THE BEDFORD GAZETTE U rCBt!9OEX> EVERY FRIDAY KOBSrIWO RV B. F. MCYEBS, At the following terms, to wit s $2 00 per annum, it" paid strictly in advance. $2.50 if paid within 6 months; $.1.00 if not paid within S months. j7".\o subscription taken tor less than six months (£7"No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the option of the publisher. It has been decided by the United States Courts that the ■>oppige of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and is a criminal offence. (jtyThe Courts have decided that persons are ae countable for the subscription price of newspapers, If they take them from the post office, whether they subscribe for Ibem, or not. THE MAD ENGINEER. The following thrilling story is furnished by A l'russiun railroad engineer: "My train left Dnntzic in the morning gen erally about eight o'clock", but once a week we had to wait for the arrival of the steamer from i Stockholm- It was the morning of the steam- I er's arrival that I came down from the hotel, j and found that my engineer had been so aeri- ■ ously injured that lie could not perform his ; work. A railway carriage had run over him j and broke one of his legs. 1 went immediate- i ly to the engine-house to procure another engi neer, for I knew there were three or four in re- J serve there, but I was disappointed. I had in- > quired for Westpbal, but was informed that he had gone to Sreegen to see his mother. Gcu dotpho had been sent to Koingsburg, on the road, llut where was Mayne? He had leave I of absence for two days, and had gone no one ! knew whither Here was a fix. I heard the putting of the j steamer in the Neufahrwasser, and the passcn- j gers would be cn hand in fifteen minutes, I ran j to the guards and asked them it they kuew where there was an engineer, but they did not. I thsn went to the fiivmou and asked tbeai if any one of them felt competent to run the on gine to Brum berg. g No one dared to attempt. The disfarfed was nearly one hundred miles. What was to be done ? The steamer stopped at the Wharf, and those who were going on by rail came .locking op to t the station. They hadcaien breakfast on board ; the boat, and were all ready tor a fresh start. ! The baggage was checked and registered, the j tickets bought, the different carriages assigned ! to the various classes of passengers, and (he ! passengers themselves seated. The train was i in readiness in. the long station-house, and the ! engine was steaming and puffing away impa- j tiently in the distant firing-house. It was past nine o'clock. "Come, wl.y don't we start?" growled an old j fat Swede, who had been watching me narrow- j ly for the Inst fifteen minutes. And upon this there was a general chorus of j anxious inquiry, which soon settled to downright murmuring. At this jun. tare some one touched j an? on the elbow. I turned and saw a stran- j gor by niv side. I expected that he was going to remonstrate with me for my backwardness, j In fact. I began to have strong temptations to j pull off iny uniform, for every anxious -eye was ; fixed upon the glaring badges which marked me ; as the chief officer of the train. However, this stranger was a middle-age! ; man, tall and stout., with a face of great ener- • <ry and intelligence. His -ye was black and brilliant—so brilliant that I could not for j, the life of me gaze steadily into it; and Li* lips i • which w ere very thin, seemed more like polish- I < ed marble than human flesh. His dress was ; black throughout, and not only set with exact j , nicetv. but was scrupulously clean and neat. j ■ "You want ar. engineer. I understand," lie | , said, in a low. cautious lone, at the same time : gazing quickly about him, as though he wanted ; no one to hear what he said- j i "I do," I replied. "My train is all ready, j and we have no engineer within twenty miles J of this place." • Well, sir. lam going to Bromberg; I must go, and I will run the engine for you !' "Ha!" I uttered, "arc you an engineer? "I am, air—one of the oldest in the country, i and am now on my way to make arrangements j : for a great improvement I have invented lot the application ot steam to a locomotive. My name is Martin Krollcr. If you wish. 1 wit! rue as far a Bromberg; and I will show you running that is running." Was 1 not fortunate? I determined to ac- ! cept the man's offer at once, and so I told him. , H recieved my answer with a nod and a | ciu.lo. I went with him to the house, where wo . found the iron-horse in tho charge of