ganatittr guttlikrutt WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1865 "The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of goverrunent; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nication of thought and opinions is one of the Invaluable rights of men; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub ject; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty, In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men in public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence."—Constitutirrn of Pennsylvania. How Such Things are Done Everybody has heard of whitewash ing committees appointed by Legisla tures and other bodies similarly con stituted. They are one of the handiest Yankee inventions ever discovered. Has a public man's character been soiled? By this process it can be reno vated, whitewashed, and made cleaner and purer than before it was assailed. They have had a Board of Inquiry sitting, for some time past, at Washing ton to examine into the cause of the bursting of a numhqr of large Parrott guns on board our naval vessels. The Board was a judicious one. It under stood its own interests doubtless. The inventor and manufacturer of the guns, in question had not only made enor mous sums of money, but he still had contracts on hand involving huge profits. Some people might imagine he would not be the most disinterested witness in the matter, but he was the ofily one called. Of course, his explana tions were sufficient to solve the whole mystery, and to establish the superiority of the gun in.question over .any other Having made it, he was beyond doubt the best judge of its merits. We are very sorry to see that the New "York Tribune, a paper with which we are very seldom able to agree, demurs to this simple' method of arriving at the facts in the case. It does not hesitate to intimate the possibility of there being something wrong about this Board, which was appointed by its own party friends. It says: "Their report affords internal evi dence, in almost every paragraph, that the essential purpose of the Board from which it emanated was to mystify the facts submitted to its consideration with a view to strengthen endangered official hands; protect the Ordnance Bureau and its favored contractors and friends, re gardless of truth, the interests of the nation, its tax-payers and defenders, and to crush with a resistless hand all troublesome innovations urged by pri vate citizens "not in the official ring," who may have dared to criticise, or have had the genius to discover and the te merity to present for consideration, real causes of failure, or new and superior methods of design and construction, unthought of, or ignored by selfish, mole-eyed representatives of bureacratie authority and pretension." That is a little strong. Al most enough to make one believe it within the range of possibilities that there may be some little rascality practiced in Washington now and then. We suppose, however, it would be impossible for any such thing to occur, except in some (lark corner, clear beyond the sight of Mr. Lincoln, or any member of the Admin istration. The country knows how immaculate they all are. Did they not make the most telling points in the canvass of 1860 by charging corruption upon the Administration of Mr. Bu chanan, and have they not most care fully avoided all appearance of sue] things since they came into power Who can gain, say it " Old Abe" In Trouble Mr. Lincoln is likely to have a very serious time in the management of the financial affairs of the country, before he gets through with the little job be has on hand. Already he is environed with difficulties, which every discern ing financier in the land regards as simply insurmountable. Temporary expedients cannot avail much longer to prop up the false monetary system adopted by Mr. Chase. No man seen is willing to shoulder the vast load of re sponsibilities which he so dexterously shuffled off. Fessenden has done noth ing to relieve the financial distress 01 the country, can do nothing, confesses himself incapable of doing anything, and is exceedingly anxious to thi:ow ut the portfolio. Senator Morgan had toe much sense to undertake to evoke order out of any such complete financial chaos. Old Abe is said to have taken his declination much to heart. The fol lowing is the description given by the correspondent of the N. Y. herald what occurred: Senator Morgan ascertained, on his arrival at the Senate chamber that the President had nominated him for Seere tary of the Treasury, and immediately started for the White House. He was unable to obtain an interview with the President until between two and three o'clock. The interview was of short duration, and the conversation peremp tory on Mr. Morgan's part. It resulted in the President sending his private secretary, Mr. Hay, to the Senate cham ber, and withdrawing the communica tion before the Senate had time to act upon the appdintment. Mr. Morgan positively refused to accept the position, leaving the Prasident no other alterna tive but to withdraw the nomination. It is said that Mr. Lincoln, immedi ately after his interview with Mr. Mor gan, retired, and would notsee any pet son until a late hour in the day. H evidently took Morgan's declinatioi very much at heart. Effect of the National Ijanking Syste A recent communication from the State Treasurer, in answer to the in quiry made in the Legislature what State Banks bad gone into business under the National law, gives the in formation that they were fifty-eight in number, having a capital of $20,592,- 388.00. Their change leaves a capital of only $6,930,995.50 invested in Banks under the State law, and takes from the Commonwealth a tax which last year amounted to $433,471.41. This, then, is the enormous sum which will have to be abstracted from the pockets of the tax-payers of Penn sylvania every year for the purpose of 'keeping up the pet banking system of Messrs. Lincoln, Chase & Co. Just think of it: FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE DOLLARS AND FORTY ONE CENTS at one fell swoop taken from the State Treasury, which will have to be made up by additional taxation upon the people. And yet the good citizens of our grievously burdened old Com monwealth are asked to throw up their caps and shout " God bless Abraham Lincoln!" It will add about twenty five per cent. to our already onerous State tax, and leave the people just that much poorer at the end of every year. But it is all for the " nigger," and it would be considered " disloyal " on the part of any of our readers if they were to demur to this new demand upon their pockets. The people willed It so In the recent Presidential election, and, of course, no one who voted for Lincoln has any right to complain. It is only " Copper heads" who are disposed to make crooked faces at the grievous burthens which are being saddled on the country by Abolition rule. Burial Place of Douglas The tomb of Stephen A. Douglas is in a beautiful grove, near Chicago, right on the shore of the great lake. A bill has lately been introduced into the Illi nois ,T,egislature, making an appropria tion . of §5,000 for adorning and em bellishing the spot. We hope something of the kind will he done, and done in a manner wprthp' of the great State of A Long War Before Us. When, in the far off future; after time shall have quieted the passions and put to rest the prejudices of to-day, some impartial historian undertakes to write a truthful history of these times, he will be more astonished at the credulous folly of a people pretending to be in telligent than at any other phase which will be presented by the records amid which he will search. Never since the world began have any people of any age or country shown themselves to be so foolishly credulous as are the masses of the United States to-day. So blinded are many by passion and