S'•
,eduintuide murder is in process of trial
I:aingate, with every evidence, AO far—if.
~yrisoners language and action formally
ilence—of downright insanity.
The French Government is engaged in lay-
Kam:trine cables between - its cities and
.:4.,,lands On the Atlantic and Mediterranean
;sribaldi, as lie has told ns very often, eon
,er.s Italy incomplete without Borne—her
c.
idillons, presti ge, etc., et
The negotiations between Austria and Prus
1, D e toe Schleswig-Holstebi question, are
itt to be thus far Satisfactory. An interview
the gleject was to take place between the
,pective potentates, at Salzburg, on the lath
Tie Russian army Is to be reduced to a peace
Ming ,
WAr in NOW Zealand is announced as over,
the surrender of the lan native army.
;ercral more witnesses, examined at the
r:11 of Capt. Wirz yesterday, testified to the
ograpby of the stockade, the room afforded
the men, and the peculiar character of water
!!Orded for drinking and washing purposes.
offal from the cook-house, the overflow of
qe sinks, and the drainings of the whole
iiEon ground, ran into the little rivulet
hich passed through it. The food was
I mancient to sustain life, and the men
110 Constantly exposed. Uncleanly and
7,3tqlefl as the soldiers were, they became full
vermin, and one witness testified that a man
;died from lice," the vermin being thicker on
body than even the thickness of his
;ethos. The dead were often found in the
, pining lying - stark and stiff in the midst of
is living, a &et only known when the living
re to undergo the horrors of another mi.-
ilrome day. The - first filets criminating
:Vain Wirz have been developed. It was
< , -tilled to that he shot down a man from
er wantonness, and for the same reason or
the guard to shoot on another occasion.
T! both instances death tosult6d. The court
-1 of Wirz, at the end of the session, with
rov from the cause, for reasons familiar to
.t , taselves. Ile is now without defence, ex
(l,t that vouchsafed him by the Judge Advo
:,te,
;orernor Holden, of worth Carolina, haying
quested General Rnger, commandant at Ea-
eigs,to remand three citizens, arrested by,
dm for assaulting a negro, to thel county in
Lich the outrage was committed, and have
hew tried by civil law, and also calling his
attention to the fact that civil law has been
corganind in that vicinity, General huger
•epiies that to him it seems inexpedient to
empty, because it is the duty of the military
o preserve Order, and though magistrates
ace beer. appointed, they take no. official
•!otice of assaults upon freedmen, although
acts are by no means unfrequent. Ile,
, !.aetount of these reasons, thinks that prompt
• :!.I:tnd punishment by military courts is the
, aly real remedy for the evil.
A large number of the pasgengers of the
t:tuler George Leary, which was lately in.
a.d by colliding with the steamer James T.
brady, arrived at Fortress Monroe on the 2titli.
They exonerate the captain and officers of the
ixitt y from all blame, and compliment them
kr their 'bravery and coolness. The cargo has
(Ai forwarded to its destination, and the
-Itioner sent to Baltimore for repairs.
Ai:tykes from China have been received to
ipe new rebellion was rapidly spread
c. 11:e rebels had. advanced Within a Ipm-
red mike, of Pekin, where they occupied a
rong position. The authorities of Pekin had
eked relief from the British officers. The
ixedarins had refused to give up Colonel Bur_
erinc to the American consul.
Edward li. Ketchum was yestarday morning
arraigned before Justice ilogan, in his (Ho
-2:111',,)) private room, in the Tombs. None
Pere admitted but those specially interested.
arljournment was granted the prison-
for a few days, 'as his counsel had not
supeared, He was then again committed
the. Tombs.
blond Whittlesey, Assistant Commissioner
the Freedmen's Bureau at Raleigh, has
Aleii a circular disabusing the freedmen of
e idea that they are to be presented with
net by the eovernment, and calling upon
1n to go to work, so that in time they may
able to purchase land themselves.
A collision occurred yesterday morning
Out ten o'clock, on the Long Island Railroad,
:ar• Jamaica. Four or five persons were
and quite a number of others wounded
Thr cause of the accident was that the up
lain, instead of stopping at Wiulleld, as it
,Lottid have done, went on to Jamaica.
Another victory for Philadelphia. The Ath
tic Ba,e-Ball Club, of this city, yesterday
kat the Nationals, of Washington, in a match
aame, in the presence of thousands of epeeta
toliF.. The score stood eiglaty-seven to twelve.
The Athletics play the Pastimes, of Baltimore,
le . 4terday, at Toronto, Canada, a large crowd
to witness the cricket match be
iween "All United States and. All Canada."
ne match has not yet been finished—it will .
roe - caned to•day. The betting was ten to
tive on the United Statee.
Sunday a train from Raleigh to City Point,
rim Off the track near Petersburg. Two men
veto killed. The. 4th Nev.- Hampshire waft OJI
but fortunately none of its yeetabera
were striou sty injured.
We bear from Fortress 'Monroe that the
,:.iner North Patilie,whiehlwas:sunk °Rpm-
L 11%; Point on the night of the sth, has been,
has been towed to Norfolk, where
rhe Will discharge her cargo (coal.)
At a meeting of-magistrates lately held in
N.'s berm N. C., resolutions were adopted ac
,aowleilging, submission to the Xational Go
vi•nnuent. rejoicing -at the return of peace,
A;),1 approving the policy Of Gov. Holden.
lin. Howard addressed a large number of
inns at Bryan Hall, Chicago, on Saturday
::vening, in behalf of the Freedmen's Aid
lie left on Sunday for Washington.
Five Or Six care of the afternoon train from
\V York to Albany ran from the track. yes
..n!ny, because of the breaking of an axle, and
flt- mar. WaS severely injured.
There is no hope for the recovery, of Gov:
1 4'Ough, of Ohio. Death may occur at any mo-
A tire occurred yesterday in the Bynclay
office, New York. The loss is - only
Nrs. R. M. T. - Hunter, yesterday, bad an in
.!rview with the President with reference to
releaSP Of lier husband.
Ex-Governor James Brown, and Linton Ste
hens, yesterday interceded for the pardon of
ex-rebel Vice lit'eident.
wade Hampton has applied for paikton.
YOring man named Michael McManus was
inund dead in Concord, lgaas., last week.
Breadstuff., continue very Jim at the late
but 11* transactions are. limited.
otton rather firmer. In sugar there is
more doing. Provisions are very dull, but
qviecs. are without ebonize. Whisky is selling
' , I a Mall way at ‘2:2425e. %1.. gallon for Penn.
-;:letinitt Lad Ohio harrelp.
Receipts of beef cattle are large this Wen:,
r'aching about 9.400 head; the market in conse.
Itence is very dull, at about former rates.
-1 . ( 1. , are rather better ; 8,000 bead arrivedancl
;010 at iil,,;(riaXe. IR lb gross for gOO4 fat sheep.
N.:4 ,, are iu demand ; 2,100 lwail sold at rl5 7817
I lie 1(0 its net.
myr QUITE LOST 7 TIIE ATLANTIC
TELEGRAPH.
The diary of W. H. RusSELL, on board
)1 . the Great Eastern, from the t im e o. r
her
_caving Valentia to the lith of August—an
` , x(iting, if „not very eventful period of
nineteen days—is written with the usual
clearness and force of "Our Special Cor
",,Tondeut," who so powerfully described
he battle of Bull Run which he did not
and, we confess, impresses us with the
Pinion that the case of the Atlantic Cable
i, by nO Means so desperate as was believed
4 first. The most singular fact, in all his
very interesting details, is that, after the
Cable broke and was lost in the bottom of
the Atlantic', at a depth of about two thou
-and five litutdred fathoms—exactly 'fifteen
thousand feet—it was successfully groped
by mechanical means, grappled with,
-,,m1 would probably have been secured on
board the great ship if it had not twice
broken, while being hauled up, from its
own weight in the water, which caused it
it to separate at the splices, after it had
been raised a mile, and was a third time
lost, frOtu the failure of the rope attached
to the grapnel S- No provision had been
mile for the contingency of, groping for a
lost cable et the bottom of the Atlantic.
The Great Eastern turned her course to
Ireland on the 11th of Aoguat, leaying the
VOL. 9.-NO. 25.
place of the accident as well marked, by
one or more buoys, as is possible in mid
ocean, New material—improved grapnels
and abundance of strong wire-rope to which
to attach them—would be provided with as
little delay as Possible. This can be done
during next month, while the equinoctial
gales are holding their autumn jubilee, to be
succeeded, in October, by gentler gales and
smoother waves. If the Great Eastern
buoy remain where it was placed, the re
,iewed attempt May be made about six
weeks hence, and there is almost a probit
hility, certainly a possibility, of final suc
cess.
THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION.
The detailed reports of the proceedings of
the Convention called by Provisional Go
vernor SHARKEY; in Mississippii.,,fully con
firm the impression conveyed by the tele
graphic accounts of its proceedings, viz :
That a; conservative spirit preieiled, and
that all the propositions of the Southern
radicals were defeated. The main contest
was upon the anti-slavery clause reported
by the committee, which was finally adopt
ed, as follows
That neither slavery . nOr involuntary servi
tude, otherwise than in the punishment of
crimes whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall hereafter exist in this State ;
L
and the Legislature at its next session, and
thereafter, as the public welfare may require,
shall provide by law for the protection and
security of the persons and property of the
freedmen of the State, and guard them and
the State against any evils that may arise from
their sudden emancipation.
