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TBE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER ' - '11;1 lctilanto• A Hospital Scene.
An army correspondent gives the foI
?MUSSED BY lowing graphic account of a visit to an
H. W. JONES AND JAS. S. JENNINGS. army hospital:
Fatal Mistake'at Saratoga. If you would see the "wrinkled front"
AT Susan Shepard, a young lady 21 years of "grim-visaged war," visit the hospi-
Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. of age, a daughter of S. Shepard form- : tars after a battle.
.Go to the opera
- . erly of the American Hotel, Troy, died ' ting table, and observe the delirium of
;OFFICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE at Saratoga on Saturday, from the ef- ' the subject as the great finger of the
PUBLIC SQUARE. ref fects of a wrong dose given by a phy- , relentless surgeon is explorin g his bleed
------. siman. lier fun eral topk place from . ing side. Nit the poor sufferer is. all
it a Itt la a athe Fifth Street B i
aptist Church, n : unconscious, for a surgeon with a tow
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flosscsirrtom.-82.00 in advance; $2.25 at the ex- Troy, on Monday morning. The Sar- :el saturated with ether, and folded cone
;piratical , of six months; 82.00 after the expiration of . .
atogmn gives the following farticulars
She year. shape, stands at his head, and while he
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at $1.25 per square for of r.
this sad affair : Miss Shepard and closely watches the beatingof the
three insertions, and 37 Ms. &square for each addition-
al insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) . her mother were visiting the family of pulse, applies the blessed neutralizer of
ilr• liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers.
10$ PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the best John Benedict, of this place,. and dur- pain as he deems necessary. Snmetimes
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style, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger'
ing Saturday afternoon Miss S. was ta- the subject lies passive under the sever
-lab Office. • ken somewhat ill. Her mother called est operation, and at other times he
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upon Dr. S. S. Strong to prescribe for imagines himself again on the battle,'
Maputsburg - g usin t s 5 Garbs. her daughter. A prescription was pre- field.' He curses, raves, taunts the ene
pared by him, and handed to Mrs. my with cowardice, and dares him to
RNEYS: Shepard, who returned and administer- come on, until his physical energies ex-
ATTO
• _ _ ed the potion. Miss Shepard was soon hausted, he sinks into a short sleep, and
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GEO. L. W VET. J. A. J. RUCILANAN. affected, complained of a singular sen- awakes to find his wound dressed, and
WYLY & BITCHANAN, . sation in her head, and jocosely re- ' himself lying weak and nerveless side
marked that if she ever had hysterics by side with scores of others, in the
Attorneys dr, Counsellors at Law,
WAYNESBURG, PA. she should suppose she was going to hospital tent. Her eis an officer- whose
fti ftl practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining
have them. Her eyes were observed case the surgeon
.says at a glance is be
counties. Collections and other legal business will re- to dilate unnaturally, and within a few yond the reach of skill. Ile was shot
oeive prompt attention.
Office in the old Bank Building. minutes she became completely pros- through the forehead by a sharpshoot-
Jan. 28, 1863.—13, trated. Dr. Strong, whose residence er ; a small globe of quivering brains
•• A. PURSI•N. .1 G. RITCHIE is but a square distant:, was promptly protrudes from the wound, and the con-
PIIRMAN & =TOME. summond and hurried to the scene. vulaive gasp at long intervals show
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW At first the doctor could not believe that the sufferer is fast, approaching
. os-Orrieß-M
Waynesb stre urg , one door east of , Pa. that the medicine had produced the ef- the "sleep which knows no wakin
g . "ain et
the old Bulk Building. feet, and to show his confidence, took And yet the surgeon says he may live
fltrAll Justness in Greene, Washington, and Fay a spoon full of it himself. But on more in that condition twelve hours loonier.
cue Counties, entrusted to them. Will receive promp m
attention. closely observing the peculiar syrup- Such cases frequently occur. Return
N i B —.Particular attention will be given to the col- ,
lection of Pensions. Bounty Money. Sack Fay, and toms, the cause was revealed to his to the hospital in the mornin4. The
other claims against the Government. mind, and he frankly stated that he attendants are bringing out those who
Sept. El, 1861—Iv.
