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JPcuotcir to jpoli'tics, itcvaturc, Agriculture, Science, JHoraliiu, aua tmxa Intelligence-
VOL. 24,
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA FEBRUARY 22, iSGS.
NO. 50.
I
Published by Theodore Schocli,
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nfrirfi th
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Weition, oO cents. Longer ones in proportion.
JOB PStSffTfltfG,
OF ALL KINDS,
Executed in the highest style of the Art, and on the
most fcason t'ble terms.
f'AVCniiniir W &
wOAbllltiS nAi'fjIi.
aedJhtoffoSnf"!ite
"he ! most perfect remedy ever discovered.
No language can convey .-in adequate idea
of the immediate and almost miraculous
changc which it occasions to the debilitated
, h. .. , , t ! 7 .
and shattered system. In lact, it stands un-
rivalled as a remedy for the permanent cure
atiox ok Tin: bladder, axd KiD.VEYs. dis-
'
the m.inni:it. r.vr.ein.rs nn.wi'i.. nr isnini:-
1 1
bust deposit, and all Diseases or Afiectio'is
of the Bladder and Kidneys, and I)rop?iral
Swellings existing in Men, Women, or Chil
dren. i
For
I hove D:iC';:ves- Pr!I;s to
Friti
C tt.l;t iti ton Wil
is n !iivc ::;; it Kt:;i-
These rrregukrities are the cause of fre
quently recurring disease, and through nc
chronic, the patient gradually loses her up-;
petite, uiu wwc are ,u, ,g m
ends her career.
For sale bv all BnursristA Price, $1.
W. II. GREGG & CO.. proprietors.
MORGAN & ALLEN,
General Agents, No. 4G CHS street, N.
P 1 UA w5 " j
February 1, lSG6.-0m.
i&gpo&'Ea&t te Brcry&ofiy.
L ll J JLUIWliW imm UBII TT1 "
of DiAitETEs, impotexcy, loss of Muscn.Au been handed down through so many "en- dice do a more evil work. They take a suggestive. 11
ENERfii, physical ritosTKATio. i.Muci- crati ons that it is uo t onlv born in the stand against even-thin- ffood and look they said of
TION, -NON RETENTION, or INCONTINENCE OF J , i i -i -i cr;r rtf1CRf
.: ... flnsil llllf in tho rorv hrmnc nf thn )inm.in : UllOn GVfirvtIlinT !?S bad. Jitlllt tin On apriUg Ot AoUO,
UK1.J.. lKKI'iAi iU.Ni 1 -Til Li AJiA liUA I'i li.Cljit- " " - " "" ' w J uwwv. vi mv nuujuii , -4 j O 1'
Hect the seeds ol more grave aim danger- .f mankind nnd t'm nmnmlinn nf li.-mn?. Grades. Uut is this the case t
ous maladies are the re?u! : and as monlii ' T j -ir i voJiif?? enf mnm limmili-
Rer month passes without an effort beinfflUCM- 'gnoraacc, superstition and selfish-: piejudiec set more hcaul3
made to assiti nature, the difficult v becomes aess are its principal aids, and they are ! est poverty tnan it doesagai
The subscribers would inform the public cied towards the poor negro, but Provi
vcry respectfu ly, that they are carrying on:jeijCC ,8S overrue,i the wickedness of
the
Tint JSr i?5?;rs !
I
Lat their old stand, one door above Lie
KxptTss Office, on Elizabeth St, Stroud j
bt:rg, Pa., where they will be happy to,,
wait on their old customer?, and as many j
-noA-nc c. cTTirc! ;
Gum over Shoesaad Sandals for men, vouth!hare votcd dP"nS tl,is ccntury a con- .and Niagara Railroad, and Mr. Warren,
and mise -V genera! assortment of Labts.stitutional amendment abolishing slaverv! J a foreman of the same road, being desir
and Boot-Trees, shoe Thread, Wax, Heel j perl,ap3 t was the force of circumstances 0US of c,r?ssinS employed a colored boy
.Nails. Pincers, Punches, Eyeletts and Eye- , . . , , ,t . ... . . , to row him over in a small boat. About
fett Setts, Pegs aud Pcg-Cutters, Shoe U.m- whlch ha thoC states to do this. 5 o'clock P. 31., the three pushed out in-
mers, Crimping Boards and Screws, also, li-l but the prejudice against the negro, in to the stream. When near the American
ning and binding skins, a good articie of'aj tiC states not iu rebellion, has been side the boat was crushed between cakes
Tamp.cc , iJoo t orocw, Jencn
f rpnrii .:t iisk ill.- jattui" una ajiiuo ui.
