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'THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1864.
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FORNEY'S WAR PRESS,
DOB TEM WEEK ENDING SATURDAY,' NOT. 19, 1884.
I. POETRY. -" The Soul's Parting." by Wild Rd
garton—" The Old Comedian," from the German of
Anastasio Griim—" Soldiers of Freedom," by Colonel
Wm• F Erman.
IL "THE BOY THAT WOULDN'T GROW."—An
Original Novelette, by George SteYne. Part 3.
111. EDITORIAL& —Onr Friends in the oatiVASll—
,Geueral Grant on the Election—New York — Georgia.;-
Brazil—The Leeson of the Late Election—The Vote of
Baltimore—The Resignation of McClellan, etc. -
IV. LITTERS OF " OCCASIONAL. "
V. WAR SEWS.—Oar Special CorresporiAonce—lnCi
dents of Grant's Reconnoissance—Advices 'from the
Shenandoah—Guerillas on the Pennsylvania Border—
Official Report of the Capture of Plymouth,
Narrative of an Escaped Union Prisoner—The South-
west.
VI. REBEL NEWS —Message. of Jefferson Devitt—
Editorials from late Richmond papers.
VII. GENERAL NEWS —Description of Wilming
ton, N. C.—Speeches of Secretary Seward. Edward
Everett, and Charles Sumner—Foreign Miscellany—Ex
"lesion of the Gunboat Tulip on the Potomac
VIII. CITY IRTELLIGENC,E.—FataI Calamity on
the River Delaware—The Cathedral of SS. Peter. and
Paul— Myeterions Disappearance, &c.
IX. THE ELECTION. —The Latest Returns.
X. CHESS DEPARTMENT.—EditoriaI—Is the First
Move an Advantage?n--Problem—Chess in Philadelphia,
England, and Germany. .
XI. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Sr- Specimens of the " Was Faxes" will be for
warded when requested. The subscription rate for sin
gle copies le 44 per year. & deduction from these terms
will be allowed when clubs are formed. Single copies,
Put up in wrappers, ready for mailing, may be obtained
at the counter . Pr ice Ave ceuts,
General Butler's . Terms.
General BUTLER'S speech in New York
contains an admirable 'passage, which his
enemies should read. Instead of regarding
the Blueheard image which they have set
- up for themselves in anxiety to give this
maligned general all the form and aspect of
what Southern ladies call "a brute," Gem
BUT in's Richmond admirers will find in
this speech - a reartest of his character. In
the moment of highest victory he presents
- the.largest olive branch, but while he offers
it generous friendship he is
. nok less a de
termined enemy :
"In view of the unanimity of the American peo
-ple—in view of the strength, the majesty, the might
of the nation—might it not be suggested that now
is a good time once again to hold out to the deluded
people of the South the olive branch Of peace, and
say to them 'Come back, come back now; this is the
last time of asking; come back, and leave off the
feeding on husks and come with us to. feed upon the
fat of the land, and bygones shall be bygones—if by.
gones are bygones our country shall live in peace
hereafter.'
61 There might have been some complaint, I think,
among a proud and chivalrous people, - that they
would not desert their leaders in answer to the ,
amnesty proclamation of President Lincoln; but
now, as we come to them and say, Come back,
and ycu shall find taw laws the same, save and ex
cept as 0:ley are. altered by the legislative wisdom
of the land,' are we not in a condition, not taking
counsel of our fears or weaknesses, but from our
Strength and magnanimity, again to make the offer,
and the last time to call on them, and then shal l
we not have exhausted all the resources of states.
manship in the effort to restore peace to the coun
try 1. And who shall hinder this ? And if they do
not come back, who shall complain ?
16 I ask not for the rebel to come back alter he has
fought as long as be can and then chooses to come
back, but state some time—perhaps the Bth of
January, 1865, for the association will be as good as
any—and when that timer shall have come, every
man who shall scout the proffered amnesty of a
great and powerful nation, speaking in love, in
kindness, in charity, in hope of peace and quet for
ever, then I say to him who then soonts the proffered
love and kindness, 6 let us meet him with sharp,
quick, decisive war, which shall bring the matter to
an end and to the extinguishment of such men
wherever they may be."'
These personal terms of Gen. BUTLER
seem more than fair to all, except the
rebel organ in New York.. This journal,
.
not to be appeased till we admit that re
bellion is not rebellion, thus entraps
:
' , This Is, apparently, a step in the right diree•
tion ; but is it sincere, and is It not too late'? We
fear that it foretells the design of the Administra
tion to offer terms closely approximating the line
of fairness, but just without the limit acceptable to
the South—terms that it is certain will be rejected
by the Confederate authorities, but that will be
considered sufficiently just and equitable by the
North to create .a fresh war Impulse, and at the
same time sufficiently palatable to a minority in
the South to produce division in that quarter."
Upon such an interpretation the News
proceeds to argue untold - horrors for the
South—but this paragraph exposes its
whole animus. Whatever tends most to
disunite the South, and to unite the North,
is what we need most to solve the war and
to restore the Union. In any such mea
sure Union men North and South would
rejoice. But it is plain that the News pre
fers a disunited North and a united South.
THE RE-ELECTION of President LINCOLN
has already had the effect of awakening
the South from its vain dream of a dis
honorable peace, at the expense of the
North, to the pressing
,necessities of its
• own situation. New vigor is required of
JEFFERSON DAVIS ; the Richmond Con
gress is admonished to be busy and pru
dent ; LEE and BEATSREGARD are told to
cast their schemes anew ; STEPHENS,
BROWN, and BOYCE, whose theories of
peace have vanished, are even invited to
resign, and all who are 'now out of the
army are invited to emulate the Roman
and the Spartan by coming forward into
the ranks. The verdict of the loyal people
is justly valued as the endorsement . of
President LINCOLN'S Administration. The
forced charges of cruelty against the North,
the baffled but excited and- earnest tone
of the Richmond journals, sound, in their
own confessions, the rallying cry of despe-
ration.
Porartn, now so effectually down-trod
den, is a spectacle for tears. All its leaders
in the late insurrection have been shot or
hung, and one hundred thousand repre
sentatives of its highest families have been .
exiled to Siberia. Upon what ruins of
nationality are left the Russian military at
Warsaw held a very novel celebration on
the 19th of September, " the anniversary
of the attempt to assassinate M. le Comte
DE BERG, lieutenant of the Kingdom, at
Warsaw." Says the Invalide Busse, " The
Catholic churches, which once minis
tered their holy offices in sympathy
with the Polish patriots, were ordered
to chaunt Te Deum,' in honor
of the happy deliverance of ' the butcher
of Poland,' " and " great; indeed," says a
foreign journal, " would have been thecou
rage, and sudden and crushing the punish
ment of' that priest who had ventured - to
withhold his concurrence from this grand
act of national rejoicing." The aid-de
camp of DE BERG, °Mena SCHWARTZ,
paid his master,an adduss describing the
Polish National Government as a collec
tion of obscure individuals, who had dis
puted the authority of the legal power, and
inundated the country with hundreds of
assassins, who, from the hands of Roman
Catholic priests, " received the conse
oration of their criminal mission, and
served to maintain the population under
the .yoke of a frightful terrorism." The
grim mockery of Gen. DE BERG'S reply ex
ceeded this—he attributed all the success
obtained to the " special favor of Heaven."
On the same day a fund was created for the
benefit of Russian soldiers, titled " Count
De Berg's Pensioners," which Poland will
probably have to support. The whole af
fair was needless and disgusting—only to
be likened to the consecration of murder
over the body of its victim, in presence of
-the family of the murdered man, and
'through the forced offices of his friends.
TITEP.B IS A RUMOR in political quarters
that, after having felt the pulse of slavery
upon the day of election, Democratic
leaders are satisfied that nothing can
now be done for it except to place it for.
ever out of the way. The new - programme
of the Democracy will; therefore, be to
propose the abolition of slavery, thus anti
cipating the party of the Union, and meet
ing at once the expressed wish of the
,people. We hope that this rumor is not too
gcgd to be true. We ardently hope that
every_accommodation will .be made in the
next congress' for this proof of national
unanimity and Democratic patriotism.
Even at this eleventh hour, all will be glad
Ago hill an act so consummate and sensible.
Let Democrats, then, have th e lion's share
4 - wf glory in the practical aboli tion.of slavery
by law, and let the people:refnibe and ap
plaud.
Commercial Troubles in England.
The commercial crisis in England can
not be said to - .have ended. Four joint-
Vock banks have succumbed, and their
creditors may .be accounted fortunate if
they: ever receive two cents on the dollar
out of the Wreck. As for the poor share
holders, their doom will be far worse. Most
of them, tempted by the promise and pros
. eCt.4hea,vy dividends,
hoping to receive
ten inSkad of the usual three per cent.
Which they would 'obtain if they invested
in Consols, #entured all their money in
these miserable cOncerris, and have not only
lost it all r bnt - are Bible, as partners, to be
mailed upon ;for the remainder of their
properti, personal or real; to liquidate.the
liabilities -of he banks. The custom was
to give large discounts to houses which
really had as little capital as credit. It has
tieen ascertained that 'at one of the York
'shire banks a firm used to presenthills for
discount, drawn by themselves on persons.
in London, who were paid half a crown
for each acceptance. One house, being
frugally inclined, like John Gilpin's wife,
resolved to effect a saving by dispensing
with these half-crown disbursements, and
boldly - - drew on imaginary persons, put- '
Ling their acceptances in different hand
writing. In one case $400,000 was thus
obtained, none of which the creditors of the
bank will ever recover.