the fire men, and all ready for tlie start. Kroller got upon the platform, and I followed him. 1 had •never seen a man betray such peculiar aptness atnid the machinery as he did. He let on the steam ia au instant, but yet with care and judg ment, and he backed up to the baggage-carriage i with the most exact nicety. I had seen enough i to assure rna that he was thoroughly acquaint ed with the business, and I felt composed once • more, I gave my engine up to the new man, J and then hastened awav to the office. Word ; i was passed for all the passengers.to take their • < •eats and soon afterward I waved my hand to , the engineer. There was a puff—ft groaning os j i the heavy axle rees—a trembling of the build- j ing, and (foe train w,i. in motion. I leaped up- j; on the platform of the gorfrd-carriage, and in | ; a few niini.tc more the station-house waa far j ; behind us la than nn hour we reached Dirsham, i -*•*!: "■ we took up the passengers that hail come ; : on the Koiiigsberg railway. Here I went for- i vr.rd. and asked K.oller bow ho liked the en- j < gin". H replied that he liked it very much. i "But," he added, with n strange sparkling jj of the eye, "wait until I got my improvement, j ! and th.sn you will see travelling. By the soul i of the Virgin Mother, sir, I could run. an cn- < ginu of my corns ti uction to the moon in four ! i and twenty hours!" 4 I smiled at what I thought his enthusiasm, • and then went hack to my station. As soon i las the Konigsberg passengers were all on board, * < and their baggage-carriage attached, we start- ' ed on again. Boon after, 1 went into the guard- j i carriage, ami sat down. An early train from Konigsberg hud been through two hours before I reaching Broroborg, and that was at Little O— I tue, where we took on board tho western mail. "Ilow we go!" uttered one of the guardsmne I fifteen minutes after w bad left Dtrshnm "The new enginer is Irving the speed," I ; 1 replied, not yet having any fear. j I But ere long I began to apprehend he was : Punning a little too fast. The carriages began . i to sway to and fro, I could bear exclamations i of fright from the passengers. t "Good hsttreu*!** cried one of the guards \ - ® - VOLUME 60. NEW SERIES. coming in at that moment, "what is that fel low doing ?" Look, sir, and see how we are going." I looked at the window, and found that we were dashing along at a speed never before trav eled on that road. Hosts, fences, rocks and j trees flew by in an undistinguished mass, and the carriages now swayed fearfully. I started to my feet and rrtct a passenger on the platform. | He was one of the chief owners of our road, j and was just on his way to Berlin. He was ! pale and excited. j "Sir," he gasped, "is Martin Krollcr OR the I engine ?" ! "Yes," I told him. ' Holy Virgin! didn't you know him?" "Know ?" I repeated, somewhat puzzled, "What do you mean ? lie told me liia name was Ivroller, and that he was an engineer. We I bad no one to run on the engine, and— "You took him!" interrupted the man. "Good I heavens, sir, he is as crazy as a man can be ! j He turned his brain over a new plan for ap- I plying steam power. I saw him at the station, j but did not fully recognize him, as I was in a hurry. Just now one of your passengers told ine that your engineers were all gone this morn ing. and that you found one who was a stran ger to you. Then 1 knew the man whom I had seen was Martin Ivroller. He had escaped from the hospital at Stettin. You must get him off somehow. The whole fearful truth was now opened to ! me. The speed of the train was increasing j very moment, and d knew that a few more | miles per hour would launch us all into destrue ! tier. I called to the guard, and then made my | way forward as quick as possible, I reached | the after platform of the after tender, and there ! stood Ivroller upon the engine-board, his hat ' and coat off. hi- long black hair floating wild ily in the wind, Ins shirt unbuttoned at his i throat, his sleeves rolled up, with a pistol in • his teeth, and thus glaring upon the firemen, I who lay motionless upon the fuel. The fur ! naee was stuffed till the very latch of the door ! was red hot, and the whole engine was quiv ering and swaying as though it would shiver in pieces. "Kroller! Ivroller!" I cried at top of my' voice. The crazy engineer started and caught the pistol in his hand. Oh! how those great black eyes glared, and how ghastly and frightful the face looked. "Ila! ha! ha !" lie yelled demoniacally, gla ring upon me like a roused lion. "They swore that I could not make it!