vrintii4t: Y months, and longer, 4 per cont. per annum; redid:l4r *short notice of withdrawal. Interest paid in fullthe Deposits from the date of deposit to the date withdrawal.of We will also afford a liberal line of ne• comanotiatkus to those who may favor no with Deposits, payable on demand. WIU pay a premium on SPANIBII and IItEXICAN DOLLAIVII, and also on old llfisican Da ,4araiond Half Dollars. Will make collections on and re pit to all part.' of the United Statue, the Conadas and Hume Negotiate Loans, he., de., and do a general EX 011ANCLE and BANKINU BUSINgBS. O. DAMSON COLEMAN, President MIN OWE, Ctu e mallralgnad, MANAGER.% ary laMvidually Ruble iA oviat or thew,lS9tatee, Ibr inmepelta and other oMfgatioas 'he• a idIVANON DIIPOSIT BLNIt." OiDLON CAMERON, G. DAWSON COLEMAN, tIEORGE SMVILIIII, LEVI KLINE, JAMES YOUNG, AUQ,UATITS BOYD, . Ma y 12, ISM GEORGE GLUM. anket Sh • .. aw . ~„„___, . ls, CL ~IFQQLEN 01,0TILINfl of all colors, dyed let Slick or blue Black proem:dy ill. color liarreanod and goats turned out equal tiy, • , LYON ? LIeadiIEAGIER, Akin Articles to be dyed can be left at Jos, A. Amber Der's Drag More where all orders for the Rhos° will be sr tended to, ' Rob. 8, 1880. 611241X2" WE ID.IFL 41101tfirEY•AT , LAW.—Ofgce hs Cumberland street, In the Once of his fattier, Gen. John Wildman. bane, August V, 1801, PROF. WOOD'S RESTORATIVE CORDIAL ADD BLOOD RENOVATOR Is precisely what its name indicates, for, while pleasant to the testa, It Is revivifying, exhila rating, and strengthening to the vital powers, It also revivifies, reinstates and renews the blood la all lie original purity, and thus re- stores and renders the system Invulnerable to attacks of disease. It Is the only preparation ever offered to the world in a popular farm se, ey to be within the reach of all. So chemically' and shingly combined se to be the mod pow erful tonic, and yet so'perfectly adapted to as to tat in perfect accordance with the taws of na. how,And hence soothe the weakest stomaole, and tone Up, the digestive organs i and allay slitter. Vona end Other .rI r..it at.on, It is also perfectly exhilarating In its effects, end Yet it Is .never Mowed by lassitude et &Torsion ofepirite.— It composed entirely of vegetables and these thoroughly oorablaingpowerfed tonic and sooth ing properties, and consequently can never in pry. Such a remedy has long been felt to be a desideratum In the medical world, both by the thoroughly skilled in medical science, and also by all who have suffered from debility; for it needs no medical Allier knowledge oven to gee that debility follows all attacks of dis ease, end lap the unguarded system open to the attache of Mang Of the most dangerous to which poor immanity is constantly liable.l— Stich, for example, as the following: Consump tion, Bronchitis, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Yaintnees, Nervous Irritability, NeuraighWalpitation of the newt, Melan choly, Hypochondria, Night Sweets, Languor, Giddiness, and all that class of cases, so fear fully fatal If unattended to in time, called Pc. sisals Weaknessei and irregadaritier. Also. Liv en Derangements or Torpidity, and Liver Com plaints Diseases of the Kidneys, Scalding or Incontinence of the Urine, or any general de istngement of the Urinary Organs. Pain In the Back, Side, and between the Shoulders, prattle. pOoltiOn to Blight Colds, Hacking and Contin ued Cough,lhnitelation , Dlmculty of Breathing and,todwad we =den enumerate many more still, but we have space only to say, it w ill net Indy cure the debility following Chills and Fever, but prevent ail athaeltharleing from Ali. tamatlo Influences, and core the diseases at once, if already attacked. And ae it acts di rectly and paralsteLtly upon the biliary eye. tem, arousing the Liver to action, promoting, In fact, all the exeretions and secretions of the system, it will intallibly prevent any dented one consequences followiug upon change of cli mate and water; hence all travelers ,should have a bottle with them, and all should take a table spoonful at lenet before eating. As it Prevent s coetiveneee,etrengthens the digestive organs, it should be in the hands of all persons of Sedentary habits students, ministers, litera ry men. And all ladles not accustomed to much out door exercise should always nee it.— If they will they will find au agreeable, pleas ant, and efficlent remedy against those ills which rob them of their beauty; for beauty end *mkt without health, and health cannot exist whilenhe above irregularities continue.