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ItirmaiuniENTß inserted at 11 00 per square for imusitons, and 25 cents &square for each addition ion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) .A Miemt deduction made to yearly advertisers. ,- sr Pimento, of all kinds, executed in the best oil reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Job Uqutglgxg igusiness otarbs. A,TTORNEYS A I &I.E. MIKAN. J. O. RITCHIE. 1 . PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS ND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, __ .. Waynesburg, Ps. 11 ItinEhtess in Greene, Washington, and Fay entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. W. LIN ann. J. A. BUCHAFt•N. TAZIrJDIEY & NUOILILELAN, A,,TTAffiNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesioterg, Pa. "t h duos e North aide of Main Street, two the "ffitpultticin" Office. . Sept. 11, 1861. R. W. DOWNEY , • /Lumley and Counsellor at Law. Office in Led opposite the Court Rouse. Sept. IL 18M—ly. DAVID CRAWFORD, _ Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Puild'isuiuljoining the Post Office. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. A. ELAM JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, /MOWS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW in the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1881-Iy. DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Bank Building, Main silver.. Sept. 11, 1861-Iv. DRUGS DR. W. L. CREIGH, Physician and Surgeon, ♦nd dealer in Drugs, Medicines. Oils, Paints, Ac., Ise., Main street, a few doors east of the Bank. Aept. 11, 1861-Iy. M. A. HARVEY, Optimist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints And Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure t Moors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. 111:11ROZANTS WM. A. PORTER, • Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes tic Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. GEO. HOSKINSON, Opposite the Court House, keeps always on hand a lasigestock of Seasonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and Notions generally. Sept. 11, 1881-Iy. ANDREW WILSON, Dialer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Hirdware, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Boots and Woes, Hats and Caps, Main street, one door east of tffe Ole Bank. Sip. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Denier In Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, one door west of the Adams House, Hain street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goode, Gro ceries, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite tneignsee Rouse, Main street. 11, 1881-Iy, CLOTRIN'G N. CLARK, Healer in Men and Boy's Clothing, Cloths, Caul - 'twist, Satinets, Hats and Caps, &c., Main strcet, op. posite the Court House. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. A. J. SOWERS, Dealer in Med and Boy's Clothing, Gentlemen's Fur nisMng Goode, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 m _. L ~ e i J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and. Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite; the "F'armer's and Drover's Bank," Every style of BOO'S and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. J. B. RICKEY,. Boot and Shoe maker, Sayeros Corner, Main street. Boots and Shoes of every variety always on hand 9r made to order on short notice. 11, 1861-Iy. GrRiXlll3l3llB & VARIETIES JOSEPH YATER, Doter in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Mei/Wses, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, gm, Glass of allies., and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. frf"Cash paid for good eating Apples. Sept.. 11, 1861-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, Dater in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goo 4. Generally, Wilson's New Building, Main street. bet. 11, 1861-Iy. 110010, &c. LEWIS DAY, D iia School and Miscellaneous Books. Station- Magazines and Papers, Wilson's Old Build * street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. SANE FA ERS' & DROVERS' BANK, Waynesburg, Pa. astrawooz, Preet. • J. LAZEAR, Cashier DISCOUNT DAT, WZDIUSSDAY. 1861-Iy. 1111,11,1M1S *XD NARNESS .SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, Moak, Harness and Trunk Maker, Alain street, three illoomitost of tie Adopts Donee. 