M ' -. -kS THE n't Hi -- SJcMotcJr to ipolitics, Citcrotxtrc, agriculture, Sttcnre, illornliti), nui encrnl jrtclitgcrici VOL. 24. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA APRIL 6, 18C5. NO. SV Published by Theodore Sclioch. Hasby and the Draft. Indignation Superinduced by Petroleum. , TERM3-T wo dollars nyrar in advance-anil if no ' Petroleum V. Nasby gives the follow- Tim nfl,,. ,1 T rtr id before the end of the you, two dollars and f.tfy in CO(TCrit reasong whL n oilnnM "if L n other day I came across a Western t. will be cimrgcU. , , V V r reaS0DS wnJ he sllould not be Congressman who apoeared to be in hiirh . No piper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, drafted: Lf-f.?P: J ujji.aii.u io db in mgn except at the option of the Editor. i T ton In flm i i ,t . n tacc oi indignation at something or other , lO-.v-lvcrtimentsofonc square of (eight lines) or' 1 SG0 m tno papers last nitc, that thc'and in response to an inmiirv fnwlmf ),onor three inscrtions$i so. Each additional Government has institooted a draft an(l!wn Iv. lLiPuse to an inquiry as to what fn.crtion, 50 cents. Longer ones in proportion. th. . - i , , , flra"' and,was the matter With him, he unbosomed ., that in a few weeks hundreds uv thous- himself as follows JOB PRIKTIS G, lands uv peaceable citizens will be dragged "If, PnnnTfi w.fl, a j - i of all riots, to the tented fceld. I know not wat oth-1 iusfc to tS I il .M7M mad Executed in the h.ghesl tyle of the Art.and onthe ' crs may do, but CZ fer me I can't 1 i t JUSt D0Wmeta el" niit iKiir.xhlotonnc I J u u u Jlr me X CaU C gO. , (1W fllfl.. T noll l.n- -..J. TIT 1. ITnon a rirri. no,;...: . " w ivuww u.i it uai, as a kleman 1 findlf! T y poor journeyman carpenter, and a botcb niL foim l,lat' o couldn't earn his salt, ex- ucss foi me 2 undertake a campanc, to cept at the meanest kind of mending and 1 T'm lml.l w,, i , j i t , , ! Patching. I thought as I saw him com i. l m bald heded, and hev ben obliged' inn- nn j i -n 9 fi ' V 1 J , . I a great ... "uv .uulluru In wat scanty. nair(his vest and ami a luuuu my venerable tcmnlea. i must rcasurrible terms. From the St. Joseph (Mo.) JTcralil. A Sad History. Wc .lately met a 3'oung aud interesting girl at the house of an acquaintance who told us a tale of wroug and suffering that j would furnish material for a good sized ' novel. living The Oldest Man In the World. We will not assert that the oldest of men is a resident of Wisconsin.' but we challenge any other State or coun try to produce a man or woman who has attained the age reached by Joseph Orele, now residing in the town of Caledonia, Columbia county, in this State. T : .1. n 1 -r 1 . -Lunug me x'rencn itevomtion one The Victims of Eebel Cruelty. The Wilmington IS". C. correspondent of the Philadelphia Press writes of rebel cruelty to Union prisoners as follows : "Everywhere iu the lower part of the city tne eve is afflicted with the siirht of j skeletons arrayed in every sort of uncouth guru, jlou iook at tlieir strange, unnat- urai laces, and wonder whether these are One year ago this young lady left her home in Pennsylvania a borne where all o o. I hev a chronic katarr. watch-chain hanging out of a diamond nucr on nearlv every finger I really thought the fellow T t 1 t nr - 1 .1 ... tiean waua jacoo, a member ot the JS'a- tne visages ot Jiving men, or not rather 11 iuucu tne jjuuu Ul mi 11 111 j 11 u oivlUfj LI 1 1 v nripn npnr n i.lv " " --a .J ' v.w m tne human species, the eldest of men." j neshless skull. Their eyes are sunken I In 1 1' l : 1 1 . " - ' uia aujuau-u worn iace were piougned , uu you scarcely see that they have vis tho furrowings of one hundred and twen- J ion. They are often hatless, and you will Irr !!. ft T A .1 1 I it. t 1 . n ' vwma. xuc our '-ueau oi tne Human sec cne nead ot a vouncr man or bov j An individual who owned a small tav ern near the field of Waterloo; the sce'rio of the last great action of "Napoleon, was' frequently questioned as to whether he did not possess some relics of the hnttl and as in invariably and honestly answered' in the negative. 1.. jjul ue was very poor, an whilo lamenting to a neighbor 1 hev lost, since Stanton's order tosaw him before the luxuries of life were at her command. wVi i, f- J- T're?' s tt , , , , . i have chronic lnflamntinn in flm nfhnr had been robbing somcbodv. for when I he looked as if he really Her parents were indulgent, and she, an! k r T fV-,,faiua"on m tne 0Ulcr only child, was loved with all the fondn, J . ? M? te,etll.ls a11 ? nJ "7. Pallfc A-.fi. tim i- i ucwiu iiu iuokuu as u ne reain l '3. fK.3f. "5 f!?"