Freedom in Missouri. —Col. Gratz Brown has 
written an interesting letter, staling as the result of 
recent investigation, that Missouri, which in 18t>0 
contained 104,(.*00 slaves, now has little if any more 
than 60.000, In eleven counties where Price and 
McCulloch so long held sway, only 861 are now left, 
out of 2,784 in 1860. The counties along the Kan¬ 
sas border, which in 1860 had 11,129, now have 
scarcely a hundred remaining. 
Gen. Butler has surprised people in New Orleans 
by providing for the cleanliness of the city. He has 
directed the employment of scavengers at the rate 
of 50 cents per diarn — and more if they are worth 
it — and the Picyune approves it Meanwhile Gen. 
Shepley is after the contractors, holding them to their 
sanitary work. 
A Curious Set of Wounds. — A soldier of pow¬ 
erful, brawny frame, belonging to the 21st North 
Carolina, so badly cu! up at the late battle of Win¬ 
chester, is lying at the Seminary Hospital, in that 
town. He received a Minnie bullet in both thighs, 
from opposite directions. A bullet entered the arm 
near the elbow, and went crashing through thews 
and muscles up to the shoulder, and out at the clav¬ 
icle. Another entered just above the small oft.be 
back. The surgeons endeavored in vain to find it. 
Several days afterwards it passed from the bowels. 
The ball is preserved by Dr. Chapel, and is but 
little flattened. The question is bow did that ball 
get into the intestinal canals, and pass thence with¬ 
out causing death? All the army surgeons say there 
is no parallel case on record. The man eats heart¬ 
ily, has excellent digestion, and has been living four 
weeks, and has every prospect of getting well of his 
wounds. His skin has a healthy appearance, his 
eye is clear, and he talks cheerfully. 
Vicksburg and Vicinity. — Vicksburg, a city 
and port Of entry, the capital of Warren county. 
Mississippi, is situated on the Mississippi liver, four 
hundred miles above New Orleans, and forty-four 
and a half west from Jackson, the capital of the 
State, with which it is connected by the Southern 
Mississippi railway. The situation is elevated, the 
ground uneven, and the city is not compactly built. 
It contains, besides the county buildings, four or five 
churches, and several academies for both sexes. Be¬ 
fore the rebellion, two newspapers — the Sun (Dem¬ 
ocrat) and Whig (American)—were published here. 
Vicksburg is the most important commercial place 
on the river between Natchez and Memphis, and is 
an important mart for cotton, of which article about 
100,000 bales were formerly annually exported. 
Steamboats then plied regularly between this place 
and New Orleans. At the last Presidential election 
the vote stood thus. 
Bell....Sic. 
Breckinridge_ 680 
Dougins. 83 
Majority for Bell__ 153 
Sharp.— The Charleston Courier calls Jeff Davis 
11 the Moses of the rebellion.” The Charleston Mer¬ 
cury retorts that it is a pity such a Moses was ever 
taken out of the bu hushes. 
The sutlers in North Carolina are doing a heavy 
bueiness in hoop skirts. They sold $1,500 worth of 
hoop skirts and calico to North Carolina women in 
one day. Strange to say, the goods were paid for in 
good gold, silver, and government notes, which must 
have been hidden in socks and cracked teapots all 
the while the common shinplasters have been going 
their rounds. 
The itomkardment of Vicksburg. 
The Federal Ram Monarch, which reached 
Cairo July 5, brings full particulars of the bom¬ 
bardment and partial destruction of the city of 
Vicksburg. Tbe particulars, as stated by Capt. Geo. 
E. Curry, who was a witness of the whole affair from 
Capt. Porter's flag ship Victoria, are as follows: 
About daylight on Thursday, June 26, the signal 
for a general attack was given. The tire was mainly 
directed against tbe fort on the top of the bluff 
below the town, which mounted eight guns. The 
firing continued all day, tbe battery replying with 
more or less rapidity most ol the. time. As evening 
drew on. the firing ceased on both sides. 
