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FRIDAY, At GUST 4, 1865
!Mr; NEWS. -
Corneas the gun.
Cortinfts: the OM - nit ens,
cilia, if the New Orleans Delta tells the truth,
has lice" thoroughly silenced, for it asserts
that he has been defeated between Camargo
and mammoths, told forced to fly, all alone,
le the friendly shore of Texas, leaving all his
1 , 011 ,1 in the hands of the French. This is one
vl.l ory, at least, for Maximilian. This shore,
m the Way, though it seems safe and inviting
f,lr tortillas, is not as friendly to our own
„ oer s. The " army of observation" stretch
ed along it from Brownsi : ille to Bra-
E o: de Santiago is lunch afflicted with the
f ,,, e r peculiar to the locality, not only our
r ,s , ps suffering, but even the general officers,
ireluding Steel and - others. At Matamoros
1-eflow fever was beginning to develop itself,
well, of course, among the French garrison
the Mexican inhabitants. The Indians
aim, not content with their openings in. the
Platte country, are rattling into Texas, and
committing their n.,mal savage depredations.
Many K ddier friends of the late General
Reynolds, who lost his life in the battle of
(tett ystamg, met at the Continental Hotel yes
terday, to continue their consideration of a
monument for the dead. The report of the
T r easurer, General Wainwright, announced
T,;:a,th in the treasury. Subscriptions in the
1,1 Army Corps were propoSed, and a Com
mittee of three was selected to solicit further
i ,uhicriptions in this city. Many designs for
monument were offered, and laid aside for
col t:ideration.
We record another disaster at sea this mora
ine-, i. r., the binning of the steamer Glasgow
al sea, 011 the afternoon of the 31st. Steam
ship, named Glasgow seem to be unfortunate.
The mysterious disappearance of the steamer
Of that name years ago, but a little while after
a similar disappearance of the President, is
still in many memories. Fortunately, in this
:wreck, the loss of no lives was included. All
the nassengers arrived at _New York yester
day, in the steamship Erin.
oil well on Pit Hole Creek began to fIOW
unexpectedly on Wednesday evening,ftooding
the adjacent earth at the rate of two hundred
barrels an hour, no tanks having been pro -
Tiaed to receive the oil. It suddenly took
lire. while about twenty persons were stand
ing in and around the derrick. Most of them
julaped into the Bette creek hard by, but it is
Oared some could not escape. The oil Still
Bows and still burns.
Undermining the Gulf of St. Lawrence cable
commenced yesterdaymorning, and a curious
and perhaps important discovery was made.
At three miles from the shore the armor of
cable was found entirely rusted off. The
orkmen immediately commenced to bunt for
i 1 a other end of the cable, and it iss - believed
the it will be found, and a successful splicing
rule. This discovery may be of importance
r. future cable expetiments.
Tennessee has held her election, but the
ii,ople appear to have manifested no interest
in it. In Nashville the SUCcess of the " Oppo-
Ition " is reported, while throughout the
Sl,ne, according to the telegram, the result is
thus far in favor of the Union, "West Tennes
see not having been heard from. , West Ten.
m,see never has been in loyalty the equal Of
East TenneSSee, which has suffered much by
the war.
We have aCtounts of General Grant's journey
from Portland to _I ligusta. It has been a per
fret oration, everybody 'doing to do him
honor. There were ringing of bells andeheer
ing, and. showering of flowers and firing of
tannon—everytlying, indeed, which humanity
can imagine to express Us regard.
_1 carpenter shop belonging to Samuel Elting,
sftnated at 814 and 818 North Tenth street, was
el( groyed by tire yesterday afternoon, to.
p•ther with all its contents, involving a loss
of i 3,000. Building No. 818 was severely
am SE" and 810 slightly damaged by fire and
The funeral of the Ca - lactio,n Premier, Sir
Etienne P. Taelle, took place on the 2d. Al
ready those anxious to 811 the vacant post are
struggling with each other. All rest their
claims on their sotadness on the Confedera
tion question. Macdonald, Carter, and Can
thou are prominent contestants.
var 'watering I,laee' are beginning to got
notices telegraphicany. Sojourners a 6 Um
hotels of Atlantic City are to be transported
to and from the depot. At Cape May sojourn
ers are on the dui rive over the coming bal
ilatsgoc and carnival.
Next Friday David Gregory, cOnVieted of
the murder of a tavern-keeper at 537 South
Second street, named Viora, will be executed
:it the Moyaraensing prison. Should no re
:prim or pardon intervene, he will be the
Cerenth unfortunate executed there.
Another effort, which proved. a failure on
&mint Of the Stearn not being, Anil:IA.OM to
- work the pumps, was made on Wednesday to
.trtiSe the limited States frigate Congress, off
=ti,.•wport sews. The pumps were to have been
started again yesterday.
About forty steamers are at anchor off For-
Monroe, waiting for a favorable wind.
(no, whose name is unknown, was sunk off
l'oint - on Tuesday night—cause of ais
-334er ot a eertai n ed.
Few know anything about the emigration
1l ;it hews to our shores, beyond the mere fact
that there is emigration. An interesting arti
.le, elsewhere adds to the stock of general
Ismlen.
President Johnson's health is so much
im
rOcod that it is expeeted ho will be able, for
be first time in nearly a week, to meet the
shinet this morning.
Ford's Theatre, Washington, is at once to be
PPropriated to the n,es of the War Depart.
lent,
Tlu..iiecretars - of the President, Brigadier
emeriti Muzzy, bas been breveted a colonel
rn the regular army.
•
..;eerelary Seward viewed our entire City
rent yesterday, steaming past it in the reve
.ne cutter Northerner.
our customs receipts during the quarter
•nding last March were i , :10,519,000.
. The - youngest child of Governor Curtin is
lead. The funeral takes place to-day,
The Colored Convention at Alexandria is
till in session.
There was little doing at the stock board
TAerday, and prices were weak. Govern
,sent loans were chill and lower, and the fancy
.toeics were drooping. Reacting, however,
irftit at i 3, Which is an advance of M.
Tae - flour market was very dull yesterday,
Prices are unchanged. Wheat, corn, and
at. are dull and drooping. Cotton is less act^
. ve and rather lower. In sugar there is more
loirg, at full prices. Provisions are firmly
0,1;1 at the advance. Whisky continues dull
tichl closed in New York last night at 14434.
ETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
WAsuncoToN, August 3, 1865
The fiendish spirit of slavery survives its
defeats on the battle-field and delights in
die most malignant exhibitions in the midst
of rags and ruin. Pecuniary deprivation,
the distress produced by an incredible loss
of life, the exhaustion of the soil, and the
.actual sealing up of heretofore flourishing
seaports, have not abated the pride ofthc
eers,nor completely disenchanted the people
they have betrayed. It is not a pleasant
thing to admit, but the best evidences con
car in proving that what the Government
needs most—a sterling and Eel - mine Romp
lance of the burdens and reciprocities of
the situation—a general submission to Na
tional laws and regulations—are only of ex
ceptional and spasmodical occurrence.
Governor Holden's letter to his friends now
in New York, who went there from North
Carolina, to attract emigration to that State,
Liu were met by the rumor that the aristo
cratic leaders or former slaveholders were
lerseeating the Union men, white and co-
I "A, is a strong proof of the existence of a
- orse than disaffected feeling in that State ;
for, even while denying the rumor, and
. nviting emigration, he says that "if all the
troops should be withdrawn, and we should
not have an efficient police guard, there
ight, and probably would be, disturb
ace in some localities." The notorious
3isbop Wilmer, or Alabama, well known
for his shameless and criminal viola
• ion of his obligations to God and the
country, seeks to add to the ill-feeling of
the Southerners by ativisTAg them not to
Pray for the President of the United
states, because he is only to be no
iced when the civil authority in Ala
bama is restored_ The clear object of
his reverend schismatic is to impress the
w eople that Andrew ;Johnson is not Presi
ent, and that it would be perfectly proper
to begin and carry on another rebellion.
Of Virginia and Tennessee you have had
some fair specimens. The newspapers I
read from the South are generally animated
Iy the same feeling ; and even the South
erners who come North to retrieve their for
tunes, and to enjoy the protection of the
Union they tried to destroy, seem to glory
iu the most insulting and disloyal language.
I need not say how steadily I have sought
Ito believe that these things could not
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be ; and how, in and out of season, I have
appealed to my old friends in the South
to abandon their prejudices, to prepare
for the new state of ' affairs, and to
meet the Government, at least half way, in
its free and frequent offers of forgiveness
and aid. I still cherish the hope that there
is a large residuum of love for the Union,
and of gratitude to the President, among
that people. They cannot, however, re_
main obdurate and spiteful, and then corn_
plain of bitter consequences. Do they ever
think that all their demonskations of tinier
cad rebellion waken the men of the free
States who desire to be their friends? There
is scarcely an hour of the day that I am not
told by some one who believes that the only
plan for establishing on firm foundations
the national authority is to class this whole
people as being disloyal, and to deal unto
them strong measures alone—that the rebel
spirit is only intensified by the display of
fraternal and friendly offices. Now, lam
loth to act upon an assumption so harsh.
Nor does that hesitation result from any
solicitude for the Government. In any
case the Government is safe and strong. It
can endure all the burdens of the situation.
But it is different with the South. It will
be a sad sight to see forced upon the Exe
cutive the necessity of holding these com
munities by the strong arm, simply because
the 'baffled leaders, priests, and slave
tyrants, have power enough to keep alive
the bitter strifes and hates that ought to
have been sepulchred with the rebellion.
WASHINGTON.
