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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.
4 FARM IL miles North from the town
N of Dallas, $40 acres in prairie and 81
acres in the timber ll0acres Of the prairie
in cultivation. There is a good dwelling,
out houses and eistsrn on the place. This
farm will be sold low for cash or currency.
For further particulars apply to
GEO. w. GUESS, Dallas, Texas.
Dallas, Sept, 18th 1S66-52:tf.
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At last the first blow has been struck
in a war destined to result in the most
ln0mentouS consequences to the whole
OF Europe. The war really began when
Austria and Prussia undertook to wrest
from Denmark the duchies of fSchleswig
and HOlstein. Prussia had long COW
eted the possession OF those provinces
as affording her commercial outlet to
the North Sea. She therefore, through
her crafty Bismark, drew Austria into
an effort to seize them, trusting to even
Qualities for an opportunity to get them
into her own possession. The Joint oc-
cupation of SchIeswig and Hoistein by
the two powers was adimculty for Prus-
sia; the problem being how to get Aus
tria out, so that she might have them in
her own power. Austria refused to give
any ascendancy to her rival by vacat-
ing the provinces, and Prussia eonse-
quently made up her mind that the
question must be settled by resort to
arms. To prepare herself for that is
sue, she negotiated treaty, offensive
and defensive, with Italy. Austria, re-
ferred the question of the disposal of
the conquered duchies to the Federal
Diet; a course she ought to have taken
much earlier; and the result of that
reference was determination of
the Diet to mobilize the Federal
army. Upon this, Prussia declares the
confederation dissolved, and virtually
declares war against every State that
sides with Austria. In the meantime
Prussia had marched her armies into
Holstein; upon which Austria march,
ed out hers leaving Prussia in undis-
puted possession of the duchieS. Then
came the mutual declaration of war,
and the occupation by Prussia of sew
eral important positions in the German
States, almost before Austria had made
any movements for her defence.
The war was thus begun for the reali-
cation of scheme for the aggrandise-
ment; it will be prosecuted with a view
to the prosecution of the plans of Fred
erick the Great. Bismark indeed APP
pears to imagine that the mantle of the
great monarch has fallen upon him,
and that it is his mission to give reality
to Frederick's splendid dream. What
are the prospects of his success? In
the first place, Prussia has secured the
cooperation of Italy, whose reward is
to be the possession of Venetia, pro-
vided she can capture it. On the other
hand, Austria has the moral and ma
terial support of the whole Confedera-
ton, except Bavaria and the cities of
Bremen and Hamburg, which have
assumed a neutral position. The popu-
lations opposed in the struggle com
pare as follows go Eg.I
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AY MORNING, JULY 12, 1866.


, An Italian correspondent of the New
York Times, after discussing grave po-
litical matters, gives a little gossip
about the women of that country,
thus:
1 have at last, after several years.
residence, seen one who may be called
beautiful in the Italian sense of the
word. Passing by cafe u while ago,
I saw lady OF twenty or so, sitting in
front chatting with some officers, and
as she was quite striking in appearance
and manners, I fingered, for It is unus-
ual to see a handsome woman in Italy
and this one possessed only the symme-
try of features. They were, however,
really feminine, quite rare to see here,
and her complexion waSvery clear, an
other unusual sight-almost transpa-
rent-butt there was too much ofmarble,
the eyes were bright, but wanted the
fire of intellect. Intelligence was
wanting. Italians, however, don't ex-
pect this in woman, as she is generally
looked upon as an inferior, as with the
Turks. This one reminded me of a
beautiful face in alabaster-nore fas-
cinating, of course, than the lifeless
matter-and yet her silly laugh almost
dissiPated the idea of fascination or at
tracttveness. Willis says beautiful
women are scarce in Italy, but when
you do see one, she is splendid. OF
course that is SO, and simply because a
beautiful woman is splendid anywhele eY
Perhaps he means merely comparative
ly, when compared with the sex gener-
orally in Italy. A very prominent and
revolving feature of the fair sex is their
nose, which Hilliard or some other au-
thor speaks of as vulgar, I have often
observed this. especially in the middle
ana better classes. 1t does seem as
though all their ugliness and vulgaritv
were concentrated in their nasal organ;
1t Is often so large and unsightly and
unshapely, often discolored and blotch-
ed, reminding me of an old toper's
sign-board. This may be pointed Lam
guage, but facts are stubborn, find them
where you will. In the mass all their
features lack beauty and expression;
their lips thick, their cheeks pulled,
their countenances dark and heavy,
without any intellectual character, and
then many look SO sad, as though hope
had forever fled from their breasts;
they seem real terra Gotta, without the
spirit often impaired to the mere clay
ey form.
attended, in 1858, an entertainment
atthe Royal Palace in Naples, where
were present fifteen hundred to two
thousand persons of the upper classes,
and among all the hundreds of splen-
didly dressed ladies did not see one
MMhO MhO MSuIu DC caI!eo even handsome IN
New York or Baltimore. can per-
haps, account for all this; the want of
education. Centuries of degradation
and ignorance have done their work.
have heard of rich fathers neglecting
to educate their daughters through the
influence of priests, who say to them,
why educate your daughters? What
use is it? Keep your money for other
purposes" A new light has begun to
shine in this kingdom and every COM
mune has its schools. There are hopes
of the rising generation, at all events.
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Our Oil Observation-Disclosures from
the RurnlnE springs Region.

