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VOL, 11.---NO. 18.
THE READING DAILY EAGLE
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OF THT airy or RAVADING.
D. C. SCHNADER,
414 PENN STREET, •
Would .13111 the attention of the publie to his
large stook of Parlor. Ofase and Cooking
Miry, Ranges, Tin, Hollowware and Reuse
keep nig goods of every desorlPilon.
Rooting and Spouting promptly attended to
at the lowest prim Oire,bim a all. •
fob 18-Otd
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MOLINO MILL ItESTAUIII.I 4 a,
919 North Moth Street.
ABRAHAM STOUT, PROPRIETOR.
Choice WinOS and Eatables on hand
also, a good stook of Ales and Lager Boor.
Lunch every day. All friends aro invi•
ted Weal!.
A few boarders can accommodated
with good board. Uan 21-11nd
ENGINE
BOILER FOR SALE.
EMI
IMPORTANT TO MACHINISTS,
MANUFACTURERS.'
1 ,~
Lables,
The undersigned offer for sale, at:rea
sonable rates,
.
ONE OSCILLATING ENGINE OF
FOUR HORSE POWER.
ONE MORT-HORSE
ILI TUBULAR UP.
RIGHT BOM.
Apply at the ADLER Office, addriea
INNER
♦ND
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RITTER ..fic CO,
Azinnta. r&.
"FOR THE GOOD THAT LACKS ASSISTANCE: ton THE NIONG'THAT NEEDS.RESISTANCE."
READING, PA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY' 18, 189.
FfNOINE AND BOILER FOR RALF.-111-
PORTANT TO MACHINISTS AND
MkNUFACTURERS. The undersigned
offer (or sale at reasonable rates, one Os
cillating Engine of foer-Rorse Power. and
one Efght-It orse Tubular Uprlgbt Roller.
Apply at the ADLRR, Mee, or
ad d
CO RITTER
feb 17-wd.) Reading, Pa. -
$lO 11F. a Vir s
1 4 09 11X: ; — fe A w d ti o a n , b a l
fi e bir w r °Ac e d Gun
ins_ to this eit; from th e far g m'of James 8,
11M. The above 'toward THIS e OF F ICE. by
leaving the same at OFFICE.
lob
OR SALE.—WiII be sold at Private Sale.
F
tho Stock of J. RODGERS' BARBER
SHOP, with appurtenances. at No. 255 Penn
street, Reading. Sold on aeoount of going
into Other business. ' (fob 11 d
K RYDER & CO.,
Manufacturers of
DR. BREyER'S
Oelebrated Tonics Herb Bitters.
• ,
Importer of
WINES AND LIQUORS.
Also Sole Agents for BAILITI3 UKRIVALLID
No. 121 Borth iihird Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Poe sale at the Eagle Bookstore. •
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CLOTHES
WRINGERS,
STEP L.ADT) ERS,
ALL WARRANTBD,
AT '
AP KNIGHTS'
HARDWARE '.STORE
THIRD 4WD PENN S 7 S.
our 10
BOOTS AND SHOES
FOR THE PEOPLE.
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST I
REINHOLD & SOHOENER
No. 41 North Sixth Street,
ABADINGW;I'A.
i 'y' •
rIPHE SUBSURIBBRS 'HAVE JUST EBTAB
-1 ilshed a first-olass Boot and Shoe-making
establishment and , , Moro at the above stated
place, whore tboyi ern able to accommodate
customers with the beet artioles in their lino of
business, and at tower prices than at any other
plea° in the city. •
The following list of prioos proves all we say :
Mon's calf boots, $4.00 and upwards.
