■fll ,< 'fpn . 'lit i '*■ , VOL. 52. r-TTrAtitXi* ■:piEiUCAN _VOLUNTEER. i'UiJLTSHED EVEnr THUnSHAT MOUSING fIT 0 JOHN B. BRATTON. TERMS; ‘ teiuDScniPTio*.—Two Dollars if paid within the and Two Dollars and Fifty. Cents, if not paid twifilhin the year. These terms will be rigidly nd- to in every instance. No subscription dis .soobtinued until all arrearages are* paid unless at -XtS© option of the Editor. ■^^visktjsbmbnts—Accompanied by thocAsn, and exceeding one square, will bo inserted throe itlmoH for $2.00, and twenty-five cents for each , ’ 1 •Wtfttional insertion. Those of a greater length in 'proportion. Job-Frintimg—Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills ; '.-Pamphlets, Dlanks, Labels, »te. Ac., executed with fcooaraoy and at the shortest notice. • WJI. B. BUTLGIt, •ATTORNEY AT LJIIV, tip CARLISLE, PA. ..Office with Wa. J. Suearer, Esq ;fi9'6ept. 11, 1866—1 y JJSO. C. GRAHAM, a ~.v ATTOII N EY AT LAW, - • • - formerly occupied by Judge Grsibam, Hanover street, Carlisle. [sept. 7, '6u-iy v.W VV. F. SADLER, *' A TTORNE YAT LA IF, CARLISLE, Pa. » - ’ .'Ofßoo in Volunteer Building South IXaaovor ffcroot. 'Bopt. 7, 1861—ly. :|g|, J. JM. WfiAKLfiY, TTOitNB V AT LAW,, ..JpYT?FI 'jrtI , FICE on South' Ha'n'over street, oppo !.Bontz’s st°rc. [ arrangement with the Patent Ofll'co, to securing Patent flights'. i, 22,- 180-1-iy B. SiIAVLEir, i . ATTORN EY AT LAW. - CARLISLE, PA. 1 v to securing, and collecting Pay, Pensions, Bouutiea, ,tc. Offlco on South Hanover street opposite , ( s ß>ntP» store., , Feb.'l3, 1862. CEO. S. SEAKIGIIT, j, the Baltimore College of- Dental Surgery i Office at the residence of bis 'mother,'East Louth i doors below Bedford.' r.v . Carlisle, Dec. 22,18fi2. • t* | Ml. * .C. LOOIUSS, DEAF ■ from South Hanover street to West •v'HPdiSfirßt street, opposite the Female High' School, [April 28, 180-i. AND LUMBER YARD. subscriber having leased the Yard ;■ ;*ysrmerly occupied by Armstrong & Hoffor, : . * the stock of ,\\p ;^ : OAL AND LUMBER, ' together with an immense new stock, constantly on band and furnish to order »BU:&indB and'quality of seasoned XHMBER, BOAUDS,' v - ' IV ’ £ SCANTLING, i 1..'. , FRAME STUFF, v Fal!ng, Plai,tcrl n !', Lath, Shingling Lath, worked , I‘Flooring 1 ‘ Flooring and Woatherboarding, Posts and Rails, , and every article that holongsto a Lumber Yard, i, ' All kinds of Shingles, to wit : Whitepine, lloui f. [> look: qnd Oak, of different qualities. Having cars' j ? qf jny own I can furnish billa to order of any I ' longiheand size at the shortest notice and' on ibe reasonable terms. My worked boards will bo nkept under cover so they can bo furnished dry at times. constantly on hand all kinds of FAMl under cover, w,hich I will deliver clean t* of borough, lowit: Lykona Vnl- II i en ’ S co, ° a °d Nut, Luke Fiddler, ! - n * locust Mountain, Lobbory, which I / ' to sell at tho‘ lowest prices. . ] of ; • H 1 Blacksmiths' Coal , i iand r will gcll n( . th{J lowos t fi s . west side of Grammar. School, Muin E.—l still retain the same posiHon ofDELANCY & BLAIR, which will bo i as energetically as o/ei .it their cld r the Gas house. As our purchases will together at the head of the market, wo jnt by so doing to be able to eocommo- Histomcrs and the public on the most terms. Having relinquished, the ton -1 doovto my entire attention to the Coni jor business. Air kinds of Coal mid jpt co jstantly on hand and in the best The Lumber Yard will bo managed by iuloff, whoso experience and skill is well the community. By strict attention to ihort profits, and a desire to do right wo 3uro a liberal share of public patronage. ANDREW 11. BLAIR. 1866-tf S, PLOW'S.- ■'.t Manufacture! Plows, Vg U York Metal Plows, Bloomfield do , '* Eagle do 8 Cultivators, Ac., Ac., l P Hardware Store of T „„„ n. saxton, i, January, 1864. ANDREW 11. BLAIR, -Just received and fo rs pricbs, a largo assort " poetical. “S 0 M E DAY.” [“ Somo day” is the burden of many a song that’s never done into rythm. Florence Percy has thus given one of them :] You smooth the tangles from my hair With gentle tone 1 ! and tenderest care, And count the years ere you shall mark, Bright silver threads among the dark— Smiling the while to hear me say - - 1 You’ll think of this again some day,” - Some day 1 I do not snore the power of Time, Nor count on years of fadeless prime, • But no white gleams will ever shine Among these heavy looks of mine ; Ay, laugh as gaily as you moy, You’ll think of this again, some day, Some day 1 Some day I I shall not feel as now, Your soft hands move about my brow— I shall not slight your light commands, And draw the long braids thro* my hands I shall be silent and obey— And you—you will not laugh that day Some day I I know