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SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1865
n=lli
The news Which wo print from Texas and
lexico this morning is interesting. The Go
ernor of Sal tit lo (Liberal) had captured Kirby
with and his party and train, consisting of
pieces of artillery and seventy-five wagons
fil m - munition and provisions. It is probable
4 , y were going to joinlfaximilifm. The officers
„d wen wore prd aroled. The rebel Gen. Shelby
his force had also attempted to enter
~,v i ce, but the authorities of Piedras Negras
-051 d not let them enter with arms in their
unuts This forced them to dispose of their
It is denied that Magruder and Kirby
faith had made money oil' cotton specula
lens, lien. Smith had arrived at Brownsville
ail from S,OOO to 10,000 United States troops.
il lan had given authority to a General
lonct to enlist Texans for guerilla service.
Steele (of our ninny) has required Corti
--who is at Brownsville, to keep the peace.
An Indian force, ono thousand strong, had
: 4 taelfed -Mite midge Station, Indian Terri
-1,11., but, Mier:its e-days , fight, they were re
'ascii by the garrison, who only numbered
we 'hundred and fifty. The Indians lost
x yp . y. On cur side, one officer and one pri
,4, killed, and thirty-four men wound
1. The body of the officer (Lieutenant Col-
I VIS horribly mutilated. A note picked
os the battle-field said that the Indians
is not in favor of peace, which can only be
,;mined by severely punishing them. The
expedition, it is said, would have
::atted long :Igo, if the contractors had not
f: ift e d to deliver the needed supplies.
r nencral Thomas has written a letter to Go-
T ailor Brownlow saying that if the language
,harged against Emerson Etheridge be - true
iti is tqcarly amenable to the military autho
rities. The Cirneral promisee Golterhor Brown
low that the Union troops will assist him in
tarrying out the State Ge&ernuient policy so
:cog as they remain in the State. Governor
mow - 1110w has called on General Thomas to
aena troops to various counties to preserve or-
Iv: and the purity of the ballot-box.
hi appears' that the dams along the Stisque
inina prevent the passage of shad, and other
1-h. up that river. The citizens of Harris•
bjg are indignant, and consequently con
oaplate to carry cut the law requiring the
races of dams to construct shutes.
The postal service is fast being restored to
.I.lv south; of ices have been restored, and con
•::iet.o given out, The ether departments of
IP , Government are also engaged. in restoring
,:.everionsolliceS.
The R a leigh (r. C.) Standard says that rebel
11 , ,T5, which openly advocate trsasonable
are springing up in all parts of the
We. Many of the new Federal appointees
Mho their positionS, as they are not
to take the oath.
a hilst a steamer was on her way from La
to St. Paul, on Thursday, an insane
,;:a fired into a party of passengers, killing
nc , and wounding another. He was finally
The contest, yesterday, between the boat
hubs of Ilarrnrd and Yale Colleges, resulted
the triumph of the latter.
The 'Wheat crop in Indiana and Illinois is
, gtEy damaged. In Wisconsin the reports are
%lore favorable.
. .
The certificate' , of indebtedness are being
edneed very fast, the number redeemed being
,wpik less than those issued.
General Grant, witti a portion of his staff,
:sE , reached Baratoga s where be met a hearty
.eleorne.
The yacht Clara Claretaorhich is to assist in
piing . the shore end of the Atlantic cable, has
trrived st Halifax en route for Aspy Bay.
Tim remains of Bishop Potter left San. Fran
i:tee on the 18th, by steamer.
There is mueli more animation at the Stock
, :nd, a smculative feeling haying deyeloped
:reit" during the past day or two. It affects
;or rnment loans rather unfavorably, while
:re oils and low-prieed secured securities sell
1 higher figirrus. Gold reached 147 yesterday,
lierisetieingba , i , y l . upon the reports of im
?,iniing, trouble between the United States
France.
The flour market was firm yesterday at the
airimee. Wheat is sem•cc and held higher.
cets are also lather better. Cotton is firmly
1!14, but the sales arc limited. Provisions
ontinue very scarce, and prices are well
14in-wined. whisk-y is without change.
;old eloped in :it, ss York last night, n-t,l4);fi
MAXIMILIAIki DO?
'The intelligence from and about Mexico
iatremely contradictory, as usual. One
r !II (said to have been received from
'li-:1; *. via Cincinnati !) tells us that MAxi
-3HILIN is about &Ling—perhaps ; adding
-15,":00 French, Austrians, Algerians in
ons, to be employed opposite Texas, where
a Inge United States force is being -or-
On the other hand, M. ELOIN,
Vtlsent to Europe by MAXIMILIAN as
a nit of itinerant plenipotentiary, is re
pored by the Neu: York Herald as having
aceanplished only a single object of his
dii mastic : that he has failed
16persuade NAPOLEON 111. that it would
I},nise to send more troops and money to
Pk:co, but that he has succeeded in ol:t
&Ili:1g from the Emperor of Austria a re ,
:tintion of his rights of succession as a
pnrce of the House of Hapsburg, in the
of his quitting Mexico. With the
ption of these rights there would be
1r restoration of his liberal income (say
.000,000 per annum,) out of the vast
:tally funds of the said Hapsburg race.
• lArald, which delivers this news very
%rely, and without rhetorical " blow-
Q 2 .!? "—in fact, as if it believed it—says :
" Te have reason, also, for the belief - that the
iisdon Of M. Eloin has been productive of a
oirtner result—namely, that lie carries back
, ith hint to Mexico, us the advice of. Louis
Napcleon and of Xing Leopold, that, under all
circumstances, and, seeing that it's now
Hit that the people of Mexico do not de
to luxe an Emperor to rule over them, the
, t plan for 31am - ill:WI will be to abdicate
tarty arnomentaspossible,andieturnto
t.:mr.e. I nuit then the 'French troops, haying
, : ,, t hie. farther to do there, will also retire;
'''! ills whole of this disagreeable and un
,plll3;ttE Mexican business will be ended
`'hut any further trouble. Napoleon and
will both have paid a noble tri7
the great doctrine of satisfied nation
• mid have very materially strengthened
au act of wi4ioal and abnegation their
id future po3itions in Europe, an .1,
, r(:ztll things, will have avoided any
uia the United Slates.
we have reason to believe, is the ad
,(T Maximilian's Chief of Cabinet is
I.;z from Europe, and Which we have
1111 further reason to believe will be speedily
wais
Ai? i 7 ,s, except the closing sentence, has
rxisible, if not a truthful aspect, and,
confess, comes to us as something
.(.11,1! rational and probable. The doubt
-;art, in the last three lines, is our con
11,orary'a confidential "reason to be
-11,:,:c" that TilAxixtudAw will do so-and-so.
itmuLtioi will scarcely decide on any
''zirsc until he has had a long talk with his
TOE LIMERAL GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO
shown unexpected vigor by the arrest
':: ,, !veral large bands of rebel refugees who
entered that country for the purpose of
lifAxammtxr's army. The forces
KIRBY SMITII and General SHELBY
(. fl from the status of _vrisoners of war in
own country, only-to meet a similar
'1(. in thei r new home. It is reported that
Al Imperialists have offered many induce
to rebel volunteers, and that they
'`ln American Elibusterism a capital in
hull", when the filibusters join their
"grd Austrian, French, and Belgian
orde.
tTTER FROM "OCCASIONAL.”
sitiNGTON,sJaly 28, 1865.
The slower the Southern people are in
rrying out the unniterabh# decrees of des
ny, the slower the Guvernment will be in
tcording to them "the rights" which too
Say of their leaders show that they neither
eserv, nor respect. If they can do without
Eilierous assistance and protection
the Executive, they may he well
cured that he can do better without
eir allegiance. There is a way of se
erely "letting" these gentry "alone." I
in not of those who attach such prime int
,rtance to the manner in which the re
:accl rebel soldiers elect the most venous_
andcruel of their late officers to civil
, sitions. It only shows that they arc not
et ready for citizenship ; that they prefer
MR:Jr; and that they do not want the
eatral Government to help them out of
stir ibistries. 7t shows, too, that they do
01, want to obtain new credits from the
o:them merchants; that they are telling
when they say they want their railroads
built and equipped • and that they have no
to.
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hope to see Representatives from the South
ern States admitted to the next Congress.
The free States can and will do without the
rebel leaders in Congress forever; and the
war has taught the loyal sections that they
can amazingly progress and prosper with
out the Southein people. If these latter
are pleased with the ruin wrought by
the rebellion, and are resolved to
try and send back their betrayers..
into the National Councils, they must
even be indulged in their foolish at
tempt. There are plenty of precedents es
tablished by the Southern politicians them
seltes, for keeping Senators and Representa
tives out of Congress when they do not suit
the majority. The friends of the Union
cannot only fall back on these, but upon
the higher ground of duty to the Republic
and to the Constitution, when they pre
emptorily turn away the men who seek to
resume the places from which they fled,
covered with perjury, into the army of the
traitors. President Johnson's kindness
enables these ingrates to show their hands.
They are foolish enough to think it is not
kindness, but timidity. A grave and fatal
mistake, indeed t Let them take 'care
lest—as he again realizes that the lead
ers of the late rebellion are not to
be trusted with any power, and are worthy
only of suspicion and vigilant supervision—
he does not strike such a blow as he threat
ened their Chief with, in the Senate, when
he said he would hang him if he ~attempted
to lift his hand against We Union.
