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TUESDAY, AUKTST V, 1865
TOE NEWS.
Yesterday the Military Commission, of
VIII& Major General Wallace is President,
and Colonel Chipman, Judge Advocate,assem
pied in the Court of Claims Room, at the Capi
toi, Washington, for the purpose of trying
aP( mi l Henry Wirz, the keeper of the Ander
t,,,,,vine prison pen. The charges and speelfi
rstions were read by the Judge Advo
although the counsel for the de
jcnee, Judge Hughes, objected against
,ins them, since neither he nor his
Curia had yet bad it proper opportunity of
ay.:opining them. The first charge itOt only
ntraig,ns Wirz but also Lee, the WinderS,
f--,:evenson, Moore, Seddon, Northrop, and
tiers unknown for conspiring to injure the
tealth and destroy. the lives of Union soldiers,
visoners of war within the so-called Confede
:rale *attics. The second charge arraigns him
personally for - murder and the violation or the
lines of war. The specitications are very full,
gust give statements of the treatment of our
prisoners at And ersonville—long ago familiar
to the public. After a discussion between the
Judge Jitirenate and the counsel, the Court
Scent into secret session to consider the Objec.
lions of the latter against the reception of the
thsvg,cs, etc. It was decided that the objec
fd,os were not well taken, whereupon the
total adjourned tin this morning.
Ws have more accounts of the brutal treat.
!went of the Southern freedmen, particularly
;la North Carolina. A Southern reliw e ious
raper, the Christion Inielligeneer, says that the
:pointers of negroes over the South average
ilvatirrda per 41w,y• The Baieigh Progress says
lbat sir negroes were massacred itt Goldner°
:a few days ago, for refusing to leave_ a farm
%hid) a rebel owner had come back from the
vars to claim.
Advice.% from Cape Haytien to July 25th have
/been received. The place is still held by the
;rebels, notwithstanding a daily cannonading
from the national troops, which has not, how
ever, as yet, done much damage. The rebels,
5t vas thought, would hold out as long as they
could obtain ammunition and provisions.
fyi l c lives of the American and. English Com.
Os have been frequently threatened by the
.ebel.s, -on account of their supposed aympa-
ay with Geffrard.
A witness for the defence at the trial yester
day, exhibited at Washington the original
traininission of Jeff Davis as Second Lienten
wlt of Dragoons. It is signed by Andrew
Jackson, President, and Lewis Cass, Secretary
c..)f War. It was procured at the Wine of DA
ris, in Itlissi.9l,Vpi.
Major General A. A. Humphreys commands
Cie Middle Military Department during the
pbsence of Major General Hancock, who is
away on a thirty days' leave. General Hum
yareys left here yesterday tor Baltimore ; but
min return to this city on Thursday.
NA special despatch to the NOW' York Herald
of today, from Iluirelo, states thatthe ease for
llie prosecution, in the Colchester trial, has
Closed. Several witnesses were examined for
lie defence; and it is anticipated that a ver
dict for the defendant will be given.
Quite a gathering of New Jeracymen, the
yrienns, of Marcus L.Ward, the Union candi
date for Governor of that State, took place yes*
2enlay at Washington, on the occasion of his
'cisit to that city. It was resolved to give him
determined and generous support.
Daniel E. Goodloe has been appointed Mar.
pfifil of the District of the State of North
Carolina. This gentleman has been for some
}ears an editor of the Washington Chronicle.
ale is a native of North Carolina, and will
:taake an excellent olileer.
Paring the past week the deaths in New
11 - vrk . numbered Cl 7-101 men, 71 women, 223
and 292 girls—a decrease of 35 from the
ploriality of the previous week s and 133 as
Compared with the corresponding week in
3Na. .
The latest election returns from Kentucky
'indicate the success of Neale (Union) by one
ii two thousand majority. The result in the
:Lower liouse of the Legislature is doubtful,
Vali a probability Of ft Small Union majority.
&Marcus L. Ward, the Union nominee for Go-
Werner of. New Jersey, is in Washington. Yes
;.erthly his friends tendered him a quiet reap-
Von, at which he was assured of their cordial
fiappOrt,
J. Barclay Harding has been appointed Col-
Jecior of Internal Revenue for the First Dis
lrict of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy oc
cz6-ioned by the death of Jesper Harding, his
lather,
The route of the coming great parade. Of fire- ,
Den has not been determined upon. We pub-
LAI today the proposed one, but it will be
isucli altered, according to present appear_
thees.
Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, formerly a
member of the United States House of Rep
resentatives, and ex-Postmaster Genera', has
recently been pardoned by the President.
Yesterday a young lady of this city, from
fear of an unexpected and dreaded visitor,
jumped from the third-story window to the
pavement, fracturin g her skull.
Ex•Dongressman Burnett, of Kentileky, has
been permitted by the President to return to
his home. He has not, however, been par
doned.
Jeff Davis , commission as lieutenant of dra
goons is in tiMPOSSOSSion of a stranger, who
captured it-at the late home of Davis, on the.
A desperate affray took place in New York,
on Sunday night, between rival fire corn-
Twomen were killed, two mortally,
end several severely wounded.
An employee of a New York express com
pany has proved a defaulter to a large amount,
and departed, whither it is not known.
All the patients have been removed from
the Chesapeake Hospital, and the building leas
been turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau.
Nearly nine millions of dollars have been
received during the last seven days from in
'kraal revenue.
11iester• Clymer has 'received the preference
Of the Reading Democratic Convention as the
the nominee of that party for Governor.
The funeral of Mr. Fearon, formerly chief
tf the Fire Department, will be largely attend
ed by the Ifremen.
Receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau for
the last seven days amount to almost nine
:millions of dollars.
There are no further important develop
lients in the New York defalcations.
Yesterday, the Germans of Baltimore coin-
Sheneed a three days' Schutzen Feit.
Herschel V. Johnson is in Washington.
Gold closed in New York last evening at
THE STATES IN AND THE TRAITORS
The Philadelphia Age, which may be
r:tilled the organ of the Democratic leaders
in this State, takes issue with the short ar-
Vele in THE Paso of Monday, the l4th
Instant, in which we asserted that while
i&iody seriously maintained that the rebel
3ious States were out of the Union, it was
the duty of the loyal men to unite upon the
=round that the men who attempted to
iireak up the Union should not be admitted'
lo seats in the Congress of the United
i~tates, and that even the States could not
Ile formally rehabilitated until they had
lalrged their Constitutions of the poison of
rilaTery. We reprint what we said on that
occasion :
Now that the doctrine is nowhere directly,
Controverted that secession did not take a
tsingle State out of the Union, we may meet on
satibfaCtOry and solid platform, as we come
lo consider the question of admitting the
tsenatOrs and Representatives from such
Mates. Congress may, and in our opinion
mnia, insist upon such a purification of the
r , everal Southern State Constitutions as would
Ime them Of the poison of slavery; but even
- I , ben this condition is fulfilled, no impenitent
'traitor, and no ieader of the rebellion should
1, ” permitted to take. his seat in either Rouse,
Sa least not for a long period of Mine. Suppose
The inhuman guerilla, Mosby, sliOnldbe elected
Congress from the Alexandria (Va.) d is-
Virginia were as sacredly and as
strongly a member of the Union as Penn-
Fi.livania, we should deny his right to a seat,
tnai enforce his exclusion. Nay, if ennsylvan ht
ca• New York, for instance, were to elect such
zi man, it would be. the duty of the majority
ze refuse him admission. Last year President.
lineoln was most desirous for the admission
mf lilt , Louisiana claimants. At the present
"""greys doubtless President Johnson will es
pee
t to see Tennessee represented ; but it does
:hot kno w that elalmantig of doubtful loyalty,.
vlected by rebel votes, Will be permitted to
g.::ke or held their seats. Does any one sup
pese that Etheridge would be allowed. to enter
The Capitol as a member, no matter how great
the majority that returned him? Undoubted
ay not. We hold the. power of Congress over
Ibis subject to be unquestionable—established
:not alone in the law anti thecOnstitution.„ but
by abundant practice and precedent. It
vith them to say who shall be Senators and
:Representatives. The, can decide as to the
qualifications" of the claimants, and they
4:an exclude them for a short time, or for a
"whole Congress. This, it seems to us, clears
'the way of many of the difficulties suggested
'it/ the Course of the discussions on this im-
Ilona= subject.
We now give the words of The Age in
reply, as the statement of an argument that
h doubtless held to be gospel by JEFFER
SON DAVIS himself and by all his obedient
:Followers in the South, and his sympa
lbiling friends in the North:
It must be apparent to all that if the doc
trine set . forth in this article be adopted it
nt change our whole form of government as
v einnletely as did the coup d'clat of Louis 'Ns
:oolcon that of France. The power is here
.c..laimed for Congress, a mere legislative body,
"with its duties and the boundaries of its power
clear" y set forth in the Constitution, to say
'whet kind of a constitution the people of a
aevereign State shall adetpt, and to dictate to
The electorki Who shau and who Shall net repre-
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sent them in Congress. The effect of this
would be to render the union of the States at
all times dependent upon a partisan majority.
