• .• ti • . - • Ph:li • / . -t) • • . c • I ,‘i ' _ • 1 % •/ 11 Ik ‘ \ i r -I • itl 4 11 L t . ) 40 ) ) - • • • foil" Vaptr---penotti to potion', Agriculture, 'fittraturt, Art, foreign, pomestic lob 'Jrntral jutelligtort, etc ESTABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISHED BY E. W. JONES & JAMES S. JENTIN GS, AT WAYNESBURG, GREENE CO., PA grOPPICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SitIIARIG..,CIi ilaingtOt Suascitrrion.-512.00 in advance ; $2.25 at the ex piration of six months; $2.50 after .the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at $1.25 per square for three insertions, and 25 ma. a square for each addition al insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) Era lib eral deduction made to yearly advertisers. Earr Joa• ?alarms, of all kinds, executed in the best style, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Job Office. '1,61 aguesinag lkusintss Carbs. ATTORNEYS , IMO. L. WYLY. 3. A. 3. DUCHADAII, D. IL P. MISS. WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, . Attorney. *. Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. W ill practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining enmities. Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main street, in*he Old Bank Building. Jan. 28, 1863.-13, A. A. TURMAN. .1 G. smuts. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. All business in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. R. W. DOWNEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. EU - Office in I edwith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. R. •. •I'CON'NELL nrcasnrarai & 111119PMELN, ITTORNE TS AND COUNSELLORS AT LA W Waynesburg, Pa. Err Office In the "Wright lit Lse," East Door. &Inflections, &c•, will receive prompt attention Waynesburg. Amu DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building, adjoining the Post Office. dept. 11, 1861-Iy. O. A. SLACK. JOAN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN , ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS Al JAW Moe in the Court Ilonee, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1881-Iy. =4:4:)(0 81. M. BLACHLEY L _M. D. rannuazzur at 11731.611C1N, 011ien--Bistelalers Batldling, Malin St., RSEIPSCTFULLY announces to the citizens 01 Waynesburg and vicinity that he has returned from the Hospital Corps of the Army and tesunted the prac tice of medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June ii, 1362.-1). DR. A. O. CROSS 01ILD veryrespecthaly tender his services as a ler PHTAMAN AND ggigGSON, to the people or sync:thing and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and stnct attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Wiynesburg. January 8, 1862. DR. A. 3. BGGY IESPECTFULLY offers his services to the citinens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and u t eppon. Oglic.e opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention to business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. April 9, 1862. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Mraggist and Apothecary. and dealer in Palma and OiII, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. dept. 11,1861-Iy. • •'• NICERCILIINTS. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Daudet in foreign and Domes .le Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens wave and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court House. Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., DittiMrs in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Grit canal, Rueetuntate, Hardware and Notions, bpposite th e -ghoen Manse, Main street. • Sept. 11, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND 880 E DEALZRB J. D. COSGRAY, Bent and Moe maker, Main street, nearly opposite Ike "Fartner's and Drover's Bank." Every style of 8000 and9hoes constantly on hand or wade to order. Sept. 11, 1961-Iy. N. IL McOLELLAN Rent and dime maker, Blachley's Corner, Main street. Boots and *hoes of every variety always on hand or stade to order on short notice; Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. GROMICIUMIS & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, Deelsr in "iarneeries and-Confectioneries, Notions, Medicines, redltuteries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all rives, and Gilt Moulding and Looting Glue Plates. (Mew& paid for good eating Apples. dept. 11, la6l-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL , Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goods Generally, Wilson's Ncw Building, Main Meet. Dept. 11. 1851-Iy. BOORS, &c. LEWIS DAY, Dal* in School and bliseelleneons Books, Station ery; 'ink, Masaaines and rapers. One door east et rOilillet store. Main Street. Sept. 11, 1861 ly. SADDLIIB AND NATINESS SAMUEL M'ALLIgTER, Pa le, Marne,' and Trial( Maker. old Hank pg. Min Matt. 'kepi. 11, 1861— T0ZA000311111 1 193. HOOPER & HAGER, Vaultdertuaare sad wholesale and retail &Iterate TAaeso, lied sen Slier Casty. Pipes, de., airtreon'ti :hi Building, Mars street. Pole 11. 1881-17. 134J11111 INNURAAIII4I. arnao.i vik bi g kest, piss Is NA bralliall bit ariv- 440114001 I 4 0110 111441111004 , 1 LIMB DAT. Passage of t The House of Representatives on Friday passed without amendment the bill from the Senate to establish a "national currency." It is there fore a law, as there is no doubt that it will receive the signature of the President. We subjoin a synopsis of its leading provisions:—Banks are to be organized by the subscription of stock in.shares of $lOO each.