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, 1868-10-09

A FOREIGN LEaIsLATgRE.-The Servian
Legislature is composed of five hundred
members, of whom it is asserted that at least
one half cannot write. The House of Com
mons" is long wooden shed, with rough
deal benches. The members are allowed
about seventy-6ve cents per day, lodging
money, and are provided with food of the
toughest description. At their recent ses-
sion, before the day of meeting, the members
were obliged to camp out, and five hundred
representatives of the nation we're seen sup
ping their strong broth out of the big camp
kettles, and eating their pork and black bread
seated on the ground in groups before their
tents.
, 1868-10-09
NUMBER 13.
Treatment Of War Prisoners.


The Boston Courier editorially states the
following: The Statement of Mr.. Ould. in
reference to Confederate prisoners delivered
at the mouth of the Savannah river. recalls a
narla'iVe made 70 US several years ago, upon
.ne most unquestionable authority. 1t is TO
sn's enect, that the commander of one of the
large transports employed by the Govern
INSTRUCTIONS, TO Fort McAlster, TO transfer
some nine hundred Confederate officers and
soldiers 10 Hilton Head that upon taking
them on board, there we're, not any two Of
the number whom he could not have carried
in his arms, like infants, such was their
wasted and miserable condition that upon
inquiry, he was informed that they had been
fed on nothing, for months, but half pint
Of raw corn and a small allowance of water;
that the commandant at the Fort said such
were his orders. The first colonel in COM
mand, who received these orders, informed
stanton that he could not comply, and an>
other was substituted for him. The humane
officer at once provided them tea and neces-
sary food, and did his best to make them as
comfortable as possible; but many died on
the passage. On arriving at Hilton Head
and delivering up his charge, he was told
the commander at that Fort had the same
orders in regard to supplying the prisoners
with food; but stated that if either of them
had the means of purchasing better fare, it
might be done; aud Colonel of the party
drew for five thousand dollars on New York,
and by this means their sufferings were allie
waited. This Colonel told our informant
afterwards, that he had thus furnished SI2,-
600, and every cent of it, he knew would
be repaid.
This statement has never, to our knowl-
edge, appeared in print before but the
present occasion is suitable one to produce
it, 1t can easily be verified if disputed We
had leave to make it known but we thought
it would be of no avail in the condition Of
public sentiment at the time. A better op-
portuuity is now offered, and we think the
people ought to know by whose orders it was,
that the Confederate prisoners were kept on
half pint of raw corn and pint of water
day.
, 1868-10-09
The First Doctor.

who was the first doctor? What physic
did he give? and how did his patients like
it p 'Galen was the man., answers the fam.
lily NJ. D., in tone of reVerential admiration
for the accredited author of the healing art.
'Galen was the father of medicine he goes
on to say, 'and we are indebted to him for
The father of medicine interrupts Pater-
familias, 'he was not even its elder brother
'What did the people do until Galen's time?
And was not HippOcrates setting bones FIVE
hundred years before him?' NJ. D. looks
puzzled, for Paterfamiliais is right and, for
the matter of that, Pythagoras had been dos,
ing his con6nding friends with All sorts of
queer compounds a century or so earlier.
If be did not administer the first black
draught, nobody can say who did, so let him
have all the honor of the nasty mixture. The
Egyptians, indeed, were early afoot as medi-
cine men, and we're concocting potions huns
dreds of years before the Samian philosopher
tried his hand at drugs. But the land of
mystery seems to have taken its physic with
out troubling itself to remember who first
prescribed the dose. Medicine has Jared
like beer. No one knows to whom the world
is indebted for these compounds. If the
story be true that Isis devised malt liquor
for her own peculiar delectation, it may
chance to be that Orsis, her husband, felt
it his duty to discover a remedy for too lib
eral indulgence, and the result may have
been offered to the worldsin the shape of a
digestive pill. Be this asit may, doctoring
is first heard of in Egypt. The priests took
it in charge, as they did most other things
worth having, and turned it to good account
1t is likely enough that poisoning enemies
divided their attention with curing friends.
But whatever success may have followed
their treatment of the living, they certainly
knew how to preserve the dead. Their
skill in embalming shows them to have pos
sessed knowledge of drugs, and a readiness
Of hand, that moro enlightened practiction,
ers have since tried in vain to emulate.
Whether, therefore, for good or for evil,
medicine claims an unknown Egyptian priest
as its first author and who shall say that
SIENNA and castor>oil may not divide the hon.
OF of the earliest dose Of physic!
, 1868-10-09

