lt, E: 1=1:1 idethig frittrttat---Ptbotetr to Votitio, A g riculturt, fittraturt, iortign, pontestit Otiteral #ntttligente, ft. ISTABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MONGER I'OBLISIEED BY Vii. W. JONES AND JAS. Si JENNINGS, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. trrOIPPICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUARE. _i it' a La Tat a; Beescatrnost.-532.00 in advance; $2.33 et the ex eAlratioe of six months; $2.30 atter the expiration of the year. DV NETISEMENTS inserted at 51.25 per square for three insertions, and 37 cts. a square far each addition al insertion; (ten tines or tees counted a square.) Olifr A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. Jon PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the hest style, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Jab Otirice. agntsburg usintss Cubs. ATTORNEYS: WEB. D. WYLY. J. A. J. BUCHANAN, D. B. P. BUBB WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, Attorneys & Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBUI?6, PA. vi practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining counties. Collections and other legal business will re ceive pronrrit attention. Office on the South side of MIIiP street. in the Old Dank Jan. 28. IEO.-13, Z. A. FURMAN PURNIAN & RITCHIE. *TTORNEYS AND VOIINSLI.LORS AT L A W Waynesburg, Pa. Orvtra—Main Street, one door east cf the old Rink Building. 117".1.11 ~usiness in Greene, Washington, and Fay true Counties, entrusted to them, will receive proup attention. N. B —Particular attention will he given to the col lection of Pensions. Bounty Money . Back Pay, and ether claims against the Government. a 3. t. 11, P., A. ICCONNELL. T. 1. nurrmAN. IfirCONNELL & 33117FIVILAN, irrofixE YS .B.IVD COUNSELL Ora T 1,31 V - - Waynesburg, Pa. Office to the "Wright tic Lee," East Donn Iwdiene, lectiene, &c., will receive prompt attention. ayneeburg, A pril 23, .1862-Iy. nAvin CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in the Court House. Will attend promptly to all business e mtusted to his care. Waynesburg, Pa., .July 30, 1883.—1 y. 01 .t. SLICK BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court Douse, Waynachurg. Sept. 11,1861-Iv. _ _ SOLDIERS: WAR CLAIMS D. R. P. HUES, 11TT0311% EY AT LAW, W•VNE151111110, PENN A., lIAS received from the War Department at Wash- La iugton city, D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Fora:- and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY; BACK PA Y, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, widowed mothers, fathers, sisters and broth las, which business, [upon due notice] will be attend- OW promptly and accnratelyif entrusted to his care. 01fice in the old Bank Building.—April 6, 1663. G. W. G. WADDELL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, OFFICE in the REGISTER'S OFFICE, Court .House, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all IdsOs solicited. ties received official copies of all the Jaws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc &lens for the collection of - PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Due discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan eibildren, &c., which business if intrusted to hie rate re promptly attended to. May 13, '63. PHYSICIANS Dr. T. W. Ross, 3P3evirielloieszes. Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. 4 4F Flia AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET. east, and nearly opposite the Wright F. :dell. 23, ISO. DR. A. 0. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people o: Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre aiatles of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a share of public pallonage. Waynesburg,' January 8, 1662. MERCHANTS. 4 WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Raines s 1 Goode, Groceries, Notions, dm, Rain street. . Sept. 11.1861-19. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries!, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in thi! Hamilton House. opposite the Court House, Main street. Sept. 11. 1561-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers In Foreign and Domestic Dry Grinds, Gni wise, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House, blab, street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS. j. p. