
without it. He who looks down scornfuIy on labor is
like Hermes, who had mouth and no hands, and yet
made faces at those who fed him-mockDg the fingers
that brought bread to his lips.


He who writes book or builds house. or tis a
farm, or follows any useful employment lives to some
purpose and contributes something to the fund of hu
man happiness


Look at the farmer, he hes share in the bank but
bis bank is bank of loam his share is plow-shar
AID the his share breaks his bank the greater will
be his dividends He need not send bis notes to New
York to be redeemed for nature has endorsed them.


Garibadi, the greatest hero of the age, is working
Daniel Webster knit his iron frame into strength By
working on his fathers farm when young The mel
who have blood enough in their veins to work the bra
mills upon their shoulders men who labor
Erchanee