by m. h. cobb; ’ r: ■; Pabliehedevery Wednesday moraiujr mailed to Wbortbors at ONE DOLLAH AND Ef FJ rcENTS per year, always IN ADVANCE. ! 'J, r The paper.it sent postage free to coujil j* iubßcribers, though they may receive their mail at pc; jt-offices lo cated in counties immediately adjoinii.r", ('or'convert ulence* .. # • - . Tub Auitatob is the Official .paper df Tioga Co'., and circulates in every neighborhood t'r :oin. -Snb soriptioas being-on the advance-pay syc.. m, it circu lates among a class most to tho interest to reach. Terms to’ advertisers as liber A' is those of fared by any paper of equal circulation' r , Northern Pennsylvania, A cross on. the margin of. a-ft' cr, denotes that the subscription is about to expire. ' ■ jfUj* Papers will be stopped when tbtferiplion time expires, unless' the agent orders theV continu ance. / ’ . V- * JAS. LOWREV &, g. F. WI'XSOJS, Attorneys & law, will attend the Courts of Tior.b,-Politer and McKean counties. [Wellaboro, .iaa.l, 1863.] ' OICKMSOH HOV6IJ, . Corning,- n. y._ Slaj. A. Y1ELD,.;..;..... .'.'.proprietor. OUESTS taken to and ffOtn. tL« -ijepot free of charge. [jnn.J, 1863.'] PESJISYLVAMA ’ H'BP SE, ' ' COENEE OP MAIN STEEEI.AND.-XfIJJ WsEXUB, Wcllsboro. Pal, , and has complied with o\\ the provisions of said act required to be complied, before- coaamencing the business of banking ■' r NOIV, I, Hc-gh McCntxorn, 'Comptroller of ‘Jne Currency, tlo hereby beatify that the First National Bank, of Wellsboi miV-h,county of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, is i.uibomed to the business of banking uaaw the. act - ’ 9 ■ In testimony tokereof, witness my nnd seal of office, this twenty-first day of March, T£G4. (* *>i HUGH McC^U-OCIT, ( J~ s <‘ J ComptroUer of tb'u Currency. Mafse 64-91 ' ' * ■ ; SOABPSIAH ASD OKAY’S CELEB R'A'TE 1> j- PATENT IMPBOVED INSULATED IRON RIOT, AND. ERA ME PIANOFORTES!" ' These pianos hare the pure musical. t§je of the "Wood, together with the strength of Jji, and are thus far superior to all others. Thu" Strung Scales, giving in connection with the- lron lUm. full* round, powerful, and sweet t ie. These ‘pianos will remaln'xn tune a greater length of time than any other pianos known, j*nd arc, ‘panted for ' the time of live years. The undersigned ffers these pianos at the same prices as at the j rooms in Albany or New York, saving the buyer thi expense of . gwag there to buy, and will keep them i' 3 ine fpr the term of three years, without charges, f ra. general ’description of these fdanos send‘for ? .ci jular, con taining prices, styles, ifec, I. *K %OY T, I Osceola, Tiogf "■p'.tbty'Pa. Osceola, Feb. 17,18 W. Bull’s Ohio Mower and G eaper. in this vicinity can pro'jit- this very - valuable Machine by calling on .. •" WRIGHT & BAItilT, hare the agericy for the sale of i'c. It is one of *be best machines in use, everybody pra sen it that has used it, and it has taken the first pro. jiom at all •-taie and County Agricultural Fairs ;n Iho Union, is, by all considered the beat in use* Xl 'is irnpossi to supply the demandforlhis celebrated Machine, those that * want ?a No. 1 Machine/best in the must call Boon or they will all b» l m\d. * • tt has no side draft; it does not weight upon tbo orse’s neck, and is a perfect, durable, tnc -cheap ma- For sale hy ' '■ T • f L. BALDWIN, Tioga. v i* T - BAILEY, Mansfield.. ' K P - iq HT 4 BAILEY, Weilshoro, F.i. J J Wfclleboro, May 18,1864~tf • * - LYE, foiisaleii v DRUG |T.OPB. THE VOL. X. TREES! TREES! FOR SALE. Apple, Price 20 cts, Extra, 25 cts. SUMMER VARIETY, —EarIy Harvest, Red Ab- Irachan, Early Strawberry, Juneiing, Early Sweet Bough, Early While, Jenkens’ Pippen, Golden Sweet. AUTUMN VARIETY, —Autumn Bongh rGraven stein, Porter, Autumn Strawberry, Hawley or Bowse, Pear, Henry, Prince, Canada Snow, Jersey Sweet, Stoddard, Fall Pippen, Mammoth Pippen, Eambo, Fall Juneting, Neutral, Thomas Wells. WINTER VARlETY. —Baldwin, Fay’s Bnsseti, Northern Spy, Boston Russett, Golden Russett, Po’jne Sweeting/B.ottle Green, Sweet Pearmain, Peck’s Plea sant, Bentley Sweet,. Rhode Island Greening, Hab bardfitbn, None Such, 13«aar, Black, Tallman’s Sweet, Danrcr*s tswcet, Tompkin’s County King, Esopus Spitzenburg, Wagoner. Lady’s Sweet, Yellow. Bel lflower, Butch Mignonne, Newtown Pippen, Ladies* Sweet. CRAB. —Large yellow and red. Small, do, .do. Pears, Price 50c. Extra, ex. Price. SUMMER