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The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
The WAY The Money Goes.

A dispatch from Washington says
that persons in a position to know
say that at least twenty-five millions
have been stolen in the Quartermas-
ter's department during the last few
months. AS all the telegraphic dis
patches are supervised by the
Government officials, it is reasonable
to suppose that this statement is be-
low the truth. And what has been
done towards the detection and pun
ishment of these thieves? 1t is safe
to say that nothing has been done and
nothing will be done. In fast, al.
though more than 100000 600 OF
dollars, probably have been stolen
from the Government this "honest'
Republican administration, we have
not heard of a single case where the
thiefhas been brought to punishment.
Some may have been dismissed from
office, but none have been made to
pay the penalty of their crimes. Let
this be noted. Hundreds Of loyal
men have been arrested and imprls-
oned for daring to stand up boldly
and manfully in defence of the Con-
stitution, and in opposition to the IN
famies of Northern disunlenlsm and
Southern treason; but not one OF the
hundreds of thieves, robbers and swl-
ndlers who are daily stealing the
money due the poor soldiers, has been
brought to punishment. Stealing
and swindling are virtues in the
minds of our rulers, while patriotism
and devotion to the Constitution are
crimes.-Lan. Mtelligencer.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
Proverbs Of the Billings
Family.

PRESERVED BY JOSHUA BILLINGS, ESQ.
Don't swap with yer relashuns un-
less yu ken afford to Civ EN- the big
eend Of the traid.
Marry yung, and, if circumstances
require it, often.
If yu cant git fine cloaths and
eddykashuu too, git the cloaths fust.
Say har ar We to everybody.
Kultivate modisty, but mind and
keep guide stock of impotence on
hand.
Bee charitable; three cent pieces
were made on purpose.
Don't take ennybody,s advice but
yer owne.
1t costs more to borrow than it
does to buy.
If a man fatters you, yu ken kalk-
kilate he is roag, or yure tule.
Keep both eyes open, but don't see
more'n half your noze.
When you pra, pra rite to the SEN
ter of the mark.
Don't mortify the flesh tn much;
'twan't the sorses on Lasserus that
sent him up to heven.
Eff you etch for faim, 60 inter a
graveyard, and scratch yourselfagaln
tumeston.
Yung men, be more anxus about
the pedagree yure going to leav than
yu ar about the wun somebody will
leaveyu.
l wud say to all yung men "Go
in, and to old fellers, "Git out.
As good way to git rich as emmy
is to run in debt two hundred thous-
and dollars, and then go to work and
pay yure debts. Filossofeas tell us
the world revolves on its own axis,
and Josh. Billings tells yu that full
haf the folks on airth think they ar
the axes.
N. B.-These ere proverbs have
stood hundred years, and hain't
gin ont yet.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
Bo Something.

IF we we're asked IN what consists
the chief happiness of the civilized
man over tho savage, We would say,
in the occupation of mind and body
the constant employment which IS
the condition on which men live IL
society. :'There is, says Carlyle,
ga perennial nobleness, and even sa-
credness in work. Nothing else
can elevate manhood--say what you
will. In idleness nobody even thrlves
and nobody can. In business, poll
tics, literature, religion, we must
acorh, if we would be anything or do
anything.
Can there be any object more con-
temptible than what, in the express
sive phrase Of some parts OF our
country, is called a do less man -
The word is inelegant, and so Is the
thing which the word describes. A
man without settled aim or object
a mere human vegetable, absorbing
nourishment and converting it into
chyle, bone, muscle, for no other
purpose than to furnish frame tor
tailors to hang clothes on-what is
it good for? A fat pig is good when
dead. and the lazier and tatter the
pig, the better the pork: but lazy
man is good for nothing dead or
alive.
DO semething-but what? Why
whatever comes legitimately and pro-
perly to your hand, and whatever
you do, do we'll. Half work is the
bar to all progress. There is not a
human being in this great nation, or
in any other, who may not benefit
his country by the industrious pur-
suit of an honest calling. And there
is none who cannot find something
to do, if he will only undertake it.
The person who deftly trims your
hair, or reaps your chin, or pollshes
your boots, if he has right pride in
his calling, is public benefactcr.-
and so on upton the most insig-
nifcant or even mental honest occu-
patton to the highest post of trust or
profit: from the merest mechanical
manipulation to the highest calling
of genius or intellect-he only "acts
well his part who does it with a
will and wholesome heartiness.
" Blessed is he," says Carlyle,
"who has found his work; let him
ask no other blessedness ; labor is
life. =" Undoubtedly. And there is
life in nothing else. But activity is
not always labor. Some manage to
be ever on the move, and produce no
results. They make a great deal OF
dust but produce no kind of fruit
We say some, they are many-more
than the whole suspects, more than
are themselves conscious of their
busy idleness. Find your vocation
and labor in it; fer labor is life
When we say find we do not mean
lose time in looking, but to do some
thing And never think that what
you have to do is beneath your at
tention. Aim high, but recollect
that the mountain peak can only be
reached by single step at a time
Aim high, and neglect nothing, and
in that way every step you take will
count. -NeU York SIN.
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Gen. Burnside-An Incident.

