:rie: cas fiastaatly _followed, first by a fete Kann, wliish - tir.ilio — eir.citran,,axid then by u heavy, dose ac! siptdly Ilisobargatirmus-, eery. In the disparity of numbers, the Common was a Lola of murder. not of ;; stale Parker, therefore, ordered his' men to disperse.— Then, nod got till then, did a few of them, cc their min impulse return the British ire. :rt,cse random shots of.fugitire or dying men did no harm, except that Pitcairn's . horse WOR 4 , 7 ';'.7 4 :11:C gra:ad, and a private of the Atittitlight infantry was slightly touched on the leg. — Jonas Parker, the strangest aca best wrestler in Lesington, bad promised never to run from the .ritish troops; and he kept hls word. Haring discharged his gun, he 'was preparing to lurid it again, when es "ioun'd a heart as ever throbbed for freedom ais stifled by a bayonet, and he lay an the post which Le took at the acornides drum ;heat. ..do fell Isaac Mutt, and so died the aged.' -Robert Monree, - the seine who, in 1750, had laben ensign at Louisville. Jonathan llar- Lrington was struck in front of his house, on ;he north of the Common. llio wife was at the' windari when he fell. 'With the _blood gushingfrom his breast he rose in her sight, tottered, fell again; then crawled on his bands and knees towards his dwelling; she ran to meet him, hot only _reached him es he expired tm the threshold. Caleb liar -rington, who had gone' into the' meeting • house for powder, was shot as be came out. • Sac3nel lls.dley and John Brown were pur %sued-and killed after they had left the green. Ashael Porter, who had been taken prison. sr by the march, iu endeavoring to escape chit, %Wain a few rod of the Common. beven of the men ofLesington wertrkilled; :.tne wounded;—a quarter part el ilmise who t toot: in arms on the glean. :Chests are the sdl:age heroes who were more than of noble blood, proving by their Spirit that they were of a race divine. They gave their 'lives in testimony to their country an assur snap of success in the ;nighty struggle which they had begun. Their names nee held in • grateful remembrance, and the expanding millions of their countrymen renew and mpitiply their praise from generation to generation. They fulfilled their duty, not from ace:- dental impulse of the moment; their :Action • was the slowly ripened fruit of providence and of time. needless his own danger, Samuel Ad ams.n:4h the voice of a prophet,exclaimed, WheMhe heard of the resistance at Lexing. :ton, -Olt, what a glorious morning is this!" - for thus he saw that his country's intlepen. derma \cue ims . teuing rapidly un, and, like ;:olutuLas iu tho tempest, knew that the storm did bet bear him more ewiftly to the -undiscovered world. WRSTERN OBITUARY I\ZOTICZ Ma. Enarcm—Jetn bangs, we are sorry to stait, has deseized. He departed this last mu.ad.r. Jetzt wee generally con sideredF a gud . feller. He dile at the age of 23 years old. lie want 4th without ary struggle, aril sici, is Life. Tu Da we are as pepper grass, mighty smart, to lorrer we are zut down like u aux.-cumber of the ground. J .kept a pica stoar; which his w,fo now W 243 on. His virchews was au tueraus to bahull Manny is the things we blt at his growcery. and we are happy to iktait to the sAmirin wurld that ho never cheated, epechally is the wate of markrcl, 'which woe nice and smolt sweet, and his purrivio wife is the saute wa. We never kpe7 him to pot sand iu his sugar, t . ho he had a big sandbar iu front of his liJus; nur water iu his Lit:hers. the the Ohio River runs part his dore. Pece to his . retr.anesl He i4VOS a wife, 3 children, a cow, '4 horses, a groweery atoar, and other quodrapeds to mourn his loss; but iu the spaleudid lung widge nv the poit, his loss is there eternal SrstiaxNat.r. TAM-Quilp, of the Boat:u Post, gives the following as en infallible recipe for worrying an enemy, baring seen it tried on: If any one wishes to know The best way to worry a fve, Don't go to impeschinr, his aims; Don't call him ov.prubrious names; Don't ea.) , that he tipples or games; Len% twit him for dyeing his buir; .2:l4n't sneer a.t. his "2.40 mare:" Duo% threaten :tie limbs or his life; 'Don't laugh ut his daughter or wife; Don't tell him to "look in the glass;" Don't call him a fool or an ays; Don't tell him he rides very ill; Don't 4un Wm with that -little hill:" Don't such him, or sir.p ...Tim, or Lizk him; Don't stab him. or sticklint, or lick him; There** a crueler trick to einploy-- - • Gire a drum to las favorite boy! RZYONITRATLD WITII Ilra.---Oae of the ` 6 ooye at Camp Noble, lad., was put on guard last week, nod reported to his Cap- Ulu in the morning that, "he wee abuse] by 'ls fellow, because be would not allow him to ?Lea." "Well," said the Captain, "what aid you do?', "Do! why I remonstrated with Lim." •'.2l.nd to who: eject?" "Well, "I don't know to what effect, put the barrel of wiy gun Le n ./ • " is A Yr:vatrrr.—Wo Lotica in the Ea tern papers that editorial opiniqa is divided in Tarr,/ to tho orthography of the name of v7ho en coeds General Lyon. Solve spell it S:ei:e7, others Seige; irate! atii .:there Ills omits se Franz Letat FmnUic ¢. Erica To Mat:aims acy per. 'Miser/to are obliged to take offensive medi ainewoald first tate a !.