Urbana Union, 1862-08-06

On Saturday evening last several persons indulging in lake bathing, had a lesson taught them which it is presumed they will not soon forget A number of horses had come to the lake shore to quench their thirst, when they were caught by the bathers and mounted. The horses bore this treatmeut quietly, until one of their number became frightened, and, without waiting for his rider to dismount, started on a furious gallop np the street The horse wouldn't stop, nor could the rider dis dismount, - mount, dismount, so that the situation was becoming perplexing to the surprised bather, who, Ma Ma-aeppa - aeppa Ma-aeppa like, was compelled to continue his riuc. How long that ride lasted, or what became of the ridsr has not been satisfactorily shown. It is certain, however, that just at dark on that day, several citizens, who were enjoyirtg, witu their families, the evening twilight in front of their residences, were astonished by the un unprecedented - precedented unprecedented spectacle of a horse running furi furiously - ously furiously by, ridden by a rider in full undress uniform. A few moments afterward, anoth another - er another horse dashed by, whose rider was evident evidently - ly evidently in search of the Erst, for he bore nndefbia arm a bundle of clothes. This incident is vouched for by persons who witnessed the unparalleled equestrian exploit, and is inter interesting - esting interesting as conveviag a proper lessen to those adventuresome youths who are constantly at attempting - tempting attempting foolish feats. Pauxses's blindfold play at the Internation International - al International Chess Congress in London has astonished the natives. The Times says he opposed sim simultaneously - ultaneously simultaneously ten players of no mean capacity, "with results which, under the circumstances, appear to a casual bystander as little short of the miraculous. Although called blindfold play, it was so in spirit rather than in letter. This celebrated chess-player, who, at such odds, challenged so many to try their skill against him simultaneously, sat in a corner with his face to the wall, looking very much like an ovsrgrown school boy who was un undergoing - dergoing undergoing a penalty." The Retort Courteous. A Fourth street merchant said to his hired man the other day: ' "Here, Patrick; here's fifty dollars; now go and enlist in some good regiment, right away; enlist in some regiment, I don't care what one it is." "I'm obliged to yon, but I should rather be excused," said Patrick: "Here is a hundred dollars," pulling the roll out of his pantaloons pocket, "here's a hundred dollars, if youH en enlist - list enlist in some good regiment." Cin. Com. A Ssow Bask in Jult. A snow drift at Skinner Hollow, Vt, the last week in July, located within one hundred rods of where ripo strawberries were found, says the Springfield Republican, measured twelve feet in depth; and covered one-fourth of an acre. It has been forty feet in depth. There are two arches in drift formed by the passage of a small stream. One of these arches is large enough to drive a horse and carriage through; the other, for four persons to pass through abreast The President has issued an order against the practice which seems to have prevailed in certain localities, of requiring foreign subjects to take an oath of general or qualified allegi allegiance - ance allegiance to the Government The order states that for any violation of the law foregcers may be punished or subjected to military restraint, but they cannot be required to take the oath of allegiance, as that would conflict with their duty to their own sovereigns. The other day a man whose coat tails sud suddenly - denly suddenly burst into flames as he was walking the streets of St. Petersburg was arrested and ve very - ry very nearly lynched by the people. As subse subsequently - quently subsequently appeared, the poor fellow was a gas titter on his way to the imperial palace on bus business. - iness. business. The combustibles about his person wera mistaken for the kit of an incendiary. The Spragues, of Rhode Island, have made a most generous and patriotic proposition to the men in their employ who have families. They offer to continue to such if they will en enlist, - list, enlist, half their pay during their absence, and to secure their positions to them when they re return. - turn. return. A peecocious youth being asked in his ge geography - ography geography class what they raised in South Car Carolina, - olina, Carolina, replied; "They used to raise niggers and cotton, but now they are raising the dev devil." - il." devil." Morgan, the noted guerilla leader in Ken Kentucky, - tucky, Kentucky, was met on his entering Versailles, by a gay and dashing young widow, who kug kug-ged - ged kug-ged and kissed the robber chief to the great envy of Lis men. Std.hsy Smith's Last. Landseer, the pea 'Vamne artist," requested the distinguished Smith to sit to him for bis portrait " Is thf servant dog that he should do this thing ?' ask asked - ed asked the clerical punster biblically. Ericcson. The Wesleyan University at its late commencement conferred the degree of LL. D. upon John Ericcson. Vice-President Hamlis has engaged to ad address - dress address public meetings in different parts of the state of Maine, for the purpose of aidiDg the enlistments of new volunteer regimeuta. Chicago lies on both sides of a narrow riv river. - er. river. It ia proposed to run a tunnel beneath it to accommodate travel which now has hardly room enough tha two bridges. TnE Albany Standard asserts a pregnant truth vhen, in rebuking the panic-making demonstrations of a neighbor, it tersely says ' Oar army is net outnumbered by the reb-e'-s is only ouUttsr-zi."

