The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1863, Page 4

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LAURA KEENF'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tragt Rors— Un Amant pe Tror—Le Mancuanr, NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Dicx Tonetx tx Pranck—Seutonss in [npta—Texeci. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Baewx List—[xvistscw Puince—Jack SHURFPARD. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.--Pao- vaurre--Sterworticox. Afternoon aud Evening. HRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- boy eng al Songs, Buruxsques, Daxogs, &0.-Down in Oo K-y-Kr. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermiorian FouGs, DaNows, &C.—RUNNING THE BLOCKADE, THE NEW IDEA. 436 Bauiers, &c.—Vor av Ve: —BonGs. BoRcesques, enw Revuogs. AMERIOAN TUUATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bat Tawrouimss, Buntesques, £0. et —_ HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Brarorian foncs, Dancws, Bunuesauns, & New York, Sunday, May 17, 1863. THE SITUATION, According to information from rebel sources General Grant is actively employed in Mississippi. The Richmond Enquirer of the 14th publishes despatches fron: Jackson, Miss., stating that one thousand of @ u ‘ 2 wie ITY Tast., at twelve o'clock; that he was for- tifying at Rocky Spring and Western Spring; that General Osterhaus is at Cayuga with one hundred and fifty cavalry and six or seven regiments of in- frniry, and that our forces were being reinforced at Willow Spring and Rocky Spring from the river. The same journal of aday‘later, Friday the 15th, says hat fighting was then going on in Mississippi. Grant with thousand men had advanced to Raymond, where General Gregg had a force of 4,009 infauivy aud a few cavalry. Skirmishing commenced at nine o'clock in the morning, and at one P.M. the battle opened heavily. Reinforcements were then arriving so rapidly to support the Union troops that the rebels fell back through Raymond, making a stand at Mississippi Spring, where they had reinforoements. The firing in the neighbor- hood of Jackgon was continuous throughout the day. Raymond is a small post village, capital of Hinds eo . sixtcen miles Southwest of Jackson, and counected with the Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad by abeanch line eight miles long,ranning due south. The excellent map of the entire locality of Gen. Crant’s present and prospective operations, which we give to day, shows all the prominent places mentioned in the above despatches. The rebel arcounts also state that our fleet above Vicksburg is rapidly increa ‘They report everything quiet in fr of Chattanooga, and announce the ar- rival of the heavy baggage and tents of the Union army to the rear of Nashville. With refereace to movements at Charleston, the Richmoad papers have dates to the 12th instant, on! they stated that our forces are building for- nmidable batteries on Folly Island bearing upon Morris Isi:nd, and that we were busily engaged fortifying ourselves on “Seabrook’s Island. The blockade runner Britain, from Nassau, with mer- chandise, has entered Charleston harbor in The steamers Bashaw and Pet, from the ort, also arrived at Wilmingten, N.C., on Thursday. No new movements are transpiring in General Hooker's army. Everything is perfectly still there. Rumor was busy in Washington yesterday with stories of changes in the command of the army and revolutions in the Cabinet; but there does not appear, ap to this time at least, to be any foundation for them. ‘The cavulry arm of the service appears to be in che aevendant jast now. A despatch received from tho commandant of the Tennessee division of the Mississippi squadon—S. L. Phelps—yesterday, states that Colonel “Breckinridge, of the First West Tennessee cavalry, with fifty-five men, dashed across the conntry from the Tennessee river to Linden, on the 13th inst., and surprised a revel force more than twice his number, capturing Lieut. Colone! Frierson, a captain, one surgeon, four liewtenants, thirty rebel soldiers, ten con- Scripts, fifty horses, two army wagons, arms, &c. The Court Honse, which was the rebel depot, was burned, with a quantity of army supplies, The troops, with their prisoners, returned on board the ganhoats. The latter will be se. t to Cairo. A despatch from Fortress Monroe, dated yester ay, saya that the steamors 3. R. Spaulding, Geo gia and Belvidere arrived from City Point with about 3,000 exchanged prisoners, ral Hays and several other officers. About 4,000 other prisoners were expected to arrive within twenty-four hours, This would clean out all of our men and officers in Richmond. The United States eteam transport Albany, Captain Lewis, from Nowbern, N, C., on the 13th inst., arvived here yesterday, and reports that nothing of importance is transpiring there. An indignation meeting to protest against the condemnation and sentence of Mr. Vallandigham was held at Albany yesterday. Some very strong