VILLAGE RECORD.
A:SrMirIIIIS3I3CIMIL
Friday, slli► 28, ,1866..
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• `The Mowing are our terhis for siibattiption -
advertising and job work, to Which We will strictly
adhere Whilst the present "over pricek" continue
SUBSCRIPTION,
Per Annum, if paid within the year,
a after the year,
ADVERTISING,
Per Square of ten lines, three times, §11.60
- each subsequent insertion, 3f
Adininistrator's and Bxecutor's notices. 6w, 2.50
A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers.
' JOB- WORK
Quarter-Sheet Hand-Bills, (25 to 30) ' $2.00
Half '~ Os ill Go 3.50
Whole • .. " did 6 6.60
rar'For all job work and local advertising terns
invariably cash. W. BL AIR.
Editor and Proprietor.
'Pecuniarily, just now, We are ~'hard
up." Those in arrears will please note the
tact, and act according!.
CORRESPONDENCE.—An interesting
letter from our Philadelphia correspondent,
"Ralph," will be found in to-day's paper.
THE WEATHEIL—The ileather contin
ues seasonable for corn and potatoes. An
unusual yield of both is anticipated.
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PUBLIC SALE.—We invite special at•
tention to the public sale of valuable person
al property advertised by Mr. OAKS in to ,
day's paper.
FRUIT JAR.—W. A. TRITER has for
sale the Eureka Air-Tight Self-Sealing
(glass) Fruit Jar, which is something new
and highly recommended for preserving
fruit.
PATENT LOCK.—Our attention was the
othcr_day_ealled_to a very ingenious = lock_fo
out-door - buildings, of which H. OAKS, of
this vicinity, is patentee, In our opinion
it is the lock of locks, for the purpose for
which it is intended, surpassing anything of
the kind we have yet seen. 'Mr. 11. is about
— re - commence th - e manutattnre,, — of - hia - loc
and will shortly introduce it to the public.
CANCER SUCCESSFULLY RR/MCI - -
Ell—We are pleased to learn that our friend,
Mr. JOHN Ross, who was a great sufferer
for upwards of four years from a cancerous
tumor, has had it successfully removed and
is now comfortable and doing very well.—
The operation, which -- was -themost 'e t
cate'nature, was performed by Dr. I. N.
SNIVELY assisted by Dr. FRA I VZ and media
cal student A. J. SNIVELY.
Mrs. TERRYADLE, whose left (mammary
gland) breast was removed by the Dr. a few
months ago because of the same disease, is
well and able to attend to her usual duties.
DTTLL.—Onr town has been unusually
dull for the past week. Nothing has occur
red worthy of note unless it be the arrest of
"Jaka," the Jew from New York, for ex
changing China ware for second-handed cloth
ing without a County license. He had a
bearing before Justice BENDER on Wednes
day morning who rendered judgment against
him for the amount of the fine ($50.00) and
costs. Jake, not being minus of friends,
promptly entered an appeal, so the matter
will end before the Court, and the informant
be thus delayed in getting his share of the
.
pocket money.
STRUCK OlL.—The announcement a
few days since that the Hopewell Oil "Com
pany bad struck a fifty-barrel flowing well,
has had the effect to agitate the "oil ques
tion" among some of our citizens. The mer
its of the "Hopewell," "Imperial," "Oil
Creek and Gordon's Ran," etc., are being
severly discussed, Altogether, there has
been quite a revival of spirits among the
"oil on the brain" portion of .our population.
We trust "big strikes" are yet in .store for
ull.
FURNITURE &c.—We invite special at.
te.ntion to the advertisement of S. MARTIN
BLOOM; of Hagerstown in anothei column.
We visited Mr. B's Ware Rooms last week
and .was surprised at the quantity, variety
and style of Furniture which he has on ex
hibition. His stock is perhaps unequaled
outside of the Eastern Cities. Persons from
this section visiting Hagerstown would do
well to call and examine his stock and learn
his prices.
SEEKING RELICS.-- , We understand
several Baltimore rebel sympathizers visited
this place recently from Monterey, and be
ing told that Gen. Lee in 1863 watered his
horse at the public pump on the Diamond
have been tutting Chips from the water
trough. Baltimore "Secesh" was this time
mibinformed. The stolen horse which bore
the old . traitor from an inglorious defeat
through our town, owing to "pressing eir.
pat:cabanas ) " was neither watered nor fed.
