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PUBLISHI V
BV >-'*■» W. VORNEY,
office t\ . vn \
' Twelve Cents V>.\ to the Carrier.
Mailed to .t - - ' • < *S»y at Six Dollars
;Per Ahnpm, Four l - • Months, Turks
fob Si> by iu advancefor
the time ordered.
THE TnS'WSiiKi.Y PRESS,
Mailed to Sni»sfvib''r.- „v.u «,r \\- City at Three Dol-
J.ARS Per Annum, <"iY r u-u
!MEM
SIC V RAT;iIJfG.
.gB A BAT >] ! i;-y}
ATLANT.!.<) « : ITY, N. J.
TWO AND TURI' 1 «.?l. U.TKTi HOURS FROM
piu(.,*i)i:u'irtA.
ATLANTIC CITY .« i c .rr, ,-.-ded to bo one of the
•most delightful Sea-* 1 >• the world. Ita Bath
'!ng is unsurpassed; «t-« unbroken Beach (nine
•miles in length) is ut?* 1 • any on the continent,
-gave that of Galvestoi ; t ■. mimrkahlo for its dry
-ness; its Bailing and : T:v. diUcs are perfect; its
'hotels are well ftirnb*::i-h and as *vSl kept as those of
Newport or Saratoga, uhih» in- avenues and walks are
•cleaner and broader than ti.: any other Sea-Bathing
-place in ihc country
Trains of the. CAMPON A*'h ATLANTIC RAIL
ROAD leave YTXE-si i;:.?:-; UTIIARF, Philadelphia,
daily, at A. M. and -J • 'f. tfetnrmng, reach Phila
delphia at OA. M. and “ T'. M. Faro, 51.30.
f<-i Three Days, $2.50. Bis
rjnls the whole length of
jylO-tf
BonnA-Trip Tickets, !~
tancc, 60 miles. A
the Boad.
fZZZ »KO si THE SE A
-CAMDEN AND AT
XAKTIC RAILROAD.-i * - and after MONDAY. Juno
17tli, trains will leave Vi>' < f REET E;ERKY daily,
(Sundays excepted):
Moil train 7.30 A. M.
Express train ..4.00 I*. M.
Accommodation 5.00 P. M.
RETUKNINfii l S'. \ V Kjs ATLANTIC:
Mall train, 4.40 P, M.
Express train 0.15 A. M.
Accommodation 3.1 S A. M.
Fare to Atlantic, $1.50; Vb-.tnd Trip tickets, good for
three days, $2.50.
Freight must be deliver*-.; at UOOrER’S POINT by
SP. M. The Company •.* >M : ;<t be responsible for any
goods until received and r* b-fed fur. by their Agent,
-fit the Point. JOHN G. BItVANT t
je!s-tf Agent.
r ,ir~> FOB, CAPE MAY AND
■KSSGiIaa NEW YOHIC TUESDAYS, THURS
DAYS, and SATURDAYS, R o’clock A. M.
New Yolk mid Philadelphia Steam Navigation Com
pany, Steamers DELAWARE, Captain Johnston, and
BOSTON, Captain Crook.-r. will leave for CAPE MAY
aud NEW YORK, from fir-4 wharf below Spruce street,
4?verv TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, at
A. M. t
Returning. leave New York same days at SP. M. Rc
fuming, leave Cape May SUNDAYS, WEDNESDAYS,
and FRIDAYS, at S A. M.
Fare to Gape May, Carriage Hire- included .81 50
Fare to Cape May, So ~ c oi< Tickets, Carriage Hire
8 00
ITare to New Xo*fc, Cabin 2 00
Do. Do. Deck 1 50
Steamers d.wKih at New Castle going aud returning.
STreightssforNow York taken nt low rates.
JAMES ALLDEUDTOE, Agent.
jy6-2m SI4 and 316 South DELAWARE Avenue.
FOB CAPE MAY. —The
■ESSlES''swift and comfortable Day stewne**
“GEORGE WASHINGTON,” Captain W. wamjhn,
leaves Arch-street wharf, for Cape May. every Mon
day, Wednesday, and Friday morning at fC a
Returning, leaves the landing every Tuesday !LUwa “’
day, and Saturday morning ro
Fare, carriage included"-’.’•'1.20
“ 6erv Aßjf the usual low rates.
Freight t*J t ew castle coins and returning.
jy4-tael*
SUMMER RESORTS.
Eagle hotel, Atlantic cit?,
is now open with a
LABOR ADDITION OF ROOMS,
Board 87 per week: Bathing dresses included.
SEA BATHING,
BIIIGAXTIKB HOUSE,
BRIGANTINE BEACH, N. J.
How open for I lie season. The Bathing', Fishing, Gun
ning, and Yachting being very superior.
Boats will await g.iests at the inlet on arrival of trains.
Board per week S 3. P. 0. Address, Atlantic City.
H. D. SMfTH,
Proprietor.
HITE HOUSE,
f.Vk Lower end of MASSACHUSETTS, Avenue,
- atJjAJsTto otty.
This: house is located immediately on the Beach, and
presents ovt-rv ui'ooumv.xhiliott for Visitors.
WILLIAM WIIITEHOrSE,
HAMBRA” '
JL ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
A SPLENDID NEW HOUSE,
S. E. Comer of Atlantic and Massachusetts Avenues,
Now open for the reception of Hoarders
The Rooms and Table of “ THE ALHAMBRA” arc
unsurpassed by any on the Island.
There is a spacious Ice Cream and Refresment Saloou
attached to the House. Terms Moderate.
C. DUBOIS & S. J. VOVh'Cr,
Proprietors.
CONGRESS HALL,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
This spacious House, situated at Atlantic City, will be
opened on the 29th June, with every accommodation for
visitors. The House fronts the beach 120 feet, giving a
splendid view of the ocean, and Unear the Fishing and
Sailing point. No pains will be spared to secure tho
comfort and convenience of guests.
Boarding reduced to slo.per week.
leM-tsel THOMAS C. (S .YRTTETT.
IGHT HOUSE COTTAGE, AT
LANTIC CITY, the nearest House to the safest
part of the beach, is now open for the Season.
TERMS MODERATE.
NO LIQUORS SOLD ON THE PREMISES.
JONAH VGOTTON,
Proprietor.
TAMMANY HOUSE, NORTH Ca
rolina AVENUE, near the Depot, ATLANTIC
CITY.
The subscriber takes pleasure in informing his former
patrons and the public that he has reopened the above
House, where he will be happy to please all who may
favor him with a call.
je2C-Sm ELIAS CLEAVER, Proprietor.
SEA - BATHING.—THE UNITED
STATES HOTEL, ATLANTIC, N. J., is now open
for visitors. This is the largest and best-furnished Ho
tel on tha Island, and being convenient to the beach,
and surrounded by extensive and well-shaded grounds,
is a desirable house for families. It is lighted with gas,
and well supplied with pure water. The Germania So
ciety will furnish the music for the season. The cars
atop at the door of the Hot*l for the convenience of
JEREMIAH McKIBBIN,
Proprietor.
guests,
je 20-tf
CABINET FURNITURE.
CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL
HARD TABLES.
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 261 South SECOND Street,
in connection with their extensive Cabinet Business are
now manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
And hare now on hand a full supply, finished with the
MOORE & CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who have used them, to be
superior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these Tables the manu
facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the
Union, who are familiar with the character of their work*
au2s-Cm . .
LOOKINGGLASSES.
JMMENSE REDUCTION
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES.
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
816 CHESTNUT STREET,
Announce the reduction of 25 per cent, in the prices of all
the] Manufactured Stock of Looking Glasses; also, in
Engravings, Picture and Photograph Frames, Oil Paint
ings. The largest and most elegant assortment in ths
country. A rare opportunity is now offered to make purd
Qhases in this line For Cash, at remarkably Low Prices
EARLE’S GALLERIES,
jy,-tf 816 CHESTNUT Street.
BANKING.
BELMONT & GO ,
BANKERS,
60 WALL STBEET, HEW TOBE.
gnaw Lettere or Credit to Traveller*, available la all
fUta of Europe, through the Messrs. Bothschild, of
Paris, London, Frankfort, Naples, Vienna, and their
Oetreepoedenlg. . ' fe2B-Bm*
BUSINESS NOTICES.
A CARD.—THE UNDERSIGNED,
late of the GIBABD HOUSE, Philadelphia, hare
leased, for a term of rears. fVILLABP’S HOTEL, in
Washington. They take tbiß occasion to return to their
old friends and customers many thanks for past favors,
and beg to assure them that they will he most happy to
aee then in their new Quarters.
STKEB, CHADWICK, t CO.
Wabbibotok, July 18,1881. au23-ly
TOHN H. FRICK, NOTARY PUB
lie. Commissioner for all the States, Real Estate
and Pension Agent, 223 DOCK Street. PASSPORTS
procured. PROTESTS noted and extended. au23-6t*
JOHN WELSH, Practical SLATE
CJ BOOFEB, THIRD Stmt Mid GERMANTOWN
Xoftdt ia prepared to put on any amount of BOOFINGj
on toe moat MODERATE TERMS. Will guaranty to
make every Building perfectly Water-tight
fT” Orders promptly attended to.
TjULE MANUFACTORY,
J* 211 NSW STBEET.
Tile* and Baaps of every deecripUon, and good quality,
gnado lo order,'at the abon establishment.
WHOLESALE AND ENTAIL.
•t meoofacturer’s prices.
Becntting done In a superior manner.
aal-dte J. B. SMITH.
™BE AND COMFORT.
JCI A. THEOBALD asks, Who can please or ral*
•Terybodyl.
Such a tenon probablj never was born. Bnt those
•rhbtamr when they are railed in BOOTS or BHOBS
■id iafked to glTe him a call, sad those who nerer were
'■NffifcdlSsroreiniT be raitod now. He is at his OM Place.
gOd OOATES Street jejjojm
flfe EVANS & WATSON'S • -
HP _ SALAMANDER BAKES.
BTOBS.
80ft CHESTNUT BTBEET.
PHILADELPHIA; PA.
