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Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

ABOUT ToADs.--A correspondent Of
the Cambridge Chronicle, few years
ago, put in plea for toads, and justiiies
his partially by the following, which we
extract from his communication
"We have in our garden small nur-
sery of plum trees, which have been
nearly destroyed by the canker worms.
Last season we commenced shaking
them off. One day we observed many
toad5 about these trees, and on our ap-
proach they became frightened and re-
treated in great haste to their retreats in
the neighboring bushes. Soon finding
that they were not pursued, they began
hopping back, and caught with avidHy
each canker worm as it descended on its
tiny thread. We counted at one time 30
Immediately around our feet. Day after
day we fed them with their favorite food,
and they became so tame as to follow US,
watch our land and take the worm from
our fingers"
Another writer says /: "In the autumn
a pit wherein melons were grown was so
much infested with ants as to threaten
the destruction OF the whole crop, which
they did, first by perforating the skin,
and afterwards eating their way into the
fruit; and making several unsuccessful
attempts to destroy them, it occurred TO
US that we had seen the toad feed on
them. We accordingly put half a dozen
of toads into the pit, and in few days
scarcely an ant was to be found"
Several years ago gentleman adver-
tised for toads to put in bis garden, for
which he paid small sum each, and if
others would follow bis example, and
thus induce the boys TO save the toads
alive, instead of killing them, all would
be Home Journal.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

A preacher not long since asking to
stay at night at country house was for
bidden by lady. Knowing her to be
member of the church and generally
known TO entertain ministers, he began
to quote Paul to her, hoping that she
would understand by this that be was q
preacher. He hardly got out "for there
by some have entertained angels una
wares when she said 81 know, sir, but
angels would not come with quids Of to-
baeco stuck in their mouths" The
preacher left without any further cere-
mony.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16
The Old Folks Room.

The old man sat by the chimney side,
His face was wrinkled and wani
And he leaned both his hands on his stout oal
cane.
AS if all his work was done.
His coat was of good old-fashioned gray,
The pockets were deep and wide;
Where his 'specks' and steel tobacco-box
Lie Snugly side by side.
The old man liked to stir the fire,
So near him the tongs were kept;
Sometimes he mused as he gazed at the Goals,
Sometimes he sat and slept.
What saw he in the emhers therei
Ali pictures of other years;
And now and then they awakened smiles,
But often started tears.
His wife sat on the other side,
In high-back fag-seat chair;
I see meath the pile of her muslin cap
The shine of her silvery hair,
There's happy look on her aged face,
As she busily knits for him,
And Nellie takes up the stitches dropped,
For grandmother's eyes are dim.
Their children come in and read the news,
To pass the time each day;
How 1t stirs the blood in the old mans heart,
To hear Of the world away.
'Tis homely scene, I told you SO,
But pleasant it is to view;
At least thought it so myself,
And sketched it down for you.
Be kind unto the old, my friends,
They're worn with this worlds strife,
Though bravely once perchance they fought
The stern, fierce battle of life.
They taught our youthful feet to climb
Upward life's rugged steep;
Then let us gently lead them down
To where the weary sleep.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16
WHOLE NUMBER 455.

MATRTMoNY IN 0LpEN TIMEs.---
Rev. t. L. Cuyler, in recent letter
from Greenfield, Conn, relates some in
teresting incidents Of its early history
He says:
Among the pleasing "reminiscences cf
those days is The famous courtship of the
Rev. Stephen Mix, of Weatbersfeld.---
He made a journey 10 Northampton in
1896, in search Of wife. He arrived
at lhe Rev. Solomon SioGdard's, inform
ed him of the object Of his visit, and the
pressure of home duties, requiring the u:
most dispatch. Mr.. Stoddard took him
into the room where his daughters were,
auu mrrouuceG Hnn 10 MAY, lyastrI,
Chrisiiana, ReJeckah and Hannah, and
then retired. Mr.. Mix, addressing Ma
ry the eldest daughter, said he had been
lately settled at Weathersfeld and was
desirous of obtaining a wife, and conclud-
ed by Offering her bis heart and hand
She blushingly replied that so important
proposition required time for consider
alton. He replied that he was pleased
that she asked for suitable time for re-
feciion, and that in order to afford her
the needed opportunity for reflection
he would step into the next room and
smoke pipe with her father. and she
could report to him. Having smoked
bis pipe and sent message TO Miss
Mary that he was ready for her answer,
she came in and asked for further time
for consideration. He replied that she
could reflect still longer on the subject,
and send her answer by letter to Wealth
ersfield. In few weeks be received her
reply, which is probably the most lsconic
epistle ever penned. Here is the model
letter which was soon followed by the
wedding:
NORTHAMPTON, 1896.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

