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THE NEWS.
ten Saturday there was little developed in
lite trial of Wirz. Mr. Baker, one of the de
fendant's counsel,seems to have bad a difficult
time to agree with the Court, since there were
froment and even bitter passages Warms be
tween the two. The testimony of the two
witnesses examined gave nothing new.
v i i.y spoke of the same facts—Of the
di-ease, starvation, and death, engem
(tired by bad food, exposure, and gene.
r:d in-treatment which had previously been
6 „-oeped. Wirt, one witness said, had
Feasted once that he was doing much more
,ryiee at Andersonville, in the peculiar duties
discharged there,tban "any four rebel regi
..l,euts hi the front." A Washington despatch
:flys that if the court examines no more wit
re ies daily than it Les done dime its session
commenced, several months will be required
lo finish the trial. This delay, it is held, re
;zults from the great latitude given to the de
fence.
Veinal still hovers over New York financial
and commercial circles, and has entered even.
Into military circles. There is trouble in the
l'athetsterS' Department, resulting from over
drafts made upon it, and an army of officers
of rank is said to be implicated, and to have
boa already arrested. The journals refuse to
g ive particulars. A fraud has just been disco
vered in the custom-house which is called in
tnttnions, and "proves with what perfect facili
ty the Government and shippers may be
robbed by brokers or attaches of the depart
ment."
It a ppears that on TlittrSday last a lad, the
messenger of a broker who is the agent of a
Certain shipping merchant, was despatched to
the cashier's office to pay the amount of duty
It Ilia appeared on a certain entry. The sum
gnu the merchandise on which it was levied
were distinctly recorded, the amount being
i::,100; but the figures were subsequently al-
Ivrea to represent 0,000, by making the
t" into a "0," the construction of the
kure rendering such an operation quite
simple. On presenting the entry to the
cashiqz, the official did not discover the
alterffilffil,.: and gave a receipt for the
ilea as it stood on the document. Not till the
ensuing day, when the books were compared,
was the fraud discovered, and the messenger,
who was made the instrument of the .fraud,
:rut for. The information be may have given
in not transpired. As yet the broker has not
ken arrested, und was seen yesterday'in the
lleninda transacting business as usual. Col
lector f4nperhas ordered a full investigation
into all the circumstances relative to the
fraudulent transaction.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald sends to that journal a long ae
:'nunt of an attempt made by the Emperor
Maximilian to get our Government to make a
, iiqtti recognition of the Mexican Empire. AO
f.onling to the correspondent, Maximilian
had sent his chamberlain, Mr. Degollado, to
Washington, with a letter expressing regret
at the assas.sinatiou of Mr. Lincoln, and con
gratulating President Johnson on his acees
on to the Presidency. The letter was signed
by Maximilian "as Emperor Of Mexico," anti,
cc that account, was refused acceptance on
the part of the President and Secretary Sew
ard. Oar country knew no such ruler, and of
course et - AIM not receive the letter. Thus the
matter F.tands.
Crime in Pittsburg, of our State, is on the
increase. Two murders arc reported—One
iyi.temittie case of poisoning of three persons;
the other a horrid butchery of a man, whose
t ittftitis were discovered with his throat cut
on: ear to ear, and the hotly horribly rautila
tut. Dirs. Grinder has been arrested, charged
wait the poisoning; but the other culprit has
not been discovered, although every 'exertion
icing made.
Adolph Rosenthal, as Consul at Milwaukee
the Duchy of Dessan Geo. Cinsar Voss, as
toniiul of the Hanseatic city of Lubeck, at New
'fork Y. Fleischer, vice Consul of Sweden
Norway for the State of Wisconsin; and
xts De Stoutz, vice Consul of the Swiss
el:federation, at San Francisco, for the States
i‘icallfornia, Oregon, Nevada, and the Terri.
tore of Washington, have been recognized by
the President.
A large number of persons were in attend
ante at the race for MOO, on Saturday, at
Hampden Park, near Springfield, Maaiachu- •
setts. Sorrel Dan, of Boston; Volcano, of
Pittsfield, and Black Diamond, of Hartford,
teas the contestants. Sorrel Dan was de
clared the victor—time, 2.10 2 234,2.40. The foot
n.o: for V 250, betvreen J. Adams and Mat. Cassi
1-ty. of New York-, and Edward Brady, of Al
-I,tny, was von by .Cassiday—time, mile neat,
%c 7. Ave.
News has officially been received by the Go.
:ernment, from Constantinople, which states
Nit the cholera is still extending its ravages.
tqw Minister at that place states that if proper
czusrantine measures had at first been adopted
:he extension of the cholera from Egypt could
hare been prevented: He also says that it is
mtvlEable that the United States guard aw-dwit
this epidemic, by-the most rigid Quarantine.
On Saturday the Cominissioner of Internal
Revenue decided that the amount of personal
property subject to'legacy tax, under Section
determined by -the clear value of such
ptmnal property namely, the amount re
maining after payment of debts and expenses
of administration; and when such value does
not exceed one thonsand dollars, no legacy tax
liould be assessed thereon.
our special despatch from Washington of
•auirday, seems to have tftllBo.- quite a stir
:cnoag those journals who were so unenter-
Prising as not to obtain the news. It seems,
Sewever, that General Bragg, who is serving
fa the Wirz trial, and General John A.
, prague, are not mustered out, and that Gene
:al Erastas B. Tyler is.
Flour was less active on Saturday, but prices
are thm at the lateadvance. Wheat has again
,t(lranced. Corn was scarce and in demand,
nal prices are better. Oats are without
change. Cotton is. very dull. Groceries are
finely held, but the , sales are limited. In pro
visions there is no change to notice in price or
ItynaTel. Whiekr- it selling at 22,1122250 per
Salton for Pennsylvania and Western barrels.
, pscious standsiraVe been erected upon the
'4l'ollllas east of the' President's mansion, and
oilier arrangements made for the base-ball
/ftlell between the Athletics, of this city, and.
',lit Nationals, of Washington, which IS to be
tlicre to-day. It is presumed large
❑neibers will be present.
%re publish to-day the particulars of a most
ticlulish outrage committed upon a freedman,
the name of Griffin, by a rebel surgeon,
tatur,d wnlliantg. The surgeonsit MMei in his
!ztge actually cut off both feet of the negro, at
;hc ankle joints, -, and threw them away. The
nflering 1 / 1 9.11 is now in Washington.
tiny re was a - moderately active stock market
'aturtlity, anti for Government loans prices
0100t13 -better. State and city loans,
'lowever, are dull. There were no important
*nal , g(i., in thEisiurre list,but the market closed
Fiirnter particulars of the loss of the : Brother
lomithan hare been received. Brigadier o,e_
:;t:rid Wright, when last seen, had a life-nre.
'tver in his hand. A despatch gives a list of
-ave.'"
1 47neral Ccamor and his scouting parties are
o at6hing severely the thieving and inaurauct
af Indiana on the plains. The Cheyenne war
ibrliea are being caught in numerous places
killed. One chief has met his deserts.
Ge»eral Miles is still looking earnestly for
Effort, in the neighborhood of FortresE
r,„,.,,reranee, General, perseve
"ante !
General Denison has contracted.
:,11. Carrying the mails, three times a week or
, flilwr, front Virginia City to Helena, in the
territory cf Montana.
F rwrieifeo telegraph of August 3a.
a lint of additional vessels destroyed by
:"lamandoah. The list will be found else-
' l2 ttrly one million of dollars in specie was,
:Llnr‘lay, shipped from New York, on board
!!f: .i(aincr's Scotland, Etna, and Bremen, for
A teanier called tile Spartan, in running
La Chien Bapids, near Montreal, on Satin:-
AY. struck a rock; and soon sunk. The pas.-
uere, however, all saved.
Montgomery Blair made a speech on Satur
efterneon, at Clarkeshurg, Md. lie de
!,riuk,d the President's reconstruction policy,
Aul nitacke : i I Secretaries Seward and Stanton.
l'ow , had reached Vera Cruz on the 11th of a
'aLt. nem. Puebla, between the Imperialists
"I Liberals: the particulars, however, had
wt. been ! . eeeived
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- learn; from New York that the bark Villa
imes, from Saza to !New York,. sprung a
and was lost at sea, in lat. V, long. So.
I ' v erybody en board was, fortunately, saved.
auvere wind at Jackson, Misu.„ on SMUT
!"-y, blew down .several untinished buildings.
nekro was killed, and several other per
• Ons injured.
General Maxey has written a letter, in which
! , e Eeverely banillee Kirby Smith, calling, him
gouts of unkind 115.111 M
53 iatisties of the Boston post-office, for the
Geo year ending June 30th, show a profit of
arigadier General Crocker died in Washing.
ton on Saturday, of typhoid pneumonia, lie
Been ill for genie time.
P resident Johnson has not, as has been re
t,rted, pardoned Col. Orr, of South Carolina.
r nasually cold weather for the season pre.
ails at New Orleans.
The Springfield Salem
,31.1:11,;(41,1EI.D2 MASS. Aug. 27.—The race on
Hampden Park, yesterday, for *SOO, was
attended. Sorrel Dan, of Boston, Volcano,
`4 P ittsfield, and wank Diamond, of Hartford,
the contestant& Sorrel Dan won in 2.40,
and 2.1 a The foot race was for $250,1*-
% "'N I nowas and Mat. Cassiday, of New
s and Edward Brady, or Albany, and aas
1 / 1 l stittNan ija 0,07 ma 0,361 Mitt.
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VOL. 9.-NO. 24.
LETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL.”
