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Messrs. MATH ER & ABBOTT, NO. 335
Broadway, New-Yett g are duly authorized to
Bet for us in soliciting, advertisments, &c., and
receipt for the same.
gar A few days ago a sentry on duty
at Major General Stanley's headquarters
shot a rebel spy as he was endeavoring
to escape through our lines near Frank
lin, Tenn. The spy was first challenged,
and, havivg twice disregarded the order
to “halt," the sentinel took deliberate
aim and killed the unhappy victim at
' the first shot. He was recognized as
an individual who had been lurking
around the camp for several weeks in
•the vocation of a songster, reciting pa
triotic 'airs for the soldiers, and re
ceiving .small sums of money for hie
trouble. He was detected, arrested,
• and thrown into prison, whence he made
'his escape, and was going out of the
lines when.he was shot. After his death
'his body was searched by the guards.—
Inside his boots, .and 4etweea his feet
and stockings, were 'found skilfall7;-
-drawn plans of the Federal fortitica
tions, the strength of their armament,
• and correct details of the organization
•of this army, number of lorries &c. H a d
• this spy.succeeded in eluding our sen
tries, the rebel commander would hays
'bees sin possession of invaluable informa
tion, on which he could have based his
, plan of operations.
ow- The New York Commercial says,
'the sensation papers have got up a sto
ry that Chas. Lewis, executed last Fri
day, at Trenton, N. J., for murder, con
fessed that, among other crimes of the
deepest dye, he had been the assassin
-of Dr. Burdell. Unfortunately for the
sensationists and their eloquence in the
weeklies, and Sundays, at the time Dr.
Bardell met his doom in Bond street,
Lewis was a convict in the State prison
at Sing Sing, under a conviction from
'l4:lolumbia county, for burglary.
Itis gen erally supposed that tho
President will arrange all the machinery
for the execution of the new law for
calling out the national militia, but for
the present will not put it in operation.
It is considered that if the old regiments
are filled up to their maximum quota by
.recruiting, or, if necessary by draft, there
will be no need for any farther addition
-.of the military force of the Union.
lir The Louisville Journal says there
aare so many more women than men now
In the South that it is thought a law es
.tablishing polygamy will be enacted
.There, each man to be allowed five
-wives. The widows and maids are said
to be rather in favor of it under the cir
cumstances, each one seeming to think
that a fifth of a husband is better than
-Anna at all.
Air The first snow of the season fell
on the 7th of December, 1.862, and from
that date to the 31st of March, 1863,
snow fell thirty-four tunes, not including
the March storm more than one, when
it snowed several times a day ; and
when a storm began in the evening and
continued until the next day it is conn
,ted as one fall.
gar The foreign news by the City of
- Baltimore-and Tura is interesting. The
British Government has at last been
aroused to a sense of duty under the
royal proclamation neutrality. A fine
steamer, intended as a gunboat for the
rebels, has been seized by the Govern
ment officers at Liverpool, and was still
held for examination when those steam
mne sailed.
er Prom Port Royal we -learn the
'decks of the Monitors are being extra
plate with wrought iron. This is for the
purpose of strengthening the decks
against the effects of plunging shot.—
Excepting in this particular, it seems
that our iron-clad batteries have proved
themselves almost invulnerable.
eir Of Sir Tatter' Sykes, the sporting
baronet just dead, it is said that he nev
er Tode in a carriage but once in his life.
-On his wedding he went home from
:church with his wife by this (to him)
unknown conveyance. lie said after
wards that he ".did not find it so bad as
he expected."
lir John J. Crittenden is announced
in the Lexington Observer and Repor
ter as a candidate for Congress from
the Ashiand district, Kentucky.
lir It is said that General Grant's
expenses before Vicksburg, for the sin
gle item of chartering steamers, are $4O
400 .per day.
~''!'he St. Louis Democrat thinks
the number of slaveholders in Missouri
to be.nearer ten thousand than twenty
thousand.,
Leatze-bas completed a full-length
.portrait of .General Burnside and the
portrait iy Snriceded to be one of the ar
tist's happleSt efforts.
A COLD BLOODED MURDER,.--A Wo
man by the name of Phelan, just mar
ried, was murdered at Ellenville, New
York, on Thursday last, by one William
Willis, who gave as the cause of his
bloody act, the non-fulfilment of a mar
riage engagement which bad for some
time existed between his victim and
himself. The murderer, confessing the
murder, said that, incensed at her mar
riage, he procured a knife and went to
the residence of Mrs. Phelan, finding
her with her bonnet on, prepared to go
out. Ho changed salutations with her
and said, "You have wronged me." Mrs.
