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Or THE
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...-.. _ . . y . b ecau se i We-waited Jot' these , tattit near'
Baltiruor e ol r .d. : able to
....a the people "that
0-4-0 LOAN. ~nac everything is right. max to the delightful"
-Aver in better spirits than they furnished, an Wee , '
... never have they until now believed
- ...n0n to be so noir Ili final issue. since the frtto
this, 1 ,
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,and toraid, that has frightened the major portion of lmla y
.has been authorised iii Is aoW prePared the Northern population, has come to a speedy ter- tie
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• eriptions to the mination, the soldiers are more:than:ever convinced
that the war is about ended, so far as any Prittiti ,
. ce t e
GOVERNMENT LOANS t 5 115 *
demonstration beyond the present position '
'
' rebels is concerned.
i*. ' issued under authority of an in of Con-Tina Lairs Egan nary*
ed March 8, Set, provides for the issue of The late raid fully sustained t'
Millions of Dollars (9900,000,000) United . ral Blued% which I gave I
, redeemable after ten years, and payable which, if it was not rapt
from date, 111 COIL dated Muth I. ESL
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at the rate of
The Sanitary Fair-Past and Present. received. The. -
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- invE PITA CEIME. It is not the intention of the present writing to tempt to d"
from 10-
IN COIN. Payable o f manul on all . - - speak _of the good contemplated and accomplished po „
11.P50, end on Bonds o $lOO and /MA. an• by the results of our Great Central . Fair; those ' -
is' 'things are coming to light day,after day upon. the
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a Will relative either Realetered or Coupon _ ..'
, . y may prefer . , camp, and hundreds of other,pineespas the ,-
, 'Bonds will be issued of the denominations ___ ______ the brave defenders of our country tends"
r re ( ~,o) , one hundred dollars ($150). aft pose merely to speak of the CullilS
-11art (t6alo), one thousand dollars 01,000 L occupied by that exhibition, th
d dollars ($5,000), and ten thousand dollars respect ever witnessed in V- -
:Fad Coupon Bonds at the denominations of Hundreds of Werklite
(WO), one hundred dollars Meet. five hen- ` moving the buildi
(l6oo), and One thousand dollars MOM. OUR STOCK' OF :
INTPARESTequaIIy busy ir
SAXONY "WOOLEN CO. au-wool Plain Planned& west naves
se from data of subscription, 05 the seemed
MILLED FLANNELS, teentb
ni. the fat of March tan kw paid in win, or,
Varions makes in Gray, Scarlet, and Dark Blue. tit
er Donee, in U. 9. notes or notes of National
(AO) pity per seed, to the amount for per ?RUSTED SHIRTING FLANNELS.
O. H. CLARK.' PLAIN OPERA FLANNELS.
President, SLACK smolt: NrAsr , CLOTHS,
15, 15, - 17, 18, 19, ei"
, , Ili .t. .. ANSI CAROMERES AND SATINY'
ALMRAI SKIR TS, all llGrade-
O•PPOEGOODS, .1)
F. S. 10-44 r. INGS, do. -
_.. DE COUR'' .
- COOKE h 00. 07711 101 SALE THE /09:-
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GOVERNMENT LOAN.
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tier Five Per Cent. Intermit IN 0011 f.
biro any time after TEN YEARS, at the shun
s Government, and. payable FORTY YEARS
. Both COUPONS and-REGISTERED BONDS
ed for this Loan, of same denominations as the
Buttes. The interest on WO and $lOO payable
but all other denominations half yearly. The
'Err BONDS are dated Marsh I, 1861,,the half
interest falling dueleptember I and March I of
Until Ist September. the accrued inteY4lll
Marsh is required to be paid by purchasers in
in legal currency, adding 110 Par sent. for
. until farther anise. I
thyvernment Enmities bought and gold.
:TAY COOKE As 004
11:* SOUTH THIRD STRUT.
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ALL '7-30 U. S. TREASURY NOTES.
-THIRTY NOTES, of the denomination of
100 s, can now be converted in
BONDS OF THE LOAN OF 1881.
me denomination ,
~ urination apply at the office of
j'AT COOKE* Co., Baiikete,
114 South THIRD Street, Phila.
' I ' Ilnd , 5 i m,4 1 .711:
T. L OAN OF THE BOROUGH OF SCRAG
) uterus county, Pennsylvania. Coupons pay.
the City of New York,
undersigned will receive proposals until the
4 IETH DAY OF •ILUDY,inetant,for the purchase
ri. of the Bonds of the Borough of Scranton,
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Tgerrl t renon f sq-V/gi c c i t, a entifl t err f '
It e itt l t y o :tfttlite
fining of money and payment of beauties to
re in the Borough drawnton, in the county of
" These Bonds interest at the rate of
PER CENT. per annum,' payable on the drat
• INS and DECEMBER in each year, in the City
amk. The airincipal Is reimbursable in three
p the fi rst day of June, 16114.
onds are exempt from all State and local taxa.
tax sufficient to pay one half the amount of the
been already_levied. . ,
~ J. C. PLATT, Treasurer, SCRANTON. La
. tar, Pennsylvania.
3. ROBINSON.
TH_OBIS DICHSON,
• J. C PLATT,
. Comminssioners of Bounty F and, Elcianton.,..
:..l IQNWAlddinkilt9,9ll6
COMP.& DIRBOTORY—CON'.
a List of Companies, their Offices, Presidents.
era, and Secretaries, . We are also prepared to
Dow Companies with
CERTIFICATES OP STOCK.
TRANSFER BOOK,
ORDER OF TRAZETEN.
STOCK LEDGER,
STOCK LEDGER BALANCES,
-• REGISTER OF CAPITAL STOCK.
DIVIDEND BOOK,
BROKER'S PETTY LEDGER,
ACCOUNT OF SALES,
inaterials and at Low Prices.
31.08 R .Sr, CO.,
•,... STATIONERS,
432 CHESTNUT Street.
I ' I CZ.
RT SHOEMAKER &-CO., ,
vomer of FOTIBTE and RACE Streete,
PHILADELPHIA,
. OLESALE DRUGGISTS..
'. OEMS AND DEALERS se •
ygisf i y A r
. iiir E D D G Ofl7l O O .
$ DOW AND
ItAra7AOTIMBRII 01
LEAD AND ZINO PAINTS, man, km
AgillTs Ms Taw critiniutieran
FRENCH ZINC FAINTS,
and sonsumers supplied at
3m WRY LOW PRICES 701 CAUL
$ B ASSORTMENT OF PAPER-
I , saw&
,
T. di COOKE,
I A: ifkokiNwfigi i iiiimer
nvt. 7.ert - ... - Kor above emu.
South Side. -
attention of the Public is invited to his
GE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT OP
PAPER HANGINGS,
Embracing all qualities, from
I TS TO THE FINEST GOLD AND VELVET
DECORATIONS. .
Also, an entirely new article of
GOLD AND SILK PAPERS,
o wtf inn' BSOSIVBD, .
AD : # 1N y. t
...„,...-
: : INET FURNITURE AND BIL.
: D TABLES. .
'.. OORE, & CAMPION,
ri..r: No. 1561 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
on with their extensive Cabinet businats.are
, acturing a superior article of
t ,,A,, , ~ I hiLaNRIQ T.4BI A US,
, . , elp - 61 hand ant stIPPIT, ritallma with the
, , j,i . I di CAMPION il IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
•••• •i• l i re 1)1'0110111111ga by all who have used them to
-5 . • : or to all others. For the quality and finish of
blee, the manufacturers refer to their puma^
rens throughont the Union, who are familiar
therm:ter of their work. anl9-11m
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. RO _A.'S,
Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Sts.
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dal'4 RsA
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Teas e r
ants
a Fru
r't : ft ; r I AM I NTin,
• . 600 vie. :fail ie llos io t 2, arid 3 Mackerel,late
r', „ s lits; irc l iPort P , Formic f Bay, and Halifax
' . ices Lubec Scaled, and No. I Herring,
now Mess Shad.
Herkimer County Cheese,
and for gale by . MU NOO,
. 140 NORTH WHARVNS S.
Pc S.-3,00 N0 : : 1,, 'l5l :. 1 a'
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_,. bbls. Pieklas in Vine •
' ` ,r 1 ' ft-gallon and five- Vinegar. k do.
• if •: 6 :4: ', ft
Mgt,
-A ” ' is
ICE BRANDS,
by 4, a nd. English Dairy Cheese of choice ilua li tY.
RHODES ac WILLIAMS.
107 South WATER Street
D PIGS
t Lambe Tongues, 100 kegs prime.
Tripe, 100 kegs prime.
by RHODES dr WILLIAMS.
TOY South WATER Street
T NV
for ,'
6
IMES RESIDING U TSB
COUNTRY.
rrPlotred. at heretofore, to !apply !manilla
•)unhry Beeldelieett with awry dttscitiptlon of
GROCERIES, TEAS, &0., ifs).
ALBERT C -BERTr
& REEVI
WROLINALE 0 ROOKINS,
o. 46 North WATER Street, and •
*6 North DELAWARE Ay_ennc,
IA the Lowest Market Prices, *large
AIOLAISEE, • COFFEE, •
6PICES, Tosecco.
lea generally, cordons selected for the
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for the prodnota of FITHIAN 11
lit Canning Factory at Bridgeton, J.
FEET - 100 KE(O3
.DINE.-=-200 CASES CLARET
sale by B. r. ELIPDLNTON.
Ng. 6 NigtatNNONT &reek.
I . E. WA.Lit - LA.VENs
CBUOCESSOB TO W. fl. CAERYL.)
t
• MASONIC HAIL,
710 CHESTNUT STREET.
WINDOW 01144.13V.5,
CURTAINS;
AND
MOSQVIWO NETTINGrS
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SHE ATTENWION OF THE
TRADE
11 Galled to
OUR STOOK OF
tIiONY WOOLEN CO. all-wool Plain Flannels.
!WILLED FLANNELS,
Various makes in Gray, Scarlet. and Dark Blue.
?EMU) SHIRTING FLANNELS.
?LAIN OPERA FLANNELS.
' , LACK COTTON WAXY' CLOTHE,
16, 18, - 17, 18, 19, 74 EL 21 oz.
ANCY CASEINERES AND SATIN - MTS.
MAMMAL SKIRTS, all Grades.
071 1 0/9 GOODS, DENIM. TICKS, EMMEN, MET-
DE COURSE!, HAMMON, & EVANS,
Si LETITIA Street, and
3Z South FRONT Street.
1027-wsmEso6
HAZARD & RUTOIIINSON,
No. 11% CHESTNUT STREET,I
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
ail4-6m] PHILADELPHIA-MADE WOODS
FOR THE ARMY AHD ,HAVY.
•
•
E...V.ANS & IILASS•ALILIap
- • '
MILITARY FURNISHERS;
• 418 ARCH STREET, . -
PSILADYLPHIA.
•
Banners Regimental and Company Plaits, Swords..
Seabee, Belts, " Peasants, Epaulets, Hats, Caps, Can
teens, haversacks, Camp Kits, Field Classes, Spurs,
and everything yerteimug to the complete outfit of Army
and NavY Officers.
