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Whole No. 2758.
Rewistowu Post Office.
Mails arrive and close at the Lvwietown P.
O. as follows :
ARRIVR.
Eastern through, 5 33 a. m.
44 through and way 4 21 p m.
Western 44 44 44 ' 10 38 a.m.
Bellefonte ' 4 44 44 2 30p in.
Northumberland, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, " 6 00 p. in.
CLOSK.
Eastern through 8 00 p. m.
44 and way 10 00 a. m
Western 44 44 330 p. m.
Bellefonte 800 44
Northumberland (Sundays, Wednesdays
and Fridays) 8 00 p m.
Office open from 7 30 a. m. to 8 p. m. On
Sundays from Bto9 am. S. COMFORT, P. M.
I,ewlstown Station.
Trains leave Lewistown Station as follows;
Westward. Eastward
Baltimore Exoress, 4 40 a. m. •
Philadelphia 44 5 33 44 12 20 a. m.
Fast Line, G26p. m. 350 "
Fast Mail, 10 38 44
Mail, 421 44
Through Accommodation, 2 35 p m.
Emigrant. 9 12 a. m.
Through Freight, 10 20 p. m. 120a m.
Fast 44 3 40 a. m. 8 15 44
Express 44 1 1 00 44 H 35 p. m.
Stock Express, 5 00 44 9 05 44
Coal Train. 12 45 p. m. 10 38 a m.
Local Freight, 645 a. ni. 626 p. m.
Omnibuses convey passengers to
•n.i from all the trains, taking up or setting them
down at all points withifl the borough limits.
SEC. W. ELDER,
Attorney at Law,
Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to business in Mltfiin, Centre ami Hunting
don counties ny26
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OFFICE or East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware
Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
the first Monday ah month to spend the
week. " my3l
DR. J. Z. MARZS
OFFERS his Professional services to the
citizens of Lewistown and the surround
ing country. Office in the Public Square op
posite the Lewistown Hotel. 4 janl3-6m*
Large Stock of Furniture on
Hand.
A FELIX is still manufacturing all kinds
•of Furniture. Young married persons
and others that wish to purchase Furniture
will find a good assortment on hand, which
will be sold cheap for cash, or country pro
duce ftkeo in exchange for same. Give me
a call .1 : Valley street, near Black Bear Ho
tel. " feb 21
Jacob C. Blymyer & Co. }
Produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LEWISTOWN, PA.
•©"Flour and Grain of all kinds pur
chased at market rates, or received on storage
and shipped at usual freight rates, having
storehouses and boats of their own, with care
ful captains and hands. Plaster, Fish, arid
Salt always on hand. sep'2
Ijock Repairing, Pipe Laying,
Plumbing and White Smithing
fIMIE above branches of business will be
J. promptly attended to on application at
the residence of the undersigned in Main
street. Lewistown.
janiO GEORGE MILLER.
AND
BRAID STAMPING
Done on the most fashionable patterns by
MRS MARION W. SHAW-
Lewistown, Sept. 23, 1863
Kishacoquillas Seminary
AND
NORMAL INSTITUTE.
r |MIE Summer Session of this Institution
1 will commence on
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1864,
and continue twentyone weeks.
Cost for Board, Furnished Rooms and Tu
itioo in the English Branches, per session,
SOO.
Day scholars, per session, sl2.
Music. Languages and Incidentals extra.
In order to secure rooms in the Institute
application should be made before tbe open -
ing of the school.
For further particulars, address,
S. Z. SHARP, Prin.
j at >l3 Kishacoquillas, Pa.
Mt. Rock Mills.
ORDERS
FOR FLOUR, FEED, &0.,
CAN, until further notice, be left at the
Store of S. J. Brisbin & Co., or at the
llat Store of W. G. Zollinger, at which pla
ces they will be called for every evening, fill
ed next morning, and delivered at any place
in the Borough.
G LEIIR.
BEST Note and Letter paper at
march 2. SWAIN'S.
TIE Jill M IL
"TIS SW KEr TO BR REMEMBERED."
BT FIDEUTX.
'Ti svepet to be remembered.
When joys are falling fast,
When friends are near unnumbered
With love on us to cast.
! Tis sweet, oh yes, 'tis sweet.
'Tis sweet to be remembered,
When sickness on us falls,
When time and mind are cumbered
By sorrow's bitter palls.
'Tis sweet, yes, then 'tis sweet.