prejudice that it would seem impossible for them ever to recognize the truth. No lie is too im probable for them to believe so long as it jumps with their prejudices; no folly too extravagant to be endorsed by them if it only promises the gratification of the prevailing passion of the hour. The ease with which the people can be duped and deluded is enough to make every true friend of republican institutions tremble for their fate. The most popular delusion is the one which continually promises an almost immediate end of the war. On this sub ject the easy credulity of the masses would be laughable did not the magni tude of the interests involved preclude anything like mirth. At least one half the people in the North are firmly of the belief that now, at long and weary last, the backbone of the rebellion is really broken, and the war about over. It is useless to remind them how often appearances of that kind, as well based as those on which such implicit re liance is now placed, have proved to be entirely illusory. Hope springseternal in their breasts, and, while passion swaystheir minds, the credulous masses will allow the wish to become father to the thought. It is wit a pleasant task to continue the utterance of warnings which we know will not be heeded. It is sad to see a people, blinded and maddened by prejudice, deliberately rushing on to disaster and ruin. But if precepts will not avail, perhaps bitter experience inay. Sure it is that time, that stern teacher, will prove that we are yet far from the end of the bloody struggle in which we are engaged. The late peace conference extinguishes ill hope of thewar being speedily ended by negotiations. Mr. Lincoln, by laying down an impossible ultimatum, has left the South no choice but to fight it out ; while at the same time he has put him self in the position of a general who, after crossing a river, has burned the bridge behind him. It is very difficul' to see how he could now reopen nego lotions. He has deliberately shut the only door by which a speedy and hon orable peace could come to bless this un happy land. By so doing he has de cided that the war must go on until the South are reduced to such a condition of exhaustion as will cause them to ac cept any terms, however humiliating, \\AIMh he may offer. Never did any man do a madder act. Time will yet show how utterly foolish and criminal it was. The South has accepted the wager of battle. Every energy will now be em ployed in war. From this time forth that will be the only business of the whole people. They are united to-day, as they have not been atany period since the struggle commenced. They feel that such submission as Mr. Lincoln would demand be dishonorable and de grading to a degree sufficient to render death itself preferable. That thecoming campaign will be the most bloody of the war we have every reason ,to be lieve. Even some of the leading Re publican journals are giving expression to such an opinion. The New York Times, in a recent editorial, says : " I t is now certain that the war must go on, and that it will be more desperate and bloody than ever. The opening campaign will be the sharpest of the war. The rebels will resort to every possible expedient to strengthen their armies. Virginia is expected to free her negroes and make them soldiers. The conscrip tion is everywhere to be made more rigid. Supplies will be taken wherever found, and nothing will be left undone to relieve the rebel cause from the pres sure which threatens its destruction. There is no longer the slighest reason to suppose that we can have peace ex cept by conquering it." That the coming campaign will end the strife we do not believe. Wars such as this in which we are engaged have been proverbially of long continuance. The South is not yet exhausted, and their determination to resist is still un bending,. Nor are they hopeless of the struggle in which they are engaged, and upon which they are willing to stake their all. George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Joutmti, a paper which openly urges the Legislature of Kentucky to ratify the Anti-Slavery Amendment to the Constitution, has recently returned from Richmond. While there he held unrestrained intercourse with the rebel' leaders, and, being a Southern man himself, is well fitted to make up an in telligent opinion of the views and the resources of the South. In speaking of the letter published by Governor Jacob, Prentice takes occasion to say : " If we dould infer the determination of a people from all the highest military and civil authorities—from President, Vice President, members of the Cabi net, Senators, Representatives, Gene rals, &e., Sc., &c.—they are as resolutely bent upon the achievement ofatheir in dependence as C4overnorJacob says they are. Still we say, as we have said, that they must not have what they call their independence, for, if they have it, this country will be the feeblest and most contemptible of all countries in the world. "It is true—as Governor Jacob says —that the men of the South think that they have nothing under heaven to hope from our Administration's present policy. They put hard questions. They ask, what they have to expect or to hope-if their slaves are to be let loose in their midst, and all the rest of their per sonal property confiscated ? "We agree with Governor Jacob—oh how reluctlantly !—that there is yet to be a long and dreadful war." It is our conviction that the opinion of such a man as Prentice is worth more on that subject than all the trash with which the columns of Abolition papers have been filled since the war began. There are still plenty of fools, however, who will refuse to believe that the war is not just at an end. Such can only be taught wisdom by bitter experience. That the war will be both long and bloody is our honest conviction. We make that prediction with the firm be lief that events will abundantly prove it to be true. Singular Case The Ravenna Democrat reports a case of a little girl of that place, who five years ago—she then being a year and a half old—swallowed a diaper pin two inches in length, with a head upon it of the size of a six penny nail. Although various efforts were made, the pin could not be removed. A few `days ago, in a coughing spasm, the child threw up the pin, which showed no sort of evidence havingof been in her person for so long a time. t was as perfect as when first swallowed. The child has always been troubled with a cough, caused it is though by the irritation produced by the presence of the pin—otherwise she has been very well. Medical men differ in opinion, we believe, as to the place where the pin had so long remained, The City Council of Newport, R. 1., have voted to erect a monument to the memory of the late Major-Gen. Isaac I. Stevens, who was killed at the battle of Chantilly, Sept. 1, 1861. It is to be of granite, with a moulded base t- , Ruppor ing a shaft 21 feet high, and is to cost about $1,600. A Stale Lie. That Republican newspapers will lie, lie maliciously, wilfully and persistent ly, all the world knows. It seems hard for them to tell the truth, almost im possible for them to abandon a lie which they have once started. They seem to be perfectly enamored of falsehoods, and to some which they have invented they cling with a tenacity and a fond ness that is wonderful. It is useless to array facts before them. If you de monstrate the falsity of their assertions as clearly as you could, that one and two make three, and not four, they will still cling to the lie, and repeat it with a brazen effrontery that is astounding for its unsurpassed impudence. To no one lie have they more persistently and tenaciously clung than to the oft-re peated assertion that Mr. Buchanan al lowed his Secretary of War to rob the Arsenals of the North to put arms into the hands of Southern traitors. Only yesterday we saw this stale