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SITLTEDAY, JUNE 9, 1861
Ser'SRE NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Or A. M.
ODD FEW.OWS . UALI. , IN TO DAY'S
i'xrCß
C.n.t.scr or• SIMEDUCE.—The Time Table
of the Penn.% Railroad has boen changed,
the new schedule to t tke effect on nest
Monday. The I. tneaster Train East will
leave here at 7.50 A. M., instead of at 8.20.
The Harrisburg Accommodation will leave
at 2,30 P. M., instead of 5.35, the accom
modation train to Lancaster will be abol
ished, and the Mail will pass through Ct.-
lunthia, leaving at 6.35 P. M., instead of
running by Mount Joy as atpresent.
Westward, the Mail arrives five minutes
earlier than now—at 11.'22 instead of 11.27
A. M. the Harrisburg Accommodation is
.5 minutes later—at G. 45, instead of G. 40 P.
. e Lancaster Accommodation dues
nut change, arriving at 8.20 P. M.
A NEW FIRV. —The Golden Mortar Drag
Store has changed hands, and the advertise
ment of the new proprietors. Albert Gray
.k.-C•o., Wilt be found in to-day's Spy. Mr.
Gray is a native of this neighborhood. a
graduate of the Philadelphia College of
Pluirmary and an experienced Druggist.—
lie will give his exclusive attention to the
business, and from his reputation as a busi
mesa man, and a gentleman we have not the j
btightest doubt of his giving entire satisfae- I
tion to the public. We bespeak fur him-n I
Moral patronage from our citizens.
-iaVa Si•rxt.tr. ARTIST.—We are liarcpy to
lesrn that our special friend, fellow-citizen
ion! artist, (he made hie debut in the .qpY)
:Jasper Green, Esq., has been commissio,.o.l
by the publishers of Harper's Weekly to
furnish in illustration to that enterprising
pictorial, skitches of war incidents occur
ring in Western Virginia, following the
nd
viuuedof the IVe.steria division of the army
under Gen. .kleelellan. We have no peen
...ion to puff our friend, but simply recom
mend him to all to whom these may come
a. n gentleman deserving every courtesy.—
We wish him every success in hi; mission.
PF.NN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE C121%-
I'. X. Zeigler, Polg., has temporarily accept
rd the agency of this Company—during the
absence of Col. Welsh—and is prepared to
attend to all business of the company, nod
take new risks, at his office in the basement
~f _Black's Hotel. Mr. Ziegler is an expe
rienced Insurance Agent, and no doubt will
transact business to the satisfaction of all
insurers. The Penn Mutual is second to the
Life Insurance Company in the country,
nod no man can better invest his savings
for his family than in a policy of insurance
on his life.
CUICTI.I3IT.NT TO A COLVIIIIIAN.-At the an
nual nommencement of the Eclectic Medical
Culloge, held in the Musical Fund Hall, in
Philadelphia, on the 30th ult., the Faculty
conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of
Medicine upon our fellow townsmen Dr. N.
B. Wolfe.
This ie a compliment to, and an acknow
ledgement of, the Doctor's contributions to
Medical Science, in his new method of treat
ing diseases of the Lungs and Throat, by
Vitalized Magnetism and Medicated Inha
lation--a department of medical practice,
to which the doctor has given special atten
tion for many years, and upon which he has
written two very acceptable little books.
We take pleasure in recording this compli
meat to Dr. Wolfe and hope the Faculty
may always be as discriminating in confer
ring their honors upon real merit and worth,
as they have Leen in this instance.
Tun Et.tswortru RIFLES.—The members
of the junior company of which we spoke
)ine weeks since hare adopted the above title.
They have been quietly perfecting them
selves in drill ever since, and we were de
lighted a few evenings since to see the pre
cision with which they went through the
drill and evolutions. The members are all
young mon, few much under the age of
eighteen, some near their majority—j lost the
ego at which prompt and active movement
is readily acquired—and of good size and
physical condition. They should adopt the
Zouave drill—they are eminently qualified
to ezcell in its brilliant evolutions if properly
instructed. The company numbers over
forty, and will elect officers nest week.—
Oar borough will certainly be well provided
with an efficient volunteer force, and no
doubt should the present war be protracted
a good proportion of our home force will see
active service. We are glad to see the
young men thus organizing, and hope they
may safely pass that perilous crisis, the
election of officers, and long flourish an
honor to the borough.
CeLCYIII♦ Garrs.—At a meeting of the
"Columbia Grey!" held at Odd Fellows Hall
on Tuesday Evening. June 4th, 1861, the
f.plluwing named gentlemen were elected
officers of the Company, viz:
rA rTAIN—Jelin McClure.
/../EUTLNA NT—Abram Bruner, Jr:,
20 L. C. Wenn.
leT Srnqt.t —Robert McAnal!,
Nicholas Gilman,
W. Ennry,
S. A. DeNegre.
Isr Conroe A I.—UpIIIILIIII 11011.11ey,
"la " Fa. A. Becker,
.lobe Eyman.
