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"THE GREAT HAVE FALLEN FROM
US ONE BY ONE."
BY R. STOCKETT MATHEWS
No great men in a land of arts !
No statesmen in the midst of law !
It cannot be; there must be hearts
Which still hold History in awe !
If recreant to their holy trust,
And deaf to lofty calls of fame,
Some voice would speak from saintly dust,
And wake them to their country's shame!
Our own—above all prize supreme,
A freedom won by common blood !
The patriot's fact—the poet's dream'---
The highest reach of human good !
A nation in the largest light,
Whose codes of earth and heaven blend,
To sanctity the ruler's might,
And make the law the poor man's friend !
She must own some one yet unheard,
Whose will may bid the tempest "Cease,"
To speak some just, commanding word,
Fraught with the very balm of peace !
Some earnest mind, as fair, as broad,
As ever shaped the ages past,
Strong by communing oft With God,
And in his mould of wisdom cast !
Some man, undwarfed by selfish life,
Born from the•travail of the times,
Alien to mean, belittling strife,
And pure from party's nameless crimes—
Whose heart recoils from small intrigue,
Nor seeks applauses of the hour,
Who'll dare bring right and truth in league,
With all the enginery of power.
Is there not one, whose large eyes scan
The perils of the madman's game,
Who'll dare to work for future man,
And leave his recompense to Fame 7
Who'll stand a PentroT,hrave, and grand,
Self-poised, the maker of his fate,
And thunder through the reeling land,
THE UNION IS THE ONLY STATE
—Baltimore American.
Elisatincous gealfing.
Infirmities of the Great.
Handel, Milton, and Deltic: were blind ;
Lucretius, Tasso, Swift, Cowper, Rosseru,
ana Chatterton, are melancholy cases of
insanity.
Richelieu had occasional attacks of in
sanity, in which he fancied himself a horse;
he would prance around the billiard table,
neighing, kicking out his servants,• and
making a great noise, until, exhausted by
fatigue, he suffered himself to be put to
bed and well covered. On awaking, he
remembered nothing that had passed.
Shelly had hallucinations. Benardin
St. Pierre, while writing one of his works
• was 'attacked by a strange illness.'—
Lights flashed before his eyes; objects
appeared double and in motion ; he imag
ined all the passers by to be his enemies.—
Heine died of a chronic disease of the spine.
Metastatio early suffered from nervous
affections.
MeHere was liable to convulsions.—
Paganini was cataleptic at tour years old.
Mozart died of water on the brain.—
Beethoven was btzatre, irritable, hypo
chondriacal. Doninzetti died in an asy
lum. Chatterton and Gilbert committed
suicide. Chateaubriand was troubled with
suicidal thoughts ; and George Sand con
fesses to the same. Sophocles was accus
ed of imbecility by his son, hut this was
after he was eighty. Pope was deformed,
and, according to Atterbury, he had
mensa curvy in eurpore curvo. He
believed that he once saw an arm ;fro-
jetting from the wall of his room.
Cromwell had fits of hypochondria.—
Dr. Fiancis was unequivocally insane.—
Dr. Johnston was hypochondriacal, and de
clared that he once heard his mother call
to him 'Samuel !' when she was many
miles distant. Rosseau was certainly in-
sane. St. Simon is said to have commit
ted suicide under circumstances indica
ting insanity. Fourier passed his lite in a
continual hallucination. Carden, Swe
denborg, Lavater, Zimmermann, Mahom
et, Van Helmont, Loyola, St. Francis
Xavier, St. Dominic, all had visions. Even
Luthur had his hallucinations ; Satan fre
quently appeared, not only to have ink
stands thrown at his sophistical head, but
p 9 get into the reformer's bed and lie be
side him. Jeanne D'Arc gloried in her
celestial .visions.
A Romantic Adventure.
A very romantic adventure is related in
the New York papers. A young girl of
thirteen years, of respectable parentage in
the city of Dublin, Ireland, fell in love
with a ycuth of seventeen, of the same
place. lie came to America in the capac
ity of a ship carpenter. She followed, in
search of him. Her subsequent history is
thus told in the New York Journal of Com
merce of : Saturday : She shipped
as cabin boy on board of a vessel
at Liverpool, and made several voyages
it. that capacity. After spending two
years in this way, she shipped as a deck
hand cm hoard the ship Resolute, in
which vessel she made ur.r last voyage, but
had never succeeded in finding her lover.
Daring these three years her sex was not
discovered, and probably would not have
been for some time hence, nad she not re
fused to treat, the second tittle, a party of
sailors with whom she was drinking at the
Water Street Saloon on ThursOsirAssen
fag. One of these men becomin g angry
k her retasal, struck her in tte breast, and
. - inmenqately suspected bet of beings fs.
