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              T- J-U JI"';uij,jii' 'l',7'irl. i'"rif-T 111 innumi jiiJ!iiiaiijMisC7nriiis n mwrsaawnarprweiaw ifyiinrirrwfnwrT-Ti iri ti i i n - i n'i i r rii)Tpwaiauiiu j. - - . w VOLUME . XXVIII. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: , DECEMBER 24, 1864. NUMBER 36. 1 z s s y v v v SATURDAY 4 Xyo Kathalrom r . Etljlron ia from the OrM word " Katkro," or Kthiro,"4 signifying to elaance, rejaTn&te and r. 4or. v JU article U wksx Ua dum riputv.. For vrwvwiBf, mtoriag and beautifying the - haman hair it U tb most remarkable preparation in the werld. It it aain owned and put up by the original proprietor, and u new made with the raue care, 'kill aad attention which gare it a ial or over one million bottle per annnid. - It imot delightful Hair Dresidg. It eradicates scurff and dandruff. It keeps the head cool and clean. ' r It makee the hair, soft and glotsj. ' It prevents the hair from falling off. It prevenU the hair from turning gray. It restore hair upon bald heads. ' Any ladj or gentleman who values a beautiful bead of hair should uae Lyon's ; Katbainn. It is known and used throughout the eiviiized world. "fiold by all reupectable ddaler. 1 DEVI AS S. BA KM 8 & CO. New York. Mar. 2H.y . Hasan's TOasnolia Ilalra. This is the most delightful iiitl extraordinary arti-'" 'tide ever discovered. . It i-hunges the run burnt face -nd hands to a pearly satin texture orravi.ihing beauty, imparting the marble purity of youth, and the uVm appearance so inviting in the city belle of fashion. It removes tan. freckles, pimples and roujth- aess from the skin, leaving the complexion freb, transparent and smooth. It contains no material in-. ijurious to the skin. Patronized by Aetrcses and Opera Singers. -It is what every lady should have. '' Sold every where. Preparee by W. E. HAG AX, Troy, X. Y. Address all orders to DEM AS S. BARNES A CO. New York. ; Mar. 26-ly .v. - HEIMSTREET'S Inimitable Hair Restorative, - SOT A DYE But restores gray hair to its. original color, by sup-. plying the capillary tubes with natural sustenance, .-impaired by age or disease. All inMiirntoiu rf.vt are oomposed of lunar cfic. destroying the vitality and beauty of the hair, and afford of themselves no dressing. - Heiinitreet's Ini uitiilile Coloring not only restores h lir to its natural coler by an- easy pro-eess, but gives the hair a Luxuriant Beauty, promote its growth,' prevents its falling off, eradicates dandruff, and imparts health and pleiutantness to the head It has stood the test of time, being the nriginal ilir Coloring, and is constantly 'increasing in favor. Used by both; gentleman and ladies. It is old by all respectable dealers, or can be procured by ;;them of the com:nur-ial agents. 1. S. BARNES fc C0. 103 Broadway, New York. Two sixes, 60 ceuts nd $1. Mar. J-ly . Bfexlean Slustana; Iiiniment The parties in St. Louis fc Cincinnati, who hare Counterfeited the Mustang Lihiment under prcti-nse 'of proprietorship, hare been thoroughly estoped by the Courts.. To guard against further imposition, I have proeured from the United States Treasury, a . private steel plate revenue, stamp, ' which is placed over the top of each buttle. Kttch ftamp bearx tho fixe i mile of my Signature, and without which tbe article U Couf.terfeit, dangerous and worthless imitation. Examine every bottle. This Liniment has been in use and growing in favor for many years. . There hardly exists a hamlet On the habitable (Hobo that 'does not contain evidence of its wonderful effects. " It ia the best emoliinent in the world; With its present improved ingredients, its effect upon man and .; beast are perfectly remarkable. Sores are heitled, ! pains relieved, lives saved, valuable animals mads useful, and untold ills assuaged. For cuts, bruises, prains, rheumatism, swellings, hitea, -cuts, caked breasts, strained horses,. e., it is a Sovereign Remedy that should never be dispensed with. It should be in every fami'y. Sold by all Priig'sts. I. S. BAR5ES, New York Mar. 28-ly r - - :. T 1SCO X. Lt ' Persons of sedentary haluts troubled with weakness, lassitude, palpitation of the heart, lack of ape-tite. distress after eating, torpid liver, constipation, "Ac", deserve to suffor if they will not try the cele-. brated ; .."-' Plantation Bitters, which are now recommended by tbe highest medical authorities, anil warranted to produce an immediate teneSuial effect. They are exceedingly agreeuble, perfectly pare, and must supercede all other tonics where a healthy, gentle stimulant is required. p They purify, strengthen and invigorate. xaey create a ocuiioy ape me. Tueyare an antidote to change of water and diet. Toey overcome effects of dissipation and late hours. JThey strengthen tlie system and enlived the mind. t fCCkey Prevent uiiasinatie and intermittent fevers. f. ' They purify the breath and acidity of tbe stomach. I rToey cure Dyspepsia and Constipation. f Ttief cure Diarrhea, and Cholera Morbus. -They cure Liver Com plaint ami Nervous Headache. They make the weak strong, the linguid brilliant, and are exhausted nature's great restorer. They