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THE JEFFER
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Hlcuotci ta politir0, jitcraturc, Agriculture, Science, iitoralitn, aua meval Intelligence.
VOL. 24.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA DECEMBER 21, 1865.
NOJ2.
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Published by Theodore Schoch.
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For the Jeffersonian.
MY it AG.
BY A. B. B.
There was a time, not along ago,
When all who loved the right,
Eelt it a duty, all should know,
To keep their flag in sight;
'Twas then I raised my Banner high,
Determined it should ever fly
Until the Rebel cause should dip.
And tberc it fluttered, up in air,
Through sunshine, rain and snow,
Whist anxiously I watched it there
And army moves below ;
And it Was worn and tattered-well
Before the rebel ramparts fell
And victory o'er our Land did swell.
To-day it is but shreds and strings,
But triumph wreaths the staff,
That triumph which to Justice clings,
The wheat without the chaff:
And freer now we breathe again
A nobler manhood to attain
Where fallen braves full not in vain.
Sly flag has ever waved in trust
Though craped for fallen worth,
I felt that conquer Freedom must
Or naught that's good on earth ;
And now in Heaven's name if we
Go forth to our high des:iny
The world will taste of Liberty.
Del. Water Gap, Dec. 15, 1855.
DECEMBER.
Only the sea intoning,
Only the wainscot mouse.
Only tbe wild wind moanig
Over the lonely house.
Darkest of all Decembers
Ever my life has known,
Setting here by the embers.
Stunned and helpless, alone.
Dreaming of two graves lying
Out in the damp and chill ;
One where the buzzard, flying,
Passes at Malvern Hill.
The other alas ! the pillows
Of that uneasy bed,
Rise and fall with the billows,
Over our sailor's head. t.
Theirs the heroic story
Died, by frigate and town!
Theirs the Calm and the glory !
Theirs the Cross and the Crown.
Mine to linger and languish
Here by the wintry sea ;
Ah! faint heart, in thy anuieh,
What is there left for me 3
Only the sea intoi.ing.
Only the winecot mouse,
Only the wild wind moaning
Over the lonely house.
Thereare 140 different species of Oak in
the world, 70 of which are found in America,
and 30 in Europe.
The largest oak in the world is in Dorset
shire, Eng., which measures G8 feet in cir
cumference. The number of different plants in the
world has been variously estimated at from
30,000 to 100,000-
Barly has been sowed with success, 104
years. Seeds of different grasses will vege
tate after having been
earth a thousand years.
buried in the
mere arc v uiucitm jjv. -..-. -
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the white pine grows to the height ot lou
r .... L.e. rwii.. on the Columbia
mi Af J.RhMinf ennnmc nt I'lflP -
icci uic i must i
r, i, the tallest tree in the world, as it
to the stupendous height of 234 ect.
river.
grow
mi ...m. vj.. Art .nUr ovpr mpnsnred
from one
tree was from the Tinus Lamuianus
w j
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on the Missouri river.
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TH,., ,i;.f f lm New Castle fPa Cour-
enf being absent, the "devil" assumes
charge, and thus apostrophizes;
'The improvement in the general appear
ance of this number of the Courant, is ow
ing to the absence of the editor."
.n. B. When in the course of human
events it becomes necessary for us to forsake,
for a period, the "ink keg" and "roller," and
take our place in the chair, editorally, a due
respect for our vanity makes it incumbent
on us to give the folio whig notice to wit.
viz: as follows: During this week all edito
rial favors, such as wedding cake, boguets
cigars, specimen whiskey and other sum
mer drinks, Thanksgivemj turkeys and all
the et ceteras that are part of the emolu
nents of our new position, should be sent to
the Devil."
That young man is on his way to fae,
and .will undoubtendly, in time be one ot the
most shining lights of the profession.
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For the Jeffersonian.
Mr. WHACKHAMMER'S LECTURES.
NO. I. FASHION.
