THE PRESS, pm:I9MM DAILY (Str:VRAYS EXCETTED) NV JOHN W. FORRET. 0110 E, No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE DAILY PRESS, o !City Subscribers, is Eli:Aril. DOLLARS PER In adVallee; Or FIFTEEN CENTS FEB irop, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to Sub -o,:ribers Out of the City, SHWEN DOLLARS FEB A ocrsi: TESKE DOLEARS AND si FIFTY CENTS FOB x MONTHS: ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-4TM 6;2ENTS FOR THREE MONTHS, Ilreatlably 1Q advance Cor the tine ordered. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. TRI.WEEHEY PRESS, Sailed to Eubseribers, Fault DOLLARS PER AN !sof, 1p SEVallee„. #(l"}ljt Vrt,ss. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1865 THE JEWS. Advices received at the State Department, yesterday, froha our Consul at Malta, states that the cholera is raging there to a fearful extent. Communication with the adjacent islands has been suspended. A strict quaran tine bas been established, and every precau tion taken to prevent this terrible disease hem spreading. At Odessa quarantine IS also :rif,idly enforced, in consequence of the 0 . 0- demie raging at Constantinople. It is feared that, despite all precautions, the contagion , T read westward. Our Consuls at Trieste !Jul Messina have despatched the Govern molt in regard to -measures that have been : 0 4 ipled to prevent the spread of cholera from rapt The Government of Sicily has ordered tbat no vessels coming from Egypt, or other plavCs it here the cholera prevails, shall come i n to pert. On the 211th of June, however the french tuall steamer Copernie euteredportbe fare the authorities had time to prevent her, sad the people becoming enraged, set lire to the health Once. At Trieste rigid regulations have been adopted in the hope of protecting the people of that town, and of Central Europe. News from the River Platte to June 25th has been received. A severe naval engagement het , * eon the BraZilian fleet and eight rare ..aasaa steamers and floating 'batteries took Place on c3IIIIC llth,at Riehuelo,just below Cor_ yielltes, On the river Parana. The Brazilians „ e re victorious. The town of San Borfa, on me river Uruguay; had been captured by the l.aravayartS, Who, it is reported, put the en tire arazilhui garrison to death. The Union State Convention or Maine met in Portland yesterday. Upon the first ballot for Governor, Samuel A. Cony, the present in. di mbent of that ofriee, was nnanimouslynomi nate& The Convention was addressed by ion. John Rice, and Colonel Sutherland of Ten. ne,see. A series of ten resolutions were also unanimously adopted, endorsing the policy of President Johnson. The Convention then ad. jeurn ed. A Washington gentleman who was in Alex andria when Mosby was captured, says that' t he presence of this noted outlaw occasioned much indignation among the soldiers on duty in that city. He (Mosby) came from Warren. ton to be admitted as a member of the bar, but General Wells considering that he had broken his parole, ordered his arrest. it is probable that the Society of Friends of ibis City will be represented in the Commis sion appointed to - meet the Cherokee, Chicka saw, :Ind other Indian tribes, on the first of :. , epteniber. It is the object of the Govern- Bleat to secure peace among them by remov ing some of the causes which have heretofore provoked hostilities. The BalrOwule horse "Fleetwing" won the _seat three-Mile race yesterday at Saratoga. , Captain Moore" was badly beaten on the second heat. Time, 5.3 . 1% and 5.42. The selling 'ace of one and a half mile was won by Throgs. reek. Time, 2.42. Georgetown Heights, which was selected as -the saminer residence for the Presidert and family, has been deemed too far from the :Executive Mansion. A preference having teen expressed for the Old Soldiers' Home, it i. probable that it will be fitted up for their reception. A thorough search has been made in the waters in the neigl,l,orbooti of Fortress Toe for the Aearaer Effort, which is reported as leaving New York under suspicious eir romAnnees. She cannot be found. 10, -, by. the guerilla, who was arrested on IVednei,day night, in Alexandria, is still in custody. lt is thought that he will be released en condition that lie quietly remains at his tome, in Fauquier county. In many sections of Wisconsin and Minneso ta. the quilt crop Eats been 'badly injured by Marc rains. On Monday night a severe hail- Kona extended over numy counties of Wis. toikda, doing great damage. The receipts from customs for July are said °Le ten millions of dollars ; and those for the resent month considerably larger in propor- :on. At the port of _New York, five-eighths of •le revenue has been collected. • A Sale of Government horsos and mules took - place at Fortress Monroe on the Bth. horses told from $7 to $l - 15, and mules from t to 10. The sale was continued on the Bth, The work of raising the Cumberland, onna site Fortress Monroe, is soon to be resumed, although the jumps have not as yet been re- paired. atrz , tract of an important decision of At torney General Speed, in relation to the trial of the assassins, will be found in our Washing :co despatches. At a serenade given to Adjutant General shumas last evening, at Elmira, New York, tie general announced himself in favor of the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine. The tout of the late Col. Dablg,ren has been I‘,-.:ovurea from one Charles Davis, of Matthews ttniy, Virginia. The arrest of Davis has tin oidered In another column Will be found a full re. Tort of the Buse-bull match yesterday after.. 110011, hot ween the Actives, of. New York, and tLt Athletics, of thi.! / eity. Siure July 20th nearly •ten thousand men, prim:1111111y from Ne w_York, Pennsylvania, and. I . %l liirailuelts, have been mustered out of the The White House was yesterday again be "z:(VAll,y crowds of visitors, one third of the .tumber being women. hand Gregory, who was to have been exe (zed this morning for murder, has been re- Eined until September 22d. The funeral of, the late Bishop Potter will place this afternoon. Full particulars ' , 311 I,L fmmdiu our local columns, Th e very latest reports from Aspy Bay, dated Evening„say that there. were no signs of 6reat Eastern. defaketion amounting, to $50,000 is report- In the Plicenix Bank of Nen- York. The YCIS%lig teller has been arre*tecl, L. P. Di Cesnola, of New York, has been ap- , i.inted by the President Consul at Cypress ; d it. F. Farrell. of Ohio. Consul at Cadiz. The Flour market continued firm yesterday. l: cie WaS not much Wheat offered ; it main tdued its former priCes. Corn sold at 97@BRe ; t'at at ZiOe for new, and 70e for old. Cot• n. 41 brenght 4i:e. Refinery Sugar was quoted and white ifai - ana at 11%—all gold. Whii47.y Was dull. The market continued inactive vester fh,m!'• Government loans were in moderate de with some slight improvement in especially for the five-twenties. Rail z-haree and bonds were very dull; and the , haneaus stocks were inactive. buai closed in New York last night at 142. • THE 11E10131.MM\ OF OUR ARMY. b- Stated that on the 'first of May one and fifty thousand Men were en `•;10-1 in our army. Already more than eveil hundred thousand have been dis ]g,T.;;ed, and of these, four hundred thou- VI hare been , fully paid off, The remain three hundred thousand are en route for :iferent rendezvous, where paymasters, •with sufficient funds, await their and they will very soon be mustered fifthe service. It is evident that a coin /Alai:ll4 degree of alacrity has been tits in reducing our army to the lowest aarti compatible with national safety; it is gratifying to reflect that the extra 4:iaftry success of the national loan en ,Ai the Treasury Department to supply the money necessary to promptly defray ':e well-earned claims of our soldiers. As :,ivy has simultaneously been diminished l' the sale of many superfluous vessels, he discharge of officers and sailors, an `''P `lts., reduction in the current ex 4ndithre of the Government has al been effected, and they cannot now I Ltleh in excess of the current reve 'll'. We are rapidly getting back to peace footing, and nothing but he 6 Ying struggles of the pro-slavery par of the South; and the hostile spirit manifest, prevent an immediate reduc -4 of the army to one hundred thousand: It-mot l p ro b a bl y the 10 West standard will ever reach. hereafter. The elasticity the industrial, social, and political fabric „the liepublic is admirably illustrated, 1 "e by the rapidity withwhich we trans a million of peaeeful citizens into Itt•pid soldiers, anti the ease with which l . l etorious conquerors are restored to No other nation could have --ell such an army in such au incredibly " , rt space of time, or; having raised it, t• i il have quietly paid off and disbanded without endangering the whole frame '4 of society. Thousands of our vete have already resumed their old . ts as contentedly and as industriously II they had never been temporarily ; and those who have been in- Ly a restless thirst for novelty end ad • in the opport nni ties and openings o; `.'tied by the Southern States, by our ~,;eoo.rt, or by o the great new Western '• mi d a Silver mining territories, ample yment for all their energies. I :op . .AF • lill3 • L.- . ) poi I lit a gic. • _ " - Hai „I/ ••• "• •" t' r _ . • _ - _ _ Atto, VOL. D.