PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY. CO O pKB| B'ANDEESOIf * c ®/ , J. M. COOPKB, S. G Smith, : WM. A. Morton, AIiEBED SANDE RBON TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable all oases In advance. ■■ OFFlCER—Southwest corner of Centre Siuabe; aS-A.IV letters on business should be ad dressed to Cooper, Sanderson . To tin' Honorable. Senate and Jlou.sc of Jlep resnntaiieeJi : . . Your committee, appointed to visit the States lately in rebellion, and inves tigate and report upon the condition as to loyalty and fitness for re-adtnission iuto'the Union, have performed the du ty assigned to them, and beg leave to make the following report: “ Naturally, the first place visited by vour committee was Richmond, \ ir ginia, the capital of the late Confedera cy. Our coming had been heralded in the newspapers there, and the demon stration at the railroad depot on our ar rival may be taken as, in some degree, indicative of the popular sentiment in that city. We found a large concourse of citizens of African descent awaiting us and as we disembarked from the cars, they hailed us with shouts of welcome, « mingled with ‘ lhis way to the Spottswood House; 1 Here’s your buss for the Continental.’ ‘Here’syourcahforanypartofthe city,’ ‘ Baggage to the hotel, gents,’etc. It was grateful to the heart of loyal men to be thus welcomed in a city so lately the headquarters of the rehellion, while at the same time we began to feel convin ced already that the only truly oyu people of the South were of the colored race. We could not decline the hospi talities sdgenerally tendered us, and ac cordingly we selected two carriages from A the large number placed at Our disposal. ■ We were driven to° the Spottswood by our hospitable friends, who charged us two dollars apiece and half a dollar ex tra for baggage. After so much kind ness from the colored race, we were un prepared for the harsh, treatment we sub sequently received from the white oli garchs of llii-h nn> ml. The proprietors of the Spottswood gave us rooms in the filth story, hack, saying to his clerk as we have been informed by a iaithiul Afri can who blacked our hoots for a quarter a pair, that they were good enough for Yankee radicals The same spirit ot disloyal hate was manifested to us in the dining-room, where, in response to our repeated call for codfish anil pump kin-pie, we were served with nothing but bacon and hot cakes. We asked why this was done, and were told by a loyal waiter, to whom we had justgiven a postal half dollar, that Mr. Spotts wood said lie didn’t keep a hotel lor the accommodation ot Yankees, und, there fore, persistently excluded codfish und pumpkin pies from the bill of fare. Your committee do not-Mcem it neces sary to dwell upon this evidence of smouldering disloyalty, nor to compaie it with tile hastily formed opinion ol Gen. Grant respceling Southern senti ment Our object wus to get beneath the surface of things in the Smith, to find tile true character of the sub-strat um. We remained in Richmond a few days to study the character of the peo ple. Oil uHhands we found evidences f distinction on accountol'color, except A freedman’s colony where the blacks iceived the whites on all-equal footing with themselves. We also noticed a disloyal disposition to speak of Stone wall Jackson and Gen. Lee in terms ot praise and commendation, while Gen. Butlers name was only mentioned in contemptuous connection with silver spoons, and occasionally a little plated ware, and he himself seemed to he bet . ter known as the Rottle Imp of Bermu da Hundred, than in any other way. “Our next visit was to Atlanta, Georgia. Here we had a long consul tation with a Treasury Agent, who had had ample means of information on the subject of Georgia loyalty. He gave his opinion that to admit the Southern States to representation at tins trine would he highly injudicious. He did not believe there was a white native in the Slate loyal enough to take his place ■ and asserted that to remove him and others similarly situated, would be not only dangerous to the welfare ol the country, hut would be also the height of ingratitude to men who had risked character and reputation for the pain otic cause of cotton and ten or twelve thousand dollars a year. com mittee concurred entirely m his opin ion. “While in Atlanta your committee heard many expressions of sentiment which go to show how far Gen. Grant . is mistaken in what he says in lus re port. On one occasion especially we heard what convinced us that the lava of secession still burned in the South 4 ern bosom. The case was that ol a voung gentleman from Massachusetts, of poor but honest parents, who had - come to the South in the capacity ot a freedman’s school-teacher. He had casually made the acquaintance of a Southern lady of two score and ten, whose husband had fallen under the rebel flag, leaving her a widow of hand some estate. The young gentleman, desirous of matrimony, anil plantations, ' pressed his suit, and was progressing, as he thought, most favorably, when one evening the widow told him at a tea party, in t lie presence of alarge number of people, ‘that she’d rather be buried alive than marry a Yankee.’ , The . patriot school-teacher no longer .plies the rod of chastisement over refractory freedmen. The star oi his hope has gone down, uud he has gone back to Boston, a wreck of liis former self. “Your committee went to Mont gomery, Alabama, where, as at Rich mond, tlie colored citizens flocked to meet us, and vied with each other for the carrying of our baggage. We paid them fifty cents a carpet sack from the depot and they were enthusiastic in their demonstrations of loyalty, in re ceiving the currency from us. In this city evidences of disloyalty meet us on every hand. A Vermont missionary had been insulted a few days before our arrival for attempting ln .!;r o I duce ‘ John Brown’s Body,’ and We 11 hang Jeff. Davis on a sour apple tree,’ as bab bath school hymns. A hop had just taken place at the leading hotel, to which whites only were invited, and ' from whicli tl>v freedmen were ex cluded on account of color. The con sequence was an indignation meeting of -the freedmeri, at which equal rights | were demanded. A repetition of halls and hops exclusively white in their character, will lead to Jamaica in surrections und Haytieu rebellions mag nified a thousand times in their dread ful results. At Moutgomery, as at At lanta, we met a Treasury Agent, who was opposed to immediate re-union, and warmly in favor of a territorial condi tion for the Southern States. He men tioned incidentally that he had a son-in law in New-Hampshire who would make an excellent Provision al Governor, and a cousin who would do for a terri torial delegate to Congress. Above all . things he hoped Congress would not lis ten to the hypocritical cries of Alabama 1 loyalty. He assured us that there was no loyalty in the State, except in his■ of flee, and said it would be base injustice to supersede him till , he had finished the making of $lOO,OOO. “We next proceeded to Charleston, fiouth Carolina. Here we had a long interview with a Northern gentleman whom we knew to be in every way re liable. He had responded to his coun try’B call, in the early days, of the war, wagon full of Yankee.ao- ywv<cr 3ntdlujcncer. VOLUME 67. tious, and had been unvarying in his devotion to, the cause ever since, except at intervals when General Grant had ordeied sutlers to the rear. Since the cessation of armed hostility he had been down South to see what could be done in the way of buying Southern lands He had found the people of South Caro lina so rebellious at heart as to refuse to sell their plantations for twenty cents an acre in Federal currency. He con vinced ns that an armed force ought to be kept