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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07
Close of the Philadelphia Fair.

The great Central Sanitary Fair at
Philadelphia closed on Tuesday with ap-
propriate ceremonies, including a process
sion of the Executive Committee, music,
&C., prayer by Bishop Potter, and ad-
dresses by Messrs. John Welsh, Michen-
er, &c. A variety of resolutions thank
ing the ladies and gentlemen through
whose patriotic efforts the fair has been
rendered a great success were passed
The following are the votes for the COM
petitors for the articles to be presented:
THE UNION VAsE.-Union League,
1908; Lincoln, $50; Welsh, 16l; E. G.
Jane, 1889; Farragut, So; Simpson, 81 !;
Wood, 80; Potter, II j; Henry, 81; Han
cock, SO; Meade, Sc; Grant, Is; McClel-
Ian, 16; Sherman, 6; Stuart, 81; Curtin,
us; Chase, 16; Stanton, 8; Bright, 81;
Du Pont, 4 Union Refreshments Saloon,
4; II. w. Bellows, II. Total, l0,455.
THE CAMP CHEST. Birney, 30S; Glib
bons, %; Mcclellan, 10; Meade, lO3;
Grant, 16; Hancock, 8; scattering, 10.
Total, 3S5.
HORSE EoUIpMENTs.-Hancock, 116;
Meade, rs; Grant, 7; Butler, 5; Birney,
3; Mcclellan, 3; scattering, 2. Total,
PIP.
VoTE ON SwoRD.-Meade, 3,442;
Hancock, 1,5O6; Mcclellan, 297; Grant,
III; scattering, 49, Total, 5,54l.
LEGHoRN BoNNET.-Mrs. Gen. Burn
side, 296; Mrs. Gen. Meade, 2SG; Mrs.
Gen. Grant, III; Mrs. Gen. Mcclellan,
90; scattering, 107 Total, 908.
The Fireman's Horn was won by the
Good Will Engine, there being 1872
votes recorded in its favor. The pro-
ceeds Of the Fair are expected to fully
reach 100000. At the close of the
Fair a meeting of citizens was convened
and resolutions adopted earnestly thank
ing all who had in any way contributed
to the Fair by gifts, loans of articles for
exhibition, and their personal services,
and also to Mayor Henry and the Police.
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sTRoUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JULY T. 1854

der. The Museum is so favorably known
throughout Europe that no foreigner of
respectability, coming to this country,
fails to visit it. Indeed, this was the on
ly place of amusement attended by the
Prince of Wales and suite while ia the
United States, and the Prince had th e good
taste to enquire for Barnum himself,at the
same time facetiously remarking that he
considered him the most extraordinary
curiosity in the establishment. Mr.. Bar
mum has recently taken his two sons-in-
law into the museum to assist him in the
details of its management, but this arrange
ment, although it relieves him from some
cares, by no means induces him to relin-
quish any portion of his personal atten-
tion to business. His smiling counte-
nance is seen in the Museum every day,
surrounded by his other curiosities, (ma-
ny visitors like the Prince of Wales, con-
sidering him one of the greatest wonders
and as he declares he is nowhere so hap
py as when in the museum, catering for
the pleasure of his patrons, we have no
reason to doubt that he will "die in har-
ness"
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A Shade Worse than the Blue Laws.

From Bridgeport, Connecticut paper we
learn that Mr.. Jessup Sherwood, of Fair.
field, in that State, brought suit against
his wife, "a second wife) to ge. possession of
her personal property, The lady, who in
herited farm worth $4,000 and personal
property of the value of $4,000, and is sixty
years of age, was married to the plaintiff
some few years since. He was widower,
with two unmarried daughters. Becoming
bankrupt he wanted to finger his wife's cash /;
and as she proved obstinate he sued. A
Connecticut Judge gave an order that the
defendant be imprisoned, unless before a day
fixed she surrendered all notes and other
evidences of her personal estate; and from
the 23d day of November, 1863, until with
in short time, she lay in the criminal de-
partment ola jail, while the husband and his
daughters occupied her house. 1t is a slight
relief to this disgraceful statement to say
that the Supreme Court has reversed the
proceedings, and the wife is at liberty
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Killed by a Fit of Rage.

