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' VOLUME III, NUMBER
MAEYSYILLE. JSLAJSTgAS , S ATTJKD-A.Y,
1864-
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THE BIG BLUE UiNiUIN,
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arysville, Ilarsliall County, Kansas.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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3TROH SHERRY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
PUBLIC.
Seneca, Kenaha County, Eanios.
J. P. TAYLOR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Seneca, - Namaha County, - Kansas.
JAMES S. MA GILL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
iRil General Collecting Agent,
llirgsiillc, JlanJiall County Kansas,
tt ill practice ii the Court 3 of Marshall, Nc-
rafci, and lit own. m the Scsond Judioial JJis-
t; and Pottawatomie, Riley, and DaIs, iu.
tu Third Judicial District.
Particular attention paid to the adjustment
H collecting of c'aims against the Government.
ColWtions carclully attended to and proceeds
r"orrptly remitted. " 2n20-ly
n a Ilwrros,
Tny, Xaim.
.U. S, MlQILL,
MirjeMllc.Kausas.
HAWKINS.& MAGrlLC
Attorneys and Counsellors
A.T LAW,
Will devote themselves exclusively to the
T"actice of their profession in all the Courts of
weSccond Judicu.1 District, and m tlie supreme
Courtof State: will make collections generally,
nd remit promptly. ,
l'ost Office address,
Marysille, Marshall Co., or
Troy, Douiphan Co., Kansas. v2n20
Uiy OFFfiCE AX5 MILITARY
COLLECTING- AGENCY.
aT. D. Brumbaugh.
WILL cive D&rtieular attention to claim
lad demands against the Government, in a!
departments, and particularly those grow
2 cut of the present war will obtain rjack
17 arresrs aud bounty money for thoss enfi-
--Junacr the lato acts ol uongress win aiso
tbtjja pensions for widows or heirs of deccas
'1 soldiers.
1JETX?JK O-IFT,
BLACKSMITH,
MARYSYILLE, KANSAS,
iHOP on "VTnlnTif. stroot. in Fnsr. Mnrvsville.
fasoua wishing work done in his line will find
15 to their advantage to give him a call
GUST.ll ST.1USS,
BLAOKSMTH :
RESPECTFULLY announces to the citizens
,--" of Marshall county, and thetravcllragpnb-
r inat he has opened a Llaoksmith Shop in
ysville, on Broadway, opposite the Post Of
jivhereis prepared to make Plows, Ilarrows,
. igoas; shoe horses, and do all kind of work
hi ne onTeasonable terms and at theshort
:f notice; and hopes by strict attention tobus
. to merit the confidence and patronage of
1316 puhlic generally. v2n7
HoTiR1l.ASS0CIATI0N. Philade'phia, Pa. Disease
tv!l.: a cruras System, Spermatorrhoea or Seruiaa
Vstb
Wi T'o"35 Mtcr "lop&s free bf charge.
Ad-
Afcociation,
wt.guci, rmiif tiLti,
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AXXABEL Lee.'
BY EDGATt A1LX TOE.
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a m.uden lived whom you may Lhow
By the name of Annabel Lee ;
And this mniden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me. 1 -
I -was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea ;
But w cld ed with a love that wras more than love,
I and my Annabel Lee
With a love that the 'winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, lone ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee ; ,
So that her high-born kins-man came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not so happy in Heaven,
"Went envying her and me.
Yes ! that was the reason (as all men know)
In this kingdom by the sea,
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling nnd killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we,
Of many far wiser than we; '
And neither the angels in Hea en above,
Nor the demons down under the sea, '
Can cer dissever my soul from the s"oul
Of the beautiful. Annabel Lee.
ovthe moon never beams without "bringing'mc
Of the beautiful Annibel Lee, dreams
And the stars never shine but I feel the bright
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. eyes
And so all the night-tide Hie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Damascus ,!
