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Connecticut believes in the policy of
encouraging home talent. Every one of the
general State officers elected is native of
the State, as are sixteen out Of the twenty
Senators, and all but thirty two out of the
two hundred and thirty-eight members of
the House. Four of the five State officers
are between fifty five and ffty-seven years of
age.
Mr. Wilson has reported an'appropriate
joint resolution that all officers or privates
who served in the army of the Union during
the war should on occasions of state and
ceremony wear the badge of their corps or
division. Nothing could be more proper
than to revive ON all proper occasions the
honorable and glorious associations connec-
ted with the War for the Union.-M Y.
Tribune
The American newspapers of May 18th
had accounts of the attempt upon Prince
Alfred's life transmitted from Sydney via
Panama to New York T he London jour.
nails did not receive their correspondence
direct from Australia until three days later,
so that the important points of the news
were anticipated by means of the cable dis
patches. 1t will thus be seen that the Uni
ted States is becoming the grand centre of
intelligence from all parts Of the world.
The celebrated Neapolitan brigand, Ga
etano Manzi. whose capture of Mr. Moens,
all English traveller, was infinitely related
by the latter, in a. volume published two
years ago, has ut last been captured, and
with nineteen of his band was recently ar
raigned for trial. Thanks to the spoils de-
rived from several years successful brigan-
dage, Gaetano has been enabled to retain for
his defence the best advocates at the Neapo-
Titan bar.
A little Swedish girl was walking with
her father one night under the starry sky,
intently meditating upon the glories OF hea-
ven. At last looking to the sky, she said:
I" Father, 1 have been thinking if the wrong
side of heaven is so beautiful, what will the
right side of it be 2"
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REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF AMBER
The little fishing village of Schwarzort, sit
uated on the shores of the Baltic, between
Memel and Dantzic, about two leagues to
the south of the former place, has, within
the last three years, acquired certain I'M
portance, owing to the discovery of large
bed of amber. This bed Is situated near
the Cape Korning, and is believed to be ex-
tensive. -Four steam dredges are employed
for the collection of the amber. as well as
considerable number of dredges worked
by hand. The amber is found almost uni
formly in separate nodules, with Ignite, dis
seminated in the sands at depth of from
ten to twelve feet The dredging is carried
on day and night by shifts Of eight hours
each. About four hundred persons are en-
ployed at this work, and their wages are on
the average twenty-five silver groschen
(1fty-two cents) per shift. The quantity of
amber collected is considerable, amounting
to about two hundred and lightweight
pounds per shift. and for six days work
5,14 pounds The sand is sent on shore
when it is washed, in order to find the
amber.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Mental Depression.


Mental depression is disease of the nervous
system, and, of all the ills flesh is heir to, it is
the ore that cxcites the least sympathy. 1t is a
subject of frequent jests, and is called by vari-
Gus derisive terms but, although it is often
laughed at, it is not easy to laugh the patient out
of the belief that his ills are all real for it is
real disorde,-the general features of which ere
constant fear, anxiety and gloom. The exter-
nal senses. as well as the mental faculties, often
manifest symptoms of arrangement. Noise, as
of falling water, and ringing in the ears are
complained OF, while black specks and fiery
sparks frequently fit before the vision. Admo-
nitions like these should not be disregarded, as
they may, ii neglected, terminate in insanity.
The seat of the disease is in the brain and ner
vous system, and to control the malady it is nee
essary to use powerful tonic and Alternative,
which will correct and tone those organs without
in1amng the brain. This is the secret of the
success OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters in
cases OF this kind, for which it is the safest as
well as the best of restoratives. ....
In tact it is the only pu.e and reliable tonic
stimulant known. Many nostrums, purporting
to be tonics, are pulled up from time to time in
the newspapers, hut the sufferer had better let
them alone. HOSTETTER's STOMACH BIT
TIERS has proven itself, by many years of trial,
to he in every respect what it is represented to
be. is. D. B. ......-.... -...... Cd. ...
Jnne II, 1868. A-w1m.