how long your loving hands "Will finger with these glossy bands, When you shall weave my last crown Of these thick braidings, long and brown But you will see no touch of gray Aduwn their shining length that day— Some day I And while your tears are falling hot Upon the lips which answer not, You'll take from those one treasured tress. And leave the rest to silcntness— Remembering that I used to say, ” You’ll think of this again', some day Some day I Rlimllnneous. THE BURGLARS CAUGHT. A Hnslimnn ns a Thief Taber. Wo lived in a terrace at the time in which nur tulo is laid, in what we may term a sub district of London, for we were within five miles of Charing Crfiss, and the dark month of December was upon us. Robberies had been qnitc frequent in the neighborhood, and no less than three houses out of the ten in the terrace had been entered by burglars and robbed, and yet no discovery of the thieves, had taken place. So had the work of entry been accomplished, that, in no case, iiad the inmates been alarmed; and it was not until the servants' descended in the morn ing that the discovery of a robbery was made. In two of these cases an entry had been ef fected through a pantry window, by remnv-- jng a pane of glass, and cutting a sriiaH hole in the shutter. This wjndow was on the "grounil floTr, and coliTc] easily*~bo reached, • therefore, from outside. In the third rob bery, an upper window was entered by means of a knife, which forced back the fastening, and, of course,"allowed the sash to be raised. So rapi ily had the robberies occurred that the whole neighborhood was alarmed. The police shook their heads and looked knowing ly, but did nothing/and what was much to be lamented, failed to find any clue to the robbers, who, they at the time asserted, were evidently not regular cracksmen. Affairs had reached such a stage, that we us6d to sleep with a revolver close to our heads, when we happened to have a friend who caiUe to stay with us a few days. Tina* friend was an old jungle-hunter, and was an jait at eveiy artifice by which the animal creation might be captured. He was delight ed with the idea df having an adVenture with burglars, acd scorned' the belief that-they were more than a match in cunning for even the.averago bush hunter. It-was in vain that wo assured him it was an axiom that an ac complished robber could effeefan entrance into any house; *and instruments wore used of such a nature as to cut boles in doors without noise, and, in facti" that through roofs and skylights, down fchirimeys and .up water spouts, an accomplished burglar' could easily enter the beet defended house in the kingdom. Our friend’s argument was that a burglar was a man on watch, who took advantage of the residents.being asleep and unsuspecting ; ■“ but,” said ho, lot my suspicions be raised, and I will defy any burglar to enter my house without my having dub warning; be cause, although I may be asleep, still I hear his approach, and can then rtiakemy arrange* ments to welcome him.” Although wo were not desirous of having our house-robbed, yet we wished much that our friend’s confidence should be taken out of him. A few days after this conversation the po lice informed us that several suspicious char acters had been seen about; and recommend ed us to be on the alert. Here, then, was a good opportunity to test my friend’s skill and wakefulness ; so having informed him of the policeman’s warning I asked him if he felt, confident to undertake the defense of the house. “ Certainly,” he replied ; “ I only demand a dark lantern, and stipulate that you. have tl pair of goJoshegT beside yo'up bed. I also must go to bad last, and no servant is to go down stairs before me in the morning; nor is any one to walk about during the night; then I will defy the burglars.” Thus it was agreed that my friend was to act the part of guardian; and was to com-, mence his charge on the ensuing night. , Three nights had passed and no alarms had occurred, and no robberies takf.n place, we began to think our alarms had bpen. ground less; but our friend said that now was the time he most guarded, for that no wise burglar would rob them when ho was expec* ted ; besides, he said, that wo have not had a windy night yet; it is when doorsaud win dows rumbled that robberies are best effect ed, thus, lie said, he did not give up hopes of yet having something to say to; the robbers before his visit terminated. I usually sleep very lightly, and therefore awoke readily on hearing a tap at my bed room door. during the fourth' night of our watch.' It was my friend's’ Voice that an swered mo, and we were requested to come out at once. “ As soon as I strike a lucifer match,” I replied. *■ Nonsense, man; a light will spoil