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Year: 1865

From the N0rfolk va fost, July ~ -.


Several DAYS since Captain Holman, Chief Of the Mill
tary Police received information which justified him in
the belief that certain parties in this city were In posses
sion Of In regard TO the whereabouts OF the watch
taken from Colonel ulrich Dahgrens body after bis
death On Friday last Captain Hoffman arrested party
in this city, and upon examination coneusvey proved
that the accused knew oil about where the watch was
He being released bail In the sum Of two thousand
dollars until the watch produced, yesterday the
watch was handed over TO Captain Hoffman, and is
now in his possession. IL appears that the watch
was taken from the body OF Colonel Dshlgren oy
Lieutenant Hart, commanding the detachment which
ambuscaded Colonel Dahgren, and by Har turned over
10 other parties for safe keeping until the excitement
was over and oil hope given up Of It's recovery Colonel
Ould having used every effort TO recover the watch,
created some alarm in the mind Of Hart, who sent the
watch by other parties 10 Mathews county, where II fell
into the hands Of the party from whom was recovered
The watch manufactured BY ]. =. Cooper, Gray's
Inn London and numbered ss7 three and quarter
CAP open white face, and marked on the back with the
letters ga T. " In scroll contained within shield The
chain IL very light, gold one, Of the snake pattern,
with the hook gone and part OF the chain with IT,
The short chain s spced with string TO make out ts
length 10 reach the vest buttonhoe from the pocket


The chain bears evidence Of being broken in he excite
msnt Of The moment while tearing II from the body.
Year: 1865

The Boston Traveller, of yesterday, says


Money is easily borrowed good stocks at six per
cent and the supply, at that rate on call Is equal to the
current demand at the banks and In the open market
Some OF the outside lenders in spccacases are making
choice loans at ve and others are obtaining seven
fair colatcrals, not Of the first class On tme beyond
thirty days is difficult 10 get accommodation at higher
Of interest The best mercantile paper Is scarce
and in good request at from seven 10 nine per cent ac
cordng 10 maturitics and amounts The dealings In
stocks not very active either for permanent holding
or speculation The public securities are In quick re-
quest in large and small amounts for investment


American securities quoted In London on the 18th
Year: 1865

dends which was then going would also have tend.
ency to reduce the specie


The following table shows the average circulation and
specie Of the banks Of ireland during the month Of
June
Year: 1865

teen against it. This lead to the rosigna'
ton of tho first Palmerston admmistra-
tion.


But in the whole category Of crimes OF
high treason, attended BY deliberate as
sassination, that which most resembles
the "damnable taking of" of the good and
universally lamented Abraham Lincoln,
in point Of ferocty Of purpose, precise
calculation, and the wonderful steadiness
of nerve exhibited by the murderers in
both cases was tho assassination OF Spen-
Ger Percival in 1910, Just as ho was enter
ing the lobby Of the House Of Commons
Mr. Spencer Perciyal was then prime min
lister of England, and was generally look
cd upon by the whole English nation as
one Of the ablest and most conscientious
men in tho country. In tho advocacy OF
certain measures however he had given
offence to certain parties, whose personal
interests were supposed to be somewhat
jeopardacd by ispoliCy, and the forfeit
Of bis life was secretly determined upon
A desperate and rather eccentric indiyi-
dual by the name of Bollingham was Sc
lected as the iittest person to execute THIS
atrocious bohost, and faithfully did tho
monster perform his part in tho tragedy:
Standing in tho lobby Of the House OF
Commons, with pistol in hand, he took
deliberate aim at the minister as he was
passing, who fell without groan, and
died almost tinstantaneously.


