Zhg 4erald.
CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, Dlay 12, 1865.
S. DI. PETTENGILI. &. CO.,
XTO. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6
stkost.l3oBtoll, aro our Agents for the llettaLn
a those cities, and aro authorised to take Advertise
() ots and Subserlptlonsfor us at our lowest rates.
TUE DISPOSITION OF OUR ARMIES.—It is
generally believed in Washington that dur
ing the present month the army will be re
duced at least three-fourths : the War De
partment having, to that end, already pre
pared six hundred thousand parchment dis
charges. Preparatory to the general dis
charge, a grand review is expected to take
place a short distance from Washington.—
Both the armies,--Sherman's and Meade's--;
will be inspected by Lieut, General Grant,
after which the mustering out will take
place, and the proportion of troops above
stated will be marched away, leaving only
sufficient to take care of Texas, if necessary,
and do garrison duty throughout the paci
fied States. The Veteran Reserve Corps, it
i.; said, will be preserved for provost duty,
end the regular army, which has been much
depleted by the war, will bo recruited to its
full strength.
BANKS IN THE DISLOYAL STATES.-411
the organization of national banks in States
that have been in rebellion the Comptroller
of the Currency, conforming to the recent
decision of the United States Sufferance
Court, will require from applicants who
have been residents in those States during
the rebellion the oath of allegiance to be
filed with the papers, in order that it may
appear that the parties are qualified in the
organization of a bane, and under such dis
abilities as would prevent the granting of
franchise to them. In the organization of
any bank it is necessary that three fourths of
the directors should have been residents in
the State where the bank is located one year
prior to its organization. Banks will not be
organized, nor papers received for organiza
tion, in any place not fully under the con
trol of the government.
NEGRO SuFFRAGEs.—The Express, oppos
ing negro suffrage, says: " Equality and
fraternity inevitably lead to amalgamation."
Guess not, There are more negroes in Can
ada or in New England than there ever were
in Mobile or Natchez, under slavery, while
in Canada, and in most of New England,
blacks and whites are perfectly equal before
the law; yet, nothing can be surer than that
amalgamation was far more common in Mo
bile and Natchez than in Canada or New
England. Blacks and whites are alike in
the eye of the law in Jamaica, which was a
slave colony forty years ago ; yet, amalga
mati6n is not so frequent there to-day as it
was in 1825. The Express has got its facts
wrong end . foremost. It is slavery, not free
dom, that riots in amalgamation.—N. York
Tribune.
Bogus NoTEs.—The Pottstown (Pa.) Led
-9e • says: The counterfeiters are now doing
a heavy business in the way of making, and
issuing spurious notes, altering the genuine
notes, Sze. The business of counterfeiting
postal currency seems to be too slow, and
they are now trying their hands at larger
game. Within the past few days several
counterfeit and altered notes of large deno
rninakomt have been offered at the National
Banks Pottstown. One of these was a
$6l) counterfeit greenback, and an imitation
of the genuine. It is not, however, quite so
well engraved n> the good bill, and the pa
per 1:01' autd a little rougher. A $2O
n to the farmer.' and Mechanics' Bank
of Cceil u.nety, Md., altered from a genuine
pte,ting. =1 t and $2l notes of the
Bahl: of Montgomery. altered from genuine
Sks of the new plate with military portraits
have also been oll'ered at the Bank. Persons
cannot be too careful in handling money
just now.
"ARTHUR'S MAGAZINE" FOR MAY.—The
May number of Arthur's 11ilua Magazine
contains a new serial 'by that highly popular
writer, Virginia F. Townsend. It is entit
led,—"Whether it Paid," and is a well writ
ten story. " cy's Mistake," in the May
number is also a goad tale, and will be read
with interest- It contains the usual fashion
plates, steel engravings, &c. With each
succeeding month, the " iloNtE MAGAZINE"
grows in interest and beauty. Terms, $2,50
per year. Address 323, Walnut street, Phil
adelphia.
I•r affords us great satisfaction to be able
to state, authoritatively, that the repre
sentatives of the Christian Commission, who
belittled themselves and their otlice, paying
a visit of ceremony and respect to the Rebel
Gen. Lee, at Richmond, have been recalled
by the Commission and their authority to
act as delegates revoked. The officers of the
Commission at Philadelphia have carefully
investigated the facts in the case, and have
dismissed the offending subordinates in jus
tification of their own loyalty, and to show
their entire disapprobation of the conduct of
the offenders.
TUE MYSTERIOUS DISPOSITION or TUE
BODY OF BOOTH.—The correspondents seem
determined to make the interment of Booth
as meld-dramatic a matter as possible: Some
have buried him in the Potomac, his body
severed into many pieces, and sunk in its
waters at various places ; others have had his
body annihilated by chemical means, and
others have written solemn descriptions of
lone, wierd places where his body has been
buried where it will never be seen by man.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Advertiser professes, however, to be bettor
informed than any of his follows, saying:
" The vexed question to the disposal made
of the remains of JohnlVilkes Booth is at
length settled by a statement which may be
regarded as final. After the head and heart
which have been deposited in the army med
ical museum in Washington, had been re
moved, the corpse was placed in charge of
two men, who. after various manoeuvres cal
culated to baffle , impertinent curiosity, dug
a grave in a little spot of 'ground close to the
penitentiary, where for some years_ felons
have been buried. Booth's body was depos
ited hero, and tho earth over it was smooth
ed and carefully sodded over. The other
graves of lees infamous felons had previous
ly been levelled, and a strdq- guard is now
in charge °Lilo-spot, and will continue to
Beep it undisturbed untill the grass has grown
so thickly that no ono will-ever be able to
distinguish the place whore the assassin's
corpse was interred from the other nameless
graves around-it."
This statement bas excited some comment
among , the other Boston papers, who claim
on the authority of a 'Washington paper,
that Colonel Baker and his brother, Lent,
Baker, are the . onlyiyo persons living ~who
know what dispoSition was made of it, and,
they aro under oath to. reVeal the fact to
no hinhan being. "Any statement", they
say; - "professing - to detail-how or -where the
remains Were deposit; is not only guess work
but a serious reflection upon -the faithfulness
of these officers.''
IN MEMORIAM
On Thursday last, at Springfield Illinois,
says the Reading Journal, was buried the
martyr President of the United Stateg—good,
honest, whole-souled, great-hearted BRA.
Hem larrootar. Twice honored with the
first position in the gift of the people, be
loved more than any other occupant of that
high placAince Washington, mourned more
deeply and sincerely than any man ever
born on this Western Continent, he has laid
doWn position, power and influence and
gone to the reward of hie long and weary
labors. Though - attended to his grave by
the most solemn funeral pageant the world
ever witnessed, his form has been 'laid low
in the same dust that covers the head of the
humblest citizen.