'Tis sweet to be remembered,
When the cold hand of death
Parts those whom we have numbered
Ours, till our latest breath.
Remembered then, 'tis sweet.
'Tis sweet to he remembered.
When fortune's scales are turned,
When left uubenefactored,
By those toward whom we yearned.
How sweet, oh, then, how sweet.
Oh. sweet to he remembered,
When vile tongues in their zest,
Foul calumny engendered.
To mar the virtuous rest.
Humanity! then 'ti*eweet.
Sweeter to he remembered,
When God sees fit to smite
With a loving hand ; tendered
To bring us to the right.
Christians! then 'tis sweet.
'Tis sweet to be remembered,
By Thee, oh! Christ, my Love;
When we by Thee are numbered,
Among the blest above.
My Saviour, oh! 'tis sweet.
In pitying love remember
We mortals poor and blind,
And help us to remember
AU stages of mankind.
Our Father's love is sweet.
TALES' & SKETCHES
The Pastor's Lieutenant.
STORY FOR BUSYBODIES IN GENERAL.
Miss Jellaby rose at six one beautiful
August morning, and throwing open her I
chamber window, snuffed once or twice, at
the fragrance coming up from the g-rden
below. Then she hunted a moment for
her spectacles upon the bureau, and put
ting them on, looked eagerly at Randall
cottage over the way. A very modest, pret i
ty little house it was, with roses and syriDgas
growing under each window, and wood
biue and jessamine climbing over the door;
but M iss Jellaby was not admiring its |
beautv just then. She looked up at the
front window, on the second floor, and
gave a vieious snort.
4 As I expected ! She isn't up yet, and
here it is six o'clock ! And where is she
L wonder?'
Before she had time to answer the
question, as it was asked—mentally—the
front door of the cottage opened, and Miss
Jellaby shrinking behind the curtain, saw
a handsome, sunburned man come out,
and go down the garden walk, with a ci
gar in his mouth. It was easy to see by
the slight roll in his walk, that he was a
sailor, though for the matter of that, his
bearing, handsome face, and frank hearty
manner, would have told the tale, if he
had not stirred a stt p With his handb
ill his pockets, he sauntered among the
roses, bending down now and then as if to
say good morning to the fairest, and al
ways removing his cigar when he did so.
' He couldn't do more if he was speak
ing to a woman,' said the spinster, apply
ing her eyes to a hole left purposely in
the white curtain • The man is mad
about flowers, I do believe, and she is a
touch beyond him, if such a thing can he
Ah, there she comes—and dressed in blue
gingham, too '. I wonder what her morn
ing gowns cost her a year ? Andherslip
pers— oh, mercy, there they go right
through the wet —well, tl ere '
\\ ords failed the worthy spinster.—
i Meanwhile the owner of the slippers and
very pretty little affairs they were—bronz
ed, laced, rosetted with a spangle that
shone like a dew drop—tripped down the
walk so liehtly that the gentleman did
not hear ler step, and coming upon him
as he bent over a hod of vio ets, gave him
a punch that sent him on his face among
them. * To see her laugh—to see him
blunder up and chase her through the al
leys—to see him kiss her when he prison
ed her at last in his strong arm—and to
see her pretend to box his ear.- for it—
was a sight for a loving heart ro watch —
but Miss Jellaby, over opposite, fainted
away with horror. She rang her bell vio
lently, and a square-faced, sour looking
woman, who had lived with her for years,
made her appearance.
* Susan ?'
' Well,' said the amiable domestic briefly.
Before M iss Jellaby could speak, the
uncooscious pair in the opposite garden
transgressed against propriety again.
' Walking up and down in broad day
light, with his" arm around her waist—
just look at her, Susan ! Do you mean to
stand there and tell me that that man is
only her brother ?'
' Dear me, ma'am—how oan I tell ? I
only know that they look alike, and that
they have the same name, Helen and
l'hiiip Graham, I was told.'
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1864.
' Humph! Its tuy opinion that some
one ought to speak to Mr. Fullertoa.'
4 The minister ? What for ?'
4 Are you such a fool, Susan, as not to
see what it ail means ? They are no more
brother and sister than you and I are.'
' Well, what are they then ?'
' That remains to be told—the w Glob
es ! Hut Mr Fullerton will soon set them
to rights. I shall go and see him alter
breakfast. I don't know what the poor
man would do without me.'