-- Then igen, the Cordial Is a perfect Mothers l Relief. Taken a month or two before the final trial she will pass the dreadful period with per hot ease and safety. There is no ?mistake about a, this Cordial is all we claim for it. Mothers try dl! And to ydu we appeal to detect the fil mes or deollue not only of your daughters bo ttles It be too late, but also your sons and hus bands, for While the former, from false delicacy, go down to a premature grave rather than let their condition be known In time, the lattorare often CO mixed np with the estbitement of buta ne's/ that if it 1101 . 41 not for you they too would travel in the same downward path, until too late to arrest their fatal MIL Bat the mother is always vigilant, and to you we confidently appeal i fir we are acre year never failing af- faction will unerringly' t° Prilfeimr l Wood's Reiterative Cordial and Blood Beam,. , for as the remedy which should be always, on band in time of need. 0. J. WOOD, PrOprie eor, 414 Broadway, New Yorir, 02014; Market Arcot, St. Louie, Mo., and goldhyall good Deur Also by Dr. Bow opposites the Catirt ones, Lebanon, Fa; Price Ono Dollar per Bonk [July 24, 1861,—1Y. sow, VOL. 13---NO. 44. Stoite HISSING--Private William Smith. Sergeant! enter on your roll, "Missing—Private William Smith." Death le bet a passing dream; • Life a false and shadowy myth. Comrades, close your gaping ranks I lie was In the first platoon; Missing, private Willisin.iimith Doubtless will be liesid of soon: Missing private William Smith Led the charge that turned the day I Through the thicken of the fight, Step by step, he clove his way. When I last saw private William Smith, Re was grim med with smoke end gore; What Ifprivate William Smith Should be heard of never more. Comredes I aoldlere should not mourn, He wee every inch e men! Men have fallen in the fight Ever since the world began. Yet I would I knew for truth, Now the. fight is pest and done— Miming private William Smith Emma a wife and little one. Would I knew that clunking obelus - Bound his irotntitiundee tree Would I knew upfitirn iall Held his limbs, though woutuleili novel. Would that, private Shank ahy be . rWt d of bade *OW Woundediamitive, aflame he .• Be not of the narnelep DlMalus private William Smith • Hai a wife and Ilttleozie She was once a love of mislay Ere my Ufa bad seams begun. I ehould hardly like to speak To her of so strange a myth , When the war is over as, aa Miming privet.) William Smith THE MURDERER'S ORDEAL I was fond of the science of physi ognomy. From my youth up, I was noted for my proclitviy for rending the oharketer of a man from his face; and I finally became such an adept in the art, that I could occasionally guess the very thoughts of the indi vidual whose . countenance I was studying. Soon after the gold fever broke out, I went to California; and there I must confess, among what else there was to interest me, I had a grand op. portunity for exercising my skill up on all sorts of faces, seen under all sorts of circumstances, from the high est triumph of success to the deep est despair of failare:'tried my luck at digging old myself, but soon tired of that, and believing 1 could make money faster and with less labor, I opened a kind of grocery and provision store, and went regu larly into the business of trade, buy ing most of my articles at Sacra mento, getting them hauled to my quarters, and disposing of them at a fair advance, to the miners . and others. My store, a's t di4nified my place of trade, consisted of a rude skeleton of poles, with a suffideney of cheap muslin drawn over them and pinned down to the earth, and was stocked only with the most Saleable articles, of Which float., pork; and whiskey tonna the Moist ready market; espe cially In the di7 season it, is very dusty, and every one seemed to Lie . dry with a thirst which mere eta- La. 'could 'hot quench. if a Man Was succesaful, he wanted - whiskey to bring his body up to the altitude of his spirits; If, itntilieeessful, he Want ed b'ring hik ErSiSiLi dp , to the altitude of his body ; if ill:1111)mi to be little cool, he wanted whiskey to warm him ; if it was very hot, he wanted whiskey to cool him; • he needed whiskey in the Mcirning to make him bright And active; he need ed whiskey at the night to 'rest him and make him sleep well; he wanted it when he bought, and wheu he sold, when he won, and when he lbst, when he stood up, and when he eat down ; in short, whiskey was the great regulator el all huMan fetilings he genuine elixir vitae—and conse quently, I did an immense business in whiskey. Now this, though somewhat irrel evant, brings me to my story. My store being