A proposition was made to amend this
by a preamble declaring that "slavery
having been abolished in this State by the
action of the Government of the 'United
States, it is, therefore, hereby declared,"
&c. The object of this and other similar
amendments proposed was to put on record
a statement that the United States Govern"-
ment had abolished slavery against the will
of the people of Mississippi, and to agitate
hereafter, on this foundation, either for a
judicial ecision declaring abolition uncon
stitutional or for compensation for the
slaves set free. It is creditable to the Con
vention that these designs were strongly
rebuked. One member, who represented
the Union county of Jones, (which when
the State seceded from the Union resolved
to secede from the State,)
and
that
"the time for boasting and bluster had
paSsed," and that he "was in favor
or cultivating the good will of the
North and the Government. That was
their only hope." Another speaker ob
served : " Gentlemen talk .As if we had a
choice. But we have no choice, and it is
no humility to concede it. The only road
we can pursue is that dictated to us
by the power at Washington. It has given
us to understand, in unmistakable terms,
that without an amendment to our Consti
tution, abolishing slavery, we cannot g et
back into the position we once occupied—
nay, we shall be held as a conquered pro
vince under the bayonets of our former
slaves." Speaking of the vain hope of coin
peusation for slaves he said : " T would not
give this glass of water for the chance of
indemnity for my slaves. The people of
the North are both unwilling and unable
to pay us for our slaves." " Neither we
nor any of our children Kill ever see
~ an
African slave again in- this country."
Another speaker briefly disposed of some of
the arguments of the nog-couseriratives, as
they are called, thus
He cared not what view gentlemen took of
the subject, it all amounted to the same thing.
If we have been during. these four years a de
facto Government, regarding the ordinance of
M 00991011 Valia t then• we are asking to come
back; and is it for us, _a vanouighed nation, to
propose the terms of reception If, on the
other hand, we regard' the ordinance of seces
sion invalid, and claim that the State has never
been out of the Union, then we are every one of
us traitors to the Government, and have been
the last four 3-ears, and not only our slaves are
liable to confiscation, but the very homes of
which gentlemen speak as the Only thing left
us. Shall traitors dictate the terms of their
pardon 1 We have no rights such as gentlemen
talk about. The bayonet has destroyed slavery,
and the bayonet is . still here, and will remain
till there shall be no more opposition to the
GovernMent. The very power that convened
this Conventioll Can also disperse it, and can
convene another with new oaths and More'
binding. We are in no condition to vaunt; but
we should 'tither show readiness to receive
what the Government will give us.
It is worthy of note,. too, that a resolu
tion providing for the appointment of a
committee of five, to consider the pro
priety of memorializing the Government
for a release of JEFFERSON DAVIS was
voted down, and that a resolution was
adopted, inviting Major General OSTER-;
HAUS, of the United States Army, " to a
Seat within the bar of the Convention."
•It will be seen that the rebellious spirit
was represented, but it was in a decided
minority, and effectively overruled liy
men who speak and act as if they were
deteimined to conduct themselves as. loyal
citizens hereafter.
THE COLORADO CONVENTION. •
The Constitutional Convention of Colo
rado concluded its labors,on the 12th hist.,
by adopting a Free State Constitution,
which is to be submitted to the people on•
the first Tuesday of September, 1865. If
adopted, as we presume it will be, there
being very little opposition to it, an election
for State officers and one member of Con
gress is to be held on the second Tuesday
of November. Eastern Capitalists Who
contemplate making investments in that
section will be interested in the fact that
the proposed Constitution provides that
"lands belonging to citizens of the United
States residing without the said States shall
never be taxed higher than the lands be:
to residents thereof;" and, also,
that " no distinction shall ever be made be
tween Citizens and aliens, in reference to
the purchase, enjoyment, or descent of
property." If Colorado is admitted into
the Union a complete belt of States will be
established from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
with the exception of the Teiritory of Utah,
where the Mormon population is indifferent
or hostile to a State organization. That
will be the only link wanting to connect
California and Nevada with Colorado,
which is bounded on the east by Nansas.
LETTER FROM OCCASIONAL.”
WASHINGTON, August 28, 1865
A period like the present is frequently
marked by singular and unexpected changes.
The power that crushed the rebellion, and
struck - slavery stone-dead, and broke up the
whole machinery for its indefinite extension,
gave to the American People the talisman
so long sought after by which to adapt all
their institutions to the principles and
pledges of the men who founded the Go
vernment. Astonishing are the results of
this new and resistless instrumentality..
Tbg first to be noted is the rapid and volun
tary recognition of the abolition of slavery
by all the old slaveholders: Extraordinary
as it is, however, it is only a logical se
quence of the defeat of the rebellion. But
the next result is something equally sui
.
prising and inepressibly illogical. The
Democracy of the free Spites has become a
pronounced alid defiant - aristoortley. The
political and commercial revolution in the
South, which has opened the grandest
field for philanthropic effort, and for
the application of the best maxims of
the fathers of the genuine Democra
cy, is greeted With a storm of indig—.
nation and denounced as the fruit of A.bo
lition iutermeddling. Instead of moving
with the times and helping the Go
vernment and the Southern people to
organize labor and to fit the liberated multi
tudes for their new condition, the Demo
cratic leaders - dwell upon the ". Usurpations"
of the Administration, the dangers of " negro
suffrage," 46 5.. l
equality" a nd "negro ary
trary arrests," &c. But the ' I corner stOne"
of their new Democracy is- " State rights."
So complete has been the demolition of
the rebellion that there is hardly a voice
raised among the recent rebels in favor of
any one of those "rights" they used as
pretexts for going to war. The "State
rights" so loudly defended, by the Demo
,
cratic leaders, arc regarded by LIMP, as 19t4
to the people—at least in the sense in which
these rights have been expounded by the
statesmen of the Calhoun and Buchanan
school. Not so with the Democratic
leaders. What the rebels abandon they
cling to. Grievances that the rebels
might maker and yet which they dis
dain to set up, are so boldly iterated
by these party leaders, that the stranger
is almost forced to • believe that they are
the real sufferers by the war. The fact
that the most indifferent class during all the
rebellion was composed of these men, and
that this indifference kept them out of
danger, and enabled them to shirk all re
sponsibility, gives a most ludicrous sound
to their angry clamors against the Govern
ment. OCOASIONNL,
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, August, 28,1.865
EBPecial Despatch to The-Prese.l
Trial of Davis—Another Theory.
It is as impossible to forget the crime of
DAVIS ... as it is to forget the murder of LtUtioraf.
If the latter visits our visions by night and
our thoughts by day, mingling with our hopes
and OUT prayers, the fernier is equally con
stant in our memory. Thus, when we speak
of the Crucifixion, we also remember those
who directed and superintended it. When
, We think of WASHINGTON . we See BENEDICT
ARNOLD lurking in the background, the ghost
of baffled treason. How reasonable, then, that
Jarraßsow Davis should be held in close .
recollection by the people he fought io
ruin I Not less reasonable is the public impa
tience to know when and how he is to be tried.
From this impatience suspicion and com
plaint are too apt to spring; and these are not
allayed by the absurd and mischievous specu.
lations of neweniongers and disaffected poli
ticians. I think it will result that every trial
like that of PAYNE and his associates, and
now of Wtnz, has a direct and preparatory
bearing, on the case of JEFFERSON DAVIS.
That he was cognizant of every atrocity
cannot be denied—indeed, it is not de
nied. liis own silence is not that of wounded
pride, but a studied, and, doubtless, a coun
selled silence; and is perhaps significant
of his apprehension that his knowledge
of; if not his direct complicity in, these cruel
ties will be established. You may take any
of the chief criminals of the rebellion, who
deliberately violated the rules of war, and it
will be shown that they had the sanction of
Davis.. The confessions of BEALE and KEN;
NEnv, who were executed at New York, proved
that they acted 4, by authority.” The attempt
to convey the plague into our great cities by
BLACICEITRII the devilish invention of Hennas
and OLDHAM "the composition "of Professor
McCuttonou ; the fiendish barbarity of Wiaz,
who seemed to revel in the murder of his vic
tims, and in the success of his contrivances;
the robberies androids of the Northern border,
like the plan to fire the theatres and hotels of
New York and Others, were only parts of one
grand system, and were as well known to JIMA.
PERSON DAVIS as the mutilations at Bull Run,
the torpedoes at Williamsburg, the horrible
agonies of the prisoners at Libby and Belle
Isle, and the nameless infamies upon the
colored prisoners. Gradually and surely the
warp and the woof of testimony is being pre
pared, and when it is completed, will be close
ly and compactly woven into the conviction
of the greatest traitor since the days of JUDAS
ISCARIOT. *s*
[ltyAssociated Press.]
The Wira Conspirstey—lteasons for the
Viltbdratml of the Names Of Lee and
Others.
The reason assigned, by those who ought to
know, for the withdrawal of the names of
ROBERT E. LEE, and several others, from the
charge of conspiracy with Winz, is that their
persona are actually or constructively in the
custody of the United States, but not on trial.
