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THI FEEf^.
PUBLISHED DAILY, (BSJNDAYB EXORPTRD,]
BY JOHN W. FOBNH Y,
OFFICE No. 417 CHESTNUT STREET.
DAILY PRESS.
Iwn.fl Cuts Fust Wzzx, payable to tJu Carrier.
Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at Six Dollj.es
as Annwx, Fora Dollars poa Eicht Moans,
aaaa Dollars tor Six Months—invariably in AS
ana, for th* time ordered,
tri wmkli tbcm,
Mailed to Suteonbera eat of the City at Inn Dev
uuu i’ll Axirex, in advanoe.
JEXCI/RSEONS
*|X) NIAGARA FALLS AND BACK
FOR $l9.
gw Bti— MPIHW
EXCURSION TICKETS
WILL BX SOLS
DAILY THROUGHOUT THE SEASON,
THOM
PHILADELPHIA TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
AMD RETURN. '
FOE TWELVE DOLLARS,
Via Philadelphia and Read in*, and Catawina, Elmira,
and Buffalo Railroads, affording the opportunity to
VISIT AND VIEW THE
FALLS OF NIAGARA,
AT THE MOST TRIFLING COST.
TICKETS good for **vbn bats non pats. Aa
eommod&tions throughout are pikst class, and the
Beanery alonr the route is uneeualled. *
For information u to houra of starting, Ao., apply a
P. A £„ Throng h-Tioket Offioe,
H. W. Corner SIXTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS
H. D. MEAKB, Gesoral Agent
6. T, LEONARD, Tioket Agent JyU-lm
SEA BATHING.
fiHHiM
<§EA BATHING-,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
TWO AND THREE-QUARTER HOURS
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
ATLANTIC CITY ia now conceded to bo one of the
most delightful eea-cide resorts in the world. Its bath
ing u nnmiTpAued; its beautiful unbroken heaeh
(nine miles in length) ia unequalled by any on the con
tinent, save that of Galveston; its air is remarkable
for its dryness; its sailing and fishing facilities are per
fect; its hotels are well furnished, and as well kept as
those of Newport or Saratoga, while its avenues and
walks are cleaner and broader than those of any other
sea-bathing place In the country.
Trains of the CAMDEN AND ATLANTIC RAIL
ROAD leave VINE-BTREKT WHARF. Philadelphia,
dally, at 734 A* M„ and 4P. M. Returning, reaoh Phi
ladelphia at 9 A. M., and 7:46 P. M, Fare, 91.90
Round-trip tickets, good fo^throe days, 9900 Dis
anoe. 60 miles, A telegraph extends the whole length
ef the road. jylO tf
FOR CAPE MAT AND NSW
MMhYORK, TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS,
and <&TU<iD KY\ a* 9K o’clock A. M.
New York and Philadelphia Steam Navigation Com-
PMr, Steamers DELAWARE. Captain Johnston, aid
BOSTON, Captain Crookor, wIU leave f-jr CAPE MAY
and NEW Trtißff. from first wharf below Rentes street.
*Y*,7 TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and BATURDAY,
it* M,
Returning* leave N«w York same days at 6 P. M.
Returning, leave Cape May SUNDAYS. WEDNES
DAYS, and FRIDAY*, atB A. M.
Fare to Cape May, Carnage Hire inoluded~~~ 91 60
Fare to Cape May, Season Tickets, Carnage
Hire extra , 9 00
Fare to New York, n»h;« j 00
Do. Do. Deok X so
Steamers tonah at New Castle going and returning.
Freights for New York taken at low rates.
JAMES ALLDERDICE, Agent.
jy9»9m 314 and 3< fi *Autb DEL *WK RE Avenue.
r _WT~> FUR CAPE MAX,—The
and comfortable Day steamer
"tifcUKGf WASHINGTON,” CaptainW.Whilldin,
leaves Arch-street wharf, for Capo May, every Moa-
Sr, Wednesday, and Friday moruing at 9H o’oloek,
turning, leaves the landing every Tuesday, Thurs
r, and Saturday morning at 8 o’olook.
Fare, carriage hire included... —-SIJW,
“ servant’s, carriage hire included ~~ 1M -
Freight taken at the usual low rates.
Stopping at New Castle going and returning.
• jH-tael*
IS m OHBB FOR THE SEA-SHORE
WNftUBHBI-CAMDBN AND ATLANTIC
AAILBO<tP.—On and after HOMO iv, Jone 17th, train*
will leave VINE-STREET FERRY daily, (Sundays
exoeped):
Meal tram.———7» A. M,
Express train—~ 4.00 P.M,
Accommodation P» M,
RETURNING, LEAVES ATLANTIC i
Mail-- 446 P. M.
Express ..—~ A. M.
_ __3.18 A. M.
Fare to Atlantio, 91A0; Round Trip tiokets, good Tot
three days, 9960.
Freight must do delivered at COOPER’S POINT by
I P.M. The Company will not be responsible tor any
goods until received and receipted for, by theirAgant,
at the Point. JOHN S. BRYANT,
- fell-* Ac+rt.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
giiIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON,
MO. 11* CHESTNUT ST.,
commission merchants,
for the *A MS OF
PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GOODS.
■UMa
BANKING.
BILUONT * 00.,
BANKERS.
50 WALL BTRKET NSW YORK,
IBM MBn ef tredit to travellers, available la oil
parts of Strops, through the Messrs. KothMdld of Pe
ru, London, Frankfort, Naples, Vienna, and their aor
respendent*. felMm*
LOOKING GLASSES.
|MMENSE REDUCTION IN
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTING-S.
ENGRAVINGS,
HCmB AMD PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
JAMES S. EARLE & SOM,
816 CHESTNUT Street,
JUmotroce the redaction of X per cent. in the prices in
all the manufactured stock of Looking Glasses; also,
B Engravings, Picture end Photograph Framos, Oil
Paintings, The largest and most ologant assortment in
the ooantiT. A rare ouportunitj now offered to make
purchases in this line for cash, at remarkably low prioen,
EARLE’S GALLERIES.
816 CRESTNUT STREET.
tJABINET FUBNITURK.
CABE'SET FURNITURE AMO W,
LIARD TABLES.
MOORE a CAMPION
H«. SOI SOUTH SECOND STREET,
in aonnMtion with their extensive Oaoinst Bxsssss
are now ruanofsotaring a superior artralt or
BILLIARD TABLES,
And have now on hand a Bill eubplr, finished with
SHCRE A CAMPION’S IMPROVED COBHKMM>
Wkion aro pronounced, by all who havo need thorn- ts
te saperior to all others.
For the vulitv and finish of these Tables the mens
tastgrejs rwbt to their nameroas patrons througho?
the Union, Who arc firc’iisr with the character of the:
work. tsss-ni-
PERSONAL.
.«iß WM. S. HELVEREON, UNDER
TAKER, has withdrawn from the old firm,
and u now at the northeast corner of ST. JOHN and
COATES Btreeta. jiMlm*
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES.
TMSHOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.—
A-F partnership heretofore existing between
SAMUEL 8. THOMPSON and SAMUEL B. JENKINS,
ander the firm ol THOMPSON A JENKINS, is this
day dissolved bv mutual consent. The business of the
late firm will be settled and wound us bv Samuel 8.
vkompsOß. at the store, No. *O4 MARKET Street.
SAMUEL 8. THOMPSON,
w SAMVEL B. JENKINS.
Philada.. Juno 7th.lB*l, jj*-d tf
LEGAL
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAB
FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILA
DELPHIA,
JOHN T. HARDING! vs. SUSAN HARDING, in Di
mm, March Term. 18*1. No. 48.
TOeUtaN HAftBING-
Majuh : Please take notioe that tostimonr will ho
taken on the part of i.iboilant on the twollth dar of
August next, before the , xaminer appointed or the
Mia Court for that puisoie, tec, rer, at the oflio# of
the undersigned. No. hit ojuru "ix vh Street, at 4
o’oiook P. Ju. WALTER I BUDD.
JjJS 14t* Atto.nor for Libellant.
Estate of merinos w. pike, i e
oeaae<l —l Administration on ths Estate
of AAr*iWU3 W. P Kts, deceased, with his Will ah'*
Seated, have this dar been granted to the nndemtned
y the Register <>l Wills. AH persona indebted will
B lease make payment* a&d those having claim* present
ie same to *• KN n Y r. nUH,
administrator, Cam Testaments Annezo*
8 WT.o ra r TEMTri«nd OHc,e r^ut* Streets,
Or to hit Attorneys. EK,
l3O oath * am 3*roflt t
CO •■> L.
G Kit. At' nbOtUilor*. - LEHIuH
Hazleton) COAL, of a *nperior qaalitr.
Ek< and StoT- sizes at 94 00 per too.
Nat size •* SA) ‘ 44
be sold at the a rates until the Ist of October, if
delive ed a*toi enth and nor hof Aruh i tree's
To nave advMQ age of this great reduction in price,
each order must be acftompaniea with the Cask.
„ R J\ OILL NeHAJtt.
N. E FflONf and FOi'LAJI Streets,
aoS-Ut*
KgVAMi * Wil'oc/JS'ti
3ALAM ANDES BATES
• to * ft
C **
vSi'-ARTt,''*!*. • *
. ._r « tf'f*. fl ,
*»»' _____
COTTuK SAii. I'LUK «nd UajSVas,
of all numbers and brand*.
