rip! ! ' 4l . Linty Nanny; PUBLISH:I:DIMWIT WZDYEBDAY BY COOPER. SANDERSON & CO H. G SiirrEE, J. M. COOPER, ALTEXD SAFI:MIL3ON. Wx. A. Mowros, TERMS—Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per anntnn, payable all cases In advance. ortacs—sourn - wpaT 008.2:831. OF CENTRE SQUARE. Aar- All letters on business should be ad dressed to COOPER, SANDERSON & CO. Nottrg. Drilling Sweet Amy asked with pleading eyes, "Dear Charley, teach me, will you, The words I heard your captain say— I should so like to drill you. - " What ! little one, you take command ! Well, Amy, I'm quite willing, In such a company as yours I can't have too much drilling, "Stand over there, and sing out clear, Like this—' Squad, stand at ease " "Oh,:Charles, you'll wake pap up stairs Don't shwa like that, dear, please," " I stand at ease, like this, you see, And then I need scarce mention The nest command you have to give Is this one, ' Squad attention " Now, Amy, smartly, after me, (You're sure, dear, it don't tore you ?) Forward ! quick march —halt—front—right dress. There, now, I'm close before you. " Present arms- Well, it does look odd, You don't believe I'd trifle ' • We hold our arms Just like this, In drill without the rifle. "Now say 'Salute your otfioer."' " Oh, Charles, for shame, how can you I thought that you were at some trick, YonLorrid, cheating man, you." Charles "ordered arms ;" without command, She smoothed her rumpled hair, And pouted, frowned, and blushed, and thon Said softly—"As you were." Xitcritry. Neatness of Dress We are almost to think that every person, especially all young persons, should be encouraged and expected to dresslthemselves with some degree of fre4h care during the after part of each day. lt may cost a little time (it cer tainly should not be allowed to cost much), but it will be apt to increase a perhon's self-respect and that comfort able feeling of - being allied and equal to the. better part of the social world,which is so desirable for all, and especially for the young. Not long since a lady (whose ideas were thought by many to be above her circumstances) would in sist on all her children dressing for the afternoon neatly though plainly but never remaining in their morning attire. To wash, to arrange the hair, and to he always dressed in the afternoon, not for company but for home life, became a habit of all the young people of that home from childhood not without some remarks from less painstaking neigh bors. At last, one of the children, a bright, but rather self willed girl, re marked, " I think we feel so much - in clined to he orderly and good when we are dressed for the afternoon. This remark, made casually . to the mother, was, she said, an abundant reward for all the extra trouble and care of the ar rangement. It is not expensive, but rather econom ical than otherwise, to pay this sort of attention to dress. A little extra washing which it may cost is nothing to what is saved by the habitual care fulneSs not to .soil one's clothes. The sloven is the most extravagant, gener ally speaking, of any one in dress. So also the time that itmay take is nothing, compared to the habit of order, of sys tem, and of having time for everything. It prOmotes self-respect and pleasant, social feelings. The man, woman or child who feels habitually worse dressed than near neighbors, will be apt to shrink from thesociel y and behave awk wardly in it. This will make others shrink from them, and produce a sort or warfare and antagonism most unde sirable and sure to check the flow of those benevolent and social feelings which are the source of the purest and best earthly joys and much of all our usefulness. For this a person must have no thought or care or pride of where withal] they are clothed while In com pany. There are some would be philosophers who can not see the reasonableness of all this. Let them watch the effect which the Sunday attire has, especially upon the working portion of society, when parents and children all have time and dress for the Sabbath school, the church or the private walk, or the family fireside. Does not all this pro duce greater mutual respect among the members of the same family, among neighbors and friends, greater self-ro spect in nearly all and a quiet content ment and enjoyment of existence, most of all things conducive to order and improvement? Let those families who neglect all such habits be observed, and they will almost uniformly be found disorderly and wasteful of far more than all the cost of attending to such matters. We have known of authors who have found it necessary to dress before writ ing their best things, of ministers who must put on a clean shirt in order to write as well as deliver a good sermon, and of orators who felt all the more able to command their audiences for being neatly and exactly dressed. No doubt there are many exceptions to all this. But those who have much to do with public life will have found that success, while not to be attained by fine or expensive clothing of shiny newness, is yet very greatly assisted by a scrupu lous neatness, and all that care and cleanliness, which makes end assists a proper self-respect. The Coal-Tar Colors The trade in coal-tar dyes, which be gan in 1860,continues to expand, amount ing probably to from a quarter to half a million annually. The colors are ma genta, various shades of blue and violet, purple, yellow, orange, and green. The dyes are sent from London to Lancashire and Yorkshire and other places, to be used in the preparation of silk and cotton velvets, printed calicoes, delaines, meri ncr, finished cottons, silks, ribbons, flannels, and fancy and flannel shirtings. An, export trade is beginning to China and the United States, the dyes being sent in their solid form to save freight. It is said that several thousand pounds are annually spent in defending the patent. A Darkey's Idea of Women Dey may rail against wimmin as much as dey like, dey can't set me up against dem. I hab always in my life found dem fust in lub—fust in a quarrel—fust in dance—de fdst in de ice cream saloon —and the fust, best, and last in de sick room. What we poOr debbles do with out dem? Let us be born as little, as ugly, and as helpless as you please, and a woman's arms are open to receib us. She it am who gibs us de fust dose of castor oil and puts close upon our help less naked limbs, and rubbers up our foots and toses in long flannel petticoats, and it am she who as we grow up, fills our dinner . baskets with apples as we starts to skool, and licks us when we tears our trosers. To Remove Ink Spots from Linens Ink spots can be removed by saturat ing them with lemon-juice and rubbing on salt, and then putting them where the sun will shine on them hotly for several hours. As fast as it dries put on more lemon-juice and salt. When the lemon cannot be obtained, critic acid is a good substitute. Iron mould may be leMovti, in the same. Neatittet VOLUME 66 Spelling School. Have you forgotten them? When, from all the region about they gathered to the log school-house, with its huge fire-place, which yawned like the main entrance of Avernus. How the sleigh bells—the old-fashioned bells, big in the middle of the string, and growingsmall by degrees and beautifully less toward the broad brass buckles—chimed in every direction long before night—the gathering of the clans. There came to our school "the Master"—give him a capital, for he it entitled to it—Master, and all bundled into one huge, red, double sleigh, strewn with an abun dance of straw, and tucked up like a Christmas pie, with a score of Buffalo robes. There were half a dozen cut ters, each with a young man and a maiden, they two and nomore. And then again a pair of jumpers, mounting a great outlandish looking bin, heapod up, pressed down, and running over, Scripture measure, with a small collec tion of humanity packed up en route, from a dozen homes, and all as merry as kittens in a basket of wool. And the bright