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The National Humiliation.
' The telegraphic, news of Wednesday af
ter ihe Inauguration announced that Vice
President Johnson had been unable, by
reason of indisposition, to take his place as
presidium officer of the Senate. This would
naturally be expected after his oo.rageo usly
dixracefally debauch of Stanrday, but the
truth ol the matter is. so we have been in
formed, that the :,dronk'? of Saturday ex
tended into and over Monday. A reliable
Bu...,.u, ju., ,.u,u ...iuuSlon, B.aies
that on Monday night :he great "plebeian''
was splurging aronnd the streets creating
uimi iiiiciieieu wmi uv a ponce
man. "Perhaps you d-d don't know w-w-w
ho I-am V interrogated the "plebeian."
VI know that yoo are violating the laws,"
replied the policeman. "ll-am Andy
Johnson, the Vice President-ov the U-uiied
b b-tates I am
author of the
.
.... wv,,tfI1 u.u.n or me -godly"
I'arsna brownlow. Drunk as was th is man.
however, he was conscious that the Ameri-
can people were more inebriated than he
wLen they elected him the "plebeian"
to a position beyond his desert and his ca
Jj'acity. , It is said that those Senators who profess
lo have some respect left fur appearances,
are contempating some plan to relieve
- birn from the duties of his office during the
extra session they not having much faith
i i the efficacy of the resolution which re
moved the liquor bar from the Senaie wir.g
of the Capitol. We have no means of
knowing vhal the .membership of the
"great party of civilization, enlightenment ,
progre-s and Christianity" have to say about
tie late conduct of this the ugrat stand-ant-bearer
of the Union parly;" bu: pre
ume thy can trace in it some wise pur
pose, some noble sentiment, some parotic
motive, some great theory to disenthral a
world, uiiite the Stales, overthrow the re
bellion, and bring the nation out of the
drf.-kne-n of ignorant Democracy and bar
?barious slavery into the broadest kind of
cisalizing and Christianized light. But few
ol the organs of the Abolition party have
haJ the manliness to either mention that
Ureal na-ional disgrace or to condemn the
author of it. The majority of them cloak it
ami are silenl. The Republican, of this
.place, is among the latter
The Democracy of New Jersey are firm
and active. They have not only refused to
xatify the proposed amendment to the Con
stitution but they have elected a Democrat
ic United States Senator. The. Trenton
True American says :
VVe record with mneb satisfaction the
election of Hon. John P. Stockton as Sena
tor of the United States for the next six years,
hii'due to the Democrats, who are in so
cVcided a majorityjn the State, that they
should be represented ia the Federal Sen
aia by men entertaining the principles
which have so long distinguished the po
litical party of which they are members ;
and in this respect we may say jo all con
fidence that there ia no one who can do so
more truly and consistently than Mr. Stock
ton, who from hi earliest manhood to the
present ('ay, has most earnestly and faith
fully adhered lo the fortanes of the party
by winch he baa now been honoreJ. In
pointy of personal merit and qualifications
for the office it is unnecessary for as to say
anything as, in the long contest, resulting
in Ilia election, they have been fully, and
Jraukly acknowledged by all parties. What
ever of opposition towards him, which ap
peared among his party friends, arose from
motives apart from anything relating to
him,.persooa!ly ; and we are happy t3 gay
, that with perhaps, a few exceptions, his
election is cordially and cheerfully acqui
esced in. .
- The moral effect pf this election and the
firrnarand which the Democratic members
-pfjthe Legislature have taken opon the aub
"jct of the proposed constitutional amend
ment, cannot fail to confirm the Democracy
in laeir faithful adherence to jest princi
ple, aud lo' incite them to a atern resist-
- ance to all efforts on the part of their po
litical opponents to shake their constancy
and fidelity to the principles opon which
- the Union was founded ;-and we are happj
to be able (o assure our Democratic friends,
that in Mr. Stockton they will have on the
floor of the Federal Senate an able and un
awerviijg advocate of those principles.
