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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1865
TUE NEWS.
ES•SellatOr Gwynn is still prosecuting his " emi
gration scheme. Ks goes out as Director General
for BOnOta and other States, and he is to have
8,000 Frani troops te hack him. Mali Milian hag
prom i se d to pay 10.000 Confederate WOO for pro.
tenting the emigrants.” Capt. Page, of the rebel
rani Stonewall. has been urging Maximilian to buy
that rain, and he has been endorsed by the French
admiral, who thinks that, with this ship, he could
a lp the whole American navy.
A fist of all the prisoners belonging to Pennsyl
vania regiments, who were confined and who died
S;• the Andersonvilie Prison, has been obtained by
avernor Curtin and will soon be published. The
fist embrace only these prisoners confined between
iieroary 20,1864, and March 24,1805. Titers were
lure 74%04 man, of whom Only 406 took the oath
of allegiance to the rebel government, so as to
owe further misery; 12,864 men died in the same
time and six were minded within the stockade in
one day.
The report of the committee which was appointed
by the rebel Congress to investigate the condition
of the Union prisoners in their hands, has been pub.
tished, and its Main portion! will be found In Our
columns this morning. Whilst it is intended to
whitewash the acts of the rebel authorities in their
t r eatment of our men, It Shows on Its face the
Ters veri ficatio nall - thy affirm, acs ie
osator the charges that have been laid
against the Southern fiends.
General Grienfon's cavalry cofter serving a
lines menthe campaign in Flo ridada, Alabama, and
rassissippl, have arrived at Vicksburg. They re
pot bas i ng Wm hundreds of thousands bales of
COttOn in tteir 10Urney, besides a good supply of
other e we. They passed through portions never
b e fore .isited by our array.
111.xlco advices to the 10th- inst. have been re
o ared at New York. Camargo had been recap
tured by Lopez alter a brief resistance. Confede
rates ire arriving In Mexico In large numbers, and
theyannounce
atthetrintenion of living there.
Two s um ac s say that loyal meeting was lately
he ll at Houston, in which many prominent men
participated. Strong Union resolutions were adopts
8n attempt had been made to rob the State
rlgutry at Austin. The th ieves obtained thirteen
canna dollars in gold.
al esrae advicea of the 15th bat. confirm the
refwed defeat of •Negrettl, in hie attempt to cap•
tar?bat place. lie lost seven hundred killed, and
te , thousand taken prisoners. Juarez Is said to be
heeting additional arms for his army.
!The presentation of the returning flags of the dif
ferent regiments, which was to have taken place
te.morrew, has been postponed until all the roe
pacts have been mustered Out.
Tn. HMSO Of Representatives of New Hampshire
-eserday passed the constitutional amendment
botshing slavery, by a vote of 215 yeas to as nays.
Tbe rivete papers and Official documents of Jeff
lapis and Beauregard arrived at Fortress Monroe
n Wednesday. They are to be taken to Waeh-
if tat.
Sellool teacher of Bowmansville, Canada West,
.:wed Miss Munson, OIL Wednesday shot a man
to was out riding with her. Be was mortally
OUDded. The °Anse Of.thoOting is not !Enema.
We print, in another column, the farewell ad
tress cif General Meade to the Army of the Potomac.
Two years before this farewell order was issued,
(Rim :B.) General Meade took command of this
.7my,
and under his oars It generally marched to
carp.
An Important circular, addressed by Secretary
cOullook to the various revenue and treasury
..ants throughout the Country, will be found In
other column.
. .
The President still continues sick, and yesterday
o refused to receive visitors.
Thereon from Washington to the West now passes
.ter the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, by order of
ostmaster General Dennison.
Thus far only about one hundred and twenty-five
Mai pardons have been granted.
Toe stock market was again dull yesterday, prices
airs weak for almost everything on the list. Gs.
ammeut fell Oil a shade, with light sales. City es
re hrm. State securities are very dull. Railroad
tocks are in demand, and prices firm ; Pennsylore
a railroad advanced to 56, and Reading to 48.
The flour market, as we have noticed for several
yer past, continues very dull and prices are weak.
teal is without change. Corn and oats are less
ztlee. In cotton there Is less doing and prices are
ter lower. Sugar Is in fair demand at former rates
rovlsions are without any material change.
suley is selling in small lots at $2 071g2.10 par
• allon for Pennsylvania and Western barrels.
The onbeoriptlone tO the 7.80 loan yesterday
mounted to .2,331,000.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, June 2L
REAMS OP THE PRESIDENT.
The President c ontinues 810 k, and today declined
receive all visitors.
SPECIAL PARDONS GRANTED,' ETC.
So far, only about one hundred and twentydve
racial pardons have been granted. A number of
, arere, however, for this purpose await the signs.
are of the President. The only prisoners Of war
'Ow in the Old Capitol Jail above the rank of cap
oh are the rebel General EDWARD JOHNSON and
.no 11w:del:ant colonel of a Virginia regimPot.
lonel INDD.AHAN. has tinned over to thostote
partment upwards of ten thousand oath? of one -
Ance subscribed to in Washington trT disloyal
attics during the administration of tb.se different
roost marshals. has boon °v ./dinars , to keep
hem oaths on fa , re the prro-do marshal's Made.
qut, as some o. , he parth.- who are now making ap
,u„tim p pardon have violated their oaths, it is
,eemed ~swears, to place them in the hands of the
ecre ,.,:y of State.
THB WESTERN MAILS.
•oetmaster General Ditztaisow today ordered
t, in view of the renewed regularity and entire
etl of the Baltimore route to the West, the great
omit mails between Baltimore and Washington
the West, taken from the line daring the war,
11 be at once fully restored. The Western travel,
'Wally by tourists, is now very large over this
le.
SALE OF ARMY WAGONS AND MULES
.e Stilt) of several thousand army wagons, at
Union, began yesterday and will be continued
.herrate days. Those already sold averaged
417.90. The sales of mules continue daily ; the
go price realized is ess.
GENERAL MATTERS.
no President is well enough. to-day to receive 14
Tinton, including Senatere Calvert, Mamas,
e. others.
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A COraSphaeY Court held a leoret 80681011
(ma o'clock to determine their verdict and the
ter:ft of the conepiratore.
ettial SEXTON arrived from South CATOMIS to.
melting of Riad:and Merchants was hold there
nlglit to arrange for rebuilding the burned dis
t Illehmordd vapors are DOW read on the day
tblttation.
:cerement comae to pay bounties for enlistment
, 01T014 night.
PtIVINT TREASURY CIRCULAR.
STRUCTION:S TO OFFICERS CONCERN
INS THEIR DUTIES.
Iti . gulations Concerning Commercial Inter
course, and Other Matters in the
-Lately Rebellious States.
TitICASITRY DBPAUTEIHRT, June 27, 1865.
Tie veriona rules and regulations, heretofore pre.
led by the Secretary of the Treasury in regard
above named subjectS, having been rendered
it.tory, in whole or is part, by the changed con.
- on of affairs in the Southern States, and Eze6ll
- orders and proclamations; and the Woe De.
tfsnt having resumed charge of freedmen,
ukted lands, t~rc , under the provisions of the
t of uongrese approved March rl, 1865, the fol.
instructions as to the duties of officers of the
elEsry Department in the premises are pre.
ntSd, and will be regarded as in full force and
yet immediately on the receipt thereof by any
car whose action ie in anywise affected thereby :
"Int. An restrictions on commercial Intercourse
and with States and parts of States heretofore
Oared in insurrection, and On the purchase, Wane
'Moon, and sale of the producte thereof, are rtl
qed, except as to the traturportatlon.thereto or
Inc, of arms, ammunition, articles from which
innoltion is made, gray uniforms and gray cloth;
e except, also, those relating to property hereto-
Purchased by the agents or captured by or sur
dared to the military forces of the United States;
r win any Saes or taxes be charged or collected,
cept those imposed by the customs and internal
Bone laws; and the supervielon necessary to prep
.t the shipment of the prohibited articles will be
relred only by the regular and ordinary officers
the customs, acting under the revenue laws of the
'hed States.
, ccord. Subordinate officers discharging duties in
us to commercial intercourse, under the regula
,B mimed to, will consider their (Medal connect.
with this department as terminating with the
hgt, without further notice.
hvd. Agents for the pnrchase of products of
insurrectionary States on Government secount
Close their official bnsiriess east of the BIWA&
ti with the transactions 01 the 18th Instant, and
t it with the transactions of the 24th instant,
ming to the sellers all property or money re
-4d or collected since those dates reapseuvely ;
oeing such despatch in the premises that their
ainion with the department may, if possible,
mate with the 80th Inst.
v urot. Officers of this department, charged with
detp of receiving and collecting, or having in
bonQiion or under their control captured,
rlomm, or aonflooated Permal property, will
~. 5 0 Of the same In accordance with the regale
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the sioilect heretofore prescribed, at the
regale
'lle thre consistent with the public intermits,
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not be Construed, however, as interfering with the
operations of the agents now engaged In resolving
Or Collecting the property recently captured by,
or surrendered to, the forces of the United States,
whether or not covered by, or included in, the re
corde, etc., delivered to the United states military
or treasury authorities by the rebel military OdiSere
orootton agents. Those so acting will continue tO die
charge the duties thus Imposed, until such property
is all received or satiefactorily accounted for, and
until the amount so secured le shipped, or otherwise
disposed of under the regulations on the inibject here.
tofore prescribed ; and they will use all the means at
their command, with the utmoet vigor, to the end
that all the property so collected, captured, Or
turned over shall be secured to the 'United States
with toe least possible cost and delay. After the
n th instant, the duty of reoeiviag captured and
abandoned property, not embraced in the above ex
ception, will be discharged by the usual and regular
arlealt of the customs, at the several places where
SAT may be located, in accordance with the regnia-
Sons relating to the subject; and otricercheretofore
performing that duty will give them all the aid and
information in their power to enable them to sorry
out the earns.
Fifth. Officers of the department, charged with
the care or supers/Men of, or having in their posses
sion or under their control any abandoned or con
fiscated lands, houses, or tenements, will torn them
over to a duly authorized officer of the Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, so far
as they may be required or demanded by the same,
together with all moneys, books, recorde, and papers
&riling from or relating to the property so turned
over, taking proper receipts or vouchers therefor.
This will also govern the action of all agents of this
department connected in any way with• the care of
VVCri, 50
person, asking for any information in regard to
the property so turned over, or for the release of the
same, or for the release of any proceeds or moneys
arising thererrom, will be referred to the COMM.
stoner of Refugese, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands, at Washington, to whom cowileurdeations on
the subject should be addressed.
Sixth. Officers of this department having is their
possession or under their control any moneys wbl,4-
ever, arising from fees collected under the cola
mercial intercourse regulations, except those col
lected for the benefit of freedmen, widish will be dis
posed of under section 5, or from the sales of cap
tured, abandoned, or confiscated persona! property,
will forthwith deposit the same with the nearest as
sistant treasurer, designated depository, or deposit
bank, keeping the amounts from the different
sources separate to the credit of H. A. Risley, Esq.,
supervising special agent; and taking therefor re
fielpte in quadruplicate, which reteipti mast show
whence the sums were received, one of which Will
be retained by the officer so depositing, one forth
with sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, one to
the Commissioner of Customs, and one to Dlr. Ris
ley at Washington.
