-m IH Hi M M! m m m m :n m 1 sT- CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1864. VOL. 10.-NO. 24. BY S. X BOW. TRMS OF THE JOURNAL. The BiFTSMAiTs Jocrwai. is published on Wed fceadar at Sl,M per annum in advance. Auver tismbsm inserted at $1.00 per square, for three or less insertions Twelre lines (or less) counting a Square. For every additional insertion 25 cents. A deduction will be mode to yearly advertisers. gtt.smejstf glirtttorjj. IRVTN BROTHERS. Dealers in Square i Sawed Lumber, Dry Goods, Groceries, Flour, Grain, 4a, Ac, Burnside Pa., Sept. 23, 1363. FREDERICK LEITZINGER, Manufacturer of sll kinds of Stone-ware, Clearfield, Pa. Or ders solicited wholesale or retail. Jan. 1, 1803 CRASS A BARRETT, Attorneys at Law, Clear field. P. May 13T 1363. i,. J. craVs. :::::: Walter babrett. ROBERT J. WALLACE, Attorney at Law. Clear field, Pa Office in Shaw's new row. Market street, opposite bangle's jewelry store. May 2b. Hp. NAUGLE, Watch and Clock Maker, and . dealer in Watches, Jewelry, Ac. Room in Jraham'B row, Market street. Nov-10- HEUCIIER SWOOPE. Attorney at Law. Clear , field, Pa. Offict in Graham's Row, four doo s west of Graham A Boynton's store. Nov. 10. J. P. KRATZER Merchant, and dealer in . 1 - 1 ' : A T.n.l.iA wt . lioaras ana cningies, x mm Front St, above the Academy, Clearfield, Pa. jl 2 WALLACE A HALL, Attorneys at Law, Clear field, Pa. lecombcrl7, 1862. williav a. wallacb. :::::::: jobs a. hall. II A FLEMMING, Curwcnsvillo, Pa., Nursery . man and Dealer in all kinds of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Plants and Shrubbery. All r ders by mail promptly attended to. May 13. W- ILLIAM F. IRW IN, Market street, Clearfield, Pa., Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Mer chandise, Hardware, Queenswaro, Groceries, and family artielos generally. Nov. 10. JOHN GUELICH, Manufacturer of all kinds of Cabinet-ware, Market street, Clearfield, Pa. He al.o makes to order ColBns, on short notice, and attends funerals with a hearse. Aprl0,'59. DR. M. WOODS, Practiciso Phvsiciah, and Examining Surgeon for Pensions, utnee. South-west corner of Second and Cherry htreet, Clearfield, Pa. January 21, 1863. WW. SHAW. M. D., has resumed the prnc . tice of Medicine and Surgery in Shawsville, Penn'a, where lie still respectfully solicits a con tinuance of public patronage. May 27, It 63. J" B M'ENALLY, Attorneyat Law. Clearfield, . Pa. Practices in Clearfield and adjoining counties. Office in new brick building of J.Hoyn ton, 2d street, one door south of Lanich's Hotel. ICIIARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreign and Do- X, mestio Dry Goods, tirocenes, iiour, jjacon, iquors. Ae. Room, on Market street, a few doors est of Journal Ojjiee, Clearfield, Pa. Apr27. rpUOMPSON, A WATSON. Dealers in Timbor JL Saw Logs, Boards and Shingles, Marysville, Clearfield county, Penn'a August 11, 1863. a. w. THoirpso." : : : : : jas. e. watsos. JAKKIMER A TEST, Attorneys at Law.CIcar J field. Pa. Will attend promptly to all legal ml other business entrusted to their care in CleRr field and adjoining counties. August 6, 1856, DR. WM. CAMPBELL, offers his professional servicos to the citizens of Moshannon and vi- cimty. He can be consulted at bis residence at all times, unless absent on professional business. Jlohiannon, Centre co., Pa., May 13, 1863. 7M. ALBERT A BRO'S, Dealers in Dry Goods, V Groceries, Hardware. Queensware, Flour, l:con. etc.. Woodland, Clearfield county, Penn'a. Alio, extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lum ber, thingles, and squaro timber. Orders solici ted . Woodland. An g. 19th,'lSo3. rnilOMAS J. M CULLOUGII, Attorney at Law, J. Clearfield. Pa. Office, oast of the ' Clearfield co. Bank. Deeds and other legal instruments pre pared with promptness and accuracy. July 3. i. 6. bi'sh- :::::::: t.j.mcullough BUSH A M'CULLOUGH S Collectio.- Office, Clbap.field, Peks'a. DK. L1TCII 'S MEDICO ES. A fresh sup ply of these invaluable Family Medicines are for sale by M. A. Frank, Clearfield, consisting of Pain Curer ; Restorative, a greatcure for colds and cough ; and Ami-Bilious Physic. They have been thoroughly tested in this community, and are highly approved. Tar TngM. YEW WATCH St J EWELIIY STOUE.- ll The undersigned having located in the bor ough of Clearfield, (at the shop formerly occupied bjH Welch as a jewelry shop,) is prepared to d work of all kinds on the most reasonable terms. The cash will positively be expected when the work is delivered, lie is confident that he can not be excelled by any workmen in town or county. Comt one '. come all totheSign of the Hi Watrh. pril tf.'62-ly-pd. S. R. LAUCHLIN. 