— Bat see! see! See my new power! See my uew engine! 1 made it, and they are jealous of mo ! I- made it and when it was done they stole it from me. But I have found it! For years I have been wandering in search of my groat engine, and they swore it was not made But I have found it! I knew it this morning when I saw it at Dantzic, and I was determin ed to have it. And I've got it! 1Io!ho ! ho ! we're on the way to tiie moon, I say! By the Virgin Mother, we'll be in the moon in four and-twenty hours. Down, down, villain 1 If you move, I'll shoot you." This was spoken to the fireman, who at that moment attempted to rise, and the frightened man sank back again. '•Here's Little O.wue just before us!" cried, oat one of !be guard. But even as he spoke the buildings were at hand. A sickening sen sation settled upon my heart, for I supposed that vve were now gone. The bouses Hew by like lightning. I knew if the officers here had turned the switch as usual, we should be hurled into eternity in one fearful crash. I saw a Hash—it was another engine. I closed my eyes; j but still we thundered on ! The officers had seen our speed, and knowing that we would not bead up in that distance, they bad changed the switch i so that we went forward. But there was sure death ahead, if we did ; not stop. Only fifteen miles from us was the j town of Schwartz, on the Vistula, and at the rate we were going we should be there in a few minutes, for each minute carried us over a mile. The shrieks of the passengers now rose above ; the crash of the rails, and more terrific than all else arose the demoniac yells of the mad engi-! ncer. "Merciful heavens!" gasped the guardsman, "there's not a moment to lose; Schwartz is j close by. But hold," he added, "let's shoot ■ him." At that moment a tall, stout German student came over the platform where we stood, and we saiv that the mao.uan had his heavy pistol aimed at us. lie grasped a huge stick of wood and with a steadiness of nerve which I could pot have commanded, he hurled it with such force and precision, that he knocked the pi- : from the maniac's hand. I saw the movement and on the instant that the pistol fell, f sprang forward, and the Geru- ' a followed me. I grasp ed the man by the arm, but d should have been ' nothing in his mad power had I been alone. Ho would have hurled ;ne from the platform, had not the srudont at that moment struck him upon the head with a stick of wood which he j caught as he came over the tender. Kroller settled dowu HKC a dead man, and I ou the next instant I Bbut off the steam and opened the valve. As tiie freed steam 6hriektd am! howled ia its escape, (bo speed began to de crease, and in a few miuutcs more the danger was past. As I settled back, entirely overcome at the wild emotions that had raged within me. we began to turn ike river, and before I was fairly recovered, the fireman bad stepped the train in the station house at Schwartz. Martin Kroller, still insensible, was taken from the, platform; and, as we carried hint to ihe guard room, one of the guard recognized him, and told us that be bad been there about two weeks before. "He came," said the guard, "and swore that an cngiue which stood near by was his. lie said it wa one be had made to go to the moon in, and that it bad been stolen fromhiui. We sent for more help to arrest him, and he flc-d'.'* BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1864. , . - i "Well," I replied with a shudder, "I wish e he had approached me hi the same way; but j he was more caatious at Dantzic." At Schwartz we found an engineer to run the - engine to Bromberg; and having taken out the 1 western mail for the next northern train to car -1 ry along, we saw that Ivroller would be prop ! c rly attended to, and ihcn started on. The rest of the trip we ran in safety, though , I could see that the passengers were uot wholly i at ease, and would not be until they were cn | tirely clear of the railway. A heavy ptir.jr 5 was made up by (hem for the German student, and he accepted it with much gratitude, and I j was glad of it; for the current of gratitude to him may have prevented a far different current, , which might have poured upon my head, for i having engaged a madman to run a railroad ; train. But this is hot the end. Martin Ivroller re- I inaincd in-<-nsihlc from the effects of that blow up. m the head nearly two weeks, and when he recovered from that, he was sound again; his insanity was all gone. I saw him about three weeks afterward, but he had no recollection of 1 me. He remcmliered nothing of the past year,' not even his treak on my engine. But I remembered it, and i remember it still; ! ! and the people need never fear that I shall be j imposed on again by a era:)/ engineer. i ii : o -trm* a— —- from the Washington Pa Examiner. OUR GULLIBLE PEOPLE. If there is any one characteristic that distin- ! guishes ihe Northern people more than any olh- • er, at the present time, it is their gullibility.