i. .: " r : ? ' - ih itoMh cuotcir tcr politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, iitorniitu, aub eueral Inteiiigcnce,. , Ar id- V fee, V0L.4. STROUDSBURGr, MONROE COUNTY, PA DECEMBER 1865. NO. M f Published by Theodore Schoch. TG!tM3-Two dollars ymr in ndvance-and if no "ait before the end of the yeai, two dollars and filfy ets. will ito charged. , ,, .. N njoor dito.jntiniicil unulall arrearages arc paid, xcepi at the option oi mc ouivu- -4iK.rf;.,.itisofoiie square of-(cicht lines) liit.nn.nrt'hroe insertions S I 50. Eauh. addition erlin, 50 cents. Longer ones in propottion JOB PRINTING, OF ALL KINDS, fixtcutedia the highest style of the Arl.mdonthc most rcason-ible terms. HOPE. Though thick darkness gloom before us, And a thousand tempests blend, Hope's bright rainbow bending o'er us, Tells us that the storm will end ; Cheating life of half its sorrow, Chasing half its ills away, '' ' With the solace that to-morrow Will be brighter than to-day ! i . Radiant 6tar ! shine on forever' In, the future's distant skies ; Further down life's rapid river There the land of promics lies. On we glide, of glory dreaming, Pride and pleasure at the helm; Ever art thou brightly gleaming O'er that dim and distant realm ! Thou art as false and fleeting As the phantoms of ihe glen ! Still pursued, yet still retreating Cheating all the rr.ee of men . Yet not .'one of them would barter .j J That celestial smile of thine, r : For the glory-giving charter Oi Golcoiido's richest mine. When the homeless s'.rangor, sighing O'er the last, last sand oflife, On. the strength of God relying, Nerves him for the final strife. Hell may all its legions rally Fienus may startle or allure If thou lightest Death's dark valley, lie shall tread its "loom secure! ' GOING TO SLEEP. The light is Hiding down the sky, The shadows grow and multiply, I hear the thrushes' evening song: But I have borne with toil and wrong So long, so long ! Dim dreams my drowsy senses drown ; So darling, kiss my eyelids down! - My life's brief spring went wasted by; My summer ended fruitlessly ; 1 learned to hunger, strive and wail ; I found you, love; oil, happy fate So late, so late ! Now nil my fields are turning brown; So darling kiss my eyelids down! Oh, blessed sleep! oh, perfect rest! Tims pillowed on your faithful breast ; Nor life our death is wholly drear, O tender heart, since you are here, ' ' So dear, so dear! Sweet love, mv soul's sufficient crown ! Now, darling, kiss my eyelds down ! California raises 7,000,000 pounds of wool per year. The Union candidates are elected in every country in Maryland. The tobacco crop in the Connecticut vah ley this year will be worth $6,000,000. Water impregnated with iron is said to have stopped the cattle plague in Poland. There are'SS.SOfyOOb worth of-boots and shoes manufactured for the trade in Chicago a year. The superior court at Springfield, Mass., has decided that a man can sue for money ; lost in gambling and recover it, ana tn-re is a flutter among the "sports" there in con-: sequence, . , i - :mi Amon? the latest wonders in the animal. jimuiif, me I" , world is a talking dog which has been brought out iu Sp ingfield Mass. i a nnn v lay "Good morning,' "How do you do! a and many other things as a human being "Now, children, who loves all men 1 usked a School Inspector. The question was hardly put before a little girl, not four years old, answered quickly, "All women." The following is a verdict on a negro jury: "We, the undersigned, being a korner's ju- . , i J Cn mini- niiir ray to su on ? t, lll'll -1 I 1 1 I lMKir: V - r ,.i . , on ae sax u.gs " ' night ob de fusteenth of November come to , i r.nIMH nnri tin mo nn ne del by laiun iroux.uc.onugc uUC. uv. . II' t A . . J .sNl-tA si fa rinor III de 'said riber, .whar .we find -he .was su.bse- quentli drown, ;and a'terwards washed on :u. .Aa w mr we s'dosl he was irocen UC I1UGI oiuv., - - to def." lJ r:U .V.r .frnn t,ta . , ' nna mn- congregatioc ; going ,o, " "" i? More helairly comm lntT a 1PW minUtCS. fiUUUCUiy ISWUUCU UU j ,tTj X,rnn tliiK .isn't fair exclaimed . r j nr :i it isn't giving a man uaa . a man bait a-coauce. till I get along a piece, and then if I ain't UlSi a .'