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THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD.
The London Globe gives the follow
ing interesting account of the rise and
present position of the "money kings of
Europe," the famous house of Roths
child :
“Among all the congresses held this
summer, of princes, lawyers, musicians,
schoolmasters, social science men, politi
cal economists, and a hundred others,
one very'notable meeting has almost es •
(taped public attention. A few days ago
our Paris correspondent told us that a
congress of the members of the illustri
ous house of Rothschild has been setting
at Paris. The purport of the meeting
was nothing less than to re-arrange the
dominions of the great banking dynasty.
In one word, the great object of the
Rothschild congress was to reduce the
five branches of the house who now rule
Europe to four, and following the ex
ample of Garibaldi, to strike another sov
ereign of Naples from the list of reign
ing monarchs. Henceforth there are to
be but four kings of the house of Roths
child, with secure throne at London,
Paris, Vienna and Frankfort.
"It is now exactly a hundred years
since a poor Jew, called Mayer Anselm,
made his appearance in the city of Han
over, barefooted, with a sack on his
shoulders, and a bundle of rags on his
back. Successful in trade, like most of
his co-religionists, he returned to Frank
fort, at tyre end of a few years, and set
up a small shop in the "Jew lane,” over
which hung the signboard of a red
shield, called in German Rothschild.—
As a dealer in old and rare coins, he
made the acquaintance of the Serene
Elector of Hesse Cassel, who; happening
to be in want of a confidential agent for
various open and secret purposes, ap
pointed the shrewd-looking Mayer An
selm to the post. The Serene Elector,
being compelled soon after to fly his
country, Mayer Anselm took charge of
his cash, amounting to several millions
of florins, With the instinct of his race,
Anselm did not forget to put the money
out on good interest, so that that, before
Napoleon was gone to Elba, and the il
lustrious Elector had returned to Cass€l,
the capital had more than doubled. The
ruler of Hesse Cassel thought it almost
a marvel to get his money safely return
ed from the Jew lane of Frankfort, and
at the Congress of Vienna was never
tired of singing the praise of his He
brew agent to all the Princes of Europe.
The dwellers under the sign of the Red
Shield laughed in their sleeves ; keeping
carefully to themselves the great fact
that the electoral two millions florin had
brought them four millions of their own.
Never was honesty a better policy.
Mayer Anselm died in 1812, without
having the supreme satisfaction of hear
ing his honesty extolled by kings and
princes. He left five sons, who succeed
ed him in the banking and money lend
ing business, and who, conscious of so
cial value, dropped the higher-sounding
one of Rothschild, taken from the sign
board over the parental house. On his
death-bed their father had taken a sol
emn oath from all of them to hold his
four millions well together, and they have
faithfully kept the injunction. But the
old city of Frankfort clearly was too nar
row a realm for the fruitful sowing of
four millions ; and, in consequence, the
five were determined after a while to
extend their sphere of operations by es
tablishing branch banks at the chief cities
of Europe. The. eldest son, Anselm,
born 1773, remained at Frankfort ; the
second, Solomon, born in 1774, settled
in Vienna; the third, Nathan, born in
1777, went to London ; the fourth,
Charles, the ivizut terrible of the family,
established himself in the soft climate of
Naples•
J 0. RiTCIIIII
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As to men, we say, when the hair be
gins to fall out, the best plan is to have
it cut short, give it a good brushing with
a moderately hard brush while the hair
is dry, then wash it well with warm
soap-suds, and nib into the scalp, and
about the roots of the hair, a little bay
ruin, brandy, or camphor water. Do
these things twice a month—the brush
ing of the scalp may be profitably done
twice a week. Damp the hair with wa
ter every time the toilet is made.—
Nothing ever made is better for the hair
than pure soft water, if the scalp is kept
clean in the way we have named. The
use of oils, or pomatums, or grease of
any kind, is ruinous to the hair of man
or woman. We consider it a filthy
practice, almost universal though it be,
for it gathers dust and dirt, and soils
whatever it touches. Nothing but pure
soft water should ever be allowed on the
heads of our children. It is a different
practice that robs our women of their
most beautiful ornament long before their
prime. The hair of our daughters should
be kept within two inches until their
twelfth year.
SiiirA Berlin Professor finds that Eu
rope contains 272,000,000 of inhabitants;
Asia, 720,000,000 ; Africa, 89,000,000;
America, 200,000,000 ; Polynesia, 2 , -
000,000. Total, 1,283,000,000, Of
the little crowd, about 3 2,04 00 0 die
in each year, which is 87,761 a day, or
61 a minute. Another professor (*en-
Wee that 36,627,343,274,075,835 ppple
haTelved on the earth *ince the drealon.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1863.
