& cr - I Co' Cr I i\ I' l ' I I (d C Al 1 Afamilv Vaper-llenatelt to 'politics, Agriculture, fittraturt, srience, Art, foreign, pooh( alb @turd juttiligruct, ESTABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISHED BY B. W. JONES & JAMES S. JENNINGS, WAYNESBURG, GREENE CO., PA 70FFICIC NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUARE. WaltSitillEt fluascairms.—sl 50 in advance; $1 75 at the ex piration ofsix months; $2 00 within the year; $2 50 after the expiration of the year. AnvEttrismuswrs ' inserted at $1 00 per square for three insertions, and 25 cents a square for each addition. al insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) Ey• A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. U7' Joe PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the best style, and on reasonable terms, at the" Messenger" Job office. aputsburft 'fusintss Qtarbs. ATTORNEYS: R. A. McCONNELL, 9 TTORNE Y AND COUNSELLOR RT LOW, Waynesburg, Pa. Office In the new frame building corner of Main and Washington streets, and nearly opposite the new lintel. Collections, &c., will receive prompt attention . Waynesburg, February 5, 1862-Iy. .1. A.. 1. BCCHANAN. WM. C. LINDSEY. BUCHANAN & LINDSEY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, W aynesburg, Pa. Office on the North side of Main street, two doors West of the "Republican" Office. Jan. I, 1862. A. A. PUBMAN. J. G. RITCHIE. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. [ErAll business in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. it W. DOWNEY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Led- Building. opposite the COurtlloUse. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building, adjoining the Yost Office. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. = BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. P - 4:vvi)(•)1-‘:* DR. A. G. CROSS AlrouLD very respectfully tender his services as a y PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopest by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg, January 8, 1862. DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iv. DRUGS DR. W. L. CREIGH, Phyrieian and Surgeon, And dealer in Drugs, Medicines. Oils, Paints, &c:, acc.., Main street, a few doors east of the Bank. 'Bent. 11, 1861-Iy. M. A. HARVEY, Dntggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MERCHANTS 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 large stock of Seasonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and Notions generally. . 11, 1861—Iyi ANDREW WILSON, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Hardware, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Main street, one door east of the Old Bank. Sept. 11, 1861—ly. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, one door west of the Adams Rouse, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro ceries, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite tne-Green House. Main street. Sept. 11, 1861--ly, CLOTHING N. CLARK, peeler in Men and Boy's Clothing, Cloths, Cassi merea, Satinets, Rats and Cape, &c., Main street. op. pollee the Court House. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. • A. J. SOWERS, eater in It s eetxd ta ß i r d 's ITotheein, Gentlemen's ate an pe, F , lr d - B6R4quildin, MLitt street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 m BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS J. D. COSGRAY, Biootand Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite! lhe ‘ "Farnier's.and Drover's Bank." Every style of Boois and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. 4411.11, 1861-Iy. J. B. RICKEY, Bat and Shoe maker, Sayees Corner, Main street. Bootd and Shoes of every variety always on hand or made to order on short notice. Sett. n, 1.1361-Iy. I')-T.I.i*Vi*WIL•I-1 , i 0' 4 04 o'4' JOSEPH YATER Dealer in Groceriea and Confectioneries. Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. Dprr, Cask paid for good eating Apples. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. .. • JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and .Confectionaries, and Variety Goods Generally, Wilson's New Building, Main street. 4 6 11 11 % 1661-Iy. BOOMS. tie. LEWIS DAY, Menler hi School and liisceHaneous Books, Station ery', Ink, Magazines and Papers, Wilson's Old Build ins, Idenestrust. Beat. 11,- 1861-Iy. ISAMIL bAMERS' & DROVERS' BANK, Waynesburg. Pa. C. A . ,BLACK, Pres't. J. LAZEAR, Cashier. stecousre WEDNESDAY. 