ure composed of the celebrated Calisaya bark, win tor- ; green, sassafras, roots and herbs, all preserved in perfectly pure St. Croix rum. For particulars, see circulars and testimonials around each bottle.. Beware of impostors. Examine every bottle. ' See - that it has our private U. S. Stamp unmntilated over the eork, with plantation scerie. and our signature on a tine steel pUte side label. See that our bottle is not refilled with spurious and deleterons stuff. Any person pretending to sell Plantation Bitters either y the gallon and Bulk, is an impostcr. Any per- . am imitating this bottle, or selling nny other material therein, whether called Plantation Bitters or not, is a criminal under the IT. S. Law, arid will be so ' - itr seoated by ua. We already have our eye on sev eral parties re-filling our bottles, Ac , who will succeed in getting .themselves into close quarters. The demand for Drake's Plantation Bitters from ladies, - clergymen,- merchants, Ac, is idcredible: The sim- pie trial of a bottle is the evidence we present of their worth and superiority. They are sold by all res-. pec tab la druggists, grocers, physicians, hotels, sa-'looas, steamboat and country stores. - - P. II. DRAKE A CfJ, Mar. 28-ly 202 Bread way. N. Y. NE.V-YOUK STATE DIPLOMA "' IWAtdES TO' ". f JAMES DURNO, Albarfy, Hot the Best CatartH Tkmnt&f of the Agk DURNO'S 0A.TASES SNUFF. B. P. J01IXSO S, 8eu'y. T. S. FAXTON, Prea'tJ a.TjhU most desirable of all remedies for Catarrh aa ao equal in medicine. It strengthen the sight; aprovp the hearing, ia beneficial ia Broaehltia, and rifle the Breath. - It ia tha, Ladiaa' pcial remedy for NervousIlea'd'-.reB;-"!BwnUio-BV Tobacco; ia highly aromatic, pro-'ralebig a pleasing sensation and beneficial results to ill who appreciate ' "A CtBAR OlUli SSoldi by all first class Druggists. Price. 25 : -. aaata par B Jt-, - Where not on eale, a Sample Box, 30 " eaata. or ouf rtoxea, or One Dollar, will be senL ; f repaid by mil, from the DEPOT of the Proprietor, 31 Uraaawlea 0 treat, atw xora. " J. DTTRNO. Du! a BrM A dr.; Kt York, Wholesale ,i Agaata. . .. , v, ,4 v,4, , I-.; ; . , Sb..0. v Hnic, Iff niiHtouji . v- - ; v iirgXDKKCav iucajaaa o. v. 1 : rVSw, ii.V. '. 8epUatbar J4, 1859. si: ,up,niwW,I4H,, m Uie Liver. I wa raoom-OL -'.WMiTi,BM.faii and t, P,rUr, aa4 4Waoj , Inaad.tha with great laceee. fWudtWn .friend: t cure the f '-Waiajafidan for; eonaaraently tiair aalaa here, your Aaat4iioTeMJae,arealtbf eth-WifW yoa great KtiSj . ' ' - . "-' ' Jo & VaaaiujaV faj!attianerjy4efeele3a. St gtniDtratic mm , II rCBLISHBD IT1IT SATTK9AT MOJIU0 T L. HARPER. Odee la Woodward Bloel:, Sd Story. $3jSO per annum, payable strictly ia advance, or 3.00 if payment be delayed aatil the end of the year. , xixm 21isttllaii2. From tbe Home JournaL OUT DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE. T 8ARAI T. BOLTO.f. They have laid thee down to slumber, where the sorrows that encumber Such a wild an I wayward heart as thine can never reach thee more; For the radiant light of gladness never alternates with sadness. Stinging gifted souls to madness, on that bright and blessed shore ; Safely moored from sorrow's tempest, on the "distant Adienn" share. . Rest thee, lost one, evermore. - " '"'"' Thou wert like a meteor glancing through a starry sky, entrancing - Thrilling, awing wrapt beholder with the wondrous light it wore : But the meteor has defended, and the " Xightly." shadows blcn led. . For ihe fever-dream is ended, and the fearful crisis o'er Yes, tbe wild, unresting fever-dream of human life is o'er, 1 Thou art sleeping ever utore. Ocean, enrth and air could utter words that made thy spirit nutter Words tht stirred the hidden fountain welling in thy bosom's eore. Stirred it till its wavelet's sighing wakened to a wild replying, And, in numbers never dying, sung the heart's unwritten lore. Sung, in wlid, bewitching numbers, thy sad heart's . ; unwritten lore. Nntr, unwritten, nevermore. " There was something sad and lonely in thy mystic songs, that only " Could have trembled from a spirit weary of the life it bore - Something like tbe plaintive toning of a hidden streamlet moaning. In ita prisoned darkness moaning fur the light it knew before For the fragrance and the sunlight that had gladen-ed it before, Sighing, sighing evermore. To thy soul, forevpr dreaming, came a strange efful- genee beaming, . Beaming, flashing from a region mortals never may explore ; Spirits lead thee in thy trances through a realm of gloomy fane ies. Giving spectres to thy glances man had never seen before:' r Wondrous spectres, such a human eye had never seen before, Were around thee evennofe. Thou didst see the starlight quiver over many a fa-hied river - " Thou didst wander with tke ebadvwa of toe Mighty : dead of yore- And thy songs to us came ringing like the wild, unearthly hinging. Of tbe viewless spirits winging o'er " the night's Plutonian shore," Of the weary spirits wandering by the gloomy Sty-giuu shore, Singing dirges evermore. Thdu didst seem like one benighted, one whnsehipes were crushed and blighted Mouffctng. for the lost aud lovely that