V.' Slje Scffcvsonicm, TETJESBAY. AUGUST 3, 1S65. Col. Peter C. Ellmaker, of Philadel phia, has been appointed United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pcnn sylvania, to succeed Hon. William Mill ward, who has held that position for four years past. Col. Ellmaker is a veteran of the war, having raised the 119th Penn sylvania Volunteers. Col. Elluiaker comes into office as Marshal Millward goes out. with a clean record and an unblemished character. Deserters from the Draft. Only about fiftccu hundred deserters from the draft availed themselves of the pardon offered them in the late President Lincoln's proclamation. The thousands of ethers still absent arc liable to arrest wherever found in this country, and sub ject to punishment for the offense. Internal Revenne Decision. The interest paid to depositors by sav ings' banks is considered a dividend, with out the meaning of section 120 of the law, and a tax of five per cent, should be withheld therefrom, and paid to the Gov ernment. G. P. Robinson. The frisnds of private George P. Bob inson, af Co. E, Sth Maine Volunteers, the brave and faithful soldier who, it is believed, saved the life of Wm. II. Sew ard when attacked by Payne or Powell, the powerful and determined assassin, on the night of the 14th ot April last, have obtained his consent to have his photo graph sold for his benefit. It will be remembered that private G. F. Robinson was an invalid himself at the time he rendered the above service, but had been selected to watch over Mr. Scw during his sickness. It is believed that many will be glad to obtain the likeness of Mr. Robinson, and especially when they know that by so do ing the' arc contributing to'pkice in an independent position one so worthy of the kind regards of the people of this country. The copyright has been secur ed to Mr. Robinson, and thus every cent above the cost of said photographs, goes to him. All we trust will be glad to have the lil vcness of this faithful soldier to grace their Albums; and those desirous of do ing so can cnclosc'50 cts., $2 or $5 to P. M7 Clark, Washington, 1). C, and will as soon thereafter obtain the same as possi ble. o t jJjTbe subscriptions to the Seven Thirty Loan on Saturday amounted to o Ver five millions of dollars, and the total pales of the week to $32,503,000. Only fifteen millions remained unsold at the o rcnlng of the present week, the whole of Which was disposed of on Monday and !Fuc'jay. The Government is, therefore, no longer in the market as a borrower. This loan amounts in all to $830,000, 000 the whole of which has been taken in a little over six months by our own people. Ivone of the Seven-Thirty Notes have found a market abroad, and the great bulk of them are scatered among persons of moderate circumstances. This is the last issue of notes or bonds that can be issued by the Government under existing laws, and as the supply is now cut off for at least, the popular demand will soon cause Government securities of ftll kinds to command a premium. Estimating the national debt at twenty five hundred millions of dollars, and ap portioning it according to the number of the white male adults over twenty years oi age in the different sections of the country, it has been found that the pro portion of the New England States i S30S89,342.07; of the Middle States 5740,195,342.32; of the Western States ?D3,2SS,781.02 ; cf the Southern States C101,?29,S46.S5 : and of the Pacific States, -95,S9G,G77.75. This calculation makes the South responsible for over four hundred and sixty millions of debt The next statement of the public debt will be published about the first of Au guit. The Secretary of the Treasury is oi tne opinion 'that the department wil oc amc to meet all requisitions before the meeting of Congress, as the receipts arc largely on the increase, while the expen ditures are being rapidly reduced by the -ir . jr. n .i - uibuanaing oi me army aud other causes. Un the ISth inst., a package ot letters K-as received at the post-office in Wood- slock, Vt., that was mailed at Irasburgh, Yt., May 2, 1844, more than twentv-one years ago. Several of the letters were of considerable importance. The package says the Standard, does not bear evidence oi najing traveled much, and thc supposi tion is that it has been all this time con cealed by accident, in a corner of some post-office, and has been brought to liht y i recent "housacleau np- "nnri Ann: t d in the mail without suspicion of its Jimuny. Interesting from Utah. Speaker Colfax, accompanied by Lieu tenant Governor Bross, of Illinois, Rich- andson, of the New York Tribune, and others, were at Salt Lake City on the 12th of Juue. Information received from these parties, discloses a most