When commercial and monetary matters
are quiet and sound in England, money
can readily be obtained, in London and
other large places of business, for 5 per
cent., on _bills of not very long date. On
the' 29th October, the rate of interest fixed
by the Bank of England, on unexceptiona
ble, paper, and not too much of it from any
one firm, was 9 per cent. The usual-dis
counters have fixed their rates, for first
class acceptances, at 9 per cent.„for thirty
days' or sixty days' bills ; 91 for three
months' ; 911 for four months', and 10 per
cent: for six months' bills. These are the
• rates of OVEREND, GURNEY, CO., CO., of
_Lombard street, who have abundance of
..money in hand ; but discounters with
smaller means, who have to deal with . an
inferior quality of commercial,," paper,"
•may ask; with the mertsinty: of* often ob
taining, considerably-more than-the above
rates.' It has 'to be borne that,.as
there is no Usnry law in England, - money ,
i 8 that:itrested like any other commodity,
whiCh the possessor may legally sell for the
bighestAprice that his customer's require:
invent will' pay. A statute .passed ,in the
TOO of QUeen ANNE 1101iied the interest
of money in England to s'per cent: Thirty
years ago,: bills having more .than three.
months• to run were exempted from the*
operation of the usury laws, and, ten
years ago . t a final.: Act of Parlianient
pealed all laws then. in farce. relating.to
usury. Ina commercial. crisis, ,therefore,
when money :must be .Obtainedto
bankruptcy, the ,disconnters . may get what
they can --.-hut, as a general rule, the more
the gain the; more the _risk. - man, in
despair, May pay live hrmdred. ler thirty
days' use *of ten thousand pounds but•if
his calculations are not realized, insolvency
follows and the money-lenderliill-sufß3r,
probably to' the - extentof: his. • whole ad
It was in favor of British traders that,
at the latest advices, large amounts of
capital were available for discount pur
poses, that there was literally no demand
on the Bank of England for gold for ex
port purposes, and that the demand for fo
reign securities had become very limited.
The failures, numerous and for unusually
large amounts, were chiefly limited to .
London, Liverpool, and Manchester. They
may be traced back to reckless specula
tions—many of them to ill-advised and il
legal attempts to make rapid fortunes by
blockade-running, which has not been for
tunate, of late, thanks to the vigilance of
the United States war-steamers.
Consul Bunch, late of Charleston.
England remunerates her civil officers
in a princely manner, and continues them
in her employment with the variation
only of promotion and augmented salary.
Moreover, she sticks by them:—through
good report l and through evil report—pto
vided that they can plausibly plead zeal .
for the excuse of their ill-doing. 'When
Mr. CRAMPTON was sent back to England,
for his complicity in recruiting in this
country for the British army during the
Crimean War, he was received with open
arms b'y the Palmerston Ministry of that
day, was immediately created a Civil
Knight of the Bath, and was sent as
Ambassador to Hanover, until the oppor
-tunity arose, or was made soon after, of
promoting him to St. Petersburgh. This
was to (British) precedent ; for,.
in 1848, when the. Spanish Government
sent Mr. HENRY BULWER back to his
nativeland for having performed the un
ambassadorial act of joining in a political
intrigue which was to place new men at
the helm in Spain, Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
who was Premier at the time, promoted
him to the embassy at Washington, and
soon after obtained Queen VICTORIA'S
sanction to his.
.obtaining the title and
rank of K. C. B. Let any British official
succeed in persuading John Bull that he
has become the victim of extra zeal, and
his-promotion is assured.
A circumstance which illustrates this
proposition has just occurred, and is worthy
of notice here, because something done by.
our Government lies at the bottom of it.
As we have said, England is liberal in
the
_remuneration of her civil functionaries;
her naval and military pay is absurdly and
.unjustly small, on: the other hand. A pnisne
judge receives a higher salary than the Pre
sident of the United States, and the salary
of the British Consul in Philadelphia,
where there is very little to do, is as much
as $4,000. In Cuba, where, it beingik s ldy a
Spanish dependency, Great Britain does
not send any Superior diplomatic agent,
she places a Consul-General, who acts — , in
many instances; with the authority of.
Chargé d' Affaires. His compensation is
estimated at some $12,000 per annum. The
office was vacated, not long ago, by the.
death Of Mr. CRAWFORD, a Scottish gentle :
man, whose brother, also recently deceased,
was President of the St. Andrew's Society
in Philadelphia for some years.' .
It fell to Lord RUSSELL, as Foreign Mi
nister, to appoint some suitable person to
this vacant consulship-general at the Hi-,
vane. Complaints had reached the Foreign
Office in London, commencing soon after
the war began, that Consul-General CRAW
FORD was acting at the Havana in a very
one-sided manner ; in short, "not to put
too fine a fine point on it," that he showed
remarkable, and, in his situation, unwar
rantable sympathy with secession pri
vateers and British blockade-runners. It
is notorious that such complaints, supported
by sufficient evidence, were made to Lord
RUSSELL, but it is not known what action,
if any, he was pleased to take thereon.
When the vacancy arose, by Mr. CRAW
FORD'S death, there was a splendid oppor
tunity of atoning for the past, by appoint
ing some gentleman whose antecedents
were clear and unimpeachcd.
Ear . l RUSSELL, ignoring this opportuni
ty, has appointed Mr. ROBERT BUNCH, ex
consul to Charleston, to be Consul-General
in Cuba. He is precisely the person whom
JEFFERSON DAVIS would: desire to see in
that office, for he is notoriously the friend,
if not the ally, of " the so-called Southern
Confederation." •
When the war broke out, in the spring of
1861, this Mr. ROBERT Brawn was British
Consul at Charleston. In November, 1861,
the Federal Government had to complain
to the British Government that this Mr:
BUNCIt had communicated to . the Confede
rate Government, under instructions from
home, the desire of the British Cabinet thtit.
the second, third, and fourth articles of the
declaration' of Paris should be observed by
the said Confederate States_in the prosecu
tion of the hostilities in which they were
engaged. Our Government- maintained
that this communi catio'n, was
_a •wanton . vio•
lation, by the said Btaipt: 0. an United
States statute, which forbade, under a
heavy penalty, any person,...lghether citizen
or denizen, privileged or cOliTifilgge4 s ifrotn
.counselling or advising, aidinggr assisting
in any political correspondence with the
Goyernme ntofan y foreirStatewhateve ,
withanite:tohfluenithemeasuresf
anyforeiu9overimenorofanyofier
oragente:f,lnrelatotoanydisputs
,or controversies with the United States, or
.
'to defeat the measures of their. Government.
In reality, ihe• - person accused was Earl
RUSSELLi who has a most unhappy faculty
of meddling where it would better become
hirn-tO remain quiet, and who had instruct
ed Mr. BDECR. The reply of his Lord-
Op to, our Government was a quibble,
viz : That as we had adinitted that the
Government at Richmond was, as regarded
the United 'States, " the Government of a
foreign State," then Mr. LINCOLN had no
competence, one way or the other, with
respect to, the Consuls that England might
send to such foreign - State, and the execfmic
turs of such Consuls could be granted or
withdrawn only by the-Government of such
foreign State. ,
Mr. ADAMS. gave a searching reply to
this and other wretched quibbling on the
same side, but the matter died away,. and,
iu 186?, when we :were about making an
attack on Charleston; the British war
steamer Cadmus entered that port and bore
Mr. BUNCH off, JEFFERSON DAVIS sending •
him away bec4use Lord RUSSELL would not
hob-nob with Kr. Mom He has been un
der full pay, everilnee, and has now been
taken from obscurity to occupy a position
in which, more than in any other, he will
have the opportunity, as he certainly has
the will, to annoy the United States, and
aid the Rebel Government. Mr. Burma
emphatically is Lord RUSSELL'S own em
ploye now, as he was his scape-goat and
protege at Charleston, and when the noble
lord's boasted neutrality demonstrates it
self in such a practical manner as this, it
cannot be rated as of much value.. Con
sidering.the Charleston antecedents of Mr.
Burro; it seems something like bravado
Or insult to commission him now as Con
sul,General- in Cuba. Of course, we can
take no.action in the matter—but it consti
tutes. another- item in our little account
with" the old " country."
Tnn FLORIDA .AFFAIR has . .exelted* a host
Of officious comments from the anti-North
ern journals in England, and even'Brttis4
interference is invoked in lielialf pf out- .
raged neutrality. We qudte agree with the
telegram:Which gives us the opinion of a
friendly
. jeurnal,* the London Star. fhe
coMplication IS entirely one between Bra
zil and , the :United States ; "it is, not a
7question which. England can touch, even
with-the longest possible diplomatic pole "
'ETTER FROM "OCCASION&L."
• WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 1864.
The prospect was never more auspicious
than it is' now. The army and the navy
were never in finer condition. Sherman's
last Anovement, not yet revealed ; Sheri
dan's position, and Grant's hold upon
Richmond, are not less cheering than the'
preparations for new naval demonstrations.
The re-election of Mr. Lincoln has added
vitality and vigor to all our war measures,
and it has incalculably weakened and dis
heartened the rebels themselves. I spent
last evening with that ripe statesman and
scholar, just returned from Europe, Robert
J. Walker ; and . I wish the words he
spoke could have been heard by every
loyal man and woman in the land. It is
his firm conviction that Mr. Lincoln's
re-election has broken, not the heart, only,
but the back of the rebellion. Had it gone
against us, had General McClellan been
chosen, he had not a shadow of doubt that
Louis Napoleon would have recognized the
so-called Confederacy, on the ground that
the people of the North had declared that
the revolted South could not be conquered,
and that peace on the basis of separation
was necessary and just. And England
would have followed, as usual. Now,
I' happen to know that these sugges
tions, and others equally pertinent, have
gone to_ the hearts of the people of
the South, and have, carried gloom
and' grief into the centre of the con
spirators themselves. Ai, however they
may have yielded up the hope of foreign
. interference in their behalf, they cherished
the expectation that General- .McCiel
lan's election would necessitate some
such proceeding, at least so far as
France was concerned. That prop, the
last, is now taken from under them..
Where do they stand to-day ? I mean
the leaders. Discordant. or despond
ent, their-situation is a wonderful contrast
with the resolute and 'healthy unanimity
of the leaders of the loyal States. The
seeds of the doctrines that impelled them
to rebel are producing a natural harvest
of dissension and despair. And, if this is
so with them, what must it be with their
starving and oppressed people ? What must
it be with the rebel army and the rebel navy?
I do not rejoice over the sufferings of
these my, countrymen. But I hail the
prospect of a speedy peace, on the most
generous terms, as the more certain
and close at hand, because those
who are to be most beuefitted by
it feel its necessity in tb.4ir own, pri
vations. If they are ready to return
-to the old hearthstone, a warm welcome
and a noble forgiveness await them.. I
believe with brave and bold Ben BUt
ler, in New York, on Monday evening,
this should be our offer and our ultimatum.
He thought that our Government might
now proffer the olive-branch to the rebels,
tendering them liberal and even generous
terms of adjustment in case of their return
to the Union, and giving them a reason
able time—say till the Bth of January
next—to signify their acquiescence ; if
they held out, then he would favor a most
energetic and unsparing prosecution of the
war, to the end that the obstinately dis
loyal should be driven to Mexico or else
where— at all events, out of the country—
and their estates divided among the Union
soldiers who had contributed to their over
, -throw. OCCASIONAL.
