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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-14
GREAT RARGATNS
FOR THE HARVEST or t861,

II o H y r M Il r. S.
V0UR ATTENTION is INVITED TO NY STOCK
L OF harvesting Implements for the coming IIar-
vest have the sole Agency for the justly celebrat
ed BucKET MoNER REAPER for twelve counties In
Virginia This machine stands unriHailad among
HArVesters. 1t Is the most convenient mRchiue to
operate that is made; Is simple In its construction
that any farmer can set II up and work it, Ana It Is
very sTnoNo AND DURABLE In short Il has proved
Itself to be the best Harvester In use. And as an
evidence Of this-IT IS that all the late pat
ented machines have copied t nearly Us conld be
done. without infringing the patent Aud the better
proof OF all Is thai II has never failed to RVO entire
sati4ftctiOn when tried Tho manufacturers are now
making two sizes of this machine aitlSS VshGSh
fully warranted to be all that Is claimed for them
that Il, that they are unequalled. And TO Farmers
who want the BEST MAcHISE IN USE, we say buy the
Buckeye.
am also the Agent for the HUBBARD LIGHT
MOWER, which is sold at the low price of SIS and
$50. This Mower Is undoubtedly the HEST MowER
MADE PoR THE PRICE. It Is much better built, is
stronger and more durable than any other mower
that Completes with It in price 1t s Of very light draft
has two driving wheels. and draws from the CENTRE
and e warranted to give entire satisfaction. As
number OF persons were disappointed in getting ma
chimes late In the season last year. request per-
sons who want either OF the above machines to send
their orders they may be certain to get them
this year. Ny stock Of tho smaller Harvest Imple-
ments, such as Grain and Grass scythes Grain-Cra-
dies Snaths, Sickles, Rakes &c &C. Is complete and
viii sell them low. Give a cali at the Seed and
Implement Depot, corner Main and Qulncey streets
Wheeling, Va. Qel2) d. j. SMITH.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-14
MARRIED

MARRIED.
On yesterday morning. by the Rev. Wesley Smith,
JOHN WALIER and ELIzABETn MORRISON, all of this
city.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-14
NEW GOODS. NEW GOODS.
OnnRRR 4 EEHsmr

b RR now receiving and opening a very lsr,s stosL
n Of FANCY AND STAPLE BRY G0ODs touQht
In PhilAdelphta and New York, midst the great nr
e4sitenient q panic prizes for CAsH- Our friends
to oher them great blrRins In all kinds Of Dry OtIS
myS0 COOPER 4 sENsESEY.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-14

MOURNING GOODS.-Our stock of Mourn,
M ing Goods of all Kinds isvery full and complete
and We will sell them very cheap for CdEh.
Jel COOPER SESSENEY.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-14

ENGLIsH CHINTzEs-Yard wide English
jeI COOPER sENsENEY.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10
Criminal Statistics of New York.

The Secretary of State has reported to
the Legislature the criminal statistics of the
State of New York for the year 1860.
While convictions for the higher crimes
have decreased, convictions for petty offences
in Courts of Special Sessions have been
from ten to fifteen per cent. more than in
any former year. This is owing in meas
ure to the conviction of the same individuals
several times in the course of the year for
intoxication, vagrancy, &c. The whole
number OF convictions in Courts of Record,
Oyer and Terminer and General Sessions in
1860, was 2,l72. Of these, New York
county had ATT; Kings, 1856; Erie, l26;
Albany, SO; and the other counties from 4
to so each. The number of convictions for
murder were IL; manslaughter, A.; assault
with intent to kill, 48; arson, l6; forgery,
l4l; the remainder were for larcenies,
burglaries, etc. The convictions for petty
offences in the Courts of Special Sessions
amounted to 37,967, of which no less than
22,O73 were for drunkenness. During the
year the Governor restored 81 persons to
citizenship, and liberated rs prisoners from
State prisons, jails and penitentaries.aa sii
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10
A woman to be I1onored.

