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About Bonnets.
A black bonlaet with white feathers,
with white, rose, or red flowers, suits a
fair complexion. A lustreless white
bonnet does not suit well with fair and
rosy complexions. It is otherwise COI
bonnets of gauze, crape, or lace. They
are suitable to all complexions. The
white bonnet May have flowers, either
white, rose, Or particularly blue. A
light blue bonnet is particularly suitable
to the light-haired type. It may be
ornamented with white flowers, but not
with rose or violet flowers. A green
bonnet is advantageous to fair or rosy
complexions. It may be trimmed with
'white flowers, but preferably with rose.
A rose-colored bonnet must not he too
close to the skin; and if it is found that
the hair does not produce sufficient sep
aration, the distance from the rose color
may be increased by means of white or
green, which,is preferable. A wreath
of white flowers in the midst of their
leaves has a good effect.
A black bonnet does not contrast so
well with the ensemble of the type with
black hair as with the other type; yet
it may produce a good effect and receive
advantageously accessories of white,
red, rose, orange, and yellow. A white
bonnet gives rise to the same remarks
as those which have been made con
cerning its use 'in connection with the
blonde type, except that for the bru
nettes it is better to give the preference
to accessories of red, rose, orange, and
also yellow, rat-her than to blue. Bon
nets of rose, red, cerise, are suitable for
brunettes when the hair separates as
much as possible the bonnet from
the complexion. White feathers ac
cord well with red ; and white flowers,
with abundance of leaves, have a good
effect with roses. A yellow bonnet
suits a brunette very well, and receives
with advantage violet or blue ,accesso
ries; the hair must always interpose
between the complexion and head
dress.' It is the same with bonnets of
an orange color, more or less broken,
such as chamois. Blue trimmings are
eminently suitable with orange and its
shades. A gretes bonnet is suitable to
fair and light rosy complexion; rose,
red, or white flowers are preferable to
all others. A blue bonnet is only suit
able to a fair or bright red complexion ;
nor can it be allied to such
as have a tint of orange brown.
When it suits a brunette, it may take
with advantage yellow or orange trim
mings. A violet bonnet is always un
suitable to every complexion, since
there are none which yellow will suit.
Yet, if we interpose between the violet
and the skin,
.not only the hair, but
also yellow accessories, a bonnet of this
color may become favorable. As an im
portant memorandum, it must be added
that, whenever the color of a bonnet
does not realize the intended effect,
even when the complexion is separated
from the head-dress by masses of hair,
it is advantageous to place between the
hair and the bonnet certain accessories.
Where the Next World's Fair Will be
Spiridion writes that Paris is all agog
wondering where the World's Fair of
1807 will be held. Some people say it
will be held in the Champs de Mars,
which will be the site of a vast edifice
that will be used for a military parade
ground when the exhibition ends. In
this event the span of the building will
extend from one to the otherside of the
Champs de Mars, so as to allow the
evolutions of an army of cavalry. Here,
too, all reviews are to be held. The
public will be admitted to the galleries
upon payment of a small gratuity, which
will be given to the poor of Paris after
the building has been paid for. The
building will be made to hold 200,000
spectators. What a splendid show a
review of iOO,OOO men of all arms will
be under such a roof! Not a detail will
be lost ; the Whole scene will he at a
glance taken in, from the galleries, and
the moistened haw will prevent
the clouds of dust which hide so much
at all great reviews. This building will
be erected at the cost of the public of
the City of Paris and of France, each
contributing ode-third. The receipts
will be distributed first among the sub
scribers, until their subscription, capi
tal, and interest be paid off; after this
has been done, the city and empire will
divide the receipts between them. The
building will 'cost some $0,000,000 or
$8,000,000. An ethnographical exhi
bition will be added to the fair. That
is, the French Cove rnment intends to
bring, at its own expense, the abori
gines of the world, with their accus
tomed habitations, to show to Europe
Esquimaux in their huts, Patagonians
in their cabins,. Laplanders, Thibetans,
Siberians, Tartars, Cossacks, Circus
sians, Indians, Chinese, Red men, &c.
The-anatomist and physiologist will de
rive great profit from this show.
The Manutheture of Perfumes
Among the ilopular lectures %Odell
have been la telly ilelivered in the Con
servatory of the Horticultural Society,
Mr. Septtmus Piesse has given one on
"Perfumes and the Methods of obtain
ing the Odors." The lecturer pointed
out that, contrary to general belief,
nearly all the; perfumes derived from
flowers are not made by distillation,
but by the process of eqlcumgc," - or in
flowering, and by maceration or infu
sion. The odors of flowers do not, as a
general rule, exist in them as a store or
in a gland, butithey are developed as an
exhalation. While the flower breathes
it yields fragrance; but kill the flower
and fragrance ceases. It has not been as
certained wheti the discovery was made
of condensing* it were,the breath of the
flower during the life; what we know is,
that if a living flowed be placed near
butter, grease, animal fat, or oil, these
bodies absorb the odor given off by the
blossom, and in turn themselves become
fragrant. If we spread fresh unsalted
butter upon the inside of two desert
plates, and then fill one of the plates
with gathered fragrant blossoms of cle
matis, covering them over with the
second greased plate, we shall find that
after twenty-four hours the grease has
become fragrant. The blossoms though
separated fromlthe parent stem, do not
die fOr some time but live to exhale
odor, which is absorbed by the fat. To
remove the odor from the fat, the fat
must be scraped off the plates and put
into alcohol ; the odor then leaves the
grease and enters into the spirit, which
thus becomes " scent" and the grease
becomes odorless again.
Coal Under the Sea
Coal has begn gathered up on the
beach at Philpsburg, Me., for many
years, and Professor _Brackett, of Bow
doin, College, thinks that a coal mine
extends along the coast from Rhode
Maud to Nava. Scotia, but that the bed
of the coal is .too far out at sea to be
worked. The; waves cast blocks of it
upon the be*h from time to time.
J. M. Coorza,
VOLUME 66.
My attention was once calledto a con
firmed loafer, who was the pest of the
neighborhood where heresided, andone
of whose boyhood a friend related to me
the following circumstance :
When Dick R— was about eleven
years of age he was one day in the field
with his father and workmen. It
chanced to be in the haying season, and
they were provided with a bottle of rum,
according to the custom. After drink
ing around, his father passed him the
bottle, saying, " Dick, put that in the
spring "—meaning for him to set it in
the water to keep the contents cool.
About an hour after Dick was sum
moned to bring the bottle. His father
took a swallow, while Dick stood near
with . a broad grin on his face. It con
tained nothing but water. Turning to
his mischievous son, he exclaimed in an
excited tone :
" Dick ! what did you do with the
liquor that MIS in this bottle ?"