Shoemaker toid?, Ink Powder and Shoe 1
Rl.irL-inrr. and Frank Jkliliers water-nroo!
oil blacking. All of which they offer for
wale at small advance upon cost. Give us a
call, no charges for showing soods.
P. S. Boots and Shoes made to order and
warrant d.
CHARLES WATERS & SON.
Stroudsburg, Jan. 33, I8C0.
NEW
Dill
(.
AND
CHEAP
GOODS !
The undersigned respectfully informs,
the public and his old customers, that he j
has Liken the Store Room formerly oe-j
cupied by James A. x'auh, m btrouds
burg, nearly opposite the Methodist Epis
copal Church.
Ilia stock is composed of entirely Kc.r
Goods, laid iu at reduced prices, aud he
will sell them at small profits.
He has Oh hand a compete assortment
ct DRY GOODS, Cloths, Casshncrcs.
Satinets, and a full liue oiJjADlES
GOODS, bhalla ve Katies,
- 1 "- T
i r..(m! nuiiROBS. and a genera
U
ilLUOUl O, uuuk"-'; j kj m
assortment of Indies Dress Trimmings,
snd Yankee Notions.
ALSO A good assortment of GitU
rvi?TVS no ns Coffee. Sugar, Molas-
ses, and Syrups, Tea and Rice.
Please give me a can, anu
eee tne
goods aud prices.
Uutter aud
rye
and all kinds of
Country produce, taken in exchange ioi
6dS' JAMES B MORGAN.
Stroudsburg, January 4, 1SGG.
Saddle and Harness
Manufactory.
the undersigned respectfully informs
the citizens of Stroudsburg, and surroun
ding couutry, that he has commenced the
above business in Fowler's building, ou
Elizabeth street, and is fully prepared to
furnish any article in his liue of business,
at short notice. Ou hand at all times, a
large stock of m
Harness, Whips, Trun7cs, Valices, Car
pet Bags, Jlorse-Blankets, Bells,
Skates, Oil Cloths, Sc.
Carriage Trimming promptly attended
JO UN 0. SATLOR.
Stroudsburg, Dec. U 1805.
For The Jeffer sonian.
Jfa WHAGKEAMMER'S LECTURES,
NO. IX.
niEJUDicu.
The hateful name, the thing more hateful
5"
p;e 1 r..i. .t ' ..
I1G Mnil fin Pnrtli n uimnn hronct in till
uicuu niuit uanci m yv iiiuii urfcuiiiu ss worst,
Like arsenic Inn. it mnrllv su-pIIu in Imrst'
And now, my friends, how is this thing with
you, .
Have you not had, at least, a pinch or two
' '
' I am sorry t)ere ever was uch a word'
M FCjUdiCC t0b tranSlated iut thel
E,Slish language, and I would not have
regretted it if Webster and Worcester
had entirely overlooked it. But it was
; fn,i, ,.n , j c
g5cn to tiie world in those carlv days of
? J J
ignorance and superstition, audit has
f:i!?lv Tf nn no,n,r in lwrlif n,ul Inf.
J " .
tcit contesting every inch of ground from
' J o
which it has been compelled to fall back,
whilst an unconditional surrender it nev-
cr nuiKes.
rejudice or pre-judgement as the ;
word explains itself without a dictionary
battles on the broad field of religion,
politics, education, invention, and what-
1 ever else has for its object the elevation
powerful iu counteracting the iufiuence :
f . d at,d triltu prcju
i dice assumes to divide off the family of,an" rasca
! mankind into different strats, or classes, applauded
j puffing some up and kicking others down,
( whilst it hisses on what the democrats
j call ''the war of races."
j In our country there has been more
'prejudice than wisdom or humanity exer-
mca atld h "P lo a point where
he can help himself. Four or five vears
. 1,71. -i "
SS0 11 rc ,better to be bora a do? or
horse man a negro for you would have
more friends but it is different now.
five vear5 since, that the fctates of South
Carolina.
Georgia
and
Llab:
ma would !
D10St wonderfully lessened since the war
began.