•it of alum into the month. they can then take the medicine with lie :mach ease as thouzb - it were so moth sugar- .11/o".Vothing„ perhaps, strikes the ear more pinamatly than a pretty woman's obarmiag ssiihept„ perhaps, her charm. ins dant!. I= . terWLat fs the difference between Noaltie Ailc sad Joan of pile waa made of Oopber-wood, the otherwas ,dfaid of Orleans. says that nearly an the cannon at' tbal South are rifirt?—tiota the United - , ,tit—etthnitina • C OLTJ MB La F' a. -SA.TURDAT. AUG. 31, IQCI. ser-Rer;:r. Patterson will preach.iin thePreihyterifs;ciTurehto.rnorrow (Snnyy) morning irrtl4.levang nt tho usual hour: • _ atier.tion of parents 'tothe announcement of the opening of onr Public Schools, in our columns. "Oemant.r."—We regret to o.nnounle that owing to interfering duties nor faithful cor respondent ••01IDEALY" will, at least fur a time, become but an irregular contributor to our columns—getting in, we hope, a letter oecasionally, as time will permit. We must troubles ".RIVILVER.," to giro' us e, weekly screed, if be can so manage' it. Out Aa.ur INTZILLIGENCS.--..AS soon as Capt. Po.mbu's Coinpany is filled and Col. Welsh's regiment organized Fe hope to in duce souse of our b )vs to keep our readers posted Abe to their movements. This week we are without a line from our volunteers. We will, us seen as we can it.• ocure thorn, gibe the names of all Culumbiuus who have volute:eared niece the return of the Shawnee Guarkls. • Lieut. C. C. Haldeman left on Wed nesday of last week with another small s'qrs ad of reel% its, arriving, in Philudelphla just in time to join hie regiment, about starting for Washington. The regiMent, (Cul. Dirney's) is now eucumped near Washington, and al though in res(kniEe to the cull of the War Department, it marched before it was com pletely organized, it is rapidly tilling up.— Lieut. Haldeman is in Company I. Wan Meemo.—On Wednesday evening a meeting was held in Odd Fellows' !lull, at which Rev. A.. B. Orush spoke, advocating a vigorous prosecution of the present war fur the Union. There was a good turn out, the Liull being well filled by an attentive au dience. The speaker was earnest and elo quent, and freely applauded. Mr. Grosh is no half measuro men. Ue goes for "the Union the whole Union and nothing but the Union," especially nut fur the Southern Con federacy. The meeting was only announced the same day, but the subject is one in ev ery man's thoughts, and near to every man's heart, so the people turned out readily.— There ehould be inure of such meetings and such addresses throughout the country. LUCE'S. EVANS —We learn that Lieut. blv ans, of Company i;;., (C'uokman Rangers) Fifth Regiment Penna. Reserve, has been specially det.“ '• ! f.,r signal duty. Ile is de melted from his regiment and his duties call hint into the immediate neighborhood of the enemy. Ile is p-ovidel with a horse, spy glaei, &a. James Armstrong, formerly of th:s place,is detailed at his clerk. B .) , a new co :4'e of signals recently introduced the movements of the enemy can be accurately and speedily telegraphed :clout: cur whole line of defences on Ll:a Potomac. The duty of Lieut. L'vaus is a highly impottant and responsible one. We know of no one who would mote carefully, ably, and we vedure to say satisfactorily, fill the place. no has probably been selected from a full knowledge of his valuable qualities. We wish him RUC- Coos and exo.nption from rebel bullets. A Dcsrztucrtvz FIRE.—Ou Satanlay night about a quarter past &oven o'clock the' alarm of tire was sounded, and the town I aroused. A dull light over the upper por tion of the town drew the firemen to Com ' tnerce street, and on turning in from \Val , nut it was soon apparent that fire had bro ken out in the second story of the large three-story M chine and Pattern Shop at tached to the Foundry of John A. Hook & Co. The neighborhood was a had one fur a I fire, many frame stables and dwellings closely surrounding the shop. It was evi dent that nothing could be done towards saving the burning building. The dry pat terns, the 1144.11.1nanlation of years, burned like tinder, and.the large establishment was soon a blazing furnace, driving every one to a respectful distance. The efforts of the fire-! men we principally directed towards saving I the adjoining buildiege on Front Street.-1 ! The frame stabling above the shop and one (I; two frame stables and a small frame ten-1 etueet opposite were necessarily- left to their fate. Fortunately there was little wind, and ; that in a safe direction. By ti enter:done exertions the foundry and out-buildings omit:tilling valuable patterns, were saved. The back.huilduage of Mt. Martin Smith and Mr. John List, with the enception of eta wcrt3 also saved. It was a very near hou et er, and they suffet ed. consider ! eblo ..corching. The Nachinu Shop was part of the estate I of Ge. Wolf, doc'd., and was without ham- Irancte. The loss will be heavy. John Q. Denney lost some valuable machinery and his toots, trainees at 4,000, on which ho has lan insurance of $l,OOO in the West Branch. Samuel Truecntt had an intereit in 11063 e of the stock destroyed, on which he bad partial insurance. Beside the stables of Messrs. Smith and List, stabling and a small frame dwelling belonging to J. IL Mifflin were consumed. We, with the oommuuity gen. orally, cordially sympathize with the suffer ere.. The fire was nu doubt incendiary, a. no fire had hem 'near the place of outbreak . for more than a week. I At every fire in our borough we are put to I •hams by the inefficiency Of our foremen— ! tint through the fault of themselves. fur there le no better material in the world (an witness the results of their exertions) but from the miserable condition of theii hose, chiefly, and a portion of their niachinury.