We could, had wo space and leisure,
partcularizo many other instances OF
murders, showing that, in generality Of
cases, those who have deserved most Of
their country, who have strivOn with un-
falterng energy to discharge honorably
and faithfully the sacred duties allotted
to their positions, havO been their victims
of the assassin's wiles, History records
few instances whore crimes of this char
actor, involving, as they always do, in
calculablc mischief to a whole community,
have been committed for the purpose Of
rdding the land Of tyrant like Nero or
Dionysiusi but where, among all the pub
lie men of the past, in whatever cline or
country, shall we Gnd the head Of a people
less deserving that harsh and cruel epthet
than him whose sterling virtues had won
the great heart Of the nation, and whose
irreparablo loss millions Of our afflicted
fellOw-citi2ons are mourning and bowail-
ing?
Year: 1865

death Of a "brother Of the quill" rcjoices that
his friend is now in a better world There, he
says the cry Of 9more copy shall never again
fall upon bis distracted ears. There he shall
never be abused any moro by his political an
tagonists with lies and detractions that should
shamea demon to promulgate. There he shall
no more be used asa ladder for the aspiring to
kick down as soon as they reach the desired
height and need him no more. There he shall
be able TO see the immense mass Of mind he has
moved all unknowing and unknown as he has
been, during his weary pilgrimage on earth.-
There he will find all articles credted-not
clap of thunder stolen--aud there shall be no
horrid typographical errors to set him in fever.
Year: 1865

FRErcHrrNc.- notwithstanding the bad
condition of the roads, and the changeable.
ness and inclemency of the weather, seve-
raj large trains have loaded in this city,
and started for the west within the week.
At this time there is another large train
loading for the mines, and still our ware.
houses are crowded with freight, awaiting
transportation. The amount of all kinds
of freight to be received here for shipment
to the Western Territories this season, will
greatly exceed that of any former season.
-dtchison Press, March Is.
Year: 1865

. The funniest story of this age is told by
a detroit paper. A lady suspected her hus-
band of improper intimacy with the hired


girl. Without Informing her husband of
her intentions she sent the girl. off and that
night wert to sleep in the girl's bed. She
hadn't been there long when somebody
came in and took the other half of the bed.


About two hours after the wife rose, intend
ing to reveal the intended in6delity of her
spouse, struck light, when 10 it was the
Year: 1865

The sale of maize paper in the Govern
ment Printing Office, at Vienna, his in
creased SO largely that paper made of other
substances is liable to very dangerous
competition. Many private establishments
have already made heavy purchases Of this
paper, manufactured in the Imperial Mill.
1t is also used for printing the new paper
currency. .tNsml urug
Year: 1865

The anniversary meeting Of the State COL
onization Society held in the Brick Church
Thursday evening (Oct. l9th,) was Of special
interest in view Of the position Of this society
at the present time. The exercises were in the
main the reading Of the reports OF the secre-
tary and treasurer aud few impromptu ad-
dresses. The financial transactions reported
by the treasurer were within the limit Of six
hundred dollars, coming out with a balance
on the right side Of Abou. one hundred and
sixty dollars.


1t may be Of interest to the public to learn
with some degree Of particularly what view
this society take Of themselves in the light Of
the great national events which have trans
pired since their last annual meeting. Briefly
then the society express themselves as being
greatly encouraged, and about to begin that
work and enter upon that prosperous career,
which, it may be said, they have looked for
ward to so long that some people had really
begun to doubt whether the good time was
actually coming. They are enthusiastic in
Nut utlltl huhb Aub IlNlilLAtlDu anu tuIlHNlhul-
cation Of Africa through their instrumentslity,
is much nearer than it was year ago Their
plan is to send freedmen to Liberia as fast as
they are educated and wish to go there. To
send them faster than that, it is thought,
might have tendency to depress the rising
glory Of the African republic. They regard
the impression Of the general public, that the
colonization society ever aimed at any other
object, as its main purpose, than the one
above stated, as an instance Of peculiar and
unaccount bly, vicious depravity, and protest
against the uujustidable insinuaton that tie
special mission of the Society has been super
ceded.
Year: 1865

We sing " Our Country's" song tonight
With saddened voice and eye;
Her banner droops in clouded light


Beneath the wintry sky.
Well pledge her once in golden wlne
Before her stars have set;
Though dim one reddening ORD may shine,
We have a Country yet
'Twere vain to sigh o'er errors past,


