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Year: 1864

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NEW YORK, October q.


The Herald's Correspondent gives the
following account of Sheridan's last vic
tory:


1t was midnight and all around was the
stiffness usual to that hour. While this
stiffness was prevailing the enemy had
noiselessly massed a heavy column of troops
behind the hills on the southwest side of
Cedar Creek and directly in front of the
position occupied by our extreme pickets.
At a signal given, as we afterwards learn
ed, the enemy advanced rapidly in solid
columns Of regiments. Our pickets were
charged, some of them captured, and some
driven in hardly before they had time to
discharge their nuskets; in fact, what
few pickets did come in the enemy came
on soon sfer, and so close to them that it
was near tie which party warned the
slumbering camp of the army OF the dam
ger near at hand. Having driven in or
captured our pickets on the left of the line
of the infantry, the enemy charged across
Cedar Greek at the ford, and very gOon af.
ter on the bridge over said stream, and
reached the side of the hill and breastwork
occupied by ThOFburn's Division Of the sth
Army Corps.


The rebels hesitated not but passed on
over all barriers, completely surprising, and
in measure stsmpeding the left of Sheri-
dams line. By this success the enemy
gained some artillery, believe the 4th
Pennsylvania Battery and some pieces OF Il
Regular Battery. The suddenness Of the
attack, and its wonderful success for a short
time, bewildered the troops, and many of
them were taken prisoners, but by far the
greater part got away and with their arms.
The other division of Crooks corps, which
was allowet some timetn form, did so, and
was soon formed in line by the remaining
portion of Thorburns division. All this
while the enemy EeFt pressing on and
pouring in upon our men rapid and muir
derous fire, fire from mnsketry as well as
from artillery posted upon the hills on the
opposite side of Cedar Creek.
Year: 1864

It appears that the dispatch to the War De-
partment stating that the rebel ram Albemarle
had been destroyed was premature" We
have information to-day that the Albemarle got
away after she had been rammed by the sassa-
Gus, and went up the Roanoke river under
cover OF tho darkness. If the sassacus hit her
fair blow, we doubt wh.ther she will again
trouble the waters OF Albemarlo Sound. The
shock, although not Immediately fatal, would
probably disable the rebel until she is rebuilt.
Year: 1864

At The present meeting Of the Association
Of superintcndents of Insane Asylums in the
UniteI States, now In session in this city, a
reaolation was adopted rendering the medical
services Of the members OF the association to
assist in tie care of the sick and wounded now
at Fredericksburg.


The Surgeon General replied that he had not
yet occasion to call upon all the volunteer sur
gical assistance, whose services had been tea
dered and accepted In the contingency Of their
being needed
Year: 1864

able men. But it Is important to put it on
frm foundation and give 10 it more power.
To this end il needs some help from abroad.
10 render this help, is TO work for the peace
ful solution Of problem that is now up for
solution. To all who would aid the true De-
mocracy OF Kentucky the Union Louisville
National Press is to be commended as deserv-
ing their Immediate patronage. It's very name
denotes its thoroughly loyal and comprehen-
siye charactef-Boston Transcript.
Year: 1864

A Russian PRISCgss.-Among the legends
of Alabama is one of the year l12l. In that
year, there came party Of German colonists
to Mobile, among whom was a young woman
of great personal beauty and accomplishments,
and great apparent wealth to back them. She
was known and recognized as the Aachduchess
Nevsky, the repudiated wife of the only son OF
Peter the Great, Alexis Peter. She was sup
posed to have been cruelty treated by her hus
baud, and to have fed from him, while he pro-
fessed that she was dead After some years in
the colony of Mobile, there came a Chevalier
D'Aubaut, well known French courtier of
the time, who was wandering in those far-of
lands for the good of France or himself He
saw and recognized the Archduchess, and after
some time offered her marriage, which was
accepted. They still resided many mouths 10
the colony after which the Cheyalier carried his
bride to Paris, aud introduced her into society
with wonderful eclat. The story was good for
some years, but finally an expose came, aud the
Arcbduchess was found TO be girl who had
teen about the person Of the real Archduchess
and robbed her OF jewels aud money to large
amount. with which she had sought the then
almost inaccessible colony OF Mobile.
Year: 1864

