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MONDAY, JULY 24, 1865.
THE NEWS.
The Steamer reritvian, with European ad
•r
s of the lob, gassed Father Point yester-
The Eog,li.,sh eleetiOnS indicate that the
,vormaynt win have no increased strength
the new Parliament. Among the Liberals
WaS 'John Stuart Mill. The Great East
to have left Valentia On the 10th.
Oaen more passengers of, the ship William
‘ . 3 .0n had been saved. It is regarded as cce
-0)4 Spain will recognize the kingdom of
The cotton market was firm.
n , •:•
iteNVS from the Pacific is important. A
fire occurred at San Francisco, destroy
property to the amount of $210,000. A
~,: : or had arrived at Sac Francisco front
itileionesinn Island, which reports that on
of March, whilst in latitude 40 degrees
, 1 1,, wag - Ina - le lid west, she was boarded by ,
ly pirate Shenandoah, and her papers ex-
The Shenandoah was on the cruise
m tale ships, and the captain made unmet . -
Is inquiries M regard to that kind of craft.
letter from Australia to Boston says that
tilginandotilt was cruising off the coast of
rheainrai. .in American schooner was
one, of her victims.
n on Mc—probably
ti say, that the rebellion
Advicys from nay
eeethual to Cape Haytien. The Gov - -
iunent forces could storm and capture that
1 ;,. r , but they wish to prevent further effu
:on o f mow. Starvation will answer as well.
I . o l,lent Gettrard offered amnesty to the pec
k o r the Cape if - Obey will expel their rebel
,,,,lenders. A Government general, named
:,:isset, had been assassinated by au. insur-
cat leader.
The ram Punderberg was launched at Webb's
tip yard, New York, on Saturday morning.
Dunderberg is the largest iron-clad ram
the piOSt powerful. war vessel afloat. Her
1 . .% tame. length 15 three hundred and eighty
rue feet; breadth, seventy-three feet; depth,
tweuty-nine feet, and her measurement about
r ive thousand tons. To her prow is attached
dew the surface of the water, a wrought iron
or beak fifteen feet long, and she will car
p., when ready for service, four guns of fifteen
1: : ,1,e6 calibre and twelve of eleven inches
C V,re. Her iron plating is three inches and
thick, and extends a considerable diS
t.:xe below the water line.
The destitution in Georgia and Alabama is
; :reat, that our military officers in the south
refuse transportation to all persons who
1,1-!1 to go to these States, unless they can
::ate it evident they will not become a. charge
:10 Government for their sustenance:
1.:17:e numbers who had gone to thoSe States
T .:e obliged to return to Nashville to save
I:,
metres from starvation.
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
;r: 01d says that on to-day (Monday) the Go-
N; rment takes final possession of Ford's
:are. Everything therein is being packed
removal. The Government is to pay a cer-
rent to Dlr. Ford till the Ist of February,
if by that time Congress has not made an
B :Trorkiation for the purchase, it will be re
tzutql to him.
A defence of Governor Perry's Greenville
(-,,tab Carolina) speech by one of his friends
tomes to us from Washington. The writer says
tat Governor Perry was appointed Governor
bfee days before that speech was made, and
Lust, 80 far from be (Governor P.) feeling hu
!lliliated in coining back to the Union, lle only
had such feelings for his State.
The fiendish keeper of the Andersonville
Prison is shortly to be put upon his trial for
s inhuman conduct towards our prisoners
,re. tie will be tried by court-martial, and
id the Government has strong evidence
_,hit him. Soldiers who have been the re
;,ii•nti of this man's cruelty should place
11,1ge Advocate Chipman in possession: of all
they know.
The United States steamer Quinnebang was
rcrtied on Morehead city, North Carolina,
r. the '2lst inst. She had some three hundred
:•61 - liers on board belonging to the 9th Maine
371 ;tall Pennsylvania Regiments. About
thirty lives were lost.
Another of those interesting articles, de.
s:rthing our city passenger railways and the
scenes along their routes, will be found in an
other column. The Race cud Vine is the one
noticed to-day.
There NV a.. 4 scarcely anything doing in stocks
on Saturday, the market being very depressed.
uovernment loans are dull, and prices rather
weak. The market for Railroad bonds and
tt'Attres is very flat.
Colonel L. C. Baker has been made a Brigs,
i'er General for meritorious service as Special
Provost Marshal of the War Department for
l!iligenCe in pursuing the murderers of Presi
dent Lincoln.
th , tructive fire occurred at Thirtieth and
Cho:tout streets, West Philadelphia, on Satur
dAy morning. A manufactory valued at *30,000
s, tioaroyed.
rrczlilent Johnson's endorsement of Goren
thowniew's policy in regard to the rebels
yoing in Tennessee, has had a soothing effect
Tennessee politics.
Vivo important decisions—one by the Com
issioner of Internal Revenue, and the other
ly the Comptroller of the Treasury—will be
found in our WashingtOn despatches.
An order has been issued releasing all pr.&
cheers of war, including those generals who
y ere in the service on parole.
The iron-clad Dictator, from Newport, Rhode
I-3and, has 'arrived at Boston. She gave gene
ral satisfaction to those sailing her.
The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan
re i,:itnrday amounted to $5,130,400. The total
pd.eriptions for the week was 4132,503,000.
'he amolint of national currency issued dur
• the wt'ek, was $3,787,650.
The Dour market - was firmer on Saturday.
hi 41 was less active. Corn was dull, and
Ow , were lower. Cotton sold at 48@i9e. There
"a.; sr ,thing done in Sugar. The prices of
were firmer.
Gal closed in /New York, on Saturday, at
A DANGEROUS BARGAIN.
There 'is one theory, not feebly, but
r- . :yingly and frequently asserted, and not
iv small but by very Considerable people,
dich strikes us as at least a dangerous pro
lisition. It is that of giving 'back to the
wi:ole body of the rebels all their former
hanehises, on the condition of securing civil
lights to the whole body of the colored po
pilation of the South. We do not under
..airi any of the impassioned champions of
- q,at is called negro suffrage to be opposed
to this arrangement. From GERRIT SMITH
" . : 1 11. they object to any punishment of the
In the New York Tribune of Sa
luiltiY, we find the idea again broadly
mato, thus
“it , :Qmn, to us that here is a tangled la
li:.Til.th, nom which the most obvious, belied
'''
-'n/ o•gres s lies through UNIVERSAL AMNESTY
1E:,1 I.3 :I"ERSAL SUFFRAGE.. Let us rule out il
' i 't-'figs, all impending penalties, and take
fz 1 11*-ii. lair start all around. Why is not this
V. • 1 :: „ i l t; -' e ti lli s .. greh l o i lTo r i a i l g y att N o v n ouri e n s o l t?ge l
' 'llt , i to brave more calumny, odium,.bitter
,'those with whom lie has hitherto
'‘,(l. in favoring universal suffrage, than we
us standing up for universal arnuegty.”
11,e most elaborate invocations in favor
ffi' JEFFERSON DAVIS, "not alone of his
Pardon, but of his restoration to Ms rights,"
lave come from these men. We cannot
v.roheile humanity to colored Americans
Itilli this superfine mercy to American
t!.lilor s . In Missouri and Tennessee,
I, bere the rebels are refused all par
' rtation in civil government, or in the
I J ,, nors and responsibilities of office, for
It period of years, the negroes do not vote ;
[ 1 4 111 in 'the first State, at least, the best
ifirtn4 of the colored man believed it was
tsr littler to punish the traitors than to lose
111 ' c' l ' ,o l l. e of carrying a reformed Consti
-11',6"', rant the establishment of the corn
-I"th and lasting power of his friends; by
making an issue on negro suffrage. In this
( " I lbloa sense view the colored people
n "rtilY concurred. But what chance
weald the freedmen of the far South have
1 - ainst, their old masters and tyrants, if
;i,ese latter were let loose upon them, with
al their power at the ballot-box, in the legis
i,iture, in the Courts, and in Congress? What
,i sword of lath would suffrage, in their
lands, prove against such a rush! The
Objectors to President :JomisoN's plan al
' kge that he proposes to recognize the State
!flislation prior to the rebellion, and that
this is his fatal error; anti yet the class re
:,:rred to would at once clothe the recent
Ilbels with all their former power, if they
till consent to give the colored people their
'civil rights ! We submit that, the freedmen
ts!add start with the heaviest of dead
)nights to pull them down. Their friends
"il (gild be powerless to help or to protect them,
Are we so enamored of the chivalry, with
th e good faith of the rebel leaders, as
to believe that this "universal amnesty"
would Raldenly make them humane to the
l 'egro ? They hate, insult, and seek to de
grade him now, when they have no power,
teen as theyare covered with oaths to obey
tia , laws framed for his safety and his free
dom.
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He when made independent of law ?
Would they be tolerant or respectful to
him under the goad and sting that he was
their political equal ? Would they feel any
incentive to enlighten his darkened intel
lect ? Would they reject the temptation of
taking advantage of his ignorance ?
