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THURSDAY, JULY 13, 18115.
THE .111EwS•
steamer Persia, with European advieea
fy 2d, arrived at New York yesterday. A:
lrlo on the -financial condition of India,
, to rarlizilneni, showed a satisfactory re
; g 5 1,,, net revenue for the year ending
i i, ~,,4 , „„ F , £35,6:19,989, and charges .£26,018 7 -
,1 _rent deal of comment was indulged in
rOy Oil the failure of the negotiations be
n the Il Mimi Government and the Pope.
i li t erect in the Champs de. Mars the
a eN hibition building, was passed by the
, th legislative corps. A new lake, the
ild 'et irt source of the Nile, had been dia..
rol ill Central Africa, which had been
k .l the Albert Nyanza. The Great Eastern
,i,ected 10 depart on her reissiOn of laying
I.t hull is cable on or about the 10th of Judy.
ul Howard, Commissioner of Freedman's
cat., • •
• l iss ued instructions to his dePuties
ms
the effect that no fixed rate of wages to
roes will be prescribed for a district,
the agent should sec that all such per
reeeire it fair rate, and he is to protect
a from extortion or avartee. Wages had
,er he secured by a lien on the crops or
lof the employer. No agent or assistant
r ini s sioner is to tolerate compulsory labor,
epl f or the legal punishment of crime, nor
c ompulsory system of apprenticeship.
he Committee on the Conduct of the War
I, ninth! a supplementary report, which
I be found in another column. The corn
ice have investigated many subjects prin.
dly , :clumeted With the armies and navies
Nrsliag in the East. In order, however, to
aim a complete military history, they have
ress ed certain questions to the principal
ers who were connected with the armies
he West, the South, and with the Army of
Potomac during its last campaign; the
, ers to which will be transmitted to Con-
:s at its next session.
the trial, :it Washington, of Miss Harris
kinh , : the treasury clerk, Burroughs, tes
way of an intimate friend of the accused,
, also of a Mr. Bradley, ono of her counsel,
ks brought forward to show the insanity of
ss Barris. The former stated that for some
;lc previous to shooting Burroughs she be
red in a manner which showed her mind
shattered ; and Mr. Bradley testified that
ir conduct since her imprisonment was very
'it'. rent from that exhibited by sane per
us.
he International Trade Congress, yester.
adopted a resolution affirming that it was
c duty of Congress to regulate commerce
lb foreign nations in a manner which will
prase the resources and revenue of the Go
aiment, promote the prosperity. and pro.
1, the labor and industry of this country ;
;o, e resolution forming a decimal system of
b, ; 11;,t and measures, and a uniform systeni
nmtSUring liquids in the several States.
o,a Height had sent a letter regretting ids
, I,;iity to be present. _ _
In the Adjutant-Generals' Convention, yes
General Lindsey, of Kentucky, said
jr, state had furnished to the Union army
ixty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty
iglu white, and twenty-four thousand four
ordred and thirty-eight colored troops, be
..oete. other troops which were not on the
A New York despatch says that the rumors
f an invasion Of St. Domingo by the Haytiens
ere daily - increasing,. It is said that the Pre
ent of the republic, with four of his Minis
,rs, had conic within two miles of the capital,
and had proposed to make new treaties with
n. Spaniards.
The Fenrth Of July - was celebrated In Ifavyt
n by firing salutes morning, noon, and night,
I they were appropriately acknowledged
the Spanish warvessels and authorities.
Cotton is commencing to arrive at Savannah
Augusta. Three hundred bales were
rought in, and one thousand more were ex
teetril soon.
foreign vessel, since the opening of
by port <>f Charleston, arrived there on the
instant, from l3erinnfill.
Item are now nearly fifteen hundred na
!Dna] banks in existence.
The subscriptions to the 7-31) loan yesterday,
nnounied to $6,110,`200.
The flour market was more active yesterday.
:xtra family sold at $7.50@7.75, and superfine
Rye flour and corn meal were
, not ed at former rates, but the prices of corn
ad advanced. Sugar sold at 11%@1:2 1 4 cents
per pound. Cotton advanced, middlings W
ing at 5:457 cents. Whisky was quoted at
, 23:2(1.:2.14.
The stock market was inactive yesterday,
Uthough ketiding shares advanced 1, Tensyl..
Timis Central, and Camden and Amboy 'A
;by railroad shares were sold at the old quo
tations, and in Government bonds there was
K, material change in prices. City loans were
n demand. Gold was active, and advanced 2
mar cent.
Gold closed last night in New York at 141%
THE FETIIIRE OF THE SOUTH.
The reports of profits occasionally ac
mired by the freedmen from the culti
-ation of a few acres of eotton, 'cannot NI
o astonish Northern agriculturists. The
dea of malting three or four thousand
lollars clear profit by the single crop of
;env acres of land, and the labor of not
core than two persons, is novel to those
emtomed to the moderate returns of
'enos,ylvania husbandry, Even at the
Ad prices, the growth of cotton on the
nw lands of the Southwest must have
- :en extremely profitable, or the planters
:ouid not have afforded to purchase slaves
for the large sums which were readily paid
for them. It is evident that the Southern
States have been much more richly en
dowed with natural advantages than
the rugged but prosperous commonwealths
of the North. If the same amount of
labor, energy, and skill, that has been
exerted on our side of Mason and
Dixon's line, during the last fifty years,
had been displayed for that same period
south of it, that region would now be
the garden-spot of the world, and riva
in wealth and productiveness the proudest
empires of Europe. Intelligent and inte
rested labor is all that is needed to convert
the scene of the rebellion into one of the
fairest and most productive portions of the
`tabitable globe. Its agricultural capacity
It almost unlimited. It can supply the
mthl with an abundance of the products
it most needs, and for which it is willing
pay liberal and even extravagant prices.
At can add sugar, rice, cotton, tobacco,
!wine, fruit, rosin, and turpentine, in bound
less quantities, to all the food needed for
'domestic consumption, and, if it chooses,
to many species of domestic manufac
tures, and the development of its vast
mineral wealth. It cannot be that, to
a people endowed with such advan
tages, the perpetuation of the horrible
curse of slavery is an essential element of
prosperity. The whole history of civiliza
tion unerringly teaches that the -exact re
verse is true, and that Freedom is as indis
pensable to the development of the varied
resources of a great country as it is to the
intellectual and moral growth of a human
being.
Now that the experiment is being tried,
all who were concerned in its inauguration
are interested in its success, and every new
development is keenly watched. As yet,
the people of the South are too much ab
sorbed in the temporary troubles produced
by the Rebellion and by the pressing anxie
ties and troubles of the hour, to cherish san
guine or even hopeful views of ,the future.
They are apt to regard the, enfranchisement
of the negroes merely as an act of North
ern hostility and Aggression ; they stub
bornly accept it as an obnoxious necessity,
but show 'little disposition to recog
nize in it any promises of advance
ment for the white race. Yet, sure
ly, this, too, must come. The ban has been
removed from labor. The millions of poor
Southern white men who have suffered
sadly during the war, and who have by
their valor borne the brunt of battle on
countless bloody fields, should be, if all his
tory and experience is not at limit, im
measurably more benefited hereafter, by
their defeat, than they could possibly have
been by victory. No greater calamity could
have happened to them and their descend
ants, than the perpetuation of a system
which degraded in their own eyes, and in
the opinion of the districts where they lived,
the honest toil by which alone they can
hope to improve their condition and ad
vance their prospects in life. Henceforth
the working power of the South, should be
I;roatly increased by the new life and eller- .
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the white population. It is reported that
DI many instances our quartermasters ob
tained more serviceable labor in seven
hours, from freedmen, than their masters
had ever extorted by the use of the lash in
a whole day ; and eventually the gross pro
duct of the labors of the free negroes
will
doubtless be greater than was ever obtained
from the shirking slaves.
It is not only in quantity but in quality that
labor will be improved. As 'education be
comes general the nation will number in
the negroes four millions of intelligent pro
ducers, instead of four millions of beings
purposely kept in ignorance ; men who will
know what and when to plant, and bow to
render advantages of soil and climate availa
ble, as well as the more mechanical routine
work of handling a hoe or bearing a heavy
burden. And in the eight millions of
Southern whites, let us hope we will find
hereafter men who will grasp a grander
conception of life than that implied in the
creed which . made the perpetual enslave
ment of the negro the one great object of
existence—the faith which led to a fearful
rebellion, and all the numberless sacrifices
it entailed, and which, amid manifest signs
of decay and ruin, and against the verdict
of civilization and the protests of humanity,
clung to African slavery as the only stable
corner-stone of republican liberty, and the
only true conservator of the prosperity of
the white race. Either the advocates of
slavery or the people of all non-slavehold
ing countries have formed radically errone
ous views of the effects of that institution
on society, . viewed as a whole, and
regarding the interests of the dominant
race .with as favorable an eye as the wel
fare of the class held in subjection. It
cannot be that all these States who, long
since emerging from the barbarism insepa
rable from involuntary servitude, have
dated from that era their rapid growth in
humanizing arts and in physical and intel
lectual capacity, are wrong. Theory and
experience 'so thoroughly attest the indus
trial superiority of Freedom, that calm
reflection and fair experiment must soon
satisfy the embittered South that the decree
against which she struggled so fiercely, in
vain, is a blessing in disguise ; that the
"loss of her slaves" is the gain of her
people, black and white; bond. and free;
that free labor is the true philosopher's
stone that will transmute her exhausted
plantations into fertile farms, and make her
wildernesses bud and blossom as the rose.
SUPPLEMENTARY ImPolvr
JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT
OF THE WAR.
What. It has Done—What has been In
quired Into.