DABL1As are ike the most beautiful women
without intellectually strike you with
astonishment by their exterior splendor, bot
are miserably destitute Of those properties
which distinguish and render agreeable less
imposing flowers. Had nature given he fra
GRANGE Of the rose or the lily to the dahlia, it
would have been the most magnificent gem Of
the garden; but, wanting scent, it Is like
fine woman without mind
Year: 1864

NAVIGATION or THE CoLoRADo.-A party
recently explored the Colorado river for the
purpose Of ascertaining the head OF steam nav
igation. They report the river navigable to
point seventy i've miles below the mouth Of the
Rio Virgin-or over FIVE hundred miles from
the mouth Of the Colorado. At this point il
is proposed to establish a depot for the salt
axe trade
Year: 1864

IL the reign OF James |. when person was
invited out TO dinner be took bis own knife
with him, and. on entering the house of his
host, found whetstone behind the door, OF
which 10 sharpen IT.
Year: 1864

The correspondent Of the Boston Journal
relates the circumstances connected with lie
death of Colonel Lowell, at Cedar Creek:
The brigade Of caraIry which was raised 81
General BuioTi is called the finest one in the
army. After his death, the command was
assigned to Colonel Lowell as compliment
for bis services; and be acquitted himself 10 il
so as 10 command the admiration OF the officers
and men. General Sheridan was 50 struck
with bis efficiency that be urged the President
to make him Brigadier General, and the
commission has been issued. He hsd always
exposed himself wherever be could render any
service, leading his men, and hghliHg often ike
private soldier But in Ills can0aigu
Of thirty days his exposure bad been very
great; twelve horses had fallen under him. one
OF them struck in seven places, and his clothes
had been riddled with balls; yet be had not
been touched.


His first wound was received about one
O'Clock on the day Of the battle Of Cedar Creek,
from speut ball, which struck him 10 the
breast. The conclusion OF the lungs was -
great as to cause anxiety. General TorbeFt
urged that he should be carried from the ield;
but this be refused. Though his voice could
only be raised 10 a whisper, he .hoped to lead
~ tBC uLa4 (udi EtII ~ uC G!l- liz Hd>
carried to the rear, aud little parapet of earth
thrown up to shield him aud be lay there
mOtiouleSs for two hours having exacted q
promise that be should be told when the charge
was ordered. This came at three o'clock. tie
was then raised up and placed upon his horse
and for a time appeared to receive new life
He rode to the front, amid the cheers of the
men, and took the command which had devoved
on Lieutenant Colonel Casper Crowiushield
His clear voice was gone. but all saw by the
waving of his sword. and by his eye, what he
meant. He whispered the orders TO his officers,
and they were passed along the lines.


1t was half an hour before the bngle sounded
the grand charge. Then his strength rose with
the occasion; he threw into it his whole life
it was to him the fual charge as to many other
brave men. \ ball pierced him from shoulder
TO shoulder, and laid on shelter tent he was
carried from the field. Though parayz be
remained conscious a0d gave minute directions
about the business of his command He die
tated letters and sent loving messages 10 his
young wife, bis parents and friends, and. having
finished ALL be lay quietly as if expecting death.
No doubt be was prepared for it, for the whole
of his brief lie had been spent IN the perform
ance of his duty. Few men have combined so
many talents and accomplishments so much
learning and SO much virtue, with so strong a
love of country.
Year: 1864

spectator an imploring look which terri,
ned him. He at once resolved to return
home; with some difficulty be got boatman
to take him across, aud on reaching his
house, be was struck by the ghastly and
alarmed look of the maid servant who
opened the door This woman was so
frightened by his unexpected return, that
she spontaneously confessed her intention
to murder her mistress; and her confess on
was confirmed by the fact that she had
concealed carving knife under her pillow.
This is very perplexing case for those
who think spectral phenomena can be
phllosophically explained. Here you have
the phantom of living person projected,
entirely without that persons conciousness.
Let 1t be assumed that person in extreme
peril can, by intense volition, act on the
nervous system of the universe, 80 as to
influence his dearest friend; but here the
person whose likeness appeared was entirely
devoid Of apprehension, while the servant,
who alone knew what was likely to happen
would naturally exert no volition towards
revealing it,
Year: 1864