A large varietret TIBE-PBOOE SAFES always
•nivttU, .■
\Yt* EXCEPTED,)
,'VSUT STBEET.
P'kOPOSAIjS tvr ARMY BAGGAGE
WAGONS.
QUAKTKisV st«i; GKNKRAL’S OFFICE, ?
vui.ngvox, Juno 21,1861. >
Proposals are iuvit,-: ?. « the furnishing of Army Bag
gage Wagons. u-
Proposals should «i;u. iticr pri«*rs «t which they can be
furnished at tlie place «>i manufacture, or at New York,
Philadelphia, Ualtiiiuiiv. •diL-birigton, or Cincinnati, aa
preferred by the bitbYr >
The number which l -r Gy any bidder witnm
one month after receipi Hu* order, also tho umnWr
Which he can deliver within one week.
The Wagons must exa< tlj conform to the following
Specifications, and to tin l oshLldishiHl patterns.
Six-mule {covered) w.ur'>os, of the eiae and description
as follows,'t<> wit:
The Iront wheels to he three feet ten inches high, hubs
ten inches in diameter, and fourteen and a quarter inches
long; hind wheels four feet feu inches high, hubs ton and
a quarter inches in diameter, and fourteen and a quar
ter incites long; fellies two and a half inches wide
and two and three-quarter incur* deep; cast iron pipe
boxes twelve inches long, two and a half inches at the
large end and one and seven-eighths inch nt small end;
tire two and a half inches wide by five-eighths of an inch
thick, fastened with one screw bolt and nut in each foil to;
hubs Hindu of gum, the spokes aud fellie of the best while
oak, free from defeels ; each wheel lo have a sand band and
linchpin band two and three-quarter inches wide, of No. 8
band iron, and two driving bands—outside band one and
a quarter inch by one-quarter inch thick, insideband one
iucli by three-sixteenths in thickness; tho hind wheels to
bo made and boxed so that they will measure from the in
sidc of the tire to the large end of the box six and a half
inches, and front wheels six and onc-oighth inches in a
parallel lino, and each axle to l*c throe feet eleven and
tliree-eighth inches from tho outside of one shoulder
washer to the outside, of the other, so as to have the
wagons all to track five feet from centre to centre of the
wheels. Axletrees to be made of the best quality refined
American mm, tun and a half inches square at the
shoulder, tapering down to one and a half inch in the
middle, with a seven-eighths inch king-bolt hole in each
axletree; washers and linchpins for each axletree; size of
linchpins one inch wide, throe-eighths of an inch thick,
with a hole in each end: a wooden stock four and three
quarter inches wide and four inches deep fastened sub
stantially to the axletree with clips on the ends and with
two bolts, six inches from the middle, and fastened to the
hounds and l-oLsmr, (the bolster to be four feet five inches
long, five inches wide, and three aud a half deep,) with
four hnlf-inch bolts.
The tongue to be ton feet eight inches long, four inches
wide and throe inches thick at front end of the hounds,
and two and :t quarter inches wide by two and three
quarter inches deep at the front end, and so arranged 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
surlnce.
i The front hounds to he six feet two inches l?ng,
| three inches thick, and four inches wide over axletree,
and to retain that widlhto the back end of tin* tongue ;
j jaws of the hounds one foot eight inches long and three
i inches square at tho-front eml, with a plate of-iron two
I and a half inches wide by three eighths of an inch
[ thick, fastened on top nf the hounds over the back end
1 of the tongue with one half-inch screw bolt in each
{ end, and a plate of ir«m «>f tlse feiunc- size turned up at
• each end one and n half inches to clamp the front
I hounds together, and fastened on tho under side, and at
front end of hounds, with half inch screw bolt through
each hound, a seven-eighth inch bolt through to:ign*
and hounds in the* centre of jaws, to secure the to«gu ß
in the hounds; a plate of iron three inches w[As one
j quarter inch thick, and one foot eight incK a long,
i secured on the inside of jaws of hounds with n
j and a plate of the same dimensions on « wJI sule oit.id
• tongue, whore the tongue aud rt ’? , together,
secured in likft manner : abraro-' 1 Heron-eig.ithsof an
j inch round iron to extend fy'’ the front axle
tree, and lake two hoi**' ,u e frol } c P ,u c 0^. r * ie bounds,
same bran* thrce-nwr-'T’ nf * n ,n * h vo ' xn '} to continn9
!to the back pn- l, »f l T m ; ls ’ “y 1 ? b * fasten©! with
; two bolt«. '*'* I * o:ir ” ao ' t or,a ci the hounds, and
; one the slider and hounds; a brace over front
I one and a half inch wide, one-quarter of an inch
i .nick, with a bolt in each end to fasten it to the hounds;
! the opening between the jaws of the hounds, to receive
• the tongue, and four and three-quarter inches in front,
j and four ami n half inches at the back part of the jaws.
I The hind hounds four feet two inches long, two and
; three quarter inches thick, and three inches wide; jaws
one foot long where they clasp the coupling pole; the
bolster four feet five inches long, and five inches wide,
by three inches deep, with steady iron two ami a half
inches wide, by one-half inch thick, turned up two and
o lmif inches and fastened on each nut with throe rivets:
the bolster slocks ami hounds to be secured With four
half-inch screw bolts, and one half-inch screw bolt
through the coupling pole.
The coupling pole nine fert eight inches long, three
inches deep, and four and a half inches wide affront
end, and two and three-quarter inches vide at back end;
distance fr«;m the centre of king bolt hole to the centre
of the back axletree six feet one inch, and from the cen
tre of king bob hole to the centre of the mortice in the
1 hind end of the pole eight feet nine inches; king bolt one
i and a quarter inches diameter, of best refined iron, drawn
down to seven-eighths of an inch where it passes through
the iron axletree: iron plate six inches long, three inches
I wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick on tho doubletree
i and tongue where they rub together; iron plate one and
j a half by one-quarter of an inch on the sliding bar, fas
i tened nt each end by a screw bolt through the hounds;
I front bolster to have plates above and below eleven
j inches long, three and a half inches wide, and tltree
j eighths of an inch thick, corners drawn out and turned
j down on the sides of the holster, with a nail in each cor
j ner, and four countersunk nails on ton; two bands on
I the hind hounds, two and two and a half inches wide, of
I . No. 10 band iron; the rub plate on the coupling pole to
i be eight inches long, one and three-quarters inches wide,
j and die quarter of an inch thick. Double-tree three feet
, ten inches long, singletree two feet eight inches long, all
• well made of hickory, with an iron ring and clip at each
; end, the centre clip to bo well secured; lead bar nr.d
; stretcher to be three feet two inches long, two and a
j quarter inches wide, and one and a quarter inch thick.
; liead bars, stretchers, and singletrees for six-mule team;
1 the two singletrees for the lead mules to have hooks in
: the middle to hook In the end of the fifth chain, the wheel
j and middle pairs with open rings to attach them to the
! doubletree and lead bar.
The fifth chain to be ten feet long to the fork; the fork
ono foot ten inches long, with the stretcher attached to
spread the forks apart: the links of the doubletree, stay,
and tongue chains, tliree-eightlis of an inch in diame
ter: the forked chain seven-sixteenth inch in diameter ;
the fifth chain to be seven-sixteenth Inch diameter to
the fork; the fork to be five-sixteenth inch diameter; the
links of these and of the lock chains to be not more than
two and a quarter inch**#? long.
The body to he straight, three foot six inches wide, two
feet deep, ten feet long at the bottom, and ten feet six
inches at the fnp, sloping equally at each end airtn the
clear or inside: the bed pieces to be two and n half inches
wide, end three inches deep; front pieces two inches deep
by two and a half inches wide; tail piece two and a half
inches wide and three inches deep; and four inches deep
in the middle to Test on the coupling pole ; top rail one
and a half inch thick by one and seven-eighth inch wide;
lower rails one inch thick by ono and seven-eighth incli
wide; three studs and one rail in front, with a seat on
strap hinges to close it up as high as the sitle3; a box
three feet four inches long, the bottom five inches wide
front side, nine and a half inches deep, and eight and a
half inches at the top in parallel line to the body aU in
the clear, to lie substantially fastened to the front end of
tl*c body, to have an iron strap passing i*ound each end,
secured to the head piece nod front rail l»y a rivet in
each end of it passing through them, the lid to be
fastened to the front rail with two good strap lunges, a
Btrap of five-eighth iron around the box a half inch from
the top edge, and two straps same size on tiie lid near
the front edge, to prevent the mules from eating the
boxes: to have a joint hasp fastened to the middle of
the liu, witli a good wooden cleat on the inside, a strap
of iron on the centre of the box with a staple passing
through it, to fasten the lid to; eight studs and two
rails on each side: one bolster fastened te the body,
six inches deep and four inches wide at king bolthole,
iron rod in front and centre, of eleven-sixteenths of an
inch round iron, with a head on the top of rail and nut
on lower end; iron rod and brace behind, with shoulders
on top of tail piece, and nuts on the under side, and a
nut on top of rail; a plate two and a half inches wide,
of No. 10 band iron on tail piece, across the body; two
mortices in tail piece, and hind bar two and a quarter
inches wide and one inch thick, to receive pieces three
feet fciir inches lone, to bemused as harness bearers;
four rivets through each side Btud, and two rivets
through each front stml, to secure the lining boards, to
be of the best qualify iron, and riveted on a good bur;
one rivet through each end of the rails; floor five
eighths of on inch oak boards; sides five-eighths of
an inch white pine, tail board three-quarters of an
inch thick*, of white pine, to be well clouted with five
oak cleats riveted at each end through the tail-board:
an iron plate three feet eight inches long, two and
a quarter inches wide, Rnd three-eighths of an inch
thick on the under si«le of the bed-piece, to extend from
the hind end of the body to eight inches in front of the
hind bolsters, to be fastened by the rod at the end of
the body, by the lateral rod and two three-eighths
of an inch screw bolts, one at the forward end of the
plate, and the other about equi-distant betccn it and
the lateral rod. A half-inch round iron rod or bolt
to pass diagonally through the rails, between the two
hind studs to and through the bcd-piece and plate under
it, with a good head on the top and nut and screw at
the bottom, to be at the top one foot six inches from
inside of tail-board, and on the bottom ten inches From
the hind rod. An iron clamp two inches wide, one
quarter of an inch thick around the bed-piece, the cen
tre bolt to which the lock chain is attached passing
through it, to extend seven inches on the inside of the
body, the ends, top, and bottom to be secured by two
three-eighths inch screw bolls, the middle bar at the
ends to be flush with the bed-piece on the lower Bide.
