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was chosen to fill it. On the expiration of his terra of office in 18331, he declined a re-election. In 1837 Van Buren appointed him minister to Russia, and he remained there till 1830.. In 1844 he was associated as vice president with James IL Polk on the presidential ticket, and was elected— In 1856 Pierce appointed hira to succeed Buchanan as minister to the Court of St. James, in which position he was retained by Mr Buchanan when he became president. Upon liia return home he retired into private life, for he had tnany fiducial professional matters to settle in large estates.. ■ - -The Peculiarities Qf this War.More great battles have been fought in the three and a half years of this war than occurred in fifteen years’ Consulate and Empire of Napoleon the First. They have been battles of the same class and magnitude. Shilo was more than equal to Marengo, and Antietam aud Gettysburg to Austerlitz or Waterloo,The loss of life has been greater in our cattles than has ever been known in Europe—a result which is due to the improved and more deadly character of the weapons employed aud to the passionate nature of the combatants.It is the first great war in the world*# history that was ever waged under the railroad and telegraph system. These modern inventions make it practicable to do more in a month if not in a week, in carrying on military operations,Jthan used to be performed in a year. Had Russia possessed a net of railroad such as the South has sot. theconfinement, Col. J, Waruer, 17th .regiment V. R. C., commanding at Indianapolis, will discharge the said Andrew Humphreys, upon the following conditions^ viz : , .“That the said Andrew Humphreys give his parole of honor that he will coniine himself within the limits, of Wrijglit and ; Stockton townships, in, the county oi Gt’een^ in the State of Indiana, during the lertfc of the preseut war o( the rebellion, and further, that he will take, no part, directly or indirectly, against the prosecution af the preseut war by the United States, against the rebels now in arms.Upon the breach of said parole by thesaid Andrew Humphreys, he will be intnle-diately arrested and delivered to ihe commanding officer at Covington, Kentucky, who is charged with tbe execution pf, tk§ sentence, in conformity with the finding of the commission.’*A Female Brigand--A Modern SoatfTcc*Escapes from Jail and Murders the jailor—Danger In the Neapolitan Province.A Turin letter states that among the Neapolitan provinces which have to contend with the dreadful scourge of brigandage there is that of Cattanzaro, which possesses tbe advantage of having a band which is led by Maria Oliviero, an exceedingly handsome woman, uot yet thirty years ,of age. Barbarity is her chief characteristic, aud the sight of blood renders her as excited as a wild beast. She was tbe wife of the famous brigand Monaco of the Albanian village of Spczzano, whq was killed in *.n encounter with the Italian troops near Rossano. Iu this very encounter Maria was also wounded, but she continued to discharge her musket, with a firmness and courage which even commanded the admi-ratiou of her opponents. Having, however, at last been struct in the right leg, she fellAllies would never have taken Sebash pul. i'.er misfortune was that she could not send supplies in abundance ancf as fast as they were wanted over the miserable apologies for roads and paths that now intersect the points of her empire.In expense, nothing like this war was „ltI1 ollll^ lllBe\er known. It has already* cost probably I jn(0 tUe hands of the troops, and, broughtby England in her before a courtmartial at Cattanzaro, whscondemned to be shot. The sentence, was, however, commuted to thirty-years of penal servitude. While she was expiating her crimes in the prison of Cattanzaro the jailer fell desperately in love with her. Th« tiffining woman pretended to feel an equal af fection for him, and one day she tgld himwhile she was with her husband she had.eon-t *coaled in a certain place near Rossano a large sum of money which had been paid for the ransom of a rich farmer. The jailer went quickly to tbe spot, and found the money. The fact had naturally the effect of making his love for Maria still more ardent, so thSt she had no difficulty in convincing him that tender affections are better manifested in freedom tban within the four walls of a dungeon. Before however, quaking their escape, Maria succeeded in sending word to her brothers, who are brigands, that on a certain evening she would be at ad appoint*ed spot not far from Cattanzaro, attired re man s clothes, together with her deliverer. She was punctually at tbe rendezvous, diid her brothers also. Tbe unfaithful turnkeymore than was spent uy twenty one years conflict with Napoleon, when she subsidized and had in her pay tbe millions of Continental Europe. The whole expenses of Napoleon the First when he went to Moscow with 600,000 men, moving those immense masses of men slowly through Germany and Poland, was but $200,000,000 for the entire yenr, or about oue fifth as much as we contrive to spend in the same lime. We have kept on foot armies of a greater size and magnitude than were ever known to be called out by populations twice or three limes as large as ours* Due would suppose that we must reach the. point of exhaustion at no distant day, on the scale with which the war is now prosecuted*The Emperot* Louis Napoleon said to the American Minister in Paris, a couple' of years ago* “Your war must be a short one, for it is waged with too immense numbers aud expense to longendure.’