— Experience is a school—it is said to be a "dear," one, but, nevertheless, it is a school; au 1 we are constrained to say, that our people seem to ; show but little proficiency in the learning it! teaches. Four years ago they commenced to j study the strength and,resources of the South, j They regarded the subji ct as one so easily nias- ! tered a- to scarcely claim their attention. They ; ' sa'd Southern people, reared in case and, luxury, could not fight : that rebellion was a i tender plant of forced, hot-bed growth, and a j ' little exposure to the rigid atmosphere of war ! would soon chili ani wither it; and that a ' blockade of the ports which supplied its Susie- ' nance would soon starve it out. Their groundless theory was put into prac-j tire, only to find out that re belli >n was a i ;;nk , weed, whir a root deeply planted. Levy after levy was made upon the physical force and • wealth ol the North, juntil over two rnil!i<>-- ■ i( j men and four billions of treasure have been j thrown tipua it, in the vain effort to smother j it. Part of the territory which affords it sup- I plies 'r.as boon permanently* fin 1 part, temporarl- 1 iy, possessed; but all this time its roots have j grown deeper and become more firmly fixed. In t r > beginning \%e were appealed to throw ' ii.idc party, "until the rebellion was put down;" • : and the appeal was off'e dive. Democrats con tributed giants' energies .n support of a war in tho intercut of-the Abolition party; and they have been rewarded with insuit and obloquy.— Now, when Abolitionism has again been in stalled in power, through the firms of election, j us advocates have the brazen faced impudence j to again appeal to their political opponents to j throw aside, party, an I roi imence.. with renew ed energy, in the prosecution of tho srune par- ! tizan war. They have voted a bur lon upon , their shoulders, and ihen turn round and ask j Democrats to assist tUem in carrying it same men who. two or three weeks ago, de- j nouiiced us us worthy only of a traitor's death, : now* when Ihe sound of their vehement denim-! ciation has scarcely died away, turn upon us j with u complacent smile, and ask assistance j from lis I Fellow Democrats, tltey hate you in ! ' their hearts, and are only restrained from cxer- \ j cisiug the most arrogant tyranny over you, tie - j i cause thuy want to make tools out of you. — j | You may join them again in a war professedly j against rebellion, and if you live to vote against i them at another important election, you will' again find yourself denounced as a traitor ; and j that will be your only reward fur perilling your | life in the service of Abolitionism. Yet, in ihe face of all the dismal experience | ; of tiie last four yearn, some Btupid-rniuded dun-; ces, claiming the name of Democrats, are urg-; ing the people to throw aside their Democracy, I ! and re-enact the farce of uniting with tfie Ah-! i oiitionists in a professed war against rebellion, j i This they call "magnanimity !" It may be i "magnanimous" to kiss the hand that beats vou ° . . j —to eagerly s< rve tho miscreants who villity ; and despise you; but we prefer to call it ig-j dominions aud bass. It is asserted with the utmost confident, that j ail that- is now required, "after the great victory ; at thf ballot'boxf is to present a "united front," ' and down will go the rebellion. Great God ! ; is there a Democrat, intellectually responsible, i ! who is willing to rc-swaliow the deadly dose , ' that strangled us in '6l ? Is he willing to be- j lievo the old story which precedes every cam- j paign, that "the rebellion is on its last legs?'' : Will our people never learn anything by ex per ' iencc t or are they determined to suffer thosn ! Bclves to be gulled and duped, year after year, ! uutilall is lost. It has always been supposed that the history of the put was full of instruc tion in determining our present and future ac : tion. Will not our