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NEWS H> E IP AY !Ft TIVI IE INT T- 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 16, 1864. 
The Amy in Virginia. 
The Heralds 18th Corps correspondent, 1 
writing on the 2d inst., says: — To-day was 
witnessed the most exciting artillery battles 
of the war. After two hours’ cannonading, the 
rebel batteries were completely silenced, and 
the gunners driven from their places. At three 
n the afternoon the rebels again opened furi¬ 
ously, and soon the enemy's line of works were 
enveloped in one continuous cloud of dust, caused 
by our shells. The rebel gunuers could be seen 
running to the rear for safety. Every rebel 
battery was again silenced. Our batteries are 
placed with great skill and care, so that at any 
moment they can be concentrated on any point. 
Our bombardment of the city is steadily doing 
its work, numbers of buildings having already 
been set ou tire and destroyed. • 
The N. Y. Tribune's Washington special says: 
Petersburg is now covered by over one hundred 
of our guns, and were Gen. Grant to give the 
word, its destruction would be the work of but 
a few hours. 
The Times' special at the front, under date of 
July 3d, says:—There is no striking change in 
the position of affairs, the army being in about 
the same position that it was ten days since. 
Our lines extend from the Appomattox river to 
the Weldon railroad, which is commanded by 
our artillery. 
The week, though apparently idly spent, has 
not been frittered away to no advantage, but the 
time has been occupied in preparation, in com¬ 
pacting forces and material for the work. 
In the meantime the auxiliaries of the grand 
army have done their work of cutting off the 
railroad communications in all directions with 
Richmond, and confining the rebel army to its 
present narrow position. 
The guns abandoned by Wilson and Kautz 
in their late expedition, were dismounted and 
spiked and thrown into a swamp, thus render¬ 
ing them useless to the enemy. 
A large number of Kautz’s cavalry had come 
in, presenting a most comical appearance, some 
wearing women’s bonnets, some nearly trouser- 
less, many shoeless, all coatless, and covered to 
that extent with dust that they could scarcely 
be told from negroes. 
The Herald's headquarters correspondent, 
writing on the Tth, says deserters are con¬ 
tinually coming into our lines, complaining of 
short rations in Petersburg. In this respect 
the siege is Vicksburg over again. From all 
accounts, the army and population of not less 
than 200,000 people, are to be fed in Richmond 
and Petersburg, and as the rebel government 
has got to feed or get rid of them, the problem 
of the siege can not be long in solving. 
During the past week there has been much 
excitement in Maryland and in the southern 
portions of Pennsylvania. The rebel invasion 
of Maryland has proved to be more extensive than 
was supposed it would be when Sigel retreated 
from Martinsburg to Maryland Heights. Al¬ 
though it has been considered by many as merely 
an expedition to plunder the inhabitants and then 
escape back into rebeldom with the spoils to 
replenish the commissary department of the 
rebel army, yet events have shown that a force, 
large enough to make a bold dash into Mary¬ 
land and occupy several important places, Fred¬ 
erick among the rest, is still operating. 
A battle took place on Saturday at Monocacy 
River, 35 miles north-west of Washington, in a 
straight line, 58 miles from Baltimore, and five 
miles south of Frederick. The Secretary of 
War in a dispatch to General Dix, dated July 0, 
says: — “An official dispatch from Major-Gen. 
Wallace, just reached here, states that a battle 
took place between the forces under his com¬ 
mand and the rebels, at Monocacy to-day, com¬ 
mencing at 9 o’clock A. M., and continuing 
on the Rockville road, that, commenced at an 
early hour this A. M., (11th,) was continued by 
the advance of the whole rebel force to a point 
about four miles west of Tenallytown. Then 
their progress on that road was stopped, and 
they disappeared iu some other direction* 
Subsequently we hear of their skirmishing 
between 11 nud 12 o'clock on and around the 
Seventh Street Turnpike near the Clagget farm 
and the residence of Francis P. Blair, Esq. 
It is reported to-day that the rebels have 
burned the residence of Mr. lllair. 