" I poured it into the sprink, Sir," he
replied, in a hesitating tone, fearing
that he had carried the joke too far; for
he was in hopes one of the hired men
would take the first drink.
" Well, Dick," the parent continued,
with a significant flourish of his scythe
rifle, "you did right; but don't never
do so again!"
My friend remarked that' Dick had
evidently followed this advice ever
since, for he had never done anything
that was right from that (lay to the
present time,
Hints to Writers and Speakers
William Cullen Bryant gave the fol
lowing excellent advice to a young man
who offered him an article for the Er(n
-rot:(':
"My young friend, I observed that
you have used several French expres
sions in your article. I think if you
will study the English language, that
you will find it capable of expressing all
the ideas that you may have. I have
always found it so, and in all that I
have written I do not recall an instance
when I was tempted to use a foreign.
word, but that, on searching, I found a
better one in my own language.
"The only true way to shine even in
this false world, is to be modest and un
assuming. Falsehood may be a very
thick crust, but in the course of time
will find a place to break through.
Elegance of language may not be in the
power of all of us, but simplicity and
straightforwardness arc.
" Be simple, unaffected ; he honest in
your speaking and writing. Never use
a long word when a short one will do.
Call a spade not a well-known oblong
instrument of manual industry ; let a
home be a home, not a resh i lence ; a place
a place, not a locality, and so of the rest.
Where a short word will do, you always
lose by using a long one. You lose iu
clearness, you lose in honest expression
of your meaning; and in the estimation
of all men who are competent to judge,
you lose in reputation for ability.
" Write much as you would speak ;
speak as you think. If with your in
ferior, speak no coarser than usual ; if
with your superior, speak no finer. Be
what you say, and within the rules of
prudence. No one ever was a gainer
by singularity of words or in pronun
ciation. The truly wise man will so
speak that no one will observe how he
speaks. A man may show great knowl
edge of chemistry by carrying about
bladders of strange .rases to breathe,
but he will enjoy better health and find
more time for business who lites on
common air.
" Sidney Smith once remarked,
After you have written an article, take
your pen and strike out half of the
words, and you will be surprised to see
how much stronger it is.'"
Superiority of English Railroads
Nothing more forcibly illustrates the
superior condition and solid structure
of the English railways than the speed
of some of the mail trains. The night
mail from Euston Square station, Lou
don, to Perth, in Scotland, performs the
journey-451 miles—in 11.} hours, or at
the rate of 40 miles an hour, including
stoppages. The mail between New
York and Washington-229 miles—goes
through in from 11 to 12 hours, being
about half the speed of the English
mails.
It is evident that neither speed nor
safety can be expected u - Pon our rail
roads until they are rebuilt in a solid
and enduring manner ; many of the ac
cidents occurring being the result of
their bad condition.—ScirnUtic meni
con.
Mrs. Partlngton on Organs
And so, Isaac, you've been to see Lin
coin and Hamlin's Cabinet organs?
They say it has au aromatic smell that's
not like andybody else's, and is even
better'n the night blowing serious. I
hope you didn't hear the one that has
the penal base. It's strange good peo
ple can patronize these baser sort of
things. And you heard the sympathy
of A. Miner, (lid you ? For my part I
should raley like to hear that. He was
our next door neighbor, and my Paul
used to say that Adolphus Minerhadn't
a mossel of sympathy for anybody, and
people generally didn't think he had ;
but In me ! times change, and now it
seems he's got sore, and had it set to
music.—Boston Post.
In the ease of aged persons whose
sight is becoming enfeebled, and re
quires the aid of convex glasses great
advantage is derived, supposing no ner
vous lesion to exist, from painting
every evening the eye-lids and brow
with laudanum, and allowing this to re
main all night. No says Prof. Nascar, of
Naples.
The Ohio Farmer says
The best way to keep the syrup from
losing flavor is to seal it up hot in cans,
the same asfruitjs sealed in the fall. At
this time of year many of the fruit cans
are empty and can be used for this pur
pose. Put up in this way maple syrup
will keep for years, and retain that nice
flavor it has when first made, but which
is lost in a few months if kept in ordi
nary jugs or casks.
Mr. rt.Mushet writes to the ..lfcchanic
3brgaziw: that he call produce steel so
hard that it will bore the hardest rocks,
and when boring ordinary rocks will be
almost imperishable in its edge. In
limestone a 9-feet shaft costs £7 per
fathom ; and in hard expel or roskear
stone it costs EGO per fathom ; with the
improved steel he thinks the cost in
hardest stone will not he more than it
now is in the softest.
4tir A " loyal " exchange editor says
the new fifty cent shinplaster looks so
much like a quack medicine label that
he " involuntarily turns it over to see if
it cures corns, bunions and whooping
cough." He says, further, that it con
tains as many colors as the bandana tur
ban of a showy negress. On the centre
of the face, close by a cloud of dust, sits
a fat, mis-shapen female, covered with
small-pox blotches. Her right arm rests
on a hoop, through which may be seen
an owl sitting on a pile of old clothes in
the distance, and in the right' hand is
grasped an umbrella stick. Her left
hand grasps something which a lively
imagination may conceive to be a pair
of scales. One foot appears done up in
a poultice. Either that editor or the
Treasury artist has a lively imagination.
r.eit - The Vice President is going to
Tennessee to close up his business as
Military Governor, and to attend the
inauguration of Brownlow., The black
guard Brownlow will be - tir fit successor
to the drunken brute Andy Johnson.
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EIECIITION OF A SPY.
Hanging of Robert Cobb Kennedy, the
Rebel Spy and Hotel Burner—HlLS Rx.
truant's:Lary Coolness and Abandon on
the Gallows—An Interesting Narrative.
Robert Cobb Kennedy, who was
.cently convicted as a rebel spy, and as
the incendiary who fired Barnum's Mu
seum, New York, last November, was
hung at Fort Lafayette on Saturday af
ternoon last. There were but few spec
tators present, and they the garrison of
the fort and the bounty-jumpers con
fined there. At five minutes of 1 o'clock
he was apprised by Colonel Burke (the
commandant), Marshal Murray, and
his deputy, that the time for death had
arrived. He was seated at a table
writing at the time, and General Beale
(the rebel officer now on parole to pro
vide supplies for rebel prisoners),
Captain Wilson, and Chaplain Ruske, of
Fort Hamilton, were standing near
him. Kennedy received his visitors
coolly, stating that he knew what their
errand was. He then turned to two re
porters who were present, asking them.
to do full justice,,/to his memory ; gave
ar
a pipe he prizmuch to be sent to his
mother, bacfe - farewell to his friends,
and turning to the company said :
This is hard for you d—d Yankees to
treat me this way. I have been a regu
lar soldier." The executioner now began
to bind Kennedy's arias. While this
was in progress Kennedy asked Gen.
