The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, August 21, 1865, Image 1

THE NEWS.
,vier Pres ident" Stephens and n Postmaster
4.oeia• p , Reagan are Still in Fort Warren.
i., l ,l l ens takes his confinement very easily. It
0 _ been mitigated so much recently that he
~. now allowed the freedom of the parade
-mild Of the fort. Reagan has the same pri-
A
; :! .,,e; and the same philosophy. Roth are
,ions either for a trial or a pardon, prefer
the latter, of course. Their apartments
irf: eight feet below the level of the ground,
1 ,,, 1 the inevitable dampness is contracted by
l oove, which is lighted whenever the prison
desire it. They are treated very—very,
reit.
3 ow Orleans despatch of the i3th trot. earg
ha a few nights before some military sur
,,,,,ded the residence of General Beauregard,
117 at city, under pretence of searching for
; : •1.!,- Smith, whom they insisted was in the
dragged out Beauregard and leaked
up in it cotton press. Beauregard wag an
ti-, and comp/sied to Gen. Sheridan, who
r;edily righted I he matter.
- );bent A. Jones, a "freight collector" on the
yit' It:direful, has absconded to New Orleans,
,otne other place, with funds of the eompa-
V ranging from $50,000 to $500,000, either sum
' wither of them, just as the reader pleases
, t , .ess. as no calculation of losses can yet be
Ms salary was 51,0e0 a year, and for
handled from 00,000 to $500,000 of the
cqupaay'S funds daily.
Ileum) Ferguson has bad a conversation
ith a reporter of a Nashville paper, and
iren some points of what may be termed his
donee. Many of the acts charged to him he
Ays. he never committed. If he had remained
Clinton comity, Kentucky, he could not
:see been taken, but he surrendered, and that
„hood faith as a regular Confederate officer,
.c.t expecting prosecution.
.ilorris Ketchum & Son, the firm who have
seen swindled of their all by a son of the
onor partner, have made an assignment of
heir assets amounting to about A:2,501,000.
will not, however, cover the whole de
f,leation, which in the language of the New
ork papers "will probably be less than
4,cnn,n00."
in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the freed
oo not seem to be treated as well as they
light be. A school teacher who began a
Cool to educate them, has been ordered
,way by the sheriff of the county; a negro has
strung up by the thumbs, and the civil
:tlthoritiCS, SO the despatehes say, do not
~ ; ('e with the military.
iii, Bev. Bishop Wood, of this city, has pub
;•hetl a letter in his organ, the Baltimore
'lirror, (he has no organ in this City,) written
canlinal Barnado7denying that the Pope
Ter z{tia, "Fenianos non esse ineuietantlos"—
rcalans are not to be Manned. The
`,,uo never said nor wrote any such thing, an
ng to the Cardinal.
Measures are being taken to speedily restore
en to its civil condition. A committee, ap
,iateil by the people of Northern Texas, are
lote at Austin conferring with Governor
inuillon on the subject, basing all their eon
,:enees on promises of . thorough obedience
o the law.
Adv ices from Europe to the 11th, by the Bet
•ian, at Father Point yesterday, are burdened
utirely with commercial and financial news,
and hopes and guesses about the cable and the
reef Eastern. The speck of trouble between
zzt , tria and Prussia has all disappeared, if Vi•
as despatches be true.
The certificates of indebtedness redeemed at
Lc Treasury for the week ending Saturday
,mount to over nine Minions of dollars, and
,wing the same period four hundred and ten
housand six hundred dollars of mutilated
,Tracy has been destroyed at the redemp
o:] bureau.
Guerillas are not yet dispersed in Tennes
c.. Some Union soldiers who went out from
,f-loton, in that State, to hunt up govern
:eat horses, were attacked by a great hand of
:Lie miscreants a few days ago, and driven
aek to Jackson with a loss of three killed.
31rabnilian prOgressesput slowly in Lntinis
u, MeNieo. Ms troops have lost San Luis Po
which has been taken by the Liberals,
!loth sides are waging a most savage system of
wrfare, neither taking any prisoners.
All the currency which the national banks
!ate been authorized to issue, has been issued,
IA it understood that nowore applications
national banks, except those filed before
lie lilt inst., will be granted.
Two millions of dollars were received from
r mem] revenue on Friday. Up to Satur
lay, '0,000,000 worth of certificates of indebted
tad been paid, and $410,600 of mutilated
urteuCy destroyed.
Gen. A. B. Underwood has been appointed
ollector of the port of Boston. Hon. D. W.
*coch has been appointed Naval Officer of the
awe city.
During the week ending the 19th of August,
I ere were 365 deaths in this city. One of these
1.4 that of a minor, from intemperance.
hon. James H. Beel has been made Secretary
: State of Texas. John Forsyth has been
aile Mayor of Mobile.
All the bridges of the Pacific Railroad in
IStit f stroyed by swollen streams are to
(-paired immediately.
The letter we print giving a history of the
moments of the Atlantic cable is from the
,o of Russell, of the London Times.
Me provost, guard of this City Was 'Ws
.urged on Saturday.
(;encralJo Johnston left Washington on Fri-
Ay en route for Richmond.
6'' 1 65,500 of notional currency were issued
-1 week.
;ulti closed at..143 ; 3 4 in New York on Saturday
ETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL:S
WASHINGTON, August 19, 1891
The following statement made by Major
rural Itobt. C. Schenck, in bis speech at
lillicothe, Ohio, last Tuesday, is clearly
uqained by the experience of others who
, eve knowledge of the President's opinions :
Tie President 'night have held the rebellions
tte.i in military subjection as a conquered
, 11,1 e until satisfied of their entire loyalty,
, a 1 emit reinstated in their former positions
legislative action ; or he might have with
the military force altogether, and. left
ill In to exercise their civil functions locally,
QPI in their relations to the other States.
rim the start there were objections to each
1 hbe courses, and the President combined
, 411 1.11010 i n, a military force over them at
ht,inne time that he allowed them to rein
:ne these civil powert . 3, and. begin again the
•x , tc•ie of their loyal functions. This latter
r , :lrilege, however, wasonly an experiment,d`.l ' 1 the Speaker - assured his hearers that
;'ident Johnson so regarded it. Only
'!a days ago, in a full and free inter
e.., with him, the President said he re
the local governments set up
• 1 the rebellious States as temporary ex
. trillions, simply to - give the people
~ opportunity to ;how whether they will de
-1'"'.1) the right spirit and policy necessary for
!;:u restoration to their proper position in
unrermnent. While regarding them as
' l l.eriments he intends that the military
of the Government shall hold them in
C , tk, so that if they be found straying, back
,
~ , ; , ,i 6beuious ways the military will be there
f: id event them I rom again making the trou
"' they have heretofore caused.
The President, in this conversation, referred
.._ 1 • • •:),, course that has just been ptirsued in
ace to the Richmond election, where: the
ti 14 ewnnanifested their rebellious spirit by
cling to Nike the very men who had re
' NIY been in arms against the Government.
was with his sanction that the military
‘yeherities had set aside the election, and he
kfe this as an example of what might be ex
t. lied In ether cases Of a similar
Nail , read the foll owing resolution adopted
the Pennsylvania State Convention on
` 3lol rsday last, and see how faithfully it
and sustains the above views of
::)t,ent Johnson :
That the mild and generous me
reconstruction offered by 'Mu Pre--
to the people lately in rebellion, in the
i'' ,2 th , •nt of this Convention has not been
in a spirit of honest loyalty and
!.. - , ,, .tilme,but . with such evidences of defiance
V" , 1 :o -dilly as to impel us to the eonvtetion
cannot be safely entrusted with the
tights which they rejected by their
until they have proven their accept,
V , ; the results of the war e and incorporated
ll, tai tonttitutional provisions, securing to
:!1
~;"vb within their borders their inalienable
10 life, liberty, and pursuit of happl-
The deplorable evidences of bad faith on
' Dart of many of the late rebel readers,
some who entreated and received
11.1. pardo n of the President, have become
Lumcrous, within the last two weeks, as
;.rive to the counsel of your Convention
11‘),,ost resistless force. Even in North
E'lrolina, where Governor Holden has
I, ,nestly tried to carry out the wishes of
he President, and to make good the pledges
le gave when he was appointed, the co
-I,,red troops, withdrawn from Fayetteville
t , ! the earnest request. of the people, who
Nemnly promised to act obediently to the
l•'.es, have been sent back, in order to kohl
check the reckless brutes who took
olvantage of their absence to abuse and
;;teittc the freedmen, The military
treated with marked disrespect even by
4'. subordinates of Governor Holden.
. I *],lag s , I regret to say, are very little het
in Mississippi and Alabama. The un
!l4apromising stand of bold Dick Damiltori
J, Texas, and Father Brownlow in Tennes
":ii, will make those two States:stout strong
•!::1:4 !lithe Republic. From all that I hear
IL re is a promising prospect in Georgia,
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VOL. 9.—NO. is.
South Carolina, and Florida. Louisiana is
only half governed by acting Governor
Wells, and Virginia you can judge of by
the daily bulletins from RiChmond. But
what would become of the national autho
rity and national interests—what would be
the fate of the freedmen in all these States
leithout the military? It is not a pleasant
Question to ask, nor to answer, in the face
of the kind and magnanimous policy of Pre
sident Johnson. The late rebels could not
have been more offensive or cruel if the
President had not been thus kind and mag
nanimous. What, then, should be thought
of the men who demand that the military
shall be sent out of the borders of these
States ? Only one construction can be given
to this demand—that they desire to see
another rebellion and the re-enslavement
of the colored population. That one or the
other of these results would follow the with
drawal of the military is palpable to my
mind, in view of the contempt and ingrati
tude with which the generosity of the Exe
cutive is greeted. Plain duty leaves to the
Administration but one course, and that is
substantially pointed out by the Union Con_
veution of Pennsylvania. The rebellious
clement has prepared the way, and cannot
complain if it is severely applied.