VARlETY, —Bartlett, -Brandywine, Bloodgood, Beurro Gifford, Carpenter, Dearborn Seedling, Gapsel’s Burgnmot, Golden Beurre of GsJ boa, Harvest, Julienne, Madeliene, Rostiezer; Osborn Summer, Summer Frank Real, Tyson. AUTUMN VARIETY . —Beurre Bose, Benfre'Bi el, Beurre Ganbault, Bezi Be La Mott, Beurre Be Amilis, Buffon, Cushing, Bis, Butcbess de Angou leme, Flemish Beauty, Fon Dante do Automne, Fnl ton, Henry Fourlb, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Maria de Louise, Napoleon, Onondago, Paradise de Autom ne, Seckol, Sheldon, Sweet Pear, Stevens’ Genesee, TJrbaniste, Woodstock,. Yergalieu, Washington. WINTER VARIETY, —GIout -Morceau, Passe Colmar, Winter Wadden> Lawrence, Yicar of Wink field, Winter Nelis. ’ * - - • Bleekar’s Gage, Columbia, Coe’s Golden Brop, Egg Plum, Green Gage, Imperial Gage, Jefferson, Law rence Favorite, Lnmbard, Magnum Bonum, Princes Gage, Red Gage, Smith’s Orleans, Washington, Hu* ling Superb. j Peaches, Price 18 ct*. Beigcn Yellow, Melocoton, Crawford’s Early, Early York, Red Rare Ripe, SweetWatcr, Geo. the Fourth, Lemon Cling, Rod Cheek Mclocofon. •Cherries, Price 38 els. Black Heart, Black Eagle, Black Tartarian, Down er’s Late Red, Mayduke, Gulgne, Elton, Late Black, Grey’s Early White, Napoleon Bigereau, Amber,Yel low Spanish, Bcauman’s May, 'Holland Bigarean, Golden Drop of Herrington. GRAPES.—lsabella, Diana, Hartford Prolific,'Ca tawba, .Rebecca, Delaware, Concord, White Sweet Water, Black Bnrgnndy. ' \ GOOSEBERRlES.—English—several varleties» CURRANTS.—W-hite.,Cherry. Dutch and Bed. ORHAIEHTAL Norway Spruce , Balsam Fir, Scotch Fir, American Arborvitm, Siberian do T .. Weeping, Mountain Ash, Monntain Ash, Horse Chestnut, European Larch, Green Forsythea, White Flowering Deutzia, Graceful Deutzia, Chinese Wiegelia, Roses,* Basket Willows. Tho above I offer for sale at my Nursery. They arc all of superior quality*. In digging and packing, care willbc taken ; and the charge for packing will be the .cost of materials used. Trees will be delivered at the Tioga depot free of charge. Call at tho Nur sery, and look at the-trees for vour own satisfaction, ‘B. C, WICKHAM. Tioga, Tioga Co., 9, ’64-3 »Rl}G STOKE. Prince's Metallc Paint, ' Pfizer & Co’s Chemicals, Thaddeua David’s Inks, Fluid Extracts, Concentrated Medicines, Rochester Perfumery and Cincinnati Wines and Flavoring Extracts, , ’ Brandy, Paints and Oils, Whitewash Lime, . Petroleum Oil, Kerosene Lamps, Drugs and Medicines, Patent Medicines, School Books, Stationery, Wall Paper, ( Wyoming Mills Wrap- Window Glass, ping Paper, Dye Colors, Furnished at Wholesale Prices by , _ W. D. TERBELL, Corning, N. Y. D- R< .’7OUD, NATIVE BRANDY & WINES*, : FOR “MEDICAL & COMMUNION PURPOSES. JTHXS BRANDY has been analyzed by the Medi ical Director of the Naval Labratory at Brooklyn, arid substituted for French Brandy, for use in the United States Navy. It is also fcsed and recommend cd by-Dr. Satterlce, Medical Purveyor in'New York of U.‘ S. Army, in the Hospital of bis Department. • ,DRY CATAWBA WINE. THIS WINE ba§ all the properties of Dry Sherry Wine, • SWEET CATAWBA WINE. THIS WINE for its mildness is adapted forlnva lids.and for communion purposes. TVTESSRS. ZTMMERMANN * CO., of Clncin \y I nati and New York had formerly partnership N.Longworth of Cincinnati the wealthy Native Wine producer, and therefore enables them to furnish the best of Americnn production, at moderate Soldi by Vy'. D. TERRELL, at Wholesale and Re tail. and by Druggists generally, Corning, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1864^, Farmer’s Catechism. Question. What is the best hind of .Wooden beam Plow ? Answer. The WIARD PLOW. : Qnes. Wherein docs it excel all others? Ans. In case of draft, in being less liable to clog, and in fact it excels in every particular. Qucs. Where is thisrPlow to be found ? Ans. At the KNOXVILLE FOUNDRY, where they are made, and at various agencies around tin? country. * ( • Ques. Are there any other plows made at that Foundry? ' Ans. Tcs! Biles makes various kinds of wooden and iron beam Plows, both for flat land and side hill, and he keeps ahead of all other establishments by getting the BEST PATTERNS invented, without regard to the COST. , Ques. Are Plows all that Biles makes ? ' Ans. By, no means. He also makes HOESE HOES; a superb article for Corn, Potatoes, &c. ROAD SCRAPERS that beat the world.' Cast Cul tivator Teeth nf a very superior