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news department. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 13, 1804. 
The Army in Virginia. 
There has been but little news received 
from the army before Petersburg since the late 
disaster. The rebels tried their skill in mining 
and blowing up Grant’s works, but completely 
• failed of their object. We give the following 
account of the enterprise: 
The Herald's Eighteenth Corps correspond¬ 
ent says of the mines sprung by the rebels, that 
our forces were aware of their- intentions. It 
occurred on the afternoon of the 4tb, and was 
immediately succeeded by rapid and successive 
Tolleys of musketry. The smoke from the ex¬ 
plosion had har dly cleared away, when our men 
answered the rebel lire, and drowned their-yell 
■with a wild cheer of derision at the failure of 
their mining operations. Tire enemy, in all 
probability, intended to have blown tip a sap I destroying a large a 
we had run out toward their line, and charge whether with a view 
through the opening. They had, however, place or not. is trnknc 
sadly miscalculated their distance, and tire ex- The following is tb 
plosion took place five rods in advance of the published by order of 
sap. Not a particle of the debris was thrown lanta, the 20th ult. 
into any portion of our lines, and the sharp- July 20,1.700. Rebel 
shooters did not even think it necessrry to July 20, 1.113. Rebel 
abandon the sap. ‘ July 22,2,142. Rebel 
The explosion bore no comparison in magrni- corps not in our band 
tude with that of Burnside’s mine. A mass of hired July 20, 7. Rel 
dirt thirty feet in diameter was thrown into the 22, IS. Rebel prisoner 
air to the height of one hundred feet, the cen- eral loss, all told, July 
ter portion being elevated considerably above cannon, pieces, 10. T 
the sides. It was immediately perceived that Total rebel loss in k 
the mine was a failure, and they satisfied them- loss in prisoners, 3,20C 
selves with rising behind their works aud poor- wounded is unknown, 
ing in their musketry fire. The main part of Gen. Stoneman sen 
the firing w-as on Ames'front, but afterwards ex- Long’s and La Grange 
tended slightly to the front of Burnside’s right, on the 25th ult., unde 
The artillery fire w-as almost as heavy as.on the McCook, to destroy t 
ever-meraorable Saturday. road. They succeeded 
The rebels developed several new batteries, miles of the road, ar 
and fired with far more accuracy than they have rebel train of 500 wa 
hitherto been accustomed to do. One peculiar from Atlanta to Macoi 
featureol this fire was its extraordinary rapidity. McCook captured thi 
The losses are but trifliug, hardly more than including 127 officers, 
would have been sustained through an ordinary with valuable stores, li 
day s picket firing. That of the enemy must private property of Gt-r 
have been more severe, as they exposed them- possessing themselves < 
selves in firing their first volley, and were in men burned the wagoi 
lull range of our batteries, greatly superior in Gen. McCook then si 
numbers to theirs. prisoners and 300 milk 
The rebels, on their northern raid, recently the rebels in force um 
took possession of Hagerstown, Aid., but have force was so large as 
evacuated it aud re-crossed the Potomac. This our force. A despernti 
took place oil the 7th. One account (the 8th) which the Federal* v 
says the entire rebel force yesterday evacuated bag been variously cst 
the Man land side of the l’otomac—moving oil' dred to two thousanc 
in great haste. The rear guard crossed at were re-captured, 
Shepberdstown at 11 o’clock A. AI. TbU disaster is attril 
Previous to leaving, they sent a cavalry force taking too freely of t] 
back to Hagerstown and arrested and carried oil captured rebel train, 
four prominent Union citizens as hostages for The brigade of Gen. 
rebel citizens of that town, arrested by order of and 4th Ohio, 2d Indim: 
General llunter. They committed many gross of the brigade under Gc 
indignities upon both Unionists and rebe ls. As of the troops who were 
usual, they plundered stores and dwellings, and Gen. Rosseau. 
officers went so farin their robbing operations as The rebel Gcb. Forr 
to compel people in the streets to take off then - Atlanta with Gen. Hoo 
hats and boots and give them up to the soldiers. A special dispatch t 
Gen. Curtis has about 400 cavalry and militia 
in pursuit, and is making every effort to meet 
the further movements of the savages. 
