VOLUME A HORRIBLE CHAPTER OF CRIME, Twenty-tfireo Persons Murdered Seriatim. [From the Loudon Globe.] On the 11 th of January last, a mid dle aged widow lady iu Paris, Madam Midy, by profession a jiaintcr, narrowly escaped being mftrdered. A man who had lately been in bet' hotise as a work man. iu the'employment of a frame ma ker whom sl>c patronized, was the inten ded murderer? and he had doubtless been tempted to the deed in order to rob the victim of some small but valuable paint ings which had been trusted to her by a Polish prince. He cabled under pretense of looking for a tool which he had acci dentally left behind. Not Jinding it he drew from his pocket a bolster cover,ask ing the lady if it did not belong to her; and, as she turned awny. annoyed by hi* (■|Uostion.'-,b« took the opportunity to throw the cloth over her head so as to cover it, at the same time placing ono hand on her neck ami the other on her mouth staffing the linen down her throat so as to stifle her cries. She had been able to scream a little, however, and her screams, the noise of the scuffle, and the ol her fall on the floor, brought a brother painter —the Sieur Vauchelet —who was in an adjoining apartment, to her assist ance. The piisoncr, thus interrupted, coolly walked ay,ay. merely saying that the lady was ill; but he was followed and arrested. The police soou idoniitkd hiui as the mau who was "w uitcd" for a hor rid murder committed a few days before, and a little more investigating proved their prisoner, Joseph Philippe by nam", to be one of those g?eat criminals of the Dumollard type, who commit murdei by wholesale, partly from pure blood thirst inc.-s o,f nature, and partly lor the ]-4"- dcr jrid outrage of thoir victims. His trial has just taken place under one ol the most formidable atten tianusitlioii which the ingenuity ot French lawyers has constructed, ihe prisoner s appo i a nee and antecedents quite el>rre:- t »oiid with t!,„ ast epoch of his history. He is a short, lli.ok .-.tit man, ruh black cio.-ply cut beard an i lUi.ustaehe, lu\v forehead, deep .-et eyes, diu k lips, unu genofu|ly a ferocious look.although drc.-s ed iu the garb of a well to do workman. Horn in 1821, so that he is thirty-five years of age, he was taken for the mili tary service in lSfiii. condemned iu 1856 to a year's imprisonment for misconduct, ami enrolled soon ((('tor iu one ol those terrible battalions d'Afriquo iuto which the scoundrels of the French army are drafted. He returned to Paris iu 1861, ail J hiiS muce becu in numerous situations iis groom, couk, general servant, and yvare-house messenger, but staying long iu none on acoountof his drunken hab its. The idea of liviug by murder and robbery appears to have originated in the nooessitie; of his poverty when out of employment; and his system is novel, as tJi? first attempt lo take advantage of n certain lcature in our social life. The murderer, two years ago, at Florence, victimized lodging house keepers, "vhoni ho found out as a faincunt lodger, and whom he was enabled to murder on ac count of their loucly position. Joseph Philippe selected for his operations the class of uniortunates whose degrcdatiou and isolation, and, the peculiarities o! their miserable trade, expose in a high degree to the danger of assassination.— The Waterloo road murder, and the more I'ccpnt murder ol Emma Jackon, exem plify among ourselves what these dan gers amount to. lint the prisoner is the first to have seen in the facts the ehaqce of li\*iug. From the evidence now ob tained, it is certain that ho did act on system. More than two years ogo he re yealed his secret to one of these females in the weakness of intoxication. 'T love .women well," he said, "and I do for them well. I stuff tjieir mouth - and cut their throats. Wait a bit. and you will hear me talked about." What passod for grii.-i jest has become a too horrid ' reality,— Several unfortunates had perished in Paris since 1861, strangled, or with throats cut, but it is only within the last two years that casts have been fouud iu which there is proof against the prison er. There arc three distinct cases, oue of them a double tnurder, in which the infant of one of his victims was also'kill ed, and the circumstances are much jilijte in all - Three days before his apprehen sion he accosted, at 11 o'clock in the evening, iu the Rue de Ville I'Eveque, a girl named Marie Victoire Rodeux; soon afterward he was seen entering the build ing on that srruot, iu which were her apartments, and a quarter of au hour la ier he was observed to leave, by an old jnati who lived iu thq }) juse, aud \;ho wanted to eee tljf; girl. This uiajj, enter ing her upartuieut, discovered her 09 the iloor, with her throat frightfully gashed, »nd the niarks of bloed-stained fingers ■ • ■ ■ . <JLJ. ■ J 1 t j Hill nw" AMERICAN CITIZEN. "Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,-dare to do our duty wa understand it"-«A. Linooik. on the drawers. and their content*.which, as well as the mattress on the bed, had been rummaged fur valuables. It was fo\ind that the murdered woman's purse, containing and several articles o' Jewvlry, had been stolen t and, luckily, there were found in the prisoner's pos . sufficient articles to identify him. Before leaving he had had time to wash his bauds in a basin which stood on the dressing table in the apartment. The two othor murders with which he is con nected "*ore committed in the spring of 1864. One morning in April that year, an unfortunate,named Julie Roberts, not having appeared since the pveniug of the day before, was found in'her apartment in the Hue St Joseph with her throat cut in « similar fashion to that of the girl Bodeux—hef pockets and the whole apartment bearing marks of hasty rifling, and the handbnrin in like manner marked with blood stains. The prisoner is said to have taken with him a handkerchief which has been identified as the deeeas. ed's property, and he is proved to have been spending money freely at the time, alfliotogh be had but newly entered on an employment after a term of idleness, and bad yet received no wages. His strange deineatior and agitation at the time have ;>!«."> been remembered against him. The ir."t:t horrible affair of all was the murder in November following, in the llue St. Maigueiite, of a woman named «Muge, and her two-v in - old child. On Sunday morning in that in onth, woikrticn passing to their work observed for a moment a woman iu her elremiiSat a window hoarse- ly crying out and gesticulating strangely; but thinking she was drunk or mad, they passed on. She was neither drunk uoi mad, but in tho fatal grasp of a murder er. Nor <iiJ her cries bring the assis tance of neighbors. Half an hour after, a man resembling the prisoner was seen to descend from the house and depart, If iving the key of tile apartment on the lundiiiv There was some suspicion, and oi■ !.! , -iT'iivee ' mole, tho two bod ie.N wcr< I'm 1 hoi;i* ly mutilated anil bin -c i —the w mm uaviflg pla nly gone through a tivnifii ions struggle before her antagonist succeeded. There were the same marks of rifling left as in the other ease.-, showing the same author. The prisoner was not only identified by those who saw him leaving, but another uufor tunate whom he had addressed the same evening, had been so frightened at his looks that she would not take him home, and had seen him afterwards going home with tllP deceased. She was not tho only woman of her class who testifies fo hav ing been saved from probable murder by a similar fear. The strangest fact of all remains, and that is the horror of the prisoner at his cyn crimes. His sleep was disturbed by frightful dreams. Af ter the last mentioned murder those in the houso \*hcrc he lodged heard him raising frightful cries, as if some bloody apparition had appeared beforo him. He plunged into deeper debauches drown the terrors of his conscience. One would almost have expected that so wholesale a criminal would have been more har dened. Such is one of the most fright ful chapters of crime that has lately been recorded. The prisoner, we learn, is not to escape the least penalty of the law, al though it is considered that the ISG4 cases are not quite established against him.— Kven a French jury has found it impos sille to give him the benefit of extenua ting circumstances. We must also remark that the affair is by no means creditable to the French po lice. There arc said to have been 21 cases since 1861, but they all failed to find out the murderers, or rather murder er, since the records all showed a striking similarity of method. ALLEQKD HOUSE TIIIEF TAKEN.— A horse belonging to John Zimmerman, of Lawrenccville, was stolen fiom Iron City I'ark. ou Tuesday uight, where it had been placed iu pasture. Officers Scott and Hague wero notified of the theft, and immediately set about finding the missing animal. After considerable March they went to Andrew Jaekman's livery sta.ble, on l'eun street, where they found an jqdividual named William Freel eudeuvoring to sell the stolen horse to a countryman for the small sum of S9O. hreei Has taken into custody and locked up for a hearing.