pattern. Shovel Plow Castings for new land, undindeed almost every thing that is ever made at a Foundry, from a Boot Jack to a Steam Engine. Ques. Would you then advise me to buy there? Ans, Most certainly would X, for besides making the best KIND of every thing, Biles makes those that are the most D UKABLE, and it is a common ex pression where his Plows have been introduced, that they last as long as from two to four got at any other shop; he has always been at tbo business from a small boy and ought to know how it is done, and if you try bis wares once, you will be ready with mo to tell all wanting anything in that line to go, send, or in some other way procure them of J. P. BILES, at the Knoxville Foundry. Knoxville, March 30, 1863-tf. Baking soda & salbratus at • BOY'S DRUG STORE. AN Assortment of TABLE GLASSWARE will be found at - ‘ROT'S DRUG STORE* BcflOtea to tfte sSxttnBim of ti>t Bvtu of iFmtrom sis# t|ie of Stcfoem. "WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNBIGHTED,. AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. Plums, Price' 50 els. IVnOLESALE Zinunejmann & Go’s. CATAWBA BRANDY. WELLSBOEO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, j 1864. Select 3poettrg, KISS ME, LATHEE, EKE X DIE. An Incidentj{of the Present War* . [An only boj, vhc{se mother had died in infancy, wcs brought home to his father's house to die from the effects of exposure in oamp M On his death bed hia constant petition was, whenever his father ap proached him, “Kiss me, father, ere I die”;,-and down'to the very last moment h© clung to this re quest, and finally died in his father's arms, “os a weary child going to sleep,] ’Kenteat father, lam going To a "brighter, better clime; 1 J * Soon my eyes will close forever, I ' Shutting out the things of time; Boise m3’ bend upon my pillow, , Let me feel tbat you are nigh ; i Ki css me to your aching bosom Kiss me, father, ere I die. Bather, I hare done my duty .In the camp and 'mid the strife, Boon I'll seal my deep devotion- .. - To my country with ray life; . But it soothes my dying moments _ When I know that you are by;. Put your loving arms about me;— Kiss me, father, ere I die. 'Kiss ms, father, ns you used to -In my childhood’s happy day, TVhen I nestled in your bosom. Ere your locks had turned to gray; Cast a loving glance upon me. As within your arms I lie: X am going—God be with you;— Kiss me, father, ere I die. TBE BEREAVED SISTER. In the spring of 1824 I contracted an ac quaintance, in one of the cities of the South, with a gentleman who had removed from Eng land to this country with two small children, the one a boy of ten, and the other a girl of nine years of age. These children were the most lovely beings I ever saw. Their extreme beauty, their deep and artless affection, and their frequent bursts of innocent and childish mirth, made them as dear to me as if I had .been the companion of their infancy. They were happy in themselves, happy in each other and in the whole world of life and nature around them. I had known the family but a few months, when my friend was compelled to make a sudden and unexpected, voyage to South America. His feelings were embittered, by the thought of leaving his motherless children be hind him, and, as lUvas on the point of' embar king for Liverpool, I promised to take them to their friends and relatives. My departure was delayed two weeks. Bu rins that period I lived undo* tlm ouine roof with the little ones, that had been consigned to my charge. For a few days they were pensive, and made frequent enquiries for their absent father; hut their sorrows were easily assuaged, and regret for his absence changed into a plea sant anticipation of his return. The ordinary sorrows of childhood are hut dews upon, the eagle’s plumage, which vanish at the moment, when the proud bird springs upward into the air to woo the first beautiful flashes of the mor ning, i The day of our departure at length arrived, and we set sail on a quiet afternoon of summer. It was a scene of beauty, and my heart flut tered ns wildly and joyously as the wing of a young bird in spring time. It seemed in truth as if “ man’s control had stopped with the shore,” and was retreating behind us, and left the world of waters to give back the blue of the upper skies as purely and peacefully as at the first holy sabbath of creatio'ii. The distant hills bent their pale blue