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'« *3 **\ r-^iTf <,:*S i" ^gcgcurg flaindealtt JT. VAN 8LYKE, EDITOB AKD PUBJ.TSHKB. VQHENRY, ILLINOIS. 0gTM JUVENLLMH. # £ & ' ' ** Mr Smith." x \ - Th«t dear Mr. Smith vu » wonderful doll I He never «u hurt by a blow or vfall; His lege would not break, and hi* face voalC not crack, #V * V 4,. ~k -l Bs looked like a beauty, stretched out on hia back. Sine worsted bis skin, and bis eye was a bead; He always was dressed, bnt be never would Used; Hot once did he tell what was said in his ear, And ii he was stepped i n no cry did yon bear. He knew hewas mad* for a baby to tease; ! Hit look said, "Do with me the worst that yon pljease, I shall not complain;I may smile when yon strike, Bui smiling and crying to me are alike!" That dear Mr. Smith, he was dragfted by the toes, Then scorched by the grate, or left out till iuftou; Be slept in the coal-hod be woke in a ebalr, He rocced in the cradle when baby was th«e. He journeyed by rail from the West to the Oh, miles upon miles, never grumbling the least. At length he grew tired, perhaps, like a man. And went--well, where was it oar Mr. Smith ran? ' ' ' He's gone; and that's all I can tell yon to-day. I wish little children were like him at play; **• 80 patient to bpar even tewing and slight. £at, dear Mr. Smith, he is gone from onr M ; 1 .Site 1SeiMsrs that Grumbled, -i i: It was a breezy autumn night. The tree-tops swayed and moaned in the "wind, sighing a long farewell to the gay little leaves which, dressed in their best, red, yellow and mottled, fluttered giddily away in the moonlight from the placet, whieh .would know them no more. Down in the garden the faded little •bushes tossed about like uneasy dream­ ers, and overhead long, dusky wisps and tresses of cloud were blown every now' and then across the moon. High up on the sill of a little gable* window overlooking the garden was set a child's velvet work-case which rocked about in the night-wind like a little fairy oastle just ready to topple over. " Asleep on the small white bed behind the flapping muslin window-curtain was 'the little owner of the work-case, her round, tired arms flung over her head, and her chubby fingers wound in the meshes of h*r outspread hair. Was she dreaming of the beautiful mud pies she had made in the sunny morning, of the gorgeous doll's hat and feather she had put together in the sleepy noon, of the festive tea party she had given to her little dog Prince and black Betsy Ann in the old cobwebbed summer-house in the hazy afternoon? Perhaps. A sudden stillness fell upon the windy night, and out of the stillness spoke * sharp voice from the little work-case. "I am tired out with such a life! Cut, <jut, cut, work, work, all the day long! Yesterday, hacking away at tin soldiers; to-day, jagging out stiff pasteboard girls, rows of them; to-morrow, digging dirt in the garden to load dolls' wheel- tarrows. I'm getting dull, and shaky, and miserable." "No such thing 1" squeaked the tape- needle; "you are the brightest little scissors I ever saw in all my lile" (it liad never seen any other scissors). "Just think of me, crawling through long dark hems, punched in the head juid pushed and jerked all the dark way through. ( Just see how patient I am. Oh, I have an eytf in my headland I ean . see who's who." "Don't quarrel," implored the little 'f&iimble, her long plain face quite pale in the moonlight. " It's very nice to be tiseful. Think of all the lovely little gowns and petticoats we three have helped to make. And then just think what a nice little house we have to live . in, all three sitting down together to jrest in these little velvet chairs, so oosy -when night comes." Thereupon came a great gust of and over went the work-case like 51 a tumbled down fairy castle, and the an v happy scissors and tiie Mttient tape needle and the pale thimble all careened through the air together. The scissors fell into the eaves-gutter into a bed of dried leaves. "No more work for me for one while,' i? giggled the scissors, stretching out its dapper little legs complacently. "I'm babes in the wood now." t<i Down, down fluttered the thimble, and down, down went the the tape- needle