Men's kip boots, $3 00
Men's working shoes: 1 60
Men's French calf Congress gaiters,boz to es. 3 90
Men's calf Cbn gross gaiters, 225
Min's calf Balmorais, 2 00
Men's kip Balmorals, 160
Boys' calf lialMorals, 10
Boys' kip Balmbrale. 1 25
Youths' kip Balmorale i 1 00
Women's la tang high Polih. 276
Women's aingress gaiters, 75 to 260
Women's lasting Balmorals, 100
Women's Morocco Balmorals. 2 00
Women's Morocco shoes, 1 66
Women's kid slippers, 65
Misses' lasting Polish, 145
Youths' gaiters from 15 eta, to 75
Youths' and boys' shoes from 30 eta. to 90
Also, a large stook of notions on hand and
for sale.
The above prioes are lower than at any
other similar plane of business in the city.
REPAIRING.
Particular attantion Is Paid to all kinds of
repairing.
REINHOLD & SOMENER,
NO. 41 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
(ABM! 11111 COURT BOUM)
READING, PA.
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McGowan & Miltimore,
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DEALERS IS
HARDW,ART,
I CUTLERY, GM,
ROME rIIRNIMING GOODE!.
- ETAL S I , •
• .TIN PLOTS, SHSET IRON,
Building Materials,
13ADDERY, &0., &0., &0., &u.
No. 612
PENN STReET, READIXO, PA.
bp 24-
RBADINQ a COLUMBIA RAILROAD,
tammiliglin On and'afterThurs
day, Nov. road
enger ,
, tilli;s will run this road
RS follows:
Loave Reading at - 7.00 A. 'M.
It • II ilg 6.15 P. lit
Arrive at Lancaster at, 9.15 A. M.
" " Columbia at 0.25 A. 8..
" " Lancaster at B.V$ P. M.
" " Columbia nt 8.50 P. M.
RETURNING :
Leave Lancaster & Columbia at 8.00 A, M.
" Columbia at 8.20 P. M.
" Lancaster at ' SSA P. M.
Arrive at Reading at 10:20 A. M.
" at Reading at MO P, M,
Trains Nos. 2 and 4 make close connec
tion t at Reading with trains Ninth and
South, on the Philadelphia and Reading'
Railroad, and West on the Lebanon Valley
Road. No. 2 also snakes close connection
with train for New York.
Tickets can bo obtained at the (Aces of
the Now Jersey Central E. R. foot of Li b -.
erty street, Now York,"and Phila. & Road
ing R. R., Thirteenth and Callowhill Ste.,
Philadelphia.
Through Tickets to New York and Phil
adelphia, sold at all the brincipal stations
and baggage chocked through,
Trains arc run byPhiladelphia and Read
ing Railroad time, which is ten minutes
tutor than Pennsylvania It: R. Time.
GEORGE F. GAGE,
Superintendent.
E. P. Mums, atm. Frt. & Ticket Agent.
fob 18.-lni
PHILA. AND READING RAILROAD
IVIN TER ARE ANOMIE/Yr
anliniM T O R M A7NI B SE
NG"
Dioitmnas 14Th, 1868.
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FIVE. TRAINS DOWN TO PIIILADEL
.PIII 6., passing Reading, at 7.80, pm and
11.15 A. let., anti 4.25 and 6.35 P. M.
UP TO POTTSVILLE, at 10.33 A. M., and
5.50,and 6.00 P. M. 15
TRAINS WEST TO jApp.ioll & HARRIS
BUBO.
Western Express from Now-York, at 1.05
A. M, and 1.50 P. M. and 10.19 P. •M.
Harrisburg Accommodation Train at 7.15
A. M. and Mali Trains at 10.45 A. M., and
0.05 P. M.
On Sunday, the down trains pass stead•
lag Kt 9,40 A. M. and 4.25 P. Di., and up
trains at 10.60 A. !Could 5.571. M.
The 4.9.0 P. M. down, and 10.16 A. 211, up
trains,
run only between Philadelphia and Read
'Up
Up trains loavo Philadelphia for Reading,
Harrisburg and Pottsvillo at 7,80 and 8.15
A. 2•1412.80 noon, and 8,80 P. hl. I and at 4.45
P. 11. for Reading only. The 8.15 A. M. train
connects with trains for Tamaqua, Wil
liamsport, Elmira, Buffalo, Niagara and
Canada.
