THE PRESS, PItISHED DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. IFFICE No. 417 CHESTNUT Bl'ltEET, DAII.V T«lvk Cents Ter 'Weee, payable to the Carrier, tailed to Subscribers out of tho City at Six Doi.la.rs Annum, Four Dollars forEiqut Mosths, Thres Dollars for Six Months—mvariaby iu advance for Retime ordered. THE TRr.WEF.KLY PRESS. Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at Turk* Dol lars Per Annum, in advance SEA BATHING. gEA BATHING. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. SVQ AHD THREE-QUARTER HOURS FROM PHILADELPHIA. , ATLANTIC CITY is now conceded to be one of the txjst delightful Sea-side Resorts in the world. Its Bath lif is unsurpassed; its beautiful unbroken Beach (nine dries iu length) is nncqualled by any on tho continent, that of Galveston; its air is remarkable for its dry gjss; its sailing and fishing facilities are perfect j its 4jtels are well furnished, and as well kept as those of atwport or Saratoga, while its avenues mid walks are <laner and broader than tlinso of any other Sea-Bathing face in the country. Trains of the CAMDEN;AND ATLANTIC RATL BOAD leave VINE-STREET AVIIAEF, Philadelphia, ijfly, at 7>X A.M. and 4 I*. M. Returning, reach Phila delphia at 9A. M. and 7.45 P. M. Fare, $l.BO. (Bound-Trip Tickets, good for Three Days, $2.50. Dis tance, 60 miles. A telegraph extends the whole length of tie Road. jylO-tf 'FOR THE SEA- AND AT LANTIC KAILBOAD.—On and after MONDAY, June Vth, trains will leave VINE-STREET FERRY daily, Sundays excepted): j Mail train.. 7,30 A.M. Express train 1.00 P.M. 1 Accommodation 5.00 P. M. f RETURNING, LEAVES ATLANTIC: Mail train 4.45 P. M. Express train... 6.15 A.M. I Accommodation 3.18 A. M. i Fare to Atlantic, $1.80: Bound Trip tickets, good for •three days, $2.50. Freight must be delivered at COOPER'S POINT by '3 P. M. The Company will not l-e responsible for any •goods until received and receipted f«»r, l»v tlimr Agent, . At the Point. J OllN G. BRYANT, -* je!s-tf Ag^nt. FOE CAPE MAY.—:TI~s g v.'ift and emnferiaMe Bay steamer “GEOIIGE WASHINGTON,” Captain W. Wkilldin, ■lpaves Arch-street wliarf. for Cape May, every Mon day, "Wednesday, and Friday morning at 9J£ o’clock. Returning, leaves the landing every Tuesday, Thurs day, and Saturday morning at 8 o’clock. • Fare, carriage hire included “ servants, carriage hire included 1.25 Freight taken at the usual low rales. Stopping at New Castle going and returning. jy4-tsel# SUMMER RESORTS. E~ AOLB HOTEL j ATLANTIG CITY, is now open with a LARGE ADDITION OF ROOMS. Board ST per week: Bathing dresses included. aul3-lin SEA BATHING, BRIGANTINE HOUSE, BK3GAXT7NK BEACTT, N. J. • Kovr open for the season. The Bathing, Fishing, Gun .aing, and Yachting being very superior. Boats will await guests at the inlet on arrival of trains. Board per week SB. I*. O. Address, Atlantic City. H. 1). SAIITII, Proprietor. jr\Qmnms hall, fiJ ' 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 jßplendid view of the ocean, ami is near the Fishing and failing point. No pains will bo spared to securo tlio anti convenience of guests. Boarding reduced to SlO per week. I je24-tsel THOMAS C. GARRETT. Light house cottage, at- LANTIC CITY, the nearest House to the safest *.part of the beach, is now open for the Season. TERMS MODERATE. KO LIQUORS SOLP ON TIIE PREMISES. JONAH WUOTTON, Proprietor. fTIAMMANY HOUSE, NORTH CA- J- BOLINA AYENUE, near tho Depot, ATLANTIC •■'CITY. The subscriber takes pleasure in informing his former patrons and the public that lie has reopened the above House, where lie ‘will be happy to please all who may favor him with a call. j&23-3m ELIAS CLEAYER, Proprietor. SEA - BATHING.—THE UNITED STATES HOTEL, ATLANTIC, N. J., is now open for visitors. This is tho largest and bcst-furmslied Ho iel on the Island, and being convenient to ilie beach, and suiTounded by extensive and well-shaded grounds, is a desirable house for families. It is lighted with gas, •und well supplied with pure water. The Germania So ciety will furnish the music for the season. The cars €top at' the door of the Hotel for the convenience of Guesie. JEREMIAH McKIBBIN, CABINET FURNITURE; LIAIiP TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, No. 261 South SECOND Street, f -H) connection with their extensive Cabinet Business are manufacturing a superior article of '■r- BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on hand a full supply, finished with the MOORE & CAMPIC)N ? 3 IMPROVED CUSHIONS, ■ 'Which are pronounced, by all who have used them, to be • superior to all others. For tlie quality and finish of those Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the tJoiou, who are familiar with the character of their work* au2o-6m LOOKING GLASSES. JMMENSE REDUCTION" LOOKING GLASSES, OIL rAINTINGS, ENGKAVINGS, PICTURE AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. JAMES S. EARLE & SON, 81G 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 the country. A rare opportunity is now offered to make pura ehas£3 in tins line For Gash, at remarkably Low Prices EARLE’S GALLERIES, 816 CHESTNUT Street. COAL. SM. N. HEATON’S • LEHIGH AND LOCUST MOUNTAIN COAL WHARF, 026 North Delaware avenue, above Poplar Street. All Coal particularly selected and prepared for family him?. Housekeepers desiring to lay in their winter sup ply will bo furnished with a good and clean article at •very reduced prices for cash. Dealers and Manufacturers supplied at wholesale ■prices. au2o-tuth&s2m^ BUSINESS NOTICES. A CARD.—THE UNDERSIGNED, late of the GIRARD HOUSE, Philadelphia, have {eased, for a term of years, WILLARD’S HOTEL, in Washington. They take this occasion to return to their old friends and customers many thanks for past favors, and beg to assure them that they will be most happy to flee them in their new quarters. SYKES, CHADWICK, & CO. "Washington, July 16,1861. au23-ly JOHN H. FRICK, NOTARY PUB. lie. Commissioner for all the States, Real Estate and Pension Agent, 233 POCK Street. PASSPORTS -procured. PROTESTS noted and extended. ati23-6t^ ■JOHN WELSH, Practical SLATE W ROOFER, THIRD Street and GERMANTOWN Soad, is prepared to put on any amount of ROOFING, on the most MODERATE TERMS. Will guaranty to make every Building perfectly Water-tight* K 7” Orders promptly attended to. File manufactory, 211 SEW STREET. Files and Hasps of every description, aod good Quality, <nade to order, nt Ilia above establishment. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, at manufacturer’s prices. Becutting done in a superior maimer. apl>d6in J. B. SMITH. Ease and comfort. A. THEOBALD asks, Who can please or snit everybody 1 Such a person probably never was born. But those Who know when they are suited in BOOTS or SHOES are invited to give him a call, and thOße who never were gutted before may be suited now. He is at his Old Place, 608 COATES Street je!s-3m E n EVANS & WATSON’S V SALAMANDER SAFES. STORE, 304 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. A large variety of FIRE-PROOF SAFES always on hand. P:ne shirt manufactory.— J. W. SCOTT, 814 CHESTNUT Street, a tew doors below the <* Continental.” The attention of the Wholesale Dealers is invited to his IMPROVED CUT OF SHIRTS, of superior fit, make, and material, on hand and made to order at shortest notice. jeB-tf PpTT, A TYBTYPHIA TERRA-COTTA WOBKS. Office and "Warerooms, 1010 CHESTNUT Street* Ornamental Chimney Tops. Garden Times and Statuary. Encauatie Flooring Tile. Architectural Ornaments. Ventilating and Bmoke Flues. Bidge Tile and Sanitary Ware. Steam-pressed Drain Pipe. Water Pipe, warranted to stand pressure, cheap and durable. The Trade supplied, on Liberal Terms Illustrated Catalogues sent by mall, on application by letter. MACKEREL, herring, shad, xVJ_ SALMON, Ac.—3,000 bbta. Mesa Noa. 1, 2, and 3 fifACKEBEL, large, medium, and small, in assorted packages of choice, late-caught, fat fish. 5,000 bbls. New Halifax, .Eastport, and Labrador Her* sings, of choice dualities. 6,000 boxes extra new scaled Herrings. 8,000 boxes extra new Ho. 1 Herrings. 8,000 boxes large Magdalina Herrings. 250 bbls. Mackinac 'White Fish. 60 bbls. new Economy Mesa Shad* 25 bbls. new Halifax Salmon. 1,000 Quintals Grand Bank Codfish. 500 boxes Herkimer County Cheese. In store and landing, for sale by MUBPHY & KOONS, noS No. 146 NOBTH WHABVES. /10TT0N SAIL DUCK and CAN v VASi of alt numbers and brands* Bareu’e Duck Awning Twills, of all descriptions! for Tents, Awnings, Trunks, and Wagon Covers. Also, Paper Manufacturers 1 Brier Felts, from Ito 8 feet wide. Tarpauling, Belting, Sail Twine, Ac. JOHN W. EYERMAN A CO., 103 JONES Alloy. PRESS, . . S- A. HABKISON, 1010 CHESTNUT Street. VOL S.—NO. 25. PROPOSALS. Proposals for army baggage WAGONS. Quartermaster General’s Office, > Washington, June 21,1801. j Proposals are invited for tho furnishing of Army Bag gage Wagons. Proposals should state the prices at which they can be furnished at tho place of manufacture, or at New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, or Cincinnati, as preferred by the bidders. The number which can be made by any bidder within one month after receipt of tho order, also tho number vhieh he can deliver within ono week. The Wagons must exactly conform to the following specifications, and to the established patterns. Six-mule (covered) wagons, of tho silo aiul description as follows, to wit: The front wheels to be three feet ten inches high, hubs ten inches in diameter, and fourteen and a quarter iuches long j hind wheels four feet tcu inches high, hubs ten and A Quarter inches in diameter, ami fourteen and a quar tor inches long: follies two and n half inches wids mid two anil tliroc-aimrtor inches deep; cost Iron pips boxes twolvo inches long, two and a half inches at the ; large end and one and seven-eighths inch at small end: , tire two and a half inches wide by llro-eightlis of an inch , thick, fastened with one screw holt and nut in each fcllie; | hubs made of gum, the spokes and feliia of the best white j oak, free from defects: each wheel to have a sand hand and ■ linchpin band two and tlirec-iimu ter inches wide, of No. 8 j band iron, and two driving bands—outside band one and a quarter inch by one-iinartcr inch thick, inside band ono I inch by three-sixteenths in thickness; the hind wheels to I be made and lioxcd so that they will measure from tho in side of the tire to the large end of the box six and a half inHie.