WASHINGTON.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TRIAL OF
CAPTAIN IVIRZ.
More Applications for Pardon--Some
of them Insolent.
Issues of the National Currency----Ite
demption of Indebtedness, and Re
ceipts from Internal Revenue.
WASIIIVGTON, August 20.
The Trial of Captain 'Mira.
Col. N. P. CHIPMAN, A, D. C., continues to be
the Judge Advocate of the Military Commis
sion, which has been reorganized and enlarged
for the trial of Captain Irma, Altluiugh the
charges and specifications will not be ollleially
made known until the arraignment of the
prisoner, there is reason to believe that these
include the charges of conspiracy with certain
leading rebels to cause, by starvation and
Other means, the death of Union soldiers in
Southern prisons.
Insolent Conduct of Petitioners.
Some of the Southern visitors to Washington
behave as if they bad an undisputed right to
the pardons for which they have applied, and
are correspondingly importunate. This re_
taus rather than facilitates their object, for
the President continues to act in such manner
as to assure them that pardon is an act of
clemency, and not of right. The larger mini
ber of applicants, however, are more con
siderate.
The National Currency.
The issues of national currency for the week
ending to-day amount to $3,065,500.
National Hanks.
It is understood that no more national banks
will be authorized, except in cases where the
applications were filed prior to the Ist of Au
gust. The full amount of currency to be
is
sued by the national banks has been antho.
rized, which is the reason of this determina
tion.
Pardons.
A large number of pardons were granted to-
Gay, principally to citizens of Virginia of the
$20,00 class. Among the new applications for
clemency was that of Brigadier General Ts.
num., of Tennessee.
How Poster Got His Pardon.
It has been stated in some newspapers that
a Mr. P6ATV72 procured, the other day, a pardon
under the amnesty proclamation, by giving a
claim agent, of Washington, a fee of $lOO. The
facts in the case are substantially as follows :
Dlr. FOSTER applied to a gentleman in Rich
mond to prepare the papers for his pardon,
and to urge its passage. That gentleman did
so, and the warrant was made out and present
ed to the President, where it laid on the table
with hundreds of others for some time, await
ing his signature. At length Mr. Fosma be
came impatient and offered a claim agent of
this city &ITO to procure it from the President.
This gentleman, who has a national reputa
tion, called upon the President at one of his
general receptions, and requested him to take
up his (FosTEn , s) pardon, and sign itvendors
hag the applicant, and leaving the impression
that Fosraa was a personal friend of his and
that he ashed for it upon that ground. He in
no manner represented himself as Mr. FOs-
TER'S attorney, and the request was granted,
and the pardon delivered to him. There is
authority for stating that hereafter no par
dons will be delivered to agents or attorneys,
but that they will be delivered either to the
applicant in person, or sent to the applicant
by mail from the State Department.
Postal Service, Etc.
The Postmaster General has just concluded
a contract with the Raleigh and Gaston nail
road Company for the daily conveyance of the
mails between Weldon and Raleigh. This re
establishes continuous postal communication
between the Northern States and the capital
of North Carolina.
The act or Congress forbidding, under heavy
penalties, the placing of the words 44 United
States mail , ' on a steamboat or other vessel
not employed in carrying the mail, and the
publishing in newspapers or otherwise that
any such steamboat or vessel not so employed
is - used in carrying the mails of the United
States, having been recently . evaded in
ninny instances, the Postmaster General has
given special instructions to postmasters to
take the necessary steps to promptly enforce
its provisions against all offenders.
Appointments.
General A. B. UNDERWOon to-day received
his commission as .surveyor of the 'port of Bos
ton, and, as a consequence, resigned his com
mission in the military service.
non. D. W. Gooeli has been appointed Naval
Officer at Boston.
Massachusetts War Debt.
It is said the Pres Went to-day ordered the
payment of 8021,000 to the state of Massachu
setts toward the settlement of the total of the
amount due on her war debt, which is repre
sented to be about three millions.
Sale of the Vessels.
The next sale of useless vessels, lately em
ployed by the Navy Department, is ordered to
take place at the Washington Navy Yard, on
the 35th of September next.
Sentence Commuted.
lt is understood that the sentence of death
passed by the Military Court at Cincinnati, on
G. St. Leger Greenfall, a British subject, con
victed of aiding, prisoners-of-war at Camp Dom,
glas to escape, has been commuted by the Pre
sident into imprisonment for life at hard la
bor at the Dry Tortugas.
Internal Revenue.
The receipts from the internal revenue on
Friday, amounted to almost two millions of
dollars.
Personal
Among the visitors at the President's house
today was Lieutenant General EAVELL, late of
the rebel army.
General Beauregard the Victim of a
Lark.'"
NEW ORLEANS, August 19.—Cotton steady;
sales 1,250 bales at .11@-120 for middling. Sugar
dull. Cheeks on Now York %@% discount.
General Beauregard 9 s house - was surrounded
a few nights since, and Beattregard with others
kept in a cotton press all morning. It was
supposed that Kirby Smith was concealed
in the house. A. gentleman much resem
bling Smith was Mistaken for him. Beau
regard COMplained of the manner in Which
the military had invaded his premises, the
officer in command not being uniformed.
General Sheridan was greatly annoyed at the
Occurrence, and righted the matter with
Beauregartl.
The Hon. James 11. Bell has been appointed
Secretary of State in Texas.
The Mississippi Convention.
JAcHtiON, August 19.—The special report of
the committee on amendment to the COnstitn,
tion was discussed at length, but nothing waS
done. The report of the committee as tele
graphed, substantially, will be adopted, giv
ing Mississippi a free constitution.
Death of a Nouthern Editor—Cotton
News from Cairo.
CAIRO, August 19.-175 bales of cotton arrived
today for Cairo, CM for St. Louis, and 988 for
bincinnati.
W. F. Wisely, editor of the Mobile Argus and
Crisis, died at Jackson, Mississippi, on the Stil
instant, suckleoly.
Compliment to n Governor.
Bowrou, August 19.—Governor Andrew, of
massaelmsetts,.bas been unanimously invited
by the trustees Of Alltiooll College to become
President of thatinstitution, His aeceritanee
is considered doubtful.
Burning of a Lime Vessel.
PROVIDImc E., August 19.—The schooner Liz.
zie, Glover, from Rockland for Norwich, with
a cargo of lime, struck on the rocks near
Watenhill early on Friday morning, took are,
and was burned to the water's edge. She
_was not insnred, bat her sails and rigging were,
3aved.
Arrivals and Departures of Vessels.
FORTRESS Mormon, August 18.—The steamer
Favorite commenced today making daily
trip between Norfolk, Suffolk, and Smith
field, leaving Norfolk on the akigval of the Bal.
timore boats.
Pilot boat Protector, No. 2, of Norfolk, cons.
menced to-day to cruise about Capes Henry
and Charles, to furnish pilots for these waters.
Bark Eagle, from Kennehunk, and forty other
sailing vessels, are in this harbor, wind-bound.
Wind easterly.
Bark Schuyler, from New York, arrived, and
proceeded up the. James for City Point, to load
with tobacco from Richmond.
Propeller Vineland arrived from Baltimore,
with 500 barrels pork for Commiss4ry Depart
ment.
Schooners S. H. Sequin and B. C. Terry ar
rived from New York.
Steamer Robert Morris arrived from City
Point, bound to Washington, D. C.
steamer Hero of Jersey, from Baltimore
Arrived ; steamers Black Bird, from Rich
mond; Nettie Belle, do.; bark aoannali Wil
helminer, from Baltimore; steamer Mattano,
Captain Hicks, from Cherrystone ; steamer
Jas. T. Brady, from Baltimore ; steamer Ade
laide, from do
Persecution of Colored People—Dupli
city of the People of Fayetteville.
BEAVFORT, N. C., August 14.—Mr. Adrian
Dickinson, a loading merchant of this city,
recently from FayetteTilley says it is not safe
for a Union man to express his sentiments in
that city.
OCCASIONAL
Two female school-teachers recently went
from Wilmington to establish a school for
colored people at Fayetteville. The sheriff
would not permit them to land, and informed
them that if they were men they would be
served as such people were before the war.
While in Fayetteville, Mr. Dickinson says a
negro was strung up by the thumbs in the
public square, and received forty-nine lashes
from a civil officer recently appointed by
Governor Holden. Collisions between the
military authorities and representatives of
the provisional government occur continually,
a,nd the officers of the army are looked upon
with contempt.
The Wilmington Reread States that upon a
,pledge at respect for the United States autho
rities being given, the national troops _ were
withdrawn from Fayetteville, but the result
has been , of speedy development.
The 'Raleigh Propress says, the uational
au
thorities, finding themselves deceived, have
found , it necessary to garrison Fayetteville
again with negrotroops.
Destruction of united States Agency—
sls,ooo Lost—Steamer Sunk, Etc.
CAIRO, 111., August 19.—The steamer Marble
City, from Memphis, has seventy-seven bales
of cotton for Cairo and one hundred and sixty
four bales for - st. Louis.
The steamer Belladdra, with 500 bales Of eot•
ton, was sunk On the 10th, in the Red River.
The boat and cargo are a total loss.
A fire at Little Rock, Ark., destroyed the
special agency of the United States Treasury
Department. The loss amounted to $15,000.
John Forsyth has been appointed Mayor of
VET A GUERILLA WAR.
