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Year: 1865

it all quietly, at length, informed them
that on finding himself buried, he waited
for them to dig him out, until his patience
was exhausted, when he set to work to
dig himself out, and only the day before
succeeded for his ideas being somewhat
confused by the pressure of the Garth at
tho time he was buried, lie had dug very
much at random, aud instead Of coming
directly 10 the surface, be came cut in the
Town Of holden, six miles east Of the PEN
obscoL river.


M further explanations were asked for
By those who were go distI essed and scr
rowful over bis supposed fnsl resting
place.
Year: 1865

The manner in which the quota of Penn
uylvania has been assigned, has called
forth an able letter from Governor Curtin
to President Lincoln, in which the ipjus-
tioe done 10 the State by the whimsical
inconsistency and unjust decisions oil Pro.
vost Marshal Fry are clearly pointed out,
and the President called upon to see that
justice is done in the case, and that here.
after the Government officials shall be
guided by tho laws Of Congress in assign
ing the quotas. 1t is the most manly and
independent letter we have seen from the
Governor for long while. We regret
that We have not space to give il entire.
The following is the closing part of it;


'Sir; You may not have been horcto-
fore apprised of the fact that your subor
dnates are wholly disregarding the Act
Of Gath cf February, 1864. They are
proceeding in open and direct violation Of
it, aud are thus creating naturally great
confusion and uncertainty among the peo-
pie. They announce on the one hand
that although three years man counts
only as a one.year man towards the quota
on which be volunteers, vet he shall ba
counted as three one years men, towards
the quota on future call. This is direct.
ly in the teeth Of the law. On the other
hand they are cyphegiDg out deficiency
on the last call by counting three one
years men as the only equivalent to one
three years man, which is equally against
the law.


Thus the quota Of Pennsylvania, under
the call of 18th July last, was Glled il
accordance with the law by men to ser7'
for not less than one year. Term of ser
vice of these men is not yet half expired
= and yet your sabordinates are threatening
draft to 6!l an alledged deficiency o.
that very call, the existence Of which the
attempt to make out by persisting in thei
unlawful and unsubstantial theories an
calculations, Oar people know that til
Government requires more men. The
are wiling to furnish them, heavy as th
burden has become on the industrial poE
ulalon. let the requirement be made i
the clear and definite shape which the La
provides for, and it will be cheerful
complied with But it is hardly to be to
Grated that your subordinates sh ould /
permitted longer to pursue the system
substituting, for the law, an eccentric pla
of their own.


Sir, in behalf of the Frecmen of til
Commonwealth, who have always given
cheerful and hearty support to your 60,
.srnment in the prosecution OF this war;
it is my duty TO inslst,- and do insist
that you enforce upon your subordinate
chat obedience to the law which you ow
as we'll as they and all Of US. 1t is of ey
example-it tends to enfeeble, nay to d
stroy-'he Just powero the government
shat you should suffer your officers


treat with open contempt any acts Of Co
gress, and especially those which yc
have yourself approved, and which reg
late mater of such deep eud delica
'Icoment as the enforcing draft for Il
military service.


Relying heartily en- your wisdom al
justice to set right what has thus been g
ing wrong aud to compel henceforth {
the part OF all, proper respect for c,
obedience tc the laws Of the land,
l am, sir, very respectfully,
A, G. CURTIN"
The War Meetings in Richmont
Year: 1865

could. God knows what Intended, and
lie knows that do not deserve DEATH
But ifI die 1 go without pity, but as
soldier should die. feat not death, and
| can 60 to the judgement bar OF God now
tomorrow, whenever it may please the
Chief Magistrate of this country to cay
90
Year: 1865

On AND WATER never agree. The food at
Oil City has foated off forty thousand barrels
Of oil, and damaged the works Of the oil com
panies to the extent, it is said, of two millions
of dollars One mischief is the filling up OF
the wells with sand and dirt, compelling the
work of opening to be done again. The snow
in that vicinity was two feet deep, and on We'd
nesday, Thursday and part of Friday it rained
necessarily. This caused the mischief. Oil
City was under water, and many of the bust
ness offices were carried off. The McClintock
and Oil City bridge, over, the creek, and the
away. Passengers were being rOwed across
the creek at one dollar a head and landed at
the door of the First National Bank. The
river bottom land above Oil City was entirely
submerged and everything swept off.
Year: 1865

