here are well posted in his movements, and are lateral question, such as that of Mexico. France 
leaving to join him daily. No less than fifty young bas enough on her hands just now. in Europe and 
men left this city for Dixie but a few days ago. Mexico, to occtipy her serious attention, without 
The city is said to be full of arms in the bands of interfering in the United States, in a question to 
secessionists, and parties are known to be agentsfor which she is an entire stranger, and in which she 
the sale of arms here, who would no doubt like to has nothing to gain and everything to lose. 
leaving to join him daily. No less than fifty young 
men left this city for Dixie but a few days ago. 
The city is said to be full of arms in the hands of 
secessionists, and parties are known to be agentsfor 
the sale of arms here, who would no doubt like to 
get them into the hands of the rebels. 
The Decisive Hour. 
Under the above heading the Richmond Dis¬ 
patch, in its issue of the 2d inst, remarks: 
We are on the eve of great events. The hour of, 
decision has been placed by Providence in our own 
hands. In that Providence we cherish an abiding 
faith and unfaltering trust. But we do not believe 
that the providence of God conflicts with the free 
agency of man. It works for and with us, in tem¬ 
poral as well as spiritual things; but in one as in 
the other, we must use the means vouchsafed and 
the opportunities afforded, and work out our own 
salvation. 
The hand of God has enabled us to smite back 
the enemy from the Cbickabominy. That was only 
the beginning of the work. If we do not follow it 
up—if we do not heap blow upon blow—if we per¬ 
mit our enemy again to rally and organize—then, 
indeed, shall the summer be past, the harvest ended, 
and the day of our salvation delayed, if not forever 
gone. 
We rejoice to believe that our government fully 
appreciates this momentous truth. Now is the time 
to strike; now, while our banners are flashing in the 
light of victory, while every Southern sword mir¬ 
rors the bright forms of glory and hope, while the 
accursed foe is preparing once more for a final 
spring; now is the time for a blow that shall crush 
this hydra headed despotism forever, and send an 
electric thrill of deliverance, of joy, from one end 
to the other of this struggling, valiant and gtorious 
country. 
Soldiers of the South! Napoleon told his warriors 
in Egypt that from the summit of the pyramids 
forty centuries looked down upon them. Without 
the language of rhetorical exaggeration, we caD say 
to you, that from ten thousand anxious homes the 
eyes of mothers, sisters, wives and children are 
looking at you—looking upon yon as their only 
help and hope, save that God in whose hands are 
the issues of battles, and to whose Almighty throne 
arise day and night those prayers of faith which He 
has promised to answer and to bless. Inspired by 
such reflections, let our gallant sons of the South 
once more give their glorious banners to the breeze, 
and let the resolve of every heart be, “ Victory or 
Death l” 
The whole South looks on: the world looks on; 
the fate of future generations trembles in the bal¬ 
ance. Never did such calamities visit a civilized 
and Christian people as those which now threaten 
every Southern home, and which can only be 
averted by the power of Heaven and your own 
strong arm! The result we cannot doubt. Now 
let there be no delay; not an hours procrastination; 
it may be now or never. 
Items and Incident*. 
Recruiting at the West.— We learn by a gen¬ 
tleman recently from Indiana, that on Monday week 
one hundred companies, or 10,000 men, had already 
enlisted in that State since the call ot the President 
for the new levy of troops. Pretty well done for 
the IIooBier State. 
IIow to get Twenty Thousand Recruits.— 
The N. Y. Times suggests that Wm. G. Browolow 
be made a general, and authorized to go with oar 
armies in their march through East Tennessee. 
Let him hold K camp meetings,' 1 and call for recruits 
for the Union Church militant — promising the 
Christian warriors he shall enlist, not only the 
“ breast-plate of righteousness,” but Springfield 
muskets and ammunition for the good tight before 
them. It says East Tennessee, according to all 
loyal and all rebel accounts, is lull of Union men— 
men who have braved all, and, in too many cases, 
lost all for the old Government, and can be rallied 
by a good leader and the aid of Halleck's army. 