into the guden below. A thorn- , lauah stretched am its linger and caught C'I the thimble. "What lack 1 " thought the thimble, all a tremble. "II I had tumbled on to Sftofte I might have dented my head." "Oh, you are there, are yon?" feebly squeaked the tape-needle, who was standing up stiffly in the garden Jfalk *Now who would have thought it? One minute on velvet cushions, the next down here in the dirt." , "You have an eye, dear tape-needle,' 1 interrupted the anxious thimble, "do see the scissors anywhere?" * Why don't you ask if the spine of my back is hurt? I believe it is. It feels loppy and bad." Then down fell the forlorn tape-needle amid the dead stems and grasses, and said not another word, good or bad, to the thimble. The thimble passed a lonely night, and in the morning her pale face was all wet with tears. With the sun rose the little maiden, who slept high up in the gable. She stood in the window tying on her little skirts and scattering crumbs for the birds, some of whom llew down into the spout and lapped the very toes of the scissors curled up under the maple leaves. # " Where is my wolft-case and my old scissors, and my beautiful fimbul?" sud­ denly cried ont the little maiden. "They must have all blew oat of the window in the night.* The little maid looked east and the little maid looked west. No work-case. With her hair streaming and her dress all buttoned awry, she flew down the winding stairs to see if her work-case lay undef the window. Alas, yes; but all in fragments; no scissors, no thimble* She stamped her little loot. The tape-needle was jnst under it. She de­ stroyed its one dull eye and never knew it. The thimble nodded to her from the bush, but she never saw it. As for the scissors, they lay a long time under the leaves, so long that they were quite tired with being " babes in the wood," and would have been de­ lighted to be employed again. One day, after a very long while, came the carpenter with ladder and broom to clcar the spout of leaves, and thus the scissors were* released at last. The carpenter held them up to the little maiden peering down at her from the gable window. "Oh, my scissorsl such black, horrid things, all rust. Throw 'em away." And this was the end of the discon­ tented scissors. K E E P OUT OF DEBT. . Half the perplexity, annoyance and trout le that men have in the world is in consequence of getting in debt. It seems to be natural for some people to buy, and incur obligations without measure, so long as they can %yoid pay­ ing ready cash. Give one of this sort a change to buy on credit, and the ques­ tions of payment are matters that he cares but little about. But what a crop of trouble springs up from the seed of debt! How many gray hairs it brings, and how often it shortens life, some­ times leading m*n to commit suicide or murder. And, yet how easy it iSto keep clelr of this terrible monster. Every young man should form a fixed and unalterable determination, before com­ mencing his active business career, not to incur one penny of indebtedness, under any circumstanoes. Never buy anything without you have the money to pay for it at once. Pay no attention to "splendid opportunities," "bargains," and the like. Such are only traps set to catch victims. If you see anything that you would like to possess, look first at you money pile and make the answer depend on that. Always pay as you go. If you are short of money, gauge your demands accordingly. "jfjbts*" A woman who opened a small milli­ nery store in the western part of De­ troit engaged a painter to paint her a sign. When it came home, the other day, she saw that it read, "Mrss. J Blank," etc., and she called out: You have got an extra 'a' in lbs., and you must, paint th|» sign over ij *iM, it alum agfcin. The painter saw the error, but he didn't want the job of correcting it, and he replied: "Madam, haven't you had two hus­ bands?" Yes, sir." You were a Mrs. when you lost the first?" "I was." "And do you think a woman can go on marrying forever, and not lengthen put Ler title? Mrs. means a married woman, or4 a widow. Mrss. means a woman who has been married twice, and is young enough to marry again; and only yesterday a rich old ooon