— The firemen cannot 'be expected to keep up their supply of hose. The work they do gratuitously And with so good a will; is sat ficient tax; the borough nod individuals should ass that their apparatus and all ac: ace:orlon asevutieient and of the best. The first feeling of the men on reachinga firs is ono of despair when they remember how illy they are prepared to encounter the destruc tive element. They always suansge some bow. however, to get to work and do such service as anywhere else would bring them all they justly demand, within a week. Cornrow:s roe ors Sounsas.- 7 -The sag ges‘ion has been made through the press—, whete si; knecr::.—ana ex: tensively adopted. and adirola , ted newspa pers throughli the NortbZtlaat the ladies 0411 direct their generous efforts, sways aeilye in behiilf of ouriallant4roops, to wards furnishing a suppltiof woolen hocks :for these of the soldiers ilairin&three min g: whiter. - It bits been proposed thee -- every lady shall knit one pair of socks. This will be an ample supply 7 provide.l every lady who is willing ie able. Knitting is old fash ioned work, we know; only because of the almost tom! disuse into which the old woolen stocking hitstallen, however. It is a homely piece of evening's work, and many deftfing era which are familiar enough with crochet, tatting, worsted work, embroidery and like graceful idling, -via,la m`ake . sad work of Widening and narrowing, - or in the nice manipulation of the too and heel. Many, but not all; and those who will it can learn. Every season has its peculiar "rage" in the line of fancy work. Let stocking knitting be the fashion this fall and winter. It only wants :o be fairly Started and there will be no end Vi its success. Our own ladies have I been behind pone in their care fur our sel -1 uniecrii. Our three month bays whilst service were followed everywhere by the af fectionate care of their female friends at home. They were envied by the whole reg imfnat the frezieent mid substantial supplies i of good and useful things receied from home. I Now this kindness Li requrei). in another shape. The fall and winter campaign will probably be a severe oao, and on nu other comfort will the health and bodily ease of the volunteers so mitt:l-dilly depend as apart warm and substantial clothing fur the feet. No socks arc like Lone Maddenes. ttesides beim.; better is material and make, than those likely to lie supplie I by (mid...tours, they hate the additimal merit—equal to five degrees of heat—of being from holm:. We would respectfully suggest that our Columbia ladies, inarried and single, old and young, take the matter in hand. The bet ter and inure eirecitual plan woLltl d t e to or ganize, and ascertain the strength of the knitting talent of the burro lm. 'Treat make public the capacity for manufacture and there will be material forthcoming sufficient to keep all the "fact me." rennin:: on full time. We are authorized in advance to proffer sufficient yarn forfiltypoir.s of sock. whenever the hands are ready with the needles. ()them will doubtless ho ready to follow this liberal example, and we shall be happy to dm again the medium thrt;ugh which to make such offers public. Wsare always ready, too, to aid the by the use of our columns, iii any manner they may require. Yew Movriturs.—The Monthlies have again accumulated upon our hands, and we will notice them under a general h. ad. GODEIr is always in advance. The Sep tember number, is an unusually good one perfect in all its departments. ARTLICR'S 11011 E; M ta.tz.lNE fur September, was among the earliest received, and of the must welcome. It is a pleasant family Meg. aziue and one wa can heartily recommend to our readers. 1 7 CANF LE AXE'S 31.)NTEILY is the pictorial magazine. It is profusely illustrated, and with cuts worth looking at. But besides the pictorial feature it gives the very best mag azine stories published. There is a large amount of reading matter fur the money, and of the very kind that the readers of periodicals rejoice in. Take the Monthly, by all means. " Tax ATLANTIC IT/NTI/L7 is distinguished by its usual characteristic table of contents. Everything is good—the best ••f its kind.— The periodical is one that does honor to our native literary talent. The publishers of the Atlantic announce that hereafter. in view of the important crisis through which we are passing. o •nsiderable space will be devoted to a odnsideration of public afftirs. Wo shall have the views of our ablest wri ters upon our great national struggle—sure ly an invaluable feature in a publication of the weight of the A.tlantio. Ilattratt for September opens with an it lustrated ertiole upda "Stratford on the I Avon." Another illustrated paper id "Win- I field Scott in the War of 1.31.2;" the Mas i trations are by Bdtism J. Logging,. Toe j two serials running through Llarper— Thackeray's "Philip," studTrollupes "Orley Farm"—grow in interest. Both are admira• ble tales, and both are well illustrated., par ticularly the latter. Millais has come ti be lone of the first of English book illu4traturs. The editorial department of Harper is as en tertaining as usual. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Iv M&RIETTA.--On Wed nesiny morning about•three o'clock. a fire broke out in n large frame barn between Walnut and Market-st.. Marietta, which was entirely consumed, t , igethor with a large quantity of grain and hay. The early hour of the morning at which the fire broke nut—when but few persons were up—allow ed it to gain considerable headway. and before the fames cmid be checked tltet• spre'rid to adjoining property and in a eh .ri time devoured six stables. The ib.i.rn the property of Dr. Somitel ilintstrin.• and the grain, of which there was about titre.. hundred bushels of wheat, fire 'hundred it oats dud tome twenty-five tots.' of hay. wn owned conjointly by Dr. llmston and D will Paulis—the latter faiming isome adjoining land on shares with the former: ' Four of the six ett.lites were also owned by Doctor llou.tori: the others. one by Rev. Geo. W. Clawges and one by Miss Boggs.— llouston's loss must be fully $2OOO, only $..00 of which is covered by insurance in i the Lycoming Muigal Insurance Company. The loss of Mr. PEalis falls heovily upon him, as his share of the year's crop was all stored. in the barn, and thus in a few min utes' time the fruits of a whole year's labor was snatched from him. The fire was un doubtedly the work of an incendiary. The morning was very calm. otherwise the de struction of property most have been much more serious, as the neighborhood is filled with frame buildings. During the fire an accident occurred to a young mita named John Shallow. who W as assisting at the fire. which it iy feared will prove fatal. • It, appears that. while some fifty or sixty men were working one of the large - hooks. attached to the UniOn Hook and Ladder Company, in pulling dOwli the side of one of the horning stables, the hook gar* way. and as Mr. Shillow was at the back end of the pole, the full force of the disengaged pole struck him in the breast. breaking several ribs, and doing him some i internal injury.—LoctomAti,Espreer..• : HEROIC STRUGGLE-- . ‘ 'ON riTIE -11-1084..ECA. • • .1 . • 900:1Tnignists against 3,4ooiBebels. r••••••• j SWEEPS IllttilltY OF OHIO . 441,11ENT. OF CRe4 L44E9. y. 1• Fearful - Slaughter oill3othr.-Silles. ex:rev;Narn, August 26.—Tne following are all the particulars we can learn of the battle whichTtoolt place atProaLLEtnes. near Sumoseraville, Va., on Monday, the 26th inst. It appears to bare ; been a bloody af fair. The Seventh Ohio regiment, commanded by Col. Tyler, vras surrounded while at breakfast, and . iittaeltid on flanks and in front simultaneously. Our men were im dedistely formed id line of battle and fought bravely, while they saw but little chance of success, the enemy proving too powerful.— Col. Tyler sent is messenger forward to the baggage train, which * was coming up, and turned it hack, when three miles distunt from the scene of conflict, Towards Oit'uley, which place it reached in safety. Companies B, C, and I suffered most severely. , They par ticularly were in the hottest urthe fight, and finally fought their way through fearful odds, and making dreadful havoc en my's ranks. The rebel force consisted of 3,000 infantry, 400 cavalry, and ten guns. The Federal forces were scattered, tater cut• ting choir way through, but they soon formed again and fired, but received no reply. The enemy did not pursue. Our loss tins not been dcflaitely ascer tained. Not over 203 are missing out of the 900 who were engaged. The rebel loss wa. , fearful. Lieut. Col. Creighton c..tpturel the enemy's colors and two prisoners. The fo lowing is a list of the offieerl know., to have been ki Captain Dyer, Co. I?, of Painesville, O. Captain Shortlair, Co. C, Otieriin; Captain Sterling, Co. L; Adjutant L. De Forest, of Cleveland; Lieut. Charles Warren t; Sergeati Major King. of IVarren. Tile other Sell itl 'leers are till safe. The News The Governmorft avia, on the 24 ild ins , .. seized at Philadelphia all the e.oites of thi New York Daily Naas found is the il;aiis in the of the express agents. Ii:. Hale w,t , dlso suppre.sel in Po iiadelpoia.— Putt :Vinod is paiiiished tty lloa lieu \V iui, brother vt. Iferliaiiilo Wood, and has heel. bitterly lio-tile to the Union. The United i;tateS 31arzilial ha. ulso taken possession ul the of ca of the G r 7tri,gai‘ chiserver in Phila delphia, which tit Ltd last issue tienuotieisl "Ulu unholy war." At Allentown, Pa., the Sacra has called out a posse to protect the publication offiees of two Secessien journals. The Governor of New York has issued a proclomotion ediling upon the people of that State to use all means in their power to sus tain the Guvertinteut with mon and money. Governor Gamble, of Missouri, has ap pointed division inspectors in five of the sev en military districts of Missouri. for the purpose of cnu,tering men. The Governor calls on the citizens to disperse the guerillas. A skirmish between the Federal forces and the Coufedes atcs in the Kanawha valley took place on the 20th. The Confederates attempted to carry the barricades erected by the Union troops, and %sere diiven lack with the loss of fifty killed and a number wound-1 ed. It was reported that. 0. Jennings Wise had been captured, but this was doubted. The official reports of the Battle of Wil son's Creek show the National losses to have been 223 killed, 721 wounded, 201 missing —total 1,235, out of an army Lumbering only 5,500 when it went into action. It is now stated that the Confederate forces un dertcuk to follow General Siegel in his re treat from Springfield, but at the end of one day's march, hearing that our army had been reinforced they turned back. A despatch from Cairo informs us that the Lexington, one of the new gnu-boats recenry put in service ou the Mississippi river, has eceeded in capturiug at Paducah, Ker.