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WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, &ttorneys & Counsellors at UMW, WAYNESBURG, PA. will practice in the Comm of Greene and adjoining enunties. Collections and other legal business will re delve prompt attention. Office on the doutfi aide of Mainstreet, in the Old Ganttßuilding. Jan. 23, 11366.-13, PtIRM•N. 13. RITCHIE. PURMAN & RITCHIE, AIyTORNEYS AND OUNSE , LLORS AT LAW, Wayne COUNSELLORS Pa.. frsrlOrYgrr—Main Street, one door east of the old B ink Building. Err All ,usinese in Greene, Washington, and Fag. Ad Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt detention. dept. 11,1861-Iy. Z. W. 'DOWNEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. MrOffice In 1 edwith'ia Building, opposite the Court 'louse, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. IeCONNELL . .• . - - ATTORNEYS AND couNsicuoias AT LAW Waynesburg,. Pa. itWr Office In the "Wright !Lure," East Door. Collections, acc.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg, April 23, 1865-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office In Sayers' Building, adjoining the Post Office. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. & .1. SLACK. Jogs PIiBLAR. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1851`—ly. soLnizas , WAR OLAXIMSI 37. R. 1: 0 . 3311:7111110, ATTORNEY AT LAW, W•YNENBEIO, PENNA., HAB received from the War Department at Wash ington city. D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms And Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY. BACK PA Y, due dis- Charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan Children, widowed .mothers, fathers, sisters and broth gre. which business, [upon due notice] will be attend ed to promptly, and accnnttely, if entrusted to his care. Office in the old Bank Building.—April 8, 1863, PHYSIOL&NS B, M. BLACHLEY, M. D. rzirszcsAtar a svacsamor, Oilica—Blaahlers linibling, Main St., It ESPECTFULLY announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity that he has returned from , e Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed tie prac tice of medicine'at this place. Waynesburg, June 11, 1362.-1). es DR. £. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services as; a PHYSIGIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and stnct attention to Puniness, to merits share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1861. DR. A. J. EGGY IR L, ESPECTFULLY offers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinite, as a Physician and urgeon. Office opposite the Ilepublican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life ♦ad health, so native medication, and strict attention to Irasinese, to gyerit a liberal share of public patronage. April 9. 1862. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Ms, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquor. for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 1881—ly. DIERON.LNTEI WM. A. PORTER; Wholesale and Retail Daniel in Foreign and Domes it Dry Goode, Groceries, Notions, 6.e., Main street. dept. 11,1061-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer hi Dry Goods. Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House. opposite Court House. Main street. dept. IL 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, taro Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite Its Green House, Main street. 11, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SNOE DEALERS J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker. Main street, nearly opposite ill's "Farmer's and Drover's Rank." Every style of "Boots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. • Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. eaoozarms & vAunzwas JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries end Confectioneries, Motions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Clam of kill sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. ttit• Cash paid for good eating ♦pp!is. Dept. 11, 1851-Iy. JOHN MUNN ELL, • Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety };twill Geiser&lly, Wilson's Ntw Building, Main strata. dept. 11. ISM—Iy. BOOKS. &o. LEWIS DAY, Dopier in Reboot and Miscellaneous Books, ntation i rt. Ink. Magazines and Papers. One door east or Porter's More, MaiVitreet. Sept. 11, 1861 ly. aappzing AM) 311.113.11TA5S SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, Isithi. Hamm and Trunk Maker. old Bank tie, Win street. Sept. 11, 1861..