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Reveries of a Bachelor BY IKE MARVEL If in that chair yo nder—not the one your feet lie upon—but the other be side you—closer yet—was seated a sweet faced girl, with a pretty little foot lying upon the earth, a bit of le P running round the throat, and her hair_ parted to a charm over a forehead fair as any in your dreams, and if . you could reach your arm through that chairback with out fear of giving offense, and suffer your fingers to pl 4 'idly with those curls that escape idly down your neck, and if you could clasp with the other hand those little white taper fingers of hers, which lie so temptingly within yinch, and talk so softlyand low in the presence of the blaze, while the hours slip without knowledge, and thewinter winds whistle uncared for—if, in short, you were not a bachelor, but the hus band of such a sweet image—dream, call it, rather—would it not be far pleasanter than a cold, single night, sit ting counting the sticks—reckoning the length of the blaze, and the depth of the falling snow? Surely, imagination would. be strong er and purer if it could have the playful. fancies of dawning womanhood to cie. light it. All toil would be torn from mind labor, if but another heart grew into this present, soul quickening it, warming it, cheering it, bidding if ever God speed. Her face would make a halo rich as a rainbow atop of all such noisome things as we lonely souls call trouble. Her smile would illuminate the blackest of clouded cares; and dark ness that now seats you despondent in your solitary chair, for days together, weaving hitter fancies, dreaming bitter dreams, would grow light and thin, and spread and float away, chased .I.y that beloved smile. Your friend, poor fellow, dies; never mind that, gentle clasp of her fingers, she steals behind you telling you not to weep is worth ten friends. Your sister, sweet one,is dead—buried. The worms are busy with all her fair ness. How it makes you think earth is nothing but a spot to dig graves upon! She says she will he a sister; and the waving curls, as she leans upon your shoulder touch your cheek, and your we eye turns to meet those other eyes. God has sent his angel surely. Your mother, alas for it, she is gone ! Is there .any bitterness to a youth alone and homeless, like this ? You are not alone. She is there; her tears softening yours, her grief killing yours, and you live again to assauge that kind sorrow of hers ! Then these children t rosy, fair haired ; they do not disturb you with their prattle now. They are yours.— Toss away there on the green sward. .Never mind the hyacinths, the snow drops, the violets, if so they are there. The perfume of their beautiful lips is worth all the flowers in the world. No need now to gather wild boquets to love and cherish. Flower, tree, gun, all are dead things. Things lovelier hold your soul ; and she, the mother, sweetest and fairest of all, watching, tending, caressing ; till your own loving heart grows pained with jealousy.. You have no need of a cold lecture to teach thankfulness ; your heart is full of it ; no need now, as once, of bursting blossoms, of tree taking life and green ness, to turn thought kindly and thank fully; for ever beside you there is bloom, and ever beside you there is fruit, for which eye, heart and soul are full of un known, unspoken; because unspeakable, thank offerings. Marriage of Cousins Some very interesting facts in con nection with the subject of marriages of consanguinity have just been put on record by a French statistician. He carried on his investigations in the town of Batz, in the French department of the lowa Inferieure. Having selected forty-six cases of consanguineous Mar riages, he examined the husbands, wives and children, both in regard to their physical and intellectual development, and made inquiries concerning the fam ilies examined, and their ancestors, through the assistance of the mayor, pas tor, and oldest inhabitants. Combining the statistics thus collected, he has found that intermarriages do not bring about disease, idiotcy, or malformation. How ever, it is important to mark that these results are attributed by the writer to the favorable climate of the locality, and to the general habits, hygiene, and morality of the in habitants, as well as to the absence of all hereditary disease. The town of Betz is situated upon 0 peninsula, bounded on one:side by the rocks of the sea-shore, and on the other by-salt marshes. The air is pure, and the most frequent winds are from the north, northeastand north west. The number of inhabitants Is about 3,300. They have little commu nication with otherparts of the country, and their occupation is almost confined to the preparation of salt. They are very intelligent, almost all the adults being able to read. The morality is of the highest stamp, prostitution being unknown. Theft and murder have not occurred within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. Mothers nurse their children till they are fifteen months old, and the general food of the popu lation is of the vegetable class. There are, at present, in Betz forty-six con sanguineous pairs of first cousins, five unions between second cousins, thirty one marriages of third cousins, and ten of cousins in the fourth degree. From the five unions of second cousins there have been twenty-three children, none of whom-have presented any congenital deformity. The thirty-one marriages of third cousins have produced one hun dren and twenty children, all healthy ; and the marriages of fourth cousins have given rise to twenty-nine children, all of whom, with the exception of those who died of ague, were strong and healthy at the period of examination. The Writer contends that such facts as the foregoing prove that consanguineous marriages by no means lead to the de generation of the race. A.vroGßA.P.Fis.—Josh expres ses our views on the subject of auto graphs precisely. He thus replies to an anxious correspondent who asked for his autograph : "We never furnish ortograffs in less quantities than bi the packig. It is a biziness that grate men have got into, but it don't strike us az being profitable nor amusing. We fur nished a - neat and very dear friend our ortograff a few years ago, for 90 days, and it got into the hands ov one of the banks, and it cost us $275 tew get it back. We went out of the Dizziness hen, and havenot hankered for it since." 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' .._ , . . , .- • ..._. ~ , __. , . . ~. ... , . `--..''' .. ...i . -:.• : U.:, ,=•;1.:F: ~,-• . _ _ .. - . ... . ~... . . . .. .. . tJI J` .. . • ,_ ,- . . . . , • ~,...,, ~ .. , . . .. . . .• •••• 1.14.1 •7': -:, '; '• .. ,',:.;.;•.-::- - --".-' ' - ' l7 ': i ' : ..7' ••• • -• • :. 512 ' 3i - '''- ' '-' ' - • -.- •• ... . . . . -- - • _ . -- ' • .- , -. . VOLUME 66. Anecdote of 6,eneral Sir Chas. James -Napier. From his Life and Opinione, by Lieut. Gen Sir W. Napier. Fe/. 