Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1865-02-14

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TUESDAY, PEimUAIlY 14, 1805. ;. .; NO 15. OFFICE IN KREMLIN BLOCS, ii 8T0RY. JOB WORK: All kinds done promptly , In superior style, to be pall . or oa delivery, i . . ..- , . At ft N. B. tt.-t'UiNOE Of TIM IS. The Winter arrangement on the 8. X.iK, R R.,hs I) tea Axed, and the times for leaving lit, Vernon are M . followei . TB.! aouto SOOTsT. Mill leY.i..L...: . " Accommodation loaves.. ............... Express leaves ....... .......... Tittine noma hokth. .....8:12 , ... 4:00 r. M, ...10:15 r. X. Mall leaves. ..'..i.j.;.. Accommodation leaves Kxpreea leaves......... 'V' ..'...1:40 P. at. ... T 41 A St. ....1M a at. f"J Car on the Central Oblo Road lean Newark M follows: Going. last, .......8:40 A. II ' .......,.... ...v .....j.... 4:30 p. v, Going Want 12:00. M. " "" :.. 2:H A. at. On the P. 0. k 0. road going Eaat, the an leave ' Newark,.,,..,-,. 6:0 a. M. " I.. 12:00 M . Going-West, being oo the Central Road, they leave As aoov. - i .. . . , CHURCH DIBECTORY, niiTCIPLBH CHURCH, Vine Street betweea 0y and - ?ich.eusie, - FRESBTTERUN CnrRCfJ,' corner Gay nd' Chestnut streets,- . . Rot. tlUtVKY. J1ETHUPIST EPISCOPAL CHURCIT, corner Gay and Chestnut streets. . .. . Her. tt, it. BUBll, PROTESTANT EriSCOPAL CHURCH, corner Gay ana tuga streets, Key otu. u. iulc.sk CATHOLIC CHURCH, corner High and McKennlo, Key. JUNIUS uit&M'. HETIJODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH, Mechanic! etroet between Vine and High. . -v . . . " 1. 1 ,. I i BAPTIST CHURCH, Vine street, between Mulberry and Mechanics. , Key. J. w. ii;t.wuABur.K. CONGREGATIONAL CIIl'RCn, llulbei-ry St.; between Sugar and Hamtraniie. Rey T. E. MONROE. UNITED rRESBYTERIAN, corner Main and Fnjrar sirecis. nev, n. n. tiu luoiaun METHODIST WEST.EYAN CUURCIt, corner Mnl. berry end Woostcr. ' Key. MR. TRAVIS Wholesale ana ltctuli ISRAEL CREETJ, PE ACTIO AL DRUGGIST, ' - And Wholosale and Retail Dealer In Drugs and Medicines, PAINTS, OILS, DYKSTCFFS, - PERFUMERY, COSMETICS, jmlrumenta, Olassware, Viah, Iiptll's, PURE WINKS AND LIQU0K3, " Carbon Oil, Machine Oil, Brushes, of all klndu, Soaps, . i Bpouges, J.aiups, &c, WHITE LEAD, ' r - - . , zixq WHITE, and 4.IN8EED OIL. MAIN STREET, (BLANCIIARD'S OIP STAND,) MT, VERNON, OHIO, .fine isai.-tf WALTER L SIMONS, - ATT'Y AT LAW. JlOlJNT VEUNON, OHIO. OFFICE In Kremlin Ilnilding. TTrTl.L attend promptly to nil biiMneca entruitteil U bi.cnre. Especially to collectingclainiff. J;m. 10, 1805-3roo MONTAGUE & HOSACK, Wholcraleand Retail ':-', i f . And Dcaleri In Groceries, Notions, Wall Taper, ' Book, Photograph Albums. Stat'onary, ie,, ke, Fredorkktown, Knox Co., O..Deo.6, 18C4-6ni. ' MOUNT VERNON UNION BRASS BAND. fp.IH BAND is Bait completely organiaed, and in 1. food healthy condition, U has a choice selection of MusiO' ant under.competeol instruction has a'rrired at profflciency in ita musical execution. It ia ready to All all calls for inueica.1 servicer at. home or abroad, on reasonable term", oithor for Cotillion Partiea or for Brass Music. J. W. F. S1NUER, l'rea't. , C. P. OnaooRT, Sec'y . .. W. M. Tnoxesox, Leader. (Doc. 1, 1864lf. L. K. OLDROYD'S CARTES DE VISITS GACLEBY. Over Taylor fz Co'a Dry Goods Store, corner of Main and Vine Streets, Ml. Vernon, Ohio. VIGNETTE PIIOTOGRArns, Eieented In a superior manner. A large assortment of FANCY CASES, OVAL AND CUTFHAME8. . . . ' , . I am also prepared to take C3-331VE PICTUnES In the latest style of the Artr- These pictures are now Indention aud are the neatest Picture now extant, OLDROYD'Aia decidedly the boct, quickest and ctaf ap-est place to haya your likenesa taken, pictures from this establishment are nnaurpas d for elegance of style ftnd finish. - Copie.of old pictures token and Enlarged to any required size. Pictures of all kinds taken on ahort notice and work warranted. - Noy 8, 1804-Smo. FARM FOR SALE. . ACRES situated In Clieeter Township, Morrow lf County, Ohio, 4 miles from Chestervllle. miles, f"rorn Fredoricktown,.10 miles from Mount Vernon; well fmprored. large new Barn, new Dwelling House, fine bearing Orchnrf. all the fruit Grafted. Small frmt, I.awtoa Blackberries,- Raspberries and Strawberries. The farm Is mostly in grans The improvements are erorth half what I ask for the farm. TERMS 140 per acre; ne.third down and tha je-inalnoevm one and two years. -. J Persons wisliing to purchase pleasant home should pall aud see It. ' . .8. S. ADAMi". Mow. 1st, 1664-ao.; ' .. ' ' '' ' ' w ,.CEO. VV. MORGAN, V. Attorney tit IUaVi OFFICE Orer the Shoe 8tore of Wilier it White, ' (MOUNT VERNON, OHIO. .. . : March " 4-ly. " - CANCER DOCTOR, , " , ,Tninio ! JolmsBon, . "' ' " Or CLEVELANn WOULD Inform all who may he al!llcted with Csneef ihalhets prepared to curs that formidable dis case by a process differing from all other", known only o himself. Ills treatment consists in the application of a single plaster, composed of European herbs, caus 4ng little or no pain. On anamination he will he able tossy to tin patient whether their caw Is cnrableor not and will guaranty a permanent cure of all be undertakes. Also, will goayrsntee permsnent cure In the worst case ot Rhuniatlsm. RKTSRSioita Mm. Samuel Ney, fleo Masteller. B K. . Oaitt, and parld Hnrey, Mt. Vernon, O.J John Dally, Ccntorburg, Knox Co. Ohio. - . . DrricK At his residence. Bedford. CnyahoaCo., 0., U miles South of Cleveland. Jnly 2, 18IH-ly ' EDGE TOOLS AND ELACKSMITHING. -ITmi.rTCHEIXoVWItl, .M tlt.tFFKY, W have opened Shop on tho corner uf ilijrb and Oay Streets directly Kaslof tho Kreruiin, where they are prop ired to do wot,1, atthc shortest notice end bnt i M. in a ul hi f luu null. uu ji.i.n Hit tnt In ell Its branches. ': o'' "! repaired; IIor shoeing, Hridge and Stair Work, with all-lher I!,rk i S thrlr ! W "Lire sol L't Li. u) our r.otl. (t, Vernon, Doc. 