George IteflufT,
IITLTTAArComet.—Dr. Smith Armor, E.
A. Becker, M. D. 'Wilson.
Stmemos: or Coler.—Dr. Smith Armor.
MI
EMI
Qv; TER 31.111TER —Col A. S. Green.
ft is very desirable that those gentlemen
who have recently been elected members,
should be punctual at the drills of the Com
pany on Tuesday & Saturday Evenings, as
tie Greys anticipate having a parade on the
4th YfJ uly..
A mistake in the title of the company •was
made in /aft weeks Spy; is Crays not
Guards.
The **Grays" hare elected a good set of
nflicara aa •bore. sod will, without doobt,
rma:re Z, tip-top company. S ome of our bete
material is in the ranks, and the boys are
determined to put themselves down to the
drill so as to perfect, themselves in it as soon
as possible. By the three million loan bill,
which we publish to-day, our county, as one
of the border counties, will be entitled to one
thousand of the improved arms to be supplied
by the State. Our company of course will
apply for a share of these arms, and no
doubt receive them, when they will be sec
ond to no corps of the size in the State in
efficiency. The roll of the company now
number over fifty members, and the list will
be largely increased, probably to a full com
pany of seventy-seven. The uniform will be,
as the name indicates, gray—of what partic
ular style we have not learned, nor do we
know whether it has yet been decided. We
would suggest modified Zointve cut of jacket
and trousers, with shoes and leggings, as
the most becoming, and probably as cheap
as any. We can remember the day when
Columbia turned out three uniformed com
panies, with not half her present population.
When our boys now absent shall have re
turned from - service, ns we pray they every
one may in safety and honor, we shall mus
ter a formidable battalion within ourselves.
Keep up the spirit boys, and matte a good
display on the glorious FOURTH.
OCR LANCASTER CuLINTT CuSIYANZES.•7-Our
county e..ntingent to the Reserve, consisting
of the Cookman Rangers, Capt. Fisher; Lan
raster Guards, Capt. Neff; Union Guards,
Capt. Barton, and Jones' Artillerists, Capt.
Items, will, with the companies of Chester
and Delaware counties, form a regiment, to
be encamped forinstruction at Camp Wayne,
West Chester—at least this is announced,
whether with or without authority we can't
say. So much we know: On Tuesday
mottling the companies of Capts. Neff, Bar
ton and Hess left Lancaster, and the same
day took up their quarters in Camp Wayne.
where they now are. Our company is still
at Ilarri,burg. By some mistake ORDERLT's
letter has not been received, and we arc
without accurate information as to their
probable movements. Capt. Fisher paid Co
lumbia a visit on Saturday evening, remain
ing until Monday. Ile represents the boys
as in fine spirits, good health, and first rate
d:scipline; but a little mooed in the nether
man. This certainly should not be permit
ted. We Lave as fine a company a+ La+
baen turned out anywhere, but like all oth
ers they are kept shabby through the 'nig
°rabic inactivity of our authorities who have
had ample time to clothe the entire militia
of the State, had they used but moderate
dispatch. Must towns whence a company,
or companies have proceeded to camp, have
furnished the men with creditable—in some
instances very handsome—uniforms. We
have partially clothed our men in good sub
stantial garments, but there is still room
fur the expenditure of a trifle which can
easily be raised, and which judiciously ap
plied will contribute not only to their ap
pearance but comfort. Will not some one
take this in hand in earnest?
News FROM TUE PENNSYLVANIA FORCES.—
In our last issue we recorded the concentra
tion of troops at Clambersburg. The move
ment in that direction has been active dur
ing the present week. The First Regiment,
at.Catonsville last week, reichel Cliam
bersburg on Monday morning. On Sunday
General Patterson and staff passed over the
Pennsylvania Railroad in a special train
and arrived at Chambersburg the same af
ternoon, where ho is now in command. In
the same train were Alderman "Bill" Mc-
Mullen's "Independent Rangers," of Phila
delphia, one hundred strong. On Monday
afternoon about four o'clock, two trains car
rying respectively the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Regiments, under Colonels Johnson
and Oakford, passed through Columbia, en
route for the same place, soon to be the point,
of departure fur our forces designed, proba
bly, to operate against Harper's Ferry.
There are now in and around Chambers
burg—unless an advance has been made
since Thursday's news—fifteen regiments of
volunteers, five companies of cavalry—four
of regulars and the Philadelphia City Troop
—two companies of regular artillery, acting
as infantry and one company of regular in
fantry, and McMullen's Independent , Rin
gers. Tu this force ono regiment—the Ninth
—is to be added. We give below the latest
telegraphic news we cm cut from the dai
lies, which gives us full and satisfactory do
tails of the arrangement of the regiments
into brigades, &e., as we have seen any
where, with rum irs from Ilarpei's Furry,
&0., &c.:
CLIAXBERSBURG, June s.—Only one hun
dred out of the two hundred baggage wagons
necessary for transportation purposes of the
whole force have as yet arrived.