THE PROBABLE METHOD OF THE
TRIAL OF DAVIS.
WILL IT BE IN A MILITARY OR
A CIVIL COURT ?
Our Custom Receipts for Three Months
over 520,0130,000,
THE HEALTH OF THE PRESIDENT
THE DISPOSITION Or 4 FORD'S THEATRE
(Special Despatch to The Press.)
WASHINGTON August 3.
Trial of Jefferson Davis.
The recent jury trials in Washington, and
the late delightful ebullitions of rebel good"
nature in Richmond, Nashville, and Columbia'
Tennessee, have not seemed to he the most
auspicious preparations for the trial of JEF
FERSON AVIS in the civil courts. The man
ner of conducting and concluding the
Case of Miss HARRIS, was not the pro
mise of the decorum and deliberation so
necessary to such a trial as that of DAVIS.
And if his case is carried to Richmond,
nobody need doubt that the people who
boldly voted into civil positions the most ac
tive and successful of the late officers of the
rebel service, would hesitate about violating
every oath and resorting to every expedient
to acquit JEFPRRSON DAvis. The example of
the Military Commission, which tried and con
victed the conspirators, has not been lost upon
other nations ; and, as you have noticed,
the conduct as well as the issue of that in
quiry, have been comniended by the ablest
organs of foreign opinion. Unquestionably
no civil court, under the best regulations,
would have secured such a mass of proof, and
would have so fearlessly digested it. J ?Hem
sox Davis has not only been guilty of tree,.
`son, as defined in the Constitution, but he is
clearly implicated in some of the most fright-
Ad b.-rewriting ortrie - Tenernen.. There is, as
the en iSting, rancor and defiance or the rebels
of the South sufficiently admonish us, no pros
pect of trying him thoroughly before any but
a military commission. Such is undoubtedly
the opinion of some of the most eminent
jurists in the country. The Government has
thus far shown so much silent and stern re
solve in meeting the requirements of justice
and the wishes of the people, who have lost so
many lives, and given so much treasure to the
cause of their country, that I do not doubt the
boldest course will be taken in regard to this
cruel and relentless tyrant. With no desire to
excite stronger feelings of bitterness among
the Southern or Northern people, I say that
we have only been successful in the work of
vindication when we have been bold and
searching in our policy. The execution of the
conspirators struck a blow at treason that re
sounded all through the wreck of the rebel
lion ; and it was Sanctioned by divine and by
human law and obligation. Let us not be less
fearless and firm in regard to the matchless
usurper and despot of slavery, Jiarpeasox Da
vis ; in ninny respects, the modern author, ar—
chitect and engineer of the rebellion—the man
- who, having hurled a nation into civil war,
was as deaf to the cries of his own people,
when they looked to him for relief and rescue,
as he was to the anguish and the appeals of our
. prisoners, who, from their prison -hells, called
to him for deliverance from the fiends he had
sent to torture them. Even his own country
men of the South admit that he deserves a
murderer's death for his inhumanity to them.
*s*
Jlly Associated Press.?
Application for Pardon.
Many applications for pardOn continue to be
received. Among those who have recently re
ceived the Executive clemency were WM. T.
AVERY and Wit. E. SMITH. They were both,
previous to the rebellion; members of the
United states house of Representatives. The
former served the rebel Government as mail
Agent, and the latter was a member of the
rebel Congress.
Ford's Theatre.
. Foiw's Theatre is at once to be appropriated
to the uses of the War Department, proposals
baying been issued inviting offers for making
the necessary alterations.
The Colored Dlen's Convention.
Additional delegates appeared in the Color
ed Men's Convention to-day, at Alexandria,
Viiginta, Resolutions were adopted, setting
forth the grievances of the colored people of
the State, and asking for the right of suffrage,
and other equalities before the law.
President Sohnson 9 d Health.
The health of President JonNson is conside•
rably improved, and it is expected that he .
- will meet his Cabinet to-morrow, which he has
not done for nearly a week past.
Prornoted.
Brevet Brigadier General MUZZY, Military.
F.eretary to President JouusoN, and Captain
in the lath Infantry, has been brevetted Colo
nel in the regular army, for meritorious and
valuable services while serving in the South.
west.
Customs Receipts.
It nnpears from official data that the re
ceipts from Customs for the quarter ending
with March, 1.805, were 20,513,000. Internal re
venue, ,i , i15,202, 162. Directtax, $52,700. Miscella
aeons, $1059;000. Total in round numbers, ex
clusive of loans, etc., $89,992,862—whi1e the
total expenditure for the same period was
3353,000,000.
Personal.
Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie has been
engaged by the manager of the Boston theatre
to appear next season in the series of charac
ters in which she won so much reputation tan
years ago. Ile gives twenty-live thousand dol.
lars for eight months' engagement.
Major General Pleasanton arrived at Mil
waukee on Wednesday last, and would at once
assume command of the Wisconsin Depart
ment. His headquarters will be at Milwaukee.
The story that General Robert E. Lee is at
Niagara Falls is probably based upon the pre•
sense there of another gentlemeo of the same
name. Tile late rebel chief, it is positively
Stated, is in Virginia, at some quiet retreat up
the country.
Mr. Francis J. Smith, of Richmond, has re
ceived the appointment of State Treasurer of
Virginia, and on Tuesday gave the usual
bonds and enteved upon the duties of MS
office.
Miss Imogen Willis, daughter of N. P.
Willis, editor of the Home Journal, was mar
ried a few days ago, at Idlewild, to Dr. William
Eddy, of New Bedford, Mass.
, The following appointments have been
made by the Postmaster General ;
David Caldwell, postmaster Slackwater,
Lancaster county, Pa., vice Samuel P. Felil,
resigned.
John 11. Wagner, postmaster Phillipsburg,
Centre county, Pa., vice Wesley Bunk, re
signed,
C. Mr. Hazard, postmaster Mononga
hela City Washington county, vice D. - M.
Clark, resigned.
James h. Logan; postmaster Coal , Bluff,
Washington county, vice James Herron.
Henry Boggs postmaster Mosiertown,
Crawford. county, Pa., vice David S. Mosier,
resigned.
Death In Governor Cnvtin , s Faintly.
limmisurno, August R.—Governor Curtin
was hastily recalled from Saratoga last night
by the death of his youngest child, which oc
curred oa Monday last. His ° Excellency and
family, with the remains of the infantproceed
ed to Belleronte, where the interment will take
Place to-morrow. It is not expected that the
Governor will return to Harrisburg before
next Tuesday.
MEXICO AND TEXAS.
Cortines Asserted to have been Defeated
near Natamoras and Effec
tually Quieted.
lIE FLIES TO TEXAS, LEAVING ALL HIS
COLORED TROOPS WARDING THE TEXAS COAST
FROM INDIANOLA TO VICTORIA.
INDIANS RAIDING AND MURDERING
Como, August 3. - --The steamer Niagara,
from Now Orleans on the 2,5 th ult., arrived
here to-clay.
The Prve Della contains advices from Browns
stating that Cortinas had been defeated
in an engagement with Lopez, between Mats
mores and Camargo. Cortinas had returned
to the Texas side of the river, leaving .all his
forces in the hands of the enemy.
General Steel and three of his officers were,
very sick from the fever.
A great deal of sickness prevalted among
onr troops. Scurvy was the prevailing disease,
and the yellow fever was developing itself ra
pidly at Matamoras.
Many planters were bringing their cotton
into ISfatantoraS.
Five thousand colored troops occupy the
coast from Indianola to Victoria. Many of
them arc engaged in rebuilding the railroad.
A party of Indfans recently made a raid on
the Texas frontier, killing and wounding a
number of persons and stealing many horses.
OCCASIONAL
MOVEMENTS OF GEN. GRANT.
His Enthusiastic Reception in Maine—
A Carnival or Flowers, Bells, and Can
non• Thunder Greets Him.
POWTLAtiIi, Me., August 3. Gen. Grant and
party, including Gens. Howard, Chamberlain,
and Ayres, Senator Wilson, and others, started
at nine o'clock this morning for Augusta. All
along the route the people turned out in great
numbers to welcome the party. At Bowdoins
ville the ladies loaded the General with bou
quets.
At Gardiner the train was received with sa
lutes of artillery front the Pittston shore, and
a band Of music. At Hallowell it was greeted
with the peal of bells. At Augusta salutes
were fired from the Arsenal grounds, and the
church bells were rung. The streets were
densely crowded, and the buildings were
dressed with tags. A procession of car
riages was feinted, General Grant being
in an open baronehe. A large military
escort, under Colonel Little, escorted the
General through the principal streets to the
State House, where he was presented to Gov.
Cony Oy lion. Mr. Blair.
The Governor welcomed him most cordially,
to which General Grant replied in his usual
terse.language.
The Governer conducted General Grant to
the steps of the Capitol, and introduced Win
to the vast concourse of people which had as
sembled there, who welcomed him with the
most enthusiastic and profound cheering. In
response to urgent calls, brief speeches were
made by Generals lioward, Chamberlain,
Ayres, and others.
At two o'clock this afternoon Gen. Grant,
with his wife and Mrs. Gen. Howard, gave a
reception to ladies only, at the Augusta House,
after which the General and his stair rode
about the city, in company with Governor
Cony and his aids.
The General returned to this city at 5.20 this
afternoon. _ On to-morrow morning he will
take an excursion among the islands, and at
1.20 P. M. will start for Quebec.
Another Effort to Raise the 6, Congress"
—Vessels in the Harbor, lte.
FORTRESS Arolawn, August 2.—The brigs Aro
neto and Victoria arrived at Newport News
co any ; -fry city Point, ladened with the
_French tobacco from Richmond....