The late- manifestations at Richmond,
and Columbia, Tennessee, may be uncon
scious preparations, on the part of the
rebels, for the very doom they have
so often professed to dread and de
plore. I am in hopes, however,. that
the perfidy of these wretched malignants
will not be allowed to be a controlling ex
ample in the South. The fixed resolve of
the Government to - rebuke and crush it,
will do much to prevent it from spreading ;
but a better sentiment than fear is at work.
The good men of the South are not all
lost to the cause of humanity and to an
impoverished people. I understand that
Hon. James L. Orr, of South Carolina, is
to -be here to-morrow to make application
for pardon. I am not surprised to
learn that he accepts his lot, and that
he intends to take high ground in
Ivor of the Constitutional abolition
of slavery, and that he may offer a
plan of colored suffrage which will show
that he is not blind to the requirements of
the times on that subject. Colonel Orr is
not a small politician. He never was a Cal
hounite. He could not do what the debased
partisans alluded to are doing in return for
the favor of the President. And he unhesita
tingly says that there are thousands of men
like him in other States. Let us hope he is
not mistaken. OCCASIONAL.
WASHINGTON.
THE CIVIL SERVICE BEING RIPIDLY RE
STORED TO THE SOUTH.
THE AMOUNT OF CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS
LARGELY ROHE%
Important Order of Gen. Augur in Relation
to the Testimony of Colored Persons.
WASHINGTON, July 28,1808.
The Civil Offices Being Restored to the
South.
The Postmaster General is gradually resto
ring postal service all over the South. This
morning two mails left the Washington post
office, to be conveyed directly through to
Itionnond and Petersburg. Contracts have
3....-k_hpen_mnile for service by railroad
few Orleans le - Canton, NIBS., and fiinn Can
ton to Jackson, Tenn.
Other heads of departments are engaged in
restoring the civil machinery, in accordance
with the proclamations of the President, ap
pointing provisional governors.
The Certigeates or Indebtedness Being
Reduced.
It is ascertained on inquiry that there is a
continued reduction of the aggregate amount
of certificates of indebtedness, the number
redeemed being much larger thanthose newly
issued.
The Testimony of Colored Persons
llnjor General Atiffl7ll, in his general order
dated July 27, says: " The civil courts in that
portion of Virginia within the limits of the
Department of Washington having de
clined to receive the testimony of colored
persons, tiprovost court is hereby established
in Alexandria, to have exclusive jurisdiction
in an eases involving the rights of persons or
property of colored persons resident of the
district aforesaid. This court will receive the
testimony of colored persons with no other lim
itatiOnS than those now affecting the testimony
of white persons. The Provost Marshal Gene
ral of the defences south of the Potomac is
charged with the execution of this order. This
order will remain in force until the Virginia
courts have brought their practice more into
harmony with the existing state of affairs.
Capt. M. P. FISHER, 2d Regiment District of
Columbia Volunteers, is appointed Judge of
said court."
Internal Revenue Decision.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that interest paid - to depositors by
savings banks is considered a dividend, with
in the meaning of section Ro of the law, and
the tax of five per cent. should be withheld
therefrom and paid to the Government. An
undertaking or a claim of a third party, under
the New York statute, is a joint agreement,
and is subject. 1 o a stamp duty of five per cent.
whelltarits for the Southwest.
The following order was issued to-day
"Until otherwise ordered, the mails for A
tlanta, Augusta, Maeon, and West Point,
Georgia; Montgomery, Ala., and for points
contiguous :to these several places, and
between them and: Chattanooga, may be for
ward eAL to' their destination via Nashville,
Tenn. Soldiers have been detailed for etnty 011
the several roads, and placed in charge of the
post °dices wherever there are military posts."
The Baltimore Appointments.
The feud between the Maryland politicians
has 'been decidedly earnest for several weeks
paSt, and delegates representing the oppositi . g
parties have Made repeated visits' to the Pre
sident in relation to the Federal °dicers for
33althn ore. Two sets of appointments were
beret ofore agreed upon, hut were afterwards
partially ignored. The following, promul
gated to-day, arc, however, believed to be eon
elusive Collector, E. H. Webster, member
elect of the United States HOuSc 01 Represen
tatives ; Naval Oflicer, W. J. Reese; SurVeyor,
E. Pullen: Marshal, Washington Bouffant;
District Attorney, W. J. Jones: Chief Ap
praiser, J. L. Meredith; Assistant Appraisers,
E. F. Anderson and T. K. Carroll; Postmaster,
A. H. Purnell.
The. Beat in Washington.
lit neon today the thermometer in the shade
- marked ninety-two degrees.
Consul Recognized.
The President has recognized , ADOLPH Ito-
R.ENTHAL Consul of the Principality of
- Reuss, for the State of Wisconsin.
Personal.
—Mr. Sizer, of the New Raven Palladium,
has retired from that paper, and given place
to A. J. Train, Esq., formerly of the New
Haven lifth'nimg Courier, A. If. Byington, of
the Norfolk Gazelle, and W. A. Croffut, recently
Of the Rochester (N. N.) Daily Advertiser.
Ceneral Milroy, on Thursday, sent
in his resignation to Ll± l'retiilunt.
HARRISBURG.
ACTION BY THE AUTHORITIES IN It ED ATM TO DAMS
TIARTUF43TIM, 3111 y 28.—A call signed by May.
ltomfort'mal a large number of oar prinei,
pal citizens has been issued for a meeting at
the Court House - to-morrow evening, to adopt,
measures for the enforcement of the law passed
last winter requiring the owners of darns in
the Susquehanna, to construct - 4e/wtes or some
other devices for the free passage of shad and
other fish up said river. The law is very strin
gent in its provisions, end the eiti eits resi
ding along the- entire Valley of the Susque
hanna evince a determine tion to see it carried
out. The dams are principally owned by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Tide
water Canal Companies.
Two companies of the ISith Pennsylvania
Regiment arrived here this evening from the
South.
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General Grant at Saratoga.
Snr; ATOGA,PeIIe.
N. Y., July 2e.—T i ientenant
rol Grant and staff arrived here last evening,
and attended Leland's Opera House. After-
AN tn , ts, he had a reception in the large Union
'Rotel, where a number of tlic elite and fashion
in the piece called upon and warmly and en
ihusiustically greeted 'him.
Nom - illation for Coisgrefill.
CINCINNATI, 28.—liorace Maynard waB
nominated for CoLgiess in the Knoxville {.Ten
nessee) district yesterday.
JEFF DAVIS,
Another Report of his Health, and Another
Account of his Habits.
WHY HE IS NOT DEAD YET, AND WHY
HE IS LIKELY TO LIVE
WHAT HE EATS AND DRINKS,
AND WREN.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS, MANY UNTIL
NOW UNRECORDED.
[Special Correspondence of The Press.]
leoivruPss Mounou, July 27,1885
Your corresponocnt has read, with a geed
deal of amusement, the many letters sent
from this post professing to give daily bul
letins of the health and habit's of Jefferson
Davis. He has read them the more amusedly
because most of them evidently rely for their
factsmainly on the imagination of the writers.
Your correspondent knows that the letters of
at least two dailies—one prominent in New
York, and another somewhat known in your
city—are Blade up in back-offices, or stretched
out froth meagre details furn!slied by some
of the hangers-on around this post. Every
morning for the past two weeks, a green-look
ing fellow, who affects a great ability in ob
taining," points," has sidled up to the guards
at some of our entrances, After a few feints,
in the most innocent manlier possible, he an
nounces the high honor he possesses as a cor
respondent., anxiously inquiring the while
what Jeff Davis had for breakfast. The guard)
who knows nothing at all about the matter,
assumes quite as important an air as that of
his interlocutor, and; with winks and nods,
manufactures a string of roorbacks, I . cirich the
able taker of "pOints dots down and solidi;
to his journal, to be embellished with twenty
four most eloquently worded display heads.
THE FACTS OF TILE MATTER
Imprimis, Jeff Davis is not fairly in health•
Your readers all know that Hampton Village,
which is not very far from here, was, for years
before the war, a favorite Watering-place for
the eh ivalry, who found health, and somethnes .
rotundity, for aforetime lank and sallow
frames. The same breezes that then blew in
over the bay now bloW—the same sun shim
mers on the waves. Lean Southerners grew
fat, and pale South Carolinian cheeks grew
ruddy four years ago ; and now the Chief of all
the Southerners, lank, sallow Jefferson Davis,
waxes strong.
The correspondents to whom I have referred
have grown eloquent over the habits of Mr.