Beale for a handkerchief, and used it.
When the black cap was placed upon
his head, he asked, "Am I going to
wear this' thing to the gallows :""rhe
answer. "Yes." The preparations being
now complete, the procession formed in
line, and as it passed out of the cell
door, Kennedy turned to lien. Beale,
with the remark: "This is a cowardly
murder."
When the gallows was reached, the
17th Regulars, which acted as guard,
was drawn up on each side the scatibld,
while the brokers and bounty-jumpers
who had been marched out, stood in the
back-ground, the brokers slightly in
advance of their victims.
The first act under the gallows was
the reading of the findings and sentence
of the court martial which convicted
Kennedy, with the order of Gen. Dix,
confirming the sentence. During this
ceremony, which was performed by
Captain French, the prisoner preserved
his composure, occasionally smiling or
breaking out into such expressions as
these : " A d—d lie !" ( referring to the
charge of being a spy.) " That isn't a
crime, is it ?" referring to the charge of
being in the rebel army.) The reading
of the death sentence having been con
cluded, Kennedy said, in a loud voice :
" Gentlemen ! this is in u'ider." At the
conclusion of the prayer, the clergyman
knelt in front of the prisoner, and offer
ed a touching plea in his behalf. Ken
nedy, still standing, looked down upon
his spiritual guide and made no remark
until the end of the supplication. Dr.
Ruske then shook Kennedy's hand,
bade him farewell, and implored him to
act as a man and a Christian. Kennedy
bowed in response to this appeal, and
then calling to Colonel Burke, said :
" Colonel, send me a drink before Igo !"
The clergyman retiring, Kennedy
again spoke in a loud voice, as follows :
I consider this a judicial, brutal,
cowardly murder. There was no oc
casion for the United States Government
to condemn me."
Pausing for a moment, he said : " Tell
my friends"—the sentence remained
unfinished. The executioner here came
forward to adjust the noose.
Turning to Colonel Burke, he said:
"'Colonel! come here, please."
Marshal Murray here stepped up to
Kennedy, laid his hand upon his
shoulder, and remarking, "One mo
ment," checked him, while the attend
ing clergyman opened the Book of Com
mon Prayer, and began to read the ser
vice for the condemned.
Kennedy, standing bareheaded and
with pinioned arms, listened respectful
ly, frequently using a white pocket
handkerchief with ditlicultefforts of his
left hand. A deathly silence prevailed,
broken only by the clear voice of the
clergyman, a venerable man, who was
visibly affected. Kennedy then sud
denly broke out with the following
verse, which he sang in a loud, clear
voice, to a rollicking Irish air, and with
a touch of the brogue:
" Trust to luck ! trust to ht,.k !
stare fate in the thee ;
ror the heart will be aisv
If it's in the rigl4place. -
The verse had hardly been finished
when the signal was given, and the cord
was cut, the weight fell, and Kennedy
sprang into the air, dying almost in
stantly, the sudden violence of the shock
having broken his neck. After hang
ing for twenty minutes the body was
lowered, life was declared extinct, and
the remains, placed in a common stain
ed pine coffin, were delivered to Ken
nedy's friends.
The end of this man befitted his pro
fane, impenitent life. Even on the
scaffold he was intoxicated, as his thick
speech and unsteady gait evidenced.
He was a Deist, believing in a Supreme
Being, but in nothing else—not even a
future state. The night before his death
was spent in writing and directing en
velopes containing his photograph. At
sunrise he looked out on the bright sky,
remarking that " it was a fine day for
the occasion." It is said that he par
tially confessed to his having fired
Barnum's Museum, but denies that he
fired hotels, or was a spy in any way.
He asserted that he was a regular Con
federate officer, and appeared on the
gallows in a full suit of dark gray, with
a turnover collar and black silk neck
tie. He was a native of Georgia, and
spent two years, from '54 to '36, in West
Point. He entered the rebel service in
Louisiana at the outbreak of the war.
He was about thirty-eight years of age,
and in person of light build and medium
height. His hair and eyes were dark
brown, and his beard and moustache
rough and shaggy.
Au English flew
Mr. G. A. Sala, who recently spent
some time in this country, has issued a
book relating to us in London. It seems
to be much more reasonable than the
productions of most English sojourners.
In regard to slavery and war he says :
"I believe slavery to be an evil, and
to a certain extent a curse, but that it is
not a worse evil or a worse curse than
prostitution, than drunkenness, than
pauperism, than the tyranny of capital
over labor, or than the greed of wealth.
I believe that it is not half so great an
evil and not half so great a curse as
that devil's own game, war,
and as that
devil's own creed which strives to
preach that doctrine that there is a
God of Battles,' and that Almighty
God can', under any circumstances, look
with aught save sorrow and abhorrence
upon the spectacle of His crea
tures cutting one another's throats.
And I believe that although cruelty to
anything that lives, parlant or mute, is
wicked and detestable, the crueltiessaid
to be inflicted by the Southerners on
their bond servants are in the main
gross and malevolent exaggerations,
and that, in any case, it is better that a
refractory negro should have a sound
thrashing than that, A. 8., who never
saw C. D., before in his life, and cannot
possibly have the slightest grudge
against him, should fall upon him, shoot
hm with bullets, rip up his bowels,
stab him in the heart, or batter his brains
out, and call that glorious war."
Of the personal condition of the slave,
Mr. Sala writes :
" I believe that he is and has been ten
thousand times better off as a bond
servant in the Southern States of
America, than as a free negro in the
North, and ten million times better off,
8911 negro at all, in America, than as a
denizen of Dahomey and Ashantee,
and that if he is sometimes flogged and
sometimes sold down South, his blood
is not shed to fill a pond for a ' great
custom,' and his skull is not scooped
out to form a calabash for his sovereign
to drink from." ,
14-- As long as men smell of whiskey
and tobacco, the women have a right to
defend themselves with musk. =
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1865.
The NC! Bounty Lowe
The new bounty bill which was agi
tating both Houses at _Harrisburg for
some days, was finally passed; and has
received the signature of the °over - nor.'