WASHINGTON, August 26, 1865
Provisional Governor Sharkey, of Mis
sissippi, is one , of those men :who having
once resolved upon a thing never abandons
it without a thorough trial. He made few
professions when he was here in May and
June, but it was evident to those who knew
and read the man, that he would do his best
to bring his State as nearly as possible to
the standard of the President's Proclamation
under which he was appointed. What he
has done is before the country. It satisfied
the President so completely that he tele
graphed his thanks to the governor at
Jackson, the capital of the State. It is .
worthy of remark that the men most ready
to go to the full extent in response even to
so-called radical demand, are the men
of the most extreme slave States. You find
more bitterness in Virginia and in Mary
land to-day than in South. Carolina. Let
some of your philosophers solve the puzzle
if they can; The fact is better than a ser
mon. If the States that have grown the
cotton, the sugar, and the rice, for the
markets of the world, and have been first
and loudest for war, thus gracefully bow be
fore the decrees of fate and accept the verdict
of the battle-field, Virginia will only struggle
to become an object of ridicule. It Will be
a very poor consolation to Virginia to know
that Mississippi acquiesced without " coer
cion," of her own free will, and with the
consent of her gravest and most expe
rienced citizens. There is a very efficient
Union force in Virginia te-day—strong
enough to hold her badmen in cheek, and
stronger in the hearty support of many of
the people. Shall these bad men be allowed
to prevent the rest from doing what Mis
sissippi has done, and what, according to
Gov. Perry and Col. Orr, South Carolina
will do in Septeinber ? Who can doubt, if
this example is followed by the Vir
ginians, that the troops will be with
drawn and the habeas corpus restored ?
For do not forget that as the President
deals with one so he deals with all; and the
relief he telegraphed to Sharkey, will not
be withheld, under similar circumstances,
from Pierpont. Sensible men
s cannot ig
nore facts. Heard-headed statesmen know
not alone that slavery is dead, but that the
freedmen will be under the vigilant and
jealous care of the Government and that
unchangeable anti-slavery sentiment which
holds and controls nearly thre i e-fourths of
the States of this Union. This obligation,
solemnly accepted, will never be lost sight
of. Why fight against a fact as stub
born as that ? To recognize it and all its
relations, direct and indirect, near and
remote, is to have half done the work. The
better time is coming, and rapidly. When
slavery is forever out of the way, and the
colored man is elevated and educated, and
clothed with the rights that belong to him,
we shall wonder that we ever allowed our
selves to quarrel over such contemptible
party issues at have grown out of the
emancipation uf the slaves. In the recov
ered hearth and wealth of the South and
the re-assured strength of the North
and the West we, shall have two elements
in unity that will make us marvellously
happier at home and incalculably more
pom;drftal abroad. OceAtroNAL.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINCiTON, August 27
[Special to the .Pres.l
Not Pardoned.
It is not thefact, as stated, that Colonel Can,
of South Carolina, has been pardoned by the
President.
Another Outrage.
The Chronicle, of this morning, has some ad
ditional, evidence of the horrid outrage upon
a freedman named GRIFFIN by a rebel surgeon
named WILLIAMS. I send you the article from
the Chron/c/e t of Friday, as well as to-day. It
appears the surgeon, in his rage, deliberately
cut off the feet of his victim at the ankle je.f2Neend
threw them away. The poor man is new Were,
a living victim of this unparalleled crime.
[E,y Associated Pre.ss.]
Internal Revenue Decision.
The Conunissioner of Internal - Revenue tn..
day decided that the amount of personal pro
perty subject to legacy tax, under section No.
124, is determined by the clear value of such
personal property ; that is, the amount remain
ing after payment of debts and expenses of
administration, and when such value does not
exceed one thoudand dollars no legacy tax
should be assessed thereon.
CGeneral Officers Mustered Out.
The War Department to-day issued an order
honorably mustering out a number of general
ofileers, their services being no longer needed.
There is but little difference between this
order and the one which was without authority
published in several of this morning's papers.
The difference is that General 13nA66„ who is
serving on the WLRZ Commission, and General
JOHN W. SPRAGUE, are not mustered out, and
General ERASTL'S B, TYLER is among those
who are.
Bme Ball.
The National 'Base Ball Club, of Washington,
intends playing a match game with the fa
mous Athletic, of Philadelphia, on Monday
next, at two in the afternoon. Spacious and
elegant stauds arc eroded on the grounds east
of the President's house, and extensive ar
rangements are being. made for the proper
reception and entertainment of the visiting
club. It is presumed a large crowd will be
present, as both these clubs stand very high
for skill, and the game will doubtless be a
close and exciting one.
Presidential Appointmens.
President JOnlison to-day made the follow
ing appointment of deputy postmasterB :
DANIEL . VI T ELLB, at Paterson, N. J.; ABIAL
COEDIT, at Nashua, N. JOEN A. GOODWIN,
at Lowell; sAmeer, J. liAnnig, at COlnTlibllS,
Indiana; OAKLEY PETTIT, at Newton, N. 3.;
CALEB S. CLAY, at Kingston, N. Y. .
Mails. to Montana.
The Postmaster General has made a con
tract for conveying the mails from Virginia
City to Helena, in the Teirritory of Montana,
a distance of one hundred and fifty miles,
three times a week or oftener.
Robert Onid Visits the President.
Robert Oul i, ex-Rebel Commissioner for the
exchange of prisoners, WAS among thevisitors
to the President's house yesterday.
Probable Length of the Trial.
Should the Wirz trial not progress faster
than it did last week, several months will Ue
consnmed in bringing the proceedings to a
close, as only half a dozen of the more than
one hundred and thirty witnesses have as yet
been examined. The Commission gives the
defence the greatest latitude for examina
tion.
Recog.ition of Commis.
The President has recognized A.DoLpu Hos
,
ENTIIAL as Consul at Milwaukee for the Duchy
of Dessan ; GEORGE CAESAR VOSS as Consul of
the Hanseatic city of Lubeck, at New York ;
K. Y. FraitscriEn, Vice Consul of Sweden and
Norway, for the State of Wisconsin, and
ALEXIS DE STOUTZ Vice Consul Of the Swiss
Confederation at San Francisco for the States
of California, Oregon, and Nevada, and the
Territory of Washington.
Death of a General.
Brigadier General ezzoogvti, who has been
ill some time of typhoid pneumonia, died in
this city today.
Address by Montgomery Blair.
AF ATTnAm ON tiEorzET.A.nigEt SEWARD AND RLAiR
—TAB 61 . r.c3AL OBJECTIONS clAiNvi, gRwARD.
BALTIXORE, August 27.—Montgomery Blair
made a speech at Clarksburg, Howard county,
yesterday, defending the President's _recon
struction policy. In the course of his address,
he made some bitter attacks upon Secretaries
Seward and Stanton, charging the former with
having played for and against the Union before
entering Mr. = Lincoln's Cabinet, and after
'wards by his dalliance with the Confederates
up to the fall of Port Su rnoter,iprolong,ed the
agreement made with Davis by order of Bu
chanan before the termination of his Admin
istration. It was apparent from the whole
course of public affairs that Mr. Seward acted
In concert with Buchanan's Administration
d ur ing tire last three months of - its term. It
was by the coalition formed between Seward
and Stanton, then in Buchanan's Cabinet, that'
the latter became Secretary of War to Mr,
Lincoln. Blair charges that Stanton was origi
nally in full sympathy with the rebel leaders
in Congress, and was most violent in his de•
nunciations of any attempt to maintain the
Union Uy force, and Continued his denuncia
tions until he entered Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet.
Non•Arriyal of the North American.
FATHER Pon T O L, C,, August 27, 9 P. M.—
There are no signs of the arrival of the steam.
ship North American from Liverpool. The
weather is cold and cloudy, with a strong
westerly breeze. ,
Destructive Conflagration in Buffalo.
EtrvpAto, August 27.—A tire this evening do
stroyed the Main • streetGrain Elevator owned
by Hazard & Deshler. The loss is 140,060, With
Qt NOM
THE CHOLERA.
ITS RAVAGES IN TUE EAST•
What We Will Have to Do to Avoid it.
WAARINGITON, August 27,—Our Minister at
Constantinople officially informs this Govern;
went that the cholera continues to extend its
ravages, and says: "Had proper quarantine
measures been taken at first, the introduction
of the cholera from Egypt might have been
prevented." It seems to him, from the expe
rience at Constantinople, that it will be ad
visable in the United States to guard against
it by the most rigid quarantine regulations.
TB TRIAL OF WM.
MORE TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE
ANDERSONVILLE BRUTALITIES.
Passages-at-arms Between the. Defend-
act's Counsel and the Court,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The Wirz
Commis
sion assembled today.
After the reading of the record of yesterday,
Mr. A. W. Burrows, having heretofore been
sworn, identified a certain paper offered as in
the handwriting of Josiah H. White.
The Judge Advocate accordingly moved to
amend the first charge on which the prisoner
is arraigned- by substituting the name of Jo
siah H. White for Joseph White, as one of the
persons with whom the defendant is charged
with conspiring to cause the death of Union
prisoners.
Mr. Baker objected to the motion to supply
the misnomer. He argued that the prisoner
Was arraigned on these charges by order of
the 'President, and that until the original au
thority Should supply the deficiency, no fur
ther testimony could be received affecting Dr.
White and the prisoner at the bar.
The Court overruled the objection when the
error in the Christian name of Dr. White was
corrected.
Baker said the name of John H. Winder
also appeared as one of the alleged eonspira.
tars. The fact was notorious that Winder is
dead, and therefore this Commission was sit
ting here trying a man not in existence. He
moved to strike out the name.
The Judge Advocate asked: Do you appear
for Wiuderl
Mr. Baker—No.
The Court—Do you hold that Winder 15 on
trial?
Mr. Baker replied—l hold that Winder, who
is dead, cannot be tried for conspiracy.
The Judge Advocate—We have not been in
formed that Winder is dead.
Mr. Baker It is a notorious fact, of which
the world has taken cognizance.
The Judge Advocate said Booth was dead
when the other conspirators were tried, yet in
that case the counsel for the defence made no
objection to Booth's name in the charges.
Mr. Baker replied—ll lailitary commission
could do many things not common for a civil
court, but they could net try a dead man.
The court overruled the motion to strike out
the name of John IL Winder.
Dr. Burrows further testified that at Anderson
ville prisoners were arrested for limping green
corn, whiph the guard took away from them.
