__VILLAGE DECOR
eii3cattco.
Friday; AugiOt 4,18415 k
O tr R. go MEI rt WIC es:.
rir The following are our terms fur subscription
advertising and job work, to which 'we Will ‘strietly
adhere whilst the present "war prices" continue :
' ' SUBSORiPTION,
Per Annum, if paid within the' your,
14 14 " after the year,
.AD VERTISING,
Per Square of ten lines, three times, $1.50
•' each subsequent insertion, 35
Administrator's and Executor's notices. nvv, 2.50
A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers.
108 WORK
d-Bills 25 to 3
Quardi•Sheat Han
,Whole " it ~ " - 6.50
I.V'For all job work and local advertising terms
invariably cash. W. BLAIR,
Editor and Proprietor.
TI-114.1 FAIR.--The Ladies Fair and Fes
tival will be opened at the M. B. Church on
Tuesday nest, and continue open afternoon
and evening until Thursday. The ladies on
this occasion should, as they deserve to be,
liberally patronized.
FARM FOR SAl.ll.—We direct atten
tion
to the valuable estate offered at private
sale in to-day's paper, by Mr. SMITH,-of this
A CARD...---Parsons having any besineas
to transact in Baltimore are refined to the
card of J. 11. liWINtl, Attorne - y at - Law, in
another column—amongferen
ces are some of the west prominent business
men of Ilaltitnore.
DELIQATE IIEETING.—A union meet
ing will be held in this place to-morrow (Sat
urday) at three o'clock, P. M., to select del.
egotti.4 to attend the County Convention
which meets at Chatabcrsburg, on Tuesday
nest.
JEFF. PA l'18.:—No decision. has yet
been made about the trial of Davis. The 131 d
sinner's health is said to be good. He is now
allowed to take a walk daily within the Fort
aceouiparried by it guard.
• TO A DVERTISEIIB.—Persogs having
real or personal property . to dispose .of, es
pecially in this township and Quincy, should
advertise in the /laird, as bur circulation in
these townships largely exceeds that of any
other paper published in
_the_county;:-__ We
ohargo but a small advance upon old' prices.
MAl,l'llol,l'B CONDUCT.—Mr, DAVID
illtra,Ett of the Monterey House, by some
nishap, had the coupling pole attached to a
new carriage broken, Og the Mountain on
Sunday evening last. Some malitious scoun
drels during the night made a complete reek
of the carriage by tumbling it aver the em
bankment. Mr. M. offers a reward of $25
for the detection and conviction of the guil
ty -parties.
WON'T PAL—Our appeals since last
winter to patrons in arrears to call and settle
their accounts, haA availed us but compara
tively little. Nut one out often to whom
we had special reference hrt.s even given us
the eneouragentent of a promise. To ask
long credits of a printer just now is ingrati
tude of the west unpardonable character.—
Ilnless payment, is made soon some of these
-slew payers" will aria their names insdrted
wore conspicuously than may prove agreea
ble to them.
RUN OUT.—The Hagerstown herald
states that two young bloods, Clagett Fitz
hugh and Geo. Shearer, lute Of the Rebel
Army, put up at the City Hotel, in that place,
on Saturday last, where they registered their
names in large letters, as follows:—Maj Geo.
Shearer, Confederate States Army, Capt. C.
Fitzhugh, do. They were promptly waited
upon by members of the vigilance committee
and required to "get up and dust."
A PRIZIi.—A Mr. Guy, employed in the
paper mill, near Hagerstown, while engaged
in assorting some old paper last week-, came
-!1;,;.. ticite )1 the II
scross a
Bank, a
sppearek
rag man
finder r,
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tight lac
serThe late deputy provost marshal of
Bedford, Pa., was shot dead in the streets of
that city, on Tuesday, by a returned Cana
dian refugee named Reed. A brother of
Reed, who had been in the rebel army, was
also engaged in the affray. Both were ar
rested. •
se-A man supposed to be John 11. Sur
ratt passed through Harrisburg,heavily iron
ed, on Tuesday en route to Washington. It
is said he was captured in Texas.