The henpeckedIhusband would be hap
py enough if he were only let alone
But he generally has some kind friend
who is perpetually urging him ''not to
stand IT,"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

An Irishman, illustrating the horrors
Of solitary confinement, stated that out OF
one hundred personss entenced to endure
this punishment for Ife, only fifteen sur
viyed il
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

A biography of Robespierre, which
in an Irish paper, concludes in
the following manner: "This extraordi-
nary man left no children behind him but
bis brother, who was killed at the same
time"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

A rural editor was recently married.
and previous to starting on his wedding
tour, promised his readers that he would
give them a minute detail of all he sac
and did. No doubt there viii be call
for an extra edition Of his paper.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

The news of death of John Morgan.
the great rebel raider, is confirmed
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16
Rev. Stephen Mix {:
Mary Stoddard.

The matrimonial Mix-ture took place
on the lst Of December, 1896, and pro-
we'd to be compounded of the most con-
genial elements. Mix was pastor of that
paradise of onions for "A years.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

A fools wrath is presently known: but
a prudent man covereth shame.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16

The long head is never headloug.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-16
"For Fathers Honor"
BY t. S. ARTHUR.

so much gonel l might have known
how it would be = said Mr.. Sterling,
looking up from the morning paper with
a most unpleasant expression upon bis
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06
THE f4NhEE SECURITIES ~ GERN4NT.
s

FROM The iohdon IiincS lCity Aftltej August 10.
The accounts from Germany show that tie demand
for United States bonds has not experienced the
slightest diminution Tie parcels brought to London
by the weekly steamers and transmitted to Frank
fort are absorbed as fast as they arrive at prices
which yield good profit to the importers. Each
successive fall to be regarded by the existing
holders almost with qualification, instead of may
since they apparently entertain doubt Of ultimate
payment Ill full and conScq quctly consider that each
decline simply enables them to increase the acqui-
sition Of securities forced of by the Americans at
Tremendous sacrifice from the momeutary pressure
Of circumstances. They rely that the bonds are
inherently worth par, and he who invested at the
price of sixty regards decline of forty but as an
excellent opening to buy more. 50 rs to make an
average price Of fifty for holding which he feels
convinced will, Ill moderate time, bring him back
one hundred. III the present mood, therefore, OF
these investors fall ot thirty to twenty would only
be an increase of golden opportunities. The fact
that liquidation has already been revived III some
of the wcaltheSt and most influential Of the indi-
vidual States of the North appears not to have
reached tlien or to have reached them only to DC
disregarded. The instance Of the State of New
York refusing to continue the payment Of its divi-
dends III specie was alarming, but as such payments
at the time Of the creation oi the debt not,
perhaps, actually stipulated, but merely implied, the
measure did not constitute open violation OF de-
finite contracts. 1t is true that the New York State
Constitution forbade the introduction OF Ii currency
like that Of greenbeck5, and foreign purchasers
of New York bonds may complain that it has
taken place; but if the New York holders cIu-
not make anything of that point it is of no lrse
ior others to argue 1t. In Indiana and Pennsyl-
vania the proceedings have been distinct, and no
sophistry is attempted. Indiana declines to otter
ANYTHING but sreenbacks for the dividends which
she expressly bound herself to pay to hen foreign
creditors i'll sterling, and Pennsylvania has Chaiac
teristically given the sanction Of law for the
handed conscation of the rights alike Of her home
and foreign creditors. Her debt contra Cted
under solemn enactment that the interest should
be paid i'll specie OF its equivalent As it has always
been her habit to do everything with the soberness
.
a law to declare that she will pay only i'll green
backs Of course she might, with equal proprcty,
after having contracted her debt under stipulation
to pay SIX per cent interest," pass law that she will
pay interest whatever. The latter, perhaps, VIII
Ill due time, especially whenever it comes it
cannot further compromise the honor Of the State
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06
THE MAILS AND THE CENTRAL RAILROAD |