a woman living at Windsor, England, !,
named Scanwell, recently died through
passion. She was in the act Of pouring
out some tea, when one Of her children,
aged four years, spilled some coffee on
the floor Scanwell Immediately few in
to great passion, threw an infant which
she had in her arms on the floor, rushed
at the child who had spilled the coffee,
caught him by the arm, aud flung him
with such violence that she nearly dis1o-
Gated his arm, causing it to bleed. When
a lady demonstrated with her, she stamp
ed her foot, and began to rave in very
loud voice. Suddenly she gave loud
scream, and fell on the ground, and almost
expired.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07
Union Soldiers Poisoned in Virginia by a
Rebel Woman,

Private S. \. Ellsworth of Company K, Ist
New Jersey Volunteers, furnishes the follow
ing item to newspaper correspondent with
the Army ofGen. Meade, in Virginia. The
charge poisoning our men has before been
made against women in the Rebel States,
This case is substantiated by the essential
particulars of names, date and place:
On Thursday, the 25th May at farm
house near the Pamunkey River, in Virginia.
seven soldiers, belonging TO the lst New;Jer
sey Volunteers partook of some hot mince
pie offered them 10y an old woman, who pre-
tended to be very friendly She profcsscd
TO be pious woman, 4 member of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church. Shortly after eating
the pie; the men were seized with the symp-
toms usually attendant upon poisoning by
arsenic. The stomach-pnmp was applied by
DIR. Mott of the lst New Jersey Volunteers
and Br Hendricks of the I'd New Jersey
Volunteers. The contents of the stomachs
were analyzed, and in all of them arsenic
was found The men had been overdosed.
None are dead, but all are disabled for duty
up TO the present time. S. n. Ellsworth o.
Co X, 1st New Jersey Volunteers, was one
Of the poisoned men.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07
a Great Cheese Region.

At recent convention held at Rome,
Oneida county, n. Y, representatives were
present from sixty-four cheese factories,
which employed $500 cows. The largest
of these factories is that ofKenny & Prayer,
Cortland county, which has 1,600 cows, and
the New Woodstock, which has 1000. There
were nine private dairies represented, which
have together 4l6 cows. The system of
manufacturing cheese Oh a combined plan,
and on large scale, is one ofrecent origin,
and this list shows that it has absorbed the
dairy interest of that region.
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a Bit or Romance.

A woman passed through this city on
"Wednesday last en- route TO New York, who,
during the last three years, has passed
through many exciting scenes. In the
early part of the war, she, with her husband
&nd two or three children, were residing in
Border State, where secessonism was RAM
pant and during the absence of the parents
one day the children were all massscred by
some fthe chivalry. The wife Immediately
assumed male attire, enlisted in the same
company with her husband, and fought side
by side with him in nearly all the battles
participated in by the Army of the Cumber-
land. A few months since her husband re-
ceived fatal bullet while fighting by her
side, and the wife, too, was subsequently,
wounded and taken to the hospital, where
her sex was discovered.
Those who conversed with her say that
her manners fully confirm her story. She
has acquired many Of the disgusting habits
of the sterncr sex during her campaigning,
such as the use of tobacco, profanity, &C.
But her patriotism is undoubted, and she
has suffered a great deal in the Union
cause, for all of which she is entitled to the
sympathy and gratitude of freedom-loying |
people. She is very bitter in her denuncia-
tions Of the rebels, as she has good reasons
10 bc.-Pr0Uiacac Press.
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NO. 2Os

shows that the temperature is warmer in
the same latitude as you go westward -
Certain 1T is that the climate of the north
ern Idaho is quite as mild as that of ma
ny of the northern and western states /:
and in some of the valleys west of the
mountains cattle run at large all winter,
and are always in excellent condition for
slaughtering
The Overland Mail Company have es-
tablished daily line of coaches from
Salt Lake City to the territory.
The Jesuits established a number of
missions in the northwestern portion of
the Territory about twenty or twenty-five
years ago. Their object was to civilize
and christianize the Indian tribes, and in
some instances they accomplished much
good In some of the valleys the Indians
cultivated the soil to considerable ex-
tent, and in one or two places they have
towns built of good substantial houses
The highest civilization seems to have
been attained by the Flatheads.
In the Southwestern corner of the
Territory, at Soda-Spring on Bear River,
there is a settlement of Mormons, called
Morrisites, who reject the doctrine and
practice of polygamy, and institute many
reforms in the practice of the Mormons
They were driven from Utah as heretics,
though they profess to believe in joe
Smith, Christian AdUocdte.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07
a Mcclellan Veteran.

