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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1864
W MID'S FITLY SPOKEN.—WhiIe the
Reconstruction Bill lately passed by the
House of Representatives was under
consideration, it was advocated in a for
cible speech by lion. M. Russell Thay
er. In the course of his address he said :
"Mr. Speaker, the voice of the people
of the United Statescannot be mistaken.
They deinand of us their Representa
tives, that the institution of human slave
ry, which bus from the beginning been
our National reproach, the fruitful source
of sectional enmity and strife, the ob
stacle to the developement of one half
of our territory, the secret enemy which
has for seventy years sown our vineyard
with tares and brambles,'which has alien
ated brethren of the same blood, which
has proscribed education, fomented dis
cord, encouraged opposition to our re
publican system, weakened the ties of
National allegiance, and at last arrayed
i~self in bloody war against the Gpvern
ment, shall be forever blotted out in the
Rebel' States, and that upon its ruins
shall be written a legend like that which
indignant France wrote over the gate
way of rebellious Lions "Slavery made
war upon the Republic; Slavery is no
more!" They demand this as the right
of war against the public enemy. They
demand ie in the name of that very Con
stitution which is sought here to be
made As shelter and its shield. They
demand it as the only adequate compen
sation for the sacrificea which they have
made, and the sufferings which they have
endured. They demand it in the name
of Liberty and Humanity. They de
mand it as the' only pledge of future
union and tranquility: They demand it
for their own peace and safety, and for
the repose and security of their children.
Already, its grim and terrible form,
weakened by its wounds, begrimed with
the dust of battle and covered with the
blbod of brave men which has been shed
in this sanguinary war, cowers and reels
before the banners-of the Republic. As
it falls, let it hear ringing in its ears the
decree for its extermination pronounced
here by the, Representatives of .tho
People."
lir The 'Farmer's and Gardener's So
ciety OrEast`Diinegal will give an exhi
bition in Temperance Bull, on Thursday
evening next, June 9th, of Fruits, Flow
ers and Vegetables, commencing at
half-past '7 o'clock. It is to be hoped
all—mombqrs, of the society or not--
will embrace this opportunity to exhibit
anyrhin9. they:have in the frnit,,,flower
or vegetable way,! the society +being
anxious to have as creditable a display
asjp`ossible under the present discour
aging prospects. Such an exhibition as
had last season will not be looked for,
tat' la us kayo as good as, the season
will warrant.
Gar During the thunder storm on
Tuesday 'fight of last week, Mr. Geo.
Yeagey, residing near Petersburg,
A.dame county, was struck by lightning,
and almost instantly killed. We under
stand, that he had been reading, and laid
down near the stove for a while to rest.
The lightning, it seems, struck into the
chimney, and was communicated, to
where'he lay by a stove, pipe,. Two of
hie children were lying by his side, but
were uninjuied. All the other members
of the household escaped.
trir lkelr: Chase has decided that the
ten-forty five percent loan shall not be
withdrawn. He will however, take
measures to prevent further depreciation
of the currency by any increased issue
of circulating notes. Subscriptions to
the popular .loan are now expected to
increase, and there is no doubt that this
loan, the interest and principal of which
are payable in gold, offers an investment
supailior to 'most of the railroad securi
tied now chiefly in favor,
last.an extra number
of,•:ci;rdiS¢u to the mail train
west, cuntaining.uue,hundred and forty
six..catlats from-the West Chester Mili
tary,t4adenly, on"thair way to the great
Sanitary Fair at Pittsburg. Whilst in
Pittsburg they will encamp in the field;
having taken their Uinta and all necessa
ry,l equipage with them from West
Chestier.
S few days agO John Gibbony
ark his wife, residents of Ifendricksburg
Ldideiro'critility, were both froisoneil, by
taking strychnine in mistake for ciuinine.
vfliviixed , bnYa4few hours after swallow
ingiAltt fatal dreg, leav,ingAve little
Oltildgeglitheeldest only, tenfircoirs, and
t h e y e piow., , a , bald of ten months.