A City Articie—Tokens of Civilization.
! The stirring events of the day seem almost to for-
I bid the consideration of local interests, but the
•
, same feeling which prompts us to make the most of
I our coutitry'S honor and prosperity may lead us to
Seek the improvement and comfort of our own city
—the best in the world. It is .well known that no
' American city compares with ours as a residence
for people who want to enjoy themselves and take
life easily and pleasantly. Our markets, water,
I•gaii, and the general cleanliness and comfort of the
Ipeople, are subjects of daily observations by strati.
.gers and foreigners ; and now there are hundreds
of families .seeking lodgings here for the winter
months, with a view to health or pleasure—more
. than can find accommodations. But our municipal
regulations and customs are by no means perfect.
In some respects they are very defective, and the
recent ordinance of Councils, to which reference
was made in these columns a day or two since, is
intended to remedy some of the defects.
Without taking up the provisions of that ordi,
nance in detail, we will advert to a few things that
betoken barbarity, and which, whether forbidden
by existing laws or not, are discreditable to our ci
vilization.
1. The vast throng that moves back and forth in
our streets during three.fourths of the twenty-four
hours is composed chiefly of pedestrians. The por
tion of territory set apart for the public travel is so
divided as to give a clear passage for all beasts of
burden and vehicles of every kind. The width of
this is fixed by law. The raised passage-ways on
either side are supposed to be protected by the
curbstone from the quadrupeds and bipeds of the
middle thoroughfare, and to have a, smooth, even,
unobstructed "pace (the width of which is also fixed
by law) for their own exclusive use.
Along these passageways or promenades stand the
dwellings, shops, &C., in which people live or trans
act business, or both. So much of the space so
apart for pedestrians as is needful for convenient
ingress and egress is reserved for the use of the te
nants of these buildings, the extent to which their
steps shall extend being also fixed by law.. The
public therefore have as clear a, right to the
unobstructed use of these footways as any house
holder has to his door-yard or garden. They are not
to be used for any private purpose whatever, except
by the express authority of the Municipal Govern
ment. No part of the public highway can be law
fully used for individual benefit. Hence, whe,
• 'onildirg 8 are to be erected a permit is requisite
fore the' materials can be allowed to be depos
near the site, and all gutters, drains, and .siti
ways crossing these walks are regulated by auth•-
. rity. It is the duty of every citizen to beep the
. pavement or sidewalk bordering on his own pre
Inlets in good repair. Holes and uneven places,
'Where water May stand, should be filled without
" lelay.
.In many parts of the city, and in some
much-frequented streets, these foot-baths, as they
may be l ts:tiled, occur at every ferirods. ":.,,,• -
The clearing of snow and slush fronathe sidewalk,'
I: universal, would be . a.olear token of civilization.
Put we often see Wiping, •day after day, on the
,Avements, betore itch men's premises too, to the
.rear annoyance of those who, but for such 000 -
• •tonal patobee of snow and Me, would have a dry
' vath• New York and Boston both far traumata
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1864:
US in this particular.. Sarno peeing who 000npy .
corner houses will remove the snow from their front,
while the side - 18 Untouched, though quite as mach
used. But the most serious , and intolerable' oh-.
emotions are those v which provision stores, groce 4 . B ,
liquor dealers, &O.; are accustomed to place on the
sidewalks. Sometimes the'citizen must be content
with a path of two or three feet on a ten-foot-wide
.pavemer.t, the rest of the space being occupied
.by
baskets, casks, boxes, &c. If two are walking
abreast they must take Indian file to get along.-
Ladies must beware of nails, the -ends of barrel
hoops, the greasy hubs ofpush-oarts, and the oozing
heads of sugar and molasses hogsheads. Within"
eight.and.torty hours we have counted one hundred ,
and thirty.one separate articles of this sort our.
rounding one grocer's premises, (not very spacious,
premises either,) - to say nothing of wheelbarrows,
coal boxes, and skids which were mingled among
them.
At the corner, of Twelfth and Myrtle, or Twelfth
and Poplar, or Thirteenth.and Locust, striking in- . ;
amplea of this trespass may ordinarily be seen. We.:
presume every foot of the sidewalk thus ocatipledit i ,
public property as well as Washington Square, or
the floor of the State House, and that any citizen.'
has as good a right to fasten and feed,his horse in•
the vestibule of the Continental as Mr. Smith and
Mr. Jones have to pile their lumber, their empty
casks, their foundry moulds, or their produce upon
any portion of tho sidewalk.
The little regard that is paid to the comfort or
safety of pedestrians in the turnouts of rails across
the pavements into coal yards, freight lumen,
la noticeable. Theta is a law directing in what way
these crossings shall 'be paved, to make them safe
and convenient fOr persons who pass over them on
foot, and it is difficult to see why this right should
not be a source of revenue. It Is a privilege which
accrues to industrial benefit and incommodes the
public. Why not pay the public for it I
The washing of vehicles, grooming horses, and
dumping coal or wood upon the sidewalk, are nal
sances of frequent occurrence, and tokens of bar
barism.
The passage of open slop-carts along the princi
pal streets, at all times of the day, and of soap -fat
harrows, and four-wheeled push-carts (four feet
wide), to say nothing of ordinary barrows and
babies , carts, which are often trundled furiously
along, without regard to door-steps, tree-boxes, or
shins, may also be named as grave blots on our
civilization. Playing ball or_enow-balling on the
sidewalk is a serlois nuisance: Such an occupation
of it is the more Inexcusable, - aa no necessity can
be pleaded in its behalf.
It is useless to mention smoking in the streets as an
offence, for it hiss taken too great a hold to be dis
turbed ; yet it cannot be regarded in any other light.•
The sweet, fresh air is a common blessing. We may,
as justifiably poison the water as the air. What
gives a man a right to step between me atur
draugh
it
t w of h f o r u es t h ev a e lf : ' and till it with. tobacco and
smoke,
saying
"By your leave, sir, or
madam," it would be difficult to show. He comes
out of his own house, where he is master (but for some
unruly tongue or broomstick), into the street, where
be has only a restricted right in common with all
other citizens, and begins to puff. his smoke into the
faces of those who fall in his wake. If one could
have a hand in choosing the brand of the cigars and
smoking material, t)ie annoyance would be less in
tolerable. But it is idle to cavil at this, for it has
become so universal that if cigars were a dollar.
apiece, and a police officer were stationed at every
corner to enforce a law prohibiting smoking in the
streets, it would only end in giving ue two pss in
stead of one. It is not a little singular, how7ver,
that the practice should be forbidden in public
squares, where people need not go unless they
choose, while it is tolerated in the public streets,
where people must go, whether they choose or not.
If a standard were demanded for the style in
which pavements and awnings, in a city like this,
shall be kept, we might point to several sections of
streets, but to no entire street, and scarcely to an
entire square. There is no good reason why every
rod of our sidewalks should not be as faultless as
that in front of Watson's coach factory in Twelfth
street, and within pistol.shot of one of the
.corners
we have named above as particularly faulty. -
We pay enough for our municipal privileges to be
entitled to the best, and if our Oity Fathers have Wit
enough to see What Is wanting in this way Or lei !
provement, may we not hope they have authority,
courage, and public spirit enough to bring' it. to,
pass'? Who wants a dog that can show his Pleth,.
but can't bite I
GENERAL CANBY NOT FATALLY WOUNDBD.
We have printed a telegram stating that Maj. Gen.
Canby was fatally wounded while sailing down the
Mississippi. A private letter, however, from a re
liable source enables us to say that ho is not fatally,
though he is seriously wounded. The shooting took
place.hot
,on the Mississippi, but the White river.
A. few days prior to reoeiving his wound (Nov. 6) he
came to the White river an his journey to Little.
Rock on official business. He was on board the
gunboat Cricket, lying in the river, which is in
some places only one* hundred yards wide. Early
in the morning of the 6th he walked on deck, and
while conversing with a friend he was fired at by
the guerillas on the shore, but twenty-five yards
away. The shot took effect in the loft thigh, pass
ing entirely through. The ball was a large rifled
one, and made an ugly wound. He ii, however,
now doing well, and was at the date of the letter on
his way to New Orleans.
WASHINGTON.
WessugoTow, Noy. 16, 1864.
WHOLESALE NEBEL CONSCRIPTION IN SPOTT
SYLVANIA AND STAFFORD COUNTIES, VIR
011.11 A-CONDITION OF. TILE PEOPLE.
Information . from Spottsylvania and Stafford
counties, Virginia, shows that the rebel conscript
ing officers_ are_ scouring the oountry in.all
tions, and every man under sixty, and 'all boys over
fifteen yews of age, are impressed into the rebel ser
vice. A few days since a party of these rebel officlers
captured five men, and. were conveying them to the
rendezvous, when two of them, taking a favorable
opportunity, drew pistols which they had concealed
On their persons and shot the two leaders of the
other party dead, when the rest took to flight. lilen
are everywhere hiding in the woods and endeavor
ing to escape to our lines. Fredericksburg has be
come's° depopulated that it is estimated that only
one house in ten is occupied, and fuel is so scarce
that the inhabitants are pulling down the vacant
houses and using the material for firewood. The
market price of firewood there is one hundred and
fifty, dollars per cord.
GENERAL POPE'S CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH
WEST-BEDS OF COAL DISCOVERED.
General Pont, in- submitting his °Moist report of
the operations in the Department of the Northwest
for the past year, says, in settling a peace with the
Indians, he intends to do away entirely with trea
ties—a system which is always attended with frauds
upon the Government and the Indians. His plan is
based simply upon the understanding that the In
diana behave themselves and do not molest the
whites, and that the whites shall be made to deal
fairly with the Indians and not• molest them in any
way.
The military authorities undertake to force good
conduct on both sides, and will have the power, it
not interfered with, to do so thoroughly. He says
the Government may safely dismiss all apprehen
sions of Indian wars In the Northwest.
An extensive strata of excellent coal has been
found at Fort Rice, one vein being six feet thick.
This coal field extends towards the southwest, and
it is supposed outcrops on the slopes of the Black
Hills.
The existence of this great coal field, half way
between the great lakes and the Rocky Mountains,
is a fact the value of which Cannot 'well be over,
estimated. Aside from furnishing fuel for the navi
gation of the Upper Missouri river, it is a con
trolling element tithe location of a railroad across
the great plains to the Pacific. . - .
