_ Fobrde with some gunboats, and irom that

be meoeasary tu put ar end, onee for all, to! bu3 the eerried advange of divisions of the) the etruggie hag been too long protracted , tations, and to efface, once for) Geben Brigade, which bad now crossed, and) they have heen deceiyed and bamboozled too i, the Polish question from she list of was rapidiy hurried up, with the arrival of often; they have come to that pass when

the Polish mu Ruropean queations? According to the view of the Emperor Alegander. it would be the} interest of the three partitioning Powers to! declare that they pegard the affairs of Poland | as @ matter egelusively internal, and thas) take awey every pretext for a foreign inter-| veauion.”"

replied that ** in case Sweden should declare | agaiost Prossia and Austria in siding Den-! saerk, it ie very probable that Russia would |

coneentrate a corps of observation in Finiand,| hold the latter plac*, but the impetuous at-| tral Park is as full of brilliant equipages ; tur it is to be feared that Sweden may be-| tack of the Roder Brigade speedily dislodged | the hotel-keepers of Newport and Saratoga gome the principal focus of ingarrection if| him from hia position. Shortly after eight! will reap a rich : the Polish rebeilion ig not promptly sur-/ o'clock, the major portion of the infantry of! did of yore in gold. Shoddy will strive, by

presaed."’ Such is the gist of th diplomatic |

wortespondence, the authenticity of which is} teries and part of the Zieten Regiment of| created at the Northern watering places by msiated upon by the Pos;, notwithstanding! Hussars, were upon the island, and notwith-| the rich Southerners who were wont to fling the denia! of the functionaries wh ase machin-| standing the fatigues of the night, hurried, | their five-dollar ations are laid bare thereip, and ¢ is against, in emulation of their officers’ examples, to! theatres of New the combinations of the three great northern | Powers that wareiecting sympathigers with |

persecuted Denmark wish that the naval

wad military forces of this country should be | of the Schumidt Brigade—principally, it is be-|name is National Bankruptcy. tLe points brought into egiligion, gad for nv quarrel of | lieved, the 4th Westphalian ee regi-| our own. :

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We do not like ta gee 9 smal! nation op-j ners who had been unable to reach the|—at 210. pressed ; byt neither da we like the idea of | Kekenis peninsula,whither the main body of | at over cent. per cent. premium,

eappressed cammegee and large y extended | tazation, the immediate consege once of war. Eog!and has lad better egperien ¢ of the cost of intervention ia foreign affairs. and hay no disposition ta add more milliox« to the na- tivual debt, ty loge the trade it nas gained, bo Witness thagands of feailiey thrown out) of employment, aad to sacrifice ts soldiers’ | gud suilors’ jjvee ic metters wherein our honor and juteregte ere unaffected. We eympethise with Denmark, but we do not furget that when thie qquatry was eogaged |

in @ struggle with Cuootinental despotiem, Denmark one remarkable for hostility tewerds ys. The followmg recapitulation

of ite acte gt that period appears in the Times, and jt may he studied with advantage by pereong who appear to think that we are bound in honor te go to war at the present time :—

“ In 1739 Denmark was the first to join the Noertbera Ce aracy, tg suataiy (ue principles wf the grimed yeytrality which was specially direeted againet England. Jn 1301 sabe appeared tn the front rank and breed the ships of Nelson By the Preaty of Tilsit the Court 6) Copenhagen was the Giryt of those that were to cluse ites bar- dbuara agaipst English vessels, reco] ita ambas- sader frow Londen, eud declare war against direat Beitaig; aod the Danish Gout to be the Fight wing of the aaral force prepared for her auresion. Woon even Russia grew discontented wider te agvevity of the Continental system, and resulved ty ca frgm it, Napoleon fuend in| Denwark the most willing compliance. and even the desire tq forestal him in the war against English cemmeree. When the Allies were strengthening themselves by allinnees in 1313, the wuly addjtienal friewd Napoleon gained was Den- mark, with w & treaty, offensive and defen- sive, wee couelyded at resden, and this alliance secured to Frauee @ considerable support at the anouth of the Elbe, gud the aid of 2,000 good troops, which at that moment was of great im- portance ty the enemy of England. In the gene- ral defectiog yf 1313 Denmark, like Saxony. amsaintuined her fidelity to Napoleon, and her hoatility te England; aod it was only when eom- pletely separated trow tae French armies after the butte of Leipsie, despairing of saccour from Dareoust, whg waa shut ap in Hamburg, the aryy of the Crown Prince of Sweden on the south, Abe English feet un the north, and destruc- | xiog impending over the mouurchy, that Den- quark af Just proposed to juin the Laropean con- tederacy, while her long adhension to France cust her Norway.”

