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SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1865.-
THE NEWS.
3ii „ f „ippi is the first of the States under
r narge of a provisional Governor to hold
;state Convention. It is now in session at
ziaeinion,_ and a synopsis of iM proceedings
l op be found in our telegraphic columns.
!I vo ordinances—one ratifying all judicial pro
rerdlegs made under the State law during the
vf ,t, and one prohibiting the Legislature from
v anishing any citizen, or forfeiting his pro-
Verty,ltho had been engaged in the rebellion—
first reading. A memorial praying for
the removal of the negro troops from the
f4taie, and also one for intercession in behalf
of Jeir Davis were presented. An ordinance
sliolithing slavery was reported.
A letter has been written to a gentleman of
New York, by General Kilpatrick, endorsing
11:e course of the Raleigh Progress, and also
lac representatives of the loyal Northern
I,rt , ss, for exposing the evil intentions of the
rebel leaders of North Carolina. The General
states that these facts should not be kept from
. the peo ple, but that all should hear thom,po
that a correct statement of ttflairs at the South
'may be known. The General is now travelling
through tile State.
information has been officially received by
the Government that the cholera, on the 21st
ultimo, had made its appearance on the coast
of spain. Directions have been given by the
civil Governor of the Island that proper care
he taken to prevent the spreading of the infec
tion, should vessels arrive at the port having
it on board.
Five thousand troops are to be mustered out
of service from the Department of Eastern
Virginia, The 101 th ronnsylvania Regiment
will, therefore, soon Mart for home. General
Torbert is expected at Norfolk next week, to
take command of the sub-district at present
commanded by General Mann.
Front Cincinnati we hear that the Demo
onitie State Sovereignty Convention of Ohio
asseinbled at Columbus on the 17th instant.
Alexander Long was nominated for GOvernorl
Dud Charlton A. White for Lieutenant Go
vernor. • Resolutions of strong State sove
reignty were adopted.
At the Democratic State Central Committee
of new York, which met yesterday in Albany,
i i was resolved to call the State Convention"
for the nomination of State officers, on the 6th
cif September.
A despatch from Boston, dated yesterday,
Ftaley that the whaling bark Pearl, of New
air fen, while onlier way from Honolulu, to
the Anti° Ocean, was destroyed by the pirate
rllen the application of the creditors of
Be,,srs. Ketchum & Co, the Superior Court of
New York yesterday granted attachments,
cruising of real estate valued at $500,000,
s :4 sin:4 their fine property.
An earthquake vas felt in Jackson (Alissis
qlpq, Memphis, -St.. Louis, Cairo, and other
towns in that section of the country, on Thurs
day morning. It- created a great deal of alarm,
bin (lid not do much damage.
A full special report of the Teachers' Na
tional Convention, which has been in session
at Harrisburg, will be found in another co
lumn. The Convention yesterday adjourned
site
A despatch was read from Governor Andrew,
of Iliasarbusetts, regretting his inability to
rrei•em, but expressing his warm wishes
for the success of the objects Of the Associa
z:on.
A letter from Professor Brooks was also
tend, express.ing similar regrets at not being
t.ble to attend, but reiterating his entire sym
midc with the labors of the Convention.
A,ivices from California state that it is con
ift‘Tlategl there to send a war vessel to hunt
IT the pirate Shenandoah. The merchants
1::oe petitioned to that effect.
everal defeats of the Federals, near San
LCuis and Puebla, are noticed in the Iliatarno
i,;, IN,Wor of the sth.
James Buchanan Cross, who has served out
tis term of tire years in the Eastern Peniten.
t]try, Lai been released. -He is probably the
siost expert forger in the United States.
Hannibal Hamlin was yesterday appointed
y the PreAtlent. Collector of the Port of Boa
lou, awl A, Ir. Underwocclirtgaval Officer at the
SUM port.
At last accounts the pirate Shenandoah was
ye:tr Beluing , s Straits. .This was on June 3d,
he had destroyed several whaling vessels,
I,llin,z in quest of others.
General Grant has arrived at Galena, his
11 , 1,1 e, where his reception was very entliusi
2.qie.
,general J. A. Smith, of Teromessee, of the
lAe rebel army, was among the applicants for
!p;aqoa yesterday at Washington.
al-Edulah dates of August 14th have been re
c,ivol. The nth COUrieCtiOut Reg ment started
tam Savannah for home on . the Mb.
Nearly eighty buildings were destroyed by
on Wednesday in St. - iloch, one of the su-
Aalys of Quebec.
2.. mud boat captain was murdered near Ce
r Point,. Va., on Saturday.
A lnnglar, While attempting to break into a
unze in Richmond, on Wednesday, was shot.
Meounts of the Virginia crops are encour
overnment loans were in le,ss demand yes
day. though the stock market had con
eiahly improved. The oil stocks, however,
',till very dull and - prices very low. Speen.
to:: for the time islat a-stand-still.
,:ring the past week trade has been dull.
aqstnifs were firmer yesterday. Corn was
hanged. Oats were lower. Cotton declined.
ar was in steady demand. Whisky was
closed in New York last night at
ETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL."
WASITINGTON 7 August 18, 186
casting the horoscope of Washington_
e may also calculate the future con
ion of the country itself. That which
is - es and builds up the seat of the
ierican Government, must come chiefly
n the replenished coffers and reinvigo
ed forces of the American people. The
eition broke up the most stupendous
1 wicked contrivance in the world for
I": dcprestion of a large mass of human
(ll] and the enriching of a small
otity of desperate men; but, by the wreck
ibis vast system; other interests were se
di.,_docated, and some of them entire-
OM of their orbits. To get rid'of
Ifty( - I . y was like cutting out from the living
t a fearful tumor—it saved the 'Repub
lic', tat at the dire risk of its precious
' l :t. We know that the patient will be
in her strength, now that the
40A that was so rapidly pulling her
11, has been removed ; but there is still
6gree of weakness in some of her ex - -
Here, as to the seat of healing
0.0.---the headquarters of the good physi-
'Qi—rw-1 1 .1 tome tho myriad petitioners for
and for aid. They wi]] gather from
y State and section. It is almost as if
!:t nation had been born anew, and as if
•••• • (--ryboily - were struggling to be in harmony
di :h the 'wonderful events that have
' ,, !lnd our entire social and politial or
1 1:•:oion. From the North and the
(-t and the Middle, we shall have the
, i ,, ettia!s of theories born of rival and re-1
Ilive expectations and interests, each
'1:!.ly to be ready for the new evangelism,
Lfi ;i:1 panting not to be left behind in the
ram for political and geographical
The Territories, rescued from
4 ‘ 1(1, 3", saved from the ruffians that
1 to despoil and dominate in
I vi; , and then rushed to seize the keys
thatopened into the mighty
•uq or 1 . 1, p a elf i the splendid mineral
01 . Colorado, New Xexico, - Arizona,
1.1 Li:4l , —havc risen into suddenly majes-
1 4 . 7 )1)0 irtd will demand the, most
7 111 0 1 :11em,:ive legislation for the hives and
Di( of pol;ulation already, collecting and
, r)Thing, into their auriferous and arable val-
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told plains. human imagination pauses
, Welt r the thoughts that accumulate in the
`ur sight of such a spectacle. Then; from
Lc South we shall behold large and sueces
!ve delegations -of appellants—a few of the
l.imen, the E;ray relies of the banished and
!ftta aristocracy of slavery, and the hosts
iliesh and hearty intellects, who, haying
en up the wicked past, hail with a noble
Ltalieuce and an athletic hope the duties
' 4 'l the promises of the future. Theidental
these, and a Part of the whole, will be
warms of applicants for place ; claimants
I , oe the Treasury and upon the Court of
kkinv..; inventors, explorers, artists, ideal
philanthropists, and adventurers of
' Y 'IT kind. The Congress which will
"Tla on the first of December will be the
"1 important in our history. To attempt
tea sketch, ft skeleton, of the immense
'I `f work before the Senators and Repre
1:/oi Would be a ridieulonsland hop?
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VOL. 9.-NO. 17.
WASHINGTON.
OFFICIAL REPORTS ABOUT THE CHOLERA
IN SPAIN.
WASHINGTON, August 18
The Cholera In Spain.
The Government has been officially informed
by a letter dated Port Mahon Menorea, July
27th, that the cholera has made its appear
ance on the coast of Spain. The civil Governor
of the island had given directions that proper
care he taken to prevent the spreading of the
disease, should vessels arrive having it on
board.
The Executive Appointments at Boston.
The President to-day appointed HANNIBAL
HAMLIN Collector, D. W. Gooca Surveyor, and
A. B, HNDEAR•OOD Naval Officer at the port of
Boston.
Application's for Pardons.
The rebel General J. A. SMITH, of Tennessee,
is among the applicants for pardon. Several
speeial pardons were granted to-day.
Counterfeit Treasury Notes.
§everal counterfeit one-dollar United. States
notes were recently presented at the Treasu
rer'S office for redemption, but were readily
detected by the experts in that Bureau. There
are numerous counterfeit fifties, but none, so
far as is known, of the denominations of one
thousand, five hundred, and two dollars. All
the others are counterfeited.
Presidential Appointments.
The President has appointed the following
named assistant assessors for Massachusetts :
Third District—Hiram C. Young, Thomas
Adams, Charles H. Brown, Elbridge G. Wallis;
Charles Smith, Charles W. Clapp, Amos Baker;
Edmund D. Dearborn, Benjamin Meriam, Tho,
mas Prime, Asa Wynn, J. W. Monroe, Wm. C.