— Stockholders are entitled to one vote for every share, and are allowed to vote by proxy, under properly guard ed restrictions. If a bank of issue be contemplated, then- bends of the United States must be deposited in the treasury, for which the govern ment will furnish notes for the bank to sign, circulate and redeem as its own, to the amount of ninety per cent, of the bonds deposited. No note will be furnished of a less amount than $5, and no -other notes may be issued by the bank. These notes, during the suspension of specie payments, are to be a legal tender for all debts except public dues, by and to all persons, except to the banks issuing them. The banks must re deem them in lawful money of the United States, and for this purpose. are required to keep on hand an amount equivalent to twenty-five per cent. of the amount of notes they may have in circulation, an& should this reception, fund fall below this twen ty-five per cent., they are forbidden to issue any more notes until the de ficiency is made good. Should the bonds of the United States, deposited in the Treasury as security for the notes furnished to the banks for circulation, fall below par and continue so for a specified period, the banks are required to de posit additional bonds. The govern ment will appoint a special agent to take charge of the affairs of any as sociation that fails to redeem its issues, and will proceed to redeem the notes of such association at the public Treasury, retaining and sell ing the bonds deposited to pay for the same. J. J. HUFFMAN Banks are forbidden from paying out uncurrent or depreciated money over their counters ; from specu lating in real estate; from loaning extensively to their own stockholders; from paying any dividends upon profits, except all bad and doubtful debts are first deducted from such profits; from pledging or depositing their own fun& as security for any debt due to or advances received from other banks; and froth loaning to their officers, directors and stock holders, upon terms more favorable than those exacted from strangers. Officers, directors and stockholders aro forbidden from becoming indebt ed to their own banks beyond a cer tain prescribed amount. in defined prBportion to the stock owned by thorn ; and they are forbidden to sell or transfer any stock owned by them while directly or indirectly indebted to their bank. Banks are required periodically to publish a statement of their condi tion, made under oath ; to keep pub licly posted, for the information of all who may be interested, a list of the names and residences of their officers, directors and stockholders, and of the amount of stock owned by each ; and a periodical examination into the condition of their affairs is to be made by a person appointed by the government. Payments, transfers, assignments, mortgages, deposits, or any acts pre judicial to creditors, done in contem plation of insolvency, are declared void.. Directors are required to be sworn officers,, and acting under oath. Ample provisions protect associa tions in the exercise of all customary powers and privileges pertaining to legitimate banking. Their old and worn or mutilated notes are con stantly renewed by government with out cost. Interest upon bonds depos ited by the banks as security for the circulation furnished is to be paid to them semi-annually, in gold; the known and wilful violation of any provision by whicti the banks are to be governed is punished by a forfeit ure of the charter, and ample penal provisions protect them from injury; by prescrioing punishment for theft, counterfeiting, forgery and other wrongs committed against them. As there are a large number of persons engaged more or less in dealing in cattle, steep and hogs; it is of importance that all should know what constitutes a "cattle broker" under the Excise Law of July Ist, 1862, and who requires a license as such. On this point the Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that a person who buys cattle to stock his own farm, and by keeping them thereon, adds asateri ally to their value, cannot be consid ered a cattle broker. If. however, it is his business to buy and! sell with out making material additions to the intrinsic value of the animals, he is liable to taxation as a cattle broker. The profits of the former, if any, are those of a trader ; end this distinc tion may deem it a test of the ques tion c "Who is a cattle broker with in the attaining of Mut *taiga Lair I" ational Curren- c3r Bill. Interesting to °Attie Brokers. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1861 the Conscription• Bill, This bil!, which has passed both Houses, provides in substance as fol lows : All able-bodied male citizens, and those who have declared their inten tions to become such, or have exer cised the right of suffrage; between the ages of 20 and 45 years, consti tutes the National forces of the United States, and are liable to per form military duty when called out by the President. The exempts are those who are physically and mental ly unfit, the Vice President, heads of Executive Departments, United States Judges, Governors of States, only son of an indigent widow, or infirm parent, or one such son, where there are two or more, to be selected by the parent, slso the Only brother of orphan children under twelve years, also the father of motherless children of the same age; and where two of a family are in military ser vice the remainder of such family, not exceeding two, shall be exempt. No person convicted of felony shall be enrolled or permitted to serve. The National force not in service, is to be divided inta two classes, the first class embracing all between 20 and 35 years of age, and all unmar ried men between 35 and 45 years of age. The second class embraces all the others and will not be called into service until after the first class.