Thege historical facts are not recal led to leasen ghe generous feeling thatesx sts through- wut this country for Denmark under German oppression ; but simply tu show that there | ie no ybligation weighing upon this country. | no debt of gratitude to be discharged to- wards the suffering kingdom. (There is ubundant reason why England and France should earnestly and resouletiy combine, in urdes t9 weet aggression contemplated by the ugholy alliance, whose object 1 tu seper. ete the Western Powers; for it is only by euch disunion they hope to accomplish their geaires. The English Goveromen: acts wisely in keeping out of hostilities, aod remaining ip the same neutral attitude as the Emperor bimself has resulved upoo ; and the country, which ie about to be appesled to by Lord Palwerson's administration, wil! at the gene- ral election give a0 unanimous reyly in fuyour of peace.

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THE WAR IN DENMARK.

CAPTURE OF ALSIN. The following i¢ the Prussian official) account of the capture of Alsen :-— |

Heap Quaerens, July 1. |

Geperel Yoo Herwarth, at present com- manding the combined army cw “ps occupying Sundewitt, determined, afver completing all his preparations the preceding :ught, to cross at dawn upon the 29th ult. The passage was te be effcted upon 160 boas and 32 pun- toona, by the entire arwy corps. at the Satar- pholg, norward of Sonderburg. * The means of transport admitted of three and a half bat- talives being brought over at « tims. Each | detachment ewbarked at four d ferent pointe, | ond was landed at as many ¢ ferent places wpoa the hostile coast opposits to the Fuh- Jenkoppel Wood. Lieut. Gen: ral Von Man- stein, to whose bold energy the firet execution aft the expedition was entrusted, bad the Roder and Gobea Brigades a:der command for the day. The Koder Brigade (64th and Zirh regiments) and the Bran lenburg Jager bettslian Nu. 3 had the advan :ed guard, and were fretembarked. Generale Vun Manstein and Roder were in the foremost boats of the first detachment. When the bvats were about two hundred yards dietant from the hustile ehore, the first shots « f the enemy's outposts blazed at them throuy b the twilight. The foree in the boats return: d the fire, and replied to the first hail of grape from the enemy # batteries with a thur dering hurrah, Springing out of the boats, and wading through ca ga ta the brave green burgers ra i ai the » ite bank, aunshahe hole batteries, = drove the enewy ‘buck into the Fuhlenkoppel Wood, notwithstanding his desperste attempts to hold hie rifle-pite. In the meantime, the enemy had thrown up fireballs, which, light- ing up the entire shore, clearly revealed the Peuasjan attack. The boat were rapidly rowed to the Schleswig shores. The pon- tuonsere of the third and seventh Sattalions at the seat of war had been sspecially rein- furced fur the purpose of t) w _udertaking b from home (belonging to the second, , and fifth battalions), and the new arrivals vied in devotion and aadurance with their veteran comrades. Fuvoured by the saluness of the sea, the crossing rapidly con- tinued, with comparatively trifling loss The namerogs hostile ships cid nut venture within range of the Prussian datteries. The Rolt Krake, which lay in the Augustenburg

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tion had already fired «pon the troops Fret rowed across, steamed |v the vortherp issue of the Alsen Sound, while the second detachment of the Ruder Br. sade was cross- ing, and fired shell, witho: t, su far aa is kavwa, oceasioning any »nportant loss. Attacked by our etrand two rifled field bat- series, which uolimbered io her immediate vicinity, the iron-clad steamed along the whole line under continugue fire, and appa- rently seriously damaged, cown the Alsen Fubrée ; she is said to have returned su! se- one t escort the gunboats lying in the

ugeetegburg Fobrde, alter which she die-| Mean. |

eppeared s}tugetber from the scene. time hetteres were incessantly cunnonaded by our artillery, and thereliy prevented from sanibilating infantry in their