13, lfc4-ni . , Drug : w . Store! AT PYLE'S BUILDINO,' , , Corner of JUain anil Gamlier Street, MT. VERNON, ' OHIO. I opening a General Aaeorlment of DRY GOODS, Ueuki hIlYiendi of town odcoQtj to CALL AND EXAMINE HIS STOCK. , . t r He doeenot INTEND TO BE UNDERSOLD. Ho. 16, IStM-tno. FAMILY SCHOOL FOR BOYS, AT GAMMER OniO. . THE REY. E. A. STRONG A. M. Formerly Education Agent, having opened privat Boaruiiio School vox Boyb, will receivw a limited numbpp, not to exceed fourteen, pupils into hm fam ily Tbo tlirlit reftrnof a fro and onward admitted. For all uotrunted to bli can) h pled pen, both for lilm-self and lady, warm tym path y, tail inotteornont pnmonal mnuniion n iueir ntaitu, uianoors, ana comloil, nc lu8than to tbir moral and intellectual culture. Of tlie Ijettlthful and retired locality, and many picu liar advfliuair' of (iambier for such a Lome, where evonrafhion itcpir cscitca the carelPM boy to study. little ned be said. And amoocr the ouularnnd larvn ontftbliHhnieiita already here. tliUmnafl Family School ib jiiot wtiatiH u(U'd, entclally lor the yonne. Tim II ( use is mottt deliphtriiriy iltuated, fronting the Park, and near Aacemdon Hull and Rohi Chapel. Tao Kchonlyeor of Forty Week a, in divided into three teian, eacih beginning and tuning a m tba uolloire PupiU will be received, however, at once, or any time durtiiK th year. The course of Study tncludea the unual EncUnh brmichen,' and a complete preparation for Cfdleie v rencn, uerman, ana aiumc are extra. The Fi-tnripal wiuw nRflinieu, Bamrna necenpary, oy compotpnt tutnra. me qxpciiKPi tor noarn, j umnn, Knnm, Waobiitg Mendinir, Litrhtnand Fuel, aro $300,00 ner Tear. ava ble one term or one-third in advance. Eiiirh one ia exnected to bnno two Sheati. two Pt'lnw Oaxrfl, three Tow el a, two Ta'ule Napkina, aud au Urn- crena, an iintincii)' nmrktn. .... me uauroaij inre to au. Vernon wU b refunded to ail who remmn one year. NOV. I, lK04-ljinO. v STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF TUB ' Hartford Fire Insurance Co. ON THE 81st DAY OF DECEMBER, 1M4, made to the Auditor of Ohio, pursuant to the Btaiuto or that HlAU), .Vawu: and Location. The name of thj- Company la tho Hahtpofo Firi Isaumxv Cumpay, and h located at Hartfuril, Conn. . CAPITAL. Tho amount of Its Capital Slock la f i.ORO.OOO 00 tue amount 01 iu uupitai atocicpaid up. ie 1,000,000 00 ' II. ASSETS. Cah of the Company on handi and in the nanua 01 Af;eiiinaiiu otiit-r peraonc.... f 10,4174 80 Uillh receivable for loan secured by peruo-ual and collateral security 10 RR2 10 Real Erttale uniuriimbettU.. j. 18,000 00 The Uondu and Stocks owned bv the Cum pany,(aa per schedule Hied).' t I,ji9,f37 00 TntereKt at iuud, mostly payable Jan. rt, - ISM J3,4fll 00 ReitUaccrued, mostly paynblo Jan. J, 165 aiy.'6') Total AaKi'tsof the Company, ..fl, 516,670 68 : . LIABILITIES. Losses unailjiisted, oradjusted and not due All other rluiinsugsiust the Company, (unpaid dividends) K.OJS 77 9,414 00 Total liabilities 103,300 77 IT. MISCELLANEOUS. i The (rreaU'at amount Insured la any one I ritfc, except In snvrial iafm. Is $20,000 00 The greatest amount allowed by tho rules to be insurod in any one city, tuwu or village, and the greatest amount allowed ta aa inuired in any one block, do pendit upop its alge, and bow buiit, Tbeainouut W Ha capital orefiruinga da?poflitcd In any other State, as aetKrity for losses therein Deposits niu-le witb State uf Ohio, for 1804, $U.'),MJ JM:r cent deposited. The Charter or Act of Incorporation of sa d Company, a" beforo Cltd, Biirncd, ' TIMO. C. ALLY.V, Trcsident. , OKO. M.JCOIT, Secretary, , Janpahy 6, 1863. Statu op Cosxkoticct. County of Hurtt'ord. as: Fcrsonaliy appeared T C. AM) o. l'reeideut, and Oeo. M, Coit. Secretary, of the Hartford Fire Insurance-Corn p.ny, and made oath thnt tho forego! a; Rtatement by them aulxacribed, ia a full and correct atate ment of the atfiiiraof acid Company, ami exhibit, so far a ran be AHcvrtalned at this date, its antual condition oa the tiiirly-tlrat day of December, 1864. Uefore me, Skai,. , D W. C. PKILTOV, Staup, j . : Notary Public. Omv .or t fit it Auditor of Statu, I t'oLi'MMua, O., January 18. 183. It Is hereby certl cd. that tho furejroinj- is a correct copy of the statement of condition of the llartfnrd Fire Intjurance Company of Ifiirtford, made to nnd tiled In thisoflico, for tho year 18r6, JAS. H.GOIMAN, Auditor of SlaU CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. To expire on the 31r duy uf January, 1SG0. OfFJCB OF TIIR ACUITOrt UP 8TATK. iNftUHAKCI DlKx. . CoLraiits Ohio, January 20th, 18t6. WnEHKAH, Th HARTFORD FIRE INSl'KANCE COMPANY, located ntllartfifd. In the State of Conner, tieut. baa filed tn tula office a sworn statement ot it condition, aa required by the 0rtt section of the urt 'To regulate Insurance Jonipaoies not ipcurporatf d by the State of Ohio," niuwcd Aprils, 1850, ami amended February 9, 1864, and. whereat, said Companjrbas furnished the ander-ign satlr-fm-tory erldenre thai It fs possessed of at leant ON K HUNpitED THOUSANDDOI.-LAK-j OF ACTUAL CAFITAl. IN VKSTED in stocks, or bonds, or in martgso;ea of real estate, worth double the ammint for which the same U njnrtgaged. and whereas, I Hald Company has filed Id this oflRct a written instrument (indHr its foponte, seal, oigned by the President and Kecsetary therwof, autlv rititif- auy aentor agents . of said CnnxiDy In this Statu, to acknowledge service of I process, for ami In behalf of said Company, according to ! tho terms of "H law. Now. theiefnn. In parwianee ofthefltvt aeclion of the a foresaw act. I, Jamen II. (jodman. Auditor of State frnr Ohio, dn hereby certify that said HiBrroHD Firh iNara A nor Com past it authorised to transact the business of Fire Insurance in this State an til the thirty-first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sitty six. 