-m m mm
The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald says
that Mr. Garrison tins year propones to di
continua the Liberator newspaper, and will
tse'his influence for "the dh-baruling of the
" American An;i-S!avery Society. Why
shouldn't be ? All the Kepoblicau papers
tow are 4 Liberator," and the government
iUeSf is nothing more nor fesa than a grand
Ami Slavery Society ! Why keup op rival
ora'iizHtivir.s for the same purpose f Garri
fija's work is done. Ha has j;ot Lincoln
; explained the glorious ! (eetl miiUont 0f dollars in a single dy, ban
Tennessee test oath, and i died hv m'or than ti h..Hr-.i
".'flow Greenbacks arc' Mannfaetnred. ;
In good old times say about four years
ago the annual report of the Secretary of
the Treasury, comprising a (nil state m em of
the entire receipts and expenditures of tte
United Statesgovernmerii for the current
year, could be printed in one. or two col
umns of a newspaper. In this, as in all
other Jiatters pertaining to the administra
tion of affairs, we have progressed slightly,
and it now requires a portly pamphlet of
one hundred and eight closely printed oc
tavo pages to simply tell us how, and how
much it couts to print different kinds of cur
rency and treasury issues. Such a pam
phlet ha just been issued, which is mod
estly called "A Letter from the Secretary of
the" Treasury in answer to a resolution of
the House of January 2J, in regard to the
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Depart
ment." The first d ivision of the Currency Bureau
is divided in:o thirty-one subdivisions, and
employs five hundred and twenty-seven
operatives, two hundred and twenty -two
of whom are males, aud three hundred and
five are females. They are all said to be
engaged in engraving, priuting, and pre
paring for issue the various securities and
currency authorized by Congress which are
too familiar to the public to need a more
minute description. Besides this labor,
they print the circulars, blank forms, envel
opas, and other letter press printing requir
ed by the departmet. It is, in fact, a pet
priming and engraving office for the Treas
ury Department.
The first work of the Bureau was the
preparation for the issue of one and two
dollar Treasury notes, the work beine au-
. tnorized by -Air. Chase August 22 1862
? Mr. Clark at once went to work, ami' in six
davs had t n .,.m a; .
essary machinery. He began wi:h one
male assistant and four females. Mr. Clark
says that, i! he had supposed that the bu
siness would have grown under his charge
"to ih present enormous magnitude the
current i.nitr A iimVi.t cnml!,nt .Tmj.j. . .
' w . . r .uiiiwiihi.j .&lffc&ucw r i
j " w'w m m i wjbmurocT
, na ,hould D4,e bee impeMed to
v..:.. u r. .k- -i j -t
, uiiiit uuiij iuo insik i u iDanaiin inn i-
tempt." As early as January 5, 1863, he
couU .orn 0m thirty six thousand inpreons
in eight kovrs1 woik. The figures on the
impressions might carry the daily issue to
an enormous amount, but with constant im
provements and increased facilities, with
hydraulic presses at work night and day, the
department could only issue enough repre
sentative money to pay the contractors
(iron-clad and others,) while the Tgal!ant
armies in the field waited months and
monlhs for their paltry pay small to indi
viduals, but in ihe aggregate, of course,
enormous.
!efro Riot ia Bridjrpcrt, Ohio
The town of Bridgeport was yesterday
the scene of a disgraceful riot m.d much
excitement and alarm, caueed by the law
lessness of some fifteen or twenty negroes
who reside in this city a number of whom
are soldiers. From what we could learn of
the hiTair, it seems that one or two ot the
cable soldiers were in Bridgeport on Friday
night, and for their indolence were rather
roughly handled by some of the Bridge
porters. Aboot noon yesterday the darkies
obtained reinforcements, and after partak
ing ra her freely of "baldfaced" whitkey,
left here for Bridgeport to recent Ihe insult
given by the "while trash'' of that town.
VV hen about a quarter of a mile from the
town, on the natioual road, the darkies j
came across one of the men who had in- ,
corred their displeasure by Friday nigh'ts j
proceedings, and brisk skirmishing imme-
diately began. The white man retreated !
dawn the road towards the town, closely j
lollowed by the negroes. Reinforcements '
came, to the aid ol America, and soon the'
engagement raged wi'.h fury,- the negroes
String their revolvers as fast as they could I
load them, and the whites doing good exe
cution with stones and clubs.
n iicu vviucimi via iti c iu nil, 1111? viiiiiera :
ran down a cross street, secured a number '
of men to assist them, and obtained several '
revolvers. -Comi fig out on Main street, near !
the bank, the whites "pitched into" ihe ne-j
groes, and after a holly contested fkirmi.-h ;
the latter retreated, and made good their
escape over the bridge, and returned to this
city. In the last engagement two of the
white men were wounded, one being lot
in the foot and another in the hand, and
one of the negroes receiving a ball in bis
leg. Several of the stores and dwelling
houses in the town were injured by being
struck with stones and bullets, and the
lives of innocent peaceful citizens were
placed in jeopardy by the recklessness of
those engaged in the melee.
The negroes returned to this ci!y, and
about 7 o'clock last night some thirty or
forty of them met near the market bouse
and threatened to go over and "take"'
Bridgeport, but op lo last accounts tte black
warriors bad not crossed the bridae. The
citizens of Bridgeport were prepared to
give '.hem a warm reception, and a lively
lime was anticipated on the approach of the
negroes. WkteUng Register, March 6th.