--, nod front whorls six anil Onc-Ciglltll illOllCS ill n parallel lino, and each axle to lie three feet eleven nnd tliree-eighlli inches from tho outside of ono shoulder washer to the outside.of tlie other, bo ns to have the wagons all to track five feet from centre to centra of the wheels. Axletrees to be made of the quality refined | American iron, two and a half inches s-iuiiro nt tho i shoulder, tapering down to one and a half inch iu the | middle, with n seven-eighths inch king-bolt hoioineach j axletree ; washers and linchpins for »*hc!i axletree ; size of linchpins one inch wide, three-eighths of an inch thick,- j with a hole in each end * a wooden stock four and three [ quarter inches wide and four inches deep fastened sub | Btuntially to tho axletree with clips on the ends and with two bolts, six inches from the middle, and fastened to the ■ hounds and bolster, (the bolster to bo four feet five inches I long, five incites wide, and three and a half deep,) with j four half-inch bolts. j /P 10 tongue to be ten feet eight inches long, four inches r wide and three inches thick at front cud of the hounds, • and two and a quarter inches wide by two and three quarter inches deejeat the front end, and so arranged as ■ bp bft up, the front end of it to hang within two feet of I tli e ground wheu the wagon is standing at rest on a level ; Burtoce. i Tli& t front hounds to be six feet two inches long, : three inches thick,; and •four inches wide over axletree, and to retain that width fo- the back cm! of the tongue': i jaws of the hounds one foot eight inches long and three ( int'hes square at the front end, with a plate of iron two j ® lld a , I,a l lf il , lcllos wide by three eighths of an inch ! Hucb, fastened on top of the hounds over the back end j of tlie tongue with one half-inch screw bolt in each I end, and a plate of iron of the same size turned up at i each end one mid A half inches to clamp the front i hounds together, and fastened on the under side, and at [ front end of hounds, with half inch screw bolt through' S each hound, n seven-eighth inch bolt through tonguo and hounds In tlie centre of jaws, to secure the tongue ill the hounds 1 a plate of iron throe inches wide, one QYlftltOF inch thick, aud one foot eight inches long, secured on the inside of jaws of hounds with two rivets, and a plate of the same dimensions on each side of the tongue, whore the tongue nnd hounds run together, j secured in like manner; a brace of seven-eighths of an j inch round iron to extend from under tho front axle i tree, and take two bolts in front part of the hounds, | J an 'f brace .three-quarters of an inch round to continue | to tlie hack part ot the hounds, and to be fastened with j two bolts, one near the back end of the hounds, and ; one through the slider and hounds; a brace over front j !’ 0 ! f ? er ?“ c an , d a half inch wide, one-quarter of an inch thick, with a bolt in each end to fasten it to tho hounds * | tlie opening between the jaws of the hounds, to receive the tongue, and four and three-quarter inches in front, und four and a half inches at the back part of the jaws. The land hounds four feet two Inches long, two and three quarter inches thick, and three inches wide: jaws one foot. where they clasp the coupling pole: the bolster four feet five Indies long, and five inches wide, by three inches deep, with steady iron two and a half inches wide, by one-half inch thick, turned up two and f. half inches and fastened on each end with tliree rivets * the bolster stocks and hounds to be secured with four half-inch screw bolts, and one half-inch screw bolt through the coupling pole. The coupling pole nine feet eight inches long, three inches deep, and four and a half inches wide at front end, and two and three-quarter inches wide at back end* king bolt hole to tho centri of the back axletree six feet one. inch, and from the cen tre of king bolt hole to the centre of the mortice in the ! bind end of the pole eight feet nine inches: king bolt ono 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 inclies wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick on the doubletree and tongue where they rub together: iron plate ono and a half by one-quarter of an Inch on the sliding bar, fas tened at each end by a screw bolt through the hounds: front bolster to have plates above and below eleven inches long, three and a half inches wide, and three eigliths of an inch thick, corners drawn out and turned down on the sides of the bolster, with a nail in each cor ner, and Tour countersunk nails on top: two bands on the bind hounds, two and two and a lmlf inches wide, of 1.0. 10 band iron - the rub plate on the coupling pole tO be eight inches long, one and three-quarters inches wide* flnd.on© quarter of on inch thick. Doubletree three feet ten inches »ong, singletree two feet eight inches lon®, all well made of hickory, with an iron ring and clip at each end, the centre clip to bo well secured; lead bar and Biretclier to be three feet two inches long, two and a quarter inches wide, aud one and a quarter inch thick. Lead bars, stretchers, and singletrees for six-mule team: the two singletrees for the lead mules to have hooks in ' the middle to hook to the end of tlie fifth chain, the wheel 3nn.n^ dc ‘ e va ] r f "1 th °P eu nns® to attach them to the “ iiV Jn q k d . lead bar spread tlie forks apart: the Links of the doublefroe, awy, ; and tongue chains, three-eighths of an inch iu diame- £ r » forked chain seven-sixteenth inch in diameter ; fi.ri 5, i. n seven-sixteenth inch diameter to the fork: Ihe fork to be five-sixteenthinch diameter; tho links of these and of the lock chains to be not more than two ami a quarter inches long. The body to be straight, three feet six inches wide, two feet deep, ten feet long at the bottom, and ten feet six inches at the top, sloping equally at each end all in the clear or inside; the bed pieces to be two and a half inches wide, and throoinchcs deop- 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 rest 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 one and seven-eighth inch wide; three studs and one rail in front, with a seat on strap hinges to close it up as high as the sides; 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 all in the clear, to be substantially fastened to the front end of the body, to have an iron strap passing round each end, secured to the head piece and front rail by a rivet in each end of it passing through them, the lid to be fastened to the front rail with two good strap hinges, n strap of five-eighth iron around the box a half inch from the top edge, .and two straps same sizo on the lid near the front edge, to prevent the mules from eatin* the boxes; to have a joint hasp fastened to the middle of the lid, with 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 ltd to; eight studs and two rails on each side; one bolster fastened t» 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 aud 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. lO 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 four inches long, to be used ns harness bearers; four rivets through each side stud, and two rivets through each fiont stud, to secure the lining boards, to be of the best quality iron, and riveted on a good bur; one rivet through each end of the rails* floor five eightlia of an inch oak boards; sides five-eighths of an inch white pine, tail board three-quarters of an inch thick, of white pine, to he well cleated with five oak'cleats riveted at each end through the tail-board: an iron plate tliree feet eight inches long, two and a quarter inches wide, and three-eighths of an inch thick on the under side of the bed-piece, to extend from the hind end of the body to* eight inches in front of the bind bolsters, to be fastened by the rod at the end of the body, by the lateral rod and two threo-eighths of an inch screw bolts, one at the forward end of the plate, and the other about eqni-distant betccn it and the lateral rod. • A half-inch round iron rod or bolt to pass diagonally through the rails, between the two bind studs to and through the bed-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 bind rod. An iron clamp two inches wide, one quarter of an inch thick around the bed-picce, the cen tre bolt to winch the lock chain is attached passing through it, to extend seven inches on tlio inside of tho body, the ends, top, and bottom to be secured by two threc-eigbtlw inch screw bolts, the middle bar at tho ends to be flush with the bcd-pieco on the lower aide. Two lock chaius secured to the centre bolt of the body one and eleven inches, the other two feet six inches long, to be of tliree-cighths of an inch round iron; feed trough to be four feet six inches long from out Co out, the bottom and ends of oak, the sides of yellow pine, to bo eight inches wide at bottom, twelve inches wide at top, and eight and a half inches deep ail in the clear, well ironed, with a band of hoop-iron around the top, one around each end and tliree between tho ends, strong and suitable irons to fasten them on the tongue when reeding; good strong chains to be attached to tho top rail of the body, secured by a staple with a hook to at tach it to the trough. Six bows of good ash, two inches wide and one-lmlf 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, one 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 lone and nine feet eight inches wide, made in the best maimer, with four hemp cords on eacli side, and one through each end to close it at both ends; two rings on eacli end of the body, to close and secure the ends of the cover: a staple in the lower rail, nonr the second Btud from each end, to fasten the side cords. Tho outsldo of the body and feed trough to have two good coats of white lead, colored to a blue tint, the inside of them to have 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 be well pitched, instead of painted, if required. A tar-pot, an extra king bolt, and two extra single trees to bo furnished with each wagon, the king bolt and singletrees similar in all respects to those belonging to it Each aide of tho body of tho wagon to be marked U. 8., and numbered as directed; all other parts to be let tered XT. S.; 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 be distinctly understood that the wagons, are to be 80 constructed that tho several parts of any one wagon will agree and exactly fit those of any othqr, ao 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 Lest workmanlike manner. The work may he 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 inspect 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. C. MEIGS, ' je2s-ff Quartermaster General U. S. TUST RECEIVED, per “Annie Kim ball,” from Liverpool, Mander, Weaver, & Han der’s preparations: 25 lbs. Extract Aconiti, in 1 lb. jarß. 25 lbs. Extract Hyoscyami, in 1 lb. jars. 50 lbs. Extract Belladonna, in 1 lb. jars. 100 lbs. Extract Taraxaci, in 1 lb. jars. 50 lbs. Vin Eat Colchici, in 1 lb. bottles. 