The Hair.
Murder of David Rizzio--Permanency
of Blood-Stains.
On the evening of the 9th of February,
1565-6, David Rizzi°, the Italian Sec
retary of Uary of Scotland, was mur
dered in Holy rood Place, by certain
Protestant leaders of her court, with the
assistance of her husband, Lord Darnley.
The poor foreigner was torn from her
side as she sat at supper, and dragged
through her apartments to the outer
door, where he was left on the floor for
the night, dead, with fifty-six wourds,
each conspirator having been forced to
give a stab, in order that all might be
equally involved in guilt and consequent
danger. The Queen, who was then
pregnant of her son (James I. of Eng
land) deeply resented the outrage ;
indeed, there is reason to believe that
it affected her so as to become the
turning-point of her life, giving her in
the first place a strong sense of the un
worthiness of her husband, who perished
little more than a year after.
The floor at the outer door of the
Queen's apartments presents a large,
irregular, dark mark, which the exhibi
tor of the place states to be the blood of
the unfortunate Rizzio. Most strangers
hear with a smile of a blood-stain lasting
three centuries, and Sir Walter Scott
himself has made it the subject of a joc
ular passage in one of his tales, repre
senting a Cockney traveler as trying to
eflace it with the patent scouring drops
which it was his mission to introduce
into use in Scotland. The scene be
tween him and the old lady guardian of
the place is very amusing ; but it may
be remarked of Scott, that he entertained
some beliefs in his secret bosom which
his worldly wisdom and sense of the
ludicrous led him occasionally to treat
comically or with an appearance of
scepticism. In one of his novels—the
Abbot—hg,alludes with a feeling of awe
and horror to the Rizzi° blood-stain; and
in his Tales of a Grandfather ' he deliber
ately states that the floor at the head of
the stair still bears visible marks of the
blood of the unhappy victim. Joking
apart, there is no neceaiti for disbeliev
ing in the Holyrood blood-mark.—
There is even some probability in its fa
vor. In the first place,t.he floor is very
ancient, manifestly much more so than
the late floor of the neighboring gallery,,
which dated from the reign of Charles
11. It is in all likelihood the very floor
which Mary and her courtiers trod,—
In the second place, we know that the
stain has been shown there since a time
long antecedent to that extreme modern
curiosity regarding historical matters
which might have induced an imposture,
for it is alluded to by the son of - Eelyn
as being shown in 1722. Finally, it is
matter of experiment, and fully estab
lished, that wood not of the hardest
kind (and, it may be added, stone of a
porous nature) takes on a premanent
stain from blood, the oxide of iron con
tained in it sinking deep into the fibre,
and proving indelible to all ordinary
means of washing. Of course, it the
wearing of a blood-stained floor by the
tread of feet were to be carried beyond
the depth to which the blood had sunk,
the stain would be obliterated. But it
happens in the case of the Holyrood
mark, that the two blotches of which it
consisted are out of the line over which
feet would chiefly pass in coming into
or leaving the room. Indeed, that line
appears to pass through and divide the
stain— a circumstance in no small degree
favorable to its genuineness.
Alleged examples of blood-stain of old
standing,both upon wood and stone, are
reported from many places. We give a
few, extracted from the Sates and Queries:
Amidst the horrors of the French Revo
lution, eighty priests were massacred in
the chapel of the convent of the Carme
lites at Paris. The stains of blood are
to be seen on the walls and floor. "At
Cothele, a mansion on the banks of the
Tallier, the marks are still visible of the
blood spilt by the lord of the manor,
when, for supposed treachercy, he slew
the warder of the draw-bridge."—
"About fifty years ago there was a dance
at Kirton-in-Lindsey; during the evening
a young girl broke a Vood-cessel and b
expired in the room. I have been told
that marks of her blood are still to be seen.
At the same town, about twenty years
ago, an old man and his sister were
murdered in an extremely brutal man
ner, and their cottage floor was deluged
with blood, the stains of which are be
lieved yet to remain."
