POSTAL STATISTICS.
--- The receipts and expenditures of the
Post Office 'Department for the 4th guar•
ter of 1864,. submitted June 30, - .1865,
ate as fauns:
RECEIPTS.
Letter Postage,
Newspaper Postage,
Registered Letters,
Fines,
Box Rents, /rc,
Stamps sold,
Miscellaneous,
$3,723,51.1 25
EX PENDITURES.
Postmasters,
Letter (l&rriers,
Way Let, 47e.,
Mail Transportations,
Wrapping raper,
Advertising,
Nail Begs,
Mail Locks, &a.
bepredalions,
Clerks,
of Stamps,•&c.;
Foreign Mails, •
Miscellaneous;
$3 z 127;539 36
From this table - it appears that i_the
amount of postage: for letters and news.
papers - carried by mail, between October
1, and December 31, 1854, was 8..1,5t;i1, ,
205 88 , thilf during the same time was
paid to postmasters and their, clerks
*1,031,228 09; for mail transportation
$1,934,715 09, and the net profits of the
Post Office Department for that quarter
amounted to the gratifying sum of $29(.1,-
001 .87. The net proths - of the previous
quarter amounted to $136,229 80. The,
profits of the first six months of the pros.'
.ent,fiscal year arc therefore 8732,2 a 66,
oral the rate qf over a million, and a 1
half of dollors,a
To understand the full significance of
this fact, let us compare it With the re.
ceipts cod expeiiditures of the correspond
ing six months of M. Buehanan'S ad
ministration. The books of the Depart
ment show those figures :
Expenditures,3,lquartcr4l3o, $3,r;;;3,633 33
If 4th " " 4,074,325 7U
$7,7.11,150 77
Recoipts, 3rd snorter, IE I IO, $2,17-1,622 71
It 4 . 0 . 1 (t 2,116,3 . 01 00
' 4,300;0:14 G I
showing a loss fur mail service in the last
six months of .Mr..B . uchanan's 'adminis
tration of $3,140.205 16. If to this loss
be added the profit in the last six.montlis
of Mr. Lincoln's term, we find the differ
ence in six months' time for the two ad
xninistrations to be Aar 2nillions, one
hundred and seventy-two thousaird, four
hurzdred Land tivir!opfivc dollars, and
eightj, five cents. The annual s w ing in of
course, will be eight three IfUn
dred thousand dollars.
By a standing
act of Congress,s.7oo,ooo
is appropriated to the Post Office De
partment for carrying the free mail plat
ter of all the other departments, and 1)y
the .appropriation bill for 18(11—'65, a
million and a half of dollars is app:ropri-•
ated for deficiencies. Not only will this
two and a quarter million of dollars bu
uncalled for, but the Yost Office Depart
ment will have a million land, a half to
deposit it the Treasury of the United
States • or to sink, in earrylv the mails
from the Southern States, For, be it
remembered, that the receipts of the two
last quarters of 1860 included some eight
more States than the receipts of 186.1
The enlargement of territory should have
produced an enlargement of profits; in•
htead.of this, it sank over four millions
of dollars. .
The figures develop another fact well
worthy of public attention. The expen
ditures of the Department for the six
months of 1860 were $7,751,159 77 ;
those for the corresponding six months
of 1364 were $6,5-10,823 63, a saving for
the six months of one million two hun
diel thoosM3d dollars. The receipts for
the six months of Is6o were 84,300,95-1-
61;. the receipts for the stone period in
782-1,-when eight States made no return
whatever, were $7,273,056 32 ; showing
that the postal receipts of the free States
in 1861 had nearly .doubled the' postal
receipts of free and slave States in 1860.
PRESIDENT LICOLN'S
would be interesting to know more of
President Lincoln's Mother, •and of the
influence she undoubtedly had in guid
ing the mind of the youthful pioneer.
But we never shall; nearly all that re-_
mains io . ,us of her brief biography is, that
sire taught her son to read the Bible.
Near the village,of Gout/Tv/De, Speneerl
County, Indiana, /s her grave, a modest;
grass covered mound, without headstone
or monument. A few weeks before his
tragic death, the President expressed his!
intention, in a letter to a friend, to visit
the 103.14 and erect a suitable memorial
over the g,rave. A paper, in commenting
on.thiS fact, remarks "he was not per
mitted to fulfil his desire." No and yes.