Now Adam was of perfect make,
But Eve ws even better,
Yet she, inquisitively queer,
Failed in the Law a letter.
The lecture season is upon us, and as
this system to do the greatest good5lo all
my hearers.
My first talk shall be of the- -Fashion
of this world," which is the modern god
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of almost all the female portion of the
great human family, and especially of
those who chanced to be born in christian
countries, and waked up to enjoy the
light of civilization. They pity the be
nighted condition of the poor heathen
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"trimmings" these gods are beneath the
exalted idea of enlightened christian la-
Mo T vrrn tlinsp 'n:ikorl trnHs" nf
the heathen are worshipped in sincerity,
and so is the god, Fashion, whilst the
' true God, the one our christain ladies
j jvojess to serve, is altogether less than
J secondary. Aud 1 venture the assertion
i here that all the torture of the inquisition,
: the self inflicted punishment of heathsn
i rites aul customs do not come up to
i .i if i .i ! ii i i.
u.e sen unrest mat luumvs stays, siaruu,
furs, water-falls and buttons. You may
wouder why I put furs in the category,
but is there not inconsistency when you
2nd a muffin one hand and a fan in the
other 1 A muff is never of any use ; let
your hands hang down as Nature intend
ed and you will walk easier and look bet
ter. If you ride, as you always want to
do, put on a glove and not the Laplander
Of all the disfigurations ever appended
to "the human form divine" the water
fall outstrips every other. It is an abom
ination to -common sense and every other
kind of sense, and even reaches beyond
the superlative of nonsense ! It is be
yond insanity, and idisinocracy can't reach
it! Satan never induced a won an to wear
anything more like the appendage of the
inhabitants of the infernal .regions than
this same "what is it," and the sooner he
calls them all iu for the exclusive use
of" those "inhabitants" the better, even
though tears of his dupes flow in such
torrents as to endanger his fires ! What
a representative of character is this thing!
I shall not call it water-fall again, for I
consider the name a scandal to nature.
The larger the clump behind, the greater
thc.fool ahead ; brains the necessity, hair
and cotton the substitute. Warty egg
plants, of all .sizes, and screwed into all
shapes j tumors black, brown, red, all ask
ing the surgeon's knife to separate them
from the more worthless balancing power
in front. If I were a surgeon I would
soon respond to the inanimate call and
there would be such a chopping off of
vileness as never was known since the
Southern chivalry involuntarily took the
oath of allegiance and acknowledged that
their "domestic institution" was dead.
I suppose my female friends begin to
think I am coming out rather rough, but
it is a conscientious fact, that I have look
ed on the evil of fashion" just as long as it
was possible for me to contain myself,
and the superfluity is now rupning over.
I can't help it, and besides I am afraid
jyou will all get crazy running after fash
ion, while your poor families and poorer
husbauds, whom you promised to love and'
I 11 ...ill RnA dimioshn jinmf'nrf
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to say nothing about felicity, is altogetb-
, fcU J a
' er a failure. Don't say you have no
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family and no liusoana. wnataojoa
expect of fuss and feathers, your gay
Amccaa lfVHififi with trim in its. ana tnat
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Wouderful hat ol yours, but mat an tnese
are to catch a husband for you ? I will
.
1 ?,r roll vou yills. this is llOt the way tO
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,..,,; kia n,..n Mon n.inir.niv hkp.
get a sensible mau
to see plain things, for they usually have
plain facts to deal with. You are using
w ;hn .nrl h.iir RtrntrMrv is
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strategy, but ribon and hair strategy is
rather flimsy for so important a campaign
I am Mad I got married before I 'had to
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i .. it nn mrAr-
coat and a pair of boots. In such a case
t - ut ki, dnnhts as to who was to be
I miSh baVCr;Lde
the man. i labored unaer no sucn uu-
ficultv and lam free now to speak to
ana wuat is it ior uut w r--
i l " . r i l trAM frt rkii .
