The Greene County Republican. (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, June 13, 1866, Image 1

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VOL. X.
WAYNESBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1866;
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WAYNESBURG, PA.
O-Ornci: In N,
fabl0'60tf
Clark's building,
A. M'CONNia.l.. .:. .1. IIUmiAS,
M'CONNELL & HUFFMAN
Attorneys and Counsellors at haw
tyitytu'sltuvtjt Vnn'fl,
tOmc ,a the " Wright House," East
dnorc OoMoci'ot s. &-., will receive prompt
attention.
Wavnesburg An '1st 20, 1 8t2. If.
R. W. DOWNHY,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
es"()!ri('R iii Lodwlth's Building, opposite
the Court House, Woyncsburg, Po.
Nov. 4. I hi;-, iv.
obo. wrr.v. i. a j. hiviianan.
WYLY & MUCH AN AN
ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT LAW
tST OFFICE in the old Bank Building,
Wavnesburg, Pa.
February 3d, isn.i. t-f.
T. W, ROSS,
PHYSICIAN AND SUKQEON,
OFFICE in Jewell's building, West end of
Main st-ect, Wttvncsburg, Pn, apl,-tf
T. P. MITCHELL,
siio em ail or !
Main St., nearly opposite Wright House,
IS prepared to do sttteliod and poggod work,
from the coarsest, to the Unfit ; also, puts
UD the latest style of Hoots and Allocs. Cob
bling done on reus inable terms. May2,flm.
4V . U II u v v n Nf
MERCHANT TAILOR,
BOOM IN llI.ACUI.EY's UMMMNO, WAYNBSBURO,
WOItlv made to order, in finest and best
style, Cutting and Fitting done prompt
ly, and according to latest lashlon plate
Stock on hand and for sale.
May 2, tf
Wm. Smiley,
WATCHES AND. JEWELRY.
MAIN 8TUKKT, OPPOSITE WRIGHT HOUSE,
KEEPS ON HANDS ALWAYS A' choice
and select assortment of watches and
Jawolry, Repairing done at the lowest rates,
np', 'y
dentistryT
TEETH! TEETH! TEETH
DR. s. s. Patton Informs the public that af
ter February 1st. ism, ha will ho at Waynos
burg, when Ins dental services will ho tender
ed to any and ail making application.
He is now extracting teeth positivri,v
without pain, and Ills new ones in to poifoo-
ion, and restores deoayed onosto soundness.
He invites all who are suffering from diseased
teeth to coma and have their nohes relieved,
and their mouhs tided ivitli gold
Tinumrv -'C. IfU-ld If
N. G. HUGHES,
SADDLER AND HARNESS MAKER,
Main St., nearly opposite Wrigh'. Bouse,
READY made work mi hand, nnd having
secured the services of two nrst-class work
men he is prepared to execute all orders in the
neatest and best style. May3,6m.
ThTrb'tIj To "mobe!
OO TO
"Joe" Turner's
UK has .icsr oi'KNUU A
N E W S A LOO n ! j
geens (Wd Rye '.iusWey, Brandies of all
klnds,Gin,Yj)p,e,rve. And has the where
with to put up I' .nicy Drinks. Call and see
him in the brick part of the Adams lun.
npr 28 6m
Wi Isliers
FGHCEB TO oaow
On (he Smoothest face !
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CHARLES HICKEY,
Ao. ,j. Oampbeu x Itnw,
aug 30,'Ur,- WAYNF.SB.URQ, PA.
Valuable Recipes for Nile.
The following reeipi s can be had by culling
on or addressing Ihe undersigned :
Hair Dye, No. I, lor 7.
Hair Dye, N i. a, Stimulating' Ougiiont,
Hair Henewcr, Hair Uestorer Ci.re for I'iin
pjfl and Blotches, Kcmeily for Freckles and
Tun, all for .-.
These recipes aro as good im nny in us,1! any
where THOS, r'KltUICU
maratf Wavnesburg, Pa.
m tmmt
I . HOW DO WE TALK !
"Conversation is the greatest blessing
(if social lii'o ?''
