yerensing. Consols were quoted at Sil7,MO.
tiv,twenties, 72@7•23,4,
we print this morning an important special
cwzpiach front Wand - fington, giving reliable
I„ferinntion of the action taken by our Consul
B : Liverpool, in relation to the rebel pirates
~,,,,gregated there.- Consul Dudley has filed a
pill claiming the ship Aline, which arrived at
.iverpool with 14,000 bales of cotton belonging
rebel ' government. He has also in
nled legal iolfeedings to recover the pirate
, ppabannoch , nnw t here. Our correspondent
t oilets that 31aximillan will have to leave
lexieo 'before u great while.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
nialcc no farther appointments except when
vacancy must be filled. Over sixteen him-
ITO arra:Wens of unsuccessful aspirants
re en file in his office, There are, it is eSti
over sixteen hundred, and fourteen
1,. fl employed in the Treasury Department.
A _Fortress Monroe despatch says that the
fr i :qj te Congress does not yet float, but it is
eN pected she will in a few days. The Courts
oi Elizabeth city county have been organized
ry the selection of Union men as officers ,
;I:here will be a lithe sate of captured cannon
:0 the Fortress on August 2d.
Elsewhere will be ,found extracts from let
'ars, received by a North Carolinian while a
prisoner of war in Fort Delaware. They will
he found of interest as Showing the feeling
jn North Carolina.
vubv President has re-appointed the present
collector, Naval Officer, and Surveyor of Cos_
toms in this city. The Postmaster:ship iS not
vet settled.
The rebel ram Stonewall is in the service of
the Government, but she will not, for some
'ltac, be brought to the United States for fear
the yellow fever, Which is prevailing, at
jinvana, where she now Iles, may - be earrieti
ibis country.
ihnulretts of former residents of Washing"
who participated in the rebellion are re
r:raing to the Federal capital. General Au
51r has issued an order requiring all such to
1-,:fisler their names.
The President and family, accompanied by
in Preston King, left Washington, on Satur
j„y.en a trip down the Potomac. They will
::rant to-day. -
6en Grant is in Boston. He has received
v. ;v attention at the hands of the civic
didierities and the citizeus.
Paymaster Itaii,hieton has been appointed
Yaral Agent of Washington, in place of L. r.
grown whose term of °Mee has expired.
Two hundred pardons have been granted du
ring the week. The petitions are coming in
at the rate of two hundred a day,
rrof. D. C. Gilman, librarian, and Prof. T.
B. Osborne, law proNssor, in Yale College,
Dave resigned.
Our Minister to china, Mr. Burlingame, is in
New York en ronte for Washington.
The stock market was firm on Saturday.
Government bonds were rather quiet and
lower. Coal oil shares were the most active
on the list, and prices better.
Breadstuffs continue very firm, and Wheat,
Corn, and Oats have again advanced. Cotton
i more active, and prices rather better,
Sugar and Coffee are firmly held. Whisky is
in better demand at the advance.
bold closed in New York on Saturday at 14.1
THE NEW SAINT.
Faction is so rapidly going out of fitshion
that it will require a strong sensation to give
it even the briefest re-existence. The sue.
cessive defeats of the various expedients to
roive it have made those who profited
von it unusually cautious. At last, how
ever, they seem to be concentratingupon the
case of Mrs. SURATT. She is to be martyr
.zed and canonized among the chosen saints
of the Secession Calendar. The humane
cud pioUS people who had no sighs or tears
Dr the murdered LiNcotrt, are about to
create a party over the memory of the
apotheosized Mrs. SURATT. Hearts that
)ever palpitated with sorrow or indigna
-ion when the Republic was assailed ; when
'he gallant sons of the North were killed
battle, starved in prison, or mutilated by
he savages of slavery ; when the poisoner,
he incendiary, and the assassin, made a
`ery carnival of blood and of death ; were
instantly touched, as with a holy fire,
then Mrs. FIIIATT was sentenced and
lung as a party to the foulest murder of
nodern times. For this cruel deed, the
?resident, Mr. STANTON, Judge HOLT, and
he Military Commission, are all to be ar-
Ligued, There is a vulgar idea that JEF-
F:3130N DAVIS iS soon to be formally
loin& to trial and to punishment. But
lit :apital culprits and criminals are those
jtst named. Whether a great party can be
c.utructed by this new outcry remains to
Lt sten. Faction having thiled in its other
( , nleprises, it will, doubtless, be clespeinte
itt pashing this one to completion. Not
mad can be said for the dignity of the en
perinent. It lacks the essentials of high
princples. It does not appeal to the
Ilacr humanities. But it can boast
the aroma of revenge Over a defeated
conspiracy, and the passion that outlives the
death of slavery—hatred of triumphant
libe•ty. With these agencies it may pro
tahly rally a party. A very able cotempo :
rury, a fresh champion of the good cause,
that we heartily welcome, the New Era,
I.o,lhed at Blairsville, Indiana county, in
State, writes on this very subject, as
"lie sex of one of the culprits excited,
' , Muttily enough, an interest in the public
I "ilainot felt for any of the others. The pre
',l-reef a female in this great State conspire
leee a sort of poetic glow to the coloring
picture and Served to heighten the
eriesieee effect.' A woman figures in the con
*rule of Cataline. Charlotte Corday stalks
aie the bloody stage of the French revolt:
' 4ll.te island home of Blannerhassett was
a little paradise Until ilie wife met with Aaron
I: iar• It iS not to be wondered at if rebel
l isi»iiie and Southern passions—fed into a
Ill011f; by bad company, and attuned to daring
ithance by the plaintive air anti stirring words
ci exit songs as Maryland, my Maryland'—
lipieluced evil effects in the bosom of Mrs. Su
al I. We say it would not be strange; for if all
accounts be true, some other Southern women,
Inure cultivated and refined, exhibited during
'::)) war, instances of merciless acrimony and
eiee ge hate beyond the remotest conception
el l the modern Christian imagination. When
the social fabric gets unhinged ; when oaths
are viewed as bubbles; when human bondage
considered divine; when labor is looked on
e degrading, and when the pulpit itself takes,
lolly and unblushingly, its stand against
ha and order, and in Myer of rebellion and
Weed, what else can possibly 13e expeetedt
Sat a Condition of society t The flood-gates
el the passions broken , loose, the emelt of
[deed in the air, ornaments carved out of the
I,, ines of enemies, starvation of prisonee3 ex
tolled the arson of cities considered heroic,
llifection and poison -justified, assassination
illlvertised for, and all this crime seek
1 "I to pillow itself .upon the gospels, and
. U) screen itself behind the meretricious
ill% of a war for liberty and independ
este! With a bishop for a“general, no
l leeluter that .a widow beetene a conspire,
With Stonewall .Jackson and Robert E.
killing and praying, and praying and kill,
both with easyconscienee and pious
is it at all surprising that Payne should
i w-lueipt to cnt Mr. Seward's throats Like the
nienatry in the thermometer, the sensitive
:eel] of woman rises or sinks according to the
temperature of the moral atmosphere around
Ilur. It was thus with Eve, and so it was with
Woman was last at the cross and
first at the tomb. But when the moral of hus
bands, sons, brothers, and lovers become
rancid and loathsome, what is more likely
than that the pestilence should taint the female
heart) In the; liege carnival of blood which
disgraced France and humanity ins the latter
I of the last cem my, many of the proms-
neat actors en the hellish °reef; were WOMen.
C Icero once :impudently said. hat 'no animal
more revengeful than a woman.' After his
assaesination, when hiehettil was hung up in
llai Roman Forum, Fulvia,the wife of Antony,
threw the tongue out of the mouth and bored
it through repeatedly with a gold bodkin;
thus Verifying, in this act of inhumanity,- the
amying of the great orator.
Mrs. Sarah was, it appears, respectably
reared, tolerably- eoucuted, and Nya.
• one
time the belle of tier county. At middle g
she was still passing fair, and s f o o mreat a t ee. e
tractive. It was an unlucky
She first met Booth. Ile had abKut when
which, hacked I l i t t a si t . ) ) l ie c l 6 -
f style and fashion,
ished.address and fascinating la
dcred him the central object of an ' y .'- s o r u 'l l c r,. -
-ele into which .he ,gained admittance.
Ills
t(Mutation 88 a theatrical performer gained
iin eclat with a certain set of people. lie fre
quently visited her house, which should have
been sacredagainseall such characters. Her
on became his daily companion, and corm:-
hart: a habitue at the theatre. She ShOUld
"Vt% known better, for such was not the train
jug bile hot from her parents and the iustrue
,leis of her youth, It is the old story of had
ninpany and -wicked associations. Crime foe
r l , iLatid disgrace and death—rain to all her
!se old. Medina Roland, dazzled With the
wft
as and poetical temperament of
~ !,,11 1 . z et, ended her career at the guillotine.
by lending a willing eer to the
, -"el 'eon the
ating tongue of the serpent, Booth, per
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VOL. 8.-NO. 230.
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL•"
I r ASUINGTON, July 29, 1.865
A people accustomed to as many tribula
tions as have afflicted the Americans, and
living through a period in which some of
the most momentous evils have been success
fully and permanently disposed of, should
not be daunted at the questions that have
succeeded the overthrow of the Rebellion.