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe makes, Main sireet. nearly npivalte ehe •Tarme.r's and Drovers Batik." Every myle Soots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 18131-Iy. c) 'I 'At''ii:NojiB'iVi*:+: JOSEP4 YATER, llGealer in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glaze Plates. ICaith paid for good eating Apples. t. 11, 1851-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, 11ea1er in Groceries and Confectionariea, and Variety Goode Generally. Wilson's Dit.vr Building, Main street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. WATCHES A.E'D JEWELRY S. M. BAILY, lath, street, opposite the Wright House keeps ahrays on hand a large and elegant assortment of ViOrsi 'tail Jewelry. Repairing of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry wil recess prompt attentiiin ',Dee. 15. 1561—1 y BOOKS &c. • LEWIS DAY, Dealer In school and Sliareneneoua Boobs, elation- I cry, Ink. It:asesines and Papers; One/Aar east et V Ototteealltore.litain guava. niet•t. 11. Hint Iv. - 1 itii - The case of a man not setting eyes SADDLES .AND aaawnse — . : on his own son until he was fifty years SAMUEL 11' ALLISTER, ; old, is probably without a parallel.- 111,4415, nazneativand Trunk Itaker. old Bud: Ilnlid- The story is told by Leslie in his agree sg,,bisia :Meat. 11, 14161--4*. ; able "Recoollections of the West." the daps. . i pa i nter's father. On his emigration to s.l k 4i. BANN. ; America he left his wife in England, • FAMERS' & DROVERS' BANK ~ who died shortly after in giving birth to a son, whom his father first saw oil 1017ssynosburt, Pa. * , C. 4., 111.4.04Tgat'L .1.1.A..i5mk.0., 4 ,,,,,,. : his return to his Native land nk ' Years; flair 1., , afterwards. The Painter lies one. of v -- „yin . ...w.... ~e 7,0. 1,-ism-1,,, , • 1 the second wife's family,'lscusitulmeajont . . . • -(( \\\ 0!, , ,;;‘_( a • Cie \'N tAtt_ , _• 4( ,r 11 .1, v , r .‘ 4 . 2 r .1 G. RITCII/12 =EI ' Round Shoulders. By M. L. !lOLBROOK, M. D I speak of . "round shoulders," hollow chests, and stooping forms. There are perhaps, not three persons, in any school of fifty pupils, but have them. It is so among people of nearly all professions and occupations, sexes and ages. In deed, our whole arrangement of society could have been no better calculated if on purpose to produce them. .Alilitary men and sea-captains are usually exempt., and so are Indians, and those peasant women of Italy and other countries that carry burthens on their heads. School teachers are often exempt, though not always. Ladies with excessive vanity often escape. Now, what are the causes of this de formity. the consequences, and the rem edy`? First, and in general, round shoulders are caused by the prevailing practice of doing everything in a bent over position from childhood up, so that, like the pumpkin growing between two rails, we grow into bad formes. The low desks in our school-rooms, and the habit of placing our books on them and bending over to study, produce round shoulders. I never knew a school-house with desks high enough, and do not be lieve there is one in America—perhaps not in the world. They ought to be so high that bending over them would be impossible, and the top adjustable, so as to be set at any angle of inclination.— The desks we use in all om• offices, shops and places of business are constructed as if man was hardly yet metamorphosed from some lower order of four-footed be ings to what God made him—upright. The positions which we assumes in our work tends to produce stooping. The Chairs we sit on are mostly made for deformed people. Persons with square shoulders are pained and made uneasy by sitting in them. It is even questionable whether our chairs were not better without backs—(l mean those in which we sit to write and do work, .mod not our chairs for parlor and sitting-room use)—than that they should as they now do, crowd the shoulders forward and cramp the chest, and those with backs should be made atter a nor mal and not abnormal standard. The way in which we lie in bed helps to produce round shoulders. High bolsters and higher pillows on top of them, may make a bed look fine, and be very convenient for those who wish to watch their pretty toes all night ; but if we wished to rise in the morning an inch Wier than when we went to bed,and pre serve an upright form, we must not seek it by such means. True, the head should be kept higher than the feet, but not by bending the back or neck. Let .the foot of the bed be a little the lowest and if we lie on the back, lie without a pillow; or if on the side, with one high enough to keep the head in a line with the body. But enough of causes, which may vary for different persons. Let us look at effects : First, round shoulders and stooping frames detract from a fine personal ap pearance, either