ITS WORK NOT YET COMPLETE.
CsPeeial Despatch. to The Press.)
• WasultiOTOrr i July 13,166;.
The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the
Present War submit the following report;
Your committee, at the close of the labors
in which the most of them have been engaged
for nearly four years past, take occasion to
submit a few general observations in regard
to their investigations. whey commenced
them at a time when the Government was still
engaged in organizing its first great armies,
and before any important victory had given
token of its ability to crush out the rebellion
by the strong hand of physical power. They
have continued them until the rebellion nas
beep overthrown, the so-called Confederate
Government been made a thing of the past,
and the Chief of that treasonable organizatiOn
is a proclaimed kelort in the hands of our a,U
thorites. And soon the military and naval
forces, whose deeds have been the subjects of
our inquiry, will return to the ways of peace
and the pursuits of civil life, from which they
have been called for a time by the danger
which threatened their country. Yet while
we weICOMe those brave veterans on their re
turn from fields made historical by their gal
lant achievements, our joy is saddened as we
view their thinned ranks, and reflect that tens
of thousands, as brave as they, have fallen
victims to that savage and infernal spirit
which actuated those who spared not the pri
soners at 'their mercy, who sought by mid
night arson to destroy hundreds of defence
less women and children, and who hesitated
not to resort to means and to commit acts so
horrible that the nations of the earth stand
aghast as they are told what has been done.
It is a matter of congratulation that, notwith
standing the greatest provocations to pursue
a different course, our authorities have ever
treated their prisoners hntannelY and gener
ously, and have in all respects conducted this
contest according to the rules of the most
civilized warfare.
The investigations of your committee have
embraced many subjects. The results of their
investigations under the directions of the
Thirty-seventh Congress have already been
made public. The subjects of their inquiry
under the directions of the Thirty-eighth Con
gress, , some of which have already been re
ported upon, include the following:
Army of the Potomac;
Battle of Petersburg;
Red River Expedition;
Fort Fisher Expedition;
Massacre at Fort Pillow;
Heavy Ordnance;
Light-Draught Monitors;
Rebel Treatment of Prisoners ; and
Massacre of Cheyenne Indians ;
all of which are, or have been, specially re
ported upon. Testimony has been taken upon
Other subjects, which is submitted Without
reports, either because of the incomplete
charecter of the evidence, or because special
reports were not deemed necessary.
The investigation in relation to the Army of
the Potomac has been continued from the
point reached by your committee in their for
mer report, to the time when General GRANT
assumed the active direction of that arrny,
and began the campaign which has resulted
in the Anal overthrow of the military power
of the rebellion. The operations of that cam
paign, with a single exception, specially di•
rectcd by the Senate, your committee have
not investigated. They did not desire to enter
upon the inquiry while the campaign was still
in progress, and it was concluded too late to
enable them to investigate it as fully as its
importance demands. . . .
Your Committee have still been unable to
devote that attention to the operations of our
armies in the Western and extreme SOnthein
parts of the Union which was desired, and
which they so amply merit. During the ses
sions of Congress the members of the corfl
rnittee have been obliged to attend to : their
duties here, except when some special subject
of inquiry called them away for a short time.
And during the last recess of Congress, when
their presence wee not required at the Capitol,
theinterest and importance of the Presidential
campaign then pending were so great that
they felt it necessary to take an active part in
it, thereby rendering it impossible for them
to pursue an investigation Which could pro
perly be carried on only by visiting our armies
in the held in distant parts of the country,
and engaged in active operations.
For the purpose, therefore, of placing upon
record a history of the operations of our West
ern and Southern armies, and of the late cam=
paign of the Army of the Potomac, which shall
be more permanent and satisfactory than is
contained in the transitory publications of the
day, your committee have prepared and for
warded to the principal officers engaged
therein a series of interrogatories, with tiro
request that full and complete answers to the
same be transmitted to the chairman of the
committee in season to enable him to lay them
before Congress at its next session.
Your committee would refer to the record of
their labors to show the spirit and purpose by
which they have been governed in their inves
tigations. They have not sought to accom
plish low purpose Other than to elicit the
truth; to that end have all their labors been
directed. If they have failed at any time to
accomplish that purpose, it has been from
causes beyond their control. Their work is
before the people, and by it they are willing
to be judged.
In COnetusion, your committee must return
their thanks to those who aided and assisted
them in their laborS. The officers of the War
and Navy Departments have been prompt and
ready in furnishing them with such papers and
documents as • they desired, and in supplying
all facilities in their power to enable the com
mittee to visit the various places to which they,
have been called in the performance of their
duties. To oil - leers of the army and navy, who
have everywhere shown themselves willing
and anxious to promote in every way the com
fort of the committee, and to aid them by every
means in their power, the committee desire to
offer especial acknowledgments for their:lc-ind
ite:if' and attention. To them the committee
owe to a great degree the success which has
attended their ettorts for the last four years.
• Itespeetfully submitted : B. F. WADS,
airman of Comttee.
From the above it Ch
will be semthat th mi e
Com
mittee on the Conduct of the War has not yet
completed its labors, that large additions
to the important literatUre Of i the etAmpaign
may he expected.
WASHINGTON.
WAsrirmerrowt July 12.
Circular from General Howard Con
cerning the rreedinen.
Major General I-low - Ann, the commander of
the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Aban
doned Lands,. has issued a circular to the as
sistant commissioners and other officers, say
ing: 44 No fixed rate of wages will be prescrib
ed for a district, but in order to regulate fair
wages in given individual cases, the agent
should have in mind the minimum rates for
his own guidance. By careful inquiry as to
the hire of an able-bodied man, when his pay
went to his master, he will have an approxi
mate test of his value of labor. fie must, of
course, consider the entire change of circum
stances, and be sure that the laborer has due
protection against avarice and extortion.
Wages had better ho Secured by a lien on the
crops or land. Employees are desired to enter
into a written agreement with employers, set
ting forth stated wages, or securing an interest
in the crop or land, or both. In order to en
force the fulfilment of contracts by both.
contracting parties, the commissioner of the
bureau lays down no g e n eral ru l e. The
assistant conthiosioners must use the pri
vileges and authority he already has.
No assistant commissioner or agent is au
thorized to tolerate Compulsory, hard labor
except for the legal punishment of crime.
Suffering may result to some extent, but suf
fering is preferred to slavery, and is, to some
degree, the necessary consequence of events.
In all notions the ()Dicer should never forget
that no establishment for slavery, like appren
ticeship, without proper consent or peonage—
that is, either holding the people by debt or
confining them without consent to the land by
any system—will be tolerated. - •
Posi.OMee Appointments.
The following, among other appointments
and reappointments of Postmasters, have just
been made!
Richmond, Va.—Alexander 'Sharp.
Newark, N. J.—David Price.
Bpston, Mass.—John G. Palfrey.
Worcester, Mass.—John M. Earle.
Cambridge, Miss.—George M. Osgood.
Springfield, 111.—Presco Wright.
Oswego, N. Y.—Aaron J. Cowles.
Palmyra, N. Y.—Charles J. Terrill,
Norwich, Conn.—Harlan Bennett.
Pen Yan, New York.—Samuel H. Wells.
Jefferson City, Mo.—Allen P. Richardson. '
Altoona, Pa.—George W. Patton.
Pottsvine, Pa,—Mrs. Margaret Sillyman,
Washington, Pa.—William C. Wiley.
Carlisle, Pa.—George Zinn.
Hollidaysburg, Pa.—James Bingham.
Bath, Me.—Charles F. Greerdief.
Saco, Me,—J. M. During.
Bangor, Me.—J. Weeks.
Augusta, Me.—James A. Bickell.
Brunswick—Benjamin G. Dennison.
Evansville, hid.—James H. lffelieeley.
Richmond, Ind.—Achilles Williams.
Danbury, Conu.—Edward A. Brown.
Norwich, Conn.—Henry H. Starkweather.
The Nation!.l Loan—s6,llo ,ZOO Sub-
scribed Tesierdsi.
The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan
on Wednesday, July 12, amounted to $6,110,200,
including the following:
First National Bank, New York, $1,000,000.
Ninth National Bank, New York, $523,600.
Tenth National Bank, Now York, $300,000.
First National Blink, Boston, $lOO,OOO.
Second National Bank, Boston, $300,000.
First National Bank, Portland, Me., $lOO,OOO.
First National Bank, Albany, $lOO,OOO.
First National Bank, Indianapolis, $lOO,OOO.
First National Bank, Des Moines, $75,000.
Second NatiCoal Bank, Chicago, $130,000.
Third National Bank, Buffalo, $lOO,OOO.
National Bauk of the Republic, Boston, $lOO,-
000.
Vermyle & Co., New York, $300,000.
D. Clews & Co., New York, $150,000.
Franklin Bank, Columbus, $lOO,OOO.
First National Bank, Bridgeport, Ct., $125,000.
There were 4,278 individual subscriptions for
sums less than $lOO.
War on the Dogs.
The dog slaughter by the municipal authori
ties Continues. For the past week the average
per day has boon nearly two hundredi
Large Contract.
Secretary MAILLAIi has signed a contract
with the Architectural Iron Company, of New
York, at $146,000, for extending the Congres
sional Library.
The Number of National Banks.
The number of National Banks continue to
increase. Twenty new ones were Chartered
yesterday, and sight to-day. There. are now
nearly one thousand five hundred of them.
TUE INTERNATIONAL TRADE CON•
GRESS.
BECTON]) DAY'S PROnnieDyNcla
r.Puorr; July 1.2.---The International Trade
Congress reassembled this morning, and the
balance of the committees were appointed.