Raven's Dock Awning wills, ef all UMSllptieSß, (at
ftiu, Awnings, Trpka, and wtion Coren.
Alee, Paper Mannieoterers’ Drier F.IW, term s >» *
*“ sw 4 * CO.,
geyt-tf 103 JON Egr Alter.
OKIWti. —A email invoice of Hides, Sheep,
™ and Smi Skin., Jot from the Weet In
i>w7(njfti* by JA»jiT:*UBK a CAJUfAIM, VOS
Best qualiti nooiino slats *i
nnnMK«i t»i nai. at V*i»i WjwrT. ;«»i
VOL. S— NO. 10.
OFFICIAL.
Proposals for army baggage
WAGONS.
QVAXTXPMASTKI. SUffSRAL’a 0»»IC1,I
_ , Washington. June 91,1861. \
Proposals are invited for the furnishing of Army Bag
gage Wagons.
Proposals should state the prices at which they oar be
nirmshed at the pluaea of meauiaoture, or at New York,
Poiladtlphia, Baltimore, Washington, or Cincinnati,
hspreferrfd ny the bidders.
The number which can be made by any bidder within
one month after receipt of the order, also the number
which he can deliver within one week.
The Wagons must exactly conform to the following
specifications, and to the established patterns.
Six-mule (covered) wagons, of the sixe and descrip
tion as follows, to wit:
. The front wheels to t>e three feet ten inches high,
hubs ten inches in diameter, and fourteen end a quar
ter inches long; hind wheels four feet ten lnohrshKh,
hubs ten and a. quarter inches in diameter, and fourteen
and a quarter inohes long ; fellies two and a half mohei
wide and, two and throe-quarter inches deep;
east iron pipe boxes twelve inohes long, two and a bait
inches at the large end and one and seven-eighths id oh
at small end; tire two and a half inches wide bt five
eighths or an inph thick, fastened with onesorew bolt
an* nut m each fellie; hubs made of gum. the spokes
and fellie of the best white oak, free from defeots; each
wheel to have a sand band and linchpin band two and
three-quarter inches wide, of No. 8 baud iron, and two
driving bands—oucside band '•ns and a auarter inch
by one-.narter inoti thiok. maids hand ona inch bv
three-sixteenths inoh thick; the hind wheal* to be
mada and boxaa so that they will measure from the in
aide of the tire to the large end of the Iroxsix and a half
inohes, and front wheels six and one-eighth inches in a
parallel line, and each axle to be three feet eleven and
three-eighth inohes from the outside of one shoulder
washer to the outside of the other, so as to have the
wagons all to trade five feet from centre to centre of
the wheels. Axletree* to be made of the best quality
refined Amerioan iron, two and a half inohes square
at the shoulder, tapering down to one and a half inoh in
the middle* with a seven-eighths inoh king-bolthole in
each axletree; washers and linchpins for each axletree;
size of linchpins one inch wide, three-eichth* of an inch
thick, with a hols m each end ; a. wooden stock four and
three-quarter inches wide and four inches deep, fas
tened substantially to the axletree with clips on the ends
and with two bolts, six inohes from the middle, and
fastened to the hounds and bolster, (the bolster to be
four feet five inohes long, five inches wide- and
three and a half inohes deep,) with four half-inch
bolts.
The tongue to be ten feet, eight inches tong, four
toshes wide, and three inches thick at front end of the
hounds, and two and a, quarter inohes wide by two and
three-quarter inohes deep at the front end. and so ar
ranged as to lift up, the front end of it to hang within
two feet of the ground when the wagon is standing at
rest on a level surface.
The front hounds, to be six feet two inohes long,
three inohes thick, and four inches wide over axletree.
and to retain that width to the back end of the tongue;
jaws of the hounds one foot eight inohes long and three
inches square at the front end, with a piate of iron two
and a half inches wide by three eighths of an inch
4Ju«k, fastened on top of the hounds over the back end
of the tonjeme with, one half-inch screw bolt In each
end., and a plate of iron of the same sis* turned up at
each end one and a half inches to camp the front
hounds together, and fastenod on rhe under side, andat
frost end of bounds, with half inch sorew bolt throurh
eaoh hound, a seven-eighth inch bolt through tongue
and hounds in the centre ef jaws, to secure the tongue
in the bounds; a plate of iron three inohes wide, one
quarter inoh thick and one toot eight inohes long,
seoured on the inside of jaws of hounds w th two rive s,
and a plate of same dimensions on eaoh side of the
tongue, where the tongue and hounds ran together,
seoured in like manner; a brace of seven*nghths of an
inoh round iron to extend from under the front axle
tree. and** take two bolts in front part of the hoed*,
same brace three-quarters of an toon round to continue
to the back part of the hounds, and to be futened with
two bolts, one near the back end of the hounds, and
one through the shder and hounds; a braoe over front
bolster one and a half mob vide, one-quarter of an inch
thick, with a bolt in eMJh end to fnatcD it to tbe hounds;
the opening between the jaws of the hound*, to receive
the tongue.four and three-quarter in has m front.and
four and a half inohes at toe back part of the jaws.
The hind hounds four feet two inohes long, two and
three quarter inches th ok* and three inohes wide; jaws
one foot long where the* olasp the coupling pole: the
bolster four feet five inohes long and five inches wide
br three inohes deep, with steady iron two and a half
inches wide by one-half inoh thiox turned up two and
a half inohes and fastened on *-&oh end with three
rivets; the bolster stocks and hounds to be seoured with
four half-inch sorew bolts, and one haif-inoh sorew bolt
through the coupling pole.
. The coupling pole nine feet eight inohes long, three
inohes deep, and four and a half inches wide at front
end, and two and three-quarter inches wide at back
end; diet&noe from the centre of king bolt hole to the
centre of the back axletree six feet one Inch- and from
the centre of ki- g bolt hole to the cent) t of the rnortioe
in the hind end of the pole eight feet nine inohes; rip*
bolt on* and a quarter inches diameter, of best refined
iron, drawn down to seven-eighths cf eh toon where it
Raises through the iron az etreb; iron plate six Inohes
mg, three inches wide, fiuo one-eighth of an inch thiek
on the doubletree and tongue where they rub together,
iron plate one and a half by one-quarter of an inoh on
the slidrag bar. fastened at each end by a bolt
through the hounds; front bolster to have plates above
and below eleven inohes long, three and a half inohes
wide, and three-eighths of an inch thick, corners
drawn out and turned down on the sides of the
bolster, with a nail lb eaoh oorter, and four ooun
tsmuik nails on .top; two o&nai on the hind hoandft,
two and two and a half inches wide, of No. to band
iron i Ine rhb plate on the coupling pole to be eight
inohes long one and three-quarters inohes wide, and
one quarter of an inch thick. Doubletree three feet
feet ton inohes long, singletree two feet eigh. inches
long, all well made oi with an iron ring and
clip at each end, the centra clip to be well secured; lead
bar and streteher to be three feet two inches long, two
and a quarter inches wide, apd onn and a quarter inoh
thiok Lead ba-s. strfctonera. and singletrees for six
mute team;, the tWo singletrees for the tead mules to
h&vo took* in the middle to hook to the end of the fifth
onam, the wheel and middle pairs with open rings to
attach them to the doubletree and lead bar*
, The fifth ohain to be ten feet long to the fork; the
fork one foot ton inohes long, with the stretcher at
tached to spread the forks apart; toe links of toe dou
bletree, stay and tongue chains- throc-e ebths of an
m.n m diameter; she forked oham eeven-eixtaentn
inch in dir-meter -.the fifth ohain to be .eyea-eiiteenth
inoh diameter to the fork; the for* to Be five-etxteenth
moh diameter; tha hnkeoftheeeand of the loekehama
to ba not more thftfi two and a quarter inohea lon*
The Body to be straight, three feet six inohes wide,
two feet deep, ten feet I n* at the bottom, ana te- feet
mx inohes at the top, .Inning e.ualiy at eaoh end all in
tha olear oi u»idf>: the oe<i piaoei to he two and, half
uonei wido and three inohes aerp; front Pieces two
inohes deep by two and a ha<f inohes wide; tail pieoo
two and a half inohes wide and three inches deep; and
four inoho. deep tn the in'ddh to rest on ihe .oupUfiT
pole; top rail one and a half in.b thiol hr one tad
teveneiyhth moh wide ; lower rail* one inch thiblby
on, and seven-*i*hth inch Wide; throb Studs and one
rail m front. With a Seat. on. strap hinses to olose it up
a a bteh as the sided; a gel three feet four inohes lon*
the bottom fixe laoties wide front side, nme and a tuSf
tnohta 4tas>. and eisht and a half inohes at the top in
.afahel iine to thepoiy all tn th. otear, to bemib
etantially fastened to the front end of the hody,
to have an iron strap passin* round eaoh end, le
eurad to'the beadpieoe tad frost tail by a rlyet in
uoh end of it pamne tliroueh them, the lid to be
faatenedjp the front nul with two food st aphinses, a
strap of fttn-elihth iron around the Box a naif non from
tkfe -op edge, rad two streps same size on the lid near
tze front edge, to prevent the mules from eating tbe
boxes; to have a joint base fastened to the middle of
the lid, with a good wooden cleat on the inside a strap
of iron on the oentre of the box with a staple busing
through it, to fasten the lid to: eight stu-is and two
rails on eaoh side; one bolster fastened to the body,
six inohes deep.and fotr inches wide at king bolt hole I
irgp rod in front and centre, of eleven sixteenths of ra
inoh round iron, with a head on the top of rail rad nut
on lower end; iron rod and brace behind, with shoulders
on top of tail pieoe, and nuts on the under aide, rad a
nut on top of rail; a pate two rad a half inohes wide,
of No. 20 oand iron, on tail piece, across the booy; two
mortioes is tail piece rad hind bar two and a quarter
inultei wide and one inoh thiok. to receive pieces three
ftei four inohes ion*, to be used as harness bearers;
four riven ttironsh eaoh side stud, usd two rivets
throuth eaoh front stud, to leonre the liHin* bcardi, to
bo of ihe best suaiit, iron, tad riveted on a good bnr;
one nydi thrtaih eaoh end ol the ran*; floor
five-eighths of an inoh oak boards: sides five
eichths of an inch white pine, tail-board three-ouar
ters of an inoh, thiok,.of white pine, to be weU oleated
with five oak pleats riveted at esob end through tha
rail-board; an iron plate three feet eight inohes iont,
two and a auaiter raohea wide, and three-eighths of an
moh thiek on the nuder aide of the bed piece, to extend
from the hind end of the body to eight inches in front
of ths hind bolsters, to be fastened by the rod at the
end of th* body, by the lateral rod tad two Dire e
eighths ofan wohsoTOW bolts, One at the forward end
of tbe plfife, find tac other about equi-distaut between
it ahd the lateral rod. A, half-inch round iron rod or
bolt to pass diagonally through the rails, between the
two bind etuds to rad through the bed pieoe and plate
under it, with a good head on the too ana nut and screw
at the bottom, to be at the top one root six inohes from
inside of tail board, and on the bottom ten inches from
tha hind rod. An iron clamp two inohes wide, one
quarter of an inch thick around the bed pice*, the cen
tre bolt to which the look chain is attached passing
through it, to extend seven inohes on the inside of the
body, the ends, top, and bottom to be seoured by nrb
three-eighths inch screw bolts, the middle bar at the
ends to fie flush with toe bed piece on the lower tide.