4 IXTIONEER. The undersigned having J, been Licensed an Auctioneer, would inform the cititens of Clearfield county that he will at test to calling sales, in any part of the county, whenever called upon. Charges moderate Address, . JOHN M QUILKIN, May 13. Bower Po., Clearfield co., Pa. B. Persons calling sales without a proper li cense are subject to a penalty of S60, which pro vision will be enforced against those who may vi olate the same. Bl'LKLEY'S PATENT LUMBER DRIED BY SUPERHEATED STEAM.S-The under 'gaed respectfully informs the people of Clear field and adjoining counties that he has the agen c7 of the above patent and will sell individual, county or township rights for its use. The lum wr dried by this prolyjss is stronger, finishes bet ter, is easier on tools, and requires (less time in drying than any other process knewn. drying 1 'neh lumber perfectly in 35 hours better than "nj months under the old system using the same amount of fuel per day that a common, kiln consumes. The certificated a number rff resi dent mechanics well known in this community is amply sufficient to convince the most sceptical of uiuy. Persons desirous of purchasing ngnu WlU4dresfl JOHNT n. CUTTLE. JOHN L. CUTTLE, i"ne2t, 1853. Cearfield, Penn'a MILLINERY & FANCY STORE. MRS. H. D.WELSH, RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCES TO THE LA 11LS of Clearfield and vicinity that she I has opened a Millinery, Notion and Trim , ming store, on Second Street, next door to . airs. L.anich s Hotel, wbere she will be 01 a7 40 receiT orders for cither work or goods. UII bonneu made rtit into th latest New York Philadelphia styles, one asmg often she will alwaj 1 short notice. By pur- ?ry utegt etyeg of Dregg Trimmings, HaU, Nu s. Hoods, Collars. Sleeves, Ae., which she will ii i at the smallest possible nrofit for oaah Ue8ld, Pa. N0T. 18. ifcgj ONE SWEETLY SOLEMN THOUGHT. One sweetly solemn thought Coines to me o"er and o'er ; I'm nearer my home to-day Than I ever was before ! Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions bo ; Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal eca ! Nearer the bound of life, AVhcre we lay our burdens down ; Nearer leaving the cress, Nearer wearing tho crown ! But lying darkly between, Winding down through the night, Is tho dark and shadowy stream That bursts at last into light ! Father, perfect my love ; Strengthen the might of mj faith ; Let me feel as I would when I stand On the rock of tho shore of death Feel as I would when my feet Are slipping over the brink ; For it may be that I in nearer homo. Nearer now than I think ! BESIGNATION Or SENATOR WHITE. The flag of truce boat having arrived on Saturday evening, January 30th, with the information that the rebels refused to ex change Maj. "White on the very terms they had previously proposed, his lather, J udge White, transmitted the resignation, wluch wo publish below, at once to Speaker Pen nej', through Senator Lowry. The docu ment is closely written on both sides of a half sheet of small commercial note paper, says the llarrisburg Telegraph, and the folds bear evidence that it has been carefully con cealed in a small compass. It was brought from Richmond by an exchanged captain, who had it carefully concealed in his shoul der strap, and the rebels were thus ingeni ously thwarted in their base attempt to pre vent the resignation from being sent. l'he entire letter is written by Harry White, whose hand writing is well known. - The letter of Judge AVhite, (the father of Major Harry White,) which precedes the resigna tion of tho Senator from Indiana district,' will be found highly interesting, as explana tory of the delay attending the publicity of that document ; and with this comment we Hiibmit the whole correspondence to the public : IlARRISBURG, Feb. 1, ISC) I. Hon. John P. Penney-, Speaker of the Senate nf Pennsylvania: Silt : In tendering you the resignation of Major Harry White, of his seat as a mem ler of the Senate of Pennsylvania, a few words in explanation of the delay may not be improper. Although dated on the lGth November last, it dil not reach me for more than a month after that period, and being then en gaged in endeavoring, through a private channel, to effect his release, with every prospect of success, tho delivery of the res ignation was postioned. That effort, throusrh an unfortunate event, failed. But at that time an effort was being made by the General Government, which I, in com mon with others to whom it was known, had every reason to believe and to hope would be successful, and trouble and expense would be thus saved to the Commonwealth, and the Senate would be in a position to do busi-ne:-? sooner than by any other course. The result is known, and therefore I hand you the resignation of Major Harry White, which hasnevcr been out of my possession for a single moment since I received it. Throughout the whole transaction I have acted in good faith, from the purest motives and without any view of self-interest. The document was sent to me to be used at such time and in such manner as in my discretion I should think proper. lie is a son for whom I feel the the most tender affection. He has a family whose feelings have been most painfully exercised during his prolonged captivity, and I had every reason to believe as well as to hope that public interest would not suffer by with holding this resignation for a short time. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, . Thomas White. Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., Nov. 1863. ) Hon. J. 1'. PennEY-, Spealccr of the Senate of I'ennsihnnia. My Dear Sir : Considerations I shall briefly state, make it prudent and proper for me to tender my resignation as a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania. After the ad journment of our Legislature last spring, I rejoined my regiment and resumed my mili tary duties in the field. Upon the advance of General Lee's army in J une last into the Shenandoah valley, on his Pennsylvania campaign, the forces with which I was con nected ere ordered to Winchester, and in the battle at that place I fell into the hands of the enemy as a prisoner of war, with oth er Federal officers. I was immediately sent to Richmond, and since the twenty-third of June, have remained as a prisoner in the "Libby." No general exchange of prison ers has taken place in the meantime, nor does any appear to me in early prospect Shut off for long months from friends and the outer world, I have yet not leen entirely ig norant of passing events. The recent elec tion in our State has, I learn, altered some what from the last session the political com plexion of our Senate. My absence, it seems, gives to each party represented there 1 cti-ontrfli Tliia will in nil probability, embarrass organization anrlc-1 lay necessary icgisjawun. x lcgitu cit ation, and am unwilling my present politi cal misfortune should in any way affect pub lic interests, or interrupt, for a moment, that cordial co-operation oetwecn our State and National Government, so necessary in this crisis. It is true some time irmst yet elapse before my presence in Harmburg is actually required, yet, as I have no hope of release by general exchange, the Richmond authorities, I am convinced, will retain me as long as possible, because I am a Senator and my vote important under the circum stances, it behooves me to do what I can to relieve the difficulty likely to result from my continued imprisonment. I am sure you will not doubt me when I confess it would be much more acceptable to my tastes and feeling, to spend the months of the coming winter in active legislation in our Senate Chamber, than to languish within the gloomy walls of a Southern prison. My present situation places the less agreeable alterna tive in prospect,' and I see but one solution to the difficulty. Other and greatcrinterests are involved in this matter than my personal comfort and private inclinations. My health, my life are nothing to the success of those great principles I was elected to represent. The good people of my district are chiefly interested in this matter, and my duty to them in the premises has given mo many an hour of anxious solicitude in this weary prison life. I cannot now in any way con sult with them. They should, however, not at this time go unrepresented. Their gen erous confidence was but recently given me, and they will, I trust, give the approval of their voice to the step I now take, and se lect as my successor one who will be as faith ful to their interests and the great cause of our country as I, at least, desired to he. Be pleased, therefore, to accept my resignation as a Senator from the Twenty-first Senatori al District. Pe kind enough to convey to my brother Senators assurances of respect and esteem. Tell them, "though cast down, I am not dismayed. Though in bonds, I am full of hope." Tell them my prayer and trust is that no word or deed may go out of the counsels of your Senate to weak en the ami or make faint the heart of those brave soldiers of the Union who are bearing in the field a sure and triumphant success, tho greatest strength of history. Accept, my dear sir, my kindest wishes for your good health and future prosperity. I am yours truly, Harry White. How to Treat Frozen Limbs. The New York Evening Post, in an arti cle on this subject, says that frozen limbs should never be rubbed. The juices of the fleshy tissues, when frozen in their minute sacs or cells, at once become in each of these enclosures cr3'stals, having a large number of angles and sharp points ; and hence rubbing the flesh causes them to cut or tear their way through the tissues, so that when it is thawed, the structure of the muscle is more or less destroyed. The proper mode of treatment is thus stated : hen any part of the body is frozcn; it should be