It was seen from the time that Mr. BAKBB en
tered for counsel for Captain Wtaz, that he
could not long enjoy amicable relations with
the Commission, and on repeated occasions
some sharp words passed between them. To
day, he, together with ,his associate, Si),cui
withdrew. This was the second time within
one week that counsel deserted him. Wigs
was very much hurt at this, and imploringly
saM to Mr. BARES, " you might stay to help
me, and you should not inind even if the COUrt
did sometimes overrule you." In the absence
of other counsel it now devolves on Judge Ad
vocate CurrarAN to see that he has fair play.
Internal Revenue Decision.
The COnonissioner of Internal Revenue to-
dair decided that if under'the terms of a will
the legatee can demand of the executor the
delivery of gold, he cannot be held to receive
legacy of money merely, for in such case the
executor would be discharged by apayment ln
currency. It must therefore be treated as a
specific legacy, the clear value In currency of
which at the time the legacy - received it:would
be taxable. then an allowance over and
above the valuation of a specific legacy 'on
which the tax has been paid is afterwards re
alized by the sale of such specific legacy such
advance is regarded as neither taxable legacy
nor income.
Ex-Senator Hunter.
Mrs- It. M. T. Hun= had a protracted inter
view with President ,Tonxsox to-day, with re
ference to the release of her husband, Ex-
United States and ex-rebel Senator. Interces
sion was also made by Ex-Governor JOE
BROWN and LINTON STEPAENS in behalf of the
ex-rebel Vice President.
WADE HAMPTON has applied for pardon.
ACCIDENTS AND CATASTROPHES
ANOTHER RAILWAY SLAIIGHTER-.FIVE SILLRD
AND MANY WOUNDED
Nam Tonic, August 28.—A. collision occurred
on the Long ill and Railroad this morning
about ten orclock - , near Jamaica. The engines
General Grant and General Shernlallyattauhed
to the respective trains, were smashed. The
cars of the up train were piled one on the
other. The engineers of both trains escaped
uninjured.
The cause of the collision was that the engi
neer of the up train, instead of stopping at
Winfield,us he should have done, went on to
Jamaica.
Four or live persons were killed, and quite a
number wounded.
The &lowing are the names of some of the
victims:
Killed—William Gainey, of Williamsburg;
William Walker, of Deer Park; an unknown
man, fatally injured, cannot recover.
ITounded--Georgo Laill, of Hunter's Point,
leg badly crushed, life Saved by amputation;
S. S. Crocker, of New York, fatally injured;
William Walker, of New York, seriously in
jured; E. h. Newton, of Bellport, L. 1., both
legs broken ; A. L. Illullughes, of Jamaica, and
Joseph Wilson, of New York, both badly in
jured. •
RAILROAD ACCTIDFNT NO. 3--ONE MAW 1N,7,171:re.D
TARRYTOWN, N. Y., August 28.—The after
noon train from Albany broke an axle at East
liaverstraw, whereby five or six cars were
thrown from the (reek. One man e who was
stealing a ride, had one leg and an stir M broken.
No one else was hurt.
ATHLETIC GAMES.
Base Bali at Washington.
SPLENDID YIOToisT O THE ATHLETICS OF
PHILADELPHIA.
WA smworox, August 28.—The base-ball tour
' 'lament was inaugurated here to-day, by a
grand match between the Athletics of Phila
delphia and the Nationals—the latter club
being the present champions of this city. At
least ten thousand persons witnessed the ex
citing performance, ineluding a large nmnber
of ladies, and several distinguished person
ages.. The Athletics Were the victors—the
score being 87 to 12 runs. They batted splen
ditlly, making nineteen home runs—an un
precedented number,
The Nationals afterwards handsomely enter.
tained . their visiting friends - with a compli
mentary supper. The speeches and toasts
were numerous, and the friendly demonstra
tions enthusiastic-
To-morrow the Atlantic Club of New York
(the present champions of the United States)
will play with the Nationals—the same.parties
who were beaten in to-day , s unequal contest,
so far as practice is concerned.
The Athletics Will play the Pastime Club of
Baltimore on Tuesday, returning home 011 the
same evening.' They won many friends here
by their gentlemanly conduct.
Cricket—The United States vs. Canada.
Torso o, C. W., August 2.3.—1 n the cricket
match to-day, Canada went in first, and made
seventy-three runs. The United States then
went in, and at six o'clock this evening, when
the wiclzets were drawn forty-six runs were
made by them, with four.-wickets down. The
play is to be resumed to-morrow. The betting
is ten to five on the United States.
The Triad of lietehuin.
ADJOURNMENT TILL. MONDAY NEXT.
NEW Yoax, August 9.B.—Edward D. Ketchum,
the forger, was arraigned this morning before
Justice Hogan, in that magistrate's private
room in the Tombs, where none were ad.
twitted but those specially interested in the
case. Among those present were Messrs.
Charles Graham, John Sedgwick, District At
torney Hall, and half's, dozen Wall street men.
The prisoner asked for an adjournment for a
few days, as the gentleman he expected as
counsel had not yet appeared. Mr. Hall agreed
teen adjournment until Monday next, and the
prisoner was committed to the Tombs till
that time.
rite PrOpontts at Batton.
BOSTON, AllgUtit 25.-The steamship PrOpon w
tiff, with dates' to the 14th Inst., arrived * this
morning. She belongs to Warren bt Co.'s line,
/3 9 C1 Pglicq t 9 2' dolpllig~
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 186
TN TRIAL OP WIZ.
MORE DETAILS OF HOR
RIBLE &OFFERING.
DEAD MEN PUTREFV , ING IN THE VERY
MIDST OF THE LIVING.
The MA Denied Medicine, to Dio beige
it was at last Granted.
MfigOTS,4l.l. SORTS OF VERMIN-DESTROYING
TRE LIVES OF OUR SOLDIERS. •
Vermin in the Food, Filth in the Water;
Milaria in the Air.
INHUMANITY OF WIRZ.'
RE IS ALLEGED TO RAVE swum
PRISONERS DOWN.
MURDER OF MEN WHO HAPPENED PAST
THE "DEAD-LINE" •
More Difficulties between the DOnet
And the Counsel.
`TTHEY WITHDRAW ENTIRELY FROM 'nE
DEFENCE,
WASSITTIVOTON, August 28.aThe Wirz Commis
sion reassembled this morning. The eross.ezN.
amination of Robert H. Kellogg was resumed
by T. Baker. The witnes9• said he entered
the United States service otrthe 11th of March,
leee, and was discharged on the Ist of June,
1865. Q. Were you at any other prison than
Andersonviilel A. I was at Charleston and
Florence. Q. Was the treatment at those
places-materially different Vont that at An
dersonville 7
Judge Advocate Chipman objected.
lifvßaker. I thought my question was a lit
tle out of the way, but that no objection would
be made:
The Judge Advocate. This manner of cross.
examination. will - not be tOleratedc If the
counsel persists, I ask for the enforcement of
the rule • that he reduce his questions to
writing.
Mr. Baker. The intention of my qgtestion
was tcrshow that. the treatment of prisoners
was equally good as that at the other -prisons.
Judge Advocate chipinan. That is a mint of
your defence, but not proper in w cross
examination.
. . .
Mr. Baker. The indictment eldrges Captain
Wirz 'with acting contrary to the laws and
usages of war. This is the gist of the whole
thing. No matter how destitute the prisoners
were, or how much they suffered, if we 'show
nothing was done contrary to the laws• and
usages of war, then this man cannot •be pun
ishedos we think.
Judge Advocate. The question is improper.
There is no evidence as to the treatment in
other prisons.
The Court sustained the objection. •
The cross-examination was resumed and
long continued, during which the witness said,
that unless men tent out to out wood were
strongly guarded, they would overpower the
guard, and would have been fools if they had
not attempted to make their escape. The pro
per guard for a squad of twenty men would be
an armed corporal and six men ;he did not
know of his own knowledge that Captain
WirZ prevented men from going out to oat
wood; he knew that the men dug: a well with
whatever they could get, such as half canteens*
and tin plates, and spoons; the water of the
wells was fair ; there was not room enough to ,
dig all the wells which were needed ; the space
was requirep. for the prisoners ; he • never save.
Captain Wirz order or take away from the•
prisoners anything which eontributedto their
health and comfort; lie thought the- pollee
regulations might have been b. atter ; on one
occasion Captain Wirz did him a kindness ; he
had been in the woods and had left hie knife
there, and Captain Wirz was the means of his
recovering it 5 he did not himself know from
his own observation of any wilful Or iniitiuian
act by Captain Wirz.
Thomas C. Aleock was sworn, and testified
that he was captured and sent to Anderson
vile prison some, part of December, ; on
arriving there he was searched by Captain
IN r irz, the prisoner, whom he now reeOgnized
at the bar, who took front Ilim his belt, con
taining one hundred and fifty dollars - ln gold,
two hundred and eighty dollars in greenbacks,
a jack-knife, a breastpm, and gold ring, and
his pocket-book; these were never returned
to him ; on one occasion a weak man asked
Captain Wirz to let him go out for some fresh
air; Wirz asked what he meant, and turning
round pulled a revolver out of his pocket and
Shot him down, and the man died two or
three hours afterwards; the witness spoke
in condemnation of this act to Wirz, who
said he would put him in the same
place; the witness replied he was not afraid
of it ; Wirz then called a corporal and two
huards, who put upon him a ball and chain ;
e, by gradually working at the ball and chain,
freed himself of the weight and then made his
escape ; the Alan who was shot was named
_Weight, and belonged to the Bth Missouri; the
prisoners would sometimes get water- from the
stream or brook by attaching their vessels to
the end of poleS; while doing so they were
often fired at with shell.