—/"V'fa. Gazette. A palifornia paper states that a largo lake has been discoyered in that State, f»:nin the waters of which can be obtained a quantity of borax with-; out much trouble, and iu a state of al tnijst übsolutg purity. Oonsidcrin:; the fact that the world is now depi nden on the lagoons of Tuscany for its borax,and the contingency that this foreign Bupply may at any time be cut off, this discov ery is one of no little importance BUTLER. ISUTLEU COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY or,, lBfiG. Proposala for a New Party. The President and part of the Execu tive Committee of the National Union Club e!' Washington, in concert with two Democratic Senators, have issued propo sals for a new party. They invite the assembly of a Convention in Philadelphia on the 14th of August, to consult upon the state of the Union. In their call ihese geutlemen state several principles up(sn which all patriotic men agree, and they omit several which are peculiar to the Union party. The proposals for the new party are plainly hostile to the action of Cohgress, which was elected t»y an enormous majority of the Union party, and be supposed to represent its views more faithfully than Senators llendricks of Indiaua and Nesuiith of Oregon, who opposed that party last year at the polls, and who oppose its measures in Congress. The effort to represent this call as vir tually an act of the great Union party of the country is simply dishonest. Mr. Hendricks and Mr. Nesmith have never assumed to belong to that party. That party, moreover, has its organization and Kjecutivp C omm ittee, and its Conven tions are legitimately called only by that Committee. The officers of the National Union Club of Washington have exactly as much risrht to speak fur the Democratic ns tor the Union party; a:;B the fact tjiat they have hitherto acted with the Union party or.ly shows that they now consider themselves to have withdrawn from it; for why, otherwise, should they seek sep arate and indenendont notion? It is only against false pretenses that we wish to warn our readers. The gen tlemen in question have an undoubted right to their opinions upon all subjects, and an equal right to call conventions of those who sympathize with them, ll they nre alarmed by a prospect of "usurp ation" and "centralization of power" by the National Legislature, and are indif ferent to the same danger from the Ex ecutive, they may not be very wiso, but 111<fy have certainly a right to hold and express that view. 13ut if we >qay judge from the resolutions of Uuiou Conven tions, from the speeches of successful Union candidates, from the almost unan imous tone of the Uniqu press, and from the impressions of private intercourse with representative Knion men, Congressional usurpation is not teareJ by the Union party; and to represent a Convention call ed under such an apprehension a move ment for the readjustment of that party is a gross and dangerous misrepresenta tion. Such a Convention can be only a bridge by which those Union men who hold with Alexander 11. Stephens that a State which has been in rebellion has "a continuing right" to resume its rplations with the Union without delay or condi tion, may pass over to the camp in which >lr. Stephen's principles upon that sub ject prevail. But can Senator Doolittle, who signs the call, be supposed to speak the sentiments of the Union party in Wisconsin, controlled by that party, has asked him to resign 1 Or does Senator Dixou speak for the Union men of Connecticut, who elected General II aw ley Governor, and whose legislature made General Terry Senator, and adopted—first of all tho Stati s —the Constitutional Amendment to which all the signers of this call are opposed ? The now party, if it is ever born, can net, of course, stand upon its own leg-* It will be at once taken to the breast of thq party which opposed the war for the Union, and which denounced Mr. Liu coln aud Mr Johnson as usurpers and tyrants, and it will be carried, helpless, wherever that party chooses. There wi'l not be three parties in the coming Con gressional elections; aud even if the par ty of the Washington Club should at tempt for a time to stand as a third, it could be only to the do'rimcut of the Union party, not of the Copperheads.— The contest will finally be between those who support the amendment and those who oppose it. Those who oppose it are the late rebels, not the Uniou men at the South, and our friends the Chicago Cop perhcads at the North. The members of tho Washington Club party must join these, of they must vote with their old allies of the Union party. They may disable the latter, but they can not injure the lormer, and wo should really like to know whether Mr. llaudall and Senators Dixon feud Doolittle sincerely believe that union and liberty, in this country, are safer in the hands of the late rebels and the opponents of the war than in those of the Union party, however tpwiso some of measures may haye been, and how ever foolishly some of iU Congressional leaders may have spoken.