- lucky, the steamer W. B. Terry, which has has hien used for conveying contraband go ds' to the Confederates up the Tennessee river. She has on board a number of Mule rifles and one field piece. The arrisiil in Lexington, If. entgoky, ul guns from the Federal Government created great excitement. The military were called out, and the Louisville Courier states that serious difficulties would have ensued bat I for the action of ..Tulin C. 11i•eokinii8ge:, who urged the crowd not to use violence, but to permit, the troops to convey the guns to their c:estanation. The Tennesseeans are reported to have seized the Evansville and Paducah mail boat at the latter place, and taken her up the Tennessee river. The news from the different seats of war continue unimportant. Gen. McClellen con tinues his reviews of the troops in and ar.iu nil Washington, and a satisfactory state of discipline is !taw reported. Gen. Batiks' divitiii ; n is in the neighborhood of the Monne:icy. The Confederates are said to have c incentrated their force on the Upper PUtotatil in the n'eigli6 Wine] of Leesburg. They are taking to pieces the remains of the locomotives at Mortinsharg. with the view of transporting them elsewhere. The Postmaster General has instructed the Postmaster of New York that kere.sfter none of the newspispors published in that city, which were lately presented by the Grand Jury as dangerous, from their disloy alty. shall be fornrded in the mails. ` ode papers' Thus presented' were the Jotiresal of Commerce. the Daily News, the i)ay Book, an 1 the Freeman's Journal. By tele!,graph and overland mail we Lave advisees from San Francisco to the 16th Inst. Orders bad been - reccivtl to enlist 1,500 monist to Serra tin the'plsins, and five'com panics ward at' otica'aocepted . in San Fran cisco. Four of the officers of the United States frigate Congress, arrived at Boston, have re signed. The Postmaster General, luting under the proclamation•of the - President interdicting commercial intercourse with the seceded Stares, has directed the postal'agents thS CLisernuttnti ttrptst au eget° the trattamis sion of letters to thefteceded states by the arrt ‘ of any express agetit . pr other persons who-shall hereafter receive lettela to be car ried to or from those States. T.• • Mayor Berrett, of Washington city, .has beea- arrested' by the Government and sent to ,F4rt Lafayette, 191s2ff York. lie refused to take the oath . of allegiance to government as,attax-officio taeMber of the Board of Po lice, and it is said that other charges are also brought against him. The Government has also placed under surveillance several ladies of Washington who are charged with having been engaged in transmitting letters and infopu4tipa to parties in the seceded States. An attempt was made by the Secession ists at Cumberland, Md., on Friday evening to capture ex-Gov. Thomas, while he was addressing a collection of Union men before a hotel in that place. The Union men drove arch.) Secessionists, and continued the work by the destruction of the office of the Alle gaaial,a rabid Secession newspaper. On Saturday another attempt was made to cap ture Gov. Thomas, by . t , k.rovring the train on which ho was proceoling howsward off the track. It did not succeed. The difficulties that hare occurred in sev eral regiments in the vicinity of Washing ton, with regard to the length of their term of enlistment, will prohably be heard of no mire. Justice Wayne of the United Status Supreme Court, hats decided in the case of a Limo).* of the First Minnesota Regiment, broughy before him on a writ of habeas cor pus. that the G ivernment is fully entitled to the en;,tio9e if: the troops for three years. The steamer Canadian arrived off Farther Point, furnishes foreign advices to the 19th. rite weather in England had become unfa vorable fir the crop The 1: Mon times minuet; its ell'orts to_prcvoni the taking of any part of the American loan in England. A growing coolness between France and Austria is reported. Popular demunstra Clone in Poland continued. TheA • meyiean question continued to be discussed • by the E mgli.h pre4s. The L mdon Globe, by au thority, demos th it A:borrid Slibie had re ported thus lilocka la of the Snithern purt to be iurfE:ien•. Itichar:l D . 