Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1866 — Page 1

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DECATUR EAGLE, ISSUED EVERT FRIDAY MORNING. I-Y A J. HILL. PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On Monroe Street in the second story of the building, formerly occupied by Jesse Niblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscription: One copy one year, in advance, $1,50 If paid within th* year. 2,00 If not paid until the year has expired, 2,Ml ITNo paper •> ill be discontinued until all j arrerages are paid, except at the option ot the publisher —— Rates of Advertising: One column, one year, $(>0,00 One half column, one year 3 >,OO One-fourth column one year, 20.00; Less than one-fourth column, proportional rales will be charged. Legal Advertisement.’: One square [the spa e of ten lines brevier] one insertion, 91,5'i Each subsequent insertion. 50 i ITNo advertisement will be considered loss j than one square; over one square willbecour. led and charg< d as two; over two as three; 4e. Lt Local notices fifteen cents a line for each insertion. LT Religious and Educational notie - nr adverti.ements.niav Oe contracted for at lower rates.by application at the office. JTDeathaand Marriages published as news —free. JOB PRINTING. We arc prepared to do all kinds of Plain and Fancy Job Printing, at the most reasonable; rates' Give us a call, we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. The Letter of Introduction. Two little boys were standing at a t ate They were both* the same age, but one of ths m was finely and tastefully dressed, wl ile the clothes of the other wer course and ragged. It was in tie autumn The huskers were busy in the cornfield, and fiom the strip of woods beyond floated out the sound o( the woodcutter's I>l ••Have vou no better domes, Buiny . asked the will diessid b>y. ••No, I haven’t Joliny.” ••Why don’t you get better one.-.? •’Because I can’t 1 l ave r.o money. I can't get work by which to earn money. •■That is tad, Benny. Are you going to school this winter!’’ ••I guess not, Johnny, I must star out, and du such little jobs as I can find to do, I would like to go to school very much. I wish I knew as much as you do, Johnny.” . “Pooh! I don’t know anything. lam aorry for yen. lam glad that lam belter off, but that does not make me feel proud, it is a sin to be proud. God made you as good as I am, if yom clothes are ragged,” Benny took bis little fl lend by the hand. A tear glistened in Lis eye. “You have always been kind to m’, Johnny Allen,” said he. "You have never hooted at me, nor tanted me, like , tha other boys. So I have sometimes taken up your quarrels, and I will stand by you wh<*n we inen “Look here Benny! How would you like to wotk on a farm all winter? Good; clothes, enough to eat, » Hide pocket; money, a nice family to live with, ana. plenty of vork\" “1 would hke that.” “Then lean help you It just oc curred tome. My Uncle Abbott want*; a little boy on his farm. I w>H ®* ve | your letter to him.” Two days a'terward Benny stood in Jront of Uncle Abbott, awaiting a reply j Uncle Abbott was a pleasant looking aid] man. not yet stooped, but with hair | quite grav. ' He put on his spectacles, opened John Alkn’s letter and read as follows: Msadow Brook. Oct. 9 Eighteen 45. Unde abbott ThiS iS Benny Ho is a good Bov. He iS Poor Is has no Home Please Keep Him & give him woiK. your neffew. Jolln aLlzn, Now. Johnny was a small boy and not to well learned as Benny supposed him to be. But notwithstanding the spelling misuse of capitals, and want of ' punctuation, the letter of introduction was sufficient. Uncle Abbott gave Benny ■ home for a number of years. It was an October night, in Philadel phis. The air was as cold as November It was late, and there was not much noise on the streets. In a cosy room sat , smn He looked careworn and hag-1 gard. He shaded bis brow with his hands. His wiie, a beautiful woman; stood beside him, smoothing Lis i*ir and •peaking words ol encouragement to him. “It is no use, Belle/’ he groaned. Ii I cannot command ten thousand dollars> by to-morrow noon. I must go to the Wall. The b.oks are tight; there is no money to be negotiated for on the street I am a ruined man.” “Perhaps this may be of use to you,’” ssid bis wife, han-ling him * slip of p» P«r.

