The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-08-02

prominent citizen of Greenbriar coun-
ty Va, named David Crca, murdered
one of Gen. Averill's duty near Crea's
house, and concealed his body in a
well. When Gen. Averill's army pass
ed thronga Lewisburg recently on its
way to Lynchbnrg, negro informed
some of Gen. Averills officers of the
murder by Crea, and the General at
once ordered his arrest. He was ta-
ken to Staunton, where a court mar
tial was called in the case, and Crea
made full confession. The sentence
of the court was that he should be
heng, and that all his combustible prop
ert yshould be destroyed which sen
tence was Immediately put into execu-
ton. Crea was at one time a mem
ber of the Virginia Legislature.
1t was announced few days since
that Gen. Dix had ordered the arrest OF
q Colonel Thomas Jefferson Stanton
at Newark, for defrauding the govern
ment. Slanton is rebel Lieut.. Colo
mel taken prisoner at New Orleans by
Gen. Butler, and sent to Fort Warresa,
where here he remained foarteen
months, and was paroled by Gen. Dix
who required him to report in New
York every week. He has been loung-
ing about the bar-rooms of one or two
public houses in Newark, singing reb-
el songs, denouncing President Lin
coin, etc. Stanton says he has endeav.
ored several times to be exchanged,
but his efforts have been unsuccessful
He has disposed Off gold watch and
is now nearly destitute. He freely a.
VOWS his desire to fight again in the
rebel cause, and loses no opportunity
to insult the loyal feeling of the people
by his reasonable sentiments. lal
SENTENcED.-Selah p. Stevens, the
Ontanagon mail robber, has been tried
before the United States Court in De-
troit and sentenced to ten years in the
States Prison. He is about thirty years
old, it will be remembered that he was
employed to carry the United States
mail from point on Keweenaw bay to
Ontonagon, and pretended to have lost
ANAL bag the lock and rivets which were
afterwards discovered in the ashes of a
fire where he had camped, leading to the
supposition that he had burned it
Subsequently a letter was found on him,
which was identified as having been sent
by the same mail.
AN EARNEST TELEGRAM.-The fol-
lowing characteristic telegram has
been received in Liverpool from an of
ficer who was saved by the Deerhound:
"The Alabama was in first rate
trim. We have been deceived in the
Kearsage. Work hot and heavy, but
weight of - metal of Kearsage too
much. Her shots went slap through
below water line. Hell could not stand
it. Yankee far too fast for Semmes,
who held his man too cheap" orr
~" The Great Eastern has taken
three thousand tons of coal on board,
and will shortly leave Liverpool for
Sheerness or Deptford, where she will
be fitted with water tanks, in which
the Atlantic cable, now making by
Messrs. Glass, Elliot & Co., will be
slowed away as fast completed. Z
The westward emigration this season
is immense. The Virginia Union, a
leading paper in Nevada, states that a
gentleman just arrived by thd Overland
Stage, expresses confidence that if all
the wagons he saw on the route were
placed in line, they would reach from
Julesburg to Atchison--a distance of
about 400 miles ~. .r
TREATMENT OF Sun STROKE.
weather and the hot suns are now up-
on us, and we may expect more or less
of "coup de sol;er' or sun stroke to follow.
A person whose uncovered head ia ex-
posed to the rays of vertical sun, is
not unfrequertly attacked with a sort of
fit, which sometimes bears semblance
to apoplexy; but at other times is more
like an ordinary swoon. The proper
remedy for an attack Of this kind du-
ring the primary fit, is to pour cold wa
ter over the head. This is the plan
pursued by the natives of India, who
are particularly exposed TO the affec-
ton in question. Wearing a damp
cloth inside the hat is said TO be an ex-
cellent preventive against attacks of
this kind in future.
-Four thousand acres of wood land on
Long Island, N. Y. were burned over
Wednesday last,