IlEA.l.lllr.—An evidence of the pre
vailing good health of our town and neigh
borhood is found in the fact that we have
iiiit;beeh 'called upon for several weeks to
insert. a single announcement of death. As
regards matrimonial announcements there is
ikowise a prevailing Mirth. There must be
" hard times" among our doctors and preaoh-
era, indeed.
CP'Dog days commenced' on Thursday
(reek, and will end on she second of Septein-
Liar , ; • • 7 . .
THE RETURN OF THE SNEAKS.—
lire notice by our exchanges, • that in man
localitiesdatge numbers of the'
, skeedaddlers'
who, sought escape ',from thei r duty to the
Geveittmont, by a refuge in Canada, are jre•
turning to their homes, believing, now f
from all
war over, thei are relieved; froth all
responsibility for their crimes. In this they
are sadly .mistaket. The law •of Congress
explicitly declares that all such deserters,
who failed to• return to their obniptinies 'or
report to a Provost Marshal, within sixty
days after the issue of Proclamation dated
March 3d,.1865, skoctif foifeit theitriglits
and franchises as eitizen& This law is-now
in full force and operation : All deserters
rho, have failed to report before the lit of
May, 1865, have consequently forfeited their
citizenship. It is well enough for the peo
ple in the localities where these skedaddlers
now seek to resume their citizenship, to re
member these legal facts, and see that they
are properly enforced,--liar; Telegraph:
enses are
A LIVING DEATll.—Describing the
Dry Tortugas, to which place it is understood
the government has sent Mudd, Spangler,
Arnold and O'Laughlin, a contemporary says,
in view of the magnitude of their crime, that
a more suitable place of punishment for these
conspirators could not lave been selected.--
The solemn roll of the waves of the Gulf;
the silent and even ghostly air, or rather
Want of air, on these lifeless coral reefs; the
absence of every living thing save the alba
tross and the shark; "the blue above and the
blue below," in one unvarying monotony,
save the unfrequent visits of the hurricane,
which only addi terror to desoliktion—all
these may faintly picture the far seaward
home of those to whom the law and the tes
timony have denied the boon of death.
* HOLD THEM.—The touisvillo Journal
makes the folloiing brief summary of the ar
gument of the opponents of emancipation:—
It could not be stated in a better form. We
commend it to the, copperheads of this re
gion: •
"The an&amendment people seem terri-
ItritpprehensiveTtnat T -unless-restrained - by
'the Constitution, they will inevitably marry
Niggers. We havei all heard .of the noisy
fellow, who, getting in a quarrel, cried out
to those around him, "Hold me gentlemen,
or I shall strike him." Each anti-amend
ment man seems calling aloud in a similar
spirit, "Hold me, dear. Constitution, or I
shall marry a nigger as sure as you are born."
But we propose that the Constitution shall
stand--back-and-see - fair play."
MARRYING.--A letter from Newbern,
North Carolina, lays that a considerable num
ber of young men whose regiments are about
being mustered out—such as the 47th and
48th New York and 97th Pennsylvania Zou
ayes—have made tip their minds to stay in
the country'. There are too many eligible
openings to be resisted. They are fast mar
rying the disconsolate young ladies and wid
ows, and setling down for life upon the va
cant farms which on every hand invite their
labor°and enterprise.
IterGovernor Parsons, of Alabama, has is
sued a proclamation ; ordering an election for
delegates to a State Convention to be held
on the 10th of September. Ile says that of
the one hundred and twenty-tivo thousand
Alabamians engaged in the war, seventy
thousand of them were killed or disabled.—
also Bays that they 'have every right
which they ever possessed except slavery)
and that the sooner they bow to the decree
'abolishing that it will be the better for
them.
kirThe Army of the Shenandoah is vir.
tually discontinued. The 12th Pennsylvania
Oavalry took their departure for home from
Wipchester on Wednesday. There are now
no troops left in the Valley but one year
men. The guerillas are represented as hav
ing totally disappeared, and the people are
diligently employed in raising crops, &c.—
l i n a few days more there will probably be no
troops.
rifir•Mrs Surratt, Payne, Harold, and A tze
rottoire all buried in the jail yard, at_ the
foot of the scaffold on which .the were execut
ed. There graves are plain mounds, mark
eb by plain head-board, telling the names of
those who moulder below. The Government
has steadily refused to render the bodies to
the friends who apply for them.
le-Last week the Gov. of Maryland com
muted the sentence of death pronounced a
gainst Abraham Coon and Lindsy Forney, to
have been executed at Hagerstown, to im
prisonment for life. Their crime was of the
most heartless description. No reason for
the Governor's clemency is assigned.
larThe little village of Charlestown, Vir
ginia, where ' Governor Wise huog John
Brown, is being visited by many Norther
era, who have carried off.e7erything mova
ble from th'e field on which Brown was
hung.