Pressing on victoriously, the Ruder Brigade aod Brandewburg Jagers had succeeded in drying the enemy vut of Ue Foluenkoppel wood. Here tell, at the head of bis com- pany, deeply lamented by his comrades, Captsin Court Maltgalin, of the 8th Bran- denburg wt, No. Gi. an officer who

hed y distinguished himeelf be

Dappel, and had beca Seugund keke . a @ean.an offeer of the

Landwehr, the ‘ment Mo.G4,

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a rifled field battery, quickly decided the struggle in our feyour. Notwithstanding hig obstinate resistance, the enemy was driyea trom pagition to position, and shortly after siz o'clock the village of Kjar was en- tirely in our possession. Toward eight Son-

Prince Gortschakof, upon the| derburg was taken by the Guben Brigade, | competent, the crew mutinous, and the 4 probable conduct of Sweden being alluded to, although the gnemy attempted to make a) concern drifting on to the quicksanda. Peo-

stand to the north of thigtown. His retreat by way of Utkebuli and Wollerup pow be- came more hurried. He tried in yain to

the combined army corps, two rifled field bat-

fullow up the retreating enemy. A brief engagement tuok place against tue Tuderholz, wear Horap Haff, in whieh part

ment, No. 53—took several hundred priso-

the enemy had withdrawn. First Lieutenant Bar, adjutant of Regiment No. 53, a talent- ed and promising officer, tell here, shot through the heart. From Kekenis the xreater part of the defeated enemy is believ- ed to have reached his ships. The enemy's troops opposite Batieguard, which had been retained at that position by a simultaneous demonstration, are reported to have embark- ked at Norburg after blowing up their en- trenchments st mele, the explosion being perceptible ut a great distance. The Danes also set fire to Sonderburg before their re- treat, thus aselessly destroying the town, al- ready totally evacuated by the inhabitants. The efforts of the Prussian troops which first entered, succeeded in extinguishing the con- flagration, and alse in preventing further damage. The Danes also set fire to their large camp of huts near Uikebul}. It is known that the enemy, who had at least 12 battalions of infantry, amounting to between 10.000 and 12,000 men, upon Alsen, bave left upwards of 200 prisoners (among them one commander of a regiment and 30 to 40 other officers), and over 50 cannon, some ol them fully horee field guns, with a number of vehielee and war material, in the hands of the victors. [ie Joss in killed and wound. ed also exceeds ours.

The Times’. Copenhagen correspondent)

states that the Danes, who numbered 8000, | States, including loans, bonds, certificates of

allowed themselves to be surprised on this occasion. The same writer says :—

** The fall vf Alsen has scarce!y created as painful a sensatiun as was produced by the telegram announcing the result of laet night's sitting in both Houses of the Imperial Par- liament, and quoting Lord Russell and Lord Palmerston’s words, decisive as to any hopes the Danes might have built on Rogland’s aid. The Danish army has given, even yesterday at Als, proofs ot the very sterling stuff it is made of; yet it is impossible it could long hear up against the disheartening conscious- ness of being left alone in so unfair a field. There is something appalling in the contem- plation of the calam:ties which are impend- ing en this till lately so happy Danish community. The Germans came upon Als in @ state of the greatest exasperation, and graater calamities are anticipated for their new conqnests than even such as befel the good but stiff-necked Jutlanders. The mu- tual rancour between the invading armies and the invading people in that unfortunate

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| the only thinge published ig the newspapers whivh cap be believed are the advertisements, and half of them are lies. But heneath a seeming wearinesy and listlessness lie a cark- ing doubt and fear that things are going

hadly=that the ship is leaky, the pilot in-| whole |

| ple do not eat fewer ice creams, of drink ‘fewer bottles of champagne. The flux ot ‘paper money is as great as ever. The Cen-