It will be remembered that Lieut.. Abner
Smead, of the First Artillery, was sent, a
few weeks since, by Lieut.. Slemmer, OF
Washington, to apprize the Government to
the absolute necessity of supplies and rein,
forcements at Fort Pickens. Forgettul OF
all obligations of honor and duty, Lieut..
Smead took Montgomery in bis way North
ward, and having submitted his dispatches
to the perusal of the rebel authorities, pro,
ceeded to Washington, whittier the news OF
his treason having anticipated him, ne was
not shot, as be deserved to be, but simply
struck from the roll of the army. The wife
and children of Lieut.. Smead, with the fam
lilies of several officers on duty in the South,
were at Fortress Monroe. The Lieutenant
fastened from Washington to obtain his
family, and remove them southwark, but bis
movements we're not so rapid but that his
crime had been reported before him. When,
therefore, be presented himself at the Fort,
be vast refused admission, the officer on duty
DECLINING IS to admit traitor I" within a
Federal post; the only favor conceded being
that he might have an interview with Mrs.
Smead without the walls. That interview
the unhappy miscreant is not likely to forget.
Attended by few female friends, one OF
whom furnished the account which we give
of the scene. The lady met her husband,
and in terms of scorching eloquence, re-
proached him with his shame.
"Go horne with YoU!'' she exclaimed.
"Never. Our paths in this world are here.
after separate. disown you. A coward
and traitor-you are no husband Of mine
Henceforth you are to me as If dead. AS
long as live | shall wear mourning, and be
as a widow; and rest assured shall educate
our children to execrate and desplse your
memory as that of recreant and traitor. y
Turning with these words, the noble and
patriotic woman re entered the Fort, and
gave way to her very natural feelings. we
may add that Mr.. Smead is, like her dis.
carded husband, native of Georgia, and
while the latter went Southwark to OBTAIN
the reward of bis treason, the former, with
her children, has come North, passing
through this City on Tuesday, and is now
at Morrostown, n. in. Y Times, April
26.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10
Balloon Trip Of Prof. Low
l,2OO MILES IN NINE HOURS.

From the Cincinnati Commercial of Saturday.
Our readers will recoIlect that we chron.
icled last week the ascension, from our city,
of Prof. T. s. G. Lowe, in his new balloon,
for an experimental trip across the CONT
nent. Since that time we published a
dispatch from the adventurous @rOnaut,
dated at Columbia, the capital of South
Carolina, saying that he would arrive here,
via Louisville, in day or two. He arrived
yesterday, and reports that he had most
pleasant and favorable trip of 1000 miles,
which he traversed in abont nine hours,
having left Cincinnati at 81 A. M. Satur-.
day morning, and descended at Greenville,
near Columbia, South Carolina, at one
o'clock P. M, of the same day.
He regards his trip as highly successful.
He was carried rather out Of his course by
the influence of the heavy mountain ranges
of Virginia, but otherwise the currents
proved reliable, at the attitudes previously
calculated.
He reports the inhabitants of the Pal
metto State greatly astonished at his sudden
descent among them from the clouds. They
received his statement that he had left
Cincinnati the same morning, with mani.
fest incredulity. But when Prof Lowe
drew forth several numbers of the Daily
Commercial of that morning, yet damp from
the press, and distributed them to the won
dering gaze of the South Carolinians, their
unbeliet gave way to establishment and
admiration. 1t is the first time in the his
tory of the daily press that it has been dis
tributed at 1000 miles distance from the
place of publication on the same day.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10

OUERY.-If four dogs with sixteen legs
can catch forty-nine rabbits with eighty
seven legs in forty >four minutes, how many
legs must the same RABBITS have to get away
from eight dogs with thirty-tWo legs IN
seventeen minutes and hall!
Solution.-Add together the legs OF the
rabbits and the tails OF the dogs, and di.
vide the amount by three big dogs; this
leaves four bushels of barks and thirteen
mounds of hair. Take the fraction OF the
a dog fight. Then divide by man with q
double 6arreled shot gun, and add side OF
fresh meat. Multiply by half as many
lees as three times less number OF rabbits
would have had, and divide by one-thlrd OF
the time it would take for the rabbits to get
away from the dogs, less seventeen and q
half minutes. The result depends upon the
size Of the dogs. z5 ialig b3Ja9f2 g9.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10