Sensation in a Shower of Shells. —A private 
of a New York regiment thus describes the suspense 
experienced by the soldier during a shower of 
shells: 
“I dont tbiuk I am of the ‘skeery’ kind, but I 
never in my life but once (and that was in Mexico, 
standing two hours under the fire of a battery with¬ 
out replying,) was I in such a position. I’ve stood, 
when in battle, and seen the tlasb, and experienced 
the suspense of learning whery the Khot struck, or 
the shell exploded, but then I bad the consciousness 
of somebody on our side doing some good. But to 
lie in a scooped out hole, in shape like a grave, hear 
that inevitable 11 down!’ then the report, the hissing, 
the thug in the sand—what a crowd of inquiries 
burden the mind at that instant! Has the fuse been 
knocked out? —has the shell bounded in the air?— 
or is it slowly burning within a rod of your head? 
The culprit upon the scaffold, with one chance in a 
thousand of a reprieve, and yet treading the fatal 
drop, could not feel worse. Nor is one’s danger 
past until every fragment of the exploding shell has 
lost its momentum.” 
IIow New Monitors are Built. 
The New York Journal of Commerce gives the 
following interesting description of the building of 
one of the six new Monitors, at the Fulton Foundry, 
Jersey City, which it characterizes as a good illus¬ 
tration of quick, systematic, and thoroughly intelli¬ 
gent workmanship: 
“The work grows harmoniously, though not 
musically (unless one likes the din of a thousand 
hammers) under the eye of the visitor. The laying 
of the keel, and the setting of nearly all the frames, 
have already been accomplished. These are diffi¬ 
cult parts of the structure, and upon their accurate 
adjustment everything depends. The new Moni¬ 
tor, in the present stage of its development, looks 
exactly like an iron vertebra 1 with three times the 
usual supply of ribs. This skeleton of what is soon 
to be a thing of terrible powers, is covered with 
workmen as with fliesL They swarm all over it 
with big and little hammers, chisels, pincers, tongs, 
and every known appliance for the noisy handling 
and treatment of hot and cold iron. Dozens of port¬ 
able torges stand on either side, in which innumer¬ 
able bolts are heated red hot, and passed to the 
workmen, by whom they are dexterously riveted in 
the hole made for them; and so the iron plating and 
bars are indissolubly bound together. It is a kind 
of stitching for which no machine has yet been in¬ 
vented. The frame is covered with a high roof, to 
keep off the sun’s rays; but the ends and sides ot 
the shed are left open for the comfort of the artizans. 
On both sides of the ample yard are long sheds for 
the execution of various parts of the work. In ono 
the bolts are made; in another the holes are 
punched; in a third the ribs are bent into precisely 
the right shape, to the fraction of a hair. The latter 
task is a hard one, requiring the successive exer- 
tioDs of numerous brawny fellows, who relieve each 
Army of the Golf. 
The steamers North Star and Roanoke, from 
New Orleans the 10th, arrived at New York on the 
18th, bringing particulars of the defeat of the rebels 
at Baton Rouge and the destruction of the ram 
Arkansas. The official report of Col. Cahill, com¬ 
manding the post after the death of Gen. Williams, 
states that the rebel force consisted of about ten 
regiments. After a fight of four hours of great 
severity, the enemy were repulsed. Gen. Williams 
was killed by a rifle ball through his chest. During 
the battle our forces were obliged to retire about a 
quarter of a mile from their original position, and 
the enemy were able temporarily to occupy the 
camps of the 21st Indiana, 7th Vermont and 14th 
Maine regiments, and fo destroy much of the bag¬ 
gage and camp equipage, They were, however, 
driven out, but our numbers being much lessened 
by sickness, and the men on the field being much 
exhausted by iatigue and heat, it was deemed expe¬ 
dient not to pursue. The enemy has retired several 
miles, and is still retiring. 
It is possible they may receive re-enforcements, 
and I am disposing of my troops in the strongest 
positions. Our force engaged was less than 2.500. 
The enemy bad at least 5,000, with twelve or four¬ 
teen pieces of artillery, and some cavalry. 
The rain Arkansas approached with the intention 
of engaging our gunboats, but grounded at a dis¬ 
tance of six miles, and to-day, the Cth, was engaged 
by the Essex and destroyed. 