few days since a noisy copperhcad was
proclaiming the popularity of Gen. McClel-
Ian, in the cars between Philadelphia and
New York Discovering a soldier in the
car, ne approached him and inquired who he
went for for next President. The soldier
replied, "Gcorge b. Mcclellan" The cop
perhead made loud proclamation Of the fact
10 the passengers The veteran soon be-
came copperhead lion. Elated at his sud-
den popularity he tot k off his coat and showed
two wounds on his arm, received at the bat
SIC ofGettysburg. At this interesting june
ture a military detective entered the car
and confronted the Mcclellan soldier. AZ
ter little conversation he left, but soon re-
turned with two soldiers. The wounded
warrior of Gettysburg was unharmonlously
arrested and handcuffed. 1t turned out that
he was an escaped prisoner from Fort Della
ware, and belonged to the Ninth Georgia
regiment He had got off in the stolen
clothes of Union soldier. Of course his
new friends loved him all the better for this,
but they didn't like to manifest it under the
Trenton Gazette.
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immigration.

The stream OF immigration continues to
flow to our shores, from all parts of Eu-
rope, especially from Ireland, in great
ly augmented volume. Indeed, the capa-
city Of the vessels employed in the pas
senger-carrying trade appears, for the
present, to be its only limit. The Cork
Reporter Of the 18th ult., states there
were then in that city over 2 900 persons
entered to sail in the ''Inman" line of
steamers and that, before one of them
can be sent, there will be vast increase
by other entries in Liverpool and Queens.
town, and by the receipt Of advices of
fares paid in America. Hundreds of per-
sons who cannot be accommodated, apply
for passage in each steamer departing;
while those who are fortunate enough to
have their names booked, refuse to sell
their places for double the regular fare.
The accommodations in sailing vessels are
likewise wholly inadequate to meet the
demand
The number of immigrants landed at
this port between the 1st of January last
and the 3lst of May, inclusive, is S,078,
of whom 1888 were from Ireland. Is,
34S from Germany, s, ia from England,
1 ,1S6 from Scotland, 214 from WaIesl
and ,933 from all other countries being
an increase of 1896 over the correspon-
ding period of last year. The like ratio
of increase during the remainder of 1864
will give a total immigration at this port
of 214,S76 souls, which is an increase of
90, ,032 over 13S, $40
A marked superiority in intelligence
and thrift is manifest in the immigration
of this year, which compromises an extra
ordinary proportion of mechanics and
skilled agriculturists, as we'll as of cotton
and wooen spinners, destined to the Eas-
tern States, of coal and iron miners, who
for the most part have gone to PennsyE
vania, and of copper and lead miners,
whose destination was the Lake Superior
region. Mr.. Casserly, the experienced
General Agent in charge of the Emigrant
Landing Depot in this city, estimates the
average amount of coin in the possession
of each immigrant landed since the 1st of
January last at $50 Assuming that the
.otal immigration to our shores for the
Tear 1861 will reach $4,000 souls, the
money thus brought into the country, ac-
,ording to the above estimate, will amount
% the sum of 18,SS0,0G0.-Ne,c TTork
Tribune.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07
Singular Presentiment of Death.

Mrs Schcrer, wife of our townsman,
Christian Scherer, died last Thursday af-
ter a short illness. Some years ago Mrs.
Scherer dreamed that she should die in
ten years and with cholera. As time
passed she carried the memory of this
singular dream with her, and as her faith
er had similar warning which was veri-
fed, she had faith in its consumation.-
Week before last she told her husband
that the time was approaching, and she
desired him to 90 with her to the Gene
tery to select lot. He evaded the mat
ter for time, hoping to divert her mind
from the melancholy subject, but she
could not forget it. On Friday they ap-
pointed to 60, but were prevented, and
on Saturday again something interfered.
On Tuesday Mrs. Scherer was taken sick
and on Thursday she departed Record
Of tie Times.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