headquarters of that locality for whiskey anti Foy'. sinus, I was brought in contact with nearly every specimen of the genus homo that ventured - in that region ; and such,-,another conglomeration of white, blank and red—such another mixture of geeth3inen, laborers, mountaineers, gamblers, thieve& Mid assassins—it would be hard to find outside the limits of California. Of course I bad a chance to study all sorts of faces to my heart's content, but having, as I have.said,, become an adept in the art, an ordinary counte nance, or a man governed by ordina ry passions, whether gentle or brut ish, did not interest me. I wanted to get hold of what is termed a charac ter—or one whose external' would glvc no indication of his internal to any but a connaiseur—or: one . that would really puzzle you to tell what to think of him. ') Eligt neloOter. Among the many, such an one I at length found. At first I did not no tice him—did not think of him. At a casual glance there was nothing tier distinguish him from the herd. _de came iu quietly, unobtrusively, pur chased a quantity of flour, pork and tea, paid for the same in gold dust, and went Cut about his business. Ile repeated his visits at different inter vals pethapS some half;a-doien of times, before he attracted my atten tion to anything peculiar in his ap pearance and then I should have been at a loss td known what I saw More in him at last thttn at - first. He was apparently about twenty= fivo years of age, of medium height and a slender figure, of a dark corn plexion, regular features, with dark straight hair, dark eyes, asd a beard that covered the lower part of bis, face—in all of which there was•noth ing remark4ble—nothing.striking-- He was -quiet--not talkatived ntitbin Cif Say except about titer! bit . . " . , . -.0 1114116. 4- A . .., , fcb anon ..,,,..„..., . „,..._ ._.„...,,,:_...... . ~.... .. . tioo .1 . . ,: ',.. ~ ..4k.;Z:1010 , , • , • ' A. — ...-e -magamozumulara iguttauf,ou,s. A CALIFORNIA STORY LEBANON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1862. siness he came on—got what-- he wanted when I was disengaged, paid for what begot like a gentleman, and generally retired with an ordinary "Good day," or some similar civility. And yet as I have said, he began to attract my attention at last, and I began to wonder why. Was it be cause he was so quiet, reserved and gentlemanly, and did not pcireliase whiskey like the rest, and occasional ly get excited and boisterous ? events,he,hiiir,begun to interest me in s ome way ; arid the very fact, per liaPs, that I could not tell how• or why, Jet me into closer scrutiny, a deeper study of the man. After this I prolonged his visits as long as I could without causing him io suiPiet I. did so intentionally.— The things he-had wanted I general ly had seine k.raiible in getting, :and Oiling ilp-thelnterval by remarks a. bold thweitiliEthe'r, the- coUntry, 'the success:of the failure of others a irord, anything I: could think of to induce conversation, watching him furtiv'eily the while. rile an swered easily: and readily, and yet with that peculiar liind"reserve of that was not suggestive of tending to wards familiarity. His replies hovi ever evinced a man of mind and edu cation, and I began to give him credit ,for being a thinker—perhaps a prae- Vpal and selfish dreamer, if I may utieli, paradoxical term that best ex presses my idea. - One day, I scarcely know how I touched livon the general supersti- Lions of mankind, and to my surprise, saw at last he was interested. - His eye changed ex'prespion, and bright ened, and emitteds. strange and po. culiar gleam ; and ray attention be ing,thus directed to hbkeye, I now be thoughtlhat I had never seen one , exactly like it—one capable of being so apparently open down to. the soul while concealing so much. t was off its guard now—the door was really open to the soul of the. man—And I looked in at the door of that 4ening and saw that the soul of thal man was a dark one. A nameless jear came over me—a strange thrill 'pass ed throiigh me like an electric sli t -1 felt an electric shudder of dreitd.