He raised no monument of marble to that
sacred memory,, but his life was a token
to her praise such as few mothers in this
or any other land have received
-t -
Th Ewperor has issued a
manifesto on popular education. Ile
Nvibhes Mexicans to vie with• the,most
favored nations, and desires that the mid
dle classes and poorer people shall hafe
butter educational advantages. Ile leaves
religious education to the priests declar
ing that the g overnment does notl wish to
- interfere with religious matters.
eneral Mowrie, alter struggling tbre
a miserable Carolina , cypress swamp for
sevrral days, asked a long, lank butternut
dyed native, bow far it was to•tcrra, fi rnia.
"I hain't hccrn nu such eace about
yor e " wat4 the (leering reply,
Saudimist 'arid Virest j lroint!
i.t : - .1
The disciplihe of enr . ,natirLal. military
.
school is well known. .It !ti:ais in tbe
first instance to 'develop men!, 'since men
must make stildiers. So severe indeed
is'tbis system, under h.repliHeart Igov
ernment, where'! the utmost freedom!, is
exercised as to the choiee f accepting
au Appointment, that surprise has often
been 'manifested tbOt the paces are so
sagerly sought. It Would rem from re
cent statements in the lil'ugliirh papers,
that in the ;Royal Militaiy. College of
Great Britain - L atSandhurs4 a far different
state of things exists. 'Npt Meng 'since,
at some fzineied 'affront, the etutlents;sbut
themselves up in n neighboring i fort,
which they,,held fat
. scrre" tours against
all comers. The puke o Cambridge,
who as commander-;na.ehief has authority
1 in such eases, gave them a mild repri
wand, with a promise of orse, if they
i did not do better. lOn the . 4ist evening
1 of the term, however, the ypung gentle
' men smuggled some, wine into the bath
1 room and initiated;a grand Clarouse. The
Isubaltern, a lieueerlaut in the' army, hav
log some dim ideal that this . .was a viola
tion of rules, confisCated thd liquor and
.ordered the cadets', to their rooms. This
was an jufringenient on the rights of
'Englishmen too :grievous to bb borne,
land the .cadets not only indulged in a
series of prolonged howls andcries of de
1,
rision,_ but on tic' next in, ruing pro
, eeeded to open hostilities by stoning the
windows of the"libuSe where the lieuten
ant And .his wife Were sled rini,:;. This
brought dovin the Juke !ofCambridge
I
once more , whol•gaVe two scapegraces
a piece of Lis wind. fle ...aid that the
insubordinate company slidUld remain at
the college until! the rinOaders were
given up, and that none. of the guilty
ones should enter her. ISlajesty's service.
Some doubt is' leXpre:ssed L;whetlier the
Duke will carry oti, his decision, and the
Pall Mall Gazette says:— ,
1
"The discipiine!ofithe Royal Military Col-.
legs is certainly in a bad state; and it is nec
essary that effeettnil inelistiisl should be
adopted to re-estah!isli it; and prevent the
taint of insubordiUatiou spreading •Ip the
1-youn7 officers of the army. , The offenders
cannot urge the ex4nse of extreun ,youth, for
' their ages range frOnt .i.st..een i to two or three
1 and twenty." . i( i ; •
1 i
It is quite evident, that some things
' can be as Well ild i ne lul l a republic as else.
where. But even in the face of our own
admirable institirtionf we have. allowed
the impression tqgainigrciund, that under
kingly governments military' matters are'
better attended,' to. I The authorities at '
West Rijn: would make short work of a'
ease like this. i
, •' ,
$224,470 14
- 147,422 33
/5,371 po
~ i . 00
130,07 05
3,181,31 3 30
5,321. 41
$ 84'5,061 14
121,502 86
2,705 00
1,924,715 69
11,587 20
24,710 91
52,532 (Sc)
1,011 55
15,012 08
195,566 05
36,210 57
155,321 00
37,835 11
1•' - ,
CturiositiOs of .Taxation.!
'
There are sothe very peculiaifluctua
tions noticeable; in ,the returns nia4 to
the assessors of internal revenue, and the
enormous differencesliMthe income of' one
:-
year over anot i her are startlint; comm nta
ties on the uncertainties of bAsiness. One
man iu New York w\io had no prope ty to
speak of in 1563 returns an ineoMe of
S 9-1,000 iu 064..- - He bat evid'pntly
been successful in oil or stocks. i One
largo mercantile house, made sales tb the
i t l
amount of fatty-tw ' Millions of dd i llars,
tind the leading-par ncr's income was six
hundred thousand ollars. 'A. T. iitevr
art, inlBo-1, made ales to the amount of
thirty-nine millions on which be !undo
only $300,000. In' 183 the samd mer
chant.) retirned an ipeobie of one Million
eight hundred thou Sand dollars.
