Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 35, Number 5, 31 March 1865 — Page 1

THE PALLADIUM: POMLISUBD TUVHADAX XOKSIXGS,. BT DVP. H0LL0WAT& B. W. DAVIS, r TERMS: $2,00 A TSAR. - f' io PA'ABUI IK, ADVAKCE. . ALL KINDS JOB PRINTiriG,

lhn in the bMt mtnntt and at fair prices. ; 0Vl hi Wurar Builehag, Richaaoad, lad. Mail Time Talkie. vi ,, t.i s ( ,;, ' f . -!,, - , il l, KICftMOND POST OKKTAt Ht olunibo and Past....... ....... 8 45 a.m. Chicago .......'........,,........ . ! 00 A.M. f ineirmstK ,....-. .... .. 4 00 r.si. I)bnWij 4M?.. Indianapolis snd West..., 8 45 A.. iff n.KltM OPEJt. Indianapolis and West...'. . 10 45 kmCincinnati..........-.'.... .11 30 a.m. Itaytnn Way 11 80 a.m. Chicago.... 30 p.MCotauiba and Kant........;.. ,...10 45 a.m. Boatoo and iieecy lir,. leaves Tuesday and Friday. at 12 00 M. dn. aerive asm days at 10 00 m m. L'jiio . City, via Arba, Bethel Ac, leaves Monday -Wednesday and kridav.at T 00 A.M. An. arr. Tuerday, Thursday and fccturday at i 00 rja. Winchester via Xew Garden, leave Monday and Friday, at -BW A.M. du, atr. Tuesday and Saturday, at 5 00 r.M. Jrr-Omee niM-n from 7O0 A. at. to 720 W. M, On Munday, from lh0 to 10:00 a. m. n, . AWILLIA5H. r. m PROFESSIONAL CARDS: SL-B.-HARRIHAH, M. D. " RKritliENCE AJTD OFFICE, " No. 23 South Front Street, C Lata residence of Dr. Kersey. ) , ; . l. KlCHMOXI, INI. Office? hoar T to H A. M., and !!(, Bad ' S s It T I. 31. ' Biehmond, Feb. , Mo. - " 5My. .Co-Partnership . Notice. T rCTORft V.AM. II. K EJW KT, have formed M.W a partnership ia the practice of Miicine and Hurgrry. nVaklonre of the former North 7th street, Kaat aiiks between Main and Broadway ; of th latter, X. K. Corner of Market and Waabington-at. Office on Main atreet. South aide, between 1'earl and Marion, over O. W. Barnes' and Co'a. grocer. ,. Office hour, from 7 to R, A. M. " . ' . - 1 to 2 and from 6 to 7, F, M. Iml.tuond, Januar It, 15. ; , . t-f. I J. FRANCIMCit, M. I. natd Ueaidenca Month Fraaklia Street, lEaat aide, between Main and Walnat, ' julj 17, 1X44 30 it RICJIMO.VO, Iiiaa . , ln.J. GARRETS ON a RCtforao to ; CIIA'8 PRICE'S KEW BLOCK, No. T, North Mcveata Street. ( rticbmond, Jan. 20, 18S4. ' ' ' , , 43 tt ,v :: j JOHN C. WHITRIDGE," ou ' Attorney at Law & Notary, HTARR HALL DUILDING, Riehmond, Indiana. C. H. BURCHENAL, ' ATTORNEY AT . LAW , awn ' !N"otn,ry Itiblic, Ofllrr, NO. T, Mniu St., over Haiaea' atore. , , - - , , - r , (23-tf) OGHTIST. Tfciclimond, Intl. fEJITAT. RtWHS on North Fifth Street, MW Wf.l Wide, near Main. Jud1,1U. . . 17tf lion. TnE NEW YORK STORE baring chanred hands, will be reopened uu or about April 1st, jroj, wun a atocs oi $40,000 WORTH OF NEW ' SPRING GOODS! Compriainir one of the largest and moat fashionable aaaortmeula of Now 1'iooiU.fTer oflered to t!e citixena of Hicbmond and vicinity. The stock haa all been pitre!and durinjr th late dacline in Dry tiiods, and will be sold at prices that will defy all competition. , . Our Stock of Dress Goods, Consisting of Rnplish, French, OertiMn, and Amorlean (hinds, will far surpass anything ever brought to this place. OUR STOCK OF DOMESTIC GOODS, Cavaimerea, Saltiaetta. Tweed. Jean. loeaklaa. Cloth. Sheetiaga, Shirtiatta, i Table LiBrna, Prist. .Maaliais ' Napkiaa, Crash TOweliar, 1 . Diapera. Ac. . Will be larger than err before bronght to Richmond. Also, a U-autifuI lot of , . SHAWLS AND CLOAKS, Of the tjitot Sprirr KtvW. We would call particular attention to our NOtlOS 1PARTMEN'T, w here will be found HOMIKKY. CLOVEN, E.lf DROIOERIIX. COLLARS, SETTS, .c, Jtc. . It is cur intention to maka our eawbliahiaeBt the tire --. Emporium for 0 ash Pur- . , ; chasers. Where anr article in the Dry Gooda Line, can be tMmghl for Vash Without the Trouble of Shopping, As rheap aa the wholesale credit price. Wa would ar to all waatiair lry IKtoda, that Uiis opportunity of electing vour evoda fnia aa entire new stock pur. chased in New Yurk at the loweat cash priors, ia an opportunity on rarely meet with. Our buaiueaa will : STHICTLY CASH, AND ONE PRICE ONLY. None of our Employee asking more or taking leaa, and our Oooda wtii be shown with pleasure. ; . Politeness and Attention to All." H ilt tie our Motto. - - - NEW TORK CASH STORK. ' Riehmond, March l!5.' 2-4w. Administrator's Notice. i - . ! TBiyOTICE ia hereby gtreo. that the andenicnad 111 has tkv4 ent V tiie Wavne County Frtate . Court, . Lvttcrs of Adminiitration on the Estate ' of Jethro Lewis, law of Wayne county, deceased. , The sataie is sol rent. WILLI IM FCLOUrM, AdmV. M.ino. M'S 1.'.. -.

vol,: Sh..3avf ; THE SOLDIFR'S VAUCE. 7Am 1" dying. Doctor? Isn't there any ray of hoper The feeble hand grasped the arm of the physicfan, as he was going Lis ronnds among the sick and wounded in that hospiLtl tent, and the youthful voice that asked the eager qnestion trembled with emotion. It vras a boyish face into which the physician turned and gazed; but the death angid had set its impress there, and the kind hearted surgeon could only shake hi a head. "I wanted to go home once more before I died- Oh, mother! mother!" The words were full of agony, and for a few momenta the poor child lay with closed eyes, and tears trembling upon the long lashes, but they dtl not fall; he crushed them back and lifted Lis almost sightless eyea upward. "Jly mother taught me to die, bless God for that! . My home in heaven is always near.'' "The struggle with feeble human nature was over. " Angels were present to comfort the dying Boldier, and qtrietly and peacefully he" crossed the dark river upon the long, last - match that ended his earthly campaign. There was a soldier's buriel. Kind hands hollowed the- hnmblo grave, and laid him down prayerfully to his rest; and when the brave men turned back to the lonely tent, the sword and valice of their youthful ollicer met their eyes. . "What shall be done with them?" was the sorrowful question. "Send them home to his mother.'