Mr: Scamman, of Chicago, offered a resolu
tion to change the basis of voting to make it
according to the population. The resolution
was rejected.
Mr. Scamman then mounted on a seat and
read a protest against the action of the Con
gress, and Concluded with a declarationthat
the Chicago delegation would withdraw from
the Congress in consequence.
Much excitement was caused by this action,
and a special committee was appointed to con
sider the subject of representation.
The Congress then took a recess.
Among the resolutions proposed was one for
a decimal system of weights and measures
and a uniform system of measuring liquids in
the several States.
Tile special committee on representation in
the Convention reported that each State sham
have the same number of votes as each Mato
has in the electoral college, deducting there
from one vote for each association here repre
sented; the ohairman of each delegation to
determine the manner in which the remaining
votes of each State will be given.
The Chicago delegates expressed satisfac
tion with this arrangement, and withdrew
their protest.
Had not this arrangement been effeeted, Buf
falo would have gone with Chicago, and the
Convention would have been an abortion.
Messrs. Chesney and Summon of Chicago;
Pruyn, of Albany; Layton, of Missouri; Hill,
of Massachusetts; H. B. Bridge, of Detroit,
and others, were added to the Reciprocity.
Committee.
AFTRUNOON SESSIOXf
The Convention adopted the following TOSO
lutiort :
Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to
regulate commerce with foreign nations in
such a manner as to increase the resources of
the Government for the payment of the na
tional debt, to promote the independence and
prosperity of the country, and to effectually
protect the labor and industry of the people
of the United States against the conflictoig
policy of other powers.
General Ord appeared in the Convention,
and was received with rounds of Cheers.
A letter was read from Hon. John Bright, re
gretting his inability to visit America and the
Convention, and favoring reciprocity.
Mr. Littlejohn, from the ComMittee on Tran
sit, presented a report in favor of the Niagara
Ship Canal.
Mr. Prosser presented a minority report,
and the discussion Called out Messrs, Ran
dolph, Yonnglove, Littlejohn, ➢fcClellan of
Montreal, Hon. Malcolm Cameron, Martin J.
Townsend, and Davis of Cincinnati, but before
any question was taken, the Convention ad
journed until Thursday.
THE SOUTHWEST.
Interesting News from nromos..
NIZW ORLEANS, July lit—Cotton dull and un
changed. Checks on New York steady at
discount. Gold firm at 141@142.
rflm steamer Connell, from New York, had
arrived.
An extensive lire in Mobile had destroyed
property worth SIO,OOO.
The Times , special Brazos correspondence
reports a terrible storm there oil the 30th of
June. Generals Weitzel and Steele are at Bra
zos. A large number of their troops have
moved up to Clarksville and White , s 4 Ranche.
Steele has demanded of the Imperialists the
surrender of the ordnance given them.
The rebel General Slaughter's division of
cavalry, under General Merritt,. soon leaves
Shreevepoi:t for Texas.
THE RIGHT OT YRANOFII&E. IN LOUISIANA
NEW Outraxs, July ll.—The inquiry for cot
ton is moderate., at full prices, Gold ; ILI
The steamship Monterey has arrived from
Now York.
The 'Universal Suffrage Committee has ad
dressed Governor Wells, requesting that„bes
fore ordering tho State elections, lie shalt
enfranchise all loyal citizens, without regafd
to race or origin.
Wells replies bitterly, declining . to comply,
and states that the fall action of the National
Adnkinistration of the President has enunci
ated a policy of reconstruction whim he .will
cordially support.
FORTRESS MONROE.
MINERAL GRANT'S LOG-HOURS TO Eli PLACED IN
A SQUARE OP THIS CITY.
Poirrimss MeiumE, July 12.—The steamers
Illinois and Empire City, which sailed with the
Texas expedition, arrived here last night, via
:New Orleans, with a number of refugees and
discharged troops from Louisiana regiments.
They sailed for New York to-day.
The steamer T. E. Cahill arrived this P. M.
from City Point with the log-house used by
General Grant while engaged in the operations
with his army before Petersburg. The Cahill
sailed for Philadelphia this P. M., via the Dela
ware and Chesapeake Canal. It is the inten
tion of Mr. Stuart, to whom the househas been
presented, to place it In one Of the public
squares in Philadelphia.,
Boat-Raee at Poughkeepsie.
POIJOAKEEPSIE, July l2.—The great four-oared
boat-race between the Poughkeepsie and New
York crew, for $B,OOO and the championship of
the American waters,.will. come off opposite
WO City ou Ttwoclay next.
PHILADELPHIA.
TRIAL OF MISS
MORE LOVE-ASSURANCES
BURROUGHS.
flow he Gained the Affections of the
Pretended to Desire Them.
EVIDENCES OF THE INSANI
THE LADY,
Strange Actions and Strange Words
and During her Imprisonmen
TESTIMONY OF EREENDS,, STE
AND MEDICAL MEN.
What Prompted the Washington J
[Special Despatch to the Press.)
WASHINGTON,
The court met at teu o'clock, Jud o
presiding.
A large number of spectators arse
witness the trial, many of whom were
Miss Louisa Devlin was recalled and
that, previous to the time Miss Harris
those letters, she was of ordinary - IL
afterwards she had fallen away in fib
was in worse health.
Miss Jane Devlin was sworn, for the efence
—First became acquainted with Miss I rris in
Chicago, March it, 1803 3 the lady of th °met
ing house introduced them; she Was tll her
all the time but about two weeks, i en she
(herself) went into the country; sh vas in
good health; saw Mr. Burroughs con to the
boarding house in March,lB93 ; he asks if Miss
Harris was in ; said she was not; ; -e him
her card; he called next evening, an was in
the parlor with Miss Harris; had It in his
lap, and was twisting her curls; we. here a
few evenings after, and told Miss If •ris she
must keep in her bedroom till she g. well of
her Cold ; saw him during the Sumnt ' at the
store; be was again in the store; Isis the let
ter Signed "J. 1.. Greenwood;" this li about
five weeke after she saW 111111 in 1 ' store.;
saw Mr. Burrough s, letters; saw the lot rs often
enough to form an opinion we to whe or those
signed "J. P. Greenwood" were v tten by
the same hand that wrote the other believe
they were the same handwriting ; s saw the
letter of September 8, 1861, witli iti Harris,
at the store; her sister was presen took it.
front her and said she would answe t; could
not guess who had written the lette none of
them had any suspicions of who • 'as; saw
the letter of S'eptemberle 1863, will its Hal ,
rig, at the store, on Monday; don't now the
day of the month ; her sister a ed Miss
Harris to ,go with her to aseci in who
took out the answer - to the do letter ;
they Started, and from their inquiri learned
that it was Burroughs' letter ; Miss and wit
ness rung the ball at the door, 94 Quin y street ;
asked the lady if a gentleman had 1 n there,
and stayed an hour ; lady did not c ne ; said
be had lived on Clark street, ,• her amd was
Miss Harris ; h/t
Ile Said she need no ere to the
door' he would go tonic door hints when lle
saw Miss 11. codling' she said th hen bad
black hair and eyes, round should.: ; was of
medium height; had heavyblack hiskers ;
said he used to live in Chicago; w. now in
Government employ in Washingto 'witness
asked her if she would call at the st • • and see
a picture, and see if it was B roughs;
Miss Harris showed her the pieti at the
store, and she said it was the same j hen Miss
Hams Ora -went to the door she as calm;
afterwards troubled, and became ueh et.
cited ; said, "01 that was Mr. B •oughs ;I ,
said he had cruelly wronged her, a taken
her away from her home; when t woman
saw the picture at the store, she s d it was
certainly the same as the man who , s at No.
94 ; . Mr. Burroughs was in town a c y or two
before the receipt of the letter o .1M 'ln. ;
witness thought she saw him net Ito a car;
before the receipt of these letters the had a
good complexion, and was as flesh as most
girls of her size; afterwards went tethe coun
try; the first time she noticed a ehnge was
about the latter part of September,tit, when
- W
she struck her ith the window-Urus ; she got
greatly excited often, and would tear up
books, &c.; she slept very little of its; she
got up often, and went into the next oin and
laid on the door, where there was fire, in
her night-clothes, in the winter' on second
Sunday in January, 1864 she attack( witness
with a carving-knife; ; she had a let r in her
head; asked , WltheSS if she wished read. it ;
said "no! did not wish to hear amyl g about
such a mean contemptible fellow e' guess ab
sent about half' an hour ;on her retra Miss H.
wanted to get out of the window; he 'ster let
her out the door; Witness follow to see
where she went 5 she finally went int he Tre
mont House ; tins is the best house in hicago ;
witness and her sister went with Mr. arris to
--I.l....E'rerane.ets-trifreriC 1 -. 0110,6jf• , 0 .
with them; she came home herself at d ark ;
she would. sit looking at something ' about
an hour.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wilson: leteused
is about twenty-one years old ; saw r. Bur
roughs at the boarding-house the seco d time ;
he was caressing Missllarris , hair ;su Mr. B.
get into a car at State and Monroe s cets, in
September; this was aboutthe timetln letters
eFf the Bth and 13th of September Vera re
ceived' does not remember the] (UV of the
week she saw him; spoke of this ti ii 88 H. ; a
few days after heard of his inarlige ; witness.
expressed her opinion as to wl wrote the
letters only when they were at o. 94 Quincy
street; had often' seen his let rs; she re
membered herself of saying the andwriting
looked like leis' went to No. 91 o the 16th or
17th of September' went there i the after
noon ; had beard the character the house
before she was there from a detttive officer
and others ; all knew that it could tot be a very
good house, being on the street' was; up to
this time had lived in Chicago se n or eight
months 5 does not know how log had reason
to mistrust the house in Quincy treet z • Miss
H., the first inquiry, then becamexeited, and
witness inquired the - reumindeel after she
got home She said it was eertainlelnurroi ~tedis
who had been there; don't think OP told 3diss
Harris at the time that Burroughsead been in
town; when she first saw prisons she was of
very good temper and disposit in ; always
said her sister, Miss H., was era y and she
would forgive her for anything sl. - 3had done ;
witness is engaged in busmesswit her sister;
thinks three days was the lenOt time she
was subject to these attacks; hard accused.
often say she would sue Burroughs for breach
of marriage.