Iwo look chains secured to the centre bolt of the body,
one ond eleven inohes. the other two feet six inches long!
to be of three-eighths of an inoh round iron;-feed
trough to be four feet six looheg long from out to out,
toe bottom and ends, of oak, the sides of yellow pine,
to be eight inches wide at bottom, twelve inohbs wide
at top, and eight and a half inches deep all in the dear,
well ironed, with a Band of hoop-iron around the top.
one around eaoh end and three between the ends,
strong ai d suitable irons to fasten them on the tongue
when ftedini: good st rong chains to be attached to the
top rail of the bodr, seoured by a staplo with a hook to
attach it to the tronah. Six bows of rood aeh, two
inches wide and one-half moh thiok, with three staples
to oonfine the ridge pole to its place ; two staples on
the body, to aeonre eaoh end ofthe bows; one ndge
pole twelve feet long,.one and three-euartere inoh wide
by five-eighths of an moh thick ; thefcover to be of the
first duality cotton duok, No. —, fifteen feet long ana
nine feet eight inohes wide, made in the best manner,
with four hemp oorde on eaoh side, and ohe through
eaoh end to clone itat both ends ;,t«o rings on eaoh end’
of the body, to olose and secure the ends of the cover;
«nd from
e ?, cl v£l“ tcn th ? l lde c<*d** Th* outside of the
body and feed trouen to have two good ooata of white
lead. oOlored to a blue tint, tbe inside oi them to have
two costs of Venetian red paint; the rnnnmg gear and
wheels to have two good coats of Venetian red darkened
of a chocolate color, toe hub and feLies to be well
pitched, instead of painted, if required.
A tar-pot, ra extra king boit,and two extra single
trees to be furnished with eaoh wagon, the king bolt
and singletrees similar mall respects to those belong
ing to it.
Eaoh side of the bocly of the wagon to be marked U.
8„ and numbered as directed; all otner parts to be 'ot
tered u. 8.; toe cover, feed box, bolts, linchpins, tar
zpot. and harness bearers for eaoh wagon to oe put up
m a strong box, (coopered) and the contents marked
thereon.
It u to be distinotly understood that the weioni are
to be in constructed that the several parte of ear one
wagon will agree and exactly fit those of an, other, ao
v to reran no nnnr'ennr or arresting for putting to-
Botnery and all tfie materials uot4 f 1 tueir onontrnotiOß
to bo of ttie boat quality; ail the wood. thoroughly uy
soned, and tho work in all its parts faithfully executed
m the beat workmanlike manner.
The work maybe inspected from time to time uit
E regresses by an offioer or stent of the duartermaster’a
department, and. none ol it stall be painted anti! it
shall have been inaoeoted and approved by aaid offioer
or stent authorised to inspect it. When finished,
painted, and aooepied by an offioer or osent of the
QuarterniMier'a Department, and deli cared as herein
agreed, they shall be paid for. M. C <VI HGS*
je M*tf Quartermaster General U. 6.
OaFJOIdOP SECRETARY AND TRE k-
SUftKR. SOL DIE AS’ H«ME, Nsa a. *hb City
OP WASHINGTON.
wi*l be received at this office
until > UhMMY,(noon.) the 38»hof August, 1861. for
the ooDstroction of t*o Buildings, at. the Soldiers*
ttoroe-Bomevhat similar to the two now there known
as officers’Quarters
The plans and specißoationa may be examined at this
office, where ah information '©<ative t> the location
and oharaoter of the build mgs will be given.
Every offer for the construction of these buildings
must ce aqjsompnniod by a responsible written guaran
tee that, if the bid should be hccepted. the pa ty or
parties will, within ten days, enter into an oburation.
with good and sufficient security, to erect the proposed
beilrfinf* to the p’ccs and pcoiftoafions
wbioh have been or may hereafter be furnished and
adopted.
The proposals will state the difference between
faoing the waits with white stone or marble, similar to
the buildings already erected, or facings With the best
pressed bricks; or bidd rs may. in addition, make such
proposals as to other materials aa their experience may
suggest*
In deciding on the bids, right will be reserved by
the Boa d of Gnmm ssioners of the So'diers’ Home to
aooept such offers only as may be deemed m>-st ad
vantageous for the institution : and &lao to reject the
who:* should none of them to de-im'd acceptable.
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PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1861.
Cj }t fjnss
In Paris, where there is almost aa little do
mesticity as in the crowded cities oi America
with their hotel and hoarding-house life, there
wonld be no tolerable existence for the native
inhabitants bat for the Bestanrants. These
establishments create an anti-domestio state
ot feeling and habits. In Paris, publicity ot
life is indispensable to its enjoyment. There,
a denizen mnst take his dinner in public, and
his coflee in public; he mast read his news
paper in public, and promenade each day in
the most public places of his grand metropo
lis. He began that mode of lite in childhood.
It has grown with his growth and strengthened
with his strength. It has influenced his cha
racter. He will abandon it only with his latest
breath. It may be hostile to the birth and
growth of many substantial household virtues,
but it tends at least to make a frank, a social, a
graceful, a conversational, and an accomplished
people.
Do we condemn this French social system ?
The Frenchman objects to its opposite, which
he condemns as selfish, aristocratical, and pre
jadice-begetting. There is an intermediate
coarse, which a yonng and inflexible nation
like the United States might have entered
npon—a coarse, capable of gathering to itself
the best features of either extreme, and whose
pursuit wonld be attended by a preferable
state of private and public society. The so
cial systems of France and England are in har
mony with their past habitndeß, their other na
tional foataroa, and their existing institutions.
Each is peculiar—each adapted to the locality
where he was born, nureed, matured. In the
United States—in some places, we mean, but
certainly neither in Hew York nor yet in the
great Southern cities—-there is a juste milieu
social system, between the English and the
French, which partakes of the better charac
teristics of each. But the great drawback
here is hotel and boarding house living,
whereby costly tastes at the table are engen
dered and fostered, and the privacy of domesti*
lite rendered nearly impossible.
The stranger in Paris, who should drop into
the principal restaurants between four and
eight—late dinners being necessary lrom the
dejeuner a la fourckettc (or meat-breakfast)
been taken at mid-day—might fancy that all
the inhabitants lived in public. In fact, a
great number of persons dine at a restaura
teur’s. Nor are there many more splendid
scenes, in a city where magnificence abounds,
than in one of the gaily-decorated saloons of a
first-rate restaurateur, fitted up with the
highest luxury and taste, and crowded with a
brilliant company of both sexes, all partaking
of the pleasures of the table and of society.
Occasionally, persons of the highest rank and
position may bo found in this gay and festive
crowd.
REMEDY
Formerly, none bnt privileged persons,
duly licensed and commissioned, could supply
dinners in Paris. A century ago, a cook—
whose name hag unhappily been forgotten—
violated this restriction, opened a dining
room, and placed over it, with more wit than
piety, the following paraphrase of a passage
in Holy Writ: “ Verite ad me omnes qni sto-
Macho laboratis, et ego restaurabo vos.”