money in their pockets ? 'Ihey cut them
up in all sorts of queer shapes and so
small you never can alter to another style,
i.u.co iuuui iui tuc ycco- iow yourselves to be towed alon? In the from 0Qe field to another, is especially re- nciuier cxpressiy given to uougress oy
speech, where they, who find their ves- r . . . htn?nrp markable. Thus the Twenty third Army the Constitution, nor fairly to be inferred
sels filled to overflowing before the lecture r , J neretoiore fi Nashville, in the except as a measure of necessity in a great
is half delivered, can retire without losing lf f BeM0S f B0Und " midst f i5e ad Tw.' emh 1S.6 ?.ati?,nal cmerW f H ,,0'ds be
. ' J? and judgment you will very soon find of Was, on the conclusion oftthe campaign the "crowning glory of the Constitution
nan tncir ticket money, 1 have adopted benefit to vou and to those interested in the West, transferred. 15,000 strong that this great war has beeu waged and
you as I please for I am past the.mittens i localities, wme nusiui mCuucu.hC eDejor the winter or tne year oi our uispaicu to a town in luassacnnesua.
Your milliners are foolin you every Hotel, having the faculty of supplying Lord 1865 This very unacceptable The message ordered a party to stop his
.0.T , . v: l .1 mnA TnnL-oa tbft niillinerv trade coruoara- manufacture of a certain article until the
threemonthswitha ucwStyIe"ol bonnet, ne wants o "T" XnTnnd manv a discarded bonnet sender saw him. whereas the dispatch as
Don't you see it? They have a thousand
fool-tastic shapes thej call trimings to fas-
en on till the first sunshine or den wilts
them down to their original nothingness,
and vou. or vour masculine, navs the bill !
Do you like that stvle 1 You ouht to
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be your own mantaumaker, but if you
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have another don tshc tries you the same
way? Now I want you to put a little
mind on this fashion question and not al-
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i i u t
theSe suPerfic,allt,es an .loner bnt
moral couraSe to cultivate moral
worth and character, and though these
fl . ... . .
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jenveiopes a lasnionaoie iaay, your neaC;.
attire and plain colars will be an index to
every thinking mind that they belong to
a sound mind within.
And now, dear ladies, I have done my theme,
paPS jt not by as a visionary dream, '
But see if I have not portrayed a tru'h
vvnici. n.uuiu uukl auiuuguu.um ugc.-u
ynutn;
It you not hit this time my next may show
j Souu body else gets a deserving blow.
1CUA130D WHACK HAMMER.
Somewhere, Dec. 18, 1 865.
For the Jeffersonian.
Western Items.
Friend Schocii : I took the train on
the Piatt Co. Railroad, running on the
East side of the Missouri river to Weston,
some forty miles below St. Joseph, but
stopped at Atchinson, Kansas, about mid
way between St. Joseph and Weston.
The ferry at it is the best above St. Lou
is, on the Missouri river, having a large,
commodious boat, under the direction of
Capt. J. L. Philbrick. Atchinson con
tains about 6000 population and is em
phatically a fast business town, the prin
cipal business street, Commercial is
thronged daily with teams and pedestri
ans. The town is on the bluff side of the
river, is well supplied with good stone for
building. Wood is expensive and timber,
through the adjoining country, in Kan
sas is rather scarce. The lands are quite
uudulating, in short, I might say hilly
generally covered with prairie intersper
ced with bush, stinted Black Jack (oak)
and anon patches of running oak grubs j
the soil is good, and were it not for the
liability to drought, would be all that the
agriculturalist could ever desire ; I took
a trip overland, North 6 miles, to a thri
ving village, Doniphan, a river town,
which has many advantages for a manu
facturing town, and some intelligent citi
zens. From an eminence about midway
I enjoyed a view of the surrounding coun
try for miles, so picturesque, so beautiful
and grand that I felt amply repaid for
the trip. Although the dead prairie
grass and pparce foliage gave uniformity
of hue as far as the eye could note, in the
surrounding distance. I could discern
the verdant wheat field, the neat white
cottage of the farmer, having the appear
ance of oasis in tbe surrounding waste.
