the pariettiatt. •, • „ • ItY F. L. Faker, Editor. MARIETTA. PA : Octiuiclati., Oleceirdtes 17,18'64 The State Electoral Cellege• met at Harrisburg on. Wednesday the 7th instant, and appointed Morton , Mc- Michael of the Philadelphia North American, president; John A. Meet and, of the Lancaster Examiner, as bearer of one of the packages of notes and certificates directed to the Presi dent of the U. States Senate, Elias W. Hale, was appointed the bearer of •the packages directed to. Hon. John Cad welder, Judge of the United States District Court and Charles H. Shriver,' was appointed to deliver the certificates directed to the President of the United States Senate at Washington, D, C., to the Postmaster of the seat of. Govern ment of this State. On motion of Hon. John Patton, elector from the Clear field district, it was unanimously , resol ved that the pay received by . the elec tors and messengers to Washington, Philadelphia and Harrisburg be appro priated to the Sanitary'Commission. sr The Hon. James Speed, of Ken tucky, recently appointed Attorney- General of the United States, is not on ly a laWyer of eminence, but ,has long been distinguished among the eminent men of his own State. As early as 1849 he was a reader of the email party which endeay.)red to make Kentucky a free State. Since then he has been de voted to the practice of his profession. The sincerity of his anti-slavery opinions is shown by his voluntary emancipation of his own slaves about three years ago. fir Chief Justice Chase is the author of the phrase, "Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king." The sentence is contained in one of the resolutions adopted by the National Liberty (Freeßoil) Conven tion held at Buffalo, in 1856. Mr. Chase wrote most of the resolutions, of this Convention. Sir A lad of fifteen years old recently captured a shoplifter, of Lewiston, Me. Seeing a man steal a cap and walk off, the boy followed him and presenting an unloaded pistol, threatened to shoot him if be did not return the article.., He led the thief back to the store, and made him pay, a 7 douhle price for the cap. . fir Mrs. Mcilidle, who killed her husband at Dubuque, lowa, last winter, and was tried and sentenced to be hung on the 9th of December, has had her sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. She is a woman sixty years of age, and confessed the crime to shield her eon, who is believed to be.most guilty. gar At Troy, N. Y., the other day, one boy tried to lift another by placing his hand under, the boy's jaws near the ears. The consequence .was , that the boy screamed and , fell insensible. He cant see out of one eye and has no, con trol over the muscles of his neck. His recovery is doubtful. • eir The wife of Warren Potter, of Greenfield, Mass., went to sleep • on Friday night, the 21st ult., and has not waked since. Physicians who have vis ited her cannot account for the disease, and are unable to wake , her. A little nourishment fir forced into her, and her life is •prollonged. er Gen. Butler's orders are always. characteristic. In' an order dismissing . second Lieut. John Claticy, of the Light Artillery, from the service, he , says :—"He was in a state of intoxica tion, which is reported as beastly, but that is evidently 'a mistake, as beasts do not get drunk." A crazy man at Wheeling, Va., broke into several ladies' rooms at the hotel, the other, night, and shouted for Jeff Davis. Before he was captured he destroyed' considerable furniture, and did much damage. The ladies were ter ribly frightened, and several fainted away. Gir The San Jose. Mercury sake the wife of Jose Castro, of Monterey, has given birth , to thirty-six children, Jill' of whoin are living,together in . that coun try. The . first twenty are twins, each pair representatives of either sex.. Of the remaining children eleven only were single born. or William Overfield, Esq., at one time a member of the Jima of Iteprp sentatives and Senate of this State from Lucerne county, and afterwards.a Canal Commissioner, died at his residence, in Monroe county, on the 21st ult., at the advanced, age of 78 years. Qir Mr. C. A. Ely, of Georgia, Ohio, in his will, gave a block of buildings to found a library, $5OOO in addition for books, and the income , of $lO,OOO every alternate year for books or Works' of art for the library. THE. HERO.—Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, is the full name of the hero who has marched upon Savan nah. He was born at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1820; his father, the Hon. Chas. R. Sherman, one ol,tbe Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court, and elder brother of Senator Sherman. He was educated in the family of the Hon. Thomas Ewing the distinguished lawyer, whose daugh-. ter he married, becoming brother-in-law to the now General Thomas Ewing. At sixteen he entered, and in 1840 gra duated from West Point. In 1841 he was stationed at Fort 'Moultrie, Charles. ton ; in 1848 was breveted captitin for exican services; in 1853 he took charge of the banking house of Lucas, Turner & Co., at San Francisco ; and in 1860 was President of the State Mil itary Academy of Louisiana, a position, which he resigned on the first indica tions of secession, declaring to Govern er.Moore that "on no earthly account" would he "do any act or think any thought hostile to the Government of the United States." Sheiman was the hero of the victory of Shiloh, where, General Rousseau says, "he gave us our first lessons in the field in the face of an • enemy ; and of all She men I ever saw he