A liberal discount allowed to the trade. leatl.lin
EDWARD P.,JEJOLLTB
Ems ail, el Land a somplete sauemant of
-SPRING AND SIM:WM GOODS.
4101.tif
LU.,kiL;"At.',V,-.14j..4414444r„„1',;,U;!4.,XA
friz IMPROVED. PATTERN SHIRT.
WARN-MID TO TIT AND GIVI BATISFAOTION.
NOB. .1 Aiw 8 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
japl3.AA4ll4o;ol,3ll:33(lllCitramill
LINEN. =MIN, and FLANNEL SMITS and
DRAWEES, VOLT ABS, STOCKS. TRAvismaze
WIRT% TIER. WRAPPERS, &0., &c..
- OF RIB OW2( MANUFACTIIILL
LW.
HOSIERY
OLO tES.
SOARES
SUSI I HADERE
EIANDICEIVIRDSYS,
SHOULDER. BRADES,Iic. &i.
Sold it roulonsblo prioes.
SPRING AND BUMMER.
MIZE NEW STOCK
TEE LAMEST NOVELTIES IN
Oily IM MO HEMMING GOODS,
itcHTIRE & BROTHER,
(EMOOESSOE , TO MIL & EVA2II.)
1080 - CHESTNUT STREET.
The "Node" Shoulder-Sewn Shirt."
ml4-wfm4m
E 326 ARCH. INIREET. ' 826
11,1am0v & L.
G. A. HOFFRAN
WIEST PREIMIN BIEERT AND WHIPPER
NADIMACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S
FURNISHING EMPORIUM,
REMOVED FROM 006 ABM 61 . 33614%
TO THE HEW STORE,
S2s' ARCM STREET. 825
3.10-fraavrem ,
VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
The iimbieribere would invite attention to their
- 1; I M PRO V ED CUT OF 8111hTS,
irhichthey 'make epeolaity IA their btisineec Also,
coot= y receiving
NOVIILTIBEi FOE
•••;. - 4.- -, W.: SCOTT - ct . ClO.,
.
GAISTTOOnnt'S FIIRAISHINO STORB,
No. 814 CEIBSTNUT • BTRSST,
Four doom below the Continental.
A CARD . TO THE PUBLIC.
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An attempt has been made to deceive the public by
Person* offering what they call Coweauss WATMas "
rem fountains, and at the price of six 0) cents per glass
The wholesale price of the genufne CONGRESS WA
TEE, at New York, being about 7h" cents per glass, the
imposition of pretending to sell at retell at, less than
cost, and without allowance for freight, cartage, or
breakage, is apparent; but their probable course has
been to empty one bottle of genuine Congress Water
into a fountain filled with their trash,. and thereby
christening its total contents,
We liayenever sold CONGRESS WATER In fonntahur.
ixor •la vpsoels of, any other dooorlptlon than ordinary
iisid glass bottles. The cork of every bottle of the
souttln• le branded-
And any 'Without CONGRESS 1 those words and
, .
letters on the •oork 0. & Tr,
whether from fottn- WATER. I talus or bottles
•
CLARKE Sr wjm.B.
• proprietors, of Congress Spring.
The following gentlemen are impelled by ns regaboly
With gamine CONGRESS WATER in bottles. fresh from
the Congress Spring:
• FRED% BRAWR. oar. Fifth and Chestnut eta
0. S. HUBBELL, 1410 Chestnut st.
S. C. :TpIi.EPENEY St C0.,941 Serum 44.
THOS. eor. hird and Berme ets.
STEVENS A.CO., Continental Rotel.
AMBROSE' SMITE, Chestnut at. ' ' -.
CRAB ELLIS . I CO.. Market Ist.
WYETB BROS.. Walnut et.
zw.s. ac CO.. Chestnut st.
Jarain _ CLARICE Ss wren..
ESE.-50 OASES
p r OLD'S IMPROVED STEAM: - •
Na , • • A 365
WATER-lIIATING APPARATUS
per WArrelutr and Ventilating:Public Buildings and
• Prlvat4 ResUnica,
Menutttotaxed try the
UDIOR-STRAIT AND WATER-HEATTED
OF PHILADELPHIA.
JAMES P. WOOD,
• 41 South FOURTH Street.
yob 1 FELTW'RLL. RuDerinteadent.
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CARPII. FANCY 208 PRINTING.
, 40ip0W,414 411 W4OWNI.IIU L NU M% St.
CURTAIN GOODS.
rto,;
ENG% kg., from various Mills
POR Tall BALI OP
ARMY GOODS.
CLOTHING.
JOHN KELLYi
T.A3MOILR,
NW 612 CHESTNUT STREET;
IJODTES'
hlll 142 swim map ITBASTI
MADE BY
JOBEN C. AJECRISON,
DIANOTACTITIVER AND DIALIR IA
00ASTANTLY O 1 HANZI,
CONGRESS SPRIN.G.
WATER DEPOT, 9S 0ED.4.11 STREET,
•' " ••. NEW' TORS-
SAILLTO4I4: Jnl7. 18&t
Jared's 6 4.nia1l de Parisyiv rem Enamelling
This secret of enamelling the elfin being only known
to Jules Jared. he honorably states that it differs from
all other preparation% being sclenti cally composed
from plante nd harmless gums, which produce the most
brilliant complexion, and give a egft, even texture to the
skin, like that of an infant.
L'Emell de Paris cleansmi'llto pores froin those un
sightly black worm specks and small particles which
give coarseness to the complexion, and by demising
produces a healthful glow, it effaces, after a few weeks.
most happily, all scare, and is especially successful in
eradicating the marks left by small-pox.
"L'Email de Paris" is endorsed by Wile Itestvall.
Mrs. Waller, and many other ladies in private life,
whose commendatory letters_ cannot be Published for
obvious reasons.
oleo Jared's "Email de Paris , ' is not a paint, nota
powder, pot a paste, but a Most. delicate prePsratisil
that gives both the complexion and' texture of polished
Ivory to , the skin. Ladies sojourning in the country, or
at the watering places, will find the "Email de Paris"
invaluable for removing thecolorations-cansed by..enn
burn or salt air,
EUGENE JOSIN, No. 11l South TENTH Street, be
low Chestnut, is the agent for ,"L'Emall de Paris,"
Orders by mall should be addressed to JARED & RENA
Importers of "L'Emall de Paris, Philadelphia,
jy2-mwssmlp
IjtVuzz +
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864,
The Sanitary Fair—Past and Present.
It is not the intention of the present writing to
speak :of the good contemplated end accomplished
by the results of our Great Central. Fair; those
'Things are coming to light day after' : day upon, the
battle-field, in the hospital, in. the. -convalescent
camp, and hundreds of other-pity:wpm thousands of
the brave defenders of our country tepidly. We pro
pose merely to speak of the ifulldfiigs and site lately
occupied - by that exhibition, the granti(atfi, in `very
respect ever Witnessed in this country.
Hundreds of workmen are as - temily engaged re
moving the buildings as two months ago they were
equally busy in constructing them. The east and
west naves,extending along Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets, from Race to Vine, have been en
tirely removed. The Smoking Divan, in which was
wafted many an air from—
" The IS icotian leaf,
The true 'Nepenthe balm for every:erief
While other fore one sense alone can measure,.
This to all senses gives extatic pleasure.
You/eel the radiance of the glowing bowl,
Year the soft murmurs of the kindling coal,
&Leff the sweet fragrance of the honey dew.
Taste tbe st, nog panyeney the palate through,
See the bine clotollete circling to the dome —
Imprleoned Skits up- floating to their home."
This building Is still standing. It was sold' te.
Benjamin F. Shedaker, who superintended the con
struction of all the buildings, for seventy-live &A
lan, and will be removed at an early - day. Union ,
avenue still remotes. The floor has been nearly.ali
removed. Horses and lumber -wagons now drive
through the place where but so short a time ago fair
women and brave men, with-hearts large enough to•
take in and do goodie every suffering soldier of our
country, laughed and wrought and sold and trade&
and filled the coffers of the Commission at the ex
pense, in many instances, of their health, in an in
stances at the cost of suffering limbs and tired bo
dice. Praise be to them all ; and not alone to them.
is honor due. The thousands upon thousands who
traversed its noble walks, who admired its noble
arches, who freely set aside their prejudices and
poured their money into the hands of the Commis ,
lion, honor to them belongs. Nothing now marks
the spot where stood the elegant vase of silver, the.
crowning glory of gifts to the Fair—nothing the place
where the-noble-hearted Philadelphia firemen, with
a - rivalry that did honor to them, deposited their
votes, and poured at the feet of humanity their
means. Not a vestige of the stand where wereve
delved the votes for the elegant diainend-set, sword
remains. Hundreds of other objects of interest to
every Philadelphian have not.h ng in this great
avenue to bring them back to recollection; but
there is in every heart. which has one pulsation of
sympathy for the afflicted a monument of all these
things, which time can never efface. And, though
knowing and feeling this fact, who could traverse
this once palatial dome, now deserted by everything
that made it beautiful, and nothade 'a
throb of pain
at the remembrance of joys passed away forever 1
The flagstaff in the centre of the avenue still
stands. The propellor which crowned it has been
removed. It is proposed, by a number of citizens,
to purchase it from the present owner, and have it
remain in its present position. If-this be not done,
it will be removed to West Philadelphia, and placed
in the centre of the Grand Union Railway Depot to
be built there. The model of the monster gun, and
shot to Mit, in the Departmentof Arms and Trophies,
still remains. It is proposed to denote it to the. Sat
terlee Hospital, West Philadelphia; for exhibition,
the proceeds arising therefrom to be for tobacco mo
ney for the soldiers stationed thee. It would, pro
bably realize more from exhibition in any other
place than this city. EverybodFwhd wanted to see
the model of the biggest gun ever cast, who lives
:within a jeag se or, nilladolpfdaoma Seen
The Post-Office, which firinked the entrance to the
Floral Department, is also among the things that
were. Who shall say that many a sweet line
through this establishment has not brought closer
than before many loving hearts, whose joys, un
bounded by time, will grow green in eternityl
The Telegraph Office, on the opposite side of the
entrance, and its fair attendants, is no mire. The
vote on the sword, the vase, the horse- equipments,
the horn, will no more be heralded by lair hands,
but the results of their toil will be more felt in
stopping the aching wounds of the otherwise forgot
ten soldier.
We cannot look out upon what once was the floral
department, the brightest diadem of all the jewels
Of the fair, without a feeling of sadness. The hun
dreds of fountains which gushed forth in the midst
of roses, keeping time in their droppings, to con
cealed but beautiful music, and making together a
harmony that would have'eharmed the gods, are no
more. The Frigid Zone, with its mountains of
snow, and ice-fettered ship, its stunted shrubbery, -
and its cold aspect are visible no longerew
The Torrid Zone, its tropical plants, its fierce lion,
its forbidding tiger; its stealthy leopard, its richly
plumed birds, its laughable monkeys, its luscious
bananas, its gratefully-flowing fountains and clear
Streams, have all departed. Nothing but desola
tion and ruin mark the spot. The fairy-like crea
tures who flitted about, burdened with their pre.
dolls floral treasures, wreathed in smiles, the very
embodiment of female loveliness, are to be seen mo
more.
