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The Danger and Dutk id the North.
As the Presidential electien approaches,
a spirit of partisanship ,manifests itself
which is to be most earnestly deprecated;
for, in this hour of national• tribulation, it
may lead to consequences of a most painful
and dangerous character, unless.checked in
time. New York quarrels with Pennsyl
vania ; the West quarrels .with the East;
the Peace Democrats quarrel with the War
Democrats ; and an indiscriminate skirmish
ing between Peace Democrats 'War Demo
crats, and Republicans is constantly kepi up.
in the Western States bad men have.banded
together in secret organizations for ,con
fessedly disloyal purposes. In.the
States, certain Opposition newspapers hip°.
interests of the Peace party have insidious
ly counselled resistance to the draft., A
Democratic Governor has 'pronounced the
same necessary and expedient measure a
" terrible affliction," and plainly gifen his
constituency to understand that they- would
be justified in openly opposing itA while
the New York World, commentik upon
the course of the President in relation to
recognizing the electoral votes of the se
ceded States; indulges in the foll Owing in
cendiary language : ;
, ,
&nd on behalf of the Democratlo.pkrty we take
leave to say, that if the Chicago nominee shall have
been elected by a majority el the electoral votes
from the loyal States, and Mr. Lincoln and his sup
porters than then undertake' to reverse the result,
and secure him the election by carrying ont this
long-projected and deeply-laid scheme: of counting.
in the rotten-borough votes, the President-elect and
the Demoeratio party will not • aosoleice,l , but they
will immediately proceed to administer to the usur
per the fate of usurpers, and, at whatever cost, to
estoblirh in the chair of the Chief Magistrate the
Chief Magistrate rightfully and lawfully chosen by
the people to fill the same.
That is to say, unless a Chicago candi
date, professedly representing only a sec
tion of the country, is - acknowledged, after
due form of ceremony, Chief Magistrate of
the whole country, a new civil war will be
inaugurated by the friends of The World,
and "blood will flow upon Northern soil."
The facts we have adverted to, and the
language we have quoted, all point to, this,
and only this significance. The enemies
of the Government are growing bolder, and
now that the rebellion in the South, which
they first warmed and fostered into being,
gives so many tokens of approaching disso
lution, they seem resolved, upon the slight
est pretext, to organize a fresh rebellion in
the North, with the purpose of crushing
out of existence the party now in power,
and taking theereins of Government in
their own hands. Out of such discordant
elements it is, of course, not within the
bounds of possibility that a peaceable and
orderly Presidential campaign can be elimi
nated. In the good times of peace these
contests were, at best, turbulent, tumultu
ous affairs, and for months the whctle coun
try was convulsed with the passions stirred
up by partisan strife. What is to be then
expected of the coming canvass, with the
country involved in a terrible civil war—
itself the direct offspring of political
rancor, and that rancor, instead of- abash
ing before the awful presence of its own
sad work, the rather increasing in bitter
ness ? Impressed with such reflections, and
with the suggestions they must provoke in
every thinking mind, how is it possible to
avoid the conclusion that the ordeal of the
North is not yet ended, and that great dan
gers—perhaps greater dangers than any
that have yet assailed us—may beset the na
tional pathway. Another momentous epoch
in the history of the land is approaching.
The Presidential contest of 1860 may not
have been fraught with consequences of
vaster import to the Union than the contest
of 1804 is destined to be. The fell spirit of
partisanship, not content with the irre
parable injury it has already inflicted upon
the fairest land on earth, nor rebuked by
the patriotic unanimity with which the
Northern people have rallied to the sup
port of their Government, is making one
more desperate effort to disturb those amica
ble relations which have enabled us at the
North to conduct a war successfully while
maintaining peace and order at home. The
loyal men should reflect upon this truth,
that they may measure in itsf ull length and
breadth the new danger which menaces the
stability of the Government and the sanc
tity of their liberties. Apprised of their
peril, they will not need to be aroused to a
sense of their duty. They are well aware
that the efforts of the enemy, however des.
perate, can be turned harmlessly aside by
simple unity of purpose and of action. This
is all the sacrifice that Union men are
called upon to make—that they shall be
united for the sake of the Union ; and
surely, after the noble exertions they have
already made in behalf of this cause, they
will not now falter, nor hesitate to accept
its responsibilities.
A Spiritualists'' 'Convention.
Chicago, if not a very moral, is at any
rate a very lively city. In many respects
it is ahead of New York; and. in some of
its eccentricities it surpasses Boston. Con
cerning the growth of moral sentiment of
this wonderful lake city very little can be
safely said, until it has been first, ascer
tained whether such a thing as moral sen
timent exists there or • not. Probably not.
At least that is the impression inevitably
derived from reading the Chicago papers.
The local reports daily presented to their
readers are fearfully and wonderfully made,
and are sufficient to convince the most
ardent lover of humanity that, beneath the
garb of honesty and propriety men and
women ordinarily wear, there lurks an
unfathomable depth of human depravity.
Not a day passes that we are not treated by
our Chicago exchanges (particularly the
Times) to the details of some shocking,
wonderful, or astounding occurrence in
the social world. " Almost a Tragedy,"
"An Infuriated Woman Stabs a Well-
Known Citizen;" "Love and Jealousy,"
"A Drawing-room- Tele-a-Tete and a
Bloody Sequel;" "The Guilty Woman Sur
renders Herself to the Authorities;" "At
tempted Suicides;" "The • Mania for Self-
Murder on the Increase;" "TwO Unfortu
nate Females Rescued from the Jaws of
Death;" "Shocking Condition of the Low
er Grades of Society;", "A Ludicrous
Riot." These are a few of the . headings of
local news items in a paper before us,
printed with all the glaring prominence of
type with which we should announce a
victory for Gn&wr or Stan and there
are many more striking captions which de- -
-ceney compels us to omit. It is difficult to
tmderstand hew the moral sense of so great
and flourishing a city as Chicago, the, most
flourishing, in the Union, if, "net in the
World, should have become so:perverted as
to tolerate anch n a degrading state Of affairs. -
Perhaps "the granary of the'World,".as an-
English author-tourist has styled the me
tropolis of Illinois; may not be worse than
other Westein cities, but certainly it is no
better, i t no near so jealous of
reputation as Wassit's wife is rumored to
have been. Te a great extent, the news
paper press is undoubtedly responsible for,
so abnormal conditiOn•Of society. Some
of the 014040. OpPosition Pallor; which
have been clamoring about Government
interference ,with the freedom Of the press,
have
have exerciled • OtiVarrantable libentie,in this
respect,' at least: But perhaps another.equal-
Y Potent oiiutte.dt t the"evil liesip'the drotil?l,7
r..=
stance that Chicago, for some unaccounta-
ble reason, or for no particular reason, is
the grand camp of rendezvous for all kinds
Of conventions—political conventions, reli
gious conventions, newspaper reporters'
conventions, scientific conventions, and
conventions of gentlemen who have suffer
ed the extraction of their front teeth to
avoid the draft. The latest convention
we hear of is a National Convention
of Spiritualists which met on TueSday last.
What was done we have not heard.
Probably the Spiritualists sat 'with closed
doors to evince their contempt of such a
material thing as the hot weather, in which
case the sensation writers of the Chicago
press will for once be at fault, unless
they can discover the end of some stove
pipe leading from the chamber, and obtain
a report of the proceedings through this
channel, as they once did before. The
Chicago I'fines of the 9th instant, after half
a coltuun of preface, describing the use and
progress of the Spiritual delusion in the
United States, concludes - thus : " For
several years now there has been no real
excitement upon the subjeet of Spiritualism
in this country. .Eicept in the towns of
Rochester, Boston; and Chicago, the subject
has been but little agitated. The number of
believers in this city will exceed five thou
sand, while in the other two places it is
Much larger. Lectures upon the subject
hive been numerous in these cities, and
now an effort is made to get up a grand
sensation. To-day a National Convention
of Spiritualists will commence its sessions
in Metropolitan Hall, in this city. The
attendance bids fair to be ' very good.
There arc many persons here who have
come expressly to participate in the con
'vention, and many more are expecte&
Theiworld may look for new and astound
ing deVe opments." Perhaps the fact that
there ;are .five thousand Spiritualists in
Chicago, may help to explain the free-and-..
easy character of the city. It is scarcely a
matter for surprise that a city which is kept
•in such a continual ferment of conventions
should at length cease to be conventional.
But the Spiritual Convention will not cap
the climax. "had is reserved for the grand
Democratic. love-feast, to come off on.the
twenty-ninth day :of August, A. D. 1864,
.unless sooner postponed.
Murder Made Easy.
On the night of Saturday, „Tilly 9, Mr.
THOMAS Buroess, a gentleman rather.ad
vanced in years , was murdered and rob
bed, in one of the carriages of the North
London Railway, and his body thrown out
upon the track, the murderer coolly walk
ing out of the station with his plunder,
*hen the train stopped at the next
station. Such a crime could not be
committed in any railway cayriage in
the United States. As every one knows,
our cars are open, all through, with easy
access from, into and through each. In
England, where aristocratical notions pre
vail, the cars are divided into compart
ments, not communicating with each other,
with the doors opening at the sides, each
compartment, or carriage, as it is called,
capable of holding six to eight persons.
Very frequently, only one passenger is
found occupying a single carriage, and we
have more than once travelled from Lon
don to Edinburgh, (400 miles, done in ele
ven hours), with only a single companion
during the Whole trip.
The Board of Trade has been solicited to
change this system, and Mr, MrratEn Gra-
Cox, its president, coolly told the Rouse of
Commons "it would no doubt be possible
to compel railway companies by legislation
to introduce into the carriages some mode
of communicating with the, guards, but he
doubted the expediency of the plan. Our
(the English) railways were so constructed
that the question was not without conside
rable practical difficulties. Evidence had
been taken before a committee upstairs,
and the Inspectors of Railways were not
by any means unanimous as to the expedi
ency of adopting a plan whereby the pas
sengers Might be - enabled to communicate
with the - guards." But Mr. REUTER, the
London telegraphiat, avers : "In some parts
of. Russia, Austria, and Germany, I have
trayelledAn trains inwlkich all the carriage%
were in communication by means of a gang
way passing from one carriage to the other.
The guard requests the passengers to show
their tickets while the train is at full speed.