ECZI
male. He accused her of being such, and
he, as well as some of the others, express
ed their determination to ascertain whether
or not the suspicion was correct. She
screamed for help, and a policeman came
in and hearing the story, took her to the
station house, where she made the above
narrative. Yesterday morning she was
brought before Justice Kelly, who commit
ted her for the present to the care of Miss
Foster, matron of the City Prison. The
girl is quite intelligent, and, strange as it
may seem, exhibits evidence of refinement.
She states that she has no relatives in this
country,"
A Melancholy End
A young man named Pratt. about eigh
teen years of age, and Miss Vanderworker,
only sixteen years old, who were uncle
and niece, eloped from Rome, in June
last, and went to New Ashford, Berk
shire county, Massachusetts, about ten
miles from Pittsfield, where they were
married. 'A horrible tragedy, the re—
sult of this early clandestine marriage,
occurred in that village on Monday last.—
The father of the girl, who had learned of
their whereabouts, started in pursuit of the
couple, acd arrived in New Ashford on
the fatal day, declaring he would have his
daughter. She saw him coming to the
house, and went up stairs, and in five
minutes afterwards the youthful and mis
guided couple were found with their
throats cut, and so closely clasped in each
other's arms, that three men could scarce
ly separate them. The girl died immedi
ately, and the husband lingers with little
prospect of recovery.
Shocking Death of a Lady
The wife of Dr. Brodhurst, a London
physician, has met death in much the same
horrible manner as the wire of Professor
Longfellow. The doctor left her writing
a note in the drawing room, but was re
called by loud cries of " I'm on lire!"- He
rushed down and found his wife in the
middle of the drawing-room, enveloped in
flames. Her clothes were entirely consum
ed, and the furniture near her was on fire.
She had on a white muslin aress. She
did not seem to have lost her presence of
mind, for she requested the rug to be roll
ed around her, and the bell to be rung for
the servants, which he did, and extinguish
ed the flames about the upper part of her
person. Immediately the bell was rung,
three servants rushed in, and he believed
the reason of their being so near the door
was because his wife had rung the bell be
fore for prayers. Unfortunately, she had
one of those crinolines made of steel hoops.
Every means was tried to extinguish the
fire about and under the hoops with the
sofa cushions and °ther things at hand.—
He also knelt on and tried to compress
and break them, for the purpose of putting
the fire out, but all without avail, and they
had to be cut off before they could be ex
tinguished. She had been writing with a
candle by her side, which had burnt down
in the sccket, and he believed she had tried
to teach an envolope from the case when
the light caught her muslin sleeve.
Rev. Dr, Spring's Marriage
The recent marriage of Rev. Dr. Spring
is alluded to as follows by the New York
correspondent of the Boston Journal:—
Some time since I wrote you of the pro
posed marriage of Rev. Dr. Spring. • The
event came oft• in the chapel of the Brick
Church on Thursday last, in the presence
of a small cqmpany of visitors. The af
fair has created much talk. The Doctor is
well on to eighty. He is quite rm and
his sight is poor. The lady bri is
five, and is a maiden. Mrs. Spring has
not been dead quite a year, and in New
York it is regarded as quite an impropriety
for a widower not to wait at least one year.
In this marriage quite a little romance is
blended. The lady has a fortune ofs3oo,
000 in her own right. She has long re
sided with her uncle, one of the most be—
nevolent men in the city, and the lady is
reported to say that it has always been her
great desire to become Mrs. Gardner
Spring. The bride and bridegroom left
the chapel and at once proceeded to the
cars for a bridal trip to Niagara Falls, both
seeming in need of assistance and help,
although the bride was sprightly for one of
her years.
A Fact for Business Melt
If you wish to sell more goods this year
than you ever did before, advertise more.
The unparalelled success of those men.
chants and traders who have kept their
business and their goods before the people
is a lesson not to be disregarded by any
one who depends upon public patronage
for a living. The best customers are those
who find out what they want before they
leave home, and these are the ones who
invariably look in the newspaper to see
where the article is to be found. If you
want anything whatever that you do not
know
. where to find, or do not choose to
run after, advertise your wants, and
ninety,nine times in a hundred you will
be gladly served at your door,, far cheaper
and Netter than by any other known pro.
cess. The newspaper is the established
medium of exchange between mind and
mind, in regard to nearly all the wants of
life, and its usefulness is rapidly extend
ing among all classes. Every body reads
the newspaper, rich and poor, high and
low—and no part of the paper gives so
fresh, voried and comprehensive pictures of
the age as the advertisements.
Union Volunteers Shot
Two Union volunteers, named J. H.