* Yet here we are at the end of the fourth campaign, and with no prospect, to a reasonable view, of a termination to tbe struggle. No war was ever waged before for this length of time, on such a magnitude, without the interfere cnce of foreign powers one way or the other; but being by ourselves, on the Western Continent, the nation of the EasternWorld have apparently determined to be only distant spectators of it, and have seen advantage to themselves in its longer duration-.Young America*.I will relate a circumstance that occurred about three months since in Brooklyn, but leaving out the family imes; as they have been very desirous indeed to keep tbe matter out of the papers. The two familieswere near neighbors, one having a daughter Id yeats nt age and the other a son 14 years old. Of course there could be no ob1-jection to these children playing together in a harmless and innocent manueY. John being rather a precocious youth took it into his head to talk love to Amelia, and actually offered his heart and band to her, which were accepted Tire next thing was to get married and as $5 will buy a man in this place for any purpose whatever, he had but little trouble in finding a willing subject to perform the ceremony, which being all duly done and registered he took boarding for self and wife in a private family. John is a clerk in New* York, and not coming home at night his parents very ntnrally sought him at his place of business the next day, while the parents of Amelia were nearly frantic about their daughter; thinking that she had been sjtoleu or enticed away by some of tbe ■vile wretches who infest the city and pick up young girls*. But you can judge of the astonishment of the governor easier than I can describe it, when informed by his son that he had been married on the evening previous, and taken board at Mrs. B-- V, giving him the number and street. Here was a pretty kettle offish, over which the two families held a council of war, the result of which was for each one to keep their Child, and keep it at home for two years-, and then allow them to live together. This was carried out, but the sequel shows how long the young couple agreed to it, for just one month to-day they ran off a second time and were not found so easily. The old people have given it up as a bad job and concluded to make the best of a bad bar-» gaiu.—La Oroas Democrat.Froui tbe Indianapolis Sontinel, Jan. 4.The Sentence of Mr. Humphreys.We are indebted to Maj. J. W. Walker, assistant adjutant general upon the staff of Brevet Maj. Gen. A. P. Hovey, lor a copy of general orders, No. 1, dated Jan. 2d, containing the finding of tbe military commission iu the case of Andrew Humphreys, the sentence and its modification by tbe military commandant of this district. The order recites the charges and specifications upon which MY Humphreys was tried before the commission, which we. have heretofore published at length, and the finding of the commission, upon each,raod then gives the sentence, which reads as follows: 41 And the commission do* therefore* sentence him, the said Andrew Humphreys; a citiaen of the State of Indiana, to be conined at hard labor during the war, si* such place as the proper authority **ywas killed, and tbe monev he had found replaced in Maria’s pocket. Once free, this woman organized a baud of brigands, and began her operations in that tract of mountains which lie between the river Cratiand Cattanzaro* The barbaraties sinceperpetrated by Maria are almost incredible. The' villages of SpineUi, Cotoenci, and Belvedere have been literally sacked bribe baud she commands. The dread which the name of Maria Oliviero inspires among-the rural population of Cattanzaro is so great that the Itrlian government has been obliged to send the batalions of the line to pursue the cruel lury. While the band k*l by tlds woman is desolating the country of Cattanzaro. we hear from Kionero that if** bersngiieri have succeeded at last in cap-luring the famous brigand Sacckitiello, together with tbe two still more famous mistresses of the brigands Creceo find Sc hi ft* vono. The strangest thing about the cap* ture of Sacckitiello and of the two women is that they were taken to the house of the captain of tbe national guard of the-villajrey where they had been concealed since the month of July! This fact shows howdiffi'* cult it is to get rid of the Neapolitan brig* ands, since in certain cases the command ders of tbe national guard give them at* shelter in their very houses*^ • ■ .Never Despair.A staunch and able Democratic jourtfaK in replying to a discouraging letter, usx*£ tbe following noble and patriotie langimgri“Our farmer friend, exclaims, ‘all is lost* it is no use to try any further^ Not so, ray* friend, all is not lost; nor is your condition' half as deplorable and grinding now, as it will be if you cease your efforts to stay the flood of despotism that rolls mountains high5 to engulf you, and all of us, Democrat Wifdt: Lineolnite alike, in its angry and remorse' less surges. The number of those battling these advances of despotism is ah mime»»kh-host; when all its efforts are exerted, it is great power, and never can; unless We w,ilt• it so, be chained to an imperial chariot,^—White the forms of election reieaie there are battles to be fought, at the ballot:box, and if the former shalbbe struck down, the-contest will only be -adjourned to a fields where fraud will notwin the day.”Tbese^are true and maply ^prd^and put to shame those weak and trembling spiyy * who despair of their couhtry-. To work ri the appointed lot of man, and he Who tut Bakes true principles in the ho tit of advert sity, is but a summer soldier who.. des^iM .s neither: the blessings of freedom for him.-» if. or bis children. .Tbe true man witt. never' cease to battle against1 wrong and error • SOr long as he has a hand to raise or ton git** to move.t to- —Thereupon Gem Ho*ey issue* the foB lowing general order, changing, und modifying thef sentence of thg.commissiont.* “ Il. The proceeding*, findings gmd sen*tence, in the foregoing, case of Andrew Humphreys, a citiaen si the State of Indiana; United. States ofAmerica, ara‘ approved, biit ha the evident* does not showthat the wdd Andrew Hu _active part or coidumted an y which were calculated to incite sari ruction, or aid tbe conspiracy, * of his former good character,, andhog thyfcflQuA Persian poet gifes the following1 instruction upon this important subject * -• M:When thou art married^ seek to ple^«* riuf wife; but listen not to all she says. man’s right ride a rib ibsfr taken io from i the wortmn, andue*fer was therC seen a~ wit# quite straight. And wouldst thou straight . fen iti . ft Veaka, b%t bend* not. S)i»wy theJiY pl dn that crooked is wornpt/s temper, forgive her faults, and blame ‘hrir, not bor let her anger thee, nor tiO(crti ^'use,- as all i* vain to fctraighfcea ^wrhat is-Curved • r ■ . /Y is reported thift the new afftp**, of Nevada, beneath * thin cohering of refb^a Saline matter, for a tWpth of ^fourteen it er% pule rocfossdt is found «ftfoar!ais^ce^hd «U*;whiU)lia*thet drivati^nb*^ there ls arftter, which,aeem8 to he- fiitt;thfdoA salt io Yw ; u^nofth ^depth;; 1) u Whele df the fonf^en foet itVthickne^ di es nof eOntain a single streak ofi any fous matter or rublnafa*Quarrving aud sending to msrkeu 1 h#» bw#iveV.
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Goshen Democrat
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