.IV worll do man a cnauccy HOW THE FIRST N. JERSEY FOUGHT AT BRANDY STATION. "It was the prettiest cavalry fight that or you ever saw," said the Adjutant, stretch- j tance from me ; and I had just wheeled to 'curred to myself, as that was the most in aljing his legs and lighting a fresh cigar. re aP to his help when two fellows put 'tensely interesting to me ; but I do not "It was just my luck to lose it," I answered. "Ilere have I been lying, growling and grumbling while you fel- lows have been distinguishing yourselves, It was miserable to be taken just when thc army got in motion, and still worse not to hear a word of what was going on. Ial- most wished that we had been a 'news- paper regiment, so that I could learn . . -r- something about our share in that dav's work. Be a good fellow and play repor- j. i . . it i i ier ior my Dcoeut. 1'resiicn naws. as the nautical novelists say, and begin." "Well, we were lying at Warrenton Juncton, making ourselves as comfort able as possibe after the raid, when, on the nitfrning of the 8th of June, the whole division was ordered out in the very ligh est marching order. That night we lay close at Kelly's Ford in column of bat talions, the men holding their horses as they slept, and no fires being lighted. "At four o clock on the morning of the 9th we were again in motion, and got a- cross the Ford without interruption or discovery. Yorke, with the third squad ron, was in advance, and as we moved he managed so well that he bagged every picket on the road. Thus we got almost I upon the rebel camp before we were dis covered. We rode right into Jones's Brigade, the First New Jersey and First Pennsylvania charging together, and be fore they had recovered from the alarm we had a hundred and fifty prisoners. The rebels were theu forming (hick upou the hill side by the statiou, and the' had a battery playing upon us like fun. Martin's New York battery on our side galloped into position and began to ans wer them. Then Wyndham formed his whole brigade for acharge,except a squad ron of First Maryland, left to support the batterv. Our hoys weut iu splendidly. i keeping well together and making straight fur the rebel battery on the hill behind the station. Wyndham himself rode on j the right, aud Broderick charged more , towards the left, and with a yell we were ion them. We were only two hundred and eighty strong, aud front of us was j White's Battalion of five hundred. No ' matter for that. As we dashed fiercely into them sabre in hand thej broke like a wave ou the bows of a ship, and over and through them we went sabring as we went. We eould not stop to take pris oners, for there iu front of us were the Twelfth Virginia, sis hundred men, rid ing down to support White. They came up splendidly, looking steadier than we did ourselves after the shock of the first charge. I do not know whether Wynd ham was still with us, or if he had gone to another regiment; but there was! Broderick looking full of fight, his blue I eyes in a blaze, and his sabre clenched, riding well in front. It seemed but an instant before the rebels were scattered in every direction, trying now and then to rally in small parties, but never daring to await our approach. Now there were the guns plain before us. We caught one gun before they could move it, and were dashing after others when I heard Broderick shouting in a stormy voice. The fragments of White's battalion had gathered together toward the left of the field and were charging in our rear. Atthc same time two fresh regiments, the Elev enth Virginia and another, were coming down on our front. Instead of dashing at White's men the First Maryland waver ed and broke, and theu wo were charged at the same time front and rear. We were broken of course, by the mere weight of the attacking force, but break ing them up too, the whole field was cov ered with small squads of fighting men. I saw Broderick ride in with a cheer and open a way for the men. His horse went , down in the melee ; but little Wood, the DUgcr 0f(j0 m Qm sprang down and gave uu, jns animal, setting off to catch an other. A rebel rode at the bugler and succeeded in getting his arms before help came. As Wood still went after a horse anothor fellow rode at him. The boy . , . J hnnnonprf at that moment to see a carbine n had b(jea d , after Qri ... He nicked up the empty weapon. aimed ,jt at tj,e horseman, made him dismount, i x a tf give up his arms, and start for 'the rear. Then he went in again. None of us thought anything of two to one odds, as long as we had a chance to ride at them. It was 'only when we got