— Harper's Wttkly. —*' y r —A cockney's epitaph upon his cook ; " Peace to her hashes." detect §?octvy. STREET CAR SCENE. • I saw lrer In the crowdeflcar, I #fver saw her u^orc; Sbo didn't arem to care a cu« Tf I sat on the floor. For.nijJi one 1 >uk who lifted me, My plaro the occupied, She spcea l her ekir t. o'er two tr three More seats on either aide . ,112 Ani'thef kok—l p*ii*ed her fttro # And punted her back the change; • She took Jt frofn my hand—l swear— AH if I Imd the mange. She locked—" Just rin< th:\t bell, I say,'' C«>u!d I that ledk refuse? She calmly rose und picked ber way Among the boots and shoes. I \yatrh«*i till she the corner turned. And I hen with some chagrin Swore to myself, il may 1 be darned If I do tfuit again I" WIT AND WISDOM. —A wife's farevWll to her husbind on his going out—" Buy, buy." —Tlio rain contiuues to fall; whila all a ound the diamond did and babies squall. —A true picture of despair is a pig reaching through a hole in the fence to get a cabbage that lies a few inches be yond his reach. —The following is an Irishman's des cription of making a cannon : "Take n long hole and pour brass or iron all around it" —An Irishman, giving hy testimony in one of out courts, a few days since, in a riot «case, said, " lie jabers, the first man I saw coming at me, when I got up, was two brick-bats." —A Landlady, whohad some very weak chicken broth for dinner, the othor day, was asked by a wag of a boarder if she couldn't <;oax that chicken to wade thro' that soup once more. A Scotchman asked an Irishman, "Why were half-farthings coined in Eng land ?" Pat's answer was,"To give Scotchmen an opportunity oT subscribing to charitable institutions." —A punster says :" My nante is Sotn erset. lam a miserable bachelor. I can not marry; for how could I hope to pre vail on a young lady, possessed of the slightest notion of delicacy, to turn a Somerset." A country girl recently asked a city acquaintance togo with her to purchase some articles, and to act as spokes-woman. They entered a shop and the city girl asked—"haye you any hose ?" " 1 don't want hoes," said the country maiden, " I want stockings." —The following recipe, for destroying bed bugs and uiu?quitoes, is copied from Glenn's diary : " Buy nineteen barrels of molasses or tar and spread it all over the wall and beds; then get up about ono o'clock ar}d get your maul; come up and give each ono a huudred pound crack over the left car." —Said Quilp to a young "swell," pluming himself on receiving an invita tion from a lady to accouipauy her to Professor illtit'a cookery lectio ; "I pre sumed without doubt you would receive such an invitation from some one."— "Ah?" rejoined the exquisite, inquir ingly. " Yes, when I read that each la dy was requested to bring with her a pen cil, paper, and—a spoon." " Yes ?" still inquiringly. ('That's all," replied Quilp, as he left the bewildprcd yout)g Riari. —An Irishman having accidentally broken a pane of glass iu a wiudow was making the best of his way to get out oi sight as well as m : nd; but. unfortunately for Pat, the proprietor stole a march on liim, and having seized him b}' tl;e pol lar, exclaimed: '• i ou broke my window, fellow, did you not ?" "To be sure 1 did," Baid Pat; "and didn't you see me runuiug home for mon ey to pay for it 1" ANECDOTE OF DB. EMMONS. —A Pan theist minister met him one day and ab ruptly asked : " Mr. Emmons, old you ? " Sixty, sir; and how old are you ?" " As old as the creation." "'as the an swer in a triumphant tone. f'Then you are the same age with Adam and Eve?" " Certainly , I was in the garden when they were." " I have always heard that there was a third person in the garden with them," replied the doctor with great coolness, " buf lucver knew before that it win yuu." —The following says the Sunny South, is an inscription iu the cemetry at Scooba: tho rottin not forgotton ; But it hardly comes up to another in a village church-yard in Georgia opin yer ies for hore lies all that ken rot j-ite where she £ot ■when she wos happy— Our Lisa Jane kalled home again to jine her papy hive so that you and 1 may tu Jine them at)d forever pray ££in chills and kollera Prussia, Austria, and Italy. The great war now beguu in Europe is, with t!ie solo