Kentucky.— The Common Council of Louis¬ 
ville have resolved (by the request of the 
military authorities,) to throw up fortifications 
around that city against, possible contingen¬ 
cies. The work was to be commenced on 
Monday, the 8th inst. 
Northwestern Georgia.— The situation 
at Atlanta is considered by the Government 
and by Gen. Sherman as very favorable. It. is 
reported, semi-offieially, that since Gen. Hood 
took command of the rebel army he has lost 
twenty-five thousand men in killed, wounded 
and prisoners. Nothing better could be wished 
than that be should continue to dash his army 
to pieces against Sherman’s litres. The end at 
Atlanta is said to be not far distant, and the 
final victory there will have an important influ¬ 
ence upon the campaign in Virginia. 
A letter dated one mile from Atlanta on the 
31st of July, from a prominent officer to another 
in Louisville, says:—‘‘Fires arc now burning in 
Atlanta. They indicate that General Hood is 
destroying a large amount of property, but 
whether with 3 view to t-he evacuation of the 
place or not. is unknown.” 
The following is the statement of losses as 
published by order of Gen. Sherman, near At¬ 
lanta, the 20th ult..-—Total loss of Federals 
July 20,1.750. Rebel dead counted and buried 
July 20, 1,113. Rebel dead counted and buried 
July 22, 2,142. Rebel dead in front of the 15th 
corps not in our bands, 700. .Rebel colors cap¬ 
tured July 20, 7. Rebel colors captured July 
22, IS. Rebel prisoners captured. 2.200. Fed¬ 
eral loss, all told, July 22, 3.500. Federal loss of 
cannon, pieces, 10. Total Federal loss, 5,250. 
Total rebel loss in killed, 8,955. Total rebel 
loss in prisoners, 3,200. The number of rebel 
the land forces, which will occupy Mobile and 
garrison the Forts. Perfect success crowns the 
movements of Admiral Farragut, as everybody 
here expects. 
On the 10th of July, Gen. As both, command¬ 
ing at Pensacola, left that post with a small 
force, and the next day came upon a body of the 
enemy’s cavalry, about 400 strong, intrenched 
at Fort Hobson. 
After a sharp fight the enemy retreated, leav¬ 
ing all the ammunition, their ofiicial papers, 
stores, 17 horses, &c. Gen. Asboth then re¬ 
turned to Pensacola. 
Our forces have evacuated Brownsville, Texas, 
and all the stores have been sent to Brazos and 
New Orleans. 
Gen. Stoneman sent a force, consisting of 
Long’s and La Grange’s brigades, 3,200 strong, 
on the 25th ult., under the command of Gen. 
AIcCook, to destroy the Macon and Western 
road. They succeeded in destroying eighteen 
miles of the road, and started to capture a 
rebel train of 500 wagons, which were going 
from Atlanta to Macon or Columbus. General 
AIcCook captured this train, with 500 mm, 
including 127 officers. The wagons were laden 
w T ith valuable stores, including liquors and the 
private properly of Gen. Hood and others. After- 
possessing themselves of what they wanted, our 
men burned the wagons. 
Gen. McCook then started to return with the 
prisoners and 300 nudes, but w-as overtaken by 
the rebels in force under Gen. Ransom. This 
force was so large as to completed surround 
our force. A desperate engagement ensued, in 
which the Federals were repulsed. Our loss 
has been variously estimated from eight hun¬ 
dred to two thousand. The rebel prisoners 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The Post's Washington special says orders 
have been issued to correct excessive enrollments 
of persons exempt from draft, and they are called 
upon to come forward and have their names 
taken off the lists. 
Another order is to the efi'ect that there shall 
be uo drafting under previous calls for troops. 
All deficits now standing shall be carried over 
to the draft to take place in September. 
The Tunes Washington special of August 4, 
says that a riot occurred in this city to day be- 
tsveen a party of soldiers and negroes, in which 
two soldiers were killed and several wounded. 
The dwellings of the negroes were burned by 
the soldiers who were willingly assisted by .Se¬ 
cession sympathisers. 
The subscriptions to the new 7:30 loan dur¬ 
ing the past six days amount to $0,505,950, 
this amount has been subscribed in very large 
commercial cities. The West is yet to hear 
from. 
