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Year: 1865

One day last week the rebel General
Edward johnson was introduced before
tho military court at Washington, which
is trying the parties implicated in the as
Bassination of President Lincoln. Gene
raj Howe and General Ekin, objected to
receiving his testimony, and in the course
oftheir remarks, expressed their opinion
Of those traitors who were educated at
the expense ofthe government, and after
wards joined the rebels in their crusade
for the destruction of the life of the ma
tion, in rather decided and bold language.
The following are their remarks:


General Howe-Before the witness ia
sworn l wish to submit motion. Twill
state the facts upon which / base the mo.
tion. 1T is well known to me, as it Ia to
great many officers Of the army. that
the person now on the stand Edward
Johuson) was educated at the National
Military Academy, at Government ex.
pense, and since that time, for years, he
has held commission in the army Of the
United States. 1t is well known in the
army that it is condition precedent to
receiving commission that an officer
shall take an oath of allegiance and
fidelity to the Government. In 1851 il
became my duty as an officer to FIRE upon
Rebel party of which this man was a
member. That party fred upon, struck
down and killed loyal men who were in
the service Of the Government. Since
that time it is notorious to all the officers
of the army that the man now introduced
here as witness has openly borne armt
against the United States except wher
he has been prisoner in the hands O
the Government. ! understand il ia pro
posed be shall testify before this court
he comes here as witness with hi
bauds red with the blood Of his Iowa
eountrymen. shot by him or by bis assia
tants in violation Of bis solemn oath as
man and as an officer. l submit, there
fore, to this court whether he does no
stand in the eye of law as an incompetan
witness. ! regard the offering as th
witness Of man standing In open viola
tion Of the obligation of an oath admins
tered to him IS an officer, as an insult I,
the court and an outrage upon the ad
ministration Of Justice l move that thi
man be elected from the court as an in
competent witness


General Ekin-I rise to second tn,
motion. am glad that the question ha
now been presented to the court. re
gard this man clearly incompetent as
witness In my Judgement Of all men ii
this country, for those who have beer
educated by the Government, protectet
by the Governmet, and who have the
turned and fought and Joined the enemie
OF the Government to come into cour
of Justice and especially before militar
commission of character such as tina
here assembled, is the height of impert
nence, and i trust the resolution whic
has been presented will be adopted b
this commission without hesitation.
Year: 1865

The WILMER Court MARTIAL case has
come to an end at last The verdict Of the
Court has not yet been given to the public,
but doubtless will be in few days, when
we shall all know at least the impressions of
the Court, albeit We were not permitted TO
have any knowledge of the facts, notwith.
standing it has been styled by New York
press as one Of the most rotten and corrupt
cases that ever disgracsd the political re.
cords of our State.
Year: 1865

INCOME TAxEs.-Wo direct the especial
attention of persons having an income of
over $500 to the notice of the Assistant
Assessor, in another column. The time for
making return has been extended to the
10th of June, after which the penalties Of
the law will be enforced
Year: 1865

they will meet with an extensive patron
age from all who appreciate and admire
genuine poetry and refined moral reading
matter. 1t is flor sale by all booksellers,
or sent post paid on receipt of price by
the publishers. so cents per volume.
Year: 1865

one in community, perhaps, is Obliged
to witness its exhibition oftner, or endure
its infection more constantly than the
editor of a newspaper. People who itch
for noteriety, corporations who want their
backs scratched, travelling lecturers who
want tickling, all come to the editor, who
many times from pure good nature, and
many times for the sake of being rid OF
theirimportunities, gives them whattech-
nically known as a puff. But, eight
times out of ten, if reciprocal courtesy
which literally costs them nothing, they
don't ''see" it. They are the parties to be
favored, and that end gained, it is all sufii-
cient Now we protest against this sort
of thing. 1t is void of reason, justice, or
right. A kiss for blow is very good in
theory. but we have found from long
series of experiments, that it don't pay
in business trasactions.