Corn is an anti-scorbutic in eases of scurvy,
and is a useful diet. The slops from the cook
houses were thrown into the stream which ran
through the prison, the exhalations from
which were horrible and very unhealthy. Be
sides, the sinks overflowed, owing to the rains,
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renderin the Premises still more intolerable.
Human bodies sometimes lay unburied for
three days. The stench was terrible, sensibly
affecting the atmosphere, and was worse than
from any dissecting-rem, complaints of
these things were frequently made to head
quarters; dead men were in the morning fre
quently found among the living:. The largest
number of deaths in the stockade for one day,
in August, 1864, was two hundred and seven.
The witness found Captain Wirz in charge of
the prison when he went there, and left him
there at the time he made his escape. Rations
were cut off from the entire number of the
thirty thousand prisoners for an entire day,
owing to alleged offences of a few others ; the
witness remembered that Wirz said to him he
(Wit's) was of more service to the Confederate
Uovermuent than any poor rebels in front.
Cross-examined by Mi. Baker—Was a medi
cal student at Amherst, Mass., on the breaking
out of the war, and had been licensed since ; he
was mustered out, on the 7th of December
last; the witness bad never seen our men in
the army wearing a ball and chain, nor had he
seen them punished in any other way than by
detention in the guard ]louse • he had seen
men in our hospitals affected - with syphilis,
and none of the cases so bad as those at Ander
sonville; our cases were primary, white those
in the reel prison were secondary, as a gene
ral thing. The cross-questioning was further
continued to. show that the rebel hospital was
denote - tit ofinedieal remedies.
The Court at one o'clock took a recess till
two o'clock.
It is proper to say that Mr. Baker did not
voluntarily appear as counsel for the defence,
as has been stated, but enteredupon the duties
after consultation with Judge Hughes, who
had just retired from the case. On the reas
sembling of the court the cross-examination
of Dr. Burrows was resumed. Lying in dirt,
and owing to insufficient medicines and diet,
the chances of recovery were againSt those
who bad syphilis. The questions and answers
were numerous on this point, involving the
treatment of disease. Assistant Judge Advo
cate Hosnaer here said he did not see the
relevancy of these questions. Mr. Baker re
plied he bud asked the witness with what dis
ease the patients suffered, and how the dis
eases manifested themselves after thepatients
were sent to the hospital, and whether syphilis
was owing to the vaccine matter used upon
them ; he was cross-examining the witness on
this very point.
The Court. You - donngive the witness an op•
portunity to answer. You frequently put
words into his month.
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Mr. Baker. I have a right to thus draw from
him any information he has.
The Court. We are disposed to be very libe
ral, but-you must not suppose at the same
time that we will not take exception as to the
manner of examining witnesses,
Mr. Baker. :I will pursue the cross-examina
tion in the proper way. If Ido not, the Court
will excuse me.
The Court. The witness must answer in his
own words.
Mr. Baker. I must pursue the course laid
clown in books . " or must stop,
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The Court. o on.
The cross-examination was further con-.
tinned, when the court interrupted the coun
sel, by saying, "Here is another lecture alto
gether unbecoming and uncalled for. 1,
Mr. Baker. I beg the court's pardon.
The Court. You beg pardonl It is granted.
Mr. Baker. I hope you will not hold me
strictly to the rule.
The Court... Say nothing more about that, but
go on.
The cross-examination was resumed and
finished.
Tbe court interrogated the witness, who said
that the rebel Ihree gl Andersonvilfe was be
tween three and five thousand men the fuel
for them was cut by a large force of colored
men ;_ there were axes enough to supply our
men fora like purpose. The witness gave as
his holiest opinion that, if there had been
proper food, clothing, quarters and other no-
CCS,Sary supplies, from seventy to eighty
per cent, of the deaths might have been pre
vented. In the dispensary he had seen some
supplies`which had come by the way of Rich
mond, such as dried beef, say two or three
hundred pounds, and some Bologna sausages ;
he saw several boles at the depot ; nobody in
his ward got any of the clothing ; once or
twice a little of the dried beef was brought
in, but it did not afford each man 111 the ward
half an ounce. The witness did not know who
used the remainder of the beef and sausage.
Robert 11 Kellogg, sworn.—Said he was cap
tured at Plymouth, and, with about four hun
dred others, taken prisoner to Anclersonville.;
this was on the 3d of May, 1861; the only other
prisoners there at the time were those WhO
had been brought from Belle Isle and Libby
prison, and other points;, they were ragged
and destitute of clothing; many were nearly
naked and totally unprovideff with shelter,
except tattered blankets; the men Were mere
skeletons; the prison appeared to be crowded,
though thousands were brought there after
ward ; the men were in a filthy condition ;
there was a poor opportunity to keep clean ;
there was very little soap; the men would get
smoked over the pine fire while cooking, and
for want of soap could not remove the Stain:
plain water worild not take it off; the flights
were Cool when he first went there, but as the
season advanced the weather became intense
ly hot; there ware twenty-one' rainy days in
the month of June; the risoners were not
supplied regularly or sufficiently with fuel ;
sometimes a squad would be allowed to go out
and bring in pine roots to make a fire; some
times the rations furnished were raw, with no
wood to cook them 5 the penalty of trespassing
On the dead-line was death ; he remembered
seeing a man who was shot for this cause by
the sentinel; if any one crossed from the prison
to the swamp he would lie shot at; once he
Stepped to the brook to wash his hands, when
the Sentinel tired at him •; the piece missed
its object, and be got out of the reach of dan
ger.
Mr. Baker objected to a question. asked by
the Judge Advocate, saying somebody was
hurt, not killed, and therefore somebody must
be hung. The court rebuked the counsel, say
ing such remarks were excessively improper,
aid there was a remedy to prevent their repe
tition. The objection of counsel was not sus
tained by the court. The witness said he did
not remember whether the man shot for draw
ing water out of the brook was killed that day
Or not; the quality as well as the quantity of
the ration Was Irregular ; some days they got
nothing at all, some days short allowance and
on others the full quantity, such as it was;
thirty-two out of the squad of ninety men to
which he was attached were unable to stand
when ordered to form in line by the sergeant;
their inability to do so rose principally from
seurVy and diarrheeti ; their limbs were con
tracted and therefore they could not keep
their feet; the brook running through the
prison was exceedingly filthy, the surface was
covered with grease ; he often Went into it
barefooted ; nearly three hundred out of four
hundred who accompanied him to Anderson..
Ville died a few days after they were paroled;
the 24th New 'York Battery, captured at
Plymouth, were nearly annihilated at MS
'prison.
The Commission adjourned till Monday.
The Boston Post.olllo4.
Botrrow, Aug. 28.—The statistics of the Bos
ton post-office for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1865, show a net profit over all cape/150e o
$348,860 for the Government.
Markets by Telegraph.
Sr. Louis, AugustM.—Cotton—Receipts 74
bales, with no sates. Flour—*9o4ll 50 for dou
ble extra. Wheat and Corn unchanged. Oats
—286146 c for new, and 550 for old. Rve, 7041800.
Tobacco lower. Leaf steady at .0.204)8.50.
naPP/Alt WAWA fag,
I I i , MONDAY, AUGUST 2S, 80.
CALIFORNIA.
Movements of Vessels—The Wrecked
Stranter Brother Jonathon.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 18.—No event of im
pOrtance has transpired since the 4th inst. The
following ships have arrived. and Sailed;
Arfived, August 4, ship Henry Brittan, from
New York; August 5, ships Haze, George Gris
wold, and Mendora, from New. York; August
11, steamer Sacramento, from Panama ; war
steamer Saranac, porn Acapulco; August 17,
war-steamer Suwannee, from Philadelphia.
Sailed, August 12, steamer Moses Taylor, for
Nicaragua, with four hundred passengers. The
war-steamer Saranac is to cruise for the pi
rate Shenandoah. Aug. 16, ship Syren, for
Parker's-Island ; Aug. 18, steamer Sacramento,
for Panama, with four - hundred passengers
and 8:100,000 for England.
Many bodies from the wrecked steamer
Brother Jonathan have been recovered. No
lives were saved except those escaping in
4tnail boats, as before reported.
AUCTION BALE OP g NOES —COMAIBRci AL AND
POLITICAL NNWN—ADVICES PEON mintA.
Sax FRANCISCO, August W.—Arrived, August
20th, opposition steamer America,from Nicar
agua. Arrived August 22d, ship Bengal, from
New York 5 barks Silas Fisk, from New York ;
Oakland, from Bath.
General 'trade for weeks past has been ex
ceedingly dull. Speculation has been wholly
in abeyance, and notwithstanding the pletho
ra of money, purcluraers have been restricted
to the exigencies of the moment. Eastern
products are scarce and high. Butter, coal
oil, and candles have moved offireely, but pri•
ces do not respond to the recent enhancement
of values, and importers hope to do better
later in the season, and aro storing supplies.
The Union State Convention has nominated
Chief Justice Saunders for reelection to the
Supreme Court.
SAW FRANCISCO, August 21.-,To-day occurred
the largest auction sale of shoes ever held
here. Prices were established—about 25@30
per cent. higher than those of last year.
The bark Mermaid arrived yesterday from
Ebanshae in thirty-one days, being the short
est trip on record, Her commercial advices
are unimportant.
The American-built steamer Fahkee was lost
on the 17th of July, near the month of the
Tang•lse-Kiang river.
The Sha.nglifte papers are advocating the tho
rough cleansing of that city, anticipating the
advent of the Russian plague.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 25.—Arrived, steamer
Golden City, front Panama,
Honolulu dates of July, 29 have been re
ceived. A cargo of fifty coolies had arrived at
Hilo, for plantation labor, and another cargo
of thirty had arrived at Honolulu.
Arrived, ship Ceylon, from Boston. The
Ships Kentuckian and P. Taylor sailed from
Baker's Island, with full cargoes of guano,
and the Panther was loading at the same
place.
A private letter from Hanagawa states that
the Japanese Government have rented laud
fora coal depot for thSprojected California
and China Steamship Company.
NEW ORLEANS.