Is the oldest city in the world. Tyre
and Sidon have crumbled on the shores;
Baa'ibac is a ruin ; Palmyra is hurried
in the sands of the deaert ; Ninevah and,
Bab v Ion have disappeared from the Tigris
and Euphrates ; Damascus remains what
wrs before the days of Abraham a cen
tre of trade and travel an island of verd
ure in a desert "predestinal capital,"
with martial and sacred associations ex
tending through more than thirty ccn'u
ries. It was near Damascus that Saul of
Tarsus saw the light from Heaven above
the brightness of the sun : the street which
:, IlII. scttins forth thatthe said John 0XpiTI
1 Sarnh Mdinda O'Neill gave a certain mort
P 5" to the said Gustavus Kutter, on the south
caur quarter of section number fourteen (14),
and wnship number four j4), south of range
the per six ()i C2St ,ne sixth principal meri
chanl in saiti Marshall countyK-msas. to secure
laymen t of one huudrid and fifty dollars to
rajC'er with the)inteiett thereon, according to the
tude. ai5Ci effect of the noc referred to in said
homjgagp, and tint the aaid John O'Neill has
aud d to p.ny the the taxes and assessments levi
t0 ni said premises for the years 1801, 1SG2 and
f 8, and that said bnd was sold to satisfy said
. es and assessments, and that said Sarah Me
nis ia O'Neill claims some iuterest in said hnd;
callpraying judgment ag.iins the said John 0'-Isai-1
for the Mini of one hundred and fify dol
maJ together with interest thereon fiom the
Hdny of Aujrust, A. D. 1SU, at the rate of
anu j pCr j,, per annum until paid, the sum
-D,niiity-two dollais, amount of redemption
cotton-, and the further sum of fifty dollars dim
raiseilor the foreclosure of said mortgage, and
the d"ieaove (JescriDea Pemises be ordered to
: , jnraised and sold according to Uw to pay
ln l jinie. The said delendants, John O'Neill
Djul3aiah Melinda O'Neill, aie notified to ap
for iiiud answer said petition on or before the
the siy of M-l.v A- D-186'1' or Jud6ment wiu
rohoen by detault.
lrC'l BRUMBAUGH & BOLLINGER,
tcrrf t Plaintiff "a A ttnrnBCJ
and keei with silver and gold, a kind of
Masonic engraving and sculpture united,
called Damaskeening, with which boxes
and bureaus and swords"auu guns are or
namented. It is still a city of flowers and
bright waters ; the streams from1 Lebanon,
the "river of Damascus," the "rivers of
gold," still murmur and sparkle in the
wilderness of Syrian gardens.
The Prixate asd the Snob. On the
Antietam campaign of 1862, Gen. Gordon
commanded our brigade. Now the Gen
eral was a strict disciplinarian, who would
never have any words with a private ; and
hence a joke. While on the march one
of the 307th got ahead of 'the brigade,
when the General halted him 'and ordered
him back. The soldier stopped, turned
around, stared at General & with a bold
saucy look, and replied : "
"Who are yon?'-
,VI ani General' Gordon, commanding''
Third Briffde." .1 .
" "Ah, Generall amtyery happy io make
your acquaintance !"wa8 the complacent?
answer j and'the' soldier proceeded on frii
way, encouraged by a roar of laughteV
from the General'malr
Blockade Runner CaptHred.
A correspondent of thei New Bedford
Standard gives the following spirited ac
count ot the capture of blockade runners
in "Brazos river, by the United Stales
steamer Penobscott :
The Brazos river, -about forty miles from
Galveston, i9" a fine river when once ln
side4 but with a shoal bar. We have lately
made it the scene of one. of the most suc
cessful exploits in destroying and captur
ing blocka'de runners.
The Penobscot, relieved from Galveston
station in the latter part of last summer,
was ordered to watch the entrance to the
river. On our arrival there, we saw sev
eral schooners inside, protected by a strong
battery, out though we Tcept vigilant watch
day and night we could discovered nothing
running.
But at last our patience was rewarded.
On the 18th of February, two vessels
were discovered endeavoring to get in.