At a War Meeting held at Lancaster, Wed tiesday evening, July 23d, Judge Ranney, can didate lor Supreme Judge of the Democratic ticket, said b had come at the urgent invita invitation - tion invitation of the Governor, to present a few consid erations why the people should respond to the requisition of the President Concurring with the Governor freely in the propriety of the call, lie had yielded to his desires. There was no doubt but the army must be increased. Legitimate authority tells ui so. The Gov Governor - ernor Governor of nearly all the loyal States had re- omraended it. It seems to be a necessity The question is, are you willing to endorse it? It ia a peculiarity of this Government that to tho people is reserved the right to decide up upon - on upon questions of voting and of bearing arms in support of the Government. One is as obli gatory as the other. It is our duty to see that laws are made, equally our duty to fee that they are enforced, and that when they are violated it is obligatory upon us to use armed force, if necessan. to protect them. This is our situation. "We are not called upon to up hold this dynasty or that privileged class, but we are calling upon the American citizen to defend the laws he himself has made. There is every reason why you should re spond cheerfully to this requisition. If you are constrained, if the Government is obliged to resort to drafting, the moral force of such an army and of public opinion is entirely lost. This is a principle we cunnot afford to lose. It is of high importance that we maintain it before the world. Let us, therefore, step for forward, - ward, forward, cheerfully, and provide the necessary force to crush the insurrection. The speaker had no information about the war, which is not in possession of every one. It is palpa palpable - ble palpable that we are operating with inferior forces, and that if they would avoid foreign interfer interference, - ence, interference, we must make this a short war. 'What we want is such a prosecution of the war as will put down traitors. lie did not want to allude to political differ differences. - ences. differences. If he undertook that he might differ with everybody: bnt there is one point where all can meet The laws are in danger of sub version, and we must have force to defend them. That is enough to see. The Consti tution requires the President to suppress in insurrection. - surrection. insurrection. It is his sworn duty before God to maintain the laws, and if the law is assail assailed - ed assailed by force, we must defend it with arms. We want the restoration of peace, the execu execution - tion execution of the laws. We want no more. The President has no authority to do more. That must be done, or we must confess to the world that we are incapable ot self-government My opinion is now, as it always has been, that aa long as there is a man in arms against the laws, that man must be put down by arms. Judge Penney expatiated at some length upon the obligations of stay-at-home citizens to the families of soldiers, concurring with Mr. Ewing, that those who do not Eght must provide for the families of those who do. But ia considering who should go he admonished men not to look round to End some poor man who is obliged to go, but let each man in inquire - quire inquire if he ought not to go, and so determine. It was indisputable that those who go sacri sacrifice - fice sacrifice the most, and therefore those who do not 0 should be liberal to the families of absent patriots. We are under high obligations to , the soldiers already in the field. We virtu virtually - ally virtually said to them, " we will sustain you if disease and battle thin your ranks we will Ell them up again." That time has come. Let us make good our word. Don't hold out a false hope to oar brave soldiers. It is due to them that we should not leave them to cope ! with superior numbers. Tho speaker pro- ceeded to show further why American citizens should voluntarily take arms to defend this j . Government, expatiating upon the fact that ! its peculiar organization and character needed ! that development which has already fchone so j conspicuously, iu ths repon: of a half mil- j

guides, until, after many months exercise of their dangerous profession, the suspicions of their Austrian authorities fell on them and they too were forced to fly with their only child, a little girl of tender age, and take ref refuge - uge refuge at Modena. Garibaldi's noble forlorn hope was just then setting forth for Sicily. Marinello quitted his temporary refuge and hurried to join it, and his wife, refused to be separated from him, left him her little one to the care of a near friend who promised to adopt her as his own, and went to Genoa, where finding that the expedition had already started, they set sail in the Erst fishing-boat that left the port for Marsala. Once there, Marinello joined the Sacclu brigade of volunteers : but though both he and his wife were well known for bravery I and good conduct to CoL Farracini who com-1 manded it, the stringent orders issued" -from headquarters against the admission of women into the ranks, rendered it a matter of no small difficulty for Tonina to remain at her husband's side. She did, however, at length prevail with the colonel and her name was entered on the rolls as that of Antonio Ma Ma-rimello, - rimello, Ma-rimello, the boy -brother of her husband ; nor did any individual in the corps in which she served during the whole campaign guess her sex, which was known only to Cols. Farracina and Bossi. Her sight from the youthful ap appearance - pearance appearance tallied well with that of a number of the striplings who fought in the ranks be beside - side beside her; she wore the common Garibaldi uniform, and endured fatigue and hardship to the full as well as her comrades