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Norwalk, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1863.
About the Draft.
We are authorized says the Norwich Mer—
ning Bulletin, to say that Gov. Buckingham
went to Washington a few days since for
the purpose of making some arrangement
with the War Department which would at
once relieve the several towns in the State
i‘ ‘ from furnishing, by draft, a number of men
equal to the surplus of volunteers which
some have already furnished.
With a view of approaching an equitable
adjustment of the questions involved. he
submitted the following proposition :
First. Let the War Department adopt the
certificate of the Executive, which exhibits
the surplus of vol unteers furnished by towns,
as correct.
Second. Where men have already been
. drafted from a town which forms a sub-dis-
': _ , trict, and which has already a surplus equal
to or greater than the number new ordered,
direct that such men be at once discharged.
If the draft has not yet taken place, order
‘ it suspended. Where such a town has fur-
nished a surplus which is not sufficient to
- meet the resent demand, order a. draft
T7Mvvhich shal only be equal to the deficiency.
But if the draft has taken place, discharge a
number equal to such surplus, beginning
the last man drafted and running back as
far as may be necessary to release the pre-
scribed number.
Third. Where two or more towns form a
sub-district, d one or more has furnished
a surplus while one or more has not, let the
draft be made, and then :"lease from those
who may be drafted fro‘ \ such town or
towns a number equal to the surplus, begin-
nin with the last man drafted. If the
dra has already taken place, let the sur-
plus be released in the same manner.
Fourth. Refu1n_ to the box for drafting in
the several sub-districts oi the men who
have been released.
Fffth. Ascertein the number which will
be released under the above orders, and the
percentage which they bear to the enrol~
- ment of the State, and then order an addi-
tional draft of the same per centage through~
out the State.
To this proposition the Department re-
plied verbally—that there was no authority
under the law of Congress to deduct the
surplus of volunteers which may have been
furnished or towns, from he quota now or-
dered by draft from these towns.
:fiThat Congress had not authorized an ap-
portionrncnt of men to be drafted from the
towns, and such an apportionment would be
L. a usurpation of legislative powers, would be
acting outside the provisions of the law, and
involve the Dezartment in inextricable em-
barrassment and difficulty which cannot be
attempted.
From this it will be seen that by the draft
‘ . now ordered. no distincwn can be made
' . betwecr - towns which have furnished
a an)“ .11 volunteers and those which
have not.
While the Governor regrets the heavy
burdens which the most loyaLand patriotic
are called upon to bear under this decision,
yet he feels th at any attempt to remedy evils
and equalize burdens outside the provisions
of law, will only increase and aggravate
them.
The drafting for this District was ad-
journed till next Saturday, upon the conc1u~
sion of last Saturday’s drawings. The next
towns in course are Norwalk and New
Canaan, but we doubt whether they can
be drawn before a week from next Saturday.
Due notice will be given by advertisement,
in all cases,I wuere practicable, prior to com-
mencing the draft for the respective tOWns.
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Fire in Westport.
The store of Messrs. Staples & Adams,
with all its contents, consisting of an as
sortment of neneral merchandise, was en-
tirely COED-“lei! on Saturday night week.
A reward of $500 is offered to whoever will
give sufficient evidence to convict the incen-
diary. See adv.
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County Fair.
The Fairfiel’. County Agricultural Society
held its first meeting to perfect arrange-
ments for the approaching fair at Danbury»
on Wednesdsylast. The Kenosha Trotting
Park is to he usrd which will draw out the
stood: and they will drau: the people.
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Dunbar-y Rail Raul.
The Annual Meeting of the Danbury &
_ Norwalk Rai‘ro..d Comps. ; was holden at
l the Towu house in Norwalk, on Thursday
, last. The affairs of the road were represent-
' edto 11-: in a prrxsperor.e condition and all
the old Board of Direct. ms were re-elected.
The vacancy in the Board, occasioned by
the decease of C. B. White, was not filled.
Considerable discussion pro and con was
elicited by the Horse Railroad branch, of the
corporation, the ofiicers denying that the
Horse Cars were put on to defeat the street
road. The public sentiment liereabouts,
however, is nearly unanimous the other way.
—-—~———.Q‘.’—o
mCommodore Ely, Secretary Elwell,
and thaw’iirnnipus Band will please accept
’ our thanks for the compliment paid as on
Wednesday night last. Vice-Com. Whit-
ney was also serenaded on the same night.
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Pic-Nics.
The Sabbath School children connected
'with the 2d 11. E. Church enjoyed a pic-
nic season at the Ampitheatre Grove on
.Thursday last. The children of the Bap-
tist Society follow suit this week on Thurs-
; day. How blessed it is thus to add to the
" happiness of “these little ones.”
. 4.4....“—
WMI. Henry C. Wing, who has recently
been acting aslocal on the Norwich Daily
Bulletin, is about to assume the control of‘
the Litchfield Enquirer. Mr. Humphrey,
the present proprietor, is going to Brooklyn,
N. Y. Success to both.
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. NEW PAPER—We have received the first
number of the Meriden Recorder, 9. neatly
printed, spicy little paper, edited by Capt.
Luther G. Riggs, late of the 22d Regt. We
wish it good success, and Meriden certainly
Ought to sustain it well.
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. WThe terrible tragedy at Lawrence is
regarded as the direct and legitimate fruit
of the inibecile policy pursued by the com-
mander of that department, Gen. Schofield.
He is a “conserVative” and has been concilia.
{ing the rebels by, “a moderate course” and
e result has been shown us in the work of
fiuautrell and his murderous gang at Law-
Rhee.
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g] ,;111 the case of Evelina S. Bailey as
Tom: of flrumbull, tried at this term of the
. fiiipériOr Court and reported in our-columns
ivvo“”vveeks ago, a verdict for plaintiff for
I ’ 1’5 and costs, has been rendereda
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Fire in Westport.
Abou‘ Lock on the morning of Satur-
. day e a "3d inst., a fire broke out in the
store. of Messrs. Staples & Adams, adjoining
their l“ -- yard on the west side of the
b'ulg . this village. It was discovered
and the alarm soon given. Compo, No. 2,
' 's- and by great exertions of the
lew‘ m 1st-rs present, they succeeded in sa-
ving a dwelling house distant only about
25 :-_ uu feet, the roof of which was very
much burnt, having been on fire several
times. Among the firemen were conspicu-
ous’Ex-Foreman J. S. Jones, Ex-Sec. 0.1.
Jones, Ex-Asst. Foreman F.~ Sherwood, Asst.
Foreman William Kirkc, Treasurer, E. S.
Dowas, Foreman HOse, N. S. Kirk and oth-
ers whose names I have been unable to re-
member.
The fire is supposed to be the work of an
incendiary. The buildings and stock were
totally destroyed together with the books
which were in an old fashioned knob safe.
ROBBERY.
While the Engine was engaged at the fire
the Company’s house was entered by a
Window in the rear and the large Silver
Pitcher presented to them by Mr. A. H. By-
ington some year or more since, was stolen.
No trace of it has yet been found.
TRUTH.