A DEVOTED BRAKEsuAN-T Berlin jour
mails relate the following incident, which has
just taken place in Prussia A pointsman was
at the junction Of TWO lines of railway, his lev
er in hand, for a train was signalled. The en-
gines were within few seconds of reaching
the cmbankment, when the man, on turning
his head, perceived his little boy playing on
the rails Of the line the train was to pass over.
With Il heroic devotion to duty, the untortu-
nate man adopted a sublime resolution. Lie
down - he shouted to his child but as to him
self he remained at his post. The train pass
ed along on its way, and the lives Of one hun
drcd passengers were perhaps saved. But the
poor child The father rushed forward, ex-
pectng to pick up only a corpse but what wa:
his JOY on finding that the boy had at once
obeyed his order He had lain down, and the
whole train had passed over him without in
jury. The next day the king sent for the man
and attached to his breast the medal for civil
courage.
Year: 1865

To those lords ofcreation' who curve their
nasal organs at the idea of communicating mat
tcrs Of business to their wives, we particularly
commend perusal of Carlyle's history Of the
great Frederick. Speaking of the queen, he
says Her Judgment was good; and Frederick
liked to have it on the weightiest things, though
her powers Of silence might halt now and then.
He has been known, on occasion, to run from
his privy council to her apartment while COM
pcx matter was debating to ask her opinion
before it was decided. Excellent Louisa prin-
cess full of beautiful piety good sense and affec-
ton touch of the Nassau heroic in her. At
the moment of her DEATH it is said, when speech
had fed, he felt, from her hand which Law in
his three slight pressures: Farewell = thrice
mutely spoken in that manner-not easy to for
get in this world.
Year: 1865

A BAD PRAcTICE. Many persons who use
kerosene lamps are in the habit when going to
bed or when leaving a room for short time,
Of turning the wick down low in order to save
trife of the consumption of oil. The conse-
quence is that the air of the room soon becomes
vitiated by the unconsumed oil vapOrs, by the
gas produced by combustion, and also by the
minute particles Of smoke and SCOT which are
effects, and the wonder is that more persons
are not Immediately and fatally injured by
breathing it. Irritation and inflammation
of the throat and lungs, headache, dizziness
and nausea are among its effects.
Year: 1865

Cotton and Corn were mighty Kings,
Who differed at times on different things,


To the country's dire confusion
Corn was peaceable, mild and just,
But Cotton was fond of saying "Iou muSt;;"
So, after he boasted, and bullicd, and cussed,


He got up a revolution.
But in the course of time the bubble it burstcd
And Corn was King, and Cotton was qcorSteol
Now Corn was 10th to make it fight,
But he felt that Cotton would crush the right


So he came to the law S protection;
He raised an army million strong,
To lift up the right and put down the wrong,
And it certainly seemed that he, ere long,


Should wipe out the insurrection.
Year: 1865

From late files of Northern papers we take the to-
lowing extracts:


GEN. WHITING AMONG TIE YAEEEBs.


A Yankee correspondent writing from Fort Fish
or, has the following


General Whiting and Col Lamb, the officers in com
mand of Fisher evidently selected for their tenac
ty and courage. They are both wounded the General
only seriously wounded and Lamb also severely in hip
with paralysis OF the lower eXtCemties He is repre-
sented by Ills something OF a lion. During the
preparatory cauuonadng, his say that he mounted
one Of the trayerss and waved hs sword in defiance at
our men OF war. At the same instant O Blell struck
the other officer and took Of his head Lamb stopped
and taking of the fallen officers sword and waving
both high the air. cried out "Come on, you Yankee
sons of b-sp This exhibition OF adoescent rage is
told to show the courage OF the colonel.
In conversation With one Of the medical officers,
General Whiting remarked that II he had had the
troll we should not been permitted to throw up In
trenchments across the peninsula. When be saw we
were allowed ntrenCh he regarded the capture othe
fort only question Of time. don't see what they
were about" he said, referring 10 the eEps oil Con
Bragg. Had my guns not been dsmounted, you would
not have taken the works. But came here TO take
it," said the doctor, " and should have done so any
way sooner or later In seven hours had line OF
ntrenchments across which would have enabled "a to
defy the whole of Gen. Lees army"


