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Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-29
Keep II Before the People,

That the Secretary of War declares that
Rebels" while "in their most prosperous
condition. were not only willing, without
further fighting, to surrender their arms,
disperse their armies, admit the Federal
Courts and other authority within their
States, restore the Union, dissolve the
Coniedsracy, yield to the Constitution,
obey the laws and take oaths of allegiance
to the United States, but to do "better"
than this but that the late Administra
tion "deliJerately. repeatedly and solemnly
rejected" their propositions.--See Stan
toR'S Ofieial Dispatch Of April %, 1865.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
A Cold-Blooded Murder.

On Saturday afternoon last man
named Wilson T. vanasdlan, was mur-
dered at Centreville, this county, under
the following circumstances V. was a
soldier, and having been at hume for some
time, was regarded as deserter On
the afternoon in question three brothers
named Rupert, met v at a tavern in Cen
tcrville, and determined to arrest him and
obtain the $40, which is paid for deliver
ing deserter to the Provost Marshal. V.
was walking home when the Ruperts fol-
lowed him in small wagon, and after
passing him stopped their horses and got
out One of them walked up to V. and
said to him, "You are my prisoner v,
who was strong man, pushed Rupert
aside and walked on toward home. How
ard Rupert then drew a revolver, and
taxing deliberate aim at V. fired. The bal
entered the body. V, staggered, threw
up his hands and said, Don't shoot again
| am dying Fhe Ruperts then carried
him into his house, where he died in {
few minutes, surrounded by his wife ant
three little children,
Such, we believe, is history of thi
most heartless, cowardly, and devclisl
murder. For the sake Of obtaining $50
the Ruperts were indu ced to shoot dowr
human being in the presence Of his wife
and babes, 1t was not necessary, how
ever, to shoot V. The three brothers coul(
have arrested him with all ease, but it i
believed that they wanted to kill him, ant
they did kill him. We hope our Law
offices will see to it that the Rupert's or
arrested, tried aud punished.
| Carlisle Volunteer.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
Love of Country and Of Home.
DY MOSTGOMgRy.


THERE Il "A land, Of every land the pride,
Beloved by Heaven DER all the world beside;
Where brgh ter suns dispense Bercrcr ligh,
And mildcr moons imparadise the night
A land Of beauty, virtue, vaor truth,
Time tut red age, and ove.exalted youth.
The wandering mariner, whose eye explores
The wealthiest isles, the st enchanting shores,
Views not a realm so beautiful and fair,
NJr broalhcs the spirit Of purer air;
In every cline, the magnet Of his soul,
Touched by remembrance, trembles TO that pole
For, IN this land of Heavens peculiar grace,
The heritage Of natures noblest race,
There is a spot Of earth supIomcly blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest,
Where man, creation tyrant, casts aside
His sword and sccpter pagesntry and pride.
While In his softened looks benignly blend
The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend
Here woman reigns the mother, daughter, wife,
Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way Of life
In the clear heaven of her delightful eye,
An angel guard of loves and graces lie;
Around her knees domestic duties meet,
And hreside pleasures gamboI at her feet,
Where shall that land that spot Of earth be found
Art thou a man, patriot look around
oh thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam,
That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
Thousand Widows.

Under this apt title, the Home Journal,
all Abolition pander, thus confssscs one
feature of the melancholy condition Of our
people:
"Twenty-fve thousand widows are re-
cciving pensions under the laws passed
recently. $4,000 widows made by
the present war. BY its bullets and bomb.
shells, its cannon balls and bayonets, its
camp fevers and privGtions. Think Of it,
you whose pockets are being filled by the
men of the country Lock at your own
wives, your own daughters, and then
imagine woman as delicate and fair, and
helplessy widowed, aud thrown upon tho
wide world and the tardy justice Of Cove
ernment, Twenty-Five thousand receive
! pensions; how many thousand do OF, we
are not told, As though he who fell on
the first day of battle did not spill rs
much blood for his country Gs he who fell
on the last. Many do cot know whether
their soldier lies under Southern sod, or
laDguishes il Southern prison, or who
will watch and wait for him long alter the
magnolia blossoms on his grave. Twenty
FIVE thousand widows. How many orph-
ans how many bethrolhed maidens,
whose young hopes have been nipped,
and whose hearts are scared and Scared
for life! What victory can compensate
for. so many broken hearts, even for the
fact that SO many helpless women have
been reduced from comfort to beggary,
for again we say there are more than
than twenty-five thousand widows made
by this war, who have not received even
miserable pension"
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
How to FalI AsIsep.