tops to the waters, and as the great sun, like the image of his Cre ator, sank down in the west, successive shadows of gold, of crimson, and of purple, came float ing over the waves like barks from a fairy land. My young companions gazed on these scenes steadily, and when the last tints of the dim shore were melting into shadow, they took each other’s hands, and a few natural tears gushed forth as an adieu to the land they had loved. Soon after sunset, I persuaded my little friends to let me lead them to the cabin, and then returned to look out again upon the ocean. In about half an hour, as I was standing mu singly and apart, I felt my hand gently pressed, and, on turning around, saw that the girl had stolen alone to my side. In a few moments the evening star began to twinkle from the, edging of a violet cloud. At first it gleamed, faintly and at intervals, but anon it came brightly out, and shone like'a holy-thing upon the brow of the evening. The girl at my side gazed upon it, and bailed it'with a'tone which told that a thought of rapture was at her heart. She en quired, with simplicity and eagerness, whether in the fair land to which. ,wo aro going, that same bright star would be visible, and seemed to regard it as another friend, that was tb be with her in her long and lonely journey.' The first week of our journey was unatten ded by anyfimportar.t incident. The sea whs at times wild and stormy; but again it woufd sink to repose, and spread itself out in beauty to the verge of the distant horizon. On the eighth day the boy arose, pale and dejected, and complained of indisposition. On the fol lowing morning he was confined by a fever to his bed, and much doubt was expressed as to his fate by the physician of the vessel, I can never forget the visible agony, the look of utter woe, that appeared upon |the face- of thh little girl, when the conviction of her beloved bro ther’s danger come ■ slowly upon her thoughts. She wept not—she complained not—but,' hour after hour, she sat by the bed of the young suf ferer, an-image of Igrief and beautiful affection. The boy became daily more feeble and emacia ted, Ho could not return the long and burning kisses of his sister, and at last a faint heaving of his breast, and the tender eloquence of- his half-closed eye, and a flush; at intervals,, upoti his wasted cheek, like the first violet tint of a morning cloud, were all that told ho had not yet passed “ the first dark days of nothing ness.” The twelfth evening of oar absence from land was the most beautiful I had ever known, and I persuaded the girl to go for a short tiineupim deck; that her .own fevered browmigbt.be fan ned By the twilight breefce. The sun bad gone AGITATOR. WT GEO. n. PRENTICE. down in glory, and .the traces of his blood-red setting were still risible upon the western wa ters. Slowly but brilliantly the- many stars were gathering themselves together above, and another sky swelled out in softened beauty be neath, and the foam upon the crest pf the waves was lightened up like wreaths of snow. There was music in every wave, and its wild sweet tone came floating down from tbo flutter ing pennon above us, like the sound of a gentle wind amid a cypress grove. Bat neither mbsic nor beauty had a spell for the heart of my little friend. I talked to her of the glories of the sky and sea-—I pointed her to the star, on •which jshe bad always loved to look—but’ her only answer was a sigh, and I returned with her to the bedside of her brother. I instantly perceived that he was dying. There was no visible struggle—but a film was creeping over h.is eyes, and the hectic flush of his check was deepening into purpld. I know not whether, at first, his sister perceived the change in his appearance. She took her seat at his side, pres sed his pale lips to her own, and then, as usual, let her melancholy eye rest fixedly upon his countenance. Suddenly his locks brightened forn moment, and he spoke bis sister’s name. She replied with a passionate caress,’ and looked ■up in my face, as if to implore encouragement. I knew that her hopes were but a mockery. A moment more, and a convulsive quiver passed over thelips of the dying boy—a slight shudder ran through his frame—and all was still. She sat in tearless silence—but I saw that the wa ters of bitterness were gathering fearfully at their fountain. At last, she raised her bands with a sudden