when standing, sitting, or walking. Women like a beautiul face, eyes, feet, hands, fine dress, orna ments, splendid houses, horses, etc., etc, and take great pains, often run great risks of life to obtain them. Why not work as hard for fine forms ? But laying aside all thoughts of good looks, and turning for a moment to our ability "to do and to dare," we find that a truly graceful posture is the only easy one ; that where the "bearing" of the body is not correct, as in stooping, we wear ourselies out by spending strength to support ourselves in an un natural position; that those. who go about their business grace - My, do more and do it easier, than the awkward. Stoopiv is unhealthful. The lungs are cramped and do not Inlly inflate.— This brings on consumption; and besides the blood being only half oxygenated, we only half lire. Nothing is so im portant iu securing good health and good feelings, as thorough breathing. The cure lies in higher desks in our school-houses, better chairs, 'smaller pil lows in our beds, less work in bad posi tions, and vigorous training of the mus cles of the chest, back and sides, in proper positions for counteracting the effects of sedentary habits and of work. Plato said, no republic was complete without its gymnasiums. This is true of all schools; and more, in all cities and towns the gymnastic hall, well ventila ted, light, and warmed, where the se dentary, the studious, those confined much in doors, both male and female, can in appropriate costume, throw off the restraints of a confined life, and take vig- orous bodily training under a master, is full as important as was the gymnasium in the days sf Plato.—Home Journal. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1864. Origin and Growth of Sunday Schools. It is safe to say that the Sabbath school, as an institution of Christianity, is destined to hold a formest place among redeeming influences. This would ap pear from a view of the early history and wonderful progress of this kind of a Crhistian effort, as also from an estimate of the collateral agencies of good which have sprung more or less directly from the Sabbath-school. We are variously impressed by great moral results. the dif%rence depending in part on our tastes and temperament. But whoever will look over the entire history of Sunday school labor will have to concede that Christianity has reared no institution within the domain of the church which combines in a greater degree the ele ments of simplicity and power. The idea of Sunday-schools is no old er than many an old man still living ; and yet the influence of that idea is er vading all Christendom, and is advapnc ing more and more every year. It was only eighty-one years ago (1782) when that pious printer, Robert Raikes, resolv ed to do something fiur the religious im provement of the prisoners in Gloucester county jail, He never dreamed what an agency of good he was founding ; nor could he have believed, had it been told ' him, that the wave of holy influence which swelled out of his heart should roll across the Atlantic, and over the prairies, leaping the Rocky Mountains, and leaving its blessing on the islands of the Pacific. But this great result is only a type of prolific character of really holy endeavor, and a standing pledge that in the service of Grist we shall surely reap if we faint not. Mr. Raikes began his labors in this cause by hiring four young women, who were teachers of week-day ehools, to go to the county jail on Sun day, and instruct as many of the prison ers as would consent to assemble for the study of the Bible. Each woman was to receive 22 cents a day. In a few weeks two or three hundred pupils were secured. Mr. Raikes was at this time 46 years old, a . time of life when thous ands nowadays think they may retire from Christian labor—a charming exam ple was this, that a heart full of love to souls is the best means of keeping young, and strong; and useful. This plan of doing good became at once exceedingly popular, and received the indorsement of such distinguished men as Cowper, John Newton, Doctor Scott, John Wesley, and Adam Clark. The system was one of paid labor, and the compensation was fixed at 33 cents a day, In the course of twelve years, however, a large share of the labor came to be gratuitous. I Sunday-schools spread from England into where children were rapidly gathered in ; and what is very suggestive and noteworthy, Wclsh Bibles became in such demand that a special edition . was prepared. Out of this necesity of printing Bibles to meet the Sunday school demand