Cross-examined by Mr. Baker.—Where did
you get the SIN in gold? A, I captured it at
Jackson, Mississippi.
Air. Baker. And Captain Wirz captured it
from you. Bad he not a rightto do sot A. No,
[Laughter.(
Mr. Baker. That's your opinion. -
The witness
, on
being further interrogated,
said he found the gold at the root Of a tree in
the woods; a negro showed hi where; the
money was ; he dad not know to Whom it be
longed; the witness was a native of and lived
in Ohio, when he joined a regiment front that
State;the man to whom, he had referred as
havin , been killed by Captain Wirz went up
previouslyto Wirz, saluted the Captain in
the - usual way, and asked that he might go
out of the crowd to got some fresh AV: j.Cap
tain Wirz asked ahrupt what he_ meant • the
num . murmured, when Wirz said, in the...iluteh
language, "Look out!" the Man watt- only a
few paces from [Captain Wirz —face to. face—
when Captain Wirz drew his pistol, and shot
the man, who died soon afterwards. f.rom the.
effects of the wound; the witness 34eulzioed
at the prison two months after the nun Was
shot.
Sergeant Boston Corbet testifleilthat he was
Mettle United States service ; was. captured at
Centreville, V,irginia, and. conveyed to Antler
sonville, where he arrived ill July 5 before he
and his companions entered the stoekade,
having remained some time, they were divid
ed into detachments.; he wais exceedingly
thirsty, and asked a, man. net Capt. Witz's
headquarters for a drink of water; the man
was one of our own prisoners, on his parole of
honor fOr a different Oeeupation, but could not
give me the water;, another man was sick in
the stoekade,And asked the lieutenant of the
squad whether he could not be sent to the
hospital; the officer informed him that no
thing could be done till to-morrow, and that
he must go into the stockade with the others ;
after he entered the stockade he found nine
men of his Own Company, who had been
brought there three months previous; within
two months six of those men died; of the four
teen men who were taken to endersonville
when he was, only two returned alive, and he
one of them ; when he reached there he saw
forts and guns; hemoticed several men near
headquarters in chains, with balls, exposed to
the heat of the sun ; he still bete the marks of
the sun by exposure on his own-shoulders; he
had seen the stocks, but did not remember see
ing any persons in them ,• the 'dead line was a
slight wooden structure three or four feet high,
running twelve or fifteen feet from the stock
ade 5 • the place where the stream entered the
stockade was broken down he bad seen men
shot and killed there' the prison was in it
horrible condition of filth; the swamp on
each side of the stream was so offen
sive and the stench so great that he won
dered every man there Tdid not die; ho
believed it was the cause of the death of many
of our men;
the maggots were a foot deep;.
the soldiers dug up roots, which they dried m
the, sun, anti used for fuel; the sick lingered
around the'swarnp as soldiers lie down to rest
after a march; going to that locality he
would find dead men ; the feet of these were
swollen, ga»grene sores were without ban
dages, sores were filled with maggots and Ries;
men were unable to move, lying in their own
filth ; they generally chose that position, and
would prefer being near the sink ; in one case a
man, he was certam died from lice, which were
as thick as the mans garment itself; the food
was insufficient even when double rations were
served; when the witness was sick within the
stockade no medicine was given to him ;they,
however, gave him some sour meal in water;
our men made a better article, which they
called sour beer • the sick were carried out at
the south gate; in some eases men would die
while waiting to be carried out ; in regard to
moving the dead, four men were assigned to
that duty, and, in return, they were allowed
to bring in w0011_; if they chose to sell it, they
could sell it inside for a dollar the men be.
came so hardened that they would say,
"That's right, trade off a dead man for wood;"
the water passing through the. camp was
filthy, generally not good to drink at
times those who had wells gave him' a drink;
at times they would not, and were so rude
that he would drink the Stream water
rather than be abused' lie had Seen onions
sold for twenty-five, fifty, and seventy-five
cents each ; the effect of the treatment was to
demoralizothe men, and some became idiotic;
the nearer the stockade the clearer the water;
some men would go over the dead line where
it was broken without knowing it and had
they notbeen warned would have been shot;
bounds were kept tlfere to hunt and recapture
those who attempted to escape; prieonere were
allowed to go out ineertain numbers to collect
wood ; the witness told his comrades that the
first time he got out of the stockade he
would try to escape ; he made the at
tempt and was hunted, but not immedi
ately found ; he lay concealed an hour or
tWO, and heard the yelping Of hounds in
the distanee--then nearer and nearer;
they came so close as actually to rub his note ;
they made a circle round him till the hunter
came up; the limiter or soldier said the wit
ness must go with him; the soldier said the
old captain told him to make the dogs tear
him (the witness,) but, baying once been a pri
soner himself, he felt for those who were in
that condition; when he was brought before
Capt. Wirz the latter asked the soldier why he
didn't make the dogs tear him,_ when the sol
dier replied, " I guess the dogs hurt him
enough then ordered the witness to be
taken back to the stockade.
The court took a recess till two elelOek. •
On reassembling the examination of the wit.
ness was rBl)filifitA. The scurvy mks a mull
disease, and some of the men would be obliged
io crawl and others to walk on crul‘ches ; he
thought that in September or October last a
large number of men, two or three hundred,
Were taken froth the stockade to work outside
mi a building said to be designed for a hoc ital;
if the samenumber of men had been employed
in outting wood they might have built com
fortable quarters -men would have-been glad
of a chance to e wood ; men being fed on in
sufficient food and sorghum molasses, they
took sick and died - in front of the building%;
the number was large ; they died in cords.
The Court. What do ou mean by cordal
The witness, That if` they had been piled up
like wood they would have made several
cords.
Cross-examined by Mr. Baker.—The witness
had seen maggots in the food and had himself
washed them off in the stream ; maggots, too,
were in sores and in sneh a way not fit to de-
scribe; the swamp was filled with maggots m
en:it/BO by the filth of Vie men who could.
not reach the sink one htyht while men were
being removed toanother prison one of them
fell down ; the witness heard Captain Wirz
swearing—being night he could not see the
blow but yet knew of the ocenrrenee.
The counsel, Mr. Baker, was several times
interrupted brthe Court., who , objected to his
mode of cross.exaMi»ation. ife declined to
continue the cross-examination.
and
•S. D. Brown, captured at rlymoUt-
taken to Andersonville, testified• that on or
about the 15th of Mity, 1864,1mvingwritten
letter to his parents, and about to take it to
the letter-box, he saw a cripple; with one leg,
'who asked the sentinel to call Captain Wirz;
the Captain came, and the man asked him to
let him go out, the Captain never answered
' him, but turning to the sentinel said, "Shoot
the one-legged - Yankee devil the shot was
fired, and a part of the man's 'head was blown
off, and he died in a few minutes ; the blood
i bounds were,..taken round every . morning,
Captain Wirz riding with them on . hOrSabaCk,
• in company with the keeper) the witness had
seen a man who had been iscOrated by these
dogs ; when be went to Andersonville his
watch and *155 in money was taken from him ;
and for one day the prisoners were 'deprived
of food, until they had arrested' about three
hundred men, who, from starvation, had made
a raid on the supply wagons.
Jacob B, Brown, a brother of the' former wit
ness, and late a prisoner at AndergOliVillei
testified that on the 27th of July, 1861, he saw
Win in the sentry-box when a man came be ,
'yond the dead line to get water ; Wirz ordered ,
'that he be shin down; the sentinel - gred and
;kllediltim, the - bullet taking effect in thehead:
The Witness mentioned another eaSe for a
"similar reason. The ball which was fired took
;effect in the man's breast) he did not sea the
man .die?, but had no doubt the wound was
'fatal ; he had heard men threatened by Capt:
Wirz; the latter said if the men did not fall
!into the - ranks they should be shot down; the
:men accordingly hurried into the ranks: - The
;witness stated eases where the prisoners were
deprived of rations from the Ist to the 4th of
!July, 1864. •
Mr:Baker declined to cross-examine the!two
witnesses last named, having - taken offence at
'the court. Tie said " I desired that my rela
tions should be amicable with the court, but
after what has taken place I think I can be of
no further assistance to the prisoner by re:
malning here any longer, I had hoped the
mass of testimony in my possession would
have-- , ." (The court interrupting him, "Do'
you decline ; what is your purpose I")
Mr. Baker. 1 must state that we 'leave the'
prisoner to himself.
The Court. We don't desire to hear you.
Judge AdrOmite Chipman. I should like to'
knew whether the counsel have abandoned
the case ?-
The Court - We denn understand that Mr. -
Schade has abandoned the case.
Mr. Sebade.• I have tried to stay here as long
as
_possible: ,
The Court. Do you. abandon the easel
Mr. Schade; I folloW the example of my col
league, helieviiig we Cannot do anything more
foi our client.
The Court. Then you willtake your sent. We
understand distinctly that the counsel have
abandoned the case: ,
Mr. Baker. We'donot, but leave him in the
]ends of the court and the Judge Advocate.
The Court. Not another word fromyou; you
are now a mere spectator.
Judge Advocate Chipman. Iwill try to adapt
myself to the interests of the prisoner.
'the Court said: We will now adjourn, if the
Judge Advocate • desires it, to enable him to
take such steps as he may think proper. The
Judge Advocate assented, and at a few minutes
to three o'clock the Court adjourned till, to
morrow.
