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MISCELLANEOUS, miners .

A Lewpon Newsrarsn.—The newspaper [he whole igure is six times the length of baving the widest circulation ia London is, the foot. Whether the form be slender or the Daily Telegraph, a peony paper. owned plump, the rule holds good; any deviativn| by Mr. Levy, @ Hebrew. Tuoree private from it is departure from the highest beauty | telegraph wires, says @ visitor, velong tu it; of proportion. The Greeks make all hel | ene correspunds with the Livuse of Commons, statutes according to this rule. The face, another with Mr. Reuter's telegraph-office,| from the highest point on the forehead. | the third with the private resiience of the) where the hair begins, to the chin, is eed conductor, who is thus made acquainted with) tenth of the statare. The hand, from the any important news which may transpire) wrist to the middle finger, is the same. before he arrives at, or after he leaves, the) From the top of the chest to the highest office. The machine room is « vast white-/ point of the forehead is a seventh. It the washed ball, with three enormous clanging.| length of the face, from the roots of the hair plunging, whirling metal demons in the midst) t the chin, be dividedfinto three equal parts, of 1t—-Hoe's most powerful printing machines! the rst division determines where the eyes contamming, together twenty-six oylinder*.| meet, and the secund the place of the nostrils. and in attendance upon thew are eighty MeO) [he height from the feet to the top of the and boys. The cylinders in these machines! head jg the same as the distance from the make one million tour hundred and five thou- extrwmity of the fingers when the arms are sand revolutions in the course of one night,| oxcended. aud, for a single day's cirowlation, travel at the rate of pearly nime bundred and eighty five miles, eight hundred and eighty-four fail per minute. The length of paper used in one day will make @ path one yard wide, and nearly one huodred and sixteen miles jong; one day's circulation, placed edge to edge. would clusely cover a piece of land o! nearly forty-three acres; one weeks’ circula- tion, place one on top of the other, would make a column three hundred and nineteen feet high. The weight of paper ured in one day's cerculativn is seven tons thirteen hun i. red weight two quarters and twenty pounds, there are also three hundred and nimety sis pounds of ink consumed in one night's print- reg; and the length of tape used pon the machines is a little over four wiles. ~~

A foolish Frenchman, who used to be rival of Blondin, undertook to wade, by the wid of iron stilts, across the rapids above th: Averican Falls at Niagara on Monday last early in the morning, by way of rehesrsing a publie exhibition to take pluce this week He exoveeded in getting more than half way acruss.at a point between the Falls and thie ‘ivat Island bridge, when one of bie stilt broke or gave way, and he was instantly i the rapids. Fortunately the piace of this ac event was directly above Rob: oson's island a small piece of wooded land which lies & the right of Lana isiand and very peur the brik of the American Fall. Le succeeded in struggling to the shoce of this land, ane d himself from the water. He hac apparently sustained a paiotul injury im one ot bis limba, sod was seen, up to Tuesday sitting on a log. No effort hav been made & rescue him. He bas made no » chal for relief. although his predicament ts evnsidered 4 frightfui one.

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Harvey's theory of tae circulation of the blood, ov rather the cause of the circulation, is begiun- ing to be diaputed ; for blushing, sudden paleness if the face, dushings and chiliness of the body trequently occur without any disturbance or mo dification of the bearts action. The stead) wovement of the blood in the capillaries, the cir- culation threagh the liver without the interventien f any propulsive force, the fact that after death the arteries are usually found empty, among other things, canaot be accounted for on the hypothesis that the heart is the sole moverot the blood. Th

new theory is that the action is a chemical ove. J —-

The suicide season has commenced in Paris quite briskly, and the maui is extending to the country. lu many cases no cause can be dis- covered for the voluntary resignation of life, aud it ix suid that in the mouth of July the mania for suicide 1s a prevailing malady in Pariv, it being

for the act. This year, the greater number eo! this class of criminals have avoided the Seme and have taken other means of wakiug away with themselves. Oue gentieman, a retired met chant of large tortune, baving made all necessary arrangements for the transfer of his preperty t an ouly son, walked caluily to the top of the co- jumn on the Place Vendome, and threw himesel: down, striking first on the eagle at one corner ot the pedestal, then, rebounding, beeare lpaled on ove of the spikes of the iron railing. oo

According to Carlyle, it was the old Prus- sian General Dessaner’s wont to pray befor: ogaging in battle, and thus describes his prayer. A grim fervor of prayer is in his heart doubtless, the words as reported are no very regular or orthodox: ** O Herr Gott help me yet this once; let me not be disgraced momy old davs! Or if thou wilt nut bel; me, don’t help those Hundsvogte,”’ (damnew scoundrels, 80 to speak,) but leave us ty try

t out ourselves !’