THE MAILS AND THE CENTRAL RAILROAD
We are extremely gratiaej u be enabled to state
that the points vt diagreenielit between the Presi-
dent of the Central railroad and the Postmaster
General have been settled, ami that the trausporta-
ton VI the mails over that route will BE- resumed
to-day. We congratulate the people along the line
OF the road upon the prospects Of an early return to
the mail facilities which thay have 80 long enjoyed,
ami which they will more than appreciate
from having temporarily been deprived Of them
All will agree with that the contracting parties
have done "a very sensibe thing in coming together
IN spirit Of cDndlatOp and coml'romie and re.
oonding differences which entulei serious incon.
vrnssnce upon a numerous class Oi eup community
With regard t. the terms VI the hew arrange
nont We learn that the PJstmaster-General agreed
t. modify the contract as to give the railroad
company sufficient protection against fines without
notice and also 10 admit the chief officers of the
company to the mail apartments for tLe purposes Of
police aud inspection TO prevent any Ling improper
beng carried in them. The president of the COM
pany Therefore waived all further objection 10 sign
ing the contract Ola account Of amy remaining dit
iorsEye5 ls 10 fines OF deductions which the Post
IA Ister- q eneHii may impose for not carrying the
mail when military authority prevents
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06
TIE DRAFT IN VIEW YORK.

A New York letter, dated the 25;L ultimo, says
The draft to come oil Oh the 5th OF September Ii
the leading idea, Just now, III the public mind. 1t
cXciteS more remarks than Richmond, Petersburg OF
Atlanta, and the question Of its enforcement Is
fully discussed Oh Change a. ii Nackerelvilie and
other places where G0velnoT yniours Z" friends"
and the dangerous cldsst st 10 ConGregate.
The Board of Supervisors, b, meeting this
afternoon, unanimously adopt, urions III favor
OF acting concert with the Cove OF the State
to ask the President and Secretary ot War t. grant
Il postponement Of the drawing also Il quote) " to
urge the necessity of eXemplng thefetiom the fire
men actually doing duty such, the uniformed
military regiments and such members OF the police
force as are essential tor the preservation Of public
order, and also to represent to the authorities the
hardship OF taking the heads OF families upon whom
devu!vcs the duty of providing means Tor their sup
port"
l may add that rapid decline in the price OF sub
stituteS repoTtedthts atternoon Ill consequence OF
a telegram from Albany, announcing that super
visor Blunt has forwarded to Governor Seymour
proof positive that there have been 5000 enlist
ments tor the navy, III this city, since the COM
meuceingnt Of the war. The Governor il Is further
announced, will at once communicate with the War
Department for the purpose VI having these enlist
ments credited to the city, and, i'll the event OF a
favorable response, New York will not only be re-
leyed from the CONSUMPTION but will have some
six thousand ot surplus to start with should there
be another call. The substitute brokers swear
ing dreadfully this coup dcgt, and unless the
DrovoSt-malsha refuses to admit the Supervisor )
ana the Governors claim, their occupation, far
Gotham is concerned, will be gone.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06
.a It's bulletin dated The instant, say,