It has been a change far
.
all human hope or wildest anticipation
1 he white American always gloried m
HIS
rights whilst the poor negro had not ,
. . .. . . .
even
the right of lifehc could ca-11 his
0
n or have respected.
Held m bond- i
age
and ignorance for generations, no ,
wonder he is stupid and next to idiotic
when those bonds are wrested off and he
is told to act for himself. What does
any human being know but" what he has
learned r ould a child ever learn to
Walk if it never -was psrciitted to stai
t
ud
up? You. poor despised copperhead,
you were permitted te stand ud, but youi- j
, , , , . , f !
dishoDorcd legs have carried you to a -
standing of infamy and disgrace. It had ;
been better for you and posterity if you 1
had never been born. Pre udice the seed.
.i i )ti .lt.ii v.it iiuu i u iJUiL uuivi uuuh
ll- '
louthsonie.
I said prejudice divided the human
family into a multitude of classes. Kings
and emperors being the upper strata and
o
thing from a geological point of view, we
must naturally conclude that the king is
quite shut out from the view of the ne
trm nnd the ne'TO from the king, but.
j c"J
Viln ns is the fact, although the
intervening statas are not particularly
transparent, and the negro rather opague,
yet the king" can see the negro just as eas
ily as he can see the middle class ! Now
the copperhead, being somewhere ou the
middle ground, found his character too
vividly reflected from the ebony below
and was willing to sacrifice country, hon
or, and everything else that goes to make
up a true man, in order that he might flat
ter a sort of Southern aristocracy and
thereby he lifted to that coveted strata.
Behold the purposes of Heaven ! A vol
cano, long threatening but man could not
see1 it, burst under the horror-stricken
feet of the slave master of the South and
their, aiding sycophants of the North and
their strata were violently smashed up
and knocked iuto no where !
They lived to curse their fellow man,
Pay them DeviJ, if you can.
What buttlcS inventors have had with
prejudice! For twenty years tho inven-1 "Occasional," of the Philadelphia
tor of Puffing Billy struggling to convince Press places the copperhead leaders in
the wise men of England that Billy could the Pennsylvania Legislature in the pro
run on a track at twelve miles an hour. 'per light ia the following letter :
Franklin aud Fitch and Fulton, and a
troupe oi men in all ages had a rough
time of it in trying to impress a new idea
, upon the world that the world might be
I 5!rc?nrl VJMi n-linf nniifinna ctnna Anna
! 1
Christianitv tread on "round lone under
o
flip, nnvrrr nf Rtinnrsritinn (mnrnnci nnrl
ido'itrv Thr dm-k nhceof tho earth
io.atr. 1 he Uaik places oi the earth
, would not loaS rcmaiu dark were jt uot
ortne Dliud rrcJudlce oitheDiicd natives Messrs. Ulymer and Wallace. Alter
against everything but their own blindness, paving abused the poor colored man to
Tho eam0 ma ba
ucation, excepting, in our own country,, their own assaults upon Andrew Johnson
vrc very frequently find those who receive when that fearless patriot, through his
barely one idea of education and then dis- .friends, solicited the. privilege of spcak-
n,i d,, n,,tnrrnii,n,. riM,TT v ing to the people in our legislative halls.
card or shut out every other, iheyhave ,T ,.L. l. , ,.
. ,. ... J . , , . 2sTo political aspirants were ever placed m
received just light enough to help preju- a jienima at ouce so awkward and so
' a one-idea conceit iliev imnupn the mn-'
, - ----- . r a -
tives of every body else and make it their
' business to destroy as much happiness as
1 a, . j
( possmle. - j
had intended to show off the picture
... .... ... i
oi prejudice as we find it in societies, m ,
communities aud families but my lecture!
has nearly reached its usual length. If ,
there he classes or grades in society mor-!his l3lHppic upon the latter was the bit- :
i .11 i n i i i ti i terest ol the two. Politicians like Mr.
al worth alone should set bounds to those1 . , ,
Does not(
agaiust
lion
imt nrnfiin-ofp ,
I' a
wealth ? Moral worth or immoral riches;
w uicu uuuuicu mobi i equipage, ,
.7. i J Li m..: 7
and rascality ride past in state and are,
Virtue, truth and morality
plod past on foot attracting little notice.
.Stand back ! let Virtue lake the lead
Untarnished by a wicked deed !
