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THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1864.
ZSf Mr. John Palmer announces some
thing important to Fanners and the pub
lic generally, in our advertising columns
to-day. Head it.
The Public Debt.
Socrctary Chase has telegraphed to the
moneyed men of New York, that the
present aggregate of the public debt, in
cluding all legal-tender notes and unpaid
requisitions, is 31,7W,395,1GS 88. The
interest bearing legal-tender notes, which
have been withdrawn amount to $38,
890,700. The ordinary legal-tender notes
which have been withdrawn, and placed
in reserve, amount to 817,258,822.
Returned Home.
The surviving members of Company
P. 4th Keg. P. It. V. C, reached their
homes in this borough and neighborhood,
on Monday last. The casualities of war
and re-enlistments have reduced their
number to 1G men. A faithful service
of three years, has secured for them a
large place in tho hearts of their fellow
citizens. Grand Juvenile Concert.
We are pleased to learn that Professor
"William 11. Wolfe, so long kuown to our
readers as a musician of rare ability and
skill, will give a Grand Juvenile Floral
Concert at the Court House, in this bo
rough, on Friday Evening, July-1st.
The Professor will be assisted by the ju
venile fulcnt of our borough , and hc ap
pointments and programme of the Con
cert will exceed anything of the kind ev
er attempted in this section of country.
A full house should reward the Profes
sor's efforts to minister to our love of the
exalted science of music. Particulars of
the Concert will be aunouncad in hand
bills. .
Barrow Escape.
As Mrs. Brodhead, her mother, and a
liitie bny, were proceeding, iu a carriage,
to cross the covered bridge over McMi
chaels creek, in this borough, yesterday
afternoon, the horse became restive and
.commenced backing. Before he could
be stopped, horse, wagou and Ladies were
backed over the bank, on the west side
of the road, into a hollow some twenty
i'cet deep. That the party should have
escaped with their lives is almost miracu
lous; but we are happy to state that neith
er of the persons in the carriage, though
badly frightened, sustained serious inju
ry. The wagon was somewhat injured.
The 10-40 Loan.
The subscriptions to this most desira
ble investment are'steadily going on; rang
ing from 8500,000 to $1,000,000 per
day. "We would again urge three of our
readers who have surplus cash ou hand,
to secure a share of it ere the chance to do
fco passes away. There can be no safer
security than the faith of your Govern
ment: a faith which has never yet been
br.okcu it its business transactions. "We
know several who delayed to secure a
portion of the 5-20 loan, which they
earnestly desired to do, and in couse-
jucnce were too late. Some of these
have already wiped out their disappoint
ment by investing in 10-40's, and others
will better show wisdom by following
their example. It can be clearly demon
strated by figures that the 10-40's are a
more profitable investment than the
5-20's.
THE WAR.
Since our last, but little has been done
by our armies. Gen. Grant, has again
successfully pkiyed one of his flanking
pranks upon Lee, and now lies more to
the South of Richmond, with the James
River as his baee of operation.". Some
severe fighting has takeu place near Pe
tersburg, but the results are hardly up to
the expectations of the country. On
Saturday it was reported ttiat Petersburg
was in our possession, but Monday's news
settled it that it was not, though our
army had captured and still hold posses
sion of the formidable outworks by which
it was surrounded. It appears, however,
that a second line of works nearer the
town, are held by the enemy, and have
thus far successfully resisted our ef
forts to capture them. Our losses in
these attempts have been heavy. Not
withstanding the failure everything looks
well. The officers and men are iu the
best spirits ; and have no idea of despair
i-ng of being fully successful in the ac
complishment of the object for which
"they crossed the Bapidan.
In Keutucky Morgan's raid has ended
iu a whip out; and he is rapidly seeking
to secure his retreat to Dixie, sa7is
horses which, he calculated to steal, sans
reputation as a soldier, and sans every
thing, else which goes to make up .the
chivalrous gentleman. Jg,
Sherman's Army is reported to be agajtu
.the move, pursuing-Johnson, :y?ho is
53. rapid retreat
The Nominations.