!. ; obody. cast ofi clothes to J. er his nakedness. only child, was loved with all the fondness ' - inT et J u." a" ?7 i i7 1 P" ! toId hlm 1 was Slad to see him and oi true and parental allection. jo wishoi , T ' mvu congratulated him on his healthy apnear- i-1 -i n . . tx Uilia liiaL .1 (Kin . rtr nrocont I lnv n mi . . - oi ncrs remained uuirratided. lor s in rn? i ,r .. - ----- A .;mco. species is nearly twenty years older than bald as an old man's nate. A few weak- Claud Jacob, who did not complete his straggling hairs are all that suffering has one hundred and twentyhrst year. Joseph Crele was born in Detroit, of French parents. The record of his bap- the idol of those parents, and the light of uSiu Parcsisms uv wblch lsf"ful 2 the home made desolate by au act which 7 T- at j n 1 -.. vrlM fnrorr Msr if si,nrlmM n ! ( 1 am amictcd with chronic diarrear "-iii. .,,i i-i: nM. t i -1 "uu ".uanvciiusa. j.ne money i nev paid ted with a hor in glowing terms tlte glories of Utah T t i ,0i i , . and KOS III in ll'llirr 1X1,1 c lin hnn.im - .. T.. .i .:.i. ' i . . . , !cr Janeses karramnativ b'alsnm and nills iiiuruioii prcacuer, wno painted , ,t , , , - r .:.-J. ... F- r- , wood astonish almost envbodv. Ihen said I to him. 'Jim. what i have you been doing since I saw you' last, a goou while agor lie lingered his watch-chain a while, and looking at me, said coolly, 'I've been in business in Wes tern Pennsylvania 'What kind V said I. 'In the oil business said riv. Ali 1 J and the Mormon religion, lie told her' t P'es, ana am indeed said I. 'I suppose, then, you've on an sides by giant mountains, whoso uvuuuiui .nnyo ui ui.ui. iuiitiii-.il r 1 I , - . . t y. i nev varrytose vauos, hev a white o r. .-. 1 K . 1 i p peaks, burnished by eternal snows looked 'JC "if 1 ?u . V i U .,ir nn .!, ...iu,.. r ' tlie other also one leg is shorter than Z :X ;mT:r''"u i i:u s!tot!1er1 though I handle it so exnert that huu uv uuus uwu cnosen Kiniirnn. . i i " .. , . uodou- never noticed it. .iS.u.u.u,i ".auwio una ny con- watwitha draftin 0Sifer but the nbovo cave fnends, family, and all the no mcd rCMOna w, j . ' . ; .fc ts of home, ando with him to no doubt bc sufScfent. ' peopled by Uod s own chosen kindred, who were free as the mountain torrent, that leap the rocks of the lofty Timpana gos range. lie told her of the content and peace reigning among the saints, and assured her that the Mormons were God's own peculiar people, and so worked up on her imagination that she iinally con scntcd to leav endearmeu the Valley of the Saints Arriving at Chicago he forced her to marry him, the ceremony being perform ed by a mock priest, without record or li cense. On the last ef April she left Wy oming. Nebraska, with a Mormon train, lor tiie laud ot promise, and u nreu in the city of the Saints. Here hc found that her husband had four oth er wives, who regarded her with no ten der emotions, but heaped abuse and con tumely upon her head. After a few months her liege lord told "her he had concluded to seal her to an other, who had taken a great fancy to her; that his other wives were jealous, and were determined his last wife should live with him no longer. She declared that she would die before; hc would bc thus put away and forced to live as the wife of a mau with whom she had no arquaintance, and ' had seen but oucc iu her life. Her husband told her it was lirigham Young's order and she must do so or lose her .life. Determined not to bc thus sacrificed, she started to run away with the intention of making her way to Camp Breckinridge, in Cedar Valley, then garrisoned by United States troops, and claim protection there. She started on foot. and, after traveling about! ten miles, was caught and brought back, placed iu a dungeon, or rather a cellar. aud kept there a month, with just enou 10. I hev korus and bunyans on both feet, which would prevent me from mar chin. I don't suppose that mv nolitical nnin. i r done pretty well I expected to hear him say yes, that he had done very well had made forty or something that way ; but instead of that, he says to me. 