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ISTE-WS DEPARTMENT.. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 14, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
Most of our readers, probably, ere this, have 
become aware that Gen. Grant’s army has made 
a movement southward, and had met the enemy. 
It is impossible to give an extended account 
of the recent conflicts between the contend¬ 
ing armies. The fighting commenced on Thurs¬ 
day near the Kapidan. We condense as follows: 
The N. Y. Times of May 9th, has the follow¬ 
ing:— News from the army received here is up 
to 7 o'clock yesterday evening, at which time 
Grant fully maintained his position. The fightr 
ing on Thursday and Friday was very severe, 
with skirmishing only on Saturday. Lee’s first 
onset was made upon our left, but failing in this 
he fell upon our center, and finally upon our 
right where the hardest contest took place. 
Here the rebels charged upon our lines twice, 
but were repulsed each time with severe loss. 
Hancock's Corps charged twice, and at one 
time entered that portion of the enemy’s en¬ 
trenchment commanded by A. I*. Hill, but were 
at length compelled to fall back. Seymour’s 
division of Haucoek’s Corps was badly cut up. 
The rebels were reported retreating yesterday 
morning. The number of wounded is reported 
about 10,000. The killed about 2,000. The loss 
of the enemy exceeds this. They left their dead 
and disabled on the field and in our hands. The 
ambulance corps with its admirable organiza¬ 
tion, is working up to its full capacity, carrying 
the wounded to Rappahannock Station. 
Tlie Herald has the following special from 
Washington of May 8th:—On Friday the attack 
was renewed by Longstreet on the right, while 
the troops under A. P. Hill were hurled in like 
manner against the left wing of Grant’s army 
composed of Hancock's Corps and Warren’s 
Corps. The center was also engaged in repel¬ 
ling these assaults of the enemy. The fight 
continued with hardly any intermission for two 
days, but Lee having failed completely in his 
objeet, withdrew from the engagement, leaving 
the Army of the Potomac in possession of the 
ground and a large number of rebels killed and 
wounded. 
Another dispatch from headquarters at Wil¬ 
derness Tavern, Friday evening, gives the fol¬ 
lowing intelligence of the great battle on Friday: 
About 4$ P. M., Lee made a feint on the 
whole line and then suddenly fell back with 
his whole force upon Sedgwick, driving him 
back temporarily. 
But the advantage was soon regained and the 
rebels hurled back with great loss. Night had 
now come on, and it is believed at headquarters 
at this hour that Lee has withdrawn from our 
front. Although the nature of the ground has 
been of a terrible character, most of it being 60 
thickly wooded as to reudered movements all but 
impossible and to conceal entirely the operations 
of the enemy, yet he has been signally repulsed 
in his attacks, and nothing but the nature of the 
battle-field has prevented it from being a crush¬ 
ing defeat. The loss on both sides hasbeen very 
heavy, but at this hour of hasty writing I can¬ 
not give an estimate. 
The day lias closed on a terrible hard fought 
field, and the army of the Potomac has added 
another to its list of murderous conflicts. Lee's 
tacties were the same as he employed at Chan¬ 
cellors ville and Gettysburg, throwing his whole 
army first on one flank and then upon the other, 
but I rejoice to say that the army of the Poto¬ 
mac has repulsed a tremendous onslaught of the 
enemy and stands to-night firmly in the position 
it assumed this morning. 
The first attack was made upon Hancock, upon 
the left, somewhat weakened in numbers by the 
battle of yesterday. But the iron old second 
corps nobly stood its ground. Then the enemy 
hurled his battalions upon Sedgwick and once or 
twice gained a temporary advantage, but our 
veterans were nobly rallied and the rebels re¬ 
pulsed with awful slaughter. 
The N. Y. 'Tribune's Washington special, 
midnight. May 8th, says advices believed to be 
trustworthy, represent that Gen. Butler, who 
has landed on the Pen insula, has cut off all the 
railroad communication south of Richmond. 