Debolt and F. Brooks, residents respect
ively et Masontown and New Salem,
Fayette county, were shot the other day
while returning from Bidltown, in North-
Western Virginia, whither they had been
with despatches for the commander of the
federal troops at that point. It appears
that on their return from Bullies n, they
were fired upon by a party of secessionists,
concealed in the woods, Debolt received
two bullets, one in the head and the oth
er in the back. He had sufficient strength
to shout to Brooks to avenge his death,
and then dropping from his horse expired.
The horse was also shot, and fell dead
near where his meter lay. Brooks re
ceived two wounds, one in the side and the
other in the shoulder, but succeeded in
making his way to camp on horseback.—
He was not, at last accounts wetted to
recover. A detachment was sent from the
camp to the scene of the attack, sad Dei
bok'A. body recovered. lt was sent to
Varna"r W. tObrfes ter int.
WAYNESBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1861.
Something about the Rebel Generals
Some particulars, in the nature of a
biographical notice, of the rebel Generals,
will be of interest just now. General Sam
uel Cooper is the senior officer. This gen
tleman was born in Delaware county, New
York, and was sent to the Military Acade
my, where he graduated in 1817. He was
soon placed on staff duty, generally at
Washington; was Military Secretary of
Mr. Poinsett; Chief Clerk of the War De- '
partment, then Aid to General McComb,
General-in-Chief of the army, and subse
quently an Assistant Adjutant General. in
this bureau, by personal and political in
fleence, he went through the various grades
till, on the death of General Roger Jones,
he became Adjutant General, which place
he resigned last spring. General Cooper
married Miss Mason, a sister of ex-Sena.
for Mason, of Virginia. His son-in-law,
Frank Wheaton, now Colonel of the Sec.
and Rhode Island Regiment, was appoint.
ed a Lieutenant in the First Cavalry,
where he remained until transferred as
above. General Cooper never saw a bat
tle, and, except for a few months forty-five
years since, never had the actual command
of a man, much less an army.
Generals Johnston and Lee had a regu
lar military education, and most of the lat
ter's service in our army was in a staff po
sition, and he never has had an important
command. He is a Virginian by birth, and
an accomplished man. He married Miss
Custis, the only child of the late George
W. P. Custis. She inherited from her
father Arlington, opposite Washington.
and also other extensive plantations on the
Rappahannock River. Mrs. Lee is in lA
vor of the Union, and was, a few weeks
since, residing, almost unknown, in Wash.
ington. Gen. Johnston held a stall aps
pointment as_paymaster for some time, and
was one of Ire army for several years.—
His battle record, except in a subordinate
capacity, is yet to be made. He and Gen.
Lee were always deemed efficient and in.
telligent officers, but never ranked above
many of their associates.
Gen. Beauregard graduated second in
his class, and became a brevet second
lieutenant of engineers, rising to a cap
taincy, which he held when he resigned.
Passim, we remark that Rufus King, of
Wisconsin, a native of New York, and
George W. Merril, of Cooperstown, both
teported appointed Brigadier Generals in
our service, each graduated first at the
Point. Gen. B. was never considered su
perior or the equal even of Major Barnard,
Captains Benham, Frazer, and other offi
cers of the engineer corps. His experi
ence was in Mexico as an engineer officer
on a general's staff. The duties are sim
ply to direct and construct fortifications,
batteries, &c., and have no more connec
tion with the disposition or handling of
troops in the field than belongs to the du.
ties of the medical staff or the chaplain.—
At Bull Run he had an opportunity to show
his engineering ability in erecting masked
batteries and other works, and then fought
the battle. At half , past three o'clock he
was defeated by our forces, and itrould have
fallen back on Manassas or. Richmond
but for the appearance of General John
ston with 4,000 fresh troops. This was
Gen. B.'s first battle. Its results, while he
alone was responsible, do not warrant the
high encumiuins passed on. him.
Reminces of •Geu. Lyon
We rind the following in the Sr Louis
Democrat:—'Physically, General Lyon
was one of those hardy, wiry men, that
cuuld undergo any amount of fatigue.—
He possed an iron will, and he was a man
at indomitable perseverance. He never
knew what tear was. He cared Ititle for
himself, all for his country. At a time
when it was asked by some of the press,
'who is Gen. Lyon 1' a friend wrote to him
requesting him to give the principal events
in his history in order to answer the inqui•
ry. •That is of no consequence,' answer
ed Lyon ; 'for myself I care nothing, but if
1 can be instrumental in putting down this
wicked rebellion, I shall be perfectly satis
fied. From a letter written by the General
to his cousin, dated Springfield, July 21st,
ten days before the tattle, lam permitted
the following extract. It gives his views
of the Manassas retreat, and the deep
anxiety which filled his mind in regard to
his own critical situation is indicated. He
says:
'We are deeply grieved over the retreat
of our forces at Manassas, It our people
shall learn from this a little more modera
tion, and substitute a little resolution for
the overweening confidence in which they
have too much indulged, this defeat will
have its benefits. I have been compelled
to remain quiet here for want of supplies to
move, and I tear the enemy may become
emboldened by our want of activity'! I
have constant rumors of a very large force
below, and of threats to attack us with over
whelming numbers. I should have a much
larger force than I have, and be much bet
,
ter supplied.' "
How The Springfield Girls Wel-
coined their Volunteers Home
In noticing the return of the Springfield
companies frotn the First and Second Ohio,
the Springfield News says :
The incinents of this occasion were
varied and rich. Will Sykes came into the
supper room in advance of his comrades.