A. A. M'CONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN. •
intend to, and that in her condition ; wrapped in their blankets, in a row
INVCONNZILL . & WITITIVIAN, there was danger it would prove fatal. ' outside the hospital, preparatory to
4ITTORNE TS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Immediate efforts were made, however , theii. burial. Go count the little lmards
Waynesburg, Pa.
Orr-Office In the "Wright . lk ..se," East Door. to relieve her of the fatal potion, and made from cracker boxes, and standing
cecorneas, &t.. will receive prompt attention. to counteract its effect, lint without in rows over the graves of the dead un-
Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-I.y. .
avail. She lived only about au hour der yonder trees. Perchance the form
DAVID GRA WFORD, and a half after the medicine eras ad-ipof some acquaintance or soldier friend
Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office In the ministered.. Dr. Strong was intensely 1 whose warm hand you grasped but
Court Noose . Will attend promptly to all business
affected, and expressed a willingneSs to yesterday, may rest beneath one of
entrusted to his care.
Waynesburg. Pa., July 30, 1863.-Iy. take the place of the young lads, if those unpretending headboards. But
C. A: SLAM JOHN PHELAN• that would restore her. In explanation the dawn of the great hereafter! will
BLACK & PHELArt, of the mistake, he states that there are it not behold those slaughtered heroes,
arroaNsys AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW I two bottles standing near together on , resurrected and beautified, the recipients
Office in the Court Douse, Waynesburg.' his shelves labeled respectively "Gera , : of a crown to which many who repose
se r i,. it,ts6l-tv.
- Mum" and "Gelseminum," the contents , beneath the marble of Paris will not
SOLDIERS' WAR OLAMES! of which are similar in appearance.— i dare to aspire.
.
He intended to give the "Geranium," i _____,.
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D. R. P. HUSS, - but was deceived in looking at the la-
bel, and inadvertently gave the "Gel- ! Hospital Scenes.
seminum." Dr. Strong.hiniself, owing
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ATTOR:4I3% , AT LAW, W•TWEBBURG, PENNA.,
lI AM received from the War Department at NVasli
i iimon city, D. C., official copies of the several
laws parsed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms
and Instructions fur the prosecution and collection of
PLAPSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PAY, due dis
yharged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan
children, widowed mothers, fathers, slate's and broth
erl, which business, [upon due notice] will be attend.
edto promptly and acenrately if entrusted to his care.
Office, No. 2, Campbells Row.—April 8, 1863.
G. W. Q. WADDELL,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
OFFICE in the REGISTER'S OFFICE, Court
House, Waynesburg, Penna. Easiness of all
tuida solicited. lies received official copies of all the
laws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc
tions for the collectipn of
PENSIONS, POUNTIES, BACK PAY,
Due discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan
children, &c., which business if intrusted to his care
will Le promptly attended to. May 13. '63.
PHYSICIANS
Dr. T. W. Ross,
T ° 113.3r111111C , 18012. gib 18111.1.1'6•34=012.,,
IVaynesburg, Greene Co., Pa.
VFICE ANU RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET,
1‘.../ east, and nearly opposite the Wright house.
Wa3nesberg, Sept. 23, 1863.
DR. A. G. CROSS
ifitTOULD very respectfully tender nis services as a
V PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people in
-Waynesburg 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.
MERCHANTS
WM. A. PORTER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes-
Pry Goods. Groceries, Notions, Scc., Main street.
Sept. /1. 1581-Iy.
MINOR & CO.,
beaters in Foreign and Lionrestie Pry Goods, Gro
caries. Sueensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite
die Green Mouse. Main street.
Sept. ii, iSSI-Iy,
BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS
J. D. COSGRAY,
Soot and Shoe maker, Main street, twarly opposite
ke "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style 01
oots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order.
Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
GROOBRIES & VARIETIES
JOHN MUNNELL,
Denier in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety
Goods Generally. Wilgon's Nor Building, Main street.