Union Soldiers Attacked and Three
Ilmurnm, August 20.—Some soldiers who left
Jackson ft few days since, to hunt up horses
that had been stolen, were attacked by a large
number of guerillas and drivenback, and were
obliged to abandon their horses. It is report
ed that three of the soldiers were killed after
falling into the halms of the guerillas. Two
of the guerillas have been captured,
Champ Ferguson, the Guerilla—His
NASHVILLE, Aug. 19.—The Dispatch of this
morning- contains a long report of an inter
view between the local editor and the noted
guerilla chieftain Champ Ferguson, now on
trial in this city. The interview was granted
by General Thomas. This is the first conver
sation he has had since his arrest, excepting
with his counsel. He gives a complete history
of his career, and expresses himself freely on
everything relative to the charges against
him. He denies ever having committed many
of the acts charged against him. He states
that those whom he killed were seeking his
life, were in arms hunting him down, and way.
laying him, He says he has never harmed a
Federal soldier in the regular serviee, though
he has taken many prisoners. He states he
could not have been taken in ten years if he
bad remained in Clinton county, Ky., his
home, and not surrendered ; that he surren.
tiered in good faith as a regular Confederate
Meer, not anticipating prosecution.
Speech by General Sickles.
Bosrox, August 19.—Major General Daniel E.
Siekles,lately appointed to the command of the
Second district, Department of the East, com
prising the States of Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, and Vermont, was serenaded last
evening, and made a short speech from the
steps of the Parker House. He said the state
of his health would prevent him from making
any extended remarks, but he would take the
opportunity to offer his congratulations at the
successful close of the war, and the honorable
peace which bad been won. He spoke of the
New England troops, which it had been his
fortune to command, and expressed his belief
that the military supervision of the New
England States. would not be a very arduous
task. The General was received with enthu
siasm.
Pacific Railroad Destroyed Bridges
himalarOtlS, August lit—A long train of
cars loaded with truss bridges, to replace
those destroyed on the Union Pacific Railway,
(Eastern Division,) by the unprecedented high
water in streams in Kansas, passed west to
day, in charge of Major Henning, General
±igent. In the meantime the business of the
road is uninterrupted. Temporary bridges
have been constructed; and the energotic Di
rectors are sparing no expense to make the
road first-class.
11. S. Steamers for Philadelphia
PORTLAND, August 19.—The United. States
steamers Dictator and Vanderbilt sailed at
half-past four o'clock this afternoon for Phila
delphia.
Burning of a Steamer on the Lake.
DETROIT, August 19.—The steamer Traveller
Was burned: at Eagle Harbor, on Lake Supe
rior, -yesterday. No lives were lost. The boat
was valued at t 40,000, and insured for <1,^20,000.
Ni w roma, August 19.—The Waterbury Bank
this morning commenced a, suit against 111.01, ,
ris Ketchum & Son for 872,000. The. balance of
*lOO 3 OOO was deposited with the latter parties.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER BRITANNIA
The steamship Britannia, from Glasgow on
the sth instant, arrived at this port this eve
ning. her adviees have been anticipate&
The Daily. News says : Albert - A. Jones, Freight
Collector on the Erie Railroad, has been per
petrating a series of robberies. It appears
hat his salary was about one thousand dollars
Pet year. He had humble apartments in one
quarter of the city representing his salary,
and another suite of splendid apartments on
Broadway representing his stealings, and in
Nvhich he entertained is female friends. These
rooms Were made a perfect seraglio. An in
vestigation of his accounts shows that he stole
bre° thousand dollars in one day, and how
much More, and how long he has been steal
!ig, is not yet determined on.. Jones has left
be city with oue of his "ladies," ostensibly
ror New Orleans.
A correspondent writing from Colorado
•ays :
"At present silver minesand Indian troubles
are the all-absorbing topics in Colorado. The
-liver excitement is ix:el:casing daily. Upon
the streets, in stores, saloons, and hOtelg, in all
places and at all hours, groups of amateur
mineralogists may be seen examining the
pecitnens from some newly discovered lode
snd it is literally true that at this time about,
t:yery citizen of Colorado has a pocket full of
"the rocks." Even the ladies are not exempt
from the universal mania; they invest freely
in the stock of prospecting companies,and are
of unfrequently heard hemming of their lucky
peculations, and discussing the comparative
merits of the "Argentine," " Snake River" and
- Red Mountain," with all the animation they
would display in ventilating a piece of fresh
dorneStle gossip, Many disinterested eastern
men of the highest business eapaolty, and of
weli.known scientific merit, have visited the
silver region, and they all concur in the
unanimous verdict of the people here, that the
mines are full as rich as and more extensive
than those of Nevada."
I,l3Tri.ovmxtes OP THE FREEDIUN,—One of the
tic - we - mama farms for the employment of
freedmen is located on the Patuxent River, in
Maryland. This farm, aceOraing to the account
of a cotemporary, embraces about thirty
'thousand acres ; but only about twenty-two
hundred acres are now under cultiVation,
Muth of the land being still covered with tim.
her, Prom seven - to 0021 hundred negroes arc
employed here, principally in raising corn
and tobacco, - fine crops of which are produced . ,
from which, after -paying all expenses, a con
:•iderable income to the Government is real.
ized. The freedmen are generally very Indus
t riol.lB, and appear to be contented and happy.
The field hands receive ten dollars a month,
while the old and disabled are well taken care
ul; and schools are established for the children,
—The Climax of cruelty and bad taste was
reached when, at the examination of one of
the public Seminaries, in a burgh not far froth
*Edinburgh, the son of Dr. Pritchard, the Wlj
itliirdererj a lac about eleven years of sjso,
was called upon to recite, before a 'nubile; a s .
f4etubly, the rim • cntitlea 1 ‘ The cr.phan.
Boy."
FORTRESS MONErOE.
NORTH CAROLINA.
THE SOUTHWEST.
Nillied.
Personal Defence.
to be Rebuilt
NEW YORK CITY.
ANOTHER THIEV/NO OLERIT
COLORADO.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1865.
MEXICO' AND TEXAS.
SUCCESSES OF LIBERALS OVER
THE FRENCH.
A BARBAROUS SYSTEM OF WARFARE
NOW BEING WAGED.
NEW Yomt, August 15.—8 y the steamer
George Croniwell we have New Orleans- ad
vices of the 12th instant.
The Wines' Brownsville correspondence saw
that the Liberals have been steadily successful
in the State of San Luis, driving the Imperial
forces within the defences of San Luis Potosi.
The people feed and assist the guerillas in
every way possible, and show themselves ut
terly opposed to Maximilian.
The brealtbonc fever prevails SO largely in
Brownsville that many of our officers are re
signing.
The Galveston and Houston papers have• the
following:
Commodore Leon Smith, arived at Galveiton
from Brazos Santiago, says tile manner in
which the warfare is carried on in Mexico
is perfectly horrible. Neither side takes any
prisoners, but naurderall they capture.
The military authorities exert themselves
assiduously to preServe order, but robberies
prevail to a large extent.
The Houston nlegraph says the army worm
is ravaging in the interior.
A planter in Wharton county says " the free
negroes in this county are really doing better
than it was supposed they would. I have a
written agreement with them on my pl ace, and
am baying no trouble with them whatsoever.,,
REHABILITATION OF TEXAS
CAIRO, August 20.—A committee has been ap
pointed to confer with Governor Hamilton, of
Texas, regarding measures restoring the State.
to civil government, and are at Austin, to carry
out their instructions. They were appointed
by citizens representing nearly all Northern
Texas, and who pledge themselves to abide by
and defend all lawful authority.
EUROPE.
NON-ARBIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN
IN ENGLAND.
Austria Trying to . Make Friends
Again with Prussia.
GENERAL COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL, NEM,
FATHER POINT, L. C., August 20,—The steam
ship Belgian has passed here with Liverpool
advices of August 10th, via Londonderry on
the 11th,
The City of Washington arrived at Liver.
pool on the 10th, the Pennsylvania at Queens.
town on the 10th, and the Hansa at South
ampton on the 10th. The North American ar
rived at Liverpool on the Bth.
The United States frigate Niagara, from
France, passed riyniouth on the 9th, bound to
New York,
No news had been received of the Great East
ern or of her consort. The delay in her re
turn strengthened the impression that some
thing might have happened to the tanks in
which the cable waS stored, and that it might
have been necessary to buoy the Cable until
the tanks were made good.
At an extraordinary meeting of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, held in London on the
9111 instant, it was resolved to convert prefer
ence shares into consolidated eight per eent,
pieferential stock, and to Issue additional cap
ital to the extent of £BO,OOO - to complete the
present cable and construct and lay down a
second one. The Chairman, Hon. J. S. Wort
ley, said he had no information to give the
meeting, but he hoped for reliable informa
tion in a day or two. He said the shareholders
should he encouraged and persevere. The
meeting was large and unanimous.
Satterthwaitels circular, of the evening of
August 9th, says: "American securities re
mained Steady for some days, until the arrival
of telegraMS by the North Americtuvreport
ing a rapid advance in Erie shares and the de
claration of a dividend. This caused much ex
citement in London, and a large business was
done at about SS; but on the sellers appearing
to realize profits, they gave way to 5614. Illi
nois shares (lull, and declining ; U. S. five
twenties fluctuated from:. s 8 to 09, closing
steady at 68 1 / 4 . Considerable business was done
in Atlantic and Great Western debentures, at
85687.
Queen Victoria and the younger members of
her family had arrived at Antwerp, and pro
ceeded to Visit the King of Belgium.
A terrible tragedy had occurred in London.