-NO. 10. THE KENTUCKY ELECTION The late canvass in Kentucky furnishes an interesting indication of the probable nature of the future political struggles in the Southern States. As a majority of her citizens were loyal at the ontsct of the re bellion and throughout the conflict on the issue of Union and secession, so a majority favor now the legal extinction of slavery, and an entirely new industrial reorganiza tion on a free-labor basis. Many of her citizens, nevertheless, sympathized with and actively aided the secession movement ; and so a large minority now seem deter mined to cling with bitter tenacity to every remaining relic of slavery, and to thrOw every possible obstacle in the way of its final destruction. The Louisville lowinal, of the 7th inst., the morning of the elec tion, thus defined the issues involved : The struggle to-day is between light and darlimess, between progresSityld retrogression, between squalid, decaying, inanimate pover ty, and 'robust, buoyant, abounding prosperity and wealth. " The struggle is both national and local. By adopting the amendment, Kentucky will place herself alongside of and in sympathy with the noble army of the great, thriving, elastic com monwealths that have saved the Republie from dismemberment, and the land front endless in ternecine strife ; in sympathy with nationality, the genius of republican institutions, the spirit of the age, the advance of liberal ideas and en lightened government the world over. By adopting the amendment to-day,Kentucky will disappoint the hopes and 'bailie the designs of the disaffected toward our Government in every State where the poison of disunion may yet lurk. The adoption of that measure will be emphatically a blow struck for the Union, One and indivisible, now and forever. It will be the success of patriotism and principle, as against faction .and demagoguery. It will give the the finishing blow to the revolt, and gracefully finish up the war for the Republic. It will prevent the formation of a new secession party. It will extinguish the last hopes of treason, and insure the success of those statesmanlike measures for restoring self-government to all the Southern States for which the honest people in them are pray ing with almost bated breath. It will array the great mass of liberal men in all the States on the side of a wise, broad, progressive con servatism that will be able to shape the desti nies of this country long after many of the actors in this day's work shall have passed from the theatre of action. Remember, we make history to-day. Is there a man among us who does not wish a glorious record on the side ofprogress,harmony,natiotdity I Remember, friend, that all the waters of the ocean cannot wash out the record you make for yourself between this day's rising and setting sun. Your children and posterity will point to and' sit a judgment upon it. Have a care for the verdict they will pronounce upon your vote. "The struggle is local also. Its results must come directly home to the pecuniary interests of every man, and affect the prosperity of the entire community. Every business man in. Louisville and throughout the State has a di rect and powerful interest in the success of the Constitutional Amendment. This we have made evident in former articles. It must be apparent to every thinking man: As things now are, it is;admitted on all hands that what is called slavery here is a monstrous nuisance, an utter abomination. a curse to the whites and a curse to the blacks._ Masters and mistresses are responsible for their servants, yet have no control over them, and 110 benefit from them. %Try one knows, too, that there can be, in the very nature of things, no improvement as long as the present legal status of the negro remains. Remove that status by relieyingt the master and - mistress from any responsibility; and the negro must at once take care of himself. If lie is idle or insolent, he can be at °nee discharged. His master will no longer be bound to take care of hint in sicknesss, pay his doctor's bill, or bring up and support his children. In his place white laborers will come. From colder and more inhospitable climates, from Europe and the -North, a in altitude of hale and active Persons will dock to our delightful and healthy borders, wing . a new stimulus to all kinds of business them energy, intelligence, and in dustry, developing our great mineral, agrieul tural, and manufacturing resources, increasing the value of our lands and other property, and making Kentucky what nature designed her to be—the' very garden spot of the great West, teeming wi nil population, life, happiness, and plenty, and not a discordant note to disturb the harmony of the swelling joy r On the other hand, the appeals of the Democratic press were made to the pre judices of the people—to their antagonism 'to Republicanism, and their regard for local rights. The voters were warned to beware of the dangers of a consolidation of the Gtovernment, and an interference by Congress with their domestic institu tions, etc. We must expect similar ap peals, but in most instances more strongly tinctured with Calhounism and ultra State Rights doctrines from the reactionary and pro-slavery partisans 111,0 the Southern States hereafter. A salutary restriction, devised by the Le gislature of Kentucky several years ago, called the Expatriation Act, doubtless as sisted the Union men materially in the re cent contest. It provided that any person who entered into the civil or military ser vice of the Confederacy by that act expatri ated himself, and could not regain his civil rights in the State, "except by Permission of the Legislature _by a general or special statute." Governor BRA3ILETTE, on the 19th of July issued a proclamation enjoin ing a strict observance of this act, and pre scribing the following oath for all persons challenged for a violation of its provisions : OATH.-You do solemnly swearthat you have not, since the 10th day of April d , h 302, been in the service of the so-celled Confeerate States, or in the Provisional Government of Ken tucky, in either a civil or military eapaeltN', and that you have not given, directly or nub, rectly, voluntary aid and assistance to those - in arms against the Governmentoof the United States or the State of Kentucky, or those who were intending to join the armed forces of the so-called Confederate States, and that you will bear true and faithful allegiance to said Go vernments of the United States and State of Kentucky, so help you God, THE Timoic men of Maine, at their Con vention yesterday, cordially endorsed the policy of ANDREW JOHNSON for the reor 7 ganizac.ion of the Southern States, and in sisted that the Constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery should be adopted by all the " wayward sisters " who apply for admission into the Union. THE F.IIVIRE CiTy.—A writer of a communi cation to the New York Post of last evening says: "lly all means let us have a - Barnum show of fat women, three-legged wonders, idiot ne grccs, and wax Bgures, but it is a disgrace to the city—the Empire City—that it has no um seem. - E ven Philadelphia—that little village On the Delaware—has what is worthy of the a lame." We are glad to see that the "Empire City 17 has discovered that Philadelphia possesses something she has not. She shouid follow the example of the "little village on the Dela. ware," and have a Atnsezna. The Directors of the Academy Nataral Seionena will doubt• less kimily receive, well treat, and/to/met any committee the "great and civilized city" may think proper to send to Philadelphia. —tiOVelnor Fenton has oppOinlall Ed.: ward Liana, who bas been Deputy Superintend ent for fourteen years, Superintendent of the Banking Department of the State of New York. The Waterville (Maine) College has con ferred the degree of LL.D. on Major General Howard. Ex-Sem•tor William C. Itives, of Virginia, whose application for pardon was tiled a few days since in the Attorney General's office in Washington, has received from the President permission to visit the North during the pen dency of his application. The emaditionsof the permit are that Mr. Rives shall report and give his parole to General Van Alen, at the residence of the latter, on the Hudson. The forty members of the French Academy count amongst them no less than five octoge narians, ten septuagenarians, and thirteen sexagenarians. The oldest member on the list is M. I'l4lllllot, wh6 was born in 1117, snd is, cenSequently, in the 88th year of his age; the next in seniority are M. de Segur, 95 ; M. de Palmate, 83; M. Dupin, 82; 31. Lebrun, 80; 31. Gnizot, 78; the Due de Droglie, 78;'M. Vine main, M. de Lamartine, M. Empis and M. nerryer, each 75 5 M. de Pongerville and M. Cousin, 73; dr. Patni, 73 ; 111 Plenrstis, 71. The youngest member of the Academy, as well as the last elected, is M. Prevost Paradol, There are rumors that General Joseph E. Johnston, of the late rebel army, is willing to accept the position of snperintendent of some Seattlicim railroad, and his name is mentioned in connection with that position on the Dan ville road. Major General Sherman is spending a fern days with his friends at his birthplace in Lan caster, Ohio. . Tits D OI'ISLEpAy Corivr wtts organized en the '2.:fth of January, istii; and not in 18W, as we in- advertentlystated yesterday. important Bank Defalcation ha New virin7 THOrg AND DOLLAP,S ABSTri,,v - TED ttost TnE ruutsix BANK—ARREST OP TILE roa-ma Henry B. Jenkins, a genteely-dressed man, folly-fire years of age, for many years the teller of the Phenix Bank, was ar thiLt mornine,, at Mir-Past two O'clock) talker McCarty, of the Twenty-ninth pre cinct, on complaint of Mr. John Parker, the onshier of the Bank, who charges hint with lAlhg a defaulter in the sum of fifty thousand lir. 'Parker, in his affidavit made before Jus rc,;l.:-thrith, of the Jeffergon Market POI tee Bthliss that the accused adtuited his Imt oirerea no excuse. Jenkins was com mittcd ror an examination, whieh will take place this afternoon,--Express, last evening. WASHINGTON. SPREADING OF THE CHOLERA WESTWARD. IMPORTANT DESPATCHES FROM OUR CONSULS THE GUERILLA MOSBY STILL IN CUSTODY Important Decision of Attorney General Speed Respecting Civil and Military Courts. W..kattIN6TON, August 10,18(5. (Metal Reports about the cholera. Attviees received at the State Department. to-day from the American Consul at Malta, state that the cholera is raging there to a fear ful extent. Communication with the adjacent islands has been suspended. A strict quarantine bas been established at Malta, and other precautions have been adopted ro stay the progress of the disease. Qttarantine is also rigidly enforced at Odessa in consequence of the malignity of the epi (Mille at Constantinople. Malta is in constant communication with England by lines of steamers, and it la possible that the contagion may now spread rapidly westward. Our consuls at Trieste and Messina have sent despatches to the Government at Washington in - regard to measures that have been adOpted to prevent the spread of cholera from the ports to which it has extended from Egypt. The Consul at Messina says, under date of the eth of July, that the Government of Sicily has decreed that DO vessels coming from Egypt or other plaees where cholera exists shall be admitted to the port. Supplies, if needed, Spill be taken on the roads several miles away. On the 29th of June, however, the French mail steamer Copernie, from Alexandria, came into the port before the authorities bad time to prevent her, and the people becoming infuri- ated, set fire to the Health Office. The public health at Messina was good, but many families had left the city in alarm. Several cases of cholera were reported at Malta. At 'an the Mediterranean ports the greatest care is taken to avoid the introduction of it, or to limit its ravages. • At Trieste a series of rigid regulations has been adopted by the maritime Government, in the hope of protecting the people of that town and of Central Europe. Military Tribunals vs. Civil Courts— Opinion of the Attorney