The great point to be gained in order
to secure sleep is to escape from thought,
especially from that clinging, tenacious,
imperious thought, which in most eases Of
wakeiulness has possession Of the mihd. l
always effect this by the following simple
process IL surn my eye balls as far to
the right or lettor upwards or downwards,
as l can without pain, and then commence
rollisg them slowly. with that divergence
from direct line Of vision, around in
their sockets, and continue doing SO until
| fall asleep,whlch occurs generally within
three minutes-always within five at the
most. The immediate effect of this pro.
cedurc differs from that of any other that |
have ever heard to procure sleep, 1t not
merely divcrts thought into new channels
but actually suspends it. Since became
aware of this have endeavored, innumor.
able times, while thus rolling my eyes, to
think upon par.iculoc subject, and even
! upon that which before kept me awake,
but l could not AS long as they moved
around, my mind was blank. If any one
doubts this, let him try the experiment
himself. | wish he wosld let him pause
just here and make it. venture to as
sure him that, if ho makes it in good faith
in the manner described, the promise oi
ga penny for his ,houghts,.' or for each
of them, while the operation is in progress
will add very little to his wealth. Suct
being its effect, we cannot wonder that i
should bring sleep TO a FERROUS and wake
ful man at the night, The phlos ophy, o
the matter is very simple, A suspension
of thought is to the mind what a suspension
of travel or labor is TO a weary body, l
enjoys the luxury Of rest; the strain upol
its faculties is removed it falls asleep a
naturally as the farmer in his chair afte
toiliug all day in his fields,
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
Romance in Real Life--Mixed up
Affair.

EDWIN G. CHASE, man about forty
four years of age, married an English
woman several years ago, in Needham,
Mass, where they lived for time in mod
crate circumstances. Removing to Penn
sylvania, be was one Of the fortunate seek.
ers after oil, and amassed quite fortune,
perhaps seventy or eighty thousand
dollars.
Last July, Mrs. Chase, who is dcscrb-
cd as fair looking woman wearing curls'
went to Europe to visit her friends there,
taking considerable sum of money with
her.
During her absence, it appears, her hus
bard managed to procure q divorce thro'
the Indiana courts, for the reason, as he
says, that she was vixim, and he could
not live with her, and that she went to
England against his wishes. About two
ago, Mrs. Chase returned from her visit
and proceeded 10 Meedham, Mass, her
former home, where she learned that her
husband was writing soft letters and max.
ing agreeable visits 10 young lady, not
"sweet eighteen" who lived in Fitz vii.
Jams, New Hampshire, This was stun.
ner, because, as she says, Mr.. Chase had
written her frequently, during her absence,
each time giving the flow of his ink a re.
markably affectionatc turn. She at once
started to Investigate the matter, and was
a day or to after, in Keene, New Hamp.
shire, bound for Ftz Williams.
+ "It so happened" as the novelists say
that at tho Eagle Hotel, in Keene, whcre
she stopped, she was surprised, the morn
ing after her arrival, to learn that her
husband was in the same hotel, and there
too, on his bridal trip, having been mar
ried on the day before to the fair maiden
aforesaid. She kept her own counsel
and went to procure more, which she did
iu the shape of two lawyers who. speedily
came to Kecne from Boston, bringing a
couple of physicians connected with the
Insane Asy lum at South Boston.
Consultation was had, which resulted
in Mrs, Chase's going TO the room Of ael
husband that was, and pulling him out o
bed much TO the surprise of Mrs. Chase
Cd. J hen the lawyers and doctors were
brought in and there was much confusion
A court of some kind was speedily con
vened, if it was not already in session
and in quiet way. Mr.. Chase wa
brought before it in the character of al
insane man. His wife swore be was in
sane the doctors knew he was and fo
so being, he was taken to the South Bos
ton Retreat of which he remains an in
mate. That he has never manifested an.
signs of insanity has always been ;
good business man, and that he had owe
. forty thousand dollars in Keene with him
his friends claim to know.
The inhabitants of Kecne are very mucl
n excited over the IN after they do not un
e derstand it, and hence gossip is rife. Th
D.. poor girl from Fritz Williams has bee
;. sent home to ponder Mrs. Chase is sti
y sat large" enjoying the punishment sh
c has inflicted. d.-HarUord Cowant, De-
4 18th, 1864.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
A Sad Holiday for one Family.