A Washington paper of July 11, says the 
rebel army of invasion marched down the Tal¬ 
ley 45,000 strong, iuclndiug 8,000 cavalry. It is 
supposed that Breckinridge is iu chief command. 
Hunter is certainly in striking distance of the 
rebels, with ft force of not less than ten thousand 
men, which, added to those sent up by General 
Grant, will make a total of not less than thirty- 
five or forty thousand veterans. The commands 
of Sigel and Wallace will swell the number of 
Union forces to not less than fifty thousand. 
A Washington dispatch says the only appre¬ 
hension now is that the rebels may be able to 
effect their escape before the plans for their 
capture can be completed. 
until 5 P. M.; that our forces were at length 
overpowered by the superior numbers of the 
enemy, and were forced to retreat in disorder. 
Brig.-Gen. Tyler was taken prisoner; the ene¬ 
my’s forces numbered at least 20,000; that our 
troops behaved well, but suffered severe loss. 
He is retreating toward Baltimore." 
A squad of rebel cavalry set fire to the resi¬ 
dence of Gov. Bradford, Monday morning, four 
miles from Baltimore. The rebels ordered out 
the Governor’s family, permitting them to take 
only a few valuables. The edifice and all the 
furniture were destroyed. The Governor was 
in the city when the rebels mode their visit. 
The 18th army corps (Baldy Smith’s) from 
Butler’s command, arrived at Baltimore Mon¬ 
day forenoon. Also the 19th army corps from 
New Orleans, 
Advices from Harrisburg, July 11, report 
that the rebels have burned eighteen large 
bridges on the Northern Central railroad, and 
are still advancing northward, destroying the 
railroads and telegraphs. They had reached 
Monkton, at the latest accounts. The destruc¬ 
tion of property is great. 
A dispatch from a conductor, July 11, states 
that his train was captured at Magnolia. Maj.- 
Gen. Franklin was captured and made prisoner, 
•with all other officers and soldiers on board. 
All the passengers were robbed ol' theirwatches, 
money, &e. The train was burned. After 
committing other depredations, they made off 
in the direction of Baltimore. 
A New York dispatch, of July 11, says:—We 
are without auy railroad or telegraphic commu¬ 
nication with Baltimore or Washington to-night, 
the railroads and telegraph lines having been 
cut to-day at Magnolia, seventeen miles north of 
Baltimore, by the rebels. 
The Washington Star says:—The skirmishing 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Arkansas.—A fight took place near the 1 
mouth of the White River on the 27th ult, be- a 
tween a portion of Gen. Steel’s forces and the r 
rebels under Gen. Shelby. The Federals cap¬ 
tured two hundred prisoners, the guns of the t 
recently captured gunboat Queen City, and four t 
mountain howitzers. < 
Our loss in killed and wounded will not reach i 
200, while that of the enemy will reach 500. f 
During the following night, Gen. Carr received 
information of the approach of rebel re-enforce- i 
meats, under Gen. Marmaduke, and made prep- I 
arations to fall back on Clarendon, twenty 
miles below Duval’s Bluff. At last accounts I 
this movement bad been made successfully and < 
re-enforcements had been sent to Carr. 
Officers from Dovat’e Bluff, July 1, say , 
that on the 30th ult., Shelby had not returned ' 
to Clarendon, but it is thought that he would 
soon do so. General Carr reached Duval's 
Bluffon the 30th. 
General Marmaduke is still south of the Ar¬ 
kansas river, ten miles below Napoleon. His 
force consists of his own and Gens. Badger’s, 
Poekury's and Capel’s, about 6,000 men, with 6 
or 8 pieces of artillery. 
There is no rebel artillery between the Arkau- 
s;ts and White rivers, and but three companies 
of guerrillas between these rivers. 
The apprehensions of a siege at Little Hock 
are much diminished. There is but one brigade 
of rebels on the Salem river. The design of the 
rebels was evidently to cut Gen. Steele’s com¬ 
munications on the White river, which, how¬ 
ever, it will he very difficult to do, but if it 
should be done, Duval’s Bluff' and Little Rock 
have provisions enough for three months. The 
White river is patrolled by tiu clads, supported 
by a land force. 