On Friday morning the attack was resumed and 
continued until* the afternoon, when Capt. Porter 
signaled to shell the town, which was done for 
about two hours, with what effect could not be 
definitely ascertained. The shells could be dis¬ 
tinctly seen to buret above the town, but the nearer 
buildings concealed tbe exact effect from view. The 
batteries on shore replied lightly and irregularly 
during most of the lime. About four o’clock the 
signal was given to cease firing, and the fleet drew 
off. About hall an hour after the cessation of tbe 
bombardment, the water batteries suddenly opened 
upon the Federal mortars, which replied until the 
batteries ceased firing. No damage was done to tbe 
mortars. 
Soon after the firing ceased, the signal was given 
tor all captains ot divisions to report on board the 
flag ship. Here they received orders to open fire 
again with the entire number of mortars at eight 
o’clock that night. Accordingly at the appointed 
hour the entire fleet of mortars, twenty in number, 
commenced to hurl their fiery missiles upon the 
devoted town. The scene is described as grand 
and terrible in the extreme. The bellowing of the 
mortars was like a continued peal of thunder; the 
glare of the explosions illuminated the horizon like 
incessant flashes of lightning. The earih fairly 
shook with the repeated concussions. The huge 
shells seemed to hover above the doomed city as if pursuit. 
The damage to the city in these different attacks 
mmt have been immense. Toppling bouses, tum¬ 
bling chimneys, cracking roofs, conflagrations burst¬ 
ing out on every hand, trees overthrown, and the 
ground torn up by bursting shells, present a scene 
which no pen can depict, and only the most vivid 
imagination can conceive. Such is the vengeance 
which has fallen upon tbe city which first, and 
before even ber own Slate had seceded from the 
Union, attempted to assume control of the naviga¬ 
tion of the Mississippi. 
A large force of negroes are employed under 
orders from Major-General Butler in cutting a canal 
across the bend of the river on which Vicksburg is 
situated, which will change the channel of the 
river and leave Vicksburg an inland town, eleven 
miles from the river. The canal will be finished in 
a few days. 
Captain Curry was informed by the people living 
along the river that the women and children had all 
been removed from the city previous to the final 
bombardment, and they are now dwelling along the 
line of the Jackson Railroad, many of them in 
holes dug in the sides of the hills. He represents 
the distress existing, not alone in the neighborhood 
of Vicksburg, but throughout the entire region, to 
be terrible. Tbe disturbed state of the country 
prevented the planters from putting in their usual 
crops, and the amount of provisions taken for the 
use of the army has reduced the people almost to 
the verge of starvation. 
Army of the Mississippi. 
The Navy Department has received dispatches 
dated U. S. steam-sloop Blackley, off Vicksburgh, 
June 22. The following is from Capt. Craven to 
Com. Farragut: 
In obedience to the orders of the 13th. I left Baton 
Rouge on the morning of that day. on rny way up 
tbe river. On the 14th, at I) P. M., 1 sent the marine 
guard and a party of seamen—in all about 100 men 
—in charge of Lieut. Mowry. to Bozen Saro. for tbe 
purpose of destroying the telegraph apparatus and 
cutting the wires, and with orders to inform the 
authorities of that town that we were on the river 
for the purpose of enforcing the laws of our common 
country and protecting its citizens, and at the same 
time to warn all, that if any hostile demonstrations 
were made upon our vessels or transomts as they 
passed their town, by thieves and murderers, yclept 
guerrillas, the town’would be held responsible for 
it. and at least be laid under contributions, if not 
dealt with more severely. In the morning Lieut. 
Mowry returned with his force to the sloop! having 
thoroughly accomplished his work, except securing 
the telegraph apparatus, which had b.?en removed 
a few minutes hei'ore he landed. About half a mile 
of the wire had been cut and brought aboard, and 
the vitriol and batteries destroyed. The people 
ashore seemed to be peacefully disposed, were quiet 
and civil, and made no disrespectful demonstrations. 
The Mayor informed Mowry that but two or three 
days previous to our arrival, the town had been 
visited by guerrillas; that they had committed out¬ 
rages against law and order, and he had arrested a 
lieutenant of the party, but he was rescued by his 
comrades, and ran off to the woods. He represented 
these guerrillas as a lawless set of men. whom the 
people of the country and small towns had greater 
oread of than the visits of our navy or army, and 
he hoped we would not hold him responsible for 
the acts of a cut-throat band. 