extraor dinary development of mineral wealth in the portion of the country through which they passed, surpassing all anticipation, and more than fulfilling the predictions of Secretary Usher, when he received the specimens of silver, gold, synebar, quick silver, &c, more than a year ago. In fact, in reading the speech of Mr. Col fax, at Salt Lake pity, one would suppose that he was describing a celestial region y and the same impression is produced by utterances of his companions. One of the speakers predicts that men now aged will live to witness the completion of the grandest of all national enterprises the Pacific Railroad and that boys who heard his voice that night would see the Pacific slope teeming with the busy life of hundreds of millions of people. Not the least of the wonders described is that of the great overland stage line, now ex tending through a desert of twelve bund red miles in extent. The coaches of this line abound in personal comforts, aud are driven with rapidity and ease. Iu the course of the speech of Mr. Colfax, he distinctly told the Mormons that all at tempts to destroy the Union had failed ; that it was to-day stronger than ever; that treason would be punished with prompt and terrible death; and that the tide of emigration was coming and would sweep away all their institutions, whether of slavery or polygamy, thus covering the whole of that region with the blessings of Christianity and morality. Another fact was proved, that the great arid wastes, which have lain for years without water, can be successfully irrigated. The speak er showed that the Indian races were un worthy of consideration or respect. They were loathsome, savage, dishonest, un grateful and cruel obstacles in the way of progress, and would be swept off by the strong arm like so mauy wild beasts. His judgment of the inhuman tribes of that far-off country is confirmed by all travellers ; and yet, while all these things are true, establishing uo.t alone the fer tility and unbounded wealth of that pow er of the National Government, and the prospect of the completion of the Pacific Railroad, the Mormons arc proved, by all recent and former testimony, to be faithless, cruel, and full of treason. Out side of South Carolina we had no bitterer enemies than the Mormon leaders, aud although like conquered slaveholders they profess to be friendly now, they are not to be trusted. Tho Daily Union Vidette, published at Salt Lake City, and conduc ted by a brave Union man, brands the whole crew, without fear, favor or affec tion. These facts deserve to be known and recorded, at a period when the Gov ernment is girding up its loins to purge the whole land from every element or symptom ot an attempt to disturb or in terfere with its mighty progress. The Carbon Democrat of the 22d inst.. comes out with a strong article iu favor of Judge Barrett for the next President Judge of this District. The Democrat says : The most able and prominent gentle man yet named iu connection with tile position, is the present incumbent, DTon George 11. Barret"who has presided o ver the Courts in the District for the past ten years, lie is a gentlemen who has had a large practical experience in law, aud whose large legal attainments eminen tly fit him for the position. In our es timation no mau could be selected in or out of the District whose qualifications are superior to Judge Barrett s and in one whom the people of thc District could find a bettor and more impartial exponent of the law as laid down in our State and National Constitutions than in him. The reputation which Judge Barrett has won for himself on the Bench as a fearless protector of the rights and liberties of the people is better known than we could attempt to instruct our readers. There fore let him be the man as thc Democrat ic nominee for President Judge, and we have no hesitation in saying that he will be re-elected by an increased Democratic majority. This docs not look as well for Messrs. Dreher and Crane as it might. The truth is, Dreher's unquestioned and un flinching loyalty stands in the way of his nomination. In our opinion he is the best man, and we would be glad to see him elected. There is not a Union man in the District who will not support him ueart and hand JS'orthcrn Eagle. uuuiuui ui raru animais, some 0 which have been hitherto entirely un A n,irv.U P 1 Known in Europe, have arrived at Paris imong the most curious, and intended lor the Garden of Plants, arc two ivory horned stags; two oxen from the King dom of Laos ; a gray tiger of Cambodia CrkVt- t?I Skllfir? f nirnn - a. . 