The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1863, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1863, or whowe Counce railé are im close proximity, Lb is & 5 thing to see twalve animals w « wagon, Tho Geo'ia along the routes are as great, as far as wagons and Animals are voncerned, as on a battle Held One who hae | BOL Been auch 4 tor Mus this army is pow making, will Jougu at the ides thateon every day’s march iu the moun The Union Standard in North: | i area en eae western Georgia. NEWS FROW ROSECRANS ARMY. now carries 4 fi'th wheel, strapped on bebind, as to artil- Jory an extra wheel 1s put om each caisson of each bat- tery. It is difficult to credit the statement made b; cavalry officer, that there have bean not less than ent thousand boreee: abaudaned by tals army since it crossed eo iver, the: beea Intricate Movement of Crit~ | in’ tio “tear” to’ die ot be picked up. by the farmers. Transportation has been much reduced—to the leds possible number of wagons ana the lightest weight—yet the ascent of a corps is a labor of days, not bours.” It is porbaps two miles io the top of the moun- taw —walf an hour’s travel usually, Buta wagon makes the ascent in just day. To understand the labors and sufforings of “the men one must accompany brigade of Jnfantry on the march, enveloped in dust and actually and literally breathing dust. One hus no idea of the bard. ships ehdured by the men from the dust alone. The heat could be very well borne, but the dust is terrible, At the same time, besides marching, they have other hard labors to periorm. New roads are to be built and old ones repaired. Large detaiis aregaily at it, and much of the effuctive force of the army is being endangered in an attempt to get at the enemy. Bat you will hoar a good account of these men. When they are once ovt of and beyond the mountains they wili be invincible, and Axht tenden’s Corps. POSITION OF THE ARMIB: A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN PROMISED. Difficult Nature of the Topography with the fury of devils for fear of having again to pass, of the Country, so Sie Oe gat aac ‘AS may naturally be expected, there has ly been an &e., ke, a increase io sickness in the army, consequent upon the in- creased beat; but it is much lighter than ia generally sup. posed, The activity of the army bas very muoh doer the diarrhaa #0 prevalent there some months ago. The division of Goneral sheridan, which was encamped at Bridgeport, on the bank of the river, has suilered somewhat from intermitteat fover, but the dinease is not at all general throughout the army. On the march the trcops manage to provide themselves with vegetables, and this conduces much to their good health. GENERAL GARVIBLD hus lately recovered from a serious iliness, and is again At hia onerous duties aa chiet of staff to General Kose- crang, General Gartield is a member elect of Congress from Ubio, whose first name, James, by the way, some pa ere persist in publishing Jobn, having probably cen- L sigpecy the sounds “John A. Gartleld’’ with ‘John A. Guriey.’” Mr, W. F. G. Shanks’ Despatch. Cave Spang, Ala., rowr Mies Weer oF Trenton, Ga., Sept. 4, 1863. MOVEMENT OF HEADQUARTERS. ‘The hendquarters of the department are to-night on the Dixte side of the Tennessee river, at the foot of the Rac- ‘coum mountains, in a picturesque spot far up the valley of istant creek, The site was selected on account of its clusé pioxtmity to a Jarge spring, which gushes from a yawning cavern, pretty much in the style of the streams which are flowing continuously and copiously from dol- phins’ mouths fn almost every fountain in the country. The doiphin’s head io this case is ahoge poak, more ab- | 1 am told that there m In circulation in the country in cupt ond towering than its fellows,and which seems to | our rear vast amounts of new issues of the Tennesroo frown upon the army which 1ike a mole penetrates and _ ie peepee Keone goaeee pring overcomes the mounta'ns of which it is a part. The tures, These notes have been used, it is said, by cotton richness of nature is everywhore displayed in the valloy | speculators and others, who are said to have purchased aud its surroundings; but as if im contrast the field in | Shem in the same manner that many of our men have which the headquarters’ camp is pitched is a broad, bought ‘fac similie Confederate scrip’ A qroat many bilis of the Tonnessee bankshave also been altered from ‘open, rich, plowed field, which some untorifty Alabamian has allowed to go to waste and of which the weeds hold ones to fifties. the manufactory of these bogus bills will be broken up im the course of