in Charleston for many years to come, and that he ought to be appoint ed sutler, as he had had much experi ence in the business. He found in this hot-bed of secession and cradle ot re bellion a decided preference for gray over blue, whieh extended itself even to the ladies’ petticoats, many of which vour committee carefully examined, it is proper to state that the articles thus scrutinized were hanging on a line to drv and had no ladies in them. “ Your committee next visited Savan nah, where they found disloyalty man ifesting itself unmistakably on all sides. We met an agent of the • Freedmen s Bureau, who gave it as his opinion that the war was only half over, and that unless tile powers of'the Bureau were enlarged so as to give him control of all the cotton exported from Savannah, the glorious emblem of our national liberty would not float unmolested very long. He had not been invited to a singletea party, though he had lived in uali for a year, while returned Confed eiates were cordially greeted by -broth ers sisters, mothers and sweethearts. He himself had been on intimate terms witli a young lady who represented many 1 thousand bales of cotton, but ot late a one-armed rebel had come home, ami he of the F. B. had been discarded in favor of him who had raised his par ricidal hand against the old flag. Here was preferment for services rendered to the rebel cause, and there are many such cases which your committee regret to iind Gen. Grant has omitted entirely. “ Your committee do not deem it nec essary to go into further particulars to show that the spirit which animated the rebellion still exists in the South, and. the time has not yet come for the read mission of tlie Southern States to the I-,,ion. “ TIIADIIEUS & t.'O. Popular Fallacies, The following is from Hall's Journal of JfealUi: That warm air must be impure, and that consequently, it is hurtful to sleep in a comparatively warm room. A warm room is as easily ventilated as a cool one. The warm air of a close vehicle it* less injurious, be it ever so foul, from -crowding, tlian to ride and sit still and feel uncomfortably cold for an hour. The worst that can happen from a crowded conveyance is a tainting spell; while from sitting even less than an i hour in a still, chilly atmosphere, has induced attacks of pneumonia, that is, 1 inflammation of the lungs, which often I prove fatal in three or four days. It is always injurious to sleep in a close room where water freezes, because such a degree of cold causes the nega . tively poisonous carbonic acid gas of a sleeping room to settle near the floor, where it is breathed and rebreathed by the sleeper, and is capable of producing typhoid fever in a few hours. Hence there is no advantage, and always dan ger, especially to weakly persons, in sleeping in an atmosphere colder than' the freezing point. That it is necessary to the proper and efficient ventilation of a room, even in ’warm weather, that a window or door should be left open ; this is always haz ardous to the sick and convalescent.— Quite as safe a plan of ventilation, and as eilicient, is tp keep a lamp or a small fire burning in the fire place. I his cre ates a draft, and carries bad airs and gasses up the chimney. That out-door exercise before break fast is healthful. It is never so.. And from the very nature of things, is hurt ful espec. Ily to persons of poor health; although the very vigorous may prac tice it with impunity. In winter the body is easily chilled through and through, unless the stomach has been fortified with a good warm breakfast: and in warm weather, miasmatic and malarious emanations speedily act upon the empty and weak stomach in a way to vitiate the circulation and induce fever and ague, diarrlima and dysen tery; entire families, who have ar ranged to eat breakfast before leaving tlie°liouse and to, take supper before sundown, have had a complete exemp tion from fever and ague, while the whole community around them was suffering from it, from liavingnegleeted these precautions. . ... That whatever lessenscough is good for it and, if perservered in.willcureit. On tiie contrary, all coughs are soonest cured by promoting and increasing them ; because nature endeavors by the cough to help bring up the phlegm and yellow matter which is in the lungs, as the lungs cannot heal while that matter is there. And as it cannot be got rid of •Without coughing, the more coughing there is the sooner it is got oft the sooner are the lungs cleared out for the fuller and freer reception of pure air, which is their natural food. The only remedies which can do any good in coughs are such as loosen the phlegm, and thus less cough is required to bring it up. These remedies are warmth, out door exercise, and anything which slightly nauseates. Partnership Law V suit lias just been decided in the Su preme Court, New York, which involv ed an interesting point of relating to the power of partners. A firm hav ing become insolvent, one of the mem bers (against the wish of his co-partners) paid off one ol the creditors, by transfer ring claims against other merchants, to be collected by the creditor for her own account. Subsequently the other part ners made an assignment for the benefit of all tlie creditors, anil under this as signment it was claimed that the previ ous transfers were invalid, aud that the proceeds of those claims should go with [lie other assets. The persons who owed the dents so transferred reiused to pay them to the transferee and she brought suits to recover. The defendants plead that the transfer, being the act ot but one partner, was fraudulent; but it was held by the Court that they were not in a condition to raise the question of fraud, and that the transfers to the plaintiff hv the one partner were conclusively proved to be valid by a former judgment. 'Hie case is entitled Lasell vs. Myers et a!. Fruit Ripening while Rivers Freeze. While our Northern, Eastern and Western exchanges are coming to us fill ed with accounts of the severe cold, some of the Southern papers bring us cheer ful newsof just the opposite description. Within the last ten days it was so mild and even warm in Savannah that men were going about the streets without their coats; and uow we have before us an extract from the Macon (Georgia) Telearaph of the 3d instant, which de scribes a four-acre strawberry bed in that town (no new thing in Georgia) which was theD in full bloom and fruit. One of the berries handed to the editor of the Telegraph measured four inches in circumference. Between Philadel phia, where the thermometer has just marked fourteen degrees below zero, and the city where the strawberry beds are in fruit, is but a two days’ journey bv railroad. Some people will be in clined to think that this is only another proof that the United States “ is a great country.”