I contrasted the scenery around with
Pocono, what this lacked in majesty, it
made up in beauty. There appears to be
no lack of capital in commercial business,
in any of our wostern towns, but there is
a lack of capital employed in manufac
turers. A few thousand dollars invested
in a woolen factory, at Atchinson, would
not ouly be a paying investment to the
capitalist, but be a great benefit to the
surrounding country. From this point,
the overland stages leave for Denver and
the Mountains. To Denver, over 700
miles, fare 8150 The average travel,
each way, from this point, is about 50
nfiBnnrrprs. ' II
Time six to eight days.
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iiicesioriao
or and most commodities
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i iiu iiriri'N in iiiiii in nun iiiiiiiLV iuii"i:.iii
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riM. - ... V l...,- i t no I i n lifir iiinaa
Irora to au uoi.ars per acre, according a Jarge amount ot material ana maKes a
i:.. i : ..nnn...nfn T l,!,.a,r cm-ill bnw nl t. Moreover. thi
quant) auu impiuiuuicuis. xWat...J ."'.-;;...-,.-'.-
f-.nn frm. Alnhinsnn to Wanton this is
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rather an old dead town, compared rith.g .top frame requires three fourths of a
Leavenworth and Atchinson, although it ;yard 0f material, with ribbons and hce
is doinr some business and is the termi- and flowers ad infinitum. The small bou-
nus of the Platte Co. Railroad.
Many of the citizens, I am happy to
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Rav. were Dadlv disappointed in tne way
the rebellion terminated, and I will here
predict, that if Weston ever competes
with iL rivals in business, or general in
,w , ' ,
telligence,it mustbe reinforced from other
T m frnwoia
yQur8 truly?
R. W. HINCKLEY
Nov. 27, 1865-
Secretary Stanton's Report Interesting
The report of E. M. Stanton the Sec -
retarv of War. presents some facts in re-
fercnce to the last year of the war and
the first vear of Deace. which exhibit in
a most striking manner the wonderful re-
KOiirrp? or tnfi ronntrv firm tne unuar-
"""irera oi iae couuery auu "F
alleled energy which, toward the conclu-
si(JQ of the cntest) character5zed all our
operations. The rapidity with whioh
vast bodies of troops were transferred
fr0m the vallev of the Tennessee to the
. banks of the Potomac, moving by river
and rail down the Tennessee, up the O-
hi th esnow covered Alghanies,
!a distance of 1,400 miles, and. in the
short SDace of eleven davs. was encamp-,048.20.
ed on the banks of the Potomac, then J
(blocked up with ice of a most severe win-
v . (in)flt(1(1 rn mnnt this
corps, the obstacles interposed by the ice;
were overcome, and early in February the
troops composiug it, were fighting before
Wilmington, on the coast ot .North Uar -
olina. The only paralled to this move-
ment was the transfer of the Eleventh
and Twelfth Corps, under General Hook- United Staaes, bearing interest at a rate
er, in 18G3, from the Potomac to the not exceeding six per cent., and redcem
Tennessee which, at the time, was an al- able and payable at such periods as may
most unexampled operation. Gcu. II8ok- be conducive to the interests of the Gov
er's command contained 23,000 men, and eminent, for the purpose of retiring not
was accompanied by its artillery and , only compound interest notes, but the
trains baggage, and animals, and accom- j United States notes,
plished the distance, from the llapidanj In reference to the debt, the Secreta
iu Virginia, to Stevenson, in Alabama. ay believes that, if kept.at home, it need
distance of eleven hundred and ninety- not be oppressive but that it is still a na
two miles, in seven days, crossing the O- tional burden, and the work of removing
hio river twice ! jit should not be long postponed.