ThO :Ladies of the Patriotic . Cir
clef-at o late ruee'tiog, passed a resolution
thanits to Col.
VV t ni. i i. titile; l l';easiirer of the "Child
ren's aid ..5aAjety.','.....9.f,./ttexiato, for a
donation: or. eighty three dollars aild
seven ceritv.(B3:o7),-
MORE OP FORT FlLLOW,—Edwcrd B.'
Benton, a former resident near Fort ,
Pillow, Tenn., and a native of Vermont,
was examined at the headquarters of
Sherman's Department relative to the
massacre by 'the robel troops, on the
12th instant, and testified that he saw
five or six lines of colored soldiers
formsd at seperate times, and the men
shot down, after Fort Pillow had been •
captured. Besides this slaughter, Mr.
Benton—who escaped from the fort and
concealed himself in the neighborhood
—says he heard fifty-two shots fired
within the entrenchments afterward,
which were unquestionably fired on
prisoners. Bloodhounds were used to
hunt up those who escaped, and of these
and Others Mr. Benton saw upward of`'
two hundred shot down by the rebels in
cold blood—many of them white men—
while
they were under hospital treat
ment, and while they were holding up
white handkerchiefs as signals of sur
render, or pieces of their linen which
they had torn up for that purpose. Five
negroes in the hospital were taken out
and buried alive. Every man, whether
erect or lying on the beds in the hospi
tal,,was massacred ; and of the five hun
dred and nighty Union men in the fort
when it was captured, Mr. Benton says,
not more than fifty left it alive.
SINGRILAIt CIRCUMSTANCE.—In another
part of this paper will be found the
name of sergeant D. M. Boyden, of this
village, a member of the ith Rhode Is
land Regiment, who was wounded in one
of the late battles in Virginia. On the
day that he was wounded, his mother, in
coming from the cellar of her residence,
says she distinctly heard the voice of
Decatur cry out, "06, mother." The
voice was so natural that she expected
to see her 808 when she came up stairs.
As no one was there, she was convinced
from that moment that her son was eith
er killed or wounded. Two other mem
bers of this family, not residing with the
mother, and knowing nothing of the cir
cumstances recorded above, dreamed on
that night that Decatur was wounded.
One of these persous(a lady) was so im
pressed with her dream, that she arose
and dressed herself, being unable to sleep.
These persons are all of the highest re
spectability and veracity. The mother's
warning and the dreams of the others
have been fully verified. Decatur was
wounded by a shell in his side. How
can these singular circumstances be ac
counted for 7—IV - mit/socket Patriot.
lir Any widow, or parent, or orphan,
or brother, or sister of any soldier, sailor
or marine, killed, or. who, has died in the
service of the United States, who desires
ninety-six dollars (S9G) a year pension,
from one hundred to eleven hundred
and ninety-five dollars (;1195) cash
bounty, and all the arrears of pay due
him', should call at once or write to Jo
earls E. DEvrrr & Co., No. 427 Walnut
street, the Military and Naval Agency.
Philadelphia.
Also, State pay, county, city, ward
Or other bounty, if there is any due.
Apply either in person or by letter.
car It is said that General Garibaldi
speaks about fourteen different lan
guages. Being asked to write some
thing for a little
. boy's scrap-book, he
instantly composed some verses in
Greek. He has been seen, within the
last few days, composing verses in an
cient and modern Greek, Spanish, ror=
tuguese, French, and Italian, always at
the request of different friends. Eng
lish is the last language he has acquired
having learned it in America in 1850
and 1851.
lu i r Andrews, the July rioter, was
tried, convicted and sentenced, on the
24th ult., for conspiring to levy war
against the United States, under the
Act of Congress of July, 1861. When
asked whether he had anything to say
why the sentence should not be pro
nounbed, he made a long rambling
speech, and the Court proceeded to
sentence him to imprisonment, at hard
labor, in the State Prison for three
years. He deserved a life sentence.