Gen. Whiting, it is said, mounted the works hcn
he so the first flag unured on the second traverse OF
the fort, and ralying his men, attempted to snatch
away the guidOn from the hand OF the Union sodler-
At that instant he received bis wound which disabled
him for the remainder OF the fsht'


The prisoners we'll are about 900 sick and dead,
25O making about 2,2Oo all told.
Year: 1865

AID AND CoMFoRT.-Ihe mere love Of pickering
which has caused s0me papers to drift into regular
channel of abuse OF Confederate auhoritcg Ia now
bringing forth its legitimate fruit in the shape Of com
fort to the snemy How could they but be grafed at
the record some journals pleased to make Of aalr5
as they exist here in the Contederacy If papers per
sst In their abuse Of President Davis Administration
and sontnue assert that the country Is gliding along
the sloping descent to perdtion, sHTe may expect
nothing more than to growth OF confidence in the
North, and rapid revival of the war spirit.


These vapory illusions OF scribbers
being hailed at the North as evidences Of disruption
among us, and already they believing that our
cause is weakening, and that little increase of energy
on their part will throw the scale inevitably in their
favor-Augustd Register.
Year: 1865

WE do not think that even the fact that Sherman
or Of his forces bas reached the South Carolina
Railroad necessarily implies stoppage OF communca
ton between the Oarolnas and the South West is
true there will be short gap, but not long most
people imagine, and the new route will be an interior
and much safer route ha the present. not dependent
even upon the possession by Us of the city Of Augusta
although of course at would be important from other
considerations.


We need not indicate this route, although indeed We
cannot suppose that by doing so We would be giving
any information to the enemy. An inspection of the
railroad map will show two points in upper Geor-
gia and upper South Carolina where branches
one from the Georgia Road and the other from the
South Carolina Railroad approach each other much
more nearly than the Railroad systems OF the two
States approach each other at Columbia and Augusa.
The distance from Columbia to Augusta is probably
about ssventy-fve miles. The distance between the
points referred to would not probably be much more
han half that length. OF course, with movable
columns and enterprising and powerful enemy like
Sherman line is necessarily safe because of its loea-
tice but the line of which have been speaking is
about as sale as any line can be- and capable of de-
fence. With an efficient wagon train the transporta-


ton on the short gap could be maintained quite ef
ectually as it is the unfortunate Piedmont Road
in this State.


But without sufficient force OF determined men, il
s next to useless to talk about holding any line any
point II this force be mustered and rallied to the
repaIse of Sherman and the checking of his career II
will do very much towards encouraging the people
srywbere throughout the Ooniederacy-nor will III
effect be lees marked less valuable at the North
1t will dspsl the vain decisions of conquest and sub
jugation, under which the people there 50 general,
labor.
Year: 1865

kSUroN the whee must think it better that the qnes
ton of peace negotiations disposed of SO promptly
BETTER that there should be delay doubt about il
than that MeesrS. Stephens, Huntsr and Campbell
should have been carried to Washington and amused
there while the people were kept in suspense and their
attention distracted from the inevitable necessity OF the
hour. 1t appears to us that Seward was unusually


aRk unusually incsuious in putting 80 speedy an
end to the faree as well in bis admission of the nrob
ability of foreign complications likely to arise after the


rebellion is crushed out" There is either great
deal Of confidence or great deal Of bravado in the
whole affair, and which it is are unable TO say
Seward is asute but not always as diplomatic or al
cautious as he might he
Year: 1865

sha conduct the war successfully and that issue and
we hereby invoke the people, she the hoiest
OF oil csuses to spare neither beod in its
maintainance and support.


hssosed, thirdly. That tender thanks our SOL
diers in the hsd for their noble efforts in behalf the
Country, its rights and its liberties and take this occasion
to assure them that shall be spared to
sist them In maintaining the great which here
by devote ourselves and { Cur Ill
Year: 1865

Z stance where copies Ofthe opinions. etc.
have been sent down within the time
without such order OF the court, with di
reotion to the clerk Of such court to re
turn the opinion.


ZppsGls, etc.


Rule d Where an appeal is taken
in term, as provided for in section sos,
Of the Code, and the transcript is not
iled in the office Of the clerk Of this
csnnrt within the time limited by that
section, the appeal so taken shall be
deemed 70 have been abandoned, and if
a transcript is afterwards fled, an ap-
peal shall be considered as taken BY
fling OF the transcript and issuing notice,
as provided for in the next following
section of the Code, aud the appellee,
in such case, shall not be regarded as
in court, without notice or voluntary ap-
pearance.


