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ers, until the limb was pulled from the BODY.
Then they would have q peon rejoice and
howl OF exultation, and commence at anoth-
e.. The dead were actually separated with
cr"wbars and pick. Limbs, heads and frag-
ments were shoveled into carts With no more
feeling than Irish laborers would have in
shoveling gravel into railway car. Hun
dreds of bodies, but partially burned, entire
ly naked, were tumbled into open carts and
packed up in the cemetery in one promiscu-
Gus heap, without even the covering of
bundle of straw or bullrush, and hundreds
Of those heartless wretches commenting and
Joking on the scene, and all under the super
vision of the police. l have seen within the
past ten wears here among these people many
things that were TO me very unpleasant. But
this is SO horrifying TO the soul that cannot
lind language 10 express my disgust of them.
twenty-five hundred bodies have been
counted out from the ruins, and il is suppos-
ed many were burned entirely up. The pre-
railing opinion is the number of lives lost
will reach twenty-five hundred. The count
and names collected to date amount to some
fifteen hundred. Many families have lost
the entire female members-six, seven, eight
ard nine from one family. AL those that
could not be recognized by their surviving
friends are now buried in one grave or hole.
\ place twenty five yards square was exca-
vated, and into this they were lait, or tum-
bled and shoveled.
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when he retired from mercantile pursuits to
cultivate the soil. In 1857 he took his seat
in Congress, and although he has no, induls
ed in oratorical displays, he enjoys deserr-
edly high reputation as a working member
of the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr..
Morrill, is yet in the full vigor of life, rather
tall, with what are called stern Roman fea-
tunes, clear blue eve, brown hair and side
whskers, and very common-sense look
Those who find him unwilling to favor their
individual interests in the adjustment of tar
ifs or taxes don't like him, but those who
can appreciate his services in advancing the
industry and in Strengthening the finances
of the country, look upon him as ",he right
man in the right place. ."-PerIey in Journal.
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Coles battalion is an independent body Of
cavalry, composed of the loyal border men of
Maryland and Virginia, famed through all
ms valley for their gallantry. After return
- from tore-running Gen. Averill IN his
great raid they were ordered lst around
l. udon Mountain, to guard the gate to the
open rebel country. 1t seemed cruel to drop
small a band of men at the base Of noun
~ns thronged with robbers and murderers
Is ruthless and desperate as were ever bri-
laud or banditti of terrible story. What had
l"r yultures TO do but to descend in tloCks
and carry off their pray? But while the
battalion guarded the road, were not General
Sullivan and his staff perfectly safe in their
comfortable beds in Harper's Ferry? Then
VINO can doubt the wisdom of the order ?
1ow much harder for general to be driven
from an easy couch ." or to Richmond than
Tor cayalryman driven from the frozen
ground But guard duty was not enough.
WITH horses Jaded and broken by tle Ayerill
rad, seventy-nve picked men of the battal-
ion went few days since on another scout
into the very heart of the rebel country
They met five hundred mounted rebels. O.
course, and after gallant fight they were
oyerpowed with numbers and fifty of the
heroic little band captured. While their COM
rales left behind were sleeping in their little
tents at four o'clock this Sabbath morning
TWO hundred guerrillas detled down the
mountain path, and seizing the pickets, en-
tered the camp and fired in upon the sleep
1s soldiers. One poor fellow, raising him
SET up from sleep, said, What is the mat
Ter only 10 fail back dead
Capt. Smith, the redoubtable Mosby'
HsAt hand man, the leader of the murderou
crew. charged upon tent, calling upon it.
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lnmates to surrender, swearing that they
would have no prisoners, but "horses and
carbnes." A hero within lifted the tent
cloth and surrendered by emptying the con-
tents of his revolver into the breast of Smith
tie fell back dying, yet with an oath he call
ed upon his men. " I'm gone up; rally, boys !!