But why ask questions which answer
themselves ? Our object in these re
marks i 5 simply to show how soon
a mere theory, unregulated by prac
tical experience, may become an instru
ment of hardship and of cruelty - against
those for whom it was invented, and in
whose interest it is advocated. " Better to
leave the cause of the freedmen to that
President who is their best and most
powerful friend, and who, while unwilling
to rush them upon the untried experiment
of sudden , universal suffrage, throws
around them all the guards essential to
their preparation for this great franchise,
while be checks and punishes their rebel
enemies.
"THE FRONTIER SCOUT" -A CU-
RIOSITY OF THE WAR
Intelligence from a distant Territory of
the UDAted States takes a longer time to
reach Washington than a letter from St, Pe
tersburg or Constantinople. We have now
before us two copies of a little newspaper
called The Frontier Scout, printed at Fort
Rice, Dacotah Territory, dated respec
tively the 15th and 2.2 d of June. They are
very interesting. The Scout is published
weekly, by the Ist United States Infantry,
who, at the time of their enlistment, were
prisoners of war at Point Lookout, Md.; in
other words, rebels. The &out says :
"Before each man was enlisted he was sepa
rately questioned, and had these four alterna
tives, either to be exchanged. paroled, to go
North and work on Government fortifications,
or enlist in the service of the United States as
a soldier. There was no compulsion in any
shape used. It was an act of their own free
will. There were no reservations, or promises
made that they would not be sent , to the front
to engage in deadly conflict with their quon
dam iriends. They made the choice at a time
when the Southern Confederacy was: as likely
to succeed as at any time in its history. But
they cast their mite in with the United States,
when she needed every man sho could muster.
No.bounty was offered them, no glaring in
ducements were held ()M t n° chicanery or flat
tery was employed. They were made of such
stuff as not to be moved by such means as
those. Their whole course and behavior has
displayed that unadulterated patriotism was
the only motive that urged them on. They
felt confident that they were at last on the
right side, and the right must succeed. With
out a moment's demurring, they shouldered
their muskets and donned their equipments,
ready to go wherever their country called.
Many have laid down their lives at the beck of
disease, some have been murdered by the arrow
of the savage, and they, with bat few excep
tions, living or dead, have been true to their
trust.
•" now petty will all the slanders uttered
against them SOUnd alongside of the fact, that
forever in history they will be recorded as the
noble first fruits of a reconciled and re-united
people."
They received the United States colors on
the 4th of June, 1864, at Norfolk. The
scene is thus described by The Scout :
"Every man had been laboring with great
care to put his musket, equipments, and
ClOtbes, in the best condition. Each one ore
pared himself as for a wedding feast. The
regiment was to be married by the most
solemn compact to the United States' service.
Gen. Shepley bad come with his staff; and ad
dressed them with deep feeling; a hollow
square was formed, and Col. Dimon replied in
behalf of the regiment. Nature smiled beau
tifully on the scene, the air was redolent with
perfume, the sky was clear and blue as that of
Italy, and - the circle of the landscape Seemed
like a vast amphitheatre for some glorious
display of patriotism. When their youthful
Colonel turned to his regiment to confirm his
pzomies of their unswerving alle,giance to
that flag that fluttered so beautifully in the
breeze of summer, every man fell on his knees
as if by instinct, and so was the solemn com
pact confirmed.
c‘l had seen many beautiful sights, but no
thing that could parallel this. The tears
gushed from my eyes, and to my mind It was
a glorious premonition of the time that has at
length arrived. Happy regiment! choosing
the good part, like Mary of old.!,
Fort Rice was established by our gallant
Brevet Major General A. Sur.-
townsman,
Lv (commanding the district of lowa,) son
of the venerable artist, TnomAs SULLY, 23
South Fifth street, on the 7th of July, 1864.
It is thus described
4c It is just-above Two Bear- Creek. The.oar
ticular site was selected by him. his orders
from the War Department were to establish a
fort in the neighborhood of Long Lake. He
thought at first of locating it at Beaver Creek,
but upon examination of different sites, at last
decided upon this. It is aboutten miles above
the coniluenee of the Cannon-ball River and
the Missouri. It is a little further north than
Fort Abercrombie, which is on the Red River,
that separates Minnesota from Dacotah. Fort
Rice is in north latitude 46 degrees, 30 minutes,
and 23 degrees 30 minutes west longitude. It
is on a line with Mars Bill, Aroostook county,
Maine 5 Oregon City Clackams county, Ore
tOn ; and Fond duLae, Michigan.: Ws near
he northern extremity of the most barren
strip even of land in Dacotah, with the excep
tion of the MauvOses Terres, or Bad Lands.
Above, the soil soon grows more fruitful, and
at Fort Berthold large crops are sometimes,
raised.
" The cold here in winter is often extreme,
being for days forty degrees below zero. In
spring and autumn the winds are very high.
The dust flies in clouds, and the landscape
borrows the appearance of the Lybian desert
when a simoon is raging. In summer the heat
is extreme, but often by sudden changes it be
comes very cold. Some seasons there is
scarcely any rain. This spring there has been
more rain than common, and the prairies and
treeless bills are covered with a beautiful gar
ment of verdure. There is a large supply of
wood in this vicinity—principally cotton-wood.
It is on the bottoms of the river, and in the
ravines. Experiments have been made with
gardens, but grasshoppers are so thick that
everything disappears before them. in the
immediate neighborhood of the fort, game is
not very abundant. The grand highway of
the buffaloes in their migi talon north and
south is considerbly above here. What the
tunnel is to the Thames, what an oasis is to
the desert, what a caravansary is to India, is
Fort Rice to the Atlantic and Pacific States.
Through this barren region must civilization
march on her
i grand Western tour. The Ameri
can flag, as t first waved above Fort Rice,
saluted a landscape that had never seen it
floating so high and magniticeently before.
In this ultima terra it was the fortune of the
Ist IL S. v. Infantry to unfurl the national
colors. When we hailed Fort nice, October
I.7th, 18t4, we saw no flag kissing the breeze to
welcome us, but on the 25th of - December, the
same clay that Christ was born, whose mission
was "peace and good will to men," was un
furled in mid air that flag whose mission is
one and the same."
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
WAst.IN - GToN, July 22, 1665.
The brief telegraphic statement in all the
papers of Saturday, disposing of the allega
tion upon which Mr. Montgomery Blair
founded' his formal accusation that Mr.
Seward had instructed Mr. Bigelow, the
American Minister at Paris, to surrender
he cause of the people of Mexico to the
Emperor of the French, was doubtless au
thentic. As it fully sustains what I antici
pated in my letter of the 20th, I will here
reproduce it:
Mr. Bigelow, our Minister at Paris, so soon
as he saw the l version which had been given by
nouber, Secretary of State in France, to a
conversation which had recently taken place
between Mr. Bigelow and M. Drouyn de
L'Huys, the French Minister for Foreign Af
fairs, concerning Mexico, addressed a note to
that gentleman, denying the statements made
by M Ember. M. Drouyn de L'Huys answered,
admitting Mr. Bigelow's statement to be
correct, and the statement of M. Bouher
in
correct. This correspondence has been long
Since received at the State Department,
and in due time it will be submitted to Con
gress."
And when the correspondence is sub
mitted to Congress, it will be found, I
think, that Mr. Seward, even in the mo
ments of his extremest agony, did not for
get his official obligations or the interests
of his country. So far as they were con
nected with the Mexican complication, you
will perceive that the assertion of the
French Secretary of State, Id. Rouher,
upon which Mr. Blair founded his indict
ment of Mr. Seward, that the American
GovernMent timid not go to tear with Prance
if the latter attempted to establish a monarchy
in .Mexico, was at once repudiated by Mr.
Bigelow, the American Minister at Paris,
(upon whose alleged authority this assertion
was made in the French Parliament,) and
that his statement to the French Minister
for Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn de
L'Huys, was received as a correction
of the remarks of M. Rouher in the
French Parliament, . and was duly re
corded among the archives of the French
Government. The Chief of the Foreign
Office in France is M. Drouyn de L'Huys.
M. Rouher, who is called "Secretary of
State," represents the Emperor in, the Se
nate, but is in all things subordinate to
Drouyn de L'Huys. If the contradietion
is decisive in itself, "the Correspondence"
on the subject will be found an over•
whelming vindication of Mr. Seward. You
will note that not a word is said in the
above telegraphic explanation in his de
fence. lie does not think it necessary, it
would seem, to be in a hurry about that.
Let us, therefore, possess our souls in peace,
and quietly wait for " the documents."
QOCAMI4I‘..
WASHINGTON.
ALL PRISONERS OF WAR TO
BE PAROLED,
THE FIENDISH PRISON-KEEPER AT ANDER
SON VILLE IN CUSTODY,
He is Shortly to be Tried for his
Atrocities.
Important beclslon by Commissioner of Internal
Revenue and Comptrolier or the "beam.
WASHINGTON, July 23,1865.
The Fiendish Rebel Commander of Att
diersonville to be Tried.