The compartments into which each carriage
is divided may be shut at pleasure or
thrown .open in case of need. The guard
patrols the train at intervals, and every
passenger can claim not only his assistance,'
but on account of the communication
through and between the carriages, the as
sistance of all his fellow-passengers at any
moment," Another plan, suggested but not
accepted, is this : By means of a ledge
along the line of carriages and a handrail,
the guard might have the.whole of the car
riages under his constant observance ; and
a signal from any one of them would bring
him to the spot to ascertain the - cause. The
train need not be stopped unless there was
a real necessity, of which the guard would
be the judge. This duty of walking along
the carriages Is performed by the guards -
even in the fastest express trains, such as
those from - Calais or Boulogne to Paris, so
that objection on the - ground of delay is
not maintainable.
The real remedy, to change the whole
construction of English railroad cars and
introduce the American system, will not, be
adopted. That a peer should sit on the
same carriage as a shopkeeper—perhaps oc
cupy a seat next to him—is not to be en
dured in England, that country of castes.
The old system will be continued. It allows
a man to be murdered and robbed in a rail
way carriage with secrecy and despatch.
An English writer says :
"The victim walks into a Bret-elaSs railway car
riage, with a confident expectation of meeting
friends or kindly at the neat station, and in less
than five minutes shaking hands with those he holds
dear t the carriage door. Is closed by the active
porter, the whistle sounds, puff goes the engine, and
down goes the passenger under a murderer s hand.
So dexterone is that hand, so certain Its aim, that
not a cry is heard ; the passenger's head Is battered,
his travelling. bag Is ransacked, he is dragged like a
dead sheep across the carriage, pitched out upon the
rails, in expectation of the next train pasting over
the body, and an impression being made upon the
public mind of a singular accident or mysterious
suicide ; and when the station is reached, and the
papp4ers alight, the red-handed murderer, in his
be* red elothee, coolly passes the friends of the
dead an left behind, and walks out into public
society, undetected and unmolested."
Tirs New York Tfor/d is irritated to the
extent of a column of editorial bemuse the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws has
been conferred upon Major General BUTLER.
by a Massachusetts college. The following
Is 'the peroration of its rage :
Nay the faculty of Williams pass their Mies un
der laws administered by their own doctor and
when earth resigns him to a warmer and more conge
nial sphere, may the dean of their faculty survive to
intcribe upon his tomb the simple but touching epi
taph:
Thou haat
Outran the constable at lastlt
Does the Worid consider such language
as this gentlemanly, or does it merely in
tend it to be witty ?
A DAY or two ago we printed a commu
nication atidressed to substitutes and volun
teers. The write; one of our most promi
nent and esteemed citizens, assured us that
agents for Barks and other counties are
now recruiting men in this city for the pur
pose of filling their. quotas ; and made, the
suggestion that an effort be made to cor
rect the evil. It may seem very selfish on
our part, but We must emphatically protest
against Philadelphia being converted into
a recruiting rendezveus for the rest of the
State in this presumptuous style. There
has been, a , great deal too much of this
Work already:. It . is an offence in the eye
of the law for the agents of one State to re-
Bruit within the ;limits of another-; but as
the draft is made not' by States, but by dis
tricts, thisinchit saltitary measure should
be: modified SO as to make it illegal
for one dishjet to attempt to fill its
quota at the . expense of another:
But prevention is even better than cure.
There may be no legal redress against the,se
Berks county' recruiting officers, and, as
lows they can afford to pay higher boun
ties than Philadelphia they will obtain. all
the recruit's that att to be had, whether
their rendeivous be in Reading or in Chest
nut street. It is the business, therefore, of
our chisels.% residine warda, the quotas
of which i :remaintd bblilled, to take speedy'
meSSUres!to fill Ahem: , If, each xualliable
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to be drafted were to contribute but ten
dollars towards a general bounty fund, a
sum would be raised sufficientlo justify the
offer of as high,;if not higher, bounties than
adjoining counties are paying; and Philit
fielphia could easily escape the draft. It
is only requisite that some energetic person
should inaugurate the movement and suc
cess is certain.
The Tallahassee.
Yet another rebel pirate is giving our
commercial marine a new season of alarm.
The success of the Tallahassee, proves that
it is easy, while our coast is without a con
stant and vigilant guard, for any armed ves
sel to ravage and destroy at will long be
fore it can be brought to a reckoning. The
proximity, to one of the most important
parts of our coast reached by the Talla
hassee is not a more dangerous symptom
of thit new piratical scourge than the ra
pidity with which she is consummating her
work of destruction. In two days the
Tallahassee has burned and boarded nearly
a dozen vessels, and this she has done
quite in the face of authority. All her
exploits have taken place in a vicinity
to inconveniently near to our commerce
as Montauk Point, Long Island, and
not far from New London, which has been
recommended by a majority report in Con
gress as a site for a new navy yard. It is
impossible to.assure ourselves that the Tal
lahassee has yet'completed her list of rav
ages along the 'coast, and we may have
many more to set down among her meek
victims. The plan e of using her captive
ships as tenders to assist her piracies is cal
culated 'to render the Tallahassee twice
effective and formidable. As usual, we
find that:the new pirate bears the mark of
British manufacture. She is.a large vessel,
capable of doing ten-fold greater harm to
our commerce unless she is immediately and
vigorously checked:and punished. •
W.LSELIN"4:;iitfrOIV.
.RAYMOND AND .BOAFT DIFFICULTY
J. T: Ravvoras, the comedian, was arrested at
Baltimore on Friday, on an order from the Military
Governor of Washington, for an assault. on Colonel
Foals, of Now 'York. Hewes cominittedto the Old
Capitol to•dat. Colonel EGAN'S life is considered
in danger, erysipelas having
,stipervened. Bistioe,
the comedian, was also arrested, but was SOSO
("smutty released_on bail
INDIAN AFFAIRS,
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received
a despatch from Governor EVAM, of Colorado,
dated Denver, August,lo, Stating that he is satisfied
that nearly all the Indian tribes of the plains are
combined in the war against the whites, and that It
will be the largest Indian war this country ever
had, extending from Texas to the British lines, in
volving nearly all the wild tribes of the , plains, and
urging that all the influence of the department shall
be used in favor of speedy reinforcements of the
troops, and asking that authority be given to raise
a regiment of mounted men for one hundred daYs,
and saying that the militia laws of the Territory are
inoperative, and unless authority is glyen the whites
will be destroyed..
ArDutton Helghts—The Deserted Nan
stoma of Oen. lLee.
B. F. Taylor, in his last letter to the Chicago
Journai, describes with his usual warmth of diction
and poetry of idea the deserted mansion of the rebel
general Lee. After having wandered among the
beauties, natural and architeetural, in and sur.
rounding Washington, he bends his steps to Arling
ton, and this is what he sees,:
And now, fairly en route for Arlington, we have
upon the right the swelling wooded hills, the:site of
the soulless city of the dead ; twenty-seven hundred
I Be there; it is the National Cemetery; it is the
I summer fallow of the old estate. Upon the left lie
; the Government farms, the golden fields Just shorn
of their glory ; you catch glimpses - of white tents
among the foliage ; you hear the stroke of the scorer's
ale ; yOu See groups of men at dinner here and
there, as you slowly wind np the hill; birds flash
across the road as you °limb ; ravines deep and
shadowy invite you out trim the steady stare of
1 noon. A thousand shades of gteen, from the tint as
delicate'as a poet's thought, to the dark, rich hue of
the tropics, delight you everywhere. No monotony
anywhere; the seeds seem to have been flung at the
wind's sweet will ; if art at ail, it Is its highest type ;
it is art concealed, and so akin to Nature. Here,
in the elder days—l said the elder, not the better—the
red deer trooped across this splendid park, and spot
ted fawns lay hidden in the cedars. There. where the
paths make mystery and lose themselves like obil
dreri in a holiday, the stately dames allse walked,
and the fair young Southern flowers` brushed by the
ranks of other flowers not thought more fair than
they. Here stood, here talked, the men dis
guieed to-day in butternut, and gray beyond
bright honor's recognition. The' mansion Is
reached at last, and •you stand in the lofty porti
co, with its eight massive columns of marble.
There is nothing light and elegant abegt it, hat all
Is grand, alma) toevere.- Thovralle nreffinished in
stucco, and patft...se-of.-W-have fallfenj. here -and -
there; the panels once filledWith•f - es in-relief
are empty and defaced ; hundred swallows'
nests head the ' corniees, as with . .(b mourning
necklace, and the plaint of young. birds ,and
the flutter of wings. "Oil the Silence like a -
speech." The wooden 'Shutters are fast closed.
doors, that .once Atoed,,aride, lend
ing to the . front 'a hospitable, almost a - fin .,
man ;smile; are sealed like the lips of the
dead. I feel as I did when standing before the
bolted door of a tomb on Georgetown Heighta,
bearing a Dante fernier fallen out of common •
Speech. Did ever lovelier landscape greet the eye
from portico before I The rolls of green washing, up
into richest foliage, lapse away.to the Potomac with
Its silver flow. , At your left, the• old garden,
that like deserted Eden lacks many hands to "lop
the wanton groith," yet makes a, gorgeous
ahow of flowers. Your eye catches the telegraph.
wire spun along from tree to tree, and through a
crevice •in the window- a paralyzed nerve of the
old headquarters establiahed here. What tidings
frcm the field have flashed along that wire; what
syllable .of triumph and defeat! Before you lies
Washington; exactly in your front lifts the Monu
ment, a mighty millstone ". to count the ages by."