It is therefore now a law. The amount:
of the bounty allowed to be offered is
four hundred dollars. The worst fea
ture-of thislaw, it appears to us, is that
foreigners who may have just arrived in
the country, and who arenot in the least
responsible for the war, have a heavy per
capita aasessmentputupon them, whilst
thousands of hale, hearty;and well-to-do
"loyal leaguers," who have just thrned
forty-five, are entirely released from
this per capita tax. We give the law
below in full as it passed :
SEC. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of ' Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Gen
eral Assembly met, and it is hereby en,'
acted by the authority of the same, That„
so much of the sixth section of the act •
relating to the payment of bounties to
volunteers, approved March 25, 1864, as .
limits the amount of bounty to be paid-
to each and every non-commissioned
officer and private soldier who may
hereafter volunteer and enter the ser 7 :
vice of the United States to the sum of
three hundred dollars be and the same
is hereby repealed ; and hereafter it
shall and may be lawful for the
authorities mentioned in the act
to which this is a supplement
and the several supplements thereto,
and in the mode therein prescribed, or
for any special commissioners appointed
by any of the courts of quarter sessions
in this Commonwealth by authority of
existing laws, which commissioners are
also hereby invested with all the other
powers not herein specially enumerated,
conferred by the act to which this is a
supplement, together with the several
supplements thereto, upon the authori
ties thereinspecially mentioned, to raise
a sufficient sum to ray a bounty to each
volunteer enlisted under the present
call, or who may hereafter be enlisted
under the pending or future calls, not
exceeding four hundred dollars :
Provided, That the authorities men
tioned in the act to which this is a supple
ment and theseveralsupplements there
to, are hereby authorized to levy and
collect a per capita tax not exceeding
twenty dollars each upon persons liable
to military duty, and upon all able
bodied male taxable inhabitants not
liable to military duty, between
the ages of twenty-one and forty-five
years : Provided further, That non
commissioned officers and privates now
in actual service of the United States or
of this State, anti persons who have been
honorably discharged from such ser
vice who were permanently disabled in
said service, shall be exempt from the
per capita tax herein specified, and the
property of widows and minor children,
and widowed mothers of non-commis
sioned officers, and privates who died
in such service, is hereby exempt from
the payment of a bounty tax ; And pro
vided further, That it shall and may be
lawful for the authorities mentioned in
the act to which this is a supplement,
to pay theamount of bounty herein pre
scribed to any person drafted into the
military service of the United
States, and serving therein, or
to the families of the same, at
such time and in such sums as the said
authorities shall deem proper; or to any
person furnishing a substitute for said
service who may be credited to the
quota of any county, city, ward, bor
ough, township or enrollment district
of this Commonwealth ; And provided
further, That any county or district
having a special bounty law, shall be
entitled to the provisions of the same,
or of this supplement.
Honorable Mention
The Patriot and Union pays a well
deserved compliment to the leading
Democrats of the Legislature. We
know the men named and fully and
cordially endorse all that is said of them.
Says the Patriot
Numerically weak, the Democratic
minority were morally strong. They
were not able, it is true, to pass bills
embodying their ideas of right, or to
prevent the passage of others contain
ing provisions and principles objection
able to them, when the majority chose
to press them as party measures. But
their ability, aided by their acknow
ledged honesty and the courtesy , each
they invariably displayed towards their
fellow members of the opposite party,
enabled them often to modify the worst
features of bills, and in some instances,
with the assistance of their more conser
vative opponents, to defeat their passage.
We think we may safely say that,
although in the minority, the prepon
derance of ability was on the side of
the Democrats—in proof of which we
need only mention the names of Hop
kins, Clymer, Wallace, Randall, Beards r
lee, Montgomery Stark, M'Sherry,*
Schall, Bucher, Latta, &c., of the;
Senate; and Pershing, Purdy, Sharp,;,
Hakes, Boyer, Alexander, Markley,
Searight, Wiser, Cameron, &c., of the
House; several of them gentlemen
of much legislative experience and
rare ability, and all of them,
men of sound judgment and enlarged
and liberal views. We point to these
gentlemen with pride as jewels of the•
Democratic party ; men whose influence
is not felt alone in the Legislature, but
over the whole State. They had ardu
ous
duties to perform during the pas t:
winter, and they performed them well.'
They were faithful servants, who watch
ed with unceasing vigilance over the'
interests entrusted to them, performing
at all times, and in all things, great and'
small,their duty to their constituents and
to the people of the Commonwealth, by
whom they will be remembered and,
we trust, rewarded. We parted with
these gentlemen with regret which
would be still deeper than it is were it
not for the confidence with which we
anticipate the return of most of them._
next winter. Whatever may be their
lot hereafter, whether they continue in
public life or retire from its responsi
bilities and turmoil to quieter and more,
pleasant pursuits, they have equally
our best wishes for their individual
welfare.
Sketch of the Rebel Gen. Wm. R. Terry.
The rebel General Terry is reported
to have been killed in the assault on
Fort Steadman on the 25th inst. It hag
been erroneously stated and believed
that this officer was the Judge Terry of
California, who killed Broderick about
the year 1857. This is a mistake. It
was David J. Terry who was engaged
in the duel with Broderick. The rebel
Gen. Terry is Wm. R. Terry, of Vir
ginia, and commander of the famous
Stonewall Brigade," originally raised
by Thomas J. Jackson. Terry entered
the rebel service as a captain in the sth
Virginia infantry, and has been con-.
nected with the regiment and with the
" Stonewall Brigade ' ever since. Dur
ing the time he has served in every ,
capacity from captain to brigadier gen-,
eral. His command was attached to
Pickett's division, but temporarily serv
ed under Jubal Early in the valley, and
was badly damaged at Cedar Run. It
was transferred in January last, with
the rest of Early's corps, under Gordon,
to Petersburg. Terry's brigade appears
to have led the assault ou Fort Stead.
man, in which its leader was killed.
•
Pardoned by the President.
An order was received by the Provost.
Marshal General yesterday, from Presi
dent Lincoln, directing that the order
of banishment in thecase of Mrs. Ewell,
wife of the rebel major .general, be 're
voked upon her taking the amnesty
oath. In regard to Mrs. Ewell's money
and property, which had been siezed by
the Provost Marshal and held for con
fiscation, nothing was said in the Presi
dent's despatch. The presumtion
that her property and money will tiO
restored to her.—St: Louis Republicati,
of 25th inst.
At a public meeting held at Toronto
on last ruesday evening, by requisition ,
of the Mayor, it was ; resolved that trad
ers and.others should continue to take
4merican at pare
CORIVISIOII 01 Robert Cobb Kennedb
the Rebel. Incendiary.
FORT LAFAYETTE, March 25-6 A. M.
Major General Dix, Headquarters Department of
The cat, New York:
SIR—I have the honor to report that
last night, about half-past ten o'clock, I
visited Kennedy, taking with. me Mr.