— No wonder I had not been able 'to read him before; the man bad fegen wearing an impenetrable mask. I now had the key of the inyste'6', and to him, and I used it. He was interested in superstition—was super. etitious himself. Why? Good men may be superstitious---bad men always are, because they carry a hell of wild fancies within them. Thus it was, with this man, as I could see -by his eye, and I.made his fancies work up._ on him. I told him stories of sorcery, witchcraft and magic—of ghost, hob goblins and 'devils—till he became pale with fear, breathed with com pressed lips, and trembled in spite of his great nerve and skill. -It good men, as I have said, are sometimes superstitious, why you ask, did i think. this man surpersti. tious alsofyist I answer, because I had accidenlally. throWn him o* his guard and read spat ; and second lyfiecause was not naturally nerv ous and credulous. Fear could only grrite se!f-convicted knowl. edge Of a pMt, viler e 4 (WO. The man was even then a criminal., But let me hasten along to the dam nountent. f bliknVed,tiiit otter peon was prelent 'when tali e ,conversation occurred about t h e superstitious fan cies of men, and so -soon as we were interrupted by the entrance of anoth. er customer, my dark visitor left some what Abruptly. /lei' that he did not come as often as be did before, and- ii'e'ver rene i Wed, the conversation that had "so agitated him, and never in fact, entered into any other- thai he could ibty avoid. I kept my thoughts to myself, but made some casual inquiries about him, and learn ed that he had been so fortunate as to secure a capital "lead," from which his partner, another young man, he was taking out giild in quantities that bromised to enrich both, and tha t oth had thk mind will and esteem of all who kneiv them. One dark p l ight, about three or ffttis weeks aftei this I was txtaiiied 'arid cries of— "Murder ! murder'! help help !" I jumped, seized my revolver, and dartethout into the .open air The cries and screams still continued, coming from atend of the river about a hundred rods below. In a minute I was ;joining five others, all well arm. ed, and together we ran as hard as we could to tho place from which the a larm proceed. When we arrived there, at least thirty men were col: lected in and around the tent of the dark man I have been describing, and he himself it was who had given tho alarm. His partner sad companion had been murdered, Mid rcibbeit, and liiixieelf had Wert slightly out a cross the face and gashed on the left arm, gild he was all excitement, M. mentin,g his dearest, friend, and vow-, ing vengeance against the assassin.— It was some time before we could get at the particulars, and then we learn that both had been sleeping side by side,,rben lin unknown rob. bor had crawled uhtler the light can. stabbed one to the heart, and taken a large bag of gold from under his head. With this he iirits escaping, when the present haiiator awoke and seized him, and received the *lands which had compelled him to relinquish his hold. Lights were brought, and there sure enough, was the bloody caftfirMation 'of' all that had been'related. Ott!ittik e to ortray t4e intense aNe!tel4ol/ ~tb rego, and cOnstehuitkoN ON' 0014 murder occasioned. Diery. man felt that if the assassin escaped without his just punishment, there would no longer be security for any one in our hitherto quiet 'and peaceful . valley,- and ,solemn oathe were taken to hang the wretch, 1 if. found, upon the near- est tree. ,A large reward" was offered for, his, detection and efery, gainbler, OA had ever, been 'seen about there *its more or less suspected, and I believe that, had Any man been arrested on the following day, he svbuld have been hung first and" tried afterwards. I said less than my, for I had my own' suspicions, and,/ contrived my plot insecret, and made a confidant of at,' one. The murdered young men was as decently buried as surrounding cir cumstances would permit, arid his corn. panion, my suptestitiousfriend, grew more -moody,. with gkiyf, refused to. ifOrklis sit.heatirle snare, and pro. ofr *it rock and tools, and quitting- the gantry altogether. I think he would have t 4e.,4ince, only that I told.him that it Wi,io4l not look well to leave without,en effort to dis cover the murderer, as some people might be malicious enough to say he knew something of the matter,. and so get into troible., lie turned verypale, and declared that he would-atay a year if he thought oy, that means he could discover the assassin of his dear, dear friend. On the Beeond afterriaon following the tragedy", almost °eery individual in the vicinity, the friend of the rnali &red man among the rest, assembled at.my store, at my particular 'request. I had told them I had' something to communicate concerning the foul deed, and I thought it not. unlikely I should give them some clue to the assassin. When all . had collected, and ar ranged themselves, as I had directed, in a semicircle before my door—es.- ger, expectant, excited—l carne for ward, holdiog in my hand•an egg.