--- ------. 1._. ' - • ^,, ' - , - - --, ----,, '.%•: \ \ - %.L ' ' _,,,,,,, • ~ J.\ ~ -„, , 1 ,, L ,\ • ....... _.._....... ... --- - ithlg lamilp /ournat---gtetrottb . to' ',!tioltitts, . gutulturt, frit tun, foreign, pinntot - .anb' 6tHeral *tea ++ 1:* i ce ` • . le. `au ESTABLISHED IN 1813. 511 WAYNESBURG MEOW PUBLLIZED BY R. W. JONES AND JAS. S. JENNINGS. Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. grermaz OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC MU ARE• iraviatal Illvisostrrios.—s2.oo in advance ;.25 at the ex- plratios of six months; $2.25 after t he expiration of ,the year. ADVEITUICIIIICHTIII inserted at $1.25 per square for Abeetainserdomo end 25 chi. a square for each addition al dassetiost; ten lines or less counted a square.) I /I liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. Jos Panurtiro, of all kinds, executed in the best sty ~ F and on reasonable terms, at the "Messerrtr" Job °Moe. agnestrurg Nusintss 41,arlts. ATTORNEYS. eta. L. WYLY. J. A. J. DUCH•NAN, D.ll. P. nu.. WYLY, BU CHANAN & HUSS, Attorneys de Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. Kilt practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining *counties. Collections and other legal business wilt re ceive prompt attention. °ince on the South side of Main streeL. in AltiOld Bank Building. Jan. 220863. 3. ♦. 411P1111111LW PIIRIMLAAT & RITOBIE. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSI g, ,L Pa LORS AT LAW Waynesbur. lit'Ornex—Main Street, one door east of the old Binh Building. arta Justness in Greene, Washington, and Fay site Counties, entrusted to them, will receive pomp Attention. N. B.—Particular attention will be gives to the col lection of Pensions. Bounty Money, Back Pay, and Other clainmagainstthe Government. Sept. 11. 1861—Iv. N. A. MrCONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN. CONK LL & 31411111CA7f, ArroaxErs AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. Ele•Odia in the "Wright Lk an," Emit Door. Colkxtione, &c.. will receive prompt attention. Werneaburg. April 23, 11301-Iy. DAVID CRA WWORD, Aesetwey and Counsellor as Law. Office in the Omit Reese. Will attend promptly to all business •ntwNad to Ms ease. •Waynesburg, Pa., July 30, 1833.—1 y. I=l3 SLACK & PHELAN, LTTOMINII4II AIM COUNSELLOitg kT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. ties. 11,1601-10. • sozarbms , wAit =duns: D. rt.. N.. =wows, tationnir L+ LAM, WA4iltilllll7#4, •• Hial ressived from the War Depends:it at Wegb ippon city. D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Foram and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY. BACK PAY, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, widowed • 'anthers, fathers, sisters and broth ers, which business, [upon due notice] will be attend ed to promptly, lard accurately, If entrusted th his cars. Office in the old Bark Building.—April DM. O. W. a. WALIMBILL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, OFFICE in the REGthSTEWd OFFICE , Court Blouse, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all kinds solicited. Hue receivied,otacial espies of all the laws Fumed by Congress, and other nereasso Statue doss for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Due discharged aad disahled soldiers, widows, Orphan children, dtc., which business if intrusted to his rant wind.* presently attended to. May 13, Mr/VIOLA.= Dr. T. W. Ross, Mollawaiicoiarza Illivuripecoms, Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. grIPTICE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET. , sod nearly opposite the Wright house. siseaaa•g. Sept. 23, 1863. DR. 41. O. 03/4111111 W i Nterale i l i g=l l l6 EON, to the pee . pie ol lazeeberg sod vicinity. Ile hopes by a due twinn ed' Inman life aad health, and strict intention to =tnii so merits sham of 'Witte patronage. •mpaaNllg. Jamul , 16 DRUGS M. A. HARVEY liplagiot and Apediecary, and dealer a Palate and Oils. WA most celebrated Patent Idediciaan, sad Pare irdroi c ra far 'medicinal purposes. 11, L661-Iy. * 3 1 - .. 2 3 i N 1,0 WM. A. PORTER, Whom *le and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes day Goods, Groceries, Notions, kc., Main street. Sept. 11, 18111-Iy. IL CLARK, Doikoria Dqq Goods, Groceries. Roadways, Queens wayoralid _ in Ma Hamilton Hones, opposite His Coors Wyse. Main wrest. Sept. MINOR & CO., Dinbora idareipt •Ntraumatic Dry Grads, 41110- wales, tanagoraraig, Haahrars and Notions, appoaims ine Data street. Sind. 14.1111111-4, . 