Waar Suatt we kar?—Dr. Hall, in late ouwber of the Journal of Health —good authority by the way—says the cheapest ar ticles ut foood, at present pric -s, are bread (especially corn meal) batter, molasses bezns and rice. He shows shat 25 cent worth of four, at & cents per p rund. cuntain as wuch nourishment as $2 25 worth of reas: beef at 25 cents per pound; and that a pin) of white beans costing 7 cents, bas the sam: amount of vutriment as 24 pounds of beef a 25 cents per pound, or, in ether words, shi roast beet diet 1s fcelve Lames as eX pensive a the teans. Furthermore, a p und of Indiar weal will go as far asa poun! of fine four costing pearly twice as mnuc. Here ar euwe ut the common articles of food, showing the amount of nutriment contained, and th time required for digestion.

NEWS GLEANINGS.

LOLOL LLL FELINE WAR MATTERS.

The Confederates seem to be operating exten <i¥ely in the region of country in Sherman's rear A severe engagement took place on the bith be ween the Federal General Steadman anda Con ederate force under Wheeler at Gangsville, I> niles from Chattanooga, in which Steadman wa- wverely wounded. The Federal loss is not stated \ Confederate force is reported at Cleaveland Cennessee. A Federal brigade bas lett Chatta woga tor that place

The Contederate cavalry has divided into smal parties, which are demonstrating in the towns o Northern Georgia and Tennessee.

The Federal Pickets have been fired upon at various pointe between Chattanooga and ridge port. A eavalry force has lett Chattanooga

The Tribune's Baltimore despateh of the Teth states that it was reported at Harper's Ferry

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on the same platfurm as Lee, the writer says: -~** [ will at once ayow my own conviction, which is shared by every one worth listening to in Secessia, that not one of Grant's prede- cessors in Virginia bas shewn one tithe of the tenacity, energy, celerity, and resolution which tie recent campaign has set down to Grant's credit. McClellan, Hooker, Pope, or Burnside would have gone back after the battle of the Wilderness, and would never have got such an effort as was made at Spotts- ylvania Court-house out of a beaten army. But, alter giving Grant due credit for vigour in handling his men, and keeping them com- pactly together, (which is the greatest dif- ficulty a Federal General encoanters,) I am unable to see that his conception of the cam- paign was able, though it mast be confessed that the strange incompetency of Butler made half of Grant’s plan a fiasco before it was commenced. Certain it is that if in the first instance he had leaded 200,000 men on the York River or James River, and had pot sucrificed the bone and sinew of his army in fighting his way to the White House, which he wight have reached by water without los ing a man, his position now would be very different. Weeks and weeks will probably pass without amending his prospect before Petersburg. In the which will distract him terribly, will be pretty sure to change the aspeet of civil and military affairs in the North before September has passed. Grant is one of those sledge- hammers of war of the same stamp as Suwar- row, whose spirits rise with danger, and whose courage borders on brutality. Lee is his equal in celerity and endurance, his superior in foresight, prudence, and sa- gacity.’’

The manner in which the war is conducted by the North is referred to in the lollowing terms :—** Thee are many passages of war- like history which reveal such excesses of systematic and callous brutality towards non-combatants as have drawn down apon them the common exeeration of mankind Che merciless ferocity of Tilly in the Palatin ate, the dragonnades of Louis XIV., the con- duet of war by Cromweil in treland, of the Duke of Cumberland after the battle of Cul- loden, are among the instances which oceut to everybody. ‘The military student will perhaps recall & more modern instance in the retreat of the baffled Massena from before the lines of Torres Vedras, and wi)) remem- ber the ruthlessness towards peasants, vil- lages and convents, which wrung from Wel lington the remark that * it has seldom been equalled and never surpassed.” I do not believe, however—and I say :t advisedly— that any ol these infamous passages, in re- gard to which lapse of time serves but to in- crease the asperity of our indignation, sur- passes in atrocity the system of Federal warfare in the Southern States, and notibly in Virginia. In burning words of eloquent censure Mr. Motley has held up to our loath- ing the horrible cruelty of Alva and the bigoted tyranny of his master. Yet Mr. Motley is the complacent and contented ser vant of a Republic, which, in the name ol liberty, encourages enormities as repugnant to the eciviliged warfare of the nineteenth centary as were Phillip I1.’s outrages, in the name of religion, to the moral sense of the sixteenth. I do not mean that throats are eat indiscriminately as they were by Alva, ilthough many a dark tale of cupidity and issussination bas issued from the turests and byways of Virginia. 1 could, were it not as distasteful to me to write as to your read- ers to learn such gloomy borrors, aecumu- late evidence substantiating the occurrence of many such murders of civilians in cold blood beyond refutation, nor, again, do I as vert that women are stript and foreed to run