1811-4 T4HMOOO3IMITS fIOOPER it HAGER, • IllhumOutapeos ind eibolitilaho' nod retail dean.. in Nod Ilinef. agar Canna, Noes, A 4 nifkrPBl4 B a i a striae. • Pet -1 Y• • Pint putty. HOW I LIVE. Living friendly, feeling friendly, Acting fairly to all men, Seeking to do that to others They may do to me again ; Hating no man, scorning no man, Wronging none by word or deed ; But forbearing, soothing, serving, Thus I live—and thus my creed. Harsh condemning, fierce contending, Is of little Christian use ; One soft word of kindly peace Is worth a torrent of abuse ; Calling things bad, calling men bad, Adds but darkness to their night ; If thou would'st improve thy brother, Let thy goodness be his light. I have felt and known how bitter Human coldness makes the world— Every bosom round me froze, Not an eye with pity pearled ; Still my heart with kindness teeming— Glad when other hearts are glad— And my eyes a teardrop findeth At the sight of others sad. Ah! be kind—life hath no secret For our happiness like this ; Kindly hearts are seldom sad ones, Blessing ever bringeth bliss; Lend a helping hand to others— Smile though all the world should frown, Man is man, we all are brothers, Black or white, or red or brown. Man is man, through.all gradation, Little reeks it where he stands, In whatever walk you find him, Scattered over many lands ; Man is man by form and feature, Man by voice and virtue too— And in all sae common nature Speaks and bids us to be true. Nut Distil:laq, RISKY BUSINESS. I tell you, sir, it is a risky business to touch the brain. A minister of the Gospel told me of a member of his congregation, as noble a fellow as ever lived—generous—there was not a member of his church that gave as much as he, though only a member of the congregation, for the support of the Gospel; rich—sleeping part ner in a firm in New York; with a wife and one child; living in good style. The only fault the minister had to find with him was, he would occasionally take a glass of wine, and would give it to the young men : and he said he had often talke with him about it. One day he saw him playing with his boy and asked him— "Do you love your son ?" " Love him! noble little fellow ! I love him better than my own life." "You would not harm him?" "Harm him ! hurt my boy! Never!" "Now you never thought that glass of wine"— "Stop, you are a fanatic; I respect you as a minister, but not your fanaticism on that point. The idea of a glass of wine hurting this boy— that I am going to ruin my child 1— I Let this be a tabooed question be tweeno us. I have no patience to hear r you talk so foolishly about it." It was about six weeks after, that one ' of his partners in the house came to see him on some business, and they rode to a manufactoring town about twelve miles distant. He was one of those. men "mighty to drink wine, and a man of strength to mingle strong drink;" and there is no bless ing pronounced on such men that we can find in the Bible. But he drank this man drunk for the first time in his life; and when they got to the hotel, the city gentleman laughed at A man Killed by a Shark. his maudlin companion, and said, "I The Straits Times, (Singapore) wonder what his wife will say to August 24, states that on Sunday last that." Returning, they drove up to three seamen belonging to the Amer the gate, and this child, with his ican ship T. W. Sears were bathing mother, was on the marble steps alongside the vessel, when one of waiting for papa. In stepping from I them was seized by a shark. The the carriage, the drunken man's foot i monster first seized him by the shoul caught in the reins, and he stumbled. I der, but the force with which he If he had been sober he would have I rushed on his victim, caused him to kept hold of the reins, and the acci- lose his bold, driving the unfortunate dent could not have happened. But 1 man several feet out of the water. it made him angry, his self-control i The shark again seized him by the was disturbed, and he took the boy back, and finally by the neck, and by his shoulder, twisted him around, disappeared with his prey. All this and threw him down. As he was happened within plain view of his tunable to walk, they carried him in- shipmates, who immediately lowered to the hall, and laid him down on a a boat, and after taking on board the settee, he fell off that on the floor, two other men, proceeded to drag for and went to. sleep. the body. They had been occupied This clergyman told me—" They in this way for some time when the sent for me, and I never spent such a shark was observed to rise at some night in my life. It was an awful distance from them, still with the night. There lay that child dead; body of the hapless man in his mouth, the wife. in convulsions, and the man shaking it, as is described, as a dog asleep, with a dead child, whose yel- would a rat. The mate of the yes low locks were dabbled in blood, ly- sel armed himself with a boarding ing in another room—asleep, were pike, and rowed towards the spot, two physicians trying to save the and the shark was so much occupied life of his wife—asleep, under the with his victim that he allowed him damning influence of wine. When self to be stabbed several times be he awoke, it was a fearful waking.