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[af - A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. DICrJos PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the best style, arid on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" lob Once. iiirNo paper sent for a longer period than ONE YEAR without be ing paid for. aguesharg Nusintss driarbs. ATTORNEYS: ORA. L. WYLY. J. ♦. J. BUCHANAN, B. R. P. BUBB WYLY, MICHANAN & HUSS, Attorneys * Counsellor■ at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. will practice in the Cowie of Greene and adjoining counties. Collections and other legal business will re sell's prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. IS, 1863.-13, •. ►. PUMA. J. G. RITCHIE PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. iferOFFlrF , —Main Street, one door east of the old Bink Building. All Jusiness in Greene, Washington, and Pay etteCounties, entrusted to them, will receive protnp attention. N. B —Particular attention will be given to the col lection of Pensions. Bounty Money, back Pay, and ether claims against the Government. dept. 11, 1861-Iy. R. W. DOWNEY, ATTORNEY. Mill CCAMSELLOR AT LAW. IrrOffice in I edwith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. M'CONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN. arcommxtr. zurrimax, •TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. i - 01 Bee In the "Wright I! se," East Door. Collections, dr..t., will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg. April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at J.aw. Office in the Court House. Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care Waynesburg, Pa., July 30, 1863.—1 y. 131= BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynerburg. Sept. 11,1861-Iv. SOLDIRREP WAR CLAIMS: D. R. 3E'. 131:3*Eilag ATTORNEY AT LAW, W AYNESBURO, PENNA., AS 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 PAY, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, widowed mothers, fathers, sinless and broth ers, which business, [upon due notice] will be attend.. ed to promptly, and accurately, if entrusted to his care. Office in the old Bank Building.—April 8, 1863. G. W. G. WADDELL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, CIFFICE in Campbell's Row opposite the Hamilton NJ House, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all kinds @elicited. Has received official copies of all the laws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc liens for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Due discharged and disabled soldiers, w idows, Orphan children, &c., which business if intrusted to his care will Le promptly attended to. May 13,'63. PSYSICIANS Dr. T. W. Ross, lonhiL3rolliicaeaa2. dee kiturgaaclaa., Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. rI E FFrcz AND RESIDENCf. ON MAIN STREET. east, and nearly opposite the Wright house. War nesbu-g, Sept. 23, 1863. DR. .a. G. CROSS wows, very respectfully tender his services as a PLIYBICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people 01 -Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to inerit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1862. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Drnggist and Apothecary, and dealer iu Paints and Oill, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and l'ure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 11181-Iy. mEROH.6NTS. WM. A. PORTER, Who.esale and Retail Dealel in Foreign and Domes- I Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11.1861-Iy. IL CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton Douse, opposite the (butt House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1801—ly. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gm eerie., queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House. Main street. Sept. ii, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS. J. D. COSY RAY, Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite lha "Farmer's and Drover's Hank." Every style 01 Boots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 11361-Iy. GROOBBIBS Bt. VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER; Dealer In Groceries and Confectioneries. Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all sizes. and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. itWr Cash paid for good eating Apples. Aopt. 11, 1861-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goods Generally, WiLien's New Building, Main street. dept. 11. Itl6l-Iy. BOOKS. &c. LEWIS DAY, Dealer in blot an aee adelliglleneoTeepoe doori, Dlra len te'te i r's lateer :ale *rent. "le; deft. I, ly. ." THE DESCENDANTS Or THE MUTI TINEEBS OF THE "BOUNTY." Most of our young friends have, doubtless, road the strange and in teresting story of the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty. For many years they lived in a small, rugged, and solitary island of the South Pacific Ocean, the name of which is well known as Pitcairn's Island. But a few years ago, when the British Government resolved to give up Norfolk Island as a convict establishment, the inhabitants of Pitcairn's