Brig.-Gen. Clark, and his Aid, Lieut, Terges, 
delivered themselves to us as prisoners of war. I 
have also seventy wounded prisoners and about 
thirty captured. 
Breckinridge, on the Cth, asked permission in 
writing to bury his dead. Col. C. replied, our men 
are engaged in the work, which would soon be 
accomplished. The combat was obstinate. Our 
loss was 250 killed, including a large proportion ot 
officers. The rebel loss, according to prisoners’ 
statements, was immense. Among the killed was 
Gen. Lovell. Breckinridge lost his arm by a can¬ 
non ball. Among the prisoners is Gen. Allen, of 
Mississippi, mortally wounded. 
Gen. Williams had three horses shot under him. 
ne was killed while rallying the 21st Indiana, who 
had just lost a field piece. The gun was retaken, 
but Gen. Williams fell. 
The wounded are about as follows:—21st Indiana, 
81; 14th Maine, 70; 4th Wisconsin. 10; 6th Michigan, 
other every few minutes in the swinging of the- 25; 7tb Vermont, 15; 30th Massachusetts, 12; 9th 
gigantic sledge hammers. Throughout the yard, Connecticut, 2. 
at every turn, are visible the evidences of order, 
dispatch and skill. 
This one of the six new Monitors will be 200 feet, 
extreme length; 40 feet, extreme breadth; and 11 
feet depth of holtL The general construction of that 
wonderful vessel will be copied in all but two or 
three trifling repsects, where the inventor thinks 
there is room for improvement. She will carry guns 
of the largest known caliber.” 
No Fear of Foreign Intervention. 
The Paris correspondent of the New York 
Times writes: 
There are many reasons for believing that, not¬ 
withstanding the assertions of the journals, or rather 
of certain journals, to the contrary, no negotiations, 
no movements of any kind, are going on in the 
Cabinets of Europe having in view an intervention 
in American affairs. It has been generally recog¬ 
nized that neither mediation nor intervention would 
be accepted, and that neither would cure the com¬ 
mercial ills Europe is now suffering from; so that, 
however strong may be the desire to see the war 
terminated, that resort will not lie attempted by the 
European States. The alarms which are so fre¬ 
quently sounded on this subject, proceed from 
writers who know but little of the merits of ibe 
question, and who see only two facte: the suffering 
of the people, and the desire of the Governments 
that the struggle should come to an end. They see 
clearly the European, but have no knowledge what¬ 
ever of the American side of the question. It is 
Gen. Butler issued a general order, announcing 
in eloquent terms the death of Gen. Williams. He 
also issued a congratulatory order to the troops on 
the successful engagement, in which he says the 
enemy lost three Brigadiers killed, wounded and 
taken prisoners, many Culonels and field officers. 
He has more than 1,000 killed and wounded. You 
have captured three pieces of artillery, six caissons, 
two stand ol colors, aud a large number of prisoners. 
A letter from Baton Rouge states that the fight 
between the Essex and Arkansas was a fair stand up 
fight. Porter lay 300 yards’ distance, pouring solid 
nine-inch shot into the Arkansas till a breach was 
made, when an incendiary shell was exploded in 
the breach, setting her on fire. The rebel crew left 
her, and she soon exploded. 
Army of ilic West. 
In that portion of the country known on the 
military map of the United States as the “Depart¬ 
ment of the West,” movements and skirmishes have 
been very lively during the week, but have been 
confined, as a general thing, to the pursuit and 
destruction of guerrilla bands. We gather the fol¬ 
lowing details: 
Poindexter’s guerrilla gang have had an exceed¬ 
ingly hard lime. On the night of the 11th Col. 
Guitar caught him at Compton's Ferry, on Grand 
river, and killed 10 or 12 and drowned 30. They 
also captured Poindexter’s whole train, one-third of 
his horses, baggage nnd ammunition. Passing 
rapidly forward, Col. Guitar overtook Poindexter's 
not strange, therefore, that these alarms should be guerrillas again on the 12th, at Yellow Creek, Clin- 
so frequently sounded. 
