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HUBS WILY; DITCHANAN & HUSS, Attorneys & Connor Hors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. % mantic. in the Courts of Greene and adjoining counting: Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 28. 1E163.-13, I=l Pl7l/MAN & RITO3IIIII. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, IlifrOggirs—Main Street, one door east of the old Bulk Building. All .usiness in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Cottotise, entreated to them, will receive pronip attentiillß R.--earticular attention will be given to the col lection of Pensions, Bounty Money, Back Pay, and otker claims against the Government. Se t. 11.,1861—tv. R. 411TONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN. EfrOOMNIZZIL & mrrrlmum OITTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. trUs 0150 In the "Wright lkiee," East Door. Dollectifins,‘Acc., will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRA WWORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in the Court Howe. Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care. Waynesburg, Pa., July 30, 1863.—1 y. I=l3 BLACK * PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Wayueeburg. Sept. 11,1061-Iv. SOLDIERS , WAR CLAIMER I D. R. P. amis.) HUSS & INCHRAM, ATTOaIItY4I AT LAW, WAYTIESSIJRO, la AS received from the War Department at Wash ington city, H. C„ official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms an 4 instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PAY, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan chihiren, widowed mothers, fathers, sisters and broth ers; which business, [upon due notice] will be attend dtl promptly, and accnrately, if entrusted to big care. Office in the old flank ,Duilding.—April 8, 1883. G. w. G. WADDELL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, OFFICE in the BEUISTER'in OFFICE, Court House, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all kinds solicited. flan received official copies of all the lawspagred by Congress, and other necessary instruc tions !bribe collection of PENSIONS, .BOUNTIES, HACK PAY, Due discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orplmn children, &c., which business if intrusted to his cars will is promptly attended to. May 13, '63. PSTSICIPIANS Dr. T. W. Ross, Inryssiolitra cc Milvrigeoccia, Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET, wt. and Dearly opposite the Wright house. Wslikesbirg. dept : 23, 1863. DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PRISICIAN AND BURG ON, to the people of Wayttesbrrg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business„to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg, January 8,1862. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, I.treygist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and this, the meet celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for sallicina I purposes. . ties. 11,1&11-1y. nreaosuurrs. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes t Eby Goods, Groceries, Notions, &:., Mairr street. Sept. I t. ISM —I y. 44. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the 'Hamilton Hoag, opposite the Court House, Main street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic .Dry Geode, Gro . terms, Queensisiare. Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green Douse, Main street. dept„.ll, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SZOE DEALERS. • J. D. COS(RAY, Boot and Shoe Maker, Main street, !snarly opposite the 'lntrater's and Drover's Bank." Every style of Boots and Shoes constantly oa hand or made to order. &W. 11, 1861-Iy. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all sizes, and Gila Moulding and honking Glass Plates. try-Gash paid for good eating Apples. is*. 11, 11161-Iy. JOHN MUNNELG, Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Go.itia Generally, Wilson's Ni.w Building, Main. street. bent. It, IStil--Iy. VITATCTINS AND JNIIITZLRY S. M. BAILY, Alain street, opposite the Wright House. keeps always on band a large anti elegant assort s went of Watstres and Jewelry. RelPitrins7 of Clocks, Watches.and Jerviciry wit s es° ite IMO find nitiilll tln II Mee. ifs. tB6l—ly 1300kS. &c. LEWIS DAY, p ea l" n i b nol and Missal;eneous Books, Station , ink,-Magazirtes and rapers: One door east nt Pr,rf . t i ?pyre. k.4ni IT !Wart. Pert. 11. 18111 ly. sittnizip3 AND itftaimin t ittL .4,•1415, arilcss and Trunk Maker. old Bank - toir Mainsheet. • ' • 4opt. II ; 1:464.—1r J. 0. IIIITCHIL JOHN PHELAN DAWIII iNORRAM riVArFlol4V4i'f-1 - dui gotug. A Father's Wailing. Where is my child ? 