Culver, Win. H. Mason, George Briggs, Alden
Graham, and Jesse Plympton.
Seventh District—Joseph H. Judkins and
Samuel G. Cressy.
Charles H. liosevelt has also been appointed
assistant assessor of Sixth division, Tenth Dis
trict, New York.
Ford's Theatre.
The contract for converting Fonn , s theatre
Into a fire-proof building, as a depository for
the rebel archives, has been awarded to
Rumen') DITNIIAIt, of Brooklyn, at twenty
eight thousand dollars.
The Trial of Wire.
The Wraz trial will not take place until
next week. The number of members of the
Military commission is to be increased, and a
larger room than that now occupied procured.
Personal.
Mrs. MARIA THOIINTOIT, who has just died du
this city, at the advanced age of one hundred
years, was the widow of Dr. Trionwroza, the
original architect of the capitol, and the first
Commissioner of l'ateht.g.
Chief Justice CHASE has returned to Wash•
ington.
FORTRESS MONROE.
Troops Mustered Out—Military Change.
FOUTSEBB MOBUor, August 1.4.--Five thou
sand troops are to be mustered out of service,
from this department; and, in compliance
with this order, the 104th Pennsylvania. regi
ment will soon start for home. '
General Tobart (7) is expected at . Norfolk
next week, to take command of this sulAis
tigot, now commanded by Genera/ Diana, This'
change is not made on account of any dissatiS.:
faction whatever, but out of regard to rank.
The steamer Charles C. Leary, from New Or
leans on the Bth, has pnt into Hampton Roads
for coal, and reports, August 13, off Key West,
passed steamer Thetis bound to Now Orleans.
The health of New Orleans was never better.
The sale of Government horses and mules,
yesterday, at Eastville and Drummondton,
Eastern Shore of Virginia, resulted in the sell
ing of twenty-four horses, at an average of
fifty-three dollars, and twenty mules at fifty
four dollars each. The animals evidently are
not appreciated on the Eastern Shore, and the
agents brought the balance of them back to
Old Point.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Gen. Kilpatrick's Opinion of the Present
Condition of the State
RALEIGH, N. C., August 16.—Major General
Kilpatrick has written a letter to a gentleman
in New York, endorsing the course of the.
Raleigh Progress, and the course of the "loyal"
representatives of the Northern mesa, for ex
posing the evil intentions of the disloyal
leaders in this State, which, the General says,
represents the true condition of affairs, not
only in North Carolina, but in all the other in
surrectionary States; and that these „facts
should not be smothered up by the friends of
the Government, ]ant should be generAlly
known, that the potpie may learn the correct
state of things as they now exist in the South,
which will enable them to act understand
ingly, and with justice to all concerned. The
General is now taking a trip through the State.
RICHMOND.
The Murder of a Canal-boat Captain—
Shooting a Burglar—Preparations to
Receive the President—The Crops.
[Special Despatch to The Press.]
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WasfirtieTON, August 15.—Titiehmond pa
pers of today contain accounts of the murder
of a canal-boat captain near City Point on
Saturday. The mutilated body was dis
covered in the canal. An attempt at house
breaking in Richmond on Wednesday night
resulted in the shooting of one of the burglars.
Great preparation is being made in Richmond.
to properly receive 1 - resident Johnson_ Ae.
counts of the crops are encouraging.
SAVANNAH.
NEW 1 onw, August 18.—The steamer - Empire
City has arrived, with Savannith dates of slur
gust 14th. -
The Herald contains but little news. The
12th Connecticut Regiment left Savannah on
the 18th inst. for home. A severe thunder
storm had occurred at Savannah, during which
Captains Bonner and Keyser, of the 24th Mas
sachusetts, had a narrow eseape from death,
the lightning striking their &words and
clothing.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
Sr. Jonas (N. F.), August is, via Arix , r DAV
(C. B.), August 18.—The Tarifa, outward bound,
passed Cape Race at nine o'clock yesterday
morning (Aug.ls), and the Britannia, inward
bound, about an hour earlier. The City of
Cork passed at six o'clock this morning for
New York. Her iulviees are the same as those
of the China.
KEY WEST.
BOSTON, Allgt/St 17.—The United States steam
er Trefoil, from Key West, arrived here to•
day.
CAIRO.
CAM), August 18.--The steamers. City of Al
ton has passel) rip with two hundred and eigh
ty-nine bales of cotton, from Memphis. The
Silver Spray has three hundred and fifty bales
for Cincinnati.
MEXICO.
The Liberal Army Meets Several De.
NEW ORLEANS, August 17.--The liatamoras
Monitor, of the sth, contains news of several
rlefeats of the Liberals near San Luis and
Puebla. The forces engaged were small, and
the remits unimportant, AT Any rebel refugees
in Mexico are becoming naturalized eitiZe,lls
of the empire.
CALIFORNIA,
A War Steniner Probably to be Sent
after the Sheuangleatt.
SAIT'FIIANWSCO, July 21.—The steamer Moses
Taylor arrived today from Nicaragua. Sailed,
yesterday, steamer America, for Nicaragua.
There being no efficient government and war
Vessels nearer this port than Acapulco, the
merchants are circulating a petition to the
navy yard c,ornmunder acking him to tele
graph to Washington for permission to char
ter and arm the steamer Colorado, and des
patch her immediately in pursuit of the She
nandoah:
Arrive 4 to-lay slip Syren from New York.
A bank (limited) With,a Capital of $5,000,500 15
'announced, under -the management of e:t-
Senator Latham:
Collision of Steamers Opposite New
Orleans.
Nmw ORLEANS, August 17.—The steamer Ma
tanzas collided with the steamer Carlotta,
when oppogito the city. The latter vessel was
sunk, and, it is supposed, will prove a total
loss. TIIO steamer Matanzas was uninjured.
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No lives were lost.
Arrival or the Steamer Scotland.
NEW - YORE, Angust 17.—Ths steamer Scot
land, from Liverpool on the 2d, arrived at
this portthis morning. Itcr advices have
been anticipated.
Great Fire at Quebec.
MONTT:IIAI, August 1.9.—A great fire oc
curred last night in St. noch, one of the su•
bulbs of Quebec. Nearly eighty buildings
were destroyed.
Fire vvaterimry, Coml.
Comx., August
Co.'s butter Factory was destroyed I .)Y
live at two sealoch this morning. The loss
amonntoll to Siiio,ooo, on which there W 45 all ttt.
tmranee for $lO,OOO,
MISSISSIPPI.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE STITE
CONVENTION.
AN ORDINANCE ABOLISHING SLAVERY
INTRODUCED.
Also, one Prohibiting the Legislature
Punishing Rebels.
NEW Ouracens, Aug. 17.—A special despatch
to the Times .from Jackson, Miss., to-day, says
that in the State Convention an ordinance was
reported ratifying all judicial decisions, judg.
ments, decrees, contracts, sales, deeds, and in
dictments, and also all marriages made under
the State law during the war.
An ordinance was adopted prohibiting the
Legislature from passing any law imposing
any civil disability ) or punishment, or forfei
ture of estate of any citizen engaged in the
late war with the United States for his political
opinions occasioned thereby. liothordinances
passed first reading.
A memorial, requesting the President not to
garrisbn the State with negro troops, Was re
ferred to General ,OSterhauS, the general in
command.
A memorial was preaented praying that
steps be taken in behalf of Jeff Davis and Go
vernor Clark.
The committee on constitution made a re_
port, recommending that such changebe made
in the constitution as to hereafter prevent
slavery or involuntary servitude, except upon
legal authority for crime, and striking out!all
portions of the old constitution relating to
slavery. •
An ordinance was also presented providing
for the election of Congressmen, Governor, and
legislative and other State officers, on the first
Monday in October, to serve two years, the ju
dicial and ministerial officers to hold office for
the remainder of the unexpired term of their
predecessors. This will cause all the elections
to be held on the same day as before the pas
sage of the act of secession.
A second committee was appointed, with]tu
structions to present an ordinance ratifying
all the acts of the officers of the State, not
made In aid of the recent war, and not incon
sistent with the courts of the United States
Or Mississippi. Both reports will be adopted.
THE PIRATE MUMMA,
AT LAST ACCOUNTS SHE WAS NEAR
BEHRING'S STRAITS.
HER DEPREDATIONS AMONG TIIE
11.1113 - ALIN4 FLEET.
A NUMBER OF VESSELS DESTROYED
~BV HER
SAn Fru:velar°, July 21.—The latest Recounts
from the pirate Shenandoah are to the after•
noon of June 23t1, when she was near Cape St.
Thaddeus, on the coast of Labrador, near Behr
ing's Straits, steering northwest, towards
where a fleet of Bihtty whalers was known to
be. Yreciousiy-captain Nye had left the bark
Milo, during. a fog, in a small boat, for the
purpose of warning the fleet of their danger.
The Nilo also spoke a French whaler, which
immediately put away towards the fleet, hay
ing considerable start of the Shenandoah.
While the Shenandoah was at Ascension Is
land, in April, she burned the .New London
bark Pearl, the New Bedford ship Hector,
a San Francisco and Hawaiian whaler. She
next burned the New Bedford bark Abigail in
the Ochotsk Sea r - then the Thompson in the
Kamschatka Sea, and then several New Red.
ford whalers, as already reported, in the Gulf
of Anadir, where she arrived on the 20th of
June. It was feared that, unless the French
ship's open whale boat could succeed in warn
in", the fleet, all would be captured, as the
Shenandoah knows exactly where to find
them. They were hovering along the southern
edge of the ice fieldst drawing closer together,
as the ice drifted - towards Behring's Straits,
through which they were seeking passage to
the Arctic Zone, as the ice permits.
