Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1864-12-31

              ( l tfe SM U (j ! ' 1 volume xxvin. it 6! NUMBER' '37n I - 1 : 1 " 1 " T. - - - - S1 - . :- : ' " v.- . ! : ' 1 - rrrr:i Skthlroa it from th Greek word " KAr, tor Kthiro," tignifjiag to cleanse, rejarenate and rector. This artiel is what it name sijrtrifie,' For prMrrin;t roctonog akd beaQtifyinz the hamta bait R if tht most rtfttarkabl preparation in the werld. It ia again owwed and put up by the origi-nal ptoprieUr, and ! new made with the fame ear, 'kill and attention which gare it a lale of orer one viuion. eotues per annum. i i :-.; ' ' i- 1 ! tit U AMoit delightful Hair Dreisin;; v . f x 3 It eradicate entff and dandruff. - ii tit keep the head cool and clean, 1 ; ff . It maktf the hair; oft and gloiiy. 1 '. .' ;i .-. 'it preTenU the hair from falling off. It prevent the hair from turning gray, --j ' It reitore hair upon bald heads. , Any lady or gentleman who Talaes a beautiful hed of hair should me Lyon's Kathairon. It ii 'known and used throughout the civilised, world. Sold by all respectable dealers. -, r DKMAS S. BARNES A CO. New York. Mar. J-ly -- ' - i Hcna Magnolia Balm. T)h!s is the most delightful and extraordinary arti-Hicle ever discovered. It changes the sun burnt face au'd hands toa pearly satin texture of ravishing beauty! imparting the marble purity of youth, and the viitting appearance so inviting in the city belle of Taiuion. it removes ten, freckles, pimples and roughness from the skin, leaving the complexion fresh, transparent and smooth. It contains no material in jurious to the skin. : Patronized by' Actresses and Opera Singers. " It is what every lady should have. Sold everywhere. Prepare byJW. E. HAOAN, Troy,N. Y. . Address all orders to DEMAS S. BARNES A CO. New York. Mar. 26-ly ' IIEIMSTREET'S V Inimitable llair Restorative NOT A DYE But restores gray hair to its original color, by sup- -plying the capillary tubes with natural, sustenance, 4m paired by age or disease. All initanteneou diet ; -r composed of Innar eauttlc. destroying the vitality and beauty of the hair, and afford of themselves no dressing. Heimstreet's Inimitable Coloring not only restores hair to its natural coler by .an easy pro-cesf, bft gives the hair a Xnxnrlant Beanty, promotes its growth, prevents its falling' oft", eradicates dandruff, and imparts health and pleasantness to the head. It has stood the teat of time, being the original Hair Coloring, and is constantly increasing in favor. Used by both gentleman and ladies. It is old by all respectable dealersor can he procured by them of the commercial agents. .1). S. BARNES k CO. 202 Broadway, New York. Two sizes, 50 cents ad$l. " : "z" Mexieaa Utastans XlalmtMit. The parties in St. Louis 4 Cincinnati, who kav Vioujiterfeited the Mustang Lihiment ier pretense "o proprietorship, have been. tfkoTougbly 8toped by the Courts. To guard apawist further impositioK, I have procured from,the Xnited States Treasury, a priyate steel plate reveve-e stamp, srbMt is placed over the top 6f each bottle. Each stamp bears the . tmiU of ioy Signature, and without wbioh tM ar-fs a Coy c torfeit, daagerwos 4 worthless nitta-Hioii. Examine every buttle. This Liniment' has "been In use and growing in favor for nasiy years.' I There hardly exists a hamlet on tfee laMtabta HVAe' that does not Contain evidence of its wonderful effects. It is the best etnoliment in the world. With its present improved ingredients, its eifceft mpom mm Ad beast are perfectly remarkable. Sores are healed, ipaios relieved, lives saved, valuable animals mads useful, ahl untold ills assuaged. For uts, bruises, 'sprains, rheumatism, swellings, bites, cuts, caked breasts, strained horses, c, feis a Sovereign Keiue- dy that should never be dispensed ertth. . It should . tie in every fami'y. . Ml Mar. 2rly . Sold by all Druggists. . D S. BARNES, New York t ; :: ; f . Persons of sedentary habits troubled wt .weakness, lassitude, palpttation of the heart, lack of ape Aite, distress after eatwg, torpid liver, oonstipation,-deserve to suffer if Vhoy will not try tfee oele-oratedi- - tlaata4ln Bitfrens which are now recommended by the highest eredroe.1 authorities,; and warranted to produce aa immediate beneficial effect. " They are exoeedi'ngly agreable, perfectly pure, and must supercede all otti-er tee ice where a healthy, gentle stimulant is required. They purify, streugthen and invigorate. ' They create a healthy apetite. They are an antidote to change of water and diet. .They overborne effects of dissipation and late hours. .They strengthen the system and enlived the mind. They Prevent miasmatic and intermittent fevers. They purify the breath and aeldtty ef the stomach. They cure Dyspepsia and Constipation. They eure Diarrhea, and Cholera' Morbus.',' They cur Liver Complaint and Nervous Headache. They make the Weak strong, the linguid brilliant, had are exhausted nature's great restorer. They are composed ot fho celebrated Calisaya bark, winter-green, sassafras, roots and herbs, all preserved in perfectly pure St. Croix rum. For particulars,-ea,eir-ealri and testimonials around each bottle. ': Beware of impostors. Examine every