0 J. D. COSGRAY, Ilantana %Me tanner. Igain street . anarl Y " 1 " 1" dans "Pasionea and Drover's Hank . " Every style of linotottanildaosa 11111— 1y conotanny on hand or out Air to order. OW. . 0: 1 101 M9 111 , 1 4 V JOSEPH YATER, 4=4 s s 11.314 1ea= ace ., Gre. :1 7"6"11 a+ 41101 Maiddias sad Looking elan rata& irlatioad ands' App!... , - qsaisiUN MUNNZLL. sad awl Variety AIM /Wan& MLA wrest. • • WASVICIII. ANTI 8111POIMIT 8. 11. BAILY, likin 14rest, iiviesits take Wlibt paw kaiwps. 0 41 Slaill‘sol.. s la* sad Ansa 010111.11 ft w . &Avila. ' 0 Okuda, Waking aid iimrshvell iligleigillesikat. Mo. lii. Ulfl.-.ty MMES. &o. LEWIS DAY, 444 1 "="3=, iniaaw. Sert.ll. al. t saallime *orb asaines. VoiAstra. igallanteuo. The apple crops in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have been signal failures this season. The entire products of the orchards in our own State would not fill the knapsacks of a scouting battallion of soldiers. Had the same barrenness prevailed in other localities, the chances for apple dumpling and mince pies dur the winter would have been extremely few. But New York has greatly in creased her usual crop, and her richly laden orchards, have raised enough to supply the continent. It is singular how the fruit market changes its location in different periods. When the spring brings the early fruits from the gardens of Delaware and the sandy nurseries of Jersey, the depots of the Eastern railroads and the wharves where the Salem and Gloucester boats discharge their cargoes are the head quarters of the fruiterers. When Fall appears and melons have vanished, and the lucious peaches are frost bitten and tasteless, the Delaware wharves give place to the counter of the commission merchant, and the winter fruits are found along Broad and in Central Mar ket streets. It is not often a cargo reaches the wharves. J. 9. RITCHti The counties of Monroe, Orleans and the adjacent counties in Western New York are the great apple-growing re gions. The apples are carefully picked, sweated and packed in barrels for ship ment. Rochester is the great apple de pot. A barrel can be purchased there for about twenty cents, and it can be fill ed with the finest fruit for a dollar and a halt: The cost of transferring it to the city form the chief portion of the ex penses the purchaser in the city incurs. When the snow comes the apples be come cheaper. Sleighs are always on hand in the country, and the trouble of transportation is much less with them than with wagons. A good quality of apples costs from three dollars and a half to four dollars a barrel in Philadelphia at present. They are high, but so is every thing Phiadelphict Inquirer. JOlll Death of Mrs. Ex-President Pierce. "Bosrox, Dec. 2.—Mrs Jane N. Pierce, wife of Ex-Pre.sdent Pierce, died this morning at Andover, Mass. Sh e has been in feeble health for several years." 1. How much of bereavement is implied n this brief announcement they only can know who enjoyed the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Mrs Pierce, and knew how close and strong were the ties of mutual affection which in this case bound the husband and wife in the bonds of imperishable love. She was a gentle and loving soul, a woman of rare social virtues beloved by an exten sive circle of cherished friends, and held by them in a most affectionate regard. She had been a fragile and delicate per son—little else, indeed, than a valetudi narian—ever since the death of her lit tle son, by a railroad accident, thirteen years ago. From the effects of that be reavement she never recovered ; it trans formed, to her the glittering display and honor and power connected with the elevation of her honored husband to what was then the most august office in the world, into the most hollow and empty of fleeting mockeries. All that assiduous care, prompted by anxious affection, could do to restore her shat tered health wo done by General Pierce, but even a residence in the lovely May climate of Madeira, among the vine clad steeps of that most beautiful of the is lands of the summer sea, failed to restore the bloom and enjoyment of life to her whose heart was already in that Bet ter Land where her lost treasure was, and whither she herself has now gone to meet her