A Blessed Day
Somebody has said, and truly too, that
Sunday is a blessed day to a man who neces
sarily catches but brief glimpses of home dur
ing the toiling week ; who is off in the morn
ing while the little eyes are closed in slumber,
nor back at night until they are sealed by
sleep ! What would he know of the very
children for whom he toils were it not for the
blessed, breathing respite of Sunday? What
honest workingman's child will ever forget
this day, when clean and neat, it is his privi
lege to climb papa's knee, and hang about
his neck, and tell him all the news which goes
to make up his narrow, little world. "Nar
row,' did we say ? We recall the word, for
it widens out into the boundless ocean of
eternity. Sunday for the workingman's chil
dren! So would he have it--a day hallowed
by sweet, pure, home influences ; when the
little band, quite complete, shall rest from
labor, and Lore shall write it down the bles
sed day of all the seven,
'Pay of all the week the best,
Ensblinis Of eternal rest." ,
Jenny Wade, the Hero of Gettysburg.
The country has already heard of
John Burns, the Hero of Gettysburg—of
how the old man sallied forth' a host
within himself, "to fight on his own
hook," and how he fell wounded after
having delivered many shots from his
trusty rifle in the faces and the hearts of
his country's foes. John Burns' name
is already recorded among the immortal,
to live there while American valor and
patriotism, have on admirer and an em
ulator. But there was a heroine as well
as a hero of Gettysburg. The old Hero,
Burns still lives—the heroine, sweet Jen!
uy Wade, perished in the din of that aw
ful fray, and she now sleeps where the.
flowers once bloomed, and the perfume
ladened air wafted lovingly over Ceme
tery I lill. Before the battle, and while
the national hosts were awaiting the as
sault of the traitor foe, Jenny Wade was
busily engaged in baking bread for the
national troops. She occupied a house
in range of the guns of both armies, and
the rebels had sternly ordered her to
leave the premies, but this she as sternly
refused to do. While she was busily
engaged in her patriotic work, a minie
ball pierced her pure heart, and she fell
a holy sacrifice in her country's cause.—
Almost at the same time a rebel officer
of high rank fell near where Jenny
Wade had perished. The rebels at once
proceeded to prepare a coffin for their
fallen leader, but about the time that
was finished the surging of the conflict
changed the position of the armies, and
Jenny Wade's body was placed in the
coffin designed for her country's enemy.
The incidents of the heroine and the
hero of Gettysburg are beautifully
touching, able, and sublime. Old Jelin
Burns was the only man of Gettysburg
who participated in the struggle to save
the North from invasion, while innocent
Jenny Wade was the only sacrifice
which the people of that locality had to
offer on the shrine of their country.—
Let a monument be erected on the
ground which covers her, before which
the pilgrims to the holy tombs of heroes
of Gettysburg can bow and bless the
memory of Jenny Wade, let them send
a committee to Harrisburg, and our lit
tle boys and girls will assist in soliciting
subscription for the holy purpose. Be
fore the summer sunshine again kisses
the grave of Jenny Wade; before the
summer birds once more carol where she
sleeps in glory; before the flowers again
deck the plain made flimous by gallant
deeds, let a monument rise to greet the
skies, in tokens of virtue, daring, and
'oleness.—Harrisbuug Telegraph.
middle of October, since which time hundreds
in that comparatively limited territory, have
been carried oil' by it. In the family of Mr.
John Weakland, at Holliday's Saw Mill, out
of eight members seven have taken the di
sease and died. Another family of six has
los . t five of its members, and there is scarcely
a family in the neighborhood which does not
mourn the loss of one or more. In the grave
yard a short distance from Holliday's Mill,
aver two hundred graves may be seen, all
made within a month.
The Gallant Six Hundred.
The battle of Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
of which we had an account some days
ago, was fought and won by the sth
Kansas cavalry, the Ist Indiana cavalry,
and one militia "company less—than six ,
hundred men in all. They fought and
kept at bay, for five hours, four thous
and of Marmaduke's men, and finally
made them beat an inglorious retreat.
"Bravely they fought and well,
The gallant six hundred."
The enemy's loss we 53 killed. 164
wounded, and 35 prisoners. Our loss
was 11 killed, 27 wounded, and One
Weal
What They Knew 1800 Yaers Ago:
The letters of the Rev. Mr. Thomp
son, written durini his recent tour in
'Europe, Africa and Asia, published in
the New York Independent, are highly
instructive and entertaining. We sub
join an extract relating to the "Lost
Arts :"
"The author, on the Ist. of January,
1863, approached Pompeii, one of the
cities overwhelmed by the ashes and cin
ders of Vesuvius, on its memorable
eruption about half a century subse
quent to the commencement of the
Christian era. In the suburbs stands
the first object which was not long since
brought to light after a burial of ages ;
it, was the large and elegant mansion of
Arrias Diomedes, which bears numer
ous inscriptions as legible now as the
day after they were made ; together
with many traces of the great wealth of
the occupant. Tombs and ornaments
remain along the road outside the
city ; within are rows of shops and
houses on both sides of the principal
street, which is laid open for it half a
mile.