Vice President Johnson. i is said thai
as high as Si 00 have been offered the Globe
reporters for Aody Johnson's funny speech
before the foieign ministers and others,
inauguration day. The Senate willneiiher
allow the Globe to print nor tte reporters to
xell. Posterity, therefore, will lose this
gem.
It is said that a verbatim report of the
speech will appear in the London Times,
one of whose correspondents was present
on the occasion.
A Republican member of Congress says
that the Vice President, turning to the few
foreign ministers present addressed them
thus; "And you forks there with ribbons
and gewgaws and laces, i have something
to say to yoo folks too."
Ja it'a wonder that Sumner declared he
would rather have Washington captured
than have the nation subjected to such a hn-
: f-Tfei Flood. -
,-The flood in. the Susquehanna daring last
week exceeded in height the terrible freshet
of 1846, by about three feet. On Saturday
the whole flat lying below this place, be
tween the river and Fishingcreek was sub
merged to ihe de;th of several - feet, pre
senting a view from the surrounding heights
as a vast lake, inhabited by people whose
dwellings were standing in the midst of Ihe
fearful wa:er. Not a spot of dry lanJ could
be seen on the farms lying between the hills
at the mouth of Hemlock Creek and the hill
south of ihe Susquehanna, the river having
spread to about two miles in width. The
loss to farmers consists chiefly in fences
that were carried away, and ihe destruction
of growing grain. The Lackawana Rail
Road was under water along the rocks be
low Rupert to the Catawissa bridge from
six to ten feet. No trains have passed on
the road since last Thursday, and there will
probably be need of much repairing before
the road will be fit to travel over. The Ca
nal ia much injured below and above this
place. The seven mile level we were in
formed "is all torn to pieces." The boating
will be suspended till very late in the sea
son. Persons who were at the Catawissa
Railroad bridge say the first span at this
end was moved abouttwo inches and'a half
by the force of a large tree and two canal
boats which struck it. From yesterday's
papers we clip the following accounts of the
flood at other points :
Harriburg, March 18 The flood in the
Susquehanna is unprecedented. It exceeds
by 30 inchei in height the memorable and
destructive freshet of 1846. Thousands of
limber logs, with millions of feet of sawed
lumber, have already passed this point.
Bridges have.been swept away and torn
to pieces, and from ihe character of the
ruins floating by Harriahurg it is fair to in
fer thai many dwelling houses, barns, &c.
have been swept from the shores.
Al 7 o'clock this mortiing it was ascer
tained that the bridges at Northumberland
a'nd Duncan's lslar.d, and a part of. the
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, above this
city, had been carried away, while as I
write a bridge, said lo be from the .Juniata
is being borne with fearful violence down
the stream.
There have been no trains passing thro'
Harrisbnrg from Pittsburgh or Philadelphia
for the last twelve hours. The lower part
of the city is completely submerged and
much suffering has been inflicted opon the
poor larailies living in that part of the sab-,
urbs.
At Middletown, Dauphin county and the
villages along the shore clear lo Columbia,
in Lancaster county, the destruction of pri
vate property and the suffering among in
dividuals is immense. The fires of several
iron furnaces have been quenched and of
course the furnaces will chill.
Thousands of dollars' worth of lumber,
usually stocked at Marietta, Columbia and
Middletown, was swept away. The bank
in front of the city has been lined all day
with thousands of people watching the pro
gress of the flood Families are being re
moved from the streets in the lower section
ot the city, which was not approached by
the wa'ers of ihe great flood of 1846, but
which are now considered in imminent
danger of being overflowed. Oar city wa
ter works are completely submerged, and
all the pomps stopped.
ft is conceded on all hands, alike by our
oldest inhabitants and experienced river
men, that this is (he most immense flood
(hat has taken place in the Susquehanna
within the memory of man.
Danville, Pa., March 18 The most des
tructive flood ever heard of is now raging
on the north branch of the Susquehanna.
The rai'road is submerged and all travel is
suspended.
All the large bridges on the west branch
as far as Williamsporl are gone. The Lack
awanna and Bloomsburg railroad is under
water in places leri feet. The canal in many
places is completeld destroyed. Half of
Danville is under water.
Bltfslo, March 18 The injuries to the
Erie road extend over a distance of nearly
100 miles, mostly east of Hornellsville, and
there are several breaks between Hornells
Tills and Dunkirk.