grew no less an institution than that noble monument of Christiani- tv, The British and Foreign Bible Soei- et y Robert Raikes lived to see the idea of Sabbath-schools in the t wenty ninth year of growth, at which time 300,- 000 pupils were enrolled, a number which grew rapidly, until in 1836 there were in England and Wales alone one and a half millions under Sabbath-school instruction. The early movements of the Sunday school cause in this country were embar rassed by the system of paid labor which had been imported from England. It is amusing to read a bill presented by a teacher to the Board of Visitors of Sun day-schools in Philadelphia, dated June 1, 1800. It reads thus : "For teaching the Sunday-school of girls three months at $lOO per year, $25. For teaching 4 19-2 G scholars more than 40, $1 19. Pens, ink, paper, $4.. Two dozen spelling-books, $4.- Rent of room,Ss. Total, $39 19." The Sabbath-school interest at this time was embarrassed not only with the expensive system of compensation, but also with the want of library books. of which the list was exceedingly limited. The honor of introducing the present plan of gratuitous instruction is gener ally conceded to Rev. Robert May, who had been a Sunday-school boy in Lon don. This important change was made in 1811. From beginnings like these, the sys tem of Sabbath-school instruction has expanded until it covers continents, counting its library volumes by thous ands, its teachers and scholars by mill ions, and its converts to rightousness by figures which eternity only can enumer ate. Can any one recall these facts and not concede that the Sunday-school, as au institution, is one of the most remarka ble monuments of the power of Christi anity, and of the great harvest which re sults from humble . Christian effort &pendent. Amnesty not Extended to Rebel Psis- Judge Holt says the President has decided that the amnesty offered by his Proclamation does not extend to pris oners of war, nor to persons suffering punishment under the sentence of mili tary courts, or on trial, or under charges for military offences. NW" There are 8,000 teams connected with the army of the Potomac, which if planed in a single line would extend six ty miles. The horses, iacluding the cavalry, number not far from 76,400. oners. Horrible and Brutal Murder of a Wife. One of the most shocking and heart less murders that ever occurred within the city took place yesterday in a small house located at No. .40 i Spruce street and occupied by Felix Gill and his wife Mary. The deed is supposed to have been committed about 8 o'clock yester day morning, as about that hour the people next door heard a scuffle and loud words. This was brought to the attention of the police, who suspecting that all was not right visited the house last evening, the front door being un locked. Upon entering the door a hor rible sight presented itself. The woman lay dead in the entry without the least particle of clothing, surrounded by a pool of thick blood. A frightful wound was found in her head about ten inches long—the skull being fractured. The sec ond floor was one scene of confusion--the furniture being displaced and smeared with blood. On the wall, chairs, and door-knob there were also finger marks of blood. A pile of clothes and rags lying on the floor were thoroughly sat urated with the blood and covered with bunches of loose hair. The blood was traced down the steps to where the body ; ( lay. There had evidently been a great struggle in which the poor woman had clothing torn oft; and was then knocked down the steps. A small grind-stone was found in the room covered with both blood and hair. The supposition is that the woman was pulled out of the bed and murdered in cold blood. A ba sin in which the perpetrator of the dia bolical act had washed his hands, was found with the blood-stained water.— The keys of the front door were also found lying in the entry. As soon as the murder was discovered. suspicion at once pointed towards the husband, and he was taken into custody and locked up, being intoxicated at the time of the arrest. The couple had no children. The husband is a drinking man, and formerly worked at laboring, bit more recently was unemployed.— Te was furnished comfortably, and when visited by the Coroner last ' evening was found to contain full and plenty of everything. The table was set as if about to partake of a meal.