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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1865
THE NEWS.
Adviees from the Southwest represent that
11: „. cotton now in Texas will only amount to
,OT+O hales. The reported exodus of 10,000
pttsourian rebels to Mexico is an oxaggera
tfon. The number who took their departure
tr ill amount to less than 400. Two companies
ef lowa cavalry had defeated 500 Sioux Indians.
j:i,hop Andrews has requested the Methodist
x r i,:eoptil Churches to hold their annual Con-
Ponce in the fall, and elect delegates to the
b e nvral Conference, to be held in April next.
llcxican news says that by the Liberal
I,olVral liegretes countermarching his forces
lie completely frustrated the combinations of
the French general to capture him. The city
Tnla ;Ind the town of Mateliula had been
roptured from the French. In the latter
- pee no counter was asked or given. Presi
dent ,lnarea ii in undisputed possession of
Chihuahua.
Governor Parsons, of Alabama, has issued a
proclamation, ordering an election for dele
,ales t o a State Convention to be held on the
jilt of September. He says that of the one
j;undred and twenty-two thousand Alabamians
cnolied in the war, seventy thousand of them
killed or disabled. He also says that they
psve every right which they ever possessed
txreot slavery; and that the sooner they bow
to the decree abolishing that it will be the
',tier for them.
pi Awe, LAU, it was found in the Treasury
proartweet that 0110 litindrod $l,OOO 'bonds,
with coupons attached, were missing. The
detectives were notified, and after a thorough
ineef,tigation, they arrested in New York. on
'kali/May last a 31r. W. W. Whittlesey, a form
'Er clerk in the Loan Oftlee, who confessed his
~or. No money was found on him, but he
:Ai the MUM where some of the coupons
ere secreted. He was 10dged in jail at Wash.
North Carolina is shipping to the North
,ge amount of copper, iron, lead, ate., mined
that State. The negroes are, it is said, az
linulating small fortunes working the gold
nil ,ilver mines. The aristocracy of the State,
is reported, are becoming very bitter in
ViewB against all. Union men.
nrietary Stanton has, on behalf of the GO
yrnancut, leased Ford's Theatre for fifteen
in:tired dollars a month, with the privilege
o :•l,nying it for one hundred thousand dollars,
Congress so provides.
A terrible disease has broken out among the
c41;lo, horses, and hogs on the Arkansas and
bottom lands. The supposed cause
1. 1 ,,,i50n from black gnats. The animals die
In from twenty-four to forty-eight hours after
laliing the disease.
Preliminary measures are in progress at
lvArington to try Captain Wirtz, commander
of the Andersonville prison. A large number
WiilleSSCS have been summoned and a mass
trtettmons collected.
A large slaughter-house situated in the
west end , ' of Jersey City, was destroyed by
lire early yesterday morning; loss, $15,000. It
is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
Further particulars of the wreck of the
Mut:sport Quinnebang, come tons via Fortress
- Noun... The number of those lost Will ahlount
to about twenty-one.
New Orleans despatch of the 2,5 th, says
tat -Merritt's Cavalry force
were on the move
irota Shreveport (La.,) to San Antonio, Texas.
A stock broker, named George it. Graham,
1 , :;e:. before Recorder Enne yesterday, charged
with receiving from the defaiilting paying
:ier of the Commercial National Bank, Mr.
:ark, come SSO,OOO in money and other proper
ly. maid money and property belonging to the
ahk. Mr. Graham was bound over in SIO,OOD
to er at court.
Another interesting article by " Chips," de
-rintive of the scenes along the new addition
• the route of the Union (Seventh and Ninth
treets) Passenger Railway, will be found in
yother column. The ears ran over this new
6rtion of the route for the first time a feW
:Ly:, ago; so that what is here described will
e new to most of our readers.
The liieinuond, Virginia, election yesterday
~ ., J ulted in the choice
of Mr. Sturdevant for
The New York Express announces that Presi•
knt Johnson will soon make a tour through
su Eabteru States.
A iitintutine of thirty days has been estal>
,Led at Charleston.
mere was again a dull stock market Tester
alwi. There was, however, some slight inl
psi mein •in Government loans, especially
thr rive -twenties, based upon favorable fo
nign advises. Other bonds are very dull.
leathagliailroad and other speculative stocks
pre a shade lower than on the previous day.
There was very little doing in the flour mar
let yesterday, which was steady. Oats were
k.wer. Coin sold at 95 cents per bushel. Got
.ou was sold at a deeline. Sugar brought 10
.eats per pound, in gold. Whisky was quoted
t t 2.17 per gallon.
The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan,
..-terday, amounted to 0,750,300.
Vold elOsed in Now York last night at 148%.
SOUTHERN JOURNALISM
A convention of the editors of the South
' la newspapers is proposed, for the purpose
hr-irasing, by mutual agreement, their
limiption prices to the rates demanded
present expenses of conducting and
riming their journals, and to form a corn
:nation similar to the Associated Press of
North, to procure telegraphic intelli_
ee. Many, of our Southern exchanges
doing real service to the nation by their
qral ethics to the people, and by the per
iency with which they counsel frank and
:ilia] submission to the Union, and a fair
.111 of free labor. The rampant secession
g2rs nearly all disappeared with the de
fil: of the rebellion ; and the summary
;.1,1 ession of the few attempts that have
made to disseminate fire-eating doe
broadcast, appears to have had a salu-
Olkt. There is at least this great
:;ained, that whereas in former years
' of the South was completely de
to the service of slavery and seces
m• its mighty powers are now wielded
1, 4 by the friends and advocates of
i,erty ;did Union. We append a few ex
nets, Which indicate the prevailing tone :
nu: the Charleston Courier. 3
it must be understood that South
, mlina is as ready andas any State
the Union to enter into the bonds of a corn
''': tAmiederacy in which all the States shall
i 'lm , ented. We will admit such was not
/ 4 liptage a few months ago, but now we
dealing with the past, but with the
and the future. It becomes us by
Ponsideration to look to the prospective
~inut of not only our State but all the
-; and who will venture to assert that the
larc of South Carolina is not connected
tap prosperity of all the other States of
1 We entreat parties, possibly nbm
of the soil, who are making visits tO
6 to be careful as to what opinions
, Arer in reference to the sentiments of
, PPople of South Carolina. We, as a people,
repared to receive the new political status
to us, and persons going to the
'i,
and representing that the State is
' 4l .S' unfit for the consideration of a be
,. Ihmit Of civil authority, are doing us great
Carolinians are not fools. They ad
t• 4, do all sensible people both North and
' ll l,lllla the war is ended. They now ask
they may be allowed to enjoy the rights
' l,l l government and the privilege of in
ghg is their accustomed professions and.
xtt'ugedThey desire that facilities ssho uld diem Of repairing and rebuilding,
r 'l=ops and warehouses, and that the
b irthainieis of trade should be opened.
they pledge Their fealty la the United
"We have one request to
eof our n lends of the North, and that is
they win not incite a war of races in the
'lt Present the new system of labor is
"n;; harmoniously and satisfactorily, and,
" I, e Of time, we doubt not that this state
limp s rill be %reatly enhanced in a bene
.P"lnt view. We repeat, that South
~i lll / 1 1 313 'will not be backward in looking
their own interests,provided the re
, proper encouragement. y
Mc Norfolk Past.]
general policy of mutual concession, and
which has apparently been. adopt
y common consent, has already been pro
ive of the happiest results in allaying un
ly Qrlwatile feeline,i , nlll the stranger
lt: Mal it a difficult matter to discover any
Mein:, of discontent or disaffection, or
ifestations of bitterness Or distrust among
ore class of our people towards another.
itingle together in the daily duties of life,
te marts of commerce or the centres of
and at the convivial board as freely, as
•liaturedly, and as thoughtless of he past
:r that past had rawer existed. She
'berate and the Federal meet upon cOm
ground, and in a spirit of fairness and
ttess, marked by the best feelin gs of mu
respect, discuss the recent war --its Na
as generals, its victories, its defeats, and
N nisequences thereof—just as we used to
the results of some great political
r"'ion.
Indeed, it is very doubtful whether
+'rr holt any more wounds to be heated,
11 9 Ride/thing, between She contending parties
. h a re frequentty been Opened by some exciting
e,,,ttext. a are a people that soon for
"'l it is not in Our nature to bear malice,
vtte stand with great obstinacy by our
n m S,alld are tenacious of carrying out our
Su rmounting an obstacles to:l=qm
a eh wished purpose, so soon as it has been.
quietly subside, content with our
l!th. If we fall weacquieeee with becoming
1 111 . 11, and flatter ourselves that it is not in
t o command success even though
lesi ay have deserved it. Thus it is now.. The
11•154 been decided; slavery has been
out, and the doctrine of secession forever
,londt_K•trine that never did have any ,
~nfor surely no Government would
gh tOprovide for its own death.
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Melt would be powerless to cottreA her into
the line of duty ; and what kind of a govern
ment would tins be then with an finperio in
buperintu P But, it is unnecessary to bring up
these old arguments, for four years of war and
discussion Bare exhausted the subject and
forever settled that question. The people
here are fast coming to view it in the proper
light, HMI DOW port:ewe that they acted hasti
ly. They nee, too, the folly of prolonging op
position to the full and unconditional re-estab
lishment of good feeling between the people
of the several States.
(From the Nashville Anion,]
The South has been twice arrayed agaiust
the _North—once politically and once in arms.
The result has been defeat in both instances.
