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evreme i happy and hopefal

fied away inte @ loud shout of anger

a

liilloa! ve bourd there Whe did. Belton, whose hopes of seeing her husband! the shortest trip from the States to Kngland entrenchwents about it. Many succeeded,

ti again in life were, to all appearance, dashed | on record up to that time. in nine days and but wany alsu were killed and wounded. Look alive there! Who loosed that to the ground when on the eve of being re- four hours The Scotia beat thie trip last About ten o'oluck the enemy wade another e4 ied the captain alised , while to poor Captain Harrison the year from New York to the Merey, in De- charge, when a great ewarm of men, eati- ind. as we glanced upwards, we aaw, to qfsir was simply ruin. The sight of his comber, in nine days, two hours and three | muted by some at a thousand, mostly blacks, or s#toniebment, that the maintopeni| of the Pele S8gry face haunts me still, as he was quarters, stopping vne hour at Queenstown. i broke out of the fort and attem to escape schouner wae loose, and heavily Aapping to [ed @wey to be placed in ions, like the rest It appeare that nearly all the Seotia's trips to our lines. Hundreds them sever

. of the crew and officers. Lowever, the ca- last year, east and west, were made ig less! reached it.

nod fro in the freshening breete, like 7: t needed but a glimpaco of Harrison's look of wrathtul dimany, ae he eprang on bvard hia orders—ordera thet instantly

brond ating of ome wounded ses bird

aad gave

Suidenly the captarn sprang to hoe feet, with a Geree oath

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Warren and Lafayecte. Nor was it pleasant to wes the despair of my clmrge, poor Mre |

price or merey of the Federal autborities procured the release of Mra. Bulton, as well as of several of the other ladies, after a short detention; and, though I was oot myself

ent three or four seamen scrambling up the | PeTmitted to accompany my charge within

rigwing to redgoe the sail-~to assure us that the confederate lines, 1 was glad to heur that | hie Ina very short time the| She and ber children had arrived safely at/have great advantages in speed. | , t to! Charleston, and still more glad to hear that | strides have been made in the navigation of

miechrel wae afoot fluttering canvass wae closely reeled, bu discover the off nder who

had east the sail; Captain Bolton's recovery was considered loose was leas easy. no yain did the captain| Probable. And thas eoded what was my | nearly all the companies in operation are

sternly interrogate such of the crew as had) Sret, and will most assuredly be my lust

been on deck

nothing of the matter

All dec ared thet they knew

heen doging under the bulwurks eft, did, in- : he had opened his eyes a few been sadly realized in an occurrence near minutes before, and had, while in @ state of | Cleveland, Ohio, which the Herald of that heeween sleeping and waking, seen some one] City records as follows :—

deed, amy that

jump out of the standing rigging, and slip “A wan named Andrew Schoger lives near down the fore hatchway And it was his! the Buckeye House on the Kinaman street road, belief thag this person was no uther thaa the | leading to Warrensville, better known as Dolph

udre"e boy, Indian Blaise. } 2

But Blaise was found fast asleep jin his lair| and he did not seom fo understand | jaying four child what was daid to him when he wna asked in

to

ow,

French, whether he bad been aloft lately

ile shook his bead in dissent, however, and indeed no one had ever seen the Indian ascend the rigging. ot beleved him capable of get-|

ting bigh enough to losen the sail, even 1 there bad been any comprelens:dle reasor for such an wcton bie part. Th» most na sural conjecture was that the sail had beer

curelessiy secured, and tne captain's only hope was that the tell tale canvase had not shurp-sighted And a@ boyr passed alter hour, and nu columa ot jarkening viviet sky. giving token of the unwelcome

attrected the eyes of any look-out man on beard a Federal ship. smoke rose Diack against the approach of an enemy, we breathed more ireely again, and ali lovked forward t& break/asting in Charleston itself.

change of weather, but still the sea was calm We were all abourd again, supper was over and the lights were extinguished,

arrive. tiny bed in my little cabin, when | heard a voice say, in & husky smothered tone— , N ua yet : Japh : leaning over the side, torward. shadow.’