To do justice to the man is a work re
served for the historian. No man in public
station can be fairly and fully judged at the
' time of his death, just as great events can
not be adequately weighed and appreciated
at the tinulof their occurrence. Years must
roll I.)y, the present must become the past,
and the heat and passion and interests that
now agitate us must have cooled, calmed and
become sated, before our judgment of the
men and things of the present day can be
given fairly and impartially. And so, in
this case, it does not become us now to at
tempt to estimate and weigh the character
and public acts of Abraham Lincoln. We
have been too rect . .' fly shocked by the intel
ligence of his murder ; we have too recently
shed our tears beside his open coffin, to cease
to murmur at the removal of the man we
loved. We have not yet lived to acquire
that frame of mind which looks back with
calm resignation upon the occurrences of the
past as all ordered by the highest wisdom,
and a part of the great general plan of the
world's progress. The recollection of bitter
political struggles is too fresh in our minds
to enable us to judge fairly of his political
acts, and the smoke of a fierce' and bloody
war has not yet cleared away so long 'as to
cause us to appreciate the magnitude of the
benefits of a contest in which his whole en
ergies were enlisted, and with which his
name was so closely identified. It may be
many years—perhaps alter we who no NV live
shall have followed the man whom WO so
deeply lament—before hi: , character and the
acts of his public life can be fairly weighed
and estimated.
But though we are obliged to yield to the
historian the judgment of the roan, yet the
lessons of instruction conveyed by the start
ling events of the past three weeks are pe
culiarly our own. We have been taught in
a fearful manner the dependence of nations,
as well as individuals, upon the overruling
will of Providence- We have weir that
President is mortal, and that in the full ex
ercise of his authority the man chosen to
power by We vote of a great people, may
perish by the hand of :in assassin. We have
learned the - value of the great qualities of
heart and soul by which our late Chief Mag
istrate found his way into the warmest af
fections of an entire nation. And lastly, we
have realized the truth of the utterance of
the
,deceased martyr himself—that no Mite
man is in - dispensable to the fultillimmt ort he
plans and purposes of the Alit ighty in the
salvation of tins grief-tried country. If we
rightly apply these teachings of the hour,
t he great calamity that we have all so deep
ly lamented will not have happened in vain.
The future is in the hands of God, and it is
a coididen . ce in His wisdom, power and good
ness that can alone enable us to look with
calmness and trust to the highest source and
comfort., as we bid a lu-t and tender fare
well to LINCOLN.
The Views of the President
The lotiontug is an extract, from the re
ply of PI oosid en t Jon NsoN Li/ the Pennsylva
nia delegation, who waited upon him for
the purpose of a-staring him of the cordial
support of Poinn-ylvania in his grent work of
Putting an end to rebellion, anal to that o u t
of whi c h rebellion sprung. The President's
reply will, We think, satisfy the m o st ardent
lover of justice, and the most timid con
servator of the public safety, that Ow work
is in the right hands. And what is bettor
sly, we know that he is attesting lIIS faith
by his worlu.. '1 he Pre . silem, in the course
of 'l's remarks, said :
The words you have spoken are most ful
ly and cordially accepted moil to
by me. 1, ton, think Lee uuic has urrned
When the peOple of this eau a sleJllel 1/ [ldol -
Steed that l'etlsell is a crane. 11 hen we
turn to the catalogue of 1:111110, we lied that
10051 of those contained in at are understood;
but the crime of treason' has neither been
generally understood nor generally appreci
ated as 1 think it 81101.1 Id bo j Red there has
been an ettort, since this rebellion com
menced, to intake the impression that it was
a mere political struggle, or us 1 see at tin own
out in sonic of the papers, a struggle for the
ascendency of certain principles from the
dawn of the Governmeut to the present time,
and nose settled by the triumph of the Fed
eral arms. If this is to be a determined, set
tled kten, and opinion; the Government is at
an end, for no question can arise but they
will make it a party ibSULI ; and then, to
whatever length they carry it, the party de
feated will be only a party defeated, and no
crime attaches thereto. But L say treason is
a crime, the highest crime known to the
law, and the people ought to understand it,
and be taught to know that unless it be so
cot sidered there can be no Government. 1
do not say this to indicate at revengeful or
improper spirit. It is simply the enuncia
tion el deliberate consideration and temper
ate judgment.
There are men who ought to suffer, the
penalties of their treason; but there are also
some who have been engaged in this rebel
lion who, while techmically speaking, they
are guilty of treason, yet who morally are
not—thousands who/ have beep - drawn into
it, involved by various influences, by con
scription, by dread, by force of public opin
ion in the localities ill which they lived—
these are not so responsible as are those who
led, deceived, and forced them. To the un
conscious, deceived, conscripted—in short,
to the great moss of the misled—l would say
mercy, clemency, reconciliation, and the
restoration of their Government. To those
who have decided—to the conscious, influ
ential traitor, who attempted to destroy the
life of a nation—l would say, on you he in
flicted the severest penalties o€ your crime
[Applause.]
1 fully understand how easy it is to get up
an impression in regard to the exercise of
mercy ; and if 1 know myself and my own
heart, there is in it as groat a disposition to
mercy as can be manifested on the part of
any other individual; BUT MERCY WITHOUT
JUSTICE Is A. CRIME. - In the exercise of mer
cy, there should be deliberate consideration
and a profound 'understanding of the' case;
and I am not prepared, to say but what it
should often be transferred to a higher court,
a court whore mercy and justice can best be
united.
—The three counties in Maryland —Char
les, Prince George's and St. Mary'sz-which
have been designated by" Secretary Stanton
as the refuge and home of traitors and
guerrillas, lie in the. apex of the triangle
.between the Potomac, river and the Ches
apeake, Bay. They used to be slifvelml4- ,
ing counties, and gave strong pro-slavery
votes., At the last Presidential cl9otion, the
counties voted as follows': Por Lincoln,
Charles 27, Prince George's, 197. St. Mary's,
99.• For"-McClellan,- Charles, 987, • Prince
George's, 1,660, St. Mary's, 987. The facts
are significant as showing the_hostiliti-of
pro slavery commit:Ries to thcgovernment.
National Debts and U. S. Stooks.
The creation of national debts is not a mo-,
derh improvement, but the ability ofn great,
nation td prOvide fora great de, - ittlid to
make it the most convenient . andibiist Tot*
of personal .property,, a inoderti :wondei.
The ON 'of .oreat Britnizi wits bCgun by
raiiiing a million sterling by loan in 1892
and when her great contest with Louis XI.V;
was terminated, the debt had reached MY
millions. Many statesmen and ecotiomists
were then alarmed at the great burden which
had been imposed upon the industry of the
country, but when the war of the Austrian
succession had swelled this amount to eighty
millions, Macaulay says that historians and
orators pronounced the case to-be desperate.