bottle. See that it has our private U. S. Stamp unmutilated over the. cork, witn plantation scene, and our signature on fine steel plate side labeL See that our bottle is Jnt refilled with spurious and deleterous stuff. Any person pretending to sell Plantation Bitters ' either 0 the gallon and Bulk, is an impostor. Any perse imitating this bottle, or selling any other ma terial taereia, wnetner eailea Jfiantation Bitters or not, is a criminal under the C. S. Law, and will be so proseouted by jis. We already have our eye on sev eral parties re-filling our bottles, Ac , who will sue eeed la getting themselves into close quarters. The demand for Drake's Plantation Bitters from ladies, elerrtmen, merchants, c, is incredible. The rim- pUuialefa settle is the evidence' we present of their werth and superiority. They, are .sold by all res-peet4ble druggists, gdr plysieiaMs, hotels, ta- ldonlj StmatS and eeuutry stores: --' - .H DRAKE tO, ' ltat..ty2 302 Broadway N. Y; . : . rAMES DURNfl, 'Albany, ' ' , Po lat Sest Qfttaith&iiedf ofthe Aji ' DUiUiO'S u ATAfiBH SOTTF. ;r B. P. JOHN80JT, SeeVi T. 8. FAXTON, Preto 4tXbs most desirable of all remedies for Catarrh- M equal in medicine. It alrengtBeai sichtf proves the hearing, is baeneial,la BrdaefclUa, afcd rifles the Breath. " '".'' . ' -r-r, . It U the Ladies' speeiof r for Verreni ttu eon tains no Tobacco V U highly ajomatiepli lieiaf a pleating sensation and benelletal results td all who appreciate a , t JET SWiV all Irst class Druggists. , Price 3S Mats er Bo Where not on sale, mSampU Box. 30 mmtiet Ff r Boxes, for One Dollar will be' sent, sNsets kg fU, tnm the DKPOT of the Psoprietor, tDensM Bparnes Co., qvA -r. WhsU - rr - . 4,. (, m .-XT asm a Tastleian... . . tl t . IorMC,lUehlal1C,0.,i . . I. B.ptem?r ,m- wsaiA 1 L ; -i. Dear Sir i-ThU ! i bu 1 fM U to Wrtlfv tVat T Ma' IimmIV . .m,Tea to. tsea ef the Xlrt. I was .?? rjtrf,'ni,l i lo; Tesal. wirt. yy.!,. mi 1 t.t. ' j, - - wPw f miw m tu r eras mwa.l x ear Bineere rrlud. gas4MfBssswst Hmt&tnh rAm ' t.!!Mikitsia jissai II PUBUSHKD ITI1T liTDlMT MOKJIIil BT l; haepee. - - Cfflee In Woodward Block, Sd Story. 2.50 per annum, payable strictly in advance, or 93.00 if payment be delayed until the end of the year. fee BmamWt &matt EDITED BY L. HARPER. Washington's Opinion of Paper Honey. The following letter written by General Washington more than seventy years ago on the paper or bank currency question will be read just now with more than ordinary ' interest. It 6h6uld be read, studied and reflected oc by every man and boy in the land: Mt. Vkrnox, February 27, 1787. Dear Sir: Your favor of the 30th ult. came duly to hand. To give an opinion on an issue of so much importance as that which has warmly agitated the two branches of your legislature, and which, from the appeal that is made is likely to create, a dangerous dwision, is rather a delicate matter; but as 4hia diversity of opinion, is on a subject which has, I believe, occupied the minds of most men, and as my sentiments thereon have been fully and decidedly expressed long before the Assembly either of Maryland or this State was convened. I do not scruple to declare that if I had a voice in your legislature, it would have been given decidedly against the emission, upon the general principle of its utility as a representative and the necessity of it ah a medium; To as sign reasons for this opinon weuld be as un necessary as ledioos; the ground has been so often trod that a place hardly remains untouched; in a word, the necessity arising from a want of specie is represented as greater than it really is. I contend that it is by the stiW stance, not the shadow of a thing, that we are to be benefited. The wisdom of man cannot at this time, devise a plan by which the credit of paperimoney would he long supported: con sequently, depreciation keeps pace with the quantity of emission, and articles for which it is exchanged rise in a greater ratio than the sinking value Of the niony. Wherein then is the farmer, the planter the artisan benefited? The debtor may be because as I have observed, he gives the shadow in lieu of the substance, and in proportion to hi crain the crecl-itor, or body politic sufiers. Whether it be a leeal tender or not, it will, as has been observed very trulv, leave no other alternative it must be that or nothing. An evil equaliy great ia 'the door, it immediately opens for speculation, by which the least designing' and periiaps most valuable part of the comrnuni ty are preyed upon by the more knowing and crafty speculators. But, contrary to my in tention and delaration, I am offering reasons in support of my opinion reasons, too. which of ail others, are least pleasing to the-advo cates of paper money. I shall, therefore, only orHerv generally, that so many people have uneredby former emissions, tbst. likr a burnt child who dreads the fire, no person will touch it who can possibly avoid it; the natural consequence Ot which . will Ve, that the specie rhich remains unex ported will be instantly looked up. H ith great esteem and resard, I am, dear fir, tc, George Washingtox. Oenerals in Chief of the Army. The Army and Navy Journal gives the list of Officers wlro have herd the position ofGen-eral-in-Chiefofthe Army of the United States as follows: . ' Brevet Grig. Gen. Joiah Hartriar, from Sept. 178Q, to March, 16'Jl. . . Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair, from, March, 1791, to March 17(J2. Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne, from March, 1792, to Dee. 1796. , . Brig. Gen. yfames Wilkiwaon, from Dec. 1790, to July, 1798. Lieut. Gen. George Washington, from July, 1798, to Dec. 1799. Maj. Gen- James Wilkinson (again), from June, 1800, to Jan. 1812. Maj. Gen. Henry Dearborn, from Jan. 1812, to June, 1815. . . Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown, from June, 1815, to Fet. 1828; Maj. Gen. Alexander Maconib, from May, 182H, to June, 1841. Brevet Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott, from June, 1841, to Nov. 1, 1801. Maj, Gen. George B. McClellan, from Nov. L, 1861, to Julv 23, 1862. Maj. Gen. rfenry W. Halleck, from Julv 23, 1862, to March 12, 1864. Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, from March 12, 1864. . ' - Greenbacks in Nevada. The Virginia City correspondent of the St. ;Louis Republican says: If a man or a woman designate get his or her name in the paper, all that is necessary for them to do is to contract a debff and then pay it in legal tenders. They are immediately published by advertisement in the newspapers to the world at having been guilty of paying a debt in greenbacks, and the-fiienda of the advertiser are warned to never trite them, and to pass them around for the benefit of the parties t Others have adopted a novel method of giving publicity to euch acta by haying a small hand-bill printed in heavy j mourning, strttieg that John Smith has this day paid Richard Brown $50 in greenbacks at par, -for goods, aS the case may be, contracted on ' a gold basis. They are then posted up in the host &ataeted'nd conspicuous places in the ekr; hd are certain to attract universal at-Ceotlod) ,: - . .. - - v : the President. Witt J. Freeburr wa mjmtted. resUrdav afteruoooi charged with cartidg President Iia- , TheabdVe is Uked from the lUltiaja.Suo. of the 3d inst The attest waB.irjailprt.tlie 2dinst. It is worthy of hlstcfrical , reeollec- tuon. It shows the estimate thht is nut upon liberty in America. ; It htfpe1ff rkt "IrJ 'Russia or Austria, but in the-United' State. wjexe id the paat we used to Bolst' k& tbtSHl speech and of the press. a. Enf.'J ..Vl ; inie is worse titan a revivals thM assdiUoa law, of th, elder lX&& -. mi s.:i:ji.j ... ; w nm war.", i -ir t i 1 'rnr-.-, e kectniftvoisvs " One of the Piatnres." T- A dorrespondent of the Chtcago Journal're late the following Intervievr a federal for aging parly with a Tennessee farmer.:. 'At another place we called upoo. the owner, a man ot over sixty, years, well saved, yet en dently much cast down and disheartened.- He was polite, and answered all questions tedious ly. On being asked what be had to spare, he exclaimel "Not much indeed nothing.".' His wife and four children standing by him. said not a word, but the countenance of the wliole groap showed that the old man told the truth. "Indeed I have nothing," aaid he, f4what with one army or another; campaigning through this part of Tennessee, they have etrioDed me of all I could spare, and more too.". "Have you no horses or mules?" asked the offieer. "Yes," answered the man. "I have one -more mule which is entirely broken down; it wa left me by a trooper, who took my last , horse in its stead." "No beef cattle?" was the next question. "Not one. .was theanswer. "Any hogsr''les, sir, I have pigs which I had intendeWfor my winters supply of meat." s "Any negroes?" asked the officer. "No not one; my servants all let me some two or three months ago. I have not one on the place. have to chop all my wood and do all the out door work, and my wife and daughters do the in-doors, what they can." "Any corn or wheat?" "No wheat and only two or three bushels of com," was the reply. "Let's see the mule?' said the officer it was brought up. and was as the old man bad said. Show me those pigs was the next demand. When he heard this the old man conld hard ly speak his hopes were almost at an end. He showed the pigs, however, they were no more than such a family would need, nor as much, in fact. The officer then kindly said: "You may keep all these things, they will help you out. and can be of but little good to ns," and gave' the old man a "safe guard," which might save his property from all" farther molestation from our troops. Three years ago, this man owned a large, well stocked plantation, and a fine stud, of horses had cattle and hogs in plenty, with servants fo come at his call, and corn t- sell and to keep. Now he was sincerely thankful and much moved, that We spared him his four little hoatB, his pittance of corn and his old mare mule, with which he hoped to make a smal crop next spring. I he War has been at his very door, he find seen it in all its relations, and knew that it was vigorously prosecuted. Crime in New York. Crime was never more general and never more daring than now. The incendiary, the burglar, the highwaymen, go to their work in band?, there are times when it seems as if the city, would be laid in ashes. 