Island were removed to Norfolk Island, which is situated in lat. 29 degs. south, and long, 167 deg. east. The island, with all its commo dious dwellings and improvements, was given to the "Pitcairner's" on c.indition that they would remove thither. They were now nearly two hundred persons. The offer was ac cepted, and in 1857 they arrived at their newhome: Our opportunities of hearing from Norfolk Island aro few and far between ; but the Rev. Geo. Gill has favored us with the following extract from a letter late ly received from his former collea gue, the Rev. W. Wyatt Gill, of Mangaia: "We sailed," writes Mr. Gill, "from Sydney on Wednesday, the 17th of September. At the request of the Governor, Captain Williams agreed to take supplies for the Nor folk Islanders. We reached that in teresting island on Tuesday, the 23d. and next day I dined on shore at the Rev. Mr. Nobbs's, their minister, who received us very kindly, and sent a few things for the children on board, "There are three islands. Phillip Island, burrowed in all directions by rabbits, with a few goats upon Nyran Island, which is just a block of bare limestone rock, with four fir trees on it; and Norfolk Is land itself, which is 19 miles and a half in circumference; and is a lovely spot. "These three islands must have been united in time long gone by.— The settlement at Norfolk lslaud is very pretty, but the landing is very difficult. The vast prison, barracks, and storehouses are all going to ruin, as there is no further need of them. The present population of Norfolk 'lsland is 300.. = "During the six years in which the families who removed from Pitw,irn's Island have lived here, there have been a hundred births and only fifteen deaths (four of which were accidental,) so there is great reason to expect that the island hereafter will become populous; but no stranger is permitted to live there without the consent of the majority of the present inhabitants and that of the Governor of New South Wales. The people are very civil and highly moral, and are a fir race. The younger women are Ocularly good looking, and ar• shade darker than ourselves. T are, in fact, a colony of English ple—a Christian people, too. could not help taking the live interest in them "Mr. Nobbs told me that two ilies have returned to Pitcairn's laud, and are doing well. But people, generally, have no desir follow their example. "The Island produces s Neet p• toes, Eng libh potatoes, yams, loquats, coffee, Indian corn, &c., but no good wheat, or cocoa-nu "Mr. Nobbs says that he has t ed nothing so much as a good d of •cocoa-nat water: English is now spoken at Norfolk lsla, the Taktitan dialect has become solete. No freight was charged the supplies which we brought tb but they made a donation of £2( the London Missionary Soch and presented to us, for the sh use, a sheep, a quarter of an ox, a bountiful supply of carrots, citr &c. I regretted only one thing was that our short stay did not mit us to hold a service with people; I'am sure they would h been pleased, nor do I think that Mr. Nobbs would have objected. ,'Many inquiries were made by the people respecting the progress of our missionary work in the South Sea Islands. "Captain Williams presented the islanders with a copy of your broth er's 'Gems from the Coral Islands.'— 'They seemed very thankful for books and papers. Strolling in a grave yard, I saw a tombstone erected over the grave of a man who had died aged 105 years, a convict at his death ! The last time he was sen tenced he was 85 years old; he had been a convict nearly all his days— Another stone was erected to the memory of a man who was one of sixteen who were all executed in one day for a mutiny which they plotted, and to some extent carried out"—English Missionary Magazine. Many of the persons killed on the Ball's Bluff battle field were nev er berried, and their bones are still bleaching by the eta sad storm.— Boob the reward of patriotism. iotellantouo. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1863. A WHITE MAN CHANGED INTO A Dr. Dickson, physician to her Majesty's embassy, send us (says the Levant Herald) the following au thentic report of the very singular case of a white man turned black.— A part from the mere novelty of the fact narrated, the following has a scientific interest:— Ovannes, an Armenian, aged 28 years, a native of Geiveb, in the dis trict of Ismid, and a brickmaker by trade, says of himself, that he was laid up for the space of two years with a long and serious illness, dur ing which period ho was more or less unconscious. He then suffered for a twelve-month from intermit. tent fever. This was followed by an attack of jaundice, which occurred about eighteen months ago—and the yellow color of the skin then grad ually changed into its present swarthy hue. The dark color first manifested itself in his hands and face, and alarmed him very much ; but he was soon re-assured, for he found that as the skin changed from yellow to bronze, his health sensibly improved. Such was the condition of this man when he came under Dr. Fauvel's care. On the first inst., I was enabled, through Dr. Fauvel's kindness, to discover the abode of Ovanness, and thus had an opportu nity of making a hasty examination of his case. The entire surface of his skin, excepting the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet, is of a very deep bronze hue, such as marks the color of the dark Abyssin ian races. A MODEST REQUEST. It is related of President Lincoln, that recently a farmer applied to h:m to secure his assistance in col lecting a bill against the Govern ment, for damages done by troops passing through his premises. The President referred him to the prop er officer, whose duty it was to at tend to such matters. But the man was anxious that Mr. Lincoln should examine the case personally, and give an order to have it settled.