1V Ilia. h s s been ele•- te Iby the City C /.1..111 W.l.ollll4tLill or of that city. g, rem n• (.3.onb:e bag issued a proe.lama illation calling for 42,00 U volunteers, to serve for -is unle,s the rehulliou shall be muter cru , lttsl within Alis..ouvi. If that number of volunteers are not speedily forth counifr,. he announces that a draft will be resorted to. The reports as to the move ments of the Confederates are conflicting., but all the io portant points now held by Federal troupe are believed to be impregna ble.to at,y ".s cults that can be made upon them. General McCullou,gles rebel army was, at the last accounts, marching toward Jefferson City a., fast as possible. Troops were col lecting there rapidly fur its defence. Seven thousand were already there, nod a good supply of artillery and cavalry. Detatch ruents of United States troops were kept ac tively operating in the whole neighboring country against scattered parties of rebels. The rain object of the naval expedition which has sailed &Om Fortress Monroe is to blockade the southern coast, and obstruct cortalu inlets by sinking hulks, loaded with stone, in them. From Memphis we have a report of a battle at Cape Girardeau, in which the claim of a victory is set up by the rebels. The Richmond correspondent of the CharlestOn Mercury makes some queer state ments. He complains that the south stands alone, without the sympathy of any nation on earth, and that the rebel loss at Manassas was greater than ours. The success which has attended the new loan is the most extraordinary le the history of financial affairs. Already, even before the notes are ready, thirty-seven hundred applications have been made for it in New York city. From the millionaire down to the servant girl, and the old woman with her "stocking of gold," the applicants are thronging by hundreds to the Su b-Treasury. Ez-Gurornor Greiner, who is now Gen rill Land Agent fur New Mexico, writes to the Columba* Journal on the 4th, con firming the surrender of Fort Fillmore to the rebels aq the treachery of the comman der, UT whom he says: "Major Lynde is a weak old man. He has been in the army forty years. and though from Vermont. be ha's Otitis family connections in the South. iia has often been heard to say that his warmest sympa thies wet.: with the southern hrethpen— even while drinking the liquor paid for by money from the United States Treasury.— All communication is now cut off between here add Arizona, and Texan foreei—five hundredof their own men and eighty Indians -=ll.;k' /hat portion of our territory in un disputed ists4es.ion. The Texans have the advantage nf being officers I by men forrinerly in command of the troops here, and they know well the country and its resources, the strength of the Torts, the number of men in service, and particularly the atuouut of public property." SPIRITED CAVALRY lIORSEs. A writer who flroterees to know the pints of a good -war horse" thus speaks of these animals:— Dull, sluggish horses can never be train ed to the point requisite for an efficient cav alry horse. Almost as much depends. in a successful charge of cavalry, on the horse as on the man. Indeed it may be doubted whether raw recruits mounted on well drilled homes 'would no t be more eervicable than veteran troops mounted on clumsy, "low spirited" animals. At the battle of the Pyramids the horses ofMuzad Psy's cavalry' charged repeatedly in squadrons after their riders were killed. So did the Freacb hursee at K7a;terllo on the 4nglistu, inder the same siarcuraitancoc. • Avid after the I..,larqum Romans was eam pelled to leave his horses on the shores of Der nark, after the embarkation ofthe troops fur SAID, we all remember how: they farmed themselves into two hostile armies, as the ships of their late masters faded in the dis tance, and charged upon each • other with such fury that 'the 'earth shook ,for miles nitaind, and the terrified inhaltaties_,Of the country fled pat4itticken ia their horses. So'terrible was Abe efatighter of these fine'. Andalusian horses; that oat of s body of 10,000, but a few hundred remained alive. No *ore/Atter' to go - Sottli. TI e following oiptpr bas s recently been is sued by,tbe . P. 0. I?epariment, by which, it will be seen that allFrit4n. correspondence carried by express companies to seceded States is at once prohiOed:7— POST OFFICE DEEARTSIEKT, Avgast 24. The President of tp.,oUnited„States directs that his proclamation of-thelp,liinstant, in terdicting commercial intercourse with the so-called Confederate States, shall lae applied to correspondence with those gates, and has devolved upon this Department the enforce ment o( so much of its interdict as relates to such correspondence. The offieers and agents of this Department will, therefore, without further instructions, lose no time in putting an end to written intercourse with those States, by causing the arrest of any express agent or other person who shall after the promulgation of this order, receive letters to be carried to or from those Stateq, and will seize all such letters and forward them to this department. M. BLAIR, Postmaster Genera]. To Clussits.—Vire refer sportsmen to the following provisions of an act passed the 14th of April, IssB for the protection of birds: Any person ensnaring or entrapping any blue bird, swallow, martin or insectiverous bird, at any season of the year, is liable to a fine of two dollars in each case. Pheasants are protected from the Ist of January to the let September. Toodeock from the date first mentioned to the 4th of July, and par tridges and rabbits from the same date until the let of October; the penalty in the above cases being five dollars. Rail and reed birds have an immunity from t Tune Ist to Septem ber Ist, - under a penal sum of.five dollars; and those guilty of destroying the nests or eggs or the birds mentioned, will, upon con viction, be fated two dollars in each ca•e. PERSONAL DE'CRII'TION Or GENERAL MC CULLA:L—(4n. McClellan's face is not fam iliar to the public yet, and at the "Press in terview" at his quarters, Thursday night, he made his entrance amongst the gathering of newspaper men, and was proceeding in quiet conversational tones to unfold his views upon the subject matter of the meet ing, quite unrecognised by the majority present. fitet, his Svc-reef-five propor tios were Completely lost in the group, and 4,i the ling was inslantly pro. p 1..