EVERY rose has its thorn, and the great
benefits resulting to the human race from the
construction and use of sewing machines,
are not unmixed with evil. Some time since
an eminent French physician, who had large
experience in Paris in treating sewing wo>
men for disease, was struck with the gener,
al similarity of the complaints that came to
him to be treated. An investigation con-
vinced the doctor that the peculiar motion
of the body in working sewing machines by
the feet, brought on a class of diseases in
females. Too long exercise at sewing ma
chine is denounced as killing to the ladies.
1t is thus pretty well established, that a lady
may stitch "a shroud as well as a shirt on
sewing machine, as the poor seamstresses DO
plying their needle and thread in the 6d
fashioned manner.
, 1868-10-09

PRoGREss OF SoCIETY.-We know not a
more glorious thought and we believe it to
be true.--one that should move, animate,
and inspire, while it awes and controls u.s.
than this that free principles of govern
menr, liberty of opinion ard action u1on our
tights and duties are but a part, a wider
extension of that stupeudous, yet beautiful
pan which originated in Judea on the birth
DAY of our Saviour We know not a more
glorious thought, and we believe it to be true,
than that ;hristianity and republican insti-
ntions, as far as they are based upon the
ame foundation of universal liberty and per.
,Onal responsibility, as far as the design of
bOh is to- elevate man in giving him free
course. are to walk hand in hand through
the earth, brethren of the same family, chill
dreD of the same father. Christianity, we all
know. was the elder, the nobler, and more
exalted brother, and it was meet, therefore,
that it should lead the van as it did in the
march of reformstion-for that reformation
began at time when its weaker and younger
brother, political freedom, would have been
o7erRhelmed and crushed. The battle to be
fought was tremendous, and it was tit that
sOmrthing more than human should come
firth to meet its brunt. And Christianity
c-ne forth to meet it. 1t came forth to battle
With mems prejudices and passions, to dlspel
The mists, to scatter the rubbish, and to teach
3en-what has proved their hardest lesson
themselves. Aud when it has opened a
way and when all things we're ready, it called
its younger brother to come out to its aid.
and that brother has gone forth. The time.
". rss has come, and these two pioneers OF
IOeFty have joined their hands = friends,
0naPeers, and fellow laborers-aud they are
gong onward, each encouraging and support.
~ The other, aud both enlightening and
eQanclpatng the world.
, 1868-10-09

THE MAGDALENs OF New YoRK-Mr.
Oliver Dyers article on 1.-THE Magdalens of
New York City," in Pdckard's Monthly for
7Tii0HeueSU uIau III Ivcw 7 ork," which made
such sensation in the July and August
numbers of the same magazine, and has a
much more practical bearing. According to
him, there are six hundred and forty seven
known houses of prostitution in New York,
and he explains some of the hellish devices
by which they are provided with inmates, in
addition to the supply which natural female
immortality furnishes. In some cases the
very parents of the girls themselves profit by
their shame, and bring them up to life of
vice as they would to a respectable occupas
tion. Mr.. Dyer's discoveries, while probing
into this great ulcer of society, are of exceeds
ing interest, and deserve attentive consid>
GRAFTON from philanthropists. A point espe>
cially worthy Of note is as follows: " A
large majority of these girls were once Sun.
day School scholars, and many of them are
daughters of Christian parentS Numbers of
them were formerly Sunday School teachers
and members of Christian Churches. The
same painful facts have been revealed by the
laborers of the Midnight Mission in London.
Of four hundred girls rescued from the
streets and dens Of vice in London by that
Mission, nearly every one had been Sunday
School scholar or teacher, and their agrre.
gate attendance at Sunday School amounted
to one thousand two hundred and sixty. three
years-an average of over three years to
each girl"
, 1868-10-09

AN engineer employed in buildinga bridge
in France, lately ordered block of stone, so
feet in diameter, to be broken, and in the
middle of it an adder as large as mans fist,
twisted nine times round in spiral line, was
found. Accustomed to this dark and close
prison, it died in five minutes after being
exposed to the open air An attempt was
made to untwist it, but without success. The
stone round where it lay was quite smooth.
On careful examination there was not found
the least hole or crevice in the stone.
, 1868-10-09
WISHING.