Severe . Storm in Mississippi—General
Maxey and Kirby Smith—GiSeial Pe.
enlist ion—Cotton Markets.
NEW ORLEANS, August 26.—Cotton quiet'
Sales of 1,000 bales at 43@44 for mitldlings.
Common Louisiana Sugar 123/e prime do.
16340. Inferior old Molasses GO@7oo. Exedange
on New Tork 34@% discount.
The - weather is unusually cool for the sea
son.
A severe wind storm at Jackson, Miss., to
day, blew down several buildings in course of
construction. Several persons were injured,
and one, a negro, was killed.
Several arrests have been made at San An
tonio on charges of making away with public
property and public moneys.
Gbncral Maxey is out in a letter in which he
does not give Kirby Smith much credit for
truth or sincerity.
THE ICESTOEATIOS: OE' RAILROADS IN ➢ItSFIS'
F. IPPI-ATTEMPTS TO STOP munnEns AND
EOBBEBS IN THE STATE-LOSS BY FIRE;
CAIRO, August 27.—The steamer Darling, for
Cincinnati, has 987 bales of cotton. Page t
Co.'s cotton factory at Memphis, was burned
on the 24th inst. The estimated loss is 440,00.
The work on the Mississippi Central Railroad
is progressing rapidly, and it will probably be
completed and in operation on the lst of Oc
tober.
Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, has is
sued a proclamation, calling on the people to
form two companies in each county, one of
cavalry, and the other infantry, for the pur
pose of putting a stop to the frequent mar
den and rOliberies in the State.
ARREST OF KETCHUM.
HE HAS NOT BEEN OUT OF NEW YORK CITY SINCE
THE FRAUDS WERE EXPOSED-HIS APPEARANCE.
IN PURL - IC-CHARGE 'OF FORGERY PREFERRED
AGAINST HI3I--INTERESTING AND SUGGESTIVE
PRIVATE LETTERS-WHAT H.F. SAYS-RECOIWILI
ATION WITH HIS FATHER, ETC... •
•
The habitniv of Wall street and the business
part of the town, who had been at a loss for a
moral stimultint, were aroused yesterday from
their listlessness by a startling piece of intel
ligence. Edward B. Ketchum, a, partner in the
firm 'of Morris Ketchum, Son, Co., whose
name has been on the lips of all for the paSt
ten days, had been arrested on Friday evening,
and 'transferred- from his comfortable city
apartments to the gloom and darkness of a
cell. Immediately after the discovery of the
.defaleatiOn, amid the universal excite
ment attendant upon the developments
which were being made from hour to hour,
stens were taken to secure the arrest and com
mittal to prison of the guilty one. llfr. James
Buel, President of the Importers' and Traders'
National Bank, having offered a reward of five
thousand dollars for the safe finding of the de
faulter, thereby stimulated the desire Of the
officiate at the police headquarters to effect
the capture, and Chief Young, of the Detective
force, placed the case in the hands of Detec
tives John Gilmore and Christian B. McDou
gall for proper working up. The steamer
Asia was about to sail from Boston for Eu
rope, and Detective Gilmore at once started
for the purpose of searching the vessel,
and ascertaining whether or no the young
man had taken passage for the Continent.
Unfortunately, the train en route for Bos
ton broke down, and Detective Gilmore had
at once to telegraph to the Boston police the
facts of the case. The steamer was searched
by the officials of that city, while Gilmore re
turned to New York ; and, being positive that
the guilty party hail not left the city, by the
despatch he subsequently received from Bos
ton, Detective MacDougall and himself pro
ceeded to glean such information as could be
obtained which might ultimately lead to the
arrest. It is proper here to state that the
theory universally received was that young
Ketchum had never left-New York, and, as
" assurance was made doubly sure" by the re
ports forwarded from other towns, they set
out upon the work assigned them, cheered up
by every prospect of success.
THE ARREST
As is usually the case, the officers, with par
donable retienee, evaded allaWering any ques
tions relative to the information which led to
the capture of the defaulter. Their adven
tures,if published, might prove highly in
teresting, but would be likely to endanger
the effect of future operations of the force.
it is known, however, that for two successive
days and nights the detectives kept watch
near by a house located on the next block to
that on which stood the residence in which the
young man was finally captured. At length,
by some means or other, it came to their
knowledge that the accused, under the name of
Lowry, of Cincinnati, was stopping on
the premises at 22S West Twentieth street, and
thenceforward the officers did not lose sight of
the suspected locality Loran instant. At length,
when positive as to the whereabouts of Ta
x and B. Ketchum, on Friday afternoon they
obtained admission to his rooms, and inquired
for the defaulter by his supposed name. They
were told that lie was out, but would probably
return, and accordingly they determined qui
etly to await his appearance. A short time
elapsed, and finally the guilty man entered
the room. As soon as he opened the door he
perceived Detective Gilmore who had former
ly been on duty in Wall street, and di
vined at once the mission of his compan
ion and himself. On being informed that
he was their prisoner, he betrayed no aston
ishment, and offered no resistance. lie was
searched, and the keys of his trunks and
drawers taken from him, in addition to sixty
seven forged gold certificates and three epis
tles published in full below. In a drawer of
thebureau was found, having been carelessly
thrown into a corner, a black travelling valise.
On opening this receptacle, the detectives laid
hands on forty-nine thousanddollars in United
States legal notes, which wereat once secured.
Subsequent to this proceeding, a carriage was
called for, and the absconding financier, not in
the least downhearted ; entered the vehicle,
seated himself between his two guardians,
and was driven on to his place of confinement.
THE DEMEANOR OP.THE CULPRIT.
In appearance he was not disconcerted by
his arrest, He chatted glibly with the detec
tives while rolling toward the pollee head
quarters, and kept up the conversation with
considerable verve. l le alluded to Specula..
tions in general, and his own in particular.
Though such was not his expressed opinion,
he certainly scorned convinced that his
actions were susceptible of future and entire
justification. When asked by his companions
)thether the amount of his defalcations had
been correctly stated, he answered that he
could not reasonably doubt the exactness
of the reports. He looked at the affair
in the light of a heavy gold speculation, by
which he was
_prepared to win a fortune or
lose his all. Now that the die was cast, lie
was willing to abide by the consequences of his
rashness. The borrowed money., bad he been
successful, would have been refunded to his
creditors, and payment was certainly , not ina•
possible at some distant day. Meantime the
prisoner was being conveyed to a cell whence
no one can tell when he may be liberated.
THE DEVAVI.Trar, IN coxi3nxlAMil24l.
The carriage drew up in trout of the Police
Headquarters, in Mulberry street. The offi
cers alighted and escorted Edward B. Ketch
um to the detectives' room, from which he
was shown into a small recess, with iron door
and grated windows, located directly in the
rear and opening into a larger apartment,
There the deflator remained for SOlno time
alone, quite calm, and entertaining no fears as
to the disposition he expected would be made
of him. 13n the appearance of one of the de
tectives he requested the loan of his watch
key, producing at the same time a gold time
piece from his vest pocket.
This watch was presented to me by my
father, some ten or twelve years since >' he re
marked. "I was then a good boy, and it was
bestowed upon me as` a reward for my:be
havior. I doubt that he would give it to, me
now !"
At a later hour he observed, alluding to the
description Of his personal appearance incur.
ported in the circular Stating the reward
egtaillatilieluvration'etanadurAatkaag
Bank, that he did not think it a good one
by any means, and added that it would
never have led to his detection. BeeoMing
more and more communicative, he spoke with
entire freedom of his business operations, and
declared that at one time. he owned property
valued at six million dollars. Ms losses be
gan with the decline in the premium on gold.
The amount Om his opinion, involved in his
variOto tranglictlons—his liabilities, as he fa
cetiously called them—may be set down at
four million dollars. Ile also gave full details
of the ruse adopted since his tlight and said
that he bad not left the city for one hour. Ire
was on the street every day for the past fort
night, save on the Tuesday on. which the facts
of the defaleation were made public, and was
not recognized, having sbaven on' his mous
tache. On Thursday last':die rorle out to the
park, and remained there'several hours. It is
even rumored that he conversed with several
of his former friends, who must have been sin
gularly well disposedtowards him not to have
banded him over to the mercies of the police.
EIS FRIENDS AVID FAIIIIIY.
Shortly after the arrival of the prisoner at
the police headquarters, he was visited by his
father, and a large uumberof friends. Among
the latter, were several prominent lawyers,
and the Officers of one of the banks which had
received a part of the forged paper. He
spoke with unaffected sbnpileity and kind
ness, until his father appeared in the cell,
when his insouciance failed him, and an affect
ing scene occurred. The meeting of father
and son cannot well be described. Both
were moved to tears, and Morris Ketch
um clasped his child to his bosom,
saying repeatedly, "My son, my son, you
have ruined we, but I forgive yomi , The
interview was protracted, and the two men
parted after a perfect reconciliation. The per
sons who called on the accused showed no dis
position to reprove or prosecute him for his
crime. Yesterday he - was visited by Sheriff
Belly—who attached the property recently in
his possessluit—Diariet .Attorney A, (Jamey
Hall, and John Sedgwiek, Esq., with whom he
was engaged in conversation for some time.
I=2
At a late hour yesterday afternoon Distilet
Attorney A. Oakey Hall apeared at the
Tombs Police Conrt,before Justice Hogan, and -
made the following affidavit:
First Police District, Stade of New York, City
and aunty. of New York, ssw—A. Oakey Hall
being duly sworn, deposes and says that he
is District Attorney of the said city and
county of Kew York,, and is public prosecutor
of complaints wherein the people of said city
and county are complainants ; deponent says
that the said people, by him as moving com
plainant, complain herein against ode Edward
B. Ketchum (now under arrest at the office of
the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police
district,but without warrant, and on suspicion
of
p h o a n v e i n n
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a f n e n v y e , ) r
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belietvbeast,
that the said Edward B. Ketchum, at various
times within the city and county, within the
dates of June 1 and August IA last past, wil
fully and feloniously forged three hundred
pecuniary obligations, purporting to transfer
rights, of property, each of which arc in
writing, printing, and in domes, and each of
which, °banging respectively numbers, signa
tures, pages, and dates, are in substance as
follows
CNO. 58,502, New York, June 25, 185.5. y
The Bank of New York, National Banking Asso
ciation nay to the ordek of fire thousand dol
lars (845,00 1 :0• '
Countersigned on the face thereof.
