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TOP. SALE
Thirty desirable business aul rcsi
dhnce .LOTS IN PLATTSMOUTII.
Ten thousand acres of prairie and tim
ber LAND IN CASS COUNTY.
Terms to sut cash purchasers.
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r.uv il kinrt of k'raln at L'l-hoi-t mirkt r.i'.e?. Tho
tothe Drlor laiilitii-s Jll.Tl-il IHoim hr ih - mills
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TEKUITORY OF NEBRASKA, I -County
of Can-.
Pursuant to au orlt-r of -lie IV jo.te Court offM
0"ny. made on t)ie 7tli J.iy of A'xv-t l. !? Jj.
C'Jtii-e N her-Ly fiveii that'uli cUhub, .u '.-e ' -
uf Wiley. Junes, at of C M eotiinv, d o-i-'il,
a'Jiit kctia tue m tUc o!:ce oi"sa:a Curt on or tefor..-
h?!i day r.f Ferhruanj, A. . !,
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' ' th- 'l!"ay Cf AuMt.A. D. 1 -..'
,U. - , J V.-MARSHAf f ,
ii!iiU in TiT'i. unit Vfi'tirn.
Ojj,of tilt; reluinvd rebels commu
nicates to tho Mi-suri Republican tim
following infi rinatiiri of the fuji'ive
fui' ive
rebels, some of whom are from
ri. 'I'lie writer says :
II aving seen various reports U3 lo
th' t.fi nn-! number of thoe rfli
cers of the Confederate army who wer.t
t., ;.Iex:t!() i Mlbm,t lhe fuowlri?
! ing been on o; the p.i rty, find n iuru-
ed to thi ci y yesterday from Monte
rey.
1 1 en. M atT Jiie r, i;p m wlhw 1 n i f I
was 'when the war closed, determined
to tike hi-? parole and join his family
in Europe. Wii'.i tliis in view he went
to Gaive.-ton with Lit stair, June 9th,
where he met Pre.-iJnit Johnson's pro
; c! i;:int;o:i; ami Ltiiig' exemptnl from
i tli.f amiieiy, trom having heen a 'rrad-
u.it'
.nil
f W'l't P in', he at once detfr
i i j ii-aveti.e c-juntry y the way
; of ?.-. xico. We h ft Houston on ll
ie
; 1 1 ! h on l orre bncli, having with us
'three pacli muh, ai.d teachtd San
i A:'.'uio on the lbiii, where we met
iir-u. Si. . Toy with a force of about oUO
' men. uho (ieii. 1, Iv. Smith, Price,
; Vi'0x ui Mii-Mr-sippi, Htws, Frauk
; (j'irJol?, JiK.ltman, Gova. Ailcii and
M ore if L( tii.-iaria, and Gov. Mnrrah
j of Tex ts. The whole party left Sau
! Ant i;i o:i the 20.li, and travt led wiiti
j out interrupt iuii, reathni"; Luglf J'ass
on the 'J-th. We were treated civilly,
J yet were cLsely watched Ly the I.iLer-
al puty. who were in posse?.-:on if
! Piedras Neizras. Fr.m here we pusli
ed on ratidtr trt' MoHtvr'ey. wuiitie of
the p.ii y' report having L en stopped
by roultrs, though I saw none;
Wt reached Monterey July 3J, and
: found lhe place occupied ty tlie'Friiich
I 1.00U !roI.'g; the Liberal Genera! hav
! haing fa'len back upon Monclova vyith
,( '00 moa. lie was in pOo?e.-eion of
, oat; of tee strontr'-t passes i;j the moute
t; !!.-, ai j made every preparation for
a ::.;ht, but upon the approach of the
Fiei.cb; he fled mpidly lo Monclova.