The question to-day upon which purification
of the several State Constitutions is demanded
is slavery - . But issues change,as do the minds
of men. The sentiments Of entire communi
ties are subject to like revolutions; and how
Would this doctrine apply to a different is-.
suet Suppose protection, or free trade, or the'
-currency question, should be the dividing line
between parties, would it be constitutional,
fair or just for a partisan majority in Con
gress to refuse the admission of a State into
the Union unless its Constitution agreed with
their ideas upon these questions -I Would the
)eople sanction such a course? We need
not stop here to urge the point that the
late revolted States never were out of
the Union, and that, as a matter of course,
Congress IMS nothing to do with their
COnStitutions. It IS sufficient for our
present purpose to show that if Congress had
a right to say that the people of a State shall
exclude slavery by a constitutional provision
on pain of non-admission to the Union, they,
would have the same right to demand simi
lar action upon the tariff, or bankin, or any
other question that may decide the coun
try.. Ilow long would the Union last—what,
indeed, would it. be worth—under the
practical operation of such a principle?
But, look at this doctrine as a means of
perpetuating the life of any political party or
faction that should happen to obtain the as
cendancy in the Legislature of the nation..
Because theliousesof Congress have a right ,
to deckle as to the " q ualification" of their
members respectively, it is now claimed that
this right extends to questions of " doubt
ful loyalty" and others of a kindred cha
racter, the interpretation and ' understand-
Mg of which rest not on law, prece
dent or reason, but upon partisan feeling
and political opinion. It is boldly- stated that
if Pennsylvania or New York elect men to
Congress who do not agree with the radicals
upon the issues which they have declared to
be essential to the welfare of the nation, it
would be the duty of the majority to refuse
them admission! This is going to the full ex
tent of the doctrine at once, and telling the
people that no matter how they may change
their opinions, and indicate that change by
the election of members of Congress, the radi
eals 'mean to hold on to power, and exclude any
member elect, North or South, who they think
Nan be troublesome to them in their exercise
of usurped authority. it will lie seen by
the extract given that there are no
Sections suggested in the exercise of this re.
volutionary and anti-republican doctrine.
Even if men be elected to Congress who-are
eligible under laws passed by a radical. Con
gress, and by voters qualified in the manner
pointed out in the same enactments ; still, if
each individual member does not come . fully
up to
not
t e
i . e .equge n la i r t n e t a s the
to ti mepri ty t he
either House." ) This is the I.l prgela i rm s e e d! de
cision of the radicals; and the President is
notified that no exception will be made in the
ease of Tennessee, notwithstanding his desire
to see that State represented in the coining
Congress. •
When the Senate of the United Statea
expelled -JESSE D. Buren; a Senator from
Indiana, for holding communication with
.the armed traitors, the principle was as
serted that the Government must be pro
teeted, and that Congress had a right to rid
itself of all who have dealings with the com
mon enemy. And yet JESSE D. n
RIGHT
regretted in his heart; .as we be
lieve, the imprudent letter that cost him his
seat.; - }le was, even if guilty, far less so
than the cruel men who for four years toiled
to divide and to destroy the Republic, and to
cover the whole land with blood and tears.
The argument of The Age is to restore these
traitors to power. We seek to keep them
out of power- That is our whole object, in
brief. That Congress can protect itself
from the presence of such men can
not be questioned. The power of ex
cluding Territories claiming admission as
States, has been exercised in the cases of
11 111issouri California and Kansas • and the
power of excluding members from regular
ly organized districts, has been so frequent
ly asserted as scarcely to require an allu
sion. The Age, like others of its school,
tries to make this a matter of party ponties,
and anticipates allsorts of tyranny and con
fusion, if the representatives of the people
are excluded because they do not agree
with the party majority. A very unfair
pleading I Unhappily for the country,
treason has never been regarded as
a crime by the Democratic leaders, and is
not so accepted by The Age. These leaders
look upon JEFFERSON DAVIS as the martyr
rather than the murderer of liberty, and
have more sympathy with him than with
the dead Li.wconzt, who was offered as a
sacrifice by the unappeasable spirit of trea
son. In making the crime of the traitors 'a
mere political offence we must understand
The Age to be ready to admit all the con
spirators to Congress, should they be
elected by their friends. Let us test
our coteraporary by applying its own doc
trine to York county, from which both its
proprietors hail, and from which the senior
has been chosen to the next Congress of
the United States. Suppose General
EwELL, Or EARLY on MICAUSLAND, Or
any of the chiefs who led the rebel columns
over our borders and marched through
York county almost to the Susquehanna,
were now a citizen of that county, and
were chosen to a seat in Congress by the
faithful Democracy, would it be SO very
cruel and revolutionary if a radical ma
jority refused to give him his seat ? We
need not answer the intimation that by
adopting such a rule as this, good Demo
crats would presently be deprived of their
right to represent their districts in Con
gress. Let us allay the apprehensions of
the Age by stating that a radical or Union
majority that tolerated VALLANDIGRAM,
MALLORY, EERNANDO WOOD, DEN WOOD,
and ALEXANDER LONG, will not be des
potic enough to lay hands on Democrats,
even as patriotic as the senior editor of the
Age himself, and we think it will prove to
be a blunder even greater than the blunders
that "have buried the Democracy under
a mountain of popular disfavor. When
The Age indicts the Union party for the
grievous offence of being opposed to allow
ing the arrogant authors and alders of the re
bellion seats in the Congress of the United
States7it will not help the accusation by
alleging that if JEFFERSON D tvis and his
associates may be ,kept out so may such
Democrats as Mr. GIOssBRENNER and
Mr. DAWSON I rise Age is especially
horrified at our counsel to , Congress, to
insist that before the so-called seceded
States shall be duly rehabilitated, their
several State Constitutions must bepurged
of slavery. We believe The Age rather
favors the Reconstruction policy of Presi
dent Jonxsoh - . It is certain that it has re
peatedly shown a disposition to give him.
what IS called a trial; and it has laid conside
rable stress on the fact that he is a Democrat
of the right grit. We need not say that
this very heresy of eradicating slavery from
the Southern State Constitutions was ear
nestly recommended to the South Caroling
delegation by Mr. Joutzsox in his celebra
ted interview with them, and was followed
by the clear intimation that they would not
get into Congress unless they acted upon
his advice. And, doubtless, inspired by
this very advice, .or by the stern logic of the
case, Colonel JAMES L. ORR started from
Washington with President JointsoN's
pardon, and will appear in South Carolina
in September next, and lead the movement
in this very reform.
LETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL.”
WASITHIGTON, August 21, 1865
There seems to be as much stubbornness
and venom among many of the recent "M
liels as when they led their columns against
the Union forces. I am not of those who ex
pect the questions that have grown out of the
suppression of the wide-spread insurrection
to be composed without considerable con
troversy. Where there is free discussion
and an untrammelled press, harmony of
sentiment and promptitude of agreement
on such issues are not to be looked fora It
is, perhaps, better there should be a careful
investigation into details. But that there
should be a manifest disposition to
deny and to oppose the plain principles
that have been settled by the victory of
the Government of the United States,
is not an encouraging " sign of the
times," I alluded yesterday to Mississippi,
Alabama, and Virginia, as States in which
this feeling breaks out most frequently, It is
marvellous that there should have been so
little admonition gathered by the men who
keep this venom at work, from the example
of the last four years. Are they resolved to
force President Johnson to severe mea
sures of repression and punishment, as they
forced President Lincoln? They seem to
have coolly forgotten that they have been
convicted of the most frightful crime that
can be charged against a citizen—the crime
of attempting to betray and destroy a
generous and indulgent country—that
it was the obduracy and insolence of pre
cisely such men as they, if, indeed, it
was not themselves that decided President
Lincoln to issue his Proclamation of
Emancipation, to sign the Confiscation
laws, and to order the arming of the
freedmen ! That illustrious ruler, (the
embodiment of a Government, which,' even
in the midst of the wounds and woes in
flicted by her Own sons, forgave and " la
bored" with them,) offered them
compensation if they would agree to
the emancipation of their slaves. They
haughtily and bitterly rejected the offer.
Precisely the same madnesss rules the
present hour. President Johnson og.-
tends to them the warm, open hand of
friendship ; he appoint§ thek own citizens
Provisional Governors ; he expressly de
clines to interfere with suffrage ; he par
dons many of their prominent men; he di
rects their helpless and poor to be fed out
of the United States commissariat ; he fa
vors the resumption of postal. facilities,
the rebuilding and refitting of the railroads';
and invites the return to honest allegiance
of the deluded and betrayed people. No
body denies that this policy is wise, mode
rate, and - magnanimous. But it does not
many of the recent rebels. Like
themselves in Lincoln's time, they reject
what is thus tendered in good faith, because
they, cannot get all they demand. Thus
they went on fighting the Government,
and refusing all its standing pledges of
forgiveness, because they were not permitted
to divide the Union. And now they pro
pose to go on fighting the Government in
another way, and rejecting all its standing
pledges of forgiveness and protection, be•
cause they will not be permitted to send their
extreme leaders into Congress, to practically
re-enslave the colored people, and to sanctify
(as was attempted in the Mississippi Conten
tion) the acts of the rebel Legislature from
1861 to 1861 Mr. Lincoln realized with
the keenest anguish that the Christian
spirit would not do with these men,
and he resorted to decisive measures ;
still, however, leaving the door open in
his amnesty proclamation; and yet, all
his leniency and love for them did not save
his precious life from the pro-slavery assas
sins. His successor, animated by the same
philanthropy, is daily told' that he is aLso
misunderstood and defied, and that he, too,
must bare the arm of justice, and punish
where he has forgiven. It would seem, in
deed, as if a mysterious fate impelled these
Southern leaders. The work of regenera
tion is not to be half done. Their despera
tion and ingratitude may be one of God's
ways of completing' the mission of free
government on the ruins of every vestige
of tyranny, -whether that of slavery or of
caste—of the few or the many.