'Well, no, I haven't done very well ; I've only made 50,000, but I think I will do bet ter next spring " This was the culminating point of the Congressman's indignation the inmu- dencc of the carpenter, thinking he had'nt ion which arc iormcst the prosecution of done well at 850,000, when a few months i.i.o uuuuuaLiiuuailllUl war, WOOU 11CV anVlarrn in wnc Innl-I Ton ;nUa o llbOVC JnV. and nnilMn'f, rrnt Minm Anil oil nn accountof 'ile Cincinnati Commercial- Petuolkum V. Nasby. Saixt's IlEST,(which iz the state of noo gersy,) Jan. 15, 1865. '1 he wagis uv sin is doth Sich is the nally ar- Sllbst;ms uv a passage uv Skripter, which uL ! slnce mi esilc 2 this loanly shoar hcz bin how my solis. How troo the remark : r;i i i .i i ' lurmy ncs ic oiu reilized. The ashen t Dimokrisy owned this Guv ment, and mite hev lied it to-day. But then tha wuz a eyechus set. Tha didn't run after harlots. Jaxon and Benton, and Silas Write, and sich men, boo wuz men and kept us strafe. But when tha went to there respective rewards, anuther fcJass uv men okkepied us. Jim Bookan non and Jeff. Davis tukhold uv theDimy kratic kite, tore off its time-honored tale Hkal llite3, and substi tooted.. Slavery. The result iz b-i the wurld. Dimokrisy iz in the mud, and the Apilishinists hev the Post orfices, Alars ! In the olden times we used to hcerthis song "How the car uv emansipashin Iz rolin grandly thru the nashun' I've seen that car, and its on tew wheels and caricz balls frum G 2 5 hundred pounds in wate. Sherman rode in 2 Sa vauncr t'other da. The harder the wurk yoo dew fer the devil the more dcth you git fer wagis.- l. !..!. l :.l. I.. li. ii. ; i fnr.,1 tnsiukun liiV Tim man with wl.n.n ' u u"Jf iu me btyvis uv out- i . .r. 3 i- t:.. r .1 : i. i Very. iie rciubuu iu utu ircqucuuy visiicu ucr. :cry. e disini.'ys our conshenscs, went back on our recurd, swore black wus white and vie-, eveu going so fur ez 2 go in 2 wars 2 perpctooatc it. What iz the re ..n ? i . n..i i i . i ; i.ii. i ? i iauibi jasi yiciucu, ami was uuiy insiaiieu in uis T. . . , . ,. , , .. , . ,. c .i .1 t tt i r -i Jjiukin has abohsht it bi proklamation. family, as tne sixth wife. Ucrc she found ; , , . , , , . .. . . ,. , , . , f. - , i i- : i Hs blookotcd hirelms hev abolisht it, as before, the jealousies aud quarrels an- i n i ii i i , ii i i - i niggers and all, wherever tha hev gone, cmg were intolerable, aud she again dc- c, , ' ., f C ' ' n li fi t M 1 TMn 1 1 1 ail m i.i Hi ArtnnmiTA ,nnif OUU1 lUUlUl UA.tUUillU lUUlO. and besought her to change her resolu tion in order to save her life. Through force of circumstances she at tcrnnncd to escape or die in the attempt. This time she succeeded iu reaching the headquarters of Gen. Conner, to whom the told her tale of suffering. The Gen cral scut her through to the States with a government train bound for Port Kear ney, which place she reached early last i week. t?he leaves this city to-night, a repent ant sorrowful child, for her home in Pennsylvania that home which she was persuaded to desert through the misrep resentation and wiles of a crafty scoun drel. What jny and gladness will swell up from the hearts of those parentswhen they again behold the one they believed lost to them forever. Wo drop the veil. aud tha maid A.nd finally the Koufedrisy, which wuz ! institooted 2 presarv it, is perposin to throw it ovecooard cz the prise uv recog uishun, and this tha dew without stoppin 2 enquire wat iz tew becum uv us north ern dimokrats who hev tied ourselves 2 everyday occurreuccin this busy sinful; world. it. So rccklis sailers fling overboard a prise lis cargo 2 saiv a wurthlcss hulk. So Jo ncr wuz histcd in2 the billin waves 2 saiv a set uv mariners who wuz not profits. Wood o-wood that I, like him cood be goobbled up by sum frendly wale, who wud, in doo time, vomit me out on dry laud. Ez fer me i'm dun. I'm a anti-slavc- Mi conshense me 1, j 1 . Ai .j i ..a ' 1 J UltlU UUU1 tUIS 1.1 111 U UUU Xi ' . irnn r n I Inur V. enrrff- i r nn Atirrnr 1 II VII W U11V II U1U OU VI A U IX J AWUteWl I and besides it don't pay. Ez the sole ser vivin leader uv the Dimokrisy, I shell immejiately ishoo a scrklcr instructin uv 'em 2 inaik this change of frout. P:tiioleu.m V. Nasby. An Ingenious Scoundrel. We yesterday learned from a gentle man in this city, of the following outrage perpetrated in Mechanicsburg last week : A well dressed and honest seeming fellow, whose name has not been obtained, called at the residence of Mr. Elkin. a merchant in that city, about 