Steamers Ranger and Delaware arrives at
Norfolk this morning, from City Point, with
the 311th Illinois Regiment for duty at Norfolk
anti vicinity.
The 20th New York Cavalry, from Richmond,
and for New York, arrived on steamer Edward
Everett, Capt. Etta.
About forty schooners are at anchor in this
harbor, waiting for a favorable wind. One
was sunk last night off Sewall's Point, in shoal
water. Her name and cause of disaster not as
certained.
Steamer Blackstone, which arrived a few
days since, disabled, has been towed to Nor
folk for repairs.
Another effort was made to-day to raise the
old United States frigate Congress, off New
port News, which proved unsuccessful, the
steam not being sufficient to work all their
Pumps. The water was, however, lowered
three feet from tide mark in two hours. They
will Start the pumps again at eight o'clock to
morrow morning, Weather permitting.
Steamer De Kolay arrived from City Point
with theSoth New York Regiment, en route for
SackeVs Harbor, via New York city. Colonel
D. M. Evans is in command.
ACCON.VorrATIONO TO TILATELLIMS—AN IMMERSE
ATLANTIC CITY, August 3,—The steam pas
senger engine "Little Giant," formerly plying
between Cooper's Point and Haddonfield, has
been placed on the road to carry passengers
between the hotels and the railroad bridge
over the Inlet, a noted place of resort for fish
ing and crabbing, and will be u great conveni
ence to the visitors.
An immense crowd participated in the ex
cursion to this point by the St. Joseph's Church
of Philadelphia. The train consisted of twen
ty-five cars.
FUNERAL OF THE rimanius—vatO WILL FILL HIS
QUEBEC, August 3.—The funeral of Sir Etien
ne P. Taehe, late Prime Minister of Canada,
took place yesterday, with impressive. cere
monies. The appointment of a new Premier
excites great interest. There will probably be
a ICCORStrUCtion of the Cabinet. Messrs. Car
ter, Macdonald, and ellllehOn are spoken of
for the position. The appointment is likely to
turn on the question of confederation, and it
is known that no effort will be spared to ren
der the Cabinet harmonious and effective on
this point.
NATTERS QUIET-.-GENERAL 131/CVIiSS O 'rum
NASHVILLE, August 3.—ln the Congressional
election in this State, to-day, Campbell, the
Opposition candidate, carried this city by ?.31
majority. It is now expected that he will
carry the district by 2,000 majority.
Maynard, from the Knoxville district, and
Cooper, from the Shelbyville district (Union
candidates,) have a majority so far as heard
from, and will probably be elected.
Colonel Stokes, the Union candidate for the
Chattanooga district, is also ahead, so far as
heard from. No reports have been received
froth West Tennessee.
The election in this city, and throughout
Middle Tennessee, passed over very quietly,
no such interest being manifested as was ex
pected. The vote was generally very light,
over two thousand votes less being cast in this
city than there were registered voters.
PIT HOLE, (Pa.,) August 3. Well No. 19 on the
United States farm, on Pit Hole Creek, was de
stroyed by fire nbout seven o'clock this eve
ning. The well was finished yesterday, and was
flowing about tiro hundred barrels, but there
being no tanks up, the Oil was allowed to flow
on the ground. Some twenty persons were
standing in and around the derrick, some of
whom, it is feared, were unable to escape, as
the ground for forty feet around was in one
Sheet of flame in a moment. Three men are
known to have been seriously burned, find
they only saved themselves by jumping Into
the creek. The well is still flowing and the
oil burning.
The Gulf of St. Lawrence Cable.
Asrr DAY, August 3.—The workmen
commenced undermining the cable this morn
ing, and, at about three miles from the shore,
they found the armor entirely rusted on:
There is also trouble still beyond, as dragging
for the other end was at once commenced.
The machinery worked admirably, and great
hopes are entertained of successfully repair
ing the cable.'
CAPE MAY, August 3.—There is much excite
ment here with regard to the fancy-dress ball
to take place on Tuesday evening. A great
crowd is expected from Philadelphia, the rail
road eoninnny 'having fished excursion tickets,
good for Tuesday and Wednesday.
CAmo, August 3.—Two hundred and thirty
bales of cotton passed Cairo to-day. Six hun
dred hales have reached Vicksburg, from the
Yazoo River. Thirty-eight thousand two hun7
dred and My Dales have arrived at Mobile
since the occupation of that city by the U. S.
forces.
BOSTON, August 3.—Thu Asia arrived this
morning from Liverpool and Halifax. The
Dictator resumed her voyage eastward to-day,
iri comptiny wit]rthe Vanderbilt,
MEN IN FRENCH HANDS,
IN TEXAS.
FORTRESS MONROE.
ATLANTIC CITY.
EXCtiRBION
THE CANADIAN CAIHNET.
The Election in Tennessee.
Burning" of an 011 Well.
The Cape May Carnival.
'Floe Cotton Trade.
From Boston.
PHILADELPHIA, -FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1865.
THE TIDE OF EMIGRATION.
ITS GREATNESS, ITS CHARACTER, ITS
ADVANTAGE TO US.
GENERAL NATIO - A.'ALITV OF 017 P. EMIGRANTS-A
COMPARISON BETWEEN THOSE OF. DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES-WHO HAVE THE MOST FORE
SIGHT-WHO ARE THE MOST THRIFTY-HOW
THE GERMANS PREPARE NOR AMERICA-WHERE
THEY ARE RECEIVED, AND HOW THEY ARE
PROTECTED-NEW THOUGH OLD FACTS.
A New York contemporary has a long and
interesting article on the tide of emigration
that flows to our shores and impinges gene
rally at Castle Garden, in that city, giving sta
tistics mingled poetically and deftly with the
warm ideas that spring from the mind of the
writer. The emigrants are taken as they start
from their native land, from somedingy, Willa.
lid cabin in Saxony or Connemara, perhaps set
on the bosom of the ocean; their trials in
storm and calm, and the treatment they too
often receive on ship-board described'. Par
ticular reference is thus made to a part of this
treatment:
As usual, no order has been issued before
leaving port requiring baggage and provisions
to be firmly secured. It is rather to the Interest
of the ship-owners that the stock of food laid
in by the emigrant—at Liverpool, say—should
be wholly or partly spoilt, for then he will
have to purchase at high prices, short weight,
from the, ship's stores. The consequence is
Butt during the storm trunks full Of clothing
and all manner of goods, barrels of potatoes,
and flour, and meal, and bacon, and beef, and
'butter have been cast adrift between decks,
and rolling about with every lurch of the ship,
have been smashed into indistinguishable frag
ments. A sea has broken through the hatches,
too, and, mingling with this miscellaneous
mess, has worked it up into a salt and yeasty
batter, which floods the lower decks to the
depth of several Inches. Tnie is a catastro
phe which happens at the commencement of a
large percentage of passages, yet few officers
take the easy and efficient means of averting
it. An immense aggregate of property as thus
annually lost to emigrants.
THE NUMBER OF THE "EMIGRANTS AND TIIEFIC
The writer says everybody knows that by
far the greater part of the emigration to this
country comes from Ireland and Germany. So
overwhelming is the proportion, that no other
classes readily occur to the mind. The rela
tive proportions between the numbers of Ger
man and Irish, annually arriving, have varied
very much in different years. Last year, it
will be seen, there were nearly Alm more
Irish than German, and the two together form
ed nearly five-sixths of the entire amount of
emigration :
Number and Nativity of Alien Passengers arrived
at the port of New York, during the year 1864,
• who were liable to Bonds or Commutation ender
the Acts of April 11,1&11, July 11,1851, and April
13,1113.
From South Aixeca 124
iFromillexieo 83
From Norway 88
From China 41
From Nova Sbotia. 40
'From Russia 37
'From Canada...... 35
From Portugal.... 34
'From Greece 13
From Turkey...... 3
From Sicily a
From East Indies. 1
From Ireland 59,700
From Germany— .57,572.
From En gland —23,871
From Scotland... 5,146
From France.-- 3,806 1
From Switzerland ],659
From Sweden.. 1,515
From Wales 6591
From Holland.... 615
From Denmark... 585
From Italy - 479
From West Indies 236
From Poland.-- 198
From 5pain........196
From Belgium. 186
In 1817, when the act authorizing the col
lection of commutation money from alien
emigrantswent
into effect, the relative num
bers
wore
nearlyequal-11,940 Irish to !,.'9,180
Germans ,• in 1848 the Irish nearly doubled on
their Teutonic rivals, coming 91,061 strong to
55,705 ; 1849 the Irish more than doubled—
the figures were 112,391, to 55,705 ; 1890 they
increased their lead-117,038 to 45,535 ; in 1857
both increased considerably,. Ireland still
ahead—they stood 113,200 to 69,016 ; in 1852 Ire
land fell off a little and Germany pulled tre
mendously, going several better than her coin
petitor-118,131 to 118,611—a very close thing ;
in 1853 Germany kept the lead, making 119,614
to Ireland's 113,101; in 1851 Germany distanced
Ireland altogether, making 170,986 to 82,302 ; in
1855 both fell off, and Ireland went 13,913, Ger
many about 10,000 better ; in 1555 the number
and proportions were about the Same ; in 1557
Germany was 80 074 Ireland 57;111 On less Ger
man}- was 31,811,Ireland _5,075; m 1859 and
1800 these proportions changed, Ireland re
gaining: a slight ascendancy, which she has
maintained up to the present time.
