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A Noble Act Of Honesty.

The correspondent of the Word with
the Fourteenth corps, in Sherman's army,
says: An instance of integrity, unpre-
cedented in this army, and one tha. am
afraid will meet with little appreciative
recognition among the hero's comrades,
was brought to my notice while with the
Fourteenth. At Smithfeld, Edward A.
Potter, young soldier belonging to Com
pany E, 15Oth Ohio, kicked up some
loose earth at the corner of fence, and
found buried there some sixteen thou
sand dollars in gold There are proba-
bly, many other men in the army dis
graced as it is by incidents of an opposite
character-who would not (Ihave heard
of more than one Major who,
believe would) have appropriated it
Young Potter, in his noble honesty, LETT
it with the lady to whom it belonged,
simply saying: .
"Here, madam: guess this belongs to
YOU. You'd better take it in, or some OF
ms Yanks might be for taking il"
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WnsliingtOn Items.

New YORK, April 28.-The CONNER
cial's Washington special says;-The
vaults of the Farmers Bank in Rich
mond have been opened and the contents
found undisturbed. A cabinet meeting
today considered questions likely to
arise from the conspiracy, which is al
legged to have extensive ramihcations,
President johnson was loudly cheered
while passing though the streets.
Booths body has been placed where
it will never be seen by mortal eye again.
The Posts special says Pennsylvania
delegation, headed by commissioner
Lewis, called on the President, making
the most radical addresses yet delivered.
The President replied, respecting his
conviction that the rebel leaders should
be punished, and the masses of the peo-
pie forgiven.
Secretary Seward and son are doing
wall
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I"if you want me YOU must take me. y
| When first asked to surrender he asked:
"Who do YOU teke Inc for!' A short time
after, in response to the question as to
whether there was anybody else with
him in the barn, he stated that he was
the only person i'll the building; that his
companion, Harold, had taken another
direction, and was beyond the reach OF
capture.
At three o'clock, or little after. the
barn was fred. Before the flames We're
kindled Booth had the advantage of us
in respect to light He could see us but
we conld not see him, but after that the
tables were turned against him. We
could see him plainly. bnt could not be
seen by him. The flames appeared TO
confuse him, and he made spring to-
wards the door, as if to attempt to force
his way ont AS he passed by one OF the
crevices i'm the barn i fired at him. |
aimed at his body. | did not want TO
kill him. / took deliberate aim at his
shoulder. bnt my aim was too high, the
ball struck, him in the head just below
the right ear, and passing through came
ont about an inch above the left ear
think he stopped to pick mp something
Just a. fred, that may probably account
for his receiving the ball in the head. l
was not over eight or ten yards distant
from him when fred was afraid that
if did not wound him he would Kill
some of our men. Afterhe was wounded
I went into the barn Booth was lying
in a reclining position on the hoor l
asked him: "Where are you wounded 6
He replied in a feeble voice, his eye balls
glaring with peculiar brilliancy: I'm
the head; you have finished me He
was then carried out of the burning
building into the open air, where he died
about two hours and half afterwards
About an hour before he breathed his
last he prayed for MS to shoot him through
the heart and thus end his misery His
sufferings appeared to be intense. /
Booth, although he could have killed
several of our party, seemed to be AFRAID |
to fire. Mine was the only shot fired on |
either side. When he fell he had in his
hand a revolver, and at his feet was lying |
a seven shooter, which he dropped after |
he was wounded Two other revolvers
were also near him. He declared that |
the arms belonged to him, and that Har-
rold had nothing to do with the murder.
We gave him brandy, and four men went
in search of doctor, whom We found |
about four miles from the scene of the
occurrence, but when the doctor arrived
Booth was dying. He did not talk much |
after receiving his wound. When asked |
if he had anything to say, he replied
II die for my country" and asked those
standing by to tell his mother so. de
did not deny his crime.
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EXPLOSION.
Destructive River Disaster.
400 Paroled Soldiers Lost
Steamb0 at ExplOsiOn-Fourieen Hun.
dred Lives Lost,
Press Dispatch |