— Then I mede them a short speech on the superstitions of mankind, which I contended had their origin in mys terious facts revealed from. the other world by God's goed providence for the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the guilty, and among other. things I mentioned how the ghosts 'Of pleir victims would 'haunt the mit',E:ilerere, compelling them to reveal their crimes-Lhow lend and see had been known• to give up their awful secrets—and h'6 . i.w It 6eeri asserted that if the guilty wreters should place his -handitupoe the body of the man-he had secretly. B t lain the wounds would bleed oAnd now, get) tionuTZ I of? in my hand as sure a test as any I have named. , This simple gg, so fair to the view, contains the murder er's secret. Lot him but tale it in hie bend aial the frail shell will crurn bie to pieces and .show to all that it is filled with the - blood of his victim.— You will excuse me, gentlemen. for putting you all to the test. We do not know each other's secrets --the murder of the young min We huri ecl yesterday may be among us; but only 'the guilty need fear the trial, the innocent will surely pass the ordeal ZtEltifti'niett. AB i chid this, I fixed my face upon the diti,ir visitor, my suspected man. I never saw a more wretched and ghastly Countenance, nor it. geeitter struggle in any living being to keep a calm and' unmoved e3coeriar. The egg began its round. Some took it gravely, some lightly,'soine turned slightly pale, and some laugh ed Outright. But on it went, and came nearer and nearer to the man for whom it was inteni:l.efk.- : " could see that he was trembling—that his very limbs were getting white. "It is your tarn, now!". I said, at length, in a cold, stern tone. "Mine be anew efed, tk , itli a Oast ly attempted at a smile. "Why— why—should I—l take it? Poor Wilson was nay--my—friend;l" "Let him prove'aci now !" I said.— 'All eyes are upon _you. Take the ordeal tient by geeven,, and prove your innocence—if vat r He glanced hurriedly around. All eyes were indeed upon him,.and with looks Of aivakiened auepicion.. Ike made one desperate effort to be calm —then seized the fatal egg with trembling hands. The next nichnent it was _crushed to atoms, and his hands were wet and stained as •if with human =gore. A wild yell burst from the crowd. A despairing shriek came from -the lips of the guilty wretch; and falling rather than sinking down upon his knees, he cried out— "god of mercy, Tergive me ? I did kill him j did-kill him I fer,hia goyll Ol his gold I Oh, cursed d 1 Oh, cursed gold ! Oh, God of ThetWeii, forgive me I" "And now many before him 7" de manded I. "Three! threat Oh, God of mercy, bitgive like 1" There was anotlieL, 411 d; rather howl of fury—a rash like wolves on their prey—and the poot wretch was seized, almost torn limb from limb, and dragged • furmboly away. • in tel than ten minutes from bis confeisiOd, he was dangling from a neighboring tiei3, swinging by his neck. So died the murderer, whose name I littirb Suppressed, because he had, resperstable fried who are still tiv lug- I only addObat helieving him guilty, I bad - prevuitialy prepared the . egg, putting red . coloring matter in it, eapectingtn•See him crush it tbro' its pllpPpt4,oooeaol„tif St! pern.attl -414047: ',. -t11 4 43y ti*od i ;:me the reward for . the detention of the murderer*—but ilia 1 declined. Jus tine was a l I. had sought, and this I ilia Obtained. OLAND `ATINg , MARRIAGE OF THE.PRIIWE - 15 - F*ll4E4. _ . aowever, Ravenens a no,s -mouton's, she Prince of Wales, whoM I have al uded to, but not as a lost sheep, though he will be lost- te the view of that 'portion of tire.. - Publie who will attend the opening ceremo_ny at :the World's Fair, the cause of his absence from whiCh does nqt spring from the PrinCe's desire of ifeeing foreign coun tries,a it is.not frpin his approaching iniirriiige with Danish ;Princess, nor does•it, *wile from his love passages at. Windsor; ; but the reasons for his ate. uenco are now sufficiently manifest.