1, page 14. . When seventeen I broke my right leg. . At the instant there was no pain, but looking down I saw my foot under my knee, and the bones protruding; that turned me sick, and the pain became violent. My gun, a gift from my dear father, was in a ditch, leaping over which had caused the accident; I scrambled near enough to get it out, but this lacerated the flesh and produced extravasated blood. George came to me; he was greatly alarmed, for I. was very pale, and we were both young, he but fifteen. Then came Capt. Crawford, of the Irish artillery, and I made him hold my foot while I pulled up my knee, and in that manner set my leg myself. The quantity of extravasated blood led the doctors to tell me my leg must come off, but they gave me a day fora chance. Being young and vain of good legs, the idea of hop and go one, with a timber toe, made me resolve to put myself to death rather than submit to the amputa tion, and I sent the maid out for laud anum, which I hid under my pillow ; luckily the doctors found me better, and so saved me from a contemptible action. Perhaps had it come to the pointlmight have had more sense and less courage than I gave myself credit for, in the horror of my first thoughts; indeed my agony was great, and strong doses of laudanum were necessary to keep down the terrible spasms which frac tures of large bones produce. The doctors set my leg crooked, and at the end of a month, When standing up, my feet would not go together; one leg went in pleasant harmony with the other half way between knee and ancle, hit they flew off in a huff, at a tangent. This made me very unhappy, and the doctors said if I could bear the pain they would break it again, or bend it straight. My answer was, I will bear anything but a crooked leg. Here then was I, at seventeen, desperately in love with Miss Massey, having a game leg in prospective, and in love with my leg also; so I said to the leg carpenter, let me have one night for considera tion. Al! that day and night were Miss Massey's eyes before mine, but not soft and tale telling ; not saying Pig will you marry nu-, but scornfully squinting at my gdme leg. There was Massey, and there was I unable to do anything but hop. The per contra were two ill looking doctors tormenting me, and the reflection that they might again make a crooked job after the second fracture as they had done after the first. How ever, my dear Miss Massey's eyes carried the day, and just as I had decided, she and her friend, Miss Vandeleur, came in the dusk, wrapped up in men's great coats, to call on me ; this was just like the plug of a pretty Irish girl, and quite repaid my courageous resolve ; I would have broken all my, bones for her. So after letting me kiss their hands, off the fair incognitas went, leaving me the happiest of lame dogs. The night passed with many a queer feel, about the doctors coming like devil imps to torture me. Be quick, quoth I, as they entered, make the most of my courage while it lasts. It took all that day, and part of the next, to bind the with bandages, which were tied to a wooden bar, and tightened every hour day and night ; fainted several times, and when the two tormentors arrived next day, after breakfast, struck my flag saying, Take away your bandages for I can't bear it any more. They were taken off, and I felt in heaven. Not the less so that my leg was straight ; anti it. is now as straight a one I flatter myself, as ever bore up the body of a gentleman or kicked a blackguard. There was in Limerick, a great coarse woman, the wife of Doctor . When she heard of my misfortune she said, "Poor boy, I suppose a fly kicked his spindle shanks." Being a little fellow then, though now be it known, five feet seven inches and a half high, this of fended me greatly, and as the Lord would have it, she broke her leg just as I was getting well. Doing to her house with an appearance of concern, I told the servant how sorry I was to hear that a bullock had kicked Mrs. and hurt its leg very much, and that I had called to k-now if her leg was also hurt. She never forgave me. Where the. Cold comes From Observations of the cold terms forsev eral years, show that the icy wave comes down over the central portion of this continent, striking our 'Western States and passes over the ocean in a south easterly direction. The cold wave does not affect. the Pacific shore ; if comes down from the Artie. regions upon the Rocky mountains, and then turns east ward so that the first news we have of it, days before it reaches here, is from Minnesota, Nebraska and Utah. Itfol lows the valleys and the course of the waters, and spends itself over the Gulf streams, N‘ here it warms again, and rising as it expands, is wafted back in the upper atmosphere. This cold air current is just the opposite to the warm water current which we call the Gulf stream. That comes from the torrid zone westerly, and is turned northward ly by the configuration of the lands, as the cold air wave is eastward when it strikes the mountains, and thence runs along our coast affecting the climate of the lands near it, till it loses itself in the Northern ocean and ice. So God has provided in nature for heat and cold mutually to effect each other. A Toad's Toilet Audubon relates that he once saw a toad undress himself. He commenced by pressing his elbows hard against his sides, and rubbing downward. After a few smart rubs his sides began to burst open along his back. He kept on rubbing until he had worked all his skin into folds on his sides and hips ; then grasping one hind leg with both hands, he hauled off one leg of his pants the same as anybody would ; then he stripped off the other hindleg in the same way. He then took his cast off cuticle forward between his fore legs into his mouth and swallowed it; then by raising and lowering his head, swal lowing as his head came down, he stripped off the skin underneath until it came to his fore legs, and then grasp ing one of those with the opposite hand, by considerable pulling stripped the other, and. by a single motion of the head, and by swallowing, he drew' it from the neck and swallowed the whole. It is stated that Capt. Johit H. Bell, of Baltimore, a Presbyterian, has been promoted by the Sultan to the dis tinguished office of Lord Admiral in Chief of the Turkish navY,...:*igfout sacrificing his religious principles. isteMultotto. Effects of the Decline In Gold. • The N. -Y. Herald Of yesterday: thus notices some of the effects of the recent rapid decline in gold : The: businessmen of the country now begin to realize the evil effects of theff nandal policy and absurd gold bill legis lation of the government, which forced gold in July last to 285, and has left it at the capture of speculation eversince the. stispension of: specie payments. But for our flscalmismanagement the premium would never have risen to the height from which it has fallen, and conse quently the currency would have had a much more stable value, like that-of England, between 17Q7 and 1821, when speculators had very little power over its value more than public opinion sanctioned. The secret of this lay in heavy taxation and avoidance of paper money inflation beyond ann amount needful for the purposes of commerce. The effect of heavy decline in the gold premium is beginning to show itself in the extreme depression of government securities and the stoppage of the usual subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan. Speculative lots held on small margins have been pressed for sale, and the ne cessities of investors among the financial and mercantile community have com pelled them to sell at a sacrifice. At the same time the general disturbance of all the values, and the temporary cessation of the foreign demand added to the possibility of a return of five twenties from Europe has weakened faith in the maintenance of the present market prices, and induced a preference for currency over every other form of security. The