tho whole thing. Come,in the dark; .slip on ;a dressing gown; and your goloshes and come at once^” I was soon provided ns -ho- wished, and ready to descend the stairs in the dark. “ Now remember,” said friend, 11 there "OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT.RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” are seven steps to tjie first landing, twelve others afterwards, so be careful to descend without noise.” , The night was boisterous, and many a win dow and door shook and rattled, so that the slight noise we made in descending the stairs was not sufficient to have alarmed even the most keen-eared listener. We descended th the ground floor, entered the pantry,, and then standing perfectly still, devoted our selves to listening. In a very fow seconds wo heard a’ grating noise on the shutter, then an interval of qui et, and again a noise ; presently the window was lightly raised and again all was quiet.— The noise of a heavy vehicle passing the house seemed to afford.an opportunity for a more decided effort, for while the rattle uf I ho wheels was loudest, a crack sounded from the shutter, and we could hear that the holt was forced, (or the shutter was gently moved. - “ Don't stir till I do, and hold your breath if possible,’* whispered my. friend in my ear. 1 found the latter a difficult request to com ply with, for my heart was beating with ra pidity, and thumping against my ribs in the most excited way ; stilhl—etoed quiet and trusted to my friend. Nothing could bo more cautious than the proceedings of the robbers. The shutter was pushed back in the most slow and steady manner. Had there been even h bell fasten ed to it, I doubt whether it would have been made to ring. At intervals there was a rest from work, evidently for the purpose of lis tening, and then one of the robbers placed his leg across the window sill, and lightly descended into the pantrv. The night, even out of doors, was very dark and in the corner where wo stood it was as Erebus. Our forms, therefore, were quite undistinguishable, and the only chance of discovering us was by touching or bearing ns. The first burglar was soon followed by a sccon 1, while wo could hear that a third, who was outside, was to lenmin there on watch. “ Now, let’s light up,” said number two. “ Not yet, till you push the shutter to,” re plied the othpr, “or the glim’ll he seen.— Then 5011 come and hold the box.” The.-'shuttcr was quietly pushed to and both robbers moved auvay a few paces from the window by which they entered. By the quiet way in which they walked, it was evi dent they were either without shoes, or had india rubber coverings. Of their size and weapons we could see nothing, and I began to doubt whether our position was an agree able one, as I was armed only with a sword ; a weapon, however, I know how to use, while ol my friend’s means of defence I knew no thing. 1 had not long to wait, for a .lucifer was struck by one of the men immediately, and the room consequently lighted up; at the same instant my friend drew up the side of his dark lantern and flashed the light in the faces of the two men, at the same time show ing the muzzle of a revolver pointed toward them. ‘ If either of you move I’ll put a couple of bullets in him,’ said my friend, as he placed his buck against the window by which Iho ‘men had entered. ‘ Now, drop that crow-bar,’ ho continued in a voice of nuthorit' you,’ he said to me, ‘ pull open the shutter and shout for the police.’ The idea usually entertained of a burg lar is that he is a man of great size, strength and daring, and that he would, in an encoun ter, annihilate any moderate man. When, then, the light revealed the faces and the forms, of the then wo had captured, our hum ble self, although no great pugilist, yet felt able to defeat either of them if it came fb a matter of flats ; and I must own that the paio and astonished faces of the men wore not in dicative of any very great courage. Our shout for police was shortly answered ; and the burglars, having been subdued by the sight of the revolver, the muzzle of which pointed first at one and then at the other, were captured by the police, three of whom were speedily on the spot, and conveyed to the lock-up, whilst wo and a detective who had been brought down from London some days previously, examined the details by which the burglars had effected dn "entrance. ‘ You were very, lucky to hear them, espe cially on such a night,’ said the detective; I when onc6 they’re in, they move like mice. Wo know, them, and I expect they’ll get sev en years.’ Thb man was about correct, for one. the older offender, was sentenced to six, the oth er to five years’ penal servitude. * It will, I suppose, be of no use trying to ele'ep again to night, for it’s three o’clock,’ said my friend. ' • * I cannot sleep/ was my reply, ‘and lam dying to hear how you found out . that these men were approaching the house/ Being then of one mind, we partly robed ourselves, lighted a fire iu the kitcherT, and soon, being provided with segars and grog, got very coihfortable, and satisfied with our work. My friend then began his account, which he gave much in the following words : * The burglar, as I told you, has usually the advantage of surprise ; he can select the 1 time at-which bo makes his attack, and if his proceedings are carried on cautiously, he enters a house before he is heard. Few men would, however, venture to do so, unless they previously had good information ns to the in terior arrangements of the house ; this they obtain cither, from the ' servants, tradesmen, or some one who visits the locality, or they come themselves as tramps, or with some tri fle to sell. Thus if there are bells attached to the doors or windows, they find it out; and they know tolerably well the domestic arrangements of the locality, they propose trying their skill upon. There are, too, con ventional methods of protecting a house, such as bolts, bars, chains, locks, &c., all of which require merely time and proper instruments overcome. It therefore occurred to me that novelty and simplicity combined would be more than a match for the coarse Intellect of the burglar, and thus I made my plans, which, you see, answered very well/ ‘No doubt about that/ wo replied. ‘Well now, come up to my room/ he con tinued, ‘and seo the nparntue/ We entered his room, and there, close be side his pillow was a tin box, in tho bottom of-which was a key. . ‘This is nearly all the aparatus/ ho said; 1 but you notice some thread fastened to the key. Trace that thread, and you will find it passes through that small hole-in-the sash. From there it goes down to' the back yard, and now you will comprehend ray plan. L knew that no man could-approach the back part of the house without walking up the backyard', which is only four yards wide. I ! therefore tied across tho backyard, and about two feet from tho ground, some fine,black thread. This was aiade fast on tho one side but slipped through a loop, and Ud up to my window on tho other. The thread then-pass ed the hplo Thud bore\J in the window-.sash ; and.it was then made fast to this key. Un der tho sash.l placed the 1 tin box you see; and over tho key was a bar to prevent its bo- CARLISLE, PA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1865. ing dragged up more than six inohesl Each night, before I went to bed, I just drew the String tight) and fastened it in the yard, ta king care to free it before morning, so is to keep the plan a secret. If then, a mni, or anything above two feet high, walked npl the yard, the string was pressed against, thelkey was drawn up sharply against the bar, and the string broken when the key of ooirso fell into the tin box, making quite noise enough to wake mo, Immediately after the string or , thread broke, it would fall to the ground and the person who hud done this would not have felt anything, the resistance being so slight. I must iwn I shculd have preferred horse-hair to thread, but as it was the latter.answered very yvoll. I was fast asleep when the key fell, but im mediately awoke, and taking my lantern out side ray door, lighted it, and came to yours ; for I knew that a man only in the back yard, ceuld“lmve dropped my key;' So now you see how the burglars were trapped, for you know all the rest.” “ Certainly, succeeded, and so wc ought not to be"critical” we replied.' '* But suppose they had Entered by the front-win dow, instead of by the back, howthen ?” ‘‘You see this thread,” lie said, grasping one that was near the door; pull it.” I did so, am} immediately a tin cup drop ped into the hand basin. “ That thread goes down stairs, and is fas tened across the front window ; but I broke that off as I went out of my room, so that it should not impede my journey down stairs. Thus I could at once know whether a man was approaching the back door or had enter ed by the front window, and. in either case, I think 1 could have captured him.” Simplicity lin'd certainly been adopted in the present case, but the means had shown themselves to be efficient. “ People nre usually very silly,” continu ed our friend, “whenthey hear,-or think they hear, suspicions noises of a night. The first thing they usually do is to light a candle, which proclaims to the robber that ho has been hoard and must escape; then thov go about the house with this candle, and make a great noise, so,that a man may have plen ty of time to get away, or to hide himself.