Th Fr nc!i tn. aud us vhh gre it kind-i.e-s,
and they seem to hiok upon their
trip i p to tiie mountains as a summer
ecurior . They keep no pickets nor
-eard iii' the city. Every other night
t:.- Great land plays in the Plaza till
iii i : : irht, where Monterey as:-emhles
anJ i i.joy-i itelf. The odd night? the
theatre is ii.ned and again h11 Alonte
rey is priJ i-ut. . -- -
At Mo; 'erey we f jund General
Pretton ol Ky., General Ilindman,
General II lrdimau, of Texas, T, iC
uri, Col. Broadweil
of the Cottoi BurejrnjVuiides raasy
(;UU!H an(f-Vrfict(4rs''of leaser note.
At this place the party dissolved. Gen.
j Smith wont -'to Havana. .(I'D. MeGru-
i
. der to Geriu.tev. where his family
!(;,. IVc, to Hi.,, all by the way ,f
, c f 1 i
i the Gi:y of Ai 'Xi'O. a til-' roau to
i am ic i auu j.itam. ras n er'- in u."
p.i..-e.--i :i .f r-hh T JJ. m;!i's ti.eie
, is a w. ehiy hue of yieauiers from Ve.
I ra Cruz to Liverpool, by the way of
i Havana.
! Ex-Gov. Trover, P,.-lk J.ft San Anto
' nil, hi. the 2-3 h of .June, nivl 1 heard uf
his reu Inny Kagie Pass in afetv.
Gen. John 15. Clark, Sr., in company
I with an f x-Senuior from Louisiana al
so pa?-ed ihrvuh San Antonio a few
days after Gov. Polk.
I - iAi ive factory in iN'ew Orleans
is tur .ing out two hunditd pounds of
crystal ice per hour. The process of
manufacture i.- cpjite simple. A large
rr turi ct niaii.s couceiiirat- d a pia am
monia, w.'iich, li' ing moderately heate'd,
passes in the form cf gas, through a
worm surroundid by a bath of water,
of the temperature of the a'mosp'iere,
and t'.iere by preure it is lniuifi -J.
This luiu'fifd gas is then passed in ve
ry Mnall quantities through a worm in
a bath cf highly concentrated salt,
where it is vo-a-alnjed. To acquire
that state it i ebiigf d deprive the
bath of all its caloric. Ly coi..-tant
!-paai.re tbr 'llgil til' W.-mt
ti-injfi-r-
ature of the lath is leducetl from o tu
12-3 degrees Idow zero centigrade.
The ice is formed in moulds.
frTom ?vIoore, the p-et, ued to
f5!! a go- d rtory cf a geritfprran, who,
whtn he was short of jooteyTand his
relatives were stir.gy and refractory,
used to threaten Lis family with the
rniLiication of his poems. The invari
able' and iiiHjidiate result was, as much'
cash as he wanted.
.Tii nticraos. are to a-mati loyal to
ths Iljj iXlic and faithful to the Gov-
nil .
jlfi wcrejorc, dun t Id ? Mine
Tne negroes have freely hrutenoJ
to fiht our bailie?, and have poured
out their blood on scores of battle fields
,ha we mii'lit hi a great and indepeo
dent people; therefore, aon I td us ii.'.nu'
licm to rote.
The negroes, at the rt-k J vi ih- ir
livej., have helped hundreds of ur Un
ion oldiers our fathers, hn.theri and
sons to ecape from thedrccJful tor
tures of rebel prisoDi; tierctore don't lit
ns alow them 'to vote.
The neyroes, without pja privilege
of -.he suffrage, are LtdpJess in the
hands of the Southern whites, their
furuu r mailers and bitter foes-; ilure
fjie, don't ll i. v idluw them to vote.
The negroes, with the right of suf
frage.. would at once give ua, in every.
Stale of the South, a clear and power
ful majority, pledged to isopport the
Government and maintain free insti
tutions ; therefore, don't Id us allow them
to vote. ' -
The negroes have black faces and
curiy hair, but their hearts are un
taitled by treason, and their h'in iare
gudtks if Union blood ; therefore, don
It I us allow i Item to vote. ..