These facts are ien arkablc, not only
as showing the inst i nen se business !trans
acted, but also as evidence of the dizzy
changes' to which coilossal fortunes are
liable. Some of ilt6e merchants, no
doubt, have acquired heir — wealth in the
legitimate channels bfl trade. For many
yearS they have sliesi i n rare alility and
great discriminationl in manoeuvring
heavy storks of goetiS, as a competent
general handles ih:ousands of men
But on the ocean liege sail the Ships of
these merchant p.iiios, i multitudes of
smaller craft meet shipwreck every day.
, ,- i
it
Then agrain .there re/ seeming argosies,
ladeh with silks ha 1 pearls, fair to the
sight but danger 6on trial, ; that .are
overwhelmed at 11 e first] gale. There is
totnething unheal by Viand feverish in the
idea of a man's 4 owing' into an iraconie
i
of eightythousa d dollars in! a stogie
year; and the f stilt of • such fortunes
generally prowl it f o be true; that real
wealth is best ace uired by patient indus
try.
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I I
The treasuty : f the United States has
received sonic It ssiitance in this , war,
from Olany a.gcil ei - . bubble, shining in
the - .morning .situ but for a raiment.
Adventurers r in pursuit of an heiresS who
desired' to astout h Ilia world,.or tip effpct
loans . on douhtful securities, have re
turned large in runes and paid taxes ac
t cordingly. Tb ' fellow who dealtdiu lard,
end who slippd 'away to Eurdpe the other I
day ;with half million of other people's '
jproperty, wasjtaxed! for an income of
l'i";' , 15,000 in 1863, and for twice ae, much
in 1361-, and tiisi Wa4 a part of the false
foundation on which he built! up his
credit. Such -things are by no means
new, but •the tax collector itrib'.7s them
before us in a novel form, ad people
people
arc thereby led to wonder and' 'moralize.
A Navada democrat agreetLp saw in
public one coin of the maho g any 'wood
which grows in that vicinity ifOeorge 13.
McClellan waWnot, elected. lid, perform
ed his task,v i pd the wood'
was sold Co
"republican who had a maul made from
some of it; boiind with solid siOer bandd.
lie had intended it for Mr. Lincoln ; but
en, his death, preiiented it tdMrs. Lin
coln, by Whom it Was placed iu the Chi
Fait. •
An I.!llustratt on of Georgia-
Ctilvalry.
A Georgia letter of the Sth has thel
folloWipt , • ' As Col. Eggleston, with his]
• •
regimeuF, the Ist Ohio,eavalry—part of
the force that composed Wilson's
on the jroute front Columbusro'Macon,
rode doWn a street of the little town, in
Northern Georgia, known by the 'name
of Fulton, ho was greeted with a white
handkerchief, waved through the bars o
the jail SupPosineit was the signal ofj
a captured Union soldier, without halt
ing, he dispatched a guard for the prison
er's • release. What wad his surprise,
when, in plaoe of a masculine candidate)
for congratulation;
the guard brought to
his startled gate the romantic vision of a
fair, LOue-eyed, graceful lady,- who at
once_began,,in; eloquent terms of Unusual
accomplishment, to give utterance to
thanks superlatively overwhelMing to
the true chi Valry of a plain soldier of
freedom, to whom a woman's gratitude
to a tnan fot any kindness seemed entirely
superfluous!
Aperiao,
As43oon as he could recover from as
,
tonishment, he distinguished features of,
native .beauty, bleached and sharpened
by confinement, and a:figure of dlegance,
emaciated by -privation and jneglect.j
She explained. herself to be the Widow of .
a rebel Major Keeling and a ,sistcr of
Atalerson, of the Trcdegar Irda-works.
said to be -one of the wealthiest gentle:
men of tho Confederacy. After the
death of her husband, she had i indulged
the d'spression of her conviction against
the crime of the rebellion and its notori
ous cause—the infamous systeha of hu
man,.siavery.. For this she was warned
to beware, aad threatened with restraint
if she persisted. She did persist, and
wasjthrust into the common jail. 11cr
brother came from Richmond to see her,
and' brought with him a large sum of
tuoaey, with which he proposed to bail
herjfreedona, on condition that he would
ceai,e fo r denmince slavery.