Is it ! What is conversation ? In
What docs it consist '. Anil where is
the dividing lino between conversation
and gossip ? How do people talk in
Stages and cars, steamboat and ferry
lines ? 'Pleasant weather' as though
every mortal with eyes in his head and
sense to feeling in bis bones couldn't
jnuge mi uiuiscii on tins topic
Likely
to rain before night' a still more startl
ing piece of information, The tact is,
we Americans are too reticent about
what we read nod learn, anil really, ais
lually think. We float too much on the
surfaue we have a horoi of going down
deep Wo like good, substantial read
iug i the standard authors of this com try
and England are familiar to every man
j or woman who pretends to the slightest
degree of literary culture, and we grasp
eagerly at every novelty that issues from
the press, but we do not like to talk
books' Wo fancy very eironcously,
that it makes us appear pednntqi we
liav a horror of seeming too learned. e
peeiully among ladies. And so, by way
ot avoiding Soy 11a, we run pout blank
upon the weather.
Has tha reader over sal in the midst of
a room full of young people, and smiled
inwardly to hear the -feast of reason and
the flower of soul .' How comically the
half connected sentences blend into oauh
i ther, a sonseless s'.re.ui of words 'Com
ing homo from the last matinee'
'Harry's mustache' 'flirting in the most
ridiculous manner "with Katy' 'the
trimings on Mrs, Slide's doveolored
dress' -two now bonnets, with the
sweetest Fronuk Sowers' 'Jim's Idij'it.
'nl .side-whiskers' 'walking down
U road way with a young lady on each
side of him - never, never speak to hor
again, as lone; as I live' 'gray horses
with uellolous long tain 'eating ice
cream at Udltitoniuos lour dollars
ami a halffl yard at the very least"
'well, I never !'
And this h conversation ! Tins is thj
onnobiing, refining element that is sup
posed to bo 'the greatest blessing ol
social life !'
There is a great deal to be said upon
our peculiar choice of phraseology. It,
will never do to be aqousod of talking
"dictionary,'' so we converse in a stle
not very far removed from the provincial
dialect of a camp ofElgliah gipsies
A slang phrase.originatlng in the column
of a newspaper, or set afloat on the wmgs
of a popular anecdote, Hies over the
country with telegraphic Bwiftness, and
Jjucoins incorporated with our language
in an incredibly shoit space of time. We
relish the innovation. A fine sunset,
glowing with tints of carmine and liquid
gold, is 'splendiferous' a perfect rain
bow, aching sublimely as an epic poem,
is 'jolly.' Wo do not walk, wo 'peg
along' wo do not destroy, wo 'gobble
up.' Instead ol withdrawing, wo 'ske
daddle' or 'mosay,' and when wo hear
that our neighbor's mischievous boy has
been 'spanjiiaszled,' we merely infer that
his offenses have at length received their
merited punishment, Our expression
tor differing in opinion from a friend is
that we 'don't see it;' and if ho is defeat
ed in the course of argument, he 'dries
up' Should a man become the victim
of a practical joke, he is 'sold and when
he tai s in business, he bursts upf wl.de I
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our highest degree ot ootnmendaticn is
concentrated in the one comprehensive
word, 'Dully
Truly there is nothing like an Orlgl mil
glyle of conversation! The general
(Illusion of knowledge has apparently
luooededin strowlntt those flowers of ,
specidi broadcast 'over the land, on the
universal education plan, Olid tiley .low
silver modulations fipm tho scarlet I
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lips of beauty quite as frequently ns they
are growled out from beuoath a heavy , repuiauouue wassaw w nave as mion
mu,taohe. cier might be justified by his career in
This is all wrong, from beginning to thu Treasury, look with shame upon the
end. Is it not barbarous, literally bar- lndfnt lmst0 wlth w,,il'1' '' to
barons, to corrupt a grand old language j lmrftfl lhe vulgarisms of his master,
like ours into such absurd trivialities 1 1 1'K 31r- MoGulloeh would save the
Talking is an art, am us such it should bwa' of reputation left him, he had bet
bo cultivated, especially among our , ter go back lo his coupons and interest
ladies, who have it in their power to in
fluence the whole't'do and eurent of social addressing treasury pimps nnd white
life. Ot what usu is all the education : wasliud rebels to his master, who has
that wo lavish upon our g'uU if they can I more ability and more experience, ns
not sustain a creditable part to oonvor- welUs abundant aptitude and love, tor
sation 1 Take auv VOU'tltf lady ot tho disgraceful business. Indiana
present day, and observe lhe stages of
chit-chat by which she gradually (level-
ops slages that are too typical of her
1 mould growth. From fourteen to six-
teen, Moore's poems and Bulwor's
novels engross her tongue and thought!