— Ledger. Tlie Banished Conspirators. The Boston Evening Transcript has an item about the banished conspira tors : Late intelligence from the Dry Tor tugas says that Dr. Mudd,.Spangler and O’Laughlin, the Lincoln assassination conspirators, all occupy one room, and are apparently in good health. They do the most menial and degrading wrfrk about the prison. Dr. Mudd has behaved with exemplary propriety since his failure to escape some time ago, and is evidently striving to reinstate him self in the good opinion of his cußtodi i ahs, and his former easy and agreeable 1 place in the prison hospitals,, I For the Louisville Journal.! Loafers. BY WM. LANAHATf, ESQ. Loafers, we premise, are a distinct and separate class of individuals, who stand alone in the world and religiously aloof from the enterprise and business activity of society. They abound in great in every community. They “ toil not, neither do they spin, yet, generally speaking they are heal thy and wear good clothes. They are not rich, yet they enjoy the leisure of nabobs. They are not newspaper re porters, yet they run to every fire and zealously help to swell the crowd that stands in the way and looks on. They are not policemen, yetare conspic uous in every ring that encircles a street fiekt. They are not business men ot any description, yet they bustle about the streets, go regularly to the post-ot flce, lean againßt a post at the railroad depot until the cars have come and gone, saunter upon the wharf and in spect the shipping, and are to be seen on sunny summer days basking before the doors of business houses, hotels, and bar-rooms, and, on frosty frosty winter days, around the hot stove, overseeing commercial transactions, gapping at travelers, and drinking at other people s expense. They are not religiously in clined, yet on Sabbath days they man ifest au intense interest in church-goers. The question will then naturally .arise: What is a loafer? A loafer as contra distinguished from a gentleman, out ot sympathy and for the honor of human ity, we arc induced to say, is a man. When we make the concession, we have an irresistable inclination to blush, die has the outward semblance of the hu man form divine, but, we hasten to add, without any of manhood’s moral and intellectual internal references. We cannot say that the subject of our remarks have no brains, because we are met at the outset by the well-established physiological verity that brains do exist in the heads of all the members of the human family. The brains of the loafer, however, we may justfully atm truth fully affirm, are of no earthly use to ' him. We can conceive of but very few circumstances under which he would find employment for them. We may cite, as one examjile in this connection, the following: Suppose a poor, low, but neatly-kept lenemeiit up town, in the extreme end, where reside the two or phan sisters of the loafer, plying then needles with slender and wearied lingers ; at late hours of the night to procure sustenance, clothing, and warmth for ; themselves and' their loafer brother, . who is twenty years old, big, and healty. Suppose the house takes fire and burns down, or is dismantled by a tornado, the loafer then might think where he could [ get another place to sleep the coming "•The loafer is the man who is every where, sees everything, but knows nothing but dirty street phrases aud does nothing but stand around. He is the individual who stands in a leaning posture at street corners on all days of the week, swears, talks indecently, smokes cheap cigars and looks impu dently at aud remarks upon every lady who chances to pass his postofobserva- He is one of the crowd that gathers before the door of some hotel to discuss little nothings, and laughs the loudest when anything funny is by accident said, or when it is understood by him that, at any particular juncture, the laugh comes in. , If anybody in the course of a street colloquy inadvertently says, “Lets go and drink,” the loafer is the man who looks up knowingly, and with an ex pression upon his insipid- countenance idicatiug his anxiety upon the subject of his being "considered’ in or not— an expression, however, we may in fan ness conclude resembles more’theagony of a sick kitten in extremis. If a bet is superinduced for the drinks between two parties supposed to have money, the loafer is the man who jumps up in an active endeavor to develope the tact whether it does or does not include the The loafer eats and Bleeps at his fatli er’s house, if he has a father, wlm iu such case is always a negligent and im potent parent, having no regard to the habits, associations, and occupation of his son. By way of digression from our text we may here remark that if the father, having thephysical ability, does not thrash his loafer son into usefulness, he should be cowhided within onineli of his life. In the absence of a father, the loafer lives at his mother’s house, and eats her victuals and sleeps in her bed under her roof. He is never athome except to eat and sleep, and if by an ac cident, which will happen m spite of caution, h"e is asked to go upon an er rand he gets over his astonishmentand declines. If lie is coaxingly urged by his mother, who has no one else to send, he usually tells her to go to the devil, and he himself goes to bask in the sun shine before the door of a livery stable. In the absence offather, mother, sister, and brother, the loafer reverts to the next of kin, able and criminal enough to board him. , Loafers are very rarely seen to work. They forcibly remind us ot the oupe on the theatric boards. They stand at the side wings of the world's great stage, and, darting in at intervals, do any little flfteen-minute or half-hour job, and then dart out again amid wondering looks, disparaging ob servations, and caustic inuendoes, trom the honest people of the great drama, who do work, because they have not the air, intelligence, independence, self-con flndence, skill, and tout ensemble of the legitimate actor. Their appearances upon the stage ot life but clashes painfully with the great life-drama enacting, and serves only to call up laughter and excite contempt at the ludicrous exhibition of two extremes. Loafers are most abundant and abom inable in large cities, because more in ducements are held out there. I here are more theaters there, more circuses, more houses of ill-fame, more billiard saloons and bar-rooms, more steamboat landings and railroad depots—more to occupy their time. But cities are not exclusive in this.respect. The adap tation of a loafer to all climates and countries, all governments, all condi tions of society, is remarkable. 1 hey can live auil move and have tueir being anv where, in any community, in any village that can boast a building large enough to contain a grocery in one end and a post-office in theother, and which will besides accommodate a stove and a bench. The loafer iB not a brave man, hence is never asoldier, or if by astrange accident he gets fast for a bounty and can’t jump it, he is always a hospital soldier; in case of a fight he is in the rear guarding baggage or supplies. Is a great crime committed, however, a theft, robbery or murder, and the an tecedents of the criminal developed, they show him to have formerly been a loafer, but not a felon. In large cities his is the characters ot the men known as roughs, a dangerous element, docile when alone, rampant when in force; who, like jackals,go in companies to achieve any design—a class of men always ready to procure an infraction of law and order, or to denounce and hinder movements lean ing toward morality and virtue. They are, in conclusion, a class of men so constituted mentally, physically and morally that they can complacently and ■without shame drone through life, a burden and nuisance to everybody but themselves, and for whom society has no use in the remotest particular. Living and Dying. Two men were onee disputing about the color of their hair, in a tavern where Bruten was a guest. The locks of one were gray and the other jet black, al though the latter was by much the eld est. Bruten was appealed to, to say which man he thought would live the longest. “ What nonsense!” said Bru ten; “ how can X tell ? though I should say that the younger person, no doubt, will be gray as long as he lives, while the eldest man will be black as long as as he dyes.” LANCASTER, "BA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1866. The Test Oath. Mr. Lincoln’s Attorney General, Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri, published a letter in the Missouri Republican, in which he gives his opinion of the Con gresional test oath. He says: Test oaths, odious, oppressive and cowardly always, are always the resort of desperate