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I likeial deduction made to yearly advertisers. 3bs PIONTISS, of all kinds, exertited in the best ily . and ea reasonable terms, at the "kiessettiet' alb Irks. tatrusburg fiusiness Carts. ATTORNEYS. =I lIPTIROLAN & RITON/E. ienroaNsys AND COHN'S/11.1.0ft; AT I. W • Waynesburg, Pa. jllo"Orner—Mein Street, one door east of liploki Btnk Building. gram ..usioms in Greene. Washington, and Fay sintessaties. entrusted to them, will receive promp aserusiaa. B —Particular attention will be given to the col 1110411wn‘ remising. ttnunty Money, Back Pay, and skit SWAM the Government. beii (1.1.1 Ml—lv. 1 14 A. -Ie:CONNELL. L tL 4170atmers AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. =e In the "Wright Ili i se." East Door. its, Ike.. will receive prompt atteutinn. Walwasbort. AOll3, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAW FORD, Ageoridy and Counsellor at Lew. Office in the °MK name. Wilt attend promptly to all business ordidihrt i.Mis care. Waygieshurc pa., July 30. 1R63.—1y. Ip,ll. BLACK BLACK is PHELAN, Tovanys AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW 41Mkee is the Court No use, Way neb burg. /qt. 11.1861-Iv.. 110SIDERRIS I WAR CLAIMER! D. R. P. HIJS.S ATTAIIIAIT AT LION, ATAITAIBURO, TANTA., -ELIVVI received from the War Departtnent at Wash- VW %Wait City. U. C., official copies of the revere! la ere weed by Congress, and all the nereesary Forms notions far the prosecution and collection of P ONS, Bouxrr. RACK PAY, due dis rhos:Weil Wad disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan widowed mothers, Where, SiAtrts end broth ant; whisk imainess, [upon due notice] wilt he attend mritopdy and accurately if entrusted to his care !Ma. Mkt, (Wispbells Row.—April 8, 1863. PZIENICIANB Dr. T. W. Ross, arsai-macamock. gtirie•o33t, Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. A PO WS AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET. Rad hearty opposite the Wright douse. emseliu- 8 t. 23. 1863. SUL £. O. CROSS prwsizuNiirr,:::rtir,tkbtoi.,',...-peoleciplaelaat Ni a and vicinity. Ile hopes by a due appre . alumna life and health. and strut attention to Is siterit a share of patitic patronage. .1144101111ellrg. January 6, 1861. MCIIIRCHJINTS WM, A. PORTER, Moira* am( Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes fair Goode. Urroceries, Notions, dre., Main street. ilept. 11. ISM —lr. MINOR & CO., itediere bi Foreign and linnieetie Dry Goods, Oro lasseenevrase, Hardware and Notions, opposite eliedheeio House. Main street. Opt. 11, 11161—Iy. soar awn sums DEALERS J. D. COSGRAY, sad - time milker. Main street. 'warty eprerrite wt and Drover's Rank." Every style of Mob a.d /boss constantly on hand or wade to order. emit iset—y. S & VARIETIES ' JOH MUNNELL, eisinris ersasess and Confectionaries, and Variety Sllllnselienancalhly, Wilson's New Building, Main street. U. W6l-Iy. ivirasomme AND .1111NELRY S. M. BAILY, Ili* perm& opposite the Wright House keeps Weser ten hand a large and elegant assortment or Wain* sad Jewelry. geWellliallatitad of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry wit preempt attention (Mc. IS, 1861—ly 351XIKS. &o. LEWIS DAY, and Books, Station- Ina sitanin:ko knill Papaw Owe door east et again Street. *opt. It. Iv. WUNDLINS AND Neasrass. krALLISTER, aisegw".. Trunk Maker. aid flank IlmiM ill* lie laMmir. _. • SANK. FAMERS' & DROVERS' BANK, . Wariseeburgy Pa. #Ol . . % 16. SWINE. Neel. J. LAZEAR, Cashier DISCOUNT bar. WEDIFESD•Ir ML ' U. 1111111—Iv. *las' luting. SALLY MAIL HACK ! . , 111/WEING INGIIILA RIX BET V • BEN IN Eat hill. eigigislipsini respectfully informs the generous ilhogibeving the contract for the carrying , (the a ricif NM WHIM points, he has placed up .n the sad eommodions Hacks for tbe ac or .the em o ting ...orneinity. One wil r '7 __ _ 4114am's Home. Waynesburg, every morn -7 . ' bineeptso, at Ti o'clock, and will anise in Oise tbr the Host to Pittsburgh, - t *Mee Landing at the same time ir at noon. No pains will be a te a pa i pp i o•bidow ot_pissanters. .., .- • . ' riIIeTITY DWI:IBM Proprietor. Mot 101. MI. Pc d. , , , -wrammt HILL. • - htform hie Meads and listiumid an Noir writ', . 1111. ik• Pa., where b e will always be . illemwallmada MI who may win en the , ~ . ~.. -- • .Z; .Wi ti li l P i 15 Ww. . 1. • ----. 