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BUSINESS DIBECTOBt. Jo t sai,'tA., A.rsersLa . i. aeouuJ floor. WUliiuiM tkock. T T. ; LOVKK. Attormay at Law, tl So. 4 Muad floor, Yi uuu' tiioj.. jalyl, 7"tf i-v KlPliaET. iunM st La J J. uu ir, fuuno. otboetn WolAey Block, over bUMtu cioLhLne- ttfcoie. juiylStf PUPFbKTUi MmSCL.tt.UY, tnn nut Law, IMUwiu, Ohio. W ill aUeiM MiaDU(lulllanl Dual fleas iBtrnstad to faeir out la Delaware and adjolnlnc om- UtM. B. r. POFFLBTOir. C H. WaLaoT Iwmmtre, OUlo. Will rouipUy irtlend to all iel buHineaa iniruud to melr eax In Delaware, U uloii. Franklin, Marlon auu Morrow uuanuea. Auouiluu wUI be given to practice in Frobate Court, and to the ol leotiun of bounty, back pay ud pensions. Oiiloe, West aide oaoluluaky street, neareuuu tyouioaa. foi,io '87-j CUUCbJEHT A ULtMWiUK. J, (Jul, uwUor ik Cmlurr, tlaa a ware, Fauoy vHioila, Ink ti-or norm f Delaware County uoual Ba&a nwss CL0THIIO. IV ia ina. OMluienM. t-:i ta li rn iMti t tiir jwua. opiMjaiua a un s muuuiu nn DRvesiaxs. ?J LT BHiSU a CO, MttHOri M M. J . l. Start, No. 6 Williams Block, dealer n Drum, Medicines, Palnta, Oils, Varnish, Brushes. Ao. o 1H.Y OOODI. 1 iKlU, fTCROBOS CO, Wa-ola- sale od Ketaii dealers In Foreign and Domwtio Dry tioods, Notions, Carneta. Ac, No. I Wllllama btoot, Delaware, Ohio. J. W. DOA VIX, ermn, Bnduky street. Ha. ! ETC. LITTKLL BOW, Daalara tm Family Qruerrtn and Provtalona. Al waya on hand. Coriee, Teaa, ttuirars. Floor, Pork, Dried Beef, Hams, buoaldero, Molas ses, Fyrups, dto. Location, one door south of Millers Block, febls 'M HlHlJWiKE. MI,. TARE, 9 alavara below Aanar- lean House, dealer In Bolldera Hard ware, Meohanlcs Tools, Farm and Oarden Implements, rteeds. Pam(, Paints, Oils. Vir&latM, Brushes, Winaow Crifuss, Cut Isrv, c stock large, and entirely new. apritf CC. CHAHBERL1II fc CO, Dala- ware, O'do, dealea-lu Hard ware, t:ot lery AToola a!o. dealers In Agricultural Implements, Reapinic aud Mowiw Machi nes, Threshing Machines, Plows, Harrow a, Ae., a-o. C. C. CilAMBKKLA.lir, J. H. HtmrHUva. n. D. MTTEB 4k. CO., Templar Hall, Hoala 4 .. I t... BalMinir ; iter lata, f armer's and Merban- lo's looia. Faints, Oils, Varnishes and Hard. Wars (Jeaeraiiy. Ian 11 '07 JEWBLIRIi CFIiATT, Is. Will la Bleak. . dealer In Fine Watobea, Jewelry and I3!lver Ware. Agent for tbe Howe Bevlm Machine. aprl S FHOTOeaAFHBBI, A. BEACH, PRACTICAL PHO tographer, over J. Hyatt A Co.'slMor. mtveeiiTt. H OWK BR.O.. City Draf 8t.r, cor. 8andakyand William tieeta, dnaJer Jane. 4 70-iy PHTIlOIlli. DR. J. H. WHITE, Pnyslelaa aad c-.urveon. i kii be fouudthieedoorssouth Of tbe Pootoflloe, where be has permanently esbtulished bla odloe and resiilunce. mttu D ft. JOU3I a. LITTLB oare bl. pro fessional aHrvioeH to tbe people of Dela ware and vlduity, boplnw by prompt and almful attention to buiuess to merit and ' eoelve a fair propertloa of patronise. TIIWAKX, As. CM. CrOS KLKTOM, Musfkatai. er of 1 iu ware, and dealer In all kinds 8 to ves, t doors east WiUUuns Block. . MARBLE WORKS. J II. GRIFFITH, Dale la lanl. can and lmsiaa Marble, opposite tbe O. W, University, lelaware,0. buitU'ia, Mon A rue nts, ( ri,s, Vants, Muntles, Cabinet and k - tinKt-c h.u i.M. e xeo 11 u-.i from tbe be7 k.i: ii clkolcent marble. roi P1BII SITIOSAL BAWK, """ ' Delaware, Ohio, Second Building South American Bouse. RKCEIVB Oepostts, Loams Homey, bnys and sells exobange, and Gold and Bilvir, and does a (jeneml Banking, Gx tcbunge and Collection BuHinets. Alsodeals In ail kinds of Government Hecaritiea. goterhueut bonds consbtntly on hand and for sale. B. POWERS, Pretideni. M iy 11. '8tf W. K. MOUHE. CajAier. " " DELAWARE COCSTT SITIOWAL BAIK, - J"rl SuWUng aouth of American Haute, ' Delaware, Ohio. RECEIVES DMs Loams BssaT, bays and sells bxchanxe, Uold and Bil. ver, And does a General Banking Business. &OVXR&MENT SJCCURITTSa for sale. Will pay interest on Deposits as follows : I per cent, per ann am If lefteD days, 6 per ' cent, per an nam if left 4 months, t percent, per annum If left 9 months and over, paya- ble on demand. ; aa-RBTEHTJK STAMPS FOB. SALE. H. Williams, Pres't. . Moork, Cash ' - January 9. lot-tf. COAL. WBur COAI. YAGD. W. R. CLARK, General Dealer in Coal. T J AS onemea a maw Coal Yard meaa .11 the Railroad, directly nortb of i he De J pot. Orders may belen al th-Grocer Store ui vriiner huu rteraoo, or at tne omce on Depot Street. seulo tWif IIE.ITKIE E. BUCK, ' (Succeuor to Bill Buck,) SKALKR IN HOCEIXG, MASSII.I.O'V AND " ' ' ' AUTTHRACITE COAL, Sewer Pipe and Drain Tile. . Ofllee CITY MILLS. Orders left with J. Hyatt A Co. will be Sued promptly. ian2Stf BOOK llI.t'DISC.. LlDXES ASD GEXTLEHEX: . ffow Is your time to get your AHPHLCTS, MAOAZI'BS,BEWa, fr PAPAil, H i.t A4WlSk., Ott- , S- K i.R. MMAi., You don't want to send ttiem to another city for Madliig as you have a spiendtd book ?n?i "'"".""- m " examine W" f-J Ammp a. a. AJA UV1AA1 Via. Goerke's, on Winter street, three doors west of Main, in the new building over Bauble A Co, ' ami mararvi r L. for the Sign. deo-80 70-ly Wants not all Supplied. ESPECIALLY thee af havlmg good and durable likeness of THBH8ELYES AND FRIENDS. ,' 1 : . ' . These can be had at SHmtli "lain Street, by leaving a small picture of any size.evsu W O.UI.1. M ' U VMS IU llK'iBI. muila a wr . . np to Lir. else, Calor.d la oil which we continue to assert la the onlv reaiiv mo tile, coloring in use. Will pell hir r.oav ""' noi are. continuing the ?auie for aaes.can be eleaueil at any time iy w an-r or oil witbput fear of lnjurfng the picture. Put up in the bet Frames, oostluii , o more than .r. rooioiifjg, or ludiaa Ink. Idatia. faotloo Eiven in eveiycaseor not reoulraa to tKe toe work. Give us a call befoie momv 1 nov--Iy Mms). H, K. BI'BKBOUlBB. A 'OTHM Carn mt ehefre TIBaS a a. reovtved at Itonll tt o d rr.iees) :r. anu. w,tv.u.)i.,i o VOL. i.III. For Sale on Time. A LICRATIVK BCtlHEM. BelnrolllMvtMIAnmiml T will n,w V .rnisn Factory upo t'e following terma: ALL T1SIUBM at the appratmment of any good Judges ALL HATEaiALS at present Mew York eost and freight. ALL BCTILDIXGIS and Implements at cust,wltb proper dedno- wiin Btumiaerory aeennty I will give t me enough to convert I toe entire stock ln- m motwy. inrmj to my unlortunuls aocl dent wbite experimenting wlib la-nzin and my Introdacina varnlob without age, tol-community iuljndgrti my stock ( vtr nlhe. I have not a banlof Benzine varnish on hanrt and will eOABAKHE every arxit-u- 10 prow obrr rfal as repreaen. Mil hud f nil V eaual t anv vamlatia for in- mu ti.oney any where in ihe Unl- wi oiBua: amo uui mv nt.r km a ,wmi u. iau w wuKui any wnere at aoy price. - a rare vuance i- r a woori man f nrAS in a mo.ey inikiOfl baatnesi. RerrfneaaA. Company Invoice. ISAAC EANStT. mr-iu-tr POUSA.LE. Two Fine Properties CITCATKD a Railroad Street. between Kandoskv and Cl north side. Franklin Strei-ta, THAT ZaAllfiK, DOrni-K, TW04T0BT PUVI HUC8X, Containing nine large rooms, two balls. ana cellar audit tbe whole bouse. THI TWO-STORY BRICK HOtTSK sltasted on the same lot, nearly new, con- talnlns nve rooms, bail aud line cellar on aer toe wnoie noose. TBI UOT on which these building are situated In 125 feet front on Eallroed street and 15 feet dt-ep. There is a eood frame atahle-. TVn larse aplt- trees, eiwrty and pear trees, and small fruit la aiKiuoav.3. 'fx' re are t wo oisterns ; one for each house, one holding the capacity oi ISO bbls ; smoke bouse and everything necessary to the comfort of the families oc-apy ing the house. loose prop, rtit-s ai situated within Fivs Ml nut KM walk of the Uuiverslty buildings aud an- eminently adapted to any one de Hiring to keep boarders, or to persons wish ing to make an investment In Bal Estate, as they will always command the best of rents. Will b sold at a nargxln. Apply to HURLBDTT A LYBRAKD, Or at FRANK WHITE'S, on Mala street. Jsn-20m EDICATIO.IAL. 1866. 