parties, who (as violent as timidity can make them) seize upon this method to weaken their adversaries, whom 'they are afraid to meet in fair and open controversy. It was of fre quent occurrance during the French revolution, and one remarkable instance has been preserved for our instruction by the great historian of that epoch. The two legislative councils—the An cients and the Five Hundred —imputing to their adversaries the crime of royal ism, hoped, by an adroit trick, to get rid of their presence in thecquncils,and their influence with the people. And so, in the forged name of republi canism, they decreed that all the mem bers of the council should, on a cer tain day, take an oath of hatred to royal ty. The opposition (quite as good repub licans, in fact, as .their hypocritical op pressors) resisted, as best they could, complained and protested—but they took the oath—for they had no notion of de serting their place in the government, and thus leaving their unprincipled ad versaries unresisted to work out their wicked will in the mis*government of the country. And the philosophic his torian dismisses the subject with this brief remark: “This formality of an oath, so frequently employed by parties, never could be considered a 9 a guaranty ; it has never been anything but an an noyance of the conquerors, who have taken delight in forcing the conquered to perjure themselves. Justice—that was the craft policy of the French revolutionary' radicals—and our revolutionary radicals do, but follow their example. And we may indulge the hope that the reign of our -radicals will be made as brief as that of tbeir great examples, and by the same cause —their follies and their crimes. Your friend, Edward Bates. New Railroad Projects. We learn from the Adams papers that the tiettysburg Railroad lias been brought out by a New "iork capitalists, and is said to be'their inten tion to construct a road from Columbia to New Oxford, and from Gettysburgon the old “Tapeworm” south westward — making a direct line from New York, via. Easton, Reading, Columbia, York, N. Oxford, Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Ac., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The Cumberland coal field is thought to be an objective point, and if so, the proper efforts will doubtless be made toexteud the road there as early as possible. A meeting was recently held at Monterey to further the object, Capt. M’Curdy, the President of the Gettysburg Rail road, and E. Wilis, the Secretary, be ing present. Another meeting was held at Waynesboro, with a view to starting subscriptions for an extension of the road. Iu addition, Mr. J. S. Gitt has commenced the survey of the route be tween New Oxford and Wrightsville. Another important Railroad is propo sed by a correspondent of the Railroad and Mining Register of Philadelphia.— The writer proposes to start from a point on the Lebanon Valley Railroad passing on the south side of Harrisburg to an eligible site for a railroad bridge across tlie Susquehanna: thence up the yellow Breeches creek; through and near a series of iron ore deposits opened at in tervals along the foot of the South Mountain; thence across the route in the vicinage of Shippensburg; timtice west to the Huntington and Broad Top Railroad) on the waters of Bloody Run; and thence on via Bedford, to a connec tion with the Pittsburg ami Connells vilie Railroad on Wills creek, twelve miles from Cumberland. With this road built, the Broad Top coal region would mine and forward to market a half million tons of CQal and more per year, whilst large quantities of Somerset coal would be received ou the new* road, at Wills creek connection with the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad. Chambersburg Repository. Public Sentiment in Virginia, The following is an extract from a private letter from a prominent citizen of Virginia, who was au officer in the rebel service, to a gentleman in Wash ington : , , ” Accept my congratulations and best wishes for the new year. I trust it may be the beginning of a new and brighter era for our whole country. Christmas has passed with us quietly, and with it the nervous apprehension of local dis turbance. I hope we shall have no oc casion in the future for these idle and enervating fears. A patient, hopeful spirit on the part of our Southern peo ple, with a generous, liberal confidence toward us on the part of the North, and mutual forbearance and kindness by each to the other, will soon put us on a better footing, in my opinion, for national success and local prosperity than we have ever been at any previ ous period of our history. For this the good men of the country everywhere ought to labor. So I feel, at least.” The Oil Bubble. The Titusville correspondent of the Erie Dispatch , having made the oil in terests his business for a long time, comes now to the conclusion that the day of excitement and high prices for territory has passed, and the bubble about to burst. He says Pitliole is a sick'child. Trade in all of the oil regions js falling off. While tradesmen have been increasing, buyers have decreased. He gives an instance of one house, the receipts of which formerly. were from SBOO to $l,-100 per day, now only raDge from $OO to SlOO. So long as capitalists came and spent their money freely, times were easy. There is at present a holding back ; and while money iseasy in the Eastern market, it is tight in the oil region. The oil business must come down to a legitimate one, and wild specu lations must cease. merson Etheridge. This distinguished gentleman who was arraigned last October for some ut terances not satisfactory to some of the radical bloodhoundsrin Tennessee, is now as he ever has feeen, a true Union man. He is in Washington and doing all in his power to advance the policy of the President in his efforts at restora tion. In a recent letter he says : You know my relations to the Presi dent and therefore,. I do not respond to one of your inquiries. You ought, like wise, to know that I am not in the habit of asking quarter from political foes or personal enemies. What I have written, and what I propose to do, are prompted alike by a sense of duty, and not because I would seem to seek the favor or for bearance which too many vainly sup pose is pleasing to power. As to another matter to which you refer, I will briefly state that the proof which was sub mitted to the commission before which I was arraigned in October last, satisfied me that the President was not, as I had previously believed him to be, person ally or officially responsible for my ar rest, or the persecutions by which itwas followed. But I- prefer not to dwell upon a matter wholly personal. When publicliberty is once more secured to the citizen, private wrongs will be consign ed to forgetfulness. Such sentiments are Influencing the great mass of Southern men, and no one knows this fact better or appreciates it more; fully than President Johnson and the prominent men in Congress who sustain him. A traveler relating hia experiences in the East Indies, alluded to the great number of servants employed by a gen tleman in that country. 