is \23>o 3TBtTi32SJ - .; >' " Whole No 2884. J? O E T IFt Lines on the Death of Capt. I. Bush Alex ander, of Lewistown, Pa. Cytij-b-jied by a number of Company C, \oth Pa. Cavalry, after the Battle of Mine Run. Mount the steed and away, 'tis the bugle's shrill call; Bsr the path of the foe with a live movint? wall: From the hail of the carbine, the strokes of the steel, The grey columns of treason will falter and reel. He flew to the van. as at Kelly's Ford fight, Where the host, of Fitz Hugh felt his young growing might, As at Middleburg Wood and the red field of fame, Where valor and glory emblazoned his name. Hear the faint, bleeding hero—his duty well done — ••Be firm boys: press onward; remember Mine Run:" Richer blood of a hero ne'er crimson'd the land, From the crest of Blue Ridge to the surf-beaten strand. Though the eye of affection bedews each loT'd urn, Points the sword against traitors that caused us to mourn: And with duty to Union and freedom will blend The full heart in the stroke for the mien of the friend. And the glory enstarrmg our voting martyr's name, Who gave youth's rosy years to his country and fame, Like the pillar of fire, leads our Israel on, Tnrough the waste till the hope of the nation is won. And where'er the 16th bears the flag of the free. Swords shall leap from their sheaths, Alexander, for thee. MISCELLANY. Scarcity of Money In I'tab. You have tight money markets some times in the East. I heve read of how semi savage nations "barter." I saw it cited, as a curious fact in the newspapers, that in Georgia eggs are used as " small changebut in Utah I see around me a people, a prosper ous people, doing the business of life 1 almost without money at all In Salt Lake City itself, right in the line of ' travel, there is some money; but in the country settlements which radiate thence into every valley and by every water course for a hundred miles, it is literally true that they have no circu lating medium. Wheat is the usual legal tender of the country. Horse, harness, vehicles, cattle and hay are cash; eggs, butter, pistols, knives, stockings and whiskey are change: pumpkins, potatoes, sorghum, molas ses and calves are " shinplasters," which are taken at a discount, and with which the saints delight to pay their debts (if it is ever a delight to pay debts). Business in this commu nity, with this currency, is a very cu rious and amusing pastime. A ped dler, for instance, could take out his goods in a carpet-bag. but would need a •• bull" train to freight back his mo ney. I knew a man who refused an offer to work in the country at fifty dollars a month, because he would need a " forty hundred wagon and four yoke of oxen" to haul his week's wages to the whiskey shop theatre, Ac., on Saturday evening That was an inconvenience, truly. And yet the farmers in the country towns suffer from an exactly opposite grievance.— The y cannot keep their big sons from sneaking into the granary at night and taking off a half bushel or so of wheat, carrying it to the dram shop and hav ing a - high." When a man once lays out his money in any kind of property, it is next to impossible to reconvert it into money. There is many a man here, who, when he first came into the valley, had no intention of remaining more than a short time, but soon got so involved that he could never get away without making heavy pecunia ry sacrifices. Property is a Proteus, which you must continue to grip firm ly, notwithstanding his slippery chan ges, until you have him in his true shape —now you have him as a tine horse and saddle ; presto, he is only sixty gallons of sorghum molasses; now he changes into two cows and a calf, and before you have time to think be is transformed into fifteen cords of wood up in the mountain canon; next he becomes a yoke of oxen, then a "shotler" wagon; ha! he is about to slip from you at last in the form of bad debts ?— Late. Letter from, Salt Lake City. A Child of the Forest. —A very curi ous event occurred in Hungary during a bear hunt. A very savage she bear had just been mortally wounded, when ali at onco a youug girl, about twelve years of age. rushed out of the thicket and threw herself upon the expiring beast, giving utterance to the most la mentable cries. After a good deal of difficulty this young savage was cap tured, by means of cords and nets. It bad been discovered that a peasant woman, some twelve years ago lost her child, a little girl, on the confines of the forest, and has never since been able to gain any tidings of her. A certain Countess Erdoedi has taken the little girl under her care, and is obliged to feed her with roots, lionev and raw meat—the usual food of bears It will be most interesting to discover, when the child has received an educa tion and her mental faculties begin to v elop themselves, it she will rctnera ." former state, and he able to give an account 01 nei- SUJI Remarkable Cave In Westmore land County. About one mile southeast of the vil lage of Hillside, a station on the Pa. railroad, in Westmoreland county, says the Blairsviile New Era. there is a natural cave, called by the early set tlers the Beer Cave, which name it retains to the present day. Why it has received this name is more than we can tell We were fortunately one of a party who visited this cave some tour years ago, and its features are indelibly impressed upon our memory. 