Phelan replied that she "had not in
tended to wrong him in the least, and
if she had done so she was sorry for it."
He then said, "I have been badly used."
She repeated that she had no intention
to injure bias, and if she had she regret
ed it, and asked him if he had anything
farther to say. He said "No," and im
mediately drew the knife from his pock
et, when it fell upon the floor and hb
stooped to pick' it up. Deceased, he
thought, had not yet any an . rehensions
about what was to take place; she sim
ply stepped back a pace. Having recoy
•ered the knife he mr.,ved towards her,
when she threw Nap her hands before
him; he held her hands down with his
left hand, whi!ie with his right he drew
the knife three times across her throat,
after whith she fell to the floor, and he
immediately left the house and went to
the blacksmith shop. lie said that he
had loved that woman with all his heart
—were he the possessor of worlds he
would give them to restore her life—he
had murdered her—he was a base
wretch, and richly deserved the fate
awaiting him. The murderer, Willis, is
not far from thirty years of age, a har
ness maker by trade. He is by birth
an Irishman ; a man of much more than
ordinary intelligence, generous and
_im
pulsive by nature, easily excited,, and
possessing an ungovernable temper.—
Mrs. Phelan, the murdered woman, was
a member of the Reformed Dutch
Church, a faithful teacher in the Sunday
school, and had n large number of ear
nest and warm friends.
65- New York criminal news has its
usual variety Mary Schmidt, aided by
her mother, attempted to take the life
of the wife of her lover, Captain Stoi
ger, of the Burnside Rifles, by giving
her wine in which laudanum was mixed,
Mary Schmidt was betrothed to Charles
F. Noll, who recently committed sui
cide after having attempted her own
life. Steiger paid attention to her dur
ing her illness from the injuries inflicted
by Noll, and from this grew a mutual
infatuation. Mary Schmidt is sixteen
years of age, and unattractive.
eir It has been repeatedly stated that
Gen. Shields had resigned his commission
in the army and would retire to private
life on his estate in California. His ar
rival at San Francisco was also lately
announced. But it is now stated in a
dispatch from Washington that he was
several weeks ago ordered to report to
Gen. Wright, for service in the Depart
ment of the Pacific. Ile cannot there
fore have resigned.
Gir John Minor Botts, of Virginia,
so long incarcerated in the Libby prison
and in Salisbury, N. C., has be en re
leased through the interposition of 'a
friend, an extensive purchaser of tobac
co, and has permission to remain on his
estate, near Gordonsville, under the
pledge of not aiding or abetting the
Union cause.
fa- The Barnstable Patriot of the
14th, says that Henry H. Crocker, of
New York—late of the firm of Crocker
& Sturgis, of Boston, which failed in
1852, at the time owing the Barnstable
Savings Institution the sum of 000—
last week sent the treasurer of that in.
stitution $llOO, being the full amount
of the debt with interest.
kir The Altoona (Pa.) Register tells
of a female just returned to that city af
ter a service of eighteen months in the
army,:w about having her sex discove red
She took part in three battles, and was
wounded twice, first above the eye and
then in the arm, the latter wound com
pelling her to disclose her sex.
ar One day last week a man attempt.
ed to get outside of the Federal lines,
beyond Murfreesborough, Tenu. He
was hailed by the pickets, but endeavor
ed to escape. He was fired at and
killed. 'Upon his person was found a
plan of the artiacalfr'lla of that place.
lir The Secessionists in LfaingiOn:
Mo., have been notified that .their prop-
erty will be held responsible for any
guerilla outrages on steamers within
five miles of the city, east or west.
ifir Governor Johnson, of Tennessee,
has been authorized to raise Aventy-Sve
thousand troops for special service in
the eastern part of the State. ,
fir Over seventy applications to bank
under the uniform national currency act
have been made to the Treasury De
partment.
