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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-Iy.
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MOOT AND IMOD NEALERS
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TOO LATE.
Late, late—so late—auddark and chill the
night !
Late, late—so late—but we can enter still
Too late, too late I ye cannot enter now
No light had we, for that we do repent.
And, learning this, the bridegroom will
relent.
Too late, too late ! ye cannot enter now.
Have we not heard the bridegroom is so
sweet ?
0 ! let us in, though late, to kiss his feet!
No, no—too late! ye cannot enter now
THE REBELLIOUS PRAYER.
"Let him become what he will : so
he may live, I shall be satisfied."
Thus prayed a father by the sick
bed of a youthful and an only son.
He had prayed importunately for the
abatement of the disease, but the
child continually struggled with in
tense pain. A calm at last visited
the sufferer. The pulse that bad
throbbed And fluttered beat feebly
and slowly. A death-like hue over
cast the features. The physician
shook his head sadly, and said there
vas no hope. Suddenly the father
thought that perhaps God was about
to take away his child, to save the
child from a life of error. Should he
pray God to change his purpose ?
There was a struggle in the parent's
heart. He gazed wistfully upon the
child's countenance. It was calm,
beautifully calm. The cheeks that
were wont to dimple with laughter,
were rigid, still, marble-like. The
eye, that depth of affection into which
he had loved to gaze, was unusually
brilliant. The pale, red lips wore
those marks of sorrow that always
touch a parent's heart. The longer
he looked upon his idol the more
lovely it seemed. All his desire and
affection centered upon it. It seem
ed hard to give it up—hard, very
hard. Tears filled his eyes, and be
uttered the rebellious prayer record
ed above,
The child recovered.
* * * * * *
"Father, will you see me to the
tree ?"
Many years have passed since the
scene we have been describing. That
son had passed through an almost
unpan,ileled course of iniquity and
villainy. He had broken the sensi
tive heart of an affectionate and
watchful mother, and brought her to
a suicide's grave. lie had been tried
for crime, convicted, and sentenced
to death. Pardon was offered him
by the officers of the law if he would
reform and lead an exemplary life.
But he preferred the alternative of
the gallows. In vain his white-hair
ed father expostulated with him.—
With a careless air the criminal asked
him if he would see him to the tree,
and then went out of the prison with
the sheriff, and was hanged.
—The above story is true and in
structive. In our dissatisfaction
with the prospective providenees of
God, we are in danger of having our
desire granted us. It is our duty to
bear, as well as to do, the will of God.
•All his acts towards us are acts of
love. Our journey heaveliward is
necessarily variable. We have our
Gethsemanes. Let us not forget,
when praying for the bitter cup of
affliction to pass, the words of our
Master, "Nevertheless, not as I will,
but as thou wilt."—lndependent.
OLD AGE.
Let it always be respected. It has
its dark side always, and its bright
side, when the life has been virtuous.
But in all cases let the young revere
the aged, and honor the old men and
aged women. Our heart always goes
out to children who are kind and re
spectful to the occupant of the old
arm chair ; who love to wait on the
grandmothers and grandfathers.
Old age—we are always glad to
see it in comfortable circumstances.
When people have been industrious
to bear the burdens of life in the heat
of the day, it is a peculiarly pleasant
sight to see them surrounded by a
competency in old age, as it is a bad
policy that squanders in youth and
in vigor of manhood, instead of aricu
mulating something against old age.
At that period the sprightliness of
youth and the strength of mid life
have passed. The infirmities of age,
the load of years, when "they that
look out at the windows are dark
ened, when ono starts at the sound of
the bird, when fear is in the way"—
all these make it desirable that the
aged be most kindly administered
unto by children, grand-children, and
all other members of the household.
And this care and respect for old age
the Bible enjoins as a filial and sa
cred duty upon the young.
A HERO'S DEATH.-At the bat
tle of Winchester, among the acts of
chivalry performed on the field was
one by private Graham, 84th Penn
sylvania.. He carried the regimental
standard. The left hand, which
held it, was shot off ; but before the
Star Spangled Banner fell to the
gromlid, he grasped it with the re
maining hand and held it triumph
aattly- The right arm was next dis
abled ; but before the colors fell, he
was killed In , a third ball. He was a
native of the Emerald Isle.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1862.