The news of the re-nomination of Ilon-
est Old Abe for the Presidency, and the
nomination of Gov. Johnson for the vice
Prcsidcnc was enthusiastically received
all over the loyal portion of the country.
Meetings ratify iug the nomination have
been held, at which the uumbers present
literally stunned the sympathisers with
Jeff. Davis. Everything now forshadows
the certainty of its triumphant election.
A friend, just returned from Philadel
phia, where he had been in attendance
upon the Sanitary Fair, and where he
met thousands from all portions of the
North, and many from the South, says
the enthusiasm over the nominations is
unbounded. Our informant is no politi
cian, though his leanings and votes have
always been with the democracy, and says
he made no inquiries, but the impression
was forced upon him that unless a change
came over the spirit of the people Old
Abe's election would be as overwhelming
as was his nomination. It was uo matter
what crowd he got into, whether it was
composed of mechanics at their work, sol
diers at their play, or persons of easy lei
sure in pursuit of their pleasures, it was
nothing but Lincoln and Johnson. In
his sojonrn of ten days in the city he did
not meet a mau who favored the Cleave
land disorganizes, or who expressed a
readiness to vote for Fremont He was
present in the Fair buildiug, and heard
Old Abe make his speech, and came away
so much in love with the plain, blunt
honesty of the man, that we should not
wonder, if in November next he cast his
maiden vote for the best interests of the
couutry, instead of for the pot-house pol
iticians. But it is not only in Philadelphia that
this state of things exist. From all parts
of the country comes the same cheering
news.
The Chicago Convention.
The grand Democratic cahogle will as
semble at Chicago on the 4th day of July,
for the purpose of selecting a candidate
for the Presidency. If nothing untoward
occurs, we shall probably after that evjnt
enter in earnest upon the campaign.
Although a unit iu opposition to the U-
uion party and the advancement of the
cause of freedom, the democracy are not,
by any means united among themselves.
The peace Democrats, and the pretended
vigorous prosecution Democrats, will both
be there, and each will labor with com
mendable zeal for the swamping of the
other. The friends of "little Mac," - will
be there, determined to nominate their
man if possible while those who arc
"drifting about," iu search of something
more available, and more to their minds,
will also be there, and use equally strong
efforts, to defeat him. And the Woods,
both Frenando, and 4, 12, 48, will be
there and that great Apostle and shining
light of latter day Democracy and treas
on, Vallandigham, will be there, and Burr,
the ex-Bev. Chaunccy, will be there and
Reed, and Hughes, and Glanccy Jones,
and their satellites, will be there ; and
altogether such an assemblage of. ardent
Copperheads, pretended loyalists and anx
ious Eeekers for the promotion of Jeff.
Davis's Kingdom in these United States,
as will be there gathered, the light of
heaven never before shone upon.
"We have said Yallandigham will be
there; and this is as true as preaching.
Tired of the delightful scenery, the ex
uberant liberty, ami the neglect of his
Democratic friends, which he enjoyed in
Queen Victoria's, realms, he ventured to
return to where he could feel himself at
home, and keep his friends reminded of
their duty towards him. Upon sufferance
he is permitted to remain to the enjoy
ment of his freedom ; and by force of his
own will he has whipped his co-partizans
into bestowing upon him a scat in the
Chicago Convention, where, by virtue of
his political martyrdom, he will be allow
ed to occupy an exalted place among its
working members, as a reward for his trea
son. And Vallandigham, and all the brilliant
lights around him, after snapping and
snarling to their hearts content, will in
all human probability, drop their differ
ences, and with them the several candi
dates who have been prominently before
the country, and, paying heed to the will
of King Jeff, as forshadowed in the Rich
mond Examiner, quietly compromise on
Fraukliu Pierce, for President, and Gov.
Seymour, of New York for Yice Presi
dent. And then Copperheads will rejoice,
and pretended loyalists will rejoice, and
secessionists will rejoice, and there will
be a general rejoicing wherever pure lib
erty is despised and the reign of dema
gogucisra aud tyranny is revered. Our
prophesy as to the nominees may be at
fault, but as to the rejoicing, and as to
who will rejoice is already become patent
from the admonitions before us. This
will be the disgraceful' beginning of the
campaign, but the end will be glorious.