was in our shop, and said if he had any idea that yop were heart-free, he'd come up--" M0, well, you can nail up the sign," she interrupted, and it is there to-day. A CUNNING HOUSE. Franconi, director of the Hippo­ drome of Paris, and the famous artist in horsemanship, had trained a horse with great care to feign being severely wonnded, and go limping back to his place. The four-footed actor performed his part admirably at rehearsal, knowing well that disobedienoe would be fol­ lowed by immediate punishment; but when the time came for exhibition, the cunning beast made the discovery that there would be no whipping in the presence of an audience, and instead of limping, as he ought, galloped back as if nothing had happened. Franconi was obliged to resort to the expedient of getting up an audience to deceive the refractory animal. Belying on the protection as before, the hone again refused to limp, and received a sound beating. This impaired his confidence in the public as a shield from his mas­ ter's whip, and from that time his part was well performed at every represent­ ation. USEFUL INFORMATION. WINDOW gardening with geraniums, calceolarias and mignonette will keep dies out of the room. , THB quickest way to expel foul air from a well is to heat a bar of iron red- hot, and lower it down into the water; the sudden formation of steam is effect­ ual. IT is said that quinine may be quite deprived of its great bitterness without injuring its virtues^ by combining two grains of tannic acid with ten of qui­ nine. To WASH chamois skin garments: Make thick suds of tepid water and white castile soap; wash the garments in it and rinse in water containing a lit­ tle soap. Bub no soap directly on the garments. Stretch repeatedly while drying. THE pulse of the horse in normal con­ dition makes from 84 to 40 beats each minute; that of the cow ranges from 40 to 50; the sheep,70; dogs of about 20 pounds weight, 100; swine six months old in store condition and weighing about 60 pounds, 85 to'90; cats, 120. FREQUENTLY boys, and sometimes men, wish to know how high a shade or forest tree is. When the sun is shining set up a ten-foot pole perpendicular. If the shadow is fifteen feet long, then it is ascertained that a tree is two-thirds as high as the length of its shadows. Or, if the shadow of the pole is only five feet, then the tree will be twice as high as the length ottthe shadow. In this way any tree can be easily and certainly measured. THE Scientific News calls attention to the importance, at this season, of getting rid of all vile smells about dwellings, and makes this practical suggestion: "The article commonly used to disinfect foul places is chloride of lime, but in reality it is not of much value. It may and generally does re­ move bad smells, but the cause still re­ mains, as the chloride simply destroys the gaseous emanations. The much- advertised disinfectants are usually catchpenny nostrums, and unworthy of notice. One of the very best known disinfectants is old-fashioned 'copperas,' or sulphate of iron, which ean be had very cheap. POOH ANT> PBOUD. > Young men out of business are some­ times sadly hampered by pride. Many young men who go West take more pride than money--and bring back all the pride and no money at all. A young man that " works for his board," no matter what honest work he does, has no reason for shame. A young man who outs the bread of idleness, no matter how much money he has, is dis­ graced. All young men starting in life ought to aim--first of all--to find a place where they can earn their bread and butter, with hoe, ax, sp^e, wheel­ barrow, curry-comb, blacking-brush-- no matter how. Independence first. The bread-and-butter question settled, let the young man perform his duty so faithfully as to attract, and let him con­ stantly keep his eyes open for a chance to do better. About half the poor, proud young men, and two-thirds the poor, discouraged young men, are always out of work. The youngn an who pockets his pride, and carries an upper lip as stiff as a cast-iron doorstep- scraper, need not starve, «pd stands a good chanoe to become rich. MOW DEEPLY DOES THE EARTH QUAKE. The recent earthquake at Virginia Oity was not