The hopes expressed in England, and the fears 
expressed in the United States, that France intends 
to interfere between the North and South, have not, 
however, a shadow of a chance of realization, unless 
such an intervention is brought about by some col- 
ton county, routed and scattered them in utter con¬ 
fusion, taking sixty prisoners. On the 14th Col. G. 
had his third fight with Poindexter, on Munch Fork, 
in Chauton Co., thirty miles from Glasgow, and 
scattered his men in all directions. Not less than 
300 or 400 of the 1 guerrillas were killed or wounded. 
Guitar’s troops fought them for eighteen miles, run¬ 
ning. A good many of them are getting home, and 
send word to know on what terms they can stay at 
home. They have taken the oath and now want to 
stay at home. 
On the 10th inst Col. McNeil again overtook Por¬ 
ter’s guerrillas, at Stockton, in the western part of 
Marion county, Mo., and after a sharp fight, routed 
them, killing and wounding a large number, and 
capturing matiy horses. The rebels were scattered 
in all directions. Seme of tbe prisoners captured 
had taken the oath and given bonds. 
Additional particulars of the fight between Col. 
McNeil's command and Porter’s guerrillas, at Kirk- 
ville, some days ago. have been received. 12S dead 
rebels were found on the field and buried. Tbeir 
entire loss could not have been less than 300. It is 
estimated, on reliable authority, that fully 2,000 of 
Porter’s gang have deserted him and are scattered, 
several hundred of them being prisoners. The bal¬ 
ance of bis force, which was originally 3,000, are 
rapidly retiring, pursued by Col. McNeil’s troops in 
four columns. The Federal loss was 8 killed and 
25 wounded. 
Major Montgomery drove Coffey’s band of guer¬ 
rillas out of Humanville, on Monday night, and 
caught and attacked them on Tuesday, the 12th, at 
Stockton, killing and wounding quite a number of 
them, and putting tbe balance to flight. 
A battle took place at Independence. Mo , on the 
12th inst., in the morning about 3 o'clock, between 
the Federal forces; numbering 350 men, under Lieut. 
Col. Buell, and from 500 to 600 guerrillas, under the 
notorious Col. Hughes, assisted by Quantel and 
Hayes, resulting in the complete rout and surren¬ 
der of our troops. The loss on either side is not 
known, ft appears the town was surprised about 
3 A. M. The fighting lasted about four hours. The 
troops, almost without officers, hotly contested the 
ground, sheltering themselves behind trees, fences, 
&c. Capt. Thomas, of the State Militia, was taken 
out and murdered after his surrender. Lieut. Har¬ 
rington and fifty men cut their way through the 
enemy and made their escape. Most of the prison¬ 
ers were paroled by taking the oath not to take up 
arms. A large quantity of arms, some 20,000 rounds 
of ammunition, besides other government property, 
fell into the bunds of the enemy. 
Col. Miller, commanding at. Nashville, Tenn., left 
for Gallatin, on the 12th, with two regiments, and 
surprised a part of Morgan’s band, killing six, 
whereof three were officers, among whom was Capt. 
W. C. Breckinridge, son of Dr. Robert J. Breckin¬ 
ridge, who joined Morgan in his late raid upon Lex¬ 
ington. Thcrd was no loss on the Federal Bide. 
Major Kennedy, with two companies of the 1st 
Kentucky cavalry, encountered the guerrillas in 
greatly superior numbers, on the 11th, at various 
points below Williamsport, Tenn.. defeating the 
enemy with considerable loss. Our loss was only 
one wounded. 
The lferald correspondent on board the gunboat 
Essex, gives a graphic account of an attempt to cap¬ 
ture the ram Arkansas on the 22d of .July: 
The Essex advanced to where the ram was 
moored under tremendous fire from all the batteries, 
and when within two yards of the ram, the latter’s 
bow 1 line was let loose, and she swung around with 
the tide, thus partially evading a blow lrom the 
Essex, which grazed her side, causing the Essex to 
run ashore. For several minutes the water bat¬ 
teries and heavy land batteries played on tbe 
Essex. At the same time the Essex delivered, at 
six yards distance, a raking fire from her three nine 
inch guns into the ram, going through her plating, 
killing sixteen mid wounding thirty of the rebel 
crew. The remainder of the ram’s crew fled to the 
shore, and if the fleet had properly supported the 
Essex, as agreed upon, the Arkansas would have 
been captured. The Essex escaped with only three 
shots that took effect, killing one and wounding 
three of her men. Tbe Union fleet remained pas¬ 
sive spectators of the brave action. The Essex is 
covered with indentations all over from the shots of 
hundreds of cannon, smoke stacks riddled, her 
wheel-house shot through, and during the affair, 
was hidden from view by splashing water thrown 
up by the iron shower about her. 