the week; and | bope Isbam undisputed sway. CRITTRNDEN'S CORPS. G Harris, chief counterfeiter, wilt bo captured with ‘The General left Stevenson this morning, the greater gang. ‘part of his staff moving overland, while he went by rail to Hridgevort. On arrivingtthere gwe found the rear of General Crittenden’s corps, General Wood’s division, cross- ing the river on the pontoon bridges. ‘The troops were all ‘Deyoud, and the trains were being croased as rapidly a3 possible, I met Crittenden, drossed in the blue bunting shirt which was adopted by the first Kentucky volunteers ‘who went into the service, personally directing the move ment. It appears that he had moved {rom the positions {n which | last reported him—on the Segnatchie river, about Hupiap and Pikeville, He moved down the Seg- nitchie valley to the mouth of Battle creek and to Bridge pert He now forms the jeft of the army, and is to make heavy demonstrations against Chattanooga, keeping bis feft wel! towards the river, though not following its wind ings. His route is that of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. There are several gaps to be taken’in this route, and as it w his duty to make strong and loud demonstra. tions against Chattanooga itself, you may expect what « @urresponient—and perhaps only a correspendent—would Cail a -‘respectable’ list of killed and wounded from that Pott. Roussean’s division (Paird commanding) bad just reached Bridgeport when we arrived there, and was waitiog for an opportunity to cross. Gon. Rovsscan was NOt pro-ont, butiato be here im time tor any engagement: whi bh may ensue. This division has been guarding the rail, oud, but is all now relieved by Gen. Granger’s reserve corys, except the regular brigado of General Kiog, whicd | Gur o¢ tho port twenty-four hours after our arrival, and bo Temaing at Stevensou for a few days. When we ioft woud! neither givo us fresh prov nor ‘alow'en 00 Btovenson there was also n company of negroes on duty | soa: that, to, with coal b sega. at pannel where We see occasionally strange sights here, that is, | govorament now in depot at Sante Cruz. This coal was @t: ange sights tor this army. {noticed yesterday morn. | ‘pul for the use of the Paraguay oxpedition, but ing a negroe ia blue, with | gun across his inp, guarding | W# Bot used at that time, and so it will come im very good pow for our squadron on this coast. We had just Che stores of a fleld hospital and devouring with evident | enough coal to reach this port, where our captain in- Auterest a cheap byma book thrown from a passing train | stantly communicated with our Minister, General James . Watson Webb, who has made the matior a subject of Dy some inember of the Christian Commission—a noble | 4, ta cocterpcamanees Hane, Wand; OF 4 order of men, who, linking themselves with that other | cannot be told yet; but there is no dovbt that wo have humane organisation Known as the Sanitary Commission. | serious cause for complaint against the Brazilian govern. are going abvut doing good and furnishing fo the one cago, | ™°2t- cheaply , a fail supply of vegetables aad other nocensition, | gn eenymecne Vetus tuilt: Caplein iialdeiee Tae Bee, which are delicacies hore, and in the other cxse. freely, ailiaps look on her with wonder and amazement. She is very full supply of good, light, but at the same time sub- the largest vessel that ever was in this port, stantial recding. 1 did not mean when I began to make a | £rest sedeation, | When she saluted yesterday, in honor of ~pegro on guard a text for @ dissertation on the Christian | of coamrea Princess, ber pine-inch guns drowned the noise Commission; but since what is penned cannot becon- | here from Barbados, but saw nothing of the pirates. ‘other men of-war in port. The Vanderbilt came veniently blotted, your readers can take each allusion as | {és thought hore that they have lott this const, as we hear aotping of them, nor do foreign vessels report the etching Of @ picture which they can fill out in eam iceman hare: - Ay OUR CRUISERS. Our Naval Corr ondence. Unrrap Srarnd Sreasen Momican, Rio Jawamo, July 30, 1863 Visit lo Santoe—Coal for the Pirates in Care of an English Consul—Strange Conduct of a Brazilian Ofiicer—the Vanderbilt at Rio, ec. We left this place on the 9th inat.,on @ cruise to the southward, hoping to fall in with some of the piratical cruisers; but such is not our luck, and we bogin to dos pair of ever scoing any of them. During our cruise wo visited the port of Santos, Aa we steamed up the harbor boat nhoved off from shore, ordering us to atop; but aa we hud too much headway on we didn't stop soon enough; 30 