The Sunshine, from Vicksburgh. arrived at Cairo 
on the 8th. The bombardment continued, and a 
portion of the town was destroyed. 
News from White river, Arkansas, is not encoura¬ 
ging. Col. Fitch still holds St. Charles. No relief 
had yet reached Curtis. The whole country border¬ 
ing on White river is reported in arms, except those 
flying from conscription, which is enforced in the 
most vigorous manner. Boats are frequently fired 
upon from shore. 
The Grenada Appeal of the 3d says that large 
numbers of Confederate troops have gone from 
Tupullo to Water Valley, forty miles south of Holly 
Springs. Breckinridge’s division has gone to Vicks¬ 
burgh. Large numbers of Mississippi troops have 
gone to Richmond. 
Nearly all the government stores had been re¬ 
moved trom Grenada to a place occupied by 2.000 
to 3,000 rebel troops, who have burned all the trestle, 
work of the bridges between Memphis and Cold 
Water. 
Gen. Hindman has issued an appeal to the Ark¬ 
ansas people, and says that he intends to annoy the 
enemy in every possible way, and asks the people 
to do their part. 
The Little Rock Gazelle of the 28th ult, says the 
Federals evacuated Indian Bay and St. Charles 
and the whole lower White river, and are now gone 
in the direction of Memphis. 
Gen. Curtis left Batesville and crossed Black 
river, and is supposed to be marching toward Cache 
Bridge, with a view to reaching the Mississippi river 
via Crawley’s Ridge. 
At New Hope, Nelson county, Ky., at 11 o'clock 
on the night of the 11th inst.. a party of the 35th 
Ohio regiment, under Lieuu-Col. Moore, routed 450 
rebel cavalry under Jack Allen, half a mile south 
of the railroad. After a brisk fire of musketry tor 
twenty-five minutes, the rebels were routed and 
fled. There were no Federal casualties. Later 
accounts say that tbe guerrillas burned the town of 
Lebanon, and robbed the Commercial Bank located 
there. 
Telegraphic communication is open to Nashville, 
but not over the Lexington branch line, which will 
prevent the reception of further particulars to-night. 
The Federal re-enforcements moving in the direc¬ 
tion of Lebanon, could not have arrived there until 
after the destruction of the place, but are iu hot 
pausing to select a place in which to plant their 
deadly missiles. For more than an hour this terri¬ 
ble scene continued, when the order was given to 
withdraw. 
On Saturday morning, the 2Sth, Commodore Far¬ 
ragut, whose fleet was then lying about five miles 
below the city, got word to the mortars to open tire 
upon the batteries at four o’clock in the morning, 
and he would endeavor to ruu some ot his vessels 
past the batteries. Accordingly the bombardment 
was recommenced at the hour named, and during 
its continuance Farragut succeeded in passing the 
entire rebel batteries with eight vessels, viz.:—three 
men-of-war. two sloops, and three gunboats. 
During the passage, the batteries continued to 
pour a shower of shot and shell upon the passing 
vessels, but without inflicting any serious damage, 
and disabling none. The fire of the batteries was 
generally too high, and all the vessels had their rig¬ 
ging considerably cut The Hartford. Com. Fsir- 
ragut’s flag ship, was struck in the hull twice, one 
ball passing through her starboard bulwarks near 
the bow, about ten feet above her water line, the 
other about the same height near the stern. Other¬ 
wise she was but little damaged. All the vessels 
kept up a sharp fire during the entire passage. Two 
of these vessels immediately passed to the mouth of 
Yazoo River; the rest, when our informant left, were 
still at anchor above town. 
Rumors arrived at Louisville that Morgan's guer¬ 
rillas. 1,700 strong, in two squads, are at Harrods- 
burg and Dansville, stealing horses and destroying 
property. Considerable excitement exists in Louis¬ 
ville on account ot the guerrillas. Effective means 
have been taken to prevent incursions. 
Between 3,000 and 4.000 Georgian and Texan 
guerrillas, under Col. Forrest, attacked the 9lh 
Michigan and the 3d Minnesota regiments, in Mur¬ 
freesboro, Tenn., early on the 13ih inst. There 
was desperate fighting till 3 P. M. The Michigan 
troops surrendered. The Minnesota was strongly 
entrenched, and cut the enemy badly with He we it's 
Kentucky battery, repulsing them with great slaugh¬ 
ter, when flags of truce were sent in by Forrest, 
demanding their surrender. Col. Lestre reported 
he could hold his position a week. 