Seventh. All °Moen above referred to, except
proper officers of the customs, acting exclusively
under the revenue laws, will, after they have closed
their official business, as above directed, and sold at
auction, to the highest bidder, the furniture and
property remaining on hand, and 8000illited for the
proceeds of the same, forthwith systematically ar
range the books, records, papers, etc., of their late
offices, that they may be easily referred to and ex
amined, pack them in secure and water proof boxes
and forward the same, so marked as to indicate their
contents, together with their respective restyle-
Bone, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury at
Washington city. HUGH bloCut.nood,
Secretary or the Treasury.
THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY.
Interview between Mr. Johnson and Gen.
Logan—A Discussion of Policy, in which
Negro Suffrage is 'reached Upon.
[Springlield Correspondence Chicago Republican.]
On the 31st of May, while at Washington, Gen
Logan called to pay WS respects to President John
son, and wee most Cordially received. lam able to
give the following synopsis of the conversation
which took place at the interview, through the po
liteness of a gentleman who was present :
General Logan commenced by congratulating
the President upon the conservative policy which
he had initiated, and which was already productive
of snob excellent results. Be said that the era of
war was necessarily closed, and that of reason and
conciliation opened ; and that it was essential to
peace that the passions of both sections should now
be anal ed by kindly and considerate, yet firm, action
on the part of the Executive, and he looked. upon
President's as inch.
_ . .
President Johnson replied that ha desired to have
the seceded States return hack to their former con
dition as quickly as possible. Slavery had been the
cause of the war. That cause was now, moot hap
pily, removed, and consequently he desired to vet,
the Union restored as it was previously to the war,
or, a 8 the President laughingly remarked, as our
Democratic friends used to say, "the Uonstitution
as it Is, the 'Union as it was," always caving and
except slavery, that had been abolished. The war
had decided that and forever.
. . . .
A sontrontan preterit spoke of negro suffrage, and
suggested that, in reitorditrilOtitor the udion. it
would be necessary to disfranehise some leading
rebels. and enfranchise oilterS (Meaning loyal co
lored people.) or that the ease of the Virginia Legis
lature reassembling would be repeated over again.
The gentleman is a strong advocate of negro suf
frage.
The President replied that the case of the Vir
ginia Legislature was easily disposed of; that it
had no power as a legislative body, and that it
could do nothing anyhow. With regard to the ex
tension of suffrage, the sentiment of the country at
present appeared to tend towards a restriction
rather than an extension of the right of suffrage
generally.
General Logan seconded the views of the Prat .
dent on the above, and then said that it might...ad
be politic to give the rebels the right or olifle,
immediately. He thought that it might W.? . 1 /‘ ,
arvisable at first to hold them in a serf p u p" a g e,
by military force. As soon as they ~..4nd be trusted,
then give them the seine power 4liey possessed be.
fore. The genera l a l so rem pcild that the wheel of
reconstruction was a larg and ponderous one, and
that many w h o woo ., take their stand upon it
would be ground di powder. He had boon fighting
for form years to save the Union. He now proposed
that thee* who desired to reconstruct it might go in
and see what they could do. For his part he felt
Inclined to be rather a looker.on than an active
participant in the contest which would naturally
grow out of it.
The President said : "General, there's no such
thing as reconstruction. These States have not
gore out of the Union, therefore, reconstruction is
unnecessary. Ido not mean to treat them as incho
ate States, but merely as existing under a tempo
rary suspension of their Government, provided al
ways they elect loyal men. The dentine of coercion
to preserve a State in the Union has teen vindicated
ey the people. It is the province of the Executive
to see that the will of the people is carried out in
the rehabilitation of these rebellious States, once
More ander the authority as well as the protection
of the Union."
General Logan responded, " That's go."
The President then passed on to the question of
the public debt. He said that the finances of the
country were in a hopeful condition ; that probably
It was possible to resume specie paymehts Immedi
ately, were it not for the commercial distress it
would create throughout the country generally. As
to the public debt of the country, he was in favor of
paying it to the last dollar, and would never noun.
tenance any man, party, sect, or measure that even
squinted at repudiation in any form. The debt was
incurred to lave the country. It was a legacy of
the war bequeathed to us far good or evil. It wag
net possible to shift It. On the other hand, the
great question would be to make it, if possible, an
Instrument of good, not evil, to the public gene
rally.
The above is the substance of the conversation be•
tween these two distinguished men, brought up in
the same party, and it seems to me that Its purport
is reassuring to the loyal masses of the country.
On the question of negro suffrage the President
appeared to be somewhat non-committal, probably,
like Dlr. Lincoln on emancipation, walling to feel
the public pulse upon it, and then acting as he
thought they would desire him to act.
THE CELEBRATION AT GETTYSBURG.
%he Order or Procession.
By request, we pub/181/ the order of procession to
be observed at the laying Of the corner-stone of the
National Monument, at Gettysburg, on the Fourth
of July
Chief Marshal; aids; Major General John W.
Geory ; one battalion of cavalry; one battery of ar
tillery; one regiment of infantry ; Major General
Meade and staff; officers and soldiers of the Army
of tile Potomac ; officers and soldiers of the other
nandee of the United states; officers of the Navy
and marine MTV of the United States; marines ;
Soldiers of the War of len ; THE PRESIDENT
Lieutenant General Grant and Staff; Vie. Admiral
Farregut and Staff; the Cabinet Ministers ; the Di
plomatio Corps ; Ea-Presidents ;_ Lieutenant Gene
ral Scott and JEtear Admiral Stewart; the Chief
Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States ; the Orator, Chaplains.
and Poet; tho Committee of Arrangements; tne Go
vernors of States and Territories with their Staffs ;
Senate of United States, preceded by Its officers ;
the House of Representatives of the United-States,
preceded by its officers; the heads of the depart.
ments of the several States and Territories ; the Le
glidatlitell Of the Werra States and Territories; the
Beard of Managers of the Soldiers , National Ceme
tery; the Federal judiciary and the judiciary of
the several Slates and Territories; the assistant
secretariat: of the departments of the National Go
verment ; officers of the Smithsonian Institution;
Sanitary and Christian Commissions ; Masonic Da.
ten:my ; Knights Templar ; Independent Order of
Odd Fellows other benevolent assoolations ; corpo
rate authorities of cities; Society of the Cincinnati;
the National Union Musical Association of Balti
more ; the clergy ; the press; religious, literary,
seientlflo, and induatrialaspoolationa ; loyal leagues,
fire companies ; citizens.
FORTRESS MONROE.
Arrival or Soldiers—She Private no.
— contents of Davis and Beatiregard—
Deaths in Hampton Hospitals.
FORT/MRS Mormon, June 28.—The U. S. steam
ship Fulton, from Hilton Head, bound to New
York, put into Fortress Monroe with mule and
1.100 U. S. soldiere, detachments from several regi
ments.
Major General Saxton came by this steamer.
They also bring several trunks belonging to Toff.
Davis and G. T. Beauregard, said to contain their
private, lettere and offielal documents, which are to
be forwarded to Washington, D. C. The Fulton
Sailed for New York at two o'clock this afternoon.
List of deaths in Hampton. Hospitals for the week
ending June 28th:
Henry Hamilton, Bth United States Colored.
Edward Lawson, 117th United States Colored.
Henry 713zatIton, 122 d United States Colored.
Jeremiah Overslead, 28th 'Virginia, rebel.
J. M. Edwards, Barnes' battalion, rebel.
John W. Hat:line, 12th West Virginia Vols.
Henry Meredith, 18th United States Cavalry.
Prootor Millen, 9th New York Heavy Artillery.
William IL Gould. 18th Virginia,. rebel.
D. NI ohole, 118th United States Colored.
E. shields, 118th United States Colored.
John Carroll, 117th United States Colored.
E. G. Marsh, 15th North Carolina, rebel.
A. J. Rico, 49th North. Carolina, rebel.
William Paris, 122 d United States Colored.
William Sul:mill°, 29th United States Colored.
lames Millard, 9th United Rotas Colored.
Robert Bell, citizen.
Filiman Meshy, I.lBth United Statell Colored.
B. B. Hardison, I. Revile Legion.
Greene White, di-Thanked soldier.
John Jones,loth West Virginia VOlUnteerS.
James Bronson, let united States Colored.
Anthony Goooh, 110th United States Colored.
William Day, 117th United States Colored.
J. H. Brigham, 17th South Carolina rebel.
TILE ARAMY OF THE POTOMAC
rgNlTl3=l'r'i7mq
MEADE
The Victories and Sacrifices of the Grand Army
gone into Nistory.
RRADQUARTRES ARMY 017 TER P6TOVect,
June SS, 865.
SOLDMIS: This; :lay two years' I assumed . 00121-
mend of you, under the orders Of the President of
the United States. To-day, by vies* of the same
authority, this army' ceasing to exist, I. have• to
announce my transfer nO other duties, end my 06,0
ration from you.
It is unnecessary to enumerate here all that her
Marred hi these two eventful years, froathegrand'
and &Melva battle of Gettosburg, the turning point
of the war, to the surrender of the Army at North
ern 'Virginia, at Appomattox Courthouse. Stithie
it to say, that history will do you justice;a grateful
country will honor the livings Maarten and rapport
the disabled, and sincerely mourn the dead.
In parting from you, your sommanding goseral
will ever bear in memory your noble devotion to
your country, your patience and cheerfulness under
all the privations and sacrifices yea have been Called
on to endure.
Soichera, having accomplished the work set before
us, havhig vindicated the honer and •Integricy or
our Government and flag, let in LIAM% thanks to
Almiahtv (Soil for his bleedings in granting US vie' .
tory and pesos, and let us earnbstiy pray for
strength and light to discharge our dirties as (Meng
as we have endeavored to disobarge them as soldiers.
GEORGII G. rilliADß . ,
Major General U. S. A.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Condition of the• Conntry—Newbern and
the Northers Enterprise Manifested in
it-The Freedmen—Present Condition
of Fort Fisher and the City it De•
fended.
Agate,” the correspondent of the Olnoinnati
Gazette, was with Chief Justice Masa in the tour
down the coast and up the Mississippi, and Is now
writing Mlle pleasant reminiscences of thejourney.
All his letters published thus far embrace the pro
gress from Washington to Newborn only, but they
contain numerous tains of nitorest no thus speaks
of the
CONDITIOA - OR TUB COVNTBY.
We travelled through the exhausted turpentine
forests of Northeastern North Carolina s which the
turpentine growers have for many years been amen
doping tor the more productive forests of upper
South Carolina. Here and than were swamps
Which Yankee drainage would 80011 Convert Into
splendid corn laud ; and it Is possible that Yankee
skill might make the exhausted planes very pro
titabie ; but for the present this country is not like
ly to present such inducements as to attract a large
Northern emigration. The poorer people seem to
be quietly Wring in their old places. Where the pa.
rated rebel soldiers have returned they have sought
their former hontee, and evince a very decided dbl.
poiltion to stay there. Throughout this region
there is, as we learned, comparatively little destt
tution. The opean Is a near and never4alling re
source ; and from Newbern and Beaufort (both of
which have been in our possession during the great•
er part of the war) supplies have gone by a sort of
insensible and invisible perspiration, which It would
be unkind to the disinterested traders who follow in
the wake of an army to call smuggling.