The people in their might, at the ballot
box, vWil.l wipe out the disgrace, by coa-de-waieg
the action of the traitors at Chi-
ago, in the triumphant election of Lin
coln and Johnson, who have been tried
in the fire of true patriotism and not
wuud wan tin
An Honest Confession
Is said to be good for tho soul. If
this be so. how comfortably. complacent
must our friend the Squire have felt, af
ter the issue of the last Monroq Demo
crat. There is another adage about
'children and fools," &c., but we will say
nothing about that, more than that the
Democrat for once has come as near the
truth as is possible for a politician of its
class to do.
In speaking of the nominations al
ready made, the Squire draws great com
fort from the supposed inroads which
Fremont's nomination will make iu the
Republican ranks, and, with great gusto,
retails what Fremont, in .his letter of ac
ceptance of the Cleveland nomination,
threatened iu case Uncle Abraham was
nominated at Baltimore. In like spirit,
too, he speculates over the probable great
benefit which the latter day Democracy
may reap from the family quarrel. But
the Squire forgets an important item in
this connection : he forgets that the Re
publican party is as dead as is that old
fashioned Democracy, which existed iu
the days when love of country predomin
ated over love of party and when true
liberty was the watchword of the states-
men of all parties: he overlooks, too, the
fact which is so apparent to the eyes or
ail who want to sec, that the Fremont move
mcntis nothing but the wriggling of the
tail of political-republicanism, which,
according to a saying among boys, will
continue to wriggle until the sundown of
Fogy ism buries it beneath the new order
of things, which is bound to have pre
ccdence in these United States. "When
this comes to pass, as come it will, our
liberties will be enlarged, our people more
happy, our couutry more prosperous, and
our standiug among nations more exalted
than ever before. And herein lies the
Squire's great mistake. He is oblivious
to the fact that we have a great and
growing Union party in the country
composed of the loyal men of all parties
whose numbers at first formidable have
become overwhelming. It is the cape
cial mission of this Union party to bring
about the good State of things mentioned
above to redeem the errors of the past,
aud to make the future of our couutry,
precisely what it was designed to be, the
happiest, most free, and best country on
the face of the Globe. The efforts of all
the Fremonts, and of the latter day De
mocracy combined, cannot abate one jot or
tittle of our duty nor hinder its perform
ance towards the accomplishments of this
cud.
But we have said the Democrat told
the truth for once. It was only, howev
er, in a Democratic sense that the feat
performed a truthfulness of wish, ac
companied by an overwhelming amouut
of credulity as to promised result. In
the following extract from the Squire's
leading article it can be seen, exactly,
what Fremont's nomination means, and
what Democrats hope to accomplish by
it. There is no possible chance for his
election, and his supporters do not ex
pect it; but there is a hope shared both
by themselves and their antipodes the
Democracy that it will gratify revenge
on one side, and lead to the election of
the Chicago nominees on the other. It
is, in fact but a mingling of the strength
of radical Abolitionism, Wood proslavc
ryism, and Jeff. Davis Secessionism iu a
mighty effort to overthrow the best Gov
ernment devised, with God's assistance,
by man. That it will be rebuked by a
virtuous and liberty-loving people cannot
for a moment be questioned. The Dem
ocrat says: "No one supposes that Mr.
Fremont will be elected, but he will make
such inroads in the Republican camp,
that both the Lincoln and Fremont fac
tions will fall an easy prey to the advancc-
iug columns of a victorious democracy."
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The Tree of Death.
A correspondent writing from Sherman's
army, says: "There is a tree in front of Gen.
Harrow's Fourth Division, Fifteenth Army
Corps, which is called the fatal tree. Eight
men were shot, one after another, as soon as
they advanced to the ill-fated tree to take a
secure position behind its huge trunk. Se
ven men were shot, when a board was placed
there with the word 'dangerous' chalked up
on it. The rebels shot the guide-board into
fragments, and a Sergeant took his place be
hind the unsuspecting tree. In less than five
minutes two minie balls pierced the Ser
geant's body, and he fell, the eighth martyr,
beneath the shadow of the tree of death."