'Children ripen at aii early age and commence their ca' reer of crime before they griduaie from the primary school. Most of our street-Walkers are children from twelve to sixteen. They go from the towns, cities and villages around New York nightly to their destructive employ. They can be eeeii landing from the various boats on the edge of '. the evening, in shoals, onward toward their place of operation,-qs readily a the newstoys can be seen in the early morning. Shirt factories, binderies, wholesale tailoring establishments, contain thousands of young girls who work through the day and are street-walkers at night. The dance cellars, low concert saloons, lager beer gardens are filled with the same class. Highway robbery is as common as pickpockets. Daring rohlieries on the edge of the evening in the vicinity of our great hotels, are common. Day gambling houses are increasing at a fearful rate. ' They are in' th proximity of stock speculators; they are. near the mart of dealers in gold, and throw their doors wide open to men maddened by defeat and ! rs 1 . wine. 1 ney are not only near the immense wholesale establishment, whefe an iminenee number of clei ks are eiuploved, but are often in the same buildings. Floors are taken. loarded and sealeiJ to afford secrecy, windows closed to shut out the light of day and prying eyes: gas lighted rooms -elegantly furnished tables loaded with luxuries and wine, free to all. ' ' Here fathers, husbands and sons are found clerks on their way to the banks or Custom House young men out "to lunch" are en ticed; here they gamble and fling away money reputation and soul. The number ot these institutions, increasing dailv, show how profit able thev are and how well patronized. fhe softening of the brain, a disease now so common atuong business men in New' York the sudden commercial revolutions the ruin of so many attributed to bad speculations or husiness reverses, have more connection with these day gambling establishments than the world knows of. Alas for the rising gen eration 111 our great city. The New Fractional Currency. The new fifty cent fractional currency notes are an inch and a half wide and three afid a half inches long. In general anrtearance these notes are not unlike a; large portion of the bank issues in circulation. : The vignet Tie the figure of a female, holding in her left hand the scales of justice; in ber right hand, is the sword and her arm is resting on an illustrated shield. ' Covering a part of the shield ' is a cloud of smoke. On either side of the vignet and extending across , the note is the word "fifty" in bronze, and on the extreme ends also the word "fifty" on a lathe-work background. At each corner in the borderre the figures "50." . The legend on the note. is as follows: "United States Fractional Currency, fifty cents. Famished only by the Assistant Treasurer and designated depositaries of the United States. Receivable, for all United States stamps. F. F. 8 pi oner, Treasurer; S. B. Colby, Register." TJiere are also the words, "Act: approved; March Sv 1863.I end. "F;h-graved and printed .At. the . Treasury." The face of the note except the ' bronze figures, is printed in black. The back is printed in red. At each end in an oval of lathe work, are the figures "50."' The border is composed of the words United States," "50,V and in the center is this o6cription: ''This note is change able for United States notes by the Assistant Treasurers and designated depositories of the United States, in soma' not less than three dollars." ' Receivable in payment of all 'does to tue unuea o aies; jess man nve dpiIar8" ex- cept customs - Outlipe figures in bronzeJfSO'f are' printed over tke Vliwcri priori, Cin.' MntM tret. ;,' v:''' !'vf -'. ' ;. -.W-l " X9-Mrs. Bants nod Hrs Qattmarf, 'wives' M two of thencarprisoerp inH Lrnedl bai-tjleV Started from Blodmsburgon Hobday tasti ttf tisit their husbands, ia Fort Hiffljn;',lUni3 And MH. Ha4man are botb;ln.'eTicate fiealtnj Mr:' lUtftsd Jre.'Hsitean traveled oeirt two hundrtSd toilea to see their ttoor islirkas4 bands, carrying ;trtMnteU tsliserof butterj bTead1 rttFyttTimc'e befWtfpnPtlifj -brotal:rdUItarrat5dritl: be.pHhirj j6t01nd at the fcate doox lt $aci;UW ng tortnem' the' crovUioneVthev tad brought lor thstn irotrf l!fie1fSund tt-bsial seeing Jhejt X'dnapped Bsbai(di, or even de? lit iring UenV tEa-'BroyUronnX in. VfcaY! Sailroad Prpperty . Destroyed byTirel ' Th Licking Record gives the"fonbwin": ac- connt of the fire which occdlred ih thleasfern suburbs of Newark, on last Sunday afternoon about 2 o'clock: ' : :': ::- Ki : ' Tire flames'weTe discovered issuing ' from the cupola of the blacksmith hop of the Pittsburgh, Columbus and Cinoinnati R. R. repair buildings, on the eastern aide of the city;' There being a "high wind, aud no chance to get water on the'fire, it: bre4J with great rapfditr and in a very short .? time,:, the whole collection pf buildings with Tall it heir content were destroyed. Th blict9fuitb shop, with the best of machinery, the round house wjth five first class locomotivesby "name the Means, Garrett No. 14, SteubenVille aud Minr go Chief antl