speeches were made, and resolutions were adopted denouncing the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham as an unwarrantable assumption of military power. Governor Seymour sent a letter to the meeting characterizing the arrest as “an act which has brought dishonor upon our country, which is fult of danger to our persons and our homes, and which bears upon its front conscious violdtion of law and justice,” An attempt was made by some disorderly returnod,soldiors to interrupt the pro- cocdings, and some turbulent scenes enaued for a time, but the police put down the disturbance and the meeting onded peaceably. A correspondent at Matamoros, under date of April 28, says:—Several vessels, too loyal to fly the British fiag for the purpose of trade, have left this anchorage without clearances from the Mexican authorities, as it was understood the schooners General E. 0. Pinckney and West Florida were fitting out in Brazos as privateers, and were only waiting for crews to make their ap- pearance. Do not send us any more blockaders; they only protect the trade with the rebels, through mismanagement and inefficiency. General Magruder has been in Brownsville some weeks. The citizens gave him a splendid ball, costing three thousand dollars. The General and staff were daily expected at the mouth of the river to visit one of her Britannic Majesty's vessels. The sloop Lapwing, aéized by the rebel authorities, was from New York, with a valuable cargo. She was taken on the bar, and discharged in the river, on the Texas side. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The ship Hotspur, Captain Bennett, from China for New York, with over half a million pounds of tea and other valuable cargo on board, was totally lost on the 19th of February on Paracel Shoal. A private letter from Captain James Pedersen, dated Saigon, March 6, says that the first mate, B. P. Sayward, Sidney Crocker, of Brooklyn, and five or six of the crew, were known to be saved. Two boats containing Captain Bennett, the second mate, Mrs. Eastlack and son, of Philadelphia, Mra. Dr. Abbe and two children and eighteen of the crew had not been heard from, and some fears were entertained for their safety. The steamer Ocean Queen, from Aspinwall, ar- rived at this port yesterday. The news she brings is not of great importance, though possessing con- siderable general interest. The war between Salvador and Guatemala had been indefinitely postponed, in consequence of a'counter revolution in Guatemala. Salvador had declared for non- intercourse with her antagonist. The news from Nicaragua is very interesting. The British steamship Corsica, Captain Le Mes- surier, from Havanah 9th via Nassau 12th inst., arrived at this port at an early hour this morning. The Board of Excise will organize for the cur- rent year and hold its first ses on Tuesday fe missioners: immediate! -_ cessary blanks and information may be obtained at the office of the Board, 15 Centre street. The commission appointed by the President to inquire into the operations of the Army of the Ohio, in Tennessee and Kentucky, has closed its proceedings at Cincinnati, after a session of over five months. The pile of manuscript testimony which accumolated during this investigation is over two feet in height, all of which has been sent to the President to read over carefully, in order to enable him to give his decision. It required twen- ty-seven pages of cap paper to write the answer of one of the wit :esses to a simple question. On the 4th of June five thousand bales of cotton, which had been abandoned by the frightened spe- culators at Memphis, will be sold by the govern- ment at auction. Three Governors and three distinct sets of State officers will be elected on the 28th inst. in what was, three years ago, known and recognized as the Commonwealth of Virginia. The new State, which has been clipped from the proportions of the Old Dominion, as a puniahment for her rebel- lious practices, comes into the Union on an equal footing with the elder sisters, on the 19th of June next; and as a preparatory act she will choose her State officers on the fourth Thursday of May. She has already an unconditional Union ticket in the field for State officers. The loyal citizens of the Eastern shore have also brought forward a ticket for the government of the old State, which will be voted for in the counties of Alexandria, Norfolk, Nansemond, Accomac, Northampton and Princess Ann. The centre and southern portions of the State, which are yet under the dominion of Jeff. Davis, will likewise hold their canvass at the same time, and elect their own Governor, to succeed John Letcher, the present unworthy incumbent of the executive chair, The old “ Mother of Presi- dents’’ has sadly degenerated. Brigadier General Jim Lane is organizing an- other regiment of runaway slaves in Leavenworth, Kansas. The people of Phipsbutg, Maine, have voted to pay every man who may be drafted in that town the sum of three hundred dollars, to