Mil fcl l Ml M . !)c Mfcrsouiau, I? :HTTESDAY. J ANITARY.5, 1865. JB-Thc CTth Regiment, P. Y., with Shcrridan in the Shenandoah Valley, du- riughis brilliant achievements there, arc CD ' now with Grant in front of Petersburg. - lEj'Tc Milford Jlorald h beginning to cast about fo'na successor for Judge UJarrett, whoso term of service will soon -expire. How would friend Cotter like the position ? Mr. Salmon P. Chase has taken his seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States as Chief Justice. This is one of those events which mark the revolution of opinion in nations. Let the frionds of liberty and of a restored repub lic take courage and press forward. Thanks. Our carrier requests us to tender his sincere thanks to the Patrons of the Jef fersouian, for the liberal manner in which they responded to his good wishes on Sat urday last. From the. way iu which he carries his head, he evidently feels him self a capitalist. 2" The Wayne Co. JTcraM, under stands "that there is a movement ou foot looking to a change iu the incumbency of the Collectorship of this Congressional District," and thinks that "if governmen tal favors were impartially dispensed, it would he hard to account for the distri bution of all the fat offices among the low er end." The Herald insinuates that Wayne County would uot object to fur nishing the man. Borough and Township Institute. Notice is hereby given to the Teachers of the Borough and township of Stroud, that their District Institutes have been united (by the C. S) for the purpose of makiDg it more interesting and profitable. Many teachers have entirely neglected this important duty of attending their re spective Institutes and we are determined that if ignorance of the Institute has been the cause previous to this, it shall be no longer. Our next meeting will hold its session at the Academy on Saturday. January 13, 165. commencing at 9 o' clock A. M., and continue until 2 P. M We hope the Teachers will avail them selves of this opportunity for mutual nn provement and be fully -represented at our next appointment. JOBN T. GRIFFIN, Secretary. Stroudsburg, Pec. 31, 1S64. The Home Journal. Of 'ail the weekly newspapers that come 'to our table, the one which it is perhaps most pleasant to take up is "The Ilome Journal" of "Willis & Phillips New York. Its conductors bleud literature with news more pleasantly and successfully than most of our journalists seem to endeavor to do, or be able to do, and we think it is therefore fairly entitled to a good word from ourselves as an organ ot the book producing class. It is due rather to us than to "The Home Journal" that we thould say this, for its circulation has. we believe, reached that enviable point which relieves it cither from courting commen tfation. or fearing censure In all its de pari incuts, it evinces unmistakable ability; but its literary department, for the pur pose of newspaper readers, is marked by pecultarsprightlincss, sense, and proprie ty. Ave sincerely wish that our jouriia ists would generally be as careful of that department of their papers, for they would thus cultivate a discriminating taste for a good class of books, and subserve thebes interests of publishers. The "Horn Journal" goes into tens of thousands o families, and helps to form that taste for the pure, aud beautiful, and the good which rightly appreciates and encourages a sound literature, il every journal dai ly and weekly, were a minister of such in fluences, it would greatly increase the market for good books. Publishers Cir cular, Dec. A, 1864. Valuable Crop. A famer in Scott couty Iowa,' near Davenport, had this year one Sue Geld of forty acres. in onions, and the average yield is believed to be 1)16 bushels to the acre. As this was the average yield ol carefully manured portions, the entire crop from forty acres will thus be 35,UU0 bushels, and as onions at Deavenport will sell lor 1.45 a bushel, the yield of this jorty acre ouiou patch will be $54,108. The Guerrilla Hunter. St. Louis, Pec. 31, 1864. The notorious Missouri guerrilla Hun ter was recently arrested at Salt Lake City while on his way to California with 3200,000 in greenbacks, stolen from a bank at Bloomington, Mo., about a year ago. He was sent back by Gov. Conness, and will be taken to JJuntsville, and bung. J&Extra large, fat aud fine are the Bivalves which are kept at White & Scboch's Saloon, under the Odd Fellow's Hall. Extra too are the Cigars, Ale and Lager. Header if you want the Lest, drop to and see them. It is hinted that the correspondent of the Loudon rimes iu New York will short ly havo a warrant serTed upon him to act as a witness in regard to the hotel-burn-itig