falsehood offensively repeated in the Harrisburg Telegraph. Now it is not possible that the editor of that sheet can be ignorant of the fact, that a Committee of Repub licans, appointed by a Republican Con gress to investigate that very charge, were compelled to report, not only that there was no truth in it, but that during Mr. Buchanan's entire term of office the Northern States had received more than their share of arms—decidedly a larger number than they would have been entitled to had an equable distri bution of theffi been made. The South ern States instead of receiving more arms than they were entitled to had re ceived fewer. That is the report made by a Committee which would have been glad of the opportunity to report other wise. But, does any one suppose the Harrisburg 7% /cgruph will retract the falsehood it utters when it is even thus clearly proven to be such? Not it, in deed. That is something not done by journals of its class. They have neither honor, principle, nor decency. They lie wilfully and persistently for a set purpose; and, having once uttered a lie, they will swear to its truthfulness a thousand times over if need be. Ex posure does not incommode them in the least. They are as destitute of shame as they are of principle. Such journalism is a disgrace to any age and any country ; and it would be a dis grace to any party, except the one in whose behalf it is continually employ ed. It can scarcely be more completely disgraced than it is already. Why England Does It "The conduct of England in affording not only neutral assistance, but direct sup port to the South, is a subject of mystery to many of our readers. In the machinery department of the West Philadelphia car works is an English mechanic whose trade is the manufacture of hand cuff's and anklets for slaves. When he left England a few months since, there were tbur full factories in Birming ham engaged exclusively in this trade, and the one in which he worked employed over two hundred hands. England has only fol lowed her own interests; her principles, if there are principles in Britain, have been unknown." The above item, heading and all, we clip from the editorial columns of the Philadelphia Doily Xcws. To one un used to the preposterous lies daily uttered by the Abolition press, that would sound like some sort of a hoax. Just think of it. Four full factories in one town of England, employing two hundred hands each, all constantly busy turning out handcuilli and anklets for slaves. What an impossible and utterly preposterous lie! Why, one such factory would turn out more of such things in a single week, than ever were seen in all the South since the first negro was taken there from Africa. And, to think of any paper, pretending to truth or respectability, attempting to account for the sympathy of England for the South, by tracing it to the stoppage of these four huge manufactories of manacles for' slaves. Verily the travels of Gulliver are entirely credible beside this. Yet, Jittery impossible as the lie is, it is fully as true as much of what is read in the columns of Abolition jour nals from day to day. They are a tissue of lies. No man can read an issue 'of any one of them, unless he is overcredu lons, without being convinced that those who control them are utterly des titute of any decent regard for the truth. They are ready to give currency to any lie, however absurd, which they think will have the effect of exciting the worst passions of the people. The Negro Must Vote Every move made by the real leaders of the party now in power, and every authoritative utterance which falls from the lips of their orators, evidences a fixed determination on their part not to rest satisfied until they have broken down every barrier that stands in the way of the negro being made the equal of the white man. Their efforts in that direc tion are made with the same persistent energy, and pushed with the same un tiring fanatic zeal which, from very small and insignificant begin nings,even tually made them a power in this coun try. They are bent upon retaining their hold upon office. They know that mili tary pressure, and the enormous in fluence accompanying the annual dis bursement of thousands of millions of money being removed, ^ the Demo cratic party will sweep them from power at once and forever. They dread the day of reckoning with the white race of this country, upon whom they have precipitated so many woes in their mad eflbrts to benefit the negroes. They want the uegroes to vote in order that their votes may counterbalance the in fluence of poor white men, who are Democrats, both by instinct and from a proper appreciation of their own in terests. They are commencing to abuse the foreign element of our population, notwithstanding the Irish and the Ger mans have filled the ranks of our armies ever since the war began. It will not be long after the war is over until we shall see this fanatical party engaged in another Know-Nothing crusade. They show the cloven foot very plainly al ready. The speech of that she virago, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, which we publish elsewhere, is of a piece with the general tone of the utterances of the Abolition orators and presses of the day. It will be remembered that she was one of the most distinguished Republican ora tors who spoke here last fall. The decree has gone forth against the Irish and the Dutch. The negro is to be allowed, not only to ride in street and railroad cars, to sit in churches in the same pews, and in houses of amusement, but he is to be granted the right to vote, in order that the reign of shoddy may be made eter nal. The plea that they have fought in the army is to be the unanswerable ar gument in their behalf. It was to fur nish this very plea that they were put into the army in the first place. The desired result is not accomplished yet, however, and we are of the opinion that these very Irish and Dutch will have something to say about the matter be fore it is. Boatmen's Convention A Convention of boatmen, and per sons interested in boating, was held at Sunbury, on Wednesday the Ist inst., and continued in session several days. The convention was well attended from various sections of this State along the line of canal, and also from Maryland. The object of the covention, we under stand, was to devise measures so , as to acquire more perfect unity or concert of ' action, in regard to the rates of freight and other interests connected with the boating community. About one hun dred delegates were in attendance. Sunbury American. - The Spread of Corruption. Never in the annals of any Govern ment which the world ever saw was there so much and such unblushingeor ruption as now disgraces and weakens ours. Plundering the public treasury is the chief employment of multitudes of the many thousand of greedy officials, who swarm throughout the whole land. They are more ravenous than the locusts of Egypt. But for the inexhaustible capacity of 01e printing presses at Wash ington, whiCh are limited in their abili ty to supply money only by the stock of paper and ink, there would long ago have been no green thing left in the land. Stealing has been and still is the order of the day. From the Cabinet down to the pettiest clerk, from Briga dier General down to the lowest military official, multitudes of dishonest men have been constantly robbing the Government.i Even the canting hypocritical preachers, who follow the army as chaplains, have not not been 4ble to resist the temptation to steal. Everywhere the taint of fraud has corrupted public transactions. No one any longer expects anything but rascality. The opinion prevails through out the land that almost any public officer can .be bought for a bribe. In National and in State affairs, in Con gress and in State Legislatures, every where, corruption stalks abroad brazen faced and unblushing. There