Advices to May 10th, 10:45 A. M., say we 
have intelligence this morning by scouts from 
the army as late as Saturday evening, but no 
official report. The general results may be 
stated as a success to our arms. The fighting on 
Friday was the most desperate of the war. 
The country will have to mourn the death of 
that accomplished soldier Brig.-Gen. Wads¬ 
worth, who was struck in the forehead while 
leading his men against one of the strongest 
positions of the enemy. His remains are iu our 
hands, Jn charge of Cob Sharpe. 
At the latest accounts Hancock was pushing 
forward rapidly by the left to Spottsylvania 
Court House, and yesterday cannonading was 
heard at Ac.juia Creek from that direction, until 
three o’clock. 
The condition of our army is represented to 
be most admirable, their cool, determined cour¬ 
age proving too much for the degperate frenzy 
of the rebels, who have been driven at all 
points. Wc have lost some prisoners. One 
regiment, the 7th Pa. Reserves, charged through 
an abatlis of the enemy, but were unable to get 
back, most of them being captured. We have 
also taken a large number of prisoners, supposed 
to be more than we lost. 
The wounded have not yet arrived at the 
point where the trains were to receive them. 
The medical direction reports that a large num¬ 
ber are slightly wounded. 
Another special of May 9lh, contains intelli¬ 
gence from the army up to seven o’clock on 
Saturday evening. 
Most terrific battles bad been fought on 
Thursday and Friday, Lee having been driven 
back, leaving his dead and wounded in our 
hands. 
On Friday, Lee massed his forces on our flank 
and center at two or three different points, but 
was not able, in a siugle instance, to break our 
lines. Sherman’s division, of Hancock’s Corps, 
was badly cut up. 
Movements in the West and Sonth-West 
Arkansas.— Late aecouuts from Cairo say, 
by the arrival of the steamer Belle from Mem¬ 
phis, we have one day’s later dates and advices 
from the Red River to the 24th of April, at 
which time Geu. Banks was there and in good 
position. The rebels bad followed our forces 
from Grand Ecore, and when near Kane River 
the engagement took place, iu which the rebels 
lost 1,000 men and nine pieces of artillery. Our 
gunboats are safe, notwithstanding wild rumors 
to the contrary. We have news of a disaster to 
our armies in Arkansas. Gen. Marmaduke at¬ 
tacked and captured a train with an escort after 
sharp fighting. Report siys he took 1,000 pris¬ 
oners, 240 wagons and seven pieces of artillery. 
Guerrillas had lately captured and burned the 
steamer Hastings and fired into the steamer 
Benefit, killing the captain and two others. 
Twelve hundred bales of cotton were burned 
by the rebels in the vicinity of Camden, pre¬ 
vious to their evacuation of the place. 
The hospital steamer McDougal has arrived 
from Vicksburg with 163 sick and wounded 
from the army on the Red River. She proceeds 
to Louisville. 
A gunboat from the Red River brings in¬ 
formation that, finding it impossible to get the 
Eastport off, and being attacked while endeav¬ 
oring to lighten her, Porter ordered her to be 
destroyed to prevent her falling into the hands 
of the enemy. 
The iron clads. Fort Hindman and Joliet, and 
two transports despatched to assist, were at¬ 
tacked while returning, by the enemy, who 
lined the banks of the river on both sides, and 
fired upon them from a 12-pounder battery, and 
it was necessary to destroy the transports, which 
were burned. 
Several of the crews of the iron clads were 
killed and wounded; among them Sylvester 
Pool, of Newport, Ky., executive officer of the 
Eastport, who had charge of the sharp-shooters 
on the Fort Hindman. He was struck in the 
back of the. head by a 12-pound ball. 
A steamer arrived at Memphis, May 6, and 
reports that Gen. Steele's army is returning to 
Little Rock. He was followed by Gen. Price’s 
army and continually harrassed. 
The steamer General Grant from Fort Smith, 
reached Memphis Friday afternoon. She left 
Little Rock on Monday, and her officers report 
that at the time she left, about 4,000 of General 
Steele’s men had arrived. The main body of 
his army were 28 miles out. 