A later dispatch says:—The railroad track was 
torn up, but replaced. An attack on Nashville is 
not impossible. Col. Lestre is reported falling back 
on Nashville. Cannonading is heard repeatedly 
here. Col. Boone arrived with several companies. 
A special dispatch to the Associated Press, says 
Murfreesboro is taken by the Confederates, mostly 
Texan rangers under Forrest, but shelled by our 
own battery. 
Stone reports the 9th Michigan captured, but 3d 
Minnesota, with water battery, were holding out at 
last accounts. Brig.-Gens. Dufford and Crittenden, 
of Indiana, were prisoners. Great excitement ex¬ 
isted in Nashville, aHd an attack was expected. 
The Federals will make the best fight possible, and 
if compelled to yield will shell the city. A battery 
is in position for that emergency. 
A telegram from Corinth, dated July 12, says the 
rebels have been making mysterious cavalry dem¬ 
onstrations ever since their repulse at Boonville by 
Col. Snowden- The latter has fallen back near 
Romney. These movements are thought by some 
to be an advance guard to attack us. Others think 
it is a part of Bragg’s force to re-enforce Chatta¬ 
nooga. The weather is very warm and water very 
scarce. The health of the soldiers is improving. 
Furloughs are returning at the rate of one hundred 
per day. 
Reports received at Louisville at midnight, state 
that the main body of Morgan's guerrillas were at 
Rough and Ready, nine miles south of Frankfort, 
at 5 P. M. It is said the State archives are being 
removed from the capital. 
A telegram from Nashville this (Monday) A. M.. 
is to the effect that about 8 o’clock A. M. of the 13th, 
a large force of cavalry drove in our pickets and 
assaulted Murfreesboro. The 9th Michigan, Col. 
Parkhurst. were surrounded and captured. Gen. 
T. P. Crittenden, of Indiana, and Gen. Dufford, 
who bad recently arrived to take command of the 
23d brigade, were taken prisoners; also Lieut. 
Barry. Commissary, and Lieut, C. H. Emmin, Act¬ 
ing Assistant-Quartermaster. The 3d MiDnesotaCol. 
Lestre, and Hewett’s 1st Kentucky battery, made 
a gallant defense. Their bravery was beyond praise. 
They saved tbe railroad track and bridges, losing 
but few men. The rebels destroyed the railroad 
depot, telegraph office, and other property. The 
town was being shelled by Hewitt’s battery at the 
last report. 
Forrest is not expected to make an attempt on 
Nashville, as he will find work enough for him to 
attend to before approaching the city. By a relia¬ 
ble account be. has 1,000 cavalry, but nothing in the 
line of artillery or infantry. 
A consultation has just been held between Gov. 
Johnson, Col. 11. J. F. Miller, commanding the port, 
Capt D. DeGroo, of Gen. Buell’s staff, Col. Camp¬ 
bell. Provost-Marshal, Capt Bingham, U. S. Q. M., 
and Capt Broden, of Gen. Beaumont’s Btaff. Entire 
confidence is maintained in the ability of the Gov¬ 
ernment to protect the city and restore tranquility 
in the neighborhood. 
Army of the Potomac. 
The feature in the Army of the Potomac for 
the week was the arrival of President Lincoln upon 
a visit Upon the arrival of the President in the 
James river, off Ilairison’s Landing, he was visited 
by Gen. McClellan and staff, and soon after the 
whole party disembarked. Upon reaching the 
Landing, they mounted and proceeded to General 
McClellan’s headquarters, and thence, without much 
delay, reviewed the whole army. The President 
rode to the extreme front The welcome that 
greeted him, as described by those who witnessed 
it, was highly enthusiastic. He was not satisfied 
with riding iu front, but dismounted and ascended 
the ramparts, in view of the rebel pickets. 