North-western Georgia.— Nashville ad¬ 
vices of July 5, say that persons from the front 
who left Kenesaw Mountaiu on the 30th ult,, 
report matters, since the unsuccessful assault on 
the 27tlq in statu quo. Our Hue extends from 
the railroad just north of the mountain around 
the western base, and as far south as the Dallas 
and Marietta roads. The enemy’s position is a 
strong one, and though held by a small force, 
appears to be impregnable to assault. Geu. 
Sherman's quarters are near the railroad, Geu. 
Thomas’ about two miles south and went of 
Kenesaw Mountain. ->o close are the contend¬ 
ing lines that skirmishing goes on continually, 
and often the whole army is engaged. On the 
night ol' the 28th the rebels sent a small force to 
attack one of our working parties. 
They were received with a heavy volley, 
when the skirmish lines along the front of both 
armies became engaged for an hour or more. 
We had only one man killed and six wounded 
ftloug the entire line. 
A noted guerrilla, knowu as Parsou Johu- 
ston, and four of his men, were killed on the 
1st inst., near Huntsville. The remainder of 
his band were driven into a cave and besieged 
there. 
Dates from the same source ol' the Tth inst., 
state that the think movement, which resulted 
iu the evacuation of Kenesaw Mountain, was 
begun on the evening after the failure of the as¬ 
sault of the 27tb. The enemy began the evacu¬ 
ation on the 3<Jth ol' J une. J ohnston is supposed 
to have crossed the Chattahoochee, and is en¬ 
deavoring to occupy the south side of the river, 
and opposite the mouth of Nickajack ('reek ami 
Teller’s Creek; but persons from the front on 
the 4th, report that opinions then prevailed that 
they were too late in effecting the crossing at 
the points named. 
Sherman has several good roads converging at 
Atlanta, which is not o\ex 12 to 15 miles dis- 
. tant from the river. 
We have no positive assurance of the passage 
, of the Chattahoochee by either army. I*rol> 
I ably the first that will be beard of this will 
. be from Gen. Sherman himself. 
Mississippi.—M emphis advices of July 5th, 
5 say that Col. Winslow, commanding the second 
- brigade of Grierson’s division of cavalry, ban 
The intention of the enemy is not probably to 
make aggressive movements so much as to pro¬ 
tect the grain-growing sections of Northern 
Mississippi from Federal incursions. 
A skirmish on Saturday near Salisbury re¬ 
sulted in the driving in of our pickets by 200 of 
the enemy, but a detachment of cavalry being 
sent to ro-enforee the pickets, the rebels were 
driven back with a loss of twenty-five killed, 
whom we buried. Our picket line was re-es¬ 
tablished at night, and all was again quiet* 
We have thus far taken about thirty prisoners, 
but have not lost a man killed, wounded or 
missing. 
Col. Karge, of the second New Jersey cav¬ 
alry, has started out on an expedition, but where 
to is not known. 
Department of the Gulf 
By a recent, arrival from New Orleans, we 
glean the following: — The authorities of the 
city have of late made several arrests of persons 
charged with enlisting men for the Mexican 
army. As this could not Ire allowed without 
prompt action on the part of the Government 
officers, as soon as it came to their notice, this 
infringement of the neutrality laws was promptly 
suppressed and the parties arrested. 
Among the arrested were a Licut.-Col. James 
Dugan, of the Mexieau army, and Capt. Gros- 
venor. Ins Adjutant. Col. Dugan was formerly 
a Captain in the 14th Illinois regiment. 
It was also discovered that over one hundred 
men had been enlisted, a large number of whom 
are said to have deserted from the Union army. 
Ou arriving at Matamoras they were to be fur¬ 
nished transportation, and join Carlimi’s army as 
soon as possible. 
The crops in the interior of Louisiana are 
represented as excellent in appearance, and bid 
fair to yield bountifully. 