11 o'clock on the night mentioned, and, with tear moistened eve and damp handkerchief, whicb was fre quently used in the direction of his ocu lar organs, pitifully requested Mr. E. to go with him to his (Mr. E.V) store, in auother part of the town, and sell him a shroud for the burial of his deceased and only brother. Mr. E., touched by the fellow's grief. and ever willing to perform any act of hu manity, put on his overcoat, felt in his pocket for the key of his store, and dis- venng it to be there, started off with the stranger to sell him a shroud. Tears were shed by one, and words of consola tion were breathed in a sympatctic voice by the other as they passed down the street arm inarm. The store at leneth was reached, the key was inserted in the lock, the door yielded, and the two men entered. Mr. Elkin found a match, lit a candle. and proceeded to measure off the pattern ior a snrouu. . the midst of h i: - i i r iism to tne uatnolic church of that city shows that he is now 159 years of age. He has been a resident of Wisconsin for about a century. Whenever mention is made of the earliest inhabitant, there need be no question as to the person. Joseph Crele is undoubtedly the man. He was first married in New Orleans, 109 yean ago. Some years after he settled at Prairie du Chien, while Wisconsin was yet a province of France. Before the llcvolutionary war he was employed to carry letters between Traine du Chien and Green Bay. It is but a few years since that he was called as a witness in the Circuit Court, in a case involving the title to a certain real estate at Prairie du Chien, to give testimony in relation to events that transpired eighty years before He now resides witb a daughter, by his third wife, who is over seventy years of left. to age. The residence of the family is only four or five males out of Portage City. From citizens of that place we learn that the old man is still active, is able to chop wood, and to walk several miles. He speaks English quite imperfectly, but converses fluently ia the French lan guage, ne stoops a little under the bur den of years, but not more than many men of seventy. In person he is rather above the medium height, spare in flesh, but showing evidences- of having been iu his prime a man of sincwey strength. Concerning his habits, a subject of much interest in connection with an instance of such longevity, we have been able to learn but little, except that he is an in veterate smoker. A very good dagucrrotrpc picture of him taken in IbOb, may be seen at the rooms of the State Historical society. T17scoji5m Journal. How to Prevent a Divorce. When the senior Jonathan Trumbull was Governor of Connecticut, a gentle man called at his house, requesting to see his excellency in private. Accordingly he Was shown intn bis JsnnnfriTri cnnnfnrnm and the Governor came forward to meet I Squire W , saying : "Good morning, you. W. returned the salutatation, saying as he did so "I have called to sec you on a very un- His bereaved customer, in ' P!casa"fcr crr?H r and want your ad ds lamentations, suddenly , c- M wjfc. and Ty ?, ?ot h!c haPPlJy sir ; I am glad to see "am a mnsf. sffirfHno- wfcietM flm Anrw n 1 pencd again, as at the vcrv utterance of a divJ?.rce" What do.you advise sir ?" - W ' ml t magic sound, and in bolted two ruffians. who, together witb the third, who had played his part so well, drew pistols on the obliging Mr. E., and kept him silent and secure until they helped themselves to his goods and safely made their escape with the plunder. This ungenerous out- aw and his two associates, have not been icard of since the perpetration of the a- bove outrage, notwithstanding the efforts of the officers of this city. Springfield (111.") Register. "Axe grinding" is a term borrowed roni one of the most charming stories told by Benjamin Franklin. A little boy going to school was accosted by a man carrying an axe. The man calls the boy all kiuds of pretty and endearing names., and induced him to enter a 'yard where here is a grind-stone. "Now, my pretty little fellow," says he man with the axe, "only turn that handle and you'll sec something pretty The boy turns and the man pours water overituntill the axe is ground. Straight- The Story of a Tree. A correspondent with the army before iWrshtirn' tells a curious storv of a larjre prac tree, which has long stood midway jlaifc Paster uv the Chuch uv the Noo between the Union and Kbel pickets, at; .uispcnsasnen a point where the lines are only twenty five yards apart. The trees neutral posi- yards tion Ion way he turns with strident voice and fierce gesture on the boy : "You abandon ed little miscreant," he cries, "what do you mean by playing truant from school ? You deserve a good thrashing. Get ye gone, sirrah, this instant !' Adds Frank lin, "when any body flattered me I always thought he had au axe to grind. A released comrade of Seneca Marble protected it from destruction, ;0f Bucks county, whodicd in a Georgiapri- I . n t' l i,.J n -,11..