one box car, the. water tank and and telegraph office, and a splended stationary engine all were destroyed. The loss is estimated at 150;OO0, which will hardly replace the establishment, considering the present high price of machinery and-euilding material. It is supposed the fire caught .from a spark from an engine. lodged In the cupola of the blacksmith shop. The transportation of the road will not be delayed, and other engines have been procured" . , Victoria's Private Parlor. - Iter Majesty's private setting-room, which is situated on the north side of the Queen's tower, has been beautifully re-decorated. The ceiling, which is bf a verr chaste and elegant design,' has reeh re-painfed ahd gilted, and the walls have been hung in the panels with a very iiandsome brocatled satin of rich crimson ground, wit h foliage of gold color and white, having a very. good effect as it is in keeping with the Other decorations of the room. : The silk hns been afcnrstlv copied by an English manufacturer from the npiginnl silk, which was made by the foreign firm of Gorge IV-. The paneN are surrounded by richlv carved and gnilt moldings, arid beWw them i a dado of white and gold. corrervndinii' with tVi ceiling. . The Window draperies have been arranged in a very tatv and somewhat novel manner, which is very suitable to the style of the room, and is r pleasing change from the heavy draperies. Artemus Ward on the Negrro. Feller Ciiizunx: The 'Afrikan may be onr brother. Sevril hily repektHhIe gentleman ami sum talented femailes, td 11s so, and for nrgyment sake t mite '. be Injured to grfint it, though I dont believe it, myself. Rut the Af-rykan isn't our sister, and our wife, and ohr uncle. He isn't sevril ot our cousins, and all our wife's relashuns. Fie isn't our grandfather and our sunt in the countrv; Scarcely. And Vet numeris persons would havens think so. It is troo he runs Ivorigress and severil Other public grocerry's. Hut we've got the Afrikan, or he's got His, rather., now, what af e we going to do aboiit St.? He's an orful noosance. Fraps he isn't to blame for it. Praps he Was created for some ; Wise purpose like Bill Harding and New England rum, but it's mity hard to see it. At ahy rate he's here ftri1 it's A pltV he COllld'ht M 'Vf inrrin vhiin. qnietle Wy himaeif.whew he' eon 14 graterfy his ambition in varis wase. without bavin a eternal fuss kickt up about him. Beware of Raw Pork. A few days since. w observed a butcher tasting some raw sausage meat in his shop, and the act was immediately associated in onr mnd with a singular looking bottle which Dr. ITallet, of Brooklyn, has standing on the table in his office. When we first saw this bottle we srvpposed It contained strins of some white bark: very hicely prepared. But Dr. Ilalleft infoi mef lis that it, was a tape worm, which he had recently taken from the lo"wels of a man Who had contracted It by eating raw pork in California. The old readers of the Sclentlflrt American will remember that the origin of tape worms in raw pork was pointed out in the pamphlet of Dr. Weinland. Fortunately, the tape worm is very rare, but when it does occur, it is caused by eating raw pork. Scientific American. Twenty Pive Thousand Widows. Twenty-five thousand-widows are receiving pensions under the law passed recently.- Twenty-five thousand - widows made by the present war By its bullets and bum bsh el Is, its cannon balls and bayonets, its Wounds, its camp fevers and privation. Twenty-five thousand receive pensions; hoW. many thousands do not, we are not told. As though he Who fell on the first day of battle did not spill as much Mood for his country as he who fe'l on the last. : Many do not know whether their husbands lie under Southern sod or "languish in a Sout hern prison, or who will -watch and wait for him long after the magnolia blossoms on his grave. Twenty-five thousand widows. How m'any oYphans,? How many childless inothers ? How--many betrothed maidens, whose young ihopes vhave been nipned. and .whose hearts are searcled and seared for life ? Exchange. , .. The SHpression of Convents in Polftndi An imperial decree has been : issued at St. Petersburg dosing certain convents in Poland, It orders that all . Catholic ..monasteries - and convents having less than eight members, and also those whose' participation in the late insurrection was notorious or has since been proved, are to be immediately- closed; The inmates may enter other religious establishments, or will be allowed to go abroad at; the public expense. " The religious establishments which are not suppressed by this decree are forbidden to maintain relations with either the provincials or generals of their orders. The.confiscated property; of the monasteries and convents will be exclusively devoted to'Vcclesiastieal, educational 'and' charitable pntposes. ' In pursuance ' of this decree 71 inouasteHes and four convents btve been closed on account of not poeessing the requisite number of inmates, nd. 39 oUter religious housea on.' account of participation in the Polish insurrection.1 '-j: "r'"., - -? .-':'-i;r8 ' m 1 1 1 "esejss Hi ( ' , ... .-1 -,-- f .:.t 'The) Cathedral of : Cologne. Subscriptione arw being collected !