And then followed a gentie splashing ot the water, and uw faint tapping aainst the planking as if some boat ur canoe were be- ing guided along the schooner's aide by the

kK ep in the

jent torce of a paddle or oar and a human |

nand chat grasped the woodwork o! the ves- el's side und drew the boat forward. OU: this I should bave thought littl — nothing was more likely than that # boat should have been lowered for seme purpose connected with our getting elear of the sand-hanks and sunken rocks that were namerous in our im- mediate prozimity—but -he words were sus- picious, and the voice was wonderfully like that uf the good old priest, M. Duchuehvis. For a moment | hesitated as to whether I should seek the Captain or one of the mates. i bad been droway and only half «wake, and the very notion that the cure had been the awner of the voice was a manifest absurdity that made we consider the whole affair un- worthy of w second thought. | listened, but 1 could bear nothing, and soon sank into a peal slucaber.

I was awakened by the quick tramp of feet overhead, the word of command, the rattling down of cos of rope upon the deck, the quick wash of the surging water along the echooner’s sides. Evidently sail had been made or the Saucy Jane, and we were head- ing for Charlestun harbour. | got up,threw on my upper garments, and went on deck, where I tound two or three of the male pas- sengers, They were talking together near the stern with excited gestures, but in cau- tious tones. As | drew near, | caught the words --the boat,"’ and at once asked if any- thing had gone wrong.

* Yes, Mr. Phillips, the dingy’s miss ng,

anid one of the Southerners, a tall Georgian, who bore the title of major; ‘it was the only boat towing astern, as you may have noticed, all the others being on board. Just before sailing it was found to have diwap- peared, though in what wanoer———'’

‘Captain Harrison suspects,” interrupted another ; but he was interrupted in his curn hy the captain, who came quickly up, and said in a voice that shook with eu ppressed anger

* There's treachery afoot, gentlemen. The plags have been removed frum the bottom ol every boat, and not an oar but has been sawn throug! just above the blade. Some rasecally traitor must

* Sail ho '’ sung out a sailor from the mast head. * A large ship on the weather bow.

‘Sail ho! a steamer to leeward '’ called out the look-out wan in the bows.

The captsin started, sprang into the rigg- ing, and tock @ hasty survey of the probable enemy Ae he did so, the red flash of a cannon-shot lit the darkness of the night, and the bellowing report tulluwed sullenly ove. the waters.

* Dows helm, you! pat her about ' smart-

ly, now, my lads ** shouted thecaptain . but unother flash succeeded, and down came the sohvuoner’s toamboom, maimesil and all,

thundering upon the deek, knocking down upd Sraiseng several of the crew, while a third shot crashed into the deck, and made the white eplinters fy. Escape was impos- sible in our crippled condition. We backed the topanils, and in ten minutes more a large dark steamer bad ranged alongside. We were immediately boarded by a powerful foree of armed seamen and marines, and de- clured & lawful prize to the U.S. steam-sluop Sus puchannah,

By the light of the battle lanterne we were” to Liverpool. sixty-seven ; passengers, 5.587 ;

at! paraded on deck as prisoners, when what wis our amMazemen! at recognising in the lieutenant who commanded the bourders no joss a pereonage than the ayre of St. Guspard, the Rev. M. Duechoehois. Yes, there could he no mistake abogt it. The shove|-hat and shabby soutane and born spectacles lac been

replaced by navy blue cloth, a gold laced eap and a belt, in which a revolver balasced the cutlass that hung on the left side, but the crafts black eyes were those of oar lute pro- gne; passengers, 15.092.

tege, though the expression was wholly ghanged.

* Yes, gentlemen and ladies, your hamble| servant,’ said the epy, with @ eneet of ma-| * old Papa Duchochoi*, very much at) sengers, 291; inward voyages, vclever ; pas- your service in his new capacity of lieuten- | sengers, 2,560 wat in Unele Sam's navy, you rebel green-

lie 5

horns.’’

Aud, indeed, the villain, for the part he| in the cecusions!l trade, belonging to ten had played in practising on our compassion! English firme, who probably might have em- ua, of the! performances there is nv account. Ausquehanneh, while grinning at |ie princi-|

was to enable him the better to betra was Lieutenant Aminadab Hiteh,

pals ede with the eo

the ci-devagt indian boy, Blaise, alias Ja-

peth Banch, « Yankee corporal of marines. We heard afterwards that the heutenant,! iullows :~ who was famous for his power of personating | au seesumed natyre, had visited Nusewu for! (Canard Line..... the express purpose of securing the prize money of so valuable a egpture us the Saucy | [t was his ao- complice, the pretended Indian lad. who had} Anchor Line....... steaithily asceade! the rigging and looss-ned | the ssil to grye notice to the look-out men |