general and not incorrect impression is, that we are drawing to wards a lower range of values, and people are therefore providing them selves with as much paper money as they conveniently can. In other words there is a strong disposition to realize and keep within the safest possible limits. It appears at first somewhal anomal ous that the decline of gold, which is equivalent to a corresponding apprecia tion of the currercy, should cause a heavy fall in government securities and almost suspend subscriptions by the people to the loan now on the market; but unmet be remembered that a decline of gold Involves a contraction of values from which national securities cannot be wholly exempted. If five-twenty bonds decline to 50 on a specie basis they would still be worth more than when they were 110 with gold as high as it was a little more than two months ago, and it is probable that the govern ment securities will adjust themselves more or less like other marketable bonds to the value of the paper dollar. Large gots of the seven-thirty loan were offered to-day on the streets at 99} without takers, so that the only loan the government has to rely upon is at a dis count of per cent. I,..Tritil it returns to par, subscriptions to any considerable extent cannot be looked for ; and mean while the expenses of the government are running on at a rate of nearly two millions and a half a day in excess of the revenue. It is the intention of the bears to pre cipitate the decline as far as possible, and the parties at work have no insig nificant financial resources at their command. If they succeed in their designs they will add millions to their own riches, bankrupt three-fourths of the financial and commercial houses in the country, and leave the public treas ury empty, and the danger of a great commercial crash is becoming more and more imminent. If the bear" party is left in control of the gold room the threatened panic, it is safe to say, will be inevitable. It would not be like any former panic witnessed in this country or any other, for its 'results would be destructive in proportion to the inflation which preceded it. If the panic of 1837 inflicted widespread ruin upon the commerce of the land, what will such a one as that produced by a fall in gold from 234 k in January to its present or a lower point be? The bank suspension which led to the panic of 1837 took place on a specie basis. But here we are on a paper money basis, with nothing to prevent collapse but opinion, unless those interested in the welfare of the country and the govern ment step in to arrest the downward course of gold and defeat the ends of the speculators. Raising Negro Troops•• The Rebels Going to work In Earnest CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPT. ADJ'T AND INSPECTOR GENRAL'S - OFFICE, RICHMOND, Va., March 15,1865. .1 SIR : You are hereby authorized to raise a company or companies of negro soldiers, under theprovisions of the Act of Congress approved March 13, 1865. When the requisite n umber shall have been recruited they will be mustered into the service for the war, and muster rolls forwarded to this office. The com panies, when organized, will be subject to the rules and regulations governing the provisional army of the Confederate States. By command of the Secretary of War. JOHN W. REILY, A. A. G. To Major T. W. Pcgram and Major Thomas P. Turner, through General Swell: It will be seen by the order of the Secretary of War published above, that the undersigned have been authorized to proceed at once with the organization of companies composed of persons of color, free and slave, who are willing to volunteer under the recent acts of Con gress and the Legislature of Virginia. It is well known to the country that Gen. Lee has evinced the deepest inter est in this matter as vitally important to the country. Ina letter addressed by him to Lieut. Gen. Ewell, dated March 10, he says : " I hope it will be found practicable to raise a considerable force In Richmond. * * * I attach great importance to the result of the first experiment, and nothing should be left undone to make it successful. The soon er this can be accomplished the better. The undersigned have established a rendezvous on Twenty-first street, be tween Main and Parry streets at the building known as Smith's Factory ; and every arrangement has been made to secure the comfort of the new re cruits, and to prepare them for service. It is recommended that each recruit be furnished, when practicable, with a gray jacket and pants, cap and blanket, and a good, serviceable pair of shoes, but no delay should take place in for warding the recruits in order to obtain these articles. The Governments, Confederate and State, having settled the policy of em ploying this element of strength, and this class of our population having given repeated evidence of their willing ness to take up arms in the defense of their homes, it is believed that it is only necessary to put the matter before them in a proper light to cause them to rally with enthusiasm for the preservation of the homes in which they have found contentment and happiness, and to save themselves and their race from the bar barity invariably practiced upon then/ by a perfidious enemy claiming to be their friends. Will not the people of Virginia, in this hour of peril and danger, promptly respond to the call of our loved Corn mander-in-Chipf, and the demands of the Confederate and State Govern ments ? Will those who have, freely given their sons and brothers, their money and their property, to the achievement of the liberties of their country, now hold back from the cause their servants, who can well be spared, and who will gladly aid in bringing this fearful war to a speedy and glorious termination? Let every man in the State consider himself a recruiting officer, and enter at once upon the duty of aiding in the organization of this force by sending forward recruits to this rendezvous. Every consideration, the indepen dence of our countrY, the safety of our homes,_ the happiness of our families, and the sanctity of our firesides, all prompt to immediate and energetic action for the defense of the country. Let thepeople but be true to themselves and the olaims of duty, and our inde pendence will be speedily secured, and peace be restored within. ourborders. W. PEaßlaiti' Majiir P.A. C. S. H. P. Ttrarzrat, Major P. A. C. LANCASTER, )1 1 0NESPAY MORi4M . G,_*ARCH 29, 1865. Senatorial - BWling. It would only be realkixiabl,:to sup pose that men who have arrived at a position of sufficient prominence in their respecliVe- States to be chosen to represent them in the Senate of the United States; would at least possess the virtue of common honesty. One would not naturally expel to see the members of what should le the most upright and dignified. bodyof the world engaged in all kinds of petty official pilfering. But this is the age of steal ing. Never in the history of this or any other nation was there such syste matic and wholesale plundering of the public treasury as is going on among us to-dfiy. Every public -official, almost, seems to be affected by the mania that prevails. All seem to regard it as a right thing for them to filch all they can from the governmental coffers. The following correspondence of the Cinci natti Gazette shows how dishonest the abolition United States Senators are. They are ready and eager to filch every cent they can from the impoverished treasury