The negroes, if they were to exer
cise the elective franchise, might want
some of the cilice
and
everybody
kniwsihat Provi !ence, ia creating Jau,
man .lein?. 'mft'jd the ofnee- hotding
t faculties to the white ' race; therefore,
don't lei us allow them lo vote,
The negroes, if they are able-bodied,
must Gght in time of war; if they
are rich the' must p-iy taxes; if they
are called upon ta'ajd the -Government
they must c'o it; therefore, don't let s
allow Ihet.i lo vote-.. .. . : .
The negroes in general cannot read
nor write, any more than thousands up
on thousands of while citizens through;
our the Soudi, most of whom have been
fighting against tho Umcn for the list
four years in the ranks of the rebel
armies; therefore, don't let us allow them
to volet " ' . : ' V.
The negroes, through many genera
tions, have endured, at the hands- cf
the white race, tho greatest cruellies,
indignities and outrages that one class
can indict upon another. The weight
of power is on our ide, and nothing
but justice, humanity and religion de
mands that We 'should now t-ndeavor to
atone for tha wrongs whicti ,w have
done lhuui ihtrfoftSitii, as aitoir
iJielfi to role.
The negroes have been h"ld in bon
dasje for two centuries. To expiate
thai act of injustice, we liat just been
compelled to sacra fice a host of price
less lives and to t.penl an enormous
amount'! treasure. Why should we
draw any h-ssons of wisdom from cur
but r experience
not continue to be
? Why sho u'd w e
unju.-t to the race
which Providence, has thrown togeth
er wi:h ourselves upon this great con
tinent, even wht n wu know the penal
ly which may attach to such a course?
Why should we. not have another twen
ty years of perilous political agitation
about this subject, followed perhaps,
by another devatating civil war,
when the whole question might be
peacefully, rightly and honorably and
seit.ed at once ? Oh, ly all means, dont
let vs allow the negtots to vole. Sjra
ruse (A". Y.) Journal.
r--ir"Orpheus C Kerr, in his most
erratic mojds, will break into a bit of
pathos thai relieves a whole column of
sarcasm. In the iust Leader he says,
regarding political discord at such limes
as these: ' "Look with m? along that
hillside yonder, where the gentle sun
casts her lenderest beams upon the new
spring yrass. You see there are irreg
ular mounds; scattered al! the way up
the slope hundreds hundreds !
r.eath them sleep the brave, the w-. pt
o.t the f i'.iiot hemes. Their loyal
biocl, poured in a fervid river to the
twilight ocean cf eternity, has washed
a pollution from our lhg: a blot from
our ercurcheon; and, uh ! that it had al
so borne 'hence upon its purifying cur
rent that unholy, shifting beacon of po
litical discord which ever lures our ship
of Stale toward the breakers."
( "JU is announced that. Horace
Grt?q!e7 no ' logger "controls," the
Tribune.
' Atuly Jolmson's Pluck.
The New York torrespondent of the
Boston JovrneH gives the following an
eTdot' illustrating iha pluck' tf Presi
dent Johnson :
The day before the execution of the
assassins, a company of gentlemen
were at the. Astor House, most of whom
agreed rial Mrs. Surrait would not be
executed, some assigning the reason
that lhe President would not have pluck
enough to brave purrMe sentiment and
allow a woman lo be hung. A well
known merchant of New York who
was prestn coolly remarked, ''A man
who talks about Andy Johnson's want
of pluck evidently. don't know the man.
If Andy Johnson has signed the death
warrant cf Mrs. Surrati, the will die.
If he had intended to reprieve her, he
wouid not have signed it." He added,
"Let me tell you what I know. I was
shut up iu Nashville when the city was
surrounded .by 20,000 rebel troops, who
demanded its surrender. Gen. Uuell
was iu the city in command of 10,000
men. He determined on the surren
der of the city to the rebel forces.