PUODIGALS BairtraNlNG
He thug speaks of thew people, who find they
nave made nothing either by their Courage or tree
eon. Ills remarks apply well to many other places
In the South. Many of the returning warriors are
like ancient Ulysses, who returned to We old home
to find that none knew him :
Within a few days bask, however, men whose
faces have not been seen in Newborn for nearly
four years are beginning to appear again, with
many an anxious inquiry about property, which
they think ought to have been carefully prestress'
for them during their hostile absence. In some
cases they have kept an aged mother or an aunt
or a 'widowed sister on the property to retainer
claim upon it, and In these cases they seem to
find little difficulty in quietly resuming posses-
Om. But in more Instances they are forced to
See others in an ocoripancy they cannot eon
veniently dispute, and to learn of fortune! made
from the property they abandoned. The hotel
keeper, for example, has returned. He finds here a
- remises, who, seeing the house deserted when we
occupied the City, and being told by the officers that
they wanted a hotel, determined to keep it. The
Yankee has paid no rent; he has been at no ex.
pease. and he has made a SUM reckoned at over a
hundred thousand dollars by his hotel-keeping and
a little cotton planting whim he was able to corn.
bine with It. Naturally he is in no haste to give up
his rent.free establishment, and the rebel owner has
the eatiefaction of contemplating the Yankee in
possession, and calculating the profile which might
have gone into his own pockets but for the frantic
determination - loin. years ego, never to submit to
tyrannical rule of the Illinois gorilla. Returning
Merchants find sutlers behind their counters,
reckoning up gains such as the old businesseg i nf-,
Navvies% never dreamed Of; all branches
s ho 101.
axe In the hands of Northern epeulser li k e l in e d
lowed the army ; halt the Mk. I) , Government
with army officers, or o.3ol 2rachOole, of rented
civil officials, or used forz„ „
oat as " abandoned Dr^ ,4 "/•
-eat FISHER
comes In 0,0 share of Interesting notice thus :
- At, i ~nat weary day at Fort Fisher To see a
fort. naturally supposed to be not the moat fo rmi
-me of undertakings; but to see Fort Fisher
means a flee of mites over the bleakest of sand
bare ; means the climbing of great heaps Of sand,
under the hottest of suns; means a scrambling
over irregular &Berne and precipices of sand, where
the explosions have destroyed at once every sent.
blase° of fortification and every foot of solid ground
—meats all this, prolonged for hours.
We began by climbing Battery Buchanan, near
the landing and inside the main lisle of works.
Trenches, embrasures, casemate and barbell,
elms, bomb proofs, gallons, riflemen's pits, all in
Sand that 110 rifled projectiles could breach, and
bOrubaidinent could only render stronger, Steamed
to assume absolute impregnability to this work
alone, except against regular siege operations.
Yet it was but the protection for one flank of
the long line before which Weitzel turned back,
and which no soldiers but ours would ever have
stormed. To this battery (meshed, although a
perfect and very strong fort in itself) the
rebels made their last retreat after that long,
hand.to.hand tight through the seaport of the
fort, which stretched far into the night, and
seemed doubtful to the last. But Battery Bu
chanan, though Impregnable, as a flank to the sea
line, is itself commanded by the last work of
that sea line; and so when the Kound Battery
fell into our hands Its guns had only to be turned,
and Buchanan fell almost without a struggle.
The Mound Battery is a vast heap of sand, up
lifting its guns arid embrasures from lb flat and
desert beach against the sky, and commanding per
fectly the whole northern entrance to the river. It
contained one of the finest specimens of heavy ord
nance over seen in this country, the famous Arm
strong rifle, presentedby Britieheympatidzers to the
Confederacy. Imagine a long line of batteries con
nected by traverses in the sand, separated by huge
hillocks of sand, and fronted by deep trenches bathe
sand, stretchingaway almost interminably along the
coast toward the north, and terminating la another
strong work which was supposed to protect that
flank ae perfectly as Buohanan did the other ; put in
magazines and bomb-proofs at 00fiVenient points;
and a very heavy armament ; then Conceive =m
elee of the guns knocked off, guns dismounted, car
riagee shattered, the parapets ploughed with shells,
a great crater in the sand where a magazine had
exploded, all shape and symmetry battered out
of the works, and only their rude strength remain
ing, and you have Fort Fisher. The ground
was covered with showers of musket-balls. Be.
hind every traverse could be found little heaps
of English-made cartridges, which the rebel
sharpshooters had laid out for the convenience of
rapid firing, ea they defended line atter line of the
suceessive batteries along which they were driven.
Fragments of shells lay everywhere over the works.
Behind them were great heaps of shells, bayonets,
broken muskets, and other fragments of iron, which
were beingdug out and collected to be sold for old Iron.
Hundreds an hundreds of sores were under negro
cultivation, producing this valuable orop. No man,
I think, will ride along the coast line which, by an
inconceivable amount ol labor, has been converted
into one immense fort, without sympathizing with
the officerewhe refused to assault it, and marvelling
at the seeming recklessness (which success con•
verted into the splendid audacity) of the final at-
Meg.
WILMINGTON
This great eutrepot of trade during the life of the
GOlifederacy la represented as exhibiting a most de-
solate appearance, though gradually reviving Un
der Union rule. The people at first were paralyzed.
The fall of Fort Fisher, the sudden stoppage of all
their commerce, left them heiples& On this blow
followed another, the advance( of the dreaded "(Jain
armies. But now they have settled down to the na
tural state of things and are the better for it.
THE BURIAL OF TILE WILDERNESS DEAD.
HOW THE BAD WORN WAS DONE.
NAMES OF OFFICERS INTERRED-NUM
BER OF THE MEN
Capt. J. M. Moore, of the Burial Bureau, with
his corps of assistants, has suceessfullyamomplishod
the work of Interring the bodies of deceased officers
and men found OIL the battlefields of the Wader
nese and Spottsylvanta Courthouse, and who fell in
these ever-memorable battles. The week was done
by order of the Secretary of War. Capt. Moore
succeeded in Interring the remains of over seven
hundred officers and men of the Union armies over
whose graves headboards were placed cont aining
the names of the deceased parties, and such other
information as could be obtained. As many.of the
missing officers, who participated in the battlea
named above have never been heard of, we give the
Darnell Of those found and buried by ()apt, Nor%
and whose graves have been marked in inch a Mall.
ner as to be easily discovered by any of the friends
of the deceased parties. We Italicise the names of
Pennsylvania officers :
Capt„ 0. E. Angell, 10th N. Y.; Capt. C. Billings;
Lieut. J. C. Baldwin' 10th N. J.; Lieut. R. G.
Buell, ad Md.; Maj. J. T. Brooke, 22d N. C.; Lieut.
Brockway, 14th Pa.; Capt. P. H. B. Carpenter,
4th Yt.,• Lieut. Henry Charalain, let Regiment En
celstor Brigade; Lieut. A. E. Canfield, 17th Rich.;
Co). John (1001)11, 14th Ind.; Lieut. Tabu Olay,l4th
U. S. Infantry ; Capt. W. W. Doore 1218 1 Pa.; Capt.
Percrata, 115th Pa.; Capt. Benj. Davis, 22d Mess ;
Capt. France, 128th Ohio ; Capt. Foster, 148th Pa.;
Lieut. J.J. Ferris, 19thlllass ; Capt. John Guyer; Bth
Pa ; Lieut. O. Gratz, Bth Wis.; Lieut. H. Hemmer ,
17th .21.10 h.; Lieut. Col. Thos. Hessen 724 Pa.; Capt. R.
H aghas t 241 Wis.; Lieut. G. 0. Justice, 15th N. J.:
Lieut. H." C. Jackson-, 48th Pa.; Lieut. E. Kidder,
18th Mass.; T. J. Lynch, net Pa ; ()apt. P. L.
Lament, Bth Me.; Capt. P. H. Lemon, 42d N. Y.;
Lieut. J. Moore, Met Pa.; Lieut. J. McGuire, 148th
Pa; Capt. A. 310 k, 7th N. Y.; Capt. M. 117.ollel
lough, itti N. Y. Art.; Lieut. Orr. Oth ; Capt.
W. 0 wogs, 42d N. Y.; I
Col John W. Patterson 1028
Pa ; Col. H. 0. Ryer s on , 10th N. J.; Capt. le Or
Randall, Ist ?Mob.; eclat. S. P. Stone, Seth N. y.;
()apt. 0
Smith , Oh N. 1.; Lieut . L. W. Smith, Bt h
Me.; Capt. J. S. 518dd:bed, 12th Mass.; Capt. C. 0.
Sklaer, 15th N. J. Lieut. Simonds, 113th Mass.;
Lieu!. 0. Steel, lit Del.; Lieut. C. Schwartz, 10Nit
ra • MH. ajor Traebit l Uaticra.; Capt. li, Term
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30; 1865.
149th Pa.; Capt. IL T. Welded, 40th ITT Y.; Cad.
L. F. Ways. 99th Pa.; Lieut. S. L. Wco , l, 10th N.
-
Y.; Capt. J. Walker, 15th N. J.; Lietit. Col. 0.
Weibeeker. 2d N. 3.; Capt. P. Warner, Ifirth Pa;
Capt. M. Warren, let blase.; Capt. T. S. Wit Alter,
7th WM; Lieut. Zeisert, 99.% Pa.
Besides the seven hundred whose names awry as
certained, there were a large number of boZ rebel
and Union soldiers interred of whom no infordation
leading to their Identity could be discovered.. Kea&
boards were also placed at the graYdi Of .these non
bearing simply the worth, "Unknown U. S. Sol
dier," or "Unknown Confederate Soldier," ( as the
ease may be,) with the date of the battle in which
they tell. These bodies are all interred in tire'
cemeteries laid out for the purpose, the ar
rangements of the same being similar to the
Government cemeteries near Washington. Otte of
these cemeteries is on the Orange iJourthottse
turnpike, and the other oit the Plank road, near the
Brock road. At the junctions of these roads band
boards have been emoted, Foliating On the direction
Of the cemeteries silth the distance therefrom, so
that parties In search of the remains of deceased re
latives and friends can loudly find their resting
place. We untierotand that working partial will
slimily be sent to the Coal Harr and North Ann
tattle-fields to interthe bodies of MOW% exposed
to view there.
PETIRSBURG►
The following editorial from the Penni)tifg (Vat
Empress of June 26th is Interesting :
EnnielliLTUEAL PSIOSTrifOTS.-4f the - poptitatio.
of Virginia is to be dependent upon the- farmers d
P h e et er rita , there f l o s r n t e h ra e t s io t t r ai o ya r f ili b i a . bi d i n it r y in t g ha niw f the=
be a su ff iciency. On some farms, and' in' Sell
neighborherhoods—perhaps lissome countles--thers
will doubtless be an excess.; But thousands- Will
dud It extremely diflicult to make bah endar meet.
What with the devastated districts, ainatitoting, as
they do, the fairest pertains of the State; the to
inadeenate supply of teams ; the largelsattg
-I:baited number of the non-prodtteing seed e d
tthe
• oatremely narrow breadth Of land seeded In itheat
last —tan; sad the unsettled condition of af.
fairs during- the corn-planting. season Mate,
with all this, the convialtin will be forced on every
mind that no people ever labored under snob grievokr,
dleadVantages If gaunt famine does not Stalk
through the land, It will be a providential MOM.