of the country." Of course, nothing else is to be expected. The moral tone of the party now in power is not sufficiently elevated to act as a check upon such things. Dishonest officials are the rule, and wide-spread official corruption is the order of the day. We quote : • The Senate of the United:States is, in all matters of provisions for its own convenience, proverbially the most ex travagant legislative body in the world. Fm its fifty-two members it spends 817,000 in stationery. The one hundred and ninety-two members of the House only ask for their whole number $12,000. The fifty-two members of the Senate manage to consume in a session more ice than all theone hundred and ninety two members of the House! They pay their secretary $4BO a year more than the House gives its clerks; and the clerks of their committees $l4 more per week. They order' just four times as many of the expensive Congressional Globe as does the House; and to be brief, their other expenses are in simi lar ratio. Mr. Senator Sherman has been con spicuous as a leader In this virtuous rigidity of the Senate. A prying wretch, for whom capital punishment would be too mild a fate, thought he would look into one or two items of the virtuous Senator's little private accounts with the Government! His first discovery was the interesting fact that computing his mileage from Mansfield, Ohio, by the shortest route, the Senator has to spend (and draw therefor &Om the Treasury) 5530.49 for traveling to Wash ington! Mr. William Johson, a mem ber of the House, lives in the same town, but manages to get there for $440. The Senator, who is one of most honest men in public life, has been too busy watch ing the rascality of the House in its ex penditure of its own contingent fund, to discovea this trifling leak out of the Treasury into his own own pocket. But that is a mere bagatelle. Mr. Senator Sherman may be readily ex cused for so trifling an, accidental over charge ; but what shall we say of his friend, Mr. Senator "Jim" Lane, of Kansas. That incorruptible worthy lives (according to the Official Directory) in the town of Lawrence. He comes from there to Washington by the near est travelled route, and he swears that it costs him two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. It happens that the Representative from Kansas livesin the same town ; but by some superior skill of his, he manages to get here at a cost to the government of only twelve hun died and seventy-three dollars and sixty cents. There is another incorruptible Senator from the pleasant State of Kansas, known unto men as Mr. Pomeroy. He is accredited as living in Atchison,forty or fifty miles nearer to Washington than Mr. " Jim" Lane, but it costs him pre cisely the same, $2,160 to get herelwhile Mr. Wilder, the representative, living back of Lawrence, can travel the extra fifty miles and get here for nearly half the money ; or to put it accurately, for $1,273 60. _ . But from the Kansas Senators nobody would expect anything else. lowa ought to send men of a diffdrent stamp, and it must be that curious facts about their mileage need only to be called to their attention to be corrected. Mr. Senator Grimes lives in Burlington on the Mississippi river ; Mr. Senator Har lan lives at Mount Pleasant, just one county west from Burlington, and Mr. Representative Wilson, from the ex travagant House, lives at Fairfield, just one county west from Mount Pleasant. Now it curiously happened that Mr. Senator Grimes charges the Govern ment $1,169 40 for traveling here from Burlington, and Mr. Senator Harlan 51,606 40 from Mount Pleasant; while Mr. Representative Wilson is able to get here from Fairfield, just from be yond both the economical Senators, for $982 40. It will be seen that Mr. Representa tive Wilder could get to Washington from Kansas for $1,273 60 ; and that Mr. Representative Wilson could get here from lowa for $982 50 ; but it costs that paragon of Senatorial modesty and virtue, Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, $2,160. to get here from Racine, on the lower coast of Lake Michigan, almost down to Chicago ! I will undertake to get there without the use of any of the dead-head tickets which the Senator has iu his pocket, and stopping every night to sleep at a first-class hotel, for the odd sixty dollars, and leave him the round twenty-one hundred for stealings ! These are all the items of the Sena torial mileage account that I have been able to procure. I called at the proper quarter for more, but was pleasantly told that they were constrained to re gard the accounts of Senators with the Government; left in the hands of the officers of the Senate, as private. I happen, however; to know a way in which they can be shown to be not pri vate; and I may have occasionyet to return to draw from them fresh illustra tiorps of Senatorial virtue and economy. Returning to "the Purity ofthe Fathers." "Subjugation" is bringing about a remarkable state of things at the south west. Under the management of Par son 'Brownlow and his friends, Tennes see must soon become such a place in live in as was never dreamed of in this country : RETRIBUTION IN EAST TENNESSEE.— The secesh left in East Tennessee are being " put through " by Parson Brown low and the loyal courts. The Union men are prosecuting such of their old secesh neighbors as have any property for damages for what they suffered in the beginning of the rebellion, and the juries give any amount of damages asked. By this process the Union men intend to get all the property into their own" hands. Brownlow's Knoxville Whig of the first mentions three cases of the sort ,• that of Parson Brownlow himself, who obtained .a verdict of $25,- 000 damages against three secesh citi zens ; Horace Foster, thesame amount, from other parties, and the heirs of Sam Pickens $40,000 against others. Brown low says the damages should have been put higher, but the juries gave all that was asked, and did not take fiveminutes to decide in either case, and he adVises all Union men who have been robbed to commence suits. The fighting parson is not mollified either by his $25,000 or his governorship, but cries out : " Impoverish the villains—take all they have—give their effects to the Union men they , have crippled and im prisoned—and let them have their Southern rights!' They swore they would carry on the war until the ex hausted the last _little negrci,, and lost their lands. Putit to _them, is our ad vice, most religiously - fleece them, and let them know how other limn feetwil en robbed of all they have! Let` them be pupished-Zlet them be impOVeriShed— let them be slairand after slain, let them be dammed i" ' If any are anxious leat the- traltora of the South may - faro too wun in the re constructed'States, let theta 11*m to Gov. Brownlow find' be • oaffoited— kjringfield Republiagn. The Prebegat Military Convention. The . folldwing" correspondence lae. tween Generali Grant and tee relative to a - military convention ,to attempt a reconciliatichi of existing difficulties be tween the North and the South, is pub lishedin theßichrnond paper's INSTRUCTIONS TO GEN. LEE RICEDIOND, Feb.:33. To Gen. R. E. Lee. Oanamanding, San: You will learn by.the letter of Gen. Longstreet the result of his second interview with Gen. Ord. The point as to whether yourself or Gen. Grant should invite the other.to a conference is not worth discussing. If only you think the statements of Gen. Ord ren ders it probably useful