and the hardships and fatigues of that campaign were neither slight nor few. Her commanding officers give high testi testimony - mony testimony to the valor, the discipline and the un unflagging - flagging unflagging spirit of this unassuming little Vene Venetian - tian Venetian heroine, who was decorated by the gener general's - al's general's own hand on the field of battle. They say she was ever the first to volunteer for some dangerous duty, and the last to quit her post while that duty was unfulfilled ; aud all agrse tha. she gained the affection, respect and admiration of her fellow soldiers, by her bra bravery - very bravery in the field, and her good humored help. Tonina fought hrough the campaign un unscathed, - scathed, unscathed, though her husband received several but not severe wounds. When Capua was taken, and the volunteer-corps were disband disbanded, - ed, disbanded, husband and wife turned their steps again towards Modena, and, finding the friend dead who had given a home to their child, brought her on with them to Florence, and there liv- od poorly on from day to day, partly on their own small earnings, and partly on the assist assistance - ance assistance given to them by the committee for the Venetian emigration. It was not before the wife was far gone in wasting disease of the lungs that the extreme distress of the poor household was fully known to those who had means to relieve it Succor was immediately and generously given ; the dying mother was placed under the best medical cure, and the delicate little girl sent to the sea side and ad admitted - mitted admitted into the-admiration Osnisij Marini, or hospital for sickly children, at Via Reggia. But the help so much needed came too late for poor Tonina, though the same care two or three nionths earlier might have saved her life. - She died as meekly as she had lived, in the home where she had struggled through her last suffering year of existence. The arm, she had borne in battle and her faded red Garibaldi shirt were laid among the garlands on her coffin ; and a simple gravestone will be placed above her at San Miniato, where the beautiful church terrace looks out over the towers and domes of Florence to the sunlit hills.

lion volunteers, at the blast of a trumpet For his part he could not comprehend how any human being on the face of the earth, who is familiar with this Government, could raise his hand against it We do not deny the right of revolution, for our Government is founded on that principle; but revolutions must show some great and justifying cause. It must be palpable. But in all that ho had ever seen, he never yet had seen one single cause cited against the Government, which justifies this rebellion. The Government had done nothing to justifiy it Here Judge Ran Ranney - ney Ranney paid an eloquent tribute to the character of our form of Government and to the patri patriotism - otism patriotism of the Fathers. If the people, he added, have not affection enough for the Government to fight for it, it must falL It was the only free Government in the world. IU prosperity had been mar marvellous. - vellous. marvellous. It was peculiarly the country of the poor man, and of the foreigner, who was op oppressed - pressed oppressed in his native land. It stretches its protecting eegis over them diffuses its bless blessings - ings blessings over all alike, offers its rewards to rich and poor who seek them faithfully. No oth other - er other Government on earth has done so much for the people, and if it fails the principle of free government dies with it It had more than realized all the hopes of its most sanguine founders. Therefore, every man, native or foreign born, should hazard everything for it If it falls, the hope and glory of the world is gone. But let us remember that if we sus sustain - tain sustain it now, not they who servive battle will enjoy its blessings, but their children and their latest posterity will enjoy them end bless their patriot fathers as we Muss ours for the priceless gift What sacrifice then shall we make? We must make many. No country in the world ever went through such a scourge as this without great sacrifices of person and prop erty. We must make them for the sake of peace. After the most careful reflection he had been able to make upon the subject, Judge Ranney said that he believed we can reach the haven of peace only through war. And the sooner and sharper you make the ef effort - fort effort you will have peace. He had not much hope in this contest, if it became necessary to resort to drafting. The moral force of free government will ba lost. It will show that the people have lost inter interest - est interest in it. It is based upon the patriotism of the people. He had thanked God that Eu Europe - rope Europe had already witnessed the spectacle of five or six huudred thousand freeman spring springing - ing springing to arms almost at the blast of trumpet to defend their outraged laws. Let us still say to the nations of the earth that when our ar armies - mies armies melt away, we will fill them up again. None of your interference. The bones of our fathers he under this soil. With the blessing of God we will maintain what they gave us. In conclusion, he paid a glowing tribute to the glory of the great West and her hardy sons. Referring to her growth, prosperity, industry, population and resources, he held that it was the duty of this people to main maintain - tain maintain communications between the West and the external world througu the natural out outlets; - lets; outlets; and (with great earnestness) before he would allow the Mississippi to be closed he would rather bnry the last man in the West Tremendous applause