--(istetksibly . th:t.t they t‘e leas saying, but quite .ipoa, el.:ly that they might get a fair look at. •'t lie z.m.ing 'natl." Ile is of almost byish appearance, (looking twenty-five, but probably ten years older,) is of-Napole onic figure, slightly inclined to fullness about the waistband, has a good head firm ly planted by a neck of bovine force upon ample shoulders, hair snugly cropped but nut filed, ruddy and brown completion, blue eyes. (to the best of our belief, standing as r he did back to the light,) nose springing from'his forehead at a sufficient angle to in dicate character, clean cut chin, and a mouth the lines of which indicate good humor and firmness in about equal proportions. In dress he might readily pass fur a pri vate soldier of the Rhode Island "persua sion," wearing blouse and pants of blue wool, shoulder strapless, restless and with the blue of the blouse so sweated through upon his linen by the but day's work, that it was hard telling whether the McClellan shirt was a blue one faded or a white one discol ored. General McClellan is not fluent of speech apparently, and doubtless doesn't care to be. That there is some little quiet fun in his composition was apparent at the interview, ; :n4 on the suggestion being made that the pictorial papers should be severely talked to fur giving representations of our military works and operations, he seemed to think thz.t they could be safely /et alone, as quite as likely to confound as to instruct the enemy. Gen. Lyon Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon was the son of Amasa Lyon, of Ashford, 'Wind ham County, Connecticut His grandfather was a Colonel of distinction in the revolu tionary army. Ile was bora at Ashford in 1819. He entered the military A.cademy at West Point in 1827 and graduated with distinction in 1841. On graduating he re ceived his commission as Lieutenant in the army, and was at once ordered to join the army in Florida, then operating against the Indians. After uncomplainingly passing through that most disagreeable campaign among the everglades of Florida, be was stationed fur some years at various points on our Western frontier. Soon after the commencement of hostilities between the United States and Mexico he was ordered to join General Taylor, and after reaching Monterey accompanied the expedition ton' net Vera Crux. In the bombardment and capture of Vera Cruz, and the severely contested battles of Conteras, Cherubsueo and others which occurred between that place and the City of Mexico, his activity and mil itary skill found full play. Ile took an active part in oue and all of them, and while fighting in the streets of the City of Mexico, near the Bolen gate, cn September 13, 1847, received a wound from a musket hull. After the conclusion of pence with Mexien, - he was ordered to Jefferson Bar racks, Missouri, for a euntemplated march overland to California. By a change of orders from the War Department hie reg itnent was despatched by ship via Capo Horn, and reached California coon after its acquisition by the United States. His stay in California was prolonged beyond that of his fellow officers, and his time unceasiqgly employed in operating among the Indians, subjeoted to long and tedious marches, con stant alarms and frequent skirmishes, living a large portion of the time in tents, and subject to the fatigues and privations inci dent to a campaign in that new and hitherto unknown country, so far removed from the comforts of civilization. After being relieved from his long service in California, he was again stationed on our western frontier. serving most of the time in Kansas and Nebraska. Dui ing the troubles of .185.5-6, the free State of Kansas found a warm friend and sympathizer in Capt Lyon, notwithstanding' his political sympathies had before been decidedly on the side of the Administration. He was then statiorierat tori . Le a venworth, under Col. Sumner, but was Subsequently removed to the St. Louis arsenal, !beget the outbreak of the present war found him. 'His masterly capture of the rebel estop at St. Louie SD d hi later victory over El - alt - I Jacksonat i ßoonville, ece,too fresh in the publitr„nalad to need:. reesiiitplation. lie reeeived4sis coromissiop as Brigadier General,. from.*ashington, only a few days before his death. Ile had been acting in that eapicity previously, by the election of the Missouri volunteers. In person Gen. Lycin_w4a_helow the me ditim;beig. ht, and in manner singularly modest and unassuming. His whole soul was in the war for the Union, and ' IC-Mat tered not to him .whether his rank in t the army was high or low. publii letters and despatches have been . widely noticed for their bfavjty, conciseness, and elegance of language. His note demanding the sur render of Camp Jackson will be ions re membered as it model of military diction.