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The Right. Spirit.
The Internal Revenue. collector of this
Congressional District has received the fol-
lowing note. It breaths a spirit of true pat-
riotism.
“ DARIEN, Conu., Aug. 25, 1863.
D. F. Honnrs'rn'n, Esq.,
DEAR SIR :—Enclosed please find my
check for $957 85, to pay Government Tax,
(I wish it was more,) to put down this unholy
Rebellion. Please send receipt, and oblige,
Yours, &.c.”
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SOUTH NORWALK, 01,-}
Aug. 31st, 1863.
MEssRs. Enrrons.—-Wliile at the house Of
J efi'ery O. Phelps, Esq., in Simsbury, recent-
ly, I saw in his yard a grape vine, which
from its size may be considered the parent of
all grape vines. The vine by actual meas-
urement, five feet from the ground, is two
feet and five inches in circumference. Lum-
ber enough to build a. good sized house
could be obtained from this vine. D. P. E.
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WESTPORT.—-Tlle Ladies of Christ Church
are to hold aFair under the County Tent, on
Wednesday and Thursday of next Week.
See adv.
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REGArrA—A race between the Sail-boats
Santa Claus and Eclipse, is to come off from
Gregory’s Point, on Friday. at 10 o’clock,
A. M. for a purse of $100.
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WThe Fair at Norwalk Hall, last week,
was well attended, and we learn that the
Ladies cleared about $500. Very good for
these times.
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DARIEN.—The Ladies of the Congrega-
tional society held a Fair in the County
Tent, Wednesday and Thursday last. They
realized a handsome amount of “material
aid‘.”
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WRidgefield has voted $300 to every
man who may be drafted in that town. As
all such votes are pronounced illegal by the
highest authorities we doubt if the money
can be borrowed.
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Golden Wedding.
Our townsman, Chandler Starr, Esq., and
his wife, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their marriage, at the residence of their
son-in-law, Charles I. Starr, in Stamford, on
Wednesday, August 26th. The event, the
family gathering, the mutual congratulations
accompanied by substantial tokens of affec-
tion, all conspired to render the occasion a
delightful one.
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If Mr. Montgomery whose speeches will
be remembered in this region, is about to re-
turh to Vicksburg and re-establish his paper.
In his Prospectus, he refers' to the state of
things in the North, its comparative prosperi-
ty even in time of war and its ability to bear
the mighty burden imposed upon it. Its
strength and its prosperity, _116 attributes to
its system of Free Labor.
Though aPro-Slavery man and slave own-
er heretofore, he avOWS his intention tolabor
for the extinction or abolition of what he re-
gards as a curse upon the Southern Country.
WW
HARPER’S MAGAZINE for September is at
hand, and is quite an attractive number. It
opens with an amusing narrative by Lady
Dufferin, entitled “ An Unprotected Female
in the East,” illustrated with seventeen capi-
tal ’engravings. Mr. H. M. Alden contri-
butcs an instructive article on the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Region ;” “The Battle and Tri-
umph of Dr. Susan,” is concluded. There
are numerous other original contributions,
which are all good. The Monthly Record of
Current Events, Literary Notices, Easy Chair
Drawer, and some good cuts at the shoddy
Aristocracy and of the Fashions, conclude
the number.
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WThe platform of the Democracy is
thus succinctly set forth in a communica-
tion to the “Lounger’s,, columns of Harper’s
Weekly:
“First. Resolved, That we are in favor of
the war.
Second. Resolved. That we are opposed
to all measures for carrying it on.”
o<.p—.
W The draft in New York city is finished
and during the drawing perfect quiet and
peace have prevailed. Some of the worst
copperheads were not “there to breed trouble;
for it is thought that 500 rioters were killed
in the great riot. A little over 19,000 were
drawn, or one in six of the number enrolled
in the first class.
.-....
WThc Tribune says Gen. Gillmore re-
fused a major-general’s commission before
he wont to Charleston; prefered to earn it-
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W Robert Toombs has addressed a let-
ter to the Atlanta Constitutional, dwelling
upon the fearful depreciation of the rebel
currency, and contrasting it with our healthy
condition. He attributes it to bad manage-
ment alone. He says our government has
betterunderstood and adhered to the true
principles of finance. He asserts that rebel
currency “is depreciated more than 1,000 per
cent below gold and silver, and 400 per cent
below suspended bank notes.”
«Op.
M‘ Mr. Russell the former correspondent
of the London Times in his paper, the Army
and Navy Gazette, says :
“It requires philosophy, metaphysics, his.
torical parallels and immense faith to believe
that the south can continue her resistance to
the north in the field, or preserve her states
from the sway of Washington pro-consuls."
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33‘ “Spriggins,” who left here for Sarato-
ga recently and took “something to drink”
while there, with him, has been outdone by
a party who recently went to the White
Mountains and carried a “foot stove" along(?)
The fashion introduced is expected. to be all
.-'= nether season.
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The Drafted.
The Conscription wheel began to turn for
week, Aug. 22d. The names for Hunting-
ton, Trumbull, Monroe, Easton, Weston,
and Wcsfport were" drawn. Annexed we
give the list of those drawn for the
TWENTY-FIRST SUB DIsrchr—Wns'rron'r
AND WESTON, .
Number enrolled, two hundred and three;
number to be drafted ninety-one.
James Leary, wpt. Geo H Nash, wpt.
A Grummon, wtn Rob Gault, do
M Disbrow, wpt Ebenezer Coley, do
Simon Lee, wtn Dennis Dwire, do
J no Flynn, wpt Wm Mott, do _ ‘
James Powell, wtn Clark Nichols, wtn - -
Ephriam Fitch, wtn DRomagne, wpt
Jos H Hurlbut, wpt Horace B Coley, do
D L Roland wtn D E Murral, do
Edward Boland, wpt Chas Bedient, wtn
Rob Gre , wtn E F Sherwood, Wpt
Lewis B iles, wpt M T Hendricks, wtn
Isaac B Sherwood, doWilliam Allen, wpt
Edward B Jennings donBoughton, do
Robt Gray, wtn - Joseph Sherwood, do
Thos Quinlon, do Benjamin Foster, do
Michael Scully, wpt Francrs Sherwood, do
ChasH Ta lor do Joseph Jennings, do
Samuel B heeler doFrankl Whitehead do
Edward Wakeman doHeni-y urlbut, do
Chas Mansell, do Fred Sherwood-"do, .
Walter Coley, do John O’Brien, do
W H Benjamin, do Elick Brown, wtn
Wm Couch, wtn M Dwire, wpt ‘
W H Samis, wpt Frank Dawn, do
Cyrus Goodale, do W A Wheeler,‘wtn
Levi Wiliams, ao Joseph G Smith. do
Henr .R Taylor, wpt
War B Mead, wtn ,
Geo Brotherton, do Theo Hendricks, do
Oliver Perry, wtn C J Ketchum, wpt
Henr£W Taylor, wth Peet, wtn '
Chas Mills, do
Fred Skinney, do
Danl Beers, wtn J S Smith, wpt .