the world could not restore- But an endless rest is given to thy heart ao wrecked and riven, ; Thou hast met again in Heaven with the " lost" and loved " Leo jrc," With the " rar and radiant maiden whom the angels call Lenon," - She will leave thee nevermore. From IS 8 earth a star has faded, and the shrine of song is shaded, And the muses veil their and sore faces, weeping sorrowful But tbe harp, alt rent and thrilling token : broken, left us many a We-ehaU hear its numbers spoken, and repeated o'er and o'er, Till our hearts shall cease to tremble, we shall hear them sounding o'er. Sounding ever, evermore. We shall hnar them like a fountain tinkling down a rugged mountain . Like the wailing of the tempest mingled with the ocean's roar ; Like the winds of autumn sighing, when the summer flowers are dying. Like a spirit-voice replins from the dim and distant shore ; ' Like a wild, mysterious echo from the distant shadowy shore. We shall hear them evermcre. Xever more wilt thou, undaunted, wander through the Palaee ha intid," . Or the ." Cyprus vales Titanic" which thy spirit lid explore Xever bir r!e Ghoul" 'kinfAareUang in the ariuient steeplo telling. With a slow and Aolema knelling, losses human hearts deplore Telling. " iu a sort ol Runic rhyme," the losses we deplore, Tolling, tolling evermore. If a "living human being" ever had the gift of "Clltg The " griai and ghastly" couatenance hi ? evil" Genius wore It was thee, " unhappy master, whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till" thy songs one bui den bore-Till the dirges of" thy "hope one melancholy burden bore. Of never-never more." v Ixdiaxapoli8, Nor. 1, 1804. A Beautiful 8imile. Hon. Wm. B. Reed, of Philadelphia, recently concluded an address in that citv by saying that he had attempted to keep his mind and the minds of his audience away from the terrible events which, as a nation, were crowding upon usj but he felt like'one that walks on Vesuvius arid sees along its entire height; gleaming through crevices, the burning lava, and does not know at what instarit it will burst forth and swallow him upfc Shtre was a fable, which he had read, of art trld Wart who, walking one day in a peaceful valley, was started by a Tbphetic voice which told him that at the end of thirty Mays there would be three full dayt and three dark nights of rain upon' the "earth. That every one upon whom the raixt fell would .become Triad, m would 1 also theit cJbildreoi The. iTdia "icrtd the bid iian t6Wd himself in a at-fri"tBe strttce th,er9of. he .coW agaitf Mttl hta itfet aXfecsdjOf-tlre gtirtjfjrij ih .cU xaaa, 1dllcrwhig ib propEetio voice, entered the cave and remained there the length of time in which the rain by prophecy, was to fall. At the end of that time he came out and entered his accustomed habitation; but what a change had come over the land. He saw brother slaying brother, and friend driving a dagger deep into the back of a friend. The voice of Christianity was raised in eulogy of thesq dreadful crimes. And as the old man looked upon them in wonder and pity, he was looked upon with suspicion.- He was threatened with the prison-house and with death. In despair hp, too, plunged into the waters which had covered them all, saying, in a world of madness it is better to be mad than to be wise. The speaker said such is the fable, and the audience could make their comparisons. ADVENTUEE WITH A BOBBER. It may be four years ago, and it may be five, that I was called by business from my home at TanWorth to London. It was about a law-suit that was going on, and as there was plenty of money and as the costs were to come out of the estate, we witnesses were pretty Well treated by the- lawyers5 at least I was treated liberally enough, and it was not likely that I was going to grumble when -the case being over Mr. Lewin, the lawyer, dropped a sovereign in my hand ami thanked me for the straight-forward and conscientious manner in which my evidence had been given. Well, the case being over early in the day, I determined to go and see some sights and enjoy myself, and return by the same train, which then left at 9:15 instead of 9 P. M. I arrived at the station pretty early, for, having enjoyed myself, I was in a good humor, and thought how much I should like some jolly companion to join me on the line down. I walked up and down the platform, but there were few passengers that night, and I could not see any one whose appearance I liked, or whom it would do to be merry with. Well, I got my little friend refilled at the refreshment saloon my case bottle; I mean and stepped into the compartment of a second-class car. I found I was alone, and said, "Hallo, Jim, this is not the company you bargained for. But, however, I'm not the boy to meet sorrow half-way." Remarking this, I took my seat.