Two lock chains secured to the centre bolt of the body
one and eleven inches, the other two feet six inches
long, to be of three-eighths of an inch round iron; feed
trough to be four feet six inches long from out to eut,
the bottom and ends of oak, the sides of yellow pine, to
be eight inches wide at twelve inches 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 each end and three between the ends, strong
and suitable Irons to. fasten them on the tongue when
feeding; good strong chains to he attached to the top
rail of the body, secured by a staple with a hook to at
tach it to the trough. Six bows of geod ash, two inches
wide and one-lnilf inch thick, with three staples to
confine the ridge pole to its place; two staples on the
body, to secure each one of the bows; one ridge pole
twelve feet long, omf and three-quarters inches wide by
five-eighths of an inch thick; the cover to be of the
first quality cotton duck No. —, fifteen feet long and
nine feet eight inches wide, made in the best manner,
with four hetnp cords on each side, and one through each
end to close it at both ends; two rings on each end of
the hody, to close and secure the ends of the cover; a
staple in the lower rail, near the second stud from each
end, to fasten the aide cords. The outsldo of the body
and feed trough to have two good coats of white lead,
colored to a bine tint, the inside of them to hare two
coats of Venetian red paint* the running gear And
wheels to have two good coats of Venetian red darkened
of a chocolate color, the hub and fellies to he well
pitched, instead of painted, if required.
A tar-pot, an extra king holt, and two extra single
trees to be furnished with each wagon, the king bolt
and singletrees similar in all respects to those belonging
to it.
Each side of the body of the wagon to be marked U.
8., and numbered sb directed; nil other parts to be let
tered 17. B.'; the cover, feed box, bolts, linchpins, tar
pot, and harness bearers for each wagon to be put up
In a strong box, (coopered,) and the contents marked
thereon.
It is to he distinctly understood that the wagons are
to be bo constructed that the several parts of any one
wagon will agree and exactly fit those of any other, so
as to require no numbering or arranging for putting
together, and all the material used for their construction
to be of the best quality; all the wood thoroughly sea
soned, and the work in all its parts faithfully executed
in the beßt workmanlike manner.
The work may be inspected from time to time as it
progresses by an officer or agent of the Quartermaster’s
Department, and none of it shall be painted until it shall
have been inspected and approved by said officer or
agent authorized to inapect.it. When finished, painted,
and accepted by an officer or agent of the Quartermas
ter’s Department, and delivered as herein agreed, they
shall be paid for* M. 0. MEIGS,
je2s-tf Quartermaster General V. 9.
JUST RECEIVED, per “ Annie Kim
baU, H from Liverpool, Mander, Weaver, & Man
der’B preparations:
25 lbs. Extract Aconitl, In 1 lb. jars.
25 lbs. Extract Hyoscyami, in Ilb. jars.
60 lbs. Extract Belladonna, in .lib. jars.
100 lbs. Extract Taraxaci, in 1 lb. jars.
50 lbs. Vin Hal ColcUci, in l ib. bottles.
100 lbß. 01. Buccini Bect.i tn I lb. bottles.
600 lbs. Calomel, in 1 lb, bottles,
fitOlbs. FUBydrarg., Ini Übjars. '
WETHEBILL A BROTHER,
mho ' AT and 40 North SECOND. Street.
fIHRISTIAN RENTSCHLER’S LA
GEB-BEEB SALOON AND OrilCE, N*. 409
CHESTNUT Street.
BBEWEBY, No. o*2 North SEVENTH Street, Phi
adelphia. jrM-Im
/XLARET WINE—In casks and cases,
V/ of the brands of St. JoUen, Uarganx, Hont-Brien
Paxfflae. r o ro»l» b £ A^OTora .* CABgTAIBBj
j*29 BOdMMttbrßWnietmt
VOL. 5 - NO. 22.
PIMSIMfcSALS.
Cl \t
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1861.
The English Bishops.
The English hierarchy is so different from
the American that some of out' readers may
thank us for telling them some particulars
about it. At present we shall give an account
of the Archbishops and Bishops of what is
called “ The Established Church” in England,
or, in legal and formal parlance, “ The Church
of England as by Law established.”
Tliis establishment, “ by law,” did not take
place until 1534, when King Henry VIII., re
pudiating the supremacy of the Papal See,
constituted liimself “ Supreme Head of the
Church.” in England and Ireland. His suc
cessors have continued to possess and exercise
this head-ship, and still retain the compliment
ary title of ■“ Fidei Defensor” (Defender of
the Faith.) bestowed by Pope Leo X., person
ally on Henry for having written an attack oil
Martin Luther, called “ The Seven Sacra
ments,” written in Latin, and published in
London in 1521, and in Antwerp in 1522. Ten
years after this book appeared, Henry laid
overthrown papal authority in lus dominions.
Christianity was introduced into Britain during
the occupancy of the Homans, and the older
chroniclers declare that Ilritaiu produced the
first Christian Emperor (Constantine the
Great,) the first Christian King (Lucius.) and
the first Christian monastery, that of Bangor
in Wales. From an early period, there was «
contest whether the Pope or the King s^ jU 'd
nominate to the high offices in the «shurch.
Henry 11. resisted, and Thomas * l ’ Beckett,
Archbishop of .Canterbury cL' a ‘-'d tkL right.
King John consented to lie' 1 bis kingdom as a
fief under the Pope. J lit il ' vas sottlo(i b - v tlle
statutcof pramuni-*’ I™ B ** l hl 1,10 rei * n of
Richard 11., an*’® I*ll 1 * 11 unrepealed, that while,
in faith am’ discipline, iiie English Church
gave obC“’ lonce to R° me , the royal supremacy
w;[S (irxnittcd in the choice of bishops, and the
(.vfoyment of temporalities.
Henry VIII. did not so much differ with
Rome on doctrine, but on the right of appeal to
the Pope from English courts, and the statute
25ili Henry VIII., cliap. 20, establishes tlio
jurisdiction of the Crown and of the King's tri
bunals, in entire independence of any foreign
potentate. Under Henry was commenced “the
Reformation” which his daughter Elizabeth
completed. Up to 1828, no one could enter Par
liament or take office in municipal corporations,
without receiving the holy sneramem, accord
ing to the rites and doctrine of the Church of
England, as a test. From the reign of W illiam
111., until near the close (1829) of that of
George IV., Roman Catholics were excluded
from the judicial bench and from Parliament.
Until 1857, the .Tews labored under the same
disabilities. England continues a Protestant
country, because of the prevailing faitli of her
inhabitants, but her ruling political institutions
are no longer exclusively linked with the “ by
law established” Church.
England and Wales, together constituting an
arqa about one fourth larger than that of Penn
sylvania, are divided, for Church purposes,
into the-provinces of Canterbury and York.
An Archbishop, assisted by the suffragans, or
bishops of twenty sees or dioceses governs
the Province of Canterbury; another Arch
bishop, with six suffragans, governs the Pro
vince of York. Each Archbishop, in addition to
his province and the appellate jurisdiction con
nected therewith, lias a pari icular district within
which lie exercises original authority. The title
of Bishop is derived from the Greek word Epis-
Icopos, through the Saxon Biscop —both signify
ing an overseer, or superintendent. The district
over which a suffragan bishop presides is called
liis diocese or see —respectively from the
Greek diokesis, signifying administration, or
dwelling apart, and the Scottish sege, from the
Latin sedes, a seal. The principal church of liis
diocese is called a cathedral (from a Greek word
katliedra,) because ir contains his seal or throne.
His diocesan residence is called The Palace,
though it is only a country house, usually
with a very small quantity of land, near his
cathedral. The Bishop of Manchester, for ex
ample, lives in a small mansion, situated in the
centre of six or seven acres of shrubbery and
garden, and this “palace” is so mean that a
fifth-rale cotton-spinner would refuse to inha
bit it. There may he found persons to fancy
that because a Bishop lias a Palace'—Queen
Victoria herself having the use of several real
palaces, slightly larger—he must therefore live
in royal and luxurious state*!
Formerly—that is, before the Reformation—
English were elected, like American bishops,
l>y the clergy and the laity. Henry VIII. took
away this elective and substituted a. nominating
process. We can best illustrate Ibis bv an ex
ample. Three weeks ago, the Bishop of Dur- .
ham died. He had been the Honorable H.
Montagu Villier.% brother of the Earl of Claren- j
don. Official notice of his dentil having been ;
given by the Dean and Chapter to the Home Se- j
cretnry, the Premier, (who probably had picked i
out the now bishop within twenty-four hours j
of the vacancy,) communicated to the Queen ;
tiie name of the clergyman he has selected to j
succeed. She, who has not the power of j
appointing one of iter own footmen, then j
signed a warrant directing' tiie Home Office to
prepare a mandate, commonly known as a
eotige d'clire, or permission to elect a Bishop
of Durham. The Dean and Chapter of the dio- j
cese will receive, together with this courteous I
permission to choose their head, .to'-which tlio !
Royal .signature and Privy Seal are attached,
a letter naming the clergyman who
lias already been selected by all-powerful
Palmerston. Yes, but this is nomination by
the Crown, and not election by the Clergy ?