But when war again broke out, and the
national debt was rapidly carried up to
one hundred and forty millions, men of
theory and business both pronounced that
the fatal day had certainly arrived. David
Hume said that, although, by taxing its en
ergies to the utmost, the eoantry might pos
sibly live through it, the experiment must
never be repeated,—even a small increase
might be fatal. Granville said the nation
must 'Sink under it unless some portion of
the load was borne by the American Colo
nies. and the attempt to impose this load
produced the war of the revolution,- and, in
stead of diminishing, added another hundred
millions to the burden. Again, says Mac
aulay, was England given over, but again
she was more prosperous than ever before.
But when at the close of her Napoleonic
wars in 1816, this debt lied been swelled up
to the enormous sum of over eight hundred
millions sterling, or four thousand three
hundred million dollars, or nearly one half
the entire property of the United Kingdom,
the stoutest heart, the firmest believer in
national progress and national development,
might well have been appalled. ,But in the
very face of this mountain of obligation, —to
say nothing of her vast colonial possessidins,
—the property of the British nation has been
more than trebled, and her debt is now
charge of but 12} per cent. against it. All
that Great Britain has done in paying her
debt, we shall do, and more, with ours. We
have vast territories untouched by the plow;
mines of all precious metals of which we
have hardly opened the doors; a population
full of life, energy, enterprise and industry,
and the accumulated wealth of money and
labor of the old countries pouring into the
hip of our giant and ever-to be-united Re
public. During the tiiircest and most ex
hausting of all possible wars, we have de
monstrated our national strength—and all
the world over, national strength is but
another name for national credit. "As good
as United States Stocks," will soon be synon
ymous the world over with "as good as
British Consols " For our pert, we think a
United States Treasury note, bearing seven
and three tenth:: annual interest, s just as
much better thin British Consuls as the rate
of interest is higher. Some of our timi
brethren, who shipped their gold to London
and invested in consols, are now glad to sell
out and invest at home at a round loss,—and
serves them right.
Important Decision
A decision involving the liability of a rail
road company for the baggage, lost in pass
ing over connecting roads for which the tick
et was sold, has recently been decided for the
company. The case was that of Swarzen
berger against the Pciin,ylvania. Railroad
Company, and . wit= an action for the recovery
of litriluge, for the lo,s of a carpet hag con
tabling elt.thing to the value or $728 in gold,
and a watch and chain valued lit 513.). Th e
plaintiff took passage at Philadelphia for
Cincinnati.
The Court, (Strong, J.) held that the
nlant' are not common carrier,except
t (Veen Pl . l i li l iiiin 1111 , 1 L.-burgh. They
were under no olnigatimi to eNrr) the plin
tiff beyond the fernimation of ihl•ir route. or
to transport hi+ bpi-gage. It i- trite they re
ceived the fare for the whole ili,daneit from
Philadelphia l.“Cineinnati, and if that were
all, it might raite a pri4umption of an agree
inent 10 carry ov , r Ow entire route heavier
tll , ' two Cities. lint eiintioniairanemedy with
the receipt of the fare, and as evidence of
the contract into which they entered, they
gave to the plaintiff a tick..t. informing him
that they io—noted no responsibility for his
carriage, and of coiir,e for the carriage or
hi , luggage. beyond Pittsburgh. They no
tified him that they initial only as agents for
the carriers, whose routo extended Westward
from Pittsburgh, and not at all for themselves.
With this express disclaimer of personal lia
bility, there is no posdhility of implying
an agreement. The plaintiffs remedy is not
against. them but against the company which
undertook for that portion of the route upon
which the carpet bag was lost.
The Status of Paroled Rebels
We coincide in the following views of the
Chicago Tribune upon this very important
question, and contend that not only the lead
ers of the rebel armies who now enjoy the
protection of the parole, but all the men
who were thus formally surrendered, shall
for the time being hold in law as alien ene
mies, incapable of exercising the rights of
citizenship, or interfering in any way with
either national or State polities. After they
shall have yielded a quiet and peaceful sub
mission to that condition for a time, let the
door be opened for their return to citizenship
by forswearing the confederacy and supreme
allegiance to States, and by taking an oath,
framed expressly or them, of allegiance to
the national Government. The Tribune re
marks :
They are either citizens of the United
States or alien enemies surrendered on pa
role and permitted to reside in the country.
If they are the latter then they are not citi
zens and can only become so by Executive
pardon or by Act of Congress prescribing
the condition upon which they may be nat
uralized. If they claim the status of citi
zens they must accept that condition subject
to their liability to be punished as citizens
for treason, which is defined by the Consti
tution to be levying war against the United
States. If to save their necks from this hal
ter they claim to be treated as prisoners of
war, then they at , : alien enemies. The laws
of nations and usages of war recognize no
snob contradiction as that men can be citi
zens of a government, entitled to rote at its
elections and,at the same time prisoners of
war, exempt from punishment by thatgovern
rnent. The privileges and responsibilities
of citizenship can not be divorced. The
position of both officers and men of the reb
el Armies is therefore that of alien enemies—
decitizenized by their'own net nod only - em
bable of .becoming citizen's by the aet: of
the government.
. .
If this be, as we believe, the sound legal
view of Grant's ' terms; to, Lee; ''which have
been adopted ae the: basis of the surrenders
of Johnston, Kirby Smith mid Dick Taylor,
it will be seen that their mildness iri 'no way
interferes:with the object sought, :which was
a complete disarming of the robel.power.-1-
Gen Grant did not toll them to stop fighting
and go to voting—to. stuck . army - and settle
the war at the ballot box.-No such thing.
When they wore disarme of the bayonet
they remained as destitute of the ballot:as if
.they had, been French or Mexican sol,qict:fix
whohadditiodO honorable warfare upon us,
invaded our territory, laien'emnpelled to stir
render, and then permitted , to remain in the
country. Ead the rebel soldiers, when
had any other -country:they 'would
. have boon aka thermv—BAthaving,nonatjmy
are permitted, to remain ; but*this does not
Change the fact that the very*point upoh
whicirthereaverthairitecksfrom Alto' halter,
excludes themfrow, the
.:•
NEWS ITEMS
-ITelvtiOcana papers announce the ar
rival,l4,Wure:or 0,000,000 to pay off the lOng
artears or 4163 *tic Department, in that s'eo
tion. ,'• • • _
-The gross earnings of the,Pennsylvania
pont,ralliailroad for thelast`year were4l4,-
759,060,and,the expense $10,1398,944;1 . leav
ing a balance of over four millions.
—The District Attorney of Franklin coun
ty has ,prepared bills of indictment against
General 311c.11ausland, Harry Gilmore. and
other rebel officers, for arson and
murder, committed in that county during
the invasion that resulted in the burning of
Chambersburg.