Jase wo his own war eeese/.

vt the sloop, af the whereabouts of the block ede runner:

een & preconcerted signal from ship, aud bud been picked up dy °o the fi vata Bus , we suult ar taken by Awarting us un the other tack. { do not wish to misery that ensued when husbands were torn from the fod fathers separated from their ¢

ust have Deen inigilig)

waldegn,

One asilor, whe had}

The sun| their parents’ house near Cleveland. ‘Every went dows sinking into a bank of grey| preparation was made that reepect and sy m- clouds, and there were signs of a probable

aud the| the Lutheran ceremuny."’ passengers in their berthes, somewhat eurher than usual, The deck waa left to the wateh, wod as the schooner's bell told off the hours) jother completely overmastered her, and it seem- we knew that the time for eailing would soon) ed as if reason had been destroyed, while the | was lying, half dressed, on the

i see one of the Britizhers

-oloured pigment,| able ditterence in the intercourse between hut bali washed frow hw cunning face, was! America and Kurope, the preponderance ot

After this, the two worthics had stolen the diogey, first dwabling the other boats frum pursuit. eng pulled out to ea, where, ge they had expasted. they had their own hep before wd the echagnel through which yt the sh ppur’s in-

ed we even eluded the

© Portland, whiak wae dwell on the scanes of

eto on board the schooner Ano* ir wives,

,| experience of blockade running.

| The Ballad of tha © Old Oak Chest * has

| Edward's Tavern. About four o'clock on Wed. | nesday afternoon Mr. Scheger and wife went into the field with the oldest boy to get a load of hay ren—Mary, aged 7 yeara, Charles ten years, Jobn four years, and Catherine one -| year old at howe. The parents told the children to ge inte the corn bouse and shell some cern tor the chickens. Returning from the field, the children could not be tuund. Search was made, ;| the neighbors rallying to the aasistance of the dis- | tressed fa” ily, and the search of the premises, in- cluding the cern house and the weeds, waa con- tinued through the night, but witheut sueceas Chis morning (Thursday,) the corn house was | aguin searched, and on opening an old German {chest standing there, the children were found smothered to death, and their tacew turned black from suffucation. The children, at play, had got into the chest, and bad either themselves slut down the lid, or the lid fell down, aud a epring lock shut them in a living tomb.”

‘| A later account saya that the burial of »} the four children took place on Friday, from

’

| pathy could suggest, and the four were laid | side by side in the same grave, the burial | services being in German sud according to

” When the four coffins were placed in the quadrupel grave the intense agony ot the afflicted

' teuching seevue drew tears from the whole asseum-

' bl or x. It is a singular fact that itis only occasionally the luck of that fatal chest will catch of itself The seyhbours who have been to the premises to | see the spot where the singular tragedy occurred have raised the lid of the chest and innumerable | times let it fall, sometimes throwing it down with | force and other times silowing it to fall with its | flown weight merely, and not one time in twenty jdid the lock catch. When thr poor innocent childven sought the cheat as a play bouse, and ul! had gleefully nestled there together, the lid tell, the lock caught, aud they met their distressing | death.”

SO

The assistant whom Blundon was wont to carry on his back across the Niagara wae a | Milanese, who, breaking down in his affatrs, iresolved to commit suicide. Blondin got | him to be his assistant in his perilous feat by | the following logic :—** If we go down, very

| important accession by the launch of the Cu-

a a -—— ew

he consigned to the dreary exptivity of Forts|town, making the trip actually in nine days

and three quartere of an hour. In August, 1860, the Great Eastern made

than ten days All these have been

beaten by the CAing, which has recently | been added to the Cunard feet.

The Cunard steamships are swift in com- _parison with what they were when that fine was first estublished, and they now Rapid

the Atlantic within the last few years, and

doing an expensive and remunerative carry- ing trade. Travel on board the numerous lines of steamers which now cross the Atlan-

passengers ; and as fur freight, the tariff of charges lor carrying it is nearly as low as that established by sailing vessela. all the lines existing, the ‘* Cunard”’ is the favourite, and is likely to maintain the high character it now maintains for some time to come. After the failure of the Collins line. the Cunard had a monopoly of the trade fora brief period, and it might have been a rash venture for any company to enter into com- petition with @ line so heavily subsidiged as the latter one. The experiment was, how- ever, tried by Canada, and has been attended with a fair measure of success, in the face of many obstacles, and not a few serious mis- haps. ‘The Canadian Jine, however, has been, up to a recent period. in the enjoyment of a heavy Government subsidy, but is now compelled to work upon a much smaller one.