Let us adniit that these questions are
dangerously delicate and novel—it is
much to feel that we have been dis
cirlined in the diSposition of questions
equally delicate and novel. It should be a
source of added consolation, that we may
extract from the discussions of these new
complications certain elements with which
to construct the substantial foundations of a
lasting free Government. One of the most
conscientious thinkers of Our times, a man
who has been so rooted in his convictions
as to be exceptionally exacting and intole
rant as to others ; who has doubted Presi
dent Johnson's restoration policy, and has
alone been saved from denouncing hint by the
confidence he felt in the character and had
gathered from the unequalled sacrifices of
our Chief Magistrate, said, a few days ago :
"I confess that how exactly to proceed in
view of the present and the future of my
country, I cannot decide ; and thits power
less to advise or to act, I can only invoke
Providence to prepare for us the way to de
liverance and to safety." But there is not
only no cause for despair ; there is much
cause for hope. The very magnitude
of the questions before us counsels
and compels careful and well-considered
action. I have recently conferred freely
with men of adverse opinions, and have
read without passion the various news
papers of the sections North and South;
and while there is much to prove the ex
istence of great diversity of sentiment,
there is nothing to excite despondency. -
From all the maze and Mixture, I, gather
the assurance that slavery is really and
practically abolished, and that the colored
man in the Southern States will be better
cared for hereafter than ever before. He
may not secure the right of suffrage as
rapidly as some of his zealous friends in
sist ; (even as they know that they de
mand what cannot be at once secured, and
to that extent
increase a most fetal preju
dice against him,) but he will be pro
tected in the enlightenment of hiM
self and his children, and in the
enjoyment of the fruits of his well-paid
labor. The system of General Howard, the
chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, is winning
its way through practical chaos and over
Copperhead calumny. I may be pointed to
the malignity of the rebels, as shoWn in the
late elections in Virginia and Tennessee.
Ilow can you restore the Union Akvhile such
passions are permitted fo run riot in the
very face of : your President's forgiving
policy ? One good answer might be, that
these passions would not have been stifled
had the President not sustained Governor
Peirepont in the one, or not tolerated the
candidacy of Etheridge and Campbell
in the other. They would have burst
forth the more fiercely because "the mili
tary power" had been employed against
them. But the true and the honest answer
and remedy is in the diet, that President
Johnson's policy is already established in
the South, in spite of these treacheries. He
is the master of the situation. It is perhaps
better that he should have encountered a
fresh instance of rebel ingratitude in Ten
nessee, for that may prove to him "how
sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a
thankless" professing friend. And this very
ingratitude prompted his formal endorse
ment of Brownlow's course against it. That
action of the President, and the sure pun
ishment of the attempt to repeat rebel ras
cality and perfidy in Virginia, will have the
best effect upon the other Southern States.
Provisional Governor Brown, of Georgia,
anticipated and asserted the duty of the
Southern States, when he told the Georgians
that he intended to obey the laws of Con
gress, take all the oaths, and act on the
line marked out by the President. He .
said :
"Looking down the vista of time t I see
Georgia tenfold more prosperous, and when
all our sectional prejudices shall have died
away, we shall meet together, North' and
South, as brethren, rejoicing under one Go
vernment, and marching On to the glorious
destiny which is before us. Not only will
Georgia increase in wealth and population,
but the whole Southern country will be more
prosperous in arts, manufactures, wealth, and
civilization. I see them marching on -in this
new order of things. The whole country,
united in the bonds of charity and love, must
go on prospering until *his great nation shall
be unequalled by any Power on the earth."
Other States will avoid the folly, and so
avoid the fate of the Virginia and Tennes
see plotters. It is therefore only waste of
time to elect doubtful or treasonable men
to the next Congress. Even if Mr. Mc-
Pherson, the Clerk of the House, could
stoop to the infamy of putting the names
of such applicants upon the initial roll,
(which I need not say he never dreamed
of for a moment, ) the sterling ma
jority of the House would at once and
indignantly rebuke and repel the at
tempt. Etheridge contemplated an act to
which this would be a fraud ten thou
sand times more appalling, before he called
the roll of the last House but one, but be
quailed before the thunders of the people.
Let the patriot rejoice. We are safe all
round. There is no cause for quarrel among
ourselves, or with the President That
there will be differences is natural. Better,
for the cause, that they are made known.
They need not run into dissension*, how
ever, and I predict they will not.> The
President may not consent to take the
question of suffrage from the States, but he
Will, not, as you see, agree that those
who enjoy suffrage shall abuse it to
hamper him, to persecute the freedmen, or
to bring rebel chiefs back into civil office.
He is anxious to have the Union restored,
but he is not ready, as you see, to bring
back the traitors to Congress. If the peo
ple of the South cannot read in these signs
a solemn and fixed resolve, and if the Union
party of the North cannot find in them the
inspiration for harmony and for confidence
among themselves and faith in the Presi
dent, both sides are as deaf to reason as
"statues that look life, yet neither breathe
nor stir." OCCASIONAL.
General Grant at Boston.
BOSTON, July 20.—Lieutenant General Grant,
accompanied by his wife and four children,
and his stair, consisting of Colonel - Babcock,
Horace Porter, and Adam Dadeau, and E. L.
Parker, Chief of the. Six Nations of Indians,
arrived in this city this evening by a special
train from Albany. `An immense crowd greeted
the arrival of the General at the Worcester
depot with , :the most frantic enthusiasm, =v..'
king the air ring with, their cheers.L The
General will remain here until Tnesdaymorm
lag. Be was serenaded to-night.
BOSTON, Jay SO.—General Grant attended di
vine service this morning at the Old South
Church, where a sermon was delivered by the
Rev. lir. Manning, and at three o'clock this af
ternoon, he dined at the Revere House, in
company with Governor Andrew. Late in the
afternoon, the General and party rode in the
suburbs. To-morrow he will visit Harvard
College, the navy yard, and other points of in
terest, and at noon will hold a public reeep.
Lion in ranueil Hall. Wherever the General
appeared in public, he met with the most
heartfelt and unbounded enthusiasm among
all classes.
A Steamer In mail...esti-
BALTimons, July 30.—A despatch, dated at
Fortress Monroe, July 29, SP. M., says : "
formation has just reached here that the
steamship Blackstone is ten miles southeast
IT east from Cape Benry, in a disabled condi-
I ion. She has a pilot on board from pilot boat
Pride, No. :3. Captain Ai i nSwOrth has gone to
her assistance on the steamer Eliza ganeox.”
Fire at Batavia, N. Y.
BITATALO., July 29.—The Central Brti}road
freight.lionse at Batavia was burned at ono
o'clock this morning. The loss arammtea to
;;20
3
Non-Arrival of the lithernten.
FATHER POINT L. c July P. 3L —Thero
are no signs of the Itiberxlien; ;lOW tlll6' ft m.
Liverpool,
ENGLAND AND THE REBEL
PIRATES.
Liverpool the Harbor of the Corsairs.
Manly Conduct of HMI. Thomas 11, Dudley,
United states Consul.
THE MEXICAN IMBROGLIO.
(Special neap:ltch to the Press.)
ARIiINGTON, July 30, 1805
From unoilicial, yet unquestionable sources,
I gather the following interesting facts
worthy to be known in commercial and
political circles: The course :of the Eng
lish Government, alike Conservative and
Tory, since the overthrow of the rebellion,
has been unaccountably malignant, and is,
only to be explained by the fact that all-sides,
except the liberals alone, are disappointed
that the fates had not otherwise decreed. I
need not quote the scandalous speech of Roe
buck on the Tory side, nor the shameless, dis
reputable, and dangerous doctrines of Lord
John Russell for the Ministry. The fact is suf
ficient. 011 y information is simply, yet pow
erfully confirmatory of these manifestations
of extreme rancor on the part of the leaders;
and, taken in connection with the Met that it
is given almost simultaneouSly with the intcl•
litrence of the atrocities of the rebel pirate
lira:l/am - Mali, is something of an admonition.
On the 13th of July Liverpool elected two
( Ten foes of the United States (Tories), to rep
resent the town in Parliament.
On the 11th the ship Aline reached Liver
pool; from Irrivann, with 14,000 bales of cotton,
valued at present prices, at sloo,ooo—belonging
to the late rebel Government. Mr. Dudley, our
Consul at Liverpool; tiled a bill in Chancery,
claiming it as the property of the United
States.
On the oth, the pirate steamer Rappahannock
(under the alias of Beatrice) entered Liverpool
from Calais. The plea is put forth that she
has been sold to a Liverpool merchant—of
course a silent Of the basest coin. Mr. Consul
DUDLEY at once obtained eminent legal advice,
and on the 11th instructed his Counsel to insti.
lute suit in the Briti.th Admiralty Courts, to re
cover her for the United States as property of
the defunct and surrendered Confederacy. This
is giving Lord RussELL a (lose of his own me
dicine ; for it is his advice that the complain
ants of his policy should go to law, though he
does not point out what courts they should re
sort to. lam not clear as to the exact grounds
upon which this suit is brought; hut Mr. Dun-
LEY being a line lawyer himself, has doubtless
Miceli care not to compromise his Govern
ment.
There are now at Liverpool the pirates
Sumpter, Tallabasse, Rappahannock, and
Ajax—the, latter having never obtained her
armament.