— VitePrinee of Waies is already mar -40034.;.f4 e ingenious eldest son of Her at the ;present moment, and, indeed, for the - last six months has been, married to a fair sulte,et. The, en thriller, _of tb e Pritice's heart and recipient of his troth is a beauti ful young Hibernian lady whom he met and fell in love with during the period of military training at the Curragh of Kildare in Ireland, where hie Royal. Highness bad appropriated .to him, a littlereinnved from the main line of telly Which formed, the en campment, a neat hut with a pretty little garden attached to it. Though he had everything to make him com `fortable there, during the idle days and long evenings, he sometimes can tered off to see some of the leading gentry of Kildare, whose demesnes fringe the great plain on which the Prince was stationed. To one of those houses in particular, and which was inhabited by a family of ancient and almost historic standing, his 1 horse's head was oftenest turned; and his visits became so frequent that' they ceased to be formal. Nothing was suspected by. ,the Prince's mentors, until one afternoon two young ladies galloped over the green sward, pulling,np. in front of the Prince's hut, and, the alacrity with which he came out to meet them, and his particular manner`-to the younger one, attracted the attention of an officer in hit 4 rank who hap pened at the moment to be calling on the Prince, and who, being a veteran in love as well as in war, fancied ike saw something more than the . mere polite'aiss of a young Prince to a lady. The visits were repeated, and they were also seen riding about the country.. However, to cut a long story short, in a Certain little church not many miles from Newbridge, (the next‘tontn to• the Curragh) there werei one morning, united in matrimony two, young people, one of whom was the lady in question, and the other the Heir Apparent to the throne of Great Britain, the only other parties present being, besides the clergyman, a brother officer of the Prince and the bride's brother. The late lamented Prince Consort was made aware of the fact just be fore quitting Ireland, when they visi• ted the lakes of _Killarney in the au tumn. By' the Royal Marriage Act. I need scarcely sayi ..sunk 1144 . 14. would be unlawful, but so wra'ppod up in. this beautiful Irish bride is the Prince, that this journey of his to the East, which was determined, upon be pre the Prince Consort's death, was piaggeeted by, the .faXter as ,a means of weaning him fret ,"his foolish at tech merit," upon the principle of "out of sight out of mind." But nothing will do; the young Prince's "heart, unt;raveled, fondly turns" towards a certain old mansion on fhe confines of the Curragh,and :which holds "what is dearer to dim than his'future crowp" - -the tare object of his thoughts iiti most daily receiving a letter from un der her youthful and royal lover's hand.—Derreit Advertiser. NARROW ESCAPE OF GEN. FITZ JOIPT - PORTER IN A BALLOON. FN IDANP, Brpt.Rz Tan INTRINCRURNTB AT YORKTOWN, Va., April 11,1861 The mg event of the day has been ; a balloon reconnoissance by Gen:: Fitz Sohn Porter on a scale of larger magnitude than wits in, tended: At 5, o'clock in the morning General Porter took his place in Fro. fessor Lowe's, balloon. lie supposed "the usual, number of ropes were at• tached to it, whereas there was only one anci.a plane in this,, as was afteri. wards aticertained, bad been balled by Vitilol,.iised hi generating gas.— Taking his seat in the car, unaccom panied by any' one, the rope was let (nit to nearly its full length—the length is about nine hundred yards-- when suddenly snap went the cord• and up went the ON Itgs 44 tin eipected pai‘tof the . Pkograune. rrhe men Celow looked up ,with aston ishment, and, the General looked down with equal bewilderment. "Open the valVe," shouted one of the men below. "I'll manage it," responded the Geijesal. Up went the balloon higher; Eigli er. It rose with great rapidity's its' huge form lessened as it.w U 1370061- ed into: the regions of the upper :lilt it beeanie a speck in the sky. The wind was taking it in the direction of the enemy's territory. By this time every staff officer and%hundreds of I others were looking at the moving speck. It is impossible to -describe the anxiety ?eit and expressedfor tbe fate or him, the central object of thought, in that far, away : %moving speck, every Moment becoming less visible. It *then. to move in our di rection; the Countenances of our men brighten with hope. It passes over Our heads. Soon it begins to descend,. but'with a .rapidity -,that; arouses re. neirled QuiOlf voilligild! WHOLE NO. 670. of eaviarT, led by Captain Locke, Lieutenant McQuade, of the General's staff, plunge, spurs into their horses and dash away in the direction of the descending balloon. The rest of the story la aBl received it from the Gen. oral's own lips. While the rope was being- played out he adjusted, his glass loyeaokiness for his proposed view of the ekeihy's territory. A sudden Pound of the ballOon told him in a mo ment-that the rope had given way.