WASHINGTON.
MORE PARDONS BY THE PRESIDENT.
APPOINTMENT OP A PHILADELPHIA RE-
VENUE COLLECTOR.
IMMENSE RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK FROM IN-
TERNAL REVENUE,
ItEUEETION TO THE UNION NO3IINBE FOR 00•
VRENOR OF NEW JERSEY.
WASHINGTON, August 21
The law of Congress fOrbidding, under heavy
mantes, the placing of the words "United
States Mail," kte., on a steamboat or other ves
sel not employed in carrying the mail, and the
publishing, in newspaper or otherwise, that
any such steamboat or vessel not so employed
is used in carrying the malls of the United
States, haying been recently evaded in many
instances, the Postmaster General has given
special instructions, ikc., to take the necessary
steps to promptly enforce its provisions
against all offenders.
North Carolina Appointments.
The President has appointed Geonou N.
Bnooks, United States District Judge DAtunr.
it. GOODLOE, Marshal, and D. IL SrAREUCK, lltr
torney for the District of the State of North
Carolina. The three gentlemen heretofore
appointed to these-offices, having technically
involved themselves in the rebellion, could
not take the prescribed oath. The gentlemen
just appointed, however, are attainted with
no such disability. Mr. GOODLOE, a native of
North Carolina, is well and favorably known
to the newspaper fraternity of this city, having
for some years been an editor in Washington.
Meeting of New Jerseymen.
Quite a gathering of NewJerseymen, friends
of Hon. MARCUS L. WAIID, the Union nominee
for Governor of New Jersey, took place to-day.
on the occasion of his visit to Washington.
Speeches were made and resolutions adopted ;
pledging a determined and generous support
to him.
Jett' Davis' COMMISSieIIi as Lieutenant
of Dragoons
A witness, called for the defence on the Wirz
trial, exhibited to various citizens to-day the
original commission issued to JEPP DAVIS, as
a second lieutenant of dragoons. It is signed
by ANDREW JACKSON as President, and Lewis
CASS as Secretary of War. The possessor of
the parchment procured it at the house of
pious, in
The Internal Revenue Receipts.
The receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau
for the last seven days amounted to nearly
nine millions of dollars.
Cave Johnson Pardoned.
Among the special pardons recently granted
by the Pre'sident Wft ODA tO CAVE JOHNSON, Of
TerinesSee, formerly a member of the United
States Rouse of Representatives and ex-Post
master General.
Philadelphia Collector of Revenue Ap•
pointed.
S. 33iihOLAY HARDiwo has been appointed
Collector of Internal Revenue for the First
District of Pennsylvania, to supply the va
cancy occasioned by the death of his father.
Personal.
The President has permitted rebel ex-Con
gresoman "Evax,..rT, of Kentucky, to go home,
iree from civil and military arrest, and has re
stored to him his property. lie has-not, how
aver, pardoned him.
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, former DOUGLAS can
didate for Vice Presidency, arrived to-day.
BRUTALITIES TO THE FREEDMEN.
1 General Massacre Said to have been Inttn
uarated in the South.
MURDERS BY HUNDREDS OCCUR
RING EVERY DAY.
Ktyte * Tonu, August 24.—T11e southern Chris
icrn incettiffencer, of August sth, Says, if one
tenth part of the reports are true, which are
(-owing from all parts of the South thicker
and faster, a most shocking state of affairs
exists. From localities where there are na
tional troops Genie reports that unfortunate
creatures, the negroes, are being hunted dawn
like dogs and despatched without ceremony.
The newspapers in the South are filled with
accounts of these brutal murders, which foot
up to an aggregate of several hundred deaths
per day which is, doubtlestr; only a ,small por
tion of the number noticed. An Alabama
paper says this business has become so exten
sive and common that some %planters even
boast they could manure their land with the
dead carcases of the negroes. If negroes can
be shot down daily in garrisoned towns] where .
the authorities aro unable to stop this state of
things, it is very reasonable to suppose that
this brutal work is carried on more extensive
ly where the blacks have no protection. This
wholesale murdering of human beings is, we
fear, the practical working of the conspiracy
to exterminate the colored race, which is re
volting to the Christian age.
The Raleigh (W. C.) Progress of the 16th inst.
learns from Col. Lawrence, commandant of the
post at Goldsboro, that six negroes were killed
at or near Warsaw two weeks ago. Their for
pier owner left on the approach of the Union
army. The negroes, remaining, went to work
and made a crop. Their former owner returned
recently, and Ordered them to leave. The ne•
groes refused, and the proprietor of the place,
getting some neighbors together with arms,
ordered them off again, and on their refusal
attacked them, killing six. A company 01 sot.
diers was sent up from Wilmington to iuvesti•
gate the affair.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1865.
BOSTON, August 2..—Ey the arrival of the
brig Example, advices from Cape Ifaytien to
July 25th have been received. The rebels still
held the place, sustaining a daily cannonad
ing from the national troops, who had failed
to inflict much damage, only three persons
having been killed, and a few housesdamaged.
It was thought that as long as the rebels could
obtain ammunition and provisions they could
hold out. A vessel recently ran in with a
supply of provisions, although the port is
blockaded by two atearnerS. Provisions were
getting short, only seven days' supply being
on haiid. The foreign consuls had attempted
to mediate between the belligerents, but with•
out success. The lives of the American and
English consuls bad been frdqueutly threat
ened by the rebels, owing to their supposed
sympathy with the cause of Garrard.
F0UT17.813 /{624lterg, AlMlid Pe pa'
tients are removed from the Chesapeake Hos-
Pital, and the building was yesterday turned
over to the Freedmen's Bureau.
The steamers J. D. Coleman and Winnpenny
were discharged from Government service to
day.
Another Defalcation in Few York.
NEW YORK, August 21.—The Ommerciai states
that an employee of an extensive express com
pany - bas turned up a defaulter to a large
amount, and has left for parts unknown, with
out waiting for the aCCeptance or rejection of
his resignation.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 21.—A three days festival
Of the :German Target Bite Association Of
Baltimore, commenced to-day at the grounds
of the Association, near this city, There was
a large gathering,•and the grounds were hand
somely decorated, and to-night were Mural
-naiad. The prizes contested for lire very
beautiful and costly, A number of mute:atm - ate
from other eities were present. rrea 6 i 4 ele.
Kramer, of Baltimore, won the King's Gold
Medal ; Langenbelm, of Philadelphia, • and
Schalk, of Pottsville, Pa., each won gold
medals.
Ens Tow, Pa., August 21.—The Demooratie
County Convention held here to-day was
largely attended. A resolution was unani
mously adopted expressing the preference of
the county for the nomination of Hiester Cly-.
mer for GovernOt
Naw "roux, August 21.—A special to the
Herald from Buffalo, says the case for the pro..
secution in the Colchester Spiritualist trial
has closed. Several WitneeeeS were examined
for the defence, and a verdict for the de
fendant is anticipated.
A fire commenced at noon in a liquor store,
No. 241 fiouth street, and communicated to
Nos. 202 and 206, and thence to the Government
bonded warehouse, NO. 208. The - fire is still
burning, and there is a prospect of being a
heavy loss. A large police force is present to
protect property and to prevent riots among
the firemen. .
Tbe flee today consumed buildings 201 South
street, occupied by riggers and ship-joiners
400, 401, and 405 Market street, known as J.
Hicks' United 'States bonded warehouse, oc
cupied by F.W. Brampton, and heavily stored
with teas and coffees ; Nos. 397 and MP Water
Street, occupied by Smith do., dealers in
copper and old iron, were badly damaged. The
loss amounted to over half a million dollars,
mostly on the bonded warehouse.
Three firemen were injured by the falling
walls.
OCCASIONAL
Luther Gallagher, of Bloomfield, N. J., re-
Cently in the Quartermastetta Department,
__was arrested to-day and sent to 'Fort '% arren.
on the charge of defrauding the Government
by forgery.
Statement of the condition of the New York
bans for the week ending August 21 ; 1.863
Decrease of loana . ..14,630,000
Decrease of specie
Decrease of circulation
Decrease of deposits...
Increase of legal tende
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE—SECOND BOARD.
/0000 II 5 Bs, 'Bl e 10634' 500 Reading It 103 X,
4000011 0 Ss, 5-20 C 97% 5001 do 103
400011 B 65, 5-20 —0306% 100 Chi & Alt R cx-d 06
170000 T N 7 3.10 3d ser 98% 500 MSo& li I R..... 63
10000 do 99% 100 do 62%
100 Erie R_ ,-
. .-.. .. 84% 200 do 62%
235 Quick Min Co.. •54 FM Clot. & Pitts R..• 673 E
100 do 54,14 480 do ' 67%
100 kr Y Cen R„815, 0074' 10 0 Chl Rc RI. It• ,•• • .10 6 :4"
100 do OM 906 Mil & P Int C 11.., 40
100 'and Ric It, 10831. /00 P Ft W & C R.... 0174-
At Gallagber , s Exchange, - this evening, Gold
closed at 143%; Erie, 83%; Hudson River,loB%;
Reading, 102%; Michigan Southern, 62 Pitts
burg, 675 g, Cleveland and Rock Island', 10554',.
The market WM dial but steady.
. •
Terrific Fight between two New York
Companies—Two Men Milled and
Many Wounded—The Rioters turn on
the Pollee, but are Defeated.