The Mississippi river was rising rapidly, and 
the indications were that there would soon be 
quite a freshet. 
The Herald's New Orleans correspondent of 
July 2, says a large force of the enemy had for 
three day s been raiding upon the plantations 
near Lake St. Joseph, between Vicksburg and 
Natchez. The plantations were robbed of their 
stock and farming implements, and the cotton 
destroyed. Several planters were taken prison¬ 
ers. An order has just been issued sending all 
registered enemies beyond our lines. 
received a note from Capt. Semmes, begging 
that the Kearsage would not depart, as he in¬ 
tended to tight her, and would not delay but a 
day or two. 
According to this notice, tbo Alabama left the 
port of Cherbourg this morning at about 9:30 
o'clock. At 1030 A. M., we discovered her 
steering toward us. Fearing the question of 
jurisdiction might arise, we steamed to sea until 
a distance of six or seven miles was obtained 
from the Cherbourg breakwater, when we 
rounded to and commenced sloering for the Ala¬ 
bama. As we approached her, within about 
1,200 yards, she opened lire, wa receiving two 
or three broadsides before a shot was returned. 
The action continued, the respective steamers 
making a circle round and round at a distance of 
about 900 yards from each other. 
At the 'expiration of an hour the Alabama 
struck, going down in about twenty minutes 
afterward, and carrying many persons with her. 
It affords me great gratification to announce 
to the Department that, every officer and man 
did their duty, exhibiting a "degree of coolness 
and fortitude which gave promise at the outset 
of certain victory, 
1 have the honor to be, most respectfully, 
your obedient servant, 
John A. Winslow, Captain. 
Before the Alabama went down, the crew, 
with the commander, (Scmraes,) jumped over¬ 
board. A large number were jacked up by an 
Euglish yacht and taken to England. The 
Kearsage picked up sixty-three men and five 
officers. The Alabama, according to Semmes’ 
account, had nine killed and twenty-one 
wounded. The casualties of the Kearsage were 
three men wounded. The rebels picked up 
were paroled by Capt. Winslow. 
The President has made requisitions on sev¬ 
eral States for one hundred day men. New 
York is to furnish 12,000, Pennsylvania 12,000, 
uud Massachusetts 5,000. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
been skirmishing with 
enemy’s cavalry 
under Gen. Rhoddy, almost continually since 
Thursday last, with signal success. The field 
of operations has been in the section of country 
between Lagrange and Corinth. 
From developments made last week, it bus 
been demonstrated that the rebel army of the 
I Mississippi is concentrating in the vicinity of 
Corinth, which place is now held by Gen. 
Rboddy’s division of cavalry. Gen. Forrest 
has his headquarters at Tupelio, Miss. Gen. 
Lee is at Meridian, while Buford, rebel, is con¬ 
scripting at Ripley. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
Congress adjourned sine die on the 4th inst,, 
at 12 o’clock. One of the la>t acts passed was 
one amending the Enrollment Law, as reported 
by the Committee of Conference. The follow¬ 
ing is an abstract: 
Sec. 1. The President may call for any num¬ 
ber of volunteers for one, two and three years. 
Volunteers and their substitutes shall be cred¬ 
ited as quotas. Volunteers only shall receive 
the bounty of $100 fqij the term of one year, 
$200 for two years, $300 for three years. Boun¬ 
ties to be paid in three equal payments, at the 
beginning, middle and end of the term of serv¬ 
ice. 
Sec. 2. In case any quota shall not be filled 
within fifty days after such call, then the Presi¬ 
dent shall order a draft for one year to fill such 
quota, or any part thereof which may be un¬ 
filled; and in case of any such draft, no pay¬ 
ment of money shall be accepted or received by 
the Government as commutation to release any 
enrolled or drafted man from personal obliga¬ 
tion to perform military service. 
Sec. 3. It shall be lawful for the Executive 
of any of the States to send recruiting agents 
into any of the States in rebellion, except Ten¬ 
nessee, Louisiana and Arkansas, to recruit vol¬ 
unteers under any call under the provisions of 
this act, who shall be credited to the State and 
to the respective sub-divisions thereof, which 
may procure the enlistment. 