Akie - Miss Harris, who has been on trial at
Washington for the killing of, ,Burroughs,
has been acquitted, the jury rendering a ver
dict of "not guilty."
Pr Robinson, the soldier who saved Secre
tary Seward's life has been presented with a
farm by Hon. 0. B. Mattison.
Stir The COmmencemen ercises of the
Pennsylvania College Will lake placd at Get
tysburg iiiringsthe 2od week of August.
"Ralph," bo OhjiictiOns: " t
PiiILADE4.IIIA CORRESI'ONBESCE:- . .
PHILADELPHIA,. (Tidy 22.;.
Vitor"Reeord;"—With us,' the intense
beet i 3 the :universal Where - shall we
flndzan adjective sufficiently ,expieettite of
thejsireltering; terribly sti fl ing heat Of yes=.
tertlarand : to-dak Up 'Oa this , moment' (8
the thermometer, -like the ,price of
butcher's maitt,or butter eas a Mend facetiOni
ly remarked to your correspondent to-day),
ditedn't seem ' o tan the leastiden of "cow%
ipg tiro," Our city is iudeetl in a ,state
cif farm' tilibiiiatiori; Antkthd slily *cell wheta
we, "in crowded cities pent," can obtain Godts
free air in its purity are the public parks and
senate* degree Of health, ttereatien;
and cattiness are obtainable there," *tall is
loma.consolation to the badgered editor, ja
ded clerk, and-over-worked mechanic who is
compelled to forego the pleitiures of the wa
tering-place. • After all,' let tui thaniCheaven
we are not living in the tropics:
• The other afternoon, your 'correspondent,
felt an inclination to take a Stroll Up Chesnut
Street, to look at the fashions. He' obeyed
the impulse, and Was fortiibly, struck with the
extreme absurdity of the prevailing fathion
of dressing among ladies—sometimes styled
"angels in dry goods and glory." "Water
falls" were to be Been in abundance, andlrom
this fact we judge they must be very fash.
ionatle. Ain't they abominable ? Ugh !
They,are neither useful ndr ornamental.—
Hope — the fair ones of Waynesboro', don't
patronizelhese nasty puddin—bags But
thank heaven "waterfalls" are to be abolish
ed I A Paris correspondent writes. that
"Frizzes, short curls, and 'rate' are likely tcv
reign pre-eminent, but the fiat of the Empress
abolishes water-falls and Grecian curls; naugh
ty scandal says because she is getting a lit
tle—a very little—bald, and to conceal it
rushes to the extremity of having the back_
hair to do duty by being brought tip and o
ver to the front. We notice also that the
oanefess and erownless bonnets, with which
all - youeg and fair demoiselles are so doper'.
ately in love; the "jockey hats," and the crin
oline are still in vogue. All hese styles will
die out just when woman chooses, and no
sooner—for "when woman - will she will,
fou_may_depend_upon it; and when she_won't,
she won't, and that's an end on it I"
Pickpockets are_reaping a_rich_harvest_off_
of our returning soldiers 1 ' "Robbing sol
diers" hai grown_to be_quite a busineing here;,
but our law officials are making examples of
some of these - robbers of brave Union defen
ders, One was sentenced to ten years in the
.Penitentiary the other day. .
A fellow who has been practising the "Mat
rimonial advertisement" dodge has just been
arrested. His practice was to insert swin
dling cards in country papers throughout the
State, thus defrauding a numbers of young
ladies in search of husbands. For the sum
of twenty-five cents he guaranteed to any la
dy a photograph of.her future husband, and
many of the gentle sex swallowed the bate.
Country lasses should beware of such scoun
drel's advertisements.
