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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
ROCHESTER N. Y., JULY 23, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
Reports from City Point of July 15, eay 
there had been considerable skirmishing during 
several days past along our lines. The rebels 
yesterday morning fired upon the steamers 
George Weems and United States, from a field 
battery near Wilson's Landing. The former 
had a portion of her stern knocked off, and the 
latter had three shots passed through her. 
Another report from the Army of the Poto¬ 
mac says that the rebels had maneuvered their 
troops in a manner which seems to augur an 
attack on our rear. From the last accounts, 
Gen. Hill’s corps was moving around on our 
left, with the intention, say military men, of 
getting into our rear. Gen. Rickett’s division is 
in front of Gen. Butler’s forces, and a portion of 
Gen. Longstreet’s division is in front of the Oth 
corps. The Weldon railroad, which was cut by 
Gen. Wilson in his late raid, has been repaired 
by the rebels, and is used by them. Thirteen 
trains ran to and from Petersburg on the 10th. 
On the 12th the rebels made a demonstration 
on the Jerusalem road, apparently for the pur¬ 
pose of attacking our troops; but being con¬ 
fronted by an ample force they changed their 
design. 
The great Maryland raid seems to he at an 
end. We give the following summary: 
Dr. Johnson, Medical Director at Frederick, 
sums up the Union loss at the battle of Monoc&ey 
at 711,-121 killed, 190 wounded and taken to 
the hospitals, and 400 taken prisoners. 
The doctor states that the total loss in killed 
around Frederick, is near 300. There were 430 
wounded in the hospital at that place. 
The Washington Chronicle of the 12th has an 
account of the operations about Washington. 
Our cavalry, under Major Fry, stubbornly 
contested the advance, retreating only when 
flanked by superior numbers. Sunday, the 10th, 
they fought from three to nine P. M., and were 
driven five miles. On Monday, the rebels were 
kept at hay a few miles out of Tennallytown. 
The rebel force was large. The President and 
Secretary of War were present and encouraged 
the troops. 
At 2 P. M. the rebels advanced near Fort 
Stephens, five miles from the city, and their 
sharpshooters got within 25 or 30 yards of the 
fort, and took possession of 6ome buildings. The 
25th New York cavalry dismounted and drove 
them out of the houses, which they burned, 
as they obstructed the range of our guns. Other 
regiments now arrived and drove the rebels back 
half a mile. Toward 6 P. M. , the veterans from 
the “fighting Sixth” advanced, and drove the 
rebels back a mile and a half. 
The Herald’s Washington dispatch of the 15th, 
says no fortifications near Washington were cap¬ 
tured by the rebels. 
Their retreat commenced on the 12th, and was 
simultaneous with all their scattered force. The 
rear guard passed Rockville at noon on the 13th. 
The World’s special says adviees from the Up¬ 
per Potomac confirm the reported retreat of the 
rebels into Virginia. 
Our artillery shelled the enemy’s rear, and 
some stragglers were taken, hut it was impossi¬ 
ble to intercept the main body. They had the 
prisoners taken at Monoeaey. 
The Tribunt’s special says it is estimated that 
the rebels secured 10,000 head of cattle and 
horses, besides large droves of sheep and hogs, 
which they got across while threatening Wash¬ 
ington. 
Brief as was the combat before Washington, 
it was bloody. The rebels must have lost, in 
killed and wounded, at least fifteen hundred. 
The small and wasted brigade of the 6th corps 
of veterans made 6ad havoc among them. 
There are many people in Maryland who be¬ 
lieve that the intention of the rebels was to 
make an attack, in right earnest, on Washing¬ 
ton, but the continuous arrival of troops in 
formidable numbers satisfied them that their de¬ 
sign could not be accomplished. 
There is no doubt that they were previously 
encouraged to this advance by many syinptliiz- 
ing friends, especially those who took pains to 
point out Union men for plunder, and who 
themselves suffered from the treachery of the 
rebels. On their retreat through the upper 
portion of Montgomery county, the rebels swept 
off nearly all the horses and cattle, and many of 
them stole women’s and children’s clothing, and 
other personal effects. The stores were also 
plundered. 