Yes, indeed. The 4th section of tiie Statute
25 Henry VIII., chap. 20, gives the Sovereign
the right thus to nominate to vacant Arch
bishoprics and Bishoprics. The form of elec
tion is gone through, but Palmerston’s man
must be elected. If the Dean and Chapter re
fuse to submit to this dictation, or if they in
nocently treat the conge d’elire as a reality,
instead of the transparent humbug it is, and
elect another clergyman, they straightway
come under the pains and penalties of the fa
mous statute of ‘pratmunirc, which provides,
upon any delay or refusal in electing the Mi
nisterial nominee, a forfeiture of all tiie real
and personal property of the recusant parties,
with perpetual imprisonment at the royal plea
sure, and other penalties. Therefore, after
the farce of election has been gone through, and
due intimation of the'result communicated to
the Home Secretary, that functionary prepares
the Warrant for the letters patent under the
Great Seal, by which the royal assent to the
election is signified. The London Gazette will
announce that the Rev. Doctor So-and-So lias
been duly elected, and that the Queen is “ most
graciously pleased to confirm and approve the
election.” Then thc'Bishop elect will be con
secrated, enthroned, and installed in his Cathe
dral. But, the first thing he must do, after his
election is approved of, is to have a private
audience of the Queen, at which he will per
form what is called “ an act of fealty and
homage”—which, we believe, is to kneel be
fore her, offer to kiss the hem of her garment,
and be let off with a labial salute upon the
fair hand of Majesty.
The form of sending a Conge d’elire to the
Dean and Chapter of a vacant see applies only
to the sees of old foundation. The Bishoprics
of Gloucester and Bristol, Chester, Peterbo
rough, and Oxford, created by Henry VIII.,
have always been conferred by letters-patent
front the Crown, and the recently-created
Bishoprics of Ripon and Manchester were
conferred in the same way.
It may he noticed that we speak of a Bishop
as “liis Lordship.” The Archbishops and
Bishops have seats in Parliament, as Lords
Spiritual,—all except the last elected of all.
: When the see of Manchester was constituted,
in 1846, it was determined hot to increase the
number of Bishops in the House of Lords,
but allow the last appointed to remain out,
except in vacancies of the Sees of Canterbury,
York, London, Durham, or Winchester.
Formerly, each Bishop, had territory, and
sat, by virtue of possessing it, among the
Peers as Baron. In this capacity, we believe,
the Bishops pay « fealty and homage” to the
Sovereign* Their right; |t« be summoned into
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1861.
the House of Lords, as temporal peers, has
long been in abeyance, blit they retain their
parliamentary seats, with precedence over the
lay peers, as Lords spiritual. There arc two
archbishops and ten bishops belonging to
“The Church of England'in Ireland, as by
law established,” hut these arc Lords of Par
liament alternately, four in each session.
The Archbishop of Canterbury takes prece
dence as first Peer of England, next the Blood
Royal. The Lord Chancellor comes next, and
then the Archbishops of York, Armagh, and
Dublin. The precedence of Bishops is next he
low Viscounts —by the statute of Henry VIII.
The Dean and an indefinite number of
Canons or Prebendaries constitute the Chapter,
which assists the Bishop iu the general go
vernance of his diocese. On some cathe
dral foundations also are minor canons, and
always precentors, lay vicars, and choristers.
The country parts of each diocese are divided
into archdeaconries and rural deans; and,
finally, there arc the beneficcd clergy, consist
ing of-rectors, vicars, and perpetual curates-.
There also are curates, who are assistants to
the- beneficcd clergy, paid by them, and
acting under a license from the Bishop, revo
cable at pleasure. Thu Rector, as his title
shows, lias the chief rule oi the parish ill
ecclesiastical, and, as regards temporals, be
sides a house and gb-oeland, entitled to ail the
tithes therein »ow commuted into a fixed an
nual Slim, C»«vd « rent charge. The Vicar (a
substitute) receives only the small tithes, as
deleg sl * o °f a tithe-impropriator, hat sonic
vicarages are lucrative. A perpetual curate
is sometimes called the incumbent, and though
he lias sole authority in his own church, in the
eye of the law is only assistant to the rector
or vicar of the parish in which it is situated.
The English bishop's power of conferring
Holy Orders—deacon, .priest, and bishop—is
precisely the same as that exercised by bishops
in America.
The income of Hie Church of England is
derived from lands, tithes, church-rates, pew
rents, Easter offerings, and surplice fees for
burials; baptisms, &c. It is estimated, iu
1831, to have amounted to £1,292,885, and
if was estimated, by llic census of 185], at
£5,000,000 a year. In 1801 it probably is
near £5,500,000, and this is to pay for spiritual
instruction in 11,728 Benefices and about
16,000 churches in England and Wales. There
are 20,000,000 of inhabitants in England anil
Wales, of whom, on a moderate estimate, one
lialf belong to the Established Church. The
entire sum annually paid to Archbishops and
Bishops in England and Wales is fixed by act
of Parliament at £158,200, equal to $700,000.
We venture to say that the average animal
payment for spiritual instruction, by all reli
gious persuasions ill Philadelphia alone, in
cluding building and repairs of places of wor
ship, considerably exceeds the amount paid lo
the whole English hierarchy. Besides, it comes
directly out of the pockets of the individuals,
whereas most of the cluirch property of Eng
land consists of endowments, made ages ago,
which are as much the property of the Church,
as a clerical corporation, as the lands and
houses held by tlic c ity of London or the'city
of Philadelphia are of the municipal corpora
tion or the citizens, called landed property in
England. It is all very well for people who
do not know better to rate at “ the enormous
wealth of the Church of England,” but the
well-informed know that its property has been
inherited like any individual’s landed estate.
One part of the Church of England income
is decidedly objectionable. It is unfair that
the Catholic, the Jew, and the Dissenter shall
he compelled to pay a direct tax, called Church
rate, to keep tlie Episcopal places of worship
in repair, though.these persons may never set
foot within such edifices. This principle of
such ail impost has been so much condemned
by a liberal majority of tlie House of Com
mons, though still upheld in the House of
Lords, that .its removal, from all but members
of the Ex>iscopal Church," is considered only a
question of lime.
In 1831, tiie Parochial Clergy of England
and Wales received .£3,251,150) tne Deans
and Chapters £lBl,OBl, and the Archbishops
and Bishops £181,031. By tlio statute G and
7 William IV., chap. 77, this latter sum was
reduced to £153,200 per annum; which it
now is. Before that act; some of'the ecclesi
astical incomes wove unequal—some of them
enormous. The Bishop of Exeter, for in
stance, had $2,G00 a year. The Archbishop
bf Canterbury, for instance, had about £lOO,OOO
a year. The Bishopric of Durham.was'es
timated at £40,000, and, after 1827; when
the northwest end of London came to be
largely built upon, tiie fee-simple resting with
the Bishop of London for the time being, the
late Bishop Blomfield, received £70,000 a year
for many years. He would grant building
leases for 90 years, at a nominal rent—say of
five dollars a lot—but would exact a large sum
in cash, paid before the lease was signed, as a
commutation ol the real rent. This was called
a-fine. The business men or stewards of all tiie
Bishops'did the same—where they could. When
a lease of a farm or of a house, tiie property of
the see, fell in, instead of letting it at a fair
l’ent it was leased to whoever would pay down
tiie largest sum, as fine. The effect was to
give some Bishops'enormously wealthy years
—at tire expense of their successors, during
tiie three'next generations. And tints were
accumulated tiie immense fortunes which
many, of the English bishops bequeathed to
their families.
But the enactment of 1837 provided that,
on the next vacancies, the Bishops’ annual in
come should be cut down—Canterbury to
£15,000 ; York and London to £lO,OOO each ;
Durham, £8,000; Winchester, £7,000 j Ely,
£5,500; and each of the rest to have not more
'than £5,000 and not less tiian £4,000 —except
that Sodor and Man, which see docs not give a
seat in the House of Lords, remain at £2,000 a
year. In 1851, it was provided that all tlio
revenue of each see, when it exceeded tiie al
otted income, "should be paid over to Ecclesi
astical Commissioners, who, out of that fund,
shall make up any deficiency, where the reve
nue of the see shall be less that the income
legally fixed for the Bishop. The accumula
tion in the Commissioners’ hands is now very
lsrge, and it is all applied to repair of cathedrals
and churches, to erection of new churches,
and to keeping in tcnantable condition the
dwelling-houses or “ Palaces” of the Bishops
—such abodes really being given to them in
lieu of what otherwise would be payable to
them, over their salaries, for rent. We have
known people object to the Bishops having
dwelling-houses given to them—but these do
not object to the White House being appro
priated to the President as a residence, nor to
its being kept in repair, and refurnished, every
four years, at the public expense. Each Bishop
finds his own furniture, and pays and keeps his
own servants. The Bishops’ power as to re
newing leases is now exercised by the Com
missioners, who do not patronize the system
of fines.
We shall now' give an accurate list, accord
ing to their legal order of precedence, of the
English hierarchy, with the date of the institu
tion of each see; also, their incomes. In
some few cases a Bishop may hold a benefice
in another diocese in commeiidam with his see,
but these instances are dying out, and, except
he possess private fortune, a Bishop’s income
can be no more than the following amount:
Founded. Diocese. An. Income.
A. D. 598. .Canterbury £15,000
180.. York... 10,000
844. .London 10,000
634.. ■ • • 8,000 ,
685.. Winchester 7,000
519.. 5.. David’s 4,500
1109. .Eby. 5,500
1094.. 4,500
845.. Hereford.... 4,200
705. .Salisbury 5,000
1541.. Peterborough 4,500
1133.. Carlisle 4,500
983. .Worcester 5,000
604. .Rochester 5,000
522. .Llandaff... 4,200
636.. Lincoln... 4,000
516. .Banger. 4,200
1049.. 5,000
1080.. Chichester. 4,200
560. .St. ABaph 4,200
1541.. 5,000
1100.. Litchfield and Coventry 4,500
1541. .Olocester and Bristol 5,000,
1541. .Chester 4,500
905.. Bath and Wells 5,000
1836.. 4,500
1848.. Manchester 4,200
447.. and Man. 2,090
Total, to Archbishops «ad Biehjps. 1,,,, £153,890
These would he very high clerical Incomes,
but for the drawback that the Archbishops and
Bishops have to live in London six months in
every year, performing tlicir duties as Peers
of Parliament. For this purpose they must
keep more servants than they require in the
country; they must lease dwelling-houses in
London, where rent is dear; and are com
pelled, generally, by this London residence, to
spend as much in half a year as would support
them liberally at home for double the time,
and, also, enable them to exercise the hospi
tality which St. Paul so much commends.