they fired a gun. After we toally stopped the commandant explained that he thought wo woro the Alabama, which vessel is not allowed to enter any Brazilian port whatever. We came to anchor at Santos, and communicated with our Consul, Charles F. de Vivaldi, Esq. Hearing nothing of the 290, beyond the fact that there were about 100 tons of coal there for her in the hands of the English Consul, we left that port and steered for Santa Cruz, Hero we communicated with our Consul at St, Catherines, B. Lindsay, £8q.; but our commusications were cutshort by the Prosident of that province, under orders, as he stated, ‘rom the imperial goverament, ordering us on ° i these Spalding & Rogers’ circus troupe teave hore to-day for Sheir own minds, Besides, in rambling letters, Bale. + tae wea given ty: fof written in the field, at might, by the light of the Ore, | imperial family [oie gpm pres said eno Re with which a specimen of ebony is couking your supper, | Janeiro, Their performances are very popular and rank ‘without shelter and terribly dirty with the accumulated dust of the day's march, one is not striotly responsible for the wanderings of his Faber No. 2. ‘THX POSITION OF THE ARMY. Tbeltove I started off to give you an idea of the new situation of the army , and to detail the line it occupied , but rau to less mieresting details. Headquarters are at the foot, but the army is on the summit of Raccoon moun- taina—tie natives bere will teli you they are the sand mountains. Bhe maps hive the rnd “ri It does mot signi y. The troops are much more closely concen- pry ee trated than Fexpected to find them. The mountain ridge The Riot Claims. Will represent the live of the army. The left is on the The special committee of the Board of Supervisors ap. river at Sheil Mound, the right reste on a road from pointed to examine the claims against the county in veusen fayette, and which crosses the mountain at a Pe at tee © theta: Seve wie: pls here with the Opera. We leave bere to morrow on a cruise after our old friends the Alaba: Florida and Georgia, aud. if we don't find them not be for net looking for them. Lieutenant Commander Pancroft Ghuardi left here on the English mail steamer of the 9th inst. for New York. He is bearer of dospatches to the government at Wash ington. I will write you again (rom Babia, which port we shail visit after our cruise. ont tly in an ey line drawn between nts = — . If you get +a, ah such | large claims for examination ou Monday. The committee Unt tates coast survey, mountain fecon, ie which Rossorems now le, pea wai | “Ve bitherto examined only these claims which, aro find lait down, the very streams upon which the diffe. | under $500, up toacertain date of filing. Many of the rent corps are now encamped. McCook, who is theright | large claimants are undoubtedly as great sufferors as wing, is ou the head waters of Raccoon creck. looking t0- | tose who have lost less. wards Lafayette, but, it # said, keeping an eye on Rome. = Thomas, who is the centre, is on the mountain, about the It is not true, as stated in some of the papers, that the soo of ies — awe haan Pal A colored have been given the preference over the white renton, in the valley beyond, pretty much as a haw! ‘would io k down upon its logitimate prey And I should claimants. The committee have examined clatms in the ot be at all eurprined y= in this case pounces | order they were filed, the Comptroller having affixed a upon bis victim hid jwarters leave to take | number to every claim, based upon tho date of its Ming. possession of (tere tui@ can reach you. Crittenden. who the lott, 8. a8 Thave described, in the region of Shel} | The statement of @ preference being given to the colored Yennd, threatening the citadel ‘itself. But the army | Claimants originated from the fact that the attorney for rests so but fora short time. The campaign bas been | the colored “Relief Committee’ filed about five hundred Opened. vigorously, and is to be vigorously prosecnted cereal termination, a very few days must tell, Thus | ‘tits of colored persons in one day im the month of far every thing has worked highly satistactorily. All that | July, and the numbers on their claims consequently con wak devired bas beep attained. The Genera! and his men | nected. aro alike in the highest epirite and confident of success. | 14 ig probable that @ much less amount than the ordi. PANOCDA ‘The Iatest and best information I have place the rebels | nance of the Supervisors called for—vix: $2,000,000—will ee ee ee oe enn Cormatce. | Cree ae cniaas. any ef tho wenmants cantese thee ‘b—at Chattanooga, od in erecting works to ‘ane