eyes, ripe, red lips, that one caught a glimpse of beneath those pink lined quilted hoods, and the silvery laugh that escaped the mufflers and fur tippets they wore then—who does not remember? Who can ever forget them? The school-house, destined to lie the arena of the conflict, has been sweptand garnished ; houghs of evergreen adorn the smoke-stained and battered walls. The pellets of chewed paper have all been swept from the ceiling, and two pails of water been brought from the spring, and set on a bench in the entry, with an immemorial tin cup—a wise provisigri, indeed, for warm is that spelling room ! The big boys have fanned and replen ished the fire, till the old chimney fairly jars with the roaring flames, and the sparks fly out of the top, like a fur nace, the oriflamme of the battle. The two "-:Meters" are there; the two schools are there, and such a hum, and such a moving to and fro! Will they swarm The ferule conies down upon the desk with emphasis. What the roll of the drum is to armies that the "rule" is to this whispering, laughing young com pany. The challengers are on one side of the house; the challenged on the other. Back seats, middle seats, low, front seats, all tilled. Some of the fathers and grandfathers, who could, no doubt, upon occasion, Shoulder tho crutch and show how fields are occupy the bench of honor nemr the desk. 'Now the preliminaries ; the reputed best speller on each side choose. "Susan Brown !" Out comes a round eyed little creature, blushing like a peony. Such a little thing and chosen first. " Moses Jones !" Out comes Moses, au awkward fellow, with a shock of red hair,shockingly harvested,surmounting his broad brow. The, irls laugh at him; but what he don't know in the Ele mentary" isn't worth knowing. " Jane Murray !" Out trips Jane, fluttered as a bird, and takes her place next to the caller. She's a pretty girl, but a sorry speller. Don't you hear the whispers around the house ? " Why, that's John's sweetheart." John is the leader, and a battle lost with Jane by his side, would he sweeter than a victory won without her. And so they go, " calling names," until live or six champions stand forth to do battle, and the contest is fairly Down goes one after another, as words of three syllables are followed by those of four, and these again by words of similar pronunciation and diverse significations, until Moses and Susan remain. The spelling book has been exhaust ed, yet there they stand. Dictionaries are turned over, memories ransacked Words of learned length and sound until', by and by, Moses comes down like a tree, and Susan flutters there still, a little leaf aloft, that the forest and the fall have forgotten. Polysyllables follow, and by and by Susan hesitates just a breath or two, and twenty tongues are working their way through the labyrinth of letters in a twinkling. Little Susan sinks into the chink left for her on the crowded seat, and there is a lull in the battle. Then•they all stand in solid phalanx by schools, and the struggle is to spell each other down. And down they go, like leaves in winter weather, and the victory is declared for our district, and the school is dismissed. Then comes the hurrying and bund- ling, the whispering and glancing, the pairing off and tumbling in. There are hearts that flutter and hearts thatache ; " mittens" that cannot be worn ; hopes that are not realized, and fond looks thatare not returned. There is jingling among. the hells at the door; one after another of the sleight , dash np, receive their nest freight and are gone. " Our ;Master" covers the fire, and snuffs out the candles, (don't you re member how he used to pinch the smoking wick with forefinger and thumb, and then thrust each helpless luminary head first in the socket ?) and we wait for him. The bells ring faintly In the woods, over the hill, in the valley. They are gone. The school house is dark, and tenantless, and we alone with the night. Merry, care-free company! Some of themcare sorrowing, some are dead, and all, we fear, are changed ! Spell! Ah ! the " spell " that has come over that crowd of young dreamers—over you, over us—will is ever, ever be dissolved? Yes. Iu " the white radiance o eternity."—B. F. TAYLOR. The Ant Trap As the season is now at hand for these pests, the ants, house wives and others who are troubled with them may pro bably use the following trap to advant age. Procure a large sponge, wash it well and press it dry, which will leave the cells quite open ; then sprinkle over it some fine white sugar, and place it near where the ants are troublesome. They will soon collect on the sponge and take up their abode in the cells. It is only necessary to dip the sponge in scalding water, which will wash them out dead by the tens of thousands. Put on more sugar and set the trap for a new haul. This process will soon clear the house of every ant. —The latest novelty in card photo graphs is an album frontispiece consist. ing of a couple of simple stanzas, asking those who examine the collection of pictures to add their own portraits to the list. The verses are enclosed in a neat and appropriate border, and pho tographed in a size and shape to fill the fret page in the album. gtliorellanono. Appalling Calamity at Sea! Burning or the United States Steam Transport Gen. Lyon.—Over 600 Per. sons Burned to Death or Drowned-- The Victims 'Mostly Discharged Sol- diers, Paroled and Escaped Prisoners-- Only 29 known to have been Saved. Il L y the arrival of the steamer General Sedgwick at this port yesterday, we are put in possession of the facts of one of the most appalling calamities by fire at sea that has occurred for many years, involving the loss of life of some 521 souls, including men, women and chil dren, nearly four-fifths of whom were burned to death, owing to the dastardly conduct of some few who were on board the ship and had no thought but for self-preservation. We give below all the particulars that could be ob tained. On Wednesday last the United States steam transport Gen. Lyon sailed from Wilmington for Fortress Monroe, having on board 204 of the 56th Illinois Regiment, Third Division, Second Bri gade, Fifteenth Army Corps, who had served out their time, about 200 paroled and escaped prisoners, and a considera ble number of refugees, making a total, including the crew, of a b0Ut,550 persons. The Lyon proceeded as far as the bar where she remained over night, and about 8 o'clock on Thursday morning resumed her course. Nothing of inter est occured until about 10 o'clock on Fri day morning, when, in shoal water off Cape Hatteras, the thrilling cry of fire was raised' and at once the scene was heart-rendering. Women ran scream ing on the decks searching for their children or friends, _ while men were quite as appalled or frantic, ami, in the language of one of the survivors, it seemed as if every one had suddenly become bereft of their senses, and the place was a very pandimonium. Sol diers who had been with Sherman through all his hard-fought battles and had never been known to falter in the thickest of battle, became as helpless as little children. The fire was caused by the bursting of a barrel of coal oil in the porter's room, directly over the boiler, and in less than five minutes, the flames were belching out on deck, and with the as sistance of a strong gale, spread very rapidly. The mate of the ship at once went to work to get out ;he hose, but the alarm and excitement were so great that but little progress could be made toward extinguishing the tire. In the meantime, the captain of the ship came up, and In the most frantic manner ex claimed, "she's gone! she's gone! there's no use trying to save her!" A rush was then made for the life-boats, of which there were but three on board, and they were soon launched. Two of the boats were on the how of the vessel, and as soon as one was launched the captain sprang into It, and pushed off, intent on saving his own life. Capt. James Weber, of