the pariettian. MARIETTA. PA Saturday Morning, February 2, 1867. Several years ago orGo.nroment. imporecla lok#amels, 1111 on t h e Western plains. 't he survivors now ear: r yoire*taabatattaaamYsingiokawaito.ando ADS t . 1 : 1 4, 1 1 4 ;0.1 L: YeYNIY94!SR Abe strength, 81kilitve,mpre.than.twice the eadaranee, aT1.4Y 11 01 ,, an4 ean, carry burdens, gveryt,hing, seems, lo,show.that they can be , readily naturalized; yet, o w ing to some ptejctOco p. no Patna Are taken for their P9r,P,Pow flop, and the/Awe:dying put. bn lhe26th r inst., GovernorGeerY pardoned SISNATEAN BIEBER, of Berke county, ajudge ofelection, who had bean convicted in` the' Cock of Quarter Ses- Mons of that , county for miademeanor in rejecting the Vote of ode SABIOnt. Rend- Ear, at the last 'October electiOn,'the grond that REINERT was a deserter. It was eVident that REIM ' ERT had deserted from Company: G,l4th Pennsylvnia regi ment, and.tbat BIEBER bad rejected his vote in compliance with 'the provisions of the act of Assembly of last session. The Governor wee, therefore, unwilling to see a good citizen punished for a mere discharge of his duty Under the law, and especially when this puniehment was at the instigation of a man who had dehert-, ed both the cause and the flag' of our country in the hour of peril. flir The re-constructed rebs wanted to have a fine display at thlveston, Texas, on the arrival of the remains of General A. Sidney Johnson. The following cor respondince took place. Galveston, Jan. 24, 1867; Major General P. H. Sheridan, command ing Department of the Gulf,New Orleans: The citizens of Galvestion wish - to give a Civil escort fiom the steamer- to the cars to the remains ofthineral John: eon. General Griffin has issued ii,pro hibitotY Order.. Will you'give authority to the citizens here to give a civel escort to his tannins; ? CHAS. A. LESNIARD. Mayor of Galreaton, Texas. SIR I respectfilly' decline to grant your request. I bare - to mueh'regard for the memory of the brave men who died to preserve our Government to author ize Confederate demonstrations over the remains of any one who attempted to destroy it. • P. H. SHERIDAN. 'tiffijor General 13.'8;A ir•lt is. said •that a ..colored :boy named Douglass, residing in Corry Pa., has iuvented a new and destructive fire arm, in the shape of a rifle.battery, which is on, sxbillition o.4Buffalo: It is 'con structed in, such a, manner as to throw one hundred and eight minnie balls at one discharge from pefcussion,ebell amt. ridges, and the machine can be kept rin continual operation.- Experienced mili tary men haveexamined the battiry, and pronounCe it ofie ofthe Most formidable pieces .of ordinitnei" yet invented. ifir The diary of Wilke. Booth,. taken from his body after hie .capture; is now in the, bandstofithe proper investigating oomtnittee, baVing-been banded over to it by the .anthorititis. For some reason its contents were not used in the trial. It shows that he. was an agent of ;the Confederate Government,. and'reeeiving money from it, and that at one time, at least, the plan was to kidnap Mr.' Lin coln. sir The South Rend, Indiana, Regis ter says : Some' thirty years ago, Jobe than Beckwith, a Young lawyer of deci_ dad promise; bought a 'pint'of whiskey, and getting drudk, Windeted out on the Terre (loupe° 'prairie, on a cold winter night,'and was so badly friMen` that he lost his reason and the use of his .limbs; and has beeti, ever since, until ' two weeks ago, an inmate of the county poor house, an insane cripple, and his= keeping has cost the county no less than $B,OOO. Wit is stated that at the sinking of the steamer Platte Valley, on , the Miss issippi, near Vicksburg, on the night of January 19th, a woman, '„by her own an_ aided exertions, *Hived the lives of her Zing children and drunken --husband. She waded through the later on the hurricane !deck after the steamer ca reened iOver; and carried them, one after anothat, 1:o the wheel house, where she placed -thorn in a position of safety. U. Forney's paler: early, said : "The Little Corporal is destined to become " the great children's Paper of Anlerica." The prdictioit is already fulfilled, The Little CtirPoi•al:for'one year 'will do; the children - more good than - a (jostler's Terms;' Ong` Dollar a year', Ertitpld 'Copy," ee th (hitt? A I . Li' SOvitill, Cfg - - rigyrsuakyd,-,g - 0 - , -- 11 - 9avits,l liiitfiuita "mother ilaniliter were married in the esm.e %slew same time FASTEST TIME 0' 0 Eal--• effilo - - i r ti 4 t T re ar fifty-for ir ing record, said tim rrec 1 ort preserving. Do tle th " f tes time " will be be n ore '4,7' lasi in °COSS . COM' horses are so gre 'ly i prov ' e'd ieblood; Ou .conr Ay at Is t" endurance and training, that we shall not stop here. The fastest time on record : 1 mile . ~ p acing:,..Renahowbuir.42 - 4 3 .