plot, he having predicted the confla gration in a receut letter in such terms 8 to make 'it almost certain'that he was n the secret 5hrlnfoUflient Board: Wo regret being compelled to dissent ifrom tho views of our neighbor of the Northern Eagle. ' We'havc had no occa sion heretofore to do so. He has stood up like a man, in all things for the Union j and'we believe means to do no injustice to any one, in bis animadversions upon, things as they pass in review before him. But we-cannot help thinking that, inins paper of the 19th, he was altogether more intemperate in his denunciation of the Enrollment Board than the facts in the case warranted. A position on the Board is at best but a thankless one. The du ties arc at once arduous and disagreeable, and vet they must be performed. The safety of the Union requires this; and he would not be up to the true mark in his loyalty who failed to perform them from fear of fault finding for having perform ed them faithfully and fearlessly. And what have the members of the Board be side the conscious faithful performance of duty to reward them for their labors: a few! hundred dollars per anuum, many hund-j red unjust curses, and as many hundred unwarranted denunciations, such as the Ewjle indulged in. We believe the Eagle to be in error, because it starts out to create capital a gaiust the Board, by insinuating that its conduct is regulated by a disposition "to embarrass 'Little Pike,' in filling her-quo-ta." There is no possible doubt that "Little Pike" has moved heaven and earth to embarrass the Board in its efforts to se cure men for the servlca; but we are as well satisfied, from what we know, and from what we have heard from others, re sidents of Pike as well as of the other counties of the district, that the Board furnishes every facility iu its power for the filling up of quotas. To this rule "Little Pike" is by no means made an exception.- Again we believe the Eagle to be in error, because it condemns the Board for for what it denominates the "over zeal ous rejection of substitutes," For this accusation to be just it should be aimed at a mark above the Board of Enrollment, that is, if there is any justice in it. The action of the Board is controlled wholly by orders from those higher in authority; aud a strict observance of these orders, both in letter and spirit, are always the accompanying instructions. The board is allowed no discretion in the decision ol military law, but must act ou decisions pro vided for it by those over it. On of these decisions, and one well estabiishe too, is that the grade of health for a draf ted man, is widely different from that es tablished for a substitute or enlisted man. The applicant for enlistment or forsubstl tution ma' be rejected for a dozen differ ent causes, which would prove no objec tion to him if he presented himself as a drafted man. We do not see wiry this is ior we cannot see wny ttie government snouiu araii a man ior me Hospital any more than it would euliscoiie ; but such are the rules which govern the Enrolment Board, and we will not do our neighbor the injustice to suppose that be was igno rant of the fact. Again. The Eagle finds fault with the treatment received by persons appearing before the Board. We have heard simi lar complaints, but have almost always found, ou tracing them up, that the Board was more sinned against than siunin r , aud were there were exceptions to this, the roughness of the Board rew more out of the number ol pressing demands on its time, which demanded terse and prompt answers to inquiries, than from any dispo sition of its members to treat any one ill. We have uo doubt that an effort made to drive things beyond the power of the Board's capacity to perform, or to induce a relaxation from a strict performance o; duty, has always been met with a prompt and merited rebuke. The reputation of tho Board through out the District is that of fairness, and we regret that the Eagle, in unintentional aid of the enemies of the irovernmcnt. should so boldly publish the existence o an opposite state of things. Our neigh bor well. knows that the trouble in filling quotas aud in securing the appearance o drafted men, is altogether owing to the machinations of leading Copperheads of the district. Their notice of the board has been a continued round of abuse, and he hesitates not to join them in it. If their efforts, notoriously opposed to the government, have been productive of so much trouble, what may uot they expect from his efforts, professing friendship for us, leading in the same direction. Alto-. gether the Eagle's article reads more like a spueing out of personal feeling, than ike an earnest, unprejudiced