?In 4,ltatitttiait. , _; • re •„y • • L. .faker, Editor. MAMETTA. SATURDAY, DEOEMBEit 12,1863. TheOganizat ion of Congress was affected on Monday has►., withffin much ditheal4.,... Schuyler Colfax was elected Speaker on the first ballot. Ile is in every way qutilified for an office so re sponsible. ,Ile has been a Representa tive of the Ninth Indiana Cong,ression ,4ifit l OF4. for eight years, and adds to thorough; knowledge of parliamentary basinesOhe indispensable qualities of strict, integrity, firmness, impartiality, and courtsey. Ile was born in New York city in March. 1823; he became arbiter when a boy, and always study iogand improving, removed to Indiana {x ' 1'886; and Atere established the South Bend Register, a journal d•l.ieh he still centre's. More than his'life has been spent in public service, and' few Melt' haVe served so faithfully and well. 11 Otissey ; of D,eatur, Illinois, whose- husband is Chaplain of an Illinois regiment, recently related to a visiter that: many years ago her little hotly. Whileiplaying in the street, fell and he. gin to.cry A very tall young man, who war passing with a. yoke of oxen, picked tha,child. - up.: landing him inside the gate, 'said cheerily, -You will never make soldier if you cry for that."— The little fellow at once banished his grief, , „The 'tall young mart was named Abraham Lincoln, and Mrs. thissey in troduced to the viAtor a young captain home on furlough as her son, who had become a soldier after all. oir The New York Pest remarks : Clenersl Honker has, been the sill.joct. of unmeasured abuse ; yet all his milita ry career proves hita to he a gallant, impetuous, brilliant leader in action. a enol.and sagacious planner, and an un selfish patriot. Neither he nor Burr.- side talked when they were displaced; neither of them allied himself with a political opposition ; both were true to their country,' find tiny have their reward nit*, in the esteem and confi deneeof the • people. Time, which has been fatal to the reputation of some has only:brightened the fame of these tao generals."' or Two Government horse contract ors, have been convicted in Cincinnati, by Court-Martial, of fraud upon the Go vernment, and not only been sentenced to the penitentiary tor five years, but have been fined .$29,000 .each. If oil the swindling contractors were made to disgorge in this manner, the demand for diamonds, would considerably, lessen iu the market. Dr. Alagowan of Washington, iays , , shut one per cent. of the oegro children born in Northern N,"irgiuist are born with six fingers on each band, but the supplementary Hager is always re timed py. e Akin negro midwives, who either cut It off with a pair of s. issurs or tin.a silk thread at the point, of at. tuchment to the other fingers, which cpses it to, drop off in a law days. Or The First Nutienal Bank at Bos ton has just been organized with a mil lion iitdttil: It was an established in. stitution under the Free Banking Law of Massifehtisotts ; but preferring the ill.ckih.lons Of the Nati(Mal law, it has ehuoged its - eharter, and is the first Na tional Bank in Boston. The New York Tribune speaking of the report of the visit of Mrs. Lin• celiti's 'Mother to the South, says: •''fhe mother of Mrs. Lincoln died when Mrs. L. was a child only three years old, and the ''Mrs. Todd of lientucky' is the strimnother of Mrs. Lincoln, oto the motile: of her half brothers, who have figured in the rebel army." -Er The Petersburg, Express : says that "sundry persons" are trying to leave the Confederacy for Nassau, .Ber mada and elsewhere, with their wealth, in 'order to shirk taxation and military duty, and to do a- blockade running business: We,rathsr guess they are t h e rats leaving a sinking ship. Tio President has ordered the luspensioti.of' the execution of the sen• tdnce in - the,cases