Davis—his peculiar religions leanings, his
daily fare, his clothing, his walks, etc. They
have guessed aright, here and there, but, in
general, their conjectures fall far wide of the
mark. Mr. Davis, being a prisoner, is confined
in one of the casemates of the fort, from which
there are no means of egress except through
the door and windows. There is but one door,
and this is barred by stout, determined guards,
*hotted muskets, and bayonets. The windows
are also barred with iron, that substance
having been chosen because of Its strength,
and the proof experience has given of its
peculiar - fitness for the safe-keeping of critni:
Dais. During the day the sunlight is allowed
to filter in, and the bay breezes stray through
grizzled locks,and at night the moonlight-pro-
Tided, of course, the moon is shining. Part of
the time the prisoner Sleeps, and the rest he
remains awake, except when, through the dull
routine of his position, he dozes overlie
which he sometimes reads. Mr. Davis rises
generally in th e morning, performing his ablu
tions like the Mohammedais and the rest of
mankind 5 and at about the time that everbody
else does on this continent north of the equator,
he eats his breakfast, which is provided from
the table of his physician, who is expected to
know what is good for his patient. Several
times Mr. Davis has passed sleepless nights,
caused, no doubt, by reason of his past mis
deeds and crimes that cry to Ilenyen for vem
gean ce ; and his appetite has flagged, notwith
standing the care of his physician. EN still
remains alive and well, although it is generally
adinitteftlierc, if he had refused his rations
when he was first incarcerated he would have
succeeded in dodging the gallows, which, it is
further held, await him. At Ono his dinner is
brought without any ceremony. No waiters
or bakers are employee in the fort, so that
napkins, silver, and the ruby are wanting. At
evening his supper is brought; all these atten
tions are received cordially. Between break
fast and dinner the prisoner looks out of his
cell-window over the bay, amusing himself
by watching the water, the passing vessels,
and the blue landscape in the distance. If he
(lees net leo]; on of his windows his gaze is
turned either to the few articles of furniture
which adorn his residence, or to the silent
guards who walk to and fro before his door, to
his Bible, or whatever may at that particular
moment attract his attention. lie is usually
silent when not talking to hiliself, to his
guard.; to the person who brings him his
meals, to Dr. Craven or General Miles, who
visit him daily. In the afternoon he passes his
time much like he does in the morninfi,breath
ing always the breezes from off the water, as
they form the only air furnished him.
SOME OF HIS HABITS AND "PECULIARITIES
Jefferson Davis is amen somewhat advanced
in years, although thus far he seems to have a
sound mind in a sound body. He does not
look so young as be did twenty years ago, and
yet this fact is made a handle by the New
York Daily Neta§, and other journals of that
ilk, to grind dolorous complaints about the
barbarous treatment the "illustrious cap
tive " receives at the hands of the Govern
ment. The operation of shaving is not per
formed on him just now, mainly for the reason
Hint he allows his beard to grow, but - also for
the reason that he might, in a moment of des
peration, make an attempt to commit suicide.
It is said that he has grown partially bald, but
this cannot he ascribed to his prison -life, so
much as to the caw.: and labor of the four years
of relmllion he superintended. His nose has
assumed a natural tinge because of his liba
tions from the Chesapeake, which are twice as
good, if not half as pleasant as the libations
of bloelcade-run Cognac he used to take in the
good old clays of the would-be independent
Confedqracy. His eyes, from the constant use
he has been compelled to make of them du
ring the whole of his life, are the worse for
the wear. lie seems to have used one eye,
however, more than the other, as its condition
is not half as good as its neighbor on the other
side of the bridge of his nose. It is said to be
blind, and while the neighbor-is fast becOmiug
SO. Anyway, whenever he promenades, as he
doe, at dusk upon the ramparts of the Fort
ress, be wears a pair of great: green goggles,
which hang over his nose, like the great yokes
Over the necks of Chester county oxen.
110 W TIE LOONS I:PON THE ILAN-PARTS
Ile looks precisely like a member of the
human Mee as, With pipe at month, he walks
slowly over the ramparts, Under the escort of
two oh:leers, who are neither of theta major
generals, but perhaps expect to be, on account
of their "onerous ditties." Me bas clothes
on, gray in color, rather fine in texture, and
wears a hat and a pair of boots. These facts
have been ehroniCled Rs extremely important,
but they arc merely matters of course. In all
civilized Society, on your Chestnut street, and
at this post especially, people are not allowed
to promenade naked, even though - under the
escort of people who expect to be major gene
rals. Besides, such treatment would be bar
barous and offensive to the numerous per-
SOPS who have occasion to lie in or to pass by
the fort every day. For these wen-I - minded
and generally acknowledged reasons, Mos,
whenever he promenades, has his clothes on.
In his cell, costume is entirely a matter of
choice. When he retires to bed it is expected
that he will doff his coat and boots.
ItOly LOX(} /rE MAY POSSIBLY LIVE?
If Mr. Daltii=i continues in his present state of
nea]tb, it is likely lie will live some years at
irnst ; but If lie should be attacked bye mili
tary court-martial, or any other fatal malady,
his shift may not be so long. Yon may depend
upon this 000 fact: Ile is strong, looks well
every day, and manifests no symptoms of
weakness, except in his determined cifort to
proVe to Duteh gnitrtls, who do not understand
English well, that he is not Jefferson Day-is,
and never was the President of the Confode
jytey, or;In other words, that he has not com
mitted treason, and cannot be tried for it.
OTHER AND CONCLUDING FACTS
There are many other little facts I might
give you in addition to those above, but deli
cacy in some eases, and want of 3,:kowlefige in
others, prevent me. There is no danger of his
early death, and no ditnger of escape, even
though Ike dues grow stronger every day.
Samson pulled down the pillars of a great
temple, and: in bursting his shaekl es destroyed
hiS enemies and himself. Darts is not Sam
son, and even if he was, the roof of his case
mate is heavier than the pillars of the temple,
and cannot be handled so readily. The roof is
calculated to weigh at least one hundred tons,
and since Davis cannot lift or escape - by win
dows or doors, his incarceration until he is
escorted cot, is a thing assured. In some Suc
ceeding letter I will give you all the latest de
velopments, should any occur. li. W. W.
Harvard College lall Club.
WORCESTEn, Mass., J 1 28.—The Harvard
College Ball Club played a game of base-ball
to-day with the Charter Oak Club of Hartford,
Conn. The guano lasted two hours, resulting
in a victory for tlio Ilart'ara, the scot°
,stand
ing follovkl4 ilarVata: College Club, 35 ;
Charter Oak Club; 13.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1865,
NORTH' CAROLINA.
REBEL PAPERS SPRINGING UP I ALL PORTIONS
Armarr, July 21—Governor TloMen has re
covered from his
The Standard says that rebel papers are
springing up in all parts of the State, Which
openly denounce the Government, and pro
mulgate treason. Most of the Federal appoint
ments in the State are unable to qualify, not
being in a,position to take the oath prescribed
by Congress. Among this number is District
Judge Dick.
TENNESSEE.
THE CASE OF EMERSON ETHERIDGE-DENERAL
THOMAS PROMISES GOVERNOR BROWNLOW A
HEARTY SUPPORT IN CARRYING OUT Tl{>•; LAWS
-TROOPS CALLED FOR TO GARRISON DISAFFECT
ED DLSTRICTS.
NASTITILLY, eTnly morning'S Pres 3
Publishes' a letter from General Thoinas to
Governor Brownlow. Thomas says: "I am
only 'waiting a report from Colonel Devassy
to determine my course in regard to Emerson
Etheridge. If he has been guilty of the -lan
guage charged against him, he is Clearly,
amenable to the military authorities illiAbo
absence of the civil, and is liable to be tried
before a military commission. My attention
has been called to the 'speeches of other par
tics, but as get I have not seen any report
that would justify the interference of the
military authorities. If, however, there
Should be, in the judgment of the GoVernment,
many time, a necessity for such interference in
consequence of inability or indisposition on
the part of the civil authorities of the State to
take action, an expression of snob a desire on
the part of the Go venter, stating his inability
or indisposition of the civil authorities to act,
will be sufficient. I will cause the parties
cotr,pluiveil . of to be attended to, according to
the nature of the eftBo.
The State of Tennessee is under martial lalv,
but Military authority will not be resorted to
unless the civil authority faile to act, either
from hiabilitf or indisposition.
" Even in the event of a failure of the eiVil au
thorities to do their duty; the military should
refrain from interfering in all Minor cases,
because the military shotod, as far us possible,
sustain the Civil government, but never mg
some its functions, unless in eases in which
prompt action is necessary to insure public
safety.
"ln conclusion, the Governor may rest as
sured he will be fully sustained in carrying
out the policy of the State and General Go.
Velarflledlt as long as the - Union troops are on
duty iu the State."
Governor Brownlow has called upon General
Thomas to send troops into the various coun
ties to preserve order and the purity of the
hallotbox.
CAIRO AND mumirms.
Cacao, July 28.—An arrival from New Or
leans brings four hundred and seventy bales
of cotton for tbe East. Three bunched and
thirty bales have passed up for St. Louis.
A steamer has arrived at Memphis from the
Arkansas hirer, with three hundred hales.
The Memphis market is unchanged. The re
ceipts from wimans are very heavy, but in two
weeks' time the main bulk will be in.
The troops now at Memphis, estimated at
5,000 men, will be divided into Squads and
posted over the country, to maintain law and
order.
Troops continue to arrive at Cairo, en route
home, to be mustered Out.
HALIFAX.