Sept. 11. 1851-Iy.
IN4TCH.III# AND MWELRY
$.
Main street. opposing thp Wright HMIRB keeps
phsay,s en band a large and elegant assortment of
I,Vatehes and Jewelry:
IV - Repairing of Clocks, Witches and Jewelry wit
rsosive prompt attention [Dec. 15. 1861—ly
BOQBS. &c.
LEWIS DAY,
Healer in School and Mincelltneous Book!, Station
nuitlrt ste
.ildor Mainneait st
eea r Ld t. l'apenn One doer . east 01
Rert. 11. 1851 Iv•
SADDLES AND ILARNES.
SAMUEL M'ALLISTER,
Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker. old Bank Boild
nt, Main street.
'MC It, 1461--7 e.
BANE.
FM,IfeRS' .111. DROVERS' BANK,
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pretipt:akesburgi.Tit EAR, Cashier
DISCOUNT DAY.
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Amt. 11. 1141111-1 v
HAWKERS AND PEDLARS,
- 1.2C:0C).113. COMM.
Veasa of assembly of March. MK Hawkers and
tots is Galena toasty site requindlto rimers
!L hs - froth the roungilloaattier limosaiatoly, or
thellfeloill ble votopoged lb_ parihe pootity of One
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, ii. J. 1 4 .141PRICM. rilloglow•
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to the mental depression following the
termination of this sad ease, was affect-
ed by the dose he had taken, aud re
course was had to stimulants to aid in
relieving him from the unpleasant ef
fects.
The Veteran Twelve.
It will he remembered that in March
last the committee on Revolutionary
Pensions reported to Congress a resolu
tion, which was unanimously adopted,
tendering thanks to the surviving sol
diers of the revolution, twelve in number,
for their services in that war, by which
our independence was achieved and
our liberty obtained, and sincerely re•
joicing that their lives have been pro
tracted beyond the period sually al
lotted to man, and . that t •eceive a
sum of money as pensiot rs '
which
shall help to smooth the rugged path of
life ou their journey to the tomb ; and
that copies of the resolutions be sent
by the Speaker to each Revolutionary
pensioner. The folio wing are the
names, birth places and ages, SD far
as kno , .vn, of the "Twelve Apostles of
Liberty :"
Amazian Goodwin, Summersworth,
-N. 11., 105,
' John Goodnow, Sud'iry, Mass., 102.
Adam Lisk, Washington County,
Pa., 102.
Rev. Daniel Waldo, Windham, Con
necticut, 101.
Wm. Hutchings, York, Me., 101.
James Barham, Southampton county,
Va , 99.
Benjamin Miller, Springfield, Massa
chusetts, 100.
John Pettingill, Windham, Connec
ticut, 97.
Alexander Maroney, Lake George,
N. Y., 94.
Samuel Downing, 2d New Hamp
shire regiment, (no age given.)
Lemuel Cook, (no birthplace or age
given.)
James, (no birtlip)ape or age given.)
HORSE STORY.—The army corps
pondent of the Herald writes an ac
count of the famous horse raid, within
the lines and without riders. He says:
Near Burmuda Hundred there is a
large corral, where all the disabled and
worn out horses—brought here by
General Sheridan after his famous raid
—are confined. The poor beasts have
apparently, but little of their vigor left.
That was what we thought a week or
more since. Now we have changed
our opinion. During heavy firing. on
our right a short time since these lame
aid worn out equine warriors pricked
up their ears, straightened their sore
and stiff limbs, tossed their manes,
formed in squadrqns, and with a loud
snort charged on a number of inoffqn
sive mules. Two y inalefowere instant
ly killed, and" the others fled in the
wildest Border. The horses again
formed to the music of Gilmore's artill
ery and charged on a high rail fence,
which they . at once broke down. They
did litft dealet from their warlike detn
metatations • uatd the artilhai thing
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1864.
We pity the heal t of that man wh
can read the following, trout a bank,
field correspondent, without hating this
cruel war.
