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New-York tribune., 1869-05-08
of1ce Of FISK g. EgATCH,
Bankers and Dealers in Government Securities
NO. S Nassau Street, HeW York.
oProsis US Sab Treasury.


We receive the accounts Of Plnks,
Bankers, Corporations, and others,
subject to check at sight, and allow
interest on balances. We make COllaC-
tiOnS on all points in tho United Stat,s
and Canada, and issue Certificates Of
Deposit available II al parts Of tho
Union.
We buy and sell, at current rates,
all classes Of Government Securities,
and the Bonds of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company; also Gold and
Silver coin and Gold coupons.
We buy and sell at the Stock Ex-
change miscellaneous Stocks and
Bonds, on commission, for cash.
We offer also the United States
Six-per-Cent. Thirty Year Currency
Bonds, issued in aid Of the Pacific
Railroad, which are widely esteemed
by mOneyed corporations, as tie
longest SiX-per-cent. Government
Bond in the market.
Communications and inquiries by
Nail or Telegraph will receive
attention.
FISK g. HATCH:
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The above figures include t5o32 Of specie IN the first
nine months Of 1867 and So72GO OF specie in the
period Of 1868 We also statement OF exports OF
domestic produce reduced to gold value at the port OF
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

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Letter from Washington.

WAsHINGToN, ID. c. Aug. -, 1869.
Circus-Scheutzen-F est-Open Air Meetings
Street Letter BoXes-Public Domain-Light |
HouscS-A New Marble-Patents-Spir itual- |
ism.
Every day brings something new. 1.-TWO
days only, yesterday andtoday-The New
Orleans Circus and Menagerie remains with
us and l guess the school teachers will be
glad when it leaves. know when was a
School Master | used to be thankful
when a circus left the town, and my schol
airs were through thinking and dreaming
of rhinoceroses, elephants, Madagascar ii
gers, &c. Children need recreation and
say, for one, let them ego in" while they
are free from care and can enjoy it.
At one o'clock, Saturday morning closed
the fourth annual festival of the Washing
ton Scheutzen Verein, just in time for the
participants to straighten up and get lit
tie sleep to witness the eclipse Saturday
evening. Notwithstanding the weather
was cool during all last week, the Germans
were successful in entertaining about fifty
thousand people at their Scheutzen.
The Germans are wonderful people for
entertainment with their Scheutzen-fest,
Sacuger fest, Turner Verein, Lager Beer
and Concert Saloons. No other people that
come to our shores dare to compete with
them. But it is not only in cheerful and
pleasant entertainments that the Germans
are great, for they certainly are among the
first citizens in morality, industry, thrift
and intelligence. When | say this, l do
not wish to detract from the merits due
other natiOnalities. The Irish, for instance
that element so essential to assist in our
developement-are noted for vitality, vi
vacity, bravery and elOquence but the
Germans for sOlidity and intellectual pro-
fundity. In ethics and metaphysics, no
nation has furnished their equal.
The wide streets and public grounds at
the federal capital, afford splendid oppor-
tunities for open air meetings, and espec-
tally at this season of the year when all
nature bids them welcome. The Young
Mems Christian Association and the tenn
perance folks hold nightly meetings thro'
the week on corners of streets, and on Sun
day afternoons, they together with the
Peoples Free Conference" are held in
different parts ofthe capital grounds Thou
sands with their children are to be seen at
those meetings and all seem to enjoy them.
The post Office department under ex-post
master General Randall ordered new
style of street letter boxes, which afford
quite an illustration how easy it is occa-
sionally to take money out of Uncle Sans
pockets without giving him just equiva-
lent.
When these boxes were first put up in
this city, the lid covering the aperture in
which the letters are to be placed, and
which must open only large enough to adj
NIT OF mail matter, to prevent robbery,
could be readily forced open as wide as de-
sired by the smallest lever power applied
to it, and the whole contents of the box
distracted. After many boxes all over the
city had been opened by the citizens pro
bono pubticO to show how worthless these
boxes were, the contractor set to work to
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John Corson, New York coach
man, has clipped with his employers
daughter, Miss jackson. All efforts
to discover their whereabouts have so
far proved futile. Mrs. John Corson,
that is, is said to be an heireSs in her
own right, having inherited a large
fortune by the death Of rich relative;
and, as she is beyond the age Of pa
rental interference, her lucky husband
may snap his fingers at the old folks.
While a St. Louis beer merchant
was in Chicago, making preparations
to change his base of operations, his
wife wrote him, stating that she had
been robbed of $1,000 left with her
by him for safe keeping, and asked
for $500 more. He telegraphe.i the
police to discover the robbers, and
they replied that it was a hoax. He
precipitately returned to St. Louis,
and learned that his wife had eloped
with the money, and another man.
William Hatchel, who outraged the
person Of little idiot girl only twelve
years Of age, and then murdered her
by beating her head into fragments,
near Columbia, Maury County, Tenn,
twelve months ago, and who was
waiting sentence of death in the jail
at that place, recently escaped there
from, in company with a noted coun.
terfciter. They were aftcrward both
shot dead, by two men to whom they
refused to surrender.
A cir! named Clara Traverse com
mittcd suicide at Marysville, CAL, Ju
IIy I. The evidence Of the Coroner's
inquest showed that she had been very
badly treated by her parents. This
caused great Indignation against them
The parents had made preparations
for her funeral from their house; bu
a large number Of citizens obtained
possession of the body, and service
performed over it in the church, and
in a lengthy procession, escorted tn
remains to their final resting place
\ white marble slab was erected owe
her grave, bearing the inscription
"Clara, who died Of a broken heart
aged Is years.
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WASHINGTON, D. c., MAY IS, 1869.