1870. OHIO BUSINESS COLLEGE ! DELAWARE, OHIO. A Complete, Thorough and Systematic Com mercial College and Writing Institute, for Educating Young Men, Boys and Ladies or JSusines or Teachers Of Penmanship. Cost of Tuition Ome-shlrd less ttaam la most ether Imstltmttoms of the kind. Circulars containing terms. Ao.. sent free on receipt of a three-oent stamp. In addition to the Commercial and Writ ing Departments, there is in this College, irum iu, ljiii ui Apru uulii iiie xotn oi Sep tember, a NORMAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, for Teachers to pursue the stndles requisite In Common Hi-boots, la eonoecilon with thorough instruetton in Penmanship. Young Teachers will find this lust the place to qualify tni-mnelves for a high standing tn their proieasion. For further particulars call at the College or address l. W. SHARP, aor.22 TU-lyr Prssrl.tsr. M'SIRAXCE. A WESTERS IISUIXAICE COMPANY. -i- Is It iVot Time to Keep Money at Ileme l our Is the West ts Comttmme to BmilA Up EMitrs Cities sftd Kmrlem Ksvsterm Capitalists J BE9B are pertimemt qmestiems I which oar citizens snould answer be fore Insuring theii property Foryenrstbe West bs been paying an annual tribute to tbe East, by patron izLuk Eastern Fire In surance Companies. This ounxtant and continuous drain bas seriously afi'ected tbe financial interests of tbe West, and tbe people wf Obio have sougbt for means to check tbe tioe, and retaiu ttieee interests to our immoiiveiltli. Tne organisation of Fire Insurance Corporations has aliorded an effective means, aud u-day the Insur ance Companies incorporated by the 8 Late of Ohioare among tbe most solvent and ef fective in the ooantry. Among these incor porations the ''HOBS, OP COLVMBTJS," occupies a most enviable position. Organ ised b gentlemen of acknowledged prool ty and capacity, with a paid-up capital ex ceeding HALF A MILLION OF DOLLARS, Bhe enters tbe insurance field with all the en-menia of sueoeas. Her career thus far will eom pare most favorable with any sim ilar institution in the country, and her fu ture promises to speedily rank her among the forrmoht. There Is aeareely a commu nity In the State which baa not manifested Its Interest in the success of this Institution. The best known business men throughout the State have becomestockholders, and an earnest disposition is ahown to build up a W extern Fire Insurance Company which will be without a rival. No corporation oflvrs more or better se curity than the "Hons, os Columbus." Its as t amount to fclosTS, while Its entire linMUtb-s, excepting capital stock, are only i vtlvtt-M. Nearly a balf a million of dol- lai security.. This la ample beyond any peiaaventure, ana snouiu commend tne Company to oar citisens. Tbe following well-known gentlemen of tbut place own stock In the "Home :" Hon. T. C. Jones. H. M. Caroer. W. P. Keld. J. D. Van Deniaii, Prof. W G. Williams, A. Ly brand, C. B. Paul, T. E. Powell, M. Miller, j. ti. menaennaii, en as. o. Liittie, it. in. Jones, B. F. Loofborougb, B. K. Donavin. Risks Wrtttem at Adeqmate Rates. S. K. DONAVIJX, Agent apr29tf Jill Ell. NA1XS, &.C. CIaIPPEIwEll & CO., H AVISO opened a Lumber Yard and Ware House, on Winter Street, between tbe Suspension Bridge and Railroad Depot, are prepared to offer great Inducements to purchasers. We are receiving and will have constantly on hand a large stock of PIITJB, POPLAR. ASM. WALNUT, AND OTHJEB I.TTTURKB. Choice BeantUng, Rafters, Sheeting, Shingles, Lath, fines Boards and Posts, which having purchased from first hands, they are enabled to sell at the lowest eash rate. Also, Iron, Nails, Window Glass, Ac. We can sell to Merchants and others on the most favorable terma. Jan. 1 Oa. i;iarrisautavu H. J. lcCrA,L,OUGlI,; Lnmber Herchan t. DEALER IN All Kinds of Lumber. Mhinnles. Lath. Bawh. Door-s NaiK Glass, White Lead, Oil, Bait, uaicinea toaster, water luime ana cement. orner Winter and Henry st.eets, near suspension Bridge. feb2S 70 tf DELAWARE COISTY T E A C O II P A i Y DONAVIN, ' Agent. jan-27-tf A IKW ERA lilT MUSIC. Cwparalloll for Ckaapnaaa and Can ptetemsss. LOOK AT THE PRICES I Ditson k Co's Standard Operas. Ermaal. Pamst. Lmelade Lammcraaoor. Mersaa. Marias, Lstreila Borgia. rav.aia. sonvmaasam Trovatore. Prrcleaa. Marriage of Figaro. Price f 1,00 each ; Handsomely Bound 12, CO. Also Itistrumi-ntal Arransementa of Der Lre.st bntz, Don Giovanni. Eruanl, Faust, Ducia, Ajucreiia, nanus, norma, Bomnam r uia ana trovatore. Large Pages, Elegantly Bound, tl.OO each Sent by mail postiiaU on receiptor price, OLTVFH DIT(ON A CO.. Boston, CH AS. H. Dis ?OJS A ca, Kew York, : ieialftll tvle of Silk Hats Inst ra. jk,itvu at onauu fumpurey s, apratfti USXIOOr THI K ASTER E661. arr rrrs jaxks o'brixit. TrlBttT bells, with their hollow lnngs. Their vibrant lips and their braaen tongues, over tbe roots of t he eil y iour Their Easter music with joyous roar. Till the eoarmg not to tbe sun are rolled As he swings along In his path of gold. Dearest papa," says my boy to me, A he merrily climns his fatnr's knee, Why are those eees that you s-e me hold, Colored so finely with blufand void T And what is tbe beautiful bird that lays Such beautiful eggs on Easter days?" Tenderly sbiae the April skies. Like laughter ami tears In my child's, blue eyes. And every face la the street is gay. Why cloud this youngster by saying nay t Ho Icuitg-! my bains f rtbe story he bgs. And tell him he tale of the EasLer esgs. You have heard, my boy, of tbe One who died. Crowned with keen thorns and crucified : And bow Joseph the weaiihy whom God reward. Cared lor tbe eorpse of bis martyred Lord And Diouslr tombed It wltbiu tbe rock And closed, the gate with a mighty block. "Now. close to the tomb, a fair treeeiew. With pnuulous leaves and blossoms of blue: And deep in the green tree's shadowy breast A. Piauuiw migifl iura sal on ner ueet. We u-n was bordered with mosves like mal acrtlte And held four egg of an Ivory white. How, when ihebird from herdim receiaa Behebt the Lord In bin burial dress. And looked on tbe heavenly face so pale. And tbe dear feet pierced with tbe crul nail. Her heart nigh broke with a sadden pang. And oat of the depth of her sorrow she bang. All nlebt long till the mora was up. She sat and sans in her moea-wrr-athed cup, A souk of sorrow as wild and snriu As the homeless wind when it roams Ihe hill: Ro full of tears, so fond and long. That the grief of the worid seemed turned tosong. - fiatsooo there came, through the weep ing nignt, A glimmering angel clothed In white; And he rolled the atone from tbe touib awav. Where the Lord of the Earth and the Heav ens lav : And Christ arme In the cavern's Bloom Ana In living lustre came from the tomb. "Now the bird that sat in the heart of the tre Beheld the celestial mvsterv. And its heart was filled with a sweet de light. And it poured a song on the throbbing night; Note climbing notes, still higher, higher, They shoot to heaven like spears of fire. "When the glittering whlte-iobed angel neara The -orrowlnz song of that gi rieving bird And heard the following i-banr, of mirth That hailed Christ risen from tbe earth. He said, "sweet bird be forever blest; Thyself, thy eggs, and thy moss-wreathed nest." "And ever, my child since that blessed night. When death bowed down to the Lord of lit: ht, The egg of, that sweet bird changed their nue. And burn with red, and gold and bine ; Reminding mankind, iu their simple way Of the holy marvel of Easter day.'' I LOTS TO TELL THIS STORV. BY RSV. C C. K'CABI. Published by request. I love to tell the story Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and bis glory, Of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story. Because I know it's true ; It satisfies my longings. As nothing ese would do. Chortjs. I love to tell the story, 'Twlil be my theme In glory To tell the olu.old story. Of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story ; More wonderful it seems Thau all golden fancies . Of all our g-dden dreams.' I love to tell the story ; Iidlilsomucb for me ! And that is just tbe reason I tell it now te thee, v'HoBUs. I love to tell the story ; Tis pleasant to repeat What seems, each time 1 tell it, - More wonderfully sweet. I love to tell the story ; i For some bave never heard r The meis.ee of mi1 atloo From God's own holy word. I love to tell the story ; For those who know it bent Seem hangeiing and thirsting To hear it like the rest. And wtien, in scenes of glory, I sing the Nsw, Niw Sons, Twill be the OL.D, Old Btokt That I have loved so loug Usu.