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From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
"OVER THE RIVER," and its AUTHOR.
The public admiration of the beautiful
lines "Over the River," first published in
the Republican in August, 1857, and the in
quiry as to their origin have not yet ceased.
We meet the little poem and the query as
to where it came from, among our exchan
ges almost daily ; but not till now have we
felt at liberty to unveil the anonymousness
which it has heretofore borne. "Lizzie
Lincoln," over which signature the poem
was contributed to the _Republican, is a
young lady of Hinsdale, N. 11., whose real
name is Nancie A. W. Priest. That she
has real genius her writings sufficiently ev
idence ; but its character and the public
appreciation of it are increased by the facts
that her education has only been that of a
country "district school," and that for three
years past, she has worked for self-sup
port in "the mill," from daylight till dark•
She is now, at 22 years of age, struggling
against the adventitious circumstances of
her position, to fit herself for a teacher.—
The thousands who have been touched by
the high poetic expression, as well
the marked sweetness and strength of her
productions, will sympathise with her
yearnings and watch the promising ca
reer with hope and interest. The mind,
capable of producing "Over the River,"
under such circumstances, is nut and
should not be content with a single victory.
OVER THE RIVER.
Over the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who've crossed to the other side,
The gleam of their snowy rubes I see,
But their voices are lost in the dashing tide.
There's one with ringlets of sunny gold,
And eyes the reflection of Heaven's own blue,
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold,
And the pale mist hid him from mortal view;
We saw not the angels who met him there,
The gates of the city we could not see,
Over the river, over the river,
My brother stands waiting to welcome me
Over the river, the boatman pale
Carrying another, the household pet ;
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale,
Darling Minnie! I see her yet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark;
We felt it glide from its silvery sands,
And all our sunshine grew strangely dark;
We know she is safe on the other side,
Where all the ransomed and angels be;
Over the river, the mystic river,
My childhood's idol is waiting tor me.
For none return from those quiet shores,
Who cross with the boatman cold and pale;
We hear the dip of the golden oars,
And catch a gleam of the snowy sail ;
And lo ! they have passed from our yearning
heart's,
They cross the stream and arc gone for aye,
We may not sunder the veil apart
That hides from our vision the gates of day.
We only know that their barks no more
May sail with us o'er life's stormy sea ;
Yet somewhere, I know, on the unseen shore,
They watch, and beckon, and wait for me.
And I sit and think when the sunset's gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore,
1 shall one day stand by the water cold,
And list for the sound of the boatman's oar ;
I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail ;
1 shall hear the boat as it gains the strand,
I shall pass from sight with the boatman pale
To the better shore of the spirit land.
1 shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfully sweet will the meeting be,
When over the river, the peaceful river,
The Angel of Death shall carry me.
AN HONEST CONFESSION.—The Mark
Lane Express makes the following state
ment: "Sir," said the Secretary of the
Hospital at Newcastle-upon-Tyne to a gen
tleman who had given a sum of money to
the Hospital, "1 have to thank you for
your very happy donation, which, perhaps,
you would like to appear in the papers ?"
"Like to appear !" answered the old gen
tleman, losing his temper in a moment ,
"like to indeed I Whig, what else do you
think I gave the money for ?" We are
afraid that the donor is not singular in
these days, when the love of notoriety is so
common.
11W - The will of the late Col. Colt,
of Connecticut, has been made public.
He leaves to his wife a gross legacy
of $30,000; a life estate in the man
sion house, with surrounding grounds
and out buildings ; a life estate in
4,000 shares of Colt Manufacturing
Company stock, and a large propor
tion of the resid um of the estate.
To entxbre pride, consider what you
shall be. Your flesh returns to corruption
and common earth again. Shall year
dust be distinguished from the , meanest
beggar or stays's? No, not from the dust
of brutes Ind insects, or the most con
temptible of creatures. And as for your
seal, th,it mast Stand before God, in the
vcorld of spirits, on a level with the rest. of
rtmerkia, and divested of all your haughty
sad amitelies 4fetinotione; eons of them
shall atemid yea .italoar jmijement. vest.
Iket4)liiis teibetahite Meer, aluipokle- *DU
wilthde hasig ASO*
dealers in
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Pride.
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INTERESTING DETAILS OF A MIS
SION TO THE KINGDOM OF DA
HOMEY, IN AFRICA.