Howard, of the New York Times. After
some conversation relative to the matter
for which he has been sentenced, he
made the follbwing confession. He re
quested that I would make no vse of the
confession to his detriment in case a
respite or reprieve should be received.
I have the honor to remain, respectfully
your obedient servant,
MARTIN BURKE,
Lieutenant Colonel Commanding.
CONFESSION OF ROBERT C. KENNEDY.
After my escape from Johnson's
Island I went to Canada, where I met
a number of Confederates. They asked
me if I was willing to go on an expedi-
tion. I replied, "Yeif it is in the
service of my country." They: said,
"It's all right," but gave no intimation
• of its nature, nor did I ask for any. I
was then sent to New York, where I
stayed some time. There was eight
men in our party, of whom two fled to
Canada. After we had been in New
York three weeks we were told that the
object of the expedition was to retaliate
on the North for the atrocities in the
Shenandoah valley. It was designed
to set fire to the city on the night of the
Presidential election ; but the phos
phorus was not ready, and it was put off
until the 25th of November. I was
stopping at the Belmont House, but
moved into Prince street. I set fire to
four places —Barnum's Museum, Love
joy's Hotel, Tammany Hotel, and the
New England House. The others only
started tires in the house where each
was lodging, and then ran off Had
they all done as I did we would have
had thirty-two fires and played a huge
joke on the Fire Department. I know
that I am to be hung for setting fire to
Barnum's Museum, but that was only
a joke. I had no idea of doing it. I
had been drinking and went in there
with a friend, and, just to scare the peo
ple, I emptied a bottle of phosphorus on
the floor. We knew it wouldn't set fire
to the wood, for we had tried it before,
and at one time had concluded to give
the whole thing up.
There was no fiendishness about it.
After setitug fire to my four places I
walked the streets all night, and went
to the Exchange Hotel early in the
morning. We all met there thatmorn
ing and the next night. My friend and
I had rooms there, but we sat in the
office nearly all the time, reading the
papers, while we were watched by the
detectives, of whom the hotel was full.
I expected to die then, and if I had it
would have been all right; but now it
seems rather hard. I escaped to ,Can
ada, and was glad enough when I creased
the bridge in safety.
I desired, however, to return to my
command, and started with my friend
for the confederacy, via Detroit. Just
before entering the city he received an
intimation that the detectives were on
the lookout for us, and, giving me a
signal, he jumped from the cars. I
didn't notice the signal, but kept on,
and was arrested in the depot.
I wish to say that killing women and
children was the last thing thought of.
We wanted to let the peopleof the North
understand that there are two sides to
this war, and that they can't be rolling
in wealth and comfort while we at the
South are bearing all the hardships and
privations.
In retaliation for Sheridan's atrocities
in the Shenandoah valley, we desired to
destroy property, not the lives of women
and children, although that would of
course have followed in its train.
Done in the presence of Lieutenant
Colonel Martin Burke.
MARCH 24-10.30 P. M.
The Wisconsifi Legislature on Andy
Johnson
The.popular branch of the Wisconsin
Legislature, in which the Republicans
number sixty-six to the Democrats
thirty-three, passed the following:reso
lutions :
Whereas, It is an acknowledged fact
that at the recent inauguration cere
monies of the President and Vice Presi
dent elect of the United States, the said
Vice President elect, Mr. Johnson, was
in a state of gross intoxication; and
Whereas, His conduct was a violation
of all the proprieties of that solemn and
impressive occasion, as well as of the
moral sentiments of the country ; and
Whereas, Shame and mortification
fill the whole land by reason of that
conduct ; and
Whereas, His inebriation renders him
unworthy of the distinguished honors
bestowed upon him, and unfit him for
the actual and possible trusts commit
ted to his care; therefore
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate
concurring, That the shameful drunk
enness of Mr. Johnson on the occasion
'of his inauguration as Vice-President
of the United states was- wholly inex
cusable, a disgrace to himself, and an
insult to the nation.
Resolved, That while we appreciate
the past distinguished patriotism and
courage with which he resisted the re
bellion and defended the integrity of the
Union, it is the sense of the Wisconsin
Legislature that his offence is so fla
grant, disgracing the government in
the presence of other Christian nations,
he ought at once to resign his office as
Vice-President of the United States,
thereby allowing the United States
Senate to elect some member of that
body to preside over its deliberations,
whose moral character will comport
with the dignity of the position he now
disgraces, and that in case of the death
of the President the country may not
be more deeply humiliated and endan
gered by the inauguration of an intem
perate executive.
Resolved, That the Governor be and
he is hereby respectfully requested to
furnish Vice President Johnson with a
copy of these resolutions.
Which lies over.
The Senate refused to concur, by a
vote of nine to seventeen. But a motion
to reconsider was laid upon the table by
a decided majority, on the motion of
Major Ryan, of the Appleton Crescent.
So the popular branch of the Wisconsin
Legislature insists that Vice President
Johnson shall resign.
The Terrible Disaster at Hayti.
On the 28th of February last, at the
close of the carnival, there was to have
been performance in the evening at the
theatre ; but, in lighting the lamps,
through some carelessness, the scenery
caught fire. The building was soon de
stroyed, and the flames spread from
house to house, until four hundred
houses were destroyed, involving a loss
of forty to fifty milliory3 of Haytien
dollars, and depriving hundreds of per
sons of their homes. The firerg though
lasting only six hours, destroyed the
most active business part of the city.
There were but a few fire engines, and
such scarcity of axes that hardly any
thing could be done to arrest the pro
gress of the flames.
The consternation of the people Ass
great. For several days after the fire
the city was patroled by guards. The
government is taking measures toassist
the sufferers, and &general subscription
has been opened for their benefit.
lair The Sandy Hill, N. Y., Herald
has the following, showing how partizans
of the administration are allowed to
swindle the governmentwith impunity :
" Something like a year ago a man,
formerly a resident of this county, was
arrested and charged with having
swindled the Government and the sol
diers out of something like $200,000.
He was imprisoned a few weeks, when
he was set at liberty, without the form
ality of a trial, upon the promise that
he would make good the parties that he
had robbed, a thing which he could not
do if he would, for his victims were
mostly: soldiers in the field or in their
graves. .This man was very loyal, and
was a candidate for State Senator on the
Republican ticket - Like cases are so
common, [that they hardly call forth a
remark. Crime ceases to be crime 'when
committed by a friend Qf
trithin
The Recent Battles in North Carolina.