ia its bulletin dated the % IKstaIlt, says:
To-day the Yankees Effected a loigment on tho
Macon and western railroad, between Rough aud
Ready and East Point stations. They attacked
forces with corps, and by u very fierce aud oh
stinate effort succeeded III gaining the position
which divides our army General nIrdec's corps,
under Cleburne. and Lees corps all combined under
tho charge OF General HaTdec resisted the advance
of the enemy with determined valor and unexam-
pied bravery from early this morning until night
when the enemy still held possession OF the road.
General Hood, with Stewards corps and the
Georgia militia, remains III Atlanta, and commuui
cation between the two portions is kept up only by
couriers. 1t is supposed that the enemy will make
rapid and terrible onset on the detences Of At
lanta at the earliest moment they reach the
city; Eo ,.,,. u,.. nam, ,oou., -, a,,i., ,;,o
to-day, and resulted Ill very considerable loss to US
A large number of the wounded were arriving on
the trains during the night.
General Patton Anderson was seriously wounded
III the face, and General Cumming wounded very
badly They will arrive at this place OH the night
train.
\ letter from Atlanta, dated the 30th notices the
movement Of Hoods troops to meet that Of Sher-
mali, and says:
NJ uueasiness Is felt about the occupation O the
West Point road as it has not been found essential
although seIvoelble. The Georgia railroad will be
reconstructed possible. The iron, which
was stolen by the Yankee and carried off, viii be
replaced by drafts upon the asLngton ald Thomas
ton branches.
Tie Iepolt that II portion vi Wh,elel's command
had appeared at Iullahomt, Oh the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad, is untrue. General Wheeler
has united with General john Morgan at I.oudon
in East Tennessee They will operate permanently
i'll that section
The losses dming the bolnbaldment Of Atlanta
will reach five millions OF dollars worth vi real es
tate, embracing tortySeren houses burnt, four hun
lred aud ninety-seven persons killed and Blk hun
ired and ninety-One wounded.
Bishop Cary and Dr. Quintard are here a mis-
sion Of piety and charity, doing much gopd, and
cheering many hearts
town to NiInng's station.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06

Later accounts from Georgia represent that our
army Is ia line Of battle, confronting sherman ad
vance, at LOvcIOy'a 4ta,on, the Macon and west
erI railroad, twenty -niI,e mile from Atlanta We
have good authority iuI stating that every effort was
made by General Hood 10 hold Atlanta 10 The last
Ia abandoning tc place the Army oi Tennessee.
was saved intact, and all the tin,,s were brought
oii ,li,ly The surplus ordnance and co,lmiss.ry
atolcr were blown up burned, all the enemy
gained nothing bat a city in luiu8. The Yankee,
entered Atlanta in .'iut and vf,Ictly manner on
Friday morning last at nine o',lo.k aud took pos
session garrison and post Commaudant were
lett III thc city, and the troops passed through
t. ION the main army IL Is stated that
the citizens who remained were not molested, hut
that Solt ot Yankee toiheuanoc probably did not
laat ne We have witn .ssgl 500 many instances
4 tAc uur treatment = which O.. '.uYlc oi con-
.uc,e- rucs we've subjected O. nli, .ptte uy BE-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06

We made raid On their iiae-piss yesterday and
captured sixty prisoners. Afssng tiEm was An CID
Datehman, who shook at IA General Order No b,
and tried hard ts tell how he ciairne .'protecfios
under diah protection" but couldn't un.ie rstani
his foreign lingo, and lac had 10 Junk with the
other prisoners.
On the evening of the 2ith, was reported %
General Thomas that negroes piai in the rite
pits In his front, and he s ordered his packets
~ fire upon them, Yhis produced stampede among
the col0gei brethren and much confusion in the
camp Of their white associates
Reinsorcemcnts were brought up by the Yanks,
and then BY General Thomas; but before h0silities
began in eafnest Tag over, aakng the reason
OF firing contrary to lhc arrangement that had
existed Tor eight weeks. General Thosnas replied
that eve did not recognize negroes ~ s"ldeIs, and
should fire upon them whenever ani wherever they
APPEARED in arms"
The Yanks then sent out white nien to the pits,
and all became again quiet.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06

ARREST or NOTORIOUS CHARAcTER.-John LO-
gan, notorious free negro thief, arrested yes
terday afternoon by the energetic day police officers
Seal and Jenkins on the charge Of foreibly entering
the storehouse of Alexander X Holiday, the 26th
of July, and stealing about 81 100 worth VI coffee,
sugar and other groceries Several negroes have
already been arrested and tried this charge, two
of whom James and Charles Harris) have been
condemned to be sold into absolute slavery Oh Mon-
day next but all Of them, i'll their testimony, pre-
volsy given, agree that Logan was the fellow who
broke IntQ Mr. Holladay's storsroom and passed
out the valuables through the window.
In connection with the above, it may be as well
to state that application for the pardon Of the
two UarIises has been for days pending before
the Governor but up to late hour yesterday after
noon the petition had received no favor from That
the sentence passed by the Hastings Court will bs
carried into execution.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06