air The Army Herald published at
Washington says that there are more
than fifty thousand applications now on
file in 'the different departments, and
hundreds, if not thousands, here in per
son, pressing their claims through their
Congressmen and others, not one in one
hundred of whom can possibly succeed,
lei every place is taken, and very few
vacancies occurring. Then again, a sal
ary of 8600 at home is better than $l,
200 at Washington.
tar A man named Solomon Kohn
stamm has been convicted in New York
of having collected of the Federal Gov
ernment, on the basis of a claim of some
thing over ninety dollars, a forged and
fraudulent bill for $1366 in the early
part of 1862. The Evening Post sa3s
,there are thirty or forty more indict
ments for similar swindles pending a
gainst him. The crime is punishable by
imprisonment for ten years.
Q The "Durban Chronicle" announ
ces the beath of Mrs. Taylor, at Stain
drop, at the advanced ago of 104 years.
She bas left an unmarried daughter sev=
enty-five years old.
;;Over one hundred females are now
employed in Pon,glikeepsie, N.y., put
ting seats in cano-bottomed nhairs.
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General News Wins
Among the novelties in the Mechanic's
flail at the Pittsburg Sanitary Fair will
be a steam horse lately invented by a
citizen of Pittsburgh. This horse is
represented to be capable of supplying
the place of the genuine quadruped, haul
ing drays, wagons, etc., and will adapt
itself to all variations of road surface.
This is a traction engine probably.
On Monday afternoon last, whilst
Davis E. Sanford, of the Eastern Shore
Maryland Volunteers was parading
Baltimore, an into±icated man named
Jaines Riley fired a pistol at him; from
the'effeets of which he died in a few
minutes. A number of citizens and
soldiers pursued Riley, and fired upon
him, killing him iustartly.
An insane woman, 4U years old, living
near Niagara Falls, being' left unwatched
for a few minutes, a day or two ago, ran
to the river, and throwing herself in,
was carried over the Falls. She ap-
peered to recover her reason as she was
swept along, for she cried loudly for
help. The body has not been found.
At Burt's Armory, in Windsor Locks,
Conn., a steel chip was recently turned
from a gun-barrel, of English steel, that'
measured in the "crook" two *hundred
and fifty-seven feet, and when straight
ened three hundred and forty-two feet,
which is without a parallel in the history
of steel turning.
The new cents recently authorized to
be issued have made their appearance.
They are made almost entirely of copper.
The circumference of the new coin is the
same as that of the nickel cents, but
they are thinner and much lighter. It
is hoped that their comparative cheap
ness will prevent hoarding.
A Frenchman has been trying to mur
der his sweetheart, stabbing her badly.
Being tried for the offence, he said he
was made jealous by her walking with
another mao, but that if the jury let hiui
off he would marry her—the jury there
upon found him not guilty, and lie was
dinharged.
The' physicians in Paris have dis
covered a certain specific for whooping
cough. The child is sent to a neighbor
ing gas manufactory to inhale for a few
minutes the vapors which rise from the
lime used to purify gas ; two or three
visits et&ct a radical cure.
Peter B. Shaw, a Revolutionary pen
sioner, living six miles north of. Nash
ville, died on the 20th instant, at the
green old age of one hundred and one
years, one month, and twenty days. He
was present at the surrender of Corn
wallas.-
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It is enceuragiag in these days of
"Five twenties" I..nA —Ten Forties" to
bo reminded that a debt of $17,000,000
owed by our population of only eight
millions and a half in 1816. was totally
ostinguished in eighteen years.
The rebel Forrest's official account of
his capture of Fort Pillow, states that
five hundred out of seven hundred men
composing the garrison were
Forrest's loss was tweuty killed audeixty
wounded.
The settlement of the site of Salina,
opposito Saginaw City, Michigan, was
commenced less than two years ago, and
it has now a population of 1,105, and
120 buildings al.,' iu process of construc
tion.
