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AbVSILTIIMMENTS inserted at $1 00 per square for three insertions, and 25 cents a square for each addition al insertion; (ten lines or less courved a square.) A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. y V Jos Partrnio. of all kinds, executed in the best stand on reasonable terms, at the"lidessenger" Job orate. aptsburg giusintss Cubs. ATTORNEYS. J. A. J. SUCitaxax BIICILAXAN & LINDSEY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Office on the North side of Main street, two d.,ore West of the "Republican" Office. Jan. I, 1862. •. A. PIIRMaIt. .1 G. RITCHIE. PURMAN & RITCHJE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. trrAll business in Greene, Washington, and Fay cue Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11,1861—1 y. IL W. DOWNEY, kuorrey and Counsellor as. Law. Office in Led with'. Building. opposite the flout House. Sept. IL 1861-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Coninelior at Law. Othee in Sayer.' lei Ming, adjoining the Post Office. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. G. A. lILICIE. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS Ai LAW Office ba the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. I!' DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician ind. Surgeon. Office in One Old Bank Baildins, Main stAct. Beim. 11, l —lv. DRUGS DR. W. L. CREIGH, Phyalolaa and Surgeon, Aid dealer in Drugs, Medicines. Oils, Paints, &c., &c., Main street, a few doors east of the Bank. Sept. 11, 1861-11 y. M. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the •ost celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. IV.UIakOZUWTS: WM. A. PORTER, ; Wholesale and Retail Dealet in Foreign and Domes die Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, ice, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. GEO. HOSKINSON, Opposite the Court House, keeps always on hand a large stock of S"asonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots 'and Shoes, and Notions generally. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. ANDREW WILSON, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, nardware, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Boots and Oboes, Hats and Caps, Hain street, one door east of the Old Bank. • Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goode, Groceries, Hardware. Queens watt and notions, one door west of the Adams House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro ceries, Qiieensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite tae Green House. Main street. Sept. 11, 11361-Iy, CLOTHING N. CLARK, Dealer in Men and Boy's Clothing, Clothe, easel mares, Satinets, Hats and Cape, &c., Main strcei, op• posite the Court House. Sept. 11, 186I—Iy. A. J. SOWERS, Dealer in Men and Boy's Clothing, Gentlemen's Fur nishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, fiats and Caps, Old Saiik Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 m BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker. Main street, nearly opposite) . the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style of Boots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. J. B. RICKEY, Boot and Shoe maker, Sayerge Corner, Main street. Soots aid Shoes of every variety always on hand or made to order on short notice. Sept. I l, 1861—ly. GROCERIES & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, "Dealer in Groceries end Confectioneries. Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. Cash paid for good eating Apples. Sept. 11, 1661-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Coeds Generally, Wilson's Nt w Building, Main street. Sept 11, 1861-Iy. ZS, &c. LEWIS DAY, Denier in School and Miscellaneous Books, Station ary. ink, Magazines and Papers, Wilson's Old Build ing. Bain street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. BILME. F A MERS & DROVERS' BANK, Waynesburg, Pa. JESSE HOOK, Pres't. LAZEAE, Cashier- DISCOUNT DAY, WEDNESDAY. Sept. 11, ISBI-Iy. ISANDLEIS AND NARNEMS SAMUEL M'ALLISTER: Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker, Main street, three doors west of the Adams House. .Salt. 11, 1861-Iy. TOSIAOCONISTS HOOVER &r. HAGER, Maionsketurers and wholesale *ad retail dealers in Teleaass, dadiscs and Sault der: Cases, Pipes, ice., 1.1,1961-Iy. Virihisa's 014 pudding. main assag, HAAS & .CO., AusSOTYPE AND PHOTOGRAPH , • ARTISTs, • 41 ' ' =i I, , of . . 11 n iIM II 14 i S R/t8 • - - • Oft, 1061. -• . 