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.TUESDAY, JLTLY 25, 1865
TIM NEWS.
Aca i, ;ram Central and South Arneries.
we print this morning is interesting.
• fresident of Ecoundor had seized a
antl with it attacked the Revell] ,
lh•et, sinking one vessel and forcing
to surrender. lie then Shot twenty
t:te Revolntionists. The Driti.di yes
az %ft erwards returned to its owners.
•,ellion in Peru - had gained ground, al
an engagement between the opposing
in a defeat of the rebels. The
Oa the Peruvian flag ship mutinied,
tke admiral, and then , seized two
ic,t4/P. Chili is in trouble with
Tl:e CA-President of San StdVa
:.l,s! leen raptured, nod would pro
-I;:tuticti Over to his Government,
all likelihood, shoot him. The
;Ai -Ith, invincible wesirrecked off Desert
ca in May. ISal. Nineteen of the erewwere
•‘) :tad !atelcd co the island. Here they
for a y(or and ten days On dab and roots.
artt resoned, the eantain, mate,
ion- were all that remained, the rest .
beist.co.
mai Charleston advices of the 2.oth
I,cca received. An the towns in South
or will SOOn be occupiedby Union
i 4 .4 crops throughout the State were in
The IGsth New York Regi-
ZOILICOS) having exhibited ;1,
on Morris Island, the y were dis
14e4i inoi marched under guard to Fort Setup-
Ti, c lr colonel and second officers had been
„.,1 under arrest, and it became necessary
the regiment with other troops
loaded batteries before they submitted.
4 0.1erner 4 lotnison. of Georgia, has issued a
;riais:dion providing for the election or
,••.,:iteA to 41 Sttdc Convention to be held at
4 .. . i:le on the - first Wednesdityof October.
delivered a speech at Macon on
ir4:l:. in NI Melt he told the people that if
wt-lied to hereafter enjoy the blessings
:1e Mon, they must endorse the elthIllei
:1 proclamation and ratify the eonstitm
• 4 4: a mendment. Re gave them, also, some
lee. The proclamation and speech
found in another column.
ail ad vices of the 14th, says that three
of the Imperial troops had been sent
1 , rude against the Republican General
the latter had retreated and foiled
Two important Points on the frontier •
and Piedras Negras, were to be omit!
-:,-;l4e French, so as to prevent any fill
entering the Mexican territory.
a; fifty thousand dollars worth of do
. t ;i4l worn out curreasy is destroyed by
,eminent each day. Its place is sup
.. the new issue. No more three-cent
Li,' to be issued; and the five-cent notes
:44' gradually withdrawn,
-one men of the 711th Pennsylvania Re,-
:4441t, and one °Meer of a Maine Regiment,
444 la s t seen on board the Government trans
:: i2ti humbug, wrecked off Morehead City,
t. It is probable they were all lost.
frumber of rebel officers have been
...All limn Von Warren on parole. Among
are Major Mary Gilmer mid the pirate
.4tentint Ree.i. "Tice President” Stephens
" Postmaster General'' Reagan are the
iy prisoners now in the fort.
S...ecretary of War IIIM issued an order
g :ill orders of military officers restrict
!li,l2llllllll frOM travelling wherever they
, 3103 - or and ;Fudge of Columbia., Tennes
; ,ve i wen 6nspended from office; and two
been arrested for their perseco-
Guerilla depredations are
1111111111 l Champ Ferguson has to be
ff.as rd ea from the -wrath of the soldiers.
ri-lloried that the people of Georgia an
!l,-.roashed at the hands of the freed-
rlO report of a curious excitement at pre
pie-y:0111;g in Southwark will be found in
i,c:d columns. The eceiteyaeht• arose from
:IL-cover, - of five fires 'Within-twenty-four
in one block of houses on Reckless
d, Which Tllll5 from Front to Otsego, north
liothinglen avenue. A. investigation by
Marsha! Blackburn discovered the fact
the fires had been kindled by a small
t for whet purpose is not known. The
Frobably affected by a mental disease
I by some medical men pyromania.
: , tewrirt, who was arrested in Boston
~pieion of being the murderer of the
01!;41ren, has been honorably discharged
11. f, eourta in Elizabeth City county,
"Lf!Li:,, I , c:re organized on the 22d, for the
th;:e since the commencement of the
Ti ier General R. de Trobriand, who c-c;rn
the lld Division, 2d Army Corps, has
, 3 promoted to a major generalship by bre
:er meritorious conduct.
withdrew her concession of beligerent
:.1s to the rebels on the 31st of May.
he ,el.seription, to the seven-thirty loan
Imlay amounted to 310,213.30.
.dock market continued depressed yes
!lay, especially for Government loans, and
, ixes were rather active, but at a decline
F:lees. The demand for railroad shares
•iami, is moderate, and prices are steady.
:mak et generally is very nat.
flour market was quiet yesterday.
itt lalraneed. Corn was quiet; and oats
In cotton there was very little done;
:1:e same can be said of sugar and whisky.
c:oz:ed in New York, last evening, at
TTLft FROM icoccAsloNAL.”
WASHINGTON, July 24, 1865.
and experienced men express the
that there will be a more rapid and
:nd business revival in the Southern
than was expected some weeks ago.
fact that the _instances of individual
lily among the Southern debtors of
;ociliern merchants are daily in
in number, is a gratifying con
..l!en of this opinion. It would, in
.. 1s a revolting spectacle if the
of millions of honeSt obligations
people of the North, and solemnly
before the war, should be delibe-
, I,utliated, after the overthrow of '
I, i'f's)n, by those who ask inn'? wry&
wv.l credit froM their creditors ! And
thilly to say that the hope that all
~11 1g.:,11ons would be ultimately paid
ANIII.I every hour. The honor of
apr;1,::111 is that without which he
+' , l Jiro; and the sacred duty of
shut a man owes has not '
lost in the war just finished.
R;rget the frightful delusion that
re any Americans willing to emit-
•cli a crime as Repudiation. It was an
•(• of madness that impelled the
; :aid it is now not only :regretted,
6 %.ustiy atoned for. The title of
i
'n , -:a a gentleman ",
agaagainreviveu n
hest lustre ; let not the North be
:,rd in hailing it whenever it is fairly
and uprightly , sustained. Some
::eo, a man rudely . and careleSSly
came into Wasldngton, on his
New York. He had to make himself
to his old friends, so much had four.
f , f suffering changed his appearance.
v:lth him a large amount of gold
1111 v6ah to pay his creditors, from whom
14 W NI relatsed heavily before the rebel
' 11 ( (ailed upon them. They, too,
olfaize him. He did not intimate,
toni ng them who he was, that he had
";cure his accounts; but lie asked
crttlit It was promptly tendered
: 1 :4 We believe in you," they g 4 4 1;
•
.new the day would come when you
acknowledge your honest indebted
`• and now we are ready to start you
in, so that you may be what you
It- in other days." Had they
11 rude or harsh ; Lad they re-:
hint of his shorteamiags, and
(i him hard names, it was his intention
4y them and buy his goods elsewhere.
kept a customer, and held a friend lb:
with hooks of steel. A gigantic ef-
L., already being made to rebuild and
the great lines of Southern railroads,
'Northern capitalists have offered to nu
t ike the work, and to manage the roads
1 long series of years, on a large
upon. the profits which these
aalo r r itres , yielded before the war.
.11 is one view of a national ques
-11-11 question of trade. It may be
Ned by those who gloomily dwell upon
PYthire of Southern destitution, and
Twat° upon the years it will take to re
''rate and reanimate Southern society
c ` nn nerce- But it is a fact none the
lden the age of rapid events. A
rebellion and a sudden collapse
e followed by a sudden recovF, , ,rik
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INTERNAL REVENUE.
IMPORTANT INYEST/OATIONS , BY A REVRNITS COM
MISSION-IMAIMS 1N TIIE SALE Or ALCOHOL
El=
The Commission, consisting of Messrs. David
A. Wells, Stephen Col.velt, and S. S. Hayes,
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
under the act of Congress, to examine and
report upon the subject of raising internal
revenue, have held 'Many sessions in this city,
and have taken a mass of testimony. The
atietttion of the Commission has, so far, been
dirceted partiCUlarly to the manufacture and
s ale,: of alcoholic liquors, and to the frauds
committed on the revenue by means of these
liquors.
The frauds arc found to have been more ex
tensive than either the Government Or the
public bare had any reason to suspect: but, as
the Commission sitS with closed doors, the de
tails of the frauds cannot be published. It ap
pears, however, that in reference to spirits the
Internal Revenue law is practically a dead
letter. Whisky is regularly selling in market
at about two dollars and ten cents a gallon,
while the Government tax is two dollars ; and
whisky on which the tax has been paid can
scarcely be sold at U. profit for a. less sum, it is
understood, than four dollars a gallon. It is
evident that on tittle if nue of the ordinary
spirits CM gale has any tax whatever been paid.
The receipts or the Internal Revenue
tors thisveer for duties on alcohol will not
probably he more than $5,000,000. The collec
tions in England are reported at about 500,000,
000. It is estimated that the receipts here, if
there were no frauds, would reach nearly that
figure.
The COMIIIiSSIOn has met with a remarka
ble oegree, of success in its inquiries, and
much important information it has hitherto
been considered impracticable to obtain has
been secured. Representatives from all
branches of the liquor interest have been
before the Commission, comprising persons
from nearly all parts of the United States.