Solicitor, residing in the Isle of Wight,
had business at Southampton He stayed at
one Of those hotels for which the town of
mail steamers is famous, and after dinner
he was looking over his law papers while
he slipped his port He was aroused from
his foolscap and red tape by the opening
of door: his wife (whom he had left at
home in the Isle of Wight entered, gazed
at him steadfastly, and passed out through
the opposite door. He naturally thought
that it was a hallucuation, and resumed
his reading, with wonderful smile at his
own weakness. But within quarter of an
hour, the very same thing occurred again ];
and there was on the eountenance of the
Year: 1864

would not go to Sabbath school with
that PATCH said proud girl to her broth
er. Id rather go with the patch than
not at all,' answered the boy.


The street boys said, Just as if I'd go
to Sabbath school with patch on my
knees! If [ don't 90 with my patch, |
cant go at all these be the best clothes
got said the boy, stopping and looking
down over his trowers


Come said the street boys, who had not
such a good mother as this boy had, else
their trowsers would have been patches
instead of rags, come 90 fishing with US
No. said the boy, a patch is no dis
grace, and | shall 90 to the Sabbath school ;
aud he walked sturdiIy off. He went to
the Sabbath school.


Patch or no patch, what did his teacher
care who had hunted him up in his lowly
home? She thought most of the little
boys soul. What did the kind Superin-
tendent care, who caught the boys blue
eyes looking straight at him as he spoke,
and was pleased to see it =? Patch or no
patch, he sung, | want TO be an angel
as sweetly and heartily as better dressed
boys did. No scholar recited better les
son, or behaved more properly in his class
Patch or no patch, God took notice he was
there. Patch or no patch, the Reedemer
had died to save him and now said in ten
der accents, son give me thy heart
Patch or no patch, the Holy Spirit was
lowering near to help him remember his
Creator in the days of his youth, and to
chose this day the Lord for his portion
Patch or no patch, heaven had room for
him.


A patch, you see, is no matter at all
Instead Of being disgrace, it is rather an
honor, because it shows that the boy has a
kind and careful mother, anxious to do
her best with the small means God lent
her. Never be ashamed of patch
Year: 1864

A detachment Of troops recently scout
ing in the Valley of the Snake, or Lewis
Fork of Columbia, discovered waterfall
which, it is said, is entitled to the distinc-
tion of being called the greatest in the
world. The entire volume of Snake Rv-
er pours over sheer precipice one hun
dred and ninety eight feet high, thirty
eight feet higher than Niagara. Snake
river is fully as large as the Niagara, and
the cascade is one solid sheet or body


The locality of this immense waterfall is
Great Soshgne or Salmon Falls of that riv-
er, but they have always been enveloped in
mystery Almost a dozen years ago the
writer passed along the Snake river road.
For two years we heard the roaring of these
falls, but learned no more respecting them
than if they had been in the moon. 1t was
said that there were series of falls and
rapids making decent of seven hundred
feet in seven miles, and the sound gave
color to the report. For hundreds of miles
across the great plain Snake river flows
though cannon, with vertical walls hun
dreds Of feet high. 1t is only at long In
tervaIs that salient points are found by
which tho river can be reached. The road
crosses from point to point OF the bends,
only approaching close to the river where
there is a chance to descend for water.
From those acts, very few, if any of the
tens of thousand OF adventures that have
Year: 1864

We have probably, all of us, met with
instances in which word heedlessly spoken
against the reputation of female has been
magni6ed by malicious minds until the cloud
has become dark enough to overshaddow
her whole existence TO those who are
aecustomed-not necessarily from bad mo-
tlves, but from houghtlessness-to speak
lightly of females, we recommend these
hints as worthy OF consideration


'Never use ladys name in an improp-
er time, or in mixed company Never
make assertions about her that you feel she
herself would blush to hear When you
meet with men who GO not scruple to make
use of woman's name in a reckless and un-
princlpled manner, shun them, for they are
the worst members of the community-men
lost to every sense of honor, every feeling
OF humanity. Many a good and worthy
women's character has been ruined and her
heart broken by lie, manufactured by
some william, and repeated where it should
not have been, and in the presence of those
whose little judgment could not deter them
from circulating the foul and Dragging re-
port. A slander is soon propagated and
the smallest thing derogatory TO woman's
character will fly on the wings of the wind,
and magnify as its circulates until its mon
strous weight crushes the poor unconcio1s
victim. Respect the name Of woman, for
your mother and sisters are women; aud as
you would have their fair name untarnished,
and their brief lives unembittered by the
slanderers biting tongue, heed the i'll that
your own words may bring upon the mother,
the sister, or wife, or some other fellow
creature
Year: 1864