The Lake Shore road is slightly damaged,
but will soon be repaired,
Albany March 19 The river has fallen
between four and five feet, and as a boat
has arrived from Cackill, it is believed that
navigation is fairly open to New York. A
pa-senger boat is expected to-morrow
morning.
Syhaclvb, N'. Y., March 19. The recent
floods have damaged the salt works to the
extent of nearly $200,000. Three hun
dred dwellings are more or le&s flooded
and the probable total loss in this county
will be half a million dollars.
RocHEsita, N. Y., March 19. The flood
has subsided. The bridges on the Central
and Genessee Valley railroads have been
swept away. Many buildings have been
undermined and have fallen.
About a ihousand of the principal stores
are filled with water. The gas works and
newspapers have suspended. No lives
have been loet but the damage amounts lo
several millions of dollars.
Senator and General Nte. Greeley'
recommendation of Nevada Nye for Secreta
ry of the Treasury, on ihe ground thai be is
the best man at borrowing, and troubles
himself the least about payday, of any man
in the United Slates," reminds the Hartford
Times of a little story. It says, Nye, in the
spring of 1860, was selected by the Repub
lican managers in New York lo collect a
jund wherewith to carry the Connecticut
election. He did collect about SlOO, 000, it
is said that a large portion of it was used in
direct bribery here in Connecticut cannot
be truthfully "denied. Nye himself said,
when informed of the probability of Gov.
Thomas Seymour's election "No, bj G d !
I've now got money enough to buy vp the
dd state !" Into each hands has the ad
ministration of government fallen !"
The Horrors of War Ravages and Outrages
Committed by Sherman's Ken Threatened
Retaliation fir the Death of his Foramen
Doub e Meatuses of Retaliation Promised by
General Hampton.
The Richmond papers publish the fol
owing :
Headquarters .Mtl't Di v. of the Miss., 1
In the Field, Feb. 24, 1865. J
Leut. Gen. Wade Hampton, Commanding
Cavalry Forces, C. S. A. :
General : It is officially reported to me
that our foraging parties are murdered after
capture, and labelled 'Death to all foragers.'
One instance of a Lieutenant and seven
men near Chesterville, and another "near
a ravine, eighty rods from the main road,"
about three miles from Feasterville. I have
ordered a similar number of prisoners in
our hands lo be disposed of in like man
ner. 1 hold about 1,000 prisoners captured in
various ways, and can stand it as long as
yoo, but ) hardly think these murders are
committed wici your knowledge ; and
would Euggest that yoo give notice to the
people al large that every life taken by
them simply results in the death of one of
your Confederates.
Of course, you cannot question my right
to forage on the country. It is a war right
as old as history. The manner of exercis
ing it varies with circumstances, and if .the
civil authorities will supply my requisitions ,
I will forbid all foraging. But I find no
civil authorities who can respond to calls
for forage or provisions, and therefore must
collect directly off the people. I have no
doubt this is the occasion of much misbe
havior on the part of our men, but I cannot
permit an enemy to judge or punish with
wholesale murder.
Personally, I regret the bitter feelings en
gendered by this war ; but they were to be
expected, and I simply allege that those
who struck the first blow, and made war
inevitable, ooghl not in fairness to reproach
us for the natural consequences. I merely
assert our war right to forage, and. may re
solve to protect my foragers to the extent of
lite for lite. I am, with respect, your obe
dient servant.
W. T. SHERMAN, Maj Gen. U. S. A.
Headquarters in the Field,
February 27, 1865. J
Maj. General VV. T. Sherman, U. S. A. ;
General . Your communication of the
24 tu instant reached me to-day. In it you
state that il has been officially reported (hat
your foraging parties were "murdered" af
ter capture, and you go on to say that you
had ordered a similar number of prisoners
in your hands to be disposed ofin like man
ner. That is to say, you have ordeied a
number of Confederate soldiers to be "mur
dered." You characterize your order in proper
terms, for the public voice even in your
own country, where seldom it dares'express
itself in vindication of truth, honor or jus
tice, will surely agree with you in pronoun
cing you guilty of murder, if your order is
carried out.
Before dismissing this portioii of your let
ter. I beg to assure you chat for every sol
dier of mine "murdered" by you, 1 shall
have executed at once two of yours, giving
in all cases, preference to any officers who
may be in my hands.
In reference to the statement on make
regarding the death of your foragers, I have
only to say that I know nothing of it ; that
no orders given by me authorize the killing
of prisoners after capture, and that I do not
beliele that my men killed any of yours ex
cept under circumstances in which it was
perfectly legitimate and proper ihey should
kill them.
It is a part of the system of thieves, whom
you designates foragers, to fire the dwel
lings of those citizens whom they have rob-
! bed.