-3 -A -1, - L-Mil-e,- trotting, Dexter, 2 18 3-8; 2 miles, trot ting, Flora Temple, 4.50 k ; 3 miles, trotri ting, Dutchman, 7.324.; 16 miles, irot tinl4td .'rinst:4,o 3 4S) (t,.; . „„2"...094, 4 1;31 . 49431, Capt. McGowan, 59.34 ; 10) miles, f,ltting, Conqueror, 8 55.53 . ; 100tmperil double, Master Burke and Robin\ 1 10,11. 22 • i ir Girlifez z.. l2a4l miles, running;_ Lexington, '1. 19 1 8.• 1 No man has been ,elected to the Presidency from the'U"nite d States Sen ate iiedt, dents Were Senators; before ranching' the highest gate. From an examination of the sUbject by'the 'Boston ,Traveller, it appears that fotir Presidenti—namely, Washington, John. Adams, , 'jefferson, and Taylor - , never belonged to either branch of Congress ; that seven of them —namely, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Harrison, Tyler, pierce, Buchanan and Johnson—served 'in 'both branehen of Congress ; that tour of there, Madisen, Polk, Fillmnre and Lincoln, served only in the House of Represetativen; arid that two of them; Monroe arid Van Bri: ran, served only in the Senate. it- Miss Cunningham, regent of• the Mount Vernod"Ladies' Assobiation, states'that the receipts 'of the amnia-. tion since its'organization have been two hundred and sixty thousand 'dollars, of 'which over sixty night tlieusand (tel lers wire tontributedfas theproededs - of the lectureesed essays of Hon. Ediard Eierett, whodevoted a large share of hie valuable time to this noble work. Out of this amount, the entire purchase money together with the litertiet money, that hid iteetnimlated on the deferred instalments, has beenpail] and twenti three thousand dollars have been el-. pended in necessary repairs to , the man sion and out, buildings. eir The :ifumbers .of the , tickets and theTrizes. of the Crosby- Opera House drawing have been certified-to -by . the drawing •committee: Prize .-No.:-66, is splendid portrait of General.Grant,•-_was drawn by ticket 33,858, sold in Nati York. The Mr. Lee, the person who drew the , opera-house, is a country mil= ler, worth About $2,008., It is ,under stood that_ Mr. Crosby offer hini $25,000 to 50,000 cash, - ,to, compromise, and of. course be will have uo alterna tive:. • • -xar Another daily morning paper will be started' in New York on the first of March. 'His to be thoroughly radical in tine, favoring impeachment, the ballot for the negro - and the titter disfranchising o't rebels. Charles A. Dasa is to be. Chief editor, "George Wilke ` end a large corps of able writers will be stacked to thine* enterprise. sr A novel race came.off on Cayuga Lake, a few days since, between H. 0. Carr, champion, skater. of .New York State, on skates, and a man named Cox who ran without skates. The distance was•seventy-five yards, and the skater was beaten-by Cox, who arrived at the goal ten feet ahead, winning a .stake of $1.00., V A farmer near Newark, N. J.; was recently called on by a gentleman; who c a me to pay for a basket of apples he had stolen eroln the farmer's orchard when a boy, sixteen years previous. He insisted on paying interest;' together with the originatvalne. air Artists hive adopted different emblems of charity. We wonder none of them ever thought of a piece of India rubber, which gives more than any other substance. sir The United States Senate reject ed ex-Governor Wm. , F. Jol;nson, as Collector of the Port, and Joseph Flanigan, Naval Officer, at Philadelphia ear A photograph (ram, 'mad e by a New York, soldier oat of 7,110 pieces of bog-wood, with a pen knife, is on exhi. bition in Harrisburg. - - - sir The - Oberlin, 0., News says "there are probably 150 pianos jn this village, bat no bowling. alleys or grog shops." "Music bath charms." 