Witness never knew Miss Harr t to receive
attention or letters from any otl.ir than Mr.
Burroughs; the accused left Janesville in
December for Washington, to S i Mr. Mir
roughs fora breach of promise marriage'
witness had no control over the gin; she would
go where the pleased; said. she Wltilld soon be
Mack; did not say how long she 'could be ab
sent ; heard her sister tell her atom to drop the
subject, and have nothing furtha• to do with
it; intended to take her into thelstore again
when she returned. i
By Mr. Bradley :. Witness and ster kept a
fancy store on Clark street,near Q limy street,
and consequently had an opeortunity of
learning what kind of houses wee in Quincy
street; they bad no male friend whom they
could call to go with Miss Hai is to No. 94
oit
QUiney street;.never saw the oman who
keeps the house after she was 8116W11 tile Pic
ture at the store. /
Charles A. Lenstaek, who halbeen exam
ined for the prosecution, was re Iled by Mr.
Bradley, for the defence. He test ed that the
clock in the ball of the Treasury:landing was
suspended against the wall, midway in the
hall, and against a case; the case Set out from
the wall about eighteen inches; Burroughs
came down the stairs on the arml)f a gentle
man ; witness carried Miss Harrisin the room
on the south side of the hall. i
. _ •
A recess was here taken to . awa the arrival
of an important witneSe.
When the court re-assembled eseph ,Brad
ley, Sr., was swormand testified that he first
saw Miss Harris, the - third day Of ler impris;
onment ; he declined, at first, toc counsel ;
only went to see that she had coup 1; saw her
seldom first live or six weeks ; saw her again
in February; had paid particular Mention to
one species of insanity; did not site her again
until some time in Starch ; did not see her
again until 2.5 th of April ; she hadatery severe
attack of erysipelas in the head.; during this
attack he knew her to suffer seVercly;from that
time tothe trial made notes Of tie facts that
clime under his observation ; ha the latter
part of Marel4-found her in some axoiteinent,
and found her more disposed to talk of Mr.
Burroughs than she had men . ; stone one had'
sent a Boston paper to her, "%filial it was
said he bad appeared in spirit aidd. mode cer
tain revelations; the back part rf her head
was hot ; had hard cold; the pupi of her eyes
was dilated; pulse at hunchd and ten ;
during that time she spoke of Mr) B, and Ills
brother more than any one else; the 2,5 th of
April she had, in the meantime, every severe
attack of erysipelas ; she was bathing her head
with bay rum and water ; it was. a cold and
the weather was cold, and the windows .were
open—so cold witness had to keep his coat on;
she showed extreme insensibilityto the cold;
the top of her head was hot, and pulse at 120;
her features were fixed as wax.; she was look
ing as at vacancy as if beyond the wall ;asked
her if she was thinking of past events; she
said "Do you think -me a bad girl? they say
she had killed Burroughs; and they had locked
her up she said she could not realize
it to be so; she loved Burroughs, and
had seen him while in there; she had
been beaten and scourged ; her church had
persecuted her without any cause; she loved
those who were kind to her; she changed. fre
guently features—Sometimes - cold and
rigid, sometimes in tears ;••visited' her again,
and, in the meantime, she told him her whole
history as freely as she would to any one else
she has much high female pride; she has had
but little chance of education, bat she lhas'
improved her chances much; she never
spoke 'harshly of any one but Burroughs'
brother, and not very harshly of him; she
writes rapidly, and well for the opportu
nity she has had; she gave him her whole
; history, us between her andßurroughs;
t here )rts nothing until the 2,2 d of-May that
attracted lila attention; on the 22t1 was sent
for, and went to see her ; she had a Wet towel
in her hand, and was bathing. her head.; had
carried her some purchases the day before;
asked her how the purchases and bay-rum
suited her; she had not smiled up to this
time 3 her eye had a look of mingled pain and
anguish, or both ; witness sat down, and she
came towards him fiercely, and said she would
go out, she hail stayed long ; witness
said; look at those bars ; she said, bbars I - what
are bars where there is a will I quieted her,
and found her pulse at 120 ; she showed that
her eyes were fixed; she said that she could
not sleep ; had not slept for some nights ; heard
men in the hall,and overheard crying murder.,
and shrieking; said thew should take her and
hang her; she asked again if she -was a very
bath girl, and asked if witness thought Mr. •
Burroughs hated her; She changed. again ;
again she said; does She halo met h. used.
to love her, and loved her now better
than he does his, wife; she said she
had no 'friends; witness told her she had
friends, and named General Falos and others,
who had spent much time with her ; saw her
next day; spoke to her of 'a statement by a
newspaper reporter; said she had not read it;
it reflected on her character; she got excited;
pure
wtidi at 120, and head cold; she said she
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HURSDAY, JULY 13, 1865.
had an article that a man of the, Ch ron i c l e h A d
written, and brought it from her trunk ; but
witness did not review it, but diverted her
attention from it, and quieted leer; on Tues
day,' lice
e liim;
e
rial
t s lt‘ t
t h o-o e e 'g r a l : t ( : l6 l k: la :c l e ell i i t l a e of ffxss
home
theu t t asollifirst
k t es t e C r e l: ul i d O il i f i a i t a lc 'st i i k t hi lie t t wo L
uld
he there who i.,11-I,ot of the :t a : a t i l n ia t t tet l e it article;
e h l e y, said
there
hey
n d e i l elnirac : r t
u (; s a7l i o t t7h e e s i; 9 s, 7e
clw\aleanln•ieeglded from one l to her;
next day took Dr. Nichols to see her; got her
to road the Chronicle article, and she read
seine parts with great ease, but it hurt her to
read others; said Mn.S Abbey had been to. see
her, and Mrs. Burroughs; she said she hoped
Mrs. Burroughs did not bate her; she desired
'to see Mrs. Burroughs' little child and kiss it ;
saw, her again three days afterwards; Saw
nothing - again worthy of note until the
of June; spoke in good terms of many of those
who had been friends to her in prison; she
wished him to bring B's letters to her; she
read some of them, and exclaimed, " this is
the way Mr. B. had trained her to believe he
was perfect, and to shape her mind to his; she
would have married him at all risks."
By Mr. Hughes: He bad no hesitation in say
ing that she was periodically of unsound mind;
generally has a sound mind 5 in certain phy
sical conditions of the system, her mind is not
allected by nervousness alone, but by moral
causes; that when facts or circumstances
connected with moral cansae are suddenly
presented to her Mind, or during this state
of excitement to her mind, she is inca
pable of thinking and acting in regard to
I. tat subject with reason or discretion; and
that she is 'subject to Certain impulses which
control her will in reference to the Seine
matter; and that is what I Consider to be
paryoxismal insanity from moral causes. Wit
ness is not expert, but has hail much experi
ence, having began to study this subject twen
ty years since. Her case is not a case of
hys
teria ; but the .rffeet
ion,what n eituayb
proceeds fiemp hysic eatl:al causes eonbhea.ri erel asut oisitecttimt
seemed torelations ttlis t o il f rblh i e r b o a n ka j i l i s c e in of h h is e r m in
lifetimemind—
the
and reference to his widow or family.
Witness did not comumakette to Miss
Harris, nor did any ono else, the nature
of her offence, or the nature of the
until after the juicy was sworn. This was ft..
first time she appeared to break down ; this is
the first tithe she appeared to know the conse
quences of such au offence ; she said she would
rather die than set up such a defence as the
defence had marked oat, and asked witness if
he thought her insane; thought her unexpect
ed meeting with Burroughs would affect her
mind very much; if laboring under a deranged
system, nstest
aldkeha leerN qi
u
l e e e ; f e n t l iN g - O h i t l e ' s it
et
would
him with tenderness and affection at certain
etro n t h ."
conditions; it would have been an action of
impulse, and not governed by sound reason.
I y Mr. , Carrington: Had put in the defence
of insanity in four cases ,• had been connected
'With other such cases ; John Day's ease bears
no analogy tp this case; in the case of
Sickels, insanity was put in as a plea of do- I
fence ; the accused was much shocked when 1
She learnt that her letters would be read in
open court ;she said all the world might read
them, however; directly after reading ono Of
the letters in court, be felt a nervousness, and
felt her wrist, and found her pulse at one hum
fired ; to-day she cannot stand up, as she was
very nervous in the knees ; she Showed an ad
mirable disposition for truthfulness in court.
Robert Beall, warden of the jail, was sworn,
and testified that on the next morning after
Miss IL. bad been confined her door was mien,
and she had her hands together, and said she
and would have died for him, but he woUld
was sorry she had killed B.; she loved him,
have ruined her.
. Miss Anna McWilliams sworn.—Resides in
Baltimore, and is a clerk in the Treasury; lives
at 314 Exeter st„; was acquainted with Miss H.;
saw her oh the Saturday nightbefore she came
to Washington; left her awake at two o'clock
that night;. she said she would get through her
same day to Baltimore; on Saturday night
business in an hour or two, and return the
went to Sleep and left her awake asSOrting let
ters, which she intended to place in a lawyers
said she would return on the three o!elock
bands, to bring suit against Burroughs; she
train if no accident occurred; if so, she would
give notice of those facts, so that they could
meet her at the Baltimore depot.