4 0 1M -I, *. Mumma amp mamma. ": • - WALI A IST it, lellae 'weintturger .r . ' 11 " . " 1 " 6 " doom =MOM gtint DattN. Under the ice the waters run ; Under the ice our spirits lie ; The genial glow of the summer sun Shall loosen their fetters by and by. Moan and groan in thy prison cold, River of life—river of love ; The winter is growing worn and old, The frost is leaving the melting world, And the sun shines bright above. Under the ice, ander the snow. Our lives are bound in a crystal ring ; Ry and by will the South winds blow, And the roses bloom on the banks of Spring. Moan and groan in thy fetters strong, River of life—river of love ; The nights grow short, the days grow long, Weaker and weaker the bonds of wrong, And the sun shines brighter above. Under the ice our souls are hid; Under the ice our good deeds grow ; Men but credit the wrong we did, Never the motives that lay below. Moan and groan in thy prison cold, River of life—river of love ; The winter of life is growing old, The frost is leaving the melting mould, And the sun shines warm above. Under the ice we hide our wrong— Under the ice that has chilled us through ! Oh! that friends who have known us long Dare to doubt that we are good and true. Moan and groan in thy prison cold, River of life—river of love ; Winter growing wan and old, Roses stir in the melting mould ; We shall be known above. = grant :i; iortitang. In the campaign of Napoleon in Russia, while the French army was retreating from Moscow, there lay in a poor low cottage, in a village, an invalid boy. This village was exactly in the course of the retreat ing army, and already the reports of its approach had reached and ex cited the terrified inhabitants. In their turn they began to make prep arations for retreat; for they knew there was no hope for them from the hands of the soldiery, seeking their own preservation, and gave no quarters. Every one who had the strength to fly, fled; some trying to take with them their worldly goods, some to conceal them. The little vil lage was fast growing deserted. Some burnt their houses or dismantled them. The old were placed in wag ons, and the young hurried their fam ilies away with them. But in the little cottage there was none of this bustle. The poor crip pled boy could not move from his bed. The widowed mother had no friends near enough to spare a thought for her in this time of trouble, when every one thought• only of those nearest to him and of himself.— What chance of flight was there for her and her young children, among whom one was the poor crippled boy. It was evening and the sound of dis tant voices and preparations had died away. The poor boy was wakeful with terror, now urging his mother to leave him to his fate, now dreading lest she should take him at his word and leave him behind. "The neighbors are just going away; I hear them no longer," he said, "I am so selfish, I have kept you here. Take the little girls with you; it is not too late. And I am safe; who will hurt a poor, helpless boy ?" "We arc all safe," aswcred the mother, "God will not leave us, though all else forsake us." "But what can help us ?" persisted the boy, "Who can defend us from their cruelty? Such stories as I have heard of the ravages of these men! They are not men, they are wild beasts. Oh why was I made so weak—so weak as to be utterly use less? No strength even, to fly.' "There is a sure wall for the de fenceless," answered the mother.— "God will build us a sure wall." "You are my strength now," said the boy; "I thank God that you did not deort me. I am so weak, I cling to you. Do not leave me. In deed I fancy I can see the cruel sol diers hurrying in. We are too poor to satisfy them, and tiey would pour their vengeance upon us! And yet you ought to leave ! What right have I to keep you here. And I shall suffer more if I see you suffer." "God will be our .mfugn and de fence," still said the mother; and at length, with low, quieting words, she stilled the anxious boy, till he, too, slept like the sisters. The morning came of the day that was to bring the dreaded enemy. The mother and children opened their eyes to find that "a sure wall" had indeed been built for their defence. The snow had begun to fall the evening before. Through the night it had collecte4 A high wind bad blown the snow in *fine apiset the low house, eo that Mirlcalirety covered it. A low Sl* behind IwWittiad the waY ttt UNDER THE DOE. FOR FEBRUARY A Touching Incident. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1862. the out-house, where the animals were, and for a few days the mother and children kept themselves alive within their cottage, shut in and concealed by the heavy barricade of snow. It was during that time that the dreaded scourge passed over the vil. lage. Every house was ransacked; all the wealthier ones deprived of their luxuries, and the poorer ones robbed of their necessities. But the low-roofed cottage lay sheltered be neath its wall of snow, which, in the silent night, had gathered around it. God had protected the defenceless with "a sure wall." PRINTER'S ESTATE. An esteemed friend and a subscri ber writes to us inclosing the follow ing very truth-telling and suggestive article: The printer's dollars—where they are. A dollar here and a dollar there scattered over numerous small towns, all over the country, miles and miles apart—how shall they be gathered together? The paper maker, the building owner, the journeyman com positor, the grocer, the tailor, and all assistants to him in carrying on his business, have their demands, hardly ever so small as a single dollar, but the mites from here and there must be diligently gathered and patiently hoarded, or the wherewith to dis charge the large liabilities will never become sufficiently bulky. We im agine the printer will have to get up an address to his widely scattered dollars, something like the following: "Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes and all the manner of fractions in which ye are divided, collect yourselves and come home I Ye arc wanted! Com binations of all sorts of men that help the printer to become a proprietor, gather such force, and demand with such good reasons, your appearance at his counter, that nothing short of a sight of you will appease him.— Collect yourselves, for valuable as you are in the aggregate, single you will never pay the cost of gathering.— Come in here, in single file, that the printer may form you into a battal ion, and send you forth again to bat tle for him, and vindicate his feeble credit!" Reader are you sure you havn't a couple of the printer's dol lars sticking about your clothes. A New Disease. An Alabama volunteer writes from one of the rebel camps: "There's a new disease broken out here—the 'camp disease,' they call it. The first symptom is a horror of gun powder. The patient can't abide the smell of it, but is seized with a ner vous trembling of the knees, and a whiteness about the liver, and a long ing inclination to advance backward. That's the way the water serves mad dogs. Then comes what our Major calls home fever; and next the sufferer's wife and nine children are taken sick; after which the poor fel low takes a collapse, and then a re lapse. But it's mighty hard to get a discharge, or even a furlough—aw ful hard. Fact is, you can't do it without working the thing very low down. "I tell you what, Bob, between you and me, I'm afraid I'm taking the dis ease myself ; I don't like the reports we hear every day from the coast.— We hear cannon booming down there by the hour, and they say the Yan kees are going to play the very devil with our ducks. I think I can detect a faint smell of powder in the breeze, and feel a strange desire to go into some hole or other. It may be the climate; I hope so, but don't see how that should make me so cold about the haversack every time I see a bayonet. If I only had some good spirits, now, to take every, morning, I think I could stand it very well.— Please send me some immediately on receipt of this. (N. B.—Mark the box 'Drugs, care Surgeon 2d Batt. Ala. Vols.') Our Major is sharp as a brier, and down on brandy like a duck on a June-bug." ZDr. McKenzie, the litervy ed itor of the Philadelphia Press, who is writing sketches of Irish actors and actresses, relates of the celebra ted Harriet Mellon, that in 1815, be ing then "fat, fair, and forty," she retired from the stage to wed Mr. Coutts, the wealthy London banker, at whose death, in 1822, she succeed ed to all his fortune—a trifle of about $10;000,000. A lady with so many sterling charms was sure to have suitors—among the rest, the Duke of York, uncle to Queen Victoria, was considered likely to win her plump hand, filled with so much treasure. The lady, however, wore weeds for five years, and then, in 1827, bestow ed herself in marriage upon the 9th Duke of St. Albans—her age being fifty-two while her Berse.dick was not twenty-seven. Incongruous as this union appeared—though the Duke was the lineal descendant of Nell Gwynne, an actress, and the only faithful mistress of Charles II —it was not unhappy. The relations of husband and wife, were strictly platonic, from first to list, it is said. The lady wanted rack, and became a Duchess. The gentleman wanted mone . y, and th e pew of a Honor. was It oommaad., At her death, in 