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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 20, 1664 
The Army in Virginia. 
The N. Y. Triburui's special from Har¬ 
per's Ferry of Aug. 10, gives the following 
particulars of Gen. Averili’s recent victory: 
Gen. Averill attacked the combined forces 
of HcCausland, Johnson, Gillmore and McNeil, 
on the morning of the 7th, and, after a spirited 
fight, completely routed their eutire command, 
capturing all of their artillery—four pieces—a 
vast quantity of small arms, 400 horses and their 
equipments, and 420 prisoners, including six 
field and thirty-two company officers. 
McClauslaml, with his broken and demor¬ 
alized command, has fled to the mountains. 
Our loss was comparatively small — seven 
killed and twenty-one wounded. 
At the latest adviees the situation before 
Petersburg remained unchanged. The inter¬ 
est, so l'ar as active military operations go, seem 
now to more generally center with the forces 
under Sherman. 
A dispatch from the Army of the Potomac 
of the 4th, says, considerable firing was kept 
up all night bet ween the pickets on the center 
and right. Yesterday morning, about daylight, 
heavy firing was heard in the direction of the 
James river, which lasted for about two hours. 
It is reported there ha? been an attack by gome 
rebel rams on the working party of Gen. butler, 
who are running a canal across the river. A 
dozen deserters came in yesterday, two of 
whom were cavalry men, with all their accou¬ 
trements. 
A letter from City Point, dated August 10th, 
says about eleven o’clock yesterday, a noise, re¬ 
sembling the explosion of a magazine, was 
heard at the headquarters of the Army of the 
Potomac, and many surmises were made as to 
the direction ia which it came, and its cause. 
During the afternoon word came that a boat, 
loaded with ammunition had exploded at City 
Point, causing a frightful loss of life and great 
destruction of property. 
The correspondent of the Associated Press 
says that on reaching the scene of disaster, a 
spectacle was presented utterly indescribable. 
Buildings had been demolished, tents thrown 
down, horses killed in every direction, the de¬ 
pot buildings, just completed, were a masR of 
ruins, while the ground lor hundreds of yards 
was covered with property of every description. 
The dead and wounded had been extricated from 
the ruins and carried some distance back, the 
former fur burial and the latter to be sent to the 
hospitals. 
A boat loaded with various kinds of ammuni¬ 
tion was being unloaded by the negroes of the 
Quartermaster's Department, nearly one hun¬ 
dred in number, and the only theory advanced 
as to the cause of the calamity is, that a shell 
must have been dropped by one of them, thus 
communicating the fire to the entire mass. The 
noise lasted about thirty seconds, as witnesses 
say, and the shock was felt for a long distance. 
On this side of the river in front of the land¬ 
ing were located a number of offices and stores, 
among them the Post Office and Adam’s Ex¬ 
press office, which were almost utteriy thrown 
down, the large number of persons occupying 
them miraculously escaping with but slight 
bruises. In the rear ol' this is a steep bank 
covered with tents on its summit, occupied chief¬ 
ly by the colored laborers and their families. 
Had the ground beeu level the loss of life would 
no doubt Lave been far greater than it was. 
Shells, balls and shot of every kind struck this 
bank in a perfect shower, while the ground in 
the vicinity was actually covered with all kinds 
of stores. 
Our loss by this calamity is put clown at about 
thirty killed, and seventy or eighty wounded. 
Twelve of the killed were soldiers. 
Department of the Gulf, 
By way of New Orleans, we have news 
from Texas, by which it appears that on the 
19th of July a party of Loyal Texans, with 
some Arkansas refugees, attacked the rebel gar¬ 
rison at Eagle Pass, and forced them to surren¬ 
der. They also took possession of the custom 
house. 
There had also been a fight at San Antonio 
between the loyal and rebel citizens, in which 
the latter were whipped; but subsequently the 
loyal citizens were dispersed by military force. 