— Es dropped his glass; heard the call, "Open the valve," made the response given above and set about looking for the valve. He wall - sensible of being flighty (the General loves a pun as well as , the next one,) but• was not at all nervous. Resew the wind bid ta ken him QVOT the line oi the rebel in trenehments., Raving no wish to drop in among 'them he let the valve take care antUlf; and proceeded •to take advantampit his position to note :the aspect of rebel• objects below. CrOvOe of soldiers rushed from the woodS, end he heard their shouts diseinctlY.-- Luckily he was above the reach of their bullets,so he was not afraid on this score. The map of the country was distinctly discernable. He saw Yorktown and its vrorks„ York river and its' windings, and Norfolk and its smoking chimneys. A counter, cur rent of air struck the balloon, and its course was reversed. 'lts retreat from over rebeldom was raphY. .:'HQopen ed the valve, the gas ...eacaped„ and down he came...He mild not say how fast he came down, but it was with a rapidity he would, not are to have re. peated. The Car atiruck the top of a shelter tent--under which, luckily, no one4appened to be at the time—knock ed the tent into pi, and left him en veloped in a mass of collapsed oil silk. He crawled out and found himself in the middle of .a camp, not one hun dred rods from General McClellan's headquarters. "I came mounted, you see," was his remark to General kurqs, who was a. hotit the first ~man by hls Mle. He gave the details of his aerial voyage to General Burns, who, seeing the op portunity of getting off a joke, could not lose the opportunity. "You are a suspicious character," remarked General Burns. "Bow so?" asked Gen. Porter. .(In the space of half on hour you Twig been" taken xfp* by a balloon and v:rrested.by.a Shelter tent." "And you have come down safe I see," broke in Capt. Locke, before the laughter at Gen. Burn's duet of puns; came vKitlr this cavalry company to look yqu up." "You. ought to have sent flying. ar tillery After. die'," rejoined General Porter. am, Mr.. , W. H. Russell, has writ ten disparagingly of the American army; now lot me tel you what he said, in the sincerity of his heart, to a friend of mine. A Pennsylvania regiment was passing his window and th,e twain were looking at the, troops, whereupon Dlr. Russel spoke in sub• stance as follows:—"Not in England or France, not it Italy, Russia or In dia have I ever seen such well•pro. portionett-and healthy men, and all .things considered, ouch . splendid ma terials for - an army as are presented by that regiment, which is in reality only 'an average specimen of the American forces generally. The com mon food of your troops is such that no . European soldiers ever receive, and what is Wasted in your camps would feed an- immenSe army finder the ecottinlieril . management of French or Russian generals; and while few European soldiers receive more than a sixpense per day, the rank and file of the American army receive the pr.ncely pay of thirte,en dollars per month. And considering . the short time that your army, has seen in existence, its present eilic,ien, , dy is tome a marvel.' Thesc opin ions were sincere arid not uttered for effect, and it is a pity, for his own sake, that Ur: Russell did not write more frequently in this strain. A BoY PRISONER.--A St. Louis correspondent of the Times relates the following incident in the prison hospital at St. Louis. A little .druin mer,boy was evidently dying; a lady spoke to himasking if he wanted anything. 6 1q.0„' was the feeble an• swer look at t,C.reliiiid face - over - he. said his mother had sent 'him - from the Missis sippi to fight and defend her home.— Ile did not regret it, but wanted to see his mother. Ile ,gave his name and his motber4 iladri3ss, Still look. I:o,4WiehfUlly, as if there was some thint.on his mind. At last he, said : Afy mother is Si. good woman, too._ She would treat a poor sick prisoner kindly, and if she was with your son, she would kiss him. "I will kiss you tn.*. deal', boy, for your mother," said she. She kialled.hirri„ , :und . iu a feW minutes he died. v ia E PHYSiCAL MEN„ The Commissioner of Statisties 4f. the State of Ohio, in his annual report, gives thesfollowing,descrjption of the -ph-30400f the men Of . Carnnnssioner says .thet Pro fessor henry and himself have been several years engaged in deAning the American man, by at:Orate, measure ments. pregents only. inch . of these as go to descrihe accurately the men of Ohio. "For the pupose he givea . iiin meas urement of 300 farmers, - Miners and laborers in several counties;. of -230 others in eleven villages, and five Om-, panics of Kennett's Cavalif, all nix- . tire Americans. The following ap ,p9ars to,be the general