1837, she left him well provided for, but bequeathed the bulk of Mr. •Coutts' immense fortune to his relative, the eldest daughter ,of Sir Francis Burdett, who, by change of name, is now Miss Angela Bur dett Coutts, also happening to be the wealthiest woman in England. Gov. Wise and his Dead Bon. The Norfolk correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, under date of the 15th inst., writes :—"Last night, when the steamer arrived at Cur rituck, Gen. Wise directed that the coffin containing the remains of his son be opened. Then, 1 learn from those who were present, a scene transpired that words cannot de scribe. The old hero bent over the body of his son, on whose pale face the full moon thew its light, kissed the cold brow many times, and ex claimed in an agony of emotion, "Oh, my brave boy, you have died for me —you have died for !" That power ful old hero of Eastern Virginia, as famous for the generous impulses of his soul as for his bravery and prow ess, recovering now from his illness, and nerved perhance more strongly by the great loss he has sustained, will fight the enemy with an energy and a determination that will scarce ly be successfilly resisted by the con gregated enemies of freedom and hu manity." A Case of Insanity. "Simon Brown was a dissenting minister of great intellectual powers. He became insane. His delusion was, that he had fallen under the sensible displeasure of God, who had caused his rational soul gradu ally to perish, and left him only, in common with brutes, an animal life; that it was therefore profane in him to pray, and incongruous to be pres ent at the prayers of others. In this opinion he was inflexible. Being once importuned to say grace at the table of a friend, he repeatedly ex cused himself, but the request being still repeated, and the company kept standing, he discovered evident to kens of distress, and after some ir resolute gestures and hesitation, ex pressed with great fervor this ejacu lation : 'Most merciful and Almighty God ! let thy Spirit which moved upon the face of the waters when there was no light, descend upon me, that from this darkness there may rise up a man to praise thee!'" —Dr. Forbes Winslow's Obscure Dis eases of the Brain and Mind. Here is a ghost story or adven ture, which recently occured in Lim erick, Ireland : "A woman not far from Emly, buried her husband a few month ago. A knock came to the doi some night last month. She ask 4 who was there. A hollow voit answered, am your husband, whoi you buried, and I am very miserabl in purgatory till my debts are pai Sell the two pigs you have and sure to have the money for me such a night when I call." The pot woman did as she required, and fe, happy at being able to meet his r$ quest, whether through fear or lo' (has he appeared with his shroud ai pale face.) Between the first al_ second visit of the ghost, the poor woman went and told her story to the priest; he told her it was all very good, but at the same time to have two policemen in the house when she would be giving the money. Ac cordingly, after getting the money, the pugatorial and shrouded ghost came, and was arrested by the police and lodged in Limerick jail, there to undergo a little more purgatory till his trial comes on. This ghost turned out to be a near neighbor, who is godfather to one of her children." *Among the charming customs of the Siamese people is one which will particularly commend itself to people who hate children and are bothered by noisy boys. Homicide in Siam is punishable at a regular tariff of prices. Thus, the penalty for killing a babe of from one to three months is 6 "ticul," or about $3 50; for a child of four years about $lO ; for a boy of fifteen about $l5; and for a man between isventy-six and forty nearly $3O. Beyond the age of forty years the penalties decrease, so that it is no more expensive to kill an old man from eighty-six to ninety years than an infant of two months. Women can be killed at two-thirds of the rates for males.