There is nearly as much hollow parade
about the trouble with Mexico as there was
about the immense resources of the rebellion
just before it broke down. You know how the
rebels lied, from the head to the tail, immedi
ately in advance of the explosion. Well, ex
actly as much truth may be extracted from
the lohd reports from the Rio Grande. That
Maxlmillian will leave, is as sure to my mind,
as that Jeff Davis left Richmond; but it will
not be immediately. The pear is not yet
ripe. It will fall when it is, without much
shaking.
Our ever-watchful sentinel, Mr. Seward, now
at Cape May with his family, does not seem to
be disturbed about these rumors of war. He
feels fortified as to England, by the fact, the
law, the history, and the record of England
herself. rot the sevenfold shield of Ajax was
stronger than we are here. As to Mexico, the
book of diplomacy contains nomore luminous
example than that he has written for his coun
try in her relations with our sister Republic,
soon, 1 hope, to be so in fact as well as in
name. *s*
WASHINGTON.
SEVERAL PHILADELPHIA FEDERAL
OFFICIALS REAPPOINTED.
THE REBEL RAM STONEWALL AT THE
SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT.
No More Appointments Except to Fill Tacan ,
des to be Made in the Treasury.
THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION DAMAGED'
BY THE STORM
WASHINOTOX, July 1985.
The Philadelphia and Other Appoint-
ments.
The President has reappolnted WM - I,IAX B.
Tnmstes,?Colleetor of Customs: at Philadelphia;
also BnwArmWALLAIME, Naval Officer; and E.
BRED Misran, Surveyorof Customs at the same
port.
J. C. TAILOR, has been appointed agent for
the Indians at the Upper Platte agency;
SAMUEL S. DAY, Reeeiver, and M. A. WittramS,
Register of the land Office at Tallahassee;
EDWARD BART, Receiver, and M. P. DO3TY,
Register of the Land Oftiee at New OrleanS.
The Rebel Stun Stonewall.
It is understood that the rebel ram Stone
wall is now at the service of our Government,
but she will not at present be brought to the
United States, for fear - that the yellow fever,
BOW prevalent at Havana, where sherlies, may
thus be introduced intcyour country,
The Rush for Ofitee.
The Secretary of the Preasury has• decided
to make no more clerical - appointments, ex
cepting in cases of vacancies, which must be
supplied. Over fifteen thousand applications
of unsuccessful aspirants are on hie' in this
Department, having accumulated during; and
Once the rebelliOn. It is estimated that there
arc nearly sixteen hundred , clerks and four
teen hundred copyists employed in the:Prem.
stirs. building. , -
The Presidential 11 . Tansion Damagetlby
the Storm.
Tile storm yesterday afternoon, though, of
brief continuance, did much damage all: over
the city. A spout leading from the roof of tile.
White House and extending through thcrwest
wing of the building became clogged by refuse
- material of workmen who had been makinc ,
repairS. Some of the chambers were over
flowed to the depth of several, feet, and. the
ceiling of one of them fell. IVinch alarm, was,
occasioned to the inmates. The utmost aetivi
ty was required to prevent the East ilommand
other apartments from being similarly in - un
dated.
Rebels Returning to their-Former Re-
11 - unOredo of cowrie, residenta Of Washington
who left for the South on the breaking.out of
the rebellion, continue to return hero,. but
very few of them have succeeded.in obtaining
employment
General AUGUR has just issued an order re
quiring all persons hereteforebelonging to-the
rebel armies arriving in this, city, to. report
immediately On their arrival to the headquar
ters of the Department of Washington, and
furnish a copy of their authority for being.
bere. Those now in the city who have-not al
ready done so, will at once comply.with the
requirements of this order.
Pardons Granted.
About two hundred pardons nave been
granted during the past week. There remain
on isle over two thousand applications, and
Petitions are still coming. in at, the. rate of
'Trom one to two hundred per day..
The President today pardoned Z.K. MIL
LEN, sentenced to be hanged for murder ; C. C.
Love, a deserter to Canada ; Purr..Ganes, of
Georgia, a rebel, and who is well known as
having formerly, for years, Wen an editor in
Washington; CHARLES GREEN, rebel, and R. L.
J. BLAIR. AnTnur. CAvvrov was permitted to
leave the country, never to return.
The Cholera In Etwope.
The State Department has received advices
fro& the United States Consul et Palermo,
dated July 9th, relative to the .spread of the
Asiatic cholera in the locality; liAe represents
that, owing to a prevalence of Asiatic cholers 4
in Alexandria, Egypt, and. some cases having
happened at Malta, the Director General of
the Health Office of the island, has ordered
the expulsion of all vessels arriving from the
above points, and a quarantine of several
days for all arrivals from the ports of the
Levant. There is a considerable panic in Pa
lermo and Messina,_ but as yet there have
been no cases of cholera, except in Messina,
of a person landed from a steamer of the
" Messageries Ireperiale,? , from Alexandria,
who died at the Lazaretto.
The NAVA} AffeneV-
The term of °Mee of S. P.Baowzr, Navy Age
at this point, having terminated by Matta
lion, Paymaster DATA - sixTozi has been tem
porarily assigned to the post thus made va
cant. This i$ in accordance with the sot of
Congress placing the business of navy agents
in the hands Of paymasters, and wee the last
ruse requiring Such a ebange—the trt;lnsfer of
all the other stations having been made some
time ago.
rension Decision.
The Copunissioner of Pension% has decided
that rebel deserters, who have subsequently
enlisted in the 'United Stato military ao rv iee
(lo not thereby become entitled to the heneilta
of the pension laws. It la expressly provided
07 Congressional enaetlilont that 4o pension.'
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY. JULY 31, 1865.
shall be paid to any person who has borne
arms against the Government or in any man
ner given aid or comfort to the rebellion. An
executive pardon has no effect to set aside or
Modify this law.
A Presidential Enr.enrslon.
The President, accompanied by his family
and 800. PRESTON KING, left Washington yes
terday, on a trip down the Potomac, expecting
to return to•morrow morning. •
The'Creation of National Banks.
For the week ending July 29, 1,9115, fifteen
National banks have been chartered, with an'
aggegatc capital of 35,458,75.
The Weather.
This vicinity was visited with a heavy hail
and rain storm this afternoon, commencing at
four o'clock.
NORTH CAROLINA.
WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK AND
WHAT THEY WRITE.
LETTERS TO A. PRISONER OF WAR.
The following extracts are taken from let
tars received iby a North Carolinian while a
prisoner of war in Fort Delaware. They are
written by friends, and come from various
cities and towns of North Carolina;
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, June :1,180.
* * * "I agree with you that immediate
emancipation will be better for the whole
country than gradual emancipation. The pub
lic mind here is quiet, but terribly depressed.
lam glad you are cheerful. While my convic
tions have not, changed, 1 still hope all things
for the best. We have fit - Bed in a noble cause,
and we ought now to accept the consequences
without fear and with a manly heart. As far
as the loss of property in slaves is concerned,
immense though it he, it is borne by the slave
holders with surprising equanimity, and
almost without a murmur. It is the poor
whites who begin to complain of the measure;
end between them and the free blacks, I fore
see there will spring up a fierce animosi
ty." * * *
2 June 8, 1858.
* I agree 'with you quite about ne
gro suffrage. if there be any considerable
portion of the Northern people who desire
that change (as I think there Is,) it will be
better for all parties to yield the point with
out a contest or an azitation. I long to see
the time when the negro, and all that relates
to him, may be removed from our polities, and
we may return in earnest to such qt/eatiOnS as
tract our real happiness. This can he done
more effectually, now that he is free, by eiti
zenizing him at * * *
ca , <Tune 20, 1865.
* * * "One regiment of the Federal
troops stationed here is about leaving, and to
it belong the former commanding officer of
this post and the lieutenant WHO has been.
living with us. As they have proved pleasant
hitherto to the people generally, I am sorry
for the change. To us, as a family, they have
been highly agreeable, and we who met as
enemies part as friends. I wish from my heart
that the same slate of things ould exist
nationally ! how I long for national peace
iiilii llarminly. i am heart-sick nnii :I,Tar; Qf
sectional strife. My daily petition is for peace,
peace, order, and harmony. You would be sur
prised, perhaps, to see bo w cheerfully and
I enter upon this new state of society and po
lities. I say perhaps, because I rather think
you know us well enough to know where to
find us, even now. Ourjudgment and deter
mination point out to us but one course, viz:
that we - heartily adopt this country as our
country, this Government as ours 5 and the
duly incumbent upon each individual to make
it the very best Government he can, and to do
all be can to restore good feeling, and forget
the past." * *
, June 28, 1865.
* * * "You cannot understand how our
people feel in the present Situation of national
and sectional affairs. The only real cheerful
supporters of the Administration, and enter
tainers of the Federal troops are those of us
who most ardently espoused the Southern
cause; and who gave up the Confederacy last.
* * I have always thought, hitherto, that
oar minds acted in one another; but I am now
SatiStied that they take similar views jade-
PelKient of personal sympathy. I am so re
joiced we agree on the questiOnS Of the day.