Instead of °oracles being the great marts, as for
merly, for the purchase of wheat from the sur
rounding country, the order of things will be In:a
great measure reversed, as wail the ogee Some
twenty-live years ego, when the crop-of wheat in
the Bated States was a total failure. Then
mA
llonser bushels were Imported from•the-lialtio, the
Mediterranean and the Black seas, and even from
South- America; and the rare spectacle was pre
sented of the Rochester and Richmond 'mills grin&
log foreign grain. But the country, after years of
prosperity, had other prodnets to give la ex
charge: But what are the resources of the
farmers of Virginia at this Motel Alf the an.
cumulation of years; that • had taken the shape
of Confederate money.and bends, - were -obliterated
an a day, as If by magic. And beyond this, the pro,
porty of every man - worth more than $20,000 lei
threatened with confiscation. It Is believed, how-1
ever, that many planters have a few bog - needs of'
tobacco, more or less, in their barns ; and that in the
eetmtles on the gasoline border there may be a few
thourand bales of cotton. Bat as the prednotlon or,
these staples has been' neatly suspended for two }
years,
and little or none cultivated the pre
sent year, the relief afforded by the stook on,
hand will fail far short of furnishing a eireillatlng'
medium for the country. The proceedti may anent •
those who hold it to buy some of the neoessaries e
lite, discharge a portion - of theirdebts, and pa
their hirelings ; but the aggregate w ill scarce!
serve to relieve the general pressure, is a ve
small degree. This picture, gloomy as It is, Is fq
from being highly wrought ; nor Is It presented wit
any Intention of adding to the discouragement
the people. Instead of shrinking from -the troth,
behooves every man to look It fairly arid SWUM
in the lace. It will require the exercise of a sour
judgment and even of good statesmanehip, to rem
the State from the gulf Into which it has fallen.
INDIAN ATROCITIES.
/heir Murders and itobkeries in Hans
and on The Public Road to Santa Ea—
Government Action Asked. •
[From the Kansas Mr Journal of Commerce. Snot 24
During the week ending Joao it., a series of de•
predations and murders have been committed by
Indians, which renders it highly necessary for earns
steps to be takcn by the military to punish
the se marauders in a summary and effective manner.
The tribes supposed to be doing the mischief are
Sioux and Cheyennes. They are now operating be.
tween the Little Arkansas river and Fort Dodge,
which is a now post, and situated about SiAT miles
west of Fort .Larned, on the Arkansas river.
About one week ago they attacked a. mule and of
train, near Cow Creek mail station, ran off ninelj
head of mules and a oonaiderable number of cattle,
The majority of the cattle were dually ra:
covered, but the mules are still in their pos.
session. On Tuesday, the 12th instant, a party
of tlfty Indians made a dash on the costal.
going West, within three miles of Cow Creek Sta.
Lion, meeting with no success. Tnere were - two
coaches, considerably separated on the road, how.
ever—the one loaded with soldiers, the other with
passengers, the United States mail, and baggage.
As soon ae the driver on the passenger coach no- ,
tired the Indians he suddenly turned his mules,
in the opposite direction, and made the best
kind of time back to the station. The es
cort managed to keep the Indiana' at . h i g i t,
spectable distanee until aelieraacti
from the station, when they soon Sound it 00n
venlent to
-.dog their horses :
over,
making for the Arkansas river,.
closely pursued ' by the soldiers, oh 4 befatiV. *hoeorms.
reached the river, and isiegri tte red devils were
over a considera..49. ll l76 soldiers very Slightly,
On the same day, a party of twenty men of Com- ,
pany I, 2d Colorado Cavalry, were escorting a train
from Cow-ereek station to this post, when one of
the number, Private Patrick Sullivan, left the train
and rode off about two miles, In the direction of the
river, to secure a pony he noticed in the distance.
He was immediately surrounded by Indians, and
as quickly killed and scalped. On tee same day,
as Bugler Samuel I Huestis and Private George
Dicks, of flo. H, 2d Colorado Cavalry, were return
ing from Fort Darned to this post, with despatches,
thee were surrounded by a number of Indiana, in
the vicinity of Ash Creek, soon overpoWered, killed,
and scalped. to complete their fiendishness, the
body of George Hicks was literally dissected, and
most of It was carried back to Fort Lamed, in a
gunny sack, for interment. The body of S. 1.
Rueatis, with the exception of being scalped, was
not otherwise mutilated.
In addition to the foregoing Incidents, the Indians
have run off all the Government heroes and mules
at Fort Dodge, with the exception of ten head, and
have committed several murders. Two citizens,
Memo. Ladd and Walselbaum, who were running
the sutler store at this post, while out a short dis
tance on a fishing excursion, were captured and
killed, andtheir bodies thrown into the river. Mr.
W. was a young man of eighteen or twenty years of
age.
Such is the manner In which the Indians are get.
ing on the great thoroughfare to Santa Fe. Some.
thug will have to be done, and that qnloirlY, to
remedy this state of affairs. The 24 Colorado is the
only regiment of cavalry on this road, and, by
a recent order, their number has been great
ly reduced. The regiment is stationed at dif
ferent posts, and have as much as they can attend
to la escorting coaches, trains, and in carrying
despatches over the road. The Government should
immediately send aye or six cavalry regiments to
this point, and commence active hostilities in the
field against them. Nothing can be aecomplished
with four or rive hundred cavalry, and this is about
the amount of effective men on the road.
A 46TRANGE STORM IN CIIICAGO.
THE LIGHTNING SLAYS MUCUS MEARS OE THE
STREET RAILWAY TAROKS ADD DRENCHES THE
PEOPLE IN THE SANITARY FAIR.
The Chicago papers give interesting accounts of
what they, as well as we, calla strange storm, last
Saturday, revealing peculiar natural phenomena,
and dampening the joy at the great Sanitary Pair,
then in session. They say the fiery element flashed
and shot hither and thither all over this devoted
city. Or. the North and South division street oars,
all was wild excitement. The electric fluid took to
the rails, and ran up and down the track regardless of
stations, and far aheadof time, Conductor° became
frantic; passengers looked despairingly around for
an avenue of escape. Without the orowded oars
poured the descending river; on the rail ran tee
element they dreaded so much more. The scene
became exciting. Some rushed from the cars
Into the street, and were drenched to the
skin in a moment; others, more reckless of
consequences, watched the zigzag lightnings
play upon the rails. The philosophically inclined
were In their elements; the practical people, who
saw no beauty in the threatening lightning, had
left the cars, and were enjoying free baths in the
streets. Locomotion was an impossibility; the
horses would not go. The lightning playing ahead
01 them on the rails was a novelty waled; they pre
ferred to stand still and watch. Many persons
have expressed the opinion that the rails of the
North and East divition railroads were greatly in
jured by the fiery element which embraced them
during the shower.
When the storm came on, people had just begun
to flock into the fair. Moral all was well filled
With promenaders when the rain 00MUlencsd.
Through every crack and seam ran the blackened
water, falling upon white frocks and dainty
bonnets. It would not wash off; for the tar of
the roof was an Ingredient of the dirty dregs. -11
general rush was made for Union Hall, which fortu
nately proved a little more water - tigh t. The gas in
Floral Hall ceased to burn on many of the fixtures.
Lookout Mountain was a veritable cascade.
The poor eagles hovered together in gloomy
resignation, and the Crows Stood upon one leg and
stretched up their long necks as if beseeechlug the
wbeather clerk to desist. The "graveled walks"
were worse than Manassas in mud. But all evils
have their advantages. TO shrubbery began to
look np and revive ; the fountains appeared more
el:multi and dashed their waters higher; the re
staurant looked like a camp meeting tent during
an unholy shower; strawberrieS were made un
palatable in a moment, and ice cream booame sour
front the electricity In the atmosphere, which "sour;
milk," according to the beret of housewives. De
struction reigned everywhere in Floral Hall.
ihe storm, whose freaks we have narrated, re
tuned to the attack at eleven o'clock. The thunder
Wall tent& ; the lightning intensely vivid. At times
the whole city was aglow with light; then would
follow the deafening report of thunaer. The wrath
a "stern Jove" seemed to be descending , upon
mortals. In this &Unit the • stemmata did more
damage than during the lirst shower. The Street
cars stopped running; CO that the course or the
lightning upon the rails was uninterrupted.
- With the telegraph wires the lightning played
strange freaks. The apparatus at the Armory Po-
lice Station was demolished by the electric current.
At the Court house Station the operators were
treated to a strange reception, and permitted to wit
noes roma wonderful phenomena. The numerous
e fres reaching into the cupola were BO many guides
or tracks by whit% the lightning essayed to enter It.
But the beautilni little mechanical invention called
the "lightning arrester," Small and insignitleent as
It appears. arrested the fluid In its rapid course, and
hurled It bank upon the wires with the moat rapid
concussions. In this manner the operators spent
the night, surrounded by all that wail grand and
sublime in nature.
The Pennsylvania Regiments.
WHBR. TIMM PLAGB WILL BB raimmme.
If'racial Despatch to The Press.)
HARRisncrac, June 29,1885.
It hes been the general lmpraBBlon filet the flags
of the Pennsylvania regiments were to be presented
to the State, and received by the Governor at Oamp
Ctutin, on Saturday neat. For obvious reasons the
programme has been changed, and the flags will not
be returned until all the State troops are mustered
Out of service. .
The Constitutional Amendment in New
liampshire..
Cowman, June 20.—The resolution ratifying the
amendment to the Constitution of the 'United States
prohibiting Slavery, passed the Hones of Represen
tatives today by a vote of Mt yeas toga nays. The
result was hailed With great applause. The Sonata
Ims not yet voted on the question, but will MOO
alMoSt gg,aptg4Pi7•
REBEL CRUELTIES TO THE
UNION PRISONERS.
An &tide Published in the New York -
Tribune, Jim 29th.
EXTRACTS FROM TM& REBEL REPORT
The Treatment of the Pennsylvania Prisoners
in Andersonville Pilo%
l i m llto o;b ooa a a n itr e tah o pa n err il v :m pafrtr a
a t o n na l rai d e r iab e r a u d taat f h n e l t ar e;
bee* fah:wilier with, of the systetostWornelthro pr t a h o e -
If w l w i f i e h 7n .e s t rd a l t o r t
ryi ew t h w o i i e n a ls gh .
sena Congress, nominally to investigatealose cruel.
nee, realty to excuse and deny them. The report is
vivowedira reply to the estimation of' therSanitary
Oommiesion, and of the Committee on the 'Mullane
a rated bye those documents. It is undoubtedly the
° a aElF4ft t kt e her l r ei l t ia w eri l llCtr t ih ti ellh6 ea tipthl 21
1 1 ee3 lerl rebeltn t ag° t k o :a e l 1.7 pleas
: e io v me i r I l
d meattil n aen° t e nd tt
preparedh lss eb i
Pre-1
its
1
1 to to do 27; but eateally retained *am WIWI.
.tug any of the evidence. It chose to go to the world
with a report simply embodying extracts; or pre.
tended, Wroclaw frorn - the evidence. Wbere- wit.