' Have some peace. I suppose,' mutter
ed vSusan, under her breath, as she follow
ed Miss Jellaby down to the parlor.
Breakfast being over, Miss Jellaby sail
ed to the parsonage.
1 he clergyman was a quiet peace loving
man, somewhat timid withal, and the
spinster always overpowered him with her
arguments, when she attempted to do so.
She stayed nearly half an hour with him;
at the expiration of that tiuie people who
were on the lookout saw her conveying the
unhappy parson in the direction, and at
last, through the very gate of Randall
Cottage.
A tidy looking old servant admitted
them, ushered them into a pleasant nur
sery room, and said she would go and rell
her mistress of their arrival. Mr. Fulller
ton sat on the edge of his chair, very un
easy in mind, and wishing with ail his
heart that he was at home again. Miss
Jellaby strode up and down the room like
a dragon, eying everything about her, and
making observations in an under tone,
which, however, he could not help hear
ing.
* Such extravagance ! Look at the car
pet, now—ail roses and lilies, and strag
gling green vines. Why can't they be
contended with a drngget, as lam ?' •
She took another turn.
1 And a guitar! Spaniards, I don't 1
doubt; or Italians; and the rest follows
as a mater of course. Mr. Fullerton I be- I
lieve these people are heathens !'
4 Hardly, I think, or they never would
have come to church last Sunday.'
' Oh, you don't know that; perhaps !
they had some private end to gain by it,' j
said Miss Jellaby.
The spinster's unreasonable suspicions •
tickled Mr. Fullerton beyond measure— I
She saw bini laughing and grew indig- I
nant.
4 Let those laugh that wio, 1 say, Mr. !
I'ullerton; I don't doubt you will feel
more like crying before this business is i
settled,'
4 Not I,' said the minister, with a rueful !
look.
4 A crucifix, as I am a sinner,' she mur
mured a moment afterwards. There, Mr.
Fullerton, what did I tell you ! hanging
on the wall here in broad daylight* Shall
I pull it down ?'
4 Are you beside yourself, Miss Jellaby ?' I
said Mr. Fullerton, springing up and ar
resting her hand just in time.
The sound of voices and laughtef in the
garden prevented her giving him what
she called, u 4 piece of her mind.' There ,
was a race up the broad path, that sober i
ed into a walk when young couple i
neared Ibe windows, followed by the old j
servant, who had been in the grounds to
eail them.
They entered the room together, flush
ed with their frolic, but looking happy
and pleased to meet the clergyman.
4 Siri wears a different face from that,' he
said to himself, as he shook hands with
them They torned to the spinster, who !
had bolstered herself up against the chim- j
ney piece, and stood eyeing them with sour ;
disdain.
'Your neighbor, Miss Jellaby,' said Mr
Fullerton, adding in a low whisper to
her, as they sought about the room for
easy chairs. 'lt's all a mistake, my good
creature —there's nothing wrong here.
I'll have nothing to do with the matter.
•Say nothing, and let this pass as a morn
ing call.'
'Say nothing, indeed! Mr. Fullerton,
I am astonished at you !' was her reply,
too audibly made, however, for Mr. Gra
ham heard it, though he was too courteous
to look surprised
'l'ray take this easy chair, Mr. Fuller
ton, said Helen, who wondered inwardly
at the strange behavior of her quests.
'No, my child,' said the clergyman
kindly. 'Sometime I hope'to come again
L can only express my sorrow having been
persuaded against my better judgement to
enter these doors on such an absurd errand
>—and leave you.'
'My dear sir, forgive me if I do not
quite understand !' exclaimed the captain,
while Helen made up her mind that both
her visitors were mad.
'I will tell you at another time,' said.
I 1 ullerton, nervously. 'X will only say in
explanation of this intrusion, that it has
been caused by a ridiculous mistake.
Miss Jellaby, will you allow me to accom
pany you home.?'
Miss Jellaby folded her arms, loooked
at them all viciously, a*d thundered out—
' No!*
'ls she mad?', whispered Helen to the
clergyman. 'What does all this mean?'
Miss Jellaby heard her.
'lt means this, madam, this and noth
ing more, that if Mr. Fullerton is to be
ensnared by a pretty face, and frightened
out of doing his duty, I am not I'.
'Was there ever such an unfortunate
piece of business! Miss Jellaby, I can
riot allow yu to commit such an act of
folly, or to insult these young creatures.
I command you, as your master, not to
speak.'