Give no quarter to the Yankees" he cried as
he died. Capt. Vernon, the officer of the dav,
the only officer of the battalion with the men
IN camp, was terribly wounded. His eve
torn out, his cheek bone shattered, reeling
with pail, the blood streaming down his face
ne called for his revolver, and rallying his
men, led them against the foe till he fell
senseless. They fought desperately, these
seventy men against the two hundred, vet
forty were taken prisoners. While their
captors were making sure of their plunder
the horses and carbines, these forty prisoners
escaped and hid themselves amid the holes
and rocks of the mountains. Hearing the
cry: reinforcements !" the robbers retreat
ed IN confusion. AS they rushed past, the
brave forty fired upon them, and numbers
tell dead and wounded in the path. All but
forty of the four escaped. Half dressed, Just
as they had been driven from their " hunks :"
without hats, without shoes; with frozen feet
they struggled down through the snow of the
mountain, and appeared before the startled
guards of the Ferry, at day break. Thus We
drank our coffee sorrowfully, yet part in Joy
that Coles cavalry, though so bitterly attack
ed, had no, been vanqushed Yet we must
mourn for the young life cut down.
Just over the hill in the old Lutheran
Church hospital lies young Recon Cross, a
native Of this village e,vho fell in the fight this
morning. 1t was he who gave the alarm cry
of Rein forcemcn which routed the rob-
bers, and then fell pierced with three NOR
tai wounds. He is scarcely twenty, brave,
brght-eyed boy, the only son and dependent
of his mother, widow the beloved brother
OF one young sister. Nearly three years in
the saddle, how they have prayed, and hoped
and believed that nOm he would be spared to
the end. When they carry his body and lay
it down before his mother, SO utterly bereft,
can she say:
Thanks to the gods Ny boy has done his duty
Welcome my son. There set him down, my
friends,
Full in my sight. that | may view at leisure
The bloody cOrpes,a and count the glorious wounds,
Who would not be this youth What pity It's
l hat we can die but once to save our country ~
Letter from Huper'S ForY.
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National SALUTATIONs.-The climate of
Egypt: IS fe'erous, and perpsiraiion is neoes-
sary 10 health; hence the Egyptian, meeting
you, asks " HO" DO You perspire'" Have
you eaten Is your stomach in good order ,"
asks the Chinaman-a touching solicitude,
which can only BE- appreciated by nation of
sOurmands. The travelling Hollander asks
You: How do You gO:?" The thoughtful,
active Swede demands: "Of what do Won
think p The Dane, more placid, uses the
German expression Live well ," But the
greeting of the Pole is bes, of all: Are
You happy"
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Justin $. Morrill,.

Foreign gentlemen visiting the House of
Representatives always inquire for the author
of the Morrill, Tariff" which they have been
false y taught by secessionists is one of the
causes OF this rebellion. Nor is there in the
crpitol better specimen of a practical, in
telligent, industrious, and above all, honest
legislator, than is personi6ed in the senior
Representative from the Green Mountain
State. He was born up among those pleas
ant hills in 1910, received AMI academic edu.
cation, and kept store until the year lS4S,
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81 will take bite, too" as the wolf said.
when he came across a man eating his din
ner In the woods.
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r.r,--It paid strictly IN advance, per annum 81 81
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D.. ,,oc, three in4prtiGrs. 81 Each additional III
., Tc,n.. u -quagc. \ liberal discount to tho-l
,Iv<ti. hv the year. Liherations. Estravs. Notices
..f-,tr-,. ~ each in adv ancr.
4 prrIv.S III. Co.. - Park Row. New York. and
,tr.st Eo-toI. and 5. X. Mills, Scollay's Build
,,r.f -,r,c'. 10. on, authorized Agents.
, prI,rl>,, Of all knds done neatly and al living
Al kinds Of Paper. and Cards kept constantly
D., ,and
:, Jnu>spvEy BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
GEO. ). SHAW,
1xSTRAN nee AG ENT,
G,fcc with J Ross. Jewetts Building
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Manufacturer of HARNESSES, etc,
urp.,,te Pa.sumpsc House, Railroad street.
G.. C. CHILOS,
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-, opposite Post Ohce Main street
WM. IL. HORTON,
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ni,Ains Goods Railroad street
III. c. DICKINSON,
AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE SEED STORE.
Butter, Building. Railroad street.
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v,u.ifacturcr K Dealer in Furniture and Chairs
ST Johnsbury Centre.
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SOLDIERS. BACK PAY, BOUNTIES AND PENSIONS
obtained NJ charges unless successful.