— fbre again disappearing. Thinking Pushing back his hair—'What is the the animal had received his death matter? Where am I? Where is j wound, the boat returned to the my child? I must see him." You I ship, but scarcely had she arrived pannot.' must, I will Where is I alongside, when the shark reappear my boy?' You cannot see him.' I ed as before. A harpoon was now must see him—l must see my boy!' taken into the boat, and the shark They took him into the room, and again allowed himself to be ap ' +va thesheet ; and when he preached sufficiently near to be' I,,rheAried out, ‘O, my God!' 1 struck, when he Rpm disappeAred. back Alseleas." That cler- Line was now paid out, mut the boat 4have his' e s towed 'some iiistau rote-book WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1861. that day, I buried his body, brought from a lunatic asylum, to lay side by side with his wife and child." Young man, thank God for your safety, if you have ever dared to tamper with tli n wlhich disturbs the action of the ,and brings a man to a point where he knows not what he is about. It is risky business of alcohol to do it.—J.lllB. Gough. THE HEROES THAT HAVE DIED. The newspapers have done their full share in handing General Baker down to fame. It is well that they should do so; he was worthy, and his name and his fame will be cher ished and remembered in future time. So has it been with Ellsworth, so with Winthrop, and so with the noble General Lyon. They have been the I subject of frequent and well-deserv ed panegyric and eulogy. The na tion has felt their loss and mourned over their death, even though in dy ing, they became doubly famous.— We would not have had it otherwise, and would not detract one iota from the merit, gallantry, or nobleness of either of them. Would to God they were living to-day, to take part in the great struggle which must still go on though they have died. But while remembering and cher ishing the noted ones who have yield- I ed all upon the altar of their coun try, and-et bequeathed a legacy of honor tolv their posterity, we would not forget the unnoted brave, who have died and made no sign. Just as noble, just as brave, in all the ele ments of true manly nobility and he roic bravery, as General Baker, fell out of the ranks of common soldiers at Ball's Bluff, and died for their country. The blood that they shed, the lives that they gave, the sacrifice that they made, were just as noble, precious, and priceless as his. Yet they arc among the unnoted and un recorded brave. So of Big Bethel, so of Wilson's Creek, so of Bull Run, and wherever lives have been lost and blood has been shed. The same motives, the same noble purpose, the same patri otic sacrifice was made by the com mon soldier as by the famous to whom we have referred. What. tongue shall tell and what pen record, the heroism—heroism in its highest• sense —which has been displayed in West ern Virginia, on weary march, in dismal camp, on lonely guard, in bat tle or in hospital, by a multitude of brave men who left all the treasures of home and affection, and rounded their days by the sacrifice of their lives ? To the world they are all un known save as so many "killed," so many "died in hospitals," so many "pickets shot," but not to the smaller circles of which they formed a part. Father, mother, sisters, brothers, neighbors, will guard just as jealous ly the relics they have left and their memory, as a nation will those of Baker and Lyon. But let them all be treasured by the great popular heart alike entitled to honor and fame. If Baker and Lyon were important to the nation, if their loss was a calamity to the country, yet, as far as they were each concerned, they gave no more than each man of .the rank and file who has died. They only gave their lives, and could do no more. So their brave men did also, and had they possessed a Baker's genius or a Ly on's military ability, they would just as readily have made the sacrifice.— Alike noble, alike brave, alike wor thy of a nation's gratitude and a na tion's tears, the humblest soldier in the ranks, as the noblest general in the land.—Sandusky Register. ed by repeated stabs of the lance.