We have not intended our above re-
marks to be taken in sweeping sense
Not bit of it. They are only directed
to particular class, and in general man.
ner Everybody whatever the position
they fill, have suffered from the absorb
ent qualities of these spongcs. of society
without being able to squeeze out much
in their turn, and in that peculiar suffer
ing we have had our share. We are sick
of it-heart sick. 1t dosen't pay in the
first place, and in the second place it isin't
pleasant te feel ones self the victim Of
imposition for its nothing else. Il destroy
es the feeling of independence, which every
one is entitled to possess, and we believe
VIC have as many rights as anybody else
But, yet, Notwithstanding the preponder-
ance of this element in many comm mi
ties, we are glad to put on record that, on
the other side, there are many good square
white men, whoappreciate and act upon
the doctrine that one good turn deserves
another. They understand that mankind
was made for mutual support, not for one-
sided swindling. They show at least
common gratitude for favors received,
and that is all we or anybody else can ask
- or we're not speaking for ourselves
alone. That their numbers may be in
creased aud wax great in the lands is the
prayer of suffering community.
Year: 1865

ever, are liable to any ordinary accident. all
the finer work being carefully and strongly
protected; while all such more delicate parts
as are most likely TO give way are set in duplil
cate or triplicate at the time of original pur-
chase"
Year: 1865

READING, Pa, April I9, 1864.


Dr.. WIsHART-Dedr Sir: One year ago the
Examining Surgeon of this district told me
had Consumption of the Lungs and that could
not be cured; and Judging from all my symptoms
at that time, myself supposed this to be true
was for more than one year troubled with a
hacking cough, which gradually grew SO bad
that | could not have a severe fit of coughing
without splitting up blood in large quantities.


For months could not work at anything,
and was obliged to keep my bed most of the
time. While in this condition ! was in Mr.
Row botham's store, in this city, aud he seeing
how low | was, recommended me to try your
Pine Tree Tar Cordial. He said he had sold
great deal of it, and that, as it had cured so many
others, he believed it would do some good. /
bought bottle and commenced using it. In a
very short time | saw that | was getting better
very fast, and after taking several bottles was
entirely restored to health, SO that could work
every day at my business, which is very heavy
work, in an iron foundry. When | commenced
to use your Pine Tree Tar Cordial, my weight
was only one hundred and thirty-fiye pounds;
since the use of it | have weighed on an average
one hundred and fifty five. | shall be glad to
have you publish this, as | believe should not
have been living at this time if / had not used
your great medicine, and l wish all who suffer
to receive its benefit.


Very truly yours,


Capt. SAMUEL HARNER


No 334 s. Eight street Reading Pa
Year: 1865

How to MIX Cut FExp.-Alwsys sprinkle
the cut straw and hay with water, and
mix it thoroughly with shovel. scooping
up the water from the bottom of the
trough before the meal III put in. II
dry meal is poured on wet strah, small
quantity will adhere to every peiee Of
straw and chat. But if the meal bs
mingled with the straw before the water
is poured 10, much Of the meal will stick
together, and portion Of the cut straw,
will have no meal at oil on it. In order 70
induce stock to eat cut straw asd hay
clean. q little meal must adhere p every
piece Of the straw.
Year: 1865

Secretary McCuoch in a recent letter 10
Thompson & Campbell says he ha, no hesitation
in asserting that IN his Judgment California would
have been a much rcher and more prosperous
Safe II her circulation had been a mixed instead
Of an exclusively metallic one; th,t she has not
only failed to cooperate properly with other
States in maintaining the government credit, but
has misapprehended her own Interest in the dis
continuance Of the use Of paper money within her
limits. No country eau prosper for any consider
aole time where money command, so high rate
OF interest a, il does in California, aud nothing
would lend more directly to reduce that rate Of
interest than the introduction of sound paper
circulating medium.
Year: 1865

PORK.-We learn from the Wytheville Dis
patch that a lot of pork was offered in that
place on Thursday last at seven dollars per
one hundred pounds in specie, but the price
seems to have been regarded as too high, and
no sale could be made. The Dispatch says -
'' There are a good number of hogs in the
country and abundance of corn to fatten them.
reasonable to believe that pork will be sold in
this market for six dollars. The fifteen dollar
pork has played out, we think"
Year: 1865

