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Death ot Chief Joatlee Hornblower.
New Jersey, in the death of the late
Joskph 0. Hormblowkr, has lost one of
her most eminent citizens. He was born
at Belleville in 1777, educated chiefly at
Orange, and after spending some time in
the commercial house of James Kip, of
New York city, entered, in 1798, the law
office of David B. Ogden, of Newark.
He became a member of the bar in 1803,
and at once secured a lucrative and hon
orable practice; and his integrity and
ability made him prominent in the legal
profession. In 1882 he was appointed
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New
Jersey, and held the office fourteen years,
retiring in 1846. His decisions during this
period are marked by learning, legal acu
men and high moral principle, and occupy
several volumes of the New Jersey Law
Reports. The Newark Advertiser says of
the Chief Justice:
He was at home in the niceties of real law,
with its dependencies of descent, remedies and
executory devises, and in the technicalities of
special pleading; he expounded with skill the
rale of evidence; he was master of the com
mon law of contracts; he was familier with
the criminal law, which he administered with
the learning of a judge and the tenderness ot a
father. His opinions are remarkable for their
exhaustive treatment of the matters to which
they relate. Conflicting cases and innumera
ble authorities are examined with care, and
there is a closeness and precision in his logic
that weaves a golden cord of reason across the
tissue of his opinions; and there is a beauty
of diction which gilds the whole. Many of his
judgments will be landmarks in the law. To
instance a single one. Great difficulty had long
been found in criminal cases in procuring ju
ries, in consequence of the privileges extended
to the counsel of the prisoner of asking the
jurors if they had a preconceived opinion of
the case, and if so, declaring them incompetent
to sit. In the celebrated case of Spencer, tried
for murder of his wife in 1846, Chief Justice
Homblower reversed the practice on the sub
ject, and the rule as he then determined it has
ever since been acted upou by all the Judges
of the Supreme Court, and universally ap-
S roved by the bar. In Polly Bodine’s case, in
tew York, over four hundred jurors had to
be examined before a panel could be formed
to try thu accused, and even then without
avail. The rule as laid down by Chief J usticc
Homblower put an end to this absurd practice
in New Jersey, and has been approved and
followed iu other States.
The battle of Cold Harbor, a few miles from
Richmond, on the 2d of June, was a severe en
gagement. A correspondent of the New York
Tribune gives some interesting particulars of
the marching and fighting of the 6ih corps,
formerly Sedgwick's, now Wright’s. The
correspondent writes:
The 6th corps, marching from the right of
our line of the Tolopotomv, at miduight the
night before, toward the White House, having
moved ten miles, at 8 o’clock yesterday morn
ing struck the head of Smith's corps, marching
from White House, at Old Church Hotel. The
6th, without halting, turned square to the
right, and marcuetl lour miles farther to this
place, followed by the 18th corps, turning,
from its previous course, square to the left.
The former at once went into position, reliev
ing the cavalry which had held the grouud all
the morning, aud only awaited the arrival of
the 18th, to move forward in battle's “ magni
ficent stern array.”
This match of the Gth corps I considered the
most remarkable of this campaign. On Mon
day they marched all day without rations.
That night they formed line of battle, and
with the labor of iutreuchiug and several hours
of the night getting rations, they obtained no
sleep. On Tuesday they were engaged with
the enemy more or less ’ all day This night,
on thirty minutes’ notice, they marehed at mid’
night—marched till morning, marched till
noon, marched till 4 o’clock, and then set to
work with ail thair might intrenching. And
the day was one of the sultriest I ever knew,
and tlie roads ankle deep with dust—impalpal
ble Virginia dust that hung so deuselv m the
air that it became exceedingly palpable. And
yet these 6th corps veterans, hungry for two
days, sleepless for three days, fatigued with re
lentless marching by day and bv night, all
streaming w ith perspiration, grim aud blear
eyed, their hair dusted to the whiteness of
threescore } ears and ten—these men, despite it
all, grasped shovels and axes with tawnv
hands and sprang to work with never surpassed
vigor, and an hour later exchanged tools for
weapons and fought with uuequaied spirit and
tenacity. Show me another record that
matches this!
Intercourse Between the Federal and
Nkw York, June 4 —A special to the Timet
dated headquarters Army of the Potomac. June
11th, iu the afternoon. t-a\s:
—r
Yesterday a general order w is issued by Gen
Meade forbidding unauthorized communica
tion with the euemv. The men on both
sides have been holding intercourse wi h each
other for the interchange of newspapers and
the barter ot coffee aad tobacco. In this wav
a great deai of mischief was likely to result us
intorination of vital importance is always apt
to leak out. The opposing lines of rifle-pits
it must be borne in mind, are not one hundred
yards distant, and in some parts of the line
much closer. For any portion of the bodv to
be exposed the penalty is certain wounding if
not death, but the men are utterly weary with
loading and tiring. They have kept up this
skirmishing for days and no visible advantage
has been gained by either 6ide.