These, however, were not the only feats The Secretary sees no way of remov
of the Qu termaster-Geueral's Bureau. ;ing it, but by an increase of the expeudi
In furnishing the vast .supplies of forage ' tu res. It should be our ambition not to
required by our armies, the same energy, bequeath it to our descendants,
aud activity were displayed as iu the! The first step should be to fund the
transportation of troops. " The depots of maturing obligations. The next should
the Quarter master's Department have, i be to provide for raising, in 4he least odi
during the war. furnished the army withjous manner, the' revenue necessary to pay
23,000,000, bushels of corn, 78,000,000 the interest and a certain definite annual
bushels of oats, 1)3,000 bushels of barley,
1,500,000 tons of hay, 20,000 tons of
straw, 550,000 cords of wood, and 1,600,
000 tons of coal all of which have been
purchased, measured, transported, issued
aud accounted for by its officers and a
gents. At the depot of Washington a
lone there have been issued during the
year 4,500,000 bushels of corn, 29,000,
000 bushels of oats, 490.000 tons of hay,
210,000 cords of wood, and 392,000 tous
of coal. It is stated as an interesting
fact that over 700 vessels have been con
stantly employed in transporting troops
and supplies, while all the principle lines
of railway have been taxed in a greater or
less degree to meet the demands of the
service.
The rapidity and precision with which
the armies were mustered out upon the
termination of hostilities are strikingly
illustrated by some statements of this re
port. The command ot uen. buerman
(army of the Tennessee and army of
Georgia) and army of the Potomac were
first-to complete their musters-out entire
ly. Regiments commenced leaving Gen
eral Sherman's command, then number
ing present and absent, 116,182, officers
and men, from the rendezvous, near Wash
ington, on the 29th of May, and on the 1st
of August the last one of the regimeuts
mustered out left Louisville, Kentucky.
to which point the command (after the
musters-out therefrom were partly com
pleted,) was transferred, and the armies
composing it merged into one, called the
army of the Tennessee. The first regi
ment from the army of the Potomac,
numbering 162,851 men. also left Wash
ington on the 29th of May, and iu six
weeks not a man remained ! Thus in
two months, 279,034 officers and men
were mustered out and placed en route
to their homes, and including other
armies and departments, the number was
increased by August , (two months and
seven days) to 640,806 officers and men !
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History does not record anotner instance
in which so vast an army was so rapidly
absorbed into tne nome popuiauou, anu
i .l .i .i .i r
eutered upon other duties than those of
the camp and held.
Rebellion against the New Bonnets
The ladies are rebelling against the
winter fashion for Ronnets. The priu
cipal of a wholesale millinery house in
forms us that his customers never pur-
chased "bonnet frames" with equal re-
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mctance. inenupj
nil. .. i .. n..inMi hj..iiii.i
SHOW Wlieo u is umuis i au3 -ining m.t
'sraceim.
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To construct a bonnet over the
nets ol last summer, that made quite as
much display, and were .tenfold more
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,. m.tav:., mua nnnonnnnnPO is thfir.
graceful, requireu less man nan u ytiu
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the fashion dictated to the ladies is not
accepted as fashions generally are, and
'that a great many dames and demoiselles
I are in open rebellion, and refuse to ac-
fc jjspensat0n 0f the Empress Eu-
will be revamped this wiuter that, were
the fashion more acceptable, would find
its way into the rag-bag. Philadelphia
North American.
Abstractor the Report of the Secretary of
' The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury discusses the three questions of
the Currency, the Public Debt, and the
Revenue. He goes into a full exposi-
tion of the objections to United States
uuiua ua a hui luuucui uunuuvy , tnu tiuti
r t,:i, i u. ,i . i,nt
of which he states to be the fact that the
government of the United States is one
of limited and defined powers, and that
the authority to issue notes as money is
closed without the power of the govern
ment being enlarged or its relations .to
the States being changed."