— Most of the contents of his maw were disgorged while being hauled on board, and on being opened, some fragments which were unrecogniza ble, and an eight pound tin of pre served meat, were all that was found. The shark was of the species known as the ground shark, and about ten feet in length. The girth of the body was immense, and is stated to have been eight or nine feet. Advice Through a Key Hole. There was once a young shoemaker who became so much interested in politics that his shop was filled with loungers talking and discussing and disputing about one thing or anoth er from morning till night; and he found it often necessary to work till midnight to make up for the hours lost during the day. One night after his shutters were closed and he was busy on his bench, a boy passing along put his mouth to the key hole, and mischievously piped out, "Shoemaker, shoemaker, work by night and run about by day." Had a pistol been fired off at my ear, —he said—l could not have been more startled. I dropped my work, saying to myself, True, true, but you shall never have that to say to me again. I never forgot it. To me it was the voice of God, and it has been a word in season throughout my life. I learned from it not to leave till to-morrow the work of to-day, or to be idle when I ought to be work ing. From that time I turned over a new leaf. He did indeed—worked in working hours, left off idle talk and the society of loafers, and be came in the end a man of eminence. Judgment for a Newspaper Amount. Among the recent decisions at the gen eral term of the Supreme Court of the Albany (N. Y.,) district, was one in favor of Mr. J. Seahury against Bradford 0. Wait, for seven years' subscription to the Catskill Reeorder and Democrat. The de cision was in favor of the publisher; and the judgment and coats, we understand, amount to between two and three hundred dollars. The New York 06seAver, one of the old eet religious newspapers in the country, says of this. decision : "It is surprising that so few subscribers fully understand their rerpon;ibilities to publishers of news papers. The law which governed in this decision is a law of Congress, and there fore applicable in every State in the Union. Many subscribers seem to regard the bill for a newspaper the last to be settled, es pecially the last which the laws will en force. Responsible men, even under tri fling whims, refuse to take their papers from the office, regardless of the pay ment of arrears, and when half a dozen more years have been added to the arrears at the time .of stopping, think it hard to pay the increased bill with interest and costs of collection." General Ircelellan's Christian Character. A chaplain in the army writes : The Rev. Dr. Thompson, at a meeting of the chaplains of the army, held last week, gave a very interesting and thrilling ac count of a midnight interview with our young commander, from which we gather that the General himself is not unwilling that the country should fully understand him in this matter. The observation is made here because the General's pastor had been annoyed by the unauthorized publication of hie private remarks on an other most interesting occasion. General McClellan is glad to have this nation know that his sole reliance in the war is upon the goodness and mercy of God in ad vancing the cause of law, justice and order. He threw himself back in the chair and said, with deep emotion, "For what purpose can it be that one but lately engaged upon a railroad, so young, and having yet done nothing to deserve . such place, should be advanced, for the time, to perhaps the most responsible position in the country ?" We feel that he might have said, in ths world. "But," continued this modest, youthful, and truly Christian hero, "Iv is or Goo, who often chooses the weakest and even the meanest instruments to accomplish Hie purposes." Gen. McClellan said, that so crushing was hie habitual sense of his responsi bill ties that were it not for his faith in God. he could not live under it. But his trust in GOD, and the conviction that prayer was made for him unceasingly, sustained him, and gave him an undoubting hope of suc cess. W hipping Ohildren. The following story is told of the Rev. Dr. Morse At =Association dinner, a debate arose as to the ben efit of flogging, in bringing np chil dren. The doctor took the affirma tive, and his chief opponent was a young minister, whose reputation for veracity was not very high. He maintained that parents often do harm to their children from -unjust punishment, from not knowing the facts in the case. " Why," said he, "the only time my fstherwhipped was for telling the truth." ".Weft, , ', toe *Wer, "• it olio* yovhf didnt Mason and Slidell in Prison. The Boston Post gives a long ac count of the arrival of the San Jacin to at that port, and the transfer of the bogus ambassadors to Fort War ren. We quote :—Upon their arri val within the