The 8.15 A. M., and 8.30 P. M. 'up trains from
Philadelphia, and 10.85 A. M., and 4.20 P. M.
down trains. stop only at principal sta
tionS below Rending.
Reading Accommodation Train : Leaves
Reading at 7.80 A. M. returning from Phil.
adolphia at 4.45 P. M. ;t
The Pottstown Acteenribodtion train
leaves Pottstown at 0.45 A. hi. Returning
leaves Philadelphia at 4.00 P. 7J. •
The Western Exp_ress trains connect at
Harrisburg with )If,xpress trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad foritaltimore,Pitts
burgh wid all points West and the 10.45 Mali
train connects at Harrisburg for Pitts
burgh, Lancaster,Chambersburg, Sunbury,
Scranton, Pittston, Willcosbarre, Williams
port, Lock Haven, Elmira and the Cana.
das.
Passenger trains leave Upper Depot for
Ephrata,
hrata, Litiz Columbia and Lancaster at
7.00 A. M. and 6.151'. M.
M
Through First-Class Coupon Ticketsand
Emigrants) tickets at reduced Fares, to all
the principal poiate 'nth° North,West and
the l)anadas.
COMMUTATION TICKETS,
With 26 Convent!, at 25 per cont, dis
count, between any* points desired.
MILEAGE TICKETS, .
Good for 2000 miles, between all points,
At $52 00—for families and business firing.
MASON /WHETS,
(food for the holdor only, tor 3, 6, 9 and 12
months, between all points, at reduced
Fares. School Season Tickets Oho-third
less than the above.
lifir Passengers ;will take the Express
trains West at the UPPER, DEPOT, and all
other trains at the LOWER or OLD
DEPOT.
100 pound Baggage allowed each passen
ger.. •
Passengers aro requested to purchase
their tickets before entering the ears, as
higher fares are charged if paid irr the
oars.
Excursion Tickote,good for one day, by
7.80 A. M. Accommodation Train to Phil
adelphia, and return, at $266 each.
O. A. NICOLLR,
May 23) (4 enoral BuDorintondont.
E AST PENNA. RAILROAD
ARRANGEMENT OF I'ASSENGEIt
TRAINS,
Commencing Monday, Derember2lai, 1808.
a
No 6, Mail Train, lagiime.v. Reading 10 :P);
A. M. arrives Allentown 12.05; at. New
York .3.5 e, P. M.
No. 7 Fast Mail, leaves Reading at 4.20 P.
M.' arrives at Allentown 5.55 i at Now York
10.65, P. M.
Nos. 5 and 7, run daily, except Sunday,
stopping at all Way
_Stations between
Reading and New York.
EXPRESS TRAINS:
Leave Reading at
46 46 15.44 A. M.
7.31 A. M.
It 2.28 A. M.
1.00 A.-M.
Arrivo at Npw York at MOO A. M.
I 6 if VIM A. M.
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'I IS II 7.001'. M.
II 4 I 6.15 A. M.
Those trains run through from Fitts.
burgh to New-York, without change of
cars, stoppin only at Lyons, Allentown,
Bethlehem, g aston aanetion, Clinton,
White House, Somerville, Round Brook,
Plainfield and Elizabeth. •
1 The 5.41 A. .?,1„ train runs daily except
Sundays anti Mondays.
The 2.28 P.. M. trains run daily except
Sundays.
The 7.31 A. M. and Lee A. .51.,trains run
daily.
West bound trains, leave Nqw-York, at
the foot of Liberty street, as followe :
Lend NEW York. Arrive al Reading.
12.00 M. Mail No. 6, 6.00 P. ,tl,
9.00 A. M. Express Train, 11.30 P. M.
5.10 P . M. "Express m
o '
8.60 P. M. Express 'in, 1.00 A. ht.
Mail Train leavin - Allentown at 7.20,
A. M., stops at all li t 'y Stations, arriving
at Reading nt 9.10, A. M., running daily
except Sundays.