Any of them could appropriately say:
"Be cheerful, sir,
Our revels now are ended; these our actors,
As I foretold you. were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air ;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision.
The cbud-rapp d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples. the; great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, sh 41 dissolve ;
And like - the unsubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind; we are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and oar little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
In the Curiosity Department everything has been
taken away except a boat ! used by Dr. Kane on his
Arctic expedition. This will be• removed In a. few
days.
The Ponnsylvania.Ritehen has . as its monument
the large atone fire place. The recollections of
many of the fairgoers turns with pleasant satisfa.a
tion to this establishment, where the pretty fraus
their red bodices and short skirts handed round to
all desiring a good substantial Pennsylvania
country meal, including of course apple butter and
hot cakes, to say nothing of dried beef and ham.
The Penn Parlor is completely dem/dished. The
Restaurant Department Is still untouched. It was
used during the past week as a barracks for con
valescent soldiers en route for Washington. A soli
tary deer, which had thus far successfully - eluded
every attempt to capture it, Strolled slowly through
this building. Its reduced appearance speaks more
loudly that its piteous eyes of suffering and starva
tion. It was searching for and eating some of the
,refuse fare of the soldiers who' had lately been in
this department., In addition to the deer there 'are
also, a peacock and peahen, which no lone was able
to catch at the time the rest were removed. Nothing
remains in this department but the bare ways, and
in the wilderness of lumber we ldolied in vain for
the Wilderness of refreshing beer. lUioine of the
adjoining departments some of the 04 -papered
counters and ehelves alone remaiii.
The School Department is entirely removed.
The nave on Race street is being rapidly taken
down. Nothing of interesys to be seen here.
The Art-Gallery building is untottehed. How
different an appearance is presentedtupon entering
its lengthy hall ! Instead of being jostled by the
gaily dressed throng, instead of being surrounded
with costly gems of art, nothing but the desolated.
and grim-visaged walls frown down upon us. Bat
though deprived of these pleasures, no one having
once seen it can ever forget this magnificent collec
tion of the most valuable paintings over got together
at a single exhibition. Messonier, Praeyor, Bother
reel, Hamilton, Schuessele, Weber, Sully, Homer,
and Bonheur will be remembered by many who
before knew ;Lein not. We cannot dwell longer
upon this, to us, most interesting subject.
The entire buildings have been purchased by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at a cost of $20,000,
and will all be removed within ten days. The
company is now engaged in building two depots,
one at Greenwich-street wharf, Delaware, below
the navy yard, and the other Is to be a grand union
depot, haling a front on the railroad neat Market
street of eighty feet, and extending in depth six
hundred feet. This depot will Connect the New
Tork,Baltimore, Pennsylvania, and otherrailloads,
So that passengers from any point= can reach their
final destination 'Without being dragged 'through
the streets of the city In stages or cars. -It Is not
yet determined whether Union avenue, will be used
for a machine shop In West Philadelphia or whether
it will be put up at Greenwich street for the storage
of coal oil. In taking down the arches in Union
avenue they,will be separated In two pieces, the
joint at the top of the two sides of- the arch only
needing to be unscrewed for that purpose.:
All - the water and gas-pipes are being removed.
These were only rented by the Cabin/Lesion, and the
owners are hastily removing them.
• ' Thebuildings cost the committee fifty thousand
dollars, and after deducting the- amount received
Jor_thera the total cost will - be but thirty-Ahonsand
IS ClotarTßA/EIT
Crßg ton Dia am:mt.—Mr. Larson, of Brooklyn,
whO served for two years as a private 111 Duryea's
Zduaves, states that, his regiment ad , suffered much
frem.the above complaint. Tea me from black
berry roots proved to. Lea certain cure, audio many
l eetre e ee - s within„ his knowledge suffering soidiers
we;e speedily
.. rididved bir Its use. Two tablespoons
full should be takcri three or four thriesii day.
the Skin.
THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG.
Early Movements Expected Deported .
Desertion of an Entire Rebid Brigade.
(Special correspondence of The Press.)
HEADQUARTERS ARMY `POTOMAC,
Nears Perreasnuno, ruly 16, 1864.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
There is no doubt whatever bet that activity will
Soon take the place of the comparative quiet that
has for so long a time been holding the Army of the
Potomac. Persons of nervous temperament, who
have been wondering and surmising as to the singu
lar manner lately indulged in by Gen, Grant, so
different from all his former campaigns, will shortly
be surprised and struck with wonder at their stu
pidity, which has shown. Itself in boisterous lan
guage, foretelling the utter failure of the plans of
the Spommander-In-Chief. I say this not to lead to
the enjoyment of any false hope, but only because I
believe it to be My 'duty to inforni the people that
with the Army of the Potomac everything is right.
Our - soldiers were never in better spirits than they
are to-day, and never have they until now believed
the rebellion to be so near its final issue. Since the
grand raid, that has frightened the major portion of
the Northern population, has come to a speedy ter
mination, the soldiers are morethan.ever convinced
that the war is about ended, so far as any &hellcat
demonstration beyond the present position of the
rebels is concerned.
TUE LATE REBEL RAID.
The late raid fully sustained the opinion of Gene
ral Meade, which I gave In m former letter, and
which, if it, was not, captured by the dash of the rebel
Major, Gilmore on the mails, you must ere this have
received. The•raid was looked upon here. as an at
tempt to draw .off the attention of General Grant
from his present undertaking, that. of the capture of
Petersburg, and compel him to move .his forces to
the protection of .Washington. The whaom apd
foresight of Orant must be conceded to be equal to
that of General Lee in this one instance at. least.
• FIRING AT THE FRONT.
Firing was resumed this morning on the lines of
the 9th Corps, and was conducted with the usual
spirit upon both sides, without any material result.
Upon our side, so far as I7ould learn.
' The levelling of the earthworks fa. which I re-.
ferret] in my despatch of yesterdity wass,resumed
this-morning, and they will all be even with the
'ground before nightfall: Hundreds of Men for the
past two days have been engaged in the work, and
the speed with Which they have accomnliehed it is
deserving of much praise. Should we, from some un
foreseen circumstance, be' compelled as an army
movement to vacate our present positiomthe rebels
rebccupying this 'ground would find their works de
stroyed, and it would_ belinposeible for them to re
onetruct thorns in a style equalling those now
being destroyed by us. They had been the
labor of months, and, as I have previously
said, had thel' been held by the- regalar
volunteer army of the South, it would,
have been next to an impossibility for us' to have
captured them. Our-lines have been considerably
contracted on the left since my last writing. The
2d Corps levelled their works in the very teeth of
the enemy, who dare not attack the gallant buys.
It : was the intention of General Hancock• to have
given them the chances of a fair- field fight, had
they ventured from their trenches, but they evident
ly suspected that something was In the wind, and
dare not risk such an experiment. What the rebels
can imagine by our movements for the pastfort dap;
itis impossible to conceive. They think that all is
not right, and that something of more moment than
usual is aboutto take place, as the following strange
proceeding will show :
REPORTED DESERTION OF A REBEL ERiskADE,
I have heard a singular statement, said to have
been made by a rebel deserter, who came Into our
lines on Tuesday 'night last: I do noVthinicit a
eamp rumor, and yet it has a semblance of falsity
mingled with its story. The deserter above alluded
to came into the lines of a certain corps on our left,
and represented himself as a late member of a
North Carolina brigade, which was terribly affected
with Urtir4 sentiments. It will be recollected by
your readers that at the battle of CoohArbor (im
properly called Cold Harbor) several deserters from
the enemy came into our lines, with the story that
they were members of a North Carolina brigade,
which had been fired upon by their own-men err
that day, because , they refused to go, is line of
battle, making It as their excuse that their time
of enlistment and of --army. Bemire had ex.
pired. At Cool Arbor this brigade endeavor.:
ed to desert in a body, but were. unfortunately'
detected in the attempt. The d,eserter, • who
appeared a few days since, was from this.same bri
gade, and told the sametale of theie.disaftection for
the rebel cause. To make his story true, he said
that on the following evening ten, deserters . would
come over. On Wednesday evening teMmen, dress
ed in gray homespun, jaded and utterly worn out,
made their appearance, and wore passed by. our
pickets. • These ten were at onoo separated by our
military authorities, and were closely questioned as
to who they were, and what ware the intentions of
the brigade in question. They all told the same
story, with not a word scareety of variance. They
asked, among other questions, whether if they oame
over to our lines has body on. the following (Thurs
day) evening s theysesenAlSe4ol/111red_ 0 4 _11eZire,
In our .arrd'As`.' - ' — =sege.ti ves fealT - iisse given
them, which seemed to please them greatly. -They'-
then asked if an arrangement could he made
whereby our pickets could be made to understand
what was going on when the brigade passed over
into our lines. It was answered that all •this would
be attended to properly. At this they seemed to be
still more pleased,. and their spokesman said, (for
by this time they had all been assembled together),
"let the signal be a blue, a white, and a red rocket
to-morrow, after dark." •
On Thursday evening I was sitting in a parapet
facing the hospital of the 9th Corps, when my atten
tion was called to the shooting high in the air of a
blue signal rocket, shortly after followed by a
white and a red in quick alternate succes
sion. Supposing that a Movement of some na
ture was thus signalled, I hastily mounted and
rode over in the-direction pointed- by the - streams
of light. I had not gone a half a mile before I heard"
the most vociferous cheering, followed by peal after
peal of - buzzes. 'On arriving at the spot, no one
would relate the cause of their cheering, nor give
any infoimation whatever. Proffers of money Would
not open their sealed mouths, and until late last
evening I was in ignorance of what it -meant, at
which time a. corporal, upon being questioned, told
me that an entire brigade of three thousand men
had deserted'and come irito our lines on Thursday
night. He said he saw them himself, but would not
tell whether they had gene to City Point, or were
still at army headquarters. A diligent masa this
morning did not reveal anything new to me, neither
did the Provost larsbal General seem to know any
thing about it, whether through design or actual ig
norance, I am unable to say. This, story, however,
is generally circulated throughout the army,whether
it be true or false. ;
THE NEW TOER HERALD'S AMISH
of army correspondents Meets, as It deserves, the
Most virulent contempt of all army officers here,
who express themselves disgusted with the unlimited
braggadocia of the 'Herald scions.
.It should be said
here, in reply to the
: ravings of the New York
"Squeezer," that other newspapers beside that
sheet have reepee table gentlemen employed to repre
sent their interests in the movements of the Annie
de Potomac. The corresoridents of the Herald have
thus fai shown themselves anything but. gentlemen,
and because they are disliked as social companions,
and not allowed to mingle, in, the society of, the
Other gentlemen representing the press throughout
the United States, it illy pays them to carry their
revenge to the ptiblic prints;arid make light of mis
fortunes-to which all are liable in writing from the
army. E. R.