The tire gradually slackens. Officers be
come careless about urging the men to their
work. A magnetic spell influences with equal
power our own men and their mortal enemies.
It is very curious that the combatants are en
tirely hidden from each other’s sight.
The last shot is tired, aud ths lull in the bat
tle 6tonn is perfect. Adventurous spirits on
both sides cautiously raise their heads above
the earthworks. “ How are you, Johnny ? "
“ How are you, Yank?are the questions usu
ally bandied. “ Won’t you shoot ?’’ says one.
“ No,” says the other. “ Well, we won’t,”
chime in all. aud immediately the parapets are
swarmed with men who have been concealed
behind them. Out jump the fellows from the
rifle pits, aud. putting down their guns, stretch
their cramped forms upon the grass. Sharp
shooters covertly' slide down from their perch
«s in the trees and 101 l about in utter abandon.
Trade is quickly opened, and all sorts of com
modities are exchauged. The men have keen
pleasure in their singular armistice, bantering
each other sharply and never overetepping
the hall way line winch separates their resnec
live fortifications. iff Sy®
‘•Run back, Johnnys,” or “kun back Yanks”
just as it happens to be, “ We are
shoot,” and hostilities begin a B ° t(>
It is always understood, however that th«
first shot shall be aimed high and tie yerlist
dawdler gets bock to shelter safely
While this fraternal scene is beino- ran »t«H
on one part of the line, the battle rafes hotfft
.Tlareliing and Fighting.
Confederate Soldier*.
other portions of the extended front, which
measures by miles. Was ever such strange
warfare known before ? It is easy enough to
see, however, that these anomalous episodes
may be abused. The rebels availed themselves
of such a truce the other day to strengthen a
battery which had been reduced to silence and
had kept still for nearly a week. The work
consequently had to be done over again.
I have seen a great number of prisoners latc
iv. Their appearance utterly refutes the cur
rent stories that the rebel army is in a destitute
and starving condition. It is* simply idle to
talk abont starving the army into submission.
The rebel soldiers, as a general thing, are stout,
strong, and the very pictures of health. It is
insulting to our brave men that statements so
industriously circulated, respecting the feeble
ness and lack of power of endurance of the
southern soldiers, should be believed. The ra
tions of the rebel troops may not be in as great
variety as those furnished our men, but they
have proved to be fully as nutritious. This
fact cannot be gainsayed.
Receut Decision of Cases In the
Supreme Court.
Ovid Finney, Respondent, vs. Abram M. Frid
ley, Appellant.
SYLLABUS.
The plaiutiff brought an action to recover
the possession of real estate. The complaint
alleged that on a certain day the defendant was
the owner in fee of the land. That he executed
a mortgage of the same to the plaintiff. The
complaint then states such steps separately
and particularly of a foreclosure of the mort
gage by advertisement, the purchase of the
land by the plaintiff at the sale, and the expira
tion of the period of redemption without the
land being redeemed, and adds that “underand
by virtue of said mortgage and foreclosure
thereof as aforesaid, the plaintiff is seized in
fee simple of the said premises,” Ac. Held,
On demurrer to the complaint that the failure
to allege that the mortgage contained a power
of sale was fatal to the sufficiency of the plead
ing-
tV here a pleading sets out all the facts by
which a party has attempted to acquire title to
land, and they are insufficient, a general alle
gation of ownership dependent on such facts
will not snpply the defects, although such al
legation wonld have been a sufficient averment
of title in the absence of the particular facts.
Where a pleading sets out each successive
step taken in the progress of the foreclosure of
a mortgage by advertisement, but fails to state
one fact necessary to the validity of the fore
closure, a subsequent allegation that the mort
gage was duly foreclosed, will not supply the
defect, although such general allegation of
foreclosure would have been sufficient in the
absence of the special facts.
Where a general fact or result such as own
ership of land, or the foreclosure of a mortgage
is pleaded, and also the special facts by which
such result is reached, and the facts do not
support the result, the facts will control.
John S. Merriam, Plaintiff in Error vs. Daniel
A. J. Baker Defendant in Error.
SYLLABUS.
If a court, where an action is commenced,
has authority to try and determine actions of
that class or character, such actions within
the meaning of the plea of “another action
pending,” may be considered as depending
therein, notwithstanding the existence of a
question as to whether said court acquired
jurisdiction of the parties or the particular
case, so long as such question remains unde
cided, and until such court decides against its
jurisdiction iu that case.
John R. Franklin, et al., Respondents, vs.
John B. Warden, et al., Appellees.
SYLLABUS.
A judgment was recovered iu this State
against principals and surety, and real estate
of the latter sold to the judgment creditors
sufficient to satisfy the judgment in full.