7 44 1104 11111110 . ~-' • .. op , cfricgt gottrg. We are but minutes—little things, Each one . furnished with sixty wings, With which we fly on our unseen track, And not a minute ever co:nes bur. We are but minutes—each one bears Its little burden of joys and cares; Patiently take the minutes of pain, The worst of minutes cannot remain We aro but minutes; when we bi ing Few of the drops from pleasure's spring, Taste their sweetness while yet we stay, It takes but a minute to fly away. We are but minutes; use us well, For bow we were used we must me day tell; Who uses minutes has hours to use, Who loses minutes has years to lose. .1 O. PITCH'S CHAUACTER TOE MONONGAIIIELA VAL- LEY —TII E STOCK W ATER COMPANY" BROWNSVILLE—OENEVA-"THIE OIL WELLS MEREADOUTS--THE DAWSON MANSION. rmSBURGH, Dec. 16, 18(34. (l,v' -!: I arrived in the -Smokey City" in time to take the Monongahela boat for the New Petrolva, now risi:g into no tice in Greene and Fayette counties, near the Virginia line. I confess I was a stranger to the interests which this valley is calculated to awaken in the visitor. From the time of our depar ture from the Pittsburgh wharf, I was constantly reminded of the wealth and importance of this comparatively un noticed portion of the country. Manu facturing in its various departments ex tends along the banks, showing every where the mi. , st cheering activity. In dustery is the salient characteristic of the population. The idlers appear to be few. =I The river, without an island, runs through its whole course among hills skirted by rich bottoms. These pleas antly alternate from side to side, with the meanders of the stream. Agyieul turally the whole valley will vie in rich ness with any portion of Pennsylva nia, bet its mineral wealti. constitutes its prominent distinction. In the yiel uity of Pittsburgh the coal lies near the top of the hills, and is run down to the boats by an automatic arrangement of cars and tram-ways, the full descend ing car drawing up to the mouth of the mine the empty one. Mining the coal here, as on are probably aware, is al ways by the adit, and never by the shalt. Boring has frequently deinonstrated the existence of rich veins ot coal below the water level, and shafting will proba bly, be eventually resorted to, but the supply above ground will probably prove inexhaustable for centuries. As we as cend the river the chief coal vein, aver aging more than nine feet in thickness, dips rapidly towards the water, till a mile below Brownsville it is submerged when the stream is at flood. It then rises again fifty feet or more in the hills in the vicinity of that town, and in the main, tlefugh at one or two p juts above Brownsville diping below the river, it so continues beyond the State line. The coal interest gives employment to a vast number of operatives, and to an annu ally increasing fleet of flat-boats, barges, tugs, and rteamers. In 1845 the num ber of tons taken to market did not ex ceed one hundred thousand ; now, in 1864, it amounts to two millions. The market extends from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, and the time is not tar distant , when the coal trade of this valley equal that of Lehigh or the Schuylkill. Darby, the historian and geographer, a native of this region, pronounced the valley of the :Monongahela the richest district of country in the world. This was the first settled country west of the Alleghenies, and, originally the recipi ant of a sturdy and intelligent popula tion, tt has ever since maintained a character for industry awl enterprise. Boat building for the whole valley of the Mississippi has b.en done largely, upon the banks of this river, and many a steamboat-man starting hence to the , rivers of the far West and South has there gathered wealth with which to , return and make himself comfortable among his native hills. The abundance of fine white oak timber in this country gives it special advantages for the con struction of vessels. Apart from the utilitarian view of the Monongahela valley, it presents much to interest is its natural beauty and by historical associations. The bills are studded with their primeval growth or forest, or trimly cleared, and smiling under the hand of the cultivator. At Braddock's Fiel,ls, eight miles above Pittsburgh, is still pointed out to the traveller the scene of Washington's first exploits in arms. A short distance above and almost directly below the dam of the Stock Water Company, of which Hon. J. K. Moorhead is the president, and the completion of which is mainly owing to his energy and enterprise, and which will stand a monument to his fame, is the ford at which the British troops under Braddock made their cross ing, and advanced along the bottona un the eastern side, to tall into the ambush of the French and Indians. Brownsville, on the site of ROstotks 014 Fort, is • town of about 50041 Opo- Minutes. From the Press The Oil Region. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, EL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4,1865. pie, the place ex ending chiefly over a romantic bluff some 300 feet above the river. This was the point from which emigration for the, West and South; for half a century first took water. The old National or Cumberland road cross es the river here in its route to Wheel ing. In the manufactures of iron and glass, in boat-building, and in local ti a le, the town is one of the most thriving and important in this section of the State. Thirty miles above Brownsville, or about eighty from Pittsburgh, I arrived at Geneva, close in the vicinity of the oil operations. Prefering to perform I the rest of my journey as it cavalier, I obtained a horse at Geneva, and rode over, first to the wells on Dunkard creek, and next to those on the White ly. They are all within three oi.four miles of Geneva. None of these wells have as yet had success sufficient to give them a prominent place on the stock list, but it is to be borne in mind that, although oil was found here some ex tent at the outbreak of the war, that event had the effect to suspend opera tions, and it is only very recently that they hays, been renewed. For the ! length of time that they have been worked, and for the capital thus far em barked in the business; the prospects could hardly be more encouraging. I More than three thousand barrels have ' already been obtained in the few months during whidi the search has been.prore ' cuted, though none of the borings have yet reached a depth which could be considered as any test of their capacity. The "Wylie Well" has yielded as much as eighty barrels in a single day, but owing to some accident in the work ing, operations have been suspended upon it for the present. The "Kra mer," " St. Clair," and "Pioneer," have all had partial success, abundantly sufficient to encourage the lessees to furber efforts. The same may be said of the attempts made on Whitely Creek. The whole business, however, is still in its incipient stage throughout the New Patrolea, yet I am convinced that it presents a field for enterprise which will amply reward the capitalists who may embark in it From all I have seen and heard, I am of opinion that the indications are quite as encour aging here as they were at first either on the Allegheny or Kanawha. How large a . portion of the Monongahela Val- Via eventually be found te :;'.;',1,1 peculiar product, time alone can deter mine ; but traces of it have from time to time, in boring for salt; been found at widely-different localities, Geologi cally, there is very much of this region which has the petroleum character, and the future will probably develop its ex istence where it is now little suspected. For the present it is probable that oper ators will be disposed for the 'Most part to direct their attention to those . locali ties, which, while presenting such indi cations as are considered reliable, are at the same. time in closest proximity to the wells in which it has already been found. One thing appears certain, that the whole country has been waked up on the subject. After leaving the Maple Farm, on the Dunkard, I followed the stream to its mouth, and turned my horse to Geneva by the river road, and as I loitered in my journey, enjoying the fresh Decem ber air and sunshine, I found myself opposite the handsome estate which, for many years was the home of Albert Gallatin, now the property of Hon. John L. Dawson, the Itepresentative of this Congressional District. It extends along the Monongahela to the mouth of George's Creek, a mile and a half of distance. It contains, I am told, 550 acres, about half beautiful woodland and in a high state of cultivation. This is regarded as valuable oil territory. Leaying my horse at a farm-house on the western side of the river, I g';t, a boy to row me across in a skiff, and climbed up the atop upheaval bluff to the house. Mr. Dawson being absent in Congress, I was allowed by the fam ily having it in charge to walk about the premises at It lies about two and a half miles below the month of Cheat river. The situation is beauti ful beyond description ; the Mononga hela, in its beautithl sweep, forming its boundary on the north-west ; the val leys of Dunkard and George's creeks opening up pleasant - prospects from either extremity of the river front, and the mountains rising for twenty miles in lovely view to the east. Tills was the home of Mr. Gallatin for forty years, and as I gazed upon the commo dious and stately mansion, I felt inspir ed with veneration for a spot once vis ited by Lafayette, and the residence of Mr. Gallatin, so long distinguished in the service of the country. Having satisffed my curiosity, I re turned to the river, and hallooing across for my ferryman, was soon again landed on the other side. Mounting my horse once more I returned to Geneva, which I had left the day before in time to get the afternoon boat for Brownsville. Connecting at that place with the boaefor Pittsburgh, I return ed here this morning, and now write from the Monongahela House, a most excellently-appointed hotel. - Q. licirtno Stocc—When you buy stock, pt the be and take care cf it. if you have a surplus to sell, either for tha bniteher or your neighbors, the ben lefirgive the largest profit. Another Draft. ea attempts to force the jury to an ad- Below our readers will find the Presi- verse decision ; they were dismissed dents Proclamation for another draft of because they could not agree, and the man. was acquitted in spite of 'snob 1300,000 