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: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.