The country will be gratified to learn that
Captain TINNILY Willa, lately prison-keeper at
Antlersonville, is shortly to be put upon his
trial for the cruelty and barbarity practised
by him upon our prisoners confined at that
place. The Military Commission sitting in
this city, of which Brigadier General A. B.
UNDERWOOD is President, and Colonel N. P.
CBn'nAN, of the War Department, Judge Ad
vocate, has been directed to try.the case.
The charges embrace a list of atrocities that
arc little short of fiendish, and will arouse the
indignation of the civilized world. The Go
vernment is now engaged in the collection of
testimony preparatory to the trial. Let the
soldiers who have survived their imprison
ment at this prison put Colonel CHIPMAN in
possession of any essential facts.
A Defence of Governor Perry, of South
Carolina.
A friend of Governor PBRIVr t and apparently
by his authority, has caused the publication
of a communication, in which he says that
three days before the meeting at Greenville;
South Carolina, Governor Pnaar was appoint-7
ed Provisional Governor ; that the latter, at
that time, was not only uninformed of his
appointment, but -had not the remotest idea
that such an honor was to be conferred upon
him. The purpose of Governor PERRY, in his
address, the. writer says, was to show the
people of South Carolina the great mistake
they had made in seceding, and the ruinous
consequences to their beloved State, and the
humiliation and degradation to which they
had reduced her ; boldly declaring they had
no cause for seceding, and were in no danger
fronahe election of President Lareoray. The
writer says it is not true, as stated in some of
the newspapers, that the Governor feels, per
sonally, any humiliation in corning back into
the Union, for he had no agency in going out
of the Union; but that he has such feelings for
his State; and Governor PnARV entreats the
Southern people, in terms of earnestness, to
become loyal citizens, and repudiate forever,
and to teach their children to repudiate, the
political heresies which have ruined their
country.
Decision of the Comptroller of the
Treasury.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury,
Mr. BRODHEAD, has addressed a letter to the
Paymaster General, in the course of which he
says, " The question has been presented who
ther or not the three months' pay proper,
granted by the fourth section of the act of
March 3,1865, to offxeers on discharge at the
close of the war, is subject to the internal re
venue tax of five per cent., to be deducted by
the proper disbursing officer. On a careful ex
amination of the law, I am satisfied that it
must be so decided. It is clear that this extra
pay is given for military service, or is given
for nothing. A capricious or irrational done,
tion of the public money to any number of in
dividuals cannot be imputed to. Congress. It
was for services gallantly rendered by the offi
cers, and gratefully recognized by the .coun
try, that this payment was authorized, and
being for services, the tax must be deducted.
Paymasters will be governed accordingly."
Internal Revenue Decision.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
made the following decision;
Banks, in making returns of dividends and
taxable gains, should .include the amount of
income derived from investments in hank, in
surance, and railroad stocks, although such
may previously have paid a tax as a dividend.
The tax hnpOscd on the circulation and de
posits of batiks constitutes an indebtedness
by such banks, which continues to accrue so
long as the prescribed conditions exist; while,
therefore, any portion of the circulation ex
eetailin g fire per cent. of the chartered or de
clared capital is outstanding, or any of the
deposits remain in the custody of the bank or
its agents, the liability to make returns and
pay tax thereon will continue.
me San Francine° Port•oflice.
The Postmaster at San Francisco, California,
reports that during the month of May, 15,300
letters were sent from his office to New York,
the postage on which amounted to $1,254,93.
During the same period 93,438 letters were sent
from San Francisco by the overland route, the
postage on which amounted 'to $3,090.84. Of
the above number, 2,034 were free. At the
same time 1,879 circulars Were sent, the post
age on which amounted to $3,758. These figures
show that during the month of tune 60,738 let
ters were sent from San Francisco to New
York.
SOlee of Government Stook.
During next month twelve thousand horses
and fourteen thousand mules will be exposed
to public sale in the States of New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Delaware, New Jersey, Indiana,
and the District of Columbia. This will close
such sales by the Government. Since May Ist
the sales of animals have netted 452,000 1 000.
Col. Baker made a Brigadier General.
L. C. BAKv.e. has been made a Brigadier
General, for, as his commission reads,
"meri
torious services as Provost Marshal, during
the war ; and especially for diligence in the
suppression of frauds against the Govern
ment in recruiting, and in pursuing the mur
derers of President Lincomr," to date from
April 2Sth, PAS, the day of Boorn's capture
and death.
A Rebel General Paroled.
The President has directed the release on
parole, with permission to return to Georgia,
of the rebel General Pnitir.COOK, a prisoner
of war in the department of Major General
HARTRANFT.
s All Prisoners of War to be Released on
Parole.
Ily direction of the President, all prisoners
of war, including the rebel generals, are to be
released on parole upon taking the oath of al
legiance.
The Amount of Currency Issued.
The national currency issued during the
week ending July 22d amounted to 33,787,650,
making a total of $157,907,665 now in circula
tion.
Brevet Paymasters.
The Secretary of War has breveted about
sixty paymasters for faithful and meritorious
services during the war.
PERSONAL.
General Philip Cooke, late of the rebel
array—who should not be confounded with
General Philip St. George Cooke, a loyal °nicer
—was on Saturday released from confinement,
by order of the President, and allowed to re
turn to Georgia.
—We notice by our exchanges, that in many
localities large numbers of the skedaddlers
who Sought escape from their duty to the Go
vernment, by a refuge in Canada and else
where, are returning to their homes, believing,
now that the war is over, they are relieved
from all responsibility for their crimes. In
this they are sadly mistaken. The law of
Congress explicitly declares that all such de
serters, who failed to return to their com
panies or report tO a provost marshal within
sixty days after the issue of the proclamation
dated March 3d,1865, should forfeit their rights
and franchises as citizens. This law is now in
full force and operation. All deserters who
have failed to report before the Ist of May,
1565, have consequently forfeited their citizen
ship. It is well enough for the people in the
localities where these Sketlitadlera now seek
to resume:their Citizenship, to remember these
legal facts, and see that they are properly en
forced.
Major General John F. Hartranft arrived
at home, in Norristown, on friday evening
last .11 - e is in good health.
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA.
Transportation Southward for 'Nash
ville Partially Stopped—Destitution
in Georgia and Alabaina—The Cause.
NABBVILLE, July 21.—General Fisk, Assistant
Commissioner of the Bureau for Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, has di
rected that no more refugees from Georgia
and Alabama shall be transported southward
from Louisville, except upon special autho
rity from him. Refugees from Georgia and
Alabama, now in the States north of the Ohio
River, now desiring to return to their 'homes;
will not be transported south unless they can
show, by the best evidence, that upon their
return they will not become a charge ' ll Pon
the Government for their sustenance. This
action is made necessary by the return to
Nashville of large numbers who have but re
eently been furnished transportation to their
homes, and upon their arrival they were una
ble to procure food snnteient to prevent star
vation.
Eleven bushwhackers,, captured in Hamlin
county, were brought in to-clay, and will be
severely dealt with.
The President's timely endorsement of Go
vernor BroWnlow's course relative to the ap
proaching election has greatly cooled the ex
citement caused. Arrangements will be made
to compel submission to the law where vio
lence may be apprehended.
Who Cum owl Forillikla trials are prom*
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1865.
ing slowly, the testimony for the prosecution
still occupying both courts, and in I , oth CaSetSl
is very damaging to the accused.
Loss of n United States Steamer.
I:Ttmealt, July 23.—A FortreSs Monroe let
ter says the United States steamer Quinne
bang was wrecked on the bar off More
head city on July list. About thirty lives arc
reported lost. Captain Jerome was in com
mand, and three hundred soldiers were on
board. Most of them were landed on shore.
The Quinnebang left Morehead city on the
21st for Fortress Monroe, with soldiers of the
Sth Maine and 76th Pennsylvania Regiments.
After passing outside,the bar the vessel be
came unmanageable and went ashore an nd d
proved a perfect wreck. Lieutenant W:7
Veraiing, of the 9th Maine, was amongst those
lost.
The Dictator at Boston.
BOSTON, July23.—The Dietator,coM
voyed by the U. s. steamer Vanderbilt from
Newport, It. L, arrived here to-day, and an•
chored in the stream abreast of the city. On
the passage around Cape Cod the Dictator
worked to the satisfaction of the officers, and
the trip thus far has been pronounced a stir.,
cess. Her appearance in our waters attracts
much attention and interest among all classes,
and during her short stay here thousands will
avail themselves of an opportunity of inspect
ing the famous vessel.
THE PACIFIC.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
THE PIRATE SHENANDOAH,
STILL CRUISING.
SHE IS IN SEARCH OF AMERICAN
WHALING VESSELS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18.—The ship Charger,
from Boston, arrived at this port to-day.
The steamship Golden City sailed for Panama
with six hundred passengers. She took out
$710,000 in treasure for New York, and $750,000
for England.
The Pacific Warehouse, on the corner of
Broadway and Battery streets, was destroyed,
by fire last night. The flames originated from
the spontaneous combustion of petroleum.