FORTRESS MONROE.
The Accident to the George Leary—The
104th Penney'yenta Aground.
roIITRESS August :28.—The passell•
gers'on the steamer George Leary, crippled
by collision with the steamer Sea Gull, arrived
here on board of the steamer. James T. Brady
this morning. A meeting of the passengers
yes held 011 the Brady: this morning, before
landing, and, passed-resolutions exonerating
the captain and officers of the Leary from all
blame, and complimenting them for their
coolness and good management in saving the
lives' of the passengers, an& the vessel and
cargo. The cargo has been forwarded to its
destination, and the steamer When to Bslti•
more for repairs, which will be completed in
a few days.
• The steamer Escort, which left Portsmouth
On Thursday evening, with the 101 th Pefinsyl-
Tapia Regiment, ran aground off Orany
in consequence of the light there not having
been lit. Assistance was sent, and the steamer
being floated off, she proceeded on her voyage.
The steamer Wm. P. Clyde arrived here
from Richmond, bound to Charleston, [S. C.
The schooner . Lewis Mulford is being dis.
charged here. She had on board forty-Ave
cannon and three thousand shell—rebel relics
from Richmond.
SOL'THERN RAILROAD ACCIDENT-TWO SOLDIERS
FORTRESS MONROE, August 27.—The railroad
train from Raleigh, N. C.,.when near Peters..
burg yesterday,, ran off the- track and two men
were killed. r The 4th New Hampshire Regi
ment was on board bound- home. We under
stand that none of them were materially in
jured.
Hr.Alarr. or JENS , DA.VIB--SII/P NEWS.
The United States steamer Memphis arrived
to-day from New York; vias Annapolis, having
convoyed to Ihe latter port the United States
steamer Savannah.
The schooner North Paeille, laden with coal,
which wag sunk on the night of the sth inst.,
off SewalPs Point, has been raised by Captain
Lewis, of New York, and was towed to Nor
folk, where she will discharge her coal.
The steamer Baltic arrived from City Point,
with tWO barges, halm with one locomotive
and ears, for Annapolis.
Jell Davis continues well.
NORTH, eAROLINA.
Submissive Resolutions —Good and
Ttniely Adviee to the Yreedmen.
Newmutx, N. C., August 25.—At a meeting of '
magistrates to appoint boards to register and ,
administer amnesty oaths to citizens of Har
nett county resolutiops were adopted acknow—
ledging submission to the national authority;
that the people of North s Carolina desire civil
government re-establiatied as soon as ppssible;
rejoicing that peace has been restored to the
country ; approving the official conduct of
Governor Holden, and reeommemeng Neill
lAeltay as a candidate for delegate to the Con
ventior6
Col. Whittlescy, Assistant Commissioner of
the Freedmen's Bureau at Raleigh, has found
it necessalty to issue a cireular to disabuse the
freedmen of the belief that they are to be pre.
seated with farms by the Government, and
urging them to make contracts for labor, from
the proceeds of which they will he enabled to
purchase farms.
THE CIVIL VB. THE ELLITAIXT LAW.
EICAUFOUT t N. C.,, ~,August 28.—Gov...Golden, of
North Carolina, hal , ing requested Gen. Rimer,
commanding at Raleigh, to remand three citi
zens, arrested by the latter for assaulting a
freedman, to the county in which the offence
was committed, to be tried by civil tribunal,
and calling his attention to the fact that civil
law has been organized in that county, Gen.
Ruger replies that it appeared to him inexpe
dient to comply with the request, for the
reasons among others that it is the duty of the
military topreserve order ; that though magis
trates have been appointed, they do not take
official notice of unlawful violence towards
fl eedmen,. although such acts have been by no
means Unfrequent in the different sections of
the States lie Mee says that of late Several
eases of homicide of freedmen by whites have
been brought to his knowledge, but in no case,
so far as he had learned, was any arrest made
by the magistrates or civil °Ulcers, and no at
tempt bad for investigation. And from his
own observation and information, these acts
of violence are becoming more frequent. He,
therefore, thinks prompt trial and punishment
by military commission the only adoqute
remedy for the evil.
CHINA.
Another Rebellion—Appeal from the
Covernment for Foreign Aid.
NEW Yona Angust N.—The iatest advipe.s
from China are to Jttne 22d. A new rebellion
is spreading rapidly, and the rebels have ad
vanced within a hundred miles of Pekin,
where they occupy a strong position. The an
thorities of resin have applied for British
military.officers to come to their relief. Col.
Bargevine is in custody of the Mandarins, who
refuse to give him up to the demand of the
American Consul.
Murder 444 Concord. Mess,
Yaw YORK, August '2B. In Concord, Massa..
cbusetts, last week, a youug man, named
Michael McMaim's, was found dead on the scat.
fold - of a barn with a bullet wound through his
head. - Byrne IffeDongld the uncle oOfellanus,
Las been arrested on suspieiOn of having per
petrated the deed,
The Mandelphia Corn Exchfinge Com.
mittee.
HAnaisticno, August 28.—The Corn Exchange
Committee, on their way to Chicago, passed
through Harrisburg at quarter after four PM.
today.
Can:Ace, August.43.—Hall it. Robbins> ele
vator, containing about 50,000 bushels of grain,
was destroyed by fire last night. The loss is
about 470,000. The Contents of the building
were fully insured.
Nsw Yong, August - 19.—A fire broke out in
the Sunday Wirier office to-day, doing damage
to the amount of $6OO. The paper warehouse
of 3. can Winkle, in the same building, was
damaged by water.
General Howard.
CatoAeo, August 27.—General Howard. ad•
dressed a large concourse of eitizens at Bryan
Han lest night, in behalf of the Freednutnu ,
Aid Commb3Bloll. He DAVOS to-morrow for
WaehiugtQUL,
EUROPE.
THE' CHOLERA AND THE " CATTLE
PLAGUE" SPREADING.
FRIGHTFOL. RAVAGES OF THE FORMER
AT ANCONA.
THE TOWS DESERTED AND THE
PEOPLE AFFRIGHTED.
Extreme Virulence of the Malady-1U Visi
tation Almost Always Death%
STRICT QUARANTINE: INAUGURATED ON
- THE FRENCH COAST.
SAFE ARIIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN
AT CROOKHAVEN.
!mother Telegraphic Cable-on the Coast
of France.
GRAND NAVAL CONCENTRATION
AT CHERBOURG, &es
The North Amerinam, from Liverpool on the
.17th, by the way of Londonderry on the 18th,
passed Father Point yesterday morning. Her
news is one day lattit than by the City of
Niraehington. The NOTtil American is-bound
for Quebec.
The Inman steamer 'City of Wathington,
:Captain Brooks, from Liverpool the 16th in_
l atent and Queenstown the 17th, 'arrived at
;Few York early yesterday morning.
The Hann, from Bremen and Southampton,
also arrived at New York yesterday morning.
Tice steamer Propontis, of 'Warren a Co.'s
line,. arrived at Bosten yesterday morning,
having left Liverpool on the 14th instant.
The steamer Pennsylvania, of the National
lime, left Liverpool for New York simulta- .
imously with the City of Washington. The re,:
*Avian arrived at Greencastle at 4 A. M., and
reached Liverpool at 9.30 P. M. on the 14th
August. The City of Manchester arrived at
Queenstown on the morning of the 14th, and at
Liverpool on the 15th.
The City of London passed CrookhaVenAbout
ten o'clock on the morning of the 15th, and ar
rived at Liverpool shortly before noon on the
16thAtigust. A telegram to Queenstown, dated
August 17th, says that the Great Eastern
arrived' at ' Crookhaven on that morn lag.
The previous report by the Terrible -of
the 'breaking of the cable. on the 2d
and the subsequent attempts at grap
pling are confirmed. The Great Eastern be
haved in the most admirable manner, and will
sail from Crookhaven to Sheerness. A fort
night had expired after the Gable signals lead
ceased and before the Great Eastern had ar
rived.- The. public . anxiety in England had
greatlytinereased. The impression was very
general that the Great Eastern must have met
with am accident to her machinery, although
some believed -that she had gehe on to Now.
foundlandi
The steward of the American ship Calhoun,
named Charles Gena, while lying hi the river
Mersey, outward bound to New York, poisoned
himself on the morning of the 14th. The body
was taken ashore and an inquest held upon it,
the verdict being " temporary insanity."
The Chafers( and Its Ravages—The
Cattle Plague.
The cholera continued its ravages at Ancona.
lip to the-12th instant the number of deaths
that occurred from it reached seven hundred.
and eighty-one. The cholera had increased in
intensity at Constantinople.- The total num
ber of deaths on the 12th reached three hun
dred and eighty-four. Business was generally
suspended.
A letter from Paris says : The news from
Ancona concerning the cholera is frightful,
but the authorities vie with each other in the
zeal and self-sacrifice with which they con
front the danger. In various otherplacesisola
lated cases have occurred, but they are all of
persons who had fled from Ancona. In Flo
rence there has never been less illness of any
kind than-of late. Amusement is the Order of
the day; special trains take thousands of per
sons to enjoy sea bathing at Leghorn and
Spezzia. Politics are dead for the moment,
and more interest is taken in the great com
mercial enterprises now upon the tapis, and
which are of real importance. The harvest is
generally abundant{ and Of Oil and wine, espe
cially, much will be made, there haviug been
a great diminution in the disease.