Press Dispatch.
New YORK, April 23-A private dis
patch from st. Louis reports terrible
accident upon the Mississippi river. The
steamer Sultana had exploded and sunk,
and great number of lives were lost
all soldiers
ST. LOUIS, April pa telegram re-
ceived by the military authorities from
New Madrid, says the steamer Snltana,
with 1000 paroled prisoners on hoard,
exploded. Fourteen hundred lives were
lost.
CAIRO, April 25.-The steamer Sultana,
from New Orleans on the evening of the
2lst, arrived at Vicksburg with her boil
ers leaking badly. She remained there
80 hours, repairing, taking on 1896 Fed
eral soldiers and 35 officers, lately releas-
ed from Cahawba and Andersonville
prisons. She arrived at Memphis last
evening After coaling she proceeded at
about 9 o'clock a. m. When seven miles
off blew up, Immediately taking fire and
burning to the waters edge Of 2,l56
souls aboard, not more than seven hun
dred have been rescued Five hundred
ofthe rescued are now in hospitals. Two
or three hundred uninjured are at the
Soldiers Home.
Capt. Mason, of the Sultana, is sup
posed to be lost.
Alta o'clock this morning the river in
front of Memphis was covered with SOL
diers struggling for life. Many were
badly scalded. Boats Immediately went
to their rescue, and are still engaged in
picking them mup.
General Washburne Immediately OF
ganized board of officers to investigate
the affair They are now at Work doing
so. No further particulars have been re
ceived
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LATE FROM MoBILE.-The latest ad-
vices from Mobile say that General Can
by had prohibited the entrance into the
city of all persons excepting those con-
nected with the army or navy. A block
ade runner, with one thousand bales of
cotton on board, had been captured above
Mobile, in the Mobile river On the 14th
inst, General A. j Smiths corps of ma
tional troops was eleven miles beyond
the town Of Blakely, en- route for Mont
gomery, Ala, in pursuit of the retreating
rebels. The national gunboats sunk by
rebel torpedoes and distinctions during
the operations against Mobile, were the
Milwaukee, Usage, Laura, Ida, Iberville,
Blossom, Rover, Scotia, and No. 4S. Near
ly all the Monitors were up to the city
on the 18th inst, and the remainder of
Admiral Thatcher's fleet would immedi-
ately follow.
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Hrs. Keitt,s Opinion Of Certain Gen
tlemen.

- In the South Carolina campaign, an
Ohio officer called at the house OF Mrs.
Keitt, wife of the ex-COngressman from
South Caroline (whO, it will be remem-
bered, was killed in the rebel army a
year ago. at Bennettsville, about fifty
miles from Columbia. The relict of the
great fire-eater approached him and said:
Il appeal to you for protection; yon have
killed my husband, and you have taken
nearly everything have in this world;
some of your men have just stolen my
husbands uniform, which / priced very
highly and desire above all things to
keep, and ] appeal to yOu to save 1T for
me-" The officer Immediately went in
search of the "bummers" who carried of
thu. plunder named, and, overhauling
t recovered the valued mementoes.
Jdyy then another party of "bummers"
was seen to emerge from the cellar of the
house with more thar dozen silk and
calico dresses and hoop skirts under their
arms. Mrs. Keitt called to them to know
what on earth they wanted with such
booty as that. The boys replied that
they had several colored females in their
camps whose wardrobes were III a bad
condition. Il wish you would leave
them to me-" said Mrs. Keitt, II have
enough for myself, but l would like to
keep those hoop skirts for some of the
Southern men who brought US into this
war, and instead of taking their part in
it as they promised, are now hiding
away from the Yankees in the swamps
and cane breaks" This touching appeal
moved the hearts of the bummers, who
Immediately deposited the hoop skirts
where they had found them. with the
understanding that they would be used
for the express purpose named by the
southern widow.
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DEscRIPTIoNof LovE.-Love is like
the devil, because it torments; like heav
en-, because it wraps the soul in bliss; like
salt, because it is ,relishing like pepper,
because it often sets on fire; like sugar,
because it is sweet; like rope, because
it is often the death of q man. because
he is here to-day and gone to morrow;
like woman; because there is no getting
rid of her; like ship, because 1t guides
one to the wished-for port; like VIII
o'-th'-wisp, because it often leads one in
to the bog; like fierce courser, because
L often runs away with one; like the bite
of mad dog, or like the Kiss Of q pretty
woman, because they both make man
run mad; like q goose, because tits silly;
like Q rabbit bueause there y nothing
ike Il. In 8 word, II IS ike Q ghost, 3.
cauae It Is like Sysgything and like noths
inr; often talkef about but never sesnS
toSehsd or undsrsteod.
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Excitement In Washington over the
Capture OF the AssRssins.