Breckenridge and staff were reported in Lees¬ 
burg on the 13th. Rebel stragglers are being 
picked up by our troops. 
Washington advices of the 17th, say that 
further pursuit of the rebel raiders had been 
abandoned, and they will probably reach Lynch¬ 
burg with their plunder in safety. 
Persons residing near the Gap say the rebel 
train consisted of all sorts of vehicles, and over 
a mile long, and was filled with every sort of 
plunder. Over 7,000 head oi cuttle and horses, 
and large droves of hogs and sheep, were sent 
through the Gap by the rebels previous to their 
retreat, and were pastured in the meadows along 
the river until the main body commenced mov ¬ 
ing. Several hundred wounded were In carriages. 
Rebel officers acknowledge their loss at Mouoc- 
acy at 1,200 in killed and wounded, and GOO near 
Washington. {Several rebel officers of high rank 
were killed and wounded. 
A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat 
i Petersburg, says two mines were sprung 
o our right this evening (the 15th) just before 
<1%. [Another account says our shells exploded 
twvrebel magazines.] The main line of rebel 
works around the city, carried by us a month 
ago, is being leveled to the ground. There 
was a fight going on between our gunboats and 
a rebel battery. 
Movements in the West and South-West. 
Missouri. —A dispatch from Macon, July 15, 
to St. Louis, says that Huntsville, Randolph 
Co., was robbed of $100,000 by guerrillas. One 
citizen was killed. 
The steamers Weldon, Glasgow, Sunshine, 
Cherokee, Northerner and E. T. Dix were 
burned at the levee in St. Louis on the 15th. 
The loss will probably reach half a million. 
The origin of the fire is believed to be tbe 
work of an incendiary, as the military authori¬ 
ties received several dispatches last week indi¬ 
cating that a number of boats were to he burned, 
and implicating two men who have been arrest¬ 
ed on suspicion. 
Brig.-Gen. Pitt, of tbe colored recruits of 
Missouri, has been ordered to the field with a 
brigade of negro troops. Gen. Ewing will 
hereafter have charge of negro recruiting in the 
State. Gem Roseerans’ Order 107 is being very 
generally responded to throughout the State. 
The citizens are organizing for self-defense, and 
determination is everywhere manifested to put 
down bushwhacking and plundering. 
St. Louis dates of July 16, say the excite¬ 
ment at St. Joseph in this State in regard to 
guerrillas continues. The city seems to be 
threatened, and citizens are under arms, while 
the country south and south-east of that place 
is overrun with bushwhackers. 
The rebels say that over one thousand men in 
Platte county are ready and are waiting for 
Shelby or Quantrell to lead them. Other 
counties are said to be in just the same condi¬ 
tion. 
Farmers from the lower part of Buchanan 
county are going to St. Joseph for safety. One 
of them reports having seen four hundred guer¬ 
rillas encamped in Bloomington township, and 
that they had sent a scouting party for horses 
and prisoners. 
Kansas. —General Curtis telegraphed from 
Leavenworth on the 15th that our forces under 
Col. Ford overtook a gang of guerrillas last 
night at Capien, Ray Co., and routed them, 
killing 15 and capturing a large number of arms 
and ten kegs of powder. 
3Iississippi.— Advices from Cairo of July 14, 
Bay that an expedition left Vicksburg on the 
1st inst., commanded by Gen. Slocum. They 
destroyed tbe railroad beyond and across Pearl 
river on the 5th, and sent in thirty prisoners. 
The cavalry expedition which left Memphis 
bn the 4th had arrived at Vicksburg, and would 
re-enforce Slocum. The expedition had pre¬ 
viously been destined logo up the White river. 
Another force had been operating out from 
Rodney, Miss, scouring the country in that 
vicinity. They had engaged in many skirmishes, 
in all of which they were victorious. 