ihe fancying her mind is being cul
tivated ! From sixteen to twenty, colli
braolots,larletan dressos,and opera nights
merge gradually into Tommy Stevens'
beautiful eyes and dlatnon 1 engagement
rings, winding up with a bridal veil and
plenty of foolish mil confidences. From
twenty to twenty live, she can talk about
nothing but the trials Incident to baby's
teething and her nurse girl's abomina
ble imposition . And BfUr twenty-live,
servants, Brussels carpets, preserves, and
point l ice coll irs from the staple of her
thoughts and remarks. Yet sho his
probably boon expensively educated, ami
considers herself a person of most charm
ing manners,
We have mare than once observed a
Significant recoil among gentleman when
they aro threatened with an introduc
tion to a young lady "of remarkable
conversations powers," Probably it is
because the terms aro regirdod as syn
onymous with Blrong'minded females,
in spectacles who read Greek and talk
transcendentalism through their noses
This ought not to lie Talking should
be a- easy an 1 graceful an accomplish
mont as singing or playing. Our lan
guage is beautiful and comprehensive i
books, new-papers, and pamphlets aro
within the reach of everybody, and there
is no excuse for a lack ot cultivation and
polish. It is as easy to select a musical
and expressive word to denote our
meaning as to couch it in slang phrases,
audit, gives infidelity more grace and
polish io general conversation.
We talk too Oll'oleasly and rapidly as
a nation ; wo use too many provincial
ities. In lee I, it is said that by the
voico and dialet alone it is easy to dis
tinguish Southerner from Northerner,
JNew Yorker trom Vormontor, even the
residents of one city from those of an
other. Oar speech is peculiar and in
distinct, probably because wo do not
take sufhoient pains to pronounce our
words clearly and correctly, and wo are
too prone to drawl and lisp. As to
actual grammatical errors, we wish we
OOUld say they were confined to the uu.
educated few, but such is by no moans
the case. We have heard some college
graduates men who move in refined
society declare that they 'done' so and
so, ami that they 'don't know nothing
about it.' Of course all this is mere
habit, but it is a very disagreeable habit
and ought to ba plucked up. by the roots.
We aro a great people, and growing
greater every day, but wo never shall he
a perfect people until we learn the use
of our tongues and train ourselves into
good talkers.
Tun republican journals of Indiana
are scoring Mr MoOtlllouh, with' a rough
sort of justice, for bis Serenade Speech.
The one at Lafayette, edited by the Hoi-t-master,
hays :
"Blessings on thee, old Thad I If
there is any man excusable for his un
0 died-for ami indecent abuso of the
pe 'pie's representatives, that man is Mu
Culloch, No one blames him, or cares
milch tor Ins self-abuse, down into tho
very dirt, before Andrew Johnson ; but
that such a man, with such antecedents,
should dare to cast filth upon the repre
sentatives of the people in Congress, is
as disgusting as it is humiliating.
Who ever oared tor MuCullooh'l opin-
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lien 'lid he acquire that erudition
and leg d learning sufficient to enaule
him to Bilaniutizo Trumbull. r,nnn
w r . '
"l1 vuuii. ami oenenoK as "i;on.
8'i;illi"" ,i ll,,s ;" There is not a
woll,1,'nte attorney In this State whose
i'i"1""' (,"a"' 1' "1 or Constitutional
question, was not held at higher price
bSn tluit of the man McUullOph thn; '
J'car n9n ', ,lu Indiaiilima who were wil-
I ling lo hope that t!iu somewhat
vague
tables, and leave the dirty business of
hli"ks fa llt,r proportion of tlio
. sni,moj
The Illinois Penitentiary eonlams
nine hundred prisoners.