Mrs. Hansen, widow of Valentine
Hansen, who was hung at St. Louts not
many days ago; has married a soldier at
Jefferson Barracks. She had remained
a widow just eight days.
A spy was shot and captured in Frank
lin county; this State, last week. He
confeised that he was a, spy. A raid
was undoubtedly intended to be made
into Pennsylvania.
Tecumseh, Michigan, is, or should be
a happy town, for there is not a single
place within its limits where intoxica
ting liquors are publicly sold-
A letter from Covington, Kentucky,
says; "The proudest and happiest MIMI
in the universe is the father of Gen.
Grant, who resides in oar city."
Eleven hundred and ninety emigrants,
for America, left the port of Sligo, Ire
land, in the two weeks ending the 26th
of . April.
After a series ..of experiments for
nearly two years military ballooning has
been declared a failure, and all the ap
paratus has been sold off at auction.
Major General Buell has been mus
tered out of the 'volunteer service,
having refused to take a command under
General Canby.
Rev. Dr, Chapin, of , the Universalist
Church, in Broadway,'has had $2,000 a
year added to his salary.
The title et Cz i- e corrul3tioi, of
C.T.sar. It 'GVHS first n-ed tie a title by Ivan
11. of ebetit the }ear 1579.
More than tee suicides take place
every day in France., twit year four
thousand persona committed suicide.
The Maryland Fair, for the Sanitary
Commission, netted sBo,ooo—a good
round
A• man in-Michigan is now Im:thing
from two to three barrels af turpentine
per day.
DEATIL ON A BRIDAL TO', - P. A gen
tleman named C. F. Tingley, son of B.
W. Tingley, a celebrated merchant of
Philadelphia, died very suddenly at the
Bartle House last evening. He bad
been married only three weeks, and was
yet on his bridal tour. Be had visited
some friends in St. Louis, and came
around by Davenport on his way home. i
During the afternoon MT. Tingley and
his bride had been riding about the
city, in company with John L. Swits,
Esq.,and abOut six o'clotli Mr. riivits
left the happy pair at Burtis, apparently
in the full enjoyment of health. About
an hour afterwards Mr. Swits received
a note informing him that Mr. T. was
dead ! It appears that after the after
- neart'S - rille; - Mr. - T.-' went to - his room
and laid down, and, to all appearance,
dropped asleep. Mrs. T. states that he
lay there about three quarters of an
hour, when he suddenly jumped up,
walked once around the room in a very
huriied manner and fell over the stove
ia n swoon. She sprang to his aid and
lifted him upon the bed again. Assist
ante was called, but he continued to
fail, and in about fifteen minutes he
breathed his last. He was a young man
of high standing in society and highly
respected. The afflicted btide started
I home this morning with her husband's
corpse, attended by Mr. Swits.—Daven
port (Iowa) Democrat.
THE POPE FART FAILISU.-A. Rome
letter in the London Times, dated May
Bth, says : .
"The Pope has had another attack,
and that unexpectedly. On Sunday last
be administered the. sacrament of con
firmation to a brother of the .ex-King of
Naples, and while preparing to make
him an address he was observed gradu
ally to become weaker and weaker, and
at last to sink so far as to rust his head
on a table close at hand. Recovering
shortly after, he withdrew, and sent for
his medical attendant, who found that
his Holiness was suffering from a rather
strong fever and an increased irritation
of the wound in his leg. The fever con
tinued several days. Though' the Pope
recovered rapidly from the attack which
he had a mouth or two since, it must
not be forgotten by those who are pre
paring for the future that he is menaced
continually by iudispoeition, and that
any moment the chair of St. Peter may
be vacant."