deirc to render good service to the cause. We regret its having appeared. Tho story goes that, when things were working so badly in Shenandoah Valley. Secretary Stanton applied to Gen. Grant for a remedy. "Send me," gays the Secretary, "the veryibest man vou have gotlin the army." .Grant replied by send ing Phil. Sheridan, saying, '-There isn't much ofhim, but he's the wan you want " It is said that the Spcretary looked some what askance ut thk slight and youthful figure standing before him : but beset him at wprvabi now he is coniynced that Grant knew his man; .1 Sninuel, and ior an who uutsiru -uiub iuc gentleman should enjoy' the peace' and com fort which was once his want, necnougiu themselves-of apian by which,, they .could add to his troubles, and, at the same time, give "aid arid comfort" to 'that great High Priest of Democracy, Jeff. Davis. As is very proper, the Provost officers on the arrest of a deserter place him in the county jail for safe keeping, until it suits their convenience to take him to proper head quarters. This the Copperheads of Pike determined should no longer be done in that county ; and set about devising the ways and means to pre vent it. The Grand Jury was picked upon as the best power to accomplish the work ; and twenty-four "hale fellows well met" ha vinT beeu selected and drilled, were set to work to do Pike county's share towards ma king Uucle Abe tremble and Jeff. Davis re- . mi r 1 T 1 1 ! 1 . J 1 a 1. jo:ce. J no uranujury uenuera.u;u, aim me Grand Jury labored, and the Grand J ury deci cided to "further represent : "That for a long time back, to wit: For the period of twelve months, last past, the jail has been used for confining citizens of Pike county without due legal process or commitments, according to law (as we be lieve, by Henry D. Ryder and others repre senting themselves as Provost-Marshals of the United States. The Urand Jury protest against such use, and as they believe abuse of the County Jail, and submit the matter to m:s iJOiiorauie ournor iiisirucuuiis, uu. A. GR1SWOLD, Foreman." All Copperhcadom of Pike rejoiced over this display of temerity on the part of the Grand Jury, and really hailed it as a veri- table "first gun fired in a Northern Revolu- tion." But somehow the thin would not won;. ucuuiiMauUii.K t..a putcuc uuu the Urand Jury 'Henry l. ityuer and others representing themselves as Provost-Alarshalls of the United States." would keen on "con- fining citizens of Pike county." The Bull of the Grand Jury proved a complete failure, and the aid of some other power must be call- ed in to restrain "Henry D. Ryder and oth- ers" from indulging their anti-Democratic propensities. The ways and means commit- tec again palavered, and at fast succeeded in inducing the County Commissioners of Pike to follow suit with the Grand Jury, and maice ioois oi tnemseives. xne cops would i i . . t... .u i.. J siuus uj wiB urunu Jury, uui "uuuiy u. ivv- , . . , J , rir :vnfl nllinrs rnnrpspntinfr f hpinso! i?pr nsl Provost-Marshalls of the United States" .i;.t'n c .t u 1.1 J uiu taw cui 1 1 j unu it uuiu uii uuiiwiuuo for even Copperheads backed by a Grand Ju- ry of their own kidney, to interfere with men who might shoot. The Commissioners, good souls that they are, however, came to the rescue, and drove the Court to the point by propounding the following stunning query: "io me Honorable the Judges oj the Court PUiC. The Commissioners respectfully hee leave to inquire whether the persons representing uiemseivea as deputy Marshall of the Uni- tea aiaiea, nave tne riglit to use the Uounty Jail of the county for the purpose of placing therein perfons whom they call deserters. And also, whether any such person is liable to be placed thprein without warrant or com mitment, to which they respectfully beg the court to report. "TIIOS. J. DICKERSON, "GEORGE HESS, "S. D. VAN ETTEN, "Com m ission ers." To the return of the Grand Jury, and the query of the Commissioners, the Court re sponded, just as every man of common sense would have expected it to do, as follows "The Provost-Marshal, or persons duly authorized by him, have a right to make use ot the county Jail lor the purpose of confin ing deserters from the army when arrested. While in the Jail they are under the care of such officers, and are" to be by them cared lor and subsisted. The county is not obliged to be at any expense in keeping such prison- ers. by the Court." What a chilling wet sheet must that re- II K' Invn (inn In hn inlnncn mnnn.lrn,K..n. I of Pike ; and how mortifying to think, that after all the fuss and fury of the faithfulJ "Henry D. Ryder and others representing thempplves as Provost-Marshalls of the