exception of the Italian p-.a-t of it. as purely n war of political auibitipn as Europe has ever seen. We | not believe Lftuis Napoleon to be the onljr ambitious and able niau in Europe, nud therefore wo do not hold him exclu sively responsible. But doubtless the meeting of some months ago between lli.smirtk and Napoleon had a very sig uificant bearing upon the present situa- j tion. If they had not both been ready i aud will.ng to make war tho peace would ! not have been broken. The tieaty whioh settlbd the ohleswig ; Ilolstein war was signed at Vienna on the I 30th October, 1804. Schleswig-llolstein and Lauenburg were ceded by that treaty to the joint protectorate of Prussia and Austria. Within tho year following Austria sold to Prussia her rights in Lau enburg for 2,500,000 thalerg, and by the Convention of Gastein of August 15, 1865, it was agreed that the joint occu pation should cease, Austria taking pos session of Ilalstein and Prussia of Sehe leswig. Prussia then began to press Aus tria to yield her rights in Holstein, which Austria refused, and referred the ques tion to the Federal Diet of Germqny.— This Prussia denounced as a violation of tho Convention of Oastein, aud prepared to march troops into Holstein to resume the joint occupation. 'I hereupon Aus taia moved in the Federal Diet that the Federal army be put upou a war footing, for the purpose of resisting the designs of Prussia Prussia protested that such a decisiou would be a dissojutiou of the German and that she should regard all the States that voted for the proposal as her enemies ; but the motion was adopted t>y a vote of nine, in cluding Austria, to six, including Prus sia The Austrian vote represents a pop ulation of about 14,000,000, excluding Austria herself, aud the tho Prussian, ex cluding Prussia, about 3,005,000. Prus sia accordingly declared the Germanic Confederation dissolved, and the semi official papers announce Chat henceforth the States formerly composing it will be called the Middle Europeau group of States. On the 15th of June Prussia entered Il'inover and Saxony, auc( the war virtually began. This is simply a quarrel of precedence between Prussia and Austria, whioh have always boon rival powers in the Confed eration, and as Austria lias stood upon tho defensive in the quarrel, and has of fered to refer the difference to the decis ion of the Diet, her attitude toward Prus sia commands tho sympathy of all who feel that the Schleswig-llolstein question is not really a casus belli. Put it is not so with Italy. TU° Con gress of Vienna, which was a reaction ary conclave of kings, gave Venetia to Austria. Put Venetia is Italian in lan guage, tradition, at}d sympathy. It has been held only by tho Austrian strong hand, and that hand has never been moro odious than in its clutch upon Italy.— The history of that country since theset tlemeßt of 1815 is a story of ineessant plots and conspiracies—of fervent hopes betrayed and of noble men sacrified by Austria The best expression of this undjiug national feeling of Italy and its profouud resolution to throw off the Ger man yoke is found in various poenrs of Robert Browning. Its living impersona tion is Joseph Muzzini. hater events have made Garidaldi its representative and Victor Emanuel, its official leader. The fire and the force of Italy are now typified by these two men. To their call all the youth, and ardor and hope of the peninsula respond Under them at} im mense army is now organized and mar shaled. Through their eyes Italy, whol ly aroused, stands erect, beholds in fervent expectation every inch of her soil freed Irom the foreigner. A day of such promise modern Italy has not seen.— Thoroughly prepared for the struggle, she knows that I'aussia and 112 ranee are interested in her success, and that all gen erous hearts in the world wish ho r well. Austria is an anomalous power, the name of a most crushing despotism. From the old tradition of Gesler and Tell to the modern Metternich and Silvio Pellico she has beeu the enemy of liberty. She is now entering typou a vital struggle, and the hopes aud wishes of constitutional freedom must be against her as Italy cries Vioa tl rc galantuomo ! \iva Garibaldi! and strikes for Italian independence aqtj unity.— ■ Harper's }\eekly. —A correspondent writes from upper Coos, N. 11., as follows . fNo one can tell what a day mjy bring fprtjj; but we can tell what a night recently brought to a jouug farmer iu this vicinity—three calves, two colts, eleven pigs, nine lamb 9 and a baby." The Fourth at Nashville, The loyal people of Nashville, Ten nessee, houored Indepehdenee Day by a Reunion in a grove near the field of Gen eral Thomas's great battle. Generals 1 homas, Johnson, Fisk and Donaldson graced the occasion by their presence.