wah aun oieaat, he map | bate already they have exaggerated their claims, with the expectation wor i, a pe Se iad pie 4 that they would be reduced by the committes. It is not, preamp armies wer. The | however, the policy of the committee to reduce any claim t ‘ne gebouts of Buckner had been for some time y Zuystery, cough tbe general euppeaition has been that he | Which ls clearly just, but illegal and evidently exagge pin ree dre oy ay yey Liq lean repbag rated olaims wil! be reduced to a proper ammat. ingston proves wo nora) Rurneide tele. ‘The committee are engaged every afternoot, from two fh he 24 jostant Foe ving ut Puckner and. thes tevking abs torcing | t0 eevee o'clock, in the examination of tbeve claim#. It the enemy to evacuate al! Fast Tennessee is provable that they will report about threo hundred Scope thts wy dovbilows the claims on Tuesday next. The public will thus nee that a the interests of the county have been protected, aud those of the claimants not neglected. The Board of Su A ai the monnted infantry, who is still ont the river, and in front of and overlovking Fevwrted yesterday that seversl large trains o¢ cars | pervistre will probably poss an ordinssce waiving ca tbe th troops had arrived at Ciattanooga, apd that as they ‘aa 4 through tue rebel camps in the | Part of the county the statote of limitation that these city and vicinity were bailed with loud and enthusiastic | suite must be brought withia three months after the sist, Pema erence eed | came mmr enior's trope. Ik ws not 10K | Buckner toa tiarwee or Maury. They. undcrevand eo | The comenittee will all the claims fled before ‘well that if they bring their troope to apd ~~ they can be reacbed in the courts, allow Lhetr line of retreat to be disturbed that they meac Sand.» siege, as Pemberton 014, and in the end perish as mbertoo did, that they will rather chose to fall back ‘upen the foreoat A and meet us there or upon The Army ofthe Potomac GENERAL OADERS-—NO. ‘ome stream eovering Divamow, Deraxraae of rem Kast peice moat (or the present eu Yo the peaceful oxcope: | use 00s veui e ie tnaeen joo of Chattenoogs ; New Youx Crrv, which i confidently anticipated, they wil) not be imme- diately followed, bat Rorecrans will make a depot of ‘Chattancoga, and go to work open 8 COMM aL ten. Shows in ordge 00 be euathes vo feed and thereby eracen troto with Buroside’s army, Unless arrangements are perfects tw feed Burnside from Nashville, be cannot | cadet aunt whore bo ig for my great length of 1 vuiok | them on the fed Ghat a halt will be made at Chattanooga, and a line estab. | to say that be m acthorized from many sources wo con fished with boub Laren lige Fy Fao dig Knoxviue. | vey to them the asmurance that tbeir sojourn in thie city, large portion of the troope sent bere from | tne Peromac, the Commanding Geoeral dewires Wy expres? ification that the exem; of these added another—less brilliant, perhaps, but —w the may laurels aiready woo by aod under the fire of the enemy. and totally inadeq: ir in more than usualy intvmate cootact with Uneir fellow mat oro a“ og BF ‘areseets © tied citizens, bat excited for them & personal interest above that ordinarily attached to any army, and that this | terest will not pass away with the occamion tbat gay rime to it, but will follow them wherever they may gu ‘and to whatever field they may be called, with the war Awinies for their success and welfare, ‘The Commanding Genera devirer to add to thin the expreamiun of bis thanks \o the Stace troops, the Metro. The Cate. | Palitaa Police force aud to the local authorities with Diets slong thd@lodsou or “hou he has been incidentally axsoctated, for the kund sombre gray stone ones which —0** And courteny shown to the ofjcers and men of his covered with green | Mmmand, and for the spirit of Cuoperaven exhibited in moss end ivy, which cling about them as if in fear of everything that bad for ita obec! the advancement of our La a aa ee Ot eaty | Brordetofe Brigadier Gaueral CANY ain yon tor rf . olunce ‘Dot 6 #leep, the roads not so wind | T Curnow, Assistant Adjatant Geoeral. fing, we those of the greater mointene | bave memed. but fo the absence of the good roads whi Yankee tn «nw army Ws Operating. To aay that it is in the moun- ie to Use an expression whore full meaning cannot on prehended unless ope bas wituarned the neers army fn Uke mountains. One's own personal vxpe | ia nothing — fraction of the whole so jnsiguiteam — % a. The bille Dich sare wot | ‘. Habeas Corpac—Attac im Jor Lockwood UNITED STATES DISTRICT CotuT. Refore Hon Judge Bette | Seer 12—Major Lockwood, having failed to obey a freecterriven