CENTS.—Pennies aro said to be . so plen
ty in Philadelphia as to be a drug in the
market. They are as much avoided now by
the stprekeepers.ns they were formerly sought
after.
Johnsoil on Tuesday was
suffering trorn the effects of a
not
'attack.
The Cgbinet meeting was not held la the
uhirti)lig
le'The loyal people of the United States,
says the itarrisburg Telegraph, must not
fold their bands and lay the flattering unc
tions to their souls that the danger to the
wintry' from traitors is past, or they will
wake up some day to find that they, have
been sleeping over a volcano. 'The traitors
and their allies throughout the country are
just as busy to-day as they ever wore to com
pass their . end of getting power and **oh ,
Haling their ruinous policy. .Any one who
gives even an ordinary attention to the con
duct of the disloyalists of the South and of
the North will be convinced that this is th'e
fact. So apparent is the. object of their
rattchinationa,that_even_thelouisville:Journ
al, which has'been wondrous kind and blind
to the faults of the traitors, ia becoming tt !
larmed for the result, and warns the country
that "secession defeated, overwhelmed, and
utterly crushed in its' chosen field of warfare,
returns to the charge, and seeks to renew the
combat through the agency of its old wea
pons, finesse, fraud and hypocrisy," and that
rather than submit to the government au
thority the disloyalists will reproduce wide .
spread suffering and disaster. This is not a
pleasant thing for the peaceably disposed citi
zen to contemplate, yet it must be met and
defeated, or we shall haie, before five years
have passed over our heads a more blood
eso uting war even than the terrible one just
terminated; Nan' of the men now writhin2.
la-defeat-will-fewie - no - oPportunify unimprov•
ed to strike at our nittionallinte.rit and
greatness, for they have been cultivated to
that desperate character which would rather
rule in hell than serve in heaven. The true
friends of the country and of Liberty must
see to it, then, that these men do not get a
position where they could make . themselves
dangerous. The safety and peace of the
country demand that they shall be kept in
positions Where they will be unable success
fully to deal blows against the government
that protects us and the institutions we love.
OUR FlST,—During the last few months
the accessions to our.list of subscribers have
been most encouraging. Notwithstanding
the copperheads left no stone unturned du.
ring the progress of the rebellion to curtail
our list, the circulation of the Record is ful
ly up to what it was at the commencement
'of the war. In the face of this influence
and prices nnprecedentedly high we have
heeii enabled to successfully weather the
storm. This must be anything but gratify
ing to . the sneaks who were most active in
this effort to rob us of public patronage.—
Since the suppression of the 'rebellion their
countenances are sullen, downcast. The ap-,
pearance of one of them on our streets nevi
almost forces us to the conclusion - that some-*
body has lost a sheep.
COM PM MENTARV.—The editor of the
last Bhippensbury News thus refers to our
friend, W. 11. BROTHERTON, candidate for
the office .or County Treasurer from this
township:—
Among other names prominent before the
Union men of Franklin Courtly as a candi
date for the responsible office of County
Treasurer, we Like pleasure in noticing that
of W. If. Brotherten, Emq , of Washington
Township. , Mr. lfrotherten is a gentleman
of the mast irreproachable, moral integrity,
possessed of excellent business qualifications,
and is in every respect well qualified for the
position in connection with which lie is nam
ed. No man in the county deserves better
of his party and should he be nominated he
will give strength and character to the tick
et.
THE 7-30 LOAN.—The last loan of 7-30
notes is now all sold, and, thanks to the' en
ergy and foresight of that unequaled financi
er, Jay Cooke, who was its disposer. Every
business man will regret that it is gone so
soon, as it is daily becoming more apparent
that it is the very best investment ever offer
ed. Were it to be doubled in amount, the
bonds would all be:seized with a greater avid
ity:than ever before, as the demand increas
ed with their disappearance. The people
have Imo , learned so much of the strength of
the go - ent, that Uncle Sam will never
lave occasion for uneasiness hereafter for
want of moncyrso long as he is willing to
pay his -present rate of interest
. and extend
eqital protection to his creditors. •
Dir . The New York Post publishes an ar
ticle, giving an account of a secret meeting
of the friends of Jefferson Davis and his as
sociates,, held in that city. Several promi
nent officials were in attendance, and a com
mittee, headed by Mayor Ganther, was ap
pointed to solicit funds to obtain counsel for
the traitors, and also to devise measures to
hasten on the trial •of the parties "so Unjust
ly incarcerated" by the Government.. All
the speakers regarded the failure of the re
bellion as only temporary, and thought that
the friends of ,Southern independence need
not despond of its final success. A Mr. Liv
ingston intends to go to Europe to raise funds
for the furtherance of the cause.