At Sabine Fork the rebels were turned upon 
and repulsed after a severe battle, in which the 
loss was about equal on both sides. 
Marmaduke was on the march to join Price, 
when it was supposed they intended jointly to 
attack Little Rock. 
The Pioneer, a light draft steamer, left there 
recently for the Red River. It was hoped she 
would succeed in crossing the falls in safety. 
Indian Territory.— Denver advices to the 
25th ult., say a detachment from the first col¬ 
ored cavalry had a fight yesterday with a band 
of Cheyennes, numbering 200, at Cedar Canon, 
on the South Platte. The Indians were routed. 
Lost 25 killed, and 35 to 40 wounded. Over one 
hundred horses were c-aptured, one soldier killed 
and one wounded. Gov. Evans requested Gen. 
Curtis, commander, to place camps of soldiers at 
convenient distances to Colorado, and have emi¬ 
grant and supply trains escorted. 
Late advices from Fort Whipple, Arizona, 
speak of much trouble to miners from the 
Apaches, and express the opinion that the sub¬ 
jugation of the Iudians is necessary to peace and 
the prosperity of the Territory. 
Tennessee.— Special to N. Y. Herald, of 
May 5, say that guerrillas made a raid on the 
railroad Line, captured their trains and destroyed 
$200,000 worth of property belonging to the 
Railroad Co. The trains were captured at 
Bloomington. The damage done to the road 
proper is very trifling, 
Several arrests were made at Memphis, May 
2d, of parties charged with sending contraband 
goods to Forrest. The execution of Smith on 
Friday last, and the condemnation of another 
man on Monday for this offense, gives significance 
to these arrests. General Washburn is deter¬ 
mined to break up the business of smuggling in 
the city. Military movements are on foot, but 
they are contraband at present. 
Private letters from Chattanooga affirm posi¬ 
tively that Gen. Sherman’s army would move 
on the 21 inst. His force is large and in the best 
of spirits. 
Letters from Bull’s Gap, Tenn., the 27th, an¬ 
nounce the destruction of the East Tennessee 
and Virginia Railroad for a distance of fifteen 
miles, between Lock Creek and Greensville, by 
a brigade of troops belonging to General Cox’e 
command. Every bridge and railroad tie was 
burned in the whole extent of fifteen miles. 
The rails were bent and the road left in such a 
condition that it can’t be repaired for months. 
Another expedition left Bull’s Gap on the 20th 
to destroy the railroad bridge over the Wata- 
nago river, fifty-four miles from the Gap. Our 
forces had a fight during the movement with a 
body of the enemy and completely routed them. 
On their return our troops burned all the bridges 
and tore up the whole track at all points on the 
march. 
Nashville dates to May 8th, say Johnston has 
retreated from Dalton to Atalanta, Sherman’s 
forces have passed Tunnel Hill and are outflank¬ 
ing the rebels at Buzzard’s Roost. 
A squad of guerrillas, under the command of 
Capts. Wallace and Thomas, made a raid into 
Princeton, Coldwell county, on the 4th, and 
robbed the stores of a large amount of goods, 
and stole many horses from the citizens. 
Kentucky.— Morganfiekl, (Ky.) advices say 
that Capt- Brown, commanding a squad of Union 
cavalry, overtook Bennet t’s guerrillas attempting 
to cross Green River, made a charge and killed 
Capt, Cook, a notorious guerrilla. 
Department of the South. 
Port Royal papers of the 5th represent 
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina nearly 
depleted of rebel troops, who have been sent 
north to join Lee’s army. 
Admiral Dahlgren had arrived at Hilton 
Head. 
A torpedo was discovered in the St. Johns 
river on the 3d, with a dead negro attached 
to it. 
A great female riot occurred in Savannah on 
the 17th ult. The women collected in a body 
with arms and marched the streets in proces¬ 
sion, and demanded bread or blood. They 
seized food wherever it could be found. The 
soldiers were called out, and after a brief con¬ 
flict the leaders were put in jail. 