Time Amount | that the Gth corps was attacked last night. The of digestion of nutrinent.| rebels are said to be destroying the railroad nea: Apples, raw, Dh. 50m W per cent | Winehester. On the retreat of our army, orders Beaus, boiled, 2h. SU wm. Fy..." were issued to destrey all bay and live stock Beet, roasted, 3h 3 wn = e which was dene. ‘Ths neels confirmation. Bread, baked, 3h. 30m en The Herald's Harper's Ferry despatch of the Butter, 3h. 30 wu 3 sH 9th states that our army is, se disposed as te | Cabbage, boiled, 4h. 30m ae cover all the fords of the upper Potomac, als: | Cucumbers, raw, = ——— me Snicker’s, Ashby’s and Manassas Gaps. Fish, builed, 2h. UO m. » The Philadeiphia Age says:—* Pte recent Fe-| Milk, tresh, 2b. 15 m. a leral move te the bank of the James river has | Muttou, roasted, 3h 15m — wccomplished but little On Sunday night, Un Pork, coasted, Sh. 15 m. mei ot" Contederates were largely reinforced, and Poultry, reasted, 2b 40 wu. <i 1 Birney’e position upon the-advanced ground where Potatoes, builed, 2 h. 30 mw. | ite he fougnt the battle, became precarmus. The Rice, boiled, 1h. Om ee Confederates made an advance, aud it was with Sugar, 3h. 30m 9 . difficulty that Burney could rescue his wounded ‘Turnips, beiled, 2b. sum ae ir During Sunday night he withdrew to his present Veal, roasted, 4b. Um eS 2 position, northeast of Foster's earthwork. If av Venisua, boiled, 1b Sum —:* advance on Richmond was intended by Grant 1

this movement, it bas failed. In front of Peters burg the Federal seuthern flank has been drawn in so mueh that it is extremely duubttul if Grau: new has a cannon Within range of the town.

Tie Valley of the Shenaudeal has been com pletely stripped of its wheat crop, aud as cattle,

According to the above tables, cacumber= are of very little value, wad apples, cabbages, turnips, and even potatues, af present prices are eXpensive eating. Some vegetables and fruite should, however, enter into the tamily

races in the presence of a licentious suldiery asin the days of the Brutal Duke of Cum- berland. But 1 do mean to assert—and | challange contradiction to this statement— that outrages such as my pen must seek a pe- riphras to describe, and of which white #o- taen are the objects, have repeatedly occurred; that in a special degree the country called the northern neck of Virginia (/ying between the Potomae and Rappahannock rivers) bas witnessed them again and again; that the African gavage, stimulated by these white agents who give effect to Mr. Semner’s and Mr. Beecher Stowe's theortes, is the perpe- trator of them, that [ am in a position to mention bot less than ten

| during the last three months, have eccurred

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meantime diversions

horrors which, |

| Tus Licwan Piours —The proportions of| In asking whether, after a review of the tiring exertions were made by the ae the human figure are strictly mathematical. | late campaign, it is reasonable to place Grant ‘several cities to secure hig apprehension. Mc-

Liroy was recently arrested in Montreal, through the ingeouity of @ certain detective ‘in gaining the confidence of u female styling herself ‘* Madame Rochelie,’’ and with whom Meliroy domesticated. ;