From the Metropolitan Record we deriv e
the following interesting account of a re
cent Mission to Dahomey, Africa, made
celebrated by the cruel massacres there
practised by the reigning King, Greary
By a brief, dated 20th of August, 1860,
the Sovereign Pontiff erected a new vicari
ate apostolic in the Gulf of Guinea, under
the designation of Vicariate Apostolic of
Dahomey. The same brief confides the
care and direction of this new mission to
the Seminary of the African Missions, es
tablished at Lyons by Mgre de Marion Bres
sillac, of happy memory.
The following priests embarked at Toul
on, on the 3d of January, 1861, on board
the Amazon, for Dahomey. Messrs.
Borghero (Francis,) from the diocese of
Genoa ; Edde (Francis,) diocese of Char
tres; Fernandez (Louis,) diocese of Sayo.
These three young friends, devoted by
the special aim of their calling to the
evangelization of the blacks, are going to
carry on at Dahomey the mission opened
last at Sierre Leone by Mgre de Marion
Bressellac, and soon after interrupted by
the death of that Prelate and his two con
ferees, who were carried off, almost in land
ing, by the yellow fever. And although
the climate of Dahomey is more salubrious
than that of Sierra Leone, the barbarity
of its government surpasses that of the
most monstrous systems that we know of
even in Africa. Some idea of it may be
formed from the following description of
customs celebrated by the King of Da
homey, in July, 1861. It is extracted
from tne journal of a European who was
a spectator of these feasts during six
weeks
On my arrival at Tafo, on the 13th of
July, I received a visit from a company of
the King's guards, escorting to Whydah a
cabecero (officer,) recently nominated,
adorned with all his insignia, and destined
to be drowned at the mouth of a river,
that the Fetiche (genius) might continue
to extract thither the merchants' ships, and
also to convey to the deceased king the
news of what was passing at Dahomey.—
On dispatching these messengers to the
other world, it is the custom to give them
a bottle of ratafia and a few piastres to de-
fray their expenses.
"On the 14th, I arrived at Cannat, the
capital, and had no sooner alighted at the
house of Mehu, the Minister of commerce
than the King sent me an invitation to
the palace, where I found his Majesty sur
rounded by all his caberos, and separated
from them by a rather extensive line of
demarkation. The sight was most pic
turesque ; all these blacks in costumes
more or less fantastic, were seated under.
large parasols of various colors. The
King occupied the lower part of the scene,
sheltered under enormous parasols which
formed a sort of dais over his head. We
advanced to the limits of the reserved
space, and made our salutations, to which
the King replied by a movement of the
hand.
"On the 15th, I was told that I should
go and take up my position on the road to
Abomey, to attend the King's passage.—
The latter after having sacrificed about
fifty prisoners, came out from his palace
amidst the sound of musketry.. The caba
ceros all defiled before him, each according
to his rank, the lowest at the head. The
middle of the road was spread with mats
of various textures, upon which the King
and his wives were alone permitted to walk.
On one side marched the troops to the
sound of a medley of music, the deafening
din of four or five hundred tamtams and
the discharge of guns.
"On the arrival of the Minister of Com
merce, a sign was made to me to get into
my hammock and follow his horse, which
always went at a short trot. A scene then
took place, the most fantastic that can
possibly be imagined-20,000 negroes on
foot, about thirty hammocks, all appeared
advancing with gymnastic strides, along
a road rendered still more contracted by
`that which was reserved for the King,
and which was, of course, to be carefully
avoided. These people, streaming with
sweat, and running at full speed to keep
out of the way of the King's followers,
who were advancing behind them at an
equal speed—the whole affair presented a
truly infernal picture.
"On the 16th, this scene was re-enacted;
after which a captive, strongly gagged,
was presented to cite King by Mungan, the
Minister of Justice, who asked the prince
if he had any commissions to give the
ptisonet for his father. It appeared that
he had, and several courtiers proceeded to
take his orders, which they at once com
municated to the victim, who replied in 1 FATAL • ACCIDE . NT.—On Saturday,
the affirmative by nodding his head. It I February Ist, a small child of Jacob
es, of Cm wensv, Celd
was curious to observe how firmly this
1
1 co Col unty, met with anilte accidenletarfi that
man, who was about to be decapitated, roved fatal. A bucket of hot water,
believed that he would be able to execute For the par - pose of doing some scrub
the costatimious that had been eendl4ed bit*, had seen placed on the floor,
to .him- - lb** giTen hiett flee hie trarel- when the Vottild fell haekwards into
iftgampesampaidastwenri4shotaftetvaint- the basket; e ttinge tki 0 'water and
be ateittelkiiiti 'waft *I UM m:=llh t at -i4
eldiem w
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all
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under the same conditions ; but these were
accompanied by a vulture, a bird, and a
monkey, gagged like themselves.