Gen. Sherman, at Memphis, has issued orders that 
all negroes applying for work be employed as 
laborers at Fort Pickering, and shall be entitled to 
draw rations and be supplied with necessary cloth¬ 
ing, but that no wages be paid them until the courts 
determine whether they are slaves or free, accounts 
with each to be kept and credited with labor given; 
slaves to be allowed to return to their masters at 
the close of every week, but masters are not allowed 
to enterlinesof post. The Quartermaster is allowed 
to employ negroes on the same conditions, aud when 
necessary, take them by force. Commanders of 
regiments are also allowed to employ a number, not 
exceeding 65 to each regiment, as cooks and team¬ 
sters. Negroes are not allowed to wear any uni¬ 
form. 
Gen. Sherman says to the people of Memphis and 
vicinity, that it is not the intention to disturb the 
relation of master and slave, and that when the 
Courts are re-established, they will decide the cases 
which have already arisen or may arise. 
Jn reply to the question in regard to the Govern¬ 
ment taking possession of all vacant houses, Gen. 
Sherman says that Gen. Grant’s order was issued 
under the rules of war, and not under the confisca¬ 
tion act. Until the Courts are re-established to 
execute the provisions of the confiscation act, the 
Government assumes a place of trustee to account 
to rightful owners, at the proper time, for property, 
rents, <fcc. 
The story that a battle had been fought at Cum¬ 
berland Gap, and that the rebel generals, Rains 
and Carter, had captured 7,000 Federal troops, with 
their munitions of war, proves a canard. Capt. J. 
H. Terry, Division Quartermaster, arrived at Louis¬ 
ville. on tbe 14th, from Cumberland Gap, which he 
left ou the 9th inst., at noon. He reports that Gen. 
Decouvier’s brigade was attacked by Stephenson’s 
rebel division on the 9th inst., at Tazewell, and that 
Col. Cochrane’s 4th Kentucky whipped four rebel 
regiments. Col. Cochrane held his fire until they 
were within 150 yards, and checked their advance. 
Tbe Federal loss was30 killed and 100 wounded, and 
57 ot the 17 th Regiment taken prisoners. We took 
a rebel Lieut.-Colonel. whom we exchanged for the 
57 prisoners. The rebel officers admitted a loss ot 
250 killed and wounded. We took 213 wagon loads 
of baggage and 70 horses. We lost the knapsacks 
of two regiments. There has been no fight at Bile 
Creek Gap, nor any other engagement in the vicin¬ 
ity of the Gap or Tazewell, than the foregoing. All 
reports of other engagements, and of the cutting to 
pieces of Gen. Carter’s and Col. Dyer's forces by 
the rebels, are utterly false. 
The Journal adds that Knoxville papers give a 
list of 109 rebels killed. 
Reports from White river say that Gen. Hovey’s 
division had a fight on Monday, Aug. 11, near Clar¬ 
endon, Ark. The Federal force consisted of six 
regiments of infantry, and tbe rebel force of eight 
regiments of cavalry and a part of Hindman's 
brigade. The battle raged fiercely for some time, 
with destructive effect on both sides, but resulted in 
the defeat of the rebels and the capture of 700 pris¬ 
oners. No further particulars received. 
Army of the Potomac. 
A movement of some kind has been shadowed 
during the entire week, but so secret has all been 
kept, that at present writing (Monday F. M.) it is 
impossible to tell the direction. A telegram just 
received says:—“The Union troops evacuated Har¬ 
rison’s Landing about eight o’clock this morning,' 
and about the same hour Gen. McClellan's advance 
arrived at Williamsburg. The public property was 
all removed in safety, and all is quiet.” This may be 
true, but so many conflicting reports have been 
received on the subject, that it is impossible to pene¬ 
trate the darkness hanging over this movement of 
the Army of the Potomac. 