The Vicksburg Herald of the 12th says, in 
regard to the late expedition to Jackson, that 
our forces moved from Black River on the 
morning of the 3d inst., in command of General 
Dennis. Gen. Slocum joined the expedition at 
Champion Hills. The whole force numbered 
less than 3,000. The enemy were not encoun¬ 
tered in any considerable force until the Oth 
inst, when they found them strongly posted on 
the east bank of the creek, three miles this side 
of Jackson. 
A flanking force under Col. Coates, 11th Ill., 
compelled the rebels to abandon their position. 
Our forces occupied Jackson that night 
The following day as our troops were leaving 
the town, a citizen climbed up to the top of the 
State House and signaled the rebel cavalry, 
which drew up in line of battle on the north 
side of the town. After this act the citizen was 
summarily shot The enemy attacked our ad¬ 
vance in strong force, but were finally driven 
back. The next morning our rear guard was 
again assaulted near Clinton, hut the rebels 
were again repulsed, and the ground strewn 
with their dead and wounded. 
Our total loss was less than 100 killed and 50 
wounded. We captured 30 or 40 prisoners. 
The railroad from Vicksburg to Jackson is 
being rapidly repaired, and communication 
will soon be had with the interior. 
Northwestern Georgia. — The Atlanta 
Appeal (rebel) of July 4th, says:—We are not 
without the hope that re-enforcements will yet 
come to the aid of our army in sufficient strength 
to enable it to drive hack the invaders of our 
soil. The trans-Mississippi army is now lying 
idle, with no enemy to annoy it, and there is no 
reason why it might not be transferred to this 
side of the river where its services are so much 
needed. While the enemy are concentrating all 
their forces, it behooves us to do the same thing. 
Otherwise there is no alternative left but to sur¬ 
render the country to the domination of the in¬ 
vading foe. 
A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald of July 
Ctb, (with Sherman’s command,) says that altho’ 
we have at length reached the famed Chatta¬ 
hoochee, still I cannot chronicle great battles; 
but I can chronicle what is better—strategic 
movements—which have driven Johnston from 
his strongholds in the mountain fastnesses of 
Georgia back toward Atlanta, the heart of the 
Southern Confederacy. We are striking deeper 
and deadlier, mid piercing nearer and nearer to 
the heart of rebeldoin in the South. There ri 
no wavering now, no doubting prophets; all 
feel that we are approaching tbe fated city. 
An officer of General Thomas’ staff, in a pri¬ 
vate letter, states that the flank movement to the 
river, resulted in the capture of 3,000 prisoners, 
besides recapturing numerous deserters. 
Heretofore the rebels have had all the advant¬ 
ages of position, and their loss has been light 
compared with our own, but since we got into 
the valley of the Chattahoochee the rebels have 
lost 5,000 or 6,000 men, while we have lost none. 
Great numbers are reported falling out of the 
rebel ranks at each retreat of Joe Johnston. 
The morale of the rebel army is now almost as 
bad as when it was under Gen. Bragg, and Johu- 
ston is looked on as a repetition of the great re¬ 
treater; in fact, a far greater retreater. His 
retrograde movement has been criticised by his 
officers and men, and deserters now within our 
lines report the existence of general dissatisfac¬ 
tion in the rebel army. 
The rebel strength is given at 47,000, infantry 
and cavalry. Advices from Sherman of the loth 
inst., give the cheering intelligence that at least 
three of the best and strongest corps of his army 
have crossed the Chattahoochee and strongly 
intrenched in the works abandoned by the 
rebels. The whole rebel army had fallen back 
to tbe outer lines and works in front of Atlanta. 
It is said that the city is defended by a chain 
of works extending three miles, which are held 
by from 18,000 to 20,000 militia. 
The rebels are also Baid to he moving all their 
supplies to Augusta, admitting that they fear 
the capture of Atlanta by flank movements of 
Sherman. 