The 12 M. Train from Now York, stops
at - all Stations between New. York and
Beading, leaving Allentown at 4.20, P. M.,
arriving , at Beading at 6.00, P, M., run ,
fling daily except Sundays.
The 8.00 P. M. train from ' New York,
runs daily stopping - at Elizabeth, Plain
field, Sommerville, Junction, Easton, and
Bethlehem, arriving at Allentown at 11.45,
P. M,, passing Lyons at 12.29,A. M., arriv
ing at, Reading at 1.00 A. N.
•
Passengers aro requested to purchase.
tickets before entering the cars, s 25 Ms
extra will be charged and collected on the
train from all who pay the fare to the
Conductor.
COMMUTATION TICKETS,
good for Twenty-bix Trips, at 2.3 per Cont,
diSeount between any points desired.
MILEAGE TICKET BOOKS
for 9000 miles, good between_ all points on
this or the Philadelphia ik i lleading R.
2 1 5
or the Reading- Columbi R. 11., at $3
sash for Karnlfieb and firm . • ,
SEASONLTICKETS,
good for the holder only, 'for three, six,
nine and twelve months, at reduced ;ides.
• P. M. EEMENTROUT.
Jan 2-tf 1 ' General Ticket Aunt.
ILL RI MOVE — t
OUT DIY ttlarikeri"
iktua ,„.., AND PRY GOODS,
in order to mopen an entire new and well
selected stock, at
.NO. 317 PENN STREET. .BETWEEN
THIRD AND FOURTH,
where I will pay particular attention to
keep all the latest styles df
LADIESP,MIBSEB , AND CATIADREN 7 B
HAT AND DON LT FRAMES, '\
and a complete assortment of everything
,ertaining to the Millinery•and Tdmmtng
Pine. I express toy moat hearty thanks for
past favors, and vary respectfully solleit
the contiumanoo of the. saute. EatisfactiOn
guaranteed. •
fah wind • up, 0. B. 8EL7,44i,
For tho Daily Eagle.
TO MAOOIE.
IN Dl%. JOHN SIIII,IIM
Stllt waiting for thee! Still waiting for
thee
Thinking, dear Maggio, while sadly 1
roam ;
Oh what a pleasure—how sweet it would
be,
To rest in thy bosom, thy heart for my
home.
San 10110111, for thee Still longing
,for
thee!
Pleading with Heavon while sadly 1
roam ;
Tolling my Savior—how sweet it would be,
To dwell with thoe,alway, thy heart for
my home.
Still dreaming of t h ey I Still dreaming of
thee!
Counting tho moments while sadly I
• roam ;
Wondering, sweet Maggie, how long it will
bp,
Beforo thou wilt give me thy heart for
my home. c)
A PLEA FOR TIRE PRIVATES IN
TUE ARMY.
A 'shocking flistOry of Starvation,
Rascality and Vraad.
The New York Tribune publishes th e '
following editorially :I
It has been claimed for the officers of
the Regular Army that their training en
abled them to 'take exceptionally good
care of their soldiers. ' All through the
war we heard of the neglect and the ig
mimeo in filial regard of the volunteer
officers, and of the attentive care of the
regulars. Now' that members having
some regard for the impoverished Trea•
fluty are striving to economize in the ex
penditeres of the War Departnient, we
are warned that we must at any rate keep
a great horde of useless oflicora in corn.
mission, because their training will make
them especially valeablo in taking charge
of recruits whenever necessity shall again
require the enlargement, of the army.
We demur. Such samples as we have
seen of the perforniande of some of these
officers leads to the belief that the service
will be benefitted quite as much by weed
ing them out as by any other reduction.
There lies before us the .story of one
soldier's experience at the hands of regu
lar army officers. Some of its features
may be of special interest to honorable
members ,who NO it indispensable to
the good of the army that we should keep
in service a half more officers than we
want, because they aro all so very good,
and faithful, and attentive that, in an
emergency we could not possibly fill
places.