A very important decision was made at the 
Internal Revenue ofliee, on the 4th ult. 
In reply to several inquiries, Acting-Commis¬ 
sioner Rollins decides that seven three-tenth 
bonds and certificates of indebtedness are not in¬ 
cluded in the term “ U. S. bonds,” as defined in 
the bank section of the revenue law, but 
that the term “ United States bonds” is con¬ 
fined only to that class of securities known 
as registered aud coupon bonds’, of various dates 
and denominations, payable in ten years or 
more, though redeemable in some cases in less 
rime, aud that only such securities can be deduct¬ 
ed from the capital of a bank In determining 
the amount of its capital stock subject to taxa¬ 
tion. This Is an important question to banks 
subscribing to the new 7:80 loan. 
The War Department has assigned General 
Emory to the command of the Nineteent h Corps. 
General Hooker has been ordered to report at 
Washington without delay. 
The sale of the life-interest in certain real 
estate in Washington, owned by rebels, by Mar¬ 
shal Lamon, the 8th, passed oil' satisfactorily, 
and netted over $5,000. The property of T. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Elmira Press says that the New York 
and Erie Railroad Company have recently pur¬ 
chased a large quantity of flour, and furnish it 
to their employes at $11,50 per barrel. 
Ashes carelessly thrown from a tobacco pipe 
occasioned a conflagration last week, which 
swept four thousand acres of Long Island land 
bare of everything like life and property. 
G BN, Curtis at Fort Leavenworth inactively 
preparing an expedition against the Indians on 
the plains who have recently committed many 
depredations on trains and Government prop¬ 
erty. 
The contractors for the Atlantic telegraph 
cable are said to be making very great pro¬ 
gress, and everything bids fair that it shall 
be such a one as the world has never before 
List of New Advertisements. 
WyckofTs Patent Wood Water Pipc-T 8 Hobble & Co. 
Elmira Female f'olloge—Rev. A. W. Cowles. 
Tliorndale Snul.li Gowns— George II. lirowu. 
Hedge Plants S. Rnardmau • o. 
Maplewood Young Ladle-.' Institute Iiov. C. A'. Spear. 
Employment—D. it. llerrlnton A ( d. 
were re-captured, 11111 ncneu over ?o,uou. lire property of T. 
This disaster is attributed to our troops par- * ai "1 11 rebel banker, Smithson, now in Al- 
taking too freely of the liquors found in the l’enitentiary, was not sold. 
Movements in the West and South-West 
. Arkansas.— The Alemphis Bulletin of the 
4lh iust., contains the following: — An officer of 
the Oak Branch informs us that while that 
steamer was aground near the head of Island 
No. 34, yesterday, he learned from stragglers 
along tr.« -west side, that there had been a des¬ 
perate fight at, o^eola between 800 rebels, 
under Bowen, and a I force, in which 
the foimer were badly delcated, loUng,, Divides 
the killed and wounded, a great many prisoners, 
a quantity of arms, and all their equipments. 
Bowen was shot dead from his horse. This 
rebel defeat is said to have been one of the most 
disastrous, for the force engaged, that they have 
yet experienced in that vicinity. 
The steamer I’anola, from Memphis, reports 
that 200 guerrillas encountered a party of negro 
soldiers seven miles back of Wilson's Land¬ 
ing, on tire 30th ult., and repulsed them, A 
party of Federal cavalry went out the next day 
and routed them, killing thirty or forty and 
wounding a considerable number. 
COLORADO.—Advices from the Plains state 
that the Indians were committing serious dep¬ 
redations on the Santa Fe road. Horses, mules 
and beef cattle were captured and emigrant 
trains robbed. At last aee<5unts they were 
threatening Fort Larned. 
A Fort Leavenworth dispatch to the St. 
Louis Democrat of Aug. 8, says that an express 
from Fort Reily brings advices of the late In¬ 
dian raid. 
Gen. Blunt has arrived at Fort Reily and 
assumed command of the new district, em¬ 
bracing the troubled regions. The movements 
oi the Indiana seem to have been preconcerted, 
and it i* believed that rebel emissaries incited 
t em to action; at all events, white men have 
been among them. 