— For convenience of enrollment, dis tricts are made corresponding with the CongreSsional districts ; in each of which the President shall appoint a Provost Marshal, with the rank and pay of a Captain of Cavalry.— He may detail an officer of similar rank who shall have a Bureau in the War Department, and shall make the needful rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this act. These Marshals are to arrest deserters, report treasonable practi ces, detect spies, &c. In each district there is to be a Board of Enrollment, consisting of the Provost Marshal and two other persons, appointed by the President, one of whom is to be a physician and surgeon. This board shall di vide the district into Convenient sub• districts and perfect an enrollment once in each year, each class to be enrolled separately. Persons thus enrolled are subject for two years to be called into service to serve for _I three years or during the war, on the same footing with the present vol unteers, advance pay, bounty money, &c., included. When necessary to make a draft, the President shall indicate the number for each district, taking into consideration the number already furnished since the beginning of the war, so as to fairly equalize the bur den; the enrolling officers shall then make the draft with 50 per cent addi tional, and within ten days serve no tice upon the drafted men. Substitutes may be furnished, or commutation made not to exceed three hundred dollars at the discre tion of the Secretary of War. Any person drafted and tailing to report, or furnish a substitute, or pay his commutation, shall be deemed a de serter, and subject to immediate ar rest. The bill provides fur the proper surgical examination of drafted men, and the punishment of surgeons who receive bribes. When the draft, is finished, all those not taken are allowed travel ing pay to their homes. Those who furnish substitutes are exempt for the entire time of draft, and the sub stitute has the - same pay, &c., as though originally drafted. The bill also provides that volun teers now in service who re-enlist for one year shall have a bounty of $5O, one-half paid down; those who enlist for two years receive $25 of the reg ular $lOO bounty. There are also provisions for the consolidation of skeleton regiments; also that the General in the field may execute court-martial sentences against spies, desert° re, or murder ers, without reference to the Presi dent; court-martials may reduce ab sentee officers to the ranks; clothing arms, &c., shall not be sold, pledged or given away, and may be taken, wherever found in illegal hands; per sons who entice soldiers to desert, or harbor them, or buy their arms or uniform, and ship captains and rail road conductors, who knowingly con vey deserters, may be fined $5OO and imprisoned from six months to two years. Any man who resists a draft, or counsels others to do so, or dis suades them from performing milita ry duty, shall be arrested, and tried by a civil °mart, and on conviction be fined $5OO or imprisoned two years, or both. The President, on the passage of this act, shall issue a proclamation recalling absentees from the army, who may return without punishment within the time indicated, except the forfeiture of pay for the time of ab sence; those who do not return will be deserters. • Officers absent with leave, except for sickness or wounds, receive half pay; oftoers absent without leave, no pay-at all. There. are other pro visions, bat chiefly of details' not particularly important. HORRORS OF SEOESSION. The most perfect reign of terror the world ever' saw is now experi enced by the unfortunate residents of Northern Alabama and Mississippi. In the latter State the Legislature recently enacted a law embracing all conscript men not included in the Confederate act of Jeff Davis. First —lt includes all from eighteen to for ty years of age, and that recently passed takes all from forty to sixty years of age. The territory of Mis sissippi has been laid off into dis tricts twenty miles square, and a re cruiting Colonel appointed for each district. A thousand colonels aro appointed to enforce the conscript and militia acts. In Northern Alabama it is even worse.. There are many Union men in that section of the State, and the minions . of Jeff. Davis are busy in their efforts to force them into the Confederate ranks. The Union men have lain hid out in woods and caves rather than be taken as conscripts. This induced a novel bunt for them, and guerrillas and blood hounds have been put upon their track, and many a poor victim has been smelt out in this way. Not long since a young girl, carrying food to her fa ther wiao was hiding in a cave, was attacked by one of these blood hounds and torn to pieces. It is estimated that not less than 1,000 Union men from Mississippi and Alabama, have made their way to Corinth, where Gen. Dodge made all possible provision for them. Gen. Dodge sent out and