| He went to the lamp, and real as follows: Phil*.. Oct. 9th, 1866 ■ First National Bank, Philadelphia—, Pay to John Allen, or order, ten thousan i dollars. Benjamin Berwick. “B-lle, what does this mean? It is a ch ck for ten thousand dollars. Who is i Benjamin Berwick? “The gentleman stopped here to-day, I You were not in. He felt sorry, and left , the check and this note. J/v Old Friend Johnny Allen — While , in the city to-day, I heaid that the failure of your bank would seriously affect vol! I : Do yon remember the letter of introdue- : 'lion vou gave roe to your Unde Abboli? It was exactly twenty years ago. A few years ago 1 bought land in Venango 'county. It proved to have oil eu it. and i am quite a rich man. If the accompany'ing check will aid you any, please use 'it. You can make it right some time ,! I our friend, i Bksnv. I John Allen cried. John Alien kissed 'his wife, and his wi'e kissed him. John Allen did not go to the walls, which ■ means to break up. And ail on account - ■of tii it misspelt letter ol twenty years before. — Little Corporal. Chloride of Lime. The season f>r a free use ol disin'ec ] [ ting agents is rapidly drawing near. Th>-j cholera is reported as having already 'made its dread advent to our shores, j As era complete renovation of cellars.! vaults, <kc, shout our premises, the j next thing in order is the free and cm- ; tinued use of a disinfectant. Perhaps i I m-n- cheaper or better can be found than, : chloride of lime. It appears to be pass [ j essed of other virtues also, as the foil , towing from a lundon (England) paper attest : Some years ag> I rea lin a Fr no’i i scientific periodical, that cldoiile of inn- ' would rid the house of al] vermin 1 treasured up the inf rotation until »u op portunity offered for testing its value. 1 took an old country house, infesied , with ra’s, mice and flies. I stuffed every ■ knot-hole :-nd m uce l.o'e with the el.lo-> •' ride. 1 threw it on the stone fl or of the j j dairy and cellars I Kept saucers of it under the chests of drawers, or some { | other piece ol furniture; in every nursery i bed or dressing-room. An crnamen'al . j glass held a quantity at the f. ot of each j staircase. Cow sheds, stables and pig , (Styes, all Lad their dose, and the result was glorious. I thorougly routed ty 1. enemiis; an 1 if the ra's. more impuii nt I j than ail the rest, did make renewed at■'tacks upon the dairy, in about ten i months the chloride again routed, them, ] and left me master of my own p etn- ! i es. L >’t season was a great one for wasps I —They could not face the chloride,] thoug 1 in the diningroom, in winch wei had non-—as its smell, to me most re- j freshing and wholesom, is not approved, by all persons —we had a perpetual war I [fare. And all this comfort for eight ■' pence! Only let housewives beware (bat • they place not the chloride in their china ' pantries, or in too close proximity to 1 bright steel wares, or the result will be ! that their gilded china will be reduced j jto plain, and their bright slid fenders to rusty iron, in a short time. Ws advise a Ilia) of the chloride of ! lime for the virmin that infest the grape 'vims; those pests the rose bugs; also ' the squash bugs and the cucumber bugs, and, indeed, for all the bug family, so i well known to gardners and farmers. Our Capability. No one Knows what he is capable of I doing, until necessity has pinched him into active exertion. The best tea must be put into hot water before you can develop its real qualities. The best Coffee you can get must be “done brown” be fore you can begin to ascertain what it 'is good for. And precisely so is it wilii i human beings. In ordinary lite they I may be dull, insipid, commonplace, and .ippaientiy without a particle of individ ) uality. But get them into “hot water.” I Let fortune turn tail on them, and “do i them up very brown” indeed. Let the ' world roast them well, and then you'll ascertain thc'r exact flavor. Il they have anything in them whatever, it will come i c tit nt such a t me. If made of common stuff, such a trial will only render them 1 more insipid than ever. If made of raw material, the exigency will bring out in hold relief their latent excellencies, and they will charm us with a freshness and vigor they never exhibited before, bo I cause inexorable circumstances never de- ( ' manded it. >arFrom recent scientific invi-stiga- i ' tious in Euiope it has been shown most conclusively that in looslities where im ' pure water has been drunk by the iuhab ' limits the cholera has principally raged, proving impure water to be one of the chief causes of cholera.

“Our Country’s Good, shall ever bo our Aim -Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blamo.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 11, 1866.