1 11 II 11 . n O oiras oi all sorts, lrom thc pyan" eale to the figthing fowls of Laos'"; and two cases containing a bull and a cow of Bien- T! xuuau. California despatches state that th treasury reports show a falling off of o ver seven millions, as compared with the same period last year, while the gold and ... . silver products are said to be much lar ger, lhc ship Seaman's Bride, owned in mis city, was lost on JJaker's Island iuarcn ii. uon. Schuyler Colfax had reached ban Francisco. He snoke thorn on me 4th mst. The San Salvador pi- iulo uau uecn sentenced Dy the court martial to be hung, but General McDowell commuted the sentence to imprisonment. The apple cron in WW srnm Vn-t- win dc enormous. The largest Indian tribe now in l,;a country is tho Camauchcs. Th nn- 20,000. J T Ddfcn the year eudin? Mav 1st. , daily papers of New-York city issued about 2,000.000 conies. r - s Launching of the Dunderberg. The largest ikon-clad ever floated. Tho iron-clad frigate rouTD.undcrberg, 5 000 tons burden, waB launched from the ,' J -f I T : 1 ,1 AT - XKT TT 1VV.k i the East River, New York, on Satur day moruiug, in the presence of thous ands of spectators. The' launch was in every respect successful. As soon as the Dunderberg struck the water, and began to swim toward Long Island, a fleet ot powerful steam tugs gave chase. Great n 4 hawsers were soon passed on board oi each little steamboat, aud all were pros .... . . . , , nntlrr nnirnrrnrt in in flllirr hnelr the 111!? war vessel, desperately striving to oreau loose aud travel onward. A quarter of an hour was thus occupied ; meantime her momentum and the tide had carried the Dunderberg past Green point, near which place the great vessel was brought under control, and prepared tor ner re turn Tjassace to New York. For this purpose two tugs were lashed on each side of the war ship, the other steam boats towiug in the advance. Halt au hour was occupied iu crossing the river, and another half hour used up in secur ing the Dunderberg at the wharf, foot of Seventh street. The assemblage on shore soou after dispersed, highly de lighted with the event ot the morning. WHAT THE DUNDEUBSUG "WILL BE. The hu ge hull launched on Saturday the wooden carcase, 380 feet is merely long, 70 feet wide at the centre, 22 feet deep, aud not less than 3 feet thick in cv cry part. At the bow is a solid wooden projection, 50 feet in length, which will be used for a ram when clothed with iron. Upon the upper deck of.the Dunderberg, a wooden casemate also three feet m thick ness, has been built, in which will be placed sixteen guns : four of these will cam' 15 inch shell, the balance being 11 inch canuon. The sides of this casement ., 1 , -P,. ,, . ... run nnrnnco r I cnnnninrr nui nrninnii nc .w r-.r r wiac may oe nuricu at ner oy an enemy. lhc wooden hull is to be covered with ,i fl.nncnnrl fnno nP ?rrm ormm- rvnf nr. slabs 21 to 4 inches thick, three feet V V II V IUUU J 1 J I VU 14 i ll-AJ i . L7UU J LM I wide, and from 12 to 15 feet Ion- The length and thickness of these slabs will be varied according to the position they one and a halfinchcs iu diameter, those halt mencs in uiamctcr, those vessel, will not be liable to ac- om flying bolts, as none will inside the cidents fro nrnifrnM tho irnnrlrcnrl- mnrn rl.t.n IS inches. The pilot-house, is to be built of iron ten inches thick, will be six feet in diameter and seven feet high. The pro peller will be twenty-one feet in diame ter, on a shaft 118 feet long. Two rud ders will be protected by a stern shelf, projecting over them Two masts which will be brig ri"-"-ed for many thousand feet, nf mnvnw Twn eno-inns nf fivn thousand horse power, are expected to drive the Dunderberg through the water at the rate of fifteen knots an hour. Six arge boilers will supply the steam. All the new improvements in engines, con-j densers: boilers, pumns. &c. will be an- propriately placed within thc huge ship. measunnsr n.U'JU. hut. ennnh e nf norrr ntr - J- . . . " . i ' at least 6.5S0 tons wei?ht,. Hn.nl hunt, ers large enough for 1.000 tons of fuel are located on either side of the enmne room, cxienaing in lact tne whole length 1 f . 1 of the vessel, in reality making two ves sels, one inside of the other, the partitions being thicker than the sides of an ordi- nary vessel, and water-tight. She displa- ccs seven thousand tons ot water, will draw only 21 feet when iron-clad, armed and ready for a naval conflict. Bulk heads and heavy diagonal braces distrib uted throughout the ship will make the Dunderberg one of thc strongest vessels of war afloat, and if all the anticipations of her builders are realized, she will not only be the swiftest but most impregnable vessel ot her class in existence on this or any other side of the Atlantic. In short, a veritable floating "Thunderberg." The Sanitary Commission. Thc officers of the United States San itary Commission