so entangled that we had to fight hand to hand that their I numbers told heavily. It was in such a j place that I lost sight of Broderick. I he troop horse that he was riding was not strong enough to ride through a knot of man gtruck he that he gtunned so tnat lie couiu ugui- iuuiu. xie. m m. m Viv thn Mow. hilt lllS horse WaS 8WerVing "J 1 t0 one side he escaped the blow from ah- o aQd wardi ff the thrust of a t . I t thjrd nonaged to take him witn ins t cross the forehead : just as he did 60 however ..his sabre, getting-tangled with the rebel s was lerKeu irom ms uanu. . . y Heilways carried a pistol in his boot. Pulling that out, he fired into the crowd flnd DUt SDUTS to his horse. The bullet I It II h;t a horse in front of him which tell. ront of him which tell. H5, -n charirer rose as it aWmpled. and did Broderick himself fell, from a ....... , . 1. 1 t . 1 shot tired witnin arms leogiu oi uiiu uuu n onlvm trnt-r nnnn his side. v - , . n appfl . j "I saw all this L ocpurredWa Miough? I saw it; for I lwa in the midst, of confusion, and only US U LUilU Cw3 luiUq mv jwas iu the midst, of confusiou, and only caught things around by passingglimpess. You see I was myself having as much as I could do. The crowd with whom Broderick was engaged was a little dis at me. ihe first one fired at mo missed, Before he could again cock his revolver I succeeded in closing with him. My sabre took him just in the neck, and must have cut the jugular. The blood rushed out in a black-looking stream ; he gave a horrible yell and fell over the side of horse, which galloped away. Then T l. 1 i . -"- gumereu up ray reins, spurred ray norse and went at the other one. I was ridinj? that old black horse'that used to belong n : 1 i 1 ?. n siguai sergeant, anu it was in nne , condition. As 1 drove in the spurs it gave nign lean, 'haf Dluncre saved mv lite. Ihe rebel had a steady aim at me; but the ball went throught the black horse's brain. His feet never touched ground a gain. With a convulsive contraction of all his muscles the black turned over in the air, and fell on his head and side I stone dead, pitching me twenty feet. I Ugnted on my pistol, the butt forcing it self for into my side ; my sabre sprung out of my hand, and I lay, with my arms an.u legs an aoroau, stretcned out use a dead man. It seemed to me to have been an age before I began painfully to come 11 1 1 . t .! to myself ; but it could not have been many minutes. Every nerve was shak ing ; there was a terrible pain in my head, and a numbness through my sido which was even worse. Fighting was still going on around me, and my first im pulse was to get hold of my sword. I crawled to it and sank down as I grasp ed it once more. That was only for a moment, for a rebel soldier seeing me move rode at me. The presence of dan ger aroused me, aud I managed to get to my horse, behind which I sank, resting, my pistol on the saddle and so contrived to get an aim. As soon as the fellow saw that, he turned off without attacking me. I was now able to stand and walk ; so holding my pistol in one hand and my sabre in the other, I made across the fields to where our battery was posted, and shooting others. Nobody managed to hit me through the whole fight. When I got up to the battery I found Wood there He sang out to me to wait and he would get me a horse. One of the men who had just taken one, was going past, so Wood stopped him and got it for me. At that moment White's battalion and some other troops charged at the bat tery. The squadron of the First Mary land, who were supporting it, met the charge well as far as their numbers went; but were, of course, flanked on both sides by the heavy odds. All of our men who were free came swarming up the hill, aud the cavalry were fighting over and around the guns. In spite of the confusion, and even while their comrades at the same gun were being sabred, the men at that battery kept to their duty. They did not even look up or around, but kept up their fire with unwavering steadiness. There was one rebel, on a spendid horse, who sabred three gunners while I was chasing him. Lie wheeled in and out, would dart away and then come sweep ing back and cut down another man in a manner that seemed almost supernatural. We at last succeeded in driving him a way, but we could not catch or shoot him, and he got off without a scratch. "In the meantime the fight was going on