Diplomatic Corrcapondenco Between F auceaud the United States. The additional diplomatic I dence between the governments of France and the United States is published. Il treats ol the negotatiuns which immediately proceeded and lod to the resolve of the French Government to make sn official announcement of the prospective withdraws! ol 11.e French troops from ALxico. France desired, in the first place, to have her right to make war on M-xico recognla d by the United Slates. Fins wss readily granted, but the point to which France attributed a much bett r imnortance was the recognition oft! e i AL x can Empire by the United States. According to a dispatch from Drouyn ; ile I’Huys to the French Minister in Washington, Mr. Bigelow, at an interview, asked Drouyn de I'Huys whether !or il >t, in his opinion, the recognition of ! the M> xican Empire by the United States ■would facilitate and hasten the recnll of ! French rroops Mr. Bigelow, in a note ttu Mr. Drouyn de I’Huys, regirds this s aement »s not in accordance witli what he uttered on th it occasion. What ihe did really say was th nt the logic of j ill situation required the independence /if M xi » which must be established by : he withdrawal of nil foreign trenps bef>>ie our GovrintUi-nl could formally repugn'z- a 0 vernment accused of owing - i's ■ x «t> nee to their pr sente. Mr Drouyn de I’Huys, in reply. . ih'nki there is no real defences between ' 'lie two statement, and in ng'in sumlining up the substance of the converse > t'on quotes Mr. Bigelo as having said th it die United "ta'es, being informed of 'the intentions of the Emperor, might I show mole disposition to entertain the ; ide iuf recognition. The French Min 'ist.rof Foreign Affdrs understood the : ,\m< riean minister in Paris to intimate lth.it after the withdrawal of the French liriops from M xico the United States ' won! I be loun i wiiling •<> r. cognize the ■irpire, bir- he acknowledges h's was ! xii’y an opinion of tl e American minis'er, I wrh i.it pledging his Government to any ;> >-i iv>- policy. A note from Mr Drouyn del'l'nys I ii.f lined Minister Biglow, in January, that the French Governm> nt had no intendon to take the Eg ptian troops to > Mexico, but that it adhered entirely to 'the policy heretofore announced to our minister on that sidj ct. On Mr. Big low asking him fae could give him an idi a of tha guarantees he hoped to ob tain from M< x co, Mr. Drouyn da I’lluye replied tl at thev did not, of course, ex peet to get the money owing them, but they hoped for something which they j might regard as an eq livalent; that,' however, was a ma ter ot nego i .lion be- : 'tween them and M- xico. j Mr. Big'low then a kid whether i i 'would not be possible, in some way, to jarrest the us’less and demoraliz'ng war- j ( fare that was carried on in Mexico be j tween Maximilian and Juarez; at least, ' while these negotiations were going on. | The atrocities practical! were really | dreadful to speak us, but he did no' know that he could do anything to discourage them, and asked it I had any thing to suggest. I said that I supposed il the Juarists were sure that the French were intendjmg to leave M> x co within a short ttrae, which seemed reasonable, I would lay to them that he would then have » tail chance of trying conclusions with Max imillian's party. They would be will . ing to leave him undisturbed and il| France or Mexico had any direct mem.-' as coming to such an understanding with Juana it might under the situation i be less cmbarra.sing to all parlies. i Dis Exceller.oy replied that he would be very glad if that weio practiced, as il would enable tl etn to leave the country , so much sooner, but they bad no means j of communicating with Juarez He asked me if I could suggest any mode to accomplish what I proposed. I replied that we h>d relations, as he was aware, with Senor Romsro, and anything that he would authorize me to say,; we would b most happy, ol course, to say, tn il would have a tendency to t< r j rninate tins brutalizing strife. His ex cellency promised to speak of this, and also of the form of the assurance which we had been discussing to the Emperor. | CvrThe Rochester Uhlan says: “There are millions of bushels ol rotton wheat now lying in the st< rehouses of Chicago, to be shipped • "’hen navigation opens. This grain, in all s’ages of decomposition will be put into vessels, sent to Buff do, put into elevators, thence taken in caqal ■ boats to all points where these crafts go. I cl.ir fly to New York, and thence it will jbe sent to New England. This wheat is wholly unfit to be eaten, and will breed i cholera wherever it ie allowed logo. - ’ CurA miner who lately came from Vir- ; gima City says that the vegetation is so scarce tn that region that “two mullen stalks and n bunch of thistles is call* da 1 ! I grove.”