darling boy. The sympa thies of thousands of friends wi11,9.0 out to the bereaved husband, who m this hour of affliction, is made to realize the hollowness of all worldly honors, in the crushing experience of a loss like that he is now called upon to suffer. —liar ford Times. The Hartford (Connecticut) Post pub -1 ishes an article on "Shoddy," which, it says, "comes from one of the first busi ness men in Connecticut." We quote from it the following : What is shoddy r Shoddy is old, worn-out, unfelted woolen goods, made IA slack twisted yarn, picked to pieces by machinery especially adapted to the purpose. It is mixed with wool of longer fibre and style, and when card ed together it can be spun finer or coars er, according to the proportion it bears to the new wool making the compound. No small portion of per centage of shod dy can be thus mixed with new wool eild made into yarn fit for either warp or woof, or yarn for knitting purposes. Mango is another name for old and worn out fine felted goods and broadcloth clothes, Oohed to pieces in the same asaarim It is the • finer article, and *him Properly repaired am be worked inio the finest bleak clothes to be tuned in the narrket. " A very la rge tionlif - 9p . BORAl i t mote trpl a 7 4- ody wont 4 , irkt ao oat set A, 0 4 1 serther are the famed The Apple Trade. Shoddy. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1863. Dr. Seymour, an English physician, in a "Letter upon Private Lunatic Asy huns," thus gives his experience of the evil effects of excessive smoking : Some of the revelations on this sub ject are startling. Some young men still in their teens smoke forty or fifty cigars daily. Young gentlemen of rank have assured me that at college they have smoked from five in the afternoon until three or four in the morning, for weeks together. The effect of excessive smoking is to depress the circulation, the heart becomes weak, irregular in action, and the pulse is scarcely to be felt. The patient becomes frightened, and loses all resolution. Once a bold rider, he cannot mount his horse ; a carriage pass ing rapidly in the street alarms him ; his appetite fails; his mind fills 'with horrors, imaginary crimes and punishments. This state of things sometimes continues for years. At length the patient dies—of ten very often, suddenly. The case is explained. The muscular structure of the heart—of that organ which is to dis tribute strength and power to every part of the system—is imperfect in its action; the left side is thin, and in some eases in which sudden death has occured, there is little more than a strip of muscular fi bre left on that side. Excessive smok ing is a new vice, How many young men at school and college used to smoke some sixty years ago ? Some half-doz en. How many- do now ? The answer is—legion. Boys of twelve years old are seen early in the morning walking in the streets with cigars in their mouths. Youths have consulted me who have just come from schools now called col lege, confessing that they had been in the habit of smoking constantly ; and those are lads just hoping to begin the business of life. The Dead Monks and Nuns of Pal- In the caves of the Capuchins, (says the London Builder) the dead, hanging by hooks to the walls, and otherwise arranged in cases along galaiies for con venience of inspection by mourners and sight-seers, can hardly be said to be bur ied. All are dressed in good clothing, according to their conditions of life, of the fashion of the period at which they severally died; some, in evening dress, patent leather boots, and kid gloves; young ladies in silk and satins, with wreaths upon their heads; monks in their habits, etc. They are carefully attend ed to, neatly arranged, dusted and label led by the Capuchin brethren, who are the guardians of the place. Their fees for these posthumous services is about four pounds sterling. They have a mode of preserving a life-like appearance in the dead by Washing the body with a solution, and by fixing glass eyes in the socket; but this is an extra of very in considerable expense, and not frequently incurred by the friends of the departed. It may have been to some such process that St Cuthbert was indebted for his celebrity of one thousand two hundred years' duration. Our Recipe for Curing Meat. To one gallon of water, Take 1 tbs. of salt, It. of sugar, ' I oz. of saltpetre, oz. of