— Another pleasing custom is that which allows a man to hire out his wife to his creditor as a slave, and thus cancel his debt by means of her toil. The throne of Siam has been occu pied by four successive dynasties, the first dating from 1851, comprising twenty-one kings, and ending in 1603; the second comprised but three kings, and ended 1831; the third comprised eleven kings, and ended in 1782, when the present dynasty came to power. The present king is finy-six years old, and ascended the throne in 1851. The Siamese year beei: on the 12th of March. Siamese have a marine of twenV steamers and many sailing mink Rich Scene in the Wheeling Legislature. The Wheeling Legislature having fin ished the business before it, adjourned on Thursday evening. Immediately previous to adjournment the following rather rich proceedings transpired : Mr. Radcliffe of fered a resolution proposing to ascertain if the Senate would accept the ten command ments without amendment, if first passed by the House. He remarked that no prop osition from the House had ever gone to the Senate without coming back amended. He desired, before the adjournment, to submit something which would meet their approbation. The Speaker appointed Mr. Ratcliffe to communicate the passage of the resolution to the Senate. Mr. R. ac cordingly picked up the resolution, and amidst great laughter proceeded to the Senate chamber. He subsequently re turned and reported to the House that the Senate insisted that there were thirteen commandments, and refused therefore to accept the House resolution without amendment An Escape. A day or two since, just before the train on the Detroit and Milwau kie Road reached Grand Rapids, , Ind while it was running down a grade at a high rate of speed, the fireman, a short, fat, jolly son of the Emerald Isle, went to the forward part of the engine to oil up, and, in doing so, missed his hold and pitched off the locomotive. The engineer at once whistled down the brakes, reversed his engine, and finally brought his train to a halt. The conductor rush ed out, breathless, to learn the na ture of the stoppage, and was in formed that the fireman was killed. The train was slowly backed up to discover and secure the remains of the unfortunate m-an ; and when nearly back to the scene of disaster, the indomitable genius was discover ed running up, none the worse for the fall. Ills first salutation, on get ting within earshot was, "Is it the ile can yez are afther?" The fireman can consider himself as one of the exempt from railroad accidents.— Detroit Free Press. Gen. McClellan. In a review of the late victories, says the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, the mind naturally reverts to the Commander-in-Chief, and the debt of gratitude which the nation owes to him for all this success. His cool ness, his calm deliberation, patient waiting, working and planning, steadfastly resisting all sneers, abuse, ridicule, and his far seeing judgmeht are the original means to which, un der God, the nation owes the brilliant success of the present time. * We yesterday heard a neatly dress ed, anxious looking young woman enquire for a letter at the post office. The clerk "dealt" the package and shook his head in a negative manner, when the woman turned away and sobbed as if her heart would break. We learned that her face was as familiar at the little window of the office as the aperture itself, and although she never got the expected letter she never lost hope, but came again and again as regularly as the mails. At last "The sickening pang of hope deferred" was thus publicly manifested in broken hearted sobs that must have excited the sympathy of the hardest heart. Who the letter is expected from or what the nature of its contents, can only be conjectured, but the post office clerks witness similar scenes under similar circumstances almost every day. Letters are expected and longed for from absent lovers, husbands and sons and the office is hopelessly haunted with the same anxious faces day after day. Sar A good man should pray to be de livered from applause. Cowper is the only Christian poet who did not deteriorate un der fame. Milton became an Arian, Young a worldling, Henry Kirke White a sentimentalist ; even in Wordsworth, the esthetic finally overshadowed the doc trinal, as in an old church the ivy will overgrow the butresses. And what saved Cowper, may have been that which seemed at the time the inexplicable mystery of his lot—his insanity. Earnestly should the man that suspects himself of talent, pray, Ist, that he should not know it from him self ; and, 2dly, that he should not know it from other people. 