1 he party consisted of six persons, all of whom were provided with hook lamps, twine, fire-arms, and each an old suit of clothes for entering. Tak ing the train at Blairsviile, we alighted at Hillside, and after a refreshing walk of half an hour up the gradual slope of the Chestnut Kidge to the south and east, reached the mouth of the cave, which at first sight appeared to be nothing more than an opening amid a large mass of towering, moss-covered rocks, into which the most timorous was reluctant to enter. Donning our old clothes, lighting our lamps, and tieing the outer end of tiie twine firmly at the mouth of the cave, en tered the subterranean passage, curry ing the ball with us, unwinding it as we proceeded. After traversing a straight but narrow court or alley for about three hundred feet, 3*oll come to a room out of which lead a dozen or more passages, each one in a different point in the cave. We selected what appeared to be a most capacious one, and entered to the end of our twine, some 1,400 yards, or three-fourt lis of a mile. The explorer is at once reminded of his insignificance, as lie stands amid such wondrous works of nature, those massive rocks on either hand being capable of crushing him to death should a certain earthly agitation cause them to quit their places Or, as he leans tremblingly over the verge of a deep and narrow chasm, listening to the faint sound of the gurgling water below, he feels a eh ill of horror as he contemplates his tragic end should a mishap hurl him into its depths. This cavern is of curious structure, being so formed as to admit of exploration either way you wish to go. to the right or left, up or down. Streams of pure spring water course down through rocky ledges, and nestle in artificial reservoirs at their base, giving an air of comfort to the dirt-begrimed ex plorer The rocks forming the sides and ceilings of the different rooms and and passages are set with the stalac tites. shedding off a strange lustre when brought in contact with the light. The sandy rocks are literally covered with names from ail parts of the coun try, and dated as early as 1820. A number of years ago a lady from Pittsburg lost herself in the cave and being unable to regain the course to the mouth, perished; her whitened bones were found a few years after ward by an exploring party, being the only vestige left to tell of her unhappy fate. She had probably entered the cave unguided, and thus unthinkingly subjected herself to an awful death by starvation. Nothing can be more striking to the lover of romance in nature, than this truly historic cave. The discoverer is not known, and it mar be this was one of the accustomed haunts of a savage band of Indians, and more lat terly the rendezvous of a den of thieves, who infested this county in 1852. It has never been explored to its fullest extent, but it seems to cover a large area, as our party crossed their twine two or three times. For some dis- tance. perhaps a rod or more in certain places, it narrows down to a small cir cular hole, perhaps two feet or more in diameter, and then into a large spa cious room. Shaped in the rocks are to be seen the outlines of snakes, liz ards, and other curious shaped reptiles, and occasionally the marks ot human feet and hands in the solid rocks— once supposed to be of soft clay. Bats, both white and black, are found, which set up a terrible screeching upon the approach of the light, a thing to which they are unaccustomed. A Man Blown Sixty Feet into the Air Comes Down to Teii the Story. Mr. II F. Brown, one of the injured passengers of the ill-starred Gen. Ly tle, makes the following statement in regard to the frightful explosion on Monday last. V\ e quote the exact language of Mr. Brown : "Was on the engine deck about ten minutes before the explosion; went i down there from curiosity; saw no one attending the engines until the bell rar.g to check the boat. Tho striker run from some part of the boat, and checked her par ially; about half a moment afterwar is a fireman came aft from the lar' . 