Prior to this sale a transcript was taken to
Wisconsin, a judgment recorded thereon,
which was also satisfied in full by a sale of the
property of one of the principals, which was
also struck off to th 6 judgment creditors at the
instance of the attorney in action, but not un
till some time alter the sale in this State. In
an actiou by a mortgagee of the lands sold in
this State, against all the parties to the judg
ment, to have the sale thereof set aside and
the land relieved from the Hen of the judg
ment : Held, that the sale last in point of time
was the only one which could be set aside on
the ground that the debt had previously been
satisfied, that as the judgment in Wisconsin
was obtained, andjthe whole proceedings there
on including the sale were without the knowl
edge or consent of the parties plaintiff therein
they ought not to be bound or prejudiced bv
said judgment or proceedings. That the at
torneys employed generally to obtain the
judgment in this State would not have been
authorized to institute the proceedings in Wis
consin nor to employ attorneys so to do;
nor to empower attorneys so employed to bid
off in the name of the judgment creditors the
real estate sold on execution.
Francis Z. Asher, Respondent, vs. Albert
Baze, Appellant. •
SYLLABI'S.
Under the laws in force hero in lgJkl, a cred
itor might levy an attachment upon the per
sonal or real property of his debtor, notwith
standing a previous fraudulent assignment or
conveyance; and where real estate is so levied
upou, the creditor secured alien thereon from
the time of tiling and recording the writ and
return as required by the statute.
Such record was notice to all the world of
the claim and lieu of the attaching creditor,
and thereafter any person purchasing the lands
of the alleged fraudulent grantee took, subject
to all the equities which could be enforced
against the later.
SYLLABUS.
Daniel E. Montgomery, Respondent, vs. Win.
MsEwen, Appellant.
The plaintiff commenced an action to set
aside and discharge a mortgage executed by
him to defendant, on the ground that he had
satisfied and pefrormed the c< editions upon
which it was given.
The defendant answered, putting in issue the
allegations of the complaint, but did not ask
affirmative relief. Pending this action, the
defendant proceeded to foreclose his mortgage
by advertisement. The plaintiff, upon petition
setting up these facts, obtained an injunction
restraining the foreclosure. Held, That a
mortgagee, by statute, has two remedies or
methods of foreclosing his mortgage, and that
in the action commenced against him to dis
charge the mortgage, he could not be com
pelled to ask affirmative relief (viz. the fore
closure of his mortgage) or be barred from
foreclosing the same by advertisement.
In order to authorize the issuance of a writ
of injunction, a party must show that it is nec
essary for the protection of rights which are
eleir or beyond reasonable doubt, that without
it he will suffer irreparable or great injury, or
that he is entitled to more immediate relief
than can be obtained by the ordinary coarse of
proceedings And facts must be stated in the
petition or affidavit, which establish such alle
gations, and it is not sufficient that the peti
tioner states them as an opinion or conclusion
ot his own mind on the subject.
Jane Tnllls by her next friend Morris Lamprey
Appellant,! against Abram M. Fridlev Riol
spondent.
SYLLABUS.
A gift ot a promissory note from a husband
to his wife, directly, and without the interven
tion of trustees, although a nullity at law, will
be recognized and enforced in equity as against
the maker of the note, and the husband where
the rights of creditors are not prejudiced
thereby.
THE WEEKLY PIONEEK AND DEMOCRAT
Tlae National Union Committee.
MUTING IN WASHINGTON —ORGANIZATION OF
THE OOMMITTU —HEADQUARTERS TO BE IN
THE CITT OF NEW YOBK.
Washington, Friday, Jane 10.—A meet
ing of tiie National Union Committee was
held in this city to-day, when, on motion
of Mr. Senter, of Ohio, it was resolved that
the Chairman appoint an Execntive Com
mittee of five, and that the headquarters
of the committee be in the city of New
York.
On motion of Senator Lane, of Kansas,
it was resolved that the Chairman of this
Committee be a member and Chairman of
the Execntive Committee.
Hon. E. M. McPherson declining to ac
cept the office ot Secretary, it was resolved
that Hon. N. D. Sperry, of Connecticut, be
appoYnted in his place, and that he also be
a member and Secretary of the Executive
Committee.
On motion of Senator Lane, of Kansas,
it was resolved that an advisory committee
of five be appointed by the Chairman, to
have its headquarters at St. Louis, for such
purposes and with snch powers as the Ex
ecutive Committee may deem it expedient
to confer upon it.
The Ohairtnan then appointed as Execu
tive Committee: Messrs. Claflin, of Massa
chusetts ; Ward, of New Jersey; Senter,
of Ohio; Purviance, of Pennsylvania; and
Clark, of New Hampshire; and as the Ad
visory Committee: Messrs. Lane, of Kan
sas ; 8. H. Bond, of Missouri; B. 0. Cook,
of Illinois; D. P. Stubbs, of Iowa; and
Thomas Simpson, of Minnesota.