'Twas but the other morning His upturned face I kissed, Then little thinking that at my, returning Those features would be missed. Alone of all my household—he, the nearest ! Could cruel Death pass by Only to strike in sport at this my dearest And tender tie ? Was't just in heaven a treasure thus to give me Only to be recalled When I had learned to prize it? and to leave me With my great loss appalled? Like some wretch waked to see his dwelling burning, And hear, from out the blaze, His tortured babes implore tarn, hopeless turning, .Stunned with amaze! My six-years child ! Those should be years of sadness ; Therein my wealth took wing— And yet one son made them all years of gladness, Yea, a perpetual spring. How often, when with my fate engaged battle, My heart has leaped fob joy To hear that happy face, to hear the prattle, Of that dear boy ? Dead? No! 'Tis not my darling, but anoth- er's 'Tis scarcely yet•a week He came and pressed a face—so like his mother's. Eondly against my cheek, ' His pulse was arrong, and life and health were beaming From rosy cheek and eye ; Through all his veins crimson tides were steaming— He could not die! lily love for him was such a fierce emotion It almost verged on crime ; And he retnrned it with a pure devotion And confidence sublime. In him was all ray earthly future centred ; We were, in thought, as one ; He could not freely o'er the gulf have Vela- tured To cross alone. So kind, so gentle—how Gould aoght befall him ? Obedient as brave ; It seems as if I yet might speak, and call him Out from his hollow grave; Oh, Charlie ! Charles! Why should we be parted ? This anguish drives me wild ? Oh, God ! in pity for the broken-hearted, Give back my child ! J. L. niotellantono. Truth Conoealed. One reason why the public is not more arouse against the liquor traffic, is the concealment of its villainies by courts, juries and the press. Sometimes perhaps, the motive is commendable.— To spare the feelings of surviving kin- - dred and friends, it is convenient when a fellow dies of the "delirium tremens" to publish that he was a victim of ape, plexy or congestion of the brain. It is only when a vagabond dies in the hospi tal that the real cause is announced. We do not understand why coroner's juries so readily reconcile their verdicts with their oaths. This practice of suppress- I tug the truth is universal. In one of our late English papers we find two cases. which which prove what we have said. One man iu a fit of intoxication cut his throat with a razor nearly severing his head from his body. The jury's verdict was "self-destruction in temporary in sanity," without one word about his mania a potu. Another while crazy from drink fell or jumped out of a two story window and was killed. Verdict, "accidental death." We have known scores of such cases in this country. A poor drunkard froze to death with his half-emptied jug of whisky beside him. Verdict, "died from fatigue and expos ure." Another old toper died in a fit un doubtedly included by drinking mean whisky. Verdict, "died by a visitation from God." The tenth is concealed that these men had been partaking of the poisonous cup, and that the depknable results enumer, ated are the legitimate consequences of the vile traffic in intoxicating drinks. [Maine Temperance fourinal. *A Farmer on the Illinois prairies to transfer his products to the seaboard has to pay eighty per cent. of its value on wheat, thirty per cent. on pork, twenty per tent. on beef, and four per gent, on wool, It takes one bushel of subeskt to fieud another to market, eix tow; of covet° wry-oft o New Yozir, .*ll/63 tke wen, 'trill forty lto the sauW4e WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1864. LATEST NEWS FROM THE DEAD. Scattered about the world are dead and buried cities that it is one of the la bors of the living in our clay to disen tomb. Old Roman towns lie buried in English soil, and one of them, at Wrox eter, the ancient Uriconium, has lately been dug up. Then there are also Pom peii and Herculaneam open, to bear witness yet more impressively to the life of the past. At Pompeii the disen tombment is now going on with fresh activity and good result. Old Egypt is delivering up fresh secrets of her dead, at Thebes and elsewhere. Spades and picks have been busy over the grave of Carthage, and other dead and buried cities of the Carthaginians. Nineveh and Babylon, having . been in the hands of such resurrectionists as Mr. Layard, Sir Henry Rawlison, and others, are left at peace for a short time. Any n- thence is old news, but from the gra of other cities, what is the latest intelli ? the sunny shores of the Bay of Naples, stood for centuries the remnants of an old wall; and the people who lived near it never cared to dig below the surface. It is now one hundred and fifteen years ago that a workman, enga ged in digging a well near this ruin, cut into a hollow chamber, of which the walls were covered with paintings. By the slow clearing away of the earth from buildings made by men who lived at the beginning of the Christian era, dwell ing-houses, temples, altars, statues, built for s the worship of heathen deities, baths and theatres, were found all struck to silence like the Sleeping