noticed at all in the mining depths, but only by people on the sur­ face. The famous earthquake of lome years ago, which shook down chimneys, fire-walls, cracked brick buildings, and did other damage, was merely noticed by some of the miners working in the up­ per levels, but did no damage, not even shaking down loose stones and earth. The station-men in the various shafts felt it the strongest, and the deepest point where it was noticed was by the sta­ tion-tender at the 900-foot level of the Imperial-Empire shaft--900 feet below the surface. He said it felt like a sud­ den faint throb or pulsation of the air, as though a blast had been let off some­ where at a distance, above, below, or in some indefinite direction. In some of the mines the shock was not notioed at all, even by station-men. Commenting on this peculiar fact at that time, the Gold Hill News remarked that the earthquake seemed to be an electrical disturbance, proceeding from the at­ mosphere, and not from the depths of the earth.--Sacramento (CaL) Union. Jai- 'L § WUEBLO CUSTOMSi m- The simplest Mower made is John P. Manny, atfUjf. Owen's. BY REV. J. X jobbers. The jobbers in turn sought of the importers, who quickly un- led their whole stock at a handsome piofit. The goods were voted " beanti- ftl" and " stylish," and the fabric in question was "the rage" for a time. Undoubtedly the fashion papers were wfll paid for their trouble. ----a- nmo * HEAT-FIELDS OE THE WOKZD. the Nineteenth Century Mr. Yer- ndn Smith presents to the English peo­ ple a sketch of the wheat-fields of the United States and Canada which utter­ ly shuts out all hope of Great Britain ever again recovering her position as a bread-raising country, and shows how utterly impotent will be the efforts of tenant-farmers in that country to com­ pete with the new fields of America, which are destined to supply the world with bread. * This area of territory which he points out as the future empire of wheat pro­ duction is in that part of British America beginning at Lake Winnipeg; it extends over the valleys of the Upper and Lower Saskatchewan, extending respectively 1,054 and 1,092 miles west­ ward to the Rocky mountains; both o! those rivers are navigable, and, with the Assiniboine, Bed river and others, empty into Lake Winnipeg. The two Saskatchewan drain what is known as the "fertile fbelt," containing not less than 90,000,000 of acres of the finest wheat land. These rivers and their tributaries are 10,000 miles in length, and are navigable 4,000 miles. Lake Winnipeg empties through Nelson's river into Hudson's bay, and the writer looks forward to the time when vessels will leave Winnipeg bearing the wheat of that country to Europe. This im­ mense ^gion, lying just north of the American line, includes 2,984,000 square miles of territory, while the area of the whole United States is put down at 2,933,000 square miles. Including the older poitions of Quebec, Ontario and other Dominion provinces, Canada measures 3,346,000 square miles, while all Europe contains 3,900,000. This wheat region, which is yet al most unknown, it is olaimed, has a soil as adapted to wheat and as fertile as that of Minnesota, and its capacity for production is almost unlimited. Once peopled and put under cultivation, it will be able to produce wheat in such quantities and of such quality as will render wheat cultivation in Europe as unprofitable as it has already become in England, and as it is rapidly beooming in France and the other Western na­ tions of Europe. This estimate of the wheat-fields of British America, and of their magnitude and productiveness, leaves out of view altogether the wheat- growing districts Of the United States. Wheat-raising will of course cease to be profitable in all the States east of the Alleghenies; Western wheat will be sold there cheaper than it oan be pro­ duced in New York or Pennsylvania. Indeed Ohio finds it more profitable to put the land to other productions. The wheat-produoing field in the United States is moving westward, and in a brief time will be confined to the States of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kan­ sas, part of Missouri, Nebraska, Minne­ sota, Dakota, with portions of Mon­ tana and Wyoming, not including the States on the Pacific. The great area of British America, whose drainage falls into Lake Winnipeg, will, however, eventually become the wheat-growing region, capable of supplying the world with bread. The picture of this terri­ tory and of its fertility, and of. its adaptation to wheat, is not overdrawn. --Chicago Tribune. nd to Mr. t finish* iac Mr. climbed rvtltions fell day.