men—under the law fifty days are given to raise the troops required by cumstantial evidence, apparently the voluntary enlistments. This call will most conclusive give a stimulus to recruiting: Sem* few years after the trial, the WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—8 y the Pres- judge went the same circuit, and dined ident of the United States, a Proclarna-With the obdurate jureyman. He ask wl tion—Whereas, by the act approved ed him how it was that he was so ob- I July 4th, 1864, entitled an act stinate in the case recited. The jury inate in the case recited. The jury rther to regulate and provide for the enroll- num replied, that if the judge would not ing and calling oat of the National tell anybody until alter his death he forces, and for other purposes, it is pro- would explain to him. This was vided that the Presidentof the U n i te d agreed to, and the juryman confessed States may, at his discretion and time that he was the murderer. He said he hereafter call for number of men as found the man stealing clover in his field; volunteers for the respective terms of a scuffle ensued ; he stuck the mur one two or three years for military , dered man's fork into him and left him service, and that in case the quota or ' dying. He went on to say that the ac any part thereof of any town, township, cused was returning from his work ward of a city, precinct or election dis- across the same field, and seeing the trick, or of a county not so sub-divided, poor man in a dying state, took him up shall not be filled within the s p ace o f on his knee, untied his handkerchief, fifty days after such call, then the Pres- and did all he could to ease and relieve ident shall immediately order a draft him. While performing such a kind for 'one year, to fill such quota or any act a thought probably came across the part thereof which may be unfilled, and man's mind that if anybody should see whereas by the credits all o wed i n ae .. him, they might think he was the mur oordance with the act of Congress on deter. 5 ° he gently put the dying man the call for five hundred demand meni down and horridly left him, by mistake made July 18th, 1864, the number of taking up the wrong pitchfork - , and men so obtained under that call was leaving his own behind. When the reduced to two hundred and eighty man got home he appears to have thousand, and whereas the operations thought of his bloody clothes, which he of the enemy in certain States have rep- j took ofi and hid as above stated. H e dered it impracticable to procure from I finally told the lie, which would have their full quotas of troops under the been fatal had not the actual murderer said call, and whereas from the forego- takes a good deal of trouble to get him ing causes but two hundred and fifty self on the jury, and thereby saved an thousand men have been put into the an innocent man's life." army, navy and marine corps under the said call of July, 1864, leaving a defi ciency on that call of two hundred and sixty thousand, now therefore 1, Abra ham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in order to supply the aforesaid deficiency, and to provide for the casualities in the military and naval service of the United States, do issue this nay call for three hun dred thousand • volunteers, to serve for one, two or three years. The quotas of the States, districts and sub districts under this call will be assigned by the War Department, through the bureau of the Provost Marshal General of the United . States; and in case the quota, or any part them' vi onx t own , township, ward of a city, - precinct or election'distria, or of a county not so sub-divided, shall not be filled before the 15th day of February, 1863, then a draft shall be made to fill such quota or any part thereof under this call, which may be unfilled on mid 15th day of February 1863. ' In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Wash ington this 19th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the in dependence of the United States of Ame rica the eighty-ninth. By the President. Wm. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, The Honest Moravian. In the last war in Germany, a mp tain of cavalry was out on a. foraging party. On perceiving a cottage in the midst of a solitary valley, he went up and knocked at the door. Out came one of the Moravian, or United Breth ren, with a beard silvered by age. "Father," says the officer, "show me a ffeld where I can sea my troopers a foraging." "Presently," replied the Moravian. The good old man Walked before, and conducted them out of the valley. After a quarter of an hour's march.they found a fine field of barley. "There is the very thing we want," says the captain. ."Have patience for a few min utes," replied his guide; "you shall be satisffed." They went on, and at the distance of about a quarter of a league farther, they arrived at another field of barley. The troops immediately