The purpose of this notice is to disclose the eading points of a sketch of the career of Mellroy, which has been put in our posses- gion from a reliable souree, and its trathfal- ners is beyond doubt. Capt. Mcllroy, so styled, has figured with innumerable aliases in different sections of the United States und Canada, as the purpose of his erratic life required, and his career has been marked with tne blackest crimes encompassed in hu- wan wickedness, embracing murdeis, robber- ies and seductions. [he true name of the villain is Weatherby, and he originally came from a small town in the State of Pennsyl- vania, first commencing to do for himselt as a professional gambler. This business “he followed for several years upon the Western rivers. At Louisville, Ky., he married a widow lady of fortune, a Mrs. Black, whom he was shortly alterwords compelied to de- sert in consequence of a gambling affray in whieh he killed a young man and wounded the father of his victim with a pistol shot. ie was arrested for this offence but escaped from durance, aod compelled a blacksmith to file off bis irons while holding a pistol to his head. Since the commencement of the war this accomplished rascal has operated extensively as a * bounty jamper.’? He was once taken to the seat of war, and in effect- ing his escape he killed an officer ard serious- ly wounded a sentinel. His catalogue oi robberies and promiscuous crimes is innumer- able. Sines his sojourn in Canada his com panion ha» been the female above alluded to, who is stili practising her arts in Montreal, Previous to the arrival of this personage in Canada she bad paid the penalty for shop- lifting in one of the cities of New York State. “Capt Mellroy’’ a few months since gained the confidence of a religious society in Tor nto, and was much esteemed for his fervent piety, and particularly for his temperate views ol the American war, which had entailed deso- lation upon himself and high-bred family. but to such dispensation he bowed in humble submission to the will of the Almighty.

These facts, although not intended to reach the pubiic, proceed in a confidential channel from an associate and friend of the notorious villain, and in such a manuer that we are in- clined to fully eredit the trathfalness of the statements. The authorities of Hamilton have no doubt secured one of the deepest-dyed ind most reckless criminals lately at large and it is to be hoped that justice will now be meted him for at least the crimes committed iu this Province.— British American.

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Leases For 999 Years.—We copy the fol lowing from a jate Knglish paper, showing that property leased in 868 for 999 years will expire in 1807 and revert to the original mwners with aa increased rental of nearly double :—

‘* The Farm or Manorof the Prebend of Fins bury, which originally consisted of five fieids, and the site of which is now occupied by Fusbury-square, part of the City-road, Bun- hiifiela’s Burial Ground, and surrounding neighbourbood, was leased for 999 years, a p. 868, by the Dean and canons of Sr. Paul's to the Corporation of the City of London, and the term of the lease will, consequently, expire in the year L867, when the property willrevert to the Keclesiastical Commissioners Che jand was originally worth but little, ite value, however, within the last (ew hundred years, has greatly increased, along with the | progress of the metropolis, by being let on building leases, and nuw produces about 42,- 1O00/. per anoam , but when the leases exp re and the property comes into the hands of the Ecelesiastical Commissioners, and it is let at higher retails, wod it is estimated to prodace trom 75 000/, to 80,0002 per annum, and a still larger amount, ot Bunhili-fieid’s Buria! Ground; as contemplated, is let on the build- ing leases. Lt is decided to erreet a spacious

dence-row, by taking a considerable slice from the gardens in the rear of the houses of finsbury-square. It is to be hoped that the upper portions of these houses or shops will he especially designed for the poorer and |working classes. la this way the chureh | property as originally designed would ad- minister to the physical as well as the spi- No better site

jritual wants of the poor.

row of houses on the south side of the Provi-|

‘he believed that he had passed the portals of death land bad entered into another but net a better world. He stood in a sulphur caveru where the air was pure, the ascending vapors being condeus- ed at the top of the crater. Giving @ preconcert- ed signal tu the guides, he was rapidly drawn to the surface. He had made a great discovery, and instantly pereeived that it might be made @ source of incalculable wealth The sulphur mine thus singularly found, speedily restored his for- tunes, and he became one of the richest wer-