Another account says : The panic in Ancona
is terrible, and more than a third of the popu
lation have Sed from the city. ;Most of the
shops - were 'Abut, and great miseryexists
among the surviving families of the vic
tims; thp women and children, who were
left widows and orphans. A committee has
been hirmed, and had made a strong ap
peal to public charity. The Government has
placed considerable sums at the disposal
of the Ancona municipality: . A paragraph
in (the official gazette appealed to the
the medical profession, and asked for volun
teers tO assist the over-worked physicians of
Ancona, Since this intelligence reached us,
however, the telegraph has informed us of a
considerable dimunition in the number of
cases. On the 6th there were twohundred and
seven, and no less than one hundred and two
deaths. According to a telegram of the 10th,
from Ancona, received yesterday, the last
bulletin.gave ninety-two eases and sixty.two
deaths. Vile large proportion of deaths in
cases is striking, and seems to indicate either
great virulence of the malady, or a want of
adequate means, or of a proper system of Com
batting it. On the other hand, it is highly
satisfactory to remark that it does not seem to
extend itself beyond the city where it first ap
peared.
The Marseilles papers state that on the hp
iearsnee of the cholera in Egypt, the munici
pal authorities in Marseilles desired to place
all ships entering that port from the Levant
in quarantine. For that purpose they applied
to o the do Board of Health in Paris for permission
SO, but their application was refused.
They add that as yet the inhabitants of Mar
sallies have not suilbred from cholera,although
no quarantine has been enforced.
The " cattle plague' , continued a prominent
topic in the English journals. The disease
continued its ravages, and was spreading in,
various parts of thekingdom. It was disputed
that the disease had been introducedby foreign
cattle, and evidence was adduced to shoW that
it was generated in England.
At Barcelona, Spain, something like a panic
was prevailing, and people were quitting the
city to avoid the cholera.
The Sicilian authorities have received per
-mission to subject to quarantine all vessels
arriving from the ports of the Italian penin
sula.
No case of cholera had occurred at Rome.
THE QUINTUPLE MURDERER. INSANE—DEFENCE OP
THE CICIMINA.L
Southey, alias Forwood, who murdered three
children at London, and his wife and daughter
at Ramsgate, iS On trial at the latter place.
Ile declares that he committed the terrible
deeds out of kindness to his victims. He also
said that he had carried the revolver
about with him' for several days with the
whole of the - chambers loaded, -and that
he was within a yard or two of Lord
more than once, having made up his mind
to shoot him. He appears fully to have
made up his mind for the worst, and ex
pressed great anxiety to be tried in London, as
his defence will be very long on account of the
documents he bad to bring forward showing
the acts of those who had driven him to ruin.
Ile wants no efforts to be made on his 'behalf,
as be does not wish his life to be saved. His
only desire is that he should be set right with
the public. He very earnestly repudiates any
notion of his madness, or that his acts have
proceeded from any othereause than the great
wrong he Conceives himself to have suffered.
The following telegram he Sent to aperson
with whom he was formerly acquainted::
"Do not judge. To judge at present is to
misjudge. Do not condemn."
tin exciting scene took.place in the et:flirt
room when he was brought out for the initial
hearing. When he came, in he held in his
hand a large roll of papers containing his
"notes for the Ramsgate bench," They are
couched in the most inflated style, and con
sist, in fact, of queries,.as old as the law of
England—social justice, self-defence, penal
ties for acts induced by others' wrong doing,
the want of Government precautionary mea
sures against private distress and troubles, ac.
lie writes! ‘` Is there none who can read what
must be the fOrfnatiou of a mind which could,
under its own strong sense of right, offer lip for
theirs and the public good, the lives of others
for whom he had lived and faithfully strip&
gled through many years of the bitterest suf
ferings, whose love and right and deeply-tried
aireetion for them bad been the only support
which enabled him to endure and battle for
them? How easy, after all, to commit Grime
and evade the hell. Weep for the living,one
-poor dear soul must suffer,mine is past. What
is it to die? The worthiest have died as igno
minious a death as I shall, and have lived
honored and beloved in the hearts and souls
Of men for hundreds of-years after. If I am •
unjustly eoudemned, I shall not be the first
victim of injustice." He urges by his words
that the government should give him means
to prove his innocence, and hopes that
some one organ of the public press would
i?rint all he feels conscientiously to be
for the elucidation of his case, which
he has already seen in the newspapers has
been prejudged, and his whole past career
made known to the world with more or less of
truth. He dilates much on the power of the
press for good or for evil, and states that
grievous wrong was done him in the report of
the well-known case in which Mrs. White was
concerned with a certain noble earl, whose
power, with an income of £300,000 a year, none
could oppose with success. On trial by jury
he puts - forth that, as a man should be tried
by his equals they should bo his equals in
justicehough; feeling, and love of truth and
—who have been trained in the same
schOol of bitterness, injustice, and wrong.
After referring to many public Men, he says
that one (whom he names) "has done good
service—the only man I know who could really
understand and rightly judge my 0013dUcit , "
who could by helping me to unfold the truth,
do a service to society that would render his
name revered—immortal." Such are a few Of
the ideas which the accused wished to bring
before the Ramsgate Bench, had they al.
lowed it,
FRANCE.
The usual file day of the Emperor was cele
brated in Paris, on the 15th of August in the
customary manner, and business on theßourse
was suspended.
The English Channel fleet consisting of
alKon qyzaa Towels, inaudiag tyou.cjada
THREE CENTS.
and wooden frigates, arrived at Cherbourg on
the 14th inst.,and was appointed the place of
honor in the harbor, The Lords of ttm Ad.
Oliraity and many other officials accompanied
the fleet. Cherbourg wee crowded with YlftitOrgt
and brilliant ,Maa were to take place. From
Cherbourg the fleet would proceed to Brest,
and at the end of Augrult,the.Freneh Squadron)
would pay a return visit to the English at'
Portsmouth.
A later despatch from Cherbour says: The
French naval squadron of iron-clads, known as
the Ocean Division, is already at Cherbourg,
formed in a single line, the Magenta heading
it. At the other extremity of the line is the
Heroine, an ironclad frigate; lately come from
L'Orient. The place of honor was reserved for
the Viiglish squadron, and buOYs are laid down
to Math the place of each vessel e oraposing it.
The Bnglish. Alps ate to enter by the west
ern passage, and. will be salated.by the ar
tillery.. of the forts and the French ves
sels. Theirentrance and the reception given
them are expected to , form at magnificent
spectacle. There will also be a• splendid
display' of lroworict which have been manu
factured. in Paris for the ateaaiett„ , and will
be let off from pontoons moored in, the road
stead, so tbateverybody on shore will:have an
excellent view. The whole of the vessels com
posing the Channel squadron sailed for Cher
bourg on Sunday evening. Time don was
divided into two divisions. It is understood
that the Preficltfleet Will arrive 4t Frypithead
on the 28th instant, and their Stay will extend
to September 2; during which time the nag
officers will be entertained on board the 0s-
borne by the Duke Of Somerset. A revlevr of
the troops will take place on Southsea Com
mon, on the evening of which day the French
officers will be entertained at a banquet on a
grand scale, to be followed by a ball from the
Mayor and Town Council.
SPAIN AND ITA.LY.
The following letter addressed to the Ctenpi-.
doglio, a new paper published at Genoa, con
tains the sentiments of General Garibaldi
7 ; upon the rumored renunciation of Rome as
the capital of Italy:
CAPRIIRA, ARgagt 1805.
"Caro Lueisni: Roma! arinpidoglio,' These
names echo the soul; the' heroism, the great
ness, the sin of Italy, which sin the people who
prefer_ living in the forests•have never for
given us ; we have eonquered.thein,- it is true,
but have we ethicatecl them?
" Rome Renunciation of Romer Who re
nounCeS his Mother, his betrothed,. morality;
decency? Renounce Rome, and WI into
prostitution, where those who' are - jmilous of
youfgast and future, grandeur wish tosee you.
Were there no Roman history- wherein we
learned that we possessed a common' country,
if, as a , youth,l had not wandered among the
ruins of the giant of earthly' grandeur, I should
not 'know that lam an Italian: And where is
and what is this Italy withoutßome gait au
animal li've without a heart, or with amanker
ed heart 1 then, to the Campitleglio
" The tar of her hilts alone can temper the
spirit of this people, and guide it lb the oori
ens and inunanitatian goal which rtovidence
has set before it. Let it emerge from the foul
cesspool *herein selfiShiloBB, )ying, and , fear
have plunked it then Italy can lift 'her broW
among her stater nations.
"Believe me, in affection, yours, -
- G. Gartraaram'T
The Bishop of Carthagena had protested
against the recognition of Italy by-Spain; and
his manifesto -0 published in the Clerical
Journal of Madrid.
Senor Ulloa, the Turin
Ainilaasador to
Italy, had arrived at and had a 'private'
audience of the King. The official reception
would shortly take place at Florence.
A Toulon letter to the London Tiffin . says: -
The steamer Dix Deeembre has just left Tou
lon with forty thOlUdild metres of electric
cable, which, with the same quantity already
forwarded to Brest, will be laid down 'to es.
tablish communications between the French
ports on the Atlantic. The submersion will
begin from Rochefort,and run up the coaseto
LlOrient, Brest, and Cherbourg.