Hiram Scofield, do E W Bradley, wtn
A'Lockwood, do . Geo Gorham, wpt
Geo B Smith wpt S Hendricks, wtn
Jno L Jones, do Jno Adams, wpt
Thos W Miller, do Jdo Bedine, wtn
Morris W Perry, wtn Wm Bedient, do
J no H Jennings, wpt Geo Bennett, wpt
Chas Sherman, wtn Geo J ellifl‘, do
S E Elwood, wpt Geo Warren, do
Arthur Taylor, wpt Samuel Allen, do
P Treadwell, wtn Wm Degenal, do
J as Fisher, wpt M Blackman, wtn
W Patterson, do Ed J Taylor, wpt
X' - ' ~ _ ;
The wheel was again in motion on Saturl
day last with the following result :
22D SUB DISTRICT—FAmFlELD.
Number enrolled 306; number to draft 89.
Wm H Bradley Alfred B Casburen
Henry C Banks Wm J Gould
Michael Cummings Richard B Jennings
John Berry Michael Ctis .
Sherwood terling Jr Oliver Burr
Henry A Wells . George Eiseman
Charles R” Brothwell Milton Bulkley
Martin Whalen
Lewis Burr 2d
Franklin Blakemn
David M’Donald
Albert J Hawkins David MoCaffry .
Joseph A. Sturges Arthur Merwin
Oliver .H Perry Jr Robt Waterbury
Wm Ha es James Whalen
Henry Banks David Beers Jr
Henry Wakeman Philander Clarke
George Bulkley Samuel Jones
Joshua Wheeler, Morris Tuttle
Geo Baker John W Parrot
Arthur E Wilson
Samuel J'P Mills 1
John Grego
Benj PGordjon ' ‘ . '
Moses P Whaley - Martin Wha en
Edwin Sherwood . . rthur Brown
Chas A Wheeler orace A Nichols
Joseph L Chapman John Shocklessy
Geo E Edd ~ George K Rogers
Daniel B hitchead Sherman Fancher
Chas Bulkley 2d Wiliiam‘C Sherwood
Moses Taylor Jr Thomas W Bartram
Anson Hawkins Oliver Turney
Wm H Robins Jr
23d Sun Disrnrc'r—S'rnarronn. \
Number enrolled 146 ; number to draft 43.
John Murphey Frank Fairchild
Geo. F Stott Robert R F Plumb .
Lewis Beardsley Thaddeus E Peck ’
Lewis H Judson Everett L Wheeler
Alonzo Gray Wm C Judson .
James B Mitchell L H Northrop -
Chas Hough NacepTolberd (col’d).
Pulaski Benjamin Walter Booth .
Watson H Smith Edwin B Hawley
Samuel N Wells * Frederick Lillingston
John H Coe - .Blbert Wilcoxson
Samuel W BeardsleyDavid W Judson
Chas P Burritt Cnas Wolfe
Manuel Lovell Henry B Miner
Hanford Wilcoxson Chas Benjamin (col’d
Chas CWells Stiles L Smith-«man
Stephen W Scott that drew the tickets.
Elbert Wilcoxson , Anson H Blakeman
Abram W Bradley John Blackmail ,
John W Hard George F Cooke ' '
Daniel Lahey ' Franklin Wheeler
Sutton Green George‘A Nichols '
24TH SUB. Dis'rmc'r—anrowu.
Number enrolled 376; number to draft 1I3
Dennis Quinlin Dennis Cavanaugh
Henry Morris Hugh Campbell
Michael McMahon Richard Welch
Sampson B Lake Wheeler Ward
Chas. Warner Peter Bradley
John McMahon 2d David Downs
John Shehan Morris Colgan
Robert A Clark James Daily
Robert MoArthur Edwin B'Peck
Gideon B Camp Isaac Lake
Nath’l Lyon Frederick Winchell
Silas E Fairchild John Harley
Henry French Dennis Hayes
Sylvester Beers David Nash
John McMahon Carlos S Warner
Edwin Curtis Henry 0 lman
John Farrel Thomas ane
Michael McMahon 2dJohn Mulligan
Frederick Sanford Patrick Bradley
Timothy Shehan Wm. H Hey
Samuel F Tilson _ John Hoadly
John Lillis Bradley C Sherwood
Michael Conley Thomas Ryan - .
Edward Taylor John McArthur Jr
James Corbit Samuel S Ludden
Simon Gorman MichaelL nch
Hiram Davis John E oyt
Michael Carrol
Daniel Kane
Thomas Lynch
Daniel Linahan
Patrick Garragan
Henry F Bertine
Conrad Derlam
John Kane 2d
Edward D Tomlinson
James Carroll .
Wm. Cribbjn Curtis Tomlinson
John A Sanford Dunniu J Lake
Frederick Elwood Hobert Camp
Frederick B Terrell Edgar .A N ettleton
John Bartlett Patrick Hulihan
Geo B Fairchild James Green
Geo. J Tucker Smith B Glover
Patrick Kelley Edmund Godey
Benj. Matthews Birdse E Lewis
Martin Kelley John Goodsell
Chas. Bradley . Wm H Moore
John Lynch 4th Patrick Keating
Chas Newman Austin Blackman
Eli Beers 4 Connor Kane
Joseph R Banks James Hagan
Isaac B Hall
Chas Stillson
Chas L Roberts Hull Shepard
Edward Odell ‘ Phio Nichols
Frederick M ShepardThomas Scales
Edward M Sherman John Pertell
Leroy Scover
Francis Tool
John Lillis Michael Kilbridge
Thos. Ferrell Daniel Har’rigan
John Houlihan Patrick Doland
Wm Ackley. - '
Adjourned to Saturday next at 10 A. M.
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Fom Jeff Davis—April. 1861.
With mortar, Paixhan and pctard, _ h
We tender, Old Abe our Beau-regard. .,
From the North—August, 1801.
With Monitors, Parretts, and an "anger to bore,"
We send J cfi‘. reeling, one Gill~more.
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W The following promotions bear date
of Aug. 22d: -—-Major R. W. Daboll, 5th
Regiment, to be Lieut. Col. vice Ives, de-
clined; Capt. W. S. Cogswell, 5th Regiment
to be Major ; Adjutant Rcdfield Duryea, 6th
'Regiment, to be Lieut.=Colonel, vice Spel-
dell, transfered to Invalid Corps; Corporal
Edwin S. Hubbell, Co.’ B. 10th Regiment,
to be 2d Lieut. Co. 0., vice Sanford, promo-
} ted.
this County, at Bridgeport, on Saturday '
James B Nichols Bradley N Lyon _
Christopher 'Ande'rsonArthur H‘Sherwood
John Canigan Edward Hanlen
Geo Bonn Terrance Anderson,
James J Jones Chas McCan “
Orlando Elwood Joel Banks
Patrick Graham Isaac H Bennett
Joseph B Betts Edward J Banks
Horace N Banks Royal T Nichols
David W Thompson James D ,Harring
Henry Roe Wm Northrop .