general. The Attorney General, in response to an in. quiry of President JouNsox, whether the per sons charged with the offence of having assas sinated the late President, could be tried be_ fore a military tribunal or a civil court, gave a written opinion, which has just been printed, sustaining the former mode of trial. It maintains that a military tribunal exists under and according to the Constitution in time of war; that the law of nations consti tute a part of the laws of the land, and that the laws of war constitute the greater part of the law of nations. The laws of war autho rize human life to be taken without legal pro cess, or that legal process contemplated by those provisions in the Constitution that are relied. - upon to show that military judi cial tribunals are unconstitutional. The law of nations, which is the result of the experience - and wisdom of ages, has decided that jayhawkers, banditti, Vic., are offenders against the laws of nature and Of war, and as such are amenable to the military. Our Constitution has made these laws a part of the law of the land. Obedience to the Con stitution and to the law then requires that the military should do their whole duty. They must not only meet and fight the enemies of their country in open battle, but they must kill or take the secret enemies of the country, and • try and execute them - according to the laws of war. The civil tribunals of the coun try cannot rightfully interfere with the mili tary in the performance of their high, ardu ous. and perilous, but lawful duties. The Attorney Uencral characterizes booth and his associates as secret but active public enemies, and concludes with the opinion that "If the persons who were charged with the assassination of the President committed the deed as public enemies, as I believe they did, (and whether they did or not is a question to be decided by the tribunal before which they are tried,) they not only can but ought to be tried before a military tribunal. If the per sons charged have offended against the laws of war, it would be palpably wrong for the military to hand them over to the civil courts, for it would be wrong, in a civil court, to con vict a man of mtirtief who had, in time of war, killed another in battle?' The White House still Besieged by Crowds The Executive Mansion was again besieged to-day by a large crowd of visitors, One-third of them being women. The President opened his °dice to all of them at the same time, and paid attention to their respective calls on business, aided by his private secretary. The most importunate of the throng presented matters of the least importance, some of them baying previously been unsuccessful with the heads of departments. Several ex-members of the United States Congress, who were pro minent in the rebel service, waited in the ante-room, in order to obtain a private inter view with the President after the, crowd had retired. The Centemplated Treaty with the Indians. It is probable that the Society of Friends of Philadelphia will be represented on the com mission appointed to meet the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and many other Indian tribes, in grand council, on the Ist of Septdmber. The object of the Government is to secure peace among them by improving their social condi tion, and by removing, as far as possible, some of the causes which have heretofore provoked them to hostilities. Whe Proposed New P.xsentive Mansion. Georgetown Heights, selected as a summer residence for President Jonsnox and family, has been deemed too far from the Executive office by the President. The family having 'expressed a preference for the old Soldiers' Home, it is probable that place will be fitted up for theft; reception . The Guerilla Mosby. The guerilla leader, Drossy, who was arrested last night inAlesandria,immediately upon his arrival in the train from Culpeper, is still held in custody. The subject is under advisement to-day, and it is believed will be disposed of by the release of Mossy on condition that lie remains at his home in Faugnier County and minds his own business. A gentleman of this city who was in Alex. :nutria yesterday, .says that Colonel John S. Mosby attracted a crowd wherever he made his appearance, and his presence occasioned much indignation among the Soldiers on duty in that city. He came down from Warrenton to be admitted as a Member of the bar, but General Wells arrested him on the charge of his having broken: his parole. The Colonel briefly but respectfully controverted this point, and the General telegraphed to the Se cretary of War for instructions, Receipts from Customs The receipts from customs for July are re presented to be ten millions of dollars, and those for the present month much larger in proportion. Five-eighths of the revenue are collected et the port of New York. Troops Mustered Ont. Since July 20th there have been mustered out of service here nearly ten thousand men, principally of Pennsylvania, Now York, and Massachusetts. But very few remain in this oepartment to be discharged at present. consuls Appointed. The President has appointed L. P. Di C ESNS,- L.A, of New York, Consul at Cyprus, and R. P. l'Annsti., of Ohio, Consul at Cadiz. Aditataut General Thomas on the Mon. roe Doctrine. laminA, N. Y., August'lo.—Adjutant General Thomas Was Serer' ailed here to-night. fie said, among other things, "We are now in Qom ition to hold our own against the world. The Monroe doctrine must be enforced. Maxim'. bin must get out of Mexico or we will hurry him out)? Troops in the State of Virginia. The following is a copy of an official list of the regiments in Virginia, showing the dis tricts in which they are located : IA.3171(1 of Ilenrieo, ?Vidor General Turner.- 11th United States Infantry, Ist Battalion 12th United States Infantry, 20th . New York State Alifitia Bth and 11th Maine Volunteers, 24th Massachusetts Vol an Leers, 4th Massachusetts Cavalry ; Battery L, 4th - United States Artil lery. Rieleinond, Major General Gibbon.-21th Army Corps, 10th Connecticut, 89th and 100th New York Battery F, sth United States Artillery ; Battery B. Ist United Mates Artillery; Com pany I, Sit MaseaChusells Heavy Artillery; 9th Company unattached Maine 'Volunteers ; Ist Maryland Cavalry ; Company C, 11th Pennsyl rattle Cavalry. District of Southwestern Virginia, Major Gene ral o:retd.—:)Sth New York, 11th Connecticut, Sib Connect lc ut, aith Pennsxlvania l 112th Penn sylvania ; Buttery A, sth United otates District of Southeastern Virginia Brigadier General Morris.-Ist New York Militia tid New Hampshire, 90th New York, 19th Wis consin, stlt Maryiand. Di,Oriet of AUtteneag, Molar General Riodsuff.- srilli renlThylYania, 41st mail 10 6 e\V York, 01n West 'V oh United States (Adored Troops, 112th Pennsylvania, 2d Penn sylvania II cavy Artillery. District of Fortress Monroe, Major Generel 3liles.-9th Virginia, 81st New York,lo4th Penn sylvania, 99th 111inots,152d Pen it sylvan la; Com pany A, Ist Loyal East Virginia; 20th Com pany, 21.1 'Battalion V. h. U.; ad Pennsylvania Tleavy Artillery, Ist District Columbia Ca- District of Rota Anna, Briguaicr 6an cra V Doti es: OatOhici,llth. Perlusylyiuda.,;,:;!. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1865. FORTRESS MONROE. Recovery of Colonel Dahlgren's Coat Pennsylvania Soldiers en route Home. etc. FORTRESS MONROE, August 9.—lnformation having been recoil - eclat headquarters that the coat of the late Colonel Dahlgren was in the hands of Charles Davis, of Matthews county, Va., an order was issued to Lieutenant S. J. Towson, Provost Marshal at Camp Hamilton, to go an d secure it. The Lieutenant according ly left last Sabbath, and on landing on the farm of one Barney Weston, on North River, was treated very rudely and disgracefully by the inhabitants, and by Weston in particular, who informed the Lieutenant and his men that they lived under civil law now, and would not have the military there ; and spoke con temptuously Of Other Union officers. They, however, ascertained that Mr. Davis had moved to -Norfolk, and last night the Lieutenant succeeded in obtaining the Colo nel's coat. It has five bullet holes in it. Weston's arrest is ordered. The sth and ad Pennsylvania Cavalry, re cently consolidated, arrived this morning from Richmond, on steamers Vinehind, Nor folk, Clyde, and Charles Osgood, en route for Philadelphia, to be mustered out. Colonel it. M. West is in command. Steamer Edward Everett arrived from New York, bound to Richmond. Schooner John B. Ford arrived fronfl3alti more. The sale of Government horses atairinules commenced yesterday. HorSes sold:from $7 to $175; mules from $3O to $OO. One li4ndred and thirty of the former and fifty of th4latter were SOld, The sale was continued to-day. IL thorough search has been made - for' the steamer Effort, which bps been reported as leaving New York under suspicious eireum• sttnees. She is not in these waters. The pumps have not yet been repaired, but the work of 'lasing the Camberland will soon be resumed. THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAR. A Naval Engagement between the Bra zillan and Paraguayan Fleets—The Former Victorious. Rzw Tons, August 10.—The steamer Salta.% which arrived at this port to-day, brings news from the River Platte to June 29th, giving an account of a severe naval engagement between the Brazilian fleet and eight Paraguayan steamers and floating batteries, which took Place on June 11th, at RlOlll6lO, just below Corrientes, on the River Parana. The greatest bravery was displayed on both sides, and the slaughter was fearful. The victory was claimed by the Brazilians. The town of San Borfa, on the River Uru guay, had been captured by the Paraguayans, who, it is said, put the entire Brazilian garri son to death. Maine Polities. TIRE r:NION STATE CONVENTION-RENOMINATION OP GOVERNOR CONEY POUTLAIra, August 10.—The Union State Con vention- met here to-day at ten o'clock. The attendance was large, with a full representa tion from the whole State. The Convention was organized by the election of Hon. John A. Peters, of Bangor, as President, assisted by a Vice President from each county; and E: Rowell, Alden Sprague, and W. H. Wheeler, as 6ccretarfes. A committee on resolutions was appointed At half-past eleven A. M. a ballot was taken for Governor. The whole number of votes was 564, of which Samuel Cory, the present Governor, received 553 ; and he was declared unanimously nominated. The Convention was then addressed by lion. John Rice, and Colonel Sutherland of Tennes see. The Convention also adopted, by a unani mous vote, a series of ten resolutions; en dorsing the policy of President Johnson, sug gesting that it is the duty of the Govern ment to keep the rebellious States under pro visional government for the time, and insist ing on their adopting the constitutional amendment as a basis of reconstruction; re commending the trial and punishment of Jeff Davis in advance of the subordinates of the late rebel Confederacy ; proposing an amend ment to the United States Constitution to se cure an equality of representation in Con gress ; asserting that the negroes have earned their freedom • announcing their gratitude to' the army and navy; and endorsing the. Ad ministration of Governor Corp The Convention then adjourned. The pro ceedings were very harmonious. HARRISBURG. The Execution of Gregory Postponed. HARRISBURG, August 10.