Gir Prince Taontre, of Ctabeite,
colored prince, is the last novelty at the
English Court.
eir Truth, in the garment of polite
ness, is often more comely tha# the`-na
ked truth, - • -
-r'y'c~THE MARJETTIAN...°-~-:
THE NEW NATIONAL BANES.—The
Treasury Department has for some days
past been sending out the form cer pre
liminary certificates in connection with
National Banking Association under
the Currency and Banking Law. This
certificate requires applicants to state
the name and title of the association,
its location, and its operation of dis
count and deposit, which are to be car
ried on, the amount of capital stock, the
name and residence of each of the slave
holders, With the number of shares held
by each, and the time the business of
tho association is to commence.
The certificate is made in order that
subscribers may avail themselves of the
advantages of the act to provide Nation
al Currency, secured by a pledge of
United States Stocks, and to prc,vid e ,
for the circulation and redero",Aion there
at approved Feb, 25 ; 1.863.
Blanks will be filled, so as to show
the numerical order of organization, and
the locality.
TUE THOIINDIKE WILL CASE.---The
Supreme CoUrt of Massachusetts has just
decided the much-talked of Thorndike
Will Case, in favor of the two children
of Andrew Thorndike, who died in 1854,
thus sustaining the legality of his mar
riage with a German lady, with whom
he entered into a civil contract of mar
riage at Frankfort-on-the. Maine before
the United States Consul, and with
whom he lived as his wife, acknowledg
ing the children as his up to the time
of his death. Israel Thorndike, brother
of the deceased, was the contestant for
the property, amounting to about $30,-
000, on the gronnd of the illegitimacy of
his brother's children.
sir The Court Martial of Colonel
D'Utassy, for alleged frauds in recruit
ing, brings out the fact that nearly all,
that description of enormous frauds has
arisen in the city of New York, and in
regiments that have been called "Ger
man." The rolls for pay are made dif
ferently from those lodged in the office
of the Adjutant General, and the frauds
generally perpetrated by collusions,
whereby one person has managed to
draw pay under simulated names, or in
two capacities. It is said that fortunes
have been made by such transactions.
Cr Foreign immigration at New York
is becoming quite large again, owing,
probably to the impression abroad, that
the war, by carrying off so many men,
will create a demand for mechanical and
agricultural labor. Agents from some
of the Western States, or rather the
land interests in those States, it is said,
are in Europe facilitating this immigra
tion. It is probable that this is what
has given rise to the report . in the Brit
ish journals, that our government has
agents abroad, enlisting men for the
war, contrary to the neutrality laws of
Europeon governments.
11Er Gen. Grant has passed down the
Mississippi ere this, with his entire fleet
of gunboats and transports, and it is
said that he will make an assault upon
Vicksburg from below, after having cap
tared the - rebel batteries at Warrenton.
Admiral Farragut was at last accounts
successfully blockading the mouth of
Red river, which is deemed the most
important, if not the only, channel by
winch the rebels •receive food for. their
large armies at Vinksburg and Port
Hudson.
riir There seem s to be a little move
ment around Vicksburg again, as if
some new plan was in progress for the
reduction of that city. A Cincinnati
despatch says the purpose now is to put
a force of 70,000 men at Warrenton,
which will srequire first the transports
to pass the Vicksburg batteries. Gen.
Grant's plans, so far, have been nothing
but failures, and it is hard to predicate
any success upon any of his intended
movements.
it& The Lynchburg (Va.) Republicans
of the 6th says : "An Augusta, Geor
gia, contemporary states, on the author
ity of a gentleman just returned from
the upper of North Carolina, that ten
penny nails are passing current Ahem
at five cents each. We have no such
metallic basis for our circulating medi.
urns are grains of corn representing five
cents, and quids of tobacco representing
the decimal."
g A distinguished Greek cavalry
officer, General Ypsilano, formerlY chief
of cavalry in the military service of
Greece, has arrived here for the purpose
of tendering his services to the Govern
ment. le brings a letter from Mr.
Adams, our minister to England, to the
g e iztary of War, stroagly recommend
ing him to ttifi Aver of the (lover&
meat.
gir A large body of land and a quan
tity of stock in the Jeffersonville and
Indianapolis Railroad, the property of
Col. Wm. Preston, of the rebel army,
having been confiscated, was sold at
auction on account of the Gni:amount
at Charlestown, Clark county Indiana.
fir The Copperhead papers are now
beginning to call for a war platform—
not that they are any more in favor of
war than they ever were, but because,
as they argue, the people won't go Cop
perheadism, and the only way to get in
to office is on a war platform. They
Want e to swindle the people egaifi as
they did last 'fall: '
THE MINNESOTA. INDIANS:•ThO remo
val of the Winnebago and Sioux tribes
of Indians from Minnesota will be com
menced immediately by the Commission
er of Indian Affairs. The Sioux will be
removed from Fort Snelling, where they
are now held under military surveil
lance, to a tract of land in the vicinity
of Fort Randall, on the Upper Missouri,
several hundred miles distant from any
considerable settle m ants of the whites.