that the confer ence suggested should be had, you , will proceed as you may prefer, and are clothed with all the supplemental au thority you may need in the considera tion prpposed, or for a military conven tion, or the appointment of a commis sioner to enter into such an arrange ment as- will cause at least temporary suspension of hostilities. Very truly yours, JEFFERSON DAVIS. LETTER OP GEN. R. E. LEE HEADQ'S CONFEDERATE ARMIES, I March ;1865. Tb Lieut. Gen. U. s. Grant, cbmmanding United State., Armies: GENERAL : Lieut. Gen. Longstreet has informed me that in a recent con versation between himself and Major General Ord, as to a possibility of arriv ing at a satisfactory adjustment of the present unhappy difficulties by means of a military convention, Gen. Ord states that if I desired to have an inter view, with you on the subject, you would not decline, provided I have had authority to act. Sincerely. desiring to leave nothing untried which may put an end to the calamities of war, I propose to meet you at such convenient deemed place as you may designate, with hope that upon an in terchange of views it may be found practicable to submit,thesubjects of con troversy between the belligerents to a convention of the kind mentioned. In such event I am authorized to do what ever the result of the proposed interview may render necessary or advisable.-- Should you accede to this proposition, I would suggest that, if agreeable to you, we meet at the place selected by Gens. Ord and Longstreet for the interview, at 11 A. M., on Monday next. Very respectfully, your ob't servant, R. E. LEE, General, &c. C. S. VENABLE, A. A. G., 'lead quarters, March 7, 1865. LETTER 01.' LIEUT. GEN. GRANT. HEADQUARTERS ARMIES U. S., March 4th, 1865. Gen. R. 1".. Lee, Commanding C. S. Armies : GENERAL : Your two letters of the 2d inst., were received yesterday. In regard to any apprehended misunder standing in reference to the exchange of political prisoners, I think there need be none. Gen. Ord or Gen. Longstreet have probably misunderstood what I said to the former on the subject, or I may have failed to make myself under stood ressibly. A few days before the" interview between Gens. Longstreet and Ord I had received a dispatch• from General Hoffman, Commissary General of Prisoners, stating in substance that all prisoners of war who were•or had been in close confinement or irons, whether under charges or sen tences, had been ordered to City Point for exchange. I forwarded the substance of that dispatch to Lieut. Col. Mulford, assistant agent of exchange, and pre sumed it probable he had communica ted it to C,ol. Robert Ould. A day or two after an offender, who was neither a prisoner of war nor a political prisoner, was executed, after a fair, impartial trial, and in accordance with the laws of war, and the usages of civilized nations. It was in explanation of this class of cases, I told Gen. Ord to speak to Gen. Longstreet in reference . to my letter of Feb. 1, which will show my under standing on the subj ect proposed. Such authority is vested in the President of the United States alone. Gen. Ord could only have meant I would not re fuse an interview on .any subject in which I have a right to act, which, of course, would be such as are purely of a military character, and on the subject of exchange which has' been entrusted to alb. I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedient servant, U. S. GRANT, Lieut. Gen. Andy Johnson's Inaugural The Washington correspondent of the Buffalo Courier has filially given to the country the maudlin speech of the Vice President, as taken down at the time. Those who were present, say ii,tis a gra phic description of the scene: Fel' cizzens, this 's mos (hic)-'spicious mom't v' my zistence 'ni may (hic) say v' my 'I (hie) ife ; ni' mere t' swear (hie) leshens t' of Dabe 'n t' sport consushun, n' tseet consushun (hic) sported 'tall azurs. D'u (hic) know y am' [with emphasis] my name's And' Johnson' v Teusee im a put a (hic) put-le-an 'n of Dabe's a pal-le-an n' im a plean (hic) an th' constushue d'rives 'ts (hic) cons't from pleeans. The consushun 's (hic) a stri (hic) ing sturment 'n f'l'ere b'fore the Sen't that 'fi know (hie) my sel I'm a man n'a (hic) broth'n Amekin cizzen, and [with distinctness] I'm a proild listration' v th' fac that a (hic) pleean'n a man from the (hic) ranks can be elv (hic) ated t' th' secpn, t' th' secon [with- marked emphasis] gif'in the place o' the Amekin people. Fel' cizzens, I'm a pleian 'n (hie) 'n two minitsnaVn that point, f 'r'l'm a pleean (hic) an 'twon time was a tears boy n'i teller wir rail (hic) pleeans 'n, *Old Dabe 'n the (hie) n' spreme Court d'rive [with statesmanlike dignity] d'rive'r cons't' d'rive power from th' (hie) Amekin 'pleeans. But twom (hic) inits n'af on that point. Tensee's tillers been loyTni (hie) glore'n dressing my fel' twom inits'naf on that (hie) point. [Addressing Mr. Chase and his asso ciates of the Supreme Court, Mr. John son proceeded,] I say t'u the (hic) Spreme Cotirt'fi may be (hie) loud, I'm a pel-be-an n'u rail pleeauts and [brightening up,] you d'rive'r spreme power (hic) fr'm the' people'v th' Uni tessets ; so , ru Mr. Seery Stan'n [turn ing to that genial son of Mars] so r'u [looking owlishly at the gentleman from Auburn] Mr. Secre-ry Soord (hie) n'u Mr. Seery Seery, Mister Sec (hic). [He had forgotten the name of the Secretary of Navy, and, sotto voce, asked bssitance from a gentleman near by,] so r'u Mr. Securwells, so r'u ; ni wishted (hie) all tuorm /units na'fn that (hic) point. I'ze born'n .Tes see'ni'm a tailr an a pleean (Me) wir rail pel-lee-ans, .pro'se to stain the (hic) codsushun, pr'ose sport consushun (hic) fur-er-rall pleeans; nole dabe's a pleean, so ru Fon Misters [turning to the Foreign Ministers who were seated in front of him; attired in full Court costum,] so r'u ; n'i say (hic) t'u fonmisters I'm a pleeai n'u rail pleans ' fri'i'm a tail'r'lld'rive my coast —my (hic) power, d'ri.ve my cons't for th' (hie) Amekin people. [Here Mr. Hamlin inforined Mr. Johnson'that his time was up, and his speech must be brought to a -close, but he proceeded.] I'm nemekian cizzen (hic) butt a mint na'f'n that point. When I wa (hie) srunning for (hie) Vice Preszent I said tnashville (hie) an' man talked 'bout th' (hic) consushun wa straitor ; ni say now th' consushun (hic) must be 'staind'n s'ported Fel cizzens wir rail pleeans se r'u, n'im a pleean'n (hic) 01 Dabes a:pleean so ml, but the consushun mus be (hic) s'ported azure.' Fel cizzens (hic) two'm insists na'f on (hie) that point, [Here the in augural Was brought to a sudden close, by _ Mr. Hamlin, who insisted.peremp torily that he could waitno knger, that if, he wouldn't stop and take the oath, he must go, without:it. He' topped, in the middle 'of one of his most biilliant Sentences.] Our feporter assures us thatthe' ad diess, - as ' given - aboe, 'conveys :no adequate idea of the length of the origi , ~the 01014 reporters f or the Mae htiVing indiaionattthite.4*Oritkielie-. Minns. ' The ideas, however, SO Clearlyy and eloquently set forth, areiVoneolehtl may preserved -~ry_______^Tw ._ys„ t"Y - - Ablising Genend Scott. General Scat, we see, is catching is I it from the Abolition.presses just now. He is a "Copperhead," and in his "dotage." There it nothing too severe to be said of the poor, old man, who, after a long career of usefulness, has sought that retirement which Republi can meetings will not allow