'The brave Union soldier who carried captive the heart of a beauti ful and wealthy , heiress at Richmond, and is soon to be married to her, is Sergeant Moulton, of the third Con necticut Regiment. He was taken prisoner at Bull Run, sent to Rich mond, and attracted the notice of the young lady, who supplied the object of her affection with clothing, luxuries and money, exchanged min iatures with him, • and has eloped from the rebel capitol . xi order to share his fortunes. FIRST VICTORY ; AND THEN WHAT? Let no one suppose that the victory of our arms over the South is going to recon cile the Northern Abolitionists to a: settle ment of our troubles. When the fighting the South in arms is over, or even the pros pect of it being over, then will come the tug of war, politically. The abolitionists, headed by Sulam in the Senate, never in tend the South shall be received back into the Union, peaceably, amicably, honora bly, as States, part and parcel of this Union, as they once were. It therefore behooves every true friend to the Union as it was, and as our army is fighting to make it, to be wary and vigilant. We have full confidence in our new Secretary of War, Mr. STANTON, in Gene. McCuria.AN, HALLECK, BUEL, GRANT, &c., &C., but we have not the faith in Congress that we probably should have, that the position of these men will be sus tained. The Union feeling South will melt as snow before an April sun, if the abolition, emancipation measures before Congress should pass. It would create a new revo lution in Western Virginia, Missouri, and Kentucky, and involve the whole North in inextricable dissensions, and lose us the great portion of our army, for brave as it is, it will not fight for the negro—but for the Union.—Crisis. Young Old People. Some look old at less than forty; others beyond. three score have the vivacity, the sprightliness and the spring of youth. One of the most active politicians of the times is now in his seventy-fifth year, and yet goes by the name of "the ever youthful Palmerston ;" and with the weight of nations on his shoulders, will find time to take a rapid ride on horse back daily, from ten to twenty miles. The heavy cares and severe labors of the Earl of Malmsbury average eleven hours a day, and yet at the age of fifty years, he is scarcely above forty in appearance. It is by no moans an uncommon thing to read the .deaths of men and women of the English nobility at eighty and ninety years, to be accounted for in part by their taking time to do things, and thereby doubling the time for doing them. The British are a dignified people, with the result of being as a nation, the most solid the most sub stantial, and the greatest on the globe. They are worthy of the greatness, and we, above all the peo ple, should be proud of it. Ameri cans, on the other hand, are a hasty race; their habitual hurries and anx ieties eat out the very essence of life before half that life is done, and all bloodless, fidgety, skinny and thin, we are but "a vapor that appeareth little time, and then vanisheth . The Dying Star. Ike these drooping, dying stars, loved ones go away from our ~ The stars of hopes, our am ,ns our prayers, whose light s ever before us, leading on and hey suddenly fade from the firm ;lA of our hearts, and their place mpty and dark. A mother's ly, soft and earnest light, that \ed through all our wants and , ws ; a father's strong, quick light, that kept our feet from stum bling in the dark and treacherous ways; a sister's light, so mild, so pure, so constant and so firm, shining upon us from gentle, loving eyes, and persuading us to grace and good ness; a brother's light, for ever sleep ing in our souls, all our goings and our comings; a friend's light, true and trusty—gone out for ever? No! no ! The light has not gone out.— It is shining beyond the stars. Encouraging to Smokers. There is said to be living in Oswe go, New York, a man one hundred and eighteen years old, who has smoked for one hundred years, and consumed a thousandvounds ofweed. Moreover, as showing that he is not likely to end in smoke, he is the father of twenty-five children, all liv ing. Mir If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in com pany with him. The light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well or ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you. Our thoughts, like the waters of the sea, when exhaled toward heaven, will lose all their bitterness and saltness, and sweeten into an amiable humanity, until they descend into gentle showers of love and kindness upon our fellow-men. lerA North Carolinian upon hear ing that grass was growing in the streets of his native city became fran tic with joy. The idea that graas would grow anywhere in North Carolina was perfectly delightful to him. air All men who do anything must en dure s depreciation of their efforts. It is the dirt which their chttlialitteebt •threw up. NEW SERIES. --VOL. 3, NO. 40. Bellows on Proraisent Men. Bev. Dr. Bellows delivered a lee turebon the war, in Portland, last week, in the course of which be thus sketched some ofthe prominent mem bers of the government. We quote from the report in the Portland Transcript : President Lincoln he characterized as simple, faithful, firm unwavering, unambitious, honest— not a genius—Jackson had not a * more unbending will, and lam sure he was not honester—just the man to hold the helm atthistime—doesn't care a snap whether he is to be the next President or not—a long-mind ed, as he is a long-bodied man, look ing on all sides of the question— Providence never gave us a better man than honest Abe. [Applause.] Mr. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury is Jove like in person, a man of large judgment, comprehen sive mind, honest purposes—possi bly a little ambitious, as Caesar was— but incorruptible. Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War, it would do you good to see. He looks like Chapin— a benevolent, genial man, of great en ergy, and every inch a man. Gen. McClellan was described at length as compact, handsome, supple, graceful iu movement, no marked prominence of intellect, (glad of it, for we Yan kees are apt to be all head,) unaf fectedly dignified and frank, not afraid of responsibility, an air of suc cess about him, something of the man of destiny, (he has a heavy un der jaw ;)he does not look great, but as though he was certain to do groat things—a true product of America, combining all the best products of Young America ; standittle on precedent, is getting re to do the thing, and will yet win the great victory and deliver us from all our troubles. sorThere will be a rush of women towards Washington at once. The fair sex will be excited beyond meas ure to know that female clerks are to be appointed in the dead-letter office, to read and to return letters. What a chance for learning secrets 1 tar A Russian student at Heidel berg has committed suicide in the cause of science. He wished to try on himself the effect of cyanure po tassium. He did so, and has left a record of the different phases of his self-poisoning. NJ - There is some excuse, after all, for Floyd's sudden departure from Fort Donelson. It is• located in :if hemp country. From the Cumberland Prisilloyieriai.' 80HOLAREHIP HOLDERS in WAYMM- BURG OOLLEGL We take this method of saying to you that we will meet you at THomasPoixoca's in Jefferson, Greene county, on Monday, March 24th, from 9 o'clock, A. M., until 11 A. M. At Dr. JOHN CARY'S, in Prosperl ity, on Tuesday, March 25th. Will Bro. Edmiston meet us there? At NATRANiE CLARK'S business room in Waynesburg, on the afternoon of the 26th, and the fore noon of the 27th of March. I will also be at the meeting of the Umon PRESBY TERY, on the first day of its Spring Session. The object of thus meeting you at the above places, is that we may receive the interest due on your notes, and also to fa vor those whose notes are due, with the opportunity of paying them off, and lifting them. We would say to those who made pledges at the Synod, (held in Carmichael's) in the way of donations, we expect theft► met also. A majority of them have promptly paid, while some few have not paid anything. Brethren, here is a moral obligation which we hope will be promptly met. Some others made promises of a smiler kind to Bro. Hudson, these are in cluded in this call. Now Brethren, you know the condition of a majority of the notes that when you fail to pay the inter est your note can be collected at any time. We have already commenced leaving notes with Attorneys for collection. This, to us, is an unpleasant business, but you cannot blame us, for we, as the agent, go by orders given, and as a faithful servant we shall know no man after the flesh, but treat all alike. Besides, we have given you ample warning. Now, Brethren of our own Church, wit you see the Institution suffer, or will you come up like men and pay off your in debtedness ? Some we meet with, tell us "I think my scholarship has been rented," but cannot tell us just to what period the interest is paid. No matter who went on your scholarship, you are responsible for the interest, and no one else is. Now, Brethren, do for pity's sake, and for the sake of system, say this no more, but find out at once, how your account stands, and let us know, (for we want nothing but what is honest,) and then when you rent your scholarship, see that a receipt is ta ken for the interest paid. The settlement of these old, looee atr counts is your, not my business. Brethren of the Ministry, and Eldership, you Ora' me in this unpleasant position, %ilk* silt me by PtOug,dsktOt l , ll b • stiff 004 Oflmal *al Me. L. N. GARY; Arm* •
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