fort Col. Dimmick was attending service, which is now reg ularly held on Sundays. He was in formed of their arrival and at once proceeded to his quarters, where they were in waiting. An introduc tion followed, Captain McKim on this occasion being master of cere • monies. The interview was some what formal, but the veteran Colon el was kind and courteous, though firm and dignified. They were as signed their apartments, which are as good as the fort affords, and in about half an hour were occupying them. Their arrival, as may well be supposed, produced a sensation at the fort, alike among the prisoners and the garrison. The political pris oners in a special manner manifested the most intense interest, and so far as they were alloyed, flocked about the illustrious new corners. They were, however, permitted to have but little conversation with them. Of the appearance of the prisoners we may say that Slidell is much de jected. He does not bear his fortunes with as brave a front as was ex pected. On the contrary, Mason is prodigal of airiness, and displays a dare-devil, don't-care-ativeness, that is somewhat characteristic of the man. So far as outward appearance goes, he is still, in ring parlance, " game." The two "ministers" mess ed at the table of the Commodore, and, political topics being avoided, the relations between them have been exceedingly pleasant. Upon taking leave of the officers in the ward room of the San Jacinto friend ly sentiments were cordially offered and as cordially returned. Colonel Dimmick is very strict in regard to visitors entering the fort, and here after his instructions are such that no boat, except . the tug employed by the Government, will be permitted to touch at the wharf. 'lever Brought a Tear to his Mother's Eye.' A paragraph, in sulietance as follows, has been journeying through the newspa pers for three months pa.A. "My son is now twenty-five years old," said a mother to a friend, at the same time wiping tears of gratitude from her face, "and he always remembered what I told him in childhood. He has been a good boy. He has sever brought a tuff to his mother's eye." There are some valuable lessons in these six lines, not the least important of which is that every boy and girl can do things which shall keep the tears out of their mothers' eyes. The youngest reader who catches these lines knows that he can put a knife to the heart of his father or his mother, and he knows how he can keep the knife away and send joy there instead. Who will try the great work of being thoughtful and kind to hie mother ? and what mother is there who will not be kind and thoughtful to all her little boys ? The dark days, if they are not ours now, will be ours in the future ; and what rapture it will be in the hour of saddened gloom to go back to that spot and hour in boyhood or girlhood, when the great gleam of sun shine from a mother's heart made us feel that we were not of earth, but citizens of the ekiea. A young man named William West, a son of a clerk in the Treasury Department, and who was pressed into the rebel ranks st Winchester, arrived at our lines Monday morning. He left Centerville on Saturday and makes the following report : The rebel forces near that point number about sixty thousand, being about one half of their army of the Potomac. They are concentrated between Cen treville and the Bull Run battle-field, in the angle formed by Braddock's Road and the roads leading to Man assas Juuption. They have about 15 batteries light artillery, but no siege pieces, and four or five regiments of cavalry. Their fortifications are small, insigificant, compared with ours, apparently merely breastwork,* for infantry, and do not extend this side ofCentreville. The men are well clothed in homespun, have sufficient food and drink, though no coffee or sugar, and have not yet suffered from cold. The tents leak in a heavy rain. Many Maryland and Virginia soldiers would gladly desert but fear they would be ill-treated by our au thorities. A proclamation that they would be kindly received would in duce large numbers to come within our lines. On hearing of the Na tional victory at Beaufort many nom S. Carolina. and Georgia were anxious to return home but they are now satisfied to remain. Several of our soldiers who have been taken prison ers had enlisted in the rebel ranks, among them two of the foraging party captured a few days ago.