(Special Correspondence of the N.Y. lierald-1
Gen. Sherman moved from Fayette
ville, on the morning of the 14th, for
Goldsboro ,and a permanent base.—
Johnson's army left Fayetteville on
roads leading to Raleigh, up the Cape
Fear river, and it was confidently ex
pected that he would attempt to pre
vent our junction with Schofield by an
attack on our left as we marched along
the Goldsboro road. To prepare for
this, Gen. Slocum's wing of the
was directed to move light—that is,
without trains—on the left flank.—
Geary's division of the Twentieth corps
and Baird's of the Fourteenth were in
charge of the trains of both corps, on
an interior road ; General Howard's
wing moving on roads further south
and nearer the coast in the same order,
Jackson's and Wood's divisions of the
Twentieth corps, Carlin's and Morgan's,
of the Fourteenth, with Kilpatrick's
cavalry, followed Johnson up the plank
road, as if moving on the capitol of this
State. Kilpatrick found the enemy five
miles from Fayetteville and skirmished
with him, pressing his rear guard to a
point on the road near Klyes' Landing,
where he was brought to a stand on the
night of the 15th. During the pursuit,
Captain Winthrop, of Kilpatrick's
scouts,.had picked out Colonel Alfred
Rhett, First South Carolina heavy ar
tillery, from the front of his command,
and established pretty conclusively the
fact that a large force of rebels was in
front. General Kilpatrick sent back for
a brigade of infantry to support him,
and Colonel Hawley, of the First divi
sion, Twentieth corps, was sent up.
TILE TWENTIETH CORPS FORCE THE EN
EBY BACK ON HIS WORKS
On the morning of the 15th, Kilpat
rick and Hawley attacked the enemy
vigorously, drove him back half a mile
or more, and developed a line of works
with artillery in position. The balance
of the Twentieth corps was brought up
and put in position against this line at
nine o'clock on the forenoon of the 15th,
Kilpatrick fighting on the flanks.
Dustan's and Case's brigades of Ward's
division, Second corps, carried the
works at eleven o'clock, capturing three
pieces of artillery. About three hun
dred prisoners were captured along the
line. The enemy fell back to their
main line of works, extending from
Black river on their left to Cape Fear
river on the right, covering the roads to
Raleigh, Smithfield and Goldsboro.
THE FIGHT ON THE 16TH INST
On the 16th Carlin and Morgan were
brought up, and an attempt made to
force the rebels back and uncover the
Goldsboro road. Severe fighting took
place during the day, without any satis
factory results. The enemy held his
position, although suffering heavy loss.
His line overlapped ours on the right,
and everything indicated the presence
of Hardee's whole army corps. He
evacuated the line during the night of
the I6th, however, and fell back Averys
boro, pursued by Ward's division of the
Twentieth corps. -His dead and wounded
were left on the field and aban
doned along the road to Averysboro.
Gen. Ward pressed up to Averysboro,
folding the plank road in our front
,
hile the balance of the command
Moved off to the right, across Black river,
on the Goldsboro road, now uncovered.
Our loss in the fight on Black river was
four hundred and forty-six in the
Twentieth corps, one hundred and eight
in the Fourteenth, one hundred and
seventy-one in Kilpatrick's command—
total, seven hundred and thirty-seven.
The number of rebels buried on the field
and paroled wounded was three hun
dred and twenty-seven. This exclusive
of those they carried off and the unhurt
prisoners we captured.
THE BATTLE OF BENTONSVILLE
Nothing, save an occasional skirmish
with a small body of cavalry, occurred
till we reached this point, three miles
south of Bentonsville, twelve from Cox's
bridge (on the Neuse,) on the morning
of the 20th. As at Black river, the
enemy showed nothing at first but a
small force of cavalry, of Dibbrell's or
Talbot's command, which were easily
driven back by the skirmishers of Car
lin's division in advance. Coming to
a point where the skirmish line could
go no further, and the enemy fired from
a piece of artillery, Gen. Carlin formed
Buell's and Hobart's brigades in line to
drive the troublesome cavalry away.
Gens. Buell and Hobartmoved to the left
of the road, on the enemy's flank, about a
mile in advance of Morgan's division,
when they discovered the enemy's in
fantry in a strong lire of works,. and in
great numbers. Although it seemed
incredible that the rebels could be in
any great force here, Gen. Slocum made
preparations for a fight. Morgan's di
vision was formed, and word sent back
for the two divisions of the Twentieth
corps to hurry forward. The enemy's
line extended far beyond Morgan's
right, and Coggswell's brigade, of the
First division , Twentiy-eighth corps,
was put in there when it came up.
Still the rebel left could not be found.
THE ENEMY ATTACKS DAVIS
At noon the enemy left his works and
advanced on Jeff. C. Davis' two divi
sions. Buell and Hobart were over
whelmed, and pressed back through the
woods more than a mile and a half.
Vandeveer's, Mitchell's Fering's and
Coggswell's brigades on the right,
fought stubbornly' and desperately, and
lost but little ground. There was a
temporary confusion, and a rout was
imminent. Five batteries of artillery
were massed at a point where a hospital
had been established in the morning,
the balance of Jackson's division,
Twentieth corps, put in on the
left, and a new line formed. During
the day five grand charges were made
by the enemy, massed, but each was
repulsed. They succeeded in capturing
three guns of the Nineteenth Indiana
battery, but only two were taken off.
There was desperate fighting all day,
the musketry fire being as heavy as our
men have heard in many a day.. Al
though they gained considerable ground
on the left during the day, the rebels
retired to their main line when night
fell, leaving, the greater part of their
dead and wounded on the field.
Without being disposed to exaggerate
in the least, we figure their loss at
twenty-five hundred killed and wound
ed. Seven hundred were captured. The
Twenty-sixth Tennessee regiment was
captured entire, colors and all, with a
large part of the Twelfth Louisiana.—
Our loss was quite severe. Nearly eight
hundred cases have been treated in the
hospitals already. The proportion of
our killed to the enemy's killed found
lying on the battle field is as one to five
by actual count. During the temporary
confusion caused by the furious burst on
Carlin's division we lost about two
hundred and fifty prisoners.
THE ARMIES CONCENTRATED AT GOLDS-
Generals Sherman, Schofield and
Terry are now all at Goldsboro, although
Terry's forces have advanced some dis
tance beyond, and will exercise a vigil
ant watchfulness over the enemy. Terry
met with no opposition in his advance,
but made some valuable captures of
locomotives and cars.
Prepared Glue
Instead of melting glue in water put
it in a bottle with common whisky;
cork it, and set it away for threeor four
days, when it will be fit for use without
the application of heat. It will keep
for years, and is at all times fit for use,
except in cold weather, when it should
be set in warm water before using. To
obviate the difficulty of the stopper get
ting tight by the glue drying in the
mouth of the vessel, use a tin vessel
with the cover fitting tight on, the out
side to prevent the escape of the spirits
by evaporation.