- . A porter shut the door and the train was just on the point of starting, when there was a hurried tramp on the platform, the door opened, and a man has tily jumped in. The door was shut, and before I had time to see what, my new companion was like, the train had started and was in full career. He ap peared to be a figure of the largest, if 1 were to judge by the height and size. His head was covered by a slouched hat, the brim of which was turned down in such a way as to entirely conceal his face. Not much liking his appearance, I sat quietly in my corner. "You don't seem very sociable, neighbor," he began ; folks ourrht not to be sulky when good company joins them. Cme, be sociable." Ijreplied that I had no objection to doing so, if 1 only knew how "Well," he replied, "first take a pull at this, drawing out a huge bottle, 'and then we'll have a game at cards." I answered that I was a teetotaller, and never played cards. "Now, don't tell me any of your lies," he said. "Not drink, eh?" and he accompanied his words with a dig in my side, right on my newly filled case-bot tie. . The blow was gigantic. The force of that man's hand you cannot imagine. My Dottle was broken in bits, and the liquor, running out, discolored my white coat - "A teetotaller, eh?" said he. "Smells wonderfully like rum for a teetotaller's drink. Now, I tell you what, my cove," said he, putting his hand in his pocket, irom wnicn ne protluced a pistol, "sit down at once," for I had started to my feet to resist the outrage, "or I shall leave only one alive in this carriage, and 1 promise it shant be you. He held the weapon close to my head ana i was lorced to obey. "Now, I tell you what it is I am quiet and peaceable, but you shall be sociable and play and drinksome. He handed m'e the bottle and I pre tended to drink. "Now," said he, bringing forward the cards, "what shall we play? You don t know, . eh? Well, we will play hookey. 1 will be banker. I put four pacics aown-i-you shall put your money down on three. I will double it, and ii tne one comes up uncovered highest. I win;:if not, you. Of course you won't stake anything low." 3 I protested , that I had no money, but ue npuKe in sucn a ieeung way of the trouble I should cause him to search for my jrarse, that! at last pulled it odt n comamea about thirty pounda-r-n'd, taking out a few hnlf jrwns J covered xne pacrs ana of oura lost directlv; .1 ihojght W myself,' Well,.we .hall atonr at Wolvertob etton xrtcl' 1 fcatf'ViTe a3VH again frora the polica Tl???! V WM. rpb mo or never; minabtfe irbei VI i We played and in a tn minutes all my money Was gone. .' "Now, let me see,' iaid he, "your watch, chain and rings are worth thirty pound stake them!" with awful emphasis. ;;-" I did so they were gone. "Well," said he "your clothes are good; we will play for them.. Of course as a gentleman you will redeem them in money, won t your say hve pounds. Yu stake -I cover won again never was such luck. Well, t don't know you seem such a shabby creature, I'd best have them while I !Can," and seizing me by the hand he deliberately com menced to strip on my clothes, one by one. . .: I struggled- I screamed, but it was of no use I was a baby in his hands. But m the scuSe his hat fell oft, and I saw his face was the face of a grinning skeleton. He stripped me of my very stockings. I begged, prayed for a rag 4 to cover me, for the night was cold. "You may think yourself very well off, alive," he said. "Never mind, ' I gladly thonhgt, 4 the train slackens its speed Wolverton is here." Alas! as I spoke, the wretch: who had been doing up my things in a bundle, pushed me into the corner, and before Ij a wretched, naked man, could make the people at the station under stand what had happened, he had gone beyond recall. The skeleton face was, of course, a painted mask to frighten lone passengers, and all l ever recover- i - '.a mi ea was my great coat, wnicn the villain had dropped in his flight. STE VE COIT ANT S COURTS HIP I orice called on my friend, Steve Conant, and while there the conver sation turned on courtship; and at my request, the old gentleman told . me an incident in his own love affairs. which I give in his own words: "Wall, seeing it s you, I don t mind telling about a scrape, that happened to me when I was courting Nancy , here. That is something that I never tell any body. But ye shall hear it! "No don't Steve." broke in the old woman. l should ttiinK you would oe asham- ed of yourself, telling love scrapes to everybody. " "if you cant"bear tp hear it, yon may go out doors so here goes! When 1 was nigh about twenty-one I came up here all alone, and built me a cabin, I hadn't a naber nearer than five miles, so ye see, I didn't quarrel much; but as it grew to be near winter, I got kinder lonesome, and begun to think that I ought to have a woman to keep me com- pany; SO one morning I started down to ... , , uenwiiy, to UKe a iook ai ine ffiris, to see if I could find one to suit me. When I cot down to the settlement I asked a youh2 chap if he knew of a erirl l, ---lA S-;A i iCu w Ct xxiwixVU, om me he guessed that Nancy Knox did, and if I wanted a wife, I had better try and hitch On with her; and he said that ,i i , , t. it it was agrceab e he would go to Dea- COh Knox S and make me acquainted with Nancy, and b2 Was as good as his word nn.l t.w;isnt an innr h..f..rA Xannv , T , . .:- , J and I was on the best of terms. Afore night I hired Out with the