The Germans are the most provident class,
as a rule, that arrive here. They generally
send agents on the winter before they leave
the fatherland, to buy laud out West, and then
come out in organized bodies, going straight
to their destination instead of loitering around
New York, exposing themselves to its-thickly
planted snarra and pit-falls. They generally
have more or less gold about them, and bring
piles of trunks. It Is a. custom with them to
lay in three or four years' stock of clothing
. -, nrtitig_for those foreign shores. Many
Of them have misty notions of this new and
happy land, and judge of our advancement in
the sartorial and dress-making arts and sci
ences by crude pictures they have seen of In
dians attired for - the war-path. .The _lrish
seldom make any previous provision for their
future here. They come out in a frightfully
hap-hazard manner, bringing as few encum
braneeS as possible. They have wild ideas of
meeting Brother Barney on the corner of the
first street, or of being told on the spot by any
bystander the exact whereabouts of Me con
sin Norah."
"My good woman you will hear an offielal
say, "1 really don't ,"
where your husband
"An' Shure, si-r-r,.its in New York he is. Its
New York, he says in his letther,”
"But, my good woman, New York is a large
place. Did lie not tell you what street to go
to 1"
"Not a street, si-r-r. Oh, shure he said New
Yor-rk. Oh what'll I do, wh I
at'll dol
become o' the childerl”
Far more incredible eases than this occur
every day - . It takes as long to unload one
German vessel as to unload three from Liver
pool, and this is attributable solely to the ex
cess of baggage on the latter.
THE ARRIVAL IN NEW YORE
Take the debarkation of the living motley
freight of but a single ship. What shade of hu
man nature, of passion, of proclivity, of good
or bad, of joy, grief, of listlessness, shall we
not find among the motley crowd 1 The honest
earnest farmer, calculating the golden har
vests he will reap next summer on the prat.
ries ; the jail-birdy'brooding on his golden har
vest, to be raked from pillaged safes ; the po
litical refugee, dreaming of a liberty that
would be license; the stolid clown, too igeo
rant to tell the difference between free
dem and oppression; the careful store:
keeper, thinking of the wondrous pro
fits his little stock will bring ; the
airy, thoughtless vagabond, marvelling
where he shall find a lodging and a meal;
old age wearily content to rest awhile; man
hood urgent to go onward ; children happy in
the mere enjoyment of their' novel situation ;
faces haggara with disease, and. faces rugged
with health ; faces wan with sorrowing for lost,
ones east into the sea, and faces radiant with
,glecat once more meeting friends and kindred.
These meetings: they are in themselves a
curious study. How cheery some, how hys
terically demonstrative others, and some how
apparently unpleasant and reluctant, how pal
pably lacking in warmth and welcome. The
cheery meetings are between friends who are
mutually independent, and therefore glad to
see each Other ; the demonstrative ones be
tween those who are doing well here, and are
rejoiced that those theylove - can now share
their prosperity; the - reluctants are those
who, getting along fairly, fear the new comer
will be a temporary burden to them.
It is a sight worth beholding,. when the
dowdy, unkempt Ellen first recognizes,in the
brilliant robes and bonnet wherewith Anima
eanized handmaidens of Ilibernian extraction
array thenlaelves, bur sister nridget. "An
shure I thought it was a rale lady yez were,
Biddy, with your fine bonnet and shawl !" she
exclaims, half crying, half laughing; "and
who'd have thought the likes o' ye would iver
have had the silks and satins!" And then she
admires and laughs again, and falls on Brid
get's shoulder, - sobbing, "Bat, shure, it's me
own darlin , sister yez are; anyhow. Oh I Its
Ameriky must be the mighty 11nel - dace!" And
so it is, Nelly, for those who meet sisters and
brothers to guide, and warn, and guard them;
but look behind you. at those four or live girls,
who are bidding good-bye to a crowd of jeering
sailors. They left Liverpool good and pure as
yourself. Do you know what they are now,
what they have been made on the passage,
where the strong arm of brother Jim, over
there, protected yon? Do you knew what
they will be in a few days, or ,at most
a few weeks,heneel Better that you never
should. These are the wrecks that are
strewn upon our shores by: every emigrant
vessel.
The large building on the Battery, where
New York beauty and fashion once thronged
to listen to the dulcet notes of Jenny Linil
and Grist, was leased by the Commissioners of
Emigration in 1855, and by them converted,
with the grounds adjaeent, into an emigrant
depot. The endeavor to establish this insti
tution was met with the most violent and
persistent hostility by the horde of thieves
and scoundrels who had so long regarded the
new-arriving foreigners as their lawful prey.
Many outrages 'were committed, the commis
sioners word threatened,the place was 'several
times stormed by gangs of ruffians; but these
demonstrations were Away suppressed,
though never punished as they should have
been, except in the case .of a few, on whose
beads the summary justice of the policeman's
club descended. Castle Garden has been a
haven of rest and comparative security to the
emigrant. There, like a lamb within the fold,
he could see the wolves prowling around,
eager to devour him, but he felt that he was
Suit.
Mr. Bernard Casserly . is the chief agent and
superintendent of emigration, iliS office is
most trying and important. His bureau works
easily and smoothly. A consignment of live
or six hundred men, women, and children, of
all ages, countries, and conditions, is received,
distributed in twenty different ways, and final
ly disposed of .pith a eelerity, preffision, and
completeness that are absolutely marvellous.
lie is assisted by an experienced and efficient
stair of clerks. There are several sub-depart
ments at Castle Garden, established to pro
mote the comfort and convenience of the
emigrants, and facilitate their speedy set
tlement in the new country of their choice.
There is the inquiry department s where par
ties calling for friends must satisfy the offi
cer in charge of their authority and good
faith before they are allowed to take any one
away. A record is kept concerning the emi
grant, by whom he or she has been taken
away, and his or her stated destination. In
• after years any person by giving at this office
the name of the vessel and the date of her ar
rival can And the 'first traces of friends who
may have come passengers in bort The medi
cal department is under the charge of Dr.
Sterling, who has been connected with the in
stitution almost from its foundation. Ile it is
who gives certificates to the sick which pass
them from Castle Garden to the hospitals or
'refuge on Ward's Island. About ten patients
a day arc thus transferred. At the intelli
gence and labor department, male WI female
help can be procured without charge. Few
NllllO enter their names there remain long
without employment, The police department
is admirably conducted. When a ship 'seeming
up, one of the Castle Garden police goes on
board and remains until the last passenger
or package is landed. There are always a
sufficient number of officers in the place
to preserve order. The runway andexpress de
partMent is agreat advantage to the emigrant.
Ile need not leave the garden to procure a
ticket, but can have himself and baggage .
checked through to anywhere at the lowest
rates of fares; There is, too, a letter writing
department where emigrants can write their
own correspondence with distant friends, or
have it written for them. These letters are
taken care of and forwarded by the clerk.
Boys and girls are not allowed to leave the
building at nil, unless in charge of grown-up
friends. If they arrive alone, they must wait
till some responsible person comes for them.
in the meanwhile they arc sent to Ward's
island. A few boarding-house runners, under
the strictest regulations, are permitted to
solicit customers for the establishments they
represent. They arc obliged to exhibit to eaeh
customer a list of their prices and accommo
dations, and any one of them detected in
swindling or deceiving an emigrant forfeits
his license and is ejected from the garden.
IMPORTANT ARMY ORDERS.
Assignment of Major and Brigadier
GeneralS to Duty-
WAR DEPATIVENT, Ana. OF.aq. , p. OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, - Friday. July 98,
GENERAL ORDERS No. I:E.---The following
general officers assigned, as indicated below,
will report in accordance with the instruction
herein given:
1. To report for duty to Major General J.
Hooker, commanding the Department of the
East: Major General D. E. Sickles, Major Gene
nil J. G. Parke, Major General Chas. Griffin,
Brigadier and Brevet Major General BMA. B.
Potter, Brigadier and Brevet Major General J.
C. Robinson, Brigadier and Brevet Major Gene
ral Eli Long, and Brigadier General H. G.
Banum.
' 2. To report for duty to Major General W. S.
Hancock, commanding Middle Department:
Mejoi General A. A. Humphrey, Brigadier and
Brevet Major General G. IL Getty, Brigadier
and Brevet Major General B. C. Avers, Brigs
diet and Brevet Major General W. 11. Emery,
Brigadier and Brevet Major-General A. Baird,
Brigadier and Brevet Major General It. 0. Ty
ler, and Brigadier General J. D. Fessenden.
8. To report for duty to Major General C. C.
Augur, commanding Department of Washing
ton Brigadier and Brevet Major general G.
Mott, Brigadier General J. A. Has in B
riga
ier General F. T.Dent, and Brigadier General
Francis Fessentlen.
4. To report for duty to Major General E. 0.
C. Ord, commanding Department of Ohio : Ma
jor General J. A. Logan, Major General J. D.
Cox, Brigadier and Brevet Major Generaa M.D.
Leggett, Brigadier and Brevet Major General
0. B. 'Wilcox, Brigadier General .I.'B. Mein
tosh,and Brigadier General Thos. G. Pitcher.
5. To report for duty to Major General Geo.
Stoneman, eOnamandingDepartment of Ten
nessee : Major General W. 11. Hazen,Brigadier
and Brevet Major General J. M. Brannan,
Brigadier and Brevet Major General J. E.
Smith, Brigadier and Brevet Major General A.
C. Gillem, and Brigadier and Brevet Major
General Edward Hatch.
6. To report for duty to Major General J. M.
rainier, commanding Department of Ken
tucky:'Major General Gordon Granger, Briga
dier and Brevet Major General J. C. Davis,
Brigadier and Brevet Major General J. F. liar
traria, Brigadier General J. S. Brisbain, and
Brevet Brigadier General J. F. Wade.