ty in
lee, a
imed
phyAi
lation,
'd by
CP - Kirby Smith and . his entire party,
who went into Mexico to offer their service§
to Maximilian, are reported to have been
captured by the Governtr of Saltillo and dis
armed.
Mi'Many of the Southern tier of counties
in . North Carolina, bordering on,South Car
olina, have instructed the delegates to the
State Convention to take grounds against the
constitutional abolishment of slavery, and in
sist to the last, upon the body concurring
with them. •
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PIIILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE.
PHILADELPHIA. July 29.
M. •Editor :--What shall I write about?
There is,uothing new or startling to minim.
nicate. Business, of course, $ laud sum
mer
Bu
mer time, is dull—very dull . 'The weather
continues very warm. Yesterday the titer
monieter reached a round hundred, and . • to
day, "Ralph" expected every moment to see
the meraury bubble completely but of. the
top of the tube: Every street that pia walk
through, or rather crawl through, breathes
the hot breath of a fiery furnace—every brick
wall has a bloodshot glare—and over all, a
bove the - seething house-tops, the hot blue
cloudless sky shines placid and inilifferent as
a vast sheet of molten metal.
The political 'world has been stirred to its
.v.ery_eentre-yy--the -resultof-the--recent -- cilec ,--
titin,in 'Richmond, Va., all the officers; elec-,
ted are men who,-for the : past four years,
have made use of all their energieslo des
troy the Government, most of' them having
been in the rebel army, Now, what is to
prevent the election of just such men, not
only in Virginia but all over the South, if
the present plan of reorganizing the states is
adhered to by the Government.. It is "pro
posed so to "reconstruct" that the minority;
who submit to the Union only because they
are compelled to, shall have all power, while
the loyal •union majority shall have no power
at all. I say loyal union majority, because
there is a loyal majority in those fifteen South
ern States ! About one-third of the whole
population are colored, and these aro all loy
al. Add these to the white loyalists, and
ou hanuk_elear-union-majority,But-these
black unionists are not permitted to vote, and
how can you expect electians_to_result , oth=--
-erwiselhan in the -- e ioico of vile secession
ists ? White traitors tuay'vote, and be elec
ted to officio - , but loyal men because they hap
pen to possess a black skin, are disfranchised.
Of course, copperheads and rebels are intense
ly pleased with that mode of reorganization;
but the friends of freedom and humanity can
never be satisfied with it. The serpent sla
very, may be dead—its spirit still lives—but
may we not by withholding the right'of suf .,
frago from a large class of loyalists, warm
him into life again to- sting us afresh.
At some future time, with your permis
sion, Mr Editor, I shall endeavor to show
that the white laboring classes of thb North.
are especially interested in this matter and
to warn them not to be mi s led - by politicians
of the copperhead persuasion who attempt
to influence them against free and equal suf
frage. •
A New York paper; of this morning, con
tains a rumor that Moseby, the guerilla chief
tain has been arrested; and is now confined
in Fort Lafayette. This man was for a long
time a terror to the people living along the
border, who will no doubt be greatly pleased
should the rumor be verified that he has at
last come to grief. The announcement a
week_or two ago that he had - been paroled ,
and permitted to return to the practice of
law in Culpepper, Va., caused considerable
indignation to be aroused here, as it was fear
ed that the infamous transgressor would es
cape justice altogether. The crimes of this
man Moseby are numberless.' lle nev_er_
made an assault-in ti a op - eTifii where "all'
are equal, but it was always in the night, -
when some wounded and weary soldier lay
asleep that this type of "southern chivalry'
was revenged upon his foes. lie was the
assassin pf hundreds of defenseless men, and
the murderer of scores of honorable soldiers.