TILE TRIAL OF COL. NORTH
The trial of Colonel Noirrg, lava Colfax, and
IVlAa.vm H. Jorfas, charged with cornplic:ity in the
alleged New York soldiers' voting fraud, has been
postponed until Tuesday week. Judge &Anvil(
and his son, and REUBEN E FENTON, Governor_
elect of New York, wore among those who testified
they had never known anything prejudicial to Col.
NORTH'S character as an officer, or his standing as
a gentleman, until the present charge. Testimony
of a similar character was given concerning Messrs.
JONES and COHEN.
THE COMPANIONS OF THE PIRATE CAPTAIN
MORRIS.
Eleven or twelve of the officers of the pirate ship
Florida have been brought from Point Lookout and
committed to the Old Capitol prison.
A PLASTER'S OPINION OP GENERAL BANKS , '
LABOR SYSTEM.—A Louisiana planter, visiting
New York, who for_ several years before the war
had tried free labor on his plantation, paying his
ncgroes regular wages, and finding the system pro
fitable, writes to the New York Times in defence of
General Banks' frealabor system. He seems to be
a competent judge, and he says :
It is my deliberate. conviction that, considering
the complicated dialculties which are inherent in
the matter, the system of Gen. Banks Is, In Its aim
and details, the wisest and most masterly that could
be devised. Like a statesman he has grasped the
whole subject, and has enlisted in the success of
his system the interests both of the semployed
and employer. How • has his system worked?
Nov,i the immediate and perfect success of any
system which attempts to regulate the habits
of thousands in a moment made free is lm
possible. But it is undeniable that his system
has worked well; that it has practically made
the condition of the negro progressive and
self ameliorating, while it has been profitable to the
planter. In the parishes of Orleans, Point Cow
per, East and West Feliciana, St. James and St.
Bernard, and below the city, the statements of the
planters are, without exception, that notwithstand
ing the army worm and the impressment of the
hands hired under Government auspices in the Go
vernment service, still free labor has been a com
parative success. I was one of the delegation of
Louisiana planters who recently went to Washing
ton to ask the . President that the system of freed la
bor, as . inaugurated by Gen. Banks, in. Louisiana,
might be left without interference. Can men who
have every opportunity for knowing, and every mo
tive for stating correctly what they knowthus ash
for the continuance of a system whichiafter an ex
periment of two years, has not been fou nd to be anc•
ceasfull
Diy recent visit at the North ins • Iteatislieci me
that, for some reason, Gen. Banks haateen most
grossly misrepresented here. The manliness of
taus vilifying a general who, with the proud record
of N. P. Banks, - has been, at the distance of 1,800
miles from the public press, devotedly - risking his
all for his country, I leave others to judge. Bat
on this matter of his freed labor. System I have.
thought it my duty to say thus much. We Lout
stamina's know Gen. Banks. He came to us 'at. ti
time when •we needed not only a general to oom
. aid, but a statesman to govern • after an expe
ence of two years, we have a grow ing confidence
.his sagacity, and we desire no abler or Bette •
• n to protect and guide us.
ExlElll3l37lt POgITTVE SALE OF 3,000 PACKAGE . ,
AND LogsOF BRITISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND
e NERICAN DRY Goose, &0., THIS DAY.—The early
particular attention of dealers is requested to the
valuable and desirable assortMent of British, G-er•
man, Swiss, French, and American dry goods, em•
bracing about 1,000 packages and lots of staple and
t.4nry articles, In linen goods, cottons, woolens,
worsteds, and silks, to be peremptorily sold, 1,
~s .ta lc gue, on four months' credit, and part for cash
octun:enclng this (Thursday) morning at 10 o'clock
•o fie ci Donned tat laterraissioe, b.
J+bn li Myers & Co. ; a UctlericerS, Nos. 2 , 7:. and 231
•
erlitt street.
THE WAR.
THE: .‘ WIENANDOAH VALLEY,
IMPOE7IANT MOVEMENTS OF EARLY
AND SHERIDAN.
(' Precipitate Retreat of Early to Lynchburg,
,SHERIDAN MAKING THE PROPER DIS-
POSITION OF HIS FORCES
HOOD AT FLORENCE, ALABAMA.
Army Quietly
A RARE ACT OF TREACHERY.
A GUNBOAT SOLD TO THE REBELS
BY ITS COMMANDER.
HIS MEN BALK THE TRANSFER.
ADVICES FROM MEXICO, NEW ORLEANS,
AND PETERSBURG
OFFICIAL WAR GAZETTE.
.iitszorrAiaoN or GENERAL MYOLELLAN—SHIILDAN
APPOINTED TO riLr, TUN VAOANOT 000ASIONED
BY ma RESIGNATION.
GRNBRAL ORDERS, NO. 282.
Wen DarawrmitniT, WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 1864.
Ordered by ttie President :
1. Thlit tae resignation of George B. MoUlellan
aii Major General in the United States Army, dated
Nevember 8, and received by the Adjutant General
on the 10th Instiut, be accepted as of the Bth of No
vember.
2. That for personal gallantry, military skill, and
, just confidence in the courage and patriotism of his
troops diiplasedby Philip H. Sheridan on the 19th
of October, at Cedar Run, whereby, under the bless
* of Providence, his routed army was reorganized,
a great national disaster averted, and/a brilliant
:-,ifotitifiiehieved over the robelsfoillie third-- time
yin .:pitched battle within thirty days, Philip H. She-
Vdaft:, 18 appointed Major General In the United,
States Army, to rank as from the Bth day of
November, 1864.
By order of the President of the United States.
E. D. TOWNenzio, Assist. Adjutant Gen.
GENERAL GRANT'S ARMY.
A CUNNING WAY OB 3:FORCING MACK OUR PICKET
lIRADQUAVRTBRS -ARMY Olt VIE POTORAM, Nov.
11.—The - rebels have lately been playing a sharp
game In front of a part of our lines near the Appo-•
matter. At this point there is a small creek In
front of our works, across which they have built a
dam, which has threatened to force back our ploket
line to a dangerous extent.
To counteract this project, General Egan had de--
'lied works which-he superintended. On visiting a
part of the line, on Sunday night, a rebel sharp.
shooter Succeeded, after several attempts, In wound
ing him, the ball entering the right forearm, and
passing diagonally down several Inches and out at
the• wrist. The wound is a very painful one, but
fortunately is -not dangerous. He goes home to
morrow on leave of absence for twenty days, and it
Is hoped howill be able to return to his command
by the time his furlough expires.
Another sharp fight occurred between the pickets
last night about ten o'clock, which lasted abqut an
hour without, it Is believed, any noticeable result.
TUE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
PIEMPITATE RETEBAT OF GENERAL EARLY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Intelligence has- been
received here that Gen. Early.has retreated with
his forces from the Shenandoah Valley, and has
proceeded, by forced marches, to Lynchburg. The
movement of Sheridan's forces cannot be stated at
present.
OCCURRENCES IN THE VALLEY ON MONDAY AND
TUESDAY.
On Monday last another victory was gained by
General Torbert's cavalry near Newtown, but after
seve?al hours' manceuvreing and skirmishing, wit
nessed by General Sheridan and most of his gene
ral officers, the rebel cavalry fell back to and
through Newtown In confusion. During the time
of the engagement Gen. Early was advancing with
his infantry, and had reached Middletown, when he
met his retreating cavalry and halted. *A recon
noissance was made on Monday by our forces as far
as Cedar creek. It was ascertained that Early had
crossed the creek during the night, and was In oc
cupation of Fisher's Hill, from which he must have
began his retreat to Lynchburg, If the above de
spatch Is correct.
OATTUBBB BY NERBITT'Ii CAVALIZY.
During the present campaign In the Shenandoah
Valltry the lot Cavalry Division, commanded by
Gen. Merritt, has captured 14 battle•flags, 29 pieces
of artillery,lB caissons, 100 wagons and ambulances,
and 2,000. prisoners of war, including 122 commis
slimed officers. Since the Ist of May last the -conir
mand has captured 3,000 prikners of war. .
MINERAL RABLY 2 S BLACK FLAG.
. .
WISIIITIOTO24, No v . 16.—Brig. Gen. Tyler has
forwarded to the Adjutant Generals office the black
• inpiptUred from•• General Early's command last
August, near North Mountain; He says "the flag
was in charge of two rebels, and was set up against
a tree while one of them.went in search of water.
C. H. Marsh, a defective, who had been watching
the flag from nightfill, determined to get it if pos
sible: Springing upon the man left alone, he se
cured him, took the flag from the pole, and brought
the flag and his prisoner safely through and within
our lines. ' .
SHERIIT-1100D.
ROOD'S ARMY As , BLORRITOB, ALABAMA.
Crivornme.mr, Nov. l6.—The Gazettes Nashville
despatch says that the rebel army, numbering 30,000
men, Is still concentrated in the vicinity of Florence,
Alabama, one corps being on this side of the river.
The condition of the roads prevents active opera
tions, and the .rebel array remains comparatively
quiet.
• Over two thousand men left Indianapolis yester
day for the front, and five thousand men are stillin
camp.
A despatch says about fifty rebel prisoners, at
paMp Norton, succeeded in scaling the fence on
IVltnday night; and forty of them escaped.
UNION PRISONERS IN• GEORGIA
Nwir YORK, Nov.l6.—A -report says that eight
thousand of our prisoners are at Savannah, and are
rather better treated than at Anaersonyille, and
thats, twenty:five thousand more are at Pdlllen,
Geo4gia;
' THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.
A 80AT4211 SOLD TO THE ,REVELS BY lIBR CON
•; WIDER-RIB 'MEN PREVENT ITS DELIVERY.
()Amu, Nov. 16,. via St. Lonis.—The tin-clad
gunlioat Rattler was recently sold to the rebels by
her commander, at Home Point, below here. My
information is rather indefinite, but it •is said her
commander had so disposed his men on the boat as
to prevent resistance to her delivery. • Small boats
apprOached heron the night she was to be delivered,
but the subordinate officer on board had his sus
picions aroused, and fired his revolver. This
frightened the rebels away, and the affair was sub
sequently investigated, when it was discovered
that the commander of tho gunboat had received
1200,0(0, and other payments were to be made in
cotton.
• The 'corbmancuir was arrested, but escaped, and
dedared he would command a privateer and give
the ',Yankees h—l. The rebels intended to use the
Rattler to capture the gunboat General Bragg.