- LEE'S RETREAT FROM CiKTTl'8 "r - BVRU. Confederate General Imboden con tributes to the April Galaxy a paper on the battle of Gettysburg, from which "we extract the following ; . - :. After a good deal of ccnversation-he (General Lee) sent for his .chiefs of staff and ordered them to have everything in readiness for me to take command the next morning, remarking to me that the general instructions he had given would be sent to me next day in writing. As I was about leaving to return: to my camp, he came out of his tent and said to me in a low tone : " I will place in your hands to-morrow a sealed package for President Davis, which you ".will re tain in your own possession till you are across the Potomac, when you -will" de tail a trusty commissioned officer to take it to Richmond with all possible dispatch, and deliver it immediately to the Presi dent. I impress it upon you that what ever happens this package must not fall into the hands of the enemy. If you should unfortunately be captured,-de stroy it. On the morning of the 4th my written instructions and the package for Mr. Davis were delivered to me. - It was soon apparent that the wagons and am bulances and the wounded could not be ready to move till late in the afternoon. The General sent me four four-gun field batterries, which with my own gave me twenty-two euns to defend tie trains. Shortly after noon the very windows of heaven seemed to have been opened. Rain fell in dashing torrents, and in a lit le while the whole face of the earth was covered with water. The meadows became small lakes : ragine streams ran across the road in every depression of the ground ; wagons, ambulances, and artillery carnages tilled the roads and fields in all directions. The storm in creased in fury every moment. Canvas was no protection against 11, ana tne poor wounded, lying upon , the hard, naked boards of the wagon-bodies, were drenched by the cold rain. Horses and mules were blinded and maddened by the storm, and became almost unman ageable. The roar of the winds and waters made it almost impossible to communicate orders. Night was rapid ly approaching, and there was danger tnat in tne darkness the confusion would become " worse confounded." About four p. m. the head of the column was put in motion and began the ascent of the mountain. After dark I set out to gain the advance. The tram, was seventeen miles long when drawn out on the road. It was moving ramdlv. d from every wagon issued wails of agony. or tour hours 1 galloped along, passing to the tront, and heard more it was too dark to see of the horrors of war than I had witnessed from the bat' tie ot Bull Run up to that day. In the wagons were men wounded and muu lated in every conceivable way. Some naatneir legs Shattered by a' shell or Minie ball ; some were shot through their bodies ; others had arms torn to shreds ; some had received a ball in the face, or a jagged piece of shell had lacerated their heads. Scarcely one in a hundred had received adequate surgi cal aid. Many had been without food for thirty-six hours. The . irragged, bloody, and dirty clothes, all clotted and hardened with blood, were rasping the tender, inflamed lips of their gaping wounds. Very few of the wagons had even straw in them, and all were with out springs. The road was rough and rocky. The joldng was enough to have killed sound, strong men. From nearly every wagon, as the horses trotted on, DELAWARE, OHIO, FRIDAY, such cries and shrieks as these greeted the ear : " O God ! why can't I die ?" " My God ! will no one have mercy and kill me and end my misery ?" "Ob, stop one minute and take me out and leave me to die on the road side." " I am dying! I am dying! My poor wife, my dear children ! what will be come of you ?" Some were praying ; others were utter ing the most -fearful oaths and execra tions that despair could wring from then) in their aeony. Occasionally a warren would be passed from which .only low, deep moans and sobs could be heard. -No help could be rendered to ;my ef the sufferers. On, on ; we must mcvt on. The storm continued and the darkness was fearful. There was no time even to fill a canteen with water for a dying nip n; for, except the drivers and the guards disposed in compact bodies every half mile; all were wounded and helpless in that vast train of misery. The night was awful, and yet in it was our satuty, for no enemy would dire to attack u; when he could not distir. uish friend from foe. We -knew thai when day broke upon us we would I i harrasset by bands of cavalry hanging on our flanks, therefore our aim was to as far as possible under cover of the night and so we kept on. It was my sad lot to pass the whole distance from the rear to the head of the column, and no lan guage can convey an idea of the hor rors of that most horrible of all nights of our long and bloody war. Daybreak on the morninr of the 5th found the head of our colu: ai at Green castle, twelve or fifteen mil s from the Potomac at Williamsport, t ur point of crossing. Here our apprehended troubles from the Union cavalry began. Jrrorn the fields and cross-roads they attacked us in small bodies, striking the column where there were few or no guards, and creating great confusion. I o add soil further to our perplexities. a report was brought that the Federals in large force held Williamsport. This fortunately proved untrue. After a great deal of harrassing and desultory fight ing along the road, nearly the whole immense train reached Williamsport a little after the middle of the day. The town was taken possession of; all the churches, school-housesi etc., were con verted into hospitals, and proving in sufficient, many of the private houses were occupied, btraw was obtained on the neighboring farms ; the wounded were removed from the vagons and housed; the citizens were all put to cooking and the army surg. ns to dress ing wounds. Ihe dead v. re selected from the train for many had perished on the way and were decently buried. All this had to be done because the tre mendous rains had raised the river more than ten feet above the fording stage, and we could not possibly cross. Our situation was frightful. We had over 10,000 animals and all the wagons of General Lee's army under our charge, and all the wounded that could be brought from Gettysburg. Our supply of provisions consisted of a few wagon loads of flour and a small lot of cattle. My effective force was only about 2,100 men and twenty-odd field pieces. We did, not know where our army was ; the river could not be crossed; and small parties of cavalry were still hovering around. The means of ferriage con sisted of two small boats and a sinali wire rope stretched across the river, which owing to the force of the swollen current broke several times during tlie day. ; To reduce the space to bedefend ed as much as possible, all the wagons and animals were parked close" together on the river bank. Believing that an attack would soon be made upon us, I ordered the wagon ers to be mustered,, and, taking three out of every fcur, organized them into companies, and armed them with the weapons of the wounded men found in the train. By this means 1 added to my effective force about five hundred men. Slightly wounded officers promptly- vol unteered their services to command these improvised soldiers;. and many of our quartermasters and commissaries did the same thing. . We were not seriously molested on the 5th ; but next morning about nine o'clock information reached me that a large- body of cavalry from Frederick, Maryland, was rapidly ad vancing to attack us. ,',As we could not retreat further, it was at once frankly made known to.the troops that ...unless we could repel the threatened attack we should all become prisoners, and that the loss of his whole transportation would probably ruin General Lee ; for it could not be replaced for many months, if at all, in the then exhausted condition of the Confederate States. So far from repressing the ardor of the troops, this frank announcement ot our peril inspir ed all with the utmost enthusiasm. Men and officers alike, forgetting the suffer- ngs of the past few davs, proclaimed their determination to drive back the attacking force or perish in the attempt. All told, we were less than 3,000 men. The advancing force we knew to be more than double ours, consisting, as we had ascertained, of five regular and eight volunteer regiments of cavalry, with eighteen guns, all under the -command of Generals Buford and Kilpat rick. We had no works of any kind; the country was open and almost level and there was no advantage of position we could occupy.