—The most extensive glaisWare factories
in the United States are located at Pittsburg-
In that city . are fifteen bottle and vial fac
tories, doing a business of $2,100,000 per
year; fifteen windows-glass factotories aver
aging 400,000 boxes of glass per year worth
$2,000,000 ; and fifteen flint glass factories
doing an annual bu-iness of $2,030,000.
Total value of their business nearly $7,000,-
000.
special, dispatch to the Chicago Tri
bune, dated Mobile, Ala, April 21, says;
2. Gen. Forrest, with about 8000 cavalry,
attacked our outpost in the neighborhood of
Spring Hill early this morning. Detach
ments of the Thirteenth Army Corps were
in pursuit at one o'clock this morning, upon
which the enemy retired north. The enemy
succeeded in plundering sonic houses, and
took several horses in the neighborhood.
Several or the enemy were k lied and wound
ed. No loss reported on our side."
—The Five-Twenty Loan, according to
the latest quotations, which was publish this
morning, had reached as high as 881 in the
London market. This is a gain of 122 per
cent, in one lunar month Lee's surrender
it should be observed had not been reported
at the date up to which these quOtations are
given.
—The work of organizing Nationfil Banks
has progressed very rapidly, and the limit
fixed by Congress promises now very soon
to be reached. If it is intended to author_
ize banks in the rebellious States, which are
now coining under national control, the ad
dition of new banks in the Northern States
must cease. It appears that there is now in
operation over eleven hundred banks with
an authorized capital of $265"0,000. The
total amuunt authorized is $31.0,000,010.
The amount remaininLi-, therefore, is but
$33,001,007. Ohio luis a fair share of the
capital standing fourth in the list. New
York is first, Pennsylvania second, Massa
chusetts third, and Ohio next.
—Among the applications to the United
States Treasury Department for charters for
national banks in the subjugated States, is
one for a bank at Charleston S. C. This in
novation in the affairs of the Palmetto State
will inaugurate the national authority there
in a form of which the votaries of treason
pt.( bal ly never d retuned. It is an exelcise
of sovereignty such as in years gone by
would have caused a tremendous uproar
among the followers of Calhoun. Although
the first we hope it will not be the last, and that
the whole banking business of South Caro
lina will pass into the new system and be
subject to the.regulation and control of the
national governThent. The old State banks
of the south were II along the most useful
engines of the rebellion.
—The Presbyterian Theoltigical Seminary
at Columbia, South Carolina, of which tho
late Dr. Th ern well was the shining light,
and of which Dr. Palmer, hardly less able
and equally rebellious, has recently been chief
Professor, is in a bad way, financiaPy. The
Treasurer's report shows that the invested
funds of the Seminary amount, in rotund
II bore, to two hundred and sixty-two thou
sand ; and tire invested in the bonds of the Co
nfederate States, about sixty-two thousand, in
the banks or south Carolina and Georgia
ten thousand, in the Columbia Bridge, recent
ly burned if we mistake not, and the balance
in various Sout horn railroad bonds and stocks
and States and City bonds. The only in
vestment in securities outside of the seceded
States, is a out thirty-three hundred dollars
in a, Belt' inure bank.
‘Titm- 7 30 loan is being distributed this
week with marvelous energy. The daily
sales, thus far, have averaged $5,203,500, (as
against a daily average 54,238,233 last week
and of $3,054,110 the preceding week,) ns
follows: Monday, $5,175 900; Tuesday 5,-
231, 100. The current sales of the loan are
at the extraordinary rate of $81,221,000 a
week. At this rate, all the unsold balance
($180,000,030 e 5185,000,000 ) of the pend
ing series of $30.1.010,0.10, will be market
ed before the end df the ensuing month of
June, or nearly so by the ditte(June 15)
when the notes formally commence to tear
interest. The orders for the $5O and $lOO
notes of the loan, this week, have averaged
3,138. The May coin interest on the 5-20
bonds is being eagerly sold at prevailing rates
for gold, and the proceeds, very generally,
reinvested in national stocks, mainly in the
favorite Seven-Thirties, which constitute em
phatically the popular loan of the govern
ment.
—THE NATIONAL BANKS.—The establish
ed State banks are displaying commendable
activity in availing themselves of the oppor
tunity offered to reconsturuct" themselves
into national banks. There are now upwards
of eleven hundred national banks, - with a
capital of over two hundred and sixty-five
millions of dollars, and the sum is daily in
creasing The States having the largest
amount of capital invested in these institu
tions are : •
. Capital Capital
Authorized. Pnid In.
Massachusetts, $61.744.000 $51,589,500
New York, 37,576,300 86,109,982
Pennsylvania, 35,009,062 35,099.062
Ohio, 16,981,300, 14,001,466
Connecticut, 10,021,700 10,471,600
11111,,,10, 8,022,314 7,884,000
Indiana, 6,471,500 6,909,138
Maine, 4,015,000 '3;880,800
Now Jersey, 8,535,000 '8,254,834
Vermont, 2.285,000 2,185,000
Rholu Island, 1.900,000 1,675,000
Statistics of the Rebel Hospitals.
[From the " Oonfoderate States Medical and
Surgical Journal."]
Whole :lumber of oases exhibit in the ileld
reports during 1861 and 1862 was 848,5515,
of which 16,220 died, and 10,955 were
dis
charged frour service. 'Xing.° were admitted
in hospitals for the same period 447 , 689 cases,
of which 16,850 died , and . 6,485. were'
nhargdd. '
Cosa.—Thu Philadelphia' Ledger has this
paragraph in its financial columns: "We
wereinformed yesterday that the Govern
ment had reduced for a limited time its per
diem supplies of chat•of 5,000 tons per day,
as per contraotisto 1;500 tons per day. The
inference firpt drawn from this information
was,. that it was a reduction to that extent
of the Gov.ernment"contraets for coal, a fact
that would affect alike unfavorably the coal
trade 'and the carrying interests; but icarhed
subsequently that the reduction of the "daily
supply, was likely to be but temporary, and
Vithithe ictMit,of a mutual arrangement be
tween the Government, the contractors and
the coal operators, the movement thing aim- .
'ed. at a satisfactory. and equitabl'e udjustment
of the prices . . • It is understood thatisoyeral_
'of 3he largo - ,R:operiitors will coned mining,
which down the wliges of the minor, •
and a lessoned••tOnnage will tend very direct
ly. to, reduce tolls the effect of which will bo
a further, fall irttlieprice Of fuel..
. .
Personal
'—Judge Patterson, a son-in-law of Presi
dent Johnson; has been elected U. S. Senator
front Tennessee. • •
—Ex-Goverhor Aiken, of South Carolina,
reported to the War Department to-4ay on
parole. The charges against him are pre
ferred hy the military authorities of 'South
Caroliiur
--Gen. Casey, in obedience to the order of
the War Department, has suspended the re
cruiting of colored troops in Richmond.