him to en joy in peace. They will strive to force him to attend them and whenhe writes letters to the committees, in which we can see no just cause for censure, be cause he does not unquivocally subscribe -to all they think now and may think hereafter, they fall to cursing, like the very. deal. They revile him in their best style. We clip a specimen from the Indian apolis Gazette, together with - the letter which has called forth such an outburst of wrath. It is headed COPPERHF 4 2a)ISM It is astonishing how ready Copper-1 head editors still are to applaud any thing said by a prominent Union man that seems to exonerate rebels or to Gen sure or condemn the loyal people of the North. Gen. Scott, the other day, wrote another stupid letter—the most stupid and silly thing he has written since his retirement—but it is a precious " crumb of comfort " to some of the Northern Copperheads. It is his note to the New York Committee, excusing himself from participating in the cele bration last Monday of our army victo ries, and is as follows : NEW YoRK, March 3. Hon. C. P. Daily, Chairman, &C.: DEAR SIR : I regret, on account of debility, I cannot take any part in the grand celebration of to-morrow, as I sincerely rejoice in our victories over rebels, which, with others impending, cannot fail soon to bring back into the Union, on terms of perfect equality in rights and duties, the outstanding States. Reciprocal respect and admiration have already, by the dint of hard fighting, been established between the gallant veterans of the opposing armies, and this noble sentiment gives the hope that it may conquer the -miserable hatred so general between non-com batants—Secessionists and Unionists. This, indeed, would be the great con quest of the day. I remain, with high respect, yours, truly, 'WINFIELD SCOTT Who but a copperhead or rebel sym pathizer could write such a letter as this—except an old man in his dotage, as is the author, and influenced also most likely by childish envy and hatred towards some of our leading and most successful military men? The idea of the Southern States re turning on terms of perfect equality in rights and duties is enough to stir the venom of this editor, and he berates the General through three quarters of a col umn in the style quoted.—Louisville Democrat. Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail- From the Third Annual Report of the operations of this road, just issued by the President of the company, George W. Cass, Esq., we gather the following in teresting facts and figures : The gross earnings of the road during the year 1864, from passenger travel, freight, mail transportation, express companies, for use of track by Cleveland and Pittsburg road from Pittsburg to Rochester, rents, &c., were 57,120,465.76. The expenses for transportation, motive power, maintenanceof way, of cars, &c., were $4,101,398 83—leaving a balance of $3,019,067,13. The income—net amount as above, amounted to credit of income, from the Cleveland and Pittsburg road, and sale of 16,473 shares of stock aggre gating S2,747;3oo—amounted to $4,902,- 457 46. The disbursements—interest on bonds, $918,845 ; to pay sinking fund, S 104,100; principal andpremiumon Chi cago depot, (8 percent. b0nd5,)514,334,59 ; paid d ividen ds Nos. 1,2 and 3, (three quar ters,) $530, 782 50; amount of construc tion and equipment, $2 703,741 84— amounted to $4,271,803 93—leaving a balance of $630,653 53. From this is de ducted dividend No. 4, paid January, 1865, out of the income of 1864, $204,265; six months' interest on three bonds, $56,822 ; paid for bonds of Akron branch road, 3179,829 40--total $440,916 90 leaving a balanceover all payments and liabilities of $189,737 63. The increase of earnings for the year is $1,987,532 02, or 38 and nine-tenths per cent. The working expenses areoneand four tenthS per cent. less than the year previous. The present admira ble equipment of the road, condition of the track, station facilities, &c., are sufficient to increase the earn ings of the present year about a million dollars, and yet it is the desire of the company to add new facilities and addi tional comforts for the business public and travelers.• These figures undoubt edly indicate an unusual degree of pros perity for this well managed road, and is highly complimentary to the efficient management of its President, Gen. Geo. W. Cass.—Patriot and Union. The Last Letter of the Late Confederate Captain Beall. ,From the Richmond Whig, March The following is a copy of one of the last letters written by the murdered hero, Capt. John Y. Beall : FORT LARAtETTE, Feb. 14, 1865. j Ifr. James A. L. McClure, Baltimore, Maryland : DEAIt Sin: Last evening I was in formed of the finding and sentence of the Commission in my case. Captain Wright Rives, of General Dix's staff, promised to procure you a copy of the record of my trial. lam solicitous for you, who represent my friends, to have one, and to attach this statement to it: " Some of the evidence is true—some false. lam not a spy nor a guerrilla. The charges were not proven. The execution of the sentence will be mur der." And at a convenient season to forward that record and statement to my friends. I wish you to find out the amount of the expenses of the trial, and forward to me at once, so that I can give a check for the amount. Capt. Wright Rives assured me that my friends could have my body. For my family's sake, please get my body from Fort Columbus after the execu tion, and have it plainly buried, not to be removed to my native State till this unhappy war is over, and my friends can bury as prudence and their wishes dictate. Let me again thank you for your kindness, and believe me now, as in days of yore, Your attached friend, JOHN Y. BEALL. The Sugar Crop of Leah Lana. The New Orleans Price Current has now completed its statement of the su gar crop in the State for the past season, and sums up the result in the following recapitulation, comparing the products with the returns for the years 1861 and '62, before the War : 1E64-5. 1861-2.: Total 6,755 390,233. The total crop of 1861-2 was 459,410 hhds. The figures of the Price Current are not mere estimates, but the aggre gate of the returns from all the planta tions cultivated, obtained by the editor from the planters themselves, or from yeliable authority. The molasses crop is estimated at 16,000 to 16,000 barrels, which exceeds the usual allowance of 70 gallons molasses for every 1,000 lb s -of sugar. Referring to the plantations under cultivation before the war, and to the large outlays incurred for steam en gines and the costly machinery used for grinding, &c., the Price Current says the whole of thisjogether with the sugar houses and other necessary build ings; " must inevitably go to ruin, unless liberal 'facilities are aceOrded to the planters to enable than: to reclaim the plantations'" - now going, entirely to waste.'!—St. - ZouliPilce Current. 