Guerilla Attack on a Paymaster—Cool
_
mess of a Lieutenant.
Day before - yesterday Major Hale, who Is paying'
the troops stationed between here and 'Andreas
hero', was attacked by.a.. gang of half a dozen gue
rillas, and made , a narrow escape from capture. He
had been to _Lavergne, and paid the troops there,
and was on his way to Stockade No. 2, six miles
from this city, in an ambulance, accompanied by a
lieutenant, whose name we were unable to. learn,
and two or three men.
Before arriving at the stockade he sent the men"
forward to reconnoitre, feeling that such a precau- ,
tion was necessary. Suddenly some half a dozen.
guerillas ' made a deskon his ambulance, when he
seized the safe-key and took out all the large bills
and fled with them to the bushes.
'The lieutenant took a Henry rifle with him and
fled also. The horses attached to the ambulance
immediately took fright, and had gone but a few
yards when the safe fell out on the ground, when
the marauders dismounted, one of them exclaiming,
"Here is what we are after!"
They at , once threw down their guns, and were
about helping thepsehres to the .money, when the
lieutedant,'who, with the paymaster, was secreted
In sonic bushes near fired, and wounded one of
the men. A. comrade immediately went to his as
sistance, when, a second shot brought him to the
ground, a corpse. The others then fled, without se
eming any booty.
The horses attached to the ambulance wore soon
after caught, and the safe brought to this city with•
out loss. •
. .
The same band stole several horses in thevleinity,
and captured a planter named Anderson, who lives
near Lavergne, took watch, money, horse, and
clothing, giving - him in return for the latter an old,
dilapidated suit worn by one of the men, and then
released him. They were, however, soon afterward
so nearly overtaken that they were compelled to
abandon their stolen horses.
In the dead guerilla. Major Hale recognized a
Man who was at Lavergne, in the morning, trying
to get a pass to Nashville as a loyal cilizen.—Nash
ville Union, July 15.
A SICESATION—GIT&RLT.LAS I'fBA.R. ST. Louts.—
Considerable excitement .was created about town
this morning, by the rumor that a large band of
guerillas approached within six miles of the city
yesterday afternoon, gobbled a militia company, ,
and committed other terrible deedS too numerous to
mention. The Dims in regard to the matter, as ob
tained from headquarters, are as follows:
Mr. F. F. Phelps, who resides at G 2 Morgan street,
states• that yesterday he went, out to Woodlawn
Dairy (about six and a half:miles from town,) owned
by Morris, Eleitzel, & Co. lie went into the house
and began to talk politics with a man who question
ed him all about his views of the war, &c '. After a
pleasant chat of half an hour or so, the man went
out and was absent for some time. Shortly after
his return one hundred mounted guerillas made
their appearance, and Mr. Phelps was Immediately
gobbled. The guerillas confined him in a room,
and then held a council of war as to what
they should do with him.. 'overheard
a portion of their conversation, and concluded that
if be fell Into their hands again he would be literally
extinguished—snuffed out. Accordingly, - he jumped
out ot a window and made for the public highway. He
ran a long distance, and then ventured to look back.
He was struck with horror at beholding four "soli
tary horsemen” In pursuit. He Immediately took
to the brush. Subsequently, he met a dozen Union
soldiers, who started in pursuit of the fowl" solitary
horseman but Mr. Phelps did not stop to ascertain
the result ' . Re k.ept on his way until he found Capt.
Clifford, of the Ist Missouri t/avalry, tQ whom he
told his story. Capt. U. ordered' out a detachment
of men and,under the guidance of Mr. Phelps, they
proceeded , to Woodlawn Dairy, Where they arrested
eleven rheMlitO are connected with the dairy, and
whose names are as follows: John , Illeittel, 4. Hoff
man, H. Ilyer'Er, J. Kolonphi, J. I.llgusinver, , .J. RR,
han, S. Frederick, J. Swifel, A. Zesiderninn, J.
Sumner, and J. Emaardt.
They were ttrOught to town and lodried. in the
il3ilitary prison: No guerillas were dfseoverad.
The whole affair looks Like a decided sematioa---
t. Louis Republican;
THE 'REBEL PRESS.
The Rebel RKpeetations.of
itmore or Wnektnipten Affairs in ,
. Georgia—Grant Ent_peeted,to Leave• r 64
- tersburg. '
• The Itlehttiond Whig, of" thee:lsth Inst., corttatne
the following: _
THE HEWS PROM MAIL:HAND AND DAC:KU!
„ .. .
Welled an intimation at 11 o'clock Wednesday
night that the agent of the Associated Press, at Pe
tersburg, expeetediater Northern papers yesterday.
Wewaited for: these-until nearly •4 o'clock before
writing a single line for our news column,' hoping
guttwe would be able to give - our readers, as a ell
max to the delightful items from Maryland already
furnished, an account of the• occupancy of either
.Baltimore or -Washington by our dashing forces.'
Up to this, however, nothing in. the way of news
from Mary land• has come to hand,.but before we go
to plebs our telegraph columns willmodoubt contain
tidings which will make glad the heart' of every
tAlle Confederate citizen. The bulletin •board du
ring the forenoon waaa dead failure—only contain
ing a despatch from Gen. Johnston's army, which
Shows, that he continues in the condition of a cam-
Mitteelir a legisla;tive bode;'-which day after
reports progress. We trust that hewn], find it con
venient to make aßtand Somewhere this. side of At
lanta, ,
We once heard of a doctor, by the way,who was
great in curing burns. If a patient wlth‘e, sore limb
Came tO him, he had only to burn the diseased part,
thus bringing it within the line of -his special prac- '
Lice in order to make a complete cure. Solt Is with
Goneral•Johnsten. Be is immense in retreats, and
tamems so well aware othistorce thatto thennitiated
appears indisposed to try, under any eireuni
ce; 'ellifel• "it stand " - or a forviard movement.
h trust, however, that - the sequel will prove that
General Johnston,is wiser- than, such of us as have
commented apon his ,policy. . in.retreating•to• the
tot of Atianta, and that he may ultimately whip
Sherman as badly, as General Lee will Grant when- .
•efer and wherever lie engages him in battle.
'That our readers may properly understand gi the
situation , ' In Northern Georgia, we .will state that
the Chattahoochee river, which General Johnston
has crossed, rises in the Apalachin 'Mountains ) In
liabersham county, Georgia; flowing southwest,
reaches the border of Alabama at a/filler's Bend.
from which .it lines nearly south, forming, fur two
hfindred - tulles, the boundary between Georgia. and ,
Alabama to Its junction with Flint river, with,
which it here unites and forms the Apalachicola. It
is navigable for steamboats two hundred and twenty
five miles above its junction with Flint river to Ale.
himbus, Georgia. ” •
Atlanta, the point for which Sherman Is aiming,
and which Gen. Johnston is endeavoring to defend,
wile, before the ,war, a flourishing city in Fulton,
county, Ga., 101 miles northwest of Macon, and 171
miles west of the city of Augusta. The city was
laid Outin 1846, but soon became the' centre of the
cotton trade of that whole region. Sillies the war it
has grown rapidly in wealth and population, and is
now not only the largest city in North Georgia, but
ranks among the first In the State. • ..
As we have, gotten nothing by telegraph from
Maryland, we will proceed to give such. rumors As
have reached us, reserving the right to 'put in, by
wayol postscript anything authentic which we may'
receive before going to press. At one of the Govern
ment departments, just after noon yesterday, it was
reported that Marshal Kane was about to co-operate,
with our forces, then near Baltimore, with 15 000
Alaryland recruits. At a later hour it was said that
a courier had arrived "from our commanding gene
ral, who, among other items—the very. recital of
which was enough to make a man stand on his tip-
toes—stated that our forces occupied ever depot be
tween Washington 'City and Baltimore. We don't
doubt that such is the ease, even though the courier
may prove a myth. We have perfect confidence 4n
our ability to take either Washington or Balti
more, and, ..for the future, we say away With.
milk and water prudence. Let our commanding.
general, Smith 'Jones, be untrammeled by orders
tied:with red tape. If we. were, in his place, and an
order should come to fall backiwe would shoot the ,
courier, burn the order, and go ahead, regardless of
consequences. We see, for the first time-since Seek
son's valley campaign, the dawn of the kind of
strategy which: will end.the war. God grant that it 1
may term, as successfully as it has begun. We•
have a great Chief Magistrate—in our humble opin
ion, we doubt whether, with his imperfections, the
whole world could in this crisis furnish us a better.-
We have in command of the Army of Northern - Fir-
ginia the greatest living military chieftain, but we; ;
have subordinate generals Nilith the dash of aziarat.,
and the sublime courage of Latinos who, up to this
time, have, never bad an opportunity to, show_What .
they really were. ' ThlB Maryland campaign will,
we firmly believe, convince the world that Jackson ,
was not the only general after Lee that the war has
developed. a
.As we expected, the above was hardly in typo he
fore-we received more Cheering news througlathe
Washington Chronicle of the 12th. Within three
miles of Baltimore, and within the same distance of
Washington, on the evening of the 11th, wh.o can
dispute the triumphant entry of our - trews, into
either city. • Surely not the-flying mob of Gan. Wal
lace, or the militia, or loyal leaguers of either the
Federal capital or the monumental city. "
This is the lath, and by this time ymprobably.held
Washington or Baltiniore.
DESPATCH PROM GENERAL JOHNSTOR.
At 10 o'clock last night wa:obtained the following
deSpatch, which explains the condition of affairs in
North Georgia,: . . •
Haanqual&Pate Anwoa Tarritmistrz,
- July 14, 1864.
, A body of Federal .cavary crossed the .river last
night; opposite NOWIII,II, but were driven - back by
iirigadier General Armstrong. All quiet elsewhere,
Josses F. JOHNSTON, General.
... 4 1 • PETTME3III7II6.
. I ffe repeat the oft-told tale..of all quiet around
.I`stersluirg-ypterday,.....Erorn the-Repress,..reeelrod
'by the train, we learn.that Wednesday was ushered
in with heavy artillery fixing. Oa. the centre the
enemy's big guns were opened with great rapidity,
and our batteries replied promptly, giving the
enemy as good as hO sent. The picket Cuing and
skirmishing were about the same. as usual, and,
from all accounts,jittle or no harm was done'on
eithei side. .
The impression still pretaila that the enemy con
template •an early depNrtttre from Petersburg.
Many thought yesterday that the • artillery duel,
• which was in.augurated ..the 'Yankees ' was in
tended to cover a movement which it was specially
desirable should be concealed.' The usual acoom
paniments of drurnibeating, horn-blowing,. and other
Chinese cuatomsi were also extensively practised.
It is now positively known that the .6th Army
Corps (Weight's) left far Washington Friday night
last; and another, name unknown, took its depa;r
ture Suuday night. A large number of transports
were in the river night before last, apparently ,
awaiting oarao, and these may, ere this, have car
ried off another, corps.
The enemy him. manifested but little disposition
during the last two or three 'days to exchange pa
pers, and the cause is quite obvious, the tidings
from Maryland being anything, but cheering to
them.