harvest—-in paper, as they

‘ite vainglorious prodigality, to fill the vacum

ieces about so royally. The York are crammed, despite ithe heat; the hotels and restaurants over- flow ; but there is a skeleton at the banquet, la uw slave in the Generals chariot. Lis with grisly finger to Wall Street, and the quotations on the gold board. Gold at 200 Gold two hundred and anything If you will be good enough to send me a thousand pounds, Messrs. Duncan and Sherman will place ten thousand and odd dollars to my leredit; but the price of every article of con- !gamption will at once rise twenty-five per | cent. Persons in business laugh with forced hilarity at this unnatural state of things. They are making more greenbacks than ever, and can afford te pay bigh prices for what they eat and drink, and should, but do not avoid. But persons who sre not in business, persons with settled incomes, persons whose revenues are derived from dividends on stocks, from interest on capital pat out at mortgage, from ren‘s of houses and furms, and the like, are driven almost to despair by the hopeless- ly anarchial condition of the faances which we owe to Mr. Sulwon P. Chase. They. re- ceive, of courae, their income in curcency ; they are unnble to raise their tenants’ rent or to inerexse the interest due to them; and families who were once able to live in com- fort on an income, say, of five thousand dol- lare a year, now find it worth only two thousand five hundred, and are pinched and hampered. Whatis ital] comingto? Where is it all to end? The Wall-street banker ean no more tell you with certainty than the schoolboy puzziing his head over his first equation. From official sources it has been ascertained that the public debt of the United

indebtedness, legul-tender notes,and fractional currency, now amounts to one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine millions of dollars, But from unofficial sources one learns that the actual amount owed by the Federal Go- veroment ismuch vaster. Millions of dullars | worth of eluims, millions of doliars worth of liabilities, not yet ascertained, have accrued, are accruing, and willaccrue. Willi the debt ever be paid? The spirit that seemed to be hovering about the buard-room of the Anglo- Bengalee Life Assurance Company, when Jonas Uhuzzlewit pressed Mr. Tigg Montague as to the course he should adopt when he found his liabilities in excess of his receipts, murmured * Bolt.’ There is a spirit for ever flitting before the minds of ‘operators’ here— | @ spirit which bears a slate crammed with | unite and zeros, and which brandishes aloft an enormous wet sponge. That spirit murmurs

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THE WAR IN THE SPATE.

THE MARYLAND INVASION.

The excitement vecasioned by the recent Con- federate raid in Maryland has subsided, and of the circumstances attending this invasion, the New York Herald says:—

“The disappearance of the rebel forces parti- cipating in the late grand raid into Maryland has been as mysterious as their overwhelming visitation, Sweeping carelessly over the breadth of the State betweeu the Potomac river and the Susquehanna, and descending simultaneously to the suburbs of Baltimore and Washington, they have moved from point to point with impunity, and have departed without interruption, carrying with them untold quantities of plunder, and leav- ing us still, te a great extent, in ignorance of their numbers and wherce they all came, and whither they have gone. Of all the disgraceful episodes of the war in the aeighborhood of Wash- ington, this, we doubt not, will be set down by the future biatorian as the most inexcusable and shameful to the Administration at Washington.”

THE SITUATION.

The Richmond papers adinit indirectly that the fall of Atlanta is certain. Lhe Despatch of the 15th says that a portion of our forces are on the south side of the Chattahoochie, eight wiles above the railroad bridge; that General Sherman's head quarters are at Vining Station. The Atlanta Confederacy says that the city is in imminent danger, and that if Johnston cannot detend it on the Chattabvochie, he cannot do so at any other puint, and therefore it may be purposely thrown at the feet of the rapacious invaders to stay their appetite for conquest.

The news from Mississippi is exciting. A se- vere fight near Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, took place on the Sth instant, which resulted in the defeat of the enemy. It appears that our furces moved from Black River on the morning uf the third instant, under enmmand of General Dennis. General Slocum joined the expedition at Champion Hills. The whole foree numbered lesa than three thousand. The enemy were not encountered in any considerable force until the 5th instant, when they were found strongly posted on the east bauk of a creek three miles this side of Jackson.

A flanking toree under Colonel Coates, of the eleventh Lilinoia, compelled the rebels to abandon their position, and our forces occupied Jackson that night. The enemy attacked our advance in strong force; but they were driven back the next werning. Our rear guard was again assaulted near Clinton; but the rebels were again repulsed, and the grouad strewa with their dead and wounded. Our total loss was less than one hun- dred killed and fifty wounded. We captured thirty or forty prisoners.

THE CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA. Special Washington despatches contain the fol- lowing intelligence from the army of the Potomac

“The rebels opened on the morning of the 15th on our right, with heavy guns, which were replied tu effectively by Gen. Swith’s batteries. Gen. Burnside’s batteries were engaged during the morning, and the firing for a short time was very severe, but without auy important result beyond the temporary retirement of the rebels from their | guns. Some pieces of the rebel batteries were said to have been dismounted by our fire.