The fault of sires or sons;
Oar soldier heard the threatening blast,
And spiked his useless guns;
He saw the star-wreathed ensign fali,
BY mad invaders torn;
He saw it from the bastonel wall


That laughed their rage to scorn
What though their angry cry is flung
Across the bowling wave
They smite the air with idle tongue


The gathering storm who brave;
Enough of speech the trumpet rings;
Be silent, patient, calm
God help them if the tempest swings


The pine against the palm
Our toilsome years have made US tame;
Our strength has slept unfelt;
The furnace-fre is slow to fame


That bids our ploughshares melt;
IT'S hard to lose the bread they win


In spite of Natures frowns-
To drop the iron threads spin


That weave our web of towns.
To see the rustling turbines stand


Before the emptied fumes,
To fold the arms that food the land


With rivers from their looms
But harder still for those who learn


The truth forgot so long;
When once their slumbering passions burn,
The peaceful are the strong
The Lord have mercy on the weak,


And calm their frenzied ire,
And save our brothers ere they Shrek,
I" We played with Northern fire y
The eagle hold his mountain height
The tiger pace his den
Give. all their country, each his right!
God help us all! Amen!
Year: 1865

THINK OF IT. GIRLs.-Nothing can pre-
vent an increase of bachelorism, save an
amendment in the code Of educating women.
When they learn common sense instead of
broken French; when they learn some USE
full employment instead of beating the piano;
when they learn to prefer honest industry to
silly coxcombry and when men find women
is helpmate, instead of burthen; then,
and not till then, may we expect to find fewer
bachelors.
Year: 1865

girls, crime so shocking TO every sense
of humanity. We learn that the elder


Major was formerly an engineer on the
Hudson River railroad. He was dis
charged from the road about a year ago,
for abandoning his train below Pough-
keepsie, and leaving the fireman to run
it through to New York. He has bad
reputation for morals, having been
caught in bed, not long since, with an
other mans wife, in Poughkeepsie, by
the husband of the woman. The son is
known as bounty jumper, and fellow
of low habits and base association s.
They deny the crime of which thes are
charged; but the circumstances are all
against them, and the entire community
believe them guilty. Nothing. can be
said against the character of the girls
they so cruelty outraged
Year: 1865

2p. MT is now thought the fire will
not extend beyond all the buildings adj
joining the Museum on Broadway and
two or three in the rear, leaving the por-
tion of the block fronting on Nassau
street, including the Herald building
Year: 1865




At Naples they vaccinate directly from
the COW. The subject has been seriously
taken up in Paris, and it is estimated that
o good commercial speculation can be made
of it. A COW, it is said, will produce one
hundred pustules, which at five francs each,
will bring five hundred francs, the COW suf
tering no deterioration in value. The prac-
tice is greatly recommended by the safety it
lnsures that no other contagion will be com
municated along with the cowpox. In Par
is 1t is recommended that the cow should be
vaccinated by twelve or fifteen small pune
lures around the vulya, part the animal
cannot get at. The pustules ripen about
the eighth or twelfth day. The lymph is
too thick to be put in tubes, but must be
taken on glass plates, which can be mois-
tened when the matter is wanted A good
idea has been started by one doctor, namely:
that it will be just as well to drink the milk
OF an injected COW as to get vaccinated. The
doctor has made the experiment. He vac
clnated the COW on the udder and got GOOD
pustules. He then gave the milk to two
infants, and afterwards tried to vaccinate
them, but without success, while third in
fant, who had none of the milk, was at once
lnoculated by the same virus He recon-
mends that young ladies who are afraid of
prick, with lancet, should drink glass
OF the milk every three or four years to save
them from the smailpox Scientific Amer
Scan.
Year: 1865