-fr TO3A99ONUTII. HOOPER & RACER, IManagartaters and wholesale and reusil dealorgin IN jar and *NC defor 4 1 911 F. pAddi*lm. 1 - te Odle& wale strsel. delt• An unknciwnrfrkod..semla ue the follow ing poetical effusion, - clipped from a "down Alm" newspaper, with a request to give it a place in our columns. We do not know who is the author, but it is the finest tribute to "copperheadism" we have yet seen : .Do you uphold the Natior.'s cause, n d think, .as Daniel Webster thought, The Constitution and the Laws With Union's life iuwrought? Does then your soul, indignant swell, ; With scorn :for the foul fiend who said, "Your Magna Charta is from Hell ?" You are a "Copperhead 1" Po you revere our chartered rights? And thus prove traitor—gte they say, Those Ethiopian Zeophytes, Who now hold sway— Do you despise the vulture horde, Upon the country's vitals fed, Who serve corruption as their Lord ? You are a "Copperhead'."' Do you revert to former days, The days of glory and renown, When patriots won the statesman's bays; And wore the mural crown? When not the place could make the man, But aye, the man the place instead ; Where honor proudly led the van ? You are a "Copperhead 1" Do you e'er pray that strife may cease, That war may stay his crimson hand, And that the broad white wings of peace May brood the land ? If such your prayer, for one, I say, God's blessing rest upon your head I Come, share with me the "soubriquet" Of traitor ! "Copperhead !" J. J. EFUIFFM6SI. When through these clouds the Union etar Shall struggle from its sad eclipse, And the red meteor of the war 'Neath the horizon dips, • No higher eulogy be mine. No epitaph—if haply dead— Than this short, cabalistic line : `•Walter, the 'Copperhead.'" Has not nature an element of the ludicrous in it ? Are there no crea tions which may be regarded as mere quizzical oddities ? What else can you make of the world-renown ed Jack ? Can any man look into his face without an irresistible temptation to laughter. Was over anything more expressly made to be grotesque than a toad ? What thing, of all the barbarous inven tions in Chinese pictures, can sur pass it in ridiculousness? Did you ever attentively study toad life and manners? You might do worse.— At evening, when they begin to feel the inspiration of an evening enter tainment their squat forms an un gainly movements, the very dacor ous and earnest sobriety with which they carry themselves, the peculiar wink which they seem to intimate to you that they are keeping up a good deal more thinking inside than you might suppose, their importubable and unesciteable passivity, produce a comical result hardly equalled by any clown. The bat is another jest in natural history. Its flight is the only re deeminc, feature of its ungracious firm and e ' manner. Ever that has a capriciousness in it that savors of gambolling. Its voice is a squeak, its mouth a burlesque upon humani ty. The monkey has been set apart for ridiculousness the world over.— He is an organized sercasm upon the human race with variations mul titudinous. But among insects, and among beetles especially are found forms 80 singular, and manners so queer, that we never pass them without stopping to look: and we never look without a sense of the ludicrous. But who ever saw on land or in water, a crab or a lobster without being struck with their commicality: If these things address themselves to a feeling of the ludicrous in our minds, is it extravagant to suppose that they sprung from some such thought in the creative mind? It seems no more strange that God should create objects for mirth in the world, than that he should have placed the faculty of mirthfulness in the human mind. Is any faculty without provision for its enjoyment ? Is it not rather to be supposed that, both in the yogetable and in the an imal kingdom. there are forms and processes which will never be fully appreciated until their relation to the feeling of mirth is recognized? We do not know that laughing philosophers are desirable, but phi losophers who do not know hlw to laugh are still less likely to be com plete.—Eyes and Ears. ifirThe Newburyport Herald considers) that runs and shoulder straps are the 6wo curses of the war. grtlEtt eintrg. THE' 001TERHEAD. iztttlautots. EMBODIED JOKES. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1268. STR.IMI; FIRES--A TALE OF THE MYSTERIOUS. The following most singular phe nomena have occurred at the resi dence of Wm. S. Stearnes and Rich ard Freeman, in the town of Rush, about five miles north of this city.