WHENCE COMES ALL THIS CorroS !-The most
hopeful sign Of returning prosperity which has
yet come under our notice is the fact, hereto
fore noticed, that the Lynchburg commission
merchants have scarcely been able to forward
all the cotton-that great rival of gold-which
has BEEN consigned 10 their care. We copy a
second article from the Republican on the same
subject, confident that it will be pleasant read
ing to all who think seriously rs to whence the
South is to draw even money enough to pay
her taxes:


I" This important product of the South has
been coming in by the Virginia and Tennessee
railroad in such quantities that it has blocked
up all the lines Of transportation heretofore
open to it. The Orange and Alexandria rail-
road has been its main dependence, and such
has been the demand upon this road that it
was found impossible to carry the cotton for
ward as rapidly as it came in. Shippers will
be pleased to learn that arrangements have
been made by which the SOuthside railroad
can accommodate their shipments of cotton,
thus opening another avenue to the Northern
market. BY this route cotton is taken from
Lynchburg to City Point, and there shipped
on board Of vessels for Northern ports. Two
boats, the Ella Scott and the POcahOntas, went
down TO Robinson's mills yesterday with loads
of cotton for the Southside road. The bridges
below the city are being rapidly pushed for
ward, and we are glad to learn that it will not
be long before this important line will be free
from obstruction between Lynchburg and Pc
tersburg, and prepared to accommodate any
amount Of freight or travel"
Year: 1865

ITALIAN orERA-BRooKLYs. magnificent house, in
point OF numbers and fashionable totes assembled at
the Brooklyn Academy last night TO hear La Fbrrd d
Deno for the first and the last time in Brooklyn The
opera produced In the admirable style as II
in this city; the scenery costumes and all the pro
pcrcs having transported thence for the occasion
Never since the days OF opera commenced in this house
there fine assemblage MS that Of last evening,
nor was La Fbrsa better sung by this company.
Zucchi and Massiman in splendid voice, and did
not receive half the applause they deserved However
the Brooklyn people proverba for their sowness In
waking up 10 . thorough appreciation OF art, and we
were, therefore, not surprised TO find them cold when
other audiences enthusiastic to lot the finest pas
sages In the opera pass without any demonstration II
only TO the last two acts that the audience displayed
any enthusiasm and appeared 10 comprehend the
beauties Of this splendid work. This evening Fra
Diavolo will be given at the New York Academy To
morrow evening Norma will be produced with Zucchi
In her great character Of tho Drudess, which is per
hnps her very finest part
Year: 1865

ANTICIPATED RISE IN CoAI--It is announced
that the coal trains on the New Jersey Central
Railroad have been stopped and the engines
are laid up for repairs, and that II viii be q
month before the coal carrying business
on that road can be resumed. AS q con-
sequence OF this coal will undoubtedly
advance in price, and II is reported that II
is now selling at Elizabcthport, N. J.. for
thirteen dollars ton. The necessity for the
adoption Of such course on the part Of the
New Jersey Central Railroad Company is ques-
toned in some quarters, and Is q matter which
will probably receive the strictcst scrutiny. II
requires more than the bare announcement to
convince the public that they were forced TO
suspend operations in that important 1ranch Of
their business just at this critical time, when the
stock on hand Is supposed to be comparatively
ljrht, and before the demand has materially
diminished. II looks very much AZ II there was
a grand speculative scheme afoBt, in which The
New Jersey Central Company or some OF its
officers have very large interest. II they had
waited 70 repair their engines una navigation
Year: 1865

THE VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.