have prepared an ad dress to the branches and Aid Societies which have so liberally sustained the Commissou during four years of war. I hey return tlyuiks to the kind citizens who have labored so zealously for the soldiers, and particularly to the ladies. who, in city, village and neighborhood. have devoted their time and interest to the philanthropic work. The Commision specially acknowledges its obligation to every woman who has sewed a seam or knit a stocking in service of the Sanitary Commission. The officers announce that tne necessity ot lurnishmg further sup- plies for thc use of the army is over.: that there is still a stock of provisions and clothmg sufficient for the use of all sold- lers in the held, tfnd they request that while lurther collections of articles of ucu iur tue soiuiers may cease, that the aid societies will, after settling up their 1 ... - " ' I muuuicuiiess, iorwaru naiances of money and unused goods to the parent so ciclv at rvcw lor. The soldiers vet m thnfinM w;h hn 1 t'. i... J- . r ,MUpu, cu.eu iur; uui the principal work of the Commission, nntl the Tinnl elnsn nf ito nfFl-r, .:il l. the completion of its work for the co - iw UIIUI1S. Will III'. I lection of the pensions and back pay of ohiiers,for which work one hundred and twenty-seven officers have bcen es tablished in various parts of the country In a few months the labor of the Com mission will be closed, but its work will be a household legend in many a soldier's family. It was organized for a trmnt. task of philanthropy, which it ban rrrentlv juiiuimuu. ivn wno nave been engafred r 1 ah.' , . . J iu its labors deserve the thanks an( gratitude of their countrvmen.- -Montrose Republican. A soldier who was guiltv of rnss enw. vaiv. uu mo muivii; ui iue vv lluernp!B wnj tried by court martial m New York for tho offence, and sentenced to be slmr He was taken to Broome Street Barmnk-q but had not been there half an hour when ic sent a polite note down to the officer below for a pass. Those in charge of the office failing to keep a eorreet account of their prisouers. gave the nass. and Mm . ult was, tho fellow walked out, and, 1ms not been seen since. A Tale of Rebel Cruelty. "Washington, Monday, July 31, 1865. Among the visitors at the Preedmen's Bureau td-day soliciting relief was.a foot less negro, who, tired and weary with shuflliug over the dusty pavements under a broiling sun dragged his shorn limbs up the stone steps leading to the office of . i i i i 1 1 Col. Taggart, where ne sat pauenuy ou his knees waiting for an audience. The story told by this unfortunate negro al most surpasses belief, were it not tnac its authenticity is established beyond a doubt bv corroborative evidence. His story, in substance, is as follows : Just previous to the breaking out of the war, he was em ployed by a Dr. Lee, living near Wash ington, iu Maryland, who compensated him for his services, he being a free man. In 1S59 the negro was persuaded by the Doctor to accompany him to Georgia from which State he afterwards removed to Tennessee, where he kept the Knoxville Hotel. In the town of that name, in 1863, this same Dr. Lee hired the negro to a Capt. N. G. Gammon, a Quartermas ter in the Confederate States Army at Jonesborough. Ilere he was employed for eight or ten months, when he attemp ted to escape to our lines, in doing which he was apprehended and returned to Capt G., who immediately took him in person to a Dr. Williams, in charge ot the Uen him -Drf W) to amputate the legs of the uA -J, fn nt him from run- I f . t 5, mulL una). IU wmuuuuuu iuii nuns uv,- mand his legs were' that night ampu tated just above the ankles, and his legs left undressed by the surgeon. In the morning, Dr: W., on visiting the hospit al, found the negro still alive, and alter expressing his surprise with an oath said he had intended to kill him. lie then ordered the negro to the house of an old slave woman, where he was found recov ot our troops. He will probably be sent - . . tQ thc jeednjcQ's villa;re at Arlington It Will bC rCUlCniUCrCd that 1H the Ha val buttle betore iNew Uricans, some three Jcars aSt UlP gunboat Varuna, commau- tlecl b? the gallant Captain Doggs, of New h,crsey saIcly ran the gauntlet ot the of one of tllc Rebel vessels, was finally U1 "" "l v...