DESTRUCTION OP A DBY•DOCK.
Oesko, Noir.l6:—The dry dock at this place was
destroyed yesterday by the current forcing it from
its moorings. The loss is ovef $50,000.
NAVAL NEWS.
A 11. S. ENVENOM CUTTER PIRBD ON BY MISTAKE.
PORTLAND, 310., Nov. 18.—The United States
revenue cutter illahoning reports that, when going
intoTast.ine, Me., on Monday, she was fired at•by
a battery two miles distant. One blank cartridge
and two excellent line shots fell short of the cutter.
.She, had her colors flying. It was blowing a gale at
the MILO. The Mahaning left for Seal Harbor.
A. PURSUIT ON THE 00EA.N.
lATJEW YORK, Nov. 16.—A steamer, supposed to be
the Quaker City, was seen at 8 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 12th instant, In latitude 84 degrees 45
minutes, longitude 75 degrees 30 minutes, chasing
another, upon which she was gaining fast.
ARRIVAL OP A •PLRATR AT' REIRMIIDA FOR REP
PAIRS-rBOMB OP . NM carruass.
HALIFAX, N. 6,, Nov. 416.—Bermuda dates to
November Sth bring the iiitelligerioe that.the pirate
Chickamauga arrived at Five:Fathom Hole on the
morning of the 7th for repaiii. She had captured.
'a bark and two schooners, names unknown, besides
those already reported.
BOSTON.
DAitiQUET TO CAPTAIN WINSLOWDISTINOVISHBD
Bosron, Nov. 10.—The banquet given by the mer
chants and shipowners of Boston to Capt. Winslow
and his officers, at the Revere House, last evening,
drew together the principal merchants and distin
guished personages io every walker life. Amongthe
guists were the Hon. Edw. Everett, Admiral String
ham, Colonel -Graham, 01 the Engineer. Corps, the
Postmaster, Collector of the Port, District Attor
ney, Mayor, and a large number of othiirs. ',Three
hundred persons sat down to the table. The Hon.
G. B. Upton presided, and Mr. Everett responded
to the 'sentiment to the President in a warm and
eloquent eulogium. The gallant gueist . of the eve
ning was received with immense applause, and gave
an account of the cruise of the Rearaarge t touching
lightly upon the fight with the .Alabams, and men
tioning its important consequences and thelavora
hie influence upon the American , cause in Europe
that flowed from that engagement. Lieut. Com.
Thornton was received with a like - demonstration of
opUlause. A number of speeches were made, and
letters read from invited guests, among them from
GoVernor Andrew, Secretary Welles, and Hon. R.
;Winthrop. The company separated at 10 o'clock,
with resounding cheers for the Kearsarge, her Officers
and mei.
BOLTED TO LIVERPOOL
ST. Torlbre, N. F:, Nov. lb.—The steamship Ca
naoa, frcm BOBtoll via Halifax for Liverpool, pissed
Cape Race on Sunday.
NKW YORK CITY.
Nv.w Yosic, Nov. 16, 1864
THY GOLD MARKET.
IP. Itl.—Gold opened this morning at 2373. It
has been railing over since. It is now quoted at
234, with active 9ales.
TEM' lIVENIICCVSTOCA lIOARD
10 P. M.— Gold 228 n and after the oall,.2201;
995(; Reading .
7.34 V; Michigan Southern,
72; Cleveland and Pittsburg. 104; Rook Island,
1053‘; New York Central, 122%; Hudson .ItiVer,
120 x; DlinoU Central,s, 126): ; ;; ()nnaboannli, 49 ;
, cttlicssilver, 81i; illeripoaa, 34,X;
MEM]
MEXICO.
rosiTiori OP TEEN LTBERAI, A.RNITHR-WHEICOP THEY
DSRIVIC THILIE CONSOLATION.
WasalNGToff, Nov. 16.—Information received
from official sources shows that JuareF,.the Presi
dent of the Liberal party in Mexico, Drat Ohthus
hue, the capital city of the State of that name,
wbere General Negreti la' in ccit4mand.ef an army.
• -
The Liberals also have one in Oajaca, under
General Diaz, and another In Jaime°, under Gen.
Ortega. They find some comfort in the reported
facts that Maximilian's Government works badly,
and that he is not generally popular, having a ma
jority of the Church. against him, and failing to
receive the fall confidence of the French army.
CANADA..
.THE VERMONT RAIDERS
141owruiren,liNov.16.—After considerable discus
sion, Judge Coursol hail granted the application of
the counsel on behalf of ,the St. Albanis raiders,
and has delayed the case until the 18th proximo to
procure evidence.
Toaorpro, Nov. in.—The Hon. William P. How
land has accepted the office of Postmaster General.
The HOn. George . Brown leaves for England to
day, on business connected with the new Canadian
Confederation.
• . KANSAS.
TR!! THOUSAND UNION MAJORITY.
LHAVENWORTH, KaDllllB, NAV. 16.—Returns from
this State show that Lincoln's majority will be
10,000. Cra*ford for Governor, Clark for Con
gress, and the whole Radical Republican ticket are
elected by from 1,000 _to 5,000 majority. Lane will
have a, majority of two-thirds in the Senate and
House.
Billiard Hatch at Hartford.
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 16.—The first Conneo
tint championship billiard match, resulting from
the tournament last August. was played here last
night.• The former champion, Gresham B. Hubbell,
of Hartford, still retains the golden dna, winning by
thirty points in a game of one thousand. •
The Great Mitttary Mystery.
wTrEirE 413 SHERMAN ceoirmt—Aps TROOPS UNDER
ORDRES FOR. A SIXTY DAYS' OAMPAIGN.
As everything that can throw the least light on_
the great
.problem, " Where is Sherman going 1" is
just now of interest, we quote the following extract
of a letter froman Ohio ()Meer in the Army of the
.
Tennessee, written at .
Atlanta about ten days ago :
At present the 20th Corps, of which our regiment
Is apart, still occupies the city. The balance of the
army is supposed to be somewhere near the Ala
bama lino, and looking after Hood, whose head
quarters are reported to be at Decatur, Alabama.
It is my opinion that General Sherman is now doing
the "letting alone" Put in order that Hood may
get himself where "Jordan is a hard road to travel,"
to igiiinlind himself in Dia ie. We are under orders*
to prepare •for -a sixty-days' campaign, so you see
that does not look much like spending the winter In
Atlanta, as many had hoped to do: -It is not sup
posed that any below a major general knows what
Is to be the programme.; nor do they, but it Is gene
rally conjectured that a large force is soon to
start for Savannah via Augusta and Milledgeville,
General Thomas will have force, with what will
be left him by Sherman, to "do the agreeable" to
Hoed, and but little may be expected to meet our
"On to Savannah," or wherever-itmay.be move
ment. You may expect that "something may turn
up" before this army settles down for the winter.
The people in this region are generally rebellious,
but fortunately there are not many of the fighting
'men left. • Since Hood out Sherman's communica
tions, and stopped the incoming of supplies from our
base, we have done .some pretty heavy foraging.
Four foraging parties have already brought in not
less than twenty-four thousand bushels of corn, with
hogs, chickens,* sweet potatoes, &C., in abundance.
If Hood can afford to meddle with Sherman's rear,
he can attOrd to subsist this army, and I fear the
citizens where our parties have been are not now
luxuriating in the plenty of which the " Confedera
cy " is so boastful. _
THE CHARLESTON THEORY.
[From the Chicago Journal; Nov. 11.
The movement was decided on several weeks ago,
and kept admirably well concealed from the public
and from. gossip. General Sherman knows what
he is about, and has taken his own method of making
it known to the rebels themselves.. Our suffering
boys in blue will be glad to see him at Anderson
villa, which he can reach by sending a column a
little northward of his main line of march across
South Carolina. It will be safe to await the forth
coming rebel howl before seeking to decide post
tivelyat what point Sherman alms; but beyond all
question ho is on his way to the Atlantic coast, and
will exchange signals with Admiral Porter off the
coast in due time. The distance from Atlanta to
Oharleston, as a bird files, is nearly two hundred
and fifty miles, and to Savannah a little over two
hundred miles. Intermediate stations may possibly
be "made" at Augusta and Milledgeville, both im
portant points to the rebels.
STILL ANOTELBR THBORY.
From the Toledo Mule.)
We get no direct official authority for the state.
meat that General Sherman has oat loose from the
North, abandoned Atlanta, and moved South ;
neither do we get any official denial of it. Un
official evidence to that effect is rapidly accumu
lating from many sources, which leave very little
room to doubt its truth. A private letter received
this morning from one in a position to know, as
sures us that this report is true. We are satisfied
that the incredulous will .have but a short time to
wait for Conviction. They may look for proof first
from Richmond, say as soon as the middle of neat
week. • •
The Rebel Raid in Maine.
The Boaton Advertiser corrects some false ac•
counts of the recent raid upon Castine, and gives
the following statement of facts :
"The battery here is one of several similar earth-
Works upon the coast of Maine, erected last year by
the Government, It mounts five guns instead of
two, as your correspondent states, and is manned by
a detachment from one of the companies of. 'coast
guards' raised last winter, whether 'fishermen' or not
I am unable to state; but mostly young men, some
of whom have already served out one period of
enlistment in the army. There is an abundant sup
ply of powder, shot, and shell, and. it would not be
at all necessary for raiders to bring these articles,
Should they 'obtain possession of it, in order to use
the guns. It would not - protect the town against a
land ?. force in the rear, but would be quite an obsta
cle in the,way of any piratical craft that might at
tempt to enter the harborz--the purpose, mainly, for
which it was built The battery and this, village
are situated on one side of apeninsular; the raiders
landed at the 'Back Cove,'so called; on the oppo
site side, crossed the
.intervening height .of 'laud
through some pastures, and thus came down.% the
rear—something. which might have been none on
a similar peninsula, whether situated in- Maine or'
Massachusetts, in a frontier or seaboard State.
Four shots In the corner.of the building occupied
by the sergeant, fired at him as he came out when
awakened by the noise; and two in the flagstaff;
attest that some shooting was done • and these were
not first pointed out by the soldiers, but were found
by Borne of the citizens who were aroused. The cap
of the sentinel was also pierced by a ball. Blood
sprinkled on thestone wall in the rear of the battery
lot, where the giving way of a post supporting rails
on top first attracted the attention of the sentinel,
and also on a stone about two hundred feet further,
gives reason to hope that one of the rascali was
wounded.),
The Determination of the North to Con
Untie the War.