The prosecution objected to declarations
made by the accused prior to the commission
of the offence in question. It mightbe she was
Infnittracturing, evidence for herself.
Judge Wylie Said tljat the prosecution had
chicago With the intention of - committing the
attempted tq prOVe that the_fteensed had left
act with which she was charged. The defence
wits entitled to the privilege Of trying to
prove, by her previous conduct, that silc;.l was
not her intention. She arranged to return to
Baltimore, and attend a colored scheol,
hear Henry Ward Beeeher speak. She left
Baltimore on the morning of the 30th, at 9.40
P. M., for Washington. She left two letters
muter her pillow.
By Mr. Wilson.—Saw her purchase her
return ticket Of XL Fleming ; heard her
speak of going to Washington several
times ; had an idea of going • a week sooner,
but took sick ; said she had no desire to reco
ver anything of Mr. Burroughs ; lie was poor,
but said she wanted to show her friends in the
West that she was net the person they thought
her ; he had taken her away from her hone,.
and then-married another woman; she spoke
of going again to Washington, after she should
have placed the letters in the hands of a law
yer; she wished to find out if Mr. Burroughs
was in the city.
Dr. C. H. Nichols, chief physician of the In
cane Asylum in the District, testified : I have
been in the AsyluM thirteen years, and have
studied the subject of insanity for eiwlitn
hyr --4-11 T _ - I m4S wile it a, seciaittry
iss Hare ms urare-v= , and have.
heard evidence as to the state of her mind;
and nervous system are large and active; she
I have come tolbe conclusion that her brain
has been afflicted with aiSnlenorrheia since
1803; her mentalfaculties are strong and temper
sensitive and spirited, but kind and placable;
she has apparently not enjoyed the advantages
of mental or moral training ; site appears to
be sprightly and engaging, and has attracted
the admiring attention of respectable gentle
men and ladies of Burlington,. Indiana; her
peettliar susceptibility to physical or moral
causes of insanity was the primary cause of
in love was a great check to her moral
her painful disease; next, her disappointment
sensibilities; after this material change in
ably insane at times from disappointment;
spiritS and health she was unquestion
there seems to have been a continuous
morbid sensibility to mental disturbance,
and the homicide was an act of insanity ;
Miss Harris had much delicacy in answering
questions as to her sickness, and they were
written and answered upon a card; this
disease is a frequent cause of insanity among
women 5 knowledge of right or wrong in the
abstract is no test of insanity; in such cases
insane people reason correctly on all ques
tions but one. •
stifled
•eived
Al, but
it, awl
WESTERN NEWS.
IMMENSE EMIGRATION OVER THE WESTERN
PLAINS-THOUSANDS OP PEOPLE 'MARCHING
OVER THE PRAIRIES-THE NUCLEUS TOR NEW
IMMEMI
FORT LARAMIE, July 12.—During the sixteen
days ending June 30th, ?„247 emigrants passed
this point bound west, with nearly 18,000 head
of cattle. Nearly as large a number passed
during the fourteen days ending June 14th;
and during the month of May, over 15,000 teams
and 40,000 head of stock passed for the West,
If emigration Contintiee M 41114 rate, it will
not take many years to erect States on the
broad prairies of the far West, and build cities
on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
These large bodies of emigrants have, with
a single exception, passed through an intense=
ly hostile Indian country, escorted by officers
and soldiers of the General Government.
ST. DOMINGO.
An Invasion of the Country Expected
by the Hastiens.
NEW Yawl, July 12.—The rumors of an inva-
Sion of St. Domingo by.the Ilaytiens were dai
ly increasing. It was reported that the Pre
sident of the Republic, with four of his minis
ters and an escort of 250 men, had come with
in two miles of the capital, to confer with the
Spaniards, and had .proposed to make new
treaties, but the result was unkown.
Celebration of the Fourth in Havana.
NEW Yomr, July 12.—The steamer Eagle has
arrived at this port from Havana, from which
place she sailed on the Bth inst. She cele
brated the youth of July at Havana by firing
salutes morning, noon, and night, and they
were appropriately aß.kmowledged by the
Spanish war vessels and authorities.
The ex-rebel steamer Owl, Captain Maffitt,
hadleft for Montreal or Liverpool.
The Convention of Adjutant Generals
BOSTON, July 12.—The Convention - of Adju
tant Generals had a short session to-day.
General Lindsay, of Kentucky, stated that the
number of white troops raised in that State
was 62,938, And of eolOrea troops, 24,408 besides -
some 8,000 colored and 20,000 white troops - of
whom there are no rolls. Remarks were made
relative to the proposed memorial to Congress
concerning paynient for services , ;as pension.
agents.
This afternoon the members of the Conven
tion makbz en eseurgion down the harbor.
A SOLDIER'S PRT SENTENCED 'CO TilanarenT.A.
TM:V.—OIL Thursday, ft noble specimen , of the
Highland deer was landed on Greenock-quay
from the Dublin steamer. Much interest was
• centred around the box hi which the animal
, was confined, and frOm the fact of a tall High-;
land soldier, dressed in ." belted plaid, phila
'beg,. &c., mounting guard over the animal,
inquiry soon began to be made as to the,pre
vious Watery or the deer. it appears Chat
Capt. IdelEenzie, of Seeforth, Ross-shire, made
a present of the animal to his brother °dicers
and priVates of the 98th Highlanders about
three years ago, when it was very young, and
:since that tiumit hag been stationed With the
regiment. at Dover, and latterly at Harlots
'Barracks, Dublin ; where the regiment is at
present stationed, becoming a universal fa
vorite with every one connected with the
.corps. The animal \YRS so trained as . to
,be able' to precede the band of the regi-
Ment when out on parade, and of course, it
received very special attention from visitors,
:from the stately appearance it presented. 110.
fortunately, however; for its reputation, as it
grew in :size and 'it began to form .
`very bad habits, usually asserting its likes
and dislikes by rushing headlong at the object
'of its regard; its towering antlers giving it a
means of offence which eventually made the
;hitherto universal favorite to be regarded
with fear by many of its best friends. At last
its conduct became unendurable, and a "noun.
'ell of wee , was called to decide upon' what
should be the .fate of the recusant. The Mil.
cers of the 78th resolved to offer the deer to
his Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon,
who was pleased to accept it, and desired that
the animal might be forwarded' to his Arran
aistate.—Glavow Herald.
pANOTHEU WODIA'N HllNCi DiAssApurrkwri , i3.
.An aged'cltizen of the North End, states that
seventy years ago this month, Mrs . Spooner
was hung at Worcester for murdering her hus
band. She employed three men to commit the
murder., Her husband bad been to, ride, and
'on coming home at night he was seized by the
men, pitched 'into a large barrel, and mnr-'
dered. The wife and her accomplices Wel:e
hung.—Boston Herald,
CUBA.
CHARLESTON.
Naw Tons, July 12.—General Wilmer° visited
Charleston on the sth, and was consulted by a
large number of civilians on matters relating
to their personal interests. In the evening he
proceeded to Orangeburg.
The only iron-clad in the harbor, the }Cat
skill, has been ordered North, The first fo
reign vessel since the opening of the port ar
rived there on the 4th, with an assorted cargo
from Bermuda.
SAVANNAH.
The Fourth of . July Movement of a
Regiment—The Cotton Trade.
NEW Yomr, July 11.-The steamship Americo
brings Savannah advices of July oth. The
Herald says the Fourth of July was cg,lebrated
in Charleston in an appropriate manner by ex
cursions down the harbor, a parade by the
Homo Guard, exercises in Zion Church, a pa
rade by the firemen, and a fair. A Fourth of
July Association was formed, with the Hon.
A. H. Mackey for president.
The 47th Pennsylvania Regiment has gone
from Savannah to Columbia, S. C.
The Repubtican announces the arrival there
of three hundred bules of cotton from Augus
ta, and says that as soon as fiats can be con
structed a thousand bales of cotton will come
-from the same direction,
Arrival of the united Skates Stamper
Powhatan.
nOsTON, July 12.—The United States steamer
Powbatan, with Admiral Stribling on board,
arrived from Key West to-day. She fell in
with the United States ship Dale, and kept her
company until reaching the capes of the Dela
ware.
Escape of Brechinridge to Europe--The
Voyage to be Made from HAVAIIII In an
English Steamer.
NEW Youx, July 12.—The steamer Eagle,
„ ry k
Havana, reports that General J. C. Breek
inn„ accompanied by Major C. T. Helm,
, te agent at Ha vans,left on the 7th
of oi a tf u e l c y i .. 11
Thomas and
to steamer Conway for St.
Before embarking Major
Holm was detainr. the wharf by' a, SOuth
ernar fora debt Of
and the Major was
obliged to give bond7t,
e
satisfy the party. The Colt%eave an agent to
M l
~ having waited an hour ove g F v fla t
at six P.
.
giving Helm an opportunity to itin, thus.
AFFAIRS IN VIRGINIA.
Joe Johnston's Opinion of Jeff Davis-
Maury Gets up an Emigration Scheme
—Henry A. Wise wants his Property
A correspondent of the New York lferald,
writing from Richmond, gives the following
interesting items. He says :
General Joseph E. Johnston, in a letter to a I
friend in this city, remarks that the Southern
cause could not have failed with anybody else
but Jeff Davis as its leader. That opinion
seems now to gain ground very rapidly, and
public sympathy with him is diminishing U in
proportion as this fact is being realized. 01.