"VAN1TY FAIR" is peculiarly racy on the
war we make few extracts:
About to 60 through the Mill-The Flour
of Chivalry.
Reason for an extra session of Congress
Confederate State Treason.
BY our historical contributor-the Rul.
ers of the Southern Conference.-The Dy-
nasty of the Sezers
Present and Future-The cry ofthe south
Just nOw-"SecessiOn J"
The cry of the South after Uncle Sam
shall have castigated it little" Cessa-
ton p
Observation-Disclosures ito dissipated young
party, inclined to theatricals) Say, Stimp-
kins, you've got good legs for tights.
Stimpkins with wild "larf'') Yes; they've
been on 'em often enough!
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10
AN AWFUL CATAsTRoPHE.-The Rich

AN AWFUL CArAsrRoPHE.-The Rich
mond (Virginia) Wing, in an article on the
feeling of the old commonwealth, says:
"There is pride which every man born
on Virginia soil feels in the State of his
birth. Her past glories are his; her great
men--the greatest the world ever produced
ARE his compatriots, and their name is a
precious part of his Inheritance. TO see
such commonwealth subjugated and par
titioned out among snivelling Yankees would
drive all her men to desperation; all her
women would refuse to breed"
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Detection Of Hon. John Bell.

The Nashville Patriot and Union of April
"a has the following report of speeches de-
livered at that place on the preceding even
ing:
Hon. John Bell spoke for about three
quarters of an hour, stating, in effect, that
so far as present duties and responsibilities
are concerned the past is a sealed book.
The time TOR action and unity of action in
the South had arrived, and he was for stand
ing by the South and defending the South,
all the South, against the unnecessary, cruel,
unjust and wanton war which is being forced
upon us. He recounted, at some length,
the efforts which he had made in the past,
and especially with the present Admins
tration, to avert this war, and the hopes be
had cherished for the preservation of peace;
but those hopes had now vanished, and our
duty was to defend ourselves and TO make
common cause with all our sister savehold-
ing States of the South against common
invading foe. He advocated strong and
effective military league or union among
all the slaveholdiDg states for the successful
prosecution of the war. He declared that
Tennessee had, in effect, dissolved her rela-
tions with the Federal Union, and though
he had hoped and labored to the last to
preserve the Union first, and second, if
separation was inevitable, to make it peace
able, he now abandoned all such hope, and
his voice was clear and loud to every Ten
nesseean-to arms to arms He counseled
the most effective and energetic public and
private measures to secure the best organi-
cation possible of the military strength oil
the state.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10

From the Toronto (Canada) Leader.
1t is the boast of modern times, that the
war OF civilized people has been stripped OIL
half its horrors. The government that
should confscate the property of foreigners
prosecuting their enterprise within its ju-
risdiction, would invite verdict reducing
it to the level of the pirate and the high.
wayman. No English mob despoiled the
warehouses of Russian merchants whilst
Sebastopol was besieged and Russia with
all its absoIutism, meddled not with En-
glish'manufactories maintained in its midst.
The Paris Conferences adopted conditions
recognizable between nations, expressly CAL
culated to mitigate the misfortunes of war,
and to protect the interests of those not i'm.
mediately engaged in the conflict. In con-
nection with that movement, the United
States government stood in advance of all
others in the extent OF its proposals.
Now what have we? At the very
Threshold of war, both sections in the
States commit themselves to plans which
bring back the barbarianism of olden times,
and will subject North and South to an ap-
probrium which neither can afford to carry.
On one side, Southern soldiers threaten in.
discriminate slaughter. There shall be no
quarter, they advertise in advance. On the
other hand, the leading Republican journals
deliberately advise the employment of meas
ures which might suit the latitude of China
or the Punjaub, but will sink in everlasting
intamy the cause that shall resort to them
on the American continent. Thus the New
York lines urges the adoption of means to
excite servile instruction in the South.
Organizations are recommended with the
specific object OF armiDg slaves and prompt
ing them to re>enact the nameleSs horrors
of st. Domingo. Innocent women and
helpless children are to be butchered by
their servants! Again, the New York 1ri-
bune holds up to Northern volunteers the
tempting bait of wholesale plumber. 1t
promises that Southern plantations shall be
parcelled amongst the victorious soldiery
and descants upon the richness and salubri-
ty of Virginia as an estate worth striving
for. There is no mincing of phrases on the
part of our New York contemporary. 1t
unblushingly breaches the doctrine of econ
fiscation;" literally maintains the right to
rob, rolling the sweet morsel of its tongue
as something irresistible to the pharsaic
palate. 4 ,# y
Cnce begun, where are these barbarities
to end? e5ag.s ac
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INTERESTING FROM CAIRO.
Stoppage or q stem boat. Seizure Of
Contraband Goods. !@-s.h ~