Rebel papers of the 29th ult. say it was Deca¬ 
tur, East Tenn., which was captured by For¬ 
rest,—a town of only one hundred inhabitants. 
The same paper remarks, “If the rumors we 
hear are correct, our people may expect some 
brilliant exploit from our mosquito fleet.” 
Department of the Gulf 
Late advices from the army of Gen. 
Banks, render it very evident that the late re¬ 
verse to the Union arms was owing to the want 
of skill on the part of the Commanding Gen¬ 
eral. Admiral Porter has sent despatches to 
the Government, from which we condense the 
following in relation to the Army of the Gulf: 
He gives an even more deplorable account of 
Banks’ disastrous Mississippi campaign than any 
heretofore published, besides confirming, in all 
essential respects, the statements of private let¬ 
ters telegraphed a week ago. He adds facts 
calculated to dispel whatever hopes the friends 
of Gen. Banks may still entertain of a satisfac¬ 
tory explanation of his conduct- 
On the first day, a column of thirty thousand 
men was exposed on the march, in such fashion 
as to be easily and shamefully dispersed by from 
twelve thousand to fifteen thousand. 
On the second day, Gen. A. J. Smith whipped 
the rebels alone, driving them six miles. He 
was in hot pursuit, eager to reap all the fruits 
of victory, when an order came from Gen. 
Ranks directing him to retreat with the rest of 
the army. Gen. Smith refused to obey. A 
second order to fall back he also refused to obey. 
Finally, Gen. Banks in person, brought a third 
order, and insisted that Smith should fall back 
before daylight. He begged permission to stay 
long enough to bury his dead and care for his 
wounded and sick, if only till an hour after sun¬ 
rise ; but Gen. Banks was inexorable, and Gen. 
Smith was obliged, with tears in his eyes, to 
leave his men who had fallen on the battle field 
to the tender mercies of the rebels. He carried 
two of the twenty-three cannon which the reb¬ 
els abandoned, but was not allowed time even 
to spike the remainder. While our forces were 
retreating in one direction, the rebels were re¬ 
treating in the opposite direction. 
Some hours after Gen. Smith’s departure, the 
rebels sent a flag of truce to the battle-field to 
ask permission to bury their dead, and sought 
vainly for a long time for somebody to receive 
it. Three miles out of Alexandria, Gen. Banks 
found Gen. McClernand with six thousand men, 
on their way to re-enforce him. He ordered 
him to fall back to Alexandria at once, after 
destroying his grain and supplies. McClernand 
refused twice to obey, but on receipt of the third 
order, set fire to a part of hie oats. 
Gen. Smith, with two thousand men, took the 
responsibility of marching to the spot, extin¬ 
guishing the flames, and after remaining there 
all night, marched hack again with the residue 
and all the other supplies. 
At Gen. Banks’ request that these should be 
given up to him, Gen. Smith replied that they 
were his by right of capture, and he should 
keep them for his own use. No Generid but 
Banks was bluined for the campaign. Stone is 
pronounced without fault In this matter. At 
the time the messenger left, eight iron-clad gun¬ 
boats were above the falls, unable to reach 
Alexandria on account of low water, and un¬ 
protected by land forces. 
Admiral Porter’s dispatches, while not going 
into so much detail concerning army operations, 
fully confirm the general conclusions as to the 
character of the Generalship of Gen. Banks. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
Com. Wilkes has recently been tried by 
court martial for misconduct, and found guilty. 
The following is the official from Secretary 
Welles: 
Navy Department, General Order No. 33.—At 
the naval general court martial recently con¬ 
vened in the city of Washington, Commodore 
Clms. Wilkes was tried upon the following 
charges, preferred against him by the Depart¬ 
ment: 
Charge 1st—Disobedience to the lawful order 
of a superior oflieer, while in the execution of 
his office. 
Charge 2d.—Insubordination of conduct, as 
neglect or carelessness in obeying orders. 