Registered No- —.
A..P. B. JONES, Register.
0. J. MIR, Teller.
That the parts of each .of said obligations,
(commonly called a gold check, and by usage
commercially negotiable,) which are feloni
ously forged, are the signatures of the draw
ers of said checks. That deponent is informed
and believes one Charles Graham, of No. 42
Exchange place, now has in his custody, or
under his control, a number of said forged
bold cheekS ; that deponent is informed, and
elieves that thenames of Broekelmann, Un
ger & Co. and Hallgarten & Herzfeld respect
ively; existing and recognized firms; are to
s co op m e e, e i f s a a n i d d cheeks
;believes
t that ha t d t egne s n a t id is
E l a
--
ward B, Ketchum, at the dates and places
aforesaid, feloniously .
. uttered many of said
gold cheeks, and received value thereon, to
the said Charlesi Graham and to the Fourth
National Bank, with intent to defraud; that
deponent is further informed and verily be
lieves that the said Edward B. Ketchum had
on his person or under bis control when ar
rested sixty-seven gold checks of the deserip•
lion general as aforesaid, and which deponent
believes to be new forgeries, and which are
hereof made part ; that deponent is further in
formed that the said Edward B. Ketchum
when arrested was concealed at a house 221
West Twentieth street, in said City, under the
false name of C, R. LOWry, end when arrested
there were found with him three letters, here
to annexed, which in deponent's judgment,
and as he charges the fact to be, seem to indi
cate that the writer or writers thereof are ac
cessories with the said Edward B. Ketchum.
Deponent therefore prays that in accordance
with the statute in such cases made and pro
vided an exanainittiOn. May be had upon the
preliminary complaint, subpcenct decis tecum
served upon said Charles Graham, the bank
and firms aforesaid, and on such other wit
nesses as from time to time may seem expedi
ent, to the 'end that the said Edward. B.
Retell - um may be held to answer said charge
of forery in tbe third degree, and the writers
of-said letreisliossibly-discovered and duly
prosecuted and such other proceedings had
as are advisable for public justice under the
provisions of the Revised Statutes, and the
case of the People vs. Hicks (15 Barbour's Re
ports). That deponent makes this complaint
because he is informed and believes that there
are no private complainants desirous of re
lating or prosecuting unless legally compelled,
and because he is informed and believes said
forgeries or forged paper may be lost as ex
hibits, and further says not.
OAXPX HALL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 25th
day of . August, 1865.
E. Ilomax, Police Justice.
Endorsed on the complaint and affidavit is
the following: Witnesses to subpoena, the
within named: Charles Graham ; Mr. Leverich,
Bank of New York Detective Gilmore • Presi
dent. Call in, Fourth National' Bank, and
others..
DOMESTIC CORRESPONDENCE
The subjoined epistles were, it is alleged,
found in possession of the accused when -ar
rested;
„
'Alterman, 41.11guSt 865.
l‘iv DEAD. COITSIN: - 1701 IF ///oth - er desires MO
to say she should write you to-day, but having
some important household matters to attend
to, cannot well spare the time; she has, there
fore, requested me to write her accustomed
letter, and, however incapable I feel of filling
her plaCe, I have cheerfully undertaken the
task, my only fear being that you may not be
able to read my writing, which, as you know,
is proverbial for its indistinethess. I think
you would have been happy could you have
seen Frank's delight after receiving your pre
sent. I really think he was as much like a
child with a new toy as anything I know of,
and just about as happy. Everything here is
dull and quiet, and ail missyou, and. you are
inquired of frequently, with many kind
wishes for your improvement. I think there
are one or two fair hearts who, to say the
least, are a little more sad since your depar
ture ; but then must stop telling tales out
of school and flattering your vanity, or else
there will be no living In the house with you
should you return. I wonder if you are as
fond of teasing as ever, and whether you have
found any one upon whom to vent your abili
ties in that line. If you have,rl pity them, but
should nevertheless be willing to put up with
just a little teasing for the sake of seeing your
dear own self. Now, I sat down with the in
tention of indictia good long letter upon
you, just because _Know you abominate long
letters, but "I shall have to abandon my idea,
as there is an arrival, callers, and your mother
calls me to go down and see them. So good
by, with lots of love, which your mother sends,
and just a little from . ELLEN.
This letter bore the superscription
Mr. C. 11. Lowry, No. 226 West Twentieth street 4
New Y011:4
BPISTOLARY SATISFACTION.
CINCINNATI, August 22, 18.63.
Mr DEAR BROTHER: I have but a few ma
rnents in which to acknowledge the receipt of
your valuable and not acceptable present.
It came just in the nick of time. Many, many
thanks. Win write you again in 6. day or two.
With best love, believe me ever your brother,
in baste. F RANK.
C. R. LOWRY.
This second letter was postmarked "New
York City, August 25.1,
NOUA/41TY BY MAIL
CINOINNATI, August 18,19e5.
Mr DEAR SON Your letter of the 15th isjust
received, and the information in regard. to
your health cannot, as you must know, but
give us the greatest satisfaction and pleasure.
In regard to srpending money, I do not wish to
place you under any restrictions upon that
head, having confidence in your prudence and
as far as it is necessary your economy. four
friends have often inquired about you, and it
is very pleasant for me to see how many people
you home attracted to you. True friendship
when econded is beyond all price and value,
and I cannot enforce too strongly upon you
the desirableness of making the proper Class
of acquaaintances and and friendships, and
when made, if you find them of the
proper class, do not give them up
lightly. I trust you will not confine
yourself too closely to the 'bowie, as a pro
per amount of exercise, if not carried to an
excess, cannot but be beneficial. Matters are
going on here about as usual. I have recentiv
made some purchases of real estate, which,
think, will prove eventually, if not immedi
ately, profitable and remunerative. The fa
mily all send much love, and will probably
severally write you during the coming week.
I should write more at length, but am called
down by an appointment, and therefore have
only to remain, your affectionate FATHER.
C. It. Lower, Esq., New York.
During his Confinement, Ketchum has been
the autocrat of the Central office. The utmost
deference has been paid hie wishes, and great
care has been taken to inform him of the pre
eise status of parties calling to see him, before
they were admitted. In every instance he re
fused to see any one. With the intention of
gleaning some further particulars relative to
this extraordinary case the reporters applied
in a body to Chief John a. Venn. for the
privilege of seeing the prisoner. Tiat officer
peremptorily refused. Inspector Leonard was
then applied to, and directed that Ketchum
should be informed that the reporters were
there for the purpose of seeing him profes
sionally. Detective Vaughan opened the door
of the Vault in-which the prisoner is confined,
and which was very dlml Lighted, The ac
cused could just be discerned stretched at full
length on his bed, a copy of the Herald shading
bisTace. Upon being asked if he desired to
see the reporters, he replied wNo, ,, in a faint
voice, and the door was again closed, his
slightest wish in this respect being most re
ligiously regarded. Prisoners held otthe Cen
tral office are usually brought out, that the re
perters may see them and be enabled to give
the public some idea of their personnel. In
this case the prisoner seems to have overawed
the officers and challenged their admiration
f or his e - xtraorditary finaneiering, Fora full :
description of him, therefore, the public must
wait until the officers recover their ecuilibri
ure, or the prisoner is :brought to trial, or
ceases to be the autocrat of his custodians.
CrEDI!
As ma be imagined, rumors unnumbered
relative to the defaulter, hie erime i and arrest
are. current. Some say that rlaward
Ketchum, while at liberty, deposited $150,000
in a safe place, and then relieved of . all appre
hension as to his future pecuniary welfare,
was indifferent as to capture fancying him
self prepared for all emergencies. Not a few
opine that the family were well aware of the
youngman's whereabouts, but sympathizing
with` - the misfortune which has bcfallett him,
were reticent as to his mode of life. In a
word, countless speculations are indulged in,
and at the present writing the excitement
and curiosity of the public are intense. No
developments beyond those published above
are as yet worthy of belief or iusertion.—N. Y.
antlyal &IVA
♦NOTIIEI EVIDENCE OF REB
EL cittUELTY.
Horrible labium/tinny to a Free lir egro
of Tennessee—Ho ts sold into Slavery
ithainst his wilt—The price he paid for
his Attempt to Escape—A Rebel Sur
geon cats otibotlit his feet—One of the
"Chivalry" doubts the poor Mlles
story—Stern facts however prove them
to be correct—A Case for the Charita
ble. -
The Washington Chronicle, of Saturday, con
tains the following story of a terrible wrong
perpetrated on a free colored man
Every reader has shuddered on reading of
the awful murder of the aged Cappadocian
king by the victorious Pert iceas ;
his whole
being has thrilled with horror at the recital
of Nero's cruelties and llomitian's crimes, and
he has thanked the God of Mercy that the
light of civilization now shines where the
cloud of ignorance once lowered. His heart
has bled when the atrocities of Floras and.
Caligula were storied forth to him in all
their damning fiendishness, but lie has said
again, ." Thank God, this was ages ago,
when might was right; when men were blind.
and drunken, when the weak were slaves,
when the strong held power by the " livery
of seizin," when, indeed, the earth was cover
ed with a pall of moral gloom and death. But
a new era - has dawned; the veil is lifted, and
the full light of reason and justice illumines
a world once enveloped in the mists and shad
ows of superstition and wrong. When wars
came, and whole continents trembled under
the thundering tramp of armed meti and the
clash of steel, the angry shout, the yell of pain,
and the dying moan made the airhideous with
discordant sounds, he , wept to see the ruin
strife was making; but he said, " this is one
of the inevitable results of the exercise of rest,
son—it is through blood that truth is reached
when men timer. Peace coni69—Odic thought,
one hope animates the hosislately arrayed the
one against the other, and this is the end of
strife."