— In his death the Union has lost one of its bravest and most accomplished defenders; the soldiers have lost a commander in whocri they had the most implieit - 4onfidence; anti the country feels that one of lit;i• truest hearts has ceased to bent.;--Chicago Tribune. The Bashikouay. Du Chaillu gives the following deseriptiop of that terrible equatorial ant "the Bashi kouay." Some portions ate re,thur .bard to believe, but it is the fashion now totelievo's Du Chaillu implicitly: "It is their habit to march through the forests-in a long and regular I.irte,,pb.3.t . two inches broad and often ten miles in length. Along this line are larger antewho act as officers, stand outside tho ranks and keep his singular army in order. If they come to a place where there are no trees tb shelter them from the sun, whose heat they cannot bear, they immediately build underground tunnels, through f,trhich the whole army passes in columns to the forest beyond.— These tunnels are four or five feet under ground, and are used only in the heat of the day or during the storm. "When they get hungry the long file spreads through the forest in n Sropt line, and devours all it comes to with a itiry which is quite irresistible. The elephant and gorilla fly helbre this attack. The black Inc run for their lire-. Every itui inal that lives in their line of march is chas ed. They seem to understand and act on the tactics of Napoleon, .and concentrate with great speed their heaviest forces cr , z the ptint of attack. In an incredibly short space of time the mouse, or dog, or leopard, or deer is overwhelmed, killed, eaten and the bare skeleton only remains. "They seem to travel night and day.- 7 Many a time I have been awakened out of a sleep, and obliged to rush from the hut and into the water to save my life, and after all suffered intolerable agony from the bites of The advance guard, who had got into my clothes. When they enter a house they clear it of all living things. Roaches are de 7 livered in an instant. Rats and mice spring round the room in vain. An overwhelming force of ants kills a strong rat in less than a minute, in spite of the most frantic strug 7 gles, nod in less than another minute its bones are stripped. Every living thing in the house is devoured. They will not touch vegitable matter. Thus they aro in reality very useful(ns well as dangcrous)to the negroes, who have their huts cleared of all th e abounding vermin, such as immense roaches and centipides, at least several times n year. "When on the march, the insect world flies before them. and I have often had the approach of a ba.thilcouay army heralded to ate by this means. Wherever they go they make a clean sweep, even ascending to tiki top of the I 'ghost trees in pursuit of their prey. Their manner of attack is an in pe u 7 ous leap. instantly the strong pinchers are fastened, and they only let go when the piece gives way. At such thrice this little animal seems animated by n kind of fury which causes it to disregard entirely its own safety, and to seek only the conquest of its prey. The bite is very painful. "The negroes relate that criminals wore formerly exposed in the path of the bashi kouny ants, as the most cruet manner of putting to death. "Two very remarkable practices of theirs remain to be related. When, on their line of march, they must cross a stream, they throw' themselves across and form a tunnel —a living tunnel—connecting two trees or high bushes on opposite sides of the little stream. This is done with great speed, and is effected by a great number of ants, each of which clings with its fore claws to its next neighbor's body or hind claws.—Thus they form a high, safe tubular bridge, throagh which the whole vest regiment marches in reg ular order. If disturbed, or if the arch, is broken by the violence of some animal, they instantly attack the offender with the greatest . 'The bashikouay have the sense of sm ell finely developed, as indeed havnall the ants I know of, and they are guided very much by it. They are longer than any ants we have in America, being at least half an inch long and are armed with very powerful forelegs and sharp jaws with which they bite. They are red or dark brown in color. Their numbers are so great that one does not like to enter into calculations; but I have seen one continued lino passing at a good speed a particular place for twelve hours.— The reader may imagine for himself how many millions on millions there may have been contained hero." Mas. Reartscrrorr's LAST.—Ike goes for 4 soldier, dirs. Partington makes a farewell address. ("Ike, my son, stand up while I 'dress you; hold my bonnet and specks."l "Fellow soldier. It is the abandoned duty of all to be patriarcal in these times, and to band down, unrepnired, the glorious flag to all seceding generations" [Here Ike com menced counting atlas no or4inhloned On!!! and swinging the old bonnet up - and down as be went in, one, two, three: tiger.J— "March hesitatingly into the contented field and if a rebel demands your quarters, tell him you bad but three, and the last one is spent; then, if he won't quit and leave, 'quit yourself like a man,' and may you have a glorious campaign of it." gar"len't your bill awfully steep?" in quired . a .spendthrift of bie "tailor. -Ye, ought to know best, for it was =ln up by you," was the cool reply.
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