On motion it was resolved that the
Chairman of the Committee be also its
Treasurer.
On motion of Senator Lane, it was re
solved that the Chairman be authorized
and requested to correspond with the Pres
ident of the National League in regard to
the Presidential campaign.
The Committee then adjourned.
HENRY J. RAYMOND, President.
N. J. Si'erry, Secretary.
From *l»e South.
THB OAPTOBE OF THE GUNBOAT WATER WITCH.
New York, June 11.—A Hilton Head
letter gives fuller details of the recent cap
ture of one of onr vessels:
“At three o’clock on the morning of
Friday, the 3d inst., the blockader Water
Witch was captured by the rebels in Ossa
bau Sound. The only person on board
that escaped was a negro, who, at the time
of attack, leaped overboard aud swam to
Tybee Island, and thence made his way to
Fort Pulaski. He states that the rebels
stealthily approached the gunboat in scows,
olimbed up her sides without opposition,
and immediately took her into possession.
Not a shot was fired from either side.
The whole substance of the matter is that
the officers of the Water Witch weie com
pletely su; prised. The affair is conceded
to be one of the rrost disgraceful marine
disasters that has ever taken place in the
department. The Water Witch was built
after the model of the Harriet Lane, was
of about 1,800 tons burden, and carried
three 100 pounder Dahlgrens and three
12-pounder howitzers. Her fate is not
known, but it is believed she was run over
to Nassau. On the day preceding that of
her capture she had been visited by the
supply ship Massachusetts, and bad taken
on board a large quantity of subsistence
stores By losing the Water Witch we
lose one of the fleetest, and, in every re
spect, the most valuable for block
ade service we had in the squadron. It
was reported yesterday at Hiltou Head
that a small boat, well manned, sent out
from Feruandina for the purpose of mak
ing a search for the missing gunboat, bad
not been heard from, and that the suppo
sition is that the small boat wita its crew
had been gobbled up. ”
THE CAPTURE OF THE UNITED STATES STEAMER
WATER WITCH
From tfce Richmond Sentinel June 6.
The following official dispatch has just
been received by the Honorable Secretary
of the Navy:
Savannah, June 3,186 t.
Hon. S. It. Mallory, Secretary of the. Navy :
Bir —l have the honor to report that aii expe
dition from my commaud, under Lieut. F. P.
Pelot, Confederate States Navv, last night car
ried by boarding the United States steamer
Water Witch, near Ossibaw Sound, after a
hard fight. Our loss is the gallant Lieut. Pe
let, Moses Dallas (colord pilot) and three men
killed; from ten to twelve wounded. I will
telegraph you more iu detail at the earliest
moment, I am, very respectfully,
W. W. HUNI ER, Flag Officer.
The Petersburg Express says that the
Water Witch was a somewhat distin
guished craft in the old Navy She
figured, some years before the war, in the
Paraguay expedition, in South America.
She must be a pretty substantial vessel,
aud her capture is a brilliant affair.
Something after the Old Sort.
From the St. Losls Rcpub-iean.
Now that negro slavery is traveling so
fast into the “sphere of speculation,” and
is becoming so useless as a weapon of
offence in political warfare, it is a little
strange that intelligent journals think it
desirable to air the old fallacious statistics
connected with that nearly dead and gone
institution. As an instance, to show how
long a bad habit will hang cn, we quote
the following from the New York Evening
There (in the South) the blacks were ‘''rais
ed ” like cattle, and increased with abnormal
rapidity by th? special efforts of the slave
owners, while the whites were permitted to
wilt away through poverty and want.
This statement is so utterly opposed to
the census returns that we can account for
its appearance in such a journal only upon
the supposition above suggested. Iu the
fourteen slave States the percentage of in
crease from 1860 to 1860 was 42.21 among
the whites; while among the blacks the
increase was only 23.89 per cent. It can
not be said, in order to impair the force of
this comparison, that the whites in those
States have had many added to their num
bers by immigration from Europe, as most
of that movement is directed towards the
free States. Ifj then, the blacks in those
States have increased with “ abnormal
rapidity," while doubling onoe in about
forty-four years, that “wilting” must be
extravagantly abnormal which is predicated
of the whites, who doable their numbers iu
twenty-four yeare. The fact is, the whites
in the slave States have always increased
faster than the blacks. It is quite as true,
too, that the slaves have increased faster
than the free blacks. These are the figures
for two decades:
Ending. Free blacks. Slaves.
1860 12.46 28 82
1860 12.32 12.30
The oompiler of the census for 1860
thinks the negroes are doomed to a pretty
speedy extinction. And the facts seem to
warrant the conclusion that it is only in a
state of mitigated slavery—such as is now
passing away—that the negroes in this
country can be expected to survive as a
race.
Panbhment of Guerillas.