The President is satisfied that affairs on the 
Peninsula are in better condition than has been 
represented. He gives credit to Gen. McClellan for 
having in no way exaggerated facts. He has seen 
for himself the necessity of re-enforcing the Army 
of the Potomac, and returns with the conviction 
that Gen. McClellan is in the proper position, that 
the army is devoted to him and full of confidence in 
his ability, and that all he requires should and shall 
be done without delay. The President expresses 
himselt delighted with his visit 
An army letter to the Herald states that rebel 
prisoners say that long before the evacuation of 
Corinth, troops from Beauregard’s army began to 
arrive at Richmond, and continued to arrive stead¬ 
ily until that event took place, by which time 
50,000 bad arrived; and that subsequent to the 
evacuation 25,000 more arrived from Corinth; and 
these 75,000 are the flower ot Beauregard's army. 
The whole number of troops at Richmond amounts 
to fully 200.000. 
Gen. Lee has the chief command, and Generals 
Beauregard, Johnston and Jackson were command¬ 
ers of the corps under him. 1 infer from what their 
officers say. that the eight forts or earthworks on 
the north aud east of Richmond are not of any 
great strength. They rely mainly for tbe defense 
of the city upon Fort Darling, tbe obstructions and 
batteries in the James river, and upon the lighting 
of their troops. They declare that it is an utter 
impossibility for the Union army to take Richmond 
either by land or water; by land on accotmt of tbe 
number of troops, and by water on account of the 
defenses of the James river. Of the latter, Fort 
Darling is only one. Besides this fort three new 
batteries have also been erected, mounted with 
heavy guns, and ensemated for the protection of the 
gunners. There are also two submerged iron bat¬ 
teries, each one containing five tous of powder, 
connected with the iron land batteries by wires, and 
so arranged as to explode at any desired moment. 
As regards the obstructions sunk and driven into 
the bed of the river, they are 6uch that it will 
require so vast an amount of time and labor to 
remove, that it can never be done under the tire of 
their guns, and no vessel can pass while they re¬ 
main. 
A letter, dated James river, July 7th, says the 
veteran forces of Burnside have formed a junction 
with the beleagured army of McClellan. Gen. 
Burnside had made all his preparation for an 
advance inland from Newbern, and on Tuesday 
last the command to advance was to have been 
given, but on that day dispatches were received 
which changed the complexion of things. They 
announced the results of the series of battles before 
Richmond, and urged Gen. Burnside that he should 
send a pan ut his force to Gen. McClellan. There 
was not an hour lost in answering the call. Orders 
hastily written were carried in hot haste, freight 
was discharged from some vessels, mails from others, 
the armament from others, and all coaled, watered 
and provisioned at once. On Wednesday all were 
aboard, and that morning at daylight the flag-boat 
Alice Price, with the General Commanding and his 
staff on board, steamed down the Neuse river, but 
another bearer of dispatches was met after the boat 
bad gone a tew miles, aud a signal was given for 
the fleet to put back. A swift boat was immediately 
sent to Fortress Monroe, by way Of the canal, to 
convey Capt. Briggs, Chief Quartermaster, with 
letters to the Commauding General. The answer 
being received, in due time anchor's were again 
weighed, and led by the General himself, the fleet 
again sailed. 
The steamer Daniel Webster, while on her way 
up the James river, on the 10th, and when opposite 
Fort Powhattan, was fired into by the rebels. ' One 
ball passed completely through two of her state 
rooms. No one was hurt 
The rebels have entirely forsaken our army. Not 
a rebel soldier is left within front of it, nor are there 
any within several miles of it It is the prevailing 
opinion here that the rebels will soon be heard from 
in some other quarter. 
The correspondence between the War Department 
and Gen. McClellan was sent to the House on the 
9th. in response to a resolution of inquiry. Gen. 
McClellan says, in the course of hi3 explanations, 
••Those who have originated the false statements 
concerning the White House and Spring, are, in 
fact, as stated in my dispatch of tbe 7th inst., ene¬ 
mies of this army, and of tbe cause in which it is 
fighting. They have imposed upon the Surgeon- 
General, and caused him to make official represen¬ 
tations which, on examination, proved to be un¬ 
founded in fact, and which are disrespectful to his 
superior officers. They have necessarily occupied 
the attention of the Secretary of War. and have 
interrupted tbe Commander and tbe Medical Direc¬ 
tor of the army in the midst of the most arduous 
duties. 