„nesse, are referred to, their identification Is cereftill
ly avolded—ner even the regiment being tasted.
• And as this report has recently come to light, we
Iprint the whole of it, that the world may see what
j defence the reiseelon. has to Offer In this matter:
1 When it has been ramie it will excise no wander that
: the rebel authorities in their tlato =vague reeves.
1 eapprees It.
This report, with few exceptions, consists - of
assertions. We judge, Indeed, •ttiat its authors,
rieditg themselves unable to break the force of the
',Cadence against them, finally abandoned all pun
feriae of going to the world on the merits of the Case,
land contented themselves with'an appeal, to the
; people of the South, who, with minds inflamed by
t passion end unaccustomed to scrutinize evideflae,'
woald readily take &mations for facts. - However
that may be, the worst enemy of the South could
wish for no better proof of the enormity of their
crimes than IS supplied 'by their defence. The
French maxim qui s'excuseis'accuse was never so'
illustrated and extended.
To those who recall the impregnable statements
' of the Sanitary Commission and the Committee on
the Conduct of the Witr, and-who read this report
in the light of their memory of the other reports,
'nothing need be said. The Sanitary report was
I printed—a large portion of lt—in these colamne,
I. and to that we refer our readers: Further than
that, we can notice briefly but a few Of the points
Which the rebel committee make.•
The Ignorance of the committee is amusing. , Of
Valentine Mott, the first surgeon of America, of Dr.
I Moneta, President of the College Of Physicians
zed Surgeons:of New YOrk, of Dr. Bllerstie Wallace,
, Professor in the Jefferson - Mediae College, Prins
delfts ; of Judge Hare,- of the District Court of
Philadelphia, the rebel committee seems never to
have heard, std speaks of them as persons too ob- '
time to merit attention. But tho attestation of ig
norance is greater, we presume, than the ignorance,
aid ?eves at the outset as an illustration of the fain
nese with which the committee meant to handle the
whole subject.
Of the Annapolis oases—familiar by description
and photograph to the North—the rebel committee
eat noshing better to say -than that they were not
lair specimens. The photographed skeletons were
Vole men is the defame. Unnontstedly they were
but that does not meet the point. They were mad;
sick by afervalian, and that Only, is the charms. They
Lad no disease. They wonid have been well men
If they bad been fed. So testify cur surgeons, and
1 the rebel committee does not even attempt to con
test that evidence. And when the rebels talk Of
I sick men sent from our prisons and hospitals to Sa,-
; Vannah to be exobanged, we can afford to admit all
tiny claim, for they nowhere claim that any single
/ instance of skinless was due to starvation. The ex.
change under which delittniell were made by the
rebels at Annapolis, and by us at Savannah and
I Charleston was, by the terms of the agreement, of
1 sick men Only. The diffeence was that we sent
, 'rebels who were ill of ordinary diseases ; they sent
' Union prisoners dying wholly from starvation. The
Ispecific statements alleged to have been made by
sundry rebel surgeons in regard to the rebels whom
they received at Savannah, may or may not have
; been true, but, if true, they do not affect the vies
tion at Issue. We may add that these surgeons are
invited to testify as to their patients by comparison
with the photographs, and the testimony resulting
from such a method of examination would not be
held credible by a jury in any court ofjustme.
The proved charge that our prisoners were habi
tually robbed on mitering the rebel prisons, is met
)
by a simple denial. No testimony is offered to rebut
tne evhsenee under oath of cur, returned soldiers
which has been published by the Sanitary Commis.
mission The same is true as to the charge that
I the rebel guards wantonly, and by encouragement
of their officers, shot the prisoners In their custody.
)Sworn testimony proves the fact—the contradiction
of a partisan committee does not even tend to dia.
preve in
As to the cleanliness of Libby Prison, whom do
our readers suppose the rebel committee call as a
‘ • %lines I The keeper of Libby Prison, Mahn Tu
le I
' The mining of Libby Prison is admitted and ins
' e led 1 How justified I Oa the ground, among
'
~,,-/ ,terlither.--2i.-ddrannrewrtirelmit'stuall•a -
, life, to blow Mtn heavenward with a barrel of gun
' powder, 'We do not ask anybody to take this on
our assertion; but refer him to the report.
Wis have space to comment on but one more
point. The rebel committee declares the prisoners,
• on Belie isle were protected. from the weather, and
that there woe but one instance of freezing. They
allege, in proof Of thill, that the whole number of
deaths was very small. And they have the in-
Conceivable effrontery to declare apeeifically that
from June 1862, to February.lBen, the whole number
of prisoners received on Belle 'lsle was over 2 e, 000 ,
and that out of that whole number there were bat
164 deaths I The report of the Sanitary Com
mission, to which the rebel committee were re
plying, contains this statement: "A hospital
steward, while a prisoner, attending to some duty
in the hospital, found. by aeoldent, the Confederate
surgeon general's quarterly report, watch he brought
away with him when-he was paroled. By this, it
appears that la the months of .Tanuary, February,
ann March last, out of nearly twenty-eight hundred
patients, about fourteen hundred—or half the
number—died I This document will be found in
the appendix." .- -
The document is given in the appendix, where, of
course, the rebel committee saw it, bat they refer to
it in no way, and do not pretend to deny its genuine
ness. Yet while from an official Confederate report
of the Richmond hospitals for one quarter alone, It
appears that the deaths Of prisoners were one thou
sand three hundred and ninety-six, thin committee
avers that on Belle. Isle, which held the greater
number of prisoners, the whole number of deaths in
three years was only One hundred and slaty-four I
V lth that exposition, we commit the report to the
judgment of its readers. False in one, false In all—
is a good maxim by which to try a, witness, but what
shall be sad of a witness not one of whore allega
tions is supported by the fact, while most of them
are positively proved to be false I Let the country
decide whether it will believe the anaustained as.
sections of a committee of the rebel Congress, or
the reiterated and corroborated testimony under
oath of thousands of Union prisoners, who speak
that they do know, and testify that they have seen.
From the publication of this report we take some
fell of the more significant portions. As a whole,
the report more than justifies every statement Made
by the Northern press concerning the brutal treat
ment of our prisoners :
IFAOTS AB TO OWE AND WOUNDED TRISONBRI3.
First in order, your committee will notice the
charge contained both in "Report No. ers and in
the «Sanitary " publication founded on the appear.
ance and condition of the sick prisoners sent from-
Richmond to Annapolis and Baltimore about the
last of April, 1804. These are the men, some of
whom form the subjects of the photographs with
whit% the United &Mee Congressional Committee
have adorned their report. The dieingennons•
tempt is made in both Mese publications to produce
the impression that these Sick and emaciated men
were fair representatives of the general state of the
prisoners held by the South, and that all their pri.
sonars were being rapidly reduced to the same state
by starvation and cruelty, and by neglect, iff.treat.
went; and dental of proper food, stimulante, and
medicines, In the Confederate hospitals. Your com
mittee take pleasure In saying that not only le this
charge proved to be wholly false, but the evidenee
ascertains Mete as to the Confederate beepitals in
Vhidli Northern prisoners of war are treated, highly
creditable to the authorities which established them,
and to the surgeons and their aids who have no hu
manely conducted them. The facts are simply
these :
The Federal authorities, In violation Of the cartel,
having fora long time refused exchange of prison
er*, finally consented to a partial exchange of the
sick and wounded on both shies. Aooordingly,a
number of such prisoners were sent from the ste
pitaiB In Riohmond. General directions had been
given that none should be sent except those who
might be expected to endure the removal and pas.
Sage with safety to their lives; but in some Cages
the surgeons were Induced to depart from this rule,
by the entreaties of some erftlWe and men in the
last stages of emaciation, suffering not only with
excessive debility, but -with "nostalgia," or home
elokoess. whom oases were regarded as desperate,
and who could not live if they remained, and might
possibly improve if carried home. Thus hap
pened that some very sick and emaciated men were
carried to Annapolis, but their illness was not the
result of ill•treattnent or neglect. Such oases
might be found in any large hospital, North or
South. They might even be found in private fami
lies, where the sufferer would be surrounded by
every comfort that love could bestow. Yet these
are the oases which, with hideous violation of de•
calm, the Northermoomudttee have paraded in
pictures and photographs. They have taken their
own sick and enfeebled soldiers, have stripped them
naked, have exposed them before a dagnerrean are
paratns, have pictured every ishrunken limb sad
muscle—and all for for the purpose, not of relieving
their aufferings but of brinlug a false and slander
ous charge against the Sou th.
JIMTIVIOATION Orr TRU anus LINDER THE LEBBY
Your committee proceed next to notice the alle
gation that the lioniederate authorities had pre•
pared a mine under the Libby Prison, and pieced
in it a quantity of gunpowder for the purpose of
blowing up the buildings, with their inmates, 111
epee Of an attempt to retells them. After ascertain
log all the facts bearing on this subjedt, your pour
Ville° believe that what was done under the eir-
Cumeisnoes will meet a verdict of approval from
all whose prejudices do not blind them to the truth.
The state of things was unprecedented in history,
end must be judged according to the motives at
work, and the results accomplished. A large body
of Northern raiders, under one Col. Dahlgren, was
approaching Richmond. It was ascertained by the
reports of prisoners captured from them, and other
evidence, that their design was to enter the city, to
Fey tiro to the buildings, public. and private, for
which purpose turpentine balls in great number had
w e e prepared ; to murder the President of tho Con
federate States, and other prominent men; to re.
lease thersoners of war, then numbering five then
sand to s a thousand ; to put arms into their hands,
and to turn over the city to indiscriminate pil
lage, rape, and slaughter. At the same time a plot
was discovered among the prisoners to cooperate in
this scheme, and a large number of knives and
slung shots (made by putting stones into woollen
steokings,) were detected in places oLconeealment
about their quarters. To defeat a plan so diabolical,
wsuredly the sternest means were justified. If it
Would have been right to put to death any one pri
soner attempting to escape under suer Circum
stances, it seems logically certain that it would
have been equally right to put to death any number
making suon atteMpt. nt, in truth, the means
adopted were thcee Of humanity and prevention,
rather than of execution. repulsenferate authori
ties felt able to meet and Dahlgren and hie
raiders, if they could prevent the escape of the
prisoners.
The real object was to save their liver, as well as
those of our onions. The guard force at the prisons
was small, and all the local troops in and around
Wel:mond were needed to make the threatened at
tack. Had the prisoners escaped, the women and
Children of the M as their homes, would
have teen at the m yof 6,000 outlaws. Humanity
that the most summary Melt/Jaren should
be need to detill theta from any attempt at maps.
A mine WO PoTkEnd tu;nrr the LOsby NINA
a ouglolont qtrantity of gunpowder wag put Into it,
end pains were tehert to Inform the prlionere that
any attempt at' attempt! , made by Mao/ would be
rffecttially defeated. nit plan ineceeded PerreaViY.
The prisoners werw aired and kept quiet, Dahlgren
and his party were defeated and Mattered. The
danger pseud away, and Ina few weeks the Attu.
powder pas removed. Spoil are the note. Your
committee do not hegtate to make them known,
feeling assured that tile COnalldellee of the Might.
erred World and the great law of eeltpreservatlon
Atli juotltyall that wag done by our country and her
omoere.
