Whole No, 2665.
READ! READ! READ
h \ f f f P 3 P
" Is there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
My own, my native land !"
A ND now, when patriots look for the ear-
J\. ly return of peace and prosperity and a
general resumption of business with assur-
Hiiee, we are pleased to inform the public
that a large, Dew, and carefully selected stock
of goods has just been opened at the Old
Shind of Jons KENNEDY IT Co., comprising
a general assortment of
Dry Goods. Groceries. Stone and
Queens ware, Willow and
Cedar Ware,
Fish, Salt, Ham, Shoulder, Flitch and
Dried Beef \
Cheese, Sugars, Syrups, Coffee, Teas, Spices,
Soaps, Tobacco, Segars, Dried Fruit, Turpen
tine and Faints of all kinds, Linseed Oil,
Ti-h Oil. Putty and Window Glass, Coal Oil'
-and a large assortment of
Soai Oil Lamps and Chimneys,
Our Stock will be sold at a small advance
to Country Merchants. As we buy for cash
and in large quantities, we sell LOW.
"Country Produce taken in Ex
change for Goods.
Remember, one door below the Black Bear
Hotel. JOHN KENNEDY, At
April 10, 1862-ly
PATENT
COAL OIL GREASE.
r IMiIS Grease is made from COAL OIL,
A and has been found by repeated tests
to be the most economical, and at the
same time the best lubricator for Mill
(■caring, Stages, Wagons, Carts Carriages,
Vehicles of all kinds, and all heavy bearings,
keeping the axles always eoo' and nut requir
ing iheiu to be looked alter fur weeks, it has
bean tested un railroad ears, and with une
soaking of the waste it has run with the cars,
20.000 miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery
stable and Fxpress companies that have tried
it pronounce it the neplus ultra.
It combines the body and fluidity of tallow,
beeswax and tar, and unlike general lubrica
tors, will not run off, it being warranted to
*tand any temperature.
I have it in boxes 2} to 10 lbs. Also kegs
and barrels from 30 to 100 lbs, for general
use and sale. The boxes are mure prefera
ble; they are G inches in diameter by 2V inches
deep, and hold 2J lbs net; the boxes are clean,
and hardly a carman, teamster, expressman,
miller or farmer, that would not purchase
one box fur trial. F. G. Fit AN CISC US.
Lewistown, February 12, 1802.
LEWISTOWN BAKERY,
We>t llarkct Street, nearly opposite the
Jaii.
/ ION* It AI) ULLRICH. JII. would respect-
V_y fully inform his old customers and citi
zens generally that he coutinues the Baking
of
BREAD, CAKES, &c.,
at the above stand, where those articles can
be procured fresh every day.
Families desiring Bread, ic. will be sup
plied at their dwellings in any part of town,
fruit, Bound, Sponge, and all other kinds of
cake, of any size desired, baked to order at
short notice.
Li-wistown, February '2O, 1802-ly
AMBROTYPES
AND
The Gems of the Season.
r riIIS is no humbug, but a practical truth.
_L The pictures taken by Mr. Burkholder
are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS, TRUTH
FULNESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
DTK ABILITY. Prices varying according
to size and quality of frames and Cases.
Kooin over the Express Office.
Lewistown, August 23, 1860.
WILLIAM LIND,
has now open
A NEW STOCK
OF
Cloths, Cassimeres
AND
VESTI NCS,
which will be made up to order in the neat
est and most fashionable styles. apl9
■arn sr w A, m us
TIIST WARE!
C COUNTRY MERCHANTS in want of Tin
J Ware will find It to their advantage to
purchase of J. B. Selheimer, who will sell
thei+a a better article, and as cheap if not
cheaper than they can purchase it in any of
the eastern cities. Call and see his new stock
Lewistown, April 23, 1862-ly.
W & KiiL
UD OS ssr "C? 2 O* o
OFFICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware
Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
the first Monday of each month to spend the
week. my 3l
1 00 Coal Oil Chimneys, Wicks,
Ay'/ Brushes, &c., for sale at city whole-
Bale prices to retailers, by
mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
HAMS —An excellent article at 10 cents pe
lb., for sale by MARKS <fc WILLIS.
Lewistown,. April 30, 1862.
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THE MIMM.
THE VOLUNTEER'S VISION.
Br GENOA ORLT.
Last night as I lay in the rain
And looked up to heaven through the night
\V? h ,?i me °. er me and lighted mv brain '
With u glory that never will tlood it'again
This side of the river of light.