& Prassia fo4lv PrppWto? cduiplfUug,tbe;;, finos cathedral at Cologne, the towers and Some' other parts of which rejnain 1 uncompleted.' 1 th ' legend helng that lhefcmtect sokr linnselftO eldvfficfcCar pdft;!whctt thM- gentleman gave hitnt.bai 4b1Ki idloF-Mm tostrrTi Pt .jdeompktiopAS fetrieAJkfcre the lowers were half-finished. The arehtrWt hibeyeribelessiwaa abjart'of rehras.''ttT1dJ4vftnT,1 tlad&uiaiCUe endoaragsraentan ithcdegener- ttfficeDt;thaJ eacbfooK iq, fcjsigbt of the- towers win absorb four thousand oibid ft pr and cost seven handred Donnl-? UtfMvtt nTk,e. EartHewnrr saTft.the twanty are twins, sicf,rerrVB,taMtt THE SWIS R01IMCE. .IS Finale or the Train p.tcxntae cWse. Suicide of XTr Zemme and his Sride in the Xiake of G-eneva. . Their last Letters to their Eelatives. The last letters addressed by llermann Demme And his bethrothed' bride, Flora, j;o thdir parents before their joint suicide in the 'Lake of Genera, have been published in the Swiss journals. They reach us through the medium of a French version, and something qf the tenderness and pathos of the originals must inevitably have evaporated in the process of transfusing the expression of so much suffering and affection from the emotional and almost Caressing Teutonic speech into the more tixact and glittering phrases of the Gallic tongue. But read even at two removes, they will be felt to be a touching record of human feeling, wrought to an exceptional point of intensity by the pressure of -circumstances in an extraordinary degree peculiar and agonizing; We need scarcely recapitulate the story of which these letters . heralded the tragic denouement. Accused of eompassing the death by poison of a friend of whose daughter he was the betrothed .husband, Dr. Hermann Demme, as our readerswill-reco-lect? was acquited by a Bernese jury af: ter a trial made more than commonly painful and interesting by the strange conduct of the-deceased men's wife, the mother of the affianced bride of the accused; This lady, Madam Trumpy, publicly charged herself with having lived in criminal relations with Dr. Demme, and with having moved him to commit the deed with which he was charged. Neither of these confessions was substantiated by the evidence ; and they must be added to the list of those in-instances of moral hysteria which constitute not the least remarkable chapter in the annals of human psychology. Dr. Demme, however, while acquited of the charge of murder, was declared by the jury to have been guilty of a culpable dereliction of duty as a physician in failing to declare at the time of Trumpe's death that the deceased, his patient, had taken poison. ? The most eminent men of science in Switzerlantl had testified on the trial of Demme to his great merits as a scientific physician, and also to the almost morbid devotion which-he had shown from his earliest youth to an exalted ideal of professional excellence and professional honor. The mortification inflicted upon this trait of his character seems, in connection with the conduct? of Madam Trumpy, generally maddening circumstances of the whole case, to have profoundly depressed the unhappy young hero of this most unhappy drama. He turned for relief to his bride elect, btlt only to meet wi th new, vexations.-The guardian of Flora Trumpy vehem ently opposed the marriage of his ward, and thefamily of Dr. Demme himself do not seem to have looked with favor upon his alliance with the daughter of a worse than dissipated father and a mo ther who, if not a maniac," must be clearly be set down as something worse than a maniac. Driven quite to despair by this fresh complication in their destiny, the lovers suddenly left Berne, and passing by Freyburg to Bullo and Vevey, took a small boat at Ouchy, near Lausanne, and, rowing out on the lake of Geneva, buried themselves and their sorrows forever, beneath its placid waters. The following letters mark the stations of this most tragical pilgrimage ; fnETBCRS, December, 1.1, 1864. , (Pytted four days later at Lausaae,) . Dear Pakents: and Brothkhs ; I know well that the, news of my Jeath, which this letter . .bears to you, will cause you fearful, pain. But I know, too, that the unalterable love you bear to me will secure for me the pardon which I .npw..;beg . of you. The steps which this letter tells you I have taken has. not been taken lightly, . but upon calm reflection and after a careful examination of all the circumstances, .... My existence is shattered .by the terrible evepta. of the past year. t , ; , I did not wish to turn my back, on the battle. s I resolved to . Bee my conscious innocence victoriously- established; despite the terrible : complications which have come to pass ; and to this end. I persevered: aa) long-, .'as..my-honor and ythat ;of any-family .were threat-lened 3ut,I:could ever recover from the wound unjustly .inflicted spas my medial honor, by the triunaL r r -nv jXyfiaeinipaj.werB not conteatjrith: all th.misejry-wiiich haa overwhelmed nle. , They hftYO-persecated me dowik to the Inst tnementy. andiiaVftxeteni sottehti to tear.irosi meaner waO rias. loyally ixrne up witn tnrougn ait me 8tonn$ antt witom J: hateTitdympJcbed tc-leive-memow. I declare that I coul4J,xtereIrlhaT been jar tiXr tyi&k 4p sp;& h&M give.oy lifotWdissipatuJa, butio happy afteTataresuffered fhat tttmoTtwy.nani conscientious laoor.' 