WASHINGTON, D. c., MAY Is, 1869
When the Eleventh Regiment Vermont
Vols were about to leave the State, Mr. F.
:. Lamson, one of its members well known
to many in Windsor and BrattlebOrO, VT,
realizing that it was the fate of soldier
sometimes to be left helpless, unconscious,
or dead upon the battlefield, and among
strangers, or to die unknown in some dis
tant prison pen, obtained gold badge, and
ut Windsor had engraven upon the face of
ut his name, regiment, company, and
Windsor, Vermont" also a masonic en-
blem, and as he went to the front wore it
constantly about his person.
In June, 1864, he was taken prisoner by
the rebels at Weldon Railroad Va, and
was taken first to Libby prison at Rich
mOnd then to Lynchburg, Danville, An
Jacksonville, Charleston Race Course, and
Florence, and exchanged in November of
the same year.
As he was entering Libby" he observed
that they were taking the blankets, shelter
tents, and everything of any value from his
comrades who were taken prisoners with
him, but that he was among few except
ed who were allowed to retain their watch
and piece of tent, and he attributed it to
nothing else than the significant emblem
upon the badge, which he noticed was OBJ
served as he passed into the prison.
Out of forty-siX who were captured of
! the company, at the same time, Mr.. Lam
son was one of thirteen only who survived
| the hOrrid treatment and starvation to
which they were subjected.
WAile at Andersonvile, Mr.. Lamson
came near meeting the same fate which
the thirty-three of his company comrades
did. He parted with everything he could
spare to add to the prisoners starving al
lowance, and last of all he sold his badge
He was already reduced to mere skeleton
and this was a last resort, and he parted
with it reluctantly. He valued it as il
would probably prove his only identity
and source of information to his friends, O
what became of him should he follow the
daily dying scores of that pen. But h,
survived, and now, after four and a halt
years he receives a letter from gentleman
in Georgia, directed according to the in
scription on the badge, who stated that ht
had III his possession badge of gold will
a description as heretofore given, which h
would be pleased to deliver to its origina
owner. The letter was replied to immedi
ately, and few weeks since the badge wa
sent to Mr.. Lamson, accompanied by let
ter explaining how the badge came in hi
possession, which was in the following sin
gular manner, viz:
Early in the year of 1865 some soldier
of the 4th Regular Cavalry and some Vol
unteer soldiers who were stationed in Geor
gia, were in a drinking saloon together
near this gentleman's residence, and afte
imbibing freely, thought little fghtin,
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Grimes and Incidents,

