Show ca proclamation BY THE PRE PRESIDENT SI i S 1 washington dec 20 1 whereas by the act approved july ath 1864 entitled entailed an act further to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out of the national forces and for other purposes 21 it is provided that the president of the united states may at his bis discretion at any time hereafter call for any number ay 0 of men as volunteers for the respective terms of one two or three years for military service and chatin that in case cage the quota or any parl part pan thereof of any fown town township ward of a pity I 1 Y precinct or election district or of a county not so subdivided shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after sueh such call then the president shall immediately order a draft for one year to fill such quota or any part thereof which may be unfilled and whereas by b the tho credits allowed in accordance with tho oho act of congress on the call for five hundred thousand men made july 1804 1864 tile the number of men to be obtained under tinder that call was reduced to and whereas the operations of the ene ayin certain states have rendered it impracticable to procure from them their full quotas of troops under the said call and whereas wie reas from the foregoing cause but butt men have havo been put in edithe army amy navy and marine maring corps 1 under ber der the said call of july 18 1864 leaving a deficiency on that call of now therefore 1 I abraham lincoln ries bieg President antof of the united states of america in order to supply the aforesaid de fici ency and to provide for in the military and naval service of the united states do issue this my call for y three hundred thousand volunteers to serve for one two or three years the quotas of the states districts and sub bub districts under this call will be assigned by the war department through the bureau of the provost marshal general of the united states and in case the luota quota quota or any part thereof any town township ward of a city precinct or election district or of a county not so subdivided shall nok not be filled beford before the day of february 1865 then a draft shall be made to fill such guch quota or any ee part art thereof under this call which may be unfilled on said day of february 1865 in testimony whereof I 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the united states to be affixed L 3 done at the city of washington this day of december in the year of our lord one thousand ei eight g ht hundred and sixty four and of the independence of the united states of america the eighty ninth 1 ABRAHAM LINCOLN by bk the president WM avni H SEWARD secretary of state WORK WORM AND WAGES IN EUROPE the secretary of the board of agriculture collected during a recent visit to europe some interesting particulars in in regard to the wages of farm tarm laborers and others in england ireland and on the continent 37 7 cenis per day he reports as the highest sum paid the laborer boarding himself in some parts of ireland the farm laborer gets but 25 cen ants t s per day and boards and lodges himself and awid at that rate lie cannot get work half the time the days work moreover is from daylight day light till dark no ten hour system protecting tle tile work j man mait on the land in ghent belgium the average average price 1 ia 16 about a franl frani and aud a half ahall or about ZO 0 cenewa a day the workman finding them selves in the neighborhood of bonn on n th the e rhine it is about ten silver or about 25 2 5 cents per day in pies Wies wiesbaden baden it I 1 is from 42 to 48 kreutz kreut ors ers ii a day for workman on farms and on oil roads or from 30 to 35 cents at the farm of the agricultural institute at geisburg Gels geis burg near wiesbaden Wies baden the price paid is 66 06 kreut zera a n day or 24 cents tho themen themon the men in all cages cases boarding them I 1 selves in and about heidelberg in the grand duchy of baden it varies from 42 to 48 kreut in and around cas belthe a elthe eithe daily dally wages amount to 15 silver groschen or 37 cents at the agricultural tural ural college at the pay for female laborers in the f nield field is 24 kreut or about 18 cents a day finding themselves this is in harvest time when the price is higher than at other seasons these ese prices rices everywhere seemed sm small il ii 11 for rard eard hard earnest labor and I 1 could not help thinking thinking how glad our own farmers would be to give double and board their workman at that now it is true that the price of living is nol not not severally fene Sene rally raily quite so hei hem high h in the coundrie llave have named as wit with us yet the difference is nowhere so great comparatively as the tho prices r c es paid for labor in fact to live asey aspy as well weli e li as our people of the same class do the cost would bo be very nearly the sume same the price of potatoes for instance in the neighborhood of dublin i is 7 pence a stone of 14 pounds this is a cent a pound or CO 60 cents a bushel parsnips Par snips are xa 4 or about 20 a ton the price of good butter throughout ireland la is on an average a shilling a pound so that a man has to work hard 12 or 14 hours to earn a pound of butter this is the price in town and country the model farm at glasnevin Glas nevin got 18 pence or 