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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."
" How strange it is," said,Pat, as
he trudged along on foot one hot 'sultry
day, "that man never meets' a team
going the same way hits I"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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