zate mtaticttian: ^.# - " s Ltta , SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1863. or A Washington correspondent writes that the rules of the conscription will exclude all fat men, the reason o their exemption being "not only their physical incompetency, but because it is proverbial, from Falstaff down to Humphrey Marshall, t h a t they have never been remarkable for daring deeds in the field." This sweeping rule has many very decided exceptions. Crom well was a lastly fellow.; Gen. Putnam was alsvays in firie flesh ; Bonaparte was f a t ; one of the most famous of the liv ing Generals in Fiance is so atont that he cannbt ride on . ..horseback ; our Gen. Butler is by no metaled 'lean and slip pered pantalOon ; and a great many other names could be quothed to dis prove the.reason assigned above for the exemption of men of superabundant flesh, who are otherwise capable to do soldiers' duty, from the conscription. sr The rebels are very reluctant to ,receive their sympathizing friends, ban ished into Dixie by our commanders.— "Noith Carolina they have positively rtfused to receive them within their lines ; and we are informed that recent ly, upon the arrival at City Point, on James river, of a company of female se• cessionists from Ba'timore, they were told by their rebel relatives that they had better behaved themselves and re mained at home, as their friends in Dixie could give them no food to eat,!and do nothing under Heaven to take care of them. or It is said that Erastus Corning of Albany,' the •"railroad king," as he is styled, and who commenced life as a clerk at $2O a month, is about to retire from biftsines with a fortune of five mil lions of dollars. This is deserving of notice as an example for all young men, showing,as it does, that in most countries, bat especially in this honesty, industry and enterprise, aided by wise economy, may, from the smallest beginning secure to the humblest distinguished and hon orable success in life. Air The $3OO draft exemption clause appears to cause considerable difficulty at Washington. Secretary Stanton, it is reported, believes the clause is per missive and not mandatory ; but the Oliva ofihe Attorney General are op posed to those entertained by the Sec retary of War, and he holds that the law obliges the Secretary to fix a sum by the payment of which the drafted - persons may be relieved from serving. lir It is said that the United States Xlistrict Attorney for the District of Co flumbia denies the truth of the published statement, that measures are in progress for the seizure, under the conscription act of the real and personal estate Of Mr. Corcoran, the banker. There is now no evidence in his possession to warrant such proceedings. sur A telegraph dispatch from Cin cinnati dated Wednesday, says : "Val landigham was last evening placed on board a gunboat, now anchored off the levee. His transfer to the boat was very quiet and attracted no crowd.— Those who saw him said he looked so ber, sad and much broken down. He certainly goes to Fort Warren ; by what route I eanget say. iser A lady in Richmond says that the best hotels have raised board to tea'dol lars per day. Three dollars is the regu lar price at common boarding houses, and the food served is very plain indeed. Coffee and tea were hardly to be obtain ed at all, and common brown sugar brought one dollar and a half per pound . Clergymen pay $l5O for an additional black coat. eir It is reported that every avilable soldier now on detached service in and around Washington, Baltimore, and on the railroads in Virginia and Mary land, will be forwarded to Hooker's command; and their places supplied by Pennsylvania Militia, which, it is said, has been tendered by Governor Cur tin. • fr To raise funds for the erection of a bronze statue at Richmond, in memo ry of Stonewall Jackson, hi friends will appeal to the generosity of the people. The estimated= cost of the statue, in Confederate funds, 'is sixty to eighty thouland liar The mildness of the last winter has reduced the usual supply of ice in Europe as well as in this country. The of the Swiss glaciers, it is said, has all been sold to the northern powers, and large numbers of workmen aro cut ting and carting the ice away. cur Governor Curtin, has offered to raise 50,000 volunteers to man the forti fications at Washington, and the propo sition is, understood to have 4een ac cepted. Short Scraps of News from our Exehaltges. The Harriet Lane has escaped from Galveston, and may soon be heard of burning our ships in Alabama style. A movement is on foot among the workingmen of Philadelphia providing that no unnaturalized person shall, em ployed among them in