*' mn, whom THE FASHIONS. Fashions sometimes originate in a very strange way. For instance: A cer­ tain mercantile house once imported, through a blunder, a large amount of a very ugly material which would not sell and lay dead upon their hands. Some­ thing had to be done. The proprietors of one or two fashion papers were in­ terviewed. The next week their col­ umns told thousands of eager readers that there had recently been shown a new and stylish fabric which promiseji to be very fashionable; and the stat< >- ment was widely copied by the da^ y press. Betail dealers found their cqp- Ind its re- L If Mr. L then arc MORGANATIC MARRIAGES. Everybody has heard of the term "morganatic marriages," and many peo­ ple suppose that marriages of this kind are a species of concubinage, in which the Kings and Princes of Europe are fond of indulging. This is not the case, however. A morganatic marriage is just? as binding upon the parties as any other marriage. The term is derived from the German morgengabe, which means a dowry. It signifies a matri­ monial contract in which one of the parties is greatly superior in rank to the other. If it be the bride that is of inferior rank, she agrees that she. and her children shall be entitled neither to the rank nor to the estate of her hus­ band, and that the dowry whioh is set­ tled upon her at the time of the mar­ riage shall be accepted in lieu of all other privileges. If the man be the in­ ferior, he gives assent to similar condi­ tions. In the bridal ceremony the party of superior rank gives the left hand, in stead of the right, to the other--whence these marriages are sometimes styled "left-handed." titers iiight Of listening fa wing." It would take many long letters t^e indeed tell you about all the feasts and dancqich lights and strange performances whidh OQR] shines gone through every year by the Pueblo"Love can I will begin with the 24th of June. 0|hlch tells this day the horses were gathered, in f<fc beyond racing. And this is the way the race conducted in the forenoon: They a rooster and tie his feet together; th< they dig a hole in the ground and pi .the rooster in, and pack the grou around him, leaving his neck afld hei above ground. The Pueblos are now mounted, and in the forenoon so: Mexicans also engage in the race. The all go off some distance from the chicke j.j«e &n'^ and all start for it, one after anoth&r The first man thai comes to it reacl% grower down and tries to catch it by the hea ](fe cm) Their horses are going fast, and Boujbould the times it is quite a while before itfbe&utiful taken. But after a while some one g< it, and tlien look out for a big ra The one that gets the chicken starts as fast as his horse oan carry him, arfhereaved the whole set after him. They seem ^uC n!<x>k- be divided into two parties, and the of P*R'ulng that gets the chicken always has friends to help him. If one of iP*^-*"1K friends has a swifter horse he will n| w a e up and take the chicken and bear it c . . with all haste from the other part^^^ Sometimes they will make quite a c^ wf;th cuit and get back in triumph to ti^r t Pueblo without losing the chicken. B^t9 an ̂ now comes hard times for the poo^ chicken, if it don't come sooner. The two parties now engage in what th<4y call " fighting the chicken;" that is, one party tries to take it from the other, and sometimes the struggle is severe. The poor chicken is soon torn to pieces, and we always feel relieved when it is dead and out of misery. When they get through with one chicken another is taken, and this is kept Up during the first half of the day. In the evening they set up two poles about eight feet apart, with a rope from the top of one to the top of the other. A string is tied around the legs of the chicken and then tied to the