Hence, the term restaurant and restaurateur.
The man gave good dinners—admirably
dressed—and was not interfered with. The
Revolution of 1789, which broke down the
barriers of class between the noble and the
citizen in France, greatiy helped the restau
rants, and materially altered the domestic
habits of the Parisians, The nuinber of res
taurants increased, in all parts of Paris they
Sprang np. They are now divided among - the
reitaurateur* and the traiteurs.
A person trho keeps a petty restanrant is a
traiteur. His business is to £end out dishes,
or dinners ready dressed, to order.' A coon
try or a foreign family, for example, take for
a short time, an afipartiment, which signifies
not one room but a suite of apartments, in a
lodging house or in a hotel, and a bargain Is
made with a traiteßr to supply a certain num
ber of dishpa, at a fixed rate of so much a
head, for any time agreed upon. This is eco
nomical. In the second-rate restaurants, as
well as in' the principal, the dinner is a la
carte. In other houses, so much a head is
charged; two francs (40 cents) will procare
d fk!t dinner and a bottle of cheap claret,
always drank in water, in die vicinity of
the Falais Royal, a dinner may be had for 80
cents—even for 22—and tor this soup, two
dishes at choice, bread at discretion, a dessert,
and a tumbler ol vin ordinaire is given! Not
dinner to satisfy a gourmand, but still—a
dinner.
Down by the Forte St. Denis, there used
to be a place (we speak of nine years ago,
when we knew Paris as well as London, and
far better than New York or Philadelphia),
where a mighty cauldron was perpetually kept
boiling, like the witches In “ Macbeth," and,
for a payment of three cents, the adventurous
and needy dinnef-htinter Was ehtriisted with a
huge iron fork, a sort of miniature Neptune’s
trident, with which he was allowed to prod
into the boiling pot, whatever he speared
being his prize. It was a lottery. Sometimes,
the trident brought up a potato, sometimes a
lump of beef, mutton, or vealj sometimes—
but, ah! how rarely I —oven half a chicken.
If nothing'was brought up on any prong of
the great fork, still the three-cent payer was
given a bowl of the soup, thick with Vegeta,
bigs, and a piece of bread. We have stood
by for an hour, looking on at this prandial
lottery, some sceneß of which were occasion
ally very amusing, but confess that, with all
onr curiosity, wo nevex dared take fork in
hand and boldly venture’ to prod for a meal.
Persoas dressed like gentlefolks, who look on
at this dinner-questing, are expected to ex
pend a franc (20 cents) for the benefit of hun
gry spectators whose mouths water for the
delicacies of this pot a feu. Ye rich! who
give a quarter for a pear, think that, at the
Porte St. Denis, in Paris, that wonld pay for
dinner for eight, and even leave the surplus of
a cent!
HECTIC FLUSH, Ao.
There are restaurants all over Paris, which
the ouvriers, or working-people, frequent. At
these, pain a discretion (as much bread as the
person cau eat,) and the inevitable bottle o|
t>in ordinaire, which tastes like red ink di
luted with water and slightly sweetened with
molasses, always form part of the dinner. Al
most invariably, too, in the season, is a soup
made out of pumpkins—the kind which, when
cut, shows an orange or rather a flesh-colored
hue is the best, though the vegetable marrow,
American bntter squash, and mammoth gourd,
are often used instead. The flesh of the
pumpkin is stewed down to a pulp, then
passed throngh a hair sieve, as when carrot
soup is made, and the other ingredients are
water, salt butter or fat, salt, sugar, pepper,
flour, and skim-milk. This makes a rich,
luscious soup, whloh is nourishing and light.
There is not a school, college, convent, mo
mastery, farm-house, or peasant’s cabin, in
which it is not almost constantly ÜBed, for se
veral months in each year. It tastes sweet,
and we have yet to meet the first person who
does not relish it. As a matter of choice, it
is frequently introduced upon rich men’s ta
bles. In America, the finest pumpkins
are grown, they are rarely, if ever, converted
into sonp, but, especially “ Down Past,” are
made into those horribly indigestible things
called pumpkin pies. It is a just punishment
for such misußO of a fine vegetable that the
consumers of pumpkin pies Invariably suffer
lrom indigestion and dyspepsia—ailments
which the French, who cook well, because
sensibly, never suffer from.
Ladies frequent the French restaurants as
well as the cales. It is very customary to find a
whole family dining at a restaurant. To see
them in lull enjoyment, one should visit the
third-rate houses on a Sunday, where the
tradespeople and artisans dine, as it seems un
derstood that nobody, in those ranks, should
dine at home os that day. Father, mother,
M MO TAT
MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1861.
Living in Paris.--No. 1.
children—even infants, nurses, and dogs
compose the family party. Every one, child
ren included, tacks a huge napkin under the
chin, the females carefully pinning it by the
top ends to their shoulders. They all eat and
drink ad libitum, winding np with a demi-tasse
of coffee and a,petit verrt d a liqueur.
But enough of Paris living for one day.
(Corresnondenoe of Th. Press.l
Savjh Booh, hbab New Haver, Ct., I
August 8,1861. f
This is a beautiful place. It is a favorite
summer resort for the inhabitants of the “ City
of Elms,” and it has, within a few days past,
been thronged by the officers of the’ regi
ments returned, after tbeir three-months ser
vice, from the seat of war.
There are some Philadelphians at the Savin
Rock, and there wonld be more if it were as
well known to your tasteful citizens as it de
serves to be. The particular charm of the
place la, that, although directly on the sea
shore, it is surrounded and clad, though not
shut in, with the most abundant verdnre and
foliage.
Yesterday there came into New Haven—
but three miles distant—two British steam
ers, chartered for the nonce, fhll of
soldiers in returning regiments. They
throng the sidewalks and streets of the city,
which exhibit numerous flags of welcome,
and gay shop windows, adorned by appropriate
devices and colors. 1 must say that the dis
banded and «mustered-out” volunteers look
eminently shabby. They have, like their
clothes, a worn-out and soiled aspect. They
look as if they had been drawn throngh seve
ral very rough knot-holes. Many resemble
those ragged recruits with which Jack Fal
staff refused to march through Coventry. They
are seedy and needy—hairy and scary; like
mouldy, shadow, warp, feeble, and bull-calf,
“ cold soldiers.” Doubtless, these « recruits ”
will recruit both their healths and wardrobes,
and, after a month’s sojourn at home, be ready
to go back to Washington, equipped with new
arms and “ bravery.” Connecticut is yet loyal
to the Union; though, as I am sorry to ob
serve, the war has grown rapidly unpopular
within the few weeks just past. To this end,
devoutly to be dreaded, has the universal pros
tration oi bnsiness contributed; though, as I
nave been surprised to observe, open and
avowed and fool'mouthed Secessionists, and
Southern sympathizers, are by no means lack
ing in this land of “wooden nutmegs,”
There are, I am told, near this place, in
the pretty town of Milford, no less r-tban
one hundred “ seceshers” of the true South
Carolina stripe. They met privately and re
joiced over Bull Rud, and with a quieter re
sult than that which attended an assemblage
of fifty of their brethren in the neighboring
city of Bridgeport. The latter were com
pelled, at very short notice, to tumble out of
windows, to get on the roots of houses, and
“ stampede,” as they best could, out of tbe
way of an angry and pursuing populace. It
is said that several of these Northern Bridge
porters with Sonthern principles “ vamosed
the ranch” utterly, and have not been seen or
beard of in these diggings since. May they
speedily be followed by all of similar treason
able and abominable sentiments!
IFor The Prase.]
Atlantic City Railroad.
Those who have suffered can feel for others.
Invalids, and especially those suffering from
spinal affections, are frequently visitors at the
ocean for tbe benefit of sea bathing. Its
goodeffectsareoften remarkable; and, under
advice of the physician, should be resorted to
whenever practicable.
But the suffering often to be endured in
reaching it, and the time needed to recover
from the effects of the journey, under present
circumstances, deter many from resorting to
this valuable remedy.
Officers of public conveyances should en
deavor to afford every reasonable facility to
those disposed to patronize them, and espe
cially wben these facilities may increase their
business; but, whether or not, the disease
spoken of is most likely to attaek the more
delicate sex, in Whose well-being no one can
fail being interested, and just as likely to
obtain in onr own families as in any others.
Many invalids wonld gladly avail themselves
of the benefits ot sea bathing who are dis
couraged from doing so from the inconve
niences they are now subject to, especially
thos; of limited means, some of whom scarcely
recover from the effects of the journey until
the time allotted them has nearly expired.
- Would it not be wise, as well as humane, to.
provide in each car, or in some one car j a
place where such invalids could be comfort
ably accommodated in a recumbent position,
and yet convertible into ordinary seats wben
not so needed ? If e.ven an extra charge were
made, it would still he an act ot humanity.
Such an arrangement being made, and pflblic
notice given, would be likely to attract the
attention of many who are now afraid to un
dertake the latigne of the jonrney.
Miouor.
Me. EhlTba : At the annual meeting o
the Pennsylvania State Teachers’ Association,
held at Lewisburg, Union county, Pennsylva
nia, daring the first week of August, it Was
unanimously resolved to purchase from the
funds of the association, a splendid Griffin
rifled cannon, and present it to the General
’Government, with the name of the association
and a suitable inscription npon it.