Bistfttaitontis.
GOOD ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS.
There are certain minor matters,
subsidiary to elegance, if not elegan
cies, and therefore worth attention.
Do not habitually prop your senten
ces on crutches, such as italics and
exclamation-points, but make them
stand without aid; if they cannot
emphasize themselves, these devices
are commonly but a confession of
helplessness. Do not leave loose
ends as you go on, straggling things,
to be caught up and dragged along
uneasily in foot-notes, but work them
all in neatly, as Biddy at her bread
pan gradually kneads in all the out
lying bits of dough, till she has one
round and comely mass. Reduce
yourself to short allowance of par
enthesis and dashes; if you employ
them merely from clumsiness, they
will lose all their proper power in
your hands. Economize quotation
marks, also, clear that dust from
your pages, assume your readers to
be acquainted with the c urreut jokes
and the stock epithets ; all persons
like the compliment of having it pre
sumed that they know something,
and prefer to discover the wit or
beauty of your allusion without a
guide board.
The same principle applies to
learned citations, and the results of
study. Knead these thoroughly in,
supplying the maximum of desired
information with a minimum of visi
ble schoolmaster. It requires no pe
dantic mention of Euclid to indicate
a mathematical mind, but only the
habitual use of clear terms and close
connections. To employ in argu
ment the forms of Whately's Logic
would render it probable that you
are juvenile and certain you are te
dious; wreathe the chain with roses.
The more you have studied foreign
languages, the more you will be dis
posed to keep 011endorff in the back
ground : the proper result of such
acquirements is visible in a finer ear
for words; so that Goethe said, the
man who had studied but one lan
guage, could not know that one.—
But spare the raw material; deal as
cautiously in Latin as did General
Jackson when Jack Downing was out
of the way, and avoid French as
some fashionable novelists avoid
English.
Do not waste a minute, not a se
cond, in trying to demonstrate to
others the merit of your own per
formance. If your work does not
vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate
it, but'you can labor steadily on to
something which needs no advocate
but itself. It was said of Hay-don,
the English artist, that, if he had ta
ken
half the pains to paint great
pictures that he took to persuade the
public that he had painted them., his
fame would have been secure. Sim
ilar was the career of poor Horne,
who wrote the farthing epic of ,
"Orion" with one grand line in it,
and a prose work without any, on
"The .lalse medium of excluding Men
of Genius from the Public." He
spent years in ineffectually trying to
repeal the exclusion of his own case,
and has since manfully gone to the
grazing regions in Australia, hoping
there at least to find the sheep and
the goats better discriminated. Do
not emulate these tragedies.
Do not complacently imagine, be
cause your first literary attempt
proved good and successful, that
your second will doubtless improve
upon it. The very contrary some
times happens. A man dreams for
years over one projected composition;
all his reading converges to it, all his
experience stands related to it, it is
the net result -of his existence up . to
a certain time, it is the cistern into
which he pours his accumulated life.
Emboldened by success, he mistakes
the cistern for a fountain, and instant
ly taps his brain again. The second
production, as compared with the
first, costs but half the pains and at
tains but a quarter part of the merit;
a little more of fluency and facility
perhaps,—but the vigor, the wealth,
the originality, the head of water,
in short, are wanting. One would
think that almost any intelligent
man might write one good thing in a
lifetime, by reserving ' himself long
enough: it is the effort after quanti
ty which proves destructive. The
greatest man has passed his zenith,
when he once begins to cheapen his
style of work and sink into a book
maker : after that, though the news
papers may never hint at it, nor his
admirers own it, the decline .of his
career is begun.—Atlantic Monthly.
Bad News for the Merrimac.
We learn by a letter from New
York to the Philadelphia Ledger, that
the work on the new iron-plated
steamer Galena, at the Brooklyn Na
vy Yard, is progressing, and will go
into commission by Thursday next.
That is, her officers, men, guns, pow
der, &c., will be all on board, and she
ready for active service. She will be
in ample time to render inestimably
effective aid at Hampton Roads.—
The Roanoke, too, whioh was sent to
New York. to be razeed and iron
plated, is to have•three Ericsson tow
ers, instead of fbar, as was at first in
tended. They are new in course of
construction. The Adirondach is re-
ceiving her engines, and will be
ready for sea in about two weeks.