chants in Mexico. - —0oem -

The Dublin Evening Mail thus refers to the manner in which the toast of the “ Press” is given at public dinners :—" The toasting of the Press according to the present mode is an insult, and the leading men of the Press ought not to respond to it. But in our opinion it would be better and more consistent with the true dignity of the Press, if its representatives never did respond to any toast supposed to be a merely formal compliment to the great national institution of whieh they are the workers. ‘The ancient aud better custom was to propose and driuk the toast of the. Press as an expression of the public confidence in the constitutional freedom it represents, just as the sewiment of public confidence in constitutional monarchy wasexpressed by the toast of the Queen. Every one should feel a loyal interest in both in- stitutions ; bo one was supposed te be called upon to acknowledge a special and peculiar gratitude for compliments paid to either. To drink to the Queen or the Press, is, when rightly understood, wut another form of drinking to our Noble Selves The settlement of this question of convivial pre- cedence is, however, a sinall part of what unight be dewe to support the self-respect of the press, if ‘ihe leading men would put away their internal jealousies,’ and serve the public and themselves ina spirit of enlightened selfishness, which is the opposite of a huxtering competition, Under the operation of the latter influence there is a great risk of the public being taught to forget that vewspapers cannot exist in usefulness without a sufficiney of legitimate profit to maiutain their ip- dependence. Every day brings demands upon the funds of the daily press for the gratification of the vanity, the satisfaction ef the fancies, the promotion of the interests, nay, the filling of the pockets, of persons whe are taught by the foolish rivalry of journalists to think that they confer a compliment by their gratuitous favors. Scarecely a newspaper appears without a string of an- nouncements of events in fashionable lite, inter- esting to ne one but the actors in them : of intend. ed feats of grand and lofty tumbling of protessiona! artists or amateurs; of bidding for entrance inte lite by real young wen, or efforts to delay thei exit from it by ci-decant jeunes hommes ; of private mercantile reports of railway and other such en- terprises, with a host of miscellaneous appeals to the public notice, all of which should be paid for as advertisements ; and, in tact, would be so dealt with if the press respected itself.”’

~ COLONIAL.

The following extract we clip from the To- ronto Globe :—

‘+ Meetings of the Cabinet are held daily. and I hear that much business is being dis- posed of, All the members of the Govern- ment are present except Mr. McGee, who has gone to New Brunswick and Nova Seotia

has gone to New York on public business. It is rumoured that despatches have been re- ceived from all three of the Maratime Pro- vinces, expressing the gratificatien which it will afford them to meet unofficially a depu- tation trom the Canadian Goyernment for the purpose of discussing the question of a federation of the Briish American Provinces. [tis also rumoured that the whole question has engaged the serious attention of the Ca- nadian Cabinet since it assembled last week with more satis factory resalts, and that Mr Cartier, Mr Brown, Mr. Jolin A. Macdonald and Mr. Galt have been deputed to represent Canada at the approaching conference at Charlottetown.’’ ———_--—s0e —- Coat TRape or Picrou.-——Pictou is nnques- iiouably the seeond commercial town in. this pre-eitoinently maritime Province. A vast impe- tis is being given to the business relations of the good town of Picton, The subjoined statistics of shipping arriving abt and clearmg trom that thriving port, together with the assumed quantity of coals shipped, prove couchusively that there | bas been no diminution of enterprise and activity lin the works of the General Mining Association | In view of the increased and ever increasing im- portance of the coal fields of Pictou, and the de- velopement ef the trade of the Gulf of St. Law- rence, it is not surprising that so much anxiety has been manifested to counect these prolitic sources of wealth with the metropolis of Nova i eotia. That Picton will be the gainer, inunes- surably, by the construction of the read in ques

as that enterprising town 1s daring five or six

in the county of Westmorland alone, and leould be seleeted for the purpose, inasmuch | months of the year by icy barriers, the coustruc-

which are unsurpassed in atrocity by the

with the exeursionists, and Mr. Galt, who

‘sir, | tion dees net admit of a doubt. Shat up by sea |

lasitas only ten minutes’ walk from the Bank tion of the railway connecting with Halitax Har-

consumption, ev a if purchas 1 for sanitary reasons. Among those whiel contain the most sacharine matter, sweet potatoes, purs- nips, beets and carruts, ure the must nourish ing.—Roast pork, besides being an eapensiv: dish, requires tov lengthy a drain upon the furees ot the stomach to de a healthy article of diet. ——--—_-<

Paeankine Paanks.— Lhe Treasury warrant

of tuat day (early part of last century)

franked the strangest comme lities—articles which certainly cocld nut be dropped inte any letter-box. and which would neither be

stamped nor surted in the orth. dox way. The

following list of a few franked commodities is culled from a still larger nu inber of such in

the packet ‘agent's svvk,”” [vund awongst the old records t» which reference has already been made :-—

“ Imprimis. Fifteen couple of hounds, going te the King of the Romans with a fre pass

“Item. Two waid servanis, goiog as laundresse to my Lord Awbassador Methuen.

* Kem. Dr. Crichton, carrying with him a cor aud divers necessaries.