4 Teeth are stopped with-gold, end tongues may - be so, likewise: :A . mini with a rich wife is oftenAlenced by her throwing her'meney in his teeth, sr, l3 . H. Crosby, on Sunday, last, bought the Crosby Opera House, from A. 11. Lee, the lucky , ticket holder, for $200,000 sr Ethan Allen; the`celebrated trot ting horse was sold a few days since, to BE. Simmons - of Nei York' city, for ten thOnband dollars. istr.Rev. Joseph Bobia mow ender kielAt• ATlmer,t Canada 4Eastolor the murder of his sister, a helpless cripple. Adv. jc;ahtniiay lute been fUund 4.1"-• 4 -z• h e guilty et A'lli on ; Orleans coun)y, 'N. Y. " 34 ' rear449YklßMindolgeff IRO* 0.-00P,41111- ted for Govenor of Tennessee, at the next corention on the 22nd of February, MARIETTIA_NR.-^s--) , iro I ! ad ves Is in sanden m c are Uon.‘stl7" It is five hundred dollars fine in New York to have the doors of public build ings opened inwardly. ''' - '2rfolbrbiltiro'Fitlii4;s*Wwdiftwifto drown bie dog, took him.in a boat and 1.4 " 4- ` v riT b't*" - or threw ..13.itu tos 4 erbe t ard. A:4n ing the animal from tiro boat with Me oar, he 'ffill-overboardywn&wouilHakvirdzowned had nothie. dog held t , bim.up till tuaeig-. , 4 ,"r ; tellee Opel '4(11 110 The members Of the Maine Legisla- j nre Vil=l"tiirroleargiTatirraclil of - WebSter'e''Toihtliiiiii&rlifniibridgedy,. Liptireidtve , :Glizeleeiir; Bibli;: and $lO . ticiith'df-poetag&stam ps. Some party or parties anknown entered ; ; p a. rty - 7 -7 the : stab le f Vhointo T unl?:ant-,a"Cat etopgde out of a VatZlehoree thitg°" tleman. , ~ ' , The old . German Reformed graveyard in Reading is him cutup ifftct.buildtng ...... manin Norwieb, - Conneetient, bit ten by erdng, obtained sBotldatnegee. Gen. - Gyint is going to take ` his family to the Parts EspoeiE on The memory, of Dr. Wistar its embalm. a4.ln the hearts, of thousands„ !hop? his Bois= ,of -Wild Cherry hes cured of congha,.! c01d5, . . . coosiamptiot,; or :son?e, other form, of,Pfilmnnery,distasn ~ It is now,over forty years since this-.prepara tion was brorightlAtforejhe pnAkin e ent4 yet the demendlor, is: constantly creasing. . . One ' million' eix hundred and 'fifty. thousand "dollars capital' is'invested'.~ in the Cambria:lron Works at Johnstown, Ps. Three:theusand two hundred men are conataritly enipleyed at; wages vary: lug from $1.43 to $4.00 per:day:- -Frbtii a'mere village' these - Won' Works - liii*e" caused "Johnstown` to expand - into a good - sized-toxin'of fifteen tifizineald habitants. No latindetope should, be exppsedito the weatlaer, as it not, only iojareekthe wpod-work; bat, the,sun'slayshardent.he stone ,Bo -mgetk K9nkler,A. useless. Neithar , aboals l ./t4P l 4illtwAftrr as : the .. part : remaining,in. the yatey sop, tens.ap ;Duch 'that it wears away. faster than the other side ;. and tbaby a,',loft place!' a.,statie_hae;rtylaen,frotxtAbia can se , slope, and, no t,, utn . , any irmiltality in the grit: -7 _ , - A negro wonian Suetin, inother of ten children, sties'a White man- - fo'r breach of proinise. • . TheSupreme.Courp of New Jersey has hae deehlad that the liqaor lawof, that, State is not legal: • -A' oompanphair , been established- in Hudson, N. J.,-for the 'ilial:ltifactrtrtr . .of , lead pencils: '*Thematerial.ised American; and the-nompany empleY 115' The question why printers d'o 'not'stic . ceedas well as brewers; Was thus 'an swered : " Because irinters work for the head, and brewers for the stomach, aid' where twenty men have stomachs but one has .brains." - . , A hotel proprietor of. Wiscgnsig.-had his valise stolen while on .a tour in• the , southern part ofthe'State. On return : ing home he found-the valise and thief stoppihg at his house. Garrett Dtivier, - present Senator; been iirCppedin the fora Sen ator the Kebtucky Lekialature. inny be sent from lieniucky let it not be Davie. Gov!. Swan haenffected - the zbjent, of his defection and ,ambition late last: , :On Friday he- wakolected ll.:l3.BenatorbY the Legislature ofMary.hind aislyeara from the 4th - • •Ifitioh; - to succeed' the able, the . accomplished andAoyal,Oreas- The Judiciary"Conimittee'd the till= ted Stites Seiiiite hai agrees to rePoit an amendment to the Constitution prii= viding that - the Pieiliderit shall not be eligible