The very heavy burden incidentally imposed
upon the arts and manufactures, through the
UM put upon the spirits that are liereSSarity
used for mechanical and other purposes, swill
probably induce the commission to recom
mend for adoption by Congress a law to per
mit the sale of prepared spirits to artists and
manufacturers duty free. A iitw of this kind
is in force in England, and with a beneficial
effect. Wood naptha, or methylic alcohol, is
mixed under inspection or permission of offi
cers, with the spirits to be exempt from duty;
tend thus prepared the alcohol is SO nauseous
that it cannot be drank or ilSed in ally quan
tity whatever in mixtures intended for drink
ing, or in drugs and medicines ; yet for mecha
nical purposes it is not injured.
Other subjects relating to the best sources
of revenue and the most efficient means of col
lecting it, will be considered by the Commis
sion ; and its labors will doubtless prove of
great advantage to the Government in simpli
fying and rendering effective our internal re
venue system—New York Post.
WASHINGTON.
AN IMPORTANT ORDER OF THE SECRE
TARY OF WAR.
FREEDMEN PRIVILEGED TO TRAVEL WHERE
THEY CHOOSE.
BRAZIL'S WITHDRAWAL OF BELLIGERENT RIGHTS TO
THE REBELS.
WASHINGTON, July 24, 1.365
The Preethrken.
The Secretary of War has ordered that " to
secure equal justice and the same personal
liberty to the freedmen as to other citizens
and inhabitants, all orders issued by post, dis
trict n other commanders, adopting zany sys
tem of passes for or subjecting them to
any restraints or punishments, not imposed
on other classes, are declared void. ,, Neither
whites nor blacks will be restrained from
seeking employment elsewhere, when they
cannot obtain it at ajuSt compensation at their
homes, and when not bound by voluntary
agreement ; nor will they be hindered from
travelling from place to piece on prOper and
legitimate business.
Brazil's Withdrawal of Belligerent
Bights to the Rebels.
It is understood that the Brazilian Gotiern
ment withdrew its concession of belligerent
rights to the insurgents in this country on the
31st of May last.
The Baltimore Appointments.
Hon. MOxTGONERY BLAIB, in company with
a hirge delegation from Baltimore, had an
other interview with the President to-day
with reference to the Maryland Federal ap
pointments. It will be remembered that two
sets of appointments have been made, but as
commissions have been issued to neither, they
are all held in abeyance. The opposing parties
to the contest arc still earnestly engaged in
presenting their respective elainig.
The Currency Notes.
About $50,000 worth of defaced or worn-out
fractional currency is destroyed per day, and
its place supplied with the new issue ; the en
tite amount in circulation being upwards of
twenty,one Millions. No more three•eent
notes arc to be issued, the act of Congress
prohibiting them, and the fire-cent notes will
also be gradually withdrawn.
THE ARMY.
Promotions in the Pay Department,
ITnited States Army.
The Secretary of War has breveted the fob
lowing-named officers of the Pay Department
for faithful and meritorious services during
the War, viz : .
To be CatondS,—Lientenunt Colonel Hiram
Leonard, Deputy Paymaster General, San
Francisco, California.
Lientenan t Colonel N. Brown,Deputy Pay
in aster General, St. Louis, Mo.
To be Lieutenant Colonels.—Major F, E. Hunt,
Chief Paymaster, District of Kansas, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas.
Major Thomas .111. Winston, Chief Paymaster,
District of the Gulf, New Orleans La.
Major Robert A. Kinzie, Chief Paymaster,
District of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N. M.
Major Daniel McClure, Chief Paymaster, Dis
trict of Indiana and Illinois, Indianapolis, Ind.
Major David Taggart, Chief Paymaster, Dis
trict of Eastern Pennsylyania,Philada„ Pa.
Major Cary 11. Fry, San Francisco, Cal.
Major Samuel Woods, San Francisco, Cal.
Major F. L. Febriger, St. Louis, Mo.
Major A. Stewart, Now York City.
Major N. C. Pratt, New York City.
Major Chas. T. Lamed, Detroit, Mich.
Major E. Wright, San Francisco, Cal.
Major d. A. Whitall, San Francisco, Cal.
Major J. 13. M. Potter, Washington, D. C.
Additional Paymasters to be Lima; Colonels.—
:Major Dwight Bannister, Chief Paymaster,
District of Ohio and Kentucky, Cincinnati, 0.
Major Frank Etting, Chief Paymaster,
District of PenMylyania, .Baltimore,
Major A. V. El liott, Chief PayineAte.l`, District
of the South, Hilton Head, S. C.
Major Robert P. Dodge, Chief Paymaster,
Division of Referred Claims, Washington, D. C.
major Amos Binney, Chief Paymaster, Dis
trict of Virginia and North Carolina, Norfolk,
Major Wm. Allen, Chief Paymaster, District
of the Cumberland; Louisville, Ky.
Major J. Phinney, Chief Paymaster, Dia
triet of Minnesota, .qt. Paul, Minn.
Major D. 11. McPhail, Chief Paymaster, Dis
trict of West Virginia, Wheeling, West Va."
Major 11. B. Haase, Paymaster in charge of
Station, Chicago, Hi.
Major Russell Errett, Paymaster in charge of
SI at i on, Pittsburg, Pa.
Major Win. M. Wiley, Paymaster in charge of
Station, Harrisburg, Pa.
Major B. C. Usher, Paymaster in charge of
Station, Lost on, Mass.
Major Thad - dens H. Stanton, Paymaster in
charge of Station, Richmond, y a.
Major H. P. Walcott, Paymaster in charge of
Station, Columbus, Ohio.
Major Thos. J. Wilson, Paymaster in charge
of Station, Annapolis, Md.
Major F. B. Warner, Paymaster in charge of
Station, Wilmington, Del.
Major E. H. Brooke, Washington, D. C.
Major Wm. B. Rochester, do
Major 11. A. Ilutehins, do
Major David Taylor, do
Major D. L. Eaton, do
Major W. A. Rucker, do
Major IV. P. Gould,
do -
Major A 1) Robinson, do
Major W Nichols,
'Major S 1.1 Reynolds, do
major Thomas B. Oakley, do .
Major N. Vedder, do' -
Major N. C. Sawer, do
Malor .1. A. Lam yer, do
Na:jor Wm. 11. auu,esna, do
Major :hunts B. Sheridan, New York City.
Major ED. Judd, do -
Major 311 - , F, eta), do
Major WM. Smith, St. Paul, Minn.
Major .1. IL liinzlc , Cliira,ge,
.Johnson, C. P. E. Johon, St. ouis, Mo.
Major Wm. Tillman Louisville, Ify.
Major V. C. _Hanna, Indianapolis, Ind.
Major A. W. Hendricks, St. Louis, Mo.
Release or Rebel Oftieers—The Pirate
P. 4,041 Amnia" the Party.
BOSTON, July 24.—The following mum of
the late rebel Confederacy arrived in this city,
this evening, Iron] Fort Warren, having taken
the oath of allegiance : Major Generals J. Tt.
liersbaw and J. S. Marmaduke; Brigadier
Generals S. N. Barton, W. S. Cabell, M. D.
Gorse, D. M. Dubois°, W. Frazer, E. Hunter,
Ci, W. Gordon, J. E. Jones, .L G. Sellers, and T.
B. Smith Alttior Harry Gilmor, and Lien.
tenants C. W. Reed and T. T. Hunter. Proba
bly all of them will leaye for the South to
morrow.
The only prisoners remaining at Fort War
ren are Vice President Stephens and Post
master General Reagan.
Railroad Accidents.
Oiarrivann, July 21. —The Eastern-bound
wail train on the Mississippi and Ohio Rail
road net with an accident on Friday, ne%r
llinsborough Station, caused by the washing
away Of a culvert. The engineer was drowned,
but no other person Was inpirad.
The accident on the Central Ohio Railroad
I E I
e i
ie d n i t s ., ebtf
eo d ne s o d is i ?f a
n o ,
7118 caused by breaking an engine-wheel.
c
f the 17th Ohio
were instantly
Arrival of the Steamer " GlalligOWs "
llALirnx, N. S., July 2.4.—The steamship Gla&
gow, from Liverpool for New York, put irk here
yesterday for coal. She has five hundred and
fifty steerage, but no cabin passengers. Her
dates are the same as those furnished by the
Africa. She sailed again at seven o'clock this
morning.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
AN ALMOST UNIVERSAL WAR IN THOSE
COUNTRIES.
DARING AND DECISIVE DIOVENEXT OP
TEE PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR.
A Battle in Peru between the Rebels and
Government Forces.
Terrible Sufferings of the Crew of a Wrecked
British Ship.
THEY LITE A TEAR AND TEN DAYS ON A DE
SERTED ISLAND.
New TORE, July 24.—The' steamer Ocean
Queen, which arrived at this port this eve-.
ning from Aspinwall, brings the following in
teresting intelligence:
At Guayaquil, Ecquador, the President,
Garcia Moreno, seized an English steamer of
the reelect Steam Navigation Company, which
was loading, drove the officers and crew ashore
at the point of the bayonet, placed troops,
cannon, and munitions of war aboard, and
steamed for the mouth of the river, where
the orevolutioniStS were lying at anchor in the
vessels seized from the tiloverrncnt. Ire ran
into one of these steamers, cutting her amid
ships to the water's edge, and sinking her,
after a short engagement. The other steamer
surrendered, the bulk of the people aboard,
including the leader, Urbina, making their es
cape into the woods. The prisoners were
brought to Guyaquil, and twenty-seven of them
instantly shot.
After this Moreno started for Tunibes, where
he expected to capture more victims. If so,
they will share a similar fate.