effort, and pressing them upon her forehead, wept with the uncontrollable a«»o-. ny -of despair. : On the next day the corpse of the dead boy was to be committed to the ocean. The little girl knew that it must be so, but she sought to drive the thought away, as if it had been an unreal and terrible vision. When the appoin ted hour was at hand, she ‘cable and begged me, with a tone that seemed less, like a human voice than the low cadence of a disembodied and melanchply spirit, to go and look upon her brother, and see if he was indeed dead. I conld not resist her entreaties, but went with her to gaze upon the sleeping dust, to which ail the tendrils of her life jfoemed bound. She paused by the bedside, and I almost deemed that her existence would pass off in that long and fixed gaze. Shd moved not—spoke not — till the form she loved was taken away to be let down into the ocean. Then indeed she arose, and followed her lifeless brother with a calmness that might have been from Heaven. The body sunk slowly and solemnly beneath the waves, a few long bright ringlets streamed out upon the waters, a single white and beauti ful glimpse came dimly up through the danc ing billows, and all that had once been joy and beauty vanished forever. -6 During the short residue of our voyage, the bereaved sister seemed fading away as Calmly and beautifully as n cloud in a summer zenith. Her heart had lost its communion with nature, and she would look idown into • the sea, and murmur incoherently of its cold and- solitary depths, and call her brother’s weep herself into calmness. , ~~ I know not whether she is still a blossom of the earth, or whether, she has long since gone to be nurtured in a holier realm. But X Jove the memory of -that beautiful and stricken one. Her loveliness, her innocence,'anj her deep and holy feelings, still come back to me in their glory and quietude, like a rainbow on a sum mer cleud, that has showered and passed off ferever. , I “NEITHER”—“ EITHER.” The pronunciation jof the words at the head of this article, as if spelt ni-iher and i-ther, which is not unfrequently heard from divines and other cultivated men, is not sanctioned ei ther by analogy or good use, and is only to be accounted for on the supposition thaS; by some, doubtful use in England is considered, better authority than good use in America. Out of seventeen legiccgraphers, only two , and they of little account, (J. Johnson and Coote,) expressly authorized the corrupt pronunciation ; and the analogy of the language is utterly opposed to it, there being only one word of similar orthog raphy, “height,”.whpse accepted,pronunciation accords with it. i , 1 To show liow entirely analogy fails fq sustain the corrupt pronunciation, the following para graph has been framed, in which is introduced all tbe different connections in which tho let ters e i are met with, except as* in the word “ heigfit” given above. ; Being disposed, to walk, I would feign have visited my neiglibor,\ but on approaching his seigniory, I was alarmed by the neighing of his horse, and on lifting'my veil, was terrified to find the animal within, eighty yards of me, ap proaching with a speed that seemed freighted with tbe direst consequence. I was in a streight : —caught in a seine. : My blood stood still in my i veins, as I conceived toy life in danger. Turn ing my head, I was pleased to see an Arabian Sheik near by, and doing him obeisance, I bog ged that he would deign to come to my rescue. I was not deceived in my hopes. By a skilful feint he succeeded in seizing the rein attached to tbe’Gery steed; and as he was a man of con siderable weight, ho cheeked him in bis impet uous career, and my life -was saved. For the favor thus received, may he ever live in a ceiled dwelling.! - ■ * - Every one of the words in tbe above para graph, printed in italics, might as well have its e i “ sounded as i id mine,” as “ neither” or “ either.” Wheretbe authorities preponderate so greatly against any particular pronuncia tion, there is, certainly no reasonableexouse for its adoption. Lafayette. —Daring the Revolution, Lafay ette belngin Baltimore, was invited-to a ball. Ho went, .but instead of joining the amuse ment, as might be expected of a yonng French man, addressed thelaiea thus: Ladies you ore very handsome , you dance very prettily ; your, ball is very fine but mysol~ dkrsharxno shirts!” The ball ceased, -the ladies went home,' and the next. day. shirts •were prepared -for 1 the gallant, defenders ot, their,country,!,, , ..... _ ' . _ . .' . tetter from a Richmond Prisoner. The following letter written by John B. Em ery, a resident of this place, who was taken prisoner, with a number of Tioga county boys, will be read with interest by our readers ; Annapolis, Md„ April 27, 1801. Bear Brother ;—l camo down here from Bal timore on Monday morning, on the steamer Wehonab, and am getting along finely on Un cle Sam’s rations. Wears in.