-. r- , , , i i , i- Dut scarcity oi iuci &ugguaiuu a tuiupiu- ,gon pen oi sneer starvation, says mat wncn mise, and it was agreed that it should be1 weak ad wan with life waning away from cut down, and that both claimants should ; hunger unsatisfied, he pitcously exclaimed divide its wood. A delegate from m words of poignant grief "Oh if I only each picket line accordingly went forth to ; could get to my father's swill barrel !" the task, and by the vigorous axes of both and died. That scnterwio holds a volume the trunk was soon leveled to the earth. 1 of misery. Then arose an animated debate as to! 9 which of the soldiers should have the butt 1T ,r ., ... j i i. i itt- j General' Lee calls upon Providence to ana wuiuu uj mauKuva. nurus were1 ,. ,t. -,, . vv. -i .. i . i..; nnninri, tn n 4i. i come to his aid. But Providence is busy . Tnr8flV. tion, and were soon changed to blows? A n the other side just now. Aud Prow to suppress tiro Sepoy rebellion, about as brisk and bloodless combat ensued, in dcDCC doesn thinkT lfc a good rule to'work greaf an undertaking as to put down a Park Goodwin, at a meeting held iu New York, recently, said : "Europe says wc arc too slow. I re member that the. great Wellington took six 3'cars to drive Napoleon out of Spain, a country as great as Virginia, and then he retired, becansc of reverses elsewhere. Four nations took two years to occupy the Crimea, a country as large as New England took eighteen months which the Union man proved the most skillful pugilist, aud the victor triumph antly carried to his camp-fire the largest end of the lo J6' A Richmand paper mildly remonstrates both ways. Loy Jour. rebellion among the negroes of a South Carolina county. Franco has in more than a' year succeeded in getting only about one hundred and eighty miles into In the countries around Buenos Ayres, four million cattle are killed every year for their hides. Each animal yields about Mexico, where she holds a very insecure a hundred and fifty pounds of dried beef; position. We think that England had against ten dollars a quart for skimmed , hence the enormous quantity wasted may better look at home before criticising the pailk. , be easily calculated. movements of armies." mi -I - . n xne uovernor sat a iew moments in deep thought, and then turning to Squire W., said : "How did you treat Mrs. W. when you were courting hcr,and how did you feel tow ard her at the time of your marriage ?" Squire W. replied "I treated her as kindly as I could, for I loved her dearly at the time." "Well," said the Governor, "go home and court her now just as you did then, and love her as when you married her. Do this, in the fear of God, for one year, and tell me the result." The Governor then said "Let us pray." They bowed in prayer and separated. When a year had passed away, Squire W. called again to sec the Governor, and, grasping his handsaid "I have called to thank you for the good advice you gave me, and to tell you that my -wife and I arc as happy as when we were first married. I cannot be grate ful enough for your counsel !" " I am glad to hear it, Mr. W., and hope you will continue to treat your wife thus long as you live." The result was that Squire W. and wife lived happily together till the end of life. It is useless to ask thoso who arc think ing of separtion in these days to go aud do likewise. Mf 1 ll.. afn-nnrT A 1 1. I 1 , v. tuuv oiuivvu uuium iius ueen aDie sustain. These poor beinirs. when- they are strong enough to creep abou t, wander a little way from their hospitals and sun themselves upon cellar doors, and lie upon brick pavements. In the hospi tals are men with wounds on which worms breed and feed upon the living flesh. You see men whose toes have been eaten into by maggots till the joints have dropped pff. These men have their