" I am like Balsam," said a dandy,
on meeting .a pretty girl in a narrow
Pafisage, "stopped by an angle." "So
am VI said she,." for I am accosted by
an ass."
NUMBER 13.
A Hint to Mr. Lincoln.
The recent call up:in President Lin
coln, by Mr. Greeley, of the Tribune, to
issue a proclamation to the southern
people promising them a remission of
the penalties imposed upon them by
various acts of Congress if they would
give up fighting, has created something
of a commotion among the supporters
of the Administration. The radical
faction have set up a howl of indigna
tion, as the proposed amnesty would
deprive them of their promised feast of
blood and plunder. The Chicago
Tribune curses its New York name
sake like a very drab for insisting upon
magnanimity in the hour of victory,
while from all the organs of shoddy
come up protests thick and fast against
the setting aside of any of the laws by
which the adherents of the Administra
tion hope to profit at the expense of the
property of the southern people.
The Boston Advertiser, however, re
sponds to Sr. Greeley's appeal to the
President by suggesting a much more
practical scheme, which is so timely,
and has so much force and point, that
we give the Advertiser'B own words:
Suppose, for instance, that in such a
case as that of Savannah, the heavy
hand of the conquering power should
be raised, and we were to begin to show
a practical instance of the benefits
of the resumption of power by the
the general government, is it to be
doubted that a piece of tangible evi
dence of that sort would outweigh all
the promises to be made on paper that
the wit of man can conceive?
As matters now stand, if the Presi
dent were to proclaim all that he is
exhorted to do, his announcements
would go for nothing while this
case remains without being set
right. Here is a city the people
of which have been summarily stripped
of private property which was in many
cases their only resource for subsistence.
Men who in their distrust of the con
federacy had converted their whole pro
party into the great staple which alone
seemed to have any value, and men, of
the poorer class who had been able to
secret in this form some scanty provi
sion for the crash when the rulers of
their city should have been discomfited,
have just seen the last bale depart from
their wharves, private ownership de
nied, the means of identification care
fully destroyed, and nothing left to them
but blank despair. Men who in the
darkest hour never forgot their allegi
ance—there were a few of these—are
leveled by the same blow which ha:,
struck down their neighbors who were
defiant secessionists. If the Union man
or the " submissionist," who is more
frequently' found, is asked by, his re
bellious neighbor how much better he
is off now than when "the confederacy"
held the city, or what prospect of ad
vantage he can see from the " recon
struction " which he favors, there is no
reply to be given. His condition' has
changed for the worse since the old flag
was raised, and he is without hope for
the future,
Whether this is just policy, whether
it is necessary, whether upon the aver
age these people fare worse than they
deserve after what has passed, are
questions which need not be discussed
afresh. But as to the point of present
expediency, as to the influence which
such an example must now have in
teaching to the rebel population the
lesson of desperation and of union in
their extremity, and as to the effect
which an opposite course would have
in showing them that their interests lie
in a different direction from those of
their leaders, and in creating division
and doubt among them at this critical
moment—the question seems to us too
plain to need argument.
It is now three months that we have
held Savannah under as rigid a course
of discipline as was ever applied; but
it is not too late to Make that city an
example which shall satisfy all rebel
dom that our severity is governed and
tempered by justice, and by a remem
brance of our great object of ultimate
union. While the city remains such
an example as it is now, is it not merely
vain to talk of proclamations and offers
of amnesty ; it is even certain that we
are keeping in full force a strong coun
ter influence tending to defeat the very
movement among the rebel population
which we are daily looking for in every
part of those states, and on the strength
of which we have sooner or later to be
gin our great work of reconstruction.
Every word of the above is as true as
gospel, but the result will show that a
wise magnanimity does not control the
councils of the administration. The
southern country promises too much
plunder to allow those who expect to
secure it to talk of pacification or recon
struction.
Pork Packing in the West
The Cincinnati Price Current fur
nishes statistics of the pork trade of the
West, which show a large falling off in
the number of hogs slaughtered and
packed there this season, as compared
with last year.
1863-4. 1864-5.
621,935 498,852
347,431 176,807
1,290,490 985,784
126,019 118,267
399,197 251,287
Kentucky
Indiana ...
Wisconsin 160 , 076 121 , 128
383,736 '270,654
Missouri
.3,328,884 2,422,779
2,122,779
Decrease
This is equal to 2M per cent
The general average weight of hogs and
yield of lard, for the whole West, this sea
son, compared with the general averages
last season, as follows :
188 26-29
195 3-16
This increase is equal to about 3.i per cent.
which, being deducted from the decrease in
number, makes the net decrease in the crop,
231 per cent. as compared with last season ;
56 per cent. less than the large crop of 1862-3 ;
491 per cent. less than that of 1861-2, and 41
per cent. less than that of 1860-1.
Owing to the falling off in the number of
hogs packed there is a marked falling off in
the amount of lard produced this season,
notwithstanding the increase in the general
average.
The rehipments of hogs from the West,
during the season, to the East, by way of
the New York and Erie and Pennsylvania
Central " Railways, compared for three
seasons as follows :
1882-3 1863-4 1864-5.
New York and Erie 136,007 64,181 26.71gi
Pennsylvania Central..... 171,496 34,141 181,841
307,503 98,324 208,546
We think it may be stated with safety that
I 00,000 more hogs were shipped east the past
han were the previous season.
The Retiring Senators.
The terms of the following Senators
xpired with the late legislature :
2. Jacob E. Ridgeway, Union, Phil's..
4. Geo. Connell, Union, Philadelphia.
11. Wm. J. Turrell, Union, Susqueh'a.
12. J. B. Stark, Dern., Luzerne.
13. S. F. Wilson, Union, Tioga.
18. Geo. H. Bucher, Dern., Cumberl'd.
19. Wm. M'Sherry, Dern., Adams.
22. Thos. St. Clair, Union, Indiana.
M. Wm. A. Wallace, Dem., Clearfield.
25. J. L. Graham, Union, Allegheny.
27. C. M'Candless, Union, Butler.
The Senate now stands 19 Union to
14 Democrats. Of the retiring members
7 are Union and 4 Democrats ; leaving
12 Union and 10 Democrats holding
over. Looking to the political com
plexion of the districts as shown by the
elections of 1863-4, we do not see where
any political change is likely to be
effected in the Senate by the next elec
tion. Unless there should be a politi
cal whirlwind on one side or the other,
the new Senators to be chosen will be of
the same complexion as their Inede
cease re.