"On the 23d, I was present at the nom
ination of twenty-three eabaceros and mu
sicians, who were to be sacriked to enter
the service of the deceased King.
"On the 26th, there was an immolation
of fourteen captives, whose heads were
borne to differentpartsof the town, accom
panied by the ringing of a large bell.
"On the 29th, preparations were made
for offering to the memory of King Guezo
the usual victims. The captives had a
gag put into their ,mouths, in the form of
a cross, with the pointed end upon their
tongue, which prevents them from doub
ling it, and, consequently, from crying,
and must cause them intense suffering.—
These unfortunate creatures, had, almost
all of them, their eyes torn out. There
was to be a great massacre the following
night.
"The palace square, in which forty thou
sand negroes were assembled day and
night, amidst their collective filth, emitted
an infectious smell. Add to this stench,
the vapor arising from the blood, and
emanations of the bodies in a state of pu
trefaction, the depository of which was
not far distant, and it will easily be imag
ined that the air must have been mortally
infectious.
"On the 30th and 31st, the military
chiefs of Whydah offered their victims,
who were led three times around the
square, amid the din of hellish music. On
completing the third round, the King ad
vanced toward the deputation, and whilst
he was congratulating each contributor,
the butchery was affected.
"During these two nights there fell up
wards of five hundred heads. They were
borne from the palace in basketfulls, ac
companied in large calabashes, in which
the blood had been caught, to be poured
over the grave of the deceased King. The
bodies were dragged by the feet, and
thrown into the town ditches, where the
vultures, crows and wolves were fighting
for shreds of their flesh. Several of these
ditches are filled with human bones. Sim
ilar sacrifices were made on the following
days.
"The late King's tomb is a large cavity
dug in the ground. Guezo is in the middle
of all his wives, who before poisoning
themselves, placed themselves around him
according to the rank they held at court.
These voluntary deaths may have amount-
ed to six hundred.
"On the 4th of August, there was an
exhibition of fifteen female prisoners, des
tined to take care of Guezo in the other
world. They appeared aware of the fate
that awaited them, for they were sorrowful,
and often looked behind them. They were
to be killed that night by a stab in the
breast.
"The sth was the day set apart for the
King's officers, consisting of the usual col
lection of an African monarch. Fifteen
women and thirty men figured amongst
them, gagged and bound, with their knees
bent up to their chins, their arms tied
down to their legs, and each placed in a
basket, and carried on the heads of the as
sistants, who, with their horrible burthens
continued to defile for more than an hour
and a half. It was a truly diabolical spec
tacle to witness the animation, jests, and
contortions of the enactors of the scene.
"Behind me I observed four fine blacks,
acting as coachmen about a small coach,
to be sent to the defunct by these four
wretched beings. They were ignorant of
their fate. When called forward, they ad
vanced sadly, without uttering a word.—
One of them had two large tears running
down his cheeks. All four were killed,
like so many fowls, by the king in person.
"The sacrifices were to be consummated
on a scaffold erected in the middle of the
square. His majesty came and sat down
upon it, accompanied by the Minister of
Justice, the Governor of Whydah, and all
the great personages of the kingdom, who
were to be the executioners. After theex
change of a few words, the king lighted
his pipe, gave the signal, when the cut
lasses were instantly drawn, and the heads
fell. Blood was flowing in every direction;
the sacrificers were covered with it, and
the unfortunate prisoners, who were wait
ing their turn at the foot of the scaffold
appeared as if painted with blood.
"The ceremonies are to last six weeks ;
after which the king will go to war to
make additional prisoners, and recom
mence his customary feats toward the end
of October, when about seven or eight hun
dred more heads will have to fall."
The new missionaries for Dahomey were
perfectly well aware of these sanguinary
customs before their departure, and were
only the more anxious to go, at the risk of
their lives, to try and put an end to these
cruelties.
A PERILOUS NIGHT.