Thus men reasoned, until the great Ameri
can rebellion jarred the world. Cities fell,
fields - were laid waste, homes desolated. Then
eame rumors of barbarous deeds ; then; little
by little, proof. At last came the evidence of
the prisoner at Andersonville, and the poor
emaciated wretch confined at, Libby. The
Shrunken form, the leaden eye, of the living,
told a truthful tale of suffering ; and the
myriad graves that marked the spot where
tortured men were buried, discoursed, oh! elo
onentlyi of cruel death. Men raised their
handatolleaVenandbeggedfoifilerey. Women
wailed and children moaned, because the hus
band, father, brother son, lacked but the scrap
of meat, the pure cold draught, to make life
sweet while hope remained._ But this poor
boon, the gift a pampered dog refuses, was
denied. Brave men died for want of food,
where food was plenty; died of thirst, where
rivers flowed. Ever and anon came tales of
cruelty too horrible to name, too fiendish to
believe; but some were true, and one which
we have listened to until we thought we were
hearkening to a nurse's tale of demon wrath,
we give below. It is a simple story from a
poor and crippled son of Dam:
"My name is Richard Thomas Ormolu lam thirty
three years old. I was bought by my father, Thos.
Griffin from Mr. Caldwell, of 'Washington, who
owned me until I was quite a boy. fu 1858, I think,
Dr. Richard Lee, who owned a farm on the Eastern
Branch, hired me as a body servant, under the fol
lowing conditions; I was to remain with him ten
years, to go where he did, and to obey his orders.
1 was to receive at the mid of my term of service
five hundred dollars, a horse, a Saddle and bridle,
and a suit of clothes, and was to be taught reading
awl writing. When the bargain was made, my
father took me to the City Hall in Washington,
where I was recorded as a free man of color. Mr.
Naylor can show the record. 'We (Dr. Lee and I)
went from Washington to Athens, Georgia, where
the Doctor held boughta of three hundred and
was SPITS. Here lie a family of Aaves. He was
engaged in business in Augusta, Georgia, where
he spent much of his time.
"Just after the war broke out, Dr. Lee moved to
Knoxville, Tennessee, where lie sold all his slaves,
attempted to sell like, and bought the Tennessee
Hotel. The gentleman to whom he wished to sell
um was a Captain Arnold, of the rebel army, }rho
was shortly afterward captured by the Yankees iu
Reniticky, The under of the lintel at the time of
the sate of the property was made had a dinteidty
with Dr. Lee. Captain Arnold told him of the at
tempt to self me to Mini and the innkeeper, out of
spite to Dr. Lee, told me all about it. After \cork
ing about the hotel, doing a little of everything. I
was hired to Captain W. G. Gaminon. a quarter-
Master in the rebel army. He was under. Major
Glover: was a hard drinker, very profane. and very
rough. My duty was to haul forage from Knoxville
to the cavalry camps around the town. Ufa few
months the quartermaster moved to Jonesboro,
where his family resided, taking ins with hint.
About a month afterwards the Yankees ocettpied
Rwarville, when we moved to Bristol, then to
to Seven-Mile Ford, Virginia, where we remained
during the summer teeding the stock. In
the Mil we went back
to JonesbOrO, after
ward to Marion, Virginia. where] g, in
.the.
working-
the Confederate shops Making horse-shoes. We
rel tinted to Bristol (on the line between Virginia
and Tennessee), and during . that summer .17 was
employed as before in the smithy. In the fall I was
again made a teamster, and costumed to drh - c
wagon until we got to Jonesboro again when, be
coming dissatisfied, and wishing. to see De. bee,at
Knoxville, I made an attempt to escape through the
rebel picket lines. I had travelled about twenty
talcs when .I met two rebel cavalrymen, who :w
-rested me and took me back to Jonesboro. I Was
carried to Captain Gammon, who dismissed the
guards and scut me to my quarters. A short thue
after, some of the hired men Mlle to Me and took
toe to the post hospital, where I slept that night.
The next morning Doctor Williams came to me
and said, ...Griffin. you shan't run aWity . again ;
I'm going to cut your feet off.' He made Me drink
somethingfrom ablack bottle—it was not laudanum,
fort know the taste ef that—and I fell asleep. !awoke
in the might,and found thatbothiny feet were cut off,
In the morning I began to feel pain. Dr. Williams
mime in and looked. at me. He said, 'Mk, kill
tried
to kill you—you are a d—ti hard nigger to kill—now,
Pll try to cure you. , He dressed my legs, and con
tinued to do so until the 'Yankees began to raid
around Jonesboro, when they moved the hospital,
leaving me in charge of a negro woman, who took
care of me till the Federals Caine in. 'When I - was
able to move about on my knees, I was passed to
Knoxville; then to Nashville to the boldiers' Home.
1 was advised to stay bore till Governor II rownielY
came home. Somebody saw Governor BrownlOw,
and told hint of my rase. He said he knew Captain
GaMMOII, and would try to hunt him up. At Nitsli
ville the officers refused to give me transportation
to the North, as they said it was against orders; but
two gentlemen in the transportation Mee. - Mr.
Birch and Mr. Gilson, a one legged man, paid my
passage to Louisville, and trOle that place I Was
sent to Washington on a Government pass. ,
This is the plain, unvarnished story of a
poor, mutilated colored. man. His language
we have followed. as nearly as possible. We
have seen him, heard his story, and cross
questioned hitnA but his answerS are plain
and unvaried. His two feet have been am p u _
tared at the ankle, evidently by Some one
skilled in surgery. He cannot walk, but is
obliged to creep. For no crime but that of an
attempt to seek abetter home, a right which
even in the South a free negro possesses, lie
has been made a cripple for life. it was not
the ball of a soldier's pistol, tired in anger,
that, made this man a mere hobbling animal ;
it was the skilful knife of an educated surgeon,
applied in cold blood, at the suggestion of a
servant of the rebellion, no more culpable, no
more demoniac, than the operator himself.
We call upon Governor Browulow to redeem
his pledge. We demand of General Fiske the
fulfilment of his promise to find the perpetra
tor of this flendistiact of cruelty. We tall upon
the Hon. Secretary of War, in the name of jus
tice and for the sake of outraged humanity, to
have the parties to this hellish deed unearthed
and punished.
The victim of this terrible act of cruelty
lives at 212 Ii street, between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth. and is without the MOM'S of sup
port. Will the charitable make a note of this?
ONE OF THE "CHIVALRY" ATTEMPTS TO
CONTRADICT THE STATEMENT, BUT FARES
BADLY.
The National Intelligencer of Saturday says :
Tile following communication the author
writes us, was refused admission in Thg
Chronicle, for a reason that is not Satisfactory
to the gentleman whose name is signed below.
AS it contradicts a shocking narrative given
in The Chronicle of yesterday, we deem Mr.
Green's communication to be of particular
- littered
WASMNGTOX, August Si, Hai,
Editor of the Chronicle
My attention has just been called to an article in
your paper of this morning. headed "Horrible In
humanitv., ' which - charges Captain W. G. (!ran/10011
and Dr. Williams with having cut off the feet of a
colored man, named Richard - Thomas Griffin, at the
pobt hospital, Jonesboro, Tennessee t because of his
Wing titteinplell to escape through the rebel picket
lines to Knoxville.
I live In the vicinity of Jonesboro, was there at
the time mentioned In Griffin's statement, and long
afterwards, and if any such occurrence had ever
taken place I would certainly have heard of it. - As
Griffin professes to have been left at Jonesboro
after the hospital was removed until the Federals
came iu, it is papos&itole that any such outrage could
have been concealed, for it would have been gene
rally known, and irninettlately reported to the
Federal authorities. I know Captain Gammon and
Dr. Williams, and am confident that neither was
ever concerned in any such atrocity as pretended by
Griffin. He may have been run over by the cars,
and Dr. Williams may have g.lven hint chloroform
and amputated his logs; but, if so, it was done in the
*lrlt of humanity and to alive his life.
The charitable are requested to note that Griffin
is in this city, and without means of support. If
this story is false, as I am confident it is, the cha
ritable will perhaps think that he has forfeited the
sympathy to which his mutilated condition would
otherwise entitle him. BEN. E. GREEN.
To which The Chronicle of yesterday re
sponds;
There is a delightful mixture of the ridicu•
toms and the arrogant in this rnorceau of Mr.
Green. It is redolent of the best aroma of
"the chivalry." Of course, the writer is "a
Confederate? as he blandly and rather proudly
avowed himself When he sought room for his
complacent contribution in The Chronicle,
None but a genuine disciple of that school
could indulge in the' delightful delusion that
no such act as cutting off a black man's feet
could happen in such a delightful spot as
Jonesboro, Tennessee, while under the patron
age of - the rebel forces, without his having
heard Of it! The positive denial of Mr. Green,
based on this assumption, is opposed to the
sadly positive statement of the poor, mutilated
man, Griffin. Green says his charge is " impos
sible," because he did not hear of it, living,
as he did, at the time it is alleged to have
taken place, "in the vicinity of Jonesboro?
And this most insufficient testimony is ve
luntarily and insolently published to prove
a falsehood upon' a colored man, now in
this city, whosehorrid injuries all men can see,
and who arraigns, by name his cruel tormen
tors; but, not content with this effrontery,
Green Closes hit card with an appeal "to the
charitable" of Washington City to withheld
their aid from the sufferer, because he has lied
about his friends Gammon and Williams! We
only - wonder that Green does not tell Griffin
that his feet have not been cut off, and that he
deserves punishment for saying that they are.
A finer display of rebel hardihood and heart
lessness has yet to be found. Griffin, as we
have said, is in this city, and may be Ccaltulted
at any time. liis father 18 well known in
Washington as an industrious man, and his
brother, Orlando Griffin, has been for sixteen
years the servant of Colonel Forney, Secretary
of the Senate of the United States.