“ tem. Two bales of stockings, for the ase of

sheep and hogs have disappeared long ago, it is now wore difficult to advauce through it with an army than ever before. As it is mnpossible to glean any subsistance from the country, the sup- ply question has already become a great vex- ation.

ln Kentacky the gnerillas are very active. There are reports of various contests with them at different points in the Western Sectiou of the State. Nothing more has been sent us about Lhe raid into [lineis. The invading party has wost probably withdrawn to the South bauk of the Ohio with his plunder.

Phe Times’ Washington despatch says the re- cent simullaneeus encoucters with the rebels on beth banks of the James river, and also in the Valley, prove that Lee has in Virginia a larger teree than had been supposed, and the reports oi bis having sent detachments to Georgia are not believed. Lee's total force estimated by our seeret service at 70,000

deval soldiers in bospital near Washington.

enrolled. and a live of block houses erected around the city. Provisions of any kind are very

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There are ten thousand sick and wounded Fe-!| teers.

Martial law is being enterced in Denver City,) administrative Battalion of Lancashire Volun- | ings of the rivers, flanked by the majestic aud all places ef business have been closed, in} teers is dissolved, and that the services of the | "e's of the mountains. consequence of the Indian troubles in Colorado. | |jegtenant colonel, the major, the surgeon. | Ali able bodied males over 16 years old have been! 144 officers, have been dispensed with.

the Aubassader to the CroWa o! Portugal.

* Item. A deal case, with four fitches of bacon, fur Mr. Pennington of Retterdan:”

Whilst referring to the subject of letter- franking we may as well notiwe here, that befoze the control of the packet-service pass- ed out of the bandsof thePust-Office authori- ties, and when the right of {ranking letter became the subject of legislative enactments, we hear no wore of this curious consignment of goods. The franking system was henceforth confined to passing free through the pust any letter which should be endursed on the cover with the signature of a member of either House cf parliament. —* Her Majesty's Mails."’

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Brigham Young says the devil is much of a yentieman in comparison with those who eerve him. In one of hie late sermons Brig- bum relates the tollowing :-—* A gentlewan suid to me, * L would like to establish a bil- liard table and drinking saloon in your city —you must have such places bere vy and by, ane how.’ May be we will and may be we will not; weshali see whether God Almighty will reign among his people, or whether the dewil will, IT shall keep sech Christian tn stitutivus out uf this city as long as | can.”

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The Mexican ladies amony other oddities, or what seem oddities tu unaccustomed eyes, have a way of sipping chvcviate during divin service. [he pious personaze who bas come | all the way from Austria to play Eu peror in the halls of Montezuma is said to be greatly scaudalized wt that proceeding.

eidlipdlcicalieatiiiks aie

Coniosities -——There wa jarmer in Putnam County, N Y¥.. who has a wile and a hal of childere. His name is Furlong, and be bas exghtboye and twogiris. Eight furlongs one mile-—N. Y. Leader.

There is a gentleman in St. Louis, Mo.. who bas two bushels and a half of childern | bw aame ws Peek, and he has ten bo } girls. Four peeks one bus.el.—Sz. Demecrat.

igh aud rapidty rising, and unless communication with the States is speedly resumed, there will be | mueh sufferiog, if vot actual starvation The In-

dians have murdered several families and burned

a number of bouses ou Cherry Creek—25 miles} from the city. ‘The settlers are fleeing to the city for protection.

st. Louts, Mo. Ang. 19 —Informatien from Fort Riley, Gen. Blunt's headquarters, says three | ranches rear Little Blue River have been burned | by the Ludiaus, stock run off, and inhabitants | killed.

The Indians left behind them nething but the bones of the murdered victius, The citizens of Washington, Republic and Clay counties have been armed by Gen, Blaut.

Between 60 and 70 bodies of white men were wen becween Milesburg aud Littl Blues.

No ranches are lett standing between Biss Sandy and Little Blue. The insabitants between Forts Kearny and Denver have fled.

Four trains were captured by the Indians on the Little Blue, and all the stock, 450 head of cattle, aud a large number of mules, driven off.

The lodians are well mounted, and uvst of | them are armed with long-range guns.

Gen. Blunt is doing every thing possible with the small feree under his command.