—David Gregory, whose execution was to take place in Philadel phia to-morrow, has had his time extended until - Mel:2d of September. Developments have been made in this city, showing the fact that certain dishonest parties in Philadelphia have managed to get a large sum of money from the mother of Gregory, on the plea that they could procure his pardon. The character of these parties is such as to render them entirely • powerless with the Governor, and, of course, their representations to the afflicted mother have been basely false. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. NO NEWS ON THE GREAT EASTERN ASTI,: BAY, August 10, 0.30 - P. 2.1. —Up to this hour there are no signs of the steamer Clara Clarita, which is expected to bring news of the arrival of the Great Eastern. Aarr BAT, August 10-11 o'clock P. Ill.—There are still no signs of the steamer expected to bring the news of the arrival of the Great Eastern. The weather is clear, and the sky is bright. Heavy Rains in Wisconsin and Hinne- MILWAUKEE, August 0, —Very heavy rains fell throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota last night and to-day. In many sections the grain crop has been badly injured. On Monday night a severe hail-storm extended through. out Sank, Crawford, Richland, and lowa coun ties, in this State, wetting and destroying large fields of wheat. It is estimated that two hundred farms were completely destroyed, and the loss is estimated at from 44980,900 to $400,000. The Saratoga Races: SARATOGA, August 10.—The great three-mile race was won to-day in two straight heats by the Bairownie horse, " Fleetwing." "Captain Moore" was badly beaten on the second heat• Time, 331 3 / 4 and 5.49. The selling race of one and a half-mile dash was won easily by " Throgsneelt." Time, 2.42. The Fire at Buffalo. BVFFALO, August 10.—The total loss by the Ere last night amounted to $.50,000. Farrar, Trefts, & ..Knight lost 020,000, on Which they had an insurance for $lO,OOO. L. 4.k . J. White lost $ll 2 OOO, but were fully insured:- NEW YORE CITY. Nzw YORK, August 10 DESTRTICTIVE FIRE AT WILLIAMSBURG § I. Y. Are in Williamsburg to-day destroyed the Empire Glass Works and Sherrill's tannery. The loss of Sherrill amounted to $lO,OOO, and that of the glass company to 5f.150,000, on which there was an insurance of 00,000, mostly in this city and Brooklyn. Two firemen were badly injured. The steamship Lafayette, from Havre and Southampton, arrived here this morning. Her advices have been anticipated. - I 1 " I g The LT, S. frigate Hartford steamed do t in the bay this afternoon, and will sail to-morrow for the East Indies. ME NEW YORK EVENING - STOCK BOARD. At Gallagher's Exchange, this evening, gold closed at 112; Erie Railroad, 87%; Michigan South(rn, 6Writtstarg, mg; Cleveland and Toledo, 1OZ; Cleveland and Rock Island, 10334: Markets by Telegraph. CHICAGO, August 10.—The Flour market is moderately active. Wheat is active, but the market is unsettled opening at $1.26, and closing at $1.28 , 7 2 for IN o. 1, and at $1.12©1.13y,, for No. 1. Corn is quiet at na34 for No.l,and 0834 for No. 2. Oats quiet at 49 1 ,A1Q50e. nigh ' wines have advanced I@2e ; sales at 44.1362.14. Freights have declined 1.4@z, 3 4 cents on corn to Paincto. Receipts. Shipments. Flour, barrels 95,000 1,900 Wbeat, bushels 10,000 5,000 COril, bushels 14,090 110,000 Oat S, bUSIi el s 10,000 2000 MI I,WAUNEB, August 10,—Flour dull. ' \Vilest active; sales iit $ 1 . 22 Exd. 23 34 Receipts. Shipments. Fl our, barrels 1,000 3,000 Wheat, bushels 41,000 47,000 Lovis, August ie.—Cotton—Receipts of lra hales. The market is thal, at 400 for Wa fflings. Flout sells at ss@ll for double extra, Corn - unchanged. Oats Steady, at 40@15C for new, and ss,asSe for old. Tobacco is quiet, at iviec for shipping leaf, and 43050 c for manu facturing. Whisky is unchanged. A MA ADM/TB CICiAn YOU GENEISAL corespondent velates the following Mai. tient of Lientenant General Grant's passage through Brunswick, Maine: An old man—an inveterate smoker—had learned that the . General sometimes, in fact frequently, smokes, set his genius to work to obtain an interview with him. A cigar oc curred to him as the beat pass within the guarded circle, and he, therefore, upon 'hear ing that he was coming, obtained one upwards of a foot in length. When the General Caine, the old fellow =shed pelf-well into the crowd, and, dispensing with all forms of etiquette, drew his mammoth Havana, and politely but roguishly presented it to the General, express jug the hone that he might enjoy a long and pleaF , ailt alndlie, This was, of course, the Signal for great laughter on the part of the crowd, and none joined in it more heartily than the General. A GRICILTrRAL BralEau. — Commissioner New ton, of the Agricultural Bureau, has issued a circular for the month of August to corres pondents, directing , their attention to the con: anion of the crops - a arin, s c , the present month, and Soliating the transmission of a full port upon the 4ailtle at An early date. 7 moody Affray in San Francisco—The Death of Milligan. The San Francisco Bulletin of July ith says, "About nine o'clock yesterday morning a shot was fired at a Chinaman in a washouse, which struck the side of the building, lodging in the wall, from which it was subsequently extracted, and, from its appearance, was known to have been fired by Mulligan. The matter was reported at the police office, and Captain Lees sent Officer McMillan to investi gate, and arrest the offending party. McMillan proceeded to Mulligan's room, and requested to be let in ;_ but Mulligan refused admittance, and ordered the officer to leave or he would be killed. Mulligan contended that the Vigi lance Committee were after him; that he would net be taken alive, and advised MOM. lan, for whom he professed feelings, of friend ship, to leave, and not attempt his arrest. He had his door barricaded on the inside with all the furniture in his room, and ingress in that direction was impossible. Captain Lees then held a conversation with Mulligan from the hall, endeavoring to prevail upon him to sur render, and promising him protection, Mut, ligan listened to the propositions, and se veral times was on the point of surren dering, but when requested to give up his pistol he refused to do so, and final lx signified his determination to stick to his room and stand a siege until starved out. A little strategy was then resorted to on the part of the officers. McCormick went out on Dupont street for the purpose of attracting Mulligan's attention, McMillan remained at the door, while Chappelle got out on the bal cony and proceeded to the window of Mulli gan's room, for the purpose of catching him while his attention was attracted by McCor mick. But the ruse did not succeed, for as Chappelle came to the window for the purpose Of springing Wpm him, Mulligan, who was on the wate , nrect hie pistol, the ball just miss ing Chappelle's head. The firing of this shot seemed to have raised his frenzy to the high- est pitch, and he stepped out on the balcony, talking incoherently, and cursing and swear ing at a terrible rate. He walked along the • balcony, pistol in hand, and entered another Window Opening On Clay street, and was again lost to the view of those outside. It thought advisable, as a means of pacifying him, to get some of his intimate friends to ap proach and draw him into conversation but those who knew him best were least inclined to make the attempt. "After several of his friends had declined to undertake the job, Jack Nabb (not Tom, OA we were incorrectly informed yesterday,) a friend and companion of Mulligan's, attempted to ac complish the object in view. McNabb went up the stairs,and as he advanced Mulligan levelled the pistol at his breast. McNabb continued to advance, speaking to Mulligan in a familiar tone, and telling him that he wanted to take a drink with him. In this way, by coaxing and proposing drinks 'McNabb had nearly reached the spot where Mulligan was standing, when the latter fired and shot him, the ball entering his right breast near the armpit, severing an artery causing an internal hemorrhage, from which 'be died in half an hour afterwards, at Dr. Murphy's office, to which lie was immedi ately taken. At this time' the excitement about the vicinity of the tragedy was intense, and the Streets about the St. Francis Hotel Were blocked up with human beings, drawn thither by the exciting stories which had spread like wildfire about the town. The pa lice endeavored in vain to keep them back,l'e. presenting the danger that existed with a crazy man armed with a revolver, and ready to fire at any moment and in any direction. But still the crowd pressed on, every man ap parently thinking that in soilarge a crowd lux chances of getting hit were slim, and the per centage largely in favor of his own safety. "Various expedients were next attempted for dislodging the maniac. The presence of • the Catholic clergy, was brought to bear ; one of the priests, accompanied by a citizen, at tempting to reach him by a neighboring roof ; but he fired his pistol at them, and they were COMpelled to retreat. Secvial attempts to ad minister drugged liquor were made, but to no purpose. "Aliont three o'clock, Officers Ellis and Mc- Milian made another unsuccessful attempt to get hold of Mulligan, but it having been aban doned, they were crossing the street when Mulligan appeared at one of the windows and fired at them. The bullet missed the intended mark, but struck an innocent passer by, shoot .? ing him through the heart and killing him in stantly. The murdered man was John Hart, the foreman of Eureka Hose Company No. 4. He is re ,resented by those who knew him as having been an estimable young man. His wife and child died a few weeks since, and he leaves no family. He has a sister in this city, who is said to be nearly bereft of reason at the sudden shock - , and several other relatives. He has a father, mother, and younger brother re siding in New York. It was now determined by the