Deacon for ten doilars a month, half of the Dav to . . . ' . . be taken in produce, and the rest in , , i t i ii uear casu, suu jl was iu wur& an winter."Wall, for about two months I felt as a mouse in new cheese. I courted Nancy every Sunday night, and I was determined before another week to pop the question, and I hadn't a bit of doubt but what Nancv-would h nver- . t v jujuu ucuouiiiig u,j u sum uuuipaii- ion. Wall, about this time there come a lenow irom one oi me lower towns to keep school, and he hadn't been there more'na week afore I found he had a , . ...v. . u.v natural hankering arter ancv: and worst of all, the old Deacon, who seem- ed mighty pleased at the thoughts of my courting his gal, begun to kinder kool off, as if he would like the schoolmaster better for a son-in-law, and it made me feel kinder down in the lip, I can tell you , V Wall, on one Sunday night Bill Smith, for that was the pesky critter's name, came in just at dusk, and when the clock struck nine he didn't seem to go Old Mrs. Knox and the young una ttll went to bed, and there were none left butt the old Deacon, Bill, Jfancy and I, aifd I kept 8pecting every minute that he would show Bill to Jbed, but he did rio such thing; but jtist as the clock1 struck ten boris up, and ses he: " Steve let's go to bed, for; we must be, up bright and airly to h&ye them ere logs to the river.1' Wasn't that a bmt, eh? I looked at Nancy, but she trirned away her hed, and at 'this I up the ladder tor be'd. I was boiling over-mad with all creation -r Bill Nancy and tha Deacon in par ticular. I got into bed. and kivered myself op, but I felt so bad I eotildn't go to sleep. Like as not, the schoolmaster was ; hugging' and i kissing- Nancy down, in- the kitchen, atfd I eoitddn't'shet mjley. vt: the lifaloTi: Wsi,; all srere aorao bigrivka iVtbSifloor. orer thekiteh6nj and I -could watchriand ee ill ttat wa. toliik- pnMowM: c'rit;cf I bed I go v' ; and -crawled aloa'3" close to the chimney on all fours, and finding a big crack, I looked down through. Bill and Nancy were setting about two feet apart though every now and then Bill would hitch to her. How I could have choked that man! I watched them for about a quarter of an hour and hy that time I war near about froze, as it was an awful cold night, and I hadn't a rag on except my two shirts. By and by Bill hitched hi9 chair a little closer, and I could see that he had made up his mind arid was just going to kiss her. How it riled me? But I was bound to see it through, so I moved a little nearer to get a better view, and at that moment the plank tipped up, and down I went kerchunk and landing between Bill and Nancy. Bill thought for once that old Nick had come, and streaked it out of doors; and as for Nancy, she gave one look, and then covered up her face with her apron.; I started out of the kitchen as quick as you could say scoot, and as 1 was going up the ladder, I heard old Mrs Knox holler: " 'Nancy, scoot the cat down, or she'll break every dish on the dresser!" "The next iriorning when she went out to milk, I popped the question to Nancy', she said she would have me, for she didn't cafe a cent fof Bill Smith, and we have been married forty years cum next June. I'se Jist Sam. During the last winter a "contraband" came into the Federal lines, in North Cnroliha, and was marching up to the officer of the day to give an account of himself, whereupon the following colloquy ensued : "What's your name?". "My name's Sam." "Sam what ?" ; "No, sah; not Sam Watt. I'se jist Sam." ; "What's your other name?" 'I. hasn't got no order name Sah; I'se Sam datValL" :-' "What's your master's name ?" "I'se got no massa now; massa run-ned away iyah! yah! I'se a fre'e nigger-no w." Well, what i3 your father s and mother's name?" "Ise got none, sah, nebber had none. Ise just Sam-nobody else. 'Have not you any brothers and sis- tera?r : - ' 4No, sali! never had none. No Trud- der, no sister, no fadder, no mudder, no 'massa nothing but Sam. When vou See Sam, vou see all dere is of tis.' ' J . ' . Excitement at Johnson's Island Escape of Rebel Prisoners All E.e-captured. From the Sanduuk' ItffitUr, we take the f iHowing account of the attempted escape of - the prisoners from Johnson's Island, on Tues- dav morning : About one o'clock yesterday morning by a pre:on.,erted nrrangeiiient, a . rush was made ' b' wty-four prisoners. u,on the center of '! l? gwHr.ii.iie,. oi "e. nortnwest snie ot tt.e. . prison. The prisoners had improvise.! eirht j scaling ladders by attaching '"cleets" to boards a,,t strips; very light easily carried and just 'h,e t,,i,!