Two regiments of volunteers and five com
panies of cavalry will advance as far south
as flagerstown to-night or to-morrow. The
7th. Bth and 10th regiments will leave Camp
Slifer as soon as the rain abates and will
encamp ten miles below, near Greencastle.
Perfect plans of all the cross and leading
county roads loading to Virginia in Mary
land are in possession of General Patterson,
and copies are being rapidly made fur die•
tribution among the geld officers. The
troops are impatiently awaiting the forward
movement.
A scout reports this morning that the
rebels have succeeded in passing a wagon
load of powder through the Home Guard at
Sharpsburg. and carried it safe into Har
per's Ferry.
Colonel Rowley's Thirteenth Pennsylva
nia Regiment arrived from York last night.
The Sixteenth is expected from the same
point to-day.
Two men belonging to Company E, Sec
ond Cavalry Regiment, yesterday left their
camp with a pass, came to town, put on eit
ixen's clothes, and started southward. They
were arrested by the picket guard of the
Scott Legion ten miles south, and brought
back. They are lodged in prison. E.ich of
them had three pistols.
Through a scout sent to the Maryland
fleights. overlooking Harper's Ferry, who
returned to-day, we have a report that there
are fewer troops on the heights than one
week ay.. lie says, positively, that there
were only two guns in thebattery,andthat
it can he stormed with but little Joss of life,
and the guns turned upon the Ferry. lie
explored three routes by which the troops
can approach within three hundred yards of
the battery, and then with a rush carry the
guns at the point of the bayonet.
It is the impression of the residents of the
neighborhood, that the troops are preparing
fora retreat as an eventuality.
A forward movement is evidently eon
tempLted for to-morrow. The advance will
consist of Colonel Thomas's cavalry, which
will march overland. The other corps and
regiments will be thrown forward rapidly.
Cul. Thomas' cavalry comprises five com
panies of the Second U. S. cavalry, includ
ing the First City Troop. These, with two
companies of artillery, acting as infantry,
commanded by Captain Doubleday, one com
pany of regular infantry, also under Cap
tain Doubleday; the Sixth Regiment, Col,
James Nagle; the Twenty-first regiment,
Col. BaHier; and the Twenty-third regi
ment, Col. Dare, compose the First Brigade,
Cul. Thomas commanding.
Second Brigade—Gen. Wynkoop com
manding; First Pennsylvania regiment, Col.
lobe; Second, Cul. Stambaugh; Third, Col.
Manitiere; Twenty-fourth,ColOwen.
Third Brigade—Brigadier-General Wil
liams: Seventh Pennsylvania regiment, Col.
Irwin; Eighth,Col. Entley; Tenth, Cul. Mere
dith; Twentieth (Scott Legion), Col. Gray.
Fourth Brigade—Brigadier-General Neg
ley: Thirteenth regiment s Colonel Rowley;
Fourteenth; Col, Johnston; Fifteenth, Col.
Oakford; Sixteenth, Col. Ziegler.
The Ninth regiment, CuLLongeneeker,will
be brought here and attached to the First
Brigade.
The whole will be under the immediate
command of Major• General Keim; General
Patterson, senior officer, commanding.
Gen. Barman A Shaeffer is now noting
as Adjutant• General.
Death of Judge Douglas
CHICAGO, June 3.—Judge Douglas died
here this morning at nine o'clock. Those
in attendance were Mrs. Douglas, Dr. Mil.'
ler, Mrs. Cutts •tad J. Madison Cutts. Jr.,
of Washington. Ills remains will be taken
to Washington on Wednesday for interment.
Above we give the dispatch ann miming
the death of Senator Stephen A. Douglas,
of Illinois, one of the m Ist prominent men
of the country, and one of our readiest or
ators and ablest debaters. His los 4at this
time when the services of all good Union
men—as he has patriotically proved himself
sternly resisting and combating the heresy,
and treason of the Secession doctrine, and
sinking all party divisions and feelings in
an earnest support of the Government, with
out regard to who administers it—are need
by the country, will full with more than or
dinary severity, not only on his own friends
and supporters, but on the uttaon. The an
nouncement of his death has cast a sadness
over the people everywhere, and his memo
ry has been honored in all parts of the coun
try. In Washington his earnest support of
the Union at this most important crisis has
been appropriately acknowledged by various
tokens of respect. The following emanat
ing from the War department shows the
estimation in which the deceased Senator
was held by Secretary Cameron. The dis
patch above is in error as to the place of Mr.
Douglas' interment. His remains will rest
on the shores of the lake, near Chicago.