A family Of FIVE sons and one daughter
breakfastcd together in their fathers house
on Christmas morning, ,iu Stori s township,
Ohio. The name is Rossman. All were
happy, and anticipated a day of pleasure.
Two of the boys, George and Frank, aged
respectively eight and fourteen, full of
glee, took their sled and bounded off to the
ice on Millcresk, for slide. But their
pleasure was soon cut short, and turned to
bitter grief the hearts Of the whole family.
The treacherous surface gave away.and
the boys went under. They clung to the
edges of the ice and tried to save them
selves until help could come. From q
distance an elder brother, j. H. Rossman
twenty-one years old, saw them ttruggling
in the water, and he with others FASTENED
to their rescue. In his anxiety to save
the almost exhausted boys, he rushed toe
near the edge of the ice, and went in will
them In the water be struggled man
fully to keep them from drowning, and
did keep the younger ono up for some
time; but the water was deep, and he wa.
not promptly assisted by persons outside
who fearing to approach the opening il
the ice, ,and he too sank with his brothers
in the heroic effort to save them.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
The Distant Land.

Where dost thou lie, land of peace
Across what foaming oceans swell
My heart, with sighs that never cease,
fct,rns IN thy palace halls to dwell,
cannot see thy shining strand,
But yet, y fair aud distant land.
Sometimes, when mornings iris light
is faming in the earnest sky,
say, Beneath that rose and white
The blessed realms must surely lie.
But mornings brow by noon is fauncd.
ANA thou art still the distant land.
ana or when sunsets FURNISHED gold
rails warm upon the waters breast,
cay Beyond that glorious fold
Must glcam the islands Of the blcstl
Hut stars steal out n s,leht bdt6,
Aud thou art still the distant land.
AnP 'fGn drcam-a blissful dream
lhht nave gained thy tranquil bow ers
Aud 10! iilc'S sorrows only seem
winds That moment bent its flowers
wak c, but clasp no angel hand,
Aud thou AT stlll the distant land.
watch, long, faint for thee I
tans' tb not open wide the door,
That may enter in aud bc
Part ut Thy peace frrcvcrmo,e
o send that sleep, so sweet 81 grand,
Ana thou shalt be no distan, land
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
Report Of the Surveyor General.

Surveyor General Barr's annual Report,
exhibits marked improvement. in the
business and receipts Of the, Land Office
over previous years The number of Pa
tents paid for during the year is ANS,
being about the number paid for daring
the preceding ten years, The receipts
were, in round numbers, ,S02 900, or about
the same as the receipts from the same
source for the whole seven years, begiu-
ming Dec. 1856, and ending Nov. 80,
1868.
The Surveyor General expresses the
opinion that, by judicious Legislation, the
sum of two or three million dollars, which
is estimated to be still due on unpatenlcd
lands, might be brought into the State
Treasury in the next ten years, without
nhictiug any injury or distress upon a
single debtor. The plan by which he
proposes to effect this desirable purt ose
is to tax unpatentcd lands slightly higher
than those that are patented, and thu:
make it the interest of all holders of un
patented lands 10 eztnguish the claims o.
the Commonwealth upon them.
There is certainl y no good reason why
the large amount still due the State on
account of Lands should not be collected
and there are many and very obvious
reasons why it should be brought into ths
Treasury within reasonable period from
this date. To collect it summarily would
be hardship to many Of the debtors
and to avoid this,th Surveyor General hu
namely suggests a plan by which it ma.
be got in gradually.
From statistics furnished in the Report
it appears that in the year previous 10 MI
Barr election as Surveyor General, til
whole receipts of the Lend Office did no
defray much more than half ofits expense.
But the past year has yielded the Trea
sury an income from lands Of at leas
eighty thousand dollars over and above a
, expenses. This is the most gratifyin
exhibit that any Surveyor General ha
been enabled to make for many years.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
VOLUME %.
Daring Thieves.