Orpheus C. Kerr, writing from Washing Washington - ton Washington to the New York Mercury, perpetrates the following: "Matters and things are still in a stategic condition, naught has disturbed our monoto monotony - ny monotony for a week, save a story they tell about the honest old Abe. It seems that two the conservative Border State chaps, who are here for he express purpose of protesting against everything whatsoever, had a discus discussion - sion discussion about the Honest Abe, and one chap bet the other chap five dollars that he couldn't by any possible means speak to the President, without hearing a small anecdote. Done!" said the other chap, gleefully, "I'll take that bet" That very same night at about twelve o'clock, he tore frantically up to the White House, and commenced thundering at the door, like King Richard at the gates of Asea Asea-lon. - lon. Asea-lon. The Honest Abe stuck his nbht-capped head out of the window, and says he: "Is that you. Mr. Seward?" ' No, sir!" says the Border State chnp, glar ing up through the darkness. "I'm a messen messenger - ger messenger from the army. A nether great strategic movement has taken place, and our whole ar army - my army has been taken prisoners by the Southern Confederacy. In fact," says the conservative chap frantically, "the backbone of the rebel rebellion - lion rebellion is broken AG An?." "Hem!" says the Honest Abe, shaking a mosquito from his night-cap, "this strategy reminds me of a little story. There was a man out iu Iowa, sat down to play a game of checkers with another man, inducing his friends around him, to lend him the change necessary for stakes. He played and he play played, - ed, played, and he lost the first game. Then he play played - ed played much more cautiously, and lost the next game. His friends commenced to grumble; 'but,' says he, 'don't you worry yourselves, boys, and I'll show you a cute move pretty soon., So he played and he played, and he lost the third game. 'Don't be impatient, boys,' says he, 'you'l see that great move pretty soon, I tell you.' Then he played with great care, taking a long time to consider ev every - ery every move, and, by way of change lost the fourth game. Close attention to what he was about, and much minute calculation, also ena enabled - bled enabled him to lose the fifth game. By this time, his friends had lent him all their change, and began to think it wa3 about time for that great move of his to come off. "Have you any more change?' says he. 'Why, no,' says ther. 'Then,' sa-s he, with great spirit 'the time for that move I was telling you about has como at last' As he commenced to rise from his chair, instead of continuing to play, his cleaned-out friends bethought them themselves - selves themselves to ask him what his famous move was? 'Why,' says he pleasantly, 'it's to move off for a little more change.' " At the conclusion of this quaint tale, my boy, the Border State chap fled groaning to his quarters at WiUard's, stuck a five-dollar Treasury note under the pillow of the other Border State chap, and immediately took the evening train for the West.

Major McKee, with a competent Union force, is on a hunt for secessionists in South Southern - ern Southern Missouri, and it is reported that he has already nearly filled all the county jaila When he catches a seeesh he says : " Well, how much of a rebel have you been? You know more about what you have done than I do. I know some, and you know it alL" The old man said, as he trembled, " Major, I have not done anything." " Stop," said the Major, " you know you have some powder hid." " Oh yes, there is some." " Tell it all, now," says the Major. " Well, I will. I have got 21 kegs of pow der and one gun. I gave five horses to Price, and went down to Smith's Chapel to fight the Feds and I have fed any amount of reb rebels. - els. rebels. I won't lie any more ! You have got it all. I have done all I could to aid the South." The Major has come down so hard on them that they fear to lie to him. Another man came in to give himself up and take the oath. " Well, sir, what have you done ?" "Nothing." "Well, sir, I will put you in jail for not do doing - ing doing something." Alter he had been in jail about two hours he sent for the Major and told hint where there were eleven kegs of powder and a gov government - ernment government wagon, and owned to helping cut up a ferry boat on the Missouri river last sum summer. - mer. summer. Drafting Who is Exempt ? By the laws of the United States the following persons are exempted from enrollment: "Officers, judicial and executive, of the Government, the members of both houses of Congress and their respective officers, Custom Custom-House - House Custom-House officers and their clerks, inspectors of exports, pilots and mariners employed in the sea service of a cuizen or merchant wi:hin the United States, postmasters, assistant postmas postmasters - ters postmasters and their clerks, post officers, post riders aud stage drivers in the care and conveyance of the mail of the United States, ferrymen em em-ploved - ploved em-ploved at any ferry on the post road, and the artificers and workmen iu the United States armories and arsenals." The difference between volunteering and drafting is this : A volunteer receives the full bounty $27 advance bounty, ono month's pay (13) in ad advance, - vance, advance, and $75 at the end of his time of ser service, - vice, service, together with the usual 1G0 acres of bounty land. Beside all this, his family re receives - ceives receives pecuniary assistance during Lis absence. The drafted militia receives but $11 per month, and no money bounty. They can be held to service out of the State three months, by or order - der order of the Governor. Let no one, however, deceive himself with the idea that drafted soldiers will serve only three months, for after the militia are drafted, Congress can very eas easily - ily easily hold them to serve during the war.