potash. In this ratio the pickle can be increas ed to any quantity desired. Let these be boiled together, until all the dirt from the sugar rises to the top and to skim med off. Then throw it into a tub to cool, and when cold, pour it over your beef or pork, to remain the time, say four or five weeks. The meat must be well covered with pickle, and should not be put down for at least two days after killing, during which time it should be slightly sprinkled with powdered salt petre, which removes all the surface blood, &c., leaving the meat fresh and clean. If this receipt is properly tried, it will never be abandoned. There is none that surpasses it, if so good.—Germantown 2 deraph. Wonderful increase of Correspond- The number of letters delivered in England in 1862 was 497 millions, in Ireland 51 millions, and in Scotland 57 millions ; being 24 to each person in England 9 to each in Ireland, and 19 to each in Scotland. This is an increase of 12 millions over the number delivered in 1861, and an increase of 529 millions over that of 1839, the year previous to the introduction of pen ny postage ; making the present number of letters very nearly eight fold the number in 1839. In the London district alone, the number of letters is now nearly double that which, before the adoption of the penny postage, was delivered in the whole of the United. Kingdom, London included. Pensions for Widows. Pensions have been granted at. Wash ington to the widows of two lowa vol unteers who are proved to have gaii Prism at 141 M, jr "- sbuation w an r d Yilittroletnent. They were taken Estatatt at Übe WU of Shiloh Tetra.— The ftlis we:spasm" lap• fallowspriaor apes asasettand admit ciao deal*. Winnow belirreiar of lie nixie WO , an rly date, and waa not • in ;mnd 'one. Smoking. ermo. ence. A Witty Auctioneer The following anecdotes are related of John Keese, formerly a book auction eer in New York : Keese is remembered by the trade with affection. He was a bright, intelli gent man, and an estimable member of society. Of an old New York he was brought up to the book trade, I think, by one of the Quaker fraternity— Collinses--a.nd it was only in the middle life, after various experiments in business, that he became an auctioneer. He began, if I mistake not, somewhere about the year 1845, with a sale to the trade in a large back bidding in Broad way, near Courtland street. He cer tainly opened proceedings with an ex cellent entertainment of oysters and campagne. He was the life of the com pany, and was called upon, of course, for a speech, probably for half a dozen. One of his good things, towards the close, is worth remembering. It particu larly pleased the trade at the time.— 'Gentlemen," said he, in allusion to the entertainment, we arc scattering our bread upon the waters, and we expect to find it after many days—buttered !" It was in retail sales, however, in the small change of the auction room, that his wit appeared to the most advantage. No catalogue could be too dull for his vivacity. He was always rapid, and an utiwary customer would be decapi tated by his quick electric jest before he felt the stroke. The following, among other things of the kind attributed to him, will give some notion of his pleas antries : "Is that binding calf ?" asked a sus picious customer. "Come up, my good sir, put your hand upon it and see if there is any fellow-feeling," was the ready reply. A person one evening had a copy of Watt's Hymns knocked down to him for a trifle, and interrupted the business of the clerk by calling for its "delivery." Keese, finding out the cause of the interference, exclaimed, "Oh, give the gentlemen the book. He wants to learn and sing one of the hymns before he goes to bed to-night !" Apropos of this time-honored book, in selling a copy on another occasion, when there was some rivalry in the profession, he turned off a parody as he knocked it down:— "Blest is the man who shims the place Where other auctions be ; And has his money in his fist, And buys his books of me." His puns were usually happy, and slipped in adroitly. Offering one of the Rev. Dr. Hawk's books, he added in an tivplanatory way : "A bird of pray."