The Easton Erp7esS says, on Saturday
evening the Gath ult., bold and desper--
ate attempt was made by two scoundrels
to rob Mr.. Joseph Unangst an old and
respectable farmeo residing in Bethlehem
township, about seven miles from Easton.
For some reason, suspicion it appears at
once rested on two young men who of late
had resided in Bethlehem South, and ac-
cordingly one of the party, 9 man named
Michael Hurley, was arrested on Monday
morning by constable Transue and brought
before Esquire Borhek, of Bethlehem for
an investigation of the case. In the
meantime a messenger had been sent for
Mr. Unangst, who scon made his appear.
ance at the Esquire's Office, and at the
first glance at the prisoner recognized him
as one of the men concerned in tue rob.
berry
The following statemon. of Mr. Un-
angst gives all particulars in the case much
better than we car portray them:
son Saturday evening, at about eight
o'clock, or perhaps little later, while 1
and the rest Of my family were seated in
the room around the stove, tho door sud-
denly opened and two men came in. Each
had revolver cy two in their hands,
One presented his toward me, and the
other towards my son John, and at oncs
demanded my money. l told him had
none, which he would nc. believe He
then asked me for tho key Of my desk,
mhich gave him, when he unlocked it
and ransacked every drawer, throwing the
papers out, ,and finding only between three
and four dollars in silver and 6 few PEN
MES. They then demanded my safe key,
which gave them, and they unlocked il.
also, and examined it very closely with out
finding any money. I told them, after
asking me for my gold, that always de-
posted my money in the Easton Bank
They then also asked for my bank book,
and after looking over it threw it on the
floor. In the meantime my son was try
ing to leave the room, when one Of the
men shot at him, the ball entering the hip,
where it still remains. After discovering
that they could not find any, this man, the
(the prisoner pointed pistol at my head
and threatened TO shoot me if ! did not
give them money. knocked the pistol
away, when it went off, and the bullet
struck the wall in the rear of me. Thi:
happened up in my room. At this tip,e
the candle was knocked over, and We
{ were in the dark, and before they had
I time to light it again opened the window
and jumped out of the second story into
D the garden "a venturescme jump for mar
OF sixty three years of age,) and went to
e neighbor and gave the alarm. While
was gone they threatened one Of the fe
males, my daughter, and she gave thea
i her pocke-book containing about SIS il
n bills, and before assistance arrived they
@ got into sleigh and drove of toward
). B;thlehem. Four shots were fred in m,
| house, and this is the very man (pointip,
Vt again at the prisoner) who held the pisto
Is at n, face, and shot over my head"
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
BLOOMsBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENNA, SATURDAY, JAr

whlch our fathers famed, They are,
therefore, substantially IN The Jnion and
The Norm oM fit! But, strange to say,
they do not even seem 10 see or compro.
bend this fact, and somc of the papers ac.
'tually talk Of going back to colonial vas
salagc rather than consent to accept that
which they have already got! Having
the old Union, with all its sacred princi.
pies, in their keeping, why do they not
invite every man, no matter where lie is,
North or South, to aid them in restoring
that Cnion2 Did not their own. fathers
make it, and did we not all live under it
in peace and prosperity for nearly eighty
years We should have been living un-
der it still,ii Mr.. Lincoln and his party had
not destroyed it, aud were not now doing
all they can to prevent its being restored.
If the sonthcru States will even now in.
vite the cooperation OF every patriotic in
dlviduai and every patriotic State to join
them in an effort to restore the old Union
81 white men on State Rights principles
depend upon it Mr. Lincoln and his party
would be swept away as chaf before the
wind, and what is more, they would again
reveal themselves in their true colors as
vile di8unionists and traitors. We should
then be enabled 10 tear away from them
the cloak of hypocrisy with which they
now conceal their deformity. The pei
phrases of "natioual life,' "thc Union
must be preserved" &C., with which they
now appeal to the instinct of nationality
weuld be stripped from them, and they
would stand exposed to mankind as the
bitter enemies Of tue very government o
which they profess to be special compan-
ions, The South never had a grander op
portunity to win Immortality an now
In the Uuion herself she has only to offe
to restore it over all the States, and Abra
ham Lincoln in sixty days will be as pow
erleSs as a ehild.-N Y. Day. Book.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
.We sneak of what we know when W