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Erie Railway.
Great Broad Gauge, Doube Track and Telegraph Route TO
NEW YORK, BOSTON

aKa a R11 IL a stern Cities,
Carrying the Great Western and South Western T. s. Mails
UN
IMPRESS TrainS leave Dunkirk daily
arrival of all Tlans the Lake Shore Raroa from
Cleveland Cincinnati Toledo Chicago Milwaukee, st Paul
ST. Louis &c and through to New York without change
The only running through from the Lakes to n
York City. Splendid Ventilated Sleeping Cars Night
Trains.
Baggage checked through Fare always low By any
other route.
Boston Passengers and their Baggage transferred Free in
New York.
be particular to call for Tickets via Dunirk and the Erie
Railway which ae cold at all the principal Railroad Offices
In the West
ThsRoad affords superior facilities for shimeh ofreig
Express FrciQhi Trains
Leave New York daily making close connections through to
all points West.
New York JOHN DUNLAP. Is State Street, Boston
Mass of E. SPENCER, Western Agent ca Clark Street
Chicago 6q2 Cha's nIjpOt, Gen Snpt
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A clergyman, 10 his travels. met with an
emierant journeying with his family to the
fertile regions beyond the Mississippi
He had all his worldly goods packed on
Wagons, and on one load there hung Q
huge Jug with the bottom out. He asked
him why lie carried that With him. why"
said be, "that is my Taylor Jug" "And
what Is Taylor jug ?" asked my friend
why" said be, II had son with Gen.
eral Taylor's army in Mexico. and he'old
General always told him to carry his whis
key-jag wish hole 10 the bottom ant
since that / have carried my Jug as yo'
see 10 and / Gnd it is tho best Invention
that I ever met with"
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From the Nahoning Register.
Spring - Coming.
NY HARRIET Il. HART.

Spring is coming Spring is coming
Beautiful, beautiful Spring
Old Winter is dead and laid on his bier,
And his shroud Is prepared, and his grave is
near;
No more shall we hear his signing and moana,
His surly voice and his chilling tones;
His icy breath shall disturb no more
The well-fed Dives, or starving poor
He is gone he is gone and glad adleu
We bid, to welcome sweet Spring anew.
Spring is coming Spring Is coming
Beautiful, beautiful Spring
What glorious hopes that name doth bring,
or fruits, and flowers, and birds, and things
Of the hearvest glad, and Autumn's prime,
And the glorious beauty of summer time,
And the breath of roses--dewy-lipped,
And the fruits of fAutumn--crimson-tip
Yes song of joy each heart doth sing,
AT thy glad approach, OSpring, sweet Spring
AMI For Peace Yes.
This ringing lyric is said to have been written
by the Hon. DANIEL S. DICKINSON, ofNew York,
in responce to letter addressed to him by a
lady to know if he was not in favor of peace.
For the peace which rings out from the can
mons throat, ,Ntt.-e
And the suasion of shot and shell,
Till rebelions spirit is trampled down
To the depth of its kindred hell.
For the peace which shall follow the squadrons
tramp, sas a
Where the brazen trumpets bray,
And, drunk with the fuiy of storm and strife,
The blood red chargers neigh.
For the peace that shall wash out the leprous
stain
OF our slavery-foul and grim. ..- r &
And shall sunder the letters which crcak and
clank
On the down trodden dark mans limb.
will curse him as traitor, and false of heart,
Who would shrink from the conflict now,
And will stamp it, with blistering, burning
brand,
On his hdeous, Cainlize brow
Out out of the way With your spurious peace,
Which would make us rebellion's slaves;
We will rescue our hnd from the traitorous
grasp,
Or cover it over with graves,
Out! out of the WaY! with your knaYish
schemes
You trembling and tiadng pack
Crouch away in the dark like a sneakng hound,
That its master has driven back,
You would barter the fruit of our fathers
And sell out the stripes and stars,
To purchase place with rebellions votes,
Or escape from rebdlions scars.
BY the widows wall, by the mothers tears,
BY the orphans who cry for bread,
BY our sons who fell we will never yield
Till rebeon's SOULS dead.