Of all the amusements of the mind
From logic down to fishing,
There is not one that you can find
So very cheap AS "wishing !"
very choice diversion, too,
Ii you but rightly use 1t,
Aud not, as we are apt to do,
Pervert it and abuse it.
Iwish-a common wish indeed
Nv purse was something fatter;
That might cheer the child of need,
Aud not my pride to aatter.
Thu might make oppression reel
As gold eau only make it,
And break the tyrauts rod of stool
As gold can only break 1t.
Iwish-that sympathy and love,
And every human passion
Tlt has its origin above,
Would come aud keep in fashion,
Taa. s,orn and jealousy and hate,
AuI every base e'enouon,
We're buried fifty ftthOms deep
Bcuralh the waves OF ocean.
vish-that friends were always truei
Aud motives always pure;
wish the good were not 50 few,
wish the bad were ieweri
wish that persons ue'er forgot
To heed their piOus teaching
wish that pracuCiug was not
50 different from preaching.
wi.h-that modest worth might be
Appraised with truth and candori
wish that iunOceuts were tree
From treachery and slanGer;
wish that men their VOWS would mind
That women ne'er were roversi
wish that wives were always kind,
And husbands always lovers.
| wsh-in fne-that joy and mirth,
Aud every good ideal,
May come ere while throughout the earth
To be glorious real;
Till God shall every creature bless
With his supremest blessing,
And hope be lost in happiness,
Aud wishing be possessing.
, 1868-10-09

MANY years ago small Connecticut parish
undertook to build meeting house. They
went so far as to get up the frame and cover
it with boards Then, for want of money
and want of harmony, the enterprise stood
still. The elements then assailed the unfu-
ished structure, which 10 the course of few
years rotted down. By this time the people
had come to their senses, and set out in ear
nest to have another house. Raisings were
then great occasions All the men assem-
bled to put up the timbers-all the women
and children were there to see them do it,
At the conclusion of the work it was common
to sing psalm-the lines, for want of books,
being usually decOned of. This Office, at the
time referred to, was assigned to President
Edwards witty son Pierpont, who hap
pened to be present. He began as follows :;
"Except the Lord doth build the house,
The workmen toll In vain
which was sung with will. But the excited
throng was taken somewhat atack when their
roguish precentor roared out as follows:
VI" Except the Lord doth shiugls it,
Twill tumble down again"
, 1868-10-09

San Francisco, Sep. 24.-The struggle bo.
tween the producers and exporters of bread
stutfs continues the absorbing topic of con.
versation among commercial men here. Il
Is not possible for any well-wisher of the
State to watch this struggle without being
interested, because on the success of the pro.
ducers depends the future prosperity of the
ScS Between q these co6tcIing i6teFests alone,
but every man, woman and child is interested
in the success of the farmer. Should the
spectators succeed, they would make mil.
further control the productive resources Of
the State. Such success would embolden
them to do so. 1t seems incredible that 9TH
erwise we'll conducted papers in this city aid
these spectators through their com nercial
columns. The Union, almest single-handed,
has fought against them and exposed their
schemes, and thus saved thousands of dol,
lars for these farmers who needed its advice.
l have failed to see a word in any of the
" commercial" papers published here coun.
selling farmers to hold OF" when the price
offered by spectators in wheat was notori-
ously below the market value. On the con-
trary, they all urged the farmers to sell,
using unfair statements to induce them to do
SO. Garbling plain facts, and making figures
do what it is said they will not do, for that
purpose. The most industrious of this class
Of San Francisco commercial statisticians,
published within the past week, that there
are no orders on this market at present for
wheat above 81 so per cental," when there
is none-not even chicken feed-selling as
low, and nearly thirty large vessels are load
is being purchased in the interior at price
equal to 50 per GENITAL. What can such a
writer think the farmers of California are
made of, that they could be deceived by such
evident misrepresentation 1t is an insult
to their intelligence 10 publish such states
ments, and it is piling on such insult to pre-
tend to quote extracts from ga late PhilaN
delphia," and "recent New York paper" to
bolster them up. If any responsible Eastern
paper published the statements referred to,
and they are quoted for information, why not
give the names aud dates of such papers, that
farmers and their friends may test their cor
rectness 1t is but little less than insult to
tell the farmers that the demand for their
wheat 6. -SnddAnlF- -AAased-1 -heeauSa. n
combination of spectators bas temporarily
retired from the market-for the openly
avowed purpose of reducing prices to suit
themselves. How does such statement
tally with the fact of nearly forty large ves>
sells now in port under engagement to load
with breadstufs for almost all countries, and
prices in the Eastern and European markets
risingH Look at the cargOes of the vessels
cleared during the past week, as given'i in
this letter. Does that look as if there is any
cessation in the demand Such reckless as.
sertions defeat the purpose for which they
are made. Farmers will not sell good wheat
below 50 p GENITAL, and it will realize that
price within ten days in spite of all the
statistics -ISdcrGmento Union.
, 1868-10-09
THE advance guard of the engineers and