Great trouble is experienced in enforcing 
Kirby Smith’s orders against the exportation of 
cotton- The exportations continue, and the 
Brownsville Journal says if all the cotton was 
out of the State, a counter revolution against 
Jell'. Davis would occur in less than a month. 
The same paper says that rebel agents in 
Mexico are so devoted to speculation that they 
are damaging the Confederacy materially. 
The Herald's New Orleans correspondent of 
the Gth, says that Major Bennington, command¬ 
ing the 11th N. Y T . cavalry opposite DouaM«;n- 
villc, was attacked on the oth ins*-, hut suc¬ 
ceeded in cutting his way through with slight 
loss, except from 40 to 60 sick men. At. last 
accounts he had concentrated his escaping force 
at another point near Boy las. 
The New York Express says that passengers 
report the rebels in strong force outside 
of Algiers, within six or seven miles of New 
Orleans, fortifying the place and constructing 
intmichments, apparently with the intention 
of muking that place a base of offensive opera¬ 
tions. They are commanded by Gen. Taylor. 
Our gunboats made an expedition up Grand 
Lake on the 2Gth, destroying a large number of 
flat boats just completed by the rebels. Several 
in the course of construction were also de¬ 
stroyed; also captured several small arms and 
accoutrements left by rebel skedaddling cavalry. 
On the 28th the same gunboats destroyed two 
saw mills, captured two loads of valuable lum¬ 
ber and returned to Berwick Bay. 
On the 29th a party of Gen, Williams’ scouts 
had a fight with the rebels near Morgonzia, re¬ 
sulting in tbe flight of the rebels, leaving a rebel 
captain and several men dead and a number 
wounded, besides several prisoners in our hands. 
Gen. Canby issued important new trade regu¬ 
lations on tilI s 2d inst... by which no trading boats 
are. allowed below Cairo; no Intercourse beyond 
the National lines, and trade stores restricted to 
permanent military posts. Gen. Banks Issued 
an older on the 2d Inst., enlisting all able-bodied 
colored men in the Department, between 18 and 
45 years of age. 
Sixteen transports from Brazos Santiago ar¬ 
rived at New Orleans on the 5th, laden with 
troops withdrawn from Texas. 
It is reported that tbe steamer Bob Boy, with 
1,000 bales of cotton, was cantured and burned 
in Ouchida river by Texan guerrillas. 
An order has recently been issued by Genera! 
Canbv to enroll all citizens in the militia and to 
expel all families of rebel soldiers. All persons 
liable to rebel conscription are to be kept within 
our lines. All foreigners claiming to be neu¬ 
trals to be enlisted as policemen. 
The Richmond Enquirer of Aug. 10th, con¬ 
tains the following in relation to the late naval 
exploit uear Mobile: 
MOBILE, Aug. 8.— It is painfully humiliating 
to announce the shameful surrender of Fort 
Gaines at half-past nine o’clock this morning, 
by Col. Charles Anderson, of the Twenty-first 
Alabama regiment. 
This powerful work was provisioned for six 
months, and with a garrison of 9G0 men. He 
communicated with the enemy’s fleet by flag 
of truce, with the sanction of Gen. Page. 
Gen. Page inquired by signal what his pur¬ 
pose was, but. received uo answer. His atten¬ 
tion was attracted by signal guns. He repeated¬ 
ly telegraphed, ‘‘Hold on to your fort,’’ The 
same night he visited Fort Gaines, and found 
Anderson on board the Yankee fleet, arranging 
the terms of capitulation. He left peremptory 
orders for Anderson, on his return, not to 
surrender the fort, and relieved him of his 
command. 
Fort Morgan signalled this morning, but no 
answer was received except the hosting of 
the Yankee flag OTer the ramparts of Fort. 
Gaines. 
Anderson’s conduct is officially pronounced 
inexplicable and shameful. 
Advices from Cairo the 14th, say the Empres? 
from New Oi lcans the Gth, arrived here to-night. 