'In witness whereof, Tbave. hereunto snhsenhert . my name and caused tho seal nf my ofHoa to ' fee eft xed the day and year shove written., JAMES II UOlM AN, Auditor of Stata . Joarph JVIufliiachor-Aitent, . 1U Varaon, O., Uao. 81, 1865-Sw, M. LEOPOLD & CO. Annonnea to the jwblhs atbrp, thatthejr stock of "" i-f Iteady-MadoClothing, " GKNT3' FURNISUINO GOOM, BJLT3, 4c, ko. - Is now complete for the season and are ready to sell at the lowest cash pricea. Please call and examine before pnrehasing elsewhere. Room in Keoyon House, southwest comer of Public Sqnare, Main street, kit. Vernon, Ohio. A pril 10. lS4-ly. . A narnphlet dtreetinB: how to sneediiy rkatorr sinnT snd nive up spectacles without aid of ibctor or medicine, sent oy man iree on receipt of in cents E. B. Foils, X. !).. 7130 Broadway, N. Y. Doc, 20, J804-ly. .Examination of Teachers. Ta TEE' fEKTINUS of tbl Hulrd f"r the esamination of 111 Teaehets for the Pisblic febnota, wilt tie held ia lu, Mt. Vernon at lheou-il Cbanioer, on the yfr.i snd taut Saturday in May and November, aud on the lat Paiurttal in every other mouth; also on xlw seromi .st. lirday ill April at IHn.ille: on the ffrnnd Satnni.j in May at ait. Libertyirfio tbo ramwd rjatnr'tiy fn ("'lubiT at Mlrthinbttrr. ano no the l-r-'f H.liir-t'tv In Niirajj-ber at Frederiektnwn. " JOSEI'll WL'fN.iClli H, Jiii. 17, Hi-i) HS Clerk el the Board- lot the Republican J A PAltOOV. , Tell tot y winged ulnda. , That round my pi thway roar, Do ye not know tome ipot Where etudles come no more f . Some warmer, genial elime, " ' With all that we hare eought, Where schoolbooke neVr are eeen, And trachera ne'or hare taught f The lond wlnda did more" gently blow, : . And aoftljr amirered, "School-girl, no." I , '. Tell me thou mighty deep, 1 Whose warei around me roll, Know'st thou enme hallowed rpot That teaohen don't control,' . Where tired achool-girli may Aud The Joy for which they eeek f V hore compositions writ themeelyei, And pieces tbry need not speak The billowa for a moment ceased to (tow, Aud In their anguish murmured, '(No.H And thou. O gentle moon; . In the firmament art placed, . 'To gaie upon the world-Toll me if In thy round Some dell thou doet not know, ' Where a schoolhonse ia not found, And a teacher will not grow t Tho moon sighed radly all alone, And nhlspered, "No I know of none " Higlijinks on Skates- 8T CLEW GARhST, U. & N. Everywhere, in all sorts of newspapers, I liud rend of glorious skutiiiffuu Central Purk fkating Schuylkill, and 8chuylkill Park IJiumond ditto private ditto the gruud fun men ob skates, boys on skates; splendid Kylpliiileg in scant skirts, sled-shod mid skir-riug awtty over the ice the the Thunder ! the very reading gave me the ice fever, and in the delirium consequent upon the suddenat-tuck-, I resolved upon taking an ice-crnise my- siif. .... Why not f -What was to hinder f I had never uavipated that sort of craft, 'tis true, liut then I'd been on the water, and under wuter, all my life and on ice, too, some. Iludu't I killed seals," and chased white beura, for weeks together on ice ? Women could skate so the papers said. So did everybody else, when I inquired pi"mi. could sUate 1 V nut was the reason I could not f The only things I'd ever seen a woman do that I couldn't, was to hook her own dress aft. and, carrying six feet breadth of crinoline. sail thftugtt a twenty-inch door-way. Yes. tir I could skate ; aud I was bound on au ice-cruise. ' There was lotling to prevent the expedi tion from being fatted out at .once. I was lounging about the Navy-Yard, detached from everything all acquaintances included wait Ing orders. Ilsgust6d with bar-rooms, detest ing theatres, what wa3 1 to uo for amusement I Why, tkale, of course 1 All, yes 1 the very thing, by Jove 1 Why badu't I thought of that before t I'd have a cruise directly ; or sooner it possible. No 1 must nave the tools first, nud started off up towu to find 'em. I brought up in front of a big window on the starbourd side of Chestnut street, coing towards Schuylkill, where they bud more-dif ferent Tips of sliding-nincbines than you cau see national, flags- in Gibraltar. Knowing about as much of the qualifications of the. dif ferent ubttern8 as-a cow does of chronometer time, 1 went inside, aud asked for a pair of skates. "What kind do you prefer, sir "Oh. I've oo preference Give me the best article you've trot." ' " ''Yes, sir ;", and tho clerk passed out for inspection a pair of brass-clad, steel clippers, with piore gilgiea and runninjrigging to 'cm than there is to" 8 French sloop of war. "These are tho best, are they !" ,'A'es, sir decidedly 1 Just get on to tbem, sir, and you'll go everywhere and auywhere, like patent liehtninir ! If you don't find itso, bring 'cm buck, sir, and Til return your rpop- ey." "What's the prico 1" . . "Fourteen dollars .'" Very cheap, sir." Didu't bslieve that, of cpurse : but invested the amount, aud made sail for Fail-mount. - Fouud superb tkating. Everybody said io ouly ti oe that called it elegant !' splendid 1 magnificent 1 There was a regiment of men, a battalion of dimity, aud a whole brigade of small craft, on 6kntes skivering, scooting, and cutting all sorts of fancies on tbo ice; everybody laughing, chattering, whqopiug, fkylaiking and skittering in all directions! und 1 didu't wonder newspapers, and everybody else, culled okatiug glorious fun. "Huveyer Bkates strapped, sir T" said au itinerant bootblack about the height of a walking stick.' ''I)o yon understand it, Cub 1" "Oh, ye?, sir. I strap all thejudics' tlates for 'em. " Ab, ha ! Do; eh I Must have 8 jolly timo of it I Would like the berth myself. Thero yen are. Go uhead, boy I" and I sat down on Blnckie's box; about 8 couple of futboms out on the ice. . Whia ! like a rocket, went by a great strapping, long-legged chnp, with a cigar fly. lllgJIU UUUU1, UIIU BWIIIgmg mo o, u,B mu frigate's headyards in a hurricaie, with the braces oil adrift. "Ob, ho 1 Bo they can smoko oa skates eh, boy f ' ' , "Lord 1 yes, lir. Everybody smokes oh the ice." --'- . . .