He came to Gov. Johnson -and an
nounced to him that he could not de
fend tho ci;y, and that Nashville must
be surrendered. The Governor heard
him quietiy through, and then replied,
"Y'ou are iu command of the United
States troops, and can do as you will
w ii ii these. But two of the regiments
belong to the State of .Tenneaset'.';
Over those I have roGtrcT,"' Iu toe cerv
tre'of the city is a powder magazine.
I have trenches dug connecting the
magazine with every prominent build
ing in Nashville, and the trains are
laid. Now you march out with , your
iroopst I'll defend the ciiy.'as, long as
I can with my two regiments. When
1 can doni ruort, I vilb, fice the city
and blow ii to .tue.heavens, for by
Nashville shall never be - surrendered
hdo I am alive." Buell did not
march out, and Nashville was not sur
rendered. ' "What I tell you, ' said the
merchant, "I heard. But . the ' moral
grandeur and heroism of those utter
ances cannot be told. And that," qui
etly remarked the merchant, "is ,Audy
Johnson, and so all will find him , who
have to do with him."
; r2fA few days:since, a well dress
ed gentleman stopped al the "AVeddell
House, Cleveland. After,, depositing
$2,000 in the safe he proceeded to im
bibe several times, Getting boozy, he
addressed severel ofthe guesj, .otcv
ui' whom answered him. Finally,
proceeding up to one of the large mir
rors, and seeing himself therein, com
menced a conversation : ''See here,
stranger, do you belong to this house?
if you do, talk lo me; for they art? d d
unsociable hereabouts.'
r-fThe armies of the United Slates
during the last y -ar of the war, were
i.uniericuily much larger than the pop
ular estimate of them. At the recent
festivities of Yale College, in honor of
the students and graduates of that insti
tution who had seen active service du
ring the war, Gen. Parsons, of Sawit
Louis, who was fresh from an inter
view with Secretary Stanton, stated that
7SJ,G12 men had then been.discharged
and sent home, and that another 100,
000 would bu tent home iu a few days.
He further stated that, at the time Lee
surrendered, ther1 were in the service
within two or three thousand of around
mi.lion of men.
:s5DAs an iustauca cf the gratitude
and moJe.sly of the chivalry, we give
the following : A gentleman in Wash
ington CitV, having obtained a promise
cf the release from prison cf his rebe
nephew, as soon as he should lake the
oath of allegiance; apprised the F. F.
V. mo.her of the youth of his success;
in reply to which he received from the
grateful lady a note, in which sha said:
'I think it the least you could do for
your brother's child togti him paroled
and- obtain for him a"' Government
clerkship iu Washington." ,
good story is told of a gallant
Brigadier, who made a visit to the Asy
lum of the Deaf and.Domb at . Raleigh.
N C, he being"so much delighted that
he sent his band over the same evening
to serenade the inmates. The fact
becoming known, he was importuned to
invite thr inmates of the Biiud Asylum
to see his next parade.
"jJ2rIIirain Fuller, once "editor of
the Ne w York Mirror talks of starting
a newspaper in Paris. Hiram is rath
er a poo devil. A Yankee by birth,
he lived long on the charity of a Cop
perhead Hotel keeper in New York,
turned rebel, left his wife and his coun
try, went to Europe as the companion
of an Italan songstress, was a Confed
erate agent iu England and elsewhere,
but probably got no pay, which was all
he earned; and now at the age of sixty
or sixty-five, is in Paris, looking for
something to turn up. He has the
ability to make as worthless a newspa
per as any iu the world.
USTKevenge is longer lived than
cratitud.'. Indorse Mr. Smith's - note
to keep him from failing, and he will
forifet all about it in a month. Pull
Mr. Smith's nose and he will cherish a
secret desire to burn your house down,
for the remainder of his life. Revenge
is a passion. Gratitude only appears
to be only a sentiment. We can all
hate; but it is not one man in a hun
dred that possesses principle enough to
be thankful.
