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VALLEY OF VIRGINIA, Al WINCHESTER
CAo,ierca March l7H, lS52.-Copiai $4,000.
WITH POWER 10. INCREASE THE SAME TO 5000 000l
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MEnCHRNDIRE.
. Observation-Disclosures

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.I,rrs do thef.s 1t IS due IL my friends to expre.
heartfelt thank ior taeir very liberal patronage ~!
.a,rt shall be 10 secure is continuance. '!
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Geo W Childs, Esq. Phil'a.
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Our friend gave it up and went on.

TEE FIRsr CASE. UNDER THE New JERSEY
TEMPERANCE LAw.-The first case which has
occurred in New Jersey; under the law relative
to habtual drunkards, past 1t the last session Of
the Legislature, took place at Princeton on the
22d ult., and is mentioned in the Wing. The
Chancellor issued commission to three gentle
men, who proceeded to try before jury IN in
QUESTION into the habitual drunkenness of
Charles Skillman, and his incapacity 70 take
care Of his property. The jury gave verdict
that such was the case, and according to the law
the Orphans Court, on application, must appoint
q guardian over him. He is Invested q all con-
troll over his property, which win be restored on
his reformation; al liquor sellers, under q pen
atty, are forbidden to sell to him, and legally he
lis to be treated as lunatic. ~ Ess R.eI3Ssa
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What does this Mean

t. A lady with an infant arrived in tins
city on Tuesday evening, in Search of hus-
band who had left her. She succeeded in
finding him, but for some reason or othes he
refused to live with his wife. He had, how
ever, provided her the means Of living wbeIe
he left her, and held himselfin readiness to
do so if she preferred to live in Trenton, but
in all o,fser respects he wished to consider
himself and wife two folks.oa She applied
10 the city functionaties, who endeavored
without success, so reconcile the difficulties
between them. In connection with this
item, we encountered man and his wife
in the street, well dressed and apparently of
an upper-tendom tendency, who We're en-
gagged in most spirited quarrel. TIC better
half lampooned the "lord' most unmer-
cifully for having forgotten 10 bring her
shawl to town with him. The "lord re-
piled in most subdued tone, "my dear
madame, you are mistaken in charging me
with leaving the shawl behind TO get I'D Of
carrying TN j. State Gazette
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Miscellaneous.

PoLIrlcAL PREDICTIoN.-The following is
administration from the Courier dies Etats Unis :.
Much has been said, of late, respecting a
prediction, current among the Turks that
their dominteu in Europe is to endure but
four hundred years. The prediction even
indicated the gate by which the Christians
will re-enter the city of Constantinople and
we are assured that during the last century
the Snltans caused that gate to be closed up
by thick wall The fourth century since
the Turks entered Constantinople will ex-
pire the present year; and we shall soon
know, therefore, whether the prediction will
be accomplished.
But the prediction is not alone. There
exists one more ancient STILL which occupied
much attention i'll the 10Th century 1t is
the prediction of St. Cantal. bishop OF
Tarente in the 5th century. He wrote a
work upon the calamities of Italy, of which
the manuscript was not discovered till some
time during the 18th century; and then ii
is said to have been discovered through
some miraculous circumstances
The prediction of ST. Cantal announced
that king, springing out of water-liy
and called king of the Greeks, should cross
the sea with a powerful army, and drive
the Turks from Europe, and take posses
sion of the Holy Land and of Jerusalem,
after which he would die.