--- Having to go to Richmond or enlist, they chose the course that promised an early chance of escape. West was an orderly of General Espy, and he effected his escape the most ily by !Orison of harnga 4orse. rebels lad motto ledeived a Aft_ Important from the Rebel Army. quantity of English muskets, were well disciplined, and have great con fidence in their officers. TRUE AND SENSIBLE REMARKS. Hon. FZRNANDO WOOD, Mayor of New York, recently addressed a Democratic meeting in that city, in which he used the following language: FELLOW CITIZENS—The call under which we have assembled to night declares that the " only hope of the country is the national democracy. In my judgment this is true—there is now no other resource. This pop ular element is our only and sole re liance. It was this that successfully carried the colonies through the war of the Revolution; the nation through the subsequent war with Great Brit tain ; through the celebrated whiskey insurrection, which was as formida ble as this at its commencement; the government through the war which nullification attempted to wage in South Carolina; and through the war with Mexico. All of these conflicts were met and successfully settled by the national democracy, acting through agents of like principles.— I do not wish or intend to impugn the sincerity or conduct of those who are now adminstering our public af fairs at Washington. I believe they do the best they_ can under the cir cumstances. We must sustain the President in his present effort with every resource at our command.— His cause is our cause ; it is the cause of the country and of justice, law and right. I would interpose no partisan opposition to the government; yet, at the same time, I can never yield the independent right of thought and manly criticism. The popular im pulses of the American heart are pa triotic, and after all furnish the best safeguard against anarchy, rebellion, and civil war. The most conserva tive government in the world has been made up of democracies. De mocracy has furnished the best states men of this continent. It has carried this country through every storm, and raised it to the highest condition of prosperity, of cililization and of national grandeur. As it has thus been the main pillar in our political fabric, so, in my opinion, it is now the only support the government can re ly on. Let us continue and cherish it. What if the clouds lower ? As foreboding as is now the political firmament, yet I see the bright ex panse of sky breaking dimly through the distance. Let us stand firm.— Let us sustain the Democratic party. Its saccess is certain, and at no dis tant day it will have assumed propor tions which will overshadow the na tion, and bring together the divided and hostile communities which now stand arrayed in deadly conflct.— This shall be done! The - Union shall be preserved, and all of the States of the Confederacy shall once more meet as a communion of sisterhood. The Stone Blockade -- Sailing of Old Whalers to be Sunk Across the South ern Harbors--Copy of the Secret Orders --List of Vessels, &o. We published yesterday a brief ac count of the fleet of vessels loaded with stone which are to be used in closing up harbors on the Southern coast. The fleet sailed on the 20th instant, and we give below a list of the vessels composing it, with their tonnage. They are all old, but sub stantial, whaling vessels, double decked to give them greater firmness. They were stripped of their copper and other fitting, which were ;t necessary for so short a voyage as they will make, and loaded with picked stone, as deeply as was safe. They were purchased by the Govern ment at New Bedford, New London, Nantucket, Sag Harbor, Edgartown, Mystic and Newport. In the bottom of each ship a hole was bored, into which was fitted a lead pipe five inches in diameter, with a valve so fixed that, though perfectly safe even for a long voyage, it can be very quickly removed. It is calculated that the ship will be filled and sunk to the bottom in twenty minutes after the remove]. of its valve. To provide against accidental jamming of the valves, each vessel is furnished with two augurs of the proper size. The crew consists of six men each. These will be returned by the men of war who will assist in the work of sinking. Each ship will be anchored in the place chosen for her and will then be sprung round broadside to the channel, thus effectinc , ° as great a stoppage as is possible. When this is done, and she is in positon the valve will be withdrawn, and when the vessel is nearly level with the water's edge, the men will leave in a small boat. The captains of the ships are all well acquainted with our coast, flrst-rate seamen and good pilots. Each captain received on the day he sailed sealed orders, not to be opened till after the pilot left his vessel. REFORMED DRUNKARDS. - During the last four years about seven hun dred and fifty confirmed drunkards, taken in at the Washingtoa Rome, in Boston, have been reformed a*sl raised to respectable foaitis*u), *sock etiy. The Rome is an Asylum or ih4riates. NEW SERES.