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY The special correspondent of the Times) vends home a very interesting letter from) Richmond, Commencing with the aspect of the city itself, be says:—* If a man were, funded bere from a balloon after six months’ absence—il he were taken along Grace or Fran.lin stre ts im this city on a summer) evenmyg, and tuld that two enormous aruies | are lying a few miles off and disputing its, possession, he would deem hig inlurmant a | lunatic inevery porch he would sve a group | of gaily attired ladies (1 do not believe that) twenty rigorous years of biockade would | pale the lustre of ladies’ toilet in an Ameri-| ean town); be would bear many a light luogh, mauy # gong issuing from open case-|

J* 40d) Gon without being reminded that war is)

Louis furiously raging, otherwise than by the sug: | m ; gestive boom of the faintly heard cannon ‘| Puere i# @ lady in Boston who was hus and, finally, when the couversattma turned bend to hee busbund befor hey were mar-! into its well-worn groove, he would find that

ried, and who has given bins three husbands! Richmond trasta and believes in St. Lee as| stances connected with the arrest of James

#inee mariage. ler nawe was Hushand,| much as Meca in Mahomet, or Spain in bay was unchaoged in warriage.— Boston dames of Composteiia.”’ He then goes on to ost |S ew why such ¢ snfidence ts repo-ed in Gene- There ia atady ia West Liberty O., who "#! Lee, and im glancing at the position of | has favored her busband with tharty wx dy-| the armies says, that to * talk of Kichmond! sen of childrer ae theese births. Uer namo. being besieged because Grant’sarmy environs | was Cirom, and her childera are Gross re. Petersburg. twenty-two miles away, is about} ceipte— Driaaa Union. | 48 reasonable as to pretend that London waa! A Uitises of Bu pre _ o@ short rations when Napoleon's ) wile witaa ae ea mote We sat 4. tel has Leeuw the father

tag ence Of course his uame is

town, even when it is closely i Buffalo Cow ier. n it is closely invested by

land and by water. We all koow the his.) Shduk bs o arnn tothe eis boreal sieges which Londonderry, Saragossa, |

over a yard lucy | : y and Genou, and a hundred other cities b wile and two enile tis © mpoved of himself, cities have

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' stood ; there is as much analogy bet . ae a oe is vote, | present condition of Richmond eames wake « yard.—| memorable of bistery as between |

Harifora Post. : * il ii ‘ the lazy Seheld: aud the rapids of Niagara.""|

wents; he might pass an hour in conversa- cessity of duing the same, in consequence of

Canada— particularly the robbery ot the Ex-

wost loathsome records cf modern or ancient | of England. wurfure.”’ 7

=e — tle teste —ge Tue Drsoration oF War.—A_ correspon- VOLUNTEER KESIGNATIONS. | dent ot the Nashville Union, who tas explored the

é } region passed over by Sherman's aruy, says:— The following, which we copy from an |. Frow Chattanooga to Marietta there is present- English paper, will, we have no doubt, De | od to the eye one vast sheet of misery. The fu interesting to our Vuluutecr forces in this) gitives frow ruined villages or deserted fields Province :— seek shelter in the mountains. Cities sacked, Every Gazetie published within the last | towns burnt, population decimated, are 86 many month or six weeks has been occupied with evidences of the feariul guilt that rests upon the the acceptance of resignations of vast Dum | Chiefs of this most wicked and causeless rebellion bers of volunteer officers, and when officers |All along the roads are great wheat fields in

; ; | : sickle wi or: er hcie resign, the men quit the service in a very oe no sickle will enter; crops sufficient to

bour will be equivalent te a commercial emanei- pation, which the Pictonians will not be slow in iurming to good account. ‘The Standard says :— Diy Up to the present date, a large increase in the jnumber of vessels and amount of tonnage arriving at this pert over previous years, 1s apparent to all observers. Li the latter part of June of the pre- sent year, our harbour presented a most magni- ficent appearanee, studded, as it was, with haud- | Some crails of every size, displaying an amount jot bunting not offep seen at any one time on these |}waters The first arrival in 1563 was on the 26th of April; and from that period to the 15th of August of the same year, there were entered

d all New England are to be lost for want of | at the ettive of the General Mining Association

much larger proportion. Only so recently as |i rary, The ownera have been driven into | #29 vessels, all of which, of course, made appli-