Ar rnE Hosrrr.u.s.—The scene
sickening in the vicinity of the hospitals,
for here one sees the dark side ut I,:it
tle. The knife and saw of the stn7 , eon
were actively engaged 41inost every
moment ; indeed there seemed little
cessation to their dread duties. The
groans of the patients suffering under
cruel and agonizing wounds were ter
rible. The operation tables—none- of
those of comfortable contrivances seen
iu our peace-biessed hospitals, but ex
temporized almost for• the occasion—
were rarely empty ; but as f . st as one
victim was removed to recover, per
haps to die, another w,uld take his
place. Ambulances red with gore, and
stretchers whose canvass was dyed
with the ruby stream of life, came and
went, borne by hospital attendants and
soldiers detailed for the purpose, bring
ing in fresh victims and hastening away
for others whose sufferings demanded
surgical assistance. These w ere scenes
of the day, from ca, ly dawn until dark
and far into the night, with scarcely a
moment's cessation; while the din,
mingled with the cries and entreaties of
the fellows under the knife, was the
sad music of carnage—the boom of
cannon and the rattle of musketry tell
ing in unmistakable terms the stern
truth that there were yet coining more
victims for the surgeon's knife and
probo.
How to Manage" Men.
When you want to manage men, do
as bee-keepers do when they want to
- manage bees. Here are two men that
have bees in a hive. One says, .4 own
these bees,. and lam going to divide
them, and move them.", He prepares
a place for them, and then goes to the
hive, thrusts his hand rudely into the
midst of them, and very soon he has
his bees all over him, and he moves
himself very rapidly! That is just as I
have seen men attempt to manlge men.
Another man gets a bowl ,of Nagar arid
water, and washes his . hands all over,
and goes with the utmost quietness and
serenity,. and opens the Me, and puts
his hand in gentry, and the bees find
everything sweet, and he can scoop
them up as though they were so much
flour, and put them in as many hives
as he pleases (it he only takes came to
put a queen bee in each,) and they will
) notgstina him, or fly away. And peo
ple say, 'Wonderful! that man has a
real magnetic . power with bees 3" So
he has, when he has sugar and water on
his hands: Now when yon want to
manage men, wash your hands with
sugar and water !
It is right for us to maintain 4 thou
-1 sand courtesies that tend to give pleas
ure, and to avoid many radenesses that
tend to give pain. Choose things that
will please men. Nut-galls are not the
only things in the world. There are
roses and honeysuckles. Wasps are
not the only things in the world:—
, Theie is honey as well.-41orsi Ward
I liketdier, .
Vices of Genius.
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Coleridge was such a slave to liquor
that he had to be kept an unwitting
prisoner, by Christopher North, on an
occasion when some literary perform
ance nad to be completed by a certain
time, and on that very day, without
even taking leave of any member of the
family, "he ran off at full speed down
the avenue at Ellerary, and was soon
hidden, not in the groves of the valley,
but in some obscene den, where, drink
ing among low companions, his mag
nificent mind was soon I.;rought to a
level with the vilest of the vile."—
When his spree was over, he• would
return to the society of decent men.
De Quincy was such a slave to the
use of opium, that his daily allowance
was of more importance than eating.
"An ouna of landanumn a day pros
trated anilial life during the forenoon.
It was no unfrequent sight to sec him
asleep on the rug bethre the tire in his
own room, his head on a book, his arm
crossed on his breast When this tor
por from the opium had passed away,
he was ready for company about day
light. In order to show him of his
friends had to arrange their supper
prudes so that, sitting until three or
tour in the morning, he might be
brought to that point at which, in
charm 'conversation, he was so truly
wonderful."
Burns was not less a drunkard than
Coleridge. It was' the weakness of
Charles Lamb. And who can remem
ber the last day of Poe without an ir
repressible regret 7 He was on his way
to marry a confiding woman, stopping
in Baltimore, and was found by a gen
tleman who knew him, in a state of
beastly intoxication, uncnocious as a log,
and died in the ravings of delirium
tremens. Douglas Jerrold was a de
votee of gin. Byron was a tippler, and
his vile Don Juan was written under
the inspiration of rum.