— On Tuesday morning last, 24th ult., soon after making the tires, Mrs. Stearnes siiscovered the carpet burn ing . near the stove, but to one side of it. She extinguished the fire, supposing it to have caught from the stove in sonae:manner. Soon after the carpet was found burning near the bed which stood in the room, bat .antirely Awpy from the stove. Re garding the latter fire as very curi ous she extinguished it, and left the room to attend her work, and being attracted by the smell of fire return - .ed to the front room and found the straw burning in the midst of her bed,under the clothes and feather bed. She imutediately.carried the bed out of her house. When she returned the curtains in front of her bed was blazing up to the ceiling above. Be ing now thoroughly alarmed she sent her little girl, of about ten years, the only person with her, for Mr. Freeman who came and removed the carpets, :clothing and beds from the house, and extinguished the fires in the stoves ; while doing this, fires broke out in the pantry, burning the papers that we spread out on the shelves, also articles of cotton ignited in different parts of the chamber.— In this room a clothes rod, suspend ed by strings of cloth tied to rafters, was heard to fall, and the strings were found burnt. During this time Mr. Stearnes was absent, and Mrs. S. and the little girl went home with Mr. Freeman.— When they arrived there as a pre rtaution, the garments of Mrs. S. and the little girl were placed ,by themselves, a cloak worn by the girl being put on the bare floor of the bed room. In a half hour after, this cloak was burning briskly. It was removed from the room, and an hour and a half afterwards the bed in the same room was on fire. .The day following, a pillow-case lying in a - hack room ignited, also a cloth spread over a flour barrel, and a bag containing dried fruit. These arti cles are all at distances from each other, and ignited at different times. A cloth which had been used to wash some bottles bad been rung out and hung upon a nail and was found burning at the bottom, and part of the cloth at the same time was fro zen stiff. In the afternoon a smelt of fire was discovered in the chamber, and was found to proceed from a small box in which a paper, wrap ping a parcel of sugar, was entirely burned from around the sugar. The box was covered by a lid which shut quite close. A lounge also took fire in a bed room. On Thursday Mr Stearnes returned to his house, built fires in the stoves, and soon after a fire broke out in a bed, and, in a damp cloth lying on a pantry shelf. He extinguished his fires, and has not occupied his house since, except to watch it. Thursday night the little girl stayed at Mr. Samuel Shuster's some two miles west of Mr. Fieeman's.— Friday morning a cloth lying on a shelf in the milk room of Mr Shns ter's house was found burning, and also a handful of rags struck in an outside crevice of the wall of the house. And then being informed of the occurrence by Mr. Charles Hol man, of this city, arid to satisfy our selves of the truth, we Tent with him to the houses of Messrs. Free man and Stearnes, and from them heard what we have related, and much more. These gentlemen are known to be men of unimpeachable veracity, and their statement is a sufficient guarantee of truth. But we ourselves tiaw the effects of the fire on the beds, clothing, pa pers and walls of the house, suffi cient to satisfy us of the exact truth of every statement made ; we saw the dress worn by the little girl, which ignited twice near the bottom of the skirt while ou her. It was once extinguished by Mi. Freeman and once by Mr. Stearnes. While we wore at the house of the latter, a fire broke out in some papers in an out-house at Mr. Freeman's. On our return we saw the fresh charred boards which the fire had burned. The fire broke out in five different rooms at Mr. Freeman's house, in no one of which there was any stove or fire-place. A. watch has been con stantly kept by these two families, and every article has been removed from their houses. They justly feel the greatest anxiety to have the mysteries of these fires solved. Who can do it I—Oswego (N Y.) Press. A Hospital Incident. A few days ago a wounded soldier died al the Hammon Hospital at Ppint•Lookout. On the fly leaf of his Bible was written :--"If I die on the field or in hospital, in the name Of humanity, write home." To this was signed his full name and addrelL A lee of his hair was cut off, and laid on the leaf in tbe bible, and this sad relic is the mesaago to his family informing them of his depth. serNegligence is the rust of as euul, that corrodes her best resotutions:' THE GEORGIANSEtkIiTIEg. . The May number of Harper's Mag azine contains an article from Mr. Jos. E. Miller, called "A trip to the Caucasus," which is full of bright scenes and lively incidents In speaking of' the . Georgians beauties be says : Another ride was over4h.e first and second ranges of the hills, on Ascension day, of the Greek and Armonian