This patriotic iondtjet of the teachers is
worthy ot all commendation.'
May I suggest that the sentiment of Cow
per, which reads somehow tbis way, (I quote
from memory,) would form a very suitable in
scription :
“ Delightful task, to rear the tender thonght,
And teiioh tho yonng idea how to shoot."
August 10,1861. ±
A Romantic Irish Girl
A fine-looking bright-eyed girl of 16 wsa yes
lerday placed ntder the protection of Mis« Foster,
the matron of the eity prison, whose ease presents
features of a more than ordinarily Interesting cha
racter Her name is Bridget Dokay, and her pa
rents Still live in the oity of Bahtin, which is her
native place The paftiodlats of Kef romantic ca
reer were given by herself, rHth rack an air of mo
dest truthfulness that no one wA'oid wish to Question
her veracity. She stated that when thirteen
years of age she became acquainted with a worthy
young man named Kelly, a oarpenter, who wished
to marry her. Her parents, who were well to do.
prudent people, objeoted to the match, became of
her youth, and prevailed upon the youog man to
leave the neighborhood, giving him a fit out of $lOO.
His departure grieved her, and she determined to
follow him After the lapse of a few months she
learned that he had procured employment on board
a vessel as ship’s oarpenter, and that he sailed
ont of Liverpool. Thither she repaired as quickly
as she obtained the Means, bat only to learn that
Kelly’a vessel had a few days previously sailed for
New York. The damsel was disappointed; hat her
desire to see her trnant lover was not oonqaered.
She immediately procured a suit of sailor boy’s
olothing, for wbioh sne discarded her own girlish
attire, and then shipped, under the name of Ed
ward Johnson, as cabin-boy for a trip to New
York, whither she arrived, but still failed to ac
complish the purpose she had undertaken Friend
less and without means, after she had been here a
week or two, it became necessary that she should
obtain employment, and, notwithstanding the bard
ships to which she had been subjected on her first
voyage, there wee a certain fascination about a
sailors life whioh indnoed her to follow it So,
for three years, she has been voyaging from port
to port, two of wbioh were passed in the oapaoity
of oabln boy, and the third as an able seaman, her
robust constitution enabling her to tako her “ trick
at tho wheel” and perform the varied duties of her
lot as well as tho beat man on board. Doling all
this time, notwithstanding an evident refinement
of manner not oharaoterlstiO of an ordinary sailor,
and delioaoy of appearance, whioh ought to have be
trayed her sex, her secret was never discovered;
She performed her dntiessowell that her three last
voyages have been made in one vessel—the ship
Resolute, of the Blaok Ball line—the captain hav
ing pressed her to remain With him, an i compli
menting her as a “promising yonngman.” But,
amid all the hardships of her condition she lost
no opportunity of searching for the young cer
pernor, of whom, however, she has lately lost
every trace. On Thursday night, cherishing a hope
that she might encounter him in some of the low
sa'oonsin Water-street, whioh seafaring man fre
quent, she determined to explore them Mixing
freely with the nnrnly characters there, the found
it necessary to treat them to liqnor. An attempt,
however, was mads to impose npon her liberality,
whioh she resisted, and one of tho ruffians made
an assault npon her. The discovery of her sex
was then made, and created snoh excitement that
the police ware attraeted by the disorder whioh
the erowd occasioned The yonng sailor girl was
taken to the station house, where she made a par
tial statement to the Police Captain, who was fa
vorably impressed with her ingenuous manner,
and provided her with good aooommodatioa for the
night Yesterday morning she was arraigned be
fore Jos’ioe Osborn, who lcotnred nor upon the im
propriety of her condnot, and informed hor that
she had been guilty of a misdemeanor, at whioh
she seemed greatly surprised Miss Foster, the
matron, made her change her male attire for one
more appropriate to hor youth and sex, and she is
now metamorphosed into a very pretty girl, rather
ran burned, it is trne, and having her hair oropped
too olosely, but withal interesting and womanly.
She acknowledges to tooling great restraint in her
new garments, bat deolares she will never disoard
them again. Her great hope now is to obtain some
respaotable employment, and doubtless it will soon
be found for her.— N. Y Times, of Saturday.
We learn by a letter from an officer at Cairo,
that the visit of General F; emont to that point has
stirred up the dry bones thoroughly, and given
ihe. industrious a vast amount of labor. Colonel
Waogner, formerly of Gov Kossuth’s staff, who
wax favorably referred to in the Commercial of
the Ist inst, was offered a brigadier generalship,
but preferred the part to which hiß experience
and education more strongly direoted him, and
was appointed by Maj Gen F. emont, Chief of
Artillery of his departmo- t, with a command of
133 gnns W. F. Brinek, E?q ,of Cinoimati, was
appointed ohlef secretary of the department, with
the rank of oaptaln.
A Reminiscence.
Washington, August 8,
Editor or the Press ; Chanoe having thrown
in my way “ l'he Carolina Tribute to Calhoun,”
by J P- Thomas, and published by Richard L.
Biyun, Columbia, 8. C , In 1857, I have takes
pains to eopy, with oare, an extraot from a sermon
preached by R-,v. Dr. Tbornwell, of Charleston,
upon the death of Hon. John 0- Calhoun, which
ooonrred, as your readers will be reminded, the
last day of March, 1850, daring the sitting of one
of the most remarkable sessions of Congress that
aver ooonrred In our history. Tho famous Compro
mise measures of that Congress will be called to
mind by every one. The extraot in question I
forward with this, and presume from its intrinsic
excellence, in a literary point of view, as well as for
the remarkable contrast it affords to tbe senti
ments of many of the Southern people, and proba
bly of Dr. Thornwall himself, at the present mo
ment, you will find room for it in your paper.
The question naturally arises, how is it possible
that any one as intelligent as Dr. Tbornwell is
welt known to be, can have in so short a time so
completely revolutionized his sentiments upon
suoh momentous themes as those he so eloquently
discusses ? I do not propose any extended re
mark upon the singularity ot this exhibition, bnt
eon tent myself with simply suggesting, what I am
persuaded will ultimately bs found to be true,
that when the restraints which the present revolu
tionary condition of the country bae enforced upon
the people of the Couth ehall have passed away,
under oiroumstanoei to render the expression of
opinion entirely safe, it will be found that senti
ments sneh as these are still those of large pro
portions of the people.
When Dr. Thornwell preached that sermon ho
uttered tho matured and sober convictions of his
mind. Have subsequent events changed there
opinions, or are they his opinions still, to be re
uttered when some future occasion oalls for them,
and when io do so would not go far to forfeit his
personal liberty, if not his life? How painful
must be tbe' reminUoenoss of the past when the
reverend gentleman reviews these inspiring and
noble sentiments: But we will not pursue the un
welcome theme. Let the mantle of oharity be
thrown over a truant patriotism, a recreant reli
gion, if indeed these be not the sentiments that
now oommand his belief. W. L. B.
Extraot of a sermon on oooasion of the death of
Hon. John 0. Calhoun, preached la the ohapel of
the South Carolina College, April 2,1856, by Rev.
James H. Thornwell, Professor of Snored Litera
ture and the Evidences of Christianity :
“ Shall tbis Union, ooneeorated by patriot
blood, founded on prlnoipies of political wisdom,
which-the world has wondered at and
and which has conducted ns to a pitch of elevation
and of influence, which have made us a study
among the philosophers of Europe ; shall this
Union, whloh in all our past history has bsea our
glory and dsfenoe, be broken np, and the confe
derated Btates of this Republio left to float upon the
wide sea of poiitioal agitation and disorder ? The
magnirude of this catastrophe depends not at all
upon the shook wbioh it would give to our most
ohorished sentiments j upon breaking up theoon.
tinuity of our national recollections, and interrupt
ing the onrrant of patriotio emotions, though this
desarvss to be seriously considered But thefe are
deeper, more awful, consequences involved.
“ To suppose that this Confederacy oan be dis
solved without oruel, btoody, ferocious war, ter
minating in a hatred more intense than any which
over yet disgraced the annals of any people, is to
set at dofianoo ail the lessons cf history; and to
suppose that, in the present state of tbe world,
when the bottomless pit seems to have been open
ed and every pestilential vapor tainting the at
mosphere—when a false philosophy has impreg
nated the whole mass of the people abroad with
absurd and extravagant notions of tbe very nature
and organization of society and tbe true ends of
government ; to suppose that, amid this ohaos of
opinion, .which has cursed the reaent revolutions
of Europe, we could enter upon the experiment of
framing new oonstitutions without danger, is to
arrogate a wisdom to onrseives to which rhe pro
gress of events, in some sections of the land, shows
we are not entitled.
“ I cannot disguise the.oonviotfon thatjthe dissolu
tion of this Union, aa a poiitioal question, is the
most momentary which oan be proposed in the
present condition of the world Consider the posi
tion and influence of these United States. To say
that this vast Repnblio is, under God, the arbiter of
the destinies of this whole continent—that it is for
us to shape the oharaeter of all America—that our.
laws, our institutions, onr manners, must tell upon'
the degenerate nations of tha South, and sooner or,
later absorb the hardfof tons of the North, is to
take too oontraoted a view of the snejact. With
tbe Paeifie os the one side, and the Atlantia on the
other, we seem to hold the nations in our bands
With one arm on Europe, and the other on Asia, it
is for us to determine the poiitioal condition of the
race for ages yet to oome. Our geographies! posi
tion, in conneotion with the inventions of modern,
soienoe ana the Improvements of modern enter
prise, makes us the ter? heart of the world. Oar
life must be propelled by the oeoans which en
girdle onr shores, through every oountrj on the
globe; the beating of our pulse must be felt in
every nation of the earth. We stand, indeed, in
reference to free institutions and the progress of
oivitiaation, ia the momentous oapaoity of the
federal representatives of the human raee.