Steele, the brilliant author of the
Christian Hero, %vas a beastly drunkard.
Men wrote of him that very often he
would dress himself, kiss his wife and
children, tell them a lie about his press
ing engagements, heel it over to a
groggery ca led "the Store," and have
a revel with his bottle companions.—
Rollin says of Alexander the Great,
that the true poison which brought him
to his end, was wine. The Empress
Elizabeth, if Russia was completely
1 ;1 :rr tied with strong liquors.
Srn i was often in such a state of bac
chic ec-tacy during the day, that she
c ,, 111A not be dressed in the morning,
and her attendants would loosely attach
wnre r.,i)es, which a few clips of the
scissors would disengage in the evening.
Unburied Dead in the Wilderness.
The following extracts from a letter
written by Lieut. Bailey, one of the late
Gen Sedgwick's staff, and a member
of the 10th New York volunteers, have
been published in the Rochester Demo
crat: ANANDALE, June 14 —To,-------:
I did not expect, when I ieft R chester,
that I slim ld visit the battle fields of
the Wilderness again. if at all. I ar
rived in camp, and the day following
was detailed as one of the officers to ac
company an expedition of five hundred
caval y to guard an ambulance train,
and rescue our wounded who were yet
in the hands of the enemy, whom they
had placed under guard and were re
moving to Richmond as fast as possible,
as prisoners. We arrived at the United
Stat , s Ford, on the Rapidan, Friday
night, crossed Saturday morning, and
at ten found a deserted hospital, where
the first three days of the battle were
fought. To within about a mile of this
the dead of both armies had been buried,
but from this to the next hospital (about
fifteen miles) the dead remain as death
found them, with the exception Of their
clothing. The rebels had striped them
of boots and shoes. and nearly all of
clothing, and where there was an excep
tion the pockets were all turned! It is
estimated that fifteen thousand of our
men, and as many, or more, of rebels
lie here unburied; and as six weeks have
passed since the battle, imagination in
its wildest fancies cannot begin to paint
the spectacle. After passing through
this wilderness of death, we found an
other hospital,. surprised the guards,
. took possession, and found about sixty
wounded in charge of one of our sur
geons, he being a prisoner also. We
did not stop to enquire to whom or
what side they belonged-, v Nether
friend or foe, but, commenced at once to
put them into our ambulances and to
make onr way out of this wilderness
and shadow of death, !fawning on our
wgy to Washington."
WrlY THE LYING NEVER WEEP.—The
reason the dying never weep is because
the manufactures of life have stopped fbi -
ever; every gland of the system has
ceased its functions. In almost all dis
eases the liver is the first that stopswork;
one by one the others follow, and all the
fountains of life are at length dried up;
there is no secretion anywhere. So the
eye, in death, weeps not—not that all
affection is dead to the heart, because
there is moisture on the lip. It is a
striking characteristic of that terrible
disease, the cholera, that the .patient,
however seized, never sheds a tear, even
though surrounded by weeping friends.
The listure of the disease is the suspen
sion of the secretions of the system, and
the most active excretory work by which
ths loOdy !is Ara m& of its *aid*.
A Romantic Story.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle of Tuesday
tells the following :—Among the pas
sengers on the New York express train
upon the Hudson River railroad, on
Monday, was a brave fellow from the
Army of the Potomac, with a comrade
accompanying him, both dressed he the
uniform of the United States, with can
teens, &c. At the first glance nothing
uncommon could be detected in the looks
of the pair, nor should we have been
able to relate the romantic history con
nected with the couple were we not
made acquaintedlvith it by a friend, who
was told it by a hospital nurse. It ap
pears that at the breaking out of the re
belli .n these lovers (for one of them
was a young girl, dressed in the garb of
a soldier) were engaged to be married,
which ceremony must either be post
poned on account of the lover going to
defend the. flag of his country, or else the
marriage must take place, and his fair
inamorata must follow him. She chose
the latter, and married they were, he
enlisting afterward in the 2d Michigan
regiment as a private, and she, donning
the blue, followed him.