Rule % Where an appeal is taken
after the close Of the time, by notice
below, as provided for BY the first branch
of section $50, Of the Code, the tran
script must be filed within sixty days
from the time of taking the appeal;
otherwise the appeal so taken shall be
deemed to have been abandoned, and If
a transcript is afterwards fled, an appeal
shall be considered as taken, BY the fl
ing of the transcript and issuing notice,
as specified in the foregoing rule, and
the appellees shall not be regarded as in
court without further notice or voluntary
aDrearanra
Year: 1865

Rule 10. Appearances 10 suits in this
court shall be entered in the clerk 5. Of
fee An writing.


Rule 90 A joinder in error, or the
Sling Of an answer By the party in per
son, or by his attorney thereunto law
fully authorized, shall be deemed and
taken as appearance in writing under
the above rule.
Year: 1865

Rule H. The clerk must not, after
the abstracts have been made, permit
the papers Of q cause to be taken from
the State house, except by the judges.
The clerk may, upon his own responsi-
bility, permit the party entitled 10 make
sach abstract, to take the papers for a
period not exceeding three days, having
power TO require such reasonable security
as be may deem proper
Year: 1865

We are also prepared TO sell Gold on
a margin Of thirty per cent, and win
hold the Gold for purchasers for Thirty
days


We also receive money on deposit,
discount good paper, buy and sell Ex-
change on New York, and transact
general Banking business.


f.l
Year: 1865

rhs Capt~rs or seq. D.~as-rn. Master


Murderer fn the Hands OF Justice.


We rejoce with the whole country over the
capture Of the instgator of the atrecious crime
that so lately stirred sxr hearts with horror
Although Booth, the actual perpetrator, the
miserable murderer who delivered the fatal
blow, was not taken alive, and 30 to some ex-
tent escaped the proper punishment Of bis
crime, 1t is satisfactory to feel that Davis, the
master murderer, the wretch who originated
The whole attempt, Is alive In the hands Of JUS
tice, and that there Is not a human possibility
thai he can escape the full penalty of the law.
Tue capture OF Davis consoles us for the un-
timely death Of Booth, by 80 much as the prin-
opal, in moral sense Is Of moro account than
any subordinate. The thanks of tho nation are
Justly due to General Wilson for the admirable
arrangements he must have made to achieve his
great success.


Davis is Of no aoOonnt. except a. an 40
cessory 10 the murder of tho President, nor
is his capture Of any Importance in any other
respeot Politically no is harmless certainly
east Of the mississippi. 1t d barely possible
that his presence In the st1aas-N Mississippi
country might oomplicaie matters there.
Many months befSre the fate Of the rebellion
was as ciear as Il Is now Davis spoke Of the
possibility Of . protracted struggle there, and
his reeeat purpose was TO got iato that district.
tits highly probable, also, that the course just
taken by Kirby Smith was partly in view Of the
possibility that Davis would soon join him. Had
he done 80 It is, we say, possible that new
government might havobeen organized there,
and the world would have seen tho strange
spectacle of State fighting to get out OF
community into which she was taken less than
twenty years ago at her own urgent solicita.
tion, and at the expense Of q war. Texas has
great resources and could supply any army,
and it is In immediate contact with foreign
State, and the least that the continuance Of the
rebellion there might have done would be to
seriously disturb our relations with France.


But all that Is done with now, and Kirby
Smith will presently lay down his arms, as
better and abler men have done, being by this
time, no doubt, fully conscious that he Is Of
very little account as Q leader. The last hope
Of our enemies is gone even for that remote
country. The timely capture Of Davis has made
the destruction Of the rebellion a clean and
clear One
Year: 1865

OSwEGo sept. II, 1850
Al the session OF the New York State Congregational
Association this morning, tho first business presented
was the adoption OF constitution and by laws for a
State Educational Society for the assistance Of young
men in preparing for the ministry.