H.kr.ivAx, N. S., July :B.—The steam yacht
Clara Clauta, from New York for Aspy Bay,
with Engineer Everett's party on board ar
rived here yesterday. The yacht has proved
herself an admirable sea-boat, and no better
could have been found in the United States for
the peculiar service in which she is to be tem
porarily engaged. After perfecting some ar
rano•ements of machinery, the yacht will sail
for Aspy Bay, probably to-morrow.
Fatal Assault by an Insane Man.
numAuxag, iym, July v.—An exciting oc
currenee tOOk placc on beard the steamer
Anne Johnson, while on her way from La
Crosse to St. Paul, yesterday afternoon. An
insane man, named Stocking, approached a
group of passengers on deck and tired three
Silo Is, the first striping a passenger, named S.
Roberts, of Syracuse, killing him instantly.
Another shot struck a soldier in the arm, se
verely injuring him. Stocking was finally
disarmed and taken to St. Paul for exami
nation.
Figlutiug.
en:CI:MAT', July :9.—Th . 6 stakes in the 'eon
tem:OA-tea prizeAgbt bet ween Clark and kook
in were drawn ycsterowy, according to the
decision of the bolder, and returned to the re
spective backers.
•
A tight took place yesterday n ear Cincinnati,
heti:een Newell, of Pittsburg, and Barnes, of
Cineihnati, for $ - 20° a side, resulting in. the de
feat of the latter, after inurteen rounds.
Waryaiti and Yale College Boat
Race—Y:lle coner rn e the Winner.
WoncEsTua, July 28.—The great race between
the Yale and Harvard College boat clubs for
the championship came off to-day, and result
ed in a victory for the former. Time—Yale,
17.4:1)4 ; Harvard, ale. Distance, three miles.
The Crops j. i.dis.os. and UMW'S.
CHICAGO, July ?S.—Reports in regard to the
effect of the recent rains in Indiana and Illi
nois show that the winter wheat in Northern
Indiana is badly damaged and grown in the
shock. In soine parts of Illinois, particularly
about McLean county, the spring wheat has
been much Injured,but a week of good weather
Would insuic a beavy yield. In Wigeozogn and
lowa the crops are not damaged to any extent,
but the barley crop is badly stained.
The Cr 01194 in Wisconsin
:HwyAuicr.E, July 28.—The crops throughout
this State are in excel - float conaition, and the
weather has beenreinarliably fine forharvest
ing (tiring the . past three or forr4 , days. The
wheat crop exceeds any we lia - N-e had since
1159.
Naval Movementm.
BELFAST, July 2 . .—The steamer TiOga sailed
te•day for Bangor. The monitor Dictator is
expected here - in a few days ; on her way from
Boston to Halifax.
NEW YORK CITY.
NEW Yorm, July 23
A STEADIER DISTRESS.' „
The steamship George Washington, from.
New Orleans, reports that she fell in with the
transport Blackstone, also front Now Orleans,
on the evening of the 2Gth'inst., - with three;of
her boilers leaking. The Washington took off
the children and other passengers from - the
Blackstone, and the latter would try to reach
Hampton Roads.
The sopply-stearner. Newborn, front Perm&
et,ln„te., arrived to-day with forty-six solaiora
from the hospital at Pensacola.
BISHOP POTTER 7
.9 RHMAliff3
A telegram from San Francisco, dated lath
inst., says that the remains of :Bishop Potter
left there by the steamer of the 18th, accom
panied by Mrs. Potter and the Rev-. Mr. Mc-
Allister.
Arrived, LT. S. steamer Rhode Island, from
Cape Ilaytien.
Tl/13, STOCIt 7,XCIIANGE—SECOND BOARD.
$10(110 IT S Gs. 'Bl c.lO - i.t,i 100 Erin R. 84
4
14000 IT ti Gs 5-20 c. 306 1800 (In 93 1 '
20000 do 10:576 1(0 livtd ltiv It 1 13
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500 TT S 5 , ( 10-40 0, 97 900 do 10:
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BrENING STOCK BOA-RD
At Galing:bees Exeflange this evening, gold
closed nt 145 g ; Kew York Central, 0514 • Erie,
OP,,c • IltulSoll itiVCT.,II3%; 'Reading, 107 ;'Ntielii
ftwp. S . olg , l o ie r fl - 4 , o .e 74; el l . ' n ittsp i n e t ts t . 7 l. 2 e ll;
Fort
WaiNe.ero/:; Can ton Co., 40 5 Curnber , fi Viiii, 4 , 4,1;
Quicksilver, 57.
Markets. Fry Telegraph.
BAT.TIMOnn, July :S.—Flour unsettled the
higher grades hare advanced ace. Wheat is
very firm ; sales of new red at $2.300;2.35. Cora
dull. Provisions steady ; mess Pork $.31.@31,50,
Whisky Arm Ltt.i1.19@2.20.
CuirAGo. July 20R25e higher, clo
sing firm The , ave - 11010 AOOI‘ is very light.
s a le s at44l.7s(trifi.iio for Spring extras. Wheat
active and irregUlar, ranging at $1.27 , ./,‘,"7)1.24;
closing unsettled at 1it.38,L4; for No. 1, and." 61.1 8 1.4
for No. 2. Corn act tve and irregular al. 6:11T7.1e,
closing at 70e.,701.1e for No. I and 70@73c for No,
e. Oafs firm at Freights steady. High
ix in es act iv c and unchanged. Provisions firm;
Mess; Fork er,00.11 • Prime Idess $24.71t
ReceiviN. ipmente.
Von
.24,01i0
.88,0(10
0,000
Ci a , Acu, July e.a--Evening.—Wheftt dull at
1,1.5CG1.81. Cum quiet at 69C6,70c. Oats Arm.
Ship News.
Dos:Tow, July 28.—Arrired—Steamer ;Terse:
Bi ne, Ne w York • bark M. W. Brett, Philado
plpu brig L. M. Merritt, do.
RELIEF NOD LASMAI, , rEMANS _HAVE Sr/
FEEED:Dr TILE WAR.—The Lancaster .Exprel
of Thursday evening has the following:
A meeting wilt lie held in the basement
the First Gernotzi Reformed Church, (lie
Mr. lircumr , s,) at eight o'clock this evenin
- for the purpose of organizing a Union CO
finis iOll tO ai ii 1 tile American 'Union Co
mission in the relief of those persons ti
have been impoverished bythe war. The
cers of the American Union Commission
men of undoubted loyalty and integrity, I
we commend the object which they have
gaged in to the favorable consideration of
such as arc disposed to assist in . the relic;
the sufferers by tile late terrible war
nie value of propurty-in. London in
mated at £900,000,000. . .
TEXAS AND MEXICO.
General Steele Orders Cortinas to
Keep the Peace,
MAXIMILIAN RECRUITING TEXAN AND
OTHER REBEL TROOPS,
TEL LIBERALS VERy E. ,
HOP
rut, OF SUCCESS.
CAPTURE OF KIRBY SMITH AND
HIS FORCE.
He had with him Four Cannon and a
Train of Ammunition.
Qeur Sheidn Force not Terminal to linter Mexico
with Arms In Their Hands
THE UNITED STATES AND FRENCH TROOPS
MY FORTY YARDS AFIRE
A COLLISION BETWEEN THE TWO SAID TO
• BE INEVITABLE.
ItEw tpiztx, July 28,—Tho ateamship George
Washingt4n brings New Orleans dates of July
22, and thevlellowlng news from Texas:
The Washlagton Chronic/0 has a letter from
a military gentleman, now in Texas, who says
that IdaXlmilio.n 7 s and the United States.
troops are Only Jetty yards apart on the Rio
"C4nde, that frequent rows occur, and that a
collision WaS inevitable. lie also says that
one of mir Generals (Brown) had promised
Juarez asaletance, and had even ordered bat•
teries aerlisqm river, but that Geu. Steele
had gone yo countermand the order.
The Tin.es here contains the following de
spateh
Enowzisvums, July 13.---11.1ajor Torier, of Cor
tinas' staff, has just arrived from above,
bringing intelligence of the capture of Gene
ral Kirby Smith and his entire party. lie was
intercepted by the Governor of Saltillo, S.
Viesca, on the 4th of July, at Piedras Negras,
Mr xieo, about fifty miles below Eagle Pass,
and compelled to surrender. The victors got
four pieces of artillery, nine hundred new
lilies, and a Vain of seierrty-flve. wagons,
loaded with ammunition and:provisions. The
officers and men were paroled.
The Matamoros Commerce, of July 12, says
that General Steele has required Cortinas,
who is in t.rownsville, to preserve the peace,
but baying access to Mexico, he continues to
rob on thatside of the river, seeking refuge
on the American gide.
General Monot had received authority from
the Emperor to raise a battalion of Texans
for guerilla service. Instead of 10,000, there
is between 7,000 and 8,000 Missourians and
Texans on their way to Mexico. They are
organized and armed.
Governor Allen, Of. Louisiana, was hourly
exiieeted at Monterey. Complaint is =lade
that the Federal authorities do not furnish
transportation to paroled rebel soldiers who
wish to return to the loyal States. Many went
to Texas before the war and were con
scripted.
Dueinces is becoming quite active in San
Antonio.