has been wholesale plundering and the r ettiest kind of stealing. Some have measured their dishonest gains by millions, while meaner thieves have been content to filch petty sums. The nation has been robbed, States have been fleeced, counties and townships have been swindled. Everywhere, over almost every public transaction of the past four years, 'the slimy trace of fraud is visible. Public virtue has been corrupted. Honesty is scarcely honorable any longer, and dishonesty has ceased to be regarded as disgraceful. A new code of morals prevails, and a new standAd of respectability has been set up. Shoddy is a crowned king. He builds costly mansions, rides in luxuri ous carriages, decks himself and his family in the richest raiment, sparkling with diamonds, and is looked up to and reverenced. The world knows that Mr. Shoddy is not honest, is fully aware of •the foul means by which his wealth was gained, is perfectly cog nizant of the fact that he has cheated the Government and swindled the poor soldiers in the field ; but he is very rich; and therefore eminently re spectable. The very heart of the nation is corrupt. The public con science has been seared as with a hot iron. Amid the foul carnival of corruption which has prevailed, all sense of decency and all self-respect seems to have departed. Everywhere, in all departments, in every transac tion, the men who deal with the govern meut or the public do so with foul hands. The general and wide spread rascality of public officials is so glaring that no man any longer attempts to disguise it. Even Forney himself, who sold out body and soul to the present Administration for the chance to enrich himself by public plunder, is at last forced to speak out. When the infamy of officials has become so shame ful, and their rascality so unblushingas to demand reproof at his hands, we may rest assured that the crisis of such crimi nality has been almost reached, though we need scarcely hope for a reform. His voice, heard in this matter, sounds like the Devil reproving sip. He ought to know the condition of affairs, how ever, and when he lays base some of the foul corruptions which exist, we may be sure that the disease has reach ed its climax. In the Washington Chronicle we find an editorial com mencing as follows : One of the most melancholy signs of the times is the rapacity which is de veloped in men whose training and an tecedents ought, one would think, to have raised them above the temptation to dishonor themselves for gain. The number of provost marshals, draft sur geons, enrolment clerks, and recruiting officers who have been removed and ar rested for fraudulent practices is a fear ful comment on the low tone of public morals. One of the saddest cases re cently is that of Major Jameson, of the sth Rhode Island, who was formerly pastor of the Third Baptist Church, in Providence, and entered the service of his country as chaplain of the 2d, in which capacity he served for some time, when lie was made a major. He was appointed to the colored recruiting ser vice in North Carolina, where he en gaged in frauds that have led to his trial and dismissal:. There ishardly a neigh borhood in which more or less men are not to be found who have been broken in the military service for dishonest practices, and where men have grown rich by knavery and corruption in re lation to the war. We commend that paragraph to such as have been in the habit of refusing to believe such charges when they ap peared in the Democratic newspapers. Surely, Forney - ought to be good au thority on a subject with which he is so perfectly conversant. Fred. Douglass and Anna Dickinson Fred. Douglass, "the able advocate of human rights, and eloquent representa tive of the colored race," as he is styled by Fornek's _Press, delivered the third lecture of the course before the Social, Civil and Statistical Association of the Colored People of Pennsylvania, (Shades of Africa, what a name !) on last Thurs day evening. We are assured by The Press that " the audience listened with deep interest to Mr. Douglass for nearly two hours, while he discussed the im portant issues now presented to the American people in relation to the rights of his race, and urged the duty and importance of giving to them per f,ct ' equality before the law.' " The Press has long since given in its adhesion to the doctrine urged, and is prepared to take the side of the negro in the coming contest. On the night following Miss Anna Dickinson, the notorious and irrepres sible, repeated, at the Academy in Phi ladelphia, the lecture on the same sub ject which we noticed as being delivered in New York a few evenings since. Of course, she and her lecture, and the doctrines advanced, were noticed favor ably in The Press. It is said that at the close of her effort on behalf ,of entire ne gro equality, she was warmly greeted by a large number of distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the Quaker city.— Verily, we are advancing with rapid strides. Stealing Church Bells One of the bells which merrily rang I n honor of the passage of the an ti-slavery amendment, in Fitchburg, Mass., for merly occupied a place in the tower of an Episcopal church in Louisiana, where it ding-donged for the slaveholders. We clip the above note of jubilation from one of our Abolition exchanges. Since the war begun no conceivable con veyance has gone from the South to Massachusetts without being clammed with plunder. Everything that hands could be laid upon has been stolen and shipped North. Stolen silver plate shines on many a Yankee's sideboard; stolen pianos jingle, out of tune in many a Yan kee's prislor. Stolen volumes adorn the shelves of many a canting Yankee preacher, and it seems that even the pious in Yankee land are now called to worship by the sound of stolen bells.— Well, we cannot see that. even that is inappropriate. The rebel ex-General Pryor has been paroled', with the privilege of obtaining A special exchange. Rebel Reminiscences of Stanton, Mc- Clernand and Butler. Mr. Oldham, of Texas, laid before the rebel Senate some joint resolutions of the Texas Legislature, a few days ago. A. G. Brown, of Mississippi, followed in a speech in which he introduced a few reminiscences of Secretary Stanton and Gens. Butler and McClernand. He spoke of the bad faith of Northern men, and especially of Northern Demo crats. He selected three representative men—Butler, from New England; Mc- Clernand;from the West, and Stanton, from the Centre. He introduced them as types of their kind. Butler was so much our friend before the war that he would accept no man as candidate for the President of the United States but Jefferson Davis. McClernand, whom he regarded at one time as a gentleman, had, if possible, provedmore treacherous than Butler, and almost as brutal. He (Mr. B.) had reason to regret ever having thought or said Gen. McClernand was a gentleman. It had led many of his friends, relying upon him when hecom manded a victoriousarmy in Mississippi, into a confidence which he had abused by not only allowing his soldiers to plunder defenceless citizens, but by en couraging them to do So.' McClernand had often told him that if it ever came to blows, he (McClernand) would draw his sword in defence of the South. It was by such talk that he had won the confidence and the votes of Mr. Brown and his friends for the Speaker of the old House of Re presentatives—a confidence which he had repaid by coming to the South with fire and sword, burning, plunder ing and slaying as he went. True, But ler and McClernand had both fallen into disfavor even with Lincoln—But ler, it was understood, had disgusted his master by his penchant for stealing and his cowardice—McClernand had, as he understood, fallen into disfavor among other reasdns for insulting the sister of the Yankee Gen. Meade, and plundering her house. Of course he was