people take a lesson, then, from the history and experience of the last four ; sorrowful years ? What are some of our lessons, sadly learned ? and upon what does any man base the hope of ' a speedy reduction of the rebellion * A few days ago, Sheridan was '-whipping them out" of the Shenandoah Valley; but he ift now north of 1 Winchester, and the charred and desolated Val ley abandoned to the rebels. Sherman has a niyi frious movecoe. t on foot, from which great resu'it3 are confidently anticipated: it is said to puzzle the rebels wonderfully, but we have not forgotten that the same great General (and we believe hitn to be one of the most competent in the service) made just euoh a mysterious move- Freedom of Thought and Opinion. : i meat across the State of Mississippi to Meridian, I and the only "great result" ever mentioned as j flowing from it, was the capture of 4,000 con i trabandsf. Grant i about to overwhelm Idich i! inond, as soon a? powerful reinforcements join him ; but lie intended to do the wirne thing last spring, ami every body knows, without the aid ; u! the TJeruid's big map, '-how Grant is taking j Richmond." j Now, we ask, what ground has any man to ' say that the campaigns now in progress will not I result just-us those which have been concluded? j Do you say that the fighting element of the South is expended, and the "cradle and grave 1 have been robbed" t > keep up the numbers in their armies ? If yon believe so, you have lieeri I grossly misled. The truth is, that mismanage ment lias compelled the North to put over two millions of men into th 6 field, while the Sooth has only put in a little over eight hundred thou sand. The South has nearly a million of able bodied white men, yet, out of the army. If ne j cmanj, they have determined to arm their slaves an ! reward them with freedom for their services. Wo have no confi lenca in Negro troops in an offensive war, but they can be made serviceable | behind trenches. Besides this, thousands of I young men from the border slave States, who ■ looked upon the late election as the Last hope of j liberty in Ike Union, will join the Southern army, j The abolition of slavery by the South will re i move tiie obstacle to their recognition by Eng- Iland and Fiance. This, fellow citizens, is tke other aide of the picture. When we add to thes- fuels, that Western ! Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas (except a few fortified posts) have been given lip again to the enemy ; and that I Jeff ]>avi= E tates that they can endure the loss ; of every Southern city as "easily as they with* | stood the fall of Atlanta) —when all these facts ; are grouped together, we say, we cannot sec i j where any sane man can base a hope of the | speedy "crushing of the rebellion." Downright ; lying, and great newspaper headings of "bril ' bant victories," will never conquer the South. Let the people improve the sad lesson of the ! past four rears. Correspomteoce of tire X. Y. Kvening dost. How wo are Restoring the Union. Martins,uc tin, Ya.. Out. *2O j A visit to this town since Sheridan begaa his operations in the Shenandoah Valley is pecul:- ; arly interesting. Tno place is now held as a j military post bv our forces, and its population , is largeh." iucvcas-d by the arrival of refugees | from all parts of iuc v<iii> . y?iigiumiyu con- j tamed between tluoe anu four thousand iuhabi j tants. Yesterday forenoon after obtaining quar ; tars through the assistance of som militarv i friends J sullied out for a loo!- at tfa.< town, i 7 j A tTCri HKSQtJK fCKSE. j Duikucsa was near at hand, and tho sight . was pictures jue i i the extreme. Over a >.):. *e of fifty acres or more, were spread in unique clusters, hundreds of families in the valley of; the Shenandoah. The government had furnish ed them with the soft, bituminous Cumberland co.il, which abounds in this region, and each ! | ii'.tle family had lighted a pile which burned 1 bright hut smoky, like a blacksmith's tire; and ; around it were grouped th few articles ot house hold gear, which, like the children of Israel, ! they had carried with them from out of Egypt. ' They were scattered over chests, ia the ice of bureaus, or behind barricades or tables, covered with old quilts or tattered blankets, with noth ing bat the angry sky above their heads, and the bleak cold winds whistling around Jliem ; j the women with children of tender years, of- • ten with babes at their breast; the young girls ! and boys, and feeble old men —fo; there were . no young or .