We have further particulars of the crossing of 
the Chattahoochee, which are interesting. The 
rebels on Sunday, finding that Sherman ha<" jjf 
fected a lodgment south of the river, btpned the 
railroad and turnpike bridges, togeher with 
three pontoons. Their works were tie strongest 
found ou the whole line from Daltqj, an 1 were 
protected by a battery. assault 
would have been an uupossibi..,., The stream 
is at present shallow, and the bottom r<x\v; but 
no men could have forded it and charged up tbe 
embankments to the works. The intreuchments 
extend along the river five miles, and are located 
so as to sweep the surrounding country. John¬ 
ston had evidently been months in preparing 
them. After the flank movement commenced 
the rebel General offered no resistance, hut fell 
back. The enemy were pursued to the fortifi¬ 
cations around Atlanta, which were but eight 
miles distant. 
Kentucky.—A dispatch from Louisville the 
17th inst., says that a rebel force variously esti¬ 
mated from 5,000 to 15,000, entered Kentucky via 
Found Gap on the 15th, and are now at Martin- 
dale, Floyd Co. It is not known under whose 
command or for what object. Military authori¬ 
ties are actively engaged in preparations for giv¬ 
ing them a warm reception. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The following regulations for recruiting in 
the Rebel States, (authorized by the amended 
Enrollment Law.) has been issued: 
It is provided that recruiting agents must 
have a letter of appointment from the State 
Executive. The particular field of a State irf 
which agents are to operate is to be specified in 
the letter of appointment. Experience has 
shown that these agents should not be paid for 
each recruit, but they should have a fixed com¬ 
pensation, otherwise fraudulent practices may 
be resorted to, for the pecuniary benefit of the 
agent, to the great prejudice of the State and 
military service. A1J recruiting agents will he 
subject to the ‘rules and articles of war. It is 
made the duty of the commanding officer of 
any department or district in which recruiting 
agents operate, and of commanding officers of 
rendezvous, to order back to his State, or arrest 
and hold for trial, as he may deem best, any 
recruiting agent who shall commit frauds upon 
the Government or recruits, or who shall vio¬ 
late the instructions issued to govern their re¬ 
cruitment, or be guilty of any offence against 
military law. No man shall he recruited who 
is already in the service as a soldier, teamster, 
laborer, guide, etc., or who is so employed by 
the military authorities as to be of importance 
to military operations. Recruits procured in 
accordance with the act quoted, must be deliv¬ 
ered by the recruiting agents at one of the fol¬ 
lowing named rendezvous, viz: 
Camp Casey, Washington, D. 0.; East Camp, 
near Fortress Monroe, for southeast Virginia; 
Camp Newberu, N. G\, for North Carolina; 
Camp Hilton Head, S. C., lor South Carolina 
and Florida; Camp Vicksburg, Miss, for Mis¬ 
sissippi; and Nashville lor Georgia and Ala¬ 
bama. 
When received at the rendezvous, it shall he 
the duty of the officer to have the recruits 
promptly examined, and if accepted, to have 
them Immediately mustered into the service, 
properly provided for, and sent to the regiments 
for which they may have been enlisted, or as¬ 
signed to such other regiments as the service 
may require. The aforesaid rendezvous are re¬ 
garded as military posts, and will be conducted 
as such, under the Immediate orders of the War 
Department, issued through the Adjutant Gen¬ 
eral’s office, but department and army com¬ 
manders are desired to exercise a supervision 
over them, as coming under the limits of their 
departments, and to make any reports to this 
office concerning them which may be deemed 
advisable. 
If it is desired to put any of the volunteer 
recruits under this act into the service as sub¬ 
stitutes, before or after the draft, they must be 
sent, without expense to the Government, by 
the recruiting ageut, to tbe district in which 
the principal is enrolled, and there mustered in 
by the Provost Marshal, who will issue the 
proper substitution papers. 11 is made the duty 
of commanding officers to afford to recruiting 
agents till such facilities as they can provide 
without detriment to the public service, mid to 
prevent recruiting by unauthorized parties. 
By direction of the President, the order Bail¬ 
ing for the services of the luilJt ia in the District 
of Columbia was rescinded, and those sworn in 
were accordingly mu-tered out July 15tb. 