Uni- tod btates," can, with the sanction of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Pike county, sro on "confinirtjr citizens of Pikn Miintv Without, film Iprrnl nrn or m 5 1 m ad libitum. nrnvnJprl thno .iti.on. ,!. , ,wb. r v. ,fo frnm(, AT , tefs trom the armv. No wonder the Mi . r ,- , ford Herald is looking around for a succes- W1 lu-uuge mra-u j. nere isaitogcuier tool much loyalty in that decision to suit the de- moeracy of Pike. o - Wc find in Ayer's American Almanac, (now rnndv fnr dnlfvnrr mfj0 k,. oil u:J agents the remarkable statement that the . temperature of the earth has not dimin- ished more than l-30Gth part of one dc- gree of Fahrenheit for 2000 years. To our enquiry how he could make such an ,ninn Ti. AWf!tM - rn. "-IL: LlT ua w,u iUUUW- 1 w- ... 1 I I . I - 1 iug answer. ' -nil'parcuus gives me CX- uCC record or an eclipse in his time. This enaoies us to measure with extreme accu- racy tho earths' diurnal revolutions since to any ec ipse now. Diminution of its neat woujd by concentration, shorten its UA1H IDG data Knows Mint, this nhonrrrtl , , , " ' . ,. y r," 0 t . ' u,uu,u' matically and indisputably true." New York Journal. T-l- T)!U! ohii tunings expresses our views on lie subject of autographs precisely. He , Tr V- ""A,uua, "-'fpouenc who asked for his autograph : ..." . I 1 . . . w - . . uiiusmua iu icks . HttU ptaHe- u iz a bizness that grate men hav got into, but wuu .ou.i u uwur piuuiaoie nor amusing. We furnished a near and verv r inn r crii I.a nn An Hm.n . 1 . 1 I . ..u uu. M.Wg.au a jcu.a-j, w u uajs, uuu i v fut iiimj Lliu UUIHI3 OV One of the banks, and it kost us 6275 tew get it back. We went out of the bizzness t lion nrv.l 1. n n t I. I 1 t' Ii II u.,,kx jisiTij iJyi Hitunercu ior iu since, ' Damper on the Copperheads' df Pike. The Copperheads of Pike county, enter taining a riiosfcmahffriant hatred for Uncle For the Jcjfcrsonian The Northwest. Friend Sciioon : Having spcnt,fifteen years in' the Northwest of our once happy. Republic I will draw some comparisons between former times' andHlle present. Your intellectuaPreaders are' "aware that Illinois alone has furuised over 160,000 men since, the .rebellion commenced. Thousands of her sons in common with the glorious North have given their lives for the salvation of their country. Mourning has consequently shrouded many a once happy countenance with gloom, vacuums have been made that cannot in time be filled. That rick boon of liberty that was bequeathed to us by our sires has been enriched by tho noblest blood of our free people. Wo will pass from the political to the financial. Fifteen years ago the farmer could sell 100 lbs. pork for two and one half dollars, now for four times that amount : then a bushel of corn was worth 10 cts., now ten times that amount, as may be seen by the following market prices at Chicago, 111. 18-19. Apples, 40 cents per bus Peaches, 10 " " Potatoes, 25 " " Hay, 35 00 per ton; $1.50 "3 00 175 25 00 GO 1 00 3 00 Oats, 15 cts., per bush Corn, 10 If (( (Jmons 40 I a p k - ' & 5Q cwt 12 5 Wheat, 50 cts. per bush 1 60 Gold, SI 00 2 20 fow wc havc grumblers in the North west 0r various kinds, as well aa in other ti If a uian gets but two pound nf onflW now fur nnn. dnllnr instPnrf nfsiv , , , ., , ,, . , . . . tion. Skiufiiut loaued Hard money sev oral 3'ears aS to Mr- Farmer at 15 Pc ccnt- The principle is paid in Green Backs, and money being plenty, it is often difficult to loan at six per cent., so S. cur scs the Administration aud the best cur re ncy ever in circulation on this conti nent Labor is not in proportion to commod jtiC3 ut in the Northwest if a man is si laborcr he is s0 from choice rather thall I necessity. Every honest and industrious 1 , man may very soon become a proprietor ' 11 1 could Vonit to individuals iu every neighborhood that made a begiuuin: with -' - sma11 means, that arc now iu easy circum stances; and for the last ten years 1 fiud from statistics as well as from observa tion, that according to population tl Northwest furnishes about one tenth the paupers that the Eastern and Middl States do. This is one of the stronges arguments m favor of agriculture that can be produced. We pay a great tax it is true yearly to the carrier of our vast a mounfc of pr0t!ucc to market. The fertil . lJ of our SQl1 a,ded b' labor sav,nS IU: chincry, enables the farmer of the North LTest to rairy con)pCte with Eastern far mers. At uo distant day the faeinc itail road will be completed. I hen Missour will come forth as a free State, and her vast resources will begin to develope. Her coal and Iron greater in extent than that of Pennsylvania will find its way to the Pacific