The Workshop. Wo know very wel! that while some boys are quite contented to play at housekeeping with their sisters, others are quite too restlessness, and consider It beneath their dignity. Let the hovs have their workshop, then by all means, ns soon as they are old enough, or have proved themselves capable of being trus- ’ led with mischief making tools. A bov jof five years may be kept quite by the j hour with a soft board, a tack bummer, and paper o f tucks; and, after they are i satisfied wilh the first step —nail dri- ( - ving—they w ill begin to have an i lea of construction. Even in town, where space i is a consideration, a corner of the wood shtd.or of tile ntt'c, may be given up to the boys of the family, to have and to hold for their especial benefit, whore j. they may be encouraged to keep tl e r tools in good order, and allowed to make ’ just as many failures, and just as much |lilter .ns they please; and here M ister I Charlie or Willie may p iss hours, where [they would otherwise be household torj ments, or “running wild” in the street holiday afternoons, ra’ny Saturdays, and th* like. Sleds, rough but strong, boxes , dolls’ tables and chairs for their sisters, are in lime accomplished, and we need not say how gr>-ally valued by tho«e for whom they are phnne i and ex-cuted. In ■ one instance which came under our no tice, a lad of ten years constructed n b> autifully fi ished set of to ds, copied in 1 miniature from tlio'c that had been given to him, and invented a very in genious mac ine for pressing bricks, I without the least assistance. In these days of mechanical ingenuity, there is no estimating the value of tacts thus encouraged and allowed to develops. A friend, whose experience is of value writes us. “My boy’s work-hop is in the loft of 1 tl.e s ai.le. He has ato >1 chest, a lot of j boards, a suit of old clothes which he pu'a cn loi the purpose, and there he works. Give a boy a saw, nails, and ’ some boards, and he will be at h .me then, and accomplish something—ladders bax rough, of coursv, but o’ ifn e ' ■service in keeping him amused and employed.” A welt known agricultural authority ' advises th t every boy should have this 'I liberty allowed him, and, il possible that, ilia wo'kshop be attractive and com’or tab!.-, a stove added in winter, ns soon as the lads in <v be trusted with shavings i and fire in the same rom Here give him, by degrees, as the p'av house was furnished, a work bench, and vice, and ' perhaps a small foot lathe, one or two! plane’, sugars of sevi r»l siz s, one or J , two chi-els, saw, and hammer. j Besides the matter of of amusement, I I and the absolu'e moral value of such an j I escape .from (he temptation of evil ass jociitea, the self education which must of necessity result, commends itseD to «very I parent who has the best good of their j children al heart, and the real end of all j education in view, helping them to help i themselves. General Cass Dung fr m Softening OF the Brain. — The editor of the Lacrosse (Wisconsin.) Petnocrul, who is j now in Detroit, writes as follows; “Gimral Cass is still alive, though his j family have gathered here in daily ex-i pectalioll of his d< Cease. Toe G> neral s I now in *:is eighty f urtli year. lie pass- i i> s most ol his time in sleep 1 undisturbed j ; At rare i tervals he wakens up suffi i-n- I ly to ask for soma of his old friends, i , who are sent for, but on arriving, even j within the hour, he is generally asle-p I again. Bis disease is so'Uning of the; brain, from years of menial labor in iho ; service of his country. He has all the j j care, a l -'.’niton snd nursing it is possible I to g've. His family lock upon hi u with j the greatest reverence and satisfaction,! am! uray that his last day on earth may be far distant. Al times he is able to con ver-e quite fleely and ra'.ionntiy with his family, but this is the exception, not the rule. Trichina ia Ainerie-in Pork. Th* commit ee of scientific gentlemen i

appointed by the Chicago Academy of Science. have just made a very complete report on the origin, growth and disposi- ! tion of trichina. Their researches show I that as many as 10,000 of these insects are a imetimes contained in one cubic inch of pork, and that an average of one in every 50 of the hogs in the Chicago market is mqre or less atfectel, and the comparative immunity from the disease which our own people have enjoyed, undoubtedly results from the habit us cooking meat before caring it, while in Germany it is eaten raw by the poorer classes on account of the high price of tuel For its destruction the committee say;—“lt is simply necessary to cook it thoroughly so trial every portion of the meat shall have experienced a temperature of a: least 160 degrees Fahrenheit. We cannot insist too strongly on this point."—’ •Scienf'Xe Amen'ctri b