This young man enlisted in one of the
new infantry regiments, some two years
ago, and was sent to the redezvous of re
cruits at Governor's Inland.. Here came
his first experience of a soldier's life :
"I was astonished at the small amount
of food given to usi - All we received for
dinner was about four ounces of bread,
half an ounce of pork, and half a pint of
soup. Sometimes wo received far less
than that. For supper we got a little bit
of bread and coffee, and nothing else.
We recruits were half starved, and con
tinually tempted to try to steal ono an•
other's rations." Yet the Government,
whose soldier was thus welcomed to its
service, provides the most liberal rations
allowed in any army in Christendom I
Abundant dinners were paid for at Gover
nor's Island—what reached the recruit
was " half an ounce of pork, half a pint
of soup, and four ounces, of bread!"
The rest was supposed to be saved by the
considerate officers for the,benefit ef, the
" company fund"—the '•theory, oti its
face, being to starve the soldiers in health
that they might havh hospital delicacies
when sick. The misfortune in this par
ticular regiment was that the hospital
delicacies never came in, while the - slam
ation was uniform. Finally the corn
mandler here got ready to start West„,with
recruits, and rations for the journey' were
accordingly issued, These aoldi4rs had
enjoyed the advantage of being under the
command of, regular offieers to so full an
extent, that they were ?ow half-starved
and wholly ravenous. Some gorged
themselves at once on the unwonted
plenty, and were presently sick. All had
lost the power of self-control to such an
extent that the rations were soon:devour
ed ; and long before they reached Omaha,
after stealing from the sick and from the
more providept everything that was left,
they 'were absolutely destitute. With
armed men moving through a rich and
peaceful country, what followed may be
readily conjectured.
"When the train stopped, many • of us
would go to the houses of citizens and
begil63nething to cat, and often take it
by force, In marching through the
streets of Chicago in broad daylight, one
of my comrades'left the ranks and tore a
piece of pie from the bands of a little
girl about seven years of age. 'ln'going
through 'olive, at the different stations
the men would leave the cars and rob the
houses close by of whatever food they
could ay their hands on. One evening
tword, r or thirty of us went to a goad
looking house whose inhabitants were
at their supper. On knocking, the door
was opened, and in the soldiers rushed,
like a parcel of famished wolvei. The
table was pretty well laden with • provi
diens, but they aeon releived it or its
burden. There - was a largo joint of roast
beef on the table. A llutdunatt grabbed
it, bat it was hot and burned Out, so he
dropped it. An Iritihrnan, hoitever, was
equal to the occasion. Ho stripped off
his blouse, wrapped it around tho beef,
and bore it off in triumph. Although I
stole nothing, I was not hungry that
night."
After a series of such exhibitions by
U. S. soldiers, our recruits got fairlyi
started up the MiSsouri. Here they far
ed a little better at first, but soon re
lapsed into the old condition.:
"But what troubled us most, the ofli.'•
cars picked out the best °Pour rations
end fold tholu to the cook or attain of
the steamboat. As wo were little better
titan half-starved, you may imagine 'the
state of our feelings when we 'saw our
barrels of pork and hard tack, or boxes
full of our best biscuits, taken from be•
fore our eyes and sold to put money in
the officers' pockets. One day our
.steamboat passed another laden with
soldiers. The cooks of the different
steamboats exchanged compliments, and
almost the first words they said were,
Tow. much did, you make off the sal
diere?' They thou stated the number of
barrels of pork, tind'boxes of hard-tack,
and pounds of sugar, coffee and beans
they had bought from the officers. They
spoke, too, in tones Which showed that
they cared little . who heard them. Owing
to the best °qui-, rations being picked
out and said, what we now got to eat
was horrible. Biscuits were green and
blue inside, and full of dead maggots.
It wits a common eight to see as many as
100 soldiers at one time picking the dead
vermin out of Iheir biscuits. Tho pork
wo received was'beyond description. 11
seemed to have been kept as long asit
would hold together. Ilad‘we not been
so hungry, we' could never have eaten it.