Tie wife or u substantial farmer,
who lives a few miles east Of Misha-
waka, Mich, recently gave birth to
her nineteenth child.
\ negro Methodist cx-minister has
been arrested at Ann Arbor, Mich,
for attempting to outrage the person
of a colored sister Of that place, and
threatening to kill her if she told Of it.
The colored population threaten to
hang him.
An awful warning from the gallowS
was given by man hung at st. Lou
is, Mo. a few days ago. He said :
"Look where | am to-day; Look
where | am, my friends. Sec what
a woman will bring a man to. See
that wife of mine; she brought me
here"
The grandfather Of Mary Shaw, of
Upton County, Indiana, is still pur-
suing Joshua Munden, who seduced
the girl, and took her to a town near
by where he trafickcd in her prosti-
tuition for a week, and then left for
parts unknown. The pursuer is re-
solved to have Mundcn's life, if he
oyerhaulS him.
A young woman living in Hyde
Park, near Chicago, has committed
suicide with laudanum because her
husband persisted in spending his eve
nings from home. An attempted Sc
cret burial was frustrated by the DO
lice, and a coroner's inquest rendered
a verdict Of premeditated selfdcStruc-
ton.
Two young girls, one the daughter
of tavern keeper in Lodi, and the
other New York girl, were lately
missing, when a search resulted in
finding them at a Syracuse hotel
booked under a fictitious name, and
in the arms of couple Of rakcs, one
of whom was arrested on the charge
ofscduction.
A young girl at Peoria, ILL.,. on
being reproved severely by one Of hen
parents Thursday evening, Immediate
ly went to notorious house of ill
fame and passed that night, and from
there was taken Friday morning, by
two men, to the Dixon House, ter
ribly low place. She was rescued on
Friday and restored to her family.
A couple called at the Justices of
flee in Dubuque, Iowa, last week anC
were married. A few hours later the
bride returned to the office and an
piled for a divorce, telling the Justice
that since marrying she had learned
that her husband had another wift
and four children living near Dubuque
The Justice had no power to grant {
divorce, and the new made wife wen
her way.
A man near Augusta, Ga, a few
nights since, attempted to enter thu
room of a married lady, whose hus
oand was absent on business, with til,
evident intention of outraging he
person. He was seized by the throa
by faithful dog, which held him fast
while the lady ran to the house OF
nelghbor for protection. The man O
the house was gone, and upon tn
party repairing to the scene of the at
tempted outrage, they discovered, t,
, their horror, that he was the villain
} and that the dog had choked his blacI
soul out OF him.
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READ THIS.
ASjatic Cholera IN China. AEa,0ss sre3y case
cured tcjh Pam Killer.
Dear Sirs Il ought 10 have acknowledged
long ago the box of Pain Killer you had the
goodness to send us last year. Its coming was
most proyidential. l believe hundreds OF lives
were saved under God, by it. We resorted AT
once tie the Pain Killer, using as directed for
cholera. list was kept of all to whom the Pain
Killer was given, and our native assistants as
sure us that eight out of every ten to whom it
was prescribed recovered. 1t has, TOO, been very
useful in various other diseases. 1t has proved
an incacuable blessing to multitudes of poor
people throughout all this region. Our native
preachers are never willing to 90 ont on their eX
cursions without supply of Pain Killer. It gives
them favor III the eyes of the people, and access
to families and localities by whom otherwise they
would be indiferently received. Believe me,
dear sIrS, gratefully and faithfully yours,
j. NJ. JOHNSON, Missionary in China.
From Rev. r. Telford, Missionary in China,
now visiting his home in Washington, Pennsyl-
vania.
Dear Sirs During a residence Of some ten
years as missionary in Siam aud China, found
your Pain Killer most valuable remedy for that
fearful scOurge, the cholera. In administering
the medicine l found it most effectual to give a
teaSpoonful of Pain Killer in a gill of hot water
sweetened with sugar then after about fifteen
minutes, begin TO give a tablespoonful of the
same mixture every half hour until relief was
obtained. Apply hot water to the extremities.
Battle the stomach with the Pain Killer clear,
and rub the limbs briskly. or those who had
the cholera and took the medicine faithfully in
the way stated above, eight out of ten recovered
Truly yours,
Il. TELFORD.
If attacked with diarrhGa, dysentery, or clamp
collie, don't delay the use of the Pein Killer.
Be,care of limitations.
The Pain Killer is sold by all druggists
PERRY DAVIS & SON, Proprletors.
BLVD No. "A Highest, Providence, R. L.
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About Masonry.