GEN, SCOTT IN DEATH,
The correspondent of the New York
World thus pieturcH Gen. . Scott after
death :
"At eight o'clock last ovening, Colo
nel Hill took me into the bed chamber of
Gen, Scott, where the body still'lay una
attended. The piazzas of Hoe's Hotel
v . lu,s nUH1 '"-'"'"V'.
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were quue nuen wmi quietly Chatting
but not dispirited guest, who sat in
groups, as ot immemorial spring nights
for these past many years, while thu lono
ly nnd uninhabited stature lay close
above. Cadets were here, speaking, to
their cousins, sweet-hearts, and sisters
Officers of the post in full dress uniform,
talked soltly in the moonlight. There
were tho oniinibusses before tho stairs,
as usual, and folks were registering their
names and paying bills, while the sup
pressed clatter id dim er sounded below.
Now and then a huglo threw its harsher
bray into this respectful matter of life in
death ; and in the mild clear night, every
neighboring highland showed i's rolling
or abrupt outline, whi'o tho river sent
up the sound ol pulling tugs, and the
railway limps and whishs quickened
and echoed and died. l!y a hushed
though peopled hall, up a silent stair, I
am ushered into a common -place hotel
ante chamber. Here are throe officers,
rieiuy uimormoii, aim in complete arms,
nnd at a word from Colonel Hill, they
open the door i t the chamb.r adjacent.
A corner room overlooking Cro1 Nest
on the side, and in trout the parade
ground. This room has a picture or
two of no speeilic individuals, few chairs
and in the centre a long, covered some
thing, which tho giis, as it is lighted,
shows to be ol formidable length for a
coffin. White linuen envelopes it entire
ly, and this is saturated with a cool melt
iug ot ice beneath. A cross cf laurel,
set in tho interstices, with lilies of the
valley, a,.d in the middle with a fresh
white rose, rests on the breast ot this
bier ; two wreaths of tho same leaves
ami flowers lie near the feet ; these were
prepared by ladies of the lioushold of
the officers ot the post.
Directly the llunon at the head of the
bier w removed, and a round sunken
face of white is revealed. This was
oace the ' radiant Haunted Palace"
the face ol the General It is like, and
yet very saddening and changed
Death has given it the pwked look of
corpses, and this is further sharpened by
the loss of the false teeth which make
the chin draw close to tho nose, and
greatly shortens the f.'.ce His eyes have
been closed, but one ot them is a little
unsealed, so that there is a tiillo of crev
ice of the white eyeball shining through
Tho well cut nose and mouth have little I
suffered ; the hair is white and thin. It j
is fashionable to say of General Scott
that he was unequal to the wishes oi thf i
.
late great war. Let all belilt era ol his
B ,
history, hi this regard, look at this very
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old man, and accuse not him, but Nature
It was tor a Vigorous lite tunc a lace
grand with mastered oriorgP s, so cloth
ed with dignity that when it relaxed to
smile one loved it for the co'idescension.
Now, it is an old, old face, drawn up and
childish in outline, as it was in fact,
though not in nppearafoe, for two years
prior io the final burning out of the soul
within it. It was waste, disintegration,
ngu, that changed the man. He failed
to meet young exigencies because he
was no lunger young. I5ut he lived to
the lull comfort and appreciation of the
m ijest'i: tidings of victories won by bis
pupils in the army bo disciplined, and
died in the glorious knowledge that this
land was stronger, worthier than he be
lieved, but no stronger nor worthier
than tin. ' men who had come to inhabit
and guide it
In tho spring of I SO 1 a young lady of
Washington made for General Seotl a
largo American flag, every thread ot
which her own dainty fingers sewed ;
and having some time preserved it with
pride and affection the General no longer
than a mouth ago, said ho wished to be
buried in this flag. It was unfolded
latt evening in tho antc-chambcr ot the
dead soldier's room, and will oontaln
his remains,
Ar a hotel table at Meridian, Mass., a
Union soldier rose liom his seat and
kindly waited upon a one-armed Con
federalo soldier, who could not help him
self very well Tho attention tvns nat
urally and delicately paid nnd gratefully
received, and it made a decided impres-
I siun upon thu other guests.