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NOVEL INsuRANcE.-The Lowell Courier
says that gentleman in Iowa proposes to
insure cities against the effect of lightning,
in proportion to the risk inc9red, which he
considers would be very lriflng. On this a
New York paper remarks: O
By most people this offer will be con
sidered as preposterous, and yet it is not
We have no doubt whatever that an outly
of $1,000 would keep our city as insulated
as a glass table with sealing-wax legs
What this gentleman in Iowa proposes to
accomplish has been done for the vine
growers in the south of France. BY means
Of a well-arranged system of lightning rods
whole district has been rendered inacces-
sible to the destructive hail storms which
so frequently follow in the train of thunder
showers. What has been done in France
can be done elsewhere. If we can tcaclp
lightning to write, we can teach it to be-
have itself
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A SCENE NOT IN THE BILLs.-The Norfolk
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun gives
the following account Of ludicrous scene
which occurred in circus in that city few
evenings since:
"a queer scene happened in the circus
which has been performing in oar town for
few days past. A newly elected officer
was appointed peace-preserver. In the
scene where the clown bets the ring master
bottle of wine that he can pick man
from the au{ lience that can ride around the
ring tied upI in sack, the officer seized
upon the ms IN that always offers his service,
IAN old devife,) and actually dragge! him
from the 1cus, amid the shouts and whoops
of crowded audience. 1t was very rich
scene, and actually worth more than the
price of admission
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YELLOW FEVER AT SEA.-We published dis
patch from Norfolk a few days since, with regart
to the ravages of the yellow fever on board til,
ship National Eagle, Of Boston, from New Or
leans for Liverpool, which had been spoken of
the Capes Of Delaware. The Captain of tht
steamer Roanoke, which spoke the Eagle, has
furnished the Richmond papers with the follow.
ing report: #E Il
g She had been nineteen days at sea, and up
on the tenth day after leaving port, the yellow
fever had broken out with great virulence
Three passengers, several Of the crew, (inclu.
ding the mate, and the Captains wife had died
with it, and ut the time the Roanoke came ul
with the unfortunate vessel, the Captain daugh,
ter was at the point Of death, and the Captain
himself suffering with the same fatal malady
The poor fellows on deck, begged piteously fol
a physician and for q knowledge Of their bear.
ings, no observation having been taken for five
days. There was no physician on board the
Roanoke, and SO no other relief could be affor-
ded the vessel, but an instruction as to its true
reckoning, and advice for obtaining pilot to
take them into the Delaware breakwater, from
which they were not distant more than fifty
miles. This done, the Roanoke was compelled
to leave the ship and proceed on her own course.
Baltimore Ameyic0n Y - r. Il
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PosT-oFFlcE ENvELopEs.-A patent medi-
cine man in New York has, written to the
Postmaster General, offering to furnish 1o,-
100000 post-ofice envelopes, similar to
those now used, free of charge, for the
privilege Of putting his address on them;
and if they will suffer him to put the name
of his medicine on them, he offers to pay
fifty cents on each 1000 envelopes, besides
furnishing them gratis, and to give bonds
for the faithful performance of his engage
ment In this case he calculates the
Government would save $4,000.
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.TRAvELING.-The editor of the Boston
Post who, it is fair to presume has travelled
asome," gives US the following oracular
sentiment on the periodical spasma felt by
most people to go away from home, about
these days: .-r
]" Travelingi is vastly funny thing for
those who like il, of which number le-
gion as multitudinous as the waves of the
ocean-are not we. Walking is tiresome
and out offashion staging is dull and steam
boating is dangerous To travel ito our
prosy conception of the mattesl is to leave
a comfortable home in exchange for dubious
hotels; to be thumped and bumped In
coaches-lumped with ill.assorted compan-
ions, andasometimes "dumped" with them
into the mud and mire; to be locked up in
narrow, ill-ventilated boxes, faceiiousy
called staterooms," to blow up the captain
for going so slow, and be blown up your
self because he was fool enough TO take
your advice; to be rushed over the road in
cars at rate which not only .annihilates
time and distance" but a considerable num-
Der Of passengers; arriving at last through
a long list Of "moving accidents by food
and field,n at your place of destination, 10
find your toilet in disorder, your trunks "in
chaos, your body battered, your wallet
wasted to an alarming tenuity, and your
man for woman) whom you went five hun
dred miles to see, just started on an equally
long journey, to be absent g about ten
days % This is to travel!
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The ScnooLMAsTER AT HoME-The fol-
lowing, says the New York Day Book, is tho
richest specimen of letter-wriing that we
have seen this year: -... ..
Schenectady July 26th 1868.
Sir received one of your Papers the first
that had in six months the Post Master
and me Disputed on the Postage he wanted
to charge me Two qrs Postage in the side
of Two weeks and said that | had not Paid
him and moving that l had would not
Pay again and he said l should not have
the paper any more So Pitched him and
the Paper to hell and out of hell So Paid
you for your Paper for one year and never
will DO that again if my word is not as good
as the Paper or the Printer for Two dollars
then i, is time to quit Reading I'VE think
not ID. BI-Please send no more for the
way have being Treated about it.