- BURNING SPRINGS, July 0, 1866.
Editors Iate1igencer:
Perhaps a word or two occasionally
from this "Oil Dorado" might be of in
teEest to some of your readers, who are
deoarred from visiting this delightful
The ''Jones wells" are both flowing
steady streams of oil, in quantity about
as great as when they were first struck.
The Jefferson well" is still flowing,
but in smaller quantities than at first,
1t was not tubed clear down, and is
thought to have ''caved." Old oil men
think If it was cleaned out, tubed and
seed bagged, that its yield would be as
great as ever. 1t now flows about
100 barrels per day.
Two wells were struck last weel-the
.Apple Orchard" and the "Fiteh" well.
Both are flowing wells. They yield
from 200 to 300 barrels per day. The
Cozzens" well and the Hoffman"
well are each yielding about 100 barrels
per day. They are also flowing wells.
There are quite number Of wells
here that are pumping from fifteen to
forty barrels per day, bat they are not
much noticed. Flowing wells are the
fashion just now. "A large number of
wells are being bored at present, from
which oil in considerable quantities
might be pumped, but their owners are
after flowing wells and keep on boring.
Your city is represented here. Nj.
Sawtell is putting down a we'll. BE is
now down about seven hundred feeT
and has had oil twice in his well in con-
siderable quantities, but is boring still I;
ike the rest, he is after flowing well,
ano VIII, undoubtedly, get one. The
same gentleman is mailing arrange
ments TO start two other wells, the COM
pany having been organized for that
purpose.
Another Wheeling company, the La
belle, IS also getting ready, under the
bupefintendence OF Mr.. Wilson, to bore,
and viii be ready to go to work in a
week from this time.
J. b. Ford, of your city, is also MAX
ing arrangements to put down well.
Derricks are going up in all dfrec-
tions, and Burning Springs is, perhaps,
the busiest place just now in the State.
Leases are being made very rapidly,
the terms being one-third royalty. and
the bonus varying from $1,000 to s., 600,
according to location, and the size Of
the lot. 100 square rods. w.
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aIiscelIaneao,us news about on.

The GAINESVILLE Courier saws: The
company sinking the well on the Cox
farm, a short distance south of New
Concord, struck oil last week at the
depth of something over 100 feet, The
indications of a good strike were excel
lent. The we'll on the Vandevert farm,
which struck oil the other day, is 79
feet deep. The company are making
arrangements to pump il.
Tho famous Otterson we'll at Burn
ing Springs, West Virginia, is now
yielding one thousand barrels per day.
The yield of the Burning Springs re-
gion is now set down at 2,6OO barrels
per day. - - - -
The daily production of the Tarr
Farm, on Oil Creek, is estimated at $50
barrels, that of the Hyde & Egbert and
McChntock farms at 500 to 1000 barrels
per day. =.
The OIL City Register saws: The
story Farm, belonging to the Columbia
Oil Company, OF Pittsburgh, continues,
as Il ever has been, one of the most
productive farms, for the extent of ter
rltoFy developed in the oil region. The
average daily production of the farm
Ior the past four years, has been from
900 to 500 barrels of oil. The dividends
paid to stockholders have averaged be-
tween one and two millions of dollars
annually. = go :
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Waifs for the Lnhies