— Instead of this, if a person were to listen in tently, ho would ho able" to hear any suspi cious noises distinctly, and decide upon their cause ; then, ns he must know his own house better than a robber he is the best off of the two in the dark, and when, after arming him self, he has quietly opened his door, ho may wait and listen until t‘io robbers are heard moving around, when he may take such steps as may seem necessary. If every per son were merely to plan what was to be done in case of robbers entering the house, and then were to carry out this if the occasion required it, burglary would bo too danger ous and unsuccessful a proceeding to be pop ular or profitable, and thus might be given up for more honest moans of obtaining a live lihood ; so that really we may consider our selves to.havs done the community at large a benefit when wo captured one of these gen try ; whilst those who allow their houses.to be robbed with impunity, jeopardize their neighbor’s property. with it: and —-EACECLE_==l£aiij)dJslm_fallpAv.mf;-g;Qiii"j:liG rounds of tho country press. Wo wonder if the story has any connection with a scene which was related.some months ago ns hap pening in the parlor of a banker on Broad way : Last summer a bank clerk in New York stole $lOO,OOO. Ho lost the money, by * fight ing the tiger/ lie then called upon a law yer and informed him that he was a ruined man and thought of suicide. This led to the following dialogue : “ How much does your defalcation amouni to ?” “ One hundred thousand dollars.” ” Got any of it lef(: ?” “ Not a cent.” “That’s had; you'have left nothing to work with.” “ What must be done?” “You must return to your desk and ab stract another hundred thousand.” “ What must I do that, (or ?” “ To preserve your character and save you from going to the State prison. With*the hundred thousand dollars yoii are to steal to morrow I intend to compromise with the bank. Your stealings after to-morrow will amount to $200,000. f will call at the bank arid confess your offence; I will represent myself ns your heart-broken uncle, * honest, but poor/ I will offer, the bank $50,000 to hush up tho matter. ..The lank will accept. This will leave $50,000 to divide between me and you—that is $25,000 a piece. With this' sum you can retire from business.” The, young man listened and took on’wis dom. lie doubled his defalcation and com promised as the lawyer said be should. He is now worth $250,000, and is counted “ one of the most respectable gentlemen in the city of New York.” OUT* John Bowers was smitten nt Old La tham's—a jolly old fellow, blessed with two very John was as regular in his visits ns Sunday itself, but one memo rable Sunday, when the house was filled with beaux and belles, old Latham issued forth to his work. John followed him from the house and began. ‘ Nice lot of Mr. Latham,’ said John by way of introduction. ‘ Yes—pretty pood pork, John, if I only have luck,’ said old Latham, who really liked him, and often scolded his daughters for the fun they made of him, John was silent for a. few minutes, but nt length, with n terrible unconcerned look at some wheat stacks a mile distant, ho said, gaspingly; ‘ Mr. Latham, I—l—come courtin’, air.’ . ‘ Well, John,’ said the old man, amused, ‘ young men will do that now-a-days. I hope you are getting on all right?’ 1 Yes, sir,’ said John, taking courage; ‘ and I come to tax yon for one 6’ your daughters.’ ‘Oh!’ said old Latham, biting his lips, ‘ you’ve come to that,. already, have you, John? Well, which one is it, John?’ ‘ Oh, sir, as to that’—said poor John, with a ludicrous air of serene sheepishness— 1 as to that, sir, it don’t make any difference; ei ther nlie’ll do , sir !’ Old Latham used to toll the ; story after ward, much to his pretty daughter’s discom fiture. fi©" - Three years ago, says the Boston Post, a young lady in Nashua knitted a pair of drawers for. a soldiers’ fair and in them en closed her address. The soldier .who drew the drawers corresponded with her, and now the loving hearts are one. Pretty, isn’t it, and romantic ? O’ Artemns Ward says that ns a ,Son of Temperance ho believes in temperance hutelp though, asa.general thing,, they soli poorer liquors than the other sort! THE CIIfILBBA AT CONSTANTINOPLE, Thrilling Scenes , as Described hyaft Eye Wit ness—2,ooo Dying at btamboul in a 'Single Day~To(al Mortality at -Constantinople Esti mated at from 60,000 to 80,000, To the Editor of the London Times : Sir: Thointoroat-with which the progress of the cholera in the East has been watched, and the very meagre, and even incorrect, in formation which has been transmitted by telegrams, leads me- to think that further ex tracts from the letters of a resident? of 'Con stantinople may not bo unacceptable to some of your readers. The writer of them escaped an attack of. the more prevalent malady; bub not that of a more insiduous disease, the floating seeds of which he must have boon conscious he was absorbing. The,hiatus in his sketchoj indi cates when this took place. The ardent ad mirers of the picturesque ought- nor to-reflect with any feeling of regret that the many reeking dons of contagion which constituted so glorious a panorama, when viewed from afar, are now smouldering.heaps of ‘rubbish-. “ August s.