Amid the crash of shot and shell, at
the battle of the Wilderness, the heroic
girl stood by the side of her husband,
and with her good musket defended him
and struck for her country at the heart
of the chivalry. Passing safely through
that desperate fight., they pressed on
with their regiment to the bloody field
of Spottsylvania, where the brave Mich
igauder had his arts broken by a piece
of shell. Seeing him fall, she bound up
his wound, and raising him • from the
ground amidst the thickest of the fight,
she carried him to the rear, and, placing
him on a caisson which was about start
ing back for amunition, she had the sat
isfaction of seeing him carried to a place
of safety, he being soon after conveyed
to Carver Hospital, the heorine and
young wife attending him until he got
well enough to start for their home in
the West, they being en route for there
yesterday:
An English journal relates the
following story : "More than halt a
century ago the affairs of a worthy dra
per in the town of Coleraine, in the
county of Londonderry, Ireland, got
embarrassed. He sent his son, who
assisted him in business, to Manchester
and Leeds, to arrange with his creditors.
The young man was harshly received,
and after having failed to effect a set
tlement, arrived at Liverpool on his
way home. His honorable spirit was
lacerated by the treatment he had met
with; and, dreading still more the dis
grace and reproach ho expected to en
counter on his return to his native town,
he, in a fit of desperation, enlisted as a
private soldier. The young draper's
regiment was ordered out to India,,
where his good conduct soon brought
him into notice, and the excellent edu
cation which be bad received paved the
the way for his promotion. lie rose
step by step until he reached the rank
of colonel. He served his country with
honor, and it} the course of time gave
two sons to the military service. The
two young soldiers to whom we refer
were Sir John Laurence, now Govern
or-General of India, and the late Sir
Henry Lawrence, known as the defen
der of Lucknow. The grand-uncle of
the Governor-General of India still lives
as a respectable small farmer in the
north of the county of Antrim, about
two miles from the fashionable water
ing-place of Portrush, and five miles
from the Giant's Causeway."
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Training Boys.
A lady correspondent, who assumes
to know how boys ought to be trained,
writes to an exchange as follows :
"0 mothers hunt out theooft, ten
der, genial side of your boys' natures.
Make the most of any gentle taste or
comely propensity. Encoui them
to love flowers, pictures, ancT all the
beautiful things which God has made.
Talk with them, read with them, go
out with them into the fields and woods,
and hallow pleasant • scenes with holy
memories. A daily ministration to
their unfurnished, hungry minds, a
daily touch to their unformed taste,
shall make them more comely than cost
ly garments. They will ever bear you
witness in the character and conduct of
your cl:ildren : but your laces and em
broideries will crumble to dust. Why
don't mothers teach their shildreit
more, and dress them less !"
No Fiction.
Newspaper subscriptions are infalli
ble tests of men's honesty. If a man
is dishonest he will cheat the printer in
some way—say that he has paid when
he has not—or sent money and it was
lost by mail—or will take the paper and
will not pay for it, on the plea that he
did not subscribe for it, or will move off,
leaving it come to the office, be left.—
Thousands of professed Christians are
dishonest, and the printer's books will
fearfully on the final settlement of the
Judgment Day. How many who . read
this paragraph will be guitless of the of
fense. .
trA Connecticut farmer has discov
ered that his cows have been regularly
milked by black snakes, who took oc
casion to attach themselves while the
ewe were Mooing ih the ilel4a. Melly
makes have thus beat etas ht sad 1,,;
NolitiaL
The Slave Market Outdone--A White
Man Selling his own Sons.