-good barracks, with a good stove in each barrack, -draw plenty to eat, and I am gaining strength every day; have the.rheumatism some in my limbs yet, but think it will wear off shortly. We left Tazewell, East Tennessee, on the morning of December 14th, with a train of twenty two wagons, loaded with sugar and.cof fee for the Ist division of 9th array corps.— There were about fifty of us with the train, and only about twenty-five of us had guns. We marched about thirteen miles, and went into camp about dusk, at the foot of Clinch Moun tain, at Clinch Gap. We had just got our sup pers cooked, and were setting down,to it, when tbe Rebs appeared on a hill a short distance off, and commenced firing on us. We jumped for, our guas, and returned the compliment, leaving our supper untouched. We skirmished a few moments, when they charged on us, from all sides.' We fought until we were all mi-xed up together, and, as they were ten to our one, of course we were taken. The one that first reached me, took my watch, pocketbook, over coat, gum blanket, tents, haversack, canteen, &0., &c. As soon as tlicy had finished overhauling us, a few of,them went into our supper, while.l stood by and enjoyed the fun of seeing the hun gry rascals gobble our meal. 'Wqjvere then taken over the bill, where Gen. Jones had two brigades of rebel cavalry ; remained there until nine or ten o’clock at night, when wo were started, marched all night, and until one o’clock in the afternoon, wheirwe were halted. They here dealt out to each pf ns a pint of flour and a small piece of fresh beef. Thdmeat we cooked on the coals, and baked the flour on aboard. About four o’clock we started again, crossed Clinch Mountain at Flat Gap, and encamped on the other side about ten at'night; started on at seven in the morn ing, marched five miles, and were put into a storehouse in the village of Mooresburg, where we drew a pint of flour and half a pound of fresh pork. The nest" day we drew nothing to eat, but the next nt)on after we got one pound of flour apiece, which we baked on a board. — At three P. M. we started on, marched six miles, and were packed into a house not large enough to accommodate a. third of us. The next morning (Ilhh) we started on, marched six miles, and arrived at Eogersville, at ten A. M., and were put into the East,Tennessee Bank. In the afternoon we drew seven small biscuits and about three ounces of boiled beef, each.— Sunday, the 20tb, were still in the Bank; and drew nothing to cat. The 21st we drew six biscuits and a little beef. The 22d we drew one pound of bre'ad and half a pound of boiled beef. Left Eogcrsviile at ten A. M. the 23d, with -thsjiSth Tennessee for an escort. There were a littHTover two hundred prisoners of Us ; they were captured at different points, but sent on together. We marched twelve miles that day, were put into a large church for the'night, and drew one pound of beef and two biscuits, each. Started on again at seven in . the morning, and arrived at Kingsport, fifteen miles distant, at three P. M.; were put into a church, and drew one pound of flour and the same of beef. The 2oth, we left Kingsport, at eight A. M., marched sixteen miles, quartered for the night in the Jefferson Seminary, at Blounitsville, and drew rations of flour and raw meat without salt. The 2Ctb, started at nine in tho morning, marched nine miles, and arrived at Bristol, Ya., at two P. M., and were marched into camp in a( piece of tall woods. It rained nearly all-day! and all night, and, as-the Bubs had stripped us,' of course we bad to lie and take the rain, as best we could ; drew some flour and beef with out salt. The 27 tb it rained all day; drew a pound of flour and meat in the evening. Monday, 28th, drew three days’ rations of hard tack and fresh beef, and at five P. M, got aboard the cars and started for Richmond.