ETRONG MEN,
STRBKCITU ot character consists ot two
things power of will and power ot self
restraint. It requires two things, lhere
fore, for its existence strong feelings,
and strong Oommnnd over them Now
we all very often mistake strong feelings
for strong character. A man who hears
all bifoie him, before whoso frown
domestics tremble, and whoso bursts' of
fury make the children of the household
quake, because he has his own way in
all things, we call him a strong man.
The truth is, that he is tho weak man:
it is Ins passions that aro strong; he,
mastered by them, is weak. You must
measure the strength of a man by the
power of the feelings he subdues, not by
the power ot tlioso that subdue him.
And hence composure is very often the
highest result of strength. Did we
ever see a man receive a flagrant injury,
and then reply quietly' That is a man
spiritually strong. Or did we ever see a
man in anguish stand as if carved out of
a solid rock, mastering himself; or one
bearing a hopeless daily trial remain
silent, and never tell the world what
cankered his homo pence? That is
.strength. He who, with strong passions.'
remains ohasteijie who, keenly sensitive,
with manly powers ol indignation in
him, can be provoked and yet restrain
himself and forgive, those are the strong
men the spiritual heroes.
Tun aut or inasr. polite First and
foremost, dont try to be polite ! It will
rpoil all ! If you keep overwhelming
your guests with ostentatious entreaties
to iiiuke themselves at home, they will
very soon begin to wish they were there,
Let them Slid out that you aro happy
to see them by your actions rather than
words. Always remember let bashful
people alone at first It is the only way
to set them at ease. Trying to draw
them out has sometimes tho contrary
effeol of driving them out of the house 1
Leading the conversation is a danger
ous experiment Better follow in its
wake, and if you want to endear your
self to talkers, learn to listen well.
Never make a fuss about anything
never talk about yourself and always
preserve your composure, no matter
what solecisms or blunders others com
mit. Remember that it is a very fool
ish proceeding to lament that yon can
not idler to your guest a better house,
or furniture, or viands. It is fair to pre
sume that the visit is to you and not to
these surroundings. Uivo people a
pleasant impression of themselves, and
they will be pretty sure to go away with
a pleasant impression of your qualities.
On just such slender wheels as these the
whole fabric ot society turns ; it is your
business, then, to keep them in revolv-
"g ol(,er.
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Dion t know tub ropes. Western
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Officers were proverbial for shocking bad
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U ilto lis. ana. n n neimrOi- nrnnana il
i was rather difficult to distinguish them
: iroiu privates. Among this class was a
Brigadier General named James Morgan
who looked more like a wagon master
than an army officer.
On a certain occasion a new recruit,
just arrived in oamp, had lost a few ar
ticles, ami was inquiring around among
thu ''vets" in hope of finding them.
An old soldier, i nd of sport, told the
iccruit the only tbiet in the brigade was
in Jim Morgan's tent, so he immediate"
ly started for "Jim's" quarters, and pok
nig his head in, asked :
"Docs Jim Morgan live here?"
"Yes." was the reply ; "my name is
James Morgan.''
" Then I want you ta hand over thorc
boi ks you stole from me."
"I have none of your books, my
man."
"It's an infernal lie!" indignantly ex
claimed tho recruit, "the boys say vou'ro
the only thief in camp j so turn out
ihem books or I'll grind your carcass
into apple sass."
The General relished thejoko much;
but seeing tho sinewy recruit peeling oft"
his coat, ho informed him of his rela
tionship with the brigade, when the re
cruit walked off remarking :
"Well, blast ine if I'd take you for a
brigadier. Excuse me, General, I don'1
know tho ropes.''
A PKDAdoniiK was about to flog a
pupil for having said ho was a fool, when
tho boy ci 'led out, "Oh, don't! don't! I
won't call you so any more! I'll never
say what I think, again, in all the days
! of my hfo."