- Lincoln is elected. The great Yankee nation,
numbering twenty millions of souls, or of creatures
who are supposed to have souls; have decreed by
Immense majorities that this war, infernal in its
conception, infernal in its commencement, infernal
in its progress, infernal in its °attention, and in all
its aspects and details, is to be prosecuted on the
same bloody and barbarous plan for four years long
er. That whole people have voted- themselves our
remorseless and determined enemies—have put upon
record their determination to reduce us to the condi
tion of serfs, or to extirpate us entirely. Tb ere is no
middle ground for us to occupy, even if we were so
disposed.fight, be enslaved, or die ; and we
feel no hesitation in deciding what to do. The first
question which now occurs is when will the attack
upon our lines be renewed 1 We have no hesitation
in exprei3sing the belief that it will be done before
this month shall have passed away. As for sup
posing it possible that Grant will throw away all
the fine weather yet to come this autumn, that is
folly. He will fight again as soon as he shall have
received' reinforcements sufficiently numerous,
as
he conceives, to accomplish his purpose. With his
present force he is well aware that ho can accom
plish nothing. He had never yet accomplished any
thing without the nee of overwhelming. numerical
superiority, and he will not attempt it now. But
when he shall have received all the men he expects—
when his canal shallh B,VO been complete d and his fleet
all assembled—we may then expect a grand assault,
military and f . marine. For the army we fear no
thing. We are disposed to think , inlits present posi
tion, unless-Its character has undergone a most un
accountable change, it would be able to repel the
attack of a force doubly or trebly as large as any
that Grant can possibly bring against it. Our only
hpprelieneion la from' the water; and that arises,
probably from our total Ignorance of the character
and ability of the obstructions in the river. We
learn that they are too 'formidable to be overcome
by the Yankee fleet, and' we hope it is so; for we
are as confident'that an attack will be made before
Grant goes into winter quarters as we are that the
sun will set to-day and rise again to-morrow. We
have often heard the Yankee perseverance in keeping
up this war spoken of in a tone of admiration. They
persevere because they have never been decisively
beaten, except on one occasion, 'and then -we lost
all the fruits of victory by our own want of decision.
A single Waterloo rout of either of their grand
armies—Grant's or Sherman'e—followed up so close
ly that it could never rally again; would settle
the question definitely and forever in our
favor. The -" Army or the Potomac" has been
beaten oftener " than any army of which history
makes mention. It has - never met our army
but to be flogged. It has been' beaten so often,'
and its losses.- so often supplied, that scarcely a
particle of the original material is left. But we
have never bad the means of purl:ming its routed
columns, and annihilating them, as we could
have done a , tlozon times, had. we been in
ponession'of such means. They have always been
allowed time to rally and recruit. But, beat them
at once, and pursue them to the point of utter de-
Mutton or dispersion, and our word for it, peace
would follow in a month. A total defeat arid ,dis
persion of either army (Grant's or Shermaft it) will
bring peace, and nothing else will at present. Yan
kee perseverance is greatly overrated. It is the
Confederates who bear off the palm in this particu
lar.. The Yankees would never have stood the lose
of such an army as we threw away at Vicksburg
and Port Hudson. Capture such an army as that,
and they will seek peace Instanter. Neither they
nor any other people existing, except the Confederate
people, could have stood the ravage of their country
to the extent we have done. So far as the end of
the war Is concerned, we do not conceive that the
. re-election of Lincoln Makes the slightest difference.
No matter who is President, the Yankee nation
will insist upon war so long as they can be per
suaded that they are constantly gaining great vie- :
tortes In the field. Nothing but reverses, and re
verses of the most serious character, can over per-
suade them to turn their eyes towards peace. Let
us, then, if we yeah to secure it at the earliest pant-
We moment, turn all our attention to the war, sen
sible that through It lied the . only road to peace.—
Richmond Whig, Nov. 12.
THE OBSERVANCE OP " ALL.SAINTS , " OAT 1
AMONG THE CATHOLICS IN NEW ORLEANS.--The;
first of this month is observed in the Catholic
all up
Ch u o r v eh er as th a e fe w st o i r v l a a l ifnorwthihe souls
hp u ra ls
Orleans
A great body of the inhabitants 'of *New
e
y o e f ra th a e r fai r th e f r u e l l
are Catholics, and in the observance of that
to n which
amonge
the Country. The
hn d
o a et y
i t g b as e tn y heor i
i n al
I c e
y u s
odfe observed ,
anya v o e t r very
to
e c aoi
city
ry t l o f
fu
knowledge,lt
Times of that city says that the last festival was
well observed, and shwas the custom.
The cemetery near the Old Basin was well deco
rated with befitting mementoes. The three cisme
torlee on Claiborne street, in the rear of this first,
were also variously adorned with , funeral devices.
Here and there a -tornb;liroirble". built, stood open,
with the portal huiffikfth wreaths appropriately In
scribed, embellished with inscriptions, the mournful
pith of which lived in the hearts of the mourners.
In these two cemeteries, with rows of encoffined
tombs around the four walls, many tombs end graves'
lie neglected In rotting mortar and defaced head
stone. The tombs "of the many benevolent &eel:ata
lions, though not neglected, do not wear the wonted
garb of the day of All Saints. Many sorrowing
mourners stood apart from passers-by, and on
bended knees told over the impressive tale of adora
tion. The foriaken orphan -was everywhere re.
membered, if not liberally, it was because the gene.
tuna givers themseves had sore need of that which
would comfort the helpless and succor the needy.
Ouriosity-seekers found little in thee.) abodes of the
departed to gratify the desire for novelty. The im
pressive and silent mourning of many a. mourner'
had no tendency thgratify sig_nt seers.
The cemeteries in the rear of the City on the Mo.
'iri F ma ello e w il s l , id el g r c— een ° w i o P o r d ea's , an G db ro th v e e' others- 81 4e Th* re ti. ai l l ° l l ;t l 6?i d ed d.
es above, in nuifilsers. according as the faith of the
„mourners would warrant. The.tombs.of Many bene
volent societies were appropriate in fittling"deeore.
t loos. OcoasionallY to the group of tombs and hs.bita.
thaw of the deaCfwaa Hem the swelling mound; with
headilione placed Or ,stone, blossOm big in fresh-g stk.
ered flowers, tribute eithe bereaved heart which can•
not forget. Here the neure of the soil admits burial
beneath the sod—a retur.l to the embrace of earth,
the cold and showed' vold.ef the narrow tombs are
filled with many. New burials were to be observed
in many places, evident in' the fresh-lain plaster,
the deep and heavy black of mourners, who had not
lived . long enough after the - dead to cast off the
weeds. There* are MY tombs in '"Potter's , Fleld. A
few headstones are there, but all record or insoriP
tiori are wholly effaced. This, the final abode of the
homeless, the destitute, the poverty-stricken, ' the
outlaw, the outcast, the unfortunate, is unadorned:
No decorations are here. The dead who Ile in pot
ter's Field have no friends. The cemetery in Wash
ington was thronged. Several tombs and graves
were wreathed in flowery tributes to the remembered
and the loved. This , cemetery war:larger attended
than any of the others. Widow, orphan children,
sisters, were the principal ones among' the crowd
Most of those that lay beneath the sod were fathers,
husbands, and brothers, on whom the war had done
its work in mutilation, and in camps of insidious
• and contagious disease. In the Soldiers' Cemetery,
near Carrollton, where are burled many 'a brave
man far away from home, from tireside,"and friends,
two funeral wreaths alone showed that the soldier
Was remembered. They being out at the gate-way,
some one was kind and good enough to give at least
one tribute to the memory of the hard-toiling and
suffering soldier. Here there were no tombs. Lofty
mausoleum or fretted marble mould are not made
for soldiers. The utmost ornament is a wooden
headboard ; the richest sarcophagus, a pine boa ;
the only epitaph—here Iles a soldier.
Publle Ente rt
TEE Ganararr OFERA.—".The Huguenots" was
not sung last night as we hoped it would be. The
music ofnleyerbeer, far more than that of any
other modem composer, is dependent upon thordi.
rector and the singer. Nothing. can destroy the
charm of "Don Giovanni," but "Robert" and
"The Huguenots," if not - perfectly rendered,
are lost; • Last night, the substitution 'of Her-
IMMO for .Formea in the role of Marcel, and the
weaknete of a part of the cast, resulted in an
ineffective performance. It had, indeed, mach
merit, but this grand work demanded more than the
company could give. Formes' sickness was alone
sufficient to weaken the performance, for Hermanns,
with his noble voice, had evidently not made a
study of Marcel, and gave comparatively poor effect
to both acting and singing. Madame Hotter omit
ted the best part of Margaret's music—customary,
because of its difficulty, Laborde being the only
artist whom we have heard do justice to the
part—and made little impression. Johannsen
sang Valentine so well that she justly de
serves the chief honors of the performance. Her'
duet with Marcel was of all the concerted pieces the'
finest. Tamaro, Steinecke, and Lehmann wore
good, but not great, and Canissa did very little for
the music of Urbain. The choruses were gene.
rally excellent, though not strong enough for the
grandeur of the music. In brief, the whole per
formance was good, but so far below the ideal of the
opera that we would not advise the reprodaCtiortlif
"The Huguenots" unless the cast is decidedly
strengthened and the whole effect improved.
A change of the programme for Friday evening
is • announced. In place of Gonnod's grand opera
of "Ildireille," the master work of Beethoven
Fldelfo," will be performed, with a powerful cast!.
We are delighted with this change. it would haVe
'been a pity to have closed the season without giving
this great at d all.poptilar opera with a fi ner cut
than we have ever had. This change, it Is stated,
has been made on account of the necessity of having
additional rehearsals of "Mireille," the perform
ance of which is transferred to the next night. In
order that no dissatisfaction may arise from this
alteration, Mr. Grover announces that those who
have secured seats for Friday, in the expectation of
hearing "Mireille," may have them transferred to
Saturday evening.
Saturday will be made a grand musical festival.
In the afternoon "Faust" will be presented entire,
with the same cast of characters which had such
success on the occasion of its last performance. In
. the evening, the first two, which are said to be itie
beat acts of "Mireille," will be sung; together with
come portions of the third act, including the Finale
and Mtennerchor. ' The three last acts of "Robert
le Diable" will also be given. The management
states that every care will be taken to make this
the greatest performance of the season. As a
souvenir of the occasion the ladies of the audience
will receive programmes printed in silver and
crimson upon white satin.