Co. K, 56th Illinois Regiment, succeeded in getting into the same boat, which in a moment after was struck by the wheel, and the cap tain of the ship was instantly killed. Captain Weber, being uninjured, clung to the swamped boat, but subsequently, as he was being hauled on hoard the Gen. Sedgwick, about a quarter of a mile distant, lost his hold of the rope and was drowned. Our informant, Joseph Fitzgerald, Co. K, ..a6th Illinois, got into the other boat launched from the bow, together with twelve others, and while endeavoring. to get on board the Sedgwick all but five were drowned, in consequence of the rough sea. A number of other persons got into the third launch and were saved, while others tossed overboard doors and planks, and were subsequently picked up. At the time the fire broke out, nearly 400 soldiers were below, as but a few were allowed on deck at one time; and as soon as the alarm was given, the lad ders were pulled up from the hatches, thus precluding the possibility of escape, and there can be no doubt that they were burned to death. Those remain ing on deck jumped overboard and were drowned. The whole number known to have been saved was 29, of whom 20 were soldiers , and nine the crew of the ship. Of the 204 of the 56th Illinois Regiment, all hut four perished, includ ing allof the officers. George Williams of Company F, 56th Illinois, conveyed a woman on a plank to the Sedgwick, but upon arriving there she was dead ; he was saved. Major James Files, who was in command of the 56th Illinois, re fused to leave the ship, saying he would stick by her as long as there was a piece left as large as his two hands. In three hours from the time the fire broke out the ship was entirely destroy ed. The Gen. Sedgwick lay by until toward night and then left, the officers and crew having done everything in their power toward rescuing the unfor tunate beings of the Lyon, but were un able tb do more than they did, in con sequence of the rough sea and the close proximity to the breakers. The first engineer of the Sedgwick was lost over board while endeavoring to rescue one of the sufferers. The following are the only names our informant could give us of persons known to have been saved: Ceo. Brocket, Osborn and Joseph Fitzgerald, all of the 56th Illinois Regi ment. Of the names of the lost he could only recollect the following : Major James Files, 56th Illinois. Capt. Tanquir, Co. A, 56th Illinois Lieut. Joiner, Co. A, 36th Illinois. Lieut. Halbeck, Co. 1-1, 56th Illinois. Lieut. Gowdy, Co. F, 56th Illinois. Robert Evans, Co. K, 56th Illinois. Simon Williams, Co. K, 56th Illinois. James J. Rains, Co. K, 56th Illinois. Howell Dobbs,•Co. K, 56th Illinois. David Williams, Co. K, 36th Illinois. Solomon Harden, Co. E, 56th Illinois George Durgsn; Co. A, 56th Illinois. This detachment of the 56th Illinois had served out their time, and were on their way to ;Springfield, Ohio, where they were to he mustered out of the ser vice. Major Files had all the papers belonging to the privates, and conse quently the four survivors who arrived here yesterday are without any papers whatever, either upon which to obtain their pay, amounting to nearly 5400 each, or upon which to obtain trans portation to their homes. Upon arriving at this city, Col. Vin cent Colyer, superintendent of the N. Y. State Soldiers' Depot, at Nos. 50 and 52 howard street, had these four sur viving veterans conducted thither, where they will receive every comfort requisite during their stay here. Interesting to Brewers Condensed Ale is among the latest discoveries. It is the invention of a citizen of Rochester, N. V., and he claims by this method the ordinary ex tract of malt and hops is reduced seven eighths in quantity, and to the consis tency of sugar house syrups, without throwing off any of the volatile matter or aroma which brewers seek to retain, if possible—not always with success. The heat applied in cooking the extract is steam, and burning of the liquor is entirely avoided. So that, by the pe culiar method of brewerage and conden sation, the ale is allowed to retain all the finer qualities that impart to it the rare spirit that " cheers but not inebri ates:" The condensed product is put up in ale casks, and may be shipped to any part of the world unspoiled by heat of climate. This is the greatest advan tage which is claimed for it. General Grant a " Green 'Un." The latest personal anecdote of Gen. Grant is told of a recent journey of his in a railroad train, where he displayed, as usual, none of the insignia of his rank. A youthful book pedler traversed the cars, crying " Life of General Grant." A mischievousi aid pointed to the Gen eral's seat, suggesting to the boy " that man might like a copy." Gen. Grant turned over the pages , of the book, and casually asked, " Who is this all about ?" The boy giving him a look of indigna tion and disgust, replied, " You must be a darned greeny not to know Gen. Grant." After this volley the Lieuten ant General of course surrendered, and bought his biography. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1865 An Idiot Soldier Boy Elliot. In the Army of the Poto..c there is a stockade of logs, twenty feet high, and sharpened at i the tops, and known as the " Bull Pen," in which caPtured de serters are confined before execution. In it there are about sixty wretched men, awaiting their fate. Henry Clay Trumbull, Chaplain of the Connecticut 10th, thus writes of A VERY SAD CASE But the saddest case was tha latest. A boy not yet sixteen, born slid brought up in the upper part of New York city, was met in the street by a hellish bro ker, and enticed away to Connecticut to be sold as a substitute. He was far from being a bright boy, seemingly not full witted, but his childish ways were touchingly- attractive. He said—and probably with truth—that until the broker led him off he had never passed a night away from his parents. Like a tired, homesick school boy determined to play truant, he started to run home. Being arrested, he again slipped off, but was once more caught, as, 'he exer cised no shrewdness in his flight. Being tried and: sentenced to death, he was put into the condemned cell in the even ing, to be shot the following morning. His boyish grief, when told he was to die, was heart rending. With unaffected naturalness he sobbed out his lament over his own hard lot, and for the dear ones at home. " Me, so young, to go outside the breastworks and see the coffin and grave there, and then be shot? I don't wan't to be killed. Won't the general parole me?" On being assured that his execution was a certainty, he urged the chaplain not to let his friends know how he died, "for they'd feel so bad about it," he said. " I suppose it would kill my father" (for some reason his father seemed: closer to his heart than his mother,) " I suppose it would kill'em all. They'd be think ing of it at nights. Don't tell'em about it." Once convinced that it was too late to obtain a reprieve—no official short of the department commander having the power to grant it, and there being no time to obtain it from him, and having cried his cry out—he quieted like a weary child, and listened to all the chaplain could say to aid in preparing him for the eternal future. Kneeling on the soaked, swampy ground, under the dripping roof of that gloomy cabin, in the dark and stormy night, he fold ed his fettered hands, and meekly said his little evening prayer, and commit ted himself in seeming confidence to his Heavenly Father's care. He could not read, but he had been taught in one of the blessed mission schools of New York, and seemed to have a simple, childlike faith in God. Probably he had not been addicted to vicious habits. He said, when asked about the way he spent his evenings, that he " always worked in the factory daytimes, and when evening came was tired, and went to bed early." His father and mother prayed with him, and taught him to do right. "If your life should be spared," asked