A man took three children to lodge tempo
rarily at a coffee-house, and murdered them
all in their beds by suffocation. The murderer
bad escaped.
The French political news is not important.
The Bourse continued heavy. Ilentes, 67 f. 90,
The Neve Fret Presse, of Vienna, says, Count
Blanc, who bad proceeded to Bad Gastein to
resume negotiations with Prussia relative to
the Duchies, is to consider Austria's cetces•
sion of July 10th as definitive and unchange
able, and should Prussia insist on a strict fuL
fliment of the conditions she proposed last
February, Count Blanc will declare negotia
tions broken off. A eases bealt. would only be
considered to exist in the event of 'Prussia
flagrantly violating Artiele third 01 the treaty
of peace concluded at Vienna.
A special telegram from Vienna to the Times
says, Count Blanc is the bearer of most pacific
despatches, and that AuStria has concluded
not to break with Prussia for the sake of Duke
Angustenbourg.
SatcsonAn, July s.—Silks active and advanc
ing.. Exchange 0 1 / 4 .
CANTON, July 12,, —Shirting's lower.. Ex
change 5/.
The steamers Corsica and chanticleer arc
both missing.
Negotiations hare been commenced in Lon.
don for a new Brazilian loan of L 1,000,000.
The following is a summary of the news by
the City of Baltimore:
The London Daily News says there is no
longer any prosp6et whatever. of •any further
payments of dividend or principal of the. Con•
federate loan.
The Times highly eulogizes- General Shen.-
man for his modest speech at SL Louis.
The new Parliament was further-nominally
adjourned till November Ist.
— Alai el hailer had quitted Mugland tor •PariS,
it - was reported, on account of a lack of attery
tion in high quarters.
The Liverpool Chambers. of. Commerce limb
memorialized the Postmaster General forthe,
Canadian steamers to. sail on Friclays-insteadi
of Saturdays.
The Paris correspondontof the liOndon Saw
Says the popular subscription of temeentiraaa
for a gold medal for Mrs. Lincoln was slilJ
progressing. There were 25,000subseribers,,m ,
a committee was appointed to .raise the-und a.
bet , to 100,000.
It was - rumored in Paris thaVreinforcema nts
to the extent of 8,0190 troops were. on thew A n t
of being sent to illexico-13,000. from Ma
and 3,000 frorn.algeria.
The - Bourse was heavy at elf; 02c.
The illness of the King of Spain beet as' snmea
a more serious aspeet..
New propositions from Prussia to Austria
relative to Schleswig-Ifolstein, vze,r e under
consideration, and it was reported:UV at if they
fail Austria will immediately large the Fede
ral Diet to recognize .A.ugusteulas• rg es the
sovereign of the Duchies.
The cholera is still spreading a4LConstanti
nople.
Commercial Into nee.
VERPOOL COTTON MARKRT.—L' fvsnroot,
gust 10.,,-COttOn opened with a' declining ten
dency, lint closed firmer, all QVr mattes having
advanced a trifle. The sales ' for three days
foot up 23,000 bales, inehala ,g 0,500 bales to
speculators anti exporters,.
STATE OF TRAWL—The XV
.nchester market
closed dull..
LIVIMPOOL rbilitADSrvirr IN.titarv"rir.—Breatt
tlnitS still ittlYaiteing. e weather is unfa
vorable for the crops for which reason these
is an improvement, in Mr >st articles of bread-
Ftntfs. Corn, however; declining.
Messrs. Iticbardson,, Spence, & Co., and
Wakefield, Nash, report Flour advan
cing'
with sales at 2, 3 , ©255. Wheat firmer, at
advanee of 2@4d.,. r sales quoted at FS fidiPs
f or w i nter red. Corn is easier at 30001 s tics
for mixed.
LIVERPOOL Yaovir now MARKET.—Provisions
'firm Messrs. Bi) and, Athaya, & Co., and
Gordon, Bruce, f , co. report 13eef steady.
Berk ad vanchlZ'. - Bacon advanced ls.; sales at
52 600 a. Lard UL m at 780305. Tallow, active,
and rd higher.
b/TNRPOOL PP .opircu Maxacglk.—ASllo.9.—SalOS
small. Sugar quiet. Colree steady. Spirits
Turpentine — .`Sales small, at 4Ss. l'etroleunt
steady.
LONDON hr ARKETS.— LONDON, August 10.—
Wheat advs need ls@3s on the week previous.
Flour Arm
,er, at an advance* of ed. Sugar
quiet. COf dee trni. Tea steady. Tallosysteady,
at 42s8d. Spirits Turpentine,4l9.
Ldlide' a MONEY MAaaar.—Consols for money,
so 4- 6 77,81 t/4; Illinois Central shares, 77; Erie, 5034
04 5 7 i V. lilted States 5-20 s, 681,4,
Latest Commercial.
r i ßy Telegraph to Londonderry.]
LIVERPOOL, August U.—Cotten opened dull
at., a decline Of@y 2 d, and closed active, the
e,ecline being fully recovered. The sales of
the week added up 65,000 bales, of which specu
lators took 4,800 bales, and exporters 18,000.
Nitltlling Orleans is quoted at IJ/d; Uplands,
19d. The sales to-day amounted to 10,000 bales,
the market closingfirm and unchanged, The
stock port is 314,000 bales, Including 20,900
Arneriemi.
Dreadstuffs still advancing. Wiwa i t, 3eld
higher. Flour, eti©le higher, on account of
the reports of potato diuea§e: In Ireland.
Provisions Etna, Pork, 2gGs Iggllter. Bacon
advanced Is.
LoNioiti, : fiugust ll—Consols far naoney,_B.%
QB9lis:; Illinois Central 5hare5,.76 , 46376 3 .4 i Brier
155%@56 five -twenties 67@63. The bullion in
the Bank or England has decreased £11:31,000.
TU ATLANTIC (:ABLE_
THE STORY OF ITS LOBS—Toe cAtESE RP THE
BREAK—WHETS IT WAS DISCOVERED--EFTEcT
ON TOE PEOPLE ON BOARD—HOPE-IN TISK FU
TURE—PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS.
GREAT EASTERN, August 2,1065.
A sad, a memorable day in the annals of At
lantic telegraph: Alter midnight the wind
arose i accompanied by heavy showers of rain
and dense drifts• of fog, and increased to a
strong gale to the southwest; but the ship
scarcely felt it, and went on paying out the
cable without hindrance at a high rate of
speed—seven knots an hour. About daybreak
the wind suddenly shifted to north northwest,
and fell to a light breeze, and at four A. Al.
the course was altered to northwest by ROA
half west, the sea following.. Morning broke
in beautiful, and the cable ran out easily at
the rate of seven miles-amhour.
ANOTHER 'DEFECT DISCOVERED.
At 5.35 A. M., ship's time, the paddles were
stopped, and at 5.45 the• ship was stopped by
orders from the electrician's room. In fact, at
eight A, M,, time; Or a minute after,
whilst the electricians were passing the first
of the half-hourly signals-of currents to the
shore, the galvanometer suddenly detected a
flow of electricity which indicated a serious
fault. The test gave no result as to locality,
for the fault was very varying; but it was gene
rally believed to be not far from the stern of
the steamship, It appears that while - hit. Cyrus
Field was on the watch in the - tank, a little be
fore the time of the accident, a grating noise
was audible as the cable flew over the coil
astern. One of the experienced hands imme
diately said, "There is a piece of wire," and
called to the lookout man above to pass the
information aft q but no notice appears to
have 'been taken of the circumstance. After
the ship was stopped, and the remainder of
Mike paid out, a piece of wire was seen pro
jecting out of the cable in the flake, under
neath that in which the fault was suspected
to exist, and on one of the men taking it in
his fingers and trying to bend it down the
wire broke short off. It was nearly three
inches long, and had evidently been of hard,
ill-tempered metal, which had flown out
through the threads in the tank. The dis
covery was in some measure a relief to the
men's minds that one certainly, and possibly
the second of the previous faults might have
been the result of accident. It was remarked,
however, that this fault occurred in the same
watch as all the previous ones had. The fault
was too serious to be overlooked, and as there
was a difficulty in detecting its situation,
preparations were made to get the picking-up
apparatus ready.
13=1
Previous to doing so two cuts were Made in
the cable, the first near the old spliee,between
the main and the fore tanks. Cable all right.
The second cut was threemiles onboard, which
showed the fault to be overboard. The wire
rope and the chain wire were secured to the
cable forward, which showed a maximum
strain of twontsr.three and a half hundred
weight; and at five minutes past nine o'cloek,
Greenwich time,the eablewas severed and Went
over the stern, one thousand one hundred and
sixty-six miles having been payed out when
the end splashed into the water. The picking
up was, as usual, exceedingly tedious, and one
hour and forty-six minutes elapsed before one
mile was got on hoard. Then one of the en
gine's eccentric gear got out of order, so that
a man had to stand by with a handspike, aided
by a wedge of wood and elastic band, to assist
the engine. Next the supply of steam failed,
and when steam was got up it was found that
there was not water enough in the boilers, and
so the picking up ceased altogether. Then oc
curred
THE GREAT MISFORTUTIT.
Lunch was just over. Some had left the
table., others were about leaving. The scien
tific gentlemen had very much cheered us by
their stating that they believed the fault was
only six miles away, and so ere dead night
falls we might hope to have the fault on board,
make a new splice, and proceed on out' way to
Heart's Content, geographically about itx
hundred miles away. Suddenly Mr. Canning
appeared in the saloon, and in a manner which
told all, said, "It is all over. It is gone then
hastened onward to his cabin. Ere the thrill
of surprise and pain occasioned by those words
bad passed away, Mr; Field came from the
Companion into the saloon andsaid, with conl-
Pesure admirable under the circumstances,
though his lips quivered and his cheek was
blanched, " The cable has parted and has gone
overboard??