any capacity • whatever. The National Treasury is i„ good condition. Mr. Chase has tea millions of dollars accumulated , all of which will be paid to the army and navy in a few The c elebrated horse Ethan Allen has been purchased by Frank Baker, of San Francisco, for $16,000. A brother of Old Ossawatamie Brown incapaciated for military service, has been appointed third class clerk in the Treasury Department. A gentleman from Oregon thus sums up existing evils in that state:— "Indians, small pox, influenza, secesh, drought, mumps, greenbacks and the itch." Mr. R. Ten Broock's Santhal won a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. at the Epsom Spring meeting, on Monday, April 20. Princess Alexandria was married in a lace dress which cost 48,0001 The same night hundreds of poor girls were star ving in London. A few days since an Irish woman found $5,000 in green backs in a paper mill, in a little town in Berkshire co., Mass. The money was in an intact sealed envelope. How did they get there. Andrea; Johnson is commissioned as a Major-General of the Union army, with authority to organize a foren of five thousand Tenr,esseeans and ten thous and negroes. Bob Johnson, son of An. dy, has beian promoted to a Brigadier. 'The Marshal of the District of Col umbia has seized the real and personal estate of Capt. J. N. Maffit (comman- der of a Rebel privateer,) under the Confiscation Act. It is located in Washington. Five female prisoners arrived in Wash ington on Wednesday, from Camp Chase Ohio, add were sent to the Old Capitol prison.' They are charged with having assisted the prisoners in the Ohio State prison in escariicg—furnishing them with files, &c., done up in pies and oth er edibles. Some ingenious Yankee has invented a Sind of water proof bank note paper, warranted to wash without injuring the note in the least. The process is by putting a thin and perfectly transparent coat of iudia rubber on the bill after its printed, which covers and preserves the ink as well as the paper. Notwithstanding the war, and the pe culiar position occupied by Memphis, Tenn., there is a good deal of sport go ing on- there. The race course near Fort Pickering is in excellent condition, and the races, which take place nearly every day, are well patronized by sport ing gentry, both civil and military. On the night of April 30, and while the army of the Potomac was en route for Dixie, a prize fight came off on the other side of the. Rappahannock, be tween a soldier boy of the 14th, and one of the 22d New York regiments, for $lO a side. The result, owing no doubt to the "suppression of news," has not reached us. "We lea& from an Eastern exchange that ten thousand cows are required to supply Boston with milk ;" so says the Sunday Atlas, which also facetiouly re marks : "The number of hydrants re quired to furnish New York with the same material does not seem to be mentioned." The President, the New York Timeg Washington - correspondent states, has received, from the headquarters of,the Army of the Potomac, an orignal letter written by Jeff Davis to a Rebel Colon el, in which he speaks despondingly of affairs in the Send west. and on the Rap pahannock. The letter was found in a Rebel camp at Fredericksburg. A. Milwaukee (Wis.) paper states that the wheat trade of that city, as reported by the Chamber of Commerce, is great er than that of Chicago. The total wheat trade of Milwaukee for 1.862 was no less than 17,834 926 bushels. This amount would make it the greatest pri mary wheat market in the world. Wis consin wheat is of a very excellent qual ity. Two engravers and lithographers have been arrested inlSheffield, England for forging United States Treasury notes. It is ascertained that large amounts have been issued in five, tent and twenty-dollar notes. We hope the rascals will be brought to speedy pun ishment. We are abundantly able to print all the greenbacks needed without assistance from Europqan fergers. At Black Creek (Canada West) oil region a sublime spectacle was lately witnessed. The creek had got obstruc ted, and the oil collecting on its surface was set on fire, when immediately the whole creek was in a flame, catching the trees upon its banks and doing much I damage. For rods, it is stated, the creek appeared as a boiling cauldron darting sheets of red flame high in the it to an altitude of nearly fifty feet. - 3 rb'aTHE A STATE IN DEAD EARNEST.