- I see by your paper upwards of ninety
boarders are now at Monterey Springs, "cline
host," Miller, must know "how to keep 'a
hotel" better than his predecessors. Glad
to hear he is doing so well. It is a delight.
ful summer retreat. Your correspondent ex
pects to visit it in a few weeks.
I am glad to observe that 'you continue,
as formerly, to be a "thorn in the flesh of
copperheadism." Keep on, and maintain
yipr reputation for out-spoken, firm and an•
flinching loyalty. "Long live the Record."
Adiew. RALPH.
_Dr John Wentworth, lately Mayor of Chi
cago, and in former days a leader of the West
ern Democracy, in tv.,k ,, :peech addressed to a
regiment of soldiers returned from the war,
gave his views of reconstruction In the rebel
States in very emphatic language:
"Those traitors, who for foUr years have
been fighting to subvert the Constitution,
trample liberty under foot, and set up a gov
ernment of their own with slavery as its cor
ner-stone, now that all hopes' in that direction
are gone, have set up a furious cry against
the negro being 'allowed to vote. Of course—
the negro is, and always has been loyal—he
would vote the loyal ticket. If be were allow
ed the elective franchise, all their beautiful
castles,' all their hopes of future power would
be at an end, lam in favor of letting'the
colored man vote, for I believe a loyal 'rig
ger' is a•botter man than a white traitor.
rir The Ohio Copperheads are in trouble.
At the recent session of the State Executive
Committee, Alexander Long, . the notorious
secessionist, introduced his States' Rights
and Pro. Slavery doctrine as the platform of
the party at the coming election: ' The plat
form, which says that "white mastry and'ne
gro slavery is, in the South the very best
form of their society," was supported by a
portion of the members of the committee,
but was opposed by others, not on account
of the principles proposed, but because it
was not in order for the committee to dic
tate to the coming convention. Loog & Co.,
accordingly seceded, and propose to run an
Independent State ticket .
r'The Philadelphia North American says
there are some six or eight "regular" female
physicians in that city whose daily practice
is equal to that of the average of male physi
cians. One of them keeps three horses in
constant use.
far Governor Johnson, .of Georgia, has
issued a proclamation providing for the elec.
'Hon of delegates to a State Convention to be
held at .Milledgeville on CF) first Wednesday
of October. ' Governor J. delivered a speech
at Macon on the 15th, in whfah he told the
people that if they wished to hereafter enjoy
.the blessings of the Union, they mast en
dorse the emancipation proclamation and rat
ify the constitutional amendment.
gerAbout fifty thousand dollammorth of
defaced and worn out currency is destroyed
by the Government each day. Its place is
supplied with the new issue. No more three
ceitt notes ate to be issued; and the five-cent
notes are to be- gradually withdrawn. ' '
A clergyman of Chesterfield, Va., bas been
sentenced to five years' imprisonment,, for
killing a soldier who was robbing his golden
•
":' - A SAD, SAD STORY.
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-„E,Frore,The,Peatersburg, Express-, Jeri 151
le*Orlye since in intelligent and haiid-;
seine young , woman, the daughter; of B, l Cii-,
federate (doer front Lcinisiana, left herhom6
in Boetim to visit the'liittle-field of the Wit:,
dernens, to diseeter, if.possible, the grave of
her huabandi The husband was a member
of the Veteran Regerves, of the Federal ar
myond was killed in.the. memorable second
battle of the Wilderness, She left her child
in the etire4)f frieridant home ' tb pap h wife's
tribute of respect and 'love over the grave of
hint who, in death, still retained
When she::reached Philadelphia on hoar ',ant
Cited piliriinage, she Wei notified of the deith
of her.child at home, but the sadevent.
not stop her. It was but. ,one, more fink
,in
the afield that bound her &the past;, 'and
only encouraged her to beaten on, and weep
the more over her husband's graye. We
say it was but another link in' - the 'lain of
memories which hound her to the,patit3 tor;
during the progresi of the war, She bad lost
five brothers in the service, and sustained
the loss of a mother and four sistersthe
heaviest of all—her husband. Under the
weight of so many accumulated sorrows, it
may be imagined that her constitution was
well nigh shattered. She passed through
Baltimore and Washington, and reached the
the Wilderness; There she found the lest
resting-place of her husband,
.with ifs 86 1
Ole slab. ' And there she, to, was subse
quently found, overcome by grief, her frame
writhing in strong spasms, stretched help
lessly upon the mound. She was removed,
and after a short interim—during which she
suffered constantly troll" spasms-the effect
of an overwrought mind and a shatteredner
yens system, she came to Richmond, en 'owe
to Petersburg, in search of her tither, who,
she had understood; was here. In Rich
mond she was still a sufferer from spasma—
during one of which she was robbed of most
of her money and personal effects. She
came thence by river to this city, at which
place she arrived on SatUrday. In the af
ternoon of this day, while standing at the
provost marshal's office, she was again attack
ed With spasms, which came and went with
such rapidity, that for several hours,she could
not be removed. In her luoilmoments, she
wept over her condition, and' during her re
lapse she conversed about her dead husband.