'luneser'-icoiisldera bly agohiiinto me. J? Butit "must be ! Oh! receive my gratitude for' the lore you have shown me, the sacrifices you have made for me, and forgive me the sorrow I have caused tou. Do not la ment us, for we have been faithful In our love till death. '' My dear parents, I leave to you all that I possess, and beg of you only to give a souvenir 01 me to each of my true friends.: Give to my brothers some thing which may be useful to each of them. I beg you to give my collection of pathological anatomy in the city of VV urzburg, the city in which my father passed the most important years of his life, and which has always been dear to me ; send with it a few serious and kindly words ; send my manuscript to B . '.', and beg him to find some one who can continue and complete it. In case my father should have a wor thy successor in his clinical chair (Dr. uemme, sen., is one 01 tne leading pro fessors at Berne in the university), J bequeath my galvano-plastio apparatus to the university ; otherwise, let my family keep it. . To my mother, with my heart's fare well, I leave the clock which has meas ured out the weariest hours of my life You will understand that at this solemn moment I cannot recall all that I would wish done ; I trust in the thoughtfulness ot my parents to fulhll all that I forgot to mention. If, dear parents and brothers, you will protect my memory ; if in the steps 1 take you will see, not an act of cow ardice, but the determined action of an incurably wounded man, I shall be sat- lsfaeJ. I have patiently borne all that it is most fearful to bear. I have never trembled. My death, now that my in nocence has been established, can pive rise to no sinister interpretations. For- A " a! I f ITT" i 1 T . .l. t give uue, men : ouia 1 nujmt nave taken the pardon of all of you with me 1 his might not be ! Dearest parents, iarewell i farewell, beloved brothers Faithful friends, farewell I May you nnu strength to bear this news, and a V til . ""i dc. crusnea oy it. 1'reserve your selves, dear parents, for my brothers, who so much heed you, and remember with love your HERMANN. Nov. 14, 18G4, noon. I have just reached iiulle, and add a few inmost adieux to my letter. We have judged it best to "win this one day mbre fo happiness ere we part. The spot' which shall mark our last step you Will know only by the postmark. I have our let ter ready. Iarewell ! From the bot tom of my heart, farewell I Forgive forgive the Unhappy ! Lausanne AVe have reached Lausanne and are on our Way to Geneva, our last station. AVe will take a walk. and, getting into a boat, will row out upon the lake and cast ourselves in.- W- - V " . I'erhaps we may do this at a point known to us, where the lake ts particU larly deep, that our bodies may not be tound. ims seems to us the best course Farewell, all whom I love ! These shall be my last words. Keep a lfi viti r mpmnrv rk-f na f n nl ?r-v rri - a ' On her part tha faithful Flora left the following letter : Tu my yer dear ftherjin-law and mother in-law I thank you, I thank you with my whole soul tor all your goodness to me ; for all ther love yoU have shown to me a poor forsaken child Probably I can never repay you, for I have resolved to leave this world with Hermann. The happiness I have known with him is worth a who?e life, and leaves me nothing so repent of. Forgive the suffering my poor parents drew .down upon you ; forgive; therrf, for the love of me who would so gladly have compensated you for" every bitter hour with a double reverence ;. now I never can ! Farewell, niyMear ood, parents ! God, the Almighty and All-merciful, in whom we all believe, will never for- get y oil,, and will reward you for all. . xpur grateful daughter FLORA. . The Rllcsi'm made in Hermann Dem-tiie's letter to their project of so drowning themselves that their . bodies might not be foundj led the friends of this unfortunate pair for, a few . days to,, hope that they might, have really left the country fofever. and that the story of their suicide might hare been but a blind to seperate them from their cruel and troubled past in Switzerland. The reader 01 Jjora uvron s letters win re member a somewhat similar incident recorded by him in connection with- this same beautiful Lake of Geneva.' - 1 But'fchoYtly after the" publication' ; 6f the letters abote enven, the dead bodies of the hapele6S.writer3 were drawn from the lake in ,the immediate neighborhood of, the little, village of .Ouchy and the! ghosts 01 ilarmann. and lora will wan der Jienceforth with the spirits, of Julie and St, Preux in tne, solemn shadow of ineps, ot csayoy, about the lovely and SWshQSeaqf JLakelniantf J Broth ertsood coneietsf hal f a m (hoa of mem-bers and had fuad of.a mUIion "nd.a. half of dollars. The Fenians at trnrstood to b tore Ireland! tatyjupao jodrpendeticf o; ocai jGovernment, as: t,.xwted: blora ttf ifOji,KgIan4;ni( ijand sKjParlia, mentarj rprttttkton To realize Jthis,rl, wre,,tBeeml,er9eihiIrjhroen, are.boind li"in!mB 'flihllMtiAild" loi naa ever "tSart. peaeef0 1 or otherwieev Bay - be vscaesarv A Sixiner 'of : EightMn '-Sttodred Tear -' - x-.: :' Ago- '- " - The citiiens of aneieiit Pompeii knew : what was ' good. 1 They relishetl roast r pig. A f&inily in that aistocratio city 1 one dfthe F. F.