!And they came! It was the early morning of a. bright October day. The broad sunlight lay about the home, over whose threshold the young Lieut, had gone forth one twelve month before, so. full of life and activity. The door of the neat white house stood open, and all along the floor of the wide, pleasant kitchen lay a stream of yellow sunshine, broken here and there by a restless moving shadow, where the waving trees came in between lac sun light. The mother was alone, and as she sang in alow, sweet voice, sketches of hymns that she had often sung when tho dear boy, now growing into man hood, nestled in her lap, and she was hushing him to sleep, and she looked ps if expecting to see his bright face com ing in at the door, or hear Ins cheery voice calling from the garden, 43fother.' Did she hear no whisper from the garden of Paradise, at that moment, calling "mother, mother?" Was there not a guardian angel hovering about her a youthful face now glowing with spiritual beauty hovering over her? i Alas, she saw it not! The stage came rattling along the highway, ami her heart beat quicker at the sound, for perhaps there might le something from her darling boy. It stopped beside the little wicket gate, and the driver came with a slow and reluctant step tip the walk. There was something in each hand, which he brought silently in and laid almost reverently on the table. Not a word broke the stillness. The poor mother looked upon them a moment, and then with a sharp cry of agony, sank down beside them. "My bov! my boy! Oh God help me! this isn't all that is left?" She drew the valice to her almost frantically, and lifted her white, implo ring face to the driver. Ah! it needed not that solmn answer: one glance in that pitying lace revealed the truth. Wondering at her own strength she eagerly opened the valice. There was a coat with its bright buttons and epaulets, that his companions had folded carefully away; and as she held it up, she seemed to see the noble boy as he had stood before her in that dress, and asked so eagerly "Now, mother, ain't 3011 proud or your boyr ion won t cry any more, will you? ' I am going to fight for the dear old flag, my father's flag and miue, T want to go with your approval and blessing." And then she placed her trembling hands upon his head and whispered through her tears: "Go my son, and God be with you." And God has been with him to the end. Then came the Bible; his little pocket Bible she had give him on his birthday years before. He had read it faifhlully. There was here and there a mark on his favorite chapters, and there were pencil lines drawn around many comforting texts that he had repeated upon tedious marches, and they had been his support and guide to the very last; a little pack of letters so full of hope and trust to an absent son; and as she opened them one by one, she saw how some tender passage, breathing her full heart's love, or telling "f the old home that stood with open doors to receive him, were blotted with bitter tears, which the brave heart could not bold back;, her picture with its case, into which his eyes gazed so manv times, and as sne openea it a little slip of paper fluttered out. with the words in his own hand, "Sweet mother, what a blessing God has given me in vou !' She had been a blessing to him, she had taught him the way to cter nal life. God be praised for that. But a broken-hearted mother, the kind neighbors raised from the place, where, overcome with grief, she had pillowed her head among the treasures of her son. Only for a little while, poor mother. My "heart aches for you as I write, and for the thousand of heart3 made desolate, for whom I can only pray as for my own loved ones in this hour of danger. Only for a little time ; the pearly gates are not closed. They were left ajar as the dear one entered in unclosed and waiting for you. This incident is strictly true. Harper Jliaiia. Though sober as a Democrat, he ( Andy Johnson ) has become a toper as a Republican. Bad company has made Lira what he is. Sentinel. If leaving the Democratic party made Andy Johnson a toper, what would be the effect of turning Republican upon Richai dson, Saulsberry. McDougal Dunham and Bingham ? We "pause for a reply." Tnd Journal.

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JUST AND FEAR NOT! LET ALt THE