Issues of the Richmond Dispatch, of the 7th and 
8th inst. were received by the American. The 
Dispatch admits that Gen. McClellan ha3 secured 
the safety of his army in a most masterly manner. 
The number of Federal prisoners is stated at 4,600, 
who are confined in the tobacco warehouses. 
AFFAIBS AT WASHINGTON. 
An important manifesto, in the shape of a Procla¬ 
mation from tbe President defining the future policy 
of the Administration on the great, question of the 
war, is not improbable at an early day. Mr. Lincoln 
has been waited upon by several Senators and mem¬ 
bers of the House, and will be visited by a large 
delegation soon, should he be able to receive them, 
urging him to issue a Proclamation, requiring 
Generals commanding departments to accept the 
services of all persons coming within our lines. 
The President, on the 12th inst.. sent for the Slave 
State Members of Congress, and had an important 
interview with them, urging upon them his plan of 
gradual emancipation, and hinted strongly that if 
this plan was Dot adopted, general emancipation 
would come under less pleasant circumstances. 
Accounts brought by the Presidential party from 
the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, give 
a cheering view of the condition of things in that 
vicinity. It is represented that the entire losses on 
our part in the recent battles will not exceed in 
killed, wounded, and missing, 11,000. Stragglers 
are continually returning. The loss of the enemy 
is exceedingly large. It is understood that previous 
to the late battles before Richmond, Gen. McClellan 
arranged with the rebel authorities for a general 
exchange of prisoners, and that General Dix has 
been instructed to consummate the same under a 
flag of truce. 
The Treasury Note Bill, as agreed to by the Con¬ 
ference Committee and passed by the Senate, is a 
compromise between the two Houses. Thirty-five 
millions are to be issued in small notes, and the 
amount to be reserved for tbe purpose of securing 
the payment of temporary deposits, is to be $50,- 
000 000. instead of $75,000,000, as fixed by the Sen¬ 
ate. leaving tbe issue for circulation $100,000,000. 
Mr. Colfax called the attention of Congress to the 
fact that the Post-Office Department had learned 
that an extensive business had been done in eras¬ 
ing. by chemicals or otherwise, marks on can¬ 
celled postage stamps, and selling them in lots. As 
there is no punishment for such offence, he reported 
a bill, which was passed, punishing persons so 
engaged, with the intention ot using such stamps, 
by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or fine 
of $1,000, or both, at the discretion of the court 
It is understood an order is about to be issued 
reducing the time of enlistment of the 300,000 volun¬ 
teers trom three years to one year. The object of 
this is to enlist a large number of men who would 
not enlist for a longer period. Besides, tbe calcula¬ 
tion is, tbe rebellion will be crushed in less than one 
year. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, says this 
change is greatly desired. 
The following letter was recently addressed to 
the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means: 
Treasury Department, June 20, 1862 
Sir:—I am reliably informed that the sugar crop 
of Louisiana last year was 500.000 hogsheads of 
1.100 pounds each. This is said to be 50,000 hogs¬ 
heads more than the crop of any previous year. 
Of this crop there were in New Orleans, when 
token by our troops, say 80.000 hogsheads, chiefly 
held by foreigners, and’ there yet remain on the 
plantations say 223,000 hogsheads. It is thought hy 
gentlemen conversant with this trade, that this quan¬ 
tity will nearly, il not quite, supply the wants of 
the country until the new crop wifi be ready for 
market next fall. Shipments to Northern ports are 
already begun. These facts suggest the expediency 
of such internal duties on domestic sugars as are 
necessary to secure the revenue expected from the 
import duties on foreign goods. 
The importance of this subject and the necessity 
of proper legislation, if not already embraced in tbe 
tax bill, will doubtless engage the attention of the 
Committee on Ways and Means. 
With great respect, S. P. Chase. 
Hon. Thau. Stevens, Chairman Committee on 
Ways and Means. 
The mission of Mr. Reverdy Johnson to New 
Orleans is with a view to settle all claims and to 
pass upon all laws and regulations referring to the 
relations between the foreigners and the civil 
authorities of New Orleans. It is even surmised 
that he will gradually absorb all the civil powers 
now entrusted in the hands of Gen. Butler, who 
will retain the military command of that place. 