middle of the rope, and so the chicken, with its legs first broken to render it helpless, is left dangling in the air between the two poles. The rope is not stretched straight from the top of one polo to the top of the other, but is left so that the chicxen hangs down considerably below thetops of the poles. One man is now sta­ tioned at each pole. The Pueblos take their position some distance off and start for the chicken at full speed, one after the other. When a rider comes to the plaoe under the chicken, and is about to seize it, the men at the poles pull them apart and stretch the rope, which raises the chicken up out of their reach. After a while, however, some fellow gets it, and away they go for a race and a fight, as iu the forenoon. About sundown, or dusk in the evening, the whole affair is wound up with a very strange performance. Many of the men and some boys strip and get on their horses. The women get a good supply of water iu vessels on the tops or roofs of the houses, which are all flat here, being made of earth. The men and boys now start through the Pueblo in every direction. They ride up facing the women on the houses, and all t he tiipe utter strange sounds, crying for watqr. When one ridfs up to a woman she takes* quantity of water and throws it down to him, and if she can throw it fair in his face all the better, and then he dashes away to some other woman who does the same thing. They seem to want the water dashed right down in their facer, and sometimes they catch a mouthful of it and spout it out again. It is a strange sight, indeed, and with the Indians this has a deep meaning. Soon after this time the wet season is expected to set in here, and this is a prayer for plenty of rain. This much I learned, but did not learn to whom the prayer was made. Possibly to Mon­ tezuma. Two or three days after this, although the wet season had not fairly set in, we had a wonderful rain--the hardest rain we have seen since coming here. I suppose the Pueblos would think their prayers were being answered. ABOLI- Plpes, Cigar Hi, stock iu town, at £1 Buckeyc Owen*a. &<W«U»e Ii A Beaker's Force Pumps, at E# II Later A For s nohfey gall, g» Beckers, near the Depot. The only geauine Wood Machine* at E. M. Oweirs. The new Bnctoss# w Mower, at B. X. Wood IfcwiH fall to see tl* Walter A. Wood at K, M, Owen's. Straw Rats and Summer CsM,hk ill styles* at Laoer & Becker's. 4 m Clothing cheaper Lauer &Iieckarrs. thaa ever, The HolHugsworth Bakes «k OwenV ©OOD FAMILY FLOUR. PMOp Valley Mills. For P.50 per Sack, sifi tire W&x Rteofrp * It Bisuvr*. flie TSger mam Owen%. 4 flue tot of Jewelry, all kinds* {tents Waieh chains. at Lanier & Becker's. At Lauer & BeekerX near the Dtopot. c»nr he found a fnW stock of Dusten, at. pres to suit the tlutes, WiiKNln Woodstook.db> no* flhflt tr- cail at the Citv Bakery tor Warm<oe' Cold Meal?. They have one of the* neatest Restaurants In town. A LITTLE DEAF. He called on her one evening last winter, about 10 o'clock. The conver­ sation began to lag. She, unfortunate­ ly, was a little deaf in her off ear. > Said he: "Do you like to ride horses f "O," cried she, with great animation, "I could live solely on fried oysters * Then he tore his hair, and rushed madly out into the street, and knew her tomexs inquiring for it, and sought it 6t | no more forever. lewE Teas!, Tetiw! Now Crop. Sweet as a onank, DeTCalb county, has carried $130,000 insuranoe for fite years and never lost a cent. HON. WM. MC ADAMS, of Otterville, has recently obtained the powder-horn presented by the famous Indian chief Tecumseh to Black Hawk. (i> ABOUT three years ago, Mrs. Jenkins, at Maeksburg, in Bichland county, lost a gold ring. Tne other day the iden­ tical ring was found in the giszard of » ohicken. , THE coal company at Litchfield hav ̂ been prospecting for another vein of coal, and, having bored 200 feet below the shaft (that is a total depth of- 715 feet), suddenly found oil which has flowed copiously ever siuoe. : • « IT is stated thkt the Prat discovery of coal in the United States was made in Illinois. ALEXANDER MANN is now the "cattle king" of Illinois since the death of John Alexander, of Morgan county. Mr.jMsjUk resides in