SkC. 4. Drafted men, volunteers and substi¬ 
tutes shall be assigned to organizations from 
their own state, and as far as practicable, to 
those of their selection. 
Sec. 5. Persons under sixteen years of age 
enlisted or mustered without the knowledge or 
consent of parents or guardians, shall be dis¬ 
charged upon payment of bounties received; 
and officers who enlist such jiersons shall be 
dismissed If they do it knowingly. 
,8ec. 6. Drafts shall be for double the number 
required to fill quotas. 
Skc. 7. All persons in the naval service of 
the United States, who have entered said service 
during the present rebellion, who have not 
been credited to the quota of any town, district, 
ward or State, by reason of their being in said 
service, and not enrolled prior to Feb. 24.1864, 
upon satisfactory evidence to t he Secretary of 
War, shall be enrolled and credited to tbe quotas 
of the town, ward, district or State iu which 
they respectively reside. 
The principal point Of difference between the 
two Houses was in regard to the 3d section, to 
which the Senate objected, and which tbe House 
insisted upon retaining. The report was first 
rejected by the Senate by three majority, and 
then accepted by one majority, the last vote 
being 18 to 17. The vote In the House on con¬ 
curring iu the report was yeas 65, nays 53. 
It will be gratifying to the readers of the 
Rural to learn that the Confederate steamer 
Alabama is where she can uo longer prey upon 
American commerce. She was sent to the bot¬ 
tom of the English Channel on the 19th of 
June, by the U. 8. steamer Kearsage. The 
Secretary of the Navy bus received the follow¬ 
ing dispatch from the captain of the victorious 
vessel: 
United states Stba.meii Kkaksaoe, t 
June 19th—P. M. I 
To Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the 
Nan/:—l have tbe honor to inform tbe Depart¬ 
ment that tbe day subsequent to the arrival of 
the Kearsage at this port, on the 14th inst., I 
The rebel Congress has adjourned and left ] 
Richmond without maturing uuy of the impor¬ 
tant bills that were before it. Tbe Examiner i 
some weeks since was exceedingly severe upon 
a mere proposition to adjourn at the particular i 
moment, it is said, when “ more than usual time 
and attention ought to be bestowed upon every 1 
detail of Congressional business." 
There are now iu the British Islands three ’ 
hundred and seventy-distinct railway companies 
which own eleven thousand five hundred miles 1 
of road. They carry about eighty million pas¬ 
sengers yearly, and about thirty million tuns of 1 
merchandise and minerals, and give employment 
probably to not less than two hundred thousand 
persons. 
Baron Solomon De Rothschild, third 
son of Baron James De Rothschild, has just 
died at Paris of hypetropliy of the heart, after 
an illness of sixty hours. Deceased was twenty- 
nine years of age; and about two years ago was 
married to one of his cousins, the daughter of M. 
De Rothschild, of Frankfort. 
A Family In Albany were poisoned recently 
by eating a quantity of cheese which contained 
a poisonous substance. All the children, six iu 
number, were attacked, after midnight, by vio¬ 
lent pains, and vomited fearfully. All experi¬ 
enced the most severe distre-B, and narrowly 
escaped death. 
One hundred and seventy-four thousand’ 
horses have been purchased by the Government 
during tbe last year. Nearly sixty thousand of 
these have been killed, rendered useless or sold. 
Eighty-six thousand mules have been purchased, 
and over seventeen thousand of these have 
been captured, condemned, sold or killed. 
Three of Morgan’s old raiders were found 
on board the prize steamer Thistle, which ar¬ 
rived at New York a few days since. Tbe 
Thistle was caught in the act of running the 
Wilmington bluekude. Her crew are now 
enjoying the seclusion of Fort Lafayette. 
The Washington Star gays that since Gen. 
Grant crossed the Uapidan he has captured 
over thirty stand of rebel colors and about 17,000 
prisoners, not including those captured wlthiu 
the last two or three weeks, while his own loss 
in prisoners is less than one-third that number. 