Beauty, only for a great many hundred years instead of one ; and, in our day, so restored to light and life, that we see what the townspeople were doing in the house and in the street, in the month of Au gust, A. D. 79. There is a written re cord of the cause of the sudden burial of a city whose inhabitants were in the full tide of luxurions enjoyment. The letter remains in which the younger Pliny tells Tacitus the horrors of a three days' eruption of Vesuvius, in which his uncle (the admiral of tho Ro man fleet, then lying in the bay,) having approached too near the burning moun tain, although still miles distant from it, met his death by the exhalations burst ing from beneath his feet. The admi ral had asthma, and the sulphurous va pors appear to have suffocated him at once, so that he fell, while his attend ants fled from the scene of destruction to embark on board their ships. Re turning as soon as it became light, which was not till after the end of the three days, they found their master ly ing, stretched as they had left him, as if he had fallen asleep. Of late years, the removal of the mass of muds, ashes, and pumice -stones, which the burning mountain had thrown out upon the city, has confirmed the statement of another ancient writer, that the town of Pompeii, had been, at the time of its total destruction, in course of rebuilding after the consequences of a violent earthquake which had happened sixteen years before. For, as we walk along the streets, we s not only see the theatre and many other edifices to have been in process of reconstruction at the time of their burial, but, in the quarter once occupied by the stone and marble masons, there lie portions of an old frieze, executed in volcanic stone, beside which stand copies of the same decora tion cut in white marble ready for erec tion in a restored temple. There are wheel racks in the lava pavement; there are worn stone-steps leading up to the temples and places of business ; and, curiously enough, there is stone, worn by the hands of those who daily stopped to drink at the fountains placed at ,the street-crossings. By constantly leaning on one hand whilst they stopped to drink the running water, these people, who thirst, wore a hollow in the stone rim of the basin upon which they leant. Terrible testimony is given as to the suddenness of the last catastrophe.— Bread is in _the baker's shep; there is a meal prepared, but never tasted, in a tavern. Outside the gate in the town wall which led toward Herculaneum, was found a skeleton in armor. It was ' that of the soldier on guard, who, faithful to dtity, had not left his post.— In a niche sheltering a seat for the use of tired travellers, were found the bones of , a woman and baby, and those of two other persons clasped in one another's arms. A few paces further on, were three more skeletons, two of persons who had been hastening in the opposite direction. Of these, one held sixty-nine pieces of gold and one hundred and twenty-one pieces of silver. Money was found lying beside the remains of people who had died in the vain endeav or to carry away fneans of the life whose sands were run, In a robin of the tem ple of Isis,. the Rime of that Egyptian deity had met death with feasting; for near-Min werelying egg-shells, and the bones of fowlsaud.of pig; together with a broken glass and 'a wire vase. In the house known as that of Diomed were the remains of a man, with that of a g o at having a bell slung round his .neck. in This I dkvellivig were discovered more than twenty-human beings. In a stable were the bones of a- mule, still with its - bronae bit hetiven its .teeth;*: Im another place was' the skela a cif 14e, side. I s - bones of his r.. Setne*ole ticons had fourgoldsings on due sautefin ger; ova tiati a trbilt 11#41tOrB Ia 46 . hand, with phicatt-hn halt d,!ittb4oo . =beeti s dark - nett - 4f * Mit 44 , tetra. • All these remains were discovered many years ago, but the work of exca vation was then very slow. Now, the recent change of government has given a new impulse to this most interesting labor, insomuch that during the last few mouths, more has been done toward the disinterment of the secrets of this buried community than had been accomplished in the previous quarter of a century.— There is a regular organization of labor, and about three hundred persons, many of them girls and women, are employed in removing the crust formed eighteen centuries ago by erulition from the mountain which now rises behind the scene, without even a wreath of smoke upon its summit. Upon a regular trainway, trucks impelled by their own weight run down an inclined plane, and discharge their loads at the end, just as is done at the formation or a railway.