11 To take care of my pipe," said he “I had four ser vants. ” ' 1 Is it possible ?" “ Yes it was the duty of the first to bring me the nine: the second to fill it: the third Ugh tdd it.” “ And what did the fourth do ” ‘‘.The fourth smoked It—l never could bear tobacco myself.” The Marat-Bonapartes, Their strange. Vicissitudes or Fortune In Palaces, on Battle-Fields and in Ex tie—Tbeli’ Besldenee In the United States, etc. [From the London Telegraph, Dec. 2LJ On Monday last the Princess Anna Murat was married, with all due pomp and ceremony, to the Due de Mouchy. The close connection of the bride with the Imperial Court and family, the high rank and lineage of thebridegroom, the magnificence of the marriage dowry given by the Emperor himself, the pe culiar interest which the wedding was supposed to excite at the Tuileries, and the beauty of the lady, famous for her fairness in a court where fair women abound, all contributed to make this nuptial ceremony a nine days’ wonder in Paris But to the great world lying outside that city which Frenchmen re gard as the centre of civilization—the one habitable spot on the inhabited globe—the marriage will be noteworthy chiefly for its strange historic interest. The story of the first and second empire is as it were, epitomized in the single fact that the marriageof agrand-daugh terof Joachim Murat should be an event of European importance. So long as the fame of the Napoleons endures the name;oftha Murats must live also. Of all the generals who fought and conquered, and ruled under the reign of the great Emperor, none ever impressed his memory so strongly on the popular mind as the beau sabreur. Ney and Masseua, Soult and Moreau, had little personal claim to a place in history save that which they derived from the reflected lustre of their master s fame. But Mhrat, like Beruadotte, made his own mark upon the world. And, until the world grows so blase that strange vicissitudes of fortune lose their interest for succeeding generations, men will not forget the story of the son ot the French tavern keeper, the depen dent of the house of Talleyrand, the chorister at the College of Lahors, who threw away the frock for asoldier’s uni form, and fought his way to a crown by his own dauntless courage and reckless daring. The man who', in the judgmen t of Napoleon, was “ the best cavalry ol ficer in the world” —who was King of the Two Sicilies—who, deserting the founder of his fortunes, came back to his old allegiance when the star of the Bonapartes rose once more alter the re turn from Elba —and who died on the Calabrian coast, whither he had gone to recover .a lost kingdom, shot there like a dog by a Neapolitan court martial —was one whose career will be forever memorable. Throughoutthe longyears of Bourbon tyranny the name of Murat was cherished by the people over whom he had once ruled; and even now, in those Southern provinces of the great Italian kingdom, there is still a party left which dreams fondly of the day when the Murats shall have their own again. The lady, whose marnageevery newspaper in the Old World and New will chronicle, may well be proud oi her d¢r from. King Joachim ol Naples, aud the youngest sister of the great Na poleon. ... But the fortunes of the race to which she belongs are associated no less with the second empire. During the three and thirty years which passed between the day when the suu of the N apoleons seemed to sink forever upon the held ot Waterloo, and that other day when the nephew of the captive at St. Helena was proclaimed President of the French re public, the Murats well nigh disappear ed from the world’s notice. ex- Queeu lived and died as the Countess Lipona, in that kindly Tuscan capital which alone amidst the courts ot the continent, extended to the survivmg members of the Bonaparte race some thing of a timid welcome. Thecfnldren of King Joachim were scattered about the world. The eldest son, once Prince Royal of Naples and heir apparent to the throne of the Two Sicilies, passed across the Atlantic, married there a grand niece of the founder and first President of the American re public, and died a Southern plan ter iu the State of Florida. Ihe sisters became the wives of small Italian nobles. The second and youngest son, following liis brother to the New World, settled down for many years as a quiet American citizen. Few among the emigrants in that vast hive of seeth ing industry seemed to have a less bril liant future than that of the quasi royal exile. Poverty arid he—so gossip sayß —became intimately acquainted, and for a time this branch of the Murats owed its means of livelihood to a school for little girls, kept by the present Princess, an English lady,-i|yhom the Prince had married in the days when LouisPhillippe was called to the throne of France, and the prospects of the Bonapartes seemed at their lowest ebb. I’hen, when Prince had reached an age at which most men begin to think that, fortune has littlemore in store for them, the Orleans dynasty fell, Napoleon 111. restored the empire, and the last of the Murats returned to Paris to become a Senator and noble of France, the trusted friend and favorite of his cousin, chief among the grandees of the second empire. % . The Princess Anna herself has thus grown up during the prosperity of the race to which she belongs, aud it is un derstood that the Emperor lias always taken especial interest in the subject of her marriage. Suitors without number have been talked of as candidates for the hand of this daughter of the empire, and the choice of a husband is said to have been the theme of frequent delib eration iu the imperial councils. What ever. may be the personal merits of the fortunate nobleman who has been se lected to receive the hand of the youth ful bride, there can be no doubt that iris position must have been a poweriul recommendation in the eyes of a sover eign anxious by every means to consol idate his dynasty. The Duede Mouchy, belonging as he does to one of the oldest of French families, represents the legit imist party. Hitherto the Faubourg bt. Germain lias refused to recognize the em pire, very much as it refused to acknowl edge the government of Italty. The historic names of France, were not to be found in the visitiDg lists of the impe rial Court. Between the partisans of the new order of thiDgs and the devo tees of the ancien regime there was a gulf across which it was well nigh im possible to pass. The nobles might ap pear at court on state occasions, but the salons of the noblesse were closed to the courtiers of the Tuileries. Whether for good or evil, however, the French aris tocracy are no longera power in France, and their favor or disfavor can neither make nor mar a dynasty. Yet socially they represent a force; and Napoleon 111. is too wise a ruler to ignore the im portance of social influences. His own throne he has probably now established firmly enough; but he may well wish to secure for his son the active sympathy as well as the sullen acquiescence, of every party in the country. Moreover, iri some portions of France the old legitimist section is not’ without power; and the enterprise of winning it over to the empire is by no means so hopeless as it might appear.— With the death of the Duede Bordeaux, a Bickly and childless man, now ad vancing in years, there will perish the last direct male descendant of the elder branch of the French Bourbons ; and it is by no means certain that the parti sans of legitimacy will transfer their allegiance to the Orleans family, whom they dislike far more than they do the Napoleons. According to the orthodox theory, the descendants of Louis Philip pe are excluded from the succession by their father’s disloyalty to the lawful sovereign, and the throne of France be comes vacant if Henry V. dies without son or heir. These calculations, how ever, are too remote to exercise much influence on so practical a mind as that of the French Emperor. Probably he values the adhesion giventohisdynasty, in the marriage of his cousin to one of the first among the old nobles of France, chiefly as an open acknowledgment that, even in the Bue Grenelle St. Germain, the empire is now recognized as an ac complished fact. Tfr-F. princess Anna mubat a jebsey WOMAN. • * [From the-Trenton (N. J.) Gazette, Jan. 8.1 The Princess Anna Murat, daughter of Prince Lucien Marat and Madame Murat, and who was born at Borden town, was married in Paris on the 18th