pollee that, as the only means of preventing more blood shed on the part of innocent persons, Mulligan should be shot at sight. Accordingly, a num ber of the police armed themselves with minie rifles, and took positions commanding the front of the house on Clay street. For a long time, Mulligan remained out of sight of them, and at the head of the stairs. A few minutes before four o'clock,he went to the upper story of the house, and looked out of tile window on the Dupont-street side, upon the crowd be neath ; then returned to the head of the stairs, from whence he suddenly wheeled and an ima a room on the second floor, fronting* on Clay street. He advanced to the window, and was about throwing open the swinging sash, when Officer Hopkinsilred from the window opposite and laid him low., The ball struck - TliM in the left temple, passing through the head, glancing into the ceiling about ten feet from where he was standing; thence glancing downwards, and lodging in a door at the farther end of the hall, some thirty feet distant from where he fell. Immediately after he was shot, the word passed quickly through the crowd that Mulligan was beyond the power of doing harm, and the crowd then pressed towards the hotel, with the hope of getting a sight at the dead body. aStretehed out in the hall (WM back, with his feet ust inside the door of the room, lay the earthly remains of Billy Mulligan. The. blood was flowing from his mouth, his eyes protruding from their sockets. and the brains oozing out on the floor and mingling with his blood. Firmly' grasped in his right hantl, and tying by his side was the weapon withwhich be had. been dealing death about him. The pistol is a large seven-barrel French revolver, carrying a half-ounce ball, or one of the same size as those used in Colt's new army pistols. There still remained three loads in the pistol, and another cartridge-was found in his pocket. The walls were bespattered with blood and brains, and on a line - with the fatal bullet were the same indications of death even to the far ther end of the hall. Some twenty feet from where the body lay was picked up a piece of the skull the size of a silver dollar, showing the terrible character of the minie ball, and its terrible effects where it strikes. The body was arrayed in a fashionable suit of black, which, with the neatly fitting boots and other pon , tions of the dress which so characterized him when alive, were all that could be recognized of the exquisitely dressed desperado who had so many times been the terror of .peacefully inclined citizens." Important Decision Respecting Govern ment Lands. A very important decision respecting the price of reserved Government land sections lying along the line of the Union Pacific Rail road has just transpired in the disposal of a ease involving a homestead entry at Junction City, Kansas, on one of the Government re servations above alluded to, upon which the question arose as to the rate per acre at which such sections should be held. The Homestead lalf allows one hundred and sixty acres to each settler of land held at one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, or eighty acres of land held at two dollars - and fifty cents per acre. The homestead party in the above case applied to take one hundred and sixty acres of the section reserved to the Government upon the line of railroad alluded to. The Commissioner of the General Land Office re jected the application, un the ground that those tracts not being subject to pre-emption at a sum less than two dollars and fifty cents Per acre, were double the amount that the applicant could acquire under the Homestead act of the 20th of May, 1802. Secretary Harlan, of the Interior Department, after a thorough examination of the whole matter rendered his decision on the 4th instant, affirming, in the following language, the judgment of the Commissioner "The act entitled 'an act to extend pre-emp tion rights to certain persons therein men tioned,' approved March 3 1853, provides that the pre-emption laws of the United States, as they now exist, be, and they are hereby ex tended over the alternate sections of public lands reserved to the Government along the line of all I. glroads in the United States,When ever public lands have been OS maybe ranted by act of Congress. The reserved sections along the line of the Pacific Railroad must be treated within the meaning of this act. Being regarded as subject to pre-emption, the ques tion arises at what price may they be pur chased l The proviso in the above act declares that the price to be paid +Mall, in all cam, be two dollars and fifty cents per acre, or such . other minimum price as is now fixed by law or May be designated upon laud hereafter granted.' The price of the reserved section is to be two dollars , and fifty cents per acre, un less changed by the price fixed, or to be fixed, by law on the granted sections. In this in stance Congress has not provided for any es tablished price upon the granted sections un til three years after the completion of the en tire road, and it consequently follows that the price named as above—two dollars and fifty cents per acre—must now be paid for the re served sections under existing legislation." A circular is now in the hands of the printer from the General Land Office,which gives a complete insight into the mws operandi of securing Government lands. It is a much , . needed document, and will be issued within it few days. The Cholera in Italy. In consequence of the statements of Signor Gbinozzi ' who was sent to tAnoona to report upon the sanitary condition of that town, the Board of Public Health at Florence has de clared the epidemic noWprevailing at Ancona to be cholera. The sanitary authorities have been ordered to notify the existence of this epidemic in the ship's papers granted to the captains of vessels about to leave that port. Ships arriving at other ports of the Kingdom from Ancona will be subjected to a quarantine of seven days. Signor Ghincceti stated that the cholera was of a violent character, but the most recent bulletin announces that sixteen cases of cholera had occurred between the 24th and 25th July, five of which were fatal. On the 22d of July there was an increase in the number of persons attacked by cholera in Ancona. There were, however, only three deaths. The Naztone, of the 2ith July, says : -News from Ancona announces that some cases of cholera continue to occur in that town. During the last few days there have been, it is stated, four or five eases a day. It is observed, however, that the malady has not the violent character which it has presented in Egypt." An official report issued at Anemia July 27th, states that from noon on the 25th to noon on the 2tstb, five deaths occurred from cholera. FOES YEARS AMONG THE CANNIEALS.—Thomas Ross, a colored .man, one of the crew of the gunboat Tioga, called upon us yesterday and pave an interesting account and showed us some of the effects of a four-years cumpulsory residence among the cannibals of the Pacific Islands. The vessel In which he had shipped from Sidney, Australia, was wrecked off ono of the South Pacific Wands, known as MR -0301,8 group, latitude S degrees, longitude 170 degrees east. Himself, the captain, and live seamen escaped to the island, where they Ivere immediately seized by . the na tives thereof, stripped of their clothing, anti at once inducted into the modes and ways of life peculiar tp that people. No harm was done them, but they were compelled to adopt all the fashions of the natives. The result of One of these Mr. Ross still bears on Ms person. Their ears were perforated, and rings. of cocoanut; half an inch in diameter, inserted to the t ramper of thirty in each ear. The effect of so much weight wggtQ,itrctoi tAW4I/4N.C11/: part of the ear until it became aligned with the Chin. Mr. Ross still wears a number Of these rings. The wide aperture thus made is mum - ay stuffed with bunches of flowers, giving to the wearer a grotesque appearance. Vessels occa sionally passed the island during his enforced residence there, but the natives at such times kept a strict watch on their captives, and never permitted their presence to become known on Shipboard. Ross and a companion escaped by swimming off tom vessel one dark night. Their companions, for aught he knows, are still on the island- Corn, pumpkins, yams, and oranges were abundant, and required but little cultivation. The natives were frequent ly at war with a neighboring tribe. Going forth to battle they confined their captives in . y a n stockade, aother releasing particulars h t e h m e y e rem treated r t. o u s . equals and brothers. Many other interesting particulars were communicated,_ which we have not space to enumerate.—Banger (Me.) Whig, August 4. FOREIGN GOSSIP THE LEUEND OF FYRAMP LAKE The Pi-Utes living about Pyramid Lake have the following legend concerning the origin of the Oregon. Many hundred years ago, say they, the country was barren—but a waste of sand and rocks, op which no green thing grew. The FiXtes then lived °lithe shores of the lake and the Truckee River, deriving their subsistence from the fish that filled both lake and river, and the waterfowl that frequent the borders of these waters. The PI-Utes were then very hiap py. But soon there Caine a race of new be ings—bad spirits, that made war on the Pi -tiles, driving them from the river and the shores of the lake. So vigilantly did these bad spirits guard the waters that it was seldom the Indians could find an opportunity to an prom]) the old fishing-grounde At last there -was a famine among them. Hundreds were dying daily, and it seemed that soon all must perish. But at this criticaljuncture, there came a good spirit, a beautiful pale-faced lady, walking in the mists of morning to the camps of the famishing Indians. Approaching the head men of O f t e lab is e t , she alid u n r e their ihrellina ]tow t a r t q o uan quantity t plant them. These were the seeds of the pine -nut tree. They followed the instructions Of the g9od Spirit, and, as if by magic, groves of nut- Pines in full bearing sprang up everywhere on the hills. The bad spirits who desired the destruction of the 1.9.