This, however, she refused to do,
I whereupon the unnatural brother left her
to her fate, declaring that he would rather
'see a sister rot iu prison than release an
abolitionist. She was - poorly fed, and
denied all intercourse. For two }care;
she had suffered cruel martyrdom, until
at last released by the army of freedom.
The Ist Ohio provided for her a carriage, ,
and carriedjher along in triumph. Her
case bocamo known - to the army and fo
Gen. Wilson, and e.zcited general sur
prise and sympathy. She was fiirnislind
money and sent to Washington, where
ehe (:Fpects to find friends. She has a
completo diary, which she proposes to
THE STATES OP Tux, UNION.—The
following is a list of the States constitut
ing the Union / 7 with the dates of their
admission. Colorado and Nebraska had
authority, but refused to•form State Con
stitutions. The thirty•;sis, stars in our
national flag are,. therefore dcsignatedias
under
Dela Ware, DeComber 7, 1787
Pennsylvania, De ember 12, 4787
New Jersey, December 28, 1757
Georgia, Januar} , 2, IISS
Connecticut, , . .lauuarY, 9, 1788
Massachusetts, February, 6, 1788
'Maryland, April 28, 17S8
South Carolina, Ma l y 23, 1788
New Ilampshire, June 21, 17S8
Virginia, • Junb 26, 17SS,
New York, July 26 178E',
.
North Carolina, November2l, 1789
Rhoile Island, Nay 29, 1790
Vermont, - :March 4, 1791?
Kentucky, June 1, 1 . 792,
Tennessee, June 1,179 q
Ohio, November` 29, 'lBO2
Louisiana, April 8, 1812
Indiana, December 11, 1810
Mississippi, . December 10, HIT
Illinois, December 3, 1818
Alabama, December 14-, 1819
Maine,. March .15, 1820
Missouri, August 10.. 1821
A:titans:l3, . June 15, 1536
Mibbigan, . January 2G, 1837
11)irida, ' .1 March 3, 1845
Tc,sas, December 20, 1845
[laFa, - December 2S, 1846
Wisconsin, May 20, 1848
Califorrna, ' September - 0, 18-50
I‘l9inesota, December, 1857
Oregon, - . December, 1558
_ _
Kansas., March, 1862
WesfYirginiti, FCb'y or March, 1862
October, 1864
--r-licston Journal, June 29.
FOOLISII AND FATAL IVAGEIL—OIIe
day not long since two men, alaborcr
and a 'mechanic, at Irvington, on the
Hudson River Railroad, having been
drinking freely, over their oups ,raade a
Wager that one would remain longer on
pm track than the other when the train
liwai - approaching. When they heard the
;cars they limited arms and walked to
wards the • coming locomotive. Peath
was before them, but neither attempted
to unloose his hold nor stepped
Again and again the engineer whistled
and ordered the brakes pat down, but it
was too late ; the locomotive struck the
men, and killed them instantly. The
poor fellows bad courage certainly,which
if employed rationally, might have pro
duced creditable results; but it *pears .
strange they could have been so bereft
of reason as to throw their lives away on
a silly and trivial wager.
A'canadiau paper relates an illejdent
of a man whose horse backed off a river
bank, and With master and earriage,rolled,
tumbled and turned down a distance:of
120 feet. The carriage was smashed,
but there was no other ecrioits damage
How ILi.ENIEW }tECEIYED TILE NEWS
OF ins Loss.--Wen the tire broke out
in Barnutn's Museum, a 4elegram was
immediately sent tO him at- Hartford,
Conn., he being a Representative of a
district in the State Legislature, and was
attending to official busines at the time.
He was speaking when the unwelcome
telegritin was handed-to him, and, opening
-it, he read the contents, but proceeded
with his. business in the cbolest manner
possible. tfe did not think it necessary
to hurry on to New York, but determined
to wait until next morning.'' Going home
to Bridgeport, he spent that night in the
midst of his family, and only arrived 111
New York on Friday, morning. Like a
philosopher, Mr. Barnum views the ca
lamity in a calm light. He rejoicee that
the 'tire took place at a time when, but
few persons were in the establishment.