The sick were his victims,- and -his only tri
umphs were over the harmless. Let the au
thorities see to it that John S. Moseby meets
'with the punishment he deserves!
The cabin formerly used by General
Grant, at7City Point, as his headquarters,
has been brought here, rind will be:put up in
Fairtount Park for the inspection of the
public. One of our public squares, also, is
about to he adorned with a liandsJuie bronze
statue monument of the lamented President
Abraham Lincoln. These things all tend
to mate our beautiful city wort attractive to
visitors.
. Wo regret, however, to state that our city,
just now, is full of sharpers and swindlers of
all kind's, and wo warn all strangers visiting
us to keep a sharp lookout, or they will be
sure to get their eyeteeth badly cut. •Adieu.
"RALPH."
glir William A. Graham, ex-Senator in the
rebel Congress for North Carolina, has de
clared he would never consent to the return
of his State to the Union if the negro suf
frage question was made a condition. The
rebel sympathizers throughout the State in,
struet their delegates to the , State Conven
tion to insist on a law binding out the freed
men for a term of years to their former mas
ters. The Union man of the State are alarm
ed at this state of affairs, and have urgently
requested the Government to enforce the con
fiscation laws.
Tho public iournals of the West are ex
posing the impositions of high prices, by
showing the relative cost of production, the
real increase of cost by taxation, and the like.
The German newspapers insist on the reduc
tion of the price of lager beer or the enlarge
ment of the glasses, which have been grow
ing less capacious for two years.
The Government has appointed a commis
sion to meet some twenty or thirty tribes of
Indians at, Fort Gibson, so that a general un
derstanding may be, had as to their future
status. All the tribes which participated in
the rebellion will be present at the confer
ence.
A company has been organized in New
Orleans for the purpose of manufacturing
ice in large quantities, which they do by a
newly patented French 'process. The ice is
frozen as hard as it would be with the ther
mometer at ten degrees below zero, and can
be furnished much cheaper than that impor
ted from Boston.
A Saint Peter (Minn.) paper says the
grasshoppers have been flying over that place
in "countless myriads." The air for a quar
ter of a mile high was filled with them, and
their'spced was four to five miles an hour.—
Through every town or farm they pass they
leave a strung guard, and the destruction of
crops of all kind is sure to follow.
LUMBER.—Persons in want of lumber
aro referred to the. advertisement of Mr,
METCALF in.,to-day's paper:
The soldiers call the army biscuit the "rock
of
LATEST FROM RICHMOND,
Gen - i-Turtiere-Order .on the Late E.
lectiow „
Why it is Deviated gull and Void
WASIIINGITON, July 80.—The fellowioggia
The order declaring the late city election for
the municipal of seers at Richmond null And
void:
Headquarters District of Marko; _Rich
mond, July 28.--Special Orders, No. 72.
—Extract. —V. W BREA S t satisfactory evi
dence has been furnished at these headquar
ters that at the election held in, the city
_of
Richmond, on the 25th ' inst,, for municipal
officers, voters where excludea on ground of
rhaving - lost - their res7enceiby reason, of ab
sence as soldiers in the United- States array ,
during the Rebellion, when no such • ground
was taken against soldiers absent in the Reb
el-army; and
`Wheresii, with but few exceptions, all of the
officers elected at said municipal election have
been-prominent and conspicuous in inaugur
ating and sustaining the rebellion; and where
as, the issue was distinctly made and openly
I avowed at said election as between those men
I who had aided and abetted in the war against
the United States authority, and those who
Lad with their lives defended the flag of our
ountry;
" Therefore justice to
,the thousands who
have fallen on the battle-field or by disease
in their efforts to put down this rebellion,and
to those who are now returning to their homes
this-District, airdri...our years of suffering,
toil, privations and dangers incurred in fight-
ing=troa.sonfdern - ands - tb - arthese - persons-w ho
were so lately contributing all their efforts
to . sustain treason and overthrow this Govern
ment should not be installed into office and
intrusted' 'with power. Hence it is botchy
declared that the United States military au
thorities of the city will regard said municipal
election, held in this city on the 2ath inst.,
as null and void, excepting only the Clerk of
the Hustings Court, and eaoh and every per
son elected to office, excepting said Clerk of
Hustings Court, is prohihited from exercis
ing the duties appertaining thereto.