Straight out beyond, the dome of the Capitol, a
splendid bubble, as if .an atmel's breath haw blown
it. And he who once .stood here turned from
the scene a traitor! I push open the reluctant
door and enter the deserted hall ; the, floors
are covered with dust; the frescoes on--the
walls are dim withcobwebe ; the a,rches are stained
and battered. A rusty chain dangles from the ceil
ing, suspending a fragment of a lamp, its light put
out forever. The antlered heads, of old Virginia
deer trophies Of some forgotten fleld-day, to the
merry music of the hoimils and the dashing leaps
of the blooded hunters, yet cling to the walls like
sculptures. Paintings are here, too, that have
gone into history; stare enough now, and as 11-
total as a Sootehman, but yet time liss done
for them what-it does for books and friends and
wine. ropen a door and am in the dining-roan ;
there stands, the' table. et, the cloth removed for its
'old hest forever; the table with its lion's claws
leaving . footprints ,in the dust as you move it;
as if the mansion were indeed a haunt for
the beasts of the wilderness. Here Lafayette sat
- a guest; here sparkled jest andwine • here rose
the song, died' out so lon g . ago in sighing; here'
woman's smiles shone round the board- now
faded out in dying, A scarred sideboard of
some ancient fashion against the wall ; not
so did it look in the' old days,
flashing In the
glory of cut glass, ruby, and amber. Do you mark,
the doors are double opening: here, and the narrow
space between the walla I Wine is a trutteteller,
they say, and so no syllable over the third bottle
could stray beyond this room to ears intent. I catch
myself in this dim and shuttered place of banquets
—alas, ' , funeral baked meats"they all seem now
—trying to think how they.- looked who thronged
lt ; who sat here and there and yonder, bat
the picture is failed, and my, band cannot restore it.
I' go from room to room. Here hangs one of old
AI rowcanith , a nankeen-colored maps of North Ame
rica, with no northwest in it at ali, but only a sm.
helical bear and "10, the Indian !" There 18 a
leaf of Virginia story, . a picture of Pocahontas.
Here a stray loiterer of a velvet chair; old hareem;
full of emptiness ; a chest of drawers with a
"till" in the top. I had net seen one for twenty
years, and lifted the lid almost expeeting to see my
old-fashioned mother's gold beads and the pencil
sketch of "the little •boy that died," for those old
mothers, you know, kept their bits of treasures in
the " WI." Gilded picture frames and nothing in
them ; a high-post bedetead,big enough fora mill; a
broken mirror with a spider watching at the frac
ture ; fragments of marble mantels strewn about
the floor; the guest chambers carpetlela, nomfort
less, ItEd as cheerless as the 'cave of alsepelah ; the
footfall sent de as 'tharpas tho stroke of a' hammer.-
And so Igo from room W. room and think of Ho
garth'il picture of Ostend of ilitinmpe, and that It
wants onlythis to complete-It ~ r bipaa been Fade
ral Headquarters, I told you, and. of the truth -
remain.; oblong , bokee• Wirked Habana," bottles
eusplelously labelled oSillery" and "Old Tom,"
riding gloves; tarnished spurs, "passes" out of date . ,
rosters of regiments in the-front or In heaven, anon
signs on parlor doors and chamber doors as " iaar
termaster," "Adjutant;" ' 4 No • admittance. A
strange jumble it all is of yesterday and to-day.
Renacing -m.y steps, I go out from the heavy,
darkened air of the silent tause into the glad sun
light where the trees are waiving and the birds are
singing, as If this were not Dead Man's Land. Not
far from the mansion is the God's - acre of the feud
ly, surrounded by a wall, the
,gray tablets bearing
such old historic names as Randolph, Waehington,
and others that sometimes had wearers to illustrate
and adorn them. Returning to the portico where
the birds tie brave are bringing home the dinner, I
find a soldier curled up beside , the door, and lazily,
carving a laurel root pipe. "How do you think old
Leo will like the improvementel" he said ; "a freed
man's village on one side, a national cemetery on
the other, and his house given up Nitta birds, if not
to the betel"
THB WILBON FIUTIT4IOLDER.—Axaong the moat
handsome and valUable Veen of plate presented
for the benefit of the recent fair in aid of the Sani
tary Commission was a beautiful vessel for holding
fruit at dessert. It is made of pure silver, from ori
ginal designs and moulds, and the coyer is sur
mounted with strawberries in' dead silver. It was
given to the fair by its - makers,.,blesars. Wilson; sil
versmiths, corner of Fifth and` Cherry streets, and
was much and deservedly siftmdred. The 'Union
League purchased it, and have preeented it to Mr.
Claghorn, their respected colleague and effective
officer.
PETEIO3OIOB PIILLADBLPETI4. OQIINTARIABIT DB
TECTOIC.—The new Berri-monthly number to be is-
sued -to-day eves partioulari of twenty new calm
terfeits put into circulation gime .Tnlyls. We do
not notice .:any forgeriee of Pemtsibranitt notes.
Among the financial news we notice particular der
soriptions of the newly-discovered forgeiies of United
States Treasury notes and the fifty-cent postage
currency.
Wig . R=BSA the reader to 'a u r adverthing columns
'lois•reply by 001. Lechler to annllegation mikde
against hint by a contemporary that' he was obtain
ing recruits in Philadelphia, and depriving the city
of the benefit by having them credited to other
counties. The Colonel sittlifactorily
_answers the
allegation.
ENGLISH, PIKITORMLB ,- Frotil J. 7. Kromer; 40S
Chestnut asteel,"we have the mustratedLondon News
and'the illustrated News . je'lhe World of July SO, and
the News of the Worid . onet - day later '
BAIA "'BOOTS AND SKOI/8.--WO would wili the
early'attentlon of tuyerslo the large and desirable
sale of 1,050 eases boots and shoes, to be sold by ca
talogue, for cash, thus mot.' Mug* (Monday, August
Afgeoinnuinolng at ten. trooloo,r precisely, by Phi li p
at
Ord. , "auctiohysiii at ttielr stokeirroik 625
Idatiret sail 522.0Oniineroeitreets, _
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPTITA; MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1864.
WsstrattprOS, August 14.
THE WAR.
THE BATTLE IN MOBILE BAY.
FULL DETAILS OF FARRAGEPS VIOrOET.
The Gauntlet of the Forts Run Withou
Damage.
ALL THE REBEL FLEET SUNK OR DRIVEN
OFF AT ONCE
Vieree llesistanee Offered.
try the Tonswissee.
Our Loss 244 Killed and. WOunded.
FARBABIT ABYABOINO UP THE BAY
THE REBELS HIEING OFR WOMEN AT PETERSJIgh
Lee Supposed to be Reinforcing Rood
and Early.
The Shenandoah Talley not yet clear of Raider
THEY ATTACK AND OCCUPY NARTINSBUD,G
Gen. Sheridan Alleged to be in Winchester
DOUBTS, CONFUSION; AND CONTRADICTION.
A. Promise of More }Zesty Pighting at
Atlanta.
MORE DEPREDATIONS OF THE NNW
PIRATE TALLAirAsszE:
DEFARMENT OF TB/1 Oirf Mr%
OUR WSTORY lINDOW MONTEN—A. MOULTON SUNK
BY A wouPNDO.
NEw Your, August I.3.—The steamer Evening
Star, from New Orleans Aug. 6, arrived at this port
yesterday. By her we receive a brief but satin•
factory oontirmation of the great SUOCOFEI achieved
at Boi - obile by Admiral Farragut. It comes In the
shape of a telegram, from General Banks to Mrs.
Beisks, who was "a passenger onthe Evening Star.
The despatch was put on board - the Evening Star as
she was palming the station at quarantine, below
New Orleans.
0/FIOE OP THE U. S. MILITARY TELBGRAPH,
NEW ORLEANS Satillday, August 6.
The'following despatch has been received:
FORT Puts, August 6.—Steamer Clyde passed
here this morning from the fleet. She reports that
fourteen gunboats and three monitors passed the
fort at Mobile, yesterday, at &A. M. One monitor
was blown up opposite the forts by a torpedo. The
rebel ram TenneSsee was captured. Her captain,
Buchanan, lost a leg in -the fight. This gives us:
possession, I have no other particulars.
N. P. BAN - xs,
•
Major General Commanding.
DESPATCH TO THE NAVY DEPARTMENT—OFFICIAL
00.11PIRMAT.ION OF TEM 24L081L.E NEWS
Weenrwovow, August 12.—The Government has
received official telegraphic advioeB from Dauphin's
Island, Mobile harbor, up to the Bth trust. Ale only
point of Interest or • importance contained, in addl.;
tiOn to what was previously known through rebel.
sources, Is, that the monitor Tecumseh was sunk by
a torpedo, instead of the guns of Fort Morgan,
which is more aatisfaotory to the friends and advo
cates of the monitors than if she had gone down
under the Are of the fort.
DEPARTICENT OF THE GULF,
UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH OFFICE,
SOUTHWEST PASS, August 8, 1884.
The fleet under Admiral Farragut passed the forts
at the entrance of Mobile Bay at eight o'clook on
the morning of the 6th inst. The monitor Tecum
seh was blown up by a rebel torpedo. No other ves
sel was lost. The rebel ram Tennessee surrendered
after an obstinate resistance. Admiral Buchanan
lost a leg in the action, and is now a prisoner. The
land forces, under Major General Granger, invested
Fort Gaines, and with the light batteries opened
upon the fort simultaneously with the passage of
the forts by the fleet, taking the water batteries in
the rear and silencing them. Oar loss is not re
ported. Port Powell, in Mobile Bay, was blown up
and evacuated by the rebels.
THE FIGHT IN MOBILE. RAY.
Naw.Yomic, August 14.—The steamer Oreole,from
New. Orleans on the 7th instant, has arrived. She
brings the following particulars of the fight in Dia
bile bay:
Four monitors went in first, followed by the Brook
lyn, Hartford, illetacomet, and others. The princi
pal fighting was with the ram Tennessee, inside the
bay. The Metacomet, in attempting to ram the
Tennessee, arm* the Hartford, and stove in her
side timbers. She will go North for repairs.
The rebel gunboat Selma was sunk by the Meta
comet, and the Chickasavr and Winnebago chased
* two others, the Gaines and Morgan, into Navy
Cove, where they are blockaded, and cannot es
cape.
Only ten men are .known to have escaped In the
destruction of the Tecuinsoh by the torpedo.
The despatoh•boat Phillips was burned at sea
while the fight was-in progress.
Admiral Farragut will push right for Mobile.
PURTMER ANA LATER PARTICI:MARC.
Nuw Oinusays, August 7.—lntelligence was re
ceived at headquarters, yesterday, announcing that
the fleet under Farragut passed the forts at the en
trance of Mobile Bay at 8 A. M. on the sth.
The monitor Tecumseh Was blown up by a tor
pedo. No other vessels were lost.
The rebel ram Tennessee surrendered. The rebel
Admiral Buchanan lost his leg, and Is now a
prisoner.
The land'Torce, under General Granger, Invested
Fort lamina, and with light batteries opened simul
taneously with the passage of the fleet, taking the
water batteries in reverse and silencing them. Our
losses are not reported.