After his return to Guayaquil, the President
returned the steamer to the captain, who re
ceived her under protect, and got at the Same
time the sum of £20,000 for the three days'
services of the vessel. The seizure is still an
open question, having been referred to the
manager of the company at Callao. The Pre
sident bolds that, under some old law spoken
of by Vatic], he bad a right to take the vessel,
and the British consul appeared to agree with
The 'United States double-ender gunboat
SIVWllllllie hail arrived at Panama, with news
from Callao to the oth inst. The rebellion in
Peru appears to gain ground. On the sth, a
bloody engagement occurred six miles from
Lima, between 12,000 rebels and 0,000 GOVVEII
meat troops, in which the latter were success
ful; taking as; 3yr isoners 100 men and 23 onicers.
A number were also killed.
A few days previously a mutiny broke out
aboard the flagship Amazonas, blockading the
port of Africa. The mutineers gained posses
sion of the ship under the direction of the
officer of the deck. The Admiral General
Panizo was shot in the cabin and afterwards
hanged from the yard-arm.
The mutineers afterwards decoyed the cap
tain of the America, and captured his vessel.
This was the ship recently sent out from Eng
land. They also captured the Tunibes, leaving
the Government with only two vessels of real
service.
Chili is still in trouble with Spain.
Business at Valparaiso is unusually quiet.
The price of copper is improving. Nitrate is
firm and advancing,.
From Central America we hear of the Cap_
lure of Ex-President Barrios, of Salvador
who left Panama recently in a small vessel:
expecting to find the party successful who re
volted in his favor in Salvador. On reaching,
Foneeca, however, ho found his party beaten
and dispemed at La Union, and endeavored to
return ; but a stroke of lightning happening
to shiver the masts of his vessel, he was oh
to rim into Realego, where the vessel
was confiscated and all aboard were made pri
soners. Barrios will probably be handed over
to the saivadorian Government and summa
rily shot. The schooner is Ecuadorian
but having been bought by naturalized Ameri
cans, and having procured papers from the
United States consuls at Panama and Guaya
quil, it is claimed that she is entitled to Ame
rican protection. The authorities seized her
on the ground that she had no legal maritime
Damn ; that the papers she had were forge
ries, as the signatures of the consul at Pa
nama, attached to two of the documents,were
in, entirely different handwritings, and that
the vessel had contraband of war and suspi
cions characters aboard—la all of which the
United States consul at Realego. coincided,
and in consequence refused to acknowledge
Captain Losada or his vessel as entitled to any
protection from the United. States Govern
ment.
The Fourth of July was becomingly cele
brated at Panama and Aspinwall.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Pa
nama on the 15th inst, It did no harm.
The British ship Invincible was wrecked in
May, ISO, on Desert Island, when eight days
out, from Melbourne for Callao. Six of the
crew were drowned at the time, and nineteen
saved, including the captain. All the provi
sions secured were four pounds of bread and
three pounds of pork. They remained on the
island for a year and ten days, living on shell
fish and roots. One by one they died, and
finally none were left bat the captain, mate.
and one sailor. At last the ship Julian, bound
from China to Callao, stopped at the island
when in a leaky condition, and rescued them.
Thu captain, Dolgarnd, had arrived at Panama.
The ship Advance had arrived at Panama,
from New York.
TENNESSEE.
The Mayor :And Judge of Columbia
Suspended from Office—Trial of the
Guerilla Ferguson.
NEW YORK, July 9.1.--A special despatch to
the Herah/from Nashville, dated to-day, says
General Thomas has issued an order suspend
ing from ollice Mayor Andrews and Justice
Welch, of Columbia, and ordering the arrest
of Galloway and Friesen, lawyers, on account
of their late prosecution of the neg,roes.
Guerilla depredations are almost daily
biking place by roving hands of robber.; in
Middle Tennessee.
The trial of Champ Ferguson is progressing
slowly. llis guard has been doubled on :ter
want of the threats of soldiers to kill him.
The Maeon Megraph an dAtlanta Ineelligeneer
publish artieleS on probable scenes of blood
shed and massacre on the part of the freed
rneD, unless the authorities turn their atten
tion to the inatter at once.
The Joyce Children Murder
llosTos, July 24.—John Stewart, whose ar.:
rest was announced several days ago on sus
picion of being implicated in the murder of
tho J oyeo children, was to-day honorably dis
vhurged, on motion of the pmecutlng at
torney.
Waifs front Virginia'.
[From the Richmond Republic.]
TILE CAPTUICHT) "REBEL" CANNON
The immense park of artillery which, since
the occupation of the citybythe United States
authorities, hes remained at ltocketts, has re
cently been removed to the gun-yard at Fort
ress Monroe. During the past two weeks, one
hundred and eighty pieceS have been received
at the above-named place. The ten-inch guns
which were taken from Drewry's Bluff are
nearly new, having been cast in 1851. They
bear a strong resemblance to the Armstrong
gun, being reinforced at tile breach by concen
tric bands. They were all cast in this city, and
are pronounced by competent judges to be ex
cellent specimens of serviceable artillery.
'Nearly every one of the guns is effectually
spiked. They were never - finished at the fotipd
rieS Where the,'Y Were east; and they bear the
roughnesspeculiar to Castings - when taken from
the sand in which they were moulded. Eighty
five brass guns have also been received at the
yaril. These arc of every conceivable shape
mid pattern,. many of them being of United
States manufacture, and were captured by the
Confederates in battle. There are also rude
brass pieces of Southern make, and quaint old
gnns, which Were Stored away in Go
vermnent arsenals, and which were brought
forth to do service by the Confederate autho
rities in the hour of need. All these guns are
now huddled together Mille gun-yard. What
disposition is to be made of this ordnance has
not yet transpired. An immense quantity of
:unnutmitien has also been sent from this city,
and received at the gun-yard. These ex
plosive projectiles, of every conceivable
shape and pattern, are rudely boxed and
marked " C. S. of America, tielanond Lahore,
lolly. These guns and munitions of war have
all been placed under charge of the gray
haired old Ordnance Sergeant, James Welch,
alto pats his favorite gums as would a fond
hither his particular bright, precocious boy.
About one thousand tons of ordnance left here
by the Confederate authorities are now await
ing shipment to the various arsenals at Wash
ington, rhiladylphia, ...id New York. Several
schooners and purges are now loading in this
city with this material for the above destine ,
tion. The barge John T. Lee recently sailed
from this port with a cargo of ordnancestores,
and has arrived at Fortress Monroe en route
for Watervliet Arsenal, New York.
lIEGARD FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT IN NORFOLK.
[5 rent. the Norfolk rest Of the 22d.
.A. rather singular incident occurrea night
before, last, at the theatre in this city. The
manager announced the prize of a silver cup
(an old dodge) for the best " conundrum."
The time arrived for opening and reading
the agglomerated mass of sparkling wit
and humor that had been accumulating dur
ing the two previous days in the vest pocket
of the aforesaid manager. Throe readers
of the missives were appointed, and Mr.
Doud announced that judgment would be
awarded in favor of the party receiving
the greatest amount of applause. Several
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1865.
very stale and unsavory attempts at wit were
read, and laughed at for their stupidity, or ap
plauded for their want Of that ingredient,
when one was arrived at that proved to be, in
stead of a "conundrum," a "sentiment,"
which was received with loud applause—this
was followed by one or two more of the vapid
SOrt—not one of which even approached
mediocrity—when another "Sentiment" Was
given, and received with stillgreater applause
than the first ; an interlude of old witieisms
followed, when the thing eulminatedin another
"sentiment," linking the name of Abra
ham Lincoln with the greatness and munifi
cence or the American people. The applause
which followed this Could not be mistaken.
It was indeed real, enthWiti•Aie and deafening.
Mr. Tioud now appeared in front with these
three "sentiments"in his hand, and de
claring his inability to decide which was en
titled to the prize, called upon the audience
to again cast their votes. Each of the three
was read in succession, and the, result was,
that the sentiment which coupled Mr. Lin-
Coin's Immo with American munificence, was
declared the winner.
(Fran the Petersburg Express, July 15.]
A SAD, SAD STORY
A few days since an intelligent and hand
some young woman, the daughter of a Con
federate officer from Louisiamt, left her house
in Boston to visit the battle-field of the Wit
derlieSS, to discover, if possible, the grave of
her husband. The husband was a member of
the Veteran Reserves, of the Federal army,
and was killed in the memorable second bat
tle of the Wilderness. She left her child in
the care of friends at home to pay a wife's tri
bute of respect and love over the grave of
him who in life had won her affections,
and who, in death, still retained them. When
she reached Philadelphia on her sacred oil•
grimage, she was notified of the death of her
child at home, but the sad event did not stop
her. It was but one more link in the chain
that bound her to the past, and only encour
aged her to hasten on, and weep the more over
her husband's grave. We say it was but an-
Other link in the chain of memories which
Mound her to the past; for, during the pro
gress of the war, she had lost dye brothers in
the service, and sustained the loss of a mother
and four sisters—the heaviest of all—her hus
band. tinder the weight of so many accumu
lated sorrows, it may be imagined that her con
stitution was well nigh shattered. She passed
through Baltimore and Washington, and
reached the Wilderness. There she found the
last resting-plate Of her husband, with its sim
ple slab. And there stn.:, too, was subsequently
found, overcome by grief her frame writhing
in strong spasms; stretched helplessly upon
the mound. She was removed, and after a
short interim—during which she suffered con
stantly from spasms—the effect of an over
wrought mind and a shattered nervous sys
tem, she came to Richmond en route to Peters
burg, in search of her father, who, she had
understood, was here. In Richmond she was
still a sufferer from spasms—during one of
which she was robbed of most of her money
and personal effects. She came thence by
river to this city, at which place she ar
rived on Saturday. In the afternoon of
this day, while standing at the provost mar
shal's office, she was again attacked with
spasms, which came and wentwith such ra
pidity that for several hours she could not be
removed. In her lucid moments, she wept
over her condition, and during her relapses
she conversed about her dead husband. The
scene was one which drew tears from those
who witnessed it. When her condition ad
mitted of her removal, she was sent to the
Fair Grounds Hospital, where she is now
under kind medical treatment.