About one o'clock on Sunday morning a false
alarm of fire was caused by the burning of a
straw bed, which had beenmysteriouslyplaeed
In the roof of 33 Ridge street, N. Y., for the
purpose, as evidence since taken shows, to at
tract the attention of the Essex bell-ringer,
who could see the flames from his lookout. Re
would strike, and an opportunity would then
be given' for the finishing stroke to an old
grudge long existing between two companies
the "Dig 6 1, and the Clinton Company, No. 41:
The ruse succeeded. At the cornet of Ridge
and Delaney streets, Engine Companies Nos.
S and 41 met, and after a short, angry contro
versy, a general fight was indulged in. Both
parties were armed with pistols, Clubs bound
with lead and iron, stones, trumpets, and in
fact every conceivable kiv.d of offensive
weapons. All were brought into play, and
soon a blood-covered sidewalk, the groans of
the wounded and the yells of the maddened
rowdies, gave token that their work was seri
ous.
A platoon of the Thirteenth precinct police,
that bad been sent to the scene to preserve
order at the fire, in vain strove to dissuade the
firemen—they could do little more, their force
not being of strength sufficient to cope with
the rioters, perceiving which a messenger was
despatched to the:Delaney-street pollee sta
tion, with a requisition for aid. Capt. Steers
at once went out, with every available man of
his precinct, but on reaching the neighbor
hood of the riot, which was now densely pack
ed with firemen and spectators, he saw and
comprehended the magnitude of the battle;
and it became clear to him at a glance there
was serious work to be done, and that he must
without delay have assistance from the police
of other East side precincts. He, according
ly, hastened to his station-house, and by tele
graph notified the sergeants in demi:Mind In
Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, and Eighteenth Pre
cincts that a sanguinary riot was in progress at
the intersection of Delaney and Ridge streets
and thattheirpresence,withplatoons of armed
men, was required without delay. Meanwhile,
the hostilities were being waged - with fercicity,
and the firemen were dashing trumpets, brick
bats, and bludgeons in each other's faces, and
delivering the contents of their pistols among
the crowd of curious spectators that had be
come wedged in around them, and the police
were still unable to make headway against
.them.. Several persons were severely wounded
in the first skirmish, and taken off to their
biomes. .at length platoons of policemen began
to arrive down Ridg9 street from the Seventh;
down Grand street from the-Tenth; upp De.
laney from the Eleventh, and n Ridge
from the Eighteenth, thus surrounding the
combatants by a cordon of Metropolitan offi
cers, strongly armed and ready for any emer
gency. But before the arrival of officers from
the precincts that bad sent aid, Captain
Steers and Sergeant Woodward, with their
force of about forty Mil, had dashed upon
the rioters and driven them up Ridge
street to Broome street, and there they were
met by Sergeant Davenport and about six
teen men, and the Sergeant rushed on the
crowd, with "Boys, in and give it to them ;',
and the combat b etween the policemen and the
riots] s began with terrific earnestness, the
firemen receiving severe punishment, and dy
ing thence, hotly pursued by several sections
of police, to Grand street, where a halt was
made and another stand attempted; but the
combined police, who were continually receiv
ing reinforcements, made an onslaught upon
the rioters, and the members of No. a Engine
Company, deserting their machine at the in
tersections of Grand and Ridge streets, fled
batik to the Seventh ward. At this point Eire
Company No. 41, intimidated by the presence
of an overwhelming array of locust-dealing of
-deers, succumbed, and after arresting six
members of the company the police permitted
the residue, guilty, and like whipped spanieb ,
to draw their engine back to its shelter in Nor
folk street. Captain Steers here took posses
sion of the engine-house and its contents.
Captain Jameson, of the Seventh precinct,
now took the machine belonging to Fire Com
pany No. 6 back to the engine house in Henry
street, and placed the house and its machinery
under the surveillance of his men.
The riot d about twenty-five minutes,
and during that time two Bremen Were mor
tally wounded, and from a dozen to a score
arc knowri to have received serious cuts, shot
wounds and bruises. Among those wounded
are the following named persons: Matthias
Bettman, of No. 771:4 Broome street, a "run
ner" attached to Fire. Engine Company No.
41; Bartlett McGee, a "bunker," attached to
No. 41; James Quigley, of No. 80 - Ridge streets
a member of No. 41 Engine COmpany;, ---
Murray, a "runner"'with Engine Company
No. 41; Moran, of No. 29 Ridge street;
Charles' Oram, a "bunker , ' at No. 6 Engine
house ; Thomas Clayton, of No. 6 Engine,
" bunker Thomas Kelly and Thos. Sweeny,
Of NO, 6 'Engine, both "bunkers." The mor
tally wounded are Bartlett MeGee, James
Quigley, and Matthias Bettman. The latter
three, one of whOut died at 4:o'clock yesterday
afternoon, were taken to the Bellevue HOS
pita by policemen Gray and Dixon, and their
comrades were removed to the Delaney-street
police station by policemen Robert Gray,
Dewy Eulner:Allgus% Bersemann, and Frank
Algeltinger, and the wounds 6f the rioters
were dressed by Police Surgeon J. P. Bliven.
A post-mortem examination on the body of
Betffnau will be keldto-day. An ante.mortem
examination was taken by Coroner Grover of
James Quigley, whose death last night was
hourly expected. He, however, refaced to
communicate any of the facts, and claimed
not to know who shot him.—New York Rxems.
last erening•
CAPE HAYTIE N.
FORTRESS MONROE.
German Shooting Festival.
Stiote Polities.
The Spiritualist Case.
NEW YORK CITY.
`I 4 I , TISW Yoke, Atigtigt 21,1965.
A GREAT AND DESTRUCTIVE EIRE.
DEFRAUDING THE GOVERNMENT
EVENING GOLD EXCEL9.I.IGE
FIREMEN'S RIOT.
111. C
A LEGAL INQUIRY INTO ITS TER
RORS AND HORRORS.
Commencement of the Trial of the
knew, Captain Win,
THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM, AND THE SPECIFI
CATION SUPPORTING THEM, ,
lie is Arraigned for Conspiracy to Murder,
With Ler and Seddon, and with
Actual Murder, •
Lee, Seddon, and Others Arraigned with
him on the First Charge,
WAsniwerow, August 21.—The special Mili
tary commission convened this afternoon, in
the Court of Claims room, at the . Capitol.
Major General Wallace, President; and Colonel
Chipman, .Judge Advocate. At 13 o'clock,
Captain Wirz the prisoner to be tried, was
brought into the rooni, guarded on each side
by a soldier,
The prisoner was requested to rise, when
Colonel Chipman said :
Captain Wirz, you are to be tried by the Mili
tary Commission. Have you any personal ob
jection to any of its members 1
Judge Kligbes, of the counsel, said they
proposed to make no objection of it, Dersonal
character. They would, however, at a subse
quent stage of
. the proceedings, ask to be
heard on the •plea' of general jurisdiction,
especially, objecting to the mode of consti
tuting the court ; but, if the prisoner was to
be tried. by a Military Commission, he would
as soon be tried. by this one as any other.
The members Or the Commission were then
sworn.
The Judge Advocate informed the prisoner
that he was arraigned fortrialnnder the name
of Henry Wirz. Wae that the name?
The prisoner replied that it was.
Judge Hughes desired to say that the charges
and specifications were not delivered to the
prisoner until yesterday afternoon, and were
not seen by his counsel until this morning.
Therefore, they had not had aufliOient time to
examine them.
Colonel Chipman said the counsel could ask
for delay atter the arraignment, and then pro-
ceeded to read the charges and specifications
preferred against Henry Wirz, as tonows;
783 ca.Altilllg AND BPHOIBIOATit,N6,
Charge wilfully, and trai
torously, and in aid of the then existing rebel
lion against the United States of America, on
or before the Ist day of March,A.D. 1861, and on
divers other days, between that day and the
10th day Of April, 1865, combining, confedera
ting, and conspiring together, with Robt. E.
Lee Jas. A. Seddon, John Winder, Lucius
D.Northrop, Richard B. Winder, It. It. Ste
venson Moore . , and others unknown, to in
pure the health
. and destroy the lives of sal
tilers in the nAlitary service of the United
States, then held, and being prisoners of war
with!n the linag of the so-called Confederate
States, and in the military prisons thereof, to
the end, and that the armies of the United
States might be weakened and impaired, in
violation of the laws and customs of war.
Spectfication.-131 this that he the said Henry
Wirz did combine, confederate s and conspire
with them, the said Robt E. Lee, James A.
Seddon, JOllll IL Winder, Lucius D. Northrup,
Richard B. Winder, Joseph White, W. S. Win
der, R. R. Stevenson Moore, and others whose
'names ,are unknown, citizens of the United
States aforesaid, and who were then engaged
in armed rebellion against the United Stares,.
maliciously, traitorously, and in violation of
the laws of war, to impair and injure the
health, and to destroy the lives, by subjecting
to torture and great suffering; by confining in
unhealthy and unwholesome quarters - tva
sposing to the inclemency of winter and to the
dews and burning sun of summer; by com
pelling the use of impure water, and by fur
nishing insufficient and unwholesome food, of
large numbers of Federal prisoners, soldiers
in the military service of the United States of
America, held as prisoners of War at Anderson
ville, in the State of Georgia. within the linos
of the so. called Confederate States, on or be
fore the first day of March, A. D. 1864, and at
divers times between that day and the 10th
of April, A.D. 1865, to the end that the armies
of the United States might be weakened and
impaired . , and the insurgents engaged in arm
ed rebellion against'he United States might
be aided and comforted ; and he, the
said Henry IV irz, an officer in the military
service of the so-called Confederate States,
being then commandant of a military prison
at A_ndersonville, in the State of Georgia, kr
oated by authority of the so-called Confederate
States lor the confinement of prisoners of we;
and as such commandant Dilly clothed with
authority ani;indatyboundto.treat, care, and
provide forssneh =prisoners 'held as aforesaid
as might be placed in histcustody, according
to the laws of, war 'did in furtherance of such
combination, confederation, and conspiracy,
and incited thereunto by there,the said R. E.