100 lbs. 01. Succini Beet., in 1 lb. bottles. 600 lbs. Calomel, in 1 lb. bottles. 500 lbs. Pil Hydrarg., in 1 lb. jars. „ WETHERILL & BBOTHER, mhB 47 and 49 North SECOND Street. /CHRISTIAN RENTSCHLER’S LA KJ GEB-BEEB BALOON AND OFFICE, N«. 449 CHESTNUT Street. BBEWEBY, No. 082 North SEVENTH Street, Phi adelplua. j>2o-lm /CLARET WINE—In casks and cases, Kj of the brands of St. Julien, Margaux, Hout-Brien Paxillae. For sale by IJACBETCHE A CABSTAIKS, jo2o No. 208 South FfiQKT Street EDUCATIONAL. SCHOOL FOR BOYS, CORNER OF KJ BROAD nnd SPRING GARDEN Stroots. will ra opc-n 2d of NINTH MONTH (September.) A few pupils can be accommodated with board in tlie family of the Principal, 857 North BROAD Street. mi2B-3t* E. M. HUNTINGTON. HD. GREGORY, A. M., WILL • reopen liis Classical and English School, No. xmnMABM.* Street, on MONDAY, September Sd. mi2B-12t T7DGEHILL SCHOOL, J-i PRINCETON, N. J. A HOME FOR BOYS. Fupils prepared thoroughly for college or for business. Tlie school premises con tain thirteen acres, providing amply for lawn, play ground, and garden. Terms $124 per session. For circulars, address Bcv. J. P. HUGHES, auls-thS(fctutocl Principal. TRYING FEMALE COLLEGE, JL MECTTANICSBUISG, Pa.— This institution, chartered with full collegiate powers, will open its next session on WEDNESDAY, September 4, with a full corps of efficient and experienced Teachers. Tho attention of parents having daughters to educate is respectfully called to this institution. For Catalogues giving full information as to terms, Ac., address A. G. MARSHALL, President. aul7-stuth6t* TREEMOUNT SEMINARY, Nor ristown, PA„ FOR YOUNG MEN AND ROYS.—Tlie winter session commenres SEPTEMBER 16. For entnlognes aud circulars, address ltn24-shlAth9t* JOHN W. LOCH. Principal. Boarding school for girls! SHARON FEMALE SEMINARY.—This fnstitu tion is beautifully and healthfully located near the vil lage of Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. The Fall Term will commence JPKNTH MONTH'(October) 3>t, 1861, ami continue in session for a period or twenty eight weeks. The course of instruction will be thorough and embrace all tlie branches of a liberal English educa tion, and also the Latin and French languages and Draw ing. For terms, references, and other particulars, see circular, which may be obtained by addressing-tho Prin cipals. DARBY P. 0.. Pennsylvania, or from E, Parrish, corner of ARCH nnd EIGHTH Streets, Philadelphia. ISRAEL J. GRAHAME, > „ . . . JANE f. C-RAHAME, ) 1 “’“-‘l’nls. nu29-tl»sAtu9t* ■jl/nss M. W. HOWES’ YOUNG 11-L LADIES’ BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL will reopen on WEDNESDAY, 11th September, at 1525 CHESTNUT Strwt. au27-lm Abeaugureau, teacher of • French and Drawing, No. 1530 .SAN SOM Street. au27-12t# THUS CLASSICAL INSTITUTE, 127 -L North TENTH Street, will reopen SEPTEM BER 2. Reference—Professor George Allen, Pennsylvania University. 0. BEIDKKSTICKEK, au27-12t* —— Principal. TNSTITUTK FOR YOUNG LADTES, -L S. E. 00IIIP1- of MARSHALL and SMING GAR. DEN stfoots. Dutim; rpsumod SontiMulior 2d. ENOCH H. SUPPLEE, A. M., an27-12t Principal. FRIENDS’ ACADEMY FOR BOYS ANTI YOUNG MEN, East uf 41 North ELE VENTII Street, reopens Ninth-month (September) 2d. All denominations admitted. Sl2 per term of 22 weeks, mi27-Rn W. WHITALL. fTEKMANTOTVN FEMALE SEMI VJT NARY, West WALNUT LANE. Tliis Institution will reopen WEDNESDAY, Septem ber 4th. Circular?, setting forth term?j course of iuatructioii* Arc., £c., may be obtained of PROF. WALTER S. FOETESOUE, A. M.» auB6-tf Principal. Thomas Baldwin’s English Mathematical and Classical School, for Boys, N. E. corner of BROAD and ARCH, will reopen September 2d. au26-lmo=s pLASSICAL INSTITUTE, DEAN Street, above SPRUCE. The CLASSICAL INSTITUTE will resume its duties on MONDAY, September 2d. J. V. FAIIIES, A. M. f ftu26-2mo Principal. ■jl/TAKGARET ROBINSON WILL JLfA reopen her SCHOOL for GIRLS, comer of RACE and FRANKLIN Streets, Ninth Month 9th. au26-12t* (CENTRAL INSTITUTE, TENTH and SPRING GARDEN Streets, will reopen SEP TEMBER 2d. Boys prepared for Business, College, or any Division in the Public Grammar Schools. Call at the scliooi-rooxu between 9 A. M. and 12 M. mi2G-30t* 11. G. McGUIRE, A. M., Principal. L INWOOD HALL, ON OIIELTEN AVENUE, near YORK ROAD STATION, North Pennsylvania Railroad, seven mhos from Philadelphia. MISS CARR’S BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL Tor YOUNG LADIES will reopen on MONDAY, Septem ber 2d. Circulars may be obtained at the office.of Jay Cooke'A Co., Bankers, No. 114 South Third street* or by address ing the Principal, Shoemakertown P. 0., Montgomery county, Pa. au26-12t Education of young ladies. — l Tlie cliilus of Jlip SPRING GARDEN INSTI TUTE, No. 611 MARSHALL Street, will be resumed on MONDAY, tlie 2d of September. Ton pupils may find a Christian home in the family of the Principal. GILBERT CO3IBS, A. M., _ _ ~ „ Principal. au2l-lm Residence No. CQ3 MARSHALL Street. POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE, WEST I>j:KN SQUAIIE-—Tlie SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL will begin on September 9tli; tho PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS lor ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, Practi cal CHEMISTS, and GEOLOGISTS, on September 16. Tho Course on MILITARY ENGINEERING will in clude Field Fortifications, Siege Operations, Strategy, ami Tnoties. A. L. KENNEDY. M. D., au24-12t President of Faculty. The select classical and ENGLISH SCHOOL of the subscriber will reopen at 12S0 LOCUST Street, MONDAY', September 9. an24-12t* B. KENDALL. MP. GIBBONS INTENDS TO • reopen tlie school on ORANGE Street (second gate below Eighth street) on the 2d of 9tli month (Sep tember). Please apply at the school. au24-l0t4(? REV. J. I. HELM WILL KEOPEN his School for GIRLS, at 1525 WALNUT Street, September 12th. au22-lm PENN INSTITUTE—Southeast corner THIRTEENTH and FILBERT St 3., re opens MONDAY, Sept. 9. Nor catalogues, address au22-lm# B. STEWART, Principal. YOUNG LADIES’ SCHOOL—No. 90S CLINTON SI reef—Established by Prof. 0- D. CLEVELAND in 1831. Tho duties of tho school will be resumed by the subscriber, on MONDAY, Sep tember 9. [au22-lin] PLINY E. CHASE. QCHOOL OF DESIGN FOR WO IO MEN, 1334 CHESTNUT Street, reopens on the first MONDAY of September. au2l-12t* English and classical SCHOOL.—The school of the subscriber, in Simes* Building, at TWELFTH and CHESTNUT Streets, will be removed to the larger Hall, directly over Mr. Has sard's store, in the same building, and will be reopened on MONDAY, 9th of September. au2l-tf CHARLES SHORT. BORDENTOWN female col- LEGE, Bordentown, N. J., situated on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, tliirty miles north of Philadelphia. Special attention paid to the common and higher English branches, and superior advantages furnished in vocal and_ instrumental Music. German and French. Session commences September 16. Address £ev. JOHN W. BBAKELEY, A. M., au2llm# President. ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL ACADE MY, LOCUST Street, west of Sixteenth, reopens on MONDAY, September 2, at 9 A. M. J. ANDREWS HARRIS, A. M., Principal. ftuSl-Svr^ THE MISSES CASEY and MRS. BEEBE will re-open their English and French Boarding and Day School, Ne. 1703 WALNUT Street, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th of SEPTEMBER. au2o-lm TV/TAKY L, STACKHOUSE will re -IV± open her BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL, for Girls, at No. 1030 SPRING GARDEN Street, on the 2d of SEPTEMBER next. au2o-24t* WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, The next Bcssion of this Institution will begin on MONDAY, the 2d of September. It possesses the best facilities for thorough instruction in a complete course of solid and ornamental studies. Superior accommodations for boarders. For full information, address au!9-tsel JOHN WILSON, President. MISS MARY E. THROPP will re open her Boarding and Day School for Young La dies, at 1924 SPRUCE Street, Philadelphia, on MON DAY, September 9th. Circulars, containing full infor mation, to be had on application. aul9 dtOctl^ I\/rERCIE E. BROWN will REOPEN JjJL her School for Girls, in the Spring Garden Insti tute, on the Northeast corner of BROAD and SPRING GARDEN Streets, on Ninth month (SEPTEMBER) 2d. Charge for tuition, Ten Dollars for five months. CHESTNUT-STREET FEMALE SEMIN AKY Miaa BONNEY and Misa DILL AYE will reopen their Boarding nnd Bay School on WEDNES DAY, September 11, at No. 1615 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia. aul6-lm "D OAR DING SCHOOL, near Media, X) DELAWARE COUMTY, P»,, for Twelve Beys. Reopens September 0. aul9-lnr* BAML. ABTHUB, A. M. The private school for BOYS, in tlie Philadelphia City Institute, North east corner of CHESTNUT and EIGHTEENTH Streets, will reopen MONDAY, September 2,1861. au!6-2m* L. BURROWS, Principal. PROF. C. H.BOLLES (OFFICE 1220 WALNUT street, Philadelphia,) has associated wiih him DB. A. H. STEPHENS, of Now York, his old partner in business. They invite the attention of the afflicted, whose diseases have baffled the skill of the me dical profession, to their reliable treatment, by Electro Magnetism, and the various other modifications of Elec tricity evolved from machines mostly of their inven tion. It is a well-established fact, that all acute and chronic diseases, which have proved a terror to the me dical profession in all ages of the world, have been speed ily and permanently cured by us. We have warranted and cured in all cases the most obstinate diseases, and still warrant all persons who desire. A pamphlot of great value, containing certificates, references, and recom mendations from persons who have been cured, In Phila delphia and other cities, will be given to any person calling at the office, No. 1220 WALNUT street, Phila delphia. au23.pt* Books, law and miscella neous, new and old, bought, sold, and ex changed, at the PHILA'DELPHIA-BANK BOOK STORE, No. 419 CHESTNUT Street. Libraries at a distance purchased. Those having Books to sell, if at a distance, will state their names, sizes, bindings, dates, editions, prices, and conditions. WANTED—Books printed by Benjamin Franklin, as well as early Books printed in and upon America. Autograph Letters and Portraits purchased. Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylvania for sale. Catalogues, in press, sent free. Libraries ap praised by [fe2s-tf] JOHN CAMPBELL. PHILADELPHIA. THURSDAY, AUOtST 29, 1861. f xtst: THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1861. The London Times, with-all its success and prestige, is not well conducted. It occasionally indulges in those flights of fancy for which tlie late Baron Munchausen and the valiant Major Longbow were so famous, but it has no consistency in mendacity. It allows two writers to give very different versions of the same story. Just now, for example, Mr. Rus sell is at downright issue with bis editor. lie says one thing, and the editor says the reverse. c can show, by placing them in opposition, how much the two writers differ, on a matter of fact. When the news of the Battle of Russell’s Run reached England, the newspapers imme diately in Lord Palmerston’s interest set up a savage yell of exultation at the presumed an nihilation of the Northern army. The Mora mg Post and tlie Globe , papers in which Pal merston lias a proprietary-interest, were com paratively quiet, simply taking the battle as a decided blow to the Union, and hypocritically rejoicing, as great humanitarians, that the certain result mint be to accept the Southern Confederation as an independent republic. The Times and the Daily Telegraph spoke out more decidedly. Tlie latter journal, which has become Secessionist since Mr. Thornton Hunt joined its editorial staff, boldly declared that Bull Run was only « second to Magenta, or to Solferino, in actual slaughter.” The Times of the same date (August 0) was even more de cided, ns we shall prcscntlrshow. But The Times of August 13 contains another letter from Mr. Russell, written a week after the battle, in which he so remarkably- exhibited a decided talent for running away from danger, which happens to tell a story- very- different- from what The Times had said exactly a week before. The British people may curiously- ask—Which story is true ? The showman’s well-known “ Which ever you please, my- little dears,” would ex actly suit this dilemma. Here are the two statements: EDITORIAL. | 'HR. RUSSELL. Tirol's, August 6, | _ Times, August 13. . Bull’s Him is a complete- It would he ridiculous to .victory—as much a victory i call jt either a hard-foufflit, as Auslerlitz. j a bloody, or a glorious field. Thus Mv. Russell admits that the battle of the 21st July was not “as much a victory as Austerlitz,” as The Times says, uor exactly second only in slaughter to Magenta, or Sol ferino. as the London Daily Telegraph boasted —in diet, that it was not a bloody tight, Mr. Russell differs not only from his editor, but from himself. Writing the day after the battle, (which he never was within five miles of seeing,) Mr. Russell announced the com plete disorganization, even the total demoli tion, of the Federal army. All that he now says is, what every scliool-bov knows, that the Federal army, “ badlv-fed and hard-worked, in a waterless country, oil a July day, for twelve hours,” is “ less able to go into a contest than it was a month ago.” Flaellin, himself, did not more completely swallow Ills leek than Mr. Russell eats his words. One point in his last letter, which we repub lished yesterday, merits attention. It accuses the French and Russian Ministers at Washing ton, and indeed all the foreign diplomatic chiefs in that city, with the exception of “ the discreet and loyal nobleman who represents Great Britain,” as decidedly being bn the side of the Rebels, and of not « observing faithfully all engagements to actually existing powers,” and of not sedulously avoiding “.all occasions of offence or irritability to an irri table people,•ren dered more than usually so by the evil days which have fallen upon them.” Mr. Russell, wo understand, has freely moved in the foreign diplomatic circle at Washington, and may bo supposed to give, in the above quoted sentences, the results of his personal observation. It remains to be seen how his foreign friends vnrunu mi., u . .-. caliveness. It is not usual for gentlemen, ad mitted into any social circle, general or poli tical, to put into print his impressions or know ledge of their opinions upon certain deli cate subjects. Mr. Russell, wc fear, has put himself into trouble. At tlic same time we have little doubt of the general correctness of what he has said re specting the leaning of the Foreign Ministers in Washington, to the South. It" tallies, very very exactly with what general report m that city has circulated ever since the Rebellion attempted to assume a “ belligerent” form. But this same common report has not excepted Lord Lyons, as Mr. Russell does. On the contrary, it lias not thought of connecting his Lordship’s name in one sentence with the word “ neutrality.” It is reported that Mr. Russell contemplates an immediate removal from 'Washington to Canada. There, he will not find much to write about, hut—there is capital fishing. Co lonial politics are unexciting—but the Cana dians are hospitable to a degree, and the cli mate is well adapted for preserving, in finest condition, that famous «bees-wing” port, which is the great consolation of John Bull, and the want of which, in the United States, must have severely tried Mr. Russell’s temper. We recommend him to go to Canada, for he has undoubtedly wrecked his reputation as an impartial writer by his letters from this coun try. Some people may wonder why the Ge neral Government have permitted him, thus far, to write against tlio North, and for tlio South. For onr part, we think he would be well pleased if lie was to be made a martyr of. Let him alone. He lias done his best—and his worst. Never did public writer so com pletely ruin liis reputation in such a short time. If Ids visit to this country had the special object of making America angry with Eng land, of awakening hostile feelings against Englishmen, of reviving the feud which we would fain have forgotten, Mr. Russell has faithfully accomplished all the object of his mission. We say this, in sorrow, because we had hoped that henceforth both nations, with so many things in common, —with language and law the same—would have continued in amity, the only countries in the world where Freedom truly reigns. But Mr. Russell has contrived to trouble the waters—but with no healing in the action. He has supplied that pabulum to The Times , as unprincipled as it is able and powerful, out of which have been made a series of insults, improper under any circum stances, but most ungenerous at this crisis. If this was what Mr. Russell was sent to do, he has earned his wages. Fritz Anneke, writing from Hirslnnden, near Zurich, Switzerland, to the Hew York Tribune, says: aul9-lm* A sufficient field artillery means about threo pieces per 1,000 men of infantry or cavalry, rather more than less for young and inexperienced troops, such as our volunteers are. To be effective it should not only bo able to shoot wall, but to move upon the battle-field almost as easily and as quickly as cavalry, and borides, should be regarded as an arm by itself, not as a mere appendix to other arms—to infantry, riflemen, or cavalry; should be commanded by its own officers, subjected only to the orders of the chief commander; by men who understand thoroughly its use, who know not only how to move batteries, but divisions of 30, 40, 50, and more pieces in one solid mass, who know where best to place them, and how to direct their fire. A few pieces drawn by men, as at the Big Bethel af fair of mournful rememberance, or a few stray cannon attached to a regiment of infantry are not entitled to the name of field artillery. Except under peculiar eircumstances, field artillery should never oe used in smaller bodies than batteries of six or eight pieces, to bo attached to brigades or divisions of the other arms. For this purpose, however, not more than one-third or at most one half of the total strength of the field artilleryshould be employed, while the balance ought to be kept in reserve united, under, one commander for every corps (V annee, and to be used en masse,- for bat tering down strong positions of the enemy, for pre paring victory, or in cases of mishap for covering retreat. Strange Occurrence—A Horse Stung to Death by Bees.—ln Amboy, Illinois, recently, a drayman’s horse becoming frightened at a passing train, dashed away, and after running some dis tance, brought up in the middle of a cluster of some thirty hives of busy bees. Several hives were up set, and the horse was in a moment covered with myriads of angry becß. The agony and struggles of the unfortunate animal were frightful. Every effort was made to relieve him, but in vain, and his owner, after himself being severely stung, was compelled to retire, leaving him to his fate. Which is True 1 Need of Artillery. A Press-Room Scene at Midnight. Down in a dark, dismal, chilly alloy-way, that somewhore in the pnst has elbowed itself in be tween towering shapes of brick and stately granite, right in the heart of the city's busy life—down a gloomy alley, that, all in all, aposlhe grimness and grandeur and wild sublimity of a giant's causeway, in the lifeless life of the midnight moon—and then still further into the listening gloom, where the very footfall carries one's throbbing thoughts to “ the boundaries of another world,” and wo find our selves in a great rambling ill-paved area, where, nevertheless, tho eye of funcy secs a moss-grown court-yard leading into an old English baronial mansion of the feudal times. The times arc still feudal enough, Lord knows! but instead of the ba ronial mansion, wo are face to face with one of those mammoth structures that prosperous enterprise roars in all ages, with the sweat that is wrung from tho brows of men—a stately edifice of brick, that can bo stately without ostentation, nnd without reserve. Wc pass down a low flight of wooden stops, and find ourselves vis-a-vis with The Press’ new mam moth cylinder—one of Hoe’s last, and best. Tho large central cylinder is revolving with lightning speed, and the smaller onc3 that are disposed to tho greatest advantage around it, move with tho very precision of satellites in their lessened orbits, spit ting out the morrow’s papers till the eye grows weary watching. Along those wooden antenna; thousands upon thousands of the plinnt sheets have come steaming out on the cold world’s charity, to move silently onward in their destinies, with their strange, mysterious influences an the lives of the best of us. Involuntarily, we repeat in a whisper that is drowned in the crash of machinery— “ Ilail! all bail! fair science bright, That can within a single r,ieh/f. Convert the virgin paper wiiir£ ■■.