This is one of the saddest cases developed
by the war. and creates the deepest sympathy
of all who have heard the ]ally's history.
Hew the War in the Wewt Began
aM=I
GENEr.AL SHERMAN'S SUCCINT HISTOUY OF IT.
The citizens of St. Louis entertained General
Sherman at a public dinner a few evenings
ago. He made a speech from which we extract
the following pithy account of the commence
ment and virtual ending of the war in the
West. Ile said:
Here in St. Louis, probably, began the great
centre - movement which terminated the war, a
battle-field such as never before was seen, ex
tending from ocean to ocean ahnost with the
right wing and the left wing, and from the cen
tre here 1 remember one evening, up in the olcl
Planter's House, sitting with General Halleek
and General Cullum, and we were talking
about this, that and the other . ; a map Was On
the table, and I was explaining the posi
tion of the troops of the
.enemy in Ken
tucky when I came to this State. General
Halleck knew well the position here,
and I remember well the question he asked
ine—the question of the school .teacheri
his Child - -"iStierman, here %.s. the line-;zdow
will you break that line r» " Phy'SiCally,
a perpendicular force." " Where is the per
pendicular V' "The line of the Tennessee
river." General Halleck is the author of that
first beginning, and I give him credit for
it with pleasure. [Cheers.]- Laying
. down his
penellupon the map he said: " There's the line
and we must take it" The capture of the
forts on the Tennessee river by the troops led
by Grant followed. [Cheers.] 'These were the
grand strategic features of that lint Move
ment, and it succeeded perfectly. General
lialleekls plan went further-amt to stop at
his first line, which ran through Columbus,
Bowling Green crossing the river at Henry
and Donelson, but to push on to the second
line, which ran through Memphis and Charles
ton; but troubles intervened at Nashville,
and delays followed; opposition to the last
- movement was made, and I myself was
brought an actor On the scene. I remem
ber our ascent of the Tennessee Ricer; I have
seen to-night captains of steamboats who first
went with us there ; storms Mine, and we did
not reach the point we desired. At that time
General C. F. Smith was in command ;.he was a
man indeed ; all the old officers remember him
as a gallant and excellent officer, and had he
lived, probably some of us younger fellows
would not have attained our present positions.
But that is now past. We followed him—the
second timel—tnd then came the landing of
forces at Pittsburg Landing. Whether it was a
mistake in landing them on the west instead
of the east bank, it is not necessary now to
discuss. I think it was not a mistake ; there
was gathered the first great army of the
WestfLtiornmeneing with only twelve thou
sand, then twenty, then thirty thousand, and
we had about thirty-eight thousand in that
battle; and all I claim for that is, that it was
a contest fur manhood ; there was no strategy.
Grant was there, and others of us, all young at
that time, and unknown men, but our enemy
was old, and Sidney Johnston, whom all the
officers remembered as a power among the old
officers, high above Grant, myself, or anybody
else, led the enemy on that battle-field, and I
almost wonder how we conquered. But,asl
remarked, it Was a contest for manhood—man
to man—soldier to soldier. We fought, and we
held out: ground, and therefore accounted our
selves victorious. [Cheers.]
The possession of the MlSSisSippi rivcr,is the
possession of America, icheersd and 1 say that
Maine Southern Centederacy Nan it by what
name yon may,) had that power represented
by the Southern Confederacy, held with a grip
siiiliciently strong the lower part of the Mis
sissippi river, 153 WOUld bave been a subj ugated
people anti they would have dictated to us if
we had given up the possession of the, lower
Mississippi. It was vital to us, and we fought
for it and won. We determined to have it; but
we could not go down with our frail boats
past the batteries of Vicksburg. It wasa phy
sleal impossibility; therefore, what was to be
done? After the Tallatehie line was carried
Vicksburg was the next point. I went With a
small and hastily collected force, and repeat,
edly endeavored to make a lodgment on the
bluff between Vicksburg mid names , Bluffs
while General Grant moved with his main
army so as to - place himself on the high;.
teau behind Icksburg, but "man proposes
and God diSpOSee," and we failed on that oecii.
sion. I then gathered my .haWly colleeted
force and went down further, and then for
the first time, I took General Blair and his
brigade under my command.. Ou the very
day I had agreed to be there I was there r
and we swung our flanks around, and the
present Governor of Missouri fell a prisoner to
the enemy on that day. We failed. I waited
anxiously fora co-operatinc , force inland and
below us, but they did not 'COW 3 and after I
had made the assault I learned that the depot
at Holly Springs had been broken up, and that
General Grant had sent me word not to at
tempt it. But it was too late. Neverthe
less, although we were unable to carry it at
first, there were other things to be done.
.The war covered such a-vast arrea there
was plenty to do. I thought of that affair
at Arkansas Post, although others claim
it, and they may have it if they want it.
We cleaned them out there, and General Grant
then brought his army to Vicksburg, and you
in St. Lotus remember well that long winter—
how we were on the levee, with the waters
rising and drowning us like muskrats; how
we were seeking channels through Deer Creek
and Yazo Pass, and how we finally cut a panel
f2CTOSS the peninsula, in front of Vicksburg. But
all (hat time the true moyementwas the origi
nal inowe - ment, and everything not approxi
mating to it came nearer the truth. But we
could not make any retrograde movement.
Why? Because your people of the North were
too noisy.
We could not take any step backwards, and
for that reason we were forced to ran the bat
teries at Vicksburg, and make a lodgment on
the ridges on some of the bin - o's below Vicks
burg. It is said I protested against it. It is
follY. I never protested, in my life—never.
[Laughter.] On the contrary, General Grant
rested on inc probably more responsibility
even than any other - commander under him.
For he wrote to me, "I want you to move upon
Mines , Bluff to enable me to pass to the next
fort below—Grand Calf. 1 hate to ask you, be
cause the fervor of the North will -accuse you
of being rebellious again." (Laughter.] i love
Grant for his kindness. I did make the feint
on Haines , Muffs, and by that means Grant
ran the blockade easily to Grand Gulf, and
made a lodgment down there, and got his
army up on the high plateau in the rear of
Vicksburg, while you people here were be
gulled into the belief that Sherman was again
repulsed. Init. - we 'Aid note repose cOnlidence,
in everybody. Then followed the movement
on Jackson, and the Fourth of July placed us
in possession of that great stronghold!, Vicks
burg, and then, as Mr. Lincoln said, "tile Mis
sissippi wont unvexed to the sea."
From that day to this the war has been vir
tually and properly settled. It wits a certain
ty then. They would have said: a We give
up," but Davis would not ratify it, and he had
then, under good discipline, and therefore
it was necessary to light again. Then clone
the affair of Chickamauga. The Army of
the Mississippi lying along its banks were
called into a new held of action, and so
one morning early I got orders to go to
Chattanooga. 1 did not know where it was
bunny. (Laughter.] I did not know the
mad to go there. But, 1 found it; and
got there M time. [Laughterand cheers]; and
although my men were shoeless and the cold
and bitter frosts of winter were upon us, yet
must still go to Knoxville, thirteen miles
further, to relieve Burnside. That march we
made. (A voice: and yon got there in time.]
Then winter forced us to lie quiet. During
that winter I took a little exercise down the
river, hit that is of no account.
—The estimated home accounts of the Go
vernment of India for the year ending April
ce, 1845, have been laid before Parliament.
The charge for the Secretary of State, the
Council, and establishment, including the
stores department, is 4112,103, There is a
charge of .£6 7 605 for the salaries of no less than
fifty offlce-keepers, hall porters, and messen
gers, besides a char •e for messengers tempo
rarily employed. The pensions granted in
this country in the year amount, to £3,010;
among them are pensions of c£l,ooo ayear each
to the Countess of Elgin. and Sir IL IL Law
rence.
HAVANA AND MEXICO.
FRENCH TROOPS MARCHING TO
THE FRONTIER.
They Announce Themselves Ready to
Receive Filibusters.
New YORK, July 24.—The steamer Liberty
fringe Havana adriees of July 10th, and from
Vera Cruz to the 14th. The Tore Cruz Revista
says three columns, under Generals Mejia,
13rineoUrt, and Jeauningros, were ordered to
operate against liegrcte, each column taking
a separate road.
They failed to make their conneetien, as laid
out, and IN - egret!), learning their intention, re
treated on the lionclova road,.sending one
thousaml men in the direction of Tamaulipas.
Jeanningros followed closely in pursuit of Ne
grete' skirthishing with his rear guard, but re
turned to Saltillo, and thence took possession,
of Monterey, leaving the foreign legion under
&lUPIMiCr at Saltillo. Mejia was still at Mata
moros.
Two important points on the frontier, Ca
n-largo and Piedras-Negras will soon be occu
pied, and if any filibusters present themselves
they will be well received. Officers, soldiers,
and munitions of war continua to arrive at
HaYAM from San Domingo.
The health of Havana is good.
CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH.
TAUTINOUS CONDUCT OF A NEW YORK
REGIMENT.
General Gilmore Forced to Take Stern
Measures to Disarm Them.
THE CROPS OF NOLTE( CAROLINA IN
FINE CONDITION.
Naw Yong, July 24.—The steamer Zodiac
brings Savannah advices of July 20.