— Bode all night and the next day, and at dark changed cars at Lynchburg; changed cars again In the morning, and arrived at Richmond at noon. When we got to Richmond, we were put on the lower floor of Scott’s tobacco factory. It was already full except the back room where tbe hydrant was. We had to go in there, and slept with the water running under us all the time. In the center of tbe main room there was a regular-swamp-hole, caused by all the slops, &c., being swept down from the upper floors. The smell was awful, especially where wo slept. Thursday, 31st, drew some corn bread and fresh beef at noon, and at night some dodger and bean slop. Jesse Wilcox was sent to_ the hospital to-day; He was shot thro’ the hand at the time we were taken. Kew Year’s day, 1864, moved over to tho re nowned Bella Island, about two miles from Scott’s factory; drew a quarter loa£ of bread and a piece of meat about the size of yoUr two fingers. “ Bid you think of me at homo ?” From the Ist to the 4th |I did not get out of my bed, only long enough to get my piece of bread and eoop or meat, twice a day. It was so cold, a person would freeze to death in a short time. I got into a kind of tent with some'of the 57th Pa. and George Mattison, of Co. I; who was taken at Concord Station. For about a week after we got there, wa got about an ounce of meat in the forenoon, but after that we got no thing but about a pint of black bean slop with once in a while a bean in it, twice' a day, be sides the quarter loaf. The piece of bread iwould never be over twoi'or two and a half in ches square. If ever, men suffered with hun ger, we did Ibefe." We would dream" about something to eat all night; think of it the first thing in the .morning; talk about it all day, and “ something to eat” would be in our minds when we went to sleep. TTpity the lousy liebel whatever falls into the Belle Iflatid boys’Lands. You may believe it or not—but dogs were fre quently billed oß~thc island"and" eaten 'hy.ijur Rates of Advertising. Advertisements will be charged $1 per square of id lines, one or three-insertion?, and 25 cents for every subsequent insertion*.* Advertisements oi le*j than 19 lines considered ar 3 square. The subjoined rate* will be charged forQuartarly, Half-Yearly and really advertisements; SiIONTH3. 6 iXONTUS. 12M07MH* 1 Square, $3,00 $4,50 $6,00 2 -do 5,00 0,50 8,00 3 do. , 7,00 8,50 * 10,00 * Column, .......... 8,00 $,50 12;50 i do 15,00 20,00. 25,00 I do 25,00 35,00 50,00 Advertisements not having the number of inser tions desired marked upon them, will be published until ordered out and charged accordingly. Fosters, Handbills,*Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads, and all kinds of Jobbing done in country establishmentsj executed neatly and promptly. Justices’, Constable' and bthfer BLANKS, constantly on hand. m. iv boys. I never was lucky enough to get hold of one, or I should have feasted for once. I have seen dog meat for sale at a dollar a slice, the size of your four fingers—and there was always a plenty of customers. At one time a man threw up his bean soap, and he bad no sooner done so, than men went and picked up thd beans and ate them. You ihinJc you can imagine something near the suffering our poor fellows endured ; but imagination cannot picture their sufferings.—* Men would come in there in mid-winter, with no blanketa or overcoats, and perhaps their shoes half been taken from them, and their feel were bound up with rags. They wohld find no tent, as all were full,, and would have to rmt about all night to keep from freezing to death; Numbers of them froze to death, and dozens of them were frozen so bad that they had to bd sent to the hospital in Richmond, wheiio several of them died; and others had their toes all ta ken off, and some their feet. I cannot write the twentieth part of what I have seen and kiow. On the 22d of February I was sent over td the hospital at Richmond, sick with a very bad cold, &c. I could not eat anything for several days before I went. The hospital was in three large tobacco factories, and called respectively Ist, 2d and 3d division hospitals. 