TEM LATRST.
Advises from Farragut'a fleet may be slimmed up
as follows:
Fort Gaines bag surrendered.'
Fort Powell was blown up by the rebels. This
was at Grant's Paso, at the opposite end of Dau
phin Island, from where the fight occurred.
A report through rebel sources says that Demure
gard, with 20,000 men, has been sent to Atlanta.,
All the Texas coast, Brownsvilleinoluded, has
been evacuated, with the exception of Braios
/Bland. A small force is left there.
Gen. Herron bas arrived, and his forces are here,
going into camp above the city.
The rebels here are greatly excited over the Mo
bile news.
Politics is becoming interesting. The free State
men are organizing, and the clubs of the last cam
paign are being revived.
There is no doubt about the ratification of thonew
Constitution by the people.
The city is full of people, notwithstanding large
numbers have left for Northern watering places.
The Mobile Niwi of the 6th boasts of the hanging
of two colored ao]dlers and a cotton speculator, near
Vicksburg, by 'Whittaker's guerillas.
A number more of the Union prisoners recently
exchanged have arrived.
THE IT.A.V.A.L BATTLE IR ISOBEL'S BAT.
Naw Yoax, August 14.—New Orleans papers of
the 7th Inst. have full details of Fafragnt's move
ments.
The Hartford, with the admiral on board, steamed
up to Fort Morgan, delivering such a succession of
broadadis se effectually silenced all the rebel guns
and water batteries.
The monitors at the same time engaged the rebel
rem Tennessee, the latter felling in several attempts
to run down our vessels. Finally, our monitors
closed with her, and she was rammed by the Monon
gahela, Laeicawanna, and Hartford. As the Hart
ford started to; run her down, th 6 Metacomet.
also on the same patriotic errand, collided with the
Hartford. The Tennessee then ran out &white flag.
She lost but three men, and Farragut is probably
using her as one of his fleet, she not being greatly
damaged.
The Tecumseh, sunk by a torpedo, it is thought
can be raised; Only ten of her crew are known to
be saved. The Oneida had a sthell exploded in her
boiler, scalding thirty of per men: Admiral_ Bu
chanan te not expected to live. Lieut. Comstock,.
commanding the rebel gunboat Selma, was killed,
with nearly all hie crew.
The loss on the Hartford was 23 killed and 42
wounded. Our total lose is 249 killed and wounded,
including Capt. Craven and his crew of the Teeitm
seh. Fort Powell was blown up on the night of the
6th. On Friday night troops were landed, and were
at the fort. All of our fleet are inside of the rebel
obstructions, and would move for Dog-river bar tar
mediately.
IIBBBL AOCIOITNT
WASHINGTON, August 14.—The Richmond Ea
aminer of the 11th of August publishes the following •
Montt; Auguet 9,1664, '
To Hon. S. E. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy:
The enemy steamed In through the main entrance'
with four monitors and about sixteen heavy vessels'
of war. The Tecumseh, commanded by T; A. X,
Craven, was sunk with nearly all her crew, and ,-
another gunboat, the Phillips, which was subs*.
quently burned.
The Richmond, Hartford and Brooklyn, in line of
battle, followed by the remainder of the fleet i yeshed
by Fort Morgan under full headway, when they
were encountered by the Ten neeeee, Morgan, Gaines
and Selma.
The Tennessee and other vessels steamed in close
range of our advancing force, and poured a heavy .
fire into the leading ships. After a desperate strug
gle between the fleets, the Gaines retired to Fort
Morgan In a sinking condition, the Selma, being out
off, surrendered, and the Morgan escaped to Fort
Morgan.
The Tennessee, so far uninjured, steamed towards
the whole fleet, and after an obstinate fight sur
rendered, her rudder being disabled, smoke-stack
carried away, and, ae we suppose, her crew In au
ezhawited and smothering condition,
On the Tennessee, Admiral Buchanan is severely
wounded by a splintir in the leg. Two of the oreer
were b Bled and several wounded. On the Gaines
two were killed and two wounded. On the AlorggPi
one was wounded, and on the Selma eight were .
killed, including her executive °Meer, Lieut. T.
Comstock, and seven wounded. The enemy sgf
fared severely, and he requested permission to bury
his dead. G. W. Hanltteow,
Confederate States Navy:
The Examiner also gives ft flat of,the 28 Federal
vessels engaged, having 212 guns, with the four
Confederate ships, with 82 guns, and says it was a
"most unequal contest in which our gallant little
navy was engaiked, and we lost the battle, but our
ensign went down in a blaze of glory."
TRiarEo7/07 ATLANTA—Ova 90806.9 .srassrx9dx
-THE RkIIRL *MIT. •
. . .
Up to Thursday: light nothing ottntued
"occur ed before Atlanta. Major General Bates re
ceived a flesh wound in the leg.
The enemy is massing on our right and is endea
voring to extend his tines in the direction of the
Western ) Ballroad. A few shots were fired at the city
yetaterday.
THE RETREAT OF THE RAIDERS
WINCHESTER occuprED wr OUR TROOPS THE
REBELS EXPECT= TO MAKE A STAND AT STRAS
BORG—HATTLE MOMENTARILY =PETTED. -
WINCHESTER, Va.,Adguet /2-10 P. M.—The last
of Early'a rebel forces left here yesterday morning
about 10 o'clock. His train was over three miles
long. Our cavalry charged into the town yesterday
as' the rebel rear guard went out. Early estab
lished his headquarters last night at Newtown.
Yesterday morning there was heavy skirmish
ing between our forces and a portion of. the
rebels on the Milford and Front Royal roads,
at .a point about two miles from this place. We
drove the rebels. Early is Well protecting his froat
..and rear, and making_ up the valley as fast as he
can go. I cannot learn that he expects to, be re
" inforeed. His train Is very heavily loaded. Early
will Make EL stand at Strasburg, if he must ; but he
is trying hard to reach a point where the valley is
narr4iler. Everything is very quiet here to-day.
There are no rebel forces between here and Mar.
tiniburg and Hagerstown.
,g,netlatir despatch from Washington, dated Sate:-
day,eays : The forces of . General Shot - Wan are en
route ter 'Early'a position, and a battle may be ex
peeled at , any moment . It is understood that the
6th Corps moved yesterday. Early's forces are sup
posed to be above Winchester, with his cavalry
pickets extended as far as Charlestown. The rebels
are in good position, and may make a stand. Our
troops march in light order, but carry supplies in
wagcins sufficient for a long campaign. Advices
froin the army Of General Sheridan represent that
no pains will be spared to make this a decisive Cam
paign. It is evidently the intention of the Union
...commander to drive the rebels entirely out of the
valley.
LEE: - VISITS ATLANTA—CONTINIJED =TREAT OF
SALT—OUR FORCES REPORTED IN POSSESSION S
OF WINCHESTER.
Raw 'lonic; August 14.—Advices from Martins
burg. dated the (11th give reports that Lee and the
rebel Secretary of War recently visited Atlanta,
and , that . Beanregard, left in' conmamd.of a small
force 'of rebels, today • entered Martinsburg and
• drove out our scouts, refugees, and citizens, and took
off all merchandise and Niters. The rebel rekt•
meats are becoming .so: - small-that a- large number
.harie been consolidated. .
IlberHerald's Cnmberland (Md.) correspondent of
the, 13th, says the rebels have.alLiert that' section
except McNell's robbers. It is ascertained • that
Mel auelland intended to burn ()timberland, and de-.
stroy - the railroad its entire length, to the Ohio
river,' and thence turn into the Kentuok - y valley,,
but his defeat by Reny prevented it. The Herald's *
Harrisburg correspondence of the 11th says one of
our columns encountered a" body of rebels:Moving .
from Martinsburg, and a brisk fight ensued, and thal '
rebels were whipped. A doubtful report says we
have a force south of the rebels. - -
The Herald's Harper's Ferry correspondent the
DM' says General Sheridan adVanoed byway of
Charkstown and. Berryville to. Winchester.' Our
'cavalry had some skirmishing _with' the enemy at
various points between Berryville and Winchester.
They came upon a party of some fifty rebels engaged
in threshing grain, and surprised and captured the
whole squad. Early was completely surprised by
the approach of our army, and made but slight re
slams.' He found hisposition flanked by Sheri
' dan's manoeuvres , and fell back during' the night,
having attempted an artillery duel in the afternoon.
Our latest inforination is to the effect that Gen.
Sheridan passed through .Winchester, yesterday
morning. No details of our losses have been re
ceived. Some fifteen or twenty men were killed
and wounded ; they ale in the hospital at Berry
ville. Gen. Weber sent a postage of fifteen men
over the Shenandoah a few days since ' to take pos
session of a quantity of smuggled goods. They se
cured thegoods, and on their return, were attacked
by Bity of aloseby's men, whom they repulsed and
brought off most of the goods. A supply. train was
attacked last night by guerillas, and a portion of It.
captured, robbed and released. The eapterS: were
afterwards captured by our , men, and the sutle r's money found on them. Gen. Duffle's command has
gone.out to hunt up:the'maraudera.
• ' '
•. THE :11.8111M - BEFORE PETERSBURG:
rETERESTINO FROM RICHMOND—ACCOUNTS OF
'nxemeinze AND DESEHMIES,
WASHINGTON, Ao4llBt refugees and
twerity.one deserters from the rebel army arrived
here to-day from City Point; The former left Hick
mend by stealth, on Thursday night, and name into
ourlinee. They tell a long story, representing tb at
four trains of twenty oars each arrived,. in Rieh
mond, bringing a body of troops from Peteisburg,
said; to -be kdivision, and they left immediately on
the Central road, - to reinforce Early in the valley.
A large body of cavalry arrived the same day, core
lag by railroad, and departed for the same destina
tion.
One of this party worked - on Belle Island, and
state.sthat when he left there were bat five Federal
prisoners, the others having all been sent south to
Georgia. There are but few Federal prisoners in
Libby ; in fact, none but the sick and wounded are
kept over a few days after their reception. At the
time the Danville Railroad was cub our prisoners
were made to walk on foot some seventy miles be
fore they took the railroad. These men heard the
guards say, when they returned, that many gave
Out and died on the road. There are no troops In or
about Richmond except in the fortifications, those
on the south side being fully garrisoned, while those
on the north have barely enough men in them to
keep things in order.