-. It must necessarily be a square stand-up fight, face to face. We had twenty -two held guns of vari ous calibre, and one Whitworth. These were disposed in batteries, in semicircle, about one mile out of the village, on the summit of a very-slight rising ground that lies back of the town": " .Except the artillery; our troops were "held out of view of the assailants, and ready to. be moved promptly to any menaced point along the whole line of nearly two miles in extent. Knowing that nothing could save us -but a bold " bluff" game, orders had been given to the artillery as - soon as the advancing lorcts came within range to open fire along the whole line, and keep it up with the utmost rapidity. A little alter one o clock they appended on two roads in our front, and our bat teries opened. They soon had their guns in position, and a very lively artillery fight began. We hred with great rapid ity, and in less than an hour two of our batteries reported that their ammunition was exhausted. This would have been fatal to us but for the opportune arrival at the critical moment of an ammuni tion train from Winchester. The wag ons were ferried across to our side as soori'as possible, and driven on the field in a gallop to supply the silent guns. Not having men to occupy half our line, they were moved up in order of battle, first to one battery, then withdrawn and double-quicked to another, but out of view of our assailants till ihey could be shown at some other point on our line. By this manceuvring we .made, the im pression that we had a s rong support ing force in rear of all our guns along the entire front. To test tins. General Buford and Kilpatrick dismouted live regiments and advanced them on foot on our right. We concentrated there all the men we had," wagoners and all, and thus, with the aid of the united fire of all our guns directed at tlie .advanc ing line, we drove it back, and. rushed forward two of .our, batteries four or five hundred yards further to the front. This boldness prevented another charge, ana tne ngac was continued till near sunset . with the artillery. About that time General Fitzhugh Lee sent a mess age from toward Greencastle, that if we could hold out an hour he would rein force us with 3,000 'men, 'This intelli gence elicited a loud and long-continued cheer along our whole line, which was heard and understood bv our adversa ries, as we learned from prisoners taken. ! A few minutes later General J. E. B. Stuart, advancing from Hagcrstown, fell unexpectedly upon the rear of their.rjgly. wing, and in ten minutes they were in rapid retreat by their left flank in the direction of Boonsborough, Night com-, ing on enabled them to escape. By extraordinary good fortune we had thus saved all of General Lee's train. A bold charge at any time before sun set would have broken our feeble lines, -and we should all have fallen an easy prey to the Federals. This came to be known as " tlie wagoners fight "in .our .army" f.-om theofact that sq many of them were armed and did such gallant service in repelling the attack made 'orf tiur right by the dismounted regiments. Our defeat that day would have been an irreparable blow to General Lee, in the loss of all his transportation. Every matt engaged knew this, and probably in no fight of 'the war was-there a more determined spirit - shown than by this handful of cooped-up troops. The next day our army from Gettysburg arrived; and the country is amiliar with the w. xvh er in which it ecaped across the' , fotoiac on the night of the 9th. It may be interesting to repeat one or two factsto show the peril in which we vvere until the river could be bridged. About 4,ocx prisoners taken at Gettys burg were ferried across the river by the morning of the 9th, and I was ordered to guard tnem to btarnton. Before we had proceeded two miles I received a note from General Lee o report to him in person immediately. I rode to the river and was ferried over, and galloped out toward Hagerstown. As I proceeded I became satisfied that a serious demon stration was making along our front from the heavy artillery tire extending lor a long distance along life line. I overtook General Lee riding to the front near Hagerstown. He immediately reined up, and remarked that he believed I was familiar with all the fords of the Poto mac above Williamsport, and the roads approaching them. I replied ' that I knew them perfectly - He then called up some one of his staff to write down my answers to his questions, and requi red me to name all fords as high up as Cumberland,1 and describe minutely their character, and the roads and sur rounding country on both sides of the river, and directed me to send my broth er, Colonel Imboden, to him to act as a guide with his regiment, if he should be compelled to retreat higher up the river to cross it. His situation was then very precarious. When about parting from him to recross the river and move on with the prisoners, he told me they would probablv be .rescued belore 1 reached Winchester, my guard was so small, and he expected a force of cavalry would cross at Harper's Ferry to cut us off; and he could not spare to me any additional troops, as he might be hard pressed before he got over the river, which was still very much swollen by the rains. Referring to the high water, he laughingly inquired, "Does it ever quit raining about here ? If so, I should like to see a clear day." These incidents go to show how near Gettysburg came to ending the war in 1S63. If we had been successful in that battle, the' probabilities' are that Balti more and. Washington would at once have fallen into our hands ; and at that time there was so large a'" peace party in the North, that the Federal Govern ment would have found it difficult, if not impossible, to carry on the war. General Lee's opjnion was that we lost the battle because Pickett was not sup ported, " as he was to have been." On the other hand, if GSfn'erals lii'ford' arid Kilpatrrck had captured the ten -thousand animals and aO-frfc transportation of Lee's army at Williamsport, it would hav e been an irreparable loss, and would probably have led : to the fail of Rich mond in the autumn of 1863. On such small circumstances do the affairs of nations sometimes turn. HOW THE DEVIL "FORECLOSED" OX TOM WALKER, " ' ' .'' ; ' .' .!