Yours Truly ..... P BLAKE.
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10 1t is delicious to haye pretty girl
open the front door and mistake you for her
cousin, s.,. 81 @
1t is still more delicious to have her re-
main deceived till she has kissed you twice,
and Rugged the bottom off your coat
"Ma, here's Chays'es." ,...+,.s go g-t
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rAn editor in Arkansas was lately
shot y an ARRAY. Luckily the ball came
against bundle Of unpaid paper accounts
in his pocket. Even gun-powder could not
get through unpaid newspaper bills, and
the editor saved his life by the delinquency
of his subscribers.
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WOMAN IN JAIL FOR DEBr-There is now
widow woman incarcerated in the Port
land (Me Jail for no other offence than that
of being unable TO meet her liabilities,
which were incurred for house rent.
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~"O, yis! q yis!n cried an Irishman
in the street few days since, ringing a
bell. "Lost, betwane twelve o'clock and
McKinney's store on Market street, large
brass kay I'll not be afther telling you
what it was, but it was the kay to the bank,
sureD .
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a Love ScENE-Oveyheard and Phonogya-
phieany Reported by Phrederiek Phinephun.-
Phairest Of phair," sighed the lover, "phan-
cy my pheelings when phoresee the phear-
full consequence of our phleeing phrom you
phather's phamily. Phew phelIows could
have placed the music with as much phor-
titude as have, and as pickle phortune
phalls to smile on our loves, phind 1 must
phorego the pleasure of becomeing your
husband. Phairest Phrancis, pharewell
phoreverw
Hold, Phranklin, holdv exclaimed Phan-
ny, will phollow your phootsteps phor-
ever"
But Phranklin had gone, and phanny
phainted.
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IMMENSE BOILER PLArE-In the Crystal
Palace, there is boiler plate made of Low
Moor Iron, which weighs 2,7oo pounds. 1t
is 10 feet inches long, feet 10 inches
wide, and 4 inch thick. 1t is larger than
any exhibited at London Worlds Fair.
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VERY FRENcH.-A Frenchman stopped a
lad in the street TO make some inquiries of
his whereabouts.
aMon fren, what is re name Of zis streetg'
aWell, who said 'twant N
aWhat will yon call zis street ~
Pardonnez! have not re name rot you
osil him. 8@f sssss3f ssE ssss.ss.
Eyes, Watts we call il. sssaSssi
Chow you call re name Of zis street a''
"Watts street, old Teller, and don't yer 60
to make game O. me-" s8 \ 'als73 9.l2si
aSacre mon dieu! ask you Won, two,
tree, several times, often, will you tell me 70
name ov re dam street, eh p eeaa Isis
"Watts street. Itole yer. Yer drunk, amt
yerw 1%f-ss5 tsa. y sssl,,sst
Mon little fren, we're you iii, eh!" e
"In Vandam street." sg--sss-ze
sEh, bien You lif in Won dam street, an
you is Won dam fool, by damp ~,
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Do Animals Reason?

| We give below some curious statements
in answer to this often repeated question
The LACE MERCHANTS DoG.-Who would
have imagined that dog had been made
serviceable as clerk, and thus made for his
master upwards of thousand crowns
And yet an incident happened upwards OF
| thirty years since.
| One Of those industrious beings who knexs
how to make chaldron of Goals out of a
billet Of wood, determined, in extreme pow
erty, to engage in trade. He preferred that
| of the merchandise which occupied the least
space, and was calculated to yield the great
est profit. He borrowed a small sum OF
money from friend, and repairing to Flan-
ders, he there bought pieces Of lace, which,
without any danger, ehe Struggled into
France in kthe following manner He
trained an active spaniel to his purpose.
He caused him to be shaved, and procured
for him the skin Of another dog, Of the same
hair and the same shape. He then rolled
the lace around the body of his dog: aud put
over it the garment of the stranger SO adrolt-
ly, that it was impossible to discover the
trick.