WAsumoros, June 3.—The following or
der relative to the death of Senator Douglas
will be issued to-morrow from the War De
partment:
WAR DEPARTMENT, June 4, 1861.
The death of a great statesman in this
hour of peril cannot be regarded otherwise
than as a great calamity. Stephen A.
Douglas expired in the commercial capital
of Illinois yesterday morning, nt 9 o'clock.
A representative of the overpowering senti
ment enlisted in the cause in which we are
engaged, A man who nobly discarded par
ty fur his country. A Senator who forgot
all prejudices in an earnest desire to serve
the Recuhlie. A statesman who lately re
received for the Chief Magistracy of the
Union a vote second only to that by which
the President was elected, and who had
every reason to look forward to a long ca
reer of usefulne.s and honor.
A patriot who defended with equal zeal
and ability the eunstituti7m as it eamo to us
from our fathers, and whose loot mission
upon earth was that of rallying the people
of his own Stato of Illinois, as one man,
around the glorious nag of the Union, has
been called from the scene of life and the
field of hie labor.
This Department, recognizing in the lota
one common to the whole country, end pro
foundly sensible of the grief it will excite
among millions of mon, hereby advises the
Colonels of the different Regiments to have
this order read to-morrow to their respective
commands, and suggests that the colors of
the Republics be oraped in mourning in
honor of the illustrious deed
[Signed]
Slum; CA SIERON,
Secretary of War
For the Columbia: Spy
Oar Army Correspondence.
[As a continuous narrative of events from
our correspondent TIMMY SQUAD is of in
terest we give hie letter of last week, which
owing to a detour by way of Lancaster
reached us half a day too late for publica
tion in last Saturday's Spy.—ED.]
CUAXIIER.SBURG, May 30, 1861.
DEAR Srr:—Since my last we have been
placed en route for the seat of war. On 'Mon
dey afternoon the lung and anxiously ex
pected order to pack for a march was re
ceived. Our buys were jubilant, and went
to work with a will. Either our discipline
was in excess or our worldly plunder very
scant, for we distanced every company io
the regim3ut, and were in line long before
the others. This "SQUAD" stowed his $3.60
Commonwealth refrigerating blanket and
extra gray shirt into his knapsack in ex
actly three minutes. Several of our "old
soldiers" became suddenly convaleseent.—
Our haversacks were filled with bread and
the canteens with wh— whir wa—
wat—watky or whisker, which you please,
possibly one possibly the other, and proba
bly sows with both: or, not to put too fine a
point upon it, with "grog." Two regiments
—the Second and Third—were soon formed,
and cheered by our comrades Jet behind us
iu camp, we marched to the railroad where
the cars awaited us. Embarked, we' left
York about 9 o'clock -in the evening, and
'after a long night ride (to which a trip from
Philadelphia to Columbia in the Emigrant
Express is a jaunt of pleasure) we arrived
at Chambersburg about 7 o'clock 'Tuesday
morning. We were marched at once to the
Fair Ground, about lk miles from town, and
were there kindly and bountifully supplied
with coffee and edibles by the hospitable citi
zens of the borough. [I must here say that the
haversacks furnished by our lady friends are
invaluable. The company declined receiv
ing those furnished by Government—a mis
erable article, made of very coarse oil cloth.
Several of the men of other companies are
sick after eating bread carried in these, and
our surgeon ordered all the bread brought
in them from York to be thrown away. My
bread carrried in one of our home haver
sacks is sweet and good to-day. This will
be sufficient reward to our kind friends, to
know how much their thoughtful donation,
has contributed to our comfort.] During
the afternoon we were marched into town,
and there the two regiments quartered in
the court house, school houses, churches,
machine shops, &c. Our company bunk
very pleasantly in a. public school house,
and good character (for order and behavior)
procures us full liberty in town. The citi
zens are very kind, and let us want fur
nothing. We are invited to dinner, supper,
bed and breakfast—in short we are in fra
grant clover, knee deep. Our men are all
well, every man answering to his name at
roll call this morning, except Eli T. Derrick,
sent home last Sunday, crippled with rheu
matism, and Edward Miller, left, sick in care
of Rev. Mr. Menges, at York. Both of these
are good soldiers and will no doubt join us
as soon as they are able to stand service.
I understand that a strong force is to be
concentrated here, and General Patterson is
daily expected to take command. I pre
sume our advance will be upon Harper's
Ferry. Our regiment will probably head
the column, and all hands are anxious for a
chance. We have now here five regiments
-Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth,
and more are just arriving. One of these is
the Sixth, from Perryville, via Baltimore
and the Northern Central. This regimen t
is like all other Pennsylvania regiments—
good men but ragged. They are poorly
equipped.
Our tents and camp equipage are expected
to-day, when we will go into camp—proba
bly in the direction of Hagerstown. Yes
terday our regiment had a street parade,
and I think made a creditable display.
Jasper Green visited us yesterday and
quartered with the officers last night. Cul.