* ... ; To titty thousand tongues of might, To scourge tlie wrong—uphol,! ;ih‘; right!" V and though the language bo not ojir cwnibuf,“bor roived for tiie occasion,” we feel jtte&w oner its re petition. See how the capacious maw of the leviathan closes upon the feeder’s constant “ tokens" of at tentive c-are! See how every cord, and muscle, and ligament of that mammoth frame strains on to keep pace vvitli the flight of time! See how tho polished plates of brass glare on you with fiery eye-balls in the perpetual twilight of tlie place ! And ihosc live-coal eyes will bo always on you with a strange snakisk fascination, even in your dreams. Yet the grim giant is not a dragon or Cerberus; he can be gentle as a sucking dove when tlie engi neer deals with him kindly,- and pours the mar rowy oil of consolation into his aching joints! How strange, that now so full of life and activity, ho should change to as lifeless, inert a thing as a frozen yawn, whenever the daylight with its cares shall come! The hour-hand lias gone round on the dial, and tlie pine-oil lamps burn dimly—burn with a sort of asthma in the thickness of many breaths, that in nny uncivilized country would have been sleeping long ago, or, porekanee, melting away in elysian snores! The pressmen move about more slowly, with the gravity of Roman Senators, and with a heaviness about the eyes that will settle down into a lazy opthalamia byo-and-byo. The tokens of clean white paper, that look like blocks of Parian marble only a few feet off, have gone down to a heavy account of indigestion in the fiery-orbed giant’s alimentary duct, and come forth again regenerated, to be bright exemplars of the fruits of early impressions. Meanwhile the thousands of wrappers that had been written during the day, have been placed in smiling heaps on the long level pine tables that skirt yonder side of the room. The “packers,” whose youthfulncss of appearance is amply compen sated for (that is, in their own estimation) by having their sleeves rolled up past puny muscles, now set vigorously to work; and as the still dewy sheets are enveloped one by one they are dropped into a pouch, whence they are conveyed to the post office —always with alacrity, and not unfrequeiitly with extreme mental perturbation, touching the prema ture closing of the mails. And now the leviathan's greedy paunch has been filled, and the arms, and cords, and antenna; have come to rest with a sudden quiver. Withal the scene is animated, and brimful of sug gestiveness —such a suggestivencss as pictures on fancy’s retina the heartdeep griefs and joys that are bound up in that mystery of earthly life, the newspaper ! What burning sorrows shall the few black dashes of typo bring, tike a blight and a pall, over countless hearts and koines; before the mor row's creeping sunlight shall have crossed tko threshold once so happy!" What aspirations crush i that shall not rise in bloom ! j ~ " —thnjnoonhasgcowu shrunken and more ! alabaster-like; the massive brick' !urm,, a T , further and further away into baronial times, and the j giant’s causeway rears its unsculptured columns against tho half-merry, half-drowsy, twinkling of j tlie stars. The “ typos” abovo stabs have long ; since ceased their weary labors, and the midnight oil has ceased to shed its glimmering ray around the vast apartment. No longer the click of the falling slips of metal gives token that the word of man's heritage of toil was too surely and sadly spoken. The forms are “off” the mails are all in, the telegraph has learned to hold its prattling womanly tongue, and following the spiritless cortege, we wend our way to our homes, where, if the wicked do not always cease from troubling, tho weary at least can be at rest. Letter from Cluua. [Correspondence of tlie National Intelligencer.] Shanghai:, May 27, 1861. My last letter, giving an account of the Yang-tse expedition as far as Ranking, was despatched from that city. About one hundred miles from there the Harlford was loft behind, and the Saginaw, with Flag Officer Stribling'sflag at the fore, and the Da cotah, proceeded up the river, anchoring the first night near Ngan-king, the second at Kin-kiang. the third near Hwang-chni, and arriving at Han-kan about 1 P. M. the nest day. Above Nanking thescenery is more striking, and there are more object of interest to be seen. In fact, there is something to look at all tho way. Walled cities, venerlble and ruinous, the wafis covered with vegetation, and some of them sur mounted by gaudy banners; mud villages, pic turesque from u distance, but squalid from a nearer view; men, women, ;md children crowding upon the bank to see the “foreign devils ” and their in fernal machines; hit's covered with verdHre; val leys enlivened by thj bright tint of the foliage of camphor trees; widi expanses of meadow land, rich with crops of wheat, barley, and rice; pago das, temples, and fortifications in abundance. Boats are tracked up stream by men, there being good tow-paths most of the,way. Huge, ungainly water buffalies serve for beasts of burden, dragging sleds along the bank. In many places ruin and devastationsbow that the rebels have been in pos session ; they spare nothing. Ngan-kirg and Kin-Kiang are sombre, dull-look ing, decaying towns, with an immense extent of walls, whith seem to enclose very little worth pre serving. They have both suffered from rebel in cursions. Kwang-chan has been for a long time in possession of the rebels, and besieged by the Impe rialists ; occasional shots are exchanged, but, for the most part, one party smoke their pipes inside , the other outside the walls, and there is no approach to a termination of the siege. Han-kan is recover ing from, the effect of rebel occupation. It is des tined probablj to be the river port, and to increase rapidly in importance, affording the means of access to an immense interior population. Xt is not an attractive plnee; there is but little in it to interest strangers, and nothing to induce one to take a se cond walk through its streets. The neighboring cities, Han-Yang and Wu-Chang, are very large and populous. At Han-Ivang several officials visit ed the Flag Officer, and lie made an official oall upon the Viceroy, who is said to be the highest dig nitary in the empire who is accessible to foreigners. The people are beginning to get accustomed to strangers, and aie very civil, though still disagree ably curious. The Dacotitl remained at Han*kan, the Sagi naw in two dajs reached Yob-chan, one hundred and fifty-three idles further up, the highest point to which any fdeign vessels have as yot ascended the Yang-tse-nome eight hundred miles from its mouth. The rver banks above Han-kan are more populous than below. We passed many villages and some largatowns. Only two steamers had been seen before on this part of the river; the wonder and admiratioj of the inhabitants seemed to be ex cited to the qgliest pitch. Yoh-chan is a small place, with bn-little trade, on the margin of Yang ting lake. Wide there free access to the vessel was allowed to »1 who choso to come. Thousands availed themclves of the opportunity, and the ap pearance of ne motley, excited crowd upon our decks wouldae difficult to describe. Several offi cials called, rod were politely entertained by the ! Flag Officer, A day at yell-chan was quite enough, and, after a turn m tin beautiful lake, we were neaded down stream, andteached Han-kan in ten hours. We remained it Han-kan two days. The Viceroy in tended to v)it the ship, but sent an apology ut the last minute he was seized with a sudden indisposi tion—to erne, as yc supposed. Part of a rainy day was sjint at Kin-kiang, and a day at Nanking, after rejoiiing the Hartford. Tho squadron ar rived hen last evening, having met with no acci dent or (Mention, all of us much pleased with the trip up f e Yang-tso. The <nening of tho river is destined to effect a groat chinge in the trade of China. Supplies and exports jviiick used to bo transported to and from Canton Jver the mountains, can now reach their destinaibn by a much easier route. There are now several/steamboatß regularly employed on. the river, hd more are expected; with every pros pect ofgood business. The only drawback is the devastuon which the rebels hare effected in what were tp richest and most populous districts, and the impediments they offer to trade. It is to bo hopedfhat they will receive a check by foreign in terferoce, if they cannot be put down in any other way. | ■ S. E. C. Bix:inG or a Kaii.koad Tback. — A portion ©fthetrack of the Cincinnati and Chicago ftjilrjad, where the road crosses a long marsh, a fiw ijileß southeast of Valparaiso, sunk Saturday nornhg soon after the passage of the down train. This harsh appears to be a vast lake covered with a thiiiincrustation of decayed vegetable matter, not . uncohmou in portions of the West, Impressing British Subjects iu New Or- i [From the London Times, August 13.] i Mr. Bussell line been for some time in the United | States, discharging fur the British public, not to say ' for the whole world, the same services that he did so well before in the Crimea and in India. lie has everywhere had to perform his laborious duties under difficulties inconceivable to most of his read ers, and little shared by writers compiling narra tives at a library table, or taking down the wordß of some customary informant, lie has had to write in haste, in exhaustion, in noise, in dnnger, in the very turmoil of war, with disputation, and even menace, still in his ears. He has been occasionally contradicted, generally confessed to be right, and sometimes has frankly and couragoously'avowcd himself to be mistaken or misinformed, l'iis letters nre now before the world in tho form of volumes, and, having passed through the ordeal of criticism, arc piirtof the literaturo of his country. Nowhere | lifts his liberty of speech been so furiously arraign ed, and his vocation so denounced, as in the United States. A correspondence in another column will show how little support, truthful, exact, and candid ns ho is, he is likely to receive there, even from those who might bo supposed above the madness of a mob. Ho hud stated that at New Orleans British subjects hnd been forcibly impressed into the ranks of so-called volunteers. On their resistance ho said that they hnd been knocked down and dragged off, and only released after energetic representations by tho British consul to the authorities. When we find it admitted by Colonel Manning, aid-de-camp to tho Governor of tho State of Louisiana, that there do exist at New Orleans volunteer corps called the Carroll Guards, which ho admits to be without any recognized military organization, to be so far beyond the control of the authorities, and for whom, therefore, he wisely declines to be responsi ble, our leaders will easily understand how British subjects, in common with other people at New Or leans. would he liable to great outrage, notwith standing earnest wishes to the contrary on tho part of the authorities. Those authorities wish two things not easily compatible. As politicians they . wish to enjoy the benefit of a strong popular feeling j and a large force