The lace thus arranged in his pedestrian
bandbox, he would say to his docile messen-
ger, Forward, my friend" AT these words
the dog would start. and pass boldly through
the gates of Malines or Valenciennes, in the
face Of the vigilant officers placed there to
Iprevent smuggling. Having passed the
bounds, he would wait for his master at a
little distance in the open country. There
they mutually carressed and Toasted, and
the merchant placed his packages in a
place Of security, renewing his occupation
as nee essity required. .
Such was the success of the smuggler
that in five or six years he amassed hand
some fortune and kept his coach. Envy
pnrsues the prosperous; mischevous
neighbor betrayed the lace merchant; and
Notwithstanding his effort 10 disguise his
dog, he was suspected, watched, and dis
covered.
How far does the reason of some animals
extend!. Did the spies of the customhouse
expect him at one gate, he saw them al a
distance, and instantly went towards the
Other Were the gates shut against him,
he overcame every Observation-Disclosures he
eaped over the wall, at others passing Sc
crety behind carriage, or running be-
tween the legs of travellers, he would thus
accomplish his aim. One day, however,
while swimming in stream near Malines,
he was shot, and died in the water. There
was then about him five thousand crowns
worth of lace, the loss of which did not
afflict the master, but he was inconsolable
for the loss of his faithful dog.
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800 MiNlsTzRs WITH AMERICAN Wives.
~. !. ynaio.on Dc ID Barca, the Spanish Min
y -. = Washington, now sumnond as Minister
q. ss Anairs at home, married an Ameri-
= AZ. Bodisco, the Russian Minister.
-. er,can wife, and family Of seven
r., american born; Monsieur papeot, I
30 VT. Sartiges, the present, French
/ = Washington, have both. American
WIN = not Be ven, in view Of the influence
49, eountrywomen are acquiring ii for
49, l. ~ mat they should have representa-
4 -. q. u n sssee Department We submit that
: fin;ns q. !. Equity Secretary should be Of the
s adsr. Erenmy Post
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An INcIDENr.--The Picayune IeIstesthe
lowing incident: as IS

An IscIDEsr. The Picayune IRE fol
lowing incident: sssss . -, 3
"On Friday last an acquaintance Of ours wai
in perfect health; at night he was taken mel
with the yellow fever. On Sunday, am0ngs1
other friends, he was visited by one who found
him very i'll dangerously ii Instead Of keep.
ing quiet, thesEery first thing done on the part
Of the yisitsssw was - exslaim, most unceremo-
".Well old fellow, you appear to be quite
sick OF course the patient was much obliged
for the information.3
- Really, Ne5e salsa awful times, continued
the friend. TIE sick man sighed) .Nevel
saw anything like it before. They are dying by
upwards Of d hundred daily. Today's reports
give one hundred and ninety-four deaths by
yellow fever. It's killing every body
sssOn.Sunday the sick man was buried
We have no hesitancy in saying that the fool
or brute, probably he is BOTH alluded to above,
deserves the seyerest sort of punishment An
Indictment for man slaughter, 1t least, ought
to lay against him. He killed the individual he
went to see, just as surely as though he had Ia
ken an axesand knocked his brains out. The
yisitations Of such creatures are worse than the
pestilence. When they are seen approaching
the door Of a sick mans apartment they should
be taken by the collar and kicked SO far in an
opposite direction that they would not be likely
to return during the season.
When the system is unnerved by the yellow
fever completely prostrated-the attending
friend should be very careful in their language
and department. The eye and ear are as quick
as ever, and very little of what is going on es-
capes the scrutiny of the suferer.-Bulletin.
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A CURIOUS SERMoN.-An English paper
contains the following curious discourse,
said to, have been lately delivered by an
eccentric preacher. at Oxford:
g | am not one of your fashionable, fine.
spoken, mealy-mouthed preachers-I tell
you the plain truth. What are your pas
times! Cards and dice, fddling and dan
cling, guzzling and quilting! Can you be
saved by dice! Will all the four knaves
give you passport to heaven? No! Can
you fiddle yourselves into berth among
the sheep? No! You will dance your
selves to damnation among the goats! You
may guzzle wine here, but you'll want a
drop Of water to cool your tongue hereafter !!