A Yankee, Thick lust before tho
declaration of independence, a yaukeo
pedler started down to New York to
sella lot ot bows and dishes ho had
made ot madle. Jonathan traveled over
the city, asking everybody to buy his
wares, but no ono was disposed to pur
chase
It happened that a British fleet was
then lying in the barber of New-York,
and Jonathan struck upon a plan ot
selling his dishc. He got a naval
Ultlorin, by hook or by crook (lor history
dosen't tell where he got it.) and strut
ting lip town, one morning, asked a
merchant it ho had any nice wooden
ware, as tho commodore wanted a lot
for the fleet.
The merchant, replied t hat ho had none
on hand, but there was some in town,
and if ho would send in the afternoon
he would supply him with pleasure.
"Very good," said our naval officer:
1 will call then."
Jonathan now cut for home by the
shortest route, and had scarcely doffed
his borrowed plumage before down
came the mo-chant, who. seeinir that
Jonathan had sold none of his wares,
offered to take the whole it he would
deduct lilteun per cent. But Jonathan
saiil he'd he goll darned if he didn't take
'em home, before he'd take less than his
first, price.
The merchant finally paid him down
in g. hi his pr os for the wooden ware,
which lay on his shelves for many a long
day thereafter) while Jonathan trotted
home in high glee at tho success of hi
manoauver, while tho merchant carsed
British officers ever after.
Pukmiu.m on BabiKs Wo are now
certain, says the Springfield Republican
that the sour old bachelors in Congress
do not control everything, lor the Ways
and Means Committee have agreed that
the income tax shall stand as it is, with
the exception that fifty dollars shall be
added to the !jfi(M excepted from tax for
every ohld of the family up to fifteen in
number. This is reasonable it popula
tion is embodied in extending the num
ber lo fifteen ! 'I hat sounds like the
good old limes, when a family meant
something more than one or two petted
and spoiled children. To be sure fitly
dollars a year is a meager allowance for
a baby ot any size in these times, but it
is something to nave the fact considered
--. n
by tho o who levly tho taxes, that a
man wdio obeys the original law of the
race ami, does his part toward replenish
ing the earth, necessarily mes up more
of bis income than the childless, nnd
uso3 it too for the benefit of the country
whose wealth consists in population
Family men will take courage, and thank
the Congressmen who show tins consid
eration at the time of their service and
necestlties.
Chivalry in Memphis They nave a
happy Mayor of Memphis. He was
drunk during the whole of the recent
riots in the city of which he is Ihe chief
civil officer, but was, we believe", able to
lead a mob. Ho took offence at some
observation made by the Anjus, and
addressed tho editor a letter as follows :
"To the Editors of the rius :
"For your uncouth and ungentleman
ly remarks in regard to myself in this
morning's issue, I hold you personally
responsible. Select your friend to ar.
range this difficulty,
' M st respectfully, John Park.
"May 17, 18(iii."
Tho Mayor delivered this in the
counting-room ol the Anus in pcrsrn.
Mr. Brower, editor ot the Argus, ad.
dressed a communication "to his Honor,
John Park, 'Mayor and oommander-in
chief of tho army and navy of Mem
phis.' "
The editor's letter declined lo cngago
in a fight, or rather a farce : and thu
noble Mayor indorsed on tho letter,
which ho indignantly returned, this
smashing commentary :
'Whenever you choose to net the
coward, keep all communications within
your ollicu as above. John ParRE,
"May 19, 18C0."
The editor was then so unkind as to
print tho corres) ondence, and to say :
"Whenever wo 'chooso to' act as af
foresaid, we will cheerfully adopt bis
Honor's suggestion. Meanwhile the
Argm will 'chooso to' demonstrate iho
necessity of a chango in the municipal
administration of Memphis'
"Thu. me, angelic host, yo messen
gers ot lovo, shall swindled printers here
below have no redress above 1" Thu
shining angel bard replied : "To us is
knowledge given ; delinquents on the
printer's books can never enter Heaven."
j Adah Isaac Menken is laying serious-
ly ill at hor residence in New York.