* Everything before Petersburg ia as quiet as possible, The usual desultury cannonading and sharpshvoting, the daily distribution of rations, trains running out on the railroad from the landing to the vicinity of the front, water crafts thronging the wharves at City Puint and coming and going | ou the river, all the customary occupations of the ; army and its thousands of subsidiary works pro- | cved as quietly and systematically asusual. Secure behind impregnable works, with gunbvats patroll- ing the James river, and free commerce with al! the cities on the Atlantic coast of the Middle and Eastern State, the army feels as safe and as firmly

in prophetic tone the word * Repudiation.’ ” xip-bee-taelinaie tone <th

TripLte Mceper in Germaxy.—The Jour- | nal de Frankfort contains the report of a trial |

which has brought befure the world a tale of |

province, which was hardly kept in check by the terms of an armistice, threatens now to break forth with redoubled viralence, and

there is hardly any doubt as to whieh of the! age ec : parties will be the greater sufferer in the cun- | named Julia Krapf, who is charged with the |

Already we hear that the Austro-Prus- |

test, sious are preparing to punish the Jutlanders by the destruction of their growing crops—a piece of brutality of which moderna troops ean ecurcely be thought capable."’

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AMERICA LIN THE MiDst OF WAR.

LIFE IN AMERICAN CITIES.

Mr. Sala, tne special commissioner of the Daily Telegraph, was at Boston when he wrote his last letter, and in it he gives some ideas of the prices commanded in the great cities of the North :

** It is quite true that when you receive & remittance from England, and change it inte the United States currency, you feel fog a- bout half an hour as though you were in the possession of fabulous wealth. You give the waiter at Delmonico’s a dellar, and think nothing of paying five-and-twenty cents to have your bouts blacked. But there comes, very speedily, a change over the spirit of your dream. When you discover that a drive in a barouche in the Central-park costs you six dullars ; that the bootmaker has sent in his little bill muleting you in six-and- twenty dollars fur two pairs of superior cali with elastic sides ; that a lady's bonnet, of the very plainest and moJestest deseription i» considered cheap at twenty dullars ; that the tailor wants from sixty to seventy fora frock- cvat; that a pint bottle of Allsopp is fifty cents, a plate of lobster salad and a half a bottle of Chablis four dollars; and almust every other article of consumption at an equally ruinous tariff, your fabulous riches shrink to a pauper's stipend, and you feel very much as though the United States cur- reney, into which yoer brave English ster!- ing had been changed, were on a par—if greenbacks could ever know such a thing as par—with the dry leaves into which the ma- gician in the Arabian tale turned the sequins and besants. A natural rejoinder to this complaint would be : ** Economise. Don’t drive in barouvhes. Dispense with lobster salad and Chablis. Turn your back upon bonnets. Wear out your old clothes, or have them sent out to you from England? Yes, it is practicable to economise. It is possible to live in a fifth rate hotel, at two dollars and » half aday, where you can have a bedroom sot much bigger and certainly noe so comfortable as a ceil in the penitentiary. at Blackwell's Island, where you will be nauseated by perpetual Niagaras of tobacco- juice, and be fed, at stated huurs, very much after the fashion of a wild beast. Lt is fea- sible to reside in a cheap boarding-house for * gentlemen and their wives—mechanics pre- ferred,—I copy textually an advertisement in this morning's paper —where you will be rung up in the morning by an infernal gong; where the ‘help,’ if you do not rise at eight a. m., will clatter at your door and ‘ guess, that you * eens in bed all day;’ where you will live likea pig and besurrounded by ac- complished Chesterfields, who, when they are nos drinkivg or emuking, are chewing colfee- berries to render the udour of their morning and afternova’s liquoring up imperceptible to the ladies at table. . Son und you may procure your clothes from England — a wise precaution it would appear, when for a shouting suit of shrunken tweed such as you would give three pound ten fur at home, a Broadway tailor will demand from eighty to one handred dollars. I tried that little de- vice the other day. I wrote home for some summer trousers and waistcuate, and in due time there urrived for me, per City of Man- chester steamer, & symmetrical packing-case containing the desired garments, the value of which the London tailur bad appraised at nineteen pounds sterling. I bad to clear these clothes through the Custom house. Woe is me! In addition to duck dues, com- mission, carriage, and brokerage, | had to pay #aty-one dollars, or twelye paynds four shillings and two pence, to the revenue al the United States. There iss duty of thirty- five per cent ad valorem on imported wear- ing spparel with fifty per eent additional lately im through the agency of the blessed Mr. Morrill, and these duties are payable in gold. [ was mulet in this aggra- vated impost, and how devoutly did | wish that the City of Manchester had comfortabl gone to the bottom of New York barbour af- terher passengers had landed, but before her ergo wasuniaden! At least! should have received nineteen pounds insurance.’