The stalwart Tom Ilyer, ouce tbe pride and 
envy of muscular New York, is now a hopless 
cripple. Beggard in purse and bankrupt in 
health, he was, ou the 5th inst., the grateful 
recipient of nbenelit from Ills New York friends. 
Col. Oscar F. Harman, of the One Hun¬ 
dred and Twenty-fifth Illinois, who was recently 
killed before Marietta, Ga., was born at Wheat- 
land, in this State, and studied law with Judge 
Smith, of Rochester. 
The commander of the Hearsay?, who re¬ 
cently sunk the Alabama, is Capt. John A. Wins¬ 
low, or ltoxbury, Mass. He was born in North 
Carolina, and entered the service from that 
State Feb. 1,1827. no lias seen seventeen years 
of sea service. 
The Ohio Statesman says that three thousand 
farms in Ohio are left without a man to attend 
them—.thousands of fields are left waste for the 
want of hands to cultivate them; this, too, at 
the very season when every workingman in the 
State is required at home. 
John Clancy, the editor of the New York 
Leader, and a prominent Democratic politician, 
died in New York on the first inst. He was 
born in 1830, and has been clerk of tbe county 
of New York. 
Colorado, Idaho and Arizona will yield one 
hundred million iu gold this year, and, as yet, 
1 the riches of the new mining regions have 
scarcely begun to be developed. The vast de- 
1 posits have not even been skimmed. 
Capt. Cutts, of the Regular Army, and 
brother of Mrs. Douglas, was mortally wounded 
receutly in a battle that took place on Butler’s 
line at Bermuda Hundred. 
Lieut.-Col. Bailey, of the 4th Wis. cavalry, 
° who constructed a dam on Red River, thereby 
{ saving our gunboat licet, was unanimously oon- 
[ filmed by the Senate as a Brigadier-General. 
List of New Advertisement*. 
LicuL-Gen. Grant's Daring Spy—C W Alexander A Co 
Cider hu< 1 Wine Mills—W o illckok. 
Fruit. Trees—Murk I) Willson. 
Iron S’amps fur Marking Sheep—A Todd, Jr. 
Tree-! Tressl—E Moody A Sons. 
Strawberry Plants—Josenb Koor.li. 
To all Wanting Homes—II K 1 >sn forth. 
A Grand Chance to make Money— Mark Patterson. 
Cancers Cured - Dr G \V Kersey. 
OriK Jfcius €on&cnsct\ 
— Congress adjonrned on Monday week. 
— Es-Gov. Reader lately died in Easton, Pa. 
— They give a whisky ration now in Grant’s army. 
— The first new wheat of the season has reached 
Baltimore. 
— Look ont for bad tens on the Traders' Bank of 
Bangor, Me, 
— The hens of New England la 9 t year laid over four 
million eggs. 
— Taxation in this city is one per cent higher this 
year than last. 
— The quota of Erie county on all the back drafts is 
fall, with excess. 
— Sixty-one children who went to Fourth of July in 
Boston were lost. 
— All drafted men in Hollis, Mass , who go, are to be 
paid $300 iu gold. 
— Ex-Mayor Opdyke, of New York, has sued Thnr- 
low Weed for libel- 
— The last, revolutionary pensioner in New York died 
lately, 100 years old. 
— Garibaldi has been elected Grand Master of tbe 
Italian Free Masons. 
— A Great National Sailors’ Fair is to be held In Bos¬ 
ton in November next. 
— The Western papers report the wool crop as enor¬ 
mous. So is the price. 
— They say there is a deficit of $ 19,000 in gold in the 
Portlaud custom house. 
— Spurious fives on the Merchants’ Bank of New 
Haven are in circulation. 
— The Danish question is not likely to be settled 
without a European war. 
— Coal advanced $1.33 per tun in New York on 
Wednesday of last week. 
— The Chicago dailies have increased their subscrip¬ 
tion price to $12 per year. 
— Parson Brownlow issues his paper from Knoxville 
instead of Cincinnati now. 