36 cents a pound in january of this year 1864 and the lowest price at any time is a shilling or 13 pence that is is 24 and 26 cents I 1 made similar inquiries as to tile the price of common articles as a means of comparison andi know about how the case stands for I 1 made it a practice to record such items on the spot the price of nour hour is s about as high on the continent as with us I 1 and I 1 think the same quality of meats about as high tire THE TRUE TEST gail gall hamilton writes to her fair sisterhood we wo often hane have seen in the columns of religious newspapers nel nol vs papers sketches of eminent chr christians is i ti ans I 1 read one lately of a far farmers wife who used to delight in prayer meeting celebrated her childrens birthdays by prayer and spent whole days in praying all these are favorable signs dut gut but before I 1 pronounced her an eminent christian I 1 should like to know whether previous to her withdrawal from the faintly family circle to pray all ilay day she made any provision for the extra labor libor that her iier A absence sence would devolve on others or Ny whether hether bridget had to skim the milk and wash the pans besides cooking sweeping and dusting or whether the next day went smoothly I 1 should like to know whether when a little restless clubby hand upset the gravy boat on the clean tablecloth table cloth she bound herself over to keep the peace whether in her house cleanliness was made subservient to comfort or comfort to cleanliness whether whether she bhe bhe she had ever laid down her sewing and took into her arms the half sick and choly cross fretful and miserable four year old boy to charm away his unhappiness with a fairy story or any kind of story stor or song or simple talk whether shy she e gave her heretical neigh neighbor bor credit for I 1 as 11 s much candor sincerity truthfulness earnestness and unselfishness in Ms his religion aa as he developed and she recognized in his character of bf citizen I 1 neighbor and father whether the delicious green pea poa sou son soup that she sent to the sick woman nex next door was the result of an extra amount made for the purpose or whether her poor girl dined per force that day off cold boiled bolle d pork and potatoes whether she was generally ready to step into the tile wagon when it came to tile the door jon ort sun sunday a y morning or whether she provoked 11 her hen er husband to wrath by keeping them all waiting alting A BLOODY JUDGMENT IN JAPAN alesse messenger riger tiger says dehava we have received by the holland a let telroy tearoy tear gerom ol roin japan three days later th than an the newer already published it hns has been already stated that the prince of na nagato a having refused lo 10 pay me indemnity anity stipulated in tile the treaty bf pea peace cc siga signed ned by him a judgment of the criminal tribunal of yeddo had decided that his two palaces should be razed to the ground and his servants put to death we wo now learn that this singular and sanguinary sentence was approved of by the mikado and by the tycoon the spiritual and rind temporal sovereigns of japan and that the number of servants killed iii in execution of it was four hundred and twenty men and two hundred and fifteen women and chil chii children dieh dich the cepi ininee rine on learning these facts was cepl deeply concerned and sent to the capital his US first minister on board the english corvette barossa which was placed at his dla dia ogal oeal byice admoral kuper the minister on arriving at yeddo waited on the representatives 0 of ferance france england holland ho lland iland america and in R russia and besought them to intercede with the tycoon in favor of the prince his hig master who had decided on executing all the provisions of iha the treaty and immediately J paying the suns sugs sum Sydue due such was the twe situation of affairs W the last date A HIDDEN treasure the emperor maximilian saya says a german journal has a chance of digging out a hidden treasure the highly story was as follows when napoleon I 1 de thrones the bourdons bourbons Bour dons in spain the fhe mexicans whose eyes had been opened by humboldt to the effect that they were a nation of seven millions and subdued by eighty thousand spaniards became encouraged and threw off the spanish yoke the vice king sent during the revolution four millions kofl of gold old oid pieces together with other numerous treasures to madrid this ik happened in in june 1808 1803 the escort was however attacked attached attacked by one hundred men and massacred save one cavalry and a few of his men who acted in concert with the tile robbers to avoid tilo the vigilance of the government the bandits concluded to hide tile the treasure in the ground and to davide it after the tile expiration pi ration of one year at the foot of a precipice one thousand feet high of a hollow deep in the tho mountain was a cave th there thero ere ero the treasure was dragged the cave walled up by tho the same kind of rocks the intervals filled wit with earth hearth and plants and finally a little brook was directed in such a man manner as to pass like a cataract over tho the place now the robbers spread out the rumor that the whole story of the robbery was invented by tile the vice king kin himself and that he had brought