She was fixed into on the 1st about a mile below 
Gaines’ Landing by a masked battery of six 
12-pounders, supported by a st rong force of cav¬ 
alry pasted on the Arkansas ,-hore. Sixty shot 
and shell struck the steamer; one of the latter 
penetrating her hull and burst in her hold. 
The rebels also poured in u heavy fire of mus¬ 
ketry, riddling her upper works. She had 
500 persons on board, including 200 sick and dis¬ 
abled soldiers, and 50 or 60 ladies and children. 
Five person* were killed and 11 wounded. 
Capt, Mullery, the commandant of the steamer, 
was killed, his head being shot oil' while telling 
the pilot never to surrender. Portions of the 
engine were disabled, which rendered the boat 
unmanageable, and she continued drifting to¬ 
ward the rebel batteries. At this critical mo¬ 
ment, gunboat No. 3 appeared at the scene, 
opened fire on llie rebels and took the sufferers 
to a place of safety, where her damages, to a 
considerable extent, were repaired. 
The gunboat, then conveyed her 25 miles up 
the river. 
The killed and wounded are mostly discharged 
soldiers, and belong to various regiments. 
Several soldiers of the Ut Ind. Heavy Artil¬ 
lery are among the killed. None of the women 
or children were injured. 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Kentucky.— Advices from Louisville of the 
Oth inst, say that this forenoon twenty guer¬ 
rillas attacked a party of men under \V. B. 
Lanard, who were driving sixty horses to Gel- 
latin from the Salt River road, live miles from 
West Point. Tbe guerrillas killed three men 
and captured forty-two horses. 
A company of guerrillas were in camp at 
Garrettsville last night. 
Gen. Paine lias ordered heavy assessments 
upon the disloyal citizens of Hickman, Groves. 
Ballard and McCracken counties, for the benefit 
of the families ol' Union soldiers whose property 
has been destroyed by the rebels. Gen. Paine 
has gone to Hickman to collect an assessment of 
fifty thousand dollars. 
Louisville advices of Aug. II, say that about 
daylight yesterday morning twenty guerrilla*, 
under Dupaster, entered Brandcnburgli, and 
were driven out by five borne guards armed 
with double-barrelled shot, gum*. The guer¬ 
rillas then sent in the following pdto:— “We 
demand an immediate surrender of the town, 
and if there is a shot fired at ijs from any person 
in thtown we will burn the place and shoot 
every citizen who is caught having arms.” 
The authorities refused to comply with the 
demand, and prepared to defend the town. 
The guerrillas are quite troublesome in some 
portions of the State. 
Mississippi, — Memphis dates of Aug, 9, say 
an expedition has started out under General 
Smith. Muj.-Gen. Slocum has been relieved at 
Vicksburg, and ordered to report to General 
Sheridan. The District of Vicksburg him been 
assigned to Gen. Wushburne, who now controls 
the river from Cairo. The rebels in the Trans- 
Mississippi Department are trying to cross the 
Mississippi. Gen. Dick Taylor is at Meridian, 
and commands in place of Gen. S. D. Lee, who 
is now at Atlanta. 
NEBRASK a.— A dispatch from Omaha City tbe 
10th, says that the Indians are hourly commit¬ 
ting new depredations, stealing stock, burning 
trains, and killing indiscriminately. 
They were within one hundred yards of the 
pickets of Fort Kearney last night, and fired an 
arrow at one of them. A coach arrived at Fort 
Kearney this morning, and reports passing sev¬ 
eral trains which had been burned, and eleven 
dead bodies lying by the roadside. 
A party of mx whites were killed at Thirty- 
two Mile Creek la.-t night. The Indians have 
stolen all the stock at Cottonwood Station, 
ninety miles west of Fort Kearney. 
This morning a party of soldiers started in 
pursuit of them. It is well known that rene¬ 
gade whites, supposed to be from Quantrell’s 
band, are associated in these depredations. 
The Indians are getting very bold, and there 
is great alarm throughout the country. It is 
feared they will attack Fort Laramie. Many 
emigrants have been killed and much stock 
taken. 