The bill which passed the House last Mon
day provides as follows:
That the provisions of the twenty-first sec
tion of an act entitled “An act for enrolling
and caHing out the national forces, and for oth
er purposes.” approved third March, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three, shall apply as well to
the sentences of military commissions as to
those of conrts martial, and hereafter the com
manding general in the field, or the command
er of the department as the case may be, shall
have power to carry into execution all senten
ces against guerillas, and for robberv, arson,
burglary, rape, assault with intent to" commit
rape, and for violation of the laws and customs
of war, as well as sentences against spies, mu
tineers, deserters and murderers.
Sbc. 2.' That every officer authorized to order
a general court martial shall have power to
pardon or mitigate any punishment ordered
by such court, including that of confinement
in the penitentiary, except the sentence of
death, or of of cashiering or dismissing an offi
cer, 'which sentences it shall be competent
during the continuance of the present rebel
lion for the general commanding the army in
the field, or the department commander, as
the case may be, to remit or mitigate; and the
fifth section of the act approved July seven
teenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, chap
ter two hundred and one, be, and the same is
hereby, repealed, so far as it relates to senten
ces of imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The following letter has been addressed
by the Corresponding Secretary of the Minne
sota Irish Immigration Bociety, to the editors
of the different Eastern papers devoted to the
interests of the Irish in this country:
Rooms of the Minn. Irisu Imvigr vtion Society, >
Box , St. Paci# June —, 1864 5
Df.ak Fie : I am instructed by the Min .e.*ota I’i-h
Immigration Soci ty to forward to you the accompa
nying documents tor publication in your paper,
and to solicit your influence in behalf of the objects
of onr young society.
In performing this pleasing duty, it won'd be pre
sumptuous of me to enlarge upon the advantages
which wonld accrue to our people by th-dr being in
duced to powers 'hemselves of th- ir due propor ion
of the land in this country; to show how admirably
adapted they are by habit, early trainirg ai d char
acter for agricultural pursuits; to point ont tne
young Irishman inst landed onourehcres, hcaithv
in bod>, temperate in ha its. pure in mind, and to
contrast him with nis brother 'rishman who has
spent five years engaged on public works; or living in
the purlieus of a crowned city, avain to contrast the
1 <tter with the more fo tunate emigrant who imme
diately after arriving in this country, settled on t'.e
land.
In writing to you I but glance at points which, un
der other ciTumstarces, I migh be tempted to cn
la ge upon, been use in you I recognbe a wel -tried
friend to your Irish fellow countrymen—one whohas
studied to advance theiricteres‘B, and, con equently,
one who has given much thought to thefntureof the
Celtic race in this country. But, I pray you now
again to review this important question fully, atten
tively, and 1 h ve little doubt but that the result will
be your hearty co operation in behalf of our society,
hay, more. I trust, by yonr advocacy of its views,
other communities w"I be induced to follow our ex
am Je end, as something higher and better than
personal motives actuates us. we will not look upon
such organizations as rivals, altboagh we will en
deavor to rival ’hem in doing good
Wecanno' promise to the Immigrants, coming to
Minnesota, gold fields, with their acrompan ring gold
fevers; hut we do promise to the Industrious the
prospect of a M 're of peaceful prosperity, in homes
where their children may grow up amid associstio- s
pare and healthy as the air th t they will breathe;
in their hearts the trad tions and hopes of our race’
fresh and fragrant as the wild flowers with which
Nature has beautified the prairies, and to which we
invite them, “more Irish than the Iri-h themselves ”
We have chosen the .-rate of Mimesota tor the
field of onr labors in behalf of our Irish immigrants
because here are our homes and here onr services
can be mo-t efficient; because it is pre-eminently the
Queen o the Northwestern S ates; because we have
practical knowlepge of the rlchmi e of its lands and
h >w adapted is its climate to the healthy, vborr us
Ce'tl’ or^aniza'ion.
The documents I f rward will best explain the
present position of onr society. Tt is in its infancy,
but it has started nnder happy auspices It has a
zealous friend in onr revered oishop (the Right Rev.
Dr. Grace): its President is a beloved and gifted
Priest (the Rev. John Ireland); and already has it
received tenders of supp- rt from influent! 1 parties
While, ontside of this -tate. we can only look lor he
support of warm fi tends, it is nevertheless fair to
sup;>ose tha' within the State we will be supported
by all c asse- ot its citizens.
Our prima-y object is to serve our own people, but
the cou se we take to do this, If successful, must ne
cessarily benefit Minnesota We rejoice that it is so ;
for, though secondary with us it too. is a laudaMe
ob ect and one whit h cannot fail to give our society
a good position . t home.