By command o f Brevet-Major-General
Turner. B. LEWIS MOOR 11,
Assistant Adjiitant-Gencral.
The Order Curried Out.
The members elect of the City Councils,
aldermen & ftrunicipftl oThcers elected,assemb
ed at City .hall on Friday afternoon for the
purpose of organizing, when Captain Hager,
Provost Marshal entered and read the above
order, which was recieved with uo little sur
prise. •
Mr. David J. Saunders,
a member elect,
stated that the_ election imd- been—held—by
order of the. Governor of the State, and that,
so far as he knew, it had been properly con
ducted, and he could not conceive why the
election had - beende — Clifi — vd null and void,
A committee of three members was ap
pointed to wait on and confer with the Gov
ernor, but what action he has taken in the
matter has not been received. '
4 •-atriotio Family
We were this morning favored with a vis
it from a brave soldier, named Jelin yon
Redd, of Co. A, Thirteenth Pennsylvania
Cavalry, who is here awaiting the arrival of
his regiment, to be discharged. Mr. Fon
Mid is a German, and a son of Henry Wil
liam 1?on Redd, Esq , ,of Bitztown,
The father is eighty-nine years of age, and
has lost nine sons in the war for the .Union.
Eight of these were killed in battle, and the
other died of starvation, in the rebel pens at
Salisbury. While a prisoner, the son last
referred to actually ate his right hand so
great was his hunger. John, from whom we
have obtained our 'information, is the tenth
and youngest of the brothers, and he bears
the scars of eight wounds received in battle.
Be. too,was for a time a prisoner at Salis
bury, and was only released at the close of
the war. His recital of the - treatment of the
starving prisoners fully confirms *all the ac
counts that.have herotofote been published
of the southern barbarism under which our
men suffered. Upon inquiry, we learn from
other sources, that Henry William Fon. lto dd,
the father of the ten heroes, has for many
years been one of the most highly respected
citizens of Butztown. Is there another man
in the world who has sacrificed more seas
upon the altar of our country than this aged
German.—Llarrishury Telegraph.
Women on a Raid.
The town of Greenfield, Ohio, was the
scene of great excitement one day last week.
It appears that, enraged 1.1. , the almost con
stant nightly rows and riotous proceedings
in a number of the whiskey shops or the
town, the ladies resolved to put a atop to
whiskey-selling iu their midst. They impro
vised a meetlng to be held on Monday morn
ing, met, passed resolutions, and marched in
solid phalanx to several places where whisky
was "sold in quantities to suit the purchas
er," and demanded the liquors, which .were
persistently refused; whereupon, with axes
and hatchets, they made a voluntary attack
upon the doors of the establishment, went in
and rolled the casks out and spilled' the -li
quors in the streets. They were a most de
termined set of raiders. The male portion
of the community looked on complacently,
thinking it a mutter not committed to their
hands, and lot the ladies have their own way
generally. The result of this raid is the
combination of the whiskey sellers, who have
commenced suit against the raiders. The
batter disposed citizens held a meeting and
resolved to stand by the ladies and see them
through the matter. The best legal talent
will be employed by the ladies, who have
succeeded with little effort, in raisinga large
fund already, to prosecute the case thorough
ly,
. A lump of , purc gold, weighing sis pounds.
was picked up a few weeks since by a boy
.who was fishing, on a Creek near New .Vir
ginia, a small village is Clark county, lowa.
•
The finder was offered $1,500 for his treas
ure, which he refused. lie also refuses to
point out the locality where it was found.—
There is a considerable excitement in that
region in consequence of the discover*
RALEIGH, July 24.—Governor Holden
has recovered from. his illness.
The Starklarti says that •rebel papers are
springimx up in all parts of the State, which
openly depounee the Government, and pro
mulgate treason. Most of the Federal appoint
ments in the State are unable to qualify,.not
being in a position to take the milt pre
scribed by CongreSs. Among this ViLliber
is District Judge Dick.