Will the prophets say, "Come here, games
ters, and teach US the long odds" "Tis
odds if they do! Will martyrs cant, and
swear, and shuttle, and cut with you? No!
The martyrs are no shutters. You will be
c1t down in way you little expect. Lu-
eifer will eeme with his feapeFsA and his
sickles and forks, and you will be cut down,
and bound, and pitched, and housed in hell!
| will not oil my lips with lies to please you !!
/ will tell you the plain truth. Ammon, and
Mammon, and Moloch are making Bethoron
hot for you. Profane wretches!. / have
heard you wrangle and brawl, and tell one
another, before me, "rll see you id FIRST"
But tell you the day will come, when you
will pray to Beelzebub to escape his clut-
ches; and what will be his answer I'll
see YOU id frst!u 4
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PoMpE11-Pompeii was not completely
buried by a single eruption. Eight success.
sive layers have been traced above its ruins
In the intervals the inhabitants must have
returned to secure their more valuable pro.
per:y.
Sir VIM Cell mentions that skeleton OF
Pompeian was found, "who apparently fol
the sake of fifty coins, small plate and a
saucepan of silver, had remained in his
house. until the street was already hall
filled with volcanic matter" The position
of the skeleton indicated that he had perish
ed apparently in the act Of escaping from
the window.
Other instances of like character are no
less striking. The skeletons of Roman SEN
tries were found in more than one instance.
at their post furnishing remarkable proof
of the stern military discipline of imperial
Rome. The skeleton of priest was found
in one of the rooms of the temple of Isis.
Near his remains lay an axe, with which
he had been trying to break through the
dooI.-Passmore Eduards.
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% An agricultural author talking Of hen
culture, says .
"Fowls that are .,enned up should have
some kind of amusement-it is essential to-
their health. The kind Of amusement is
Smelling their own corn" &c.
Upon which the Boston Post remarks, that
it is the same with fair as it is with fowl
women who are penned up should have some
kind of amusement, such as making their
own bread, &c.
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70 CLEAN PA1Nr.-Smear piece Of fan
mel in common whiting, mixed to the con-
sistency Of common paste in warm water.
Rub the surface to be cleaned, quite briskIy,
and wash off with pure cold wafer. Grease
spots will in this way be almost instanta-
neously removed, as well as other filth, and
the paint will retain its brilliancy and beauty
unimpaired.
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70 Not long since, two ladies were on a
downward trip, ON board a Missouri steamer
One of them had baby about three months
to California about two years and a half.
"About three months old"
II thought you said your husband had
been gone to California two years and
half" 81
"Oh, yes, he has; but he writ to mew
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SHIP OF THE LINE PENNSYLVANIA.--The New
Jersey State Gazette recently briefly noticed
visit to the man-of-war, Pennsylvania, lying
as receiving vessel near the Gosport Navy
Yard opposite Norfolk. While there we renewed
cur knowledge Of some particulars concerning
this mammoth specimen of naval architecture
Hsrs keel was laid at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard more than thirty years ago, but she re.
NAMED upon the stocks until 1887. During the
period of her construction she was visited by
thousands, and just sixteen years ago, lacking
ad2y, she was launched into her destined ele
nent amid the cheers of an immense crowd Of
spectators and in presence of the then Secretary
Of the Navy. She was at that time the larges
ship in the world. After being rugged, she wal
put under command Of Commodore Stuart and
taken to Norfolk. On this voyage it was discov.
cred that she was better adapted to o comfort.
able berth in safe harbor than yoyaging at sea
and she is accordingly kept at home as receiv-
Ing ship. ~W-4*
AS she now lies, she looks like an immense
foating battery with four tiers Of guns. She
belongs to that class of vessels styled three
dsckers, and is rated at 120 guns, though she
can mount 140. Her length is about $50 feet
breadth Of beam 60, height from water line Il
top-rail So feet, and from the same line to main
truck 240 feet. When equipped for sea she re-
quires nearly seven acres Of canvass. Her bur
Most Of the money expended upon this levia-
than may be estimated as sunk. The same
funds properly expended might have furnished
our slender navy with five or six additional sea-
Worthy men-of-war. She renders some service
indeed, as receiving ship, by taking on board
md retaining enlisted recruits, until requisition
Ao