— Judge Wm. -Mi!ls presided General hisk read the Peelurution of Independ" enee. Cbajjrtalu Kanishaw lead in praj- I er. M, l '- ■ i ;auu ilaynjird made the ad— j dress. ll(o devoted some attention to the Constitutional amendment. Said ho : "The first tWo sections were in tho 1 Constitution a'roily, in substance. The third section fixing the basis of represen tation 111 Congress and the Electoral Col lege was ot prime importance. How does representation stand at prescut?— Four blacks and one white in South Car olina have as votes in Congress as four whiten and one Hack in East Ten nessee. Will any fair minded person contend that this is equitable or just?— What was the principle of the "M'hite Basis of which you used to hear so much ? It was that voters only shall be represented, and not those who do not vote. The priuoiple of tho third section of the amendment is the same. The fourth section excludes rebels from office. It only strikes at the deliberate rebel.— It docs not touch the boys who were de ceived by the artful demagogues, or by the wiles of enthusiastic and over-zeal ous wouien. Some say this soetion does not exclude enough. Mr. Lincoln onco observed that it was bettor for him to be a little behind rather than a little before the people. It is better to give one stroke too littlo, than by giving one stroke too much elevate a criminal into a m:.rtyr. "These are the a victorious na tion offers to those who for four years tried to destroy it. It is a magnanimity unparalled in the history of the world.— The gallant soldiers who have fought the battles of the Union have done their duty, arW their imperishable fame is be yond the roach ol accident or chance.— Our children and our children's children will do thorn honor. For us who per form a more quiet part on the same side, there remains another duty; let us do it so that posterity will give us share in the glory of saving tho nation." "A Tri'uMoiuible Conclave." The Knoxville Whig, of the 4th in stant, has the following editorial in ref erence to the so-called National Conven tion which meets in Philadelphia in Ajig ust. The Whig says : "A convention of the Ststos is called for the second Tuesday in August next, to be held in Philadelphia. With a view to talfe the people in, and practice a fraud upon loyal mon, it is called a Union Convention; and to further cheat the people, it professes to meet to servo tho representation of the Southern States in Congress, and to defend arid protect the Constitution. Let the truly loyal men keep out of that meeting. It is a Rebel- Southern- Democrat ic-Conservative-Con st it utiona I -President -making- Conclave, that loyal men, north and south, will krep oqt of, and stubbornly avoid. Union men don't want the Rebel Southern States re stored to their former status in the Un ion, without indemnity for tho past a..d security for the future. Nor do they want Southern Senators and Represen tatives admitted to seats until they oloct men who can take the TEST OATH. "Let those who want to aid the ca.■ ■of ihc fifbe/s and traitors of the South, m.i those who wish to aid in the organk<>!i" ) of the corrupt Democratic party, attend at Philadelphia. That is the meeting for all such men to attend, but let true hearted Union nun ,-tay away, a.i they will be ycry certain to do." —The news in regard to the crops from all sections of the country is of a highly favorable character. The winter wheat, and most of the spring wheat, has been garnered in excellent condition, and in quantity exceeds tho most sanguine ex pectations. Corn is looking very fine, and if no early frosts intervene, a large increase on last year's crop is confidently looked for. This condition of affairs tends to depress the market for the stocks on hand, and in Chicago today we noto a decline of twelve and fourteen cents per bushel on wheat, three and three and a half cents on corn, one cent on oats and four and five cents on ryo. The market for regular No. 1 spring wheat closes nominal at $1 52, fresh receipts oi Uq. 1 corn at 54 cents.