The Savannah Herald's Orangeburg cor
respondence says that place is yet mostly
lying in ashes. General Hartwell commands
the post. His troops consist of the 24th, 127th,
and 157th New York, 55th Massachusetts, and
10'2d Colored Troops. The railroads are being
rapidly repaired, the laborers rece wing twelve
a °novo per month. The Crops arc in fine con
dition. All the towns of South Carolina are,
or soon will be, occupied by Union troops.
The Charleston Courier of July 18, says the
105th New York Volunteers (Duryea's Zou
ayes), who were removed to Morris Island for
taking part in the disturbances in the city,
have exhibited a mutinous spirit since their
removal. General Gilmore sent an order de
manding the colors of the regiment, but the
Colonel refused to give them up. He was
placed under arrest, and the colors demanded
of the second officer in command, who also re
fused; but on General Hatch explaining that
- his conduct would be mutiny, while the Cola
net's would simply be disobedience of orders,
he proceeded to deliver the colors. A de
livery was made, when it was found that only
the staffs and the india-rubber covers had
been delivered.
It was then determined to disarm the whole
regiment, and other troops were brought
forward. Guns charged with grape and
canister were trained upon the mutinous
troops, and orders given to fire upon them in
case any resistance was offered. The Zouaves,
seeing all farther opposition was useless,
quietly staclol their alms; and were marched
under guargio Fort Hmopter,-to expiate their
-crimes.
Another steamer left Savannah for Augusta
on the ]9th, loaded with lleadooar6 and other
freight, for the national cemetery at .Ander
sonville.
The 22d lowa Regiment had been mustered
out, and would start for home as soon as
transportation could be obtained.
The 170th and 24th lowa left Savannah for
- Baltimore on the 19th.
ii - :w Your., July 24.—The Steamer Arago,
from Hilton Head, arrived at this port this
evening. She brings Charleston and Savannah
papers to the 39th inst.
The expedition to lay out the cemetery for
our dead had left Savannah for Andersonville.
The steamers Arago and Fulton are to be
withdrawn from the route to Hilton Head.
The steamer Illinois will take the place of the
Fulton on the next trip.
FORTRESS MONROE.
The Chit Courts to be Reorganized in
Elizabeth tlonaty---not Weather 4$
Norfolk and Old Point.
FORTRESS Mormon, July 22.—The steamer.
Ella Knight, from Morehead City, with troops
from Raleigh, has arrived. Also, the ship Her
of Bremen, with French tobacco from
Richmond; United States steamer Chicopee,
bound to the squadron off North Carolina, and
United States steamer Boxer, from Hatteras
Inlet.
A eourtmartial (Lieutenant Hahn presiding)
convened at Norfolk yesterday, and adjourned
over till next Monday.
At Norfolk yesterday the thermometerstood
at One hundred anti six degrees in the shade.
The civil courts are to be organized to-day
in Elizabeth City county, for the first time
since the commencement of the war. The
chief magistrate is to be elected. Samuel
Howard is the clerk of the court, and W. 11.
Curtis, sheriff.
The steamer Thomas A. Morgan, Captain
Edgar, arrived here to-day from City Point,
bound to Baltimore, with the Pennsylvania
troops of Geu. Kilpatrick , s command.
The thermometer stood at ninety-six degrees
at City Point this afternoon.
Fonmness MO:IMM, July23.—Steamer Oriental
arrived from Point Lookout for Newport
News, and sailed for New York.
Steamer Monitor, Captain Morton, arrived
from Norfolk.
Schooner W. A. Crocker, from New York for
City Point, sent to Baltimore by special order.
Steamer Andrew Harder, arrived from Balti
more.
Steamer T. E. Cahill, from Newport News.
Steamer Eliza Haneox, from Washington,
with General Webb and others. -
Steamer C. W. Thomas, from Richmond,
with Colonel William L, James, Chief quarter"
Master.
Steamer Vineland, from City Point, and pass
ed up the bay, with troops.
Schooner J. T. Boyd; from Baltimore.
Schooner E. W. Pratt, from Baltimore.
Schooner J. B. Myers, Captain Wildin, from
New - York.
Steamer E. C. Biddle, from Richmond.
Sailed—Steamer Yazoo, for New York.
A military commission willCollVelle here to•
to-morrow (Monday).
Thermometer, 90 degrees in the shade.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Description of the place at which it
Will lirst touch ilmverican Soil—The
preparatlono to receive it—Whet its
use will cost.
• Sr. JOHNS, N. F., July 11.—The little village
which has been chosen as the American termi
nus of the line is situated on Trinity Bay, some
thirtymiles from the bay of Bull's Arm, where
the cable was last pulled on shore after having
been successfully carried across the ocean and
deposited in thebosom of the famous telegraph
submarine plateau of Lieut. Maury. It rejoices
in the paradisiacal name of Heart's Content
a name suggestive of everything beautiful in
nature and delightful to the feelings of hu
manity; but, like many other things in this
world of ours, it is better in name than in
reality. Heart's Content is a small village of
some nine hundred inhabitants, celebrated for
havingno hotels and plenty of mosquitoes. The
mosquitoes have a great partiality for human
flesh and bite like furies. They arc called
gallynippers" in these regions. The village
cons ists of a Collection of very neat white cot
ages, owned principally by _fishermen, and
people engaged in other pursuits in a small
way. It is located on the southeast side of
Trinity B about thirty miles from its en
trance, ands believed .to be better adapted
for receiving the cable than the place Which
was formerly selected. It possesses a beauti
ful harbor, surrounded by a range of high hills,
which lend to it the appearance or a - vast
basin. ItYs Said to be deep enough to permit
the Great Eastern to approach very near the
shore with perfect safety, which will prove a
very great advantage in hauling the shore end
of the cable to its place of permanent resting.
The inhabitants areal). honest,Mdustrions class
of people, with a reputation for kindly disposi
tion for hospitality TO strangers under °Min*
ry circumstances. But the present circum
stances are very, eXtraordinary, and the people
here _CCDSider they have a perfect -right to
change witll the circumstances. They haVe Con.
B , 4fleu tty put hospitality aside and made up
t heir minds to take to money-making . . Board
ing and lodging and all the necessaries of life
have taken a rise which would startle house
keepers, even in the city of New York, with
all its extravagance and high prices. A num
ber of visitors and excursion parties from the
States and British provinces are expected to
arrive here to witness the grand spectacle of
the age, and the keepers of boarding-houses
expect to reap a rich harvest from those un
fortunate travellers who come here on plea
sure or business. From this it will be seen
that this is no little village, where people can
come with the hope of having plenty to eat
and little to pay, and enjoying the comforts of
rural happineas at a MOdClate COSt, Those
who have started with Such a delusive idea
will find themselves sadly mistaken.
THE TELEGRAPH STATION
is situated about the centre of the village,
facing the bay. It is a plain, unpretending
structure of wood, two stories high, fifteen
feet wide and twenty-five feet in length, It
was originally intended as a private resi
dence, but was purchased in an unfinished
condition by Mr. Charles Lundy, agent of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, as tile most
eligible building in the village for the re
quired purpose. On tyre first floor will be two
rooms—one to be occupied as the operating-
MOM Of the Atlantic Company, and the other
as an office for the chief clerk of Mr. N.
Mackay, superintendent of the icw York,
Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Com
pany.
Is at present being fitted zip in a very com
fortable manner, under the superintendence
of Mr. Lundy, who is a young English electri
cian of much note in his own country. It will
be made perfectly air and water tight, so as to
prevent even the slightest external influence
from affecting the exceedingly delicate instru
ments which are to be used. The floors will
be carpeted, the walls neatly papered, and the
entire building furnished in a style greatly in
contrast with the miserable accommodations
of the old telegraph station on Bull's Arm Bay.
The eolumnS Ot Mick and stone, built on the
solid rock, rise up from the centre of the room
appropriated for tile reception of the end of
the cable, and on these will rest the galvano
meters by which the messages will be received
from Valcntia. The galvanometer consists
of a coil of exceedingly fine copper wire,
covered with silk, in the centre of which
is suspended a small mirror, about three
eighths of nn inch long. To the back
of the mirror is cemented a small piece
of magnetized iron t whiclt is suspended by a
single fibre of silk Trist 'as it comes from the
cocoon, Opposite tim . galvanometer is placed
a parafline lamp, bearth,g before it a horizon
tal scale. The light from this lamp is directed
through a slit in the scale, and is thrown upon
the face of the mirror, which reflects back on
the scale a spot of light. By the movements
Of this spot to the ritcht and left the telegraph
messages are read. The needle weighs exactly
a grain and a half. These instruments are of
the most delicate and sensitive character.
The operating-room of the Newl'ork and New
foundland Company will be located on the
second floor , under the direction of Mr. A. M.
Mackay, the energetic superintendent, who
will be assisted by eight practical electricians,
chosen for their skin and experience. Mr.
Lundy will have nearly double that number
of assistants. •
EXTENSION OP THE NEWFOUNDLAND LINES-THE
Mr. Mackay has bad men at work putting up
lines between St. John's and Heart's Content,
and by Thursday nest the communication by
- telegraph between those two places will have
been completed. To-day there remain only.
three miles to be fixed along the -read. I am
sorry to be obliged to state that the accident
to the submarine cable across the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, connecting Cape Breton with New
foundland, still remains unremedied, and,
what is worse, there is no prospect whatever
of discovering the character of the mishap.
The cable failed to transmit currents on the
ISt of June last. Mr. Mackay sent a flue
schooner from Cape Ray, with a proper crew
and suitable-instruments, tO investigate the
cause of the accident, and make the necessary
repairs. The expedition was under the com
mand of Captain John Murphy. The cable was
underrun for three miles out at both the New
foundland and Cape Breton sides, without
coming at the point where the break or other
accident occurred. The investigations were
prosecuted no further, and all efort to repair
the injury has, therefore, been postponed until
the arrival of a steamer from New York.