The Winnebagoes, who have generally
been peaceful in their intercourse with
the whites, will be removed lo an
adjoining tract, To ;educe them to
abandon thole toying habits, and to
engarts:., in agricultural pursuits, the
Uovernment has decided . to furnish
them, in their new homes, with agricul.
tural implements, cattle, and
_other
necessary articles. The Indians to be
removed number about 4000. The Min
nesota Indians under conviction are to
be removed from the State. The Pres
ident has decided to stay the futher exe
cution of the poor wretches.
ggir The main object of the recent vis
it of Gov. Curtin to the army of the Po
tomac, wo are informed, was for the pur
pose of promoting the success of the
re-enlistment of those whose terms will
expire in a few weeks. In this, the in
formation is, that he has been highly
successful ; and it is believed that at
least two-thirds of the nine months' men
will re-enlist., after they have had a
month's leisure and recreation at home.
All who re-enlist will receive the full
bounties, and their number will go to
make up our quota of the new call that
will - be made under the conscript
ItEr On Friday evening last Thomas
Ackley, Esq., Cashier of the State Bank
at Camden, N. J., was discovered dead
in his chie.r. He was in his usual good
health, and had_appointed to go out at
84 o'clock. He sat himself down in his
easy chair, in the midst of his family, to
await the appointed time, and, as was
supposed fell asleep. Shortly befora 9
o'clock a member of the family on at
tempting to arouse him discovered that
he was dead. He had passed from life
to death without a pang. Mr. A. was a
most respectable citizen of Camden.
fgr At a recent. meeting of the British
Institution of Naval Architects, Mr.
Scott Russell, the eminent builder, sta
ted explicitly that there . were in the
whole British navy only two vessels
that could pursue the Alabama with any
hope of overtaking her. It was granted
that England, after all her expensive
experiments, has no iron feet on which
she can rely either for offensive or de
fensive warfare. Her Warrior and
Black Princes and the rest have proved
unsatisfactory.
sWir Shortley after 7 o'clock one even
ing, Charles Noll, a young man, was
found dead in his room at No. 29 Bow
ery. It appears he had committed su
icide by taking laudanum and opium
after having administered a dose of the
same description to a young girl to whom
he was engaged to be married., The
girl was found in an insensible condition
medical aid was at once procured for
her, and at last accounts she was in a
fair way for recovery.
sir The country, almost in the com
mencement of the rebellion, was electri
fied by the order of Gamma). Dix : "if
any man attempts to haul down the
the American flag, shoot him on the
spot I" The same spirit should animate
the people now, and if any man attempt
to desert the Union cause, or refuses to
fling to the breeze the banner of that
holy cause, let him be riddled by the
batteries of public , indignation, thun
dered from the ballot-boxes.
t 3 There are but two parties in the
country, one for 'the Union and the
other for disunion. Where are we to
place those Democratic papers which
adhere to the treasonable school of
John 0. Calhonn and ignore the loyal
principles of Andrew Jackson ?
,: Or Humphrey Marshall said in a late
speech to his men and other citizens :
"They call us copper-heads ; let us cop
per-fasten our. Confederacy." But
Humphrey mustn't try to copper-bottom
himself; it would require more copper
than there is.
gia - John Bull, in his sympathy for
the rebels against the United States,
supplies them with piratical ships, and
when we send provisions to supply his
starving operatives, he is base enough
to get up a riot and cause their destruc
tion.
sir A revolting spectacle is already
presented on the battle-field ofAntietam.
The earth is washed away from the shal
low trenches used for graves, and bod
ies of the buried soldiers are appearing
in various parts of that vast graved-yard.
fir "A cavalier" has been adopted
for the new seal of the Confederacy.—
From-the facility exhibited by it in
its early stages for stealing a "chevalier
d'indastrie" would be a much more ap
propriate device.