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A GALLANT licse.k.ND.--A letter from
Kanawha river, West Virginia, says :
On the passage up, ale w days ago, of
part of the 36th Ohio, a man named
Ftumphreys leaped overboard and swum
ashore. Passing by his home he bad
asked for permission to stop a few min
utes and was refused, when he rushed
suddenly to the hurricane deck and made
a leap for the river. Rising to the sur.
face, he struck out bravely for the shore,
amid a volley of cheers, and 'reached it
safely. The boat. passed on. Having
kissed his wife end dried his clothing, he
mounted a horse, and in fifteen minutes
passed the boat, shouting lustily to be
taken an. At the next station it was
done.
REFIsES TO BURY lIIS CUILD,—A little
child, belonging to Robert Greeley, car
man, who resides on Thirteenth street.
between Biddle and O'Fallon, Was taken
sick and died on Friday
,niorning. The
inhuman parent refused to bury the child,
and on Saturday his wife complained at
the police office. An officer soon found
Greeley in a beer saloon, and upon threat
ening to lock him up, he agreed to bury
the child, not without, however, denoun
cing the police with oaths for interfering
in the matter. He claimed that it be
longed to the city to bury the child.—
SI. Louis paper.
Several respectable young girls
have recently mysteriously disappeared
from the western part of New York, and
the arrest of a young woman at Utica
has led to the'discovery of an organized
Society to kidnap such and send them
to New York. A written "Constitu
tion" of the Society, which was named
the "'Knights of the Secret Circle," was
found upon her, signed by twenty-four
persons, and containing a list of nine
yound girls marked out for abduction,
the latter being all of highly respectable
connections.
tal- A, young lady at St. Joe, Mo.,
had a few days since made a hot fire in
a cooking stove, made her bread, and
was about placing it in the stove, when,
On opening the oven door, a large cat,
burnt, and in a dying state, jumped out
and seized one of the young lady's
fingers, inflicting a very painful wound.
After a minute, the cat released its hold
and fell dead on the floor.
•. - rt, The official record of the authori
ties show that upsards of one hundred
and fifty female recruits have been dis
covered, and made to resume the gar.
meats of their sex. It is supposed that
nearly 'all of these were in collisions
with men who were examined by the
surgeons and accepted, after which the
fair ones substituted themselves.
igl- Eleven tons of cotton arrived at
San Francisco recently, which was
raised in Utah Territory, and brought
down to th shipping ports on thibacks
of mules, i forty-two days time. The
quality ofl a - Cotton IS fair, the staple
,finb; thouo short, and " its 'Colcir i'n'A
strength" 'gee
MEE
ATTACK q)N SFNATOP. thrANDLER. — The
following is a strictly accurate account
of the disgraceful assault on Senator
Chandler, in the public dining-ball of
the National lintel : Chandler, with Dr.
Clark, of .Detroit, and a lady with two
children'. were taking dinner at a side
table. In course of conversation on
political matters he denounced in very
strong terms Copperheads in general,
and especially those of the Western
States. Voorhees, of Indiana, who was
sitting at another table behind them, in
company with Hannegan, also of In
diana, arose from his seat, approached
Chandler in an excited manner, demand_
ing whether he referred to him, to which
Chandler replied, "Who are you, sir ;
- den't'knoW 'YOU :" nt — ther SIAM - time
rising from his chair. Voorhees replied,
"I am Voorhees. of Indiana," and suit
ing his action to his word, struck Chand
%ler on the side of the face: The two
then closed, and the Senator was rapid
ly getting the better of Voorhees, when
lianneguo came to the latter's . assist
ance with a heavy milk pitcher, snatched
from the table, which lie broke on
Chandler's head. The contents of the
pitcher splashed over the whole compa
ny. Chandler was stunned by the blow,
and had not fully recovered himself,
when ilannegan dealt him a second
blow with' a chair. At this juncture
parties interfered, and the belligerents
were seperated. Chandler's head was
slightly cut by the pitcher, and his
shoulder and =-arm wererdensiderabl
bruised by the chair. Though not able
to close his hand, he has been out today
attending. to his usual duties. Voor
hees is quite as large a man as Chandler,
probably a little heavier. Persons
seated 'at the table are positive that
Chandler made no mention of Voorhees'
name, and no reference whatever to him
person ally. —nibune.