The Committee the State Of the Country reported
series Of resolutions taking strong ground in favor Of i'm
partial suffrage The following is the language Of OF
these resolutions


Resolved, That justice requires that from henceforth
all distinction OF color race In the apportionment Of
civil privileges and political franchises be swept away
and that the doctrine that the right OF American
and 10 give evidence In court Is exactly level
with the right OF the American white man be fully re-
cognzcd and provided for.


response TO the action OF the Boston Council was
read by the Rev Edward Taylor Of Brooklyn Tho As.
socaton pledged itself by standing vote to do Its part
In the great missionary work at tho Southwest carved
out by the National Council The discussions upon this
subject full OF earnestness and after the vote the
meeting led In prayer OF conservation 10 the work
by Rev Mr. Taylor. The discussion upon parochial
evangezation very spirited many OF the speeches
were full OF eloQuence and pathos.


The association closed lie session this afternoon.
Year: 1865

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 1s, 1865
In tho State Convention Saturday the chairman Of
the Committee the Ordinance Of Secession aud the
Resolutions Of the Convention of 1861 reported fol
lows-


All ordinances, resolutions and proceedings OF the
Convention Of 1851, with much of the constitution
adopted in said convention conflicts with the consti
tuition Of the United States hereby declared null aud
void.


This ordinance was made the special order for Wed
ncsday


The Committee the Abolition OF Slavery reported an
ord nance which made the special order for to-day
Other reports we're submitted Of local interest
A resolution offered instructing the Committee on
Federal Relations TO memoriaze tho President respect
ing the action Of the Convention and the desire OF tho
people to give cordial support to his administration
and in view Of tho action of the Convention and the
loynly OF the people TO request the President to pro
claim a general pardon and amnesty 70 All persons not
included IN the proclamation Of the 10Th oi Way last
The resolution was referred 70 the Committee on cd
era Relations


The business Of the Convention fully commenced
to-day.
Year: 1865

WitLAcx's THEATRE. theatre opened for the
aevscn last night The occasion voritabe theatri.
cal fae The house was very FULL the audience fashona.
bic to the extrcme degree and the welcome the
actors they made their respective ee spontaneous
and enthusiastic. Each received full round Of
applause and Miss Henriques and Mr. Davenport a dou
BILE share being called before the curtain the close Of
tho second and creating a decided Juror The new
play received with great favor and had the hearest
approval of applause. II Is admirably put upon the
stage The OF the second act is OF the most
perfectly set pieces we have No exception what
bo made to the dresses decorations and
very little to the acting but do not think that The
serf IL destined to be a lasting favorte at this establish
mcn and we think the lies the very nature Of
the play IL is too strong dish Its appeal to the sym
pathies Is primitive broad and not TO say 10 unkindly
coarse We are called upon TO feel for fellow creature
we are also called upon to him crushed.
It is painful spectacle, The serf is intro
duced to us an artist In Paris. He has
in Russia indulgent and loving master, who thus
virtually gives him freedom and education, and he
Paris passes as gentleman his history o. course being
reciprocates his passion In defence OF this lady he
chastises brutal Russian nobleman. Suddenly all the
relations are changed The indugent master In Russia
dies The serf passes tho heir and thus the artist
becomes the property Of that brutal nobeman with
whom he had quarrelled. The noblcman Is bent upon
full Russian revenge and the artist s crushed accord
ingy. We all through the pain and horrible bar
barity inflicted upon the man we sympaihze with but
there is constantly satisfaction in the thought that
all this cruelty s stimulating the slaves TO revolt But
they DO not revolt; for 0nally the true issue OF the
story banked and all the difficulties are gotten over
through that time honored arrangement by which II
turns out that there false heir and that the save
the true prince The story s Russian In character The
play is written pleasantly. The dialogue runs on
smoothly with the business Of the play, and the story
told with great distinctness. Mossrs. Davenport and
Fisher and Misses Hel rques and Burke acquitted them
selves well Mr.. Gilbert IA Khor made splendid per
sonation. Mr. Norton was quite UNEQUAL TO the brutal
character of the prjnca
Year: 1865

AUNIUUHhHf, sept Iooo.
The Alabama State Convention to-day adopted reso-
luton requesting the Provisional Governor to call out
The militia in each county Immediately TO repress the
disorder and awlessness which exists many counties
The ordinance providing for the abolition Of slavery in
the State was debated upon length when It's further
consideration was postponed until Tomorrow.
Year: 1865

BALL.-The Turner's 6f Rock Island had
grand Gag presentation, to day, at the
grove in the rear Of the residence Of Mayor
Davenport Of that city. A ball will take place
at their Hall this evening.