The deserters from the army have belonged to dif
forent regiments, and have left their lines at differ
ent i times, so late as Monday night last. Most of
thorn are from Florida, Alabama, and Georgia regi
ments, and have not generally served over one
year; but that year has been enough. . Those 'from
the States named above say that theta te a sort of hem'
mutiny among the troops of those States,who are siok
of thi war, and anxious to give in. The officers, how
ever, manage to keep them from deserting by making
them believe that If they come over to our lines
Genital Grant will put them in the front ranks.
They state. that for a long time some of U113911:4-
lieved this nonsense, and were deterred from ooming
over ; and they are satisfied that if the men in the
Alabama, Georgia, and Florida regiments knew
that they would be treated well the desertions would
be extensive. Most of these deserters have been
stationed at the front, and cannot, they say, form
any correct estimate of the strength of the Confede•
erate force at Petersburg, but none of them believe
their entire army exceeds 50,000 men ; and brigades
and divisions are being sent away once or twloe a
week to other points. Conscripts are constantly be
ing reported, however, and their army may be for
some time kept up by theseaccessions.
THE CADS& Or TRIO EX-PLOSION' AT CITY DOIHT.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OH TH3 POTOMAC, Au
gust 11.--The cause of the explosion at City Point
has not yet been ascertained, and probably never
will be, as the only persons who could give any ac
count of the matter were those on the boat at the
Wise, end not one of them is believed to have es
caped.
There were five or six soldiers on guard on the ves
sel, and they, with a number of idlers, were occu
pied in fishing at the time, and none of them have
since been found. Of the large crowds of negro la
borers at work on the boat there were about twenty
five dead found, and allowing for those blown over
board and missing, there were at least fifty killed.
The number injured is believed to be about one
hundred, many of whom are scattered in different
places, and whose names cannot be ascertained.
One man, who had been kept a prisoner at head
quarters for six or seven months, and who had been
tried and convicted for some offence, but had not
been sent off to the Dry Tortugas, as ordered, had
been released, and his time being up, was on his
way home.
Be was visiting a companion on the boat at the
time, and must have been blown into the river, as
Lie body was found on the shore, three miles below
City Point, yesterday afternoon. A number of
bustanees of hairbreadth escapes are related, many
of which seem almost miraculous; and when the
scene la visited, and the large quantity of debris
which covered the ground In that vicinity to wit-
DeFEed, ft h surprising that thousands, Inst.:Jai:lof
hundreds, were not Involved in the calamity.
, A. soldier of the 4th United States Regulars was a
sentry on the boat at the time, and some of his oom-
rades, seeing the air filled with missiles, told him to
run and hide ; but he refused to leave ids post, and
fortunately escaped injury. This man had been tried
four years ago for an offence, and condemned to for
feit all pay, except one dollar a month, during the
remainder of his term of service.
A few days ago he received intelligence, through
the Adjutant General's office, that the fine had been
zemitted for gallant services in frost of the enemy.
This act of bravery in remaining at his post, re-
gardless of danger, ahosys how well he deserved
consideration at the hands of the Government
large force of laborers are at work clearing
away the rubbish at the landing. It is said that
several barrels bf human remains were found seat-
tered throughout the mese, none of which could be
I. identified, they being merely fragments.
LATER YEWS.
AIIOI7BT 12-6 A. M.—The firing between the
pickets yesterday and last night was much sharper
than for several days past, and until daylight this
morning a regular duel has been going on in front
of the 18th and 9th Corps.
CONTINUED ARRIVALS Or DESERTERS.
NEW YORK, Angustl4.—The Herald's Olty Point
correspondence of the 12th says rebel deserters and
refugees continue to - come within our lines in large
numbers, and report that Early has been largely
reinforced. Quiet reconnoissances are going for.
*ward to learn the strength of the enemy on our left,
and a week may not pass away without some coun
ter moveme34, on our part.
THZ SOLDIERS 001ITRIBITTING TO THE CHAIDDIRS-
BURG SIIPPRBERS—MAROH toP REBEL TROOPS TO
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
WASHINGTON, August 14.—A letter from the
.Ainty of the Potomac, dated August lath, says the
Pennsylvania soldleis in General Crawford's Wig-
sion of the 6th Corps, in response to a circular is•
stied by Win, have contributed over $l,OOO In aid of
the Mmbersbleg sufferers. No doubt other cola-
mands will Imitate the example.
General Orawfoisd has withdrawn all the guards
heretofore detailed from his division to protect faml•
lies from the annoyances of stragglers ; In King
George county. •
A deserter from the Bth Alabama Regiment, who
formerly lived in Massachusetts, and was conscripted
into the rebel army came, Into our lines yesterday.
Re says that Kershaw's division, of Loogstreet's
corps, passed through Richmond on Its way towards
the valley, accompanied by a large aotrannition
train, and that he heard a prominent 'offices say
that Gen. Lee had also gone in that direction. He
also reports that the enemy are mining on our
fleet, twenty men being detailed at a time to the
work. Heavy tiring wee heard In the direction of
Gen. Butler's department this morning.
THE PRIVATEER TALLAHASSEE.
anarver, Os TB CREW OP A: vassal. Bormiasar
THE TALLAHASSEE
FORT HAMILTON, August 3.3.—The Steam tag
Stephen E. Babcock, Captain Edward Bony, has
Just passed here, with three of the passengers of the
schooner Carrie Estelle, of Boston, which was
burned at , sea by the Tallahassee, and live of the
crew of the bark Bay State, also burned. They
were taken from the schooner Carroll; in the lower
bay. They report having been captured on the
inst., In latitude 30 degrees 19 minutes, longitude 72.
'degreee 27 . minutes. The schooner (Jarrell is nil*
• coming up the lower ban.
DitSCIIIPTION OF TEM PEIVATitH.R.
The priveteef TallitimiesPe la an Iron, 11tetimer,,
peihted Wllie, with tieli shihkeEtiC4o % iWo .eorowei
about two hundred and thirty feet In length, twenty
feet beam, and draws about nine feet of water. Her
marked "Tallahassee, of London, 1855;'
e n gine marked "J. &W. Dudgeon, London: , She
is fore and sit aohooner rigged ; mounts three gnus,
one moll one on. the topgallant forecastle, a long
thirty-two-pounder amidships, and a twen4-foru.
poun
der aft She carries four waist boats. Her
crew consists of about one hundred and twenty per
the officers. Men of all nation
as onnt Inln
s " are represented on board, most of whom
are
said l to be soldiers from Lee's army. Sheds
said to have run out of Wilmington about six days ago,
without having been seen by any of Admiral Lee's
blockaders. She has quite a quantity of cotton on
board, to protect her boiled?, and there are four bar
rels of turpentine on - deek, to be used in firing yes
self." She is;commanded by John Taylor Wood, 0
S. N ; The surgeon, ghetto . pirdson, says he was one
of the Chesapeake pirates. A Mr. Heins the board
ing officer. Tile crew are dressed in rags and tatters.
Some of them wear their pistols tied to them with
Manilla rope yarns. They are a hard-looking set.
The chief engineer says he is a Boston 'Sian, or that
~he was born end brought up in that city.
NEW Yong, August 13.—The captain of the Behr.
Carroll, which vessel Ras hoarded by the pirate Ta
llahassee, states that the pirate who boarded him re
ported having burned several vessels prior to those
reported yesterday.
A. bark . from Bremen reports that at noon of the
12th Inst., in lat. 40 degrees 21 minutes, long. 72 de
grees 30 minutes, she saw two reseals burned to the
water's edge. One was a ship and the other a large
vessel. A pilot boat was alongside stripping the
vessels and picking up floating articles.
PROVIDBIPC . N4II: L, August 13,--.Ctptain. Taylor,
of the schooner A. X. Lee, which arrived at this
port this afternoon, from Philadelphia, makes the ,
following report :
On ; Friday morning my vessel was chased and
nearly overtaken by the pilot.boat James Funk,
which Was recently captured by the Confederate
cruiser Tallahassee. When sin miles westward of
Shlneraok Point, Long Island, the pilot-boat tack
ed, and stood for a bark which hove in sight. Capt.
St. Clair, of the British bark Colonel James Scott,
reports that the Tallahassee has a tender, a Nova
Scotian bark, which is two-thirds loaded with coal
MORE ABOUT THE TALLALHASSBIL.
NEW Your, August U.—Louis Samson, pilot, re.
ports, that on the llth Usk, twenty.five miles off
Eiontiuk Point, saw a hermaphrodite brig, bottom
up, no doubt the Citrrie Estelle. Capt. Bardera, of
the Hambarg"bark ErriKtin the 12th inst., otr Mon,
tank, saw three burning vessels. At the same time
the pirate Tallahassee name close aboard, with the
Union ensign flying. After passing, she hoisted the
Oonfedirate flag. A man was seen to jump over
board from the Tallahassee, but was picked up by
one of her boats, and wits taken aboard again. On
the same day saw the schooner Sirens and a pilot
boat, name and number unknown, both burned.
Captain Swartz, of the Dutch bark Cheribon, re
ports that on the 12th inst., in, lat. 49.25, ion. 72.34,
saw a large ship on ohm.
The pilot boat Ezra 'Nye has arrived, arid reports
that on the 12th inst., off Montauk, saw the pilot
boat James Funk leave a ship on fire, and after-
wards a suspicious steamer took the pilot boat in
tow. The Nye stood off, but afterwards went to the
burning ship and found her to be the Adriatic, from
London for New York. Two foreign barks were
close by, to whom it was supposed the passengers
bad been transferred.
The Tallahassee was afterwards seen near a large
gap.
SHIP ADRIA= 1 3 111MU1 .. 7A ZARS BONDED Port.
NEW Yoak, August 14.—The boatman of the
Associated Press landed at Sandy Hook on Sunday,
and furnishes the following report:
I have boarded the baik Suliote, of Belfast,
Wattle, from Cow Bay for/ New York. She was cap
tured on the 12th off. mental* Point, thirty-five
nt
mites:dista, by pirate Tallahas The
bonded the bark for the
$50,000: and put see.
on board three
hundred passengers from the ship Adriatic, the lat
ter having been burned - by the pirate. No water or
provisions were given them., The Sullote also has
on board Mr. Calahan and crew of the pilot-boat
William Bell, No. 24, which vessel was burned on
the 12th, off Montauk Point, by the pirates.