BOSTON, Aug. I.9.—The whaling bark Pearl, of
New Lendon, while on her passage from Ilona-
Mitt to the Arctic Cleean, was destroyed by the
pirate Shenandoah. The loss of this vessel is
additional to the number of the fleet before
reported as destroyed.
EFrom the New Bedford Mercury, 17th.]
Mr. - James 0. Avol.ine, late chief mate of
bark Jireh Swift, before reported burped by
the rebel steamer Shenandoah, arrived in this
city . yesterday morning, front San Francisco,
having left the latter port on the 20th of July,
the same Clay he arrived down in the Milo,
which brought the officers and crews of the
captured whalers. From him we gather the
following:
The Jireh Swift was destroyed on the 22d of
June, off Cape Thaddeus, and had taken four
hundred barrels whale oil in that vicinity.
The Sophia Thornton, which was ineemwtny,
was destroyed the same day. The Jireh Swift
was the last ship destroyed, and while the So
phia Thornton was being fired, made sail, and
attempted to escape, beading in shore, but the
wind lading, she was overtaken. At the time
the Jireh _Swift was destroyed, Mr. Avelino
states that there were within a circuit of
twenty-five nines of them at least fifty
whalers.
The Harvest, of Honolulu, on her passage up
north had also been destroyed by the Shenan
doah,> the commander pretending that her
papers were not satisfactory, and believing
her to be an American ship.
The commander of the Shenandoah is Stated
by Dlr. Avcline, to be a Cape. Cod man, named
Wordell, who was a graduate of the Annapolis
Naval School, and was lately an officer on
hoard the pirate Alabama. He married a
Southern woman. Wordell is not a Cape-Cod
man, and we do not believe the pirate Captain
came from there: Thomas Manning, a Balti
morian, and who line been several voyages
whaling from this port,is now a pilot on board
the Shenandoah. John Dowden, of this city,
who sailed from this port, a boat steerer in
boat Martha 2d, has also joined the Shenan
doah.
Manning informed Mr. Avelinethat it was
the intention of the commandant of the She
nandoah to arm One Of the Whalers Which he
might capture, and send her on a voyage of
destruction so that the work might be com
plete with the fleet in the Ochotsk as well as
the Arctic.
At the time of the capture of the Jireh Swift,
the Mt. Wollaston, of this port was in sight,
some fifteen miles distant, and Mr. Avelino
thinks she may have escaped, as the Milo
spoke a French whaler, and requested him to
warn Capt. Willis of his danger.
An Earthquake in the South and West.
JACRSON, MISS., August 17.—'ihe effects of an
earthquake were seriously felt about nine
o'clock this morning, at Memphis, Lagrange,
Holly Springs, Oxford, and Grenada. At •
Memphis the shock was severe 'enough to
cause the people to run out of their houses.
Mgnpnts, August 17.—A shock of earthquake
was felt here this morning, shaking the build
ings, tumbling down chimneys, and upsetting
loose articles. An iron safe establishment
was thrown over. The shock was even more
plainly felt at Holly Springs; Miss., and La
grange, Tenn. It lasted about ten seconds.
No particular damage was done as far as is
hnown.
ST. Lotus, August 17.—A slight slloek of earth,
quake was felt here this morning, and alto at
Cairo. No damage resulted.
General Grant's Movements in. the
Northwest.
CawAao, August 18. --Monte/IEOA General
Grant and party left for Galena by. a special
train this morning. He was enthusiastically
received all along the route, and arrived at
Galena at three o'clock, where preparations
for a grand reception had been going on An
immense concourse of people were waiting to
greet him, and the demonstrations of.gratifi
cation were of, the most overwhelming char
acter.
The General was led to a platform prepared
for the purpose mild was weloomea by the
Ilon. E. B. Washburric in an elociuent speech.
Ohio Democratic State: Convention,
CINCINNATI, August 18.—The Democratic
State Sovereignty Convention assembled at
Columbus yesterday. M. IL Mitchel, of Knox
county, was appointed chairman, and. W. U.
Manuel, of Highland counts., ceeretarsr.
Alexander Long was nominated for Go
vernor, and Chilton A. White for Lieutenant
Governor.
Strong State sovereignty resolutions were
adopted.
NEW YORK CITY.
NNW YORK, August 18, 1865.
ARRIVAL ON A REGIMENT.
The 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, qo
men, under Colonel Cheswell, arrived this
morning, and are being attended to by Colonel
llowe. They will leave for mad - vide, al:les:,
to-morrow.
THE - KETCHUM PORGEMES
Upon the application of the creditors• of
Morris Ketchum & Co., the Superior Court
to-day grunted attachments against the firm's
property, consisting of real estate valued at
more than 6500,000.
. THE STOCK EXCHANGE—SECOND BOARD.
2,000 S6s 'Bl r 106'4; 200 Erie Ridlway.... 81 1 4
6.000 do 106 M, 100 do 2d call 81A
'lO,OOO U S Os 5-20.... c 106341 100 Hod Elver R.»30.107;
4,00 U 5 6s 'Bl C 10632 200 do 2d eall.tlo 1079.4
7.,(E0 Me State 65.... 70 100 do ' 107: 1 4
3,000 Abler Gold. 143 400 ek & It 98'
ZOO Cum Ci Pt 2611. 200 Beading It 102 Y,
50 Al Mall SSCo .. 185 I 100 00 Zd 01111402 X
N Central H.. 90', 1 41 200 do 102 X
THE EVENING STOCK BOAII I / 4
Gold, 145 1 A • NeW York Central, 91; Erie,B2%;
Reading,jo2h'; Michigan Southern, 62%; Pitts
-
burg, 604;flock Island, 105%.; Northwestern
prefevred, 61; Cutuperitylft, to, &AA. Aril,
I 4 ; 4 " AUGUSTS 19, 1865.
CHARLESTON.
Morris Island nod Vicinity—The rre
resit Appeorromee of Fort Sumpter—
The View from the Fort—Magnolia
Cemetery—The Surrounding Fortifi
cations.
[Correspondence of The Frees.]
U. S. Gtm HOAT CONIMAtrOII,
CHARLESTON, 8. C., August 14, 1865
I recently went down to Morris Island, and
walked through and over the rebel forts. The
upper part' of that tract is a strip of sand, ter
minating in Cumming , s Point, which shoots
out towards Sumpter. On one side of this
strip is the sea, on the other are impassable
Marshes, through which a stream meanders ;
and beyond, nearest of all to the city, is James
Island. This latter abounded with batteries,
chief of which was Fort Johnson. Now, to de
bar oar troorn, from the important extremity
of Morris Island, as well as to command the
channel, three forts were built in a chain
along the above-mentioned strip of beach.
The ulterior is Wagner, behind which is Chat
field; in turn supported by Gregg, right on the
Point. Sumpter, planted in the middle of the
liarbor narrows, was next in continuation of
the lino; then Moultrie, across on SulliVan'S
Island, with all South Carolina Is its backer.
The rebels understood concentration as much
as any people who ever made war. Most of the
garrison in and 'around Charleston could be
conveniently pushed en masse to any given spot
aria With rapid facility to this outpost, this once
defiant bully—Wagner. Its .negro-built ram:
parts, bastions, and traverses are all solid and
lofty. Beneath them the impenetrable bornb:
proofs run in various directions like the vaults
of a castle. The fort blocks a passway be
tween the surf and morass of about one hun
dred and thirty yards in width. Stockades,
eheraur-de.frise, and ditches made scaling all the
more of attempt. A bastion, protru:
ding close to the bog, and moated bye creek
let, enfiladed the rest of the front and opened
with havoc among the famous storming party
of Colonel Shaw, as, after running along the
strand raked by guns bearing thereon, they ,
reached the protected feet of the ramparts.
All obstructions were torn through, and a part
of the fort taken. The negro troops fought
worthy of the freedom they were trying to
bring to brother millions ; but their'supports
not coming promptly, they were crowded back
to death or flight by the heavy rebel reinforce
mguts hurried up through the series of forts
beyond. Below, on .the outside*of the works
areshowrithe localities of the trenches where
the slain.*ere buried—promiscuously thrown
in like so much clay, to which, alas ! all brave
men must return.
Two companies of the 3d Rhode Island Regi
ment now ocenpyWagner,Gbattleld, and Gregg.
The former will probably be maintained by
the Government, the otherl dismantled.
FORT BUMPIER
Sumpter from a distance resembles a huge
pile Of rubbish. Its southerly faces were alto
gether crushed in by the incessant pounding
of our rifled guns. The mass of debris has now
been smoothly inclined on the exterior, and
looks like the side of a railroad embankment.
Tons of missiles and barbette guns, knocked
from the ramparts, lie all around in the steal:
low edges of the water. The retads, - who held
out with an obstinacy scarcely ever equalled,
kept nightly repairing damages, as far as pos
sible, with rivetments of gabions and sand
bags. Their derider resorts were some of the
casemates closed up with those articles—a
thread-like passage only excepted. Wire of
telegraphs was plentifully used in peculiar an
rangement along the parapets, to-impede and
frustrate escalading. The insubordinate Zou
ave regiment(l(isth New York,) after being dis
armed, is now caged up in this stronghold:
MAGNOLIA OEMICTICICS
Visible through a strong glass froIaSUMP•
ter, up Cooper River, is Magnolia Cemetery.