Sumner and his followers may prate as
loudly as they please about "the barbarism
of slavery," and Mrs. Stowe may rack imag
ination to create a monster like the brutal
Legre, but we had an exhibition in this
town during the examination of those re
cently conscripted, which, for inhuman mid
brutal barbarism, we defy any slave mart
in the world to match. A father, who bad
already sold one minor son as a substitute to
the human shamble, where be fell a victim,
appeared iu our town on last Monday, drag
ging at his heels two half grown, ill-shaped
boys. They were all the sons he had, and
he had consecrated to sell them both as sub
stitute;'. They had been bargained for by
"loyal" men. The smaller • one, almost a
mere child, was prospectively the property
of a loud-mouthed and pestilent Abolitionist
—a tinge beast of a man, who stood six feet
two iu his stockings and weighed over 200
pounds. This intensely "loyal" and "patri
otic" fellow, when his own sou, a sturdy, well
grown young man, enlisted, followed him to
Chambersburg, and brought him back home
on the plea that he was a minor, and had en
listed without his father's 'consent. Yet he
is always full of war, and eager for fighting
so long as it is at the expense of the blood of
some one else than himself or his own family.
Being drafted, however, and wishing to les
sen the probability of such a misfortune be
falling him again speedily, and impelled at
the same time to save a little money, he had
bargained with a brutal father to pay a Jess
sum than three hundred dollars for the body,
the bones, the blood, nay, more, the life of a
child. We defy the whole South to furnish
an instance of such a disgusting "dicker" in
human flesh, or, from among all the profes
sional slave trade who have disgraced its
soil, such a pair of ousters as these. There
was no veil of pretended loyalty or simulated
patriotism to conseal the naked hideousness
of this transaction. The father was actuated
solely by a sordid desire for gain; the pur
chaser was moved by the sneaking white-liv
ered cowardice that forbade his risking his
own worthless carcass iu a win for the prose
cution of which he hutis daily, and by the
men selfishness of his nature which prompted
him to make a cheap bid when bartering for
a human victim. A plot had been made up
by the parties of this disgusting transaction
by which they hoped to deceive. the Board.
The boys were made to lie as to their ages,
and represented themselves as older than they
really were. S') immature and 4puthful,
however, was the appearance of the little
wretches, that the Board refused to believe
the statements made to them, even though
the father himself lied as to their ages in or
der that he might be enabled to affect a sale
of his offspring. They were both rejected
for this reason, as entirely too young for the
service. The overgrown human brute, who
had ea - pected to save himself in this way, sor
rowfully and reluctantly paid over his money
to save his cowardly carcass for a time, and
the oli•etched father, afternreeling about our
streets for a day or so in drunkenness, went
home, much disappointed; no doubt, in being
balded in the sale of his sons. There is no
coloring about this story, no fictitious gloss
ing. It is true, just as we tell it, and known
to be so to the very letter by many who will
read this statement. We need make no
comment. We have seen negroes sold on
the block to the highest bidder, but that
only inFolved a change of service. Here was
a white man, with one son whom he had sold
dead already, endeavoring to sell two more
boys to what was almost certain death. He
found loyal Abolitionists ready and eager to
become the purchasers of -cheap substitutes.
Let us hear no more about the barbarism of
slavery, when the barbarism of this war can
exhibit such a revolting spectacle in the light
of heaven on the tree soil of Pennsylvania.—
['Fulton Democrat.
The National Debt.
Mr. Chase reports the national debt increas
ed within a hundred days by a little more
than two hundred and fifty millions, or tiro
and a half millions daily. This daily increase
is now much greater, having itself been
steadily growing from the beginning of the
war. It was a million and a quarter a year
ago, two millions six months ago, and is now
not less than three millions per *day. This
is partially unavoidable. Prices of labor and
supplies always rise in war. The field of
military operations grows wider; our armies
and fleets are made larger, and the interest
of the debt itself, end the cost of collecting
taxes, are always growing. But these are not
the chief causes of this increase in the rate of
incurring debt.
The chief causes are two, both of which
might be avoided by a sound system of fi
nance:
1. The Administration willfully and un
necessarily repudiated the national faith, and
suspended I.ayruent at the first symptom of
difficulty. This was followed by an endless
expansion of irredeemable currency, and is
now accelerating decline. It has now fallen
much more than half of all the way it could
possibly fall, and the Government pays at
least three prlees for ail it buys.