In Cincinnati, last Wednesday, one of
Morgan's staff officers, who was in the city
on parole was met and recognized by one
of the members of the One Hundred and
Seyenty-frst Ohio Reg. in front of the
Dennison House, who halted the rebel
with an oath, and said: " You took my
gun from me at Cynthiana, and abused
me; it is now my turn" and then knock
ed him down and kick him into the gut
ter and walked on.
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Mr.. C. w. Zeigler, one of Commission
ers of Schuylkill county, while on his
way home, about II o'clock on Thursday
evening of last week, was attacked by two
rufiians, who, after stripping cap over
his head and gagging him, robbed him
of his money, and then tied him to a
fence, where Mr.. Ziegler was obliged to
remain until o'clock in the morning,
before he could free himself. The ruff
fans are still at large.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07
The Value of a Kiss.

1t has been decided in one of the western
courts, that kiss is valid consideration
I'm case quoted, an old bachelor offered a
young lady pony for kiss The offer was
accepted and the kiss given, but the bache-
Tor refusing to give the pony, suit was en-
tered in the court, and the jury decided that
the pony or its value should be given the girl
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

An lrishman going to market saw far
mer with an owl. "Say, Mister what will
ye take for yer big eyed turkey!" ''Tis an
OWL replied the astonished farmer. "Diyil
bit do care whether it is ould or young"
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Four lines more beautiful than these,
says the Buffalo Express, are rarely writ
ten. The figure which it involves is ex-
quisite-
A solemn murmer in the soul
Tells of the world to be,
70 AS travellers hear the pillows roll
Before they reach the sea.
Four lines more truthful tkan these
are rarely written =
A solemn murmur in your ear.
When you retire to bed.
Tells you that swillmg lager beer
Is dreadful for the head.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

A busybody labors without thanks, talks
without credit, lives without tears, dies with
out pity-save that some say, at is pity
he died no sooner.'
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

III Ex-Congressman John f. Potter,
of Wisconsin, has been confirmed as Con-
SUI General to Canada, in place of Joshua
r. Giddings, deceased.
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BG~ "Gently the de,es are o'er me steal
ing" as the man said when he had 6vs'
bills presented to him at one time.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

sg- A country dentist advertises that
che spares no pains to render his opera
tions satisfactory"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

ssy- An exchange asks, "If Old Hick-
Dry was the real sire of the Democratic
party, who was its dam 2" Why, it was
ahmed by James Buchanan.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

sar A sour fellow says that he always
looks under the marriage head for the
news of the acedk.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

Ba~ Love and good dinner are said
to be the only two things which change
a man s character.
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VOL. %.
Published by Theodore Schoeh.

TERMS-Two dollars year in advance-and if not
paid befnre the end ofthe yeaI two dollars and wen-
ty 6ve cts. will be charged.
No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid
except the option of the Editor.
. UAdvertiscmentS of one square of (ten lInes) or
less, three Insertions 81 90. Each additional
Insertion, 2S cents. Longer ones in proportion.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07

10y REAL CApITAL-The best capital
o begin life ON is capital wife.
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Epitaph on a Tailor.

Here lies below a tailor dead,
His name was Edward Prim,
lie cabbag'd buckram, silk and thread
Till Satan cabbage him.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-07-07
JOB PRINTING,

OF ALL KINDS,
Executed in the highest style OF the Art, and the
most reasonable terms.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-02-10
Complicated Chronic CemOI. late