We are frequently impOrtuned to publish
character being almost of weekly occur
renee. Many people are terribly exercised
in their minds in regard to the institution,
protesting to believe that freemason is
the embodiment of all that is wicked, and
so believing, they wish to crowd their Opin-
ions upon others through the medium of
the press. While we do not intend to open
our columns to any very lengthy discussion
of the subject, we are yet willing to pub
fish an occasional article either for or
against that institution. We do not be-
lieve that our efforts can either build it up
o break it down, consequently we conceive
it to be our duty to let it severely alone
We are not freemason, but quite the re-
verse. Some of the meanest men we ever
| knew were, or are, freemasOns, and some
Of the best men we ever knew also belong
ed to the same society. We also are ac-
quainted with one or two violent anti ma
sons now in state prison for stealing, and
we know several more of the same kidney
that are on the road to keep them company.
/ Our opinion Of masonry is that it is not
/ half as good as its friends claim it to be,
nor yet half as bad as its enemies think ii
is We believe that both heaven and hell
are overrun with them, and that thousands
more are on the road to both these places,
while with them will be large sprinkling
Of their opponents. Wonder if anybody
can tell what we think about masonry from
what we have said!
\ friend in Greensboro sends us the fol-
lowing which he wishes published, holding
out the tempting bait that in case we do SC
he will take our paper! He could have Sc,
cured its insertion in the Standard Just a,
easily by not offering that bride as with it
We want subscribers on no such terms a:
he imposes. We have had such offers be-
fore, but did not accept them. If our pa.
per commcnds itself to the good people of
the county, we are glad of it, and would
like the support Of all such; but if it doe,
not satisfy they can let it alone and no
seek to buy it up, editor and all, by TIVE
dollar subscription That is not our idei
Of free press" Below is the matter al
luded to-
GREENSBORO, Aug. 18th, 1869.
Hr. Earic-Dear Sir: Enclosed | sen,
= you published letter, cut from the Yer
) mont Chronicle of May 10Th, together wit
few queries naturally suggested by read
, ing that letter, hoping that some one NIGH
be induced thereby to take up the subjeC
I and discuss its merits more thoroughly tina
; am able, or have the time to do. TIL
7 communication was sent to the ChrOnicl
= with the request that it should be publish
I ed or returned The editor has done ne
ther. At the time / thought it might be
?. was published to invite discussion, but
! am now led to believe it was intended us
u bait for gulls. If you please to publish
and will admit articles of a temperate cha
d acter on the subject of masonry, you ma
4 send me your paper; if not | shall try
bestow my patronage on FREE press,
one is to be found. | believe the time
c not distant when this subject will receiv
is as it deserves, a thorough ventilation.
Very respectfully yours, b.
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THE FESTIVAL AT LYNDONVILLE.-
The musical festival heldin Railroad Grove
at Lyndonville, on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, is said to have been
a great success, not so much for the quail
ty of the music, perhaps, as for the other
and manifold enjoyments experienced by
those in attendance, of which we were not
one. The weather was most propitious; it
could not well have been better, nearly ey-
cry hour being mildly warm and breezes
bland, balmy and healthful; the grove as
all are aware is one Of rare beauty and
splendor, just the place for such gatherings.
The crowd of people was large every day,
there being almost a jam tn last two days.
Visitors were there from Boston, Portland,
Concord Chicago and other large Cities
The Lebanon, Littleton, Peacham and St
Johnsbury bands added their music. c.
d. Robinson, the clocutionist, read in his
bes5 style and elected the applause of the
multitude Taking the festival as a whole
it was one of which its originators need no.
feel ashamed
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AL BANY ACADEMY

The Fall Term of this Institution will COM
mcuce September Sth, 1869, and will contn-
ne eleven weeks, under the direction of w.
MILES, who as a teacher eXceHS.
TUITION-S3 80; other branches rs usual.
Board reasonable and rooms to let. Enquire
at the Chatey BIotherS, or ofthe Committe.
l.. p. TENNEY,I PrudentalI
J. B. HOyEY,
5. VANCE, Committee.
Albany. Aug. IS, 1863. 33w2
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Republican State Ticket.