Horace B Banks Chesleon F Brown
Samuel J essup Wm Nichols
Thomas Killien James McGarley ,
Frank H Hall Hez W Porter
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ofGovernor Seymour.
NEW YORK, Friday, Aug. 20.
Gen. Dix has furnished the correspou-
dencc between himself and Gov. Seymour
in relation to employing the State military to
enforce the United States laws in this city.
The General furnishes this correspondence
to explain his reasons for asking for a mili-
tary force from the General Government.
He says, “had my application for State
military to the Governor been successful, I
should not have asked the General Govern-
ment to send into this State a single soldier
to aid in asserting its authority and in pro-
tecting its ofiicers from violence in
discharge of their duties.”
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Personal.
Whom-Col. Win. T. Clark, Chief 'of
Gen. McPherson’s Staff, is in town enjoying
a few days recreation under the “ old anccs~
Expose
' .tral roof.” - ‘
———DA'vrs HATCH, Esq. of the South Nor-
vwalk Steam Planing Works is engaged fill-
ing an order for an immense public building
_;to be entirely constructed and fitted, at his
,mill, and put up at St. Domingo. A West
‘India brig is at his dock awaiting its comple-
- "tion. He has just made a contract for a'
1. (large private residence also, to be put up on
. l.1he same Island. '
z—The Steamer, upon which Dr. Samuel
,‘Iiynes recently set sail for California, took
; .fire when about seven hundred miles out of
'New York and returned, the Doctor reach-
. ‘ ing home just in time to see one of his little
-- 'ones expire—a double providence.
'—E. C. Stedman, Esq., will soon publish a
t . Poem entitled “Alice of Monmouth, an Idyl
. of the Great War."
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, The 17th C. V.
The N. Y. Papers report two men of the
'_ 17th as having died ofwounds at Morris Is-
land ; they were G. C Peck and W alter “Jer-
men of Co I, They also report as wounded
"David C. Fields of Co F. (Lockwood Guards)
and Corp. Rufus Tilbe of Co E, Westport.
' Letter from Lieut. Bartram.
It will be remembered that among the
captured from the 17th Ct., at Gettysburg,
was Lieut. D. S. Bartram of Bedding. 'His
parents have just received the following
letterfrom him, dated at his present Head-
Quarters in Libby Prison :— I , , f
LIBBY Parson, Ricrmom), .
. Aug. 9th, 1863. i
Mr DEAR Erasure—Knowing that you
will 'be anxiously looking (if indeed, you
have not given up looking.) for some tidings
from me, I write again, hoping that this
letter if none of the, several others that I
have sent have reached you, may. I have,
of course, been disappointed in not receiv-
ing a word of news from home since I have
been here. This is the fourth Sunday I have
been here, and how many more I may have
to spend in this way,Ilittle know. I was
taken at Gettysburg on the 1st inst. of July,
and was matched from there to, Staunton,
at which plane we took the Va. Central Rail
Road and arrived here on the evening of the
18th. I can assure you that I was nearly
“used up,” as I had been on the march ev-
ery day since the 12th of June. We are
‘now, however, having a chance to rest.
Capt. Hubbcll, of Bridgeport, is here with
me, and we are the only oflicers of the 17th
here. We have not heard a .word from the
Regt. and know nothing of the loss, &c.,
only that some 60 or 70 of our men are here
with us. I am not well, and yet not really
sick ; but my clothes are nearly gone, as our
Wagons fell in the rear soon after We left the
Rappahannock, and I have not had a change
since. We have the privilege of buying
things, but my money is nearly gone, of
whichI had, when taken, much too small
an amount to go on this expedition with.—
Write on receipt of this and beside being
brief, be quite particular, what you write
Direct your letter—D. S.'Bartram, Libby
,Prison, RichmOnd, Va., and forward it im-
, sealed. I shall send this by flag of truce the
first opportunity. ’ 3 . _
' Afi‘ectionately your son, &c.
M. V ‘
.WThe gunners on 'the Ironsides, baffled by
thesand and cotton battlements of Wagner
from firing shells intO-it, and unable to toss
their knowledge of billiards, and depressed
their pieces at the proper angle, The shot
would strike the water just in front of the
fort and bound over the wall. In the words
of theCaptain, “they 'carmed on the bay and
pocketed the ball in the fort every time.
.&.-.
, A GOOD Raconn..—The New York Inde-
(pendent, says that when Paymaster North-
rop was in New Orleans, he asked Col. Bis-
:sell, of the 25th Conn. Volunteer Regiment,
whether there was any swearin in his reg-
iment ? “You may go through t e regiment”
answered Col. Bissell, “and I’ll give you $5
for every oath you hear from it.’ The Pay-
master hunted diligently after his reward,
with good hope, but be searched in vain.
That is a noble record for old Connecticut.
'What other regiment will take rank upon
that page of unstained honor. ' .
Superior Court.
Aneusr Titan, 1863.—Junon Prisms.
Petition of A. . B. Hall for divorce
from his wife, A. M. Hall, granted.
, Weed vs. Byingtou. This is a case to
recover land occupied by defendent, on
which had been erected the present “Ga-
zette Building.” ' .
The handle dispute was formerly part
of the bed of the mill pond at Norw'alk
Bridge. When the bridge and Dam were
carried away by the great freshet .~ of 18-
54, it was desired by the citizens of Nor-
walk to avert similar disastrous occurren-
ces in future. A Company was formed
and Charter obtained to improve Nor—
walk-River. This Company, it would ap-
pear, disposed of the land in dispute,
which land is claimed by the plaintiff.
Old deeds dating back t0'1673 were of;
feted in evidence—quite interesting from
their peculiar phraseology. -
The case is still on.-—Dwnbm~y Timrs.
flay-’0'—
WThe New York World. protests sol-
emnly against the encampment of so many
troOps in the metropolis as endangering the
health'of the city. It would be rather unheal-
thy. for‘the World or its diciples to attempt
a repetition of their July rioting, while these
blue-coated chaps are about. .
. . ‘fi” . ‘1 .
* [Q‘A ’man named Robinson ' engaged
rooms at a Hartford boarding house, and af-
ter running up an» account of $90 for carpets
andpaper hangings, which were cut and
put in his rooms, he left for New York and
has not since been heard of. The Hartford
papers don’t know whether to suppose he
'got'killed in the riots or that he has abscon-
ded with designs of avoiding the settlementof
his little bills. The question is open to dis-
cussion. He played the same game here
about a year age under the name of Holmes
Boarding-house Keepers had better loqkpup
for him. , .
;. .. , .- -_.~,‘..,.___~ .::. .
mVallandigham’s man Friday, Geo. E,
Pu h, who is stumpin the State of Ohio, for
Val: and himself. too occasion in‘ a recent
speech to say thataregiment of 1 good Demo-
crats could put all the nefi'o troo s in the
United States: to «flight; r.. Je erson‘ J;
Toombs of :Gincinuati. who beasts that his
father is a while many from one of the #118!
families in the‘ South,. thereupon‘ challenges
Pugh to single combat, in any manner and
with any weapons the latter, chooses. Pugh
hasn’t replied as yet; '
, I
.-;;.— . .
the dis- »
them over its sides, 'had recourse finally to __
1411' the Gazette.