We were quickly in chase. The first one
we drove on shore, and she soon became a
wreck. She was a fine schooner, loaded
with powder, arms, medicine, &c. We put
a priz1 ere ft on board and took possession.
That night came on a 'norther a fresh
gale with rain and fog. The pext day the
storm still continued, and we lay hid in a
dense fog. At noon it suddenly cleared,
when to our surprise we discovered a fleet
of eight esse'ls under hpadway, coming
over the Brazos1 bar. The men had just
gone to dinner, but they come tumbling up
the hatchway, and the capstan ran around
as it never aid before. We were quickly
under way, and the chase began. Great
clouds of black smoke rolled from the
smoke-stack. In less time than I can
write it, we,were at the river bar, and two
schooners with full loads of cotton, driven
on the sands and ddshed by the breakers,
became shatted wrecks. The long guns
of the rebel batteries poured forth a ter
rible stream 6f fire. Hurling defiance,
our eleven-inch thunders Jback."" But we
cannot slop to fight,andsOr.while the rebels
chafe with impotent rager we sped on, for
doomed vessels. .
A shell bring3 the Dearest one too, and
while a prize crew takes charge of her we
steer for tfie other, the only one remain
ing that got outbide. The tenth shell
stops her, and we soon have her in tow.
We let them lie off the river with us that
nijjht for the rebs to look at. and. the next
nithgii tnree prizes started tor iew Ur
and They are all tied up here now.
raortrn Miller a New Bedford boy and
t P correspondent had the pleasure of
sa'd n lhem down- They a aU fine
that s- 0"e nna a cargo of powder, arms,
gustihnother had 100 bales of cotton,
ltecdl about 10,000, and 13.000 in Con
Ame4le notes ; and the other had a cargo
CilzaT ba!es of cotton worth abut $60,
the sfS-000 in gld coin, and about S40,
and fi gold watches, and diamonds, &c.
3rd die whole, quite a good day's work for
twenuuDoat The rebel captains have al
di condemned thei; vessels by written
tlie pitions, and they don't steal half here
abov
do in New York.
appr . ,
samcJMAK's Temper No trait of char-
Deal
are
is more j! valuable in a female than
ossession of a sweet temper. Some
petit
ever be happy without it. It is like
)wers that spring up in our pathway,
D 1
ng and cheering us. Let a man go
Da at night, weary and worn by the tols
j day, and how soothing is a word
fed b- a good disposition. It is sun-
sinne falling upon his heart.. He is happy
and the cares of life are forgotten. A
forgotten.
sweet tempter has a soothing influence over
the minds of a whole family. t Where it
is found in the wife and mother, van ob
serve kindness and love predominating
over the natural feelings of the heart
Smiles, kind words and- look3, character
ize the children, and peace and love have
their dwelling there. Study, then to ac
quire and, retain a sweet temper. It is
more valuable than gold : it captivates
more than beauty, and to the close of life
it retains all its freshness and power.
Warts ow Cattle or Horses. Take an
India-rubber string out of an old suspen
der or elastic ribbon, or take an old shoe
and cut a narrow strip three or fourtinches
in length, and wind it, around the roots of
thewart, taking- care to stretch -it well as
ybm wind. Faitei'by twitin-or tfimj the
ends. In at day br two 'the wart!will turn
black, and it will dry down to nothing but
a seabrrand inVa ie day? will come off it-
sejf, or you 'can piek it' off- & -t& ..
' Before the warq Mississippi .there
were aeventy-fivtpaperi; ncw.(tbere ari
XewTorli to'tie Ournod An Ami
cable Proposition of the JRebels.