— entirely new quarter of the town has been thus opened out; and there has been found within the last few days the roof of a house, With all its tiles ly ing at their proper angle of inclination, the ashes and mud having poured into and filled the room beneath it so com pletely as to support its covering. There arc two houses with walls painted with fresco, looking, when disclosed, as fresh as when first placed upon the walls. .Unfortunatel s t, in a very little time the colors fade away and alter.— The reds especially soon became quite black. These changes are probably due to chemical alternation producad by the sun's rays, and to the oxidising power of the air. If, therefore, as soon as one of these paintings is discovered it could be washed over with a solution of boil ing glass, such as is used by the modern fresco painters in Munich, these interest ing specimens of ancient art might be preserved. The writer has suggested this to Signor Fiorello, the director of the excavations. The very substance is sold in Italy for the purpose of preserv ing wood from the effect of fire, and is known by the name of 'ignore di selce. Several bodies have been recently found embedded in a mass of hardened mud ; and the fortunate idea struck Signor Fiorello of pouring plaster of Paris into the moulds thus formed. In this man ner an exact case was made, enclosing such parts of the contained bodies as de composed. Thus were obtained first, the body of a man lying stretched upon his back, his features very well preserved in fact so perfectly, that his friends, were they alive still, could have sworn to his identity. Afterwards the remains of two females, a woman and a young girl, were preserved in the same manner so that, while of the dress only a cast remains, the skull bones themselves are there resting upon the outstretched man. At the moment of death, the left hand seems •to have been clasping the dress. In the elder female the hand is shut, one of the fingers having a ring upon it.— This group consisted of one man and three women, probably all of the same family, who were attempting to save themselves by flight after having hastily secured certain objects which they val ued. Silver money; beside four earrings and a finger-ring all made of gold,. to gether with the remains of a linen bag, were lying near the woman. One is struck by the fact that very many of the persons thus disclosed ex pired while engaged in the act of draw ing their dress over their features. Two reasons may be given for this. One, that it was done in 'the endeavor to prevent suffocation from the mephitic vapors given off by the volcano. The other and the better, that was customary amongst the Romans to hide the face, when in the act of death. Thus, true to history, Shakespeare makes Antony say of "the mightiest Julius :" And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, Which all the while ran blood, great Ceasar fell Time, though he shovels slowly, gets through more work than the liveliest volcano, and is a sexton who has dug the grave of many a proud city. The re mains of Roman London, lies buried fifteen feet below the level of the pres ent streets. You are on the Nile, and see, on either banks, a green plain under a cloudless sky. The columns and tow ers of the great temple of Luxor, rise from among the miserable hovels of a starved little modern market town. You sail by, and it is all bright green plain again until you sail farther to the north the towers of Karnak overtop a palm grove, that partly hides the wonders of its wide-spread ruins. But on the green plain between Luxor and liaraak, and for twelve miles towards the hill of the Eastern Desert, stood the temples, pal aces, and gardens, of hundred-gated Thebes, for a thousand years the capital of a great nation of the ancient world.— Time has done its work in its own slow way, and the Nile, arising from its new ly-discovered source in a great tropical lake, and swollen by the periodical rains of the tropics (not by melting snows,) has played the part of a ticsuvivs. Har vests wave eight feet above the buried ground on which the glory of the Pha roahs was displayed. At Thebes, also there have been recent excavations and discoveries. Diodorus stated the circuit of old Thebes, as reported in his time, to `have been sixteen miles. &ratio says that in his day the vesiges extended in length nine miles and a quarter. Those 914 sunny cities, with their included gar , dena t lay large upon the cultivated sail. Babylon was fitnisteeh miles square; Syr acuse, twangy-two miles; Carthage, of alsktk• remains are now being . ft• upon was twenty-three inileS in Cif"' cuit. Yet London is larger than them all, execeptmg Babylon. The greatest lenght of London street is from east to west, in which direction one may pass between houses for fourteen miles. With all its straggling feelers into the country brought into a compact square, the size of London would be seven miles by four and its circuit twenty-two miles. This would include a population packed to gether, with but a few little breathing grounds of park and square to answer to the Bibylonion gardens, fields, and