QtrAdlDool , ll72Bolo2l' 08 . 7MM
With regard to the prison stations at Anderson
elite, Salisbury, and other planes south of Rich.
mond,lour committee have notmade extended ein
amination, for reasons which have already been
stated. We are satiated that priVatton, suffering,
and mortality, to an extent much to beregretted, Md•
prevail among the priloners there, hat they wore not
the rernit'of neglect, still less of &kiwi,. on the part
of the Confederate Ge7ern meet. Haste in preps,
ration ; Crowded quarters, preparesy only for
smeller DlMber; frequent removabs to' prevent re.
capture ; waht of tranattertntton and searelty of
food, have , all resulted from the preesurefof the war,
and the barbarous manner fn which it has been Gen.
ducted by our enemies. Upon these subibots your
committee propose to take further evldetuft*tend to
report more truly hereafter.
Raving quoted these portions of the repot, as
well, as the artlole In the Tribune, It may be well
to give Immediately under them the following'de
spatch, received yesterday:
Rennissuno, ;gine 29:--Governor (1w in ODD.
junction with Sntgeon General Phillips, has pro
cured a. list of the Pennsylvania ltSidisre who died
in Andersonville prison. The names were collected
by responsible parties - who were In confinement
there, from the headboards marking the grave% and
various other source:li and is believed to be reason
ably accurate.
The Het is considered too lengthy for publication
in the newspapers ; but with the view of distend.
contains and relieve the
awrietV of the 1 . 4 -w" m s -""
were known to have bean prisoners at Anderson
the Surgeon General;by direction of the Go.
;Miter, is having it printed in pamphlet form, Which
will be ready for circulation in a few days.
The document reveals a history of cruelty and
'Wieling unparalleled in the annals of warfare.
Atnong the accompanying papers is a list of the
Federal prisoners received at Andersonville, the
total number of whiob is 17,524: Of WOO, 408 took
the oath of allegiance to the rebels, doubtless to
preserve their lives from starvation. Six of the pri•
tuners were tried by courtatartisa, and executed
within the stockade In one day. The total number
of deaths were 12,884 ; the deaths on a single day—
the. 23d of August—being 127. The several lists
only embrace the prisoners confined at Anderson
villa from February 26th, 1884, to March 21th, 180.
Wain° Dursitaxis.
Freedmen as Atfectiug she Relative Fe
rniest POWe'r or the North and Nottth—
A. Statistical Blecoosion.
From the Louisville Frees.]
To Show bow the war, in freeing the slaves, will
Increase the politital power of the dominant class
of the South at the expense of the North, unless the
freedmen shall be enfranchised, we have oonstruoted
the following tables. The first table includes all
the States in which slavery prevailed before the
war, with the number of free negroes, the total of
slaves, the proportion represented by adding 6 ' three
fifths of all other persons," and the numberof alaves
not represented before the war, but who will, under
the abolition of that inatitntion, be added to the
representative population, the same as all free
persons
Free Three- Two.
States Negroes. Slaves. Bah+. ilfths.
Delaware 19,829 1,798 1,079 219
Maryland 83 942 87,189 52,313 34,876
Virginia 68 042 490,865 294,519 196,346
N. Car01ina...30,463 381.059 198,636 132.423
S. Oarolina.... 9,914 402,406 241,444 160,962
Georgia 6,600 462,198 277,319 184,879
Florida,. ..... .. 932 01,745 67,047 24.698
Alabama 2,690 435.080 261,048 174.032
M1881881p91.... 773 438,631 261979 174,852
L0ui5iana......18,647 831,726 199,036 132,690
Texas 355 182,566 109 540 73 026
Arkansas 144 111,115 68,669 44,446
Tennessee 7,300 275,719 169,431 110,288
KerlinOky 10,684 225,483 135 290 90,193
Missouri . 3.572 114,931 68,989 45,942
Total 2t 0,737 3,050,611 2,370,339 1,578,172
Tuts table sham us that under the census of 4800,
with the ratio of one representative in Congress to
124 183 persons, the slave States had a representa
tion in that body of nineteen members derived from
three flits of their slaves. That which they held as
property, that to which they denied citizenship, gave
them unoer the Constitution, the advantage over
the free population of the North of nineteen ment
hols We did not complain of this as it was one of
the "compromises of the Constitution f!! but now
whettelavery is abolished and the great question
of reConstruction is before the country, it Is
well to keep In mind this property power
Which the South had possessed front the
foundation of the Government, equal to the
whole political power in the House of the great State
of Ohio. The total of three-fifths of the slaves of
2870 339 divided by 124.183, the representative num
ber. "mves nineteen mambaan. as .altavin.atelluil.
Of the two-flitbs of the 'gavot that have not been
added to the representative population, but which
will be after the abolition of slavery. This total is
1,678,172, whioh, divided by 124,188, even thirteen as
the addition to the representative power of the
South in the lower House of Congress 1
If the freedmen should not be enfranchised, the
old elaveholding class of the South, lb addition to
the absclnte control-they have hitherto possessed
own- the poor whited, Will have the advantage over
the Ninth of thirty two members of Congreee, which
these freedmen will give them. The free population
of the North, except negroee, carry votes to the
ballot as well as members to the representative
population. In respect to the free negroes, there is
but little difference between the two sections. The
following table gives the number of this class in the
free States in 1860:
Maine 1,327'
New Hempen Me—. 4541 1 10wa 1,069
Vermont 7091gan9n8 005
Massachusetts 9 602 Minnesota 959
Corneetiont 8,627 Wisconsin 1,171
Rhode Island 3.952 Pitlohigan 6,799
New York 49 005 ;Oregon 128
New Jersey 25.318' (lantern% 4,086
Pennsylvania 56 849' Nevada 45
Ohio
36,6131
~, AOCt R
Indiana 11,428' Total 225,764
The total here of 225.764 free negroes in the North
is 26.023 less than 250,787, the total of free negroes in
the soma before the war ; r 0 that in reopeot to the
practical power derived from tlao oloso, tag , nave
btatee had the advantage.
The number of whites in the two motions, in 1860,
was as follows: .
EM@VMMiigla
If we add the free megrim of the two seotions, we
bad in 1560 of free persons in the
North 12,892,211
South 8.250,065
This population would give the North 162 and
the South 67 members. This would have been the
first proposition had slavery continued, though had
not toe Scnth rebelled they would have continued
to enjoy the advantage of the "compromises of
the Constitution," and no objection would have
been made by the North.
But under the abolition of slavery the South gains
an accession of thirteen members, as shown above;
so that instead of the fair proportion of sixty-seven
members, that section will have fora voting poen.
lation of 8,039,278, a representation of ninety-nine
members, while 120 per oent. more voting people in
the North will have but one hundred and fifty-two
members, or 62 percent. more than the South. Under
freedom, therefore, without the enfranchisement of
the freedmen, three voters of the South will be equal
to seven at the North ! Then, when it is considered
that the old aristocrats of the Sonthpossees almost
unlimited power over the poor whites it will be at
Once perceived how powerful this ruling class will
be made under freedom to all and votes only to a
portion. This is on the supposition that those rebels
are to be relieved from all political disability, and
step forth in all the sovereignty they formerly pos.
nosed, with the addition to their power which is
above described.
A Nan Shot Dena bye Woman.
Bowmerreviriai, C. W., June 29.—Mies Munson,
a school.teacher, accompanied bylanother young
lady, drove out yesterday, and called at the house
of James Kerr, at Orono, five miles from this vil
lage. They asked Kerr to take a drive with them,
and when about two miles from here, MIS Munson
shot Kerr with a revolver, mortally wounding him.
She le nowin custody. Various rumors prevail, but
the real animus or the affair is not known.
/Mr YOBS QTY•
Nrw Yoznr., June SI
INADOURATION Or THE NSW YORK DRY-GOODS
I=l
The formal inauguration of the New York Dry-
Goods Exohange took piste today' at Its rooms No.
n Park place. A large gathering of merchants
was presided over by the Ron. William Qumran.
Addresses were made by the Non. James Brooks,
Thomas Eisgood, and others. The want of this ins
stitution has long beenTeit by the dry.goods trade
of this city, and as the new exohange Is to be con
ducted on a plan similar to the popular lfferolututs
Exchange in Pine street, it has already met with
gratifying mono in its commencement.
ARRIVAL OF THE OTILAMBH FULTON.
The steamer Fulton arrived to-night from Port
Royal, via Fortress Monroe. She brings tile 145th
Drew York Regiment. Generale SialttOn and Tilgh
man are among the passengers. •
The Ist Blaine Cavalry, 3io men, Capt. ; Myrick,
commanding, arrived here On the steamer Creole,
from City Point, andleft at five o'olook for Augusta,
The steamship May, from BarMnda, has arrived
with dates to the 26th.
The United States sloop-of-war Daootah, from
Boston, arrived at Hamilton on the 20th, and the
United states steamer Juniata arrived the same
day from Port Royal, bound to Bio Janeiro.
THE STOCK IMOHAZIEIB.
EnICIOND BOARD.
1000 II S fleliar Min C0......e30
3tOOOII II 64 6 10-.....0.10934 300 con 1314
56000 U 8 68 10.40.,•c 9734 100 N Y Central K.... ASX
ROO No St es Pao R/o 7811 600 Brio 77
GM Erie 3ct mortg-- 91334 100 dO ....RIO 71
MO Erie 4th meg... 93 100 do 77g
M KS C0.......1152% 300 Clove arPttts 8... 6714
200 .153 100 Beading 96
660101 m Gold—. 8.30.114 110 de.• .. • SOX
100 Canton 37% 400 do. call SOX
Bvgglllo STOOK HOARD.
. . ...
Stooks dull but steady, Gold dull but firm at
188%; Erie, 77%; Endßoll River 108; Reading,
963 V ; Mleblgan 'Southern, eag • Illinois Central,
1281‘; Pitleburg,BB; filariposa,lB%.
Arrived,. bark Abblo Thomas, from Matanzas;
sobooner S. S. Nelson, from Mansanina,
Markets by relegraph.
BALTIMORE, Jane 20.—Flour dull ; WOAlefll OX.
tra, $7.70@9 80, Wheat dull. Corn firm; sales of .
Inge anti 'yellow at °Sadao. Provlslond steady.
Groceries dull aud droaping. Whiala titai at ICRIO.
011.1(7AGQ, June 29.—Flour dull. Wheat dull, cud
4o lower; No. 1, $10431. Corn quiet; No. 1 640550;
No. 2, Bbo Oats dull, and deolined 20. Highwirtes
dull at 01.98. Provisions active and Um. Nem
Pork $95 ; prima Mead $181219.
Beosiots. Shipments.
Flour q5OO 7,000
'Wheat 60,000 16,000
Corn .177,000 130,000
Oats 81,000 85,000
Freights dna. .
linakiao of a atoamor.
DJITBorr, June 20.—The propellers Medd and
Dean Itiohuiond collided last night near Point
poise, TILO MOM Mit IR Mon 9 WME
Defeat of Negretti after the Mmsh on Metamorar.