A little woman we took to be his mother
charged upon him at once, capturing him
without difficulty, and bore him off, danc—
ing with delight at the conquest. We
watched "Will's" contact with his young
lady friends with some interest At first
they shook his hands, but one lair young
charmer, had spunk enough to smack him
outright, and then the others pitched In
and did likewise.
"Will" stood it like a soldier. After
the girls got in the way of kissing, it was
an easy matter for them to put the tiest of
the boys through,
The greeting.; were peculiar and im
pressive. Bill Thomas was greeted with
—"God' bless you all over." Others—
t•God bless every hair of your head," &c.,
&c.
Captain David King was nearly pulled
in pieces by the ladies,—but we believe
he is , •aboet" by this time. If he don't
like such treatment, he masa% be so good.
looking. "That's what's the matter."
A Gallant Irish Brigade,
We learn from the best authority, says
the New York "Tribune," that a new -Ir
ish Brigade, 5,000 strong at least, is to be
immediate organized in this city, the
command of which wilj be tendered to
Gen. James Shields. The lat Regiment
of thethrigade is now forming under the
gallant Lieut.-Col. Robert Nugent, of the
69th, and will be known as the 69th Vol
unteers. Already companies from Phila
delphia, Boston, Cleveland, and other cit..
ies have pledged themselves 'to press for
ward in this new and brilliant movement,
which speaks volumes for the generous
loyalty and unconquerable spirit of our
adopted citizens. The Irish spirit of the
North is fairly aroused, and thousands are
ready to obliterate the sad memories of the
first engagement in which the green flag
waved gloriously beside the Stars and
Stripes. In view of this organization,
Captain Thomas Francis Meagher will de
cline ;the high position offered him by
Major-Gen. Fremont, and once more take
his place in the ranks of his gallant and
devoted regiment.
The Rebels Withdrawing
The War Department has information
which leads to the belief that the rebels
have withdrawn a mile beyond Fairfax
Court House, leaving only pickets in the
village. The movement was made with
such precipitation—it is said some of the
sick died on the way—as to lead some to
infer fright as the cause. More probably
it was intended either to lure us within
some• ambuscades, or, preliminary to a
concentration of their forces on other
points. It is reported that the rebel force
at Leesburg is increasing, and consists of
several thousand men, supported by artil
lery. Gep. Banks is near enough, how
ever, to present serious shot•and-shell
obstacles to crossing, even if the river
were fordable, which will not be for a day
or two yet.
Another Fight in Roane County.
A gentleman who arrived at Wheeling
on Wednesday from Roane county, brings
intelligence of another fight between the
Union men and secessionists, at Spencer,
the county seat. The Union men again
took refuge in the Court House, and
maintained their position, the rebels again
abandoning the idea of capturing or kill
ing them, as an undertaking of a little too
dangerous character. Two of the seceshes
were killed.
For the Blockade
Thirteen vessels, seven of them steam—
ers, carrying 2,000 men, are expected
home within forty or fifty days, and will be
added to the blockading force. The Brazil
squadron, the frigate Congress and another
is expected daily. The Atrican squadron,
three vessels, one the Mohican, equal to
the Iroquois, should be here early in Sep
tember. The China squadron a month
later.
Escape of Prisoners from Richmond
Capt. DeGolyer, of company F. Fourth
Michigan regiment, and Assistant Quar
termaster Henry C. Jenckes, of the Sec
ond Rhode Island regiment, escaped from
the military prison in Richmond, on 'Tues
day, the 13th instant. From the escaped
officers we give many interesting particu
lars of their fellow prisoners in this room.
They say the Hon. Mr. Ely bears his con
finement with equanimity, and that Col.
Corcoran is well, and was not wounded at
all in the engagement. ( :apt. John Dow
ney, of the Fire Zouaves, (reported killed,)
is there uninjured and in good health.—
Col. Wilcox is slightly wounded, but do
ing well. Mr. Alvin Huson, of Roches
ter, New York, is in good health. The
Confederate papers claim that they have,
as prisoners, two members of Congress.
They probably count on Mr. Huson as one.
The prisoners are fed on fresh beet, (gen
erally boiled,) and wheat bread, with an
allowance of bread every other day.
Every fine afternoon there is a crowd of
visitors, male and female, "to see the Yan
kees." This exhibition the prisoners play
fully allude to as "stirring up the animals."