_ With wise forethought the Germans and Norwe
gians hasten to the Northwest to build up home
steed-' and to labor for them elvesthat which they
sow they reap: that which they reap goes into their
own barns, and is theirs: w hile a- a general thing,
the Itish crowd into large cities, or flock around pub
lic works, to oil for o hers the gre"t wea th of their
labor not going, as it shonid, to build n > homesteads
for themselves and their children, but to the profit of
shoddy speculators, in whose eyes they are mere
Irish”
This is a fact whie'i, from its many consequences.
J l «* painful to dwell uprn, and to change which the
best efforts of cur society will he direetjd.
\\ e are not, indeed, so foolish as to suppose we
can g»t all Irish emigrants to come out West, —no
fenr but that jou will always have a large Irish popu -
lati in in your ft astern ciies; but we w< u’d impress
upon our countrymen how aU-impo-rant it is that
they should possess themselves of their due prop >r
tion ot the l*nd We ask the enlightened, prosper
ous In.bm n to assist their poo-er countrymen to do
so, it they wish to see them in this their apoptsd
country possessed of that power, influence and re
spect which possession of the land can alone bestow
upon them
I have the honor to remain, dear sir. faithfully
lours, DILLON O’BRIEN.
—From London we are Informed that Gen.
Geo. B. McClellan has a fair chance of being
declared heir to the personal fortune of the late
Sir Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde) the great war
rior who, it may be said, won the empire of
India to England. The family' history of the
case, shows that the hero of the Potomac army
stands already' well on the list of heirs pre
sumptive in the case. •
—A St. Louis correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes: “The German papers
have all hoisted the names of Fremont and
Cochrane. Two-thirds of the Radical party' of
this party are outspoken and enthusiastic over
the nomination and are assailing the Democrat
with unsparing censure.
Boston, June 15.—The cargo of the prise
steamer Greyhound was sold at auction to-day.
Total amount realized for cotton on board wa«
$500,000.
HB
THb drafted in the second
I DISTRICT.
physical debility.
Wateraian i St. Augusta, Stearns;
turedribs. 1 ’ R ° bert8 ’ Woodland > Wright; frac
con s tit utiom° Kera ’ Bame ’ “ me ? feebleness of
Henay Woolf, Frankfort, same; synoritis,
(injury to the right knee.) ’ 3 ’
TT >,l i n J*Q 9 £ Cr ? nZ ' ton ’ Meeker, deafness.
Uirlch Schudgen, Carver, blindness of right
W. M. Wickham, Warsaw, Goodhue iniurv
to right foot. ’ J *
Joseph Schwinghammer, St. Joseph,Stearns
permanent expansion of pupils loss of sight’
Frederick Kottke, Corcoran, Hennepin
greatly diminished vital capacity.
Robert Hoover
John J. Salcbert, St. Martin, Stearns, partial
loss sight both eyes.
William Watrous, Middleville, Wright, con
sumption.
John Malsea, Middleville, Wright, hernia.
Amos J. Gardner, Middleville, Wright, in
jury to right hand.
Michael Hayes, Middleville, Wright, loss of
teeth.
Joseph Mayz. Minnetrista, Hennepin.
Gustavus Johnson, San Francisco, Carver.
John Milburg, Leon, Goodhue, permanent
flexion right hand.
Jonn Kleamer, Munson, Stearns, deafness.
Henry Corteg, do do do
James Butter, Maple Lake, Wright, do
Nickolas Karls, Hollywood, Carver, loss of
right eye and splay foot.
Charles Burkhard, Hollywood, Carver,
chronic ophthalmia.
Simeon Kasper, Frankfort, Wright, hernia.
John Peterson, San Francisco, Wright, do
Jeffrey O'Connell, Woodland, Wright, chro
nic rhenma ism.
Daniel Mullen, Maple Lake, Wright, varicose
veins.
Job Ridgway, Warsaw, Goodhue, feebleness
of constitution.
Peter Shaler, Crystal Lake, Hennepin, chro
nic opthalmia.
NOB RESIDENT.
E. Stickler, Eureka, Dacotah.
N. Layton, Corcoran, Hennepin.
ALIENAGE.
Wm. Gotkin. Warsaw. Goodhue.
Wm. Luke, Winstead, McLeod.
OVER AGE.
Antone La Count, Plymouth, Hennepin.
COMMUTED.
Fuls Peterson, Ripley, Meeker.
John Hamilton, Maple Lake, Wright
Nicholas Selchem, Helen, McLeod.
Charles Deage, do do
Nicholas Jacobs, Wakefield, Stearns.
Paul Thieson, Rockville, Stearns.
George Sneter, do do
John Krabsback, do do
Edward Turner, Crystal Lake, Hennepin
Wm. Engles, St. Joseph, Stearns.
David Bebo, New Canada, Ramsey.
H. Honinghausen, St. Martin, Stearns.
Xavier Augie, New Canada.
H. Linderfelsen, Franfori, Wright.
Hugh Chalmers. Glasgow, Wabashaw.