5-t trf - -'-'
On the 18th ult., there were over 5000
troops at Cairo. On that day, religious
services were conducted at the camp by
Rev. DR.. OLARKsoN, of Chicago. He
preached from the text" Acquit your.
selves like men-be strong" Batteries
have been planted on the Illinois side, above
Cairo, and the steamer Swallow, armed
with one heavy gun, and squad of men,
is the guard boat. Several boats have
already been seized with articles contra.
band of war on board. The following des>
patch contains important news:
.....r. CAIRO, April 20.
The steamer Westmoreland, from New
Orleans, arrived here last night. We get
from her commander, Capt. Evans, the fol-
lowing statement AS the Westmoreland
was coming up at 9 O'Clock Thursday night
along the Mississippi side, Capt. Evans
desired the pilot to cross over to Napoleon,
Arkansas. He did so, and as the Captain
approached he asked if there was any freight,
and was answered that there was. The
line was tied and the clerk went on the
wharfboat. In moment be returned and
said the wharfmaster informed him there
was no freight, and that a mob was going
to take the boat. This was Immediately
followed by ,volley from the guns and pis-
tolls Of crowd of fifty or sixty persons
assembled on the shore. There where shouts
Of "Shoot the Captain" and pistol balls
flew around the captains head, and some
struck the pilot house. The captain and
pilot, however, escaped injury. The boat
was crowded with passengers. There were
many ladies among them. Mr.. Henry
Hammer, of Memphis, received bullet in
his left breast, the ball passing through his
heart, killing him instantly. One fireman
received bullet in his shoulder. The
ladies were shrieking with fear. Several
shots penetrated the boarding of the ladies'
cabin. G .el-
Capt. Evans had the wheels set agoing,
broke the line by the strain, and got off.
The number and size OF the holes made by
the shot is astonishing, and give rise to the
supposition that they must have been fred
A jury, chosen from the passengers on
board, held an inquest over the dead body
of Mr.. Hammer, which resulted in verdict
of death from firearms in the hands of some
person or persons unknown to the jury at
the wharf boats at Napoleon, Arkansas,
during an attack upon said steamboat while
probably leaving the said wharf by mob,
or assembly of persons, without any provo
cation from the officers of the boat or pas
sengers on board.
The Memphis Appeal, of Saturday, has
the following accounts of the seizure of the
steamer Mars: "The people of Helena,
Arkansas, seized upon the steamer Mars
Qor Cincinnati and took from her 800 bbls.
of molasses and large quantity Of sugar,
rosin and turpentine, all for Cincinnati.
They have tied up the boat; the common is
planted on the slope just opposite to it.
The Helena folks say that Cincinnati can
have the boat and cargo when they take it
and not until then"
One OF the Illinois regiments has been
ordered to Alton.
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Southern Jubilation over tho Reported
Treason Of General Scott.
WINFIELD SCOTT ON OUR sIDE-oNE REBEL
/ ....~ MORE.

