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THE 0 O U NT HYMAN.
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An Impassable Gulp.—“The New
York News gives the War Democracy
no comfort. It declares them out of
the party, now and forever. Let no
War Democrat cherish the illusion
that he is a Democrat in anything but
the name. He is simply "an Aboli
tionist with whom the Peace Democrat
has no fellowship, as witness the News :
The War Democracy of its own
accord has foresworn our company.
It has passed within the uuhallowed
circle of Abolitionism, and assuredly
the Peace Democracy will not follow.
It is uow impossible for peace men,
without the sacrifice of their own con-
SMteney an.d principle, to resume the
companionship thus cancelled. Hence
forward the Peace man and the War
Democrat are twain. There is no tie
between them, there is no conformity
of action. The Peace man cannot
stand shoulder to shoulder with an ab
olitionist in political battle. Distrust,
antipathy, and antagonism are now the
political conditions that exist between
them..”
An Interesting Incident.—“The
Richmond Enquirer states that Gover
nor Vance, of North Carolina, ‘in
a recent speech, narrated an incident
(that came under bis immediate ob
servation, where a poor widow with
three children, the eldest incapable
of taking care of the youngest,, cul
tivated, last year, a patch of rented
ground, with tire assistance of a little
steer not much larger than a calf.—
Afraid to leave her little ones.at home
jn her cabin, she would take them
,-daily t<© the field, build for them a
small pen, cover it with leaves to pro
tect them from the sun, and when she
had plowed a distance from her little
brood, would move the pen to a more
convenient spot,.that sko .might watch
over them and nurse her babe at the
.end of a weary row. She raised three
liundred and sixty-seven bushels of
earn,had plenty ,t0 support herself and
.children, and sold to her neitrh-,
Dors.
•‘The brow of that woman (continued
his Excellency) is worth the proudest
laurels that ever rewarded the virtue
of the patriot, or testified to the en
durance of the hero, ”
Judge .Ould and Beast Butler.
—“The F or tress Monroe correspond
ent of the New York Herald saj st
Judge .Ould’s Mission to this place,
as 1 intimated hi my dispatch of the
30th ultimo, was for the purpose of
facilitating exchanges of prisoners
between the United States and the
rebels. During the two days of Lis
stay at Old Point Comfort, General
Butler and be came to the most per
fect understanding, and hereafter ex
changes will continue on a fair and
honorable basis, imless the same is
interrupted or interfered with at
Washington—which for the sake of the
poor, suffering prisoners and the coun
try generally, we hope will not oc
cur.
Judge Quid returned to Richmond
on Friday evening.”
The Yankee Army op the Po
tomac.—Notwithstanding the blus
ter of the yankee journals about the
extensive preparations for the capture
of Richmond, there can be no doubt,
says the Richmond Dispatch, 'that
the army under Grant, on the Rap
pahannock, is much weaker numeri
cally than that which was overwhelmed
under Hooker a year ago at Chan-
eelforsville. An officer who came
down on the Central train, last night,
informs us that our scouts re
port that the statement of heavy rein
forcements to Grant are greatly ex
aggerated, and that the enemy’s ar
my, with all the reinforcements re
ceived up to this time, does uo.t ex
ceed 60,000, It is stated, however,
that Grant is making preparations for
an advance.—Sav. Rep,
English Pol.it.ics.—“ It seems to
be generally conceded, and is taken
for granted by the last Loudon Index
which has reached us, that the Der*
by party—the moderate tories, or
conservatives—are at present in the
ascendant in England., and that the
present Whig Administration is only
kept in power by the personal popu
larity of Lord Palmerston, and the
reluctance of any party to undertake
the .conduct .of the government, in
case lie should be turned out. That
the Whig party is doomed to be turn
ed out, and that the occurrence of the
event is simply a matter of time,
seems to be equally assumed. Should
this event come to pass, «s is predict
ed, then we will Jiavo a cliancedo see
whether another Foreign Secretary
will treat .us wit h a greater degree of
fairness than Earl Russell has shown.”
“Col. St. Leger Grenfell, formerly
attached to Gen. John H. Morgan’s
command, and inspectoi-geTieral of
cavalry in the army of Gen. Bragg,
but now in Richmond, has tendered
his resignation from the service, which
resignation has been accepted, and
the colonel has obtained his passport,
intending to sail for Europe as soon as
opportunity presents.”
A New Torpedo.—The indefati
gable inventor, Mr. James O. Patton,
has obtained a right for a new torpe
do -arrangement, which, we under
stand, has been tested, and found
to be successful. The peculiarity
claimed for this torpedo by the inven
tor, is that it will ‘nose* its way along
a current until its finds something in
the shape of a yankee vessel, when it
will arrange itself conveniently, and
then explode. Mr. Patton christens
it the ‘Hunting Torpedo.’ He will
soeu enjoy an opportunity of testing
its practicability upon hostile waters,
we understand.—Richmond Enquirer.
-The New York News calculates
that the North has lost in this war a
million of men, and incurred a debt of
three billion dollars. It says that the
war from the beginning has been one
fur the liberation of slaves, and sums
up the gross amount a6 follows; 'To
liberate one hundred thousand slaves,
and make them worse off than when
with their masters, tho North has crea
ted a debt of three billion dollars, and
sacrificed the lives of nine hundred
thousand of our fellow-citizens.”
Si) PE BSE DEB,—Major Charles J,
Harris, Commandant of Conscripts for
the State of Georgia, whose head
quarters are in this city, has been
superseded by Major Brown, who is
expected to assume command in a
few days. Major Andrews is in tem
porary com mand,— Macon Confedcr+
ate..
An Orator’s Judgment.—“Dan
iel Webster having been commended
for bis eloquence on a memorable oc-
cassion, replied; ‘If anytliing I have
ever said or written deservesthefeeb-
leat.enconiums of my fellow country
men^ I have no hesitation in declaring
that for their partiality I ain indebted,
solely indebted, to the daily and at**
ie.uti.ye perusal of .the .Sacred Scrip
tures, the source of all true poetry
niicl eloquence as well as of all good.,
and all comfort.' ”
No ble Sentim ents.—“Condem-E
no man for not thinking as yom think.
Let every one enjoy t Iwe full and free
liberty of thinking for himself. Let
every man use bis own judgment.,
since every man must give an account
of himself to God, Abhor every ap
proach, in any kind of degree* to the
spirit of persecution, If yon cannot
reason or pe-rsuade a man into the
truth, never attempt to force him info
it; and, above all, exercise a spirit of
charity towards your fellow man,”