It was founded in 1850, and is Charleston's,
Greenvciod, or Baurel Hill. But its inferiority
to either of those is striking. Its site is a
sandy upland, and from beneath the tree's of
its borders the eye ranges over a vast, nearly
surroundin'g, marsh, whose miry runs inter
sect the grounds. •Grand monuments are in•
frequent, and bear upon their bases names of •
northern makers. Walks and drives are few.
The gate lodge and fences are common frame:
There is a small, bare chapel of some plaster
ed material, - with sashes riddled in most places
and gone altogether in others, after the pre
sent approved fashion of Charleston Churches.
The whole tract comprises thirty or forty',
acres, only half of which is reclaimed from
wilderness. Such of our garrison. as. die are
interred here, and it la a melancholy spectacle
to see graves ready dug in rows foe the reeep.
tion of the bodies of men who, at the time of
such preparation, so far from being dead, may
not be even ill.
Er=
Just beyond the eemeterya laboriously-piled
line of fortifications, with natural and artill.
vial fosses, zig--zags across the country. The
design was to close hereby the' neck, three or
four miles wide, between the two rivers, and
thus secure Charleston from an inland quer
ter. At intervals Within the works are maga
graeS-grOwn, earthen mounds, re.
minding one of Indian cumuli. By one of
these an elderly negro Was busy.cutting,up a
Pine he had felled. He begged me to read to
him some writing Which he produced. It
proved to be an agreement by the soiPs owner
to allow the man to clear and tin the ground,
year by year, for a rental of two-fifths the pro.
ceeds. The poor negro seemed pleased With
his bargain; and resumed work with an alac
rity which he confessed was the result of
knowing it was on his own account, he being
a freedman. Should this system become gene
ral—if persons who have more land than they
can hope to improve themselves; ean'flad in
dustrious freedmen to lease the surplus, and
do so for them on shares, the benefit to both
Parties and to the country is evident.
In this vicinage• are some magnificent live
oak groves, sombre from their festoons of
crapedike moss. The plank road leading into
town is in a condition to wrench into Pieces
any carriage, however slowly driven. No
equipage of any beauty is to be seen, the vehi
cles being all old and worn, of little value and
le,ss varnish. . • .
Acting Rear Admiral Wm. Radford, now
commanding the cOnSOlidated Atiantie Squad,
ron, bas just looked in here in his flag-Ship,
the steamer Malvern, receiving his salute of
thirteen guns. R.
The Accident at Camp Barry, Washing.
ton, D. C.—Death of Miss Good.
The readers of The Press wore yeSterday
morning informed of the sad accident which
occurred on Wednesday evening at Camp
Barry, Washington, D., C. From our Wash.
ington exchanges of yesterday we glean fur
er particulars
On Wednesday evening Miss Eliza Ward,
who resides at the corner of I street north and
Second street east; Miss Mary A. Good, a rela
tive, who was on it visit from Baltimore, and
Mr. - Joseph Chatham started to walk to H
street east, near the. Eastern Branch, to visit
a Mrs. Coleman an aunt of the young ladies.
About half•plef seven o'clock they were pass
ing Camp Barry, and had reached a point
about fifty yards below the Bladensburg road,
on the side-road leading to Benning , a Bridge,
when one of the ladies exclaimed, "I am
shot !" and fell. When the shot was fired Miss
Ward was in advance, and Miss Good, who
was leaning upon the arm of Mr. Chatham,
was following. Miss Ward had just • stepped
off a bridge spanning a small stream, and Miss
Good was about to step off when the shot was
fired. The ball, which was apparently from a
carbine, struck Miss Good in the back, half all
inch from the backbone, and two and one-half
inches below the lower extremity of the
shoulder blade, and passed entirely through
the body, coming out about three inches below
the centre of the right breast, Ana afterwards
striking Miss Ward npontheenoulder,causing
a very slight wound. After the shooting Miss
Good was conveyed to Miss Ward's residence.
At the Coroner's Inquest Miss Ward was sworn,
but she knew nothing of the shooting, and
could testify to no particulars, being very
much frightened:
Ms„ Joseph Chatham, who was with the
young ladies, testified to the facts as above
mentiodhd, and also stated that when the shot
was fired be heard the report, and after Miss
Good exclaimed she was shot, he caught her
in his arms, and looked around, and saw no
one standing -between them and the sentinel
on duty near a building about one hundred
and fifty yards off. Witness believed the shot
was almccl at one of the party who were walk
ing along.
What is above stated was elicited at the
Coroner's inquest,. but the jury declined to
make up a verdict, and adjourned - until
to-day, when witnesses will be summoned,
aud. a further investigation will be had.
The reason of this was, that it had been
stated (not under oath , however,) that the
party who fired the fatal, bullet was Henry
Raymond, a private of Company B, lath New
York heavy Artillery. It was said that a man
had escaped from the guard-house„ and that
the soldier was ordered to shoot at him by his
ecru-mantling, omcer. The soldier declined,
but, as is stated, the Weer threatened - to shoot
the soldier if his command wait not complied
with. The soldier then fired, and the ball, it is
alleg ed took effect upon the person of Miss
Goo. These matters will be fully investi
gated to-day.
Miss Good, who was about twenty-three years
of age, and the only support of her mother,
who is without means, (Bea at twenty minutes
01 four o'clock yesterday. Her mother was
telegraphed for as soon as her daughter was
known to have been shot, but did not arrive
until a few moments after her death.
,Alarkets by Telegraph.
CINCD.INATF, August 18.—Flour firmer, and
slightly in favor of buyers; sales at $50525.
$2,19 ; boldem demand $2.20. Provi
sions better 5 , 050,000 its shoulders sold at 15e,
loose, and 200 bbls mess Pork at $3O.
NEW ORLY:ANS, August 11.—Cotton is deelin
; sales of 1,700 bales at 42e 'for middling.
The sales of the week amount to 12,000 bales;
receipts, 23,000; stock in port, 88,000 bales.
Freights are unchanged. Ice is scarce at 15c Ift
it : the stock is almost exhausted.
Aug - ust 18.—Plour aetive. Wheat
2e higher; sales at *1.28 1 ,40)1.20. Corn quiet. Oats
steady. Freights firm. Receipts—FlOur, 1,000
barrels; Wheat, 35,000 bushels. Shipuaents—
Flour, 1,800 barrels ; Wheat; 7,000 bushels.
CHICAGO, August M.—Flour firm Wheat
quiet ; sales No. 1, 41.29; No. 2, 411.17a1.18. Corn
quiet at 60@69 1 ,4e for No. 1, and 084§0,5% for No.
2.Ots d ull, and
aterl 36 d Telie. lower; sales at 43%4171)
44c, k.. FreightB advanced
Xorn lie to Buffalo. Provisions very dull.
Receipts. Shinments.
Flour, barrels 2,4002,900
Wheat,bnshels. .... 78,000 1,700
Corn, bushels .... . ... .......145,000 100,000
Outs, bushels I . a. 6 1 000 Am
NATIONAL TEACHERS' CONVENTION
A FELL REPORT OF YESTERDAY'S
PROCEEDINGS
THE OFFICERS ELECTED FOR THE
ENSUING YEAR.
[Special to the Press.]
RARRISITIZO, August 18, 1806.
The National Teachers , Association reassem
bled this morning, at half-pabt nine O'clock, in
tile courthouse.
The exercises were opened with the singing
of an anthem, after which the minutes of the
previous meeting were read.
The report on the visit off the Association to
Gettysburg was read. It says that over four
hundred members of the Assoottutioa and their
friends participated. A meeting was called
on the battle-field, at which the following
resolutions were presented by Professor
Rankle, of Ohio, and adopted :
Reaolved, That we shall ever cherish with
grateful remembrance the opportunity offered
us this day of seeing the great battle-Held on
which was decided, in July, 1863, the fate of
this nation.
Resolved, That we consider this naturally
beautiful place, on the soil of a free State, as
made infinitely more glorious by being the
spot where the nation was born anew.
The third and fourth resolutions tender
thanks to the railway Companies for the ac
commodations extended, and to the citizens
of Gettysburg for the hospitality with which
they entertained the Association. '
The report of the Committee was adopted.
A long list of candidates for honorary mem
bership was read, and they were admitted to
membership by acclamation. Among them
Were the following Philadelphians :
Dr. Alfred L. Kennedy ; Messrs. E. A. Apgar,
Wm. Henry Parker, Joseph Gile, George W.
Fetter, John G. Moore, James IL Eldridge,
Rev. Narcisse Cyr, Captain D. Y. Killgore, and
Mr. Pierce.
'On Motion, a Committee was appointed to
estimate the cost per capita of instruction of
youth in each State and throughout this coun
try, to report at the next annual meeting of
the Association ; and the committee was
named to consist of Messrs. Buckley, of New
York; Ifickoff, of Ohio, and Northrop, of Mas.
sachusette.
RESOLIITIONS Or RESPECT
Rev. Leighton Coleman of Wilmington; Del.,
offered the following resolutions in reference
to the death of the late Rev. Alonzo Potter,
Bishop of Pennsylvania.
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to re
move by death from his large sphere of use.
fulness, the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D.
LL. D., late Bishop of Pennsylvania; there
fore, be it
Resolved, By the National Teachers' Associa
tion, at their meeting in Harrisburg, that in
the decease of Bishop Potter we are deeply
sensible of the severe loss which, in common
with other objects to which he so zealously de
voted his varied talents and accomplishments,
the great cause of American Education has sus
tained.