— "Going—going—gentlemen—one shil ling for Caroline Fry—why, it isn't the price of a stew." Akin to this was his observation to a purchaser who had secured a copy of Bacon's Essays for 12i cents, "That's too much pork for a shilling!" Selling a book labelled "History of the Tartars," he was asked, "Isn't that Tar tars ?" "No !" he replied, "their wives are the Tartars !" "This," said he, holding up a volume of a well known type to critics, "is a book by a poor and pious girl, of poor and pious parents." No one could better introduce a quo tation. Some women one day found their way into the auction room at a miscellaneous sale of furniture. They were excited to an emulous contention for a sauce-pan, or something of the sort. Keese gave them a fair chance, with a final appeal—"going—going— 'the woman who deliberates is lost'— gone !" Mr. Keese is not forgotten as a book maker as well as bookseller. He pre fixed an excellent memoir of the poetess Lucy Hooper to an edition of her wri tings, and edited the "Opal," a volume of the "annual" order, with two vol umes choicely illustrated by Chapman, entitled "The Poets of America, illus trated by one of her Painters." He de livered at least the excellent lecture on "The Influence of Knowledge," and surely no one could speak on this theme with a better grace than this cultivated, genial gentleman. What Mania-a-Potu is. The reporter of the Philadelphia, Press relates the following: A pretty well dressed young man stepped into the Central Station, Mon day afternoon, to enter a complaint. He appeared to be perfectly sane, but it was not long before we came to the conclu sion that we stood in the presence of a man who was laboring under an attack mania-a-potu. "Sir, said he, lam very much annoyed by the Reading Railroad Company; they have caused to be laid a double track from the cellar of my house to the roof; one track goes up one side of my bed and down on the other side. They run the cars all night ; just as I get into a doze a locomotive whizzes by, blowing the steam whistle and ring ing the bell; last night, sir, one of the locomotives flew off the track, leaped across my bed to the other track. gad the mo ms • Jac lire a devil. The all irked like devils, with orns, an some with nu horns at all; each devil carrioa a canary bird which seem e to sing like a steam-whistle." Here the informant imam& "Well, sir, your complaint is just we have already takes measures tobave the railroad tads removed from your bow ee lbet you can deep without be. disturbed, ' was our reply. ( The man seemed to be grateful that such a course had been taken, and as he arose to depart, he said, "Sir, I wish you would remove that worm from my shoulder; only a little while ago I pulled one out of my forehead, and threw it on the pavement; just as I was about to put my foot on it, nearly a hundred ran up my leg, and I suppose this is one of them." We removed the imaginary, worm ; whereupon he exclaimed, "Why there are more of them." "Wait a moment," said we; a brush was obtained and properly used. The man, evidently a gentleman, returned his thanks for our kindness, and suddenly left the office.— He was a stranger. What became of him we know not, but we thought the whole scene a first class temperance lecture. Jerusalem Underground An account of Signor Pierotti's dis discoveries in the subterranean topog raphy of Jerusalem, has been published. Employed by the Pasha as an engineer, he has discovered that the modern city of Jerusalem stands on several layers of ruined masonry, the undermost of which, composed of deeply bevelled and enor mous stones, he attributes to the age of Solomon, the next to that of Herod, the next to that of Justinian, and so on till the time of the Saracens and the Crusa ders. He has traced a series of con duits and sewers, leading from the "dome of the rock," a mosque standing on the very site of the altar of sacrifice in the Temple, to the valley of Jehosa phat, by means of which the priests were enabled to flood the whole temple area with water, and thus to carry off the blood and offal of the sacrifices to the brook Kcdron. The manner of his explorations was very interesting. He got an Arab to walk up through these immense sewers, ringing a bell and blowing a trumpet, while he himself, by following the sound, was able to trace the exact course they took.