—llffro is an opinion of an un dertaker about cholera : * My own opinion is, that the poison of the cholera'is in every man’s Mood ; if anything is eaten which has an affinity with the poison the disease is pro duced.’ “August 6, Sunday.—What a change in the gayest and moat dissipated of European cities ! The shop-keepers in their gay dres ses, the mounted swells miking their horses prance and looking round for a little admir ation, the groups of idlers waiting outside tho churches, self-constituted critics on the points of female beauty-as the'congregation breaks up, the singing in the cafes, the boats deqp rated with flags and crowded with laughing holiday-makers, have disappeared from the scene, and gloom and misery have taken tho place. Xam unable to say how many died yesterday. The number is stated variously; from 1.000 to 2,500. Tho newspapers still continue to lie. “August 7,—For the first time today I begin to feel a little alarmed. The weather continues intensely close. lam almost pros trate with debility, biliousness and indiges gostion. A stink from tho imperfectly bur ied corpses, in the adjoining cemetery blows through every room in the- house. There is a rumor that the plague has broken out in Egypt. Dead and dyings inen pass every half hour. ‘Nothing butfoongs of death;’ nothing but funerals, priests', sisters of char ity, processions and news of fresh losses among our English community. “ August B.—l have learned more details about last Friday. By the testimony of eve ry one it must have been an awful day. A doctor who practices on the other side of Stamboul says that 1 500 to 2.000 died at Stamboul alone on that day. For days past, indeed, Stamhoul has presented a frightful spectacle. The streets, ho says, stink with decaying bodies. Whole families are carried off at once, ami many are abandoned by tho selfish terror of their relatives, when a.little timely assistance might have saved them, s A sort of attempt Ims, it is true, been made for the relief of the sufferers! A hospital has been rudely constructed at Stamboul of raised --boardsr-(m-whlch-the-poor-pat;ienls~a'ro~hTV3tT=" ly thrown and left to die, without doctors, without medicine, without even a friendly hand to assist them. The houses of some of these poor wretches at Stamboul are even worse than might have been expected. Dens m ire foul could scarcely have been found in St Giles’ 15 years ago. Imagine a room half tho size of one in an ordinary cottage, light ed by a door only, and ventilated by a oruok which lots in air poisoned by an'open sewer, running without exit in front of tho house.— Imagine from five to fifteen people huddled together in this room, the walls of which are decaying with damp, and their cracks stopp ed up with mouldy rags, and then fancy that the same linen and the same bod which two months ago supported a patient affected with typhus is now used for a sufferer with chole ra. Add to this the stench which proceeds from people who are not over cleanly at the best of times, and whoso dirty habits are now aggravated by disease and exhaustion, and you will have a - picture of tlfo inside of a Turkish House of tho poorer class. Can you wonder at tho disease haying spread so 'frightfully ? “ August 9!—Gurracino, the vice-consul, has been visiting tho sick at Thorapia. He found fifty of the houses descried tcilh dead bodies inside. There >s little doubt that the malady is aggravated to a fearful extent by ignorance and imprudence. I will give you an example which occurred under my own eyes. The day before yesterday a consular canvass had a longing for some raw toma toes. Ilemonatranees % were ineffectual. — ‘Nonsertse,’ said he, *if the soul longs for anything, it is not a sin to gratify/ He ate them and was attacked with cholera. 