elsewhere. Kilpatrick's Brigade on our right. The Second New York did not behave as well as it has sometimes done siucc, and the loss of it weakened us a groat deal. The Tenth New York though went in well, and First Maine did splen didly, as it always does. In spite of their superior numbers (Stuart had-a day or two before reviewed thirty thousand cav alry at Culpeper, according to the ac count of rebel officers) we beat them heavily, and would have routed them completely if Duffle's Brigade had come up. He, however, was cugaged with two or three huudrcd men on the left; and the aid-de camp sent to him with orders was wounded and taken prisoner, aud he is not the sort of a, man to find out the critical poiuts in a fight of his own accord. "So now, they bringing up still more reserves, and a whole division of theirs coming on the field, we began to fall i i- nr i i l i tiu uac-K u uwu u.u. up au auve.cy except in the neighborhood of where the Second New Nork charged. There some! Ui UUI Li I S 11 I1UU UO IUUVjII UO VllKiJ WUUftU I j-M s-va- no ci c f r t t nrtiiln do to get out, and the battery had to leave three of its guus. We formed in the woods between a quarter and a half a mile off the field, another moved back to cover the left of Buford, who was in re treat toward Beverly's Ford, Hart and j . had f Wynkoop tried hard to cpver the guus w t - nnA on Wl tn Innvn thflm. Thh - wer0 terribly punished. By their confession they lost three times as . - . s we did. In our regiment almost every RI,Kiier must have settled his man Ser- geant Craig, of Company K, I believed t- nil . three. K ate. ol the same uom- pany, also went above the average. But we lost terribly. Sixty enlisted men of r , 1 - the First New Jersey were killed, wound - V ed. or missing. Col. Wyndham was ed. wnnndad but ken t his saddle. : Lieut- - - v. 0oIonel Broderick and Major Shelmire . . t I. - . were killed : liieutenant lirooKS'waswoun- AnA rinnfnin Sn'wvfi'r an d Lieutenaht V "f. " ! . -a t n'r.M :.tauen Drisoneas : and Las viwiovi " f m ' w ' 7PU see, have to come in at last and refit, H have pjgp you a pret long yarn, and you must feel pretty tiredLb.whenj and you must feel pretty tired; ;sbu(,wnj memory of the fight comes over me, I get almost as enthusiastic and excited as when it was going on. Of course I have - had to be egotistical, and- tell you what oc- want you to fancy that I did any better or fought any harder than the others. In fact, I know the most of the others did a good deal more than I did ; but not having seen it, of course I could not des- cribe their share of the fight quite so well as that which occurred in my own ncigh- . borhood and to my own person "Now I am going to bid you good night. 1 have talked more . -i m is than is good (for me, and you have listened as much i i n m -r mi ' as is gooa ior you. 10-morrow j win come and tell you something about what we did around. Aldie, amd Upperville." An Unfashionable Old Fellow. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette tells the following an ecdote of Gen. Sninuer. the Treasurer of "The simple-hearted old fellow is un fashionable, in that he cannot forget that there has been a war. A repentant Ala- batnian reached his hand across the table to niui -the, other day, at dinner : "Don t you remember me, General? I used to sit with you in Congress down to 1860." "I remember you well enough. You stayed here a good while after I860, walked through all our camps, and saw j altogether too much before you left. If I you were going to be a traitor you might have had the grace to go a little earlier, so that your old friends shouldu't be com pelled to suspect you of being a spy." "But, General, no man regretted this thing more than I did !" "Why in the name of manhood, didn't you stand up a gainst it? But no, you had to go with your State, and get office under the gov ernment of traitors ! aud now you come up to this mudsill, Andy Johnson, to be pardoned. I'd hang you, that's what I'd do with hou, old friend as you are !" Sick of a Fever. A Wisconsin man, stopping at the tor House, New York, tells the followi On Sunday, being desirous of heanug several of the more famous pulpit orators of" the metropolis, he went in the morn ing to Dr. Chapin's Church, but heard a stranger preach from the text, "But Si-, mon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever." In the afternoon he went to Beecher's