Evidences have reached the Government of a 
well planned rebel conspiracy, of an extended char¬ 
acter, wbioh was to have burst upon the country 
simultaneously with the battles of Richmond. The 
rebel leaders confidently relied on shaking off Gen. 
McClellan and annihilating his army by their im¬ 
mensely superior force, and this success was to be 
immediately followed by a rising in Tennessee, 
Kentucky, Maryland, and the advance of Jeff. Davis 
upon Washington in the midst of the confusion. 
The families of civil officials who are living in Ken¬ 
tucky, while their heads are in position in Rich¬ 
mond, were fully informed of the scheme, and in 
their boldness and impudence let it out The tacts 
were communicated to the War Department, and to 
Gen. Boyle of Kentucky, and preparations were 
made to defeat the movement; but the utter failure 
of the rebels to break the power of the Union army 
now threatening Richmond, made it impossible tor 
them to put their plan in motion. 
In the final report of Joseph Holt and Robert 
Dale Owen, Commissioners on Ordnance Contracts, 
they state that they have effected a saving on con¬ 
tracts made prior to Secretary Stanton’s taking his 
office, of $17,000,000. 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The Finest Farmintr Lands — Illinois Central R. R. r 0 
Improved G>ain Thrasher and Separator—C P Greirc- 
The Universal Clothes Wrimrer—Julius Ives & Co 
To Builder* and Farmers — W. Otis. 
Foreign and Arneriean Horticultural Agent, fee—C R li:,,. 
For Invalids — George Moaher ' ll er - 
Dairy and Fruit Farms for Sale—Geo. A- Moore. 
Superior Strawberry Plant*- J. C Thompson. 
Strayed or Stolen—Oliver Warner. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
More abont Draining Tile. 
The Cure for Stammering—H. C. L. Xfears. 
®lje Nctos (Honhcttser. 
— Edward C. West, Surrogate of New York, died Tuesday 
week. 
— June 20 completed the 25th year of the reign of Q ueen 
Victoria. 
— Green corn forms a part of the soldiers’ rations in 
Memphis. 
— The Barbadoes sugar crop, abont 40,000 hhds., was all 
shipped by the 1st of June. 
— Confederate stock in Richmond ran up three per cent 
after the retreat of our army. 
— Twenty-five thousand tuns of cheese were sent from this 
country to England last year. 
— Three hundred and ninety-four bales of cotton arrived 
at Cincinnati on Tuesday week. 
— During the last quarter, 64,235,250 postage stamps were 
sold, of the value of Sl-232.756. 
— The marriage of Princess Alice took place on the day 
the Great Eastern left Liverpool. 
— Up to the present time this year $21,750,000 in specie have 
left the United States for Europe. 
— Henry Luther, a shoemaker of Boston, claims to be a 
lineal descendant Of Martin Luther. 
— In one week, the birth of 1,782 children — 900 boys and 
882 girls—was registered in London. 
— All differences between Garibaldi and the Italian Govern¬ 
ment have been satisfactorily settled. 
— The policy of employing blacks in military operations is 
rapidly gaining favor in Washington. 
— One thousand bales of cotton, captured in the Gulf, were 
sold in Brooklyn last week at 32 cents. 
— The Richmond Examiner of the 4!h sajs 4,281 Union 
prisoners had been brought to that city. 
— During the present year, there have arrived at the port of 
New York, from California, $12,255,070. 
— Nickel cents that a while ago sold at three per cent dis¬ 
count, now sell at one per cent, premium. 
— Madame Suaini (late Miss Isabella Hinckley) died in New 
York, on Saturday week, of typhoid fever. 
— The number of persons wholly out of employment in 
Manchester, Eng., is now reported at 7,337. 
— Yorktown has not been evacuated by the Federal troops, 
but is being put in perfect order for defense. 
— There arc 106,544 members and probationers of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. 
— Diphtheria prevails to s consieeruble extent in Lyndon, 
Peacham, and other towns of Caledonia Co., Vt. 
— Reports from the hop-growing districts in this State are 
quite favorable respecting the prospects of a crop. 