For Governor,
PETER T. WASHBURN, of Woodstock.
For Lieut.. Governor,
GEORGE w. HENDEE, of Morrisville.
For Treasurer,
JOHN A. PAGE, of Montpelier.
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September, 1869.
THIS MEANS BUSINESS.
HALL & JOSLYN.
FARM FOR SALE.

will sell my fern. known as the J0 ones Prom from
Sheieid village on the road from ,nd Sn about 100
Glover, containing 100 acres Of ian n1ins tlage
and pasture. We'll watered and mas las he sf farm
of buildings on it, There IS alsG Ta ON ond silver.
ledge that promises rich LOT SoIu and stock
The farm must be sold between this is anu GOOD ,
either by private or public sale; A p 9sNEY.
Stallion for sale. JOhN " 30tf
Wheelock, July Is, 1859.
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GREAT SUN--SUN CHOP.
3lw12
PERRY We,

PERRY DAVIS Vegetable Pain Killer
We clip the following from the Providence
General Advertiser: "At this sea son of the year
when cholera, cholera morbus, dysentery, and
other kindred complaints are sare to prevail,
everybody should be literally supplied with the
PAIN KILLER. Persons leaving home, whether
1t be for days excursion or a trip to Europe,
should be in condition to place their hands on
it at a moments warning. Many diseases Incl
dent to the summer months which will prove
fatal ifnot Immediately checked. can be prompt.
ly cured by one or two doses of the Pain Killer.
On more than one occasion have we been reliey-
ed of intense suffering by the timely nse of the
above named preparation. Sold by all Drug
gists, Grocers and Medicine Dealers. 3lw4
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ReDubIican County Convention.

The Union Republicans of Orleans County
will meet in Mass Convention, at Irasburgh OF
Wednesday, August Is, 1869, at 10 o'clock a. m
to nominate candidates for County Officers, tt
be supported at the election IN September.
f. P. Cotton, Republican
n. NJ. DARLING,
E. O. RANDALL, County
w. II. RICHARDSON,
D. HoPKINsoN, Committee.
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would do no harm, and SO a general row
ensued, which resulted in accommodating a
mass of broken bottles and a heterogene-
Gus mess of debris generally.
The next morning when the rubbish was
being cleared up this badge was found
amongst it by man who claimed it by
right of discovery.
The Georgia gentleman says,-'T expos
tulated with him, using the argument that
the rightful owner, if alive, would value it
highly, and that it was not right for him
to keep it, as the rightful owners name
was on it, and that he was not mason,
&c, but it was to no purpose, until subse-
quently / found him intoxicated, and pur-
chased it of him for trifing amount, and
determined that it should be restored to its
owner if he were yet alive"
Mr.. Lamson received the badge with
many thanks to his considerable friend,
who would take nothing more,) and will
ever prize it as relict of severe prison
life, and as little treasure which with the
significant emblem upon it had perhaps
saved him from an unmarked and unknown
grave by the side of the prison pen of An
Jacksonville, where scores of our brave boys
were carted away daily from starvation,
filthy water, and exposure to the beating
storm and scorching sun, as they had not
wherewith to shelter them from either
The badge is little, a Gerry little thing,
yet you will rightly conclude that it is
priced as an interesting and historic treas
ure. L. 5. L.
For tie Vermont Chronicle.
GREENSBORO, JUNE 10th 1869.
M. Editor In your paper of May 30
you published letter from Washington
signed L. S. E., which gave a rather curl
Gus account of the benefit experienced by
Mr.. F. LamsOn, Il soldier of the 18th Regt
Vt. Vol, by wearing gold badge with {
masonic emblem engraved on it; also the
peculiar interest manifested by Georgii
gentleman to procure and return to Mr.
Lamson, the original owner, the said badge
This account suggested to my mind severa
queries which | would like to see answered
in your paper, either by the editor or SOM
correspondent who may be able and vii
ling to afford eight" to the benighted.
|
prisoners, as represented in that narrative
on account af their being members of tn
Masonic Fraternity, was not the favor re
ciprocated?
I'd. As it is claimed that all prisoner
were well treated by the Union officers an
people, how was this favor to a portion o
: ours rewarded?
, Sd. Is it not probable that JEFF Davis es
capped the halter through the mysteriou
influence of this secret organization
4th. Is it not probable that Andre
| johnson availed himself of this unrighteou
, Mammon in his time of need?
9TH. Is it not to be feared that this sam
t influence often obstructs the course of pull
lie justice?
t 9th. Ought not our churches to lift Il
| their voice, and use their influence again
; secret societies? b.