Ex-Governor Wright, of Indiana, in a
speech delivered at the Lincoln and Johnson
ratification meeting held at the Cooper In
stitute, New York, on Wednesday night,
thus referred to our candidate for the Vice
Presidency :
'I have known Governor Johnson inti
mately for twenty-one years. I served with
him in the Twenty-eighth Congress. If I
were to select a man of Roman, iron will,
and of unbending integrity, I know of no
man in the whole length and breadth of the
land that I consider superior to Andy John
son. From the first hour of this rebellion
to this day he has hod but one policy, and
has been animated with but one desire, and
that is love of country."
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Bi5uThe Rebel General Johnston late
ly had twenty-five of his men in Georgia
tied to stakes, aud shot for trying to desert,.
Dispatch from General Grant.
Washington, June 1810 P. M. To
ir,'m- mineral Dix. New York: The
following dispatch. from General Grant,
date'd yesterday, at11 o'clock A. M.,,at
City 'Point, has been received at this De
partment:
"The Ninth Corps this inOftiing car
ried two more redoubts forming a part of
the defences of Petersburg, capturing
40 prisoners and four guns.
"Our successes are Doing ionoweu up.
"Our forces drew out from within fifty
yards of the entrenchments of Coal Har
bor, made a flank movement or au aer
tfge of about fifty miles march, crossiug
the Chickahominy and James rivers
Mm l.iffnr be no- 2.0UU iect wide ana o
t the noint of crossing and
surprised the enemy's rear at Petersburg.
"This was done without tne loss oi a
wasou or piece of artillery, and only a-
bout one hundred and Mty stragglers
were picked up by the enemy.
"In covering this move, warrens corps
and Wilson's cavalry had frequent skirm
ishing with the enemy, each losing from
fifty to sixty killed aud wounded, out in
flicting an equal if not greater loss upon
the enemy.
"The Eighteenth Corps (Smith's) were
transferred from White House to Ber
muda Hundred by water, moved out
near Petersburg ou the night of thoir ar
rival, and surprised, or rather captured,
the very strong works northeast of Pe
tersburg before sufficient force could be
got in them by the enemy to hold them..
"He was joined the night following
this capture by the Second Corps, which
in turn captured more of the enemy's re
doubts further south, aud this corps was
followed by the Ninth, with tho result
above stated.
"All the troops are now up except two
divisions covering the wagon trains, and
they will be up to-night.
"The enemy, in their endeavors to re
inforce Petersburg, abandoned their in
trenchments in front of Bermuda Hun
dred. Thev uo doubt expected troops
from the north side of James river to
take their placo before they were discov
ered. Butler took advantage of this, and
moved a force at once upon the railroad
and plank road between Richmond and
Petersburg, which I hope to retain pos
session of.
"Too much credit cannot be given the
troons and their commanders for the en
ergy and fortitude displayed the last five
das. Day and night has been all the
same, no delays being allowed on any ac
count." Later unofficial despatches show that
at 8 o'clock this morning the cuemy still
occupied Petersburg.
Major Morton was killed in an assault
vestcrdav.
Nothing has been received to-day from
Sherman or Hunter.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
second despatch.
Washington, June 1811 P. M.-
Major General Dix: Despatches from
General Sheridan have just been re
ceived. He reports a victory over the
enemy at Trcvillian Station, on the Vir
ginia Central Railroad, a few miles south
of Gordonsvillc, where General Lee, a
few days siuce, reported a rebel victory.
The official report is as follows :
"I have the honor to report to you the
arrival of my command at this point, and
also to report its operations since leaving
New Castle Ferry. I crossed the Pa
munky river on the 7th inst., marching
via Aylett's, and encamped on Herriug
creek.
"On the morning of the 8th I resumed
the march, via Polecat Station, and en
camped three miles west of the station.
On the 9th I marched through Childs
burg and New Market, encamping on E.