MAYORS Court, YEsrERDAY-hee0rder Cashie
presiding. Thomas W. Bass aud John Harrington,
charged with swindling negroes in the market by
the exhibition of game at which there was
possibility of winning, were committed for want Of
security III the of $500 to be Of good behavior
Willis slave of Turpin Il Yarbrough, arrested with
III his possession supposed to have been stolen
was ordeled thirty-nine lashss; Sam, slave Of city
of Richmond, charged with breaking into the store
Of Samuel NJ Price aud stealing groceries,
shoes, &c.-suspieon light, punishment thirty -nine
attempting to enter Conrad Sauer's cellar with
false ke, s. discharged with an admonition ben,
slave Oh J. ii. Gentry, charged with breaking into
the of n slave woman named Maria and steal
ing Il trunk containing valuable collection OF
clothing jewelry, &c, was rernanded for examine
ton before the Hastings Court; charge was pre-
ferred against Julia, slave of Richard Fox, of re-
ceving silk dress valued ut $3.50, but the evidence
being very slight, she was discharged.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06

GENERAL Scorr's MOTHER In the opening para
graph of his autobiography, which is now ia press,
General Scott pays the following tribute to his
mother. He says:
According to the family Bible, was born June
l3 1856, the farm which 1 inherited, some four
teen miles from Petersburg, Virginia. My parents,
William Scott and Ann Mason, both natives of the
same neighborhood, intermarried in 1880. In my
sixth year lost my father, gallant lieutenant,
captain in the revolutionary army, and successful
farmer Happily, my dear notheE was spared to
me eleven years longer, and it, in my pro-
tracted career, have achieved any thing worthy of
being written, anything that my countrymen are
likely to honor in the next century, it is from the
lessons of that admirable parent that derived the
inspiration
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-06

A DOUBLE QUoTArIox.-" 1t is WE'LL" says the
Boston Courier, :" to bring forward the similar sen-
tineIts OF men holding influential positions, ex-
pressed under other circumstances. MI. Davis was
certainly prophetic. Mr.. Lincoln reminds us OF
HaZacl the Syrian, asking, " Is thy servant dog
that lie should do this great thing - and went home
and murdered his master The following Ii ALI
tract from the Inaugural Address of Abraham LIZ
coin, March 1, 1861
Suppose you go to war, You cannot fight always ;
and when, aitor much loss both sides, and no
gain either, you cease lighting, the identical ques
tiulIs to terms Of Intercourse, again upon YOU
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the
people who inhablt It, Whenever they shall grow
weary of the existing government, they cali ex-
ercse their constitutional right of amending, or their
revolutionary right to diSinember OF overthrow IT."
The following is an extract from speech Of JET
ierson Davis III the United States Senate, January
10, 1861:
"If YOU will not have 1t thus; II in the pride Of
power, if i'll contempt OF reason and reliance upon
force, you say We shall not go, but shall remain as
subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, war
Is to be naugurated, the like of which meu have not
seen Sufficiently numerous OH both sides III close
contact, with only imaginary liues OF division, and
with many means Of approach, each sustained by
productive sections, the people Of which VIII give
freely both of money and Of store the conflicts must
be multiplied indefinitely; and masses OF men, sac
rhced to the demon OF civil war; will furnish heca-
ton,bs such as the recent i'll Italy did not offer
At the end Of all this what will you have effected
Destruction upon both sides, subJugation upon
neither; treaty OF peaca. leaving both torn and
bleeding; the wall of the widow and the cry Of the
orphan substituted for those peaceful notes Of do
nlestic happiness that now prevail throughout the
land and then you will agree that each is to pursue
his separate course as best lie may. This is to be
the end of war. Through long series OF years you
may waste your strength, distress your people, and
get at last to the position which you might have had
Df h
ness and passion, folly and crime, dictated your
course"