ABOUT MARRIAGE.-Among the ancient
Germans, than whom finer race never ex-
listed, it was death for any woman to marry
before she was twenty years old. In this
country, very few women are fit, either
physically or mentally, to become mothers
before they reach the age of 20 years. The
unsound condition and constitution of the
parent is usually transmitted with increased
intensity to the offspring. By the laws of
Lycurgus the most special attention was paid
to the physical education of women; and no
delicate or sickly women, were, on any ac.
count, allowed to marry. DR.. johnson, in
his work on Econmy of Health" SAYS that
natrimony should not be contracted before
the first year of the fourth septennial on the
part OF the lady, nor before the last Fear of
the same In the case of the gentleman In
other words, the female should be at least
Il and the male % years of age. The doc
tor says that there should be difference of
seven years between the sexes, at whatever
period of life the connection is contracted.
There is difference of seven years, not in
the actual duration Of life in the two sexes,
but in the stamina of the constitution, the
symmetry of the form and the lineaments
OF the face In respect to early marriage,
so tar as it concerns the softer sex, for every
year that marriage is entered upon before
the age of 2l, there will be, on an average,
three years of premature decay, more or less
apparent of the cOrpor6al fabric.-Er.
Year: 1865

INtW iVHhI DoPt. foovs
In your issue of this date nnd 1t stated by your WASH
ington correspondent under the head Hotel Gossip"
that General Orcga has succeeded In eccng very large
loan for the republic of Mexico, based the security OF
connscaed property.


without impugnng the motives OF the party who gave
this pece Of news-for IL TO be fcudly to the
public of Mcxco-I feel It my duty say that there
no foundation for this report IL Is well known that
General Ortegas visit to this country Is not at all Official
and that he has neither authority nor intention to place
a loan upon this market


II that Mexico needs money to pay her national
troops and supply the necessary for the support OF
our national independence but General 0rega not the
agent Of the republican government TO negotiate such
means.


beg you TO give publicity this letter. 10 prevent any
erroneous impression regard General 0regas mis-
sion 10 this country am, sir your obedient servant


JUAN VILLARREAL, Mexican exile.
Year: 1865

ment oi Young Lady-Detectivcs mt


From the Boston Advertiser, Sept AL


We are enabled TO give TO our readers this morning
the following correct and interesting particulars
ing tho recent extensive bank robbery in Concord Mass


The Mddlcsex Institution for Savings whose Office
located In the buidng lost all their bonds which
In the vault Of the bank; if none Of these bonds
recovered however there viii be but small loss To
dcpositors. The bank has large surplus hand and
one or dividends will their loss. We arc
authorized to say that the institution Is In good
dition Its bills will all be redeemed and business
tnued ms heretofore


The robbery Of this bank the particulars of which we
since the Maiden tragedy


Mr. George NJ Brooks Of the directors was In his
onlcc--which s situated Immediately under tho bank
at hafpast ono o'clock on the day Of the robbery He
states thar he distinctly heard footsteps overhead but
supposng the cashier had returned earlier than usual
gave attention 10 the subject young lady fifteen
years Of age, having business with Mr. Cheney while
convcrng with young friends In front Of the bank
she saw a man approach from the direction OF the
cashiers residence, and taking key from his pocket
unlock the outer door OF the bank building the foot
Of the stairs sho bastencd at 10 gain entrance
replied that Mr. Cheney was not there but would return
nj two o'clock. He at closed the door, refusing
her admission. She supposng that all was correct In
regard TO this made no revelation until after the rob


Mr. Cheney, the respected cashier Of the Concord Ma
tonal Bank, Is gentleman sixty years Of age and
has held the positionhe now occupies since the
bank was organized.


guilty parties connected with this affair but all OF them
thus far upon investigation prove groundlcss We need
only say that OF most experienced Boston de-
tectIvesthe chief movers being detectives Heath and
left undcne toward ferrcng out tho persons engaged In
this bold scheme.
Year: 1865

BOSTON, June D.