7. To report for duty to Major General John
Pope, commanding Department of the Mis
souri: Majbr General G. M. Dodge, Major Ge
neral F. P. Blair, Jr„ Brigadier and Brevet Ma
jor General F. Wheaton, rbsadier and Brevet
Major General J. M. Corse, Brigadier and Bre
vet Major General George 11. Chapman, Briga
dier General T. C. H. Smith, Briemlier General
P. E. Conner, Briadier and - Brevet Major
General E. Upton, Brigadier and Brevet Major
General A. Sully, Brigadier and Brevet Major
C
General Charles G. Walcutt, and Brigadier and
Brevet Major General W. L. Elliott.
8. To report for duty to Major General A. H.
Terry, commisiding Department of Virginia :
Major General John Gibbon, Brigadier and
Brevet Major General J. B. Ricketts, Brigadier
and Breve t Major General N. A. Miles, 13riga
elm and Brevet Major General A. T. A. Tor
bett; Brigadier and Brevet Major General N.
M. Curtis, Brigadier and Brevet Major General
D. W. Turner, and Brigadier and Brevet Major
General S. S. Carroll.
9. To report for duty to Major General J. M
Schofield, commanding Department of North
Carolina: Major General George Crook Major
General J. Kilpatrick, Brigadier and 'Brevet
Major General T. H. Huger, and Brigadier
General M. D. Harlin.
- i.e. To report for duty to Major General J. A.
Gilmore, emninanding Department of South
Carolina : Brigadier and Brevet Major Geee
rat A. Ames, Brigadier General J. F. Croxton,
and Brigadier and Brevet Major General Chas.
11. To report for duty to Major General F. B.
Steedman, commanding Department of Geor
gia : Major General F. H. Wilson, Brigadier
and Brevet Major General F. H. King, and
Brigadier General. F. D. Stevenson.
12. To report for duty to Maier General F. G.
Foster„commanding Department of Florida.
Brigadier General F. Newton, and Brigadier
General B. Alvord.
13. To report for duty to Major General H.
W. Slocum, commanding . Department of Mis
dissippi: Major General P. G. Osterhausißriga..
dier and Brevet Major General M. F. Force,
Brigadier General Chas. Ewing, and Brigadier
and Brevet Major General F. W. Davidson.
It To report for duty to Major General C. K.
Woods,. commanding Department of Alabama:
6 ri r i f: l l 6r - Bremt ra lipjar General E. vs, B an %
Brigadier General G. A. De Rusacy.
15. To report for duty to Major General i. -it.
S. Canby commanding Department of Louisi
ana Brigadier General C. H. Doolittle and
Brigadier and Brevet Major General T. W.
Sherman.
M. To report for duty to Major General H.
G. Wright, commanding Department of Texas :
Major General A. J. Smith, Major General F.
Steele, Major General D. S. Stanley, Major
General J. A. Mower,Major General Wesley
Merritt, Major Generl U. A. Custer, Brigadier
and Brevet Major General G. A. Smith, Briga
diet and Brevet - Major General A. Gibbs.
17. To report for duty to Major General J. J.
Reynolds, commanding Department of Arkan
sas and the Indian Territories: Major General
T. J. Wood, Brigadier and Brevet Major Gene
Htl A. S. Williams, Brigadier and Brevet Majdr
General H: J. Hunt, Brigadier and Brevet Ma
jor General Fe A. Carr, and Brigadier General
C. H. Morgan.
Le. To report by letter for duty to major
General Irvin MeDoweil, commanding Depart.
mem of California: Brigadier and BreVet Ma
jor General Edward M. McCook.
19. All oflieers now on duty in the military
division of the Pacific will remain on duty
until relieved by proper orders; all other
general officers not named in this order ex-•
cept those commanding colored troops, those
ml staff duty, and those specially detailed in
orders from the War Department, will be re.
lieved without . delay, and their flatting re-
Ported to the Adjutant General of the army.
Officers herein assigned, who are on duty
under special assignment by the War Depart
ment, will report by letter to their depart
ment commanders, and also to the Adjutant
General, stating the nature of their present
service, number and date of order.
29. Thirty days' leave of absence is hereby
granted to all general officers relieved by this
order.
By command of Lieutenant General Grant.
Official: E. D. TOWNSEND, Asst. Ad't. Gen.
The Hebei Secretary of State
US 111:THOD OF ESCAPE TO HA,VAXA--THE STOICS(
OF HIS ADVESTIIEHS.
A correspondent of the - New - York Trork;
writing from Havana, gives the following
story of the escape from this country of the
rebel Secretary of State, J. P. Benjamin
- • - -
" early in May he separated from the pros!,
Sident (Davis,) near Washington, Georgia, for
the purpose of making his way to Nassau and
Bavaria from some point on the Florida coast.
lie was to attend to some public business at
these ports, and then to rejoin the' president.
in the trans-Mississippi via Matamoras and
Texas. He travelled directly south, through
Georgia and Florida, on horseback, disguised
as a farmer in search of lands on which to set- ,
tle,and passed through the Country without
exciting suspicion or attracting attention,
until he reached the lower side of the Penin
sula of Florida. lie was informed that no
boats were to be found on the eastern coast,
and went thence to the Gulf shore, where
after a month's delay he succeeded in getting
a ship's yawlboat and two men who were
willing to risk their lives upon the sea in it.
The open boat was about fifteen feet in length,
in which they coasted, the peninsula until
they reached one of the keys of the Florida
reef, where they succeeded in procurin g a boat
somewhat larger, but still an open boat, in
which they put , to sea to cross the Gnlf
stream, and fortunately reached the Bimines
upon the Banks, after a passage of sixty
hours. On Mond :Iv, the 10th of July, after
an unsuccessful attempt to reach Nassau, in
which he was balled by headwinds and heavy
weather, Be put back to, the Bimines. On
the 13th he took passage from the Bimines for
Nassau in a small sloop of nine tons hurthen,
loaded with sponges (whieh the greatest ?), and
on Friday, the 14th, this sloop foundered at sea;
when thirty miles distant from the nearest
land. The vessel went down so rapidly that he,
with the colored men who formed the crew had
barely time to jump into a skiff in tow of the
swo) before she sank. In this boat, With a light
mast, sails, and compass, and their only provi
sions a pot of boiled rice, which the negroes had
cooked for their breakfast--in this leaky and
overloaded boat, and having but one oar, they
made for land, and, as the weather was calm
and a vessel in sight, by dint of energetic
sculling, they reached the light-house vessel
at five and were cordially received by
Captain Stewart, en hoard the Georgia, her
Britannic Majesty's light-house yacht, and
were warmly and most cordially entertained.
This vessel was on an official tour of light
house inspection upon the banks, and at the
request of Mr. Benjamin returned him once
more to the Bimines. There Mr. Benjamin
chartered another vessel (sloop) on the 25th of
.Trily, and arrived at Nassau Friday, the list.
On Saturday, the 22d, lie Sailed on 'board the
good schooner Britannia, and arrived at Ha
vana on the 25th, safe and sound.
"His whole trip has occupied the best part
of three months, out of which thirty dayshave
been passed at sea in miserable open boats ; at
least twenty-two days in the smallest crafts
that float. Ills health has not suffered, nor
has lie been indisposed for an hour during all
the hardship and exposure Wkiell he has un
dergone.), ,
[The agent of the Associated Press at Ha
vana denies that Benjamin had such incredi
ble escapes as , those recorded above. As we
have no means of finding which statement is
correct, we print the story and the contra
diction.]
Markets by Telegiraph.
- _
BALTISIonc, August 3.—Wheat is active. Corn
quiet; yellow sells at 94695 e. Flour is firm;
Western and Howard have adVanced
provisions dull and inactive. Whisky firm
and active at $2.27. Coffee steady at ls to 2 134 e,
in gold.
CII ICA GO. August S.—Flour quiet. Wheat dull
at 120@120 1. 4c for No 1, and 107 for No 2. Corn is
dull, and has declined le; sales at 07@f17 , 4e for
No.l, and eth@t6 l ,c for No 2. Oats firm, and ad
vanced 2e ; sales - at 43@4814e. Provisions quiet.
liiglivines quiet. Freights deelised le; cent,
to to Buffalo.
Receipts. iihipments.
FlOUr,barrels 2 00 1,600
Wheat ; bushels 15;000 7,000
Corn, bushels 79,000 175,000
Oats, bushels 9,500 23, 000
l t imw.taticas, August 3.—FlOur quiet. Wheat
quiet at 117@l18c. Oats dull. Freights dull.
Receipts. Shipments,
Wheat, bushels. 0,000 45,000
ANOTHER OCEAN DISASTER
THE STEAMSHIP GLASGOW BUMMED
AT SEA.
ALL THE PASSENVERS ANA CHEW RAYED, AND
NOW IN NEW YORK.
THE CAUSE OF THE FIRS—HOW THE FASSENOEMB
WERE TIIANSPHICRED—rnimutcs OF MIND OF
TR - 3C ONIVICERS-SCENES AND 'INCIDENTS
QuAIIANTINIG, NEW YOEK "[ABHOR, August 3,
7.20 A. M.—On July Stet, when in latitude 40
deg., longitude 68 deg. 23 min. W., the steamer
Glasgow was burnt..
The passengers and crew were' all'saved by
the bark Rosamond, and are now on board the
steamer Erin, which arrived here this morning
from Queenstown.
The Glasgow sailed from New York to Liver
pool, on July 29th:
NEW TORE, August 3.—The following. is a de.
tailed account of the burning of the steamship
Glasgow.