' FIGHT BETWEEN THE MONITOR
AND THE MERRIMAC.
The London Telegraph is quite
effervescent over the fight between
the Monitor and the Merrimac. We
append the following :
Good-bye to the wooden walls of
Old England ! Good-bye to the "fight
ing Temeraries" and "saucy Arethu
,
saB" of the sea with their wings of
white canvas, and their ribs of island
oak! Never again will their dainty
prows plow through the blue water
to fight the battles of Albion. They
may carry stores,
like humble tra
ders,
or rot at their moorings, like
hulks, but their fighting days are
over ! They, with their fellows, are
as much out of date as a Greek -tri
reme or a Roman galley. It is the
age of iron ! We must hang a coat
of mail upon our wooden men-of-war,
and build our new ones of solid met
al. Down must come the stately ta
pering masts, and away must go all
graceful curves and lines of beauty !
Bluff and ugly bows, topsides tum
bling down like the roof of Gaffer
Giles' big barn, and the spars of bark
on the hull of a line of battle ship;
this is the new order of the day.—
Forests are nothing now, and mines
are everything: we must dig our
new navies out of the bowels of the
earth, iu place of felling them from
the green woodlands. There is an
end for good and all to the poetry
of a sea fight! In days to come the
air must be foul with a hundred fun
nels, and the water be loaded with a
hundred thousand tuns of metal.—
Enormous bolts of iron will hurtle
upon enormous iron plates, from iron
guns of awful dimensions.
The ships themselves will not be
ships, but metal monsters, horrible
beaked sea unicorns, or turtles float
ing up with death and destruction
under their impenetrable shells.—
And all because of the fight which
was fought on the 9th of March of
the present year of grace ! Our
readers will find the story in the
graphic letter of our special corres
pondent, which we print to-day; and
they may make their minds up that
since King Edward's cannon opened
the eyes of the Frenchmen at Cres
sy, there has been nothing more rev
olutionary in the annals of warfare.
DEATH OF MAJOR GENERAL SMITH.
We deeply regret to have to an
nounce the death of that gallant
Pennsylvania Major General, C. J.
Smith, commanding a division of
Gen. Grant's army. He died at Sa
vannah, Tennessee, on the 25th ult..,
of dysentery. He was taken sick
shortly after the occupation of Sa
vannah by our forces under him, and
has been suffering and sinking slowly
for some weeks, though his condition
was not thought dangerous until the
past week. His family, at Philadel
phia, had been notified and were on
their way to Savannah,
Gen. Smith was a skillful and ac
complished West Pointer, and first
became known in this war as the
commandant at Paducah. While there
the persistent efforts of a few news
paper correspondents so damaged his
reputation with Congress that his
brigadiership was refused him, and
was only given him just before the
attack on Ft. Henry at the joint so
licitations of Gens. Grant and Heeler
nand. His bravery and patriotism
were made so conspicuous at the as
sault of Ft. Donelson, that he was
made a Major General.
He afterwards commanded at
Clarksville, Tennessee, and General
Grant being in temporary. disgrace,
took charge of the expedition to Sa
vannah. At the late battle his .di
vision was ably led into action by
General Wallace of Illinois, who was
killed; but since then Gen. Smith
was able to take command at Savan
nah, and to lead a reconnoisance to
wards the enemy, and it was hoped
that he would be spared to lend his
aid in the next battle, and to win
new laurels, but it has been other
wise decreed.
MAKING A LADY A MANOR.
Gov. Yates, of Illinois, has paid a
rather unusual, but well-merited,
compliment to Mrs. Reynolds, wife
of Lieut. Reynolds,of the Seventeenth
Illinois Regiment, and a resident of
Peoria. Mrs. Reynolds has accompa
nied her husband through the great
er part of the campaign through
which the. Seventeenth has passed,
sharing with him the dangers and
privations of a soldier's life. She
was at the battle of Pittsburgh Land
ing, and, like a ministering angel, at
tended to the wants of as many
of the wounded as she could, thus
winning the gratitude and eSteein of
the bravo fellows by whom she was
surrounded. Gov. Yates, hearing of
her heroin and praiseworthy conduct,
presented her with a commission as
Major in the army, the documeut cow.