The trial of Col. F. o. J. Smith, Of Me-,
on an Indictment found by the grand jury
of Suffolk county for subornation of per
Jury, occupied the Superior Criminal Court
nearly the whole OF last week, and resulted
this morning in verdict of guilty. After
the rendering of this verdict the counsel OF
Mr. Smith applied for time TO file bill OF
exceptions, and the court granted one
month for that purpose.
Year: 1865

and draw'a his sword very reluctant In
fact be Wouldn't hsv' drswd bis sword At
all, only he had large stock Of military
clothes on hand, which he didn't want to
waste. He sez the colored man Is right,
and ne viii at oace go to New York and
open a Sabbath School for negro minstrelA
Year: 1865

We have had beautiful weather for the past
two weeks-warm, sunny days and clear cool
nights, but no frost yet; but it is little rainy
just nov. The people have improved it by
making up their sorghum crop into molasses.
Almost every farmer raises enough for his own
use, and some sell few barrels but its culture
Is not gone into very extensive, as the apparatus
il homemade and rude, and the manufacture is
slow but with improved appara tus, it might be
made valuable product and a profitable ar
ticle oiexport The wheat crop was good, but
damaged BY the rains, but the corn crop is very
large. Fruit is plenty, but there is not near as
many apples this year as usual. Business is
quite brisk, as nearly all the southwest part Of
the State Is supplied with g DDS through Rolla,
and there are thousands passing through, re-
turning 10 their old homes, or coming from the
east to make new ones and it is hard finding
better country ior home than this. H.R.
Year: 1865

One OF the merry wives Of Blooming ton, Ind,
played practical joke on her husband BY hav.
ing their babe, sweet little infant of six
months, done up in basket and left on the
front doorstsps, with note informing him that
ho was the lalher OF the child and must support
1t. The indignant husband tworo roundly that
Il was not his, but finally saw the joke when he
found the cradle empty. lie has concluded to
cultivate the acquaintance of his family here
after.
Year: 1865

The town Of Manitowoc does not
contain a more sober and Industrious
man, or a more honest and uprigh.
citizen, than ADRIAN ANDREW, Esq;
and, as we have said before, no man
has done more labor, with more success,
for the Republican party than Mr.. A.
Having lately seen fit to abandon that
rotten party, and join the army of the
gallant Gen. HOBART, he is abused in yes
terday's Smut Machine in the following
language:


For several years one Abram Andrew
held the position of Light House Keeper
at this place. During the time he pro
/ tessed himself one Of the most radical Re-
publicaDs in the Republican party. No
matter what called it together, at every
gathering Of the party he must have bis
say, and he took up more time than any
other four members and said less of i'm
portance to the meeting than the most
humble speaker present. Whatever others
think, we believe this same Andrews did
more hurt to the party than he did good
for he became general laughing stock
on account CT his much speaking"
We shall make no comments on the
above outrageous attack upon our fellow
citizen. We only extract it to show bis
friends in the county 20 what villifcatioa
a good man may become subject because
lie refuses to join the Tribune cEqae in
favor of allowing the negro to become the
equal Of the white man, and swallow the
doctrines that thieves shall control the
State and National governments.
Year: 1865

Late dispatches from Washington in
the New York papers state that President
JoLnson is about to reconstruct bis cabi-
net. Among the first of the subordinate
officers in the departments who is likely
TO 90 by the board is ex governor Randall,
OF this state. If this result is not accom-
pIished by the voluntary action of the
president, Randall's removal will be very
generally demanded. His announcement
as a speaker here against the Presi-
deuts policy, is not only Inconsistent with
the proper discharge of the duties of the
place he ho!ds, but indicates a base be.
travail of the administration 10 whom he
is indebted for his daily bread and butter.
So far as We lave seen, he is the only
officer under the federal government who
has proposed to speak for the delunct
Union organization since President john
sons accession, and he will probably be
the last.-NtLjgauhee Nclgs.


We advise the Republican Postmastors
in this county to vote the Democratic
ticket next month, or there may be seve-
raj heads cut eff after election. President
Johnson is a Democrat, and he Will insist
upon Democratic Office holders