churches, to visit a little church in a narrow valley. It was a great shrine, dedicated to St. George, who was represented all round the house as killing snakes in every possible way. It was a very great holiday, and at three or four thousand people have thronged the pilgrimage. They w ere mostly mar ried women, with their breasts hung in their droll sacks in front ; and the particular object of this pilgrimage was the same for which Lucina was worshiped of old, St. George, now-a days, apparently having the same attributes. They—the women—went round the church, kissing the jut ting angels of the walls, as Catholics do. Two large three storied build ings near answered for hotels, where the Grusians were lodged on the floors. The coup d'ceil of this large gathering was brilliant. Every girl, or women, not told was pretty. and the costumes were very striking indeed and becoming, and the immense variety of tole in a crowd very effective, A banT of dark velvet—say two and a half inch es wide—stands up from the brow and incloses the hair. It is embroid ered in bright colors—gold, green or blue. On the top of the head lies a rich folded satin handkerchief, with the corner in front. From each side falls pendent a long veil reaching to the hips. A corsage of pink satin, fitting to the throat, lies easily, as it were, on the most charming chest and bosom in the world, and unites, in a point above the waist, with a red jacket or bodice of blue. A long robe of white satin falls to the feet, ; no crinoline—it is not needed; a bright ribbon round the waist ; nar row sleeves lace trimmed at the wrist ; bright buttons along the edge of the corsage, running up to the shoulders ; and itself studded with sifter stars or small points, and you have the costume of a young Geor gian ladt. So much for art. Perfectly round but rather small eyes, jet black ; black, round well-defined eyebrows; a good forehead ; nose perhaps a thought too short, for the Georgians are very amiable and have hardly the character of the Circassian or Mingrelian ; a small mouth and chin, beautifully rounded, with a clear, translucent color, and you have an idea of nature. Nevertheless, when you look into the eyes of these beau teous barbarians, you feel at once that something is wanting, Like a bright boy in conversation with men, they open wide their eyes and you see the mind lies dormant ; the vital spark that should kindle and illumine the wh* is inactive; the intellect lies awakened ; and you feel that, handsome though they be, they are not strictly beautiful. But then there are so beautiful women in the world I—l have seen one or two. The hair is frequently brought down in plaits in front. and you some times see throe or four tails—real "Kenwigs"—pendent behind, possi bly a far off re-echo of the fashion immortalized by Dickens. GOOD BEOEIPT FOE KEEPING SOBER, In the rural district in the North of Kngland, the following dialogue lately took place between a friend and a shoemaker who had signed the temperance pledge : "Well, William, how are you ?" "0, pretty well, I had only eigh teen pence and an old. hen when I signed, and a few old scores; but now I have about ten pounds in the bank, and my wife and I have lived through the summer without getting into debt. But as lam only thirty weeks old yet (as he styled him self,) I cannot be so strong yet, my friend." "How is it you never signed be fore ?" • "I did sign; but I keep it differ ent now to what I did before, friend." "How is this Y" "Why,, I gae doon on my knees and pray." Better informed persons might learn a lesson in this respect by ap plying to the source of strength now possessed by William the shoemaker. tarGuiecioli, Byron's old flame is writing the poet's life. It will be curious to see that chequered career from such a stand-point of view A cotemporary says of Guiccioli : "She, is sixty years old, wears a flax en wig, false teeth and rouge, is a married woman, and is vain enough to believe she is still handsome," The Oommon Lobe Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infitrit world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, t glvd , Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past All tone mighty sepulcher.—ilwirp I .BERVITY. it is said of the three most influ ential members of the convention that formed the constitution of the United-States that in, all the debates of that body. no one ef 4.em made a speech of more than twenty minutes. We have good authority for stating that -Alexander Hamilton, though reckoned among the more diffuse or ators of his day. did not occupy more than two hours and a half in his long est Argument on a trial of a cause, and his rival, Aaron Burr, not more than an hour and a quarter. A judge who was intimately acquainted with Bu'rr and his practice, confirmed tll§ statement, adding ,that within his knowledge this advocate repeatedly and successfully disposed of cases in volving a large amount of property in half an hour. "Indeed," said he, "on one occasion he talked to thejury seven minutes in such a manner that it took me, on the bench, half an hour to straighten them out." He added "I once asked him. 