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" It Is sad to wander through the Wesley- "an Cemetery in St. Louis, and see the graves of hunareds of our brave soldiers, -. who, having sacrificed their lives in their country's cause, now sleep in the cold arms of death. Twice a day loads of the dead are" conveyed from the various 'hospitals to this'their last 'camping ground. Sie by side in this great camp of Death lie our own "brave boys and the rebel dead ECiircelyany distinction being made. They who dared to defy their country and her Jaws here sleep quietly beside those who. died in her defence. Over each grave is placed a headboard, on which the number of the grave and the initials of the deceased are printed, and it is custom ary for the women of secession proclivities' to place flowers over the rebel dead, and tlms show their sympathy for the unholy ause They also write upon the head boards verses, the sentiments, of which are remarkable, and perhaps worth copying. It will be seen that they glory in the name of rebels : . .-.."Rebels, 'tis our dying name; ,, j . For though our life is dear, Yet, freemen born and freemen bred, We'd rather, lie as freemen dead; Than live in slavish fearl" , "Rebels, 'tis a holy name; , m . ' " ' "Nigger thieves then keep arrayl"1 V? in . . "He died in a noble cause, . . Rest in peace." - f .. -:.- "'NL Southern soldier- l '" IIe?fought and bled for tho . . ; . t W Sunny land he loved. ; .- t Black Republican, touch not.", l Sweet sleep the brave vr ho for their country " die." "The above are samples of the epitaphs ia-memory of these braves but it wil hardly be credited that the following ef fusion is an actual copy of one of these mournful strains, savoring as it does of aArtemus." It was written on a head- board by a lady, and copied immediately After. J Did wo agree with the patriotic in dividual in her politics, we certainly could jind no fault whh the sentiments expressed in this dirge, though the spelling, it must "be acknowledged, is rather rough, her la mentable ignorance touching things celes- . tial, as manifested in the last line, is how; cverj unpardonable. She thus ings : .V.Herelijse a jtoainger braiv, dide while fitin the Suthern Confederacy "to save. m ,. ., , v;peice to .his dust. ,' " i. - . ' , ' ' , Jktma Southern friemd w . ,t r . frbmisluidlO " '. '.'...-. T. ' y you reached a.gloryus entL T ' .-'''"" ire plaM.these flewrsabev tho straihgerlahed . ,Jxxhonpr;oj: Uie shiverluscd.-J '" FWt spirit rest iiThefen11-1 "--' Therl be no Yankis there." l ll The young woman .who . marries an un- - jot ortbj?inw WKessner lorafai namenn:vain. charitv in: e AMERICA'S DESTINY. . 4I haVe a faith, a living faith,' ' I know iiot how or why, r i h&' ! . That'America,rin her growing age, Is yet to young todiei f :, And oft, in inner breathings deep, .. rlt whispers thus to me, " Your America yet must live and teach The Nations to be free." I smile at an's philosophy, However wise.or great ; ; I look with calm, unflinching heart Upon a shattered State; I hear amid the woeB of war .. The hopeful, thrilling cry, f r li Your America with her workutdoae, Is yet too young to die" .-, A Oh, tell me. not of rwealth o'ergrown, , Of. great, unwieldly, might; , Of trembling in the scales of fate Or of approaching night: 'J ' tW ' A frown of wrath may come: froml Heavem A cloud may cross our sky, . .v. "But America, with her work undone, . j 1 - JJ Is yet.too young toaie. . iuy And tell me not of ancient times, c yu. Of powerful States' decay ;-j- -r Theirlifewasbuta flickering light, JJf -But yours the blaze of day : With you I. see no crouching slaves; No rabble laws defy f ' - " And I think America's lived too long J To know they way ..to die. 'J. ! 8wJ3 fi: Icarinotyield7astavisVfearf 'D -! To any tyrant's power,' s 4 ,- iv.i Tho' it appal some feeble hearts, ,-tu .,..