Tanight "Stradella" will be performed, with
Formes in the character of Maiodio, a rare which
was originally composed for him by Von Flotow.
The cast will include all the male artists of the com
pany.
EDWIN FORBIST.—On Monday next this great
actor will commence, at the Academy, a dramatic
season of twenty.four nights, introducing the rare
novelty of "Coriolanne," from which he. gives a
new creative interpretation of Shakspeare. In
other cities the success of Mr.• - Forrest has been
more than equal to the highest standard of his
triumphs. The Albany papers notice his closing
night in that oity, when, in response to a general
call from the over crowded audience of his Macbeth,
he made a speech containing a remarkable tribute
to the genius of Edniund Kean. When quite young,
Forrest acted logo to Kean's Othello in Albany, and
It was then that this celebrated actor predicted his
success , . We take tlie following from Mr. Forrest's
eloquent speech :
"I am very glad, ladies and gentlemen, that an
opportunity is thus afforded me to say a few words,
to thank you for your generous welcome here, and
also for the kind applause you have lavished on
my performances. In Albany I seem to live a two
fold existence—l live one in the past, and I live one
in the present—and both alike are filled with the
most agreeable memories. Here within these very
walls, even Inmy boyish days, was cheered on to
those inspiring toils
Wbich make men master men:'
Here, within these walla, while yet In my boyish
days, one of the proudest hotiors of my profes
sional life was achieved—for I- here essayed the
part of lago to the Othello of the greatest actor
that ever lived in the tide of time'—Edmund
Rean—to me there is music in the very name—
Edmund Kean, a name blended indissolubly and
forever with the genius of Shakepeare—Edamnd
Kean, who did more by his actip,glto illustrate the
Third of all time than all the commentators from
Johnson, Warburton and Stevens down to the
would• be critics—the %Tray, Blanche, and Sweet
hearts' of the present day. It was said of Edmund
Roan by a distinguished English poet that he read
Shakspeare by flashes of lightning ;" it Is true, but
those dashes of ilightning were the coruscations of
his own divine mind, which was akin and in affinity
with the mind of Shakapeare."
News of Music.
Mit. Wm. H. Fay.—We regret . to hear that im
paired health has necessitated the departure of this
talented gentleman from the• country. Yesterday
Hr. Fry left New York for the port of St. Thomas,
on a voyage of recovery, and we are sure that the
good wishes of all friends of music and of jonrnal
ism go with him. As a composer, a musical critic,
and a political writer, Mr. Fry has won large re
cognition ; but, like many men of the press; he has
been too hard a worker, and in the variety and
earnestness of his labors has sacrificed health
and even ambition. His sincerity as an anti
slavery man led him greatly to overtask his
strength as a public speaker in the Presidential
campaign of 1860, and this is mainly the cause of his
present physical prostration, though for yews past
he has continued to labor for music and for the press.
Mr. Fry is Undoubtedly the most prominent of all
American composers ; hls alms in music have been
the 'widest and the highest of any of our known mu
sicians, and his operas of "Leonora" and "Notre
Dame" are gratefully admired and remembered for
the promise which they ha4e given of the future of
American music. -The growth and vigor shown In
his latest. °Psis', produced with such grand effect
In this city, confirm this observation. "As a cri
tic,". remarks a fellow-journalist of Mr. Fry, "he
leaves a void that cannot easily be filled. His style
was trenchant, his observation rapid and correct,
his language peculiar but happy, and his manner
that of a gentleman."
SIGNOR BitiGNOLI 114 MADRID.—It is difficult to
tell whether the fiasco of this once favorite tenor
has been brought about by his own demerits, by
metropolitan jealousy, or by what is known as an
operatic feud. We are of the opinion that Brigno
voide bad very little to do with the anti-musical
tempest at Madrid. La Iberia, a Spanish paper, af
ter sang that it is impossible to describe the storm
that took place in the parterre, admits that the dis
pleasure of the public was just, that the blunders of
the impressario have been inexcusable, although it
was very lamentable that the royal theatre should
have been converted into . a plaza de toros (a place
for bull-fights). El Ancor° says that Senor Baylor
(the impressario) must "give us singers of prim
cartello, such as are due to a theatre that paid him
$75,000 for subscriptions." a Espana asks, "Why will
he give us artists 01 such little merit as the tenor
Brignoli and the contralto Talbote ? Poor Signor
Brignoli is good enough for the theatres of Leganes
or Valdepena, but not for the first theatre of Madrid.
He was not permitted to sing alone for a moment,
for from the first note ho had a - duo of hisses
from the parterre," &c. La Densecraria also as
sails Impreseario Bayier : "We must blame the
impressario who has introduced to us a tenor, with
a nasal voice, Gast aside in New York, and coming
here to offer us the ruins of glories of which we
have not been participants. The people hissed as
wo have never heard them hiss any where else, even
in the Plaza de Toros. Whistles, guitars, and in
struments of every description, made an infernal
chorus. The people committed the excess of hiss
ing the tenor before he uttered the first note, and that
in a most tumultuous manner." La correspondencia
is more fairly disposed than any of its cotempora
ries, and does not permit its fend against a bad
manager to rainthe artist: "The new tenor, Signor
Brignoli, has none of the qualities which make
sympathy for a sinker upon his first appearance,
[this is, to a certain extent, true], but in the trio in
the third act be showed his knowledge of his art.
Nevertheless, the people seemed disposed to make a
manifestation against the impressario, and they did
it. The impressario, it is said, has learned that
three hundred free tickets and three hundred whis
tles were given to the boys of-the University. We
think it more than probable that Signor Brignoll
was made a victim to the unpopularity, of his mana.
ger. Besides, the highest theatre in Spain demands
good actors as well as good singers, and Brignoli
is no actor at all: To feed the rage of the Madrid
public againit an impressario who had, in the
words of a Spanish journal, "disregarded the ad
vice of the press, opposed popular customs, and, in a !
word, laughed at Madrid, under the protection of
the Spanish Government," . the theatre was no doubt
packed full of unfavorable rumors long before
Brignoli commenced to sing. He was hissed, in I
fact, before he could be heard. With the apprehen
sion that he would be received with so much dis
favor, the whole performance of the new-world
favorite could not have been otherwise than feeble.
The whole affair may lave proved a good experi
ence to the tenor, but his admirers upon this aide of
the water Should rather discriminate in his favor,
instead of taking tone with the prevailing flippancy
'(if seine of the New. Yorkjournals, which drop their
favorites with as little conscience as they pick them
`tip.. Brinell was never a great artist, but is in
some respects a tenor of remarkable eicellerme,
worthy of much favor, in spite of his eccentricities
of iildisposition. His fiasco in Madrid should not,
prevent his welcome here.
A NEW OPERA. has been brought out in London
by Macfarren, the composer of " Robin Hood" and
half a dozen other operas, containing a new sad In
dividual style of hotie music. It is called "
.1313," and is an English Story, the plot borrowed
from the German of Mosenthal. whose Deborah,
(says the Times) "has been rendered famous in
England.by the Leah of Miss Bateman." The RC.
Lion of the story refers to the destruction of an iron.
foundry in North England, by which Whole this-
. .
taint Is plunged Into distress. The chkracters acl
rural, and the scenes take In the wort.ahop aei
"harvest home, ,, and , present, them. ; with all %no
charms of "chorus.
• A Yoilwa Oesiriito.PartztsyLvArnAu 00Kwo3 t . a.
—A correspondent In Danville, Montour county,
sends us the following :,
In The Frees of..last-Friduy I observed a notice al
the late "Eiete(kifod" at - Llandudno,. Wahl&
Thinking that it may interest your numerous-rm.&
era to learn that the successful competitor In alt the:
musical compositions of said Eisteddfod, and u.
gunr e un National • Eisteddfod' , of 1863, held at
Swansea, South Wake, is a young Cambro.Amort
can, from this place, named Joseph Parry. H i ,
gained the fbliowing.prizes : -
At the festival of 1858 3 motett for frre voices, £10;
and a medal; beg three glees, £5 be.; ex ammo o..in
gregattonal tunes, and a duet, £5 ss.
In 1864, anthem, - first prize, £lO and a medal ;
anthem, second prize, £5 ; glee for mixed voices, Es;
glee for male,-voices, £3; canon, three equal
voices, £3. -
4. Hula ayoung man of great promise; who is per..
gang Ids studies under great dleadvantakes, being
compelled to work in a rolling-mill to gain a liveli
hood.
The Dano-Gersuan Question.
DRAFT OF THE PEACE TREATY lIIITWERN THE GRIA.
MANS AHD DENMARK-PROCLAMATION TO TRI
. .
DANISH FLEET
The treaty of peace between Denmark and the
two great German Powers has been concluded, so
far.as all essential points are concerned. It was
thought that it would be officially signed October
23, but some special questions, such as that referring
to the port station of Denmark at Hamburg, are not
yet settled.
The treaty of peace will' differ but little from the
preliminaries already executed at Vienna. In con
forMity with article two of the preliminaries, the
Jutland Enclaves in the Schleswig territory, situ
ated to the south of the southern limitof the district
of Elbe, and ceded by Denmark to the German
Powers; have been exchanged against a portion of
Northern Schleswig.
The new frontier of Schleswig will be fixed to the
north of the town. of Christiansfeld ; on the east It
descends to the south of Stenderup, ll:tenter that
the eastern side of Schleowig, which, if possessed
by Germany, would be a continual menace to the
Island of Funen, may remain with . Denmark.
The redistributism of the debts contracted on act
count of the. Danthh monarchy have been settled in
accordancewith the basis laid down in article three
of the preliminaries. The redistribution of State
property, which was not mentioned in the prelimi
naries, had also taken place whereby the duchies
will receive a sum of about 8:boo ; 000 Mutters. in ilea
of about 14,000,000 which they would have had the
right to reclaim.
King Christian his issued the following procla
mation to the Danish fleet :
More peaceful relations have now supervened,
and the majority among you can return to their
homes. I have followed your honorable enterprise
on sea with joy. Whether combatting the elements
during the harsh winter season ; whether in battle
against the enemies of the country, you have al•
ways shown courage and endurance. In resuming
your peaceful Accupations, retain your affection for
your king and country, and for the flag under which
you have fought, and should duty again call you to
arms for the defence of the fatherland; hasten.
wherever you may be, to assemble round the old
Dannebrog. Brave sons of Denmark, I send to
you all, officers, subordinates, and men alike,
my
royal greeting arid hearty thanks for the faithful
readiness with which you have fulfilled year duty.