4 ...."' , ' , 2' „ FLEEING T ; GOD. Under the shadow of Thy wing, my Father ! Till life's calamities be overpast, In that sure refuge let my spirit gather Strength to bear calmly on unto the last. Be merciful to me,—for thoughts that crush larl Lie like an incubus upon my breast, Only thy voice, Omnipotent, can hush me Into the quiet eve of seeming rest. Oh ! what is life but one long, long endur- DM Of this dull heavy weight on heart and brain ? Speak to my spirit—speak the strong asaur- IMO That nothing Thou ordainest is in vain WIC C. LIN OBEY Trembling amid the turmoils of exisienct, Oh I let me grasp a more than mortal arm : Father! my Father! be not at a distance When earth's dark phantoms Thy weak child alarm. Under Thy shadow, fear cannot appal me, If in the Rock of Ages surely hid Under Thy shadow ! harm cannot befall me, If thou, All-wise, All-merciful, forbid Nearer to Thee, my Saviour! my Redeemer! In Heaven, on earth, whom hath my soul but Thee f Though for an instant, as some feverish dream- Grasps at the treasure which he seems to see. I, too, have dreamed, and waked to Ind illu sion Inscribed on all I sought to make my own, And turning from my idols in confusion, I dedicate my life to Thee alone. Under the shadow of Thy wing abiding ; Close to my suffering Saviour's wounded side, In the sure prom*. of His love confiding. Why should I shrink, though earthly ills be tide Oh ! if the heart grew strong through suffering only. If but through trial it may reach its goal, I will rejoice, although my way be lonely. And all Thy waves and billows o'er me roll Z~gitaul~. BOREF PIIRGIIBON'S DEATH-BED. Robert Furguson, the immediate prede cessor and prototype of Robert Burns, in_ herited both his genius and his virtues from his mother. His death-bed was a most affecting , scene. He was stricken with insanity in his twenty-fourth year, at which early age he had written a considerable number of very beautiful and affecting poems. He was carried, by his broken-hearted and widow ed mother, to the only asylum then estab lished for the insane in Scotland. Visit ing him a short time before his dissolu tion, his mother and sister found him in bed, quite peaceable. He requested his mother to gatherthe bedclothes round him and sit on the bed beside him ; his sister then took her seat on the other side. He looked wistfully up into his mother's face. "I was very cold," said he, "before you came, mother. This is very kind of you." Then addressing his sister, he said— " Ellen, dear, I wish you would sometimes bring your sewing, and sit and work at my bedside." No reply was made, but both mother and sister were in tears. "What ails you, dears?" inquired the dying poet, fancying that he was a little child again. "Why are you sorrowing for me, mother? I was cold, very cold ; but I feel quite warm now you have come. Mother," he continued, "I don't recollect saying my prayers before I got into bed to-night. Will you let me say them to you now? And then will you sing for me?" He repeated then, childlike, the prayers he had been used, when an infant, to repeat at his mother's knee. "Mother," he added, when he had finish ed, "you have often told me that if I was a good boy, I should go to hea!ven when I died. I think lam dying now, and I know God will take me to heaven for Christ's sake, through your prayers, dear mother." "Ellen," he continued, addressing his sobbing sister, "don't cry, dear. Be good to mother when I am gone, for then she will have no one to care for her on earth but you. You will both come to heaven to meet me, won't you ?" "Mother," he added, after a pause, "please lift up my head and let me rest is on your bosom, it aches so bad." The weeping mother raised her son's head and rested it on her bosom„as She had done when he was a little child." "My head doesn't ache now," he mur mured. "Oh, now lam so happy. I know we shall all three meet in heaven;" and the once strong man sank peaceably to sleep, and in that Asap passed away to death on the same breast upon which he had lain for rest in earlier and happier d_s• It. would- be a 4taLiti(4 4 44l4 o oilg Blll :' illertalta pigager 4041110119161011610111 1141ydrt V&A 1 1.011 W: • " 4 " ' gEttrt Untrti. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1862. A Word t 3 Young Men. "What does that young man do for a living ?" is the common inquiry, as some foppish, well-dressed individ ual passes by. "Nothing, nothing at all," is the frequent reply. "But what supports him in his extrava gances ?" None can tell—but we, being a Yankee, have the privilege of guessing. That young man that dresses in broadcloth, carries a cane, and is so extremely polite to all his acquaintances, especially the ladies, is the son of a man in moderate cir cumstances, who finds it difficult to sustain himself with a moderate in come. His son wishes to be a gen tleman, and lives without labor.