Shoal) was with us to-day. We arc always
delighted to see our Columbia friends.
Tn t RSTY SQUAD.
CAMP CHAMBERS, June 3. 1861
DLitt Srr:—We have just received the
Spy of Ist inst., containing matter of much
interest to us. We had seen no other pa
per fur three days previously. We let
Chambersburg on Thursday at noon, and
our load—heavy knapsack, haversack, can
teens, musket and forty rounds of ammuni
tion, ball and buckshot—rendered the march
under a scorching sun, rather fatigueing.—
A tramp of four miles brought us to the farm
of Mr. Ritter, on which, in a thirty-acre clo
ver field, we halted, stacked arms, unslung
knapsacks, and prepared to encamp. Our
tents arriving we soon had therm pitchrd,
and now fur the first time behold us fairly
in the "tented field." The tents are fur
nished by the United States Government;
they are new and very good, and in strong
contrast with every article of supplies fur
nished us by the thieving authorities of
Pennsylvania. On Friday we were joined
by the Third Regiment. The Scott Legion,
Owen's Irish Regiment and a Philadelphia
German Regiment are encamped a few miler
north of us.
Our camp is a plelsant one, with plenty
of good water. A stream about the size of
Shawnee Run, botmore rapid, runs through
the Camp. The water is limestone, good
for drinking purposes, but rather hard for
washing. The lower part of the stream is
extensively un.ed for washing and bathing—
sentinels keeping the stream higher up un
polluted. for drinking and culinary use. Our
boys indulge freely in the bath, and aro no•
table washerwomen; their wringing and
ironing would astonish the girls they left
behind them. Several of company F have
out their shingles: "WAsuixo AND IRONING
DONE DERE WITH DISPATCII."
General Patterson was expected yesterday
to arrive in Chambersburg to take command
of the corps d' Armee assembling in this
quarter, which is to amount, says report, to
twenty thousand men. From ten to twelve
thousand have already been concentrated in
and around Chautbersburg. Our regiment
ranking all the others, will, with its supe
rior Equipments and discipline, entitled it
to head the column from here in its forward
movements upon the rebels of Virginia.—
Our boys aro elated with the prospect of ear
ly action, and I feel assured will give a good
account of themselves.
Captain Joseph Mifflin, of Shippcnsburg,
an old Columbian and an old acquaintance,
visited us in Chambereburg. His eon, a fine
young fellow. decked to join our company,
but our ranks are full and our Captain bad
to refuse him.
Col. Myers is the only other Columbian
that has visited as eine* my last. A home
face stirs up the boys and cheers them won
derfully.
Yesterday we had the pleasure of shaking
by the hand our old friend General, (now
Major) Bartram A. Shaeffer. The Major is
Aid to General Keim, and will no doubt
move forward with our colum. To hie host
of friends at home it is scarcely necessary
to say that he keeps on eye upon the Lan
caster county boys, and makes use of his
position to obtain for them every proper fa
vor. His many good (politico of bead and
heart render him a general favorite among
as all.
Our company are well except Timothy
Sullivan and William E. Miller—the former
is afflicted with rheumatism; the latter with
a carbuncle on the neck. Neither case is
serious. Yours,
P. S. The First Regiment has just arri
ved. C. C. Llaldeman gad W. U. lieu well
T. IL
The most serious event of the war since
our last has been the engagement between
the United States gun-boat 4 and the Confed
erate batteries at Aquia Creek, on the Poto
mac. - The cannonading was commenced on
Friday, 31st ult., by gunboats Anacosta and
Freeborn. The engagement continued two
hours, the batteries replying with spirit.
The batteries on the wharf were silenced,
and the depot buildings knocked to pieces.
The shore batteries were repaired during
the night, and on Saturday the cannonading
was again resumed, the Pawnee having
joined the attacking force. The beach bat
teries were again silenced, but a battery on
the hill, supposed to be armed with rifle
cannon, was beyond the range of the guns
of the vessels. Oialy one man on board the
vessels was wounded, and the vessels re
ceived no serious damage, the firing from
the batteries being generally too high to be
effective. Among the Confederate troops it
is believed that a number were killed or
wounded, as parties were seen removing
them from the batteries. The Pawnee and
the Anneosta were still lying off the Creek,
but beyond the range of the batteries.
At Fairfax Court House on Friday night
there was an encounter between the scouts
of the two armies. A company of the Un'-
ted States Dragoons, under command of
Lieut. Tumkins, made a reconnoisance as
far as the village, where they were fired on
by the guards of the Confederate outposts.
The dragoons then fired, killing the captain
of the company. They then charged
through the village and made good their re
' treat. Two of their men were captured and
three wounded, whilst they brought off five
prisoners. The number killed on the side
of the Confederates ranges all the way from
one to twenty. Oa Saturday night, the drip
goons, it is reported, returned to the village
and succeeded in bringing off the two men
captured the previous night.