-'. "Exactly." So I fired up on a Principe, and .hipped it for the cruise. " ' Urchin announced skatfH all otauuto, and took a fifty.cent "fractional" fee. - ' "Ilore, boy 1 here's another- fifty. - Just allow me to lit oa your box few minutes till I get tho run of the navigation . . . "Yes, sir you can set there till I gil some-boly elseJto s rip'" ' 8o I sat there studying icO-nnvigatiou hf dead reckoning, till directly a little pctticout craft, in yollow trowsers, skirts to ber 'knees, red belt, Itussiun cr-p, aud arms akimbo, swooped down, and cheeked np right iu frout of mo. There tho hung for a iii'iimUs quivering like, and buluHciusr, just as fish does over his prey ; and all the time eyeing mfl with a jolly twinkle in her dancing black eyes. , "A challenge for ft race, sir I Catc,b me if you can P ' . ' ' 1 . ..... ... ....... ... i i I... . i.:1. Utile IMinny intca ner rigui iooi a irii, bent right kur-e slightly, made a graceful curve, the bottom ot hertkirt just brushing my nose; and off she went like a flyinz fish ze-ee-e e-st zit ! swiurring fr6m side to side, her tnrtnn ikirt swaying (mhnr. anil thither, like the rohis of a spauker brailcd in with the ship-bead to wind. v . ", "So-ho ! That's a i-hulloniw, is it f And that's tbe way to skate T Tliuuder ! csn tkote 1 AnyhoAy csn skat V Jut I couldu't, though, whatever' anybody elan conld do. I accrpted Uitpity's chulicoge, however, anil her practice -co i e. ho I boHP'.cil up fioni tjjnt blocking-box, lifted left foot a little, bent right knee, and stuck my arms akimbo. But I didu't cut a curve. I did the next best thing, however, aud cut a "spread eagle.' Port foot slid due southeast, and starboard one nor-west, till I realized those spread-out pictorial impossibilities on circus-bills, ai wondered if my boots and skates Would everbecome shipmates agaiu. ."Hullo I mister, yon' mustn't try to skate all over both sides of this 'era pond at once !" growled an old commercial-looking chap, aa he cheeked up long enough to put in the remonstrance against my ice-monopoly. "I fay, Mister. Saltwater, Couldn't ycr lift yerself amidship a bit, so wa can sail 'tween yer legs ?" piped a young scamp, filo-leader to a string of twenty juvenilo skaters. "Don't try to skate on both fettt at once, my dear sir I" advised u sensible, Christian-looking young map, who came to my assistance, and set me on an even keel once mors. "When you lift one foot, sir, you must throw all your vigor and muscle into the other limb. And then, remember to 6Vay your body so that your weight will always be npon that foot which bus tbe ice, 'Tis very easy, sir-just this way 1" and,uway weut my Cbritian mentor, with a long, striding, graceful swlug. "Oh, yes, that's ve'ty easy. . All the vigor in the other limb. - Yes, I can do it." Ho I made a prodigious scoot, and did it 1 I stuck out left leg,' like a morquifb whoii he's blood-suckine. Put all mv vitror and muscle into right Timbr and couldn't get it out again. Weut otl one loot, like a shot; crook ing right knee a little twice a minute, just as Littlo Dimity did. Saw a crinoline craft crossing my .course, under convoy of- a big double-bunked chap, both skating a streak, Tried to sheer to port, and go clear of 'em. Missed stays, aud went afoul of Crinoline. The toe of my port skate hooked Miss Somebody's skirt, which gave me a broad sheer to star Jonrd, and I rammed big convoy, butting him equate on uis cutwater, nnu drove tbe fire-end of my Principe slap down his throat. There was au everlasting tangle, and all hands went sprawling on the ice, like a nest of In-euuga land-crabs. ' "Look here, sir ! What do you mean T yelled the big convoy, scrambling to his feet, and manocuveriug for a broadside. "Beg pardon, sir. I couldu't help It 1" I replied meekly, still sittin?; on the ico. "Couldn't help it!" Why didn'you stop?" "Didn't know how." . ' "O, ho ! green on skates, t-h t" "Yef, grecner'n a cabbage I". That mollified the bie- chap, acd seitinp- me fou my pins again, he voluutcered to educate me in checking up. . "Turn your toes up, ond dig tbe heels of your skutes lino the ice this way. Aud he illustrated. - ' 1 "0, yes ; I can do that" And I did, di rectly. Urt 1 snot agaiu on. one leg ; steering this time for tbe shore for I d skated enough. Halfway in, and there slid right down in my course a crowd of forty or so girli and men, aud women and boys. 1 tried "down brakes, according to instructions aud broke too much. Up toes, and digging my heels into the ice, I sagged back like, und doabled amidship, as if I was gdTug to take a sent and 1 did I ; X went dowu stem foremost; with a whang, that broke the ice like a pane of win dow glass shivered by a pebble hurled throuirh it. I bad au idea just then that such a hump as that would have started tho armor of any iron-clad afloat. " I sold those iufetuul skates, just as I sat, tor lour dollars, under a strong conviction that there's no tun m flatting. Its all a hum bug. .1 can t bkate I don't want to. Sun day Dispatch. Witty Exaggerations. There is a species of humor, -peculiarly American, which consists in grotrsque hyperbole, tbe cart icature oil some fact which expresses it better than a faithful portrait would do. Some people take the suuke end kill it when they wish to show it to us ; but the lively Yankee- humorist just catches it by the tail as it passes, und stretches it into ludicrous proporti ,t)9, as actors in pantomimes do the tails of those ductile drajrou?, which so delight and attcnUh children. . . Instances of tin's wild and.extravagont ln-mor are as commonjs proverbs. Everybody has heard of tbe weuther which was sa cold that the mercury weut But of sight; and which no doubt would have been a good deal colder