— The father in his folly refuses to put him to a trade, or send him to work on a farm, hoping that something may turn up, by-and-by, when busi ness will be better, for his son to ob tain a good living without work.— He is now obliged to dispense with the luxuries of life—perhaps with some of its comforts for his son to keep up appearances, and get into good society, as that kind of company is termed, where young men have nothing to do but to dress according to the latest fashion. He is quite in dependent, and uses language to his seniors that might be considered uncourteous in a king. He faces all classes and conditions without a blush, .and dares to look with con tempt on the honest apprentice, whose generous soul would outweigh a thousand as light as his own. The companions he chooses are like him self, puffed up with vanity, swelling with importance, and who make a pretence of doing something, by oc casionally visiting a lawyer's office, to read a page or two of Blackstone. The end of such a youth it needs no prophetic vision to see. "It is as plain as the way to market," at lir. Franklin would say, that he will turn out a low, despised, and miserable tool. Perhaps the Penitentiary will bring him up; perhaps the gallows. But if he escapes these, it will be to hang like an incubus on those of his friends, who for pity's sake, have not the heart to send him where he de serves. A Touching Incident. A day or two ago, a volunteer, about to join his regiment, advertised that he would take letters for his comrades of the same regiment. He received a great many letters and packages containing small donations from loved ones at home. It was in teresting to observe the throng as they,came,and, dropping their affec tionate donations, went on their way happier. There were old, young, and Middle-aged, fathers and mothers to sons, and sisters to brothers. There was one, however, who attracted more attention than the rest. She was a girl of some seventeen sum mers, scantily but neatly dressed, and but for the care which marked every feature of her countenance, would have been termed pretty. "This letter," said she to the lady who received her, "is for my brother. Will it reach him, do you think?" "It will, certainly." • "I am so glad. There is a dollar in it, madam, for my brother. It is a small sum to send him, (and the tears filled her eyes,) but it is my last dollar." "Your last dollar ?" "Yes, madam. You see, since my brother went to the war, I am left alone with my old mother. Work has been very scarce, and. I can scarcely make enough to live on.— But when we heard how our soldiers were suffering in Western Virginia, our hearts were much pained, and mother and I have been grieving over the fate of my poor brother.— We had only a dollar, and we sent it to him." We need not say that the noble girl met with a cordial sympathy.— In ordinary times such instances of self-sacrifice were scarce, but now they are numerous.—Cin. Times. A War Incident. Among the many instances where the bravery of our officers and men Tortures of a Wicked Conscience. A convict in Van Dieman s Land, have shone conspicuous, the one re- 4 after quarreling with one of the over lated below is almost unequalled: seers, brutally murdered him. He Capt. Spencer, aid to Gen. Wool, immediately escaped, with a few received information from two ladies clothes and a gun, to the wild soli who went from Norfolk to Fortress ; tude of the bush. The murderer, Monroe with a flag of truce, that , lived for some time like a savage, near midnight a six-oared boat was ' occasionally making his appearance, to leave Norfolk for Richmond,- with armed to the teeth, at various huts, money for the payment of the rebel ; where he peremptorily demanded soldiers. He requested permission food.. The convict's mind ultimately of Gen. Wool to attempt their capture ; succumbed to the severe mental ago and was told not to place too much ; ny and physical distress to which it confidence in the information receiv- ; was exposed, and he became a dan ed. Nevertheless, permission was gerous lunatic. He was eventually given, and selecting two good oars- ; perceived to be under the dominion men, on whom he could rely, with of a terrible hallucination. He im their oars muffled, he started at dark, agined that he was constantly being and awaited the coming of the ene- pursued by the ghastly phantom of my's boat. He had previously given his murdered victim. He was obser direction to his men to pull directly ved to rash frantically from tree to kir the boat, and on striking to "back tree, bush to bush, house to house, water" instantly. About midnight from one part of the district to an the boat, was heard approaching, other, endeavoring to fly (like an an and takinghis station in the how, imal hunted to death by