(erring the well-merited honor being
made out with all due formality, and
having attached to it the great seal
of the State. Probably no lady in
America will ever again have such a
distinguished military honor con
ferred.upon her. Mrs. 4eynolds is
now in Peoria, and leaves to join her
regiment in a day or two.
PIM *Org.
THE LITTLE 00AT.
I have a little velvet coat, with trimmings plaid
ed bright,
That has been laid for years away, close folded
out of sight ;
Yet sometimes, when I chance to come where
it has been so long,
The silken edge looks dim and blurred, because
my tears are strong.
The last time that I took it down, because the
need was o'er,
I found the pockets full of toys, that would be
use. no more :
The little bits of colored glass, and tinsel paper,
lay
Folded together with the coat, and so I let them
stay.
On all the traces that are left, reminding of the
past,
This touches nearest to the quick, because he
wore it last ;
And oftentimes the little arms were crossed up
on its breast,
That never more will clasp me here, because
they are at rest.
Without the tender little form, this coat I can
not see—
Something is every worn-down fold recalls it
back to me :
And though his every garment now is sacred
to my heart,
From this, the pockets filled by him,l could not
bear to part.
My little boy no longer needs his coat with
trimmings bright,
For, since I had it laid away, his robes have
been of white ;
So, when I meet him at the last, my longing
eyes may see
The little hand, that placed the toys, held out
again to me
TRUTH IN POETRY.
The following selection is worthy of a
place in this department of your paper.—
Reader, you will of course think it refers
to your neighbor, and not yourself. You are
mistaken :
A LITTLE MORE.
(At Thirty.)
Five hundred dollars I have saved—
A rather moderate store—
No matter ; I shall be content
When I've a little more.
*At Forty.)
Well, I can count ten thousand now—
That's bettor than before ;
And I may well be satisfied
When I've a little more.
(At Fifty.)
Some fifty thousand—pretty well--
But I have earned it sore ;
However, I shall not complain
When I've a little more.
[At Sixty.]
One hundred thousand—sick and old—
Ah ! life is a half a bore ;
Yet I can be content to live
When I've a little more.
[At Seventy.]
He dies—and to his greedy heirs
He leaves a countless store ;
His wealth has purchased him a tomb—
And very little more.
DEATH OF GEN. A. S. JOHNSTON.
A correspondent of the Louisville
Journal, w ho was on the battle-field
of Shiloh on Sunday, and was one of
a party who were conducted over the
battle-field by Gens. McCook and
Crittenden on that day, says that
Gen. McCook was very communica
tive on the occasion, and pointed out
many interesting localities as the
party rode over the ground ; On the
route, Gen. McCook halted us at the
precise point at which Provisional
Governor George W. Johnston, of
Kentucky, was mortally wounded,—
Gen. McCook was the first Federal
officer who met the rebel Provisional
Governor after he had fallen. lie
approached Mr. Johnston, and taking
him up in his arms as he lay upon
the ground, asked him his name.—
Mr. J. told him that he was George
W. Johston, of Kentucky, and asked
of Gen. McCook his mine. lie then
asked Gen. McCook if he was a Ma
son, the General replying in the af
firmative. Mr. Johnston then asked
to be permitted to have a private in
terview with the General, which was
granted.
Subsequently an ambulance, con
taining the body of 0-en. Albert Sid
ney Johnston, was driven by,
the ve
hicle having been abandoned by the
rebels, and Gov. Johnston, after an
inspection, informed Gen. McCook
that the body was that of Albert
Sidney Johnston. Gen. Johnston re
ceived but a single wound, which
was from a musket ball, and near the
right eye. Gen. McCook did not
state whether the body was buried
upon the battle-field, or restored to
the rebel army under a flag of truce.
'be above, however, is a correct re
port of the statement made by Gen.
XeCook in the presence of several
gentlemen. Gen. Johnston may have
been wounded early in the ft& on
R.unday;. be may have died in Col.
Preston's arms; and his body may
have been sent South for interment;
but his remains were in the hands of
the Federal troops on Monday, the
The horror of horrors connected
with this battle, writes a Pittsburgh
correspondent, is the treatment of
the wounded. In the first place,
there were poor facilities here for
treatment, and, in the second place,
there were not a fifth enough sur
aeons to attend to them. I shall at
a
present relate only one fact. A large
number of the wounded had crawled
or been carried to the bluff opposite
the landing, on Sunday and Monday.