enable him to procure a substitute. The Wide Awake club which was organized there in 1860 on a war foot- ing has disbanded. From no part of the country can we hear that the fruit trees have been in the least affected by either frost or blasting winds, The prospect for a large crop was never better. Cotton was quite dull on Saturday, Floor, wheat, corn and oats were decidedly lower and loss active. Mode- rate sales of provisions, hops, fish and sugare were re- ported, without any remarkable alteration in prices, Mo- lasses was more sought after. Hay wae in better re quest and advancing. Tallow was selling freely. Whie- key was dull and heavy. Hides wore moderately inquir- ed for, Wool, leather and tobacco were quiet. No very important movements were reported in other articles. There was decidedly more activity and Grmness in the freight market. Corrrnneap Ovanencr.—We have before us fifty or sixty specimens of brass and copper cent tokens that are now circulating so extensively in this sity and ite environg, And this number is but asmall proportion of the varieties that bave come out within the last few months. They are prin- cipally of a size approximating to that of the nickel cent, though some few of them approach nearer to the size of the 1' copper cent. One set of the coins is stainped as Knickerbocker currency, another as tradesmen’s currency; but the whole genus is popularly known as copperhead currency. The city is flooded juding Gene- with it, and, as at first, as no one thought of relusiog it in change, of course the issuers of i! were realizing immense profits, At first it was sold at ninety-five cents for the hundred; but there has been auch a rush NEW YORK HERALD, into the-business that it is now selling at ftom thirty-five to forty cents for the hundred. Some of theso sets are stamped with the names and places of business of those msuing them; but, as that involves the idoa of ultimate re- demption, the targest proportion of them are issued without ‘such mode of identification. Consoquently there will be no redemption of them, and as they are now pretty genorally refused by the community the holders of thom will, of course, be the sole losers. Still, as there will be no accumulation of such treas- ures, the losses to individaals will be 4o slight that they will have been more than compensat- ed by the facilitics afforded to business by the floed of copperhead currency. The government loses a targe amount of revenue by the inability of the Mint at Phila- delphia to furnish the small coimin the requi- site abundance. The weekly :issue does not amount to more than $630—a rate of Tess than for every dollar's worth of the raw material the government receives $2 40, it does appear that the Mint officiala might put on more steam and supply the country with amall change, and the government with revenue in the way of coinage profits: The government should certainly bo “able, in this and all other matters, to keep alicad of the copperheads. i" The War in the Southwest—General Grant's Movement Against Vicksburg. Now that all is quiet again on the Rappa- hannock, and on the Richmond peninsula, and on the Blackwater, and in. North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and in Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, the advance of General Grant’s army through'the interior of Mississippi, for the rear of Vicksburg, becomes the para- mount and absorbing topic of the day. t Our latest authentic information from General Grant’s army direct is his own despatch of the 8th inst., to the effect that, since the battle of Port Gibson, he had had no engagement with the enemy; that he was satisfled with the ap- pearance of things in his vicinity, and that the rebels had undoubtedly evacuated Port Hud- son, excepting a small garrison and their heavy artillery. A despatch from Cairo, dated May 14, says, further, that General Grant will en- deavor to cut the railroad between Vicksburg and Jackson, and that a battle was expeoted in the vicinity of Black river bridge—a point ‘nearly midway between the two cities, It further appears that our troops, all the way from Memphis down to Young’s Point (near Vicksburg; were moving to reinforce General Grant. From rebel sources weghave information from Jackson down to May 11, from which it appears that a thousand of Gen. Grant’s caval- ry had entered and burned Crystal Springs, on the New Orleans Railroad; that he was fortify- ing at Rocky Spring and Western Spring; that he’ was receiving reinforcements; that Gen. Osterhaus, with a strong detachment of infantry and cavalry, was at Cayuga; that Gen. Grant will to Vic DUTE ~ ok very severe fight; and that the Union fleet above the city was increasing. s From ali these facts we conclude that, strong: ly posting the main body of his army, Gen. Grant had paused in his advance, and while awaiting his reinforcements was scouring the country around him; that the most of the rebel forces of Port Hudson had moved, or were