N. E. creek, near Young's bridge.
"On the 10th, marched via Andrew's
tavern xjnd Teviman's store, crossing both
branches of the. North Anna, and en
camped at Buck Childs's about three
miles north of Trevillian Station.
"My intention was to break the rail
road at this station, march through Me
chanicsvillc, cut the Gordonsvillc aud
Charlottesville Railroad, near Lindsay's
house, and then to march on Charlottes
ville.
"But on our arrival at Buck Childs's
house, I found the enemy's cavalry in
my immediate front.
"On the morning of the 11th, General
Torbet, with his division, and Colonel
Gregg's brigade, of General Gregg's di
vision, attacked the enemy, and, after an
obstinate contest, drove him from succes
sive lines of breastworks, through an al
most impassable forest, back on Trcvillian
Station.
"In the meantime General Custer was
ordered, with his brigade, to proceed by
a country road so as to reach the station
in the rear of the enemy's cavalay. Ou
his arrival at this point the enemy broke
into a complete rout, leaving his dead
aud nearly all of his wounded in our
bauds; also, twenty officers, five hundred
men aud three hundred horses.
"These operations occupied the whole
of the day. At night I encamped at
Trcvillian Station, and on the morning
of the 12th commenced destroying the
railroad from this point to Louisa Court
House. This was thoroughly done, the
ties being burned and the rails rendered
unserviceable. The destruction of the
railroad occupied until three o'clock of
this day..
"I directed General Torbet to advance
with his division and General Davis's bri
gade of General Gregg's division, in the
direction of Gordonsville, and attack the
enemy, who had concentrated and been
reinforced by infantry during the night,
and had also constructed rifle-pita at a
point about five miles from Gordonsville.
"The advance was made, but as the
enemy's position was found too strong to
assault, no general attack was made.
"On the extreme right of our lines a
portion of the reserve brigade carried the
enemy's work twice, and was twice driven
therefrom by infantry. Night closed the
contest.
"I found on the examination of 'tho
('command that' there was not a sufficiency i
of ammunition left to continue the en
gagement the next day. Trains of cars
also came down to where w6A'were-cn-gaged
with tho enemy - . . '
"The reports of prisonors and' citizens
were that Pickett's old division; or a por
tion of it, were coming to prevent the
taking of Gordonsville. I, therefore, dur
ing the night and next morning, with
drew my command over the North Anna,
via 'Carpenter's Ford, near Miner's
Bridge. .
"Iu addition, the animals were, tor the
two entire days in which we were en
a"cd, without forage. The surrounding
country afforded uothing but grazing of a
very inferior quality, and generally at
such points as were inaccessible to us.
iiThn nnvnirv enirasieiiieub ui iu
was by far the most brilliant one of the
present campaign.
uTi,o nnnmv's loss was very heavy.
Thev lost the following named officers in
ir, d nnri wounded: v,oi. iunatui,
commanding a regiment, killed Braiga-
dier General Rosser, commanding a ong-
wln wnnnded : (Jol. Akcn, commanding n
regiment, wounded; Col. Custer, com-
mnnrlmiY TO (T1 Til fill t. WOUndCU.
UIUUUIUq " 0 1 - -
"My loss iu killed and wounded win
be about five hundred and seventy-five.
Of this number four hundred aud ninety
were wounded. I brought off in my am
bulances three hundred aud scventy-sev-on
nil ihnt Rould be transported.
"The remainder were, with a numocr
nf voh wounded that fell into my hands,
U a,
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left behind. Surgeons and attendants
were detailed, and remained in charge oi
t.iioin .
"I captured and have now with me
three hundred ana seventy puaum-ia ui
war including twenty commissioned ofn
pors. Mv loss in captured will not ex
ceed one hundred and sixty. They were
principally from the Jjiltu Jlichigan uiv
;ilrv.
"This regiment gallantly charged down
the Gordonsville road, capturing fifteen
hundred horses and about eight hundred
men, but were finally surrounded, and
l!id tn fAvo. them UD.