Stand back let Moral Worth prevail,
Nor Prejudice again assail !
Stand back ! let Truth support the whole
To bless the body and the soul !
ICHABOD "V II AO l II AM MER.
Somewhere, Feb. 19, I860.
Afloat on the Ice.
A fearful adventure recently oceured
on Niagara river, not far below the Falls,
on the 30th iust. The ferry boat which
plies between Black Rock and Fort Erie
having suspended her trips on account of
the floating ice, Mr. Wm. A. Thomr.son.
0f Buffalo, Vice President of the Erie
Jji floating ice, and began to fill and sink.
mi ; i- . 1 1 1
small cake of ice. Seeiug this frail raft
was about to be crushed beneath a
large
mass of floating ice, they were obliged to
throw themselves into the half filled boat.
a i ... j 1. . 1 i 1 . j 1
An instant more the boat was also struci
nA , . . jT '
The negro bov succeeded in lcaninir un-
on an ice cake. Mr. Thompson sank
once anu came up. when he clutched the
made his way to the stern and clim-
beu upon the Kneel. Here he saw his
nnmmmirm nrvnn
sinking for the
last
v, v v&a.wuMvV u n j u liu Ul VHU"
ing before his eyes, while he was utterly
powerless to help him. Again Mr.
rot t. ...1 t-
UT? T , I ' Vl 7 s- 1"
clutched the boat, which had again nght-
ed itgeIf. Glmhos iato Hg stJriJ which
g2uk with his weight three feet below the
surface, he sat for a time with the water
10 Uls Clnn- -y tu:s time it had grown
dark.
presently a caire oi ice
v I'
ortmn rh-itfmr
along, aud Mr. Thompson
succeeded in getting upon it. Hailing
the colored boy, he found him still afloat
upon his piece of ice, nearly some 200
yards from him.
And began the wonderful voyage of
the river, through the darkness and the
storm of freezing sleet which fell upon
their frail rafts of ice. Through all this
pelting storm, these wet and exhausted
cast aways, drifting along the cold waters
oi tne Niagara, witn tne norrid dread oi
imminent death to freeze their hearts
, .1 ' 1 .1
within them, were exposed for three mor
tal hours. Mr. Thompson had lost both
cap and gloves. His clothing was frozen
into the rigidity of iron armor and he be
came incapable of motion, except as he
slightly swung his arms to keep them
.flexible. And so they drifted steadily
down between Grand Island and the A
merican shore until Tonawanda was pass
ed, and the last houses upon cither shore
from which help could come before help
should be too late, were going by. They friendless colored man and drawing a
continually shouted for help. Finally picture of the horrors of allowing him to
their shouts were heard on the Grand Is-; enjoy inalienable civil franchises, he will
land shore, and a boat was sent to their be called upon to reconcile with this silly
relief. Mr. Thompson had .to be rolled !and juvenile party-porroting his heartless
into the boat like a log. Astonishing to 'contempt of millions of white men dur
say, neither was seriously frozen. iiug the war for tho preservation of the
. ,.1. country, led too as we were, by the white
Chicago has the largest candy manufac-' man, Andrew Johnson, to whom he now
tory west of New York. It makes three tenders such odsequious adulation. He
tons of confectionery every day. j will also be constrained to satisfy an iu-
.sjsc.:- telligent and exacting people, who will re-
A wife in San Francisco lately put in a ' member that he would now bury in obliv
petition for a divorce in court on the ground ion, how it is that, as he denies the right
that her husband was a " confounded fool." of suffrage to worthy colored men he not
Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 13G6.
Wednesday's and Thursday's debate in
the Senate of Pennsylvania, on universal
suffrage, wfts a very pleasant souvenir of
t. A..i- (. 7, r.,.... Ktl
: . . . . - 1 . 1
ciaus during the war tor the
preserva-
.