tile tiie the treasure in safety tho the so accused was called to account but the robbers did not enjoy their treasure as already before tile the expiration of th tilo c year they had either killed kille themselves among eadi cadi other drivere or were defunct A 0 erman traveler named muller celebrated by his climbing 9 the pie pic of orizaba learned tile the secret from the lips of an aged dying indian the tho imperial government to whom has been pointed out by muller BT uller isow about to search for the treasure as the ther historical facts geem went to justify the truth of the story CRINOLINE Is a nus nu siance lance and wo we are glad to see it stated that the EIn empress press of aust austria ria I 1 among others has exerted herself to put it down she vile has ceased to wear it herself and forbidden all persons to wear it in in her presence the ccrates curates of several provincial churches supported by their vestry have leiven a tax of twenty cents on every person habl habited eted in crinoline who enters their church one curate curge has been so bold as to interdict his church to crino erino crinoline litle and he has provided provi deda a dressing room where the offensive article of dress may be taken off the manager of the paris grand opera has likewise forbidden all persons connected with the opera from wearing it THEY NEVER neveu SPEAK in rii the villages of antignano arenella and duo due porte which stands on the same hill in the province of naties naples says the mazlone Naz maz lone of 1 florence lorence res resides c es about thirty men and women who from a singular religious fanaticism have made a vow never to speak dor por for some years past they have maintained silence katrades A tradesman ean tan a grocer roeer is mentioned who carries on ris gis his business without uttering a word should a customer enter his shop to purchase anything he hip weighs and sells if the buyer has iia any observation to make he listens and does as lie he is required A ALETTER LETTER of credit was demanded of M de rothschild for the empress tb the tho e terms of which it was desired should should be different to the ordinary letter of credit at de rothschild who has a witty turn it appears though lie lle might amford afford from hi his s wealth wealth to do without such an an article wrote the following curious C circular betten letter ietter gial M d de e of paris begs begam 11 de rothschild of frankfort frankfort to place at the disposition af the countess de montereau Mon himself and his fortune the hebrew A WOMAN iras HAS TWINS WITH SNAKE snare HEADS wonders never cease and the greatest greatest wonder in these modern times has as just come como to our knowledge from entirely reliable authority it fully disproves the wisdom of solomon when he proclaimed that there is nothing now new under the sun I 1 tile the facts as related to us are about two weeks ago I 1 the wife of a TL market gardener gardeners residing at E eagle eagie a g 1 e point in this city it gave birth to twins which instead ot of bil being n g provided with the head and features of the human face divine had each theli thell the head ead and neck of or a s snake ake 1 below the headland shoulders shoulder rs the tho children were of natural and comely c form forni from the shoulders up they presented the horrible shape and charac charae characteristics ter ten of the serpent immediately after their birth a consultation of physicians j was held heid at which it was very properly decided to bleed the monsters to death which was accordingly done what disposition was made of the bodies we have not learned the cause assigned for this alums lums natures is that seve seye several ial lal months mont lis its ago after the woman became enci ente her husband playfully threw a snakes anabea head into her face wh which ach so frightened her har that the tho fontus the horrible shape into which they were brought into the world dubuque herald august 21 doare DESPERATE RATE bate ENCOUNTER with A 7 sli sir aliu AliK A gentleman writing from Macao says I 1 was witness to an extraordinary scene in the outward harbor on saturday d ay last several boys from the french A Messa essa gerles geries Impe ship were bathing w when en a shark was observed making for them they heard the cries of their shipmates and attempted to regain their vessel distant distant half a mile mlle they would have been too late but for an belonging to the celebrated liverpool clipper black seneca mr lamb who arming himself with a sheath knife sprang from the rail and attacked the mon mou his own element The tile shark immediately turned upon his antagonist when occurred a scene more morer easily imagined than described mr nir lamb dived dived again and again each time coming up beneath the monster and succeeded in inflicting mule ting several wounds the sea was literally dyed with the tho blood of af the shark several boats having been helas he was finally dispatched with a liar ilar harpoon boil and hauled ashore on the re ho proved to be a abl blue lue shark fully fifteen feet long A LITTLE g LESSON lusson for FOB edit WELL vell DIS POSED rosed WIVES why is if asked a lady that so many men are anxious to get rid of their wives sl I 1 f because I 1 11 was the reply so few women exert themselves after marriage mar |