1 side and said, in an exciting manner, this boat will blow up in five minut<> The next thing I knew I was goin h up in the air, amid WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1866. smoke, steam, timbers and other parts of the wreck. The striker beat me going up, but I came in first. While going up I had perfect control of my senses, and I thought to myseif, sixty feet in the air and no place to light, i but soon found myself mistaken, when I landed on a plank in the water, bruis ing me quite badly. Saw a lady in the water and gave her all the assistance in my power. Her husband soon came to her. I called to the officers of the St. Charles to come alongside, that the boat was on fire. They promptly put on the hose and extinguished the fire The officers and crew of the St. Charles did all in their power to aid our party. ! Just before the explosion I heard some i one on the decs say 'she's running ; pretty well; she's got one hundred and eijght\* pounds on.' Am positive the boats were racing at the time of the | explosion After I got on board the St. Charles 1 enquired of one of the engineers who assisted me, 'will this j boat blow up? How many pounds of! steam are you carrying?' lie replied I 'there is no danger; we were tending ! to our business; they were not.' Mv companions, Hall and Thomas, were | lying partly undressed. Did not see j them until they got on board the St • Charles. My father who was on board came off all safe. Was formerly an engineer by profession, and think the explosion the result of culpable negli- ! gence on the part of those in charge of the engines ' Baltimore Items. A friend furnishes us the following items from that city : A Great Market. —On Saturday even ing the Lexington market was crowd ed to overflowing with people, who hafl difficult}* in forcing themselves along the extended lines of stalls and ■ wagons. We have never witnessed in those market houses such a vast eon- I course of people, a majority of whom were women. The fruit and vegetable departments were the chief sources of: attraction, and the prices were very low. Choice tomatoes from Anne I Arundel county, the garden spot of the State, sold at twelve cents per peck, the largest tender green corn for six cents per dozen, cantaleups of the nut meg species sold for from one to six cents; whilst watermelons, known as the silver grey kind, sold for three cents. There were many huge piles of this delicious fruit, from which the j purchaser might take his choice for five cents, the dealers declaring that they would not take any home again. I Hue Fshing. —Anglers of this city report that the fish are abundant in i the favorite fishing grounds, and that they take the hook vigorously. At 1 Spring Gardens, near the public estab lishments of Mr. Stowman and of Mr. Busch, white perch and rock have been taken in large numbers, whilst in the middle grounds and in Back River Neck they also abound. On Saturday j afternoon Messrs. Lewis Ritter and ; Joseph H. Ainey went to the grounds of Mr. Wm Hengey, and after two I hours' sport, succeeded in catching j over fifty-seven dozen white and yel low perch, sun fish and rock. Violent Ass tuti upon an Officer by "Conservatives." —Yesterday evening, j shortly after six o'clock, Policeman J. Sanders of the %vestern district police, while passing the corner of Mulberry and Chatsworth streets, observed a crowd of about ten drunken young men obstructing the footway. He warned them of their conduct, when one of them, Francis McFadden, re- ! plied in rather rough language, and the officer caught hold of him for the purpose of taking him to the station house, whereupon the whole party rushed up, crying " Kill hiin"—"kill the damned Radicaland another of them. John MeCarty, caught hold of the officer and held him so tightly that the latter was compelled to release McFadden in order to arrest MeCarty. At this juncture, while the crowd sur rounded him, the officer was tripped and tell on the street, when McFadden ran up and kicked him over the left eye, bruising him severely. The po liceman soon jumped up and ran after McFadden, but before he reached him policeman Garrison had caught him. Upon the way to the police station they said they were " Conservatives," and would meet the officers at the polls on election day. All of them are " ac tive" members of the Johnson Club of the Thirteenth ward, one of them be ing the treasurer. They were locked up to await an examination this morn ing. The treasurer had $22 30 in his pocket when his drunken frolic was brought to such a sudden close. f&X SOO PER YE AR ' We want agents everywhere to sell our IMPROVED SJO Sewing Machines. Three new kind*.— Under and upper feed. Warranted five vears.— Above salary or large commissions paid. The OSLT machines sold in the United States for less than S4O, which are fully licensed by Howe, Wheeler