"on 0 'he VjOVCrnment
Nothiug could
be U10rC USefu1' aS a warninS to others,
thau tje ridiculous espianatious of the
Democratic Senatorial declaimed,
te who reproduces what
Andrew Johnson in the
will smile as he notes
n uu uuur. u touipdribuu ib uilu pitsi-
nhusp of lln on ntPfi ninn
Mr. Cly- I
mer W1Q jg an
educated "entlemau and
an incessant toiler for nomination for '
S- n -n a
froveruov of Pennsylvania, was almost as :
.- r , i , J , , ,
lion oi the black man as he was when he
heaped his maledictions on the head of
the wnite man, Andrew Johnson, in the
Senate, on the 6th of March, 1SG3 : but
ivjivmer qiu not t ion allow tne consiaera-
tiou that Andrew Johnson was a white
man, to save him from thelr festering
Ca
lumnies. Our President was then fiirht-
ing ior
States.
the white race of the United
He was risking his life, as he
had sacrjfiecd Iieary all his means, for
tho preservation of what these
selush
politicians call the white man's Govern
ment. Hunted out of his own State by
the white traitors, he came into Pennsyl
vania to beg and implore, at the hands
of the people, aid and encouragement for
Inn rwirnMi f oil ln'rnlicfc nf li.-iclnrn '!
u .ul.iUltkkl IUJIIIIwW VTA 11
uessee. He told them how his fc
eu-
icnow-
p 1 1
citizens, with their wives and children,
had been driven into caves and moun
tains by the human blood-hounds of sla
very ; how, to use his own language, "his
property had been sacrificed, his wife
aud childreu turned out of doors, his sons
imprisoned, his sou in law forced into the
uiountaius." "My people," he added,
"are arrested by hundreds and thousands
dragged away from their homes, aud in
carcerated in dungeous, and your only
response to their murmurs is the rattling"
and clanking of the chains that bind their
limbs. What!" he repeats, "is their
condition to day ? They are hunted and
pursued like beasts of the forest by the
secession and disunion hords who are en
forcing their doctrine of coercion. They
are shot or hung for no crime save a de
sire to stand by the Constitution of the
United States. Helpless children and
innocent females are murdered in cold
blood. Our men are hung and their
bodies left upon the gibbet. They are
shot and left lying in the gorges of the
mountains, not even thrown into caves,
there to lie, but are left exposed to pass
through all the loathsome stages of de-
composition, or be devoured by. birds of
prey." Here was a white man, appeal
ing for white men, women and children,
hunted, tortured and murdered by other
white men who had taken up arms against
a geperous Government. And this same
appeal 7c as addressed, to white men, like
Messrs. Clijmcr and Wallace, safe under
the shelter of a Government ichose terri
ble struggles for its oicn prcservat ion they
looked v.pon with scoim or indifference.
Resident in the midst of luxury and plen
ty, paid by the pocplc for their doubtful
services u
the ICfislaturc, they refused
this whildrtian, Andrew Johnson, thus
invokina their .aid for his white suffering
family and friends, and did so with the
most indecent and insolent cjjronlery.
And now, after a country'saved without
them, and in defiance of them saved,
too, by the assistance of the strong arms
of the colored people of the country, sav
ed by the men whom they hunted and
slandered a little less than three years ago
they are suddenly brought to a sense of
the supreme peril which thrcateus our
political aud social iustitutions through
the attempt to elevate the liberated ley
crc nf rim Smith hv nn not nF (innornss
- . . . J . . .
of the United States. "Now the white
race is to be saved from the negroes. If
the honest people of Pennsylvania need
ed anything more to convince themselves
of the utter unworthines? of these Cop
perhead politicians, this spectacle should
do the work. It is better than elaborate
urgument, and anticipates and defines
their settled policy in the coming State
campaign. AY hen Mr. Hicster Clyiner is
nominated Governor of Pennsylvania he
will find that while he ia abusing the
only does not refuse it to be the blood
straiued aud savage-traitors, but, if he is
true to his record, insists that these baf
fled assassins should be clothed with the
rights and powers belonging t6 the citi
zens who fought for and saved the Re
public. jNTow that the Democratic politi
cians are exultant at the idea of making
a successful campaign upon the action of
the National Union party in Congress
whether that concerns negro suffrage or
auything else they should carefully pre
pare themselves for a busy time; for they
will fiml a great many white men waiting
at tho "outcome." . Occasional.
A Recruit from the Grave.
The war has produced many strangfi
stories, but few more singular than the
following one related by Colonel Ellis,
late of the 1st Missouri Cavalry, iii a St.