church, and heard the same discourse the I , , from the same preacher. Going in evening to Dr. Osgood's church, he found the same clergyman and the same theme "Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fe ver." The next day the patient hearer of the thrice told discourse was crossing to Brooklyn in a ferry-boat, when the a-larm-bell in the Park agitated the air wi'.h its great shocks of sound, ami a man be hind him inquired why that bell was toll ing. Looking up, he saw the now famil-1 iar face of the preacher, and was prompt to reply : "I think Simon's wile's moth er must be dead ; I heard three times yes terday that she was sick of a fever." Useful Discovery. An important discovery was recently made in Copely, Medina Couuty, "Ohio. Mr. Vial, and his son, and another per- j son, were digging a well, and his son, having gone down first, was prostrated on breathing the noxious vapor or "damps" below. His father, descending to his re lief fell also. The third started for a physician. In the meantime, several la dies assembled at the place, aud one threw down a pail of water, niost of which fell on the fece of Mr. V., who caught X. breath, rose, seized the senseless body of his son, got into the tub, and was drawn up by the ladies. Water was immediate ly applied to the young man, which in a short time produced symptoms of return ing life. Mr. Vial in a few hours attain ed his usual health and strength, and the young man by medical aid had so far re- covered as to be able to work out the suc ceeding day. The experiment of letting down a candle was then tried, which weut out at the depth of six feet from the top of the well. A live chicken was also lec down, and "at the depth of six feet, ani ination became suspended, but by pour ing down water upou it, life was immedi ately restored. From the experiments, , - inhaling the gas (which is the same as pronueeu oy a Keuie or i : i i:r : r.r.., ill i..ii uu,u,ui5-;ua,B,y ",i; 10 ousjjcuucu umjr,uuu r r . . 1 "' r J "uuf 1U8 -rF""- " contained in the water, to the sufferer, or from some other cause. Deserved a Job. A rrjintlemau from the rural district re ceotly accompanied hisscn a delicate youth 0f abouttwo hundred pounds to the Ports- . entitled to p have been doing their fightjug "at home The father accordingly presented himself to tne proper aiuuoruies when the lol- lowing dialogue ensued : "What claim do you present, sir ?" .. . ! "What.'" . m- -m- m .1. "lias the young man neen in ine army, . 'JIM or elsewhere served his country i , "Yes, sir ; and he's a big fighter, tew TT: I 1 ' 1.1 1, nnrnca j.ie kiiicu every imji huV" Vf, licked anv Quantity of Copperheads, and i,. ' i,' l, mn nnd tlfe wheu he got home he licked me, and the CJ old woman and all theyoung ones. If he don't def rye a JPb, nobody.never d,d 1 ; ,An.d .he gotit,,, ..ptt.u . H.P ,An.d .he got it. rebels mouth JNavy laru, to solicit ior mm a jpn auu iuuucu uuu uo0 u ..v.a, m r i - -. r i i . j Hiiitintii r m- i - rt njiCTn nr r i u nfira:n own of work. The boy having served three wnere.upou mo norse sianeu wiuiuui iruu many years or more in, the arniy, was therefore ; ble.. The cartman accounted for the ef- reiercnce over inose wno "jo wi "j o" f .1 I I nr.t- rttilltm akfl I Clt IT m"tJC II I 111 fl TinTO THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. It is Restored at Ihc.IVrlIi. THE SOUTH NOT GRANTED ITS PRIVILEGES. PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT. Washington, Nov. 30, iSG5. The following proclamation has jus'f been issued by the President of the Uni ted States of America : Whereas, By'the proclamation of the President of the United States of the fif teenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the priv ilege of the writ of habeas corpus in cer tain cases therein set forth was suspend- j ed throughout the United States ; and Wiiekeas, The reasons for that sus pension, may be regarded as having clos ed in some of the States and Territories; Now, therefore, be it known that I, Adrcw Jonson, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that the suspeusion aforesaid, and all oth er proclamations and orders suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in the btates and Territories of the Uni ted States, are revoked and annulled, ex- Pdtitini as to the States of Virginia, Ken- tucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tex as, the District of Columbia, the Territo ries of New-Mexico and Arizona. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and. caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington the first ! day of December, in the year oflney therefore take this plain promissb'- our Lord one thousand eight hun- rih S.l dred sixty five, and of the Inde- pendence of the United States of America the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President : j William H. Seward, Sec. of State .0 The New Counterfeit Fifty Cent Curren cyHow to Detect it. The most recent of the counterfeit fifty found useful in aidin mir rn'i flora hi rid. , . tect them The counterfeit is about an .uu.v..u v.- eighth of an inch shorter than the genu- iuc. The words "United States," in the counterfeit are not so clearly defined as iu the genuine. Iu the counterfeit it is more heavily engraved. Under the word "and".in l.he rinht uPPer ?orner there is a flourish in the counterfeit. The last defect is one of the simplest means of de tecting the bogus notes. ' m& -W " - . - Hard on Crinoline. A country "chap," who recently visi ted San-Francisco for the first time, gives his views of the lakies in this way : "Somewhars in every circumference of silk and velvet that wriggles along there's allers a wuman, I suppose; but how much of the holler is filled in with meat, aud how much is gammon, the spectator dun no. A feller marrys a site, and finds, when it cums to the p'int, that he has nuthin' in his arms but a regular anato- rf j .1 c 0 -i ; ; , r mv H.t nmn i .r;iv iif.affxnrs tchnr. 1J iuue sum ui uiu luiuaie uiul urussus lur u hundred and forty weight, but hasn't reelly got as much fat on her as would grease a griddle allthe.appearantplump- ness consisting of cotton and whale bone. A young New York lawyer was ejected from v allack s Theatre for improper be- haviour, and appealed to the eourts, which settled this priuciple an important one . mm rwm m . tor young. men to consider. Ihe court i decided "That an individual on entering an as- semblage surrendered a good deal of his personal liberty ; that it was a part of his contract to keep perfectly quiet; that the right of an audience to perfect silence was as distinct as of an indivicual to per- sonal liberty ; and that any unnecessary infringement of it could as properly be taken cognizance of in the ono case as in the other." A novel official document was received at the Indian Bureau, Washington, re cently. It is a tabular analysis of the cost per head to the government "of kill ing Indians and squaws." On the West- cm plains the average cost of killing an Indian has been about five hundred thou sand dollars, while for a squaw the cost is nearly two million dollars. After whipping and coaxing had failed to induce a horse to move, the gentleman who was driving, or trying to, gave up Then a cartman went to him, saying, "if vou nlease. sir, I'll make him go." The ' privilege was granted, and going up j - - I to t the gutter he took ;up a handfu of mud idea." tThc Lqhigh Navigation and the Le high Railroad Companies are having a fie'ee quarrel at White Haven. The Le high Valley Company have thrown all the obstructions possible in the way of the Navigation Company's now foad, from Penn llaven down ; and in the quarrel, the rivals are smashing locomotives, ac cidentia switching coal trains from- the mad' and' running them into the river. Hhe quarrel has growu out; of the desire of, each,, company t monopolize tjio'i car riving trade of the Wyoming coal field. . v.ka.if uinvo till; ntu UAViUlCU bMUb Llicjr tQV ) V ' f(lnf nnfuir urn c? n.nll rt vw.i, nl ili..f 1-w.r utb ..rtGIJf IU UUtCDC CtCU LilU UUSL t.V j w II 1 C tl Oft finrtc " 'Pllrt iVil I tl tn (niilifinn vrrtll kt . , . . pui to. xiic luiiyti iiji iuiui uiiniuu t.ui uu SOld It The Man who Owns Hnddersfiel The English papers state Lady Gworr doline H. Maur, the young and lovely daughter of the Duke of Somerset, has1" just been married to Sir J. Ramsden, the Young Yorkshire Baronet, who owns the land on which every house in Huddcrs field is built, save one. Sir John has of fored fabulous sums for the property, but in vain. The land belongs to an old Quaker, and on Sir John, offering to pur chase it from him he replied : "When strangers ask thee to whom the town of Huddersford belongs, thou say that it be": longs to thee and me." The Baronet of fered to give the owner as many