Ste-111111 - 11011tigateti, 'F!P137.413.11MD. EVES Y :W AY BY COOPBII, sANDEssoar at Co. J.ll. COOPZR, EL G SMrm, AL BED BANDBIIBON Wm. A. MORTON, TERME—Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per annum, payable all cases In advance. (-WE'D:We-SOUTHWEST COMM?. Or CENT= sarAn letters on business should be ad dressed tO COOPER, SANDERSON' & CO. iortibittotto. For the Intelligeneer OMIn of Buck Beer. TRANSLATED FROM THE HERMAN BY J. J SPRENGER. Bavaria has been noted for its superior beer from time immemorial. A strong rivalry existed between the court brew ery and monasteries as to who should produce the best article. Distinguished visitors from foreign lands who shared the hospitalities of the Court of Munich were, besides the choice wines of the country, also regaled with a goblet of Bavarian beer, always accompanied with the well-meant warning to " take heed of its strength." It so happened that a certain Knight of the Court of Brunswick declared, upon a certain occasion at the Royal board of Munich, that the 3111313rE (ft kind of ptirter) of Brunswick was a much stronger beverage than Bavaria or any other country could produce; so strong, in fact, that the most in veterate drinker could not venture to drink more than two or three goblets without staggering. The Duke passed an enquiring glance towards his Butler, a stately personage at the end of the hall, which seemed to call upon him to defend the reputation of their favorite beer. The Butler com prehending the meaning, remarked : "by your favor, Sir Knight, and with the permission of my Lord, the Duke, I will take the liberty to propose to you a wager." The Duke nodded assent, and the Knight desired smiling that the Butler name his wager. "It may be," contin ued the Butler, " that your Brunswick mumme is a very delicious potion, yet you must bear in mind that you have never tasted our best beer. Should it please your (trace during the first day of May next, on your return from France, to pay us a visit, I will treat you to a sample of Bavarian beer, the like of which shall not be found in all Christendom. I dare say you will relish it. You may then drink three gob lets, while I will empty the largest bowl of your Brunswick mumme at one draught. He of us both who can, after the lapse of one half hour, stand upon one foot, and thread the finest needle, shall be declared the winner, and be en titled to receive from the other, a large puncheon of the best tokay wine as a forfeit." Amid happy jestings and pleasantry, the wager was accepted and closed, and as the Knight departed, the Duke patting his Butler upon the shoulder, gently remarked "be careful that the Knight does not unhorse you." Early in the morning of the Ist day of May following, appeared the Knight at the Ducal Castle, and was kindly re ceived by the Royal host. At the close of the banquet the Butler appeared with a litter upon which, covered with green birch branches, were borne two kegs, each decorated with a small flag„the one bearing the Coat-of-Arms of Brunswick, the other that of Bavaria. The former containing the celebrated "mumme," the latter the mysterious beer. The Duke reserving to himself the high privilege of naming the latter. The Butler now had the monster silver bowl and the three silver goblets placed upon the table, when a page handed to the illustrious visitor a portion of mumme in order that his Highness might satisfy himself of its strength.— He found it genuine, and of the proper consistency. A cellerman now emptied the mumme into the bowl, which re quired quite a time, until it was full to the brim. Two men then raised the bowl to the table. In the meanwhile another page had filled the goblets with the beer, and placed them before the Knight, who could hardly conceal a suppressed smile as he gazed upon the huge bowl before the Butler. At a kiveu signal six trumpeters sounded a lively blast, when the Butler seizing the bowl with both hands slowly raised it to his lips, closed his eyes, and suffered the liquid to glide down his throat as gracefully as though he were merely pouring it into another vessel. As the Knight was in the act of emptying the last]goblet, the Butler Nived to the en tire satisfaction of all present, that he had nobly performed his part by revers ing the bowl to prove that it was well drained. The needles, selected by one of the Ladies of Honor, together with fine silk thread lay prepared upon the table. But a few min. utes were wanting ere the specified half hour should have elapsed when the Knight was seen to leave the banquet hall to breathe the fresh air in the castle park. He had scarcely reached the court-yard when he was observed by one of the servants to fall violently backward, and lie prostrate and help less upon the ground. The Duke im mediately repaired to his assistance, exclaiming, "for Clod's sake! Sir Knight ! who has thrown you upon the sand?" " A BucK " answered the Knight with heavy tongue and gutteral voice, unable to articulate more than these two words, " A BucK! A BucK while between the two stood the Butler upon one foot, carefully threading his needle: The Duke laughing heartily, cried out, " now I've here the :name— your beer shall be called BUCK." The Butler received from the Knight the puncheon of Tokay, and from the Duke the exclusive privilege to sell the BUCK BEER from the Ist of May till Corpus Christi day in each year, and further, that he might bequeath this privilege to his sons. The name be came extinct with his grandchild, how ever, when this privilege became vested in the Court brewery at Munich forever. An Affectionate Ken A lady in Vermont relates the follow ing curious incident concerning the af fection of a hen. Last year the hen selected one from her brood of chickens, attached herself closely to it ; appeared to be happy only with the object of her love ; unhappy when it was out of her sight ; roosted always with it, and has continued this manifestation of affec tion until the present hour. This year the chicken that was, produced in her turn, a brood, and the grandmother hen, still faithful to her first love, employs herself with the greatest solicitude in helping the daughter to provide for the wants of the little family of grand chickens. —The officers of the army of the Poto mac, as now organized, are as follows: Major-General Wright commands the Corps temporarily. First Division commanded by Brevet Major General Getty; Brigadiers Seymour, Wheaton and Hamblin. Second Division commanded by Brevet Major-Gen. Mott; Brigadiers De Trobriand, Pierce fend Macy. 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Full Particulars of the Damage-Com -plete List of the Hifled-Wonderful Exhibition of Invisible Ponivr-Oeven teen Persons Killed-One Hundred Wounded-Loss of Property, 8200,000. &ram the La Crone ( Wit) Democrat, Julyl. Thursday afternoon we received no tice that on Wednesday a storm of wind had swept over a portion of the village of Viroqua, the county seat of Vernon county, and that several were killed, a large number wqunded, and that a large portion of the village was destroy ed. At half past six in the afternoon we started by team, drove to the "Mills" on Coon Creek, put up with Andrew Anderson for the night, reaching Viro qua at nine on Friday morning, arriv ing home Friday afternoon, having in twenty-three hours driven seventy miles, and witnessed the most terrible effects of wind we ever saw in this country, the particulars of which we hasten to lay before our readers. VIROQUA The county of Vernon (till lately Bad Ax) adjoins La Crosse county on the south and southeast. Viroqua, distant thirty-five miles from La Crosse, is the county seat, and contains' about one thousand inhabitants. It is a pleasant inland village, on high table land in the centre of a valuable farming dis - Mct largely under cultivation. The village has always been a quiet,steadily prosper ing place. The buildings were not large. but were in good taste and repair, and especially in the south part of the place, characterized by an air of ease and re finement desirable to behold. THE STORY-COURSE AND DURATION At four o'clock black clouds rolling heavily in the sky betokened a storm.