Louis paper :
"A few days after a fiercely contested
battle a party of soldiers belongiog to the
1st Missouri took a jaunt over the battle-'
field, and came up to a spot where the
rebel dead were buried. In one place the
hair of a man's head was seen sticking I
out of the ground like a tuft of grass, aud j
near by a hand was seen protruding up
wards, which evidently belonged to the
nf . " , ' . r,.L a
U Lilt Vtl it 1 1 ill C II I Oil ill IvCvl
panions jn :i spirit Qo thou,
corpse that owned the head of hair. One
to his com-
htless levity.
"See, there's a dead reb, reaching out for
something; let's see what he wants " In
the same spirit of wanton mischief," al
most recklessness, the cavalryman took
hold of the man s hand and hauled the
boj Qut o the
,,.,. t. f1
mg hack into tl
grave, the loose dirt fali-
the shallow hole. Soon af-
ter the
man began
to stir aud manifest
signs of life, to the utter astonishment
j aud horror of the resurectionists. The
j man was taken by his rescuers to their
! tent and'rubbed down, washed off, and in
I a few days became as good as new. " He
; said that in the battle he was stunned by
. the passage of a shell which knocked him
! senseless. He was picked. up among the
dead aud buried like the rest. Not a
' scratch was found on his body. He said
that he had joined the rebel army, and
, fought the Federals long and well, but as
; this was his secoud appearance on earth
; he would now join the Federals and fight
! for them. He accordingly enlisted in the
! First 3Iissouri, did a good deal of tough
' marching aud hard fighting, and last Sep-
tcmucr was mustered out or the service
aud paid off at Benton barracks."
4 o
A Strange Infatuation;
The Armstrong Free Rrcss says that
for some years past a family named Dun
mire, consisting of the father and three
daughters, have resided in a cave on the
bank of the Keskiminitas river, near the
town of Apollo, in a sort of semi-barbaric
life. They would not labor, but, dressed
iu rags, wallowing in filth, they managed
to secure a subsistence in a variety of
modes, suitable to their debased and half
civilized tastes. At one time some of the
humanely disposed poeple of the locality
of their abode taking compassion upon the
abandoned life they were leading, prevail
ed upon the girls to go among' them as
"help," but no sooner did a favorable op
portunity present itself than they fled to
their cave. No inducement would prevail
to cause them to abandon their mode of
life. A short time ago the father died in
the cave, and the fact becoming known,
the poeple in the neighborhood had him
buried. The girls were arrested, and
lodged in jail of Armstroug county upon
a charge of vagrancy, where they still re
main. Singular Case.
One of our exchanges saj's there is a
young man in a town in Vermont wlio
cannot sjieak to his father ! Previous
to his birth some difference arose between
his mother and her husband, and for a
considerable time she refused to speak to
him. Ihis difuculty was subsequently
healed the child was born, and in due
time began to talk but when
silting
with his father was invariably silent. It
continued so till it was five years old,
when the father, having exhausted his
powers of persuasion, threatened it with
punishment for its stubbornness. AVhcn
the punishment was inflicted, it dieted,
nothing but sighs and groans, which told
but too plainly that the little sufferer was
vainly endeavoring to speak. All who
were present united in this opinion, that
it was impossible for the child to speak to
his father and time proved their opin
ion to be correct. At a mature age its
efforts to converse with its parent could
only produce the most bitter sighs and
groans. JVew York Ledger.
A young lady in Florida becoming insane,
lately destroyed her ambrotypes and letters,
set fire to her clothing in a wardrobe, and
dressing herself in heavy woolen fabrics and
a broadcloth cloak, set lire to herself sprang
info bed, where she was found enveloped in
flames, with clasping hands exclaiming, "Oh,
aint this glorions? Aint 1 a martyr?"
Though her limbs and the lower part of her
body were baked she did not appear to suf
fer pain.
A young lady has died in Detroit of the
trichine disease, from eating pork. The
use of pork must be danger'ous, as in. a
single ounce of it 100,000 of the trichine
animalcula have been found.
There are fifty-four million acres of
land in Minnesota ; twenty-four millions
are unoccupied and opcu to settlers un
der the Homestead law. Good farms are
cheap now.
A glass of whiskey is manufactured from
perhaps a dozen grains of corn, the value of
which is too small to be estimated. A glass
of this mixture sells for a dime, and if 6f
good brand is considered well worth the
money. It is drank in a minute or two. It
fires the brain, sharpens the appetite, deran
ges and weakens the physical system. On
the same side board on which the deleterious
beverage is served lies a newspaper. It is
covered with half a million of types. It
brings intelligence from tho four quarters 6F
the globe. The newspaper costs less than"
the glass of grog the juice of a few grains
of corn but it is no less strange than true
that there is a large number of people who
think corn juice cheap and newspapers"
dear.