Yet, bad as they were, the objections
wore nearly all to quantity, not to quali
ty. Any Ordinary man of us could ensi
ly have eaten 12 to 1,4 of the buscuits ie
a day; yet all we weie allowed was three
or four in a day. Some ( clays we got
bean soup, and some of Our men never
got a single beau in their allowance of
soup, Being thus starved, we used to
beg and steal from the negro crew of the
boat. Men, who but a few days ago
were violent in their denunciations Qf
niggers, Abolitionists, Republicans, &e.,
now begged from negroes a morsel of
food to keep themselves from starving.
They did not 'always beg it 'though.
Sometimes, when the ilogroes were sit
ting .down-to dinner,' 20 or 80 soldiers
would rush in among the astonished At
!loans and mak% a dash at the dinner."
And so the story goes on, fee page
after page, relating sales of fodd from,
under the hungry eyes of the soldiers, to
Indiana, to steamboat people, to immi
grants, and finally to the soldiers thou
selves ! Of course the transparent pre
tence for all this was the sating for the
company and regimental funds ? These
famishing soldiers only complained be.
!cause it was second nature to, complain.:
They were hungry only because they wore
gluttonous. The theory of a company
fund is that the rations sold to make' it ;
up shall ho such as the men do nut need; l
and who should be as good judges of
what the men do need as their educated
and accomplished regularr - officers ? per
recruit pays his respect to this theory
after a blunt, soldier's cushion
"I assert that the man who causes the
abolition of company funds, will do more
for the benefit of the regular soldier
than all the reformers
that over sat in Congress. • If
any company of soldiers think that a
company fund would ho of benefit to
them, they alWays have it in their power
to make one by subscribing among
themselves, and if the use made of
their money does not please them, they
have the' remedy in their own hands—
namely, 'not to sujneribe. But under
the present system4hey are plundered in
'the moat barefaced,• shameful manner.
I'hear'd that there eamenn order limiting
company funds to $OO: It never affect
ed ne any, for the officers kept on selling
our rations, and we kept on starving as
usual. When Uncle Suin goes to the
enormous expense of transporting pro.
visieins out en the Plains to feed his gel
diers, I canoot see why 'an officer -should
hollowed: to sell those provisions on
any pretence whatever. Surely common
sense may toll any' ono that the system
of Allowing every company commander
to sell his company's rations whenever
he pleases, - must end in 'fraud and cop
rupOn, for who is to know how much he
',lolls? There is, in reality, no protection
fbr the soldier against heing robbed of
his rations. If ho complains to the
cooks, they aro likely to scald him or
kick Mtn out of the cook-house; if he
complirins to an officer he , will get sent
to the guardhouse, tied np s by the wrists
or thumbs, or have a ball arid chain put
on him for growling."
The soldier who went through two
years of this sort of thing is not: without
his notions as to the proper remedy.
Congressmen whose -specific for the
army is the Mention of a great crowd of
uselesfroffieers, because they are go ad.
mirably qualified for their . work,may Still
And it suggestive :
"There,his been a good degl said and
written lately about the causes of de
sertion sa i d the remedy for it. I assert
that the cause of desertion out on the
frontier, in tho Icrritories, or on the
10 CENTS PER WEEK,
Plains, is poisotiing with bad rations and
starving with scantT,ones. I have spoken
to my deserters, nutlasked them the rea
son they deserted, and judging from their
answers and my own experience, I be
lieve that almost every cause of diner•
tion can be traced to bad anti scanty ra
tiet& I see some tnembeys of Congress
believe that if the pay of the soldiers was
i i neressed it would stop desertion. This
idea is simply ridiculous. Soldiers have
more pay noW than they any good
use of. Nine•tenths of them spend their
money in drunkenness, gambling and
debauche'ry.- I think I can toll them how
to benefit the soldier. First: Let every
()dicer caught selling his men's rations
be severely punished. :top the Help of
Soldiers' rations at the different Wittier
posts, and allow none to be sold ou any
pretence whatever, Second: Lot there
be in every company weightivales and
measures, solhat . if a soldier - thinks ho
has not got a fait ration he can take it
up niulluive it weighed and measured.