— "Then," said he, "they will attend to it at once; otherwise I may have to wait a long time." "But I have no leis ure to look after such things," said the President. '•lt won't take but a few minutes," urged the map. "You remind me of what occurred to a friend of mine on the Mississippi riv er;" said the President, He was captain of a steamboat, and when passing through the rapids, he al ways took the wheel, and steered the boat himself. One day when he was in the most difficult part of the stream, a boy came blubbering up to him, cryiug, "Captain, Captain !" •'Well what do you want" 0! do stop the boat, I've lost my apple over board !" The farmer saw the point of the story, and wisely concluded to collect his bill in the usual routin 3 manner. A. PROPHECY 111 JEST. The following extract from a bur lesque article in the New Monthly Magazine for 1821, (Vol. 11,) enti• tied " Specimen of a Prospective Newspaper, A. D., 1896," is very curious : "The army of the Northern States (of America) will take the field against that of the Southern provin ces early next spring. The princi pal Northern force will consist of 1,490,000 picked troops. Gen. Con greve's new mechannicat cannon was tried last week at the singe of Georgia. It discharged in one hour 1,120 balls, each weighing five hund red weight. The distance of the ob jects fired at was eleven miles, and so perfect was the engine that the whole of these balls were lodged in the space of twenty feet square."— A subsequent article in this speci men, states that, "by means of a new invention Dr. Clark crossed the At lantic in seven days.' How little did the writer anticipate that in nfty years these, to him wild fanciers would be almost realised. BLACK. "THE SMITHS." John Smith—plain John Smith—is not very high sounding ; it does not suggest aristocracy; it is not the name of any hero in die-away nov. els; and yet it is good, strong, and honest. Transferred to other lan guages it seems to climb the ladder of respectability. Thus in Latin it is Johannus Smithus; the Italian smooths it off into Giovanni Smithi ; the Spaniards render it Juan Smith us; the Dutchman adopts it as Hans Schmidt; the French flatten it out into Jean Smeet; and the Russian sneezes and barks Jonloff Smittow ski. When John Smith gets into the tea trade in Canton he becomes John Shimmit ; if he clambers about Mount Ilecia, the Icelandors say he is Jahne Smithson ; if he trades among the Tuscaroras he be comes Ton Qa Smittia ; In Poland he is known as Ivan Schmittiweiski; should ho wander among the Welsh mountains they talk of Jibon Schmidd; when he goes to Mexico he is booked as Jontli F'Smitti; it of classic tura be lingers among Greek ruins, he turns to 'lon Smik ton ; and in Turkey he is utterly dis guised as Yoe Seel. LOVE, JEALOUSY, AND MURDER. A dreadful case of this nature has occurred in Malta, The murderer, a man about 23 years of age ,who bore an excellent character, was a soldier in the Ist battallion, 22d Regiment, and was employed as groom by the surgeon of the regiment. Disap pointed in the object ofhis affections, a woman servant in the same family, by her marrying the day previous a corporal of the regiment, he openly vowed to take her life; but being at the time under the influence of drink no importance was attached to the threat In the evening he seized his victim and deliberately cut her threat with a razor in the presence of her married daughter, and then attempted to cut his own ; but Wl ing in this, from the handle of the weapon breaking in his hand, he ran out of the house and threw him self over the nearest bastion. Ile was picked up in a state of insensi bility, which terminated in death early the following morning. The woman was forty-six years old, and a grandmother. DREADFUL PARRICIDE AND SUI CIDE IN FRANCE. A horrible parricide by a lunatic has just taken place at Longue, (Maine -et Soire). The son of one of the wealthiest farmers in the neighborhood, a young man about 26 years of age, had lately given signs of insanity. Two nights back, when in a moment of frenzy, he en tered the room in which his father and mother were sleeping, armed with a gun, his mother succeeded in disarming him, and had gone to con ceal the gun in another part of t he . house when the young man rushed upon his father, struck him in the ice with his fists, and then strang d A farm servant, two fe ales, and the mother of the murder • were in the