THE BATTLE OF RRAORIA4N
Have you visited New York, or
Brooklyn, the beautiful city across
the river,.where tens of thousands of
the h.usiness men of New York, have
their homes? his called the city of
Churches. Bigkty-five years ago,
Brooklyn was woods, hills, swamps,
creeks, and corn-fields ; a cluster of
rude houses, with but one church.—
This church Washington • appointed
as the rallying place of his broken
army in the darkest night of the
Rev-caution.
The battle of Brooklyn, or battle
of Long Island as it is called in his
tory, was one of the hardest fought
of the _Revolutionary battles, and the
most disastrous. Col. Hazlet's well
armed and well disciplined Deleware
regiment; Lord Sterling's laigaile of
Southrons; Sinallwood's gallant
Marylanders, in scarlet and buff; the
bold yeomanry of Connecticut, in
their homespun jerkins, all under
brave old Gen. Putnam, fought side
by side, heart and hand with each
other, in their love of country and
freedom.
Washington's camp was at New
York. On the 27th of August, 1776,
the booming of cannon and the vol
leys of musketry were heard in the
direction of Brooklyn. The enemy
had landed on Long Island. Five
ships-of-the-line hove in sight trying
to beat up the bay. They were to
cannonade or capture the city ? New
York was filled with terror. Hap
pily, a head-wind baffled the ships,
and Washington, seeing no imme
diate danger, crossed the ferry, and
galloped to the scene of action. A
terrible conflict was going on. The
little army was attacked on three
sides, and was fighting desperately.
Washington gained a rise of land,
and saw, at a glance, the perils of his
men. Some were trampled down by
the English cavalry ; others bayonet
ed by the bloody Hessians ; some made
a stand behind rocks and trees; oth
ers were cutting a retreat beset by
foes. At the sight, Washington
wrung his hands in agony.
"Good God," he cried "what brave
fellows I must lose this day !"
Two thousand were killed and
taken prisoners. The wounded and
dying were brought within the en
trenchments, but they had neither
tents nor shelter.
Night set in gloomily on the Amer
ican camp. The victorious army
pitched their tents close by, and
their sentries were but a stone's
throw from the American lines. By
dawn, Washington went the rounds
with words of sympathy and encour
agement. The skies were lowering.
Both soldiers and officers were fit
tigued and dispirited. A reinforce
ment crossed from New York in the
forenoon, among which was a Massa
chusetts' regiment of sailors and fish
ermen, dressed in their blue jackets,
hardy and weather-proof, fresh and
full of spirits. There were several
skirmishes through the day, but a
drenching rain drove the English to
their tents.
The next day, a dense fog covered
the island, and everything was wrap
ped in gloomy uncertainty. An
officer rode out to reconnoitre, and
the fog lifting an instant, a great stir
was discovered among the enemy's
ships. What did it betoken? The
little army was in a most perilous po
sition, an easy pray to the victors.—
What was to be done? Effect a re
treat, if possible. Washington des
patched a trusty messenger to im
press every boat, water-craft ofevery
kind, far and near, and have them
by evening at the ferry-ways. 'The
utmost secrecy was necessary, and
the fog was their best friend.
Meantime, orders were issued to
prepare for a night attack on the
enemy. Many a poor soldier made
his will. Sentries were postedreund
the camp as usual. When darkness
set in, "Retreat," and not "Atack,"
was sent from line to line. In case
of discovery, Brooklyn church was
to be the rallying spot, s. stand made,
and if attacked, "to arms !"
A muffled tramp, a stifled murmur
rose from the camp, as regiment af
ter regiment moved off, which grad
ually died away in the direction of
the.ferry. Boat after boat, loaded to
ele gunwale, pushed from the shore.
The Massachusetts fishermen were
in their element. They manned the
boats, plied the oars, unfurled the sails,
and made the most of every passing
breeze. Artillery, ammunition, pro
visions, cattle, horses,
.carts, and nine
thousand men were to be withdrawn
from the face of a large and victori
ous army, encamped so near, that
every stroke of the pickaxe in the
trenches could be plainly heard, and
a river three quarters of a mile,
swept by rapid tides, was to be cross
ed. The least alarm might bring the
enemy upon them, and produce a
terrible scene of carnage and confu
sion.
Everything was staked on a mug
fled and hurried night march. Wash
ington was at the ferry superintend
ing_ every movement. For forty
eight hours, he htid never closed his
wet, and was moat of the titan on
hotrod**. Night, mote onviy. - The
17eigli4 slinky •*opt - noltiltibt in the
mw* idok:et Sail 9011-
tinel was called in, and,by day-dawn,
Washington, the last man to enter
the boat, crossed the river in safety.