During the week Gen. McClellan issued an Order 
relative to the President's Proclamation in regard to 
the seizure of slaves and subsisting upon the rebels 
wherever the army advances. Tbe villifiers of Gen. 
McClellan have been so persistent in the cry that 
rebel property was protected by him, while Unionists 
were permitted to Buffer, that it may be well to make 
brief extracts from his “ Order,” its length preclud¬ 
ing publication entire: 
The Major-General Commanding directs the at¬ 
tention of the officers and soldiers of the Army of 
the Potomac to the following Executive Order by 
the President, which has been officially published:’ 
[ Here follows the order to military commanders 
in certain States to seize and use rebel property, 
including negroes ] 
The order of the President accords so substantially 
with the course uniformly pursued by this array on 
the peninsula, under the orders and instructions of 
the General Commanding, that no material change 
in any respect is required thereby in its conduct and 
government. Personal property necessary or con¬ 
venient lor supplies or other military purposes of 
this army will be, as heretofore, seized nod used by 
the proper quartermasters or subsistence officers, 
upon the orders of commanders of army corps; or 
in case of troops employed on detached service, 
where army corps commanders are not accessible, 
by order of the otbeers in command of such detached 
force. 
In protecting private property, no reference Is 
iuteoaed to persons held to service or labor by 
reason of African descent. Sorb persons will be 
regarded by this army as they heretofore have been, 
as occupying simply a peculiar legal status under 
State laws, which condition the military authorities 
of the United States ore not required to regard at all 
in districts where military operations are made 
necessary bv the rebellious action of the State Gov¬ 
ernments. v * * * Since this army commenced 
active operations, persons of African descent, in¬ 
cluding those held to service or labor under State 
laws, have always been received, protected, and 
employed, as laborers, at wages. * * * * Per¬ 
sons go subject and so employed have always under¬ 
stood that after being received into the military 
service of the United States, in any capacity, they 
would never be reclaimed by their former .holders. 
Except upon such understanding on their part, the 
order of the President a* to Ibis class of persons 
would be inoperative. The General Commanding, 
therefore, feels authorized to declare to all such 
employes, that they will receive permanent mili¬ 
tary protection against any compulsory return to a 
condition of servitude. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
A treaty of Commerce and Navigation between 
the United States and the Ottoman Empire, is 
officially proclaimed. It is marked throughout by 
much liberality. 
Capt. Gansevort, of tbe Adirondac, bas informed 
the Navy Department of the facts attending the 
recent pursuit of the steamer Herald, represented 
by the Nassau papers to be a British vessel. This 
pretense afforded an opportunity for the expression 
of indignation for the alleged outrage of this Ameri¬ 
can officer, from whose statement it appears that 
the Herald had been running between Nassau and 
Charleston, with supplies of war, and was returning 
to Nassau with cotton. She was commanded by a 
man named Coxetter, who was formerly captain of 
the privateer Jeff Davis. The chase, however, was 
not continued within British jurisdiction. The 
statement confirms the fact that the British flag is 
systematically used to advance secession interests. 
Numerous applications having been made to the 
War Department by railroad companies, to exempt 
their employes from being subject to military duty, 
it was decided that none but engineers in actual 
employment when the draft is made, can be ex¬ 
empted. The exemption of telegraph operators is 
upon the ground that they are practicing an art 
necessary to military operations, and which being 
known to comparatively lew persons, their places 
cannot be supplied. 
Numerous applications have been made for passes 
to the army of the Potomac, but they are invariably 
refused. It is the request of Gen. McClellan that 
private visitors be excluded from his lines. All 
the sick are to be removed thence, therefore the 
friends of many of the patients cannot urge the 
necessity of their presence for nursing purposes. 
Passes and permits within other military lines are 
not so freely given as heretofore, as it is known 
there have been abuses of the privilege, traders 
having been tempted by large profits to smuggle 
salt aud other necessary supplies into rebel markets. 
A large number of applications have been made 
at the State Department for passports, but refused. 
Notice is officially given by Secretary Seward, that 
until the requisitions of tbe War Department ou the 
several States for their quotas of militia shall have 
been complied with, no passports will be issued 
from his Department for any such citizens of the 
United States who are liable to be drafted into that 
brauch of the service. 