— In a few moments the wind sprang up, and almost immediately could be seen coming from the northeast a cloud of wind, rolling at times close to the earth, dust, sticks, etc., filling the air. At the same time there appeared another cloud of like nature coming directly toward the village from the west. The first current was passing to the southwest, and the points or ends met half a mile west of the village, when it seemed as if a mighty strife was going on between millions of invisible spirits in the two currents. People ran for their houses in terror—the whirlwind with a shriek and howl kept on its eastward course, the larger current turning the smaller one back, the two going on together in their work of destruction. D=l its fury was spent at Viroqua and the southern portion of the phiee, (and the most beautiful,) was made a scene of wilder and more terrible devastation than we ever witnessed before. I=l was that of Wm. Vought, which was totally destroyed. Before attempting to depict scenes or itemize incidents we give a J. G. Barstow and wife, whose house was crushed like an egg shell, and them selves so injured that they both died in an hour. A three year old child of H. G. Wees den was found dead in the ruins of his house, which was demolished. Lydia Gillett, killed while shutting a door. The house was carried some ways and dashed to fragments. Wife of Dr. Dean and her daughter, Mrs. Moon, were killed; Mr. Dean seri ously injured. Eliza Derby, a girl twelve years old. Two children of James Daniels. Two children of James Cook. One child of Nelson Rhodes. Mrs. Good, killed and mutilated. SEVERELY WOUNDED. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, and son Phin neas. Mr. Drake is eighty-four, his wife seventy-six, and Phinneas thirty five years of age. We doubt if either of the three are alive now. Mrs. Decker, thigh broken. John Gardner's wife,seriously injured. A servant girl working for W. S. Purdy, fatally injured. J. M. Bennett, leg broken. Mrs. J. Buckley, seriously hurt. Dr. Dean, badly injured. Dr. Weeden and wife badly injured. Peter Hays, wife and four children badly wounded. Mrs. W. S. S. White, daughter and grandchild fatally injured. 0. C. Smith, injured seriously. Mrs. R. C. Bierce seriously injured. .1. Dawson, badly injured. Besides these there are others wound ed, but their names we could not learn in the limited time set apart for this purpose. Dr. Tinker informed us that over one hundred persons were hurt, forty of whom are seriously injured, and about twelve of whom must die soon. IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE there were twenty-four children, and the teacher. Eight children were killed and all more or less cut, bruised or man gled. DWELLINGS AND BUILDINGS DESTROYED. Twenty-six houses and barns were completely demolished, and about forty buildings more or less injured. Below we give a list of buildings destroyed within easy reach of a man's voice. Wm. Fought, house destroyed. Mr. Russell house destroyed. H. Greeve, house and two barns. No one living in the house. C. F. Gillett, house destroyed ; young lady killed. John Gardner, house destroyed; wife seriously injured. W. S. Purdy, house destroyed. D. Onstott, house and blacksmith shop destroyed. J. Buckley, house and blacksmith shop destroyed. Dr. Dean, house destroyed. J. M. Bennett, house and barn de stroyed. John Barstow, house destroyed. Dr. Weeden, house and barn destroy ed. W. S. S. White, house and barn de stroyed. O. C. Smith, house unroofed and otherwise injured. R. C. Bierce, house and barn destroy ed. John Everett, house unroofed and barn destroyed. J. A. Somerby, house (including printing office) destroyed. Court House unroofed. M. C. Nichols, store demolished. Col. Rusk's house somewhat injured. Dr. Rusk's house injured and barn demolished. 0. J. Stilwell, barn destroyed and house slightly injured. J. Dawson, dwelling destroyed and store badly injured. C. W. Pitcher, house injured. D. B. Priest, store house ruined ; oc cupied by Mr. Lindly, whose goods were injured and himself badly hurt. Masonic Lodge destroyed. Dr. Tinker, kitchen, woodshed and barn destroyed. J. R. Casson, house destroyed. Methodist Episcopal Chuch demol ished entirely. W. F. Terhune, barn destroyed and house injured. John Cummings, house destroyed. Messrs. Russell, Riley, Gillett, Ben nett, Purdy, Barstow, W. S. S. White and 0. 0. Smith were occupying rented premises—all the others were occupying their own premises. Mrs. Fretwell, Mr. Lindley, Mr Jones, Levi Gains, A. R. Burrell, M. F. White, J. H. Lute, H. Trowbridge and others had their houses more or less injured.— Fences and out-houses, orchards and shrubbery swept off on the route, and a large number of horses, cattle and hogs destroyed. FORCE OF THE STORM. Those who have not witnessed the scenes of devastation can form no idea of the terrible power of the whirlwind. The ground is torn as if ploughed.— Huge rocks ten feet square were hurled a distance of forty rods. Dwellings were razed to the ground, and hurled rods away. Huge oak trees were twist ed from stumps like reeds. Timbers six teen inches square and sixty feet long were hurled through the air as though they were feathers. The scene of deso lation is beyond des eription. The ground over which the whlrAvind passed looks miff a mighty stream of water had car ried fioodwood over it. Houses, out houses, trees, shrubs, fences, etc., were swept away a.s•if God had it:ranger rub bed His hand over the spot. Houses were lifted a hundred feet into the air— horses were whisked off like swallows— rocks were thrown down like dry bread. A I'EW INCIDENTS The dwelling of John Gardener, a large two story frame house, was whirl ed up in the air. An oak tree standing nearby, sixty feet from the ground to its top, was stripped of every leq, and re sembles a dead tree. A gentleman saw from a lower part of the town, out of the course of the storm, the house of Gardner rise into the air, till its lower part was far above the top of the oak tree. It came down—the corner struck in the garden some ways from its foun dation—it was whirled up again higher than before, and came down the second time striking on the roof, dashing the building to atoms. A large portion of the ruins were carried away. Mrs. Gard ner was in the house all the time with an infant in her arms. She was taken from the ruins badly injured, while the infant was unhurt ! Mr. Bennett's fine house was blown in every direction. Some of the ruins fell in the cellar. Mr. Bennett washurl ed in a corner of the cellar. A little girl was blown in beside him. A few seconds after a horse was blown in upon him, breaking Mr. Bennett's leg. The horse struggled to get up but could not, and lest in struggling it might kill Mr. Bennett and the little girl, he tried to get a knife from his pocket with which to cut the throat of the animal and so quiet him, when two more horses were hurled in upon him. He was got out with a leg badly broken. The little girl was badly injured. When the blow began, a man had just started from a store to go home with his team and lumber wagon. He was whirled from the wagon, falling in the brush thirty rods south. The wagon box has not been found. The running gear was broken and scattered in every direction. The horses were the ones tnrown in upon Mr. Bennett. Herman Greeve lost a splendid house and two large barns. One of the barns was fitted up for holding wheat, with a capacity of fifty thousand bushels. It was a large, heavy, "Pennsylvania" barn, on stone foundation. The barn was whirled to atoms. The stone and mortar underpinning, two feet thick and five feet deep, was torn out. A thousand lollars worth of wool was blown into the trees for miles. A large threshing machine was was torn to fragments, bolts, cylinder teeth, iron and wood work being torn apart and whirled no one knows where. His loss is about .