Lee s . Jas. A. Seddon, John 11, Winder, Joseph
White, W. S. Winder, It, h, S. lifoore, and
others, uthose names are unknown maliciously
wickedly and traitorously confine a large
number of such prisoners of war s soldiers in
the military service of the United States, to
the amount of 30,000, in unhealthy and un
wholesome quarters, in a close and small area
of ground, Wholly inadequate to their wants,
and destructive to their health, which he well
knew and intended, and while there so con
fined, during the time aforesaid, did, in fur
therance of his evil design and in view of the
said conspiracy, wilfully and maliciously
neglect to furnish tents, barracks, or other
shelter sufneiellt ter their protection from
the inclemency of the weather, and the
dews and burning sun of summer, and with
such evil intent did take, and cause to be taken
from them, their clothing, blankets, camp
equipage, and other property of which they
were possessed at the time of being placed in
custody;lliS and, with like malice and evil
intent, did refute to furnish, or MOO to be
furnished, food, either of a quality or quanti
ty sufficient to preserve health and to sustain
life; and-did refuse and neglect to furnish
wood sufficient for cooking in summer, and to
keep the - said persons warm in winter;
and did compel the said prisoners to
subsist upon unwholesome water, reek
ing with the 111th and garbage of the pri
son and prison guard, and the offal and
drainage of the cook-house of said prison,
whereby the prisoners becamegreatly reduced
in their bodily strength, and emaciated and
injured in their bodily health, their minds ims
paired, and their intellects broken, and many
of them, to wit : the number of ten thousand,
Whose names are unknown, sickened and died
by reason thereof, which he, the said Henry
Wirz, then and there well'knew and intended,
and so knowing and wilfully intending, did
refuse and neglect to provideproper lod,gings,
food or nourishment for the sick,and necessary
medicine, and medical attendance for the re
storation of their health 3 and did knowingly,
wilfully,' and maliciously, in fustherance of
'his evil designs,permit. them to languish and
die from want of care and proper treatment.
And the said Henry Wirz, stillpursuing his
evil purposes, did permitto remain in the said
prison, among the emaciated sick and lan
guishing living, the bodies of the dead until
they became corrupt and loathsome, and filled
the air with fetid and noxious exhala
tions, and thereby greatly increased
the unwholesomeness of the prison,, inso
much that great numbers of the said pri
soners, to wit : the number of one thousand.,
whose names are unknown, sickened and died
bv reason thereof; and the said Henry Wirz,
still pursuing his wicked and cruel purposes,
wholly disregarding the usages Of civilized
warfare did, at the time and place aforesaid,
maligiously and wilfully subject the prisoners
aforesaid to cruel, unusual, and infamous pun
ishment upon slight, trivial, and fictitious pre
tences, by fastening large balls of iron to their
feet, and binding large numbers of the ;srison
ers aforesaid closely together, with large
chains around their necks and feet, so that
they walked with the groateat Mine-silty, and
being so confined were subjected to the burn
ing rays of the sun often without food or
drink for hours, and even days, from which
said cruel treatment large numbers, to wit:
the number of one hundred, whose names are
unknown sickened, fainted, and died ; and he,
the said Wirz, did further cruelly treat and
Milne Said prisoners by maliciously confining
them within an instrument of torture called
the stocks,. thus depriving them of the use of
their limbs, and forcing them to lie, sit,'
and stand for many hours without the
power of changing their *position, and being
without food or drink, in consequence of
which many, to wit: the number of thirty,
whose names are unknown, sickened and died;
and he s the said Wirz, still wickedly pursuing
this evil purpose, did establish, and cause to
be designated within the prison enclosure con
taining sueSt prisoners, a dead line, being a
line around the inner face of the stockade or
wall enclosing said prisoners, and about twen
ty feet distant from, and within said stockade;
and haying so established said dead 1 inc,wit ich
was in many places an imaginary line, and
in many other places marked by insecure
and shifting strips of boards nailed upon
'the top of small and insecure stakes or
posts; 1/143, the said Wirz, instructsd the
prison guard stationed around the top of the
said stockade, to lire upon and kill any of the
prisonersaloreaald - who -might touch, fall npOli s
pass over or under or across the said masa
line, pursuant 'to which said orders and in
structions maliciously and needlessly given
by the said Wirz, the said prison guard did
-tire upon and kill a large number of said
prieeners, to wit : the numbers of about three
hundred and the Said Wirz Son pursuing
his evil purpose, did keep and use ferocious
and bloodthirsty beasts dangerous to human
life, called blood-bounds, to bunt down pri
soners of war aforesaid, who 'made their
escape from his custody and and did then and
there Wilfully and malielously suffer, incite,
and encourage the said beasts to seize, tear,
mangle, and maim the bodies of said fugitive
Prisoners of war, whichthe said bedsits incited
us aforesaid did ; therebyy a large number of
Paid prisoners of war, who, during the time
aforesaid made their escape, and were recap
tured, and were, by the said beasts, then and
there cruelly and inhumanly injured, in so.
much that ninny of the said prisoners to
wit the number of about fifty died,
and the said Wirz s still pursuing'
his wicked purpose, and still aiding in carry.
ing out the said conspiracy, did use and cause
to be used for the pretended purposes of swel
-1 nation, impure and poisonous vaccine matter,
which said impure and poisonous matter was
then and there by the direction and order of
Said Wire, maliffifitudy, cruelly, and wickedly
deposited in the arms of many of aeldpritionerts
by reason of which large numbers of them—to
wit, one hundred—lost the use of their arms,
and many of them—to wit about the number
of two hundred, were so inured that they soon
thereafter died, all of whie he, the said Henry
IN'irz, well knew, and MallolollSly Intended,
and in tad of the Men existing rebellion
.. 1,000,000
2,500,000
against the - Milted States, with the view to
assist in 'weakening and impairing the armies
of the United States, and in furtherance of the
said conspiracy, and with the full knowledge,
CODSO4, and eaffravanee of his conspirators
aforesaid, be, the said Wit's, then and there did
Charge 2.—Xurderr, and in violation , of the
laws and customs of war.
qpecificationl.—ln this, that the safd`Henry
Wirz, an officer in Me -military Service' of. the
so-called ConfederatZ' States of America; at
AnderSOnville, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the Sib day of July, A. D. Mai, then. and
there being commandant of a prison thorn idd
cated by the authority of the said so-called
Confederate States for the confinement of pri
soners of war,taken and hcld.as such from the
armies of the United States of America, while
acting a$ said commandant; feloniously, wil
fully, and of his malice aforethought, did
make an assault, and he, the said H. Wirz, with
a certain pistol, called a revolver, then and
there, loaded and charged with gunpow
der and bullet, which said pistol said
Henry Wirz in his hand then and there
had and held to, against, and upon a soldier
belonging to the army of the "United 50.tes, in
his, the said Henry ivirvs custody, as a pri
soner of war, whose name is unk.nown, then
and there feloniously, and of his malice afore
thought, did shoot and discharge, inflicting
upon the body of the soldier aforesaid a mor
tal wound with the pistol aforesaid, in conse
guenee of which mortal wound `
- murderously
1131lieted by the said ifeary ir2, the Mid
soldier thereafter died.
.. _
peeification 2.—ln this that the said. Henry
an officer in the military service of the
so-called Confederate States of America,' in
Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the 20th day of September, A. D.' 1864,
then and there, being commandant of a prison
there located by the authority of the said so
called Confederate States for the confinement
of prisoners of war, taken and held as such
from the armies of the United States of Ame
rica, while acting as said commandant, felon',
onsly,wilfully, and of his malice aforethought,
jump upon, stamp, kick, and otherwise
injure, with the heels of INS boots, a soldier
belonging to the arMy_Of the United States, in
his, the' aid Henry Wirz's custody, as to pri
sonor of war, whose name is unknown of
which said stamping, kicking, and bruising,
maliciously done and inflicted by the said
Wirz, he, the said soldier, soon thereafter died.
Spectfication 3.—in this, that the said Henry.
Wirz, an officer in the military service Of the
so-called Confederate States of America, at
Andersonyille, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the thirteenth day of June, A. D-1804,
then and there, being commandant of a prison
there located by the authority of the said so
called Confederate States for the. confinement
of prisoners of war, taken and UM as snob
from the armies of the United States of Ame
rica, while acting as said commandant feloni
ously, and of his malice aforethought, did
make an assault, and he, the said Henry Wirz,
with a certain pistol, called a revolver, then
and there loaded charged with gunpowder
and bullets, which said pistol the said Heal'
Wirz, in his band then aAd there,lmil and held
to, against and upon a soldier belonging' to the
army of the United States, in his the said Hen.
iY Witz's custody as a prisoner of war, whose
name is unknown; then and there felonious.
ly and of his malice aforethought, did shoot
and discharge, inflicting upon the body of the
soldier aforesaid a mortal wound with • the
pistol aforesaid, in consequence of which said
mortal wound, murderously inflicted by the
said Henry Wirz, the said soldier thereafter
died. .