- - , T j ; As Tom waxed old, however, he grew tlioughtfuL, , : Having secured the ; good things of this world, he began to feel anxious about the next, : He thought with regret on the"bargain he had made with his black friend, and put his-..wits to work to cheat him out of his condi tions. He became, therefore,, all of a sudden, a violent church-goer.: . He prayed loudly and strenuously, as if heaven. were aboutjto he carriedjbv; fpjrce of lungs. Indeed, one might always telf when he-had Sinried laost-durrfn the week by the clamor of his Sunday, de votion ! The-quiet Christians who -bad been modestly. "and - quietly . traveling Zionw-ard were struck" with self-reproach at seeing themselves so, suddenly out stripped in their career by this new-made convert. Tom was as rigid, in , religion i as in money matters ; he Was a stern -supervisor and censurer of hi neighbors, and seemed to think, every sin' entered up to their account became a credit on his page". ' He even talked of the expe diency of reviving the, persecutions of the Ouakers and the Anabaptists. In a word Tom's zeal became as his riches. Still, in spite of his- strenuous atten tion to forms, Tom had a lurking dread that the devil after all would have his due. Lest he might be t?1cen unawares, therefoie, it is. said that he always car ried a small Bible in hispoc-keti. -He al so had a folio Bible in his counting-room desk, and -wouldi. quite frequently . be found reading .'when people called .on business ;: pn such occasions he would lay his green spectacles on the book to mark the place, while he turned' found to drive some usurious bargain... Some say Tom grew a little crack brained in his older daysj and that,,.fan cying his end approaching, -he had his horse new shod, saddled, and bridled, and buried with his feet uppermost, be cause that, at the last day.the world would be turned upside down, "in. which case he would find his horse-ready to mount, and he was determined at tlie worst to give his Satanic friend a run for it. This is probably, , horteverY an. old wife's fable. If he really did : take -that precaution, it was totally superfluous ; at least, so saysjthejiuthentl.ii. pid legend, which closes his story: -in- -the- following manner: - , . , - One hot afternoon' in the dog days. just as a terrible black thtmdergust came up, 1 om sat -in his wnrte linen cap and India silk morning gown. rn was on the point of foreclosing a frfortgage; 'by which he would complete Tlie ruin of -an unhappy speculator for whom he had professed the greatest friendship. The poor land-jobber begged hirn to grant a lew momti s muuiucuic. 10m naa grown testy ami irritated 4 ndrefirsed another day. My family win oe ruined and brought upon the parish," said the land jobber. "t-hantv begins at. nome, cried lorn; I must take care of myself these hard times. ' -....,.. ',:.. ' You have made so much money out of me," "said the speculator.'' ' . ' : Tom lost his patience and his piety. "The devil take roe' sai 13.5, "if I have made a farthing. H Just then there were three loud knocks at the street door. , He stepped out to see who wis there. A black man with a black horse, which neighed and stamped with impatience. "Tom, you are come for," said he black man, grtiiny. 10m snrunn oack, but too late. He had left his little Bible at the bottom of-his"eoa. pocket, and his big Bible on the desk, buried under the mortgage he was about to foreclose never wa sinke) fidiuiw'iiMrf una wares. .The itolack reap- jvhisked him like a child astride the horse, and away he traliooed In 'the ' midst 'of "a thurfder- storm. The clerks stuck their pens be hind their ears and started after him from the windows. - Away went Tom', MARCH 3 ir 1871 Walker dashing down ' the streets, hi white-cap bobbing up and down, hi? morning gown-' fluttering in the wind and his steed striking tire out of th pavements at tvery bound. W hen tm clerks turned to look, the black man had disappeared. - Tom Walker never returned to fore close the mortgage. A countryman who lived near the swamp, reported that in tlie height of tlie thunder gust he had heard a great clattering of hoofs and howling aToag the road, and that when he ran to the window he caught sight of a figure such as 1 have described, on a horse that galloped like mad across the fields, over the hills, and down into the hemlock swamps toward the old Indian fort, and that shortly afterward a thun derbolf fell irt tlmt -direction, which seemed to set the whole forest in a blaze. The good people of Boston shook their heads and shrugged their shoul ders. They had been so accustomed to witches and goblins, and tricks of the devil in all kinds of shapes, from the first settlement of the colony, that they were not so much horror-struck as might have been expected. Trustees were appoint ed to take charge of Tom's effects. There was nothing, however, to admin ister upon. On searching his coffers, all bonds and mortgages were found reduc ed ; tS t cinders. - In 'place of gold and silver, his iron chest was filled with chips and shavings; two skeletons lay in his stables instead 1 of his hall-starved horses, and the very next day his great house took fire and was burned to the ground. Such was, the end of Tom Walker and his ill-gotten wealth. Let all grip ing money brokers lay the ' story well to heart. The trudi is not to be doubted. The very hole under the oak trees from whence he dug Kidd's money, is to be seen to this day, and the neighboring swamp and the old Indian fort is often haunted in stormy nights by a figure on horse-back, in a morning gown and white cap, which is doubtless the troubled spirit of the usurer. In fact, the story has solved itseif into a proverb, and is the original of the popular saying pre valent throughout New England of "the Devil and Tom Walker." Wasliimrton FEBRUARY IN CALIFORNIA. I he following is an extract from a letter dated at Oakland, California, last week of February, 1871, to the Cleve land Herald, tram Miss Lmma Janes, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College. elsUeiaware, and a lady who has many friends and acquaintances in his icinity Eds. Gazette, Looking out from my window this morning, a charming window on a hill top, full fronting the Golden Gate, my eyes, are greeted with the unaccustomed sight of snow on the mountain summits beyond the Bay. Thoughts of far Ohio come crowding over me snow-bound Ohio with its wealth of warm hearts and I feel "keen" for an hour's pen-talk with any indulgent friends who will read these way-side jottings kindly for the Old times' sake. This is my second year's experience on the Pacific coast, to which I came a student of nature, hungering, most of all, for God's mountains and his sea ; and if in some faint measure their glory has entered and satisfied my soul, I. am humbly thankful in the thought, 1 and count myself ever-more , a debtor to Providence for this new discipline of life. '-.... " ' "' You remember, that . the dear ' Jean Paul he who "loved God and lit tle children" says we should never speak of the Supreme One -to a child, save in sublime and memorable mo ments. There are two little nieces, dear to my heart, who 1 wish could nestle oown on tne- broad window-seat before me as I stand and look at this landscape glowing with the lustre of the early spring, that I might show them our Fath er's hand in the waving outline of these encircling mountains, the Bay's bright azure the messenger-clouds borne on by the morning breeze, and the green, level fields that stretch from the foot of our hill to the water's, edge, dotted with suburban homes.: A carriage drive . of r ?o rods', ' shaded ' with cedars, whose sombre green is relieved bv-the feathery bloom of the acacia and the sword-like foliage of the Australian guni-tree,(Euca-lyptus)winds down to.Telepraph Avenue, the longest street in Oakland, A' mile to the north-ward lies the Temescal, an old- Spanish settlement, near . which, stands California's, noble. institution -for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. From that point," a line ot horse-cars leads down the avenue and past our College hill, to the depot of the ferry train on Broadway, a mile south of us thus link ing this classic city of 12,000 souls, -the Athens of the sunset coast, with San Francisco four miles away. To show you the healthy growth ot Oakland, there were in 1870, more than a thous and buildings erected, more by actual count, than in its metropolitan neighbor; and since the opening of the new year there have been upwards of a hundred begun, a large proportion of them being tasteful and elegant residences. You will already infer that it is also quite an educational centre, indeed, if I should try but to