The scene was one which drew tears trona
those who witnessed it. When her condi
tion admitted of het renioval,'she was sent
to the Fair Grounds Hospital, where she is
now under kind medical treatment.
- This is one of the saddest - cases develop
ed by. the war, and creates the deepest sym
pathy of all who have heard the lady's his
tory.
Horrible Murder.
The Three Murderers Killed.—We are in•
formed that a horrible tragedy took place in
Madison county, about four miles from Lon
donOast—week—, but our ihforiran - t — c - ould - not
give names. 'We recite this awful story as
we heard it. A farmer sold his his farm to
three men, who gave . $15,000 cash in part
payment. In the evening he walked to Lon
don, leaving his wife and child at home.
Some time after a pedler, who had often
stayed all night at the house, drove up and
asked a permission to remain, but the farm
er's wife declined, because it
,was doubtful
if her husband returned that night, and she
knew there was a large amount of money in
the house. She remarked to the pedler,
that if her husband returned he would prob.
ably meet him. The pedler drove on, met
the farmer and returned. As they approach.
ed the house the farmer observed a light in
a room in which he usually kept his papers,
and remarked to the pedler that there were
burglars in the betide.
The pedler produced a pair of revolvers,
and the two, stationing themselves at points
where the burglars would probably attempt
to escape, gave the alarm, and three men
rushed out. The pedler killed two of them,
when the third ran towards the farmer, who
killed him. Upon entering the house, the
farmer was horrified to find his wife and child
murdered. When the bodies of the murder
ers were examined, it was discovered that
they were the parties who bad purchased
the farm that day, one of them being broth
er-in-law to the farmer.— Dayton Journal.
A NEGRO PRAYER AT NORFOLK.—"We
come to thee, 0 Lord, holding up our souls
as empty pitchers to be filled from the foun
tains of thy love. Did you not tell us, Lord,
if we was hungry you would feed us? Did
you not tell us, if we was, thirsty , you would
give us a drink from the waters of•salvation?
Did you not tell us, if we was poor, weak and
needy, come unto me all ye weary and heavy
laden and I will give you rest? Did you not
tell us if we was patient you• would lead us
out of all our troubles? And when the hour
was come, as you raised up Moses to break
the power of Pharaoh and let the people go,
so you have sent us a deliverer; and while
the good Shepherd was with us he led us
over the wilderness, and folded the little biles
•in his arms, and gave us to browse in the
green pastures. But now, Lord, when his
w3rk was done, you saw that it was come,
and took him up higher and gave him a seat
among the Archangels, where he pleads for
us. And when any of us, are worthy wo
shall see him where he is and embrace him.
And the Lord will say, 'who be these ?
And Abraham will answer, 'These be they
whom I have brought out of much tribula
tion from the house of bondage, and for
whose sake I was killed 1'"
A shocking act is 'reported as haring oc
curred oo board the steamboat Armenia, on
Thursday afternoon, on her trip from Albany
to New York. A respectable-looking wo
man, who was accompanied by four children,
and was on her way to meet her husband,
leaped overboardwith a babe in her arms,
and both were drowned. No cause could be
assigned for the act.
DROWNED.—A little girl, aged nine
years, and daughter of Wm. L. Currideu,.
Esq., postmaster at Sbippensburg, was drown-.
ed recently.by falling into a cistern, in which
there were several feet of water.
The subscription to the seven-thirty loan
on Siturday amounted to 85,130,400. The
total subscriptions for the week was $32,503,
000. •
Emigration is said to be pouring into Mis
souri, and. under the new 'Clenstitittion she
will get a population 'of loyal , thrifty, free
State men.