Music by Moonlight.
We hold that there is nothing more'beau-
tiful than moonlight, except moonlight and
music. When our faithful satellite, on a
summer evening, ascends with queenly dig-
nity to a high place in the clear blue heav-
ens, and sheds down a radiance that covers
half the world, that world seems beautiful
beyond all that fancy can picture. But
when a dozen well-trained voices, woven to-
gether into harmonious song, rise through
the moonlight and float ‘quiétly in at your
bedroom window, arousing you from slum-
ber ere you are quite asleep, you feel: that.
perfection has somewhat superadded to it,
and your cup of enjoyment runs over.
Besides all this, the “ circumstances” in
such a case add to the effect.
you were a lone youth in a strange city, toss-
ing in a hot bed, five stories above the side-
walk, and the song were murmured forth by
passcrs by who had never heard your name,
you could not fail to enjoy it, and drink it in
for the refreshment of your weary spirit. If
you were a forlorn bachelor, wandering alone
on a rocky shore, and the music came to
your ears across a breadth of' sea, you could
not but think of it as making the nightmare
lovely, and your own poor heart more bless-
ed. Ay, if the music were at your neighbor’s
house and not your own, and you could not
help wondering what the singers had found
within those four walls to honor, still you
could not but acknowledge that their busi-
ness was neatly done and their songs worth
hearing. You would forget to be jealous,
and would listen. But when the choristers
come quietly to your own gable, and warble
for'your special benefit, and you atvake to a
. knowledge of the fact that your fellow-creat-
ures, (some who have souls, too; for no oth-
ers sing by moonlight.) are actually paying
their attentions to you, and that after all
there are a few in the world who think well
of you, it is an uncommonly pleasant sur-
prise, and perhaps a delightiul transition
from dreams of hostility and hate. There is
a twofold pleasure in listening. Your'l‘ovc
of the beautiful is satisfied; your love of your-
self (of course you allow but little of that,)
isp easurably vindicated. You feel a little
prouder, a good deal stronger, and some-
what better and nobler than ever before.
The night is damp and chilly; but you listen
through your half-closed'blinds with unfiag-
ging interest, and a hope that the new sensa-
tion may be indefinitely prolonged. You
are a little curious t5 know who they are
that think so well of you; but you drink in
their song as if it were “music of the spheres.”
You are slightly anxious as to whether you
should “ make a speech” or not, and censid-
erably troubled to find yourself, in spite of
yourself, feeling after thoughts and words
wherewith to say “ Thank you ;" but the fact
looms up before you more and more grand-
ly, “ This is a serenade, and it is all for me!”
0 yes ! it does you a vast amount of good l
We believe, therefore, in serenades. They
mean “ sincerest friendship :” they say so, in
the most unpretentious and unselfish way.
They deserve “ Thank you” as much as any
gift from man to man. And if “ Thank you”
involves a speech, they deserve a speech.
But they do not always get it. A friend of
ours had an experience lately of the kind we
have tried to describe: and the making of a
speech seemed to him (“ Howuse doth breed
a hub“: in a man l”) an obvious duty. But it
was a duty unperformed. He made a speech;
he made several speeches; but he did not
deliver any. None of them came forth from
the silence of his soul. His failure Was a
great disappointment, to himself not only,
but, as be firmly believes, to all those who
had gathered together to give him midnight
honors. He desires, so far as possible, to
provide a remedy. . He has therefore applied
to us. as Congressmen apply to their peers.
for “permission to print” what he would
have said if he could; and we have allowed
him the privilege. But he does not desire,
as Congressmen sometimes do, to manuf ac
ture an oration, ca: post facto, or to mould or
modify what he prepared under the inspira-
tion of the moment: he prefers to give to the
public just what he would have given to
those who so greatly honored him, if his
tongue had not refused to do duty. Our
friend’s speech was as follows :—
First attempt : self-gratuhdory .' (made du-
ring song number one, second stanza :) I
need not tell you, my friends, how happily
Iesteem this manifestation of'your affec-
tionate regard. I am aware of nothing in
me that calls for so marked demonstrations
from my fellow citizens and friends :but it
is a pleasant thought and-ever will be, that
you who know me so well count me worthy
of—of--of.... , 1'
Second attempt: allusion .' (made during
the interval between songs number two and
three :) I have somewhere read, my friends,
of a celebrated composer who made- it a rule
to have his only and well-beloved child
awakened from sleep by strains of sweet
music, so that during his waking hours he
might have happy thoughts and feelings.
We “children of a larger growth” have
that pleasure (and I call it also a privilege)
only once or twice in a lifetime. And I—-
unworthy one l—am enjoying, it to-nightl
Buteyet—«wherefore—that is—indeed, my
friends, I cannot express my feelings. '
Third attempt : complimentary : (made du-
ring song number four—solo and chorus—
and meant to be delivered the moment they
stopped: but it wasn’t :) I do not feel, my
friends, like occupying a single moment of
the precious time which you have so kind-
ly devoted to my gratificationthis evening :
but I must express, in a few words, my ex-
treme satisfaction with the music on which
you have permitted me to feast so bounti-
fully at this time. My friends, it is liket’he
songs of... . The moonlight is beautiful,
but this throws moonlight into shade. I dis.-
like to think of your stopping; but I _ know
that henceforth I shall be able to appreciate
more fully than ever before that striking
simile of one of' America’s poets, in which
he says’of the devoted young lady named
Evangeline: -‘
“ When she had passed, it was like the canning of
exquisite music."
Fourth attempt: Patriotic .' (made during
the singing at the Star Spangled Banner :)
I cannot keep silent any longer, my friends
and fellow citizens. In days like these, such
words as you have just uttered must at-
tune the heart and open the mouth of co
ery' true friend of his country. Let me say,
then, that I accept this demonstration .as a
token of your faith of my loyalty, and my
desire to do my duty to the nation in the
hourof‘her necessity. The day is drawing
near, my friends, when I, in common with
their-est. of you, may hear the voice of the
law, bidding me go forth to the conflict and
the peril and the—and tlie— When that
time comes,’ my fellow citizens, shall not} we
begotten.- -.- - - " \
"Fifth. and ' last attempt : which was mailed
succeas~:‘(made after the “friends and fellow
citizens?‘-had. turned to go away:) I Wish I
could know you- by moonlight, ladies and
gentlemen, so as to thank ybu 'by' daylight.
(3).:
surname you! .
r-vsmivwwanwaaww . .. .
Even though
l . Monday’s War News.
Riclimondmews from Charleston to the
28th inst. has been received by way of Rich-
mond and Fortress Monroe. A dispatch da_
ted the 27th, announces an “overwhelmin ”
attack Olftlle Rebel rifle-pits on Wedn ay
evening about 7 o’clock. No explanation is
given as to the location of the rifle-pits, or
the actual results of the attack, but from tnc
fact that the latter is denominated ,,over-
whelming,” we judge it to nave been success-
ful. A dispatch dated the 28th, announces
that the bombardment of Sumter and Wag-
ncr proceeded sluggislily, and that our forces
were working hard in the trenches in Fort
Wagner. N 0 further attempt has been made
-_ to shell the city. Union accounts are to the
'26th. The do not differ from former advia
ses. Fort agncr was not taken, and the
navy wasto go on without reference to it,
leavmg it to the land forces.