The Italian transport Oregon has also taken ,
en beard at Toulon forty thousand metres of
cable, to be submerged between Welly ,and,
Sardinia. This line starting from Marsala,
will pass by the Isle`of Maritino, and thence
across the Straits of Bonifacio to Corsica, thus
establishing a double communication between
France and Algeria, as far as the central point ,
of Manilla: A cable is now being manufac
tured at Toulon to be laid dotit between Cape
Corsica and Leghorn.
AUSTRIA; PRIIINNIA, AND RITSSIA:.
It was reported that the negotiations be
tween Austria and Prussia relative to the
seldestrig-liolstein question,- promised satis
factory results, cud such being the ease, it was
expected that an interview between the Et&
neror of Austria and the King of Prussia_
would take place at Salzburg, on or about the
l9th of August. The meeting* was understood
to depend upon the result of the negotiatiOns
then in progress.
A tel of the 115th from Gastein, where
the neTtiations were taking place, says that
Count dome was to leave there that day, and
it was statedithat an' understanding had been
brought about between the two Governments.
An Imperial decree had been issued by the
Czar of Russia, ordering the reduction of the
army from the semi-warlike to the ordinary
Fes ce footing. Two divisions of the guards,
twenty-two divisions of infantry, two brigades
of artillery, and ten other divisions, will be
reduced from the ordinary peace footing to
the cadres of their respective regiments. Two
divisions of cavalry are to be reduced from
sixteen to fifteen sections, and two other divi
sions are to be maintained on the fall peace
footing,
AUSTRALIA.
Itainounne, June 25.—New Zealand advices
announce that William Thompson surrendered
on the 25th May, and war was considered at
au end.
au,
generally at Mell?ourne very dull.
The Fiery Star had lleen destroyed by floe.
The steamer City of Dunedin was wrecked
in Cook's Straits; and all hands were lost.
The mails from Calcutta to July Bth /long
Kong to June 25th, &c., are to hand. The de
tail* present no new features of interest.
Financial and Icallnnercial.
LONDON MONEY MARKET, — The fun& don
tinned dull. Consols on the 15th were weak. and
closed at SiNE 6 3.4. The unfavorable weather for the
harvest added to the depression, as a deficiency
would of course occasion an export of gold to pay
for breadstuffs. The demand for money had
slightly increased. American securities were dull
and drooping.
LIVERPOOL, Aug.l6.—Corrok—The sales of Mon
day and Tuesday add ++p 15,000 hales, Including 5,500
for speculation and export. The market has neon
Irregular. and generally prices are rather easier.
To-day the market Is a shade steadier—probable
sales 7.000 bales.
TRADE AT MANCHESTER. —Yesterday was
very quiet, and last week's prices were hardly main
tained.
BilEAPSTUFF6.—Theweathereoutintied unsettled,
and heavy rains have interfered With harvest ope
rations. Diessrs. Richardson, bpenco Sc Co., Wake.
field, Nash & Co., anti others report; Flour Men
and Id per barrel dearer. Wheat in speculative
demand, and prices again 2.103 d per eental dearer.
Winter red, es 3do9s 9d ; white, 10egSlOs 3d. Corn
firm, and prices rather in favor of sellers. Mixed,
Sd@a2s '43 4801 s.
rnovisioNs.—filessrs. Bigland Athya & Co., and
Cordon, Tinto COi report Bedew' pork firm and
tending upward Rayon quieter, but ilr illy held for
fully last week's rates; Lard continues steady at 808
forline; Tallow in good demand at Atli rates; Cheese
steady; Butter 1 en.is upward.
PfiOnut:F..—Ashes quiet, pots 275t27s 3d• pearls
als. Sugars dull. Coffee quiet but sady. 'Rice in
good demand, but the firmness of holders checks
business. Bark—sales of philadelphla at 6s 9d. Lin
seed Oil 32s eda3as. Nothing of moment doing in
Rosin or Spirits of Turpentine. Petroleum un
changed.
Late r o 3EARKETS.—Wheat firm, and again 2s r$
quart dearer. Flour 6d Vbbi higher. Sugars
quiet; refined dull. Coffee steady. Tea in limited
demand at former rates. Rice rather dearer. Tal
ow quiet.
THE LATEST.
LONDON, August 17.--Cousela eland at 893AG)8935
ihr money,
AMERICAN STOCKS.—Five-twenties, 68@fi814;
Illinois Central shares, 77N078; Erie shares, 53, ex
dividend.
LivinrooL, August 17.—Cotton sales to-day 16,000
hales, including 6.000 bates to speculators and ex
porters. The market closed easier and prices weak.
Eveadstuirs are driller, the weather being unfit.
vorable for the crops.
Provisions are firm.
The Latest by the North American.
The following is the, latest by the North
_. merican
LIVRRPOOL, Atigliat l S — py telegraph to Lon
donderryl—The steemabt Seotlat frOM , NOW
York, arrived to-day,
The Atlantic cable prospects are generally
regarded as hopeful, the quotation of shares
baying improved three-quarters per- cent.
Farther proceedings. will be determined at
Meetings of the various boards on the 21st in-
Stant. It is immediateages. will be
made for the renewal of efforts to
recover the cable.
LivxitrOor,, August 18.—Cotton—Sales of the
week, 50,000 bales; Including 3,100 bales to specu
lators, and 14,000 bales to importers. The market
has been dull, with a decline of IRgild 181h,on Ame
rican, and 11@td on other descripthins, consequent
upon other Mende, The sales to-day. (Friday)
were 7,000 bales. the market elosing flat, with little
Inquiry, and prices weak. The authorized quota
tions arc:
Middling Orleans 181fd•
Middlings Uplands and Texas
Ordinary do do. 1510.
Stock of cotton in port 470,000 bales, Including 28,-
800 bates of American,
Brendstuffs are dull, with a downward teluleavy•
The weather has improved, and is more favorable
for the crops.
Provisions are firm.
LONDON, August 18.—Consols closed at 8934(gi89;14
for money.
AMERICAN STOCKS.—United. States lieetwen
ties 08, 111inols Central shares 48, Eric shares 51.
The weekly return of the Rank of England shows
decrease in bullion of -0.-13,000-
Markets by Telegraph.
BALTIHOES, August 28.—Flour dull' Howard
street superfine, 48. Wheat has a declining'
tendency, in consequence of large receipts;
prices are Sc. lower. Corn dull ; white firm at
95c. Oats active at 48c. Provisions steady.
Whisky flrmat $2.21 1 ,%.
CINCINNATI, August 28.—Flour and Wheat
dull, without much demand. Whisky firm
and in good demand at $2.20.
ST. Loris, August 28.—Cotton: The receipts
today amount to 717 bales ; the market is
quiet, with sales at iQC for middlings. Flour is
quoted at 40@l1 for doable ektrit. Wheat 80118
at *1.25@2 for common to prime fall, and 82,19
@2.40 for choice fall stock. Corn and Oats are
unchanged. Tobacco is firmer, but unchanged.
Whisky unchanged.
CHICAGO. August 28.—Flour advanced 106311 c,
closing firm at $7,40438,4 0 for fair to ;choice
spring extra. Wheat opened firm, selling at
144 c, closing quiet at 139@140c for No. 1, and
1301330 for N 0.2, closing at inside prices. Com
quiet at 72c for No. 1, and TX for No. 2. Oats
unchanged. Provisions unchanged. High
wines quiet at $2,17 1 ,46h2.18. Freights, 90 on
wheat, and WI On corn to Buffalo.
Receipts, tPlipments,
Flour, barrels . 3 , 000
Wheat, bushels 29,000 65,000
Corn, bushel. 199,000 163,000
Oats, bushels 43,000 98,000
Dittwauxsr, August 28.—Flour but firm.
Wheat unsettled at 140@142e. Freights nomi
nal.
Receipts. HillptliGlitEl.
Flour, barrels 700 1100
Wheat, bushels 40,000' 41,000
NEW YORK CITY.
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series 00,!4:
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SKIP '101W6..
Below, ship BID Grande, from Cardiff; Prince
Albert, from hamburg ; bark Atalanta, from
Bremen.
Spoken off Nantucket, on the 22(1,bark Queen
of ScOta, from Liverpoo l for Philadelphia.
The Health of tleveettoe Breaith.
CLuirxralru, August SO.—Governor Brough ie
much worse to-day, and there is no hope of his
recovery, De U 1 may %VAC Olt ON' sweat.
rrtir VPAR, PRESS.
(PUBLISHED W EEKLY.)
Tnu. WAR Pitms will to !n gubscribere bf
mstl (rPr a:111111h to advance,) aL 412 50
Fh-^ cevies 10 Off
TL uvvpicH 2,0 Op
Lulu, , litbk. than Ten will be charged at the Name
rate, 63.00 per copy.
The 1)/07,, , T, mnat o lumps accompany the order, and
in nn i11.41,10 , q r. 3 1, Wee 0,7018 be &rioted fronts as
fiwy criord nian than the cost of pawn
Aar ro,Animit,ere art retwcated tto act a &gent%
for Tux Wan pii,Vits,
,gam To the getter up of the Club of ten or twentr,
an extra copy of the po.per will he given.
STATE ITEMS.
—A few days since some of the students of
Wa vnesburg College, Orcons county, out of A
of mini/J. o f, broke open the college
build 'ug, and drove therein edit cows, plitabg
one i n the chapel. The Faculty, att er an in .
vestigat. 4-)//ascertained two of the guilty par.
ties and a ximiled them.