Browniow on Returning Rebels
Those. who are in sympathy with return
ing Rebels ri!esuddiinfT enamored 'fpf the vir
tues Of ripentancelind pardon. an di no', park.
!AIM the' , ,'woild'tehildeiy has Buell itttrac
dons for theth aCthe Parable of th 4 Prodigal
Sen. They seeks never tb weary i quoting
this Parable asfOne cif Unequaled biantriand•
pithos, -It iiinteresting..to hate:diet:point&
of difference between the Prodigal Bon and
Pirst-:—The Prodigal Son did not secede;
he•ivinit4tith' bitilathies consent, and as the
Scriptures indicate, with his blessing. Next,
he went; he did n ot stay and villify the old
titan ittibitt Osocketise." I, i ge asked for some
thing to kart' hinvin the world; he — did — not
.present th,o,•old inan'll.,breast._ aud.
demand his
„greenbacks or. wateh. Ile re
ceived the portiiin his father:give liitiq s lie
did hot iiresi modern SOOtbeio • natiii
for litealitig. And receiving it, he" nutted
CAA "to seek his fortune."'• He ilid hot
I'Bfr
tire to the South side of the old•iiiaii s s'ltitdi,
and join a'barid of robbers who were plun
dering thei . ,aild man, and his law-abiding
neighbors. Receiving his portion;fie quiet
ly took his journey into a fat country. Fi
nally, he repented Of his folly,''not °because
the old man whipped him into repentance,
but because he "oanie•to hitnself,"' and saw
that he bad Wasted his•substance in iiotona
living. He. went back
,homer nat:ivith mur
der in his heart; boasting how Many he had
killed, and threatening what' he would do,
MA he bowed down In habit dontrlticiii,ind
asked all sorts of paidon. •He didn't return
saying, "I hide fought you few' 'years, and
until I was overpowered ' but ha went book
crying, "Father, I hatisiiined against Heap
en, and in thy eight, and am no more•irorthy
to be called thy son," and imploringly said,
"Make me as one of thy hired servants."—
He went home,' because, throughout his en
tire course of riotous living, his heart was
there. He did not retain demanding• his
"rights," his property and back—rents.--He
did not ask instant pardon upon the faith of
an oath of amnesty, but proposed to prole
his repentance genuine by works, '
The story of the Prodigal' 'gen is one of
.sincere, deep, heartfelt and.vo/unecity repen
tance for a great wrong. Do our retaining
Rebels come repenting of their unparalleled
crimes ?
_As loeg as rebellion showed any
signs of success, did they show any_ signs:_of
repentance? Are they coming back because
they hive the Union, or were about to "per
ish with hunger?" . All who return , peacea
bly to their homes, cultivate friendly rela
tions and abstain from hostile acts, disconti
tenancing every attempt at disorder, shiatild_
be with the same spirit and treated with
leniency. When they manifest a hcistile spir
it, make• them bite the duit,Stioxoille
Whig, sth inst.
Colored Exodus.
Information from good - authority, now in
Washington, points out a steady,colored
movement-to-the -Sou thern — States. — ll — All e
Copperhead predictions that the free cities
would be over-run by the negroes after e
mancipation and' the close of the war, have
been falsified by facts. Gradually the col
timn is increasing, and moving to the tropi
cal regions. There the care of the overn
ment is directly given and felt by the freed
men. The slave masters having left for for
eign lands, or having consented to what they
dared not prevent—the liberation of their
slaves—the colored race have at last a chance
to work for themselves, and to show wheth
er they.are fit for civil franchises. In the
North no such chances are afforded to them.
There the necessity for aid from them to put
down treason is not imminent, and there their
numbers are not so large as to demand from
Government the duty of vigilant guardian
ship. Thousands who would oppose the el
evation of 'the negro to civil rights in the
North, would sanction it in the south, first
from their hatred of the traitors, and second,
from their inability to deny protection and
political equality to men who are essential to
the production of the necessaries of life for
all, and ready to offer their lives as a defence
against treason,
Harry Leslie has again crossed the rapids
at Niagara on . a tight rope. lie appeared in
woman's garb, night-cap, petticoats, &0., and
for about fifteen minutes astonished his au
dience by enacting orrtbe main rope, a drunk
en scene, staggering, reeling, &0., with a per
fect recklessness of life or limb. Ile' wound
up his fool-hardy exploits by running out on
one of, the guyropes without pole or balance,
and throwing himself at full length on his
back. This,
it was admitted, surpassed any
vontursome feat ever performed by Blondin.