Patrick Ward, Frankfort, Wright.
Michael Scmid, Wakefield, Steaans.
Thomas Ward, Frankfort, Wright
L. C. Dunn, White Bear, Ramsey.
FURNISHED SUBSTITUTES.
John Zacham, Franklort, Wright
Joseph Vestch.
John Johnson. Warsaw, Goodhne.
Jacob Vetsch, Frankfort, Wright.
August Zimmerman. Camden, Wright.
R. B. Wilson, Warsaw, Goodhue.
MUSTERED INTO SERVICE.
Ferdinand Anthony, Hollywood, Carver.
Alf Anphinson, Warsaw, Goodhue, (substi
tute.)
John Amzen, Hollywood, Carver.
Joseph Hegerle. ’ do do
John Igel, Frankfort. Wright.
Seraphine Kempf, Watertown, Carver.
Baptist Marx Frankfort, Wright
James H. Thomas, Young America, Carver.
Lorenz Vetsch, Frankfort, Wright
Valentine Valerius do do
Charles Wendtlandt, Penn, McLeod.
Frederick Zimmerman, Camden, Carver.
MUSTERED INTO SERVICE#
George M. Adams, Wakefield, Stearns, (sub
stitute.)
John Ahlcs. Rockville, Stearns.
Joseph 8011, Minnetrista. Hennepin, (substi
tute.)
Thomas S. Craniville, Leon, Goodhne.
Nicholas Friedman. Wakefield, Stearns.
John Green, Chanhassm, Carver.
Augustus E. Houghton, Warsaw, Goodhue.
John McGanty, Woodland, Wright.
Michael Moletoe, Rockville, Stearns.
John Moran, Eden Prairie, Hennepin, (sub
stitute.)
Peter Swanson, Burgen, McLeod.
James Wescott. Eagan, Dacotah.
Michael Ziehath Burgen, McLeod.
Felix Bastian, Belle Prairie, Morrison.
Amos Chambers, Moor’s Prairie, Wright.
Raymond Emmerson. 8t Martin, Stearns.
Charles Etzel, Frankfort, Wright (substi
tufe).
Caspar Happ. Laketown, Carver.
Wi.liam Mills, Warsaw, Goodhue.
Warren Merriman, Minnetrista, Hennepin.
Joseph Maly, Oak, Stearns.
A. P. Oliver, Leou, Goodhue.
Samuel Parks New Canada, Ramsey.
L. J. Price, Leon, Goodhue.
Peter Schumaker. Frankfort, Wright
Sylvanns Stone. Oak, Stearns.
Henry Synkau, Penn, McLeod.
D. Van Amburgh. Leon, Goodhne.
Casper Zimmerman, Frankfort, Wright,(sub
stitute).
The Nain Jaane. relates the following French
anecdote:
At the commencement of the winter two
journalists were in conversation at the opera.
The pne, M. De X , is a bachelor; the oth
er. M. De Y , just married.
“ Well,”said one to the other, “how do you
get along iu your new capacity ?”
“Ah ! my dear, there is nothing like being
married. You cannot imagine how happy l
am. When lam at work aiy wife is at my
side, and I embrace her at the conclusion of
each paragraph This is charming.”
“ Now I uuderstand,” was the happy retort
of X , “ why your sentences are bo short.”
This conversation quickly spread through
Paris.
From that time forth the articles of Y
were consulted by the public as the thermorm
eter of his conjugal felicity.
During two months the prose of M. T
was disjointed and epigramatic, in shorter pe
riods than are to be found in the earlier writ
ings of Emile de Girardin.
AH the women grew jealous of Madame
But gradually the periods elongated,
The phrases were more involved
The paragraphs were inflated, ’
The honey-moon was passed!
At last Madame V opened the journal
edited by M. Y , and casting a rapid glance
over the article signed with his name, cried:
What! but a single paragraph in the whole
article! poor woman, a divorce will most as
suredly follow.”
—ln Madison; Wis., on Sunday morning
Frank Doris, a saloon keeper, was shot by
Sergeant Ross, Co. G, 3d Wisconsin cavalry,
and died that day. The parties had got in a
row over a woman of easy virtue, and at last
the aflfair was settled as above stated. Ross
has not been taken.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.
In the examinations of drafted men
there are frequent exposures of the untruth*
fulness and moral weakness of men who might
have maintained the appearance of honest
manliness if never brought to each a test as
this, but there are more numerous evidences
that the good old fashioned honesty and other
virtues, sometimes imagined to be almost ex*
tinct, yet exist among tnc people. The cow
ardice of some and the falsehoods of others are
disgusting, though in another sense, equally
with the unclean limbs and bodies of the un
washed. But there are more who display the
highest courage who neither limp nor beg,and
who tell their situation, if they speak of how
hardly the draft bears on them, in such a spirit
as to gain the respect as well as the sympathy
of their bearers. These, if they are compelled
to remain for service, submit without useless
complainings or unjust revilings of the gov
ernment and its officers. The virtues we as
cribe to the highest type of the old Roman
character have had their representatives among
tho plainly clothed and common looking men
gathered daily at tho door of the office of the
Board of Enrollment in this city—virtues no
less grand in that they may be unrecorded and
unrecognized among men.