Thu indiscriminate issuing of rations by the 
commandant at Fort Larned, made the Indians 
very insolent. 
Four companies of the 1st Ohio (colored! cav¬ 
alry arrived at Fort Lar ned on the 27th ult. 
Cols. Price and fecott, of the 14lh and 15th 
Kansas militia, at the request of General Cur¬ 
tis, mustered 500 mounted men of their re¬ 
giments at Smoky Hill, and saved the frontier 
settlements from attack. 
The Indians are now scattered — part of them 
going south, the remainder toward the Platte 
River. 
taking too freely of the liquors found in the 
captured rebel train. 
The brigade of Gen. Long consisted of the 3d 
and 4th Ohio, 2d Indiana, 4th regulars and part 
of the brigade under Gen. La Grange, composed 
of the troops who were in the late expedition oi 
Gen. Rosseau. 
The rebel Ge«. Forrest is reported to be at 
Atlanta with Gen. Hood. 
A special dispatch to the Evening Journal, 
dated Nashville, Aug. 8, says that information 
had been received that General Stonemau had 
reached Macon, destroying nine locomotives, the 
bridge over the river, and several other smaller 
bridges. A percussion cap factory was also de¬ 
stroyed. 
Department of the Gulf, 
The Louisiana Constitutional Convention 
adopted ou the 22d inst.. the new constitution 
by a large majority, and would immediately sub¬ 
mit it to the people. 
Gen. Banks prohibited the transfer of gold 
to the Rebel States and stopped ail traffic in gold 
except the purchase of it, to be deposited in the 
United States Treasury. Such deposits to be 
drawn out only on satisfactory explanations 
being given of the purpose to which the gold is 
to be applied. 
Nearly 1,000 exchanged prisoners from the 
Red river country, arrived at New- Orleans on 
the 25th — the majority of them belonging to 
Iowa and Indiana 
The Herald's New Orleans correspondent, 
July 30th, says that all able-bodied registered 
enemies, pending present military movements, 
will be field as prisoners, to prevent their join¬ 
ing the rebel army. All negroes in the streets 
are now conscripted. 
Gen. U liman had defeated the rebels near 
the Atchafalaya ou the 28th of July. 
A large number were suddenly scut up the riv¬ 
er on the 20th ult. It Is reported that the rebels 
were marching on Morganzia, though it is not 
known that these troops have gone to that 
place. 
The Tribune's New Orleans correspondent 
says:—The horrible condition of our returned 
prisoners from Texas has Induced Gen. Canby to 
drop some points of difference and order the 
exchange of all prisoners, estimated at 3,000 to 
8,500. 
A New Orleaps special to the N. Y. Herald 
of August 3d, says thatinformation was received 
at the headquarters, Department of the Gulf, 
that Admiral Farragut had passed Forts Mor- 
gau nnd Gaines, which had been supposed to 
command the entrance to the Bay, and is bom¬ 
barding the upper defences. If this is correct 
the Forte must speedily surrender. The Admi¬ 
ral has now six lron-clads off Mobile, and two 
more left this city to-day. The bombardment 
has been continued fur three day s and it is ex¬ 
pected the city will surrender before the close 
of next week. Gen. Granger will command I 
It seems proper to say that in accordance 
with the known wish of the authorities, no at¬ 
tempt has been made by the various newspaper 
correspondents to forward news relative to the 
movements of our Generals and forces in 
the vicinity of Washington for the last four or 
five days. 
Col. Bumford, the Provost Marshal General 
of Pennsylvania, at the instance of Simeon Cam¬ 
eron, has been removed. CapL Dodge, for 
sometime mustering and disbursing officer for 
tliat State, has been appointed in his place. 
The Secretary of War gives the following 
interesting documents of Union successes. 
Wap. DepaktXent—9 P. M., Ang. 8 
To Major-General Hix:— The following an¬ 
nouncement of the seccessful operations against 
Mobile appears in the Richmond Sentinel of 
this date, and is transmitted by Major-General 
Butler to the President: 
11EAIKJVARTKR3, Atlg. 8-3 P. M. 
