-A Democratic cotemporary dissents from the doctrines of THE OLD GUARD, characterizing them as extreme. We will thank our cotemporary to point out wherein they are "extreme." THE OLD GUARD professes to be an organ of the principles of 1776 and 1787-of the principles that dictated the Declaration of Independence, and that formed the Constitution. We will thank those who dissent to show wherein we go beyond those principles. We profess that the doctrines of THE OLD GUARD are identical with the principles held by the Democratic party all the way from the days of Jefferson to the election of Mr. Lincoln. Wo respectfully challenge those who dissent from us to point out wherein we deviate, in the least, from this proud record of Democracy. It is an easy thing to say extreme; but show wherein. We stand upon the time-honored platform of the party. Our cotemporary has sloughed off half way over into that extreme pit of abolition revolution, which has deluged our country in the blood of our kindred. He denounces Lincoln's abominations, and warns the country that he designs the destruction of the Union, while he is, at the same time, acting in the capacity of a tail to Lincoln's kite. He plays the part of bass (base encugh) in the grand orchestre of Abolition fiddles, and then looks back at us, who will not follow into such company, but sit here on the rock of our fathers-and calls us extreme. It to be at the other end from the murderous Abolition revolution is extreme, then we accept the name, and thank God for it. But if we are called extreme because we will not forsake the altars of liberty at which our fathers worshipped, then we fling back the senseless epithet upon those who utter it.

-The old Duke Abbas, prince of the Johanna Isle, had been taught a little English end civilization by the sailors of the ships touching at his domain, and he did away with executions. Over a gaunt, huge negro, tied to a tree, in the last stage of starvation, with tongue hanging down, and eyes swollen out of their sockts, a brother of the hu

mane Prince Abbas remarked: "My broder, he a most erciful man; he no take away life. No! when one bad man is, he tie him up dis way, and no gib him nothink to eat, and nothing to drink, till he die of himself." The civilization and humanity of the old Duke Abbas has rarely been equaled in modern times, except by the considerate charity and mercy practiced, on many occasions, by our Abolition philanthropists. There is, however, a little difference, for Abbas, it scems, tortured negroes, the Abolitionists white men. A great many men and women have d.ed from effects of treatment received in Mr. Lincoln's bast les, and other thousards who have come out with their lives, have come with ruined health and shattered constitutions. He does not yet execute men and women for disagreeing with him. Nohe is as merciful as the old Frince Abbas, who placed every one whom he wished to kill where he would "die of himself."

-An editor who makes no inconsiderable pretensions to learning, in praising the ge nius of Irving, says, "that everything born of his brain comes forth with the touch of originality as well as of novelty, like that of the thirty years' sleep of Rip Van Winkle." But it so happens that the sleep of Rip Van Winkle is not an original idea. In Alciphron's Epistles, a Greek author who wrote before the days of Lucian, we have the story of Epimenides, of Crete, who slept forty-se ven years. This old fellow beat Rip seventeen years. Plutarch, in his Life of Solon, refers at considerable length to this story. The same story is related Diogenes Laertius, by Aulus Gellius, and, we believe, also by Pliny. Epimenides, being fatigued, went into a cave, where he had a good forty-seven years' nap. Lucian, in his Timon, refers to this remarkable sleeper.

-Rev. Dr. Tyng says, that "the Administration is based upon the grand idea that all races of men are one and equal." Then the Administration is based upon a grand ethnological and historical falsehood. The Es

quimaux, when his hunger is satisfied, sleeps in a crevice of the rock, and meditates on nothing, observes nothing. The Carib extends not his thoughts even to his next day's subsistence. The negro, in his natural state, burrows in a hole in the ground, and lives on snakes and worms. There he is, what he was at the dawn of history, never having, of his own motion, taken the first step of improvement. To attempt to make this being the equal of the Caucasian race, is at once to assail immutable science, and the Providence of Almighty God. We have no doubt that the Administration is very capable of doing both.

-On the 6th day of January, Mr. Powell urged a bill in the Senate to prevent officers of the army and navy, and other persons in the employ of the Federal Administration, from interfering with the elections in the States. The bill provides for the trial and punishment of such offences by the civil authorities of the States, according to the constitutions and laws of the States, and of the United States. The Republican majority refused to let the bill take the ordinary course of being referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. In the course of the debate Mr. Lane, of Indiana, denied that there had been any interference with the freedom of electious. Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware, replied that

"He had seen the armed soldiery of the 'powers that be' at the polls, and by positive interference drive dozens of voters away. This wa in my own State (Delaware) no longer ago than last November. The majority of the voters of the State of Delaware, at the last election, were not allowed to cast their votes at the poils, because they did not approve of this Administration. He defied any Senator on this floor to show where the State of Delaware had attempted to tear down the fabric of this glorious Union, and yet the party in power, finding that they could not send representatives of their own choice to the other branch of the national Legislature, allow a military man to publish an order that no citizen should vote unless he should take an oath such as he prescribed.' The hero of a military operation on a railroad can make his will the supreme law of voting, and say, you shall not vote unless you become subject to my will.' This was freedom of election, indeed! The hero of the bloodstained field of Vieuna sent his military forces to every election poll in the State of Delaware, authorizing them beforehand what to do, and Baying to the people what they must do. A sovereign State thus became a plaything in the hands of a military officer who Las never dis tinguished himself in any way in the service of his country."