There is not a day that _does not add more
instances to those already collected in men an
appalling mass of the unspeakable barbarity
of the rebels in their treatment of Uuion
prisoners. Poor Griffin's story is not worse
than many already known, and we fear than
mere that are yet to be made public. It 18
true lie Is only a negro, and hit ttntement,
though spoken under eircumatimees that
would make even the most incredulous be
lieve, is to be set down as a fabrication on the
mere declaration of a man who does not deign
to speak from the facts, but merely because he
had not heard of it ! The eminent " Confede
rate" herO, Jefferson Davis, will doubtless
dismiss all the charges against him of compli.
city with the atrocities of Libby, Andereon
•ville, and Millen, on the same ground.
Like Green, who denounces Griffin's State
ment as false, Jeff Davis can say, "I was in
the vicinity of Libby, and I. never heard
of these things. Winder Wire, and others
were Menai! Of Mine, and °Mild Mot have
been guilty of such cruelty at Anderson•
ville and other places, and of course the
whole story is a "Yankee lie. On the honor
of a gentleman, a soldier, and a Confederate,
I declare that these crimes wore never
perpetrated. And all that your prisoners
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been said by those now dead, and testified
to by the Mutilated, wild confirmed by the
starving witnesses, and so many inventions,
to be utterlyput down by my own scornful
denial algid god-like word 1 , For our own part
we prefer the statement of the cheated,
hunted, whipped, maimed, and mutilated
Griffin to the volunteered refutation of Mr.
Green; and trust that neither the charitable
people of Washington will hold back their
aid, nor the Goyormnent restrain the ven
genttee of thoilawi UNRUH 01' the spirit ex-
Libited by the man who, while trying to de
fend the inhuman conduct of his friends, at
the same time asks that their victims may be
left to suffer.
FORTRESS' MONROE.
Departure of a Wreneh-Neuteatt Ambae•
settler for Durope—The Pursuit of the
64 iest " Steamer Effort—Ship News,
Fournass Moo nos, August 25.—The steamer
Vera Cruz, Capt. Gregory, from Vera Cruz,
bound to New York via Havana, came into
Hampton Roads Mat night, Out Of coal.
Capt Gregory reports: Left Havana August
20th, August 23d—Gale west southwest, work
ing around to westward bound. August 2ith—
Heavy northeast gale vessel working heavily;
Shipping bean Seas, and making no headway,
At noon bore up for Hampton for coal. The
captain expresses his grateful thanks to the
military officers of this post for their prompt
ness to assist him.
The Vera Cruz has a Valuable cargo of sugar,
cotton, tice. Will Sail for New York to-night.
They have three of the crew of the English
bark Villa Franca, wrecked 22d inst., lat. 29,
10ng..80. The remainder of the crew are on
tho,orwegian bark Tornjot. The Villa Fran
ca *as from Sam, bound to NW /Vic, with
sugar and molasses.
M. Eloin, Maximilian's ambassador to Eu
rope, was passenger on the Vera Cruz from
Havana to Vera Cruz.
The 104th Pennsylvania Regiment, stationed
at Norfolk, was tront9rea out of service to-day/
and will leave for home as soon as transporta
tion can be furnished. This regiment 13 corn.
man ded by Colonel Kephart.
Steamer River Queen arrived this morning
with President Johnson's family, Major Long,
allli others, on a pleasure trip. They return
to-night to Washington.
The steamer A, Winants, with a small de
tachment of the 3d Pennsylvania Artillery,
started out this P. M. in search of the lost
steamer Effort. .
FORTRESS MoI.IIIOE, August 26.—The steamer
A. WinantS was sent out on Wednesday night
in search of the steamer Blackbird, with the
expedition cruising for the stolen steamer
Effort.
_ .
The Winants returned yesterday, and re
ports that the Effort came out from flog
Island. Inlet on Monday morning, at the same
time the Blackbird went into Wachapftigue
Inlet. The expedition was kept inside the bar
until Wednesday, by rough weather, but came
to Hog Island on - Wednesday evening, and
learned that the Effort had left, going in the
direction of Chincoteague 'lnlet. The expe
dition started in pursuit on Thursday mornin.
The report that General Terry visited - this
place last Monday was premature. He was
expected, but has not yet arrived.
ACCIDENTS AND CATASTROPHES.
FURTHER PARTICULARS 08 TER LOSS OF THE
" BROTHER JONATHAN" - NAMES OF THE
NEW YORE, August 20.—The Alta' Califontia
of San Francisco, of the 8d inst., has been re
ceived here by private hands. It contains the
following important intelligence by tele
graph
CRESCENT CITY, July 80,. via JACKSONVILLE,
August 2.—The steamer Brother Jonathan
struck a sunken rock off St. George's Point,
eight or ten miles west from here, at 1.30 P. U.
to-day. All on board were lost except seven
teen adults, and also three children. Boats
have gone to the rescue, but there are no hopes
of say in g more. Two boats were swamped
alongside of the ship, and three boats were left
on board.
The following are the names of those saved ;
Jos.!,Patterson, 3d officer; David Farrell; st,ee
rage steward; Henry Muller, baker; Pat.
fireman ; Wm, Lowry, fireman ; Wm. E.
Shields, waiter; Stephen Moran, waiter; Mrs.
Mary Ann Tweedle, Mrs. Minna Beinhart and
child, Mrs. Martha E. Wilder, Mrs. Martha
Stott and child, and four colored seamen.
LATEsm.—The boats have returned, having
seen nothing of the wreck, end we give up all
hopes of saving more passengers. Officer Pat
terson reports that Brigadier General Wright,
when last seen on board, had a life-preserver
in his band.
IHotorttnAi, August 26.--The steamer Spartan,
in running the La Chien Rapids to-day, struck
a rock, and commenced to sink. Her passen
gers were all landed in safety.
A Case of Wholesale Poisoning in Ails-
gheny, Pa.
A WOMAN ARREBTED FOR POISONING fiIiVNNAL
PERSONS--A CCRIOTTS CASE.
The Pittsburg Event)) g Gazette of Friday gives
the following account of a wholesale case of
poisoning in Allegheny City:
Per some time paSt there LIM Peen residing
in a small two-Story brick house on Grays
alley, near River avenue, above the Hand
street bridge, in the Fourth ward, Allegheny,
a man named George Grinder, with his wife
and children. His wife is a woman between
thirty-five and forty years of age, and has
heretofore borne a good Character among her
neighbors, being noted for her sociability and
kindness of heart. Her husband is a laboring
man, about forty-five years of age, but rather
deficient in force Of character and intelli
gence. During the past fewmonths an unusual
number 'of deaths have occurred in the house,
but until recently it wet hot suspected that
any foul means had been employed. The sad
den sickness of a number of persons who had
eaten at Mrs. Grinder's table at length
awakened suspicion, and an investigation of
the facts lead to the conclusion that she has
been for some months past in the habit of ad
ministering poison to her neighbors and the
inmates of her house, from the effects of
which it is alleged that several have died.
The Gazette of Saturday, contains the follow
ing additiontd particulars :
The parties who have died in' lifthouse dur
ing the past few months, are four ih number,
namely : An old lady named Gallagher, who is
represented as having beenvery feeble when
she went to the house; a Mr, Grinder, brother
in-law of the accused, who was a soldier, and
is said to have died of diptheria ; an infant
child of Mrs. Grinder, and an infant child of a
woman who came here from Cincinnati in
in search of her husband. This last men
tioned woman, it will be remembered by some
of our readers, hired with a family on Hand
street, in this city, and the day after her eon
tinement, was compelled to leave the house.
She found her way to one of our hotels, at the
risk of her life, and remained there for some
time in a precarious condition. After her re
covery she visited the house of Mrs. Grinder,
In search Of eniployment, taking her child
with her, which was quite Ii the time. She
remained here for a few days, when her child
died. An inquest was held,..h ut there were not
only no suspicions entertained against Mrs.
Grinder, but she was very well spoken of for
her kindness and humanity towards the un
fortunate Mother and child. The case of Mrs.
Caruthers 'however, presents a very different
aspect. tier sickness followed immediately
after leaving the table of Mrs.- Grinder, and
was of such a nature as to indicate the presence
of poison in the stomach. Such, also, was the
case with Mr. Caruthers, Mrs. Johnston, and
oft:erg - who had eaten at her house. The hired
girl Annie Stiffly t states that she became sick
on several occasions, and her sickness WaS a
such a character that she thought each time
that she would die. She obtained relief, how
ever, in vomiting. Mr. James Mcßride, who
occupies a house in the same block with
alirs. Grinder states that he was poisoned
twice, and 'his wife once—but, although
Mrs. Grinder had access to his house, ho did
not suspect her. Other persons In the same,
block have experienced similar symptoms,
and they now believe that poison was admi
nistered to them by Mrs. Grinder. Therats a
statement that , a sick lady in the neighbor
hood, who was frequently visited by this wo
man, exhibited Symptoms of poison so often
that her physician forbade her to take any.
thing. from Mrs. Grinder and on ono occasion
he detected small particles, resembling salt
petre, in the bottom of a tin of milk, which
Mrs. Grinder had heated for the patient. It is
believed that these particles were from corro-
Sive sublimate; a very deadly poison, which
the accused had put into the milk, There _are
other instances related, but these will suffice
to show the general nature of the testimony
likely to be adduced when the case comes to
be legally investigated.
Dr. Otto Huth, an experienced chemist, has
taken possession of a number of packages of
drugs and other artieles found in the house,
and will make a thorough analysis of them,
with a view of 'ascertaining their nature and
properties. The body of Mrs. Caruthers will
also be disinterred, with a view of having the
stomach analyzed.
It would seem impossible to assign a rea
sonable motive for the perpetration of these
crimes, as malice, jealousy, or the lust for
hain, do not seem to have influenced her, and
ence the only conclusion which we can come
to ia, that the was possessed of a species of
monomania—a fiendish and incurable desire
to destroy life by the insiduous moans of poi
son. The annals of crime exhibit many such
cases, and this will doubtless have to be added
to the same list.
NEW YORK CITY.
NEw Yonrc, Aug. 2+6,1805.