Resolved, That his early and constant• ad
vocacy of this cause ; hie rare Judgment and
earnest efforts in prompting its welfare, and
his large-hearted Sympathy with the new and
vast field just now opening before it, added to
the many other virtues which grated his
oiflcial and private character, will ever entitle
him to the gratitude and veneration of all
lovers of our enlightened and active Chris
tianity.
Resoired, That a copy of the foregoing reso
lutions be respectfully forwarded to the fami
ly of the late Bishop, with the assurance of
our hearty sympathy - with thct in their 011ie.
tion.
The resolutions were adopted unanimously,
?file. President appointed the following gen
tlemen to draft appropriate resolutions, ex
pressing the sense of the Convention with re
gard to the eminent services of the late
Bishop : Messrs. White, of Ohio; Hale, of Ken
tucky; Allen, of Connecticut ; Coburn, of Penn
sylvania, and Valentine, of New York.
T. W. Lambert offered a resolution that a
COmmittee be appointed, to report upon the
feasibility of calling a W0r1d 4 ..9 Poachers' Con._
vention to meet two years hence in the city
of New York, to consider and illustrate the
methods of teaching in all departments and
grades of knowledge.
The Association then proceeded to the dis-
CusSion of the best method of teaching the
classics. The following gentlemen took part
in the discussion :
Rev. Naralase Cyr, Philadelphia ; T. P. Allen,
Massachusetts; Rev. Dr. Johnson, Pennsylva
nia; Mr. Thompson, Pennsylvania; S. S. Maids
man, Pennsylvania, and J. B. Thomson, New
York.
On motion r the Association proceeded to bal
lot for officers for the ensuing year, with the
following result
For President.—J. P. Wickersham, Lancaster,
Penna.
For nce-.Presidenis.—Richard Edwards, .Nor
mal Ill.; T. W. Valentine, BrOOklyn, N. Y.; W.
F. Phelps, Winona Minn. ; John S. Hart, Tren
ton, N. J. ; D. Franklin Wells, lowa City, Iowa;
A. J. Rickoff, Cincinnati, Ohio ; C. S. Penne',
St. Louis, Mo. ; G. W. Ross, Indianapolis, Ind.;
J. W. Bulking, Brooklyn, , N. Y. ; D. B. Hagar,
Salem, Mass. ; M. Gregory, Kalamazoo,
311 ob. ,- S. S. Greene, Providence, R. I.
For Secretary..-.S. 13. White, Chicago,
For Treasurer.—S. P. Bates, Harrishurg, Pa.
For Counsellors—Z. Richards, Washington D.
C. ; T. D. Adams, Newton Mass.; Merrick Ly
on, Providence, R. I. ; D. 'N. Camp, New Brit
ain,Conn. ; James Cruikshank , Albany, N. Y. ;
L. 'Van Bokkelen, Baltimore, Nd;
; E. E. White,
Columbus, ObioL.J. L. Pickard Chicago, Dl. ;
C. Harrison, NCIYArk, N. J.; J. G. McMinn,
Madison, Wis. T. F. n i t{Thickstu astings,
Minn. ; C. F. Childs, St. Louis, . N. Hall
man, Louisville, Ky. ; J. C. Shortrulge, Indian
apolis, Ind. ; F. A. Allen, Mansfield, Pa.; L.
Coleman, Wfirain,gton, Del.; J. S. Fowler,
Michigan; T. S. Parvin, Iowa; Henry Cum
mings, Oregon.
The report of the Committee on Object
Teaching was then read by Prefeseor S. S.
Green. The committee consisted of the fol
lowing. distinguished gentlemen; Barnas
Sears, D. D., Providence ; S. S. Greene, Provi
dence ; J. Th . Philbrick, Boston ; J. L. Pickard,
Chicago; D. N. Camp, Connecticut; R. Ed
waras,,it/inos, and. C. S. Pennel, of Missouri.
The report was a lengthy and Ateresting
paper, and gave many pleasing and instructive
incidents of the result of object teaching
and its value in instructing young children.
Early instruction was first needed. The ma
ture mind can study a foreign or dead lan
guage, and make an eavelioit lingulet,but not
theeasy and fluent speaker that the child be..
comes in the same time. Children should not
be supposed to know too much, and the fa
miliar objects of life should be rendered per
fectly familiar to them.
A Conception or oleitridea should be instilled
into their mines, and this is too often no
glected. The abstract definitions given at the
commencement of the reading lessons merely
exchange one unknown line for another
equally unknown. To this object teaching
raised an Calmest protest. But what then is
object teaching 7 It was not a mere exhibition
of cards from the teacher's desk, with an un
varying succession of lines and angles and
curves, nor a foolish adherence to the use of
actual objects ; not an excessive talking about
objects which leaves all to the teacher and no
thing to the pupil; but that which compre_
bends the whole realm of nature and art, so
-far as the child has examined it, only what the
child knows, not what the teacher knows, and
soon, gradually rising from the well known to
the obscurely known, and so onward and up_
ward untifilthe learner can enter tile Reid of
abstract thought. It follows leature's law,
first the thought, then the conception, then
the word—so that - when the order is reversed
the connection of ideas shall not be broken.
The young child in its first school-days can
not understand why it should be cooped up in.
the echool-room, but by this Metiled the Vs"
tem of object teaching will render the Change
from play to school-house less irksome. He
now learns and tests his various conceptions,
and now the study of the language can be
commenced, and the ordinary errors of com
mon language corrected, Then he can imi
tate the forms of object On,...the slate. The
chief importance of object teaching is not so
much in this as the great aid it renders to the
teacher. He who can teach - object lessons
Well can teach anything well. But he
must know the pre6ellt, condition and at
tainments of the children under his charge,
and what is most suited to them, before he can
properly impart instruction. To teach reality
is the teacher's motto. If a candidate for the
teacher's office presents himself, do not weary
him with hard questions in aritliMetiC and
algebra ; not to examine him before a board of
directors, but to put him into the school
room, take away every printed aid, and with
the few objects within his reach, to teach the
children reading, spelling, and arithmetic.
If he is a good teacher he will interest and in
struet the children witllo44 books, and it is
safe to employ him.
The committee recommend the system of
object teaching, as pursued at Oswego, as more
nearly fulfilling all the requirements than any
of the other schools which profess to use that
eth oft
After the singing of "The Flag of the Free,"
by Dir. Saxton, of New York, the Convention
adjourned until afternoon.
AFTERNOON BSSION
The subject of the-World's Convention was
discussed a short time, but was postponed for
the consideration of the report of the Commit
tee on Object Teaching.
Miss Cooper, of Oswego, who has had under
her charge a class •of small children in object
teaching, was present with her little charge,
and gave a pleasant and instructive exhibition
of the results of the system. With such a
small and simple thing as an apple, the chil
dren were taught to name its various parts—
the names of which were written on the black
board before them—as apple peel, stems, dim
ple, seeds, core, pulp.
The pleasure of the audience was manifest•
ed by most hearty applause.
Mr. Northrop, of Massachusetts, addressed
the association on the subject of abject teach
ing, and expressed his. gratification at the re•
port of the committee. TIo never saw 'children
who are more interesting and interested than
ti eee who Colo' OCuOilt et olsi eat V4s4e4iioist
He spoke of a Visit to the schools at Oswego;
and though he - could enlarge some points
there, he wished . to give bis strong commen
dation to the system, an to the zeal of the
tanagers of the ingtitutiOnotricre.
M. Haldeman whaled to sap - Mot the city. of
Ilari:laburg was entitled to haxiirg -been the
first tn. introduce object teaching:. A Mr. John
M. Hay, one of her eitimena, relinquished the
practice of, Medicine, and set up w school in
Harrisburg. He was an ardent admirer of
Pestalozal, and, in 11328, published a primer,
which he called the reetwozzian primer. Ha
was an adrairablklinguist, and afterwards was
appointed Professor of Languages in Dickin•
riOWCollege r hut died before he could ho take
the chair. -
Professor 11.:-E. §heldou, of Oswego, made a
long address upon the gradatioue of object
teaching, as pursued in the schools at that
place, and by which the observation. and lan
guage of the child are formed. He also • made
a searching review of an attack made •by Dr•
Wilbur upon, the eyetem,whieh had been made
at the last meeting. A number of erroneous
statements made by Dr. Wilbur were eor•
rected.
Dr. Lowell Mason said that facts were to•be
learned by the ear and eye; by the ear was the
way to learn facts. He spoke of. the object
lessons of N. Seward Bates, given thirty years
ago, and of lessons of the same nature given•
by Horace. Mann. He also illustrated in a
pleasing manner the teaching of sounds and•
the elements of music.
Mr. G. G. Haldeman produced the Pestaloz
zian primer, published in. 1827, and read some
of the lessons in it.
Dr. Mason said if that system had prevailed,
there would be no objectiorrto object teaching.
Hon. James Miller, of Philadelphia, was
elected an honorary member.
Mr. Packet% of Cincinnati; Ohio, spoke upon
the subject of National Education. He said
that as long as the' military power lasted in
the South, the National Government w the
only one which could be properly approached
in the matter. While the Southern people
have power they will resist the general spread
of education in those States. The fate recently
met by the missionaries in New Zealand wag
scarcely more than what would. have been Slif.
fered five years ago by Northern men who
would teach slaves to read. The arrogance
of the slave power must be entirely broken
before we can have a national system of edu.
cation.
