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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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There have been four deaths from excite&
ment 3014 tIIC electiQUA 111. kinglept.