-, And make the bondsman cower, ;. n, From God to man from man to God, With faith's discerning eye, I look and feel, while time rolls on,' ' That America ne'er shall die ! V A Home. t '.Hi "l l' i , If we were to -tell a -number of our readers that they don't know what a '.home is, they would grow indignant, and, per haps, use harsh words. And yet it may be remarked that the number of persons who know what a genuine 'bomfe is, by ex perience, is decidedly few1. One mari in good circumstances, will tell you he has' a fine house of his own, 'in which every comfort and convenience are provided? -He has a. wife and children there also, and they give life to -the place. Very true. But does he prefer that home thus provi ded and enlivened, id every other plac in the world"? Does he'regret when the hour for leaving comei and smile 'when he-is permitted to return? Does he ' love to sit by the cheerfuUfirenncl fondle the chil dren, entering into all their' little disputes with a curious" interest? - -Does he, take particular note of the -bird in the cageand the cat near the fire? If not, be has noli home, in the deareWsense: -of "-that dearest of words. T 21 " i If his mind is altogether jabsorbed in the dusty ways o business if he hurries from the house-in tho morning and is loth, to return at night if, while he is at home,, he continues to 'thihkt'of the journal rand ledger, and repulses the advances of the prattling children, he has no home. k He only has a placewhere he lodges and takes his meals. ...'--- t Ah ! happy is he who knows and appre-! ciates the full bliss of !home ; whose heart is warmed arid humanized by its cheerful influence, arid who feels hoV superior in purity of pleasure are' 'all its 'enjoyments' to the turmoil delights of out-doof life Thrice happy is such a-man. He ' has'tliB-- covered the only .paradise this world can now aflord.. It is only suoh a man that can have a deep andsincere .pity for' tha unfortunate creatures who are hdmeless'.r- "i !" i.'i.&an wn.j.0. n a, t He regaas mem as Dcing cut on Jrom tne best influences of the earthaud exposed to tho action of alltliV Barkis? JwaVes of life. He leeli keDlyf&fcHn who Has no fireside no dear ones to welcome hinr with srailes,-and-praUle-over-4he little his tory of thfiWfBotfcoogwi toisooths'When ueayy. careyx.o JLrqnjlf tiiSj ujind, and rendered the heart aore apdJheV' sympa "tn"y c sua"mani3noi sTow to overflow in acts of inllnatileSeTolcflcb. crbbtr'hotiiB is thaMtitfihfoiintaioi of ithojhiart.-y & 5iirA..Ji a the War. v: Myfriends, it fci bexn a difficult ques . 1 tion to solve whogigimenced the ."-agitation. . of 'slavery .pAnother more , painful problem has been bw,the agitation can be stopped. A grMiany well-meaning people have troubledtkemselves -with these questions. And this onebas been blamed, and thatjon.e hasbeaui blamed, for. moving in the matter, of .thvtiyij -Row, I. da not doubt that;the great question, lias been abused and perverted to selfish ends. Eut the agitation itself is inherent in the' sub ject., falavery never did exist anywhere without an agitation. It never will exist ;without one. If any man will point me to the spot and to the time when a people were cast into bondage, from that spot and from that date I will trace for him, oh the historic page, the course of a series of ceDtrpversies, andlieart-burnings, and con vulsions, which followed the track of the peculiar institution like the shadow on tho dial'follows the course of the sun You will observe that while many nations have been coerced into slavery, no nation has yet'voluntarily entered into that state. While masters have employed no little ingenuity and pathos to show how much slavery contributes to the happiness of the bondsmen, the bondsmen, themselves, have never been able to appreciate it ; nor have. I learned that any of the masters have been willing to exchange positions with their bondsmen. And though philosophy and religion, and the stern behests of pow er have all been put into requisition to give sanction, and support, and composure to the peculiar institution, they have been found inadequate to that end. If any or all of them have ever seemed to attain the purpose, the appearance was delush'e. The cold and quiet surface did only con ceal the subterranean fires that glowed beneath. It has no more excited and har rassed our people than it has every people under the sun who have had do Rrith it. The history of slave systems has been tho same everywhere. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Roman3, the Germans, the French, the English, the Russians, have all had their slave systems, and their civil feuds and broils, and wars in consequence. The agitation of slavery is truth struggling against error. It is the voice of humanity pleading for its rights. It is the everlast ing law of God. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one jot or tittle of that iavr.