The loss is estimated at $250,000.
A Swedish bark sailed yesterday for Hong
Kong, with i1d50,000 in treasure.
Advices from the Sandwich Islands to the
28th of June have been received.
The Hawaian schooner Pfel arrived at Hono
lulu on the 22d of June, front the Micronesian.
Islands. She reported that on the ,oth of
March, in latitude about 40 degrees north, lon
gitude 107 west, a vessel bore across the schoon
er's bows. The stranger was a bark-rigged
Propeller. She showed English colors. Her
boat boarded the schooner with two officers
and a large crew, armed with cutlasses and
revolvers. The commanding officer demanded
the schooner's papers in an arrogant manner
and after closely inspecting them pronounced
them correct, and then became polite.
On being told that the schooner was last
from Ascension, :on Strong's Island, he asked
if any whalers were there, and mentioned the
names of several American whalers supposed
to be cruising in those waters. lie said his
vessel was the English ship Miami, but that he
had not been in port lately. After leaving
the schooner, he sailed in the direction of
Strong's Island, four hundred miles distant.
The captain of the schooner says that the
boarding officers were Americans. There is
little doubt that this ship was the pirate She
nandoah, and that she was then on the track
of the whale ships returning from the South
ern seas, bound north to the Arctic, and of
sperm-oil cruisers. Were she to proceed thence
to the Arctic, she would make terrible havoc
among the sixty or seventy whalers congre
gated there.
THE PIRATE SEEN ONP NEW ZEALAND.
BOSTON, July 2.2.—A. private letter by the last.
mail from Australia states that it was ru
mored at Melbourne that the pirate Shenan
doah was cruising off the coast of New Zea.
laud. An American three-masted schooner,
recently burnt near that coast, was supposed
to have been destroyed by her,
HAYTI.
THE REBELLION CONFINED
TO CAPE HAYTIEN,
THE GOVERNMENT GENERAL MORISSET
ASSASSINATED.
NEW YORK, July 22.—The latest intelligence
from Hayti shows that the insurrection is still
confined. to Cape Haytien,
The Government is able to take the city, but
desires to sparethe effusion of blood necessary
in a direct attack.
President Geftrard has issued a proclamation
to his people, assuring them that the motto
" Liberty and Fraternity" of the insurgents is
a Sham. Ile offers amnesty to the inhabitants
of Cape ilaytien, and urges them to expel the
rebellious leaders
Gen. Morisset had been assassinated by the
insurgent leader Sainave. His widow had been
pensioned by the Government.
The port of Cape Haytien is now in a state of
blockade.
ALABAMA.
NEW l'onft, July 23.—The Selma (Ala.) cor
respondent of the Herald states that consi
derable quantities of cotton are awaiting
transportation .to the seaboard. Many plant
ers are offering their plantations at very low
figures, dissatisfied with the free labor sys-
UM, while others are with the Northern emi
gration. A regular system of thieving in cot
ton is carried on, 1,r5 , which the Government is
defrauded heavily, the frauds being perpetra
ted in many cases with the knowledge of the
military authorities.
NEW YORK CITY,
Arrival of the North Star.
NEW Yana, July 23.—The steamer North
Star, from New Orleans July 18, has arrived.
LOSS OP NAIL 2dATT&B.
The Southern mall, due at an early hour this
morning, was lost in the river on the Jersey
city side. The car containing it was finally
fished out, but the mall matter was Seriously
injured.
The Transportation from Louisville
Stopped.
Loins-mix, July 21.—The commandant of
this post has been instructed to stop the trans
portation of refugees to Georgia and Alabama,
on account of the scarcity of food in those
States.
General Logan at Louisville.
Lorisvilax, July 21.--Major General Logan
addressed a large and enthusiastic audience
to-night, at the court-house, in favor of the
constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery
in the United States.
More of the Horrors of Andersonville.
The bower of slavery is Albany, Ga. only a
few miles south of that plague spot of civili
zation, that Golgotha of horror, Anderson
ville, which I passed on the way. As I looked
out upon those "bull-pens," where our boys
were huddled, like hogs, beneath the open
sky, under chilling rains and blistering suns ;
when it rained, burying their rags in order to
keep them dry, wallowing in mire anti their
own 111th and when the sun returned shud
dering like sick plants; that the fount of
mercy even only festered with disease as I
looked out upon this sight, while a repentant
Confederate officer (this genus hoino in Georgia
is exceedingly rare) confessed how a re
spectable neighbor to the prison, having
- ventured to bring to the prisoners some
vegetables to relieve somewhat the craving of
their horrible infection, scurvy, (a disease re
sulting from low diet on salt and stale food,
had himself been thrust into durance, and
kept there three weeks while with his vegeta
bles the foul tend who had charge of the pri
son, instead of throwing them away, with a
cruelty more relined, intermingled 'buckeye
leaves, it sure poison, and thus distributed
them to the starving and suffering wretches to
increase their agonies and disable their hist
chance of surviving. "And if any escaped,"
said my mournful narrator, " they were hunted
down with hounds by a fellow who lives a
short distance from here."
" What's his name, and where does he live 7"
I insisted.
(Somewhat reluctantly the answer.)
"Why, he was employed by Worts, who kept
the prison. Perhaps he did not mean to be
cruel. Ms name is Ben Harris, and he lives
about four miles south from the station.
"Does he keep his dogs yeti"
" Yes," said he. " I was in that neighbor
hood a few days ago, employed by one of
General Wilson's agents to collect the State
supplies, and I saw his dogs there with him.
The people about Andersonville, most of
them, are of a mean sort, for the country is
poor, and they arc rankling with spite and bit
terness, so much so that I have been threat
ened in the peaceable discharge of my Mee,
These things make me blush for the South.
They are an indelible disgrace. Albany is a
better district, and the people there are
ashamed of the Andersonville outrages."
As I saw and heard these things on the
fatal spot, I was pointed to a place over the
Lill , beyond where were fourteen thousand
frah-made @Tema the awful damning proof
of the truth of ° these otherwise incredible
'owls Gl patur.—Or. Cincinnwi i7ommeroial,
EUROPE.
THE RESULT OF THE ENGLISH PARMA•
DIENTARY ELECTIONS.'
The Government Will Have No In
creased Strength.
ME GREAT EASTERN TO HAVE LEFT VA
LENT'S ON TILE 19th.
SEVERAL MORE PASSENGERS OF THE
NELSON SAVED
Further Correspondence between Earl Russell
„and Secretary Seward,
FATTIER POINT, July 23.—The steamship Pti.
ruvian, from Liverpool, at 2 P. M., July 13th,
via Greencastle July 14th, passed this point at
au.early hour today for Quebec.
The Hibernian arrived at Greencastle on
July 9th ; the Bremen at Southampton July
wilt ;: the Bavaria and City of Manchester on
the 10th, and the City of New York on the 11th.
The steamship Erin, from New York, arrived
on the evening of July 13th at Liverpool.
GREAT BRITAIN.
.The English elections are the all-ehgrossing
topic.. The returns thus far show a net Liberal
gain :Of seven.
The ship Mercury, at Havre, from New York,
reports having picked up, Juno `?Bth, eight pas.
songers from a bout of the burned ship Wm.
Nelson, and Ave other passengers from pieces
of floating wreck. A bark was seen near by,
which ft is expected succeeded in saving more
It has been finally settled that t hennieGl, and 1 , .T
Eastern leaves the ore ea
Valenti& about the lath of July.
• Telegraphic communication with India still
remains suspended; and it is believed there is
a:fault or break in the Persian Gall cable.
The English political news is entirely cen
tred in the Parliamentary electionS. The re
turns to the evening of July 12th, show 184
Liberals and 102 Conservatives. The Liberals
have lost eighteen' seats and gained twenty
four; so that the indication's are that the
Government will have no increased strength
in the, new Parliament.
Four members of the Administration have
been defeated, viz: Lord Barry, in Dover;
Colonel White, at Kidderminster ; Lord Paget,
at Litchfield ; and William Peel, at Bury. As
a rule; the contest had gone olr satisfactorily,
and with very little rioting. Numerous elec
tiOns were progressing when the Peruvian
sailed, and it would be another week before
the county contests would be decided.
In the London money market, the funds
were inactive, the elections causing a general
dullness. There was an increased demand for
discount at the bank, but no pressure.
The rumored conversion of the firm of Gur
ney & Co. into a limited joint stock company
is confirmed. The prospectus of the company
has been issued. The capital is £5,000,000.
The ibllowingiis an abstract of the news sent
by the City of London, which left Liverpool
and Queenstown Julyl3:
The Parliainentary elections commenced on
the 11th. One hundred and one members were
returned on that day, of whom thirty were
Conservatives and seventy-one Liberals. The
contest is so favorable to the Liberals that the
indications arc that Palmerston would have
an increased majority in the'new House. The
Conservative journals are not disheartened
by the first day's proceedings, but are still
hopeful of success. The LoMlon and Metro
politan boroughs returned in all sixteen Libe
rals,including John Stuart Mills, Toni Hughes,
the author; Sir Chas. Bright, electrician, and
Baron Rothschild.