There was no general celebration of the
Fourth of July there, though most of the peo
ple ceased business, ,Some celebrated the day
by hoisting the Union flag, and others by haul
ing the flags down. The News,
commenting
on the last proceeding , says : "The authority
of the United States hits notyet been extended
over us, a 331 there are - no onleers or military tO
enforce obedience to its laws, and practically
we are without a Government. We can see,
then, no good sense in the public display of a
token of Dower in advance of the establish
ment of the power."
Generlby had reached Eagle Pass, but
the anilritiee at Piedras Negras informed
him till. ,klWould not be allowed to take his
men int l' Xesieo Witharms in their hands. lie
would, .niq. - M, be sllowed to come into the
eountr;4ith hIS men aS enaigrantS t He Dimity
agreed to this, and sold his armS and cannon
to Int Liberino . at -PiodraS Negras, for which
1w received so,ese in specie and *5,000 in bonds
issued by the Liberals.
The arms were immediately shipped to Chi
huahua. President Juarez is at Chilyaahria,
- Which is strongly fortified, with no In Aerial
troops to threaten it.
The Brownsville correspondent of the New
Orleans Tinier, writing on the 15th, says Cor
tin ati, who is at Brownsville, is very hopeful of
the success of the Liberals, and looked upon
the prompt movement of the United States
forces it the frontier as advantageous to his
cause.
lie has great numbers of Americans in his
ranks, and speaks enthusiastically of their
clash and daring. The correspondent is very
favorably impressed with the appearsnee of
Cortinas, and has a high opinion of his ca
pacity.
The Galveston correspondent df the Macs
says there is a reign of terror in the interior of
Texas, mbrders and robberies prevailing to a
terrible 'extent. He denies "die report that
Kirby Smithand Magruder entered into cotton
speculations. They both had to borrow money
to go to Mexico with.
The Brown sville Republic of the 6th says Gen.
G lies F. Smith had arrived there on on the 4th,
with from 8,000 I to 10,600 United States troops.
The Houston Telegraph rejoices over the fact
that all the drays and omnibuses there are
driven 1y White men, and that the city is fast
filling up with industrious white mechanics
and laborers.
A number of freedmen have established
shoemalters , shops in the city, and have gone
into business on their own account.
The New Orleans Delta regrets that the di
rect tar Commissioners have received. instruc
tions to enforce the collection at the present
time in Louisiana, Florida, etc.
Tt says the agricultural community have
been all ruined by the war, and a majority Of
them are unable to raise the funds necessary
to liquidate the Government claims, and that
nothiug but ruin and disaster can follow the
enfordement of the order.
ctosr. autextittlyr Of THE FRENCH AND UNITED
STATES TROOPS.
WASUINOTON, July 28.—Thely Chronicle
has received a letter from New Orleans, em
bodying the following extract from one writ
ten by a gentleman connected with the head
onartbrs of the Union foree at Clarksville,
Texag. It is dated July lith, and is as follows
"I Am now lying at the mouth of the Rio
Grande, opposite to Bagdad. The Mexicans,
under Maximilian, guard the opposite side,
and Our troops tiffs side. The respective
pickets are not forty yards apart. There is a
'good _deal of unfriendly feeling between the
two tirMioe, and they cannot long refrailifrom
blows,
"On the 4th of July our officers went over
and many rows occurred. I heard to-day that
General Brown, the commander of Browns
ville, yesterday had an interview with Juarez
and proxidsed him the assistance of the United
Statest troops, and had Ordered the 4th Indiana
to cross the river.
"Gen. Steele, the Department Commander,
went up by a despatch boat to counteract the
order, if possible, but even if he succeeded,
things cannotlong, remain as tbeyare.,,
STEED Locoucyrivits.—The Manyport and Car
lisle Company have, for some tune past, cm
' ployed steel, to a great extent, in substitution
of ordinary iron for the working parts of lo
cothotiyes, and, as we are informed, with the
most satisfactory results. The trainee, on the
line is. principally coal and mineral. It has
been found that, with the ordinary iron tires
on the engine wheels, the distance run was not
more than 90,000 miles—in many cases not
more than 60,000 mites—and the wheels re
. quire to be taken 'from nailer the engine for
every 20,000 or 30,000 miles run, for repairs
end " turning up." In the Case of the steel
tires, however, the wheels will run 100,000
miles before they require " turning up" or
repairing. The result of a very careful ex
. animation of the effect of wear leads to the
!opinion that these wheels - will run from
350,060 to ;500,000 miles, or mud to some
tticlve 01' Ilfteen years' work of a daily
average of about 100 miles. The differenee
?of cost as between the two metals is not
great ; in the one case it ranges from £4O to
.£4O per ton, while the steel is about £55, the
cost of labor in placing the tires on the
wheels being nearly the same in each MSC.
Th e company have a number of boilers, axica,
oral Ls and eccentrieS,Made Of Steel ,in constant
use on the line, and they haregiven the great
est satisfaction. These have not, however,
been sufficiently long in operation to ena
ble a comparis:on to be drawn betwehm them
sod the ordinary iron portions of the locomo
tives; but there is reason to believe that
the saving in point of wear will be equal
to that effected by the substitution of
steel for ordinary iron tires. The ordi
nary eccentrics are expensive to keep
up, but those -which are made of hardened
steel do not require any looking after for ten
years, not even to the slackening of a bolt, so
as regards repairs. The experience Ob.
' mined on this, and, we believe, upon some
other railways points to a very important
mode of saving one of the lar,,nest items of
cost in the working expenses of railways. The
subject will, we have have no doubt, receive
carctul consideration from the managers of
rail way:i.--Lortaoa "'Wawa?" News.
The departure of the French Court for
Fontainebleau was to have taken place on the
5111 of July. The residence of their Majesties
there will not exceed two weeks, during which
there will be hunting in the forest, fishing by
torchlight, concerts, and theatrical remesen
tations. From Fontainebleau, the - Emperor
win go to the camp at Chalons, as originally in
tended, and thenco to Vichy,
WAIFS FROM THE SOUTH.
14ic•amozrtk
Among a number of Confederates who,
since the termination of the war, have left
i
Europe and taken up their abode n Canada,
is John Y. Mason, of Virginia, formerly United
States Senator, and more recently the ac
credited commissioner of the late Confede
rate Government in London. Mr. Mason is
DOW residing with his family at St. Call*
rines.—Richmond Republic.
We learn that that loathsome disease, the
small-pox, is _on the increase among the
colored populgtion of this city. We call
the attention of the city authorities to the
fact, and suggest, as a precautionary measure,
to prevent its spreading in the country, that
for the present orders be issued forbidding
negroes to come here. We further suggest
that care be Wren to ascertain that none of
the negroes leaving for their homes, on trans
portation obtained from the Government, are
infected with the disease: Both of these mea
sures seem to be of the highest importance.—
Moron Telegraph, lath.
A correspondent, writing to the Cincinnati
Commercial from Idacon, Ga., says: Two great
curiosities here significant of the magnitude
of the secession infatuation, are a Confederate
laboratory and armory, on a scale of really
admirable proportions. The armory, particu
larly, it is claimed, would - have been, if com
pleted according to plan, without a rival in
the world. The groundsdevoted to the armory
comprise forty-two and a half acres. The
building, as far as finished, is a central tower,
fifty-two feet eight inches front by forty feet
oleep, containing wain entrance, stairs, and
wilco rooms ; four stories high above sub-base
went and main longitudinal front, six hun
dred and twenty-five feet long, forty-four feet
deep, and two stories high, Banked by towers
thirty-two feet square and two stories hilt.
p
In addition, the machine sho or transverse -
wing, forty-four by Mm_bundred and sixty-two
feet, and two stories high, is complemented
with a proof-house, sixty-three by ninety
eight feet, one story, and a one-story store
'MOM for coal. Flank towers of main building
roofed with slate, as was originally designed
for the rest of the main and additional build
ings. Georgia has some of the very best slate
quarries. 'The laboratory, about two miles
distant up the Macon and Atlanta Railroad, is
upon an equally generous plan. Both strue- .
tures are built of the very hest material—
pressed brick--with stone foundations and
granite dressings,
ATLANTA.
Ex-GOVERNOR JOSErri E. Ilnowx, Or GEOn
(+lA.—This distinguished citizen reached our
city on Thursday evening, by the train front
Macon and, after spending a day or two in
the ci ty, will, .we r.learn, proceed to his for
merGove.residence,Governor
Beioe\er n
severely
countylhyi his
re
prostratedtur n o 0f 0313 Cherokee. by
lWash
ington,over
but is now, his many friends will be pleased to
hear, rapidly convalescing. A sojourn of
few seeks amid the beautiful hills and vales
of Cherokee, Georgia, wili no doubt hasten
his convalescence, and soon restore him to the
enjoyment of usual health.—.elaanto lidelli
gencer, Arty 22.
On - every side, in every direction, we
see the evidences of improvement. A very
large number of houses are being erected;
these buildings that are now being put up
are neither large nor elegant, but they are
such structures as will answer the purposes
of our people until more prosperous days
shall on us dawn. The demand for houses
to live in, as well as for business purposes,
seems to be on the increase ; and the con
sequence is that rents arc ruling very high.