* * I bold this country and government ,
to be our home; and that it is the Christian
duty of every Man and woman to exert
themselves to restore good feeling. But the..
poor negroes ! From my heart I commiserate
them. reaily believe that idleness and ne-,
glees of those attentions to hygiene, re
quired of them, Will produce greater mortali
ty among . theta in MC nea:l4OUP years, than
the past lour has witnessed on oth sides. * *
lam struck just now by a;:trai militia* to all,'
knowtifbo the peculiar charac eristies of the
African. Old Simon B.,lollg , the most popular
negto in our town, among his own color, has
just died, and not anegro can be coaxed to at.?
tend to the body. The mrber across the street
aegrO near SiltiOn'S ttga) won't Consent - to
shave him, and unless the whiteS come in and
interfere, - I suppose he will scarcely be buried
decently, yet , his sons are with him, and the
white family have kept three faMilies of his re
lations there for a month waiting on him" * *
June 28,1815.
* * * "For weeks after the ergsh came,
I felt perfectly crushed but I - am trying to
rally again. It was too terrible to believe—to
111111 k of so Inialt , precious lives lost—so much
hardsliip—such deprivation, and all for what I
But Our Father knows, and will bring good out
of it all yet, I hope. I - rejoice to hear you say,
you yet anticipate a bright future for our
poor, blighted, down-trodden South. * * I
grieve that you have lost so much; and will
have to begin. life anew. But, ah lam so
thankful, as you justly remark, that your life
is spared—that you are whole in body, mind,
and health, while so many are perfeev wrecks
Of their former selves."
, July 4tb, ISSS.
w
* * * "Ellen's husband ants her to go
to housekeeping, as his master wont bonvithis
children any longer. But she says she will
wait as long as she can till I can try and get a
Servant. But the truth the negroes are
so set up , x - rth freedom, and the desire to keep
house for themselves, that they will none of
them consent to cook or wash, who can6 -, et
:along any other way. By the time this winter
is over, I think there will be no trouble, but.
for this year we will have hard times to get
along. I tried for two days to do housework,
but found I would be the invalid of former
years. * * Besides, to attend my house and
garden, do all the Sewing and other d title% is
enough for a person of my capacity to per.
form. I asked you; in a former letter, to bring
us a white woman who can do housework or
coo k." * * *
" The troops here are celebrating the glori
ous Fourth by drinking and swearing, and
such conduct as only drunken men can exhi
bit. The officers are all straight, I believe,
and trying to keep order: •* *
" I rejoice at your good heattlt,pleasant situ
ation (for a prisoner ; .). and the kindness which
your letters and our returned prisoners say
you receive at the hands of the general com
manding the fort. I trust every kind act will
be returned a thousand fold:upon him and his,
for his attention te you.. I dO trust you will
be returned to us speedily r l se long to see
you ; but how different, our meeting must be
from anything we anticipated. VA our parting.
If there is one trig deserves (?or deepest gratitude, it is tha a veil obscures our future.
Ilow well for us if we can trust it with God
without anxiety." * * *
July 8, 1885.
* * * "The civil government is getting
Slowly on its legs. About half the counties,
among them this one, have magistrates. Gov.
110kien is making an almost entire change in
the magistracy, as well as in officers of every
kind, and of cense-, he• seeks for the Union
elementwherever hs eamlind * * The
Southern people must sustain immense losses
on every hand. Yet it is surprising as well as
hopeful, to see with what general cheerful
ness they alt borne. The weather is dry and
hot, threatening the corn crops. *Melt now
promises abundantly."
Jkily 21,1565.
* * * "It tvouid amaze yowto• see what
a mania every family has..for housekeeping
(with nothing to keep) among the blacks. * *
/ Will try and. help Ellen to some things from
my own slender stock. She,has• indeed been
faithful during these troublousttmes, Mai +'9
conduct has been base to the lowest degree.
Even the negroes in town ray,. " Mary forgets
how Mass—and Hiss—nursed, her,. for two
weeks sitting up themselves every night, and
would'nt think a servant half 'good enough to
do anything for her." So we. did .and when—
could'nt walk one step himself" She is mean
wbile.pretendingto something like sanctifica
tion m the—church. * * James—offers his
house for sale, says he is broken up, and must
go into two rooms, (formerly. worth 400opoo.)
* * *
" Ju1y17,1865.
* * * "My fears in regard, tathe situa
tion of things, when the Yankees would leave
us, are about to be realized. We have a sense
of inaceurity t which is very alarming. luring
the past weed', we have had. a great deal of
stealing, breaking into houses, Sr" Night be
fore last 11—'13 wasburnt down
over tne heads of his family. All this is chief
ly the work sf negroes, And-our authorities,
such as they are, do absolutely nothing to re
press this lawlessness, or punish the offender."
* *
July 19, DM.
* * "Tour itien 4 a of negro suffrage
shook everybody here-.even theFederel troops
—who can't listen to.it. *. * * We can't
live here .among thiswretched peasantry (the
free blacks.) They won't work. Every family,
no matter how large, must go to housekeep
ing, antb you insult them by asking them to
hire their children. No indeed,' they say;
`the wlole country . woutd be talking about
them, to hire out their children.' * * * Ido
wish a number of Germans could be induced
to come out here as servants. So many fami
lies would employ them, and they would be
happier to come together?'
Tut NEW JERSEY iiVLIINTEER.—The New
Jersey Volunteer made its first appearance on
Thursday last. It is a campaign paper, and
started with ilke object of supporting Marcus
I.,Ward, Es',,, the Union candidate for Cie.
Nernor of NewJerseyia.the coming campaign.
The Volunteer is printed in Trenton. It is a
neat and line-looking, paper, and if we are to
judge from the first number, its proprietors
will well deserve to,neeeive the support of the
loyal mon of Jersey. It speaks in the follow
ing manner or I'ar. Ward
maltcus L. Ward has been pre.eminently
identified with the Union sentiment of the
State from the outbreak of the "Den ratio"
rebellion until its final collapse. Islu man in
the State has made greater personal sacrifices
for the preservation of the Government, and
for the welfare of its armed defenders, than
Nitrous L. Ward. His defeat, three, years ago,
when he ran for Governor under the most ad
verse influences fur the Union party, stimu
lated rather than weakened his.efforts in the
good cause ; and from that hour to the present
moment all the energies of his native VI
heelsunrclaxingly devoted to the welfar43, 7 f
the soldiers of the State.”
—A Lilwrence (Kansas) despatch of the 25th
says numerous intim nir t hts wlt# 4i1,9 Indians
have taken place,
MEXICO AND TEXAS.
A PLAIN STATEMENT OF WELL
ASCERTAINED FACTS.
THE INTERNAL CONDITION OF
MEXICO AND TEXAS.
INSURRECTION IN THE FIRST ;
ANARCHY IN THE LAST,
Lawless Conduct' of the Disbanded
Rebel Texan Army,
How Many Men are Gathered around the
Month of the Rio Grande.
Description of the Country In which Our Army of
Observation is Encamped.
.
since the receipt of the news from our Itio
Grande - frontier, sensational though it may
be, public attention has been generally di
rected thitherwarcis, and a little information
about what may or may or may not be the
" seat of war," together with a detailed ac
count of the feeling and condition of the
country on both sides of the river, will not be
inapropoB.
TAE TEXAN BIDE OR TUE nrem:
The contingent forces our GovernniCut has
sent to the frontier have nearly all arrived,
and their line extends, according to the cor
respondents, from a point a few miles above
Broa'nsvillc to Brazos de SantiagO;which is the
base of supplies. The country they occupyis
thus described :
"Brazos Santiago is a desert island near the
mouth of the Rio Grande—a wild waste of
land, 'upon whose inhospitable shore not a
particle of water or of vegetation can be found.
Prior to the war with Mexico, to which coun
try it then belonged, Brazos was the port of
entry for Matamoros and Boca del Rio—the
latter at that time amiserabie Mexican hamlet
at the month of the. Rio Grande. A Custom
housaenhdaidioletn erected pretentious h i ti l r i e l ,
tesnisitn,yelentolty
archi
tecture,
can
t o i fli ie e t ie t3 no a t i lLi t t ak w e a d s
=tau
toe i e,
distinguishil)
Peons, whose ditty it was to bring water from
l ticcilPi e f ( i l 'o b m y
pleasure it was to sleep on the ShadS' SidC Of it
miles distant, and whose
tlibuilding,eilver, sonic
undisturbed
I: t a r
i c .)
ed by the sand-flies and
more noxious vermin of the locality. Upon
the treaty of peace with MexiCO, Brazos be
came a part of the great Republic, by whom it
was continued as a port of entry.
"A ride along the beach of nine miles brings
you to Clarksville, at the month of the river,
on the American side; a small collection of in
significant residences, and of no importance
I`e
Es the eoint whe:e nyr'%:ed mer,.—^l ' - tg ,l i . ise:are lamed atrit being transported
the vessels arriving
here to the lighters, white
upon the Mexican side lies its More proton-
Gotta neighbor, Bagdad, the successor of Boca
del Rio. Bagdad is an excrescence of the war.