The claimants for the Monthyon Prize
of Virtue, given every year in Paris,
are, this year, ballet girl and sister
of charity.
Listen to the life of the Sister OF
Charity:-She is. of high family; has
left the world and all its seductions for
u life of hardships and trial; she is up
at four o'clock in summer, and five
O'Clock in winter, and spends
the whole day at her devotions
and in attendance on tho Sick
She has begged for the charge of the
contagious ward at the hospital, and is
never loath to perform those offices
from which others shrink. She has
watched the feetiug spirit as it passed
away, and comforted the survivors with
sweet words and religious consolation,
In her leisure momentS-for she finds
even time for leisure-she works for the
poor children of the patients, and has
clothed with her own hands more than
sixty children who, but for her, would
have run about the streets in rags. By
her care are these children made to at
lend school and catechism; and thereby
in the measure of her intelligence, has
she saved their immortal souls. For
this cause IS she now brought forward
by her friends to receive the reward of
virtue, for surely never was virtue so
great as hers" 5-EE.
But wait and listen to the lite of the
tigarante of the Porte st. Martin;
"She is young-bpt nineteen years of
age-very pretty and graceful, or she
would not be made to dance in the
front row in the ballet which iuyarias ia
bly, adorns the third act of the gloomy
melo-drama of the terrible haunt of
perjury and crime. She, too, rises with
the sun, and after providing for the
comfort of her bedridden grandmother
washed and mended the childrens'
clothes there are four younger broth
ers and sisters, and the mother has been
dead this many long year)-she Gets
the children up and dispatches them off
to school. She then makes the little
lodging as tidy as possible under the
circumstances of two rooms, four chill
dren, two grown up women, one of
whom is paralytic, and a sickIy father.
Then she runs to the rehearsal, which
tSkes place in Paris theatres almost
every day. While there she is busy
with the chfldrens' clothes, for She
mends and makes with indefatiUable
zeal. The rehearsal over, she returns
to prepare dinner for the family, so that
the children returning from school and
the father returning from work may be
MADE comfortable. Then, again, when
all Is cleared away, does her needle fly
till the time arrives for the performance
at the theatre, which generally lasts till
midnight, and wherein she has been
made to dance in the ballet, sing in the
chorus, march in the professions, and
sometimes fly in the air during four
hours and a half, at the expiration of
which she left to return home, to find
the little household fast asleep; and
without word of comfort from those
10 whose happiness her whole life is de-
voted, she sinks upon her lowly pallet,
pratsing God for all his mercies, and
truly grateful that He should have per-
mitted her to be the prop and stay of
her family. Which of these two gener-
Gus and grea t-hearted women will OBJ
tain the reward of virtue?" > =
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PRICES of labor in San Francisco in
gN-d: Carpenters, painters, carriage
makers "a day; blacksmiths, ship
carpenters, calkers and plumbers, IS;
better class of steel and iron and other
metal workers, A to 6; poorer class, to
4; masons, 5; hodmen, 8; street rail-
drivers, $50; ordinary laborers, 2@2, so;
printers, 75c a "thousand;n woman
cooks, 5000 a month; chamber-maids
and ordinary house servants, 2O@
80 a month; men cooks, 10000 a month;
walters, $500; paper-hangers, 2Oc a
roll; shoemakers, 4,5O@5 for mems
boots, and ], ,25 for ladies' pegged boots,
and 2,25@2,75 for sewed; Chinese house
servants, IS to z week; policemen,
S125 q month; lady teachers in schools,
$Sl0a year; clerks in retail stores, S40@
so month. Ship mechanics work but
8 hours a day; other mechanics gener-
ally 10. The quality of work demand
ed is generally first class. The stand
ard is perhaps higher than in eastern
cities. m
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THE losses of the Insurance Com
panies by the Portland fire are i'm
mense, The home offices are ruined
altogether. Several in other cities will
be badly crippled. The E2tna of Wa
terford, loses s2O7, 900; the Hartford
Company S166, 600; the Manufacturers,
Boston, $3.50, 600; the Metropolitan, N.
Y, S4OO, 700; the Relief, N. Y, 500, 900;
the Phoenix, S25O,OOO.
Speaking of the fire and its immense
losses the Springfield Republican says:
''This experience will bring to head,
many abuses in the insurance business,
and work a decided revolution in its
character. Small and weak companies
will be abandoned; the business will
be concentrated into fewer but rich and
powerful offices; the rates of insurance
will be revised and enhanced; new and
more stringent regulations will be
adopted; and the great profits of agents
and brokers will be cut down. Fifteen
to thirty per cent of all the income of
the insurance business has been absorb
ed by these middle-men in the rivalry
of the various companies; and they
have prospered, while the stockholders
have gone without income for their in
vestments; or had to stand by and see
their principal eaten up by these hung
ry sharks of the trade. As much
absorbed by the go.betweens of the
business, as by the increase of fires,
has insurance been brought to its pres
ent depth of poverty. The Portland
IRE has forced the crisis that will effect
a revolution.
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DIR. T. j. KISNER.
ECLECTIC MEDICINES.