Gr The Richmond Whig confessess
that Cotton is no longer. King—"pork
bay dethroned him." But-what must
be the subjects where the King is a
•°OI
SLOW ndT SURE.—The Germantown
Telegraph says on the night of the 25th
of July, 1958, a colored man named Pe
ter Miller, was murdered at the build
ing of the Philadelphia Institute, in
Lombard street, near Seventh, by an
other colored man named Jeremiah
Dicey. The parties had been engaged
in a fight in the yard attached to the
building, and during the progress of the
struggle Dixoy entered a barber shop in
the house s and procuring a razor, he
testitned the fight armed with his weap
on. Miller ran through the entry and
attempted to get away, but he was fol
lowed up by Dicey who butchered him
in the moat horrible manner. The mur
derer escaped, and some months since
he was traced out and brought back to
the city. On Friday last he was put
upon trial, and late the same evening
the jury rendered a verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree.
Powse. of THE PAESS.-Mr. Kinglake
the historian of the Crimean war, an
observant statesman and member of
Parliament, gives it as his conviction
that the Times newspaper alone caused
that war ; if so, it has made bankrupt
one empire, caused the death of the
greatest emperor of the age, establish
ed another on his throne, broken- the
power of the nobles in Russia, freed
the serfs, redered thousands of women
husbandless and childless, killed more
than one general, made or ruined the
reputation of other, and made hun,lreds
of our best families mourners. It has
first fed public opinion, impressed it
with an idea, and then by constant iter
tion, rendered this idea a reality.
Cr Governer Curtin, in view of the
exigency of the public service, has sug
gested to the President a plan of gar
risoning the defences of Washington with
militia, that the veteran soldiers now in
that department might lie spared for
more important and pressing duties in
the field. To this end, he offered to
forward hero twenty thousand militia,
and asked that about five thousand vol
unteers:;vho have had the neiesaary ex
perience be distributed among the mili
tia, to render the latter force equival
ent for all practical purposes, to the
same number of volunteers sent to the
field, it is not known whether this pa
triotic• offer has bean accepted, but it
meets with the favor of the President.
r A coffin was lately sent from Cin
cinnati to Louisville, by Adams' Ex
press, addressed to a soldier of an Ohio
regiment at Murfreesboro', the weight
being marked "290." It was very unu
sual to send corpsea to Murfreesboro',
although many were shipped from
thence, and one of the messengers
opened the coffin. It did not contain
a corpse, but was well stored with bun
-
dies, packages, letters, eatables, boots—
in fact, a small-sized grocery and cloth
ing establishment was inside the coffin.
The freight being paid and the contents
not being "contraband," it was closed
up and forwarded according to direc
tions—"handle with care."
far The date of the end of the world
is satisfactorily fixed for the year 1885.
There is an ancient prediction, repeated
by Nostradamus in his "Centuries,"
which says that when St. George shall
crucify the Lord, when St. Merit shall
raise him, and St. John shall assist at
his assension, the end of the world shall
come. In the year 1885 it wilt happen
that Good Friday falls on St. George's
dtiy, Easter Sunday on St. Mark's day,
and. Holy Thursday of Assension day
will be also the feast of St. John the
Baptlat.
Amongst the most important
bills of the Legislature is one providing
for the payment of the bold tuilitia.—
The House very justly granted a month's
pay to the men of September ; but the
Senate hunkishly cut this down - one
half, with rations. As the soldiers re
ceived no clothing or equipments, and
are not to be charged, we suppose this
half month's pay will be at rate of full
pay, and not at the rate of $l3 a month,
which will bring it to about the same
thing far the privates.
WS - The extreme rigor of the law will
not be meted out to deserters who vol
untarily return to their duty whithin a
few days, as many are doing, not fewer
it is computed, than from a thousand
to fifteen hundred a day on the average.
Those from General Hooker's army,
sentenced recently to be shot, have been
pardoned.
dir Brig. Gen. Busteed's commission
in the army having expired he returns
to New York to resume the practice of
law. In his farewell address to his
brigade he warms them against the in
sinuation of those who desire peace with
the rebels on any other terms than sub
mission to the constitution and laws.
our A young woman, wearing soldiers
apparel and belonging to the 14th lowa
Regiment, shot herself in Cairo on Sun
day night because her sea was discover
ed.
Cr It is stated that PieColomianl is
about to return to the stage , for a few
nights. She is jealous of Patti.
ar Gerrit Smith hos subscried one
thousand dollar's • towards the Irish re
.
lief fund now ireing iaised.