i High Wages. :l “Five years ago, I built a house for t'two ihirdi less money than I can now,” • i said a friend, recently, “and I notice that r notwithstanding prices of living are teni ding downward, like Giver Twist me- , chanics wart more Sugar is lower, but- • ter is falling, flour is lower, be< sis no ■ higher than it has bi rti, but in the lace of all this, strikes are the order of the day, ■ Kil l I should like to know where it :> g> . ing to ead What is the rem on of ii.” i “Die r> aeon is quite plain,” wo ».n----Iswernl. “Mechanics cannot help wans ting more, they are iu demand. Did you ■ ever hear of a merchant lak ng h“s than the market puce for his goods because > people wauled h m to? Did yon notice > ihat butler became cheaper, oi Coal low’i er, wh- n the press commented lifon tne r, i xoi bitant prices chargi d for these arti Ijdes.” i “No, I did not." n Yet you see on the approach of war ' j tner weather, that coal and buii> r both j lull, simply because the supply i gr-a'er t | thaii iho demand. When the c.dl wks I j brisk, however, certain skillful operators s were able to control the ma, k> t. Kero . sene oil, that three months ago, re'.n led 1 for ninety cents a gallon, now sells a' r seventy five cents. What m id.- ih it fall? ' Daylight. The days grew long r; leas oil was consumed; the demand was Iris, 1 and the price came down, as a matter of ■ course. It is precis ly th- same with i : wages. You will notice tl at mechanic.’ ,get about the same rates all over the - country; changing only with the state of the local market. Meehan cs are in de- ’ ' mand now, and (heir wag. s must go up; • no power can preventit. When bail jdicu materials were high, e ptdi’t.’held ' I aloof, Raying, “there will be a fall,” and I then wages remained at a fixed point.— f So soon as gold fell, and ti e political 1 prospects of the coun ry were biighti r. ’ increased activity Was mani'est in all branches of industry, and mechanics' waI ges rose as a natural const qnence, for ’ there were notm>n enough to do the 1 work This is the eimple reason fur the ' movements that are taking pl-ce. •• They will continue unti’l there are j more men. In 1857. good meehanico jeonld be had for $1 25 per day, because ; the re was nothing fur them to do; nobody ; wanted them; their labor was a drug — , Now it is the reveise; everibo iv wants I them, and up they go Our advice is, that they hold onto: their earnings ro that when the evil day* j draw nigh they may have an anchor to j wind sard to hold by.— Scientific Ameri : can. What the South Has ; Matthew F. Manrv. tnencemect of the rebellion, was in charg i of ihe National observatory in Washing i | ton, has written a three-column letter to I j the London J/brninp A/eroZcL in which he I gives the following estimate of the loss< 6 i of the South, caused by the war. ! | “I estimate lhe amount o f the pecan-! I iary lossess incurred bv the people of the .Southern Confederacy, in their late at ] tempt atmdepender.ee, lo be not less; j than §7.000.000.000: j By emancipation §3,000.000.000 ; Expence of the w <r 2,000.000,000 | D struction of private property. 1,000,000,000- ' Additional tex at ion imposed by ihe -victor for payment of ibe federal war debt, says 810.000,000 per annum, equal t>> 6 per cent inter’st on 1,000,000.000' Total 87.000.000,000' | “This loss Mil upon less than 8 OCO. 1 000 whi es, who have, moreover, in ad Idition, to contribute largely toward the support of the 4,000.000 blacks who , have been suddenly turned loose amonr , ihem, and who, for the present at least, are incapable of caring for therncelves. | “This §7,000,000,000 of money WHS , J ihe accumulated wealth >tf centuries; it i consiliut.’d nearly the whole industrial j | plant and capital of tile South." i,

T me. It waits for no man-e-it travels onward with an even, uninterrupted, inexorable step, without accommodating itself to the delay of mortals. The restless hours pursue their, course: moments pn s» after moments, day treads upon day, year rolls alter rear. Does man loiter, procrastinate? Is he listless rr indoieni? Behold the days, and mpnihs, and years, unmindful of his delay, are ney»r singgish, but march forward in silent and solemn procession. Our labors and toils, jour ideas and fellings m«.v be suspended by sleep; darkness and silence and dea'h ; may reign around us, bnt Time is beyond the power of any human being, besides, Omnipotence. The clock may cease Io strike, the sun to shine; but the busy, hours pass on The months and years! must move oil evtr," O| Ord. t b \ *• •