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Charnace and the Tailor. . . . The Paris correspondent of the London Times tells the following story of the times of Louis XIV : Charnace had been one of the King's pages and an officer in his body-guard. In early life he had played ' some very strange prank3, but had always met with favor and protection from the King. He did many clever things, bat -one ia particular ia which he was engaged-; mada everybody laugh. He had a long and handsome avenue to his chateau in Anjou, in which a peasant had a little house and garden which had stood in the same spot long before the avenne was planted, and which neither Charnace nor his father could ever persuade the rustic to Bell on any terms., This, observes Saint Simon, with proper disdain for so low a person, is a species of obstinacy which petty - proprietors often show . expressly to annoy people of condition. Charnace pretended to let the matter drop, and for a long time 6aid no more about it. i - . ;. At last, disgusted that a paltry axtitage should intercept the sweep of his fine avenue, he conceived a scheme to get rid of it. It chanced that the owner of the cottage was a tailor, and worked at his trade whenever an opportunity offered. He lived alone, having neither wife nor children. One fine day, Charnace sent for him, and said that he was suddenly ordered up to court to fill ar otGce of great importance, that, he was anxious to get there as soon as possible, and as he had no liveries for his servants, he wished them to be made forthwith. The tailor agreed, and the bargain was struck on the spot. Charnace stipulated, however, to avoid unnecessary delay, he should do the work at the chateau, and that if he promised not to quit it until it was finished he would pay him something over and above, besides boarding and lodging him. The tailor set to. work on the spot. In the meantime' Charnace got an architect to make an exact plan of tire house and garden, the rooms, the furniture, and even the kitchen utensils. He then sent workmen to pull' down the house, take away everything that was in it, and reconstruct it exactly as it had been, internally and ex ternally, at some distance from the avenue, with' every article in its place, and the garden exactly it bad been. They then cleared away all traces of it from the ground it had originally stood upon, so that nobody could guess that it had been there at all. This was completed before the tailor, who was carefully watched, had finished his liveries. When the liveries were completed, Char-, nace paid his man well, kept him to supper, and then dismissed him. The tailor set out for his home at nightfall. He found the avenue unusually long, thought he had gone too far, retraced his steps, and looked about for the well known trees near which his house stood. The night was dark, and ho groped his way through them as well as he could, but was astonished to find his house nowhere, lie passed the whole night in this way. When day broke he saw that he had not gone astray ; but that house and garden had all disappeared, and he came to the conclusion that he was tho sport of some evil spirit. After wandering about a good deal he thought he perceived at a considerable distance from the avenne a cottage which greatly resembled his own, though he knew that there never had been one in the same place. He approached it, examined it closer, and the more he did so the more he was struck with the exact resemblance. He was curious enough to try whether the key he had in his pocket would fit the lock. ; He opened the door, walked in, and was thunderstruck on finding not only that the rooms were the same but that every single article of furniture was the same, and precisely in the same spot where he had left them. He was near fainting with fright; he fell on his knees and prayed, for he religiously believed that the demon had played him this trick. The following day, however, he learned the truth from the mocking and laughing of the villagers to whom he told his story. He got furious, went with his complaint to the intendant of the province, and insisted npon getting satisfaction ; bnt he only got laughed at. The King heard the story, and laughed more than anybody, and Charnace had his avenue as he wished it. British Torpedoes. The British Army and Navy Gazette incautiously reveals a secret which was scarcely suspected in the loyal States of the Union. It says that "the Confederate Government has countermanded large orders for torpedoes" in England. So then we are indebted to the unscrupulous neutrality of our cousins across the water for these ingeniously-devlish machines an innovation upon the mode of conducting warfare which, ; however justifiable they may be to the minds of military men, cannot but be regarded by ordinary persons as contrivances which only demoniac malignity would employ. It has been given out therefore that these instruments of destruction were fabricated in the South, and the skill with which they were constructed was matter which called for the praise of sympathizers with Secession, as furnishing proof of the mechanical abilities of the Southern workmen. And yet they have been manufactured in England, and were imported in blockade runners, with Blakely guns, marked with the broad arrow, muskets, bomb shells, gunpowder, and other things intended to help in the harvest of blood. We shall assuredly note the fact in this country, and keep it in remembrance. The neutrality of England is a most estimable thing. It has kept the rebellion alive, furnished it with privateers to assail our commerce, and crews to navagate them. We knew this much before. We are obliged to the Army and If avy Gazette for a new item British torpedoes. We shall add them to the list of our obligations to the treacherous Power, and it will receive our pay hereafter. AgrtA American