HOWARD, THE Fottona.—The New
York Tribune gives the following sketch
of Howard, the forger of the biigus pro
clamation, who is now in limbo. Ile is
the original "Jenkins" and "head Beat."
The Tribune sajs : "On the arrival of
the Prince of Wales in Canada, and du
ring his tour through this country, How
ard accompanied him as a special cor
respondent. He was with President
Lincoln at the time of his tour from
SpriugGeld to Washington, and wrote
the hoax story in relation to Mr. Lin
coln's escape in a Scotch cap and long
military cloak," a statement which had
not a shadow of truth in it." For a
short time ho was employed by the Tri
bune as a correspondent, but was never,
as has been stated, the city editor of
this journal. About sixteen mouths
ago he was appointed city editor of the
Times, a position which he held but a
short time, when he was employed by
the Daily News, and wrote inflammato
ry articles in relation to conversations
With workingmen at the time of the
draft and just before the Jnly riot, lie
was aftewurd employed by the proprie
tors of the Brooklyn Eagle, and was
city editor of • that paper ut the time of
his arrest.
cr When the gunboat Commodore
Jones was destroyed by a torpedo, re
cently, about seven miles below Foi t
Darling, every person on board, with
one exception, was killed or wounded.
A correspondent of the New' York
Times says the boat was crushed like a
piece of paper, and huge pieces of the
wreck were lifted high in the air. The
executive officer of the Jones retained
his foothold on a piece of the deck, and,
as a rare case of coolness in such a sud
den and trying event, it must be told
that he drew a pistol and shot dead a
rebel on the, bank of the river, who had
exploded the diabolical contrivance by
means of a galvanic battery. Perhaps
there is not on record a more remarka
ble instance of coolness.
cir When the war first broke out, a
young man of Steubenville, Ohio, volun
teered. He was reported killed at
Perryville, and subsequently bib wife
received in a metallic coffin what pur
ported to be the body of her husband.—
She buried it with all due ceremony and
affection, and after more than a year
had elapsed, she married again. A few
days since an exchange prisoner passed
through Steubenville, and left a mes
sage from the husband supposed to be
dead, that he. would propably be soon
exchanged; and would be home again.
Her present husband is a worthy man,
and the case becomes somewhat em
barrassing.
A. letter from Mantua states that
great excitement has been caused in that
city by the attempt of a young nun to
escape from a convent, to which she had
been consigned against her will. Hav
ing managed to remove the bars from a
window, she attempted to descend by a
rope which she had made other bed-linen,
but fell from a considerable height, and
was so much injured that it was found
necessary to take her to the hospital.
ur Miss Sarah, daughter of James
Sil!imam, Esq., of Pottsville, has com
pleted a table composed of pine and
spruce burr's, acorns, etc., which she will
present to the Central Fair. The table,
as an•cirnatnent, would be an additiOn to
the most handsomely, furnished parlor,
and a substantial one, too; for, with
protor care s it Ivill_remain,in, its present
I
complete condition for many years,
YoR.F NOT.% IMES% Sew York
correspondent gives the following pen
and ink sketch of several well known in
dividuals whom he lately met at the As
tor House in that city :
Men will grow old—some by age,
some by care, some by premature decay
brought on by exposure, toil or dissipa
tion. Men can live fast financially and
Physically; in either case bankruptcy
comes. I saw a crowd on the steps of
the Astor yesterday. They were watch
ing the attempt of the great pugilist
Tomjiyer, to ascend into thi ho use.
His tall form w.,s bent by disease; his
once firm step tottered ; his great
strength has departed. With crutches
and with the aid of a strong arm of a
liiend'Til'AOWlY and with mietiish took
one step at a time, as aft infant would
go up. It was gall and bitterness to hint
to cast his eyes around on that crowd,
and see how unlike their greeting was to
the crowd that cheered him on in his
great tight with Sullivan. By a singu
lar coincidence Morrissey came along.