On Friday night the outposts, near Ar
lington, were fired on by the Virginia scouts
and one of the New York Zounves killed and
another wounded. The fire was returned
and the attacking party retreated. The
urns at Alexandria were throwing - up earth
works fur the defence of that city.
From Richmond we learn that Jefferson
Davis had arrived there and taken a house
fur the residence of his family. The num
ber of troops at that point has been greatly
reduced by their despatch to other points.
The latest news from Now Mexico states
that Colonel Loring, Commander of the De
partment of New Mexico, Major Crittenden,
Lieutenants Rich, Baker and McNeill, of
the United States Rifles, hare resigned.
Colonel Canby will assume command as
soon as Colonel Loring ]eaves.
From Williamsport, Maryland we learn
that the Virginia. troops opposite that
point on Saturday made another attempt to
get possession of the ferry boat. The Union
men at Williamsport resisted and shots ex
changed by which the Secessionists are re
ported to have suffered without damage to
their opponents. Another attempt to cap
ture the boat being anticipated, the Union
men in the vicinity were assembled for re
resistance.
Intelligence hag been received by the
State Department of the reception of Minis
ter Adams at the English Court. The re
ception wrs marked by extreme cordiality
and friendship.
The first serious encounter of the war has
taken place in Western Virginia. Two col
umns of United States troops, under com
mand of Colonel Kelley, Virginia volun
teers, and Colonel Crittenden of the Indiana
volunteers, on Sunday night, made a forced
march from Grafton to Phillippi, the county
seat of Barbour county, near which they
surprised a camp of Confederate troops re
ported to be two thousand strong. The sur
prise was complete. Tho crimp of the Con
federates was captured, and they fled leaving
fifteen dead b)dies on the field. The United
States forces seized large amounts of arms,
ammunition, provisions and some horses.
The pursuit was continued and it was ex
pected that a number of prisoners would be
captured. Colonel Kelley, of the Wheeling
regiment, was wounded in the attack. Sev
eral of the Federal troops were also
wounded.
The steamship Prince Albert arrived at
St. Johns brings foreign advices to 21st ult.
The political news is not important. Hon.
Cassius M. Clay, United States Minister to
Russia. had addressed the London Times
on the American struggle in brief and de
cisive terms. The Queen of Spain had
signed the decree for the annexation of St.
Dinsingn.
The three United States steamers of the
Mediterranean squadron have been ordered
home, and will be added to the blockading
squadron. They are the Susquehanna,
which arrived at New York on Tuesday, the
Richmond and the Iroquois.
The Legislature reassembled at Frederick
city on Tuesday. The committee appointed
to present to Pr esident Lincoln the report of
the Committee on Federal Relations reported
to the house why they had not discharged
that mission. The Senate merely met and
adjourned.
The steamer Hibernia arrived at Farther
Point, brings foreign adviees via London
derry to 24th ult. The London Times in
its oommente on American affairs sharply
criticises Mr. Seward's letter of instruction
to the American Minister to France.
The iron steamer Peerless, surnosed to
have been bought for the Confederate States
is said to have been seized at Quebec, at the
instance of the United States Consul Gen
eral. This is the vessel announced some
time since as having been bought by the
United States Government. '
The movement of troops toward Fortress
Monroe ountiones. Two regiments, the First
and the Third, left New York on Monday
for that point, and a third, the tenth, on
Tuesday.
New Orleans papers received at Lonieville
give some particulars of the operations of
the blockading fleet off the mouth of the
Mississippi. Two vessels had been captured
and sent to Key West, and others ordered
off.
TRIZSIT SQUAD.
The Montgomery Poet says that a portion
of the Confederate troops at Pensacola have
The News.
been ordered away, and there is but little
probability of an attack on Fort Pickens.
The Border State Convention at Frank
fort Kentucky, has adjourned after adopting
the National and State Addresses.
No important movements are reported
from across the Potomac, nor are there any
new indications of an approaching forward
movement. From Fortress Monroe we also
learn that nothing of moment had occurred
up to Tuesday evening. The government
steamer Quaker City had seized the bark
General Greene, said to belong to Charles
ton, but bound from Sagan la Grande to
Baltimore with a cargo of sugar and molas
ses.
Foreign papers by the steamer Borussia
furnish an interesting continuation of the
discussion of American affairs. It is
stated at Liverpool that a large number
of vessels have been fitted out there as pri
vateers, and are only awaiting the letters of
marque from America to sail. The subject
is greatly annoying commercial circles in
Liverpool. At Paris a very large meeting
of Americans had been held, at which a
handsome fund for the purchase of Whit
worth guns had been raised. A rumor frcm
Turin states that two members of the
American Congress were there endeavoring
to enlist an Italian legion for the war.