—Col. Thomas A. Scott, Assistant Secre
tary of War under Mr. Cameron, and Vice
President of the Pennsylvania Central Rail
road, was married, at
: Pittsburg, to Miss
Riddle, on the evening of the 18th ultimo.
—General Philip Kearney was the only
American officer who was ever decorated
with the Legion of Honor by the Emperor
Louis Napoleon.
—The Rebel Gen. J. E. B. Stuart is the
same cavalry officer who had command of
all the cavalry forces in Washington at the
time of Mr. Lincoln's first inauguration.
—Horace Greeley contributed a love story
to the last number of the Leade.r. This may
be taken as a sign of the times. The reality
of the war is about over now, and so Mt.
Greeley has taken to romance.
—G. N. Sanders and Beverly Tucker have
published an address to President Johnson
charging him with a plan to murder Jeff.
Davis, They offer to go to Rouse's Point to
be tried for their crimes, if the President will
insure their necks from danger, and pay their
expenses.
—William Cleary, one of the parties for
whom President Johnson offers a reward.
publishes a letter stating that there is not..ri
particle of truth in the statemesit that ho
concerted and incited the assassination of
of President Lincoln, and asserts that he
knew nothing whatever of it until it had
been committed.
—Governor Seabrook's plantation of seven
hundred acres, on Bull's Island, South Car
olina, was sold nt auction last week at Port
loyal, for $27,000, to Simon Cameron; B.
F. Wade, and James B. Doolittle. This is
the plantation so celebrated 'f'or its superior
growth of Sea Island cotton—a pound of it
having been spun in Manchester into a thread
fifty-six miles in length.
Maj.-Gen. Wallace, commanding the Mid
dle Military Division, has issued an order
dated at Baltimore, prohibiting the sale in
that department of portraits of any rebel of
ficer or soldier, or .1. Wilkes Booth, the
murderer of President Lincoln, and directing
all commanding officers and Provost-Mar
shals to take possession of such pictures
wherever found exposed for sale, and report
the narnes of the parties so °trending, who
will be liable to arrest and imprisonment if
again guilty of a violation of the order.
—Mr. Charles Lanni:in writes, that while
preparing his •• Dictionary of Congress" for
publication in 1858, he forwarded to Mr.
Lincoln the usual request fora sketch of his
life, and received the following_reply :
Born February 12,1809, in.lardin county,
Kentucky.
Education defective.
Profeion, a lawyer.
Have been a captain of volunteers in the
Black Hawk wet.
Postnnister at a very smell ofliee.
Four times a to ember of the Illinois Leg
islature.
An4l was a member of the lower house of
of Congress. Yours, &e.,
A Remarkable Latter-Day Prophecy
Peom the Peess
The vision or prophecy. of Joseph
which we publish below, is so remarkable in
the accuracy of S(1111 , of its details, that were
its authenticity not attested by the moot re
spectable and reliable living witne , 4••s, we
Should hardly credit it. The predicted "civil
w,r," now on the thre.hold of fultillinent,
is not more singular than are several other
features in the vision which have already
been verified. As much as six montb- ago.
a Quaker gentleman in this city,
(painted With the history of this
also with some of the children of its Witlittra
tad author, expressed to us a desire to See it
published in The Press. We have been at
some pains to ascertain certain particulars
respecting this remarkable man, sonic, of
which we here give as introductory to his
prophecy.
Joseph Iloag was an eminent minister of
the Gospel in the Society of Friends. A t
the date 01 his subjoined vision, in IS Ili this
society MIS a unit, the division in it not hay
ing occurred until 1827. After the collars -
tion, Iloagaffilated with the Orthodox b ranch
in which connection ho continued until his
death in 1846, at the ago of eighty-five. 11 is
ancestors were among the early settlers of
New England, and lived for several genera
tions in the State of New Hampshire, al
though ho was born in Duchess county, New
York, but early in life removed to the burro
of his ancestors. In his service as a minister
ho travelled extensively throughout the
United States, and is well remembered by a
largo number of the older members of the
Society of Friends in this city as a very
gifted and spiritual-minded minister. Those
who knew him best say that he was a Mall
of great piety and very correct life and con
versation from his youth; also that his spir
itual perceptions were very deep and, clear,
so much so that ho was often favored with,a
sense of the condition of other people without
outward knowledge, and in ninny iIIit,ILIICCS,
knowu to persons still living, foretold cir
cumstances of which ho could have had no
knowledge when lie predicted thorn. A
ournnl of his life exists, in which tho author
says, " Hoag was a man of good Understand
ing, retentive memory, and a mind season !d
with grace. His conversation was truly in
structive. Ho appeared most conspicuous in
the gift of the ministry, and the spirit of
prophecy." The following is
•
JOSEPH HOAG'S VISION,
transcribed by his daughter—who is still liv
ing—in the year 1805,, since which time
many. duplicate.3lS. copies have been made
and preserved by members of the Society as
a curious, interesting, and, as the sequel has
shown, an amazingly premonitory' docu
ment:
"IW the year 1803, in the eighth or ninth
Mouth, I was one day alone in the fold, and
observed that the sun shone clefm, but a mist
eclipsed its brightness.
"As I refloctod.upon the singularity of the
event, my mind was struck into a silencothe
Most solemn I ever remember to have wit
nessed,' for nlimy faculties were low and
unusually, brought into deep silence.• I. said
to myself, what can all this mean ? I do na •
recollect ever before to have been sensible of
such feelings.
"And I hoard a voice from lieftrv9tt say
ing: 'This which thou roost is a sign of the
present coming times, I took the forefath
ers of-this _country. from _a land of _opprus-
BiOR; I planted them lord. among the . people
4.,t*.the forest_;L.l.sustained. them;:and. -while
they wore humble I blessed them and . foci
them,. and they became a numerous
But they have now become proud and have
forgotten me, who nourished them find pro
tected thorn in tho wildernessfand aro • run
ning into every abomination and evil prac
tice of which tho old countries are guilty,
.and have taken quietude from the land, and'
suffereciadividing spirit to comeamong theta
—lift up thine eyes anthbehold - ' - And I saw:
them dividing in great. heat. The division:
be an ircthe churches on points;of doctrine;
It commenced in the Presbyterian Society,.
and went through the various religious de
nominations, and in its progress and close its
effects were the same. These *ho dissented
went off with high heads and taunting lan
guage, and those who kept to their original
-sentiments appeared exercised nod sorrowful.
And when the'dividing spirit entered the
Society of Friends, it raged in as high de
gree as in any I had noticed or discovered,
before ; and as before, those who , :separated
wont off with lofty looks and taunting, cen
suring language. Those who kept their itn- -
cient principles retired by themselves. It
next appeared in the Lodges of the Free
Masons ; it broke out in appearance like a
volcano, inasmuch as it set the country in
an uproar for a time.