the chaplain, "would you love God and try to serve him?" " Why yes," he answered, " I always did love Him," as though, in his child-like trust, he had no cause of enmity with the Father to whom he had been drawn in grateful confidence. After his first hard cry the thought of death did not seem to occupy him. He was too much of a child to fully realize it. Just before he went out to he shot he turned to the chaplain and asked, as in boyish curiosity, " If I die to-day, will my soul go right to heaven to-day ?" Arriving at the field of ex ecution he was not at all disturbed by the terrific preparations. He walked up to the open grave and looked inquiring ly into it without a shudder and then he turned to gaze at the firing party as though he saw only kindhearted comrades there.. He kneeled again to pray as calmly 11 if he were to lie down in his own littlelbrib at home. Just as his arms were being bound a bird flew by, and he twisted his head around to follow with his gaze the bird in its flight as though he should like to chase it ; then he looked back again at the bright muskets with sott and steady eye as be fore. " Let me' kneel on the ground and rest on the coffin," he said, as they fixed him in position. " N'o, kneel on the coffin," was the order. So kneeling there he settled himself down into a weary, crouching posture as though he were to wait thus a long and tiresome time. He had hardly taken this place before he fell back dead, witli t levery bullet of the firing platoon difectly through his chest —three through his heart. He uttered never a groan nor did his frame quiver. Even such boys as that are here shot if they desert. i But are they guilty above those who send them here? H. C. T. Can any one read the above shocking narrative withoilt tears in his eyes? God of our fathers, what are we coining to? A poor little " not full witted" boy —perhaps an idiot—a mere helpless child—who had been enticed and sold into the army by some burly brute, at tempts to run home to his parents, and for this his young quivering heart is blown into atoms, and his soul sent to eternity! This, simple child had no more idea of responsibility than a suck ing babe. He was half-witted, and had never in his short life passed a single night away from his parents. He wanted to go home, and "like a tired homesick school boy, determined to play truant." For this the tender body of the idiot boy was torn to pieces by the bullets from a dozen muskets! 011 News The prices of oil at the wells in Yen ango county ranged from S 3 to S 4 50 per barrel according to quality. The celebrated California Petroleum Company seems likely to come to grief. Professors Whitney and Brewer, the State Geologists of California, announce that, in their opinion, Professor Silli man has been entirely mistaken in his theories about the presence of petroleum in California, and it is not to be found there. Asphaltum exists in large quan tities in the region prospected by Silli man, but this is regarded as an evidence that petroleum is not to be found in the immediate locality. At the well of F. A. Lovell, on Big Sandy of Elk river, West Virginia, a few mile from its mouth, the borers have reached a point where the sand pump at every draft brings up with the sand from a pint to a quart of oil. The proprietor has ordered the pumping to cease to await the rising of the oil or an investigation into the actual condition of things at the point reached. Col. Sirwell, a well known citizen of Armstrong county, in connection with a number of gentlemen from Baltimore, has raised a company to develop the Conemaugh valley. The Latter Day Saints have discover ed coal oil on Sulphur creek, and the Desert News states that a party intend to sink a well this season. Coal oil is quoted at twelve dollars a gallon in Salt Lake City, so that a hundred barrel well or two would prove paying specu lations. The game paper also states that coal oil and bitumen were also found in 1850 plentifully floating on the water and scattered on the beach among the sandstones on the east shore of Great Salt Lake s east of Gunnison Island. Oil is said t , o z eve been struck by the Knickerbock at Marinei's Harbor, Staten Island. A company istalked and specimens, are already on exhibi tion. The famous Seminole Chief Osceo la was buried in Fort Moultrie, Charles ton Harbor. A press correspondent, who recently visited the place, writes : " Inside of Fort Moutrie is Osceola's grave, a plain slab of marble with an iron rail fence. Everything around it had been knocked to pieces by ourshells, but not one had touched it, or even clip, ped the flowers around his grave. The inscription on lt was : 'To thememory of Osceola, Indian Chieftain, died in Moultrie, 1e48,1" SayHe House The London correspondent of the Boston Commonwealth, referring to the recent destruction of this old landmark, says: The burning down of Savile House in the presence of the Prince of Wales has more significance than appears in the loyal London journals. The writernow sleeps in Kensall Green who had the courage and power to tell the truth about the Prince's ancestors, and I fancy that no chapter of reminiscences will now reach you in Cornhill. This cele brated house was named after Sir Geo. Savile, our bitter opponent in the War of Independence, who lived there in 1780. He brought in a bill to repeal the penal statutes against the Catholics, which was the immediate cause of the Lord George Gordon riots. The mob completely gutted Savile House, and made a bonfire of its valuable books and paintings, and rich.furniture. Here two Princes of Wales-LGeorge I. and George ll.—went to live when they had quarrelled with their father; and here were the royal sprees and German mis tresses. (Authorities differ as to which house this was.) Close to it are to be seen the residences of Hogarth, Sir J. Rey nolds, Dr. Burney, and the authoress of " Evelina," and Sir Isaac Newton. Of late years it has been one of the grand centres of the Bohemianism of the world. There Louis Napoleon played billiards and drank gin, and smoked his pipe r at the expense of many a poor fellovi exile and adventurer whom he knows too thoroughly to al low an entrance into Paris. Here the exiles, or adventurers, or blacklegs of all nations have for years passed their evenings. All languages were heard there, all varieties of life. There were songs, and dances,- and gym nastics, but particularly what are called here Poses Plastiques. These were exhibitions similar to those which excited so much moral indignation in New York a few years ago, under the name of Model Artistes. There all the Pantheon of gods and goddesses was visible every evening in extreme classic costume. Some foreign wag who went there congratulated some friends on the improved morals of the place, and when an explanation was demanded, said that he was thinking of the Georgian era, when Pleasure did not always re member to invest herself even in fleshes. This is the place which E. E. Hale, in The Man without a Country, prophesied should be the finality or last ditch of the leading Confederates. Alas! even that end is now to he denied them ; they cannot come and rest under the shadow of the Royal House where the bitter foes of the uprising colonies once took counsel to break their bands asunder. Gold and Government Bonds The advises from Europe next week are looked for with much anxiety in financial circles. Advices will then be received in response to the quotation of 174 for gold in New York on March 15. This price for gold shows a profit of about ten pei• cent. on the recent Euro pean quotations for 5,20 bonds, which can be reelized by selling them in New York. The decline in the price of gold to about 150 adds to this gold profit, which foreigners can realize on this market for their 5.20 bonds. Are Euro pean holders of government bonds likely to return them to this market, to be sold for the purpose of realizing the large profit on them, or