Gen. Lew. Wallace has been relieved from 
his command at Baltimore, and lien. Tyler 
takes his place. 
The President has called for four hundred 
thousand more men. A draft is to take place 
immediately after the 6th of September. Credit 
will be given for all volunteers. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
A gentleman who has just returned from a 
trip to tbe West, informs us that while on a 
train Borne thirty miles from Chicago, the en¬ 
gineer, on approaching a bridge, discovered a 
child struggling in the water. With most heroic 
courage he instantly gave the signal for stopping 
the train, then running at a speed of tbirty-five 
miles an hour, and jumped from the locomotive 
into the water. When the train had stopped, 
the brave fellow had rescued the child and was 
climbing up the bank of the river with it In his 
arms. The name of this brave engineer is 
Charles N. Thompson , and he is a native of Taun¬ 
ton, Mass. We are sorry to add that he is now 
lying dangerously ill of typhoid fever. 
A Frenchman has added to the common 
musket a revolving six-shooter, adjusted to the 
barrel four inches in advance of the .trigger. 
With this improvement the soldie’' can, while 
charging bayonet,, fire with Ms left hand bIx 
charges iutafi’e enemy’s /ranks. Also, an Aus¬ 
trian ariA'ery officer haJ invented a rifle-can¬ 
non of,wo charges, whiefi can lire sixteen balls 
in aninute. The sccrep of this invention is 
| he)thy the Austrian Goivernment, 
There are no\ -iftee® thousand patients in 
the hospitals of the Department of Washington. 
Fifteen hundred convalescents have been re¬ 
turned to the front wijjjdu the last two weeks. 
The number will be 
thd eoming week, ai 
who wee slighil^ 
gageme s of the^ 
ering. 
Brio en. Josl 
sary G d of Sub*? 
Army. i at Was! 1 
t gely augmented during 
great number of those 
nded in the earlier en- 
aign are rapidly recov- 
Brii en. JosI^h I’- Taylor, Commis¬ 
sary G d of Subsistence of the United States 
Army tin-.j at Washington recently. Genera] 
Taylo v yuunge r brother of the late Major- 
Generai and Prerident%^.i«w Taylor. He en¬ 
tered the military service of the^-JJuited States 
as a third Lieutenant of the Twenty-eighth in¬ 
fantry in 1813. 
The guerrillas seem to have abandoned Fair¬ 
fax county, Va., nothing having been heard 
from them in several weeks. Many of the refu¬ 
gees have returned to their homes and re¬ 
sumed their occupations, and are availing them¬ 
selves of the opportunity to secure for the Gov¬ 
ernment a vast amount of valuable hay, left on 
abandoned farms by fleeing rebels. 
A letter in the London Times’ city article, 
states that large quantities of forged Confederate 
bonds of £20 have been put in circulation in 
England. A number have also been stolen from 
the Confederate treasury department; $5,000 are 
offered for the detection of the thief. The let¬ 
ter also contains some details respecting the 
forged bonds. 
An insane women, forty years old, living 
near Niagara Falls, being left unwatched for a 
few minutes, one day last week, ran to the river, 
and throwing herself in, was carried over the 
falls. She appeared to recover her reason as 
she was swept along, for she cried loudly for 
help. The body has not been recovered. 
Petersburg is the grand center of five 
lines of railroads. The City Point road, 10 
miles long; tbe Norfolk road, SO miles long; the 
Great Western road, 164 miles to Weldon and 
162 miles to Wilmington; the Petersburg and 
Lynchburg road, 153 miles, and the Richmond 
and Petersburg road, 22 mileB. 
The Spencer rifle used by our troops greatly 
astonishes the rebel?. A correspondent with 
Gen. Sherman’s army says that some of the 
rebel prisoners, with an air of curiosity worthy 
of a *“ Yank, ” inquired where the boys got 
those guns which they load on Sunday and fire 
all the week. 