The portable articles found on the
premises, that serve to identify each
house, have all been removed to the
Museum at Naples ; also the finer fres
coes and mosaic. Enough of these re
main, however, to show the luxurious
and lascivious taste of the inhabitants.—
Here is a living commentary upon the
concluding verses of the first chapter of
Paul's Epistle to the Romans. The
shocking memorials of human depravity
here found, and now collected in the se
cret chamber of the Museb Boronico of
Naples, are no longer to be seen upon
any terms—the Pope, when in exile at
Naples, having prohibited their exhibi
tion as contrary to good morals, But
every memorial of Pompeii shows it to
have been a tity of lust—a second
Sodom. The man of letters who should
select such subjects for the frescoes of
his walls as are found in the house of
Sallust would be scouted from our mod
ern society.
Yet wonderful was the perfection of
art as here exhibited ; amazing was the
wealth of a city adorned with such tem
ples, theatres and other public edifices
as yet are found in their old places and
proportions, along these silent streets;
vast, too,• was the wealth of private cit
izens who dwelt in these houses, whose
floors are rich mosaics, whose walls are
adorned with elaborate frescoes, whose
courts are surrounded with marble
lars and beautiful marble vases and foun
tains. In the garden of one house re-
Italy exhumed, the statuary has been
!ft precisely as found, pretty little
-oups surrounding the fountain, whose
ry pipes can be traced from the reser
rir above.
There is nothing new under the sun,
4: even our patent method of heating
cses and warming water for baths.—
iis done at Pompeii, by means
flues of tilling carried around the
gims, within the walls, and having
pertures for the escape of heat from
le furnace below. Walker, Chilson,
;., have invaded the patent of some
ickless dealer in furnaces at Pompeii,
ho was buried at last in ashes and cin
irs.
We don't know so much, after all, in
Inerica, in this nineteenth century.—
Ike away the knowledge of the Gos
4, and we know nothing in compar
in with these ancient lords of the arts
id elegancies oflife.
The streets of Pompeii are rectangu
•, and were better paved, and proba
• better rugulated, than the streets of
w York. The houses were much
;ter built. The cement made 2,000
trs ago is like a rock to-day. There
no Twenty-first street contractors
iere. How wonderful is the preseava
ion of these walls—in ashes, to be sure,
,at in themselves proof against deftly !
How perfect the pillars, the mouldings,
the capitals! How distinct and how
delicate the paintings on the walls and
ceilings ! How admirable the arrange
ments of the houses and gardens ! How
beautiful—but we must not linger at
Pompeii. Its gloom is the more op
pressive for the sunshine upon its deso
lation.
Stitch, Stitch, Stitch.
At a meeting of sewing women in
Brooklyn, on Monday night, several
gave their experiences in working for
late establishments. One woman said
that from seventy to seventy-two cents
per dozen was paid for drawers in New
York. She had called at a shop in Con
cord street, and they offered her four
cents and a half per pair for drawers and
army shirts—could make twenty-two
cents per day on the work. Her hus
band died of fever contracted in the ar
my, and being without means was com
pelled to support herself and child, five
months old, by doing such work as she
could get. Another woman stated that
she got one cent a piece for making ha
versacks for the United States Sanitary
Commission, and could make thirty-five
cents a day at it. Several others made
similar statements.
Stir Th e mother of a little boy who
was about taking a ride in the Hartford
horse cars, asked him as he tumbled in,
'Why ain't you going to kiss your ma,
before' you go 1" The little rogue was
in s u ch a hurry that he couldn't stop and
hastily &led out, 'Mr. ctor
won't you please kiss motherifor me?"
"Only One Hundred Killed."
Rev. A. M. Stewart, Chaplain of the
102 d (Old Thirteenth) Pennsylvania Re
giment, writing from Brandy station,
Va., after the late battle at Rappahan
nock Station, statas that the enemy were
attacked in their stronghold, and must
have been somewhat surprised and con
fused, else they would have killed and
wounded thousands of our troops. He
then continues in the following strain :
Only about one hundred were killed,
and three hundred wounded. Yet how
strange this language. "only one hundred
killed ! Cruel war does greatly trans
form both our language and our sensi
bilities. "Only one hundred killed !"