HAVANA AND NDA:IeD.
The steamer Vera Cruz, from Vera Cruz,
August 14th, via Havana August 20th, has ar
rived here.
News had reached Vera Cruz of- a fight near
Puebla, between the Imperialists and Liberals,
bat the particulars had not been received
when the steamer left Vera Cruz.
LOBB OF A SASH.
The bark Villa Franca,from Saza, for NOW
York, with a cargo of sugar and molasses,
sprang Weak', mid was lost at , sea , in late 29,
long. 80. All lands were saved.
THE DiRST BALE. OF NEIV COTTON.
The first bale of new cotton arrived today
from New Orleans. The steamer Guiding Star
brought 2,500 baloP, Cotton is firm at that
port.
rioryngimrs of OCEAN EITEANSii/VS.
Arrived, stcams.hips Guiding Star, Monterey
and Wilmington, from New Orleans; Emily U.
Bonder, from Callao, via St. Thomas, with long
ONIPMENT OF mom
The shipment of specie for Europe today Dy
the steamers Scotland, Etna, and Bremen,
amounts to nearly one million of dollars.
BAILING OP TUB BRITANNIA.
The iron-screw steamship Britannia, of the
Anchor line, sailed to-day for Glasgow, carry
ing passongcrs to Londonderry, Beltlot, Dub•
lin and Liverpool. Among her list of cabin
passengers arc the following from your city:
Charles Magee., Esq., and lad , Miss Jane
Green and servant, and gutty 9, *roe Ettlimper
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THE SHENANDOAH-
BURNING AND WINDINGS HY THE PI
RATES ON THE PACIFIC.
cnicnOif August 24.—A San 11gnClae0 ter
gram of A! i dgithE Sd, says tlio feiTOWIR; Vaasa/a
have been destroyed by the.Sitenandoith
Herman 0. Howland, Hasse* IlruilaWick,
James Mundy, Waverly, Draattha., and Congress,
ail of New 'Bedford the favorite r of
yen Covington, of Wo.rron, and the Neil and
James Mundy vr6ie bbilLl6tl to carry the sea
men belonging to the vessels destroyed to Sad
Francisco.
All the above-named vessels were eaptured
in the vicinity of Behring , s Straits;
The last seen of the Shenanieah, she was
steering southward, towards Lawrence Bay.
The Neil saw other vessels taming after
leaving the pirate.
The crews of the vessels which wore captured
were plundered of every valuable article they
possessed.
THE INDIAN WAR,
From• Fort Laramie—General EOnnor's.
Expedition—Retribution on Indian
Murderers and Robbers.
Foal LA /slum, AlignSt O.—MD/lees from•
Gen, Connor's Powder River expedition te ,
August 21st have been receiVed. On the 10tH
inst. a detachment of Connor's Pawnee scouts
discovered, pursued, and killed all of a war
party *of [Cheyennes, numbering twentyfour,
who tvere returning from the Mfill road, with
scalps and plunder. There was no loss on our
side. Our men captured twentymine horses
and mules and a quantity of white women's.
and childrens' clothing. On the 20th instant,
the scouts killed one of the principal chiefs of
the Cheyennes,
On the 21st, Captain Marshall, of the 11th
Ohio Cavalry, ran into a band of Indian*
and killed two, and captured twenty horses
and mules, together with several packages.
of plunder which had evidently but recently
Comm into their possession. There was no loss
on our side.
The Indians are all moving north with great
rapidity for their villages.
General Connor left Powder River on the
22d, moving north and concentrating his col
umns' who axe ready and eager to meet the..
Indianh.
STATE ITEMS.
During a thunder storm on Wednesday af.
ternoon of last week, the belfry of the Penn•
Sylvania Railroad shops, at: Altoona ) was
struck by lightillitg. The lightning rod wit*
split, and part of the fluid passed down the
ben-rope into the shop, considerably erecting
a number of workmen.
The Examiner and the Review, the two De
mocratic papers publishetl in Washington, of
this State, are to be consolidated alma ttltt
let of October—the new paper to he conducted.
by the present editor of the Review and one of
the editors of the Examiner.
The State Capitol building at Harrisburg
is surromided by an immense seatibid, and
the walls are being painted and pencilled,
which will add greatly to the already attrac
tive appearance of the structure,
The young men of Butler, Butler county,
are about to organize a military company, A.
citizens' meeting is called in the same town to
take steps for the erection of a so
litters , mono_
went.
—Petty thieving is now very rife in and about
Lebanon. Poultry, fruit, clothes hanging out
to dry, corn in the field, and whatever can be
conveniently taken, is seized upon with un.
Meeedented readiness,
A deputy sheriff belonging in Wheeling,
West Virginia, attempted to serve a process
on a Pittsburg boat at that Place a few days
ago and was carried off by the boat and taken
to Pittsburg. The captain Is to be prosecuted.
There IS pet a single ton of iron in the
- whole Lehigh Valley remaining ii3igald at the
present day, and many of the establishments
ha.ve orders ahead.
The grape blight throughout the State in
severe, In some sections the fruit is rotting by
the ton.
The 192 d Pennsylvania negliibnit readied
Harrisburg on Friday night.
lIONE ITEMS.
The statistics of the Quarterinnierio De.
partment in the army go to prove that each
individual consumes about two and a quarter.
pounds of dry food daily, about three•fourths
vegetable and one•fourth animal, making
an annual cansamption of about eight
hundred pounds, Of fluids, Including every
variety of beverage, he swallows about
fifteen hundred pounds, and taking the
ammmt °flair which he consumes at eight hun
dred pounds, the result will show that the food,
water, and air which a man receives amounts
in the aggregate to More than three thollaallit
pounds a year, that is a ton and a half, or more
than twenty times his own weight.
A Washington reporter says that General
Eweilis personal appearance is not propossee.
sing. His features are sharp, his eyes restless,
never remaining' On an 'object, and his wholB
manner indicates a higk.strung nervous Unto
perament. He wears a stiff brown beard and
moustache, and short hair, which, with his
light, keen eye, give his countenance rather a.
forbidding expression, 116 artificial leg is
shorter than the other, and seems to be of
primitive construction, causing him to walk'
quite awkwardly.
A fellow stopping at the Newhaven ROW,
New Haven, TV , Mialy,, made the acquaintance
of a gentleman in an adjoining room, who very
inconsiderately told him how easy a thief
could get into his room and steal his watch
and money. Williams was so impressed with
the correctness of the observation, that he got
up in the night and tried it in the way Mai
sated, and secured e/50 in money and two vain.
able watches.
The lessees of the restaurant adjoining
ForiPs Theatre, and the property of Mr. Ford,
refuse to give up their apartments to the
Government, they having a four years' lease,
and claiming that the building was not in.
eluded in the lease of the theo e tt% proper' by
the authorities. Judge Hughes has been re
tained by the parties as counsel to contest the
Case.
Agents of a traveller's insurance company
are posted at all the railway stations in Chi
eago, and go through each train just before ita
departure, with liberal offers of insurance foi
the lives and limbs of the passengers. The
low rate of premium, ten cents a day; must be
highly encouraging to those starting On tit
journey,
• George N, Sanders, the linaliducted, now
goes armed by permission of the authoritied
of Montreal, and wears a belt or girdle, in
which are slung his revolvers and a bowlo
knife, while in his side pockets he carries his
small revolvers, making his person quite an
arsenal,
To avoid the exposure and identity of per.
son, the ladies of Newport have introduced
the fashion of wearing..masks in the water
These are made of thin, white cotton cloth,
fitting tightly to the face, with places cut for .
the mouth and eyes. The Magnin 10 perfect.
It is related that the gamblers at Saratoga
complain that the place is this summer fre
gnented by middle-class people, who come to
drink the water and not to spend money—evi
dently taking a sadly mistaken view of their
duty.
New York drinks about fifty million gal.
lons of water per day. The quantity Of Whis
ky it consumes is beyond computation,
many of the farmers around Petersburg,
Va n will not plough. Up their land for fear of.
striking unexploded shells,
—On the 11th inst., the New Orleang Delta
newspaper establishment was sold at auction.
for 0,200.
Five thousand troops, now on dutrin Ken.
tacky, aro to be mu4exta out initnediately,
=Edwin Booth's income is seventeen Ilion
sand nine hundred and forty-one dollars.
Miss Bateman is to begin an engagement
in New York about the Ant of January , .
Tim Alnon Daily Messenger has boon. sus
pended by the military authoribles•
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The hatter to the Prince of Wales has pub,
lished a book upon hilts, in which he rinds
fault with Sir Edward Landscer'a pertrait of
the Prince Consort. The latter says I Had,
the hat luckily been placed just an inch more
horizontally, tho crown would have displayed
m y I mmo as Hatter to his itoyal
and tlins rendered roe an incalculable
without prejudicing the *tare Iu the least
degree. But Fate, or
! he artist's fancy, de.
creed otherwise."
In the Sheriff's Court, London, recently ,
a surgeon dentist brought an action against a
patient to recover WS fee for eatreoting a
tooth. The defence was that the plaintiff ads.
ministered chloroform, and pulled out the
wrong tooth, a perfectly sound orie,.leaVing
the real offender still in 'its place. The de
fondant swore that this was the fact, and Mr
Kerr told the plaintiff ths.t. it arse clear he
could not recover, and the defendant must he
allowed his costs.
Abd-el-Kador was passing lately the Nue
do RiVOIII on his way to the Tuileries, when
he found himself euddei4V AO to fade with
General Laraorieiere, to whom the Arab chief
tain had surrendered No recognition
took place between the vanquished emir and
his French,conquerer, but both were evidently
mach Melted.
The LOlldenlipapers toll of a 9 1110d111111P
who holds skews in Fleet street, and, on 11420
count of the noisy traffic in that mighty the.
ronghfare, begins proceedings with the solefnit
adjuration, "Sperrits is requested to rap up
1994 'cos o' the 'buses.o
Geethe , g. net him just been MP:Mated Ift
to Hebrew.
Count do Moray's widow finds after part
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