1 Prompt attendance cured him, and I think, also, it will have cured him' for the future of his re ligious scruples. A gentleman who had been hunting up tho sick at Stamboul tells mo that he Went to a kahn arid asked tho porter if there were any sick inside. ‘No/ ‘You are not tolling the truth nio in to* see/ — He went in, and the first thing ho sa v was a man in the last extremity who had not re ceived the least attention. He went to an other house, when the master informed him that his son had just died. ‘ What did you do?’ said the gentleman. ‘Well/said tho father, ‘ ho ouly had a slight diarrhoea at first. lie was only seized with 20 attacks in the day, so I gave him a glass of cold water after each time/ An Armenian, in English employment, had a slight attack of cholera, from which he recovered ; the next day he bought two pounds and a-half of unripe pears, and sat with his feet in cold water an hour while ho jute them, * * * * * * * I have been very ill indeed, so a young friend of mine has kindly copied my notes to send you. I fell down in a fainting fit, and af terwards had typhoid fever. Too doctor rec ommends my instant return. The cholera is going away; 50,000 to 80,000 have died.— Not a soul less.” A story is told of two Vermont cap tains in the wari between whom was a gener ous rivalry, relating to their own gallantry and that of tboir companies. Both were dan gerously wounded nt the Wilderness. Capt. 8., was insensible for two days, but on the third opened his eyes and inquired if Capt. W. was alive, and on being told he was do ing well, said, energetically, “well, if W. can live, I’ll bo d—d if I’ll die,” and ho didn’t. O’ A robust countryman, meeting a phy sician, ran to hide behind a wall ; being asked the cause, ho replied : “ It is so long since I have been sick, that I am ashamed to look a physician in the face.” ' SSiy Mrs. Dowdy says that one of her boys don’t know nothing and the other doep. The question is, which knows the most? Col. W. W, 11. Davis Crashes tite Slanderers. “Djvlestows, Penna., 1 Sept. 16, 1805. [ Editors of The -Age My attention has been called to tho follow ing-article, published in- the Press, of your city, of the 15 th inst., viz : The Harrisburg Telegraph says: Colonel *'• W* 11. Davis, the Copperhead candidate for Auditor General, has now resumed full charge of "the Doylestown Democrat, a news paper which he lias owned for many years, and which heretofore and now sympathizes with the rebels. The peculiar forte of the Democrat, since Colonel Davis has returned to preside over its columns, consists in as serting that the rebels have not been whip ped ; that they should be received back to tho Union with all their rights restored ; that sla very is not and can never bo abolished, and that, in justice to tho rebels, the debt which they incurred in struggling for their “ rights” is as legal as the debt which was piled on tho people by tho national authorities while wa ging a crusade on the people of tho South ; and if the national debt is to bo-j aid, so al so must the debts of tho Southern States bo liquidated. Mendacity cannot go beyond this.- All that is printed above is a stupendous me, from beginning to end. I never thought, ut tered, or advocated such sentiments, nor were they over published in the Democrat- In a late issue of tho Harrisburg Telegraph that paper also charges me with opposing tho amendment to tho Constitution giving sol diers tho right to vote. This is as base a i.iE as the other. At tho time of tho election I was at Danville, suffering from a severe wound, but made it my business to go to Doylestown to vote, and voted for the amend ment. Tho Bucks County hitclligcacer of tho 9th of August, ISGI, said': .“Gen. John Davis, of Southampton, and his son, Cul. \V. IV.-11. Davis, both voted openly for the amendment.” The Doylestown Democrat did not oppose tho amendment. Tho Bucks' County I.vteL mgencer, the Republican organ of this coun ty, is tho only newspaper in Bucks, to- my knowledge, that over opposed tho right of soldiers to vote. The following article is from that paper of November 12; 1891, Viz': Tho State law of Pennsylvania, providing for tho holding of elections in military en campments, though .doubtless enacted with good motives, has been productive of groat evil and contention. Until the October elec tion, there had never been an opportunity of testing its operations'. Voting was then car ried on in most of the Pennsylvania' regi ments at the seat of war, or encamped else where at a distance front homo. In manv oases tho votes, were honestly received• and counted, and the result properly certified and returned to tho legal authorities. In TSthers, particularly in the regiments partly or w'hoU conducted in a most shameful and rascally manner. Some of the. regimental returns show hundreds of votes for candidates on one ticket, while those of opposite politics receive few or none. As tho result in tho city itself was doubtful, and tho candidates wore like ly to be elected or defeated by the army vote, there were strong inducements' offered for corrupt politicians to practice their villain ous