coast, furnishing relief for thousands of miles of Hail way to be built m the celestial empire within the next fifty years. Illinois will be found about in the centre of a great and free country while Indiana and Ohio will have the ad vantage of an Eastern, Western and South ern market. Even now in the midst of the greatest civil war on historic page, the M'ardy laborers of Europe are coming in greater nuniDers man ncretotore to assist m laying the tOundation ot a tree nation It. W. HINCKLEY, Jiichficld, Illinois .j Governor Curtin has issued his official William D. Kelly, 31. Russell Thayer, B. Markley Poyer, John M. Broomall, Sydenham E. Ancona, Thaddcus Stevens, Myer Strousc, Philip Johnson. Charles "emiifion. Ulysses Mercur, Geor-c 1. X'.iUUICr, AdMl! ,1 . U lOSOrCn IlCl', AUialiaU !... o-..i.- l.' xi?:i' ni. Ou:jnicn V. 11SOU, Uienni V . bchofield, Charles V Culves John L n r.i t.- , , . juawsoo, uonn xv. luooreneau, inomas Williams and George N. J.awrencc, have been returned as duly elected in their several districts as Representatives in the Congress of the United States for two years from the fourth of March next. This list includes the names offiftccu republicans and eisht Democrats. In nlgll SteoD Dwh-iot the wuciuui uCTuiua i.uau uo returns nave been received at Harrisbun? that wnnbl authorize him to proclaim the name of any person as having been elected. The se.at in.thc IIouse bolonging to thatdis icc win uicrcioro do vacant uutu uoa- gress itself shall decide which of the nnni f aros is hsh nf;tln,l f fill - . There is not much doubt of its bein- awarded to Gnn TTonnf. rT;rt n didate, for whom a majority of the votes in the district were polled. This would m re us a Union delegation nfsirfpm, memuura a gain or iour over our nres- 1 ; r ' ent representation. iTn Ti,n aunan r r:t n Hn n Avrt fm, fi, wr.,,ii u..i. and went to one of the Philadelphia Banks to have it cashed. They gave him tho money, which ho placed Le supposed, n nia nnnt.q w.irnh -nnni'at nmi nriL.,i 1 U"u,u uuu nuiauu UUi Upon tcelmg for tho money a few mo tfintw nfY tie probably missed the pocket and the Lnn Hrnnnnfl .mon ftm m,A n..: w ... . . io?s m these time3.--Honesdale Re public. The Moravian -Government -aaUowmo- 1. . ... H man wno pay taxes to vote. Oil Investments. r Just now the oil lever rages, it rages .everywhere infests all atmospheres, and jhas drawn all classes into its dazzling whirl of speculation. .'Hitberto it has been confined mainly. to the'great cities and other centres of trade ; but it has now ramified into every rural district in the StatOj-and all. want to take a chance in the brilliant lottery of "fickle Fortune. In view of the fact that Franklin county is likely to invest half a million or more in the stocks, we' venture a few sugges tions for the consideration of our readers. 1. Never invest in uon-producing oil lands more than you can lose entirely. Wc do not mean by this that such.invest ments muBt always prove a loss ; but we do say that they, will prove a total loss nine times out of ten, and profitless forty nine times out of fifty. Of two hundred and fifteen-Oil companies now organized in this State, not more than twenty of theni are paying bona fide dividends out of the revenues from their wells. Three fourths of. the remainder will prove divi dendless or a total loss to the stockhold ers. 2. Never invest-in any Oil stock, good, bad or indifferent, more money than you can spare from your legitimate business without embarrassment. It is never wise to do so, for cVen with the best prospects loss is possible. AV ells may fail to pro duce Oil may fall in price ; titles may prove defective, and scoundrcls.may plun der in the management of these as well as other corporations, and it is"be3t to be safe against all such contingencies. 8. Make such investments cutirely in cidental to your regular business on which you depend for a livelihood. It will prove a costly appreciation of wealth if itdiverts farmers, tradesmen aud other business moii from their dailv nursuits. while if they operate with their spare capita only, and even bear in inmd that it is tide of speculation only that must ebb and ffow with the inflations and depression of trade, most judicious men may profi by it as it passes, aud it will leave them richer :u purse aud no poorer in utnes for industry when it fades away. Lc cv er careful that the substance is not aban doncd for the shadow. The dog trie that when crossing the stream with the meat iu his mouth, aud lost both. Men will be no wiser. 