No Senator attempted to deny the truth of any word or line of Mr. Saulsbury's statement. Mr. Wilson said he fully justified all that the Administration had done to control the election in Delaware and elsewhere, and so said all the Republican Senators, by the expressive language of their votes. If the State of Delaware had power to execute its own laws, it could legally seize (if it could catch them,) the persons of General Schenck and Mr. Lincoln, and try and hang them for this crime of seizing the ballot of the State by military force. It is the subversion of the sovereign government of a State by military powers. The penalty is death.

-The late Democratic Convention of the State of New Hampshire passed unanimously the following resolution, which sounds a little more like true sense and true manhood than anything we have of late seen from political Conventions:

"Resolved, That the freedom of tho ballot MUST AND SHALL BE MAINTAINED Sacred and inviolable; and that wo, the Democracy of New Hampshire, will unite with our brethren of other States, DY FORCE OF ARMS, IF NEED BE, in resistance to every attempt, from whatever source may come, to overturn or abridge, by menaces or direct interference by military force, the inde pondence and purity of the bal lot-box in the ensuing elections, State and National; and to this end we pledge each to tho other, and to our brethren of other States, our lives, our fortunes, and sacred. honors, being firmly resolved to maintain, AT ALL HAZARDS, our rights as free and patriotic citizens of tho American Union."

Let the Democracy of every State go and resolve, and, if need be, do likewiso, and there will quick enough be an end of the Lincoln despotism, and of all the traitorous schemes against the rights and existence of the States. Let Connecticut follow with a similar resolution. Let the friends of Union, of liberty and law, in every State, put themselves in the same line of battle, and prepare to march to the music of 1776 and 1787. Attention, THE OLD GUARD!

-Congressman Mallory, in exposing the treachery of Smith, from his State, who appears to have been bought up by the Abolitionists, said, "he would carry on the war with all the power the Constitution confers." If Mr. Mallory will point to the part of tho Con titution that gives the President the power to wage such a war as he is now conducting, we shall give his article a place with

great pleasure. Who will show, from the Constitution, Lincoln's right to make such a Wat? Will no "War Democrat" come to this discussion?

-Five years ago, while stopping, for a night, at Limerick, in Irelazd, en route to the Lakes of Killarney, we made the acquaintance of a gentleman from Waterford, the place of Francis Meagher's residence, before he was sent to Botany Bay as a "rebel." We remarked that we had the pleasure of knowing a distinguished gentleman from that place, then living in New York. On being told the name of the gentleman, and in rəply to a remark of ours, that Mr. Meagher stood well in the Metropolis of the New World, he replied, "Perhaps when he has lived there as long as he has here, he may be thought less of." On witnessing our astonishment, the gentleman continued, "Oh, he is only a demagogue; you will see that he will never come to anything more." At the late banquet to the Irish Brigade, in this city, Mr. Meagher made a speech which we think fully justifies the opinion of his townsHe suid:

"Beware of what has grown to be the most sign.cant designation of northern enemies of t country; beware of the reptiles who are known as Copperheads. [Applause and hisses.] Have no parley with them; show no merthem; squelch them."

Now, if Mr. Meagher understands what is meant by a "Copperhead," he knows it means a patriot who wants "the Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is," in opposition to Abolition traitors, whose tool he has become, and whose watchword has been, for a quarter of a century, "No Union with slaveholders!" He has allied himself with the εcoundrels who broke up the Union, and throws back his wordy Billing gate upon all who do not follow his apostate tracks. It was an insult to the brave Irish Brigade to talk such stuff in its presence. But hear how Le raves at the Irish citizens of New York:

"As for these men we have nothing but detestation; and for the Irish portion of it, I deprecate, I loathe, I repudiate, I execrate them.

raitors to the Republic, they are still deeper traitors to the reputation of the ancient Irish nation."

This, we suppose, was meant for the whole Irish population of this city, who are Democlats, or what he calls "Copperheads." We

can tell him that the names of his countrymen, whom he thus slanders, will be respected in this land when his own will be named only to be abhorred.