She sleeps, sweety sleeps by the dark rolling river
Where wild grow the trees and the rocks tow'rng,


high;
No sound can awake her, for her spirit the Giver
Has taken away to the arms of her Maker.
BY the dark rolling river they laid her down to rest
And she sleeps sweety sleeps in the arms of her


Maker.
Around her low bed, where the soft moonbeams
playing,


The nightbird her requiem chants in wild lays
The stars look down brightly if they were saying
Here lies poor lost Ornee, the best of her race.
Blythe dark rolling river they laid her down to rest
And she sleeps sweety sleeps in the arms of her
Maker.
Tread lightly the ground where her kindred have
laid her,


Where DER her low tombstone her native trees waves
Disturb not the turfmound which affection has made
her,


For the spirit of Ornee shall watch DER her grave.
By the dark rollingrVer they laid her down to rest
And she sleeps, sweetly sleeps in the arms of her


Maker.
Year: 1864

be- There is something peculiarly beau
tiful and soothing in the manner in which
the silent processes of the mind are brought
into action when we are reading attentive
ly. We must of necessity derive some
benefit What can be more benifcial than
improving the vigor and sensiblity of the
mind, expanding the reasoning faculties,
strengthening the judgment, facilitating
the utterance of ideas? Are these benefits
more easily attained than by careful
course of good reading?


In books, as well as with men, we may
confer with genius and learning. But
books have an advantage over men. in that
they enable one to contemplate at leisure
the flushed productions of mature rehec-
tion, whilst many of US are not endowed
with memory sufficiently capable of re-
tanning the exact words of the speaker.
Moreover, a person is seldom enabled to
speak at once SO much to the purpose, as
he would write after consideration.
Year: 1864

A Singular Restoration Of Speech-
About four months ago a soldier by the
name of Geo. Lucas, who belonged to the
18th Virginia Infantry, and who resides in
Harrison county, was attacked with vio-
lent fever, which it was thought would
result in his death. The soldier, however,
partially recovered, but with the loss of
all power of speech. He had not spoken
word for more than three months until
one day few weeks ago, he was coming
west on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
in company with relative who had gone
to fetch him home Near Grafton the cars
ran off the track with great shock Lu-
cas- jumped out of car window upon the
ground, and as he did so he yelled Justify
to his relative to look out for the baggage.
Since that time Lucas has been able; to the
surprise of all his friends. to speak as well
as ever Wheeling MteIigencer.
Year: 1864

and one private insisted upon taking off
his pantaloons to furnish Capt Clarke, who
had lost one leg of his while in the bush.
es. They had been five days without any
regular food, and were almost exhausted
by exposure and hunger


Their impression is that at least fifty,
and perhaps more, of the 100 who escaped,
will reach our lines Some few of them
were recaptured In the city of Richmond.
Year: 1864

1t was source of much trouble once to
some fish, to see a number of HOLSTERS
swimming backwards instead of forwards
They, therefore, called meeting, and it
was determined to open class for their
instruction, which was done, and a num-
Der Of young Holsters came; for the fish
gravely argued that if they commenced
with the young ones as they grew up they
would learn to swim Alright At first they
did very we'll, but afterwards, when they
returned home, and saw their fathers and
mothers swimming in the old way, they
soon forgot their lessons. So, many a
child, we'll taught at Sabbath school, is
drifted backwards by bad home inRu.
ence.-BibIe Class Magaz,ne.