INEFFIOACT OP BLARNEY fp
, Firmness is entirely eonnistent With con
ciliatiOn. It is Very ,;desirable that "'there
should be no wanton provocation of any, kind
anywhere. It would be Only delightful than
all men should dwell together in unity.'' We
should gladly record and our friends and co
laborers; the artists of this paper, would il
lustrate with their utmost the pleasing
fact that lions and lambs -were living upon
the most amicable terms, and that "our mis
guided brethren" at - the South were lost in
penitential amazement at , the crime, of seces
sion and the wickedness of rebellion against
an equal government of laws, made by the
common consent.
But the fact is that th_exavessit_penitent.
Thiitiiiith is that they are conquered only,
not, converted. We defy any constant and
faithful reade'r of the various accounts from
the late insurrectionary States to ;helm him
self to be convinced that the mass of their
population have changed their views of the
character of the United States Government,
They believe in State Sovereignty. They
have tried to assort it by arms and have fail
ed, Do they renounce .their faith? They
maintained slavery. They defended it on
every ground. Slavery has been abolished.
Do they believe it to be wrong? South Car.:
olina shook her fist at the Union more than
thirty years ago. Congress compromised the
difficulty. has South Carolina ever been
loyal since that time? She has now endeav
ored to achieve what she then threatcned.—
The failure is •al 4able. Is the feeling chang
e
It is idle to assume that-the—esaspetitia,
the studied and traditional jealousy and hate
of the slave interestAoward the Union, which
has been sedulously - fostered fo - r - thirty years,
has suddenly disappeared because the Union
has proved . itself to be the atronger. If the
brain that settles is not as strong and firm
as the sword that subdues, the vanquished
win the victory. And it should be clearly
understood that reference .to history is not
recrimination. If, for instance, wo refer, as
we did recently to the views of Mr. Boyce,
of South Carolina,, five years ago, we do, it
not from any hostility to Mr. Boyce, but
from the most enduring hostility to the spir
it in which he_was,edueatecl,-anct - frantariF•
found conviction that political power should
very guardedly confided to such hands.—
Believing that the spirit of which be was an'
illustration—the spirit of Calhoun, or Jeffer
son Davis, of Toombs, Wigfall, Breekieridge,
and Mason—is hateful to the genius of equal
rights and fatal to American institutions, we
shall hold it to be a sacred duty to expose, it
always and as plainly as we can. It blinded
our fathers and it will try to blind their chil
dren. It betrayed-us four years ago,Tifi •
will betray us again whenever it can. It is
a spirit which eighty-five years of peace and
four ears of war have to , ht_us 'sin)
American people are
try to propitiate it.
We trust, therefore, that, while we are all
grateful for "the crowning mercy" of the de
feat of this spirit is the, field, we shall be
only the morebresolved. that it shall be equal
] defeated atilua_polls_and in CongreA4.—
But this result will not be accomplished by
mere exultation. It is not very sagacious to
shout, "They're whipped,. and they know it.
They'll give no more trouble." We remem
ber that, on the 9th of May, 1804, General
Butler telegraphed to Secretary Stanton,
"Lieutenant-General Grant will not be troub
led with any further reinforcements to Lee
from Beauregard's forces." It was General
Butler's sincere conviction. kot at that very
moment Beauregard was marching by his
flank, and did reinforce Lee. So when we
are disposed to say that the late rebels en
tirely accept the situation, and are only anx
ious to be reconciled to the Government and
kiss and
,make friends, let us send out a scout
in..p suspicion or two to discover whether
they may not be marching by our flank.
It is very desirable that business should
revive; that the Southern crops should be
brought to market, that immigration should
flow into the desolated States; that corres.
pondence and friendly communication should
be established. But it is much snore desira
ble and important that these things should
be soundly and safely.done than that they
hould be done speedily. Industrial prosperi
ty we have,had before, and it did not save us.