$16,000. Mr. Gillett's family took refuge in a cellar. Lydia Gillett, aged twenty, ran up stairs to shut a door. In an instant the house was dashed into the woods and demolished. Miss Gillett was found dying in a plowed field. Those in the cellar escaped with slight bruises. Mr. Barstow's residence has disappear ed. Himself and wife were killed. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Barstow's parents, he aged eighty-four, she seventy-six, were found near by, so badly bruised we doubt if they are alive now. Their son, Phinneas Drake, was sawing wood for Col. Bierce, and was found twenty rods from the remains of the wood pile, in a plowed field, so badly injured that lie cannot survive. Col. Bierce was at his office in the north end of town. Mrs. Bierce was ironing when the storm came up. The house, and barn a few rods east, were lifted in the air—sucked together, de molishing both buildings—and fairly whirled, no one knows where. Fire from the stove caught in the hay in the barn. The upper and ground floors of the house were carried across the street, and between the two, Mrs. Bierce was found, badly bruised, and insensible, and broken timbers nearly saturated with blood. She was got out and will probably live. Col. Bierce had the hand somest residence in the village. His house was a beautiful model well fur nished. A splendid yard filled with flowers—a large garden filled with choice fruit, grape arbors etc., now looks as though it had been the bed of an Alpine torrent. The house, barn, fences, trees etc., torn up and scattered far and wide. =Dr. Tinker lost a portion of his house, but saved himself and family. He lost a valuable horse. His house was in the edge of the whirl. A boy ten years old was rolled past in the street; he ran oat and saved his life. After waiting on the sufferers in the village till nearly dark, he left Dr. Rusk to attend to village calls, and workingall night within three miles of the place, had cared for thirty two wounded, some of them terribly and fatally, when sunrise came next morn ing. Dr. Weeden lost a fine house and large barn stored full of tobacco. A lumber wagon was lifted from the front of Judge Terhune's barn and set down uninjured behind it. A buggy in the barn was sucked through the roof and dashed to pieces against the ground near by. A fence board from a garden fence forty rods away, was driven into Judge Terhune's house, one end of the board protruding about five feet into the par lor, through the ceiling. A pitch fork was carried half a mile and the end of the handle driven into an oak stump, where it was found. The store of Mr. Nichols disappeared so quick no one saw it go, and five thousand dollars worth of goods are not to be found. A mill pond six miles east of Viroqua was emptied of logs and water, as the wind dipped into the pond. The mill is gone—the logs were whirled over the country. Willie Morley was blown from the ruins of his home into a hazel thicket half a mile off. Badly injured. The store of D. B. Priest, in the upper part of which was a fine Masonic lodge room, was churned up and down, and so racked and torn that no one dare enter it. Horses, cows, dogs, sheep, hogs, cats, fowls, men ,women and children were hurled to great distances. Dead cattle and other stock are to be found all about. FRAGMENTS, Such as broken furniture, torn clothes, books, papers, contents of book cases, wardrobes and libraries are being bro't in from the country, so torn and broken as to be worthless and unclaimable. LOME Log chains, harness, deadhogs, pieces of furniture, broken plows and other agricultural implements, feather beds badly ripped, picket fences, rails, fence posts, door frames, and barn timbers, dead chickens, calves, sheep and cats, and all the things imaginable hang in the tops of trees, bushes, &e. The scene is one which never wils equalled in this country. IMlen was filled with fragments of houses, en tire outhouses, broken timbers, log chains, rocks, cellar walls, stoves, fan ning mills, hoes, plows, wagons and horses. People half a mile away, say the cloud of ruin which swept on east was grand, terrible, awful and inde scribably terrific. J. A. Somerby had his dwelling house blown away—his printing office pied, and the contents of a book store dis tributed for miles. The house of Colonel Rusk was in the edge of the whirl—the front of the house was torn out, and all the furni ture in the room sucked out and carried miles away. PEOPLE RAN WILD with terror. Men, women and children, horses and cattle were nearly frighten ed to death. The terror was indescrib able. People thought death and the final destruction of the earth had come and gave themselves up for lost. HAD IT BEEN IN THE NIGHT imagination can only dwell on the scenes of horror the darkness would have augmented. There was neither rain, thunder or lightning at the time, though it rained the night following. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERSONS are left wounded and entirely destitute. Many of the houses could be hauled Win a hand cart, so badly 'were Wild- LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1865. lugs and contents tom to pieces THE LABOR " OP' YEARS was annihilated lit two minutes, and everything swept from many who must have relief or die. THE TOWN HALL has been made into a :hospital where several are being cared for by the good citizens of the place. Nearly every house in town has one or morewounded therein, some more or less injured. FOURTEEN MILES the storm extended, destroying every thing before it. Farm houses, barns, school houses, fences, cattle, crops, trees, &c., &c., allbeing swept away from spots, as the cloud rose and fell from the earth, how much farther is not yet known. Sentiments of the Soldiers A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Richmond, gives an inkling of prevalent sentiment of the soldiers on several importantissues. He says : It is the very general impression here that all apprehensions on the negro suf frage question will soon be set to perma nent rest by the soldiers of Grant's armies, who, having been down South, and now returning by thousands upon thousands to their Northern homes, may be considered to know all about the propriety of the negro being per mitted the right to vote. These soldiers understand precisely what the negro can do if set to work and closely looked after, as well as what a white man