brought in the families of persecuted Union men, and has established a sort of encampment or home for all their families at Purdyi where they are likely to be free from persecu tions. At Corinth a regiment is forming of Union men from Alabama and Mississippi. Already there are six full companies. Capt. J. C. Camer on, Provost Marshall of the district of Corinth, is to be Colonel of this regiment. Abraham Kennedy and J. A. Mitchel, of Hackboro Settlement, in Monroe county, Ala., have been hung by the rebels for indulging in Union proclivities. Mr. Hall, wife and daughter , of the same county, have been shot. Peter Lewis, who was by his immediate neighbors sus pected of Union proclivities, was hunted down by blood ' hounds, and captured. Two women in Ilawim bia county was torn to pieces by blood hounds. In addition to the foregoing, hun dreds of families have been driven out of Alabama, and have reached Corinth on foot, without food or clo thing, Some of them are old men eighty years of age. REOOVERED HIS HEARING Lieutenant Colonel S. D. Oli phant, of the Eighth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, who lost his hearing by tickness and exposure on the Pe nivsula, and was constantly obliged to relinquish his position in the army, we arc gratified to learn, suddenly recovered his lost faculty on Wednes day, the 18th inst. The circumstan ces which wore the apparent cause of so gratifying a result were these. The Colonel in company with James Johnson, Esq., went down the railroad track a short distance for the purpose of target firing. The Colonel made the first shot, and the concussion caused such a violent pain in his head that he sat down near by on the end of a cross-timber. Mr. Johnson immodiately fired and his piece being heavier charged than the Colone's produced a still more powerful effect. If a ball had passed through the Colonel's head he would not in all probability have experien ced half the pain. So tremendous was the effect of the concussion that he sprang several feet forward and sank down in a fainting condition. He was afterwards taken up, when it was found that his hearing had been so far restored that be could hear plainly every question address. ed to him. The case is a singular one, and hence we note it. THE WILL AND THE WAY. I learned grammar when I was a private soldier, on the pay of six pence a day. The edge of my berth, or that of my guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack my bookcase, and a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing table. I bad no money to purchase a candle or oil, in winter it was rarely that I could get any light but that of the fire, and only my turn of that. To buy a pen or piece of paper, I was compelled to forego some portion of my food, though in a state of half starvatiod. I had hot a monlent of time that I could call my own; and I had to read and write amid the laughing, talking, singing, whistling and bawling of at least halls score of the most thought less men—and that, too, in their hours of freedom from all control. And I fifty if I, under those circumstances, could encounter and overcome the task, it, there, can there be in the World, a•yonth who east find an ex cites for the non-performanee7,-.04- bett. 104 YEARS OLD. A CENTUBIAN IN LOUISVILLE, HY I met this week, in Louisville, Ky., and conversed with one of the real fathers .of the Union, now in his 105th year. His name is Richard Springer. He was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in October. 1758. His parents removed to Luzerne county, Penn., and in 1777, in his 19th year, be joined the Revolutionary Army, under Capt. Samuel Miller, in a Pennsylvania regiment of 18 months' men under Col. Thomas L. Edwards. He fought at Brandywine and at Germantown, and was wounded in the repulse of the American troops at the last named place. The old man's hearing is a little impaired, but his mind has yet some of the old vigor left. He talked connectedly and rationally about Revolutionary events; he spoke of Lossing, who has garnered so many Revolutionary facts and incidents, and thought that if he could see or hear of him that.he might aid him in tracing up his Revolutionary science by his experience and ac quaintance with records. I asked him if the Government had provided for him. He said, No; that, though there was probably record and pos:. sibly living evidence of his service, he did not know where to look for it; that he was too old to go back to the lovely Valley of Wyoming, and to the old homestead. What a treasure such a man should be to the city and State in which he ;wells ! He •belongs to the past. the great and glorious past of our coun try. He is a link uniting former generations to us. What a source of encouragement to the soldiers of the Republic ! To use the language of Webster : "This veteran, who sur vives the Revolution and whose life has been prolonged to the present hour, is now watching you. Behold! he stretches forth his feeble arms to embrace ou. Behold ! he raises his trembling voice to invoke the bless ing of God on you and yours for ever."—N. Y. Observer. February 11, 1863. WISE RULE FOR CONDUCT Dr. Franklin. laid down for himself the following rules to regulate his conduct through life: Temperance.—Eat not to dulness drink not to elevation. Silence.—Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid tri fling conversation. Order.