This is greatly to be regretted, in view of
the probable success of the Atlantic cable en
terprise. Since the occurrence of the acci
dent, there has been ample time to lay a new
cable, which would have been the most certain
way -of insuring unbroken communication
from Europe to every civilized part of Ame
rica. The only thing that, can be done now is to
have a fast steamer ready at Cape Ray to
carry messages across to Cape 'Breton. This
will be a slow method, but the best that can
be resorted to under the circumstances. It is
probable the Great Eastern, when she arrives,
will have sullicient of the extra cable to fill nu
the gap between Cape Breton and Newfound
land.. There is some talk of running a cable
direct to Sydney, Cape Breton, to avoid the
circuitous route by way of Asby Bay. This
Would, Undoubtedly, be a change for the bet,
ter.—New York Herald.
~ ~
The New York Tones gives the following as
a specimen of one of the shortest despatches
-which can well be sent over the Atlantic tele
graph : .
NEW YORK, July 19,1895,
Richard Smith, Langham Hotel, Portman Place,
London, England:
Go it, Joss SmyroT.
_ . _ •
At the established ratesof the company, of
one pound for each word of live letters, or, in
other words, one dollar a letter—the address
and signature being charged for, and the
figures required to be written out—the ex
pause of this despatch of two words would be
twenty-twopounds sterling—one hundred and
ten dollars in gold, or one hundred and fifty-
OA dollars in greenbacks. The date and sig
nature clone, without any despatch, would
cost one hundred and six dollars. And all
this expene„:3 must be incurred without any
assurance that the despatch will ever reach.
its destinai ion, or that it will not be trans
mitted so aWkwardly as to be the contrary in
meaning of what it was designed to send.
Indian ExpeditiOn.
ARRIVAL AT FORT SULLY—THE 'ALARM UNOI ,
POSED BY ALL BUT 011.4.8 SHOP PERS—..gIILLY
CONFIDENT OF NO FIGHTING--EVERYTHING TO
BE SETTLED BY A TREATY—A COURT WITH. NO
WORK TO DO.
(Correspondence St. Paul Press.)
FORT SULLY, D. T., June 2.9. , 180.
After numberless delays the expedition
under command of Brevet. Major General
Sully has at last concentrated at this point,
preparatory to further operations against the
Indians. The local authorities of Dakota and
the military have been at variance during the
winter, and the result has lien unfortunate
for both parties, having delayed and embar
rassed the military on the one hand, and de
feated the policy of the civilians on the other.
The great bone of contention has been, as is
usual in such eases, the division of the patron
age and spoils; winch partywill win is still an
open question ; but, as the civil authorities are
in a fight amongst themselves, I judge that
thus far the military is a trifle ahead.
Our march to this point was without inci
dent worthy of note. Judge Kidder, late of St.
Paul, showed his genial countenance as we
passed Yankton, and expressed himself agree
ably impressed with his new home. Two clays
after his arrival lie opened court, and had 1110
honor of trying the first and only case ever
tried in the Territory. A court with but one
case on its calender must be a discouraging
prospect to the legal fraternity, but judging
from some of the peculiarities of the people,
justice cannot always be cheated here, and no
doubt, ere long this abnormal state of prema
ture simplicity will be radically Oh.anged.
The grass between Sioux City and. this place
is a trifle better than last year, but the water
is not as good. Our battalion made the march
of three hundred miles in thirteen days, the
horses in the meantime being fed only - half
rations of corn. The grasshoppers disputed
the whole distance with us, with a desperation
worthy of a better cause and a better country.
On the march they dashed in our faces most
recklessly, and no sooner did We halt and pitch
our tents - than. they pounced on them with the
most insatiable of appetites; even men who
went to sleep on the grass were not safe from
their bites; no one could, if so disposed, ex
aggerate their numbers or the fierceness of
their attacks.
. -
Gen. Sully, with a force of about one thOtt-
Sand effective memwill cross the Missouri at
old St Pierre, ten miles above the place, and
march at once for the 'Black Hills - via
the North Fork of the Big Cheyenne River, as
originally contemplated; from there he will
probably turn northward to Fort Rice, and re
turn again to Sioux City by the river route.
There is much embarrassment, and the effec
tiveness of the expedition is much impaired
by deficiency of transportation, it having been
necessary to send parr of the wagon train haek
to Fort Randall, one lumdred and fifty mile;
for further supplies„and in the meantime the
expedition must wait.
General Sully is confident, from information
lately received, that he shall be able to make
a treats with the hostile Sioux west of the
Missouri without further fighting.
- It is the opinion of Mayor Vail Herter, who
has very carefully studied all the sources of
information from which the best military
maps :have been compiled, that ti7ie route by
the Big Cheyenne is the shortest and best
route to the upper mines. Should this theory
prove correct, nothing but the people of Min
nesota themselves can prevent our State from
becoming the great throughfare of overland
travel; but in order to secure this end, frontier
settlements, like Redwood, must be encou
raged and protected, and all attempts to di
vert travel to long and circuitous routes for
the purpose of speculating in town lots, raufit
be abandoned, as such a policy would render
useless for greater natural resources than Min
nesota possesses.
NEW YORK CITY.
MOVEMENTE3 OP GRNEAAL.OIt_kIiT
- General Grant is expected to arrive in thiS
city in the morning, on his way up the Hudson.
THE LOSS OF TEE GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT
QUINNERANG
The steamer Annie, which arrived at this
port to-night, reports that thirty-one men of
the 76th Pennsylvania Regiment, and Lieut.
Deming, or the 9th Maine Regiment were last
seen on board the transport Quinnebang,
which was wrecked off Morehead City, N. C.
All the rest on board were saved and taken to
Beaufort by the schooner Benjamin Adams
and a gunboat.
The steamship Ocean Queen, which arrived
at this port to-night, from Aspinwall, brought
Vird,ooo in specie from San Francisco.
The bank statement for the week coffin.' on
Saturday shows ! •
An increase of loans of
An increase of circulation.
A deereasu oY kpeOe
A decrease of .
A decrease of legal-tenders
THE STOCK EXCHANGE
SECOND BOARD.
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100 d0..........530
800 do 85A'
200 Clev & 08.1 i
50 Cit & N W 27;4
200
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15000 U SOs lyeo9M
2000 Bliss St 723¢
1000 Cal I R.ri tla 7s 114 , f t
100 ALAI - ally Co inali
300 tiooil. Coal prf... 41
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100 M. S 0 E N i14!4
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THE EVKNTNO GOLD BOARD
- - -
At Gallaghcr's Exchange, this evening, gold
Closed at 193 ; Erie, ; Michigan Southern,
6 3; Pittsburg, 671 North Western preferred ' ,
GOA ; Canton Ca, 39 • Cumberland, 42 ; Quick
silver, The stoek'market crowed steady.
Markets by Telegraph.
CniCINNATI, July 21.—Flour is iligher, being
held at $7.25 to 7.50. Wheat advanced to $1.75
for red and $2 for white. Whisky is held at
$2 .10. The Provision market is quiet.
CHICAGO, .July 24.—The Flour market is ac
tive, and prices have advanced loektso. Wheat
active and. advanced I sales at sl,l7@la7y,
for No. 1, and $1.05@1.07 for No. 2. Corn Min at
an advance of 2e; sales at 61@61%c for No. 1,
and WC for No. 2. Oats firm and advanced le
sales at 40@4034e. Freights active. Provisions
quiet. Highwines drill
Flour. Wheat. Corn. Oats.
bus. bus. bus. bus.
BettelptS 3,000 35,000 66,000 200,000
bhipments 3 810 AM/ 221 OW
unionoo, July 24.—At the nlght ' Fachango
Wheat sold at $1.20@1.21 for No. L
The Coton Itarket.
CAino, July 23.—Five hundred and thirty
bales of cotton, from Memphis and New Or
leans, passed up: for St. Louis to-day, and two
hundred bales for St. T.
and five hundred
for Cincinnati passed up yesterday.
The Memphis cotton market hag declined,
closing dull. and heavy at 43 to 46Ogints1or mitt
dlinge.
TROOPS CONGREGATING ON
THE BORDER.
CAVALRY EXPEDITION THROUGH
(Correspondence of the New Orleans Times.]
BRAZOS SANTIAGO, TOXLIS, July 1
Major Generals Steele and WeitzePs head-
(platters are here, although a large portion of
the troops have moved up to Clarksville, at
the mouth of the 1110 Grande, and White's
Ranch; a few miles above the latter place. But
few of the troops have reached Brownsville,
owing; to the impassable condition of the roads,
caused by the freshet in the 1110 Grande.
Troops are daily arriving at this point and
being sent up the 1110 Grande, and in a short
time we shall have a snillclent force stretched
along the Texas border to maintain our tights
and enforce our demands. General Steele has
already made ademund on the Mexican autho
rities for the delivery of the ordnance which
the rebel General Slaughter turned over to
them after the surrender of Kirby Smith.
This place was visited, yesterday, by one of
the most terrific storms of wind and rain that
lies occurred here for years. About 4 o'clock
M. the wind, which lot the previous three
days had been blowing it Stitt breeze from the
south, suddenly changed to the northeast, and
a storm of most Manta violence burst upon
us. indeed, not more than ten minutes
elapsed from the time the wind commenced
shifting before it burst with all its fury from
the northeast taking us completely hymn ,
prise, and for a time creating quite a
panic. The air was tilled with flying . lumber,
pieces of tents, dry goods and groceries, while
horses and males wore' galloping about in
every direction in the greatest consternation.