if the thermometer bad been long enough. A similar exaggeration was that of a young man who took culomel on A morning so cold that tho mercury ran right aown in bis boots, Aud speaking of boots reminds usif the stntre-driver who wore such large ones that he bad to use the forks of.the road for a boot jack. The following passages are -illustrations i The man out west whose legs are so long that ho bss.to go down cellar to tio his shoes. The man who is so large that ho had to go out of doors to turn over.' The man who sltored so loud (hat he" bad to sleep over in the next street to keep from wakening himself. Tbe man whose now is so long that he has to step forward three paces to reach tbe end of it Tbe man who was so (urge and heavy (hut his shadow ki'led a little boy when it fell on him. The man who 77as so tat that his shadow led a greasy trail along the road as he walked along and the man who was so thin that he did uot have any shadow at alL And among these deserves to rank tho horse that ran so fast around a ring that the spectators could only see one continual circular horse together with that other famous racer, thnt run so swiftly about the arena that he nearly caught np witb himself, aud could see bis own tail just before him. A Hremaa once related on adventure, in which he found himself in a rich galoot, sur rounded by wealth and flue compuny. - , "I didn t know myself, until 1 felt ia my pockets and found 'em empty," Some one inferred that be was customarily short of fund "" "That's so. - If steamboats were selling at two 'Xuts apiece," said ha. "I haven't enough to buy a gangway plank." . We once beard a person tell of a fright ha Once received from a big dog. ' "I lost flesh," aid he,-"at tbe rate of ten pounds a minute, till tbe owaor came, aud called him off,' ; Along with this we may place the tory of the man who, in consequence ef 8 fright ran so fast and so fur that- when he stopped, it was moie than twonty minutes before his shadow came np with him. lie was probably watched by the man whose dickey was so high that he bud to climb oo a fence to see over itv "Antipodal -Petroleum Company, capital stock 11,000,000,000; shares', per value, tjlfl.-OOOeaeh. Price $25. The well is bored entirely through the earth, extending from Oil creek. Pa. to thelloang Ho in the Celns- tian Kntpire, and has consequently double" outlet . An Immense blow pipe will be Inserted in the Chinese outlet to promote an unbroken flow of oil from the Western well, which, it in supposed, will be equal to 100 bar rets of rffined petroleum porn. mule. Partic-ticular Philtj, rq , Treasurer, and Hon, Co- utoem Strppg, Tti-'sideut, . Hospitality, The homo education is incomplete unless it Include! the idea of bospitulity and charity, Hospitality is a biblical und apostolic virtue, and not often recommended iu Holy Writ without reason. Hospitality 18 much neglected in America, for the very reason touched upon above. - We have received our ideas of propriety and elegance of living from old countries, where labor is cheap, where domes tic service is well understood, permanent oc cupation Adopted cheerfully ftirlife, uud where of course, there is such a oubtfiviaion of labor as iusures great thoroughness iu all its branch es. Wo are ashamod or afraid to conform hou- cstly und hardly to a state uf things purely Aniencun. , We have not yet accomplished what our friend tho doctor calls "our weaning, aud learuine Ihut dinners -with circuitous courses aud divers other continental aud Hug. lish refinements well cuougli in their way, cannot bo accomplished in families with two or three juitraiued servants, without an ex pense cf care and auxiety which mukes them beurl-vitheriug to the Uolicato wife, and too sovcre a trial to occur often. America is a land of subdivided fortuues, a geuerul average of wealth and comfort ond there ought to be. therefore, an understanding in. the social basis fur more simple thr.n in tbe Uld w oria Mnuv families of smull fortunes know thi: thor are Quietly llvinj? so Ktit they hive not the steadiness to share their dairy average liv ing with a friend, a traveler or a guoit just as the Arub shares his tout, and the ludiurl his bowl of succotash. They cannot have com pany, they sav.' Why 1 Because it Is such a fuss to got out the best thiugs f Why not trivo your friend what ho would like a thous and times better, a bit uf your average home life, a seut at any time at your board, a seat at your fire ? If he sees there Is a bundle off your teacup, and that there is a crack.across one of your plates, he only thinks, with a sigh of relief, "Well, mine ain't the ouly thiugs that meet with aceidonts," and. he feels nearer to you ever after I ho will let you come to his table and let you see the rracks Iu his tea cups, aud you will condole with each other on the transieut nlU'hre of earthly possessions. If it becomes Apparent iu these eutirely undressed rehearsals that your childreu are sometimes disorderly, and thut your cook sometimes overdone the meat, and thut your second girl is somewhat awkward iu wuitiug. or has for gotten a table propriety, your mend only feols i "Ah, well, other people have trials as well -as I." and. he tluuks, if you come to see him, be will feel easy with you. Atlantic Monthly. , . The editors of the country who have con trol of the new patout process for making printing paper trom corn husks, being over whelmed with letters of inquiry from furmors and others, give bo1 ice that their immediate wish is to elicit Information 1 hey desire to receive proposals from every State, county and town in the United States, for supplyiug dry and sound busks, as the same may be stripped from corn. The leaves of the corn are also desirable . Tbe husks and leaves may be cut op, if more couvouieut, aud should be delivered at railroad stations, well packed iu bules or bags. The editors wish