JflCgA curious volume which has
been a ioug time in preparation, is now
approaching completion. Its title is
"The History of Signboard, Ancient
and Modern, with Anecdotes of Fa
mous Taverns and Remarkable Char
acters." Upward of., four, .hundred
pages cf 4nieteetjrig particulars and an
ecdotes have; already been printed, and
a great many1 drawings of old signs
have been'made for the work.
'One of the shortest legislative
bills is that now before the British Par
liament, which is comprised in these
words: ' "From and afier the ISth of
July next, it,shall not be lawful to lock
the dwr of any railway carriage while
any passengers are within it." -
SIt is a curious fact, say come
entomologists, that it is only the female
mosquito that torments U3. A bache
lor says ilia not at all "curious."
JtjriF Robbers are like rain they
fall on the just and the unjust.'- "
Takk any Shape but TuAT.-When
democrats are inveighing, against the
proposition to allow the negroes the bal
lot, it does not sound well for them to
talk about the "ignorance" of the poor
freedmen. How many thousands and
tens of thousands of the simon pure dem
ocrats are there who Afcniiot feau ana will
i uot'Tenrn to read. Thousands of freed-
ren can read, and make good use of their
knowledge, while in some of the Planting
States there exists penal statates against
allowing them to be taught to read. There
is a solid excuse for the ignoranco of tho
negroes, but there is very little to be said
for the white men of this country who
cannot read and write. S-iv anything you
pleas, gentlemen democrats, about ne
gro suffrage, but don't talk about the "ig
norant naers" it doesn't sound well.
OSB Or TH H JolIN" IJaOWS KAinERS.
A Rochester (N. Y. ) paper of a late date
bus t tie following.
"Last evening a colored man by the
name of David Cunningham, who rcsid
ed on the conner of Spring aa l Fitzhugh
streets, died of typhus fever- lie was one
of tho men concerned in the John Brown
raid in Virginia, and at the time of the
arrest of that great Old Domiuion terri
fier he fled to Pennsylvania. He after
ward went to tho West, working in sever
al different States, and a few yeaaa ago
come to this city, where he has been em
ployed mostly in cooking for the soldiers.
Latterly he has been in the caiup on the
Fair Grounds. He was a man of great
physical strength."
What ue Found- Colonel Grace, of
Arkansas, who voted to take that State
out cf the Union, in a recent speech at
Memphis, stated that he ascertianed a
fact which he and the other rebels who
were associated with him have also learn
ed and will remember as long as they live.
He said: "Before this war I never saw a
Federal officer, hardly. I never felt the
slightest oppression of the Federal Gov
ernment; in fact, I never thought wo had
one anril we went out to fight; then I
found we did have a Government."
C7"A Dubuque paper relates the case
of a man in Iowa who was fatally bitten
by a decapitated rattls-snake that is, by
the head of the snake, after it was sever
ed from the body. There is another ven
omous reptile' in this country, called
Slavery, which lias recently been decap
itated, but is still aaaking desperate ef-
forts "to bite, and will succeed, unless
the utmost watchfulness ia observed.
Tlie Labor Question.
If every man in the United States
would pay a fair day's labor, all the dif
ficulties growing out of the war and the
effortB of tho reorganizati6n of the late
lv rebellious States would vanish in a
month. Every discontented laboring
man in tho South would go quietly to bis
tasks, popular disturbancs would cease,
and plenty and abundance would reign
once more throughout tho land. Tue
question of the wages of labor lies at the
veiy fourdat:on of American society and
American politics; and until it is every
where adjusted on a fair and equitable
basis so much money for so much toil
we may in vain hopa for a perfect peace.
We call the attention of all Northern me
chanics and laboring men to the fact,
that tho effort of the class of people to
compel other people to work for them
for little or nothg is the cause of all
tho disturbance tnat we have to fear.