1 During the late exhibition of Van Am Am-burgh's - burgh's Am-burgh's menagerie at Monongahela City, Pa., a fearful and exciting scene occurred. It ap appears - pears appears that shortly alter the audience liad as assembled, - sembled, assembled, a terrific storm arose, which tore the canvass into rags, and threatened serious iu- jury to the spectators. nno me oiorm King roared and revellod, one of the huge ti gers got out of his cage, which added new ler- ! ror to the scene. The vast assembly swayed from side to side, first to that part of the tent j which had been blown off, and then to the mam entrance, fcome jumped from the top of the seats out through the opening between the top and the circular inclosure; others cut themselves a passage through the canvass, and all rushed with alarm for any place of es escape, - cape, escape, preferring to brave the storm to taking their chance forjife amid the crushing timbers and furious wild beasts. Women shrieked for help, and children cried; strong men look looked - ed looked pale, and, taking the confusion of the mul multitude - titude multitude and the raging of the storm, the scene was fearful and appalling. The keepers of the animals stcod by the cages of these wild denizens of the woods and jungles with anx anx-'cus - 'cus anx-'cus looks. The man who kept the elephant Hannibal stood in front of tho huge brute, with his hands upon his tusks, as pale as a corpse. One of the lions had partaken of the excitement, and by his glaring eyeballs, erect posture, and extended and flowing mane, gave an idea of how he looks in. his native forest. The tiger which had escaped from his cage was driven back by Mr. Van Amburgh into a cage with this lion, and the ki.ig of the woods bad put his huge paw upon him, and was holding bim tight upon the floor. Nature, grand and terrible, was on exhibition at this show. After some moments of fearful con confusion - fusion confusion the storm ceased, and the audience separated, but not until several had been in jured from being trampled on and braised in the general confusion which prevailed. Proeessiosal Enthusiasm. A man named Munsell is under arrest iu Hartford, charged with setting fire to barns, and has contested his guilt. It appears that he is foremiui of a fire comnanv. and turned incendiary for ex citement, and to get the credit of being, with Lis company, the first to the rescue.

One ol those long and picturesque torch light luneral", which are so striking to a stranger's eye, as they wind up to the new exteramural burial ground of Florence among the olives and cypresses of the steep hill of San Miuiato, issued from the Duomo a few evenings since, and took it away at the Ave Maria towards the Porta San Nicolo followed by a great concourse of all ranks of persons. It was the funeral of Tonina Marinello, a young Venetian woman in the bloom of life, who had fought bravely by her husband's side in the ranks of Garibaldi's gallant " thousand," when they 6wept victoriously through Sicily, from Marsala to Messina, and thence to Na Naples - ples Naples and Capua, carrying all before them. The carrying home of the poor Qaribaldina, whose short life had ended sadly in Florence, amid the straits of pinching poverty, would at any time have called forth a manifestation of public respect and sympathy. Now of course, the crowd following of the procession was swelled by those of the ultra-red party, who would fain have given it the appearance of a demonstration. The little story of Tonina is a moving touch of romance in real life, yet is simple and win winning, - ning, winning, as were her slender figure and fair pale face, thaded with the golden-brown hair which so often shines out from the canvasses of the old Venetian painters. Nothing of as assumption, - sumption, assumption, nothing ol unfeminine or theatrical 6ternness contributed to shape the attitude of her quiet courage. jjler husband, who in his early youth had fought the battle of 1848, was employed when the war of 1859 broke out, and the youth of Venice emigrated by hundreds into the neighboring liberated prov inces, in the dangerous service of guide to these fugitives from Austrian vengeance, across the desolate track of country laid waste by the capricious inundations of the Po, which lies between them and the longed-for river bank, from which they steered across into a land of safety. The secret liberal committees of the Venetian territory had in their employ many such trusty servants, ready to dare all risks to convey the ardent young volunteers, penniless and friendless, across the perilous ground, and to pass them from one another under cover of night, unscratched by Austrian bullete, to the frontier. ' Marinello and his wife were among ths bravest and trustiest of their