L 0 CAL NEWS. Tea INVALID CORPS.—The Invalid Corps has been organized into fifteen full regiments, and the Seld and line officers restored to their original rank. The majors are yet to be appointed. Over on thousand able bodied, effective men have already been relieved by this corps from guard duty in the vicinity of Washington and sent to the field. A TEXT Ammo DE GRALESES.-11. colored preacher arose to announce his text, as follows : "In de fuel pistol oh Clover, and two hundered and ninety-lust w a l e." "Hold up 1" shouted one of his hearers, "You done got on de wrong book; you mean de pistol ob Timothy, I epees." The preacher hesi tated a moment with a very profound leek; and then said : I must cave in dis time ; though I bleared dal de tex was some-where 'mong de grasses." A. Gnat? Cumosmv.—On Saturday last, as one of the masons, at the West Harrisburg market home, was dressing one of the stones of which the building is being constructed, upon chipping of a Week, be found a large petrified rattlesnake Sit the lad& The snake is in a most wonderful state of preservation. The scales are perfect, the back bone is clearly defined, and it is one of the mast interesting speelmen of petrefeetion probably ever discovered. The gentlemanly superinten dent of the work, Mr. Charles Swartz, has pos session of the reptile at present. ONE Menu lINFORTIINATIL- - AMMIda Ditty, a young girl of abandoned character, was found dead ea Sunday night in the hay loft of a stable be longing to Messrs. Bigler & Wilt, at the lower end of town. Her death was at Sat attributed to foul means, but the coroner's jury found no evidenoe aleiolenoe, and rendered a verdict that she died from natural causes. The unfortunate woman was as orphan, was born in Lewisburg, and was bra ght to the Nam by a ralatin come time ago. Here she fell into abandoned habits and company, and thenceforth her path was inevitably down ward, until at length she died the death of the outcast and the forsaken, and now sleeps in a pauper's grave. Her remains were buried in the poor house grave yard. Perms AFnauts.—Before Alderman Kline.— Andrew Boner, an hostler in the employ of Mr. B. G. Peters, proprietor of the Farmers'• Hotel, was arrested by *Seer Essig on Saturday, charged with assault and battery upon Frederick Weitmyer. Defendant entered bail for his appearance at court, Andrew Boner was also charged by Frederick Weitmyer with wantonly and cruelly beating a horse in Peter's stable on the same day. Mr. Fe- tare became security for defendant's appearance at the next term of court. The only occupant of the lock-up on Sunday night was John Honey, colored, arrested by officer Costello. He had a hearing yesterday morning, and was set at liberty. Goa Ti=ns.—The poor man, to stifle the groans of hunger, takes a few dollars' worth of the neces saries of life, and an intelligent jury, with trio instinct of humanitt, consigns him to the damp vapors of a dungeon ;; the knave, under the garb of a "loyal" patriot and "the soldier's friend," steals thousands, awl not only safe but is hon ored. The triumphant villain is the lord—honesty is a "disloyal" and vulgar weakness, and virtue the theme of ribald jest. Robespierre has risen and reigns again, and his perjured host of Jaco bins scoff at all law and mock a long-suffering people in their hour of agony and danger. Pru dery has taken the place of modesty, braggadocio el bravery, and money of respectability. there is no god but Mammon, and Shoddy is his prophet. Shoddy orlstATrogy ilcuridetla like a green bay tree, and men bow delightedly to the greenback calf. God help ns all. May the nation see its danger and do its whole duty, lest suddenly its ''tear oometh as desolation and its destruction as a whirlwind." A Tarim Max.—The Abolitionists tell us that "Gov. Curtin is a tried man," but forget to com plete the record—wand convicted." He stand. convicted on the evidence of the Pittsburg "Ga r lefts; the Blair County Whig." the Pittsburg "Dispatch," the Philadelphia "Inquirer," General Cameron, Mock Cummings, and a host of others of bU political brethren. He stands convicted by his own reeord--convieted of robbing the State by signing away her revenues, of wronging the poor =Ea by carrying in his pocket and retuning to sign the bill which provides for the payment of laborers in money instead of store orders, of per mitting the Stata to be invaded by the enemy when the Constitution of the State fully provided for her speedy defence. The people will pass judg ment upon this tried man, and it is highly probable that the &Catena° will be--banishment to the court of Spain until his health is restored, or else an In.. definite exile to his old stamping ground in Centre aunty. Wan a= Dramozna.—ln times of war, wealth is heaped up in drifts like the snow in a storm, leaving groat hollows of poverty between. Indi. *duals secure contracts, and in a short space of time are on the list of millionaires. Most of these belong to what is known as the "shoddy aristoell eV and instantly plunge into all manner of vulgar displays and extravagances, riding in costly car riages and flashing in diamonds. The tendency of war to lead a nation into luxury is exemplified by a gleam at the operations of the diamond market for the last two years. In 1861 .the amount of pre eine stones entered at the New York custom house was but $46;513; in 1862 it was $1 8 8,821, while for the first quarter of the present year it has been $97,246-1 0 that hi= the, second year of the Wit the importation of diamonds increased four-fold on the previous year; and the third year bids fair to double on that. Of coarse, these fig ures do sot reprooollt half the sueen e t of diamond. actually brought into this country, as t h e h o m e , are in great f or smuggling such small and valuable Podium that bat a email portion of thorn pass through the custom house. Fawner Bra Naws.—We may reasonably expect te-day a flood of telegram from ,all directions, manufactured for electioneering purposes. This was the programme last year. Look out for start ling dispatches' announcing tremendous battles and Union victories. These will be circulated to Inspire doubting hearts with confidence in the weak and wretched war policy of the adminietra. tics—s, policy which depletes our armies for the mks of carrying an election, thus endangering the very life of the nation. Expect all meaner of tuna* and absurd reports—such as that one we see in a late "Telegraph," that the venerable judge Wilkins and Judge Grier had declared for Nal*, when the lying writer knew that the for mw had by letter declared his adherence to Wood ward and the Democratic cause, and that Judge 431111 5 had written a' letter to the Denteeratic l uethlg at Pittsburg in which he fully endorsed judge Woodward. Indied, we need not be um Masa 16 be ar that p a per report that the gallant get. McClellan, the "noblest Roman of them all," -us come out for Curtin, and has joined hands _with Stanton sad the ran of trile ditantere.-;-- Zmee stories will Probably be epredi brOadeart - day. Of counts, no man of sense will think of '•ticg . at nab bait, Inn MaETING LAST NIGHT.—The Democratic meeting in Market Square last night was a fitting conclusion of a well fought campaign. No larger or more enthusiastic meeting has assembled in this county during the year. Dr. A. Patterson presided, assisted by numerous Vice Presidents. The Democratic clubs of the various wards were on the ground in force. Herman AMA', Esq,, was the first to address the meeting, delivering a brief but pointed speech, which was attentively listened to and repeatedly applauded. He was followed by R. A. Lamberton, Esq., in one of his happiest drone. Taterestieg as be Is at all times, and justly celebrated as he is for eloquence and power in his appeals to the masses,. on this occa sion he surpassed himself, delivering perhaps the most powerful, slop:lent and convincing speech that we have listened to during the campaign. He kept the attention of his hearere enchained throughout, and was repeatedly applauded to the echo. Mr. Lamberton was followed by Hon. Wm. 11, Miller, who was fully equal to the occasion, wielding a trenchant blade and eliciting loud and prolonged applause. Other speakers followed, but we were compelled to come away at the