Charge 3d.— Disrespect and disrespectful lan¬ 
guage to a superior officer. 
Charge 4t.h.—Refusal of obedience to a lawful 
general order on regulations, issued by the Sec¬ 
retary of the Navy. 
Charge 5th.—Conduct unbecoming an officer, 
which constitutes an offense made punishable 
by article eight of the articles adopted for the 
government of the U. S. N. 
On each of these charges the accused was 
found guilty by the court-martial, and was sen¬ 
tenced in the following terms: 
The court does hereby sentence Commodore 
Charles Wilkes to be publicly reprimanded by 
the Secretary of the Navy, and to be suspended 
from duty for a term of three years. 
The finding of this case Is approved, and the 
sentence confirmed. 
In carrying into execution that part of the 
sentence which requires that Gen. "Wilkes be 
publicly reprimanded, 1 need hardly say more 
to an officer of Ills age and experience, than 
that the promulgation of such charges, and of 
the decision upon them by a court composed of 
officers of the highest rank in the Navy, consti¬ 
tutes in itself a reprimand sufficiently poignant 
and severe to any who may have desired to 
preserve un untarnished record in t he service. 
The Department would gladly have been 
spared the unpleasant duty which has devolved 
upon It; but the appeal made to the public by 
the accused in a paper which the court has pro¬ 
nounced of an insubordinate, disrespectful char¬ 
acter, containing remarks and statements not 
warranted by facts, render it necessary for the 
Department either to tolerate the disrespect and 
submit to the unfounded aspersions, or refer the 
case to the decision of a court martial. 
Gideon Welles, 
Secretary of the Navy. 
Heavy stoppages have been made against the 
pay of certain provost marshals and surgeons, 
for improper enlistment of recruits, declared by 
boards of examiners unfit, for military service. 
Mr. Mix, chief clerk of the Indian bureau, 
left Washington the 7th for Western New York, 
to make a treaty with the Indians in that sec¬ 
tion—in number about 1,000. 
The U. S. Sanitary Commission chartered a 
steamer at Baltimore on the 6tb, and loaded her 
with the following army and other stores, and 
despatched her to Hampton Roads:—Four and a 
half tuns of hospital clothing and bedding, 
twenty-two and a half tuns of hospital food, one 
tun hospital dressings, thirty tuns of ice, two 
tuns miscellaneous stores, in charge of an in¬ 
spector and eleven relief agents. These prepa¬ 
rations are in addition to those already made in 
the army of the Potomac by the Commission. 
The Naval Committee of the House voted on 
the 6th on the question of selecting a site for 
the new Navy Yard for iron clud3. New Lon¬ 
don was chosen. 
The bill which passed the House the 4th inst., 
guaranteeing to the States, where governments 
have been usurped, a republican form of gov¬ 
ernment, was previously amended in several 
important particulars. Instead of one-tenth, as 
originally reported, a majority of the people is 
required to take part in the election of dele¬ 
gate*, preliminary to the re-establishment of a 
State government; and those who liaye held 
office merely military, below the grade of Col¬ 
onel, are not debarred from voting. 
The delegates to the State Convention are to 
be elected by the loyal white male citizens, who 
are required to take the oath of allegiance, and 
until the United States shall have recognized a 
republican form of State government. 
The State Department has been officially in¬ 
formed that hereafter all vessels entering St. 
Johns, N. S., are to pay a tunnage fee of live 
cents per tun in addition to the 24 cents now 
charged. This will make the port charges 
amount to about 38 to 40 cents. 
A recently passed law makes promises for the 
permanent settlement of the Indians in Utah, 
and appropriates $30,000 for that object. 
The President, on the 7th, appointed Maj.- 
Gen. R. S. Canby Major-General of Volunteers, 
and ordered him to the command of the troops 
west of the Mississippi. 
The President claims that the recent battles 
in Virginia have resulted favorably to the Union 
cause, as the following shows: 
Exeoutivb Mansion, > 
Washington, May 9th, 1864. J 
To the Friends of Union and Liberty:— Enough 
is known of army operations within the last live 
days, to claim our especial gratitude to God. 