WASHINGTON, April 28.-The excite
ment which prevailed in this city yester-
day has considerably subsided While
all regret that the assassin, owing to the
rashness among the soldiers engaged in
the capture, was not taken alive. they at
the same time felt grateful that the muir
derer had paid the penalty of his crime
Had he been brought to the Washington
Navy Yard alive, nothing could have
withstood the fury of the excited con-
gregated thousands What disposition
was made of Booths body after the au-
topsy upon it, it is impossible to ascer'
tain. but that q fitting disposal, in keep
ing with his ignominious career was
made, is certain.
Harold, who has been exhibiting
great stoicism since his capture, now ap-
pears to realize the awful position in
which he is placed, and through the day
has given way to frequent weeping He
is quite young, and his appearance would
indicate him to be not over 90. Some
time ago he was an applicant for the po-
sition of surgeons steward, in the Poto-
mac fotilla, but was unsuccessful.
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WHEEIING W. w. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1865.
Iron Dish CIo.hs-Iroa CIs,he. Li.es

Iron Dish CIoths-arOa Clothes hiees
was once SO ill-informed of the pro
gress of the fine arts as not to know what
an iron dish cloth was. But seeing one
i'm use at the house of Il friend. l learned
from young Swiss gentleman who had
presented it to her that they were in
general use in his native country, and
he had accidentally seen cask full at
an importers, which were unstable In
New York, and had become rusty, and
looked upon as old iron. / procured
dozen and distributed them among my
friends They soon became bright from
use, and are universally classed among
those articles which I'VE wonder how
they ever did without" These are made
of rings of iron wire, No. ID, linked to-
gether, and are about six inches square;
| counted fifteen rings on one edge One
outside row of rings is only connected
with the other at each end, and one
inch or two in the middle, which makes
two loops to hang it by. ~
Every kitchen maid who has secured
the inside or outside Of Kettle with II
pronounces it better than scraping with
a knife or securing with cloth and sand.
They are very flexible, and ! imagine
must be like chain armor. which have
read of but never saw We also find II
useful to pnt under a pot or Kettle not
from the stove, when We wish to place
them on the table We have used ours
two years.
There is another iron convenience l
have used six years, and which Is as good
as ever that would recommend to
house keepers galvanized iron tele-
graph wire for clothes lines. II never
rusts, need never be taken in. never
breaks down and let's the wet clothes fall
to the ground to have to be rinsed again.
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EDWARD INaERsoLL, a lawyer ofPhil
adelphia. delivered very ultra anti
Administration speech, in New York, on
the night preceding the Presidents as
,sassination. Probably not thousand
persons ever heard OF read the speech,
until the Philadelphia Bzlletin of We'd
nesdaJ e7ening. printed it. The motive
of the Ballet:a appears but too appar-
ent, when we state that yesterday MI
Ingersoll was mobbed, by an infuriated
crowd, evidently melted to such lawless-
ness By the iuAammatory policy of the
BaIeta. Mr. narrowly escaped with
his life
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MIR. Choate once began political
speech at Fanueil Hall by saying: "Mr.
Chairman, you called on ME last even
ing to invite me to speak to the Wings
of Boston tonight told you thai un-
der no circumstances could be present,
and, accordingly, here am" This hu-
morous non sequitir seems to have been
followed by General Lee in his surrender
to Grant He says practically-"I en-
tirely disagree with you, General Grant,
about the desperateness of my situation,
and accordingly | give in"
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A Suicide Suspected Of Completely In
the eAssassinati0n,