Let it be understood that every soldier
has the right to do this ; also, let it be
understood that if a soldier objects to the
quality of his ration, that ho has the right
to bring it to 'the doctor, and that it is
the doctor's duty to examine it, and, if
unlit for human food, to condemn it, nnd
order the soldier another ration." • ►
We have preferred to confine . ' this elt•
hibit to a single class of abtities' in the
army on the frontier. There is asicken
ing list of others, only too well, authenti
cated in individual cases. Soldiers ro
still tied up by the thumbs in spite oho
Congressional ' prohibition, nrun on
1 (,
Officers have tried to shoot men who n-
gored them. Mutinies have been pro
relied by long continued abuse. Steam-
boats have been ordered out from under
the protection of a fort's guns, at night,
in th) Indian couhtry, because of their
refusal to sell whisky. Men enlisted for
801(10 are employed as laborers. These
-- ciisqt may not be general—we trust they
aro not: i- But wo insist that enough is
known to warrant a thormigh prunin g of
the Army Register. A judicious muster :
out of ono third' of Otesek officers ou g ht.
to leave a body having fewer members
capable of such, enormities. We believe
in taking care of the army; but the first
men in it to command our synipathy are
the men in the ranks.
—France Gal a million Beadier&
—Chicago packed 607,064 .hogs this
season.
—Florida is luxuriating on ripe water.
melons.
pin manufacturing company in
Connecticut manufaCturing nearly Nem
millions of pins per day. '
—A. family:At Snow Hill. Maryland,
has lost five or its members by (Brotherly.
during threo *eeks.
—Peonage is reported to still exist in
tirizona and New l'itexico,, although it is
—Beaton has a milk inspector s and hi•
operations have materially improved the
quality of tho milk sold there.
—The huge ox General Grant line been
reprieved. Ins tead of being killed he ia
to end his days on General Grange farm
near St. Loma.
'—Some physiciane of New York have'
men recently - advocating the renewal of
he ancient custom of burning the dead
nstend of burying them.
—The West is puzzled about tho
Hutchinson family. Various detachments
are travelling in different quarterc.oach
claiming to be the "only genuine" lot.
—There was a deadly combat recently
in Florida between six men : thief) broth.
era oil each side. Two weip , hilled, on
`each aide.. Thb' dispute arose abOnt
some hoge. i .
I A ~. •
--Tho jailor s of 'Cumberland :,count,
Vs:, got lost at night, and was yo'bbod by
threo men. _ No will probably search the
follows_some time.
—The Rev. Mr. Shorthill, a Baptiat
preacher, and a Mrs.gclkett, etdding
at Penn --
utawneythe . I nne a fat. er and
husband, and the other a wif and moth.
er—fixed up a Mlle bit of 'an elopement
the other day and put out for- the west,
with the injured husband in pursuit.
—Edwnrd Divers, aged 104 yeais,dien
on the oth inst., at his residence id
Derry township, Westmoreland county.
(3mall•pox is adding to the honer of
ho famine in India.
—A cotemporary thinks the rain a
strange power. It keeps thousands
away from the church on Sum*, hat
won't deter a single man from attending
to his business on a week day.
—There lre now at work in the Meth,
odist Episcopal Chureh, 7180 itinerant
ministers.
—The Ex-Queen Tsalella, of Spaini is
helping the insurgents in their war
against the Provisional Government.
—France is still preparing for war.
—The Lehigh Valley railroad is to be
relaid with steel rails the wholedistanes t
from Easton to Mauch Chunk.
—The German nobility, and the Cath
°lice, and Conservatives of Vienna are
greatly incensed with the Emperor, be
cause be has included'in his last appoint
ment to the House of Peers three repre
sentatives of the trade and commerce of
the country, and one Jew.
--The pasEage of ei bill in thirty•foor
tninutea, at liarrieburg. ) a 80111011 paper
calla "leialatiou on the high pronoun)
principle."