A Dispatch from our blockadmg fleet
states that on the morning of the 18th, inst.
a steamer of 1,500 tuns, with the British 11
flying, run .he blockade of Wilmington, .
0., in full view of the United States vessels,
and after she got safely through the fleet
flung out the Rebel flag. She was pierced
for six guns, in addition to two pivot guns,
and probably would receive an armament and
be ready to proceed to sea within a week.
She is larger than the Alabama or Florida,
and appeared to be very last.
Jeff Davis turned Abolitionllt.
0n the authority of Rebel papers received
at Morehead City, N. ,C,, it is stated that
J eff. Davis is about to issue a call, by advice
from the Governors of the Southern States,
for half a million of negro troops, to whom
their freedom will be guaranteed and aboun-
ty of fifty acres. of land will be given at the .
expiration of the War.
The Navy Department has received a
communication from Commander Trenchard
of the steamer Rhode Island, reporting the
capture of the English screw steamer Cron-
stadt, for violation of the blockade of Wil-
mington, N. C. Her cargo'consists of cot-
ton, turgentine, and tobacco. She has been
sent to osfon for adjudication.
«o
Ridgefleld.
This town hold another special town meet— .
ing on Friday, Au .14th, and voted unan-
imously to pay 300, to every man who
shall be drafted under the present call. '
This town has lost b death two more
brave men who enlisted or the defence of
their country as members‘of Co. G. 23d C.
V, in the persons of Selah Gage and Dan-
iel ~B. Bradley. The former died in the
hospital at New Orleans, the latter was ta-
ken prisoner at the battle of LaFourche, La.,
last June, by the Rebels and forCed to long
and tedious marches, with onl green corn
for rations, which occasione the disease
that terminated his life, just as he was about
to return to the Union lines. We have
heard much since this rebellion commenced
from its pious sympathizers in our midst, re-
gardingthe bad treatment by the Unionists
of Rebel prisoners, but there is not on rec-
ord acase of prisoners being subjected to
such hard marches, and harder diet, sufll-
cient to ruin the strongest constitutions, less
tender than “cast iron,” but the sympathy
given for this abused Union soldier b these
same pious sympathizers is—“he ad ‘no
business there, he should have remained. at
home, served him'just right, 85c” Out'upon
such heartless wretches. While they have
passed into oblivion the numes of these dead
patriots shall live and shine lemma—Jain-
807mm.
. a ‘.- e..———-—— .
I!” A singular fact is noticed by the New
York Times. .The Alabama legislature has
just convened in extra session, and one of the
first moves was the introduction in the Sen-
ate of a resolution asking the removal from
their commands of the rebel Gen. Holmes
andPemherton. Almost simultaneously—
with this report we have received news of the
death of both these oflicers—Holmes by de-
lirum tremens, and Pemberton by ashot from
a Texan soldier. Their removal from com-
mand is promptly effected, but not through
any action by J eff. Davis.
w
W A recent copy of the Raleigh Stan.
dard, contains many reports of reactiOnary
meetings held'throughout .the State. This
is the first movement towards an overthrow
of the Richmond Government and it is to be
hoped that it will be successful. The Rich-
mond Enquirer advises the execution of the
editor of the Standard and advises him to
take himself North or some worse place, _if
there be any.
H...— >
mus Richmond Examiner asserts that
the feeling in Charleston is opposed to all
surrender. While one brick remains upon
another the citizens are determined not to
give up the city; and if it is taken by supe
rior force it will be only a mass of smoul-
dering ruins. We know of no condition that
would better please the loyal North than
that which this paper threatens we shall find
Charleston in. .
v‘.»0———i .
E‘Late dispatches from Japan represent
that at Yokohama all tradewas stopped, and
that the Japanese merchants hadth all
withdrawn from the city; that many of the
native servants had left, and that those who
remained stayed'only on daily wages. Three
American merchants had been attacked by a
mob, and barely escaped with their lives.
The party throughout Japan opposed to
foreigners, and disposed to do everything in
their power to prevent concession to the
English, is large and powerful.
«.»o—,———
ers. Anion B. HAVEN, better known
to the reading community as Alice B. Neal
and to juvenile readers as “Cousin Alice,”
died at her residence at Mamaroneck, West-
chester County, last Sunday, Aug. 23d, aged
35 years. _ Mrs. Haven, whose maiden name
¥as Emily Bradley, was born-in Hudson, N. .
When Joseph C. Neal of Philadelphia, au-
thor of “Charcoal Sketches,” edited the Bat-
urday Gazette, Miss Bradle was a contrib-
uter to the paper,and in 1 she was married
to Mr. Neal, who lived but one year after
their marri e. In 1853 she was married to
Mr. Samuel . Haven.
. -<...
anvrrr or LORD CLYDE (Sm. COLIN Cm-
BELL.)—The death ofthis distinguished Brit-
ish commander is announced in our advices
by the Persia. He was born in Glasgow,
Oct., 20. 1792, entered the army in 1808, serv-
ed in Portugal and at Walcheren, took an
active in the Peninsular war, and’in the war
with the United States in 1814. His name
attracted little notice until 1842, when he
was prominent in the Chinese war, and sub-
sequently held a leading command in the
war of thaqunjaub. In 1854,- he went to
the Crimea, as chief of the Highland Bri-
gade, and took a conspicuous share in the
battle of the Alma. On the death of Gen.
Anson, in 1857, he was appointed to the su-
preme command of the army in India, and
arrivedin' Calcutta Aug. 15, thirty-two days
after the date of his commission. His con.-
sumate‘ skill and generalship in conquering
the rebels in the East India mutiny are mat-
ters of history. Sir Colin Campbell was
made MajorGenei-al in 1856 and in 1858 was
elevated to the peerage under the title of'
Baron Clyde of Clydesdale.
<4».
WThe Greek fire used for the destruc-
tiori‘of Charleston, was invented about 1,000
years ago inthe East, and was employed in
the crusades against the Christians, to whom
it was asource of~ the utmost terror and con-
fusion. . It is composed of what is knownus
“arsenical alc'Ohol,” and is chiefly made of
pitch, naptha and bitumen, and readil burns
on and under water. It was origins ly pro-
jected on arrows and javelins, around which
fiaxwas twisted, saturated with the com-
pound. It emits a most offensive odor in its
dischar e, and is very destructive in its ef-
fect. he-secref 'of the composition of this
fire was lost until the commencement of our
eivil'war', when it was discovered or re-in-
vented singularly enough by a Virginian;
who offered it“) our government,'and tried
to rocure a patent for it. Parties who were
in ash'ington‘a'ye‘ar and‘a‘half ago, may
remember the efforts of this individual to‘ ob-
tain a hearing from the government officials.