While what remains undone demands our most 
sincere prayers to and reliance upon Him, with¬ 
out whom all human effort is vain, 1 recommend 
that all patriots, at their homes, in their places 
of public worship, and wherever they may be, 
unite in a common thanksgiving and prayer to 
Almighty God. Abraham Lincoln. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The National Guards of Ohio mustered in re¬ 
sponse to the Governor’s call for 100 days' men, 
number 35,000 men for active duty. 
Ouk minister at Japan, Mr. Pruyn, has for¬ 
warded to the agricultural bureau at "Washington 
a choice vnrity of grape vines and rare plants — 
a contribution from the Tycoon. 
A machine for sewing boots is in use in a 
factory in Massachusetts. It is a new invention, 
and is saitl to be successful, sewing a boot com¬ 
plete in thirty seconds. 
Surgeon-Gen. Quackenrusii at Albany 
has received from Washington a requisition for 
Surgeons to go to the scene of hostillitie'fc, equip¬ 
ped for ten days’ service. He sent forward the 
requisite number Saturday evening. 
Haggerty, the delivery agent who stole $27,- 
000 from the U. S. Express Company at St. 
Joseph, a few days ago, has been arrested in 
Lawrence, Kansas. He was taken to jail to 
await examination. 
A heavy north-east gale was experienced on 
Lake Michigan, the 27th ult. Two vessels were 
driven ashore at Milwaukee and their cargoes 
much damaged. Several large and valuable car¬ 
goes of wheat were lost. 
Avery singular and fatal disease has appeared 
in Wevbridge, Vermont, which baffles the skill 
of physicians. It commences in the lower limbs, 
and advances rapidly through the spine to the 
brains, when severe spasms and death rapidly 
follow. 
The steam battery Chilo was successfully 
launched from Adams’ shipyard Boston on lhe 
6th. The Chilo is the first of 22 batteries or¬ 
dered on the now models. She is turreted; will 
carry two heavy guns and when laden will draw 
only 64 feet of water. 
Ll*l of Now Advertisements. 
The Premium Threshing Mac hine R. A M. Harder. 
I he Brlnkerhoff < •liurn in Lewis Co.—It A Kvel. 
The “ Self-8owor "—1 1 Uamutn. 
My new Hoc-Book — W a Plunders. 
To Patentee*—J Krasei A Go. 
SHH) pi r Month E <r s-torke. 
Agents Wanted—W S Hills. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Metropolitan Girt Bookstore—E S Brooks. 
The Good and the Bad—D B Del.and A Co. 
®l)e News <£oni>cnser* 
— General Neal Dow is said to be seriously ill. 
— A Trade’s Union hne been organized in Chicago. 
— Ice is said to be a drug in New Orleans market 
— Gnlta percha shirt collars are now advertised in 
London. 
— Garnbaldi is in London where he was received with 
great eclat. 
— A grievons famine prevails throughout a large part 
of Hungary. 
— The steamer Harriet Lane is in the blockade run¬ 
ning business. 
— It is rumored that natural teeth are coming in to 
fashion again. 
— Government does not permit Express Companies 
to carry letters. 
— Augustus Hemmenway is said to be the richest 
man in Boston. 
— California papers speak of a great deal of sickness 
in Napa Valley. 
— The death of Commodore W. D. Porter, U. S. Na¬ 
vy is announced 
— A political paper asserts that Frank Blair has com¬ 
mitted hari kari. 
— Leotard, the gymnast gives private lessons in cal¬ 
isthenics in Paris. 
— The famous trottiDg horse, Geo. M. Patchin, died 
recently of rupture. 
— Col. Conrud Baker has been nominated for Lient 
Governor of Indiana. 
— A report prevails that Lee is removing his heavy 
artillery to Richmond. 
— One and a half pounds of cooking soda are sold in 
Savannah, Gft, for $10. 