'Col. Burr ; why cannot lawyeri' always save the.tirne and spare the patience of -the court and jury by dwelling only ou the most important points in their eases?" to which Burr replied, "Sir, you de mand the greatest faculty of the hu man mihd, selection." He is well known to have been one of the most effective advocates in his time, and in this manner, if nothing else, ha deserves to be studied and imitated. We refer to a single foreign example an eminent English barrister. "I asked Sir James Scarlet," says Bux ton, "what was the secret of his pre eminent success as an advocate. He said that he took care to press home iibe one principal point of the case, without much regard to the othere. He also said that he knew the secret of being short. find,' said he,'that when 1 exceed half an hour, I am always doing mischief to my client. If I drive into the heads of the jury unimportant matter, I drive out matter more important I had previ ously lodged there.'" We commead his method, ;and his reason for it, not only to minister, but quite as urgently to lawyers and members of Congress. RUSSIAN SEEPS. The 3rd of March, as is well known, was the day on which ex pired the period fixed by the Imper ial manifesto of March 3rd, 1861, for the rural organisation of the Rus sian serfs; but the dispositions of that document are not yet complete ly executed ; only 100,563 acts of arrangements have been drawn up, and but 87,863 have been. applied.— Two years ago 8,000,000 serfs paid the obrok, or tax for exemption from Sorced labor, and 7,000,000 were subjected to the compulsory service. Since that per 041 1,1.47,015 peasants have become proprietors of land; 5,000,000 are entirely freed from forced labor, and p,000,000 are still liable to the corvee. .What ,an amount of evils from ancient despot ism to be swept away ! What a number of existences to free from the yoke weighing upon so many generations ! Before the 3rd of March, 1861, there were in twenty seven Governments of Russia 1,955 schools for peasants; the number is now 6,666 an increase of 4,711 in two years The Government of St. Pe tersburg seems now almost terrified at the number of the disinherited whom it has called to relative lib erty ; it has just re-examined the former measures adopted against the "demagogical peasants," but it will, however, in vain attempt to arrest the impulsion given.—Le Siecle. A STUPENDOUS WORK. A wonderful plan has been exhib ited recently in Paris for a railroad across the Simplon pass. The line has been most carefully surveyed 'for four months by Italian engineers, who.havelpassed that time amongst eternal snows, and now exhibit their astonishing designs and declare the work practicable at an elevation of three or four thousand feet above the sea. The estimated cost is seventy two millions of francs. The object of, course; is to connect the Swiss Line of Geneva and the Valley of the Rhone with the Italian Cis Al pine lines. During four months, a band of engineers and their assist ants, numbering forty individuals, have traced the line over mountain summits, across valleys, gorges, and precipices, living all that time in temporary sheds, and carrying with them food, clothing, and all the nec essaries of existence into the very heart of unexplored mountain for ests. Out of about seventy miles of railroad thus laboriously laid down in these placps, nearly twenty will be in tunnels and as many more in galleries, with latent openings, hav ing arcades on one side like those of the Rue De givati. The appearance oh the plans is wonderful and mag nificent in the highest degree, and appears the ne plus ultra of the dar ing of modern science. The execu tion is calculated to occupy five years, and when achieved will more Ulan rival the famou4 tunnel now be_ ing. perfor4ted 91rough'Mount Co nie. THE DEAD OF POMPEII EXHUMED --THE RECENT REMARKABLE EIS OOVERTE'B IN THE we CITY. So#ne time sir'oe we publish:6d a brief account of the discovery of human remains, in a state of good preservation, in a house in Pompeii. Interesting particulars of the recent researches itr the , buried city are giv en by a correspondent of the Lon don Athersattun, .who flays that the human bodies were found,in an ex cavation