— From papers fOund in the house it seems that the wife had willed to her by an un cle the sum of .'3OO annually, and this money is supposed to have been the cause of the sad affair—the husband be ing desirous of getting it into his pos session. The mangled body was re moved to the Union street station house, where Dr. Shapleigh will hold a j)ost mortem examination to-day—the Uoro ner's inquest taking place at 12 o'clock. • The murder was committed by a small cudgel, as the whole body was terribly bruised and disfigured.—Phila. A. Grooming Horses.. Every horse should be cleaned daily, and his bedding straw should always ire thrown behind him in the stable during the day. The manger should be kept clean and washed once a week, at least. Oats are the best food for horses, accord ing to, general experience, and yet they thrive well in Arabia on barly. A por tion of ground oats should always be mixed with whole feed, and for horses having imperfect teeth the oats should be crushed. When the weather is not frosty, the crushad oats should be mois tened with a little water and some salt added. Cut hay moistened and sprink led with ground oats forms excellent food. The hull of the oats is hard and often unmasticated, and passes undi gested through the system, thus taking away instead of imparting strength and. nutrition, For medium-sized horses with moderate work, nine to twelve quarts of oats per day, and fourteen pounds of hay are ample. For large draft horses, eighteen quarts oats and sixteen pounds of hay. Food consisting of one-third corn ground with two-thirds oats forms strong, hearty, winter food for work or coach horses ; good beds and good grooming are as important as good &oiling,. Horses, like men, want good, dry, warm, clean beds. In groom ing, tie your horse so that he can't bite his manger, and thus learn to crib-bite. Let the curry-comb be moderately used on the body to loosen up the scurf and' dirt, but never permit one near the mane and tail. Rely mainly on the brush and rough cloth fur cleaning ; combs tear out more hair in a day than will grow in a month, and they ruin manes and tails. Half an hour is enough for a good groom to one horse, but one hour's time at the outside, ample to be very complete.— Always be gentle about the horse's body, especially his head. Use whips as lit tle as possible and never tease a horse. Execution of a Woman. The English papers contain an ac count of the execution of Alice Hewitt, at Chester, tbr the murder of her mother. She induced a neighbor to personate her mother, and, by this means, obtain ed an insurance upon her life. She then killed her mother by the administration of poison. Some three or four thousand persons were present at the execution.— She fell upon her knees, and prayed that her infant child might be spared a similar fate, and that her death might be a warning to others. Executions of females in this country are of rare oc currence. Last year one was executed in Canada with her husband for murder. In Boston during the last century a woman was hung for theft. sir The city of Chicago has ninety two obtirahas and 1;199 liquor .bola. An Epidemic in Indiana A fearful epidemic is prevailing in Corydon, Harrison comity, Ind. Dur ing the past week about fifteen died of it. The victims attacked survive from one to three days. It prevails also to some extent in the country outside cif - Corydon. The Corydon Union this describes this affliction . This direful disease, which is evident ly a form of congestive fever, is at pres ent prevailing to an alarming extent in parts of this country; and, however doc tors may disagree about names, the facts are incontestible that it is a sudden and overwhelming congestion of some of the vital organs—most commonly of the brain and spinal column, or of the stom ach and lungs. Ater the congestive period is past, there is an inflammatory fever, or fever of typhoid character to be combated. Those who have taken it are taken with chilly sensations, which appear to last one to twelve hours—and at times it amounts to a shaking and chattering of the teeth, accompanied with pains through the head, neck, back and stomach—sometimes numbness of the extremities. The patients are sometimes clear in their minds but unsually deranged, wild or frantic, throwing their arms, and legs about, turning from side to side, exhibit ing inexpressible distress, worrying the attendents to k , 2ep them covered, or in bed at all. The head is drawing to one side or backward, and the neck stiff ; the eyes are rolled in their sockets, And sometimes violent convulsions take place then nausea and vomiting, costiveness or looseness of the bowels, pulse weak and slow, or nearly natural and at times firm and frequent—sometimes none at