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ANECDoTE OF GRANT.-A correspondent of
an exchange furnishes the following incident, il
Illustrating one OF the leading traits in the charac-
ter of our future President:
During the Petersburg campaign of 1854 sew
eral privates were engaged in unloading barrels
of "salt horse from transport at City Point,
and were in charge of a Lieutenant of New
York regiment, who took every occasion to
show his authority. To one of his abusive re-
marks one of the privates made reply, where
upon the Lieutenant administered several kicks
to the offender, who offered no resistance, but
continued on with his work. I'D .a-. 70.
A short, thick-set man, wearing aslouched hat
and a rather seedy officers cloak, who had been
standing by for some time, hereupon threw off
his cloak and proceeded to help to unload the
transport. After the task was accomplished the
officer donned his coat and cloak, and asked the
Lieutenant in very civil terms, his name and reg
iment.
Lieutenant, of the--New-Y ork Volun-
teers. By what authority do you dare ask such a
question ?"
"Report yourself Immediately to your Colonel
under arrest, by order of General Grant, for cru
city to your men, and remember that abuse OF
privates by officers is not tolerated by the present
commander Of this army" replied the thick-set
officer, lighting cigar and walking slowly away.
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NonrH. CAnoL1NA-Mr. james H. Harris,


NoRrH-C ARoLINA-Mr. james II. Harris,
one of the delegates from North-C Carolina to
the Republican Convention at Chicago. has
extended his trip to this city on an Grand
of mercy-to secure aid for the poor and
destitute white and colored people of his
State. Since the election there the unrecon-
s,ructed rebels are carrying out their threats
to punish the men who voted for the cause
of freedom and equal rights, and they are
depressing them in the most fearful manner.
The poor people need help until their crops
come in, or until the State is put under the
control of loyal men. Then they will be
abundantly able to take care of themselves.
Gen. Howard, Gen. Miles, Mr.. Sumner and
Others warmly commend Mr.. Harris mission
to those able to aid it. As he calls upon
gentlemen in this vicinity we hope that he
will meet with liberal response -Boston
Journal
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Mr.. CHASE IN THE HANDS OF Ills FRIENDS.
A colored Republican of North Carolina, James
81. Harris by name, an old friend of Chief Justice
Chase, called on him the other day in Washing
ton to see how the land lay He told the Chief
Justice there was great deal of talk about his
running for the Presidency as the Democratic
candidate on the platform of universal amnesty
and universal suffrage. The Judge replied in
substance as follows:
He had always been an anti-slavery man. and
always expected to be; that he had never gone
down to any man or party. In 1S4S, in Ohio,
neither of the great parties could elect Senator
without the aid of the Liberal party. The Dem
ocrats made proposition to its members, and
agreed for their support to repeal the black laws
and elect free-soler to the United States Sen
ate. He was himself elected on that coalition,
and the bill repeating the black laws passed as
he had himself drafted it. He had not gone
down to them-they had come up to him. II
his friends placed him in a similar position now
he was in their hands.
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TURQUOISE MINE.-In addition to its gold
mines, Nevada may soon become celebrated
for its precious stones The Reese River
Rsoeille, of the twenty-seventh ultimo, gives
some account of the gem called turquoise,
and of q turquoise mine existing in the Co
lumbus district. The turquoise stone is
susceptible of high polish, and is much es-
teemed by connoisseurs of precious stones
The choicest specimens are of pale blue,
with the faintest tinge of green, but in tur
quoise of an inferior kind the green predom-
mates. In Persia this gem is most highly
prizefl, and the choicest specimens are OBJ
tained there. Little attention has as yet
been paid to this deposit, but. judging from
the fact that several specimens, varying in
size from a small shot to an almond, have
been discovered, it is not improbable, as the
Reueille remarks, that small amount of la
Dor might be generously rewarded. .
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March 81, 1868.
Circular.
SAVING AND TRUST co.'s BANl
Save your Money! Save your Money!

FELLOW FREEDMEN AND FREEMEN-The Con-
gress of the United States, in March, 1865, icon
sidering the interest and elevation of the Freed
men, Chartered an institution called Frecdnan's
Saving and Trust Company the Mother Bank
being located in Washington City, D. C. This
Bank is establishing branches throughout the
South. One has bren established in this, the
City of Raleigh, N c. Its officers are composed
OF some Of the ablest and best gentlemen Of this
City, whose names are herein annexed.