result olthese. tilfseArements...., That the man of 0120-third ;thrum illilortistr. A FAMILY PAPER PORTO:INN AND comma, /8 'PRINTED AND PZIELISIIED WEEKLY Dy WM, M. PNEsLIN, 9d Story of Punch's New .EnEding. Otunbeciand St _At One Dollar and Fifty Cents a Year. lADVlSanantatna inserted as the usual rated. lresa The friends of the establishment, and the PuhtteSelmt ally are respectfully solicited to send In their orders. IGI`LIAMBILLS Printed at at hours notlee. RATES OF POSTAGE. . In Lebanon County, peerage free., - ' la Penneylvania,out of Lebanon county SW, 08Ilti pfd quarter, or la cents a,year. Oat of this State, 0)4 eta. per quarter, or 28 ate. a year If the postnea is not paid In advance. rates are donbidl. . _ inches high, and' i$ taller than any _European nation of which there are measurements: "He ie taller than the Pelgian, by several inches tailertliinthe English, and even pallier than ,the Bootch Highlanders. The Hi ghlander s, however, exceed the American round the chest, and arl:on the whole, the stoutest. In •.complexion, eyes and hair the light predominates over the, dark. The prevailing hair, is brown and the prevailing eyes gray or blue. In one word the native American is a modified German of the time of Tacitus, and such he ought to be, from his antecedents." A.:Buffulo lady who claims to know "what's what," advises that young men and women be . set, up in housekeeping before they acfl allowed to be*gaged.; and that the young Woman Shall wash and mend and duet, and:that a new•,born infant shall be procured from the hospital ,and that, she shall have charge of him in addi tion to her other duties. She is of the opinion this process would "disen chant" the yogpg,people. lOW "Do you believe in fore-run ners?" asked a lady of Deacon "Yes, ma'am," replied the deacon ; seen them r' - "Bless me !"..ex elaimed the lady; "do tell 1" "Yes," continued the deacon' fixink his eyes with a solemn stare on a dark corner of a room; see one now!" ,"Alercy on me 1" shrieked the lady, "where F.! "There 1 there I" : Said. the deacon, pobiting to where his eyes were di rected. ...;That - cat, ma'am, may be called a 'forerunner, for she runs on all fours." . . INQUIRY ANSWERED TANNING SKIN -1 4 , ITH THE HAIR OR FUR H. D. It.' of Shenango county N. Y., wishes to know how to tan skins with the fur on. 1 will give him. my plan as follows . - • ' andi tick the „skin, spreading ithoothly ;. scrape off at loose and fatty substances, then work in plenty of com mon chalk, rubbing hard with a round ended stick; cover it well and lay it by in a dry place until the chalk pulverizes ; then brush off the chalk and rub in, plenty of finely powdered roil it up dry as possible for a feW daYS, when all will be soft, pliable and durable. Another correspondent says : In answer to 'H. D. li,' concerning hides with the fur on, I would say that all small hide's under ,sheePskins, sheep skins include cart be tanned very nicely by &ilk; a i Stsong solution of equal 'quan: tities of alum and salt dissolved in mode rately hot water, and applied to the clean side of the skins by the use of a tz;sh ; after which, roll up, the fur side out, and lay - away for four or five days, when the tanning will be completed. Alter which they must be rolled and worked, in order to make them soft. C A NNON APING AND RAlN.—Experience shows that the discharge of heavy artillery is usually followed by rain. , The battles of the French armies were succeeded by copious rains, that; rendered small streams bripe'siable, and et the t)attle of Solferipo, a storm of such fierceness arose that the conflict was suspended. The same result attended the battles of our present After General McClellan's four different battles there were heavy. rains. the ful lowing days respectively, and General Beauregard, in his recent report of Bull Run, says that he was prevented from fol., lowing up hi 3 victory by the heavy rains on the folloWins , days. At Fort Doneisou the bombardment op ,Friday was followed by a rain on Saturday. , IgL, A love letter, picked up at Mamas? sas yesterday r conveys the information to a swain in the rebel army that his. sweet• heart. had cut off her hair, and that all the girls In reiStittite.had, perform ed the same operation. The reason giv en for the proceeding was, that the girls in Virginia so ; mourned . for their sweet -1 earts that their hair fell out to. an extent which rendered the tonsorial expedient necessary. Air-A.christian had better go to any place of amusement than go home whin ing because he can't go. 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