Edgar county. THE Paris Gazette publishes the names of seventy-three aueient citizens of Edgar county. Among these *10 John Berry, aged 107; Timothy Wha- len, 104 years, and the youngest, Judge James W. Parish, aged 75 years. DAVID HOTT, a pioneer settler - of Griggsville, Pike county, who had lifted to see the fourth generation of his de­ scendants, being over 90 years of age, has died. ILLINOIS Conference, M. E. Churoh, will meet at Jacksonville *Wed nesdaj, Sept. 17, Bishop Andrews presiding. The lay branch of the conference will me-it Friday, the 19th. " ' " CORN-CANNING, at the new factory at Hoopeston, will begin in Augtiit, and lb5,000 cans will be put up thitfyear, giving employment to seventy-five p«r- sons during the season. > « THE remains of Lieut, William* tli. English, United States army, whp.died from wounds reoeived in the, warjrith the Nez Perces, will soon be brought to Jacksonville for interment. j Cot. W. H, FAI.KKRSON, 'of Jeir&y county, on his atoek farm near Jersey- ville, has one of the blaofc torses that bore the Black-Horse Cavalry into the first battl^pf ftpUJtautj .TC^hp^e is now 28 years old, h» rraifw irq#* open to the.heasL and li&nght eye is , put, the result of & saber strike... NEW postal routes in, this State: From Ddblgren, via Palo Afto, T^lpr (Tadesviile, to Benton; from •V"? ; Qfcsr-* .'4 3 DM ATM OF AH OLD-TIME TION I ST. Mr. Alanson Work, famous among the early Abolitionists of the country, died in this city to-day, aged 80 years. In 1835 he moved from Connecticut to Plymouth, HI., and subsequently went to the Mission Institute near Quincy, where, with James E. Burr and George Thompson, two theological students, he engaged in an attempt to liberate slaves iu Missouri by getting them over the river on to free soil. Through treach­ ery this scheme was disclosed while the three jmen were upon Missouri terri­ tory, and they were surrounded by an armed band of slaveholders and con­ veyed to the jail in Palmyra. Three months later they were tried and sen­ tenced to twelve years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Armed men were outside the court-room ready to hang them in case they were not convicted. They were subjected to all sorts of in­ dignities while being taken to the prison at Jefferson City, and, after get- HilUmdBl l>alilgren, via Palo Aho, KSugnis Prairie, and Darnell's to ThompttalviUe; from Keeuville, via Aid, to Jelttfsoii- ville; from Carmi to School;>ifro«n Champaign to Urbaca; from to Elba; from Farm Bidge tp liitlge; from Uuoa to Wultham*. ? PRISONERS in the Illinois peui^entiajry can write once in five weeks and s£e friends once in eight weeks. Thfejr may receive all letters or papers sebt them by friends, providing suah ftriwdn'oon- form with the following rptlett Write plainly. Confine yourself sgristi* to family and business matters. In direct­ ing letters put prisoner's nlune atia reg­ ister number plainly oto envelope." In sending papers use stamps enough to insure delivery. Write nothing* ><oa paper exuept name and register num­ ber. Daily papers are not iflttiifd. All letters and paper* are exaeiimed. l)o food or wearing qfmaM&^erat to priftyf era will be admitted. , A MB. A, J. KKLLKNBERQER, of Alton, has iu his possesion a copy 01 the Illinois Intelligencer, of April 28, 1819, published at Kaskaskia, fwOfc which tbe Telegraph makes the follow­ ing iuteieating extract: "$100 ®S- ward for apprt-lit-ndiug a negro man hjf the name of Eztkiai, about six feet high or upwards, very black, 23 J6*™ old, former y belonged to Field Brad- bhaw, Lear Edwardsville. He has some pretensions to freedom, which have been encouraged by a petty lawyer y the name of Pogh, who resides at wr wardsviile. Pugh encouraged him ,to leave Edwardsville and run to Kaskas­ kia, where he piomised to follow ana protect him, which he did until I P®*" chased him. I put him in possession fig three men to take home, from whom he escaped, and I presume he will try to get to Edwardsviile to his protector. lui determined to prosecute any who will harbor said negro with toll vigor of the law. And I will give uie above reward to any person who wiude- .. d .j liver him or my agent a* Fori UUo D. Wu«oo®4 J i-XV.