A ni-Vo a /rt a ,f wee * *>und, as it came
a.I i *r the flutter o! feathery win**,
And her breiuh* ® Ser " ph kept i
i ' ,i.i ' lll ri, y tresses went playing the same
As the air in an instrument s strings.'
1 d rn .v wild heart to be still—
That the vision was naught bin a dream :
~.? 1 i v " e " " ot that over the amethvst hill
ilie teet of my darling had wandered at will
On the banks of Eternity's stream .
I said to the sanctified bird.
'Oh. why have you come from the West ?'
Rv ilwt to'd h°w the leaves of tie- forest were stirred
W d t •V 1 "'* 1 - who brought her the word
Of the land where the weary may rest.
She said she was tired and faint.
And her heart was all covered with snow.
1 he angels they heard her unuttered complaint.
I hey called her, and brought her the robes of a saint,
And she said she was ready to go.
I told her the blossoms were sweet
In the meadows, tha same as of yore ;
but -lie showed me the dew on her sparkling feet
Pressed out of the lillies that bordered the street
By the sand of the paradise shore.
I asked her how long I must wait
Before I should meet her afar;
And 1 prayed her unfold me the book of mv fate-
But she vanished, mid passed through the crystalline
gate
"She Lad left, iu her coming, ajar.
Dear Hugh, there's a battle to-day.
And perchance I may happen to fall;
It 1 m not at the call of the roll, you may sav
A good-bye to the boys in my name, for i uiay
Have said, 'aye' to an angel's sweet call.
Edited by A. SMITH, County Superintendent.
For the Educational Column.
The Next Institute.
The next County Institute will be held
the last two weeks of August, and it seems
well, even at this early date, to urge upon
all who design to teach next season, the
importance of making preparation to attend
the Institute, and to reap all possible bene
fit from its exercises. As is well under
stood by those who have been in the habit
of attending Institutes, it is not the object
of such a gathering to make any special
attempt at display, for the sake of astonish
ing the simple portion of the public; nor
yet to exhibit striking originality and mar
velous wisdom :—but to learn as much as
possible concerning the principles, methods,
and objects of common school Education ;
to gain clearer vision of the real nature, and
capacities, and springs of action, of the hu
man mind; to become newly inspired with
zeal in a cause so sublime and beneficent,
as is the right training of children in school
for the duties and manifold experiences of
life.
This is 110 assumed feeling—respecting
the real nobleness and sacredness ol' the
teacher's work; no person can soberly think
of the subject without being deeply im
pressed with a sense of the momentous in
terests of which the teachers of a country
have the care. And teachers themselves
should cherish so elevated an idea of their
calling as never to boast of it, never to try
to awe the public by revealing their inde
scribable importance; it should be borne in
mind, that teaching is a most useful and
noble calling, but a teacher may be a most
useless and ignoble member of society.
Again, it would be well if teachers could
become so covinced of the dignity of their
work, as to be unwilling to engage or con
tinue in it without suitable literary qualifi
cations. A teacher who takes no honest
pride in his work, might better follow some
other business in which he can feel an hon
orable interest; and a teacher, who is proud
of being a teacher and yet has no sufficient
knowledge for his calling, is an object of
pity, and the unfortunate children who are
under him are still more objects of pity.
Every teacher ought to feel it a burning
shame, a wrong not to be forgiven, to offer
himself as a guide to others when he knows
his inability to guide them aright. He
should regard himself as the worst kind of
an impostor, as a reckless trifler with the
most sacred human interests, if he desires
a situation as instructor of those who need
wise teachings, prudent guidance, the firm
ness of a father's law, the tenderness of a
mother's love.
It frequently seems as if some persons
were perfectly satisfied, if they eould just
succeed in getting a certificate, no matter
how damaging the list of grades. If they
could be well marked, it would be a very
short time before they would receive no
certificate whatever; for such persons ought
to have a distinct understanding that they
are not wanted in any school room —unless
to learn more.
Teachers should aim at securing the best
qualifications, and not be content with the
minimum that will entitle them to a certi
ficate. Here, just at this point, is one of
the most fitting places for them to exercise
a pride of vocation.
In some townships, which are quite poor
ly represented at Institutes and—as a nat
ural consequence —are very poorly served
in their schools, it would be well for Direc
tors to insist upon the attendance of the
Institute by all those who think of apply
ing to them for schools. In this way, by
the wholesome pressure of a legitimate au
thority, much can be done to give the cause
of Education a new impulse, by having on
ly teachers who will take all practicable
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1862,
measures to render themselves fitly prepar
ed for the delicate responsibilities and the
! ' ar ge possible usefulness of the schoolroom.