feet bound up in rags, and hobble slowly alorg support ing their faltering footsteps by rudesticks. You would suppose that these men had reached the very pit of human misery, out it you converse with them they will tell you that they are happy. They have been in the hands of inhuman creatures, men without hearts, almost without souls; now they are with their friends they are happy. They have been most foully mal treated and starved ; now they are tender ly cared for and fed. Home is beckon iug to them. The liberated prisoner on ly waits for health and strength, which hope will soon breathe iuto his veins, and then he will be in an earthly paradise home. Short as Fie Crust. A gentleman who had a good stock of goods with which he wanted to open trade in a Southern city, wrote to Gen. Sher man soon after the occupation of Savan nah, for permission to open a store there. He received the following answer : "No. W. T. Sherman, Major-General." The enterprising merehaut did not opertf Ms store, but he preserves the letter as a val uable memento. o Caution to the Public. There was, "once upon a time," an old pilferer Down East, on whom all thefts. far and near, were at ori'ce charged, when any loss was discovered. The old felfow bore the universal "onus" patiently for a time , but hnding that in some instances he was suffering for the sins of others, he issued a Caution to the Public in the u- sual form : "I hereby forbid all persons, from this date, to steal on my account and risk. I am no longer accountable for their tres passes, as I have more than I can account for of mg own." one day nnf. nnlv l.: i i V "rv, ma puvurty, Dut tne annoyance to which travelers subjected him KU fr1inV? him short with. 'Well, make one help the other, Make some relics !' man 'But what can I do ?' inquired the poor 'Tell them that Napoleon or Welling ton entered your shop during the battle and sat down on that chair Not long after ah English tourist en tered the tavern, and enquiring' fbr-roV lies, was told the chair story. The chair was bought at an incredible price. The next comer was informed that "Wellina." ton had taken a drink, and the "Welling-'' tou tumbler" was accordingly sold. Thd third "arrival gazed with breathless Win der at the nail on which' Bbhanartp:' fiVrV. ling up his hat. The fourth' irnr the door posts between which he had'en'-' tcred;and the fifth became the nanmr purchaser of the floor on which he had1 trodden. At the last advices the fortunate em keeper had hot a roof to cjiver his' head, and was sitting on a bag of gold in the centre of a deep pit, formed by Bell ing the earth on wMnli Tio- Tir..' . w.w uuuoc uau stood Mr. Fox, the celebrated orator was told by a lady whom he visited ullfl rl 111 nnf ll 1 - n i once "that she did not car thmn d-;, r l louse for him." He immedintolv tsV pencil and wrote the following; out his lines : "A lady has told' me, in hefofrtf Botfle,5 that she cares not for me three s&ps of a louse ! I forgive the dear creature for what she said, since a woman will talkr of what rtuis in her head." A Boy's Prayer. A Presbyterian clergyman in Northern New York had too smart boys, just old c nough to have inquiring minds, but not to discern the reason of things. They were taught to pray, and the efficiency and need of prayer were daily impressed upon them. lioth boys had a patch of The Normons have commenced cutting; a canal of a magnitude far exceediiif'an j thing of the kind ever undertaken in thV i Icrritorv before, for thn fTO vi,i . j xii u-iuiu purpusu ot irrigation and navigation. Starting near the boundaries of Utah and Salt Lake counties, it will wind its way along the eastern side of the valley, watering the land on its course, iucludin a' verV considerable fract yet unbroken, and: reaching a terminus in that city, a short'' distance south and west of where the af- tesian well is being sunk; entire length1 being over thirty-two miles.' Upon the occasion of Gen. Sherman's approach to Charleston, the Charleston Mercury raved, and raged, and swaggered, " and blustered and bullied, and defied and.cursed, and swore, and- skedaddled' Loirisville Journal. A vounp- corn in the i garden blades were watched A Curious Centre Table. A Milwaukee mechanic has presented to President Lincoln a handsome centro table, of octagonal form, which is com posed of about twenty thousand different pieces of wood. The top has a beautiful and graceful border, made of black wal nut and white holly, about three and a half iuches wide. Within this are perfect representations of our mtrafc beautiful birds, faithful likenesses of Lincolu, John son, Grant, and Butler, baskets of the t rarest flowers and fruits, and other designs wlnpi'. V 1 1 - L 1'.. 