Several other persons from destroyed vessels are
also op boat() the Sulfote. The &dilate reports see
ing a vessel burning on the night of the 12th. The
pirate stated to some of the captured persons that
he was coming into New York harbor. When last
seen the Tallahassee was steering southeast. The
pilot, boat James Funk is her tender. The Sullote
passed the frigate Susquehanna Saturday morning,
lying still, south oh Sandy Hook. The Sullote has
no provisions or water on board.
THE WOES OP THE 'MATE TALLAHASSEE—GHEE
MAINMAST cenurno AWAY BY ONE OP HER
PRIZES.
/41Z1V YORK, August 14.—The bark Sullote has
arrived with the captain, crew, and passengers of
the ship Adriatic, and the crew of the pilot-boat Wm.
' Bell, both of which vessels were sunk by the pirate
TallahaSsee. The passengers lost all their baggage,
and the large number -of persons placed on the
Snlioto sunk her so much that her deck was on a
level with the water. Had a storm arisen all would
no doubt have been Josh The Adriatic had 188
passengers and a full cargo of merchandise, mostly
on British account. In rounding to, after her cap
ture, the Adriatic collided with the pirate, carrying
away the Tallahassee's mainmast; and had there •
been a good wind at the time, would undoubtedly
have sunk her. On the 18th (Saturday) Oapt.
Moore, of the Adriatic, boarded the frigate Susque
hanna, off Fire Island, and gave all the information
relative to the pirate.
The Adriatic was owned by E. E. Morgan and
Captain Moore, of New York. She was a first-ohm
ship of about 1,000 tons barthen. The pilot, boat
Win. Bell was captured on the 11th (Thursday),
ninety miles southeast of Sandy Hook,after a chase
of hilfan hour sildTlettkeitred'atethree.times. , - The
pilots state that the Tallahassee is a very fast ves
sel. Ail the passengers express the greatest thanks
to Captain Parro, of 'the bark Salo* for kindness
shown to them.
A double-ender gunboat was seen cruising off
Fire Island on the Vithinebann.
-.KENTUCKY. '
A REBEL CONSCRIPTION.
LOrtnsvnx.s, August 12.—The rebel Col. Adams
Johnson has issued a proclamation requiring ail
persons In the rebel Department of Southern Ken
tucky, between the ages of eighteen and forty-fire,
not lawfully exempted, to report for Confederate
service to their county towns, or the nearest camp •
thereto, by the 26th Inst., threatening with con
scription afterwards all who do not comply. All IS
quiet at Brandenburg.
FORTRESS MONROE.
DEATHS OP PENNSYLVANIANS IN HAMPTON HOS-
FORTRESS MownoE, August 12.—The following
Is a list of deaths of Pennsylvania soldiers at the
- Hampton Hospital since the last report :
Edwin Pfluger, 2d Penna. Artillery; Jerome
Leonard, 55th Penna. Infantry ; R. L. Tome!,
2d Penna. Artillery; (leo. D. Mott, 55th Penna.
Infantry ; Thos. Ware, civilian, Penna. ; M.
Amich, 56th Pennerlnfantry ; F. O. H.-Benjamin,
97th Penna.
The hospital steamer Monitor has arrived from
the Point of• Rooks, on the Appomattox river.
Thirty patients will leave the Hampton Hospital
today to Join their reginients at Old Point, on their
way home, their time of enlistment having expired.
The English frigate Challenger arrived here at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
Anticipated Rebel Raid from Canada.
Naw Yoaw, August 14 —Governor Seymour hav
ing been informed that refugees, deserters, and
other evil disposed persona in Canada have gath%
ered in considerable numbers, and in anticipation of
danger of their making a raid upon this State, he
has placed the northern boundary of the State under
the charge of 'Brigadier General Green, who has as
sumed command and is making military details to
patrol the border in order to prevent any invasion
of the State.
Au Arrival from Aspinwall.
New Yonw, Augt . tst 14.—The steamer Northern
Light, from Aspinwall on the 6th, has arrived with
$OOO,OOO in treasure.
The Herald's Panama correepondent of the 6th
gives the latest intelligence from the south coast.
Peru derives no comfort from the European news.
• It is considered in Lima as a foregone conclusion
that Spain Intends to hold •on to what she has
seized, approve of Pinson , a conduct, and carry the
matter to extremea. With this idea they consider
war certain, and are making preparations accord
ingly.
From the other Republics the news is unimportant.
The ti. S. steamer Wateree had arrived at Castro
Port, on the Island Chiles.
Great Distribution of Prize• Money.
BOsvorr„ August 18.-Bince the 28th of June, in
clusive, the fol,lowlnx decrees of distribution have
been made in prizo.casies by the District Court of this
city :
Steamer Mary Aim, captured by steamer Grand
Gulf, $112,368.32.
Steamer Stetta, captured by steamer Connecticut,
$78,450.be.
Schooner Alliance, captured by steamer South
Carolina and schooner T. A. Wird, $23,281.74.
Steamer Greyhound, captured by steamer Con
necticut, 16484,892.61.
Steamer Young Republic, captured by steamer
Grand Gulf, $4.11,519.79.
Total, $1,105,550.36. Thhs Is the greatest distribu
tion ever orderedTn this country.
An Editor Arrested in Maine.
BELFAST, Me., August 13.—W. A. Simpson,
editor of the Republican Journat,•has been arrested
in this city, and carried before the United States
District Court at Bangor, to answer an indictment'
for giving aid and 'comfort to the rebellion by pub
lishing an.article on the draft.
He pleaded not guilty, and through his counsel,
W. H. McCrillls, demanded an immediate trial.
This was resisted by the United States Attorney,
upon whose motion the matter was continued, and
7dr.. Simpson , s personal reoognitance taken for his
appearance at the neat term of the court.
Great Ftre in Matanzas.
NEW YORK, August 14.—lievana advices of the
iOth state that a fire In Matanzas destroyed *Spring
er2e large cooperage.
The heat was excessive at Havana.
The yellow fever ie decreasing but the typhoid is
increasing.
Fire hi Coxiselele.
ALBANY, August 14. —About lo o'clook on Satur
day evening a fire broke out in Coxsackie, Greene
county, New York, destroying three stOnthinums
filled with hay, and a portion of Mygott's lumber
yard. The hay was fully insured.
At noon to-day another tire destroyed a barn,
wagon hciuse, blacksmith shop, and two dwalli.ngs.
Both area were caused' by inoendiarieEt, and a
man has been arrested on suspiolon. The }mss IS not
known.
• Fire at Irstoy, N. Y.
TROY, N. Y., August oar. and coach fad.
tory of Gilbert, Rush, a Co., of thfr; city, was de.
strayed by, fire this morning. The lots amounted to
31100,000, on 'allioll . there is an inssizariee of $lOO,OOO.
Explosion of ft 11 6hoomotive.
POUGB ;UMPIRE, At%lig! locionottve
"Duchess;" attached to. she Hudson River Rait
road,..blew, up at Rhinetrack on Saturday morning.
The eipioeton ar, canwild by,the watchnlazi haling
tica,blover on. r NOb0(1Y- wee 'hurt.
Naval Engages/sent la Irirgl.7 lll s.
RArmiatons, August 13.--While the llnitald States
steamer Reliance, of the revenue service, iY.sfitsill
Thomas K. Dungan, was in Great Wiomico Fiver.
Northumberland 'county, yesterday afternoon, for
the purpose of taking off the family of &refugee, IWO
were represented as being . there in 9i starring con
dition, oneof her boats was attacked by a laige party
of guerillas on shore, armed with rifles. The Reli
ance opened on them with shell and small arms, in
the hope of driving them from the woods. After a
few rounds,.the gallant Captain Dungan fell, mor
tally wounded, and died in an hour. The captain of
the pivot gun, Thomas Roberts, was also severely
wounded. Firing was kept up until the rebels were
silenced, but not having sufficient force to land, the
Reliance was compelled to turn down the river, with
the loss'of her boays crew, Coxswain G. W. Ayers,
and four colored men. The body of Captain Dungan
arrived here tod`ay.
humored Raid on Pensacola.
The Mobile Evening News has reliable information
of the advance of a Yankee force from Pensacola
up and along the line of the railroad. They have
advanced as far as Genesi* twelve miles from
Pensacola. The force is said to be supported by ar
tillery. The number of the'enemy not ascertained;
supposed to be a raid.
The steamer Louisiana ran the blockade lately,
at Galveston, and brought in a hundred thousand
pounds of powder, besides much and many other
articles that were needed.
The Victim of a Substitute Broker.
The Petersburg correspondent of the New York
World thus speaks of a young victim to a substitute
broker :
it. class of unfortunate beings one meets with
here occasionally is comprised of those who have
been deceived and victimized by substitute bro.
kers. One of these excited a good deal of sym
pathy here a few days ago, and I think his
case deserves mention, in order that the unprin
cipled scoundrel Who enlisted him may bedisoovered
and published. His name is Charles R. J. Jack
son, and be is only about fifteen years of age. Hav
sr recently arrived from England, he fell , Into the
bands of one of these sharpens, in your city, whofirst
induced him to contract a debt of a few dollars, then
persuaded him to enlist, and finally gave hint fifty
five dollars of the bounty money, less the amount of The
debt! To render the lad better satisfied with. his
situation, the broker told him to take his citizen
clothes /Long with him, and, after getting here, he
would find no difficulty in escaping; he could - again
come to New York and repeat the operation. The
lad was taken very sick shortly after his arrival,
and narrowly escaped death, from cholera =rims.
Official action will, no doubt, be had in the ease,
and the cormorant who robbed this poor boy will, ft
is hoped, be properly punished for his detestable
conduct. •
The Guerilla War in Missouri.
Though the St. Joseph (Mo.) Eferold assured us
that the guerilla war In Missouri was over; the fol
lowing clipping from the St. Louis Republigan does
not seem to corroborate the asiertion:
Recent information leads to the belief that gue
rillas and bushwhackers are rampant in the counties
of Johnson. Pettis, Saline, Cooper, Lafautte, 4c.