TIM BIGHT, .P,T REAMS
We noticed in,yeriterday's lime a fight at Reams'
Station on Tuesday between the Yankee cavalry
and ours. We have since learned that the _Yankees
were commanded by Gen. Gregg, and our cavalry.
by Gen. - Fitz Lee. The eighty•three prisoners, cap
tured by us reached Richmond last night by the
Petersburg train. Among thdm were two officers--
one EL major and a North- Oarolinadeserter, who was
identified In Petersburg. He. was separated from
the others at our prbvost marShal's office and eon•
signed to appropriate quarters. His case will be
duly Wended to.
POOR. SHEMMEN OM. TEM MOVE
The force under Sheridan, consisting of two bri
gades, which we stated in Wednesday's issue was
moving toward,Pol tsmouth, were, at last accounts,
like the Wandering Jew, still a moving.- The Ex
press says some think they are getting towards North.
Carolina ; others that they are to embark at Porta
mouth for the seat of war in Maryland.
ebei Barbarities.
areAcRE
: ` r4
Dr.lt b."-tra "ey, surgeiniof the 35th Regiment of
United States-colored troops, Writes to the 4oston
Journal as follows :
,
." So frepiently have I been asked the question,
dining my leave of absence home', by the 'leading;
citizens of Boston and vicinity, 'low did -the! ene
my treat the wounded colored troops who, fell into
their hands at the battle of Olustee, Florida 1' that
I ina led to believe that the truth is not generally
known.
• "Owing to C;ur rapid retreat and lack of trans
portation, there were left at our field hospital or
depot for the wounded about one hundred colored
soldiers, too severely wounded to walk. The suc
ceeding twenty4four hours our forces fell back dbottt
fortyfive miles. This rapid retreat made map) , of
the less severely wounded unable to keep, up with
the column, and they were picked up by the•enemy's
caialry, whiCh followed closely upon our rear;
" We received no official report from the enemy
of the wounded remaining prisoners in-their hands
until about 'six weeks after the battle. Eighteen
only of more than seventy of our regiment who
were-left upon the field were reported, and those
suffering from -less severe wounds, who had fallen
out and were, taken on the retreat. The ratio of
Wounded of other,colored regiments was about the
same. Tile reported' of killed could not be
knovorii.but it was fair•to:infer that - the 'proportion
cbuld not-have been so great..
"Later direct and positlfe information has-been
received from •Severarparties of prisoners as well
as .deserters—soldiers in the battle of ()Mites and
peffectly conversant with the facts—that the morn
ing after the battle a South Carat= regiment and
the2d Georgia Regulars took possession of the depot
for the wounded, and not as an armed mob seeking
plunder and destruction, but under orders 'of their
officers—who with their swords actually set the ex
ample—in cold blood murdered - the colored soldiers
who, wounded and helpless, lay there under the
charge of an assistant surgeon,left to attend to their
wants.
"It was only after repeated testimony of this
character from these different sources that full ere
deuce vas given to the above statements. My in
formants in each case were of Florida regiments.
They universally lamented the facts, and stated that
it was the general Impression of those troops now
serving in Florida that if captured. by our. troops
they would be denied the rights of prisoners, and
suffer in retaliation for the enormities committed by
their'soldiers ar °taste°. 'A guilty' conscience
needs no accuser.'
"A thrill of horror creeps over us as Ny9 'remem
ber'Fort Pillow but even ttiat no parallel to
the murdering cold blood—for tielve hours and
a night's sleep had intervened since .the battle —Un
dereommand of officers (themselves setting the ex
ample), of a hospital full, of wounded and .helpless
sullerers.
' - Major Bogle, of our regiment; formerly from
Baton, and well known to many of her citizens, se
verely a wounded and prisoner, was taken, as ain'
informed by an eye -witness, the day following the
fight, to a house in. the rear, and there a guard of
soldiers had to be placed about the house to prevent
the mob wreaking their - vengeance upon a brave
and•beipless soldier, whose onlyedme was his being
an Officer in a colored regiment
"'From the same authority I received information
that he was reported to be in close confinement on
bread and water, awaiting trial - by Statelaw, - al
though the rebel General Anderson, in command in
Florida, reported by flag of truce that he bad
vered and been sent to tke interior. Awaiting the
Tardy movements of our Government in affording
these brave men protecUon clue them as seldiers of
the United States - army, shall we wonder and.blame
if some excesses are committed, and that' Remem
ber Fort Pillowand °hates' become watchwords
and rallying 'cries with our colored soldiers I"
TENATMENT OA UNION PRISONERS IN GEORVILin
-The 13uffalo Erpreas eays: We are permitted to
copy the following from a recent letter written by
an officer in General Sherman's army :
"1 saw a poor fellow yesterday who had just.
one into the lines, looking more like a wild beast
than a man, Ile escaped from Americus, that
abode di horrors, nearly a month -ago, and, after
two.recaptures, at last fell in with our advance. I
wish a grand convention of all the Copperheads of
the - country could have assembled and listened
to the story of brutality and wrong that I heard
'from the lips of that poor, wasted shattered soldier.
A stockade. in-an. open field, without shade; and
partly a swamp, contains a orowd,ot nineteen then;
sand Unien,seldiers, without a blanket, overcoat, or
booking ntenslW,
The Two Seeptevlons Vemels at St. John.
THH BUNG Br111 : 5"-AND THID /IRE OUE BN
The Boston Advertiser of yesterday had the folloW- ,
lug intdresting statements:
" The steamer Frmg Sun, Captain W. l lllams,
wbich sailed from StAblin, N. 8., 021 . Wedimaday
last for China,.put lido•Outler, tke nazi , day,
and sailed Iheoce on Friday morning. The mrstom
house authorities boarded , her,. and reported that
she-was deeply ladenontli was pterced for six guile,
From tilde' circumstance White been supposed that.
she "intends to run the bloOkridery take on board arr
armament, and enter upon' the' career of a rebel
cruiser.' •
In' the, case, as far mithey are apparent,
are as follows : The Fang Suedthe Fire Queen,
new steamers, built in New York).elseared at that
port on the Bth .instant, under provisional British
registers; issued by the British consul for St. Joho4
N. 8., at which port they were to call'fcc the pur—
pose of-exchanging their provisional registers for
pernianent ones, and thence to proceed. to China,
where they were to be employed upon some of the
large rivers of that empire. Suspicion appears to
have been first -cast IlVen the rung Suer by the
somewhat excusable mistake of confounding her
name with that of the Fang Shuen, another steamer
which'had'previously cleared for New OrleanSf
" 'W,e have seen, aa yet,no denial on the - pert of
the agent or owner of the Fung Sueyi of the-Im
puted object for which the' steamer was intended,
but the presumption is, as there are no apperenChr
regularities in her clearance, that thereis reallrao
ground fbr suspicion in her case.
"Of- course there is no objection for our revenue
officers and blockaders to keep well informed or all
objects of suspicion, and as the 'Emperor of China'
has heretoitue been made a scapegoat by specula.
tors in league with the rebels, perhaps it will be'
proper enough to keep a sharp lookout on all crafts
purporting to be bound to his dondnlens, especially,
if they make a call upon our provincial neighbors."
The St. John: (New Brunswick) Telegraph gives
the following - in a notice of the two steamers, which
reekos.to indloate.that they are at .that port' Ojeda
of suspicion
" They will soon proceed to China, to be employed
there (se-they say) upon the great rivers that tra
verse the Interior of the Celestial. Empire, where
several of their predecessors have already gone. We
trust they will have. a pleasant voyage, but fear
. their owners and officere pare too sanguine about
their successfully wisiityptepe.ldern, although
lake and river stems often -lia.ve' to encounter
heavy, gales. Still'thhstoWage of their coals In bags
will,enablo them to trim shiP, sinc e they can be
used as portable ballast, while the fact that a por
tion of these coalsiare of a kind that, makes little
smoke, will enable there to elude the observation
and pursuit of Confederate cruisers. To be plain,
there are suspicions anent that these vesels . are de
signed for contraband purposes ; but we are assured
by the parties to whom they are consigned that they
are legitimate.merchantreen destined for Service in
China.. We trust that the current suspicion is in
.correct, for St. John people will not feel pleased to
have the Yankees engage In' blockade-running,
come here and fit. out, and then. ultiniately throw
the onus upon us." .
CONFERENCE OP. SECESSIONISTS AND COPPERHEADS
MlSldithe We* York Times. ]
NIAGARA FALLS, July 18,1864.
The opposite side of the river is just now the scene
of active conference between prominent Secession
ists from Southern States and active sympathisers
with secession in the North. Clement C. Clay, of
Alabarna - Jaeob Thompson, of Mississippi, formerly
a member,of C
Buchanan's abinetißeverly Tucker,
once United States Consul at Liverpool, George N.
Sanders, of cosmopolitan and miscellaneous notori
ety, together with Sundry other gentleinen of the
same political position, but less notoriety, are at the
Clifton House, where they are' visited from time to
time by prominent Democrats, and others of seces
sion sentlignts, whose names I do not care just now
to
There' can be very little doubt that the object of
this gathering is political, and, Indeed, no secret is
made by the parties concerned, in conversing with
persons in whom they have confidence, of the par
dealer purpose they have in view. They ate en
deavoring to devise a basis forthe action of the Chi
cago Convention which shell accomplish 'two objects
at once, end the Isar and secure • the triumph of the
Democratic party. In other words, the Secessionists
are seeking to' frame a platform for the Democratic
party ia the coming election.
I have been told that Play, and Thompson do not
assume as yet" to speak for the seceded States, but
they hold out very strong hopes of getting , the as-
Sent of those' States to 'the propositions they put
forth, previded. the Democratic party will pledge
Well' In advance to accept Diem as tho basis of its
political action. What these propositions are, lam
not anti, orized to say, but / believe they embrace—.
1. The return of the seceded States to the Union.
2. The assumption of the .Confederate debts.
8. The recognition of the freedinri of the slaves
actually emancipated in the progress of the war,
and the status quo,ante helium este all others.
If the-Democratic party of the Northern States
will insert these planks in its platlinni, these Seces
sion emissaries hold out hopes of being able to se
cure so general assent to them in the South as to
give the party great strength in the election by
promising the restoration Of peace. 'Whether they
have any authority.to make such pledges, I do not
know. lam inclined to think that they have not,
but that their missiOn'is purely voluntary, and that
its object is to give aid and comfort to the Demooratio
pakttili the coming contest. •
uoßAns, ORERLBY At , NIAGARA FALLS:
) 1 NEAPAEA PALLS, Sunday, July 17..
Horace Greeley arrived, here this morning, and
is slopping at the InternationaL—Special Despatch
to the Rachester Democrat. ;
Frevious.despatches have announced the agElval
at Niagara Falls of George N. Sanders, 0. C. Clay,
Jacob Thompson and Beverly Tucker, of the South
ern Confederacy.
The Euro - Ain:eat Act.
. „
AN ACT of Congress further to regulate and pro-,
vide for, he enrolling and calling out, the national
forces, and for other purposes.