All were on deck in a moment, and there in
deed a glance revealed the truth.
HOW IT OCCURRED
I will endeavor now to explain to t•ou how
the fatal accident occurred. I - say fatal, for
although as Iwrite we are drifting down upon
the spot iu the hope of getting hold of the
cable with grapnels, I scarcely venture to
hope the attempt will be crowned with suc
cess. Let the reader turn his face towards a
window, imagining that he is-standing on the
bows a the Great Pastern, and then, of course,
on his right will be the starboard, and on his
left the port side of the ship. When the cable
was hauled around on the left hand side and
over the four wheels, it was carried over a
drum which we must suppose tobe behind the
spectators, and coiled up as fast as it was de
livered • froin thepieking-up apparatus; but
when the enginesi failed to work this apparatus
the • cable remained motionless"; and as the
ship was drifted by the wind from right to left
and slightly forward, at last the cable came
close up to the bow and under the forefoot of
the ship. There are at the bows of the Great
Eastern two large hawser holes, the iron rims
of Which project for more than a foot beyond
the line of the stem, Against one of them the
cable caught on the left hand side, while the
ship kept moving to the left, and thus chafed
and strained the cable greatly against the
bow. The Great Eastern could not go astern
lest the cable should be snapped, and without
motion someway there is no power of steer
age. At this Critical moment, too, the wind
shifted so as to render it more difficult to keep,
the head of the ship to the cable, which then
chafed so much that in two places damage
was done to it. A shacklechain and a wire
rope belonging to one of the cable buoys were
passed over the cable and secured in bight
below the hawser holes. These were hauled:
so as to bring the cable to the right hand 'side
of the boat, the ship still drifting to the -left.
It was necessary to do this instead of veering
away, as we were near the end of the cut in the- i
cable n the boat. There is a large iron wheel
with a deep groove, and the circumference
technically a - " Wheel, from the groove, by
the side of which is a " Remitar," or smatter -
w heel, on the same axis. The cable and•the
wire rope together were coming in over the
bows and the groove in the larger wheel, the
cable wound upon a drum behind by the ma
chinery, which was once more in motion, and.
the wire rope being taken in around' the
capstan, by bars, but the rope and cable
were not coming up in a right. line,.
but were being, hauled in with' a great
strain on them at an angle from the righthand
side, so that they did not work directly in the
Vin the wheel. Still the strain was shown on
the indicator to be very high, but not near
breaking strain, • At last up came -the cable -
and wire rope - - - -shaeltling together on the
wheel in the boat. They were wound round
it slowly, wire passing over these wheels to
gether,.the first damaged part being on board,
when a jar was given to the- dynamometer,
whielitiew up from sixty hundred weight, the
:highest point marked, with sudden jerk,.
three and a half inches. In the chain shackle
and wire rope chamber, as it were, up out of
the groove on the right hand, side of the Y. of
the wheel, got on the "top" at the ri.m.Of the
V wheel, andamshed down with a crash on the
small. wheel, giving, no doubt, a severe shake
to the cable, to which it 'was attached,. The
machinery was still in motion, and the ropes
travelled -aft together, one towards the cap
stan and 'the other towards the drum,.where,
past as thf, cable reached the dynamometer, it
patted, Wed with One bound leaped, as it were,
over a 'few feet. of intervening space, and
splasbei I into the sea.
It is r ,ot possible for-any words to portray
the die may ,with which the sight was wit
nessed , and the news heard. When a mau.
came 'aft With a plece-er. the inner end lashed
still - to the chain, Dad one saw the. tortured
stray .ds, torn wires, and lacerated core, it is
w xaggeratiou to-'
say that strange feelings
of P 4 Ay, as though some human creature had
hew a mutilated and dragged asanderby brutal
ler cc, passed through the hearts of the spec
tar .ors. Captain Moriarty, was just coming
to the foot of the Companion to put up his
d' ally statement of the ship's position, hazing
r Aid excellent observations, when the news
came.
I think," he said, "we will not feel much
interested now in knowing how far we are
from Heart's Content , ' However, it was some
thing to know, although it was little comfort,
that we bad now run precisely one hundred
and sixteen miles since yesterday, that we
were one 'thousand and sixty-two ratios from
valentia, six hundred and eighty 'miles from
Heart's Content, that we were inlet. 51 25,
long, 82 OW •
PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS.
The following practical conclusions have
been arrived at by those engaged in various
capacities in the expedition t
t irst. That the steamship Great Eastern,
from her size and sea-going qualities, can carry
and lay an Atlantic telegraph cable safely in
any weather.
Second. That the paying out machinery, con
structed for the purpose by Messrs. Canning et
Clifford, works perfectly - , and can be confi
dently relied on. That the insulation of the
gutta percha conductor improved by reason of
the reduction of the temperature and the
great pressure at the bottom of the ocean, and
was more than double what it had been before
starting, proving itself to be the hest insulated
cable ever manufactured, and many times
higher than the standard required by the con
tract. The cause of the two faults which were
picked up was in each case a perforation of
the gutta percha through to the copper by a
piece of iron wire found sticking in the cable.
Electrically, the third fault was analogous to
the first. The difficulty can he guarded against
in the construction of future cables.
Third. That nothing has occurred to create
the least doubt, in the minds of practical men
engaged in the expedition, of the successful
laying and working of the Atlantic telegraph
cable 3 but, on the contrary, their confidence
in the undertaking has been /hrgely increased
by the experience thus obtained,
Fourth. That with the Great Eastern steam
:Alin and with stronger tackle, and with im
proved picking-up machinery, there is a pos
sibility of recovering the lost end of the Cable,
and completing the line already two-thirds
SAmenr, vAxxixa,
Chief Engineer,
JAs. ANDERSON,
Captain Great Eastern.
C. F. VARLET,
Electrician to Atlantic Telegraph and Main•
tenance Company.
C. V. DE SMITS,
Electrician to Telegraph and Maintenance
Company.
W. Tffoitrrsoat t .
Professor of Natural Pllilosopliy, 4,rln.sgow
College.
- -
H. L. CLIFFORD,
Telegraph and MaintenaueeCompany
THE NEGROES STILL TREATED AS SLAVES IN
Nown Ck.uottaA.— The Wilmington (N. C.)
Herald of the 10th, says the investigation made
by Generals Ames, Duncan, and Colonel Donel
lan, shows that the negroes in Fayetteville,
North Carolina, and vicinity, have been cruelly
treated by not only civilians, but the civil au
thorities, Two uegroes were tied up and pub.
lief whipped by the sherlirs others were left
tied until a storm prostrated the trees to
which they were tied, holding them to the
haveuntil they were relieved. Citizens, too
'h ,
ave presumed to exercise the authority of
masters over these people, and punish them
as they saw tit. It is also said some of the
negroes have- been killed. Troops are now
under orders to proceed to the /Quality to put
Btoll to the hbuse§,
THE CHOLERA.
WHENCE IT COMES,AND THE COUNTRY
IT HAS TRAVERSED.
WHERE IT NOW - IS, AND WE&E
IT THREATENS TO oe.
IT KNOCKS AT EUROPE'S GATKWAIS TO IRE cilfi-
TINENTS OF ASIA. AND AFRICA.'
Two or three months at least haVe eh/lige/1
Since we heard of the lint ravages of the' chow
lera among the pilgrims, who were gathered
either in Mecca, or were piously journey
ing towards the "sacred" shrine front all.
quarters of the Mahometan land. Since then
every arrival from Europe has brought news,
the refrain of which was always "cholera,"
and the "advance" it either had already made
or was "about to maks." The refrain is the'
same now, only that the English newspapers
have taken it up, and given to it the sound of
warning, calling for all sorts of sanitary regu
lations, so that when the epidemic does cdme l
it may be met with " at least some armor on. ,
The following extract from an article in the
London Herald is w sample of all the rest
* * * That there is an epidemic traversing
Europe, east and west, and emanating from
Asia, it would be folly to deny. The Privy
Council admit the fad by issuing an order to the
authorities of all the British ports, and several
Governments have resorted, more or loin
rigidly, to the principle of quarantine. In
France, earlier than in Englancl, the danger Is
confessed; but, on both sides of the Channel,
it is unmistakably argued that with the public
lies the chief responsibility of guarding
against infection. Bad water, corrupted air,
habits of disorder, slovenly lodginv-houses,
putrid drains, and personal uncleanliness, at
count for many a depopulating epidemic. A
disbase is thus created which we designate as
cholera. It is not new to the world, for it is
known among the oldest traditions of social
calamity,to India, China, and Russia ; it has
been calied colic and nausea, but it is, as a
rule, inseparable from those CUStOnls which
travellers have ascribed to the inhabitants of
Muscat. People fancy when they read of pre
cautions adopted at Southampton or Hull that
they have got at the secret of security. They
read the history of the epidemic in its pro
gress from the Ganges in 1817 to its outburst
over England in lcin ; they watch its move
ment from. Hamburg to London, front Sunder
land to Edinburgh, and through the triple
panics of 1853, 1854, and 1859. What are we
doing however, to arrest the contagion, now
manifestly spreading over the north and east
of Europet * * * * *
TAO COURSE OF THE CHOLERA AND ITS PRESENT
ELM=
That it is Spreading is undoubtedly the feet.