I'VE speak Of what we know when we
cay that more men, Oh the Jamos, desert
from our side to the rebels than desert
from the rebel side to ours. Day after
day we are filing our quota with scounl
rols, thieves, jail-birds, hang dog bounty
jumpers known to be such by the sub
stilute brokers, and often by the officers
whose business it is to stop such outrage
ous swinding, Every day hundreds Of
these rogues are sent to the front.-Han-
JOrd Press, (Rpubiican)
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28

Dsy The large room in the north wing
Of the Patent Office is to be used for the
Presidential Inauguration ball A pretty
time the fourth of March will be to hold
such saturnelia, while the land is in
mourning for the slain in battle, and just
after the drafs has swept like bosom over
the North.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28

E@B" Betty Birchwood thinks it pro-
voking for "A woman who has been work
ing all dpy meDdiDg her husbands old
coat to find love letter in the pocket
There is not a woman on earth but would
find the letter before she began to mend
the coat-and then it would not be mend
ed at all
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28

Maj JACOB WILHELM was recently ar,
rested in Clearield county BY the military
authorities and sent to Fort Miflin What
he is charged with neither he nor any body
else seems to know, He was formerly a
resident Of this county and in 1864 wa.
the Democratic candidate for County Com
missioner. He was hard working, hon.
est iasmer, and alter removing to Clear
field county engaged in the uwbering bus
mess, We believe his patriotism to far eX
ceed that ofany Loyal Lacquer in the Ma
ton. Clinton Democrat.
eS- Choose the company OF your supe
r;ors whnneyar un, oan hava IL
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28

Re3~ Says the New York Sun (Io7al y
"Really competent men are seldom
found in the public service, and ID has al
most come to be a reproach to hold an
Office under the Government.
There's ligh. Tor you, shoddy,
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28

sB- Or Saturday the steamer Rebecca
Clyde, bearing at her masthead a white
flag with a dove holding an olive branch
and the words "Reief for the citizens of
Savannah" departed from New York Tor
Savannah with a peace offering of 900
barrels -four, 500 bbs Indian meal, 600
bbls. vegetables, $4,000 lbs. sated and
smoked meats, $4,000 lbs fresh beef and
mutton, 100 sacks salt, 25 bbls. molasses
with soap, pickles, vinegar, &c. On Mon.
day the Daniel Webster sailed for the
same port with large amount of neceSsa'
ries, for the suffering people Of that place
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28

Ga- A Coventry doctor announces that
he has changed his residence to the neigh
borhood Of the churcy-7ard, which he hopes
may prove a convenience TO his numerous
patients
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,

EDITED BY LEVI l.. TATE, PROPRIETOR
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28

s1- Choose the company OF your supo'
riors whenever you can have it
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-11-04

New YoRk, Nov. Tin the trotting on
the Fashion Course yesterday, Lucy to $50
pound wagon, against Honest Johs., in har
ness, $4,000 match mile heats, best three
in five. The mare won all the heats easily
Lime-2:47, 2:45 and 2:45.
Sweepstakes, $1,000, five mile dash, in
harness, was won by Young Wolf.
George Wilkes and Commodore Wander
bit are announced to trot this P. N. ct the
Union Course.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-11-04

The following Is an extract from letter writ
ten BY the Rev. }. 8. Holme, pastor Of the Pierre
pont street Baptist Church. Brooklyn, N. v, tc
the journal end Aesssnger, Cincinnati, o., and
speaks volumes in favor Of the world renow ned
medicine, MRS. wlNSLOw'S SOOTHING
SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEErHlN0:-
I'VE see ~ advertisement IN your COLLINS q
MRS.. wlNsLOw'S SOOTHING SYRUP
Now, We never said . word IN favor Of pssen,
medicine before in our life. but we feel compelled
to say to your readers that this is no humbug-
hare tried It, aad knor it ~iu do all It ctssss
Il is probably one Of the most successful medi
ciues Of the day. beeause Il is one Of the best
And those ofyour readers Who have babies can
do better than lay in supply.