First. The...Presidentof.the United. States. may„-
at his discretiopi atitaftime hereafter, call for any
number of men asqvolunteers, -for the respective
terms of one, twooniPthree.years for military sum
vice ; and any sucli - voluitifeer, br - ifireise of a draft,
as hereafter provided, any substitute, shall be -cre
dited to the town, township, ward, oroit3r:precinot,
or cilection district , of it county, toward the
quota of which he may have volunteered
or engaged as P. substitute, and every vo
lunteer who is accepted and mustered into the
service for a term of one year, unless sooner dis
charged, shall receive and be paid by the. United
States a bounty of *lOO, and if fora term of two
years, unless sooner discharged, a bounty of $2OO ;
and if for a term of three years, unless sooner Ms
charged,-a bounty of $3OO, one-third of whloh bounty
shall be paid to thesoldier at the. time of his being
mustered into the service, one-third at the expira
tion of one-half of his teem ofservice, and one-third
at the expiration of lds.term of service ; and in clasp
of his death while.in the service, then the residue of
his bounty unpaid shall bo paid to his widow, if he
shall have left a widow.; it not, to his children; or
if there.be none, to his mother, in case she .be a
widow.
- - -
Second. In case the quota, or any part thereof, of
any town; tOwnship;ward of a olty, precinct, or elec
tion district, or of any county not BO _divided, khan
not be filled within the space of fifty days after such
call, then the President shall immediately order a
draft for one year to All such quota, or any part
thereof which. may be.unfilled; and in ease of any
such draft, no payment of money shall be accepted
or received by, the Government as commutation to
release any enrolled or drafted man from, personal
obligation to perform military service.
Third. It shall, be lawful for the Executive of any
other State to send recruiting agents into any of the
States declared to bet in rebellion, except the States
of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana, and to re•
emit volunteprs under every call under the provi
sions, of this act,, who shall be credited to the State
and to, the respective subdivisions thereof which
may procure the,-enlistment.
w Fouilk Drafted men; substitutes, and volunteers,
t hen mustered in, shalt be organized iner 'assigned
,o regiments, batteries, or other organizations.of
'heir own States ;nand; es far as' Practicable, shall,
when assigned, be permitted. to. select their owl re
giments,. baqeries; other ofgaditations, from
among thosertd - their 'freSpective States, which, at
the time of their assignment, may not be , filled to
their Maximum number.
Fifth. The twentieth section of the act entitled
"An act to amend an act entitled an act for en
rolling and calling out the national forces," ap
proved Feb. 24, 1864, shall beconstrued to meanthat
tlit,„Secretarrof War shall discharge minors Ander
the age of 18 ypars, under the 'circumstances and on
the conditionsreseribeil in said section:; and hereaf
ter, if any officer of the United States shall enlister
muster Into the military service any person under
the age of 16 years, with, or without the consent of
his parent or guardian, such person. so enlisted or
recruited shall be immediately and unconditionally
discharged upon the repayment of ,all bounty re
ceived, and such recruiting or mustering officer who
knowingly enlists a person under sixteen, shall be
dismissed the service, with. the forfeiture of all pay
and allowance, and shall be subject to further pu
nishment as a court-martial may decide: ,
Sixth. Section three of an act entitled "An act to
amend an act entitled an. act for enrolling and call
ing out thenational forces and for other purposes,"
approind February 24, 1864, be, and the same-hereby
Is, amended 'so as to authorize and direct'district
provost marshals; under tke direction of the Pro
vost Marshal General, to make a draft for ohe hun
dred per centem in addition tO the iiiirober required
to fill the quota of any district, as provided by, said
Section..
Seventh; 'Mat instead oftiaveling.paY,..al.l drafted
persons reporting. at Ithe.place of:rendezvous, shall
be allowed transportation fromtheir plabe.s'of resi
dence, and persona dlEctidigedlnt - the - place of ren
dezvous shall be „allowed transportation So. their
places of reside/ice: ,
. Eighth. All persona ,itc . the; naval Service of the
United States, who have entered said service during--
the present rebellion, who have not been credited to
the quota of any town,district, ward or State, by
reason of their beingin said service and not' enroll
ed prior to February 24, 11i,§2; shall ore satisfactory
proof of their residence, made to the Secretary of
War, be enrolled and' credited to. the quota- of the
town, ward, district or State Inwhlch they respec
tively reside.
Ninth. nary person duly, drafted shall be absent
from home in the prosecution of his usual business,
the provost marshal of the district shall cause him
to be duly notified as soon -as maybe, and he Shall
not be deemed a deserter, nor liable as such until
notice_ hia Veen given to him and reasonable time
alloiveil for him to return and report to. the provost
marshal of his district, but such absence shall not
otherwise-affect his ]lability finder this act.
Tenth en dEleventh. Notldng.contained In this act
is to be construed to alter or in any way affect the
law relative to those conscientiouslp opposed to
bearing arms, or to affect the rights of persons to
procure substitutes.
Approved:
V.TaminioTorr, Snip' 4,1864.
tirm=l
itood Words from England:
MeloHewing article from the Newcastle (Ens.
land) Chronicle is a sharp rebuke of the British
tortes who persist in coloring events in ttid interest
of the rebels :
"It is a melancholy reflection, that on =no vies
tion in our day has so much want of candor been
displayed, or so much dishonest perversion been re-'
sorted to as on this question of the American revolt.
The origin of the war, the object of the war, the pro
gress of the war, the spirit in - which the war is, con
ducted, in spite of the clearest possible facts, have,
one after the other, beendisputed, denied, or pervert
ed. When Southern 'Politicians, from Davis to
Toombs, and from Stephens to Spratt, tell us that
they design to establish aGovernment based on the
bondage of the laborer—when the, bishops of the •
Episcopal Dhureb. declare that the abolition
of slavery is hateful, infidel, and pestilent,' and
the Rev. Dr. Palmer adds that the providential
trust of the South b 3 to perpetuate the institution
of domestic slavery now. existing - , with the fr eest
scope for Its natural development; 3 when the states
then, journalists, and divines of the South join in
' one chorus of admiration for slavery, people among
us are yet dishonest enough:to aver that the question
of slavery neither had nor has anything whatever to
do with the rebellion of the South ; that thatrebellion
Wes simply and entirely a question of tariff
"Precisely the same spirit is shown. in dealing
with.the events of the war. when Sherman , dri ves
Johnston into the interior of Georgia, Johnston suc
ceeds in drawing Sherman from his base. When
Grant attacks Lee in front, he is credited With the
qualities of a bear. Wan' he outflanks Lee, he is•
amid to meet him in the field. When he t last sue-.
(seeds, by strength, enrage a
, strateg - y, in driving
While the opposin
• him from Fredericksburgksburg to Riohmond—why, then
-wr,eencaureedtotltdattroint
t th lo e li fed ag e o ra general might have
.
armies were on the - Rapidan,..we had.nti end of pre g :
dictions that Grant would never see ,Riehrtiond.
Wheelie at - length ding' Stm it, we arty.aesured that
Plots on Foot.
.Ik." Luw mar.
Grant is a fool for not taking a shorter route. Ever
since Butler lauded on the :fames, we have had
almost dafli
assurances that the' nett mail would
bring us a *e of hie having been driven into' the
river. On the other hand, every repulse - of the
Pedera lB , l nWe'rer trifling, has bbOu magnified into
a rout ; while mere than ono success for the Con
federates bag been reported and gloried in twice or
thrice over.
"If ono hod' read the exclusive DIMS of the Co¢
perhead newsilapers only, ono Would hove been
sorelyy, puzzled VD understand how it is that the
North es not overkun ; that Washington. Is not de
stroyed, and that' the Armies of the Potomac and
Cumbeand esirtlat alt. In the same; if Semmes
didn't ta rl ke the Ifearsarge, it was only because- ht
slip was out of repalr and his enemy was chain
plated. Semmes wasn't beaten; he - only corn
mftted 'a mistakelr Bitt if the critics are Severe
on the Federals, thor ate eaceedlngly chlultablele
the Elaveowners. SMMTIOff barns unarmed ships;
rune away from the Federalernisere ; libels the vim
tor in his first fair encynnter, and the critic§ cater
bntte his gallantry andtall Mao a hero. Lake kings'
to the constitutional axiom, Oa sleveownere - can'
do no wrong. They shoot negrateamsters'at• Mur
freesboro; they give no qui:merle the negro troops
at Port Hudson ; they bunralivo the negrogarrlson
at Fort Pillow—and never of protest or ben
sure Is uttered by the critlei. - Thal' chain ecianon
balls to the legs of Federal Joffeers at Atlanta;
they starve Federal 'prisoners - at' Belle Isle; they
make arrangements to blow two, ndlitary prises: 'at
Richmond ; they slaughter moll, women and oltll-•
dren In Kansas; they play at • nine-pins with the
bones of the. Federal dead ;• thereon:nett every con- ,
ceivable atrocity, and many atrocities that are
absolutely hiconcelvable—and yet no Confederate,
commentator on the war goes oat of his way to
condemn them. Quantrel is an' energetic alder;
Forrest is an able commander; and Winder is the
mildest of jailers. Such Is the ws.y-irr which con
temporary events are chronicled in England it,
The Lolie Superior Mines.
A Boston Traveller correspondentlWriteS, from
Marquette, -Michigan, an interesting. letter, from
which the following is extracted.:
This is one of •the most northern towns of the
*United Stites, on the southern shorenr-Lake Supe
rior,.and deriving importance as the principal town
of the 'Upper Peninsula of Michigan. • - tuts a
population of about 1.200, is a shire town contain
the land office of this diattict, is a beautiful vitbsg4 -
and evidently destined to a large increase. A. rail
road ext.ends,to the. Jackson, Cleveland, and Supe
rior mines, and hero all their shipments are made..
These iron mines' have been very successful, and
probably in the last year alone have paid , for them
selves. In 1802 (I have not the statistics for 1803)
they shipped 115,721 tons of ore,- and' 8,590 tons of
pig. As an indication of the superior quality of the
Iron, while a square inch of Swedish iron will bear
a tension of 58,134 lbs., this will sustain 89,582 lbs.
There are several blast furnaces in the vicinity.
Next to the Iron interest that of copper is the most
.important in this region. Many of these mines have
been unprofitable, but others, like the Pittshurg and,
Minnesota, have proved highly remunerative in
vestments, and ,It is believed such will be the case
with many more when they become fatly developed.
Most of them have started with too little working
capital, rendering assessments necessary, and up to
this time have 'hardly begun to show the wealth.
they contain. There can be no doubt that hero are
the richest beds orcopper lathe world, and it will
pay for mining here if anywhere. The copper mined
An 180 was veined at $12,000,000, and last year&
must have greatly exceeded It. The high pric f
copper has recently stimulated the product to the
utmost, and old mines have increased their works,
and many new have been formed.
Within the last year a great deal of excitement
had been caused here and elsewhere by the discovery
of rich ores of silver lead. The credit of nrst finding
It is duo to Mr. S. C. Smith, a veteran explorer Or
this section, who has confidence that tin, cinnebar,
blacklead, and other valuable minerals exist here.