Some found the shelter of tents, but
others lay out in the open air. There
those men lay, without a surgeon or at
tendant, without a mouthful to eat or
drink, until Wednesday morning.
They groaned and died with no
one near to pity them, and the dead
and the dying lay there together.—
On Wednesday morning one surgeon
was sent to them, and one attendant,
with hard crackers and water ! And
that was their treatment until they
either died or were conveyed to one
of the boats which presently came
to the relief of the wounded. An
eye witness, an intelligent officer,
who was with this one party of the
wounded early on Wednesday morn
ing, says the scene was horrible, and
he sat down and wept like a child.
I must say a word in behalf of the
surgeons here. They have generally
labored like heroes, and many arc
now exhausted. If their number
were treble they would not have been
equal to the task, the more especially
as they had very few facilities to op
erate with. The ihult is with the
Government. The medical depart
ment of the army is a half century
behind the age, and iu the hands of
an official aristocracy, that cares no
more for the lives of men than they
do for hogs. God have mercy upon
them, for when the country is fully
awakened to the truth, the people
will not.
—English Paper
At present, nearly a week after
the battle, many of the wounded are
not cared for. They are lying about
in tents, upon straw, with no nour
ishment, and exposed to the weather.
Several boat loads have been shipped
away, - but still many, very many,
are here. I now write in the cabin
of the Tycoon, with four rows of
them in front of me. Our boat, the
first one of the Cincinnati Sanitary
Commission, arrived at three o'clock.
By eight o'clock, her cabin, her
guards and her decks were filled with
the wounded. How thankful the
poor fellows were, when laid on soft
beds, between clean sheets, and stim
ulated by nourishing food.
The camps here are in an awful
condition. The mud, at places, knee
deep, and down about the landing it
is awful. A three hours tramp this
afternoon brought me back a mud
daubed institution.
SKIRMISH WITH ASHBY'S TROOPS
--THE ENEMY REPULSED.
HARRISONBURCI, VA., April 27.
Yesterday afternoon the pickets of
Col. Donnelly's brigade, stationed
eight miles hence, on the Gordonville
road, were attacked by a large force
of Col. Ashby's rear guard, and driv
en back. One man, named Isaac
Seelley, of the 46th Pennsylvania
regiment, was killed, and three oth
ers were wounded.
The reserve of the 46th Pennsyl
vania Regiment, and a section of
Hampton's battery then advanced
and repulsed the rebels. They re
treated into a wood, where several
of • our shells burst in their very
midst. A wagon was seen gathering
up and carrying off their dead and
wounded.
Owing to the horrible state of the
roads between this town and Colonel
Donnelley's encampment, and the
impossibitity of forwarding supplies,
he has been ordered to take up a new
position nearer the town, until the
roads are in better condition.
The main body of Gen. Jackson's
army is encamped near the east
bank of the Shenandoah river. The
bridge over the river was strongly
picketed by him, and underlaid with
inflammable material ready to fire at
our approach.
Captain Bowen, of the Twenty
eighth New York, is performing pro
vost duty in town. The orderly de
portment ofour troops is a convincing
proof to the population, that our ob
ject is but a mission of peace, and
that the secession leaders have been
guilty of gross misrepresentation and
duplicity towards them.
All the churches whose pastors
are not in the Secession army are
open to-day, and the town wears the
appearance of a Northern country
Sabbath.
Mr. GEORGE PEABODY'S unprece
dented munificence has been formally
consummated in a correspondence
now published, in which he places
one hundred and fifty -thousand
pounds sterling at the disposal of Mr.
ADAM% the American. Minister, Lord
STANLEY, Sir &MESON TENNENT, and
S&MrSON and Moneta, as.
trustees for the purpose •of relieving,
the poor of London.
7th inst., and it is the writer's opin
ion that they were buried upon the
field of Shiloh by the Federal troops.
HORRIBLE NEGLECT of the WOUND-
ED.
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 3, NO. 47.
HOW NELSON SAVED THE DAY.