ferocious with a nine-inch shell in his hands, he bloodhounds) from the clutches of gave the order to "give way." The some persons constantly in his wake, moment his bows struck the rebel. and steadily tracking his path. The boat, he - dire* the shell -into the maniac. eventually surrendered him die ofit,alid was hitnnelf drawn bank, I self into the hands of the pollee, al- Peeeltvitg l*Ateiert front the ,ksgmf timstnnanhAlaton.Apalreafera- explosion. Not so the boat and oc cupants, however, the former of which was in two, and the latter were scattered in all directions in the water, not, however, before dis charging their pistols at him, two balls going through his cap and three perforating his coat. The men were then told that if they submitted ipli etly- they would be saved, otherwise he would leave them to their fate.— They preferred the former : and arming himself with a pistol in one hand and a dirk (taken by him at the battle of Bull Run from a "Se cesh").in the other, he took them in his boat one by one, handcuffing them as they were pulled in. In ad dition to which, from the stern of the enemy's boat, which floated, he took $l,lOO in gold, and $5,000 in their worthless paper money. It was with some difficulty that he reached the Fort, the gunwale of the boat being almost level with the wa ter from its increased freight. Losses in Battles. At the battle of Arcola, the Aus trians lost in killed 18.000 men ; the i - French 15,000. At Hohenlinden the Austrian loss was 14,000 ; the French 9,000. At Austerlitz, the Allies, out of 80,000- nen, lost 30,000 in killed, j wounded and prisoners; the French only (!) 12,000. At Jena and Auerstadt the Prus ! slang lost 30,000 men, killed and wounded, and nearly as many pris oners, making nearly 60,000 in all ; and the French 14,000 in killed and wounded. At the terrific battle of Eylau, the Russians lost 25.000 men, killed and wounded ; and the French 30,000. At Friedland, the Russian loss was 17,000 in killed and wounded; the French loss 8,000. At Wagrarn the Austrians and trench lost each 25,000 men, or 50,000 in all, in killed and wounded. At Smolensko the French loss was 17,000 men; that of the Russians 10,000. At Borodino, which is said to have been "the most murderous and ob stinately fought battle on record," the French lost in killed wounded and prisoners, 50,000 men—the. Rus sians about the same number, making in all 100.000 men in one battle ! At Lutzen the French loss was 18,- 000 men—the Allies 15.000. At Bautzen the French lost 25,000 men—the Allies 15,000. At Dresden, where the battle last ed two days, the Allies lost in killed, wounded and prisoners, 25,000 men; the French between 10,000 and 12,- 000. At Liepsic, which lasted ti ree days, Napoleon lost two „ Marshkls, twenty Generals, and about 60,000 men, in killed, wounded and prison ers—the Allies 1,790 officers, and about 40,000 men—upward of 100,000 men in all! At Ligny, the Prussians lost 15,- 000 men in killed, wounded and pris oners—the French 6,800. The battle of Trebbia lasted for three days, and the French and Allies lost each about 12,000 men, or 24,000 in all. Besides these were several others of minor importance to the forego ing, as to the loss of men, but large in the aggregate. There were those of the Bridge of Lodi, a most desper ately contested fight; the famous battle of the Nile, a sea fight, in which Nelson lost 895 men in killed and wounded, and the French 5,225 men in killed and wounded, 3,005 prisoners, and 12 out of the 17 ships engaged in the action; that of the Bay of Aboukir, where the French had 8,000 men engaged, and the Turks 9,000, and every man of the Turks was lost, in killed, wounded and prisoners; Marengo, a most des perate and bloody engagement; Ma ida, where the'rFrench, out of 7,500 men engaged, lost about 4,800 in kill ed, wounded and prisoners; Talavera, another famous and bloody engage ment; Albuera, where the British, out of 7,500 men engaged, lost 4300. ble to the agony of mind which he suffered. In fact, although insane, he prayed earnestly for death at the hands of ttie public executioner, in or der to extricate himself from the spectral image that was never absent from his mind ! A Touching In cident. The humanizing influences of the great est of all the virtues was thrillingly ex emplified in a circumstance which occur red near Sedalia, Missouri, on the night of 9th instant, the particulars of which have been communicated to us by a gentleman well known in this city, who happened to be present at the time. Sedalia in the ter minus of the Pacific railroad, aad a mili tary point of the Federal army, under the command of General Steel, an accomplish ed officer of the regular service. A short time since he learned that Ebenezer Ma goffin, a brother of our Governor and a Colonel in Price's rebel army, was stealth ily lying around his own premises, going in occasionally to see his wife, who was ex ceedingly and dangerously ill with the jaundice, and at the same time anticipa ting a confinement, which had been terri bly protracted some six or seven weeks.