There ia one line which haa had to work ite way into public favour without any govern- ment assistance. When the Loman line, com-

osed of screw steumehips, was started, its prospects did not look purticularly bright Its rivals stood so high im popular favor oo both sides of the Atlantic, thac it seemed very improbable that any part of their ocean trade could be diverted. But this line has succeeded. Ic makes nearly as good average passages as the Cunard line, and is well pa- tronized.

The Galway line, also subsidized by the British Government, hus lately come into the field, but its suecess is problematical, in- asmuch agit has already wet with several damaging disasters.

Of all the various other lines competing for public favor, none have been so fortu- nate and eminently successful as the ** Cu- nard,’’ and the proprietors seem to be deter- mined to deserve that confidence the travel- ling world has reposed in them. It will be seen by u paragraph pablished elsewhere that the Cunard Company has received an

ba, on the Clyde, on the 20th of July. This vessel has been twelve months in course of construction, and the Scottish papers tel] us that her beautitul modelled hull nas formed & vonspicuous object among the numerous specimens of nayal architecture which stud the banks of the Clyde.—Nova Scotian.

A large and powerful steamer called the Acadia, fitted up in superior style, now piya between Pictou, N. 8., and Quebec, Canada, calling at intermediate porta.

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|goud: you are drowned according to your |intention; if we arrive safe on the other | side, the fortune of both of usis made.’’ The | terrible feat was accomplished, and the two} i friends have since been inseparable cum- | | panions.

oo Tuornapo In CaANApa.—Some two weeks ago

a tract of country in the county of Vandreuil, ) some five or six miles square, waa visited with a | terrific tornade, levelling barns, houses, &e., kiil- ing cattle, and literally chopping up and blasting levery deacription of cropa; making indentations in the feacing and such buildings as withsteud the

| storm as theugh they had been fired at by mil- lions of musket balla. Trees were not only denu-

| ded of their leaves, but the bark was chopped as | with au axe.

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Pee “eo Western Exoquence.—A suspicious look- | ing dog bud been seen ip one of the towns of | | Iiinois. Sombody had cried ** mad dog?” jand every body was alarmed A _ public jmeeting was called and a distinguished |** brigedier’’ was appointed chairman. Af- | ter stating the ohjects of the meeting in a

| not very parliamentary manner, instead of | taking his seat and alluwing others to make | some suggestions, be launched forth into a | speech of sume half hour's length, of whieh ; the following burst of forensic splendor is | & sample ; | Psucex Crrizexs:—The time has come | when the overcharged feelins of aggravated | human natur are no longer to be stood. Mad | dogs are in the midst of us. Their shrieking yelp and foamy track can be seen and hear fon our pararies. Death follows in their wake: shall we sit here like cowards, while our lives and our neighbour's lives are in oo from their dreadful, orshus, didrofo- | bie caninety? No, itkinnot be! E’en now ‘my heart is torn with conflicting feelins ot | ' wrath and vengeance ; a funeral pile of wild |eats is bustin’ withio me; | have sheep and | pigs; L have a wife end children, and (rising ‘higher ag the importance of the subject) | deepened in his estimation) | have money out) /ut interest, all in danger of being bit by | these infernal mad dogs.

| THE ATLANTIC FERRY. A report bas lately been presented to the! | British Parliament which contains sume high- | | ly interesting statistics in relation to the ex- | tent of ocean navigation by steamships, be- }tween Great Britain and North Awerica. |The principal steamship lines between the | old and new world, are the Cunard Line, the Inman Line, the Galway Line, the Allan Line, the National Company, and the Anchor Line, the latter plying between the Clyde lund the British North American Provinees. | In the year 1863 the ships of the above lines |made tripe and carried pasvengers us fol- ' lows :—

Cunard, outward voyages from New York

‘inward voyages from Liverpool to New York, | seventy-one ; passengers, 13,342. | Inman line. outward voyages, seventy-four; | passengers, 7,980; inward voyages, seventy- six; passengers, 30,840.

| Galway line, outward voyages, nine; pas- sengers, 429 ; inward voyages, eight, pussen- gers. 4,373.