ZIP ocfYr's prnct % Is founded "a t,uth or
seseleen years standing, n. cidrr. fom sIi otb-
ets No trihiug with hunan existence. or Sac
,;6citg lite BY experiments The 10 .fos knoss
upop examination the cause Of the discsss. ara
thafemsdy needed 10 remove u. not By xpxesfne
butby knowledge analyses til. diseAse snd tie
m9icine meme but vegetable substances used
81 mineral AID poisonous medicines discarded
Ihp ecior has discove ID many rcneaiss IN biz
trS1 els in south America, California end oshse
cobn,riss, which he finds Of general u,ii. In The
hsaling art. II Is TO be hoped that invslids whe
have tired doctors and advertised mcdicipos vb- /.
fil worn out and Discouraged will dsrrAis not Of
) cure until they have given Dr. VS. msdsSsne
isnd magnetic operations . tr'al, during he
I.rsyels bo Ess been the instrument, Ii GsA's
hands, Of restoring to hesith snr vigor Thousand
who were N the verge u the grave, aod a.o now
usns, and ere saiiy sxelaimtng, "Bissss.' BE- the
tic and Magnetic Doctors treatment Asiis,ae-
tory reference vii b. cheerful, given .sheu r..
CURED. The Doctor vii pledge his rspatAtion
and stase ms Ell, 10 make PERM nent o. re. In ali
ossts he undsrtakes lis mctie VI txAminstior
Y 9Th the Eye, es.d BY IN Analy ticsi pvcvss of
the caste material Of the b d.. lie there ors
sskr no quest,ohs, sor rtqnifss sslvsIids 30 ~
atn symuruns, telling The canse and the loc.-
tl"s q toe dies $50 with ERECT certainty re- Is
Y SSR N. ", IN WOUD0UiL absaau Nv adveyfis.
- thing bgt Whist Ne hes sbs Z bfisss "a u a.
farm. All fssDs u fs1ssle difiisutaS 81 Z. Se.aSA
With the happ.ess ssssits. Invsi,aA shS csusst
O0iA lt the DoetoS N tsssoD, BY g,vinr a. stsas-
NEST Of their cSse, Y II 81 st.suac IL ur,,mo,.
y. An nedicite forwarded By exlfess 4 ben e.
Quilted. aft88 ~ 'fSF' q s. ~
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-02-10
Frauds IN thc Cotton Trade.

The Cincinnati Gazette (lep) qnotos
the two following cases from the records
OF The Court to show that government
officers pocket large sums Of money,
which should go into the Treasury
There is case 10 (,he U.S.. Con,t) Of
the Uaitcd STATES sgst. siltv bsles Of
cotton. The cotton was adiud . for
feited to the United States, add the mat.
tsr op public interest 10 10 k,ow how
much Of the proceeds Of cott,n thus f r
ttitcd comes INFO the pablo treasury :
Toe total proceeds of the .ale we're go.
el..3+. The following award 10 record
ed: To Eooch T. Carson, Surveyor Of
the Port of Cincinnati. Tor weight, sto,.
sge, DC, 1852 90. To the same, IA
per cent, beng the amount allowed BY
law for extra fees to tho treasury sgentr,
making $950.76. TO Eroch 4. C.rsou,
an informer 10 the suit, s9,45s.s4. ATE,
ieducting the liberal expens, s, Mr.. [ ar
son, ~ ioforWer. shared equally wit the
.. .,yyernment.
Ano her case is that Of Enoch
7. Carson for himself and the United
States agt. one hundred and seventy -si1
bales If cotton. This cotton was pur.
chased At Lake Providence, for the
purpose Of transportation, etc, IN viola
ton Of the laws. That Is, we suppose, il
was purch ased for up river and amarket
It vas seized at Cinc.ncati on informa'
lion Of Mir. Carson. The gross proceed
Of the sale were $40.90l.57. In the dis
tibntion the following orders yer
made To Enoch T., Carson, for freigh
from Memoirs, dray age, storage and in
suranee, S754.7O. 10 the same a. agrn
for +. McCa,ty, for expenses in gett,n'
the cotton to Lake Providence, nn
thence to Memphis, $3,748. To Eooc'
I. Carson, ihf8rmer, one halt the ne
proceeds, $l7,sll.04.
These little operations show how III
war. under open IRE sulati ,hs," is bein
run for the pecaniary benefit Of admins
tratiou favorites and officials.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-02-10
Dr.. Z. y. Wosdhuil,
Author and Lecturer On
CUR ONO DAAE.nERS

Dders tho most certsin, speedy and sHsc,ua.
NE DIS 10 tho Wos d for the following g.
plants IN tbem obstinate s.ss<s, Wis: "'-rs.
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Far; hhsnmo'.szs Msswstg.e FtsS. ss1
other Nsrpo~s DHssgsssssss ~
disea.es Of the Hood M f.ta.
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