moving, around by railroad to reinforce Gen. Pemberton, and that the Union cavalry raid upon the New Orleans road was a movement to cut them off, and all other reinforcements and supplies from that direction; that Gen. Grant was probably aiming for Jackson, which is the base of supplies of Vicksburg and the capital of Mississippi; and that, frem the con- centration of Admiral Porter’s fleet, meantime, above Vicksburg, it was not intended that Pemberton should have the privilege of leay- ing that place without troops while attending to our army in the interior. A trick of this sort, with Porter’s fleet in his front, will hardly be attempted, and thus a powerful co-opera- tive movement on the watet in front is secured in connection with our land operations in the rear of Vickeburg. Thus at length the combinations of Grant and Porter against that rebel stronghold are as- suming a very encouraging shape. We were somewhat apprehensive that, without a sufficient- ly careful consideration of the probable strength of the enemy at Vicksburg and Jackson, Gene- ral Grant would push forward and bring them out, only to find that, hurrying up their armies from Port Hudson and Mobile, the rebels could confront him with a force largely superior in numbers to his own. These rebel telegraphic de- spatches to Richmond, however, satisfy us that General Grant, while gathering up his reserves, is carefully feeling bis way, and seriously crip- pling the enemy withal, in breaking their com- munications. This plan of operations looks well. The rebel army at Vicksburg, having been completely cut off from its main sources of supplies west of the Mississippi, cannot pos- sibly remain behind its intrenchments with its eastern railway communications destroyed. Colonel Grierson’s cavalry raid had already broken up very seriously those communications with Northern Mississippi; and now, as it ap- pears, General Grant has been actively attend- ing to the great New Orleans road, which runs to the southern extremity of the State from Jackson. While doing this he is also strength- ening his position against e possible sortie of the enemy, and is strengthening his army for an advance by reinforcements. He is thus evi- dently the master of the situation. We presume that if the rebel forces, except the artillerists of Port Hudson, bave left that place, it will be taken care of, without loss of time, by the forces of General Banks at Baton Rouge, some thirty or forty miles below. Five hundred artilleriste may be sufficient to work the batteries against our gunboats; but five thousand infantry, in a movement from the rear, would soon dispose of forte, batteries, artil- leriste and artillery. We hope that our next news from the South- west will announce the occupation of Port Hud- son by our forces and the capture of a valuable lot of heavy cannon. Thus the work of reducing Vicksburg will be considerably simplified, in bringing, by way of the river, the forces of Geaeral Banks and Admiral Farragut from below Port Hudson into direct communication probably advance eastward, and not direct | ; sissippi Springs on Thursday last, after’ a SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1863. with those of Genbtal Grant and Porter. As it stands, the Vicksburg campai; is progressing encouragiogly, and with promise of an early And complete success. The Pen the Sword—Perils of News= : paper War Correspondents. The post of war correspondent to the newspapers bas become rather a ticklish one of late. Not only have persons oc- cupying that position to face all the perils of the battle field and ocean, but dangers still more serious, from which the soldier and sailor are-exompt. Last week four correspondents ‘belonging to different journals felt into ‘the’ hands of the rebels in attempting to run past the Vicksburg batteries in a barge, and have not as yet been paroled. The Hxratp corre- spondents have been particularly unfortunate. Mr. Finley Anderson, who was captured on the Queen of the West, ie still in prison at being the fifth man now in captivity. this excessive sensitiveness to criticism. There has not been an instance yet where stringent megsures have been resorted to against news- paper correspondénts that any ‘considerable success has attended the military efforts’ of those enforcing them. Sherman began an inde- pendent command with a failure, and bas just consummated another. Hooker no sooner en- tered upon his recent unfortunate campaign than he issued an order increasing the restric- tions against the press. When, in addi- tion to such risks, it is taken into considera- tion that our ‘correspondents are constantly braving death in the field and on the sea, it will be admitted that their position is anything but an enviable one. Liable to be cashiered or put to hard labor by our own generals, to be tried and hung as spicg by the rebels, or to encounter the dangers without re- ceiving any of the rewards or the honors of the soldier, they exhibit an amount of