The largest army ever assembled at any
one time during the revolution was that
commanded by General Putnam, on Long
Island. That numbered seventeen thousand
men of all arms. The next largest was that
with which Washington captured Cornwallia
at Yorktown, when he had si.iteen thousand.
Our largest army assembled in 1812, was
commanded by Jackson to New Orleans, and
counted but six thousand. Coining down to'
the Mexican war, Taylor won his victories
with a force never exceeding five thousand,
and Scott's largest force was not beyond
eight thousand five hundred. The largest
army prior to the rebellion was therfore,
that of Putnam, at Long Island seventeen
thousand men.
Four days after the Rebels fired on Fort
Sumter, a sun of Mrs. Duncan, of Mecca,
Ohio, enlisted for the war. lie joined a
Western regiment, and after being in sev
eral battles was reported killed at the battle
of Stone River. His body was brought homo
and interred. Afterwards intelligence was
brought to the parents by returned Union
prisoners that their son was not dead, but in
a Rebel prison in Georgia. Oilier prisoners'
returning from there last spring, brought the
sad news of his death to the sorely distress
ed fiimily. AVhen the war closed an op
portunity was offered to penetrate the Reb
el lines. Mr. Buncau sent down and had'
his son brought home again and "buried."
Having had him buried twice, as was sup-""
posed, it was natural thatrthey should be re
conciled to their loss, but a few days ago'
their son Bob, in spite of wounds, and death,'
and funerals, came " marching home," ani
is now enjoying the hospitality of the paren
tal roof.
At Stoufferstown, Franklin county, the'
other day, a little girl named Ebcrly," swal
lowed a button while at school, and was al
most instantly chocked to death. A child1
named Sharp, on the same day, while play
ing with some ascociatcs, in Ebensburg,
sank down arid expired. A post mortem ex
amination of his remains was made, which
led to the discovery in the windpipe of -a
piece of wood about two inches long, and
nearly an inch wide, but how it got there ia
unknown. It is probable, however, that in
the excitement of playing the child swal
lowed it.
Bishop Timon, in a sermon preached at
Elmira, last Sunday, strongly denounced the'
Fenians, their organization and its objects
and purposes. The Bishop pronounced the5
whole movement the mo3t gigantic swindle
and humbug of the age, and said he verily
believed lhat if the so-called Fenians per
sisted in their suicidal career, and insane no
tion of conquest, they would not only bring
disgrace upon themselves, but destruction to
the poor deluded people of Ireland;
The Quincy (111.) Herald states that
''Tip" Prenti?, son of Major-General D.
M. Prcntis, left Quincy recently ou skates,
with a despatch for Lougrange, Missouri,'
fourteen miles above, ond made the run"
up in fifty minute?. He remained there
thirty minutes, and then started on his
return, and ran down in fifty-five minutes, '
having made the round trip of twenty
eight miles in an hour andforty-fivc min
utes running time, and been out only two'
hours and a quarter.
A newly arrived John Chinaman iu'
California purchased some ice last sum
mer, and finding it very wet, laid it out
to dry in the sun'' On going to look for
it again, he found it had disappeared,
and forthwith accused the whole Chinese-
neighborhood with larceny. A general'
riot was the consequence.
Alarming intelligence to the butter
speculators : Duttcr is declining in all"
the western markets. At Cleveland it ia
dull at 28a30c for the best tub and roll
at Chicago the best dairy only 2Sa80c,
while fair firkin is 28a25e; at Milwau
kee the best roll is as low as 22cV
A poor Irishman who applied for a license
to sell ardent spirits, being questioned asto
his moral fitness for tho trust, replied, "Ah!
sure it is not much of a character that a man '
needs to sell rum !"
A correspondent of the Miner's Journal
states that within the last throe yeaVs'iofer
one hundred murders have been coinrTfitfed1
in Schuylkill county!
The borough of Pottsville does not owe 'tf
dollar, and has $7,000 in the Ireasury. For-
tunatc are the people who inhabit that town-.
Heavy tuxes will not disturb their slumber
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