to a second terai:° - • The bill chringing the time for the meeting ,of Congress has,been,signed by the President. -, Jas. Stephens is living in strict priva cy, eta house in.Brooklyn,' Neiv- York. It is .thought that be-is-doing penance for his Poet - • " . Mrs. Col, ,Sam Colt is 'going to baild $50.000 brown stone Episcopal churCh at Harikeid, fOr the "Chin.Ch of tie doi t a Shepherd," now nadir the *pasiorage of Rev. H. W. Nelson, Jr. Seth Scommon, of Stratham, N. H., has an Ayrshire cow, ten years old last spring, that has given a little over eight hundred pounds of,milk ten days. A Gernian writer esiiinitee that 'an acre of buckwheat yields folirteen pounds of honey daily. Single hives gathered three Rounds on fuiortible days.. ° one °4nROTO43. tn:OPOnl?! 1 .rtOboOP perished near.pallA.gtonio,Tepts,Aux ing n snow. storrn,XawYear's.day. igibows lodnd sale lefiboiitittergtitri ftrieql ti s e *htlifylaia Ergiritatere.niittte to erect a magnificent hotel in - 131iltP more. i s . '; ...k.. -':- pftliii2 Nirtit .: 'ft 867 , 7,8 LAi' K W , gil: L & p., have now!, 867-readyitheir ; VISZD t•,.TALOGUE OF , , . 1., 861 1 -NEAVP:PEas 0R)867, ...containing all 186 T—the principal publications; for"' which 1867—they receive subsript i tous at the;regular 1867—rates, and,onaapjf)Ofjlotnr`Offer the 1867—advantage of subscribing for 3 months. 1867—Send fora copy containing full details of -11167-.onradmirable'system-oPoperationeWe -1867—refer to the Publisher of this _ rar• „BLACtWELIA,PI,, fut f ai'' 3 6plaWaY: 7 74l:, "Y . :( 0.A1.14the4298.) ITCH !--,ITCH4 Wri;ich ! 1 4 2 s iiratcX : 1 !! TVII EATON'S OINT 4KEN,T-Will cure the ITCH- in 48 , h0w5. , r41189 1 , -# - - cure" al -Rheum Ulcent _ E traptione of the skin. Price 50 cents. For le,hy.alltdraggists.playathundl4g,fill i caM4 , WEEKS & PorTna,sole agents, 170 Washing ton-st., Boston, fOfarirded by mail, free of postage, to anfpart of the Union. EMPIRE SHIiTTLE MAciartris are suPetior to`all otliers fctr family and manufacturing purposes'; tateit inapioliernentii;' sire FipeedY, nbisless, easy world Illustrated Circulars sent free. Agetifs ed.. ,Liberal discount -allowed.' No, consign-. ments made. %Addresikg.mpfar D. M. co, .616 Broadway, N. Y. • [xiii:6-iy - A ,STRANGE OASE.-A bright little girl, Of nine summers, -daughter- , of-M: F, Mclntyre o of Girard, Erie county, was, on Friday of last week. kidnapped .by, her own mother, whom she had .not seen, for six yeirs, Her mother was tuippos ed to have died on the plains on ;the road : to California six years no, wher,e she was going,_ as ,she stated,,, get•.rid of : _the i,ll treatment : of. her husband,. He overtook her, and she wastakemsick with the typhoid feiver, 'and-the husband , took the child and $5OO, all the money, she had, and supposed that.his wife died. Ste has boweverre-appeared and the strangest , of all i.s,.that. the, child .recog nized her in a moment. The sympathies of, the Girardists go strongly with the mother. DEATH BED Col.! FESBION.-A man writ 4*, itig f = rom Oil titty . tells this story • "0 January 6, 1867, John Franklin Worley, a resident of this place for ahocit two years, died 'from . the effects of a,'wou'nd. . recekved at the battle of Antietam. . On his . 'dyipg bedhe stated that four years ago be`left a. wife ' and' two' children near Jrinifsville; Clearfield counti.. And now he`feaies another Wife and Children in this iihic'e,she notknowing that he wort Fle' could not die. without rifteatifig the feldts to -hil;igi ; d asking for forgiveness' as *as well ' thought.. it right to, . ' hisfirit. wife I publish'this stateniefietor the .info'rina tion of his widovied companion and fath erless thildtetrio ' ' ', A.. . 5k...7' . 4 Ugenhoffi3of the Aug: Wan n'av-Y4 Monday,- and took up his qUartets at-the Continental, Hotel. -IYesterday , Morn: int he proceeded„ its a-private. , carrikgs; to .the Navy Yard, where4lie , was-ciffibidle 1y ;:received with the customary honors A feet... inspec tin g thd Works!' tips; Alce' 'Tee: ceivineehip,ttlie dry dock,. &c.,- }wits handsomely. entertained.: by- Comniedord - Selfridgeitconimendant , of tho.yard. , '-1 7 6- company with Commodore=-Turner and other- distinguished maval officers, tii`d A - dmiral-probeeded • to- Leigue :Wand for