- for c1" the f-on 'ence. ' 1 he rush upon the guard at once occasioned j the pror cry "turnout the guard!" accom- - , panied bv quite a rattling fire irom the guard line, but the rush was so initetuou8. and by so , many prisoners, that in pite of the mat in cpite oi tne guam. i four men out of the twentv-four. scaled the I fence, passed ihe guard, escaped from the Is- 'land, crossed the north channel of the Bav, and went some distance upon the Peninsula. I ' . ... . . .i . ...i. . i- - . . j. i 1 "rr- Ul" :' ! received a shot cutting awav his tnrougn. one coat pretty feverely at 'th waist, was knocked down and captured. Another, Lieut. John B. Bowles, son of the President of the Louisville Bank, Kenturky, was shot twice through the bo.lv about the same instant, and killed. . The oth-i er eighteen found he work too hot and re ' treated to their barracks. I The rush on the guard was immediately fol- ' mm. y me long roil ana tne proper e g nal yun. By the way, this is the first "lon mv OC0Haionej bv Rny .lemonstrati.m of the prisoners since hist March; and the only oth - ;er one was on tne nisriu oi tne s&a ot eptem- t,er when al ,eaPl on'e'thiH of the prison force WHxn Vpt 7y " nian' "; '0a- Under a standing order, all the troops were nrommiv in nosinon . redv to ive nroer u tendon to th, rebels should ant farther efforts be. made within the enclosure. io: make sure of any who might be lurking off the Island, awaiting better opportunities to elude observa tion, three companies. of ihe 6th V. R. C, ! were ordered out to patrol the Wand and make a thorough research Af the' same time several detachments of the 128th regiment were ordered off in pursuit of the escaped pris oners, who had passed the pickets on the north- west side of the Island recei ving a fire from them at long range. The fleeing rebels made the best time possible, but were hotly pnrsued; and with soldier on their rear and both flanks,, and the loyal citizens of the Peninsula (who had been aroused by the discharge of the 20 pounded Parrott) in their front, the escape soon terrrrinated in (to them J a very mortifying recapture. v The mor,ning roll-call and master of prison ers showed that but lour of tliero had lef t the prison. They were all hack, and returned to their home in th "Bull Pen" this morning. The unwilling : dnizene of that locality are full of their schemes, and threats, and seem disposed to make the very most of their opportunities, while the ice is practicable as a highway; and it remains to bV seen whether tbe future, with whatever thVy may receive, will beyery productive of gratifying results to tCemeeWe. . .. v v. .. ; ... . . .:;' ' Three of the fifziltrtii were seen rnnning across the Peninsula, by Mr. O: : B. Wright, a gentleman wh'tf has a vineyard there. As soon as he beard the firing, be got oat with his gun. and seeing the' three escaped prisoners', called to them: "Stop, or 111 pal a hole throtrgb yon as big tia tiif hatl'r At this they halted, and he marched then back to quarters. Another was brotrght in bjr; tha guard, abb't ten o'clock yesterday morning. - : ? "Th'e firing of cannon' Waa"-" bjr tia ortfnanee otcef," with view of jbreakTirg'the Ice, a s ttw event tka priaorirA&om eroasregi:. ffPttxJf to be adMfmr." 205,567! The largest Democratic Tot Ever Cast . ia Ohio! . . . aaaaaemej The Xevrark AdvoeaU htM thebllowiag ar tide which we bope will be read by Oar-Democratic friends. Tbe Advocate maj ' th official rult of the Vote ia Ohio at the recent Presidestial election baa been ascertained and announced by the State authorities at Columbus. It is as follow. Lincoln. $c&eUan. Lincoln's majoritT. 18.107 31,221 llome rote ......224.008 Soldier's vote.... 40.767 9.75G Total 2G4.y85 205,507 59,418 "The forejtoing fijrnres exhibit two recultf that are specially noteworthy, vis: "I. The liepublicah majority in Oltio, hai Iwimlled eo largely in one year, that LincoInV majority in npvvanU of 40,0'X) less than that ot Broiiirh in IhOi. w '2. The vote polled for the 1emocrafic can-diifate for PreHtdent. is several thoufltnd jrreat er than was ever before polled bv Deuiocrarv of Uiiio. With a ninch les8 violent si rnirle than tliit of last vear without oite-fbiirth the effort bv DemocraiM to;arou!e the people, in the almost total aienee ot outwanl enthtii asm, the vote for McCJellau is neariv 20.M)() greater thati that which who ca for Mr. Val luntltgham atter the long, stormy, expensive aiil Ialoriou3 oampai -n of 1SG3.. JVo-o for th' first TIMS in the history of our SOiU, the .Jem ocatio vote of Ohio not onlv touches tbe lone desired 2iX0(X), but is several thousand in x cess ot that number. In tins tatter tact, the Democracy have eood reaaon for lirjefuliiesf and pleasant reflection. Xeither lenuncin-tions, threats or ohldiuy, nor the discourage nients which the base and improjler use of otti cial power to control the election. fr ere lialde to lefet, prove! sufficient to induce Oh o dem otTtita to falter in their duty.'' I hey went to the ballot-'x less in hope of c.rrying th. State for ilc.Clellan, than to record theear-fe-it and respectful protest of more than two hundred ; thousand Uion loving; citizens ol Ohio; asrainr't the wisdom hiv1 hum mity o continninr the poliy by which a war tha was to have ended in ninety days bal already b en prolonjed through four yeari of 'blood. T bur protest, in which more than a. miHioi-and a half of citizens of other States solemn lv unitid, 5s now on record, and those wh-made it will cheerfullv leave it there to abldt the judgment of the future, ': A Greenback Called a Lie by Horace Greeley. The New York Tribune, in an article bn fi nance, Fays: The