The black man of the South, who. has been
the best friend to the nation, must be strength
ened and fortified a-ainst those who once
called themselves 11 - 1 master, that they may
be properly prepared for those great rights
which are sooner or later to be his. Unwit
tingly we have fought for the freedom of the
slave, and now we must educate him. The
only way to do this was to petition. Congress
to form an Educational Department, with a
Commissioner of Education, who should ex
ercise a general supervision over the en
tire matter of national schools. The sta
bility of a nation depends more upon
an adherence to the pthicipleg of free
government, and upon the intelligence
and morality of the people, - than upon a com
pliance with assumed constitutional forms,
based upon injustice and oppression. HO re,
commended that a committee be appointed,
whose chairman should spend such time in
Washington as lie might deem necessary in
furthering the objects of his mission before
the National Legislature.
The following gentlemen were thereupon
appointed as the committee on the World's
Convention: Dr. Lambert, of New York; T.
IL Burrowed, of Pennsylvania; E. E. White, of
Ohio; P. B. Hagan, of Massachusetts;
Hallman, of Kentucky.
Dr. John G. Moore exhibited his G-eosele
neon, designed to illustrate the principal phe
nomena of the solar system. The earth's mo
tion upon its axes, its motion around the sun,
the seasons, and the movements of the :noon
around the earth, are well represented.
Eclipses and phases of the moon, and, in tine
all the phenomena which we see from the
earth, are strikingly set forth.
Some discussion took place as to the city in
which the neat Convention should he held
and it was at last left to the decision of the
Board of Directors.
The next thing in order was the reading of a
Paper on "Education as an Element in the Re
construction Of the Union," by Professor
Wickersham, Principal of the State Normal
School at Millersville, Pennsylvania.
The address commences with a review of re
sults to be aimed at, which follow the.plose of
the war. Not the lean tiPtheSe - tereke-Trne tho
e(lucation of the freedmen of the . South. On
this point he said :
Among the emancipated SlaVes there are
bright minds, possessing already some knoW
ledge and eager for more. National leaders,
God-appointed, like Moses, to introduce this
Oppressed people to the promised land of
knowledge and liberty. These I would seek
out, put them into the Normal schools, and
tram them for teachers and missionaries
'among their own people, and when prepared
send them forth to (10 their allotted work.
They would be willing to live among their pu
pils ; they could understand their wants and
enjoy their sympathy, and they could do
vastly more for them than white teachers,
even though better qualified. For years there
will be no school-house except in towns and
villages, and these colored teachers Should
teach the people, wherever they could dud
them, adults as well as children, on the plan
tations, in camps, or cabins, or meeting
houses. -This work of teaching one another
began as soon as they were free. A cor
respondent of the New York Herald,
writing from the far South, says : "I have
frequently seen the colored people teaching
each other as they sat by the road-side..
Other observers tell us that they have seen
colored soldiers studying and reciting their
lessons in the trenches while shot and shell
whistled over them ; that they have heard
them naming over their letters to one another
at midnight in their eaMpS ; and thatthe most
prized treasure in their knapsacks
.was a spell
ing-book. people so eager te , learn must be
taught, and it will be found best policy '
teach them by employing mainly teachers of
their own race.
The inauguration of a system of instruction
for the freedmen is a noble work, and no man
in America at this time has the same oppor
tunity of doing . good as Major General 0. 0.
HOWard Cetentissioner of the Freedmen. Let
us rejoice that the work he is appointed to do
is in good hands, for General Howard is a
Christian. He should receive encouragement
and strength from the educational men of the
country ; and it seems to me proper that this
body should proffer it by the appointment of
a committee to wait upon him.
The colored. people deserve something at
the hands of this nation. They were brought
here without their consent. For two hun
dred years they have labored among us, in
creasing the wealth of the nationi and when
a gigantic rebellion threatened to over
throw the Government they remained loyal,
furnishing, wherever they could, valuable
information to our commanding officers, aid
ing many Of our prjeeners in making their
escape from rebel prisons, proving themselves
our friends in a thousand ways, and at last
taking up arms and fighting nobly in defence
of the Union. That they fought well is suffi
ciently attested, and justice demands that
they should have at least a chance to prove
whether they may not be entitled: to the ina
lienable rights of freemen—life., liberty, and
ellie pursuit of happiness. Besides, sooner or
later, either by the National or by the State
authorities, this people will be allowed the
right of suffrage, and all wise men readily see
that their education should be made a neces-
Sa lLrg n o d l i g:r n of qu Z e e ii ; g enf ta n
kils:lroli:tregu
lates, and the educator builds. ihe soldier le
the hardy pioneer who cuts clown the forests,
the legislatorlays out the farm, and the edu
cator makes the harvest yield its fruitage.
In a republic, if all men vote, all men must
be educated. A. loaded musket in the hands
of a crazy man in a crowd is not nearly so
dangerous! as a ballot in the - hands of an igno
rant man at an eleetiOn. The thing of highest
interest in a republic is its schools.
What this nation most needs to-day is the
extension of a well-arranrd system of free
schools to all its parts. the late rebellion
the line of free schools marked the line of loy
alty to the Government. We must push that
line to the Gulf. Free schools are needed
not only as en element in the reconstruc
tion of the Union, but as a means of pre
serving it when reconstructed. We must per
fect our school Systems at the North, and the
teacher and his spelling-book must be made to
follow the soldier and his musket at the
South. Intelligence must be recognized as
the basis of republicanism:. Statesmen
must come to give the Metter of pub
lic instruction dipore attentive coneide
ration. Departments organized to render
efficient the work -of education must be
made to occupy a more prominent position at
our State capitals and at Washington. The
great duty that presses upon 'a patriot and the
philanthropist of this country to-day is. the
education of the whole people of the eation,
without regard to race, or rank, or color, or
position. When our youth all learn to read
similar books, study similar lessons, submit to
similar regulations in the schools, we will be
come one people possessing an organic na
tionality, and the 'Republic will be safe for all
time.
* ls not the condition of things such that we
may begin to speak, with some hope of being
listened to, of a national system of education?
Few men thoroughly imbued with the spirit
of our American systems of education will
doubt the propriety of regulating by State
laws all the educational agencies of the diffe
rent States. It is almost agreed that the Com
mon Schools' nigh Schools ; , Academies, and
Colleges of a State should be ieeeporatedinto
a system, be subject in certain particulars to
some central authority, and be made to
• subserve their several functions in harmony
with one another. At a time when ter
rific war tested the sinews of this nation,
it was found that a Government like ours
could not always depend upon the several
State Governments for its eoldiers or its
money, and it seems to me that wise states
manship must before long discover that ne
cessity now exists for the establishment of a
Department of Public Instruction at Wash
ington, the head of which shall encourage the
adoption of systems of education in all the
States, adapted to our form of Government;
and under proper Congressional enactments,
and with -dee regard to the rights of the
several States, some general control over
those systems. A start in this direction
has been made by the establishment of the
Freedmen's Beauru ; and I think it is gene
rally felt that an enlargement of its powers
would promote theublic good, and place mit
institutions upon a firmer basis. We want all
educational power still to emanate from the
people, but -what the people do must be rage-
Intact in township, county, State, and nation..
We have school authorities now in township,
county, and State, but we want a national
head, for the great lesson we have learned in
the last four years is that the United States of
AMerlea is a nation, and not a copartnership
of States ; and as a nation, our Government
ought not to release itself from. all responsi
bility . concerning education. There le ea
agency the Government can - use so wall
calculated to reconcile the diverse intee
eete--44. cyiiutry( tiY tt4 dilrg*
THREE CENTS.
ent pai , ts, to make us one people, as a
well-delised national system of edueatiOn.
Without this—either administered by the
States or' the nation—all else will prove
abortive. Without it, there may be recon
struction, hut there can be no true union;
there May be a mechanical cohesion of parts,
but there mate noconnection anden-working
of individualities in a common body with a
common life. Indeed, withotit a moulding, Or
ganizing,consolidating, Union-formingsystern
of schools, extensive enough at least to im
part the element's of knowledge to the whole
people;tt not distant future will see this na
tion standing like an old oak ins the forest,
with a number of HS branches dead or dying,
significant Of the death that will speedily
overtake the whole. A little priming now, an
effott to throw the - strong vitality of the
healthy parts into these that give* evidence of
decay, and the tree will slough off its dead
matter, and grow with: all its wonted vigor ,
and limiridusness.
American.cducatorsholditin their handS tho
destinies of this nation. Their task is not
like that of the dashing soldier or the popular
statesman at whom all the world gages; but
in the unobtrusive quiet of 'the sehool.room,
though to eye save that of' God witness the
work, .they may, infuse such a love of our
Country and its institutions into the hearts of
the coming generations of children that the
Republic, on its secure foundations, will stand
as firmly as the Irgyptian pyramids.
STATE . NORMAL SCHOOL, J uly,. 1865.
Professor Crummel, of the University of
Liberia, an American by birth, but a resident
Of Liberia for many years, wee 'then intro
dined, and made a long and interesting ad
dress upon the subject of the education of the
negro. He thanked the Convention in warm
terms for the regard they had Shown* and for
the privilege extended him. The sending
away of the colored people was wrong.. It was
unfair that they should be driven from the
country. The United states was their father
land ; they had fought and bled for it, and a
grateful country ought to educate its children.
After the singing of a song the Convention
adjourned until evening.
E...VExtßia SESSION.
The evening pression opened with a diSOUS
sion of the resolutions offered by Professor
John S. Hart, of New Jersey, relative to the
establishment of &National Bureau of Educa
tion. They were adopted, with some slight
amendments.