will do. When it comes to voting it is serenely apprehended that these soldiers will smile from both ends of the mouth at the idea of Mr. Chase or Mr. Greeley, who, having enjoyed four flush years of home comfort and security, coming for ward now to teach men and veterans who have known four years of war and the negro what a negro is and what his capacities are. Another foolish idea seems to have entered the heads of many Northern people and editors. It seems to be thought that because our soldiers have been fighting " Johnnies" for four years, they mean to keeping fighting them now that halcyon peace has come. None know better than our soldiers how hard and bravely the " Jonnies " have fought in the late war, though in a bad and odius cause. They know how much they have suffered under the terrible ty ranny of Jeff. Davis, and how they strug gled to release themselves from his usur pations, and how they have lostall under it. Now that they are free to go to what is left of their homes, no one is more anxious to see these very Johnnies en joy a little comfort ; no one more ready to lend them a helping hand at the plough, or divide the frugal and homely ration with him or them and their starvelings, than the hardy and bronzed veterans of the Union armies—the brave and gentle hearted men who have bit terly fought him. The Union soldier knows that if " Johnny " was wrong, he fought as if he thought he was right anyhow, and one brave soldier is always respected by another. - _ A Pittsburg!. Family. Some years since a citizen of the Fifth w..,,rd left the city for California, where, unfortunately, he died. He left as sur vivors six sons. The father was no other than Mr. Andrew Malwaine, and the sons Alexander, William, Andrew J., Hugh, Stephen and Jefferson. All of these descendants from a worthy sire espoused and continued to defend the doctrines of the Democratic party. At the time the " flag was fired upon " it found them all in the peaceful pursuits of civil life. Two of the brothers could not go to meet the opponents of their country and flag, but William, Andrew J., Hugh and Jefferson sprang to arms. What is their record? After rising to the colonelcy of our own 102 d regiment from a lieutenancy, William died, uni versally regretted, at Coal Harbor by a rebel shot. Andrew J., a Mexican veteran and an officer called by the voice of his company to the position of sergeant, thus put ting him in the line of promotion against the will of William, who pos sessed a rare delicacy of feeling, not wishing to elevate a blood relative over the heads of others, seized a fire arm, and rushing out to avenge his brother William's death, was shot, and died on the skirmish line of the same battle.— Hugh, after serving in all capacities through every campaign of the 102 d, and after enjoying rebel hospitalities as a prisoner, returned, on Sunday, as the honored Captain of Co. F, 102 d regiment. Jefferson, after serving through the Peninsula and other campaigns of Gen. McClellan, was honorably discharged on the ground of physical debility. The above is the record of this Pitts burg family in the war; who can beat it? We welcome the survivors to the homes they done so much to defend, and hope that their record now, having returned to civil life, will be as success ful as their military one has been honor able.—Pittsburg Posl. The Civil Law Vindicated The Cozzens case terminated yester day. by Judge Thompson ordering the discharge of the relator from the custody of the military authorities and fining Colonel Frink, the Provost Marshal, for contempt of court, in not answering the process of that body and defying its of ficers in the performance of their duty. This is a vindication of civil authority which will give satisfaction to thought ful men of all parties at this time.— If we are to have peace and Union the civil law must be supreme. The liber ties of our citizens cannot be dependent upon the caprice of any military man who may hold office in our midst. The processes of our courts, and the officers intrusted with the duty of executing them, must be respected. If they are not, then in a short time we will have anarchy, with a total disregard of all law and rightful authority. We hope this case will terminate the reign of military authority in our city and State. Judge Thompson has inau gurated the resumption of civil authori ty in this State after a suspension as unnecessary as it was unwise, and now the people demand that this action of the highest judicial tribunal of the Commonwtalth shall be conclusive as to the supremacy of the civil power in time of peace.— The Age. From Newbern. NEWBERN, N. C., June 30.—General Cox having been nominated for Gover nor of Ohio, has been relieved of the command of this department, and or dered to report to Washington, which leaves General Ruger in command. The 27th and 23d Mass., the 101st and 103 d Pennsylvania, the 15th and 18th Conn., Ist North Carolina and the 85th New York Volunteers have been mustered out of service at Newbern, and are leav ing for their homes. There can be no courts in this State to enforce the collection of debts until the new State government is organized, which will not take place before next January. Parties from Wilmington bring alarm • ing reports of the filthy and sickly con dition of that city - , which condition of things has been growing worse since the arrival there from the rebel prisons of our soldiers, who were rotten with disease. It is also reported that the yellow fever has appeared there; but this is not believed, as it is considered toe early in the season for that epidemic. The blacks, who have gathered there in great numbers, furnishxnany victims to disease. The Newbern Times says the spotted fever has been raging fear fully among the blacks as well as the whites in Wilmington, and it is whis pered that the yellow fever is threatened. We learn these facts from a Wilmington official. —Judge Parsons, of the District Provost Court in Savannah, has ordered certain property confiscated and sold by rebel authorities to be returned to its former owner. Es-Governor Letcher, of,Virginia, CoL Northrop, es-rebel Commissary General, have been reduced . to poverty by the failure of the Confederacy. judge Story on the Elective Franchise. Judge story, the eminent commenta tor on the Constitution of the United States, has left on record hisopinion.on the question of the entire and exclusPie right-of each State to determine what persons shall be entitled to exercise the right of suffrage therein. He clearly shows that neither the President nor Congress have any, say in the matter. There is no doubt that President John son is familiar with the able views ex pressed in the following significant ex tract. Judge Story says : "When the Revolution brought about the separation of the colonies, and they formed themselves into independent States, a very striking diversity was observable in the original constitutions adopted by them, and a like diversity has pervaded all the constitutions of the new States which have since grown up and all the revised constitutions of the old States which have received the rati fication of the people. In some of the States the right of suffrage depends upon a certain length of residence and payment of taxes ; in others, upon mere citizenship and residence ; in others, upon the possession of a freehold, or some estate of a par ticular value, or upon the payment of taxes, or performance of some public duty, such as