The British steamer Glasgow left Now York
at four o'clock on Sunday morning, July 30,
for Liverpool; with a full freight of cotton,
cheese, ete.,and about:two hundred and eighty
persons, ineludingthe crew.
At Wok:lock on Monday morning the cry was
sounded, " Man overboard P , and a boat was
lowered and efforts made to save him, but
without avail. Ile had come aboard in a state
of delirium tremens, - and had been put in a
straight-jacket by the surgeon; and thus con
fined he rolled himself overboard. The ex
citement caused by this event had scarcely
subsided, when, about 11'. M., the alarm of lire
was sounded in the fore part of the ship, and
all the second class passengers flocked aft
amid the wildest excitement.
Orders were given by the Captain that no
person should get into the boats without per
mission, and that the first man who attempted
to force his way into a boat before all the
women and children had been taken off should
be shot. The order was cheerfully acquiesced in
by all the gentlemen in the first cabin.
A vessel Was Won discovered about eight
miles off, and the Glasgow was at once put
under full head of steam towards her, firing
guns and flying the signal, "I am on fire."
The vessel changed her course, and made
towards the %Glasgow, and in the meantime
Captain Manning ordered his boats to be
lowered, so as to prevent confusion when the
time came to use them. tie then commenced
transferring the passengers to the boats, the
ladies and children first, and then the males.
The friendly bark proved to be the Rosamond,
Captain F. S. Welles, of and for :New York,
who received the passengers and crew of the
Glasgow with the utmost kindness, and bade
them welcome to all he had on board.
After all the passengers and crew had been
- transferred, the removal of the baggage took
place; and then the Glasgow's officers and
crew left, Captain Manning remaining by her
until ten o'clock P. M., when the hull was
wrapped in flames.
The steamer Erin came in sight on Tuesday
morning, at daybreak, and it was deemed pru
dent to transfer the Glasgow's passengers to
herovbich was done, the captain of the Erinre
ceivhig them in the most hospitable manner.
The origin of the fire is variously reported,
one having it that a bale of cotton took fire
from a lighted match thrown upon it by a
st o ee n ra re g ti e et a in s Sge
the e (letc after
of
n E g t
i n: i s -> o i pmee. of
the passengers of the ill-fated ship William
Nelson, were met with, who were exceedingly
anxious to render assistance to the unfor
tunates.
At a meeting of the Glasgow's Passengers,
resolutions of thanks to Captain Mantling and
his °dicers were adopted.
The following is the report of the steamship
Erin:
August 1, 9.30 P. M.—Saw a light on port bow,
supposed to be a 'vessel onfire. At 10.30 P. M.
found it to be an Inman steamer, name un
known, in tow ofa. brigantine. At 10.50 stopped
engines, and sent a boat to a.seertain if there
were anybody on board, and found that the
Passengers and crew bad left in the ships
boats, and that she was in tow of the brig
Martha Washington, of Searsport, from Boston
for New York.
At 4A. N. stopped to pick up a boat with
officers and men, who reported that they be
longed to the steamer Glasgow, on fire, and
that all the passengers and crew were then on
board the bark Rosamond, then in sight. Pro-
seeded to the bark, and took off all the pas
sengers and crew of the Glasgow, about 250 in
all, and brought them to this port.
The cargo of the steamer Glasgow et/Misted
of 76 boxes and 1 tierce of bacon, 1,001 barrels
of bladders, 2,014 boxes of cheese, 218 bales of
hops, 755 bales of cotton, 71 rolls of leather, and
bushels of corn.
Among the passengers in the Glasgow were
Mrs. Mary Campbell, of Baltimore ; V, T. nor
mester and wife, of Philadelphia; Charles A.
Leas, United States Consul at Madeira, and
wife and daughter.
All were saved as before stated.
Mr. }Seward During his IlineSS.
Mr. George Yocke, who attended Mr, Seward,
gives the following account, which is trans*
lated from the Illinois Staals Zeitung:
On the morning after the assassination he
said to his nurses his sensations immediately
after the assault had by no means been of an
unpleasant nature. lie had experienced no
extraordinary pains, but while the blond had
been gushing from his arteries he had sup
posed that Ins last end was nigh, and thought
at the same time what a pleasant thing it Was
to die thus, without pain.
Toward his nurses and toward all who came
near him during his sickness, Mr. Seward was
uniformly friendly, even affectionate ; and
never when awake, did his philosophical firm
ness desert him. Only When asleep he would,
at times, during the first two weeks after the
attack, suddenly startup and beat around with
his hands when dreams brought the assassin
- to his imagination, but in two or three minutes
lie was always quieted.
During the first three weeks Mrs. Seward was
constantly, day and night, at the bedside ei
ther of her husband or that of Frederick, and
these exertions have since hastened the death
of a lady equally distinguished for the excel
lent qualities of her head and of her heart.
No less noble was the conduct of Mr. Seward's
daughter, Miss Fanny, Indeed, it is perhaps
to her courage that her father and the nation
owe the salvation of his life. Like her mother,
Miss Fanny was an untiring attendant upon
her suffering relatives.
The greatest trouble to the physicians was
, Seward's mental activity, which did not abate
even during his greatest physical weakness
and severest pains. In order to prevent all
excitement during this critical period, and on
account of the shattered jaw-bone, the physi
cians enjoined on him not to speak, but it was
difficult to get him to comply.
It was not mere idle loquacity that rendered
silence so irksome to the statesman, but
chiefly his patriotic anxiety about the Re-
Public. He desired to express his mind about
the condition of the country, to fulfil his
official duties as Secretary of State. The at
tending physiMans had prolribiked speaking -
before the attempted assassination, but to ex•
press his thoughts by writing was also Mt•
practicable, as his right arm was broken. But
as soon as the condition of his fractured bones
would allow, the medical gentleman had to
bandage and : fasten the upper third of the
arm (where the fracture existed,) so as
to enable him to use the lower part and
the hand for writing. In this manner
he Conversed with the President during the
last days of that lamented functionary's life.
The President would sit at his bedside and eX
press himself on the exciting questions of the
day, when Seward would write his views on a
slate. In the same manner he conducted his
interview before and after the assassination,
with Mr. Hunter, the Assistant Secretary
State, and thus actually conducted the affairs
of the Department of State, the papers, de
spatches, documents, - ltc., of which had to be
carried to his bedside, even during the criti.
cal periods of his illness.
It was the same patriotic restlessness and
activity of Mr. Seward which prevailed on the
physicians to send for a skilful physician of
New York, who arranged an artificial wire al)
paratue in his mouth, Which enabled him to
sneak without risk, even before his jawbone
was healed. This apparatus caused the illus
trious patriot at first excruciating pains and
at one time became displaced, so that the 'New
York physician had to be telegraphed in order
to replace it. But all these great and little
annoyances did not for a moment disturb
Seward's philosophic intellect nor slacken his
patriotic activity.
Few men in history have evinced such subli
mity of character and strength of mind as
William Henry Seward on his bed of sickness,
surrounded by the terrors of assassination
and conspiracy. He maintained these quail- -
ties even when, after his partial recovery, lie
received the additional blow of the intelli
gence of the detith of his faithful spouse.
DEATH o 1 A FOUT SIDEPTIM HERo,—Coroner_
Collin held an inquest on the body of Michael .
Cummins, who died recently, as was supposed,
from the effects of wounds inflicted by Philip
Clark, during a quarrel. It appeared from a
post-mortem examination,made by Dr. Ro
binson, that Mr, Cummins - mad from conges
tion or the lungs, and not from his injuries.
At the 'beginning of the rebellion &emend en
tered the service of the Government, and was
stationed at Fort Sumpter. He had letters
from Gen. Anderson, from which it appeared
that he fired the first gun at the rebels at the
attack on Fort Sumpter, and also fired the
last shot previous to: the surrender of the fort.
Deceased was a native of Ireland, and leaves
n wife and twc• Y. rimer, of yes
terday/.
NEW YORK CITY.
.Iq - uvr Youu, August 3
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER. BULLONA.
me steamer Be/lona, from London, arrived
at this port to.day. Ifor advices liava been. *at.
ticipated.
TRH STOCK BXCHANGE.
SECOND BOARD.
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90000.. 106 N 100 do 88
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The Cunard freight steamer Tariffs, has ill-
rived from Liverpool.
EVENING EXCHANGE.
At Gallaglietts Exchange toolght gold WAS
quoted at 144%; 'tier York Ventral, 92% Brio,
804 ; Reading, 'lO7 ; Michigan Southern, ;
Pittsb7, ; Rockland; 106%; Northwest
ern 271,, ; horthweStol7i Preferred, at% ;
quiclia Wei., 50N.
THREE CENTS.
The Letter of General Cog.
(From the Clueinuati (tr.) Times.]
General Cox, fresh from travels far and wide
over the Southern States, has no faith in the
visions which perplex some people With re
spect to the negro; and in a letter addressed
to the representatives of this class, deals in a
Soldier-like manner with the issues of the day.
The Convention which nominated General
Cox for Governor of Ohio, adopted aplatform
of which the doctrinal part fa substantially
embodied in two propositions: Ist. "That
slavery and its institutions are: irreconellably
opposed to freedom and free institutions," and
must be finally and completely eradicated;
2d. That President Johnson's policy of recon
struction is "e»dorsed," with the proviso that
the completed restoration of the rebel States
"shall be at such time and upon such terms as
Will give unquestioned assurance or the peace
and security, not only to the loyal people Of
the rebel States, but also of the peace and
Prosperity of the Federal Union."