NoRTirWESTKKX Gkorgia.— The positions 
of Sherman's three armies were on the 1st of 
Augint as follows In tbe centre was General 
Thomas’ corps, int.reuehed in strong w oiks north 
of tbe City of Atlanta, one mile from the corpo¬ 
ration line, and exactly two miles from the 
court house, which is the centre of the city. 
Gen. Thomas’ centre, as his position remains 
the same, is tbe Twentieth Corps—the Fourth 
and Fourteenth forming the left and right On 
Gen. Thomas’ left was the Twenty-third Corps, 
Gen. Schofield commanding, in position east¬ 
ward from Atlanta, with cavalry still further to 
the left, to maintain the line across the Augusta 
road, partially destroyed by Gen. McPherson. 
The right of the besieging line west and north¬ 
west of the town was. and now is, held by Gen. 
Howard, with the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and 
Seventeenth Corps. 
On the 1st of August, Gen. Schofield's com¬ 
mand was shifted from the left to the extreme 
right, so that at present the Army of Tennessee 
occupies the centre, and Thomas’ and Schofield's 
forces the left and right respectively. This 
change or position evidently indicates another 
flanking process in course of development by 
Gen. Sherman. The Army of the Cumberland 
Is now the only barrier to prevent the enemy 
from disturbing communication with Marietta. 
As if in expectation of this, Gen. Sherman has 
ordered a suspension of the work on the railroad 
bridge across the Chattahochee. 
Our engineers have detetmined the enemy’s 
line, so that almost every part of it Is well com¬ 
prehended. Atlanta, a? laid out on the city map, 
covers an area comprised in a circle of two 
miles diameter. Our opponents have fortified 
themselves very nearly on the corporation line. 
Their main fort — a formidable work on the 
highest hill disceruahle— In exactly on the city 
boundary on the northern extremity of Peach¬ 
tree street. This fort, with several others, are 
plainly to be seen from almost any part of our 
formications. A continual succession of rifle 
pits and forts surround the **ity, which, on three 
sides, north, east and west, is inclosed by high 
ground. Gen. Sherman has drawn his lines, 
equally strong, so closely about the rebel works, 
that there is hardly half a mile intervening in 
which to place the skirmishers, who are con¬ 
tinually firing at each oilier. 
Operations around the city have settled down 
to a regular siege, AVe are pounding away on 
every side, and it is doomed to be soon reduced. 
The rebels garrison the forts and intrenchments 
with militia and use the veterans to operate 
when required, their line running so they can 
he massed w ith great rapidity. 
The Herald's special of the 1st, says that a 
demonstration was made along our lines yester¬ 
day, resulting in driving the rebels to their 
intrenchments, ami capturing a picket reserve 
of One liu ml red and twenty-five men. A heavy 
artillery fire accompanied the skirmish. 
Our troops are confident that Atlanta must 
I soon capitulate. The rebels have but one line 
of communication open, and that is much con¬ 
tracted by recent movements. 
Information from Marietta, Gth inst., gives 
the particulars of Stone in an'? raid on July 27th. 
The 5th and Gth Ind. cavalry, and two sections 
of the 34th ind. battery, set out for Macon to 
relieve the Union officers in prison there. The 
expedition arrived too late; the rebels had re¬ 
moved the officers to a place of greater safety. 
Gen. McCook's force started at the same time 
to effect a junction with General Stonemun, 
but were overtaken with an overwhelming 
force, and were obliged to let Stoneman cut his 
way out. 
Tb® rebels attacked them on Saturday, July 
30th, and the engagement lasted all that day until 
lute at night. 
Sunday morning found them completely sur¬ 
rounded, Col. Adams finding resistance hope¬ 
less, escaped to Marietta. CoL Capron, with 
his command, escaped once, but was again sur¬ 
rounded and his men cut to pieces. 
Gen. Htonmau, Cols. Biddle and Butler, Msjn. 