Indeed, sufficient has appeared in oar damnscopied from the country press, to show that ma
rauders are infesting all the counties of central Mis
souri to an alarming extent. Still, we believe the
counties mentioned above are more absolutely
under the control of those outlaws than any
others. As partial evidence of this, application was
made to the County Court to-day, by the clerks of
the Circuit Courts of Cooper and Pettis counties,
for room in the St. Louis Mutt House in which to
store the books, papers, and records of those coon.
ties for safe keeping until amore settled state of
society shall obtain there. Mr. Justinian Williams,
clerk of the Cooper Circuit Court, and Mr.
Samuel A. Lowe, clerk of the Pettis Circuit
Court, accompanied by. Joseph L. Stephens,
BM., of Boonville, made formal application as -
above stated. Judge Tausig suggested to the gen
tlemen that he supposed the favor asked was
merely one of courtesy, and that the officers of St.
Louie county could not be held responsible for the
safety of these records. Mr. Stephens replied that
they would so consider it, and not demur to any de
mand of compensation that might be asked; for
their records had been so wholly at the mercy of the
bushwhackers, and threats of such a positive nature
had been made against the county Beats of the coun•
ties named, that any place in the St. Louig Court
House would be Considered safe.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly Renominated
for Congress.
The Union Congressional Convention of the
Second district of Minnesota have renominated Mr.
Donnelly by acclamation, in the following enthtuii
antic resolution :
Resolved, That we have watched with admiration
the bold, manly, and patriotic course of Hon. Igna
tius Donnelly in Congress; that we recognize in
him a faithful public servant, ever alive to the true
interests of his constituents, and of the nation ; and
that we now renominate him by acclamation for the
position he so worthily . . •
Mr. Donnelly made an eloquent speech, accepting
the nomination, in which he said, referring to the
•
present aspect of politics :
"What we , need is moderation towards one an
other, and a subordinating of minor questions to
the few great issues on which hang our existence as
a people. Save the nation, and all degrees of ma
terial prosperity, all forms of moral and social
development, all imaginable political theories, are
possible under it ; lose the nation, and one universal
ruin swallows everything. Let us, thsn, cling with
an invincible hold to the one great central fact—the
nation—all things else are but inotdents. If my
neighbor is ready to pour out his life's blood upon
the altar of sacrifice, shall I hesitate to hold in
abeyance for a time my opinion? Until this war
is over, then let us consider every man who is sin
cerely In earnest in his wish to save the nation
and crush the rebellion, as our friend and brother,
whether he has reached his conclusions from the
starting-point of Wendell Phillips or Benjamin
Butler.
have claimed that we need one other thlnsr—
resolution. We do. It has been said that'with
God one resolute man is a majority.' What shall
stand In the way of the resolute majority of a
nation, armed in behalf of God and humanityt
Hell has not In all Ito legions power enough to stop
Its onward march'. That grim, concentrated 11Mo:-
soldier, Grant, understood what resolution meant,"
when he proposed to , t3ght it out on that line If it '
took all summer.' The rebels understood IL One of
their leaders, Robert Toombs, has said, - 'ln - the
last analysis, liberty is but the blood of the brave. ,
Splendid thought I National and individual pros
perity—national and. -individual happiness—do in.
_deedrest at last con the - bbiod of the brave"--.upon
the detertnination of . a, free people, in the hour of
direst extremity, to carry their point, though it
should leave every material interest in shreds and
tatters, and crush out every other object held dear
by the masses of mankind."
The. compliment paid to Mr. Donnelly by his
unanimous renomination is one seldom paid to our
public men. Re has achieved in a short time a
sterling reputation among the best class of Repre
sentatives in Congress, and the certain prospect of
his re•eleotion will give much gratification to his
friends in Philadelphia, of which he was for some
years a noted citizen,
THE STATE.
Tyne ToITRNAMENT AT Tall SPRINGS.—The Bed
ford Patriot says : "A tournament was held at the
Springs on Monday last. There were, we under
stand, five Knights in the lists, only two of them
loyal men, and excitement ran high, the majority
at the Springs being Southern sympathizers, but
Mr. George Lyon, a native of the little village' of
Bedford, but now of New York c ity,-won the prize,
and in the evening crowned Miss Hollis Warford,
Of Harrisburg, Queen of Love and Beauty, and she
presided as such throughout the evening. There
was considerable betting , on the result, but the 'Yan
kee,' as the Secesh called,hies, took oti the prize -and
Secesh felt mortified and chagrined. We congiatit
late our old townsman on his victory over the Se.
cesh. Mr. Lyon was the same gentleman who
gained the victory last year, and Miss Watford the
seine lady who was also crowned Queen of Love and
Beauty then."
• CEIrLD ABDUcTED.—On Thursday evening a little
boy, aged about three years, son of Mr. Chas. Smith,
a resident of Monongahela borough, was abducted,
while he was playing on the sidewalk near his pa
rents' residence. A middle•aged man was observed
taking the Child up in his arms, and, on being ques
tioned by a boy as to what he intended to do with it,
he stated that It was his own boy, and he was taking
bins hone. The toll-keeper on the south aide of the
Monongahela bridge observed the man crossing
over to this city, having the child in his arms. The
'father of the child was informed of the occurrence,
and immediately conveyed the intelligence to the
Mayor's office. A vigorous search was then institu
ted, but no traces of the child or the abductor have
been discovered. The cause of this fiendish act is a
mystery to the parents.--Pittsharg Dispatch.
FERE AT FABIBTON, CoMITY.— On
Wednesday ni that. a tire broke out In Fallaton,
which at one threatened to destroy the whole
town. A keg factory, a four-story cotton factory, a
saw -mill, a furniture store, and many private
dwellings, were destroyed, en t ailing loss of over
00,000. There Was not a single dollar of Insurance
upon anrof the property destroyed. The cotton
factory was stored with patterns to the value of
$1.0,000, all of which were destroyed. The bridge
across the river was at one time In Imminent dan
ger ,of. being destroyed by the fire, and Wag only
saved by a large brick building which Intervened
between the devouring element and the mouth of
the bridge.
THZ 111AZZOTH Vane COAL Co. We learn that
those who have this concern In charge are squan
dering their money in prospecting for coal quite
profusely. The best of the Joke is that the title to
the lands on which they hold the lease Is in dispute,
and as soon as the colliery is opened and they
are ready to furnish the stockholderii with
" two heavy tons of coal" per' annum, at cost, for
each share of stook at ten - dollars, (which they may
be ready to do in about two years hence,)'th 'claim
ants of the land will step in and claim paeeeesion..
We observe that they have opened an office in
Reading for receiving stock to this concern: We
congratulate our Reading Mends at the prospect
(which they will find distant) of their receiving two
heavy tensor coal at cost, for their subscriptions.—
Pottsville Miners' Journal.
• STRIKE OF SEWING WOREIL—ThO sewing women
of this city, employed 'watering up soldiers' uni
forms, are asking an advance of pay, and should re.
calve it. They held a meeting in front of the Union
League headquarters on Tuesday evening last to
further their object, and met again on Wednesday
evening to organize an association for mutual pros..
tection. The Berks. county Zeitung states that this
sub. contractors of this city, for army clothing, have
been paying only fifty cents each for cavalry jackets;
thirteen cenbtifor infantry blouse coats, linedtwenty
cents for cavalry pants ; sixty cents. for infantry
dress coats ; fifty cents for infantry overcoats; five
to air cents for pair of drawers, &c.,.&0. Some of
the contractors, however, say that , they pay more
than this—Reading Jourrial, 13a.
A VISION—TER REBRL Army ref TER Skala.—
A number of the good people of Plum Creek and at
Emrich's tavern have been startled:by a vision of a
most marvellous character. The story is that on
Monday morning last the skies exhibited a scene
which appeared - like a large army moving in' a
northeasterly direction. Meninmniforms, with-gnus
kets and ' O knapsacks Could co u ld:nct also
men on horseback. fficers be distinguished
from privates. Strange to say., SOILS of the good folks
np Shamokin creek, MX miles from the other parties,
also saw the Same marvellona exhibition about the
same time, and others west of the Susquehanna
were equally fortunate. Some of these protege to
have seen the rebel flag, oh a dark flag, while others
of the fortunate spectators, out the turnpike, think
the uniform of the soldiers.was of a blueish color. We
have heard the names of morethan a dozen persons
who profess to have witnessed this apparition, all of
them respectable individnals.—Sunbury American.
ATTEMI7 TO ROB ON A RAILROAD TR.AIR.—A.
bold attempt weramade, a few nights since, to rob
the baggage car of , the mail train going West °tithe
Pennsylvania Railroad. When the train had reached
Pennstadt the engineer sounded the alasm, having
apparently descried seam object on the track. Soon
arter the train was stopped, when a man was seen
to spring from bellied an embankment and' jurep
through the door of the baggage car Awing
the briggsge-ntaater to vacate - the premises. Th.e
conductor was informed of what had taken place,
acd a posse Immediately started for the car in which
the would-Me robber was supposed to be engaged,
but had not reached It till the bell-rope:was palled
by the daring outlaw, and the speed of- the train
admintshed so as to allow of his escape, which, he
accomplished by inr i qkfrom the train. AR Span
as the train was - a vigortmur search made for the robber, he, couldzot be fo wee
und,
owing to the darkness. .
" Pinmointworr."'•=sorne time ago
there waa an agitation in the lower part of the oily,
caused by the birth of a child, which uttared the
word "war," and .then died. The. same, circle in:
which this mysterious stranger made such a sonsa
tion is now agitated by another phenomenon. A.
day or two ago; an infant came into the world in •
South Troy, which' had dogs' paws instmad of
Hererow
ere fan tiloloo for 10081 gOalap.
RARRIBIOIRPO O August 15,11,;L 4
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o'clock.
Lairawni presented a peN;t 10 11 from
of Jefferson county, praling for illus repeal of t> .
general bounty law.
On motion, adjonnsed to Meet on Mom lay eveni a . 2
ail 8% o'clock.
( - Special Correspondence of The Fiera., I
NEW YORK, August iS (i ii
ANOTHER DES7RIICTIVE pram
Yesterday, a day which was intrinsically lauo;~
being devoid or breeze or Hey Motion of in0r,,,,4
matter self-inspired, was rendered somewhat scoot
tional by the occurrence of a lire singularly a,
atructive, considering the hoar at which it er, z .
menced its ravages. Picturesque, too, teem hivin,
an eye studious of sudden and peculiar ellectS ;
scan
apprehension of effects be allowable in the ;au, Q ,
public and private, disaster.