, The Richmond Whig, discussing vari
ous plans for annoying the Yankees, sug
gests that it would be a good thing to burn
their principal cities. Was malice ever
more desperate or more impotent than that
of thase beaten rebels? Nothing seems to
be left of their snaky nature but the hiss :
"We may not, it is true, be able to S6nd
a raiding party to dash iuto Pliladelphia or
New York to do the work; nor have we
artillery that will carry Greek fire far
enough to reach them but we have that
which will go farther than horsemen can
ride, and will penetrate what the mighti
est artiilery would make no impression on
we have money. A million of dollars
icoidd lay in aslies New York Boston, Phil
adelphia, Chicago, Pitkfairgt Washington,
and all their chief cities, and the men y to
do the business may hcpicJ;cd vj by thehvn
dred in the streets of those cities. If 'it
should be thought unsafe to use them,
there are daring men in.Canada, of Mor
gan's and other commands, who have es
caped from Yankee dungeons, and who
would rejoice at an opportunity of doing
something that would make all Yankee
dom howl with anguish and "consterna
tion." 1 -
The GorFE-ToT Remedy. Everybody
ought to know that in cases of difficult
bieailiingand pains in the chest, so corn
in pneumonia aud lung fevers, relief may
be had as follows : Put a handful of mul
Jen and as much of bitter herbs such as
horirbound, hops, or wormwood into a
coffee pot j add half a pint of vinegar,
and three pints of boiling water; place il
over the fire a few miuutes, then shake
well, and let the patient gently and very
gradualfy inhale the steam from the spout
of the coffee pot. Care mut be taken
against exposure to cold immediately af
terward. The above I have known as a sure re
lief for more than twenty years, and have
within the last twenty-four hours, witness
ed its great value in an extreme case of
lung fever. The patient say3 ''eve'rybody
ought to know it." No good physician ob
jects to it.
Thine respectfully, ,
D. B. HuTcniifS.
Religious Telescope.
. i ty
' ' Jeff Davis' New Currency. The
Knoxville, Atlanta Register, of Mtrrch 13,
gives an interesting example of cause and
effect. It says ; "The new paper mill is
already at work, and on the 1st of April
Mr. Memrainger will flood the country
with millions more or les3 of the hand
some bills of tho new currency." It is
estimated that tho limit of the new legal
tender currency will be about S490,000.000
while there are not SI 0,000,000 specie in
all Dixie,as a basis : and this is chiefly se
creted by private parties; not a tenth of it
could be reached by the rebel government
by the most rigid search. Hence if the
tfew is-ues have any valua, it must be such
iis "good faith" will give them. The re
cent repudiation of $700,000,000 of the
old currency will, not, one would think,
tend to magnify faith in the new.
McDougal, of California, and Richard
son, of Illinois, are the only habitual
drunkards of the Senate. McDougal is
harmless in his cups. He goes out horse
back riding, falls into the gutter, and the
smrll boys rally around him and have a
little fun at his expense. He seldom troub
les the Senate Cbamben with his presence.
Richardson, however, is disgusting in his
bacchanalian revelries always obtrudes
.himself upon the Senate wrhen scarcely
able to stand erect always, 'unfortunately
for himself and for his State, in his seat, to
be pointed at from the galleries, and to
have his name given in reply to the oft repeated-question,
"Who is that drunken fel
low over there?1
The following is genuine Alabama po
etry. It is addressed by a female secesh
to her lover in the Confederate army :
It's hard for you'uns to live in camp,
It's hard for you'uns to fight the Yanfe
It's hard for you'uns and we' una to part,
Fou you'uns all know you've got we'uns hearts.
A printer named Winn, who died in
Rochester, England, recently, was heard I
tq mutter to nunseti a icgkmomcnts betore
'His death, ,"I am onmy last stickfull ; I
am coming to a paragraph, andT suppose
I win nave to wart ior 01a ueatn to put in
a period."
Benjamin F. Taylor facetiously observe!
that "the mule ia the only 'creature extant
that can slip alliitejmuwry to the ti; of its
, tongue. t ,v
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Carious Facts About Congressmen
A Washington letter writer says Mr.