UNION MEETING IN TEXAS
FORT/MSS MCnenne, vir..bee ocelee
lranspOrl Stemmer von Mental, Oominander George
g iv ing here last evening. She reports
left New orateme
York, via rx.7 20th, lbe New
On the 236, at 9A. N., lariltifepaLin_d Unfair Head.
at Sand Key, for Key West. On theaametate, off
Sand Key, she passed the steamer Mariposa r bound
south. 12 30 P. M , off Sombrero, passed steamship
Star of the Union, bound south. 7P. , lat. 29,55,
lon. 79.t8, passed steamer Natio, steering south.
26th, lat. 33.26, ion. 77.09, passed steamship (Mural
Barnes, steering southwest, She landed 'Governor
Clark, of Mimitaippl, at Hilton Head.
The New Orleans Picayune, of Tuesday' evening
June 20, Malin the following:
Wa have received the Ranchero, of the 9th, Le
Commerce, of from oth to 9th, Monitor de la Ftonfera,
01 the 3d, giving ns some interesting partionlars,
and clearing up past statements.
The Imperial lidexioan troops, under Gen. Lopes,
bad rotation Camaro, after a brief resistance. Ito
then marched on Laredo.
Captain Vidal, who had been in the Confederate
Service, bu revolted 0011ple 01 - years a go, and
killed quite t a
number, was Captured while nialsteg
his way down the river on the steamboat Alamo.
The boat was at Camargo at the time, and while the
officers were making their rounds, verifying the
passenger list, one stateroom was found closed, and
the occupant refused to open. The door was forced,
and Vidal found therein. lie wee thought to be on
• his way to hold a• confab with Cortinsa at the
rancho of the mother of the latter, on the Tessa
side. lie was to be tried by court-martial as a spy,
as it. was supposed he was on his way to Matamoros
or the lower Rio Grande, to Cot in that or some like
capacity. Re is a stetson of Cap tain Mifflin Ken
nedy 88188 well educated for eo hard a Me,"
.7z , 4. 44
The.Ronthero gives its Mexican neighbors the fol
lowing statement or the motives and objects of the
Confederates who have taken refuge in Mexico :
There are thousandsof Americans residing on this
frontier, and thousands more are arriving and to
arrive. Of those already here probably no more
than one-third contemplate permanent residenoe i n
Mexico. But the exiles now on the way here from
the Southern States are, one and all, in search of
homes, peace, stability. The object In leaving tneir
own country to cast their lot among strangers is
quite well understood.
Illinois 7,628
EZENI3I
8,039,278
FOUR CENTS.
MEXICO AND TEXAS.
HOW THE REBELLIOU DIED IN
THE LATTER, STATE.
Tl[ OVUTHERN REFUGEES TO MIDO, AND
Win TREY COE FOIL
The Evacuation of Rrownsville, and the
Recapture of Camargo.
ROBBERY OF THE TEXAN TREAT'
BURY AT AOBTIN.
Duke" Gimin'a Project Likely' lo Succeed,
Backed by French and Otas
federate Bayonets.
'FRB ERCAPTURII OF CAMARO°
CAPTURE , OP VIDAS.
The story published by some papers here that
Beuavides and his Mvidcan Oonfederate soldiers
went to Brownsville Just before General Slaughter
left it, and compelled the latter to procure some
specie in Distamoras to pay them, under threats of
violence, is not confirmed by these advises.
THR BOTITHBBItBIII3 Hi 101811.00
ri"W"rfr"rt4ll-1.1.1n,.4 0) , A.)!At1 , 417/I;fzki 4 ft•fr-?
The Monitor of the Bd recapitulates thus the cir
cumstances of the evaouation of Brownsviile by
General Slaughter:
On the 29th ultimo, the Confederatee abandoned
Brownsville. They had been expecting Colonel
Bent:vides. but as he did not arrive, they left in
small squads, some to the interior, and some towards'
Davis , Ranch, Roma, Loredo, &o. The Federal:3 did
nct come in until daylight next day.
Gen. Slaughter did not leave until late, and was
escorted here by some Mexican troops. His family
sought andurylum here.
Ortimo, June 29.—An arrival from New Orleans
brings nine hundred and twenty Wee Of Cotton for
St. Louis. are to the effect
'Negretti, after his' nnateoessfnl
attempt on Matamoros, hi oonfirmed. He is reported
to have lost seven hundred killed and two thousand
taken prisoners.
The Matamoras Commerce asserts that Satires is
buying up old arms in the United States. There
are plenty of goods at Matamoras awaiting a mar
ket. The Commerce reports that the ex-President of
the ex-repnblio of Mexico was compelled to fly to
Paso del Norte, escorted by Carvajal and Qtressda
With Botha cavalry.
On the approach of the troops under General
Aymeid which occupied Chihuahua, there had been
some shooting from the left to the right bank of the
river in which the eurgeofrito chief of the staff of
General Naga, who was at Santa Cruz came near
being killed.
It is ascertained by sentinels stationed on the
Brownsville side that twelve or fifteen men recent
ly broke into the State Treasury at Austin, and,
breaking open the safes, robbed them of 515,040 In
gold, leaving the silver. They were unable to
get into the vaults where most of the treasure wee
kept.
The New Orleans Tina denies that the cholera
or yellow fever has appeared in that city this
season.
a. loyal mooting WSW hold at 'Houston, Texas, on
the lath, at wkdoh the most prominent men OT the
State participated. A aeries of resolutions of the
meat loyal character were drafted and unanimously
adopted.
Ten eteamere, filled with soldiers belonging to the
15th Army Cowl, parsed today en route for Duvall'a
bluff.
Shreveport advices state that the quantity of
cotton likely to get to New Orleans by way of Red
river, Is variously estimated from 50,000 to 150,000
bales. Next year's crop will be small, as very little
has been planted.
A. very long letter, of June ist, states that the
Confederates still continue to flock to Mexico. There
is no doubt Gwyn will get his project through. It
only awaits the signature or Maximilian to become
a law. He goes out as director general of emigra
tion for the States of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango,
and Taumapilas, with extraordinary powers, and
eight thousand French troops to back him. Ten
thousand Confederates are to be armed and paid by
the Emperor, but kept In the above•mentioned
States as *protection to the emigrants. Capt. Page
and the officers of the Stonewall, had gone to Mexico
tO offer their services to tho Emperor andto persuade
thelmperial Government to purchase the rain. The
French admiral goes with them for the same pnr•
pose, and declares that with the ram he can. defend
the Mexican coast against the whole American
navy.
erierson , s cavalry have arrived at Vicksburg,
ending at that point a threamonths campaign
through the States of Florida, Alabama, and Mis
sissippi. The expedition passed through portions of
QOM States never before visited by hostile troops,
and report the interior of these States In a Most
prosperous condition ; they also discovered handredg
of thousands of bales of cotton, which their owners
were anxious to take to market, and there would be
lure a oro po or (sotto:pa this year. Thousands of acres
which had been planted in corn had been plowed up
and cotton substituted, The Crops generally were
looking very fine.
PERSONAL.
An item In our looaloolumn Speaks of the scene
Witnessed yesterday at Thirteenth and Walnut,
In wtiloh two hundred and fifty Of our crippled,
wounded soldiers 'were forged to remain for hours
exposed to the rays of a scorching summer sun,
while waiting for their little pay. Surely something
better can be done for our patriots, who have lost
blood and limb In defence of the Union. Of our
own knowledge, rebel paroled prisoners who have
been sojourning temporarily not far from this lo
cality, have received the most distinguished atten
tion from sympathizers--eitizens of this goodly
town of ours, we are sorry to sty. Shall those who
have aimed MOWS at the very heart or the nation
be feted like patriots, while patriots are treated
almost like brutes ?
—We have already said something about Mose.
by's application to the authorities at Lynchburg for
parole. He was then sent away much to his did•
comfort and disgust. He came back again, how•
ever, a few days after, and met with better sue.
ease, being paroled and allowed to go his way.
With eharaeteristio energy he has returned to Cul
peper and has already actually opened a law Mae
there.
Whoever made up the order of proseitsion for
the Fourth of July at Gettysburg, should have In
cluded Burns, if as every authority asserts, he was
the only citizen of the town who fought for the
Union in the field.
The Nashville Gazette publishes the tenoning
as a partial list of Cantons Generals who have
served In the national armies daring the war:
Major Generale W. S. Roseanne, gitinoy A. Gil.
more George G'. Meade, B. 0. O. Ord, Philip K.
Sheridan, John 0. Foster, George Stoneman, James
Weide, Daniel E. Siokleil, David S. Stanley, John
Newton. Alfred Pleaeonton, General Richardson,
J ose ph B Oorr, J. Runt Thomas Francis Meagher.
Brigadier Generals Michael Corcoran, Thos. W.
Sweeney, Patriok Edward Connor, M. R. Tesler,
Thoe. Ewing, Jr" Hugh Rwing i Regis de Trobriand,
Thee. C. Doyle, Allred N. Da ®a
AotinK_ Brigadier Generale James E. Malone,
Patrick E. O'Rourke, M. T. Donahue, SWUM A.
Mulligan, Florence rd. Comm Stephen MoGroar
ty, Richard Emmy Patrick Kelly, Matthew Mur
phy.
The Gazette further adds the name or Major
General W. T. Sherman, who, it can became a
communicant of the Catholic Church just before
entering upon &dive service In the army.
TDB WEST CHESTER AND PEILADHLSHIA RAIL*
ROAD REOUESION ON THE FOURTH.—The Watt
gagster and Philadelphia Railroad propose givtag,
on the coming 4th of July, an excursion to thii 801.
diens Festival and Plante, on Obadd's Fait Wm.
ground. Exoursion tickets will be sold to Wog
°heater and return, at UN, gOOd from, Jjy gg go
ON UAW%
Thig WAR, PIZIEGESIN
assyJSWID
Vas Wks nest will be ion; to " IbUnib " Aj
ereu (Der mums is ad tinC44 at
7 / I re . 0 ft
rill O.
Lusa Oistio then Tin Will be ielowed *1 the sans
rate. SS. Ow per eon.
The money moat aitotam aethempany to order. "4
in no ififtatioll eas Melee tome be &Mated friNee ale
gam afford eery kale more man to ant Vinson
441 r. Pseemeetem am remained to ant u almnin
!Hs Was Pius.
Air To Ow ptter•np et the ChM of ten or twenty. $1
mann KW of the Pam will be Ayes.
A Diagresaing Came.
?Use are daily occurring In Ohloago °MOB rail C at
If tb ley wore brought to tile public ear, would create
greitt exeitemont, end almOet revolutionise mile.
ty. Ivey are equally common both in high and kW
life, an may be trend to the drawinproom
and the nltoben. The fear of exposition deters Ns.
Use In nine out of ten casea If the criminal is
route, the Weft fears put:Ratty t• consequently the
whole thing is hushed up. Revengeful feelings
rankle in the beasts of friendt;.bnt alluelOn to their
mOiteenere la intit With (n801061:3 reticence. As U.
lustrative of thetrasses and hick- henlaneesie the
following is oiled. The parties ail reside In 0/310aSts
A young man of line appearance and pleating
address, well and feworahly known in Onloago, reo
oently abstonded. Belatt, for tome ghats past, held
a good and lucrative position In a whlleSale &Mrs
store. A , ytar ago he bessamo acquainted with a
lady, an* 800 n tucceedeila winning heraffectiOna.