of the horse contract ors, Hell and Smith, tried by court-mar tial in Cincinnati and convicted of .de frauding the government, until he can examine the testimony. u t iori ()apt. Masset, who run away with Miss McTavish, a Montreal heiress, an *sit which created much excitement soateAnoriths ago, has been divorced by hie wffe,.and was marriedoto Miss Mc 'Avid' in Scotland last month. G ir Tee . licog of Italy intends sending his siiistsVson; Prince Hubert. as V We ruy .to Naples. with a revenue u: one huluired - adif thirty4wo thousand pouuda iterlinii; nd his second son to rule io 'kilowatt." With a siaalldr salary, air A singular ease has just :wen ee cidett in the Euclish Divorce Com t. Mademoiselle V ietoria Balfe, a dam:li ter of the treatcomposer, was plaintiff for divorce against her limharid, blr itha Crampton, fornr , rly Minister of Great Britain in the Untte,l States and afterwards in Russia. Sir John was married to Mi-s Italie at St. Peter-Mort!, in 1.861., and now tlie claims divorce oil the ground of unconsummated mar riage and the M u tably o r :sir ,1 / d m to .complete his purr of the contract, The case %/T one of unusual interest, and the celebrated accuncher to the Queen, Itr„ Loettelr, was called nowt to ta:,ke a !oedipal exianittation ; hut fir John de clined to submit. During the Ilia' a questibn was raised us to the right or power of the Colirt to order such exami• nation ; but it wad shown that the kc nlesiastical Court hail often tiontiso in the case of clergymen, and so it was established. Counsel for Sir John then declined to offer ;ley defence, and the churl declared tbe Marriage null and void- r -and , co Miss !Jaffe, is still Miss Haire, sod Sir John is a free man. C• 5 7. A ghost, with womatt's clothes, recently knocked tit the house of Al ts. Kennedy of Clevellind, Ohio, in th e night. Iler son John chased the ithost in hiS shirt nnd with'an axe. A siiirited run ensued, and the ghost ultimately bolted into "foot MeClanc.'s coffin ship, m he finally disappear d, probAly into nee of the' coffins. Tom hod Johr, thereupon had a territie haute of wome - . anti the next day the former brought an action for slander, The costs were .1,=40U; 80 • witnesses were examitted tied the defrndatit gained the stilt. the Coiltt charging that it would 1111 dilikalt tor a man to commit lander in his shirt in the street, on t& cold night, and It hile ellaFhig 1l ulluizt Gen. Aleade. there is Pearet•lv ary (limb., Ite 1....1it-veil he command of iho ,Vrtny tha Potomac, llis vrohatde successor- will be t•ither Seth:- wick .ttr Thomas, I tanettek i. atkii 91111- tilqi Of. The tir,t nanwit is highly pop ular in the unity. Ilte I i:rwps bit rim; na. limited confidence in him. Thomas is Gen. Grant's chief officer ut Chattanoo ga, and is err aI to the best as a hiadet of this army. Cr d young man living in Hartland, Connec(kw, with a l'ami.j which 1 ' 11 040. 1 . him up. recently died. and to save the expenses Loth of ec,ffn and burial, his body , was placed in a lumber wagon, withoutshroud or cerement,, other than the blaehets which were rudely thrortu over it, anti thus transported to Middle town, %here the friends of the deceased reside. billt Mow Midi?: an t he third city of the United in the amount of duties paid hi un iutrrests•— Itd populatiitti it: how Ural' 1413.0(10 The increase or ebildrot for the pit,t year :has beet. nbout 6000. The city hits 80 privlte schonk, attended h) near ly 6004 pupils; 10,508 ehilt!ron attend the public end priV e 1.