The astonishment of the English
may be well conceived.. A man liv
ing by the ferry, traitorous to his
country, determined to- alarm the
English. But the guard proved to
be a Hessian, who, not understanding
our language, seized the man for a
spy. He was kept close till day
break, when an English officer, visit
ing the spot, was astostiohed at hear
ing the story. An alarm was in
stantly given, and the troops gilled
to arms. A body of soldiers climb
ing cautiously up the breastwork of
the patriot army, found the camp
indeed deserted. Advance parties
hurried to the ferry, where the friend
ly fog, having done its service, clear
ed away, and showed the rear boats
of the retreating patriots already be
yond the musket-shot of the foes.—
Child's Paper.
Commodore Lynch.
Gen. Burnside, in his late brilliant
exploit at Roanoke, clinched a very
dangerous rebel in thepersonofCam.
Wm. F. Lynch, late of the U. S. N.
Commodore Lynch is a man, of the
highest scientific attainmetbta, and
might have won imperishable honors
by his services in the Dead Sea expe
dition had he remained true to the
flag under which he had so long sail
ed. With a name sullied and dis
honored,• he has fallen a captive to
the prowess of his late associates.—
For several years past he had mad
Philadelphia his residence. He is
known to have entered the service of
the rebels with much hesitancy and
regret; but, lacking strong moral
courage and firmness, he could not
be prevailed upon to say no. What
a sequel to a career at one time bril
liant and promising.
A Large Bid for Recognition.
The adrices from England by the
Asia, bring the important intelli
gence that the Rebel Envoys, Messrs.
Mason and Slidell, bad offered to
France and England, as a price for
recognition and unrestricted free
trade for fifty years, and the eman
cipation of all slaves born after the
date of recognition. Such a bid
shows how desperate the leaders of
the rebellion must consider their sit
uation. Their offer has not been ac
cepted as yet, but so tempting a bait
will soon take, and we know not
how much further the South may go
for the sake of foreign aid.
The Three Camp Diseases.
Soldiers in camp suffer from three dis
eases—diarrhoea, rheumatism and fever.
The commonest cause of diarrhoea is bad
water ; its cure, complete rest and absti
nence from every kind of food except plain
boiled rice. All ordinary diseases will
yield to this treatment in two and a half
hours or less. Rheumatism is generally
brought on, not by getting wet, but by re
maining in wet clothes. Hard drinkers
are particularly liable to bad attacks. To
avoid rheumatism, wear flannel and keep
the digestion sound. Fevers are generally
caught after dark in the open air. A man
going out on night duty should never go
hungry, and never stand still longer than
it is necessary. Good food and active ex
ercise will generally keep a man well un
less the air is uncommonly deleterious.
To cure a case of not very severe fever,
nothing seems so efficacious as a change
of air. It is said that the removal of a
patient only a few miles often works an
immediate improvement in his condition.
In scouting along the edge of a swamp at
night, there is no danger so long as the
party keep on the windward side of it.
These doctines are laid down in the wri
tings of army surgeons and of physicians
who have given much attention to the
subjects discussed, and ought, therefore,
to be trustworthy.
COL. CORCORAN.—Hon. Alfred Ely
Member of Congress, writes encour
agingly of the prospect of the release
of Col. Corcoran, of the New 'fork
Sixty-ninth. He says :
"I have to-day (January 28th)
procured the release of all the officers
an privates now at Fort Warren, and
they will go forward to Richmond
for their release. Edmund Connolly,
Adjutant Pierson, Lieuts. Booth,
Parks and others have arrived. I
will have Corcoran and the hostages
out in ten days."
wir In a wealthy family of Vienna,
the husband made his wife a new
year's gift of a dozen pairs of gloves.
Indignant at such stinginess, the
lady, as soon as her husband's back
was turned, flung the gloves into the
fire. Explanations ensued at the ta
ble, and what was the irrescible lady's
astonieliment on learning that each
pair of gloves was wrapt up in a bank
note for 100 florins.
BURNED TO DEATH.-TWO children
belonging to William Shadle, Monroe
township, Clarion county, were
burned to death on last Buiii. - -
weelklry their clothes. takip o g Are tdu
rift absence*. el glair ,pirfats:
NEW sue.- VOL a. NO. 38.
itllll grtionror.