near the house called that of Albondanza. Falling in a mass 9f pumice stone, those LID fortupao.per sons had not become attached to the soil, and it was easy to cut away the ground beneath them; but above, fire, ashes and hot water had been rained upon them .from the fiery mountain, causing their. !Ica* and.ensuring their preservation for nearly two thousand years, On re moving the debris, which consisted of the roof and ashes which had fall en into the interior of the house, something like a human form .was discovered, though nothing but fine powder was visible. It occur red to Cavalier Floret/I that ;this might be a kind of sarcophagus created by Vesuvius, and that with in wore the remains of ono of the victims of that terrible eruption.-- But bow remove or preserve them ' A happy idea struck him. Plaster of Paris was poured into an 'aper ture, the interior having been dis covered to be hollow in consequence of the destruction of the flesh, and mixing with and uniting with the bones, restored to the world a Ro man lady of the first century. Further researches led to the dis covery of a male body, another wo man, and that of a young girl; but that which first awakened the inter est of the excavators, was the find ing of ninety ono pieces of silver money, four oar-rings, a finger-ring, all of gold; together with two iron keys and evident remains of a linen bag. These interesting relics have been now successfully removed, and are lying in a house not far distant. They are to be preserved in Pom peii, and four bronze tables, of an antique fashion, are preparing for their reception. The first body discovered was that of a woman, who lay on her right side, and, from the twisted position of her body, had•been much con vulsed. Her left band and arm was raised and contorted, and the knuck les were bent in tightly; the right arm was broken, and at each end of the fraginents the cellular character of bones was seen. The form of the head-dress and the hair were dis tinctly visible. On the bone of the little finger of the left hand were two silver rings, one of which was a guard. The sandole remain, or the soles at least, and iron or nails are unmistakably to be seed. Though the body was much bent, the legs were extended as if under the. influ ence of extreme pain. In an inert chamber was found the figure of the young girl lying on its face, resting on its clasped hands and arms ; the legs drawn up, the left lying over the right—the body thinly covered over in some parts by the scoria) or the plaster, whilst the skull was visible, highly polished. One hand was partially closed, as if it had grasped some thing, probably her dress, with which it had covered the head. The finger-bones protruded through the incrusted ashes, and on the surface of the body in various parts was distinctly visible the web of the linen with which it had been covered.— , There was lying by the 'side of the child a full-grown woman, the left leg slightly elevated whilst the right arm is broken ; but the left, which is bent, is perfect, and the hand is closed. The little finger has an iron ring; the left ear, which is upper most, is very conspicuous, and stands off from the head. The folds of the drapery, the very web, remain, and a nice observer might detect the quality of the dress. The body of the man lay upon its back, with the legs stretched out to their full length. There was an iron ring on the little finger of the left hand, which, together with the arm, was supported by the elbow. The folds of the dress on the arm, and over the whole upper part of the body were visible ; the sandals were there. and the bones of ono foot pro truded through what might have been a broken sandal. The traces of the hair of the head and beard were there, and the breath of life, adds the writer, bad only to be inspired into this and the other three figures 'to restore to*the world of the nine teenth century the Romans of the first, century. They might have fal len but yesterday, for were there not still remaining their sandals, their dress, the very tracery of their hair? They were trying to escape from de struction, for the bodies were found at a short distance ono from the oth er, as if in the act of running. What could have induced them to remain so long it is only permitted to imag ine. They were three.women who, terror struck, had been unable, per haps, to act, until aided and urged forward by the man. It may be that with that attaaiment which bids us all in closely to our native place NEW ARIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 48. awl our hearth, they still clung too their hetnes with the ,ho,pe.,that, the storm, wpuld so °agate. away. RELIE - F FOE THE STUBBING IN lEELAND.