Tb Ilis Excellency, Abraham Lincoln:— The 
following is the official report taken from the 
Richmond Sentinel of Aug. 8th: 
B. F. Butler, Maj.-Gen. 
Mobile, August 5. — To Hon. J. A. Seddon, 
Secretary of War:—Seventeen of the enemy’s 
vessels, 14 ships, and 3 iron-clads passed Fort 
Morgan this morning. The “Tecuniseb,” a 
monitor, was sunk by Fort Morgan. The “ Ten¬ 
nessee” surrendered after a desperate engage¬ 
ment with the enemy’s fleet. Admiral Bu¬ 
chanan lost a leg and lie is a prisoner. The 
“Selina” was captured. The “Gaines” was 
beached near the hospital. The “ Morgan ” is 
safe and will try to run up to-night. The 
enemy’s fleet have approached the city. A 
monitor has been engaging Fort Powell all 
day. D. H. Maury, Maj.-Gen. 
Maj.- Gen. Sheridan, has been assigned tem¬ 
porarily to the command of the forces in the 
Middle Military Division, consisting of the 
Department of Washington, the Middle Depart¬ 
ment and the Department of the Susquehanna 
and Northwestern Virgina. 
He transmits the following intelligence: 
Hkadqttaktkkn Mujulk Department, > 
Uarpeu’s J'-jchrv, Va > Aug. 8 — -I p M, j 
To Muj.-i Jen. 11. IF, Hal leek, Chief Cjf Staff :— 
■ The New York Times' Paris correspondent 
says the two new frigates built by Armou have 
i been purchased by Prussia, so that if Seinmes’ 
successors get a vessel it will have to be from 
England. 
Authority bas been granted to the State 
nulhorilies of Pennsylvania by the Secretary of 
War to organize new regiments of volunteers for 
one year under the last call of President Lincoln 
for 500,000 men. 
Counterfeit ten dollar gold pieces, dated 
1861, California mintage, an exact counterpart 
of the genuine in appearance and weight, aud 
well calculated to deceive, have recently been 
put in circulation. 
Ciias. B. Whaites, a clerk in the foreign 
department of the Post Office, was arrested on 
a charge of mail robbery. He confessed his 
guilt, and delivered up $8,850 iu coupon bonds, 
which he had abstracted from letters. 
Brigadier - General Ransom, formerly 
Chief-ol-suitf under Gen. Grant, who was woun¬ 
ded for the fourth time in the Red River 
campaign, left New York on Wednesday to 
take command of a division in General Sherman's 
army. 
A cniMNEY about one hundred feet high, 
comprising about ninety thousand bricks, and 
estimated to weigh over two hundred tuns, has 
been moved a distance of one hundred feet, 
in Worcester, Mass., without removing one 
brick. 
An international Congress is to meet in Gene¬ 
va. Switzerland, in September of the present 
year, whose purpose is the formation of an in¬ 
ternal code to regulate the status and care of 
the wounded aud sick on the battle field and dur¬ 
ing war. 
Can nel coal has been foundonthe Cottonwood 
river, about one hundred miles from 81, Paul. 
The vein is eighty-eight feet below the surface, 
and is six feet in thickness. This discovery is 
of very great importance to the manufacturing 
interests of Minnesota. 
The Indian Department has received advices 
that the goods belonging to the Winnebago Siou x, 
Yancton Sioux aud New Mexican tribes of In¬ 
dians were burned on the steamer Welcome, 
at St Louis. They were fully insured, and will 
immediately he replaced. 
Rkv. I)r. Kennaru, of the Tenth Baptist 
Church in Boston, has preached ten thousand 
sermons, baptized two thousand and thirty-three 
persons, married four thousand and eighty-nine 
couples, and attended three thousand nine hun¬ 
dred funerals iu forGsix years. 
Gen. Brooks has resigned his command. 
This makes the fifth corps commander that Gen. 
Grant has lost since he commenced the cam¬ 
paign. Sedgwick was killed, Gilimore relieved, 
Smith and Hancock withdrew temporarily, and 
Brooks resigned. But two, Burnside and War¬ 
ren, now remain. 
Col. Eastman, a regular army officer, iu 
command of the Elmira military depot, says 
that the soldiers of the Veteran Reserve Corps 
employed there have become so corrupted by 
the appliances of bounty jumpers that they 
cannot be trusted as guards. Recruits and sub¬ 
stitutes are constantly deserting through their 
connivance. 