service in the militia or on the highways. In no two of these State Constitutions will it be found that the qualifications of the voters are set tled upon the same uniform basis. So that we have the most abundant proofs that among a free and enlightened people, convened for the purpose of es tablishing their own forms of Govern ment and the right of their own voters, the question as to the due regulation of the qualifications has been decreed a matter of mere State policy and varied to meet the wants, to suit the piljudice, and to foster the i nterests of the , Mjority. An absolute, indefeasible right to elect or be elected, seems never to have been asserted on one side or decided on the other, but the subject has been freely canvassed as one of mere civil polity, to be arranged upon such a basis as the majority may deem expedient with reference to the moral, physical, and in tellectual condition of the particular State." Secretlstory of the War Some light is thrown upon the hither to secret history of the inititial proceed ings of Jeff. Davis' Southern Confeder acy by General Wilson's recent capture in Georgia of documents and archives containing a record of the proceedings of the Rebel Provisional Government at Montgomery, Alabama. They show that the Rebels lost no time, when once they got fairly at work, in organizing their Provisional Government, which they had in full operation in less than five weeks from the assembling of their " National " Congress or Convention. In the work of framing their Constitu tion the documents show they had con siderable tinkering and discussion.— There was a strong feeling in favor of naming their Southern establishment the "Republic of Washington," which was only defeated by a majority of one vote in favor of the title " Confederate States of America." There were long debates over propositions to insert in the preamble of the Constitution a re cognition of the divinity of both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, and in the body thereof a provision en forcing the observance of the Christian Sabbath. The former is understood to have been voted down out of respect to Judah P. Benjamin, and the latter in deference to the wishes of the people of Louisiana and Texas. Many other curious disclosures, besides those noticed, are made by these documents.—X. Y. Herald, July 3. Domestic Happiness in Africa Capt. Grant, in his Walk Across Africa, thus describes the home of a wealthy Indian, a benevolent old man who had an establishment of 300 native men and women around him : At three o'clock in the morning, Moossah, who had led a hard life in his day, would call out for his little .pill of opium, which he never missed for 40 years. This would brighten him up till noon. He would then transact busi ness, chat, and give you the gossip at any hour you might sit by him on his carpet. To us it seemed strange that he never stopped talking when prayers from the Koran were beingread to him by a "Bookeen," or Madagascar man. Perhaps he had little respect for the officiating priest, as the same rever end and learned gentleman was accus tomed to make him his shirts. After a mid-day sleep, he'would refresh him self with a second but larger pill, trans act business, and so end the day. The harem department presented a more domestic scene. At dawn, women in robes of colored chintz, their hair neatly plaited, gave fresh milk to the swarm of black cats, or churned butter in grounds, by rocking it to and fro on their laps. By 7 o'clock the whole place was swept clean. Some of the house hold fed the game fowls, or looked after the ducks and pigeons ; two women chained by the neck fetched firewood, or ground corn at a stone ; children would eat together without dispute, because a matron presided over them— all were quiet, industrious beings, never idle, and as happy as the day was long. When any of : Moossah's wives gave birth to child there was universal re joicing ; the infant was brought to show its sex ; and when one died, the shrill laments of the women were heard all night long. When a child misbehaved, we white men were pointed at to fright en it, as nurses at home too often do with ghost stories. A Sheriff was once asked to exe cute a writ against a Quaker. On ar riving at his house he saw the Quaker's wife, who, in reply to the inquiry whether her husband was at home, said he was, and at the same time requested him to be seated, and her husband would speedily see him. The officer waited patiently for some time, when the fair Quakeress coming into the room, he reminded her of her promise that he might see her husband. " Nay, friend, I promised that he would see thee. He has seen thee. He did not like thy looks ; therefore he avoided thee, and hath departed from the house by another path." " Size is of no Account." A gifted African of the boot-black persuasion, while dancing like St. Vitus over a customer's boots the other day, observed his partner poring wisely over a newspaper, whereupon the following colloquy ensued: First member of the firm—" Julius, what you lookin' at dat paper for ? you can't read." Second member—" Go way, fellah ; guess I can read ; I'se big enough for dat." First member—" Dat ain't nuffin. A cow's big enough to catch a mice, but she can't do it." Late From Venango The latest news received from the Venango county region is of a very en couraging nature. The speculators, and those of excitable disposition, are Pithole-mad ; while, on the other hand, the prudent and cautious operators con fine themselves to older, and just as favorable, localities. On Friday morn ing a new well of one hundred barrels capacity was struck on the farm adjoin ing the Morey farm, Pithole creek. Strikes continue to be made on the old, Watson Flats. The Needham was tub ed on Friday last, and is reported to be now yielding , sixty barrels per day with the pump. A well on the McCausland farm, near Pleasantville, not yet tubed, has already yielded several barrels of oil. A ten-barrel well was tubed on Friday, in the rear of the Bush . House, Titus ville, which has served to encourage other operators in that vicinity.--Pitts burg Oil Muth, ..1141,y 1. Sherman at Cincinnati. General Sherman's reception in Cin cinnati on Friday last was a splendid ovation, and not' less to the man than to the warrior. Thousands of persons" crowded around him at the Burnett House to welcome him. His speech in reply to Hon. Mr. Stanberry is as follows: FELLQW-CITIZENS: I am not so ac customed to speaking as my friend Stan berry, and therefore you must bea little more silent as to noise and charitable as to words. I am very proud that he, before every other man, has received me here on this portico ; for, ache says, he knew my father before me, and all my family. He knew me when I was a little red-headed boy, running about Lancaster, stealing his cherries. [Laugh ter.] lam thankful that he has intro duced me, for I believe he understands the workings of my heart as well as. I do myself, and I know he can tell itbet ter than I can. Therefore I accept his version without qualification. While we are here together to-night, let me tell you, as a point of historical interest, that here upon this spot, in this very hotel, and I think almost in the room through which I reached this balcony, General Want and I laid down our maps and studied the campaign which ended our war. [Great and pro longed cheers.] I had been away down in Mississippi, finishing up an unfin ished job" I had down there, when