FRANCE
The rumored. negotiotions fora European
Congress still lack any sign of authenticity.
TINA Bourse is steady. Rentes 67E45.
Ab del Kad er has had an interview with Louis
Napoleon, and rumor again connects hint with
the future government of Algeria.
The Senate has passed a bill modifying the
press laWs, by 117 against 10. On the 17th ult.
Marshal O'Donnell read a royal decree in the
Congress, closing the
Notwithstanding the strong clerical oppo
sition, the recognition of Italy by Spain may
be 'regarded as an accomplished fact.
T'ORTIJOAL,
The Government, 6oilttary to general ex
peetation, carried the elections by a small
majority, throughout the country. lii Lisbon
and Oporto, however, the Opposition obtained
a majority.
TURKEY
There had been rumors of the appearance of
the cholera at Constantinople and Smyrna.
They have been pronounced unfounded, but a
short quai.antine has been established between
the two ports.
THE LATEST
Numerous contests were , progressing when
the City of London left Liverpool.
Dr. Pritchard, convicted of the murder of
his wife at Glasgow, has confessed his crime.
La France denies the rumor of negotiations
for a European Congress, and the Moniteur is
silent on the subject.
The Spanish Government has notified the
Pope of its recognition of the Kingdom of
Italy.
The Papal Minister having declined to at.
tend a banquet at the Mexican embassy, it is
reported that the embassy will shortlybe with
drawn froiu Rome.
A private telegram announces that the Pope
has excommunicated Maximilian.
Additional official correspondence on Ame
rican affairs has been published, showing that
England and France acted in concert, and that
the concession to Confederate vessels, allow
ing them to be disarmed and sold in neutral
ports, originated with Drouyn de L'Huys.
Earl Russell agreed to the proposition, and
pointed out that the cruisers of defunct
Governments might be claimed as public pro.
perty by the. United States, but that such
claim must be decided in the ordinary courts
of law.
In a letter to Sir Frederick Bruce, Earl Rus
sell gives the opinion that in the case of the
Etna or Retribution, the vessel was lawfully
and rightfully condemned, on the ground that
the vessels of a belligerent could not be trans
ferred during a war.
In another despatch Earl Russell replies to
Mr. Seward's note on the cessation of bellige
rent rights, and regrets that his explanations
are not acceptable to the United States Gov
ernment, and adduces arguments in favor of
England's course. He trusts• that these addi
tional explanations will, prove favorable to
the establishment of a
. pisting friendship be
tween the two nations.
It is stated that the steamer Beatrice, late
the Rappahannock, was overhauled by the
Sacramento before reaching Liverpool, but
was permitted to proceed.
A questionable story was afloat that General
Lee had arrived in Germany by a Belgian
trans-Atlantic steamer, incognito.
Sailed for Baltimore, July 10th, ship Carrie
from Liverpool.
Cenntnerell
Livintroot COTT Er MArcawr. —LIVERPOOL,
July 13.—The sales of Cotton for four days foot
up 18,000 bales, including 4,000 to speculators
and exporters. The market is dull, and all
qualities have slightly declined; but to-day
Op market closed somewhat firmer.
STATE OF TRADIL—The Manchester market is
dull, and prices are declining,
TAvartrooL BREADSTUFFS aIARRRT. Biead
stuffs quiet and film. Messrs.Wakettekl, Nash,
& Co., and Richardson, Spence, & Co., report
Flour quiet and steady. Wheat firm but quiet
at Is 6d@9s for red winter. Corn firmer and
advancing; mixed, 268@285.
LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.—Messrs. Gor
don, Bruce, & Co., and Bigland, Athaya, & Co.,
report Beef steady. Pork quiet. Bacon steady.
Lard quiet. Tallow quiet.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—Ashes quiet
and Steady. Sugar firm. Coffee inactive. Rice,
uO sales. Petroleum 5 Small sales at 1:2 4s for
cruder Rosin steady. Spirits Turpentine flat.
LONDON MAREETs.—LONDON, July iB.—Wheat
advancing. Sugar firm. Coffee firm. Tea
steady.,Rice firm. Tallow steady. Spirits
Turpentine dull at 50s tkl.
Consols for money 9o@s)ox ; Illinois Central
shares WOW,. • Erie shares 52,34615334 ; United
States 5.20 s ngii%.
LATEST VIA GREENCASTLE.
[By Telegraph.]
LivuurooL, July 14.—Cotton sales for the
week 45,000 bales including 7,500 to speculators,
and 10,500 to exporters. The market has been
dull, with a decline of 34d on American, and
Sprats and other description are irregular.
d
Sales to-ay 5000 bales, the market closing
ill - rner at unchanged rates. The authorized
quotations are,—
Uplands 19d
Orleans 191.4 d
Texas 19d
The stock of cotton in port amounts to 30/ r
000 bales, including 29,500 bales of American.
Breada nftS quiet and Steady. Corn firmer.
Provisions quiet and steady.
LONDON, Ally 14.—Consols closed at 893(A 101 ./.i
for money.
The weekly return of the Bank of England
shows' decrease in bullion of .f 588,000.
Illinois Central Railroad, Se@Sg4; Erie, 54%;
United States 5.205, 71Y,@71%.
Arrived from New York, ship Adler, at Li
zard Point.
The ship Harry Bluff, which was ashore near
Hamburg, has got off.
case of Alleged Proud-
AN EX•GOYNNifOa or NNW xwapagunt THE
Charles J. Anthony, of Wor‘ster, Mass., was,
on Friday, arraigned before Justice Dowling,
at the Toombs Pollee Court, New York, on a
charge of defrauding Joseph A. Gilmore, late
Governor of New Hampshire, in the sum of
515,000. It appears from the affidavits placed
on lite, that in April, 1584, Edward J. Barrett,
Gf KitgUargs Kam. Whoa wm at that tikaa.
acting as the agent of Governor Gilmore in
this City, was induced to inveA *15,000 in the
3100selitial Gold Company for the Said Gilmore.
Anthony told Barrett, it 15 alleged, that he
(Aid holly) had paid one hand red thousand dol
lars for the lands of the company, which were
located in Nova Scotia. Isaac J. Biggs, of
Brooklyn, testified that in January, 18115, An
thony told him that only fifty thousand dol
lars had been paid for the original purchase of
the company's property. On the 7th of -Janu
ary, 1865, Anthony told Biggs that he and one
6hlrley bad caused the property of the com
pany to be sold under foreeloture, for the pur
pose of cutting off Gilmore. An examination
of the ease will take place on the 31st inst. by
the meantime Anthony was held to hail the
sum of - fifteen thousand dollars, Mr. Charles F.
Southmayd becoming his bondsman.
CHAT FROM THE CAPE.
ITS VISITORS] riar.nBrrrcBs, ARD IMPROVEMENTS—
LETTERS FROM Two rOII.TTINATII SOJOURN
ERS BY TEN SEA.
[Correspondence of The Press.)
CONGRESS HALL, CAPEISLAND, N. J.,July2l
While New York and Boston are revelling at
Saratoga and Newport, Philadelphia and Bal
timore have jOilled hands and "gone in" for a
season of luxury at the Cape. No l e ss than
twenty States are here largely represented,
with a liberal sprinkling of Canadians. Every
day brings increasing delegations ; all seem to
be provided for, though bow toaceount for the
number packed into rooms of undefinable
smallness puzzles our arithmetic exceedingly.
The visitor of four years ago would be sur
prised at the improvement here manifest.
The hotels have been enlarged; new cottages
erected; the railway in successful operation,
and the increase of visitors (computed by Mr.
J. F. Cake, of Congress Hall,) over the last
year, is estimated at from: two to three hun
dred per cent.
I 3 T v a
e n N ot e e l l y
e o r izn L y: e. ,
g h t a a s .
been The i n l e 4 o C r o p n o g r i a e t s e s d
tore; capital, 5300,000; and ten per cent. is
guaranteed on every share of stock subscribed.
Philadelphians (as in everything here,) arc
stockholders to a large amount; and through
their energy Cape May will boast next year
one of the largest hotels in the United States.
In addition to The Press, we have Mr. Ma
gonaglets spicy little sheet, the Ocean Wave,
conducted by Mr. Granville Leech, of your
city. While the season lasts it has a daily cir
culation of five thousand copies ; and, keeping
march with other improvements, will soon be
enlarged and its circulation increased.
Bishop Simpson of the Methodist Church is
here, and Secretary Seward and family have a
cottage connected with Congress !Unreserved
for them, and are expected early in the coming
week.
The weather here is splendid. Punctually at
eleven o'clock the bathers emerge from their
rat-like
amount l o m f x a r i p
o r e s
e s
a n n b y l i t n h g i
g a ee
fromr i
a n g h
o t o g
s t h h e e a i d r
to an elongated whisky bottle—and rush
Pell-mell into the seething and roaring waves.