Many of these visitors would no doubt
treat the prisoners with kindness if they
dared do so. Amongst others who visited
the prisoners was ex-Senator Wigr,fall.—
He said if their government choosed, they
(the prisoners) might all be exchanged.—
"It;" said he, "they want to fight us as
Christians, we will fight them as Chris
tians, but if as Camanches, we will fight
them as Camanches." The officers of
the prison and the surgeons acknowledge
their loss at Bull Run in killed and wound
ed to have been greater than ours. They
claim to have one thousand three hundred
Federal prisoners at Richmond, of whom
two hundred and fifty are wounded. We
have already stated that among these pris
oners are about sixty officers. Capt.
Todd, said to be a brother-in-law of Pres
ident Lincoln, is in charge'of the prisoners,
and they allege that he is very harsh and
unaccommodating, but they speak in the
warmest terms of the kindness of Major
Winder and other Confederate officers.
More Secession Women Arres-
ted
Mrs. Greenhow, a widow lady well
known in Washington, was arrested by
the provost guard of Brigadier General
Portor on Sunday. Her secession pro
clivities have long been the subject of
popular conversation. Mr; Greenhow
died in California in 1844 or '45. He
was twenty years ago employed as librarian
and translator in the State Dedartment
here. Afterwards he was translator for
the commission of private land claims in
California, where he was accidentally
killed. Also Mrs. Philips, wife of a for
mer member of Congress from Alabama.
Both are fashionable women, of a bold
type of character, with rebel affinities, and
are accused of carrying on treasonable
correspondence, telling the enemy about
our forces, fortffications,showing our-weak
points, and exaggerating everything in
their favor, and enjoying intimate person's
al and epistolary relations with them.—
One of these women, who:are under guard
at their homes, with the family who refuse
to leave them, boasts of her imprisonment,
and glls from windows to passers by that
their t "is a free country." There is a re
port that Mrs. Senator Gwin has been ar—
rested. Inquiry assures us, says a Tribune
dispatch, that neither she nar Mrs. Slidell
is in Washington. Mrs. Gwinn is at
West point, where it is presumed she is
still waving the magic wand by which two
cadets were estranged from their alles
glance two months since, Mrs. Gwin's
trunk, ordered to go on, was examined,
and plans of the fortifications at the chain
Bridge on the other side of the Potomac,
traced on paper by some clerk in the Wad
Department. woman fresh tram Bean',
regards headquarters, was arrested while
passing through our lines into Alexandria.
She manifested great indignation, claiming
that, as a lady, she was exempt from ar
rest. An Irishwoman of one of the regi
ment searched her and found, among her
underclothes, some twenty letters address
ed to and implicating prominent citizens
in Washington and Alexandria. She was
sent to headquarters.
Another Arrest in Philadelphia.
On Saturday 'afternoon another arrest
was made in Philadelphia by the United
States Marshall. The prisoner is one
Samuel Eaken, an agent of the rebels.—
The •'lnquirer" says :—"Mr. Eakin is
known to be a very ingenious man, and
an extensive pattentee; but we are not at
liberty to say for what he rias been
arrested. Eaken acknowledged that
he lived on Palmer Street, between
Richmond and Queen, and his house be
ing searched, a large quantity of papers,
about $l,OOO in money found, a coif of tel.
egraph wire for field purposes in blowing
up fort, field batteries, &c. ; a pass over
the East Tennnessee and Georgia Railroad,
and charging the passage of himself and
freight to the Government of the Conted
erate States. Eaken is apparently about
forty years of age, has a dark complexion,
black hair and black whiskers, and was
very well dressed. Eaken came to this
city on Saturday week. He is an accom
plished gentleman —a chemist and a tele
grapher. [From the discription given, we
believe that the Eaken above alluded to,
was, some yaars since, a resident of this
city, and was well known, and generally
respected here.—Catofr.]
The Arrest of Mayo rret.
The telegraph has alreaWntormed us
of J. G. Berret, Mayor of Washington
city, and of his having been taken to Fort
Laytayette. His arrest produced consid
erable excitement but no surprise, it hav
ing been previously expected. He had
been made, ex qffi el"), a member of the new
Board of Police Commissioners, and on
entering into office it was necessary for him
to take the oath of allegiance to the goy-.
ernment. This he refused to do, on the
sole ground, as alleged by him, that hav
ing been made an ex officio member of the
Board, it. was not necessary, as the same
oath which he took when elected Mayor
applied to all cases in which he was called
upon to setve the public. The govern
ment, however, did not seem to under.
stand the punctilio, and ordered his ar
rest, and on Sunday he was conveyed to
Fort Layfayette by order of Secretary
Camaron. Before leaving Washington
the officers searched his residence, but
nothing was found to implicate him with
the rebels. lie claims to be a strong
Union man, and only refused to take the
oath of allegiance from an empty assertion
of dignity. In addition to the other charges
against Mayor Berret, it is well known that
he was a prominent member of the Na
tional Volunteers, an exclusively rebel or
ganization, and that he had organized the
police exclusively of men of secession pro
clivities, and when men were turned out of
the day police on account of their dis—
union sentiments, he immediately made
places for them on the high police.