"When the enemy broke they hurried
between General Custer s command and
flnl. Greg's brigade, capturing five cais
sons of Pennington s battery, three oi
which were afterward recaptured, leaving
ing in their iiands two caissons.
aA ftiore detailed report will be made
hereafter.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War
On the evening of the 17th of June
there was a grand Union demonstration
nt Princeton Collcire. N'cw-Jcrscv. It
was designed as a response to a meeting
of Rebel sympathizers held in that place
the night before in houor of the return
of Vallandigham. The College Copper
heads on that occasion made a bouGrc o
boxes and fences which they had stolen
and cheered lustily for Jeff Davis and the
Southern Confederacy- These proceed
ings so aroused the indignation of the loy
al students that they resolved to show the
friends of "Nassau" that such conduct
would uot be tolerated there. A large
quantity of fuel was purchased, and at 10
p. m. the wood was piled around "that
same old cannon," and over it was sus
pended an effigy of Vallandigham by a
wire stretched from two trees, and the
whole was then fired. Frequent groans
were given for the Northern traitors, ma
ny and loud cheers for '-'llouest Old Abe"
as our next President, for Grant and the
Army of the Potomac, aud the Emanci
pation Proclamation. A procession was
then formed, and, headed by the flag of
stars and stripes, marched to the house of
the Professors, whose patriotic remarks
were in keeping with the sentiments of
these loyal and spirited students, and ad
ded greatly to the enthusiasm of the
meeting.
A Chicago Copperhead, John O'-
Connell, tried for writiug a Copperhead
letter to a private in Rosccrans's Army
was found guilty of an attempt to create
disaffection in the mind of a U. S. sol
dier, and give aid and comfort to the en
emy, and was sentenced to be hung.
The President has commuted the sen
tence to five years hard labor at Colum
bus. JBST Indiana politicians regard with
great concern the concurrence of the evil
events of Yallandigham's return and
Morgan's raid, coupled with the general
and secret arming of the Copperheads of
Indiana, aud the recent withdrawal from
that State of immense numbers of Union
ists as one hundred day men. Iu their
judgment the dispersiou of Morgan's
force aud the defeat of the scheme for a
new invasion of Indiana, has alone saved
us from rebellion in a Northern
State in aid of tho Slaveholders Rebel
lion. Among the prisoners brought from
Gen. Grant's army to tlic White House,
last week, was a woman a coarse hard
featured Amazon, who was in charge of
a rebel battery when she was captured,
aud had an officer's uniform of the Uni
ted States.
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05"A lady of Gorham, Me., aged three
score and ten years went intathe field with
her hoe, the 19th, ult., covered 1,100 hills
of corn, drove up her cows, milked them be
fore sunset, and retired to rest in good season.
(K7"A regular mail line has been estab
lished between Washington and the White
House, a boat leaving the Sixth street wharf
every morning. This will be good news to
many who have relatives in the army.
.
J6rThe feminities of that portion of
Rome, Georgia, occupied by Sherman,
are described as being very protty, very
polite, and very rebellious.
Jsffe-Tho Philadelphiana have present
ed the wife of General Meade with an
elegant house aud furniture, on the'eor
uer of Nineteenth-street and' Delancey
placo, iu that city.
Probable Murder at Reading.
Reading, June 17, 1864.
Onifp nn'fi-ceitement has" been created
here in' consequence of a political emeute
between a portion1 Of the workmen in the
Philad6lnhia and Reading Railroad work
shop in this city, resulting in mortally
wounding one ot the parties. A lew days
ago one ot the workmen said ne wouiu
rather fight for the rebel cause than for
the Union. This expression created a
feelin"- of indiguation among his compan-
ions -and they determined to order mm
to leave the town, or else tar and feather
him and ride-him on a rail. This morn
ing he again came to work. One of his
personal friends, though an opponent in
politics, advised him in kind words to
leave the shop as he would surely bo
mobbed if he remained. Anotner work
man Cfather-in-luw of the rebel svmpathi-"
zcr) called out "Shoot him," whereupon'
the latter drew a pistol and snot ms
friendly advisor, the ball taking effect irf
the abdomen. The assailant was" arrested
and lodged in prison.
The Great Central Pair.