soveri- i gns for the land as would cover the pro perty, when the Quaker inquired, "Wilt thou place them edgewise '" It is per haps needless for us to state, that the" Baronent declined placing them edgewiscj and the ownership of the town of Had- dersfield is therefore still divided betweeri Sir John Ramsden and the Quaker. The Ottawa (111. Free Trader) exposos the schemes of a party of oil speculators'' who roam the country prospecting for oil; They approach a farmed tell him of the I t t t . mm. m prooaDinty or oil upon his farm, that a : lortune is withiu his grasp, &c. . They ' will waut to enter into a contract with him to sink a well within six months that shall produce forty barrels of oil per day, that each shall have a share of the oil, that he (the farmer) shall give them his note for one or two thousand dollars, as the case may be, not to be paid, however, unless oil is struck as per contract. I ry Dote unqualified, and leave him to ! dream of oil aud greenbacks "to come," i wnue ine "operators go to tne Dank and sell his note. Some five or six thousand dollars' worth of these notes are now in the banks in Ottawa. Pit Hole seems to be in a bad way 83 to the title to the ground on which it stands. It seems that iu 1836 a treaty was made with the Indian chief Cornplao- which he reserved the spot on Pit Hole stands, but afterwards for S270. to snmfi whitf cnppnlntnr . t ' - 1 " - w w .u vv. n i . , , , . . ijornniantpr nronpnnnii i nnn hnomsL- tr. . Pittsbursr. w,fin, ho fenm. .nn nr i,;a mf,noF Mnnt.rC.; .. ,i i:i. J ... n MO kvjuu iLii, uu'ij iir.u a uuu Indian, he spent the ?70 and returned, demanding good money for his counter feit or the surrender of the title deed. The deeds were given up on the payment. of the S70; but in th I,.,. u-n mnnrrlof. . e meantime the deed had been recorded, and the Indian, not knowing the effect of that did not take j the precaution to get the title transferred to him on the records aud so the question now is how that difficulty is to be obvia ted. It is pretty generally known among" the "inner circles" at Washington, that Secretary Stanton has no great love for music that, in fact like bluff old Dr Johnson, whom he in other respects re sembles, the Secretary of War considers it a great bore ; it is also known that Se cretary Wells, who, along with other in firm. t.lPSnf (ITtrOniO lrra .O cnl. fr Viz. ninfn , n - " aeat aDccts a Sre:lt fondness for the "di vine art. It is also known that while a professor of music iti Washington was trying to get up a sories of subscription concerts iu that city last winter, he called opon Mr. Stanton to get him to subscribe", and mentioned as an inducement thereto. that the Secretary Of the Navy had al- ready put his name down. "Ol n. rer t plied the bluff head of the war department. "If I were as deaf as the Secretary of the .w a m . v JNavy, I would subscribe, too V How Many. A mincing miss, who had just passed her teens, went into a store in a small village in this country, and called for some hose. "How many will you have, Miss!" "A pair, sir, if you please." The accommodating clerk immediately started up two flight of stairs, and soon brought down two hoes stout enough to dig all the potatoes in the State, and asked her if them would do.' How a Hog Sweats. Not like a horse or a man, but through his forelegs. There is a spot on each legv just below thekrt'je, in the form of a aieve, through this the swet passes off. And it is necssary that it is kept open. If it gets closed as is sometimes the case, the hog will get sick; he will appear stiff and cramped and unlct-s he gets relief, it will go hard . with him. To cure him simply open the pores.--This is done by rubbing the spot with a corn-cob, and washing it with warm water. Rural World. "When are you going fo commence the pork busiuess?" asked a. person of another who had a sty on his-eye. Explain yourself, sir," said the afflic ted gentleiiiau. ' K "Why I see that you have your sfy quite ready." . . "True, was the reply," aud I've one hog in my eye now." An editor got shaved in a barber's sKqp recently, and offered the darkey a diihe'j which ho rofused ; because, said, he, understand dat you are an editor 1" "Weill what of that?" "We nebber charge editors nuffin !" "But such lib erality will ruin you." "Oh, neber miulL wo make it up off de gtmmcn "
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