mistaken as to the lady's connec tions. If he had known she was Gen. Meade's sister, he would have been as obsequious as he was in fact insolent, in tolerant and overbearing. Stanton, the last of this ignoble trio of blatant Dem crats, alone remained. It seemed that he had no power to disgust Lincoln. It might be because he was baser than the other two. He rather thought it was; for of all unmitigated falsifiers of sacred pledges and undisguised betrayers of the confidence which he himself had created, Edwin M. Stanton was the meanest and the basest. He had one consolation in thinking of this man Stanton, and that was that he would be certain, sooner or later, to betray Lincoln. Stanton was in capable of keeping faith. He had a fondness for betraying those who give him their confidence that has become the charm of life. Mr. Brown related an interview which he had with the present Yankee Secretary of War just before he (Mr. B.) left Washington the last time. It was under circumstances peculiarly calculated to impress Mr. Brown. His State had withdrawn from the Union. Mr. B. was passing out of the Senate and Mr. Stanton from the Supreme Court. They met by accident in front of the old Capitol, when the conversation at once turned on secession, the action of Mississippi on the question and Mr. B.'s consequent withdrawal from the Senate. Mr. Brown was suprised, and, under the circumstances, delighted to hear Mr. Stanton say the South was right, and express an earnest hope that she would stand firm. " You are right," said lie ; "go home and urge your friends to stand by what they have done, and all will be well.— Firmness now will secure you all you ask ; any wavering and you are lost." He had accepted his advice, and the next he had heard of him he was Lin coln's Secretary of War, or he had bet ter say, Lincoln's butcher. Stanton, by his brutality in refusing all exchanges had caused the death of at least fifty thousand men, more than half of them his own countrymen. Mr. Brown said, is it not wonderful that anybody can think of entering into bargains with a people whose representative men are such creatures as B. F. Butler, .1 A. McClernand and E. M. Stanton. The Alleged CeAlon of Mexican Provinces to France. [From the Paris iiioniteur, Feb. 7.] All reports which have been circu lated in reference to a cession, made to France by Mexico, of Sonora and other provinces ore absolute fabrications., [From the London Times, Feb.7.] The question of the cession of Lower California to France is not considered to have been settled even by the un qualified assertion telegraphed from Paris this morning that thenews on the subject is wholly unfounded. Indeed, it can be positively shown to have had some foundation, whatever may be the ultimate extent of its realization. At the time of its announcement on Satur day the matter would have appeared much less , obscure to those who are ac quainted with the complications 'of Mex ican, American and French politics, but for the fact of the name of the principal actor in it having been erroneously transmitted " Mr. Givin" instead of Mr. Gwin. Mr. Gwin was the first Senator from California to the United States Congress, and after the Southern seces sion, of which lie was an advocate, lie visited France, and energetically laid certain plans before the Emperor, which, according to advices from Paris, were, at all events, received with very great attention. It is likewise believed that means were furnished to him to proceed upon the mission which has led to the present announcement. In any case the public, remembering the number of formal statements and contradictions that preceded the transfer of Savoy to France, will for a considerable time re gard the matter with reserve. Accord ing to some impressions themost proba ble arrangement is that France will not immediately take an absolute cession, but will guarantee a new loan to Mexico on the security of the provinces named. [From the Paris Courier Financier, Feb. 6 The Mexican loan has been occupy ing attention for some time past. Humors of every description are cu 'Ten respecting the new loan, which wouli be brought out by Messrs. Hottinger Mareuai•d & Mallet Brothers. The French government would not work the resources of Sonora them selves, but would cede it to a large company, which would pay an annual royalty of 51.5,000,000, to be remitted to France until the extinction of the claim of this country, after which the yearly sum will he payable to Mexico. The same company would construct the Tehuantapec Railroad, and buy.up the remaining portion of the Mexican loan. It is not suprising, then that the Mexican loan should be sought after.— All these arrangements can only result in very favorable combinations for this State fund. Row Drafted Men are Regarded We observe with satisfaction that the New York Times, a Republican paper, speaks in strong and correct language of themanner in which the drafted man is spoken of and treated by Congress, or certain members of that body. It says: There appears, from the debates in Congress on the Enrollment Act, as well as much of the discussion which takes place out of doors, to be a strong dispo sition prevalent to look upon a man who chances to be drafted as something very like a criminal, and treat him accord ingly. That portion of the public, whose names have not been drawn, is very indignant with him, if he displays the slightest unwillingness to serve in person, or the slightest anxiety to pro cure a substitute. He is not only ex pected to march off, but to do so with great satisfaction and enthusiasm; and the least indication of a desire to get some one else to go in his place raises the presumption that he is a mean-spir ited or disloyal person. What is here observed will strike every one. It is a fact that any person who is so unfortunate as to be drafted is forth with looked upon by some as a crimi nal, who should be most vigilantly watched and treated as a criminal. If he provides a substitute, he is to be re garded as in some way guilty of neglect of duty. If he goes himself, he is, un til mustered in, regarded as a suspicious character. The Potomac Fisheries The fishing season on the Potomac will probably commence about the 10th of March, and already those who intend to engage in the fishing business, in its various branches, are making prepara tions, in reparing their seines, looking after their boats, securing their hands, &c. We understand that, more landings will be rented this year than were the last especially on the Maryland side of the river. On the Virginia side we hear of only two or three of the shores that will be occupied.—Alexandria Cia gate. Prices ofLand in Pennsylvania at Various Periods. [From the Report of the Surveyor General.] ==! Previous to the 27th of December,l762, £l5, lOs. ($4l 33) per hundred acres, with the exception of a few warrants in the lower counties at £3, lOs. ($9 33) per hundred. From the 27th of December, 1762, to the sth of August, 1763, £9 ($24) per hundred acres. - From the sth ' of August, 1763, to the 6th of August, 1765, £l5, 10s. ($4l 33). Locations and warrants, from the 6th of July, 1765, to the Ist of July, 1784, £5, sterling, ($22 22.) PRICES UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH. From the Ist of July, 1784, to the third of April, 1792, £lO ($26 663) per hundred acres. New Purchase, 1784.—Froui the Ist of May, 1785, to the Ist of March 1789, £3O ($80.) From the Ist of March, 1789, to the 3d of April, 1792, £2O ($53 33 7 .) From the 3d of April, 1792, to the Ist of September, 1817, £5, ($l3 33k,) for lands in the purchase of 1784, east of the Allegheny river and Conewango creek, unimproved. Purchase of 1768 and the previous purchases.