to receive proposals, statiug the quantity that will be contracted for nndjiico per pound for . one, two or more years. Address, with full partic ulars, D. II. Crag, Geuoral Ageut of the As sociated Press, New York City.. , Mr. McCuiaocu, Comptroller of the Car-reucy, in a report to the Secretary of the Treasury, indorsed by the letter to Congress, states Unit in view of this rapid inflation of the currency by National Banks, their circu-latations ought to be restricted. Now there is no redemption; and consequently no restriction. If our descent to a specie basis is to be gradual, the issues of tbe banks should not, durirg the suspension of specie payments, bo alio "red toexceed fifty per cent.of their capital. This would save both banks and people from disaster in the ond, and the result would amply coupeusate for tbo proposed restjgtion. Ci Cat. ' Oen. Terry's army is iu flue condition, and is being rapidly prepared for further operations. Admiral Porter's gunboats were gradually working tbVir way up toward Wilmington. Deserters continually report the rebels are evacuating Richmond. Whether ' this is correct or not it is generally understood that much of the rebel machinery for the inan-fucturing of war material aud considerable of tho Government archives have been removed from there. The following are the debts of several of the pi iucipal States of the Uniou, according to the Inst official reports; New York, $38,720,-724; Pennsylvania, $39,379,603; Mafsachu-setts $22,893,972; Ohio,$13,590, 751; Illinois $11,178,514; Maine, $5,127,500; Connecticut $4,000,001); Michigan, $3,451, J 29; Wisconsin $2,500,000; Vermont $1,642,845. . The California -papers have not yet ceased to boast of the huge agricultural products of that State. Their latest ectacy is over a gi gantic patoln, of the species known ' as tbe Bodega, which measures fourteen inches In length, five inches in width, aud is three inches thick. Its weight is five and a quarter pounds and it is said to be very smooth. . ,S-Pi.uck There is a man in Maine, the owner of a piece of criuoliuo, who shows de- cidod plurk. He says that when the mini.-ter was hugging and Kissing nis wile, r.e peepeu throngh the cruck of the door and saw it all) and as long as he had the spirit of a man re maiuing, he would peep on such occasions! 2-0-Mr. Hunt in his lecture oa common law, remarked' "that 8 lady, whon she married lost Dersouul identity, ber distinctive char ter, aud was like a dew-drop swallowed by a sunbeam." -Suip""ea)V thut "lhiindtr-cloud should be substituted for sunbeam io- miny iustunceg,v i;; . N. B. Davis, identified at Newark, Ohio some days since, as keeper of the Anderson-ville(Qn) military prison, and who confessed on his arrest being tbe bearer of dispatches from Richmond to Cuuada, kasben sentenced to be huug ou Johnsou'a Island February 17. $ An Intelligent observer, of Artcmus Wurd, says of the Mormons, that "iu con- sequence of their peculiar habitit, more of their pople are in arn a man can oe louuu among the same amottut of population any- wlieie else in the country. a-A vouuir lady was rcceutly cured of palpitation of the heart, by a young M. D. in tho most natural way imaginable. He held one of her bauds in Lis, put his aria round her waist, aud whispered somouung in per left ear. ' . .' ' ' . , IIknrv 8. Foote, the rebel Congressman came through our lines at Front lioyul on Moudnj and refusing to.take the oath of allegiance be was placet under arrest, ft pd sent o Wafbinjftojj. '''' ' ' ' Negro Testimony In the Courts. Indiana bus (till tbo remains of a black code Is the interest of sluvory, In her law excluding the testimony or negroe. it or tbe ptupoBh of gathering tbe experience of other Suites In this matter, Gov, Morton addressed loiters to their Governors, requesting information as to their luws ou tho admissibility oT the tcstimo-, uy of negroes. The answers show that of the free Stutt's, Indiana and Illinois alone hud this Institution of barbarism, and Indiana Las since removed it Of all tho black cods, the exclusion of ne gro testimony was tho most foolish, for, in order to. deprive the negrets of tho pretention or law, It prevented justice petwocu wnitCB where a nci'ro wus the ouly witness, it in tended to give the negro.up to white outrage, but in so doing it gave impunity to the crimes of whites against white persons where uo ono but a negro wus present. To exclude netrro testimony is to prevent justice to whiles us well as black. Aud if it only deprived the blacks or the protection ot the law, who is there that cures to preserve society agninst, lawlessness, who would set it looso a'umst tbo blacks I would it be like ly to regurd the exact bounds of color 7 . Tho law is the meanest feature of the flui). keyiani to the slave powerf for it injured our selves iu its service without benehtting it, In diana should take advantage of independence of tbe Southern servlco to relieve its statutes from this dishonor. We now admit parties to testify iu their own cuscs, leaving the jury to decide npou its reliability. They de- cnio upon the credibility ot children and the insane and idiotic. -They are ns competent to decide upon the .capacity or black witness es, and the ouly rational wuy is to leave it to them. Cin. Gazette . ; The Fnturc of the South. But what of tho lute shwo-Iord I Will he forget bis rancor also 1 What if he docs not? Ilia clars was always weak in-numbers, uud the system which made it powerful in socioly is gone. Some of tbe once mighty Cavaliers will suddenly siuk in the flood, aud their fossjl remains, flattened and petrelicd, will be fouud, like those antediluvian mastodon, between tbo strata of the new social organization. Curious geologists will dig them out, and the ohildi-eu of the South will wonder how such monstrous animals could ever have existed. But ethers will save themselves in the ark of the free-labor system. They will in time see the wisdom of accommodating themselves to the new order of things, and fiud out at last that it is better to be an equal among freemen than to be tho master aud at tbe same time the slave of slaves. ' And presently the Sontb will bloom like tbe bursting bu3 of a flower. Tbe immense resources of tbe soil will, as by enchantment spring to light under the magio touch of free labor, and her riches will Be eu- joyed by a free, bappy, and (who doubts it?) loyal people.,- auu men win come the great duy wueu tne people oi tue regenerated soma will stretch their bands across the Ohio acd the Potomac, and suy : "Blessed be you, brethren of the North We wore sick und wretched, and you have made ns well -Not only our slaves, but we also were in bondnge, but you hove broken our fetters 1". ' ...mi i... l :i:.:.. 