Another evil, besides this cramping their means
and forcing them, as it were, into metropolitan
life, is their being half the year wholly non
resident iu their dioceses.
There is one way, and only one, of reducing
tlie English hierarchy into simply useful, hard
working clergy of the higher class—and that is,
to relieve them from the performance of Par
liamentary duties. They really are almost in
efficient in tlie House of Lords. Including
their Irish lawn-sleeved brethren, only 32 of
them liavc seats there, and what can 32 cleri
cal gentlemex. do among a crowd of about 430
others—ail of them laymen ?
Except for tlie patronage, which enables him.
to provide, in the Church, for his male rela
tions and friends, an English rector with £2,000
a year, and a nice house, garden, and pad
dock, is really better off, in a monetary point
of view,- Ilian a Bishop with on income of
£5,0C0 a year, and a country-house bearing the
(to sonic) objectionable name of Palace. Of
course, the snug rector thinks differently, and
would jump, like a fish to the fly, at the offer
of a Bishopric.
In England, where the Queen’s allowance is
£885,000 a year—where several of the nobility
have yet larger incomes—where each Judge
lias £5,C00 a year, at least —£4,000 to £5,000
is not an extravagant allowance for a Bishop
who has to live six months in London, attend
ing Parliament.
On the question of Church patronage, which
is curious and involved, we may have some
thing to say, at a future time. Nor have we
wholly disposed of the Bishops themselves, as ‘
many curious and interesting details might be
givc-n respecting the sees and their occupants,
past and present.
Publications Received.
From IT. E. Ziebcr we have the London Art
Journal for August, a brilliant number. In the
letter-press there is a great deal of information
about art and artists all over the world, and many
of these articles are illustrated with superior wood
engravings. In short, this work is a history and
critical rseord of ihe Fine Arts. The engravings
in steel are'“The Cottage Home,” a very
simple subject (a girl peeling turnips in a cottage,
with scarcely any accessories.) painted by J. Y.
Gibson^an almost unknown provincial English ar
tist. accidentally seen by Prince Albert at an exhi
bition and purchased by him. There are also here,
“The Arch of Titus,” by Turner—a grand picture,
terribly defective iu details —and a drawing of the
fine marble statue of “ Erin.’ ? belonging to the
Marquis of Devonshire, and almost one of the first
works executed by TV. J. O’Doherty, a Dublin
sculptor, now only twenty-six years old. This sta
tue was exhibited in London last year, and wns
much admired- It represents the “genius" of
Ireland sorrowful and disconsolate, but lovely in
her grief, lingering by the seashore, and pondering
over the unfathomable future destiny of her child
ren. Her head droops slightly over
The harp that once through Tara’s halls
The soul of music she-1.
From Mr. Callender, newspaper agent. South
Third street, we have received th ts Illustrated
London Neivsoi the 10th inst., and the Illustrated
News of the World, of the same date, with a full
length portrait of Queen Victoria, from a photo
graph, engraved on steel by D. J. Pound. This is
the best portrait of Victoria yet published, and. in
n preceding notice, we have given our reason? for
thinking so.
Portrait of Queen Victoria
The portraits of Queen Victoria, since she was
seven years old, have been so numerous that it is
scarcely an exaggeration to say that they may bo
counted not by scores, but by hundreds. AVe re
collect .Threat many of them, from that of a little
girl in short dress and pantalets to the Sovereign
enthroned and crowned. Therehavebeen portraits
of Victoria in all postures—sitting, standing, riding,
leaning forward or back, on foot and on horseback,
in full costume and in the plainest of travelling
dresses, “every inch a Queen,” with crown and
sceptre, and also with the Balmoral petticoat palpa
bly exhibited. One of the most striking resem
blances of Victoria, taken when she had the charm of
youth, is now in our Academy of Fine-Arts, and was
painted by our eminent fellow-citizen Thomas
Sully expressly for the St. George’s Society of
Philadelphia. It has only one fault, almost par
donable “when a lady’s in the case”—it makes
her much better looking than Nature did. This is
what all painters have done, more or less, with
Queen Victoria. Her profilo, spite of a too promi
nent mouth, has always been good. Her features
are regular, but her complexion is indifferent —it
has nothing of what is called “ the pure English
red and white.” Artists have generally made an
other mistake in drawing Victoria, by making her
appear much taller than she is. Her actual height
is under 5 feet 2 inches. Latterly, too, forgetting
that her Majesty is in her 43d year and the mother
of nine children, they paint her much too young.
At last, however, we have a reliable and pleasing
portrait of the Queen, so much respected as a wo
man in countries where her station is not oared for
and her authority not acknowledged.. This por
trait, executed by no meaner artist than the Sun him
self, forms the gratuitous supplement to a London
pictorial paper ( Illustrated Ncu-s of the World),
and represents her exactly as she is—it being a
standing figure, with a three-quarter face. She
stood for it only the other day. and it represents
her in the deep mourning which she wears for her
late mother. There are no ornaments in the hair;
the enrrings arc very small; the plain narrow collar
is fastened by a simple stud, and other ornaments
she has none, except two rings and very plain gold
bracelets. The face has a grave and thoughtful
rather than a sad expression, and the eyes and
brow are admirably represented. Whoever wishes
for a true portrait of Queen Victoria ought to be
satisfied with this. It is on sale, of course, at a
ridiculously low price by Callender, Zieber, Up
born, Winch, Trenwith, and other newspaper and
periodical agents. It is a true portrait of a good
and distinguished woman.
[Correspondence of The Tress.]
Nkw Castle Co., Del., August 23d, 1861.
After observing tbe run of things in this county,
and also in Kent for some time past, I cannot with
stand a sense of duty which I owe to the welfare of
my native State, in giving them a more extensive
publicity.
It is the one great objeot of those who are true
to the Union in this State to preserve her loyalty
and to maintainher honor and integrity in the face
ef the world; yet there are others, who with ruth
less hands seek to destroy the glory of her career,
and annihilate the allegiance existing between her
and the Federal Government. These men are not
slow to diffuse their sentiments, and in their hearte
exist the most deadly animosity and rankling
poison. There are various instrumentalities through
which disloyal sentiments reach the ears of those
who otherwise are true to the Union. Masses of
the people are led to believe that the Federal army
comprises none but the Republican party, and that
its object alone is to aggressively subjugate the
people in the Southern States.
One New York newspaper of treasonable noto
riety contributes well its part to give strength and
courage to all who entertain the least hopes of tho
success of the Jeff. Davis conspiracy; and as long as
such journals aro tolerated in such loyal States as
New York, it is no wonder that Secession sentiments
exist in this State. Ask a man why he reads such
a papor as the New York Day Book, the answer
is, ‘ * This paper is published in a Northern State,
and one that you are proud to call loyal to the
Union.” Our opinion is, judging from the amount
of harm this journal is doing in this State, that it
should share the fate of the Jeffersonian and the
Sentinel. • , „ ,
It is a matter of wonder why the New York
authorities permit an instrumentality such as traitors
delight to make use of to create dissentions and dis
loyal sentiments and opinions to exist unmolested in
their very midst. We hope the time is fast ap
'proaffliing when this great nuisance, the New York
Day Book, will lie in the streets.
Blue Hex’s Chicken.
Moke Tenhessee Refugees.— A correspondent
of the Louisville Journal says: There are two
hundred and thirty Union men, who have escaped
from East Tennessee (Scott, Morgan, and Fentress
counties,) by night and day through the mountains,
encamped to-night one milo from this place. There
are also ene hundred and sixty more on their way
here from the same counties. They are large,
Jjeslthy, detefiDiDe4 that are anx*
iousto have an opportunity to avenge the wrongs
they haTO suffered at the hands of ..the merciless
and inhuman rebel troops that have been thrown in
among them. ■ There are now some 3,000 Of them
in the counties of Overton, Fentress, and Morgan.
Secessionists. Arrested in Pittsburg.—
On Thursday last & couple of well-dressed men,
fiving their names as Charloß V. Neid and Thoma 3
•avis, were arrested in Pittsburg by a couple of
volunteers, for having expressed their treasonable
Sroclivities. Neid had on his person passes from
he: relfel Secretary of War and from the agent of
Adams’ Southern Express. They were committed
for aheariog.
foreign news.
EfffflLAND.
We learn that Captain do Groot is about building
two new steamers for the* United Statos Govern
ment, which are to bo plated with steel of four
inches thickness, rendering those vessels shot and
bomb proof, and protecting the boilers.—Mecha
nics' Magazine.
The Court Journal states that Earl Granville is
the minister selected to attend Queen Victoria du
ring her approaching trip to Ireland*.
Lord Palmerston will be installed ns Lord War
den of the Cinque Ports in the middie- of Septem
ber. Ho has recently purohased two* larger estates
adjoining Brondlands. one of thorn feeing Grove
place, Kevesling, the house of which was a ffohing
box of Queen Elizabeth, liis lordship's estates now
extend to within four miles of Southampton*. |A
childless man of seventy-seven buying new es
tates \ |
Some of the Scotch papers speak of Mr. Bhster,
the member of Montrose, as the probable successor
of Mr. Laing in the direction of the finances' of
India.
Several new lines of street rails are authorized
in the immediate and populous suburbs of London.
In tiih Exchange newsroom, says the Manchester
when the defeat of the Unionists be
came known, there was much excitement among
those present, principally American captains and
brokers. A few enthusiastic cotton men expressed
themselves in such a manner on the repulse of the
as to nearly draw down an exhibition of
“muscular Christianity 7 ' from some Northerners
present.
Tin: Admiralty arc going to try the effect-of 3hoi
and shell on n broadside manufactured like the
Warrior. This will be a target 20 feet long by 10
feet high, the description of plates and all other
material being as the Warrior itself, and it wiil bo
pounded at till destroyed.
A t 1 ok r esp&nj) kn r of the Dailv News 3tate3
that the Lord Chancellor receives £5OO for pro
roguing Parliament, and the same sum for opening
the houses “by commission.”
It is reported that the long-existing “differ
ences” between the proprietor of 11. M. Theatre
and Mr. Lumley are likely to be arranged, and
that the house will be opened next year on a aealc
of unprecedented grandeur.