Advice to Yuuiig Men.. r< In his valedictory address, tin- <x I erd ’; Rector of Glasgow Uhiveraity, Sir E. *•'Buiwer Litton, lately offered the follow- ■ j ing exc-lli-nt maxims to the students: • | “Never aff> ct (he said) to be o’Ler than you are, either licher or wiser. Never >;be ashamed to say, whether applied to fj tme or money, •! cannot afford it; I can ,; not afford to waste so hour in the idleI nesa to which you Have invited me. I cannot afford ibe guinea you ask mt I» • • throw away.' ■j ’Once establish yotirsiif and your J, m de of life nt what ti.ey rt ally are. and i ] your teet are on solid ground, whether -for the gradual step onward, or for lh« ?: sudden spring ovsr the precipice.” -| From these maxims let me deduce nn- ' other: L"arn to say’‘no” with deeis on; i‘ yes’’ with camion. “No” with decision ! whenever it meet a t-mptatiun; “yes” , with camion win never it implies a prom* ise. A promise given is a bond invioU* 1 Me. A man is already of consequence rjin the world whin it is known that w® sjean implicitly icly on him. 1 hare Ire • quenily Seen such a man pref rred to a i long list of applicants for some important l;Charg- ;he has been lilted at once in<>« 1 »:.i i n and for une merely because le ' has die reputation that win n be says 1 ® > j knows a thing he knows it; and when he . says he will <lo a thing ho will do ii.” I ■ ' The Shepherd’s Dog. II A gen’lrman sold a con-idcrable fl< ck ;i f sheep to a d< nl>-r, u Inch the latter had I, not lands to diive. The silb-r, however, to d him 1 e had a very intel igent ;jdog. which he would send to assi>t him to a place about thirty miles off, and ibnt when he reached the end of his journey, he bad only to feed the dc.g and desir® him to go home. The <L>g. accordingly, received hi’ <nh ra, and s< t <>fl wiihtbis fl ck and ilie di over; but l o was absent so many days that his master b-gan to have s-rious nl-irma about him, when on® morning, to In greet su-prise, he found -; his dog return*d wi'h a very large flock /o' shop, in. luffing the wide ih»i be hail l lately ro d. ihe f el turned cut to Ire that tho j drover wus sn pleased with the CoHev ■ that he resolved to steal him, snd locked Iftiin up til] the lime when he was to lrav<> ; the country. The dug grew sulky, an I j made various attempts to escape, and j one evening he succeedcl. Whether : the dog hail discovered the drover’s intention, aril supposed that the sheep Were also stolen, it Was difficult to say; .but by his conduct it looked Ho, lot h® ■ immediately went to the field, collected [the sheep. Kijl drove tip m ail back to I his maiti r. XeT" A Minnesota school committee re' I cently furnished (heir teacher with th M following rules, which they orders i to be s'r'ctly enforced in the government us ] said school: i “SKOCI ROut.* " [ ”No»w<-ariii fiiin quart lin nicknamin going intu the water ra’ling and jttmpin going intu any pursnns vine piches or crchirds without counceot [ of the owner. no pinchin sticking of pins intu caeh o hvr pulin of hair during books coartin in skool not morn one pupil mu»tgooul j at one t>me unless for wood or woti*r writin of lure lectors in fkool no orackia of walnnts unless drfv-ff no ors> km of dried walnuts whisperin these skoo] rools must Lu observe.! for * violation of tiiese rools will be punished with ihe lash according to the verdict or, the trusties.” tirTI’.VTKR or TUB War. —Columbia. B>iuih Carolina, had one hundrti! amt twenty.five squares, and of these eightyfour were destroyed. No effort has be.-n made to rebuild the structures that have

, be. n consumed, and present indication* tars that the town will long remain unalterably sacred to be ruins. Nearly all of the original population have either j died or gone away; business isstagnanl. and the lew hundreds of people remain’ I iog there s’em to have been inmat-s of ! the tabled S>epy Hollow. The hand* [some capitol o' white marble i- very coni spicious and attractive in the midst of th* desolation, and seems as if it might I.Sv* d«cended, like an enchanted palace, *ron> ; the cioqds, seeking the remain* of « departed city. _ CirMre. O'Brine, a soldier’s widow »t Montpelier, died in her house list week from cold and exhoustjon. She Was twenty-two years oIJ, and left a child whien was nearly dead when found. Have they no in yermnet?-*-

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