'I take no orders from a man who
. shrinks from his duty,' said the spinster
1 loftily.
'My dear sir, (turning to the captain,)
it seems I cannot spare y u the infliction,
i so 1 may as well tell you what this good
! lady means. .She lives opposite you as
you already know '
'And she has seen you time and again,
; when you thought yourselves quire alone—
remember that. chimed in the sharp voice
iof the spinster. #
4 l>o be quiet, my dear Miss Jellaby.
As she says, sjie has often seen you '
'Kissing! exploded from her iips.
4 Miss Jellaby, either you or I must be
silent. From these things she has drawn
her own conclusions, and I am ashamed r o
say that for a brief p<ice she persuaded
me into believing therein. I need not
add that from the instant you entered this
room, my suspicions vanished, and I would
readily stake my life, this moment, upon
* your perfect integrity.'
4 Hut, my dear sir,' said Captain Ora
ham. smiling, 'of what does this lady sus
, peet us?' ♦
'Tell them, Miss Jellaby, I will not.'
'l'retty behavior, I am sure, to leave
the worst part to me, Mr Fullerton.
However, no one shall say 1 shrunk lrom
my duty !'
J "VV e are wai ing to know what heinous
I crime we have committed,' said Gupf-iin
: Graham, drawing the bewildered Helen
clo.-e to his side Miss Jellaby gasped at
the caress; then it seemed to give her fresh
energy
'Hefore my very eyes, sir!'
'What do you mean?'
4 I suppose you will kiss her next.'
'Well, now you mention it —1 think I
will And he did ! Miss Jellaby nearly
! fainted away with horror.
'Mr. Fullerton, how can you stand
there so quietly, and watch this Yhamcless
I conduct? As for you, sir,' she added,
I turning to the good humored captain, 'you
: need uot think every one will tolerate your
I audacious—'
| 'Take breath, my dear Miss Jellaby.'
4 lt is infamous,' shouted the enraged
| spinster. **'Hrother arid sister, indeed!
j You are no more her brother than you are
I mine, Captain Graham,
i 'I know it—l never said I was !'
Mr Fullerton looked rather puzzled.
Miss Jeilaby was triumphant.
'Well, you are brazen abo it it, I must
say. This town v#ll soon be too hot to
: hoid you, depend upon it.' '
'I never knew it was a crime not to be
a woman's brother before,* said the cap
I tain quietly. 'However, there is a rela
tion between us, if it pleases you any bet
ter.'
'What is it'
•I am her cousin—the ward of her fa
ther, and have always lived with her fami
ly in England.'
Oh!'
' here was a world of meaning in that
simple ejaculation.
'Also I have the honor to be—'
' Her husband !'
Mr Fullerton uttered a most unclerical
hurrah, and shook hands with the young
couple over and over again.
'lier husband!' faltered the old maid.
•1 —L never thought of that!'
'Allow me to hope, madam, that you
will have your wits about you before you
try to ere .te another scandal,' said the
captain suavely. 'I have the honor to wish
you good morning.'
lie held the door open as lie spoke—
she could hut take the hint, and rushed
out of the house, and into her own, in a
state verging upon distraction. Staying
to be laughed at and sympathized with,
was what she could not endure—the cot
tae was shut up next day, and she and
Susan were far away Miss Jelluby had
tbund her match, and the village has
known peace since her departure—for the
first time. **
•_
MIIEELMMEOOI,
Who First Armed the Negroes ?
The so called Democratic press and bla
tant orators are daily asserting 'that at
the outbreak of the rebellion they heartily
and vigorously sustained the President in
the prosecution of the war until be turned
it into an abolition war, and armed and or
ganized negro regiments.' Now without
stopping to prove the entire falsity of the
above, we give below an abstract from a
speech delivered in Carlisle, Kentucky, on
the 25th of June last, by Col. Bramlette,
afterwards elected Governor of that State :
'You object to negro soldiers. Who
began this business? Who raised the first
negro regiment? Did Lincoln? Don't
you know that in the beginning of this
strife in New Orleans they heralded abroad
that they had already organized two negro
regiments to fight the Yankees with ?