all becoming comatose, you cannot rouse them followed by an apparently easy death, or they awake so sore and stiff they cannot be moved without excruci ating, pain and distress, attended ivith inflammatory or typboid fever. Exciting Scene at a Wedding Lieut. J. C. Dodge of St. Louis, was marri ed at Jefferson City, Mo., on the 80th inst., to Miss Sarah Brown, daughter of General E. B. Brown, commander of the District of Central Missouri' A correspondent of the St. Louis Union writers : The bridal party, consisting of the bride, bridegroom, bridesmaids and their escorts, bad just made their entry into the dressing room of the Governor's mansion from Gener al Brown's residence, when the gauze dress and veil of the bride caught fire from coming in contact with a red-hot stove, and in an instant she was enveloped in a sheet of flame. Lieutenant Dodge, with great presence of mind, thing his overcoat over her person, and immediately squelched the flames. The only result of this mishap was a delay of half an hour, and the necessity of procuring a new dress to replace the one destroyed. The ceremony was performed in the Epis copal mode, by the.Bov. Dr. Worthington, Chaplain of the Senate. It was very im pressive, and at the eonelusion the Youthful and the beautiful bird was complimented with a fusilade of kisses, in which her father, General Brown, won the race by being the first to take the luscious boon, against a largo storming party of contestants. The dutiful daughter sung out in a ringing voice, "My father shall kis me first," and the General did so, amid the approval of the delighted assemblage. The guests then indulged in dancing, and about eleven o'clock sat down to a luxurious repast provided for the occa sion. Everything went off as gay as the well-known marriage bell. The human body, in so advanced a stage c.t decomposition as to be entirely un recognizable, can now bo so restored, by chemical means, as to present an almost completely natural appearance. This process was lately practiced with success, in Loudon, in the case of a body found in the Thames, which was suspected to be that of an escap ed murderer who had committed suicide.— After the body had been subjected to the new process, the witnesses were able to swear that ho was not the supposed murder er. • Z A pauper in the Unekfield Union, England, named Movies, aged 82, was charged bellffe the magistrate with refusing to work. The poor old man, who had lived twelve years beyond the three-score and ten allotted to man, said he was unable to work, but their wor ships thought diferently, and sentenced him to twenty-one days hard labor. WARNING TO 8.310.K.NR5.-A woman nar rowly escaped being burned to death, iu Troy: last week. She was au invalid, and had con tracted the habit of smoking in bed, and while doing so, her bed-covering took fire from her pipe. She was severely burned about the head, breast and body. gar Washoe • must be a very pleasant residence for a timid man, according to the Virginia City. Bulletin, which says : "On Saturday night last we saw around the stove at the theatre, warming them selves, no less than five men who had each killed a man within the past five months." ti• What you attempt do it with all your strength. Determination is omnip otent. If the prospect he somewhat darkened, put the fire of resolution to your soul, and kindle a flame that noth ing but the strong arm of death can ex tinguish. sigrqtaw cotton and castor oil hake restor ed frost-bitten limbs when amputation was thought to be necessowy to preserve life. The eure Is odd to be *Willie. Railroads of the United States. The American Raihod Journal sums up the actual mileage of railroads corn { Feted in the United States on the Ist of January, 1855, at 23,850 miles, with about 16,000 miles additional that are, OF have been, under construction. The increase of completad road .during the past year has peen 1,394 miles. Of the completed roads 2-1,927 miles are in the loyal Siates, and 8,933 miles in the States now in rebellion, The condition of the latter is so bad that many of them, on the return of the States to loy alty, could be more properly classed among the roads "under construction." The total cost of the completed roads and their equipment in the United States, is one thousand two hundred and sixty-sir million of dollars—quite a respectable sum of money to be invest ed in one branch of business, Taking, the grand total of roads com pleted and under construction in the sec eral States, Ohio stands pre-eminent as the Railroad State, but falls behind Pennsylvania in the number of miles completed. The following are the rail road statistics of the five great railroad States : Total Miles. Miles Conia. 