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General News Items
A new gunpowder is said to have
been discovered in Germany, which
has three times the explosive force, and
costa only half as much as the powder
now in use. The principal materials
are rosin and chlorate of potash. It
leaves no residum when exploded, and
(the inventor claims) can he prepared
with greater safety than the ordinary
nitrous compounds. This is, perhaps,
the fiftieth time that the utilization of
chlorate of potash as an ingredient of
gunpowder has been announced. But,
practically, every patent for its use has
turned out a failure, on account of the
mysterious tendency of the chlorate to
explode without apparent provocation.
The French Government has at differ
ent times spent large sums of money , in
efforts to substitute chlorate for the nitre
of potash (salpetre) but without success.
The compounds of organic matter with
chlorate of potash are so unstable as to
explode by a slight percussion, or by
jolting or shaking. If this difficulty is
really overcome—which may fairly be
doubted—the invention is a valuable
one, in a military point of view.
Intelligence from Havana to the 22d
instant was received by the steamship
Havana. The Anglo-rebel.steamer Owl,
late a blockade runner, sailed from that
port on the 21st inst., supposed for Gal
veston, Texas, where, it was believed,
she would fit our as a pirate, she having
a crew of over one hundred men and
cannon and ammunition on board. The
United States gunboat Cherokee left the
harbor of Havana only about half an
hour before the Owl, and„ as it was
rumored that there was to be a fight be
tween them outside, they were followed
by a Spanish war steamer, but nothing
further regarding the anticipated en
gagement was known. It was reported
that Captain Manic, formerly of the
pirate Florida, left Havana on board
the Owl. Forty of her crew deserted
while in that port.
A Paris letter gives an account of a
grand hippophagic banquet given in
that city last mouth by a society which
has for its object the introduction of
horse flesh asan article of victual. Three
horses, aged respectively thirteen, sev
enteen and twenty-three years, were
killed for this feast, and were served up
in the form of horse, boiled horse with
cabbage, fillet de horsy, hashed horse a
la mode, roast horse, and finally horse
liver with truffles.
A new submarine cable is to be laid
from San Francisco to Lime Point. It
is double the size of any ever heretofore
used ou the Pacific coast, being one and
a half inches in diameter, containing
four separate conductors, the whole
strongly bound with heavy wires, and
covered with a thick coating of coal tar
and asphaltum, to protect it from the
action of the salt water. The cable is
one and a half miles in length, and
weighs ten tons.
The two female soldiers captured a
short time ago with a squad of fourteen
bridge burners are'now in the military
prison at Nashville. Their names are
Mary A. Wright, of Crosby's scouts, and
Margaret Henry, of Jenkins' scouts.—
They are said to be dashing young
creatures, and one of them rejoices in
the rank and uniform of a captain. The
other twelve of We gang have been seat
north.
Passengers from Oil City state that
the damage done on Oil creek and
its vicinity by the recent flood will
amount to 55,090,000. A span of the
Freeport aqueduct, which was swept
away by the flood, is still lying in the
channel, seriously obstructing naviga
tion; and the entire course of the river,
from Oil city here, is lined with melan
choly traces of the devastation wrought
by the high water.
The last of the Swiss Guards, who
were present at the taking of the Tuil
eries in 1792, has died at Berne at a very
advanced age. The man's name was
Jost, and used to say that being only a
boy—probably a drummer—when he
belonged to the regiment, he was spared
on account of his tender years by the
mob who slaughtered his comrades.
The Government printing buildings
are about to be extended, Congress
having made a liberal appropriation for
that purpose. The printing has accu
mulated to such an extent that some
large documents ordered to be printed
early in December are not yet finished,
and much of the other work has to be
executed at private offices in this city.
The recent order of General Grant,
prohibiting all trade communication
with the enemy, is having a salutary
effect, and is just what was needed.
Cotton and turpentine buyers, who had
gone towards tht front with the
expectation of reaping a harvest, have
returned with a flea in their ear. Sut
lers are also in trouble, finding it im
possible to get any goods to the front.
The colored voters of Rhode Island
are organizing a movement to defeat all
candidates for the Legislature of that
State who oppose the sending of their
children to the public schools with white
children. This is a little more than the
Rhode Island Abolitionists bargained
for, but it is the natural result of their
teachings.
The one and two dollar notes for the
National Banks are prepared and ready
for issue, and will be distributed to the
banks according to the date of their or
ganization. The First National Bank
of Philadelphia, having been the first
organized under the law, will receive
the first instalment.
The rebel General Preston arrived at
Havana from Nassau in the Owl, and
there were rumors that he was there for
the purpose of getting up .a revolution
in Cuba and making arrangements for
the recognition by Maximilian of
Mexico of he Jeff Davis confederacy,
and the opening to it for prize purposes
of the port of Tampico.
The losses in the main street of Ruch
aster by the recent flood already foot up
5400,000. This is exclusive of large
emounts of damage elsewhere in the
same city.
It is understood that the Count de
Montholon, the new French Minister
to the United States, is strongly tinc
tured with sympathy for the rebel con
federacy. It is not supposed here that
this fact had any influence upon his ap
pointment. His wife was a daughter
of General Gratiot, formerly of the
United States army, who wa, removed
from office by General Jackson.
-The British Charge d'Atfairs, Mr.
Burnley, has received notice that Lord
Lyons's successor, Sir Frederick Bruce,
was to have sailed on last Saturday, and
that he might be expected for presenta
tion to the President about the sth or
6th of April.
Wheat in Illinois and Indiana is re
ported as looking finely, and in Indiana
there is an unusual wide breadth of
Winter wheat. The weather is very
favorable for sowing Spring wheat.
Fruit buds are found.
Messrs. Mellen and Risley, special
agents of the Treasury Department, who
were a part of the President's party,
have returned from the army, but the
President himself with hie wife and two
sons are still there and now think of re
maining for a couple of days longer.
The Stockbridge Indians have recent
ly laid claims to lands in three towns in
Berkshire county, Mass. So far as has
yet been discovered, their titles once
valid, have never been extinguished.
The Massachusetts Legislature is inves
tigating the matter.
It is stated that Dr. George B. Loring,
Salem, Mass., sends out by Prof. Agassiz
a lot of merino sheep to the Emperor of
Brazil, for the purpose of showing how
the breed has been improved in this
country.
Maple Sugar is regularly manufactur
ed every Spring in advance of the sea
son by melting about ten per cent of
maple with ninety per cent of low
priced cane sugar, an operation that af
fords a handsome profit.
The money order bureau of the Post
Office Department will, on the Ist of
May, increase the number of money
order agencies to five hundred. Mostof
the new agencies will be established at
the West. ' ' -
Hon. William Whiting has resigned
positionastiolicitor of the , WarDS
putment,