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9 THE PESTINY OF JOSEPHINE. f JosaTPHiJtK interests everybody, nd we gladly give' our reader the1 following from a cof respondent 'of the Knickerbocker Magazine: 7, L..lf .... ,. ,. The history of .Napoleon U yet to be written, and t)y. an American. The world has been amused with fables of this man of destiny ;" which have been transmitted as heir-looms until they have reached him who now sits upon the throne o France, and1 is pleased with the title, "the.raan f; destinyA - This though a, favorite idea with every class of Frenchmen, undoubtedly arose from the story of Josephine, and through her attachment of Napoleon. Though her simple story, is smothered in the more brilliant one' of her husband, ye', it was well known that long before Napoleon's admirers claimed for him th. great destiny he finally accomplished, i. was a common story in Paris which w., are about to .tell. . ' . . It was while almost a child that Jose phine, in some of her wanderings with her school fellows, came across a vagran -gipsey or fortune-teller. - The woman, attracted in some way towards the beau tiul childV insisted upon telling he. fortune, even against her will and with out. reward. She told her that she wouln. vcrj' soon be a wife, a widow, and after wards Queen of France. The prediction in itself was common enough, but a( simple as it was, it had its effect upoi -Josephine, who ' immediately embracet it as a fact, and 'could for a long time think of nothing else. rhen the fulfillment came to the firs, part of the prediction, it of courso strengthened her in the belief of the rest ; and even when in prison under sentence of death, and her bed was taken from her at night beoause she was to .die in the morning, she bade her friends have courage, that it wotild not be so, and that she would sit upon that throne then' in ruins beneath the bloody feet of Robespierre ; and when the jailors, in derision, called upon her to name her maids of honor, that they might be ready when she was queen, she did so, and her nomination was finally fulfilled to the letter; On that very night Robespierre fell. Had his downfall occurred one week earlier, Josephine's husband would not have been one . of his victims ; had he lived one day longer she would have been another of them. There was but little lapse of time between her liberation from prison and her marriage to Napoleon, and it was by the influence that she exerted that he was appointed to the command of the army of Italy, after which the path that led, them upward was clear and open, until the destiny she insisted upon was accom-' plished and the crown of France was placed upon her head. But there was one thing more that Josephine had foretold for herself which was the utter loss of power and rank to which she had been so wonderfully elevated, and still while she brooded over this, Napoleon, was her lord, gathering new power and y ielding to new ambitions, she tried to crush it, and to point out what should be his true aims ; but he was an Emperor, and desired to be the founder of a new empire. How well her instincts told her that the time was rapidly approaching when that ambition would make him put her' away.! Then came the close of the campaign of 1809, and she saw that the hour was approaching still nearer that was to seal both their fates. There was no longer the confidence of the past between them ; no longer the seeking of sympathy and advice. It was on the 20th of November, 1809, and the court was especially gay in honor of the visit of the King of Saxony. Josephine sat at the window of her boudoir, looking out upon the river, when she heard a step at the door, and rose to -receive Napoleon who caught her in his arms, with more of the olden time embrace than she had known for months. She led him to the sofa on which she had been sitting, and seated herself by his side. For a few moments there was silence, and he spoke. "Josepeine, you have been weeping. Are you unhappy ?" "No, Sire ! not with you." ! "Nonsense ! Josephine, who do you call Sire ? Of late j-ou are making these forms overshadow all our happiness. "Then, why should they not be forgotten by both ? You have now Teached that point of ambition that should content you. Will you tnrn the unquiet god from your bosom and own our own happiness ? "Yon misunderstand me, lady," he said, quickly rising from his seat and leaning against the window ; "I'm seeking nothing for myself, but everything for France. "It is for France, Napoleon." she said, drawing close to his side and taking his band in hers, "that j-ou would put away from you, not only a true wife but a true friend! Think "not that I have been blind, Sire, to this. Mr alarmed heart has told me all, and believe me that I am offering no protest to your will, but oh," Sire ! examine well your - heart before yon act. ' He stood silent while she was speaking, and then, with face turned fnll upon the streaming moonlight, he drew away his haods. She went on : "And, oh, Sire ! believe me, that though I am to leave your throne and your side, I shall never cease to love you too deeply for my peace. Therefore it is that I plead that you will look well into your heart before you yield your future to bad counsels."' "You cannot sympathise with me Madame, I act only with reason. The good of the individual must yield to the good of France. Farewell V "Stop f said she, and Josephine stepped quickly across the room and caught bis arm, drawing him as she did so again to the window. "Do you see that star? and she pointed at one that shone with marked bright- 1