-<.>-.._——.__
{S'The Macon, Ga.. Telegraph says that
Mr. Watts recently elected Governor. of
Alabama over Mr. Shorter, the present in-
cumbent, with several of the members of
Congress were originally Union Whigs. Mr.
Watts. led the Bell and fverett ticket in
A'laba'mafiat the last Brest ential election.
| 3". -'“LI I. :! ~
. :fi‘A preacher of’ Illinois, giving a
famfliar account of the Prodigal Son’s
retlirn, dwelt touchingfy upon the fath-
er’s circumstances when he saw his son
“afar Off,”‘thus:‘ “ The sun had not yet
sunk beneath the western horizon. There,
in'bisleasy chair before the door, sits the
aged father, reading the papers!” _ a
3' ""’ ‘ ‘ {t . .
Tns WEALTH or Maxwo.—In Mexico
' there are over 1,000 silver mines, yielding
about thirty-five millions of dollars a,
year. The value of these mines is in.
creased by the fact that there are 25‘
mints of quicksilver, which yield from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred thou-
sand ‘pounds weight annually. Gold is
also found in considerable quantities, sta-
ted variously at from' three millions of
dollars upwards. The mines are general-
ly located either on the top or 'on the
western slope of the Cordilleras, and have
been wrought for ages. Gold and silver
vases of great value and beauty of work»
manship, were sent back to Spain" by the
first conquerors as spoils of war. Iron
and cOpper are also produced in great
abundance. One great hindrance to the
realizing of this mineral wealth is the dif-
ficulty of transporting it to the seaboard,
there being neither railroads nor naviga-
ble riVei-s in the country, and the only
means of transportation being the backs
of. males. 'The commercial interests and
want of mechanical enterprise of the peo-
ple, and the small extent to which the
combination and division of labor are car-
ried, have also contributed, with the gen-
eral insecurity of property, to prevent
the various natural riches of' the country
from their full developments.
-—-—4a<.pu
Tun INVALID Conra—The War De—
partment has organized 75 companies of
the newlnvalid Corps. They are to do
garrison and other light duties. The
Washington Star says they are all “men
.who have received two or more wounds,"
some of ,them severe— and none of them
are men who would now pass the Surgeons
inspection for active duty in the field.
Nevertheless, they are already one of the
most vbluable corps in the service, from
their experience, soldiery department. and
correct habits. ,
y ‘ ————-oo<.>.
fl" A couple were engaged to. be mar-
ried the other day in Chicago, and every
preparation was made to celebrate the
nuptials, but the bridegroom did not ap—
pear. A messenger, however, brought
the news to the waiting party that he had
been drafted in New York, and could not
leave. The reply of the young lady was
worthy the occasion. With tear-drops
glistening in her eyes, and her heart ready
to burst with grief, she turned to the com-
pany and said : “I don’t keer a darn ;
there’s plenty more . men in the world,
anyhow l”
a“.-.
WAsN’r Mucn Aeounursn wrrn an:
-HusnANDL—-Kansas City is a gay place,
and they: have queer specimens offline
manity down there. If you don’t believe
it, read ;the following about a woman of
doubtful loyaly, who was recently before
the Provost Marshal :-“She gave as
an evidence of her loyalty that her hus-
band had been killed in the 106th Illinois
Regiment. .‘When did your husband go
to Illinois?’ ‘About three years ago.’
‘Tbat was before the war was it not ?”
‘Yes.’ ‘Why did you act go with him 1”
‘Well, I didn’t like to good so farwith
a man I wasn’t much acquainted with.’
‘Yen' don’t mean to say that your hus-
band was so much of a stranger that yen
did not like to go with him ?’ ‘Yes,’ I
do. I had only been married to him
about a year, and I wasn’t going to leave
my folks and go off to Illinois with a man
I didn’t know more about.’ ” What
could he do but discharge her.
. ‘S.>e
fi-Rev. Mr. Frisbee of Ansonia, who
was drafted recently, has accepted the
Chaplaincy of the 20th C. V.-‘
«‘0».
a. The United States gnnboat Nan-
semond, said to be the fastest in the na-
vy. left Baltimore Wednesday under
sealed orders. The American says she
will probably soon be heard from in the
neighborhood of Nassau, or some other
haunt of British “neutral” blockade
runners. *
N.»
‘- It seems to be a settled fact that
Lee’s army is daily decreasing its strength
the assertions ontnumbering the conscripts
All the deserters who come into our lines
say. .that ninmtentha who desert make for
their respective homes They also say
that the feeling that the rebel'cause is
lost is universal in the rebel armyofVirginia
. «o»
No Sabbath.
In a Prize Essay on the Sabbath,’ writ-
ten by a journeyman-printer in Scotland,
there occurs the following striking pas-
..sage ': *-
‘Yoke-fellows i think how the abstrac-
tion of the Sabbath would hopelessly en.
slave the working classes, with whom we
areidentified. Think of labor thus go.
ing on in one monotonous and continuous
and eternal cycle-limbs forever of; the
rack, the fingers forever playing, the-
eye-balls forever straining, the brow for-
ever sweatiug, the feet forever plodding,
and brain forever throbbing, the should-
ers forever drooping, the loins forever ach-
ing, and the restless mind forever schem-
ing. Think of the beauty it would ef—
face, of the merry-heartedness it would
extinguish, of the giant strength it would
tame, of the resources of nature that it
would exhaust, of the aspirations it would
crash, and of the sicknesa it would breed,
of the projects it would wreck, of the
groans it would extort, of the lives it
would immolate, of the cheerless graves
it would prematurely dig. See them toil-
ing and moiling, sweating and fretting,
grinding and flowing, jweaying and spin-
ning, sowing and gathering. nioviug and
reparing, raising and building, digging
and planting, unloading and storing, stri-
ving and struggling—in the garden and
in the field, in the granaryand in the barn
in the factory, and in ”the mill, in» the
ware-house, and the shop, on the menu
tain and in the ditch, on the roadside,
and in the wood, in the city and in the
country, on the. spa and on the shore. on ..
the earth in days of brightness and of
gloom. .IWhat a sad picture would the
world presentif' we had no Sabbath f”
W
Bummer. Sumatran—The beautiful
extract below is from the pen of Hon.
George S. Hillard ;
“ I confess that increasing years bring
with them an increasing respect for-men
who do not succeed in life, as those word.
are commonly used. Heaven is said to
be a place for those who have not suc-
ceeded upon earth ;‘ and it is surely true
that celestial graces do net best thrive
and bloom in the hot, blaze of worldly
prosperity. Ill success sometimes arises
from a. so, rabnadance of qualities in
themselves 'ood—f'ro’m a conscience too
sensitive, a taste too fastidious, a self-
f'orgetfulness too romantic, a modesty too
retiring. I will no; go so far as to say-,-
with a living poet, that “ the world
knows aothingof its greatest men but
thereare forms of greatness, or at least
of exéellence, which ‘die and make no
sign ;’ there are martyrs that miss the
palm, but not the stake ; there are heroes
without" the laurel, find 'conqher’ors 'with-y
o'uttli'e triiuuph‘.’ ‘ ‘ '
E‘A Rich Journeyman Printer is
foundrout'Wcst. He is being exhibited
with ring tailed monkeys, wild hogs,
shaved horses, three legged calves, and
other trinkets. . .