green hick that calls itself $T is nncon-Btouslr a liar ; it is really hut a little over $2". And this, like all other lies, though it seem lor the moment advantageous, is a gsnerai mischief and. detriment.. The scheming, gt ming few mar make by it; but the iudustrioui-.many must lose. It will be seen that this highEepublican au thority now recognizes the gold standard alone If e does not consider gold at a premium, but currency at a discount of fifty five per cent. lie utters some other truths that will alarm gome of bis party friends: , This country is now running info debt at the rate of fully five hundred millions per a'u nuni, which would be reduced consiierabIy below lour hundred milliona iy a . tolerable approach to pound ness in our currency. '1 hat is to say: we are paying eleven to twelve per barrel for the flour and at leant twenty dollars per hundred lor the bacon consumed bv our vast armies and naval forces, when we might buy at halfthece rates if our greenbacks were worth ninety to ninety-five cents in coin per dollar. Our ships-of-war, transports, ordnance, small arms, ammunition, and nearly every thing, else required for the prosecution ol ao g.gant'C a war, cost us neat I v twice as much that is, add twice as much to our pub lic debt as they would ii we had a tolerably sound currency. . That our , urrency has fallen into diliplda-tion is not the most discouraging fct; we are more disheartened by t he leaden apathvwbere-w.ii-h this. is accepted and submitted to, when it should be trcatel by Executive, Co'ngress and people precisely as a bouse on fire. There is no heed that it should continue. We might get ont of this slough if we only would. It would cost something, but not half what ft doe-to remain in it. Otir law-:r.akera and hiirb i officials should resolutely confront it. if only for their own sakes, since it ia demonstrable i p: iiv ..n.. 1 . ! . . r . 1 : l i - i m i a little over SlO.tHMJ.: to that with Cabinet " ' Alimsters: HeHifs of KurMiis. arirl I .nnirrckk i Ti l" 1 ; j fjuse th- 2ettin2 hut half the law allows them money ihev receive is worth but a minor fraction of its face. Stealing a Hide. Cm conductor Kincanle's train, on the New York Central, last night, a lady with a vast circumference ot noop occupied a wbole neat as tlie cars went o it of this city. Taking up tickets the conductor evidently suspected some thing when ne came to this lady, an-1 politelv requesting her to rise, as he though: she was slitting on Something which had been left on the seat. She demurred, and he insisted.' 'besaidhe wouldn't and he said nhe inu'sL and finally She did. and n6t only that, but she steppen out into tne arsie. tiusning tremen dously and insisting that site "didn't know it," when, Io and behold! a louriding babe of the male ersnaion, only sixteen years old, was discovered curlel np on ' the floor!, llow the delightful creature bad got there was a mys-teiTr to her, of course as much so as was the presence, to Joseph, of a chicken in Joseph's hat. The lady was abo'at to anathamatize the young gentlf man in the most approved manner of injured virtne, but he took the words out of her mouth by pleaiing Mteoiisly, "Pleftsel novr. Auntie, pay my fare. Auntie did . ScheeeladySlar. Prorost Marshal Killed by XknStii From the CIearel4 (Pa.) Eepublkan. A import reached us at the beginnmf of the week that acting provost marshal, of. Clinton connty has been shot and killed a'bbot the Clinton oountv line, bat tl. credit!. Now, however, it is confirmed. We ara not irrrnished whh parVculars, but it appears that a son of Jeremiah Gaines was draf t&I ih Clinton county and failed to report; that an o'tneer, wita aa aasitaat, eame to arrem birj an Sattirriar last. 5U alMltratahotaJrere exchanged, resnl ting. in tbe 4nstant killing of me marsoai. ana nmiivz or arm oi tae assta-UnW and ia tha woanding of the father ol yooBgOiae.' As theOameeel stfe MAmen-eajietiam C AfHcaa. Asscent,A woader if tb Jaoobt fetajMhoanCj vwj'J vtradtxij Rebel Contract for Anat In .Eaglaa-' A London letter says that th rtbel Gofers- ment has concluded a contract with' anEng.--flrra lor the immediate aoppl of twa badrei and fifty thousand : English rifle, for ths w ofttt qsbel array. Ech gon Is to b paid fbfwith a fixed quantity or cotton, rained at a stipulated price. averaelon a gold basiav The English tradern are to anderuke the cost and risk of transportation and delivery, aad hope to receive a sum equal to ten millions of dollars in gold, which they think will leat an ample margin of profits. It is said in Lon-don, among the secessionists, that Jeff. Davis contemplates arming the negro slave of the South with the most serviceable of the old . muske'e liitherto in use by bis troops, while the i.ew rifles will be served out to the white rebel soldiers. ..mil - Bobbery and Murder. The wide-spread and already almost nniver sal demoralization of t he country continues t- extend itself to every locality. 