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MARCH 31 , 1865. ness. "That is my destiny. By it you have rises. - To it was promised a throne.. Through me you have accomplished it ; part from me and vou fall. Yes, fall to 1 die in sorrow, neglect and exile ! Re member this. Napoleon, and remember these words when it is too late to recall the act that no words of mine can prevent" - - Napoleon gazed almost in terror at her who stood like a prophetess gazing out with eyes of Are pon the heavens, and then with a heart clouded almost to sickness, he turned away and left the room without a word. Ten days passed before he had nerve to strike the blow that broke the golden chain that bound them, and from that moment, as he afterward confessed at St. Helena, t'ae fall of Napoleon began, till he died a broken-hearted exile upon 'i an island in mid-ocean. American Manufacturers the American Watch Co. Ocit readerers, we are sure, are not generally aware of the great impetus that has been given to manufacturers since the beginning of the war. The high rates of exchange, and the necessities of the army, have made the Eastern hills and valleys resound with the hum of ' busy machinery, and nowhere has machinery done more or created a greater revolution in production and trade than in the manufacture of the watch. What was once the toilsome, slow and uncertain result of hand labor only, is now the swift demonstration of unvar3ing .mechanical forces. The same class of genius that invented the telegraph and he sewing machine invented the delicate and wonderful mechanism that takes hold of the raw material the brass and steel, and gold, and precious stones, and under competent direction turns out that daily wonder and necessity a perfect time keeper. . That genius is essentialAmerican, and has been found, collected assiratliated and made produc tive by the American watch Co., at Waltham, Mass. Taking the best fruits of several years experiments, they es tablished their factor- nearly ten years ago, which they have been compelled to I eularge from year to year until they now employ seven hundred workmen, and turn out a product valued at a million and a half of dollars per annum or j equal to that of all other. watches now j sold in this country. The secret of this j Company's success is that the have . done what they promised that they i have furnished a first rate substantial ! watch at a moderate " price and this is the great difference between their . watches and the ordinary importations ! from Europe. 5 Except certain very high- ' a a an - a. t pricea varieties, ine European waicu is the result of cheap and unskilled hand labor, that never goes well, and in a short time "costs more than it comes to" in repairs. The American Watch Co. give a guarantee for the quality of all their products, that is good with any dealer who sells them. Exchange. Meditation. Go to the grave of buried love and meditate. There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being who can never never never return to be soothed by thy contrition ! If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent ; if thou art a hesband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or truth ; if thou art a friend, and hast ever wronged in thought, or word, or deed, the spirit that generously confided in thee; if thou art a lover, and hast ever given one unmerited pang to that true heart which now lies cold beneath thj- feet then be sure that cvery unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory, and knocking dolefully at thy soul then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing. Washington Irving. . Creek Convicted of Manslaughter. The case of Creek, of Union county, was disposed of in the Circuit Court last week. The case was submitted to the jury on Saturday evening, and on Sunday evening they brought in a verdict of manslaughter and imprisonment in the State prison for four years. Man- of our citizens were surprised at the verdict ; and the time consumed by the jory in considering the case, is conclusive evidence that they had much diinculty in arriving at a decision averse to the accused. The circumstances of the unhappy affair, which cost one of the most respectable citizens of Union county his life, and has sent another to the State prison, are briefly as follows : Some time last May, a difficulty occurred between Creek and Paddock in regard to some hogs of the latter which had destroyed a quantity of corn of the former. Paddock sent word to Creek to come to see him and he would settle for the corn the hogs had destroyed. One day when Creek was working with some hands near a field that Paddock was plowing, at noon when they were about to go home to dinner, he shouldered his ax and said he would go over and see Paddock and settle about the corn. Creek accordingly went to Paddock's field, where it seems Paddock attacked Creek, when the latter struck the former on the neck with hi ax, severing the Jugular vein and instantly killing him. There were no other parties present at the affray than those engaged m it The attorneys for the defense moved form new trial, bnt' the Court refused to grant it ? Conaenrilla Tinea, March 33, ' Toe United Statea paya $T045 for tbia year's public pristine, and liUaota paya Ht,0. Seme Sucker baa a fat ob.