will the decline in the price of gold, and our overwhelming military successes, so strengthen the confidence of foreigners in the stability and cheapness of federal securities, that the number and amount of purchases by Europe will increase In stead of decreasing? The course of Europe in regard to this matter has au important bearing on the future prices of gold and ;foreign bills of exchange. lf , Europe is tempted to sell largely gov ernment bonds on this market, tempted thereto by the enormous profit offered by the operation, then the amount of such sales will operate like the with drawal of just so much gold from New York. On the contrary, an increased de mand for federal securities in Europe will operate like an equal amount of gold thrown upon our market, and to be carried as a dead weight by the floating capital in this city. The low rate of dis count in London, and the well-known partiality of the British public for buy ing foreign bonds at a high price which they have rejected while - obtainable at a lower, lead to the opinion that the ad vance in the cost of our federal securities is more likely to lead to an increased than decreased demand for them in Europe. The movement, whatever it may be, promises to form the turning point in the gold market.—N. Y. World. Dry Goods in New York The dry goods trade has been more active, owing to theshrewd and enlight ened policy of the largest dry goodsjob bing firm in reducing their prices in the ratio of the lowest price for gold. The result has been an influx of buyers, and an amount of sales during the last few days greater than anything ever wit nessed in any store in New York. This firm is realizing its property into green backs as rapidly as possible, and others are following in the same prudent course. This is the only sound policy for businessmen to pursue. Let the wheels of commerce be started by prices of merchandize 'reduced suffi ciently low to tempt dealers to buy, and thereby stimulate consumption by con sumption by cheap prices. The aggre gate wants of the country are much the Same as usual, and the people are as willing as ever to buy if prices are made low enough to suit their views. Those who are the first to reduce prices will be the first to effect sales, and to place them selves in a safe condition. Lower prices will tend to restore our commerce to health and activity, and will extricate our merchants from their present de spondency and embarrassments more rapidly and ..surely than any other means. The prompt intelligence of our dry goods merch ants has, as usual, made them pioneers in this healthy move ment to stimulate, by legitimate means, the trade of the city. The impression is general that the worst of the panic has been experienced, and that hence forth there will be a gradual and steady improvement in commercial and finan cial affairs.— World. Outrage In Brown County, Ohio On Monday, a barbarous and cold blooded outrage was committed at De La Palma, Brown county, Ohio. A Mr. Kennedy was passing along the public highway with a load, and a soldier, sup posed to be a deserter, named Lewis O. Melotte, confronted and stopped his team. Mr. Kennedy requested him to let him pass, in gentle tones, but Melotte drew his revolver and fired at him, the ball sinking deep into his thigh. Melotte then went to the house where he stopped, and, getting his Minie rifle, returned and marched to and fro past the wounded man, threatening to shoot any one that attempted t assist him.— Justice Bretton issued a warrant for his arrest, and the constable, with a posse, went to arrest him. Arrived within a short distance of the spot, Melotte or dered them to halt, which they did. He then ordered them to retreat, which they did. He then ordered them to retreat, which they did ; then to stand, when he fired at the constable, narrowly missing him. The wounded man was finally carried to his home. No arrest was made that day, and on Tuesday the constable was still attempting to exe cute the warrant. Having the advan tage in arms, and in knowledge how to use them, the people were afraid of him. Ile had been in the army most of the time since the war broke out. WY" Not long since a married couple in Farmington, Van Buren county, lowa, early one morning found a cow and calf in their lot; the cow had a collar on with a hole attached, saying the cow should be taken care of until called for. Some nights afterwards a basket was found at the door containing an infant about a week old, and a note saying the baby was the owner of the tiow. Mexican Aid League. The Leavenworth Times publishes a communication from somebody, who sins himself " Secretary of Mexican Aid League." This league, he says, has been set on foot in aid of the Juarez Government, through which it has ob tained valuable land and mineral grants, to settle and improve which it is pro posed to invite an emigration of Amer icans to Mexico. It is claimed that this league is spreading itself all over the Union. Its headquarters are to be es tablished at some point on the Missouri Ri v er most accessible to Northern Mexi co, from whence colonies can start and at which supply depots can be established. This point will be either Leavenworth, St. Joseph, Atchison or Kansas City. Emiprant parties are promised ample outfits at the expense of the association. Contributions are invited. The pay ment of five dollars entitles'to an hon orary membership, of ten dollars to maps, surveys and other documents, with full right of membership, and of one hundred dollars to interest in the land and mineral grants. Whatever may be the present condition and future prospects of this association, it may be well to suggest that before a person pays any one the sums above named, he can not be too careful to inquire whether this programme which announces this scheme is akin at all to the advertise ments of the " retired physicians whose sands of life were fast running away." The Paris correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser, writing March 11th, has the following : In relation to the Mexican question, it is understood that the Emperor Na poleon has firmly resolved to send out fresh troops to support the Government of Maximilian. General Bazaine, it is said, in his last reports states that the recall of his troops was a too premature step on the part of the French Cabinet, since he is unable to rely on Belgian or German soldiers to anything like the same extent. It appears, also, that the Emperor Maximilian has sent a com mission to Rome, which will be packed in the most strenuous and significant way by Napoleon, demanding a con cordat between Mexico and Rome, of a nature similar to that established a few years back between Spain and Rome, which enabled Spain, under certain con ditions, to secularize ecclesiastical prop erty. This step is now especially urgent for Mexico, since a new loan, proposed to be arranged for her in France, is to be based upon the security of the Church properties, that can only thus he made solidly available. A Sudden Death A young man, barely twenty-one years of age, who came to Titusville, Pa., from Canada, a few weeks since, to operate in oil territory, died on Sun day, the 27th ult., under the following singular circumstances: He was pass ing the evening with his customary as sociates in a private room, and in course of conversation he remarked that by the time he was forty years of age he should be worth a princely fortune, and should then retire. One of his companions suggested that he might not live to be forty years of age. The Canadian re plied that " they were not yet ready for him down there," pointing down ward. Some one asked him for one of his favorite songs, and he complied, beginning with the words, "I've come home to die mother; I've come home to die." Scarcely had he completed the sentence when his head fell upon his breast, and he became motionless and rigid. His companions rushed to his side and found that he was