THE advance guard of the engineers and
workmen for the construction of the Hondu,
ras Railroad, have arrived al the Bay OF
Fonseca, and the road will be completed
from ocean to ocean in three years. The
great London banking house of BischOf-
shiem & Goldschmidt have the enterprise in
hand. The distance across is one hundred
and forty-eight miles, and deep and spacious
harbors exist at each terminus. This route
shortens the distance between New York
and San Francisco twelve hundred miles, as
compared with the Panama, and six hundred
as compared with the Nicaragua route. Its
completion will be an event Of the greatest
importance to California, and to the com>
merce of the world.
, 1868-10-09

KING THEoDoRE's drinking cup has been
presented to King William of Prussia. 1t
was found on the bed ofthe African monarch
half filled with rum. Ii is an enormous
buffalo horn, the thick end of which is clos
ed by metal plate, forming the bottom the
pointed extremity is cut of, and the open
ing thus made is covered with wooden stop.
per. This cup is covered with buffalo skin,
and is suspended to a leather strap. 1t is
entirely destitute of ornament.
, 1868-10-09

THE Pope has a summary way of disposing
of " the social evil" Because of its shocks
ing effect upon the health of his troops, the
Roman police made general raid upon the
frail sisterhood, and swept the whole body
into prison, or out of the Roman States, and
boased that they had not left one frail wO-
man in Rome. The condition of the poor
creatures thus driven from the city is said to
be deplorable.
, 1868-10-09

THE Mrs. SURRATT CAsE.-The special
Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times, in letter to that journal, referring
to the paper drawn up for the pardon of Mrs.
Surratt, says The facts are, that iminediate>
ly after the commission decided upon their
verdict, an application to the President for
mercy in behalf of Mrs. Surratt was drawn
up by Brigader General james A. Ekin,
and this paper was signed by Generals Hun
ter Foster, Kautz, Ekin, and Colonel Tomp.
kius. Generals Lew, Wallace, Horn, Karns,
and Colonel Clendennen declined to sign it,
which left it signed by majority of the
commission. This identical paper was after
ward produced in court on the trial of John
Surrattt by Mr. PierpOnt, one of the counsel
for the prosecution, aud it now forms part
of the record of that trial. When presented
it was found to be in the handwriting Of Gen.
eral Ekin, and it is due to him to state that
the idea of getting up this paper originated
with him, and his suggestion was approved
by General Hunter and four of the members
of the commission.
, 1868-10-09

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BLANKs OF ALL KINDS.
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. - .La Office.
, 1868-10-09

WINE is becoming an important article of
manufacture in Kansas. The newspapers in
the city of Lawrence state that the manufac-
turers of domestic wine in Kansas are busily
engaged in gathering the summer grape,
which is abundant in the valley of the Kaw.
, 1868-10-09

THERE was once an independent old lady
whose comments on the Bible were very
pointed. Speaking of Adams naming all
The animals, she said she didn't think he
deserved any credit for naming the hog
ANYBODY would know what to call him.
, 1868-10-09

"CHEwING PAPER' is the latest invens
tion of the confectioner, intended to take the
place of chewing gum. 1t is made of shpl
perry elm, etc., and comes in strips about an
inch wide and three inches long:
, 1868-10-09
To City Subscribers.