—The Leg. Mature of Ohio has resolved "That "e will have no desolation of tlf;; If Dien that we will have no STlDisti" ; that we as re bels and traitors.; can fight as long can ; that the war stall go on until law is restored ; and that we will never des pair o f eta Republic." This resolution I ,,,, ro duced by a War Democrat, and, was adopted by a decided majority in, both branches. It is explicit. It sets forth a principle and purpose in style no man can mistake. It has the sterling ring. The country sees a' once there is noth ing spurious in that loyaly. There are no qualifications, no disclaimers, no pro tests. It is whole-souled. It bespeaks a State that is stead fast in its conviction unfaltering in its devotion, indomitable in its spirit. The resolution ; in this crisis of the struggle, is a grand ,thing for Ohio. It will hereafter be the proud est of all her titles to honor: It ought to stand in golden letters, on the front of her noble capital, an imperishable memento of her fidelity, Imo' The Tycoon of Japan has sent a present to President Lincoln, consis ting of a ,coat of mail. An umbrella like helmet, of fabricated sheets of steel and copper, shields the head, while a vandyke of interwoven silk cord and lacquered net-work falls gracefully upon the shoulders. The outside . of the helmet -is profusely ornamented with chrisanthemums _of gold, in beautiful open-work, upon black lacquer, with now and then a trimming of purest sil ver. The visor is of copper, laquered in scarlet and brown. The armlets are of the finest copper chain work. The breastplate is of copper intersected with parallel stripes of lacquer, and woven togethelr with delicate wire tind golden cord. A sort of kit accompli , nies the armor, and with lacquered leg gins grotesquely formed completes the set. car Two important decisions of a'mil. itary and political character have been made by the Supreme Court of Penn sylyania. First, that a deserter from the American army is a felon at com mon le,w, and_if he ba shot by the guard of a provost marshal while attempting to escape, such shooting is justifitable. Second, in the case of the seizure of the Jeffersonian newspaper, on an elaborate argument by Wm. B. Read against and John C. Knox for the constitutionality, of the indemnity bill of the 3d March 1863, it was decided by the -Ron. Wm. Strong, of the Supreme Bench, that that act was valid and constitutional. CD - Southern accounts state that one shell from the Montauk . passed com pletely through Fort Sumpter, through both sides. Several very bad.breacbes were made. The rebels say that if the firing had been continued twenty-five minutes longer the city would have sur rendered. The firing from our gunboats and iron clads was terrific. In the city every preparation had been made for evacuation. Negroes had been sent out, moveables packed up, women and children sent off, and everything made ready for departure. Gir Since Congress adjourned -on the 4th: ofMarch, a 'period of thiee months, the people of the United States have loaned to the Government, throliiii. "the five-twenties;" over forty millieds of dollars. Such a mark of popilar confidence in the stability of a -Govern ment has never before been manifested in the world's history. Cr It is said that the. Government makes money by coining mickel cents, now that the demand is so great.— These coins are really worth only thirty five cents the hundred. There are now three times as many in the hands of the public as really is needed, and presently speculators and borders will bring on a crash. cir Gen. Burnside has not only placed the whole of the county in which the home of Vallandigham is situated under martial law, but the Dayton Eivire, the copperhead organ in Dayton, has been suspended, and the editor arrested. A man named Jessie Harbor, of Champaign county, Ohio, recently dead, was the father of 31 children, the young est of whom is about two years old. Ii has managed to give .all who have ar rived at maturity an outfit of 80 acres of land. 0 - Never did au Irishman utter a better bull than an honest John, who being asked by a friend : "Has your sister got a son or tk daughter !" He answered : "Upon my life, I do not know whether I am uncle or aunt !" eir The latest method resorted to by soldiers to smuggle whisky into camp is filling the barrels of their rifles and put: ting a cork in the muzzle. We should call these "barrels of rifle whisky." (Er "Why is a printer and a pretty girl alike ?" "They both make impres sion." "Now, what's the difference be tween the impressions ?" "Why, one's on paper, and one on the heart." eir The little birds serve men faith fully in a thousand ways, yet he kills them fbrl*ting a a few cherries. Why not-kill his human servant la - amuse he has to feed them. DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA.—ACCOMItS from Sydney, Australia, represent that 'a fearful drought has prevailed in Aus tralia. In some localities there had been no rain for fourteen months, and the cattle had died by thousands. Ono farmer lost five thousand to six thou sand sheep and lambs ; another fifteen thousand, and all who owned stock of any kind suffered in like manner. No one in the country remembers such a season before. Wool could not be brought into Sydney, as all the bullock teams died on the road for want of pas turage and water. In some parts of the country nothing is seen for-miles and miles bat the bodies and bleached bones of sheep and bullocks. or Surgeon-General Hammond has determined to abolish the use of Calo mel and Tarter emetic in the army, it having proven impossible, in any other manner, to properly restrict the age of these powerful agents, and it is there= fore directed that they be stricken from the supply table, and that no further requisions - for these mddicines be ap proved by Medical Directors. In a cir cular on this subject just issued froni the Medical Department to Surgeons in charge of hospitals and on duty in the field, the Surgeon-General remarks : "No doubt can 'exist that more harm has resulted from the misuse of both these agents in the treatment of disease than benefit from their proper adminis tration." One of the steamers of the Ham. burg and American steamship Company, lately arrived, brought to the port of New York over eighty large packages of fine linen and lint, which had been contributed by the friends of the Unfon along the Rhine, for the benefit of our sick and wounded - soldiers. Some of the packages were of the size of hogs heads, and all were made up of the best material. The linen was especially fine Every package bore this incription "Renish Bavaria. For the Wounded Defenders of the United States." These packages were a free gift of the freedom loving men and women of Rhine land. and were brought over free by the Ham burg and American line. fer The draft will take i lace about the first of July. The soldiers now re turning home will have had six weeks away from the army, and they will be gin to be restless. By the middle of July the War Department will offer a bounty of $3OO to all who will re.en list, using the fund which. has accumu ,latedfrom those drafted persons choos ing to pay $3OO rather than to go into the field. It is expected that nearly all these returning soldiers will accept the high bounty and return to the service. Six weeks will undoubtedly be consumed in the enrolling of all persons subject to military duty. er Charleston papers are very silent about the injuries done to Fort Sumter in the assault by the iron -clads, but a correspondunt on board the Ironsides to the Baltimore American says that as soon as the fleet withdrew staging or scaffoldiing was erected on the outside of the fort, and for more than a month past the rebels have been at work repairing dkmages, and are still at work. There are large holes in the walls very distinct ly 'seen. fir Regiments of nine-months and two years men , are constantly pouring through 'Washington to the North, their time having expired. There is a feeling of nervousness upon the subject in Some quarters, but our military lead ers are satisfied that if we are to lose twenty or thirty thousand men from the army at all, it is better to lose them now. ear It is rumored that the' case of Vallandigham is not yet decided, that Mr. Seward favors his release, and that the President is undecided. The Union men in Ohio demand that'if this man is to be punished at nil, he should be sent South to the rebels whose Cllll9B he has so long defended. air Flax should be sown. There - is - a fair prospect that well cultivated. crops of this staple will be remunerative, and farmers should look to their interests in this matter. No one need expect the cotton will fall to its former prices for some years to come, and hence the ne cessity of cultivating flax. lir Mr. C. W. Field- is again agita ting the Atlantic Telegraph projpet in New York city. A meeting was held— resolutions adopted—a committee ap pointed—but nothing of a practical character accomplished so far as we have learned. or 4. new two-cent stamp has been prepared for local or drop letters, baying a portrait of General Jackson for the design. Stamped envelopes of the same rate, for circulars are to be provided.— The new rate goes into effect in July. Cr Bayard Taylor, Secretary of Le gation under Mr. Cameron, has been re moved, it is said, in consequence of having allowed his name to be used against Minister Cassius M. Clay, in the Senate. tUr The ancient English "yard" was a measure of length, based upon the length of the arm of King Henry I. EMIGRATION OF BLACKS TO HONDURAS. MRS. DOUGLAS AND DER Fern.v.