-The Cincinnati Enquirer well says that the only political question now before the people of the United States is the question of peace or war, and therefore argues that any attempt to make this question a subordinate one in the next Presidential election, will be ruinous to the Democracy. Such a policy will not only evince a lack of courage, but a sad want of sagacity in the leaders of the Democratic party, who will probably have control of the Nominating Convention. Leaders generally control Conventions, and they often do violence to the popular wish. It is to be hoped that the war dodge has been co thoroughly tried, and has so disgracefully failed, that these leaders will be wise enough not to encumber the next Presidential campaign with it. The only hope of Democratic success is in a square, open, honest avowal of the truth. The war thunder is fairly the property of the Abolitionists, and any attempt of the Democratic party to steal it, will only end-as all things ought to with a thief-in defeat and disgrace. The war is for subjugation, and for nothing else, except what plunder may be realized by it. It is not only a violation of the cardinal principle of the American system of Government, but it is con ducted on a plan that equally violates the laws of civilization and religion. The man who supports such a war does more than to assist in destroying the grand pripple of Democracy-he allies himself at once with despotism and barbarism.

-We read in the Talmud of a bird called Barjuchne, which covered the sun with its wings. An addle-egg having dropped from its nest, crushed three hundred large cecars, and overwhelmed sixty cities. This seems quite incredible; but it is moderate compared with the wonderful things which Mr. Stanton sometimes sends over the wires of the doings of our armies. O.ten are we told of scenes where a few hundied of our soldiers surround and gobble up as many thousand rebels," Telegraphically considered, the Secretary is a regular Barjuchnc, whose addle brain, for the want of eggs, often darkens the sun over all rebeldom, and sweeps

out of existence whole armies with a single dispatch, which, however, most unaccountably spring into existence again the next day.

-The Democrats in Congress want a Committee to investigate the frauds committed by the Administration upon the Treasury. They will never get such a Committee from this Congress, and if they were to, it would be of no use, unless they had something like the Judh morrain, the miraculous collar which was out round the necks of wi.nesses, and if they designed to swear falsely, it continued closing, till it either extorted the truth, or choaked the liar to death. This collar would probably never get the truth out of the Abolitionists; but then it might be useful in another way, i. e., in choaking a few thousand liars to death.

-The Legislature of Iowa has re-elected J. M. Grimes to the U. S. Senate. He is the son of old Grimes. His father was a very respectable man, so much so, that at his death his neighbors sung to his memory that well-known song, beginning with this verse:

"Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old gray coat,
All buttoned down before."

This is clear proof of the high estimation put upon the elder Grimes by his neighbors. But now hear what a Senatorial muse says of his degenerate son:

"Grimes is not dead; oh, no, the fool,
We all shall see him more!

And he comes back Abe Lincoln's tool,
Just as he was before."

We beg Mr. Grimes to be assured that we intend no disrespect by calling him a fool. It is only a poetical license, which was absolutely necessary as a rhyme for the word tool, a character which he acknowledges he is proud to wear.

-The Shoddyocratic Society of Washington is literally rioting in all the varieties of vulgar mirth. Mortality among young babes is astonishing, it is said, from neglect of their unnatural mothers, who leave them to the care of the contrabands, while they frolic night and day. It may almost be said, that in Washington children, like chickens hatched by steam, are born without mothers. Poor

little wretches! according to all accounts, a very great number of them are in the same predicament with regard to their fathers. It is a very doubtful and an awful thing to be a baby in Washington in those days of the good king Abraham.

The Tribune says, "Congress must tax!' This is a co nmand from the head of the ar my. The public 18 curious to know what under the heavens there is to tax that they have not reached already. We can think of nothing new for them to tax, unless it be dirty linen in the United States Senate. That might raise a considerable revenue, unless members of that body should attempt to evade the law by wearing clean shirts. Question-In such an event, would clean shirts be "disloyal?"

-Who does not see that the shadow of death 18 passing over our land? That every day there is less sun? That faith has perished, that love has perished, that the Constitution has perished, that union has perished, that all which made us happy at home, and great abroad, has perished! What have we left? Wo have Mr. Lincoln, the negro, the bastile, the Congress. God have mercy on us! Henry Ward Beecher and Fred. Doug. lass! The future? Go not thou into its secrets, ch, my soul!

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-A Jenkins, who writes for a Boston paper, has had his head turned by the beauty of the women in Washington-he says, bloom of their cheeks is as bright and clasSic as a rose. Classic, we have no doubt, for Horace describes the painted beauties of his day as pulvis umbrasumus—“duɛt and shadow."

-An intelligent contraband, who made his way into the White House as a beggar, was asked by Mr. Lincoln, "who are you?" "Why, Massa Lincun, don you know who I is? I's one ob your kine-I's a chile ob disUnion! Massa Chase, he knows who I is."

-Who talks about a national floating debt? Ours is already too heavy to float. The best we can do is to call it a sinking fund.

-Provost Marshal Fry declares that "the conscripts who desert the service of their country ought to be roasted alive." The poor wretches are pretty well Fryed already.