If we rebuild that prosperity hurriedly and
unwisely it will topple down again in the
same ruin. It is unnecessary. as it is wrong
uselessly to call hard names. But we must
lot our yea be yea, and our nay,nay. This
country has suffered enough from cowardice
calling itself conciliation, and servility claim
ing' to be conservatism. Henceforth. it can
step safely only it it stands straight. Our
future is bright and sure if we chose to make
it so. And to do that we need only tempe
rate minds, firm and heroic measures, plain
and faithful words. If we try to step on the
blarney-stone we shall certainly slip up.—
Harpers' Weekly.
• The Reading Record has the following:—
We saw an individual yesterday in this city
sailor—who was struck by lightening a
bout one year ago on one of the West India
Islands, we believe. Ile is lame in one leg,
blind in one eye, entirely speechless, and not
a hair on his head, arms, or any part of his
body to be seen—all from the effects of the
stroke. • He informed ts by writing ou a
slate that he bad a long beard, which entire
ly disappeared. He is provided with a wig,
,and seems to be quite intelligent. Ile has
in his possession a paper stating his case,
and setting forth that he needs assistance,
which, we have no doubt, is afforded with
seasonable liberality. But we found him
very strongly disinclined to solicit such aid.
He wrote on the slate that he "was - once a
wan." We. answered, "Awl you are a
wan yet;" to which he replied, "No, a beg
_ •
MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 28,—An exci
ting occurrence took place on board tin
steamer Anne Johnson, while on her way
from La Crosse to St. Paul, yesterday after
noon. Aninsane man, named Stocking, ap
proached a group of passengers on deck
tired three shots', the first striking a passen
ger, named S. Roberts, of Syracuse, killing
him instantly. Another shot struck a sol
dier iu the arm,: severely injurin g him.—
Stocking was finally disarmed and takento
St. Paul for examination.
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General Lee , is zeported to be at the Clir
ton House, NiaTara Falls, and it is supposed
that Yanantlighaut ho passed through De
troit on Tuesday), w : • a his way Hi' the
same point. i These htot, • re' iu misfurtune
may have a :ood time- con , Wing, each with
the other. . '
Ben. Butler on the 'Starvation of
• • Union "Priscinere.
Principals as 'well as' keepers Responsible.
In his famous speech at Lowell, on Jaly
4th, Gen, Butler said:
Shall we take to Our hearts and our social
and political fellowship the cruel jailors who
did these wholesale murders by famine and •
bold on our brothers and sons, helpless pris
oners of war, entitled to food arid warmth
by every law, municipal or national, unman
or divine? Not in vengenee, but in merry;
not in revenge, but' in prevention; that .this
thing may never be done again among civil
ized men, as it never has been done before
by a savage people, shall those hitchers be
brought,to condign punishment:
Whififrall'the world, philanthropist or
politician, editor or historian, soldier or civ
ilian, has sent up_or
will_send_up-a-petition;
that the keepers of the murder.pens, Libby,
Belle Isle, illillen , and• Andersonville, shall .
be pardoned? The undried tears Of 'the sis
ter of every massacred soldier demands their
execution. The forlorn woe of each lonely
widows cries for it. Heaven's justice, the si
lent agony of every,bereavedmother, mutely'
pleads that • her son's nrurderer shall not
blast her, sight in life. All nature and na
ture's God, by his holy law, has decreed that .
the brother's murderer shall not live. Who,,
then, shall stay the hand of justice? '
shall stand between these men and the pen
alty of the law? There is none—not one.
But hold! Is there no answer for those
prejudiced criminals? Have they no plea to
put in when so summarily arraigned-at _your --
bar--Ilear - theralti — merey and. deal with
them injustice,. Hear them. as they answer
for their lives.' "We the jailors of Ander
sonville,_Libby_and-Belle Isle-wera - but - in=-
ferior military officers. We did but carry
out the orders of our superiors. If we bad
refused to do the bidding we should have
been. court-martialed and hanged. We•were:
but the hands to do what the heads willed. -•
We but followed out the pciliey of' Jefferion
Davis, the. President of the Confederate .