kept ter fectly quiet till it is thawed out, which should be done as promptly as possible. As freezing take3 place from the surface inward ly, so thawing should be in the reverse or der, from the inside outwardly. The thaw ing out of a portion of flesh, without at the same time putting the blood from the heart into circulation through it, produces mor tification ; but by keeping the more external parts congealed till the internal blood gradu ally softens the more interior parts, and pro duce circulation of the blood as fast as thaw ing takes place, most of these dangers arc obviated. Hunting Conscripts with Dog3. The Army and Navy Jmmud publishes the following extract from a cavalry officer's letter, written from South-west Tennessee : "I have been out with my regiment scout ing fur three weeks in the region lying be tween the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, northeast of Memphis. For the first few days we were after a guerrilla company, who were engaged in hunting up, or hunting down, conscripts with dogs. Brutal and horrible as it may seem, it is nevertheless strictly true, and you may rely uion it, that at this very hour, hundreds of the people of West Tennessee, Mississippi, and Ala bama, are being hunted down with blood hounds. I could not realize it until by the most positive evidence I find it true. We were once almost within hearing of" the bay ing of the hounds sent out a scouting party, who came very near catching some of the devils. If they had been caught, they would have received short shrift" A Question Answered. Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, in a lecture on "Du ty and Destiny," delivered in Brooklyn last week, before the Long Island Historical So ciety, met the question of "What shall be done with four millions of emancipated slaves?" by asking, "What shall be done with all the red-whiskered men, all the blue eyed men, all the white-haired men ?' ' This question, he added, was as sensible as the other, and both were the same kind of sense which was nonsense. He conceived that there was no difficulty in answering either query ; the freed blacks, like the free whites, would do honest work for honest pay. So that problem would solve itself. The issue of this war, he said, was to be chaos or cos mos, and he thought it would be cosmos. What we Have Won Back. The three States, Louisianna, Arkansas and Tennessee, the people of which are now preparing to re establish civil government as free States and within the Union, have an area of 1 39,023 square miles a territory a third greater in extent than the island of Great Britain, and 1.t 1,;t.,1 laca fli?Ti frnnne. All this re- uiuji c wuu . ---- - . gion is, by the voluntary action of the loyal people who have been taugnt wisaom vy sunenng aevoieu to iiueny , ui quickly be sought out by freemen from Eu rope, who will make homes and indepen dence in this pleasant and fertile country for themselves ana tneir iamuies. Since July last between one huudred and thirty and one hundred and forty heavy guns have been landed on Morris Island, Charles ton harbor. One of the guns weighed 2 555 pounds. Gov. Andrew Johnson on Slavery and Com .pensated Labor. In the course of a speech at an Eighth of January celebration in Nashville, Tenn., Governor Johnson remarked as follows on the progress of opinion in Tennessee : Before the rebellion we could discuss all institutions, all subjects, all measures, except slavery. On that subject no one dared speak, or write, or print, except on the side of the slave aristoracy. Now, thank God, the time has come when the nress is unmuz zled when the press can discuss" this and all other subjects. The time has come when this institution is dead when the chains are broken and the cantive set free. Applause. The institution is dead ap plause and slaves are not worth a quarter oi a dollar a dozen.. .Laughter. J Ueing dead, let us, in a becoming manner, prepare for the funeral. Now is the time to dis pose of this great question. It is a great principle of human freedom ; not by aboh tionists in the North, nor by secessionists in the feouth, but by that great law of self- preservation which governs all men alike. Slavery is a cancer upon the body politic. which must be rooted out before perfect health can be restored. 