--SPEEOH BY GEN. No - OLELLAN. An immense meeting was he,hi at she NOW York ,A.cademy of Music oil Tuesday night, under. the auspices of an association sty - led the..gnights of St. Patrick, for the purpose ,o 1 rais ing funds to aklovisit.e, the sufferings caused by tike-famine in •lreland. Gen. McClellan was present, and being called on, respowled iu the fol lowing ipeech : Mr --Fatztins—l came here te-niglit as a listener and spectator, not as is participant in the proceedings of the evening. I cape to hear the ablest and best of the friends and sons of Ireland plead her cause to-night. I have departed from my usual rule to avoid large assemblies, because .1 . knew,that,this meeting >had .neither partituin nor political purpose,. (Ch eers.) I knew thatyou had,sissembled for the noblest of nil purposes, that t. f charity towards suffering brethren in a distant land. I came here sim , ply to evince my sympathy in your cause; for I have strong and peculiar reasons for feeling an intense sympa thy for and interest in all thatre bites to Ireland and the Irish. (Great applause.) I sprung, myself; from a kindred race. I have often seen the loyalty of the Irish to their govern ment and to their general proved.— I have seen the green flag of Erin borne side by side with our awp Stars and Stripes through the din of battle. (Cheers.) I have witnessed the bravery, the chivalry, the devo tion of the Irish race, while I was 0 boy, on the fields of Mexico, and in maturer years on the fields of Mary land and Virginia. (Loud eheers l ,) It has often been my sad lot, pleas ant withal, to watch the cheering' smiling patience of the Irish soldier while suffering from disease or ghast ly wounds; and I have ever found the Irish heart warm and true. (Cheers). I feel, then, that I have a right to sympathize with your cause to nighL It is most unfbrtanate that there atir•. so many in Ireland who need oar sympathy, but at least we should thank our God that he has given us the means to extend our hands to them. (Enthusistic cheering). IA is perhaps unfortunate for Ireland that laws, In the making of which the Irish have had but little to do, that a government in which per haps they have been bat little rep resented—should have induced so many to have left their native land and sought foreign climes; but what has been the loss of Ireland has boon the gain of America. (Cheers. It has given as.some of the proud, ost intellects that have adored oar history, countless strong arms who have developed our resources, and soldiers innumerable, who, on every field from those of the Revolution to those of the present sad rebellion, have upheld the honor of their adopted country. (Wild cheers.) And so, I repeat, we have gained what Ireland has lost. (Continued .cheera.) One thing more before I close. We come here for no polit ical purpose ; but no true friend of his eo,uutry can, in our present cri sis, repress altogether the thoughts that will crowd upon his brain:, \That is it that enables us now to ex tend oar hands to your brethren across the Atlantic ? What is it that our father&andave have ,worked for for generations ? It was to es tablish on this broad tontine it oast nation, ono free Government that may be the refuge of all exiles from foreign funds ; and I know that I express the thoughts of every one who listens to me here, when I say that all our energies, all our thoughts, all our means, and if necessary the last drop of our blood should be given to uphold that unity and natiomality. (Enthusiastic cheers.) But I did not rise to make a speech, but simply to express my warm and most cordial thanks for the greeting with which I have been honored to night. thank you, and shall now make way for the able and eloquent men who will plead the cause of your breth ren to night. A Rom in Real Life. The New Orleans Picayune of the 17th instant mentions the following incident :—Among the Confederate prisoners brought to this city yes terday was a man whose wife some months ago put on the weeds of wid, owhood, giying out the report that her husband had died in the Con federacy. She sold out all her fur niture and effects, and with anlasca line friend of hers started for New York. Ono of her failings was a weakness of intoxicating drinks, and while on her way North she got in toxieated, fell overboard and was drowned. The husband now turmi up alive and a widower, while she who so readily put on the widow's weeds has become food for fishes.-- Thus facts and fictions blend. /Off - Never acknowledge an onelny, or see an affront if you caa help it.—, Avoid wrangling and tittle-tattle.
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