A4SA4SS In 111S4S4N15G9s
NEW TREATMENT s NEW REMEDIES.
OFFICE, Sd ST., CENrRE WHEELING, w. VA.
nR K. HAVING SECURED THE SER
4. u VICES OF an intelligent assistant, who
will attend to the PREPARATION OF rnedI-
Cines, putting upsprescTiptions &c, Will enn-
BILE him TO give more attention to out pa
uents, especially To his many friends in the
country. His medicines are all prepared in
ients by himself. Or. X. treats all diseases
both Acute and Chronic with which human
lly Is afhicted- He hnsa a large number of new
remedies which have proved remarkably
successful In many Of those obstinate cases of
Chronic diseases which heretofore have been
supposed TO be incurable, among which may
be named: Consumption, Scrofula Dis
charges from the Ear, 0zena Enlarged Glands
Cancers and Skin Diseases. HIS mode OF
treating Liver Diseases, stomach Complaints,
Bronchitis and all diseases of the Throat
and Air Passages. Hypertropby and all ott-
Spinal Affections, and all diseases Of the Nep-
yOus System, Is acknowledged by all who haYe
ever known to the medical Profession Dr. X.
has been eminently successful In the treat
ment OF all diseases peculiar 20 women, viz:
Menstrul Distractions Painful MenstTuStion
L.eucrrhea Uterine and OvaTiOn Tumors
PrOlapsus Uteri and all Nervous diseases to
He Inakts n specially in the treatment OF
all Chronic Affections OF the GenitO Urinary
Organs, viz: Catarrh OF Bladder and Urethra,
Irritable Bladder, and NOn-retentiOn and
Dribbling of Urine, Urinary Deposits or
Gravel, Dlabetis and Difficult UFinating, Sy-
Phiitc Diseases in all their vnried iOrms
Ghonarrhea, its complications and sequellse,
Spermatorrheaa and Impotency, and all alice
uons consequent upon youthful indtscretions.
Also special attention paid to the treatment
OF FistulaS, White Swelling, ScrOfulOuS
Sores, Varieose Ulcers, &c. Persons afflicted,
particularly with old troublesome cases
should lose no time to call on or address DR.
KISNER. Communications containing fee
promptly noticed. Ofiice prescriptions and
medicine cash. For visits in city, same as
other Physicians Ofice hours, 8 A NJ toI2
NJ P. 81. tO4 P. n, and P. 81. TO 9P. II.
NmR
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Longing for Rain.

BY HARRIET A'EwEE RISLBALL-
Earth swoons, Overwhelmed with wait G
bloom;
The scanty dews seem dropped in vain;
AthiTst she lies. white Earish skies
Burn with their brassy hints Of rain.
Morn after morn the flaming sun f-. .
SmiteS the bare hills with fiely rod;
Night after night with blood-red light
Slares like slow-avengtng god.
oh for cloudy curtain drawn
10 screen us from the scorching sky!
Oh for the rain to lay again
The smotheEing dust-clouds passing by!
To wash the hedges, white with dust.
Ereshen the grass, and fill the pool:
While In the breeze the odorous trees
Drip softly, swaying dark and cool!
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THE GAINESVILLE Signal says that one
of the young ladies belonging to the
High School in GAINESVILLE, who had
passed the usual examination of a
graduate, suddenly took it into her
head to get married. This important
event. however, was but temporary
interruption to her attendance atschool.
and she still claimed the right to grad
nate; As so novel an application was
totally without precedent, considerable
excitement and some opposition was
caused among the Trustees, which at
length ended in q compromise, and the
young lady was allowed TO graduate
under her maiden name.
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Chaplin 18th W. Va. infantr;y.