IMPORTANT LAW.—Tho following impor
tant law was passed at the late session of
the Legislature, and approved by the Gov
ernor. We publish it for the information
of the public. Great loss and inconvenience
has'been experienced by the loss of inven
tories and appraisements, caused by their
having been,taken from the Register's.office,
by parties concerned, and not returhed.—
This act will overcome the difficulty.
Be it enacted, &c. That from and after
the passage of this act, the Register of Lan
caster county is hereby authorized and re
quired to place upon record in a fair and
legible hand in a book or books to be pro
vided by the county of Lancaster for that
purpose, all inventories and appraisements
of deeelents' estates. The fees to be the
Same as thosejeceived in similar cases now
performed by the Register.
.A EXECUTION SCENE IN FRANCE.-I was
obliged to keep on the outskirts of the
crowd; and never having seen an execution
before I could not help being shocked by
the levity of these people. Men were hawk
ing about cakes, rolls, and lots of other eat
ables, which were bought freely, and de
voured amidst laughter and jokes, as if they
were at a fete. I followed the rear of the
procession, and got close up to the scaffold.
The prisoners were brought out in two open
carts, and then, for the first time, I had an
opportunity of seeing what they were like.
Neither of them appeared to be more than
36 years of age, and it was impossille to
detect in their faces any signs of ferocity.
Stupid enough they looked, certainly, but
there was much more of the sheep than of
the wolf in their physiognomy. Each held
a crucifix in his hand, and each had a priest
beside him, who prayed incessantly. Their
responses were fervent, and there was an
agonizing earnestness in their tone which
was dreadful to hoar. As the cortege moved
slowly through the throng, there was no
longer any of the levity perceptible which
had shucked me a few minutes before.
Everybody—men end women—seemed to
sympathize with the criminals, and I no
ticed lips moving, as if some among the
spectators were offering up prayers for their
souls. There was a pause when we reached
the foot of the scaffold, and the priest re
cited more and longer prayers. Then one
of the criminals ascended the steps, holding
the priest by one hand and the crucifix in
the other. This was Barrel. He looked
slowly along the sea of upturned faces, as if
he would like to see somebody he knew.
Then he looked up to the bright blue sky
fur a minute. I could see the tears glitter
in his eyes as he- brought them down to
their former level; and I beard him say dis
tinctly, as his head was being arranged in
its place, "Je maws, mail je anis innocent.
Elle m'a tee. Je side innocent. 0 MO2/
Dieu!" The heavily loaded axe descended
like a flash of lightning, and guilty or inno
cent, a soul was liberated to enter upon the
next mysterious stage of existence.—Once a
Week.
AN IMPROMPTU' CUURCU CEREMONIAL.--The
Chicago Record tells a singular story of
Bishop Philander Chase. lie was' about to
consecrate a church at Waukegan, Illinois,
but having written the deed of consecration
just before going into the church, found that
his hands wore soiled with ink. Ile did
not observe this until be bad entered the
church. Calling upon one of the clergyman
present, ho asked him to bring a bowl of
water and towel from the vestry, he being
too large and unweildly to go there himself.
The clergyman ventured to suggest to him;
sotto voce, that a wet towel might do as well,
and would be less noticed by the congrega
tion. The bishop looked at him over his
spectacles and said, "Sir, I never wash with
a towel." The services were going on, not
withstanding the commotion in the chancel
around the bishop. At last the senior wet.-
ben of the parish—now deceased—was obliged
to go out and bring in a bowl of water.
And by a singular coincidence, just as the
officiating clergyman was giving out (accor
ding to the rubric in the consecration office)
the 21st Psalm, 2d
-991 wash my hands in innocence,
And 'round thine alter go,"
the bishop dipped his hands into the bowl
and washed them. Some of the people of the
parish, to this day, think that this was part
of the ceremony of the olnsecration.
"Jotter Paccutx" Desn.—Lient. George 11.
Derby, author of the "John Pbcenix" papers
in the Knickerbocker, died a few days since
in an Insane Asylum. Lieut. Derby was a
native of Massachusetts, from which State
be was appointed to the West Point Academy,
where be graduated in 1842. On the let of
July. 1848, ho was made Brevet Second
Lieutenant of Ordnance, and in August fol
lowing he was transferred to the Topo
graphical Engineers. Ile served in the
Mexican war with distinction, and for "gal.
lant and meritorious conduct" in the battle
of Cerro Gordo, where he was severely
wounded, he wag promoted to a first Lieu
tenancy.