ult. to the Due de Mouchy, a high-born and wealthy French noble. The de scription of the brilliant marriage cere monies.seems In strange contrast with -what we remember qf the Murat family atßordentown twentyyearsago. In those days the Prince was in very reduced circumstances, “ in short, not to put too fine a point upon it,” wasseedy, and Ma dame Murat conducted a school, which was the support of the family. After the revolution of 184 S gave a hope of better fortunes, and the Prince desired to return to France to take his chance, he was obliged to a gentleman of this city for the means to pay his passage and give him a start ou the road to for tune and fame. We fancy that times were rather hard with him there until after the accession of Napoleon to the presidency. Since that event times have changed for the better with the Prince, and he must look back upon his old Bordentown life as a troubled dream. The Blind. The recent number of the London Quarterly Review contains a very inter esting article on the Training of the Blind, from which we make the follow ing extracts: HOWTiiE HLINI' WKAV K COLORED PAT- “The weaver sets work with a loom of the ordinary kiud, Which we therefore need not describe, and the only problem is, how shall the blind workman accurately follow a pattern of which he cannot see a single step in colors which he cannot distinguish. We pause only for a momeut, by the wuv, to notice one common and popular error still afloat, viz., that some clever blind people have the power of detect ing colors by the touch. All we can say is that those who have had the ex perience of many years and opportuni ties for the personal examination ©f many hundreds of blind persons of all ages ami ranks, including some of re markable ability’, have u<>t been able to find the remotest trace of such a power. There is no more re>emblance now be tween sounds and colors than in the time of Guillie fifty years ago; so that no description will enable a blind man to discern between a crimson poppy and the azure corn-flower; nor can there be any perceptible difference of texture in one morsel of wool, paper, cloth, or feather stained red, and another of gras sy green. Dr. Moyes, indeed, who lost his sight at three years of age, says that red gave him a disagreeable sensation, like the touch of a ' saw,’ and that as other colors become less intense they decrease in harshness, until green con veyed to him an idea like that which he felt in passing his hand over a pol ished surface. But we suspect that Dr. Moyes was only trying to rival the bap pv shot of another blind man, who, says Locke, declared that scarlet was to him ‘ like the sound of a trumpet. Trumpets and scarlet go well together, and were, perhaps, even more frequent ly heard of and met with seventy or eighty years ago than they are now, and the name of one might well sug gest the other. _ . “ A pupil of Guillifc’s, at the Paris Blind School, translates rubene , from Horace’s Second Ode, by ‘ flaming right bane.’ Being pressed to translate lit erally, he gave us an equivalent ‘red.’ When asked what he meant by a red arm,’ he said that he did notthink, like Locke’s blind man, that the color red was like the sound of a trumpet, but he had translated it ‘flaming,’ because he had been told that fire was red; whence he concluded that heat is accompanied by redness; which determined him to mark the anger of Jupiter by the epi thet flaming, because when irritated one is hot, and when hot one must be red. , . , . “ Touch, therefore, which can do so much for Ihe blind workman, can do nothing for him here; but, nevertheless, as the Ureat Exhibition proved, he can weave you a rug bright with all the col ors of the rainbow, exactly after the pat tern which you prescribe ; scroll wor£, leaves, fruit, flowers, lozengers, starjs, or cross : bars. In the first place, iris threads of wool are all placed ior him by his side, in one exact order, say white, crimson, blue, yellow, and marooD. They are always in the same order and place, so that he takes up whichever he needs with unerring certainty. Hung up to the beam in front of him, but easi ly within reach of his fingers, is a square of smooth, thin deal, on which is traced thepatternof his rug in uailßwith heads ofevery possible variety of shape—round square, diamond shape or triangular; tack, brads, and buttons; some driven home to the surface of the board, others raised one-tenth of an inch above it; but all telling their own story of red, green, white or.blue. The board isruled thus with cross bar lines, and at every point of intersection a small hole is bored, into, which is slipped a nail with its head square, round or triangular, as the pattern requires. The boy reads his pattern along the horizontal lines from left to right, and according to the teach ingsof the nails weavesin the gay scroll work of brilliant colors as deft.y;as if he saV every tint.” HOW A IiLIND M.AN SEEti, “ Our friend Trotter has just setoffin a great hurry for that door way; he seizes the handle, opens the door hastily shouts out one or two lusty words, waits for no answer, but rushes off again else where. Ask him what this pantomine means, and he will tell you that he was in qufest of a certain trio of hoys who promised to meet him there ; that he •looked’ into jhe club room syid found that they were not there, at least he thinks not, as judging by the sound of his own foot against the room on which they usually sit, and of his own voice ie room seemed empty really is. The well' known story told by Mr. Anderson of a blind messenger at Edinburg, entirely corroborates this fact ‘ I bad occasion,’ hesays, ‘to send out one of those blind men with a mat tress. 1 gave him the bill with it, that be "might receive payment. But, tomy surprise, he returned with the account and the mattress too. ‘ I’ve brought' back baith, ye see, sir,'said he. ‘How so?’ ‘lndeed, sir, I dinDa like t'leave’t yonder, else I’m sure we wad ne'er see the siller—there’s nae a stick of furni ture within the door!’ * How do you come to know that?' ‘Oh, sir, twa taps on the floor wi’ my stick soon tell’t me that!’ And true enough was the blind man’s guess: for guess it must still be called, though in both the cases cited it was shrewd enough to pas 3 for | wit." The University of Virginia is in a bad condition. Its professors have been receiving only about ope hundred dol lars a year salary each, for four years past. The faculty are of the opinion that the.institution cannot be perma nently maintained without-a large con tribution from the State, approximating $15,000. They say that if it is allowed in the future to “ depend on its own un aided resources, it must decline into a seminary of very subordinate rank, or become extinct altogether.” There is a balance on hand in the possession of the Proctor, of funds belonging to the university, of $4,910 85; but it is in “ Confederate treasury notes.” The funded debt is $38,000. There are fifty five students in attendance, a majority of whom are disabled Confederate sol diers. Nearly half of them pay no fees. The anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans was to be celebrated last even ing at Tammany Hall, New York, In a fitting manner. Hon. John Van Buren was to preside. General Grant was to be present, and among the persons who were to speak were Admiral Farragut, Senator Guthrie, of Kentucky, Richard O’Gorman, Mayor Hoffman, and Gen erals Slocum and Rosecrans. Other celebrities were expected, and the oc casion promised to he one of marked political significance. Oar Artists Abroad. The N. Y, Herald has a long letter from Florence, in which is given a account of the American sculptors novr\ resident there, and of the works upon which they are at present employed. We make a few