This defeat must be accepted as a great fact,
and the it's - lid - mate business of true Southern.
statesmanship is to seek out for the people
the readiest and most beneficial mode of ad
justment to this inexorable condition. Some
questions must be considered as definitely set
tled. 'The - war decided something. What was
itl The impracticability of secession—the integrity
of the Union, and the incompatibility of slavery
with freedom. Incidentally to this is the de-
SUM:lion of slavery. The fact must be cc
cepted that Slavery 110 Where exists in the late
rebellious States. In the progress of a great
war it became necessary for the Government
tousc, fori, purely military purpose, the Afri
can race in this country. The condition of
that use was a change in the statue of a largo
portion of thatrace. That change having been
made from necessity by him who was by law
the sole judge of that necessity—and there
never Since haling occurred a necessity for
a reehauge, it must remain fixed. le who
does not recognize this is a disorganizer
and an impracticable. Statesmanship never
whines over results, but deals at once with
them in a sensible and straightforward man
ner.
In connection with the fact of the destruc
tion of slavery, must be considered that other
great fact, that a majority of the American
people have repeatedly declared their will
that it should be so. They look upon it as a
compensation for the loss of life and treasure
which they have sustained. In other words,
they regard it as a blessing. This expression
of their will and sentiments the South cannot
afford to disregard. 'Upon the temper which
is displayed in future intercourse with the
North depends much of the future happiness
and prosperity of the Southern people.
If we persist that we have been robbed, that
slavery was wrongfully and wantonly destroy
ed, and seek further to agitate the subject, we
simply cut ourselves off from the sympathy of those
with wham we mita live, and volunteer to the world
a standing advertisement of our subjugation. Why
prate of wrongs if we can suggest no remedies'
Why provoke from Victorious enemies (if we
will be so feOliall as to call the Northern peo
ple such,) increased rigor of rule, and fresh
impositions of burdensl It remains entirely
with the South itself to determine its future
position—whether it shall be one of equality
or one of vassalage. Just so surely as it ar
rays itself against the fixed will of the great
majority, just so surely, as it has already most
sadly learned, will it fail to secure any
thing but contempt and defeat. Let ns be
ware; then, of those who for personal ends
Would place us in so false and diSaStrollS an
attitude. If we do not want negro suffrage
forced upon us, let us not provoke it byfoolish
perverseness in our failure to accept accom
plished facts. We must keep in sympathy
with the Northern people, and remove from
our midst ;all offensive relies of a dead insti
tution, in order to bring about, at the earliest
possible day, a complete obliteration of sectional
lines, anti secure that actual union which can spring
only /roam harmonious feelings and common inte
rests. It is only as we lift Ourselves to the 11.1.,
tional level that we cease to be a mere de
-pendency, a contemptible province to a con
queror's dominions. This may be a humilia
ting fact, but we must not forget that it Is the
result of our voluntary passage at arms with
-a superior antagonist.
[From the New Orleans Delta.]
The people of the South, as a Mass, have
honestly made up their minds to uupport the
Union, the Constitution, and the laws of our
common country, and that they will adhere to
this conclusion with scrupulous fidelity there can
not be a shadow of a doubt. All they desire is a
restoration of civil power—to have their State
and municipal governments in regular, unob
structed operation, as before the war—and in
this regard they are not Only reassured, but
delighted with the wise and magnanimous
policy announced and energetically pursued
by President Johnson.
We might fill our columns with extracts
of this character, nearly all the editorials of
the loyal Southern newspapers breathing,
day after day and month after month, a
similar spirit. They have doubtless many
prejudices to combat, but in the end a large
measure of success will reward their efforts.
Mlt must be remembered, however, that
the South is still in a very unsettled con
dition. Many traces of a distrustful feeling
between the whites and blacks are per
ceptible. A. prospect of the emigration of
Irishmen or Germans to perform some of
the labor heretofore monopolized by the
negroes is commented upon as an import
ant and hopeful indication of the future.
Complaints of the unreliability of the ne
groes appear; and some journals allege that
discontent on the part of the latter already
wears an ominous aspect, and that if pro
per precautions are not taken there may
be a repetition of the St. Domingo massa
cres in some districts. Other journals,
again, accuse their cotemporaries of a ten
dency to exaggerate difficulties of this kind.
But enough is disclosed to make it clearer
than ever that it is the true interest of the
dominant classes of white men to treat the
freedmen well and fairly, for a double rea
son—first, to secure lenient treatment
themselves from the Government ; and,
second, to re-establish industry and to
avoid the deadly animosity of the race
which they have .heretofore held in servile
subjection.
Despite occasional instances in which the
agents of the Freedmen's Bureau have come
in conflict with the military authorities, it
is recognized everywhere as the active and
faithful champion of its proteges. It is ani
mated by an earnest desire to redress their
wrongs, relieve their wants, and to secure
them "a fair chance in life." The freed
men have a faithful and powerful friend
and guardian in Gen. HOWARD.
CHAMP FERGUSON.
The trial of this notorious rebel chieftain,
now proceeding at Nashville, Tennessee,
before a military commission, is exciting
much interest in the South. He is accused
of murdering many Union prisoners in
cold blood, and of all the infamies connected
with the worst species of guerilla warfare.
His defence consists mainly of a plea that
he virtually surrendered on the same terms
as the armies of LEE and JonwsmoN, and
that he should not be held amenable for his
violations of the laws of war while he was
in the Confederate service. One of the
principal witnesses against him is thus de
scribed by the Nashville Union :
The first witness called for the Government
in this case was the celebrated Union scout,
" Tinker Dave," who was at the head of a com
pany of home guards, and who has fought
Champ Ferguson from the beginning to the
end of his career. It would almost seem that
both of these men bear charmed lives. They
have shot at each other innumerable times,
and received ugly wounds.. They were deadly
enemies, and hunted each other down with
savage ferocity. The real name of "Tinker
Dave," as be was known in the war r is David
Beatty. lie is a man about forty-five years of
age, Medium size, but .of iron mould, and
great courage. He is covered with scars re
ceiverl in battle, and from bushwhackers, and
many a rebel has bit the dust from his un
erring aim. They feared Dave, on account of
his cunning and courage.
BEATTv's testimony portrays in homely
but emphatic language the brutality of the
rebellion ; how FERGUSON roamed through
East Tennessee, "killing and conscripting
Union men, and shooting at men ;" how
they killed prisoners, whom he saw carried
off one day, and whose dead bodieshe wit
nessed the next; how they came disguised
as Union men to his house, to lure him
into their toils ; how he was once captured,
and in effecting his escape was fired upon,
and received three wounds—" one in the
back, one in the shoulder, and one in the
hip ;" how he was in communication with
General 131:11tNf3IDE, "bushwhacking," and
going to the Federal lines for ammunition,
but for no pay, clothing, or provisions, and
marshalling his forces of determined neigh
bors to the number of five, ten, twenty, or
sixty, as the exigencies of his peculiar ser
vice required.
CHARLESTON AND NEWBERN.
A Quarantine Established—Encourag
ing Mining News.
Itiaw Yana', July 25.—A quarantine, of thirty
days has been established at Charleston, on
all vessels having on board cases of yellow
fever, cholera, or other Infectious diseases
also, on all vessels from the West Indies.
Newbern advices state that a superior
quality of copper is being received there fox
shipment North, having been obtained from
the mines near Charlotte by the defunct rebel
government. There are also large quantities
o f iron, lead, coal, and sulphur to be shipped
.North.
The negroes are accumulating small fortunes
by 'working the gold and silver mines.
Large quantities of confiscated cotton is
also being forwarded North.
The Raleigh Progress says that the native
element, including the aristocracy, is grow in g
more defiant, and threaten to hang the Unicn
men as soon as the troops are withdrawn.
Gen. Sherman in Indianapolis.
Ismertsroms, Ihd., July 2 5.--Major General
"Sherman arrived here this morning, and will
be formally welcomed by the civil and Milita
ry- authorities this afternoon.
WASHINGTON.
ARREST OP A THIEVING TREA
SURY CLERK.
Acknowledges Having Stolen One Hundred
Thousand Dollars in Bonds.
THE BARGAIN FOR FORD'S THEATRE
CLOSED
WASHINGTON, July 25,1865
Arrest of a Thieving Clerk.
On the 15th of June, 1884, the chief clerk and
superintendent, connected with the office of
the Secretary Of the Treasury, addressed to
the latter a note, stating that one hundred
bonds, partially prepared for issue, of $l,OOO
each, were missing, and that he had exhausted
all the resources at his command in the en
deavor to find them. As they had not been
signed by the Register, or sealed, they could
not be negotiated. The coupons, however,
amounting to $1.08,000, were sealed and com
plete, and payable to bearer on the first of
January and July in each year, and could be
sold anywhere. The Solicitor of the Treasury
having employed two detectives of this city,
it was not long before they fixed upon WAL
LAC& W, Wartmussy, a clerk in the loan office
office of the Treasury Department, as the
guilty party, but it was not deemed .hdri
sable to make the arrest until more con
clusive evidence could be obtained. Their
suspicions were strengthened by the fact that
WHITTLESEY resigned his position in Decem
ber last, and was living sumptuously, without
ostensible means. On Saturday last the de
tectives proceeded to New York and captured
WHITTLESEY, near the Western Hotel, in Court
land street. He confessed his guilt, and stated
to them where some of the coupons were con
cealed, namely—in the chandelier of his resi
dence, where they were subsequently found,
but the bonds had been destroyed, On re
covering all that was available of the Stolen
Property, the detectives took their prisoner
rapidly to Jersey City, to catch the train.
Wtorrmisay quietly seated himself in the
car, but soon after the train had attained its
full speed he hastened to the door, doubtless
with the intention of jumping off; but was
pulled baek. Finding himself foiled, he en
deavored to obtain SYMpathy from the passen
gers by accusing the officers of kidnapping
Ile was safely landed here this morning, and
conveyed to the police headquarters.