Tennessee Threatening Kentucky.
A letter from Georgetown, Kentucky,
dated August 19th, says: "To-day, being
our regular county court day, was selected
by Col. Roger W. Hanson as an appropri ,
ate occasion for making a very inflamma
tory and traitorous speech. His object
was to stir up a hellish spirit ot war. He
began with an attack upon the camp in
Garrard county. He declared that, if
those troops are not disbanded in thirty
days, they will be put down at the point
of the bayonet. He said he saw Governor
Harris, of Tennessee, a few days ago, and
that Harris declared that he should consid
er it a violation of Kentucky's neutrality,
and that Kentucky would have to meet
50,000 Tennessee troops in battle array it
those camps are not speedily vacated.—
Thirty days are given you, Union men ot
Kentucky; use those thirty days to a good
advanthge, or a civil war will confront us
with all its horrors."
A Belligerent, Mail Bag.
In cleaning out "The Farmer and Ad
vertiser" office in Bridgeport, Conn., a
United States mail bag was fbund filled
with papers addressed to leading Seces
sionists in Alabama, Georgia and other
Southern States, also some two hundred
wooden billies, turned and furnished with
strings for the wrists. These clubs were
made from shovel handles, and were prob
ably furnished by a secession shovel man
ufacturer in Bridgeport. Some curious
letters were also discovered, exposing the
treason of politicians in Hartford and else
where. One of the editors of The Farmer
has gone to New Haven, threatening to
issue his paper from the Register office to
morrow..
Starvation in Memphis.
Hunger begins to pinch the rebels in
Tennessee. The Memphis "Avalanche"
says that the destitution of the poor in that
city- is daily on the increase. The sum
donated to the wives and children of vol
unteers by the county court is no longer
paid. the a.nount, having been so much
larger than was anticipated, emptied the
treasury. The result is that those soldiers
who enlisted, relying upon receiving the
amount appropriated, now see their wives
and children in an actual starving condi
tion.
Gone Over to the "Rebels.
First Lieutenant Manning M.
of the Second Cavalry, who was at Bull
Run with a part of his regiment, has re
signed his commission and accepted a
Captaincy in the rebel cavalry in Missouri.
He had the new commission before the
battle. Two other officers in the same reg
iment are suspected, and it is believed that
they also have commissions from the rebels,
which they are debating whether to accept
or not. Oft with them.
.wasselllMp',ooo,ooo.
It in stated on reliable authority that an
offer was lately made to Secretary Chase,
on behalf of foreign bankers, to take $50,-
000,000 of the loan, provided the Govern
ment would promise to pay the interest at
E'rankfort-on-the-IkLsin. The Secretary,
however, declined the offer, as he is con
fident in the ability of the Government to
maintain itself without asking the aid of
foreign capital.
Etbn of Ipt flag.
fortress Monroe Items.
FORTRESS M °NEM:, Aug. 23.—General's
Wool and Butler have spent part of the day
at the Rip Raps, experimenting with
Sawyer's Gun. The second shell fired
burst in the Confederate camp at Sewalls
Point; broke down the flag staff and scat
tered the rebels like chaff. A propeller,
which was about landing troops at the
Point, put back toward Norlfolk. The
whole affair was witnessed from the New
port News steamer.
Grand reviews have to-day been held at
Newport News and Camp Hamilton.
Col. Wardsop has taken command of
the Naval Brigade.
The gun boat Seminole has arrived
from the blockade off Charleston. She
brought up as a prize the schooner Albion,
formerly the Wilmington pilot boat, from
Cardenas, with a cargo of sugar, coffee,
fruits and segars. When taken she was
sailing under English colors. The cap- ,
Lain and nearly all the hands were drunk.
She had run the blockade off Wilming
ton.
The Seminole has overhauled several
vessels showing English colors. She
spoke to the Dale last night. She will
coal and undergo repairs at Old Point.
The blockading squadron off Charleston
consists of the Ranoke and Vandalia.
The recent gale on the coast was se ,
ve re.
The Confederate prisoners who arrived
here this morning from Baltimore will be
sent to Norltolk in a few days•
The propellor New York sailed to-day
with nine prisoners for New York.