4. Invest to the extcut-ofyour surplus means in companies with certain revenue There are such iu the market, and it want but a little care and discrimination to dis tiniruish them. If it is an ascertains fact that a company has a positive yiel of oil equal to ten or twenty per cent, on the cash capital, with good lauds and am pie reserved capital for development, it is fair to conclude that capital is not likely to be loot in that company. It is reason ably certain to pay good interest, and the stock will have a steady market value e (jual to its original cost, while the efforts for development are all in favor of the holders. True even such companies mav fail but the chances arc largely in favor of the dividends. 5. It is not best to invest all iu any one company. While it is the most profita ble at all, it is at the same time the most precarious, and it is but the part of dis cretion to try two or three good companies instead of one. If either develops sue ccssfully, the others may fail and the op oration still prove profitable on the whole G. Make such investments through some reliable person at home. In the cities the business of selliug stocks to ru rai menus is a proiession, and men are expected to take advice and at the same time be responsible for results. Most o our leading business men in the centres of trade throughout the country either are operating m such stocks, or arc well in formed on the subject, and as a rule, thev cannot afford deliberately to mislead those who counsel with them. 1 hey may err -V . 11 .1 n " 11 in judgment out generally nicy will add vastly to the safety of such investments -Cnamucrsbnrg Repository. The Army Consumption of Horsss. Some interesting facts in regard to the supply of horses and their consumption by the army, have recently been presen ted by a iNcwburg, iv. i.,vetennary sur geon, Ur. Vogel. The cencu.- shows that the number of horses in tho United btatesin 1SGJ was 6,115,-168- After making deductions for the Southern States, for horses under and about working age, diseased and unserviceable. Mr. v. reduces the total resources of the horse market in the loyal States to 1,067- aua animals. 1 he annual want or mvi use is 144,018, for military use, 108,732. or one tourth annually of the total rcsour ces of the horse supply. The colts un dor four years old are estimated at 1.114 175 : one fourth of these, or 278.813 will annually reach the ae of four years, but as this number may bo reduced one-tenth or deaths aud disaster nmnn Mir nnlto the ultimate actual annual suonlv is nut at 150,690, while the annual need for the army aud for civil life is 262.700. showing a deficiency of 2070 horses each year. Dr. Vogel makes no statement of the mules which are used in the army, though lln nl!i... f t. l 1- :u. ineir use, wnicu relieves so many horses. If his estimates are cor rect, there is a good reason for the high price of horses, besides the depreciation in currency. The waste of horses in the army from bad treatment and neglect is enormous. This probably is somethinn- mK.'.l. i I 11. o wuiuii uaunoc ue remedied. Une means ol economising horse3 in civil use is to substiture steam wherever it can "con veniently bo done. All our city rail roads can be worked with steam to bottor advantage than by horses, and the twen ty railroad lines in and around Philadel phia probably Ycquire about 4,000 horses for their uso. On the railroads the us ual life of a horse is oortainly not over four years. So that it requires annually 1,000 horses fo keep our railroads in op- peration. Substituting steam would for this city alone make one-half the general deficency of the country. , Tho rocoipts of Internal Rovenue on Wednesday last were over ono 'million eight hhndrod thousand dollars. End of anAfiienifi A death recently occurred in Halifax from, arsenic eating; The Tictim was j vigirpus man, who four years since saw some remark in a magazine about the arsenic eating of Syria, and the supposed beneficial cfiects of the poison upon the' skin and lungs. He commenced th practice, and from that day,' though pre- vumsiy iu penect health, m the language, of his friends was a complaining man-" Abbomiual and gastric pains tormented1 him but he insisted in , the foolhardy er periment untill a small overdose brought on all the symptoms of arsenic poisoning, resulting : in spite of all that could be done by the physicians, in death. Before be died he declared that although he had pursued the fatal practico so long and so faithfully, he was conscious of having received no benefit whatever, either to7 his respiration or complextion. His friends, however, thought the latter had been improved. No arsenic was discove red in any of the organs, although care fully analyzed, thus showing that the doses which destroyes life most yet have been very