— New York papers have many fires, crimes, and 
casualties after the Fourth. 
— Geo. P. Morris, of the Home Journal, died in New 
York July 6 , aged 56 years. 
— A yonng man has been arrested at Louisville for 
eloping with his uncle’s wife. 
— The sum of $40,000 has been stolen from a Pay¬ 
master attached to Sherman’s army. 
— The sympathetic English women are subscribing 
to buy or build a yacht for Garibaldi. 
— St LonU people are rejoicing on account of a large 
fall of rain, the first in several weeks. 
— The rebel Gen. Winder is reported sick with ty¬ 
phoid fever, aud his recovery doubtful. 
— Gen Sickles is at New Orleans, residing with Gov. 
Hahn. Ho is in excellent health and spirits. 
— A grasshopper is on exhibition at Portland, Me., 
the body of which Is more than 7 inches long- 
— Amaroueis, one of the severest of eye diseases, is 
now said to be produced by the use of tobacco. 
— Rebel deserters state that the army of Johnston, 
which is opposed to Sherman, numbers 60,000 men. 
' — The London Jonrnals generally agree t hat it will 
be necessary for England to act in behalf of Denmark. 
-- Never were children dearer to their parents tb&n 
at present during the existing prices of clothing and 
food. 
— Mr. Joseph Shaw, founder or the Imperial Order 
of Odd Fellows, recently died at Nottingham, England, 
aged 76. 
— The first English turret ship, the Royal Sovereign, 
! has been officially tried, and is proven to be a great 
success. 
— Tbe machine shop or the Buffalo and Lake Huron 
. Rail road was burned on the 26th ult. The loss is abont 
I $50,000. 
) — The scrip or the Vermont Agricultural College has 
l been sold, and the funds, $ 130,000, invested in bonds ol 
4 the State. 
, _ Gen. Brown, Commanding the district of Central 
j Mo., has organized 6,000 citizens for protection against 
guerrillas. 
3 — The bombardment of Petersburg is rapidly doing 
J Its work, numbers of buildings having already been 
destroyed. 
’ —Thirty fivo $5 gold pieces, dated 1792, have been 
■ discovered lu removing an old building at Fort Ann, 
f New York. 
- — Morgan shaves the heads of all the prisoners he 
e takes In Kentucky, in revenge for his close shave at 
Columbus. 
— The ofllcors and seamen of the Alabama, captured 
by tbe Kearsage, have beeu liberated ou parole si 
Cherbourg 
L> — The house of Gov. Letcher, at Lexington, Va , was 
1 burned during Gen. Hunter’s recent advance ap° n 
B Lynchburg, 
— The Connecticut farmers are selling their rye crop 
il to the bonnet makers. It is cut green and carried oil 
d in the sheaf. 
e —The yellow fever has made its appearance a 
Portsmouth, N. II , aud thirteen persons have died in 
e consequence. 
— Millions of fish have been poisoned in tbe Ohio 
canal by the discharge of refuse from the extensive dis¬ 
tilleries »t Troy. 
*’ — A cargo of rum entered at the Boston Custom 
18 House last Saturday, valued at $4,853, paid a duty of 
y $1,898 50 in gold. 
— The Cabinet of the King of the Sandwich Islands, 
e contains an American, an Englishman, a Scotchman, a 
t, Kanaka and A woman. 
e — The const of Chill is undergoing n gradual cleva 
3 . tion, and the harbors for the last hall a century hay 
been diminishing in depth. ^ 
( | £■— The Sanitary Commission is sending $ 1,000 W ^ 
i of fresh vegetables dally to the army in Virginia/ 
, Baltimore and Philadelphia. f 
5 — The miners of Colorado are suffering from/ 1 ' 
laborers—many Interests that should be lari 1 
ductivc are yielding nothing. , 
y — A London compositor lost his life by i0U ’|V ^ 
»_ * V.I.* «lnm>pa. thnv bfcjl*!* ^ 
'boll on his face with his fingers, they ben5 
with the dnst from new type. 