Allan line, outward voyages, sixty-four ; passengers, 2924: inward voyages, sixty -

| National Company, outward voyages, | seven ; No passengers ; inward voyages, eight;

passengers, 3.287. Anchor line, outward voyages, ten; pas

We learn from the documents in question that besides these there were other steamers

‘ployed fifteen steamers, but of them or their

The figures in the report show a remark-

passengers heing greatly im favor of the former Reapecting thie the statement is as

Rranght to America. Taken to =

- WSS... Ty Tier 5, Tumean Line... BE oc cksecesces cla 7,980 Galway Line. Ss « cttende cane ake aie - 4a Allan Line... . -45.022. .. un-etes de kee National Lise a: oodenbaaneeann ,- None ees cnecdads egy sia se — 74,034 W72i -| Pursuing thie interesting report further

we find upon inspection that the steamers ot whose pertormances we have accounts, made 235 voeages from North Amerios to Europe, and 208 return trips In regard to the eg. tent of the freights curried by those steawers the report is silent, but in respect to the wveraye time ocoupied in the voyages we have sowe interesting facts. [he Scotia, tbe favur- tte steauner of the Cunard line, previous to the introduotion of the China, made one trip in 1863, tram Livorpool to New York, in nine days, nineteen and three quarter hours, with uo page ot geyen hours at Queenstown. f trip between the same ports was

y

‘explosion took place was substantially des-

|Uall, bat they failed under the severity of

THE WAR IN THE STATES.

THE FAILURE AT PETERSBURG.

The mine was to be exploded at 3 30 4 uw. The dampness of the main passage had effect- ed the fuse by which it wus to be ignited, causing a delay of over three quartery of an hour. At 4.20 those in charge succeeded in springing it. There was not 4 simultaneous explosion along ite whole length and breadth, bat several successive ones ut intervals of a few seconds. There wus no very strong de- tonation in the air, but the ground around it shook for a few seconds ae though moved by an earthquake, Severs) spout-like masses of debris were thrown up and fell back to the depth of the mine, some thirty feet below the surface. The rebel battery under which the

troyed, but its contour was still descernable Within a few minutes after the explosion the two brigades of the first division—the second, Col. Marshall of the 4th New York lleavy Artillery commanding, in the lead, followed by the first, onder command of Brig. Gen. Bartlett, of Massachusetts, jumped over the breastworks forming our main line, and advanced at a charging pace. They were bardly in motion when they received a volley from the enemy, who, although surprised by the explosion, were evidently prepared against an attack, ewing to the noise inevitubly made by the concentration of troops and the move- ment of trains, etc, for hours, close to their front.

The explosion, although it had destroyed the rebel battery, bud not effected the abbat- tis, and other obstructions in its front, and the attacking column experienced consider- able trouble in working their way over them. Part of our line passed into the fort, and part to the right of it, upon curtain-like entrench- mepts connecting the right of the buttery with the line of breasetwork beyond it. The interior of the exploded work was a confused mass of earth, broken guns, cump equipage and human bodies. It had been oceupi-d by a battery of artillery, manning six rifled field pieces and a part of the 18th and 32d South Carolina regiments. Over two hundred men had gone up with the work, and were buried amoung the ruins. About twenty, more or less nutilated, were dug out by our men. The rifle pits and entrenchments to the right of the work were occupied by several handred of the enemy, 250 of whom were taken prisoners and sent tu the rear.

As soon as the first divisiun bad moved, the 2d and 3d fullowed it to the right and left, and closed up with it at the work.

The enemy, meanwhile, had opened a vi- gorous musketry and artillery fire from their eutrenchments, that inclosed the work in the form of an angle, giving them an enfi- lading fire.

Several attempts were made by our troops to continue the advance toward Cemetery

the fire.

Abvut 6 o'clock, the colpred division, Gen Ferrero commanding, was ordered to take up the attack and push to the right of the other divisions for Cemetery Hill, distant four hundred yards beyond. It advanced in line with great steadiness, until it came up in line with the other divisions, and received a severe fire, when the ovlumn turned to the left, whether-by command or without [ am unable to say, and the wass of it bscame mixed up with troops in snd about the work. About tooo of the coloured troops rushed over the parapet into the interior of the work, which the explosion had caused to

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But of

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short distance Pour troops. More and more (of the latter attempted to get back to our lines from the work and the pits and miner

What waa left of our troops in the work now become completely hemmed in, the rebel standards being planted close to the parapet weet of the work, and the rebul fire causing |retreat impracticable. They continued io | that predicament for nearly an hour, when ‘an order was issued (by whom I have not | positively ascertained) directing the whole

army to fall back to its original position.