This same gentleman is also worthy of name as a
pioneer in the settlement of Marquette. He told
me that when he came here, sixteen years ago, there
was only one .building, a log hat, and that he
built the first frame house. The announcement
that silver lead had been found., and gold also in the
Huron Mountains, has caused an unprecedented
rush at the land office, and within the past year
about 400,000 acres have been entered, over 100,000
in April. Some , of the most judicious and careful
men of this section have great confidence in it, and
anticipate that the results of the next three months
will astonish the country. Companies have been
formed all around to mine for silver lead and gold
here, and one in Philadelphia has secured over
40,000 acres of land.
The Chicago Lake Taanel.
The Chicago Times gives the following aominnt of
the lake tunnel :
The work was commenced on the lrth of March,
and since then the "progress made in the con
struction of the tunnel has been such—notwith
standing the tremendous difficulties which have had
to be overcome—as to astonish all who have watched
the operations.
On descending the shaft the first feature that
strikes one with astonishment is -the solidity
and finish of the masonry. At the entrance there
is an Immense iron cylinder; nine'feet in diame
ter, extending . downwards thirty feet. The re- •
manning portion of the shaft to the bottom, seven
ty-eight - feet below - the surface, is built • eland
with brick—so finely finished in the building that it
seems almost equally smooth' around the sides with.
the cylinder. Standing on the bucket—holding on
firmly to the rope—looking upwards at the daylight
shining over the Shaft, and rendering the opening
like a great moon glowing high overhead—one glides
down the immense abyss, which becomes momenta
rily darker ashe descends. in a little time there is
a sudden slack in the cable; the bucket touches
ground ; far above appears the round gleam of upper
day ;. and far out rimier the lake there is a seemingly
interminable labyrinth, along which shade wy figures
nit to and iro, bearing lamps which glimmer like
fire-flies In the distance. Above, the waters of the
lake are lashing tempestuously, or sleeping in per
fect quiet beneath the heavens—blue as themselves.
The brickwork of the tunnel Is .about the most
solid, and, at the same time, smoothly finished any
where to be seen. The here is a perfect circle, the
briekti being packed in close to the solid clay, which
constitutes the bed of the lake. At the bottom of
the shaft, and where the tunnelooriimences, there
is a perfectly-finished' inverted arch, wlffolvitas of
itself the, work of about two months, and -which
now Is an object of admiration to all practiCal men
who Visit' the tunnel. From thence for nearly
three. hundred .feet the' masonry Is finished—the
walls all.along of a thiekness of twelve inches
the work throughout being oharacterized by the
some solidity and perfectness of finish noticeable in
the shaft. At the bather and the bricklayersare to
be descried at work. A few dimly-burning lamps
reveal their presence, and the charaoter of.their
operations. It is a painful and tedious work—pack
ing in brick after. brick around the too- confined
space in which the men have to labor. The bricks
are packed there, however, and firmly cemented, and
• the operation when completed shows a finish of exe
cution scarcely to be surpassed by the most carefully
finished wall to be seen in the upper regions.
An examination of the ground through which the
miners are now making their. way so perseveringly
would be interesting to the geologist. Hitherto the .
workmen have encountered only hard blue clay,
mixed at intervals with boulders of various flees.
The men work by shifts, day and night, 'without
pause or intermission, two shifts being allowed to
the miners and one to the bricklayers. Forty-three
'men are employed on the tunnel; thirty-five on the
immense crib for the outer shalt to be sunk in the
lake, and twenty-three in the brickyard. .
The Philosophy of Health.
" Bread and butter" are the only articles of-food
of which we never tire for a day, from early child
hood to extreme old age. A pound of fine deur of
Indian (corn meal) contains three times' as much
meat as one pound of butcher's roast beef; and if
the whole product of the grain, bran and all, were
made into bread, fifteen per cent. more of nutriment
would be added. 'Unfortunately the bran, the coarsest
part, is thrown away ; the very part whldh gives
soundness to the teeth, and strength- to the bones,
and vigor to the brain. Five hundred pounds of
fine flour give to the body thirty pounds of the bony
element; while the same quantity of bran gives one
hundred and twenty-five pounds i This bent) is
"lime," the phosphate lime, the indispensable ele
ment of health to the whole human body,from.the •
want of the natural supply of which multitudes of
persons gd. into a general "decline." - But swal
lowing "phosphates" in the shape of powders, or
in syrups, to cure these "declines," has little or no
virtue. The articles contained in these "phos
phates" must pass through nature's laboratory;
must be subject, to her manipulations, in alem
bics specially prepared by Almighty power and
skill, in order to impart their peculiar virtues to
the human frame; in plainer phrase, the short
est, safest, and most infallible method. of giv
ing strength to the body, bone, and brain, thereby
arresting disease, and building np the constitution,
is to eat and digest more bread made out of the
whole grain, whether of wheat, corn, - rye; or oats.
But we must get an appetite for eating more, and a
power of digesting more. Not by the artificial and
lazy method of drinking bitters and taking tonics,
but by moderato, continued, and remunerative
muscular exercise in the open air every day, rain
or shine. And that we may eat the more of it, the
bread must be good and cheap, and healthful ; and
that which combines these three qualities to . a
greater extent than any other known On the face -of
the . globe, as far as we know, is made thus : To
two quarts of corn (Indian) meal add one pint
of bread sponge; water sufficiently to wet the
whole ; add one ait pint of dour and a teaspoon
ful of salt. Let it rise, then knead well,.unsparing
ly, for the second time. Place the dough in the
-oven, and let it bake an hour and a bait. Keep on
• trying until you succeed in making a light, well-.
baked loaf. Our cook succeeded admirably by our
directions at the very first trial. It costs just half.
-as much. as bread from -the finest family. flour,- IS
lighter on the stomach, and imparts more health;
vigor and Strength' to the body brain and bone.
Three pounds of such bread (at five cents a pound
for the meal) affords as much nutriment as nine
pounds of good roast beef (costing, at tVrenty-five
cents, $2,.%), according to standard physiological ta
bless—khzif's Journal of Health.
NZWTOVICDLAND SEAT. Frsurno.—About the 7th
of March the young seals are found about the sizeof
cats, mewing on the ice. They are•not yet fit to be
taken, but by lying in the sun and sucking_ the ice
until about the Middle of March they gain three
inches of fat. Then commences the slaughter. The
men walk up to the white coats, asthe young-seals
are then called, and knock them over, by. striking
them on the forehead with a long pole, stick them
with s knife, cut them down the breast, and.the car
cass rolls out, leaving the skin and fat, which are
all the seal-catcher is after, the carcass being left on
the ice. Usually in about the last week in .alarch
the seals begin to dip, they take to the water, and
are then only to be captured by shooting from. the
boats. Old seals are invulnerable unless shot in the
forehead, and nature has provided them with a
means of defence even here, in the shape of a
"hood," which they drop on occasions—hence their
name, "old hoods.' So the season of catchingthem
is but about three weeks in duration. These men
often go five or six miles from the ship on floating
ice. They get one-half they catch, . sometimes
making a good trip, at other times getting nothing.
-Dr. Browns= has glien offence to a portion of
his Church. ;The following recont note to Mr. J. I.
Spellirsy, editor of the Universe, from Dr. Moriarty ,
will show upon what grounds this hostility is
based :
CHESTNUT HILL, FliirdamwerDA,
lath Ju1y, 864.
DEAR Sin : I thank you most sincerely for the
generous and very able manner in which you dis
posed of the malignant aspersions attempted to be
east on the great Order of Jesuits by that treacher
ous and bad.hearted man • Brownson.• From early
childhood shave been Intimately acquainted with,
tbegeoiety of Jesus, and know well how to love
and admire them; hence you oan a gnderstand how
fully I value the article on Browuson in the last
number of the Univerie; which - does credit to your
talents and manly integrity. This wretched Brown
son has been ft.r a considerable time endeavoring in
private, by his Slanderous talk, to do more harm
than he bas yet attempted in public. It is true that,
like the scorpion, be is stinging himself, but as there
le something of the cobra snake in him, it is well to
wrench out h is fang. I will, when more at leisure.
give a twist to the animal . ; in the meantime, I send
you ablow from the Dubin& Review, which I beg you
will apply with.the potency of the Uniserse, and it
will serve to lay out Sir Towser for further opera
tions. Print the entire article, if you can.
' Again I thank you for your tniost admirable ar
ticle. Now it is aoknowledged - that in the .UniverBe .
we have the paper so long desired In Philadelphia.
I hope my Catholic follow-oltiwons will express their
ilailaraction by giving the necessary encouragement
to a paper which -they arena ashamed tonsil their
Own. .Yours, faithfully,
• • - P. E. ItosiAnir, D. D.
Q ,7, 1 1)1. Sraw..may, Esq -
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Dining at Resteuranti:"
To ,Vte Editor of The Press:
Sts : Although a subscriber for several years, end
oong - tent reader of your patriotic journal, I as
surprised to read an article that appears this toora
lnlr
under the head of "Dieing at Restaruanle."
The pruprteteta Of restaurants , ' are chard
with e takftg ad stageof the advanced prices of
food to impede on th.tie customers.' , I will briefly
notice the istalentente in the order in which they ap.
The average advance in all articles of food,
aetivery holisekeeper kriewir,le not 40 per cent, hut.
100. It is alleged: that 150'percent. advance Is asked.
I only rpeak of It6at I knosi,azid therefore quote my
charges, wittehars from 20 so 25 ciente, or 75 per cent.
advance. It is stated a curet coffee cannot be' haf
for less than 10 or 19 cents. ',hat pries' is charged
for two clips, the meat and Mom with. which' cosh
7 cents. It le furthe:gala , "geed coffecrcosts 50, (I
PeY 60) and that villhinons corepoands are used in
stead of the pure article:" • I teethe best Java co(
fee, unadulterated. Further, it said, and:
veietables are always !varier UrAlt' Wed. In pri-'
Tate families. • Again : Ice'crearecatinot now be'
bad for less than 15 cents .per plAter.l , The pricer,
gebcrally, is 10 cents ; a few do, pertur.
•, They might to. Ido act, and inns °there. The'
• bast errorlshall notice icihat Lou an salt have very
slightly advanced. -If leo; from 2i to 60 cents, sotto
suit, from 20 to 88 cents, lea alight advance, then the'
statement Is true. PerhapS • the author or these
statements Is a single gentleman, and therefOre Ig-•
nermt of what every housakeepor knows; that Is,
that , th e original market cell' tit - food is bet a small.
part) of the actual cost, added to which are route.
Ser-dernts , hire, wear and tear of furniture 'and ius.-
pleasant's, and unavoidable pieta. A.: H.
Mann( SECOND STREET, Attly 19,1964,
Restaurant Olfarges.