spirit and nerve which, perhaps, no other class of men are capable of. It is fortunate -that, whilst some of our Union generals manifest such dread of newspaper ocer- respondents, there are others who appreciate are ei EO See rees An ; Thus, when a Western general to prohibit the circulation of a Chicago paper in the army at Memphis—and ff any papers in the United States deserve suppression it is the Chicago papers, for they lie with a forty horse power of impadence—General U. 3. Grant rescinded the order and caused the general in question to issue ® countermand. General Grant is not afraid of newspaper qciticism. Another reason why generals are averse to the presence of correspondents. with their armies is that members of their staff en- gaged in speculations find them very much in the way, and that some rival’ jour- nals desire to get rid of wholesome compe- tition and stories with two sides. Whatan ex- tensive business is being done in clandestine cotton will seen be brought to Hyht by the in- vestigations of General McDowell, who has been sent to the Seuthwest with that view. ‘The first general who introduced the system of probibiting the presence of eorrespondents with the army was General Halleck, who or- dered away all the reporters from Corinth; and the public, perhaps, would not have known till this day of the evacuation of that stronghold being permitted without a battle but for the accident of one or two of the gent'e.nen of the press disobeying tho arbitrary order. When General Halleck assumed the position of Gene- ral-ia-Chief at Washington he attempted to play the same role; but the good sense of the President put s stop toit. There never was any treuble with Banks, Burnsile, Mc- Cletlan, McClernand, Rosecrans, Hunter, But- ler or Dix. It is the weakest mon who gene- rally play the tyrant. Able generals have con- fidence in the justice of tue press. Where would be their reputations without the aid of the newspaper correspondents. They are the historians as well as the critics of their deeds. Tas Heratov’s ADVERTISEMENTS AND THE Evotisa Parss.—The London Review for April has devoted a portion of its attention to an ad- vertising feature of the New Yorx Heratp in an article under the title of “Astrology in America,” in which it gives a European fame to some fifteen women who avail themselves of these columns to make their business known to the commanity. amns of the Heratp provide a most interesting otady for our friends across the water. They furnish, indeed, a brief and condensed of American life, and aa such must be with advantage by foreigners like this editor, thirsting for knowledge. If he would de- vote a little of his time to the other ments in this paper, hie scope of intelligence would be largely extended; for we hardly know ofany subject upon which some information cannot be found therein. There is a feature in our advertising system which, we believe, ie not known on the other side of the Atlantic. Advertisements come to us from all parts of the country by telegraph, and as soon a6 the line is laid under the ocean no doubt we shall do a good deal of advertising for European firms by submarine communication. We are as yet only inthe swaddling clothes of journalism, es it were, compared to what wo will be in time to come. S The writer in the Review, however, is sadly exercised about the morality of the class of ad- | vertiseménts in question, and this is the animus of the article: —He declare: that their publion- tion proves that the common achool system of America “has been, like very much else in the vain-gtorious-and boastiul republic; a dreary failure;” arid’ le’ ‘Gontinues!2eTie’ appomt* to | 6 t-te INIT Terma . hoathen superstition is ‘permitted, and appears | Activity of Blockade Runners te and in the same coluinns which vaunt.the perfec- f N in oe . tions of America and rave at the effete despot- isms of Europe.” mentator of a few facts nearer ‘home.’ When, some ten years ago, one of the first and most prominent spiritual mediums from this country vislted England sho made‘a perfect furor there, and was waited upon by euch mea as Lord a pea Sir EB. Bulwer Lytton, Robert Owea leading nobility and educated classes of that country. The “heathen superstition” took there like wildfire. While the Oountess of Bloasington was in her heyday, it is well knowa, Alexandria, La; awaiting his trial es « epy. | ad sptrituatiats, and thet and many of the leading journalists and asvants. the paraphernalia employed was a oryatal globe, or some such thing, which was supposed to call up the forms of the dead and reveal the seorets of ‘futurity, ‘The “heathen. sapératition” was. fashionable in Kagiand in those days, aad ruled in the salons, just as it now prevails universally .