-ute nation, see ing themselves thus foiled, changed their shape, and, appearing as snakes, bad g ers, wolves, and animals, and reptiles of - all kinds, set themselves to destroy the pine nut orchards. The badgers,. snakes, and many other animals and reptiles burrowed into the ground and attacked the fruit-bearing roes at the roots, while the rest waged a re lentless war above the ground upon the trunks and branches. Fora long time this war raged ; the bad spirits striving to destroy the pine orchards, and the Indians exerting themselves to the utmost to defend them. At, last the bad spirits, finding that the Indians defended their orchards with great stubborness, de termined to make a direct attack upon the Pi•Utes and at once destroy them. For this purpose they resolved themselves into one body, assuming the form of a huge animal of frightful appearance. This im mense beast, which the Indians call the Ore gon, charged upon the PiXtes, and attempted to trample them to death. At first the In dians were terribly frightened, but find ing the huge beast slow and unwieldy, they - Mustered all the warriors of the tribe, and boldly attacked him. With firebrands and arrows they at last succeeded in driving him into the lake. Here lie remained ever since. When heavy storms raise the waters of the lake into huge waves, the Indians say it is old Oregon trying to get out. At such times no Indian will venture near the shores of the lake. The middle of the lake is mostly fresh water, while that near the shores is strongly Illlp s i t •e o g rm ii s te t d h l e vi i th on s i ? , l o t a t n o : ot tl e c r eli a . nc r it t n ir le e r s of . Hfeet mingling of the black fresh water and the whiter salt billows presented an appear ance not unlike the rearing, tossing, and raging of some huge beast. Who knows but the animal referred to in this legend, the Ore gon, may be nothing* more than a sort of mys tified tradition respecting the huge species of the elephants known, by the fossil remains lately found, to have inhabited this region ages ago. A Paris correspondent writes: The aerial vessel invented by M. Delamarne bids fair to 'realize the anticipations we were led to enter tain as to the successful application of the verti eal helm in controlling the currents of wind by which the courses of balloons have hitherto been guided, The vessel rose to It height of one thousand flve hundred yards, and then took a course due south. M. Delamarne, who acted as helmsman, steered the vessel in an Oppo site direction, and it accordingly sailed direct for Vincennes. To prove her obedience to the helm, M. Delamarne then took a north erly route. At the request of the passengers, without touching the safety-valve, and simply by using the helm, he descended near 4ogent, and floated for some time so close to the earth that the passengers spoke with some of the people who had assembled on the banks of the Marne to witness this strange sight. The vessel then rose to the height of 4,000 yards, and, although , caught by two contrary cur rents Of air, M. Delamarne, by his management Of the helm, prevented the rotary motion usually experienced in all balloon travelling. At twenty minutes past seven the passengers witnessed a glorious sunset, the magnificent effect of which in clondland appears to have • defied all attempt at description. At eight they were sailing over Choisy, when the air-be came so ranged that they lowered the vessel and sailed toward Lanane, when they lost themselves in clond-banks, and the guide-rope and some ballast were thrown out, The ves sel then rose still higher, and after a sail of an hour and a half in azure space, they decided on descending in the neighborhood of Chiosy, which M. Delamarne accomplished without the slightest difficulty, and his passengers landed on terra finite as easily as if they had stepped out of an express train. Two results are evident: By the horizontal helm placed in the stern of the vessel, it ascends and descends as the helmsman pleases; and by means of the heices placed at each side, combined with the action of the helm, a horizontal course is ob tained. At the last meeting of the Society for the History of Potsdam, Prussia, the chairman, Hofrath Schneider, related an anecdote of Mile. Rachel, who was to give a theatrical per formance on.the Ptauen-Insel, before the Prus sian and the Russian courts. The perform ance was to take place under an open sky, on the 13th of July, 1552. It was intended as a surprise for the Emperor Nicholas, who would "not hear of Mlle. Rachel, nor allow her to enter his empire, on account of her re publicanism, which consisted in her perform ance of the "Marsellaise" in 1818—an artistical performance, and nothing more. However, the Emreror chose to make her a martyr, for her political sentiments ; and it was the inten tion of the Prussian court to make him a eon. Yert. Wile Raehel appeared, dressed quite in black t in costly lace. Ilofrath Schneider ob served to her that she could not appear like that at court, and at a gay festival. One of the royal princesses helped her out of the diffi culty by furnishing articles of her own toilet. Arrived on the island, Rachel asks for the stage, No one knows of a stage 5 no stage has been provided; the tragic actress is exPeeted to act on the lawn in its natural state, and the court to look on sitting . on garden chairs near the castle. Rachel is indignant, and oil the point of turning her back to the scone. But Herr Schneider knew how to persuade, and to make the Russian roubles. shine be fore the mental eyes of the artist, and she re mained. A few lights were placed in glasses, and behind the fountains murmured, Rachel began to act different scenes front French tragedies, and so overpowered her auditory, that the 'Emperor Nicholas sprang up and kissed her hand. The Empress smiled, and expressed her admiration. The harrier of the Russian frontier fell ; and as a remembrance of the evening, a Uust, in white marble, of the great tragedian, hasheen placed on the spot of her triumph. THE LONDON THEATRES AND OPERAS A London correspondent tells of the diffl cultiesand expense one incurs in attending the English theatres, and how his persever ance is 'finally rewarded : To go to a theatre in London—especially to go to the opera—one needs patience, money, dress, and endurance. You must make your mind to stand in a crowd an unreasonable length of time; you must give a guinea (six dollars) for a parquet seat; you must clothe yourself in a swallow-tail, white necktie, and faultless boots, and you must keep yourself in fine listening and hearing order some five hours. I am speakin now of the opera. If g you can accomplish these necessary details, yon find yourself amply repaid for the trouble you have taken. Not only do you hear the finest music, most completely rendered, but you also see gorgeous ballets such as you never dreanied of and au audience more bril liant than are collected together anywhere We in Europe, unless it be in the soirees of sovereigns. 'Previous experience of London theatres sug gested to me the prudence of going early; noblemen alone are said in going late. So, with a hasty dinner, I made my way through the crooked and dirty labyrinths which lie north of the Strand to the theatre. The per formance was to begin at half-past seven; I was on the ground at six, and yet there Was an impatient but good-natured crowd before me, swaying about, passing away the time in joking and treading on each other's heels and making apologies, and watching with eager eyes every jar of the entrance door. Finally, the narrow doors swung open (and what a grateful sound is that!) and we poured in poll cell, trodden on but smiling, and each as best he might paid his guinea, took his ticket, and made haste to the long-looked-for haven, his seat in the parquet. A slight glance around the spacious hall in which I found myself taught me how different it was from our American theatres. The first three galleries and the space immediately be hind the parquet are occupied exclusively by private boxes. The lower tier of boxes was far larger and more elegant than the others, fitted up like a luxurious drawing-room, and in every way betokened the presence of wealth and rank. Above the tier of boxes were seve ral galleries, one above the other, and, as the building is very high, the remotest gallery seemed almost among the clouds. The boxes near the stage were fitted up with great meg nill-cwwey and were occupied by the royal family and the greatest of the nobility. The orchestra was immense ; so was the stage—far larger than any in this country. All who oc, cupied boxes or the parquet were dressed in the height of fashion, as if to attend a ball. In a very few moments the upper galleries Were full to overflowing. The price of the lowest is five shillings, ($1.95,) and of the high , est two and sixpence, Oa cents,) and there are no seats reserved; so that those who loved music, and were too poor to afford enough for a lower seat, were fain to struggle for a place in one of the galleries. ECM= The Paris COrreSpOndent of the Montreal Herald relates the tollowjng The Prince Imperial, Who has inherited all the Emperor's talents as a draughtsman, has suddenly shown an equally deoitfed talent for modelling. The Empress, wishing to get up a little surprise for the Emperor on his return from Algeria, commissioned M. Ctupeaux to execute, during his absence, a life-size statue of the little Prince, who, accordingly, stood for the sculptor a couple of hours each day, holding meanwhile the Eniperor , e favorite dog, Negro, a splendid great Newfoundland, black as his name. It seems that the Prince, while watching the manipulations of M. Car perm x, was seized with a desire to try his own little hands with the clay andhav in.