--Let all your things have their places; lot each part of your business have its time. Resolution.—Resolve to perform what you ought; peiform without fail what you resolve, Frugality.—Make do expense but to do good to others, or to yourself ; i. e., waste nothing. Industry.—Lose no time; be al ways employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. Sincerity.—Use no hurtful deceit ; think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly, Juslice.—Wrong none by doing in juries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. .Moderation.—Avoid extremes ; for bear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. Cleanlin eSs.—Tol erste. n o uncleanli. mess in body, clothes, or habitation. Tranquility.—Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or un avoidable, and "be temperate in all things." Be Cheerful at Your Meals. The benefit derived from food ta ken, depends very much on the con dition of the body while eating. if taken in a moody cross, or despair ing condition et' the mind, digestion is much less perfect and slower than when taken with a cheerful disposi tion. The very rapid and silent eating, too common among the Americans, should be avoided, and some topic of interest introduced at meals that all may partake in, and if a hearty laugh is occasional ly indulged in, it will bo all the bet ter. It is not uncommon that a person dining in a pleasant and so cial company can eat and digest that, which, when eaten alone and the mind absorbed in one deep study or brooding over cares and disappoint ments, would be long undigested in the stomach, causing derangement and pain, and if much indulged in, becomes the cause of permanent and irreparable injury to the system. .Bhooking Reoord. The suicides in France now ave rage ten a day; the namber for the present century, thus far, is over three hundred thousand. Not a day passes in which a suicide may not be directly tracted to want of success in life; to the false moralities inculca tedby wicked or ignorant writers; to the failure of parents in obtain ing a proper influence over their children ; to unrestrained appetites and passions ; and to the inability of multitudes "to get along in the world" prosperously, for want of thoroughness of preparation for their calliwg or *tattoo it life. A NOVEL MARRIAGE, On Tues , 'ay a marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Wm. Carr, Chaplain of the 4th Regiment N. Y. S. V., under rather novel cir cumstances: the clergyman and bridegroom being in the city of Washington, and the bride in the village of Fulton, Oswego county, during' the ceremony. The bride groom is a member of the Fourth Regiment, and circumstances pre vented his being in Fulton to fulfil his engagement with the young lady. By mail, the parties agreed to have the ceremony performed through the medium of the electric telegraph. The day and hour having been ar ranged, the parties repaired to the telegraph offices at the respective stations, the fair bride accompanied by a female friend as bridesmaid.— The gentlemanly operator at Fulton officiated as bridesman. The first dispatch over the wires relating to the affair was from Washington, in quiring if the lady was present? An answer in the affirmative was return ed, and the ceremony proceeded.— Three messages were sent to Fulton and two transmitted to Washington, and the ceremony was completed.— The last message from Washington was the declaration of the clergy man pronouncing the parties man and wife. 7i, - ,.. THE SIMPLE SEOILET.I f.7:-,-.:•.4 Twenty . clerks in a store. Twenty hands in a printing office. Twenty young men in a village. All want to get along in the world, and all expect to do so. One of the clerks will rise to be a partner, and make a fortune. One of the compositors will own a newspaper, and become an influential•and prosperous citizen. One of the apprentices will become a master-builder. One of the villa gers will get a handsome farm, and live like a patriarch. But which is destined to be the lucky individual? Lucky ? There is no luck about it. The thing is almost as certain as the Rule of Three. The young fellow who will distance his competitors is he who masters his business, who preserves his integrity, who lives clearly and purely, who never gets into debt, who gains friends by de serving them, and puts his money into a savings bank. There are some ways to fortune that look shorter than this dusty old highway, but the staunch men of the commu nity, the men who achieve something really worth having—good fortune, good name, and a serene old age— all go this road.—Home Monthly. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. For the information , of our farm ers, we publish the following stan dardsof weights and measures. By cutting it out or preserving the pa per, they will always have the means at band of ascertaining the proper quantity of anything they may have to sell or buy Wheat . _ - - 60 Rye - - - - - 56 Barley - - - - 48 Oats - - - - 30 Corn - - - - - 56 Corn in ear •- - 70 Potatoes - - - - GO Onions - - - - 54 Onion sets Millet - Dried Peaches Cloverseed Timothyseed Flaxseed Rempseed Hungarian grass Blue grass seed Beans Hominy Bran Canary seed Dried apples Reoovered Treasure. A telegram from San Francisco says the steamer Constitution had arrived from Panama with $300,000 recovered from the wreck of the Golden Gate. The British steamer Robert Low has arrived from Victo ria and taken her place in the now line of steamers between San Fran cisco and China. She sails for China on March Ist. Advices from the the wrecking expedition express the be lief that nearly all the treasure lost in the Golden Gate will be recovered. A River of Death Yazoo is said to be an Indian name, signifying River of Death.