house at the moment the crime, but were afraid to go the assistance of the victim. The rung man then bandaged his eyes, id, groping his way to a well, rew himself in, and was drowned. LIVING. AT ATLANTA. Tho Atlanta [Ga.] Confederacy, in recent article on the wants of the opie, and the means of supplying cm, give this picture of the condi of affairs in that city. "What iall we eat, and wherewith shall we clothed. Cold winter, scarcity of -ovisions, clothing and fuel, and un .ecedented high prices, are all up i the people at once. Who are the habitants of the city ? The civil- ed world is represented among em. All classes are here—Dives id Lazarus are next-door neigh me. Affluence and misery are un a. the same roof, and wretched ;ss and poverty dwell on every eet.,—in every cabin-An old box lrs, and under every available shel l.. Many thousand of them are liv- 1g in a very uncomfortable style al ready, and the population is increas ing, while facilities for living in the city are rapidly decreasing.' Increase of Cities. The city of London, in ten years, has increased in population, 441,733; New York 370,204 souls, or 66.38 per cent , and Philadelphia, 222,484 inhabitants, or 55.43 per cent. The average number of housed during ten years built in London was 5349 ; is New York 1668 ; and in Philadel phia, 2805. London has been set tled 2000 years, New York 249 years and Philadelphia. 178 years. par Pauperism is largely on the increase in England, statistics show ing an amount of poverty in the whole country 18.51 per cent great er than in 1861; in some parts of the kingdom it reaches 39.22 per cent. Meantime emigration is in creasing rapidly. In the first eight months of the present year 93,904 emigrants left the country, of whom the greaterpart were for the United Of EXTRVAGANOF, OF THE SULTAN. The new Sultan of Turkey is be coming quite as expensive in his habits as his late brother, the R eak tbougli gentle hearted Abdul Medjid. A fire lately consumed all of the wooden palace near the water's edge on "Seraglio Point," occupied by his late brother's harem. This is to be rebuilt at an immense cost ; so are the palaces of Tcheragian and Bey benbey, and several kiosks on the Bosphorus. To do this a Mr. Op penheim, a banker, has been sent to Paris and London to raise a loan of $50,000,000. The troops out of the capital, in the meantime, have not been paid for twelve, twenty, and even thirty months, and all of the em ployees of the Porte are in arrears of their salaries some four and six months. LEAKY 33.00118. I have great pity for the people, and for the ladies especially, who live bencs,th a "leaky roof," and send you the following recipe, in stead of making it, as j grasping fel low might, "a close monepolY by patent right." Take pure Wilite lead, and mix with boiled oil until it is about the thickness of thin paint. Add to this common sand, such as is used in plastering, until the paint is about the consistency of mortar.-- The cement is now ready for use. and may be applied to leaks in roofs or around chimneys, with a trowel or case knife, When dry, it will be as hard as stone, and will do excel lent "picket duty" in preventing de moralized raindrops from stragglin down through ahaky places in the shingles. MRS. FARTINGTON ON OOSMETIOS. That's a new article for beautify ing the complexion, said Mrs. Bibb, holding a small bottle for Mrs. Part ington to look at. She look up from her toeing out a woollen sock for Ike, and took the bottle in her hand. "Is it indeed?" said she; 'well they may get up ever so many ros trums for beautifying the complex ion, but depend upon it, the less peo ple have to do with bottles for it the better. My neighbor Mrs. Blotch, has been using a bottle for a good many years for her complexion, and her nose looks like a rupture of Mount Vociferous, with the burning lather running all over the contage offs territory." *EV-Miss Cobbe, in an article on "The Humor of Various Nations," in the July number of the Victoria Magazine. tells the following story of an Irish definition of a miracle : "A priest, in Ireland, Living preach ed a sermon on miracles, was asked by one of his congregation, walking homewards, to explain a little more lucidly 'what a miracle meant.' It is a merakle you want to under stand ?' said the priest. 'Walk on, then, forninst me, and I think how I can explain it to you.' The man walked on, and the priest came af ter him and gave him a tremendous kick. 'Ugh !' roared the sufferer, why did you do that ?"Did you feel it ?' asked the priest. •'1 be sure I did,' replied the man. 