A number of addresses were then delivered
by the delegates on the subject of education
in their respective localities.
After a few remarks from Governor Curtin,
the Convention adjourned sine die.
Shortly after the final adjournment, the
members of the Association proceeded to the
State Capitol Motel, where they were regaled
with peaebea and cream, provided by the citi
zens of this place: A few songs were sung,
and after a pleasant interchange of thought
the guests separated.
The Jenkins Embezzlement Case
Dow TOP. °Pinta:DER PAID OPT HIS MONET TO
THE WAFTER-GIRL.
The counsel of Charles Brown and Genieve
Lyons, who were arrested for receiving some
of the money of Jenkins, the Phcenia Bank de
faulter,made a motionbefore JudgeLedwitli,of
New York, yesterday, that they be discharged.
The feeling paper read by the counsel (Judge
Stuart) shows. some of ,the ways by which
Jenkins managed to rid himself of the bank , s
money. It is the statement•of Genitive Lyons,
and is as follows:
Wben I first came to this city I obtained a
situation as sales-girl in a corset and trim
ming store, where I remained at low wages
until the proprietor stopped bliStnees, I could
get no other place had no money and no
friends to give me any. Afterwards, I saw an
advertisement in a. newspaper for a waiter
girl in a refreshment saloon, and went and got
the place at a great deal more wages than I
ever had before, besides a premium for wino
which I sold. I had been there but a few days
when Mr. Jenkins came there with three or
four others, Ile had agood deal of wine, and
called me to wait on hm
The proprietor told me he was worth more
thaii all the other wine customers in his house;
that I must not wait on any other man while
he was in the saloon ; that he always wanted
a waiter-girl to himself; that if he took a no
tion to me, he would give me a great deal of
money, and that lie went to a great many sa
loons, and spent thousands of - dollars, arid
gave money to all the girls that he liked ;that
night he gave me ten dollars, and the proprie.
tor gave me two dollars for the wine 1 had sold
him; after that he came there every week,
and sometimes every night almost y ; there
would he always different persons in the sa
loon, and he treated everybody; he always
bad great rolls of bills; he always gave me
money—sometimes a ten-dollar bill, and two
or three times a fifty-dollar bill ; once he gave
me a bundred-dollar bill to buy me a watch;
and I sent it to pay mr little brother's school
ing ; all the other girls were jealous of me, be
cause he liked me more than them; after a
little while, he told me be liked me better than
any girl he ever saw; that ho would take Me
..out of that saloon, as it was no piece for me ;
be said he would send me to school and give
me a better education ; he said he was yell
rich, and owned oil wells, and had as much
money as he could spend ;, that he was a
broker, and had a share in a good many rail
roads he told all such things as this but he
never told me he was in any - mink ; I did not
know where he, lived, and never asked hint,
and did not think he wanted me to know, and
I did not wish to know—he was so good to me ;
one night he told me to hunt rooms and he
would pay the rent of them ; I found the
rooms in Bleecker street where I was ar
rested •he gave me eight inmarea doll •s to
furnish them ; he supported me, and came to
see me every week, and sometimes every
night ; I never met him in the street but once,
and that was accidental ; I was never in a bad
house.
Mr. Jenkins did not know Brown ever came
to my rooms - ; and in this way I may have
been wrong to him (Jenkins 7 I honestly be
lieve I have received of den Una only Shoat
two thousand five hundred or three thousand
dollars ; he gave me also some money to pay
two doctors' bills • he was very good to me
when I was sick; the doctors' names were
Bungstead and Paulus.
have not been out of the city but once, and
that for about two Weeks, since I knew Mr.
Jenkins, and with that exception, which did
not cost over two hundred dollars, I never
spent a dollar rtbis money, all of it, was spent
for his convenience and comfort ; I never gave
a dollar to any human being—never ; I have
nothing now but my clothing and that hunt
ture ,• this is a truthful statement of the facts,
- whether they be in my favor or against me.
Drown also made a statement tligt lie had
received money from Jenkins at various times,
THE STORY OF THE DIAMOND RING—A CYPRIAN'S
LETTER, OR ONE 'WRITTEN FOR HER BY HER
COUNSEL.
We have already spoken of the $B4O ring
which Jenkins is said to have given to a
eyprian, Whieif, Was afterwards captured by
detectives. The Cypriot: writes the following
indignant letter to the New York Herald;
claiming the ring:
2b the Editor of the Herald: So many false
and absurd reports have been published from
time to time concerning my connection with
Henry B, JOMilne, and the taking from me of
my•ring, that I am induced to tend you the
following statement:
Of Mr.' Jenkins, previous to his arrest, I
knew nothing, except what he told me. The
extent of his information was that he belong
ed in the oil regions, where he had made
large sums of money and had large in
terests. This statement I never doubted,
WWI I read the report of Ifis arrest and
confession. As he .now confesses hiinstlf
to be a thief, and appears to be fully cor
roborated, I suppose that (with. the rest of
the community, I must believe him. So far I
do. But when Mr. Jenkins said (if he ever did
say) that mg ring was bought with the money
he stole from the Phoenix Bank, he was not
Only a thief but a liar. I say this in advance
of a legal investigation, which will soon fol.
low, but as I have never been proved to be a
thief, either on trial or by . confession, I think
my statement entitled to a little more credit
than that of Henry B. Jenkins. The ring in
question I bought myself, at Tiffway St Co.'s,
on the 28th day of June last, fronts gentleman
whose name I believe is Squires. I paid for it
eight hundred and forty dollars, my own
money, the savings of a long time, and I
continued in peaceable possession of it un
til the eleventh day of this month, when
Officer McCarthy came to •my boarding
house, in company with another man, and,
Without any warrant or authority of law, forci
bly took it from aie, (snatching it Mit of nq'
hand,) on the ground that it was bought with
money belonging to the Phcenix Bank. This
is the story of the ring. I have never been ar
rested. I have never acknowledged that the
ring was bought, in whole or In part, with
money given me by Jenkins. I never tried to
entice ,Tenkin 5 into buying me a house. These
Stories, and the thousand_ others ill ~lgculation
about me, are pure fictions. lam a poor fal
len woman. 1 know my position; but I have
as much right to my property as the Phoenix
Bank, and as much right to have the truth
spoken about me as Officer McCarthy.
A few words more sir, and I will tire your
patience no longer. The particulars furnished
to the prows by this officer of the "recovery. of
a valuable jewel," hag given him a great repu
tation in this community for tact and shrewd
ness. This is well. Now, I have both read and
heard that Jenkins has acknowledged that he
lost much of the money stolen from the Plum
nix Bank by gambling operations in Wall
street ; that he has also ittrnished the names
of the parties to whom it was so lea; but I
have looked in vain for any report that Officer
McCarthy, or any other officer, has entered
either bank or broker's office, and seized
stocks, bonds, money, or other valuables un
der plea that they were indirectly obtained
with the money stolen by this unfortunate
man. Why is this, Mr. Editor! I will tell you.
It is because it was thought safer to commit
an illegal act on a poor, friendless, and out
cast woman, than upon a rich and powerful
money operator. So do not I think_
_; so does
not my attorney ; so will not Officer McCarthy
. when I have done with him.
Yours, Sce., ItOSA ALLEN.
Row Yorm, August 17, 1865.
. Our Candidates.
General Ilartranft is a gentleman only
thirty-five years old, of fine education, wbo
began life as a civil engineer but afterwards
studied law, and was practicing in NOlTi9^
town when the rebellion broke out. Ho at
once raised a regiment for the three months ,
service, whose tarsi expired just as the 'first
battle of Bull Run began, lie refused to
go home with it, and offering himself as a
volunteer aid to 'General Franklin, Ws ren.
detect efficient service throughout the battle.
lie then raised another regiment—the 51st
Pennsylvania which he led - through various
campaigns 'with ent valor. When its term
of three years nad expired the regitue.t
re-*Misted, with COMMA itartrallft at, Its
head. Ile %Mg 90011 after placed dt the head of
a brigade, and for hi , : great services in IV,
arduous CarnPaigli of bellerra Grant, In 1 (It,
he wee appoiotea brigadier general. For
especially brilliant conduct in last spring's
campaign before Petersburg, he was breveted
no ler general of volunteers. The loyal people
Of ermaKlvania will repice at the opportu
nity of offering one of tlreir highest oftleeS tO
a man who has so well maintained the honor
of their State in scores of battles for the safety
of the Union.
The candidate for Surveyor General, Colonel
Jacob X. Campbell, is host known in the west
ern part of the State, where ho is extremely
popular. For a number of years he was super
intendent et JSiorreirs Iron Works, at Jowls
town, where be was much respected by the
whole Community for his worth, ability anA
Westin', ITiwtt tlo wax lavicel OtlUlc ROW
TI-13E1 WAR ritainiss,
(ICBI,TsI-1 &is WVEKI.V.)
Tns vrAl ear An wtil be pent to. OUblertbeti by
(Perot ve
? e IG ()41
copies WO Ott
locper (Au I,N Moon 7C71 1711117 C 011717110 it el" lainlik
'rate, 442.00 per copy .
The taunts, town attoove accompanll Out order,'"i
In no . Instance can these term* be deviated row, t
tu g grora very tittle more than the cog of Parr.
JEPTOlitTaaatere are requested to act is Wine
for TfZ WAR Pitts&
AI? - To the getter-up of the Club of tea or twenty,
an extra copy of the paper Will be given.
up lils private affairs, invested his emiaings
in Government securities, and ofreved his-sef.-
vieoa to the country. Ile was commissioned.