The Providence journal tells the
following story:
As the Groton boat was making
her trip from New York few nights
since, a discussion between Massa-
chusetts Lieutenant and a bespang-
led officer wearing the straps OF a
Lieutenant Colonel, attracted the at
tention Of the passengers, and a
crowd gathered as the words waxed
warm and the gestures emphatic
At last the gay Lieutenant Colonel
burst forth in broadside of indig-
nation upon the modest Lieutenant:
"Tll fight you sir; III fight you
here or elsewhere; I'll waive all dis
parity of rank and fight you; sir. -
Just at this juncture noble looking
man, with military air, but no in
sigma Of rank, save what was stamp
ed on his brow, moved to the front:
"Stop sir; say net another word, or
I will put you under arrest. Dis
grace yourselfif you will, but do not
dishonor the profession" The ram
pant Lieutenant Colonel subsidized so
completely that his insolent behavior
and Incorporate language were for
gotten until the occurrence was
brought to mind by the announce
ment in the morning papers of the
next day: "General Burnside re-
turned from New York this morn
inc"
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
Breaking Down.

The assertion that we are weaker
than our forefathers, says a London
paper, and break down sooner, is one
of those statements which people
make or deny according to their pre-
conceived opinions. Our notions of
the last generation are, of course,
taken from the old people whom we
have known; but this is judging
from picked specimens. Men like
Lord Palmerston, Lord Lyndhurst,
and Lord Campbell, of course, give
their juniors the impression that they
belonged to a race Of giants; but the
fallacy is obvious. We may reason
ably hope that of those who read
these lines in the vigor of their age,
a certain number will forget them at
least half a century before their death
and will live to excite the wonder of
another generation at the vigor that
distinguishes their eightieth or nine
tieth year. 1t must, however, be
admitted that the advance of know
led &c and civilization has in no way
direct tendency to lower the aver
age vigor of the race, 1t keeps many
weakly persons from dying. SAM
tary reform and the progress of med
ical skill tend to destroy a sort Of in
visible sieve through which people
used to be passed, and which, if the
human race, regarded merely from
the cattle breeders point of view,
was a highly useful institution. 1t
is often said that the change Of med
ical treatment shows a diminution in
strength; that people of the present
day cannot stand bleeding, which
thirty years ago was universal. This
is one of those assertions which can
not be tested with accuracy. 1t is
hardly possible to say whether the
change is in the practice or the pa
TENTS. A doctor who was lately de-
veleping the ordinary view upon the
subject to one of his patients, was
asked how long it was since he had
bled any one. He replied, "Upward
of ten years. :Then how can you
tell" was the rejoinder, "what
would have happened if you had bled
them p If we look to specific facts
there does not appear much reason
to think that the present generation
is losing its physical vigor. Armies
in the field both march as we'll and
fight as we'll as ever. The taste for
athletic amusements has grown into
something approaching to passion.
The average length of life has con-
siderably increased, and though this
for the reason given above, is consis-
tent with diminution in average vi
gor, it is prima facie evidence of the
reverse. Above all, the habits OF
lite are far healthier than they ever
were. Our laboring classes are bet
ter fed, better housed, better educat-
ed; the middle and the higher class
es take infinitely more exercise than
they used, and are, in all their hab-
its, more sober and temperate. Many
diseases which used to ruin the con-
stitution, have been greatly tanned,
and some have been almost extirpat-
ed; and if these causes do not i'm
prove the race, it is impossible to say
what will.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21