He was waited on, while at the Astor
louse viewing tho' ruins, by a number
of friends, who generously proffered their
services, should they beirequired. Mr.
Barnum was the most buoyant of all.
Instead of alluding to or
. mourning over
his loss, he spoke, of nothing but the
prospectus for his new museum. This,
he asserts; will surpass: anything of the
sort ever attempted. "I will new turn
to building," said Barnum, "and such a
building as will astonish the world. On
the roof' . will have my menagerie of Wild
beasts from all parts of the world. Its
extent will be three times the.size of My
late establishment, aricl,as for curiosities,
there will be no such collecticn on this
continent or on any other." The New
York papersof Saturday contain a Card
of thanks • from Mi. Barnum, .in which
he says that an experience of twen
iy•five years( will , enable him in, six
months to duplicate, in Europo'and Amer
ica, every specimen of- natural hhitory
which adorned his late museum, and,
from historical societies and other sources
within his knowledge, he can nearly sup
ply the place's of the Revolution and
other relies which have been destroyed.
A DEAR. WnisTr.E. 7 —The Canadians,
who received the Southern traitors and
Northern renegades Pith such alacrity,
are now reaping a hatst from the seed.
An American officer writes to the Toron
.
to . Globe the fallowing, among other
things :
"It is well
.known That in all parts i lof
Canada the staid and industrious Me
chanics and laborers lave been dischargo
from the, farms cmi workshops to give
place to; those thieving faxeigners .who
labor for much 'less Compensation. Title
result is, that 'deserters from the arm es
on the other sida arciworming tbernsel es
into positions that ,should be filled by
your own native citizens, who perfo ce
are compelled to emigrate to the lint ed
States to support themselves and t eir
The conseqdence is, that C, a
ada gets the worst of the exchange,—the
dissipated and unprincipled bounty•jutimp.,
er,—while the United ‘States reccores s l
your best class of laborers and mechan4s."
The letter .was called out by au article
in the Globe, on the extraordinary ntana-
her .of fires, robberies and disturbances
which had happened in Toronto and other
cities since the peace. I\ - c can only hope
that the select circle of gentlemen at
leisure will 'be greatly reformed before
'
they return to tit country which they
have left for its good.
"GENERAL GRANT'S Sll.o'l' "HITS"
POUND TrIE WORLE.—The Lo❑don cor
respondht of the Net, York /4/ nos makes
the following statement : '
The close of the war in America has
been a great disaster- to Bombay in the
East Itidiesl It reminds cne of the phil
osophical
' 1
. experiment of striking an ivory
bail, and seeing another ily off-from-the
opposite Side. Bombay, on the oppcisite
side of the l'world, feels the concussion of
the sudden cessation of hostilities more
than LondOn. Of courec, London's turn
is coming, for the failure of half the com
mercial 'halms in Bombay cannot but
affect their English correspondents. The
rise in cotton, and the inavaenseinflux. of
money to pay for it,. had caused such a
fever of speculation as the English - had
never known. -All kinds of jeint stock
companies were formed, and shares which
cost; x'soo, went up £15,000, The news
of General Lee's surrender sentl down the
price of cotton one-half, andexploded
all these wonderful spceulatiMs. The
Pa!'Secs are in mourning—their sun is
darkened. General Grant little thought
that when his artillery conielled the
evacuation of Richmond, th4re was a
'city on the other side of the planet on
wWch his batteries rained ruin.
BAD VOR. G.ts. Lur.—A Rebel war
department dispatch lately discovered in
Richmond adds force to statements. here
tofore made to the effect that Robert E.
Lee, recently Commander of the Rebel
Army of Northern Virginia, is the person
really responsihle for the burning of cot
ton, and tobacco in Richmond and setting
lire to that city at the time of the Rebel
hegira. It also shows that the evacua
tion was contemplated at least six weeks
before it took place. The dispatch,
which is • dated February' 22, is from
General Breckinridge, then Rebel Secre
tary of War, to General Ewell, and ad
vises Ewell to see General, Lee for the
purpose of receiving definite instructions
regarding the latter's order for the burn
ing of cotton, tobacco, &c. I
Garret Van Fleet, of Nev i , Jersey, re
,
ceritlY died at Laic age of 102 - years. He
served aim: mouths iu the army of the
The Atlantic, and the Russo-American
telegraph lines are competing on the price
for the transmission of lima. This is
counting the chickens a, little too early.f
11
A white deer was lately .taken' alive
near the town of Franklin, Delaware
county, N. Y., and two white crows were
recently sold to a man in lilanchester,N.ll.