It sprang up almost in a night; the inciting
cause, the turning of cotton raised in the cen
tral. and :easeern portions of Texas from its
legitimate outlets, at Galveston and throu t „ , th
the Red river to Brownsville and Matamor:oi,
on the Rio Grande, and thanea down to ale
river to Bagdad, where it was shipped to Eng
land and other foreign markets. . 7
"Brownsville, before the war, was an active
business place of some six or seven thousand
inhabitants, shut out from the balance of the
State by hundreds of miles of country, t ly
populated, and ofttimes infested by villa us
rancheros, ready to steal a hundred cat or
cut a throat, as occasion might offer, de
pended almost entirely for its trade and on-'
sequent prosperity upon its neighbor a oss
"
the river.
TEE CONDITION OF TEXAS.
TeXas is said to be almost as convulsed Wilber
ternany as its neighbor, Mexico. Aceg
to the Galveston correspondence of thew
Orleans Times, when the rebel army a
State diAanded itself, the soldiers seeo
divide themselves into three classes: t ..:
- " The 'first! class, which may be termed
law-abiding portion, and which numbere
least ore hall of the army, went directly
their homes, without molesting either pa
or private property on their way. The 11
souri, Arkansas, and Louisiana troops, w
were regularly discharged, aro included
these remarks. These men, be it said to th
credit, have since generally remained at him
and conducted themselves properly. They
are rated among reliable and valuable Ml
•!zeit' 6 - ,i , Texas. They belonged to the class
that-war could not demoralize. The second
and third classes, instead of retiring dirset
ly to their places of abode, Made a break,
as they termed it, for every point where thr
knew or suspected Government proof
was stored. This they seized and div
among themselves, the stronger taking
lion's share. Not being over serupulour
appropriated, in many instances, prop
which the Government bad and ry
a claim, and this, too, when it was
proved to them that the property th(
taking belOnged to private indwith
fact, in Ban Antonio, I saw some
troops enter the stores of citizens
off from three stores not less th
worth of goods belongingtOMereii
knowledgmg at the same time they ki
did not belong to the Government.
sort of robbery and plunder was not
to San Antonio. It was done all
State, and the city of Houston wot
been Completely sacked, had not
Magruder and ether commanding
defended it with a superior force, ti
having been selected from the d
above mentioned. While wendi
way hornewords„ they appropriate(
own use everything on which the
S. was found. The third class for
selves into gangs of from ten to om
or more in some instances, and rob
di
detect, and Murdered inserimini
they ate still at it, especially in tlu
portion of the State. Thelrs call tl
guerillas, or jayhawkers, but they a,
more nor less than highway robbers.
tack travellers, and if resistance it
they hesitate not to murder their
Neither age nor sex is spared.. Old
pected of - having a few dollars laid aiTt
been taken from their dwellings and 1
the nearest tree, 'because they either
money, or, having it, would not revk
place of deposit. At present the• large:
tion of these highwaymen are in the - wl
portion of the State and in the bordercot.
Draw a lino from San Antonio to Corpus Ch.
and the section of country betweeruthis inn
nary line and the Rio Grande is filled with the._
so much so that no one with Money or valua
bles cant through the country withentbeing
robbed. What the first gang spares the second
takes, and their victims are fortunate to escape
with their , lives. These robbers seized the
horses of - stage lines from San Antonio, Gon
zales and Victoria to the Rio Grande, and rob
bed the passengers to such an extent that
these lines had to be abandoned. The stage
lines through other sections wore discontinued
for the satire reason. The atrocities committed
by these villains would till a volume. It is to
be hoped that the United States troops will be
able soon to capture or exterminate every
scoundrel wife has been engaged in thin dia
bolical wickedness. The people are praying
for it throughout the State, and if necessity
required it 50,000 Texans would volunteerthem
services to Waist in wiping out these- curt
throats, who deserve no mercy.
The statement that one hundred thousand
troops have been sent by our Governmenkto
Mexico is denied, by what are asserted Wits
authorities, and authorities on the otherside
say that the story that Maximilian hits eon.-
centrated thirty-five thousand men at Mtn
mores, is equally untrue. It is argued in the
latter case, that no such steps would be taken
without mature deliberation, and without a.
trans-Atlantic• correspondence, and for that
not one-fourtb.anough time has elapsed. Con
cerning the former statement, it is stated
that we have but little if any more than seveu
teen thousantlmen around Brownsvllle. Mat
amoras was, up to a recent date, garrisoned by
about three thousand French, who are kept
within the city by the prowling guerillasun
der Cortinas. Another statement has been
made that Maximilian is receiving immense
amounts of assistance by numerous enlist
ments of Conteastatesoldiers. ABrownsville
writer says :
This I have. every reason to believe untrue.
Generals Barbs , Smith, Magruder, Shelby,
Slaughter, Price, and some of less note, are
here ; and ex-Governors Murrell and Clark of
Texas, and Moore and Allen of Louisiana, but
there are not with them, all told, over fifteen
hundred men. All these are on their way to
Sonora, except a few who desire to return, if
the exceptions to the amnesty should, be re
voked in their favor, and these will remain at
Monterey. There is no design on their part,
as I am credibly informed, to enter the mili
tary service of Mexico. If other resOureeS
fail, they may be compelled so to do.
TEM CONDITION OF MEXICO
A busircose-lotter, dated City of Nonifty July
11, to tx.firra in blew York, says:
In the State of Vera Cruz the Republicans
now occupy the whole State, with the , excep
tion of. the line of one of the roads-from Vera
Cruz—that by way of Orizaba—and,this is now
frequently cut by the Liberals. Tho Republi
can Governor of the State of Puebla is regain
ing possession of many of the towns of that
State; the State of Tontine° arahehispas are
ruled by Republican governors,.who Occupy
them in their whole extent; a great part of
the State of iDjaca is again in • open rebellion
the State of Mexico is overmany the Liberal ;
General - Vicente Riva Palacios,.who has under
his. Cori/Maud Some• two thousand men, and
portions of his forces penetrate often ' into
the valley of Mexico, quite near to the
gates of the capital. A. part of this State,
!that was submitted to the Empire through
a treaty with one of the commanding
officers, is now in rebellion again, and the in,.
: surgents have captured Rue utta, the chief
tows of the district, taking al of the garrison
prisoners. General Alvarez is complete nuts
ter of the State of Guerrero, where the French
dare not penetrate, and in Michoacan there is
quite a respectable array under the Liberal
commander•imehief, General Arteaga, who oc
cupies most of the Slate except the 000)184
which is now threatened. One of his Mitten•
ants, General ItCgill.oB, lately took prisoners a
Belgian ~, ,,a rrison, Which is still in their power,
and we have just received news that he has
' also captured the garrison of Uruapan, Con
sisting of some three hundred men. Two of
the imperial regiments of this State have left
their banner and joined the Republicans, to
whont, it Is said, further desertions are daily
being made. From this State the insurrection
has communicated to those ,of Guanajuato,
San Luis Votosi, and Jalisco, where there aro
,More than a dozen chiefs commanding dif
rent
_parties of guerillas. In the States of
oahuila,Neuvo,Leon arid Tantaulipas,though.
ate)) , the French forces took possession
of the cities of Monterey and Saltillo,
It 14 YC'ii:4.lol4 ItiMqing Ray apple %pi. the
7
Republicans, who only fell hack to unite again
at another place, and so keep up an exhaust
ing and nevevending struggle. The Liberal
forces in those States are some five thousand
strong. General Carbajal in Tamaulipas has
lately taken possession of Ciudad Victoria, the
capital of the State s and of Tula, whose garri
son were taken prisoners. Tampico is also
threatened by tills Same general. In short,
there is perfect disorder and insurrection
everywhere, and the country is further from
being pacified to-day than ever. It is believed
here that the situation cannot continue long.
Of course, in the midst of these clashing ac
counts, it is bard to say what is the. true situa
tion, The truth is claimed on both sides; but,
after all, experience tells us that it is the tele
grams from New Orleans, via Cairo, that are
the least likely to be correct. Until there is
another arrival from New Orleans no opinion
can be ventured on the last reported move of
Maximilian: There is undoubtedly a largo and
unruly element among the Texan population,
comprised partly of Texans, but mostly of
Missourians, who will, while they can, rob the
people of Texas, and, when that resort fails,
join the ranks of the Imperial army. What we
have given above gives about as clear an idea
of the situation as can just now be gained.
FOR.TRESS MONROE.
Military Changes and Movements—Ar
rivals and Departures of Vessels—
Cannon to be Sold.
FORTRESS MONROE, July 27.—General T. O,
Osborn passed here today enroute for Chicago,
Illinois.
The late 3d New York Cavalry, Captain Dern e
commanding, now Ist New York Mounted
Rilles,under Colonel Sunnier, have been trans
ferred to Fredericksburg, and are relieved at
Suffolk by the Ist District of Columbia Ca
valry, by orders received by General 0. L.
Mann.
The United States frigate Congress does not
float, as reported, but an effort is to be made
in a few days which is expected to be success
ful.
The courts of Elizabeth City county were or.
ganized to-day, and every officer is pro
nounced as a Union man.
The commissary depot at Portsmouth is dis
continued.
Thermometer at 105 in the shade.
[The reporteroinder the same date, sends us
the somewhat stale news of the result Of the
Richmond election, intelligence of which The
Press printed some three or four days ago, and
which paper no doubt gave the information
upon which the reporter founded his despatch.
—En. PRESS.]
The Government will sell at this place Aug.