'A week ortw ; ago we recorded a bld and successful robberv iu the western part of this county. Followii.g it like the progress of a moral contagion, wiy hear of one of the most aggrava'ed cases -f robber and murder t hat ever shocked the sensibilities of an orderly community. ' Lst Sunday evening. - William Zink, respectable German citizen, was knocked dowo and fatally ifijured by a blow ot the-beaJ, while walking from-, (tlandort to Ottawa, iu this county. He survived until Tuesday nigb, anJ eive inforniatiorV which it is suppose 1 will lead to the conviction of tile perpetrator . ot the crime, who was induced to become h murderer by the desire to oMain the pitiful sum of 3250, which the deceased was known to ha . in bis possession. . A man by the nsme A Klfliiiens was arrsiel under circumstance- that strongly indicate bis guilt. lie will have i nrelitn;n irv ex iminatioi to d iy. at Uttaws, the re-tul' of which we will be able to gie ii our next week's paper. Katul Sentinel. The PhilRdelphia Co?erheads. All of the "IHses' at the Philadelphia N.- - vy Yard, but three, have ben arreiel ftr stealin copuer and everything else of a pon-ble nature, to be found . at Navy stations.- I he am Hint stolen sums up to millions of dollars. These very men, have been the most viruieht in their outcry aeainsf Dinocrats a being traitors. Three of the (iilliugham family are among this thieving crew. The Uii-linfehiin . have, in a measure, leen all their lives in office. We wtmder how our intense iieiils, at the Old Capitol. like looking up' their political brethren of the.v Union League, for their traitorous attempts at impoverishing the Government; which they so solemnly wore to suptori? We look upon them a4 worse criminals than tbe bushwnackers in thdi Valley. Washington l-'nion. . The Potato Rot. The Potato rot. for som cause, is fearfully prevalent throughout our countrjj Notwitlii . standing the potato crop w unusually large; it is thought this necessary commodity of life will be very scarce before next somroer, Jfar-i ion Mirror. Senator Gwin and Napoleon. The Panama Herald says that in forma tio'ri has been received in San Francisco lately IO the effect that Dr. Gwin, fonnely U. 8. Senator from California, has obtained, through ' the influence of the Emperor" Napoleon, and in his interest, a commission from Maximilian as Governor-General of the State, of Sonor. - - - - with authority to induce emigration and setUs the country and power to grant lands. - v Hnje Joke on General Butler. A rich joke on General Butler is current id army circle;. It seems that the regular officers have little faith in the Dutch Gap canal, and at a recent court-marshal "in the Smiy of the James, a soldier was sentenced to twd years hard labor on said canal. The. report aids, that Butler was disgusted, and dissolved the court immediately upon hearing of this finding and sentence of the court.. 2130 Tax upon Each Votef. The Federal and JState taxes In Ohio n'ow( ambrtnt to the comfortable little s nm of t55,' X.(0 a year. This is a tax of $U0 upon every voter, or head of a family, in the Stata. It is rather expensive to run tha beti Government on eartb.M Natrghty LitefSturt . Tlie purveyors fof the diseatted merftal tastM . who advertise "spier" Itooka for sal a tnJTew York; and who will send tberO fy mail, aacure lv sea red, never puldih any thing, I am sare, more lent:oua than th1 pamphlet now being distributed here. It give th mppwe i evidence in the examination of Mr. Clark, of the' treasury-note printing bureau, showing that err naughty transactions take place there and elsewhere. General Garfield wa censured last year for suppressing thia rjortieih of lbs testimony taken before tbe eommittee os" which he wan chairman. Now we have it, it Its original impurity, without a conflicting statemaot of any kinX Wash. Jetter. Bf In the city of Diyton alone, we ht4 been advise.1 by en-client anthority. there ar five hundred families. the husbandf and fa thera being in the militaty servio who ar fa need of relief daring the winter. Yet .Liaoolif says : " We may, if need h. maintchx the war indefinitely.' Dayton Empirci ; "' Sf& Horace Greeley said, at tfei fitU gathering at the sale of Dr. Grant's grapa vines : Twanty-fia acrea of nry farm, i rather, my wife's, ia forest fenced SO as to . ex-clnde all grasing aatmalsv and tba only part of it which doea not cost me rftore thaa fwtara We have nodonbt tS at Gree lay's farmfng ia quite as profluble to hi ml as him poiitice.afa with tha country. . ' . . ' ! . ' . :. ggf Ah excitement phia over a ca of ladie belt tmeklea: ;rTber remained nnsojd when tha (Wshkfoa ehariga.1. just twenty years ago tr the paakai 3 and consigned ta a irarret.,. faea werenr-': ly reproduced for salV and taken1 b thVretSTl - , trade at a prica stlUfcie'nf to ttf teir he."; years in terast On their otlgintl tJcfit, sf lm4 - : a haodaoraa profUbfeidsa. . . " ;- ; V t.; j t& Safari "WaJpo? wroW " "Ut t tti bit of alunf twiOe or tarka a weak. o bi-;r than half yoor nail, till it Baa all $jmrATv& roar month, and then atst : H dqtt TLi . hv fortifisd my teeth, thai their Art as stro.V tha pea ol Jtxniaa.i:l laarned it of Jlra "- Cr-W ' vador. wbJof had not a apsck b ber UJth tilt " Jir4atrf.! -Thb is -Uiaxij tiile? , ed '-car, fcr lb w. .