Improved Condition of the Army
WASHINGTON, August 23.—The con
tinued improvement of the troops, in all re
spects, is the subject of congratulation in
the army, as well as the Executive quar
ters. This result is mainly from strict
discipline. The line of the upper Poto
mac is now well guarded, and at the la
test reliable accounts Gen. Banks was
still resting on the Monocacy, The ad
ministration of the oath 'of allegiance, as
prescribed by the Act of Congress, was a
matter of interest to the clerks in the
Bureau of the Auditor of the Trealfury for
the Post Office Department this morning.
The Rebel Pickets—Union Men .elated—
Civil War fit Kentucky 444.
WASfiINGTON, August 27. The rebel
pickets are reported to be nearer our
fortifications across the liver than ever
before.
It is not believed that the rebels have
now any design to attack.
The Union men here are very much ela
ted by the election of Wallach as Mayor, in
place of Berritt. Mr. Wallach is a warm
personal friend of the President, and an old
line Whig.
Amos .g.andall is removing his furniture
from his country seat, near Wallhington,
purposing to reside in Trenton, N. J. till
the war closes. He is writing his life, and
needs quiet.
Private advices from Kentucky represent
that State on the very verge of civil war.
The Union men are ready.
Capt. Keys was arrested at Chain Bridge
this morning. He belongs to the District
Troops
There was an alarm at Chain Bridge last
night, and the troops turned out in force.
It proved false.
Secretary of State, Seward left this morn
ing for New York. W.
Mayor Herret a Prisoner—Court
House Fired by an Incendia-
ry.
Bimmotta, August 24.—Mayor Berrit,
ofWashington, passed through as a pris
oner this morning, destined for Fort Lay,
fayette, in; New York harbor.
The liialtimure county Court House, at
Towsontown, was fired this morning by
an incendiary. The record office was de
stroyed, but the rest of the building esca
ped.
Arrest of an Officer in the Rebel Army
PHILADELPHIA, August 26.—The police
last night arrested Wm. Johnson,a nephew
of Gen. Johnson, of the rebel army, and
an officer in the same army. The prisoner
has been in the city about two weeks, stop
ping with a relative, and was arrested at
the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, after he
had purchased tickets for Louisville, Ky.
He was brought with his baggage to the
Central Station, where he was searched.—
No commission was found on him, but in
his trunk a number of letters were found,
directed to parties in the Seceded States.
Some of the letters mentioned the prisoner
as an officer in the rebel army. He was
sent to prison, and will have a hearing to
day.
Adams' Express Company Refuse to Carry
Letters to the Rebels.
WASHINGTON, August 20.—The Adams'
Express Company having applied to the
proper authorities for the construction to
be placed on the President's Proclamaiion
relating to the interdiction of commercial
intercourse with the so called Contederate
Slates, and learning that it was intended
include letters, immediately issued orders
to all their officers to cease receiving let
ters without waiting for the expiration of
the limit of time numbered in that docu.
ment. It is not known what action, it any,
has been taken by the letter express com
panies on thissubject.
Arrival of Mutineers—The Flag of Truce
Dodge atc.
FORTRESS MONROE, August 26.—The
steamer Philadelphia has arrived from
Washington with one hundred and fifty
nine mutineers, sentenced to two years'
imprisonment at the Tortugas. They have
been sent temporarily to the Rip Raps.—
A flag of truce arrived from Norfolk this
morning with three ladies and a number
of prisioners captured by the rebel priva
teers. As the object of sending the 16. g of
trice at this time was deemed ratherin
quisitive, Gen. Wool decided to detain the
flag until late La-morrow. It is high time
that an end should be put to this constant
intrusion of the enemy. Whenever they
think any important movement is on foot
here they are sure to be on hand with a
flag of truce. Capt. Davis, the Provost
Marshal, yesterday arrested the crew of
the schooner Chitt, from New York.
Gen. Wool sent tello the Rip Raps.—
Seven spies have beealiffsested and placed
in eon4nement.
NEW SERIES-VOL. 3, NO. 13
PEN AND SCISSORS.
GEN. MCCLELLAN.-Mr. Willis writes to
the "Home Journal" that a distinguished
civillian who had called upon Gen. Mc-
Clellan on some matter, if inyortance,
concluded his visit by a ^ire comment
or two on the state of affairs, venturing a
question, at last, as to wh at McClellan
thought of our army's probable recovery
from the late defeat. " I don't think,"
musingly replied the hero of Western Vir
ginia, "that they will whip us again; but,
it they do, there will be two men left dead
on the field—l shall be one, and Lander
will be the other."
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.-A frightful acci
dent occurred the other day in Spring
township, Crawford county, through which.
a young man named Aaron Ward, son of a
widow woman residing in Crossingville,
lost his life. A number of young people
from the neighborhood were enjoying
themselves at a social pie-nic, and a swing
which they had put up for the occasion
having become entangled in some way,
Ward undertook to ascend the tree from
which it was suspended, fur the purpose of
righting the rope. He had nearly reach
ed the limb, when he lost his hold, and
was precipitated to the ground below, a
distance of some fifty feet. His skull was
fractured by the fall, and his brains scat
tered in every direction, to the unspeaka
ble horror of his young associates, nearly
all of whom were assembled around the
tree, watching him make his ascent. De
ceased was twenty-four years of age, and
was highly esteemed as an industrious and
promising young man.