A coRRESi-oNDiiNT of the Daily Neu*fr states. on
the authority of the late Earl of Traquair [Stuart
of Lorn], that it is not improbable that the heir to
the title will be found in the United States. If so,
this will be the second Scotch peerage held by im
American ; the other being the Barony of Fairfax,
possessed, but not assumed by an United Statos
clergyman.
Applications are invited fur the remaining
shares in the Jamaica Cotton Company (limited)
with a capital of £20,000 in £lO shares, of which
£lO.OOO is to be called up during the first year.
Deposit £1 per share.
It is said that Rosa Bonhcurs celebrated picture,
the “ Horse Fair,” will soon become the property
of the British nation, and be lodged In the National
Gallery.
Flogging. l — Private Morer. of the rifle brigade,
who had deserted three times, was brought out to
receive fifty lashes on Monday. At the fifth stroke
of the “ent,” he fell ns in a swoon; the medical
man lifted his eyelash, ordered him water, and
then to proceed with the punishment. This wns
done, and the remainder was administered while in
a state of insensibility, ceasing only at the forty
ninth stroke, when the “cat” broke, and the
wretched sufferer was carried off to the military
hospital. —Andover Time?.
Tuk late Loud Campbk ll; —His will wns proved
on the 25th ult. The. personalty was sworn under
£120,000. lie possessed very considerable landed
and personal property in England, Ireland, and
Scotland, which he has left entirely among his large
family of sons and daughters. To his eldest son,
Baron Strathcdcn and Campbell, ho devises his Irish
estates, with Iho exception of a fnrm, which he be*
stows on liis second son for lifebut the bulk of ki3
property, real and. personal, devolves to liis eldest
sou. whom he has also appointed residuary legatee.
To his two sons, the Hon. Hnllj'burtou arid Dudley
Campbell, and to his two daughters, the Hon. Mary
Campbell and Cecelia Campbell, he leaves legacies
of £15,000 each; and.to his two married daughters,
the lion. Louisa White and the lion. Edina Black
burnc. legacies of £5,000 each, beyond what his
Lordship had previously bestowed upon these two
latter ladies. He leaves to his daughter, the lion.
Mary Scarlett Campbell, who, he observes, was hi?
faithful and, valuable assistant in his literary labors,
all the manuscripts and other papers, which she is
at liberty to publish, for her sole benefit. Lord
Campbell bestows on hi.s oldest son the official robes
which he wore when filling the offices of Lord Chief
Justice and Lord High Chancellor, with the insignia
of nobility and those of. his high official distinction.
All these articles Lord Campbell directs to be re
tained as heirlooms.— Illustrated London News.
FRANCE
Tuk financial prospects of France for the autumn
and winter seem less favorable than those of this
country, the results of the grain harvest and of the
silk crop being both, ns far as can at present he
judged, rather unsatisfactory.
So.me surprise wns manifested that the Empress
should leave Paris within twenty-four hours after
tlie arrival of the King of Sweden at St. Cloud.
But it appears that the Queen of Sweden, who is at
the springs on the Rhine, and consequently in sight
of the French frontier, refused to accompany nor
husband to St. Cloud, and the Empress, taking this
as axersonal offence, did not deem it proper to help
her husband do the honors to the King during his
stay. Her Majesty has gone to Pau.
Prince Murat has sent in bis resignation as head
of the* Musonic Order of France.
A pilgrimage to Jerusalem is being organized in
France, under the auspices of the Society of St.
Vincent dc Paul. It will start during the present
month.
A small volume. a correspondence between
Voltaire mid the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha, has just
appeared in Paris. Besides his letters, tho volume
contains several articles not printed till now.
M. Tiilehs was very nearly drowned on tho 2d,
while bathing at Puys, near Dieppe. He was car
ried out by a wave, and when brought to shore by
a bathing man, who swam after him, had Tost con
sciousness. lie, however, speedily recovered, and
if now none the worse of his mishap.
PRUSSIA.
All tho sovereigns of Europe have received in
vitations to the coronation of the King and Queen
of Prussia, and will be represented by special am
bassadors, as at the coronation of the Queen of
England and the Emperor of Russia.
A Berlix letter states that anew order of knight
hood will be created to commemorate tho corona
tion at Ivoenigsberg.
The liidtpeniltnice Beige says that the journey
of the King of Prussia to France is indefinitely post
poned, if not altogether abandoned. A despatch
of M. de la Tour a’Auvergne leaves no doubt on
the subject.
SAXONY.
AS another blow to the musicians of tho future,
it is stated that the Dresden prima donna, Mme.
Burde-Ney, has positively refused to sing in any of
Herr Wagner'? operas. The manager is said to
have remonstrated, but the lady demunded a jury
of voealists, who agreed that Herr Wagner 's was no
vocal music at all, n«r what a singer should he re
quired to sing.
SWEDEN.
At Stockholm, a police order has been issued pro
hibiting perambulating singers and players from ex
ercising tbeir calling in the streets.
The Clamor Publico, ono of the most respectable
and liberal journals of Spain, has succumbed to the
severe press law which new exists in that country.
Condemned to pay a lino of 00.000 roals and tho
costs of a prosecution, the publication of tho jour
nal has been suspended.
RUSSIA.
The Emperor and Empress of Russia are about to
visit the Crimea.
The Russian Government have granted a great
advantage to the Russian Railway Company, by
guarantying 5 per oent. interest for the whole of
the expenditure. If the whole profits exceed 5
percent., half the surplus is togotothe Govern
ment and half to the shareholders.
Colonel Gowen writes from Sebastopol that he
gets on slowly with the work of raising the remain
ing sunken Russian ships. They are so rotten there
is no portion of them strong enough to bear their
own Weight. The Colonel adds: “I nave raised and
removedsome fifty vessels, a large majority vessels
of war, of which there were nine war steamers, and
several 60-gun frigates. The harbor of Sebastopol
is as practically clear this day as it was before the
sinking of the fleet.”
There are important rumors current about tho
Caucasus. It is said that the Cossacks, who are
entrusted with the defence of the frontier, have
shown symptoms of great disaffection, almost as to
rouse fears of a mutiny among thorn.
POLAND.
Thorn, Aug. 4. —lt is asserted that General
Lambert’s appointment as Governor of the Kingdom
of Poland has arrived at Warsaw, and that M.
Wielopolski has, in consequence, determined to
resign.
It is stated, as a new proof of tho displeasure of
the Czar at the recent demonstrations, made by the
inhabitants of Warsaw, that the portion of the im
perial stud kept there will be sent away, as the
Emperor does not intend to go to Warsaw to hold
reviews as formerly; and that in no case will ho be
present at the autumnal manoeuvres, as has been
the custom.
ITALY.
The Uinta Itahana , the Mazzinian organ of
Milan, announces that General Garibaldi has been
one el the first to sign the protest, originating with
Mazzini, against the occupation of Rome by the
French.
A correspondent of the Times states that the
priest who was present with Count Cavour in his
last moments, having been summoned to Rome to
communicate to the Pope what took place, has de
clined to reveal to his Holiness the secrets of the
confessional, and has been confined in apartments
of the Inquisition. A letter from Turin, dated
August 8, says—“ Father Jacques, Count Cavour’s
confessor, arrived yesterday at Orvieto. The court
of Rome has deprived him of his benefice.”
TURKEY.
The number of officers in the Turkish army has
been reduced. Henceforth the new officers will be
chosen from among those who have been dismissed
on account of this reduction.
The Sultan has taken a backward step with re
gard to the press; he has prohibited the three or
foul' papers published at Constantinople from pub
lishing telegrams.
TbrSultan’s Jewels. —A valuable assemblage
of mounted diamonds, in various ornaments, from
Constantinople, the property of the late Snltan, is:
now- being dispersed under the hammer, at Mr.
Robipson’s auction rooms, in Old Bond street, Lon
don. These magnificent jewels comprise s great
variety of ornaments in the form of neeklaoes, ear-,
rings, bracelets, brooches, stomachers, and head
dresses, many of them ef great magnitude and,
splendor, and of exquisite designs, representing;
wreathß and groups of flowers, of natural siWB,.
composed entirely of fine brilliants and rose dia
monds, and in some oaseß surmounted with dia
mond turds; presentation boxes of gold, beautifully
enamelled, and. rfohly.set, with brilliants and rose
diamonds, in dusters of flowers and etjjgl designs;
TWO CENTS.
watches and ebatelalxoa, presenting, to the eye
masses ofi diamonds of tbc'greatcst taste’aihd beauty;
the whole forming a mcr/b splendid assemblage of
jewels than has ever befa/h been offered'for public
competition. There wore fffr lots in tht'first day’s
sate, which realized the sunOof £8,760.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Manassas correspondent of* the New o.tlbf.fis
Picayune, writfcgf on the 10th mutant,
to prove tho fight it? Bull Run a victory from
first. Ho contends that at no time dtaing thd day-'
were the rebel troofited. UV continues :•
I hare had the pleasure of seeing General John
ston. lie looks like ft-general. He ir-about five
feet eight or nine inched* height, good ftorm, vary
erect, handsome face, thiols moustache, "«d head
somewhat sprinkled white, llis ■ hair is
slightly gray. His orgfffls- of benevole'lce and
veneration are cxtremclydargc, and his eye very
full and large. He should* talk well and'speak
fluently. Jfo has the decided* advantage ove: M Gen.
Beauregard as far as appenrsm.ee goes.
Tarson Brownlow’s paper, notwithstanding > all
the statements from so many' ntMtrees ns to its sup
pression, is still published. T!te following state
ment from him is interesting, as going to shew
what we haye nil along believed* that there is no
prospect at present of tue throwina.of Federal troops*
into East Tennessee :
Sensible and reflecting Union men, in East Ten
nessee, have calculated that, in the course of events,
should this war go on, the heads of the Federal army
would deem it necessary, and in their line of duty,
to throw a large army into East Tennessee and Vir
ginia. on the line of this railroad. Nay. many of
us have supposed that this might be a part of the
Programme of the Commandcr-in-Clibef of the Fe
deral army—but we have neither advised it, as
Union men, nor been consulted as to its propriety.