— A large lot of concealed Government arms were found 
in palatial residences in Baltimore, on the 6th inst. 
— The harvest season in Maryland has commenced, and 
the farmers are busily engaged in rutting their wheat 
— The citizens of Owego offer to nurse one hundred sick 
and wounded soldiers, without cost to the Government 
— The Provost Marshal of Memphis lias decided that lager 
bier is intoxicating, and must not be sold to our troops. 
— A single sutler in the vicinity of White House had prop¬ 
erty to the amount of $10,000 destroyed on the 28tli ult. 
— Report has It that Gen Bragg lias 40,000 to 60,000 rebels 
at Tupello. Miss.; that they were short of provisions, &c. 
— The health of ex-President Van Buren does not improve 
and very slight hopes are entertained now of tiis recovery. 
— Congress has appropriated $40,000 for putting an addi¬ 
tional story upon the War and Navy Department buildings. 
— The county of Placer, California, owes but $460, while 
she lias in her treasury, to the credit of the county, $29,089. 
— Mr. W. H. Russell, of the London Times, is working up 
his notes of American experience, for publication in book 
form. 
— Four thousand dollars’ worth of gold was taken from one 
claim in the Nova Scotia gold region in one day, a short time 
since. 
— About two hundred boats, used in the navigation of the 
Lehigh and connecting canals, were destroyed by the recent 
flood. 
— In 1812, pins were worth a dollar a paper, and poor at 
that. Now, with one process, pins are made and put on the 
paper. 
— C. C-. I.athrop has resigned the appointment as Collector 
of New Orleans, to which he was, some weeks ago, commis¬ 
sioned. 
— A number of sailors belonging to the redoubtable W’arrior 
represent her as a most uncomfortable vessel at sea in bad 
weather. 
— The shoe business in Massachusetts is reviving. In Lynn, 
Marblehead, Haverhill, and a hundred other towns, work is 
abundant 
— The fruit crop of Nova Scotia promises a most abundant 
yield. It is thought there will not be a short supply in any 
particular. 
— The Littleton (N. H.) Journal says there is a fair tide of 
mountain travel for the season, and business in that town is 
flourishing. 
— It is estimated that from fifteen to twenty thousand bales 
of cotton, of good staple, will be sent to market from Illinois 
the present year. 
— The Richmond papers complain of the want of hospital 
room, and demand that the theaters and churches should be 
taken as hospicals. 
— All the patent medicines in Alabama belonging to North¬ 
ern doctors have been sold at auction for the benefit of the 
Dixie Confederacy. 
— Thirty men—twenty carpenters and ten wood choppers— 
left Owego on Monday week to work upon the railroads and 
bridges of Virginia. 
— The proprietors of an oil refinery in Erie Co., Penn., are 
now using naphtha, or benzine, as a substitute for coal in 
healing their furnaces. 
— The wheat crop of Alabama, Georgia, and Southern 
Tennessee, is a bad failure, while the com crop is everywhere 
admitted t« be far behind. 
— There appears to be a very large emigration to the Mor¬ 
mon country this season. As many as 6,000 wagons started a 
few days ago to cross the plains. 
— Advices from Naples speak of a fresh eruption of Mount 
Vesuvius. The mountain is throwing out lava toward Pom¬ 
peii, and ashes on the Portici side. 
— The wife of the late Col. Ellet died in Philadelphia on 
tli© 29th ult, of anxiety and grief, induced by the death of 
her husband, a few da^s previously. 
— The young lady graduates of the high and normal schools 
at Boston, have contributed $1000 in cash, and about $300 in 
work for the relief of our soldiers. 
— It is estimated that 100,000 men of the Federal army are 
loafing about the towns where they enlisted. This calculation 
does not include the sick or wounded. 
— The London Exhibition has attracted to that city a band 
of the New York thieves, who are perpetrating their robberies 
in the banks with considerable success. 
— In Utah, the Indians are growing more troublesome, 
stealing cuttle, killing emigrants, and breaking up the Over¬ 
land Telegraph and Mail establishment. 
— The peripatetic Government of Arkansas has gone to Hot 
Springs. When previously heard from, it was on a flat-boat, 
being paddled up the river to Fort Smith. 