. , . . > : i . E iw * ar a i in the Gazette of Friday 1s an announcement | 1). rebel army by a merciless conscription; and | Cation fer, and received, a cargo of coal,

to accept the resignation of oo» of the oldest | euuugh of this eountry to get a most vivid and captains of a metropolitan volunteer Corps, | painful impression of the horrors of war. * This and ander the bead of the ** Lancashire Volun- | is a beautiful country,’ exclaimed a friend, as bis 2’ [In the same Gazette, there is a cyes for the first time looked upon the gentle un announemg that the lst | dulations ot the valleys, terminating in the at ar- | The entire country, in| almost every rood of it, isa battle field, trodden in | over by both armies. [bh every town the more | ni} st5s : | public buildings and the more conspicuous resi- | the metropulitan corps, more especially. the | geveos have been devoured by fire or riddled with |

that her Majesty has been graciously pleased | the blacks have been sent further South. I saw

‘* Memoranda,”’

| number of resignations of effectives have been | snot and shell, used as headquarters, or for| coaled at the Loading Ground.

very great, whilst the new evrulments 8re | rebel commissary stores; or occupied by prowi- | comparatively insignificant. The question, nent rebels, such buildings bave been singled out therefore, arises—W hat are the circumstan- | fordestruction. In some instances churches have ces which have led to such a result? In the | net escaped. They have been stripped for fire- first place, the course adopted by certain | Weed or converted inte barracks and hospitals commanding officers, and the dictation ag- | {4 the towus one is etruck with the abseuce of Jeti by the Gvernment adjutants, have | young, nen and men in middle life. Fences are ch to do with the falling f in the effec. | demolished, and here aud there a lordly mansion es : bee . stands an unsightly ruin.” tive strength in our volunteer regiments. | ieee decile How ean it be expected that men of indepen-| ELopewenr.—A wan named John Mutters dent spirit or manly feeling will subunit to be | was charged at the Castle of Exeter, on Mondiy, treated like mere militia, when fourteen! with stealing 1 silver spoons, twe pairs ot sugar days’ notice and the payment of their liabi- | tongs, a bex and a silver wateh, the property lities to the corps to which they may happen | of the Rev. J. Fluewellin, of Mount Radtord, and to belong, will relieve them from coercion or on = cdogiens with his wite. The case has indignity? Moreover, example on the part ly reated great excitement in the district, and a

large concourse of people assembled to hear the of commandants themselves have much to do | .yamination of aeiailies Mr. ciained appeared with the matter. Ye

: é | tor the proseeation, aud Mr. Taby for the prison-

A vigilant, efficient, and considerate com- jer, It appears that Mrs. Fluewellin was induced wander can keep both officers and men toge-\to leave her husband on Thursday morning. ther, whilst one who treats his officers in a | When she was missed a vigorous search was com- supercilious manner, scarcely ever attending | meuced, and a report being circulated that the to his own duties, but leaving the command juntaithiul weman had been seen with Mutters.

of his corps to his adjutani (although he | the police were at once communicated with. Con-

lie . iatels Whaciovin abe Ratu cidey sh ranks as a junior to all the other captains), a sur aaitmiok Sa ee he ae to and who looks upon the men as mere bees Lae ee ns ath, ined \iadiliiinnh, dates aaa ii “| and there found the prisoner and sfrs. Flueweliis. chines, " BAT TeOMS: ONY ms) a a or Ct | Phey were in a bedroom, aud were taking re- price, and without any minds OF their OWN, | treshinents. He there charged Mutters with the can scarcely expect be find bis regiment in offence stated above, and the reply was, “1 have any other than a failing and disorganized | not stolen anything; but what [took was with condition. But however largely these cir- [the consent of ter,” meating Mrs. Plaewellia, cumstances may have contributed to a dimi- who said, “ Yes, I ordered him to get a fly and nution of the volunteer ranks, there are |take my bex away. 1 had a quarrel with my others of a sucial character which have, in all | husband the night before, and resolved I would probability, ae much, if not more, to do | iy) aa with lim any longer. Z itness left the with the resignations referred to than any ee ee ee Mrs. Fluewellin opened a box, which contained vther. It cannot but be a cause for deep re- ||) ee Cprmiginnepe mn jail the plate above mentioned. A watch was | gret to all who have taken any interest IM | aiterwards found on the prisoner, which the pro-| the volunteer rauvement to know that there | secutor identitied as his property. The frail wife | are very large numbers of patriotic men | was very reluctant to part with her new cou- among the working classes who have already | panion, who was taken iuto custody, The case been compelled to quit the service, and that | was remanded iu consequence of witnesses being hosts of others are beginning to feel the ne- | required from Bath, Bail was applied for by the | prisoner's solicitor and refused.—London Times. |