Northrop, Davis , Commissary General and pe
culiar protege, condemns without reserve the
policy which he pursued. The Colonel says
that so disgusted did he become with his
whole cause, that he refused to speak to him
for nearly twelve months before the evacua
tion of Richmond. Davis' mind was very un
settled, so much so that he rarely issued an
important order which he did not afterwards
countermand. He changed his opinions con
stantly, except in regard to someenerals who
were obnOXious to hlm. ills hostility to them,
and his opinions of their inefficiency, retnaintal
uniform and unabated.
1 understand that M. F. Maury, formerly of
the United States Navy, and more recently of
the rebel navy, is now on his way from Brazil
with a plan of emigration from the South to
that country which is said to be' very en
couraging. it is known that the Emperor has
already agreed to donate a thousand acres of
land to each actual Settler; but Maury is um.
derstood to have obtained additional terms
which willg inia dsetrattehel
was
14 nI gi ig a r t a e t n o
The stronger. lrii,
with great care and at an enormous ex-
State sent for that
qs been robbed of its most valuable
penSe, books, valuable bought in
w Eu o i rk4 e
b AS a e n ri. i f; o o n f t
purpose, lave disappeared, SA Wen S; Many
other important standard works, which Can
not now be supplied, Some valuable manu
script copies of old records Of trio State, found
among the archives of tile English Govern
. went at London, were also purloined. The
beautiful library is aperfcct wreck, beyond the
possibility of reparation.
' The old Virginia State banks are now in pro
cess of liquidation, so that parties who hold
their notes in anticipation of their revival are
doomed to
banks will i cy s e t ie l i r dsi otitnl
ther disappointment.
do t.
or
more
dollar, some
aitnotes
twentyooffthesethemo r
less. The State, being a large stockholder,
will lose considerably by the operation_
During the last and previous sessions of the
rebel Legislatuty , Vir&iniu
matie oy tne menus Or Some of the
ming lines of railroads in the State to obtain
thv consent of that body to pay off their in
de.,iledriess to' the State in rebel money. The
effort, fortunately for the State, was effectual
ly foiled, for had it succeeded she would have
lost the most profitable source of revenue
-which she had.
It is said that some of the rebels of Virginia
have the impudence to suggest that ex-Gover
nor Wise be nominated as a successor to Go
vernor Pierpont at the next Gubernatorial
election. BY the way, whilst in Norfolk, a few
days since, General Wise sent an application
afloat, through the military channels, asking
that he might become repossessed Of his plan
tation, situated at Rollisten, a few miles from
Norfolk. In his application, Wise sets forth
that he is a paroled prisoner of war, belonging
to the Army of Northern Virginia, and that he
received in due form a paper at the hands of
"Major General Jolm Gibbon, on the occasion of
the, final and total surrender of Lee's army,
granting him the privilege of going about
"undisturbed and unmolested." Wise further
alleges that his old home, which he seeks, has
been taken -possession of by negroes, "or so
called freedmen," and for this reason he can
not regain it to himself and family. He there
fore asks that he may be put in "undisturbed
and unmolested" possession of the plantation
tion, in accordance with the alleged stipula
tions of his parole, whose spirit, he thinks, in
pludes this feature. The destitution among the
people of SpOttsylVania Courthouse is said to
be appalling.
THE LATE HORRIBLE OUTRAGB
NEAR ALBANY.
fitrauge Scenes in a Court-Roost—The
Attetapt to UM the Prisonere--Lyneh
Law Frumtreited.
The Albany Argus, of the 11th MAL, gives the
sequel to the horrible outrage perpetrated on
two sisters named Burns, by father and son,
near Albany, New York. When the prisoners
were on their way to emirt, threats of lynch
law were frequently made by the populace,
and would have been enforee,{{l but for the
firmness of the pollee. The Argus thus de-.
seribes the scene in court: ' '
While the exambiation was in. progress, Rle -
Prisoners, Major and his son, sitting; beside
each other near the Justice, Patrick Burns i
brother of the girls, appeared at the door. He
was armed with a revolver and knife, and had
come with the determination of taking sum
mary. vengeance upon the destroyer of his
two sisters. He opened the door a few inches,
and, taking abn, fired at the old man, the ball
taking effect in tbe fleshy part of the forearm,
about three inches from the elbow, coming
out at the wrist. Major jumped up, and
out ? "I am shot,. catch that man," pointing to
oung Bailie, The excitement was now in
tense. The crowd rushed in, while Burns was
more fierce than ever to finish the work lie
bad determined to accomplish. To add to the
frenzy of the crowd, the mother of the girls
now made her appearance as an accomplice of
her son in the work of vengeance. The two
then rushed towards the prisoners; the son
with a revolver and knife, the mother with a
hatchet, which she had until now concealed
about her person. She aimed a blow at the
head of the eldefgajer,alreadysuffering from
his wounded arm, cutting him badly. It might
have proved fatal but for the interference of
ex-constable John Scanian, who interposed in_
time to break its force. Deteendned to com
plete the work now began, young Burns fired
another shot at the same man, taking aim be
tween two officers who were standing near
him the ball this time passing through Major's
tht.
T e crowd had now largely increased, all
deeply sympathizing with the mother and son.
A rush was niade for the prisoners, with the
intention of lynching them on the spa. The
cry for vengeance - from the frenzied mother
and infuriated brother was taken up, and it
was with the utmost difficulty that the officers
removed the prisoners to a place df safety.
In the confusion young Burns got at the young
er Major and some say, made an attempt to stab
him, Jelin Scanlan caught Burns, and accused
him of having the knife, whfell he denied, but
it was afterwards taken from his pocket.
Seeing that the force there was -insufficient
to guard the lives of the prisoners, word was
sent to Captain Hagedorn, who immediately
proceeded to the scene with three officers and
speedily restored order. The younger prisoner
bad fled for safety, and now sent to the police-
to say where they could find him. Ile was ar
rested, as was also Mrs. Burns, the mother of
the unfortunate girls, and her son and the two
majors were taken. to Troy at seven o'clock:
The mother of the girls was in so crazed estate
that it was deemed necessary to handcuff her,
and even then she had to be placed in a cart
. and held by three men.
Patrick Burns, the brother of the girls was
accompanied to the depot by another sister,
who seemed fairly heartsick, and her weary
lamentations as she trudged bareheaded over
the dusty road were mournful indeed, and
scarcely one saw her but pitied her.. Her sis
ters had been beaten and outraged by the ruf
fians, and were suffering in their lonely homes;
her mother and brother, who had - madly at
temptedto wreak vengeance upon the destroy.
ers of their happiness, were handcuffed and
borne off to jail in company with the hated
villains. The unwise attempt to use unlawful
means to secure satisfaction, though urged
forward by - the unreasoning crowd tothework,
bad but added to the calamity under which the
family were suffering. Themotheramd brother,
who sought to vindicate by force the good
name of daughters and sisters, were borne to
the same prison with the wretches who had !
deliberately plotted and executed a hellish
crime.
We learn that the elder Major was formerly
an enginceren the Hudson River Railroad. He
was discharged from the road about a year ago
for abandoning his train below POUghkeepeie,"
and leaving the fireman to run it through to
New. York. Helms abed reputation formers-Is.
The son is known as a bounty-jumper and a
fellow of low habits and base associations.
They deny the crime of whiehthey are charged,
but' the circumstances are
so a ti l it l eivi a ce g et a hh i ae n rm s a t ogu A t h eir e tt m oyi.
N an o d th r g ei c i an tire b e e o s m a m id un ag i
71 )
tee girls thsY sQ %%oily outraged;
THREE CENTS.
EUROPE.
THE GREAT ATLANTIC CABLE.
SOME FACTS ADDITIONAL TO THOSE
PRESENTED YESTERDAY.
The Cable Tested in Various Ways and
Pronounced "Satisfactory."
Communication between. the Two Continents
Expected by the 28th inst,
AWFUL RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA
IN EGYPT,
One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Deaths,
thus far, in Two Cities alone,
Victor Emmanuel's Negotiations with
the Pope, and the Pope's
with Mexico.
THE BRAZILS,
Additional telegrams:
litretioS AV/1104, 'May 27 .“ -}70 ; 50,9 8' 9 1 . 4 s t *f i
hides quiet and unaltered; wool dull and tue ,
changed.
MONTEVIDEO, May 22.—Exelianze, 50%; wet
salted hides, 5.75, and dull ; dry American, 4.20
fe4.lo—stock small. Wool—Fine. declining, in•
fcrier firm, there being no stock. Tallow,
New YORK, July 12.—The royal mail steam- 1 . 78 %.
ship Persia, Captain Lott, which left Liver. Commercial Intelligence.
Tlie fund. Ara
pool at one o'clock on the afternoon of the Ist, Lennox MONCY MARKET *-- -
quiet but steady. Consols, on the 30th ofJune,
q
and Queenstown Oft the 2d of July, arrived closed at 900 , 00 W, for both money and accounts
here this morning. The demand fel' discount at the bank was
The steamer New York, from NOW York, ar. heavy—as usual at the end or,.' tile ilaif year.
The rate remained D. al ) • "--
rived at Southampton, on the mottling of the
.The Weekly bank stateeaent shows an tn.
t ,4 10 1 0011.1” ,
29th Of June. crease in the bullion of i 5112,756 sterling
The steamer Bosphorus, from Philadelphia, Baring Brothers & Cm. ,
quote bar Silver at
arrived. at Liverpool on the 29th. 5s 'd ; Dollars, 4s lid @4 s wad ; Eagles, 76$ 311.