The timely arrival of Gen. Buell's
advance at Pittsburgh Landing is
due to Gen. Nelson's irrepressible de
sire to go ahead. When Nelson ar
rived at Duck river he found
McCook's Division engaged in build
ing a bridge, but he pronounced the
river fordable; ordered his men to
strip off everything except their
hats, and carry their clothes in bun
dles on their bayonets. Then he or
dered them to wade and swim across,
and they did. He pushed on; arrived
at Savannah on Saturday, and wished
to go to Pittsburgh at once, but could
not get orders to that effect. He
waited impatiently until he heard
the noise of cannon on Sunday, when
he pushed along without orders, thus
laying himself liable to be court
martialed, and arrived on the battle
field in the evening, barely in time
to save the army and meet the mes
sengers Gen. Grant had dispatched
for him.
The Rising amt.
As we proceeded, the timid ap
proach of twilight became more per
ceptible; the intense blue of the sky
began to soften ; the smaller stars,
like little children, went first to rest;
the sister beams of the Pleiades soon
melted together, but the bright con
stellations of the West and North
remained unchanged. Steadily the
wondrous transfiguration went on.—
Hands of angels hidden from mor
tal eyes shifted the scenery of
the heavens ; the glories of night
dissolved into the glories of the
dawn. The blue sky now turned
more softly grey; the great watch
stars shut up their holy eyes; the
East began to kindle. Faint streaks
of purple soon blushed along the sky;
the whole celestial concave was filled
with the inflowing tides of the morn
ing light, pouring down from above
in one great ocean of radiance, till a
flash of purple fire blazed out from
above the horizon, and turned the
dewy tear-drops of flower and leaf
into rubies and diamonds. In a few
seconds the everlasting gates of the
morning were thrown wide open, and
the lord of day, arrayed in glories too
severe for the gaze of man, began his
state.—Edward Everett.
SINGULAR COOLNESS UNDER FIRE,
Col. A Willich, commander of the
Indiana German Thirty-second,
which had the brilliant fight some
months since, across from Munfords
vine, Kentucky, has sent in his re
port of the action of his regiment
at Pittsburgh. They had ten killed
and ninety-two wounded. Every sin
gle officer and all the privates, with
a few e.xceptions, fought with the ut
most bravery and coolness under the
hottest fire. "As a proof of the lat
ter, I will mention," says Col. WU
lich, "that when their firing becatae
a little 'wild,' during the last charge.
I stopped the firing and drilled them
in the manual of arms, which they
all went through as if on the parade
ground; they then opened a deliber
ate, steady and effective fire."
A CONFESSION.
After the capture of Island No. 10,
two confederate mail-bags were
found ready to be sent away. In a
letter to lion. A. M. Gentry, of Tex
as, from s rebel Colonel, the follow
ing passage occurs : " I tell you,
Colonel, that there is no use in fur.
ther resistance. We have neither
the men nor the means to carry on
the war. Our troops are utterly de
moralized, and heartsick and home
sick. 3.1 - y regiment has not been
paid a cent in five months, and to-day
I, who you know am worth, in ordi
nary times, one hundred thousand
dollars, am obliged to borrow the
price of the postage upon this lettf-r
How can men be expected to fight
under such circumstances ?"
Visitors from Liberia.
President Benson, of Liberia, his
secretary and oldest son, left Mon
rovia in March, for England and Eu
rope, the last Legislature having
granted Mr. Benson leave of absence;
He proposes to make a visit to the
United States before his return to At
rice.: lie was accompanied to Env:-
land by the Rev. John Seys,
United States agent at Liberia. Mr
Seys reached New York in the Pe•
sia.
Siirin the ruins of Herculaneu:-.
the excavations are carried on a!
tively. Toward the latter end
December last two lions were foul
in that town, half a metre long, a!
carved in marble. The style NT,
Grecian, of a high order of art
Other interesting objects have be ,1
recovered, such as fragments of t .1-
ried wooden furniture, chairs,
coffers, constructed,, of bamboo
cane, grindstones, &v.
The Athena ifesBenger notice,
dreadful accident At Coolville. A
party of two men and six WOMen
attempted to aroma the Hocking riv
er in s boat. The party bech m
frightened, Kylne Of thelputen r4e,h
ed. to ther side ,of thi ** 4 Ad all
wee crat e r
er. 'au
exempt one 'were drortßeti