—A —Mr. Hodge, of Honduras, has been in Washington correspondent ofthe Spring conference with the Government for field Republican, alluding to the death sometime, in regard to the emigration of James Madison Cutts, the father of and colonization of the freed blacks to Mrs. Douglas, says:—"Mrs. Douglas is that country. The President and some again in mourning. She was always a of the members of the Cabinet who have favorite with her father, and the attach favored the scheme of colonization, are i merit between them was unusually understood to have changed their views, strong. She is now left alone with her and are now favoring the idea of using children, to battle with life as best she them in both the military and naval ser- can. The children relinquished their vice, to aid in suppressing the rebellion. Memphis estate long ago by choosing No action will, therefore, be taken at to remain here and espouse the cause of present by the Government in this mat- their country. One of the boys is on ter. Mr. Hodge returns without accom- Gen. Burnside's staff. If the Govern plishing anything. ment succeeds in restoring the Union, or in pritting down the rebellion, the children will recover their southern es tate, though doubtless in a ruined con dition. R;ery few mouths the gossip mongers have coined a new story con cerning Mrs. Douglas. They have mar ried her to several men, but most fre quently to Mr. Chase. What makes the matter worse is that there never was the slightest foundationfor it. It must have been started !ntentionally, for a mischievous purpose. Mrs. Douglas has busied herself for the last two years at the hospitals. There is not a woman in 'the country who has been more active in doing good than she, and hundreds of wounded and sick soldiers will remem ber her name with gratitude." Cr The sister and niece of Jackson, Col. Ellsworth in Alexandria, were last Wednesday arrested it:George town. They are charged with aiding the rebels , by forwarding rebel mails, and in other ways. They will probably be sent South immediately. They were admitted inside of 'our lines upon the most pitiful appeals of utter destitution, and willingly took the , oath of allegiance. Sending them beyond the lines, there fore, is too lenient a punishment. sr A gentliiman at a ladies' fair, lately, being solicited to buy something by a fair creature who kept a table, said he wanted to buy what was not foi sale —a lock of hair. She promptly cut off the coreted curl,'and received the sum asked for it, $lO. The purchaser was showing his trophy to a friend. "She rather had you," said the friend ; "to my certain knowledge she only paid $3 for the whole wig."" • Increased immigration to- Mm nesota is especially remarked by the State. Many of the immigrants are from Holland, and have gone to Min nesota on the advice of their friends here. They are hearty, and industrious people, and will make first-class, set tlers. They all have farming imple ments, stock, household goods, and money. GT Gen. Burnside has issued an or. der in which he recites the sentence of the recent court martial which tried Mr. Vallandigham. "That ho be . placed in close confinement, during the war, idSome fortress to be selected by the commander of the4b3partment." The Order names Fort Warren as the place of confinement. iggr The 3d New _York Volunteers, Col. Alford, at Fortress Monroe, still continue their organizttion,aithough the term of "enlist inent of more than half its members has expired. It still has more thaw WO men on duty, and the officers deserve great credit for their energy in reorganizing and recruiting the regiment from its old members. Cr A letter from Monticello;liren- Lucky, speaking of the manner jail:deb the people received our troops in their recent advance on that place, says :- -One old lady, a mile beyond this place, said, as she saw our columns rushing on after the rebels : 'When I seed that old Hag comie, I just throwed my old bon net on the ground and stomped It.'" Cr The Granite State (N. H ) News states that the oldest of three brothers residing in Moultotiborough, married quite a young girl; his next younger brother married the girl's mother, and the, youngest took for his wife the grand mother. Cupid in our times seldom brings about such a curious union of tno families. gar The Union League Committee from Philadelphia invited the President to visit Philadelphia on the 4th of July next, when the Union Leagues are to have a grand convention. The Presi dent promised to attend unless some thing unforseen occurs in the meantime to prevent his leaving Washington. 