The election on the question Of amending the State
constitution allow Of the appointment Of Commits
OF the Court Of Appeals took place yesterday
The subject excited very little attention Annexed ere
the returns a. far az received
Year: 1865

TIE WAY TO AVON THE DRArr.-It viii be
seen by Governor Fenton's announcement yes


terday that the draft, which was to have COM


menced to-day, Is indefinitely postponed. But
there Is condition attached to this forbearance
on the part Of the government, and that Is that
the number of men required should be furnished


by volunteer enlistment. Therefore, while the
city is temporarily relieved from the draft, the
duty Of our citizens, In order to avoid It alto
gether, Is obvious. We must get recruits to the
amount of thirteen thousand by every available
channel. We have now the Supervisory Com
mittee in full operation, doing very well with
Its complete organization. General Dix is
lending his aid to fll up the quota. The ward
recruiting associations scattered throughout the
city should put themselves upon their mettle to
help the thing along, and no doubt they will.
The committee which organized the grand
patriotic celebration Of the 9th instant is natu-
rally looked for to throw its influence into the
SCALE The gentlemen who comprise that COM
mittee have succeeded in arousing the patriot
ism Of the people on the late occasion to an
extent only equalled by the grand demonstra-
tion Of 1861, when the national flag was insulted
at Fort Sumter, and the whole metropolis rose
to protest against the act. Now, then, is the
fitting time for them to exercise the same power
in filing up the ranks Of the army in the exist
ing emergency. With thirty thousand fresh
men General Grant can bring all his plans to a
successful conclusion. Let this committee open
recruiting depots all over the city, raise fund
out of the abundance Of their wealth to pay
bounties, and, in connection with the other
organizations, they can relieve the city from the
onus of the draft This will be exhibiting
more practical patriotism than professions,
speeches, or illuminations, ever so brilliant, can
furnish. We expect this Of them, and we trust
that they will set to work about it speedily.
Year: 1865

SHOULD NEVER BE DISPUTED. 1t is
great piece of folly in any one to dispute
with an ultraist when he afirms that he is
no better than negro. A sensible man
will at once concede the point and take it
for granted that he tells the truth.
Year: 1865

THE consumption of beer is radidly in
creasing in the United States In 1860
the amount sold was eight millions of bar
rels. In 1864 the quantity used had in
creased to twenty-four millions of barrels,
or about an average of a barrel apiece for
everybody.
Year: 1865

SEED CoRN.-It is now satisfactorily
proven that seed from the butt end of an
car of corn will ripen and produce all at the
same time, some three weeks earlier than
seed from the little end of the same ear
Farmers are always recommended to break
their seed corn in the middle and use the
butt end only.
Year: 1865

The New York Herald says "there is now
every prospect that the national debt will
be, when ascertained and funded, above
rather than below the estimate made prior
to the last eleetion-four thousand millions
of dollars p and now, in time Of peace, it is
still increasing at the rate of two millions a
day How long, Oh, Lord, how long
Year: 1865

MATRIMoNIAL.-S my love, here is
the first garment made for you by your
wife's fairy fingers. 1t ought to seem to
you different from all other shirts in the
world so it does, indeed p Aside
"The bosom buttons are at irregular distan-
ces, and it buttons over the wrong way the
collar and wristbands are just of size, and
the tail wouldn't cover the extremity ofa
shanghai rooster
Year: 1865

The MIsERIEs OF MILLIoNAIREs.-
Look at VIM. B. Astor, as he slowly and
with Automatic gait moves along Broadway,
glancing neither to the right nor the left,
and evidently deeply immersed in mental
arithmetic. Manitestiy he is the oppressed
pack horse of his own great affairs pa be-
ing that might have tripped gaily through
the world with light heart and thin pair
of breeches, had he not been a pet to Plu-
tus; but who, as it is, stoops under weight
of rent roll and bond and mortgage, almost
too heavy for elderly humanity to bear.
Unfortunate financial Atlas, with world
of wealth upon his shoulders, and care and
anxiety sitting like twin incubi, perched
upon its top, how we pity him And yet
such is the effect of habit in reconciling and
even attaching man to his burthens, that
he would be more likely to denounce than
to thank us should we philanthropically Of
fer to ease him of part of them.


Commodore Vanderbilt seems to have
more backbone than Mr. Astor, and bears
his forty millions with porter-like pluck.
We say forty millions because Mr.. Parton,
his biographer, appraises his "real and per-
sonaP' at that sum- We fancy Mr.. P's fig
ures are a little over the mark, but the, Com
modore is nevertheless "solid man" and
will no doubt "cut up handsome.