Specification 4.—ln this, that the said Henry
Wirz, an officer in the military service of the
sacalled Confederate States. of America, at.
Anderseetville, in the State Of Georgia, on or
about the thirtieth day of Bray, A. D. 1801, then
and there being commandant of, a prison
there located by the authority of the 'said
so-called Confederate States for the confine
ment of prisoners of war, taken and held as
such from the armies of the United States of
America, while acting as said eOmMellflent,
feloniously and of his nialiee aforethought, did
make an assault; and he, the said Henry Wirz,
with a certain pistol called a revolver, then
and there loaded and charged with gunpowder
and bullets, which said pistol the said Henry
Wine, in his hand, then and there had and held
to, against,and upon a sold ierbelonging to the
army of the United States, in his the said
Henry Wire's custody as a prisoner of war,
-whose name is unknown ; then and there fe
loniously, and of his malice aforethought, did
shoot and discharge, inflicting upon the body
of the soldier aforesaid a mortal wound, with
the pistol aforesaid ; in consequence of which
said mortal wound, murderously inflicted by
the said Henry Wirz, the said soldier there
after died.l
Specification, s.—ln this, that the said Henry
Wirz, an officer in the military service of the
so-called Confederate States of America, at
Andersonville,lin the State of Georgia; on or
about the 20th day of August, A. D. 1864, then
ehd there being COMMendant of a prison there
located by the authority of the said so-called
Confederate States for the confinement of
Prisoners of war, taken and held as such from
the armies of the United States of America,
while acting as said commandant, feloniously,
and of his malice aforethought, did confine
and bind with an instrument of torture called
the "stocks " a soldier belonging to the army
of the United States, in his the said Henry
Wirz's custody as a prisoner of war, whose
name is unknown; in consequence of which
said cruel treatment, maliciously and mur
derously inflicted as aforesaid, he, the said
Soldier, soon thereafter died.
Specification 6.—ln this that the said Henry
Wirz, an officer in the military service of the
so-called Confederate States Of America, at
Andereonville, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the first day of February, 18e5, then and
there being commandant of a prison there la
cated by the authority of the said so-called Con
federate States for the confinement of priso
ners of war, taken and held as such from the
armies of the United States of America., while
acting as said commandant, feloniously, and
of his malice aforethought, did confine and
bind within an instrument of torture called
"the stocks," a soldier belonging to the army
of the United States, in his the said Henry
,Wirzis custody as a prisoner of war, whose
name is tmknown, in consequence of which said
cruel treatment, maliciously and Murderously
inflicted as aforesaid, he, the eaid soldleie
soonthereafter died.
*iecification7.—ln thls,that the said Henry
Wirz, an officer in the military service of the
so-called Confederate States of America, at
Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the 20th day of July, A. D. 1864 then and
there being COMmandent of a prison there
located by the authority of the Said so-called
Confederate States for the confinement of
prisoners of war, taken and held as such from
the armies of the United States of America,
while acting asoaid commandant, felonibusly,
and of Vs malice aforethought, did fasten and
chain together several persons, soldiers be
longing to the army of the United States r in
his, the said Henry Wieefeenztody RS prisoners
of war, whose names are unknown, binding
the necks and feet Of said prisoners closely
together, and compelling them to carry great
burdens, wit: large iron balls chained to
their feet, SO that in consequence of the said
cruel treatment inflicted upon them by the
said Henry Wirz, at aforesaid, one Of said
soldiers, a prisoner of war as aforesaid, and
whose name is unknown, died.
SpecificationB.—ln this, that the said Henry
Wirz, an officer in the military service of the
so-called Confederate States of America, at
Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the - 16th day of May, A, P, ISee then and
. there being commandant of a prison, there
located by the authority of the said so-called
Confederate States for the confinement of pri
soners of war taken and held as such from the
armies of the United States of America, while
acting as said commandant feloniously, wil
fully, and of his malice aforethought, did order
a rebel soldier, whose name 15 unimown, there
on duty as a sentinel or guard of the prison of
which said Henry Wirz. was commandant as
aforesaid, to fire upon a soldier belonging to
the army of the United States, in his, the said
Henry Wires, custody, as prisoner of war,
whose name is unknown, and. in pursuance of
said order, so as aforesaid, maliciously and
murderouely given as aforesaid, he, the said
rebel soldier, did, with a -musket loaded with
gunpowder and bullet, then and there fire at
the said soldier, so as aforesaid held as a pri
soner of war, inflicting upon him a mortal
wound with the musketaforesaid, of which lie,
the said prisoner, soon thereafter died.
Specification 9.—ln this, that the said Henry.
Win, an officer in the military service of
the so-called Confederate States of America,
at Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on
or about the Ist day of July, A. D. Mt,
then and there being commandant of a prison
there located by the authority of the so-called
Confederate States for the confinement
of prisoners of war, taken and held as such
from the armies of the United States of Ame
rica, while acting as said - commandant felo
niously and of his malice, aforethought did
order a rebel soldier, whose name is unknown,
then on duty as a sentinel or guard to the pri
son of which the said Wirz was commandant
as aferesaid, to fire upon a soldier belonging
to the Army of the United States in his, the
said Henry Wirrs custody as a prisoner of
war, whose name is unknown and in plum
ance of said order so as aforesaid, maliciously
and murderously given as aforesaid he, the
said rebel soldier, did with a musket loaded
with gunpowder and.bullet then and there fire
at the said soldier soap aforesaid held as a pri
soner of war, inflicting upon him, the saidri
soner of war, a wound with the said musket
of - which lie the said prisoner goon thereafter
died.
Specification 10.—In this that the said Henry
Wirz, an officer in the military service of the
so-called Confederate States of America, at
Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the 20th day of August, A. D. 1.864, then
and there being commandant of a prison there
located by the authority of the said - so-called
Confederate States, for the confinement of
frisoners of war taken and held as such
rom the armies of the United States of Ame
rica, while acting as said commandant, feloni
ously,- and of his malice aforethought, order
a rebel soldier, whose name Is unknown, then
On duty as a- sentinel or guard to the prison
of which said Wirz was commandant, as afore
said, to fire upon a soldier belonging to the
army of the United States, in, his, the said
Henry Wirrs custody as if prisoner of: war,
whose name is unknown; and in pursuance or
said order, so as aforesaid, maliciously and
murderouslygiven, as aforesaid, he there, said
rebel soldier did, with. a. musket loaded with
gunpowder and 'bullet, then and there fire at
The said soldier, so as aforeeaid held as a
prisoner of war, inflicting upon him a Mortal
wound with the said musket, of which he, the
said prisoner, soon thereafter died.
Spec:AlM:oft 11.—In this that the. said Henry
Wfrz, an officer in the military service of the
po-called Confederate States of America, at
Anderstheville, in the State a Georgia, on or
about the Ist day of July, A. D, AliBll and
there being a commandant Of a prison there lo
cated by the authority of the saidscecalled Con
federate States, for the confinement of pri
soners of war taken' and held as such from
the armies of the United States of America,
-while acting as saidVOnimandant, feloniously
and of his malice aforethought,. did cause,
incite and urg.e certain ferocious and blood
thirsty animals called bloodhounds to pursue,
attack, wound, and tear in,pieces a soldier be
longing to- the army
_of the United States, in
his, the said Henry Wirrs, custody as a pri
soner of war, whose name is unknoten, and in
consequence thereof the said bloodhounds did
then and there, with the knowledge, moon
ragemeut, and instigation of lam the said
Wirz, maliciously and murderously given by
him, attack and mortally wound the said sot-
Bier, in consequence of which said mortal
wound the said prisoner soon thereafter died.
eelf/eation 12.—1 n this, that,the said Henry
Wlra, en officer in the military service of the
' so-called Confederate States Of America at
.Andersonvine, in the State Of Georgia, on or
about the 27th day of July, A. D. 1861 then and
there being the commandant of a prison there
located by the authority of the sacalled Con
federate States for the confinement of prises
ners of war, taken and held as such from
the armies of the United States of Ame
rica, while acting as said Commandant
feloniously and of his malice aforethought,
did order a rebel soldier, whose name is un
known then Orr duty as a sentinel or guard to
. the prison Of, which said Wirz was command
ant as afore:said, to fire upon a soldier belong
ing to tile. army of the United States i in his the
THREE GENTS.
said H. Wires custody as aprisoner of wa
whose name is unknown, and in pursuance t,
said order, so OS aforesaid maliciously and
murderouslyiven as aforekaid, the said rebel
soldier did, with EV Musket loaded with gun
powder and bullel4 , then and there &s at the
said addles se as aforesaid, held as a prieoner
of srar r lndicting upon' him a mortal wound
with the said musket, of which said niortal
wound L. the said prisoner soon thereafter
died.
qpecificollan 13: In this thatthe said HesTrY
Wins, an WNW in the military service of the'
so-called Confederate Statel of America, at
Anderson.ville, in the State of Georgia, on or
about the third' day of .A.ugnst,ls44, then and
there being commandant of nprison there lo
cated by the authority of the' said so-called
Confederate States for the confinement of
prisoners of war,.token and held as such from
the armies of the United Statee Of America,
while acting no said commandant, felo
niously and of his malice aforethought,
did make an assaulli upon a soldier be
longing to the army of the United States
M his, the said H. Wirr:U•custod y, as a prisoner
of War, whose name is unknewn, and, with a
01, called a revoiyerelion and there held
in the hands of the mitt'Wira, did beat and
bruise said soldier upon the head shoulders,
and breast inflicting thereby mortal wounds,
from which said beating and bruising afore
said, and mortal wounds caused thereby, the
said soldiers soon thereafter died.'
cSignecl,) N..P. CHIPMAN,
Coloildl and A. A. D. al Judge .4,Vocate.