To check this inhuman system, which is
justly execrated by every civilized nation.
I have directed me men to shqot down all
of your men who are caught burning houses.
This order shall remain in force as long as
you disgrace the profession of arms by al
lowing your men to destroy private dwel
lings. You say that I cannot, of course, question
your right to forage on the country. "It is
a riaht as old as history." I do not, sir
question this right. Bui there is a right
older even than this, and more inalienable
the right that every man has to defend
his home, and to protect those who are de
pendent upon him. And from my
heart I wih that every old man and
boy in my country, who can fire a gun,
would 6hoot down, as he would a wild beabt
the men who are desolating their land,
burning their houses aud insulting their wo
men. You are particular in defining and claim
ing "war right." May I ak if you enu
merate among them the right to fire upon a
defenceless city without notice ; to burn
that city lo the ground alr it had been
surrendered by the authorities, who claimed
though in vain, that protection which is al
ways accorded in civilized warfare to non
combatants; to fire the dwelling houses of
citizens after robbing them, and to perpe
trate even darker crimes than these crimes
too black to be mentioned ?
You have permitted, if you have not or
dered, the commission of these offenses
against humanity and the rules of war. Yon
fired into the city of Columbia wiihooi a
word of warning. After its surrender by
the Mayor, who demanded protection to'
private property, you laid the whole city in
ashes, leavina amid its ruins thousands of
old men and helpless women and children,
who are likely to perish ol starvation and
exposure. Your line of March can be traced
by the lurid light of burning bouses, and in
more than one household there is an agony
far more bit:er than that of death.
The Indian scalped his victim regardless
of sex or age, but, with all bis barbarity, he
always respected the persons of his female
captives. Your soldiers, more savage than
the Indian, insult those whose natural pro
tectors are absent.
la conclusion, I have only to request that
whenever you hare any of my men "dis-
know what action to take infthe mailer, in
the meantime I shall hold fifty-six of your
men as hostages for those who you have
ordered to be execated.
1 am yours, etc .
WADE HAMPTON, Lient. General.
Official : J. M. Oiney, A. A General.
I lain Talk lo Yankees.
The following caustic article is from a
Mexican paper, the Mazatian limts of Jan
uary 7th ;
Some webks since an order was issued
prohibiting the carrying of deadly weapons
except by special military permit. Pursu
ant lo this order a number of foreign resi
dents applied for and obtained the requi
site license. Subsequently an order was
issued directing those in possefesion of arms
to present themselves at the Prefecture and
surrender their arms.
The idea of Americans being disarmed
was regarded as a great indignity, especial
ly to that class of Americans who have
kneeled so devoutly at the shrine of ' mili
tary necessity." It was a terrible thing for
'.he authorities to lake possession of arms in
private bands, although there was a formi
dable band of desperadoes at the very gates
o! the city threatening its inhabitants with
plunder and murder, but it's all right and
eminently patriotic for the lieud Sheridan
wantonly to destroy the property of non
combatants in the Shenandoah valley , in
the hope of starving the people into a sub
mission lo (ithe best government ever de
vised by man." As these gentlemen are
so solicitous concerning their "sister repub
lie" we propose instituting for their benefit
and edification a comparison between the
French in Mexico and the -Yankees in the
South. VVe do not find the French singling
out the most sensitive spot in the Mexican
character and applying it lo a bartiiug
flame ; theatres here are not visited by the
soldiery and ihe orchestra compelled to
perform-pieces repugnant to the tafies of
the people; the Imperial flag has not been
conspicuously displayed, and ladies insult
ed for declining to walk under it ; the
churches have not beer, invaded by the
military, and the form, of wor.-hip inter
fered with ; private property has not been
wantonly destroyed by the French ; nor
have the Imperialists enacted ati infamous
confiscation scheme designed to reduce lo
beggary the very people they came to con
ciliate. Yet such acts as the French would
scorn to be guilty c! in Mexico have been
constantly perpetrated jn ihe South and
towards the Southern people by the agents
of Abraham Lincoln, io the intense joy of
ihe "loyal masses in the North, and to their
eternal disgrace throughout the civilized
world.
The course of the Yankees in opposing
the vigilance of the authorities here, while
at the same time gloating over the excer-es
of i heir own government in its- vain effort.",
to subjugate a free people, is in exact keep
ing with 'their character;, they have al
ways been a meddlesome, discontented set,
never satisfied with things as they find
them, and sowing the seed of dit-cord and
revolution in every country they inhabit ;
they broke up the American Uuion lo get
rid of slavery., alter they had ma.le princely
fortunes in the slave trade : and it has
been truly 6aid that if the Mayflower with
her cargo, of Puritan malcontents had land
en al Charleston, instead of Plymouth
Kock, and her passengers had thus become
acquainted wi'.h, and attached io (he insti
tution of slavery, (heir descendant would
have given the country no. peace while
there was a foot of Iree soil on the Ameri
can continent.