We call upon every male and female to deposit
their little earnings. Deposits are received from
any one Old oryoung, you can deposit from one
dollar up to thousands. We give five per cent
interest on the dollar, if it remain six months
II you have money laid by put it in here, and II
will not only be safe, but it will be making you
something all the time. Remember, you are poor
save your MONEY. You want homes-save
your MONEY. You want education-savc your
MONEY. You want to live comfortably
your MONEY. "Mark this" that industry, so.
briefly, economy, and good moral character,
lead to wealth, education, influence and power
Now don't wait until you get large amount to
deposit; but deposit the small amounts, they will
soon grow large; small beginnings make large
endings; the small streams swell the large riv
ers, seas and oceans. See what ten cents Of eacl
working day deposited at this interest would
amount to in ten years.
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Bad Luck builds house to make himself
home in an uncultivated orchard. He
weaves moss around the trees. sets caterpil-
lars, borers, and blight to work, he lets fox
es and minxs into the hen-house, sprinkles
lice on the colts and calves, lanes the horses
gives garget to the cows, rot to potatoes,
smut to corn, weeyil to wheat, and is never
so we'll pleased as when the girls come home
without beaux, and the boys with the nit
ten.
A NICE QUEsTIoN.-Suppose man own
battcau: he fastens it to the shore at the
foot of Mcintosh street, with q rope made
of straw; along comes a pig and gets into
the boat-turns round and eats the rope;
the boat thus let loose, with the pig on board,
starts down stream, and before it gets to
Kirkpatrick's Bend the Boat is upset and
piggy is drowned. Now, has the man that
owns the pig got to pay for the boat, or
the man that own the boat got to pay for
the pig9 'ts1
A Dresden astrologer thus expounds the
planetary influences: Jupiter reigns this
wear, and those born under his influence
| will he endowed; the men with a propensi
ty to intemperance and music; the women
| to coquetry and passion tor admiration.
Next year Mars will be in the ascendant,
and those born then will be endowed: the
boys with a passion to become surgeons, or
soldiers, or apothecaries or murderers; the
girls, on the contrary. with an irresistible
penchant to become milliners or danseuses,
or danes of the demi-monde, or devotees.
1t is said that among the 100000 OF
people by whom Yeddo, Japan, is inhabit-
ed, there is net beggar in the streets, not a
drunkard, not a rufhan. The women are
beautiful, the men are robust and energetic,
there is no trouble about fashions, education
is universal, books are plentiful, though
there are no newspapers; life is simple and
easy, marriage is universal, and children go
naked.
An Exposition Of wool and wooden goods
is to be held at Chicago, Aug. and 3, to
represent the wool-growing and manufac-
turing interests of the West. Correspond
ence conducted by G. E. Morrow, Western
Rural, Chicago. ..
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A TERRIBLE SCENE IN AN IRISH CoURT.-At
the Limerick sessions a man named Roche charg-
ed two men named Collins with an assault and
called his own father as witness. The Reaches
and the Collinses being nearly connected, the
mother of the prisoners, exasperated at the pros
pect OF her sons being sent to prison, gave ex-
preston to her feelings in malediction, pray
ing that when old Roche left the witness-box he
might be paralyized The old man, excited and
agitated at the scene, was actually smitten with
paralysis. Earnest entreaties were made to Mrs
Collins that she would remove her curse by spit
ting on Roche, but the bcreaved mother sternly
refused to treat palsy by salvation, and Roche is
still in hospital.
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Gen. Buchanan has issued an order forbid
ding the legislature of Louisiana to assem-
BILE until he has been notified by Congress
that they accept its new Constitution "a. g.,
admit the State. Congress, in the Recon-
struction law. has provided that the Legis-
lature must meet and adopt the XIVth
Amendment before they will accept its Con-
stitution or admit the State. Hereis fla
grant inconsistency between Gen. Buchanan's
orders and the Reconstruction acts of Con-
gross. The Board of Registration, who claim
toShave succeeded to or been invested with
all the powers of the Constitutional Con-
vention, have issued m order that the Legis-
lature and the State officers be installed on
the 18th of June, instant. 1t is important
that this conflict of Jurisdiction and of
action between Congress and the Board of
Registration and the new State officers, on
the one hand, and Gen. Buchanan, acting
doubtless at the special instigation of the
President, on the other, should be immedi-
ately settled, or it may lead to the more Sc
rious consequences Y. Tribune.