he called for me by telegraph to meet him in Nashville. But we were bothered so nine!' there that we came up here, and in this hotel sat down with our maps and talked over the lines and the ope rations by means of which we were to reach the heart of our enemy. [Cheers.] He went to Richmond, and I to Atlanta. We varied as to time; but the result was just as we laid it out in this hotel in March, 1864. [Great cheers.] General Grant and I had only one ob ject to fulfill. Our hearts and feelings were one ; we were determined the U. States should survive this war with honor, and that those who came after us, in future years and centuries, should never turn upon this generation and say we were craven cowards. Now, what is the truth ? Are you not proud ? You are not proud of me, but you are proud of the result.' [A voice—" Yes, we are proud of you too."] Gen. Grant and Gen. Sherman, and every other patriot, thinks but of one thing—we don't bother ourselves about local de tails—we think of only one idea, the supremacy of our country, represented by Congress, the Judiciary and the Ex ecutive—the people being a part of the grand whole. We may think differently about the roads, the mud, about mules and- horses ; but in one thing we do not differ—that this country shall survive, and be honored not only herb, but all over the world. When our thoughts are of the charac ter, don't let us bother ourselves about little things. There are great thoughts abroad in America, and you and I and all of us are charged with them, and let us see that our country stands un changed as to boundaries. We have the best country on earth. Our history in the past is beautiful, and her future is in our keeping. I hope and pray that the present generation will maintain the present, and I know that those who come after us will make that present more glorious than it now is. We have but begun the work. I have traveled from one part of the country to the other, and I know that we are almost in a state of wilderness yet. Not one acre in ten in Ohio, and not one in forty in Tennessee is improved as it ought to be. When we are as populous as Europe, it will be time to tread upon our neigh bor's heels. You, in Ohio, have the most lovely country the sun ever shone upon, and every returned Ohio soldier, I hope, will take my advice and go to his farm, and cultivate it the best he can, rather than wander away into new enterprises. For fifty years to come, at lea.st, I never want to hear a word about war in America. If anybody, at home or abroad, treads upon our coat tails we will be ready for a fight. But lam for peace now. The Army of Tennessee is now peaceably disposed. We simply warn our friends not to tread upon our coat tails; that is all. The General then thanked the people for the interest they had taken in his presence, and bid them good night. A Touching Incident at Harvard A correspondent of the Springfield Republican, describing the incidents of the recent class day at Harvard College, records the following touching incident: "From these scenes of mirth-loving pleasure to the 'short andsimple annals of the poor,' is but a step, and a sad step, too ; for, on the morning of class day the sophomore class buried one of their number, who literally died from want of necessities of life, and that, too, right here at Havard College. Only a year ago, fresh from a farm seventeen miles from Buffalo, N. Y., a raw, green lad of twenty-two, applied for admis sion to the sophomore class. His awk ward manner and uncouth bearing wou for him, the name of ' Greeny.' Only last week was lie missed from recitation, and way up in a little ten-by-twenty attic room of a rickety old boarding house somebody said he was dying of typhoid fever. Ex-President Peabody, the good Samaritan of Harvard, heard of his distress, and repairing to his room found the poor boy really in the arms of death. For a year had his only food been bread and water, and sometimes a little milk, and often one meal a day sufficed. His room was small and poorly ventila ted, and by the feeble light of an old oil amp had the poor fellow worked eigh teen out of twenty-four hours almost every day. These facts quickly coming out, everything that could be done was done. The struggle was all over ; his last hours were made as comfortable as a sympathizing and conscience-stricken neighborhood could make them. His broken-hearted mother came to carry her sou's body home, and she must have been overjoyed to learn what would have only a little before given him so much hap piness to have known, that he was the first scholar in the class, and to receive the first scholarship, which yields a cozy little income of $3OO per year. But it was too late ; his pride would never allow him to complain ; his ambition continually spurred him on. The Fates are amiable sisters, the triple Furies always agree ; but pride, ambition and poverty are most quarrelsome compan ions. We rcollect him passing every day; he never looked up; we all can recall his hurried walk, his sad counte nance, his pale lamp always feebly twinkling at midnight, his running round the corner, with a loaf of bread under his arm, his going out in the severest storms, without umbrella or overcoat. But it is all over now. A Horse Thief Drowns Himself and Keeper. The Lansing Journal records the vio lent death of J. C. Hall of that place, under singular circumstances. A wretch by the name of Presho, convicted of horse stealing was being taken on board a steamboat to the penitentiary at Fort Madison, in charge of Sheriff Palmer and. Mr. Hall. Near that place, the prisoner feigned sickness and was al lowed to go aft. His hands were shackled and one of his arms in the grasp of Mr. Hall, the Sheriff being two feet in the rear. Watching his op portunity, the prisoner sprang upon Mr. Hall and both went overboard and were not recovered. The " Desirable" Pew. A pew in a Congregational meeting housels thus advertised for sale in the Amherst (Mass.) Express. A pew in the meeting house of the firstparish in Am herst. Theman that owns the pew owns the right of a space just as long as the pew from the bottom of the meeting house to the top or roof, and he can go as much higher as he can get. If a man will buy my pew and sit m it on Sun days, and repent and•be a good man, he will go to heaven, and my pew is as good a place to start from as any pew in the meeting house. NUMBER 27. Smuggling on the Canadian Border. Incidents of the Contraband Trade. The Detroit Tribune has the follow- There are but few offences against law, concerning which there is such general looseness of opinion, as prevails in relation to smuggling. People, claiming respectability of the highest order do not scruple to violate the law in this respect, and the evil is daily in creasing in extent, and the multitude of its agents. Smuggling and the smugglers are of two classes. The first are amateurs, despising the professionals, and resent ing all imputations of fellowship with them. They are the individuals who, desiring to purchase for'personal use ar ticles, which by reason of high rates of tariff, systems of internal taxation and difference of currency values, are cheap er across the border, obtain them in Canada in small lots, and smuggle them home upon their persons. Dry goods are especially favored in this species of contraband trade and the ladies are its chief agents. The mysteries of their attire affording such admirable opportunities for the effectual concealment of