WEIITTLESEY had sold some $5,000 worth of the
coupons and had made about $2,200 in premium
on the gold, but through his high style of liv
ing he had no money when arrested.
Ford's Theatre.
The Secretary of War having occupied
Form's Theatre, has informed the latter , s
counsel that be recognizes his right to com
pensation, and after a careful investigation of
the value of the building, has rented it until
the lat of February next for $1,300 per month,
with the privilege of purchasing it for 000,000,
the price agreed upon with the Christian Com,
mission, if Congress see proper to do so; if
not to return it in good condition. The build..
big will probably be needed for a depository
of the rebel archives.
The Government Sole of Vessels.
The Navy Department is rapidly disposing
of its immense - fleet, at prices about equal to
the Government appraisement. The next
great sales will take place as follows Boston,
August 1; New York, August 15; Philadelphia,
August 10; Mound City, Illinois, August 17;
and Washington, August 19. These sales will
dispose of the larger portion of the fleet which
bag. taken so prominent a part in crushing the
rebellion.
The Forthcoming Trial of the Ander.
sonville Prison• Keeper.
Preliminary measures are in progress for the
trial of Captain Wiara, formerly in charge of
the Andersonville military prison. A large
number of witnesses have already been sum
moned, and letters are constantly received
from those who possess knowledge of the cru
elties practiced on Union prisoners by this
rebel commander.
Patents 'gined.
One hundred and eighty-four patents were
issued to-day.
Gov. Perry, of south Carolina.
Governor PERRY will leave here to-day for
South Carolina to enter upon the duties of his
°thee.
_
Personal.
ISAAC E. Homaze, of the delegation from
South Carolina, is ill in Waahington.
A number of leading railroad men front the
South are here on business connected with
their respective companies.
FORTRESS MONROE.
Further Particulars of the Loss of the
quinnebaug.
A LIST OF THOSE LOST
FORTRESS Mormon, July 24.—Further par
ticulars of the loss of the steamer Quinnebang
have been received here. '
The steamer Idaho arrived from Morehead
City, with 210 officers and men of the 76th
Pennsylvania - Volunteers, who were on the
Quinnebang when she was wrecked. They
left Morehead City on the morning of July
20th, and soon after passing outside the bar
the machinery gave out, and ceased to work,
and the ship soon drifted ashore, in spite of
all efforts to save her. In two hours she was
a perfect wreck, there being a heavy sea at
the time. The U. S. surveying steamer Cor
win sent her small boats to their relief, and
the second mate of the brig Adams took three
boatloads ashore. Many saved themselves - by
means of life-preservers. The following is a
complete list of the lost:
Sergeant D. Lichtenberg, Corporal J.
Camproan, Patrick Cawley, Patrick Plane,
John Oertel, John M. Oomphf, W. V. Long, Da
vid Welch, John B. Stewart, and some ten or
twelve of the 9th Maine Regiment, are said to
be lost.
The steamer Thetes has arrived from Texas
with Battery D,lst Wisconsin Artillery, bound
to Alexandria. The captain of the Thetes re•
ports all quiet in Texas. Many of the troops
were still on transports when he left.
- The United States steamer Kennebec has ar•
rived from Pensacola, but brings no news. It
was very healthy when she left, on the 19th
instant.
. The Thetis reports passing off Cape Fear
bark Juliette S. Clark, and a large fleet of ves
sels bound North. The ship Berman, of Bre
men, and another ship, name unknown, that
loaded with French tobacco at City Point,
went to sea yesterday.
Surgeon McClellan, for the last three years
in charge of Hampton Hospital, left yesterday
for Philadelphia, being assigned to duty in
that city. Dr. Frantz, Surgeon United States
Army, supersedes him in charge of Hampton
Hospital,
THE SOUTHWEST.
Only 50,000 Bales of Cotton in Texas—
The Reported Exodus of Rebels Exag.
gerated—The Methodist Church South
—A Fight with Indians.
1 , :-Ew ORLEANS, July 24.—The steamship Ma,
riposa, from New York, arrived here to-day.
A. letter from Galveston, dated the 18th
says the total amount of cotton in Texas does
not exceed 50,000 bales.
The Houston Telegraph, of the 20th, says it is
reported that 10,000 Missourians are in that
vicinity, bound for Mexico. This is undoubt
edly a piece of nonsense, the entire party be
ing less than four hundred.
On the 10th ultimo two companies of the 78th
lowa Cavalry fought a party of five hundred
Sioux Indians, and captured four of them. The
Indian loss in killed and wounded is unknown,
but it is supposed to have been heavy.
The Times publishes a special despatch from
Mobile, dated the Sod instant, which says
- Bishop Andrews has issued a notice to the Me
thodist Episcopal Church, requesting that the
Annual Conference hold its sessions in the
coming fall, and elect delegates tethe General
Conference, commencing in April next; also,
requesting the churches to meet at Columbus,
Ga., for reconstruction.
The cotton market is dull sales of mid
dlings at 41 cents. Total receipts since the oc
cupation, 10,000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS.
CAIIM, July 25.—New Orleans dates of July
19 have been received. Merritt's cavalry force
arc on the !move from Shreveport to San An
tonio, and it is thought the march would not
be attended with more than the ordinary in
conveniences that beset cavalry in other sec
tions of the Union.
A defalcation of ten thousand dollars has oc
curred in the commissary department. Com
missary Scott lost the money in gambling, and
bad fled front Shreveport, -
One thousand bales of cotton had arrived at
New Orleans from the Ouachita. river. There
is a fair supply of common in market, with
little inquiry. Good ordinary, 366/380 ;
41(4 , 46c. No sales of Sugar or Molasses.
Produce quiet and unchanged.
MEMPHIS.
A Terrible Disease Among the Cattle.-
A Large NuMber Dying. '
Ns rats, July 25.—1 n the Arkansas and Nis
' Sissibi Bottoms a disease has broken out
among the cattle, horses, and hogs, and has
been raging for some time, the giltattin dying
PHILADRP
in twenty-four toorty-, ght hours after be
ing attacked, Tbluppo ed cause is poison
from black gnats, Ilch ire very thick some
time since.
There has been igrea loss of stock, and
men have been attked b the same disease,
who have been dodring ie cattle.
The Richmond
Ammoim, July ,
the American, from Richmo;
evening, says the election i
quietly, resulting in the ell
vant for Mayor by four hued
Taylor.
The Richmond papers of t
received here to-night,
Monitor 4ftun ,
/..._
PORTLAND, July M.—. 011 •
tor Washita was launch O. s
IMER
The Combinati
Forces
TWO TOWNS
LEBER
Now Yous.,july 2-s.—Thesteame\vera Cruz,
from Vera Cruz July 14th, and Pawn°, from
New Orleans July 17th, have saved. fjThe
.Vera Cruz news has been alreadublished,
having been received via Havana.
The New Orleans Times City. of sico cor
respondent says that when Negre ell back
from Matamoros he offered COI. J ngros (1)
battle at Buena Vista, which wa echned.
Finding the Imperialists were pl ning to
surround him; Negreti retired to nchora,
where he divided his forces, rnarchis them in
different directions, and thus M al Bii
zaine,s combination, which was to initiate
the war. was ffintrated.
The war is beCOMing every day mo serioun
in the State of Qhichoaeoca, and a fo of one
thousand men has been sent from ISico to
t
protect Morelia, the capital of the St . This
has not been done, however, and Cc t Pot
tier has been censured and recalled f allow
ing Ilegules to defeat him. Col. Pat e has
also suffered disasters.
The City of Tula . has been , taken b. he Li
bends. The town of Idatehtiala hA been
stormed, and the Imperialists lost th - A hun
dred men. No quarter was asked o iven,
The States of Guenero, Chiapas, Tobas , and
the greater parts of Vera Cruz and Vai , are
in the hands of the Liberals. President arez
is in undisputed possession of Chihkhua.
The bitterness of the people is daily grtring
stronger, and it is impossible to eollei the
taxes.
ALABAMA.
Proclamation of the Provisional v.
ern or—Seventy Thousand Alahani
Killed or Dtsabbled. in the ifirdi
State Convention to be held in
tember.
MOBILE, July '2l—The Advertiser and Regeer
publishes to-day the proclamation of Goverir
Parsons.
Re reviews the condition of the South bete
cue south bef
secession, and its now impoverished state..
estimates that one hundred and. twenty 4
thousand Alabamians engaged in the war ' A
whom seventy thousand are dead and
abled. Hence destitution reigns where one
stood comfortable homes.
Yet amid this ruin; suffering, sorrow, an
death, resulting from secession, every point
cal right which the State Possessed under the
Federal Constitution, is here to-day, with the
exception of slavery, The slave code is a dead,
letter, and it is the height of wisdom to pro
duce the best possible results from the neN
order of things.
Justices of the peace, constables, members
of the common councils, judges of the courts,
except judges of probate; the county treasu
rers, tax collectors, assessors, coroners, and
municipal officers, who were in office on the
22d of May last, are appointed during the cot
tinuance of the Provisional Government.
The judges of probate and sheriffs in offin ,
on the 22d Of May last will take the amnesty.
oath, and continue to discharge the duties ff
their offices until others are appointed. Eah
officer is required to take the amnesty °aft,
and give a new bond. The election for dee
gates to the convention to assemble on the lilt
of September next will be held on the 3lstpf
August next.
OUR IRON-CLAD NAVY.
Description, of Two of its Great Reps.
sentences, the Dictator and the Dln-
derberg.