"Then it entered politics throughout the
United States and did not stop until it pro
duced a civil war. An abundance of blootl
was shed in the course of the combat, the
Southern States losttheir power, and slavery
was annihilated from their borders. Then
a monarchical power sprang up, took the
Government of the States, established a na
tional religion, and mode all societies tribu
tary, to support its expenses. I saw them
take property from Friends. I was amazed
at beholding all this, and I heard a voice
proclaiming : 'This power shall nut always
stand, but with it I will chastise my Church
until they return to the faithfulness of their
forefathers; thou seest what is coming upon
thy native country for their Iniquities, and
the blood of Africa, the remembrance of
which has come up before me.'
"This vision is yet for many days. I had'
ne.--idea of writiug - it for many years, until it
became such a burden that, for my own re
lict' I have written it."
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRE
SIDENT.
One Hundred Thousand Dollars
Reward for Jeff. Davis.
Hopxy Rewards for other Conspi-
Je . e Davis, Jacob Thompson, Clement a
Clay, Beverly Tacker, George N. Sanders,
and William C. Cleary Procure Me ~Vlurd
er of President Lincoln.
WASIIINUTON, 2,11 - 113 - 3, 1865.
By the President o/' the ['ailed States of
WHEREAS, It appears from evidence in
the Bureau it ry Justice that the at
rocious murder of the lute President, Abra
ham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination
of the Hon. NYilliatn 11. Sem tad, Secretary
of State. were incited, ma meerted and procur
ed and between Jell'•rso 11u is, late of
Richmond, Va.. and Jacob lionipson. Clem
cut C. Clay, Beverly I i,Jm, r, Gen. N. San
ders, Win. C. Cleary and other ri•ti t •l, o f the
United States harbired I a CH
Now. th,r,fore, 1, :\\I)11 \\• JOIIN
SON, Prr.i loot of Ow 1 uitrd Stitu•s, tlo
offer 11,1“,1 Komi,: for the nrrf-F.t tho
per,ons, or rither of them, within the
of O h ' 01)1t thoy, eau b.,
brought to uinl, t h e following rpwitr,b,:
hoodrod thou,:an,l reward for
the arre,t of •1e1f , r!..01l
illoti4and reward for
the arrest. of Clement U. Clay.
Twenty-live thousand Ll. , lhars for the ar.-
re.q. or Jacob Thompson, ot ti,c 6i:it, of Alis
sh,sippi.
m•nty-five d d,dlars 1,,i• Li lo ar
m:A of S= ur o N. S.dii
thwi-and fiir tho al--
req of Beverly
'for d , dlar, for the arrest of \VIII.
C. Cleary, !ate clement (.. ci ii y.
Ihr Provost Marshal Geileial ul Ole r.
Stairs, is directed t.i rause a
the with h oboe of the above
reward to be -
t.e,titnony Nill . :l't!of I IMV(`
rny I^tntl and catt.al tit- of tto• oit,d
5,„ 1 ,,, to Li, I).ffle at the city of
, Wa:iington, flip iocond day of May, in the
year or our Lord one thousand ei. ,- ht hun
dred and ,•ixty-tivo, and of the Independence
of Om Unit,d States tho oiLl - hty-ninth.
ANI JOHNSON . .
13y tlio :
LricoLN
speehtl Corre.poll./ epee of the Nos York Tribune
The Closing Scenes at Springfield
SPIIINt,FIELD, (111.) May -1, 18,65.
Springti. Id has II p.1).11116.11 of 15,1/00. It
is the best built null city I have ever seen.
The private re-:deuces and grounds of the
1 .ading citizen, indicate 0111111'1We 1111 d a
to teful ..I, 4 a.ce not to be lona l m m an y
lar , er town-. It IS kill out in widest r,ets, run
ning with the ~ .ardinal point-.of the compass,
and covers immense ground for so .onall
population. The up.. n a black,
prairie soiled plateau, ‘N detault or 11
regular pavement, neces ,, itate‘: the littildiog
of II plank road along every street. Fifteen
veer; ttg", when the State which I;
hwated in a public square in the very centre
of the city,) was considered the finest struc
ture in the West. The Executive Mansion,
owned by the State, and occupied by the
successive Governors—now the home of Gov.
Oglesby—is certainly the. Boost Guberpato
rial residence in tho country—spacious, ex
cellent in architecture, and elegantly fur
n•shed. Some of the private residences. too,
are scarcely loss elogant and imposing. That
of ex• Gov. 'Mattison is considered the best
house in the State.
Thu importance of the city has consisted
mainly in its being the State Capital, yet it
has a large trade with the surrounding 'un
try, and railroad• intersect here, which gives
communication north and south, east and
west.
It has been the home of Abraham Lin
coln 25 years. With Ilk companionable
nature and open heart, it•f Bowed that he
Was OW personal acquaintance and friend of
all the anon, women and children in the city,
and in all the region round about. Besides,
Springfield was the political centre of the
State, and during 2.1 years Abraham Lincoln
was the acknowledged State leauer of a po
litical party. That party, or th.• One that
sprang from it, was finally -oecessful, and
rewarded him not merely -; tie honors.
but with the headship to Such
giants as E. 1). Baker. a. ..I1 Trumbull,
Richard Yates, S. T. Li.gall David Davies,
Owen Lovejoy, E. B. Washburne, William
U. Bissell, It. J. Ogelsby, J. N. Arnold and
John Wentworth—all these conceded his
right to leadership and cheerfully rallied be
neath his standard. And yet more than the
political leader, be was the popular towns
man and good neighbor at his home in
Springfield Springfield, then, ii his proper
burial place, and to-day he will be entombed
here.
Of course, the town was heavily draped.
Even the humblest boos , s are black with
costly cloth. At the house of Mr. Chatterton
I noticed a line specimen of the Washington
eagle, splendidly mounted, and holding the
flag in hi4calc, and just beneath it a marble
bust of Litieoln, with the motto beneath the
whole: "In life ours; in death the coun
try's ;" and this is but one of fifty equally
appropriate. Fine taste and money had boon
spent upon the Statehouse to flt, it for the
reception of the rethains. I won't try to
describe it, but Nvill confine Myself to the
effect of alibi. That, whether one looked on
as a lover of the tosthotic or in full sympathy
as a mourner, whether one scanned itcriti
cally or permitted himself to yield td the
spell of the ,place l was all that could have
boon intended or be desired. •
Yesterday and this. morning the house
whore Mr. Lincoln lived fifteen years, and
if which ho received the deputation headed
by George Ashmun, which came to officially
inform him of his nomination to the Presi
dency, has'been the centre of interest to all
the strangers in the . eityn. It is situated four
"or five squares to the south-east of .the State
House, and is at present the residence of Mr.
