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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.
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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:
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Quarter column, 30
EERINESS CARDS, of ten lines or less,
one year, 10
Business Cards, five lines or less, one
year, 5
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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,