-,, ..no struck near the city and immediately sunk, For threc.years this ship has lain iu the bottom of the HVer, but WC nOW leam tllat a short time since it was determined to again set her anoat. cjhe is in very good condition. bome six men are at work on her, and they have succeeded in clearing away three thousand tons of mud (which has formed quite a bar in the r;v er) and tbrcc hundred ions of coal. Cut lasses muskets, ammunition, uicss stores and many other things have been brough UP m Sood condition, including a ful MPP'J or mcaicai stores iu ootties mane ed "ld Lourbon." "It is said that th three years this popular medicine ha passed in the bottom of thc river has con siderably improved its flavor, and it has Iong bcen surrounded by water that it re i . i . mi. f l ii . uiies not a urop in it. jluc lace inai the 'navy sherry' locker was found undisturbed, speaks well for the temper ate lyibits of the catfish in the lower Mis ilrt - irtiv - iIJ' olccll'rl nc following is a list of soldiers buried 111 each state lot m the iNational Ueme tery at Gettysburg Maine, 104 46 01 - 158 12 22 S60 77 501 15 21 11 131 79 6 1G6 71 56 136 411 425 143 3,512 New LTampshirc, Vermont, Massachusetts, llhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, . Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, U. S. Regulars, Unknowu, North, " South, " Inner circle, Total, A curious calculation has been made lately by a savant well known in Paris for bis peculiar antipathy to the fly. He collected three thousand flies in a room measuring two cubic metres; on thc floor he spread a pounded loaf of suar. At thc end of four days he went in to in- vestigate the result of his experiment. 1 here remained a tablespoonful of sugar. This statistician therefore calculates that sugar oeiug at the rate ot thirteen eonis a pound, a fly costs thc country twenty - W -wMM cenis ironi its Dirth to Us demise. --n.cnr.irin w i, r'r "uo .""T8 ou 111VJ m I" in Spring- neld, ill., under thc pressure of thc blacklegs and thieves of every kind who t . ' J ' " II ! tin (inn rvi-nnnli.l ll.. I .1 1 !. Ln- , quested General Cook, commanding the Iniljtary forces there, to take the govern- ment ot the city into his own hands. General Cook has done so, and the city is now under martial law. Important to Claim Agents and Applicant for PenBions. The Commissioner of Pensions has de- cidedjhat m accordance 'with the act of Congress, claim agents are prohibited un. aer severe penalty, from receiving more than teu dollars in all for their services in prosecuting any pension claim, or from receiving any part ot such fee in advance, or-any ciaiin, or ot any portion thereof for pension or bounty. They have a novel mode of selling horses in Buffalo. Mr. Upson, ofthat city, sold a span of bay marcs a few days since at. $1,05 per pound. They each weighed 614 pounds, and consequently the span netted him something over S2, 000. fa ' Horrible. Tragedy near, Hartford, Conn. A motner and Daughter murdered. Hartford, Conn., Aug. 1. A horri ble murder was discovered at daylight, this morning, at the village of" Oakland, in the town of Manchester. IMrs. Benjamin Starkweather, aged 46, and her daughter Ella, 14 years old, were chopped to death in their bed. Tho blows, which were mtiicted with an axe, severed the skull every time, and the bodies presented a norriDie sight. Thev were also stabbed in many places with n. butcher knife, which together with the axe, has been found: A son of Mrs. Starkweather, named Albert, twenty-four years of age, is being examined to-day by thc Jblartlord police, and suspiciods arc entertained that he committed the terrible deed. A sum of money, less than 400 were found in his drawer, together with the knife. lie first cave thc alarm, and. both his own bed and that of his mother were found on fire. The daughter, when found, still hroathed. but died in ten minutes after wards. Bishop Simpson, of Philadelphia, in a dis course delivered in Music Hall, in the city of New York, while speaking of his late vis it to Nevada : says : "That wealth comprises that which thc nations of the world have never yet contended for. Were the debt of our nation to amount to 20,000,000,000 of dollars, there IS wealth enough there, when our debt is paid off, to give to every soldier who retuns from our battle-fields, muskets ofsilver in place of iorn : and when our iron-clads come back into thc harbor, there shall be enough left to plate those boats more heavily than they arc now plated with iorn. I do not speak from idle speculation, but I speak of that wealth from observation and actual cal culation. When in California I visited the mines, and f thought the time might come when they would be exhausted, but in thc mines of Nevada there arc no such indications visible. The more the mines, are worked thc richer they yield. The extent of the ledges containing the precious metals no man lias yet been able to mention. 