innumerable bundles, furnishes too strong a tempta tion for the weak consciences of many of our fair sisters to resist. The value of the property which is weekly Carried past the custom authorities at our ferry docks under crinoline, is esti mated at hundreds of dollars. Nearly every retail store in Windsor is fur nished with a private room, to which ladies after completing their purchases are shown by the polite clerk, tape, string and other appliances furnished, and a few delicate hints added as to the most advantageous mode of securing the inconvenient bundles without in commoding locomotion. It might be supposed that feminine modesty would shrink from some por tions of this ordeal ; but as women who move in what the world terms " our first society," undergo it almost weekly, of course no one would be ungallant enough to insinuate that there was aught indelicate or unchaste in the sys tem. Occasionally some mistake places the violator of the laws in an awkward dilemma. Well dressed women are often noticed to resolutely decline all invitations, however pressing, to be seated on the ferries, and in some in stances a graceful gait has been inex plicably changed into an annoying and singular waddle. The second class of smugglers are wholesale dealers in the business for whom the discriminating public has no respect. They make it a trade and with success it is a most profitable calling.— Liquors, on which our revenue laws have placed enormous taxes, are the most favored commodities in this con traband traffic. Cans have been made, three inches in diameter and semi-cir cular in shape and closely fitting the body, and used in pairs. When buckled on underneath the shirt and covered by a loose overcoat, they cannot be per ceived, and by this means a man could carry more than a gallon of spirits at a trip over the rivet without suspicion. At present night is the great time for contraband exploits. Barrels of liquor are towed across the river by small boats to our shore, moored fast at the out skirts of the city, and the next day a wagon drives boldly up, hauls out the barrel, and carts it to its destination. A large number have been lately seized, which had been brought over in this manner. At one portion of our river front, also, there are a large number of saloons built upon the dock, and thus directly over the river. The contraband goods are placed in boats, towed across the river by night, and under the docks, whence they are removed into the saloons by means of convenient trap doors. Many liquor barrels are also towed by night across the river, and far up the Rouge, landed there and conveyed to market. Along our river front, below the city, this method is very common, and its prohibition is al most impossible. The number of men engaged in this following is very large, and it is greatly increased by men of high business stan d ing, who knowingly aid in their plans and share in their profits. The detective force of the government is greatly strengthened, and instances of detection are rapidly multiplying. The author ities have determined to prevent this contraband trade at all cost, and the prohibitory efforts of the past are insig nificant compared with those projected for the future. The Bounty Fund Law The Supreme Court Decides the Law to be Constitutional—All Bonds Issued by it are Good—Justices Woodward and Thompson Dissent. On Friday last, at Philadelphia, the Supreme Court rendered a decision, af firming the constitutionality of the act of Assembly of April 25th; 1864, under the provisions of which loans for large sums of money had been authorized and negotiated by various cities, counties, boroughs and towns, within the Com monwealth, for the purpose of facili tating the enlistment of volun teers by the payment of bounties, thus enabling these communities to fill their quotas without the ne cessity of a draft. The question of the constitutionality of this act, under which loans to the amount of many millions of dollars had been made, was first raised in Indiana county, in the case of Speer et al. vs. the School Directors, by bill in equity, in which the plaintiff's, who were tax-payers, prayed for an injunc tion to restrain the defendants from borrowing five thousand dollars in the name and on behalf of the borough of Blairsville, to procure volunteer enlistments, by paying to each volunteer a bounty of $3OO, to fill the quota assigned to the said borough by the last requisition of the President, &c., and also to restrain them from making payments therefor by the issue of bonds of the said borough, plain tiffs suggesting that the debt of the borough will be greatly increased by the loan, and their taxes largely augmented. On behalf of the plaintiff, the power of the Legislature to authorize the muni cipality of Blairsville to borrow money and levy taxes for its payment, for the purpose of paying bounties to persons enlisting in the military service from that borough, was denied. The position was, in fact, taken that the Legislature, not having the power, the act was un constitutional and void. Upon hearing, the court below refused the injunction and dismissed the bill, and the case was brought to the Su preme Court. It was argued before three of the judges during the session of last winter, and was for some time held un der advisement; but, they having failed to agree, the case was ordered down for re-argument at the next term of the court to be held at Harrisburg. The city of Philadelphia being large ly interested in the result of the case, as her faith was pledged for seVaral mil lions of dollars, borrowed for the pay ment of bounties to volunteers, F. C. Brewster, Esq., took part in the re-ar gument of the case, at Harrisburg, in behalf of that city. The opinion of the majority of the court was delivered by Mr. Justice Ag new, on the 30th ult., affirming the constitutionality of the law, thus reliev ing the disquietude of the holders of this class of securities. The opinion is at much length, and is able, learned and exhaustive of the questions at issue. Mr. Justice Thompson delivered a dis senting opinion, in which Chief Justice Woodward concurred. The Secretary of War has ordered the whisky ration to the troops to be discon tinued. The Commissary General is order ed to sell the whisky on hand. Maximilian has appointed a commis sioner for Sonora. This would seem to in dicate that Gwin's colonization scheme has not yet succeeded. —A fire in Burt's Block, Springfield, Massachusetts; on Monday night, destroy= ed seventeen thousand dollars worth of proPerty. = ll::stso WliglilTri i n em; per square of ten Linea; ten per cent. increase for fractions of a_yestr. BiLi.L.*STATZ, F - 60.19-M7,,aritj 01:21. wait ADVitartairtO; 7 omits - alron= the first, and 4 cents for each subsequent WSW. A,TwErr MamMarntS and other admires by tae . . - • column: . • O 0012=0. Rail co l lumn, 1 year 00 Third column,' 40 of ten itneab r leas, • • one na, o year_ --. Business Oardsalve liaesor lesa, one _ year,....._.._--.... 5 trosi. Norram..- - Executors' notices... ......—_—.... %CO Administrators' 2,00 Assignees' notices, -......-. 