— Chicago Jour nal 16 th. A destructive fire oecurrod at Lan sing, Michigan, on Sunday last. It war discovered running up the Southsido of B. E. Hart's flcuring mill, which, in a fow moments, was beyond control, and resulted in tho destructiou of aboi}t $50,- 000 worth of property, as follows: B. E. Hart's flouring mil], 830,000; S. G. Seo field'j saw mill, [82,000; A- B. Sfuaitls chair factory, 2,000; K. l'armeler's card ing mill, 85,OgO; with no insurance ex cepting A. B. who had 8900 in the Climax, of Detroit. NUMBER 32 Anecdote of Gen, Scott. fhe New \ork correspondent of the Boston Journal relates the following : •'The term "Fuss and Feathers" applied to the old chief, grew out of nothing per sonal, for he was a mac whose personal tastes were very simple But was very exa-n in his discipline, and ho requirtd every officer while on duty to be dressed according to his rank iu the minutest thing. General Hamilton, who was ou his staff, related to me the other day a very characteristic anecdote. Tho Gen eral's head quarters in Mexico comprised two rooms, one opening iuto the other. Iu the rear room Genera! Scott slept.— One night after tho General had retired ono of tho staff wanted some wator. It was iu the front room. Tho evening was warm, and the hour late, being near niid uight. The officer started to gg iu his shirt sleeves. lie was cautioned against the experiment as a dangerous one, for if the General caught him in his with his coat off he would punish him. Tho officer said ho would risk it; that the General was asleep, and he would mako no noise. He opeued tho door softly and went on tip-too to the water pitcher. He bad no timo to drink be fore he heard the tinkle of the bell and the sentinel outside of the door entered. " 1 ako this man to the guard house," was the brief order, and the coatless offi cer spent the night on a hard plank un der guard." —A lad named Nioholas Kelch hat} his head severely cut by diving against the bottom of tho Allegheny river while bathing in that stream on Tuesday even ing. He was taken to tho Homeopathio Hospital and Dispensary, No. 110 Sea ond streot, whore his wouud was c'.ressed by Dr. Cowley. Worth Knowing, Last spring I took a small quanti ty of seed corn and soaked it in 'a solution of saltpetre, and to test it planted five rows through tho mid dle of a naturally moist pieoo with seed thus prepared. Now for tho result ; The five rows plantod with corn soakod in the saltpetro yiolded more than twenty rows planted iu the usual way. The five rows wero untouched by the wire worm, while the remainder of the filed suffered badly from their depredations, and I should judge that not a kernel sat urated with the salpetro was touched by the worm whilo almost every hill in the rest of the piece suffered inoro or less. Tho worms aro littlo kind of squeamish in regard to eating any« thhig that comes in their way; henco I wish to lay the fact before tho ag ricultural reader, und hope it will bu carefully tested tho coming season, as the cost is comparatively nothing when put alongside of two or three acres of corn nearly ruined by tkeso pests. All moist lands aro more cr less filled with them, and many far mers dare not plant corn on theru, for they say the wire worm will spoil their crop; hence t'>ey will let it lie unimproved year after year, when it might be made to produco a boun tiful crop .—Germontown Telegraph. Pleasant Summer Drinks, Cheap Small Beer. —To twelve quarts of water, add a pint and a i half of strong hop tea, ami a pint and ! half of molasses. Mix it well to ] gether, and bottle it immediately. It will be fit for use the next day, if the weather is_ warm.' Spruce Beer. —Allow an ounce of hops and a spoonful of ginger to a gallon of water, \\ fren welj boiled, strain it, and putin a pint of molas ses, and half an ounce or less of the essence of spruce ; when cool add a teacup of yeast, and put into a clean tight cask and then let it ferment, for a day or two, then bottle it for use. You can boil the sprigs of spruce-fir in place of the essence. ! Ginger Beer Quiakly Made.—A gallon of boiling water is poured over three-quarters of a ponnd of 1 loaf sugar, one qunce of ginger, and 5 the peel of one lemon; when milk warm, the juice of the lemmoti and a spoonful of \eaat are added. it should bi made in the evening, and bottled next morning in stone bottles, and the cork tied down with twine. Good brown sugar v.'ill answer, and the lenjon may be omitted, if cheap ness is required. Milk Punch. —Grr.te sir oranges and six lemons with loaf sugar; 112 pare them very thinly, and steep the ! peel for a day in a bottle of rum or 1 brandy; squeeze the oranges and lemons upon two pounds of baf su , gar, including that with the peel fla vor, and pour on it four quarts of wa ter and one of new milk, both boil -8 ing ; strain the yuni or brandy from ■■ the peels into the above, and run i} ■ through a jelly bag till clear, whoß a bottle and cork it, Telegrapj
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