-choo4, titr A dispatch to the Missouri Demo-- crat say's that lk during but anzuceesslul attempt to lit.llrl -.:eNtieil was made at Fort A ik . en the night of the 22,1 ult. lie wits roturning• unattended, to his quarters from u social latrty, 11 a citizen ; lute • upon the street three shuts Were tired at him ftum u revolver Je me s Wood, thu lountler of a secret. Uttiott League. in Taljaimasa and Coosa comities, Alabama. was Ltung by same of flat ittetraters of u cavalry com pany, a Richmond paper says. A lattaz some portions of Coosa Mid Ttillillll)(kSit Le Lad diese-teeitaite el Lis Fe•nejnie Hes to a coltsitiorable :exit tit, uatl tt good ninny had joined Itisbwitil. tat . Dur:htt Grni nil Avertll:siate ex pedition in Simihvrestein Virginia. his soldiers .inquired the price or tenter at fluotersville, and found it kris live dol. lars..a penult in Confederate currency, hut they purchased it f.lr firti.vn'rentS iu Unite d Slat es I ht currency.[ rie A little lioy in South W o a stot .l c , Conn„ chile tr)ing to cut n pumpkin with on axe, to (inlet a cow which his father Wll9 milking,accidently cut off the Imp of a tiny brother who ww: trying to hold the pumpkin so it should nut roll over. tsir aid that ( r ile a number of citizen s w•hr) fled Senth on the preeking out Of the rebellion are sleull Idly return infs. end hope to lie low nod escape the nethorities. Rats are in the habit- of deserting the sinking chip. tom' On Saturday 1118 t the vsharp i.f the late Senistor Doug lass. at Cot Inge Grove, near ... Chicago, Wag Snitf t, , satisfy a num [- pap. It consisted or sixty acres. and brought SB3 1:'41,,,0r 8863 less Iliun the , atnount to satisfy the rnorreago. egr () a lien is eight flullai . s a yard in Mobile, and new hoots 0110 )111 nI) ri-41 do!lurs a pi Finer is one hundred dulktr , it barrel in Ilitthittnn:l. The ro bets are reduced to nuking brandy out of persintrl.lio. Car A Cologne young 1a.113 , ., of high family, connections, has been sentenced to a inonth's isnprisonmPnt fur feathers frown live ostrich in the Zuo-total debt ?r rulisdeilthisk is tow i logical Gardens of that city.. about twenty five [Militia dollars. c—TJ[E MAHIETTIIIAN Ecneral News Items. Till 4 NA L t Governor Cornet to 1.011 voltoott-Hoe ,!!going town .lops which furnish thoir (polo to 'le uSt , i•ttql trout forthpr that, hoes lteett nuceptot! be tho IVor DeLttriinettt, A meeting of — Uwon Con:.erva t t - es" i= holding in Cincinnati. O. n. McUlell SUS JrVil 11/4.11110110d for I hu, next Presidency, and Mr Citouth , , of K ent neky, and other eminent Conta rca tict-s. have Itet!ll thought of for the Vice Pret,idency. Crawford . :l statute of F.eedoin has been successfully raised on the 'Lune of the Capitol at IV:vhingtott. It is 19 feet in height, and weighs fifteen thou sand puunds. A brigade of fotr seldiers are employ ed in huryiniz;the bodies or shone w•ho were Chiekninauga:un the Ehh of SE ptom he r. in many cases they have found the hoods cf our men cut ulhaud snick upon polef, smil stumps. The Culifititila Union Srate Co:mid: a IPe reeom:nenil Cletlysburg 11A the hest rhice li.r holding the next Natiutial New York is, to hare IL rill' for tho Sanitary Colll . llliSsion. Chicago has had hers, yielding the, noble income of $59.- 000 For this 'widest or eliarit it.s. Great complaints are, maple by the Sotillorll paporP, without iiktinction or party. ix the tyranny of the It, chino/ill Government Nod erect f,•ors are etitk.r. tainod that it will re-alt itt a tuilita - v despotism. 'rho Anil,tary are - charged with riding rough-Eliot( over the civil authorities. • A blacksmith who has been Tall; years deprived of the oseof his legs by rhru m;rtiam, SatV a fecc• dat.s ago that he It td twell 1111.1 H %lie. SO PNeill-111 hV tha iiisPorely that ho burst into, a ern era! persidratien, Ile Instantly rrette t red tile 17.4! of lis lees, 1311.1 Las brut ever sinee Perfectly rt.b.-Is in St. Domingo have pns sesFis,ll i t ti* largor portion (.1' the is. Nod. thondl• thi' Spattiar , is e:iii/n to it.t obtnineit two vietorn.s. A new Cuptoiti lienerul kits been or pointed. Thninas I 11)rett. hag ittireint