- P.'s, perhaps were ' about to diiie da the rich and succulent dish on the very day that the restle ' Titan, under Mount Vesuvius expecto- j rated frorn his fiery lungs the shower of red-hot ashes which entombed the Pom peiians in their dwellingsl The pig wns being cocked, and was probably near done, at the time when the roleanie : storm burst in and spoiled it. This is not a matter of conjecture, reader, for only a few weeks ago a mass of indurated lava and ashes was found in a stew-pan, standing on a cook -stove in the kitchen of a house recently disinterred, and on opening the lump a perfect mold of a tucking poker was closed. A cast ' was taken of the hollow, and the result was a facsimile in plaster of the little animal, ' which had been roasted in scientific style, and is supposed, from the shape of the matrix, to have been just ready for the table. The inquisitive antiquarians ate continually pbking their noses into little domestic secrets of the Pompeiian3 of eighteen "centuries1 ago, which the people of the excavated neighborhood would have hesitated td tell one another. Women of the Sandwich ItlandJ. J A lady writing from Honolulu, thus-discourses upon the native women .end their free and easy manners : The women are erect, wide in the shoulders, and carry their heads like queens ; many of them are truly handsome, wearing, their hair falling over with little straw hats garlanded with wreaths of lovely-native flowers. They clothe themselvesV modestly and prettily, wearing the dress to cover neck and arms, and falling . loosely from the shoulders to the top of the feet, which are often bare. Not being civilized like us, they have not bpen enlightened into compressing their ; ribs with iron ' and whalebone corsets, nor to disturb and torture their feet . with overtight shoes, nor to put bonnets : on their heads than run up into turrets. of silk and artificial flowers, and leav ing the ears at the mercy of the bitter :-winds, nor to make up forty-five yards . of steel wire into cages and fasten them pelves within them, nor to carry an extra half yard of dress stuff bravely after.! them on the payment through thick and-thin. Yet these women have the ad-, vantage of us, for we are not forced by i " the exigencies of custom, when we come with our long garments upon any impurities of the path way, to shut bur 6yea ' and clench our teeth and push blindly over them, whereas these - Kanaka wo--men, at the sight of even a spot of water, lift" their light garments gingerly and pass over, clean and unsullied from , its contact? Can this be barbarous? Bespect the Aged. - Many an old person has the pain not bodily, but sharper still -of feeling' himself in the way. Some one wants his place. His very chair in the chimney corner is grudged him. He is a burden to son or daughter. The very arm that props him is taken ftway frefni !-some p'f ?fductive labor; As he sits' at ' the table,- his own guests are tooidle' or too unkind to make him a sharer in their mirth. They grudge the trouble of that raised voice which alone could ' make him one of them ; and when he ' speaks it is only to be put aside as ignorant or despised as bid-fashioned tnd ! obsolete. Oh, little doyounger pK-sons know their power of giving pain or pleasure ! It is a pain for any man, still in the world, to be made to ff el that he is no longer of it, to be driven in upon his own little world of conscious isolation and buried enjoyment. But ' this is his condition ! and if any fretful-ness or qUerulousness of temper has aggravated it if others love him not be-? cause he is not amiable shall we pity that condition the less? shall we up-v braid it with that fault which4 is itself, the worst part of it ? , -':-'-:;V.: '. 8a The thefts at the ' Philadelphia Navy" Yard have heen enormous. The SprbgfielV Republican tfii n ks !it is very clear t bat there could have n'o such constant stealing of such k large anioents without either the connivancy of the oSciale, or a critnnai lack of vigilance ' on tlieif part. There should be a most search-' ing investigation ef the matter,, and prompt' and severe punishment ot tne offendersJi:Thei Navy Department will not be held guiltless by the eople if it allows iu dubonest officials and employees to "go" nnpnnUhed, The J2-ptibliean also expresses the opinion "that sew ' the election ii over ' & is sod nd ffollej, " Well as duty, to expose and denbonos the pnb- Rc thieves and . drive tbeaa .nwayfiront the treasury fcWaa it potsoon.d vol icy to. drivs)-thfeves awsy from the Treasury . iVarS "the' elect ion' an well as aUr, 'or srara tb asrdorc1 ef tlirse thieves necessary to sedorw- too lso' , A' nian applied fo Dr. 'JacksOtC tn e!er, ted Chemist," with s, oxo! specimens, Us4 with! spirit Unf slaiUest of rold dftstr -t L Can ye telr me -w bat that Ss, air rt . rtawly leaa. tht iro rrxm-'' What svj?joyoicaf Uwod:. 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