Colonel Chipman asked the prleoner What
answer have you to make?
Judge Hughes replied that the'eharges were
delivered to the prisoner only s'etiterday after
noon, and were - not seen by his counsel, Ha
meld; Hughes, Denver-Peck, and Louis Sdhode
until this morning. lie submitted the ques
tion whetherit reaSonable time should not be
given to the prisoner to preilaNa for Ills de.
Tense or not. What made an extension of time
still more important was that three or four
weeks ago a totally different set of charges
were served to those who proposed to defend
him, and on which preparations_ to that end
alone had been made.. The charges Just read
were different in substance and form, and cer
tainly twenty-font hours , notice was not slim
dent to consider them: •
Colonel Chipman felt it to be his duty to
state the charges served two or three weeks
sinek, embracing precisely the substance but .
not the form of those just preferred.
The only addition is the charge of conspi
racy, which include the- facts heretofore
legea. Therefore, the counsel should be pre
pared to meet them. There should be no un
reasonable delay. We had subpcenaed a num
ber of witnesses from the South, and a hun
dred witnesses for the Government were in
attendance.
Judge Hughes repiied that the counsel de,
Signated no time, They asked no undue or
unnecessary indulgence,but wished to facili
tate the proceedings of the Commission. As
to the substance of the charges to which the
prisoner pleads not guilty, they were totally
different from those heretofore preferred.
One set called upon them to defend his own
life only, but the other just read to this court
required him not only to defend his own life,
but that of General Lee and half a dozen
others.
Colonel Chipman desired the gentleman to
'indicate for whom he appeared.
Judge Hughes replied appear for the
prisoner now on trial. The Judge Advocate
was no doubt aware of the rule that when the
proof of a conspiracy is once made out the
prisoner is responsible for the acts of all en
gaged in it.
Colonel Chipman desired the entry, to be
'made that these gentlemen appear only for
the priSoner, and it should be understood
whether, without authority. they should de
fend anybody else,
Judge Hughes : We only desire to defend
•Captain Wirz. We may object to the form of
the charges, the first of which is a conspiracy,
and not only a conspiracy, but actual crimes
under it, The Other char is murder, with
thirteen specifications, If these specifications
of murder come under the civil law, then We
propose that this court cannot take jurisdic
tion; but if they come under military law this
court might take jurisdiction. I wish to sub.
mit to the court that they lay down some rule
by , which they are to be governed' during this
trial.
.•
This is an order emanating from the Presi
dent of the United States appointing a Mili
tary Commission not only to try a particular
case, but any ease that may be brought before
it; and it does not appear that this case has
been sent here. The one statute gives mili
tary courts jurisdiction over civilians incases
where persons are found lurking about as
N o jurisclictioll is conferred in cases of
conspiracy. The prisoner is charged with
treasonable conspiracy and murder. Then,
do we know that it was the intention of the
President to send such a case herel We have
no evidence that the charges emanated from
any other source than the Judge Advocate of
this court..
Judge Cliniman said while not designing to
answer the fallacy of Judge Hughes, he would
merely remark that the practice has been to
try any case properly coming before the court.
The order reads: ', For the trial of such pri
soners as may be brought before the court..
All the books lay down the rule that the Judge
AdYoCate shall prepare the oases for adjudica
tion. beveral caSea have already been decided.
The point is not a new one. The case is not
required formally to be prepared and sent to
the court. The court is constituted for the
trial of such prisoners as may be brought be
fore it, and the prisoner is here to be tried.
The court, with closed doors, decided to
overrule the plea of the counsel for the lic
ensee.
Judge Hughes, in order, as he said, to facili
tate proceedings, filed several petitions.
First. Denying the jurisdiction of the court
to try the prisoner, it having no authority to
do so, either by statute or well-established
usage.
Second, That this cue is not brought before
it by competent authority.
Third. That the prisoner is an authorized
citizen, and was never in the land or naval ser
vice of the United States, and that the United
States now being at peace and civil war ceased,
there is no authority to punish.
The PriP9xter protests that he- °ugh& not,.
therefore, to he tviAd, but discharged limn cus
tody.:He also claims that just before the time
of his arrest at Andersonville, Captain Noyes,
on duty near that place, applied to him for in
formation, which he cheerfully communicated
to him and he accompanied Captain Noyes to
Gen. lit ilson , s quarters, the former promising
him safe conduct, and giving him an assurance
that he should not be arrested, The prisoner
relied on the good faith of Captain l'Teyeal but,
notwithstanding the above repeated assu
rances, the prisoner was seized, held in con
finement, and brought to Washington. The pri
soner further protests that he [ought not to
be held any longer, for the reason as set forth
at length, that he came within the terms of
the capitulation bet , Ween General Johnston
and General Sherman. The defendant also
asks the court to' quash the several charges
and specifications because they are each and
every one uncertain and indefinite as to the
time and the offence; and the allegations are
so indefinite and vague that he ought not to
be tried on them ; and further, that they do
not charge him with any offeriee punishable
under the laws of war.
Mr. Denver inquired what rules were to go
vern, whether the rules of bourt-martial, or
some other rule.
General Wallace the President of the Court,
replied that the Court would:serve counsel
with a copy of the rules relative tp the argu
ment and the motions.
The Court adjourned till to-morrow.
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THE DEFALCATIONS.
The Broker Grahaw and Edward
Retebuns—Minar EmbeazleDigpts•
There were yesterday no important diselo
sures concerning the great defalcation in the
house of Ketchum, Son, & Co., and in the firm
of Graham & Co.; and until the investigation
now in progress terminates, and the persons
in charge of it make up their statements little
more will be known of the losses Or of any
other facts bearing upon the final settlement
for the various frauds of Edward E. Ketchum.
Mr. Charles Graham, who, next to the house of
Ketchum, Son & C0.,1s the largest loser by the
operations of young Ketchum, occupies a
somewhat singular position in regard to the
defalcation, and there are some interesting
facts which have not been hitherto published.
Mr. Graham owed his success as a broker to
the influence and patronage of the house of
Ketchum, and it was through a member of the
same house that he was ruined. But the pa
tronage of the firm did not continue up to the
time Of Edward Ketchum's flight. The state
ment to this effect in the published Card
of the house, on which there was so mach
comment, Mr. Graham says was strictly cor
rect. The last orders he received from them
were in April last, and amounted to only a few
thousand dollars. The orders of the son were
not only continued but increased, and in a few
months eoyered many million dollars worth of
stocks and securities of various kinds, The
personal and business relations of Graham and
young Ketchum were most intimate and co
dential. Mr. Graham considered himself under
obligations to the family; and it was an ocea
sion of great pleasure to him, as well appa
rently of great profit, that he was able to ex
tend to the young man, whose broker be had
bceonie, any accommodation it might be in
his power to give.
Mr. Graham has frequently said to his
friends, that so perfect was his confidence in
Ketchum , s integrity, and so great his affec- -
'on for him, that if the young man had come
to him on the day of his flight or at any time,
and had represented that he was in difficulty,
under Circumstances that he could not disclose
even in his own house, and that one or more
hundred thousand dollars would save him, the
money would have been furnished not only
without hesitation, but without regard to any
inconvenience to Mr.Grali am that might follow
the withdrawl of so large a sum from his avail
able capital. Mr. Graham is collecting the bills
of the claimants upon his-estates, growing out
of the forgery of the sold certificates 110 receiv
ed and drew against ; and a statement of all the
affairs of his firm is to be made to the credi
tors, who will be offered the estate in liquida
tion. There is much sympathy for Mr. Gra
ham. His friends speak of him- with great
kindness, and some of them propOse, if lie ob
tithill release from his creditors, to furnish
him with such capital as he may need to re
sume his business.
OTHER DEPALCATIONS.
Two or three defalcations or embezzlements
of minor importance have been discovered
within a day or two. The facts are briefly as
follows
"On saturdaz evening thewholcSahagrOCera,
Messrs. Autun anger & NO, P 4 wagifting
ton street, caused the arrest Of. their book
keeper, named Henry Singer, Whom, they
suspected of having stolen a considerable
sum of money. Singer was taken. into
custody, at his residence, No. IS3. Third
street, and confessed, that he had robbed his
employers of money in sums Of twenty-five
dollars to sixty dollars a day, and that WM"
thefts would amount from seventhousand dot:
lass to, twelve thousand. dollars—he did not
know precisely. He added that lie had ex
pended the money, and that ho was to he mar
ried this morning. When his preliminarY ex
amination et the Tombs took place, the young
woman who was to hays become his wife was
a deeply interested. spectator.
The story of the embezzlement by a teller
of one of the Wall street banks of a hundred
thousand dollars, which the bondsmen and
friends of the teller are to pay, thus settling
the account of the bank and preventing ex
posure, has not been traced. If the persona in
interest c hoose to make good the alleged. loss,
the s ecret may properly remain their PWa•
Markets by Telegraph.