-file men in their groups—crowd ed over the fitful blaze of these tires. One womr.ii nursed a little bubo carefully wrapped in an old shawl, and her daughter at ' hc-r side held another just about as small, i asked her—for they were not displeased at que--; triiis, and I waited for na introduction—"it the bales were twinsV' "Yes," said she, "nine | weeks old," and she screened the wind from the face of her child with her shoulder; "we had ' to leave; seventy families all came away at a time. Me and ray children came with them." "How many children have you ?" said I. "Four children, sir; my eldest girl is twelve." "Where are you going "We don't know, sir." > The country was lighted up with tires, and the smoke and dampness reflected the ligiit till ; it seemed that a vast city was spread around I strolled from group to group. Sheltered by some old boards piled agsir.st the ruins of a brick wall, I stumbled on the first case of •'miscegenation" I ever saw. Facing < the fire stood a black Congo man of herculean proportions, dangling in his arms a beautiful blue-eyed g:ri, with curling auburn ringlctft. ! The delicate spirituello look of the child—which i was about two years old—attracted m.C attcn- , tion. 1 presume it had been his master's and asked Liia whom it belonged to? "Col. Grey was my master, sir; belonged lode rebel aruty, he did, . j sir." "Wall," said I, "how came you to bring away this child ! "Dis L my child, tnassa — my i own child, sir. Dere'ft my wife and my other! children, sir," and ure enough there at his side j j sat a woman perfectly while. I presume she i was of the "poor whtto" class. She was nurs- , i ing little mulatto babe, and two other chil- j drcn of various shades were playing with the j fire; and this completed the family. a woman's story. Farther on was seated on an oldcheat anotli- j er woman, a Niobe in her distress. "You look J very sad, ruaaru," said I. "Ye, and I feel so, ' too, sir," replied sho. "But I've got through ' crying long B{,o. air; I've uo more tears to shed." j "Do you com from the Valby ?" "Yes, wo are ; all from the Valley." "How iar ?" "Nigh fifty ; uiilea I reckon we cauio. Why, we were rich," ! continued sie; "we had a aicc farm, a good j bouse und barns, and. let ma tell you what we ! bad. We lud nine bead of youug cattle, we WHOLE XEHBER, SOS7 , ! had sour caws, and we had four old horses a., j i six colts. 'Then there were thirty-and-si x. fatted Logs - and six pigs. Then I had in the house :vo tmr i' rels of apple butter, three hundred pounds o. t honey, three crocks of butter, and I had silk in I the house for two new dresses—to any nothing ' of uty drawers being full of she ds uiu pilliv i cases and all kinds of house linen and A feather 1 bed on every bedstead. Well, sir, I was n Unioi. woman, I was, I gave ray honey ami my apple butter, and all tny things to poor L'-n when they caine up here scouting, and ft -.vcr be grudged it. When the order amt ii,. your ; uien to clear t'le valley, they came while I was over to a neighbor's; I saw the light in nr di rection, and, 011 dear! I knew what was going on ; I kne wmy barn was going. I ran all the way, and 1 can: * on one uian with a >ol of hot ter : and another with a pot of honey, and all my things. I knew whose they were, and when I got there they had gutted my house. 1 just had time to get a few things togeihe •—rheroY all that's lt-ft, 6ir," pointing with an ::ir of un- J alterable despondency to a little pile o' efierf' | at her feet. Said I, "have you nothing left but those?" "Only thirty dollars in money b sides." said she. "We sold a colt to one of your men— he was a kind man, too —for thirty dollars.— i We had considerable of Confederate mo i>*-j but that was not good." "Well, where do yon intend to go?" I asked. { "Me and the children hope to i> to Ohio, said she; "but we don't know as vo eh a!!. W ? don't know what to Jo " With a sad heart I picked my way <1 among the gip.