TVin XhrtJi American of Tuesday last
savs that if the results already reached
bv the Great Fair now being held in tnac
city form any criterion oi me lutai, im
adclphia will have the credit of contri
buting more to the noble charity which?
evcrytowu aud city is seeking to aid in
a similar manner than any cf her corape-
... til 1 A.
titors. The great iair held hare resuueu
as follows:
Chicago,
Boston,
Cincinnati,
Albany,
Brooklyn,
Buffalo,
Cleveland,
New York,
Baltimore,
St. Louis,
Pittsburg, .
Washington,
880,000
140,000
245,000
82,000
400,000
50.000
80,000
1,200,000
28,000
400,000
250,000
50,000
An incident of the Coal Harbor Battle
Sometimes the sadness which generally
prevails among the wounded and dying in
banished by a ludicrous incident, An Irish
man, who had been latally wounded, was ad
vised by the surgeon to give his effects to a
person near by. He pulled out his razor,
and asked comically, "If he would send that
home to the ould woman 1" "Yes," said the
delegate. Next came out his glasses, and
then 17 Gb, of which one dollar was silver
All these tilings he wanted cent. But when
the delegate went to take them, he asked
him to "Wait a bit. These doctors are not
always right. Ycfc bctlher be afther seeing
whether I'm going to die or not."
OCT G: W. Comstock, Esq., Agent (at W
T. & E. Smith, -at Geneva, N. Y., we fcarn,
recently delivered over five hundred dollara
worth of trees to farmers, and others in thia
County, all of which gave perfect satisfac
tion. It will be gratifying to oil interested
in fruit culture, to learn that Mr. C. designs
extending his acquaintance among themf for
the purpose of affording tlidm further facili
ties for acquisitions of tliis character. The
Messrs. Smith's hafe some three hundred
acres under nursery culture, and are thua
enabled, through their agent, to furnish Frriit'
and Ornamental Trees and hrubs,of every
description, at very reasonable pritf&.
A Washington newsboy last weelj cried
a "great battle iu Alabama," on thb
strength of the announcement sold-a' Star
to a Colonel, who ran his eyes eagerly ri
ver the columns for that battle in Ala
bama. He didn't find it and called out,
"You little rascal, I can't see any battle
here ?'"' "No," answered the boy, as hr.
widened the gap between himself and tho
officer. "I reckon yon dou't, and you
never will see one if you loaf around this
'ere hotel V
HjPThe wonders of the magnetic tel
egraph may be clearly understood when
it is stated that a great ratification meet
ing of the Nationl Union nominees Lin
coln and Johnson took place in the city
of San Francisco, one day after the nom
ination were made in Baltimore.
Tf Advices from Cincinnati say thai
John Morgan, with about 700 men, the
remnant of his command, passed through
Flemingsburg, Jy., on the. 12th, bound
for Pound Gap. Pifteeu hundred Union
troops were iu pursuit. It is said that
the Rebels admit a los3 of 1,000 at Cyn
thiana. JBs "Hans," said a Dutchman to his
urchin son, whom he had just been thrash
ing for sweariug at his mother, "rat's dak
you're thinking so vicked 'bout out in
the corner dere V "I ain't thinkin' not'n"
"You lie, you little vagabond you; you
dinks by dam and now I'll whip you for
dat."
j During the recent furlough of the
2d Iowa Cavalry txco hundred Marriages
took place in the regiment, there being;
twenty-nine marriages in one company
alouc.
J&SA minister, putting his hand on a'
young urchin's shoulder, exclaimed
"My son, I believe tho devil has got hold
you." "I' believe so, too" was the reply .-
j&ST'The New-York papers are4 combine
ing to send to Europe for white paper to
priut on. They believe they can got it
there cheaper than our speculating ragi
dealers and paper manufacturers will let
them have it.
fjT Pennsylvania is at present producing,
nearly 15,000,000 tons of coal annually.
's
03" Philadelphia has paid out $1,400,000
in bounties to voluntocrs.
03" The receipts of the Erie Railway
telegraph from the "publicaverage about
G00 per months