[From the Boston Journal, Monday. 3
THU DICTATOR
The great attraction of the present Niek
will be the ocean monitor Dictator, whichar
rived here on Sunday forenoon, droppimr
chor in the roads at about eleven o'clock. he
is last from Newport, IL 1., where she , as
visited by about ten thousand persong or
about one thousand a day. Leaving Nen ort
on Friday afternoon, she steamed out t ea,
by Block Island, some thirty or forty es,
before proeeeding directly on her tours
was a little rough outside that nigh just
what was wanted—and She worked to a c rm,
steering like a pilot-boat, and seemi as
buoyant and lively as a wooden ship i bal
last. As to speed, she has made from n e to
eleven knots per hour on the passag . and
there is no doubt this can, and soon )1 be
increased to twelve or thirteen (peril+ s
fif
teen) knots. She was off Cape Cod on tar
dily evening, and made the balance of t • run
at a moderate rate. On nearing , Boston ight,
however, yesterday morning, her rapid ore
meats completely astonished the tat:, and
pilot boats which were out on the alert.
. . . .
The Dictator measures upwards of 3,1 tons,
and drawslefeet of water forward, and' 2 aft
at present,
.With only about 500 tom of , al on
board, leaving her deck some four fee hove
water forward, and three feet aft. W h her
full quantity of coal on board (1,000 to -) she,
of course, will be a foot or so deeper. lie is
320 feet long, has 50 feet beam, and 2 depth
i
of hold. Her turret is 24 feet in diam er on
the inside, and 15 inches in thickne . She
carries but two 15-inch guns, which thr solid
shot of 480 its. each. The walls oft pilot
house, at the top of the turret., are 11 i hes in
thickness. The quarters of the ofti s and
men below are well lighted throng heavy
`glasses set into the deck, and th ughly
ventilated from two or three steam owers,
which are kept constantly in motto 'rasing
a breeze, which sometimes compels e off
cers to look after their caps, and ,rather
singular in July) overcoats also. Shl can be
got under way without a man show's , him
self on deck, her engines rousing. up e hun
dred and twenty fathoms of chain in ost as
little time as ittakes to mention it. I age of a
leak in her hull, thirty-five hundre tons of
water can be thrown out in one hour. She has
fifty-six furnaces. One hundred and fty fire
men are necessary to attend to the all, but
the lower tier, the ones mostly used, onsume
about eighty tons of coal per . day. With all
her furnaces in operation she burns )out one
hundred and fifty tons. She has acry of one
hundred and seventy-six seamen, d needs
forty.more, which -will -probably .be romptly
'furnished from the Ohio reemvi Ship at
Charlestown. The D. proceeds hen to Han
fax, and doubtless to Europe, forlher sea
worthiness is now settled beyondpiestion.
4 ,
Should any mishap occur , she is wel rovided
with boats, six in number, one of , rich is so
arranged that it can accomrnodatetwo hun
dred and fifty persons, and is wet supplied
with sails, &c.
THE DILVDERBIZRO:
This vessel, whose launch at fie
Saturday last we have already r
thus described from data furnishe
signer and builder, W. 11. Webb:
The Dunderberg is a sea-going it -clad ram
of 5,090 tons register, 5,000 horse-p • et, and to
carry an armament Rodman
and
four 15-in ~odplart
and loud= 11-inch Dahlgren gun The Dun
derberg originally was intended to be Pro
vided with two revolving Tunby t etsple.ced
upon the top of the casement, bu se coml.
sels prevailed, and the casement as length-
It al.
ened,and the turret plan abandon . . Extreme
length of the Dunderberg, 380 fe 4 inches;
extreme beam, 72 feet le inches ; d 3th of hold,
22 feet 7 inches; height of ease mt, 7 feet 9
Inches; length of rum bow, 5o cot i draft,
when ready for sea, 21 fee ; displace
ment, 7,000 tons; tonnage,o9o tons;
weight of iron armor, 1,000 ,t s. Dimen--
sions of engines and boilers &c., are as
follows : Boilers, six main and wo donkey
—total, 8 boilers;'depth of bol rs, 13 feet ;
height of boilers, 17 feet 0 inch ; length of
„ i
boilers, 21 feet 5 inches • weight boilers, 459
tuns; boiler surface, 30,000 feet; ade surface,
1,200 feet; condensing surface,l2,ooo square..
feet; diameter of propeller, 21 het pitch of
propeller, 27 to 30 feet ; Weightier propeller,
34,5F0 pounds ; capacity of coal imulters_, 1,000
tons; actual horse power, 5,000; urinal horse
power, 1,500. The peculiarity of he model of
the Dumlerberg has naturally a meted much
attention, and caused much disc ssion among
naval architects. The floor is flat, and the
shies slope up and outward at an angle which
it is believed will make this vesi • el very easy
in a sea-way—far more so than the sea-going
iron-elads of Eur Ope. ;
While great care has been paken by Mr.
Webb to make this vessel safe Az deep water,
resistless in attack, he has lot lost sight
of the necessity of offering tho greatest pos
sible resistance to the shot of in antagonist.
For this purpose he has coitbined a huge
mass of timber, with the piotective pow.
ere of the best hammered; iron plates,
which are four and a-half inchts in thickness.
This eladhing will be secured to the hull and
casemate by means of screw-bolts, which will
not pass terough the sides, consequently in
action there will be no bolts; or bolt heads
or nuts dying about the decks killing and
maiming the crew. The casemate will contain
four 15-inch guns, and from twelve to fourteen
/0-inch guns of the Dahlgren pattern. The case
mate extends from the outer edge of the hull,
which rises up at an angle of 35degrees, upward
and inward at an angle of 55 degrees, which is
deemed capable of throwing off the shot and.
shell of an antagonist with perfect ease. The
ram of the Dunderberg is a putt of the vessel
itself, and not a detached mass, as is the case
of most ram ships. To form this beak the ship
is 4rolid for over fifty feet, and sharpened off so
as to form - this terrible Instrument of destruc
tion. This Is sheathed over with heavyarmor
to prevent its being injured while ramming a
vessel: The hull of the vessel varies in thick-
MOSS from thiee to six feet at the water line;
this - is solid wood. The inner hull of the
Vessel forms the coal bunkers; both hulls are
caulked outside and inside, so that the Dun
derberg is actually a double ship.
One thousand tons of iron armor will to 0S•
lA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1865.
pended in elading the Dunderberg ; 500 tons
are a 3 l 34 rea t d i y a i i n e :o in si t t i m on c . k T n h o e ss p ,
tta o ntl a n re th s e c l i l v u , l v l
are from is to 15 feet in hingth,.3 feet in width,
bolted tO tile WOOd CIISIIIOR by 14-inch
The plates arc placed vertically on the sides.
The casemate armor is 4 , / 2 inches in thickness,
and secured and placed in the same manner
as on the hull. These slabs are over 8 feet in
length and 28 inches in width. The pilot
house is six feet in diameter, seven feet in
height, and ten inches in thickness, and is
situated in the forward part of the casemate.
The Dunderberg will have. two Masts, the
forward one being fitted with yards, and she
can spread several thousand yards of canvas.
The cylinders are each 100 inches in diameter,
with 40 inches stroke of piston, and are placed
on the starboard side of the vessel side by side.
There are 6 main and two donkey boilers. Th e
main boilers are 13 feet deep, 17 feet 6 inches
high, and 21 feet 5 inches front, with sixty fur
naces in two tiers. The smoke pipe is tldr
teen feet in diameter, and is shot-proof when
it passes through the casemate. The cost of
the engines and boilers will lie over a half mil
lion dollars. The contract rate of speed will
be fifteen knots per hour.
al despatch to
received this
ay passed oil
ion of Sthrde
majority over
morning were
raught Mord
essfully to-day.
A SPEECH BY GENERAL LOGAN.
HIS VIEWS ON FREE LABOR AND THE CONSTITII-
Major . General Logan delivered a foreiblo
and eloquent speech in Louisville, Ky.,' .on
Friday last, in which he, gave some sensible
advice to the Kentuckians. We subjoin the
following extracts :
French
We look in vain through the Southern States
for puplie schools. Ignorance sits enthroned
Where the flowers bloom in midwinter, and
waste their fragrance upon the desert air.
Why is this sot The riddle is easily read.
The educated man will think, and, if lus heart
is educated, he will feel, and out 'of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
Surely, then, that same policy that made it a
legal crime to educate a slave, Must, in the
inexorable spirit of its theory, oppose the Wu
cation of any and everybody who, per possi
bility, may become the friend of the slave ;
the people of the South have resolved to per
petually persist in holding on to this insti
tution, pursued a politic plan to prevent
the spread of popular education. Can any
man fail to see, or fail to feel, that any insti
tution, the interest of which must make
such exactions, is bound to be a country's
.curse. Lyeurgus, who was a great and good
Grecian law-giver in his day and generation,
insisted that children arc the property of the
State. There is but one use to which the State
can put children, that is to educate them. In
telligence is heaven's rarest gift to earth ; it is
the attribute that gives man a claim to an affi
nity with angelsi and that state is false to her
most sacred trust, as well at to her most vital
interest, that fails to develop all Of her moral
resources. Had a wise system of popular edu
cation been adopted at the South at the same
time it was at the North,that section might
not be to-day, as it verily is,.without the light
of a single great mind to guide it through the
dark wilderness of its troubles. Attribute, if
Son please, the degradation in which are found
buried the Southern mind, either to a jea
lousy of education or the selfishness of afflu
ence, and still it is the institution of slavery
pbat causes it.