But how unlike flyer. Morrissey is a
professed gainbler.--It is his trade, a Ile
has taken care of himself and keeps with
in botinds. •fie is temperate, for his
calling &mends it. fie dresses in ele
gant taste—i 4 full jeweled—and would
pass for a well to do hanker with the up
per ten ; or us a Professor in a college.
Morrissey has tukeo Saratoga under hie
special charge, and intends to drive this
year a larger business than he did the
last. lie has taken his heiadqUartyis al
ready, and with an elegant exterior,
smat•t address, cool and adroit habits` he
will allure into his embrace many of our
youth, and send the curse into many
homes in the form of ruined but tweet
manly sous.
As Byer was attempting to go np the
steps a man sought a more quietvntrance
ou one side of the crowd. It was P.
Willis. "Time has laid his band visibly
on you, my gay friend," I said to myself.
tie needed the aid of a cane to help
him up. The lithe and smart step
faltered in its upward movement. The
auburn locks, still curly, were grizzled;
his face was thin and beard gray, us ono
is the sear and yellow leaf of life. I'ew
would have recognized in the feeble und
slender invalid th 4 nervous. hilarious
man of twenty years ago. lie cast a
sad lotikcm the crowd nod the pugilist
broken down in middle life, and passed
on. The group was not complete•.
PaSsing Along the pavement was Com
modore Vanderbilt. Till recently h.
has been among our most vigorous men
Age seemed to have 110 effect upon him.
His body was iron; his nerves steel.
Old in years his stop was elastic. (Ili
hair was white us snow but his intellect
sharp and vigorous. His form slim as a
youth of nineteen,hut erect us a Nlohawk
warrior. Some mouths ago he was
thrown from his wagon. That fall did
the work of years on his system. lie
walks and looks the old man. his step
is languid, and that touch which noun
can parry, and all must obey is his.
Such is life.
• As if the battle were not ghastly
enough, we read of a surgeon's amputa
ting at the hip-joint of a poor maimed
soldier, who survived the operation only
a few hours. That surgeon should be
tied down to a board and have his owo
hip-joint divided, just to see how pleas
ant the torture is. The operation is
never successful, except in killing the
patient, and, probably, a devilish love
of science caused its performance in the
above instance; the result, "surviving
only a few hours," being of no conse
quence to the remorseless •saw-bunes"
who hacked at,a dying patriot With all
the ardor the pursuit of knowledge could
inspire.—BoNton Post.
Or A few weeks since a San Francis
co stock operator; disgusted at his
losses, concluded to shake off this mor
tal coil, and take shares in " kingdom
come." To this end he swallowed a lot
of laudanum, which being discovered by
his friends, they called in a physician,
who, by the exercise.- of force, gbt
stomach pump at work, pumped out the
poison and saved the man's life.. Phy
sician subsequently sent in a bill of S5O
for his services; laudanum-taker refused
to pay, saying he had not employed
him ; physician sues for his money, and
laudanum man threatens to prosecute
physician for assault and battery:—
Rather a pretty case as it stands.
sir The rebels have a new method of
planting torpedoes in rivers without ex
posing their persona. They fasten the
machines to a barrel containing clotk
work and a small anchor. The torpedo,
clock work and anchor are so connected
that at a certain time the machinery
will let the anchor go and moor the in
fernal machine at any point. The tor
pedo is dropped in the stream some
distance above its final locality and the
sower of these infernal seeds has only
to calculate the time it takes to reach
the desired spot 11) insurq the proper
and safe delivery cl it.
itarb_ An Ohio paper tells of one Cap
tain Stanton Sholes, who had been bald
fifty s-ars ago, blit,wbo", - at the age' of
ninety-two, after a severe headache bad
a new` &bp' of hair t mf - rapid growth,
which la: now thick, silken, -white. and
long—so_long,that it is combed back
from the-forehead, and tied .with. a • -
bqp Sit the neck.