44rPapirider Milliner an old Rev oitttollaiYdritameratieiliastlos years, dled ateAdamat Basinnear - Rochester, N. Y. enthe 14th • inst. • He -was born in Quebec on the 14th of March, 1760. NUMBER 12. Governor Curtin. P. Gray Meek, editor of the Bellefonte Watchman, in his first issue after his release pays the following handsome compliment to Governor Curtin. We are sure Mr. Meek has good ground for thus praising his Excellency. If Gov. Curtin had not deserved such praise it would never have come from the source it does. Mr. Meek is no flatterer, and proves himself to be entirely fearless by his first issue, after being released from confinement in the loathsome military prison at Harrisburg. Of the Governor he says : It gratifies us to see that Governor Curtin is throwing off' some of the chains that have been bound around him by his party, and is rising to the dignity of au independent man and governor. On the matter of illegal and arbitrary arrests by military authority, he expresses himself freely, condemn ing them in the severest terms. We believe he has said that they shall cease in this State, or as governor of our once proud old commonwealth, which has so long bent her knee in servile submis sion to the indignities which the ad ministration of Abraham Lincoln has heaped upon her, he will know the reason why. He justly feels indignant that they have made his own capitol a city of bastiles, where his own citizens are imprisoned under his very nose, without form or shadow o+' justice, and he is made powerless to aid them in their extremity. We say Governor Curtin feels this, and it is bringing out the MAN in him, and he swears it shall cease. All honor to the Governor for his noble resolve. A continuance in it will make the people of this State his friends, without distinction of party, and his name will he honored when that of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Johnson will have passed into oblivion forever. We have condemned the Gov ernor very often heretofore, but we ap plaud his manliness now, and it gives us pleasure to bear this testimony to his moral courage. Gubernatorial Candidates In our opinion it is entirely too early in the day to begin to talk about who shall be the next candidate for Gover nor ; but the Harrisburg correspondent of the Pittsburg Posl says : The public men at Harrisburg, of both parties, are beginning to discuss the question of a successor to Governor Cur tin. On the Democratic side, the names of Hon. Win. H. Witte, of Mont'omery county, Senator Clymer, of Berics, and Gen. Geo. W. Cass, of Allegheny, are prominently mentioned. On the Re publican side, the gentlmen who stand the most likelihood of securing the nom ination are Col. McClure, of Fianklin, Senator Hall, of Blair, Mr. Ketchum, 01 Luzerne, Gen. Morehead and Thos. M. Howe, of Allegheny, Gen. Cameron and Senator Lowry. Col. M'Clure is under stood to be the favorite of the State Ad ministration, and is, by all odds, the ablest man of the Republican mentioned. The Erie Observer claims that the northwestern part of the State ought to be entitled to the candidate, and says : " Erie county could present a candi date for Democratic support, at least, who, on the score of talents and per sonal character, is not excelled by any one in the long line of distinguished men who have occupied the position." We understand that compliment to apply to William A. Galbraith, Esq., and we are sure there is no man that knows him will not endorse it for truth. Californians to be Tied to the Soil. It seems that Abolitionism will not allow a man to exist in peace within the country and yet will not consent to his going elsewhere. Under date of Febru ary 11th, at San Francisco, Gen. Mc- Dowell issued his general orders num ber 5, prohibiting the migration of Californians to Mexico without special permit. The order says : "I. No person will be received on board of any vessel at this port for any port in Mexico without his having pre viously registered his name at the office of the Provost Marshal and received a permit to embark. "11. No citizen of the United States will receive a permit to embark until he has OA en satisfactory assurance that the object of his journey is legitimate and peaceful, and in every case of doubt, un til, in addition to such other measures as it may be thought necessary to take, he has taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. • "111. Citizens or subjects of foreign powers will receive permits on pro ducing satisfactory evidence of their nationality. " IV. Similar precautions to those prescribed for the port of San Francisco will be taken at all other ports in this department." Heavy Robbery of United States Bonds From the Central National Bank--$lO,- 000 Reward Offered for their Recovery. On Tuesday afternoon the cashier of the Central National Bank, Mr. W. H. Foster, received a package of United states 10-40 and 5-20 bonds amounting to $69,000. This bundle he placed on a tin box behind his desk in his office at the rear of the bank. In a moment after, having occasion to speak to one of the clerks in the banking-room, he step ped inside for a moment. During his absence, a well-dressed stranger, who had been hanging around the rear of the banking-room, for some moments previously, was seen by a boy to slip into the office, take the bundle containing the notes, and immediately leave the bank. The boy did not give the alarm, as he supposed the thief was 'one of the employes of the bank. Of this amount $19,000 in 10-40 bonds is the property of the bank ; the remain der belongs to outside parties. A re ward of $4,000 will be paid for the recovery of the bonds belonging to the bank, and $6,000 for the recovery of the remander. The fact of the robbery has been telegraphed to all the principal cities in the Union, together with the numbers of the bonds, so that in case an attempt is made to negotiate them the parties making the attempt' will be arrested.—N. Y. Tribune. The First Fruits We have repeatedly endeavored to show that the natural result of sudden and violent emancipation will be to supersede white labor in the North with negro labor. We don't propose to go over the ground again to show why this must be so; but we will come di rectly to the fad that the " philan thropists" will find an immense num ber of negroes upon their hands which they will have to provide for in some way. Neither the government nor private individuals will like to supply them perpetually without work, and the attempt must be made to make them self-supporting. Even now we have the first fruits, and near at home. A new mill has bean erected at Law rence this year, which it is proposed to fill with nine hundred negro girls, and the first installment of fifty have already arrived. Of course, these are expected to supplant that number of white girls ; and this gives us a key to a remarkable proposition recently made by Gov. Andrew to provide for the emi gration of 50,000 white women of Mas sachusetts to the extreme West. "Clear de kitchen, white folks, white folks, Ole Virginny neber tire." —Newark Journal. Mir The negroes of Nashville had a grand procession on the 20th inst., in celebration of the ratification by the people of the revised Constitution of Tennessee, which declares all slaves forever free. Upwards of 5,000 joined in the procession, consisting of colored soldiers,, barbers, &c., preceded by a band of music. The ceremonies wound up with speeches by colored orators, No doubt they missed the inceherentutter ances -of Andy Johnson, who - made a characteristic speech to them on some similar occasion last year. 1.111 Vt i tt i rl.V.RAc-Z s Bin aces moviarrimiEms, 112 a year: per of - Aerliirree:44 , 3n perirlat-- - Meresae for fraetionsof Hitititer.vm •and fine tor the - SE.A.LGc_reentlcs - :'Mirk =I 4 °ants Par O ROb4R I / 1 1 /egagit - - • - •tzie BATaati. 