Don't you know that the first act in the
Tennessee liebel Legislature was to au
thorize the organization of free negro reg
EffEIFaPILESy
inients ? Don't you know it to He a fait
! furthermore that they h.ive regiments of
Indians in their service. to tomahawk and
! seaip our women and children ? And ye?
none of you here I will venture
to say, has heard these constitutional Union
; men object to their u-ing negro regiments
to fight us with. Yor never heard one of
| them onjeet. to enlisting the Indians against
us. Why is it that you have grown so
• terribly repugnant to negro aid ! You are
willing if should be employed against us,
hut now that it is being employed to help
us you are terribly disturl ed The rea
son seems irres'stahie that when they were
fighting on the side you were anxious
should win, all was w t li ; lut as soon as
they are employed against that side, you
object.
'Suppose one of you were assaulted by
robbers, who threatened to burn your bouse
and murder your family if you did't give
up your money ; that your neighbor came
running to your assistance, and with him
one or two stout negroes with clubs and
axes and guns; that while you are engag
ed in a close hand to-hand conflict with
one of them you should see that brawny
negro hewing one of thetn down, would
you say, 4 Hoid on, I don't want any ne
gro to help me. Here, Mr Robber, I am
not going to succeed in driving you off' by
any such aid as that; you may burn my
house and take my property.' Is this what
any sane mar would do? But it. is just
in this way that Southern sympathizers—
Constitutional Union men—talk They
would have us, t ecause the President does
not use such weapons as they think prop
er, say : * Here, Jeff Davis, take all we
have, and slay us as soon as you please;
not another man or another dollar can we
give till Lincoln quits fighting with these
things.'
Present Prospect of the Presidential
Election
[Correspondence New York Evening Post.]
In July*. 1860, for the soke of amus
ing some friends, I printed an estimate
of the Presidential election ol that
year. In that estimate I gave Lin
coln 179, and Breckinridge and compa
ny 1-1 electoral votes; the actual re
sult was 180 fiir the former ticket, and
1-3 for the latter. As another election
is approaching, I venture on another
guess, although earlier in the season,
and the contingencies perhaps greater.
The electoral votes are according to
the new appointment, and include the
new .States of Colorado, Nebraska, and
Nevada. If East Tennessee is admit
ted as a separate State, two addition
al electoral votes to repiesent the two
United States Senators should be ad
ded to the Union column.
# P. S.
Union. Opposition.
Arkansas 5 New Jersey 7
California 5 Kentucky II
Cnloradii ?>
Connecticut * 6 18
Delaware 3 Doubtful
Illinois 16 I Missouri 11
Indiana 13
low a 8 Sol Voting
K.insas 3 Alabama 8
Louisiana 7 Florida 3
Maine 7 Georgia .9
Maryland 7 Mi-sissippi 7
Massachusetts 12 North Carolina 9
Michigan 8 B>>uih Carolina 6
Minnesota . 4 Texas 6
Nebraska 3 Virginia (part) 5
Nevada 3
New Hampshire 5 53
New York 33
Ohio 21 Necessary to a
Oregon 3 choice, (if a majority
Penrisy vania 26 of the entire electoral
Rhode Island 4 vote is required.) 161
Tennessee 10 Necessary to a choice
V eruaojit 5 (if only a majority of
Virginia (part) 5 those voting is requir
West Virginian 5 ed) 134.
Wisconsin 8
288
The Lake and Mississippi Canal-
Tho President lust week communi
cated to Congress the report of C. B.
Stewart, consulting engineer, upon
the improvements to pass gunboats
from tide-water to the Western Lakes.
The engineer assumes that upon the
connection of those lakes with tide
water depends our common defence as
well as general welfare, and that the
Mississippi river should likewise be
connected with the lakes. He urges
that the great food-producing region
uses this chain of lakes for transit of
exports and imports, which is a line of
communication at present utterly de
fenceless, leaving the lake cities to des
truction by English gunboats on a
declaration of war by Great Britain,
thus inflicting damage to which the
cost of the proposed improvements
would be utterly insignificant. He
makes various recommendations, and
gives as total estimates for improved
gunboat locks for the Erie, Oswego,
Champlain, and Cayuga and Seneca
canals, with seven feet of water, over
818,000,000, and with eight feet of
water $20,500,000, and the cost of a
canal around Niagara Falls at from
ten to thirteen millions of dollars.
—The next wedding on the tapis is
said to be a tall chap down street and
a girl with blue-black eyes, dark hair, Ac
(sairsOTSTs ikkj
New Series—Vol, XVIII. No. 23.
Southern Aristocracy.