Whether it ever reached those stili outmde of yur lines is not definitely known, but it is known that about two o'clock Gen. Bartlett, who was left in the fort, being unable to move owing to the breaking of hie artificial leg, sent in @ note by « private, stating that being out of ammunition, he and those with him, if not speedily relieved, would soon have to surrender. Shortly afterwards the rebels were heard to make another charge,to which the party doubtless surrendered.

The 5th corps was under fire all the fore- noon, but did not join in the attack. The 2d corps wae entirely parsive. The cavalry corps crossed the rear of our lines in the course of the forenoon. General Sheridan's original orders were afterwards modified, and the further wovement of bis command stupped.

The exact losses in the battle have not been officially ascertained, but as near as can be judged will reach 2500, not including the missing. Many believe that the figures will prove larger.

In the hospitals of the 9th corps the first division has 206 men; 2d division, 307; 3d division, 341 ; and 4th (or colored) division, 626. The large number of wounded are ly- ing between the two lives, and cannot be got off.

The 16th corps lost about 200, while Tur- ner's division, 19th corps, had nearly 400 killed and wounded.

A flag of truce was sent to the enemy to- day fur the purpose of getting the remainder of our wounded off the field, but was refused ; reason not given.

Gen. Butler also sent a flag of truce to- day, which was likewise refused. The rebel officer gave no reason for refusing excepting that his orders were peremptory not to re- ceive such fag.

The rebel officers also refused to exchange newspapers, and the rebel soldiers are so closely watched by their officers that they have no chance of making an exchange. There must be some reason for this. Many believe that their line is very weak, while others think they have some extensive move- ment on foot, and sre afraid of it becoming known to us. The raid into Pennsylvania may Se the reason for their wishing to keep everything from us and as quiet as possible.

THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

The Baltimore correspondent of the New York Times, under date of August 1, furnishes the fol- lowing particulars in regard to the Confederate movement in Pennsylvania :—

I find it is believed here by those who are the beat informed that the present movewent into that State is being made by a very large force of the best soldiers in the Confederate army; that its object ia not to plunder the people, although no doubt large contributions will be exacted; that the party whe burned the houses in Chamberabury is & mere recondeitering party, who will move rapidly from place tu place; that they will be followed in a few days by the main body of the torees destined for the invasion of Pennaylvania; and that Harrisburg and Pittsburg will probably be the two points te which the Confederate army will firat proceed. There is said to be abundaut testimeny, to the effect that thia invading army consiats of af least 75,000 troops. a part of whom have beea recently detached from Gen. Lee's army, and probably have not reached the Potomac yet.

The Government, as you will see by this morn- ing’s papers, coutinues to assure the people of Pennaylvannia that there ia no cause for alari ; that the only rebel troopa in Pennsylvania are a mere gang of treebooters; and that the measures taken by the Government will secure the capture of these audacious scoundrels before they can re- cross the Potomac. The yalue ef these assurauces can be seen from the tact that the Government asserted just as positively, four days ago, that the tucasures they had taken would prevent the re- bela from coming nerth of the Potomae at all, and that betore daylight on the morning of July 30 the Goverumeut autheriged the assurances to be telegrsphed from Washington to Penosylvania that “no uueasiness whatever is felt by the Go- vernment in relation to afftirs ia Peunsylvania.” [u aix hours after that official assurance reached Harrisburg, Chambersburg waa in flames. Does that cause the Government no uuecasiness? If the tewna in Pennsyivania can thus be laid in ashes, what difference does it make to the people of that State whether or not the Goverument feels no uneasiness? If the towns of Pennay!- vania are thus to be given to the flames, what difference docs it make whether they are destroy- ed by a terce of 5,000 or of 50,000 rebels? The Government neglects to protect them in either event,

All the facts that have transpired up to this time indicate a purpose on the partef Gen, Early, or whoever commands the expedition, to pene. trate as far aa possible into the interior of Penn- sylyania; and there is too much reason to fear that other towns will share the sad fate of Cham- bersburg unless the troops under Gen, Wright, on the line of the Potomac and near Washington, be withdrawn from those points and sent in pur- suit of Early's rebel treops. This, of course, is what Gen. Early desires. This is the military object of the invasion. But it must be done, it the Government does pot desire to see the fright-

calmly ; but I must use plain language.

gions of Breckinridge and Early. They cannot prevert the plunder of both Pittsburg and Harris burg, and the destruction, it may be, of both thoae cities, if such be the orders that Gen. Early haa received from his superiors.