dis mounted, cut down the grain, trussed it up, and remounted. The officer, upon this, says to his conduoter, "Father, you have given yourself and us unnecessary trouble; the first field was much better than this. "Very true sir," replied the good old man," but it was not mine." Circumstantial Evidence. "A labortna man was found dead in a field, and c lose by him was a pitch fork, which was identified as belonging to another laborer. The proper pwties in those days immediately waited upon the laborer, and asked him if he had been in a certain field on a particular day. He said no. They searched the house and found a pitchfork belonging to the dead man, with stains of blood upon it. Again they asked him if he had been in the field, and, he gave the same answer. They searched further, and found some bloody clothes under his bed. Re was put upon his trim). The case went to the jury, they could not agree ; they came out into court, and the jndge took the greatest imine to Poly. , out to them the indisputable - bete, which I have no doeht he thouaktornre anifariena to hang anybody, viz : the imitate of timprisoneee - pnabOwit,by Metals of the dead man, and the (rummy" etas dead mines pitehtost is the •pe hos% as welt es the bissely, • soda the heft The APrinieenesanm seining *cairns el thejsgiss44l4S the twelfth stsell.est, wed sew, ,". • A Singular Case. The Boston Traveler relates the fol lowing : A gentleman in one of our suburban cities raised a company two or three years since for one of oar regi ments and departed for the battle-field, leaving behind a young Wife. A few months afterwards the lady gave birth to a child, subsequently the name of her husband appeared among those killed in one of the battles fought by the Potomac Army. A body said to be that of her husband, was sent to her, and the remains were interred, she be lieving all the time that she was bury iho Ler husband. The lady remained rt single about a year, then removing her mourning, was married again, and now has a child by the second husband. A few weeks ago the wife was somewhat surprised at reading the name of her husband in a list of Massachusetts sol diers who had recently been released from a rebel prison, he having arrived at Annapolis, Maryland. She now has two living husbands, and children by both. The Dull Scholar. At the end of the 'last bench upon my class sat a boy who was very back wardin his learning. He was continual ly absent on what seemed to be frivolous pretenses. These absence entailed up on me much additional trouble. I had occasionally to keep him and a little remnant in the room when the others had gone out to play, to make up for him and them for lost time. And on one occasion my look was very cross, and my speech very short; for it seem ed to be provoking that the children should be'so backward in their Latio. And when the work was over and we two were left alone, he followed me to the desk and said : "Yon have no idea, sir, how weak I am." And I said : "Why, my boy, you look stout enough." But he answered : "I am really very weak, sir—far weaker than I look !" And there was a pleading earnestness in his words that touched me to the heart ; and afterwards, there was an unseen chord of sympathy that bound the master to the pupil, who was still very dull at Latin. And still he would be absent, at times, for a day or two together but it excited no surprise, for the boy seemed to sit almost a stranger among his fel lows, and 'in play hours, seemed to take no interest in the boyish games. And by and by he had been absent some weeks together but I was afraid to ask concerning him, thinking he might have been removed, as many boys have been, without a letter of explana tion or his shaking me by the hand And one morning I received a letter with a braid black edge, telling me that he had died the day previously of a virulent, contagious fever. So when school was over I made my way to his whilom lodging, and stood at the door pondering For the fever of which the child bad died had been to me a death in life, and had passed like the angel of old over my dwelling, but, unlike that angel, had spared my first born and only-born. And because the latter sat each evening on my knee. I was afraid of the fever and intended only to leave my card as a mark of re spectful sympathy. But the good wo man of the house said : "Nay, nay, sir = but yell see the laddie ;" and I felt drawn by an influence of fatherhood more constraining than a father's fecmk, and followed the gond woman into the small and dim chamber wfikre my pipit was lying. And, as I passed the h o ld, my gimpowkood slipped off ire - like a loqus robe ; and I stood very hum ble old pupil-hike in that awful preo es* at *NM* II O4 OI 31 VI label 1.14404P11 te 00_ INIIMIed iiibutaina of rain ireala. 