States, to deplete by starvation the armies of
the Hafted States, and only executed the.
orders of Robert E. Lee, Commander-in-Chief
of our armies,. to. prevent reinforeenientst_
_toming-to-you-iouren mrQ exehatige o£ -
prisoners. Why hang wand subsorafel
000 in New Yor tif:mt to lm
What kind of justice in your Government to
shut us up. in. prison for obeying, his..orders -
and permit, him to retire tollis - home
gime, like another Cineinuatus,. returning.
not from serving, but from ruining,his ang—
ry?
"Why visit all your punishment upon. us?
We-are poor, illiterate mem—mare jailors.--
We were -not educated at the people's ex
pense at %Vest Point, as were President Davis.
and. ienoral Lee.: We have rover. sworn., t
fealty-to your flag is solemn. service.- We. -
- did not hold, at the beginning of. the war,.
high offices, civil or military, in. the Senate •
and army of the United States.
"If we were guilty of the death of. your
soldiers at Andersonville- as. subordinates,
were they not equally guilty as, superiors?--
Beside, did they not bring on the war.-
heir action hs - th.: - T, - Scama an army, and',
without them and such as they, would the--
war ever have been begun or carried. on at
all? Are they not guilty then, of - the death,
of all your brothers, wins, husbands and,fath
ers on every battlefield, in every hospital and.
in every prison ? If. you punish, not them,
and such as they, why punish us?"
And their questions are hard to answer. ;
These men, does not justice say, ought not
to be hanged—at least alone'.
If, then, we believe that our men were
murdered at Andersonville• it we have not
put forth a solemn falsehood. to the world in
this behalf against the South; - if treason ag
gravated by murders most foul and number- ,
less is worthy of death;.if our sons and bro
thers are dear to us;.if their blond has Ant
been shed in vain; if our +country, for whose.
safety so many good 'and brave men have
been pffered up, is worth the sacrifice of the
ves.`
liof great criminals, then let Moose lead- -
ers—represeniative menbe.executed, as
warning and example that all men may un
derstand hereafter, that he who aims a blow
at the life of his country. shall surely, die.—
Laive you, therefore, Just:eo and Mercy f.
bottiequal attributes of the Deity,.
Suicide of W. M. Beetem, Esq.,
From the Carlisle papers we glean the fol
lowing particulars of the suicide of W. M.
Beetem,
Esq., cashier of the Cargo Depos
it Bank, the fact of whose death was spe
cially telegraphed to. The Press a, few days
si C
" W dnesday morning, !shortly after
five o'c ,he arose as was his, custom, and
'spent a short time in the business room of
the bank, writing. Shortly before six o'clock 0 . ;
he went to his own room and shaved'
,Nothing more was seen of him until
the breakfast hour, which is about half-past
six, when his absence alarmed the family,
search was instituted and his body was found
suspended by the neck by a bed cord which
was fastened to a rafter in the garret, whore
hu had retired evidently with the .deliberato
par.pose of putting an end to- his existence.
it appears that after mounting a chest some
two feet high, be tied one end to a joist, and
the other end to his seek, and jumped. from
the chest. When discovered life was entire
ly extinct, the hands and feet slightly discol
ored, and a bright red mark around the neck
where the rope had nearly imbedded itself. .
"For several weeks most of onr citizens
noticed that Mr. Beetem was much depress
ed in spirits, and his family and others about
him were also aware that he was seriously
troubled in mind, : but from what eels° no
one appeared to know. The last time we
met him (at church on last Sabbath) we no
ticed insanity in his eye, and we expressed
our fears to one or two friends. That ho
suffered intensely for the last few weeks was •
eviiient to all who had closely observed him.
"He had been for many years the cashier
and financial Manager of the Carlisle Deposit
Bank, of which he was also the largest stock
holder; and to his upright - and intelligent
managemint much of the success and useful
ness of that eminent institution is due."
A justice of the peace in Duchess county,
New York, sentenced a boy eleven years old
to the Albany Penitentiary for two years, on
a charge of stoning a turkey, The boy has
been pardoned by the Governor.
The Mormon "destroying angels" have
murdered another fatuily for attempting - to
leave Zion.
A borsiwas stung to death by tees, the
other day, in Rea.,ling.