HISORO
BY THE
* * * I see it is asserted by those hostile to
the proposed amendment, that the second sec
tion gives Congress power to legislate on the
question of negro suffrage in the States. This
Ido most emphatically deny. The second sec
tion is simply designed to make the first sec
tion elieetive—in other words, to practically
exeoUte it. The Constitution of the United
States has already distinctly committed to the
keeping of each State the regulation of the
suffrage question. I have frequently felt emo
tions of amazement and amusement at the
holy horror with which some stump orators of
quondam slave States deprecate what they
affect to believe are the intentions of Congress,
Sileuld this amendment be adopted, in regard
to one question over which, it dues Occur tome,
every man with a thimbleful of brains in his
bead ought to know Congress never can have
jurisdiction. I allude, of course, to the deli
cate question of social equality and inter
course. Row can Congress pass a laW to make
any one white man • say that any other white
man or black man shall be his guest and corn-
Panion I Social intercourse will regulate it
self, and at the same time it will regulate all
questions of quality and equality belonging
to the private walks of social life. To these
gentlemen I will say that I was born and
reared on free soil, and that there I never saw
a black man with a white wife, or a white
man with a black wife. There white people
are white people, and black people are black
people ; whereas I And throughout the South
"kinky-heads" almost as white as anybody.
It is an unfortunate thing for the negroes of
the south -that they take their Status from
heir mothers. If from their fathers, they
Would be almost as universally free as under
We existing rule, they are slaves. The truth
, that the practical amalgauiationists are
he Southern people.
I ' AN ANECDOTE IN PAST.
i was told an amusing story last winter,
ITie in Savannah, to this effect; There was
I ore the Legislature of Georgia a bill to ex - -
riate all the free negroes in the .State.
aiost tins barbarous measure the citizens
1,,
o 'avannah entered a most pathetic protest.
.4 emonstrance went up from that goodlycity
t 4 the Legislature, signed by almost every
body. The reason for this remonstrance, it
I'4said by the friends of the measure, was
tkat all the folks in Savannah were " kik."
There is another objection urged to the
emancipation of slaves in Kentucky. It is
said that if the slaves are made free Kentucky
will be without labor. This is a great mis
take. If made free, the probabilities are that
they( will remain, and,. for wages, labor with
much more energy than heretofore. If not
made free, with no laws to protect the insti
tution, surrounded as you are by free States,
offering to them an asylum and wages for
their labor, they will desert their masters,
as li a t t l it
ofit m s ps laivrveitr y o i s9 s i
f a fr
e o
dmoem s
u a n
i f v e e r i e s i
11 7 ,
driven ?rent the land.
It is natural that they should do so, and no
man but a crazy. man could calculate other
wise. And would it not be better for Ken
tucky to show her magnanimity, her patriot
ism, her desire for a lasting peace, and the re
turn of fraternal feelings, by at once doing
that which, if she does not do, will soon do
itself. Think of the great desire on the part
of the civilized world that the chains of
slavery, still clanking in your State, should
be stricken from the limbs of the black man
by the generosity and Christian spirit of your
own people. Let your cloud-kissing hills and
smiling valleys once test the energies of free
labor, and ere long the number you are behind
your sister States in population you will
gather, the deficiency in wealth you will ac
cumulate. Enterprise, capital,intelligence,
and Christianity, will leap for joy over the
new and bright prOSpeetsbefore them. Ken
tucky will then take the pogition she ought to
occupy among her sister States, and claim
rank and respectability second to none.
WHAT SLAVERY HAS DUNE.
* * * Our land is swarming with thou
sands of cripples;_ some have lost legs and
others arms ; why do not these men go abroad
among the people and hold up their shattered
limbs and tell the slaveholder, " This is what
your institution has cost me. While you were
basking in the sunshine of safety at home, I
was atthe front. When slavery took the form of
armed rebellion, and soldiers were called into
the field to put it down, you found irresistible
fascinations in the attractions of home. I did
my duty. I return now to my home to drag
out, through a low lingering years, a misera
ble life ; but mock me not. I do, in Heaven's
name, implore you to stop this eternal parade
before my aching eyes of this most odious in
stitution), Oh, that I had the power to
night to bring together all the slaveholclers
of this land, and have them look on in
solemn silence, while the crippled the widows
and orphans that have been made 'by this war,
could pass before them in grand review and
tell their tales of misery and woe that slavery
has brought upon them; were their hearts not
made of stone, they would melt while gazing
On such a scene, and with one voice, let the
land be at once rid of the curse that has caused
such& dreadful scene. But, suppose we haven°
personal grievances over which to mourn, let
us cast our eye down along the banks of the
mighty father of waters, and then returning,
start again atPerryville, and glance along that
broad and deep channel over which the red
tide of battle rolled through the gorges of the
Cumberland and down along the plains of
Georgia, on to the sea. Then pursue it around
through the Carolinas, to Raleigh, and all over
the crimsoned soil of Virginia, and as you
count the almost countless graves that lie all
along the banks of that river of blood, thick as
" autumn leaves in Vallanahrosa, ,, pause for
one moment to contemplate the seas of tears,
the paroxysms of unutterable p.gony, all these
must have cost when "somebody's darling"
had to fall at every blow, and then tell me, if
'you can„when you know that slavery caused
ft all, can you still cling to it I It has filled
the lunatic asylum with maniacs. It has tilled
houses of refuge with paupers. It has filled
all the land with mourning. It has deluged
your land with fraternalblood. It has snapped
in twain the tenderest ties of social society.
It has caused desolation to reign in princely
palaces, where happiness had always held its
revels. It has smitten with want and woe mil
lions who were born in the lap of luxury.
now, under Heaven's name, can any mortal
man, not given over to the (lemon of selfish
ness, desire to see such a cause of sorrow and
suffering, injury and infamy, hypocrisy and
hate, perpetuated among the institutions of
his country] In Heaven's name I implore
you, strike at once and deal it a death-blow.
Let it be proclaimed from the ends of the
rivers to the ends of the earth, that we live in
a land of universal liberty, where the Ores of
Patriotism, being. rekindled, will glow on as
brightly as ever, in a Union that has battered
down the walls of treason.
York on
orded, is
.)y her de.
The Steamer Euterpe has arrived from Wil
mitlgten,,N. C., with advices of July 22.
The steamer Penobscot, from Key West on
the 18th ; the steamer. El Cid, from Newborn
on the 28d, and the steamship Doris,from New
Orleans on the 18th, arrived at this port this
Morning.
The Express states that President Johnson
anticipates a journey eastward, and will be the
guest of an eminent citizen of this city.
Governor Andrew, of -Massachusetts is in
this city, the guest of Colonel How.
General liooker addressed. the NM New York
Regiment this afternoon.
'CATTLE. MARKBT.
Beef steady at 11G17cts, closing heavy; re
ceipts 0,900 head. Sheep steady at fes34;.re
ceipts lb,000; swine easier, at 11@12; reeemls
10,000.
1000 T X 72.10 SS• OWN 700 Nrle R 88
400 Cum COal prtr.,. it% 109 do ..„ .....
. e 4s. gg
200 - blur Wiping Co—. 13 100 do ' 8 20. gax
50 NY Central 1t... 9N 200 do 20 call. 87%
400 do ' 94 2000 Reading R 103
100 do. . ... 41 van. 944 100 mich Central It _lO7
l ooa r i e a 87,u 100 Itt So &N I 83%
1500 de ' 87% 200 do 2d call. mpg
Gold, 149.1,1; New York Central, 94 1 ,6; Erie
:• Hudson 173; Roadine 104• Pittebur
St Hook 'elan /0I,• No rixwesie prefer
red
, 61%; Ohio and Mississippi certificates,
2431. ,irket firm, with a largo business 111,
Erie.
Arrived, bark Bob'lien, from Cronstadt.
Below, ship Alex. Marshall, Liverpool.
TIONAL AMENDIWENT
NDIICATION IN THIC SOUTH
THE LABOR QUESTION
NEW YORK CITY.
Niw YORK, July 23
FROM WILMINGTON,
ARRIVAL OV STEAMERS
pRIMIDRNTI.LI, TOUR
THE STOCE EXCHANGE
SECOND BOARD.
EVENING STOCK BOARD
SHIP NEWS.
THE FREEDMEN.
SOUTHERN IDEAS CONCERNINS THEM.
" A STORK BREWrNia," SO SAY
GEORGIA. JOURNALS.
The Negroes All Impressed with Totally If-
ferent Ideas of Life,
Insubordination, Indiscriminate Rob
bery, etc., Asserted to be Their
Favorite Pastimes.
AWFUL FEARS OF THEM, AND APPEALS FOR
covERNANT PBOTEOTION.
Their Conduct Fast Tending towards Scenes
Like the Massacre of St. Domingo.
A Wail from Prostrate Slave masters
Anxious for Life.
(From the:Macon Telegraph, 18th inst.]
It is our duty to inform the authorities,
those to whose hands have been entrusted the
management and control of our affairs, actual
events that are now transpiring, which require
immediate and prompt action. We warn them
that unless attention is directed at once to the
conduct of the freedmen,
the scenes of blood
shed and massacre. of St. Domingo will be re
enacted in our nada before the close of the year.
We speak advisedly. We have authentic in
formation of the speeches and conversation of
the blacks, sufficient to convince us of their
purpose. They snake no secret of their movement.
Tell us not that we are alarmists. After due
investigation and reflection upon this matter,
we imire aetex , minon to talk plainly, witliOat
fear or favor, and if our voice of warning is not
heeded, we, at least, will have the consoling
reflection that we have performed our duty.