1 will men tion a single instance, to give you some idea of the inexhaustible supply. In what termed thc.Ophir.mine, a single lead as is called there, is fifty-five feetjn thickness, and inclines only at an angle ot five degrees. Think of the extent of that, nearly as far as from this alter to yon wall! Ihisisall sil ver mingled with gold. There is more gold in value than silver, but more silver in weight than gold. Thc Company have only two hundred feet working, and out of that they are now realizing about ten thous and dollars a day. There is this peculiarity about it, that the deeper thc mine extends the richer and more profitable it becomes.'' Major Harry White, now Brig.-General, who, it will be recollected, was held as a prisoner at Salibury by the Rebels in 1863-4. whose absence in the winter of 18G4, being the Union Senator from the Twenty-second District, when the party had but one major ity in that body, locked the Senate in a tie for a month, neither party being able to e lect a speaker until the Major succeeded in sending in his resignation sewed in the shoulder straps ofa released Union captain has again become the candidate of the U nion pjrty of his district for the Senator, The contest in the Conference was spirited the Conferees of each county tenaciously ad hering lo their favorite: but after a fair can vass of the merits and the claim of the di ferent candidates, the nomination wasunan imously awarded to General Harry White The nomination in this district, composed o: the couties ol Indiana and Westmoteland, tantamount to an election. Thc trial of Champ Ferguson, the guerrilla is sui progressing at jwashvillo. Two wit nesses, Thomas Huff and Miss Vina Piles. neighbors of Ferguson have befen examined iluif testified that Ferguson, after robbin him ot his horse on thc high way, threat encd to lull him. Miss Piles testified to the murdering of three men. John Crabtee John Willams and William Week, the two tormer being l cderal soldiers, in her moth er's back yard, in October, 18G3, by Fergu son a men, though she did not know poitv ely that i'erguson was with them. Before the men died the murderers whittled corn husks and stuck them in thc wounds to tor- 1 - IT-, ft 1 . r -i . ilium, iiiciu. iiuu aiso lestineu to seem"- Ferguson and his party of ten men shoot man in ms own yard in Ulinton county Kentucky, about the 1st of June, 1862. i'erguson was much excited during the trial ami showed signs ot f?reat unen.mes? It is getting to bo a very serious matter wit him. To an American the eve-sights now cxhib ted at Brownsville, Texas, are verv novel and show a Want of the p-o-a-lienrl lnlinr.;n. ving propensities of young America. Think - o - 1 ofa man harnessing himself to a barrel filled with water, and nullmg it over the citv tor delivery to customers, or fastening on to the back of a diminutive iackass about as uiucn woou as an able bodied man could car ry in his arms, when the same animal couh: draw ten times as much in some sort of vehicle. The ladies are sunnlied with dress a goods, ribbons, laces, boots, shoes, nins and -a . - . combs, by big, two-fisted fellows, who carry these things from house to house ou their shoulders or in baskets, and who would be doing their oppressed country great service in U1C raniiS Ol Uortinns nnr . nnrn? The commencement exercises of Lifavette n ii m . oiicge, at Gaston, took n ace last week- Thc occasion drew together a lanrc number ot tne menus and patrons ol the institution irom various parts ot the country. Thc cus tomary orations were delivered bv the stu- aenis who had been assigned those exer t . . . . . cises, on Monday .evening. On Tuesd'av auernoon, tne ceremonies ot laying the cor r. . . - . " - J nerstone ot Jcnks, Uhcmical Hall took nlar.e Tin'c i,;i.i:.,.. i l i ' , . uuuuuiy, uuw uuuki io ue erecteu is to bo supplied with ample apparatus and in slruments to illustrate the science of chem. istry, Uarton jll Jenks, of Bridcsburg, Philadelphia, after whom it was named, was one of the heaviest contributors to the fund for its erection. The closing exercises took place on Wendesday. A sumptuous ban quet, prepared by the ladies of Easton, was partaken of by the invited guests, visitors, faculty and students of the college. Ex-Gov ernor Pollock presided. Bad Vegetables. Tho Boudout Freeman says M. J. Mavell was arrested on Thursday of last week, at that place, for selling bad pota toes. Tho suit was withdrawn 6n his paying costs, amounting to $8. Tho Board of Health was the complainant. slow answer to a hasty ques tion. " "A man in New-York jumped twelve feet and ouc inch, for S50. Orcgon yielded eight millions of gold dust last year. A blue and pink colored hairless horse is an attraction now in London. It has just been imported from Africa. It will require from $13,000,000 to 14,000,000 to make thc pension pay ments during thc present fiscal year. It is now officially announced thai thc vertebral bones of John Wilkes Booth, pierced by Corbctt's bullet, are