-ey-like bivouacs on every - ".do, ;-ml dark ness was so near at hand, that to proven-: lest, I made tny way home as fust as possible, j HIS 1-OSSK3 ?T' ROCKJSGIIAM GOCNTT UY H£6- I IDAN'S RECENT ADVAS Kiom the Richmond Whig, Nov. It. A committee of seventy-two, consisti T of j thirty-six citizens and the same number o aa- j . gistrates, appointed by the county court of 11. *k , inghani for the purpose of making an estimate of the losses of the county by the execution of Sheridan's infamous order, have made, after a laborious investigation of the subject, the fol lowing report: j Dwelling houses burned, thirty; barns burr ed, four hundred an-i fifty; wills burned, thir ty-one ; fences destroyed, one hundred miles. bushels of wheat destroyed, one hundred tliou ! san.l; bushels of corn destroyed, fifty thousand; i tuns of liay destroyed, six thousand Iwo huo-. , >iicU and ititi tr-ibice , catth earrieJ oif, one j thousand seven hundred and fifty ; horses car- 1 ried ofT, one thousand seven hundred and fifty. I ' sheep carried off, four thousand two hundred . | hogs carried off. eight thou>a;-. .l eight hundred ! • and fifty; factories burned, three; furnace bum-i ed, one. In addition to which, the says, ■ il.ere was an immense amount of farming uten sils of every description destroyer!, man. of ti cm of great value, such us MeCormick's reap- : civ, and threshing machines. Also, household and kitchen furniture, money, bonds, plate, &e The whole loss being estimated ut the enormous ■ sum of $25,000,000. The Late Popular Vote. The following is a pretty close approxima-1 ticn to the popular vote cast at !*: into Pres- ■ i dentin! election throughout the United St'' s: i Lincoln and Johnson 1,950,0n0 ! McClellan and Pendleton 1,700.090! Majority for Lincoln 250,0> • The President lias hardly five per cent ■ i jority on the total vote Pur every hundred j votes for Lincoln in loyal State- there have beer j cast ninctv-five for his Democratic coiupe'cj a large part of this oxeass was given in Now j England. In the Central, Western and bar- 1 der States McClellan bis s.ma ni- aty-eig:*t ! votes to Lincoln's one Iv.in ! od, despite all the! great advantages possessed by the latter, and which were powerfullv and unscrupulously j used. ' " j e-3-D-iring last Winter a 'contraband' cam : in- j to tiie Federal lines in North Carolina, and v is 1 marched up to the officer of the day to give mi j account of himself, whereupon the colloquy j ensued: "What's your name!" "My name's Sam." "Sam what ?" "No. Sal:; not Sam Watt. Isc jist Sam "! "What's your other name ?" "I hasn't got no oder name, gah, I'SJ Sam— ! dat'a all." "What's your master's name ?" "I'sa got no massa now : rc • sa runned awav, yah! yah ! I'se a free nigger now," "Well, what's your father's and mother's name!" j "IV got none. Sab ; neber had none. I'se < jist Sam aint nobody else." "Haven't you any brothers arid sisters?" j "No, Sah; nehcr had none. No brudder, J no sister, no fadder, no mudder, no ranssn, ' notliin' but Sam. When you soc Sam you 3eo ■ all dere is of us." j. HOW A CASE Of DCPTHKUIA. WAS TREATED. ; We heard several days ago of a very successful j treatment of a caso of diptheria in this city. The patient was an infant, two vears of ng n , and, after administering all the medicines used i in such eases, there were no prospects of ar resting the disease, which finally attacked the } windpipe, and the little sufferer was expected : almost instantly tp ba choked to death. The 1 attending physician saw bat one remedy, and ■ adopted it. He applied a knife to the child's ; windpipe, and inserted a tube wbicL relieved! the breathing immediately, and in a few days the cbiH was well, the tuba removed, and th • incision from the knife healed up. IT ere was a case in which surgery had decidedly the advan- • tage. — NarhvilU Prtet. Bat/ts of One S<] >jre, three weeks or !e*. . . .. . .$1 S3 One Bqe*reyefc additional j-nertior le* *ha;. twefe mantbt ............ M 3 MO'THS. 0 MONTHS- 1 TK-iX : •''V'" • . .• • 59 l 75 $8 CO fwo .q-J'sre* ....... 500 700 JO or, i hrie squares ... _ ( fi fi!> 9 0 0 15 00 4 Column IS 00 20 00 35 CO Oi.e Column io oq 35 00 65 00 Administrators'znil Executory t , oti< . < . 9s o.s oi Au ditors' notiets $1.50, it cmfer to lines. $2 80 if more than a square cm! iess than 20 lines." >; #tra , d $1.23. if b:t one head is advertised, 2s cei,t„ ( ox every additional head. The space occupied by ten lines of this sirens type cout.tsoue square. All fractions of'a square under Jive lineswill t ; tirades a half rc are aud alj oyer, five lines as a In.. square . A!! iegat dverrisementa will be charged to the person hand ing them hi. VOL. 8, NO. 19 <s>- ie crow is a brave bird ; La never show* ! | the white feather. " i s7* Hess grow fat on green tomatoes lioiled * ! and mixed with corn meai. 1 : gfce'Eiihu Hurrilt figures up 10,0d0 torus of i steel annually made into crinoline. • 1 ; . " i ear A woman committed suicide in Carthage, ! 