First appearing in the neighborhood of Mecca,
with such virulence as to carry off thousands
of the religious enthusiasts who resort there
in obedience to the tenets of their barbarous
faith, it seems to have spread itself Out, as a
great besom, advancing north, thus far, to
Aleppo, its left careering along the eastern
border of the Red Sea, while the right touches
towns as far east even as Bagdad. The right
has not, according to our latest advices, ad
vaned, as yet, any farther than Constanti
nople, which is the sentinel city between the
two continents of Europe and Asia; but the
left has swept across the Red Sea, skirted the
borders of Mount Sinai, passed over Cairo and
Alexandria, and, breaking away from the
right, hurried along the northern coast of
Africa, until it has reached Gibraltar aria
Valentia—the former the sentinel eitybetween
Europe and Africa. Thus from two points
Europe is attacked—from Gibraltar and Con
stantinople, menacing Spain, Austria, and
Italy immediately, and the rest of Europe in
proopeetivo. Indeed, into Italy the destroyer
has already advanced, for we hear of it at An
con a,
an eastern port of Italy—and one of its
most important eities—situated on the Adria,
tie coast. The city is one hundred and thirty
two miles northeast of Rome, and within fifty
miles of Paris by railroad. It is in Mulches
ter, England, too, and many have fallen vie
tims.
ITS VIRULENCE
There is no reason to endorse all the panicy
reports which are flying around through the
press about the "terror of the advancing de
Stroyer," even if be is advancing. The only
'places where deaths appear to have Wen and
to be very numerous are in those Eastern cities
where filth , and personal uncleanliness are
synonymous with comfort. Every city in that
land of ease and romantic song and story is,
- we are assured, a species of extensive cess
pools. Houses are so built as to admit just as
little air as possible, and such air! Listen to•a
writer :
"Dead animals lie in the streets until nature
removes every vestige of them by her slow
process of P
utrefaction stagnant pools fester
before the doors, and choked sewers and drains
emit an odor so offensive that the airseems
heavy with it
This is a description of the Sanitary con.
dition of Constantinople, and it does as-well
for all the other cities around it, glittering
under the same sun,
Now for the cholera's. effects, under. aiteb.ja...
vorabie circumstances as described In• a; letter .
to the London Gazette:
"At Alexandria and. Cairo-the cholera. rages
and the Turkish authorities have ordered- all:
vessels to Smyrna, of any other town-on the
coast, (Mediterranean ) ) toso into quarantine.
Gases have occurred: in. Smyrna, but they were,
perhaps, more suspected than real, &ince the
quarantinehas been established but three per
sons have died at Constantinople of the dis
ease, and they Were proveti to have eaten.no less
than five raw mieumbers, each, at one meal.
" But at Smyrna the-cholera has increased,
the malady being- almost entirely confined to.
the Sewiskquarfer, which is being rapidly de
serted. The-average deaths, for tho-sveek end
ing July 20,have been, about fifteen per- day..
The Frank, or European portion oPthe inhabti
tants, have- become- pame-striekent and all,
those who possess country houses=have re
tired with. their friends to the neighboring
villages of. Sedidtioi, Boudga, and, BournabaL
The .Tews en manse; bag. and, baggage, have flea' to
the mountains beyond the plain of, Hermes, and
the Turks, wash their houses, eat, fewer cu
cumbers, anti, smoking continually, remain , in
-their houses and: abide their fate. Business
has come to a perfect standstill; and. when it
will inyresinicted.litiaven only knows."
Another writer-in the Paris Presse, whodutes
his letter at Alexandria, July ifith, gives:a few
more particulars , than the writer in the Ga
zette:, ,
"Owing," be.says, "to the want of organiza
tion. and of proper official returns, it is im
fOssible to 30-pertain the nurnhor - of deaths
rom the macre, but lie afkrins that on the
iliah of June„when the heat Wilfialterrillo that
the fowls perished from suffocation in the
poultry yard,. eight hundred• to nine hundred
parsons died: Alexandris, alone. Eight days
ago an Austrian ship left for. Syria with five
hundred Greek and Maltese passengers on
board. .Beffire arriving, one hundred and fifty
of these. poor wretches bad found burial in
the sea, and the others were refused Derails.
Mon toland at any port.. In the villages and
at Cable things are worse than Alexandria,
owing to the want of any- sanitary measures
and of competent medical men. At Cairo,
with half a million of inhabitants, it is said
there were not three European doctors..
At
Alexandria the European eOnsuls seem to
have exerted themselves, with good results,
to get precautions taken and the sick attended
to. In the country districts the village au
thorities, following the deplorable example
set them in a high quarter, had fled from the
peril, and whole provinces were without go.
vernment or administration."
In lather Fronoli papers we And despatches
from Syria saying all classes of the inhabitants
of 13eyrout are in a panic in consequence of
the appearance of the cholera in that town.
Although the fatal cases do not exceed four or
five a day, the people gave fled to the neigh
boring hills of Lebanon, and all business la
stopped. At Damascus, although the public
health is satisfactory, much dread prevails as'
to the expected arrival of the pilgrims from
Mecca by way of the desert, as it is contempla
ted to put them under quarantine surveillance.
The people of Damascus have not yet forgot
ten the fearful ravages of cholera during the
summer of 1848, 'when no fewer than 16,000 per- -
sons were carried off in less than forty days.
Whatever the cholera of '4B may have been
in Damascus or in any other place, it has not
yet made any extraordinary inroad upon hu
manity anywheie within the reach of the
newspapers, although what it has done inland
we do not and cannot know; but its very per
sistency in progressing toward Europe has a
terror in it. Like the torrent, it gathers
strength as it goes, until, perhaps, when it
enters, it will sweep it like the plague of
two centuries ago, and the prophecy of the
Chicago astrological humbug be realized—
wailing everywhere—dead in every house.
But, If it has made no extraordinary inroad
upon humanity, the scourge from which it ori
ginated has, for it is now a favorite theory with
the savans, both in England and France, that
the "cattle distemper is the origin and atwin
scourge with the cholera. This distemper first
made its appearance in Egypt in the summer
of 1564, with such effects as these;
In the course of a few months there died in
Egypt eight hundred thousand oxen and as
many sheep, goats, camels, &e. Three-fourths
of these animals were thrown into the Nile,
whose water is here the only drink; for, with
the exception of the Fountain
I o /doses, there
is not a single spring in Egypt. n the mouth
of October the dogs of Damietta mild cross
the Nile without wetting their paws, over a
bridge formed by the corpses of cattle. Agents
of the Isthmus of Suez found it impossible to
prevent the fellahs from choking their fresh
water canal with dead animals. The Egyptian
Government not baying itself taken measures
in this respee.t, their authority was paralyzed,
and the fellabs preferred occasionally reeetv
ing a few blows to digging allot° for the burial
Of animals that died of disease.
. _
Since then the same disease has made its ap
-1)09.11111C0 in England, and has been, as we all
know, very fatal in the grazing and dairy see.
I ions of the island. It is a curious fact that,
wherever this distemper has appeared, the
cholera has followed quickly. Manchester and
Ancona are both proofs of the fact. Thus the
scourge to animal and man seems to be one
and the Same disease, only manifesting itself
differently in the widely different organiza
lions.
OUR DUTY AND SAFETY
To avoid such a .terrible visitation, to pro
vide, against its ravages on our continent and
in our own country, there are obvious roca
sureS WliiCllll 013 NO sugaeSt themSoll(o3
THREE CENTS.
t 6 the authorities. Arrived, as the epi
demic already has, at the two dbors which
lead' into ,Europe ' from the two great conti
nenta f it may not be long before it attacks more
than Ancona and - Manchester. What blOwS it
may strike; how many tt may kill, of donne
none know, but it may be more terrible 'there
than it was at the spot'of its origin—terrible
enough, We are sure, even if it has only thus
far really scourged but three cities. Our
means of communication With Ole wilds of
Asia mid Africa are but small: We only knoW
what the epidemic has done near the coast
where ships visit, and where the semi-bar
barous have communication with the outside
world, In three/places it has bcen very fatal ;
it has touched - Cionstantinop/b and Smyrna
but lightly as yet;.'hut their safety has peen
a prompt quarantine. The infectiOn , once In
Europe might be - readily brought hither in
the thousands of ships. that ply to. and fro.
Our safety is also it•prompt quarantine. The
sanitary condition of our city is Just now
pretty good, but it Can: be matte better; anti
Should be, in view Orther peril we may have
to encounter. Although we are already in
finitely more neat and more clean than our
Eastern brethren,, yet climatic and °thee 'yea-
SOM3 may operate against us. We know not
What illay happen. It is best always to be - as
far as - possible from such titAlig&V.
Horrible AiTaiir in' Harrisburg
'A 'SAM ATTEMPTS TV MEEDER. HIS WIPE, AMY
TAKEN COLS - MITE Str-101DE
Quite an excitcmerrt was created through=
out our city at nom, to-day, by the announce%
ment that a terrible tragedy' ha been enacted ,
in the upper end, it being nothing less than
the murder of a woman by her husband and
the suicide of the murderer. Upon 'repairing
to the place where the bloody deed was
enacted, we found the particulars' of the case
to be substantially as follows: _
ileury Bonder (a German wen 'ktieWn as
pumprnaker) and his wife, who 'resided on.
First street, above the Fox Tavern: .were the
owners of certain property, whit% Berrier
designed selling, and this morning , he pro
ceeded down town for the purpose - of MS
noting of the same, Upon learnmF, that the
consent of Ida wife was necessary ed"effeet
sale (and it is said she was net favorable to
selling), lie became enraged, and proceeding
home seized an axe, and deliberately entered
upon the work of murder, the victim. being
Mrs. B. Several blows were inflicted upon her
head and breast, horribly bruising anti crush
ing themlone of her ribs was also broken, • The
screams of the nnfOrtnnitte woman attracted
the attention of the neighbors, ii number of
whom promptly repaired to the house and
succeeded in releasingthe wounded andbiefat,
ing victim from the grasp of the murderer:
Berrier immediately closed and locked the
door of the rear room, and then cut his throat
with a butcher-knife, which penetrated the jugn
bar Veitioind caused almost Ingant death. No'
doubt he believed his wife to be in a atlice
condition, and realizing the position he occu
pied•as a murderer, and the penalty conse
quent to the commission of the awful crime,
he committed suicide to escape the punishi
- meet he so richly merited.