was the most untiring, vigilant, and patient." Grant gave him the cred it of the victory. Sherman's was lately described as not a remarkable face, "save the nose, which organ was high, thin, and planted with a curve as Vehe ment as the curl of- a Malay cutlass. the face , and neck were rough and cov ered •with reddish hair, the eye light in color, and animated ; but, though rest less and bounding like a ball from one object to another, neither piercing nor brilliant,; the mouth well closed but common, the ears large, the hands and feet long and thin, the gait a little roll ing, but firm and active. In dress and manner there was not the slightest trace of pretension. He spoke rapidly, and generally with an inquisitive smile. To this ensemble I must add a hat which was the reverse of dignified or disti , - guished, a simple ; lt affair, with a roe crown and drooping brim." Gir There is quite a strong opini in Begland that Muller did not conf es on the gallows, as alleged. A law. r calls loudly through the columns f Public Opinion for the mauuscript. p - pared by Muller before his executi . It is alleged that , this is public proper , and that the Aldermen have no rigit to keep it from the people, as they. ar . doing: „;Louis Blanc has written strong ly against the ides that Muller confess ed. The ioarsoa who alone heard the alleged coufession has , given two •or three different versions of it already. He was laboring under such an excited conviction, hat Muller was guilty, and vehement superstition that he would "go straight to, hell if he didn't confess,' that his account, totally. unsupported as it is, is scarcely creditable. ar The singular epithets of "bears" and "bulls" were first applied , to spec• ulators in stocks on the London Ex change about 1834. When two parties contract, the one to deliver and the other to take stocks on a future day at a specified price, it is , the interest of the delivering party, in the intervening pe riod. to deprei'm stocks, , and of the re ceiving party to raise them. The for mer is styled a "bear," in allusion to the habit of that animal to pull things down with his paws, and the latter a "bull" from the custom of that beast to throw an object up with his horns. eir The term in the U. S. Senate of the Bon. Wm. A. Richardson,' (Dem.) of Illinois expires with the present ses sion, and the lately chosen Union Legis lature will elect his successor for six yaars ' ensuing. The Hon. Blihu B. Washburne (who has been longer in the House than any other member), Gov. Richard Yates, Gen. John A. Logan and Gen. John M. Palmer are suggested as candidates for the post. : gar Jam" Mace has written a letter to the ciditor'of Wilkes' Spirit indicating his purpose to visit America on a spar ring tour, if he 2.i a club of nine copies will receive an addition al copy free. Six months' subscription; re ceived; Canada subscribers Inuit send twenty cents extra for each subscription, to pay A:nerican postage. Subscribers should be careful to write plain ly the name of their post-office, county and State. Specimen copies sent free to all appli cants. Address CA ULD WELL k WHITNEY, Proprietor. of The. New York Mercury, Nos. 48 Ann-st., and 113 Fulton-st , N. 1 Winter Goods! \ATE have lately received from the Eastern markets, a large assortmeat of Fall and Winto' Goods, that' were purchased during the Gold panic, when prices had touched the bottom • we are, therefore, prepared to furnish . all kinds of 1110 - chandine much below the present market value. OUR STOCK COMPRISES ALL GRADES OF•CLOTHS, Cassimeres-and Vestings, Over-Coatings, Fancy Cassimeres, for full suits, AND FOR BOYS WEAR, Cassinetts and Jeans, Ladies Cloaks and Cloaking Cloths, A full line of French alleriroes, Cohurgs and Alpacas in all colors, Rick-Plaid and BiobadeVsties, Plain and Fig'd Wool drimixed DeLaines, Superior Mourning Danines & Alpacas, A large assortment of Merrimack Prints, Scotch. Plaid and Plain Dress and Skirt Flan ne!s, Long and Square Shivr,ls, in great variety, Sacking and Shirting Flannels, Large and Small Balmorals, Washington Skeleton Skiits, the best article in the market—every Skirt guarranteed, French Corsets, Traveling Over-Shirts, Neck-ties, Under-Shirts, Handkerchiefs, Drawers, Shirt Frrints, Hoods, Sontags, $13,88779 Nubia Scarfs, Gloves, Hosiery, 6.e., ' 6 *, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS. Ticking, Checks and Osnaburgs, Bleached and Brown Linen and Cotton Diaper, Fine and Common Toweling, Table and Floor Oil Cloths, Blankets, Counterpanes, Coverlids, lieeting and Pillow Muslims, Transparent and Holland Window Blinds. Glass, Crockery and Queensware, Full. Tett,'Dinner and' Chamber Setts, I. Fancy, Market and Clothes Baskets. GRCiCERIES,— Coffees, Sugars, Teas, Fish, Salt, Dried Fruit, Cranberries, Spicesi etc. lt_T•An early call is solicited. . SPANGLER 4 PATTERSON. Marietta, October 29, 1864-tf. atak-P- 1 5 StXibim auk Carannantsr. WOULD most respectfully take this means of informing his friends and the public generally that he has commenced the drawing of , DEEDS, MORTGAGES, .T.I/DG-24BNTS, andin fact everything in the COVVEYANC ISr, line. Tiaving gratuitous intercourse with 5 member of the Lancaster Bsr, will enable h 1,3 execute instruments of writing with accuracy , 113 — He can be found at the office of IVlARnerriew," on Front street, Or at his t 0 idence on Market street, 3 a square west of the " Donegal House," Marietta. 12'illank Deeds, Mortgages, Judgments ar,i Leases always on'hand and for sale. BOHLEN'S long celebrated GIN, - - . H. D. BENJAMIN OF THE Eli El OW,