- Extract from a speech recently de- liver td in St. Louisby j$am?l T. Clover. 1 c Important Decision. It will be re membered, that, a few weeks ago, a slave named Edmund was arrested a3 a fugitive on board an upward boand steamer oy of ficer Gilchrist, and placed in jail in this city, it being the object of the policeman td return the negro to his master, who re sides in Tennessee. It appears that the negro, who had been permitted by his master to work on the rebel fortifications at Fort Donelson, had been seized by the Federal army, and that he had been turn ed oyer to Captain Lelarid, of New York, a member f General Grant's staff. At the time of his arrest the negro was on his way to New York, and was traveling un der a pass from Gen. Grant. A short time after the negro's arrest, apt. Leland appeared and cbmmepced proceedings in the Uiited States Court, Jidge Ball&rd, foHhe negro's releare. Thffevidence was Heard afew days fince, his Honor Judge Baftafd "withholding his decision until yT&terday- when he decided, in; effecti -at ftlriiegrcMsno longer the property of his imaster,' the master navmg ioneited' the- right of property in the siave- when he"; permittedhim to be used in aid of the re b'eilion.The negro was accordlhgly fe leasedZbktspWc Jour.. JuhcZS. '."'' Our rebels who swear there is no Con stitution, beg ua, the memc-at they" iirhik themselves in danger, to-jcep'dct 'Uiat sa-- ion. - -- is "i Slavery" 4. 4p'declafe iBatltheyIoved 11s bettertnali themsesMerlhat.b'efire anlucmy- of invasion should inarch against the South, it should march over their dead bodies. It seems to be supposed that they have chang ed their character, and been merged by the war into one seeting cauldron of Ab olitionism. Thi3, however, is a great mis take. ' The war has not 'changed tfieir character,but onlvdiscovereditto the world. It has shown them to -be the falsest, the most treacherous and the most hypocritic al of mankind. But for conservative money, and conservative men, it could not be carried on a single day. Conservative cities have provided the cash and the sold iers; conservative Generals 'have lead their armies : conservatism nas, in fine, proved the most formidable of our ene mies. We are not aware of a single Abo lition' General who ocupies a conspicuous position in tho federal hosts, McClellan, Rosecrans and others are somewhat ultra in their conservatism ; and jVIcCopk, who said that if he had an Abolitionist in n3 army he would cut off his" ears, is the. same who proclaims, " The South must.be- sub dued or exterminated." The conservatism of these men is still however, censervatism, only it does no mean, as we formerly supposed, the pres ervation of tho constitution and '.the .rights of the States, - but the ""conservatism of Northern commerce and manufactures, at any cost whatever to the South at the cost of every life and hearthstone in its limits at the cost of converting its whole territory into one vast scene of blood and tears. That is what Northern conserva tism means and nothing else. It is, in a word, the most detestable avarice a love of money so passionate and absorbing that it would murder a whole people to fill its pockets. That is Northern conservatism! In what respect is it better thanabolitioh ism ? There ye pitiful .Northern doughfaces who are so much afraid of hurting the feelings of traitors, who wish to have the war so conducted that no rebel may be hurt- (not caring how many union men are destroyed,) you have you own reward : you are the " falsest, most treacherous, most hypocritical of mankind," your sweet friends say. Your conservatism is. the most c detestable avarice a love of money so passionate and absorbing, it would mur der a whole people to fill its pockets." We "hope you feel flattered and comforta ble, and expect you will go on apologizing for traitors, and begging that they may be treated leniently, and their " rights" care fully observed; especially their right to trample a Democratic Government under their feet and erect on its ruins a slave ol igarchy. Richmond DUpatch. CoL Jennison publishes a card in the Conservative, giving his reasons for re signing, and says : "" I did not enlist to return slaves to pro tect rebels, but "to crush slavery and kill rebels, and while in the service I gave a good deal of attention to these two points. Wbea the. Government adopts that policy, I shall bo 'gain sd$ untii t?sJttil?e; I shall bea citizen . WhileoGo v.. Gamble, fosters bushwhacking in Missouri, and the, cxpe&to wear soldier s do;the3j ajJ drath. epfts.apeaoaabie .citizen .qKansas.'' , The iijusea'o'tcVtnfeBee iof the cymcw oi?