1 lie great law 1 refer to is now at work, and negroes and all things else which may be in the way, to im pede its course, must get out. Don t go to investing, but find out the principles of that law, and conform your actions thereto. In the same speech Governor Johnson gave slaveholders the following sound ad vice : The Union and the Constitution must be preserved intact. I have owned slaves slaves that I bought with my own money money earned by myself, a xuarter of a dol lar at a time. They were confiscated and sold yet two of them ran away form the rebel dominions and came here to me. I hired them made a bargain with them for their labor, and thus recognized their freedom. And I find they do better than when they were slaves. Now, if any ot you are slave owners, I advise you to go and do likewise, while you have the chance. Hire your ne groes to work for you, and you will find they will do better labor for you than when they were slaves. By this means you will do your part in this great trancaction to teach them sc-lf-reliance. The edict has gone forth, and all that remains to be done is to change the relation of master and slave. The day is not 1'uYdistant when this nation will be the great centre ot civilization, of the arts and sci enccs, and of true religion. Time was when the tide of emigration ran westward ; tho time will soon be when it will run southward. Let us go on with our mighty work. To talk about breaking up a government like this for slavery ! 'Tis madness. Let it go on with its great mission. Workings of the Amnesty Proclamation. The Amnesty Proclamation is producing visible effects in the ranks of the rebel ar mies. The increase of desertions is attribu table, mainly, to this cause. The average daily desertions from Johnson's army is over forty. An officer just from Knoxvrtle, in forms the Cincinnati Commercial that even th cavalry pickets of Longstreet are com ing in, horses and all, and that the infantry are not trusted on the outixst picket lines, Deserters report that they sometimes leave in squads of fifty, taking their arms with them, and make for the Smoky Mountains, and the mountainous and sparsely-inhabited regions of Virginia. The desertions are chiefly from Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis sippi, Louisiana and Virginia regiments. When the amnesty was first promulgated. the Richmond papers made light of it, and did not hesitate to publish it ; an indiscre tion which has not been repeated by other newspaiH?rs in rebcldom, as it was discover ed te be demoralizing to their armies. That the rebels do not now consider it a trivial af fair, or the conditions so exacting that they will not be accepted by the rank and hie on first opportunity, is clear from the corres- Iiondeiicc between Generals Longstreet and Foster, in. which the former protests against the circulation of the document . within his lines. So anxious, indeed, have Ikjcii his solu.icrs to see the amnesty, that a numler of subordinate officers recently accompanied a flag of truce to General Foster's lines to. procure copies of it to take with them to their camps. They were privatehjfceupplicd with as many as they could conceal from the observations of their su)erior officers. It is, probably, because the proclamation is so effectual an aid in the work of putting down the rebellion that Northern fJonserva tive newspapers find so much in it that is objectionable. It is satisfactory to know that what they have to urge against it does not diminish the number of those who ac cept its conditions. Perhaps a few weeks' sojourn in Dixie would enable them to see the liberal character of the amnesty, and rcn dcrthcni less particular about terms. There could be no objection to their trying the ex periment, that we know of. Their tempo rary absence in that direction would not cause any considerable regret, if it would cure them of their chronic spleen against every act of the Administration. At Gettysburg 2S,000 muskets were taken. Of these, 24,000 were'found to be loaded. 13,000 containing two loads, and 6,- 000 from three to ten loads. In many in stances, half a dozen balls were driven in on a single charge of powder. In some cases the former nossessor had reversed the usual order, placing the ball at the bottom of the barrel and the powder on top. A Des Moines. Iowa, dispatch says the Republican State Convention, to be held on the 23d of February, will be unanimous for the re-nomination of' President Lincoln. Mink skins, which a few years ago sold for a quarter, now bring from four to seven dollars. CONSERVATISM. The Hon. John Minor Botts, of Vir ginia, is, by no means, an ordinary man. Surrounded by the rebellion, he has preser ved his loyal convictions intact, and through out all the vicissitudes of the war this brave old gentleman has had a steadfast, philo sophic, obstinate faith in the ultimate tri umph of the Union. He has borne his part alone, and, an exile even among his own conntrymen, has had only his conscientious self-approval and self-reliance to comfort and support him. This one man has alone con fronted the rebel Government, and not even his enemies can impeach his sterling honor and integrity. Lately he declined the Scna torship offered to him by the loyal people of Virginia, preferring to bide that certain time when he "may be able to aid in healing the animosities