— About two years ago, he accidentally discovered a fountain at the pool of Be thesda, and on his opening it, a copious stream of water immediately began to flow, and has flowed ever since. No one knows from whence it comes or whither it goes. This caused the great est excitement among the Jews, who flocked in crowds to drink and bathe themselves in it. They fancied it was one of the signs of the Messiah's com ing, and portended the speedy restora tion of their commonwealth. This fountain, which has a peculiar taste, like that of milk and water, is identified by Signor Pierotti with the fountain which Hezekiah built, and which is described by Josephus. The measurements and position of most of these remains accord exactly with the Jewish historian's descriptions. Sipe of the Signor's conclusions are disputed, but no one has succeeded in so disinter ring the relics of the Holy City.—Amer ican Presbyterian and Theological Review. A German Heroine. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial tells the following good story : "While at luka, Brigadier General T. W. Sweeney, who commands the second division in General Dodge's wing of the Sixteenth Army Corps, or dered that, "no wonian, white or color ed, would be permitted to accompany the troops into the field," and all who had ventured thus far ‘'would be imme diately sent back to Corinth," A German lady, whose husband is a soldier, determined to go with the man she loved, despite general, colonel, cap tain and friends, for "When a woman will, she will, You can depend on't; Arid when she won't, she won't, And there's an end on't And her appeal to an officer, who shall be nameless, was peculiarly touch ing. Said she : "You nose I pese in te army mit my man in Germany ; I pese in te battle at Shiloh; I peso in to battle at Corinth; I never gives you any trouble, and I tinks I pose just so good a soldier as any body !" As all her words were true in detail, the case was really perplexing, and when a guard was talked of to compel her to return, she avowed her determi nation to go, or drown herself in the TennoiseP river. A little strategy was suggested, and it sufficed to elude the dilemma, for she borrowed a full suit of men's toggery, including slouch hat and ragged blouse, and, as a soldier fully armed for the fray, she crossed Tennessee with other troops, and to day is with her husband in the tented field." e Train Your Passions. Fusions, like wild horses, when properly trained and disciplined, are capable of being a ppli e d to the noblest purposes; but when al lowa to have their own way they become dangerous in the extreme. airPapoir 1 oboe more goiag, tip to a fearf4 Imo.. People should everywhere save all their old papers. They are sem worth five or air cents per . per, while old sosevat boob or =Wag mar of say a worth heel tot le Cs ite iv! ate also is Arseird„ Nod 'bosh' bs any preserved for at& Gen. U. S. Grant. We saw Gen. Grant to-day, says a correspondent writing from Chattanooga on the 30th, with his usual companion a half-smoked cigar, hi his mouth. He looks satisfied with the Work of the past week. His men say he has but one thing more to do, and that relates to the Army of the Potomac. He must go and fight it to victory, and then his work will be well done, and the rebel lion crushed. So far he is justly regard ed as our greatest and most successful warrior, and yet his personal appearance does not show it in the slightest degree. See him riding along the street. An old, low, flat-crowned hat, like a hack driver's of a rainy day, corers his head. A long unmilitary overcoat envelopes his person, while a pair of brown trous ers coming down over his boots, which look very much like a country boy's Sunday -go-to-meeting pair, comprise the uniform of our great General. He has just mounted his horse, and with that inevitable cigar stump in his mouth, he jogs oil: His stooping form would in dicate age, but his face, with his whis kers short cropped, indicate reflection and decision. In fact, to observers, he seems wrapt up in his thoughts, and the staff officer at his side often speaks twice before he gets the General's attention. He is not known to the army, and on ordering some officer to form his regi ment on the evening of the fight on the hill, came near drawing out a reply from the officer which would have taken the straps from his shoulders. The Colonel was much surprised when told that "that old fellow" was Gen. Grant. How the Earth Yields Riches. An official statement of the mineral wealth of Great Britain has just appeared in London, and from it we gather the following interesting statistics of what the earth yields for the enrichment of the British people.