Here is nit account ol the 'rise and pro
gress of sonic oi ilic 'superior race
Gen Forrest was once what is called in
♦be Southwest a 'river shark;' that is a
I steamboat gambler From this he pot to
|be a riegro trader, and became rich (Jo
the breaking out of the war be received a
commission in the rebel army, and is now
| oi their most distinguished Major Gen
erals. H
J'he 'Aeklin estate,' near Nashville, is
one oi the ut >st 'aristocratic' properties in
that region. I.' wis owned by 'Joe Aeklin,'
lately deceased, who is described as a 'low
fellow, ol no account' fill he married the
widow of the late Isaac Franklin, whose
money, made by her first husband in sel
ling negroes, converted him into a nabob
and made him one of the chivalry.
Exceeding the F'airvue and Aeklin es
tates in aristocratic pretension is that of
Gen. Harding, also lying within a few
miles cf Nashville. It embraces 5,000
acres of land, a large and well stocked deer
park, and other feudal appurtenances Gen
Harding was u member of the Jocky Ciul,
a leader in the Agricultural Society, and a
member of the rebel Hoard of War Gen.
Harding is the 'son oi old John Harding,
the negro trader.' That is his genealogy
and famly tree, a- it. was given to me.
Another baronial estate near Nashville is
that of Mr John 'I honipson? It contains
about 1.500 acres of land, au imposing
mansion, and finely laid out grounds, and
its ownership places Mr Thompson among
the men of consideration in rebeldom He
is a negro trader, worth half" a million of
dollars.
Another rebel establishment, well known
in Nashville, though it is not distinguished
by pretension, is that of W. W. Woodfoik,
lusq 31 r. Woodfoik is the son of a inau
ol the same name, who raised himself from
proverty and jpbscarity by successful trade
i n negroes. Beginning in a small way,
fie accumulated money enough to start his
sons Joseph and Austen in the negro bus
iness in Baltimore. There they bought
up 'vagrant and term of year' slaves, and
sent them out to the old man in Tennessee,
who disposed of them. Buying these
'term of year and vagrant' slaves at prices
little more than nominal, and selling them
at the high rates which such property com
manded in the South west, a fortune suffi
cient tor the whole family was soon accu
mulated. if any one should think that in
this statement 1 do the \\ oodfolks injustice,
let him turn to the 'Peter Sleeper' case,
published in the '\erger Reports,' and see
for himself.
[lhe Austen Wood folk spoken of
above we remember well, having fre
quently seen him wh ; le residing at Bal
timore thirty years ago. His den was
on
tance from the then city limits, and was
generally regarded with horror, it be
ing nothing unusual to hear t he clank
ing of chains, the sobs and wails of
men and women, aye, and shrieks too,
of those whose only crime was that
that thev were born with black, tan
nev, or yellow skins, and their ancaa
tors torn from their homes by violence
and consigned to slavery—all, accord
ing to the uevv sect of Christifins , with
the sanction of God and the Scrip
tures I—Ed. Gazette.]
—The Cincinnati Enquirer lavs
down the "principles" of the Ohio
"Democracy" in this wise: "There
can be no war under the Constitution
for the coercion of a sovernign State.
| The Democracy stand by the Constitu
| tion, and insist that such a war can
not be prosecuted for any legitimate
or just purpose, or in any just man
ner." On this platform the Ohio " De
mocracy" name George B McClellan.
—James P. Parrot -has been ap
pointed Flour Inspector at the port of
Philadelphia. Mr. Parrott was Adju
tant of the Corn Exchange -Regiment,
was wounded at Hhoppnrdstown in a
skirmish which took | lace immediate
ly after the battle of Antietam. Adju
tant Parrott behaved himself with
great courage. He was taken prison
er at Sherppardstown, and suffered
greatly in the prison dens at Rich
mond.
—A soldier lay in a lady's house,
badly wounded. A Major-General rode
to the door. His orderly took his
horse. He got off, went in, and sat
down by the dying man's side : Taking
out a little book, he read from it: 'Lot
not your heart be troubled,' &c. Ho
then knelt down and offered up a
prayer to God for that dying soldier.
Arising from his knees, he bent down
and kissed him, and said: 'Captain
G , we shall meet in Heaven.'
He then rode off. That General, was
Major-General Howard.
The returns of the election in xsTew
York on the question of amending the
Constitution to allow soldiers to vote
are complete. The result is as follows;
For the Amendment 258,795
Against the Amendment 48,079
Majority 210 71§