IMPORTANT TO CATTLE BROKERS. AS
there are large number of persons
engaged more or less in dealing in
cattle, sheep and hogs; it is of i'm
portance that all should know what
constitutes Seattle broker" under
the Excise Law of July lst, 1862, and
who requires a license as such, On
this point the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue has decided that a
person who buys cattle to stock his
own farm, and by keeping them
thereon, adds materially to their
value, cannot be considered a cattle
broker. If, however, is is his bust
ness to buy and sell without making
material additions to the intrinsic
value of the animals, he is liable to
taxation as a cattle broker. The
profits of the former, if any, are those
of q trader; and this distinction
may deem it test of the question:
"Who is cattle broker within the
meaning of the Excise Law?'
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Seleet 2oetrg.
NOBODY.
By SOMEBODY

# nobodv's noted vou-you must be small,
If nobody's Sighted you-you must oe tan
- mohnly's bow d TO you-you must be low,
# uobody's kiss you-you're ugly we know !;
# nobody's enYied you-you' re poor elf,
If uobody's tatter'd you-hatter yourself.
If uobody's cheated you-you are knavei
If nobody's hated you-you are slave.
II noboay's calrd YOU "f oil y to your lace,
Somebody's wish'd for your back in its place.
II robodv's called you tyrant or scotd
Somebody thinks you Of spiritless mould
If nobody knows of your faults but frlend'
Nobody will miss them at the world 5 END.
If nobody cliugs to your purse like iawn'
Nobody will run like hound when 1t s gone
II nobodv's eaten his bread from your store
Nobody will call you o misery bore
If nobodys Islander you-here is your pen
Sign yourself NOBODY. quick as you can.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21

Mr.. AND Mrs. THUMB are to hold
three levees daily, commencing at
II. A. NJ. next Monday, at the Ire
mont Temple, Boston, when, says
the Boston Tran cript, the fair bride
is to appear in a different attire at
each reception, thus giving all an
opportunity of seeing her rich and
elegant wardrobe, including the bri.
dal costume.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
Morgantown. March 9Th, 1868.
TO John BLY,:

A S ASSIGNEE OF II. S. COOMBS, here
II by demand of you payment IN FULL, of
the interest due on Ave 81 several NOTES exc
cuted by you to said Coombs, and by him assign
ed to me. FOUR of said notes are for Three
Hundred Dollars each, dated March It'll,
1857, and bearing interest from April lst, 1857.
The other OF said Notes is for Four Hundred
and Forty-Six Dollars and SO Cents, da-
ted April 9th, 1859. and bearing interest from
date: AID for failure TO pay said interest,
will proceed to collect all Of said notes. interest
and costs, according to law.
NH It'll ". A. HANWAY.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21

s.M. Pett1ngilI & Co., 81, PARK ROW,
New York city. are our authorized agents for pro-
curing Advertisements and Subscriptions for the
Noy1Iog, in the eastern cities.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21

A WESTERN editor cautions his
tall readers against kissing short wo-
men, as the habit has rendered him
round shouldered.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
BALTIMORE and OHIO RAILROAD
@99 ,
RESUMPTION OF BUSINESS!

RESUMPTION OF BUSINESS! Fl.
The company having thoroughly reconstructed
the breaks in the track and bridges Of their rosd,
under Government protection, and having 70
sumed their tonnage transportation, will, on and
after Tuesday, the LIST April, run three passenger
trains as follows-the road being thoroughly and
completely guarded:
Mail Train will leave Wheeling at $50 p M,
Benwood at 1920 p. N; arrive at Baltimore 81 d
p. m. Y f.@tI
Returning, leave Baltimore at BAG a. m. s,.
rive at Benwood at 4:50 a. M, Wheeling a. a:zo
q. m.
Wheeling and Cumberland Accommodation
Train will leave Wheeling at 8. M, BsnTood ~
1880 a. m; arrive at Cumberland at s:35 P. m.
Returning. leave Cumberland 1t $50 q M a.
rive at Wheeling at GAO p. m. aaT
W.P. SxrrH Master of Transportatsn.
L. ". Cole, Gen'I Ticket Agent.
A. DnYY, B. s. JACOBS, J. p. WILLARD, Tran
Superintendents. pt,. 0IG
]. B. FORD, Gen'l Agent Wheeling. a.
~P. S.-EIpress, East bound, reaches Faif'
mont II minutes past ] O'Clock, .. m: daily
Westward bound at 20 minutes past O'Clock, P.
m. daily. . -. lieo:i4, eSiJ
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New Advertisements.
Commissioners Notice.
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, MoRGASTowS, Va. !


COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, MoRGAyTowS, Va. !
March -. 1863.
THO DORA BELL ARNETT, who sues by !
L HENRY POTTER. her next friend PITTS.
and ELEAZER ARNETT'S FIX or, etal, Def Is.
You are hereby notified that have fixed upon
SATURDAY, the 18th day of APRIL. 1863,
if fair: if not, on the next fair day thereafter,
Sunday exceptcd) to tukc and settle, at my said
office the account ordered by the DEGREES in said
cause, rendered respectively b. the Circuit Court
of Monongalia County, Virginia, at the Fall
Term, 1862, and February ., 1863, which de-
crees direct said Commissioner.
To audit and settle in due course Of law, the
accounts Of the Defendants, David B. Stewart,
as Executor, as aforesaid, and make report there
of to the Court together with any thing else re-
ouired by either Of the parties, or be deemed
pertinent by said Commissioner: Given under
NV hand as Commissioner in Chancery of the
said Court, the day and year first aforesaid.
NH. IA, '63+w-S31 L. S. HOUGH.
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF vIR-

THE COMMONWEALTH OF yIR-
/ GINA. TO THE SHERIFF OF MARION
COUNTY, GREETING: You are hereby COM
manded, as you were heretofore commanded, to
summon the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
PAW to appear before the Justices Of our county
court for the county Of Maron at the clerk S Of
fee of said court, at rules to be holden therein,
on the first Monday in March, 1863, to an
swer William B. Conway, who sues for the use
of James Furbee, in plea OF trespass the case,
damages Three Thousand Dollars. And have
then there this writ. Witness. John A. Vanzandt,
clerk of our said court, at the courthouse Of Ma
rion county, this 25th day of February 1863,
and in the s7th year of the Commonwealth.
JOHN 4. VANZANDT.
a copy. Teste,
JOHN A. TANZANDT, Clerk.
CEeh % '63-4t
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
WOODBURY. Female Seminary

MOrgantOWn, virginia.
T1uE FALL SESSION Of this Institution viii
L commence on the
First wednesday in November, 1863.
Tie most thorough and approved Teachers are
engaged with "A view 10 making thorough scholars
in ii! departments. Four regular classes are en-
Traced in the courSc-Primary, Middle, Junior,
and Senior. ParllS will be examined on applica-
ton and placed in the class to which their profit
cheney entities them. and the Institution having
been regularly Incorporated, diplomas will be
conferred Oh those who complete the regular
course.
Terms per Quarter, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
Board, including Fuel, Light, &c.,...S3O,OO
Tuition in Primary Glass, 400
Junior - HUMANITARIAN. 800
Middle q :. ............. 600
20 Senior - ................ 100
optional Course.
rs Charges will be made per quarter for ~
Lessons on Piano. with use of instrument, $1,000
Guitar, 1" 1000
L" in Drawing Painting, or French, 100
Latin or Creek I.50
~ Books and Stationery furnished at Book
Store Prices.
For further information. Address
REV J. r. MOORE, A. NJ,
Feb. II, G3. If. Superintendent.
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PUNCH on THE PROCLAMATION.

The american Chess Players =
Although of conquest Yankee North despairs,
His brain for some expedient wild he racks,
And thinks that havin' fail on the white squares
He can t do worse by moving on the Blacks.
The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21

The following scathing rebuke to
the Abolition radicals is from the
speech, in Congress, Of Mr.. Harding,
of Kentucky:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-18