FAITHFUL MINISTERS OF HEALTH: In ex
amining the vessels at the various wharves
we find among the curiosities of our com
merce the brig Miranda, just in from Trux
illo with a cargo of Honduras Sarsaparilla
for Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., of Lowell. So par
ticular arc this firm as to the articles used
in compounding their various remedies, that
they have this drug, like some others they
consume, gathered for them by a skillful
agent of their own in the tropical regions of
its growth. He informs us that there are
many species of this plant, but two of which
are really valuable in medicine; the qualities
of these are also affected by the time of gath
ering, mode of curing, etc., operations
which in that region of unreliable workmen
imposes a heavy labor upon him. Ono of
the inert varieties of Sarsaparilla grows
wild in our own forests, while several others,
nearly worthless, abound in Central and
South America. The intelligent agent assur
ed us that the virtues of this drug had never
been fully told, and that the reason of the
1 ivy esteem in which many hold it is mainly
due to the importation of such immese quan
tities of the worthless varieties. His accounts
of his trips to Honduras and his business
excursions along the Gulf of Dulce and the
rivers of Montague and Santiago and among
the adjacent mountains were of intense in
terest. We can but commend and honor his
employers fur the faithfulness and energy
with which they execute their trust as min
isters to the public health, and we suspect
that this course is at least one of the rea
sons why their znedieirms are held in such
extraordinary favor throughout the civilized
world.—. New fork Oily Newt.
Discovery of Phosphorus
It is now nearly two 'centuries since
Brandt, the Ilamburgh alchemist, in his
search for gold, accidentally disoovered the
elementary body phosphorus, named from its
property of being luminous in the dark,
from two Greek words, phos, light, and phe
ro, I bear. Within two years of this discov
ery, or in 1670, ono Kraft brought a small
piece of phosphorus to London, dhd showed
it to Charles II and his Queen, the year af
ter peace was concluded with Holland. The
lion. Robert Boyle afterwards discovered
the process, which he described in the "Phil
osophical Transaction" for 1680, and in a
small work which he published in the same
year, entitled the "Aerial Noctiluca." Mr.
Boyle instructed Mr. Godfrey Ilankwitz of
London how to procure phosphorus from
mine, so that he was the first who made it
for sale in England; and he is said to have
supplied all Europe with it for many years.
It continued long to be an expensive chem
ical; for in 1731 we find by the books of
the Royal Society that for Dr. Frobenius's
experiments on the transmutation of phos
phorus, exhibited before the Prince of Wales,
the phosphorus used on the occasion,
amounting to six ounces, cost ten guineas!
—From. Timbs's "Curiosities of Science."
A VILLAINOUS TRICK.--A good joke is
told ou a member of one of the volunteer
companies which went down to Pensacola.
We think it was a Mississippi company, and
is said to be a fact. Being accustomed to
fresh water, living in the interior, and not
having been in the Gulf of Mexico before,
he was in blissful ignorance of its briny prop
erties. Getting up in the morning, as usual,
to perform his daily abolutions, he drew a
bucket of water, set it down near some of his
comrades, and retired for soap and towel.
Returning with the articles, he soused into
the bucket of water, hands and face. The con
sequence can be imagined. Recovering from
the shock and rubbing his burning eyeballs,
he exclaimed. "I can whip the d—d ras
cal that salted this water. A man can't
draw a bucket of water and leave it for a few
moments, without some prank is plsyed on
him." Dashing the water uside,he left
amid the shouts and jeers of his companions,
who had been silently watching him. Us
soon found out his mistake.
"Lorrsc TUE SOUTII."—In a sunday school
in Fourth street, on suoday morning last,
the words "My country 'tis of thee," were
sung, after which the Superintendent made
some remarks on the'cluty of every one to
love one part of the country as much as an
other, and then asked the children:
"Do you not love the South ea well se you
do the North?'
"No, Sirl" was the unanimous and em-
phatic responce, which took the teacher
quite by surprise and set the house in a roar.
The teacher attempted to explain the duty
of loving the South equally with the North.
and repeated his question, when ho received
the same emphatic response in the negative,
and gave up the argument.
SlEirA fellow attempted to Fars himself off
for Senator Benjamin, in Virginia, and
ca me near getting hie neck stretched on ac
count of it.—Exchange
Pray, how did the fellow enact the char
acter of Benjamin? Did he steal' something.
and threaten a law suit when charged with
the tbeft?—Louisviik Journrnal.
GE N. SCOTT AND JET?. DATIO.—X member
of the Seventh IteTiment, in a. letter to his
father, writes;
"I beard n good anecdote of Gen. Scott on
Monday. He was asked what be intended
to do with Jefferson Davis. In answer ho
merely put up his open hand, and gradually
ckseed his fingers till his hand was clenched.
He could not have given a more expressive
ans.ver."
SENTIMENT BY A ZOO-ZOO.-"My dear Jeff
Davis, it is useless for you to curry favor
with the crowned heads abroad. Your most
intimate relations will not be with Europe,
but with Our rope!"
:gerAdvice to delicate volunteers—Get
llardee.—Bosion Post.
write who "couldn't stand it any lon
ger," has taken a seat, and now feels quite
comfortable.
WE are sorry to see that our old friend of
the Frankfurt Yeoman notices a certain ar
ticle in the Cincinnati Commercial which he
says is such an article "as no gentleman
could notice."—Louierine Journal.