The Caledonia, from New York, arrived in ' amBRI CIAN bICIIIVITIES.—BitiIng Brothers &
Co aav • BUslneS ,
' 4 le Clyde on the 30th. • " - • continues to be almost on
, tit
conflneo .
a t DsCnitea. States frigate Niagara arrived bonds and Er to United States flue-twenty
•
•on the gisti the 20th of June, and sailed again mentioned. ...e and Illinois sbares, The Alst
o• , after having at one Ulna been sold.
• rsiestward, 1 1 1, - 1N,4 , . '4O, may toalay June 30th . ) be quoted
Mail,. sa, sri s se ; Erie and Ills at 84. ,
The London TIaiTTIO T . P.tlednALl.. . „ j a il ,.
dmi. u _ .
al wa " - 1, - 0 h t „ n ,.. , .
article on the Atisof the 30th ult., has a long fet'e' s 121 n et ' 4I I n n°49 Were
T 4. .. .ii
facts we anticipated reCable. Many Or thO ...mei - moor July I.—CoreeeaKet was rather .
day, those especially in re article of yeefsee. , • Circutar says: The cries - on Saturday became
parations for the laying of ttsee to the r pre- fi s ns ,
quieter on us.. -or receipt of adyleeS per
• nit in - N w York, and /I.
'-':" "df I eber prices eel
the departure of the Great Easble istel,the ers•" -5
t ansacted cm MelidaV ou
pend, however, an interesting exts, - es e ap . Rage business was 1 sday,
.Tuesday) t advancing rates. On We i dr u ,_....,
the article, concerning the arranaemOrrAsam I -
_!.j. 1 .2 .
board the leviathan. .- upon accou
heavy restrictio s up
in
- the apprebensions
and
also a
q.
uieter tone .
"The paying-out machine is being fcxecl I, luz export of cotton
, t dmand became very limited, .
on board the ship, and the leading trou,
oaf ' aa 'r k ,' aim -
11"1"- hemOSt lustunees were trirrigns
also been completed along the decks tar anaate On Thuiedisai'
This la the week elosil
latter is a plant thuber frame, sums ,
vs Jrting a quietly all&r,
c•- , I 'tautly Supidle. fit he 4uota
semicircular trough of icon, down which the tions. For sell.
' l slicrid there is aar hantry,
cable is clrawn to the Paying to u
4: '' t ' - machine, the tvithout change
es -'i value. Alnerie 1 . was in
friction of its passage se,
' '..ne to keep it• great request ill m s early part of lie week,
'taut,' and obviate all eh.aufe‘.. of
• kinks' enter- and continues in . goastemanclatal Ilt W I SAIr
ing the machine. Ail tb
i 'laic * tanks containing advance. Egyptian, after advanei g: 001181 r"
the cable ha Ilft
and W amen completely filledrablv, closed at a decline of 16" !,4d on the
with Water, and t•les, wire in fact, is as much week. For other descriptions the quotatioes
submerged now - as it wiii be at the bottom generally are alum .1,,„ same ti e isst weele i
of the Atlaue •
...e—with this difference, that elm antes add lin 0 6 0 00 pa''•• villein- 9.8,1
for speculation, and 14,0 1 ,0' fe ~,,„„e. The
the pressure. of the immense depths of the .
ocean wir' - i •
t materially improve the condition 9.0 f - I ll'
notations mit c in ,
tc are . itplano• NW,
Texas 20d, Orleans, 203/ 4 1 ,
of the •
. cable by the compression of the
gat , Yesterday (Friday) the business was diont,
1 I these three tanks the tem- •
...pert: ia. n . 7 000 bales, prices gen,erally firmer, and cot
P (r ...liture and quantity of water are kept pre- -:
mgyptiau, in particular, rather dearer. The
~ isely , equal, and a series of electrical tests actual stock at the end of the half year is
have been taken for the last three days, and found to be 808,030 bales, or 31,100 above the es
- }Fill be continued for five days more. in Order,
from the results of all, to e tgnill a standard of innate—the increase being all in short Stapled
description. The stock of American is 28,480
what the condition of th cable should be bales. At sea, front Ilene, 431,000 bale*,
while paying out. The contents of the three Trade at Manchester yesterday *tea Very (10.
tanks—that is, the entire length of 2,500 miles pressed, tied prices were again lower,
of cable—have now been coupled up, and sig. BlTEADaTtreS.—Alittle mucleneeded rain has
nals are sent through morning and evening, ease, Messrs. Richardson, Spence, & Co. and
These signals show the insulation and eondue-
Wakefield, ;Nash, & Co., report flour quiet for
tivity of the . wire to be almost absolutely
American, but rather dearer for French.
perfect,. even in an electrical sense. Thus, Wheat very drrn, and prices yesterday hi to 2d
even with the rough instruments, a mss- ,
Per cent. clearer • winter red, 8,864.1 to Ds. Corn
sage of four words was sent through yes
quiet, and about. easier; mixed, 27s to 4.83.
teraay in a minute and a quarter. The corn- PicoviSirvs.—MeSsi•S. Big,land, Athya & Co.,
pany, however, believe they have succeed
,, Gordon, Bruce, & Co., and others, report: Beef
ed in designing inatrUnnalta whiall mil more 0 demo
than double this rate. of signalling. ;B i s sssassittut eeen fine qualities, but otat steady prices for the
her kill 18 are very irregiv
taking the four words in a minute as a fair tar,
dull,
aPork is very Bacon, little doing
standard, the yield of profit from such a wire
and prices are in favor of buyers, Cheese has
at the rate of £2 per word, which we believe declined Is to 2s 'al cwt, owing to large Tallow in is to be the charge, would be immense, and, Lard quiet hut steady at 66s to 68s. Tallow in
allowing for repeats and service signals,
fair inquiry at rather clearer rates, Nokia*
amount to more than a million annually. Cot- American, 40s to 41s.
thinly all that science and skill can do has
PRODUCE.—AaIieS tpliet at 28s to 288 6(1 for
been done for the -cable, and everything now Potsond.Ree . f's'ss' - ', ls a:" (1 "' l 'i ,"1rt0.3"
depetah Oil Hl_Otlerate/y Mir Heather f°l. - .), n" l- P i : I • 1 f e r l a ' lli 'Ands:
_ _ .............
only lie vouchsafed to the un el a ing u.
6- I V'''. FITZ, -.Hy Stockl , unc restrictedcle y o o
Mee quiet hnt steady, Unwed in good do
communication with the most distant regions
mend at an advance of WM lifi (in, rah OW—,
of North America may be confidently looked Winter Backed Sperm 1:05; heal £4, Linacee.
for on the 28th of July next." ,
Oil Steady at 33s ed. Rosin freely sold at las
PROCEEDINos or THE 'ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. to lls ed for common. Spirits of Turpentine
The Parliamentaryproceedings were mainly dull at 539 lit cwt,
formal and of an unimportant nature. In the
House of Commons Sir Charles Wood had
made the usual financial statement with re
gard to India. lie showed that there was a
continued general advance in prosperity from
one end of India to the other. Her net reve
nues of the several presidencies for the year
ending April, 1864, amounted to £35,636,898, and
the charges to £26,olB,3BB—leaving a surplus
revenue of £9,618,510, which surplus was nearly
all consumed in the payment of interest,
guaranteed railway dividends, &o. Sir Chas.
Wood detailed the assistance afforded by Go
vernment towards the cultivation Of Cotton,
which, Ile Said, had been attended with great
Success. Indian capitalists were preparing to
weave a description of cotton goods that would
not interfere with English manufactures,. but
would supersede the wasteful profits of hand
100m weaving, and allow the person so em
ployed to engage in agricultural pursuits.
Electioneering addresses, by the various
candidates for Parliament, were the order of
the Islay. Mr. John Bright had issued his ad
dress to the electors of Birminghwals He de
clares, in most emphatic language, that the
Parliament about to expire has been disloyal
to its pledges, and that tyro Minintry which
climbed into oMee on pretence of de%
sstion to
the cause of reform has violated its most
solemn pledge. For i
• himself he claims to ho
held free of any share in a betrakal Of the
popular: trust; and he orpkast 2 .( 9 _ , t aOpe that
the coming election will show that the cause
of freedom, based on a true representation of
the people s is advancing irresistibly to a
triumph. Mr. Bright states that he is ready
to accept again the duties of a representative
of Birmingham, and to speak for the Gen
etituency and the cause of reform M tae
1 urlywkarhament.
INTERESTING NEWS-GENERAL, POLI
TICAL, AND FINANCIAL
GENERAL EIieILISK
The revenue returns show a net balance of
C/24,000 for the quarter ending June 30th, which
is all accounted for by the reduction in the
custom duties. The net decrease for the year
ending June 30th is only £-1G4,000.
The Board of Trade returns for May, COM
pared with those of the corresponding month
last year, show a falling off of about seven per
cent. on the declared value of the shipments.
The reduction from last year is almost entire
ly caused by the fall in the price of cotton and
other important staples, and not by any dimi
nution of employment.
ANOTUER GREAT LAKE IN CENTRAL AFRICA.
Sir Roderick Murchison has received a letter
from the Foreign Moe, stating that two tele
gramp, dated respectively the 27th and 38th of
June, have been received, Men, though im
p'srfectly transmitted, clearly convoy the
intelligence:
Mr. Consul General Colquhmin reports from
.tkleiandria that letters, dated the Nth of May,
had been received from Khartoum, stating
that " Mr. Baker has succeeded in discovering
the second great source of the Nile, second,
not in importance, but only in order of dis
covery, to theNictorim Nyanza of Speke." Mr.
Consul Stanley, also from Alexandria, speaks
of the discovery us that of " the second and
main source of the Nile, in Lake Albert Ny
anza, north latitude two degrees seventeen
minutes." kr. Baker was , expected slionly to
arrive at Alexandria.