S. Tilton, PiTsident of the .Great Western.
Railroad. The house has been often describ
ed. You remember that it'is'an unprotend
ing•two story frame house with a ono story
ell, which the house, being on n street cor
ner, fronts another than.the main building:
'his; or rather was, some years ago: iialiited
a very yellow straw color s is plainly furnish,
ad, and contains but eight rooms altogether,,
In the small yard aro several quite largo
apple trees, now in full blossom, and the re
ix some slulibbory. The favorite chair in
rators
America.
A PROCLAMATION
tit-NTER,
Crerrlary Irar
. . .
which ho sat and the desk at which he wrote,
are still there, as are many other of his old
personal surroundings. To-day, the hun
dreds -of
_visitors are begging everything
available as souvenirs, sprigs from the shrub
bery, bleSsorne from the trees, even palling's'
from the fence for canes.
Up tothis morning it had not been finally
determined whether the remains of the Pre
sident would bo deposited at Oak Ridge
Cemetery, or in a vault hastily built on the
"Mother Place," which is a fine property of
ten acres in the western part of the city, and
which the citizens, on hearing of his death,
bought (paying $50,000) as the place for his
tomb and monument: Preparations were
made at each place, but this morning, on the
arrival of Cant. Robert Lincoln and John G.
N icolay, late . Private Secretary, from Wash
ington, the question Was decided in favor of
Oak Ridge, though it is, quite possible that
the body may finally rest at the Mother
Place.
Last evening, Gov. Ogelsby received at
his house the various delegations in the city,
to the number of say a thousand, and Rev.
Dr. 0. H. Tiffany, the most noted Chicago
pulpit and platform orator, delivered an ad
dress at one of the churches on the life and
characteristics of Mr. Lincoln, which is to
be published.
This morning a large delegation arrived
from St. Louis, heAded by den. Fiske and
the Hon. 11. T. Blow.
At this hour, 9 A. SI., the relatives and
persmal friends of "the dead have just looked
—not gpoken—thetist lingering farewell of
their idol, and the coffin has been forever
closed. It is computed that over one million
of people have seen his dead face. What
other man in all the tide of time ever had so
many come to seahim after Death had taken
him I A million at one man's funeral !
C. A. P.
Eainn anD OT,ountg B,latters
APPRENTICE WANTED —A stout boy,
with a good educatioi: and a good :coral char
acter, will be taken at this office to learn the
Printing business. None other' need Apply.
OUR REPORT OF THE GENERAL 'PRO
DUCE MARK ET.—Wc have made arrange
ments with Mr. Wm. B. BENTz, to have a
full weekly report of the general produce
market of cur borough. We are sure our
readers will be gratified with this arrange
m on t.
AGRICULTURAL FAIR. -By 'a refer
enco to Secretary Croft's card in another col
umn it will be seen that our agricultural
Society very properly propose to signalize
the return of prosperous pence by a grain;
agricultural and Floral Fair.
PIVIDEND NOTICEs.— \l 7 n print in to
day's piper dividend notices of the Ctirlisli
Depo,it, and first National BankE, and ti
Carlisle Ga:i & Water C4nnpany.
LosT.—On Friday afternoon, between
].im•'l nursery and the public square, a gold
ring, ,et wiib a brilliant and two etneraid , ;
ha\ ing initiate engraved up,n the inside. A
liberal reward will be pahl fur its return to
Dismts"sEn. —Levi Aliwtt, the lamp
lighter and night pDlicennin fur the W . e , t
Ward wa, dismiss'ed by the council hit week.
Mr. K,,ch was elected in hi, stead.
:%1 I N I.lt A \• AT —Mr David lial-
Hst.ol ha . T coed the Slimmer campaign at
Lis drug on Llanover street, whore 111 , )
battery will he found charged to muzzle with
that tw , st delicionN of all boverago: , --foliming
and ,parl(ling mineral water. Ilis stock of
syrups ineludes every imagithtble flavor : and
the palate which loaves his fountain unsatis
-11,1 aunt be fastidious incleil.
usTErt OUT.—On Moatiffy last
the permanent company; together with the
bend and all conscripts and recruits at the
Carlisle Draft Rim.lezvous were paid off and
11111Etertql out or the service. A large rpejor
ity of them left in the afternoon train, rend
ing the air as they passed through town
with their joyful shouts at the prospect or an
early re-union wit Ii their families and friends.
We hear that of the permanent company,
twenty have signified their intention logo to
Mexico and join the forces of Juarez.
CoNTIN ENTAL VOC LISTS. —Th cel
ebrated troupe of minstrels will give one of
their charming Concerts this (Friday) even
ing, in Illutemls hall. They will also ex
hibit at Newvide, on Saturday, Mar 13; at
Shippensborg ua Monday, May 15; and at
Mechanicsburg on Tuesday, May N.
Tint H.Continentals" have always been
great favorites with the inusie-loving por
tion of our citizens; and they will on this
occasion endeavor to sustain their ancient
reputation. The programme they present is
rich and rare, and cannot fail to attract.
WALL l'Ari,n —We have been shown
at Mr. A. B. Ewing's furniture rooms, at
the West end of Main street, the most thor
ough and complete assortment of wall papers
ever brought to Carlisle. Mr. Ewing has
added this important feature to his business,
and is determined to give that energetic at
tention which has already distinguished him
as one of our Inost notice business men. His
stock of papers comprises every style, from
the most chaste and delicate tracings, to the
most ornate figuring. Give him a call.
NEW PATENT.—We see it stated that
among the patents recently issued from •the
United States Patent Office, is one to Mr.
SAMUEL M. 111/OVER, of this borough, for
improved Gum Elastic Coupling Springs.—
We hop‘e our townsman may realize a hand
some profit as a reward of his industry and
ingenuity.
MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE.—On
Monday last, over ono hundred men were
mustered out of service, and discharged from
the Army, at the C ... prlisle Barracks. They
were drafted men, volunteers and substitutes.
At other military posts a similar course has
been pursued. This, among other things,
clearly evinces that the rebellion is crushed
out, and that peace will soon take the place
of "grim-visaged war,"
At the Barracks, there are now about 100
men, compos'ng the Permanent Party, and
belonging to the regular United States army.
DR. NTOCLINTOOK.—We Bee it stated
that Dr. JOIIN. AICCLINTOCIC, formerly the
learned and eloqUent, pastor of St.Vatil's M.
E. Church, in New Y__;_prk was on Tuesday
evening week, pres - Mited with a cheek for
$2,000' in behalf of his bite' cha , ige.
Mddllntock retires to reside at aeraaaritAvri,
Pennsylvania, on accounfof ill health.''
Dr., McClintock was formerly Professor
of Mathematics and Lanuages in Dickinson
College, this.borough, and whilst a resident
of Carlisle, by his affable manners and gen'
tleManly deportment, won for himself hostS
of friends:
Iis. r :PARMEIn.s, you are required to re- 4
port tc) the United States' Assessors all cattle,
hogs, calves, and sheep which you slaughter
flit. BALE. The tax on each head of luirned
cattle is 40 cents; on each hog, 10 cents] on
eac h -shocp - 6 cents'.