Only - one hundred noble young men hi
the flower of manhood swept together
into eternity. Only a hundred homes
and home circles thus quickly thrown
into inconsolable sadness and irreparable
grief. Were one hundred young men
belonging to your fire companies crushed
to death in a moment, under the ruins
of some burning building, what a thrill
of horror would pervade . the whole city
—yea, the entire community ? Each
daily paper throughout the country, for
a number of issues thereafter, would be
filled with sickening details of the aw
ful, the appalling calamity. When, how
ever, "only one hundred killed in the
battle of the Rappahannock," is read by
millions next morning, no other emotion
is excited thereby save perhaps that of
joy—a kind of pleasing breakfast re
past.
Early next morning (Sabbath) I. pass
ed entirely over the scenes of last even
inces bloody struggle. All quiet now.
The wounded had been sent away du
ring the night, and the sixteen hundred
prisoners conveyed tar to the rear. The
dead were being collected into groups in
order to be covered up in trenches then
digging by their living comrades. All
were buried just as they fell—uncovered
and shrouded in their bloody . garments
—perhaps the fittest burial for the brave
soldier. At orie pink. Within the ene
my's works were collected and laid side
by side for interment, thirty from the
6th Maine regiment. All noble looking
young men ; still, calm, bloody, dead.
They came from that far off Northeast,
to sleep their last long sleep on the quiet
banks of this lonely river. Nearly eve
ry one of these had received the death
wound in the face, the neck, or upper
portion of the breast, as they marched
directly up to the muzzles of the rebel
rifles.
Morbid Nervousness.
The morbid nervousness of the pres
ent day appears in several ways. It
brings a man sometimes to that startled
state that the sudden opening of a door,
the clash of the falling fire-irons, or any
little accident, puts him in a flutter.—
llow nervous the late Sir Hebert Peel
must have been when, a week before his
death, he went to the Zoological Gar
dens, and, when a monkey suddenly
sprang upon his arm, the great and wor
thy man fainted Another phase of
nervousness is, when a man is brought
to that state that the least noise or cross
occurrence seems to jar through the en
tire nervous system—to upset him, as
we say ; when he cannot command his
mental powers except in perfect stillness,
or in the chamber and at the writing ta
ble to which he is accustomed ; when,
in a short time, he gets fidgetty, easily
worried, full of whims and fancies, which
must be indulged and considered, or he
is quite out of sorts. Another phase of
the same morbid condition is when a
human being is impressed with vague,
undefined fears that things are going
wrong; that his income will not meet
the demands upon it; that his mental
powers are leaving him—a state of feel
ing which shades rapidly off into positive
insanity. Indeed, when matters remain
long in any of the fashions that have
been described, I suppose the natural
termination must be disease of the heart,
or a shock of paralysis, or insanity hi the
form either of mania or idiocy. Num
bers of commonplace people who could
feel very acutely, but who could not tell
what they felt, have been worried into
fatal heart disease by prolonged anxiety
and misery. Every one knows how
paralysis laid its hand upon Sir Walter
Scott, always great, lastly heroic. Pro
tracted anxiety how to make the ends
meet, with a large family and an uncer
tain income, drove Southey's first wife
into the lunatic asylum ; and there is
hardly a more touching story than of
her fears and foreshadowings through
nervous attacks year after year. Not
less sad was the end of her overwrought
husband in blank vacuity ; nor the like
end of Thomas Moore. And perhaps
the saddest instance of the result of an
overdriven system in reeent days, was
the end of that rugged, honest, wonder
ful genius, Hugh Miller.—Recreations of
a Country Parson.
Denmark
The death of King Frederick the Sev
enth, and the acceptance of the throne
of Denmark by his cousin, King Chris
tian the Ninth, was a fact thought likely
to lead to a settlement of the olifflculties
between that Government and the
Germanic confederation. Bat, accord
ing to the London Times, the new ac
cession will only complicate and embar
rass matters still further, for the Duch
ies refuse to receive Christian as their
monarch, and call npon the Confedera
tion to sustain them. Christian is
father-in-law to the Prince of Wales, and
father to the King of Greece•
NEW SERI .---VOL. 5, NO. 28.
Haw Tait eases are. Paid.
At tee meeft. of femele,, viativea
in New York; tilre followingalaiowere
elicited in rifenace to the...payniats re
ceived by the tailonesee for the work
they are employed in :
A cloakmaker stated that she received
forty cents for making a lady's cloak of
the large size, the work occupying a dly
and a half. Some shirtmahers present'
remarked that all they received for mak
ing a dozen shirts was sixty cents, the
time required on the work, - even ,eif a
sewing machine, being a day and a half . .