Thompson and bop her, Capts. Whitman, ott 
and Phiuney, Lieuts. Anderson, Stanton and 
Agell, are prisoners. Lieut. Chittenden was 
killed. 
Soldiers who escaped report that the rebels 
surrounded Colonel Capron’s men, shooting 
and braining them w 1th their guns while asleep. 
The Fifth Indiana has lost about 400 men. 
Later information is to the effect that Col. 
Capron, and several squads of his men, are in 
Marietta. This will reduce Gen. Stonemau’s 
loss to less than 1,000. 
Department of the South. 
The following items are taken from the 
Newbcrn Times of Aug. 5: —An 'expedition 
from Norfolk traversed to Albemarle bound on 
Saturday and Sunday, following closely upon the 
heels of one from Newbem, cleaning out block¬ 
ade runners and obtaining important informa- 
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tion. The rebel ram Albemarle is now com¬ 
manded by Mafflt,formerly of the Florida, and 
is in thorough repair, and lays abreast of the 
Custom House at Plymouth. 
Another rebel ratn is in the course of comple¬ 
tion at Edward’s Ferry, and they are pushing 
every nerve to finish it and bring it down on the 
river with the fall flood. 
A diamond-shaped floating battery has been 
completed, carrying two guns to a side, with 
which the rebels propose to defend the mouth 
of the Roanoke River. They have also con¬ 
structed a fort, mounting 13 guns and a hun¬ 
dred pound Parrot, at the mouth of the river. 
Forts Gray and We.ssells have been totally de¬ 
molished. Attempts are being made by the 
rebels to raise the sunken Southfield. 
Gen. Binney lia? made a raid in Florida, de¬ 
stroying several bridges, capturing a locomotive 
and several cars and a quantity of small arms. 
We now hold Baldwin ami Camp Milton. 
A Washington dispatch receutly received, 
says that the Union oflleers who w ere placed by 
the rebels under fire at Charleston, have all 
been exchanged. They were saluted by onr 
fleet, and then Admiral Dablgren entertained 
them aboard his ship. They have been sent 
home. 
A blockade runner ran into Charleston on 
Monday night, the 8th inst 
Our released officers report that since they 
have been confined in Charleston live blockade 
runners bad got in. 
Firing on Charleston and Fort Sumter was 
of almost daily occurrences. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The people of I’ensylvania decided at the 
special electien, held on the fourth inst, that 
soldier* in the field should have the privilege of 
voting. 
The receipts from internal revenue now 
average about 61,000,000 per day. The receipts 
from all sources amount to about $2,000,000 
per day. 
Lowell lawyers have doubled their fee?. 
If the move would have the effect of hin¬ 
dering people from going to law, it w ould be a 
good thing. 
Pearl hunting is lively in Montpelier, Ver¬ 
mont. Over fifteen lnindml dollars’ worth have 
been fouud lu Winooski river and its branches 
w ithin a fortnight. 
Fort On i ario, located at Oswego, is under¬ 
going extensive repairs. The inner fortifications 
are to be inclosed by a wall of solid masonry, 
six feet in thickness. 
A farm house in Queensville, twenty-eight 
miles from Madison, Ind., was burnt in the 
midst of the night receutly. Four little chil¬ 
dren perished in the flames. 
The late King of Wurtemburg is said to 
have been the richest individual in the world— 
his private fortune amounting, it is reported, to 
more than £12,000,000 sterling! 
A Portland fisherman last week captured 
a horse mackerel off Mount Desert, which mea¬ 
sured 13 feet in length, and girted 81 feet, with 
an estimated weight of 1,200 pounds. 
List of New Advertisements. 
Fruit and Ornamental Tree—Ktlwanger & Hurry. 
Delaware Vlnrs—Parsons <? Co. 
A New Strawberry- peter Ti. Mead. 
Employment—I >. H. Herrin ton A Co. 
Karim r's Loom—(Hilts .t Llppmuott. 
— The rebels are buying horses in Canada. 
— A plague has broken out in Marcia, Spain. 
— Dr. Livingstone is soon to return to Africa. 