--VOL 3, NO. 27. THE GREAT EASTERN.-A letter I from London says :—"Nautical men here express very discouraging op4 k _ ions in regard to the Great Eastern. I They think it doubtful whether he will ever make another sea trip, and think after remaining a while at Milford Haven, she will be converted t in a t l. o " a bath-house or floating hospi- COTTON AT LIVERPOOL.—The Eng lish papers received by the last steamer announce the arrival of large quantities of cotton from India. Some half a dozen ships had reached Liverpool just previous to the steam er's sailing, with 175,000 bales on board, and.adviee had been received that there was a large quantity mom on the way. tHE PIRATES of the buccaneer Beauregard threw four thotrAntitd4- lars in specie when they were cvtur ed by the United States gunlbalt G. Anderson, to prevent its intd the hands of Capt. Roger. The Charleston Courier deprecate's' the raising of black flap, and says that it is urged principally by those who keep at a safe distance from the war. Maryland Legislature Organized To-Dq, ANNOPOLIS, December 4.—The leg islature organized to-day by the eleo tion of Mr. Berry Speaker of the House and Mr. Goldsborough Prest dent of the Senate. The Governor% message was read. It is an eminent ly loyal and patriotic document. He says he has convened, the Legislature at this special session in order that they may at once perform the elear,- Iy expressed will of the people by, taking such steps as will seem most effective to vindicate the honor and loyality of the State, by undoing and as far as possible remedying the evils of the legislation of their predeeen sore. He urges the adoption assess. ures for the payment of the Stateli portion of the National tax for the, expenses of the war. He says that the rebellion must be put down, no matter what it costs. Our ate must bear her share, and hopes it will be done with no niggard hind. He urges a loan for the purpose. .Her also says, that it is undoubtedly our strict duty, as it is also this to the pride and honor of the State, that int+ mediate provision be made for raia. ing and equipping Maryland's quota of volunteers for the war. He reo. ommends legislation for the mama, ry punishment of persons in Mary. land, who shall be convicted of aiding or abetting, in any manner, those who are in arms against the govern. ment. Thirty-Seventh Congress. WASHINGTON, December 4.--fikah ATE-Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, in troduced a resolution to expell Mr. Breckinridge from a seat in the Sen ate. Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, took the ground that as Mr. Breckinridge had resigned his seat he could notl* ex pelled. Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, inakst.ed that he should be expelled, and offered a substitute for Mr. Chamk ler's resolution as follows: Whereae r John C. Breckinridge, a member or this body, has joined - the enemies of his country, and is now in ands against the government he had sworn to support. Therefore, Resolved, That the traitor Breckinridge be ex pelled from the Senate. Mr. Chandler accepted the substi tute and the resolution was unani mously adopted, yeas, 39, nays, o. Absent or not voting, Messrs. Bayard, Bright, Johnson, of Tennessee, John son, of Missouri, Pearce, Powell, Rice, Saulsbury and Willey. EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER IN ENO LAND.—The nglish papers contain accounts of the effect of the mildness of the weather—a prolongation ofthe summer—on vegetation. In the south of England new leaves and new fruit are forming on trees which have already borne good crops tkis season. Currant, gooseberry, apple and pear trees are frequently_ met with good-sized fruit on their branches. KINTIMICY LZGISLATITRZ.-A regait . tion was introduced in the Kentucky House of Representatives, on the '274h ult. requiring all Ike ablo.bodied male citizens of the State, batwoto the ages of eighteen and forty-fiyo, except ministers, to immediately erh roll themselves and form mill companies, for the purpose of e • - ing the Confederate invaders • the soil of Kentucky. tiiiirlohn Hill, of Philadelphia; bat secured a contract for five thud tons of hay, at *25 per ton, delivered in Washington. He also has One for five thousand bushels of corn, at 86 cents, and a like amount of oats, at 25 cents. How to get a lady to s'hoirle foot. Praise the foot of 'sortero else. • ' leas thaagm-thiak, rates than think only half what you say, CI ~!' :.:'
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