-iatriJ6dy4j-iiie loyal annv. The -Conservatives ana Destructives; - . Thejeople of the.Noru are divided ro to two parties, in thelprqsent? war, ts in the peace that;preceded- it tht- conserva tives and destructives. The latter areoui old enemies, the Abolitionists, who .ire crazy people honest perhaps, on their; Ak naticism, but fit poly for a straight jacket The former are eur'old friends, who used tMS&k eUrcaVr of fKiaiVit. , iflA.4,.t3 1 there arc. 322 cler-. - v - ,' . V: I . A. .Ci: r About General Butler's, Order.; : u Acgreat deal of-stimulated indignatwn ' hW Seen roussdWiist General Buder oias' :acpqttht of his rather coarse order respect- r r 'e,-"10 iuuiuB 01 new uneans. snow, wiiltwo unqulifiedly condemn the style of ,kIi;pronun'ciamerito, we cannot withhold oiTcensure from those' ladies who, so far fotfetul of thai modesty and reserve with whm'womanishbuld always encircle her- selfThave stef ped from the pale of woaia-' lyprpriety, ahd1n1edtwSerig very streets of their city. When this is the case, women always subject themselves- to censure, if not insult. Neither time nor circumstances will shield her from the inevitable' consequen ces; whether her intentions are insulting or otherwise, she is no longer invulnerable 3 when that beautiful shield she hofds 'before herself and contact with strangers is with- ' drawn, for suspicion always attaches itselF' to such demonstrations. '". Is there any 'father who would wish to- "" see his daughter flaunting through tHe streets, and insulting those in whose power fate has thrown the city of his residence; ' or, on the contrary, how would a Confeder ate officer act, should a lady, or woman - with Federal proclivities, publicly flaunt the stars and stripes before his face and ' use insulting expressions in the streets where his duty to his Government had called him. Is it not better, is it not more consonant with the nature, of woman, to shrink from all contact, all communications of whatev- er character with enemies and strange? f and thus vindicate her sex from unworthy suspicion, and insure protection fromia suit and abuse,1 JIfdcon -2iTs8.,TJ5cocon. His Tutob. " You say, Mr.JSpriggSg that Mr. Jacobs was your tutor t "Yes, sir." u "Docs tho court understand from thai, you received educatien from him?" . " No, sir." " Then explain yourself, sir." " Yes, sir. By tutor I meant that hm taught me how to play on the French horn. He taught me how to toot, hence I" call ,hiin, my tutor." ' "Ah, indeed. The court understood you differently." r . m" When a-poor woman steals tokeep.'het from starving.they .call the act a theft, ai$ punish it as a crime. When a lichjwq-j. man steals to gratify her longing for finery they call it cleptomania, and give her sym pathy and a fashionable doctor. On the jwhole, it is an advantage to be rich! It' promotes pleasant language and charita-.' ble opinions. . An exchange, in speaking of a subecrib. .. er who has taken the paper for a number bf years, and then refused to pay for it, says : " He would steal a passage to hear- . ten, in a secret corner of a streak of light ning, and smuggle gold from the streets of r Jl. the New Jerusalem to buy stumps of ;half penny cigars' A young man being asked by a young lady what phonography was, took oat his pencil and wrote the following, telling her that was 'phonography : u U. B. JLo U T. L N : (Ton are a beauty Ellen !) This it not so bad as a lazy4 fellow, who spells ' Tennessee 10 a c. ' l The number of horses in the world 'is estimated at about 27,000,000; of this number, the United States have 5,00d,000l tTheageneral estimate has been eightt1o' ten" ihorseVin Europe for every " hundred m- habii't'acts.' .--.-..- . 2 . - - - :. ,-i e:i- ' A negro on beingquesticwed, was.askr 7f lcd i his.master-wa3; a CnnsUan. . . 1 v-No ,j sir, he is a politician i&waa the reply.. . ra ' Woman lost the tworld one Paradise, but shecan eajiiyjnakeiUs, another : wherey shegocs.t cM&tsi? hvjvjJu.k ie,ia5wniaenif uiu uuitouiuuuii. sifSh&tt t;l -IMP 4a4f mtmM &&'Robs4tsiQ 10 vifisiiffoo --T -Mttmtemati &n'&mim& tUfjT '. JWfc&vi. " t'mHSVjujl !- Wu-gfP PUii t Lli - . M W rrHisiii . ' w ' W?i3 fl:-.-. tKSr" - :j -a -i.nW'&a- $. 'f- ?' 'jjttL -f