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WHOLE NUMBER. 74g



In the April number Of the Nocfh Amer-s
icam RoUisw we fad the following passage
in nm elaborate article reviewing the report
Of Major General MeClellau,gs .l.rss ssge
There is no other kind Of failure which,
eome' SO directly home to uc, none which
| appeals TO so many OF the most deeplv-root-.
ed sentiments at once Want OF success
in any other shape Is comparatively per-
sonal misfortune TO the man himself who
fails; but how many hopes, prides. sacri6
ces and heroisms are centered In him who
welds the embattled manhood Of bis couu-s
lryi An army is too multitudnous TO calf
forth that personal enthusiasm which Is a.
necessity of the heart. The imagination
needs single figure which il can invest
With oil those attributes OF admiration that
become vague and poin,less when divided
among host Accordingly, we imperson-
ale in the general, not only the army be
leads, put Whatever qualities We are proud
in the nation itself He becomes for the
moment the iieal of all masculine viriues,
and the people are eager to lavish their ado
miration upon him. His position gives
him at bound v hat her men must spend
their lives in winning or yainly striving to,
pride Of prowess which though it may be a
fault Of character 10 the individual man, is
the noblest of passions in people. II be
lose one. we are all beaten with him; We
al fall down With our Ce sar, and the grief
glistens in every eye, the shame burns oaI
every cheek. Morsze as we may about,
the victories Of peace and the superiority
of The goosequill over the sword, there is
10 achievement of human geuius on which
a country SO prides itself as on success 10
war, no di,grsce over which it broods so
inconsolable as military disaster. gIa7 se
There is nothing more toDching than the
sight Of nation in search of its great man;
nothing more beautiful than its readiness to-
accept hero on trust. Nor is thisa feeble
sentlmentality. 1t is much rather noble
yearniug of what is best in us, for it is only
IN these splendid figures bich now aud then
sun up all tie nnbIer attributes of charsc-
ter that the muliitudes of men can ever
hope TO fud their blind instinct of excel.
ieuce real zed and satisfied. Not without
reaSon.sre nations always synbolzed as
women, for there is something truly femiline,
iu the devotion with which they are willing
10 give all tor and to their ideal man, aud
the z'nl wi which they drape some impro-y
vIsed Agamcmnou with all the Outward
shows Of royslty oll the property room
of Imagination. THIS eagerness OF loyalty
toward first rate character is one of the
/ conditions Of mastery in every sphere Of hu-
lunn activity, for it is the stuff that genius
wo'ks in. Heroes, to he sure, cannot be
made to order, yet with man Of the right
| fnre, who has the stuff greatness in hum.
the popular en-, husia,p would go far to-.
ward making him IN fact what he is in fancy.
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t..-- = -.rxr-r-rarr1 rJsztCEgEszzE1 CNzFz7rEFK1
IfA o. sssssIssss:esssa
TIME TABLE OF THE
CLEVELAND & ERIE RAIL ROAD
Passenger Trains will run as follows;

Trains do not stop at Stations where the tim is omitted
IN the above tables.
Allthrough Trains going Westward connect at Cleveland
with Transfor Toledo Chicago Columbus, C. Hnati Ia
diancpoiis, &c.
And all going Eastward atDunkir
with the Trains eN. Y f. r. r. and at Buao, with those
OF N Y Central, and Buffalo N. Y. City Rail- Dnds, for
Rsn York IibapB. BOstoH. Niagara Fohs. &c, &c;
Day Express Eastpup West connects at Giratd with rahs
the Erie Pittsburgh Road for linesville Mesdye,
jamestown, &c. Pa - II, NOTTINGHAM, SpPt'
CLEVELAND, April 49, 1893
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WHEN TO PAISr.-Experieace has indi'
Gated that paint on surfaces exposed 10 the
san will bs much more durable II applied
in autumn or spriug. than Il put on during ho
weather. In cool weather, il dries slowly,
foru,s hard. glossy coat. tough like glass,
while il applied during warm weai her, The o..
