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fred in honor of the event.
Washington, July 25.-The National Repub-
Hcan says that positive information received states
that Lee has been delaying on the Potomac to
enable him to get away safely with the plunder
collected in Maryland and Pennsylvania. 1t also
states that his forces have been gathering the new
crops of grain in the Shenandoah valley. He is
now moving toward Richmond with immense
trains otsupplies the necessity fprocuring which
has been increased by the fall Of Vicksburg and
Port Hudson which is now intensified by the cut
ting of the Tennessee and Virginia railroad, the
great medium Of procuring supplies
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Remarkable Recovery from a wound.
ANashvile correspondent Of tie osseinpati
Gazette says:
The most extraordinary cases o. suFVs,ing ay-
parently mortal wounds that has ever came un-
der my observation is that of John w. Vance,
Company B, Seventy-second Regiment of Indi-
ana mounted infantry, commanded by Colonel
Miller Early in April made a brief report of
the case in a letter from Murfeesboro, but at
that time had no idea of the severity of the
wounds The demoniacal malignity that could
have induced any one bearing the human
form to inAict such wounds under the circum-
stances seems almost beyond conception
While tie regiment to which young Vance be-
longed to was scouting near Taylorsville (Tenn.)
he and a companion were taken prisoners. Du-
ring the next twenty-four hours their capto-s
treated them kindly. They neither saw nor
heard anything to lead them to suspect that any
different treatment was in store for them till they
came within mile or two of Lebanon. Here
the rebels wished to be free from the care of their
prisoners. They, therefore, tied them to a tree.
A Captain French, of the rebel army, objected TO
the plan of leaving them this pinioned and at
once cody and calmly drew his revolver and fred
three shots through the head of each as they
were pinioned to the trees. His comrade
was at once dispatched; but as Vance was unfast-
ened, he fell forward on his face, and another of
the rebel band, named Cartwright, fred fourth
shot through the victims head,
Vance assures me that he did not at any time
lose his consciousness. He heard all they said
and knew all they did Here he lay twenty-six
hours during the 18th and 9th of April, when he
was found by some of our troops and brought in
to camp and his wounds were dressed by Sur
geon of one ofthe Ohio regiments Nothing was
done fer him till thirty-two hours after he was
wounded. These are facts. Now for the nature
Of the wounds: They were inflicted by the large
revolver used by our cavalry, and the cold-blood-
ed murderers fred within yard of the pinioued
victims head. The first shot took effect about
an inch back and below the right cheek bone,
and came out on the opposite side, about the
same distance from the left cheek bone. The
second ball entered about an inch and a half be-
low, and little nearer the ear than the first, and
passing through in the same line of the first,
breaking the jaws aud loosening The teeth The
third entered the neck just below and in line
vertical to the lower tip of the ear This lodged
in the opposite side of the neck whence the Sur
geon removed it. The fourth-the one that had
been inflicted by Cartwright, after he had been
thrown on his face-entered back Of his ear,
about the center of combativeness, and escaped
through his left eye, comparatively destroying it.
And yet John w. Vance lives and looks we'll and
hearty. He is an intelligent, good looking young
man, just arrived at his majority. sat half an
hour on the adjoining cot and conversed with
him and examined his wounds while he was eat
ing his dinner and he ate with the relish of a
man who loves life and desirse to prolong it
The loss of his left eye will be his only disfgure-
ment.
AN ARITHMETcAL AcTUALITY.-A fellow up
town being little "short, and little dry, walked
into store and purchased three crackers before
paying, seeing that the storekeeper had cider, he
came to the sage conclusion that he was more dry
than hungry, and asked permission to swap the
crackers for the cider. Biting off the end of the
cider with a smack of the lips, he turned on his
heel and opened the door to go out, when the
storekeeper said:
"Come, pay me for the cider"
didn't swap the crackers for the ciderP" said
the other
"Well, then, pay me for the crackers" said the
puzzled trader.
"Havent you got them on the shelf? What
you hindering me for, ye darned ioOl?" and
off be went
A few years ago a little fellow was taken by his
father to a carpenter, to be hound apprentice to
him, after a fashion of old times. In settling
the business the master, who was one of the stiff
kind observed;
"Wel, my boy, suppose you can eat almost
anything, can't youP always make my boys
live on what they don't like"
Il love everything but ninth and apple pieth," :"
lisped the boy
The REBEL FLAG.-A design for flag has at
last been adopted by the Rebel Congress. 1t
has white field, with the battle flag for a union,
square in shape, and occupying twO-thirds of the
Width of the flag, and blue bar, one-third of the
flag in width, dividing the field lengthwise bar
sinister ....
A MEMPHIS paper publishes whiskey is abund-
ant and not dear in that city. Prentice, in no
tceing the statement, says "This falsehood is
manifesty the last desperate resource for getting
LoSelheI III henhpls quorum VI VHS LeSloia
ture.
A BEREAvED Western widow addressed the
rall-bearers at funeral, with: "You pall-bear-
els, just go into the buttery, and get some rum,
and we'll start this man right along"
Many preacher complains of empty pews
when they are really not much emptier than the
pulpit.