—From the 3d of April, 1792, to the 28th of March, 1814, unimproved, at the rate of fifty shillings 667) per hundred acres. Lands in the purchase of 1784, lying north and west of the rivers Ohio and Allegheny, and Conewango creek, £7, 10s. ($20.) Undrawn donation lands, from the Ist of October, 1813, at the rate of $1.50 per acre. Donation lands reduced, from the' sth of February, 1819, to fifty cents per acre. From the 21st of March, 1814, lands within the purchase of 1768 and the previous purchases, to be at the rate of ,ElO ($26.66i) per hundred acres. From the Ist of September, 1817, lands within the purchase of 1784, east of the Allegheny river and Conewango creek, at the rate of El(), (5 - . 4 26 titi?„) except such as have been settled on, agreeably to the act of the 3d of April, 1792, between said 3d of April and the Ist of September, 1817. Seventeen tow nships in Luzern e cone ty—Price fixed by the commissioners First class, per acre ; second class Si 120 ; third class, .50 cents ; fourtl class, Si cents. The price of all vacant and unimprov ed landhs now at the rate of t: (26 per hundred acres, except the following : Lands lying north and west of the rivers Ohio and Allegheny, and Cone wango creek, per hundred acres. Lands improved agreeably to the act of the 3d of April, 1792, fifty shillings, and '£'•i 03 3:ID per hundred acres. Lands held hy Virginia warrants in. the south-west part 'of the State—the warrants show the terms. (That part of the State within the counties of West- moreland, Fayette, ( treelie, - Washington and parts of Beaver and Allegheny, was claimed by Virginia. The dis pute was settled by a compromise between the States of Pennsylvania and Virginia in the year 1780. Within this contested territory, the same lands, in some instances, were granted by each State to different persons ; and by the terms of compromise it was agreed, among other things, that the senior title, when shown to have been obtain ed in conformity with the land laws of the State under which the party claimed should prevail, so that a Virginia title, if older than the Pennsylvania title, was to be preferred, and t•icr r5O/. Lands were taken under Virginia warrants as low as three dollars per hundred acres.) It is the practice in the Land Office to charge for the c.rc , ss of land above tr. per ,cot. on fifty shillings warrants, the rate of Illu per hundred acres. WARRANT AND PATENI` FEES. Fee for warrant $.l ; for patent $lO, except town lots under one-third of an acre, which are $l, and lots over one third and not exceeding two acres, which are $5. European News T he stearnsh ip Saxon ia, which arrived at New York on last Sunday, brings foreign news up to the ,9th inst. The English Parliament was opened on the 6th inst., the Queen's address being read by the Lord Chancellor. Its reading was succeeded by a very in teresting and animated debate on Ame rican affairs between the ministry and their supporters and the opposition, which showed a material change of opinion on the part of British statesmen regarding our war and the position of the United States Government. Earl Russell admitted that we had just cause for complaint against England, both in regard to the fitting out of rebel pirates and the toleration of raiders in Canada, and thought it was not unnatural that our 'Government should take steps for increasing its naval force on the North ern lakes. Other members expressed similar opinions. An important meeting of the French Privy Council took place in Paris on the 4th inst., at which the relations between our government and that of Napoleon, and the altitude assumed by the Ameri can Congress and people regarding the imperial usurpation in Mexico, are said to have formed the subjects of discus sion. It is understood that the council's final agreement was to abstain for the present from all movement in these matters, " without, however, indulging in a false security." The Paris Monit'cur pronounces the reports that Sonora and other Mexican States have been ceded to France abso lute fabrications. The Olinde, one of the Franco-rebel rains, sailed front the Isle of Houat, off the coast of France, on thei2.sth of Janu ary'. She had been previously supplied by a French steamer with guns, ammu nition, crew, coal and all the other ne cessaries of an outfit. It was reported that she was bound for Charleston, for the purpose of raising the blockade. If this was really her destination she pro bably sailed a little too late, in view of our recent accounts of affairs in that vi cinity. The latest reports say that the Olincie had reached Corunna, Spain, where she lay in an unseaworthy con dition. It is said that Maxim'lam of Mexico, has addressed an autograph letter to the Pope explaining his reasons for as suming the claim of his government to all the Mexican church property. The opening of the Suez Canal to navigation throughout its entire length, from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, has been officially announced to all the chambers of commerce in Europe by M. Lesseps, president and superintend ent. General McClellan, with his family, arrived in Liverpool on the .sth inst., and left for London on the next day. Consols closed in London on the 7th inst., at from eighty-nine and one eighth to eighty-nine and one-fourth for money. On the same day there was an advance of from one-fourth to one half a penny per pound on cotton in the Liverpool market, which closed quiet, but firm. Breadstuffs, provisions and produce were dull, with a down ward tendency. Captain Beall Hon. James T. Brady had au inter view with Captain Beall before the news of his respite was received, and in an address made by the former on Saturday evening, he described Capt. Beall as entirely unmoved. After tak ing his hand and bidding him farewell, he turned back, as if he had forgotten something, and asked him if he (Beall) would favor him with the address of his mother, in order that he might com municate with her. He watched him keenly, but he saw no tremulousness of the fingers, no twitching of the nerves, and no emotion. But he had told me before this, "I care nothing for the judgment of mankind and nothing for the punishment I have to suffer, be cause I know my mother thinks her son is right, and my sister will honor my memory." It is understood that the respite was granted for the purpose of allowing Beall's mother to see him, and that the execution will take place some time this week.— Work/. Pennsylvania. In various ways we have heard during the present winter that the Keystone State is becoming tired of abolition rule and corruption. On Tuesday of last week an election was held in Lancaster City, and the result showed that there is truth in the reports—that Pennsylva nia means to throw off the abolition rule, and return to the sounder princi ples of the Democracy. The Democrats elected their candidate for Mayor, Mr. Sanderson, by a majority of 269, a gain of 72 over McClellan's vote and 142 over the Democratic majority of one year ago, Three of the four wards of the city were carried by the Democrats, and they lost the fourth by 0n1y:37 votes. Ttte De mocratic party is steadily becoming stronger.