— Upon the day mentioned, General Steel dispatched one of Colonel Magoffin's own political friends to him, inviting him to the residence of Dr. James R. Hughes and hold a conference with Colonel E. R. Brown, in the presence of the Doctor.— Colonel Magoffin was at the appointed place when Colonel Brown arrived. The latter, after the courtesies of the evening were interchanged, said : ‘.‘Colonel Ma goffin, what will you have ?" Colonel M., throwing up nis hand to his face, said: "I want to see my dying wife." Colonel Brown immediately replied : "You can do so in entire safety. Dr. Hughes and myself will accompany you as body guard." Colonel Brown then asked him : "Will you have anything else ? Have you any terms of peace and reconciliation to propose to me as the Federal agent ?" Colonel lifogoffin paused for a moment— again threw his hand up to his head, and remarked : "Colonel Brown, my brain is addled ; I am almost crazy ; I have not slept for three days and nights, I have slept out in the cold and rain, I am full of cold. Give me ten days time to answer, then my poor wife will either be dead and buried or convalescent." Col. Brown, full of kind feeling anddeep ly affected by the terrible sufferings and mental agony of this misguided gentle man, replied: "You can have it." The three then repaired to the residence of Col. Magoffin, which was about two miles dis tant. When Col. M. approached the bed side of his wife, who was speechless and almost senseless, a momentary glisten of the eye seemed to indicate a recognition of her husband, while at the same time she made a very 'feeble effort to place her dy ing arm around his neck. Dr. Hughes, an ticipating her wish, assisted her ; and then at that perilous hour was demonstrated the strength and endurance of the pure affec tion of a noble-hearted woman—"faithful unto death." She seemed to be perfectly happy and resigned, as if she was ready to exchange the love of earth for the joys of heaven, which were opening on her sight. The scene was intensely affecting. Col. M. was bowed down with the profoundest grief; his heart was as a bruised reed.— Aroun d the dying lady, as witnesses to the thrilling event, and the humanity of the Federal Army, sat Mr. and Mrs. Hutchin son, the father and mother of Mrs. Ma goffin, the Colonel's entire family, and sev eral neighbors and friends. In most instsnces the chamber of death should be sacred from the apparent prof anation of newspaper comment; but there may be some good accomplished to the cause of humanity in this instance by detailing the circumstances. Col. Magoffin has been the most active, the most seductive, and the most influential secessionist in Missouri. When Col. Marshall's cavalry regiment was passing through Georgetown, some time in August, Col. Magoffln, from a window, shot at and killed two of the number anji wounded others. He was cap tured by Col. Marshall, taken to Lexing ton, and kept in the fortifications until Col. Mulligan surrendered that post. He then went with Price to the southwest part of the State, and held a prominent posi tion in his army ; and yet while the Fed eral Army is denounced by these very men as barbarous, this deed of Christian chari ty was performed by those who sympathi zed with the afflicted husband, though they so strongly condemn his pernicious course and counsels.—Louisville Journal. "The Methodist minister stationed at Ware, Mass., recently sued the trustees of the church for the .unpaid balance of his salary. The counsel of the defendants contended that, under the economy of Methodism, nothing was legally due him ; that the minister was sent to the society from his Conference, not called by the so ciety ; that all payments under such cir cumstances were voluntary, and not the result of a legal agreement binding both sides; and that if the stewards of the so ciety did not collect the full amount of the salary, there was no legal means of col lecting the balance. The court decided that the grounds ttf the defence were cor rect, and that. the clergyman could sot re cover." Career of a Villain. The Skaneateles Democrat this week gives the upshot in the case of ' an imposter, a young Englishman by the name of Nurse, a resident of that village, who some months ago. it was ; Death from Intemperance. announced, had inherited a hand- ,' A shocking ease of death from in some property by the demise of a ! temperance and exposure occurred in relative in England, and that with ! Pitt tp., near the mouth of Four Mile it had descended a title which was , Run, on Monday night. A party of to fall upon him, under the style of , Irish, of the lower class, met at a "Sir James Burdett Nurse, Captain house in the neighborhood, to Tame of the Queen's Own Guard," 47c. i for turkeys, the proceeds of which The young nobleman has flourished I were for the benefit of the widow of gaily in the best society of Skan- . Lenox Rea. Among those present eateles for some months. He for med. were Mathias Davis and his wife Ann the acquaintance of the daughter of a Jane, both of whom became very citizen of English descent, courted, drunk , and started for home between and married her. They made a eight and nine o'clock. On Tuesday grand wedding tour, returned to morning Mrs. Davis was found in the Skaneateles, took elegant apartments run, frozen to death—her elothing at the Lake House, set up an "Eng- scattered about her the baby al lish cab," and flourished generall7 most nude and exhibiting numerous in grand style. Occasionally, "Sir bruises. James" made a flying trip to New T hes. Coroner being absent, Alder- York, to look after remittances man Donaldson undertook the case, which he claimed came through an eminent banking house, known as and after hearing some witnesses, committed Davis to jail until this the firm of "Belmont & Co." On the morning, when other witnesses were i 4th instant he made one of these Ito be examined. In the meantime, a visits—the last, as he took his "port- ! post morttm examination was made, able property," his wardrobe, and and it was clear her death had not ' has not since been heard from. The been caused by violence. The bruises checks he gave to his personal friends' had doubtless been received by re just before he decamped,have been dis- . peated falling on the frozen ground, ; dishonored; a forged note, for several and in the delirium preceding death hundred dollars, bears his father-in she may have divested herself of her law'S name; he is indebted to many clothing. Her husband was too of the business men, tradesmen, and drunk to give her any assistance, farmers of Skaneateles. His young .and she was Jett to p - eirish by the wife, cheated, broken hearted, and way. disconsolate, has returned to her A son of the deceased, aged ten father's house, with all her bright vi- years, who was with them at the raf sions dissipated. Nurse has proved ;fie, and who could not be found on himself an adroit and successful swin dler and imposter.—Sy racu se_ Journol. and held as a witness. He was ex, Tuesday, was subsequently arrested ___ , amined this morning, and stated4n substance that his mother fell on her face while going home. He and his father raised her up with great diffi culty, and after proceeding some dis tance she fell again. They tried to raise her up, but his father was very drunk, and they were obliged to go on without her. In about half au hour he returned, in company with his father, and found her dead, in the spot where they had left her, with most of her clothing torn off. They went home again, and did •not re, turn where the corpse was until day, light. Dr. AfeCook testified that there were no wounds which might not have been received in falling, and that her death was caused by expo, The following singular occurrence was witnessed on Saturday night in the neighborhood of Colchester. A solitary man, in a lamentable state of drunkenness, driving himself in his market-cart, was met in the Mersea road by a well-known gallant major of the Colchester garrison. The keen eye of the officer perceiving smoke issuing from the driver's clothes, he turned his horse's head, and, clapping spurs to its sides, gave chase to the man on fire. As the pursuer neared the fugitive, the drunken man could not understand that he was to he so easily beaten, and, app',3-ing his whip to his horse, away he flew. The ma jorput on the steam also,bult thepace was too great and the road too nar row to enable him to pass the smo king man, who, from the draft caused by his flight, was unaware of his be ing on fire and leaving a broad trail of' smoke behind; so away they went, the wondering villagers turning out too late to stop the infuriated man.— At length they reached a wide part of the road, of which the major dex terously took advantage, shot past the drunken man, and actually, by dint of pulling directly in front of the driver's horse stopped the cart.