Upon this declaration of principles, General
Cox grounds arms, reserving only the right to
a free discussion of differences of opinion
within the party lines. "I have always be
lieved," says General Cox, "that adherence to
a Party platform does not exclude freedom of
opinion or discussion upon matters not em
bodied in it, though it does imply that such
discussion should be a free and friendly in
terchange of views with the object of throw
ing all possible light upon subjects which
may sooner or later become topics of impor
tance, and upon which we may have to form
a definite policy. When the time comes for
action, all thoroughly loyal men should agree
to support that policy which the wisdom of
the majority may agree upon, unless it shall
conflict with some principle eonacientlMlSly
held ; in which ease those who so dissent have
the undoubted right to withdraw their con
nection, not from a candidate simply, but, from
the party." A view of the subject, which must
be adMitted just and equitable, and from
which the array of individual opinions ad
vanced, receive - new character and light. Gen.
Coe rebukes the "Oberlin inquisitors" for
their "indecent haste" in wishing to draw
him out upon undefined questions. Being ful
ly committed to the principles of the Republi
can party, he thinks that there was no need of
exacting from him what the Convention re
fused to decide. "You are the only members
of the Union party of the State," he continues,
"whom I have found impatient to commit
your brethren, in advance of the Meeting of
Congress, to a definte a policy, upon a subject
upon which the• Convention had, by strongest
implication, declared it premature to decide
what course ought to be taken. The State
election decides no such issues ; the progress
of events in the South will probably throw in
creased light upon all such questions ;
• yet you
insist that I shall give you my views, not for
the purpose of mutual assistance in arriving
at a solution of a difileulty, but under notice
that the votes of your people will be deter
mined for or against me by my answer. I
think that in so doing you wrong both your
selves and the members of the whole political
organization to which we belong, and to
which you gave a pledge of cordial co-opera
tion upon the platform as adopted through
your delegates, who were present at the con
ventiOn."
Put he does not shirk the ordeal. "For my
self," he declares, "I have no secrets?' and
one would judge so from the manly candor
which marks the explanation lie gives of his
personal views on all the queries put to him. In
• the first place he is for Andrew Johnson and
his policy, "tooth and toe-nail." On this sub
ject he speaks plainly and wisely. Hear him :
I believe that the President is earnestly de
termined to seek the good of the whole coun
try, and of all the rakes in it ; that he has full
Claim to that confidence which we declared
that we reposed in him ; and that what we, as
Union men, cannot succeed in doing in har
mony and co-operation with him and his ad
ministration, we shall fail of doing altogether.
any support of him '
therefore, wilt be no half
hearted- support, but a zealous and thoroughly
hearty CO-1211CMU072 with no ulterior purpose or
thought of separation on issues likely to arise.
it is by the cordial harmony of 'Ur, Johnson
and the Union members of Congress, that the
country is to be carried safely through its
present perils, and division between them
would place us in imminent danger of ship
wreck. We may have diverse opinions as to
the true solution of this knotty problem of re
construction, and during the proper period for
discussion we may and ought to discuss thorn
with candor. with fullness,. and with a tole
rant spirit, but when this is done, and the
timefor action arrives, it will be the
business ofCongress and the Executive
to agree upone the plan to be adopted, and
that which is in this manner honestly
determined by devotedly Union men, I
shall believe, as I have before Said, to be the
best attainable result, whether it agrees with
my views or not. In short, I believe, that un
der no circumstances should we wish the
transfer of the power of this Government to
the hands of those who have been disloyal
during the war, by any division among our
selves, until all the questions which grow out
Of the war are permanently and finally de
cided,
It would be difficult to compress a quarter
of the amount of practical wisdom into so
small a compass. It is clear, to the point, and
sincere. It is the keynote, also, to the entire
policy marked out for the Republican party.
" We may have diverse opinions as to the true •
solution of the knotty problem of reconstruc
tion, and during the proper period for discus
sion, we ought to discuss them with candor,
with fullness, and with a tolerant spirit,"
Who will gainsay it, and who will fail to own
that this is the only fair and reasonable creed
for the unity of a great party? General cox
takes the question of negro suffrage by the
horns. lie is against it. We quote those pas
sages which explain Gen. Cox's position.
Mere be states the case :
You,udging froth this distance, say "De
liver the tour millions of freed people into
the hands of their former oppressors, now em
bittered by their defeat, and they will make
their condition worse than before?' I,starting
from Me same principles, and after four years of
close and thoughtful observation of the races where
they are, say I ens unwillingly forced to the con
vicaon eh ‘d eke effect of the war /to not been
simply to c , embitter their relations, but to de
velop a rooted antagonism which makes their per
manent fusion in one political community an air
solvte
The sole difference between us, then, is in
the degree of hostility we Mid existing be
tween the races, and its probable permanence.
You assume that tile extension of the right of
suffrage to the blacks, tearing Mein intermixed
with the whites, will cure all the trouble. I be
heve that it would rather be like the decisions
in that outer darkness of which Stilton speaks,
where
"Chaos umpire sits.
And by decision more embroils the fray."
Here is hissolution
Yes, as I believe with you, that the right to
life end liberty are inalienable, and more than
admit the danger of leaving a laboring class of
at the entire mercy of those who iortnerly
owned them as slaves, you will say I am bound
to furnish some solution of the problem which
shall not deny the right or incur the peril.
So 1 am, and the only real solution which Lean
ice is the peaceable separation of the races. But,
you reply, foreign colonization will break
down hopelessly under the very vastness of
the labor, even if it were not tyrannical
enough to expel these unfortunate people
from the land of their birth. I grant the lull
weight of the objection, and therefore say the
solution is thus narrowed down to a peaceable
separation of the races on the soil where they
now are.
The unanialgamating quality of the races is
the ground of General Cox's belief, "as during
these four years of war," says he, " I have pon
dered this problem in the intervals of strife,
or by the camp fire at night, I have been snore
and more impelled to the belief that the only
basis of permanent nationality is to be found
in complete homogeneity of people, of man
ners, and of laws. The rapid fusion of the
races of Western Europe, as they have met
upon our shores, has secured the former
of these requisites, anti the Yankee race (I
adopt the epithet as an honorable one)
marked as it is with salient characteristics,
is so complete an amalgamation of all families
from the Eastern boundary of Germany to the
Western coast of Ireland, that there are few of
us in whose veins are not mixed the blood of
several. But this unhappy race of which we
speak does not amalgamate with the rest. It
is entirely immaterial to discuss why it is so
the fact no one can deny; nor can it be denied
that its salvation or its destruction will surely
be worked out in its /amity isolation," Ana he
follows this unquestionable logic, with two ex
pressions which strike us as many unanswera
ble. They are :
Ist. Because there could be no real unity of
people between the Southern whites and Southern
- blacks, it seems manifest that there could be no
Z,otitiealwnitu, but rather a strife for the mastery,
in which the one or the other would go to the wall.
And Ph The struggle forthe supremacy Wetad be
so direct and immediate that the leather reeehouict
be reduced to hopeless subjection or utterly de
stroyed. There is no reason to suppose that
Missouri border ruffianism could never be re
peated on new fields, and the strife once inau
gurated, the merciless war would continue as
long-as the obnoxious race had an existence.
These embrace the spirit and meaning of
General Cox , s opinions, and indicate great sa
gacity and temperance of judgment. His
views are new and will supply food for reflec
tion.
General Cox, lathe treatment of the negro
'question, takes the same line of argument
which has been pursued from the first by the
Times, and his letter is therefore particularly
agreeable tO UP as coinciding with our own po
sition.
It may lose him sOl2lO votes, but in our juda
meat it will Make him ten to one which it, will
cost him.
Fouros Timarna,—Workmen are now busily
engaged in removin g the furniture, scenery,
woodwork, .Re., from the interior of this the
atre, preparatory to its being remodeled AS a
fire-proof building for the reception of the ar
chives of the late rebel klovernment. All the
woodwork, including the dress circle and
private boxes, is to be taken down and care
fully preserved, so that, in case Congress
should - not authorize the purchase, of the
building, it can be transformed. into a theatre
at comparatively little expense, The altera
tions are being made under tile supervision of
Mr. Clark, successor to Mr. Walter, the archi
tect of- the Capitol extension.— Washington
Chronicle of yesterday.
FlwrnninisT ox RATE.—An amusing expe
riment on rats Wiis perpetrated in one of
our large • mercantile houseS On SYOninOre
street yesterday. Two of these animals had
been trapped, and it was decidedlo try the
effect of whiskupon them. " Forty dros"
were administered to each of them. try force,
and the result awaited. They, were placed in
a wide, deep box, into which some trash
and• gravel had been thrown. A saucer of
whisky was also placed therein. For a while
all was Silent, each rat having noted himself
in a corner, where ho i 3 Oitiableaso morose as a
rat could be. ]ly-and-by, however, the liquor
began to work. The rats began to smile and
play with their tails; then to Jump up and
squeak; then to fall down and rid' over. Fi
nally one of them found the saucer, and with
the pcculiax curiosity attaching to the race,
his nOsc int° it. nt dranir, and the nei.t."
.of drinking brought Ida c.oainaldOn
his side. They drank as tingigh they were
really fond of the stuff; and it is estimated took
more than twice "forty drops." And now they
got glorious. They kissed each other—an act
two rats were never gidity of before. They
wrestled, and kicked up shines genera ly.
They revisited the Sanwpr and got mad ozza l t hi
and a roughonii-tx"01" tight ensell,oh
lasted until both were exhausted; - .they ~
remained for a while, each with a paw to his
nose, grinning at the other. k in*ly, both fell
asleep, and, while gloriously unconscious, a
terrier was drappe beside them, and the
curtain fell.—Petersburg Express.