| throughout the rurel and manufacturing dis- ‘tricts, leading, in:maay cases, to foul murders and other crimes. ~~ If the British editor will turn his eyes to- wards the most highly civilized city in the | of female fortunetellers, amples. It is a bad sign when generals exhibit | thought proper _ NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. og Tete Vee ; THEGAST HOURS OF STONEWALL JACESON. A Gonthern View of the Summer Gampaign of ny the Northern Forces, : bey, We would romind the vory“indignant com- ke, Affairs at Oharleston—Activity or the Blockade Runners. ‘The Richmond Engwirer of May 14 ts received, com- taining dates from Charleston to May 12. ‘Tho enemy is showing unusual activity. Ho has built large and formidable batterics on Folly Island, bearing upon ths southern extremity of Mortis Island. Severed ke. 4 large number of representatives from the her residence at Knightsbridge was re- for frequent seances of mosmeriats men: as Count D’Oraay, Louls- Napoieon ‘ho blockade. She started from Nessaa om Thiyraday, ( company with tho ‘steamship’ Norsomem, | Which bas not yot been heard from,’ Tho stobiiahip Pot, world—Paris—he will find in some quarters hosts , mesmer- iste, &o., ag’ almost every house, and | consulted repeatedly by the most fashionable of the city, and evenof the court. So, pears, that the “superstitien” which the school system does not suppreas in it i fected mL bil 83, 5 2 i Ff : Clty Intelligence, Deata ov ax Ocp Mancuamt.—Mr. John J. Boyd, one of the oldest shipping merchants in this city, died yes- tera in the 74th year of his He was the Shaler’ perssertic tus old fires of Boyd i! wag always respected as a high-toned ancient |, equally rem: habits, probity and social disposition. Crean Steeets.—The tate move of the City Inspector toward cleansing the streets is full of promise. The men e are working with will, and much of the filth, Monday eysoing the motropolis wil undoubted’ be i & M yen! metro} up condition Nt for elvilized buman beings to live ta. CommencaMEnt oF THs Cotumsta CoLtzas Law ScHo0.— The annual examination of the senior class of Columbia College Law School, forthe honorable degree of Bachelor of Laws, took place on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- day of last week, at the College Building, situated at No. $1 Lafayette place, and off in the most creditable manner. The examinat! fessor Theodore W. Dwight, tho 0 {irect the college, and embracod questions on the law of con- tracts, commercial law, real estate, equity, jurispru- @ence, evidence and practice. Tho annual commence- mont will take place next Tuesday evening at the rooms of the Historical Society, corner of Eleventh street and Second . The degree of Bacholor of Laws will be FF # i ip rt ‘al I . Gai i? He the usual excellence 5 See eee cee Pers . Wal + . ror Jog class by James Wi address to the graduat . g Eaq., of the. New York bar, ‘Ancient and Mo ora Eloquence.”” The Street Clea: rq BOARD OF ALDERMEN. ‘This Board met yesterday] at three o’clock—President ‘Wiliam Walsh in the chair. , THR MACKIRT CONIRACT—OFFER )POM we cHAnere OBVeeN ‘TO ASSUME THE CLEANING OF THE STRRET. 2 it HY and Roper duecty or toaurec of bis interest in the said to take the fy RE i ae ie i? iviit H Z 8 5 re . ' : cf E ia ii i if: 2 u i Z iF be i ee 5 cit K He 2 il i that more thaa they ant! for the that the sum left blank should be filled up. a a Farley. oon Rane and others spoke vor paymen’ ox] ineurred Gnd the suitable reception of there tbat are to-come. Alderman Hawt suggested that there should be one 4 gewerai reception of the rétarning volunteers, on Sthor June. Alderman bet hegtl ig the sum of $2,500. rule. Accepted, but laid over under the After some routine the Board adjourned to Monday, at five o'clock. The Turf. The racing campaign of the North commencees next week, asoo Wednesday next the spring meeting of the Jamesburg Association bogins. There are already five sweepstakes open, with liberal purses added, for two and three year olds and all aged horses, and for all of these there are likely to be good entries. But the crack meeting of the season will undoubtedly be at Paterson, N, J., distant about sixteen miles from this city, At this meeting there are three races fixed for the first day, which is the 26th inst, The first is a sweepstakes pre- mium of $300 for three year olds, $100 entrance and $50 forfeit, mile neate, and thie closed with eight entries, The second race,on the same day, je 8 sweepstake pre- ‘wium of $200 for two year olds, quarter of a mile dash, it closed with three entries. A post stake premium of $500 for all ages, two mile heats, for which five gentle. men have entered, winds up the day's excetient racing. On the second day three races will be contested, and on the Jast day ap equal umber cam be witnessed. At the Phila- ry on Forees. | Spree ee my oo There is evidently to be an acti The plan of the enemy seems to constantly excited at every point at H il i fs 8? is fi ) i i Lf Hi Hi if : : iH f it if 3 g and It will columoaAbat a series'of vory liberal purses Ne a ky irana gach wil bem ce rib ata Cin Ane Sade “Keneer Nhe Peston Course, 1. 1., Prank io harness for the proprietor's purse of $200, ki i A 5 k i i : | i lb