The New Orleans Picayune has been permit¬ 
ted to resume publication. It promises as fol¬ 
lows:—" In resuming the privilege of publication 
it is our intention to support the Government of 
the United States, and steadily to advocate all 
measures necessary to the establishment of its 
authority in ail parts of the country.” 
The last of the Revolutionary heroes in New 
York, died on the 27th ult, in that city. He 
was Isaac Daniels, aged 109 years. He fought 
in the battles of Monmouth, Trenton and White 
Plains, aud when tire British evacuated New 
York he assisted in hauling down the British 
fiag and running up the Stars and Stripes. 
A very extensive manufactory is now build¬ 
ing in South Brooklyn for the purpose of re¬ 
ducing any fibrous substances suitable for the 
purpose into paper. The machinery will be 
run by steam, and cannot fail to produce a 
good article of paper at a price that will help 
to break down the paper makers’ monopoly. 
The Detroit Tribune says that quite a num¬ 
ber of Rebel emissaries are now recruiting in 
l*i ig.-Gt n. Kelly reports that a scout has just Canada. Toronto seems to be their headuuar* 
arrived aL New Creek, aud reports that Gun. \vi.„r „„ . r 
Averlll overtook the enemy near Mooreflcld, , tprs ‘ Windsor, Major 8t. Lawrence, chief 
yesterday, ami attacked him, capturing all of 1D tlie Cosines*, obtained over fifty recruits in 
his artillery and 500 prisoners. Nothing olli- a few days, chiefly from among the rebel sol- 
rnntas been received how- diers who have escaped from the Union prisons. 
Edwin M. Stanton, Sec’y of War T,IE woUnded prisoners taken from the Ala- 
Gen. Hooker be, been offered tbc nutborit, JT7 !" "f, ’"f"*' >* 
U. reeruit a new for bbnself, but ba, J. 1 * bo “ 10 b » * 
Qllaed the proportion. ty ’ ‘“I 1 " a Uw , w , hl . c ‘“ * crcM th »“ 
prisoners of war are absolutely free on touching 
I he J’resident has appointed ex-Congrossman the soil oi France. Captain Winslow demanded 
John A. Bingham, oi Ohio, Solicitor for the that the men be handed over to the Sacramento 
l tilted Stutes in the Court of Claims, to fill the when the lvearsarge left Cherbourg, but bis ap- 
vacam y created by the resignation of Mr. Gibson, plication was denied. 
| «TI)C Nous tHonimscr. 
r — The Kentucky tobacco crop is big. 
1 — There are 8,510 lanatics in the State of Ohio. 
— Oapt. Semmes had gone to Ireland at the last ac- 
■ counts. 
— Negro recruiting is said to be going on rapidly in 
i Kentucky. 
— A brilliant meteor was seen iu New York Thursday 
I evening week. 
1 — Two representatives of Napoleon are with the 
army as observers. 
’ — Clerks in nil the departments at Washington now 
i drill one hour daily 
— Geo. Peabody of London, has given $10,000 to the 
l Christian Commission. 
— The Great Eastern left Liverpool July 9 for London 
■ to take iu the Atlantic cable. 
! — One hundred days men are exempt from draft 
- while thc*y remain in service. 
i — Grasshoppers iu Aspimvall are 7 inches in length, 
and are considered fine eating. 
[ — The total number of wrecks reported thus far this 
year, all the world over, is 913. 
I — Four brothers named Donnhoe, of Carbon Town¬ 
ship, Pa., were drafted last week. 
— It is said Mr. Charles Dickens is to receive £13,000 
( $60,000) for his new serial novel. 
— A bearovas trapped on the Green Mountains last 
week, which weighed about 200 lbs. 
— The Chicago Board of Trade have voted $1,000 as 
a gift to the widow of Col. Mulligan. 
— Sonio of the Berkshire farmers are plowing up po¬ 
tato fields and sowing turnips on them. 
— A New York lady has hired three men to go to the 
war for her since hostilities commenced. 
— Adah Isaacs Meukin has descried her last husband 
—It- n. Newell—and run away to Europe. 