pulseless— dead. Military Outrage Provost Marshal Gen. Hinks commit ted, yesterday, an outrage upon pub lic morals which deserves and re ceives from every good citizen, the cen sure to which it is justly obnox ious. While we make every allowance for the exuberance of feeling resulting from the intelligence of the glorious triumph of our arms, we cannot excuse Gen. Hinks, who occupies a high and responsible military position under the Government, for his conduct on this occasion. A slight degree of intoxica tion, exhilaration, or whatever other term we might chose to designate it by, might be overlooked. But when the Provost Marshal not only imbibes to such excess as to attract the attention of the whole city to his mad freaks, such as riding on horseback into and out of the drinking room of one of our first-class hotels, and when interfered with by po lice officers in the discharge of their duty, orders out a squad of sixteen sol diers, under command of a lieutenant, to arrest those officers, and actually does arrest them, it is impossible, in the discharge of our duty, as a sentinel on the watch tower of liberty, to overlook the offense. Gen. Hinks, the Provost Marshal of this State, yesterday out raged public decency and morals in the manner alleged. He rode on horseback into the Jones' House and out again, and when remon strated with by police officers, ordered out, a military squad to arrest them. They were arrested, confined in a room, and an apology demanded of them for attempting to restrain this redoubtable military chieftain from indulging in the excess he was committing.—Horris burg Union. —The London Builder has the fol lowing bit of personal gossip : " The history of the inventor of the sewing-machine is a most curious and interesting one. The name of this man is Elias Howe. He was a mechanic of New York. Not succeeding well with this effort ofingenuitv in America, he came to England, and sold his patent right in this country to Mr. Thomas, of Cheapside, for £250. Mr. Thomas, some time later, paid £2,000 to a person who made sonic improvement in the feeding apparatus. Howe was engaged by Mr. Thomas at a salary of £3 a week, to adapt the machine to the stay-making trade. About this time the inventor had fallen into such extreme poverty that his family were destitute of the necessaries of life; but fortunately, he had not disposed of his patent rights in America; to that country he returned; and it is stated that the royalty which he now reaps from home sale and ex portation amounts to £50,000a year. New York Tobacco Market The circular of Mr. Rader Lt Son says : The peculiar state of our financial affairs has caused a general derangement in the value of merchandise, and made it extreme ly difficult to bring about transactions on a currency base. Most of the sales of the past month, about two thousand five hundred hogsheads, were made for gold, the greater part being for export, we, therefore, give our quotations in the standard. But even on that base it is not easy to connect trans actions, as sellers and buyers are at vari ance, the former considering previous gold prices at the greatly reduced rates as suffi cient inducement, whereas the latter under the general decline of merchandise expect further concessions. The undesirability of the stocks on hand is also a bar to a regular demand. The receipts of new crop are still very small, and show very little of a decided character. Prices in the .West, under the existing pressure, have receded, and all speculative operations suspended. We look for no revival until late this season. Quo tations in gold are : Heavy Western Lighterrts, and Clarksville Logs 3.6c. 8 34 c. Common LeattiFyic. (6) Oic. 7 C. (6) 8 c. Medium do 7 C. (6) Bc. 83,5 c. (6) 10 c. Good do By,c. 0)10 C. 11 c. 13 C. Fine d0......11 0. (6)13 C. 19 c. (6) 18 c. Selections 14 c. (6) 16 c. 17 c. (6) 20 c. For Spanish tobacco the demand has slightly improved in consequence of the de cline of prices to assimilate to the fall of gold. The sales have been about 700 bales Havana fillers and fillers assorted at $l.OO gitl.2o per pound, duty paid One hun dred and twenty bales Cienfuegos at 20c. per pound in bond, and 65 bales Yara at 95c. per pound, duty paid. Seedleaf tobac co has continued dull, the few sales made being mostly for Jobbing purposes. Prices, although lower, have not fully declined to the stand of gold, and this fact more than anything else, has prevented purchases to some extent This is especially the case with running and wrappery lots. Maim tactaired tobacco has been nominal, the sales being sailgral,y of a ratan alai. MA NUMBER 14 PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. Washington County. THE IfifitcfAx BILL KILLED AGAIN.— After the overthrow of the iniquitous pro ject of a few lawyers, in this place, to cast us into the maw of Allegheny county, by the Governor's veto, another attempt was made to accomplish the same object in a different shape. It will be remembered that the objectionable feature to the Gover nor, in the original bill, was the power it conferred upon the president judge of the Allegheny judicial district, to appoint his associates to hold courts of Dyer and ter miner in this county. The agreeable Kel ley, in pursuance of his servile policy, struck out this provision, and was pushing the matter with a desperate energy. 'We are happy to announce that Col. Hopkins by the exercise of a little parla mentary strategy (always justifiable in war) completely defeated the outrageous project. Before another meeting of the legislature, we will have a Democratic judge elected. Our people owe a debt of gratitude to Gov. Curtin for his manly independence in throwing off the shackles of party, in de fence of the Constitution and common jus tice. And, as for Col. Hopkins, he is being deluged with thanks by all who meet him since his return. The Col. has received a great amount of merited credit from every quarter of the State; and right well does he deserve it all. o. DROWNED.—On Thursday morning, the. 9th instant, Mr. Thomas Reese, an aged citizen of West Bethlehem township, this county, was drowned in the following pe culiar manner. The family were engaged in boiling sugar water, and the old gentle man was sent to a hogshead,at some distance from the tire, to obtain a bucket of water.— Not returning as soon as he was expected, his son went over to ascertain the cause of delay, and on approaching the hogshead, found his father's body partially in the vessel, his head being completely sub merged. He was not quite dead when re moved, but all efforts failed to resuscitate him. Mr. Reese had been subject to fits, and it is presumed that while in the act of dipping water he was seized with a convul sion, which rendered him powerless. He was aged about sixty years, and was one of the most estimable citizens of our county. JEFFERSON COLLEGE.—The annual cata logue of this venerable and honored insti tution, for 1864 and 1865, gives the following statement: Seniors, forty-one; Juniors, thirty-eight: Sophomores, thirty-nine; Freshmen, fifteen. Total, one hundred and thirty-three.— Washington Examiner. Allegheny County Hos. CHARLES SHALER.—This aged and honorablegentleman, will remove from our city with his family, within a day or two, and take up his residence in Bellefonte, Centre county. He has resided here for more than a half century, and for that long period has been a prominent man in this community. A learned lawyer, a sate counsellor, an upright and intelligent judge, he adorned his profession in all its depart ments. Kind and generous in his private deportment, faithful and courageous in his devotion to principles and party friends, and courteous to his opponents, there are few who know Judge Shaler that do not look upon him as a man "without fear and without reproach." But we ere not writing his obituary—only noticing his removal to Bellefonte; we trust he has many long years to live, and that he may remain long enough to see his coun try restored to peace, prosperity, and demo cratic rule. A few days before his departure certain of his friends presented him with a horse, carriage, and equipments, as a testimonial of their regard for his character and ser vices. Such acts are eminently fit to be done, and never was a token of respect and kindness more appropriately bestowed. RATTIER SANOUI:sIARY.