Now a short man, having been caught una
wares by a huge billow, and as a necessary
consequence, "gone under," emerges with
disheyelled hair and "sandy" eyes; while a
fat woman who opens her mouth to laugh, re
ceives an inwaid supply of indigestible sea
water and weeds, and goes to the shore to ex
pectorate. Here a frantic mother is dipping
Promiscuously after a lost baby; and small
boys cause delicate females to suddenly grow
pale, by diving and making crab-like grabs at
their ankles. Bilious young men rush into
the arms of plethoric females; while Charles
and Susie make love under water, and clasp
each Other all the tighter at every imaginary
breaker. The shouts of the bathers mingle
with the roar of old Ocean, but can stand it
only for an hour, when they emerge, like so
many shipwrecked Robinson Crusoes, and sud
denly becoming aware of their degenerate ap
pearance, "make tracks" for change of dress.
Then comes lunch, and chitchat, and dinner,
and sleep, and while I write you all is as quiet
as a Country Sabbath. We slUmber to be in
the fashion, and an awakening brings a new
picture. The hop has commenced ! Mark
Hassler's Band (the best on the Island) sends
exquisitely forth promenade music—and 'mid
glitter of diamonds, and rustle of costly fab
rics, and smiling and beautiful faces, the gay
Couples pass round the room. We love to
watch them, but the starlight beach has more
attractiveness, and we 'wander forth,
"Loving to pace the calm seaside walk,
Saddened, and mostlysilent, with emotion
Not interrupting with intrusive talk
The grand, majestic symphonies of ocean.'
Here and there, in the moonlight, may be
seen couples silently surveying the grand
scene spread out before them—the wild waves,
with their mysterious sayings—the faint sounds
of music from the ball-room—the calm and
silent majesty of moon and stars; and, white
and stark with gleaming and penetrating glare,
stand, sentry-like, the lighthouses of lionlopen
and May.
Though beauty and fashion are here, as else
where, popular gods, sociality and amusement
are not forgotten. Ladies and gentlemen, old
and young, enter with zest into the pleasures
of the sack race, the greasy pole and slippery
pig, the drolleries of small "Cuffs and Di
nabs,” With riding, billiards, and ten-pins—all
and their votaries.
Philadelphia may tare just pride in her re
presentative summer resort, The number of
- visitors this year at the Cape, from a careful
and accurate estimate, has already reached
the number of fifteen thousand, and the sea
son is but yet at its height. Southerners are
present in large force, submit with good grace
to hearing the " Mar Spangled "Banner) , while
they eat, and on the matter of polities philo
- say nothing. The New York He
rald, Mercury, and World, London Times, etc.,
all have their regular correspondents here,
who manufacture items to order, and will
commit murder on paper for a " penny a line.”
The first week in Augusithe Messrs. Mark
and Simon Hassler, aided by Messrs. Risley,
Potts, Moore, &e., will give a grand ball, at
Congress Hall, which is expected to eclipse
anything of the same order heretofore at
tempted at the Cape.
If the residents at the Cape will only lend
the same helping hand as their Philadelphia
visitors, they will have a resort which shall
not honor only themselves, but the whole
State ; but a Jerseyman, away from his water
melon or pea-patch is a sorry help-mate. If the
Congress-Hall Hotel Company were incorpo
rated to raise cranberries, every Jersoyman
would become a stockholder immediately.
COLIIMBIA Horsy, CAPE DILAND, July, 1565
As I sit at my desk, trying to contribute my
mite for the edification of the readers of The
Press, a soft breeze from the old Ocean steals
through my window, while my ear is charmed
by its never-ceasing cadence as the waves roll
inwards towards the shore. Before me are
many guests smoking their after-breakfast
cigar, while the ladies are commenting as to
how the water will be to-day. One declares
she saw a shark yesterday within a few feet of
her, while another disputes the fact, she
having seen the same fish, and it was
only a porpoise. Children are playing
their little games in blissful ignorance
Of the voyage- of life before them. Some
may find it smooth sailing, but for the majori
ty the voyage will be l ehockered With storm
and calm. In my opinion the children are the
only class of the community who really enjoy
themselves at a fashionable resort, as they are
not and cannot be held iu restraint by the for
malities of fashion. Another class, I had al
most forgotten to mention, the Jew peddlers,
who are to be found everywhere. Here comes
one now, his head and body almost concealed
by a load of wicker baskets, which I have no
doubt he will sell below cost. Another is coming
along a side path with his baskets filled with
zinnias, scarfs, 85c., aIZ to be sold without regard
to cost.
No doubt the readers' of your paper have
been made cognizant of the horrible murder
which occurred here on Sunday last. From all
the facts that I can glean, it appears to have
been entirely unpremeditated on the part of
the negro, and will prove a warning to all dis
orderly characters. The conduct of Mr. Bar.
rett, of the Cape Island Bowling Saloon, is
highly spoken of in holding the person of the
murderer in his keeping until the constituted
authorities of the Island had arrived.
The cold weather of last week deterred many
from coming down to the Island, although our
proprietor, Mr. Bolton, informs me that his
lintel contains upwards of five hundred guests,
with room for more, never considering his ho
tel full while a vacant sofa remains in the
house. Congress Hall boasts of almost an
equal number. %Ile other houses and cottages
are very generally filled, but I would have
your readers understand that no matter how
full we are down here, there is always room
for others. Old Stephen Girard never spoke
truer words than when, in reply to the ques
tion, "What is enough" he said, "More,
more I" Come one, come all to this our happy
home, and we can assure you that on your de
parture you will bear away many pleasant re
collections of your sojourn on our coast,
where—
“Nought is heard but the caroling hard,
Andiieienr - of the surging seu:"
An exciting game of base ball wag played
between the guests of Congreag Hall and the
Columbia House, on the lawn of the former
hotel, on Thursday afternoon, the 20th inst., in
the presence of a large concourse of ladies anti
gentlemen. No finer afternoon could have
been desired for a trial of skill between these
rival houses. The day, although warm, was
suftleientl3r tempered by the soft breezes from
the old ocean, while hardly a cloud appeared
to mar the azure blue of the heavens above.
The balconies of Congress Hall were tilled with
beauty and fashion, which displayed itself to
the best advantage, and as each successful
player made a brilliant hit or handsome catch
he was met by the rapturous applause of the
male spectators, while the gentler sex vied
with each other in Waving the misty cambric,
inspiring the rivals as wore the knights of old
on Ashbygs glorious field by the cry of
"Fight on brave Anights, for bright eyes be
hold your deeds.),
The game resulted inravor of Congress Hall,
its representatives making thirty-dve runs to
Wrei gt seven by their oppeheittes 110 pay
THREE CENTS.
of Mr. Richard Miller, of Congress Hall, was:
especially , admired, and he established him-
Self as the best player on the field, while Mr.
Leisenringls score of seven was well earned.
On the part of the Columbia, the Newhall
brothers, of Philadelphia, proved that they
are as apt at base ball as at cricket. AM= the
match, a collation was served to the players
by their hosts of Congress NMI.
The bathing hour is nigh, so I will conclude
my epistle. More anon. J. R. S.
MOUNT 'VERNON.
Its History, its Proprietors, its Relied..
its Reminiscences, and its Present
Condition.
There has probably never been so great a
throng of visitors to the national shrine in the
history of lice coutitty as at the present thne.
The fine steamer running regularly thither
from this city is largely patronized, while
multitudes arc daily going there by land con
veyances. The throng of soluiers thither is
especially very numerous. The distance from-
Washington is some fifteen miles, about nine
below Alexandria.
At the death of General Washington, in 1799,
the Mount Vernon estate comprised several
thousand acres of land in a solid body, extend
ing many miles on the Potomac river. A large
pert of it was under tillage. It was divided
into live farms, each cultivated by its Own
negroes, with an overseer,
and the whole under
a general superintendant, and all under the
careful inspection of the great chief himself.
Ilia Own negroes numbered one hundred and
twenty; his wife's were as many more. Wheat,
corn, and tobacco, were the chief products of
the estate, tobacco being, however, much less
cultivated in the latter years of his life than
in earlier times. Upon the estate there was a
fine two-story stone corn and flour mill, the
remnants of which are still visible on Dogue
Creek, up width flatboats came alongside the
• mill. The water to carry the mill was brought
in a race sonie mile and a half from a"tum
bling dam" up Hogue Run. The old mill
-1101150 lS Still in good condition, and is °con
pied by a colored family. Near this mill was
also his distillery. There were also a brick
yard, a carpenter establishment, blacksmith
shop—the estate forming, in fact, a sort of
village.
Originally the Mount Vernon estate consist
ed of one-half of five thousand acres assigned
to Washington's great-grandfather, who, in
conjunction with Nicolas Spencer, patented it
from Lord Culpeper in 1670. In the division of
his estate, the father of Washington assigned
this tract to his elder brother Lawrence, who
came here and erected the mansion in 1743,
naming it in honor of Admiral Vernon, under
whom he had served as captain in a colonial
regiment, in the West Indies, in 1740. Law
rence died in 1752 leaving a wife, the daughter
F
of Sir William airfax, of Belvoir, and one
child—a daughter i and, on the demise of this
daughter without issue, as soon happened; the
estate fell to George, who had been much an
inmate of his family.