— Butter at Pittsfield, Mass., is 50 cents pot lb. 
— Madame Jerome Bonapartp is at Niagara Falls. 
— Lowell, Mass,, pays each volnntecr $125 in gold. 
— Chicago wholesale grocers now sell for cash only. 
— Spain will recognize the new Mexican Govern¬ 
ment, 
— Pearl hunting has become fashionable in Ver¬ 
mont. 
— Napoleon's first wife, Josephine, is to have a statue 
in Paris. 
— Work has been suspended on Fort Preble, Port¬ 
land, Me. 
— The Germans of Europe are refusing to use Eng¬ 
lish coal. 
— Destructive fires have been raging on the Cats kill 
mountains. 
— Chas. L. Wilson, Seaetary of Legat ion in England, 
has resigned. 
— Mad dogs are running wild in some counties of 
Pennsylvania. 
— ML Washington has been the scene of a recent ter¬ 
rible snow storm. 
— Mile- A. Patti i3 engaged to sing in France at a fee 
of £140 per night 
— An excellent counterfeit $50 greenback has been 
put in circulation. 
— A disease caused by eating pork has been discov¬ 
ered in Erie county. 
— A Frenchman has Invented a machine for taking 
the Ayes and Noes. 
— Gen. Kilpatrick has recovered from his wound and 
joined his command. 
— There were over one hundred funerals a day in 
New York last week. 
— England lias 24*) war steamers in commission 
manned by 45,000 men. 
— The Prince of Wales has made the usual applica¬ 
tion to become a mason. 
— Horse flesh as an article of food is growing more 
and more popular in Paris. 
— Samuel Williams, one of the editors of the Albany 
Journal, is dangerously ill. 
— The Mormons will lay up a large stock of grain 
this year for fnturo famines. 
— The graduating class of Beloit (Wis.) College has 
gone to the war for lb) days. 
— Union College has conferred two D’s (D. D.) on 
Rev. W- C. Child of Boston. 
— $200 to $100 worth of one and two cent coins are 
made daily at the U. 8. Mint. 
— On the summit of ML Washington, Tuesday week, 
the thermometer indicated 00. 
— Over 3.000,000 passengers are carried annually on 
the street railways of Chicago. 
— At Lenox, Mass., during the drouth, water for 
drinking was carried 8)i miles. 
— It is said the sailing vessels of the English nary 
will never be sent to sea again. 
Tom akW. Johnson, a government agent, has 
been sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor 
in the Penitentiary at Albany for ten years, 
for defrauding the United States. 
The New York morning papers have raised 
their prices from eighteen to twenty-four cents 
a week, and decline to receive any more sub¬ 
scriptions lor their weeklies at club rates. 
The Kansas City Journal learns that several 
of the “ Indians” lately depredating on the 
plains, though painted like big warriors, have re¬ 
markably long hair and without the scaly look. 
The New York Express says large quanti¬ 
ties of goods continue to be re-shipped back to 
Europe, the leading houses having refused to 
buy them at the prices for which they are 
offered. 
One of the largest farms in Northampton, 
Massachusetts, produced nineteen thousand dol¬ 
lars’ worth of tobacco last year, and several 
other farmers raised from live thousand to ten 
thousand dollars’ worth. 
A board of navy officers, with Admiral Shu- 
brick as chairman, decides that Capt. Semmes 
and his men, who were carried to England on 
the yacht. Deerhound, are lightly our prisoners; 
and it is said the Government approves this de¬ 
cision. 
The Sioux Indians are bent on bloodshed. 
Some 1,800 lodges arc encamped at Long Lake, 
900 miles west of the Missouri; they insist that 
roads shall not be laid out, or travel be prmit- 
ted through their territory. Gen. Sully is mov¬ 
ing with his forces against them. 
The Philadelphia (Jaz^tte says that some of 
the coal miners who Work by the piece, not 
laboring hard, earn from $300 to $400 a mouth, 
which i? $4,000 or $5,009 a year; and the car push¬ 
ers—their work requiring physical force, but 
no skill, study, or capital—have $9 a day. 