extracts. HIRAM POWERS Mr. Powers, the greatest of American artists, is now engaged in modelling an ideal bust, which promises to be one of his most brilliant efforts. He has se lected for his subject “Clyde.” She was the daughter, it will be remember ed, of Oceanus and Tethys. Apollo be came enamored oftier, but deserted her to pay his addresses to Leucothoe. There was, of course, a serious difference at once, and there being no regular civil courts where a breach of promise case could be fairly tried,'withan invariable verdict for the the fair Clyde discovered the whole intrigue to her rival’s father, at which'Apollo became wrothy and disgusted, and professed to have despised her for her act. Loving him with all her heart, she could not endure this last blow, and gradually pined away, and was changed by one of her friends in high position into a sunflower, which is said still to turn its head towards the sun in his course, as « pledge of her love. The artist repre sents her as a maiden of eighteen, with a classic head. The face is exquisitely beautiful, and the deeply pensive and sad expression which it wears greatly enhances its' natural loveliness. The head is thrown the slightestbit forward, and placed upon a charming neck and shoulders. The hair of the maiden is thrown back behind her ears in rich, luxuriant, flowing tresses, and tied be hind in a pendant mass, with stray locks escaping and falling gracfeully in wavy lines upon her back. Above her forehead, rising put of her head, is seen the first development of the wonderful change she is undergoing. A segment of the circle of the leaves of the sunflower appears above her hair, and a slight portion of the seeds are emerging beneath. They are gracefully worked and resemble a crown of glory surrounding her head. The idea is ex ceedingly artistic and poetic, and is en tirely novel. The antique Clytie in the British Museum, it will be recollected, is represented as experiencing the change about her body, which seems to be emerging fromthe flower. Mr. Pow ers’ idea seems to be the most appro priate, as it is the most graceful and delicate one as applied. This bust is nearly completed. The hair and face are done, and the former exhibits Mr. Powers’ conscientious and artistic la bors in their best light. The work is a wonderful one and full of beauty. His Diana, Proserpine, Eve, Genevra, are well known, and need no description. His Proserpine is very much admired by the English, who have ordered large numbers of copies. One or two copies of Genevra, with her sweet, happy face and charming expression of gentleness and tenderness, have gone tothe United States. To my taste it is the most beau tiful face that Mr. Powers has ever mod elled, although, 1 believe he is inclined to favor one or the other of his creations as more lovely. The Grand-duke Con stantine, of Husain, has within a few days ordered by telegraph a copy of Diana, for his palace at .St. Petersburg. Mr. Powers, I am glad to say, has abundant commissions, and obtains the highest prices; so his success may be regarded as complete. He is in excel lent health. \V. T. lIART. Thestudioof Mr. W. T. Hart, oneoftln beat American sculptors, an old resident of Florence, is in the Piazza della Indi pendenz, where he is now engaged in modelling a group that must place him among the very first sculptors of the world. It is one of his first efforts in ideal work, and, though not quite com pleted, gives full promiseof being worthy to be ranked among the very few sta tues of female figures existing. It has as yet no name, but the idea expressed is that virtue, to be won, must be ad dressed through the mind and soul, and not assailed by force. Virtue is embod ied in a female form, just ripened into full maturity, resting on her right foot, with her left thrown back, holding in her uplifted left hand an arrow justdis charged from the bow df Cupid, a plump, beautiful boy, who stands on tip-toe at her right side, and with uplifted hands appeals to her to return his last weapon, which she has caught. Behind him is his empty quiver, which has fallen and rests against him, giving him support. His bowstringis broken, andthetyraut, that so arrogantly and potently rules the world, stands confessedly disarmed, and powerless and completely vanquish ed by peerless virtue, against whom he has expended his last weapon in vain. Having failed by force, and discover ed that he cannot succeed bv his cus tomary tactics, he changed them, and addresses himself, with prayerful looks and moving language, to her feelings and mind. With her right arm hanging gracefully by her side, with the hand resting gently upon the rascal’s shoulder, she looks down upon him with a mingled expressoin of in jured feelings and emotions of of pity, not unmixed with an air of conscious triumph. She still upholds the arrow, but refuses to return it until he gives spme evidence of the change of heart re quisite to insure success in his efforts. The grouping is exceedingly fine, and the poses and the handling of the sup porters--the principal figure deriving hers partially from the smaller figure, and the latter gaining his from the empty quiver. Mr. Hart has thus suc ceeded in relieving himself of the neces sity of introducing a stump of a tree or something of the traditional kind to give his figures the necessary support, and he has so grouped them that the principal figure stands entirely free, ex cept on the lower right limb, against which Cupid leans. The modelling is magnificent, both figures being anatom ically and artistically correct ip every detail. They are full of motion andani mation. The graceful undulationsof the female form, which is entirely nude, are the very poetry and embodiment of life and beauty. The face of charming loveli ness, and the hair, rich, luxuriant and wavy, is marvellously beautiful. The principal figure is certainly so perfect that no point is left upon which the criticism of the best artist may justly fall. It is pronounced a more beautiful conception than the Venus of Canova, and more artisticaliy and faithfully em bodied. Our best American sculptors in Rome declare it to be the finest model in Florence. Some portions such as the bust of the Venus of Milo, perhaps sur pass it; but as a whole it is a greater work, or wUI be, than that gem. This may seem high and wild praise; but I predict that when the group is in mar ble the judgment of art will place it among the first four gems of art in the world. Mr. Hart has been engaged on it about a .year, and has yet a good deal of work in the details of the hands and feet in the figure of Cupid. When completed it will be produced in marble, with the intention of sending it to the United States. , , . Mr. Hart has nearly, completed in marble another copy of his celebrated statue of Henry Clay, which he mod elled some years ago, and which is an admirable work in every way. This copy is for the City of Louisville, Ky., and is worthy to be placed in its best place. I believe one copy is already standing in New Orleans, but I will not be sure; and also a second copy in some other city of the United States. J. A. JACKSON. Near Mr. Hart’s studio is that of Mr. J. A. Jackson, who for some time was in New York, and who has been here two or three years, engaged in his artis tic labors. Among the works he has produced since he came here are his “Culprit Fay,” “Eve and Abel,” “ Dawn ” and other pieces, the names of which I do not now recall. His great work, which he has modelled in plaster, and is now engaged in repro ducing in marble, is his “ Eve and Abel." The figures of the group are of life size, and modelled with great care and with a happy success. 