The paper circulation of Ihe United
States ou October 31st, was
The Secretary after very ably meeting
the various objections to a reduction of
the currencv. recommends:
birst, That Cougress declare that the
compound interest notes shall cease to be
a legal tender from the day of their ma
.turicy,
Second, That the Secretary be authoriz-
cd, m his discretion, to sell bonds of the
amount for the payment of the priucipal
Mr. McCullough hopes that Congress
will be decided and emphatic on this
point.
The debt on the 31st of October, was
2,808,549 437,55; deducting moneys in
the Treasury, it was $2,74U,954,750.
He estimates it on July 1, 1866, at 33,
000,000,000,. The annual interest, if
funded at 5 per ceut., would be $165,
000,000, but if funded at 5 per cent., it
would be $150,000,000.
If 8200,000,000 per annum should be
applied to pay accruing interest and to
reduce the principal funded at the high
er rate of 5 i per cent., the debt would
be paid m thirty two years, or at b per -cent,
in a little over twenty-eight years, t
The secretary believes that no act of
Congress would be more popular than one
which should provide for such an extin
guishment of the debt.
Upon the subject of Internal Reven
ues, the Report recommends :
First. That the collection of internal
revenue taxes which accruded before the
establishment of revenue offices in the
States recently in rebellion, be indefin
itely postponed.
Second, That all sales of property in
those States, under the direct tax law, be
suspended until the States shall have an
opportunity of assuming (as was done by
the loyal Sta.es,) the payment of the tax
assessed upon them..
Third, That all transactions in such
States, which may be invalid by the
non-use of stamps, be legalized as far
as it is the power of Congress to legalize
them.
The Secretary regards the national
banking system as one of the great com
pensations of the war, and gives some in
teresting statistics about its operations. .
A Mountain of Salt.
A striking curiosity has lately been dis
covered iu the Nevada Territory. It is
n mnrmhiin of rock salt, situated about
, Lwenty uiiles from Meadow Valley, and
. n y e,,i,tcen miles from the head ot
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naviiration on the Colorado river. It ri-
ses abruptly from the plain, about four
hundred feet in height, a mountain of
pure, sparkling, crystalized salt.
an
The Wrong Place.
A passenger sweating terribly in the
ears, on the Boston and rrovidence Kail-
roaU' iipproached by a young minis-
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ter with m)jr(! zeal than discretion, who
BaiJ tQ al)nipt)v .
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"iUy uenrsir. iiujiiu h.nuw wuu.ujuu
are
rlt ii
iux'! You
are going straight to
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"Just my d d luck !" replied the man
looking the minister in
the face wnh au
alarmed air, aud suddenly fumbling for
his ehuuk"7"I bought a ticket for Provi-
j(inp1 1
Lunous action at i,aw.
Last week a merchant in New York
brou,ht an action against a telegraphic
company to recover damages arising out
of a mistake in transmitting a telegraphic
sent told him to keep manufacturing, &c.
The damages were proved to amouut to
over a thousand dollars, for which sum
the plaintiff had a verdict.
A Story of our Late President;
The annexed, another evidence of the'
kind heart of our late President, Mr.
Lincoln, we take from tho Independent.
. On the Monday before his death, when
our late beloved President was on his re
turn from Richmond, he stopped at City'
Point. Calling upon the head surgeon
at that place, Mr. Lincoln told him that
he wished to visit all the hospitals under
his charge, and shake hands with every
soldier, The surgeon asked the Presi
dent if he knew what a task he was un
dertaking, and told him that there were
then between five and six thousand sold
iers at that place, and it would be quite
a tax upon his strength to visit all the?
wards and shake hands with every soldier.
Mr, Lincoln answered, with a smile, that
he "guessed he was equal to the task ; at
any rate he would try, and go as far as1
he could ; he should uever probably see:
the boys again, and he wanted them to
know that he appreciated what they had
done for their country."