The greater portion of our population, that
has been in exile, have returned, and are
:Preparing to resume their business at this
point, and-all who left, or were foreed away,
are anxious to get back. They all say they
cannot find anywhere such a delightful cli
mate as Atlanta possesses, and especially do
they seem to have thirsted for the cool, pure
refreshing water for which this section is so
much noted. It is a remarkable fact that
any one who has lived hero for ft. few
MenthS iS never sati,dled anywhere else.
We notice with great pleasUre that the work
upon the streets has been ,vigorously corn
men cod. Alabama street, that for months has
been almost a nuisance, has been cleaned up,
and presents quite a changed appearance.
We hope that this good work will be con
tinued until all our streets are free from rub
bish and obstructions, and all the gullies that
the rains of the last twelve mouths have
washed out, shall be filled up.
Business seems to be quite lively generally,
and a go-ahead spirit seems to have taken
possession of almost the entire community.—
Atlanta Intelligencer.
LTIceIIIIUAG
The Lynchburg Republican appeared on Fri
clay, July 21,in a new dress.
EI=1!
A comprmy has Men organized at Mints
.Alabaulaq for the purpose of boring for
oil in North Alabama. Operations leave been
commenced in Madison county, and largo oil
tracts leased in the counties of Franklin and
Lawrence. The "indications" ai'e said to be
all there.
The New Wile Discovery.
The London Athenreem says : The result of
Mr. Baker's voyage Up the Nile is not (if we
understand him) the discovery of anew source.
What Mr. Baker has done in his adventurous
journey is remarkable ; still it is only a mat
ter of detail—the partial exploration of a
great basin in the Nile course, far below
the Victoria Nyanza,.p and which Spoke has
already laid down in lliS map under its native
name of Lula NZige. This lake, which Mr.
Baker proposes to call in future the Albert
Nyanza—a change of name for which we
can see no reason—appears to be a part of
the Nile, as Speko had described it, and
not au independent feeder of that river. Speke
marked it in his map as connected with the
Nile at a lower elevation;the difference of
level being caused by the haruma Falls, eqnal,
perhaps, m grandeur to those of Niagara. The
name of these falls i,ir. Baker proposes to
change, substituting , for the native name of
liarmna that of a private English gentlemen
—a suggestion in 1011.0 it is impossible that
any geographers wilrbe found to concur. That
LUta ,Tzign has, the same sort of relation to
the Victoria Nyanza as Bienne - has to Ne aloha
tel. Tlrun to Brims, and Ontario to Erie.
"Mr. Baker's account of his travels is interest
big, and we give the principal paragraphs in
his own words . .
" 'After eighteen tine , march I reached the
long.wished for lake, about one hundred miles
of krooli, at Vacovia, in north latitude one
degree fourteen minutes. In respect tor the
memory of our lamented prince, I named it
(subject to her Majesty's permission) the Al
bert Nyanza,' as the second great source of the
Nile—second, not iu iMportanen t but only in
order of discovery to the Victoria Nile-head.
The Victoria and the Albert lakes are the in
dubitable parents of the river.
" The capital of Ijnyoro (M'rooli) is situ
ated at the junction of the Nile and linfoor
rivers, at an altitude of three thousand two
hundred and two feet above the sea level._ I
followed the liafoor to latitude one degree
twelve minutes north, to avoid an impassable
morass that runs from north to south ; upon
rounding this I Continued a direct westerly
Course to the lake. The route throughout is
wooded, interspersed with glades, thinly popu
lated, with no game. My route lay over high
ground to the north of a swampy valley run
ning west ; the greatest elevation was three
thousand six hundred and eighty-six feet.
The rocks were all gneiss, granite, and
masses' of iron ore, apparently fused into a
conglomerate with rounded quartz pebbles,
" The Albert Lake is a vast basin lying in an
abrupt depression, the eliffs,which I cteseentled
by a dinicult pass, being Onejthousand four
hundred and Seventy feet above its level. The
lake level is two thousand and seventy feet.
being one thousand one hundred and thirty
two feet lower than the Nile or Wrood ;
accordingly the drainage of the country
tends from cast to west. From the high
ground above the lake no ground is visible
to the south and southwest; but northwest
and west is a large range of mountains, rising
to about seven thousand feet above the
lake level, forming the western shore, and
running southwest, parallel to the course of
the lake. Both King Kamrasi and the natives
assured me that the lake is known to extend
into Mumanika , s country to the west of Karag
we, but from that point in about 1.30 south
latitude it Writs suddenly to the west, in
which direttion its extent is unknown. In
north latitude 1.14. where I reached tale lake, it
iseabout sixty miles wide, but the width in
creases southward. The water is deep, sweet,
and transparent ; the shores arc generally
clean and free from reeds, forming a sandy
beach.
. .
" Lake Albert Nyanza forms an immense
basin far below the level of the adjacent coun
try, and receives the entire drainage of exten
sive mountain ranges on the west, ami of the
Utunilli, Uganda, and Ijnyoro countries on the
east. Eventually receiving the Nile itself, it
adds its accumulated waters, and forms the
second source of that mighty river. The voy
age down the lake is extremely beautiful, the
mountains frequently rising abruptly from the
-water, while numerous cataracts rush down
their furrowed sides. The cliffs on the east
shore are granite, frequently mixed withlarge
masses of quartz.
" The actual length of the Albert Nyanza,
from south to north, is about two hundred and
and sixty geographical miles, independent of
its unknown course to the west between one
degree and two degrees south latitude, and of
its similar Course in the north, in latitude
about three degrees., c,
AN ADVENTURE AT BUENOS Armes.-1 WS re
turning from a ball With a friend, at an early
hour in the morning; when I heard a report of,
firearms close to me in a house. I endeavored
to break in the door, but could not. Looking
through the window I saw a man, pistol in
hand, who had just tired a second barrel; at
the same moment a man, bleeding, came out
from another door crying for assistance. I
rnshed in with several policemen after Ine,
and wrenched the pistol from the first and
seized him. Other police at the same time
had broken in at another door (it was to corner
house), and seeing me standing there, pistol
in hand, holding one man, with another
apparently lying dead before me, mistook
inn for the murderer, and immediately
out me down with two severe outs from
clubbed lances on the head. I fell covered
with blood. On getting up again, I was lanced
in several places, and - beaten black and blue.
EOM , I escaped with my life I know not. I
was dragged along, more dead than alive, and
thrown m to prison as the supposed murderer,
and remained there for about ton hours. This.
is my first day Out of bed. Thanks to God, the
wounds are nearly healed, and I feel no ill
effects from them. I feared that my skull was
fractured, but I now conclude that it is all
right. I have been on shore since, living at an
hotel , hence the doctors will not let me move
for some days. Every :Jody has been most kind,
and it has been taken up by our minister hero.
I never knew what a thrashing was before. I
offered no resistance, having not even a stick
to knock off is blow with. Tim pistol, I Sup
pose, was knocked out of my hand by the drat
blow, which was given me from behind, and
on I inning round to see who had struck me, I
received one. across the forehead, which felled
me. I was covered with blood from head to
foot, lint did not lose my senses. Ono of the
wounded men is dying, the other badly
wounded. I shall carry a two-inch scar on the
forehead, just above the right eye. What will
be the end of it between our minister and this
Government I cannot yet say ; perhaps an
apology—not that that will dO me much good.
---Lcmaon limes.
Az; M. P., who owned extensive estates,
and possessed considerable personal celebrity,
was spending a few days at the residence of a
noble family, There were several interesting
and accomplished young ladies in the family,
to whom he honorable member, as in duty
bound, showed every attention. Just as he
was about to take leave, the nobleman's wife
proceeded to consult him in a matter which,
she alleged, was causing her no little distress.
"It is reported," said the Countess, " that you
are to marry my daughter and what
shall we,. dol what shall we say about itl"
"Oh," - quietly responded the considerate N.
F., !`just say she refused me
THREE CENTS.
THE INDIAN TERRITORY.
A LARGE INDIAN FORCE ATTACK ONE
OF OUR STATIONS. •
THEY ARE DRIVEN OFF BY TWO HUNDRED AND
FIFTY OF OUR MEN,
~.ttio/laidr]y:l f~iyal~tt~aMrDtiitWiNl~
FORT LARMAIR, July 27.—One thousand 01105fr
ennes Sioux, Arrapaboes, Blackfeet, and a
few damanehes, attacked Platte Bridge Sta
tion, on the telegraph road, on Tuesday last.
The garrison numbered less thantwo hundred
and fifty, and the fight lasted two days, re
stating in heavy loss to the Indians. The loss
on our side was. Lieutenant CollhlS anti one
man - killed, and thirty•four men wounded.
The Indians retreated to the west, tearing
down the telegraph poles and destroying the
wires. A note was picked up on the battle-
field, written by a white prisoner recently
captured on the South Platte, which says the
Indians do not valat peace, but arc fighting for
all time s that we had killed one of their chiefs
in the fight, and that they expected reinforce
ments.
The body of Lieutenant Collins was horribly
mutilated, his hands and feet being cut off, his
throat cut, and his heart torn out. Ms body
was pierced by more than one hundred ar
rows,
There seems to be not the slightest dispo
sition on the part of the Indians for peace,
which can only he obtained by severely punish
ing them.
One of the Powder-river columns is now
moving to Join the force from Platte Bridge,
which is following the Indians.