Cols. Corcoran, Wilcox. Lieut.-Col. Bowman, and 
Maj. Hodges, (so long prisoners at the South,) 
arrived in Washington on the morning of the 17th, 
in the steamer Henry Burden, accompanied by 
Adjt.-Gen. Thomas. 
The Navy Department have received some par¬ 
ticulars of the capture of the Columbia by the San¬ 
tiago de Cuba. She was taken about seventy-five 
miles from Abaco, after a chase of six hours. She 
had left Nassau ten days previous, ostensibly bound 
to St. Johns. She was under British colors, but 
had no register whatever. She was loaded with 
munitions of war, cannon, rifles, powder, shells, 
cartridges, army blankets and iron plates. She is a 
new fast propeller of iron, provided with ports, and 
probably intended for a Confederate gunboat. This 
is her first attempt to run the blockade. She had 
on board Charleston, Savannah and Bahama pilots. 
Admiral Dupont has reported to tbe .Navy De¬ 
partment that on the 4th the steamer Huron cap¬ 
tured the schooner Aquilla, while attempting to 
run the blockade off Charleston harbor. She is 
seventy-soven tuns burthen, and was laden with 
3,000 or 4.000 barrels of turpentine, and was bound 
for Nassau, N. 1*. 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
A New Book—Amorur the Pines. 
To Giowers of Sprimt Whea*—Chappell A Sprague. 
Ru-se'l’s Prolific Strawherrv Plante—Geo. Clapp. 
Canvassers Wanted—8. F. French A Co. 
Gray Dorking*—J. R. Page. 
<2TI)c Ncros €onimt 0 cr. 
— Enlistments are going on actively in New Hampshire.. 
— The Canadian Parliament is summoned to meet on the 
28th inst. 
— The city of Philadelphia has dispatched five Dew regi¬ 
ment* equipped. 
— Garibaldi has issued a proclamation, urging the young 
men to arms in Italy. 
— Another Irish brigade is organizing in Chicago. The 
ranks are fast filling up. 
— The tax on tea, coffee, chocolate, &c., in England, for 
1881, produced 530,000,000. 
— Gen. Philip Kearney, of New Jersey, has been made a 
Major-General of volunteers. 
— The Richmond papers abound in advertisements offering 
rewards for runaway soldiers. 
— There are in London 170 women who are engaged in 
distributing Bibles to the poor. 
— Queen Victoria is about, to visit King Leopold, and will 
afterward go to Coburg-Gotha. 
— Last year the tax on spirits, in England, produced a reve¬ 
nue of more than 5100,000,000. 
— Great Britain has now 2,079 steam merchant vessels, with 
an aggregate tonnage of 758,377. 
— Six vessels have been sold out of the whaling business 
at New Bedford within a few days. 
— The only flag of any nation that has attempted to run the 
blockade has been that of England. 
— The quota of Massachusetts for the 3-year’s volunteers is 
15,000; for the 0-month's draft, 19.080. 
— No less than three clergymen have enlisted as privates 
from a single town in Oswego county. 
— Twenty seven deaths occurred in New York and vicinity, 
on Saturday week, from cotip de Soldi. 
— The preliminary report of the census will he printed and 
ready for distribution in about a week. 
— The Lord Primate of Ireland (Lord John George Beres- 
ford) died at Belfast on the 19th of July. 
— It is reported that armed organizations exist in Indiana 
and Southern Illinois to oppose the draft 
— Fourteen young men from the Shaker community at Can¬ 
terbury, N. H., have enlisted for the war. 
— As to intervention, Ben. Butler says: “When it comes 
to that, X shall call on Africa to intervene.” 
— Wm. A. Russell, of New Haven, has been appointed 
Major-General of the militia of Connecticut 
— The ex-Queen of Naples, with a train of banished Italian 
princes and dukes, has arrived in Germany. 
— A lady music teacher in Newbury port, Mass., refuses to 
receive any male pupils over 18 during the war! 
— The Emperor Nicholas has abolished the use of the knout 
in Russia. He will be suppressing Siberia next 
— In Lafayette, Ind.. when it was known that Indiana was 
invaded, 200 recruits were received in two hours. 