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REBEL MURDERS IN soUTH-CAReLINA.

We learn from a private source (says the Wash
ington Ch,onicle,) that Mr.. Dill, Republican
member elect to the Legislature OF South. Caro-
lima, and two colored Union men, were basely
murdered by band ofarmed whites, at the resi-
dence OF the former, near Camden, 8. G., on the
night Of the 9Th instant. We are reliably In
formed that Mr.. Dill was gentleman of unim-
peachable moral character, native OF the State,
and slain for no other reason than his earnest
devotion to the cause OF the Union.
We learn, in addition, that coiored man,
together with Mr.. Dilrs wife, was desperately
wounded ly the fire of the assassins. How long
shall the blood of these Southern Union men be
unavenged! When is this system of red handed
murder of the friends of freedom to ccase?-
These deeds, damning as they are, meet with no
rebuke from the Southern press. On the con.
tfary, they receive smile OF approval, II not
words of open commentator, from rebel journ-
alists. In proof Of this last assertion, we append
an editorial notice of the above described muir
derous affair from the Charleston Ne'os OF the 9Th
instant: -.sis-.a
ONE OF THE ELECT COINED TO GRIEF.-We
learn by private letter from Camden that the
politician of that section, the bon. % George
Washington Solomon Dill, member elect to the
Legislature, was in that town on the I'd inst,
eXhorting the RAIDS. to rally round the polls
His efforts were crowned with success, the party
was triumphant, and the illustrious Sol. retired
to his home across the river. News was received
in Camden on the 5th that fracus had occurred
the previous night, and Dill and two negroes
were killed, Mrs. Dill and one negro being
wounded. The report caused considerable ex-
citement in that quiet community, as, although
Dill was not held in the highest esteem by the
whites, or even by his own party, it was the
first disturbance that had occurred in that Sec
ton. Magistrate itlerspOon, (actins coroncr,)
Sheriff Sill, several gentlemen, and large mum
Der of negroes went across the river on the 5th,
but had not returned at the closing Of the mail,
and no further particulars are known. Dill
fooled many negroes with the promise of forty
acres and mule, and was not in the best odOr
with the Republican party, and several of them
remarked that it was strange he had not been
killed by the negroes long ago.
At a late hour yesterday evening General
Candy received letter from Camden, giving a
brief account of the fracas, and attrbuting the
death of Dill to the bloody Ku-klux Khan.
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A Coop REsoLUT1oN.-Mr. Ashley, of
Ohio, offered resolution in the House on
yesterday, which provided, in view of the
recent murder of members of the South.
Carolina Legislature and other Union men of
that State, that General R. K. Scott, Gov
ernor elect, shall be authorized to offer re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest of the assas-
sins. The resolution also declares, as the
sense of the House, that well-known desper-
ADDE'S living in the vicinity of the murders
should be arrested at once.
We regard this resolution as both timely
and proper, as murder is becoming science
among the rebels of the South. IT,.
Mr.. Ashlcy's resolution being objected to,
he gave notice that he will call it up on
next Monday. 1t will be borne in mind that
General Scott is still Assistant Commissioner
Of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina,
and in that capacity Congress may properly
authorize him tn act in the premises as an
agent of the United States.-W Wash. Chron.
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SHEEP IN CALIFoRNIA.-A California pa
per estimates the annual expense of a flock
of sheep in that State at Is cents per head
for pasturage Gnterest on cost of land used)
and attendance, and the annual yield of
wool at 81 pounds per head, worth IS to %
cents pound. The flock, without shelter
or other food than the natural patronage, are
said to weigh 10 per cent. more, to yield
fleece 20 per cent heavier, and to increase
100 per cent. more rapidly than the average
flocks of tue East. One sheep owner began
the business in debt in 1S43, and now he owns
10000 head of sheep ard 10000 or $4,000
acres of land, all made with sheep.