At half-past nine A. M. the conflagration eyal,
* nienced in a frame building occupied as a rarrres
ter•shop, which was soon wrapped In flame; ,
-was in Doyer street. Doyer street, as you sh3e roe .
rie,
it from Chatham Square. Is a sort of " Tsar
alone" alleyway, crooked sharply in an elb
all
fenced in with rookeries , and tenement-house:l, and
frrpn,
Which the sanitary nose upwardly recoils. Here
after the fashion of the London; but no other eartal;
poor, live the poor of New York.
• now rr srnitsz.
The flames did not slacken for want of m aterial,The dry roofs and sides of the houses, aryl the drier
dormer windows seemed to attract them In a E e , and,
Suddenly crystallizing, as it were, on the n it
fa t es, they pierced Inwards, and as the heat IncTs,,,see
darted across the narrow street and in at the win.
dows. So continuing, they burned through I,b )
Mott street. I connted'five buildings flaming skeal.
taneonuily upon this street.
A ONITERAL HEGIRA.
had commenced almost as soon as the flames shot
across Doyer street. The tenement houses were alive
with occupants, oldand yonng, who had been stirred
out from dark, cobwebby apartments by the sow
of alarm. As usual, they hurriedly tossed the lean
valuable of their goods from theavindows, and then
crowded down the otairways and into the street. On
ittett street bedding came out in a shower, folio Wed
now and then by bundles of rage laiLdLelOthing.
THE SCENE
presented,when the Ere was at its height, WeSeenstt.
tional to the last degree. Loafing down Dom
street, the eye met only the intolerable glare that
rose es from a furnace, and the flames hedged In by
toppling walls. Mott street was almost wrapped ill
a twilight. * The steam engines puffed out volume!
of inky smoke which, undisturbed by any breeze,
hung in drifts oveabead, and, still higher, the flames
curving over from. the upper whiaows, gave the ap•
pearanoe of flamboyant cornices. And, under all
thiedreary drift of smoke, amidst all this crashing
of engine arms and, pulling of the steamers, the
homeless women and children Went nervously to
and fro, Chasing perhaps some phantom, intangible
fireman, or more unreal saint, who was to save a
few more of the raga and tatters or greasy furniture
from the flames. Upwards of sixty-four families
were left bOuseleas and homeless. They saved no.
thing, or a little equivalent to nothing.
THE LOSSES,
as far ail yet &CA:et/iced, are is the neighborhood of
fifty thousand dollars. Seven buildings were totally
-destroyed, and half ascore damaged to a greater or
less extent; some being merely scorched, others
losing roofs or even:upper stories. A church stand
ing' on Mott street caught fire from the heat and
cinders, but was damaged' only to an inconsiderable
degree, Use firemen having directed their streams
upon it whenever fresh danger was apprehended.
A HALF-WAY EXPERTZEICNT
Brooklyn does not seem to fareMittch better in the
matter of negro recruiting than halt New York, al-
though the former is trying the experiment, and the
"policy and humanity" of the latter allow not ercn
the attempt. Brooklyn sent its agents South, and
ofiered $lOO per recruit, whereas other cities are
paying $2OO to $3OO. Oonsequently, the solemn city
is gaining nothing but the privilege of paying ex
penses and receiving letters of a depressing length
and character horn its agents.
SHAISBEI OROWII.IQ TBOITBLESOMit.
Our harbor is becoming a haunt for sharks. These
omnivorous wretches Paddle boldly along the Long
Island shores, and even in their incomparable im
pudence lie alongside of row-boats waiting for bites.
In one instance a couple of amateur fishermen,
Observing the contiguity of a shark, chopped its
head with a hatchet. Rendered furious by pain,
the fish seized upon the boat, biting a hole in he
bow. The gentlemen were Mined to row it ashore,
stern foiemosL The shark was washed up on the
succeeding morning dead. Quite frequently small
specimens have been caught from the docks, esp.-
dally' in the neighborhood of the markets. On
Ftiday a lad, while bathing, was attacked by one
and severely gnawed before he was rescued.
PIRATICAL DOINGS
We have bad a new pkatical sensation, and ship
pers are looking about tHem with saucer-eyed amiss.
went, and not a little wrathful indignation. One of
our pilot boats has been captured within sixty miles
of Sandy Hook, despite the awful presence of the
State National Guard in the harbor fortifications,
and a pair of brisk little revenue cutters at the Hook
Should this pirate, which Is described as a small
Steamer, attempt to run the gauntlet of the forts
• with their hundreds of enormous guns and their gar
xisone of stalwart and btiteherly veterans, it may
And that it has at .last aroused the sleeping lion.
The impious foe would fare badly t
Is to be fitted with Erleseon's caloric engines, much
to the disgust of all disbelievers in the hot-air
theory. The crroadoms have found herein a sugges
tion for the most depressing prophecies. There see ms,
indeed, to be a peculiar feeling against all Ericssoni
an ideas at present. A good portion of the press is
engaged in showing moat sagely and*owlishly how
great has been the failure of the monitors ; mean
while the quiet Swede site in his unostentatious
orrice on the west side, amid his plans and problems,
now and then replying to some newspaper criticism,
but generally giving them no attention. It Is inti
mated that those having the matter in charge were
not at all desirous of giving publicity to the fact of
the caloric instead of the steam engine being em
ployed on the - Dictator until its utility had been
practically proved.
The examining surgeons at headquarters have
adopted a system of "marking" all rejected spoil
cants between the shoulders, so that the same men
may not be "gotten up" and palmed off upon them
through a dexterous concealment of their defect.
The thing is so quietly done that the men are not
awareof being stamped.
Among the passengers arrived at this port on
board the New Orleans steamer "Evening Steil
are Mrs. Major Gen. N. P..Banke r her daughters
and son.
There is a rumor prevalent to the effect that Mar
alai Murray will soon assume the Collectorship of
the Port, in the place of H e ir. Barney. It is probably
without foundation.
A new feature in the publishing business is to be
submitted to the public, viz., the printing of a book
upon yellow paper.
[By Telegraph.]
Alta:aver. OY TERI NORTHMAN LIGHT.
The steamship Northern Light, from Aspinwall
on the sth inst., arrived at this port on the lath.
Among her passengers is mr: Salgar, minister hem
the United States of Colombia to Washington.
ARRIVAL OP TNN TT. S. watowrs SAN JACINTO.
The United States frigate San Jacinto arrived at
this port today, from Key West. Admiral Bailey
is a passenger!
Public Arneassemenska
At Chestnut-street Theatre, the splendid sped".
Ole of "Aladdin" continn OS to draw crowded house.
A great deal of money has been expended upon it,
and surely thalami and heroine; Miss Germon and
Miss Elizabeth Price, deserve all - the applause they
obtain. "Aladdin" will. be played every evening
this Week.
Firs. Garreteon announces the reepening.of Wal
nut-street Theatre. The house, which was hand
somely remodeled last year, is• again to be rede
corated, and 150 orchestral seats will be added. The
season will commence. on next Saturday evening,
when "The Naiad Queen> , (as greats novelty ae
"Aladdin," at the other house), will be prodticed,
with new scenery and original effects. With a good
company, which the fair lessee never•has had:here,
this theatre would always-be:popular. We notice a,
rise in the prices—viz: dress circle and parquet 50
center; orchestral chairs $l, and seeured seats to
dress circle 75 cents. It 11 understood that there
will be.at all the theatres in. the United States an
advance lathe salaries of•perFormera,
Mrs. John Drew has not yet announced on.what
day she will reopen• the new Arch-street Theatre.
Her very great success, last season, shows-what a
good stock company, under liberal • and splrittxl
management, can do. Several acceptable additions
have been made, we-- hear,, to the excellent trotspe
that performed here last season, so much to the
public's gratification and Mrs. Drew's advantage.
MADAME Postai, known as-by far the beat stock
actress upon tha- American - stage, having or.
tallied a reputation as such at the New York thea
tres, and partionlarly daring ; tweseasorms , peeler
inance as leading tragedienne in Mr. Forreet's own
company, is. about trying her• fez-tune as "a
star," and few ladies on the-stage are better Pia
lifled to win success. Her versatility is very greet,
but in deep tragedy and high comedy she kW
very few equals. anywhere. Of course, to th l3
city, where she made many. friends wills playing to
Mr. IVheatleyqs star company at tie. Chestnut-street
Theatre, she will not neglect te.pey a pro f ess io n al
visit as soon ae izer other engagements allow.
Cosiourvr AT OARS Met.—A concert at the
sea side Is always a sensation and when it reach success. never fails to. rem idea bustle and anxiety
which It °meadow. 11 really brilliant and first
claw concert-Ls net often Tomei:Leafed to actiourmas
at the sea shore. Smile a one occurred at
Cape May on Friday night, and, the matr.gra
of It and participants could not have MIA"'
for greeted' mums. It came eIL In the. WO
dlninglall of the Ogambla Rouse. Mr, £ g'
Taylor was the condtiotar. It la to him tivs,locarderz
at the Island are indebted for the most weeptabls
entertainment of the season. • Mr. 11. G. Thunder
presided at the piano, with his usual grace " d
ability. The singing was all that could hare basil
wished for. 44 Lisa Caroline MisCantref sang se
ever-popular loaned of "Kathleen, Mavourr.chn.
and her rendition created s furore that could
net be satiated With an encore. We were plicii eg.
larly pleased with the
.patriotta taste this ihee°
lady displayed in an audience aomposea, as It ghe e '
rally Is atwatering••Rlasee, of Smalls rit 65 ,19 .Pat ither' '
by hinging "God Save Columbia," The effect 'me
thrilling, and the oomplinientary applause she re.
.ceived was well. - deaerved. Madame Behrens she:
the " Bolero" from the Siolll2ll Vespers, and as 0
" c i t. heienadai "Sehlaufe Woht." hie A.
B. Taylor's rendition of " Brightest Eyes" Ic e !
ti k t: ' 6,13,0 4 hiNgeciated. The other artists sustains'
their parte win" Credit and acceptability. Such On
carts as this do more, we think. to give real °Pin"
went at the sea.alde than any other contrivsni s
-that en lie mentioned, „ eight to be repeated. .
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