• obtained the maternal -permission, set hinuaelf to work so eagerly under the young artist's direction, that before the Emperor's return, he had com pleted a bust of his imperial papa, one of his tutor, M. Monneau, and a little group repre senting a laancer on horseback, all three un lectiogallyne d o s i a b ts , c ot l hi tie v g e florri child's b aE c e g mh i i n pe n iv, e e es r isi , d ents,re o a i b i t e layet e s three of c Ana PUMA IA Ilit) i Mlle' THREE CENTS. roles cabinet, where the icaster of Fiance hnd the gratification off acing them on hie , return. A PARIOIA/i - o,,ent We are laughing heartily over an adven ture which has happened to one of our medi cal men. The -story would lie much move piquant were I to mention ids name; but 1 do not think that would be altogether proper, so you must contentyernrself with your toddy less the nutmeg. The doctor is a married man, All doctors lit Raris ' who are in good practice, have a carriage; those who have a bad practice go in the ortmlbaS those who have a poor practice don't goat all. The hero of my story is in good practice, therefore he has a carriage. Baying a car riage he must have a driver. You know him now; a doctor with a wife, a carriage, and a driver, Ills large practice, his ambition;and into whichnegligence about money mutters which a man whose mind is busy about other matters, is apt to fall, had made the doctor less careful than he ought to be in re gistering his patients' names. His wife knows this, and being like most French women, inordinately fond of money, she or dered the driver to keep a list of the pa tients visited and to report to her in the eve. ning. Afterthe visits were paid and while the doctor was busily engaged receiving patients or studying his profession, the driver would be closeted with the wife, making out a list of the fees earned that morning. When quar ter-day came, and the doctor gave his wife his fee-book, in order that she might make out the bills, she collected her Memoranda and his, This time they agreed almost exactly—less one patient's name. Her memoranda debited Mlle Augustine with thirty-six visits during the last three months, although there was no such name on the doctor's list. And yet Angustinemust have been seriously ill, for the average was time visits a week. lint que rag lez-races! the doctor is so negligent The bill was made out and Beet to MT° Augustine- - thirty-six visits, at ten francs the visit. She was furious, but said she would see the doctor. Ile came the next day. She showed him the bill., lie laughed and -said something which made her laugh—they both came near. dying with laughter. The next day she sent the three hundred and sixty francs asked, and re quested g receipt. Where . did she get the money l Ask the doctor. A Paris correspondent writes that Biondi!' continues to astonish the people of the French capital by his feats on the wire cable suspended at the Hippodrome, which is at the height Of the column in the Place Vendome, The streets in the vicinity ate filled. with crowds, gazing at the audacious pigmy in blue, with mingled horror and admiration. Biondhrhas added to his former feats a number of new ones,: " He undresses himself at the centre of the rope, divesting himself of various articles of clothing, when he drys down into the arena below, and appearS in eSh-colored tights, with plates of shining metals around his neck and wrists ; he then hangs himself from the wire, first by one hand, next by the other, turning a variety of complicated summersaults,and com ing up now on one side of the wire, now on the other, hanging head downwards, Am. He then draws himself up, seats himself - on the wire, Places his balancing pole in rest takes a pair of iron hoops from his waist, hooks them to the wire, and proceeds to hang IliniSelf frein them ty both hands; then by one hand, then by the other, then by one foot, then Dy both, throwing himself into the most incredible , positions, twisting his body through his arms,. then through his legs; m fact, going through a series of evolutions that would be wonderful enough if performed ou terrafirma ; but which, performed at such au altitude r with nothing but the almost invisible Wire between him and the aby SS of emptiness below him, deem almost superhuman. And as though all this were not already sufiieieutlyappalling, he next axes his pole across the cable, hooks the hoops on to the pole, and goes through the same set of performances, hanging head downwards below the pole, which seems to shiver with every movement pf the fie reha t," The writer gays Blonain is perfectly aware of the fearfully perilous nature of his perform ances, folly expects to be killed some day or other while engaged in them, and never goes up. to his perilous perch without saying to himself, " Who knows if this be not the last timed may go on the wirel" The London Times Endorsing - President Johnson's Polley. [From the London Times, July 29.] It must be said to the credit of President Johnson that, in spite of the tumult of excita ble counsellors he has hitherto maintained his own way with Rmidowe and wisdom, and we, who have . experienced similar difficulties, ought not to withhold our sympathy from him in his trials, nor our approbation of his suc cess. Imagine a vast territory which possess ed at the same time the worst characteristics of Ireland and the west Indies, and we may have some faint idea of President Johnson's task of Government. The Southerners are like Irishinen were, if not like what they are, in their disaffection to the established Govern ment and in their obstinate attachment to false ideas. For many generations to come it will be the creed of planters and of planters' children that it is their duty to live and that of the negroes to work. To struggle with the discontent and opposition of such men would of itself be hard enough, and yet it would be light compared with the troubles of the negro question. Planters could be left to themselves till they had found by experience that their notions were mistaken. They have sense enough to give them up when driven to it by necessity; but the negro must be ten derly treated or he will die. The crime of the unhappy black man in the Southern States is the same as that of his brother negro in the West Indiesthat he has no wants. lie Is content as long as he has enough to eat, and as he can get that with little effort he sees tie reason to toil. Where the country, like Bar badoes, is so thickly populated that he must work to live he is industrious, but if there is room to "squat" he is idle. The Southern States are not a little island like Barbadoes, and the negro may be as idle as hepleases.. He need not work, and he won't work because he need not work. But the black man is not only idle, he is also improvident ;he has been accustomed to receive his meat In due season, and he has no more thought of providing for the future than a horse has of saving hay in summer for use in winter. At the same time he has no notion of starving if he can help it, and if in the winter season he finds himself foodless lie can scarcely be expected to abstain from taking it where it can lie got, It is yeky wrong to rob those who have been more 'pru dent than 3:ourself, but people who will look the truth in the face can have little doubt about the dangers of society in the South in the future. The dnneulties of the negro question are easily stated. The freedman lives in the neighborhoon of men who have been accus tomed to authority over him almost without control. Ho is idle and careless, living easily in the good season, and in the bad "loafing" about, begging if be can, robbing if he must. How should such a class be dealt with I It is, perhaps, too much to say that the plan adopt ed by the American Government is the best possible, but it is at least worthy of reconinwdy tion, and we may approve it the more readayOe cause its principles are borrowed from our own legislation. What we did when monasteries were broken up, and sturdy beggars roamed about the land, the American Government has begun to do. The principle of action is the Came,. though there is of course, a difference in its machinery. I l he Freedmen's Bureau has been established at Washington as a sort of poor law board. It has its local offices throughout the South, at one of which each freed negro must be enrolled. The freedman may be masterless, but he is not to be home less, and his place of enrolment is his place of settlement, the union from which he passes to Work, and from which he returns if unem ployed. The local commissioner of the bu reau sanctions the contract between a freed man and his employer, and it is his duty to see that the contract is expressed in writing, and that it' secures definite and fair wages to the laborer. Apprenticeships, in the sense of contracts indissoluble for a definite term, are not to be permitted, but contracts termi nable at the option of either party are en couraged. If the contract is faithfully ob served on both sides, there is, of course, no thing more to be done ; the freedman has ob tained the position of an agricultural laborer, and further interference is unnecessary.. The future condition of the n?gro in the South depends, however, much more on the planters than on the Government. If they will acquiesce in the new order which has come upon them, the material comforts of the negro will not have suffered through MS ac quisition of freedom. If the planters resist the new system, the negro must look forward to that Wholesale imungration of Northern farmers which has often been threatened, and must gradually take place, as the surety of his future well-being. The conduct of the planters of Virginia, in attempting to get rid of negroes altogether, now that no pro fit can be got out of breeding them for slavery, is discouraging but, whatever may be the trials of the coining generation, they will not regret the suffering by which . they purchased an escape from still greater evils. A NEW. AND even INTBriTTON.---The chtatte,o Tribune says:—We have just been shown a horseshoe which will be very likely to work a complete revolution in the practice of hor4 shoeing. The shoe consists of a hinged plate, with four or live little flanges or projections extending upon the outside of the horse's hoof, Clasping it like so many little -lingers, making a neat and perfectly effective attachment to the hoof. On the bottom of this hinged plate the sole of the shoe, so to speak, or thepart that conies in contact with the ground, is fastened by strong set screws, whereby the flaned plate is held firmly to the foot, the whole making a handsome, easy, and durable shoe, which can be easily . put on and taken off, and,instead of endangering the hoof after the iniiiiner of the old fashioned nailed SIM, 4 preserver of the hoof. EVEN THE - limas OF YOUR HEADS ARE NUM , BERED : —To number the hairs of the head has been in all ages accounted as impossible a feat as to count the sands of the seashore. The astonishing labor has, however, been gone throngli by a German nrofossq, who time 'La nularlzes the result of his examination or four heads of hair: Blonde (number' of hairs) 140,400 Brown 6, a 109,440 Black it i< 102,962 Bed a a 83,740 Tile heads of hair were found to be neaily equal in Weight, and tile deficiency in the number of hairs in the Wok, brown, and red colors, was fully counterbalanced by a eortea. pending increase of bulk in the individual fibres. The average weight of a woman's head of hair is about fourteen ounces. THE RunumnISLAtruFACTURE.—We are inform ed that the census returns Or 1 3 q9 eXtlikit tlw total manufacture of India-rubber goods in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con necticut, to be as follows, viz: Annual value of product 15,012,700 Annual cost of labor . 7.19,F 0 male hands employed 1 7 .1 5 Female liana onipfoyeq Ka Cost of raw material ' Vtivlan Capital invested 5,551 0 05 0 Number of establishments 57 In addition, two establishments, $lOO,OOO capi tal ; cost of raw material, *69,000 ; male bands employed, 34; cost of labor, 521,000; annual value of product, 5125'750 from the manufac ture of gutta perelm goods 111 the State of hew York. A NEW FOWL.