ReptirT'must be made during the first ten
days of each month. Persons failing to make
returns as required by law, subject - them
solves to a. sevore penalty. ,r
ELECTION•—On• Friday evening- last,
the :town Couneil•Clected Win. M. Penrose,
Esq., "John B. Bretton and Peter Spahr,
managers of the Carlisle Gas & Water Com
pany, on behalf of the Borough for the ensu
ing year. We have no personal objections
to either of these gentleman, but we must
record our entire disapproval of the action of
the Democratic majority of council in this
matter.
Fdr the first time in the history of the
company, has tho council made the selection
of the managers to represent the interests of
tho Borough, a question of political creed,
By this action the Borough loses the services
of Mr. Gardner, whose intimate knowledge
.of the workings of the company, and whose
disinterested desire to promote the public in
terests, rendered him invaluable to both
company and community. In addition to
this, we see another phase of the ugly spirit,
which already curses our municipal affairs—
that of estimating a man's fitness for any posi
tion in our local government entirely by his
political status.., We sincerely hope that this
most short-sighted precedent will be entirely
disregarded by the next council-
BEATE!' OF AN ESTEEMED PHYSICIAN.
—lt is our painful duty to record the death,
on Sunday evening, April 22d, of Dr. D.
Coover, of Dickinson township, who for
nearly a quarter of a century has been en
gaged in the practice of his profession in this
county, where by untiring energy and strict
attention to business he had succeeded in
obtaining. • a very extensive and lucrative
practice. Of exemplary moral character,
correct in his habits, in his di§poSition cour
teous and kind, ho made and left to regret
his departure, many warm and 'admiring
friends with'we belAve not a single enemy.
FAIR OF TUE " EMPIRE HOWE. AND
LADDER COMPANY."—The Fair of the Em
pire Hook and Ladder Company, will open
in Rheern's Hall on Saturday 'evening next,
the 13th inst , and close on Saturday, May
20. We hope the Fair of this Company will
be liberally patronized by our citizens, as
the members of the "Empire" are all active
and vigilant Firemen, and a Company such
ai theirs is Much needed in Carlisle.
The irla•ta are 110 M, ready and can be had
f Mr. CAMPBELL, at the telegraph office.
PAYMP.NT ()b. Soi,Drims —The War .
Department has issued orders that all enlist
ed men, at the expiration of their turna of
service, roust be iuustered out and paid on
nmstermut rolk, and not on the final state
ment or regimental otlicers. The only ex
ceptions are torn dkeharged by special order
disaltility, or discharged in the hospital
oit expiration or their term or service as una
ble to travel.
PL.‘NriNcL—Our Cumberland county
farmers have been bmily engaged in plough
ing their ground and planting corn. The
ground is in line order for planting. Soma
of
till. (arts fields promise handsomely. Early
potatoes have also been planted. The wheat
crop looks well, and should nothing happen
to it, tle• yield bids fair to be an immense
one. Indeed, from all parts of this and the
adjoining States, the prospects of abundant
crops of wheat are most flattering.
FRUIT —The prospect fur fruit this
is said to he encouraging in this coun
ty. Clrerry, plumb, peach, pear and other
fruit trees are loaded -with blossoms. Ap
ples also pronii..e. well. The season thus far
has been favorable, and if the remaining
portion continues so we may look for a crop
of fruit this season. It is not thought the
recent frosts did any serious damage.
Our nurseries have done a good business,
and we judge that a great variety of fruit.
trees and shrubbery have been set out.
OIL IN CU I\IIII:ALAND COUNTY.—The
Ilarrisburg 're/ego - TA says: We have been
shown a sliecitnen of oil taken from lands in
Mifflin township, Cumberland county. It is
highly probable that further developments
will be made. Quite an excitement already
exists among the people of old Mifflin—each
one believing that his slate farm, which has
yielded a slim return for the labor of culti
vation, will become very valuable.
BLITZ AT ILLS OLD TRICKS.—When
in Carlisle last work Signor Blitz stepped up
to mother Shatz's tabl and purchased an or
ange front her ; borrowing the old woman's
knife ho cut the orange in halves, when lo!
a five dollar gold piece dropped into his hand.
Exhibiting the coin to the old woman's as
tounded vision, he purchased a second orange
and performed the same operation upon it,
when a two-and-a-half-piece fell into his
open palm. By this time mother Shatz was
thoroughly excited, and began (nal: - ng pre
parations to shut up shop. Blitz proposed
to buy her entire stock of oranges ; she re
fused indignantly and bundling up her stock
hurried off home, angrily repulsing every
attempt to dispel the illusion. We have not
heard the sequel, but can imagine the old
woman's disnlay and disgust at the discovery
that the funny little fellow had bought all
the golden fruit in the lot. All Blitz, you
have much to answer for.
KILL THE CATERPI LLARSL —NOW irt
the time to kill those pests of the fruit grow
ers. The caterpillars' nests are unusually
numerous this season, and those who own
trees should devote a little time to their de
struction. We see it stated that one gentle l .
man, who has no trees of his own, went into
his neighbor's garden, and estimates that ho
killed 10,1,60 of these mischievous insects in
an hour's time, and in so doing probably
saved his fruit crop next fall. An hour spent
now in destroying thee 'licks is, of more
value than tort hours will be a few weeks
hence, and we hope a war of extermination
will everywhere bo waged against thorn.
SPRING BONNETS AND FALSE HAIR.
—The fashions this Spring for ladies' bon
nets are monstrously absurd iu that most
capricious of all articles of female covering. '
Heretofore the thing has retreated frern-thO
forehead,,with a high, rather capacious front
piece. This has been the repository of flow
ors and all sorts of things vegetable and floral,,
but all this is about to disalipear. The new
Spring bonnet abandons all attempts at kis.
ing above the head of the fair wearer.. It
,
clings close to the cranium, and is little else
than a delicate bit of gauso or similar, inater,
ial, wrapped over the top of thosbead'aiid •
united-in a huge bow under tho chin. If
flowers are used, they..adorn' the : exteilidr,
not the inside of the bonnet, for that
capable of embracing anything, except the
beautiful adornment which nature gives as a
covering to the head. It is a naticeabte fact,
too that curls have dropped down upon the
shoulders of the fair sex, and splendid tresses
now adorn people formerly almost destitute
of hair: Such is the demand for artificial
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curls - that oven the animal kingdom.. ts
I.fititiglitlit to supply this fashionable fat : Hilo '-
necessity. It is-an .old'and very true saying
that beauty unadorned is; adorned the most.
far Tap weather for Kano dap-pa:it luta'
been ilitinp; - wot and dikagroeible. .
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