— The colony of contrabands that left Washington some 
time since for Ilyati. have reached their destination. 
— A raft nearly 800.feet long by 50 wide arrived at Chicago 
on the 4th inst. It contained 2,800,000 feet of lumber. 
— Gen. Rousseau proposes the construction of large iron¬ 
clad hand cars for patrolling the railroads in Alabama. 
— The Bank of England rate of discount is now only two 
per cent, per annum. It has not been so low since 1832. 
— An English tailor was convicted of bigamy, having six 
wives alive, and sentenced to seven year's imprisonment. 
— The Chinese Government has ordered three propellers of 
New York builders. They are in course of construction. 
— Gen. Pillow wrote to his brother that the South will lose 
one thousand million dollars ' worth of slaves by this rebellion. 
— Albert the Good is now the accepted phrase In the Eng¬ 
lish weekly journals, when alluding to the late Prinoe Consort 
— The gold on the Golden Gate, lost in the Pacific, was well 
insured. Sixty per cent, of the amount is held in British 
offices. 
— It is reported that the Frencli Council of State are trying 
to devise means to render France independent of America for 
cotton. 
— “ Skedaddle Rangers " is the appropriate name given to 
those persons who flock to Canada to escape the call of their 
country. 
— Some of the recruiting officers in Connecticut complain 
of the efforts of both abolitionists and secessionists to prevent 
enlisting. 
— The North Missouri Railroad Company has appropriated 
51,000 to each of the first ten regiments that shall be raised in 
Missouri. 
— The prize steamers lately captured and brought to New 
York, are to be appraised and fitted for the Government 
forthwith. 
— Gov. Corwin, United States Ministerto Mexico, is expect¬ 
ed soon to return home. There is some talk of electing him 
to Congress. 
— Gen. Sherman, at Memphis, has taken for Government 
use 326 vacant buildings; has 13,000 confiscated slaves at work 
fortifying, etc. 
— The Paris Patrie says, when the French army moves in 
Mexico in November, the navy will make a demonstration on 
the Pacific coast. 
— A beautiful silk bed quilt, made by a Baltimore rebel lady 
for Jeff. Davis, has found its way to Gen. Wool’s camp. It is 
a magnificent affair. 
— It is denied that Russia joined France in the proposition 
from England and France for the recognition of the Confed¬ 
erates and mediation. 
— Mrs. Sarah Spencer, of Middletown, Conn., has procured 
two substitutes, one for herself and one for her neice, pay ing 
each $50 extra bounty. 
— The number of early marriages in England is increasing. 
Within the last £0 years the number of persons who marry 
under age has doubled. 
— King Kammehanmha, Monarch of the Hawaiian King¬ 
dom, has annexed to his dominions Palmy ra Island, a nominal 
possession of the United States. 
_A Jersey millionaire, in attempting to evade the draft by 
leaving New York in one of the foreign steamers, was detected 
in the disguise of a coal heaver. 
_Ffty persons have been arrested at Oswego, N. Y., on the 
point of departure for Canada, aud 100 more were turned back 
under Secretary Stanton's order. 
— The New Haven Journal says that one of the New Haven 
houses engaged in business in New Orleans, has just received 
from that city $150,000 in silver. 
— The Baltimore News office has been taken possession of 
by the police, aud the editors and proprietors sent to Fort 
McHenry, by order of Gen. Wool. 
— It is believed the orders prohihitingskedaddling to Europe 
will materially decrease the premium Lu gold, which had been 
actively purchased for that purpose. 
— Swarms of politicians are in Washington, looking after 
the appointments under the new tax luw. What a pity they 
couldn't be impressed iuto the anny. 
_About 80 of the church hells which were captured at 
New Orleans by Gen. Butler, have arrived at the foundry of 
Messrs. Meneeley, in West Troy, N. Y. 
— Uorseheads, Chemung Co., N. Y., has been nearly de¬ 
stroyed by fire. Every store was consumed but one. The 
loss is over $100,000. Insurance only 815,000. 
— The Oriole, with iron ore, collided with the Illinois, in 
Lake Superior, on the 15tii inst., and Bunk. Capt. McAdum, 
his wife, mother, and nine of the crew were lost. 