In an incredible short time after the storm
commenced, one vast sheet of water was to be
seen, where before was nothing 'but a sandy
Just about dark we took a stroll backthrough
the camps to see the sights, The water was
from six inches to two feet deep, and officers
as well as enlisted men were all placed alien
the same footing. 1 saw one major general in
his shirt sleeves, with an old straw hat on his
head, his pants rolled above his knees, and
barefooted. busy at work in the water two feet
deep inakhig suitable arrangements for his
lodgings. Dotted here and there over the
island huge fires were brightly blazing, cast
ing a fitful glare over the surface of the water.
On approaching (MeV% found that the soldleim
bad excavated the sand, raising it above the
surface of the water, and had there built a fire,
around which a large numberwere standing in
water up to theirknees,happy as elams,cooking
their coffee. Horses and mules were standing
about, with their heads close to the water, and
the halters fattened toposts far below the sur
face, reminding one of a fleet at anchor, only
in this ease their sterns were turned to the
storm. The. thought suggested itself that a
diving-hell would be of service in unfastening
them. •
CAVALET EXPEDITION THROUGH NORTHERN
(Shreveport Correspondence New Orleans Times.]
To aid in restoring law and order, to facili
tate peaceful pursuits of husbandry, to cause
a complete dispersion of roaming bands, are
some of the many objects of Merritt's expedi
tioa, now encamped on the hillsides that
border this road to Texas. The division,
formerly the 2d division, has been consoli
dated into two brigades, both commanded by
Brigadier General West, led by Major General
M. Merritt. The following general order is a
chronicle of the organization :
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY FORCES,
- MILLI:ANY DIVISION OF THE SOUTHWEST, .
June 21, 1503,
GNI/EI:AL ORDERS, riO, 3.
I. The following is announced as the organi
zation of the Ist Cavalry Division of the Mili
tary Division of the Southwest, viz:
Ist Brigade, Colonel J. It. Mizner, 3d Michi
gan, in command--3d Michigan Cavalry, 4th
Wisconsin Cavalry, 2d Illinois Cavalry.
2d Brigade, Colonel James Stewart, 10th Illi
nois in command-10th Illinois Cavalry, Ist
Louisiana Cavalry, New York Cavalry.
IL _ The senior colonels will assume coin•
mend of the brigades, and will at once require,
and forward to these headquarters, rosters of
ofticers and consolidated reports of their re
spective commands. •
By command of Major General Merritt.
G. A. GORDON ,
Brevet Lieut. Col. and A. A. G. ,
That is that cavalry column which leaveS
from Shrevepoat The column which leaves
from Alexandria is to be commanded by Major
`General Ctistar. The forage needed for these
columns is to be obtained in the country
through which the expedition passes. It is ex-
pecteci that enough may easily be procured in
the region that stretches out from the Sabine
head waters to San Antonio, that the horses
may have abundarme of fodder, The Subsist-
once of the men is to be carried along, eighty
wagons being the allotment. Water, as above
stated, is plentiful on the route, and no trou
ble is at this date anticipated. The expedition
is only delayed by the non-arrivl of set-backe
wagons. Baggage is the everlasting—
as Clesar calls it, is impalementa ben,.
There is much work to be done, the country
being in an unsettled state. Soldiers who have
forsaken their commands, and who, on the
"every one for himself) , principle, have gone
home without authorization, are to be paroled
as fast as found. Ordnance stores here located,
formerly belonging to the Confederate Govern
mint, are to be seized, and where not apparent,
are to be hunted out and. unburied. Arms,
whether those of the soldier or of the former
and now dead Government, are to be gather
ed up, as in the parishes of Northern
Louisiana and tranSinitted to places of
safety. The individual soldiers of the
command, as well as the command as a
whole, will pay in greenbacks for every
thing they want; the strictest orders forbid
ding the taking of property in any other man
ner. It is sincerely hoped by all who are in
terested in the honor of the national arms, as
well as those interested in their scant pro
perty, that these orders of the General's wilt
be most rigidly kept. The passage of an army
through the country is thus ridden of its ter
rors. The troops of the Merritt, expedition—
both those under General West, who leave
from Shreveport, and under General Custer,
who leave from Alexandria—are all four
- years , veterans—all used to the hardships and
privations of a soldier's life. The are of a
class of men educated to be soldierly
ierly and
brave.
Though there is a dearth of household sup
plies in Northern Texas, yet the people have
nothing but their land and their stock to buy
them. Coffee is a universal scarcity. Bread,
beef, mutton, and honey are quite abundant.
Droves of sheep are now on their way to the
New Orleans markets—droves driven through
this road. The droves have been collected
from neighbor to neighbor; SOW parting with
two from their flock, others with ten, others
with twenty, and so on. The drover buys the
sheep at three dollars a head. These men,
leaving their several neighborhoods with
droves, in all amounting to near three thou
sand head, are burdened with memoranda of
supplies needed by families who have sold
their sheep. The drover sells his flock at the
New Orleans stock lauding, returning with
the articles needed. In all these different me
moranda, coffee figures largely; calico and
crockery next.
Two dollars a bead are at present demanded
for shipment of sheep down Red river to New
Orleans, when sixty and seventy-five cents
were the old rates.
Government cotton is at present the great
commodity in transit from this route to Texas.
Tim Government treasury agcnts 'hero have
collected a vast amount, and are rapidly ship
ping it downward and, to offer inducements
to bring It in from 'Texas, offer twenty cents a
bale per mile.
A TOTING WOMAN FOLLOWS HER LOVER TO THE
FIELD--SAD ENDING OP HER FAITHFULNESS.
(From the roullidieensle Basle.]
In the year lea, when the first cantor trOOpe
was made, James Hendrick, a young man of
eighteen, resolved to leave father's roof,
in Wisconsin, and go forth to battle for the
flag. At the time mentioned he was attached
to - a young girl of nearly the same age as
himself, whose parents were rated among
the "rich ones" in that section of country.
Her name was Ellen Goodridgc. Previous to
leaving for the seat of War be informed her of
his intentions, promising to return in a few
months. After the first battle of Bull Run his
regiment was ordered to Washington, and re
ceiving a lieutenant's commission, Hendrick
resolved to enter the service for three years,
and wrote to his parents and sweetheart to
that effect. The news was received by the girl
with foreboding, and she resolved to accom
pany him, She immediately acquainted her
parents with her reAolve,who.in reply, turned
her from the house mid bade her never come
back.
She went, and finding out her lover's regi
ment, obtained permission to do the cooking
at theaocioners headquarters. She followed
the regiment through the battles of Gettys
burg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Wilder
ness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Richmond,
and in the intervening time went out with
young Hendrick in many skirMishes and
raids, in one of which she was wounded in
the arm, the ball making a very bad flesh
wound. After Lee surrendered, the object of
her choice was taken deathly sick, and was
forwarded in an ambulance to Washington,
where he was placed in the hospital. Here,
again, her noble. heart showed itself. She
watched over him, bathed his fevered brow,
read to him, wrote home letters for him, and,
on Thursday lust, with a broken heart, closed
his eyes in death. The day before an Episco
pal minister joined the two in marriage—he
dying with a painful disease and she nearly
crazed with the thought that, after four long .
years of suffering, he for whom she had given
up home, friends, everything dear on earth,
and for whom she bad braved every danger,
had gone to another world.
The poor girl passed up on the Hudson
River Railroad, on Thursday, for her home in
the far West, not knowing or caring what sort
of a reception awaited her there.
NEW YORE, July 2.1
$1,000,000
30,000
70,000
6,60,000
7,000,000
LINCOLN MONUMENT FuND. The fol
lowing sums hiWO been received by James L.
Claghorn, treasurer of the Llneoln Mommlolll,
Association, at the office, 921 Chestnut street:
H. T. Conrad, Coalmoun
W.
Huntingdon
county, Pa., per Dirs. E. W. Chapman... $3 00
German Hebrew Congregation "Rodef
Sholen," per Rev, Jadobp'rankel n so
James Sthith, 218 Christian street 1 00
Wesley Manning, 218 Christian street.... 100
John G. Frank, 218 Christian street • 1 00
Efinard Lynch, 308 Marriott street 100
Citizens of Norris tOw n, per Harvey Shaw
Esq 25 00
Industry Lodge No. 130, I. 0. 0. F., Per,„
ODHenrF. Morris ........... . .. .. • .
The "Lady Washington" Independent
Order of the "Ladies' Union League,"
No. 1, of Philadelphia ..... ..
Samuel and Carrie Briggs, Ednuand .....
Sallie Cox, proceeds Of li fair 11 00
Different Departments Oil tell States
Navy Yard, viz :
Collected by R. G. Curtin, Naval Store
-52 00
keeper
Collected by Wm. IL Knowles, Gun-Car-
51 00
riage Department
Collected by Ai:gust:ls Walters, Laborers'
38 50
Department
Collected by ROW. Duffield, Ins ector's
p
29 99
Department
Collected by John G. Sticker, Machinists'
29 00
Department
Collected by Houston Smith, Joiners' De
partment 22 00
Collected by Daniel Doe, Dookmaster , s
Department 19 00
Collected by John L. Black, Illockmaker's
Department 17 00
Collected by John 6. Clothier, Spar.
=bars , Delmirtmat..." 11,00
THREE CENTS.
TEXAS.
NORTHERN TEXAS,
A lilt of War Romance.
Tx -iv. WAR PRESS.
(PUBLISHED WEEKLY.)
Tait WAR PIM% will be sent to anbitertberi OF
mail (per armun, I ....dvance.) at pi
Si
Fine copies ............... . Sit
Ten ...... ... . ......... •A 4) 00
Larger Clubs than Ten will be charged at the " II
rate, $2.00 Per copy. ,
Th e mono must Wawa, accompany the order. MO
in no instance can these terms be acotated Prow. ale
they °fora vo y ifttie Inor. chop the coat of wiper.