of the two sections. " The following is a notable part of the summary of his recent letter to the Hon. G. S. Smith, Treasurer of the Virginia State Govern ment : In a conversation with Mr. Botts, he sta ted that never for a single instant during this war, has he doubted the final result His opia ion of Geo. B. McClellan is not at all complimentary to thnt gentleman, idiom he regards, if not positively disloyal at heart, at feast in the light of an amJjitious aspirant for undeserved honors. Mr. Botts stated that lie beliced that the majority of the Iicbel army regarded McCLEIXAN is being as tru ly devoted to their interest at RoBET E. Lee, and that a man -ichft would not, when his name icas used in connection icith DAVIS, Valandioham, Wood and oticrs of the same political complexion, come out boldly and disclaim the association, was tnfaly unfit to be commander of a Union army, Mr. Botts says that of all the promises made to the Southern people by the leaders of Secession, ouIy- one may possibly be fulfilled. The promise referred to is the one of Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, who, it will be remem bered, said he would yet call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill Monument. Mr. Botts thinks that if President Lin coln will collect the slaves of Mr. Toombs, and permit him to visit thcNorth, the proph ecy may be fulfilled. We beg to compare this opinion of a Southern Conservative, after the loyal heart, with the amusing, but extraordinary letter of Gen. McClellan to the President, July 7th 18G2: "Neither confiscation of property political executions of prisoners, territorial organiza tions of States, or forcible alolition of slave ry should be contemplated for a moment Unless the principles governing he future conduct of our struggle shall be made known and apprvl, the effort to obtain requisite forces wnne almost hopeless. A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies." Unquestionably, there is a great difference between the conservatism which prefers ex ile in Virginia to that which is sent to Trenton and Canada. Lady Clerks. In regard to the employment by Secreta ry Chase of ladies as clerks in the Treasury Department, a correspondent of the Wash ington Rcpublicansnvs: While half-crazed enthusiasts arc talking about woman's rights Gov. Chase has shown his desire to introduce'thc gentler sex into new spheres of usefulness, by apointing ladies as clerks m his department. Excellent clerks they make, too, actually talking less and writing more than some of their gentlemen associates. Some forty years ago, (so the old clerks tell me, ) when Wm. 1 f. Crawford was Secreta ry of the Treasury, and a candidate for the Presidential chair, his amanuensis and con fidential clerk was his daughter Caroline, afterward Mrs. Dudley. She not only wrote his private letters, but, during a year that he was in bad health, signed his name to the many papers requiring his signature. There is said to have been a striking resem blance between Miss Crawford's handwriting and that of her father, and the clerks in the department could not detect the difference in the signatures. Gov. Chase pay not be equally fortunate in harving a private secre tary, "but he deserves high honor forgiving employment to capable and deserving young ladies at this time, when able-bodied men are needed in the field. Let the Heads of other Departments follow his example. A Hartford paper tells a good story of a ten-cent currency note one of the new is sue which was shown to a clergyman, a day or two ago, as a curiosity. "Is that a counterfeit" he inquired- "No: that's one of the new ten-cent bills." "Well," said the clergyman, with a comical look, as if he smelt the joke in the distance, "there was a contribution at mv church last Sun day, and we found one of those bills in the box. The deacon and L botu tnougnt it counterfeit, and tore it up. " Tho Mirtrncan legislature propose to ap propriate $3,500. towards laying out and beautifying that part of the Gettysburg Cemetery allotted to that State. In Nevada, artesian wells are bored hori zontally into mountain sides, instead of per- Cendicularly into the ground. Several valu le "veins have been struck. Rev. James Paley, son of the celebrated Arch Deacon Paley, died lately in England at the age of 80. Some natholotrists claim that dintheria has been occasioned by the intrcductionani use of kerosene ou. How to Cure a Smoky Chimney. For hard lying, the following cant be lx'at. A correspondent, who lives in New Hampshire, states that in those parts resides a man called Joe, a fellow noted for the tough lies he can tell, and as a sample, re lates the following : Joe called at Ilolton's one day, and found him almost choked with smoke, when lie suggested "You don't know as much about man aging smoky chimneys as I do, squire or you'd cure 'em." "Ah," said Holton. with interest, "did you ever see a smoky chimney cured?" "Seen a smoky chimney cured?" said old Joe. "I think I have! 1 had the worst one in Sealxard county once, and I cured it a lit tle too much."