To avert thease calamities, and to drive Early

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breeze communicated the Gaines tu the surround. ‘ing buildings. Parties of suidiers, baving sacked ‘the several drug and chemical stores, manutac- tured turpentine balla, which they threw in all directions, creating flaunes iv different localities, whieb avon iu one general conflagration. Speedly the aceaw becawe heart-rending and ap- palling. The crackling aud rearing of the flames ua they from house to houee, the sbrieks

of terri womeo, tricken and suffering childreu, and the pitiful appeals of the old aod helpless, formed au iodnesiakhen acene of berror,

Two hundred and sixty-five of the most ralyable and elegant public buildings were destroyed.

—— a SAMPLE UF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT. [From the Richmond Euguirer.]

Ruiding and ravisbiug is all that Goneral Grant can at present get cut of troops. He has seat off another part of bis “ veteran raiders” to

reak railroads, burn residences, destroy provi- aivos, steal negrees, and dishonor women. any of these uiscreunts be bard pressed they have ae to throw down their arms and throw up their hands, and, trom being murderers and felons, they instantly becume “ prisoners of war.” A

arty of U 3. troops lately landed in the Northern Neck counties, comwitted ten oe 7 the per- sons of respectable women, and, had they been captured, would have been beld tur exchange, and other opportunities fur committing the same cries offered them. Fortunately they were met by a few resolute old wen and boys, and the last vue of the wretches put todeath. Are proclama- tions sod orders necessary to effect punishment for such wretches? Will not our soldiers take vengeance in their own bands, and capture lees by killing more of these fiends?) There are al- ready,thirty odd thousands of these wretches now awaiting exchange to recommence their career of plunder and outrage. Shall more and more be added tu the number! We think that quite enough are already in Confederate prisons.

The Governor of Virginia bas taken steps to perpetuate the testimony in all cases of outrage and wrong perpetrated by the army of Grant. The record will be fuithfully wade, aud wall pre- sent a mass of crime and borrer that will appal the civilized world.

But this will not stop these outrages. Nothing short of prompt hanging or sheoting of all captur- ed wen belonging to any regiment or brigade charged with these crimes will effect a change in their conduct. Thia rewedy is the only one thut offers any hope to the defenceless women of the State—they are near aud dear to all the army— their honor, aa well as the liberty of the country, is in the keeping of the soldiers. If the soldiers of the army huve too much kindness to hang or

mity to execute on the spot of capture such wretches, then no proclamations or orders would de any good. Public sentiment will not much longer stand the recital of these crimes. Some batch of prisoners, who may have escaped the

of an outraged people has limits, which, when passed, renders them capable of avenging the wrongs of their own helpless women.

A correspondent of the same paper remarks:

companies of negroes, officered by white men, landed in the upper part of Westinoyand and passed down through Richmond County. march, no age ner conditlon was exempt from their desulating hand. Pluuder and lust stismulat- ed and inarked all their movements. No appeal ner supplication could turn thein from their benstily purposes sud brutal exceasys. In vain did the mother beseech and the daughter shrick. My paper would blush did I attempt to write in full detail the scenes wiich were enacted. Wherever they weut they were led by their officers, and told, “ You can go leose and do as you please.” And verily, they did go loose and do as they pleased, as inany » heartbroken parent and ruined daughter will testify. The registers of Heaven have made their record. Myself a firm believer in the fall and depravity of waukind, I had not conceived that natural curruptivn was 40 extensive in the nineteenth century as Puritan- ical fanaticism has exemplified it under the names of religion, liberty and emaucipation. Does not humanity and benevolence and religion claim that examples shall be inade? Does not the life of liberty, virtue and christianity demand that nw inure prisoners be takeu tu be turned loose, again tu return upon us to repeat their crimes and our auffering?) Men of Virginia, husbands, fathers,

rothers, areuse to your duty and your safety, to the preservation of the lite and honor of your dear ones. Seek vet, desire not to mvade nor in any way to disturb in their country and their howes even this debased, rentless, cruel foe. But let him understand—let him teel that never again shall one who dares to tread our soil in the execu- tion of his inhuman mission, return to give te his kindred by nature, and in aentament und feeling, a narrative uf bis baseness, bis profigacy and his brutality.”