IVO. XX lilt. 1 Singleton and - TobaccoA Patting , Strange Story. The EO-ca''ad Singleton tobacco apeuu'atiua makes a prvat drat -of talk, and xcites comment that is not wholly smother!. It was well known ia Democratic circles here, when Mr. Singleton (Democrat) first went to Richmond, that be went upon a commercial speculation cloaked in peac. Speculation ia . gulJ by Democratic -Congressmen surrounded bis peace commission upon his going and bis returning. The meeting; was not fruitless, as was so hastily declared by the apnU of the press hero. , Singleton arranged in Richmond for the acquisition of a rast quantity of tobacco not by a purchase with greenbacks or a youth irtics; but by an operation that should supply the stinted rebel army in and about the Richmond defenses with rations of meat At the very time that the North was sacrificing men and money lavishly under Sherman, Sheridan and Grant, to cat Lee off from all his supplies of food This anomalous enterprise and marvelous ly unpatriotic speculation is understood here to have had fire co-partners besides the active managers all New Yorkers and McClellan Democrats eacb of whom pat in $50,000. The quarter of a million capital in this pool was to be invested in bacon bought in Baltimore and exchanged ia Frcdricktburg" for manufactured tobacco. The transaction of course had the cheerful assent of the Rebel Government and of Gen. Lee. President Lincoln's permit author izing it, is sail by the Richmond papers, to have been placed in the hands of the rebel officer in charge oi the tobacco, sent up from Petersburg and Richmond, and to have been produced and shown to the Union officer who proposed to seize and destroy it. When the secret history of this astonishing thran&aciion shall be made public, if it ever shall be, it will undoubtedly appear that this officer bad instructions from a man who is earnest in his efforts to mash the Rebellion, and don't swap horses, bacon, or politics across the Rappahannock, to wholly disregard any and all permits and bargains that could be streatched over tho tobacco, and to capture and destroy it inexorably, in the face of any and all protests and warnings. The officer did his duty. . Four millions of dollars worth of tobacco are said to have been lost to the New York firm of McClellan patriots, and the Union bacon that was to feed tho rebels, while slaughtering Union men is stopped on its traitorous way to' the traitorous swap ever the gravt-s of Union soldiers murdered, wasted in the Fredricksburg slaughter pen. jsew York Tribune.- , While we are proud to see that every Union newspaper on oar exchange list has the inde pontic nee to denounce the public shame in which Vice President Johnson involved the nation, we aro not at all unmindful of the (act that the satisfaction expressed by the Copperheads at the mortification of the Union men of the nation, is but a mask adopted by them to cover their shame. The people do not (orget the profligacy of Vice President Richard M. Johnson, the drunkenness, the gambling, the prostitution of Vice President Breckenridge; the shameless public iotoxecation of Senators Saulsbury, of Delaware, Richardson, of Illinois, and McDougal of California all of these Democrats male prostitutes of the most degraded stamp. Dayton Journal. Dbohsio. On Saturday evening a little child of Mrs. Barnard's, living in the vicinity of this place, fell into the cistern and drowned one of the most afllicting circumstances we have been called on to chronicle for some time. AVsp Castle Ctntr., March 23. Prospective Demand for Corn. An eachanpe eavs : The farmers of thin country should put in all the corn tliat they possibly can this comin? spriug. Larpe preparations are being made, in lluttjUiJjy parties who (fwn the discovery of making sugar, the coming rear, ua which wiH draw ai largely on corn and divert it Iron its usual ebannela as to increase tbedemsnd and price ot that staple. Add to this, the new discovery of making paper irom corn bu.ks and leave, and that all of these articles that can he raised will find ready sale at any railroad depot, and it seems to o he corn crops will be looked to with more favor in the future, than in the past. . The Wheat Caor. Contrary to the anticipations of manv the wheat crop presents a fine appearence. The President of tac". V. .Sute Ag. Society, H.ra. T. C Peteks of Oenesee, who called upon us to-day ( March 20 ) on bis way east, ears the wheat looks I petter than it haa at the same seasoa for many years. The indications are certainly vry favorable, but it ia vet too early to make positive assertions, aa the crop Is liable to injury by heaving. The freezings and thawinps of the next three week may possibly affeet it seriasly, through the ground haa settled so rapidly, and it so free from frost, that little damage is likely to result. The prospect is that we shall have little frost and early spring, in which rase the wheat will escape ' the injury so generally feared. A larger breadth of land was seeded to wheat lat fall in this cerealgrowing region, than in any prrrkros season fur a decade or ranre of year. It may be proper to add that the wheat on drained lands waa seeded in much better condition than that on the andraioed, and now presents far toe finest appearance. .Vw Yorker Jhrdi 25. 