In his will Washington divided his estate
into three parts. The mansion, with four
thousand acres, was left to his nephew, Bush
rod Washington, an associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court. At the death
of Mrs. Washington, in 1801, Judge Washing
ton became proprietor of Mount Vernon, and
continued there tin his death, in 1829. Two of
the old servants still on the estate came there
with him, belonging to his wife Anne, daugh
ter of Colonel Thomas Blackburn. Two of
General Washington's servants still survive,
also residing some three miles from Mount
- Vernon. Judge Washington, having no chil
dren, left the estate to his nephew, John A.
Washington, front whom the Ladies' Mount
Vernon Association purchased the two hun
dred acres upon which are the mansion and
the tomb, for $200,000. Two thousand acres
were Willed by Washington to two other Mehl
hers of the Washington family, and the resi
due, upwards of two thousand acres, including
the fine Woodlawn estate, was given to Major
Lawrenee Lewis, a favorite nephew, whose
wife was the beautiful and cultivated Welly
Custis, grandchild of Mrs. Washington, and
the adopted daughter of General Washington.
Major Lewis erected a splendid mansion at
Woodlawn, ill 18tO', at a cost of Sial ? sen. Major
Lewis. whose MOther, Betty 'Washington, Was
the sister of the great chief, died at Arlington
in 1841, and his wife died in 1852. The remains
of both, with those of a daughter, the wife of
Charles M. Conrad, Fillmore's War Secretary,
being deposited in the Mount Vernon vault.
Soon after the death of Major Lewis, the Wood
lawn estate was sold by his only son, Lorenzo,
to a colony of Quakers from New Jersey, who
still retain much of it, divided into farms.
The Woodlawn mansion, with a splendid farm
of five hundred acres surrounding it, belongs
to John Mason, ESa., who Came there froth.
New Hampshire in 1850. The mansion is of
brickovith slate roof, and lofty pillars, front
ing the river on a commanding site looking
down upon the whole Mount l ernon estate.
Lorenzo Lewis died sonic years ago in Clark
county, and the other daughter, the wife of a
Mr, Butler. is living in Mississippi.
John A. Washington went to ffauquier coun
ty with his family in muo, and purchased a farm
known as Wareland. His wife died suddenly
soon after, and it is well known that lie fell,
as colonel of a rebel regiment, early in 1861,
leaving a family of seven children, - the
youngest two being little boys and the only
male children ever born at the Mount Vernon
mansion. There are some one thousand acres
of the Mount Vernon estate, belonging to
these orphan children, lying in close proximi
ty to the Mount Vernon mansion. The Mount
Vernon estate was probably never under a
finer state of cultivation than it is at
the present time. The farmers have been
shipping manure in large quantities from
this city this season, and piling it
at their landings on the river for future qse.
At the present time there are two thousand
Government mules grazing upon different
farms in that section. These mules are sepa
rated into squads of five hundred, and with
fifteen mounted men to control them, are put
into a heavy grass field, kept closely together,
and compelled to eat clean as they go. A
squad thus eats some more than two acres of
the heaviest grass in a day, for which they pay
five cents ahead, or twenty-live dollars a day
for the squad. The ground. behind them looks
as though no grass had grown there this
season.
The grounds immediately around the man
sion and tomb bear evidence of care and taste.
The approach to the tomb and to the mansion
from the river is highly picturesque and de
lightful. The appearance of both the tomb
and the mansion has been familiar to all Ame
ricans in illustrated books from the childhood
of most of those who now read the daily press.
We have seen this sacred spot many times in
the last thirty years, and never saw it looking
better than now.
It may be interesting to many who are now
visiting the place for the first time to know
that the 'remains of Washington were origi
nally deposited in the old vault, which is
pointed out to all visitors, and in a mahogany
coffin lined with lead. The vault was damp,
and the wood was three times renewed before
being placed in the receptacle where they now
repose. In 1831 the new vault was erected,
and the remains transferred. A Philadelphia
marble-worker proposed to furnish a marble
sarcophagus, but on visiting the!tomb de
clined to do so if it was to be pnt into so
damp a Vault. An ante-chamber was, there
fore, erected in front of the vault, some
dozen feet high, with an arched gateway,
and a gate formed of iron rods. In this ante
chamber, on the right, is the sarcophagus con
taining the remains of Washington, and on
the left anotherprecisely like it containing
the remains of Mrs. Washington ; and it may
be added that her remains have been moved
as often as those of the great chief. The sar
cophagus is excavated from a solid block of
pure - white marble, and was placed there in
1837. Within the vault proper are the bodies
of many members of the family. On either
side, as you come near to the vault, stands a
marble obelisk, inscribed with names of lead
ing members of the Washington family. The
design upon Washington's sarcophagus covers
the most of the top or lid, and consists of a
shield, divided into thirteen perpendicular
stripes, resting on the national flag and at
tached by cords to a spear embellishlid with
tassels, forming a background- to the shield.
The crest is an eagle with open wings perching
upon the superior bar - of the shield, and
clutching the arrows and olive branch. Below
the armorial bearing is the name, deeply
sculptured, of-" Washington." On the plain
lid of the other sarcophagus are the words, in
I large letters, "Martha Washington."
An addition, erected at one end of the man
' sion after Washington's time,'has been torn
away, and the structure is now in the exact
form as when left by the Father of his Coun
try. It is well known that the mansion, as ori•
ginally erected and left by Lawrence Wash
ington, was much enlarged by General Wash
ington. a section being added to each end,
making it, as it now stands, ninety-six feet
in length, north and south, with a portico,
fronting the river, extending from end to
end. This portico having decayed, has been
replaced by an exact copy of the old. The man-
Mon is two stories high, Of Wood, finished in
imitation of freestone, and painted white.
Fourten small windows, with the old-fashioned
diminutive panes of glass, look out upon beau
tifully sloping lawns, and down upou the river
from an elevation of two hundred feet above
the river level. There are six rooms on the
floor, with a spacious hall running through
the centre from east to west. The north
room Is the large dining-hall, in which is
the exquisite marble mantelpiece, wrought in
Italy, shipped on au - English vessel during the
French revolution, captured by the French,
and promptly forwarded by the French Go
vernment when Lafayette made known that
it was a present from an American wine mer
chant, resident in Marseilles, to Washington.
In this room are also the double-banked harp
sichord, shaped like a. modern square piano—
a wedding present to his adopted daughter,
Nelly Custis •;. the tripod Which served Wash
ington in all his surveys, and the large sot of
matched mahogany dining-tables. The
dining
hall opens at either end into an east and west
parlor, in one of which is an old, dilapidated,
large globe, and in the other an old sofa.
The key of the Bastile—a present from
Lafayette—still hangs in the glass ease
in the ball, and, by its side, the ailhouelle
takes from life by a lady in Phil
The librar-room, in the south end, is occu
pied by 1 1158 Tracy, the accomplished and
faithful agent of the Mount Vernon :IWO
ation. A bust of Washington, east in plaster
by Houiton, and another of Lafayette, facing
each other high on the walls, are the only ob
servable relies. The bookcases, built into the
wall, with glass doors, fully occupy one side of
the large room. Over this apartment, in a
small bed-room, the great and good man died.
A bedstead said to be an exact copy of that on
which lie died is the only article i the chain
her. The family pictures were nearly or quite
all at Arlington, and were taken to Richmond
by General Lee. The celebrated pitcher por
trait, union the back of which was inscribed the
beautiful eulogy, and left in the mansion by
an unknown and, was carried away by John
A. Washington, and is in the possession of that
The long row of brick quarters still stand as
they have for thirty, or forty years since they
were partially destroyed by fire. In this row,
Washington had his blacksmith and carpenter
ing establishments, and here now live the two
old colored servants, of whom mention has
been made as the servants that came here six
ty years ago, with Anne Blackburn, the wife
of Bushrod Washington,
The " Ladies' Mount Vernon Association? it
andell known, Made their purchase In 1858 i
had made the last payment of two thou
sand dollars on the eve of the rebellion. The
association had expended also twenty thou.
sand dollars in improvements, in addition to
paying the two hundred thousond dollars pur
chase money. Mach still needstobe done, and
the large amount of fends at this time amazon
kiting from the throngs of visitors, who pay an
entrance foe each of twenty-Ave cents, will
do inneh for putting the national shrine and
presetving uinpropereOnditien, The scourge
of the rebellion stayed its desolating tide at
the confines of these sacred acres, The tomb
of Washington was held sacred on both sides.
pohlok Church, where Washington Worshile
pea till the close of the Rovolution, has not
escaped so wall, Tyne last ascOttrso ill it was
E. M. T
THE WAR
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eopt.
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in no instance can these terms be deviated from, at
they agora very Mit more than the cost of Paper.