— There are over 3,088 colleries in operation, employing over a quarter of a million of per sons-. -including seven thousand women.— The largest quantity of coal produced in one year, was 83,635,214 tuns. This was in 1861. The average export of coal from England is about 7,000,000 tuns a year. Of iron, seven and a half millions of tuns were smelted last year, but 36,270 tuns besides were imported. The value of the pig iron produced- last year was nearly £10;000,000 —or $50,000,000. There are two hundred and thirty copper mines in the kingdom, of which 201 are in Cornwall and Devonshire, and they produced in the year 1862 over two hundred and twenty-fonr thousand tuns of ere—but this gave only 14,843 tuns of fine copper after The tin mines yielded more in 1862 than in previous years, the aggregate product hav ing been 14,127 tuns of ore, worth, after re fining, $5,000,000 ; but there is a prospect that the Cornish mines will yield still more largely this year. Tin has been obtained for more than 2,000 years ir. Cornwall and De vonshire, and yet the mines are more fruitful than ever. The lead mines yield nearly 100 tuns a year, and the silver extracted from the lead ore in one year (1852) amounted to 686,123 ounces. Small quantities of gold have been found from time to time ; one mine last year produced 5,000 ounces, worth about $lOO,OOO. Earthly minerals—barytes, lime, salt, and the valuable clays—produce annually about eight and a half millions of dollars ; and the annual value of all the mineral products is about $225.000,000. The great coal yield, however, is the most strik ing item in these figures. Were the duty on coal removed, John Bull could spare us enough to bring down the prices of the spec ulators. Civilized Barbarity. The case between England and Japan is thus briefly stated by the London Saturday Review : "Lord John Russell required the Japanese Government to pay £lOO,OOO as a penalty fol. the murder of Mr. Richardson, and he also insisted on the punishment of the Daimio, Prince of Satsuma, who had protected the criminals. The Tycoon and his advisers apologized and paid the 2100,000 ; but the Prince of Satsuma, who appears scarcely to acknowledge the authority of the central Government, abstained from offering any satisfaction. Admiral Kuper, consequently, at the request of Col. Neale, proceeded to the Daimio's residence tit Kagosima, and, after some futile attempts at negotiation, seized three steamers which were lying in the port. The Japanese batteries then opened on the squadron, and Admiral Kuper was forced to burn his prizes, but he finally silenced the forts, and set a part of the town on fire. As he had no land force at his disposal, he was unable to adopt forth: measures of coercion, and he was compelA by a gale to leave the port before be had entirely destroyed the defences ' t t he town." Such is the way a Christian ,stion makea war upon an oriental people., without warn ing, a British fleet openeSs batteries upon a city of 150,000 inetants, of whom, in the natural order c 9 nmathtY, more than one-half were h e ki&s children, the sick, and feeble aged,- what principle is it that a ob r i s ti aw dation abeam itself from all the lam -4 almodity mui luoMmity in dealing with a peepia of a iiiifcroat religion ? Why ahooki air saamt eimilliceden of otir pea pie to sok civilized, *mac berberity in a err alma pet*? NEW SERIES.---VOL. 5, No. 29. "Tow it to Pie(?osI"---Woodeil PhiNfpo. The best re* to the above we have ever. seen is that by Governor Seymour. Pcad it:— "What is it that makes the American. home glorious beyond the castles of "ler portions of world? It heretofore - h5.3 been this : that when you have lel down Cr-, lock into its latchet and have drawn .t by the fireside; have assembled around those whom you love, you could look ab-,; you and say, 'this is my castle, no man es enter here unbidden.' It was constit.. rights that made your home glorious, utr...l you were called upon by men in powei• ko say that this Constitution which prote , . - 2,,!, you might be trampled upon tinder the pie.. of military necessity where war did not ev..r. exist—in this great State of ours. What is this Constitution of which men speak sc idly ? Study it and find what it means.