0 4 2 etMa - alld :Other 4 11 . ..one .oo kunG, 1 year, $lOO Hall comma 4 I Third 00/GO3E, / • 414 ester so NEGG CARD% of ten - lines or less,' one year, ~.. /0 - Business Oards,five lines orless, one - LEGAL A.Z4l;ini — ersiaraiTcrEETL . - • • - Exectutors'- notices... 2.00 Administrators' notices,.--.....—. 2.00 Assignees' Inotleos, 2.00 Auditors.l.so Other "Notices,' ten lines, or less, three Suspension of gabeas Corpus by tie Rebel Congress. In accordance, with tile recommenda tion of Davis, in his speCial message, the Rebel Congress voted, on the 15th in stant, to suspend the writ of habeas cor pus: The vote in the House was -36 yeas to 32 nays. The bill is as follows: 't Whereas, The Confederate States are invaded, and the public safety re quires a suspension or the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. "The CongreSs of the Confederate States of America do enact, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended until otherwise pro vided by law, in all cases of arrest or detention by order of the President, the Secretary or War, or the general officer commanding the Trans-Mississippi Military Department. " SEeTioN 2. Until otherwise pro vided by law, the said privilege than be suspended for sixty days from the time of arrest, in every case of arrest or de tention by order of a general officer commanding an army, or a miiitary de partment or district. "SECTION 3. Every such order shall be in writing, signed by the officer making the same, and shall name or de scribe the person to be arrested or de- tained. "SECTION 4. No military officer, de taining a person by virtue of any such order, shall be compelled, in answer to any writ of habeas corpus, to appear in person, or to return the body of the per son so detained; but upon his certificate, under oath, that such person is detained by him under such an order, accom panied with a copy.of the order, further proceedings under the writ shall cease and remain suspended according to the provisions of the preceding sections." Havana. A New Ango Rebel Pirate Reported.—A Former Vommander of the Florida on Board. NEW YORK, March 22.—The steamer Eoro Castle brings Havana advices of the 18th inst. A letter says there is no news here and nothing from abroad has arrived. On the 15th instant arrived, after a passage of two days from Nassau, the English steamer Lo nisei and Fanny, reported to be of 425 tons burthen, but evidently much larger. It is said she is going to Bermuda tout out as apirate, and that she has cannon and .44tumuni don on board. Her crew will be in creased by sixty or seventy extra men who are now on the Owl, in tins port. ,She has two captains, one of whom, it is said, formerly commanded the Flori da. Items of News. The recent fall in cotton goods is said to have brought the manufacturers to a stand-still. But few factories are in operation. The Allegheny River rose fourteen feet on tiaturday, and completely sub merged a portion of the city 01 Pitts burg. The Confederate privateer Tallahas see, under a new name, is reported to have been at Bermuda on the 11th lust. A new Confederate privateer, whose name was understood to be the Confed erate States, is reported to have been lying off the harbor of Nassau, N. P., on the 14th inst. Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher was suspended from command on the lUth inst., by Gen. Schofield, under orders from the War Department. He is at present in New York. A fire at Saginaw, Michigan, on the 13th inst., destroyed property valued at from thirty thousand to fifty thousand dollars. Fourteen buildings were burn ed, including the Exchange Hotel. A rebellion is going on on in Abyssinia which threatens the throne and life of King Theodore, who has. imprisoned his own son on suspicion of participation in it. At latest dates a great and de cisive battle was expected. The New York Times Says it is pro posed by the Navy Departinent to retire about one-half of our vessels, and use 25,000 of our seamen—one-half of the total number in service--for service upon land. There is no use now in having so many vessels in service, and by this measure Mr. Wells will reduce the ex penses of his department very much. Refugees arriving at New bern report that Gen. R. E. Lee is in command in North Carolina, with headquarters at Raleigh, having sent Johnston and Beauregard to defend Richmond. They also report that negro troops now man the defenses of the Confederate capital, replacing the force Lee has taken with him to oppose Sherman. Three hundred and fifty Confederate prisoners, captured at the battle of Kinston, on the 10th inst., have reached Baltimore. A mass meeting was held at 'Miming ton, N. C., on the 14th, to pass resolu tions recognizing the authority of the Federal Government. It is reported as having been attended by tue most prominent and respectable citizens, and a Union address by the Mayor was applauded. 4. man named Gilbert, who was in Cincinnati in jail, charged with passing counterfeit money, and awaiting au ex amination, was last week taken from the jail, and paid his bounty as a substi tute for the man who went upon his bond in $l,OOO for his appearance before the Police Court. He donned the sol dier's clothing, but wanted togo and see his mother before he went to the wars. From his alleged mother's house he made his escape, and has not been heard of since. Owing to the general interruption of travel, on account of the recent freshets, the supply of beet has been quite scarce in the New York Market. The first shipload of cotton from the fields of the American and British West India Company has reached New York from Long Island, Bahamas. The cargo consisted of 20 OW pounds of the best quality of Sea Island. The troops with General Sherman aje six months in arrears of pay. They are all to be paid up to the 24:stii of Feb ruary as soon as they arrive at some point where they can be reached by the paymasters. Major Thomas P. Turner, who has just received authority from General Lee to raise a negro command in Rich mond, is the same rebel officer who,' as commandant of Libby Prison, has so long been achieving an infamous noto riety. It is to be hoped that he may bring his command into the field before the war ends, as there are some thous ands of our officers and men «ho would like to meet him in the front. A letter from Rome, of the 15th ult., says: " The_Holy Father continues to enjoy excellent health. The other day I met him near the Ponte Molle, walk ing on foot, in spite of the severely cold weather ; and he was going at so free and hearty apace as to give proof of the vigor and freshness of his strength." It is reported that Rear Admiral Dahlgren will soot be releived of com mand of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron at his own request, and will be succeeded by Commodore Gordon. The Louisville Journal says: "We understand that Governor Bramlette has furnished all of his slaves with free papers." The London satirists say, in her re cent speech, the Queen murdered her own English. It is believed by military men here that Raleigh will be evacuated by the rebels without a struggle, and that Danville 'will -be the last ditch if they fight at all south of Richmond. The Government of San Salvador has set at liberty. Johrißradshaw. and Thos. Reynolds, who were arrested on their way to take part with others in captur ing one °tam California'steamers. , - A button-holesewing machine is one of;the latest inventions—the work being turned out- atthe ratel4f 100 laUttort holes par hour. Er==l/
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