Alexander 7. Stewart, who is, we pre-
sumo, about as far advanced in the millions
as the Commodore, always appears to be
working out complicated sums in compound
interest as he walks along the streets. AL
though lightning calculator, he is Gin pub
lie at least) the most undemonstrative of
men. We are quite sure that making mon
ey is to him sedative, and not an excitant.
Are we mistaken in supposing that he was
merrier and happier years ago as clerk
the he now is as the controller of say five
and twenty millions. T. Times.
Year: 1865

BATTING NUIsANCE.-It is a notable fact
in criminal statistics. that no fat man was
ever convicted of the crime Of murder. Stout
persons are not revengeful; nor, as a gener.
al thing. are they agitated by gusts of pas
sion. Few murderers weigh more than ten
stone. There re, however, exceptions
which justify US IN assuming eleven as the
utmost limit of the sliding scale, but beyond
that there is no impulse to homicide. Sci.
dom has such a phenomenon as fat house
breaker been paraded at criminal bar 1t
Is your lean, wiry fellow. who works with
skeleton keys, forces himself through closet
windows which seemingly would scarce suf.
fee for the entrance Of the necessary cat,
steals with noiseless step along the lobby and
up the stairs. Glides into the chamber sacred
for more than half century to the chaste
repose of the gentle Tabitha, and with husky
voice. and the exhibition of an enormous
carving knife, commands silence on pain of
instant death, and delivery of her cash al d
Jewels. 1t is your attenuated thief who in
sinuates himself under beds, behind coun-
ters, dives into tills. or makes prey of articles
of commerce arrayed at shop doors for the
temptation of the credulous passenger. A
corpulent burglar is as much ont Of place
and as little to he feared as was Fallstaff at
Fadsill-and what policeman ever yet gave
chase to depredator as fat as a bullock !?
Corpulence, we maintain. is the outward
sign not only Of good constitution, but of
inward rectitude and virtue.-EngliSh J ur-
nal
Year: 1865


OF the worst disorders that act mankind arise from tho
corruption that accumuates in the Blood OF all the dis
coveries that have been made to purge out none can
equal in effect HELllBOLD'S COMPOUND EXTRACT
OF SARS1 PARILLA. 1t cleanses and renovates tho
Blood instils the vgor Of health into the system, and
purges the humors which make disease 1t stimulates
the healthy functions of the body and expes the disorders
tha. grow and ranklc in the Blood Such remedy that
could be relied has long been sought for and for
the first time the public have which they can de-
pend Our space here does not admit OF certificates to
show effects but the trial Of single bottle will show to
the that it has virtues surprising anything they have
taken.


Two tabespoonsful ofthe Extract OF Sarsapaa added
to pint of water is equal to the Lisbon Diet Drin and
one bottle. Ito gallon OF the Syrup Of sarsaparlla
the decoction usually made.


The above Extracts prepared purely scientific
principes-in Tdcuo-and cnbody the full strength Of
the ingredients entering into their composition ready
and conclusive test will be comparison Of their proper
ties With those set forth in the U. s. Dpensatory.
Year: 1865

In Diseases Of the Blood Humors the Face, or any
and every part OF the body Extract Sarsapaa
plying to Pimplcs and all external Humors Erupons
the Improved Rose Wash.


Use the Extract Buchu all diseases requiring the aid
Of Duretc except those of the Urinary Organs such
Gonorrhea and Gleet; in these the Extract Buchu
and inject with the Improved Rose Wash.


ew- THESE EXTRACTS HAVE BEEN ADMITTED
TO USE IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY, and also
In very general use in all the STATE HOSPITALS AND
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS throughout the land as well A.
In private practice, and considered invaluable
Year: 1865

The Copperheads insist very strenuously
on the binding obligation of party platforms
The leaders of the party are, evidently, afraid
that the masses are disposed to bolt the Cop
perhead Chicago four-years- Of failure = af
fair; hence they try to whip them in Y over
the shoulders of the Union party.