BALTIBMIIO,AuguE2I.—FIour quiet ;Western
and Iloward street heavy. Wheat firm ; prime
red *2.2002.25. Corn dull ; white 91692 c ;
loSF 90c. Oats active at 50c. Previsions steady.
wilialq dull at $2.24,
DiIIairATIKEIE, August 21,--4 1 1mit firm. Wheat
firm at en advance ot4rgrec ; sales at *1.8401.85,
closing *USX n 1.34% for No. I. Oats firm at
41c;Receipts-4i II barrels of flour and 31,000
bushels of wheat,
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S'FA'IIF; ITEMS
Reno is the name of a new town located on.
the right bank of the Alle g h eny rivet, within
L 'eur miles of Franklin, and on the'line of the
A. and W. Railway, It la named after
• G et %era] Reno, who was a native of Franklin.
The founders of the town are Galusha A.
Grow, ex-Speaker of the United States Howie
• o f Rep TesentatiVes, and C. W. Culver,Con.
greEsmv elect from the Crawford district,
a,fieordanoo Witll the State law re
houseng web. County to erect at its e61114,-
; a au - a
-dial, one has been put up at
Pittsburg, an'd then enclosed by an iron railing
in s uch a Tr umler that no one can see the dial.
Wonder what ti`te commissioners thought the
diarwas fort
Th e following Are among the nOtioeb put
up are petroleum town in the western part
of Can State: "No talking with the chamber
maid'' "'Fare as high as at any other house.P.
"plot responsible for boots left in the hall. ,
No eardince , kildniti ed."
The mmiserate in .tame portions of our
State arelnetltatting a novekfeature in the con
ducting of the political campaign, by meeting
In old-faskioned• camp-Meeting style, for the
purpose of disenasion and, perhaps, repen
tance. _ _
A band or Wandering Gipsies, numbering
fifteen or twenty, men, women, and children,
in all, have pEtched. their tents a2ld encamped
iu the woods near'tlie,toll-gate at the foot of
the Wilkesbarre inennuain,
POtteYnie is Wild to be the rielkaist town of
its silo in ponnsyrnmia, y'eai4ly simlinndred
persons pay taxes on more or leys immineS lit
.excess of six humlred•dollar's.
The Schuylkill;. COuntyt ComitthOuSe
been thoroughly repaired and is now one of
the handsomest bnildd4s In the 'Atte,
Pith ole ff City PP is tto
arrangements having Amen 'made for that
purpose.
—Hon. Paul Leidy, otiliontear, is named
'as the Democratic' eattdidate for Auditor
General,
The latest novelty In tltiv reglOin, Says.
the Carbon County Demcstlit N footoraeing by
women.
-- The farmers of Northtnnherland a're
Plainiug of the "potato rot.lo
SOME PEENS.
To make peaches grow without stones, an
agriculturist who has tried it with success
says : " Turn the top of the• tree down, cut off
the ends, stick them into the' ground, and
fasten`se with stakes ; in a year or two these
tops will take root, and when well rooted, cut
the branches connecting these reversed and
rooted branches with the tree proper, and this
reversed peach tree will produce tine peaches
without stones." The same experiment may
be tried with phires, cherries, and curnsnto,
Meerschaum is made on a large scale in
New York by saturating carbonate of magne
sia in silicate of soda or soluble glass—care In
selecting a good quality of magnesia and sili
cate being the Only requisite for success. The
profits are immense, as will b 0 seem. MUM
sia costs about twenty-five cents per pound,
silicate of soda even less ; a pipe made of the
"foam of the sea," as smokers verily believe,
costs for material about five cents, leaving the
balaace for labor.
Steamers are charging twentygive dollar
per bale for transporting cotton down the Ala
bama river to Mobile. Mobile papers say that
as most of the cotton coming down has .been
stolen, they can afford to stand it.
The Seuth tend (Indiana) Rfoldffr, d i Vinte
a list of the losses by the reeent tornado at
that place, states that the drst , reports were
greatly exaggerated. The entire losses in the
city will not exceed *20,000,
Six young negro men from the , island of
Ilayti have entered the Episcopal Theological
Seminary at Gambier, Ohio, with a view to
prepare themselves for missionary work
among their countrymen.
A correspondent says the Saratoga tribe
of Indians is dying out. It consists this year
of six or eight Canadian Frenchmen, a Labia.
dorian, two petogentirian squaws, and a North
American pappoose,
Forty thousand visitors at Saratoga this
season—more than ever before. In a single
morning last week, nine thousand _glasses of
water were dipped from Congress Spring
alone.
The Cincinnati eontrne-Ml4l estimates that
during the past spring and summer not IeSS
than seventy-five cases of drowning have oc
curred in the immediate vicinity of that city.
The long continued warm weather - in Lou
isiana has dried up all the cisterns and wells,
and the Inhabitants are drinking water From
bayous which are uotoriouslyunhealthy.
The memorial monument in the cemetery
at Lawrence for the unrecognized dead who
were killed bythe fall of the Pemberton mills,
is now finished and in its place.
A. shadatree society hlia been Organized
in Rockford, 111., the object being to procure
the planting of shade trees at the sides of
every street in the city.
There are 10,744 negroes, of all ages, in the
city of Nashville. In 1800 there were only
goowitl3in tha limits of that oity,
—At Wooster, Ohio, on Thursday, General
Cox addressed twenty thousand people, in
cluding two thousand soldiers.
Governor Brough has so far improved in
health that physicians pronounce him nearly
out of danger.
There are a lot of guerillas in Hardeman
and Dicicairy counties, Tennessee, stealing
horses, &e.
By a vote of the school board of St. Paul,
Minn., negroes are excluded from the public
80100/9.
The peach and grape wive in the neigh
borhood of Cincinnati are seriously damaged.
A monument to John Brown is talked of
in Torrington, Corm., where he was born.
—Gen.Ewell and wife have returned to their
old he= jli Prince William county, Va.
There are said to be Iyd thousand desert.
era from the army in New York city,
The horse railway cars were first run in
Quebec on Thursday.
Major General Sickles 'is in Boston.
rosktON ITEMS.
A correspondent, speaking of Alexandre
Dumas , lectures in P rance and Belgium, says
that, although the placards announce die-
COlirkeN on Unser and Napoleon, the lectures
are in reality tleyote‘l to "Omar, Jules Gerard,
lion-shooting, swimming, the.ifaltitudke, and
personal adventures. The lecturer has an
enormous manuscript with him, from which
be never once looks up the whole time of the
lecture, so frightened is he by that hydra, the
public,” Very recently, his son sold the
whole of his cabinet of pictures and 01140*
ties. Among the former were eente,a Eugene
Delacroixls best works ; " Tasso in the Mad-.
house ;" an admirable work by Troyen ;
" Goats Browsing Roses e , three Decamps ; and
the twenty water-color drawings which Sa
wittil draw to illustrate "La Dame, aux Ca-'
mellas," The sale is the subject of general
talk with Dumas' acquaintances, especially as
many of the articles were gifts from old
friends, and the erratic author was.not in any
great stress for money.
-- Among the new arnieuncements in Lou
don is one of an a International 1 1 01illat
Travelling Institution," to which young gen
tlemen of all nations are admitted. The
school "will be continually traveltingonder
the superior person. Each language will be
tatigbp in the countrywhere
monuments,
i o s n s uta po o ke nt n al w4l4
the greatest purity, Towns,
museums will be carefully and scientifically
inspected." _
A. cast has been taken of Dr, Pritobard , s
bead, and it is stated by the phrenologists
.that the animal part of the brain. was fully
fourAfthe of the whole. A gent4emen emL
neut in the art of reading Mining is said to
havoremarked that ho bad .only knOWti Ono
head of a sane person to equal ,itt, in its unfit
favorable development.
The amusement of a picnic party - in the
environs of Rome was recently somewhat dis
turbed by a patrol of genaarmels.,l7lio informed
them that the brigands were /144Etng ft.b 6 nt,
and had Just killed a young farmer who could
not furnish 2,000 seudi ransom.,
--- The Canadian public debt exceeds seventy
five millions; more than three-fourths of
which, stranffe to say, has been incurred
Within the past ten years, rblitical atraire ill
the provinces are represented as in a very
' , ticklish' , condition.
Mrs. Key Illunt,the daughter of the author
of the "Star-Spangled Banner," has lately
been in Paris, endeavoring to prepare herself
for the. Often but althaugli full of talent, she
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lacks executive power. She is a laity et-Me
ai= sympathies.
The New York Tithia. estimates. from sta
tistics furnished, that the total Ceti:toile popu
lation in Europe is 147,104,000; in Asia and
, E) ", t mer t , 00,000 ; Africa, 4,071,0001 in Ame
rica, OM”; total in the world, 9.07,901,000,
Paris correspondent says the Queen of
spain and her Prime Minister are not at all on
good terms. A strong republican feeling exists
among the officers of, the army, and a revolu
tion may be considrrod as Imminent ,
-The Germans do not - nai3 the words
"church-yard" and."burying-ground' { to dettig
nate their places of interment. They use the
beautiful and suggestive expression, "God's
Acre," and "Court of Peace."
A Paris correspondent states that Victor
/Ingo hita Just sieliad gli agreement with M,
Delaerota for the publication of a volume of
poems, another of dramatic oeMpositions, and
a novel in three volumes.
Crime in Ireland isdecreasing. A Donegal
grand juror writes to the London Times, boast.
ing that in his assizes there has not, among
two hundred anti iorty itiOnund Dent% beolli
a single case to try.
-- The death is announced of the Rev, Caleb
Morris, foso many years one of the most enii.
vent Nonoomformist ministers in London. Ile
OfflOtated at Fetter lane Chapel.
-- florae repairs 1114 are going on in clAstie
street, Falzon square, london, Wive revomlod.,
ono of the old towors of Lonclon