-31 v. siv.v.r, of tbo New Haven Palladium,
has retired from that paper, and given place
to A. J. Train, Neg., formerly , of MO NOW
Haven Morning Courier A. H. Byingtpn, Of
the Norfolk Gazelle,and .A. Croffut, recently
of the Rochester (Pi. T.) Patty 4.drcrOM
TIMID WAR PUMMEL
(PUBLIBREp WEEKLV.)
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The mosey mug ohms aecoMpong the ordisN tint
in no instance can these tererte be derkrted fresh t
they grove very , Mtge inure than the colt of pEPere
Apr Postmaster., are requested - to act as Nrost4
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an extra copy of the paper will be given.
SWATS ITEMS.
—The Harrisburg Ts/sun/ph, of Wednesday,
says! The track-lasers of the street railroad.
have reached Fifth street* and will be at tlic
foot of Market within the next twentyteur
hours. The tracks of Market and Socotra
streets have not yet been connected at the
Square, where a curve is necessary. This work .
will require but a day or two, when the ears
will be enabled to run from Vamp Curtin to
the depot.
At Harrisburg, within the last two months',
twenty-five thousand Pentisylvania soldiers
have been received, quartered, paid off, fur
nished with transportation, and finally dis.
charged from Gump Curtin. During the month.
Or Juno, over one IMritired thousand dollar*
per day wore disbursed by the paymasters at
this post.
A white crane, measuring five feet and
nine inches from tip to tin of wings, weighing
three pounds, and with bill nine inches in
length, was that, a few days since, at the Ash
land Mills dam, In the southern part of Lan
caster county.
3lr. George Straley, of Paradise township,
York county, has a cow which gave birth to six
calves on the 25th ult., put all of them died.
The same cow gave birth to three calves last
winter, which are all living.
—A snake was killed lust week In West
Bradforti i Chester county, which had a horn
or spear about an inch long on its tail. The,
snake was over two feet long, and of a gray
barred Color.
The amount of lumber being landed at
Erie is decidedly large. On Monday nearly
one million feet were delivered on the docks
of that city, mostly from Canada.
On Tuesday forenoon, the ceremony of
breaking ground for the erection of the Pitte•
burg locomotive and ear-works took place in
the presence of a large assembly.
The receipts from Internal Revenue is
Montgomery county for five days of last week—
from the 25th to the 281 , 11 J I A 4II clays inalasava—
amountod to #169389.39.
Several places in the State are already
Preparing skating-ponds for the coming
winter. Reading is agitated greatly.
lion. John Cessna succeeds ex-President
Buchanan as President of the Board of Frank
lin and Marshall College.
The Democratic COlWOlitiOn Of Fulton
county will meet id McConuelsburg on the
11th clay of August.
—A seminary, under the name of the Con
estoga Female Seminary, is to be established.
In Lancaster.
The Allentowners have sent a committee
to Seneca Falls, New York, to contract for tt,
new steam-fire engine.
The quarterly session of the Sons of Tem.
perfume of Pennsylvania commenced at Allen.
town on Wednesday.
The streets of Reading, which wore some
what injured by the recent heavy rains, have
been repaired.-
- A large number of soldiers' letters are
Iging uncalled for In the Pittsburg Post
office.
A split in the Democratic party of Pike
county is expected on the county nomina•
tions.
Tle Titusville driving park is said to be
quite an institution. •
_florae-racing is becoming quite comnion.
in Harrisbtirg,
Pickpockets again trouble Erie,
HOME ITEIKS.
The Jersey City Times of August ed has
the following As one of the horse-cars on the
Jersey City and Hudson City line Was paStiing
the City Hall, having inside nine ladies, fonr
children, end one old gentleman, two or the
city pollee stopped the car and placed in it
four prisoners, and then got in themselves.
The prisoners were dirty, noisy, all manacled
together, and had in their possession a bottles
from which they imbibed between their inter•
vale of cursing and using obscene language.
The ladies were incommoded, disgusted and
insulted; and the little children frightened by
these rude, filthy prisoners. We do not know
the number of the car, or the names of the
policemen, or we Welliti publish them.
—An exciting controversy is now pending
in Chicago relative to the anal disposition of
the funds of the recent Sanitary Fair. A
strong feeling exists in the community in
favor, of the appropriation of all the money
raised by the fair to the erection of a perma
nent Soldiers , Home, where all sick, crippled.
or otherwise disabled veterans of the War
from the Western States may be preperly
taken care of.
Respecting the purchase of the Barnum
Museum property by Mr. Bennett, of the
Herald, it is now stated that the amount paid.
to Mr. Barnum for his unexpired lease OR
twelve yearS WAS 4 3 °00,0 0 0. Tile sum paid to
Mrs. Sargent for the tee was ssoo,eso ) maU - ing
$lOO,OOO for a little more than 5,500 square feet
of land, which is at .the rate of more than UK
a foot.
Parson Brownlow • says he agrees witlt
these who are horrified I)s' t , lle execution of
Mrs. Suratt. Rut the terrible thing is not
merely that a woman should be hung, but that
a woman should do a deed meriting hanging.
In his opinion, a she•devii .is as much to be
dreaded, and as properly..subject to punish..
went, as one of the otheusex,
—A pew betel, to accommodate tli 3 O t/101/4
sand guests, is to be erected at Saratoga, Ont
the site of the United..Btates, recently de
stroyed by fire. The structure is to be of
brick, five stories high,' and will cost about
$100,04 . 0. it will not be completed before July
of nest year.
A German saloon-keeper in Hartford
wishes to DO M; his customers that bis rule is
Positively s no trust hero," and has Wit IV Jit
sign with this intelligent inscription: " Boit.
devele Nodrusehedr."
A movement is on foot in the Army of the
Tennessee to raise funds for the erection of a
suitable monument over the grave of that good
and gal/ant soldier, Major General McPherson.
at Clyde, Ohio.
The new theatre at Boston is at last to be
started. The work is to begin immediately:
The structure will be of brick, and fashioned
much after the style of Niblo , s Garden, New
York.
The rage at Newport this season iscoaelk•
men and footmen, to an extent never indulged
in before, In most all cases their livery is Ot
the most costly and luxurioue character.
— ,, Arrah-na-Pogue” will probably hold tha
boards at Niblo's until the middle of Septem.
ber, when, it is said, Edwin Forrest begins en
engagement.
A Western paper reports a combination
among the Eastern paper-dealers to rain UM
prices, by working half-time.
The city of Columbus, Georgia,
,is still It
melancholy ruin, but the people are slowly re•
sliming work,
Champ Ferguson is accused of, sticking
corn-husks in the wounds of his victims, te,
torture them.
The llorge Railroad Company of Dri4ge•
port, Ct., intends to have ears running this
fall,
Mary Harris, the murderess, is going to
live with her parents.
Admiral Stewart has been in the navy
Sixty-eel - en yew's.
trey I.M.c a gonuino Irish Jallilthig 7 par in
Bridgeport, Conn.
—Hay has fallen from NO to SOO per ton In
Connecticut.
The " waterfall" is going out of fialltion aL
Saratoga ,
There arc afteen thousand scadiora at
Alempb is.
• Alabama lost seventy thousand men 111 the
war.
The Delaware peach crop will be small
1 ; 011E/Clitt ITEMS.
Alexandre Mums figures as the hero of
another story. lie advertises) g leeture on the
lute poet Jasnain—the last of the Troubadours
—but found at the last moment that he knew
nothing about his subject. Braving all risks,
he wrote to his son to ask for the groundwork
for the lecture. Between father and son no
love is lest:, as is proved by the epigrammatic
nickname of "Le ,pere prodigliqi which the
great Alexandre reecds - ed from its son. Oil.
this occasion Alexandre the Less was sulky,
and sent back a message to the effect that 11
the father must lecture; he hat better tie so
about something which, he understood—him
self, fOr instance. Tho father took the (tint,
and delighted the 'l3ordeitais With au unitising
sermon, the text of which was Jasmillt the
Poet, and the subject Alexandre the Romancer.
—The Queen of England has had a neat
tombstone placed over the grave of a servant,
mimed Greyer, ituteiy an assistant in the Royal
Librav at Windsor Saistictwhile, a weave of
immorteites, which was pIEWP4 Olprp her
own o hand s,
hands, lies (enclosed, iri sssuare glass
case) su rrounited by flowers, upen,the turf of
the tomb.
At a national Russian exhibition of indus
try, Just opened at Moscow, one, of the curi
osities, among the fifteen thosand articles
displayed, Is is large portrait' or 'Peter the
Great, made up of , 'many-co:well Inciter
snatches. It is contributed by a, W ‘ arsaw, dew:
The Empress is very angry with the, ,
Princess Ciotiide for dismiseing the Duchess,
(PAbrantes from her service. cloidde is saucy
and intinieildent'
There aro. one tbouiand laborers at Pre.,
sent employed on the Spanish frontier Ikea..
tang the tunnel for the railway through, the
Pyrenees.
The Emperor has ordered the Ara,b. reli
gion to be respected anti put on a footing with
the Cathblie 111141 rrOtestgrit,
Fifty thousand idiots or imbeclino ANN sup.
posed to exist in Great Britain.—iiimetak
per,
The opera of "LiAfrienine" is proAonneed
so tiresome that Paris no longer goes to. 54e it.
The French Emperor is going to knife a
black regiment from Africa.
Eight hundred ("tenths per (tv t. 4. Cairo,
Egypt, of cholera.
great many more,—?Mbr,