In future, the remains of every soldier dying 
in the hospitals of the "Washington Department, 
will be accompanied to the grave by an escort 
of cavalry, and will be buried with military 
honors. A company of tne 8th Illinois has 
been detailed to do this duty. 
The Cincinnati Times says a poor German 
woman, whose husband returned from the 
three years’ service with one of the newly 
arrived regiments, was so overjoyed to see him 
that she became immediately insane, and has 
since been sent to the Lunatic Aayliun. 
TnE hair of a New York soldier who was in¬ 
jured by a recent fall in Georgia and 6ent to a 
hospital, has become perfectly white, his mous¬ 
tache and whiskers, however, retaining their 
original color. 
Tiik Baltimore papers state that Francis Key, 
the son of the author of the “Star Spangled* 
Banner,” was arrested on the Oth inst., on a 
charge of disloyality, and locked up in the mili¬ 
tary prison to await trial. 
Counterfeit ton dollar gold pieces, 1861, 
California mintage, an exact counterpart of the 
genuine in appearance and weight and well cal¬ 
culated to deceive, have recently been put in 
circulation. 
The Nevada Constitutional Convention adopt¬ 
ed an article disfranchising rebels, and decided 
not to elect State officers at the time ef submit¬ 
ting the Constitution for ratification. 
The Richmond papars say that Belle Isle has 
been re-opened again, anil some hundreds of 
prisoners ol war in Richmond have been sent 
there for safe keeping. 
The .Mormons arc now boasting that, with 
100,000 people in Utah, iu all their settlements 
there cannot bo found a drinking saloon, a bil¬ 
liard saloon, or a bowling alley. 
The emigration Westward is unprecedented. 
Kansas papers represent the roads as blockaded 
with teams, as many as seven hundred passing 
a given point in one week. 
Milly Murray, a young woman tried in 
Orange county, N. Y., for killing her new-horn 
infant, has been found guilty of murder in the 
first degree, and sentenced to be hung. 
List of New Advert iso incuts. 
To Inventors and Patented *—J Eraser St, Co. 
$7r> a Month—I) It Herrington A Co. 
A Young Lady widieb ;* sitnatlou as Preceptress, 
Tbe Patent Hog-Catcher—■Goldsmith St Gregory. 
The Great Buffalo Strawberry Al^uer H. Bryait. 
SPKCIAL NOTICES. 
Metropolitan Girt Bookstore—E S Brooks. 
News vCcntLtmscr. 
— The Chief of the Six Nation? is dead. 
— Brig. Gen. Aminen is a practical printer. 
— An Opera House is to be built at Saratoga. 
— Ex-Senator Simmons of Rhode Island, is dead. 
— Georgia and Alabama papers report good crops. 
— They have been importing frogs into New Zealand. 
— Five prisoners escaped from Fort La Fayette re- 
oently. 
— Captain Ericsson defends hia monitors against all 
charge*. 
— The best vinegar used in France is made from grape 
vine stalks. 
— Petroleum companies are paying dividends of 1® 
per cent a month. 
— The sports in New York propose erecting a mon¬ 
ument to Tom Hyer. 
— Bath, Me., furnishes ice water gratuitously. It is 
near the eternal cold. 
— The city debt of Philadelphia at the close of 1864 
will be $86,823,627 93. 
— Gen. McClellan’s friends have presented him with 
a library worth $2,000. 
— The U. 8. Navy now contains between 50,000 and 
60,000 officers and men. 
— The credit of originating the Sanitary Fairs belongs 
to the ladies of Lowell. 
— The baby of the Prince and Princess of Wales is 
having its portrait painted. 
— Congress appropriated $545,000 to improve the 
forts of New York Harbor. 
— One of the latest of literary manias is a rage for 
collecting old cookery books. 
— Biorstadt, the artist, is engaged on two pictures for 
which he is to get $10,000 each. 
— Mias Harriet Hosmer, our famous sculptress, is to 
return to Ibis country in August. 
— The mother or C. L. Vallandigham died at New 
Lisbon, Ohio, on Saturday week. 
— Com Vanderbiltis negotiating for a lightning train 
to run from New York to Saratoga. 