4,550 3,3;57 4,071 3,315 3,099 3,080 9 ,506 9 ,8!12 3,579 2,173 Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York Indiana It is interesting to note the growth 01 the railway interest of the United States. From 1826 to 1829 there were but three miles of railway in the coun try-. On the first of ianuarv, 1834, there were ,762 miles ; in 1844 the num ber had increased to 4,311 miles; in 1854 to 15,672 miles; and on the Ist or January, 1864, the amount of comple ted railway had grown to 33,860 miles, with 16,000 more miles in progress. The Shooting Fish. This very remarkable fish is a native of the East Indies. Nature has con structed ;his aquatic, sportsman in a sin singular manner, but one admirably adapted to his shooting predilections— The fish has a hollow, cylindrical beak. lie frequents the river or sea shore in search of food, and from the usual man ner in which he provides for his daily wants he derives his name. When this hungry gentleman espies a fly or an insect not taking due care of himself, but sitting on the plants that grow in the shallow water, he sWints away to the distance of four or five, and often six feet, that he may take aim at his prey, and when he has done so to his satisfac tion, lie then, with amazing dexterity and cleverness, ejects out of his tube-like mouth one drop of water which is so well directed and so swiftly shot forth, * that it never tails to knock the fly into the water, and once there, all hope of escape is tr,( me—the fish darts upon his prey and eagerly devours it; thus sup plying us with another instance of the diversified modes by which nature qual ifies its countless millions of creatures with the powers necessary for procuring food. Major and Brigadier Generals Secretary Stanton has transmitted to Congress a list of all the Major and Brigadier Generals without comtuani The list also contains Generals in cons mand of departments and posts. Fol lowing are the name or the Major . Gen erals, with the date of their relief and the amount of their pay : Relieved. Pay John C Fremont... Aug. 12, '62 $355 W S Rosecrans Oct. 19, '63 445 A M'D McCook ...Oct. 9, '62 445 L Crittenden.... Oct. 9, '63 445 D E Sickles* July 3, '63 445 C. L Rarstutf Oct. 3, '63 445 Irvin M'Dowell§...Sept. 6, '62 445 Geo. Cadwallader§.Aug. 16, '63 445 A Doubledayt.... July 1, '63 445 Geo B McClellan..Nov. 7, '63 352 D C Buell Oct. 30, '63 333 T A MeC/ernand.. June 18, '63 355 L Wallace Nov. 11), '62 415 EII Milroy June 25, 'i;3 355 R J Oglesby Oct. 3, '63 445 David Oglesby 12, '63 415 E A Hitchcock§..— 445 E 0 C Ordr. Oct. 28, '63 415 S P Oct. 13, '63 445 E D Keyes July '63 445 *Lost teg in service. tSeverely wounded.- I.Sick and oiuce reported for duiv. yon Post Duty, court-martials, etc. Gen, Hitchcock has nu command, being exchange commissioner. Stifled to Death. Two young ladies, Miss hill and Miss Johnson, living at Broad Hill, a few miles from this city, on the Little Miami Railroad, met death on Saturday night last, in the following strange manner : They were on a visit to a friend's house at Red Bank, a neighboring town, and, being shown into a room where the fire was nearly extinguished, set to work, before retiring, and closed the room tightly, to exclude the cold air as much as possible. They then stirred up the charcoal in the hearth, to get as much warmth as they could, and went to sleep. In the morning the family with whom they were stopping were horribly sur prised, upon visiting their room, to find them both dead, the fumes of the char coal having stifled them in their sleep. Cincinnati Comma-dal. Go- Charles Lamb's opinion of the wa ter cure : "It is neither new nor won-, derful, for it is is old as the deluge, when, in my opinion, it killed more than it eared ." NEW SERIES.---VOL. 5, NO. 35. A correspondent of the St. Louis Demo crat gives his experience in a trip by stage from Sedalia to Springfield, Mo., during the recent cold term. The distance is one hun dred and twenty miles, and the ordinary time thirty-six hours. When the coach left Sedalia the thermometer stood at fourteen degrees below zero. The sufferings of pas senger:4, drivers and animals was intense.