'ew A.!f"Tnmc. Ir. Genges bas addressed a note to the French Academy, giving an aceoont of some interesting experiments in trying new agenta for diminishing aerMnbility. He baa" ascertained that a purified keroaaliae. obtained from eomaaoa petrelenm, Uen vaporized by mean a of beat, will be foand a mot valuable anarsthetic. But be especially commends, as safer than ' ctorofcrm, Bromhydric ether which is aoa only less inflammable (haa ordinary ethers, but possesses a most agreeable odor. Win Vision i th Aged. In the cate of aged persona whose sight U beeomissr enfeebled, snd requires the aid of convex glasses great advantage ia derived, supposing no nervous lesion tn exist, from painting every evening the eve-lids and brow with iauduium, and allowing this to remain all aright. ' 8o saya I 'rot. ascar, of spies. ; -. , Coat. rroB thx Ha. Coal baa bees gathered ap on the bearb at rtrippbtirjr. Me., far many years, and Professor ItrackeM, of Uowduia College, think that a coal mine extends along tba coast from Khodei laland to Xova Scotia, tmt that the bed of the eoal ia too far out at sea to be worked. Tbe waves east blocks of ;t a poo the beach from time to time. A Icb Caow. At tbe last meeting of tbe Poly techinie Association, ia a diaraasioa oa tbe effects ot tnpngrapfar oa the sound of hefla, Mr. Meyer, of swuxeriaad, slated that be bad heard a cock crow at Waaser, across Lake Genera a distance of nine mUea. - - It is said that tba Irst well ia the Peanayhraaia oil regioa waa sank is J9. . Oa thai 2-n day of Aagnst ia that vear the irst vein of oil waa s track at a dentft of sixty-Bine feet tumr (acbe from the sarfiae. Tbe re are 235,219 school children la Main. ftiSadcipiua aad KOabsra; fcav Petroieaak paA Sew BtdJhri i ha joatdrawa $a,e i

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'This bag or dab is BUM wttk tUovir' packed sand, aad weigh fro as five to tesnaoaada, aat has great advantage over the ordinary club' or blodvui . brass knuckle or slung-shot. It will not rebound after a blow ia track, and it ia said leaven aa saarkrr ; bruise.? Wbea Die victim it atrook ea tba tot) of thai bead, and there ia where the aaad club ia directed, be insiantlr ainks to the pavement without a stru'flli', the result of rewasaina to tho brain, aad not even a' brutae, a bieb any ordinary bleat laatruaxat aaakea. ia ta be discovered oa lite scalp uf the victim after thr sand club has performed its fearful tuiaaioa. A feu of those inatrnments have already been foaad ia the possession of desperate characters, aad tbear as ami 'T history confessed to tbe poke. A victual el oa "f the sand clubs might be found dead in the s treat the . next looming, ana no doubt the vwrdiet of a coroner 'a jury would as "cans of death unknown," ar "dxd f apoplexy," , ; 1 .,,-,', , aw i ii si iisaasaaawa -m-Yakm my Hairw.-"- - - I.t tlie dead of night I am frequently awakened by a little band stealing oat from the crib by my aV. with the pleading cry, "Please take my band, papa :' Instantly Um littW boy's band ia grasped, hta fear vanish, and soothed by tbe consciousness of 1 it father's presence, be faUa lata sweet sksap again. i . We commend this lesson of simple, alial faith an I trust, to the aaxiotis, aorroa-mr ooea. that are fooM in almost every household, htretch forth your han.t. atriken mourner, although) you may be ia the deepc-L darkness and gloom, and fear and anxious suspenun may cloud your weary pathway-" and that vary act will reveal the presence of a loving, compassionate rather, and give yon tbe peace that passe la all understanding. . .. , The darkneaa may not pass away at once, night mav still enfold yoa ia its embrace, bat Its terrors a til bo dissipated, its gloom and sadness Una away, and in W e simple, grasp of the athr'e band, aweet poae will be given, and yoa will rest securely, know wg lhat.ll.' "") comelA." (WnstliMail.. Tbackert on DttTR. Tbe ghostly strode over, who would pity any one that depart' It is the snrvivors one cumaaaserates ia the ease of auch a good, pious, tender-hearted asaa a he see mod whoa Ooi Almighty has just called back to hitawetf. 