July - 30th, 1861, as Colonel of the Sith Pennsyl•
vania Volunteers. This regiment he led most
gallantly through variouscampaigas. lie will!
receive the unreserved import of all tree ,
Union men, es a gallant solluer in time of war,
mid a valuable citizen In time of peace,7-Eve
ning Bulletin.
United States Soldiers' and lswilOrsi,
Home.
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PHILADELPHIA, A.H11181,. LIAM
M. EDITOn :An article in the Wenger/der
of Mat week, over the names of two ladies as.
soeiated With the "Soldiers' ;loins in the city
of Philadelphia," contains statements whien
can hardly tend to benefit the cause we all
profess to have at heart—the good of our brave
and suffering soldiers. The undersigned will
sot trouble your readers with any explanation
of the causes that led to the existence of the
association at wherlii head, as prosid anti Is ex
bieverner Pollock, and la whine nlarieSewit't
are associated other names honored through
out our Commonwealth, The Home this ass..
elation aims at establishing is not designed to
be a "Soldiers' Dome In the City of Ph-Hader
. 'Thin," but a country home, somewhat remote
from the loafing and drinking haunts of the
city, and, therefore, not prOperly to be viewed
by the ladles as a rival institution, %lie un
dersigned begs to append therewith the circu
lar recently issued by authority of the eased
ation% Board of Managers. It is signed by ex-
Governor Pollock, Judge Strong, Rev. Dr.
Newton, and Dr. Bourns.
It may be well to correct here a mistake the
ladies make 111 asserting that we allow as pay
.to our collectors " lens es' p ant. on all amounts
which they collect." Weeks ago, the managers
resolved to allow Jive per cent., and no more,
and this percentage is to be allowed only until
the collector shall have realized for himself
for the month a certain sum, which-the Board
deem a sufficiency, though a moderate com
pensation for Ills expenses and entire time.
Mier DaliDg realized bia MlStitWa wages, the
Collector gets no percentage whatever on fur
ther sums he may collect during the month,
While the ladies now assail our effort, we
might object to their using—even with his
formergenerous consent—the name of our
worthy President to give weight to their ap
peals to the public ilnat their partiality, we
dollbt not, toay benefit the soldiers, and We
shall not find fault.
Very respectfully,A, IdAnT)x, Superintendent.
From the Bucks County Intelllgeneer.]
STATE ITEMS.
A list of premiums to be awarded by tics
Pennsylvania State Agricultural gociety, at
its thirtieth annual exhibition, to be hold at
Williamsport, on the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th
of September next, are announced. For best
trotting horses, s3oo.and *2OO are offered ; and
for stallions, mares, colts, bulls, cows, working,
oxen, sheep, swine, etc., the premiums range
from 575 down to et, ,
The remnant of the 10th Veteran Reserve
Regiment, yet on duty in garrisburg,is shortly
to be discharged. The necessary preparations,
are being made for the muster;out and pay.
ment of the men.
The Oil City News gives number of on
companies at fourteen hundred and litty•SOTell i
with a total capital of eight hundred and sixty.
nine millions five hundred and ninety-four
thousand dollars,
All the hotels and private boarding hone
in liarriSinirg are crowded, and many privat•
houses have been thrown opOn ter the aeconiA
modation of strangers. The ,city is thronged
with visitors.
The Perseverance Engine and Hose Com
pany, of Harrisburg, will attend the great Ilre,
men's parade to come off in this city in
Octo
There is to be a general 'Lill fOid parade
of returned soldiers in Jackson, Huntingdon
county, on Friday.
Pittsburg, is revelling in criminal offences
of kraal' calibre.
The buckwheat yield of Indiana county
promises well.
expects to kayo a rOglidar po
lice force.
HONE ITEMS.
IlleArone says that there Is at least one
instrument which battles you, in ease you
happen to be proud of having the bed of °yell , '
thing. You might, for instance, if you had
money enough, become the owner of the best
piano, the most superior guitar, or the finest
fiddle in the world; but, cost whatever it
ma y, nitrhocly ever owned a drum that coul4nii
be beat, (Still, in ease this idea IMAMS itself
favorably to you, I have a very good second•
hand drum that I would be willing to sell you
at a considerable reduction.) You must re•
menthe; in choosing this instrument, that
two heads are bettor than one. It is also Well
to bear in mind that the drum has led a great
many people into trouble (luring the past four
years.
-- The battle of Bennington, which marred.
August 16th, 1777, was celebrated with great
eclat Mit Tuesday. Bev. E. IL Chapin de.
livered the Oration after a great procession of
military—great for the.little town in which ib
occurred. Governors Smith and Dillingham.
and Dillingham, together with General 'look;
Cr, General Seymour of the 6th Corps and one
of the defenders of Sumpter, and Staunard,
who lost his right arm. in front of "Richmond.
On Wednesday thete were horse racing, field
sports, and a visit to the battle-field.
It is proposed, in view.of the fact that In
diana has but about ten miles. of lake shore,
to make a suitable harbor at Michigan City,
which is the only town in the State bordering
on Lake Michigan, and a Convention occurs at
that place this week to devise means for ex
cavating, building piers, ac., to make the liar.
bor what it should be. The sum of 68,000,000
will be needed to carry through the enter
prise.
clergyman of Saratoga Springs, a few
Sundays since, was preaching a Sermon upon
death, in the course of which he asked the
question, Is it not a solemn thoughts" Ilis
little boy, four years old, who bad been listen
ing with wrapt attention to his father, Immo.
diately answered in a shrill, piping voice, 00
as to? be heard throughout the house, € 6 Yes,
sir, It is,” greatly to the amusement of tlia
congregation.
—The log hut in which, thirty odd years
ago, the first white child was born who ever
inhabited Chicago, was recently pulled down
upon the very day on which that child was
married—Chicago not "possessing romance or
taste enough to preserVe Se interesting a Ines
mento of its marvellous growth, but consent..
ing to sacrifice its birth-place because a
marble-front would pay better than a log-hut t
Some person has stolen from the Capitol.
in Richmond the third, fourth, and fifth vo
lumes of the bacbratal it McDatlaitl ritporgy ,
a series of seven manuscript volumes, Oentalrd
ing the records and archives of the colony Of
Virginia from the meeting of its first General
Assembly to 1692.
Albino, the celebrated racing mare, re
cently died at Laclede, Mo., through ruptur
ing a blobil-VeSSel while training. 1119 mare
was formerly owned by Sohn Carey, of South
Carolina, but was confiscated during Sher
man's march, by an officer, and brought to St.
Louis.
A Long Braman correspondent writes en
thusiastically of the lading' bathing (Meet@
there, and the "bifurcated attaclunentg.” A
young woman in the water he styles a willowy
blonde, "with eyes of heaven's own azure,
floating like a water•lily upon the wave."
As a Stonlngton, Gann., servant girl was
stirring up a coat. fire redelitly, with an iron
which she found conveniently near, the iron
burst and scattered things generally. On ex
amination, it was ascertained that the girl had
used a bomb-lance for a poker.
The Providence Aurae/ speaks of a squash
vine in that city which ff row* eighteen inches
daily, anti at last accounts was sixty feet long-
It will soon get beyond the limits of the State..
Good native wine sells in California at one
dollar to one dollar and fifty Cents per gallon,
and brandy sells at two dollars and fifty canto
to three dollars.
Rev. Dr, Roberts, pastor or a negro church
in Indianapolis, is to be tried by a jury of
peers for embezzling the bounties of tiegreP
soldiers.
six thousand five hundred dollars have
been subscribed by Washington secessionists
tU the Mrs. aeir DRVIIS te4thnonial.
General Hooker is going to St. Louis to
marry a pretty and wealthy widow,--84%
Dlr. and Aire. Wigan—London theatrical
ghts—are coining to this country.
There are 314,022 Indians in this cowl try.
roßzwit 111010.
The last number of Pencil contains a pic
ture of the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, with
a group of mermaids swinging on the cable
and gamboling around IL At one side ap
pears old Neptune, who calls OM "Alt.o.o.y t
there! Lot that 'cm cable alone, can't you?
That's the way >wilier one was wrecked.“ .
Abd el Kader , s visit to Europe recalls the
fact that at the time of the massacre of Da,-
masons he saved the lives of several hundred.
•
Christians. Each of the continental Govern.
' petits gave hint the pighest honorary aecora
-1101/ it had to bestow, anti prosentett
him with a double-barrelled rine.
A man having been found murdered near
Boston, England, and suspicion of guilt rest
ing on a party of Irish harvesters, the police
intve warned all iri.nmen not to enter the pap
rich at present, for fear Of popular violence.
The Boy at Tlllll/3 has beta invested with
the order of the Bath. Thirty English officer's
were oont to perform the ceremony, anti the
D ar entertained them ill the csßardo,” or
palace, with great splendor.
Why is Wachtel the proper person to
plgy VIABCO di (Mutat Because of his astound.
ing feats on the high.(;.—Pansit.
The Duke of Devonshire has three 40118
and a brother in the new Parliament.
. . .
Burglars robbed Lord Palmorsion's houses
in London of *t,ooo worth of jewelry.
A club to do away with aWanOWdaiied
wags is forming in Dublin.
The duty on mud' in England With
year i 8,115,097 Ws, 10.
Tennant, the English tenor, is dead, lie
was first crazy.
General Ban-Jo-kin tins been killed lit
China.
Riceotil Gf4llibe lo bus arrived in London..
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