SAD ACCIDENT.-Mr. John Lyle, or
Wayne township, in Belmont county,
lost his youngest daughter a few
days since in the following melan
choly manner. She fell headlong
into a tub of rain -water, which was
standing by the porch. It is sup
posed she was reaching into she wit.'
ter, when owing to the slippery con
dition• of the porch, upon which she
was standing, her feet gave way, and
she was precipitated headlong into
the tub, which was nearly full of
water, and, as it was a vessel of some
three feet or more in height, she was
almost completely submerged, and
owing to the narrowness of the ves
sel it was impossible for her to• make
any fruitful effort to emerge herself.
Though but a moment had seemingly
Massed since she wasengaged in play
ender the observation of her mother,
when she was discovered life was ex
tinct and all hopes of resuscitation
gone.
HIGH lICE OF FOOD IN MOBILE -
All kinds of food are very high in
Mobile, and consequently much suf
fering is observed among the poorer
classes. These are some of the prices
ruling there : Coffee, 90 cts. per
pound ; tea (the poorest quality,)
75ets. per pound; sugar, (common)
30 cts. per pound; butter, 80 cts. per
pound ; peper, $1,25 per pound; bacon
20 ets. per pound ; lard, 45 ets. per
pound. Salt is very scarce, in fact,
it seldom can be procured for either
love or money; some has been sold,
however, at the rate of $25 per bag.
Clothing of every description com
mands exorbitant prices; soldiers'
overcoats cost the Confederate Gov
ernment, $22 to $25 each; good black
frock coats are worth $6O to $7O; vests
of good quality, $lO to $l2 ; pants of
good material, $25 to $2B. And, in
fact, most articles required for daily
use arc at proportionate prices.
Loss OF REBEL GENERALS.--Sisoe
the breaking out of the rebellion the
rebels have lost the following , named
Generals : Major General David E.
Twiggs, resigned; Brigadier General
Henry B. Jackson, resigned; Brice•
dier General Robert S. Garnett, kill
ed ; Brigadier General W. H. .T.
Walker, resigned ; Brigadier Geneva
Bernard E. Bee, killed; Brigadier
General Gideon J. Pillow,. resigned;
Brigadier General Thomas T. Faun
tleroy, resigned; Brig. Gen. John B.
Cray son, died ; Brigadier General
Felix K. Zollicoffer, killed; Brigadier
General Philip St. George Cooke,
committed suicide; Brigadier Gen
eral Tilghman, taken prisoner at
Fort Henry.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.-011 last Fri
day evening, as several men were en
gaged taking down a rock which
ap
parently was loose in the top of the
mines of the Short Mountain Coal
Company, near Lykenstown, Dau
phin county, a large rock about fife
teen yards' long suddenly fell, in
stantly killing John McCaw and se
verely injuring four or five others.—
One man, by the name of Robinson,
had his arm crushed to a jelly;
another, named Myers, had hies boot
cut entirely off his foot.
on his way home, and as he pas*
the fatal spot he volunteered ambit
ance, and haa scarcely Coinmenatial.
work when the rock fell upon IaIL
iterFive Union men, charged with
bridge burning, have already been
executed in Tennessee, under the
following order, issued hy J. P. Bey jamin, Secretary of War of the
Southern Confederacy, dated • _No
vember 25, 1861, and directed to the
rebel Col. W. P. Wood, in East Ten
nessee :
"All such as can be identified as
having been engaged in bridge burn
ing are to be tried summarily by
drumhead court martial, and, if found
guilty, executed on the spot by hanig
ing. It would be well to /cave their
bodies hanging in the vicinity of
the burned bridges."
DON'T PAY.—The oil business is
almost down to zero now. The Pe
nang° Spectator,. alluding to the ru
inous prices at which it is now sold
in that district, says "If a 'barrel of
oil could be had for nothing at this
time, it would not pay in New York
the cost of freight, commission, &e.—
Therefore, to ship oil is worse for
the shipper than to throw it into
the river. Remedy is : keep your
wells plugged till the market rises,
and instead of sending your oil to
Eastern markets for nothing, it will
be sold at the wells for remunera
tive prices in less than thirty days."
seirA Catlin correspondent of the
London American informs that jour
nal that the Sumter, captured seven
teen vessels on her ast cruise, six of
which were released by the authori
ties when taken into ports as prizes.
The Sumter was going into the dry
dock for repairs, an Englishman hiv
ing been found who consented to per•
form the service. The inhabited:Oa
were said to regard the ofteesilAki
buccaneers. The latest feletran*
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