2. A,a, &My, mt epidemic diocese mkt
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through the land, which will be known in
history as the office-holder's mania. It is a
resistless passion for scattering vast sums of
money. Congress aq the Administration
are litterally drunk uhh extravagance.—
Should a minstrel Homer sing in after times
the traditions of this age, he wI tell of our
national Olympus as a pai:denionium of
spendthrift gods, madly squandering the frag
ments of their ruined universe. On this
point, no sober man who knows Washington
to-day will call any language to strong.—
Least of all the Secretary of the Treas - ,ry
hiniseif; who has long, in public and private,
complained loudly of the relentless prodigidi
ty of the other Departments and of Congress,
and who now declares that without their
speedy conversion to economy, and rapid
military success, all possible means for sus
taining the Treasury must fall.—EN. Y.
World.
The Next Electoral College.
CougreSs has decided that none of
the States which have been tbrmally
declared in insurrection shall vote for
President till readmitted into the Union.
The States thus excluded from partici
pating in the approaching Presidential
contest are as follows :
Virginia, Tennessee,
North Carolina,
South Carolina, Louisiana,
Georgia, Florida,
Texas, Alabama.
Our next President and Vice-Presi
dent are therefore to be chosen by the
following :
States
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
'ermont
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland •
West Virginia•
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
lowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Missouri
California
Oregon
Total, 24 States, Electors, 241
Necessary to a choice, 121
Newspaper Publishers
In the smaller towns weekly local papers
are given up entirely. In Boston fi'vrookly
paper that began a few months since with
bright prospects, has announced that it must
stop under the presure of high prices. In
our own city there has been a movement for
increasing the price for tha dailies,, and it
would have been consummated before this
but for the unwillingness of a single journal,
the weekly papers have in many instances
already advanceed their rates. Printing pa
per is enormously high, so that oily a few pa
pers can sustaip the burden at their old pri
ces—[Round Table.
Printing paper is now double the price of
one year since, while the prices of journals
are the same. One thing is certain, that the
price of papers will bare to be materially
increased, or the publication of one half the
Journals of the country will be suspended,
Only those thoroughly well established can
go on and hold on even with au increase of
price.—N. Y. Express,
Dr. Beecher's New Carpet.
There Was not a store in town, aid all our
purchases were made in New York by a
small schooner that ran once a week. We
had no carpets ; there was not a carpet
from end to end of the town. All had sand
ed floors, some of them worn through.—
Your mother introduced the first carpet.—
Uncle Lot gave d oue some money, and I had
an itch to spend it. Went to a vender and
bought a ball of cotton. She spun it and
had it woven ; then she laid it down, sizes
it, and paiuLed it in oils, wit. border all
around it, and bunches of ruffs and other
flowers over the centre. She sent to New
York for her colors, and ground and mixed
them herself. The carpet was nailed dawn on
the garret floor, and she used to go up there
and paint. She also took some common
wooden chairs, and painted them and cut
figures of gilt paper and glued them on and
varnished them. They were really quite
pretty. Old Deacon Tallmadge came to see
me. He stopped at the parlor door and
seemed afraid to come in. "Why, I can't,'•
said he, "thout steppiu on't." Then, after
surveying it awhile in adinirati )n, "D'ye
think ye can have all that and heaven too 2"
Perhaps he thought we were getting too
splendid, and feared we should make an idol
of our fine things.—[Life of Dr. Lyman
Beecher.
HARD UP FOR FOOD —An officer who
accompanied General Hunter in his re
cent raid in the direction of Lynchburg,
informs us that the sufferings and ad
ventures of the soldiers are sew cely
paralleled in the history of warfare.
On the return march hardly a blade of
grass was seen for three days. 'rha
soldiers fed their horses with corn out
of their hands and ate only the grains
that dropped to the ground. Our in
formant saw .' men eating eoramoy
low candles with a most extraordinary,
relish. Others dug up roots out Of the
ground and plucked buds •from the
tveas for fivd.
Ynte,
Electors :
21
13
16