— The infant Prince of England has had his little 
“ mug ” photographed. 
— The average wages of 30,000 working women is 
less than 50 cents a day. 
— A dog in Boston has been named Quota because 
be never seems to be full. 
— In the hill provinces of India fonr brothere often 
buy and marry one woman. 
— Pennsylvania has bought a $ 20,000 residence for 
her Governor in Harrisburg. 
— The $an Fi ancisco San i tary Fair is to have a cheese 
which will w eigh 3,500 pounds. 
— It is believed that Garabaldi has been requested 
to leave England by government. 
— Gen. Mead has ordered soldiers who refuse to do 
duty to be shot dead without trial. 
— The Fenian Brotherhood in New England are to 
hold a Convention at Boston soon. 
— The Fair for 1864 of Michigan State Agricultural 
Society is to be held at Kalamazoo. 
— The corner stone of a Shakspeare monument was 
laid in Central Park, N. y , recently. 
— The boss painters of Cincinnati have resolved not 
to pay over $2.60 per day for hands. 
— Geranium leaves are said (0 be a curative applica¬ 
tion for cuts or abraisons of the skin. 
— The Western Pennsylvania Sanitary Fair com¬ 
mences in Pittsburg on the 1st of June 
— It is asserted that the Indian tribee are preparing 
to attack the Idaho trains of emigrants. 
— A horse in New Bedford talued at $400 died of 
lockjaw occasioned by docking his tail. 
— Onion seed in Wethersfield, Conn., sold at 42 cents 
per lb. before the war; now at $3 per lb. 
— “ High as a kitel" has become an obsolete com¬ 
parison- It is now "As high as butter!” 
— The Hudson river at Albany is higher than ever 
before known at tills season of the year. 
— A new species of duck is said to have been shot 
in the vicinity of Quncy, Ill, this spring. 
— Five persons were accidentally drowned by going 
over a dam nt Little Falls, N. Y., recently. 
— The Czar of Russia, by ukase, permits his female 
children to marry foreigners if they desire. 
— Some of the herdsmen in Lower California have 
lost 5,000 head of cattle because of drouth. 
— Prominent Congressmen are confident that an ad¬ 
journment w ill be reached by the 7th of June. 
— William Cullen Bryant paid $ 1,000 for a portrait 
of Richard Cobden at the recent New York fair. 
— James Holbrook, special agent of the Post Office 
Department died at Brooklyn, Conn., April 28th. 
— The printers in Atlanta, Ga, struck for higher 
wages and were conscripted into the rebel army. 
— The Bishops of the M- E. Church South held their 
annual meeting in Motgomery, Ala., the 4th inst, 
— Gen. Grant left for the scat of war In a horse rail¬ 
road cat, attended by one darkey carrying a valise 
— During the pork season just passed Illinois packed 
1,273,390 hogs of an average weight of 190 lbe. each. 
— The ”Rip roarers" is the name by which the 
Republican anti Lincoln party in Missouri is called. 
— A Louisiana negro has made himself famous by 
asserting that President Lincoln is a '• pretty man!" 
— Castor oil is said to be the best application that 
can be made to new boots to render them water proof. 
— The ladies of Indianapolis are volunteering to 
supply the places of clerks who enlist for the hundred 
days. 
— Secretary Seward made a speech and was present¬ 
ed with a sofa cushion at the Sanitary Fair in Balti¬ 
more. 
— It is asserted that Grant has never fought Lee. It 
should be remembered that Lee has never fought 
Grant. 
— A cabbage measuring 105 inches in circumference, 
with the refuse ontside leaves off, was grown in Napa 
Co., Cal. 
— Cbas. B. Lawrence, of Knox Co., Ill., has been 
nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court in the third 
division. 
— One firm in Boston paid at the Custom House, 
in one day, over $90,000 in gold, duties on sugar and 
molasses. 
— A boy 12 years old, in this city, playfully pointed a 
gun at his mother; it was discarged killing her instant¬ 
ly. She leaves eleven children. 
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