While we regret the necessity for the
disarming of the populace, we have no
crocodile tears nor elephantine lamentations
for these sticklers for "military necessity"
who have been made to feel its eflec:s.
THE 8AFE1T OF RV1LKOAP TRAVELERS Har- '
risburg, Pa, March 18 Both tranches of j
the State Legislature have passed an act '
declaring, that if any employee ol a railroad I
company shall violate any rule of such com
pany, and injury or loss of life hall thereby
result, the offenders hll be immediately
arrested by the prosecuting attorney of ihe
city or county where Ihe accident happened
and if tound guilty shall be convicted ot mis
demeanor and puoished at the discre'.iorjof
the Court wiih. imprisonment in the State
penitentiary for live years, aud fine ol ($5
000)five ihousand dollars. In adition to this
criminal prosecution the offender and the
railroad company shall be alike liable (or
civil damages.
Under this act, eery employee of a rail
road company, no matter how humole his
position, through whom an accident occurs,
by failure to'obey any rule," or by neglect j
ol any precaution." can and will be imme
diately arrested , and prosecuted with the
utmost rigor of ihe law. Heretofore, the
only punishment that con la be inflicted
was dismissal, bu! hereafter the leading offi
cers of a number of railroads will unite
with the traveling public in punishing any
careless or negligent agent by fine or im- '
pjisonment, which can be ieflicted, not
merely .'oross of life, but also for injury
The East Baltimore Conference of the
M. E. Church held its last annual meeting
in Danville. Among the many acts of the
meeting we notice they ratified the action
of the General Conference amending the
rule on the subject of slavery so that all
slave-holders are excluded from admission
lo the communion of the church. The
Danville Intelligencer says :
At the Monday evening session General
Sheridan was made a lile Director of the
Missionary Society, by tr.e payment of SI50,
which was raised by contributions. We
see it stated in an exchange, that General
Sheridan is adevout Catholic, which if true,
places our Methodist friends in the position
of beirjg liberal in allowing a member of
ihe Catholic church to act as a Director of
their Missionary operations.
Certainly, they are liberal, but it shows
their loyalty. Wonder whether the same
ministers will not be led by loyalty to join
Greeiy and others in waging a war against
Gen. Sheridan and his church for the exte.r-
f nination of Catholics.
Jersevmkn always did stand up for State
rights, and resist the impudent intrusion of
outsiders. Her people stilt breathe the same
noble spirit. And the Patteraonian very plain
ly lells Ihe politicians of New York (hat
tbey "had better look at borne. We have
kept New Jersey Democratic and no thanks
to ihe Republican State of New York. VVe
want none of her politicians in New Jersey,
dictating as to who shall be Senator and
what shall be done with the Constitutional
ameudment. Jerseymen will manage the
affair to suit themselves, aud with no such
object as that which would necessitate a fur
ther sacrifice of the parly in behalf of the
black demon. There is no want of back
bone in the above.
Upon a traveller telling General Doyle,
an Irishman, that he had been where the
buss were so large and powerful that two of
them would drain a man's blood inone night,
Ihe General wittily replied : "My good sir,
we have ihe same animals in Ireland, but
they are called humbugs."
At a Christmas celebration by a contra
band school at Norfolk, the leacher st-ked
the little darkeys whose birthday they were
celebrating, and they all, wiih one voice,
cried out, "General Butler's."
Forney's Court Journal says : The Vice
President' health is entirely restored. He
was as cheerful as any man could be after
having recovered from such an indisposi
tion. The interpretation of this is: Mr. Vice
President Johnson, owing to the kind watch
fullness of Mr. F. P. Blair, Senior, has be
come 6ober. and, attended by his guardian,
appeared in the Senaie yesterday. He was
as cheerful as any man could be after hav
ing publicly disgraced himself and his
country in the manner that he did on the
4th instant.
Deserters The Secretary of War in
his report cent lo Congresw isutes that the
business of arresting deserters and strag
glers is progressing actively. 33 392 have
been arrested between October I, 1863 and
October 1, 1864. The total number arrett
ed from the establishment of the bureau to
October 1, 1864, is 67,760.
Hcsrt S. Foote, member from Tennes
see of the rebel House of Representatives,
was on Monday last expelled from that
body by a unanimous vote.