— The people of Norfolk have voted in favor of mili¬ 
tary in preference to civil government. 
— Generous Philadelphians have contributed $25,069 
to purchase a hoase for Gen. Hancock. 
— “ Spooking around ” is the name of a new crime 
which the Chicago police have invented. 
— The public school? of Buffalo offer prizes to young 
lady pnpils for the best leaves or bread. 
— George Brown of the Toronto Globe has been re¬ 
elected to Parliament without opposition. 
— A new stone depot for the use of the Oswego and 
Syracuse railroad is to be built in Oswego. 
— Common labor is $5 a day in the South, and a 
day’s work will just buy a pound of butter I 
— Francis Key, son of the author of the “ Star Span¬ 
gled Banner,'* has been arrested for treason, 
— Rev. Hr. Bellows is meeting a very cordial recep¬ 
tion wherever he speaks on the Pacific eoast- 
— Miss Olympia Brown has been installed a? pastor 
of the CnivcTsalist. Chnrh at Weymouth, Mass. 
— One of the Richmond papera calls the shelling of 
Petersburg “ Yankee lectures on Conchology.” 
— Capt. Winslow was indebted to Daniel Webster 
, for his appoiutmeut as midshipman in the nary. 
— A Boston mechanic has invented a two story rail¬ 
way car, with smoking and sleeping rooms aloft. 
— Fifteen hundred cigar maker? were thrown out of 
employment in New York city by the tobacco tax. 
— It is said that an heiress In Brantford. C. W., has 
eloped with one of Iiumsey's Ethiopian Minstrel?. 
— Mr, Eliasaph Dorchester a veteran journalist, died 
in Dtica on the Oth inst, in the 86th year of his age. 
— The North Atlantic blockading squadron has cap¬ 
tured or destroyed since July 24,1863, forty-two steam¬ 
ers. 
— The widow of Gen. Wadsworth is at Washington, 
gathering information concerning the death of her hus¬ 
band. 
— Joshna Coffin of Newbnry, Mass., an antiquary of 
some note, died suddenly last week aged seventy-three 
years. 
— Sunday, June 26th, was the hottest day in New 
Haven for 86 years. The thermometer stood 102 in the 
' shade. 
— Mrs Heggic of Ithaca, who poisoned two of her 
daughters, has been committed in full to be tried for 
murder. 
— Governor Seymour has given Greene Smith, son 
of Gerrlt Smith, n commission in the 14th N. Y. Heavy 
Artillery. 
— Dr. McCormick, Medical Director of Butler’s com¬ 
mand, lias been made Medical Director of all the armies 
in the field. 
— The graduating class at Amherst College this year 
numbered only 29, 17 seniors having left the class to 
join the army. 
— A woman named Mrs. Mary Jane Sullivan was 
murdered In Boston by her husband’s paramour, Ro¬ 
sanna Harriot. 
— Louis Napoleon was out rowing the other day and 
Tell Into the water, whereupon the Paris money market 
was greatly excited. 
— The Albany rowdies have got a new weapon of 
offense. They assail persons with razors, and have in¬ 
flicted some ugly wounds. 
— The New York Volunteer Commltteo engage to 
furnish substitutes to residents of the country for three 
hundred and thirty-five dollars. 
— The sick and wounded soldiers in the various hos¬ 
pitals In and around Washington and Alexandria have 
been paid off' to the 1st of May. 
— A tapeworm, ninety feet long, was taken from 11 
patient in York, Pa., recently. Tho physicians occu¬ 
pied three hours in removing it. 
— The Siamese Twins are still living iu North Caro¬ 
lina. One has nine ami the other eight children: one 
of tbe lutter is in the rebel army. 
— They are hunting sharply for Qnantrcll in Mie " 
sourl, and ut one lime recently the outlaw was only live 
minutes too quick for his pursuers. 
— The smoke of burning wool, if applied to cuts and 
bleeding wounds, is said to produce immediate re u 
and cure by coagulating the albumen. 