On the contrary, it is known to us that some of the
Union men of litis city have proposed to go as Com
missioners to Washington to solicit the Government
at Washington not to throw any force into this di
vision of our State, and, upon obtaining such a
pledge, they intended to return and demand of the
Confederate forces the removal from our inldat of a
large body of armed men, stationed at different
points, te resist the approach of Federal troop 3.
This effort would have been made und made in
good faith, but for two considerations. First, the
proposed Commissioners would have to apply to the
Knoxville- leaders of -secession for a pass; and
next, having obtained it. and started, they would
have been published as fleeing the State, and have
bad attributed to them motives that never entered
info their minds. In this view' of the case, the mis
sion was not undertaken, and the matter stands
just where all see it stands.
Apropos, wc should remark that the Memphis
Avalanche (a Secession sheet), in its issue of last
Tuesday, says that General Carroll, of that city,
returned from East Tennessee on the previous day,
and adds :
;; General Carroll, as we understand it, had a
•conversation with Parson Brownlow, in which the
fact of the suppression of his psiper was broached.
President Davis, it seems, has declared that he de
sires no connection with any Government in which
the freedom of the press is denied, and the Whig
will soon be issued ngnin. But Mr. Brownlow hns
altered his views of political affairs, and will here
after advocate the cuuse of the South against her
oppression.’ 1
With the Louisville Journal; i: we don’t believe
this is true.”
Flour for the Army. —The Memphis Appeal
of the 18th has the following : We desire to call the
attention of planters to the importance of an early
subscription of flour and corn meal for the use of
our army. The Confederate Government purchased
in May last on immense quantity of flour and stored
it at this place, but the supply is now entirely ex
hausted. Unless the planters of West Tennessee.
North Alabama, and Mississippi, come forward and
subscribe flour and meal, taking Confederate bonds
in payment, our bravo boys in the field will soon be
without bread. Lot each planter indicate to the
commissary department at this place, by mail or
through his commission merchant, what quantity he
is willing to sell to the Government for their bonds,
and let them send it forward immediately. There
are five mills in operation here capable of grinding
bushels doily, to which the planters can send
their wheat and have it ground and barrelled, ready
for transportation.
Fugitive East Tennesseans. —Wc learn from
a distinguished citizen of Danville that, on Monday
last, two hundred and forty fugitives from East
Tennessee, men driven from their homes, were fed
in the Senimnry 3'ard in that town. Some of them
were elderly men and some young, and all had
b&en compelled to abandon their families, and were
ill-clad, almost barefoot, weary, and hungry. Their
situation was indeed deplorable. Several hundred
mere were expected to arrive yesterday. The
whole of the two hundred and forty fugitives
enlisted in the United States service at Camp Dick
Robinson. — Louisville Journal of Thursday.
McDowell’s Plans. —McDowell makes no dis
play in his report, but it is a plain detail of his
movements, and it shows that he arranged and
fought the battle as well as any of Lincoln’s gene
rals, with their troops, could have done, not ex
cepting General Scott. Hen lanctged it admira
bly in every respect, and was very nearly sue
cess ful- * * The columns of Hunter
and* Hcintzelman passed up the Run, crossed at
Sudlcy’s Ford, and attempted to turn our left,
which was the groat feature of the plan. Hunter
did cross, did attack as ordered, and did force our
men down the Run, where they hud to receive the
cross-fire of Tyler's column'; and nothing hnt the
protection of Heaven, thegenivsof Beauregard.
(who detected Hunter’s movement by the clouds of
dust.) and the unequalled heroic courage and
great endurance of our men. prevented our left
%eing turned, and perhaps the seizure by Hunter
of the Manassas Railroad at Gainesville. — Augusta
(Crtf.) Setitinel.
Crops in Texas. —The Ranger says: We re
gret to hear of the sad havoc the boll worm i 3
making on the cotton crop. We hear of similar
complaints from planters in the neighborhood of
Chappel Hill. The cotton farms around Brenham
arc also showing that the boll worm has commenced
the work of destruction.
li We believe the standard price for the new corn
crop is 26 cents per bushel, Many farmers expected
to crib enough corn.to do them for three years, but
as the weevil has already appeared in the new ear,
we fear their expectations will not be realized, and
they will be forced to dispose of all they can, ns
soon as the new crop is gathered, unless some reme
dy- is prescribed that will get rid of the weevil.”
Sugar Crop in Louisiana. —The Attaknpns
Register states that there arc fields of cane on the
Atcbafalaya, below Berwick, which measure now
upward of seven feet, perfectly formed joints. On
a large number of plantations the cane is much in
advance of that of 1863, which was, by far, tho
most prolific in sugar ever known in tho history of
the State. Nothing but an early frost can prevent
the growing crop from being the largest ever har
vested.
Only Imitating iiis Leaders. —From the Tal
lahassee News we learn that the postmaster at
Pensacola has been acting tbe scoundrel on a large
scale. He has been robbing the mails of the money
sent by the soldiers to their families, on being paid
off for their service. Some $9,000 have been stolen,
it is said, in this way-. The postmaster has been
arrested, and will probably be shot for tho offence
committed. Large quantities of letters have been
burnt, and a bushel found that had been opened and
robbed of their contents.
Richmond Price Current.— Exchange on Now
York, 8 per cent.; premium on specie, 10 per cent.;
bacon, 20 cents per lb.; butter, 25 cents per lb.;
com, 60 cts. per bushel; coffee, 2S cts. per lb.;
flour, $0 per bbl.; salt, §0 per sack j New Orleans
sugar 9 cts. per lb.
The Poor of Memphis The Memphis Ava
lanche says that the poor of that city aro daily on
the increase. The sum donated to the wives and
children of volunteers by the county court is no
longer paid; tho amount, having been so much
larger than was anticipated, emptied the treasury.
The result is that those soldiers who relied upon re
ceiving the amount appropriated, now sec their
wives and children in an actual suffering condition.
The Montgomery Confederation of the 15th
inst. announces its temporary suspension, owing to
the tightness of the times, the scarcity and high
prices of material, and the difficulty of collecting
its dues.
Among the brigadier generals attached to the re
bel army of the Potomac are the following: Whi
ting S. Jones, D. R. Jones, Ewell, Bonham,
Longstreet, Toombs, Evans, Jackson, Elsey, and
Early.
The Charleston Mercury cannot endure the pre
sence in that city of British, French, or other con
suls to the United States. The Mercury’s ire
against them is because the foreigu Governments
will only receive the Southern Commissioners as
distinguished citizens.
The New Orleans Delta says that Enfield rifles,
not inferior to the original pattern of the English
article, are now being manufactured in that city.
Position of the Confederates.—A corre
spondent of the New Orleans Picayune , writing
from Manassas on the 10th instant, says.: There is .
not a single aot of the Confederate States that could
he so construed as to justify any reasonable man in
coming to the conclusion that the South intended to
take Washington. We have never claimed mqre
than is embraced in the boundaries of tho seceded ;
States. That is the whole extent of ourolaim,.
Washington is situated in that part, of. the District
of Columbia transferred by Maryland, and just as.
long as Maryland remains with..the North, just 80 .
long will we refrain from any attack.
Why the Southern Army, dp, not Move.Foiv,
ward. —The Augusta. (Ga.) Chronicle anil Suuti'.
net of the 18th has the following ;
It is well known now that General, Beauregard’s.
forces at Manassas, previous to Johnston’s arrival,
were comparatively small, and. even after John
ston came the combined army could not have ex
ceeded forty thousand effective men. Since tho
battle, wc have good reason to believe that Boaure-.
gard and Johnston have under their command muoh
more than a hundred, thousand men, enough for all
practical purposes. It is not the wept of men that
has prevented an advance, but the lack, of means,
of transportation, and the lack. of. food, coaled
with sickness. Beauregard has been,almost wholly
without means of transportation for his vast army,
and proper food in sufficient quantity, as we h»v.e.
reason to believe. And men who,fought the great
fight of the 21st, and came out of,it without so
much as a scratch, were in no condition to do null-,
tary duty fop many days.. W.itty.little foo&of suite,
ble quality, fatigued, warn down, they were in no
condition to advance. In fact, very many, of thpm,
have been sick since the light, and. it is but truth
to say that they, as well as the wounded, have, not;
had proper attention from the medic** department,
which, so far as w» canlearn, w.ae organised In the
very worst manner, if, indeed, !* can be said to
have’had any organization at all.
A letter from St. Thomas, W. I„ of the
Bth of August, states that Captain Seuunes, of the
privateer Sumpter, had sent a polite message by
Captain Punoan, of tho brig Romance, from Trin
idad, to Captain Scott, of the United States steamer
Keystone State, requesting him to meet the rebel
oemmpuderfor a fight, either at St, Thomas, whither
the Simpler was bound, or in tho Mona Passage,
where he would be found at a later date.
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GENERAL NEWS.
If VmitlßLE Murder by Indians The fol
lowing* are the particulars of a horrible murder bj
the Imrans, w nich took place near Eureka, this
State Oi ' tko 23d instant: Mr. George Cooper, an
old resid ?nt aD( * “teemed citizen of this county,
living on river, about two miles from Hydcr
villo who\ 101 a ten and S™ 1 there, while at
work in his i landing near another man, whom
he had cmnl hyed, was fired upon and instantly
killed by some 1 Indians, numbering about twenty,
who suddenly j wheel out of the woods adjoining*
His companion ii. mediately ran to the house, gave’
the otarm to Mrs. • Cooper, seized their only child,
a babe, and. togeti ' er with a young Indian boy, ran
fpr the nearest hou e * The Indians pursued them,
but only succeeded in overtaking and killing the
Indian foy. They r. racked the house and mul,
took a gnn. some ni ‘umunUion, and considerable
plunder, fired the mill, • ftnd teen fled. The alarm
soon given at Hyd grille, ?nd some forty men
started in pursuit. . The \ enptnin of the fort hero
also- sent out a small a etachment, some ten or
twelve. Mr. Cooper leave ' a young wife and child,
Hu is-tho third brother kill. by the Indians in this
count/. Smi Francisco 1 TV or of tht 30 til nit*
A Novel Marriage.- -A novel marriage
occurred* in Detroit, Mfehig- ,n * °° _^°J ldQ y
under tSo'followißg circumstan 503: ” Urodcnck,
seventy years of »ge. and H annah Bryan, aged
twenty-five years,, left Lawrei xc r e * Massachusetts,
last week, ami caue out West for the ostensible
purpose of Iteiug unSed in the ho 'tybonds of matri
mony. Tho; ancient Lothario. however, being
rather slow in 1 redeeswng his proms , e took
the matter Inter her ovra hands on M onday morning,
l-y rising at an early hour and ti km 2
pockets of her ancien'!- lover sash amounting to
lour hundred and eigkfcy-eight dob a s ,<? ; dl3 '
covering his los’rtho lndywjis iinMedit dcly arrested
for stealing, when she entered a 0 T(>s9 ' auit
seduction, the result of was that tae couple
went before Justice? Swinwoe, and wer. ’ marnea;
after which they-departed on their way rejoicing,
seeming mutually pleased with the denou. fluent.