A. SMITH.
J 11EEEMIE00X
Potecting' Rebel Property.
There has been much complaint that the
• White House,' a property in the vicinity
of Richmond, belonging to a rebel Gener
al named Lee, and inhabited by a portion
of his family was scarcely guarded by our
soldiers, under orders, although, many of
; our sick and wounded were suffering for
I just such protection as it and the buildings
attached to it, would afford. Even the
spring on the property, it is stated, our
thirsty soldiers were not permitted to drink
from, but had to go to a muddy river to
< quench their thirst. In Congress on Mon
day a week the following remarks were
made on the subject:
Mr. Potter, of Wisconsin, offered a reso
j lution requesting the Secretary of War to
inform the House by whose orders the
house of an arch traitor at White House
: Point is guarded and protected by U. S.
| soldiers and withheld from hospital purpo
; ses ?
Mr. Potter said that there was an excel
lent spring on the premises, which was re
fused to our soldiers, who had to drink the
water of the Pamunky river. The pro
ceedings in this matter were a mere contin
uance of a conciliatory policy towards un
thankful rebe s.
Mr. Dunn stated that the house was pro
tected out of respect for the memory of
Washington, and not from a tender regard
for Lee, and expressed his surprise that
the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Pot-
should have insinuated that this pro
tection was placed upon the latter ground.
The country would appreciate the motive
of our Commanding General.
Mr. Sedgwick, of New York, said he
had visited the place. The house was built
within the last ten or fifteen years, and a
great many years since Washington was
gathered to his fathers. The land is high,
and admirably adapted for hospital purpo
ses. There are several outbuildings in good
condition; and he had been informed by
several persons connected with the service
that the houses were capable of accommo
dating from 150 to 200 men. lie believed
that it \\ ashington were alive he would
not be influenced by any such sentimentality
as that they should not be used for the
sick and wounded soldiers of the Union
for the establishment of which Washing
ton had suffered and c mtributcd so much.
On the Secretary of War telegraphing
that the houses should be used for hospi
tais some one of Gen. McClellan's a my
(he hoped it was not McClellan himself,)
replied that those who urged the request
were enemies wl the war and the country.
Mr Dawes, of Massachusetts, testified
as to the facts stated by Mr. Sedgwick.—
lie was there himself, together with a col
league, and was prevented from passing
over the grounds in order to reach the
steamboat. He was confronted by a bay
onet, and informed that there were posi
tive orders to prevent anybody from tres
passing on the premises. He was also told
that a captain was the day before put un
der arrest for allowing persons to cross the
grounds.
The resolution was passed.
From the National Republican of June 17.
LEE'B HOUSE TO BE MADE A HOSPITAL.
—This house, known as the White House,
and which the Government has been so
frequently urged to transform into a hospi
tal, was yesterday made the comfortable
quarters, of five hundred sick and wounded
soldiers, through an order from Secretary
Stanton.
The Secretary and President were urged
to issue this order, by I)r. Green, President
of the New York Medical College, and
Gen. P. M. Wetmore and J. Burns, of the
New England Soldiers' Relief Association.
The President and Secretary said the rea
son they did net issue this order when urg
ed before, was because Gen. McClellan ob
jected to it.
The grounds around this residence are
spacious, the water splendid, and the rooms
admirably calculated to make a fine hospi
tal.
The President, when first spoken to by
the gentlemen above mentioned, urged
some objection to the arrangement, saying
that Gen. McClellan had had some talk
with Col. Lee on a previous occasion, and
had promised if the occasion offered, to pro
tect his residence against occupation by
any United States troops; but when Mr.
Lincoln heard how our soldiers were with
out shelter, except such as afforded by ne
gro huts and barns, and subjected to drink
impure water, while the rooms of Col Lee's
house was empty and guarded by United
States soldiers, he said ' the order must
come. If Gen. McClellan has made a
promise to Col. Lee which he cannot break,
I will now break it for him.'
Mr. Burns, editor of the Yonker Clarion,
started for White House Landing, at 3
o'clock yesterday, with the official order of
Secretary Stanton, throwing open these
grounds and rooms to the hundreds of siok
and wounded who heretofore have laid in
negro huts, open carts, and on the ground.
" Occasional" on Toryism.