the existence OF the4a1. I could not
help thinking it would - i good idea for
the denizens of our cities, who cannot
take their usual summed tfips, to attend
some such meetings ~ tiseone I have re-
ferred to. ] a,n sure they would return
greatly refreshed. hasing secured cheap
enjoyment. By the way. have not the
other denominaticns any convocatious
similar TO Baptist Assoeiasion
| was gratified at the Indications of
prosperity in Nelson The corn is splen-
did. and is regarded as made, while many
Of the large orchards with which the
county abounds are loaded with apples.
Nelson is to me an interesting and pc
culiar county. In Piedmont, and lying
between two of our greAsest railroads, it
contains features which remind one of
the extreme western part fof the State. /
spent one night at hospitable mansion
on the headwaters Of Hockfisl,, just un-
der the Blue Ridge, where, by the way, /
hed the pleasure Of meeting with Hon.
NJ. Hayes. Governor Of Kentucky Ny
worthy host told Ine thas there was a
road running through the county, and
across tbe mountain. which for years
had been considered unsafe for tray
elers, ssssssTssl roi,hersss ada murders
having boen comraittsd on its soil
tndes At this time, he said, the
mountain region through which it
passed Is filled with deserters, who oc-
casionaiiv come down and steal the
means Of subsistence. 1t is believed
! that snany are making their way, on the
mountain. to their distant homes in the
CaroIina~ have heard Of many ro-
| mantle Journey. bat think that Of q
| lone desertcr making the Blue Ridge his
highway for hundreds Of miles might
furnish a chapter for a novel. The re
giou occupied by deserlers, | believe. ex-
! te..ds into Augusta county, and into q
part where il Is said they are harbored
bg a low, dj-loyal community. Would
it nvl be well FIR the authorities 10 have
an eve 20 this thing2 After a prolonged
| conversation with my host retired to
my couch, free from mosquitoes, swcetlv
| famed By the mountbin breeze, and was
lulled TO rest by the babbling OF the
river fl the small hours Of the night !
Was awakened by q shriil, clear blast of
| a horn, which was echoed till it seemed
| like = hundred horns. 1t may have been
| Il summons to the field hands on some
farm, but could not help connecting it
| with what had been listening to, and
being filed with the most romantic
thoughts. and there is no telling what
might have been the result had been
the author Of Wavorly, instead Of sim
ply your humble and most sleepy cor
respondent, MAssANUfTEN.
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A UNITED STATES A0Exr.--''C Colonel'
Estvan, an adventurer, formerly Z fencing
master in Richmond, and Afterwards at-
tached in some capacity to the Wiss
Legion, is now the agent Of Lincoln's Gov.
ernment at Frankfort -on-th Maine for get.
ting foreigners to come over and Join the
Yankee army. He has published in London
a book, entitled "War Pictures Of the South !;
by b. Estvan, Col. Of Cavalry in the Confed-
crate Army" He was formerly partner In
a sword factory in Wilmington, II. g., but
got to stealing from his partner and was
Kicked out. The London Ladex, to whom the
rascal's antecedents were unknown, thuA
speaks of the book:
"His [Estvan's] sketches Of the Conlede.
rates from first to Last betray nncor that b
perfectly inexplicable by anything that h
publicly known Of his history. II he had
been publicly drummed out Of their service
for cOwardice, or detected in reasonable
correspondence and forced to fly for his lie,
he could not revile them with more unscsu.
pulous and unsparing bitterness. He paints
them as mere braggarts and b0astes, apt at
talking, but by no means ready to make good
their boasts when it came to lighting"
We learn that this distinguished Colouei
Of Cavalry has large library In THU city,
which has not yet fallen under the OperaGlo1s
Of the scQuestratiOn act.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-18

Painf,a Necessity Market men travelling
the Mechanicsville Turnpike have lost so
much by the robbery of their fruit and vege
table carts en- route to Richmond, that they
have resolved for the future to travel IN
gangs, arm themselves with double barre
guns loaded with buckshot, and defend theil
property with their lives. Such q necessity
seems to be painful to many Of them, but
they declare that they have lostso much that
they can afford to lose no longer. One oi
the persons alluded to had his entire
crop destroyed Last season, and at the com
mencement of this lost a portion Of his ser
wants by Yankee raid He says he has never
refused to divide bis last crumb with South.
era soldier, and never intends to; but hav-
ing dependent family to support he can
only do 50 by defending his property against
creatures who seem rather TO desire the de-
struciion Of the South than iis prosperity.
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LOCAL NIT TIE RS.

Sent On.-Jsmes Iagan and Barney Ne
Nance, two rolackina wags nom the emmy
South, were examined by called Court Oi
Justices yesterday On the charge Of VIOLENTLY
assaulting aud r0bbing Josiah King e S&
King, it appears, was walking along 15th
street, on the night Of the 10th OF xugusk
when the prisoners approached him, ana, =
"a, aeelsr," ehalsnged him I'm, to % s1ss. Not
IS note, which one OF them grabbed and
walked Off Collecting few friends, King
started in pursuit, captured the robbers, and
turned them over to the police. The justices
thought they ought to be tried before Judge
Lyons for the offence, and so ordered, send
ing the prisoners to Jail.