It is stated that all the troops intended for
the Indian expeditions would have been in the
field long ago had not the contractors failed to
deliver supplies, according to the terms of
their contracts.
Charles Dickens on Actors.
I like to meet actors off the stage—not that
I am possessed with the fend idea of the stage.
struck - youth, that actors arc gods, and all
actresses goddesses of Supernatural beauty
(which I have long admitted to be an error,)
but because it has - been my lot to be thrown a
good deal into their society, and because
knowing them well and intimately, I have
learned to respect them. There are certain
actors and actresses whose hands I am always
proud to shake—not because they are eminent
tragedians or comedians, but because they are
honorable men and women, One Of the most
simple, unaffected, generous natures I over
met with, is enshrined in 'limb roast of a c town.
If any Diogenes should be goirf,„ , about look
ing fora specimen of a good husband and a
good father, I. will give him the address of
a pantaloon ; only, regretting that f shall
bare to request bins to ring the top bell.
If I cherish a platonic affection for any
member of the Mir sex, it is for an actress
whom everybody loves, because in every rela
tion of life, as wife, mother, daughter and
friend, she is as bright an ornament to her sex
as she is to her profession. Believe me, lam
not saying these things in a spirit of exagge
rated charity towards a class requiring to be
apologized for. I am not adopting the nil
nisi Wpm maxim, as if I were speaking of
the dead, Thosegood people are alive, pur
suing an honorable career, and doing good
deeds In the sight of many. I little thought in
my young days that I should have this opi
nion of play-actors. In the sphere, a very
narrow one, in which I imbibed my early ideas,
it was broadly inculcated that the theatre was
a very wicked place, and that actors and ac
tresses were very wicked people. When I first
went to the theatre on the sly, I had some com
punction about it; but, not being able to dis
cern any wickedness in connection With the
performance of a beautiful play, in which vir
tue was *cwarded anti vice punished, I dis
missed the feeling, and was ratherpained to
think that some particular friends of mine had
told me what was not precisely true. It was
not until a much later period of my life that I
smile the acquaintance of actors, and found
how much they, too, were belied. - I expected
to find them at least very knowing persons
but, after spending an evening with a party Or
players, I came to the conclusion that I my
self, who had been religiously brought up, and
warned to avoid plays and play-actors, was, in
the ways of this wicked world, the most kno W
ing person in the company.
am not going to argue that players are by
nature better than other people; but I thing
their generally single-Minded natures may be
accounted for rationally enough. in the first
place, the ambition to become an actor's alt In
tellectual one, and it will be readily admitted
that only a trusting end unsophisticated dis
position could hope for a high degree of sue
cuss in the profession. Next comes in the ex
alting influence of Shaksneare's poetry which
ectors, whether they be destined to *tine as
the kings of tragedy or the valets of farce, be
gin by Studying. Talk to a low comedian on the
subject, and ten to one if lie will not confess to
you that his first aspirations were in the di
rection of the 1 ragic. lie knew the lofty poeti
cal speeches of Hamlet by heart—never to be
forgotten—long before lie was driven to lower
his attention to the waistcoats of the first
grave-digger. A knowledge of Sbakspeare re
deems avast amount of ignorance. An actor's
eliueationmay be very defective; he mayn ot be
able to spell; he may betray in his hand
Writing and composition a sad want of fa
miliarity' with the use of the pen—but he
knowsShakspeare by heart. He has all the
philosophy of life at the tip of his ton .sue in
philosophy
glowing words. We may be very
clever and very accomplished,. but when the
actor leans upon the arm of Shakspeare he
is fit company for the best of us. There is
another influence for good in the player's
profession. It is a precarious One. :Seitrly all
actors begin by meeting difficulties and know
ing poverty. • It is rarely that any one suc
ceeds without ft long struggle. A fellow-feel
ing makes them wondrous kind. There is
scarcely a successful actor living who has not
known what it is to be penniless, hungry, and,
what is harder to bear, to be in debt for some
miserable trifle =Ong strangere. Thus it is
that the Most SUCCeSsful among them eats al
ways understand and feel for the Misfortunes
and sorrows of their struggling brethren. If
I had not found by experience of them that
players are in a remarkable degree kind
hearted, well-disposed people these conside
rations alone might have guided me to the
conclusion.
That actors have faults and foibles I will not
deny. They arc men and women, and they
have the faults that all men and women have,
hi a greater or less degree. But this I will com•
fluently assert, that actors are not sinners in
a greater degree than other classes of society,
wli Ho in many amiable respects they can lay
claim to a larger number of virtues. One of
the reasons why they are so constantly tra
duced is obvious. They live, more than any
other class, under the public eye ; there is a
Strong curiosity about them ; and, conse
quently, any dubious story about their mode
of life that prejudice may imagine, and the
breath of scandal whisper, is rapidly spread
abroad and eagerly amplified. How malty
times have I been told that So-and-So is a very
immoral person, when there is nothing on
earth of Which - am so well assured as that
that person is a model of purity and goodness?
If scandal bits upon a truth now and then,
does it never hit upon a Similar truth with re
gard 10 other society? Really, upon nay con
science, I do not know what class Is to a posi
tion to throw stones at the players.
ARAB AND ENGLISH 11ORSES—A BRUTAL TEST
OF Eistra.n.iNez.—Halem Pasha sit Egyptian
prince, who is very near in the line of succes
sors to the vice regalthrone, offered the wager
Of a thousand pounds sterling to ono hundred
that no English horse could be produced who
would do the same work that should be done
by a purely Arab horse that lie would ride in
a week's gazelle hunt in the desert that he
was about to take. Mr. Ross, a wealthy Eng
lish banker at Cairo '
accepted the bet. The
conditions were that the hunt should last a
week if necessary for a decision. The Prince
Was to ride his own horse, Alsissi, (a pure
Arab, from Syria, of the AbOu-Argoub race,
white without si mark,) and Beechnut. the
English mare, a sorrel; imported by Mr. Ross
about nine months before, was to be ridden on
his behalf by Mr. Edward Thompson. The
two horses were to receive eachthc same treat
ment, and do the same work. If, during the
time named, one of the horses died, the owner
of the survivor was to receive the stakes. If
both horses died upon the same day, Mr. Ross
(who was betting only one to ten) was to re
ceive the staes.
The party galloped out from Cairo on Sun
day evening, the 14th of May (the two chain
pions each on their trial horse,) about a dozen
miles, to the village of Kafr-Aboicsin where
they encamped for the night. The account of
the next day we will translate from the anida,
vit of the English rider, contained in a pPeees
testa/ which was drawn up by M. de Eusseps
at the request of the parties.
Mr. Thompson says: "We started on Mon
day at sunrise, half-past rive o'clock. The
two horses went together at equal speed for
live hours. My mare was vary uneasy. About
eleven o'clock we fell in with a gazelle.
We all set off on a gallop: After live minutes
of pursuit the game was taken by the falcons
and dogs. At half-past eleven there was a
general start for the encampment,- at a can
ter. After an hour and a half of this pace
for the Arab horse, and now and then a trot
for the English mare, the two gentlemen In
terested being alone and lostin the desert,
the snare began to falter. The prince warned
me that she was about to fall. I dismounted ;
the Prince stopped his horse. We saw the
mare immediately slick tinder her fatigue,
after having made a few steps, ill Spite of my
endeavors to excite and sustain her. No ob
stacles could have prevented her fall. Seeing
that our efforts to relieve her were useless,
we took off her saddle, which the Prince placed
himself on his own horse. We then made our
way on foot towards the camp, which we
reached after three hours' walking."
This curious deposition tells the whole
story, which is confirmed by other evidence.
The weight of the Prince with his saddle and
equipments was 78 kilos, and that of Mr.
Thompson, with his, 71 kilos, or in about the
proportion or 155 and 135 pounds, The official
report of the veterinary surgeon confirmed
by that of the English groom, both agree in
Stating that the dead mare appeared to have
died of fatigue. The groom states that when
he arrived the vultures had already eaten an
eye and part of a cheek. It is difficult to SCU
that this cruel experiment has proved any
thing, and more so to discover why such ex
periments are called "sport',
The proprietor of the Eadische Hof, a ho
tel at Heidelberg, examining, a few ,lays agor
an old writing table, forinct2 , .ecret drawer,
and in it a packet of letters. Vhcso turned out
to be correspondence between DuThug, ticitil
ler, and Inland. Herr Merl:Ter, the hotel
keeper, has placed the letters in a large col
lection of autographs. The Suabian paper,
Which gives this information, does not say in
whose collection these letters have been put.
If this news be true land not, a puff ~of the Jae
tel,) it is to be hoped that the correspondence
`will be publisbol• —•-•
—We may note that a new form of applause
is becoming common in our London theatres.
The teudience, when pleased with any expres
sion or sentiment uttered by the actors rarely
clap their hand and shout " bravo! " but adopt
the parliamentary - ocpreSsion, "hohr, hear:"
MEM P 113001116.
(PUBLIKIED 'WEEKLY.)
Trar, WAi PRIERS will be lent to eubooribers by
that' (per anti= in advance,) sa
;Five eoj4eB 10 00
Ten eoPiPS 00 00
Larger (nubs than Ten Wlll be charged at the mall
rate , WOO Per copy.