miuute. People who may bef foolishly tempted to tamper witha virulent poison for such problematical benefit, should receive a warning from this rc' mavkable case, This one dies to save hundreds. That he may uot havc died in vain wc publish-' ed'this statement to the world. Opinions About the Southern State Washington, Jau. 1, 1865: Parties here, fresh from the,cottou-districts, represent the Rebel armies to num ber 100,000 veterans, 50,000 militia not! equivalent to 5,000 veterau:, and 100,000 exempts ready under the law to be rank ed into the service and available as sol diers at the end of six months. They say that this force will gradually be tacked up by the progress of the war into Vir ginia, and probably be compacted at Rich mond. They declare that there will be no planting in the South this year, none whatever except in gardens and patchsi about the houses. Sherman's march, and Hood's defeat, and the uncertainty of ne gro labor having utterly discouraged ag riculture on a large scale, they'predirt the speedy disappearance by emigration of the white population of the cotton, rice and sngsr States, and the population of the whole of them 1 blacks who they aver will be a model population for indus try, thrift and social order. The trade of the Rebel States, after the close of the war, these well informed' parties eclared, will be wholly iu the bauds of Jews. 4 3 . The report of Postmaster General Dcn nison shows an extraordinary amount of c;rclcssnes3 on the part of the letter-writ' ing community. Three millious fir hundrel and eight thousand three hund red and twenty-five dead letters were re ceived during the past year over one thousand a day. Many of these letters contained money, deeds bills of exchange, drafts, cheeks, jewelry, aud other valua bles' Some of them were misdirected, others uot directed at all. others unstam ped and olher only partially directed. Thousands of these dead letters were re tcrncd to the writers ; but the great ma jority had to be destroyed. This state ment ought to teach the public to be morii careful in their correspondence; for the amount of suffering by thesj loss letters i3 incalculable. Upon the organization of the lllst Pa., a resident of Liawly enlisted in Co. G-, Oapt. Muml'ord, and went with the com pany to Ya. At the battle of Chanccl lorsvillc he was reported killed, and a comrade sent, as he supposed, a pocket book and a lock of hair to the soldier' wife, Upon such evidence she regarded him as dead and some two months ngo married again. Among the prisoner who were recently rclcfised from Georgia prisons, was the supposed dead husbaml. Upon his arrival at Annapolis he iunuc- diatoK' obtained a furlough and started to see his family. Our readers can im.ijiine- his surprise at finding his .wife 'married a gain and hers at beholding as she sup posed, her dead husband. Tins war causes many curious scenes to be enacted. llouesdale Republic. A rather remarkable .incident occurred1 at Savannah. Earlv in the mornim? a small schooner, painted lead color, with iier sails set, was discovered adrift in the river, about a mile in the rear of the flag of t. uce fleet, and two miles above Port Pulaski. The vessel was boarded from thcsteamer General Lyon, and found to be abandoned. She proved to be a block ade runner lrom Nassau, with a cargo of 500 sacks and twenty tierces of sugjtf; three crates of crockery, aud a number of boxes of lemons aud. oranges. Subse quently it was ascertained that the schwa- ec had passed the mouth of the river, ui- perceived by the gunboats ou blockade ;iud by the lookout at the fort ; but on retting up to Colonel Multord's fleet was deserted by her crew, on tho supposition that the transports were a, fleet of gun boats, " ' A wild boar was killed a few niilea roiu Bridgeton, N. J., a few days ago. ' lis appearance indicated an age of about 5 years. His skin was half an inch thick, and it took several loads of buckshot to despatch him. The carcass weighing 500 pounds aud tusks were 8J inches long. It is supposed that thero are others id the same vicinity. About a year ago a5 pedestrian of that neighborhood was par-' sued by a wild hog supposed to be the ono juskilled. If you want to have a wan your friend do not got tho ill will of his wife. PmV lio opinion is made up of the average opinions of womankind. Exchange. That may and it may uot be so. e have heard of men sometimes getting in to difficulties by getting the good will of their friend's wife. The Government is raising troops qni' fast under the recent call. It is bcHcved that the majority of district quotas n'w be filled without a draft.
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