-1 "How was that?" asked Holton.- "Why you see," said Joe, "you see, I built a little house out yonder at Wolf Hol low, ten or twelve years ago. Jim Bush, the fellow that built the chimney, kept blind drunk three quarters of the time, and crazy drunk the other. I told him that lie would have something wrong, but he stuck to it and finished the house Well, we moved in, and built a fire the next morning to boil the tea-kettle. All the smoke came through the room and went out of tho windows ; not a bit went up the flues.- We tried it for two or three days, and it got worse and worse. By-and-by it came on to' rain, and the rain beguu to come down the chimney. It put the fire out in a iuinwtc, and directly it came down by the pailful. We had to get the baby off the floor as soon as we could, or it would have been drowncd. In fifteen minutes tho water stood knee-deep on the floor. Then I went out and took a look. It didn't rain half so hard outside, and I pretty soon see what was the matter. The drunken cuss liad. put the chimney wrong endup, and it dra wed downwards ; it gathered all tlve rain within a hundred yards, and poured it down by tlie buckets ful.' "Well, that was unfortunate," remarked Holton. "But what in the world did you do with the house? Surely, you never cured . that chimney ?' "Didn't I, though, f answered old Joe. "Yes, I did" "How," asked Holton. "Turned it the other end up," said the incorrigible, "and then your ought to have seen it draw. That was the way I cured it too much." "Drew too much?" asked Holton. "Well, squire, you may judge for your self," said old Joe. "Pretty soon after we got the chimney down and the other end up, I missed one of tho chairs out of the roomT and directly I see another of em shooten to wards the lire place. Next the table went, and I seen the back log going up Then I grabbed the old woman under one arm ami the baby under t'other, and started ; but just as I git to the door, I seen the cat go ing across the floor backwards, holding oa with her claws to tlie carpet, yelling awfully. It wasn't no use. I just seen her going over the top of the chimney, and that wag last of her. "Well, what did you do then?" asked Holton. "Of course you couldn't live in such a house?" "Couldn't I, though?" said Joe ; bat I did. I put a iKHilticc on the jam of the fire place, and that drawd t'other way ; so wc mid no more trouble." What is a Copperhead ? "A Union Democrat" finds this word ut terly "without souse," and asks us to give its definition. It strikes us that he should have first ascertained the meaning of a word before he pronounces so decidedly on its significances. We will try to give it in dic tionary form, as follows : CorrEKHEAD : n 1. A very poisonous jf; and malignant snake, who strikes without warning, and whose bite is almost certain death. 2. A human serjxmt, who hates those who stand up for their country against the dead ly assaults of Slavcholding treason, and pierces them with his poisonous fangs wher ever he can and dare. Kramples Those who hurrah for Jeff Davis in loyal communities ; those who pub licly huzza fof McClellan but privately, and among their intimate cronies, avow that they hope to sec Lee's army marching up Broadway and Jeff, receiving an ovation at the City Hall ; those who propose to send embassies to Richmond, ostensibly in quest of "Peace," but really to encourage the reb els to hold out and await the chances of the Presidential election ; those who burned houses and hunted " unoffending negroes in our streets, diversifying the slaughter and maiming of those by processions to cheer under the windows of (Jen. McClellan. Now don't you sec that "Copperhead" is one of the most significant words in our language? Ar. IT Iribitne. Iceland has a population of seventy thou sand, four printing presses, and four news papers. So much attention is devoted to educating the young, that it is almost im possible to find a child of eight years of age who does not read or write. In the Ohio Legislature ten "conserva tives" have been ousted from their seat?, and four others are to be similar disposed of, having got in by the refusal of election clerks to count soldiers' votes. The new official map of France Is now fin ished. The immense work, executed by the S general staff of the army, has occupied near y sixty years. . ' ........ V.J.W ... IMU 4V'UIIUiVllbVl the Gulf have been sunnlied with Kanifarv stores by Governor Morton. The sleep of the mominir, the wine of noon, and the company of the rvil, destroy mankind.
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