Jar- Politmastere oro recLutated to act as ayetitil
for Tan Wan PEWS.
air To the getter-up of the Club of ten or twentyi
an extra copy of the paper will be given.
STATE ITEMS
--The new bridge across the Allegheny at
Oil City will, when completed, be one of the
finest in the West. It is to be a suspension
bridge of tWo spans of three hundred and.
twenty-five feet each, and ono hundred and.
sixty-two and a half feet, the latter on the Oil
City side. The platform will be thirty-tive
feet above the level of the river, and Will con.
silt of a double track of teams seventeen fees
wide, and side walks between the track and
suspenders live -feet }Asher than the track.
The cables will bs two in number, and the
platform be attached to them by nine SUS.
pending rods.
The Pennsylvania State Teachers , Asso
ciation will be held at Meadville, Crawford.
county, on the Ist, 2d, and ad of August. This
-meeting promises to be ono of the most late.
resting ovelhold. It is hoped the teachers in
this county, and throughout the whole State
will be in artendance at the meeting of the as
sociation. Meadville is in the vicinity of the
famous oil region, and can be visited by many
attending the association. Our readers should.
remeirtho,l , that the National Teitelters , Ana.
ciation will meet in Harrisburg on the nth,
lith, and 18th days of August. Do not con
found the two Conventions.
Great difficulty exists along the line of
the. Connellsviiie road and the Monongahela
between the coal mine proprietors and the
ruiners. The former propose to pay but three
ceuts per bushel for mining coal, and the last
to demand five. Catistittnently, very 11019
coal is being got out
A vein of silver ore, from one to four per
cent. pare metal, was discovered a few days
since about nine miles south of Reading.
The Republican Convention will be held
cm Monday, the 7th of August.
Sixteen marriages are reported in tha
Meadville papers during the holiday week,
HOME ITEMS.
The Alumni of Dartmouth College have
voted to undertake to raise, within the coming
year, not IeSS than lifty thousand dollars.
which shall be apPrOpriated to the CFV9tiwi of
a suitable monument to her sons who have
fallen in battle for their country during the
war, and to the construction of an Alumni
Hall. The following gentlemen were appoint..
ed a committee to have charge of the wilco.
lion and appropriation of the funds: Presi
dent Snalh, Chief Justice Chase, BtOadard B.
Colby, lion. George P. Strong, A. 8, Wheeler,
Hon, J. W. Patterson, and Prof. S. G. Brown.
—Memphispapers mention that Jas.C. Brow*
was shot ten times by a gang of men under
the leadership of a young man named Payne
while at a picnic near Olive Branch, De Sot;
county, Miss., on the sth of July, Mrs. Brent,
while trying to protect her husband, Was shot
through the shoulder; Miss Collins was shot
through the heart, and Mr. McClure was badly
wounded. After Brown was dead, the attack
ing party broke two pistols over his head. He
bad fought until after receiving the tenth
shot, shooting one of the PayneS through the
shoulder and arm. The assailants escaped.
The following figures exhibit the number:
of soldiers discharged from the hospitals in
Philadelphia from June 2 to July 29, 1885, by
Captain Van Horn, assistant commissary of
muster: Maine, 150; New Hampshire, 49; Ver
mont, 45; Massachusetts, 172 ; Rhode Island, 28 i
Connecticut, 56; Now York, 1,233; New Jersey,
200; Pennsylvania, 665; Marylanl, 50; West
Virginia, 33; Kentucky, 0; Ohio, 110; Michigan,
191; Indiana, 06; Illinois, 03 ; MlSSOliri, 10 ;
nesota, 19; lowa, 20; Wisconsin, 175; Veteran
Reserve Corps, 51; U. S. Colored Troops, 541
U. S. Regulars, 2. Total, 3,419.
A St. Louis despatch gives the news from
Fort Leavenworth that on Monday last the
6th Western Virginia Cavalry and other troops,
when ordered across the Plains, mutinied and
refused to march. They had got it into their
heads that they were entitled to be noistered
out, and did not want to go any farther. Gen.
Stolberg,.commanding at Fort Leavenworth,
had the mutineers dismounted and disarmed,
and placed them under guards.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
writing July 11, says that in aoythcrn Illinois
the wheat is so badly damaged by smut; rust,
and spot that many of those fields which were
the most promising will not be cut at all, and
those that will be harvested will not produce
near half a crop..
In the ecclesiastical meetings of all the
religious denominatiens, - one of the chief
topics now up for consideration is, how to
crease the number of young men preparing
for the ministry. The war very greatly
checked the increase of students.
A train on the Central Ohio Railroad was
thrown from the track by a break, said to have
been caused by the rain, at a point sixteen
miles east of Collnnbua, on Friday last, and it
is reported that eight inrOsis' were killed and
over twenty wounded.
-- The vertebral neCkbones of the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, which were broken by the
pistol bullet which caused his death, are now
on exhibition,among other surgical curiosities.
of the war, at the _Army Medical Museum in
Washington.
The Gold BM (Nevada) Nezus tells that a•
boy fell down a pair of stairs, on C struck the
other day, and rolled out on the floor of a
third story ; on D street. The altitude of the
domiciles in mountain towns is very uncer
tain.
—The Sanpnah Republican says that the
health of. that. city, thanks to the Sanitary
vigilance of Gen. Grover; is excellent, - The
deaths for the month of June numbered only
74, out of a population of 25,000.
A German in Bridgeport, Conn., named.
Selsomright, about forty years of age, waa
fOnnd sitting in a rocking chair, dead, on tho
15th inst., by his wife ' who had left hint but a
few moments before in apparent good health.
The list of income returns, pulished in
Chicago, shows that there are in that city forty
seven persons whose incomes exceed fifty thou.,
sand dollars, and two hundred whose incomes
exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
The salaries Of telleilers in the Chicago
public schools have been raised fifteen pox'
cent. The prices heretofore paid have been
much less than those received by the same
class of teachers in Eastern cities.
—Preparations are making for starting the
factories in several of the villages in NeW
Hampshire which have been shut up for some
time past. Factory girls are in awl - mud.
The trotting horse Neal Dow died of a
bilious attack, and with him perished two
thousand dollars.
Colonel Dan. Macaulay, of the 11th In
diana, (General Lew. Wallace's old regiment,)
has been appointed brevet brigadier general. -
- Robert Treat Paine's house in Taunton is
being demolished.
Miss Lucille Western has found a Lomloa
engagement.
A monument to Mrs. Slgournoy is to be
erected at Ilartford.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
r— A toncirtni weekly gays the Queen has Deol3
annually in the habit of giving a ball at Bala
moral to . her tenants and dependents t and
-what the Queen does many of the great houses
throughout the country will also do. I could
name a country seat in Yorkshire, where a
dance, exactly like that at Beausejour, is ar
ranged every fortnight. Ono of the ladies of
the family, whenever alto L9lit hoine, makes et
point of bespeaking for a partner the fat
coachman, who has been for ages about the
house. She takes care to give him a good spin
down the long room, and has the pleasure of
hearing him at the end of the dance pant out:
Oh—yell—Miss, but you do make un sweat
sc.+ , Now a London flaillPltPo would surrey
such a scene upon the stage with shuddcrlng
incredulity.
France exported, during the first four
mouths of 1865, says the Monde's?' du Soir, mer
chandise to the value of 892,569,000 L, being se
venty-one millions less than for the corres
ponding period of 1864, but In augmentation of
the same mouths in 1863,1862, and Mel. The
products representing the largest sums in the
statement furnished by the customs returns
are—silks, 103 millions; woolen goods, 108, and
wines, Si. The foreign goods imported show a
total amount of 752,126,000 f. for the first four
months of 1965. This is an increase on the cor
responding periods in the Your years last past.
Tim most important sums stand for cotton, lilT
millions.
The value of the exports of British goods
and produce made to the Australian colonies
has considerably increased this year, having
been 11,837,679 to March SI, us compared. with
111,483,084 in the o°lWe-imp/ling MOO Of /8454 , -
Igutiontdrio most
d o o st E
and. £1,507,822 in the corresl , o , :
nl u t
1883. The colony which al
largely to the increase was new South Wales.
The demand has also increased this year for
British goods from Western Australia, South
Australia, Vic:twin, Queensland, and Tasma
nia; in the case of Now Zoalitnil, It declined,
although It
rter was still of more lBB3 00usideratuu that
in the first qua.
Tim Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham
smoked a cigar in a railway carriage. The sta.
Hon-Master. at Vauxhall had a summons got
out, calling the Earl to appear before a London
magistrate for 'the offence. The Earl didn't
obey the summons, but sent a letter to the:
chairman of that railway company, to demand
ing" the instant dismissal of the impudent
station-master, and saying : "I. beg you to ob.
servo that the piece of impudence Involves 4.
breach of the privileges of tho House of Lords,
and that you, the ebairman.of the company,
shall be held responsible for it." London fa
now laughing, at the high and mighty Earl,
who thinks he can smoke where common pee ,
pie can't.
A Presbyterian ehureh in Edinburgh is
shaped like a fan—at one end it is forty feet is
width, and at the other one hundred and stx
teen feet wide. The aisles radiate from the
pulpit, hliioli in at the narrow Undo Ilke the
spokes of a wheel. The seats are arranged fa
three tiers, one tier being nine feet above tho
other.
-- Herr Ferdinand Frolligrath, now in Lon•
don, has been named honorary member of the
"Fries Deuteebee Sochstift im Goethehavan't
at ItigulOrfkiin-Ute-Mikin.