2.00 Auditors' notices,- . .1.60 Other "Notices," ten - lines, .or :less, three .50 The Atlantic Cable All on lioard. The latest arrival from Europe brings the following in regard to the Atlantic cable: The whole 2,300 miles of the Atlantic telegraph cable was on board the Great Eastern, and as soon as the balance of the paying out machinery was put up the telegraph fleet would sail for Va lentia, and it was hop,ed, before their depttrture from Valentia, that a United States Government steamer would join them. The vessels will probably leave Va lentia on the 10th of July, and arrive at Heart's Content and Trinity Bay, about the 24th of July. The directors of the company have decided on the following uniform tariff between all parts of the United States and British North America: To Great Britain £2O for 20 words or less, and £1 for each additional word. To the Continent of Europe £2l for 20 words, and £1 Is. for each additional word. To Asia and Africa, £25 for 20 words, and £1 Ss. for each additional word. The address, date and signature are all to be counted and charged for in mes sages. . . Messages for places in Asiaand Africa to which the telegraph does not extend, will be forwarded by the first mail, post age paid. Messages in cipher will be charged double these rates. The directors are convinced that unless they charge high prices at first there will be such an accumulation of busi ness that great delay will arise in the transmission of the messages, but they intend to put down new cables as fast as possible, and then reduce the prices. The cable will be opened for business as soon after it is laid as possible, and all messages will be forwarded in the order in which they are received at Heart's Content and Trinity Bay. The new stock of the Atlantic Tele graph Company sells in London at a premium, and old £l,OOO shares at £560. On the 21st of June the shareholders in the Telegraph Construction Company visited the Great Eastern by invitation from the Directors of the Atlantic Com pany, and on the following day Mr. Adams, the American Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, and a large number other distinguished peo ple, visited the ship. The health of Mr. Adams was drank at the dejeuner on board. Mr. Adams on returning thanks said, that during the recent troubles he was selfish enough to wish the cable might not be laid as he would have been over whelmed with telegrams, but now he wished it every success, as he believed it would do more than any other agency to strengthen the bonds of union be tween the two countries. The interests and object of Great Britain had' all along been to maintain peace, and now that the contest which had distracted the United States had been put an end to, the sole object they had in view was peace also. No more visitors were to be admitted on board the Great Eastern before she sailed. The present condition of the cable was all that could be desired, and those most interested in it seemed to be per fectly confident of its complete success. Before the following spring tides set in, about the 6th or 7th of July, the Great Eastern will start for Valentia.— There she is expected to arrive about the 9th or 10th, and there she will be met by the two ships of war appointed to convoy her-the Terrible and the Sphinx. Both these vessels are being fitted with the best apparatus Jor deep-sea sound ings, with buoys and means for buoying the end of the cable, if ever it should be come necessary, and with Bollen's night light naval signals, with which the Great Eastern is likewise to be supplied. To avoid all chance of accident, the big ship will not approach the Irish coast nearer than twenty or twenty-five miles, and her stay off Valentia will be limited to the time occupied in making a splice with the massive shore end, which, for a length of twenty-five miles from the coast, will be laid previous to her arrival. With regard to the process of laying, it is hoped the Great Eastern may be kept througout the whole voyage at a uniform speed of six knots per hour, faster than which it would not be safe, as a rule, to sun out the cable. At less speed than this, however, the big ship would fail of steerage way, and with a beam wind would certainly go to lee ward without some counteracting in fluence. This influence will be afford ed, if necessary, by the paddle engines, which are to be disconnected and the efforts of one wheel at either side would be quite sufficient to overbalance the effects of any thing but a very violent storm. This latter risk is now literally all that has to be feared. On this only doubtful point, therefore, it is gratify ing to know that Captain Anderson is sanguine of all going well. Yet, in this estimate of events, it must not be forgotten that, in the last memorable expedition in the Agamem non, midsummer was fixed on as the time ween a storm in the Atlantic was almost impossible; and the records of the Meterological Departments both here and in America certainly justified such an expectation, as they showed that for fifty years no storm had taken place at that time. Yet it was precisely on the 21st of June that the hurricane with which the Agamemnon and the Niagara had been battling for some days was at,. its, height, and those on board the ill:atowed Agamemnon, at least, knew not from hour to hour which was to be their last. Most earn estly is it to be wished that on this great occasion the calculation of ave rage, if not more just, may prove at least more fortunat As far as regards the cable itself, nere is absolutely nothing to be desire . Governor Letcher'Sblstressed Condition. The destruction of Governor Letcher's house at Lexington by Hunter's raiders has left him in a condition of real dis tress. So utterly stripped is he of all means of subsistence that his family have had to rely altogether upon kind friends for their support ever since his imprisonment. A few of his friends had actually to raise for him, by contri bution sarong themselves, thirty or forty dollars on the morning of his ar rest, to serve as a means to purchase some little requirements beyond what is served in his place of confinement. How it is Extra Billy is at large, while Governor Letcher is a prisoner, the military authorities alone can tell. It excites some strange comment here.— The last earthly possession upon which Governor Letcher relied for a future start was ten thousand dollars worth of tobacco, purchased by him since the expiration of his term of office, and that shared the fate of the thousands of hogs heads of that article deposited in the public warehouse in this city. The Governor has certainly suffered much by a war, in the inauguration of which he had no instrumentality. He remain ed true to the Union as long as it was safe for him to do so.—Richmond Cor. N. Y. Herald. Mortality Among the Colored Troops. The mortality among the negro sol diers in the Mississippi valley has been proverbially large. One regiment of eleven hundred strong, raised in the neighborhood, every man ofwhich pass ed the surgical examination and was pronounced good, able-bodied and free from disease, were placed in a camp by themselves, in the very locality where they had been raised, and in less than six months over one-half of the number were under the sod. These men were placed at no severe work, were not en gaged in a battle, not a man was killed through the casualties of the war. They were simply required to drill and per form the usual work of est:4(ller in camp and had all the care in respect to clean liness and protection from the weather usually allotted to soldiers but they dropped off; one by one, . until over one h alf their number were buried and that too, without the appearance of aa epi demic. —;Mr. Johnson, theFrovbnointl Governor of Georghs, has antral at Savtumel.
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