Short Scraps of News front our Exnauc
Brigadier Generals George A. Mct: a l:
and Louis Blanker have been musterec;
out of the service of the United States
Princess Louis of Hesse, and Prin
cess A lice of England, have bean safely
delivered of a princess.
The Polish insurrection is reported
to be increasing in various directions,
sundry conflicts are reported with va
rying success.
A resident of Blairsville, Pa., fell 40
feet down an embarkment recently, and
his foot caught in a fallen tree top,
holding him head downward till the nest
day. He died soon after his removal.
An old man, sixty years of age, who
but a few years ago was worth, in his
own right, $50,000, has been reduced to
poverty by the old-fashioned -method of
endorsing for a friend, and is now work
ing on the Louisville, New Albany, and
Chicago Railroad at $1,50 per day.
Gen. Neal Dow the Union officer, well
known as the author of the Maine li
quor law, was, according to a statement
in the Pickayune, recently sued in court
at New Orleans, by Bradish Johnson,
for removing from his plantation a quan
tity of sugar, silverware, &c., without the
plea of "military necessity," Judgment
was rendered against the General for
$1454.
Oen. Shields arrived in San Francis
co on the 20th ultimo, and made an itn
,promptu speech at the Oriental Hotel
the same evening. liu has resigned
his commission in the United States
army, and ha's no connection with the
tnillitary department of the llocern
moat. This is now denied.
Gen. Burnside has cuused the arrest
of two young ladies for giving aid and
comfort to the enemy in Kentucky.—
Their names, are Miss Panny Battles,
daughter of rebel Brig. Gen. U. Battles,
and Miss Hattie Brooker, both of Ten
nessee, and both are now enjoying
plain food at (lamp Chase, Coluinbus,
Ohio.
Ou Monday night 4 member of a
Pennsylvania regiment on picket com
plained of feeling ill. The surgeon of
the regiment was called, when there
was 80416 whispering instituted- Thu
sick soldier was -a woman, enceinte, of
course. The result of the surgeou's
work was the delivery or a tine boy.--
Gen. Josh. Owee named the child Pick
et Falmouth Ellsworth.
Admiral Depoiat's iron clad squadron
has arrived at Port Royal, and is being
repaired and fitted for service again.
The damage done to the monitors
considerable, but not stalely.. It• k
thought that a second assault will soon
be made, in which we shall certainly LI
successful.
Tho Modical Doparttnont knatiAie3
show tho number of robotprisoners who
have died in Union hopitals, since this
commeucemont of tho war, to bo over
_five thousand, instead of two thou and,
as published a faw days since.
The agent of Mr. A. T. Stowart, or
New York, has chartered the brig Jes
sie Bonfield, which he will load orttir4-
ly at his own expense, with a full cargo
of corn and provisions, for the benefit
of the distressed people of Ireland.
A squad of about sixty negro soldiers ,
mostly under thirty years of afe and
able-bodied, passed through Now York
city, on their way to Massachusetts, to
join Governor Andrew's famous regi
ment.
The constitutionality of the Black
laws of Illinois, tinder which colored
people are excluded from the common
wealth, is to be tested in the Supreme
Court of that State.
The Union meetingat Hamilton, But
ler county, Ohio, on Saturday, was the
largest ever held there. Over 20,000 people attended, and speeches wore
made by Governors Ted and Morton,.
Henry Winter Davis, and others. Gen._
Burnside was present.
A party of Indians attacked an out
post of eighteen soldiers on the 16th
instant at Medulla, thirty miles from
Mankato, Minnesota, One soldier was
killed, two wounded. Of the settlers,.
one boy was killed and two men wound
ed. Cavalry has been sent in pursuit.
The estate of the late Stephen A.
Douglass, in Chicago, has been invento
ried at seven hundred 'thousand dollars
but there are encumbrances upon
equal to its appraised value, The exe-
Dntors report that there le no personal.
prci:perty.
..nion clubs are being organized In
all the principle towns in California.—
Loyalty there is as enthusiastic as In
any of the Northern States. Treason - ,
with all its bold attempts, finds no rest
ing place in the gold commonwealth.
- The President has issued a procla
mation, declaring that the act for the
admission of .West Virginia into the
- Union shall take effect from and after
sixty days, proof having been submitted
to him that the conditiOns of admission,
namely, certain emancipation changes
in her constitution, have been complied
with:
ar, When a big bug gets a tumble,
what sort of a bug is he •