. From the N. o. Picayune. a9
The telegraph, yesterday afternoon
brought to our city the inspiring intelli-
gence that the commander in. chief of the
United States has followed bis glorious old
native State out of the Federal Union. On
the reception of these tidings of great joy,
the excitement of the day before, created
by the news of Virginia's secession, was
renewed, aud reached the. same pitch of ju-
bilant enthusiasm. There was grand sa-
lutte fired in Lafayette Square, upon the an
nouncement of the fact, and at other points
in the city similar demonstrations were
made.
Apart from the secession of judgment
so experienced, head so clear, hand so
powerful, to the councils and to the army
of the new Confederacy, the moral effect of
such an event in the history of our new
republic will be incalculable. Gen. SCOTS
career has been marked with unceasing de-
votion to his country, and will soon make
hismark as gallant soldier, skillful officer,
and a sagaciOus and reliablegeneral. The lau-
rels won by him in the field were not more
fairly won, nor are they yet more green,
than those which he has, on every occasion
where bis administrative duties were called
in requisition, most nobly earned in the
council. In many an exigent crisis CT af>
fairs he has stood in the breach and has
saved his country from peril. He has ever
been the staff upon which Administrations
have confidently leaned when a clear hand
and strong arm have been needed.
The hero of Chippewa and of Mexico,
he has also been the hero of civil and d.
plomatic fields, his conquests upon which
have earned him equal renown with that
which he obtained with his sword.
And now, how many of these gallant
men who, in varions positions, have for years
gloried in Winfield Scott as their leader
and exemplar, will linger in the ranks of
the army which, in losing him, has lost its
oldest and most signal ornament? He dis
daining to fill the post of demoralized
nationwide will have the hardihOod to face
the scorn which will follow the accession Of
a successor to vacant office? Well may
the unhappy administration at Washington
inscrpe upon the walls of the Capitol:
"Ichabod! thy glory has departed! J"
And so swells up and on the noble army
of "rebels." Can the fat of Abraham
Lincoln, backed by the advise and consent
of his Cabinet and tina Senate, "disperse it?'
We shall see!
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10

A YANKEE IN DIsTREss.-A Yankee
writes to us in evident distress. He says
that he half courted pretty Georgia girl
at Newport last summer, and wants to know
whether it would be quite safe for him to
go to Georgia to do the other half of the
counting. He protests and is willing to
make oath that, if he marries the girl, he
won't emancipate her niggers. What have
our Georgia friends to say Louisville
Journal. h. ,'s, IS ~ sfj. II. taat
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10
WILSON'S BATTALION OF ZOUAVES.

WILSON'S BATTALION OF ZOUAvEs.
S,peay.ne in the Battalion Their Destiaation
and Equipments-1he Regiment to Force its
Way Through Baltimore to Ssces-
sionists-Blood, Vengeance and Victory.
From the New York Herald. April 18th.
At seven o'clock last evening, the "Union
battalion of Zouaves," Col. VIM. Wilson,
held formal muster and roll call ut their
headquarters in Tammany Hall. There
were 86l men of the battalion present.
The occasion was made strikingly impress
sive by the extraordinary proceedings which
were had. The men were ranged around
the hall three deep, with Col. Wilson and
the other officers in the centre of the room.
The men had all clad themselves in the grey
shirts and pants which have been provided
for their uniform, which is completed by q
common brown felt hat, brogans and leather
belt. They carry short knife about seven
inches in length, between sort of bowie
knife and butcher knife in shape. Many
also have revolvers, of which it is intended
that each shall be armed with one or two,
as well as slung shot and Mimic rifle.
All the men being ranged against the walls,
Col. Wilson with drawn sabre in his right
hand, and the American flag in the other.
stood forth uncovered and addressed his
men amidst deafening cheers.
After short adjuration to the flag, for
which he declared his devotion, he called
upon all to kneel and swear with him.
Waving the banner and fourishing his
sabre, be knelt on one knee. All present
knelt with him and repeated the oath which
he put to them to support the flag. and
never finch from its path through blood or
death. He said he would lead them to
Baltimore and they would march through
it or die; at which they all arose with a
tremendous yell, flung up their hats and
brandished their glistening knives amidst
prolonged and frantic cheers. He then de~
bounced death to the Baltimore traitors Sc
cessionists and Plug Uglies, and said they
would leave monument of their bones in
the streets of Baltimore. Amid yells of
death to the Plug Uglies," he illustrated
with his sword how they should hew their
way, and said, though he should be the
first man slain, he had but one thing to ask,
which was that each of his followers should
secure his man and avenge his blood. That
they would do this, he again called upon
them to swear, and marching around the
hall holding up the flag and the sword, and
accompanied by two officers, the one on his
right bearing banner inscribed =
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10

GEN. HALL, of New York, has son in
the army of the Confederate States, and
another in the seventh regiment. What if
duty should bring them into collision?
:, IT took the New York Chamber of Com.
merce just twenty minutes to raise $22, 45O
over 81, 900 minute. 81 aao5I7o'I sci
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eff l should be drafted into the service
what should you do 2" said a gentleman to
his wife lately. sect substitute for you, l
suppose" was the reply; whereupon the
worse half changed the subject of CONVEX.
satiOn. nlt sf'f 81 ass