— Artemas Ward recently shipped a fine $150 buggy 
for his home among the peasantry of Maine. 
— The customs revenue or the government in coir., 
for the last fiscal year, was over $103,000,000. 
— The American Uaulc of Newport, R I, has voted 
to subscribe for $50,000 of the new 7-80 loan. 
— Mr. O. Donoghue, Irish Member of Parliament, 
has been purchasing U. S. 5-KO bond? heavily. 
— Elijah Sells, late Sec'y of the Slate of Iowa, has 
been appointed Third Auditor of the Treasury. 
— Major Genernl Bimoy is about to raise a regimen 
of sharpshooters to he attached to his command. 
— Rev. Dr. Thompson of Cincinnati, having recently 
married, his congregation tendered him a gift of $2,500. 
— The New York Common Councilmon have adorned 
themselves with official badges costing sixty dollars 
each. 
— Mis* Kellogg, the prima donna, is spending the 
summer with her parents and relatives a:, HurtrorU, 
Conn. 
— An opera house is being erected in Paris which 
will cover, with its dependencies, an area of eight 
acres. 
— Substitutes for the United States army do not 
relievo the principal from militia duty and liability in 
the State. 
— The price of salt at the Onondaga work? was ad¬ 
vanced last week twenty cents a barrel, which carries 
it up to $2 45. 
— The Pacific Christian Commission send $1,951, 
their second remittance, to the Christian Commission 
at Philadelphia. 
— The carriage-road up Mount Washington has been 
put in complete repair, and the Tip Top and Smmit 
llouses are full. 
— The Portland Company is building 30 iron freight 
cars for the Panama railroad. Wooden cars ou that 
road will not last. 
— The smallest pony in the world is owned by John 
8 . Rarey or Ohio. It is only twenty inches high, and 
weighs 21 pounds. 
— The people of Lancaster, N. II., celebrated, on the 
14th inst, the hundredth anniversary of the incorpora¬ 
tion of their town. 
— Forty farmers in Wiudbam Co., conn., turned ont 
and got in the hay of a poor woman whose husband is 
absent in Ike army. 
— A man died of hydrofobia in Middletown, Ct., last 
week, having assisted in skinning a cow that had been 
bitten by a mad dog. 
— Real estate speculation in New York is quieting 
down, and houses on Fl'th Avenue are selling at less 
than their real worth. 
— Capt. Kennedy, the officer who piloted our boats 
across the Tennessee river to Mission Ridge was killed 
recently near Atlanta 
— There are now owned at Detroit 07 vessels or the 
larger class, and with scarcely nn exception they ar e 
grain carrying vessels. 
— Lieut.-Col. Chas. G llalpine (Miles O’Reilly,) re¬ 
cently Adjt.Gen on Gen. Hunter’s staff, has resigned 
on account of ill health. 
— The Washington Star says Gen. Burnside was 
slightly wounded while endeavoring to rally the negro 
troops on Saturday week. 
— The autograph album made for the N. Y. Sanitary 
Fair, by Miss North of Stratford, Conn , was sold for 
$500 at the St. Louis Fair. 
— A newspaper carrier has paid $5,000 for the exclu¬ 
sive right to sell paper* at, the depots and on the cars of 
the N. Y. Central Railroad. 
— The high price of liquor, and the prohibition of 
“pretty waiter girts” have closed up nearly all the 
Philadelphia concert saloons. 
— Farmers tn Rohodo Island are purchasing thou¬ 
sands of bushels of wood ashes in Maine, to be used as 
a dressing for high and dry land. 
— A man lately went to Boston with a large amomu 
of money to buy substitutes, fell into the hands of 
rogues and was robbed of $10,800, 
— The engineer on the train which recently ran off X 
bridge at Beloit, Canada, hud charge of a passenger 
train on the fatal night lor tire first time. 
— A Richmond letter writer, per intercepted mail, 
says that he gets a salary of $ 1 ,500, pay* $ luo per week 
for board, and $ 1,000 for a suit, of clothes. 
— Iu Franco they cure the whooping cough by inhal- - 
ing, for a few moments, the vapor given off by the lime 
which has been used in the purification or coal gas. 