— Wo extract a sineie incident of the trip : At the different houses where we stopped, and .ve stopped at nearly every one on the road, the inmates, men, women and children, were huddled around the chimney corner ; die ! cussing only one hiug—the cold. The sec mid night out was equally as cold as the first, and the first was as cold as ;charity. My companions in the cold remained with me until eight o'clock of the secoud night—so the driver told me ; for, when I awoke at ten o'clock from a cold doze, into which 1 had edlen about 7 p. in., I found them gone. I was not lung alone, however, when the stage halted at a house about nineteen miles from Boliver, where a lady and child took passage for the latter place. She was plainly but comfortably clad, and in conversation I found her possessed of no. mean intellect. She hail received word, that her husband, who is in the army, was dan gerously ill at Bolivar, and thither elle was going. Every few miles we stopped to warm, and at each place, until within about five miles of her ilstivation, the mother took the belie, an infant of fifteen months, into the different houses. It was nearly four o'clock in the morning, and we were within five miles of Boliver, when the stage drew up at a rude cabin, where the driver inform ed us we could get warm, and that he would not halt again before reaching town. I got out and assisted the lady to alighe when we entered the domicil. I noticed that she was not carrying the child, and asked her where it was. "I have wrapped it up and laid it on the seat, as I was afraid it the wind blew on it lt, would catch cold," was her reply. I told her she had better being it in, as it would certainly freeze. Shp said "No, it is warm and will sleep." We re mained in the house half an hour and re-en tered the stage, and the mother, after she picked him op, remarked, "He is asleep yet." Not a whisper, not a cry proceeded from that child during the remainder of the trip. The wind moaned piteously. Closely the mother nestled her babe to her bosom. We reached Deliver before it was yet day, cold, chilled hilliest beyond the endurance of na ture. I went into the tavern, accompanied hy mother and child. Walking up the lane, the mother sold to me. "Did you ever see such a baby—he hasn't cried to-night?" It was e ialf an hour before the fire was made, no one being out of bed when we went in. You have often seen, perhaps you have been a party of it yourself, persons a cold day, in entering a room, congregate and remain around a stove where there was no fire, and as is usual in such cases, always the coldest place in the room. So it was with us; we drew our chairs to the cold fire place and awaited t'ie kindling, which in time fol lowed. The fire was soot lighted and soon gave out its grateful offering of heat The child remained wrapped up—it was quiet his mother repeated, "He is asleep yet."— lie was asleep—Ha is asleep yet! that child was frozen to death, and, in this world, "he is asleep yet." Death spared him the cold of earth—he was frozen into Paradise. Death ofan Old Printer. The New York Herald announces the death of John M. Elliott, and says he was the oldest printer in the United States. He was eighty years of age. At one time he was the publishes• of the New York American. , footatAsirkut ABROAD. -- A Frankfort (Ky.) correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says that the subject of education is receiving marked atten tion ti.oru the Legislature of that State . As proving that teachers as well as pu pils need to he looked after, the writer mentions the. filet that the following no tice, by the schoolmaster, was recently posted ou the door of a school house near Frankfort. "Noriss.—No swarin, eursin or ruunin a bowt lose or hollerin in this seul." henry Caldwell, a recruiting agent of New Britian, Conn., was found brutally murdered, on Monday morning, about half a mile east of that village. His skull was knocked in, a large hole being made in the side of his head. It is sup posed that he was murdered on Saturday night. He had $BOO in cash with him, of which he was robbed ; but a gold watch and pin were left on his person. Prints in the snow showed that there had been a scuffle, and that two men made the attack. eilirA certain Scotch friend of ours, who is not a member of a temperance so ciety, being asked by a dealer to pur chase some fine old Jamaica rum, dryly answered, "To tell you the with, far, I canna say rin very fond of rum ; for if I tak imur then six tumblers, it's very apt to give a body the headatthe." Laßaume (a dentist, we sup pose,) recommends brushing the teeth with vinegar daily till the tartar disap pears; after that to use a powder, of charcoal and tincture of rhatany, which will prevent its recnrrance. An Affecting Inoident,
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