arts. It now seems probable that the difficulties thus raised will have tu be settled by the courts, at the cost of great labor and much time. IVo hope the Legislature will prevent such EVIL in future by the TOTAL ABOLITION OP ELECTIONS IN CAMP. I cannot,account for tho malignant hostil ity of tho editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph toward mo, except because my grandfather was one of the soldiers that captured the Hessians at Trenton in 1770. Mr. Bcrgnor is very loth to forget old grievances. W. W. 11. DAVIS A Dissolving Partv. —Tlie “Republican” party, now tlint slavery is abolished and the war the abolitionists made for that object, is ended, is rapidly going to pieces, as was long ago predicted. The “radicals,” under' the load of Stevens and Sumner, are directly op posed to the moderates, and both arc in an tagonism to the President. Mr. Johnson’s recent off hand nnd manly speech to a num ber of Southern gentlemen, shows that he is for “the Union as it was, (excepting slavery,) ami the constitution as it is.” and as no con siderable portion,of the “Republicans” are for either, the result must ho a conflict, in which the' executive, backed by the conser vative democracy of the whole country, will certainly triumph'. All true patriots will re joice to see the wholesome and judicious nol icy of Mr. Johnson carried out to perfect con summation, in spite even of the efforts of those who once held opposition to Presiden tial views nnd measures to be rank treason to the government, though they now prac tise the very same sort of disloyalty which they but recently denounced. 3T” Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, has announced that his first motion in the Senate will be the introduction of* a bill to confer the right of suffrage upon the negroes in the District of Columbia. This is to he the en tering wedge. The District of Columbia is not a State. Congress is its only Legisla ture. It has no representation there, but is under the Control of Congress. It is the in tention' of the radicals to force Mr. Johnson to sign nr veto a bill to allow negroes to vote in the District of Colombia. IT" One nf our city urchins ‘hearing Ills father read an article in the paper in rela- tion to a new invention of bricks of glass, ex eltvmed; "Gins'* bricks?’ ‘I know.what them is’— Wnat are they?’ 1 inquired one of the family. Tumblers“of liquor,’ shouted the juvonillo. KT - The “ radical” temperance people are circulating a petition to Congress, demanding that all civil and military officers of the Uni ted States shall be required to fake an oath of total abstinence before being permitted to qualify. BSf Tlie Chicago Tribune recently said about the negroes : “ They have taken our time, our first-born, and our money freely.” Thereupon the Louisville Journal remarks : “ Maybe they had some claim to your first born I What color was it ?” DT” “My dear Nicholas,” said Ijnrd Strnngford, “ I am very stupid this morning; my brains are all gone to the dogs.”. “Poor dogs 1” replied his friend.. you WON’T) BDT YOU MOST. , Mr- Republican/ this way, if you please, sir. Wo do not mean tho candid, independ ent man, but ho who is under the party lash, J Ton years ago, you cried out. for retrench raont and reform. You declared you would never support men ao extravagant as tho Democrats., , , . . lime passed. Your party obtained pow er. Its corruption and extravagance surpas sed all precedent. , r Your political masters cracked their lash over you, and you jusliliod oxtruvagancß,-and apologized for corruption: " v You declared the'. South was ,a bill, of ex pense, and you would be bettor without her, and paraded your faith by carrying sixteen star flags in-honor-of 'the sixteen Northern .(States. Your masters cried Union, and you shout ed “it must bo preserved." Your niastors now say the Union shall not be restored until the South embraces the sen timents of Now England. : . You embrace the doctrine, and declare theijo is no hui-ry about restoring tho Union. Your masters called the Democrats “ Un ion savers^’ You caught up tho sound' and hissed it from your throats. Your-masters called tho Democrats “ t rai tors.” You halloed it from hill-top and valley. Your masters declared that slavery should not be interfered with. You became ns strong pro-slavery men ns tho Democrats. Your masters said slavery should remain unmolested where it, existed,’ but should not bo carried into tho Territories. You applauded the doctrine and declared it just and right. Your masters said slavery must be abolish ed. You'cried aloud against the “ accursed in stitution.” - „ Your masters said the negroes were an in ferior race, and should not bo placed on an equality with the whites.