—A fearful giant in the shape of a barnyard fowl has been introduced into Scotland from Central India, called the "Be gum Gayusa," a cut of which is girt:A in the August monber of the American Agriculturist. The male is incnes high, rola appears like the Shanglutc, ezi:eept that on the head couple of minute horns rise, instead of a Comb, from a heavy base which projects some dis tance along the upper side M the bill. The wattles are also larger and fuller. The Melt ens of the kind of fow4 it is reported, grow to the weight of eight pounds at seven and eight months old—limbs of course included. We hake u 9 acequut e 4 the laying properties, THE WAR, PRESS. (runmsTlED WEERLY.) Mx WAD' PRESS will be sent to subseltbers by mail (per alittlllt to A ranee,) at SO Fire cop;e3 110 00 AO 00 Larger cig wan Ten 1,411 be chafged at the gams ra te , 414.00 per cops. 27 " 4 " " mnv mutt attempt accompany the order, anti to no tactunce can then terOri be deviated fr°4l4 at they agora rerY little more than the oort of paper. oar Postmasters are requested to mot ae watt for TIM Way rms. aip• To the getter-up of the Club of Us or twentri " extra copy of the paper wlll be ems. STATE ITEMS. Catifele Barracks, it is pia, never pre. Senteel a more beautiful appearance than at Present. The garrison consists of the perma nent company, numbering about one hundred and twenty:live men, the band, and the coin• puny - of recruits. These recruits are arriving in squads almost every day from the several rendesroUB f and after having been drilled, are asstgned to their regiments and forwarded thereto. - , Miss Emma kicharderreskiingteMpOrarily Reading, while in company with some of her friends, on last Thursday evening, ate four teen plates of ice cream, complained of feel ing unwell on Friday =bitting, and died on Friday afternoon. -Michael Holbert, a citizen of rottstown, died on the 4th inst., aged ninetptwa years. He served' in the• war of Mt: under Captain Jakob Fryer, and east his 11 retivote for Wash ington for , President, —A deaf and dumb girl was intently killed on Thursday at Remington Station, Beaver county. While walking'on'the railroad track a train cause along, and as she could not hear the signals, overtook and crushed her. -I.Trormation has been received at Harris burg announcing that the 77th Peitiwylvaala Regiment Is to be ordered , to that city, anti then mustered out. In 011 City, when individuals who are ar rested for drunkenness have no money with which to pay their fines, they are compelled to scrub the lock-up or work on the streets. —At Utica, venango county, Fe,r4WM Gil. more is appointed mail messenger. to the At• 'antic anti Great Western Railroad depot. A crane was shot a few clays since in Nottlt ampton county, which measured eh,: feet two inches from tip to tip of wings, rielipocncts infest . the .lEarrialturg„. mar kets. Every - market day 46V01A1 tlatgeita are rohbeiL -- The boatmen along the Wyom4ng , Canal are on a strike. HOME ITEMS. Before the capture of Richmond, a project was started to raise a considerable' sum of money to be deposited with General Grant for presentation to the 'Union soldier who should first raise the stars and stripes over the rebel capital. The plan was not pushed vigorously, - only WO were raised, and Richmond was not taken by assault, but evacuated by the enemy. In consideration of this latter fact, General Grant decided to divide the money among the three soldiers most conspicuous for gallantry in the final assault on Petersburg, which was in effect an assault oh Richmond; and, on the recommendation of their corps commanders, he has awarded it, with an autograph letter to can, to D. W. Young, 111th Penasylva»l4; Thomas McGraw, Tal Indiana, and J. B. Tucker, 4th Maryland. —A letter from a fashionable watering-place says: "The long trails are seen again with - the general cry of ;stand frolli under,' ;IWweea the length and eirctinlferellee of seine of the dresses one is appalled itt attempting to thread his way through the ball-room. The Cretan labyrinth was nothing to sonle of the Parisienne innovations, lint it is idle to deny that there are great grace and elegance, as well as Magnifteellee, in all these gi'iiud Ws plays, and the sparklingje WON upon fair arias and fingers of course add greatly to the at traction. Increased cost, increased tacos, with petroleum down' and 'gold up,' with di minished incomes and business, only revive the old faith that one-half the people wonder and study how the other half -- It now appears that our iron-clads were provided with what are called "deck-scrapers.' • These are machines for passing up through the deck from below nine-inch percussion shells, which arc then exploded and sweep every thing overboard. They were tried on the Die. tutor with wooden men and the force of the explosion tumbled everything on deck into the sea, and a fragment of shell out the chain cable in two. This is a fact for the English newspapers which proposed to capture our iron-clads by boarding them. Two young ladies of astronomical tastes at Norwich, Connecticut, thought they bad. discovered a remarkable phenomenOn in the heavens, the other night, and called many of their friends out to look at it. Everybody was astonished at the shining orb, except a youth of a philosophical mind, who started off on a journey of investigation. He had not pro needed far when he found that the brilliant star was the head of a gilded weathercock on a distant barn, on which tho rive had. fallen. —Frank Harley and Gus. Holtzclaw, two re putable young Men of Paris, Missouri, engaged in a friendly boxing match last week, In the course of which Harley knocked Holtzclaw down, Excited by this incident, the latter jumped to his feet, drew a revolVer Which he bad on his person, and shot the former. A cow is to be exhibited at the New Eng land Fair, to be held at Concord, September 5, which the owner says he has refused 000 for. He offers to bet *2OO that she will glye mare milk and produce more butter than any other cow in the United States. We suppose the use of the pump is to be barred. A new comic weekly is soon to be started in New York. The names of Chas. F. Browne (Artemus Ward,) George. Arnold (11IneArone,1 and Prof, Dio Legit are mentioned in its eon. nectiori. By rewashing the dirt from which gold has once been extracted, ncgroes are said to be making two or three dollars per day in tim North Carolina gold mines. The town of Great Fells, Malec, containn over five thousand inhabitants, but for two years no newspaper has been published in it. The bricklayers at Springfield, 111., are on a strike. They demand five dollars a clay in stead of four and a half. The steamers are racing on Detroit river. One recently made twenty miles ili SIXt3' , BI2C. and a half minines for %MO, The steamers Fulton and Arago are again to be put upon their old route between NWT York and Havre. —A man sat in a windowin a hotel in Holum bue, Ohio ? to put on his boots, fell otlt, end WAS —Rev. E. Cutler, of Worcester, has bees elected president of the University of Ver mont. The What-is-it is dead. " It" was an idiotic negro girl, not a boy, as has UOOII Stated, Wanted at Saratoga—The Red Sea, to stroy Faro and all his hosts.-21frs. Grundy. There will be a grand cheese show at the New York State Fair and prizes awarded. —A bear, weighing two hundred and seventy., six pounds, was caught at Mahan recently. Mrs. Sigourney's effects were sold by aue tion, in Hartford, lust weak, In sixteen years emigrants to this eoutttry have sent home 015,000,000. The thermometer in Charleston, S. C. l was 100 deg. for several days. —Milk is largely sold by the glass in .the streets of Springfield. FOREIGN ITER& Two young men from Springfield ventured on a stroll through the grounds of the insane asylum at Northampton, fearful all the time that they might be trespassing on the rules of the institution. This impression Wt's OM, firmed by the appearance of a woll.dressed man, who informed them, in a courteottS bet decided manner, that they were wanted in the superintendent's cam lie showed them in, and the two young men sat down to wait de. velepteente. They waited nervously al DWI an hour or so, and then ascertained that they had been the unsuspecting victims of one of the patients who, likosome people not thought to be crazy, always makes himself very offi, dons upon opportunity. —One of the most powerful and undoubted- ly the most original of. Belgian painters, M. Autism Wiertz, died suddenly at Brussels in. the beginning of last month, Wiertz had the peculiarity of never selling any of his pic tures, which were all preserved in the Bluzee Mertz, at the expense of the Government. His last wish was to be interred in his atelier, but it is uncertain still whether this will be complied with, The atelier, itself, with the whole of the painter's works, becomes: the property of the Government, according to previous agreement. —A medallion portrait of Prince Albert; which is interestiu the list connneted specimen of Eng] fsh. earthen mosaics, tuts been placed over the entrance to the balcony whence visitors look into the north court of the South Kensington Museum. The back ground is produced in PowelPs gold mosaics; the red necktie, an except - 10;W portion Of the. iota, is in t" of glass //WSW?' brought from St. Petersburg, Madame Itistort has just been the rictiln Of a considerable robbery. She possesses D. handsome apartment at novae, in which she tended to Pass the winter. She has now learned that th e person in whose charge it has been. left has absconded, after having sold All the furnit are. The lose amounts to above 10,000. francs. A man named Murphy was tried ill Ireland, on the 17th ult., for being connected with the. Fenian anovenient, and convicted and sen tenced to *Cecit yeal.B) penal eerrithdo, Ainr pity's crime was tampering with seldierS, anti trying to induce theta to desert and enlist, 1j the American service. Mr. Panizzi quits his post at the British. mOseum with a Special retiring allowance of -1:1,40 0 a year—that is to say, upon a pension equal to his salary (£1,200), with an additional allowance of ime per aunt= for the official to silence. A colored woman, withodortime of +.500#00, advertises In the Paris papers fora husband. mondin is tvrinir in vain to recover $65,000 from hit bankrupt agent in Londe!), . Lady Franklin was entertaining tl►o QU!'!t of the Sandwich Islands in ratlS. There are . 15,44 ti gipsies and "tramps" iit Great Britain. _ . There have been four deaths from excite& ment 3014 tIIC electiQUA 111. kinglept.
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