In the campaign that is about to be
opened against the Administration and
the war, powerful emphasis is to be laid
upon the empty accusation that the friends
of Mr. Lincoln favor unconditional Eman
cipation and Negro Equality. Contempt
ible as this accusation is, it is frequently
repeated by men who, in their heated part
isanship, forget that they are intelligent
and reasonable beings. As usual, the
name of 1 Democracy' is to be invoked as
a cover to this arrant demagogueism. In
other days, before the people of the United
States were educated by a great war, which
overturned old expectations and destroyed
old theories, such a ' divertissement' as this
have passed current. But, unless our mas
ses are indeed sunken into the deepest slough
of ignorance, this attempt to seduce them
into wrong paths will be fearfully avenged.
I have a very low estimate of the leaders
who bullied and coaxed the majority of the
Democrats of Pennsylvania into the sup
port of Breckinridge in 1800, and who,
with all the treacheries and corruptions of
Buchanan revealed to their eyes and ears,
refused to denounce these crimes. The
bloody harvest of the seed thus sown should
admonish them against another experiment
upon the supposed credulity of the Ameri
can people.
The men in the free States who advo
cate Lnconditional Emancipation are very
few in numbers. In the Republican par
ty they do not number one in five hundred.
There is not a traitor anywhere who does
not know this to be true, even as he re
peats the reverse. As to negro equality,
a still more conclusive reply might be
made to this silly falsehood. The practi
cal amalgamationists are not in the free
States. The most infatuated Abolition
fanatic rarely carries his free thought into
free love. It is only in the atmosphere of
rebelliou that negro equality, in its worst
phase, has been accepted and illustrated.
The social distinction between the races of
white and black, in the free States, is as
broad and clear as it is in England and
France, where, in the face of laws that
make no distinction as to political rights,
the one preserves its relations wholly inde
pendent of the other.
But why continue a reply to an argu
ment not even believed by those who make
it?
This war is productive of great and new
issues. \V bile it adds to the responsibili
ties of the Executive, it reduces the reli
ance of the demagogue upon popular igno
rance, and to this extent reduces the
weight of these responsibilities. It would
have b*en worse for slaver)/ if Treason had
taken up arms aginst a Democratic instead
<>J a Republican Administration. Then
the ingratitude of the slaveholders would
have been more keenly felt, and more mer
cilessly punished. The Democrats, who
clamor for compromise new, and are blind
to the atrocities of the rebels, in that event
would have discarded everything but the
sword, and believed anything b it rebel hu
manity. Mr. Lincoln's Administration is
doing only what, that of Mr. Douglas would
have done, and less, had Douglas been
chosen President. Results have sadly
proved that if Breckinridge had been elect
ed } four years would have found the free
States without a country save that which
was controlled by the institution of slavery.
The rebellion of 1861-62 is the voice of the
devil proclaiming that, in the event of the
election of Breckinridge in 1860, FOUR
YKARS MORE WOULD IIAVFI FOUND US A
SLAVE MONARCHY!
These arc plain lessons. They need no
rhetoric to adorn and no witnesses to con
firm them. They are facts, and facts are
better than history.
A Kanaka Community in California.
A gentleman who has resided long in
the Hawaiian Islands, writes thus from In
dian Creek, El Dorado county:
I found here twenty four Kanakas, prin
cipally Hawaiians, and two from the South
Seas; two Hawaiian women, three Indian
women, of the 'Digger' race, and four half
Indian children. At this I was not sur
prised. Hut I was not prepared to find
two of the Indian women speaking Hawai
ian very correctly, all of them dressing
neatly, cutting, sewing, washing, and iron
ing their own and their husbands' and
children's clothes; to find one of them
reading the Hawaiian Bible very intelli
gently, as does also the oldest child a girl
of eight or ten years; to find two of these
'Digger' women taking part in prayer
meetings, expressing regrets of their for
mer ignorance, and piety for their ignorant
relatives; and to find them all desirous to
learn more. I was not prepared to find one
of the best of their dwelling houses set
apart exclusively for religious worship—
floored, seated with backless benches, with
a table at one end for a speaker; to find
the natives holding early morning and ev
ening meetings every week day, besides
seven district meetings on Sunday, and on
Thursday afternoon meeting; and to find
that for a few weeks past they have kept
up an afternoon singing school. Most of
their dwelling houses were quite rough,
but Kenao, perhaps the most substantial
Hawaiian Christian in California, I found
living in a neat little clapboard house put
Up by himself, painted outside and in, and
two of the rooms neatly papered. I have
"not found a more interesting community
since coming to California. Two of the
Indian women apeak Hawaiiain altogether.