orchards, which gave men the enjoy ments of a country-house in the heart of a capital. We have details from Mr. Rhind of his own regent excavation at Thebes of the unrifled tomb of an Egyptian digni tary. He found it by help of the forty men who dug under his order. In seven weeks a door-way into the rocks was uncovered. This door had been opened; )the tomb within, and another within that, had been rifled ; there were mum my -boxes; and mummies themselves lay where they had been tossed out, with their wrappings ripped up along throat and breast. But further along, at the foot of the same piece of rock, other men had been to dig, and two months of work cleared the way to a tomb yet with its seal apparently unbro ken. The first entrance was into a gal ' lery within the rock, about eight feet square and fifty-five feet long, its walls smoothly plastered with clay. Half way down this gallery Mr. Rhind came to a funeral canopy of brightly-painted pillars, supporting a painted roof, with a sort of table front in miniature, all very gay with red and blue and yellow. This corresponded to our hearse and feathers over the dead, and had been • delivered up as well as charged for by the ancient undertaker. Further inward there sat, carved in . stone, a pair of monumental figures, two feet high, male and female, side by aide. Their su perscription showed that the deceased gentlemen had been a chief of the mili tary police of the Temple of Ammon Ra, at Thebes. He was decidedly plump, and on his dress was inscribed, "All food off the tables of Ammon Ra and Mut is given to the deceased." The lady by the gentleman's side was inscribed, "His sister beloved from the depth of his heart." The statues were flanked by tall jars. After this couple had been buried, further use had been made of their tomb. Two entracks were found, still built up, leading to passages, one mid way in the: gallery, the other at the end of it. There was also at the end of the gallery, a massive wooden door, .barred, locked, and protected by a barricade of large stones built in front of it to half its height. Great was the excitement of the whole body of resurrectionists.— The sealed entrances were guarded through the night by sailors from the boat ; for there was no trusting the fell aheen of Gourneh, demoralized by a successful traffic in antiquities. Early next morning the entrance to the side passage was opened. It led to a couple of small cells, both in confusion, with their plain black wooden mummy eases broken, and bodies turned out, many of them unwrapped. There were a few sepulchral images, and in the innermost cell yet lay the plain Roman lamp of terra-cotta, with black nozzel and half burnt wick, that had lighted the plun ders two thousand years ago. There remained the massive door, of such sub stantial timber that in illthubered Egypt it was a prize worthy to be competed for by a bishop, a deacon, a consular agent, and two sheikhs. The door opened on a sloaping tunnel, in which a man could walk upright. It was a tun nel seventy feet long, leading to a shaft or well, ten feet by sir. Half way down this gallery also there were cells which had been rifled. Hope now lay like truth, at the bottom of the well. The well, twenty feet deep, was crossed by strong beams, over which still haw , . a the rope of twisted palm fibres, .by which the dead and those who carried them, descended centuries ago. At the bottom there were again chambers. Of these, three contained mummies of persons who had been buried in ordinary cases ; but a fourth death-chamber contained a massive dark granite sarcophagus, with the rollers and planks by which it had been moved into position still lying about it. The want of veneration for antiquity shown by these people, now them selves so ancient, appeared in the use, as planks, of broken mummy cases covered with hieroglyphics. At the door way of this principal vault was a tall jar nearly full of palm-nut...Sl there were nuts also scattered about the floor. At the head of the sarcophagus was the preserved body of a dog, like a small Italian grey hound, swathed in osiers ; also a mum mied ibis, a bill of a hawk, and a ball of bitumen. The dog was an emblem of Anubis, genius of tombs. Whenever a house-dog died in the course of nature, all the inmates of the house shaved their whole persons. The ibis was emblem atical of the recording angel. The hawk was the symbol of Horns, who ushered the souls that were saved into the pres ence of Osiris ; and within the ball of bitumen was a coiled snake, probably a horned snake sacred to An;mion Es, the god especially honored at Thebes. The solid cover of the sarehophages, freed ftont the cement which thstened it, was raised, and the sarehophagas itself was then found to, ttive been filled with bitumen, ponredft'ket over the mmo say. The cleariur away of tbjs was ,41, long work, and eliely in the course of. it the glitter of a golden chaplet excited the