The Coroner was sent for, and held an in
quest at one o'clock—the jury rendering aver.
diet in accordance with the facts elicited.
Mrs. Berrier is yet alive, and has been re
moved to the residence of her son. She may
possibly recover, but there is little hope for
her, owing to her advanced age.
Berrier and his wife were residents of this city
for many years, and hat!, perhaps, reached the
age of sixty. It is said they had ndt lived very
peaceably for some time past, on account of
the uncontrollable temper of Berrier, whose
conduct was occasionally very unbecoming of
a husband. This tragedy has ended his career,
and he has gone to atone for the awful crime
of attempted murder and self-destruction.—
Harrisburg retegrapic, sgeuraay.
The Visit of the President to Richmond.
President Johnson's proposed visit to this
city is a happy thought. If he wishes, as
doubtless he does, to place himself in commu
nication with the people of Virginia, and to
ascertain beyond mistake, the tone and direc
tion of the public sentiment of the Common
uwith, it is to itiehmond he must repair for
the attainment of that object. Expressly
claiming any intentional reflection on the ve
racity of the gentlemen with whom he con.
verses in Washington, we will yet venture to
warn him, that not from the statement of any
particular individual can he hope toget a
correct representation of the views and feel
ings Of the masses of OUT cetainunity. Still
more hazardous would it be to - repose. Implicit
confidence in all the various, if not contradic
tory, reports of the newspapers. He must
come himself, and by personal observation de
termine whether or not the people of Virginia
mean all they profess of loyal attachment to
the Union, An instinctive sympathy with the
pulsations of the popular heart, coupled With
an unrivalled tact in discriniinating charaCter,
will enable Mr. Johnson to carry back with
him a satisfactory impression of the prevalent
ideas of the people of Virginia.
Then, again, the President, on his part, may
do much towards inspiring the people with
the sentiments he would have them entertain.
So far,all theiilaications of his policy havebeen
most gratifying to the South but in the emu,
rannication of redpreCal Sopa anti esteem
there is nothing' like an honest shake of the
band, and a frank look into the face. Let Mr.
Johnson come amongst us, and we know
enough of his captivating Qualities as well as
of the generous ensee_pt o tiglities of .10.4r.pepple,„
to predict the happiest reaultef oist the inter.
view. Let our people approach the President
without embarrassment or hesitattotil...Me is
not the person to entrench hinitelf behind a
barrier of formal etiquette; neither will he
permit himself to be monopelitied by . theoill-
ClollaileSB of a few Self-seekin tmanagers.is accessible, and lie is perfectly
ualreSerVedlin
ids intercourse.with the people. lifobodY will
be rebuked, nobody will be disappointia.: WC
trust Virginians will accord; President Jrfohnl
son a reception worthy of WS positing anil his
character.—Rielimond Reptiptie,l9tht
HOteftien Mud Attempted. Satioidie• of.*
Forger. '
The Detroit rree Press says lie*Aman,n4teed
.7ohn Voorhies, wholes been praetising. ae an
attorney at Monroe, Mich., attempted 't - ohoni.
mit suicide at that place on Tuesday evehing,.
under circumstances which speak very deci
dedly against him. About at year ago. Toot ,
hies, who then lived in Pontiac; was arrested
for the forgery Of a draft upon , A. C. Baldwin,
of that place: The matter wee. oompronsised
at that time by his friends, who are reputed,
wealthy. But it seems that their kindness to
him was misplaced. Soon altar this affair he
left Pontiac, and next. turned: up at Monroe,
where be opened an office as attorney-at-law.
businesswae mainly confined to procuring
pensions, bandy money andibaCk PRY.
"lie associated with the best families-of tkt
town, and was lionized. lita affected, piety,
and became a prominent teacher in the Sun
day school, and gave freely to all charitable
objects which called, upon him for assietance.
" se important a 'proceeding on hia.part as
an attempt to commit suicide fle , turallY
startled: the good people. of Module, With
straightway began to inqukre the cause of the
rash net. Thefact was then developed that it
was done to avoid anotherarrest an& prosecu
tion for forgery. It seems that he had been
guilty of a series of offences, amounting, in
the aggregate, to several hundred dollars.
The barged papers Were soldiers , certifiCates
for bounties, in which specolationthe had re
cently been detected.
"lie had learned by:some means, about five
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the fact that he
was about to be arrested. Ile , proceeded to
the drug store and obtained a quantity of
poison, and at the tea-table that evening put
rt intr. his tea and drank it, Ho evidently in.
tended that it should have the desired offeet
and produce death iminediately. The dose
was either too large or too small, and he lire
gered in great agony and pain, having had
several spasms up to about teght crelock,when
the Officer stepped in to make the arrest.
Medical aid was immediately sent for, and he
had so far recovered at ten o'clock as to be
snugly lodged in the Monroe county jail,
where he was conveyed for safe keeping. lie
has a wife and child at Pontiac."
Gold in Virginia.
Even prior to the independence of the
United States goldwasknowntoexist in Buck-
GOoehland, Louisa, and other central
counties of Central Virginia, and from tillleto
time feeble efforts at mining in these dis
tricts have been made, but always to be
abandoned on the first discouragement. In
only one or two localities were operations
ever attempted on a scale or with machinery
necessary to any considerable success. Yet
sufficient 'quantitieS of the precious metal
have invariably rewarded every enterprise,
however insignificant, and we can only account
for the supineness of our people on the sub
ject by recalling the inertness that has al
ways pervaded all branches of Virginia indus
try. Marl beds of untold value have been al
lowed'-to lie almost untouched on the York
peulagula, surrounded by thousands of acres
of worn-out land, The great bulk of the in.
comparable oysters of York river (the invent.
able fundum) were raised and sold by North
ern mon. With a water-power here in Rich
mond sulpient to turn the mills and factories
of a continent, we have imported our wagons,
machines, and even our wooden buckets. Just
as these certain sources of wealth were ne
glected, the Kold dust has been for centuries
allowed to lie around loose in the hills and
valleys of Gooehland.
But it makes us rejoice to belive that a new
era is dawning upon old Virginia. Northern
capital and enterprise are, we hope, about to
do for us what we have so long failed to do for
ourselree—develop our. agricultural, manufac
turing, and mineral resources. We mentioned
some flays ago that two of the largest planta
tions on the lower James had been leased,
and were being put into a high state 4f cul
tivation by a Northern firm ; Northern capi
tal is causing the "burnt district" of our
city to arise, Plicenix-liko from its ashes;
and Northern skill, science and capital
are already prospecting our mining districts.
A number of practicaf geologists and mine
ralogists have recently explored these dis
tricts, and their reports are flattering in the
highest degree ; and as the best evidence of
their sincerity they have made for them
selves and parties in New York heavy invest.
snouts in the lands of that section. It is pur
posed to start in a very short time quartz
mills and all other gold-extracting machinery,
With the first successes of these enterprises,
we may look for a rush of immigration, which
shall impart a new vitality to our State.
When that time arrives, as We hope it will
quickly, a flourishing trade will be tit Onee
secured to Richmond, and even the present
rate of rents will be path:Md.—Petersburg ft
press,l6th.
APFA/E5 TN WASHINGTON, GA.—WO learn
from a gentleman just from the above named
place that ite Citizens have been some what
exercised in consequence of a sudden add
unexpected order received by airs. Robert
Toombs to vacate her dwelling and premises,
taking therefrom nothing but her personal
effects and two weeks' provisions. This order
emanated from Brigadier General Wilde, As
sistant Commissioner Freedmen's Bureau ;
who intimated, in the s,ituo flomillient, that
the premises Wre looks') upon as "abandoned
property," and therefore to be taken posses
sion of, and applied to the uses of the S'reed-
M O en n ur the d e t a l.3 u.
s ucceeding the receipt of the
order by Airs. Toombs, (Sunday last,) a rela
tive of the family repaired to this cal la ynd
laid the facts before Gen. StecOM,ani in
his usual prompt and considerate Manner,
issued an order to Brig. Gen. Wilde to re
instate Dirs. Toombs in her residence.
Another matter, transpiring in the same
town,
VMS called to the attention of General
ma dman, and he at once despatched the
proper °Meer to investigate the affair; ti 9 we
are confident that justice will be done MUM
premises, we await the appropriate time to
lay the facts before our readers.
Georgia is fortunate in having an officer in
power who has the will to "be just, and fear
Tronscripi.
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Ite le /12,110 Per copy,
The money mune atinaye accompany the Order, and
in no itide.2l3o6 can Mum ternte be <WOW from, at
they aSora very Was more th 4511554 esodi Of paper,
Wir Postmasters are requested to set •a agent,
fur Tux Wiat PREsts.
-To the getter-un of the Club often or twentts
an extra eohy of the haver will be KlTetts
STATE ITEMS.
gton county
. 7 -The Democracy of
1, %aye nominated the following county ticket :
A t Neembiy, John Birch, Claysville, and Col: A.