1..-3-...1 . J nia win uu pouue nun cuuviuauuu imitrcu , reconciliation in obedience to tbe irreat mor al laws of tbe universe, aud to tbefprogresf ive spirit of our age ; a peace founded upon harmonious co-operation, mutual benefit, and good will to all men. Such must be, and such only can be tbe internal peace of the union Uarl bchnrz. . . AVOItXlM) Til 12 OikVl l.ltKN X SOILS. There is much difference in soil. A gravel ly soil can be treated with. impunity . In some sections plowiug is done almost immediately after a raiu, and no injurious results seem to follow. There is heavy grain there are heavy crops throughouMhe locality. Such soils are of a gravelly nature commouiy aai K loom. But keep a plow out of yellow soil generally, whon wet, even when sandv. Time must be triveu to yellow sojLto drain aud dryj As to clay it is simply destructive to plow it when et. It is muliius DricK oi if. n is a lump of grease when wet. And the hurt it receives at one plowing will always jasi lor years, notwithstanding the mellowing iufiuence of winter. Frost will help, but will not cure; it takes many yeacs to do that We have bad uniple demonstration of this. The ground will be hubby," and the axe acd pounder" will be of ttle avail. So will the roner auu uorrow. hev will only make smaller the lumps, which are still lumps, still brick-bats-edend ground. Nothing grows in them, or but pnniauy. hore may be some dry soil at the top, wnen lowed, or irravel mixed iu, cnonjrh to support a shrimp vegetation; but the rest is lik so much gravel the hard, little grains of buked earth. Here then is a- delicuto thing the proper time to plow cluy soil. .To plow dry, is to bo equully reprobuted; this will also produce lumps, unless it ia iu the rich, block loam that Will withstand pretty much the wet plowing as we havo uoted above. A soil just right will stand sovcre treatment Plow the doiicute meagre soils, wheu neither wet uor dry. That is the best time thut is the ouly time. You will then avoid the ill effects of the two ex treirrai The ground will come up mellow, if it has any mollow prinuipl) in it. And no time it so good as after a raiu iu midsummer a day or Uo. , . ' pKRXANDo Wood announced iu .Cocgresa, Saturday, that peace man though he war the robots refused to negotiate oa tho basis.of the Uuion, he would prosecute the war, even to the extent of shouldering a musket himself. He ia probably preparing to come out a war man. Our well informed New York corres-poudeut writca, that id the'event of the fuil-uro of the peace movement the peace party there will favor, opeuly, the recoguition oXtlre Southern Confederacy. This is what the same 4-faction have covertly farored ull along. They will be less dangerous when the mask Lubrowu of. Ct.v Oaz. - Gin. Pops bus assumed command of the Military Division of the Missouri, comprUioz the departments of Missouri, Arkansas aud tho Northwest . Gen. Gihuoro him been appointed to command a uew department in the Southwest including South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and a part if not the whole, of North Carolina. He thus oupertasdea Gen. Foster, Geu. Sherman fctill remaining iq command, of tho ormy iu the field. ; ' - . . .I I ' Tbb people of New York city, after 8 good many compluiuts over their greatly increased qnqta -21,000 instead of 4,000 thave succeeded in getting twenty-five per cout 6f it deferred., n Tbey will thus have to furuiah 16,-t)CO mcu by the 15tb of the pressnt mouth. "Every Senator of the-State bus signed petition to the Presidt ol to removeFrovos-.YUr-sholFry,.-, ; . . ..,:'.- '..'.-.,' . . , , -,, There are indication j of a temperance tovi-vul in varies parts of the country. Old orau-ijutious are it) appearing, and others are forming, all, however, looking to thft rmploymoot of mora) suasion rather than prohibitory. Iicbcl delate on Ariuluz theSIavcs. A fuw days since, iu the rube! Congress the bill to provide for the employment of negroes on fortifications, Sec., was taken np and debaf. ed at somo length. Aa our people desire to kuow the opiuioa of the rebel leaders oa this subject, We copy from the debutes. ''' : ' Mr. Furnace,, of North Oaruliua said be looked uiiou tbe bill as a project to m m the slaves. Tbe President EaJ aVclared ia fuvojp of it When be gets them iu tho army, as teamsters ami cooks, be can make them drill aa well as cook, acd perform any other duty. He would be willing to surrender tlio sluves for iudopoudouce. The ouly object hit had to making soldiers of slaves, wus that they would not fight on our side. , They woulo prove the cuuroy's best allies iq B!ompliibiu our overthrow, and destruction. Mr. Turner said tbo country, had been too long and toq often deluded uud . deceived ; by Presidential plaus, projects aud prophecies. No one of bia prophecies had been fulfilled; uo one of his, projects or pluus had prqved successful. Yet the President proposes new and dangerous) schemes with unabated confidence in his judgj meuf;. Wheu Susanua, Corporal Trim- and the eprvants sat down by the kitchen Gre for a. talk, Corporal Trim said ho badao often been deceived in his ' own judgment that ha had doubts of its accuracy, 'now when he knew he was right. Tho President had much ofteuer beeu deceived in bis juginent than the Corpo. rul, aud it u time he bud learned some mistrust of bis own judgment. He mast not look fur aa unlimited support either from Congress or the country, wbeu ho proposes the '.wild, mud 6cheme of arming the blaves.