Arab workmen, who dream wildly of treasures to be found in the unopened tombs. The face of the mummy was cased by a mask, and the temples were wreathed with a chaplet of copper thickly gilt, having eleven bay-leaves of thin gold attached to it by pliant stocks. The outer cloth covering of the rest of the body was painted in a diag onal pattern, answering to that on the top of the wooden funeral canopy at the first entrance. Under the painful shroud, were folds steeped in fine bitu men and pungent gums, with small thin plates of gold, some of them beetle shaped, and glassy pieces intersperced. From the left side of the - dead was taken a large ritual papyrus. When the body itself was reached—that of a man of mature years, with strongly marked features—the skin of the upper part of his body was found to have been covered with thick gold leaf In another case was the wife of this digni tary, also with the upper part of her skin gilt, and a papyrus by her side.— Others were differently adorned, and one had a gilt mask. The dignitary in the sarchophagus was named Leban ; he had had charge of the royal horses, and died nine years before our era, at the age of sixty. His wife's name was Tabai. daughter of a priest and lord, who is described as "one very great among mortals." They went down to the pit, with the records that are their letters of introduction to the antiquaries of the nineteenth century. Carthage, too, has, after all, been in completely blotted out. After three months' labor on the site of ancient Car thage, Mr. Nathan Davis found, two or three years ago, that the keeper of the French chapel there had been stim ulated, by observation of his wander ings, to dig at the foot of a piece of wall near a wide pit that had been opened in vain by searchers among the apparently poor ruins of the temple of Astarte. He found in a few hours a charming mosaic measuring about four feet by two and a half. It was com plete and the nature of the ground made it appear to him impossible that there could be more. But Mr. Davis, setting men to work, soon disclosed the bright mosaics of the corner of a tem ple floor adorned with a colossal female bust, and with two full robed priestess es dancing before their goddess. More digging brought to light more of the rich pavement trodden by the worship pers in a great temple that had been re stored when Carthage became the cap ital of the Roman frica. ISluch more of old Carthage has since been found.— The Carthaginian houses were built, above the lower story, with what Pliny called foramacean walls; of earth enclos ed between boards; such walls being declared proof against rain, wind, and fire. There yet remain turrets of earth built by Hannibal as watch-towers on Spanish mountain-tops. But when these earthen walls of Carthage fell in ruins they formed heaps of rubbish, that a few years would transform into mounds of apparently natural soil, with nothing under them but unsuspected pavements, through which the Romans often dug in the rebuilding of the city. A thin layer of charcoal, or some other evidence of the action of fire, is. always found on the remains of ancient Carthage. The use of clay bricks for building has been assigned as one main cause of the com plete disappearance of Babylon. For Babylon the mighty city is fallen.— Scarcely a detached figure or tablet has been dug from the vast heaps that are the graves of all its glory.—All the year Round. Debt of the Southern Confederacy The rebel Secretary of the Tilteasury re ports the total debt of the Confederacy in round numbers at $1,000,000,000, of which $800,000,000 are Treasury notes and i700,- 000,000 of th6e notes are in circulation.— The Secretary says that the amount needed to carry on the Confederacy to the 30th of June, 1864, is $475,000,000, besides the amount of the nndrawn appropriation of last Congress, which reaches $476,000,000 and if the estimates are extended so as to include the entire year of 1864, the amount will reach $1,427,000,000, which, says the hope ful Secretary, Congress is formally called up on to provide. If the legs of the Confedera cy will last so long, it will have at the end of the year 1864, a debt of $2,500,000,000. Sintvan TEN! Htour.—A robber recently broke into a house at Dobreezin, Hungary, there being only the daughter, aged 17, of the occupiers at home, except an old woman, whom he killed on entering. He demanded her father's property, and told her she must die, lest she should cause his arrest. Seeing that he was in earnest, she begged to be al lowed to die by a swift poison, to which he consented. She took a bottle from the shelf uncorked it, raised it to her lips, and then suddenly dashed the contents into his face and eyes. He fell howling to the floor, and next day died. The bottle contained oil of vitriol, Wile first cotton factory in the Uni ted States Wad established at Beverly, Mass. in 1787. It continued in opera tion ;ill 1805, and then stopped, 90 per cent of the capital having been sunk in the enterprise. -The man vetto 'took the responli hility is reueeied to return the same fertimitii. or sitirer. - the got/sequel:wow • . NEW SERIES.