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Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa.
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• Waynesburg, Pa.
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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
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skit SWAM the Government.
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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.
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la ere weed by Congress, and all the nereesary Forms
notions far the prosecution and collection of
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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.
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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.
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FAMERS' & DROVERS' BANK,
. Wariseeburgy Pa.
#Ol . . % 16. SWINE. Neel. J. LAZEAR, Cashier
DISCOUNT bar.
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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.
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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.
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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.