To aid Lim, jookey-olub; muck, porfumad cream,
and otheraosmetlss were Anwered upon his Inamo
rata, 211039, of Course, wore spirited away from
tie employer's by the &Mullein:X. The friendship
grew apace. They soon felts Into the habit bf pro.
reensOlng. and were not untrrquE‘ttly seek sitting
'frtelblete. The tine moonlight modest' charms to tiler
love. Being poetically inolined out Don Joan re
; hearted glowing stories to bliebsepefilon.
Silent
ly, subtly, he worked for the atoompll. 9 litilent of hid
unholy purposes and finally cacersedied. The In.
tweezes of the ffiaiden oonlided in promises which
were made tot to thrfaltdled. Antra. wore on and
to attention was paid to these prouileet, the young
woman began to dhcover the wrong she had suf
fered, Again, and again, the appeMed to her be
trayer to fulfill his promises of marriage, bat Is
vain, Breslow and excuses' grew/ taw zreattent to
/eeye- room for doubt. At Length he. tonna her
altogether, She deaden to Plat llitiPitt his place of
business, and In the primulas of his "thiPittstam• • •
from , him with lil elltitiag woman, Mealy vaned.
G. Smith office, too young mane
employer, and demanded to see the clerk in ques
tion. But he, anticipating - lrch a call; had given
orders that no lady should be admitted Mime him,
" that he was out of town,” etc. Bat, persevering
and patientelhe finally gained atlfalttalfeen As elm
entered the door a deadly pallor overhang his noun
tannin*, , and'ibe blood Beemedlo cease its oeuvre
fated, Not need tokaseing him so con
narrated the atlerrehlratinnamtheb..
put on his coat and hat, and offered the injured) pt
hie arm. w6maiiPs courtesy, She believed
he had repented, and would now do her justice, and
accepted the proXered support. He remained. out
all that afternoon. What transpired during the
time he was with the betrayed girl not known: , The
neat evening he left for Serb:IOWA, and 'was last
heard of at St. LOAM. The unaapty rate - or hie
deserted Victim ORR better DP imagined'tliast de
scribed.
A Might in Missouri:
Until I began to follow the camp, I had Weer
known, save by auricular evidence, of those unpo•
laical insects known as fleas; but one night In 'Sp
muse, No., "our mess" experienced the cruelty
and savageness of the diminutive foes of Man,' to
our bodies , extreniest •dißatisfaction. We were all
lounging in the tent, reading, undreamitig ens.
trues of any kind, when we all becalms !MUM, an*
the interest of our books began seriously to ditnin.
ish. There were various manual applioatione to
various parts of the body, multifarious shiftingt of
poSItIOn, accompanied with emphatic expletive&
that sounded autrvottootty like oaths.
. 1 What Is the matter 1" was asked by one of us ter
the other. "What renders yOu so uneasy VI
"Heaven knows VI was the answer ; " butl
like Satan."
is My body Is on tire," observed one.
" 1 wonder." said another, *lf I have contracted
a loathsome e Reuel"
“tionfound it I what ails met"
"And me—and me—and me 1" was echoed from
my companions.
One band became insufficient to allay the Wits.
Non of our corporeality. Both hands hemline regal.
Site to tire task, ono our volumes were necessarily
Mid aside. No one yet appeared aware Of the canto
of ills suffering. If we were not all In Toni:Mt, no
one could deny we had gone to the old Scratch; We
seemed to be laboring under an uncontrollable ner.
vows complaint. We threw our halide about wildly.
We seized our flesh rudely, and rubbed our clothes
until they nearly Ignited from friction. Ciee of the
quartette could stand itno longer. He threw Off his
coat and vest spasmotioally, and even his under•
garments, and solemnly 'exclaimed
E " Flee from the wrath to come I"
The mystery was explained—the enigma soirred..
The martyr's person was covered with • malt
black spots, that disappeared and reappeared is
the same instant.
To be practically expressive, he was COvered , Wah
fleas.
The rest of us followed his example, and eSin
verted =MANN into model artiste.
We were all covered with Elms.
Fleas were everywhere. Tent, straw, boolus,
bier eta, veneer!, saddles, swarmed with them.
The air scintillated with their blackness.
We rushed out of the tent.
They were there in urvilado.
The moonlight fell in cheekered beams thrOligit
their innumerable saipplega.
They mace a terrible charge, as of a forlorn hope,
and drove us back.
We roared with anger and with pain, and loud
curses made the atmosphere assume a violet hue.
Three of the flea.betleged caught up canteens of
whisky and brandy, and poured the contents over
that! persons and down their throats scratching
meanwhile like a thousand cats of. the Thomas
e'
61180011, and' les.pingAnoptare - t4, - ;47 4 , 44""
Too unwed lire no taste for Liquor, began to semi
them, ad' to OW increasing intoxication, , they
seemed to enjoy themselvee after a cavontisl
fashion. The fleas redoubled taste ferocity of me,
and 1 surrendered at discretion; and at last became
resigned to their attaoks, until a few minutes after,
a storm that had been gathering burst with fierce
lightning, heavy thunder, and torrents of rain.
A happy idea seized me.
I caught up my saddle and bridle, and placed them
On my sable steed reams," which stood neighing
to the tempest, a few feet from the Damp, I mount,.
ed the fleet.footed horse, and, nude as the Apollo
Belvidere, cried "go" to the restive animal • and
off we sped, to the amazement of the sent {nels,
through the darlinefal and the storm. Every few
moments the lightning blazed around us with a
lurid Sheen, CS we went Ilke the wind through the
tempestuous night.
" Yearn" enjoyed it, as did his rider ,• and six
swift. epeedlng miles were passed ere I drew the
rein upon the neck of the panting beast, covered
with white Becks ry foam.
1 paused, and felt that the Rena had been left be•
bind. • The pelting rain and rushing blest had been
too much for them, while the exercise hadlimade
attirelese body glow into a pleasant warmth.
" - Fatima galloped back, and Soon I was In the
tent, rolled rd closely in the blanket task no new
attack of the fleas could reach. me, My 001/Ipaii.
lons, overcome with their exertions, sufferings, and
potation, had laid down • bat the fleas were still
upon them, and they roll ed and tossed more than
rural tragedian In the tent none of " Richard the
Third." They were asleep, and yet they moaned
piteonply, and scratched with demoniac violenoe.
In riMe of my pity for the poor fellows, I could not
refrain from laughing.
With the earliest dawn I awoke, and the tent was
'raw
hcant.
Horrid if:Might
Had the fleas carried them off? '
I went out to search for them ; and, after diligent
quest, found them still in Nature , a garb, distributed
miscellaneously about the encampment. In their
physical torture they bad unconsciously roiled out
of the tent. One lay in an adjacent dhoti ; a second
under an artillery wagon; and the third was eon•
vulaively grasping the earth, as if ho were endea
voring to olg hie own grave ; believing, no• doubt,
that, in the tomb, neither Fortune nor fleas ooald
ever harm him more. The unfortunate two were
covered with crimson spots, and looked as , it reins•
vexing from the small.port. I milled them, stilt
stupid from their spiritual Mani, Into the tont
again. and covered them with blankets, though
they swore Incoherently as I did so, evidently Pa
hoeing that some glint flea Was dragging them to
perdition,
When they were redly arotiksd, they fell to
scratching again most violently, but knew not what
had occurred until they had recalled the events of
the previous night. They then blasphemed afresh,
and unanimously consigned the entire race of fleas
to the bottomless pit. The .fleas stiff tried to biter
but could And no new places, and my companions
had grown accustomed to theist.
They felt no uneseiness for the coming night s
they were aware that the new fleas would retire
from a field so completely occupied, and that the
domesticated oreaturel were In Whale= force to
runt all invaders.
So ended that memorable Noobe Trlete, all nem.
plifloation of the Scriptural declaration :
"The wiskedilee when no man penneth."
BBlnorl2 Or FRAME DOSVA--0110 of the most
genuinely talented of our comic and burlesque
actors—Frank Drew—will this evening take le benefit
at the Aroh.street Theatre. The bill be offers to
the public is thoroughly and amusingly attraotive.
In the first place, he appow in Zhakepeare's
"Comedy of Errors," acting one of the two bromic%
Dlr. Robson appears •In the Second half Of the twin
Dromio. Then comes "The People's Lawyer," in
which he takes the part of Soton Shingle; and,
finally, "Acting Mad," In which himself, Robson,
and Craig sot the three mad sotore—ludtationl or
celebrities), operatio and otherwise, being among the
attractions. Snob a bill ought to crowd the theatre
In spite of the thermometer.
Muswer..—We received a short time since a coin
plot& eolleotion of the Music which Gottschalk
has published during the last eighteen months, in•
eluding two ()Miming Mingo, the words' of whteh are
front the pen of H. Q. WAWA, the musical editor, of
New York. They were forwarded to us by Hall at
eons, the publishers. Mr. Gottschalk is too emi•
rent a writer to need Mour hands that examination
which may possibly be beneficial to a Ma of Inde
nter genius. He is specifically the greatest pianist
and composer for the piano which this country haa.
yet produced; and is, as decidedly, the most indi
vidual and genuinely orginal composer and pianist
in the world. When we say this, we mean what
we say. *moo the death of Chopin, no plealat bag
impressed ide individuality so laffdliflY upon MO
compositions as Gottachelk MO, or rendered then.
so positively and Unmistakably the evidence of his
own individual genius. General Hall is to be con
gratulated upon having secured the undivided pub
lication of Mr. Gottsohelk , s works whiob must,
sooner or later, prove a fortune to him; and Gotta
chalk is as worthy to be congratulated, open having
induced so talented a writer as Henry. U. Watson to
write the words to whiohhe had deigned to compose.
the amompaniment.
A New Y ORK p lum p-pc—there le to be a Gland
Premium Exhibition of Ballfrogsla Neer YOrit. Ie
has been proposed with prizes—not farcloal prises,
but prises of positive oash—s!Wi, $25, $l5, SIO, and.
$5, for the five largest bullfrogs, by,a jocose montls
ly paper, "The Damien Of MTV This can scares
ly be considered a joke, as the money will be given.,
but is undoubtedly a satins—a satire upon the prise
exhibitions of the last half•dozen years. If the big.
gest baby takes a pries from Barnum, wily should
not the lensed bullfrog mine a prise from Thw
Funniest of Awl If the smallest puppy seta a
prize, as lately In Franco, why Mould hot the big.
Beet bullfrog rootlets a Prize% this country I In a
word, If all the pats In the world are asked to Come
and compete for prises, wky should not some of the '
romoiningfoon be asked to. put themselval is elb•
deuce, es competitors for another I This is now re.
quested, art we trot will be lergelyattendiod to. It
is ever a. satlefaceitel to man to feel that there are
arestalet on tbid slink MOM tiwroggidy and indu
bitably steeped in folly than he IS himself, Ile will
laugh at them, and should they, by any thence, get
the money which is offered, they will be equally In
clined to laugh at hint, as long as It lasts.
THY LAST MOICHWTB Op ABRAHAM Ltnaorae.—.
We have received a large lithograph with this title,
containing thirteen portraits, ail of which are very
faithful, and betray an intention on the part of the
artist to make the drawing decidedly ernetwottity.
ii IS pladladd tw Mt. G. Ti /Wry"