—Hartford Times. Late Southern News General Lee's Order Assuming Com mand of all the Confederat Armies. GENERAL ORDER—NO. 1. HEADWRS CONFEDERATE ARMY, February 9th, 1895, " In obedience to General Order No. 3 from the Adjutant and Inspector Gen eral's office, Feb. 5, 1865, I assume com mand of the military forces of the Con federate States. Deeply impressed with the difficulties and responsibility of the position, and humbly invoking the guidance of Almighty God, I rely for success upon the courage and fortitude of the army ; sustained by the patriot ism and firmness of the people, confi dent that their united efforts, under the blessing of Heaven, will secure peace and independence. The headquarters of the army, to which all special reports and communications will be addressed, will be for the pre sent with the Army of Northern Vir ginia. The stated and regular returns and reports of each army and depart ment will be forwarded as heretofore to the office of the Adjutant and Inspector General. R. E. LEE, General. The Enlistment of Slaves. [From the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 17.1 The following joint resolutions were reported to the Virginia House of Dele gates yesterday from the Committee on Military Affairs: The General Assembly of Virginia, deeply-impressed with the importance of calling into active service the whole physical strength of the Confederate States in this momentous crisis, and it being,., he opinion of the highest mili tary aathority that the efficiency of our armies may be greatly increased by the enlistment of negroes ; therefore, Resolved, By the General Assembly of Virginia, that the government of the Confederate States is authorized, and the consent of this State is hereby given, to enlist such number of able-bodied slaves for military service as may be deemed necessary, upon terms and under such limitations as may be agreed upon between the Confederate States govern ment and the owners of such slaves. Iksolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be communicated to the President and Congress of the Confede rate States, and to the Governor of each of said States. A Letter from General Lee. [Front e Richmond Whig, Feb. 16.) We copy from the PetersburgEtpress of yesterday, the following interesting correspondence, which "speaks for itself." The declaration to which Gen eral Wise refers is a declaration in favor of the prosecution of the war until our independence is achieved: Hie ARMY 7..\;ORTIERN VA., Feb. 4. Kriqudirr Urneral Henry .4. ;Vim., (vurzwandin fi : GENERAL : 1 have received the de claration of principles and rights made by your brigade, and return my thanks to yourself, your officersand men. The spirit evinced in this document is the true one. If our people will sustain the noble soldiers of the Confederacy and evince the same resolution and fortitude under their trials which have character- 111=1 about- the issue of the contest. Ido not see how we cau, by any compromise or negotiation, abate naught of the rights claimed in this admirable declaration without a surrender of the liberties we derived from our ancestors. As long as our soldiers are animated by such sentiments and supported by the country, I believe that our overthrow is beyond the power of the enemy. Very respectfully, your obed't servant. 11. E. LEE, General. How the Negro Soldiers are to be rat- GEG=2 [From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 17.1 Cast-olr uniforms, to the number of four or five hundred thousand suits, are lying piled up in Government depots in Richmond and elsewhere. White sol diers have an objection to being served with this clothing, no matter how neat and clean, and it has heretofore been a question how to dispose of this immense stock so as to make it available to meet existing wants. The opportunity is at last presented. It is admitted that the negro is to become a military element in the Confederate army. This accu mulation of second-hand clothing will equip him from top to toe, and save the Government the expense, save that of putting a musket in his hands, and there are thousands of them to he had. Hurry-up the negro, and let him get into the old clothes as soon us possiblp. Grany. versus Lee. ]From the Richmond Whig, Feb. 17.1 While at Washington the other day General Grant, in the exuberance of his spirits, declared to a member of Con gress that if the Yankee government would only furnish him one hundred thousand fresh troops he would end the war in three months. We do not betray confidence when we say, per contra, that General Lee thinks that if he is only furnished with the number of re inforcements he asks for, and which the confederacy can easily furnish, that the war will be ended in a very short period. We will see who is right. The Extravagance or Congress The N. Y. Tribune seems to have a clear perception of the financial diffi culties which environ us, and which threaten our ruin. It speaks out on this subject with boldness and freedom. The reckless prodigality of the present Con gress is thus condemned in its editorial columns of Saturday last. It asks: What single expenditure does Con gress propose to retrench? In what department is the tendency to increased outlay successfully resisted? Only think of the proposition to pay the builders of Iron-Clads twenty per cent. extra being seriously entertained by Congress at such a crisis as this! Think of the Patent Extension jobs, involving the abstraction of Millions on Millions from the sweat and toil of the many to swell the riches of the few that are now being piloted through the House ! Think of voting 5:25,000 at such atime to a painter of very moderate pretensionsat least, of very moderate achievement—for a picture to ornament the Capitol ! Think of the Millions lavished on that Capitol throughoutthe years when the National existence was at stake, and when the soldiers who stood between the Repub lic and her ruin were vainly asking for the money they had so nobly earned, and fur which their wives and children were famishing! Truly, the patience of the masses is explicable only by their profound unacquaintance with what is most vital in the conduct of their public affairs. The new Internal Tax bill now before Congress proposes to exempt Members of either House from the payment of Income Tax on their $3,000 per annum and Mileage from the Treasury: We trust the advocates of common decency in the House will take care that we have the Yeas and Nays on this when the bill comes out of Committee. We would rather give $lOO than not have them. Do let us see who vote that a clerk who earns $1,600 per annum shall pay $lOO of into the Treasury, but that he who lays the taxes shall not pay a cent on his $3,000. There is an audacity in that sort of voting that we rather adMire, provided it does not seek to dodge the Yeas and Nays. Gentlemen in Congress ! let us know who will vote to frank your own salaries as well as your letters! The World on Stevens The New York World of yesterday gives our Representative in Congress the benefit of the following compli mentary notice: " The dense ignorance and incurable wrong-headedness of the man who, by reason of the low capacity of the Re publican majority in the House of Re presentatives, is the leader of that house, is shown every time he opens his mouth to talk on financial subjects. In the debate on the internal revenue bill this Thaddeus Stevens argued that the cur rency of the country was depreciated by enactment, because we foolishly pay the interest on public securities and pre scribe the payment of customs in coin. It would be impossible for a human being to demonstrate in fewer words on any financial topic his absolute incom petency to reason on such topics. Wrong as half the reasonings in political econ omy are, there are nevertheless some truths which even those who reason badly take for granted. It is these very truths which this foul-mouthed man Stevens is utterly without appreciation of. And he is, the leader of this House of Represent,gives. For the sake of public decency, we trust the next house will put somebody in his place against whom it will not be necessary to con tend for the truth of gravitation and the existence of God." President Lincoln has pardoned Col onel Fish, late Provost Marshal of Balti more. Items of News. Almost all of the vessels of the cotton fleet from Savannah have now arrived at New York Late advices received from New Or leans state that the Imperialist General Mejia, commanding at Matamoras, has made arrangements with the rebel au thorities by which all known refugees from Texas are to be returned and im- mediately to be conscripted into the rebel army. General Canby is said to have sent word to Mejia that he will