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IMMIGRANTS AT THE GRAVE OF LINCOLN.
A letter from Springfield, Illinois, of the 4th
inst, to the Chicago Eoening journal, men
sions the following:
A noteworthy incident occurred in this
city yesterday afternoon. A party of emf
grants from Indiana, en- route to Missouri,
numbering some twenty wagons, llitched their
teams in the city and proceeded by the street
cars to Oak Ridge Cemetery, and there rev.
erently uncovered their heads in the pres
ence of the place of the sepulchre of Abra-
ham Lincoln. They were of the more intel
ligent and superior class of farmers, and
said they could not pass through the city in
whose precincts repose the ashes of the man
they so much loved when alive without pay
ing their respects to the sacred shrine Such
settlers as these will make great State of
Missouri, and place its radicalism beyond
any peradventure.
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YES! But HE WON'T STAY SToPPED.-"Stop
that boy! cigar in his mouth, a swagger in
his walk, impotence in his face, care -for-noth-
ingness In his manners. Judging from his de-
MS teacher, more honored than the Mayor of the
town, higher than the President Stop him; he
Is going too fast
de don't see himself as others see him. He
cont know his speed, Stop ere tobacco skaters
loafer master the man; ere good ambition and
manly strength give way to low pursuits and
otutisn aims. Stop all such boys! They are le-
gion: the shame of their families, the disgrace
o. uner town, the sad and solemn reproaclles Of
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A special dispatch Published elsewhere an
nounces that the new Legislature of Florida
completed permanent organization yesterday,
and ratified the thirteenth and fourteenth amend
mepts to the Constitution of the United States.
Florida has thus fulfilled all the conditions pre-
liminary to admission under the reconstruction
acts, and will doubtless soon present herself with
her Senators and Representatives at the doors
of Congress, ready to reassume her normal re-
lations with the Federal Union. Her Legislature
adjourned to the 18th instant, when it reassem-
bles for the purpose of electing United States
Seuators-Wdsh. Chronicle.
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SCHUYLER COlfaX.

We clip the following from late Washington
papers: .. ..i ..r
Schuyler Colfax comes of good Revolutionary
stock. His grandfather, Gen. William Colfax,
was the commanding officer of Gen. Washington
Life Guards throughout the struggle for national
existence. His grandmother MAS Hester Schuy-
Ter, a cousin of Gen. Phillip Schuyler.
Horace Greeley said at a Grant ratification
meeting at New York, a few nights since, that
Colfax was the first person ever nominated for
President or Vice President who was born in that
city, and that he had known him for a long time,
and recollected helping him to mount barrel
when he was only nineteen years of age, that he
might speak for Henry Clay, in front of the old
National Hail.
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At the end of 10 years, he will have all Is
In Nyears. 1,l47 IL
You can at glance see how fast your small
means will enlarge-don't delay I beg YOU, but
come Immediately and commence to save. Let
no trifing excuse prevent you. Don't hesitate,
but come to the Savings Bank Come every one,
come, come. f. str ii
OFFICES:
Gov W. W. HOLDEN, President.
Hon. GEO. W. SwEpsoN, Col. R. W. PULLIAM,
Col. j. 7. DEwREsE, Hon. j. H. HARRIS.
G. W. BRODIE, Cashier
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ESSAYS FOR YOUNG MEN.
On the Errors and Abuses incident to
Youth and Early Manhood, with the humane
view of treatment and cure, sent by mail free Of
charge Address HOWARD ASSOCIATION
Box P, Philadelphia, Pa.
May 10, 1868. ~ a...-... ..u ]31-Sm.
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PROPAGATION OF FIsH.-Mr. Seth Green is
continuing his experiments in the artificial prop
agation of fish in the Potomac, and day or two
since succeeded in Matching some hybirds from
the white perch and striped bass, under condi-
lions that remove, it is said all doubts to the
possibility of crossing the different species Of
fish.-Aler. Gazette.