— You men of Germany, you of IrelanJ,•or any other European country, you know 7• a written constitution means, though ire may have forgotten its value, who had it written down as a deed given to us more precious than the deeds of our homes, for it invoiv , , , a the deeds of our home, and they are uothipg without the Constitution, which says that your property shall not be torn away from you without compensations and without pro cess of law. It was a deed that made yam homes valuable and sacred to you. It said that no man should seize your person except by due process of law ; it gave you the right to worship your God in such .a way as you pleased; it said you should not be imprisoned without the protection afforded to the inno cent thus imprisoned, by the habeaa corpus. You will find that the Constitution attaches itself to everything that you value in 111.2.." A writer in a New York paper has made the following wonderful calculations: 7:11 , 3 simple interest of 1 cent at 6 per cent. per an num, from the commencement of the Cnris tian era to the close of 1868, would be but 11 dollars, 17 cents, and 8 faille. If it had been computed at compound interest, it would require 84,840 billions of globes of solid gold, each equal to the earth in magni tude, to pay the interest ; and if the sum were equally divided among the inhabitants of the earth, estimated to be 1,000,000,000, every man, woman, and child would receive 84,840 golden worlds for an inheritance.— Were all these globes side by side in a di rect line, it would take lightning 73,000 years to travel from end to end; and if Parrot gun were discharged at one extremity, light traveling 192,000 miles a second, tha cannon ball continuing its initial velocity about 1,500 feet per second, and soand mov ing through the air 1,120 feet in a second, a man at the other end would see the flash after waiting 110,000 years; the ball would reach him in 74,000,000,000 years, but he would not hear the report tM the end of one thousand millions of centuries. 1 By the death of Frederick VII, which, took place on the 15th ult., Prince Christian. the father-in-law of the Prince of Wales, be- I comes King of Denmark, and was so pro claimed on the 16th, under the title of Christian IX. In the space of one year three members of one family, who a year ago must have had but indefinite dreams of Empire, have now attained the highest rank to which it was possible for them to aspire.— ) The father sits upon the throne of Denmark, the eldest daughter is heiress presumptive to the throne of England, and the youngest son lis King of Greece. In a day of wonders there is little cause to marvel at this cob:Iv:- deuce. It never rains but it pours ; and if the star of Denmark is in the ascendant, it I must be a matter of congratulation for the 1 English people that their King "that is to be" settled his royal choice on the Princees Alexandra. Benefits of Saving. There is a pleasure in savin&-x lle hand" ing small means. All the pleece i3lasting. not. or Great speculations v.-ill i A tk the mind, whether they are eueees wealth produces a 0 ..4 . 1 which grodual ac cumulation never„eels. A small, frugal family, neat, a e t having sufficient, with fifty dollars • laid away, is so much con solation—ay v 'natant consolation, and a mod erate 7,- and it is moderation that saves the w from recklessness and ruin. These quieti irtnes are a well-spring of pleasure.— T hf , ch man, when asked bow he got rice, by saving. We all get—get enough, id a little to spare. It is this "little to pare" that we should save—mot exactly to get rich, but at least against a rainy day.— If it is not laying up treasure in heaven, it is at least a treasure that has some conso lation, and no harm in it, which great wealth has. SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF Dr. Power, of the Cork Lunatic Asy lum, says that by the use of the Turk ish bath he has cured 76 per cent. of th patients. After a few applications they like the treatment and ask lb; it. The number of cures is double the proportion of cures to the old systems. Thirty deaths have diminished. one-half. Thir ty idiots have been so improved as to enjoy their lives and be madetuiefakiend many persons prormaced inoerediebe two, he's been recovered NA 11104 to their friends Cs. Inconceivable Slays. Prince Christian in Luek.
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