— The water of the river is always of a stagnant, slimy thickness, and cer tain to produce an incurable disease when used any length of time.— Nearly all of the men in General Sherman's army who went up the Yazoo wore affected by the water and some of the wounded whp have returned are yet suffering from the disease there coutistcted. The river is properly named. QUEER PfErr.—A. young fellow named Sloan. at Camden, N. J., has lately exhibited piety in rather a queer form. He stole $1,200 to on able him to finish his education for the nikinistry. On the Sunday before be partook of the sacrament in a church at Cornden- NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 39. HOW A MAN I'EBLa IN BATTLE. There can be nothing more puz zling than the analysis of one's fetl ; ings on a battle-field. Yon canna, describe them satisfactorily to your self or others. To march steadily up to the months of a hundred cannon, while they pour out fire and smoke, and shot and shell in a storm that mows the men like grass, is horrible beyond description—appalling. It is absurd to say a man can do it with out fear. During Hancock's charge, at Fredericksburg, for a long dis tance the slope was swept by such a hurricane of death that we. thought every step would be our last, and I am willing to say, for one, that I was pretty badly scared.— Whatever may be said about "get ting used to it," old soldiers secretly dread a battle equally with new ones. But the most difficult thing to stand up under is the suspense while waiting, as we waited in Fredericks burg, drawn up in line of battle on. the edge of the field, watching the columns file past us and disappear in a cloud of smoke, where bones and men and colors go down in con fusion, where all soncds are lost in the screaming of shells, the cracking of musketry, the thunder of artillery, and knowing that our turn comes next, expecting each moment the word "Forward." It brings a strange kind of relief when "Forward" comes. Yoa move mechanically with thereof:. Once fairly in for it, your sensibili ties are strangely blunted, you care comparitively nothing about the sights that shocked you at first; men torn to pieces by cannon shot becomes a matter of course. At such a time, there comes a latent sus tenance from within ns, or above oe, which no man anticipate who has not been in such a place before ' aria, which most men pass through life without knowing anything about.— What is it r Where does it come from ? STRANGE CAUSES OF PEAT'S. In London, the following, strange causes of death were lately recorded; A woman died from 6.wallowing st fish bone; a child from swallowing s slate peneil, which lodged in the broncus ; a boy from pleurisy and pneumonia, caused by a needle which had entered the throat eight years ago, and a fragment of which had remained there during his life. A child died of laryngitis from inhab iting the steam that issued from the spout of a kettle. A woman who had been a teetotal for a number of years, quarrelled with her husband, to whom she had only been married a month, broke her pledge„ and drank herself to death. Marriage, quarrel, and death took place within the month. Rebel Natality. There is a fearful mortality among the rebel prisoners brongist to Chicago from the Southwest.— Nearly one hundredlK 4 _ l J3) died with Fat the past week. They were in a wretched condition when they ar rived, nearly one thousand being en der the Surgeon's care. The dis eases are those in induced by want and exposure in the rebel camps, be ing principally *3T - bold fever, pneu monia and other affections of the lungs and throat. All the Surgeons, both Union and rebel, have their hands full. The hospitals are all crowded , but the barracks are COW fortable. Horrible Accident. A shocking accident occnred in Providence township, Lancaster county, the other day, through which a woman named Heiser met with her death. It appears that while visiting a sick friend her dress caught fire, and running out of the house the flames soon enveloped her entire person, burning her in such si shocking manner that she died in a few hours. The solemnity and W. row of the occasion were intensified by the death, an hour afterwards, ei Mrs. Finefrock, the sick friend whom Mrs. Heiser was visiting at the time the accident occurred. Death of a Father of 31 Ohildren. Jesse Harbor, of Concord tp., Champaign° county, Ohio, as we learn from the Urbana Citizen, died on the 26th ult., at the age of 76.- 11e was married twice, and was the father of 31 children, the youngest of whom is about two years old.— He has managed to give all who have arrived at maturity au cant - of 80 acres of land. tiirMx. Moore, of Warwick, Ifs., committed suicide recently in' his weariness of life. His wife was tn. sane, his eldest son killed hitnself, his oldest daughter died very sud denly. and a short timo ago his property was destroyed by fire,leav ing him penniless. ifirOf 7,591 persons confined in a number of the principal county and borough • jails in England, 4,788 claim to be weirthere of the Church of f l h E t ng e l ti , England, 5°1811"4 "no per. supsitM." N Mil
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