---VOL. 1, NO. 30. A distinguished medical gentleman says that diseases of the chest are they contracted by exposure to the co!d with out sufficient clothing. The greater portion of children from one to fifteen months old, who die in winter, are kill ed by the cold, or disease nmeltillgleOlei cold. Wgpolen flannel is recornruceded as the best "Clothing , lio be 'Worn nett the skin in our variable climate, at least nine months in the year. if parents' ireedd preserve the health and lives of their dear little ones,• they should keep giasi warmly clad, especially about the chest and feet. Woolen socks should be adept ed, for cold feet are almost .lways the, cause of catching cad. Remarkably Prolonged Sleep Dr. Cousins, of Portsmouth, England, has under his care an extraordinary case of this nature. The subject of it is a fanner. aged forty-three. He hastlever suffered from any head affection, and his general health has bean excellent.— At various times during the last twen ry years he has been subject to unusual.) , prolonged sleep. Tile longest period of somnolency is five days and nights ; three is not uncommon, *ld even four, but the average time is about two days. Ile never dreams ; memory is retellive, and when he becomes conscious after these attacks, he remembers everything that happened just before. Maternal Affection. A most touching incident, ill of the strength of maternal affecti Oc curred at the time of the rticent r to the steamer StinnySide on th: A mother and daughter '• ere in the river. A gentleman way asked by the mother to save her child. e. re plied, "I will try to save &nu of yott-: which ?" The mother aasv -, 2red, my daughter." At the risk his own lite, he plunged into the riveir and res cued the child, but the tuothcr was kid. Such is the self-denying love of a moth er ! "Many waters cannot quench, uor the floods drown it." A proclamation of the Na4oual Gov ernment had just been issueA, at War saw, denying the rumors prepeding from Russian sources, that tl,e Poles were on the point of laying down 'their arms. The proclamation fllinot‘nces a continuance of the war .ts the only means of saving the cbuntri. It also states that the forces of the insurrection are on the increase, and that the Rnrs sians had proved themselves unable - to govern otherwise than by fke and sword. A respectable woman in Buenos Ayres was recently prostrated by hope less insanity, and apparently died.— The body, placed in a thin coffin, WM deposited in the open chapel of the wall ed cemetery, and left for burial the next day. The next morning the coffin Nem found broke open, and the poor victim of premature burial was found dead in a distant part of the cemetery, clothed in the thin garments of the grave, .hav ing left marks of her painful prowess from the coffin to the place where' ex hausted nature yielded to actual death. A woman, supposed to be deady was removed to the hospital of Blidah, in Algeria, for the purpose of being sub jected to a post-mortem examination, her disease haying appeared inexplicable to the medical meu who had attended her. As the surgeon was about to make use of the scalpel and commence her dissec tion, the supposed corpse uttered a loud shriek and sat up. She had been in a state of lethargy, and awoke just in time. Wooden weddings are getting to be the order of the day. One of these new tangled concerns took place in the Northwest a few days ago. The giAs were water-pails and cradles, clothes pins and boot-jacks, wash-tubs and roll ing-pins, potato-mashers and rat-traps, beef-steak maulers and match-safes, su gar-boxes and wash-boards, wooden trumpets and jumping jacks, wooden shoes and glove-stretchers, cord wood, &e. stir Singing is a great institution. It 04 the wheels of care—supplies the place of sun shine. Aman who singe has a good heart under his shirt front.. Such a man not only works more willingly, but he works more constantly. A hinging cobbler will earn twice as much money as a cobbler who givas way to low spirits and indigestion. Avari cious men never sing. The man who attaaka singing throws a stone at the head of hilari. ty, and would, if he could, rob June of its roses, or August of its meadow lark& tir" Deal gently, deal kindly, lovingly, and there is not a wolf i:_ man shape but will be melted by L. nesu and there is not a tiger in wo:._ form but will break down and SU' pardon, if (4od should bless th that is brought to beat nlxsit,' ll .Y friends, 110 - He who gives up is soon 'up t audio confider owreelves of no T.:. Atte .abssost. certain w - ay -to baeolne igena, ft. Keep them Wes. The Polish insurrection. Premature Interment. A Narrow Escape. Wooden Weddlttg.
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