Savannah and Charleston advises of the
20th have been received. All the towns in
South Carolina are or will soon be occupied
by Union troops. The crops throughout the
State were
. in good condition.' The 165th
New York Regiment (Duryea's Zounves)
having exhibited a mutinous spirit on Mor
ris Island, they -were disarmed and marched
under guard to Fort Sumpter. Their colo
nel and second officers had been placed under
arrest, and it became' necessary to surround
the regiment with other troops and loaded
batteries before they submitted.
The English sparrows which have been in
troduced into Jersey have cleaned the trees
entirely of the worms. .A pair will destroy
six hundred caterpillars daily in feeding their
young, The robin of, this country is equal
ly as good a tree vermifuge and ought not to
be killed by sportsmen. They are now found
in our public squares, doing the work of
clearing the trees, of vermin.
Mexican news says that' by: the - Liberal
General Negretes countermarching his forCes
he completely frustrated the combinations of
the' French general to capture him. The y
city of Uula and the town of. Matchula• ban
been captured from the French. In the lat-,
ter place no quarter was asked o r , given.--'
President Juarez is in undisputOd possession.
of Chihuahua.
THE TOMB or PRESIDENT LINCOL4-
The tomb in which the President's remains,
together with those of his little son t are placed
is kept carpeted with fre's.h flowers,' and
about and' upon the coffin as they in
view are garlands and' clusters of buds and
blossoms ever fresh and fragrant, so that the
very
~tireath .of, the sepulchre is zendered re
dolent and. pure. Looking into, the tomb. the,
visitor can discern nethino..offensive-rno to
ken'of tee 4 damp glosm"—
deem himself gazing- into some floral cave
whoie tenants are • ilia ,siiices and ''Sunimer ,
nymphi; •
Buck's. Werth Coning Volume.
T 6 t9 ll o l 'iniOseil Vo"rime of the old' pub
[o
*a tunclioniut t elm thfWashington corms ,
ndendis tit tilt Philadalpitia "Press" is now
. the liantgs ofitbe paters , and will be pub
:shed iii fine slle by th e ' Appleton's, the
elebrafed New • Y n ork publishers. It will be
a fill hfstory of tee , !ale administration, fronr
&Fs film notes, 'Written by himself, in tho
months of classic quiet at Whentland„ whil e
itlirtheorythat •that' --, Governmentvertntld , mit
protect Itself from annihilation was beirig .
tried at the cost' Wpfeciliiii: bl - ciatt • • : . and-.71114.
on the field of battle.
,Itwill be a work, of
'some five , ,;;. rod pogei - duodeoinio. he
.
re s pectable •.'' Presidentitelit_w.diary! q. alb
'the even tPr - i - thiiiiiiii. : 7lTEY is ant old hand
AllQ.AdlOws;eitidos,, r he has rare o447
and Omits o,f fatiptiyi Oise he ling feli e- -
quals. Hiii galins'utAtilli •-: frit 1 -tiiii. endur- ,
twee is ivenderfil. He regulaily . , collects,
digests, files away and 'arises all.;;his corns
pondeucti •arid meideiefide, - And as he was
fully aware that. he left:Mince - not' , Ovei-bless
sed with - friendaiatid a geed ' deal complain
•ed of, he has used his materials for 'vindica
tion with his best ability.
I am toldlitilit'vety:iinxiona Teri his book
to appear, thinks the printers slow, and ex
pects that it will be a• very, conclusive affair
in all respects; ..It has been to, him a work
of love. Indeed, he,gave,lo it all his time
and thought, of.whieh, in ,144 solitude, he
has had overmuch.. 1 7 fhen: the: - bOak is out
he will engage himself, by reading, the re
views and critiques —li himself,
pastime, tru
ly, to the 0.. P. F. AnYlioar, this shows
that be is in fine health - and tobuit equan
imitj, forle will have tube a most .correct
annalist to , ,escape , a steady Ind searching
analysis. But, as he. says he wants occupa
tion, this is a capital way to secure, it. J.
B. must now be nearly eighty. HO had a
hope of bein&, the last President of the Uni
ted States. Be" has riot been gratified, and
be will live long enough to find himself mis
taken-in-many-other thineti. Ile will not
go to Bedford this summer7having his,books
on hand. , .