3, one hundred' and seventy cannon, several
brass pieces, and lot of muskets, all taken from
rebel fortifications, and captured.
steam* Silas 0. Pierce has Satlea for Rich
mond.. 4. 1 .'•
The. , wither is excessively severe. The
ther ' eter for several dayshaskangedaboui
•!-i
100. sterday, in Norfolk, it was 101 in the
shale ; 100 to-day at this place.
FOP.TRESS Mormon, July 28.—Steamer Co
lumbia arrived last niVolin: Y9IP: 1 1 1 94 1 119 rd,
end bound to Baltimore, with the 10th Ohio re
giment, numbering 700 men, bound'home.
Steamer Daeotali t from New York.
Steamer Lizzie Baker, from Washington,
bound to Richmond.
Propeller North Point, from Morehead City
Schooner A. Van Vleet, from New York.
Propeller Idaho, from Baltimore.
Schooner Jelin Farris, from Baltimore
Brigantine D. Alvertz, from Redonda, West
Indies, cargo guano, waiting orders.
CAIRO, Jul, 29. E-The troops nb:sv at Memphis,
5,000 in number, it is suppossoa k ill be divided
into squads, and posted oycOfie country to
maintain law and order.
........, in Clinton county,
_ —.mem Of men with him; among
Ahem were Phillpot and Trainer ;,the were
armed ; there were also some teams belonging
1 a wagon train ; he went off with the two
T 1 Viined ; I saw him nest day; I met titer
;he road; I spoke to lima,' and' he
, " get down off that horse, ---.-
;" he ordered me to ungirt the sad-'
~ and then ordered me to girt it beera •
n asked me - if there were any
ot
- the saddle bags. I told him Diere;
as -- 4 2,
; he then said, " you, don't yeti'
want am •', I told him I would take a dram,'
and he tad, a touch it -;-- light ; two Confede
rate 8014:Hers came up in an ambulance • he or
dared them to stop, and they took a 'drink ;
they asked him "what he was doing with that
fellow ; he told them he was going to take his
horse—th at his father was a —old Lincolnite ;
he then turned to me, and said, " if - you have
anything to say, say it quickly, for Pm going
to kill your he asked me if I. did not want to
Ho to a little place above here they call " New
eaven;" he said We have got anew govern
ment, and a new heaven to send all such men
as you;" he asked me if I Would go home and
stay close to the plantation, and not travel
about, if he let me go ; I. salligthat was a hard
thing to do, as I had togeMut sometimes;
he said, "Dm going to learn my relations
something, and you with the balancei" he
said he was going to kill uncle Lewis
Huff and others of my relations; that he
Might as well kill them now as any time; he
asked me again if I could go home, and not be
caught away; I told him I would try; he then.:
told. me to turn the bridle over his horse's head
for him ; I done so ; he made me place his feet
in the stirrups ; after I done this, he ordered
me to start for home ; he then rode off taking
my horse, saddle and bridle, and saddle-bags;
I did not belong to any military organization
at that time I I saw him at my mother's house,
in Fentress county, in October, lull, and Ferge.
son, Crabtree, Delk, and Williams came there ;
Ferguson rode up and said, "Pres., d—n you,
come out and give up;' I ran off with iVil:.
' , am Buff, through a corn-field, and came
tk above the house, where I could hear
i. talk ; they stopped there some time,curs
me rode up and asked if Pres. was there ;
n said no ; if he was, we would have
Ina dead before now;.Mrs. Crabtree
mt as they left, "Oh, they will 'kill my
'hump replied: "Never`mind, we'll
down here;" they also took a negro
'n; I saw the prisoners , Crabtree,
A Delk, whom they had with
if the gang were loaded with
I saw Champ Ferguson, Hans
the negro g irl behind him),
5 - 01/ n diauriAtham, Hendrsoii
McGirr IGinitis, Dewitt McGinnis,
and Tin William Files lives agent
a mile " - ..er's house ,• they went
directly lace; I heard three
guns fired ntr after they left„
beyond Pil 1r it; they robbed
my mother of ling and the negro
Firl ; my father in May, ISM; I saw
erguson and hi; 1862; they were
in the mountains ; a Were mounted
scouting around ; wt, - 11 guns fire
and went out on the what they
were shooting at; we het. "tin
sha Rogier's house sereami. man
getting , over the fence, fall when
they left we went up to the house . man
shot turned oat to be _Ensile Kogier; little
girl was clinging to him, and she was very'
bloody, presenting a horrible sight; we Carried
him to thehouse; he was dead; there were about
ten in the gang that shot him; I did not know
who the man was that shot Kogier.
Cross-examined by the defence.—l do not
know that Rlisba Kegler ever waylaid or
threatened the life of Ferguson ; I was not
With him mink - I have seen Kogier with men
scouting through the country, bllt do not know
who he was after; some of them were arniOd
and some wore not, at times ; I have seen him
with eight or ten men, and again with a less
number; I have seen - Williams with him •;
saw Tinker Dave with him once, when they
were going to Overton county to 11x up a pesae
with citizens 01 Overton county ; I heard that
they took Ferguson prisoner and attempted
to kill him; Crabtree, Delk, and Williams be
longed to the Federal service when they were
killed ; I daunt know that they were hunting
Ferguson or any rebels In particular; they
were in my company ; was first lieutenant;
it was reported that Mr. Sloan had been killed
a few days-previous to the killing of the three
men before 'mentioned ,• don't know who
killed him; Ferguson had been drinking when
he took my horse in the road; on the might
Ferguson and his men came to my mother's
house war Stull at hiss thirteen times;: they
fired twoahots, no doubt seeing William Huff
and myself in the cornfield; we returned the
fire, and. Ferguson ordered them to ru,n, and
they did; I knew Ferguson before he took my
horse ; It suppose we are relations ; our- grand
fathers- were brothers; we had always been
friendly before that, hut not intimate ; I have
scouted: with Tinker Dave since I got out of
the senates.
The „budge Advocate then examined Miss
Vino Piles, who testified as follows:
I am a daughter of Wm. Piles, of
county, Tennessee • I was at my father's house
in October, lea, whene Ferguson and his gang
came there; it was before daybreak; I knew
some of them; I knew Latharn,the MeOhntess
brothers, Hans Mose, Barton, Riley, and Gre
gersy ; they brought, John Williams, John
Crabtree end. Wm . Delk, with, them; they
were all . tied together by their arms ; they
were on foot;, I was in the yard with my sister
and mother 'alien they came urt; they entered
the gate and came into the yard, near the star
bins, taking the, prisoners with thorn ; one of
them came tack and told us tog° in the house;
we did go in, and then heard three guns fired
near the stable ; one clone to the house and
told us they bad killed the prisoners; we then
went out, and they passed nut of the gate; we
found the dead bodies of the boys Sohn
Crabtree, John Williams„.and William Delk,
lying near the stable ; Mr. Williams waashot
three times—under his right ear, in his right
arm, and in the breast . ; Delk was stabbed
under the right arnt;; Ural:Urea was out to
pieces; they were all dead; in one shoe in
Delk's shoulder a cornstalk was stuck in the
wound ; his mother tech it out; Mrs. Crabtree
came to our house about an hour after warde ;
the gang bad a negro girl, owned , by Patsy
Huff, with them; Hans. Moss haslr her in his
charge; they bud some bed-clothing with
them ; they had come previously on the same
night, and took one of our horsed; we were all
up from inidelglit to the time they returned;
I did not know Ferguson, and cannot say
whether or not be was one of the gang; the
prisoners were Cut apart before they Were
killed.; there were forty-two in the gang.
Markets by Telegraph.
CINCINNATI, July 29.,The Flour market is
unsettled and prices are nominally ao@eoo
lower. Whisky is quoted at $2.17, and some
KOOS Were vatip at 9%15, J44r4 sells gt 21c.
TUB SITUATION
CAIRO.
Cairo on their
FERGIISON.
'ARPARE—A . PIC ,
71TIES—FLOW rnit,
FORGED DTTIZING ,
te trial of this
testimony was
ilGn ten years AVg
so
from'hitn; I
THREE CENTS.
EUROPE.
TEL GREAT EASTERN AT
VALENTI&
THE LIBERALS GAIN IN THE LATE ELEC
TIONS EIGHTEEN MEMBERS.
The Cholera in Egypt Fast Decreasing
IT, S. FIVE-TWENTIES, 72@72;ei.
CATE RACE, July 27, VIA ASYY BAY, •Inly 20.
The. Inman steamship City Or New York) from
Liverpool 19th, via Queenstown 20111, paesed
twig point at one o'clock this (Thursday) after
noon, en route to New York. She has six hun
dred apd thirty-two passengers. All well on
board.
The steamship City of Boston, from New
York, arrived at Liverpool on the 17th,
The steamships City of Dublin, from New
York, and the Damascus, from Quebec, arrived
out on the 19th.
The 'United States steamer Concordia arrived
off Falmouth on the MVO, and at Deal on the
lsib.
The steamship Great Eastern, with the At
lantie cable Mr board, arrived off 'Valentin on
the morning of the Illtll, having towed from
Falmouth the steamer Caroline, the latter
having the shore end of the cable on board,
which was to be immediately laid in Valentia
Bay.
The elections in England were still progress
ing, and absorbed the greatest attention. Five
hundred and fifty returns had been completed
up to the evening of the isth, of whom 323 were
professing Liberals, and 227 Conservatives.