> one of the fashIOnable hotels.
NEWS ITEMS.
-———Gentlemen attached to the public
service say that in the shelling of Charles
ton at‘a distance of five miles, greater
success has been attained with the I'm—
rot gnu than has heretofore entered into
their calculations.
——-—Two thousand deserters were arres—
ted and returned in May, 4000 in June,
and 6000 in July. Nearly all were old
deserters. So certain does apprehension
and punishment follow desertion now, that
desertions have decreased ’15 per cent re-
» cently.
In a letter of recent date to Epes Sal'-
gent, Captain Ericsson writes: “The—
Dictator is fast approaching completion,
with her ten and a half inch iron ord-
nance is also nearly ready. Mark my
word : this vessel will as surely prove a
Dictator as the first one of her size has
proved a» Monitor.
———Fred Norris of Danbnry recently
bought a chicken of Mrs. McDermot.
Thonghtit heavy for a spring chicken.
0n Opening its crop he found, says the
Danbury Jefl'ersouian, “25 large rocks,
none smaller than a marble and most of
them as large as a butternut." Good
sized crop, for a chicken—and a solid one.
Pays to raise that breed for market.
-——The gun which sends shells into
Charleston is called the “Swamp Angel.”
The rebels doubtless think that is an imp
for their Last Ditch. *
—-It is said that the identical flag
which Major Anderson was compelled to
lower at Fort Sumter is in the hands‘of
General Gilmore, to be run up the mo—
ment the fort is to be reoccupied.
——-A.number of Americans in London
on hearing of the capture of Vicksburg
addressed a letter of thanks to Gen.
Grant and Admiral Porter for the impor-
tant services they had rendered to their
country, and for elevating it by their he-
roic deeds, in dignity and importance be—
fore the world.
——The use of the ramrod in drilling
troops has been forbidden in England.
Reason, the steel ramrod causes the wear
of rifled barrels by its friction.
-———-It is noted by the English papers
that the prize winners in recent militia
rifle matches were all blue-eyed men.
—-—-'l‘be head master of Harrow School,
England, has ordered that the side trou-
sers pockets of his pupils shall be dis-
pensed with, his reason for the prohibi-
tion being that the boys continually had
their hands in those pockets, and thereby
contracted a lounging and stooping habit.
-—-'l‘he St. Louis Republican says that
a number of wealthy Germans are to
make an excursion to this country. Th
were to leave Vienna on the 15th of this
month and Erwin on the 18th. The
round tripia to cost $450 for each per-
son. ,It includes an excursion to the
lakes and to‘Washington. Dr. Mae-lia-
burg, of Vienna, is the manager.
—-—The Dayton [Ohio] Journal says :
“During the week ending Aug. 8, over
500 rebels came‘into Carthage, Tenn.,
voluntarily. gave themselves up, and took
the oath of allegiance to the Government
of the United States. This is but one
item of the many of the same character
we have received within the current week
—--— Among the deserters arrested in
Boston, was a man who enlisted in a
VMassacb‘usetts regiment, deserted ”Q
then hired himself out as a substitute and
deserted mm times. He had made—-
enough to live in a most princely style at
He incan-
.tiously wrote~a letter to an old comrade
in the army advising him to go into the
same business. As thelatter was apat-
riot, he advised the authorities and had
the man arrested.
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SING SING Coxsraur'ism—lmmediately
upon the election of the Hon. Fernando
Wood to the akership of the House
of Representatives, it is understood that
the policy of the Sing Sing conservatives
will be further illustrated by the appoint-
ment of Mr. Isaiah Rynders- as Chap-
lain of the House, of Mr. McCunu as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
the-United States, and of Mr. Andrews;
'now of Fort Lafayette, as Chief of the
Metroplitan Police. When-.Mr. Wood
is elected, Speaker, his“conservativs”
friend Mr. John B. Floyd will be called
to the head of the United States Treat
cryinplace of Mr. Chase; Gen. Meade
will “be superseded in Virginia by the con-
servative Gen. Robert E. Lee ; and Mr.
Vallandigbam will be made Secretary of
_War. :These will be but the first steps
of the Sing- Sing programme for the res-
toration of peace to the country, and of
dignity, unity and perpetuity to the no-
tional government. Harper; Weekly.
fievorzr 5 —s.. .-
3- The premises occupied by the
American Legation at Jeddo, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the morning
of the 28th of May, said to have origi-
nated accidentally. The American Min-
ister, Mr. Pruyn, lost everything except
the archives of the Legation
fi'l‘he Queen has addressed the 15-
dies Of England on the subject of crino-
line. The “daily accidents arrising from
the wearing of the indelicate, expensive,
dangerous and hideous article" causes her
great pain, and she thinks that such a
dress can be pleasing only to a demorali
ized taste. She begs them to abandgg
its use. Frobably since the (1.318 9? Elia
James’ “Counte'rblast against Tobacco,
no such sensation has been created as this
diatribe against hoops has caused in fe-
male circles. ,
O».
A Disarromrnaxr.—The great pinLhun-
ter, the Baron de Sevres, is dead *-
Amongst the property he left were found
two large and heavv-boxes, which by the
heirs were supposed. to contain past. but
turnedqut to be filled With hundreds pf
thousands of all imaginable kinds of pin.
For the last twenty years his regular babe
it has been to pass along the most fry:
quented‘strcets‘ and places of public is;
sort, and‘tolpick 1!}? any pins he discoyo,
cred on. the ground: '
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EPetroleuni oil is assuming already
great importance in the commerce of the
countrv. The-shipments to foreign pom.
from. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Boston, since January lat, hay.
been 20,000,000 of gallons, valued at 36,
000,000.
._———--—Q
. Margy—Tl? {pct (fishnet b; to ofte '
staid. 6. 9 am." I . upon .e y .
that the inajoritygf’the crates in thaw
is' not only very unhealthy, but actually a
clear poison, causing, teeth to decay, and
bringing op disease‘geuerally. Thanks to
science, skill, perseverance and energy, that
the man still lives who invented Herrick Al-
len's Gold Medal Salemtus, which has is still
doing such eat wonders in the culinary de-
partment. e say that one trial ' con-
vince the most skeptical that there is none
other to he rampart? vlith i3}; Ages! {if (is
e an’shav‘e't, r e.” on ere |§‘ ,.
fibfilf‘y met. _‘evi'gbrlra'l ‘ ~ ‘ "in ‘~“ " ‘
‘ .
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WSabre Cuts, Gunshot Wounds, and all
other kinds ofWonuds, also Sores, Ulcers
and Scurvy, heal safely and Slickly under
the sootliin influence of H LLOWAY’S
OINTME T. It heals to the bone,- so than
the wound never opens ago: Soldiers eup-
'n.
ply yourselves. Only 2 cents per pot.
Norwalk Chronicler