Chrisii rn Itegift'er.
A Fair Hit. Tho San Franciso Spec
tator gets aff the following on its neighbor
the Examiner, edited by B. F. Washing
ton: "Names of the newspapers are some
times very expressive, and often times
contain more than is found in their edi
torial columns, thus showing the effect of
a good name. The Picayune, named af
ter the price at which it was afforded; the
(iaze!e the same; but these are old styl?.
The new and popular idea is to commera
orate some recent scene in our own his
tory. Thus, when the Confedracy was
captured, it attempted to escape iif dis
guise, and would have do no so. but for
the factjJthat..ca the" Confederacy's
mother wished to go to the spring for
water, an iixpudent roll of army blue
cloth concluded to Examin'er.
' The Human Etk. The language of the
eye is very hard to counterfeit. You can
read in the "eyes ' of youf coiiipanionj
while yon talkj whether your argument
hits him, though his tongue will not con
fess it. There is a look by which a tnan
6howa he is a going to say a good thing
and a look when he has said it. Vain and
forgotten are all tho liqe offloea of hospi
tality, if there be no hollidayin the eye.
How many furtive invitations are avowed
by the eye, though dissembled by the lips.
A man comes uway from a company, 'ha
has heard Bo important remark, bat, if
in sympathy with the society, he is cog
nizant of such a stream of life as has
been passing to him through the eye.
There are eyes which give no more ad
mission into them than blue berries; oth
ers are liquid, and deep wells that a man
might fall into: and others are oppress
ive and devouring, and take tyo much
notice.' There are asking and asserting
eyes, eyes full of faith some of good
and some of sinister omen.
Universal Sctfrace. A Washington
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dispatch says;
The belief is gaining ground here that
President Johnson will recommend to the
next Congress in his first message, that
unless the States adopt measures, or em
body in their new Constitutions provisions
fors universal suffrage, that they should
not be admitted. That in determining
the qualifications oi members from the
Southern States entering Congress, he
will require in respects to all classes, in
the South, a right endorsement of all the
changes which have rendered existing
laws and proclamations necessary.
CsTThe United States Pacific Railroad
Company have placed twelve hundred
miles of eir new telegraph to Califor
nia under contract, to build before tho
end of the present season. The wire for
tho line has been purchased, and tho
poles for the interior portion of it will be
cut this fall. The whole line, from Chi
cago to San Francisco, will be completed
and in of eration in one year.
Tho Chicago Journal says. "We
learn that there is at present exhibiting
somewhere in this city an invention which
if successful, will effect a momentous rev
olution in all matters ' coanictci with
steam engicnes. The invention, as we un
derstand it, uurity with st"am engines
altogether, the propelling aent being
generated by a shower bath falling upon
hot iron plates, and passing directly into
the cylinder of the enioe..,
fJSpeaking of the trial of Champ
FergusoD. the Nashville Times and Press
says: Would it not be better to hang
oi burn, or fry to death in Petroleum,
that horrid monster, Champ Ferguson
ard take the remainder of the evidence
afterwards? Enough' testimony hns al
ready been taken to hang a regiment of
villians. Champ is a concentrated ex
ample of wickedness of the rebellion.
He is a monster and has no resemblance
of virtue.
5?"Th spiritualists have discovered
that eating of eggs by the medium, cans
es the "spirit" to come, out jn. greater
force. It adds more phosphorus to the
bodv, and consequently ti the medium,
j -ris egg eating is the most sensible part
ef Kpirituaurm ret promulgated.
Ciirosify Seeker
A correspondent, writing from Wash
ington City, in reference to the morbid
appetite of curiosity seckes to possess
something connected with the President's
assassination, g'.ves this exnniple:
One ot these curious visitors entered
tho saloon adjoining the theatre; where
Booth took' his last driak of brandy,
just before lie murdered Mr. Lincoln.