In communicating this letter to the' Times,
Sir R. Murchison says: "As one of the tele
grams informs us that this second great Nilo
tie lake lies in north latitude two degrees
seventeen minutes, we may fairly surmise
that it is the Luta Nzige, heard of by Spoke
and placed hypothetically in about its true
position on his map,. but which he was pre
vented from exanliumg."
'AWFUL RAVAGES 01? THE OHOLTHIA 101 HOVPT.
Advices from Alexandria to Juno 28th report
continued ravages by the cholera, both there
and at Cairo, but the epidemic was considered
to be assuming a less alarming character. A
letter from Alexandria, on the 19th ultimo,
says: "The measures taken by the Govern
ment have proved entirely useless to meet the
extent of the evil, the first case of which was
observed here on the 10th or 11th ult. The dis
ease preVaiied lirst in the northwest subarbS,
near the railway station, which arc inhabited
by sonic 2 0000 , Arabs, Greeks, and Maltese,
belonging to the lowest class. It is remarkable
that the epidemic has hitherto only attacked
the port of Alexandria, while hot and populous
Cairo, together with the internal portion of the
country, has remained entirely free. During
the first few days 4, 5 to 8 persons died daily ;
then the deaths rose to 30, 39, and on the 17th,
61 fatal cases were reported) ) An official tele
gram from Alexandria dated to-day (Mb), es.:
timates the number of deaths hitherto at 1,01,
the great majority of which belong to the
native population. On the 25111083 persons
died out of a total population of 180,000. Large
numbers of persons were leaving the town.
The same paper publishes a report from
Alexandria as to the cholera in Mecca, an tin
perfect account of which has previously am
.pearcd. it says
The Mussulman iblitiVals of the Aurban
Bairam took place during the first twenty
days of May, when 000000 or 700,000 pilgrizns
annually assemble in Mecca and upon Mount
Ararat to celebrate their pilgrimage with
the usual religious ceremonies. The modes
of life, utterly opposed to all rules of die
tetic prudence, pursued by these crowded
masses for ten to fifteen days at the Holy
Places, yearly entails a number of diseases to
which many aro sacrifled. This year the cho
lera, or as the Government prefers to call it,
cholerina, Was added to the customary pests,
and is said to have carried off 200 pp 0 . 010 ILG
Mecca and upon Gebel Ararat within the short
space of two moths. Private accounts place
the loss of Pilgrim life at 10,000—au esti
mate obviously , exaggerated, as these do
not even include the deaths by cholera.
FRANCE.
The Weekly returns of taua naak of France
show en increase in tb. cash in hand of MAN;
COO francs, making the total hellion £30,000,000
sterling, a sum nigher than has been touched
for several years.
The Paris Bourse WAS unsettled. Routes on
the Seth advanced to &Lea
The Corps Legisintif had passed the bill pro
viding for the construcn Chum the Great E
bition building in theps de Mars. An
imperial decree dissolves the ministerial
COUnCits. The noW elections aro to take place
On the 22d of July.
The Minister of the Interior, in a circular,
says that, as local questions only have to be
decided at those elections, he recommends to
the ntieets that the electors should j)e al-
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lowed to manifest their choice spontaneously,
and sbould,only he interfered with if Impru
dent persons attempt to alter the character of
elections by importing questions of a political
nature,
ITALY
The failure of the negotiations between the
Italian Government and the Pope was the
leading theme in Italy. The Oninicae, of
Florence, had stated that the Pope rejected
the tletnand that the bishops should be re
quired to take the oath of allegiance to the
Eft' Of Italy, but he had consented to order
them to yield obedience to the laws Ana to the
Slate. The Nazione states that the negotiations
had not only been interrupted, but broken off.
It further declares that the above statements
by the Opiniorte are incorrect, and says it le
true that the Pope rejected the proposal for
the bishops to take the oath of allegiance ; but
It is not correct that the Pope consented
to order the bishops to promise obedience
to the laws and the State. Rome has made
no counter premeds. It is equally Incorrect
that the Pope requested a Med illeatiOn in the
beading of the ezeenainr. The Roman Court
declared that it could neither accept the (ae
rator nor enter into any discussion upon_ the
form that might be given to it. Florence pa
pers assert that MM. Bach and Reimer have
both actively interfered on the part of the Vi
enna Cabinet to prevent an understandi»g be
tween Italy and the Pope, and add that the
Austrian Charge (PAtlitirs at Berlin has ad.
dressed to the berth). Cabinet some strong re
numstrances against the project of a commer
cial treaty between Italy and the Zell Vertd
The Paris Patric states that the negotiations.
between Ronne and Mexico are still pending.
AUSTRIA
The ministerial crisis still continued at
Vienna,.
Florence papers assort that bib''. Bach and
- Hubner have both actively interfered on the
hart of the Vienna cabinet to prevent an un
derstanding between Italy and the Pape; and.
add that the Austrian Charge diAffaircs
Berlin has addressed to the Berlin Cabinet
some strong remonstrances against the pro ,
sect of a commercial treaty between Italy and
the Zolivercin.
Sharpers on the Hudson River Care.
[From the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Engle, July 9.7
The u three•card I,llOnten men still practice
their game on the ears of the Reason MVO
Railroad. Hardly ft clay passes but some um ,
fortunate individual gets his loose change
taken from him. A ease in, point occurred oft
Monday last. Passengers in the second car of
the 9.29 A. M. train from this city on that
day were attracted towards the forward
part of the car, soon after the train left
this ststion, by seeing three "nicely dressed
gentlemen ), alillarentlyenjoying a quiet game
of euchre. As two or three g ondemen Were
gazing at the trio, one of the -" nicely dressed
gentlemen,! , in a casual manner inquired if
any one wished to enter the gain°, A man
about thirty-five years of age, dressed rather
showy, hat'ing on a diamond eluster-pin,
worth . tiop, easily responded by Immediately
seating himself with the party, The cards
were dealt two or three times, the game
going on pleasantly, when of , a sudden.
one of the three "nicely-dressed gentle
men" remarked that his hand was asp - lendid
one for a game of " blnfr;" at nos
would like to het a little on 'Tre, m
atrunner
who sat down last shuttled his Mae hastily
and folel,l td his Joy that he held four kingo.
This being an untliMal occurrence in carets, lie
thought lie would oblige the "nicely-dressed
gentleman" with a bet, and, therefore, wa
gered, the little matter of $lOO on his hand.
The "nicely-dressed gentleman" didn't want
to be backed down, so, in the vulgar phrase of
the game, be "seen" the stranger $lOO and
raised it 000. The latter repliedthat he didn't
but he would Mit up his diamond
oars oq • •
ttOt hrinli as i 1590, 0,11
pin, which rallied j
call his oppolientig ;land. The "nicely-dresp=
gentleman," Of Course, would - oblige the gen
WM an, and the hands were called; the stranger
holding four kings, as above stated, and the
sharper four aces! Thus, in about live mkt.
utes, the stranger was fleeced of a magnificent
diamond pin and*loo. When the cars reached
New York the man who won She property got
out at Thirtieth street, end left for partfl 1111-
known. Yesterday we saw him get off the
cars hero, and, walking to the river, he gOC
aboard of the up boat, on which vessel. he has
by this time "scorched ,1 some one else,
NEW YORK CITY.
.Ifuvi , Toxic, July Pt
SALE . OP GOVERNAMNT VESRELS
Thirty vessels were sold at auction to-day by
order of the QOM/ Pleat/ all the steamers but
two realizing prides larger than was antiespro
ted, viz : from 0,600 to $81,500. The total
ailment of the purchase money was $05.1,000.
Tim steamer Kensington was sold to Y. /1.
Brown & Co. for $Bl,OOO. One of the vessels is
to be prepared as a yacht to take a party to
Newfoundland to witness the laying of the
shore end of the cable. -;!
spzom you: Eirßorm
The Cuba sailed to-day for Europe, with
kie39,000 hi specie.
The llothschilds have oticreil tó become
agents for the sale of 15440 flasks annually cif
the product of the Quicksilver Company%
mines.
An attack was made on some street-sweepers
employed by the contractors, in Broome street,
to-day, and ono man was badly injured. tto
arrests wtre Made. The ilaSanallte were 10.1,04
lug men, and probably belonged to an wont.
zation against the contractors.
GENERAL HOOKER.
General Hooker will assume command here
on Monday next.
THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
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Cardenas. Brig Hoary I.* tiro, Alatan.MlL,
Tun Pittsburg Post, speaking of the rowil,r.
ism of that city, has the fallowing:
We thought, when twenty additional police
men were saddled on the city, at an expense
of *lo,ooo in addition to that already provided.
for, that we should have peace in those die.
tries the disorder in which was assig . qed as
the principal reason for the increase. We OM. ,
eat saniIOWITY Cr, Pat any such )lensing re
sult has been achieved. II! the Algilth Wards
or that portion of it at least, lying in the vi
cinity of the Birmingham bridge there is
more rowdyism and disorder than have been
known there for years, and the most shameful
excesses are committed, without the_perpetrar
tors ever being brought to justice. Peaceable
men are assaulted without cause or provoca
tion, and women insulted, and we have hoard
of one case in which a house was Telienii7
stoned by the ruffians, and the lives of the in
mates placed in the greatest,jeopardy, We
mention these facts, not complainingly, but to
show the necessity for stirring up the police
who do duty in the neighborhood to which we
have referred, or putting men in their place
who Will not permit' excesses like these to be
committed with impunity The people out
there have to bear their fulishare of the bur
den which the support IA per police entails,
and it is only proper that they ohotod have:
protection from the lawless= ruffianism tai
wilieb they heNe so Ign been OXPOiled.
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