on public exhibiticu at the ArmyMcdical Museunx" in Washington. In Southern Kansas the pcoplo arc get ting terribly iu earnest iu putting down thieving. Not long six thieves word hanged in Franklin County without thy least benefit of clergy. i There were sold in Philapelphia lat month 1,213,340 glasses of lager, thee at five cents per glass, making the snug sum of 500,287 50 swallowed by thirsty individuals. John Perdue of Indianapolis, who has an income of $107,000 (thc largest in that city) formerly taught school for a liriu at $10 per month, and was onco warned out ofa township because he was so-poor that it was feared he might become a town charge. The man supposed to be John II. Surratf, who has been for severl days reported as en route for Washington, passed through liar risburg yestrday under a strong guard. Jacob Crusoe, late Depty Provst-MarshaJ, was shot dead in the street in Bedford, Pa.f yesterday by John P. Reed, a lately re turned Canadain refugee. His brother, Mi quel Reed, who has been in the Rebel ar my, was engaged in the affray. They werd arrested and lodged in jail. It is cool to speale of snow falling in Mis souri not very distant from St. Louis, on tho 18th of this month, but such is the fact. Tlie Franklin county News gives the evi dence of the fact, that snow fell in Washing ton, Mo., on thc day named. It must hare been rcfrci-hing. The way they erect towns in the oil re gions looks as if the Petrolians were addict ed to the "sudden." At Rouseville, recent ly a large block of stores, offices, &c, wn erected in eight days. Pit Hole was loca. ted, organized and made a flourishng town of four hundred buldings and a thousand in habitants in the short space of three weeks. They have all ihe accompaniment hotels, telegraph, post offices, and are talking of a railroad. The projected railroad from Ti lusville to Union will cost 400,000; thcdi tance is twenty-three miles, and they aro going to construct it in ninety days. ., Thel'cadingGazcttc (Democratic) s.jx that as the Southern people are "restored to their former status" they will "natural ly side with the Democrats." Of course they will. Haven't thc Democrats sided with them all through the rebellion and wouldn't they be very ungrateful not to maintain thc alliance ! Besides, they know the character of the Democratic party well enough to feel confidence in their ability to control it in the futuro as they have in the past in carrying out any unpatriotic schemes they may inaugurate. Yes, thc Southern traitors, as they arc re stored to their former status, "will sido with the Democratic party." 2so doubt of that. Seported Arrest of John H. Snrratt. Ilarrisburg, August 1. A man, sup posed to be John II. Surratt, one of tha conspirators implicated in the assassina tion of President Lincoln, arrived hero in irons, and' under a guard, in the morn ing train from Pittiburg, aud left for Washington by the Northern Central road at noon to day. nc was arrested some where in Texas. -- Murder at Bedford, Pa. Bedford, Pa., Aug. I -Jacob Course, ate Deputy Provost Marshal of Bedford couury, wa3 shot dead in the street to-day, by John P. Bccd, a lately returned Can adian refugee. His brother, Mingel Reed, who has been in the Rebel army, was al so engaged in the affr.iv. They have been arrested and lodged in jail. Great excitement prevails iu conscqucnco of the affair. A Living Death. Describing the Dry Tortugas, to which- place it as understood the government haa? sent Mudd, bnangler. Arnold and U Laughlin, a contemporary says, in view of the magnitude of their crime, that a more suitable place of punishment for these conspirators could not have been selected. The solemn roll of the waves of the Gulf: the silent and even ghostly air, or rather want of air, on these lifeless coral reefs : thc abseuce ot every living thing save the albatross and shark, "tho blue above .and thc blue below," in ono' unvarying monotony, save the infrequent visits of the hurricane, which only add error to desolation all thc3e may faintly picture the far seaward home of thoio to whom the law and tho testimony havo? denied the boon of death. Sobbing Soldiers" Genrf e. Metzcor. of Luzerne county, Was arrested on Thursday night, at Sixth and? Arch streets, Phila., upon the charge of laving robbed a soldier ot thirty-five aoi ars. a few davs since. Alderman Godbott committed the accused in default of ono thousand dollars bail. Alderman Hutchinson had beforo him vesterd.-iv. Wm. Aikens. of Tioga county, and Hugh Berry, from Vermont, charged with having knocked down and. robbed a oldier of eighty dollars somo ttmfl since, jl no accused were couiunuca wi a further hearing. Make a
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