'He appeared to me tn have all th sweet dovaeatie virtues which make the pang of parting oaly aha more crawl to those who ar left behind, hut that lossy what a gai i to him I A juat man auauunned by tiul, for whs purpose ran he go but to meet the Divine lore and goodness T I never think about deploring anch t and ss vou and I sen) foe your eh ildren, aaeaaing them only love and kiauaeaavaow much aaur Pater Jivatcr ? rrivot letter. - Smoke for tho Core of Wound. - A Torres rov HE xt of the Country Qenffotnan recommends smoke aa a euro for wound a snea and animals. Ho says : "1 cat my foot with aa ax. The lady of the house, seizing tlie foot while it waa yet bleeding freely, be! I it over a pan containing smoking ' tag-lH-ks. In a few minute tit bleeding topll, the smoke was removed and a haadage applied I protect it from accidental blows. , The wound never suppurated, and consequently never pained me. 1 have seen ' tbe remedy tried in many similar eaaea, and always with the same result. Let the raadW bear ia tain that no liniment or salve, drawing or healing, Should he applied, 'ou have merely to amnke th wound well ami nature will do tbe rect. I snprai th Kavnko of burning wood would produe the aame results, but it would uut be so manageeble. There ia a principle in tlie smoke of wool, which, when applied to th flesh, coagnlatea the albumen, thne rendering it ansusneptihle of jmrtrof action.- Th. waa principle atop bleeding by coagulating tho blood. It promote h'-aling, ami may he applied with decided benefit to all ulcers,' wound ami cutaneous du f r Uve Will Find t Way. r A Cm ri.lt, not one hundred mile from aaaneboster, carried on ttieir rowrtahip in rather novel manner. A young man had fallen in love with the daughter of his eroployari but. for certain kieaa of .wealth, a uiatch was opposed by the father. Tho consecjuanov was that tbe yoang man waa forbiddeu to vtak hi m plover's house, ' '1 lie-old gentleman wa hi tbe habit of wearing a cloak. The couple saade him tbe innocent bearer of their correspondence. Tbe young lady pinned a letter inMidetbe lining of the old man ' cloak every dsy, and when th father went to the eoantmghousc, and threw off his cloak, the lover took out the la ly's epistle, read it, and sent th reply back in the same manner. Ixire and mswnsiity War Anally ueccasful. . : . .' X-r7"A new ami very aeasible fasbton is beginning to prevail ia Hartford in regard to funerals: It is this, tbe funeral services are held, and the assembly dismissed, and all except tbe family and other relatives of tbe deceased return to their hornets afterward the hearse and carriages come, and the body ia accompanied to the grave by the, family only. Great expense in the way of carriages it thus avoided. . . . 1 itAcconling to tbe Boston Journal, to the old plan of mixing ' water with lard is now extensively practised. By. pouring water into the lard, and keeping it constantly agitated until it cools, some ' twenty-five pr cent, of water can be mixed with tbe lard. - Tbe purity of the lard may be determined by melting it at a temperature of two hundred and 12 ' degrees.' I fit melts without ebulition it contains no water, and if It deposit no sediment it is probably pure. Water is also used in increasing the weight of butter., liy making the butter very salt its capacity for raising water i greatly increased. , ' . "' " Glokioi s ' Victort. Wc expected about 2,000 Union majority in New' Hampshire. Tbe majority ia over 6,000, and wo have gained one Con greeam an. The Knoxille Whig aaya that Eaat Tennersee will present to tlie Legislature of Tennessee the name of Horace Maynard, for U.S. Senator. -.; ' The Whig says that the vote for ratification of the new Constitution on tho 23d of February, will reach 60,000.. The Legislature will meet April 3d. - Mr. James Campbell, now in the Pennsylvania oil regions, writes that not long ago a well was sold for 926,000 cash.The purchasers pumped two day realizing twenty barrels each, day, when the) well gave out. After some investigation, it was found that the Well wa supplied by an underground pipe connected with an oil refinery which had been erected by the-swindlers, who made good their escape. y, t ,r ' Vermont ratified the CoMtitatioa. Amendment prohibiting slavery at a special session of her Igialatore on the fJlh inL .The bill passed the Senate unanimously; the House bj 217 to 2. Vermont . ia . the eighteenth . nttfinff sute.."; . "... f ' ' One'of the provision of the new enrollment law is that all recruit who are citizens moat be credited to th looalitj in which they- reside. This will plae recruits at fair . standard, and prevent bounty -jumping. ' A Sionncitrr FaeYThe three States Delaware, Kentoeky snd New Jersey, that voted for JdClellan. AST YOted against the Constitational arn-"-it abolishing slavery.-