strikes iuto the wood, leaving the paint SO
dry that II is rapidly beaten OF by rains
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EcoNoMY IN A FAMILY There is nothing
which goes so far toa ard placing young
people beyond the reach of poverty as econ
omy in the management of household affairs
1t matters not whether man furnishes liz
lie or mach for his family, if there is q
continual leakage in bis kitchen or parlor;
il ruus away be knows not how, aud that
demon waste cries More! like the horse
leech's daughter. until he that provides
has no more 10 give. It is the hgSbands
duty TO bring into the house; aud it is the
du,y of the wife to see that none goes
wrongiuliy out of it. A mau gets life
10 Iouk after his fairs, aud 10 assist him
IN his ioluey through life; TO educate and
prepare their children for proper situa-
tion in life, aud not to dssipate bis prop
erly. The husbands interest should be the
wiie's care, aud her greatest ambition tc
ca, ry ber no farther than his welfare or thai
OF her children This should be ber sole ain
aud The theater of her exploits in the DO
ION OF her family, whe.e She may do as muel
toward making fortune as be can do ~
the counting room or workshop.
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Administrators Sale Real Estate.
TN PURSUANCE of an Order Of the

for sale al public Auction the Both day Of april d. 1854
one O'clock upon the prense the wing descb-
age Of Geneva OF Ohio being about thirty
rods Of land bounded south BY the North Ridge Road
West aud North by H. horgans land. Appraised at $500
Terms OF sale third n hand year
third In two from the day ofsas the pay
ntnts TO be interest and secured on premises sold.
r. b. MUNGER. Admir-
Geneva, Nsrche5 1854 4t44 OF Z, H. Leete, deed.
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The Original Copperheaa.

We are not quite iure but that we have pub.
lished the Iollowiugmorcea before, but whether
we have or not, its Orce and aptness as an Illus
traton should make it frontlet TO hang con,
staut'y before the eyes of coppcrbeads. You
cannot stop at street corner, and pass a word
with Que of them, tut in almost the ideuticle
words Of the trqitorof 1880, he will begin to
lament the loss of ihe liberty ofspeech and OF
the press, audthe restraa'ng of the liberty OF
person. Let the loyal reader compare the
position Of the Early Traitor and the present
copperhead, aud note the sympathy aud affiuily
between them.
From Benedict Apolds Proclamation to the Citizens and
Soldiers OF the United States issued Oct. 20, 1850.
1ou are promised liberty by the leaders
Of your affairs, but is there an individual
III the enjoyment oft, saving your oppres-
soFs? Who among you dare speak or
write what be thinks against the tyranny
which has robbed you of your properly,
mprisons your sous, drags you to be field
Vt buttle, and is daily delugiug your coun
Try with your blood
Your country ouce was happy, and had
he profered peace been embraced, the last
Two years Of misery had been spent in
peace and plenty, aud repairing the desola
non OF quarrel that would have set the
Interests Of Great Britain and America in
true light, and cemenled their friendship.
wish TO lead chosen baud of Ameri-
cans TO the Rttaiupent of peace, liberty. and
satetg the first objects in taking the field
What is America but land of widows,
orphans and begge rs--but what need o
arguments to such as feel iufini,cly more
misery than tongue can express. l give
my promise of most affeclionate welcome
o all who are disposed to join me in meas
ures necessary to close the scene of ouI
uffiicliOn, which must he increased until we
are coulent WIKI The iDerality Of the pa
'sn; country, who still offers US protection
and perpetual exemption from all taxes but
,uch as we shall think fit to impose npo,
ourselves. BENEDICT ARNOLD. -
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Tale Rearing,

Never repeat q story unless yon are
certain it is correct, aud eYea not then
gnless something is o be gained, either OF
interest 10 yourself, or for the good Of he
person concerned. Tattling isa mean aud
wicked practice, and he who INDUCES 10 il,
grows more fond of it, in proportion as he
is successful Ii you have no good to say
of your peighbnr, never reproach bis char
acter by telling that which is false He
VINO tells You The faults of others, intends
TO tell Others of your faults: : aud the dish
of news is handed from one 10 another,
until the tale becomes enormous. "A story
never lose, any lhing." is wisely remai ked
but on The Contrary gain, in proportion as
il is repeated by those Who have not I
very strict regard for truth. Truly th'
tongue is au unruly member full Of deadly
POISON