retaliate, and hold Mexican officers as hostages for every refugee returned to the rebels. About ten years ago a man named Campbell was murdered, near the plank road in the township of Oneida, in the county of Haldimand, in Upper Canada. The Peterborough Review says there is a young man in that county who states that he was an eye-witness of the deed, but feared to disclose his knowledge of it until now. The House on Friday last, by 58 to 56, voted to adopt into the Internal Iteve nue system a tax of one-half per cent. on sales The Legislature of New Jersey hay( passed a law providing for the payment of the following bounties to volunteers, viz : ;:•'6OO for three years' men ; $4OO for two years, and $3OO for one year. $3OO is also to be paid to men who may be drafted. To stimulate recruiting, the sum of $25 hand money and for inci dental expenses is provided for. Iu the Rebel House on the 4th, a re port was made of the names of men who had sold wheat to the (lovernmeut at extortionate prices. The first mint at the list is the Hou. James A. Seddon, late Secretary of War, who sold . - iuo bushels for $4O per bushel. The libel suit of the Count—Julianne,: against Horace Ureely was concluded on Saturday by a verdict for the defend ant. The Rev. R. O. Kellogg, formerly Pro fessor at the Lawrence University, \ is consin, recently became insane after some revival labors at Fort Atkinson. He was taken to the Insane Asylum :it Madison, and during the nighiflaslicd his head against the wall with such force as to cause death. The trial of Bernard Friery for the homicide of Harry Lazarus, in N York, was brought to a close last Friday. The theory of the defence was that the prisoner was so grossly intoxicated as to be tillable to conceive a premeditated design to commit murder, and three witnesses testified that Friery had been very drunk for several days preceding the occurrence. After counsel for the Rrisoner and the people hadsunoned tip ecorder lioffinan delivered his chargv. The case was submitted to the jury shortly before eleven, and :titer an ab sence of fifteen minutes they returned with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The prisoner did not ap pear to be attested by the result. General Leslie Coombs was k down and robbed a few nights ago in Frankfort. Among the artieles taken was an old watch that he values much front long association, and he olllirs a liberal reward for its return. Ii is a large double-eased old-fashioned gold patent lever—made some fifty years ago y Tobias—No. 2,977, :out has "Leslie Coombs" engraved on the outer case. The proposition to strikeout the vv n! white" in the quulilleatiete4 requisite to become members of_the Missouri Le gislature has been defeated in the Con stitutional Convention of-that State by a vote of twenty yeas to twenty-eight nays. A proposition to permit tutored persons to vote and hold ounce was also lost by twelve to thirty-two nays. One branch of the Legislature of Illi nois has passed a bill appropriating twenty-live thansand dollars for the purchase, on behalf of the State, of (he grounds in which repose the remains of Stephen A. Douglas. A train- on the Grand Trunk bill road, Canada, was thrown oil . the track near the town of Guelph, On the I:ith instant, and one car, containing be tween thirty and forty passengers, tumbled down an embankment twenty feet high. Six persons, among wboua was the Hon. M. H. Foley, were serious ly injured. The smallpox had hroken nut In Savannah, and was bad among the negroes. A Canada paper says: The (I ty of Toronto is at present honored (?) I,v the presence of a large numl)er of thieves and vagabonds, who have recently ar rived from the dominions of our cousins south of the lakes. On last Saturday evening, Isaac 110-i gus, Esq., of Somerset, and a friend of t his were out sleighing, and, in driving over a snow drift, the sleigh upset, • throwing Mr. Hugus violently upon his right leg, fracturing it immediately above the knee. The bone was set by the physicians, and he is now doing, quite well. A short time ago an Indiana soldier, named Wm. Johnson, deserted from. the army, went to Alton, where he mar- . tied a young and very respectable lady, who had been waiting for him for the past two years. The newly-married couple spent a short honeymoon of live days, after which Johnson stole three thousand dollars from his spouse, and prevailed upon the wife of another sol dier to elope with him to S. Paul, :\lin nesota, where the villain was arrested. Last week the P : rovost Guard, in Somerset county, went to the residence of a delinquent drafted man to arrest'. him.: The man attempted to esnape by running when he was shot through the lungs. It is thought he Will die. Mr. Dyer, the Teller of the Bank of Crawford county, .was arrested yester day, while getting on the cars at _Mead ville, on suspicion of being the perpe-. trator of the theft at the bank on Thurs day evening. Upon being searched the sum of about $27,0451 was found sewed' up in the seat of his pantaloons. lle is now confined in the Crawford county jail to await his trill. There seems to be a growing disposi tion to encourage the establishment of lines of steamers between this country and foreigh ports, to be fostered by sub sides. The passage of the bill to estab lish such a line between the United States and China met with but little op position. A Man Who has not Slept for Over Four teen Years At present there is a soldier /it the Chestnut Hill Military Hospital, Phila delphia, who has not slept tor a single moment for fourteen years and six mouths. This may seem incredible, but, nevertheless, it is true, and can be verified by numbers of persons. The individual is an intelligent man, na turally,and has had the r ibenefit of a mod erate educaution. His name is C. D. Saunders, Orderly Sergeant of ('omit puny (4, Thirteenth Virginia Volunteers. He entered the service of the tinted States on December 28, 1863. He is in the the forty-fifth year of his age. His health has been generally excelleut during his life. In 1849 he was attacked with ciloiera, and since that period with lung fever on two occasions. In the Summer of 1856 sleep forsook him, and since that time he has never felt the least drowsy. Idea has always led a temperate life. His wife and children reside in Putnam county, West Virginia. Since he en tered the Union army he has been on seven raids and four charges, during which time he informs us that he never felt tired or sleepy. He was in the four chtufges made beyond, Harper's Ferry, Va., on the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th of last August, and yet did not feel the least sleepy. Why is it that he cannot or does not sleep is as much a mystery to him as it is to many scientific gentle men, who, having had their attention called to him, have been astounded in their attempts to investigate the cause. Upon one occasion, at his request, . number of a curiously-inclined gentle men watched him for forty two day; and nights consecutively, in order, i possible, to arrive at the cause of th - wonderful phenomenon. These gentle men took turns with each other in th progress of watching, so that if he shoul chance to sleep it would be observed. Some of the watchers became drowsy, and it was as much as he could do ti awaken them. This singular man was sent to Plan delphia by order of the field surgeon He was admitted into the hosuita.l a Chestnut Hill on the 17th of No!iiembe last, suffering from chronic diarrheoi and reheumatism. He has. nearly re covered from physical 4isabilitY ; hi• appetite is good, but, yet be does no sleep. He retires to bed, the same a other soldier a, but he cannot sleep. H simply reQeiVes physical rest. •Thi brief narrative of a most wonderf phe, nen:tenon may seem fabulous, b 1 4 4 4 reader is assured that it is the tru
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