“ But the acooiflpHshrtent of the lofty destiny to
which our position evidently calls ea depends
upon union, as well as progression. Oar g?c¥y has
departed—the spell is broken—whenever we be
come divided among onrseives. I..habod may
then be written upon our walls, and the olook of
the World will be put bsok for generations and
oentnries What a question, therefore, is that
whether we shall go forward in that career on
which We hafe ecT auspiciously entered, tad ac
complish the destiny, to' which .tho Froviaoaoo of
God seems, oenspiouously, to hn/o tailed Us, or
suffer the hopes of hnmaaity to be orushed, and
freedom to be buried in eternal night It is not
extravagant to fanoy that we oan see the unborn
millione of our own deseendante uniting with count
less multitudes of the friends of liberty in all
ollmeS, iff iorVent supplications to tbe Amerioan
Congress for the' salvation, of the Amerloen Uuiou
Tbe liberty of th j world fs at Stoke. The Ameri
can Congress is now delibefanng Upon tho civil
destinies of mankind.
“ Bnt the interests of freedom are not the only
ones involved. The interests of religion are
deeply at stake. To Britain and America, Pro
testant Christianity looks for her sorest friends,
and hef most dsalous and persevering propagators.
With the dissolßtiqn of this Union, ailour sdhsmes
of Christian benovcloffco tad duty—our efforts to
oonvort tho world—to spread tSo knowledge of
Christianity among all people, and to translate the
I>ble into all languages, must be suddenly and
violently interrupted. It would be the extinction
of that light whioh is beginning to dawn upon the
millions of China—the total eelipsa of that star of
hope which is beginning to rise upon the isles of
the sea. The Oopflequenoes—oivil, poiitioal, and
religious—wbioh would refiffit, not simply to us,
but to mankind from the deetruotiofi of this glo
rious Confodef aoy, Cannot be oontemplated without
horror, and make the' presefft, beyond all contro
versy, tbe most important and soleiffn orisis that
has ever been presented ill the history of onr
country.”
The Rebels Responsible for tile Slave
Trade.
lord palmbbstou’3 a6xhoWt.*dokbht of the
The telegraphie despatches by the Europa mft
represented Lord Palmerston, whose late parlia
mentary spcge.h, upon the sntgeat of the African
slave-trade did not the onus of treaty violation
upon the United States in itJ fii'rporfH, oapaoity,
but upon the influences operating in Government
quarters whioh have now unmasked themselves in
the shape of open rebellion Bis statement of tbe
faots of the oase is really very just, as well as hiß
oomments thereon—and, as an isdioation that Eng
land’s first statesman dearly peroeivrs the obsta
oies whioh have lain in the way of a free peoplo’a
tieoutive eXpreseion.on the snbjsot of the slave
trade infamy, we enbjoin s 6 tnuoh of thia speech as
refers to oar Amerioan action:
“ There are some Portuguese shipments ffom tho
east coast of Afrios, bat the trade is mainly darried
on under the Amerioan flag. Lately there has been
&0180 little amount of Blav*ry carried on under the
Frenob flag, but net to any great extent We have
been constantly remonstrating with the Ameri
ean Government against that prostitution of their
flag In One piece of Correspondence, I told them
that a piece of bnhting otight hot to be a national
passport. They teok offence at that, and said 1 had
insulted their flag. It waß not the expression that
nettled thain, bat tbd reproaoh that their flag was
prostituted to base purposes We tried to persuade
them togrant a mutual right of searoh, bnt we were
unsuccessful. We tried other plans, and at last we
proposed to Mr Bnobanan that English and Arne
rioan orniiers should sail in company, and when
any ship under the Amerioan flag should be taken,
with slaves on board, she should be prise to the
Amerioan orniser, and treated aooording to the
Amerioan law ; bat when a ship was taken with
out a flag or papers with slaves on board she should
be prise to the British cruiser, and be subject to
onr law. That proposal seemed too well oalcnlated
to accomplish its purpose to be accepted by the
American Government, and accordingly it was de
clined The honorable member from Galway says
that now that the North and the South are at varl-.
anee is the time to get the assistance of the North
against the Booth. It is quite true that at the
time of the disruption of the Union—if wo may as
sume it to have taken place—or before this
civil contest broke ont, it was the influence of
the Booth whioh prevailed at Washington—
[hear, hear]—and prevented the Government
there from aooepting any of the offers we made
for the pnrpese of enlisting the support of
the United States Government in the exeontion
of their treaty engagements There is a treaty
engagement by wbtoh they an bound to co
operate with no for the suppression of tho slave
trade. For a time they sent one or two small ves
sels to the ooast of Afrioa, and lately they have
increased the number. But thlß I have observed,
that when an American cruiser is commanded by
a captain irom the Booth, no eff otlve assistance
whatever is given for the suppression of the slave
trade [Hear) The Southern captain shuts bis
eyes to what is going on and runs iff to Madeira
for supplies of water; bnt the ornisers commanded
by oaptains from the North do give ns very effective
and vigilant cooperation. [Hear] Xhat would
lead to the hope, bo doubt, that it the oonrse of
events should give to the North a more sovereign
existence, possibly tho spirit of the North wonld
prevail over the inflnenoe whioh hitherto has con
trolled them, and alihongh most of the ornisers
were fitted ont at New York and Boston, and, per
haps, with oapitwl irom the North, yet it was the
eplrit of the South which animated these expe
ditions.”
Col. F. F. Blais is one of the suite accom
panying Mrs. Linooln to Long Branoh.
TWO CENTS.
FEOM FOETEESS MONBOE.
The earning of the Town of Hampton.
BEBKIj vandalism.
ICorre.ycmd.nae of the New York Tribune.!
Fobtbbss Mohbob, Old Point Comport,
August 8,1861.
Another and a fearful scene has bean enacted in
the drama of Rebellion Last night the village of
Hampton was laid in ashes by the rebels. Mr.
Mahew, formerly of Bath, Maine, who went to
Georgia to live, and was there preEsed into the
rebel servioe, oame into oar lines yesterday after
noon as a deserter, and gave much valuable inior
mation concerning the mtvements of Gen Magrn
dir. On Monday morning laet Gen. M. left Yoik
tcwn with two Tennessee, one Georgia, one Alaba
ma regiment, and two battalions, and some oavairy,
in all, five regiments, or between 6 000 and 6.000
men, with eight guns, one of whioh was rifled.
The foioe reached Great Bethel about noon of the
same day, and encamped on Toesday night, when
they proceeded to Newmarket Bridge, two and a
half miles beyond Hampton, arriving there abont
11 o’clock A- M. Wednesday. Gen Magruder
immediately formed his men in line of battle, ex
pecting Gen. Batler would attack him. and waited
some time. The impression among the men was
that they were to be led to tho attaok of Newport
News that afternoon. While awaiting the appear
ance of an opposing foros, and while Gen Magrn
der was engaged in taking observations from the
tup of a house, Mr. Mahew esoßped into the woods,
made his way to Hampton, swam the oreek, and
ga 'e himself np to our piokets, by whom he was
conducted to Gen. Butler's headquarters.
Information *f the movements of the enemy was
immediately telegraphed to Gen. Phelps at New
port News, who had obtained corresponding intel
ligence from other sources Measures were taken,
in conjunction with the fleet, to defend onr post
tion here end Newport News from the oombined
attaok which it was evident the enemy intended
This was about C o’clock P. M. Tho rebels had
already reaohed he outskirts of Hampton, and an
advance guard ooeupied the village about 4}
o’clock, the force having left Newmarket Bridge
about tne time Mr. Mahew deserted During the
evening proper orders were issued to the foros at
Camp Hamilton, commanded by Colonel Max
Weber, and a soouting party was sent to Fox Hiit
to watoh the movements ef the enemy in that neigh
borhood. At 10 o’oloek General Batler, after vine
lng Camp Hamilton, went to Hampton Bridge
and instructed tho force posted there to hold
the position, and resist any at'empt either
to destroy or pa6B the bridge. About 25 feet of
the planks had been taken up, and the timbers out
"away on the Hampton side. At that point onr
foree, consisting ot s detachment of Max Weber’s
riflemen, erected a bargioade When Gen. Batler
left every thing was quiet in the village, and there
was no appearance or anything unntu&l Shortly
a rebel forae oame to the bridge} and commenced a
vigorous attaok on our force there.' A sharp oon
test ensued, which resulted in iocs to the enemy
and their retreat. The rebels theo commenoed to
fire the town. Fin was first set to the,buildings
nearest »o the biiiga Those who committed this
act ot Vandalism note to a considerable ex'ent
former leading citizens of Hampton and owners of
property, ana .ooLsrqaentJy smang the greatest
sufferers. They dis.ributed themselves through
the village, went to the residence 1 of the few re
maining white inhabitants, and warned them tc
prepare for the event tnat was at hand No other
reason was given than tbat tne; had orders to barn
the village, snd that it would be done. No time
was given <0 remove farm ure or other eStats, and
scarcely enough to albw -be terrified people to
dress Red escape to the -treel.