'Er Over sixty thousand tons of ice have been taken oat of the Kennebec, Maine, during the season,, most of which is to go to New Orleans and Havana. Contractors have agreed to deliver some twenty-five thousand tons at the former city, at twenty-live dollars per ton. cr The Bangor (Me.). Times says: there was a fall of snow there on the 7th instant, and the 'Providence Billie. tin says the ground was white with frost in the low lands of Cumberland, in Rhode Island, on the morning of the Bth instant. The statement made at length by asoldier corresp rnding with a Boston pa per, that General Lee was cruel to his slaves, is denied by a relative of that commander, who affirms that while his political sins are legion, his domestic virtues are unimpeachable. ca" The Richmond• Sentinel, of the 14th, says that measures are already in itiated to obtain a bronze 'statue of the late Gen. Jackson and place it on the plateau in front of the south portico of the Capitol. tir Gen. T. I?. Meagher has resigned' his commission. His letter ascribes his action to the refusal of the Government to allow the Irish Brigade to have a fur lough for the purpose of recruiting their thinned ranks. ea" The writ of habeas corpus applied for in the Valla - sdigham case has been refused. Cr The death of the late Major• Ge neral Van Dorn, is fully confirmed. He was shot by Dr. Peters, on the public street ; for seducing his (Peters') wife.— He was an ardent and early rebel, anti though high iu office, he-was not a lucky fighter. Stonewall Jackson died of his wounds on the 10th. It is now clearly ascertained that Jackson was shot in the battle of Gbancellorville, on the 3.1, by two of his own Jiislwounds ,- severe, were not necessarily mortal ; but pneumonia supervened, and closed his career, after a week of suffer ing, at the age of 37 years. Thus, lien. NlcOullock—Felix K. Zellicolier—Al bert Sidney Johnston--Maxey Gregg— and now Earl Van Dorn and Stonewall Jackson—the master spirits of the Great Rebellion, are patsing. Cobb, Toombs, II =Piney Marshall, and Other . Generals' of Me batch, have resigned oz been quietly shelved—even Joseph E. Johnston, who was long Gonfalon ler-in-Chief, has ren dered no service since he fell from his horse shot through the body at Pair Oaks, and is probably an invalid for life. The Rebellion is devouring its authors. tEr The Prince de Joinville relates, as an instance of the odd coolness of out people, that during one of tho hottest battles of the Chickahominy, newspaper sellers went up and down the line, cry ing out the latest news from New York, and found purchasers for the journals they had to sell. cir We learn from San Francisce ra pers that the Broderick monument is finished, and ready for the statue. The monument is thirty feet high. The work is massive and thorough, and the mat eriall of which it is - constructed is California marble. Cir On . Tuesday last five hundred and seven persons took the oath of allegi ancee in Nashville, a majority of whom were. women. They were all paroled. Cr By the end cie the present cam paign, according to a Richmond news papers, the Confederate debt will have reached a thousand million of dollars. Brigham Yoarkg and his wives just fill five rows of seats in the theatre at Salt Lake City. , DR. WM. B. FAIINESTODK, OFFICE:—MAIN-ST., NEARLY OPPOSITE Spangler & Patterson's Store. Foam 7 TO S a. Dt. - . - OFFICE HOURS. ~ ITO 2. ' 2 6T07 P. as. DR. J. Z. HOFFER, DENTIST; OF THE BA LTIDIbRE COLLEG else sa.: OF DENTAL SURGERY, E. LATE QF F F I CE::—Front street, next door to R. Ur Williams' Drug Store, between Locust and Walnut streets, Columbia. T. C. MINKS-TOW la aaa RESPECTFULLY offers his professional services to the citizens of Marietta and vicinity, assuring them that all operations in trusted to his care, either in Operative or Me chanicapentistry, will be executed in a tho roughly .scientific manner. OFFICE : On Main street, a few doors west of the Post Office. [v9-35-iy. Ready-Made Clothing. 3. R. DIPPENBACEI having laid in a very serviceable stock of strong and well-made WINTER CLOTHING, such as Coats, Pants and Yeats, which will be sold at a lower figure that:l4cm be bought any where else. Come and hear the prices. pIiOTOGRAPH • ALBUMS! ! A fine assortment of. Photograph ALBUMS, ranging in price from 75 cents to Five Dollars. For sale at DELLINGILR'S Photo; mph Gal ery, Market street, Marietta. ATANILLA DEANS We have just re- V ceived a very superior lot of VANILLA BEANS, new crop just Imported, which we offer far sale at a fair price. WOLFE, MARKET-ST. SOLDIERS! BOUNTY, BACK PAY, & PENSIONS, Collected promptly. Discharged wounded sol diers are now entitled to bounty. .oretca at Shaffner's Hotel, Mountjoy, Pa. .G. R. HENDRICKSON. Mountjoy, May 2,1363-3 m.