Ames, of Massachusetts, is the richest,
worth over two millions; Mr. Baldwin of
the same State, tho largest ; Mr. Clay, of;
Kentucky, the tallest ; "Mr. Cox, of Ohio,'l
the' smallest; Mr. McCIurg, of Missouri,
the shortest ; Gen. Dumont, of Indiana,
the most productive, being the father of .
uineteen children ; Mr. Stevens, of Penn- .
sylvania, the oldest, seventy-two years ;
Gen. Garfield, of Onio, the youngest, thir-
ty-two years; Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, '
the handsomest; Mr. Kelley, of Pennsyl- h
vania, and Yorhees, of Indiana, the best
speakers ; Mr. Cox, of Ohio, and Mr. w-,
Washburne, of Illinois, the best parlia
mentarians; Mr. Kasson, of Iowa, and
Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, the best debaters;
Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, the largest farm-,J-er,
having Gj500 acres of land, 275 slaves,
200 sheen, and 15 0 blooded cattle ; whtla
Mr. Grinnell, of Iowa, has G0Q0 acres of
land, 6000 sheep ; Wr. Wallace, of Idaho,
lives the farthest from Washington, and
draws 86 396 for mileage, and Mr. Davis,
of Maryland, tho nearest, his mileage be
ing only S32 ; Mr. Prank, of N. York.
'the best nenman. and Mr. Stnven n?
Pennsylvania, the poorest. The House
has twenty-five members with bald headu,
thirty with moustaches, and two with wigs.
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When a man discovers an oil well upon
his premises in these days, his fortune is
mnde. Witness the prices recently paid '
to farmers ia Western Pennsylvania r '
Among the sales recently made are the r'
Parker farm for S10 0,000; the Funk -farm
for 8150,000; the "King farm for
$85,000 ; the Noble & Delamater well
and territory for $300,000 ; the Egbert
for 8200,000. This property is all on Oil
t'reek, but the excitement is not confined
to the Creek alone. .
The petition presented to Congress c!
day or two since in favor of the entire and
immediate abolition of slavery, was
brought io by tw.o stout men in a bushel,,
basket, which the huge roll'just filled. It
was signed by 41, 71S m'en and women in
all parts of tho Union fifteen thousand
residing in Pennsylvania and eight thous
and m New York.
Greit Drought ix California. '
T;he people of California are suffering at
present from drought. Eight thousand
sheep and eight thousand beeves have diod,
and the farmers are killing the cattle for
therr hide and fat. This drought will
prove moat disastrous to the farming"and
hydraulic mining interests of that State.
A little Hoosier boy of five years asked
his mother if God really heard his prayer.
"Ye3, my son," she replied, ''God always
hears our prayers." "Well' said the mis
chievous urchin, "I think he must be dia-,
gusted with mine, for he has hoard the
same old prayer ever since I could talk."
A lady who boasted highly, at a dinner
party, of the good manners of he little
darling, addressed h;m thus : "Charley,
ray dear, wo n't you havo have beans?"
"No!" "was the ill mannered reply of the1
petulant cherub. "No!" exclaimed the.
astonished mother; "no what?" "No
beans;" said the child.
Irok Railway Cars. The New York
Cenlral Railway Company has for the last
two years been replacing its wooden freight
cars as they wear out, with iron once.
They are built of thin boiler iron and are
lighter, and 'stronger, more durable and,
more roomy, and will not splinter nor
take fire in case of collision.
John C. Hcenan is still in London. He
has fits now, and falls down in the street.
He has never been well since he was dTugt
ged for the fight with King by the friendas
of the latter.
It is thought he will neTer0;i,
recover.
"Are you in fun or in earnest VI' askei
a fellow to one who, was giving him asoundUi'I
horsewhipping. "I'm in earnest," replfedjm.,
the other, laying it on somewhat harder.! -
"I'm glad of it," said the'first one, "tor I S,T
don't like such fun !" JtM.
A man came into a printing ofnce .oZr
Ijeg a paper. "Because," said he, iro'
like to read newspapers very much,' buf'3v
our neighbors are all toostingy to take one.' ' ,x
"Iti easy to love our felfojianeiL' -JSb
Yea, bat it i3 easier to lo? el oar-ltfeilow-.women.
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