The net gain of the Liberals is now eighteen.
Mr. Gladstone was defeated at Oxford by
eighteen majority. He immediately accepted
a nomination for South Lancashire, and at
Once Commenced the caucus. He was received
with immense enthusiasm,
The Liverpool and Manehester Center was
'fixed for the 20th inst.
The reported marriage between the Prince
of Orange and the Princess Helena of England
has been definitely arranged.
The Prince Imperial of France is reported
convalescent. Rumor says that the omens
were more serious than expected, and the
Emperor and Empress were still detained in
Paris in consequence.
The Paris Bourse was firm at 76f, 52c. for
Rentes.
The Fiorenee papers contradict the state,
ment that the Aiialarn Crovernment had re
ceived an obicial piepOsai for an European
Congress.
the King of prussia had issued 4 decree pro
claiming a Budget, as proposed in the Minis
try.
The cholera In Egypt Wag rapidly decreasing.
Details of the late fearful hurricane at the
Cape of Good Hope have been received, No
American vessels are include. in the list of
disasters. •
Commercial Intelligence.
LTVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. —The sales of
cotton for three days were 41,000 bales. The
market opened buoyatlt, with an adVanee of
4 @l/d. It., but subsequently gave way, and
dosed with a downward tendency, quotations
.being hardly maintained.
TRADE REPORT.—The Manchester market,
was quiet and firm.
LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFF'S MARKET.—The
breadetuffs market was quiet. Messrs. Wake
neld,Nashat,CO. report: Flour quiet and steady.
Wheat quiet, with a downward tendency, Corn
scarce, and advancing; mixed, 308@30s 6d per
quarter.
LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.—The provi
sion market is generally quiet and Steady.
Messrs. Richardson, Spence, & Co., and Gor
don, Bruce, It Co. report: Pork inactive. Beef
quiet. Lard firm at 67s ed@7os. Tallow quiet
and steady.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MA aRP.T.--ASIIOS steady,
Sugar quiet and steady.. Coffee steady. Rice
firm. Rosin steady. Spirits Turpentineheavy.
Petroleum quiet and steady.
LONDON
Petroleum '
steady. Su
gar firm. Coffee inactive. Tea dull., Rice firm.
Spirits Turpentine declining 2. • quoted at 47s ed.
.Lownon MosEr Mennwr.—consols 891/ 8 1490),4
for money.
.Aazzku6o: STOOKS:..nlinois Central Railroad
SE.%,@iis; Erie Railroad My, i United. States fivez
twenties 72@72 1 4.
Shipping Intelligence.
Arrived from New - York, May 22, Day Spring,
at Sierra • Leone • - 21st, Surprise, at Woosung;
St, Nicholas, at 'Melbourne ; Commodore, at
;Adelaide; July 11, Flygarson & Son, at. Cams
-44.4; 13th, DentSChland, at Hamburg; . 14th,
lemen and Adam, at Bremen sth; Sonde, at
. .
:A twerp.
Arrived from Boston,. May 7th, Warrior, at
Melbourne; 20th, Falcon, at Table Bay; 27th,
Oceanus, at, Algoa Bay to secure bowsprit.
Arrived from Baltimore, July 14th, - Noonan,
in Texel ; 17th, Huasquina, at Belfast.
Arrived from Sandusky, Ohio, 15th, U. S.
Hearson, at Cuxhaven.
Arrived from Akyab, June 22; George Wash
ington, at St. Helena.
Arrived from Manila, May 15i Young Arne.
rica, in Straits of Sunda.
Arrived from Shanghae, May 24, John Noo
nan, in Straits of Sunda.
Arrived from San Francisco, May 17; Auri
cola at Woosung.
Sailed for New York, May 17, Bavarian; from
Manilla;26th, Diana, from St. Helena ; Example,
from Bathurst; July 14, Rio Grande. and Nep
tune, from Cardiff; Escort, from - Liverpool ;
18th, Endymion, from do.
Sailed for Philadelphia 15th, King Bird, ffom
Liverpool. -
Sailed for New Orleans, 17th, Emily, from
Holyhead.
Sailed for San Francisco, May 24, Par See,
from Hong Kong- 25th Nonpareil, from do ;
A p J
ril 22d, Isaac Jeans, Newcastle, N. S.
W; May 9, Dublin from dO,
MEMORANDA.-Ship Wm. Vail, from Cardiff
for Mobile, put into Queenstown 16th, with
pumps choaked.
The steamer lowa, which sunk on the 6th of
December, while en route for Havre, has been
raised and floated.
NEW YORK, CITY.
Hon. Anson Burlingame, late Minister to
China, is in town, en route to Washington.
PRISONERS EN ROUTE FOR FORT LAF.A.YETTE
Considerable excitement was created in the
vicinity of the battery yesterday, by an armed
guard escorting a few prisoners to the boat for
Fort Lafayette, and statements being made.
that prominent generals of the late rebel army
were among the number. The following were
the prisoners :
H. S. McCormick, Lieut. Col. F. P. Anderson,
J. A. Homer, pilot ; F. Mohle, of the Ordnance
Department; Lieut. J. A. Pratt, of the late
navy, all rebels; and Lieut. Win. Kane, of the
Seth U. S. Colored Infantry.
STEAMERS SAILED—THE WEATHER.
The steamers City of Washington, for Liver
pool, and the Hansa, for Bremen, sailed today
with MOM in Specie.
The steamship Caledonia, of the 'lecher
Line, sailed to-day for Glasgow, carrying pas.
sengers to Londonderry, Belfast,Dublin, New
ry, Cork, and Liverpool. Among her list of
cabin passengers are Rev. Dr. Wylie, Robert
Watson, Esq., and Mr. E. T. Righter, from your
city, together with quite a number in the
steerage.
The thermometer at 7A. M. to-day stood at
93; at neon 02, and at 5 P. X. at 89, in the
shade.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITE OF MANCHESTER.
The Steamship City of Manchester has ar
rived with Liverpool advices of July
which have been anticipated.
Baia BALL
In the base-ball match played to-day be
tween the Keystone Club, of Philadelphia,
and
the Atlantic Club, of Bedford, Long Island,
the latter were victorious, the score standing:
thirty-three for the Atlantic to thirteen for the
Keystone.
A REMY, FAMILY AT CARLISLE Sritonts—Tner -
ARE OFFENDED BY THE DISPLAY OP Tall STARA
AND STRIPES.—The Carlisle Herald learns that
the family of Judge Ould, late rebel commis-.
stoner of exchange, who have been for some •
time bearding at the Carlisle Springs, left the
other day in quite a Duffy_ The cause of of
fence was that, on the 4thinst„ Mr. Woods, the •
proprietor of the Springs, had his house deem_
rated with quite a display of national flags,.
and since then, at various times, the bunting,
has been floating from the house-top. This.
has been a constant source of annoyance to the.
family of the redoubtable Judge, and the affair
culminated finally this week in their leaving,
the place in high dudgeon, much to the grati-.
ileatlon Of every loyal person in the com-.
numity.
The supreme insolence and audacity ef-these_
persons, whose every hour of liberty kiln Awl,
deSee of the gracious clemency of ous,Govern
meat, in thus insulting the glorious flag
protects them, is alinco beyond CO.KUNPtiOII,
It would seem as thouga gratitude was an un-.
heard•of virtue with them, and mercy anattri-,
bite they have no conception of. We are well!
rid of their presence.
WHAT A Cl rctrufAal CouccEsPeurancasMaintob
of Nzw has been the eustorn,to.tain:
of Nashville as being somewhatgiven. over to,
lawlessness and loese morality. After reaping
the following, which is a New York letter to
the Cincinnati Gazette, anybody who, should
persist in saying that 'Nashville .wasn't a ay."'
ized and res
P ecl4l " citY-woompasative/3f, at
least—should bit, at men tritrisportVal, fo,,r, a ,
period of pens) servitudst, to, the. benighted
of Gotham. H 04 0 .113 wsitt the. °Or
respondent sews:.
The saturnalia of crime , continuos iii this
devil-beloved city. The papers teem daily
with robberies, ravishmonts, incendiarisms,
seductions, forgeries defalcations, swindles,
and muraer.s, If I nein - Y.ONi particularly in
Stttattln personalitYre he had
I would suppos
taken ay, bis abode off this Island, Where he
has mOre followers and disciples than in any
Other city onthe globe. °tie can hardly help
thinking crime contagious, and tinait is
spremlinf like a pestilence over the length
and brea tit of the laud, I hope it will expend
its force soon for really it makes one feel un
comfortable to know he breathes the at
glospaeic with so many scoundrels as seem
flow to DS in our mithit.—rrashruze Dfspcsfeh.
—lt is said that the milk sold in New York
at ten cents a quart is purchased of the farm
ers, half-an-hourPs drive from "OW OM at two
and a hail mato a Quart.
MITE WAR. PRESS.
mutt - mean) WEEKLY.
THE WAS PRIM will be sent to enbeenberil tof
mull (per annum In advance,' et S.A 60
Fire copies
Ten 10 00
Te
Copies SO In
Larger (nubs than Ten will be charged at the catt%
rate. * 2 . 0 0 per copy.