.achoster, independence; District Attorney,
A, 'ylie Wilson, Washington ; Treasurer, A,
Ilk 'hexagon, East Bethlehem; Commissioner,
F ram e, i 8 Nelson, Carroll; County Surveyor,
Isaac , LI. Lest, Buffalo; Auditor, Andrew Mc-
Ke e , c a ., %ton, (three years,) J. B. Weir, Frank
lin, (ono ) 'earl) Director of roor, Jas, Rankin,
Pie aste.'it•
Mr. William Branning, Of Damascus town
ship, W ayne ~.:ounty, recently while ploughing
=ml a knoll cm his farm, turned up a specimen
er anthracite eclal, which has been submitted
to scientifio exallibMti9Vi i and pronounced of
good quality.
The strike am. cmg the coal Millen Of the
Lackawanna 'Valley has now lasted for over
two - Weeks, and thore as no prospect of its ter.
mmation. The strik.Srs are said to have a
fund Of *it MO to fail ba - ok upon.
A lieW paper; wile ti the Uppe. Dauphin
Register; . Inns Just bees staDted at Lykens, Dau
phin county_ It is publiffilled by Messrs. Sam
uel B. Colas (End G. Washifigton Fenn, and is
devoted tO - tho Interests of the Union party,
The aoth crop of Chesterzeuntythreatens
to be enormous. ,The stulks 21'0 well grown,
the ears are 1111)14 well, and WO' Inaba 14, ht
every respeA, favor, able to the eilep.
The interments in the city of Pittsburg
from July 21/th to ',ugust, 13thr 1885, were:
Males, three f fenua es, twenty-one; white,
]iffy-oec 3 colored, tli v e”, 1; total, ilfty-fottr.
A lit U4sptlpOt. is all& ut to1)0 started at Dun
cannon, Dauphin cows, W. It will be caned
The Independent.
—A contributor:. to la e Lancaster Expreli
say that that city 1.4 gotta )g terribly wicked.
—Oil in Union county,
HOME rni
—Blew Bedford boasts oft, an ingenious per
son, named Dflehael tton. The other
day lie tumbled OVerboard r ilia 114Yllig been
pulled out by the bystandcro, , Went atone, In
his wet clothes, to the' . office 1 •if the city mar-
And and claimed a reward Ttcti rescuing aM
low-creature from drowning. 1 he same man,
as is alleged, called on muftderd tker recently,
and stating that his witched just,t4 iled, ordered
an expensive mina, and tlahn Mit LIZE d I4 I II/:
of money from the sympttlihotli*
for contingent expensen,''until savings
bank should open in the mornitt, sr. The un.
dertaker went to Ilarrington's limn 43 the next
day to make the necessary menauroxi lietits,
ordered ea
en r t d a, e a r nd
the worna'A. for whom the oofilii.w4t
answered his ring at the door: Ant • - dlior
tim was a butcher, who advanced.* to Her
rington in part pay for an imaginary p
The Albany Journal Is now prti ited Ort
paper made from bamboo: Ther bars iboo
brought from Jamaica, where it is pin KIIMIPI
in unlimited abundance, and costa, de& tv,ored
here, from ten to twelve dollars per eat ' O .• It
is cut into five feet lengths, conveyed t o the
manufactory, where it is soaked' in 1 warm
water for a time; it is then nut in steam t funs,
of the form of ordinary cannon, WiIOPY , It is
thoroughly saturated with steam and , then
Pinded t under an immense • pressure,. wh tch
tears it into fibres. When thus torn.it.is plats 'ea,
in an immense pulping boiler, where it la
boiled under a pressure of sixty pounds to ti le
web, and from thence blown into a. •reeeivin, g
tank. It is thou perfect littlls, ready to belfifidk 0
into paper.
The Evansville Journal says a host of co •
bored people on the old Kentucky shore; oppa
site Newberg, agreed among themselves thug
they - would cease to labor for the conserve-4
tires if they did not vote the aeuare-out trill9a4
ticket. The morning after the eleetiOn, so
cordingly, the conservatives, who boasted. Oft
having voted "the unscratched, ,, foundthem..3
selves without a single son of liarn to loolc;
after their growing crop of corn,potatoes,
obasee.
-- The local edited' Of the COlufahns brOurnafe.
an old soldier, says: "Discharged soldiers
cannot have the importance of keeping their'
discharge papers too frequently impressed
upon them. The brokers and speculators who
buy them for a song, expect to sell them:back.
at immense profit§ when cOngress shall have
appropriated lands to the use and benefit of
volunteers honorably discharged the service:'
—An official inquiry into the death of ahoy
in the House of Refuge' on Randall's Island,
New York, resulted in the exoneration of the
OfllCt I'@ of•the institution .from- the-ehisrgeS
- made against them in zaiinectiOn with• the
Leath in question. The unfortunate inmate
had subjected himself to punishment some
short time previous to his death by persistent
disobedience-;. but no unnecessary severity
was hlfewn to ltave been• Used,
—lt is said that at the Winn trial a witness
will be produced to prove that Wits, When a
medical officer was , detailed to vaccinate pri-
Boners at Andersonville, tried t °persuade-hint
to inoculate the prisoners with poisonon,
mattev, instead' of the VaCeilifelqrl4s used for
-vaccination.
—A preacher once selected the following
woids forhis text "The world!, the flesh, and
the devil.” Observing that hewould arrange
each under. its proper head,. he would com
mence upon the fresh, pass lightly over the
world, and hasten as fast as he coWd OS the dena.
—Susan Williams, Of South , Sutton, /Wase,,
gives to every soldier who enlisted from. that
town, on his return, the sum. of five dollars,
and the same amount to the families of those
who have fallen. hi defence of their country.
—The task of raising the' rebel iron-clad
Merrimao, hlown,up at the time of the.evacu
ation of. Norfolk by the rebel troops, will be
made in a few days.
—A fatal disease, resembling dysentery, is
prevailing to a fearful extent in the vicinity
of Perrineellith New JellOy, and a number of
deaths have occurred.
President ,Johnson's brother is described
as "avenerable old gentleman, with a long
flowing bear al.”
—in California, the radical wing of the Re
publican party are tetitl4ti '+ Long NairsiiP and
tharionserwative wing "Short liiiirs. ll
Thirty Laplanders, dressed in furs and
skins, accompanied, by twelve Swedes, have
arrived at St. Paul, to settle in Minnesota.
A. pretty little girl, of sixteen years corn
raitted tnieide near 1101ikella to giticgpe the
scolding of her sisters.
A flash paperin Alabama says the 111100 n.
quered soul of the South is still erect. Sup.
pose you ask it to sit down then.
It is trusted that Ketch-him will not prove
a misnomer.
.6. , Brigham Toims keep§ a fat deposit in tilo
Bank of England.
Brigham Young's daughters all dance in
the ballet at the Salt Lake theatre.
The Methodists have subscribed $B,OOO for
an annual camp meeting at Saratoga,
About 100,000,000 gallons of EOM liquors
are manufactured yearly in this country.
Beauregard is going to Europe.
Chicago has eighty-five hotels.
Cincinnati is sanguine of a big fall trade.
FOREIGN
A French paper tells a story of a duel be
tween two gentlemen who were so equally
matched with the sword and pistol that they
decided to iightwithcigars, two of which were
prepared externally alike, but 011 e wa t 9 be
loaded so as to explode and prove mortal to
the smoker. Lots were drawn, and the "reedit
were lighted. After a few puffs, an explosion
took place, and the duellist fell on his back.
Ito was presently picked up, and, with the ex
ception of a blackened eye, was found to be
unhurt, The seconds had only put in. a little
piece of gun cotton, and the affair ended as it
had begun—in smoke.
The latest whim of fashion in Europe is
for ladies to increase the height of the fore.
head by artificial mean, The foreign papers
have a plenteous supply of iilyertio9Woo of
waters for the purpose of destroying the hair
on the forehead at once and forever. The loss
expert, or more economical, shave, and have a
hideous blue mark, like the result of a razor
over a rough beard.
As an illtistration of English, manners in
the nineteenth century, it deserves to be gone.
rally noticed that an express train on the
tireat Western line, was lately kept waiting
nearly live and twenty minutes for the conve
nience of Lord Lindsay, the new member of
rarliament for. Berkshire, and the /Disband of
Lord Overstone>s daughter.
The prize for impudence, at the London
Dramatic Show, wits won by it young lady,
who, after pereeetiteg the kindly manager of
the paltwe to get her some flowers, stuck one
in his button.huie and charged. him WO shil
lings and sixpence for it.
—The Prussian police have commenced their
attacks upon the trade societies, by ordering
th e ir President to leave Berlin, and oonilseat
log their ncWsparer.
The London _News having had a very pros...
porous year, the proprietors have distributed
a large share of the Increased profits among ,
the members of, their editorial , staff,
Adelina. Patti is placed by the London
Reader gB the third - finest Ornterlo soprano
living—Tietjens and Jenny Lind only taking
the precedenCe. •
Thirteen bulls and sixteen horses were
slaughtered at the first of the recent bull-fights
in Franco. A matador named Shanehez ox.
cited groat enthusiasm among the l a di es ,
A four act amnia styled et The Assassins-
Don of President Lincoln." , ie. Die Ong in tile
Dundee (Scotland,) theatre..
A Coutess is in jail in Paris for swindling
jewellers and other
.tradissfolk.'ont of 117,170 fr.
worth of goods.
—The street SWOODiTIig ill Fails eastiJ $BOO,OOO
per annum,
The Pope and kis.Cardinals are rusticating
,tt Castle Gond°lfo.
—A gentleman in London, named Squirt,
Us, by law, OliallgOd his name to Morrie.
Another. Itailan tragedian 14 putting Ills•
torn; nose out of Joint,
Cows are worth ouly a doll4r
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Buenos Ayres,