BALTIMORE, April 2s.-A we'll known
citizen of Baltimore committed suicide
last Monday a short distance from this
city, shooting himself with pistol No
cause could be assigned for the rash act
except that he had recently seemed dc
pressed and melancholy. Subsequent
events have induced the suspicion that
he was in some way implicated il the
conspiracy. and last night the body was
exhumed, embalmed and sent to Wash
ington, BY orders of the Government:
The affair caused much speculation, and
there are many reports in connection
with it which it is imprudent to publish
at present.
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THE RICHEST BEQUEsT OF ALL.-The
closing paragraph of the last will and
testament of the noble and Christian pa
triot, Patrick Henry, shows the profound
veneration he felt for the religion of the
Cross:
Ihave now disposed of all my property
to my family; there is one thing more J
wish could give them, and that is the
Christian religion If they had this, and
I had not given them one shilling. they
would be rich; and if they had not that.
and I bad given them all the world, they
would be poor.
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WHAT rebel prisoners say about MIR
Lincoln's death is referred to by CORE
spondent at Petersburg, Is follows
have heard rebel officers of education
and intelligence say that theyconsidered
his death alone, to say nothing Of the
manner of it, more damaging to them
than would be the loss of great battle,
supposing their armies still in the field
The Presidents violent death acts with
peculiar effect on the rebel paroled pris-
oners who arrive, particularly the of
ficers. They seem to think that the act
has created an increased feeling of Bit
terness against them on the part of our
men, and, per consequence, those who
arrive now are more distant, reserved
and considerate in their demeanor to-
wards everybody than tLose who reached
mere prior to the assassination.
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Rooth,s Body-WiIson,s Raid.

CINCINNATI, April 28.-At a public
meeting in Dayton yesterday, it was re-
solved that the body of Booth be taken
to mid-ocean and there buried
Late Georgia papers give full accounts
of Wilson'S great raid. After defeating
Forrest at Selma, and destroying the ar
senals and manufactures there. Wilson
moved eastward, capturing Montgomery,
West Point, Columbus and Macon, scat
tering the militia on all sides, running
the only remaining railroad, breaking up
the machine shops, destroying military
stores, and rendering the manufacture OF
materials for future campaigns impossi-
BILE
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Kmportant Suit Decided.

BosroN, April 28--A suit brought by
Mr. Seward Sturtevant against A. IL.
Allen, for illegal arrest and inprison-
ment, which has been OIL trial here for
some days in the Supreme Court, closed
this morning The jury rendered YER
dict i'm favor of Mr. Sturteyant for S32.-
500. At the breaking ont of the war Mr.
S. was doing business in New Orleans,
and upon his coming North was arrested
and lodged in Jail upon charges Of disloy-
atty preferred against him by Mr.. Allen,
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An oil we'll was being bored near De-
troit, and when the drill had reached a
depth ofseyentyifeet current of gas es-
capped which blew out the drill and tools,
wsiehing eight hundred pounds, blew
F0G J6e she'd roof of the derrick, forty-6ve
1AstEhiRh, and hurled forth stream OF
water, kraysl and large stones. The
workmen narrowly escaped with thai
|1iyea The wat0 was strongly impreg.
nsted with petroleum.
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VIM. NJ Johnston, citizen of Chstts-
nooga, has been convicted of obtaining
money under false pretenses. and for
falsely representing himself as an officer
--an aid to General Grook-and obtain-
ing s2O7 from the authorities. He was
sentenced to be confined in the Nashville
Penitentiary for three years, and to pay
fine of s2l0 If his fine Is not paid at
the end of that time, he is to work it
out" at the rate of 81 per day -4l.
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Visitors 20 City Point, Richmond. and
Petersburg.

WASHINGTON, April 70.
The following order has been issued by
the War Department:
Notice to visitors to City Point, Rich-
mond, and Petersburg.
No passes are required from Washing
ton or Baltimore by persons desiring to
visit Richmond or Petersburg, but trans.
portation on government vessels will
not be furnished, except to persons in
the government service. All persons
visiting City Point, Richmond, or Peters
burg will be required to register them
selves, ON landing, at the office estab-
lished for that purpose and will be sub,
iect to the police regulations established
by the military authority.
By order OF the Secretary of War.
JAMES A. HARDIE, Brevet Brig. Gen.,
Inspector General.
War Department Washington. April
q. 1855.
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ART1r1cnL FIoyERs The Partisan

ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS The Partisan
artificial flower makers are unable to
supply all their customers. This trade
has extended greatly 70, the last four
years, and the annual value of the srti-
fetal flowers produced Is estimated at
10000, ,00Of In one quarter of Paris
(Donne NouveIle) the value of the srti-
fetal flowers manufactured exceeds H.
0OO. .0O0f annually
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DEATH OF A CoMMoDoRE.-William W.
Mexican. commodore United States NAVY,
died at his residence near New York city,
Saturday morning. April 29d. aged sixty
four years. He entered the service on
the 3Oth of November, lsl4. and received
his last commission as Commodore July
16. 1862
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Arrival sf the Funeral Train ~ Cleye-
land.

CLEVELAND, April o.. -All along the
route from Buffalo to this city, which we
reached this morning, the usual demon
strations of sorrow were witnessed. The
remains were escorted by large militia
~ and civil profession to the beautiful
constructed temple prepared to receive
them, and soon thereafter the coffin Of
the honorea dead was open to the thou
sands of spectators who in admirable or
der entered and retired from the enclos-
ure. The entire population of this city
are abroad, al seemingly impressed with
the solemrity of the occasion.
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SENT HoME-Four thousand of the
paroled men recently belonging to Lees
army left Fortress Monroe on last Satur-
day ror their various homes in and around
Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans, for
which cities they were furnished tree
transportation on board United States
steamers
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VALUE RECEIvED.-A young man in
Kingston, New York, few days since
offered lady friend who was acting as q
missionary collector, twenty-five cents
for every kiss she would give him. Lady
went right to work and earned 81 30 for
the fund in few minutes.
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LEGAL.

Attachmens In Chaacery Pending In
she Circuit Court OF Ohio County, w.
Va.
Lsvsrett g. T. Stone and Mead W. Stone, part.
ners doing business under the firm name and
style Of L. & NJ Stone plaintiffs.
vs..
Samuel L. Christie James s. Wheat Trustee.
and John List, defendants
TAKE NOTICE, THAT THE DE.
i POSITIONS Of Charles Stevens and others,
will be taken at the law Office Of 8. 4 8. r. Mat
thews, at No. 65 West Third street. In the city
Of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, state OF Ohio
on the 18th day'of May, A. D: 1855, between the
hours of 8 O'Clock, A. II. and z O'Clock P. Il, on
behalf Of the plaintiffs to be read In evidence on
the trial of the above cause. And II from any
cause, the taking Of said dispositions should not
be commenced or being commenced, should not
be completed on that day, the taking Of the sams
WILDE adjourned from time to time until the
same bs complstsd
To said Samuel L. Christie.
ByM.C. Good, their sttornsya
April ~, 1865. wit
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RAaEI--Rare1. the ho

RARET - Rarey, the horse-tsmsr, is
coming out again as lecturer. in Boston.
In that city the learned journalists call
him a hippo-philosopher, and from the
transcandental way they talk of his "hu-
manitarianism," as applied to the educa-
ton of quadrupeds, 1t Is not quite GER
tain that they willn introduce horse
tanning into their colleges as branch Of
ethical instruction
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A BILL has been introduced in the
Massachusetts, Legislature, providing for
equality of accommodations in theatres
and places of amusement for all persons.
without regard to color OF race. The
penalty is forfeiture of license
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REPORTED DEATH or JoKS BELL.-
The Nashville Daily Tina, of the 2od
inst, has report that John Bell, for
merly United States Senator, and can
didate for the Presidency in 1860, died
recently in Alabama, 1t, is stated upon
what seems reliable authority that Mr.
Bell was seen last summer at Augusta,
in Georgia, in the EXTREMIST poverty.
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THE Boston Post says that the billiard
match for the championship of Massa-
chusetts, between Tobin, the present
champion, and Wilimarth. will be played
on the 18th Of July next. The German
billiard players of Boston are about or
ganizing tournament, which will take
place as soon as proper arrangements are
made. They intend to devote the profits
to the establishment of German school.
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THE Evening Post says; Two nisr-
chants Of this city have proposed to the
Secretary of War to offer a reward of
half q million of dollars for the capture
Of JEFF. Davis alive. If the Secretary
approves, these two gentlemen win give
$4,000 each towards raising the amount
named.