One of them reads it with considerable ease
aud correctness, joins in the singing, takes
part in the prayer meetings, and prays in
secret. She has just been taken down with
the small pox. I shall earnestly plead that
she may not be taken away now. She is
the mother of three bright children—one
now at Hilo, Sandwich Islands. The eldest
child, a girl of eight or ten years, they say
is a good reader. She is fast recovering
from the small pox, and acts like a well
behaved and thoughtful girl. My heart
has been touched by her patience under
suffering. They have put a stop to drunk
enness among themselves, sending off those
who drink and steal. They tell me that
after due deliberation, they voted to raise
§SOO for a new church, and that it is to be
accomplished within this year. After
some hesitation as to whether to contribute
anything for missionary purposes till they
had raised the §SOO for their church, they
finally voted, before I arrived, to take up a
contribution at every monthly concert.
New Remedy for Intemperance.
The latest prescription we have seen is
the following, which we commend to the
temperance speakers on Friday evening
next as one likely to prove efficacious.—
The society might pass a resolution that
each member provide him or herself with
a good switch and all hands lay on the
back of the first man caught drunk on the
streets:
A new use of ' the rod' was recently
inaugurated in Vermont, a State which has
been liberal in its bestowal of'new notions'
upon the race. It seems that a drunken
vagabond took it into his head to perform
the humane act of ridding his family and
society of his disgusting presence and
burthensome support, by simply drinking
an unusually large dose of laudanum. He
drank the laudanum; but it seems that his
family and neighbors did not appreciate
his kind attentions and so determined to
foil them. A physician was sent for, who
after contemplating the stupefied brute a
short time, came to the conclusion that
nothing would save him but a sound drub
bing. Switches were ordered, and a cou
ple of men commenced the work of whip
ping the nearly defunct inebriate back in
to the bosom of society and his family.—
After switching him for a quarter of an
hour, signs of animation were exhibited
by the patient, and by and by he sat up,
and called for brandy. A glass was given
him, which he drank, and immediately
relapsed into a state of insensibility. Again
the switches were faithfully applied, and
alter an incredible whipping the patient
again showed signs of life. The novel ap
plication was continued with unabated vig
or, until the patient was fully restored to
consciousness and pronounced out of dan
ger. It is said that the physician who
prescribed this novel treatment of the case
is something of a wag, and was determined
that his patient should have his deserts at
least once in his life, even if he was cured
by it.
Horrible—Forty Men Singularly Poi
soned or Diseased.
Some thirty boatmen yesterday morning
called at the office of the board of health
for medical treatment. They had just ar
rived in a steamer from up the river, and
had been dreadfully poisoned or diseased
through handling certain bags of wheat.—
All who had been engaged in stowing the
wheat on board, and two or three persons
who had simply sat for a short time on the
sacks, were affected with large and highly
inflamed welts running all over the body.
Dr. Grimsfoed, the health clerk, was in
clined to attribute the distemper to the
prevalence of ' black rot' in the wheat—
cereals occasionally becoming infested with
a species of terribly prolific animalcul®
that disseminate themselves at once by con
tact, and whose presence in grain is popu
larly designated as ' the black ret.' Some
ten others, besides those who visited the
health office, were similarly afflicted. Dr.
G. instantly furnished the party with ap
propriate medicine, and gave such advice
as be deemed proper in the case.
An opinion among the patients was that
the bags had been purposely poisoned, to
prevent ants from eating the grain. This
appears incredible. Another hypothesis
is that the sacks had been in contact with
a certain peculiar and poisonous species of
oak. It strikes us that these sick ones
should have the freight complained of, and
the vessel concerned ought to receive care
ful and close attention. Certainly steps
should at least be taken to prevent others
from suffering through handling the nox
ious sacks of grain. We cannot learn that
even the name of the steamer is known to
the health authorities.— St. Louis Demo
crat.
A Life Thought.
I heard a man who had failed in busi
ness, and whose furniture was sold at auc
tion, say that when the cradle, the crib,
and the piano went, the tears would come,
and he had to leave the house to be a man.