If there is aoy relief to the regret which
mnst be felt that the operation of the draft
bear hard upon the poorest classes of our citi
zens, it may be found in incidents like these:
Joseph 8011, of Minnetrista,goes os substitute
for his brother, Andrew 8011. No bounty.
David Maxon, unmarried, of Medina, goes
as substitute for tis brother, Benjamin Maxon,
married. No bounty.
John Moran, of Eden Prairie, aged 18, goes
os substitute for his brother, George Moran,
married. No bounty.
These are recent instances. We understand
that others have occurred of a like nature, the
substitute offering themselves, without bennty,
in place of relatives whose family ties or other
circumstances made their going into the army
an especial hardship. Honor is given to the
volunteer who, with the inducement of higher
pay, and large bounties, with chance of promo
tion, gives himself to the service of his conn
try. These men, doubtless equally patriotic,
exhibit a virtue which should redeem the des
ignation of substitute from the stigma attached
to it by the conduct of Eastern bounty-jump
ers. So faithful and self-sacrificing at the call
of fraternal love, we doubt not they will prove
themselves earnest in the cause of the Union
and gallant soldiers.
—Gen. Buell has resigned his colonelcy in
the regular army and retired to private life.
—A paragraph in the New York Herald
says:
Major Merritt, late Engineer-in-Chief of the
Western Gunboat service, is sole heir, by the ‘
will of a relative, to property valued at two
and a half millions of dollars ($2,500,000.)
It is to Major M. that the credit of the effi
ciency tiie gunboat service is due more than
to any other man; and it is pleasant to learn
that he is in lack.
—A gentleman in conversation remarked to
Presinent Lincoln on Friday that nothing could
defeat him but Grant’s capture of Richmond,
to be followed by his nomination at Ch.eago
and acceptance. “Well,” said the President,
“ I fell very much like the man who said he
did’t want to die particularly, but if he had got
to die, that was precisely the disease he would
like to die of.”
—A counterfeit SSO treasury note has been
put in circulation in Philadelphia. It is said to
be an exact imitation of the genuine, though
the shade of the ink in not precisely the same,
and on very close examination, a slight differ
ence may be observed in the engraving of the
portrait in the centre of the note. Care should
be exercised in handling treasury notes of this
denomination.
—The great New York State Inebriate Ajv
lum, at Binghampton, is approaching comple
tion, and its friends are expecting great things
from it. One ward will be open for patients
the present month. Among the Board of Di
rectors for the ensuing year are Dr. Valentine
Mott, President, ex-President Fillmore and
Daniel S. Dickinson. Mr. Prime has been
chosen Chaplain.
—Colonel Marshal Lefferrs, late commander
of the 7th New York Regiment, National
Guard, has been appointed a Brigadier General
by Governor Seymour. It is understood that
his new command is to be the 22d Brigade, but
it is not yet known whether his assignment is
to duty in the field or in the State.
—After a protracted contest over the Daca.
tah contested election case, the House of Rep- I
resentatives, to-day, voted Gen. Todd, Mre.
Lincoln’s brother, as having the right to the
seat. The report in this case showed the most
glaring fraud.
—Gen. Finnegan, who was not long since in
command of the rebel army iu Florida, and
who defeated Gen. Seymour at Olustee, waa
subsequently sent to support Joe Johnston in
Georgia, was present at some of the recent bat.
ties of Gen. Lee, and is now lying wounded in
Richmond. This fact shows how rapidly and
how constantly the rebels are moving their
forces from point to point, to sustain the weak
places, when necessity demands it.
A dispatch from Milwaukee says the crops
of Wisconsin are in prospect of being almost
totally ruined on account of the protracted
drouth that prevails, and the lumbering inter
ests are also in danger of suffering very mate
rially from the same cause.
—The bogus proclamatiou (by Howard, of
the Times), regarding the effects of which
abroad so many apprehensions were expressed
was taken out by the Scotia, which reached
Liverpool May 27. The telegraph summaries
of the news, forwarded to the press in advance
of the arrival of the mails, had announced that
such a document had appeared, and that it was
a forgery.
Minnesota Centkal —Three hundred
tons of iron for the M. C. Railrond was on
barges lying at Red Rock yesterday to be towed
up last evening or to day. We understand that
track laying, from Minneapolis out, will soon
be commenced. The heavy catting and filling,
and the building of the bridge, near Fort Snell
lng, is progressing more rapidly the past few
eeks.
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