enumerate the schools in flourishing activity here your patience would be exhaasted before the list was closed ; and they, are all styles and grades, from the State University down to a" fine Kindergarten, under the man agement of Miss Emma Smith, who, two years ago, taught gymnastics in your East High School. The "Female College of the Pacific" is owned by Rev. Dr. Walsworth, a native of Cleveland (on the site ' where your "American House", now stands). . We have the fin est educational building as yet complet ed on this coast, and quite a cosmopoli tan corps of teachers. Our list for this year embraces a French gentleman who lost an arm skirmishing with the Ma roons, in the English service, at New Zealand ; an Italian and German as mu sicr roasters ;, an .American , lady, born and reared in the Sandwich Islands (we are very neighborly with, that fine vol canic group, and are wont to speak of them familiarly as "The Islands"), be sides lady graduates of Oberlin, Albany, Troy, Pittsburgh and Delaware respec tively -t Yale sends. tis a new Principal, now on his way, Mr. D. P. Sackett, son of a well know citizen of Tallmadge, Ohio; . Our lady teacher, from the Sem inary at Pittsburgh, is a niece ot Messrs. James and Jabez Fitch, of your city. I have never seen schools better disciplin ed, or scholars more loyal and ambitious than- ours, and other neighboring insti tutions that I could name. ' " On the hili south of us, a fine military academy is located.' By -accident, per haps, or perhaps because the young men are prone to go where the maidens most doL, congregate, the,, carets often march over this way "on dress parade, and their agony of drum-bcating, and unimpeachable uniforms recall a year passed at the old Humiston Inst'tirte, on the "Heights," where my lifa was meas ured off by drum-beats. , "A little boy 'hearing his father say. "There is a time for all things," asked his mother: "When is the proper time for hooking sugar out of the sugar- ) bowl ?" A hotel in a small southern town ad vertises "Ally Gator supe for Breakfast, dinner and bupper. . r -fi .-t "- Woman is like ivy the more you arc ruined the Closer she clings to you. " A vile old bachelor adds : "Ivy is like wo manthe closer - it clings to you the more you are ruined." Poor rule that don't work both ways, . j 4 m - I i I s 4 PineT SKciciics yi tt lit- naie 81'ounfy. KO. VIII. Written for the Delaware Gazette. DELAWARE CONTINUED. " People speak of the olden times. Tlie i -resent is the oldest time of which we have any knowledge. Jsr, J-uiler." This is the Golden Age. In speaking of the former times the writer is actuated by no desire to make them appear bet ter, more jovous, or freer from life's hardships than the present. I simply wish to state facts. Errors will unavoid ably occur, but their correction will lead to a better apprehension of the truth. In offering the readers of the Gazette a tew additional items in tne earlier His tory of Delaware, I clo not claim to com plete it, nor do I omit any part ot it in tentionally. "One of the first boarding nouses was kept by John Blackbird and his mother, in the vicinity of the O. W. F. College, and near Delaware Run. Slices of venison, hung in the open air until fully ripe, formed no small nart of . 1 r -t.: 1 iiie iu.i.iuiis ui luis nuspiuiuie mansion. A hundred coons, in different stages of putrefaction, at . times adorned the exter ior and interior walls.-- At such it time a venerable pioneer, still living, spent a night in this tenement of the wilder ness. . The eminence of South Delaware, west of tle University, was covered with a dense forest. The lowlands of Dela ware Run were mostly a glade, or plain, in the forest abounding in strawberries and wild flowers in their season, with here and there a plum orchard, a crab apple tree, a scrub-oak, or a black-jack. About the White Sulphur Spring, and in other places, were " deer-licks." One of these, on the site of Evans' Block, was so strong that the Indians obtained salt from evaporation of the water contained in it. 1 he extensive pium-thickets north of Wottring & Miller's Grist Mill yield ed, annually, scores of bushels of deli cious fruit for years after the settlement of Delaware by the whites. Not many of the works first made in Delaware by the present generation re main. The residence of - M. Miller, since remodeled, the one opposite, owned by John Moses, that ot Mr. Waterman, and the one in which Mr. Reicherts now lives are among the earlier buildings in Delaware still standing. In the latter, it is believed, Gov. Hayes was born. Not one of the original dwellings on Sandusky street is now standing. The residence of Mrs. Kilbourne was built by Capt. John Welch, in 1S16. The house rebuilt by the late I. J. Richard son, opposite the Court House, was erect ed the same year. Hyatt's store was built in 1817. Geo. Storm lived where the residence of I. Ranney, Esq., now stands. Abraham Welchonse lived on the site of the north Engine House. Milieu Robinson lived near the Spring. Capt. Welch kept a hotel where the elegant new residence of Mr. Pumph rey now stands. His tavern was a small brick building, one and a-half stories high, containing a small hall and but two rooms on the ground floor. Delaware Township was laid out June 16th, 1808. It included the present limits, sections I and 2 of Troy, sections 2 and 3 being the west half of Brown, and section 2 of Berlin. The first es tablished road in Delaware County, namely, that on the west side of the Olentangy River, of which Sandusky Street forms a part, was laidout June 13th, ilioa. Azanah Root was the sur veyor, and Moses Byxbee, Sr., Nathan iel Wvatt and Josiah McKinney were the viewers. , In 1825 Judge Williams purchased the site of his present residence for $600. $25 in cash and the balance in trade. In the same year Reuben Hills purchased an out-lot -containing 8 acres for 80. In 1830.: M. D. Pettibone offered 200 acres in east Delaware at 6 per acre. The population of Delaware at this time was but 530. The rise of real es tate has been proportionate with the in crease in population. The State tax of Delaware county in iai2 was seven hun dred and eleven dollars. In 1S15 the State tax was 2193, and the county tax $641. "' ' Micah Spaulding and Samuel Vvor- line are the only persons now living in Delaware whose names appear on the tax list of the town as early as 1819. C. MORTIMER JANES. A xK.6cL,AaiATr05f BY T'lIB PRESI. ,- DJEfliT.- - , Washington, March 24, 1 87 1. By the President of the United States of I America, a r-rouiamaiioii. - Whereas, It is provided in the Con stitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every State in this Union on applicadon of the Legislature,- or of the executive when the Legislature can not be convened, against domestic violence; and, 'Whereas, I- is provided in the laws of the United States that in all cases of in surrection in any State, or of obstruct ion to the laws thereof, it shall be law ful for the President of the United States, on application of the Legislature of such State, or the Executive when the Legis lature can not be convened, to call tortn the militia of any State or States, or employ such part of the land and naval forces as shall be judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing such insur rection, or causing the laws to be duly executed ; and, Whereas, I have received information that combinations of armed men, unau thorized by law are now disturbing the peace and safety of citizens of the State of South Carolina, and committing acts of .violence in said State, of a char acter and to an extent which render the power of the State and its officers un equal to the task of protecting life and property, and securing public order therein ; and, -Whereas, The Legislature of said State is not now in session, and can not be convened in time to meet the present emergency, and the Executive of said State has, therefore, made application to me for such part of the military lorce ot the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect said State, and citizens thereof, against domestic vio lence herein before mentioned, and en force the due execution of the law; and, whereas, the laws of the United States require that whenever it may be neces sary in the judgement of the President, to use the-military for the pupose afore said, he shall forthwith, by proclama tion, command such insurgents to dis perse and retire peaceably to their re spective abodes within a limited time. Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do here by command persons composing the un lawful combinations aforesaid to dis perse and retire peaceably to their re spective abodes within twenty days from this date. In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. . Done at the city of Washington this 24th day of March, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, nnBof the in dependence of tlie United States the ninety-fifth. U. S. GRANT. By the President : Hamilton' Fisa, Secretary of Stale. Prof. Newbury, Chief of the State Geological Corps, has the manuscript for the first volume of his anal report ready for the printer. ' Ihe penmanship of it, the work of an amanuensis, is exe cuted in the highest order of skill. One hundred exquisitely drawn engravings, illustrative of fossil discoveries, are also Drenared for this volume. Ohio Stat Journal, , No. l THE POLITICAL Ol'TLOOK. 1 he nation and the human race never needed the Republican party more than they do now. We have only just come to understand that the war between slavery and barbarism, on the one hand, and liberty and civilization, on the other, is not vet fought out. Beaten in the open field, the Rebellion yet lives in the lawlessness of Southern scoundrelism Beaten by ballots and beaten by bullets, it shows, like other venomous creatures, a wonderful tenacity of life. Liberty is not yet established at the South, t ree dom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of political action are yet hard ly known there. If the Democratic par ty were to come into power to-morrow, the whole work of reconstruction would be undone ; the franchise would be ta ken from the negroes, and under some form or other slavery or its equivalent would be restored. Let us remember one thing. The lost cause is not an abandoned cause. When the Rebellion fights us again, it will be with the arms, the forts, the ships, and the prestige of the Government itself. W hen we vote at the next presidential election, we vote face to face and ballot to ballot, with the Rebellion. The battle of next year will be more decisive than the taking of New Orleans arid Vicks burg and Richmond together. If under a Republican administration the whole South is full of lawlessness, what would be the state of things with Fernando Wood and Sunset Cox in the Cabinet ? If mayors of cities are shot, banished and abducted while Grant is President, what will be done when Hoffman reigns ? If they do these things in a green tree, what will they not do in the dry ? The lesson of the hour is plain. Every patriotic consideration demands that Republicans should stand by the party ot liberty and human rights. No dis satisfaction with the President, or with any other leader, can justify lukewarm ness in the cause. And we warn the Ad ministration that it cannot afford to di vide the party by pushing any object, however desirable. Let Santo Domingo stand on its merits. It should never have been an Administration scheme. And appointments to office should hereafter be made with some regard to fitness. The Republican party is of too much value to be made a pack-horse. It cannot afford to carry into a presiden tial campaign a race of doubtful office holders. There is, perhaps, no great immediate harm done to the country by the appointment of relatives and favor ites, it they are competent ana nonest; but it is a policy most destructive to the popularity of a party and damageing to the good name of an administration. One bounden duty of the better class of Republicans in a ' crisis is to run the party machinery. It must not be left to office-holders and self-seekers. There is yet a year and a half till the next presidential election; and the present crisis will be most wholesome if it awakens us to the necessity for vigilance, harmony, and energetic work. Ar. Y. Inpependent. BILL FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF LAWLESSNESS IN SOUTHERN STATES. The Republican members of the House special committee on the Presi dent's Message, -have unanimously agreed that some legislation for the sup pression of lawlessness in the South is imperative, it is mereiore proposeu to report a bill to-day or to-morrow, and the Committee appointed Mr. Shellabar ger to prepare the draft of one for con sideration at their meeting to-day. This bill, which is already completed, will be simple and at the same time compre hensive, and will be founded principally on existing laws, providing for their ap plication to the present contingencies. The third and last section, which is the most important feature of the bill, pro vides that if domestic violence and dis orders shall exist in any State, and the same shall be caused by armed or or ganized bands, combined to commit such acts, too strong to be suppressed by the State authorities, or where such authorities, by reason of being in com plicity or sympathy with such organized bands do not repress such orders, then the President shall, without waiting to be called upon by the Governor or Leg islature of such State, issue his procla mation ordering the disbanding of such armed and organized bands, and he shall have power and it shall be his duty to use the army and navy of the United States to suppress such disorder and arrest the organized bands causing them. It provides also, that in pursu ance of such duty, he may declare a disaffected district in insurrection, pro claim martial law, suspend the writ of habeas corpus therein, and proceed to the suppression of violence and punish ment ot offending persons. I his section also embraces a provis ion embodied in Shellabargcr's bill, that when offenses punishable under this act are begun in one of the LTnited States judicial districts and completed in an other, every such offense shall be re garded as committed in either district. and may be inquired into, tried and dealt with the same as if wholly com mitted in said district. The operations of this section are by its terms limited to the first of June. 1872. Washington Dispatch of Monday. DEATH OF THE AUTHOR OF THE "MOON HOAX." On the 1 6th ult., Richard Adams Locke died at Staten Island at the ad vanced age of seventy-one years. Mr. Locke was most widely known to the public of thirty or thirty-five years ago as the author of the notorious "moon hoax," which appeared in the New York Sun in the year 1835, and which pretended to be a detailed account of discoveries made at the Cape of Good Hope, by Sir John Herschel, where! y the moon was made to be inhabited by winged men ; the motif being probably taken, as was also some of the material, from one of the early English writers who emulated Sir John Manderville. In those days there were no Atlantic cables, and therefore it was easy to say, with out fear of immediate contradiction, that the account had been taken from the Edinburgh Scientific Journal. The story was so minutely and dexterously detailed that it rapidly obtained cre dence, and went on the wings of the press through all the country, exciting much controversy, some people holding it to be believable, while others and these the minority were unable to see that it very circumstantially, let alone its impossibility, of which, however, few were aware, betrayed its being made "out of whole cloth." Some individ uals, of the easy credulity of country professors, even went so far as to write to the Scientific Journal for further par tiulars of the strange discovery, and had laughter for their pains. In paintui minuteness of detail it bore no resem blance to DeFoe's "History of Appar itions," while the literary cleverness with which its scientific misrepresentations were concealed made many persons, even critics, attribute it to Poe, who after wards was at the trouble of recounting it in the way in which it appears in the col lection of his works. For a long time it was out of print, but was republished in pamphlet form in 1850, by William Gowans. and apparently lost none of its interest to the public ; and even now it may be found in the out-of-the-way country town, where full belief is some times accorded to it. For the past few yeais Mr. Locke was not engaged in lit erary work, except occasionally, and has lived quietly at Staten Island. llMllt SiKSTIOS. A tlent iM 'h oHio,! in not improperly ; Miiiu h u rawing room. I Syl vanns ( 'olib, Jr., is said to have. I wiittiMi seventy live miles of printed matter. Professor Gunning savs man's hi toe precludes the idea of descent from the gorilla. A letter was lately dropped Inti the post-office at Niapara Falls directed to "ichichagough, J nn so." Members of 'ho Idaho Leurisla! uri vary the monotony of debute liy shy ing inkstands lit each other's heads. Tug Postmaster of Df-lavan, Wis., changed a flob Mil tlie othe- day to ac co 111 in ad ate a man who wanted to buy a three-cent postage Man, p. A woman went into h Kentucky newspaper office tind linked the prin ters to print her a Jlariwr' J-'erry weekly. A gentleman who has lived for many years in sirf t f the ocean, says it i an undeniable fact that the vicinity of the C always makes a hilly location chilly. North Carolina can hardly beclnMBed as p, literary Common weal h. It h s a population ot over 1,000.000 po-'ple, and there are only about 00 newspapers aud periodicals published in tlie Mate. A dutiful son of Detroit has killed sixty-seven or his neighbors' eats to (ret money to Miy his tnollier a set of false teeth. He has made a ijulet neighborhood where once was a howl ing wildoriieiis. The Michiitu State Trison convicts aro tortured by a hand-o .hii, which the warden hires a man to rini. Thev are petitioning for the restoration ot capital puuisnuient. The drum ia jor who ran away from Chickamauga wi.en reproached wnh oowardice, replied: "I'd rattier be call ed a coward all my lile, tbau a corpse ht'teen niiuut ae !" It is 8ti litres, ed that woman, and not her wrongs, should be ledreased ; for that Deauiy, like ealentate, is to be valued only ty the quantity of square leet inclosed, seems a now recoizuizvd principle ot fuuiiuine faith. Bismarck enjoys the reputation of e-iyiug more witty things, with less ef fort, than any man iu Germany. A coi respondeui says !' biui, ibai. he is as ready as t.u American, brignt, as a Frenchman, end stinging us a tSpau lard, iu hit) conceits aud epigrams. There is a story of a Parts lady who was so overcome b. her appetite as to eat her beloved lap-dog. Alter a hear y meal she loo 1 tod dowu at the liuiu heap ot bones ; tears fo,i from here' e. "Poor Bijou ? sua exclaimed, "how he would have enjoyed them T" "Shall I help you to al ghtT" said a young gentleiuau, addressing a boun cing country girl who wan preparing to jump from a carriage iu lroui ut bi4 omce. lliuuk you, sir," sweeny ru flied the girl, "but 1 don't smoke. " Women are the piliais that adorn and support society ; the lusiiLuuous that protect wouieu tnrow a siuei'i around children; and where women aud children are provided for, uian must be secure in his rights. Creditor. "How oi'ien must I climb three pairs of stairs before I gel trie amount of thin little acuou ut f ' u,bt- or. Do you ididk 1 am goiuir to rt-ui a place ou the tlrnt floor to acooui.no uiy creditors?" People who buy "No. I" inacker 1 get those which when caut'tit wer thirteen tncues long irom mo up the snout to the notch of the caudal fin, and fat ; No. 2 are fat risli less tbau thirteen iuche iu length ; No. 3 com prise those which aro thirteen inci s Ion and poor; while JSo. 4 are under thirteen inches aud poor. A traveler who demanded his trunk at a Baltimore depot befo e all others, aud was told by the Irish bag irate master that he must have patience and wait his turn, urned upon the b gage-maBter with : "You're an impu dent dog." To which hoot the iruims rejoined : "An' faith ye are a uumaei; and it's a great pity that, wtieu we 1 wo A-ero luauo im;tML, e v w ,i pi, ant. no 1 hat ye ould have t er tiiiint- d trunk uuut-r jor uobe an mo im". Not lonrr since a man walked into one of the throe Ktores of a wrau-rn town and inquired of the iiropriettir if he had any more brandy lino mo "-' he got there, null was told ho hmi. V ell," coiiltnuea tne cu-ioiner, w oo was from a mountain town, "1 want to tell about that last pint you sold tne. I went home late at night uud buntr the bottle up fcytbe hro place, it was a middling col i night, and when 1 g up in the niorLing I found the but le had dropped on the hea. lb an broki-i into a thousand pieces ; but," coin in broken tied the mountaineer, witu animation, 'the brar.dy was all right I there it hung on tho rail, lrozo solid, r than thunder!" CENSCRK SOMETIMES BETTER THAN APPROVAL. If we should be reminded that we ourselves have sometimes severely criti cised Republic, n action, we reply that in no other way could Republican fidd ly be shown. It is because of our pio- found conviction of the necessity of con tinued Republican dominance to the peace and prosperity of the country that we have criticised conduct which seemed to us, likely to shake confidence in the party and its prosperity. Plainly, if every paper ia the country friendly to Republican ascendancy should praise indiscriminately every measure ot Con gress, or every suggestion f the Ad ministration, or should oe silent nnc it should commend, the result would infallibly be what we saw in tlie Demo cratic party a d wen years ago. It is the vigorous Republican protest ;..;'i:n-.l Republican errors which proves the par ty is a living force and not a machine. No criticism is to be deprecated, how- ever severe, when it is mat 01 a menu; and friendly remonstrance, however earnest is very easily distinguished f. om hostility. Jiatvcr's Weekly. THE LECISI.ATCIIK. This session has been rather a curious one. People continu.iily ask. "What is the Legislature doing ?" Suie cnou-h. Well the truth is, it's hard to answer such a question and give the tii -'.:. i in formation in a word. The Legisl.'lme, up to this time, has spent as many hours in legislation and has introduced as many bills as its predecessors, but up to this time but very few bills have become laws. There are now on the books of the House and Senate some hundreds of bil.s that have been intro duced this session, and are now hanging by the ears in this or the other condi tion. Columbia Lsiter. PIALOlilKOS COHKt FTIOS. Two wags passing out of town on ti e Galveston road wcie struck with the beauties of Lawrence. "Whose place is that ?' a'-ked one of them. , . , , . "That is the lordly residence of Maj. George A. Reynolds. Cost $30,0x10. "What is his business?'' "Indian Agent." "What is his salary, and how long ti.s he held that office f" "Two years at J 1.500 a year. "Lord ! what did the honest fellow do with the rest of his salary?" "Started his brother and two other men in the newspaper business to 1 e nounce corruption." Kansas Tittunf. The New Yolk Post closes an editor ial on the future of the Republican par ty as follows : In short, so f.,r everything promises well for a Repu jlican success m-M e,ir; and to us the most hopeful s vn is (he candor and freedom wnh which the Re publican journals are now discussing" public affairs ar d the conduct of their leading men. Hon. Win. Biteell. member of the Legislature from Trumbull rtmt.ty. writes to his paper, the Western Reserve Chronicle: A number of our constitu ents seem fearful that the present liquor law will be mollified in the interest of ,.afw-,ria U'c ran verv confidently as sure every one that there is probability of the law being with bv tliis Legislature not " v meddled