The murney mutt a Ways ttecompanit the " 441 % ama
to no 6.49twie e can these fertile 14 deVideft ;Prom, all
they agora very Utile more than The cost 4/ pal m%
• Peel:neaten are requested to set U genii
for Tun Wes Plums.
To the getter•up of the Club often or twentyi
azt w aft copy of the paper will be Mau,
{STATE TTEUS•
The Pittsburg Post thus speaks in regard
to Meting, in that city, a monument over
the remains of a late officer "The idea le
a good one, and no doubt will tontieend iteolf
to the friends of the deceased' officer. But the
truth is f that all these monument ideas are
usually conceived in too, grand a style. The
corner-stone of the proposed, Washington.
monument, laid by General Lafayette in Phila.
dolphin, in Washington Square; in 1i324, reposee
as it was deposited ; it has not growm any 131110 N
neither is it likely to do so. In this city it
would be unpleasant and indelicate *1 refer to
the proposed monuments and the sad fate they
came to. The designs for all have been too
costly, and fell through. A neat tablet could
be erected over every Pittsburg officer or sol
dier, and the fends raised much easier than
by attempting to erect costly ones for eaelL
The war is over; we never want to see another
and many of our citizens have made money
out of it. Itow would it do to erect a colossal
monument of marble granite, or what would.
Perhaps, be better, iron (as it is embiematies,l),
in memoriam of all Allegheny county soldiers
who fell in the held or died in rebel prisons en
Northern liOspitals. It could be either erected
in the cemetery or upon any other site that
might be agreed upon: ,
The old wooden bridge over the Allegheny
river, over which the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne,
and Chicago lialiroad company have their
road, will be replaced during the coming
fall with an iron bridge. it will be composed.
entirely of wrought iron, of the box patterns
but built with iron lattice-work. The span of
each bay will be about one hundred and sixty
feet, and the weight of each span not far from
eighty tons.
•-- The Pittsburg Dispatch *peaks rty follows of
the proposed new theatre la that city t 4 ! The
work on this building is progressing vlgorons•
ly, and by the 15th of August it is hollered the
management will be ready for business. They
have a first-class company engaged, and, with
Gardner arid` Sefton to manage, they will,
beyond peradventure, make the thing go."
The itarrisburg Itlegraple makes a suggos•
'Owl that soldiers' orpiltilla be carried free sver
the railroads in this State, to and from thu
several orphans' schools. The suggestion Will
no doubt meet with adoption by the dlreetors
of the different roads in the State.
The new telegraph line between Reading
and Columbia, and Beading and Lancaster,
will be in full operation this week. The poles
are all set and most of the wire up. This will
be a great help to the limning end. golnaibia.
Railroad.
-I , A nice little light is going on between the
Daily Erie Dispatch and the Weekly Erie Ga.
zette. The Gazelle says that the Dispatch es
tublishment its offered for sale. This the Dis
patch denies, and calls upon the Gazette to state
where it got ita information. Sometters stand._
--- Colonel F. S. Stannaugh l the eriginai com•
mender of the 77th Pennsylvania ltegiment,
and in which arc two Pittsburg companies
is urged for the Legislature from Franklin!
county.
The managers of the Florence (Weshing
ton county) Agricultural Assoc:l4les :111V0
liCeitliAl to hold their sixth on.
Thursday and Friday, October LILli anti 18th,
1865.
-An extensive Methodist camp meeting
will be held at Shrewsbury, on the Northern
Central Railroad, commencing, on the 17th of
August,
The company formed for the erection Of la.
comotive works in Pittsburg have already pwe
chased a lot of ground, and propose to push,
forward the work as quickly as possible.
The Capitol grounds at Harrisburg are
the poor people's park, and hundreds dailp
enjoy themselves there.
-- It. has been suisfactorily ascertained that
the burning of tannery, at Tiogoo
not the work of an incendiary,
The Tioga County Agitator has been pre.
stinted - with the pen used attic signing of the
papers on the capitulation of General Lee.
—Mr. William A. Richards, of Reading, whoa
died recently, bequeathed $28,000 to various
churches and ftwoign missions.
Tile coamtearers employed on tile (looks
at .Erie struck on Wednesday.. They have mit,
yet returned to work.
• The Pittsburg .Theatre has a new drop.
curtain.
The recent rains in Clearfield have re
tarded hay-making fiery mucfi.
-- A inilyiviimic:b6lieni. in Pittsburg ig bolng
talked of in that city.
Duribg the past fourteen years seven daily
papershavc Wiled in Pittsburg.
Three hundred dollars will liquidate the
borough debt of Blairsville.
a A horse was string to death by bees, the
other day, iii Reading.
HOME ITEMS.
A writer in liirrper , s M , ramble gives an es
cellent personal description of Sheridan, as
folios s "Ills body is stout but wiry, and SO4
on short, heavy, but active legs. His broad
shoulder, Short, stiff hair, and the features of
his face betray the ililesian deseent; but no
brogue can be buccal in his voice, Ills eyeS
are gray, and being small, aro sharp and
piercing and full of Ore, When maddened
with excitement or passion these glare fear
fully. His age is thirty-four, but long service
in the held has bronzed him into the appear
anee Of forty,
A lump of pure gold, weighing Sig Mantle,
Was picked up a few weeks since by a boY
who was fishing, on a creek near New Virginia,
a small village in Clark county, lowa. The
finder was offered $l,llO for his treasure; which
he refused, lie also refuses to point out the
locality where it was found, There is coma-
derable excitement iii. that region in conSti
quente of the discovery.
The Grand Encampment of Knights Tem.
plar of the United States; the General Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the United
States; the Grand Encampments of Knighta
Templar of Ohio 3 the Grand. Chapter of Revel
Arc); Masons of Ohio; and the Grand Council.
of Royal and Select Masters, all meet in SOS.
sion the lirst week in September next, at Co.•
lumbus, Ohio.
General Sherman has sent an autograph
letter to Governor Oglesby, awarding to the
soldiers of Illinois who participated in the
various campaigns and battles fought by him
a full share of the glory embodied in the re.
tad of that army, and volunteering to Mr
ticipatc in any ovation that may be tendered.
to them at any time.
—A company has boon organized in Now'
Orleans for the purpose of manufacturing ice
in large quantities, which they do by a newly
Patented French process. The Ice is frozen as
head as it would be with the thermometer at
ten degrees below zero, .and can be famished
much cheaper than that imported from Dos
-
ton.
A Saint Peter (Minn.) paper -says the
grasshoppers have been flying over that place
in " eciuntless myriads." The air for a quarter
of n mile high was filled with them, and their
speed was four to five miles an hour, Through
every town or farm they pass they luaVo
strong guard, and the destruction of crops of
all kind is sure to follow.
A policeman in Buffalo has been tined fire
dollars and costs for forcing a man in a horse
ear to give his scat to a lady. The court said
ladies had 110111070 privileges than men, and,
moreover, when treated weee not pro.
fuse in acknowledgement: Ito is hratal but
truthful.
A private letter from Matamoras, written
by a gentleman well versed in Mexican affairs.
says that Since the surrender of Dick Taylor
and Kirby Smith's armice, at land ten thou.
sand rebel officers and men have joined the
standard of Maximilan, while very few have
enlisted in the Liberal cause.
An Irish orphan, who, a fow years ago, was.
a poor and utterly ignorant lad in the streets
of this city, has recently borne off the first,
prize for composition and oratory 12), Mt,
Rochester University. Ito Waked ltis'Own
'way through school and college,
—, The migration to this country. frOul
Sweden, especially the middle au/ nOrtliera
districts of the country, is this year unusually'
great.
A national bank has been established at
Frenelitownl New Jersev, with a capital of
$113,350, to be known as the "Union National
Bank."
A young man, at Winthrop, Idaino, named
Wood, recently died from the effects of cldoro
form, which he had taken while having a tooth
extracted.
-
The negroes At Charicova hare organize&
a Loyal League, under a chap leP trout thilKa#
timid League. They want to uo ter
Note.
The people of Camden aro Justly bee=
ing alarmed at the fearful destruction of pro.
pony Caused by the hand of ItteelltliafiStll.
A preens:gen of ooloroa Odd renews ap—
peared in the streets of Louisville last Stilt
day.
The city of Columbus, Ga., 18 still a me
lancholy- ruin, but the people are slowly re
5111/1111g work.
The Mormon "destroying angels e have
in ordered. another Ikuilly /or attempting to.
Zion.
The artist who executed the statue of
Stonewall Jackson is looking for the Con.
federacy to pay him for It. '
The story of General Rooker's marriage,
has been confirmed.
The harvesting of rye and wheat has been
commenced in Southern Minnesota.
There are in Now York and .13rookly-ri eight
hundred 'Awe-Weeks.
A German daily newspaper is about to be
started in Nashville, Tenn.
The Kansas State Journal is now published.
daily.
Two men in Dubuque are having a grand
awsuit over a pigeon, valued at one dollar,
—There are one hundred and 4eyent74,wo
colleges in the loyal States.
Long Branch is described aaNersr gay :this
season, - -
0 •
—Pyrosaajaia is the genteel torus for arson.