111-, because her husband voted the Kepuolitau ' ticket. i ter \n T?if*. lover remarked that It i . crest 1 plea sine to be esperi .lly when your "Sivateht;-. i is tv'-i y- . ' CSrWhst can you get by had company * If 011 are trnb yend, they vriH cither taunt yoa . or despise you. <?yAn escaped telegraph operator from Rich mond says Lee has been largely rei;forced within •. short time by tl:e rebel conscription. ®rTl-e L. uisvilie Jour -il says that ii is probably untrue that Lincoln draws his pay j in gold, because he would be overpaid if he I(HJ1 (HJ _______ ! S3~Eighteen "clergymen" were elected to the j Lr-yi laUivcat ti.e late election in Ve taont What great .in ' r- Vermont committed that it is to be so gr von !y aiiiictrd? ®3r V' officer being much intoxicated, an old soldi observed that .e was otrail there was something wrong ■! hei'quarteris. (HpA ni -nut west, who owns a large I farm, .-c ys lc acts op v 1 the Lay h" can out : of doc s, and the remainder he puts ia the j rv'Yi . .\:ua floggi-'g-—that's v ros i want," ss id a puio. * tcb : ssur. "1 h. .. a; | hat 1 ii try to •' along without it," replied tbo little rascal. © An old widower says: Always pop the quesiivit '.viili laugh ; if you are accepted j v "II an i go >d. if not, you can say yoa were on i; "-'king. Here's wickedness. Sir Look out to? your commas. The Chief Cone-able of a Cuaudiau villa/ ••Ttifind that he ha i .v. --J a man ''for attempting to oa&r* ry his wile, being alive." i tar'' J sa' J.jhii, where J'd you get that i .oat* rhat 1 > your iiuoor," sai I John, i "it"; an oiu 0 ie of yours that misses gave me | yesterday morning, when you were to town " 1 Ss?" The Grand Rapid" Knjlr mm says he i wu-.l ui't uiirtd tin- high t ices >t" wood half so ■ innc!,. if .i the. nsigh-f as hadu't taken to lue | disgusting habit, ot locki.g thei wood house . door? at night. tif 'Il is no shame to belong to the. minority; Noah and his family were in the minority, while [ -he vast majority went to destruction, pretty | mu:h as they are going now. *fv~ln Ohio, this j ca'* they made over >,000,- j 000, pounds of maple s.ignr. Pork and 'laasea ; uro the staples of that state. tKr-Th.- qt •stiou whs recently propose,t to a "do.- u east"editor, 'Are hoopskirts dangerous?' Ha immediately answered that trey are always very dangerous .hen they have anything iu them I 53TA .rife in Sn Francisco lately put a pe titio'' for divorce in t!u Court 00 the sjround tliM ee husband was . "coufounded Too!." Ihe ourt wouldn't admit thn plou. because al mo?t every married man wi old be h :bio to the sar. c imputation Did you ever* CRT'The following epitaph, found on a tomb stone, in Oxlord, Ncvr liatnpsliire, tnn not bo superlatively ludicrous, but it certainly i. some: "To ail my fric.ads I bid ad;eu, A mar sudden death vou never kucw. As I was leading the oid c:ire to drink, -Si :■ l.ici. .! and killed me quiciter'n a wink.' 4 V Clergyman in Tennessee on n Sabbath recently, gave cut the first line of the hyica : '-L id ; J. a repentant rebel lire," when up, sprang :i Shoddy official, exclaiming. "Not un less ho taxe- in oath to voto for Linoolu.' 1 CO?' A Gentleman not long since, in one of his rides in Southern Illinois, sought to make himself interesting to a good looking mother of a SVC-1 baby, occupying the next seat iu the car. After duly prai-iu ; the baby ho remarked to the mother 'ile i? a real sucker, I suppose.' "No. f ; r,"' said the ladr blushing, "wo had to r- bun cn the bottle." The gentleman re* suneil iii? reading, and has not bragged on any Strang, : baby >i.cc. tOTA nan, sajvposed to be insane, paid in Cleveland, o!i'>, the other day, a .'tracgely mofleled piece of white metal and departed.— The r:nn who receiver! it gives this description of it: "0:i ono side, a woman siiiiug ou a wheel holding iu ouc band a stick, ou the top of which is a night cap. The other side has a large chick en on it. Antiquarians who have examined the piece ray it is the aneterd quarter dollar which passed f r currency in aa earlier period of the op up try. ¥ tST'.V"': :p. preachers s'lCfted, wrh rubrical Sutidav evering harangues, in driving * sinners'* from tho eanciiiary. it shows that it .is about ti:uo that that "preacher" should take to bis ie pii:.a:t'e employ:, cot. 0.1 the stutap, and give the Chr.Ytian people an opportunity to sec ire a go."pel minis'ei who iviti attend to ihc saving of soule instead .f hiying op timsures for uiotbs ! and rust to corrupt.
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