'Well, then, it would have been a merakle if you had not, returned the priest." Reader. There is in Nova Scotia a young woman, seventeen years of age, who is seven feet two inches in height. She measures forty-three inches around the waist, thirty three inches from her armpit to the tip of her fingers., weighs two hund red and seventy-four pounds, and has a foot thirteen inches long. She is good-looking and quite social, al though diffident, not being ace us turned to seo the public, and her name is Anna Swan. An Irishman once said to another :—"And ye have taken the teetotal pledge, have ye ?" "Indado I have, and am not ashamed of it, wither." "And did not Paul tell Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach's sake ?" "So he did, but my name is not Timothy, and there is nothing the matter with my stomach." se-A wino-merchant having sent a sample of wine to Lord Derby, which he averred was a specific for the gout, subsequently wrote asking for an order: The Earl re plied, presenting his compliments to , &c., and begged to say he had tasted tho wino sent, but— preferred the gout. Stir Stewart , the New York mer chant prince, will sell $30,000,000 of goods this year. The September sales of clothes for men's wear alone were $700,000; and for the last year, in that department alone, will be from six to seven millions. ROW TO KNOW A FOOL.:-By six qualities may a fool be known—an ger without cause, speech without profit, change without motive, in ()airy without an object, petting_ trust in a stranger, and wanting ea pacity to discriminate between a friend and a fee. A VISIT TO BRIGHAM YOUNG. A Salt Lake correspondent of the N. Y. Evening Post writes: "I found President Young an agreeable, affable gentleman, ap parently not over forty-five years of age, although he is really upwards of 60. He was disposed to converse upon any and all subjects very free ly. The treaty with Japan he re garded at first as a failure, and the character of the embassy which vis ited the United States has served to confirm that belief. The war, ho thinks, will be continued till a great part of the North and South are used up, or to speak more plainly, till all arc annihilated, when the "Saints" will be the people to occupy the .country in peace and quietness.— The desolation canned by war be re gards as the judgiiier.t of the Lord for the pe raecutit the Saints.— Brigham was disposed to give any information concerning his theatre, temple and tabernacle, and about his other public buildings. The ven tilating of his private school-room, where his own children, numbering some sixty, are educated, appeared to be a favorite subject of conversation. The ceilings of these rooms are e i g hwen feet high, ventilated from the tops of all the windows. His own residences—there are several buildings—aro large and airy, with double doors, and ceilings twenty or thirty feet in height. One building is principally occupied by his wives. Brigham sleeps alone and eats alone. Whenever he wants one of his wives he sends for her. It is not uncommon to see three or four of his wives at Church sit ting together, and generally dressed alike. A dozen or fifteen children are about his premises at play at all times, apparently happy enough.— Brigham Young, jr., a sou about twenty years old—a pretty fair chip of the old block—has just returned from Europe, whither he was sent OD a mission. While there he visit ed most of the countries and places of interest, being supplied with as much money as he wanted to spend. Brigham's last wife was rather an interesfing young lady, the daugh ter of Mr. Folsom. It is asserted by the Mormons that the most perfect harmony and good feeling prevails among, the wives of the "harem," but I have positive information which shows this to be false. Brigham is friendly disposed to ward the overland mail companies. People visiting Salt Lake city are watched in their movements the same as they would be if they were known.to be murderers or incendia ries; strangers never converse, ex cept in low tones, so that they can not be beard off the sidewalks, The spy system here is equal to that in Vienna or Paris. Men and women are frequently found curled up under the lance inside the yard to listen to people passing along the streets. Men have been known to come and listen under the windows of strangers, when lights have been seen at what they considered un usual hours. To report anything to Brigham to attract his attention would be counted good work. WEALTH BY SMALL SAVINGS. It has been well said that a man's wealth depends not so much on what ho earns as on what he saves. Some people, on very small incomes, acquire a competence; others, on largo incomes, become bankrupt.-- The followinz incident is reported, on good autlu as a true one. It looks to as as if made to order, but, at any rate, has a good moral : An honest old German, of Brooklyn, who, by picking up bones about the streets, had saved up enough to pur chase a cheap lot in the suburbs of that city, left the streets as a pick er, and commenced as a trader— buying the bones of the chiffoniers and selling them to the bone-black makers, lie drew his hand-cart, fill ed with bones, twice a day, purchas ed from the pickers. At night he would cross the ferry, with his empty curt, to his home— not, exactly empty, however, fur it always contained at least one brick, which he was never at, a loss to find in the streets of New York. Ills daily brick was deposited on his lot, and, in the course of time, old Jacob waxed rich enough to think of build ing a house on his lot. his bricks by this time had become quite a considerable pile, so considerable, in deed, that ho actually built a snug little two story house, without be ing obliged to call upon the brick maker for a single ono. Old Jacob certainly got a cheap house. After be built his house, as he still brought over his cart nightly, and was not in want of bricks, be brought over one or more cobble stones at every trip. So that by the time the street was ordered to be paved, he saved the expense of paving stones, furnish ing his stock on hand. Now, this old man thought it no sin to pick up an insolated brick or stone—they belonged to no one. To have taken a brick from a pile, or any stone from a heap would have been, in honest Jacob's eyes, stealing, and the old man would rather have gone empty. No, Jacob's house it NEW SERIES.