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PUBLIC FEBLING IN TH” NORTHERN STATES. Mr Sela, writing from New York on the

ernery are seriously and

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*—}date and early for them.

25th June, referring ta the continual delavs and disappointments which have taken place in the prosecution of the war, says the Surth- grievously troubled

misery surpassing far any that « sensation |

| Novelist ever penned. The accuved is deserib-/ on Malvera Hill, and opened on our fleet early on

ed as a woman in her twenty-fifth year,

Notwithstanding | wrinkled | of every kind in her face, |

neath the weight of care her |

crime of triple intanticide. | her youth, she looke fully fifty, sv | with hardshi }and so bent form. Her husband, who was an engraver, committed suicide three years since, leaving her with three young children, and nothing to support them. The poor woman worked | She tovk in wash. | ing, and she touk in sewing: but, owirg to the low rate of wages she received, she could | not succeed, with all her industry, tu drive} the wolf from the door. Bus her situation | became desperate when work failed altoge-| ther, and a sore foot prevented the unforta-| mate woman from going to seek more.

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Tien | came the landlord, who, finding her wre‘ched sticks of furniture would not, if distrained, a week's rent, ordered the tenant to leave the premises. What to do, then, sbe knew not ; and one evening, as the children became clamorous for bread, she made up her mind to suffocate herself and them with a piece of charcoal which she had borrowed from a neighbor. This neighbour shortly after went to Julia Krapf's lodging and found her still living and all the children dead When arrested znd broaght to trial, the un- fortunate woman, with tears streaming down her cheeke, said she could not regret what she had done, because it was more merciful to kill her chhildren than let them endure the pangs of dying starvation. A verdict of Guilty, with extenuating cirenmstances, was, of course, returned, and when the accused was condemped to five years of penal servitude, the jury signed a protest against the sentence.

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The San Franciseo Alia California gives the following accountolastrangely constituted wager. About twelve months ago, two gen- | tlemen of that city agreed to the following | conditions: —*+ If the Federal forces did not capture Richmond within thirty days from that date, he was to give his opponent a single sound eatable apple; if Richmond held out sixty days he was to give him two apples, and so on, doubling the number for each month until Richmond is taken—to the end of time, if that event did not oceur before. Nine months bave passed since the first apple was handed over, and the list of apples delivered at the end of the successive months is ag follows: 1, 2,4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256—total 512. Thus far, it is all a good joke, and the loser has paid the forfeita a with a good grace, but yesterday it ruined a $10 picce to meet the demand; apples are 15 to 20 cents per pound, and it tovk a fifty pound box. Should Richmond be taken within the present month, he would get back all the apples he has lost and one more, which, as the price will then be at the very highest notch, would make him more than even; but, should it hold outa year longer, and he continue to pay his losses, his last payment would cost him $40,960, and he would be $81,900 out: in three months more he would be out $686,340; and should the war last from this date as much longer as it haa already lasted sinee its commence- tent, no nation on earth could begin to meet the terms of the wager, even allowing it to be reduced to a cash basis, and the payments to be made in greenbacks.’’

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A Srrance Dre: —A teugical event has just taken place at Heidelberg, and caused a great sensation among the persons connected with the university inthatcity. Latein the evening of the 1th, a etudent belonging to the body of the Swabians waa found lying on the ground weltering in his blood. He had discharzed a pistol in the region of the heart, but the ball having been turned aside by touching a rib, missed the heart, passed through the lungs and lodged under the right shoulder blade, from whence it was after- wards extracted. At first, the natural be- liet was that voluntary suicide had been intended, but some letters which had been written by the student showed that he bad heen the yictim of a shamefu! kind of a duel. A foreign student had been grossly insulted by the Swabian, and eatisfaction was demand- ed; but inetead of fighting in the usual way an agreement was come to, to draw lots which should destroy himself within a delay of a tortnight. The lot fell on the Swabian. When the time was about to expire, the yoang wan, whose father was dangerously ill, solicited an extension of the delay, but the request was refused, and the attempt at self-destruction was consequently made. Some hopes are entertained that the wound will not prove fatal, but all the entreaties of the heads of the university and his friends cannot extort from him a promise not to re- peat the desperate act. To all their solici- tations his ynly answer ies, ** | have not

my honor to seriously wound myself, $b put an end to my life, and I will keep my promise.’’