Not a Printer's Error. Mr. Piozzi says
Lord II. Poulett wrote to a gentleman to
end him over two monkeys; but the word
being written too. and all the chancier of
one height, il appeared like "100 " What
was poor Lord Harry Pouletl's dismay,
when a letter came to hand with the news
that he would receive fifty monkeys by
such a ship, and fitty more by the next,
making up a hnndied, according to his lord-shipVco-nmauds
!
KEV1EW OF THE MARKET,
CAREFULLY CORRECTED WEEKLY.
WHEAT, 62
RYE. i
CORX, i
OA IS.
BUCKWHEAT, 1
FLOUR pr bbl 14
CLOVEKSEED 12
50
74
50
80
00
00
00
BUTTER,
EGGS,
TALLOW,
LAUD, per lb.
POTATOES. I
DR'D APPLE&2
HAMS,
50
25
16
i0
00
50
25
A Kit IE D.
On the 9th inst., by Thos. J. Morris. Eq., j
Mr. Peter B. Smith, late of the 'Hurley
Guards," and Mrs. Alary J. Whitenight, of '
Bloomsburg, Pa.
By the Rev. J. Vr. Lesher, in Bloomsbnrg
Pa , on the 6th of March 1865, William I
ReiAwick, and Miss Mary E. Thomas, all of ,
Bloomsburg Pa !
By the same in Bloomsburg, on March '
the I6;h 165, Mr Peter D. Werkheiser. of
Hemlock, to Mifs Clara E. Sletler, of West ;
Hemlock Montour co., Pa. i
DIED.
In Light S;reei on Tuesday last, George
John an eminent Christian and most esti
mable citizen uged about 73 years.
At M.llvilie, on the 1 2th inst., David
Ever, aged abou; 60 years.
!n Centre twp , on the 1 0:h inst., George
II. Ke-ichner, aged 41 years, 5 months and
2 9 days.
In Catawisca, on the 24th of February,
Francis Deane, aged about 75 years.
Near Light Street, Col. Co. Pa., Feb. 25th,
Margaret .'ane, wife of W. W. Melick, and
daughter ol Wiliiam Mather, aged 27 yrs.
In Be rwick on the 6th of March, William,
fit ol Llewelyn and Sallie Prosaer, aged
11 months an') 7 days.
On the 23d, of inllamation of the Long,
John Wesley son ol Elvila W. Faus, aed
2 years, 2 months, and 21 days.
THE EH GUOIEHI STOKE
FORMERLY ERASMAS' OLD STAND
ON MAIN STREET, BLOOMSBURG.
,11 ore I-Ycfrli CooN.
Just received at Jlenry Gigcr'a Xew
Store.
MOLASSES, m
SUUAKS,
TEAS,
COFFEE,
KICK,
SPICES,
FISH.
SALT,
TOBACCO,
SF.GARS,
CANDIES,
RAISIN,
FEED AND PROVISIONS.
Together with a great variety of. notions
&c , loo numerous io mention.
OBntter, Eggs, Meal and produce gen
erally taken in exchange for yood.
HENRY GIGER.
Blio mburg, Nov. 23, l8i.
A HOUSE WANTED A good
house is wanted, suitable for a email
family, for which a reasonable rem,
will be paid, in advance payments, it re
quired. For further particulars, applwat
ibis Office. STAR OF THE NORTH.
Bloornsbnrg. Feb. 22, 1865 if
BLANKS ! BLANKS ! BLANKS ! I
DEEDS, SUMMONS,
EXECUTIONS, SUBPOENAS,
.f proper & des:rableforms,fo'8ale
fr ofthe "Star ofthe North
m
Agricultural (hemica) fo.'s
CHIMP FGKT1MZEK8.
TH H Fertilizers prepared by the Agri
cultural Chemical Co., (a Company char
tered by Ihe Legislature of Pennsylvania
with a capital ot $250,000,) have been
proved in practice to be the cheapest, most
profitable and best, for Ibe Farmer, Gar
dener and Fruit yrower, of all concentarted ,
manures now offered in any maiket. The'
Company 'a list embraces the following
PABULETTE.
This Fertilizer is composed of nighl
soil and the fertilizing tgenis of urine,
combined chemically and mechanically
with other valuable fertilizing agents and
absorbent.
It is reduced to a pulverulent condiiion :
ready for immediate use, and withont loo
of ns highly nitrogenous fertilizing proper
ties. ' 1
lis universal applicability to all crop
and toils, and its dnrshilnct 3,.,i
j "v aiiiva
dualities are wall known in Ha oil k. ....
i-i - - w an itiai K
l riculturists can desire. -
Price 830 per Ton.