Tear Editor of The Press:
Sin: Eight glad was I yesterday, upon- reading
your wel-gored remarks on tatreaorbltant pries*
charged' ht the various restaurants for a. breakfast,
dinner, or supper. YouNvilf hitt-sprobabli &Wakens
ed much opposition, but the good you May do. edit
more than repay you, as you will buy° the thanks of
the great number who take their meals at rests.-
/ rants. 'have been in the habit ot , taktng an apple
-dunrplingestd glass of milk es a dessert. For this I
• paid onlyminecenti ; now, the same person wanes
tee cents- for his apple dumpling and the same
amount Orr-lees than a pint of milk! Is this just,
. charge at the rate of twenty cents per duars ter
•isc and such a high priCofor an apple dumpling! I.
saw:novea_piolea on Uheetnut street o ff ered at a pent
apiece. The restaurants, you may- rest assured,
Mr: Editor, are at least twenty-live per cent. toe
higratiargeneral thing: Yours, W. H.
OSlbakapeare on Grant: •
To the Editor rof The Press : •
SIR : As it is quite common, at the present period,
to quote Shakspeare in reference 'to various morn•
menta-ol thewar;and as we have a great number of
"discounted papers " upon General Grant's opera
them before Petersburg,-allow me to call attention
to the passage appended.
In "Troilus and Cressida," when certain Greeks
grbw impatient and clamoroui at the delay of the
army before the walls of Troy, General Ulysses, of
Ithaca, thus speaks. for General Ulysses Grant;
They — tam llL
cur policy, and call it cowardice: -
Count wisdom 'se no member or tbe war;
Forestall prescience, and esteem no act
But that of hand; the still end mental parte—
That. do oontrive how many hands shall strike
W hen.fitnoee calls them on, and knows, by mamma
Of their observant toll. the enemies' weight—
Why, this bath note finger'sdignity;
They mill thin bed Work, mapper,: closet war.
Act 1, Scene In.
S. S: S.
I am, air, yours truly,
ThILLADELPHIAi July 19 , 1864.
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TM, MYSTERY OF Finascisanra.—There fg -air.
impression, almost amounting to a superstition, that
financiering is &difficult and mysterious art. It is,
in truth, the simplest of all the departments of com
merce. Laying, aside all technical terms, titian
ciering is nothing more than the art of harrowing
money. There are but two steps in the transaction ;
the first is to bad some person with money to lend,
who is satisfied with your securities; and the second
is to agree upon the 'rate of interest. The poor
washerwoman who "spouts" one °filer kettles at
the pawnbroker's goes through both steps - of fins*.
ciering, and the process is no simpler than that of
the merohentwho has a note discounted at the bank..
If the washerwoman pawns the clothes of one at
her customers, trusting to redeeming them by pawn
ing Me clothes of the •next customer, she makes an
option which Is very •closely. parallel - to that
m mysterious of all financial operations---" kite
lip
g.'
*cgs Coviri.l Onors.—Thefanners in theclower
pet of the county -have commenced' cutting- oats..
The.crop, both in quantity and quality of the grain,
Is much superior to that of the past two years, owing
to the almost entire -absence of the Insect that has
hitherto injured it. Hay is of very fine quality, but
islent one-third less in quantitythan usual. 'Wheat
inuch Injured. by. the midge, . and the • heads , ara
Much shorter than usual. Some farmers do not claim
More than fi ve bushels per acre. The dry weather
IS beginning to tell most seriously upon the growling
cops in Bucks county. Corn Is about the only plant
patis not absolutely suffering, and as that shoots
to teasel about this time, rain is essential to its
roper growth. The pastures are growing bare, pc
styes are standing still and. the tops dying for the
tenant of moisture, and garden vegetables, such as
us, cucumbers, and cabbages,-arc rapidly burn
. g up.
EstiLIPH Pitkra ow Itierze.—A correspondent of
6 Builder "We have now in London and
different parte,..of the United Kingdom about at
peals of twelve bells ; .59 peals' of ten bells; 600
I peals of eight bells ; 7K peals of six bells, and about
-aoo peals five bells ; and a great number from one
bell to a chime of four bells; and all these peals of
five to peals of twelve bells cost each from £3OO to
upwards of £2,500. So you see what a merry r
island England is ; and a melodious peal of bells f not less captivating than the finest toned
instrument ever yet invented." •
Tenn/Lao IN VERKONT.—The tornado -which
visited some southern portion of Vermont last Mon
day, swept within about a quarter of a mile of Ar
lington to Ninth Shaftsbury. -it continued forsome
t*eney minutes, thereabouts' Wall the utmost fury,
the wind blowing a perfect hurricane, sweeping
trees and fences before- it like straw. Large-sisal
trees were torn up by the roots. Accompanying the
tornado was a hail storm which made havoo wick
Window glass, and in ninny localities ruined the
corn, tearing it In shreds.
BORRIBLE Dnarn.—Elilfita Tart, an old maw
seventy-nine years of age, very feeble and deorepid,
was found dead in a pasture in Burrillville, R.
on the 10th inst. • He. had left the almshouse on the
2d inst. to go to his son's, and probably becoming
fatigued, sat down to rest, and had not . streng t h
enough,to rise. From the - appearance of the ground,
he must have lived several days, as the grass and
turf were torn by his struggles for three or four
rods. His clothing was nearly all torn off. He was
not missed because the keeper of the almshouse sup
posed him to be with his son.
DIED IN mnayonnycmarriedlady, , tra.
Yelling a few days since from New York to bra.
ewe, and suffering from comnimption, had been labk
carefully on a pillow in the cars by her husband,
while her little girl remained by her side. At Little
Falls she fell asleep,and the child commenced. fan
ning her, saying ,: "Mamma is sleeping.. A. passen
ger, however, noticed the.peouliar whiteness of her
lips, and, on looking closely at her, discovered that
she was dead.
CALIFORNIA MINIWG SPIZOULATORS.—There has
been a great fall during tho last season in the pries
of mining shares in California. The king of all the
mines, Gould ik Curry, which at one time ran up to
$5,200.af00t, and mado.dlvidends $lOO a mouth, at
the last accounts was down to $l.OOO a foot, and its
dividendsi have been reduced to $5O a month. Lat.
terly there have been more firmness and some reac
tion in. the. mining, stooks, owing to specie fund*
from the North which have come forward In larger
Sams for investment in the mines at reduced prices.
To KEEP liorrer-11. Sands, Orange - County, N.
Y., directs to heat strained honey to the boiling
point, and store it in covered jars, where it will keep
without candying. To prevent danger of burning;
set the vessel In which:lt is to be heated Into another
containing water.
Deroirramiorr ow ECOS.—England „imported s
hundred, million eggs in the last four, months,
against eighty million.in the same time last year.
In the single month of April she imported vra 4l 2, 5 % ,: x e l t
e o ff s s, while the number in April, 1882, 28 ,
To AVOID Surz-sruosar.—Aliandkerchief in the
hat, or a wet Cloth, will avoid sun-stroke to those
walking in.tbesunshine. 'Phis guard is used in tro
pical climates extensively, and oven horses ard
mules wear a wet sponge on the top of the head.
Lenox YIELD OF MAPLE Suoan.---Twenty-three
citizens of the tot& of Washington, N. It., made
the past season 63;136 lbs. of - mapleengar, worth
about 810,000. The largest amount made by one
individual was 4,538 lbs.
A new blast engine has awakened the ironmon
gers of England. It has an air cylinder.. fifty-sir
inches in diameter and a steam cylinder of twenty
one inches diameter, both with a clear stroke of
three feet and a pressure-of - forty pounds peesquare
inch in the boilers, while the engine is making thirty
revolutions or two hundred feet per minute, and the
pressure blast is maintained.at three and a half
pounds per square inch, sufficient for a "furnace of
fifteen feet diameter.at the boshes. The engine's
speed is about dity revolutions per minute. In
creased speed would give Increased air. The India
robber valves work freely and regularly, and visibly..
As they rise they turn partly around, which action
increases their durability, as the valves never best
twice in the same place. • • •
—At the exposition of pictures at the Industrial
Palace in PaTia, there is one large room where the
rejected pictures are exhibited: This was an idea of
the Emperor's, and a good one. It is said that the
eccentricity, self-oonceit, and ignorance of a large
class of persons who think themselves artists, are
here most strikingly , exposed. It witaid be a . good
idea for oar own Academy to follow this plan_ It
would be " fair play," as It 111 called, and be in
structive.
There is now on exhibition in London a picture
which it is claimed is by Sebastian del Plombo. The
owner advertises it as." the best picture In Europe, , F
and tells a romantic story of its discovery in Spain,
where, in troubled times, it was immured in a vault
With other interesting objects. The claiths of the
'Painting to authenticity and its true rank, i d point
of merit, are thus stated by the London Stare ' We
We
have no hesitation In . placing it at least many de
grees below oar own picture, by the aame.author, of
the 'Raising of Lazarus' in the National tiallory.
Trafalgar Square. Sebastian del Flombo, a Vene
• tian by birth, went to Rome while Raphael and
Michael Angelo were in their - prime. Re painted.
in competition with Raphael, and won distinction,
for be was a man of real genius. Nevertheless, he
wanted the invention of. his great contemporaries,
and, it would seem, was necessitated to imitate hie
rivals. In this very comp osition' of the. 'Holy
Family' ho has borrowed the figure of Joseph
almost literally from Raphael. Should any doubt
arise as to the authorship Of the present picture,
it will possibly originate in this tact. It was, to
say the least, singular that Sebastian should h ave.
. thus stooped to borrow from ono whom he set him,
self tto E RaphaePa devoted pupil, Julio .
Romano, might and did reproduce 'his masters de-.
signs, but we repeat that it was strnge that a
rival should lay himself under like obligations.
The characteristics of the - picture • under,' indica.
are its hold relief, r ace attitudeS, and um!
: hesitating freedom of` outline, more especially in_
the hands. The coloring, moreover, is - still , brigtev.
and forcible when compared with the coloripg or,
of paintinerwe. have.
most pictures of the period thehich. the. work be
longs. Of the antiquity
no doubt—it bears all the marks of age.' It is not
alone by the figure of Joseph that we are.remirided
of Raphaeli the general feeling of the &coup seems
animated with the spirit of that master. The grace.
ful tearing of the Nlrgin, wheaum raised a light
liede fr the sleeping infs.nt Jesus, might have heron
esgn 'by but the fdoe of the:Virgin
is of the type favor ed .by Sebeetlan, and,, might.
alone serve to fix upon him. tha autho rship of the
picture."
—Speaking- of the AMUR:lima coca seed, the
Michigan Farrier says : " Mr. R. - Holmes t or
Unadilla,T 4 ivingston <meaty, In this tate, has for-
Warded us fifty -seeds of thin comparatively little
known and 'useful ssed,-in appearance they are
much like a marrowfat pea, haring, however, a
slightnpraised tMaed point on one side. They axe
said to make good •Coffee, and are. cultivated like
white beana—putting one eyed- tn. a hill
tr two foot
apart.. This rare seed was Pent from Ausalia te
DU. G. R. kinfiman, of l4litt.:arn, by his SW
V kio is in that country.: Holmes has raised
them for two years , and has found them a great iinco
cess for farmers who wish to raise their own coffee
thoy 1/oelik welt B.4lPfteg.to o.oa 50.1 and olimata.m
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