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established in its present position as if it was en- sconsced behind the fortitications of Washington. “Gen. Sheridan did not start on another raid as expected. Other employment has been found for his division. “ The redels planted a battery of twa rifle guns

Saturday morning. Theeugagement lasted nearly all the afternoon, and the firing was heavy, The elevated position of the batteries rendered our fire rather ineffectual, but the enemy wae dislodged Orr loss was one killed and two wounded.

“Our mortar shells exploded two rebel maga- | zines on Friday evening in trout of our right.” |

THE CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA,

New York, July 19. — An officer from Gen. Sherovin’s army says eve-eighth of the army ix across the Chattahoochie,and is within four asiles of Atlanta. The Jith 12th corps are conse- lidated, forming the 20th, under Gen, Hooker. |

PuttaveLpima, July 19.— The Bulletin has | the following :

Wastutwnecros, July 19.—The Government is! in receipt this merning ef glorious news trom | Gen. Sherman. It is net news of a battle, but sumelbing better, Gea. Sherman auuounces that | yesterday, having previously crossed the Chatta- hoochie, his whole army marched five miles south of the river and crossed Peachtree Creek without any resistanee trom Johnston's army, except) slight skirmishing with his rear, aa he retired.— | This movement necessarily forces Gen. Johuston into the defences of Atlanta and places the cits within range of Sherman’s gous,

Wasuineron, July 19.-—The Star in its latest edition says no news has been received by the govermmuct confirmatory wf the Norfolk report of the capture uf Atlanta, but al! information from Sherman's army is inthe highest degree encour- aging, indicutiug the capture of the city at no distant day a matter almost of certainty.

A despatch from official sources confirms the statement in the morang papers of Sherman's forces, or part of them, having crossed the Chat- tahvochie. Only a small cavalry foree of the ehemy was encountered,

General Sherman subsequently occupied his troops in tearing ap the railroads of the most use to the rebels. The distance of his forces from Atlanta ia nut mentioned.

FROM NEW ORLEANS.

Sr. Lovis, July 19.—The Union publishes an extract tron a private letter dated New Orleans, 7th, which says—Last night a staff officer told me that 15,000 men would start in ocean steam- ers to-day. ‘They take 15 days rations aud am- munition. There are new a large number of ad- ditional gunbuats in Lake Pencbartrain, aud more vessels have been added to the fleet of Mo- bile. Some think the expedition is for the cap- ture of Mobile, se as te possess the Alabama River and establish a base of supplies for Sher- man at Sela, while others believe the troops are destined for Fortress Munroe’ This foree may be designed to eo operate with Slocum's expedi- tion from Vieksburg.

The rebel accounts of Slocuin’s expedition to Jackson, Miss., claim that the Federal columa under Elliot was attacked at the junction of the Port Hudson and Redney road on the Sth, and repulsed with great slaughter. The roads for miles were strewn with dead negroes, horses, guns, &e. This doubtless refers to the expedi- tion cousisting of a marine brigade of two color- ed regimente, which marched from Rodney on the 4th and were attacked by five brigades ot rebel cavalry aud one of infantry. After fighting nearly all day the rebela were driven off, and our troops returned to their boats. Our luss was 150 killed, wounded and missing.

It has been a matter of surprise with some that gold should have fallen at the time of the Confederate raid into Maryland. The New York Daily News turnishes the tollowing no doubt truthful explanation of the matter. It says:— “The tact that, after three years’ of hostilities, taxing the utmost reaenrces of the Federal Goy- ernment, the Confederates are able to invade the North and threaten the Federal Capital, has m- pressed our money dealers with the conviction that the war is a failure, that the appeal te arma must be relinquished, and that peace is at hand, It is this prospect of an approaching peace that has favorably influenced the price of greenbacks. despite of the startling intelligence trom Mary-

land. - THE SCARE AINE.