• A lad digging. for clams in lent Co.,
N. 8., discovered in the sand a copper
kettle and three skulls.i A thigh bone
was also emnd of great length. The re•
mains were supposed to be Indian. ,
A' most ungallao l t spark from a loco.
motive set fire to a bftgg,age car and de
stroyed all the dresses of the French
ladies who were proceeding
,to the Ascot
races.
The class Which will graduate at Yale
College at the coming Commencement
numbers 9S. Twenty will study theology
25 law, 20 medicine, 15 become teachers
and the remainder engage , in business.
"Now,children," asked a school inspect,
or, "who loves all- men?"' A little girl,
not four years old,and evidently not post
ed in the catechi4n, answered quickly,
"All women-l"
It is said that Horatio Seymour is
scheming to beep' the political pcol in a
ferment by pushing forward General
Sherman, while be ultimately hopes to
come to the surface as the presidential
candidate himself.
Out at. Nevada;and Colorado they have
the silver and gold, but the fairest half
of creation they, have not. Wages for
common domestic services' of the house
' hold are from $3O to $5O per month,
Including, board, payable in gold.
The commercial treaty between France
and England has been i operation six
years. In that time the exports from the
'latter country have risen 'from £665,000
to £23,000,000, and frail Fra.nce the
amount has been even greater.
An ingenious Frenchman has invented
a respirator by which n‘ man tan take his
stock of pure air in the midst of rioxions
vapors and cone out all )right. ft will
be valuable for travelers Cologne
or other fragrant cities.
A Queen Anne „gun, two hundred and
thirty five yeursl old, which .has seen
service in the ReV i olution and the war,of
1812, added its voice to the - general joy
an the fourth, at the Van Rensselaer
mansion in Albany.
There are fabulous stories • about the
winnings of the :French party and their
friends at the Epsom races ] Count de
La , range, the owner of Gladtateur, is put
down for 474,00'0, Count B - atthyany for
£O,OOO, and others in proportion.
The British ( commander•in-chief has
strongly recome ) nded the troops ot 'the
London Rine Brigade tOjhave their hair
eut,for greater neatness. his to be hopedf
that the bold Dukd will not'utake an at.
tack on their shoulder of. mutton whis.
leers:•
Some burgiar i s entered a store in Troy
by climbing the , roof of a bail] in the rear
and cutting a bole through await twenty
inches thick. 'hey then pushed a boy
in, 'who cleared out the silks): ss;liile
ppliceman was'n.tdrchinir 4 ,, up and down in
front.
A Chinese heathen expressed his entire
willingness that his family should become
Christians,but as he feared the ugly dogs I
round about them would'theneefOrth have
the best 'of it in.a row, expressed his in
teatieu to remain a hhathen, in orders to
do the necessary cursing . and'fighting.
Great demand for' negro labor exists in
Maryland. The farmers there are paying
iiftecn dollars per Mmtli to males and
from ten to twelve to females, for field.
labor. The supply I is still short, and
agents have again been -sent in different
directions to make contracts and . induce
emigration, notwithstanding their recent
expulsion from Riehlnion4
The Bulletin de li'aris o l imfains the fol
lowing :—.-"The Emperors already re
ceived on account of his 'Histoire de
Jules Cesar' the sum of 40,000 f- ;The
whole amount which His Majesty viould
have to receive, if it had not—been already
given away to other persons, would be
042,000 f. On hearing of this amount,
the
the Emperor said With a smile, 'pecid
edly, I see thatin France a living can be.
made by the pen.'" .
The Indianapolis Journal of Wed4esday
says, Mr. Albert Pike, poet, painter, Al.-,
kausas 'big Injun' and ex rebel generali
arrived in that city on Tuesday rularning
stopping at the Bates House, on his way
to Washington,' to settle up the bUsiness
of his Indian agency before
. tbe War.—
Pike, the Journal says, is still a 4 1:Leavy
weight," and luxurates in the same !wealth
of sowing liair. Ile says he always knew
the cow would eat the grindstone,;' and
only went into thci rebellion beeduse he
could not help it. f l
_
If a train moving at the rate of twenty ,
five miles nn 'hour were stopped 'instan
taneously, the passengers would I experi
ence a concussion! equal to that of a body
falling from a I.light of nineteen feet ;
they would be burred against the sides'of
thel carriage with a force equal to that
which they would pc exposed to in fall
ing from a window on the second floor of
a house. If the trai were moving at the
rate of thirty wiles! er hour, they might
as well fall from.a I) ght of three pairs
of stairs ;1 and an eipress'train would, in
point of fn' ctomake them fall from a fourth
story. Instantaneous breaks are there
(Ore to be avoided if possible.
