The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-08-25
NEWS ITEMS.


GERS left Johnson's Island on Tuesday (,
: Harrisburg, Pa, where they will be place
" 10 the Penitenliary.
: The Heralds special says: "Negroes use
o by the rebels are to be allowed 8 dollars f
q each u. s. musket, 25 dollars for each u.
/. horse, so dollars for each u. s. negro kille
or captured BY them, aud 80 dollars for eac
] scalp of a U. S. white officer commanding ne
, gro soldiers.
Suspicious Of foul play connected with tn
recent burning Of the steamer Ruth on tn
Mississippi are entertained. The money 70
Grants army, il is supposed, was not on board
and the boat was destroyed to conceal an en-
ormous robbery. The matter will be rigidl
investigated.
EE A man named Conrad Whittle, a
Elk Grove near Chicago, went into the fell
with reaper, when the !, lses started, throw
ing him down 10 front Of the scytbe wbicl
took off bis head and arm as clean as If dom
by cleaver.
ET The rumber of letters mailed at th,
Nashville Post Office, for the quarter ending
June 30th, 1868, was but little less thar
2,000,000, mostly from our educated volun
teers to their friends and relations. The sale
Of postage stamps, for the first four days o
last week, averaged 1851 per day.
EF There is some talk of jeff. Davis or
ganizng au army Of slaves to fight for the
South We hope he will try the experiment
II woald save our Government the trouble
and expense Of doing it, and would be Just as
deadly blow to the rebellion as could be
dealt.
A barrel Of printers ink was spilled upon
and about the sidewalk in front of tie Pough
keepsie Selegraph Office, few days since
whereuron thh editor coolly announces tina,
tho ladies who swept tie ink with their long
dresses can clean them with benzine.
FIFTY THOUSAND New MADE FREEMEN.
By decree of the Government of Holland,
fifty thousand slaves in Dutch Guina were
made freemen on the lst of July. What a
contrast TO the terrible scene now enacting in
this country, where one-third Of the psoplc ar,
drenching the lard iu blood for the purpose of
rivetiug more securely the sbackles on four
millions Of slaves.
EE The greatest capture of men mention
ed in modern history, was made by Bonaparte
at Austerlitz, where he took 20 900 men.
Gen. Grant. il is now reporte', took nearly
$4,000 at Vicksburg. Napoleop's spoiis at
Austoriiz was $50 l'ieces Of artillery; Gen.
Grants at Vicksburg il stated to be e3s-
embracing nine siege guns and 229 ricres of
light artillery.
The ARMY OF THE PoroMAc FILLISG UP
II is stated that the number Of couscripts now
going through Washington to reinforce the
army Of the Potomac is over thousand a
day.
Ey A manufacturer of those curren. nui
sances, penny tokens, was convicted at the
recent term Of the United States Court at
Utica, and sentenced to one years imprisou.
ment at Auburn. The coins were marked
f" Not one cent" but they sent him.
EE Judge Advocate General Holt decide.
that any man, abroad or at sea, who NAV be
drafted, is not to be regarded as desertcr in
the spirit of the law until be is not fed of the
fact that he has been drafted.
EE- The special mail agent at Memphis
reports to the Post.office department that
'steamboats are arriving and departing almost
daily to and from New Orleans without mo.
lestation from gueriilas." Aud adds that the
mails can be sent down the Mississippi now
with less risk of capture than they run If
transported by sea.
A COOP MoNrH's WoRK.-During the
month of July there were twenty-eight en-
gage,pents OF more or less importance, be-
tween the Union and confederate forces, every
one of which was Federal success. Nearly
10000 Of the enemy were killed, wounded
and taken prisoners, and not less than lOO, 600
stand Of small arms and 800 pieces of heavy
artillery were captured.
UNION Mass MEETING AT ToLrpo.-A
great Union Mass Meeting is to I've held at
Toledo on Thursday next, August goth, at
which Gov. Blair, Hon. f. G. Beaman, and
Hon. R. E. Trowbridge, of this Stste. have
been invited to be present. Hon Charles
Anderson, gallant soldier, one of the most
eloquent speakers in Ohio, and the Union
candidate for Lieut.. Governor, and others
will address the assembly.
The DISPOSITION OF CoYscRrpTs.-It is
understood in army circles that the regiments
in the Army Of the Potomac will first be filed
from the ranks Of the couscripts, and that then
stieosssively Grants, Rosecrans' and the Army
Of the South will be filled to The maximum.
EE Pride sets man in opposition against
God. Other sins are aversions from God, but
this sin is a coming against God. In other
sins a man flies from God, but in this sin
man flies upon God. "God resisteth the
proud" (Jame., iv. e.)
EE Mseries always lie at that mans door
who leans upon anything below Christ: such
a man is most in danger; and this is not bis
least plague, that he thinks himself obscure.
EE As every precious stone has virtue 10
il, so has promises; aud upon these precious
promises; precious faith looks and lives; from
these 1t draws comfort and sweetness.
Ey- All the Christening in the world, with.
out divine teaching, will never make man
blessed. That man who finds correction at. |
tended with instruction, and lashing with les
'oning, is happy man.
EF Gen. Burnside is evidently doing his
while duty to the best Of bis ability, audIthe
pso le honor him for it-Louisvius Journal.
Will some Of the Copperhesd papers that
f,o1 IF o,t,orv ba oc,n.ooa IF n.