We perceive from ne papers that the people all along the r are on the alert for “ bluenoses,” rebels, raiders, and we judge from the extensive preparations that have been made that there is new ps little chance of a sue- cessful inroad in that direction as there is of the Contederates capturing Washington since Lincoln mustered all the teamsters and clerks of its de- partinents for its defe The excitement

these last few days. The of Belfast pick- eted the River Passagassawikeag (gosh, what a name!) on both sides, regardless of any possibili- ty of a flank movement. In Rockland the “mel- igh” and Aroostook veterans were as active as tumble hees in haying time, and the whole popu- lation, supported by a corps of tax-gatherera and substitute brokers, formed a powerful reserve toree. Cannon bristled along the frontier, and batteries arwed by vigilant coast guards protect- ed the exposed seaboard. Two gunboats were despatched from New York to repel attacks. evertheless, with such available detexces at hand, the alarm did not subside. The sight of blunderbusses, the beat of drums, aud the flutter- ing of defiant flags seemed rather to increase than diminish the general terror. Two yachts saluted each other off Portland, and a yell of sncezed

cruiting for the Federal army. swarm with suspicious looking eharaetera—fel- lows of the cut throat species—~imen accustomed to handle “ blood neney,” and buta slight degree higher than the assassin in morals. distinguished by their insolent air, their bubbling

ings, at Sherbroke, on the night of the 11th inetant, and burned everything in eonneetion to the ground.

34000—uniusured. ’

vourite packet which for many years has plied

come a total wreck, She sailed from here on

garet’s Bay. The Neptune was despatched to ren- der assistance, but owing to heavy weather was

amoung our neighbors wust have been intense! The wreck of the Boston was sold at auction

the priucipal purchasers.— Halifax Acadian Re- corder.

steamer Havana brings Mexican news to the 30th

sident Juarez and other liberal chiefs to came to

and safety. any Cominunication, except by arma, with the agent of Napoleon. The Ewperor has taken up

aren No Minister has yet been appointed to there ta no truth iu the rr Gen. Uraga to the Empire.

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The telegraph line clicked omingusiy—the operg- tor perspiréd at One end vf the line, and the un- biquitous jon shay danced at the other. Wild rumors flew aud multiplied. ‘The raiding party yathered volume to the number of fifteen hundred. Even the valiant Colonel who runs the Portland Argus was almost persuaded that plague and pes- tilence were in the air. His sagacious mind traced the origin of the excitement to the St. John TeceeGrarn, and having thus satisfied him- self, he penned the following paragraph:

“ Our city was yesterday rife with rumors of a formidable raid from the British Provinces.— Report bas it that the Governor received infor- mation from the U. 8. Consul at St. John, N. B., that a large force of Southerners and Southern sympathizers had left that port in vessels with the intention of making a demonstration some- where upon our coast. The force is variously reported at from five to fifteen hundred, The information was despatched to all the principal points along the coast, and the military and peo- ple are well prepared to welcome the raiders “with bloody hands te hospital graves.”

We look upon the matter as a “scare,” and think the Consul has been sold; perbaps by the St. Jobn Telegraph, o paper of Southern syunpa- thies, which published an editorial hinting that two steamers in St. John, which were built in New York for the China trade aud weut there for English registers, were intended fur the use of the Confederates. Mr. Englis, the builder and part owner of the steamers, was in town yesterday, and says that the suspicions alluded to by the Telegraph were utterly without foundation. The boats are surely to proceed to China for legitimate commercial purposes.

Another aud more reliable report says the raid is expected trom the border by land.

But the raid from New Branewick was nos all that alarmed the tind tribesof Maine. The poor old Chesapsake—the same that figured i our waters last winter—was destined once more to figure in piratical history. If the following be true, she has had another narrow escape trom provincial profanation. We clip the statement at we fiud it, from the Portland Advertiser. It says:—

“ We learn that on the last trip of the Chesa- peake from New York these were grave suspicions that an attempt would be made to take the vessel. As we are informed, some fiity persons, apparent- ly provincials, came on board just before leaving. Soon after the steamer left these suspicions were confirmed. Asthe party were below, a guard was stationed at the companion way with revolvers, and but two of them were allowed to cowe on deck. When off Nantucket a suspicious looking steamer was discovered laying to, apparently waiting for her. She was supposed to be the Florida. The Chesapeake immediately altered her course for New York, and the suspicious craft at once put to sea. The former then shaped her course for Portland, where she sufely arrived.”