CHRISTIAN R.
SCENE ZETA - BEN PROFESSOR, ANDERSON AND
THE MANAGER OF THE DAVENPORT BROTIIHREL--.
On Wednesday evening, says the Liverpool Timis
of the sth, Professor Anderson had his second "Anti-
Spiritualistic Matinee" at St. James'Hall, London.
Previous 'to the commencement of the performanee
he made a few remarks. He said, among other
things, he bad no 11l feeling to the Davenport Bra
thers or Mr. Palmer, to whom he had thirteen years
ago taught his first lesson in conjuring. He nar
rated a conversation which he said be had with air.
Palmer recently, at the Piccadilly entrance to the
Hall, and which, if correctly repeated, was equal to
an admission by Mr. Palmer of the humbug of the"
whole affair. Then,
very much to the surprise of
Prof. Anderson, and equally to the astonishment of
an audience which was so far thoroughly with
npjumped Mr. Palmer himself, and gave the gentle.
man on the platform the lie direct. He said the
conversation as given by Mr. Anderson was en.
tirely false. The Professor appealed to Mr. Austin,
the keeper of the ticket office, who was present at
the time, but Mr. Austin declined to have anything
to say in the matter. Mr. Anderson having said.
that Mr. Palmer could make a statement, the lat
ter attempted to do so, but was put down by the
Professor. However, the matter passed off.without
more ado,
and the Professor Went on with his speech.
He said he had not before challenged the Davenpx t
Brothers ; but he then gave a general challenge to
tte effect that if they would come on that platform
and let him tie them, he would, bind them so that
they could not get loose, and if they would throw
the tambourines and other things about in the light
as they did in , the dark, he would give them £5OO.
The seance was then proceeded with.
A GEBAT ENGINEERING ''EAT.—In Brazil, M.
Brinleie '
assisted by English capitalists, has been
engaged in "lifting" a railroad (the San Panto)
over the great Sierra de Mar, a mountainous elev,s
tion 2,600 feet high. The entire ascent is divided
into four "lifts," or inclines of a mile and a quarter.
each, running , at a gradient of one in ten. A level
platform, or .. , bankhead," marks* the summit of
each.inclhae, and at the upper end of the platform
is a stationary engine. This engine has doable
cylinders of '26 inches diarneter, with a tivafeet
stroke, and has been *calculated to haul up fifty
tons at the rate of ten miles per hour. • Five boilers
of the Cornish description are placed with each en
gine. On the upper half of each incline there is a
double line of rails, with arrangements for passing
places on the middle of each of these "lifts." A.
single line of rails then rand on from the centre to
the foot of each of the four divisions' into which the
ascent is divided. A steel wire' rope, 1%, inch in
diameter, is made for pulling up the ascending
trains. This rope, tested to a weight far exceeding
the requirements that will be made upon it; passes
over friction wheels, and is) attached to the fly
wheel shaft. The inclines are therefore partially
self.acting, at the. same time : passing one train
doWn to the foot of the Sierra, and drawing up
anther, to the higher levels on its way out to the
province beyond: This feat Is pronounced a bold
and impracticable one, but with science and skill
scarcely any physical obstruotion can stand perma
nently in the way of human wants or necessities.
One ravine crossed is 900 feet in span on the level
of the railway, and is crossed by a viaduct, resting
on clusters of iron columns, which spring up from
enormous stone piers 200 feet below the centre of
the line which passes over them. The work' L 3
nearly completed,
and will then open a way for
travel and traffic between the seaboard and the in
terior. The Emperor of Brazil is making all kinds
of useful improvements in his territory, and thereby
assisting its industrial • and commercial develop
ment. '
Nnw BarrtSWICE, N. S.—The trade and navlga.-
tion returns of New Brunswick for 1863 have just
been Issued. The. Near is described as one of "tole
rable prosperity," the crops having beengood, and
shipbuilding and ehipowang very successful. The
quantity of new shipping registered was - 137 vessels,
measuring 85 ; 250 tons, equal to 93,776-tons old mea
surement, an of the estimated value of L 752,750.; '
and the net amount of freight carried home in the
new tonnage may be reckoned at £48,4100. At the
end of the year 1863 there were 891 vessels, mea
suring 11,680 tons, in the Shipping List registefed
in New Brunswiok, the largest number since the
province had a name. The increase is greatly owing
to American vessels coming Into the ports for
British registers. The value of the shipping regis-
tered and owned in New Brunswick is estimated at
4900,090. The quantity of new shipping built in all
the North American colonies in 1863 was 615 vessels,
• measuring 219,763 tons register, and of the value, at
`.£B per ton, [of - .£1,758,104. Of this shipping New
Brunswick built 38 per cent. This must have given
work and wages to a very large number of hands.
• The total tonnage of all nations cleared outwards
from New Brunswick in 1863 was 727,722 tons. The
revenue of the province, the largest ever collected,
was $854,694; the revenue from customs amounted
to 1768,353, or about $3 per head of the population,
the largest item being haberdashery, which paid
$240 715. In Canada the customs revenue was
$5,169,173, and the excise $725,421, together about.
152.35 per head. The customs and excise revenue of
the five North American colonies was $8,149,329, or
$2.47 per head. The imports into New Brunswick
in 1863 rose to $7,658,642, or £1,595,513; the imports
•of Canada were $45,964,493, and of Nova Scotia
$10,201,391. The exports from New Brunswick
amounted to . $4,940,736, or, including the value of
the new ships, $8,631,966, or £1,842,079; the exports
from Canada (else Including the newshipping) were
$41,881,632; from Nova Scotia $8.546,488. The quan
tity of pine timber exported from New Brunswick
In 1863 was but 26,920 tons, or about one-fourth of
what it was eight years ago, and it is likely to go on
diminishing as the forests of the upper country are
cut down and cleared. The importation of goods
from the United States , amounted to $3,550,383,
having doubled in value since the reciprocity treaty
came into operation. Only 659 immigrants arrived
in New Brunswick from Europe in 1863 ; 198 of them
were sent out at the expense of Miss Burdett Coutts
by the Cunard steamer to Halifax.
Scarcw BIGOTS ow Bunivs.—At a soiree given in
Glasgow to Richard Weaver, the pugilistic preach
er, who has just completed a "revival" engagement
In that city, the Rev. Mr. Rarvie, of the Wynd
Free Church, in the course of his remarks referred
to the speech which Lord Ardmillan had made in
proposing the memory of Burns at the Ayrshire
Society banquet, and said that he should like to
know what good the productions of that poet could
possibly effect among those living in the wynds and
alleys of Glasgow. Weaver, who delivered an ad
dress afterwards, said, with magnificent loftiness,
that be did not wish to be told of a Shaks.peare of
England, or a "Bobby . Burns" of Scotland, but he
did Rae to be spoken to concerning John Knox or
Martin Luther. Re had no desire to hear of men
who cast chaff to the people ; for where was the soul
that had ever been blessed by the writings of a
Burns or the "acts" of a Shkspearel As for him
selft he would not learn a verse of the one or irate
the Linea of the other.
A Mar.iounrin paper says : "By a private letter
recently received we learn that the Rev. air. Scatty,
who some time since visited this colony, is now in
Rome, busily employed in inducting the Papal court
to send out to Australia ten Roman Catholic bishops
and a hundred priests. At the present time there
are three Catholic Sees vacant in the colonies, those
of Armidale and Goulbourn, in New South Wales,
and Adelaide, South Australia."
A DlAav - zinous Escara.—A. young man, named
Pettigrew, of Wheeling, while hunting chestnuts a
few miles east ofthere, on Saturday, climbed to the
top of a large tree, and, in the act of shakings limb,
the branch to which he was clinging broke, and he
fell to the ground, a distance of nearly sixty feet.
He&descended about half the distance head foremost,
but had sufficient presence of mind to se'te a friend
ly limb, which not only turned him end for end, bat
considerably eased his fall. He was badly stunned,
and lay at the root of the tree in an insensible con
dition. He was accompanied by a young lady, a
woman of great physical strength. She picked him
up and carried him nearly a mile, to the nearest
house, where he gradually recovered, and returned
to the city on Saturday.
NEGOTIATION' AND PEACE.—The Governor of
Georgia has great faith in negotiation as a moans
of obtaining peace. He says :
" There is reason to fear that Preildent Lincoln, if
re-elected, and President Davis, whose passions are
Inilained against each other, may never be able to
agree upon terms for the commencement of nego
tiations, and that the war must continue to rage In
all its fury till there is a change of administration,
unless the people of both countries, in their aggre
gate capacity as sovereign States, bring their pow
erful influence to bear, requiring both Governments
to stop the war and leave the questions to be settled
upon the principles of 1776. ,,
DIA EXADIIIOL'ES CAPTOR :A 130y.—The rebel Gene.
rat Marmaduke wastaptured by a little boy belong
ing to one of the Kansas regiments. He at first re
fused to surrender to an " inferior offlaer, ,, bat was
immediately persuaded to do so. The lad brought
him to General Curtis , headquarters, where he in
troduce& Meisel'', much to the surprise of all, but
especially to the boy hero. General Curtis asked
the boy how long he had to serve before his term of
service would transpire. The - reply was, "eight
months." The General immediately wrote him a,
furlough for that time, and presented him with the
horse, revolvers, belt, and sabre of the rebel general.
POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH THE REBEL
STATES.—The English Postmaster General, in re.
plying to an inquiry whether correspondence ad.
dressed to those States would be forwarded to Ber
muda, Nassau, or Halifax, where agents could bo
stationed appointedby the rebel postmaster gene
ral, says that he can enter into no such arrange
ment. But the rebel pubic way, if they will, send
letters under cover to the British agents ahead,
stationed there.
Marino a Pullman's mbl.anx. , --The Rocheitere
N. Y., Expyass says that a your man, formerly >r
. professor of penmanship in that
city, but now in tae
army, awl home on a lurlou.gb, wail confronted On
his arrival here by a soldierlstallot in hisname, but
signed with a cross and "his Mark." Considering
that he prides himself upontis proficiency.with the
pen, and that he has exhibited his Brndt& sped-
Inens of ornamental pcminanship at Rochester aad.
elsewhere, Governor Seymoues mairow.fat" bat:
lot forms a ridiculous but effective lltuetro.4l4ll
' OM great aotaterr vot to g Pau& • ••
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