15th isd.

Tue Orssine or a New Cuarptrer —Rich- moud has ed conspicuously intu the same ca- tegery as Charleston —a town that has foiled the suust clossal attempt the administraiion could or- gauize for its capture. We have no interests in deceiving ourselves, but every Interest that our subsequent efforts shall be based upon a currect appreciation of the actual position of aflaire. We canuot take Richwoud. It has been evident to youd judges, for several weeks, that General Grant's campaign is a failure ; but theugh an ad- verse fate had the deed deawn and signed, it lacked the seal of fiual aucbenticatioun which was impressed upou it by the battle of Saturday @— What is left for General Grant that he bas not al- ready attempted? When, nearly a month age, he undertook the laborious taek of constructing iwuense mines under the rebel works, at Petera- burg, he confessed to hinwelf that the out-lying defences of Richmond were impregiable to direct assault aud incapable of bemg turned. rvic but wasteiul tenacity m assaults bad only weakened his army without any other results; his splendid and admirable flank movements always

-brought him face to face with the same insoluble problem of carrying the earth-works by aterm. | majority being those unscrupulous place-hunters, | the determination of testing ite practicability to

‘he surprising wobility of his army proved as futile as would have been an attempt by General Grant to flank bis own shadow. North of Rich- mond, east of Richwond, south of Richwond, wherever he granted bia army, the inevitable. earthworks still fronted him and trowned defiance, The waste of hurling troops against them in ine!-

duced his army to euch a point that it would be

Gen. Grant has

tensive, and Grant has determined hia successive itions from Spottsylvama to Petersburg. C. will now adopt a bolder strategy. weakened and worn away the forces of his ad- versary, and no longer fearing tor the sutety ot Richmond, he will compel Grant to ¢

shoot a “veteran ravisher,” too much maguanik

fortunes of war, will yet find that the vengeance

— Ou Sunday, a Yankee force, consisting of one or two companies of white meu and three or four

In their

hange his | puppet.” and Breckinridge out of the State, will require at | position, or will make the North pay the penalty

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FRAGMENTARY NOTBS OF A TRAVELLER.

APRIL 2let, 1964.—Still at Charlottetown, P. E. Island, (day snowing.) Went to House of Assembly, and introduced inyself to a very old but venerable looking gentleman, Whuse name I as- certained waa Birch, who, on learning that I was from a neighbouring Republic, at ounce expressed bis willingness to act as wy guide and informant in wll watters and things relative to the House of Assewbly aud ite members—adding that he was the oldest parliamentarian in the Colony, haring served in that uty for of hulf acentury. After waking known wy gratitude tu Mr. Birch for hia great courtesy, he at ones led mye to the gallery, and seated we in a cunvenient ; which afforded a good view of the individuals who compvse “ the collective wisdom" of the Colony. No seoner did wy venerable friend, Mr. Birch, see me take trom ny pocket a peucil and note book, than be asked me if 1 was about to tuke portraits. I replied, I only take pencil travelling notes. I aw glad of it, said Mr. Bireb, for there is a coxcomb about these premises named “ Tonalt Curree”’ who undertouk to depict what be called “Parliamentary Portraits”; and would you be- lieve, sir, his own ugly phiz was the most notorious feature of each persun whom be attempted to por- tray. Well. sir, continued Mr. Birch, 1 think it is better to begin with the Leader, and mind you, sir, my motto has been ever since I entered Par- liament, “si vie me flere, dolendum est primum ips: tibi.” Yes, sir, | always say what I mean, and what I know to be facts of my own knowledge and experience I only speak. That rather pro- minent person just anent you, with the huge black hair or moustache on bis face, with such war-like eyes, and sharp proboscis, aballow pate and hungry aspect, that is the “ Leader"; and to a stranger like you it way appear odd that however black be looks, he is nyt a blackinan but a Grey-man, and a soldier every ineb of bin, generous and brave ; and yet a mystery of Weakness in aome few peen- liarities of wind, owing to which weakness be ba« become a were puppet in the hands of the notorious Secretary, Jackal.”