of volunteers. As the eonserva- I tors of public order, they wish no man to he forced, and British subjects, at all events, to he left alone. Mr. Kdisoll frankly admits that they acted on the latter feeling as soon as the opportunity' occurred, and that he erred in charging them with a degree of evasion before ! they released the British I subjects wliu lmd tip- | pealed to the consular aid. They had been re- I leased, it appears, with as little' delay as was no- ! ecssary to receive the statement of their case. ; Thus fur the story is very intelligible. The Carroll i Guards go about the workshops and wharves of j New Orleans compelling this man or that to join ; their ranks. They meet with occasional resistance j and excuse, particularly that of being subjects of i the British Crown. They don'tcare much for this. ! perhaps because they don't believe it, perhaps be- i cause they have heard the American theory that j every person who lands in America, with the in- i tention of residing there, acquires the rights and. j the duties of an American citizen. The consul j is asked to appeal in their favor, and the Governor, j on hearing their statement and that of their cap- i tors, lets them go. but not till they have suffered , some detention and outrage. When this is uudis- : puted, when it must he admitted that it was matter for record, and when the Governor of Lou- , isinna cannot think himself ill-used, wo do not see why he should seize on the admission that no evasion had been practised to invite disbe lief in Mr. Bussell's statements. Iu every good society in this country, when a man frankly con- j fesses that subsequent information leads him to : withdraw or qualify a word, the conclusion is that , he sacrifices everything to truth. In the deport ment of the Governor of Louisiana the conclusion ■ is that he may be safely put out of the question al- • together. Our read ers have only to cast their eyes over the correspondence to see what it is that provoked Col. Manning to an outbreak. After he had been taking large credit to himself and his people for the small number of complaints, and the promptness with which they were met, the consul was unfortunately obliged to trouble him with half a dozen new cases of detention or outrage. To all these cases the colonel replies by asserting cither that there were no such persons at all at the rendezvous, or that the manwasnever on the muster-roll in question, or that the enlistment was voluntary, though imme diately retracted. or that the man had been dis charged and the captain had denied the charge of violence, or that the persons had been dis charged on their own plea of illness. The consul replied both upon these cases and upon fresh cases, and it is impossible to read his letter without coming to a deep conviction that every strong, able ; bodied fellow in New Orleans, not very ob trusively attached to the British allegianse, is liable to a most unpleasant degree of persuasion to join some volunteer corps or other. He may be safe enough from the perfectly organized corps, and when he has ran the gauntlet »i' half a dozen press gangs, he is liable to be pounced upon by some fel low under no control, and, in fact, unknown to tho Government, roughly- used, dragged about, taken to some drilling house or yard, with some rough fellows to keep watch on him, and/unless he should T have a friend to go to the British consul and plead his foreign allegiance, be marched off to the seat of war. This is a matter that should be known, for it helps to illustrate the state of things in the United States: and the Government of Louisiana has not mended matters, or served its cause, by at tempting to discredit the informant who has told the simple truth. Tone of the English Press. From our foreign files received by' the last steam, cr, we extract the following views of the meet pro ' a>fehJomuafcjiiponjlie American crisis: THE BLOCKADE! I [From tlio Loud™ IVist, [Government organ,) An:;- I l.j J _ln tlie civil war which at present afilicts the Ignited States, the Cabinet at Washington has acted in strict conformity with public law, at least in intention, if not in actual practice It has ad hered to the declaration of neutral rights annexed to the treaty of Paris; it has abolished the odious practice of privateering, and, in imitation of the policy of European nations, it has practically con ceded belligerents’ rights to the enemy. It has not treated captured Secessionists as traitors, but has extended to them the usual courtesies of war. The Southern authorities, on the other hand, have com missioned letters of marque, and these sea-rovers, if the account be true, have proved, in a very sa tisfactory manner, that the Federal blockade, ex tending over a const of more than two thousand miles, is only valid on paper. An American cor respondent, writing from Pensacola the other day, not only stated, hut professed to give, the text of a letter in which Admiral Milne, the commander of the British squadron, had officially notified to the Admiralty that the blockade of tile South ern ports was altogether ineffectual, Oa a former occasion we expressed a doubt whether so discreet and experienced an officer as Admiral Milne would have committed an act so obviously beyond the pale of duty. The authoritative con tradiction which has been given to this clever Ame rican fabrication was scarcely necessary, because everybody knows, as a matter of fact, that the Fe deral Government does not possess at present a na val force sufficient to dose ail the Southern ports from Virginia to Texas. All that it Can hope to do is to blockade the most important points, such as the mouths of tho Mississippi, and the great seats of the cotton export trade. Wo arc, however, now in formed that by means of gunboats and other ves sels of little draught, an attempt is to be made to enforce the entire line of blockade. If the Federal Government can accomplish this object, neutral na tions will have no cause of complaint-, because the blockade would then be effectual. If, on the other hand, the attempt should fail, merchant, vessels would practically share in the immunity which tho Southern privateers appear at present to enjoy. When the American courts condemn foreign vessels for the breach of a mere paper blockade, the inter vention of diplomacy will then bo requisite, but at present no case has occurred either to merit or com mand the interference of neutral Powers. If Ad miral Milne had made the report which has been attributed to bim. the Federal Government would have a just right of complaint, because questions of the validity of blockades are hot within the juris diction of an admiral commanding a squadron in the neighboring seas, but belong to those great courts which, either in belligerent or neutral countries, administer the law of nations. If the blockade be ineffectual , neutral commerce will comparatively suffer little injury; if ef fectual, the fist principles of public law tell us that we must obey with a good grace, however disagreeable the restriction may be for one great staple of British industry and British wealth. WHY THE RATIONAL TROOPS FLED AT DULL RUN. [From the Loudon News.] We must dismiss entirely any notion that the flight from Manassas to Washington was a proof of inferiority to ourselves in mere courage. The troops which fled had fought as gallantly as any could do under the burning sun of a long sum mer's day. Let us look, then, what were the real circum stances which led to the defeat of the Northern army. They seem to have boon twofold. Firstly, there was the independence of judgment which is charac teristic of volunteer troops. Wo cannot doubt that, had they believed there was a real and pressing need for their services, they would have romained under arms with tho same alacrity with which they sprang to arms at the President’s summons. * * * 4f * * But the causes of the flight of those troops which did remain to fight, and which did fight bravely and successfully, still remain to seek. In broad day light, and in the tide of victory, they fell, we are told, into a panic. What first caused the panic we probably shall never learn, nor is it very material to inquire. There never was a battle yet fought in which at some moment and at some point a panic has not seized upon sonic of the troops engaged. But that in such circumstances it should grow anil spread into a complete route of the whole army is the strange and startling peculiarity, and of this it happens that the cause has become tolerably clear. With but a scanty knowledge of elementary drill, with no knowledge of war or of the circumstances of war, unaccustomed to the confusion of battle, and unable to depend on tho arrangements for their sup port or relief being carried out by those whom they knew to be ns inefficient as themselves, it ia no won der that a sudden alarm threw them into a confusion from which they could not recover. SIR. RUSSELL S INVOLUNTARY TRIBUTE TO THE STRENGTH OF TUB NORTH. [From the Liverpool Post.] When Mr. Bussell places the two parties so even ly in the balance, wo must not lot him make us forget the vast disparity between their resources. In population it Is 19,000,000 of free people against 4,600,000 free and 4,000,000 slaves. In wealth it is four to one, and in actual rovenuo as eighteen to eight. For transit there are nearly 20.000 miles of railway in the North, and only 7,000 in the South. Besides all which, the South has no ships, and if food continue plentiful there the calculations of every traveller. who ever anticipated the presont contingency will bo upset. But, even in this letter lie arguments strongly in favor of Northern prowess. It appears certain that the Nationalists drove tho Confederates a mile and a half back to their strongholds. In conversation with McDowell, Mr. Bussell was convinced that his dispositions were excellent, and that they would have succeeded, but for the rawness of the troops, which rendered the retreat of the main body, covered by an advance of the reserve, an impracticable ma noeuvre. He speaks doubtfully of tho fidelity of TWO CENTS. the North to its great enterprise, but there aro no signs of disaffection amongst the groat body of the Northern people. lie complains of apathy, but he writes “amid the rolling of drums, the braying of trumpets and bands, the noise of marching men rolling of wagons, and general lifo and activity in tho streets.” Ilia Icttors rather lighten than dcopen the conviction that the North American Anglo- Saxon is at least ns unready as those Anglo-Saxons who have staid at home. SOUTHERN NEWS. TROOPS VIRGINIA HAS FCRNISIIEO According to the Hichmond Examiner, the State of Virginia has furnished the Confederate service 750 companies, uniformed and equipped according to tho law. JKFF ,: THOMPSON A VIRGINIAN The Fredoricksburg Herald slates that Brigadier General Thompson, the rebel leader, is a son of the late Capt. Meriwether Thompson, formerly of Cul peper, we believe, who removed in early life to Jefferson county, Va. A r.isTiNorisiiun honor. Col. John B. Grayson, formerly of the United States army , has been appointed a brigadier general by President Davis, and is assigned to duty on tho Florida coast. A “LINCOLN SPY” ARRESTER IN TENNESSEE. The Memphis Argus. 