One word to the people : Our safety and
protection from such occurrences depend at
present upon the military power of the United
States; and it is competent to defend us. But
how can we expect to guard against this state
of things in the future I Does any sane man
suppose that, by a sullen and obstinate spirit
of quiescence, the future well-being of the
State and of society can be secured? In a short
time we will be called upon to semi delegates
to a Convention to form a State Constitution.
Is it not important that men of statesmanship
and wisdom should represent us I Upon the
action of the next Legislature depends, in a
great measure, our future tranquility, safety,
and prosperity. You, people of Georgia, are
to elect them. They are to he chosen by you.
Will you not at once qualify yourselves
for the exercise of the elective franchise?
Argument upon this subject is unneces
sary. Every thinking man must admit,
there is but one course left us, dictated by
reason and common sense. We will not insult
the intelligence of the people by an elabora
tion of this subject. The remedy for our pre-
Sent Altuatiau is self.evident and too apparent
for discussion. Let those who have been the
leaders of the people come out and address
them publicly, as they do iu private, and urge
them to action. It is natural that our people
should feel dispirited and gloomy. By the re
sults of the war, they find the accumulation of
years swept away. They find themselves bank,
rupt. The capital we 'had in slaves is gone,
but at/ is not gone. Our lands remain—our
energy remains. We still have strmilk arms
and stout hearts to battle with adversity. We
are left the privilege of controlling our own
local legislation and affairs in our own way.
Let us qualify ourselves then, and use the
privilege wisely, prudently.
THE ABOVE REMARES ENDORSED.
The Atlanta bilelligeneer comments on this
artible of the Telegraph's, saying:
From all we have seen about us, and have
heard from different portions of the State, we
are satisfied that the apprehensions of the
Telegraph are not groundless. A spirit of reck
less improvidence and an entire indifference
as to the events of the future seem to have
taken possession of the minds of a, majority
of the negroes of the country. Withoutjudg
ment, without foresight—attributes that not
many of them have hitherto been called upon
to exercise, as their planning and thinking
has been done for them by the whites—these
deluded creatures have become possessed
with the idea that they are free to do just as
they please.
Every one that has any knowledge of the ne
gro character, knows that nine out of ten of
them are indolent and entirely disinclined to
work, or to make any erfoit whatever, if any
labor is required. when left to pursue the bent
of their inclinations. They seem to think, if
they think at all, that in some Mysterious way
'way shelters will be provided to shield them
from the blasts of autumn and the storms of
winter, which will soon be upon them, and
hencew 'reckless abandon that is perfect..
ly mnrveionnthey leave comfortable homes,
where hitherto - they - have lived in the enjoy
ment of as much happiness as any laboring
People on earth, and where they seemed to be
Perfectly satisfied until their weak heads be
came crazed with the idea of being free. As to
^e for the future, they must be eaten
be fed as were the ancient
biting that they wilderness , with
children of Israel in the -
quails and manna from IleaVen. ; Mr making least provision do they seem to be making
for a future supply. The scenes of the farm and
the dull routine of; plantation work, are evi
dently too tame and sco cammon-place to suit
their bewildered inlaginaticms • and in crowds
they throng the ways that lean: to the cities, and
then they herd as best they can. Some of
them get into cellars or under 110 180 B — other°
under frail board shelters, and others spread
themselves upon the naked ground with no
shelter save the broad canopy of Zeaven.
What is to become of thebe poor deluded crea
tures a few months hence—how they are to be ,.
sheltered against the storms of svmter—hon
they are to be fed and clothed, and how they
are to be prevented from indiscriminate theft
and robbery, are questions of fearful import,
and calls most loudly upon those whose [lim
it now is to take action in the promises, to be mean
suresand prompt in the adoption of' ea
sures called for in this emergency, if they
wish to prevent the enactment of scenes at
which humanity shudders, and which, if per
mitted to transpire, will' bring a reproach
upon the civilization of the nineteenth. centu
rY•
A heavy obligation rests somewhere to take
such action in reference to these matters as
will prevent the dire consequences that may
be threatened. The former owners of these
people, by the force of circumsiances,are ren
dered powerless in the premises ; and conse
quently are free from all responsibility in re
ference thereto ; but theirhuinane feelings and
a desire to promote the cause of philanthropy,
will induce them to render every assistance in
their power in the proper adjustment of these
difficult matters. the foregoing remarks have
been made under a solemn convicCionge the perils
that threaten, and with the hope that the atten
tion of those competent to control this mat
ter may be attracted to it, and that such mea.
sures may be adopted as will preserve the
peace and promote the happiness and prospe
rity of our entire people.
RICHMOND.
The Richmond Republic of Monday has the
subjoined interesting items
CITY POINT will no longer be a military
depot, all the stores there having been re
moved, and the quartermaster at that point
ordered to report to Colonel William James,
chief quartermaster in this city.
PRESENTATION OF. A SWORD TO GEN. TURNER.—
Messrs. John M. Houndtree, , Turner, and
Whitney, .of Chicago, arrived in this city last
week, bringing_ with them the magnificent
sword voted by the electors of the Chicago
Sanitary Fair to General John W. Turner,
commanding a division in the 24th Army
Corps and the District of Henrico, including
the cities of Richmond and Manchester. The
sword was duly presented to the General the
evening after the arrival of the committee
and took place at the official residence of
General Turner, opposite the late mansion of
Mr. Davis. The gathering of officers and ei
vilians on the occasion was large and bril
liant. Among those present were General
Terry and stair General Devens and staff,
Major General Foster, Major General Curtis
andistaff, Governor Peirpont, Secretary Lewis,
and a large number of others.
AUCTION SALE OF CAPTURES AND ABANDONED
Fliorzwry.—The auction sale of cai?tured and
abandoned property took place on Saturday at
the Government warehouse, corner of Main
and Twenty-seventh streets. The attendance
wits large, and thebithling very spirited. Fifty
thousand pounds of rags were sold at 7% cents
per pound ; 7,000 pounds of old copper at 15 to
20 cents per pound ; 8,000 pounds old brass at 15
to 10 cents; 5000, pounds old lead at t,4 cents;
150 tons new bar anti wrought and cast scrap
iron' at $25 to $OO per toll. A. large lot of mis
cellaneous articles was also disposed of at
satisfactory prices. Another sale will take
place in a tew days.
DESCENT' ON GAMBLING HOUSES SATURDAY
Mawr.— The military authorities at Rich
mond, in pursuance of the spirit and letter
of General Grant's order which directs the
suppression of gambling houses in all places
where military law prevails, made a deecent,
With an armed guard, on Saturday night, upon
the following houses supposed td be used for
fa e m ni l i mp a ur i t o o s st a s ra T n ite I c t n ouse ra k i
kept over
opposite toadstre
MainreetThtu ontcoimerli
Franklin street'
and Exchange alley ; 110
Franklin street, and 112 Franklin street.
At neither place did they, however, find
any persons engaged at faro or any game
of chance,. and at most of the houses there
was nothing found which indicated that
they were used as gambling establishments.
This was particularly the case at 117 Broad
street, where not even a table was visible. At
112 there was no white person present, and the
negro servants who had charge of it, on being
questioned, stated that there had been no faro
played there for a- week past, and that the
owner of the place was in the country. The
corner of Fourteenth street and Exchange
alley, on the other hand, was bountifully sup
plied with all the mysterious boxes, checks,
spreads, & c., used by the craft in their com
bats with their patrons of the jungle. At the
various houses above named, all of which are
in the Fourth Provost District,six persons were
arrested upon suspicion. They were before
Co]. Warren yesterday morning, who released
them upon an order from the Provost Marshal
General directing him to do so. This does not
indicate by any means that the authorities in- .
tend in the future to be lenient towards the
class of offenders - alluded to. So far from it,
from all we could learn, those hereafter con
victed of gaming will receive justice untera
pored by mercy. It will be a fruitless expert.
n b e s a r t ig o ci o any - gambler, o f r o d r eron teaib
j t e o c a t t? c as m a p e t ib t 0
T e v e a l T d ;
has a ibroe amply sinificient to, rerret out their
most secret haunts. Re' who' would, there
fore, under the circumstances, give the gam
blers of Richmond any other advice than to
burn up their cards and boxes, and seek some
certain means of livelihood, is one whose
TTIREE CENTS.
counsel, if followed, will lead them, just as
certain as night follows day, either to Castle
Thunder or some worse Owe.
THE BAR-ROOMS TO BE ()JAWED TO-MOBALOW.—
With a view to prevent any disturbances that
Might possibly grow out. of drunkenrmss at
the polls to-morrow, General Turner has
ii
sued an order, closing throughout the day of
election all the bar-rooms, saloons, and other
places in the city where liquor is sold by the
glass. The order is founded on a careful re
gard for the peace and quiet of the city, and
we hope to see it strictly observed.
Tobacco—The Ilistory of ite
[From ihe Riolimond Commercial Ba
This great staple of Virginia, which has been
such a mighty agent for the prosperity and
commercial renown of the "Old Dominion,"
has suffered greatly since the return of amica
ble relations throughout our continent, and
its atagnatien is greatly owing, among other
causes, to the uncertainty or ignorance of its
value under the many different IftWB imposing
taxation upon it. We propose to inquire into
the history of the different rates of titles and
taxes, and trace the matter up to the present
time.> In doing this we have the assistance of
a competent Northern merchant, whose inte
rest in the matter has induced him to make it
an especial duty.
The first tax upon tobacco was levied on the
Ist of September, 1862, ; but manufactured to
bacco made before this date, and removed
from the plane Of manufacture, was not liable
to any tax. If Dot so removed, en tobacco
valued at not over thirty cents per pound, the
tax amounted to ten cents; if valued over
thirty cents, the tax was fifteen cents on the
pound. The tax made was virtually fifteen
cents, the tax entering into the value of the
tobacco.