The money mast always accompany the order, as 4
ill no instance can these terms be deviated frogs, all
they agora very Little more than Me cost of Payer•
NS - POatanaatera are requested to sot as assail
for Tax Was Paaaa.
Xi" TO the getter-up of the Club of ten or tWatttri
an extra copy of the paper will be given.
-- The several townships were fully repro.
Stinted in the Soldiers' Convention of 'Payette
county, which met in Uniontown on Monday
last. The following ticket was nominated, and
the soldiers resolved to support it without re
gard to former political associations:
bly—James M, Dushane, Captain 142i1 Pa Vols.;
Sheriff —lsaac M. Abraham, galortOth Pa.Voltei
District Attorney—Peter A. johns, Major ittb,
Pa. Res.; Treasurer—Willfam S. Craft, Captain
Ist Pa. Cavalry ; Commissioner—lsaachar
Shaw, Ist Sergeant CO. D, Sth Fro... Bea; A.udii
tors—Franels M. Cunningham, Tot Sergeant Co:
11,1 st W. Va. Cavalry, 3 years ; Richard A.
Mc-
Clean, Corporal Co. K, 110th Pa, Vols, 1 year;
County ServOYOr—Bohert A, Woes, Sergeant
Co. G, /35th Pa. Vols.; Poor-Rouse. Director—
Isaac P. Kerr, Captain Ist W. Va. Cavalry.
—Judge Packer, before his departure for
Europe; appointed the following gentlemen;
trustees of the $500,000 and fifty acres of land
which he so generously donated for the par:
pose of establishingi at Bethlehem, a poly-,
technic school: The Protestant Episcopal
Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, the
President Judge of the District lit Which the
college is located, and the Superintendent of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, with the
two sons of Mr. Packer during their lifetime.
At present the board of trustees is composed
of the following gentlemen ; Bishop Stevens,
Judge John W. Maynard, Robert H. Sayre,
Esq., Robert A.Packer, Esti, ancllllastor Harr;
E. Packer.
-- The Lancaster Evening. Express says; Most
prominent among the persons who have been
named in connection with the °Mee. of Auditor
General, of this State, is John A. fflestand,
Esq., of the /llzawdner owl Herald, of this city.
The delegates elected to the Union State Con.
volition from the district composed of Blair,
un 1 ingdon, Con tre, anniata, goniporpT
counties were instructed to. vote for Mr. Hie.
stand for this office. Nearly all of the dele_
gates elected from Philadelphia, and most of
those from other districts,as far as heard from,
will support the same gentleman for that pa
anion.
-- A man in l'ittsintrg has invented, an in
genious contrivance, which if brought into
general use, will prove a great convenience to.
persons travelling on street cars, especially.
at night. A bell is struck Just befororthe care
reach the street crossing, when the name
the street makes its appearance, ohvi,tlng tna
necessity of peering into the dark, I. making
inquiries of the conductor,
General tienry A. liambright of Lanctest , 4
returned to his home on Thursday afternoon,
The whole town turned out to Meet him, and
to Judge from the papers, the quiet city of
Lancaster must • have for once been aroused
from - the lethargy which surrounds it.
A profeeSor of musio was COWllidod in Erie
on Tuesday night by an enraged father, Tito
professor be)ng a married malt had paid his at
tentions to the daughter, and thereby brought
down upon his devoted head the wrath of the
father.
TiromOr, pastor of the First RC
formed Church of Wiesner, Iflo rmsgootedi
on Friday, by the members of his late mid.
thumen clktspep of Eaqon and Whits urkle, with
a handsome silver set.
—lt is rumored. that a company of I•;astcrit
eapitelipts are negotiating for the purchase
of an eligible piece of gimanil in the vicinity
of Ebensburg, whereon to erect a summer
hotel.
chambersburg is fast rising from its ashes.
The court house is under rool, three hotels are
nearly completed, and buildings and busineSS
houses are going up in all directions,
Messrs, Ifeldekapor, of Meadville, have
donated a beautiful piece of ground to that
tox • n, on condition that the authorities Ml
prove and keep it as a public park. •
The Pittsburg papers are busily engaged
in talking over their family matters before
the public. Each one has the most patronage,
and tcol sorry for the rest.
—The ordinance recently paned by.the City
Council of Harrisburg, to purchase three
steam-11re engines, has been vetoed by the
mayor of that city.
-- The managers of the Soldiers , Orphan
School, Pittsburg, are receiving the children
of colOred soldiers who lost their lives to the
recent war.
Mayor Sanderson, of this city, has beati
commended as the candidate of the opposite
party for Auditor General.
Nearly all of the troops recently at Camp
Return, Harrisburg, have boon paid Deland re
turned to their homes.
-- The people of St. Louis are promised a de.
lightful squabble over the Sunday law, The
police have been instructed to enforce it, and
on Sunday last they reported several beer
houses for he ping o p en contrary tolaw. This
caused quite a commotion among the German
population and others who are addieted to
beer. The matter will probably be tested be.
fore the courts. There is also a law against
billiard playing on Sunday. The Hebrew mer
chants were also notified to close thoirstores
on Sunday. The matter excites quite a sensa
tion in the city.
During the progreSS of Me trials at the'
New - York Special Sessions the other day' ,
prisoner escaped from the clutches of tile laW
in the following manner: The name of a prl
soner was called, and a prisoner appeared at
the bar to answer to a charge for assault and
battery, but the complainant not appearing,.
the prisoner who put in an appearance was
discharged. It subsequently proved that
he had personated another prisoner—the Weir
being discovered when his own case was mill
ed, and no one answered to his name,
The veritable war-horse of the rebel chief,
Stonewall Jackson, may now be seen in New
port. It is a noble animal, and makes a fine.
appearance in the streets, as it doubtless did
when leading to the charge against our
armies. The steed is the property of George•
Francis Train, who has a summer cottage on.
Kay street.
A young gentleman in Now York, de
?scribed as " the son of a well-known Federal
°Metal," haying been called a goose by his
sweetheart, swallowed a large dose of lauds.
num. The doctor who applied the stomachs
pump was roundly abused for his pains by the
foolish fellow whom he restored to life.
Nia . Yung, July 29.
There is a family in Detroit of quite mt.
usual composition. The father and mother
have each been Married three times, anti have
had children by each marriage, and all are
now living happily together under one roof
Six sets of children.
A New York correspondent has seen the
belle of the season at Newport on the beach
" in blue flannel bathing dress and pantalettes,
minus water-falls, rats, mice, Honiton, and
Alnyld de -Paris," and expatiates on the eon.
trast.
The town of Gosport, NOW Hampshire, 1u
neither oxen, horse, nor plough within its boy.
ders,.nor minister, doctor or lawyer. It sup.
ports two hotels, which are well patronized.
It was one of the earliest settled towns in the
State.
A bear wee recently MA/Wed and kilted
at Anson, New York, after he lied dragged si
trap weighing eighty pounds two miles over
hills, ledges, and felled trees. The bear was
six feet and seven inches in length.
—A justice of the peace in Duchess county,
New 1 . 01%, sentenced a boy eleven years old
to the Albany rcnitentlary for two yearg, Qll
a charge of stoning a turkey. The boy has been
pardoned by the Governor.
—An Englishman, while on a spree in Mem
phis the other day, gave a German liquor-sel
ler a letter of credit for $27,000 as security for
the liquor he drank. Through the aid of the
pollee it was recovered.
The watch taken by the rebels from the
body of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren has boon re.
covered in Norfolk.
It is said that the theatres are to be prose.
cuted for supplying a drop between the ante
without a license.
Mr, L. J. Jennings, tho-new correspondent
Of the London Times, is a 4 &ttri4toga,
The Boston Post says Patti is to be married,
and the Advertiser says she IS net.
—Blackberries are plenty in Springfield at
eight cents a quart.
The soldiers call the army biscuit the
"reek of ages..
Tbe new frodinuns eIaSS n 1 . 410117111 Da
very large.
A man in Rhode Wand died from drinking'.
lee water.
J Snow fell in Washington, Missouri, on the.
18th inst.
Ova. Butler is astroptng out at Laulesvll4l6.
The fashionable Indies at the . Gonna&
spas, this yearosro said to be ga,mbliag more
recklessly than• ever. • •
some of bile largest Parisian, hotels aim
almost exelnekvely occupied by; rich, Ainekbil.
MO.
ffrtaltalleheag Sophia. Of; Baden, ,11414
dead, was r. daughter of Gustavus Mr of 8 % 1,64
don.
Two lowa of high rank lava. been lintr&
Boned in liirusselle for fighting a,duel,
The:Scotsman announces the death of
Isaae Taylor, the well known,writer.
,-- It waaveportect in Germany that Geneva
Leo bad arrived there incognito,
The Queen of the Netherlands made a visit.
to the London Timm ofitco.
Prince Humbert, the young Hopeful ; of
Italy, is seriously ill.
Obvious—Beet Paris kid I The Prince lin•
portal,—[Puriett.]
A fire in ClVlstnnSwetleno:.xi,nted striur.
Lira' houses,
—The Paris exicket club had beaten the
English one,
The hero oe; the newest Paris play iq a
Policeman.
Gen. Tom Thumb has been again at Wind
sor Castle,
Paris capitalists aro putting rallwalrat in
Persia.
—The London. Old leas suspowlecl pablloat
Wu,
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