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I^o Other 44 Notices,* ’ ten JlneSv or lees» three times, - 60 on the ground, his head hanging over, with hair sweeping down: his left arm also hanging lifeless and hand resting upon the earth; his right falling naturally by him, supported by his mother’s hand. — His eyes are closed, and bis mouth par tially open; but the tlesh is still full and fresh, denoting that the corroding influences have not yet begun to work. The expression of the face is that of death—the quiet falling away into the eternal sleep, an d has nothing ghastly or repulsive about it. The limbs and body all indicate by their peculiar posi tions and by jthe relaxed muscles that what we see" before us is death. The body of Eve is bent gently over the form of her dead son, and with an expression of profound grief, mingled with that of wonder and alarm, she gazes upon the first victim of death in the world. She is supporting him upon her knee, with her left arm placed under him, and is but dimly realizing the great change that has been wroaght as she gazes* with fixed eyes and breathless attention, upon what was but a short time before the form of her son, Her hairiapushed .back from herforehead in tangled tresses anil caught behind by aspray of ivy,then falling down upon her shoulders in natural but beautiful disorder. The efleet of the group is exceedingly fine, aud the story tells itself at first glance. The modelling is tine and the natural expressions which would be brought out on the face o'f a mother when contem plating death for the first tkhe, added to an undefined sense ofjrer loss and wonder at the marvellousxhange in her son, are finely eouceiwu and artistically and The work will add greatly to Mr. Jackson’s repu tation as a great artist. It is now being reproduced in marble. THOMAS BALL. Another sculptor of high merit and well known in the United States, who has a studio here, is Mr. Thomas Ball, of Boston. He has a fine suit of roqms ill a new building just outside the wails, near Porta ItQmana, where he is now embodyiug in marble his statue of Ed win Forrest, in heroie size, in his cele brated character of Coriolanus as he appears in the last act. He brought the model of the bust with him, and has been uutii lately engaged in model ling the figure, which is now completed. His workmen have just begun to rough out the statue in a marble block. It will re re a year to embody the design in n;arble, but when completed it will be oneofMr.Ball’sbestefforts. It wascom missioued by a number of gentlemen of Boston, admirers of the great American actor. The figure stands about eight feet high, more or less, and is attired in the classic Roman costume, such as Coriolanus’ rank and position entitled him to wear. He stands upon his left leg, with his right thrown forward in an easy but firm manner. With his left hand he holds up his drapery, revealing his lower limbs; his right hand rests gently by his side, and grasps a scroll? which is doubtless the invita tion he is declining from the Romans to return to Rome. The pose is grace ful and full of motion. The portrait is excellent, and gives a clear ana effective expression of the character Mr. Forrest personates. The artist has been very successful in modelling the hair and preserving those peculiarities that mark the fine head of the original. George Fruncls Train on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Uailroad. George Francis Train made a speech, at St. Joseph, Mo., a few days? ago in which he Baid : “ Mr. Train—Do you want my candid opinion? [Yes.] Cali it then the Hor- * rible and Slow Jogging Railway.— [Laughter.] The name arises from there being a cow-catcher on the stem to keep the ox teams from running into it. [Laughter.] The Grand Truck. Railway in Canada is the greatest En glish swindle of our time, and the Hor rible and Slow Jogging Railway is the grandest American swindle of the age. [Applause and laughter.] It lives by swindling, moves by swindling, and has its being by swindling. [Applause.] It was born by corruption and lives by disease. [Laughter.] The swindle com menced by laying the rails down on top of the grass and waiting for the wash of the rains to do the grading, [laughter,] so as to swindle the State out of five millions of bonds. [That’s so.] The swindle isonthe tax-payers. They made an abortion of the enterprise in order to swindle the State out of six hundred thousand acres of land. [That’s so.] — The road was never built. It growed like Topsy. [Laughter.] It is a swindle on the freighters —charging more than any other road in the land, with no accommodation. The merchants have to pay across Mis souri, 200 miles, one-third the whole freight to Boston. That is where the swindle comes in. It is also a Bwlndle on the people of St. Joseph. No pas senger speaks well of it. Everybody disgusted with the road damns St. Jo. [Laughter, and that’s so.] Yet what can St. Jo. do ? The directors all live east, and when they come to survey and examine, they are whipped over the road in a champagne car, and go back no wiser than when they came. [Laugh ter.] Accidents, damages and deaths are of no account. The Directors pocket the profits, and the public pocketstheswindle. [Laughter.] They swindle the passengers. At Hannibal they take our money, and glvo us tl. . choice between freezing, starving, or accidental death. [Laughter and ap plause.] We arriveed yesterday all safe over a good road, the North Missouri, in company with Gen. Rollins, to Cen tralia, and were due at St. Jo. this morning at four, and only got in at four in the afternoon. Instead of being off for Omaha at 8 a. m., here I am talkiDg to the people of St. Jo. [Good —glad i you stopped.] We were detained nine hours —no wood, no coal, no flr6, and nineteen little children sitting on the • stove to keep it warm. [Laughter. ] The Reorganization of the Regular Army. ■Washington, Jan. 10.—The bill pro viding for the reorganization of the reg ular army was to-day reported from the military committee, with some amend ment. The committee were unanimous in favor of the bill as it now stands. It provides that the army Bhall hereafter consist of five regiments of artillery— -9,000 men; twelve regiments of cavalry —12,000 men, and fifty-five regiments of infantry—3-1,000 men, to be known as the Army of the United States; that the artillery are to have the same organ ization as the present five regiments. The third section adds six regiments of cavalry to the six now in service, with the same organization; authorizes the first and second, and two-thirds of all officers above the grade of first lieu tenant, to be taken from volunteer cav alry officers of two years' service. Pro vides that four of these regiments may s be armed and drilled as infantry, at the discretion of the President. Section 4. The fifty-five infantry regl iments are to consist of the ten regj ments, of ten companies each, now in service; the remaining nine regiments, made into twenty-seven by adding two companies to each battalion, with the ■ same provision respecting officers as for; the cavalry regiments, except that they ) are to be taken from the infantry or ar- , tillery; ten regiments of colored men and eight of disabled men, or men dis charged by disabilities. The officers to be taken from the officers of colored troops, the Veteran Reserve Corps, and other officers of volunteers disabled In in the service. Promotions in the col ored and veteran regiments are to be confined to these regiments. The vol unteer officers appointed under this act to be apportioned among the States, In proportion to the number of troops fur ‘ nished the army during the war. l id . * A wagon containing $B6O worth of materials for the Salt Lake Vedette, the anti-mormon paper, waa stopped by the Mormons, the mules and harness stolen, the men murdered and thematerlal de* stroyed, ’