40 11 14 urben , l4 *me I draw near the einerbssa and dismantled bed, on which thy pupil lay asleep in his early coffin. And he looked very calm and happy, as though there hid been no pain pass ing from a world where he bad few companions and very little pleasure. And I knew that his boyhood bad been as dreary as it had been short ; and I thought that the good woman of hie lodging had perhaps been his only em pathizing friend at hand. And I com muned with myself whether aught I had done could have made his dullness more dull. And I felt thankful for the chord of sympathy that had united us, unseen, for a little while. But in a strange and painful way, I stood re buked before the calm and solemn and unrebuking face of the child on whom I had frowned for being backward in his Latin. —Day Dreams of a seioolmaster. One of the Pictures. A correspondent of the Chicago Jour nal relates the following interview of a Federal foraging party 0, ith a Tennessee farmer : "At another place we called on the owner, a man of over sixty years, well saved, yet evidently oast down and dis heartened. He was polite and answer- . ed all questions readily. On being asked what he had to spare, he answer ed, 'Not much—indeed nothing.' His wife and tour children standing by him, maid not a word, but the countenance of the whole group showed that the old man told the truth. 'lndeed, I have nothing, said he, what with one army and another campaigning through this part of Tennessee, they have stripped me of all I could spare and more too.' 'Have you no horses or mules?' asked the officer.' Yes,' answered the man, I have one mare mule, which is entirely broken down ; it was left me by a troop er, who took my last horse in its stead.' 'No beef cattle?' was the next ques tion, 'Not one,' was the answer.— 'Any hogs I'. 'Yes, sir, I have four pigs which I had intended for winter's supply of meat.' Any negroes 1' asked the officer. 'No, not one, my servants all lett me two or three months a g o. I have not one on the place. I h ave to chop all my wood, and to do all the out door work, and my wire and daugh ters do in-doors what they can.' :Any corn or wheat r 'No wheat and only two or three barren, of corn, - was tiu.- reply. 'Let's see your mule;' said the officer. It was brought up, and as the old man had said. Show me those pigs,' was the next demand. When he heard this, the old mau could hard ly speak—his hopes were almost at an end. He showed the pigs, however, they were no more than such a family would need, nor as much, in fact. The officer then kindly said: 'Yoe may keep. all these things; they will help you oub. and can be of little good to us,' and gave the old man a 'safe guard;' which might save his property from all future molestation from our troops. Three years ago this Mall owned a large, well stocked plantation and a fine stud of horses—had cattle and hogs in plenty, with servants to come at his call, and corn to sell and to keep. Now he was sincerely thankful, and much moved, that we spared him his four lit tle shoats, his pittance of corn and his old mule, with which he hoped to make a small crop next year. The war hag been at his very door, he had seen it in all its relations, and knew how it was vigorously prosecuted." Wonderful Oil. Strike In Fayette. The qnestion about oil in this section has been definitely settled by striking a most wonderful flow of oil, in a well bored on the farm of Mr. Jacob Crow, George's Creek. When the auger had descended to the depth of about three hundred and twenty-five feet, large quantities of gas and oil began to issue from the month of the well, which in creased so rapidly that the surroundings of the well were soon drenched, and covered with the greasy fluid. The flow increased in force throwing up the oil higher and higher. Mr. Crow, who was present, fearing an accident from the vicinity of a stove to the derrick, hurried eve! y one away who gathered to see the sight, and not one minute too soon, for the gas and oil igniting by the fire in the• stove, exploded with a most terrific noise, -throwing the flames over sixty feet high and scattering the flaming oil in evry direction, and setting fire to she derrick, engine house, &c. Mr. Crow had a narrow escape, being yet in the engin house when the explosion took place. So the question of oil in large quantities in that section has been defi ninety settled by the most wonderful strike. Mr. Crow, who is now ;n the city, has verified the above bets over his own signature. The well above mentioned is variously estimated at from three to five hundred barrel!, per bay. A number of other weds are being bored on the creek with the finest show of 011. Fayette county promise, to be one of the most productive oil counties in the Statel..—:Pills. Gazette. Atlanta on Fire. A sq.:respondent of the New York Ariovigwit General Sherrean, thee de r scene : "New• the negrees 1) . 1111440se mien* dewtr Ivo. the airas thleAleinee epresitt Worn the likbaga 'pad die depot that had lead altir hivoleur !seat iffithtihetted ak o the' htti4 -ifew• while 010.,a5i44a4 GNAW* tb., NEW SERF.