1 .. w- .s.ll -I 1.. iu muau uauuuuui Liiaiu. oii uiuutua la bor was required' tb complete it, and it is valued at 1,000. The same person pre sented Mrs. Lincoln with a work-stand 'whioh he got up with similar elaborate ness. It-contains ono thousand pieces, is finished with every conceivable conve nience, and cost two months of patient labor. t t , w . t t "tucset or "pop and the growing with intense interest, a small reward be ing held out to stimulate their industry. One day the father walking near the path, heard the voice of the youngest solemnly igaged in prayer, and drawing near lis tened to the following petition': "O Lord, make my corn grow great big c'prn, but' make brother Sana's grow all little nub bins I" First Oil Discovery. It is related of Jonah when he toolc tip quarters in the whale's belly, lie wrote to his father to come down immediately, as he had discovered a spendid opening for the oil business. The next day he telegraphed the old gentleman as follows: "Father, don't come I'm badly sucked in. Plenty of oil, but no market 1" This is the first of fish-al account that profane historians give us of the oil bus iness. Jadv was tnlr? hv nt:nj lady that she had better precipitate. her self off the Niagara Falls, onlo tlie oasirT beneath than marry. The young lady replied, "I would, if I thought I could' find a husband at the bottom. Peace makes plenty plenty makes' pride pride breeds quarrel; and quafe'l brings war ; war brings spoil,; and spoil poverty' patience, and patience peace.' A paragraph is going the rounds, to5 the effect that "since the 1st of February all receipts of whatever amount must' haW on a two-cent stamp," &c. This is'incor rcct. No change has been made in the lawand only receipts for 20 or over1 need the stiamp. TKo Plattvillc (Wis:)' TKtness; noUs the return home of Miss Gcorgiana Pe terman, who has been two years a drum mer in the Seventh Wisconsin Regiment She lives in Ellenboro, is about twenty years old, wears soldier clothes, and- is' quiet and reserved. Hew Way of Faying old Debts. In the Norwegian mines a singular custom is observed in payiug the weekly wages of the men. They all present themselves on Saturday evening ,to the Inspector, who, having settled accounts with each, bids him turn roind, and writes in white chalk upon his bla'c back the sum due to him. Thus num bered, the man goes to the, cashier, who also turns himtround to look at tho tT gurcs, and pays him without having a word to say. Tho Lowell (Mass.) Courier states, as a strange fact, that a few month's ago an old gcntlemati fell5 dead in the highway of a town or city of this State, on whose person was found twenty or' thirty thous and dollars hi bills on one bank many of them much worn and mutilated. They were offered at the bank, and the officers wore obliged to call a nleoting of tho di rectors', hi order to ascertain (so old'wero some of them) if the bank had ever ihade any such issues. Negroes are coming into Nowbern in droves frightened by tho prospect of be ing drawn into the., rebel armies. They say if they must fight they will-fight for ther'Northr That was a smart youngster who, hear"; mg his mother remark that she was fond' of music,( exclaimed, . "Th'cn why dori'tf you buy me a drum ?" A male rfotivp of Michigan is now del nominated a Michigander, while Bis fe male mate is called a Michiopse. i he Indians in. Wisconsin, -who have just received" their anuities, call' the. fractional1 currency "papoose money." ' 1 1 1 m " . The Empress" Eugenie figured at a late1 reception with diamonds worth three rriili lions aud a half in her hair. The popuiatimrof Paris this year .ia I-' 667,841, exclusive of a garrison' 6?28p SOOinch. i The Delaw'arc canal is so damaged that; it will take from' four to six weeks to' re pair it. Tho Persians, as ancient, writers inform us; used to teach their, sons to ride -riav' . their debts, and tell tho truth. THis was' time ago. i i long TVoman can keep a secret, but it golf, erally takes a good" many of tlie'oT to do7 itV
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