- The country waa beginning to learn that nil tho Abolitiou- ibts wore uot ia the North, and our owa President bad proposed abolition in 8 Way that created suspicion as to . his soundness. . Mr? Turner said it was time thut Congress should exprcsa their opinion on trying tho' slaves, ana stump upon it the indelible stigma of public abhorrence, air. Maes, of a. j., moved aa an- aineudmout, to insert :n the second suction.. after the compeusution clause, the words, "not to exceeu eiguteen aoiirrs a moutu.-; it was adopted. '.'""'" ' ' Mr. Good, of Va.', offered the following ameudthent to the 3d section: "Provided further that such impressment shall be made uu-der the rules out) regulations of the State where impressed, aud if there shall bono such rules, then Tinder tbe rules and regulations to be proscribed by tbe Secretary of War. Adopted. ;. - . .,. Mr. J. L. Leach, of North Caroline, thought it would be fur better if tho Government would leave the exentioa of aonie of its powers to the poojjlo at homo. There waa too much of bras button und bayonet rule in the country.: The laud was alive With them. They are as. think as the locusts ia Egyp. Richmond waa full of them. ' At home, iuhis little town, they were so thick that lu couldu't walk without being elbowed off (ho street by tbern. - : - Mr. Leach said he fen red that if this bill passed, the negroes raised nuder it would be employed as soldiers. He waanmilterably op-' posed to such a measure. ' He believed, the duy on which such a policy was adopted woul 1-sound the death knell of our cause,- It would, - make a San Domiugoof our lund, Mr. I turn-say, pf N. 0, said, to relieve the matter of all doubt; he would Offer the following amend-mejit: "Provided that said slaves shall not be armed or used as soldiers." ' - ' Mr. Miles of South Carolina, Cbairmun of the Military Committee, si id he bad given bia mostcurnest consideration to this subject tho arming aud employment of oegroes as soldiers.. He believed thut such a measure was fraught with danger and disaster of which the country had no conception. It would be a futul stub' to the iujtitution of slavery, and would overturn the whole social fabric of bur country.,-Mr. Miloa proceeded to argue against the policy of the employment of negroes as soldiera,' showiug that the negro was unfit by uature-for a soldiers; that he oould not be expected ' to fight oa our side when the Yankees offered . him Hir greater inducements than we could, , tec. &c,- 1 Mr. J. A. Leach submitted as an amendment ' to add tho following provision to the end of . the second sectiou; "Proided further, that ia no event shall any portion of said sieves or free negroes o impressed have arms placed ia-' to their hands, or be mustered into the Coo- , federate States service, or be aeed at any time t as soldiers in said service," , , , Mr. Chilton, of Ala., moved t8 lay the amendment on the table. This motion pessej by a vote of 50 to 23. Our Gold and Silver Crop. The exports ot bullion from California dur- ing tbe yeur 18C4 will prove to be larger than i those of auy former year. Up to tho 1st of . December they amounted iu round numbers . to fifty-two millions of dollars, and by the end of the year will reach about fifty-six. millions,-' The larger portion of this has gone to Kug-V land by way of Panama and Aspiuwall; but-fifteen or twenty millious have boea sent to New York, aud probably four or five millions , to China and other conutries. The increase of the total export over that of 18G3 will be . about twelve millions. The productions of ; the precious metals in other parts of the United-States cauuot bu estimated with any degree ( f accuracy. . . . But as some portion of the Sua Francisco shipments is from British Columbia, It may be . not far from a correct estiiuato to say that the I not product of the mines of the precious met. UI0 IU UO lUIKU kJblV3, uillllljj .nv (nit, ,ug., . was about six millions. Colorado, Idaho and-the Lake Superior and other gold and silver p oJuoing regions Jijve qot beeu beard, from; but they would more than offset the British gold that is included in tbo San Francisco, , exports. Sixty millions per aatium ia a hand--some sum in gold and silver; tint wo doubt; whether tbe cool, iron aud oil crop of of Peun- ; sylvanla, during the year 1804, will uot tarn . out to have boeu worth quitoas much not ' merely iu paper currency, but ia gold. 'Phil- addyhia ISlltlctin. - - - ' . :' L-a.. - Substitute Crokers gonc up. The . Legislature last woek pawed a law whicb effectually prohibits the business of substitute Brokerage Th following are it general provisions; ( ' ,' Sec L Makes it unlawful, for any person or. p'rsous w engage iu the busiuess of pro-, curing credits for counties, townships, &:. : 6ec. 2 That therregully constituted author!, tics or any voluntary association of citiz -in in any couuty, towuship, city, ward, oreub-dis-trict may employ one or tnoro agents to procure substitutes, volunteers or credits t fill rfaoUB, paying such agenl'or agents ttr"-'son-able compensation therefor; but In no o in shall ''such compensation be retain! or pail ia whole or Ju part nut of any bocnty tOpi-luted to be paid to sach volunteers t-r sub-lie tutfa. . . , Sko. 3. For violation of tho prnvi'ions of the act, s fine cf f 1,000 f.r a i. '"', or be lmin-iineil iit tli- coun'y Ua'J f- u t'( bread and water oil! v. for tliir'.y d s. , fort hir '.yd.