Meszrs. McCABE, KRAFT & Co., Gentlemen.
Allow me to add my testimony to that of
Others, in regard to your celebrated "Diarrhea
Compound have been for "A long time
subject to the disease for which 1t is recom-
mended. have tried various remedies; but
never found one that so completely eradicates
the disease as your medicine. A short timL.
ago was suffering terribly with DIarrhea- 1
procured a bottle of "Kraft's DIarrhea Cone
pound" experienced immiCliate relief from
one dose, and after third dose felt as well R8
ever. regard 1t as an Invaluable medicine
and would not be without it. Yours truly,
D. w, STEW ART-
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An Incident IN \ rloiIroatl. 1.a-

AoHster--pm afraid Pm sitting on
your crinOline, ma'am.
.Agqbte y0ltH1 LddS-oh, never mind.
sir, its of no consequence; you. can't
hurt it.
Monster No, ma'am, it's not that.
but the confounded thing hurts me!
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ct, I am your friend,
VII METCAIFE
OF Metcalfa. BrO. 6Co-

MccABE, KRAFT & CO., Wholesale Drug.
gists, Wheeling, w. Va. sole ProprietOrs To
whom all orders should be addressed.
For sale by REED, KRAFT & Co., Centre
Ohio, and by Dealers in Medicines every
where feb2I- 6mddEw
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Franklin Insurance Company
OF WHEELING.


DTRECTORS:
T. II. Logan, 7. P. ShRllcroSs, Geo. K. Wheat
Geo. Mendel, John Zoeckler, Saml. McClel.
Ian, g; w. FranZheinn, Jas. n. Vance, Alex.
THIS COMPANY HAVING BEEN DULY
organized, are prepared to take risks at
fair rates on buildings of all kinds merchnn-
disc, manufacturing establishments, furni-
,ture, steamboats, and cargoes on the western
rivers and lakes, and also on the lives of per-
sons for a term Of years. This Company Of
fers superior inducements to farmers, where
by they can be insured for three years at re-
duced rateS. This being home institution,
composed OF some ninety-four stockholders,
most ofwhom are among our pest business
men, recommends itself to the favorable con-
sideraton of the insuring public, and sollcits
their patronage.
Applications for insurance VIII be prompt
attended to by the Secretary.
ONCE, No. McLure House, being the same
formerly occupied by Adams Express Co.
MACARTHUR, Secretary.
SAM'L MCCLELLAN, President.
GEO. MENDELI5 Vice President. i
n. G. ARTHUR, Agent for paying pensions
ONCE, No. McLure House, being the same
formerly occupied by Adams Express CO.
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Rate OF sUBscRIPTIoNs.
ODE TO THE SUArNrER.

Oh sweet summer stay,
The earth is in love with thy marvellous
Thy music and flowers,
Thy long laughing hours,
my day daWningS, rosy and grey,
my sunsets, SO mystic and tender.
Oh swim swallows wait,
AND tell us yet one more sweet magical story:
Ere wandering bands,
Ye seek distant lands,
Rest GWallowS-it Is not so late
Meath the minster-eaveS sacred and hoary,
Oh nightingale sweet f-f S. HHt-
Thy leAf.laced screen . - . -
Is fragrant and green. r,l
Oh let us again hear thee greet
The night with thy music sweet singer
Rose, fade not so soon, rr.r r--ssrs
Ihourt summers own child, she'll stay while
thou stayest,
The trim garden bed,
Is sad when thou'rt dead,
Inc song birds may have many a sweet tune
10 sung 70 thee, rose, of all gay flowers the
s"seS-
Oh, sweet summer, stay,
We dread the cold winter his grimness and
Such garlands wen twina sElr
For that white brow OF thine,
Such fair buds Wen strew in thy way,
Thouit stay for the sake of the blossoms we
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Warrington Special Dispatches.

The Lancaster (Pa.) Daily Express
announces the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens
as candidate for United States Sena-
tor. II is understood that his friends
have his consent to use his name in
that connection, and his claims will be
vigorously pressed. 3.'t7-i e.
Veteran Reserve Corps was
slaughtered in the army bill in the
Senate to-day, to the disappointment
of many of its officers. 10.
Mr.. Clark tried to get up his bill to
improve the Mississippi Levees, Just
before the adjournment of the Senate
to-day, but he did not succeed. Mr..
Brown, of Missouri, made strong OPP
position. 81 2
-Fifteen thousand five hundred and
forty-five acres OF public lands were
disposed OF by cash sales, entries un-
der the Homestead law and with agri-
cultural college scrip, during the month
of June at the Topeka, Kansas, Land
Office. E5 aaI
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Nessrs. McCABE, KRAFT & Co., Gentlemen.
1hRve been using your "DIarrhea Com ponnd'
in my family for some time and can saw with
much pleasure, that it Is the BEsr r NIEDIC1SE
Of the kind have ever used, and do cheerful
ly recommend It to my friends.
With much respect, am your friend,
v. H. MFsTCAIFE-