Summer Goodsl
AT
OLAISTED'S.
TOUR] atttention is invited to the largcnid
attructice stock just receiver), and: for
sale as low as the same qualities can be bonght
anywheie in the county.
We_have on hand a large and ,varied as
sortment of Domestic Cottons, co"iprisin i g
BROWN SHEETINGS, and; .
SHIRTINGS, 1 - I
BLEACHED MIJAINS, Ji
DENIMS,
STRIPES,
'CHECKS,
TICRINGS, and
COTTON FLANNELS, on whieh wo
cannot lie undersold.
We purchase onr goods for Cast: and' aim
them at a very small advance -
• : From Cost. •
FLANNELS.
F yOu want to purcliaqa
RED,'
' GRAY, i?
1107 E, oi
PLAID FRENCH SHIRTING FLANNEL, call
At Olmsted's.
DRESS GOODS;
DEILATNES,
PRINTS,
BROCTIE; and
WOOLEN SHAWS;
HOODS,
SONTAGS,
NUBIAS,
BALMOP.AL SKIRTS,
CLOTHS, and
CA.SSIMETIES,"
a full supply
At Olmsted's.
CLOTHING.
DON'T fail to call before purchasing and
see the assortment
BOOTS & SHOES
- port Ifen, 'Women & Children, in great va
rieiy and cheap
For Molasses, Syrup, Sugar, I Tea and Coffee,
in Pict evcrytliing in the Grneery line, call
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AT OLMSTED'S
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A full assortment of almost aver}•thing that is
kept in a country store on hand. We intend
to keep'Goods that 7111 give satisfaction and
sell good articles at the lowest living profit;
AT OLMSTED'S,
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.Grain of all 'kinds, ,
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- ilutter f lVool,
Sheep:Pelts, Furs,
Deer Skins. ' • .
- Also, - i I
County, Township and School Diders, for all
of which the highest prices will he paid •
Al Olmsteills i
Coudersport, Pa,NoOr 18, £ B BI
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I wish all persons having open account
with me to call and settle immediately.
1 will scil
Chpap far Cash
All my stock of Merchandise
Consisting of
CLOTHING,
- BOOTS, and
SHOES,
DRUGS,
CROCKERY, •
GROCERIES,
TOOLS, &c., &c.,
1 Good Horse and flarness.::
8 Wagons,
I Sleigh, 1 Cutler, 1 Sulkey,_
The:privilege of a good Ashery -fis" cont•
plete sebrking order.
15 'Cents paid for good ASHES.
1 ,
LUCIEN BIRD.
Brookland, Pa., Sept., 1864.
• FOXI, SALE •
Subscriber offers for Sale the follow
ing tracts of land, to Wit :
One tract of One hundred and Forty-three
and seven -tenths; acres in Pike townskip,
Potter county, on the Genctee Forks. Price
$llOO.. (Sixty acres are improved, with ono
log barn, frame kitchen, frame barn, forty
good fruit trees,; and two hundred sugar
maple trees. The farm will cut grass, in a
good season, sufficient, at: present prises, to
pay for it.
Also, another tract of Fifty-six and two
tenths acres, in )ulalia township, four miles
from Coudersport, Thirty acres of which ark
improved, with one frame lianse, log barn,
and some fruit trees thereon. Price $450.
Also, a Wagon Shop and'" half lot in the
Borotigh of Coudersport, one lot west of P. A.
Stebbins' & Co's Store near Glassmire's EfoteL
The tools, lumber, &c., can be bought rea
sonably ; or a portion of thermif the purchaser
so desire's. One half can be paid in Wagon-
Work.
A reduction Of ten per cent will be made
for Cash down.
For further p'a:t•ticulars enquire lot the sub•
scriber at his Wagon-Shop in Couriertptst.
Feb. 20, 1565 : RIVES,
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