CIIEM1CAC0iMP0ST,
The Fertilizer is largely composed o,
animal matter, such . as meat, bone, fih f
leather and wool, together with chemicals
and inorganic fertilizers, which decompose
the mass, and retain tLe nitrogenous ele
ments. It ia u very valuable fertilizer for field
crops generally, and especiall lor potatoes
and garden pnrpo.-es.
lis excellent qualities, strength and cheap
ness, have made it very popular with all
who have n-ed il.
Price, $40 per Ton.
COMPOSITE FERTILIZER.
This highly phosphate fertilizer is par
ticularly adapted tor the cultivation of trees
Iruit., lawns anj flowers. It will promote a
vry vigorous and healthy growth ol ooil
fruit, and largely increase the quaniity and
perlect the maturity of the fruit. For hoi
hose and household plants and flowers it
will be found an ipuipenible article to se
cure their greatest perfection.. It will pre
vent and cure diseased conditions of the
peach and grape, and is excellent for gr6s
und lawns.
Il is composed bf such elements at make
it adapted to the growth of all kinds of
crops in all kinds of soil
The tormnla or method of combining il
conMilueut fertilizing ingredients has re
ceived the highest approval of eminent
cherrmts and scientific agriculturists.
Price, $-50 per Ton.
PHOSPHATE OF LIME.
The Agricultural Chemical Company
manufacture a Ptiophate ol Lime in accor
dance with a new and valuable formula by
which a Very superior article is produced,
as io be afforded al a le price than other -manufacturer
charge. Practical ieit have
proved that it value, a a fertilizer, is
equal to the best Phosphate of Lime in 'the
market.
Price, 65 per Ton.
TERMS CASH. All Ordeis of a Ton or
more, will be delivered at the Railroad
Siation- and the Wharves of Shipment, Ires
ot cartage. Cartage will be charge I ou al
order- ol 6 barrel or ls
One do,!ar per Tor. allowance lor cartage
will be made on all sale delivered at Ihe
Works of the Company on Canal Wharf.
t Agricultural Chemical Companv s Works..
At Cannl Whirf. on the Delaware.
Office, 413J Arch St. Philadelphia, Pa.
If. B. KlTTS,Geiieral Agent.
The Company's Pa m p. lei Circular, em
bracing fjli directions fo using the above
Fertilizers, tent by mail, free, when re
queried. Marcti, 8, 1865 6mo.
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U. 7"OU L J A l
By authority of the Secretary ol the
Treasury, the undersigned has asumed
the General Subscription Agency for the
sale of United States Treasury Notes, bear
ing feeveti and ihree tenth per cent. 'inter
est, per annum, known as tna
SEVEN THIRTY LOAN.
These Notes are issued under date of
August 15th, 1864, and are payable three
years from ihat time, in currency, or are
convertible al the option ofthe holder into
U. S. 5-20 Six per cent.
ftOLD-ISEAIllAG ISOMIS
These bonds are now worth a premium
of nine per cent., including gold interest
from Nov r which makes tht actual profit
on the 7-30 loan, at entrant rates, inclu
ding ir.wre, about ten per cent, per an
num, beside its exemption from. Siatt and
municipal taxation, which adds from one to
three pet cent moie, according to the rate lev
ied on other property. The, interest is
payable semi-annually by coupons attach
ed to each note, which may be cut off and
bold to any bank or banker. "
The interest amounts io .
One cent per day on a S50 noie.
Two cenia 4 44 SlOO "
Teti " 44 4' 500 "
20 44 " " SI000
SI 44 44 4 " $5000 "
Notes of all the denominations named
will be promptly furnished upon recept of
subscriptions. Thi is the
ONLY LOAN IN MARKET
now offered by the Government, and il is
confidently expected that its superior ad
vantages will make it the
Great Popular Loan of the People.-
Less than 5200,000,000 remain unsold,
which will probably be disposd of wuhin
the next 60 or 90 days, when the notes wilV
undoubtedly command a premium, as ha
uniformly been the ca?e ou closing tbe
subscriptions to other Loans.'
In order that citizens of every town and
section ofthe country may be afforded fa
cilities fo r taking the loan, the National
Banks, State Banks, and Private Bankers
throughout the country have generally
agreed to receive subscriptions at, par. r
Subscribers will select their own asents,
in whom they have confidence, and who
only are to be responsible lor the delivery
ofthe notes for which ihev receive orders.
JAY COOKE.
Subscription Asent, Philadelphia.
Subscriptions will be received by the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BLOOMS
BUIiG. February 22, 1865 3mo.
Whi-kkb!" ! ! ! Thooe wishing a fine
of whisker a mce moustache, or a beao
liful head of u!-t hair, will pleasa .readt
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