Finding it useless to try to dissuadV
him, the surgeon began to make his
rounds with the President, who walked
from bed to bed, extending his hand to'
all, saying a few words of symapthy to
some, making kind inquiries of others,
and welcomed by with all the heartiest
cordiality. As they passed along they
came to a ward in which lay a rebel, who
had been wounded, and was a prisoner.
As the tall figure of the kindly visitor
appeared in sight, he was recognized" by
the rehel soluler, who raising himself on?
his elbow in bed, watt-hed Mr. Lincoln as
he approached, and, extending his hand.
exclaimed, while tears ran down his
cheeks ; "Mr. Lincoln, I have long wan
ted to see you, to ask your forgiveness
fur ever raising my hand against the old
flag." Mr Lincoln was moved to tears.
11 e heartily shook the hand of the re
pentant rebel, -and assured him of his
good" will, and, with a few words of kind
advice, passed on.
Aftersome hours the tour of the various-'
hospitals was made, and Lincoln returned
with the surgeon to his office. They had
scarcely entered, however, when a messen
ger came, saying that one ward had been
omitted, and "the boys" wanted to see
Mr. Lincoln. The surgeon, who was
thoroughly tired, and knew Mr. Lincoln'
must be, tried to dissuade him from go
ing ; but the good man said he must go
buck ; he would not knowingly omit one;
"the boys" would be so disappointed.
So he went with the messeuger, accom
panied by the surgeon, and shook hands
with the gratified soldiers, and then re
turned gam to the office.
'1 he surgeon ex. rested the fear that
Mr. Lincoln's arm would be lamed with
so much handshaking, saying that it cer
tainly must ache. Mr Lincoln smiled
and, saying something about his "strong
muscles," stepped out at the open door,
took up a very large, heavy axe, which
lay there by a log of wood, and "chopped
vigorously for a few moments, sending
the chips flying in all directions j and
then, pausiug, he extending his right
arm to its full length, holding the axe
out hori'zontally, without its even quiver
ing as he held it. Strong men, who
looked on men accustomed to manual
labor could uot hold the same axe in
that position for a moment. Returning
to the office, he took a glass of lemonade,
for he would take no stronger bovcrage j
and while be was within, the chips he
had chopped were gathered up aud safely
cared for by a hospital steward, because
they were "the chips that Father Abra
ham chopped."
Iu a few hours more the beloved Pres
ident was at home in Washington ; iu a
few days more he had passed away, and a
bereaved nation was in mourning.
State Finance.
The receipts into the State Treasury of
Pcnnsylvaina from the 1st of Dic. 3S54 to
Nov. 30, 1865, incudinga balnnce of $1,942.
203 63 at the close of the last year, was $8,
203 30. The payment were 85,789 525 16
leaving an available balance in the Treas
ury of $2,373,668 24, This is amply suffi
cient to meet the intere.-t onihe public debt,
and leaving a handsome balance towards the
liquidation of the principal.
Exciting Scene in C urt.
This afernoon, while Judge Olin, of the
United States District Court, was charging
a jury, oue Bradley, attcruej for one of the
parties, and noted s inpathizer, interrupted
him, and told him he hud no right to argue
the case to lu-jurv. Judge Olin told him
he was presiding in this court, not to be insul
ted. Bradley called Olin a liarand a scoun
drel, and the Judge ordered him into the
cu-stoily of th. (Jni'ed ytates Marshal, who
removed him by force. On Judge Olin leaving
tho court room Br dley talked about thrash
ing him, bu the Judge told him he did not
think he would, and ordered the United
States Marshal to bring his prisoner to court
to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, when he
will probably learn that his reconstruction
has progressed too fast, and that the daya'of
auld Iang syne" for Southern bullies will
come to pass no more-
Some person who had nothing else to'da
his ascertained .that there are 550,000 grains
in a bushel of wheat, 520,0u0 in horso
beans.
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