Xir Postmasters are requested to act so agents,
for THE WAE
sap To the getter-up of the club often or twenty
an extra copy of the paper will he even.
it tempestuous disunion harangue hv an
Itine
rant Methodist preacher on a &Mimi near
the opening of the war. The ancient edifice 18
now a shell ; not a window, door,nor the small
eat fragment of the pews, pulpit, nor door,
are to be ecen. It was used early in the war by
soldiers forshelter, an d laterwas tUr/llla into
stable. The ancient , tombstones of the :unm
anned graveyard are lying and lean i n around,
and desolation is painted in all its saddest
forms upon the scene. The oldPohick Church
was erected near this some one hundred and
fifty years age. This was erected in 177; and
Washington was the chief contributor in Its
erection. To this church Washington for
years regularly *repaired, some seven miles,
allowing no company to keep him. from the
Sabbath service. The pew.doors of Washing.
ton and the great George Mason had' been ear•
tied away as relics before the war. The brick
walls alone now remain.—Washinglon
InteUt
veneer.
STATE ITEMS.
The Iron interest continues to be depressed
throughout the Slate, and both rolling
tte., and colleries, are closing every week.
Many give the choice to their workmen of ac
cepting lower wages or having the works
closed, and the workmenitgenerally prefer the
latter course. In view of the dull state of the
business, the proprietors are rather benelitted
thereby.
In speaking of an oilvvell,g correspondent
of the lirie Dulwich says : "It has gained since
the 4th at the rate of four barrels per day, and
now gives a daily yield of seven barrels:" The
correspondent is writing on the 12th. We
Should like to know how much less than no•
thing the well produced on the 4th.—Warren
Ledger.
A respectable young lady in Pittsburg
eloped the other night with a youth, whose
addresses her " cruel parient had forbidden.
She took along the old gentleman's money
box, containing NOO.
—An extensive Methodist camp meeting
will be held at Shrewsbury, on the Northern
Central RaUroaQ, commencthg on the 17th of
August.
A B. Siaymaker, formerly Cl Lancaster,
Pa., committed suicide at St. Louis on the 9th.
He was thirty-two years of age, and committed
the deed because of disappointment in love.
J. D. Potts, Esq., general manager -of the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, at Williams
port, has resigned his position.
The new German Reformed Church at Ma
chanicsburg will be dedicated on Sunday, 30th
instant; with appropriate services.
—Mr. Wm. A. Richards, of Reading, who
died recently, bequeathed 4;28,000 to various
churches and foreign missions.
The deaths in Pittsburg for the week end.
tog July 15tb;.were as follows i Males, 93; fe•
males, 12—total, 35,
Lancaster proposes to give the Laneaster 7
eounty soldiers an ox roast or a barbecue:
HOME ITEMS
A Boston paper says: MaryE. Suratt wee
a South American woman, who was brought to•
the United States when a child. She kept IC
resort for rebels and persons engaged hi block•
ade-running. She was not only a rebel spy of,
the most dangerous type, but she has been in
conspiracies of one sort and another all her
life. She has long borne the reputation of a
very dangerous as well as a very bad woman.
She wielded a wonderful power over dissolute
young men.
Miss Mary Preston, of East Horner, If, 'f, t
went one day last week to feed a bear belong
ing to a member of her sister's family. Not
returning as soon as she Was expected, an
other member of the family went for her, and
found her dead. In some way or other slit
came within-reach of the bear, whose thirst
for blood led. him to take her life, She was
considerably mangled when feund. The bear
was immediately killed,
The spirit of the country press—for this
day's reading—may be embodied in the news
paper headings thus: "Another Heart-rending
Affair." "Three Children Buried Alive at
Milwaukee." "Shocking Spectacle at Du
buque," "Another Shooting Affray at Mem
phis." "Highway Robbery at St. L 01118." "A.
Negro Splits Open a White Matt's Skull in.
Philadelphia." "Another Adultery Case at
Chicago," and soon.—N. Y. Express.
The people of West Roxbury, near Bostoa
have become so much waked up by the rua
ring of dummy engines on their street rail
roads That they have held a Dahlia meeting
with numerous excitable speeches. Matters
went so far that at ono time the meeting
threatened to break up in a row, but better
counsels prevailed, and the matter was left
with the selectmen to adjudicate.
The New Hampshire Superior Court has
decided that an express company delivering 4
parcel marked with the cabalisad "C. 0.
Collect on delivery—may allow a person to
whom it is consigned reasonable time to open
the package and determine whether he will
receive it or not.
A movement is on foot by colored men to
purchase the Charleston Mercury ttud publish
it as an anti-alavery journal, Some progress
has been made, and money is being subsoribea
with a good prospect of success. Progress la
a New England direction.
Skates have been invented with a heating
chamber under the foot-plate, by means of
which the feet aro prevented from becoming
old while skating.
A NOW Yorker has inVented a HMO ma•
chine for the convenience of one-armed per ,
sons, by which they aro enabled to wash the
rernainingliand and arm.
A bridge to span the Niagara at Buffalo is
about to be built. Two millions and a half are
pledged for the work.
Four million dollars have beenSubseribed
in New York for the great ocean steamship
line.
.A. 4 white woman of Fishkill, N. Y., has
eloped with a negro and sixty dollars of her
husbands money.
Major General Terry is to be presented
with 1126,000 in United States 7.80 bonds by olti•
zens of New Haven.
Particular request—The person who has
our wheelbarrow will please call and get the
sideboards !—New Hampshire Patriot,
Fifty United States prisoners are to be
sent to the New Hampshire State prison.
New Yorkers think a postl.oOlce would
look well on the Barnum's Museum /QC
John B. Gough, the temperence lecturer,.
reports an income of $9,000 a year.
A monument to Mrs. Sigourney is to be
erected at Hartford.
It Is stated that there are 600,000 soldiers
yet on the pay roll.
Half a million Northern money has been.
invested in Maryland lands,
Two sets of teeth and a gum," are ar
ticles found by the Norwich, Conn, poliee.
In five weeks, 4,210,3 N rations were served
to Richmond families,
Boston is to have a new hotel.
FOREIGN- ITEMS.
The repent performanees of " The lirugu,
note at her Majesty's Theatre, London, drew'
crowded and fashionable houses, and the opera,
is said to have been magnificently presented.
Titters appeared as Valentin,
De Murska as
Margaret, Trebelli the Page, Joulain as
Raoul, ltokitanski as Marcel, and Stanley as
the Connt de Nevors, X, Nokltanski made his
debui as the old Huguenot soldier, and he is
said to have filled the part admirably, both in
appearance and voice. "Die Zauberfloteu was
shortly to be presented.
Patents have been obtained in Franco for
an instrument to indicate the existence' of
mineral or springs of water in land; for rais
ing a ship into the air, and steering it there
for applying steam to children's toys; for heat"
lug and lighting apartments With the Shine ap
ParatllS ; for a mode of lining letter envelopes
with silk; and for a cane which you can put
in your pocket, and transform into a seat at
Hitherto the Prussians have alone MS«
sensed the secret of manufacturing the fulmi
nating substance used by their infantry for the
needle-guns.. Ninnerous experiments have
been made in other countries to discover the
substances used, but without success. N.
Cordts, of Altona, has now composed a sub
starice of that kind, which not only produces
an instantaneous explosion, but is not affected
by damp.
The committee on the bill allthOriZing the
city of Paris to borrow two hundred and
fifty millions, has just presented its report.
Two hundred millions are to be devoted ex
clusively to works rendered necessary by the
extension of the limits of Paris, and the. Bur
Plus will go to the extraordinary expenses of
religious edifices .and hospitals, municipal
buildings, :to.
The nistolre de JulesCsoSar le Doing trans
lated into ,Arabic, The Spanish military antita
rities have just completed a aeries of plans of
Ctesar's campaign against Pompey, to illus
trate the Emperor's Life of Ca3sar.
The miu3ielpality of Munich,. Bavaria'.
have voted the lann:,.sommoenumsumenotftioOrheirßofire
(about $50,000') for
King, lflexlmilian.
Austria is almost in a state of bankruptcy,
caused by her obstinacy in supporting a vast
and useless army of 700,000 men, when nobody ,
is going to attack her.
• Russian prisoners, sentenced to• colonize,
tic's in Siberia, are left without any assistance
on the part of the Government.
The Emperor of Russia has given Jackson
Haines, the skater, a splendid diamond ring.
The Queen of Snail has taken to Seth
bathing for her health.
There has been a public, execution by.
guillotine at Orleans, France.
Italy has a fleet now of ninetpeigilt Y 49-
eels—of which eighteen aro iron -clads,
Finn IN CAmnux.—Last evening, about
half-past ton, a large Are was seen in the
neighborhood of Market-street wharf, Cam
den. It is supposed the property destroyed
NMI a number of stables, which were in that
vicinity. Several Philadeipitia companlea
were itt hlarketostroot wharf, anxious to ga
over and subdue the flames, but the ferry
boats had all left for Caniden, whore, to a late.
SW they reinatued