Probably from a cold, the result ot too
much exposure.
Tin: 10 of May was generally obser
ved in Itlehmpnd and in many other
places in the South, as tho anniversary
of the death of Stonewall Jackson, and
the tact that it is also the anniversary of
ihe capture of Jell' Davis, gives it ad
ditlonal interest. The following toasts
with others wi re given:
Virginia; Right or wrong.
General Robert B, Lee: Soldier, patri
ot, citizen. Christian.
Stonewall Jackson: The only uncon
quered gunernl the Christian hero
whom even his enemies revere.
The Lost, Cause. " Drank standing
and in silence.
Tho Conquered Banner: Fold it up
tenderly.
'l he Illustrious prisoner now bearing
in his own p rson the imputed crimes of
his people: Everv true Southern heart
would suffer in his stead. Tho God of
Truth and Justice judge him.
The Old' Captains: Dear aro the livi
ingi dearer the d nd. ; i
Henry A Wise, Prisoner of War:
Unforgiven, unforgotton. .
Tho General responded with foeling
and fervor. ,
Immediately after a toast to tho rebel
citizen soldiers follows one endorsing
the President thus
President Johnson: May ho continue
to administer Justice, without fear or
favor, as he has dono heretofore!"
The following is the call for a Repub
lican State Convention in Illinois, issued
May lGth :
"The Republican Union voters of Il
linois who are in favor of koeping trai
tors out of tho halls of Congress and of
asserting and maintaining the right of
the loyal people, through their represent
tatives in Congress, to fix and determine
the conditions in which the States lately
in rebellion shall bo permitted to parti
cipate in the government of the United
States, will meet in convention on the
8th day of August, at 12 M , at Spring
field." This reads as if it bad emanated from
men who are not afraid to Bay that their
souls are their own and that they have
true souls.
Ilmn.ToNKD We once heard of a
young miss, who bad been away atten
ding a seminary of "laming" up in
"Vermont," completely dumfounding
her parents as well as the entire company,
by getting oil the following high-toned
talk to her big brother, who was sittincf
at the opposite end of tho table. "Bijar)
will you condescend to extend to your
obsequious huuble servant those igni
pitant pair of digests, so that I may
extenuate the excrescences from thin
limpie luminary, so that it, may be per
nutted to shed its rays upon our ocular
optics more potently," The ''flit'
wanted tho snuffers.
GENERAL. NEW3.
There are 3,054,910 eouls in London.
There were (uxty-ono suicides in Ohio
last year.
The Swedenboroians aro holdinr? .
convention in Boston.
There aro five thousand soldiers aftsr
offlco in Washington D. C.
Tho Trinity church property annually
yields an income of 1,300,000.
A Ilindoostanee translation of ShaWpn.
peare has been published at Bombay.
Calom Fletcher, deceased ot Illinois
left two million dollars behind him.
The Ball Mall Gazette calls tho Prinnn
of Wales an unmannerly, ill-brod fellow.
Dickens has a golden speech. Hm
gets ten thousand dollars for thirty read
ings in London.
A blot on the domestic character of
New England women learning to cook
from a Frenchman.
Disappointment in business and lo
caused Jacob Anther to blow bis brains
out in Poughkeepsie on Thursday.
The shipments of gold by tho steam
ors to Europe since tho first day of Jan.
nary have , amounted to twenty-nine
millions six hundred and ninety one
thousand dollars.
James Steadman, a brick layer of
New Albany, 111., took whiskey to such
an extent ao to destroy bis mind and in
a fit of desperation swallowed a dose of
laudnum and died.
Mr. Buchsor, an artist, of fame in
Europo, has been sent by the Striu a...
eminent at Borneno the United States
for tho purpose ot painting a national
picture ot an Amerioan historical event,
to be placed in the oapitol, "Palais Fed
cralo," at Berno.
NiW York, May 30. Two deaths
from cholora occurred in tho city to-day.
The deceased wero John Fitagerald, No.
14 Cherry street, and a woman nimi
Corrigan, No. 808 Sixth avenue,