Now there are thousands of men who have
lost their pianos, but who have found bet
ter music in the sound of their children's
voices and footsteps going cheerfully down
with them to poverty, than any harmony
of a chorded instrument." Oh, how blessed
New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 34.
is bankruptcy, when it saves a man's chil
dren. 1 see mauy men who are bringing
up their children as I should briDg up
mine, if, when they were ten years old, 1
should lay them on a dissecting table and
cut the sinews of their arms and legs, so
that they could neither walk nor use their
hands, but sit still and be fed. Thus rich
men are putting the knife of indolence and
luxury to their children's energies, and
they grow up, fatted, lazy calves, good for
nothing at twenty-five but to drink deep
and squander wide, and the father must be
a slave all his life in order to make beasts
of his children. llow blessed, then, is the
stroke of disaster which sets the children
free, and gives them over to the hard but
kind bosom of poverty, who says to them,
1 work,' and working makes them men.—
Bcecher.
A Relic of Human Slavery.
There is now on exhibition at the Stoats
Zeitung office, on Wells street, an iron col
lar weighing a pound and a half which was
sawed i'roin a negro's neck by Win. Eich
elbach, a blacksmith in the Hecker regi
ment, and sent to that office by J)r. Wag
ner. Upon the collar is rudely engraved
'J. Fennell's slave.' The negro, four
years and a half ago, ran away from his
master, was recaptured, and ever since
has worn this galling collar us a punish
ment. Some weeks since he again escaped,
and came into the lines of tho Hecker reg
iment. The gallant lellows atonce expres
sed their love of liberty and hatred of hu
man slavery by sawing off the barbarous
and torturing collar from the slave's neck,
and employing him as a teamster. When
J. Fennell, man owner, recovers his prop
erty, it will probably be through a thousand
bayonets, and when he recovers his collar
he will probably know it.— Chicago Tri~
bunc.
Sad Incidents.
Says the Easton Express : Two sisters
who had barely escaped the flood with
their lives, at Penn Haven, one having
been pulled out of the water by the hair,
came to Mauch Chunk yesterday afternoon
on their way borne. The father had just
arrived in town to see if his daughters
were safe, and finding that they were, he
started for home. A short time after he
was gone, the daughters got into a boat to
cross the river, and while they were sitting
in the boat a young man jumped in to cross
with thein, when the boat upset, and both
of the girls were drowned. Their bodies
were recovered in a few hours after, and by
the time the father had reached home he
received the news of the death of his
daughters.
A woman was found drowned a short
distance from Mauch Chunk; she had a
child in her arms, also dead. The child
was receiving nourishment from its parent,
when overtaken by the water, as its posi
tion upon the mother's breast when found
proved. The complete history of the re.-
cent disastrous freshet will never be writ
ten. Many a heart has been wrung by it,
and many homes rendered desolate by ita
ravages.
Sharp Work in Canada.
A few days since, a dreadful murder wa3
committed in the town of Moateagle, C.
W. An altercation took place between two
friends, one of whom, named Edwards, had
shot hens belonging to the other, Mr. Mon
roe. The latter and his son went to Ed
wards' house to expostulate with him.—
Edwards said he would continue to shoot
the hens whenever they came on his grain,
and at once took his gun for that purpose.
Monroe took hold of the gun, and Edwards,
drew a pistol, which Monroe wrenched
from him, and tdld his son to take it. At
this Edwards' wife came behind Monroe
and struck him across the head with a
scythe, cutting into the brain. When he
fell, she struck again, nearly cutting off his
arm. Edwards then seized the pistol and
shot young Monroe in the back, inflic
ting a mortal wound. The
have been taken in custody.
A Characteristic act of Benevolence.—
CINCINNATI, June 1862. Geo. F.
Esq. —Dear Sir: I understand that you
are receiving contributions for our suffer
ing brethren of the South. Not wishing
to have the women and children and poor
Congoes suffer for the sins of their lords
and masters—the innocent with the guihy
—I desire that you will appropriate the
accompanying amount to the purchase of
provisions for our needy fellow-citizens.
By taking the trouble to attend to this
matter, you will greatly oblige, yours, &p.,
N. LONOWORTH.
Caution to Boys. —ln Milwaukee, a few
days ago, some boys were playing with
marbles, which had been bought in the
city, and which were nicely painted. The
day was very warm and the hands of the
boys got moist, in consequence ef which
the paint dissolved and attached to their
fingers. One of the boys wiped his hands
on his forehead, whereby the poison con
tained in the pint detached from the mar
bles was communicated to the face. In
two hours his eyes began to swell, and con
tinued to swell, so that after two days he
could not see through the swollen face, an 4
it was twelve days before he was able tq
use his eyes.