Highly Important to the Mahufa. "ITUrers
of New England.—W-e leiwn that Color
ton, deputy quartermaster general of the United
States army for the city of New York, has, by tho
advice of General Meig.R appointed Hon. Geo. -fs c A.
Shaw, of Bostou, inspector- gonaral of all the army
goods being manufactured for Government * ua *
der the bids recently, accepted ltv New York, and
that his special'duties for* the Resent are to \
the factories where the work- la* being done a ' nd
goods manufactumL with tho standard sealed sai n ‘
pics of ali the Governnient goods, and see that co»
tractors produce good? equally as-zood and modi. *
from best of materials.— ff&ston Trent script.
Terrible Tragedy in New York.—Frede
rick Wesse was murdor^d 1 about six o’clock last
evening by Thomas Reynolds; at ft wtehefa shop,
412 Eighth avenue, tt-eise. was dressing a calf,
when Reynolds earns up, and’ wp* charged by
Wesse with having .-tolen-or known scoiething of a
lost: pocket book. Reynolds* called- We3se a liar,
when the latter made some reply which, so incensed
Reynolds that he picked up the knife and stabbed
"NYesse in the r-cck. killing.-him instrantly. The
murderer was at once arrested-.'—lY. Y. Commer
cial, Saturday.
A Chicago paper say* Gon. Beauregard
was 8 few years since an active -filibuster, and
sessod influence in the piratical eouncila concerning
Central America, lie was confident that Walker
was not fitted to command the* expedition, and re
quested Gen. McClellan, with- whom he hold
friendly correspondence, to taks his place, offering
him the military dictatorship of-the to be con
quered provinces if he would engage in the enter
prise. This offer was summarily, rejected; but
was renewed again and again w*th. new tempta
tions, until McClellan pcrcmptcrily forbade any
further reference to it.
Important Post Office Order,— The post
master of Eew York city has received the follow
ing
Tost OrnnE Departm-Esj, August 22.
Pm : The Postmaster General directs that from
and after your receipt of tin's letter, none of the
newspapers published in New York., city, which
were lately presented by the Grand .Jury as dan
gerous. from their disloyalty, shall fc© forwarded in
the mails. lam, respectfully, your, obedient ser
vant, T. E. inoTTi Chief. Clerk.
A "Warehouse Robbed and Burned to the
Ground.—On Thursday morning, ,tho • o:tizen3 of
Greeneastle (Pa.) were aroused by a loud* report.
Soon after smoke and flame were seen to issue- from,
the large new warehouse of Messrs-. Oaks •« Austin.
In spite of the most energetic efforts, the-entire edi
fice Was destroyed, with several hundred barrels of
flour and a largo quantity of wheat. Tho door of
the safe was found completely blown off; aa if by
powder. A suspicious-looking fellow, who had been,
seen lurking about the town, was at once arrested,
and various stolen articles ami papers foundon. him.
Judge Orr a Fugitive from the Rebels.—
Judge Sample Orr reached this city on Tuesday
night from Springfield, leaving a sick wife anil
some small children to the mercies of the rebel va
grant?. Judge Orr ran a great risk in remaining
so near the rebel army for so many days after the
battle, but saved himself by keeping a sharp look
out and spending the nights in the open prairie.
He says he has no doubt the rebels have devastated
his farm. —Missouri Democrat.
Singular Presence of Absence of Mind.—• .
Last Friday night, as Mr. Albert Smith, a school
teacher at Churchtown, Columbia county, New
York, was walking from that village, he was ac
costed by a stranger who demanded his watch and
money. Smith, in the excitement of tho - moment,
handed the highwayman liis watch, and while tho
latter was carefully stowing it away* Smith knocked
him down with his cane, recovered his watch, and
made good his escape.
Fiendish Outrage. — On Monday morning
last the house of Silas Powell, near Whitcaburg,
Scioto county, Ohio, was blown up, and Mr. Powell
and his two children, who were sleeping together,
were killed, and a hired woman was perhaps fatally
injured. The act is supposed to have been perpe
trated by Wm. L. McClain, nephew of Powell, who
was making his home at his uncle’s house. Powder
had been placed under the bed, and by means of
au«pr holes through the walls a fuse had been at
tached to the powder. The powder and fuse had
been purchased by McClain at a neighboring vil
lage, He is under arrest,
General Scott's Coachman*—The clay after
the battle of Bull Run, Peter E»anotf, General
Scott’s coachman, crossed into Virginia to exercise
the horse of a member Of General Mansfield’s staff,
lie was captured by the rebels, who sent him on Us
Richmond, where be is now employed cooking for
United States prisoners.—i\V?r l r or/.' Dima.
Mi rdek A horrible murder was coaanltted
recently near Wellsburg, Va. Two-men, named
Brown and Kirkwood, who had been drinking
during the day, got into a quarrel while playing
cards. In the beginning of the affray pistols were
used, but, after it had progressed awhile, Brown
drew a largo knife and inflicted a mortal wound
across Kirkwood’s abdomen.
The Coming State Campaign We are in
formed that the leading meu among the Democratia
party in this State ore pretty generally in favor of
the nomination of Hon. Eli Thayer, of Worcester,
ns the gubernatorial candidate of. their ‘-Union
party." —Boston Traveller.
Me. Danforth P. Parker, of Barnstable,
Mass., who has for several years held.a responsible
position in the Boston and Baltimore line of steam
ers, has received an appointment as a pilot in the
navy.
We learn from the Hartford Post that on
the 23d inst. a resident of that place, named John
Bnrity. was stabbed by a quarrelsome fellow,
namecl Gilmore, and it is doubtful whetber ho will
recover.
Hon. Warren J. Woodward, of Columbia
county, who was last week nominated for President
Judge of the Seventh Judicial district, by the De
mocracy of Bucks and Montgomery counties, has
since written a letter declining tho nomination.
Prize-Master Crowell, .of the United
States-Navy, arrived at Now York, on Saturday, in
charge of the prize-schooner iS/kimfy of Boston.
The Shark was captured at Galveston by tho Uni
ted States steamer South Carul. ua , while attempt
ing to run the blockade.
A man named Kraats was run through with
a sword by Captain Crofton, of.the Sixteenth In
fantry, during a scuffle in a railroad car, 9lf
Wednesday, at Chicago. It waamuch as the polic*
and soldiers could do to shield him from being
lynched by the excited populate.
A Federal Officer Captured in Western
Virginia.— On Wednesday last, Captain Sprague,
of the Ohio Seventh, was captured, with two of his
guard, while on his way to Weston, Va. Another
of his guards was killed by the rebel cavalry, and
the fourth escaped to bring the sad intelligence.
A young man, named Huston Foorman, re
siding in Spring township, Centre county, Pa., was
lately beaten to death by two men, named Edward
Sefton and William, R- Hays, both of Milesbury.
Cause, whisky-
A Thought while Reading “ Latest Ad
vices from Europe,”— Theariatocrats of England
can never comprehend American names or natures.
Whenever the word “Manassas” now appears they
pronounce 11 Menaces” against us.— N. x. Leader.
TpNY, the negro, servant of General Kelley,
was killed op Friday near Ritchietown, Va., by his
head coming in contaot with a bridge while reach
ing out of a railroad cai and warning a little son of
Genpral Kelley , who was in & precarious condition.
Illness, of If on. Joshua R. Giddinos.—■
Ron. Joshua R. Giddings was lately attacked with
a paroxysm of the complaint to wbioh he is subject,
(atrope of the heart,.) He is now out of danger and
doing well, £>«iisay» the Ashtabula Sentinel.
A Case op Conscience. —The General Su
perintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad has w
ceived from B»v. John Twiggs ten dollars, which
had been, placed in his hands, to be returned tenths
company, aarightfully belonging to it.
Female Courage.— Recently, a daughter of
Lemuel Riper, Esq., of Milton, discovered ajrattle
shake, measuring 3i feet long. Bhe obtained a
pitchfork, which she thrust throughiU
it instantly.
Fluvial.— Tlie amount of rain thqfc fell ia
Cincinnati oa Thursday was 3.35 inches,, or, at the
rate of 1.67 inches per hour during tho entire oon
tiquanee of the shower.
“ IT is the duty of all,” said* tpo venera
ble Martin Van Buren, a few daya.siffpe’, “tons*
above party until tho rebelliesi, b#q. been pup
down.”
M». Enww James, of robfcffd.
of jewelry to the amount of •'MbQQQ, oh WednssdPX
morning last, at his hotel at .Long Branoh.
Dixie Doodie.—Tho, Rebels, it seenjff, diflv
gustod at the apathy of F,Ywpe, have dropped, thfl
Marseillaise,’mi havev chosen a new version, of
Uncle Sam’s national,. anthem, which they, havw
christened “ Dixie J>Md)e." Just hearken to fte
Ismo and impotent, conclusion :
One God., «ne woman, find one flag,
We 'worship and adoSre;
Our Ynotto is —let us alone —
Ww ask for nothing more.
Dixie Poodle, boys, hum I *
Down outride', up the middle;
Pixie Doodle, fa, sol, la.
Trumpet , drum, mu fiddle.