COL. BLACK'S REGIMENT.-A private let
ter from Col. Black's regiment says:—"On
our way through Baltimore, the pavements
were lined with spectators, some of whom
expressed their approbation, bat there was
considerable underhand muttering, and
some of our men who had rambled from the
main body were insulted by the ladies (I),
who called them Northern ragamuffins
and Union hogs. There was one man
shot dead last night, and one man hung up
by the wrists. They belonged to Captain
Holme's company.
GEN. BuTuts.—A Washington corres
pondent writes: 1 hear Gen. Butler is not
particularly well pleased to be pent up in
Fortress Monroe—says he has been keep.
ing a "nigger boarding house for govern
ment."
GEN. HEINTZLEMAN. - Gen. Heintzle
man, of Pennsylvania, has suffered a re
lapse. The public will be ooncerned to
hear that the wound on his arm threatens
inflammation.
GEN. LYON was unmarried. Re left three
brothers and three sisters.
CONGRESSMAN POTTER'S COMMITTEE re
ported Friday to the Secretary of War the
names of twelve disloyal clerks, and of not.
a few disaffected army officers; to the Sec
retary of the Treasury, the names of fifty
one disloyal beyond doubt, and ten sus
pected; to the Secretary of the Interior,
twenty disloyal and seven who are sus
pected. Similar reports wilt be sent to
the other Secretaries this week.
GEORGE D. PRENTICE, the editor of the
Louisville Journal, is about to receive a
handsome testimonial from the friends of
Liberty, Constitution and the Laws, real-.
dent in New York. The bold and fearless
position taken by Mr. Prentice, in t:efence
of the Union, against the fanatics of the
South, has been the cause of much gratu
lation in the North, and no where more
than in New York.
A HAPPY ESCAPE.—Mr. H. F. Eastman,
of Rochester, New York, writes to his sis.
ter that he has escaped from his forced ser
vice in the "Prince William Cavalry," in
the rebel army in Virginia, and has found
shelter in Washington. He adds : "I de
serted and am now here, bound to be re
venged. I want to get upa company of as
desperate fellows as ever looked down on
the muzzle of a gun, and go right forward
with the Federal army."
GEN. FREMONT has been authorized to
take and use the Illinois Ceffiral Railroad
for military purposes.
FINE PICKINGS:—The Philadelphia Ins
quirer says that the contractors who fur
nished blankets to the Government for our
soldiers, have realized the handsome little
profit of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS ! And a cotrespondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial states that one of
the sons of Secretary Cameron is said to
have made about $20,000 en a single horse
con tract !
A LADY, Miss Arabella Smith, writes to
the N. Y. Commercial her impressions of
Washington society. She finds only one
fault with Mr. Lincoln, viz : "He has not
yet appreciated, socially, the position he
has been called to occupy:: Of out
Piasidentess, Arabella writes, "I saw
Mrs. Lincoln, and I don't think, if.l had
been the President's wile, I should - have
dressed exactly as site did. But, then,
tastes differ, or I should not have been a
spinster at this da3 . And I wouldn't have
talked _quite so freely, in a promiscuous
crowd, about my husband's affairs, Mad
am is a smart woman, however, with an in
comitable spirit lurking behind her brigett
eyes, and will not live four years in the
White House, without making her than
ence felt."
INTERESTING TO LETTER WRlTERS.—Post
master Walborn announces that, in accord.
ante with instructions from the Depart , •
ment, the period fixed, flir the redemption
of the old envelopes having expired, let
ters deposited in this office, under cover of
the old issue, will nut be forwarded to their
destination, but sent to the Dead Letter
Office at Washington.
MOVEMENT IN COTTON. — During the past
week a large quantity a cotton arrived at
New York from Providence R. 1., for the
purpose of being shipped to Europe. This
is owing, no bouht, to most of the factories
iu Lowell being closed; and the price of
cotton at presen is from 16 to 18 cents per
lb. The stores in Providance are said to be
full.
Another Privateer Afloat.
BOSTON,. August 27th.—The schooner
Agricola, Capt. Herrick, arrived from Ells
worth, Me., reports that on the :25th irrst.,
when 20 miles north-east of Cape Ansh,
he was overhauled by the privateer schoos= .
er Freely, of Charleston. Not wishing
anything we had on board, the piratwiet us
go, but wished to be reported at Boston.—
The Freely is a clipper of about 140 tons,
and bad 40 men on deck.
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