1 was id ward 4,2 d division. The cooking was all done at the Ist division. The Ist division was the headquarters'bf the whole concern. Soon after I got over there, I was taken with chronic di arrhoea, but got so as to be around about the 20th of March. I then went to doing the wri ting for the eteward and general ward master. I got more to eat after that, and of a better quality. About the first of April I went down to the Ist division hospital, as clerk in the office where all the business was done for the three buildings. There were three of na clerke. “We bad considerable to do, but got enough to eat; such as it was. I remained there until paroled. The paroW sheets were made out ten days before we left, but I did not gel my name down until six o'- clock the night before we came away. I sup posed I could not come on that boat; bat t worked the thing around about right, and got off. lam the only one of the 45tb that catud up. Oscar Henry, Jesse Wilcox, Joseph Jen nings, James Tillotson, Washington Mann; Herman Jennings, and all others taken with me, were sent to Georgia the 7th of March, and were all well at that time. I saw “ Cole” thd day I left the island, and that is the last 1 have seien or heard of him.' II send you a complete list of the cases of each disease in the three divisions of the hos pital, from .January Ist to April Ist, and the deaths from each disease. I was in the office and had access to all the books where the ad missions, deaths, &c., were entered by name; but did not bring a list of them, because if I. had been caught at it, X should have been de tained and sent t to Castle Thunder. The list 1 send you is in so- small a compass I could con ceal it. By thill you will see that in January there were 706 .bases, and 311 deaths; in Feb ruary, 1257 cases, and 525 deaths; in March, 870 casfs, and 561 deaths. Of these, you will see that there were 229 cases of chronic diarr hoea in January, and 193 deaths; in February; 337 cases, and 265 deaths; and in March, 283 cases, and 250 deaths ; or in the three months, 849 cases of chronic diarrhoea, and 708 deaths 1 Bather a narrow escape for me. lours, affectionately, JOHN B. EMERY. When Hamilton was Washington's Secreta ry he was ordered to meet the Coromander-in- Chief one morning at sunrise.—Washington was first on the spot, and waited five min utes before Hamilton appeared. The'Secretary apologized by saying that “ something must be the matter with his watch.” Another appoint ment was made for the nest morning, which was similarly broken. Hamilton again- covered his negligence with a complaint dgkinst his watch to which the punctual soldier replied: “ Then, sir; yea must either get a new watch; or J must get a new Secretary.” On one occasion the first Emperor Napoleon invited the staff of the Marshals of Prince to take dinner with him at two o’clock. The Em peror at the moment the clock struck, sat down to the table alone. He was a quick eater,.sel dom appearing at the table more than ten min utes. At the end of this time bis staff appear ed. He arose to" meet them and said-i “Messeurs, itjis'now past dinner, and we will immediately proceed to business; where upon the Marshals were obliged to spend the entire afternoon in planning a new campaign on empty stomachs. The Good and Happ? Wife.-—The deep happiness in her heart shines oat in her face. She is a ray of sunlight in the house. Sbo gleams all over it. It is airy, and graceful; and warm and welcoming with her presence. She is full of devices, and plots, and sweet surprises for her husband and family. She has never done with the poetry and romance of life. She is herself a lyric poem setting herself- to all pure and gracious melodies. Humble household ways and duties have for her a golden significance. The prise makes the calling high, and the end dignifies tba means. Her home is' a paradise, not sinless, not painless, bat still a paradise ; for “ Love is Heaven and Heaven is love.” A Trap. Ladt. —“ I cannot forbear pointing out to you my dearest child,” said Loni Cul lingwood to his daughter, the great advantages that will result from a temperate conduct and sweetness of manner on all occasions. Never forget that you are a gentlewoman, and all your words and actions should make yoh gentle. I never heard ytfur mother—your dear gnod mother—say a harsh or hasty thing to any per son in my life. Endeavor ro imitate her. I am quick and hasty in my temper, but, my darling, it is a misfortune, which, not haying’ been -sufficiently .restrained in my yoatb, has caused me., inexpressible pain. It has giyen me more trouble to subdue this impetuosity than anything I ever undertoo|rr” Punctuality; f