— Not a. moment too soon, however, for the man's waistcoat was completely burnt through, as well as his under shooting-coat. So helplessly intoxi cated was he that he had to be drag ged out of the cart head foremost, his coat torn off, and the fire extinguish ed. It is most fortunate for the luck less Wight that he fell in with sogood a Samaritan, for had he succeeded in distancing his pursuer, most probably he would have met a shocking death. —Chelnvford Eng .Chronicle. A Scarred Veteran Killed. The Southern papers are lamenting the death of Captain Anderson, a gallant old officer, who they say had been in nearly sixty battles. He was killed at the late battle on Cheat Mountain. The Lynch burg Republican says: Capt. Anderson had the appearance of a military man, and everywhere he went would be noticed as a man of mark. Capt. Anderson was sent early to West Point, where he was a. co temporary of President Davis and Gen. Lee, and remained there three Years, when be received a bayonet wound through his right wrist, which permanently disabled him. He then resigned, and studied law at Winchester under the elder Tucker, at the same time with C. J. Faulkner and H. A. Wise. He practiced law in Tennessee, and was frequently elected to the Legisla ture of that State. At the breaking out of the Mexican war he raised a large volunteer company, and was in every important engagement from Vera Cruz to Chapultepec; at which lat ter engagement he acted most heroically, ; having seventeen of his men killed the first fire, and as an appreciation of his bravery it sword was presented to him by his company, bearing the following in scription: " Never mind it, boys! Com pany, forward! Remember you are Ten nesseeans 1" pact, He was the first to raise a company of as it could be. There is no prospect volunteers in Tennessee for the Southern of change either for the better; but, . cause, and was elected as one of the Ma- as tHe winter advances, things are daily getting orse. jors of the First Tennessee regiment, but w the Confederate States having but one True friendship increases afil Major for a regiment, he resigned at this life's end approach etajtast, as thesbild. place, and then together with his lieuten- ow lengthens every degree the. atn ante, raised sru l liplendid corps of artillery de t ai nee , fps/lambi sett44.3g• of one hundred men for during the war. ' which company has now been in three itn- .J Remember 4/04 .14,16 wall, lest 414 portant istttles-m•tbe 3ai ,114:egkosin, thine el! tinsiuderose-thee. . MI A Good Samaritan. NEW SERIES.--VOL. 3, NO. 31. Greenbriar and Allegheny. He wasa ree [ 4ent, at the time he engaged for the war, of Tullahoma, Coffee county, Tenn., and was fifty-five years old. CUM The jury found a verdict that the deceased came to her death by the effect of intemperance and exposure, and the husband was discharged from custody. Mrs. Davis was about thir ty-six years of age, and bad but one child—the lad alluded to.—Pittsburg Post. Carolina Suffering as She Ought. The facts given in the letters re ceived from correspondents in South Carolina, indicate a terrible condition of affairs in that wretched State.— Ruin and dismay reign from the seaboard to the mountains. The po litical, social and financial ruin which South Carolina sought to bring upon the country has first overtaken her self. The plantation lords of the sea islands and the coast—the richest part of the State—have fled in terror; the business and commercial portion of the State's only large city is in ashes; a great part of the poor whites—and these • constitute the bulk of the white men in the State— refuse to fight; the slaves of the sea board—the densest slave section in the State—are virtually freed and in anarchy; while this element isevery where looked upon with distrust.— I The entire coast, from forty miles below to forty miles above Port Roy al, is deserted by its white inhabit ants, and the -rattle snake flag and the rebel batteries are swept from nearly the whole coast of South Car olina. The rebel soldiers are every where firing the cotton—which is the wealth and life of the State.— The way in which the rebel soldiers act seems to indicate a perfect panic, as the pickets submit to capture with out even tiring a shot; and heavy bodies of rebels scamper off at the least indication of an approach of our troops. One of the correspondents avers that not a solitary instance of pluck has yet been exhibited by the South Carolinians. The State is suf fering little short of famine; and even the coarse food of the slaves is doled out in scanty rations. The planters have demanded aid from the State; but•the State is as poor as they, and can afford no relief. Put ting all the stattered facts together which have been collected by corres pondents, from refugees, deserters, captured rebels and slaves, and the condition of South Carolina appears to be about as bad, in every rest 0
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