Fine shirts brought them one dollar per
dozen, all finished. Flannel shirts from
four to sir cents each, the storekeeper Nail
ing them for three dollars each ! Over
alls and drawers brought fifty cents per
dozen—making six being a good days
work. Those engaged in making boys'
clothing said all they receivial for mak
ing a whole suit was sixty-eisthecents each
suit, requiring fourteen hours' landis On'
it. Sackcoat makers stated that they re]
ceived for making a dozen four dollars,
out of which to baisters forty-eight,
cents, rent of machine, eighteen death,
and cotton fifty cents, leaving % balauou,
of eighty-four cents_ for profit on each
half dozen made. Boasters on cavalry
pantaloons get eight cents a piece, mad
can only finish four a day. Linen coats
bring twenty cents each, ten hours being
required to finish two of thein. Cap
makers get thirty-five cents per dozen,
and it requires a smart woman to com
plete a dozen between daylight and nine'
at night. The statements of the insults
and slights these poor women are oblig
ed to submit to from the little despe
who have the direction of the large
manufacturing establishments, would ex
cite the indignation even of a city rail-
road director. Most of those who rela
ted their experience at the meeting were
young women, but there were others
present of an older growth, whose pov
erty-stricken appearance and unhealthy
bodies spoke volumes of the privtititers
they were subject to, thriugh tine 'ere
industrious, honest, and hard-winking.
people. We trust the infamous oppres
sion this class of metropo4tan ancjat s y
exposed to will be fully . veatilated, and
its authors publicly expcised before the
matter is done with.
Guns Taken by Gen. Grant.
General Grant has eaptuied trio're can
non from the enemy, Than • alt the other
Union Generals together. From (Ant.;
tanooga, it is reported that he has taken
more than sixty field and aiegspinceL.e.
These, added to previous egpturga, will
place nearly 600 cannon to Grant's ered
it—more gins than wate r emedtsarAp.
one war by any General since the inven
tion of artillery. General Grant le
made the following captures of artil
lery :
At Fort Donelson
In the battles of Vicksburg campaign... SO
At Vicksburg SSO
At Chattanooga.... 60
Total
Five hundred and eighty-aix guns'.
Quite enough to erect a monument over
the rebellion.
Peter E. Slocum, a former employee of the
Beth Hotel at Long Branch, N. J., was exe
cuted in the Mammouth county jail at Free
hold, last Friday, for the murdei of his wife,
by shooting, in July last. The wretched man
made a long and illiterate speech from the
gallows, denying his guilt, but expressing
himself resigned to his fate, which he met
with remarkable fortitude. It was proved
on the trial that he was in love with his
wife's sister, Alcine Chase, with whom ho
had been on terms of improper intimacy, and
this was the supposed motive of the murder-
Slocum was about thirty-five years of age,
and leaves three children in destitute circum
stances.
Our National Necropolis.
It is a fact not generally known, but
which ought to be known in oOnnection
with the recent national ceremonies at
Gettysburg, that the killed and wounded
in that grand encounter was greater than
the loss at Waterlbo At Waterloo the
Allies lost 20,000 in killed and wounded,
the French about the same number.—
At Gettyshurg the Union army lost 4,-
000 killed and 12,000 wounded, and the
rebels 5,500 killed and 21,000 wounded:
Our total loss was a little over 23,000,
that of the rebels 40,000. Such terrible
facts gave the consecration ceremonies
a sad and, mournful importance.' It is
emphatically our national necropolis.
Assistant Surgeon L. Brown, re
cently from Richmond, says that on the
3rd ult., so intense waii the hanger
among our prisoners at Libby Prison,
two privates of the Wisconsin Battery,
with several Members of the 2d 'Michi
gan, killed a cloy which entered the cell,
and made *pup from the eqrcaos, Allich they
gladly exchanged with their fellow prim
oners for corn bread. This fact is
vouched for not only by 'Surgeon Brown,
but by several other gentlemen. The
fearful condition of our prisoners at'
Richmond, they say, we have no con
ception of • •
ItarA young man wiil oorapliment his
sweet4eart by telling her that hes breath
has d ile p er fume of roses, without being
ashamed that his own has thg stench o
wiiiskey and tobacco.
•}l4l +l tytte
t it+
Murderer Exeouted.
Hard Fare,
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