Th e smocracy of Venting° county, dread.
la g defeat Si 'it October, will place no candidate
iii the held ,fOr the Legielattire, and it is said
will support ,Walter R. JohnsAniltor of the OIL
City Register, N+°llo will be an independent can.
dilate, backed, 1 )y the oil interest.
—The Iturgeko of Kittanning has issued a
prourhanadun tcl.l ling upon the eitigettS of that
borough to clew - Lee the streets, alleys, and
.sewers; in order Go preventepidemic. An ex
ample whirl] we will be followed ail over
the State...
ADDimation Mill be made tothe next, court
of Venango etirtotty for the ineorporaVon dr
Laytonia, opposite Oil City, into' a borough,
passessesthe a neocauarY qualifications."
—.V.enango City is the name of a new town
at the mouth of Pithole, cn the river. Itspros.
peels awe said to be iftWerleff.
HOME ITEMS.
A st i lt istieian makes up the - folti , wing /Mike
itst of huge' robberies :
_ .
charieß whidsor, MercantileJll27s,oo.
Alfred Towt - wenc?, New Baron Sr.vingif
Bank.. ~, ... 1i0,0041
Smith J..F..a*ttnan, produce brokatt.... diMoDuCt
Remy B..Trnkins, Phoenix Bank 800,000
P. R. Ittumfore', stock broker- . MOM
Edward B. Kercbunn banker •' .
4,07.00,000
Unknown, eaktder , WO,OOO
Tetal,••"o
A gentlemm I who recently arrived at St.
Louis, from _Dew ver, says he passed and met
three thousand wagons , on the groat through,
fare, travelling :along 'without moleStatiou.
All the wagons pa. 98Cd belonged to and' were
11116 d with roturft,lng Men - Cana gold hunters,
who were satisfied with their trip out there.
No hostile Indians were' seen on the road.
They are all reportet 1 to lie 'north of the Iforth
Platte River.
—The Cincinnati Chief - of Police has con
trived a wiry Of receillring stcien dogs , which
is at least ingenious. tie' adrertieoo ler 4Mt
dog; the stolen pup is brought ? but the Chief
does not recognize the animal, On going out
the real owner claims hit 3 P.70014;314bUt he has
not offered any reward it imieli; and does not
pay any.
in a cemetery in Mason, Gonn,; ie a family`
lot in which are seven g; raves' arranged in a..
circle. Six stones commit wrath six deceased
wives of 1) S.—, whib e the seventh and
more stately slab bears the , simple but affect
ing inscription, 4, Our Husby act."
The Mayor of Indianapt die alltifdlitel that
there are fifteen hundred d. riulting houses in
that city, and he has notiff ed them ail that
hereafter he will rigidly eni 'orcs' the law re
quiring them to , close their t 1007.11 M Sunday.
A man before the Por tlar.d MUllteiDet
Court a deg or two sine° pal 11 h[3 l /ne with a
counterfeit five dollar note . This is pro
nounceil the most impudent 01)eratfori Of the
season.
—An arrangement for taking mail bagsfrons
stations while trains are movie g at full speed
pas been invented by a mail ag ent on the Chi-
cago and Not-OW/Morn Mtilral 6d, :TUMPP9I4
trials prove it a success.
It is stated that John Mitch el is sick, and
that he has applied to the War U apartment to
be allbwed daily out-door exert :Ise, like ilfr,
Davis, his fellow boarder at Fort revs Monroe.
The number of deaths report ad in the pa
pers, throughout the country, no" W-a-dayS, ex•
eeed the marriages in the propOrt ton of 'IWO to
one.
In the dining-room of the prii eclpal hetet
of Nantucket is , posted a notice GUOilta will
please so arrange themselves as to present
festive appearance. ,,
ltr. Hackett' has raised $20,00 0, the SUat
needed, for the Shakspeare minuet ent in Cen
tral Park, Desigte NO be received, before the
first of Novetuber.
The villain who seeks to wreneEt General
Grant's arm off made another atteimpt at El
gin, and was punched severely la th e head by
Colonel Babcock.
Prentice bayB the first lesson s busLucow
man Fhoulcl learn is the value of minters' ink.
A Man in Baltimore 'WU rats Over and
killed by a hearse.
—Over seventeen thousand 'emigrantS have
arrived in New York since August Ist.
The deaths in New York average six hurtg
area per week,
The Scientific American completes its twen ,
tieth year on the 28th inst.
Only fifty out of a thousand post•offieee in.
Tennessee are yet reopened.
We had no frauds yesterday, and but two
murders and one - railway glatighter last night.
—New York Gorrespondence.
Wheatley, the actor, reports an Income of
$29,1343.
--Ile has been struck in Alabama,
The gypaikt are Info Sting Maine.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The Prince of Wales' yacht is most magnifl
eently decorated and arranged. The saloon,
or centre COMPOrilllentf is fitted with Spanish
mahogany, walnut tree, and bird-eye maple_
It has a balance table, and there are book
cases, wine-lockers, cupboard for decanters,
wine-glasses, &c. The fireplace has a hand
some marble chimney-piece, with mirror
above. The ladies' cabin aft is superbly fitted
with mirror,
conches, and spring CUSIIIO4I3
covered with crimson silk, marble washstand * ,
and a salt-water bath below the door, The:
saloon, ladies , and captain's cabins, have all
Brussels carpets, and red silk curtains are
fitted for the skylights in the saloon and
ladieb , cabin. The 111111(11ei dlul finger-plated
,
on the doors are of amber. All the furnitura
is French polished. The yacht is cutter build
is thirty-six tons, and is called the "Daginar." l
The story is told of a recently deceased
Farisian that, perceiving one day, after a
heavy fail of rate, a very well.dressed young
woman standing at the edge of the side pave.
moat of the Boulevard, and evidently muoh
perplexed as to the best method of traversing
the sea of mud before her, he gallantly ad.
vaned, took her up in his arms and carried
her across dryshod, The lady made no objec
tion to the mode of transit, but, on being fiB.
down, expressed her gratitude as follows
"Sir, you are an insoleMdellow I" Thereupon,
Bouchet immediately repaired the wrong
by again transporting her, with the same pre-•
cautions, to the very spot where lle hfid
met her, and took his leave with a profound
salutation.
It is said that Captain Patten Saunders, a
Russian gentleman, who is engaged in Eng
laml for his government in arranging the plan
f or an overland Asiatic line of telegMPll
America, wen one thousand pounds in beta .
that lie has made about the Atlantic telegraph.
His bet was four hundred pounds to one thou—,
sand pounds that within two months the en
tire stoppage of messages by the cable would
occur for at least twenty-four hours. Ilia hick
began when he made the bet,
A singular will was that of the steward of
the Duke of Buceleuch, who recently died pos.
sessed of thirty thousand pounds, and,left his
whole property to his employer, giving no.
thing at all to his wife. The Duke, Wh9 was
already very wealthy, has been' gracious
enough to give the steward's widow au anritti.
ty of five hundred pounds a year.
A Prussian soldier was taken., ill nine
months ago, end found shelter and nursing in
an Austrian hospital, The expense of easing
for him was about seven dollars, ,and in relis
tion to the settlement of the aceoTnt the two
governments have had a yolumAlious corms.
penitence only just completed.
The Rnglisli Mechanics' latigaZlllO Qayg
that a specification "has recently been filed-
at the Patent Office for improvements in boil,
ing eggs. This was shortly afterwards follow
ed by a patent for a machine for removing the
tops from eggs previous to eating them.
The retnras,.up tonal let or Allgust, show.
that the attendance at the Dublin Exhibition
since the opening has amounted to three hun
dred thousand, The buildings and the gardens.
are now completed, anti appear in all the beau
ty of freshness. • ,
—A man has just taken out a patent for
luminous hats.. They wonld, he Says, preserve
the wearers from being run over uy oath sit
night; and Vouhl,,to some extent, enable a -
saving in the.lighting.of streets witltgas to be
effected.—Latigen Pupe'.
The Winuelt e m ployed in the fancy shops
of Paris have aadrebsed a realign ,to tart
masters to be reliovea of the necessity of serv..
ing in the shops on Sunday.
A new degree—that ot-"Dostor of Litera
ture"-tins been instituted by the Senate of,
the u n iversity of London, with the approval
of the cover/Mont
The English think they, ium,te.
neatly tbe church of Boehm& - the body of the
youthfuLdaughter of the Banish Ring Canute. •
A notorious brigand,,Caruso, was caught
in the streets of itonie,,in the disguise of a,
cigar peddler.
The Brazilian navy used Whithworthra
guns in the late contest, and the garagtutyanu
the Blakely.
The seientille.atone of the, Cattle murrale
in England is pr sumonia pseecum epizootic%
typhosa.
The Viabrs* of Egypt is P/iXiging Ida pri.
veto property,. to raisetionsy, in London,
Tennyson has made liftY.llve thousand dol.
lam by his h'uoeh Arden.,
The duty on ball' powder amounted, last
year, to AIM.— EN*Sish /Paper.
dowager Countess of Slinftesburig Ned
at the age of ninetpone years.
Six thousand more French soldiers are to
be sent to Mexico.,
A child with throe tongues lum been born
in sootls ad
--Mr. wiwins will oon lannohhis olg%r ship
in London.
/40900 b alziging iri Vertin.
~ , vozo,oeo