a, and after thi. date, the STATESMAN will be
s,,sl 20 Citv subscribers at so cents mouth, pay
N. 10 the carrier. Those who have paid in advance
iii have their papers continued until the time ex-
, 1868-10-09

LIZZIE COOPER, Brooklyn Mass MISS
of fifteen, has elOped with beardless yopIa
of twenty. Such romances sometimes Oe>
come sad reality.
, 1868-10-09

A woman in Cambridge (Mass. has OBJ
tanned a divorce from her husband because
be Joined a sect which does not hold the
marriage relation to be valid.
, 1868-10-09

NEVER own that a women Is rlget' 10 y,
it once, and on the very concert OF II Sne II
be always wrong for the rest of her lie.
, 1868-10-09

LElsURE-Employ thy time we'll, if thou
1lsSnest -. to gain leisure; and since thou art
H.. So. sure Of minute, throw not away an
n.ss, 5 Leisure is time for doing something
ob,. :ul this leisure the diligent man will
Is;.nI' IS'rn' out the lazy man never; for life of
SURE and life of laziness are two things.
, 1868-10-09
A Virginia CIaude DuvaI.

Reliable Information received here, saws
the Richmond (Va) Disoatch, leaves no
doubt about the fact that Granville Moutelle
is at the head of a regularly organized band
Af horse thieves, with active memberships in
many of the counties on the route between
Richmond and the Potomac river, and with
efficient lgents and accomplices in this city,
Washington and Baltimore
Granville Montelle, the chief and exeeu.
tive officer Of the gang, is now known and
feared in nearly all the eastern counties, and
many are the stories that are told Of bis dare.
devil exploits and generous forbeaiance.' .
There seems to be disposition to make a
hero of him and, indeed, he seems himself
ambitious 10 rank as a "gentleman Of the
road with Claude Duval, Dick Tupin and
Sixteen String Jack, with this difference, his
speciality is fine horses instead Of fat purses.
He scorns poor animal, and will sometimes
even pass by frst-rate saddle horse. He
glories in blooded stock and fast trotters.
His agents keep him posted as to the where'
abouts Of 5000, $500, and $500 animals, and
if he once slips the bride over horses head
that horse is gone. Ii is said he never takes
the last horse from the pillow, and swears that
he would rather quit the business than rob
a poor man /!
1t may not be generally known that Mon
telle is Richmond man, and is the son OF
respectable parents. Many of our citizens
remember him as a wild, mischievous, but
genteel boy. His first known exploit was
the stealing of COW. This crime had been
followed by many of the same grade; but he
has never been accused of murder, although
he goes doubly armed and has Several times
exchanged shots with those who have at
tempted his capture-once, we remember, in
the streets of Petersburg.
Montelle has been three times in the PEN
itentiary, and many times in Jail, almost as
often making his escape He was last con-
victed in the Circuit Court of Petersburg,
and it being for his third penilentiary Ofeuse
he was sent there for life. Being received
within those gloomy walls, he behaved him
self in the most exemplary manner, winning
the commendation Of all the prison officers.
But four months had not elapsed before he
had made his escape, and with him two other
convicts He did not hesitate at once to re-
sumo h4s old trade, but stole horses for the
party as soon as he crossed the line into
-HannRar SinaA-tAAt Ais-A-hiA-Ax
plOits have frequently received notice at our
hand After two or three months in West
Virginia he boldly returned to Richmond,
and has several times been seen on the streets
by those who knew him when he was an
honest man. On one occasion he reined up
his horse in front of bArroom near Beacons s
Quarter Branch, and, handing a bystander
SINE money, requested him to go in and
bring out bottle of whisky, begging to be
excused for asking the favor, but urging by
way of apology, " L am Granville Montelle,
and it isn't altogether safe for me to be liu>
geriug about Richmond" He got the whisky.
, 1868-10-09

A SAD TRUTH all women should learn
soon or late is the difference between W.
mans love and mans affection.
, 1868-10-09

THE Grand Duchess of Russia received a
diamond necklace worth S32,OOO on the oc
easion of the birth of her first born.
, 1868-10-09

DRUMS are now ornamented with IKE
ness of Grant. A better man to beat doesn't
exist.
, 1868-10-09

Statesman Building, Third Street.
, 1868-10-09

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, 1868-10-09
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