The coal and milk extortioners of Baltimore 
are bringing the consumers about their heads 
like a nest of hornets. The former have put 
cold up to $15 a tun, and the latter, milk up 
to sixteen cents a quart. The coal dealers are 
reaping eight dollars a tun clear money. 
A discovery has been made in the art of 
ice making by * Londoner, which has been put 
into a patent and will soon figure in a com¬ 
pany, The inventor will out-sell Nature, his 
artificial ice being so cheap that it will be much 
less costly to make than lay in a store in winter. 
There was a severe boow storm on Mount 
Washington a few days since. A party of 
ladies, with winter elothiug, were nearly 
frozen to death on the way up from the Glen 
House, and a coach anil four horses were blown 
down over a precipice by the fury of the win¬ 
ter gale, 
— The rebels have now but two available pirates— 
the Florida and Rappahannock. 
— Fourteen delegates from Louisiana will apply for 
seats in the Chicago Onvention. 
— Joslah Dewey, of the class of 17S7, is the oldest 
living graduate of Yale College. 
— Jules Jerard, the “lion killer,’’ has been attacked 
and plundered in Interior Africa. 
— It is said that recruiting is secretly carried on in 
New York for the Mexican service. 
— The fare from San Francisco to New York has been 
advanced to $400 by alt the routes. 
— Joseph II. Blackfan has been appointed chief 
clerk in the Post Office Department. 
— Netron Mcnyn (Touch me not) is the name of a 
Russian iron clod recently launched. 
— Isaac L. Varian, in 1WW Mayor of New York, died 
recently at his residence In Peekakitl. 
— ThcU. 8. Untversnlist Association meet at Con¬ 
cord, N. H , the middle of September. 
— Dr. 8. L Hubbard succeeds Dr. I’. A. Jewett in 
the Medical Department of Yale College. 
— The number of men mustered out of service in 
Ohio, having served three years, is 8,811. 
— Utah is furnishing a supply of cotton for Brigham 
Young’s cotton factory at 8alt Lake City. 
— Gen Sickles left New Orleans on the 25th July for 
New York. His health ia fully restored. 
— Brooklyn, N. Y, “the city or churches,” has 2,311 
rum holes, only 30 of which are licensed. 
— The Hartford horse railroad cars have carried near¬ 
ly 700,000 passengers dating the past year. 
— Mrs. Prudence Taylor of Savannah, Wayne Co., 
recently committed suicide by taking cobalt. 
— Mr. Geo. Peters of Greene Co. was so badly bitten | 
by a vicious colt, that his life is despaired of. 
— A grasshopper is on exhibition at Portland, Me, 
the body of which is more than 7 Indies long. 
— The Philadelphia Press has sent a colored corres¬ 
pondent, Mr. Chester, to the army of the Potomac. 
— Judge Stephen Vail of N. J., who built the engines 
of the first steamer that crossed the Atlantic, is dead. 
— In England there arc more Ilian l.SUO peals of 
church bells, none of them with less than a chime of 
four, 
— Ten million pounds of locusts were destroyed by 
the Turks last year, and the work was paid for by gov¬ 
ernment 
— Tho Onion Bank of I-ondon is said to have a uni¬ 
form line of deposits to the extent of ninety millions 
of dollars. 
— An old lady near Clones, in South Australia, 
cures her cattle of plouro-pneumoni by chopping off 
their tails. 
— The Marquis do Ferriere lo Vayer, French minis¬ 
ter to Belgium, has just died at Brussels of a carbunde 
on bis neck. 
— A rattlesnake coiled under a cradle in which an 
infant was sleeping, at Kalamazoo, Mich., sprnug up, 
bit the child, aud It died tbe following day. 
— A young man In Kowton, Ireland, was carrying u 
gun recently, when his ^og, jumping about him, set his 
foot on the trigger, and the man was abut dead- 
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