---VOL. 8, N( 211. and stniehouses became heated mil ars ploded in rapid succession, one almost imaginal that the scenes of Anglin last, when one hundred thousand he roes confronted the rebel strain, .were being re-enacted. /banding upon an eminence overlooking the doomed city, I had an excellent view of the OM tlagration, and never had I behekl no grand a sight. As night waned the gentle breezes cured, the dests eying element from house to home, and liras in flames, the glare of which was No bright that the soldiers a mile rdinihe read their last letters from hoses by the light. Next morning L rode knit the city among the ruins, where nating remained to tell the tale but teen*" walls and blackened channeert, dent, like gravestones, stood there as ntalle ments of departed glory. A Tragic Romance of Wenn* OF. In one of the Annapolis houpielp, (which, by-the-way, is known at tint United States General Hospital, 1) where there is so much inisev—sen much to excite the pity—these are nob , er episodes which awaken almat nutty tender sentiment of the soul. A young Lieutenant Colonel of. is - It. Y. Regiment was wounded in ea ab domen in one of the recent bat*. by. fare Richmond, and was brought to dist institution not so much for treatment tie for rest. Wounds like thesearn AMMO- Pycmia is the result, and no skin ten prevent its sure and steady proseek • until it ends in the death of the piniant. Acting on this knowledge, the sad *l ings of his impending death wail nest to his family, and through than ti em young lady to whom he was emagol in marriage. She lost no than Ai hastening to this City, and, seradop at the hospital immediately, boogie nurse. No prosy pen can 'well dessram the fidelity with which she perform. bar task. No duty is too disagrees*, rro sacrifice too great. Knowing the he was to die, she insisted on being Ma- Tied to him, and the ceremony Imre formed on Wednesday night kly Vie Chaplain. It was a sad sight, witatillikil in silence by the numerous odinerm hM the same ward, and brought tears to the eyes of mare than one. saw her and her rapidly sinking patient yftedniimy. D r _ nagioliffo_ankthe Ammet.riat in charge, passed through the and, more as a matter of form than from necessity, asked her the condifion her patient. She shook her bead yet, resignedly, and marnmred, Fli a change ; no change !" in a drum l , tele as if each word was a dagger to br heart. Her husband was bat assautins icious, and was fast sinking. He my be dead by this time. One of Sigel's soldiers ?Vas the hi. lowing account of a foraging admixes in Virginia : "Veil you zee, I goes down to dal oci fellow's blace dat has a beech oral ard, vere ve vas stadioned, to stheit some beeches, and yen I gets to dlie vront gate vat you dinks I zee.? I use dere a pig pull-dog, and he looks inigh. ty savage. So I dinks I frighdene ham, and I says: Look here Mr. Pull sthand back, I fights on die li ps summer." But the bull-dog, he doit7s care for dat, zo I vlanks him! 'How did you do that 1' 'Vy, I goes vay arount, so as de pd. dog couldn't zee me, and ven I gross_l6 the back gate vat you dinky I zee? n dere I zees dat same old pa ll -dog! Oa I vlanks him again.' qlow did you do that?' 'Vy, I goes arount again, so as he tonldn't zee me to anoder little bath orchard, and yen I gets dare vat yea dinks I zee! Vy dare I zee dat maw old pull-dog. So I vlanks him again% "How did you do that!' ‘Nry, I says to that old Putt-deh.. Look here. Mister Pull-dig, lAN& you dree times, and every dims you de same old putl-dog, Tam your old beeches ; who cares for year old beeches! My dimes out next IMO and the country may go to the devil fox beeches ; so I goes to my dent. In the family the law of pleasim . ought to extend from the highest Ve the lowest. You are bound In *Ma each other; and ria are bat it your servants. if you expect them to please you. Some men are phoomat in the household, and nowhere else. I have known such men. They min good fathers and kind husbandd. It you bad seen them in thew owtrisaiM you would have thought that they was angels, almmit; but if you , bed MON them in the street, or in the ittus t tar anywhere else outside or their WM% yen would have tlimq . cht 7 them' ANON demoniac. But the opposite is apt is be the case. When we are amesitoor neighbors; or among atrungsrli- While ourselves with . selt:respect; sod 'enidami,. or to sot with propriety; but wbetrWe get home we say to ourselves; '4 sport long onset* and: Ma' new vi to be natural ." a So we - sit deem- • are ugly, and snappish, and Wm, aiell &leveed**. 'We bit asidePtilemiftele sandflistbir evartssiss their suillswllllll roughest thew sainstb: that metillesa eligi having things velet.', and deiN ea*. life pleasant. We eiped4 art'elr . Miaow in places where A elitMlof I li able---whereit• • will.: btillit4 obetv ' /Oki tput, votion. A Flank Movement. Family Courtesies.
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