22d, says: “Two men. named Michael Shaffer and Presley, the far mer arrested as a Lincoln spy. were brought to the city yesterday,, and lodged in jail.” NO MORE NORTHERN MECHANICS TO HE IM PORTED.” At a mooting of tho mechanics of Memphis, held on the 22d inst., a resolution was adopted discoun tenancing the importation of mechanics from St. Louis and Louisville as inimical to Southern inte rests. THE TOBACCO CROP. The Richmond Empn'rer states that tobacco still commands fine prices, but. 03 the warehouses are already crowded, it recommends the planters to “ hold on to their crops.” PROMOTION OF A TENNESSEAN. The Richmond Disjmtch says that Col. Pickett of adjutant gene ral in the regular Confederate service, of the divi sion commanded-by General Lee, now in'-'N-erlh western Virginia. f RATHER DOUBTFUL, The Richmond JZo:ominer says that among the prisoners there is a free negro who came as a chap lain to one of the Connecticut regiments. A FALSE RUMOR After alHhc yumors about a fight on the Louis ville and Nashville road, the eighty men returned last evening, and no difficulty at all occurred. They got off the train at the Lebanon junction, and overtook the six wagons with the contraband, took them back to the train, put the contraband "ood= on the cars, and brought them back to the city last evening, at 8 o'clock. A rail wns displaced this side of Eoslon, which threw one of the freight cars off the track, by wdiich four or five men were slight ly injured.— Louisville Courier. TRAITORS IN KENTUCKY. The Memphis Argus of the 22d instant saj’s The stcambontmen’at Paducah, Ivy., have formed themselves into an association, denounced Aboli tionism. and are determined to neither employ nor run with men known to be hostile to the South. THE FOURTH ALABAMA REGIMENT The Richmond Enquirer says that the regiment referred to in General Hejntzelman'e official report, which broke so many of the charge? of the Federal troops, was the Fourth Alabama Regiment, Colonel Jones commanding. MORE DISLOVAL OFFICERS • Capt. 11. IC. Von Rocklin, according to the Baton Rouge Gazette, is on his way from New Mexico to offer his services to the Confederate States. RELIGION AND WAR The Memphis Christian Advocate asks wither, under the influence of the war, religion is progress ing ? and arrives at the conclusion that, while reli gious sentiment is seen floating on the surface of current affairs, experimental piety i 3 suffering seri ous loss. DEFENCES OF MOBILE HARBOR Fort Morgan, Mobile harbor, is now in a condi tion, according to the Advertiser, for formidable resistance. Fort Gaines is also undergoing repairs, so as to be in a condition to defend itself, if at tacked. MILITARY 1 DISTRICT OF EAST TENNESSEE, ; Gen. R. C. Foster has charge of military affairs in the middle district of Tennessee. Gen. F. served in the Mexican war. ABUNDANCE OF SALT. From recent developments, there is likely to bo plenty of salt within tho limits of the Confederacy for air the uses of our people. has salt springs, and, in the rear of Corpus Christi, in the Laguna Mudre, some thousands of millions of bushels are deposited, being the process of natural evaporation, and equal in quality to Turk ? s Island salt. Any quantity can bo delivered in Corpus Ray, at the rate of ten cents per bushel. From Corpus Bay there is inland navigation to within twenty miles of the Erazo? river, so that no block ade of Lincoln could interrupt the supply from, this source.— Richmond Whig. THE DEFENCE OF SAVANNAH, The Savannah Republican, of the 19th, says that in a week from that date, no Federal fleet will be able to enter a harbor or inlet, or effect a landing of troops on the coast of Georgia. THE FORTIFICATIONS OF RICILVOXD. The fortifications erected around the city are of the most complete and formidable character, and, con itoetioit with tho mnsked. batteries’ 5 and nrinosat various points, would rentier tho march of a hostile army hitherward an undertaking of great peril. One in a hundred might survive to depict the “wiping out” which these extensive works would certainly accomplish. A few bastions are yet unfinished, and upon these a force of several hundred men are now engaged .—Richmond Whig. A BIUTISH WATI STEASEK HUNS THE BLOCKADE. IVe take the following from the New Orleans Cre-sccnC) of the 22d; On Monday night, during the blow, when the blockading squadron had about as much a 3 they could attend to taking care of themselves, the Ml ram on raised steam and gave them the slip. She is now quietly anchored at the lake end of the Pontchartrain railroad, and though flying the British flag at her peak, we can readily* imagine that the Confederate States will manage to effect a change in that particular, and soon have a sufficient armament abroad to keep the lake clear of the JMassac/ne-sete-? and such iilic crafl. rAV or OFFICERS AIN'D PRIVATES IX THE REBEL Pay per month of officers and privates accepted into the Confederate States army : Colonel, SJ7S; lieutenant colonel, §l7O ; major, $150; captain, §108: first lieutenant, $9O; second lieutenant. SSO; first sergeants. $2l; other ser geants. $l7; corporals and artificers, $l3; pri vates. $ll. They have also a yearly allowance for clothing and one ration per day. The volunteers are expected to furnish their own uniforms, and will be. paid for the same in money by the Confederate States Government when mus tered into serviee. Each regiment has a quarter- with the rank of captain, and a commis sary, with equal rank, a surgeon and assistant sur geon.— Montgomery {Ala.) Advertiser . SOUTHERN GUNBOATS, We are glad to hear, says the Richmond Ex aminer, that steps are being taken by the Navy Department to construct suitable vessels of light draught for purposes of river and harbor defence. It is bearable to nave our ports blockaded by ves sels like the Brooklyn, 7 Vabash, and Niagara, because we have no means to prevent it; but to have such small craft as the Yankee, Resolute, and Philadelphia iceboat prowling through our rivers and hovering about our harbors is Insup portable, as they might he easily taken or de stroyed. . We have some two or three hundred accomplished naval officers in the Confederate ser vice; we have various points at the South where efficient vessels of small draught and size could bo fitted out; and we have plenty of enterprising “tars” to man them. Such being the case, it is surprising that we have submitted so long to the nuisance of having our harbors visited and menaced by the enemy’s small fry shipping. ATTEMPT TO THROW A TRAIN OFF THE TRACK. On Saturday morning, about seven o’clock, the mail train coming in this direction, when about seven miles west of Cumberland, encountered eight or ten cross-ties piled upon the track near a curve in the road. The train ran upon the obstruction, and one_ of the ties became entangled in the pilot. The train stopped, and whilst the train-men were fixing things up, some fifty armed men were ob served coming down from an adjacent mountain at a double-quick. Before the men approached the train was gotyeady, and was soon out of sight, not, however, until several shots were fired at tho en gine, none of which did any damage. Two armed men were seen standing in the vicinity of the ob struction when the train stopped, but for some reason ran away before tho others appeared. The men are supposed to have hailed from tho rebel camp at Bomney. On Friday evening ex-Governor Thomas made a war speech at Cumberland, during the delivery of whieh some Secessionists in the crowd asked, “ Who begun the war?” The ex-Govornor replied, “ The traitors of the South.” “You are a hoary-headed old liar,” was the response. At this, several Union men pitched into the Secessionist, and used him up pretty badly. After the meeting was over, a mob proceeded to the office of the A/Ughanian . a Seces sion paper, and literally gutted and destroyed it. They then went to the house of Mr. McKaig, a pro minent Secessionist, threw' a brick through his win dow and perpetrated other outrages. Several pro minent Secessionists were observed leaving Cumber land during the night on horseback in the direction of Bomney, Va. It is supposed they went to the camp there and returned with the soldiers who at tempted to take possession of the train,, and that the design was to capture ex-Governor Thomas, who was a passenger, and who was on his way to his home in Frankyillt. When the Seoessionißts fired upon the train all the passengers dropped upon the floor. On Saturday evening General Kelly sent Captain Dayton down from Grafton with a sufficient number of men to keep the rebels from repeating their attempt ie destroy the lives of innocent pas sengers. MISCELLANEOUS. A Mr. Myers has lately commenced the manafho ture of army buttons in Biehmond, Va. Tho Warren Artillery and Swamp Rangers left Vicksburg for Arkansas on tho 9th. A man named Henry Padget was killed in Bobertsvitlo, near Savannah, Ga., by a man whom he found in his house under suspioious circum stances. Among those who fell in the memorable battle of the 21st, near Manassas, was tho Bcv. C. W. Howard, of Mcriweathcr, Georgia, a Methodist preacher. Roger A. Pryor has appropriated tho pay duo him as a member of the Confederate Congress, to the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers in the army. Jackson county, Alabama, has nine military com panies already in active scivice, and seven more organized. | THE WEEKLY PRESS. I The Weeelt Fbkss will bo gent to subscribers br i moil (per annum in advance,) at S3>oo Three Copies, “ “ S.OO Five “ “ “ 6.00 Te “ “ « “ 13.00 Twenty « « “ (to one address) 30.00 Twenty Copies, or over, (to address of each subscriber,) each I For * Clul> »f Twenty-one or over, we will send on ; extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club. Postmasters are requested to act M Agents (or | The Weekly Press. GENERAL NEWS. DEATir OF A SI'RVIVOK OF MOSCOW AND AuS terlitz. —Micbael Kershner died in Flugstufi' (Me.) on the 12th instant, aged 85 years and G months The Farmington Patriot of the 2-til instant says: “The deceased was a soldier in the armies of France for fourteen years and nine months, and \ served under Napoleon Bonaparte in his campaigns ! in Italy. Spain, Austria, Germany, Prussia, and I(us- I sin: was m the battles of Moscow, Auslorlitj:. and several others, lie was wounded severely throo Innes—onco in the hend by a bullet, once by the stroke of a cutlass on the head, and onco by a bnyo ; net thrust through the thigh. Three ycarsof his service were spent in the artillery, and the remnin -2, er m . t lc cava! ,o'• According to practice in the > Jtrcnch army, when he was in the artillery hi 3 right arm was marked by printing the picturo of n man in red India ink. with the number of his company, regiment, etc., llnd, Ivlion In the cuvalry by print ing a man nhd horse on his breast. ! n rod and blue These prints were very plain and distinct upon him when laid in his final resting-place. He was buried with martial honors.” ! Died ox the Desert—The Dos Angeles Star learns of two deaths at Death's Valley, on the Colorado Desert, lately'—Daniel Holden and Wil liam Dewy. This is the place where the lnrgihody ; of emigrants died in 1849—out of a train I hundred and twenty wagons, only fifteen arrived in I California. On the 14th of Juno, a party of three ! started from Potosi for Owen's Lake; had three imimniswith them. They had not proceeded far I over the burning waste, till their water became cx- I huusted, and as none could be found thorc. great | distress ensued. One of the party, Townsend, I started ahead to look for water, and succeeded in i obtaining it. but on bis return found his comrades dead! A Friend or the Vice President of the C. S. A. AiiiiESrno. —On Monday night the detect ives arrested a well-known robe! at the Anson House, New York, in the person of Samuel J. Anderson. The prisoner, it appears, formerly held a position in the custom house, but at a inter period, through the instrumentality of Alexander If. Stephens, Vieo President of the Southern Confederacy, lie was ap pointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Kelly. lie had recently returned from a visit to the South. He was sent to Fort Lafayette yesterday. Mysterious Murder.—Two bodies drifted ashore at'Westport, Connooiicut, on Thursday! ono that of li man apparently ifbout forty years of ago, the other, a young man Some nineteen or twenty years of age. The oldest had a large wound upon the left-shoulder. The left car was also gone. The younger of the two had a large wound on tha left thigh, and another in his abdomen, from which his bowels protruded. The bodies had the appear ance of having been in the water three or four weeks. The Nee Pfucks Indians The Marysville (Col.) Appeal of late date snys : These savages manifest an unfriendly disposition. Government agents lately held n council with three thousand of them at Lapwai, The Indians were stubborn, and some of them declined outright to accept tho presents. Fifty fires, or some two hundred and fifty Indians, refused to take beef of tho agent, driving up their own cattle and slaughtering them in front of the agency. The great emigration to the mines evidently alarms them for their rights as landlords. A Havelock itErusiEXT is lo be organized in the river counties between New York and Albany. All the members will be required to pledge them selves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, profanity, gambling, and cards—to avoid useless desecration of the bord’a Day—to on* courage religious services according to individual conscience, and to use every proper effort to obtaia for the regiment a high moral and religious cha racter. Alfred Siiaw, a native of Backs county, returned from the South n few weeks since. Ha was with Beauregard : s army, at Manassas. as re porter for a paper of Now Orleans, in which city ha resided for twelve or fourteen years past. After some difficulty he got inside of the Federal lines; and then procecdcdfNorth by way of Louisville and Cincinnati. Scddex Death—Suspicions of Foul Plait. —On Sunday evening a domestic in a family re siding at Jamaica Plains, Mass., was suddenly taken ill, and on the following morning expired. Tha coroner hold an inquest, and an autopsy disclosed the fact that she was encieute. and that she had taken poison voluntarily or by the advice of soma other person. Attempt to Poisox a Volunteer.—Re cently an Indiana volunteer, while posted as sen tinel at Lafayette Park. St. Louis, was accosted by a stranger, who offered him a piece of pic. Upon eating it ho was seized with convulsions, and was only saved by the skill of the regimental physician. The pie Contained siryehnine. Attempted Murder ix Brooklyx.—On Monday night, Paddy Fox, a well-known politician, entered a saloon in Brooklyn, and taking deliberate aim. fired a pistol at Janies McCormick, inflicting a severe but not fatal wound. In the excitement the would-be murderer escaped. Fox and McCormick had had a political quarrel early in the evening. Crushed rv Machixery.—On Monday even ing, Michael Mclvine. while engaged in oiling the machinery of a steamboat lying at the foot of West Twelfth Street. New York, was caught in a revolv ing cog-wheel, by Ills clothing, and Whirled around a shaft. He was dreadfully crushed and bruised, and died on the following day at the hospital. Scarcity of Arms ix Tkxxessee.—lshain G. Harris, Governor of Tennessee, has ordered every house in the State to he searched for old muskets, rifles, bayonets, swords, and pistols. The officers are lo receive one dollar for every musket and. bayonet they discover, and fifty cents each for ewoidsand pistols. The Guxhoat Seneca Launched.— Another of the new steam gunboats building for the Go vernment was launched on Tuesday at the yard of J. Simpson. Grcenpoint. She was chris tened the Seneca , and will have her machinery put on board 0.3 soon as possible, when she is to be re ported to the Navy Department. It is a noteworthy FACT that General Siegel completely surprised the old Indian fighter and Texan Hunger. Befi McCulloch, securing all his pickets, selecting a good position, and beginning to drop shells right into the midst of liis camp, while half bis men were asleep in their tents, and the re mainder cooking their breakfasts. Kentucky’s proportion of tho war tax, says the Frankfort Commonwealth, should be paid thus: The Stale should issue bonds sufficient to realize the amount, and the taxes should be in creased just enough to provide for tho payment of the yearly- interest upon such bonds. Four Boys Drowsier. —lVo learn from the Pittsburg papers that on Friday evening four boys, named William Simpson. John Simpson. Job Grape vine, and Jorcpli Dearn, were drowned in the Mo nongnhela river, opposite the levee, by the upsetting of a skiff, as is supposed. Confidence in the Administration.— At the war meeting in Cincinnati, on Saturday eve ning, a resolution denunciatory of Secretory Came ron was voted down, and a substitute expressing entire confidence in the Administration adopted with overwhelming applause. The Secesh of Louisville were greatly dis tressed because Gen. Rosscau paraded a regiment of United States troops in that city on Saturday, to receive a stand of colors. Major Myer, signal officer of Gen. McClel lan’s staff, is training signal parties. Signals hava been made over fifty or sixty miles exteht of coun try. Rockets and burning lights, as if signalling, are seen nightly on the other side of the Potomac. General McCall’s command comprises tha brigades of Generals Couch and Smith, in addition to all Pennsylvania troops, ten regiments, and suita ble cavalry and artillery. He will soon be rein forced by two more Pennsylvania regiments. Charles V. Neid and Thomas Davis, arrested in Pittsburg on suspicion of being Sceea siomsts, had a hearing on Saturday. It is probable both the men will be discharged on taking the oatli of allegiance, nothing being proven against them. Horatio Davis, Esq., of Roxbury, died * few days since, leaving from $60,000 to $70,000 t® the poor of that town. He had made a will in favor of a nephew, but cancelled it on hearing that the latter was a Secessionist. A Secession Flag in the Port of Quebec. —The Simouds, Captain Leavitt, a British ship owned in St. John, New Brunswick, has been lying in the port- of Quebec some three weeks, floating a Secession flag, as wo learn from a special despatch to the Tribune. A MILITARY GENERAL COURT MARTIAL WaS. ordered at St. Louis a few days sinco for tho trial of some regulars under command of Mai. Gon. Fremcnt. Tho prisoners were charged with de sertion and disobedience of orders. A young man named Sherwood was killed last week at Bath, N. Y., by falling upon a circular saw, which out across his hip and into his back to the waist. He rose, and nfter walking a few stops, fell dead. A mas named Arbunkle was killed on tha Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad last week, about three miles this side of Mansfield. Released.— Davis and Meed, the suspected Secessionists arrested in Pittsburg, were released on Monday after taking tho oath of allegiance. Tiie Hartford Courant suggests that if Bea McCulloch is not dead, his proclamation shows that he is lying still. A board of officers is now in session, which will report to the War Department the most suitable disposition to bo made of the Texas troops at Fort Hamilton. A Camp on Staten Island.— A camp for & corps d’araiee is to be established on Staten Island, Wider command ol General Sherman. The Canada papers complain that desertions from the British regiments stationed in the provinces have become frequent of late. American farmers have already received something like $38,080,06ft Worn England foe hreadstuffs this year. The Canneltoa (Ind.) Reporter hoists the same of Joseph Bolt, of Kentucky, for President in 1864. TV. H. McCarty, a enstom-honse officer, was killed on the Louisville and Lebanon road last Saturday evening, while attempting to get on the train at Sardstown Junction. A Minister on Trial for Wife-Murder.— Bev. Henry Bridge, a Congregational minister, in now being tried at-Utioa for the murder of his wife. Church Struck by Lightning.—The Second. Presbyterian Church, Bridgeton, N. J., was struck by lightning on Sunday morning, tho 18th inst. Fatal Railroad Accident.— An unknown man, apparently a laborer, was run over and killed near the Crestline, Ohio, station last weok. Intense indignation is felt among the Ger man t of Chicago, relative to the killing of Krauts by Captain Orofton. Hon. Edward McPherson has been ap pointed an aid on the staff of Gen. McCall. Mr. Wm. S. Africa, a noted politician of Blair county, died in Huntingdon lately. It appears that General Siegel was at QUO time in the enemy's hands, but was tOSQUOd. . 1.30
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