—At the praise worthy and general jubilee yesterday, at the Custom House, over the fall of Peters burg and Richmond, a military gentleman was introduced, who made a speech of the excitinn. character. He said " let the rebels be shot in war, and then" said the moralist of the great moral reform party, who stigma tized every Democrat who left his life's blood in "the trenches," as a" villainous Copper head," then said he " let them be hung in peace." Would not this shoulder strapped gentle man have been more worthy of honor if he had been one of Gen. Grant's heroes, in " the trenches," than a spouter on the steps, of a Pittsburg Custom House. A BANKING HOUSE PLUNDERED.—On Monday morning, Mr. Julius Stark, of the firm of Messrs. W. H. Williams & Co., Bankers, corner of Wood and Third streets, was appalled on opening the vault of the house to find that it had been entered and robbed. The vault has a set of very heavy double doors, on the inside of which is a pair of doors of boiler iron thickness, and inside of those a safe almost three feet sq uare, in which was deposited the valuables of the firm. This was the aim of the thieves. After the excitement of the worthy gentle man had subsided, he proceeded to make an examination of the premises, and found the door of the small safe alluded to above, had been drilled and blown off, and the money, bonds and securities, as well as a number of special deposits had been carried off. The loss to the firm is estimated at from 810,000 to $15,000 in notes, specie, bonds, and various securities. In addition to this an amount of special deposits were cap tured by the thieves. Of course a "job" of this kind disarranged the business of the house somewhat, but it has not affected its credit in the slightest degree.—Pittsburg Post. Fayette County Professor Lesley, of Philadelphia, has recently been visiting the Youghiogheny coal region, for the purpose of examining the mineral resources of that locality, and he gives it as his opinion that oil will be found on the Youghiogheny river and Dun bar creek. The Youghiogheny Iron and Coal Company will soon commence to bore on their premises, and from surface indica tions, they think with success. Most of the land in Dunbar has been bought up and leased for oil purposes. A correspondent informs us that some twenty engines have been shipped to the Youghiogheny region, and others are already at work near the Youghiogheny Coal Company's lands. Jno. Stevens ni Co., of,New Jersey, have four engines ordered for the development of Jacob's creek. New York, Cleveland and Erie parties are now about to commence boring on the Youghiogheny, above Con nellsville. The Youghiogheny Iron and Coal Company have ordered four engines and tolls, and will soon commence the de velopment of their lands. A company known as the Indian Creek Oil Company of Pennsylvania, owning three thousand acres of territory in the vi cinity of ConnelLsville, one thousand of which is at the mouth of Indian creek, have live engines contracted for, and will be ready to bore next week. Their capital stock is $300,000, sixty thousand shares, and have paid up a working capital of forty thousand dollars.—Pittsburg Commercial. A SHEEP AS IS A SHEEP.—A farmer re siding near Uniontown, Fayette county, boasts that he has raised the most extraor dinary male sheep on the continent of America. He is a well formed animal, half Spanish and half Silesian, three years old, and has on him a fine fleece, the fibres 01 which are eighteen inches in length and pro portional heavy. Lehigh County IMMENSE BEEF CATTLE.—On Saturday a drove of thorough-bred beef Kittle, fed by Mr. Edward Schreiber, distiller, near this borough, were driven past our office, as we suppose, on to market. They were mostly of the Durham stock, and pronounced to be the largest and finest beeves ever seen in our town. But Mr. Schreiber yet retains in his stable at home a perfect marvel of ponderosity in the shape of an ox, of the Durham breed likewise, brought from Ohio, weighing at this day about 3,500 pounds. He is six years old, and is what in reality may be said " fat," revelling in bovine felicity, a complete exemplification of the Epicurean idea of happiness. We un derstand that Mr. S. has been offered $5OO for him. DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.— Pursuant to order, the Democratic Standing Committee of the County of Lehigh, met at Reimer's Hall on Monday, April 3d, 1865. On motion, Gen. David Laury was called to the chair, and C. W. Dannenhauer, ap pointed Secretary. By acclamation, Hon. John D. Stiles and Reuben Stahler, Esq., were nominated as delegates to the State Convention at Harris burg. ANOTHER HEAD OFF.—Deputy Provost Marshal Henry Seagreaves, of this place, has been officially notified by Chief Marshal Yerkes, at Norristown, of his dismissal from office. No cause is assigned for the removal, nor has a successor been an nounced, although it is rumored that Lieut. William Hunsperger is to be the lucky in dividual. Our people knowing that we must have such a tool of the Administra tion, they were universally satisfied with Mr. Seagreaves, and all regret his removal. We learn that Rev. Jeremiah Schindle, of this place, has received and accepted a call from congregations in Lykens' Valley, in Dauphin county, to which place he will remove and immmediately enter upon his pastoral duties. WHAT IT Cone.4 - -Ittook under the pree,. ent draft alone about $335,600 In the shape of bcnity to flll the quota of our misty.- - Ai/okm Denovra. .11 , N ADVERTISING. Anvaserississaevi, $l2 a year per square of ten lines; ten per cent. increase for fractions of a Yyear. /UAL ESTALTS, peneemti, PROPERTY, and GEN nnAI. !twister/sine, 7 cents a line tor the Brat, and 4 cents for each subsequent Inser tion. Palmer El =lnman and other adver's by tae column: One column, 1 year,— ...... --..........,_0100 • Halt column, 1 year _ Third column, 1 year.... .40 Quarter column, 30 EERINESS CARDS, of ten lines or less, one year, 10 Business Cards, five lines or less, one year, 5 LEGAL AND OTHER NOT . ICES- Executors' notices. 2.1 X) Adrulnistrbtors' notices ..... 2.00 Assignees' notices, 2.00 Auditors' notices 1.10 Other "Notices, ' ten lines, or less, three times 1 WI Westmoreland County Various counties in western Pennsylvania lay claim to the honor of being " centre of the great oil basin." Venango county is ahead " as far as heard from," but we have metcitizens of Clarion, Armstrong, Indiana, Fayette and Greene, who strongly main tained that Venango would yet have to yield her laurels to some one of the other counties we have named. The Green.yburst Democrat of yesterday puts in the following claim for old Westmoreland. It says : Westmoreland abounds in all the great mineral productions of Pennsylvania. Iron ore is found throughout the valley of Ligo nier and the eastern part of the county, and coal is found in great quantities and of the best quality in nearly every one of the twenty-two townships that compose the county. Oil has not only been found in the south of the county, near Pleasant Unity, but oil has actually been struck at a depth of one hundred and twenty feet on the river Conemaugh at a distance of one-hull' mile from Blairsville. It is believed to exist in large quantities in many other parts of the county, and that this belief has its founda tion upon reason can be shown to be correct in all fair probability. The oil basin of Pennsylvania is ,said to correspond with the coal measures or ba sins. The coal basins of Western Pennsyl vania crop out in Venango county, or