--VOL. 5, NO. 25 more honest than many a brown stone front. VARIOUS MATTERS. REMARKABLE FICAT.--Mr. Sohn Mettler formerly residing near Eas ton, and now, in his 89th year, did up some tall walking lately. He has been a resident of the State of Ohio for the last two years, but getting tired of Buckeye life, concluded to return to his old home. He preferred walking to railroading and steam boating, and accordingly set out on his long journey on the 21st of Sep tember, arriving at Easton on Sat urday, Oct. 6th, thus making the trip in fifteen days. The distance traveled when he reaches home will be four hundred and fifty-six miles in sixteen days. The old gentleman boasts that he can cut two cords of wood in one day without any diffi culty. Good for the 90-year old.l The Marshal ought to enrol his name in the "first class." PROOF OF MARRIAGE.-lt not nn frequently happens that clergymen, in marrying a couple, omit to give a certificate of the marriage, or to make any registration of it. Such evidence is rendered especially portant that now, as, in the case of the death of a soldier, the widow must have a certificate of marriage' before she cll l ll receive a pension. A Now Jersey paper, in speaking of this subject; as it respects that State, says: "Upon searching the records within the past year for marriages, nearly half of the tillfor tunate widows have been tarned away with the remark : 'The cler gyman performing the ceremony has neglected to comply with the law." How TO DETECT COUNTERFEIT FIF. TY CENTS.- Many persons do not know the counterfeit fifty cent pos tal currency from the genuine.— There are marks on the spurious that, if observed, will at once show the counterfeit. On the counterfeit the final "E." in the words "United States Postage," over the bead of Washington, is dropped, and the letter "S," in the word "Treasur ers." extends higher up than the other letters. Another test is that, in the spurious, the "y," in the word "Depository," does not touch the border on the back of the note. —Pittsburgh Chronicle. IliirThe War Department has re ceived from Richmond a list of the names of all the National officers held us prisoners in rebeldom. It comprises nine hundred and sixty army officers, and nine navalofficers, viz : one Brigadier Neal Dow, fourteen Colonels, twenty-five Lieut. Colonels, twenty-seven Surgeons, fifty-eight Assistant Surgeons, twen ty-eight Majors, two hundred and sixty-six First Lieutenants, and two hundred and seven Second Lieuten ants. Stir The poorer classes of women. in England, as late as the beginning of the present century, wera em ployed in many towns in carrying bricks and mortar on their heath; to the masons at work, on even the highest buildings. Women stripped from shoulder to loins may even now be soon picking up lumps of coal from the Tyne mud, when the water is low, much to the offence of strangers, if not to the people of Newcastle. liQr The emancipation of the serfs in _Russia is said to be no sham, but a great and notoble reality, by which nearly forty millions of the poople aro raised from a conditilim closely akin to slavery, to the condi tion of free men of other civilized States. Eir Coal oil .lias been found by ac cident to be a most effective means of protecting fruit treeß against the ravages of cumuli°, by placing saw dust, saturated with the oil, at the foot of the tree. far Confederate currency has so depreciated that the Richmond peo ple say; "ll you go to the market, you have to take your money in the basket, and to carry home your beef in the pocket-book." bar News from Arkansas says that Jeff Davis is about to send commis sions to notorious bushwhackers in that State to raise men to carry on a guerrilla warfare. ii* - The lately elected Governor of lowa, when studying law twelve years ago, worked eight hours a day for the purpose of earning money to pay his board and tuition. -so inefficient is the blockade at Wilmington that it is stated that only one steamer is lost by the blockade runners in every twenty. five trips, 116 r Artemus Ward thinks it is a hard thing not to have a wife—no gentle heart to get up in the morn ing to build firer. SAD A ETAIR.--Findley Ewing, a well known farmer of West Lampe ter, Lancaster county, committed suicide by banging on Wednesday. Deceased wasbachelor, and well to do in the w , but ever since i t the cornmencem t of the rebellion bas been depre in mind.
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