On the Ist of July,lB64,the tax was increased
to thirty-five cents per pound. The tax was
assessed on all tobacco in the hands of the
manufacturer, or his agent.
Again, on the 18th of April, 1865, the tax was
Increased to forty cents on the pound, and as
sessed on all tobacco in the hands of the manu
facturer, or his agent. These laws were not
to apply to stocks of tobacco which had been
purchased, and were in" the hands of the pur
chaser; but that which was in the possession
of the original Manufacturer, or is agent,
supposed to be the same person, the Manufac
turer owning the stock was only held liable.
So, then, to sum up from these taxes, the
law, as regards Virginia, and in fact all the
States South; stands thus: The manufactured
article found in the hands of the purchaser.
Provided he can show the papers proving its
purchase, and showing that it had passed out
of the hands of the manufaeim,,,, before the
time for which the latter is properly taxable,
are not subject to the tax while in the hands
of the purchaser, unless it has been transport,
ed beyond the limits of the States lately in
armed opposition to the Government. A month
or so before the establishment of the assess
ment may be considered the time referred to.
The tax to whin tobacco is held liable when
transported, is therefore that which was in of.
feet by the law, as it existed, when it first be
came liable to the tax.
. • .
Tobacco becomes liable to tax when sold by
the manufatturer, and only then ,• consequent:
ly,.the tax to be levied will be the tax which
existed at the time of the original sale by the
manufacturer. No tax is impesed, if removed
before any tax law existed ; if sold under the
fifteen cent. law fifteen cents; and thirty-ilve
or forty cents, I/ sold under the law imposing
that amount. The date of Original sale by the
manufacturer, and not the date. of inatutfae:
turn, determines the tax. Tobacco also, in
the hands ola purchaser, or purchased tobacco,
can, for the present, be sold at the South with:
out being subject to tax. The department has
yet to determine whether the same privilege
will be accorded to the manufacturer with his
own tobacco.
Another undetermined point is in relation
to tobacco in the Southern States being free of
tax in those States; possibly the courts may
abrogate the ruling of the department, and the
final ruling may be that the distinction be
tween tobacco shipped North and that remain
ing in the South will be wiped out, and all
must pay the same tax. It has been thought
by some that it will not stand a law test, and
that the Southern tobacco will have to pay
the same tax here as when alined out of the
"'insurrectionary? , States.
The tobacco market, as these laws begin to
be well understood, has given some little signs
of activity. From Lynchburg, one of the largest
and most important marts of manufactured
tobacco, quite a number of shipments have
taken place, especially since the resumption
of canal navigation. These shipments have
principally been directed to foreign ports. We
learn, from correct and reliable Lynchburg
authority, the amount of shipments up to this
time. They comprise 35 hogsheads directed to
Richmond, sto New York, 1151 to Liverpool or
London, 94 to Bremen, and 83 hogsheads of
stems shipped to the latter port, makingn in all
an aggregate of 314 hogsheads. Thus over a
quarter of a million of pounds are on their
way to market from Lynchburg alone. Let us
be hopeful that the trade will no more suffer
from its temporary stagnation, and wealth
and prosperity speedily now in out dear old
mother State through this wide yet lately
choked:up channel.
An Author in Court
DUMAS AND HIS HISTORICAL CHABACTE.II9-A
CM=
The Paris correspondent of the Anierioan
Publishers , Circular says:
- • - -
"M. Alex. Dumas has appeared before our
courts as the defendant in an interesting suit
to determine the liberties which writers may
take with historical persons. The dramatic
episode in the life of Marie Antoinette (which
was so full of dramatic episodes,) known as
the 'Journey to VanRIMS,' tempted M.
Dumas. He made it the theme of a dOoeL
It happened that a M. de Prdfontaine,
chevalier de St. Louis, and a half-pay
major, was drawn into this history. Re
lived at Varennes, and, either by accident
Or design, he opened his door when the
carriage drove up. It was half-past eleven
o'clock at night. Count de Moustier (one of
the bodyguards who accompanied the Mal
barty,) had got out of tile carriage to find some
ody - who would point out to him the road
from Varennes to Fitenay. Perceiving a light
and an open door, M. de Moustier made for
them, but the door was instantly closed. M.
de Moustier burst it open, Let is quote M. de
iti..3l l Stier'S 'narrative Thereupon a man an
patted mid flaked what was wanted. The re
ply made was, To ask you to show 1110 the
road leading out of town towards Stoney '
The man said: would do so willingly, hal
should be hanged if it was known. , M. de
Moustier observed that he was too well bred
not to do everything to serve a lady. He an
swered, We know all about it ; it is no lady.'
" Thereupon M. de Moustier abruptly broke
off conversation to let the king know what
bad taken
_place. The king ordered him to
return and bid theman to conic to his inajesk l y.
M. de Moustier went back and said: y
mistress has charged me to be.... you come d
talk with her.' This man dared not absolute
ly disobey ; be went to the carriage barefoot,
s 0 :Ls to make less ri r se. ge l got up the car;
with
- steps,
s "24,Te d le a d t lll, t a l e Moustier lnl ro e tt t e
com
her Rife , the detachment of Lauzun , s
hns
mandant...Gi living at the Cordellers' UM-
Bars, who wls- s, This officer was not at his
vent at Varenn, q there but a single hussar,
post. No one Wis.. 'IrS to join the command
who said he had ore. r.. if he failed to appear
ant at one o'clock, A. A.
at Varennes. • M. de Moustier's
The man who acted as he was a major
guide was named PrMontaine; - ^al and mili
of cavalry, and a knight of the ro, , rted that
tary Order of St. Louis. As it is rep, -de nu
he, with so many others, has since nts., and
morons commentaries on the kingys arregt,. to
has boasted that if the king had listened
him and bad followed his advice he would had'
escaped, M. de Moustier owes it to the truth to
declare that the only service which If. de Pre-
fontaine rendered, or was willing to rendeato
his unfortunate master, was simply to' Dead
him, M, de Moustier, to the residence of: the
commandant of Latititn,s hussars. He would
add that he never saw so timid or so pugilist*
mous a man as this man ; that in the very slight'
and perfectly useless good office which he could
scarcely refuse to do his sovereign, he pushed
precautions to the extronest limits, and that
he did not cease to recommend to M. de Mous
tier secrecy in regard to his movements say
ing they would compromise and ruin him if
they were known. Should a decorated soldier
reckon any risks or perilsl In these circum
stance!, What is fortune compared with honorl
What is his life, when the question is to save
his King's existence l This man,after this mo
ment, did not once again appear before the
King until his Majesty's departure from this
detestable Varennes.
"The family de PrOfontaine protest against
the narrative of M. de Moustier, and appeal,
to support their protest, to the narrative of M.
de vallory, the second body-guard, who ao
eompanied their, majesties, and who, in his
memoirs, says ; the house of the respectable
K. de Prefontaine might have served as tile
refuge for the relays which lied been prepared,
had he been previously informed and taken
into the secret. M. Alexander Dumas prefer
red to Valory's narrative that of Moustier, be
cause the latter was present and was an actor
in the scene, while %alory had been sent for
ward to gain what information he could;
but the novelist confuses the names, and re
presents K. de Valory as giving ids arm to
the fugitive Queen, whorl he represents knock
ing at the Major's door. M. Dumas drama
tizes Moustier , s narrative, by putting it in the
form of a dialogue. Valory says : Sir, we are
going to Stoney ; w ill you be good enough to
indicate the road to us V 'But if Ido that, I
shoal be compromised.' Even if you do com
promise yourself, you will not hesitate to do
this service for a you
who is hI dangerous
situation. , Sir, the lady behind yell, is not
merely a lady—it is the Queen. ,
"K. de Valory tried to deny it. The Queen
drew him back, saying, 'Let us lose no time in
discussion ; go tell the King I am recognized. ,
DL de Valory hastened to the carriage and in
a few words told the King what hail taken
place, The King said Ask that man to come
and speak to me. , The man obeyed, and ad
vanced to the carriage-door, not without
marks of lively apprehension. ' What is your
name 1 , D'Pafontaine, sire.' 'Who are your
Cavalry major, knight of the royal and mili
tary order of St. Louis.' As major, - and as
knight of St. Louis, you twice took an oath to
bo faithful to me. It is, consequently, your
duty to aid me in the embarrassment in which
I am.'
Th e m a jo r stammered a few words, the
queen staMped her foot impatiently, The
King added : . Sir, have you heard whether the
hussars and relay-horses expected a treasure
which was to pass through Narennes ' I did
hear so, sire.' Where are these hussars?
Where are these horses?' 'ln the Low-town,
sire. The °Mere are lodging at the Hotel du
Grand Monarque.' . I thank you. Now you
may return home. Nobody has seen you • no•
body has heard you; consequently no you;
will befall you. The Major profited by the
permission, and returned home. The PrAfou ,
taine family moved the court to order M. Du
mas to insert the extract from M. do Vaiory's
memoirs in the next edition of this novel.
The lower court granted the desired order;
but the appellate court reversed this judgment
upon the ground that D. Dumas was at liberty
to give preference to Moustler's nbrrative, and
that he faithfully followed It in substance."
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The estimatedpopulation of the colony of
Victoria, on the 31st of December last, num
bered 604,858 souls, of whom 347,954 were males,
and 256,904 females. The increase of popula.
tion by excess of gration overemigration
(luring the last quarter of 1864 was 3,61.14 and by
excess of births over deaths, 4,M. The in
crease f rom an causes during tho year was
30,527 persons, of whom 17,383 . were male and
13,144 females. The nutmages celebrated du
ring the year numbered 4,529.