At the bouse of Mr. J iß.pb Begar, who was ab
eent, a faithful colored servant undertook to ro
move some valuables, when he was warned by tbe
rebel oharged with tbe duty of setting fire to the
dwelling to desist. The negro, instead of obeying,
kept on, only remarking that the things must be
get cut. The rebel then told him it be did not
stop he would shoot him. “ Can’t help dat; mas
sa'B things must be got out,” was the reply. The
chivalrous rebel fired, but missed his aim. Tbe
negro fled, and is safe, having done all that could
be naked of any one. It is known that in not a
taw instances men fired their own property, and
thus destroyed dwellings in whioh they had spent
a good share ot their lives.
After the first fire had been kindled, the attack
ing force returned to the bridge, where another
sharp contest of about twenty minutes ensued, and
wbtoh resulted as before iu the repulse of the
rebels. It is known that thoy lost quite a number,
as they were seen oarried away, pioked off by the
Gorman riflemen, who took good aim in the light
of tho burning buildings. No one was hurt on our
side, though the planks and barrels of whioh the
barricade was constructed were freely pierced by
bullets.
Failing in the attempt to carry the bridge, the
town was fired In every part, ana by a little past
midnight the village was a mass of flames lighting
np the heavenß, so that as far eff as Newport News
it was light enough to read a newspaper. It re
quired no very vivid imagination to diecern in the
glare, smoke, and flame, the horrid features of
sivil War. Never before hoe our country furnished
a scone calculated to suggest thoughts like this.
“ Kill, burn, destroy,” was the injunotion of the
Charleston Mercury, and here it was literally
obeyed. It was the first instance of the kind in
the course of the war. How many more, and
perhaps far more terrible, will there be before it
is over!
There were probably from 20 to SO white persons
in tho village, and from 100 to 200 negroes. Ter
rorstrioken, ss weii they might be, at snah a mid
night visitation, they flad in all directions, not
knowing what fate might overtake them at any
turn- One old, half dying, speechless, and utterly
helpless man, Mr. Gsorgo JU Massenberg, one of
the oldest inhabitants or the place, Bnrrounded by
a tew devoted servants, was taken by them from
his house, near the bridge, and while the fight
was going On, the flames reging, the stifling smoke
surging, and ballets whixsing ail around, and re
moved on a wheelbarrow ton point on the creek,
where a small boat was found, ill which he was
taken in safety to onr side. To day be found se
curity and attention in the fortress hospital He
is an undisguised fcfeoeasionist, and though tho faot
was as well known as any ether, he received neith
er mercy nor the manifestation of human feelings
from the rebels. Bnt for tar devotion of his ser
vants he, no conbt, wonld have perished in the
flames that were the legitimate conscquenoes of his
own dootrinss
Mr and Mrs. Wilson Jones, tWo old and highly
respectable people, known to sympathise with the
rebellion, and about the only couple who could bat
did not flee wuen Hampton was deserted three
months sinoe, and who, notwithstanding the well
understood views of Mr. J., lived in undisturbed
qniet, were roused from their clambers and soaicely
given time to dress. They did take out a very few
things that were snored in the household so long
maintained, and now so rudely and suddenly set
in flames, and retreated to the rear of the yard;
and there they stood all night silent, solitary
Spectators amid the glare of conflagration, barely
escaping the flames that almost lapped them in
their folds. This morning, two gentlemen, old
acquaintances, solicitous tor their fate, set out
from the fortress, and, at their own risk, went into
the village, and found the aged oonplo standing
there still nnder the rays of the son that were
soaroely less soorohing than the flames that all
night had raged aronnd them. The protection
Which was dno to them from t'.a rebels, bnt w&b
worse than denied them, was given by the two
loyal citigens, who by their acts evinced that
duality te the Government was bnt humanity to
man. Certain features of Mr. Jones’s o&so are
peculiarly aggravating.
In the afternoon, a relative, holding an office in
the Secession army, came to hia house, aud after
enjoying his hospitalities, informed him that the
order was out to bnrn the village Bo absurd waa
the statement that ho did not credit It. In the
evening he went into the streets, where all was
qniet, ahS no evidenoe of snoh a purpose. Rebel
gnaids were stationedj beßido this, there was
nothing nnnsnai. About ten o’elook he returned
to his eouso and retired- Hoarsely had the aged
oouple fallen asleep' when they were aroused by A
knock at the door, where a former neighbor, and,
I belief*; relative of Mr Jones, awaited him, and
informed him that he had been detailed speoiaily
to set fire to hie dwelling. Harrying baok to the
chamber of his wiie, and informing her of the mes
sage, they had barely time to dread themselves,
and flee to ffie yard with a lew articles, tfhen the
flames burst thr.ngh the house.
Ho intense was me - spirit of Vandalism that no
disposition was shown to spare even the Oid
Church, whioh Is one of the landmarks oonneoting
the past with the present—where Washington
worshipped, ahd whose associations wero saored,
and onght to hade DaCft respected, though ho
could soarcely expeot so much from men intent on
destroying the Government, of wbioh W asbisgton
was obief architect. The flames, as they ascended
the steeple, seemed to spit and hiss spitefully at
the traitors, who spare nothing, however saored—
neither age, sex, nor holy antiquity, if it etanus to
the way of their assigns.
The destruction was nearly complete. Less than
a dcaen buildings remain standing In most of
them fire was kindled, but it did not burn in all. I
visited the village tu day with a strong guard.
The rebel pickets were u. be seen skulking about,
the main body having withdrawn, probably to
Newmarket Bridge Word has been given out
that the remaining bouses will be fired to night,
and the work ol devastation rendered complete.
No adequate reason can be given for this ex raor
dinary step The only one that approaches to
plausibility is, that the destruction ot the village
wonld deprive the Federal troops of quarters, not
only at present, bnt more especially this winter
I will take the occasion to intimate to General
Magrnder, that the troops here havo little idea of
wintering in Hampton,/but will seek a more genial
climate, and farther, that it will be of small oon
oern to him whether they do or not
But few peraons, white or black, remain in the
town The rebels do not seem to have carried
away any negroes, most of them having taken
refnge within our lines Borne few white persons,
including three or four females, are not accounted
for It is not believed that any lives were lost ex -
oept in the fight at the bridge.
W hen I visited the village, this afternoen, to de
vouring bad been the fire tual in only a raw plaeeß
tho smoke continued to rise. It was a wilderness
of naked ohimneys and tottoring walls. Tho old
brick structures had bumd out, leaving them
■tending empty shells—monuments to mark tho
footstops of rebellion A few negro women were
scratching in the ashes, or guarding a few things
of (heir masters saved from the conflagration. Ab
oar little steamer neared the whart, au old woman
tbns occupied made violent motions tor ub to keep
off at the same time running toward ns and shoal
ing forth something, nhiih we made to ineau :
-• D* Seossh ar cornin’.”
This is about the end ot Hampton Oio or the
oldest, handsomest, and most arlstoaratio villsges
in che Old Dominion it has been crushed utterly
under the heel of rebellion, and nearly wiped out
forever.
That General Magrnder intended when he left
Yorktown to attack Newport News there 1b little
dnnbt It is questionable, however, whether he
will do so I do not think he will unleu some ex
traordinary lorolng oironmstanoea arias. I believe
that Gen. Fnelps will be prepared for him when
ever he oomes. The Savannah is on her way up
■jfSsUK f^KJSSS.
i'i-s W«n,i J’istj will W nm* i* ntacrtowr* to
*lii(F»i«iiui lit wirratt,! >H.»»
tflirn* itoplu. •• (.•(
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For a<3!»1» »i lT»*tr *«# orer, w« will w»4 •<
ntr * **pt to tke fottor- it of tfca (Ilk
MF* FMlautm ar* rooiootod to Ml M Aunt* to
7** Tmiii fun.
•AMFOKNIA run
!<«■•* three time* > M«u, < tlwa f ml lit* ealtfwaia
Steamers
to lie abreast of our oamp, and lend the assistance
of her powerful battery. The entire forae of Gen.
Magruder it between seven and eirht thonsand,
there being bat a small foroe left at Yorktown.
GENERAL NEWS.
Judob Catron. — The Nashville Union and
American has the following: I oalled to ace Judge
Catron soon after bis return from bolding the
Federal Court at Bt. Lonls, and conversed with
him fully relative to bis position in the present
contest between the North and Booth, and am
fully satisfied that his mission to Missouri re
sulted in saving our friends there, and that
Judge Catron’s feelings are with the South ft
is true that he yet oilogs to the hope that the
Union may possibly be preserved, or a reoan
Blruetion may take piaee, as many other good
oitissns of his age still hope for, and that a revo
lution will occur in public opinion at the North,
when they will oonoede to the South ail they ask.
Tbere are very few left In the South that sympa
thize with Judge Catron in this wish, but at the
same time there is nothing in It inconsistent
with his preference for the South in a final divi
sion. I may add here that I entertain no doubt
whatever, from my eonferenoo with Jndge Catron,
that, when the current of events shall satisfy bis
mind that this illusion Is without foundation, as
snreiy will ooonr, he will take his natural positioa
by the side of his kindred, friends, and aountry
men, and will prove fas his feelings now lndioate)
one of the staunchest and trnest friends of the
Southern Government.