com mencing there extend southward to West ern Virginia. Now it will at once occur to every thoughtful mind that whatever sub stance is found at the edge of the basin may be reasonably expected to be found in great er abundance in every part of it, and it will also occur to the thoughtful mind that the same substance at the verge of a basin be comes sooner exhausted than in the deeper parts of it. Hence the _oil products of Venango at no very dial - ant day must be come entirely exhausted, while the o in the deeper parts, or in the middle o e coal basins will continue to be inexhausted for a long period of time, if not forever. The central portions of the oil regibn of Western Pennsylvania are the counties of Armstrong, Westmoreland and Fayette. But Westmoreland county is undoubtedly the central oil county of Western Pennsyl vania. Just as the centre of a lake has a greater abundance of water than the mar gin, so Westmoreland county, being the centre of the great basin, has a correspond ing greater supply of oil treasured up in its internal depths than any other place. The oil may be at a greater depth, be somewhat more inaccessible than at the out-crtips of the great basin, but, at the same time, is much more inexhaustible. It will require more time and labor to develop oil in Westmoreland than in Venango; but the additional labor and time will be abundantly compensated by larger flowing wells than have been found elsewhere. lu the east of the county, oil will probably be struck at a less depth and with adess ex pense than at the west and southwest, but every part is most favorably adapted ter the discovery and development of petroleum. It should be at once the duty of every citi zen to commence the development of the re sources of our own county. It is rich in salt, coal and oil, all of which have now be come necessaries of civilized life. Let our men of enterprise direct their energies, anti our capitalists invest their wealth in their own county, and Westmoreland will soon be the flistcounty in Western Pennsylvania. ANOTHER OIL, STRIKE.—On Monday of last week the "Sirwell" Company, who have been boring for some tune on the Conemaugh river, at the depth of one hun dred and twenty feet, struck a tirst-rate vein of No. 1, heavy lubricating oil. Their well is situated one‘half mile below Blairs ville, on the Westmoreland side of the river. The first indications of the existence of oil there they discovered at the depth of eighty feet, and frequently during their progress through the last sixty feet have they had additional indications, until at the depth above indicated they struck, what the pro prietors consider oil in paying quantities. It is now, we understand, their intention to immediately proceed and place in the well the necessary fixtures to work lt. The fact of oil being discovered at so small a depth here, will prove, we think, con clusively that Westmoreland co. abounds in oil among its hidden resources, and the time is not far distant when oil will be as commonly found in this as in Venango county, or the Kanaiva district of Virginia. Let enterprise but go on and unfold the hidden treasures contained in the bowels of her territory.—Democrat. Dauphin County. THE "MILITARY OtITRAOE."—We have been informed by Gen. Hinks that our re port of the occurrence at the Jones House, on Monday, the particulars of which were published in our edition of yesterday under the head of " Military Outrage," was incor rect in the following statements: "First—That Gen. Hinks was intoxicated, or in anywise under the influence of liquor: "Second—That Gen. H inks ordered out a squad to arrest the policemen : " Third—That Gen. Hinks was remon strated with by the policemen; "Fourth—That Gen. Hinks demanded an apology from the police and was refused —they having been discharged without any demand of the kind." The facts of the case, stripped of all ex raneous matter, seem to be as follows : The General, probably knowing more about military law and ways than of ordi nances and police regulations, rode over the sidewalk—thoughtlessly, per haps—which act being discovered by one of our ever-watchful policemen, the lat ter proceeded, as he thought he was in duty bound to do, by virtue at his position, to ar rest the offending officer. Another police man came to his assistance, and an effort was made to effect the arrest. The General remonstrated against what he considered such an arbitrary proceeding as being drag ged from his horse in the street—and all par ties became excited. The General ordered Capt. Thume to arrest the policemen, and then went himself to the office of the Mayor. The General and the Mayor at once came to a perfect understanding upon the subject ; the policemen were at once released, and thus the matter ended. We have given Gen. Rinks the benefit of his own statement, and have no disposition to press an issue as to what may have been the exact state of the facts.—Harrisburg THE CAPITOL EXTENSION.—We under stand that the contractors will rapidly push to completion the proposed rear extension of the Capitol. It is intended to be more particularly devoted to the better preserva tion of our valuable and increasing State Library, and at the same time furnish ad ditional Committee rooms. The appropriation is very liberal, as much as $90,000, we understand—and the people have a right to expect something imposing, durable and ornamental. We have full faith in the taste and capacity of the enterprising contractors.— Union. Armstrong County. TRAVELING.—Never before have we known a time when there was so much traveling done as at present, both by river and railroad. The tide of travel to Oil City and the oil regions is wry great. Every boat that has passed up since the opening of the river this spring has been crowded to its utmost extent with passengers. One boat went up on Saturday last having 475 passengers aboard, and another, a few days before, on which there was a perfect jam of passengers, the decks seeming black with them. OIL STRIKE FORTY YEARS Aoo.—A let ter from a very reliable subscriber informs us that forty yearn ago, near the mouth of Cherry Run, a stream lying between Crook ed Creek and Plum Creek, when boring for salt, oil was struck at the depth of 300 feet. They then left off digging, and went else where, having no idea of making salt out of such stuff as that. A NEW RAILROAD.-A project is now on foot to build a railroad leading from Alle gheny City to Freeport, Armstrong county. A meeting was called, and held on Monday evening last in Pittsburg. It is argued that this road will be of incalculable value and interest, and the best-paying short route in the pountry.—./fittanning Sentinel. Mew York Dry Goods Market Brown sheetings and shirtings are lower, and there is not much doing. Appletons have, fallen to 39c., do. B to 32c., do. C to 2Se., do. F to 20e., Salmon Falls to 39c., and In dian Head to 39c. Bleached sheetings and shirtings are dull and inactive at 26c. for Hills 4-4 sem per i de m, 26ie. for Lonsdale, and 30c. for White Rock, Rockdale, Warren, and Arkwright. Denims are in light supply, and prices are comparatively steady. The same is true of drills, which are quoted at 40c. for standards. Corset jeans are dull, and without much change in prices. Bates is quoted at 21c., Androscoggin at 21c., Newmarket at 20c., and Seneca at 16c. Prints are dull and lower. We quote the following jobbers' prices; Merrimack, 22 to 230. ; Providence, 18 to 20c. ; Pacific, 20c. ; Sprague's frocks, purples, solids, and fan cies, 20c. ; Sprague's blue, 21c. ; Richmonds, 19c.; Lawrence, 16} to 18c.; American, 19c. ; Dunnells, 180. • Aliens, 17 to 180.; Man chester, 180.; /molds, 160. ; Dutchess B and owell, 15c.; London Mourning (Spragues) and Atlantic do., 17i to 180.; York and A.moskeag do., 16 to 161.3. Delalnesare steady at 24c. for Hamilton, Stancheinat and Pacific. Padtio ors quoted 28 to irro,—Worick,
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