The Emperor Napoleon is said to be en
gaged on a work entitled, " Politique ka
perildo iraprie les messages discours, et pro.
elardatione de I , Emperenr." This book will
be, as the title indicates a recapitulation of
all that has 'emanated from the pen' of the
Emperor from his accession down to the Moat
recent date. The letter on the subject of the
speech at Macao will, it is said, be even in
cluded.
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Sis To the getter-up of the Club often or twenty,
an extra cony of the paper will be given.
ftwAirr. ITEMS.
The Doylestown inteUtgencer Has the fol.
lowing: A survey has been made from PhDs.
delphia to Perkiomen Creek, under the . direc
tion of the Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia
- Water Works, for the purpeSe ofsupplying the
city with pure water. The wateras furnished
from the Schuylkill above FairilleUntr is iln-
pregnatcd with the filth and poisonous waters
of the numerous dyeing establishments along•
the river, and eminent physicians have in nu
merous instances traced the causes of disease*
and death from the effects of drinking the
seheylkill water. For the purpose Of ii 4 PP I 7 -
ing the city with wholesome water, the Chief
Engineer was instructed to make surveys
from the three different , points, namely the
Neshamony, Perktomen, and French creeks.
The Perfriomen, we believe, has been selected
as the fountain. The route surveyed follows
the Germantown and Beading pike. by way of
Fairview. The distance is some . twenty-Dix
miles. The water will be supplied and the
works erected after the manner of the Croton
Aqueduct, which supplies New York, forty
miles distant. We understand that the data
for the supply of the proposed reservoir is to
be constructed near Zicglersville r in Mont
ger/wry county,
—The school for soidiers' orphans at Quaker.
town, under the charge of Mr. Core, now num
hers about sixty pupils. He has recently en
larged the school buildings, which will enable
him to accommodate a much larger number.
The Normal department is now entirely dis
tinct from the orphans , school, and is in a
separate building, under the charge of fkr.
James B. Brunner.
-- Episcopal Clergymen in Redford and the
adjoining counties, held a Convention in the
village of Bedford last week, in the Lutheran
Church, when sermons were preached by the
Rev. John F. Esch, of Paradise, Laneaster
county Rev. L Newton Spear, of /Winona, and
Rev. John Cromlish, of Columbia, Aifterts are
being made to erect an Episcopal Church in
Bedford.
—J. G. Adlum is the Union nominee for the
Assembly in Blair county ; Benj. F. Rose and
Adam Moses, for Associate Judges; Colonel
D. M, Jones, for Register .n .d. Recosder ; John
C. Biddle, for Commissioner; James McKim.
for Auditor ; H. C. Niccalemus, for Surveyor.
Resolutions of confidence in President John-
Son and Governor Curtin were adopted by the
Convention.
Owing to the heavy rains, the Susquehanna
rose censidarably within the past few
Some of the creeks up the Valley have been
wild, washing away hay, fences, &c., and tear
ing up things generally. -
- The 75th Pennsylvania Regiment and the
13th Pennsylvania Cavalry arrived in Harris-.
burg on Sunday, and will there receive their
money and discharge papers.
The Norristown Heraftl, which appears
both weekly and mni-weeloy, is a live news
paper, and a credit to the town in which it la.
published.
The Harrisburg Telegraph of Monday eve
ning publishes a column and a half of com
plimentary notices which it received from
its cotemporarice upon its recent enlargement.
—A meeting is to be held in Middletown
next aturday, to devise ways and means to
raise money for the erection of a midterm?
monument.
The internal revenue tax for this year, in
the district composed of Cambria, Blair, Hunt
ingdon and Mifflin counties, amounts to $103,-
652.80.
The Union Convention of Mercer county
will meet on the lth of September next td)
nominate a county ticket.
Cattell will deliverthe Baccalatt.
reate sermon at the ensuing commencement
of Lafayette College, at Easton.
Efforts are being made to establish a Lodge
of Odd Fellows in Titusville.
Copper has been discovered in Wolf tOVIII—
ship, Lycoming county.
HOME ITEMS.
One of eight- ,handeuffed criminals, whom
two officers were escorting from Hartford Jail
to Wethersfield, Friday, slipped his bracelets.
suddenly and ran Hke a deer. Re could not
lac followed until the pollee were. InfOrmed,
but not much time was lost, and after an ex,
citing chase and search, be was discovered hid
In a hay-inow,, and was captured after a pitch
fork fight.
-- A shocking act is reported as having oc.
cupped on hoard the steamboat Armenia, on
Thursday afternoon, oh her trip from Albany
to New York. A respectable-looking woman..
who was accompanied by four children, and
was on her way to meet her husband, leaped
overboard with a babe in her arms, and both
were drowned. No cause could be assigned for
the act,
An expett swimmer is giving CZllibittMf
at Fall River, Eastern Massachusetts. Re suf.
fern himself to be thrown into the water with
his hands and feet tied, when he will release
himself and perfOrm other unprecedented
feats afloat.
A bottle WaS found, Saturday, by Mr. Nye.
of North Falmouth, Mom, at Nyets Point,
Buzzard's Day, near the monument, contain•
an envelope, upon which was written the fol"
lowing: "Drowned at sea, Isaac Morton,
schooner Dale."
Skaters will be glad to learn that by a re.
cent invention a skate has been made which
will contain a hot brick. By 'GM invention
bricks may be more safely carried than in
one's bat.
—Edward N. Thompson, for many years con
neeted with the New York and Boston thea
tres, (lied in Baltimore on Thursday.last, after
a long and painful illness, aged about forty,
eight years,
7 4. brick building, three stories high, 125
feet long and 48 feet wide, is to be erected at.
the Tewksbury Almshouse, Massachusetts, to
accommodate the harmless insane of that in
stitution—the confirmed insane State paupers.
A package of three letters recently arrived
at the WOotltteek (Vermont) poet-office from
Irasburg, having been over twontpone years
in travelling the one hundred miles between
the two places..
A Crowley boy in Boston, five years old,•
died a few, days since from the effects of drink
ing brandy, which he had got hold.of in his
mother's absence,
A servant girl in Connecticut has confessed
to eonspiring with /liir lover to murder tuma
rob her mistress.
A man who bad lost $1,500 at faro was pre
ted by the police from hanging himself to
en.
; : post in a street in New York.
tain
& won on in Rochester tied a stone to her
chile' neck' threw it into the canal, and
watche ,l it struggle and drown,
A sailkoat regatta,lll which alnAtt , tWentp ,
five bo,,lts Will indulge, will come air at NeW.
H aven o. u Thursday ;
A hi m lard tournament for the champion.-
ship of the . State will be held at Portland,
during the S. ' st week in September.
—On sature.'aY' June 10th, Speaker Colfax'
and his party L. ' ad a snow-ball match on the .
plains. dressing-ease sold for 05 at
Wilkes Booth's
auction in Canada. ,9 has been admitted to
General N. P. Bank. . ew Orleans.
Fallsab o about to
t tour.
practice as a lawyer N
wife are
General Grant and Me , Ilf
T i ag e aa
start on their Canada andll,
;rime died a few
A trotting horse valued '
d0.p. , 7 since in St. Louis.
•essire
A young woman died from er4.
ter in New York last week.
, ed their
The Connecticut Legislature rate
pay to $3 per day.
There is said to be no hope fortherm
tion of the Richmond Whig.
There were 40,000 people at the Germath,
plc.uio in New York last week.
New YOrkers spent two millions last yeas'
to go to the theatres and such.
Judge Holt is at the White Mountains.
Emigrants are pouring into• Missouri.
A Loan-ly man—Jay Cooke.—Rodon Post.
POREIGN 1TE2116.
The sum of £l2O was recently sent to the
four French gendarmes at Clyne, Vecchia, who
captured the notorious brigand Tamburini.
The gendarmes refused to accept the money,
but, when told they were bound to do so, they
immediately sent it totlie Minister of the
terior to be distributed to tilt) Poor Of the this
trict.
The fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo Was
celebrated throughout the Netherlands with•
great enthusiasm, The demonstrations, how
ever, were made principally by the lower
classes, and are said to have been disapproved
by the King and the ministers.
Mr. COS, Ar, P., has abandoned the action!
for libel Witten it w 413 / Ot.ol Attted, to the genes
ral aniuseniont,he had commenced against het
proprietors of Punch.
On the Ist a provision in an act of.Parlia
inent took effect to render maker and dealers
in chain cables and anchors liable to £l5O pen
alty for selling them without being a proved .n
In an article published by the Paris Prase,
the opinion is expressed that any attempt to
increase the sue of the Preneh newspapers to
that of the English must assuredly fail.
At the Leeds (England) borough sessions,
on the 4th, a married woman was sentenced
to nine months' imprisonment for stealing a.
child, which she intended to adopt.
Lord Iletby has promised to open the Ex
hibition of Works of Arts, Industry, de., at
Preston, on the 14th of September next.
—Dr. Manning, the new Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Westminster, recently arrived
with his suit at Geneva, on his way to Rome.
Queen Emma, widow of the late Ring or
the Sandwich Islands, is expected to arrive on
a Visit to England in a short *lbw
The Ring of the Belgians' health, without
being positively alarming, .has yet been loss.
favorable for some time past.
The foundation-stone of the new English
Protestant Church of 'St.'Peterls, at Chantilly,
was laid a few days agO.
-- The AhorystWlth and Welsh C oast Rail
way was opened for tramp on the eit,
Prince Lucien Murat is, it is said, writing_
a history of his father.