SNAKE BITE:
inary cases of the effects of a.' anak-tl . bite of
which we have heard, oeeurred. last Saturday
at Balls Prairie in the northesw, part of this
connty. --- Mr. — Jaeob - §ehustesin farmer, - was:
engaged "in mowing, and ity . swieging
scythe, severed a rattle snake •tt, few inches
below the head. nethep,:prompted by cu
riosity, proceeded to ezamine the reptile; and
approached it for that purpose ) supposing it
to be rendered. harmless, ,when, it instantly
threw its hetutabontenci_fastened-its-faugeirk 7
his thumb. - He threw the snake off by jerking,
his hand violently, and immediately his en
tire system received a shookironi the venom•
infused into it by the snake. His arm swell
ed rapidly to four times its natural Size, and
became of a dark Color. Hewes seized with
vomiting and purging bleed, and. it even•
oozed through the pores- of his skin, andiarge
Ilisteis-filled-with-blood - coltered his- arm and,
hands. His agony was intense, antiallefforts
to relieve him. were futile,, and it was• found,
necessary to call medical aid. A. messenger.
was therefore despatched to this city for Dr.
Staples, and he immediately r0r,..“--
real ego] Schuster, arriving there ear-•
ly Monday morning. lie found him suffering,
greatly, and though the case seemed hope-.
less, made every effort to counteract the poi
son whio was, spread. through- his system,
When Dr, Staples left hid► at about noon on,
Monday, the patient was - somewhat easier,.
but there was little expectation. of his nem-,
ery, —Dubuque ( Iowa) Herald.
The State prisoners have been moved from ,
the Arsenal prison at Washington. The con-
victed conspirators, Dr. Mudd, Arpold, o'.
„Laughlin and Spangler, were sent to Fortress.
Monroe, and from there it is believed they
will be conveyed to the Dry Tortugas for im
prisonment. The Rebel General Harris has.
been sent to Fort McHenry, Professor Me--
Cullaugh was sent to Richmond, and Jeff,.
Davis' private Secretary Anton H. Harrison,
has been traisferred to Fort Delaware. The
old Penitentiary
. buildingin which the trial
of the conspirators•took place is to be demol
ish.
A respectable young lady in Pittsburg e
loped the other night with a youth, whose
addresses her "cruel• parient" had forbidden.
She took along the old g,eatlemen's money
box, containing's4oo.
A movement is on foot by colorcd . men to
purchase the Charleston Mercury and pub•
lish it as an antislavery journal. Some pro
gress has been 'made, and money is being
subscribed with a good piospeet of success.
Progress in a NeW England direction.
CormsaaxioN.—.l.n Virginia steps have
been taken in Judge Underwood's Court, to
ward the confiscation of much property.—
Writs have been laid upon the whole of Gen.
Anderson's property in Richmond; including
4he Tregadar Iron Works.
liii - G - eneral :Butler's resignation , which
was sent on the first of June, has been re : .
turned marked "not accepted," and he has
been sent to Washington, Where.'he is' likely
to be"assigned to duty , connected with the
Freedmen's Departnient.
Mr. JOl4:Wise, a respected citizen of this
place, was found dead in his pottery, on Mon
day evening last, having fallen it is suppos
ed, from a stroke of appoplexy,—Hagerstown
herald. '
Major General Cox has accepted the Un
ion nomination for Governor. of Ohia, and
will• take the, stump. •
:RELEASE OF PrasoNEas-7-During the last
week there were released from prison stationg
591 rebel,' prisoners, Riskin.. ° a total of 43,391
discharged , by President Johnson. There
are now none .hut sick prisoners left.: .
, . .
It is stated in official quarters tliatit is the
iitention . of - the GOiernment to reduce the
army to ; probably 56,000 men. ,
. .
A; woman in Roches ter tied a stone to' her
child's neck, ;threw into the canal, and'
watched it struggle and drown.
,
A y o ung ;woman - died' from excessive laugh-.
ter in l'ieW York lust week. ' • "
'Four hundred arid. forty-three • deaths oe•!.
eurred Philadelphia :last week..
It, flAtol34.t.hat there wra.6oooo
, yst. on the,pay,ral4 • . ,•
• - Thcrhave ti dail pape r 'at Salt .141;e•-.—'
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