Christians are like children at school,
learning to write, by haying copy set
before them. 1t is through much imper-
fection and failure, and by trial after trial,
that they begin to improve, till they are
able to write with ease and rapidity. They
may never be able to write with the same
exact perfection as the engraving yet if
they do the best they can and continue
daily to improve, the master is pleased ;
so we must be ever copying the Lord
Jesus, and the truest Scriptural perfection
is to be at'odys aiming at perfection.
Year: 1864

threw the genius Of Mark Tapley into the
shade. This man was terribly wounded,
utterly helpless, yet the face which show
ed above the coverlet, was as radiant as if
never convulsed with pang. could only
say, has the world ever seen anything so
morally grand as the manhood which this
war has developed in American men,
Year: 1864

Not many days since, information
reached the President that a young
man belonging to the Army Of The Po-
tomac had been sentenced BY court
martial to be shot for descrtion. Tho
boy was doomed to die in few hours
when the despatch was received. A
telegram was sent to General Meade
suspending the execution. An exami-
nation Of the case was ordered by the
President, when it was ascertaiped
that the voting man ought to have
been promoted long ago for gallant
and meritorious service, instead of be-
ing shot 1t appeared that upon the
march of the Army Of the Potomac
towards Maryland, on the occasion Of
Lees first raid northward, the young
man alluded to became exhausted and
fell out of the ranks, and, as soon as
he recovered, he proceeded on after
his regiment, but not finding it, and
there being no time TO lose, he fell in
to the ranks of another regiment. and
fought gallantly at South Mountain
and Antietam, and was wounded in the
last named battle. He was sent to
the hospital. which fact, owing to the
absence OF proper system in such
cases, did not reach the officers of his
regiment. At last he was arrested as
a deserter, tried, condemned, and was
about to be shot, when, by the inter-
ference of the Executive, his life


was saved, and a young man, hastily


condemned to an ignominious death,
was suddenly restored to honor.
Year: 1864

The following is correct picture
of the Western Man, except so far as
it portrays him as stranger to CON-
Portable dwellings,, clothed in rags,
without any regard to his personal
appearance and forever having the
Shakes" There are as elegant man.
sions and neat, attractive cottages
scattered over our broad, beautiful
prairies. as are found nesting amid
the hills of New England, or Old Eng
land either, the writer evidently being
an Englishman. and their occupants
are as cleanly and neatly attired:


The Western Man has his romance,
his highly poetic feelings, and above
all, his manly dignity. Visit him and
you will find him without coat or vest,
unshorn, in ragged blue trowsers and
old flannel shirt, too often bearing on
his lantern jaws the signs of ague
and sickness, but he will stand before
yon and converse with all the ease OF
q lettered gentleman in his own libra.
ry. All the odious incivility of the
republican servant has been banished


He is his own master, standing on his
own Threshold, and finds no need to
assert his equality by rudeness. He
is delighted to see you, and bids you
sit down on his battered bench with


out dreaming of any snch apology as
an English cotter offers to o Lady
Bountiful when she calls. He hal
Year: 1864

worked out his indcpe ndence, and he
shows it i'm every movement of his


body. He tells you of it unconscious
ly in every tone of his voice. You


will always find in his cabin some
newspaper, some book, some token of
advice in education. When he aues-
tions you about the old country, he
astonishes you by the extent of his
knowledge. | defy You not to feel
that he is superior to the race from
whence he sprung in England or Ire-
land. To me, confess the manliness
of such a man is charming. He is
dirty and perhaps squallid. His chill.
dren are sick, and he is without com
forts. His wife is pale. and you think
you see shortness of life written in
the faces of all his family. But over
and about it there is an independence
which sits gracefully rron their shoul-
ders, and teaches you at first glance
that man has a right to assume HIM
self to be your equal.
Year: 1864

A few days since boy about four.
teen years of age, named Jacob We'll,
who was engaged in threshing i'm
Franklin township, Lee county, was
sent distance of three miles on an
errand to his employer, named Adam
Schimbeno. He did not return, but
his absence was accounted for by the
supposition that he was safely engag-
ed or detained, and not until Thurs
day was any remark occasioned, when
the matter was enquired into. 1t was
found that he had reached his employ
er and had started to return. A fur
-ther search resulted in the finding of
the horse he rode with one stirrup
torn from the saddle, and the bones


and boots and coat of the lad, totally


robbed of the flesh, as is supposed by
hogs, and who had found him shortly
after his death. The horse he rode
was somewhat wild, and it is believ-
ed he was thrown, and dragged to
death by the horse, who finally got
rid of the corpse by its coming in con.
tact with some obstructions. The re.
mains was first discovered by seeing
hog running with one of the boys
boots in his mouth. The lads father
resides in Franklin Township.-Hark.
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