The visitor inquired for the bar-keeper:
"Have you the same bottle on hand
oat of which Booth drank oh the night of
the assassinationV" i
'Yes sir "
"And the same brandy in it?"
"Yes sir."
"Let's have it,"
The visitor tastes the brandy, makes
a wry face, and continues.
"And that's the same brandy tint
Booth drankr"
"Well, I don't wonder that he killed
the President; a drink of that brnnely
would make a man kill his grandmoth
er.'' rSf At a public meeting in Rocford, II!.,
a short tirao since some mcsn disgrace
ful scamp offered the following toast:
"Tie ladies of 18Gj; they toil not,
neither do they spin; yet Solomon, in all
his glory, was not arrayed like one cf
them!"
C3?"Ti3 of little use for a man pinch
ed with poverty for threescore yenrs, to
get rich then to obtain luxurious food
when he has lost his teeth to eat. with j-..
CAdi8tingui5aed California divine
was asked aftfer a trip to silver land.
"What he thought of the country?" He
replied, "There are bat three things at
Washoe, sir-big mines, little mines
and whiskey Bhops; in other words, Ophir
holes, gopher hole? andjoafer hole."
Thirteen Ykahs Locusts, S: P. O.,
of Madison County, writes us that he
cannot understand whence comes the
name "seventeen years" locust. ' So far
as his observation extends these insects
appear every, thirteen years. , He in
stances the years 1816, 1320, 1812 and
1855 as locust years, and predicts that in
18G3 there will be millions of thsm ip
his vicinity Prairie. Farmer.
(j3?At one of the grand balls in Lon
don this season, three hundred ladies ap
peared without crinoline. ,
CTiTThe. Mirquis off Iletford spent a
million of doiLrs at a recent sale of choice
paintings in Paris.
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CJTTt is now stated that the Hon. Mr".
Norton is -the editor of the London
Owl. :V-
(T"Jaeob Thomson, th rebel agnt in
Canada, hns abandoned his associates,
carrying away with him, all that remain
ed of the "Comfederate" funds.
An UscALLiST Irishman. A
group of ladies in the parlor of a villa
at Uaveuwood, L. I., (opposite Black
well's Island,) were astonished the
other evening by the apparition of a
big Irishman, stark naked, who rushed
through the window, exclaiming "Give
me a suit of clothes." The most extra
ordinnry ccn-temation followed, bt.t
lhe fellow stood his ground, and the la
dies were obliged to give him a suit to
get rid of him.. He then departed ab
ruptly. It turned out lhat he was a
r inaway convict, and Lis audacious
stratagem secured his escape.
Gen. Shehmas. A Copperhead
newspaper published in El! wodsvilie,
Illinois, has brought out the name of
Gen. W. T. Sherman as the candidate
of iis party for lSGS. The. General
has thus far flourished .under the haired
of the Copperheads. If he can con
tinue to prosper under the influence cf
their love., he will prove himself a more
remarkable man than he has yet.
f!i?A Quakeress preacher named
H ies.ed lately visited Bowles, the felon,
in his cell in the Ohio Penitentiary,
and is said to have consoled him as fol
lows: "Friend Bowles, I've known of
thy conduct well, and I am glai to see
thee here. Our wise rulers placed
thee here to answer for thy sins, and
I hope ihey will keep thee here for the
term of thy natural !ife.'
KSflt i? reported that Mrs. Surra'.t's
Counsels who were supposed to te do
ing'lheirwork gratuitously, obtained an
acknowledgement for S3.500 previous
to her execution.
Igsorance and Nationality.
The census of Elma, New York, gives
a population of 2,007. These are 2S
voters, of whom tloO are American
born, 175 German 51 Ireland, 21
England, France 10, and Canada 10.
Of the voters who cannot read or write,
oL.e in thir7-one is American, one in
three and three-quarters .is .German,
oue in two is Irish, one in four Eng
lish, oas in three French, and one in
'ten Canadian.
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