I write this as a matter of justice to Judge Ca
tron, whose feelings are not generally understood.
Hs wishes to live among his old friends and ac
quaintances here, and, after foil conference with
him, l oan tee nothing in his wishes in this respect
Inconsistent with the interests of our oommuhltT.
fit will not undertake to hold a Federal oourt herc
agaia, no matter what may ooonr, as he stated to
me several times.
Judge Catron is too old to form new associations,
is earnest and honest, and a better aed more re
liable friend to our oause than many who are not
excepted to by any. V. K Snvanson.
Genbeal Wool.—We stated briefly in the
second edition of the Times, yesterday, that oMers
had been issued for General Wool to repair to Fort
Monroe and assume asmmand of that department.
The Information was bared upon a telegraphic
despatoh from General Scott to General Wool,
stating that it was desirable that he should direct
the operations of that wing. of the army, sn-i in
quiring if his health was such as to be equal to the
responsible duties of the position. General Wool
immediately replied by telegraph as follows:
“Teot, August B,IBUI.
“ I am ready—never in better health.
“JohjT E Wool.”
The inquiry being thus answered satisfactorily,
General Wool is awaiting the reception of his or
ders, and' preparing for his departure for active
duty It is expected that his orders will be
received, here to day or to morrow, and tho Gene
ral intends to bo ready by Tuesday or Wednesday
"f n«xt week to leave the oity.— Troy Times of
Friday, ,
They settle editorial difficulties in Oregon
with lead in the shape of bnllets instead of types
Mr O'Meara, not liking something Mr. Denlingor
printed in his paper, slapped Mr. D In the faoe,
when the interference of bystanders prevented far
ther demonstrations They met on the day follow
ing without any belligerent aots on either side tin
til they had passed each ether, when Denlinger
turned with a large knife in his band, and stabbed
O’Meara in the back, above the kidneys; as the
latter turned be reoeived another ont on the head
which caused him to stagger; as lie recovered he
drew his pistol—a small five-shooter—whiah Den
linger wrenched frem him and shot him three
times—the first shot causing a slight wonnd on tho
left side under the arm; the seoond, mussing the
left wrist, disabling that arm; and the third in
the thigh, oaasing only a flesh-wound. The wounds
are all painful, but not considered mortal.
“ What abb you going to do, you bad wo
man’s boy?" said Mrs. Pa tiDgtou, alike pawed
through the kitohen into the garden "Down
with the Smashers !” be shouted, and sha looked
oat just In season to see the top of » weigeUe bath
fall before the artillery sword of Paul, that tha
youngster held in his hand. “ You’d better go to
Molasses Jngtion, if you want to do that,” she
said, restraining his hand as it was lifted (gainst
her favorite fuchsia, ready to decapitate the plant
that she had watched with almost a mother’s ear*
for three winters. " Dear me,” she murmured to
herself, “ what a terrible thing war is, when even
the children show saeh signs of oon Bangui oity, and
brother is pitied against brother; I ain’t bear to
think of it Isaac, dear, go down and buy me an
extradition of the paper. ” Ike departed with a
half dime, aod from the faot that no ohange oame
back, Mrs Partington supposed that the prise was
raise!.
Sprightly Old Lady Mrs. Huldah Blair,
of Glonoester, entered upon her 98,h year on the
7th test. Mrs Blair Ust her husband in the great
gale of 1821; she was left with a family of small
children to look to her for support Sinee that
time she has performed all tha labor neon a fans
of 90 aerea, with 30 to 40 head of eattle upon’ It,
without the aid of a man. Four of her ohildren
died before Teaching maturity, and the other two
died teething She ont and sold last year 73 tens
of hay, besides 8 fat beeves and two tons of butter
from tho farm. All this labor she performed with
out assistance. It may well be doubted whether
the eonntry oan show another snoh instance of
vigor.
- Attempt to Kill his Hastes. —On Thurs
day of last week Dr A J. Smoot, of Charles
oounty, Md., had oeoasion to reprimand one of his
slaves The doctor did not strike him, but simply
threatened him with punishment. The negro ap
peared very submissive and apologised for bis oon
dnat, bnt when his master turned from him he
seised a gun near at hand and struck the doctor a
deadly blow on tho head, Bbivoting the gnu to
pieces. The doctor fell from the cfhota of the
blow, when the negro ran off, and has not sinoe
been heard from. Tho doctor is not hurt further
-than a severe scalp wound.
Break in the Bideav Canal. — The King*
ston (0. W ) News says a destructive break oc
curred on the Bideaa Canal On Saturday, The
foundations of tha baok gats at Lower Brewer’s
Mills gave way, and the embankment fell in, com
pletely obstructing navigation. The accident i
ascribed wholly to ihe bad foundation of the look,
sinoe there was but the ordinary pressure ef lock
age water in that portion of the oanal This look,
we are informed, has been long in a fealty condi
tion. It is said that this break cannot ho com
pletely repaired during this season of navigation.
Even nr chivalrous Sooth Carolina it ap
pears that there is a relnotance to enlist The
Charleston Courier says : “ There Is in onr com
munity too great a disposition to sbirk active doty.
Borne hold baok beoanse others do—some mu t
have commissions—some have families, or bnsineix,
or are members of organisations whioh they know
will not bv ordered out of the city —some are le
gally or professionally exempt. Now this state ef
things is discreditable to us. The enemy is almoit
at our door ”
Arrested for Treason. —Hon. Thomas
A. R Nelson, of Bist Tennessee, who has persist
ently opposed the action of bie State, waa arrested
on the charge of treason in Lee eonnty, Virginia,
on the 4th. He was on his way to Washington to
olaim a seat in Congress. He will prohaoly be
"ied for treason, as we learn from the Nashville
Union, and American, from whioh we extract the
above.
Hails in the Flesh. —To prevent the tor
ture of the nail running into tho quick, keop too
nails of a proper length, and about ones a week
scrape them down to the ends with a piece of
glass This will keep them thin, and instead of,
in walking, being driven back into the quick, they
will give. One who for years ondnred this torture
has ionnd entire relief by this praotioe.
Two Men Murdered bt a Negro.— A ne
gro named Otford, a farmer of oonaideTabla pro
perty in Minnesota, residing near Bt Paul, had a
quarrel with two of his neighbors, last week, ebout
seme bay, both of whom he murdered. Lawranaa
was shot in the forehead, and Churshlll in the
back of Ms head. They were feund deed by the
neighbors in front of the negro’s home.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of East Virginia,
has forbidden the circnlati& of notes issul & by
the Merobants’ and Heohamos’ Bank of
and the Northwestern Bank, excepting those of
the branch of the latter institution at Jefferson
ville The reason assigned is that those backs
give aid te the enemy
Pathaeter Randolph B. Morey, tathec
in law of Gen. McClellan, who, when oaptaln in
the Utah army, won great oredit by an expedition
to Mniao in the dead of winter, his been ap
pointed Inspector General of the army, with tank
of colonel.
A Man Drowns Himself and Wife.—A
mao, mimed Miaharl Buiko, grasped his wife and
jumped overheard from the steamer Key City,
■ ear Guttrnberg, on the Mississippi river, on the
3in nit B»*h were drowned. They belonged in
Dnhcqao Both bid the delirium tremens
The committee who have been acting as
ja Ues npon the 4u«*tion of a national hymn have
reported i hat they received twelve bundled nano
script*, but that no ane of them was eonsideied
worthy ul the prise. They have, therefore, retired
from their position
Richard A. Palmer, a graduate ol the
Citadel Aoedemy, (1852 ) and a native of Y<rk
vii.’e, 8 C , was one ol the killed at Manaesar.
Ho was there as second lieutenant of the “ Minute
Men” from Foe to too, Miss
A Cook Killed bt a Goblet. —A cook at
the Fort william Henry Hotel, Lake George, died
on F'ijoy, fro™ hemorrhage, earned by a sat bom
H goblet thrown at him by a colored waiter in a
quarrel.
Delawarian Killed —Robert Porter Jean
dell, of Philadelphia, bnt formerly ef Delaware,
was killed in the battle at Bull Rnn He waxonly
22 years of age.
The Southern papers recemmend their peo
ple to dispense with the usual signs of mourning
for their elain relatives as they give the streets aid
ohurobes a gloomy sjpo rauoe
Bx an adroit insertion of three lines in the
bill making appropriations for fortifications,
flogging, as a punishment, is abolished in the
army.
The Sultan of Turkey has reducedjbis own
salary from $5 000,000 to $2,000,000. Re has an
Amerioan secretary. Abdul Am is in his 31st
year.
Letter b from Havana announce the death
of Jau.es Savage, of Bos on, associate eit:or of tho
Diana de la Manna.
Vessels are not now allowed to leave tho
harbor ot Annapolis, Maryland, between « Unset
and sunrise.
The wife of General Flonrney, of Arkansan,
has become a raving maniac sinoe the tooent death
of her husband
Cheney Bartlett, a colored woman, aged
one hundred yean, died in 8t Louis last week.
Miss Dix has been serlonaly indisposed, but
la now recovering.