ap hyo Later, the tas frigbtfut a ‘and Digher than the wheels of | Judge ordered an attachment ayaines that officer, The one con'd wot get ap them | Mater was brougl apd theo made returm thet Le them | le. But the of | fers was not in Comma) for Une pation obetacio at expeme A some | travereed tue retara, aud Una Re de Bes 0d EE EE GQ% IRON-CLAD NAVY. Launch ef tat Ericson Bat 4% of the Launch—Deserip tion of the ew Ire Improveme War, &e., &e. The Ericason batlory Te sumseb was launched on Aatur- ¥d of Secor & Oo., at Jorsoy’ ‘Woi—one of the Anest of day morning last from tho ya City, at eight o'clock, This ve. her class—was built undor tho George Birkbeck, Jr., and is a spect manship throughout. The number of spectators prasent w. * Somow five thousand. The yard, housetops, w. piers wad every available piace were thro pie, while the deck of the vessel was croy vited guests. It shows the interest our people Progress of the iron-clads to see 60 many of thi ‘at euch an carly hour to witness the launch of « A majority of tho spectators were of the (air sex seemed to enjoy the excitement of tho hour. ‘ superintendence of Mr ‘won of excolleat work At half past seven o’ciock the workmen commenced . ba wedge her up, and at eight o'clock she begaa to move slowly down the ways towardshor native element. As she moved from tho stocks Mra. Kate Gregory, daughter- in-law of Admiral Gregory, in ® most pleasing mannor, amid the choers of the multitude, christened the veal by breaking a bottle of wine over the bow, with the words, ‘tn the name of Neptune, I christen you Te- cumseb.’’ Tugs wote in readinoss, and it was not long before the veasel was anugly moored alongeido of the wharf, and the guests came on shore, To those who had tickets & most sumptuous repast was in waiting. This part of the morning’s ceremonies wes prepared in the mould room, & large and spacious building, well adapted to ite use oa this occasion, The Staudinger Bros. sooe had the tables in roadinoss, and at a signal tho guosts [oli to with a will, and the oarly hour and tho fresh air gave them a rolian for the good things set before them. Wine was in abut- dance, and as a matter of consequence speeches aad toasts wore for a time the order of the day. Setator Ryan, of California, and others, made specches on our prograss in iron shipbuilding, and on tho present atate of affairs in this country, and congratulated the builders of the Tecumseh upon their success in the conatruction of iron elads for the United States navy. ‘There was a iarge numbor of distinguished persons present, among whom wo poticed Admiral Gregory, Capt. Craven, who is to command the sbip; Lieutenam Com- mander Miller, Chief Kogincers Stimors, Farron, Lawton; Lioutenant Gregory and other naval officers who ate y Teoum.- ad Battery— tg 2a Our Iren Ship Ofe hat over ‘wdows, adjoining ‘god with poo- wded with ia take in the ww abroad qossol. tached to the corps of éron.clad vessois at this atation; Sonator Jas. Ryan, of Californim; Capta, Comstock, Luce aud Boll, M. Stetson, of the rm of Lagoil, Perkins & Co., ‘sud many othors. The Tecumseh ia of the following dimensions: — Feet. Inches. Extreme length over armor . 236 = Langth outside of avra and storny 190 pat Extreme beam over armor .. 46 - Broadth of beam of boat proper aT Depth of bold. . ‘ 3 =~ Shear of deck - 12 Crown of deck amidsbips aes 5 Distance from storapost to oxtrome ond of ar mor aft, = ‘The form of the vossol is not unlike the Montauk and voane!s of her class, excepting that hor lines are Aner, givitig more speed and greater buoyancy, and there ts no overhang forward, aor tho wide hips to koop her from rolling. The iroa buil is built of three-fourths inch iron plating, fasteved on to a frame of angle iron, six inches wide by three-quarters of am iuch thick. From @ point threo feet anda half below the water line a shelf ea- 4ends outward, on which rests the wooden backing for the armor plates. This is covered by five wrought iron piate@; each one inch thick aud five feet long by five feet wide. in addition te¢he armor plating, the Tecumseh has wrought iron stringers four and one-half deghos thick inserted under the plating, making the armor nine and one-half inches'thick, and giving this vonsel immenso Powerasaram. The deck beams are of oak, twolve by twelve inches in the centro, and tea by twolve at cach oad, placed only twenty-four inches apart, and filled in with the same material. The dock ix planked with pine seven inches wide by eight inches decp, The deck is flush, with gentle slope apwards from the osntre. The hatches are wrought irou frames, let ia flush with the deck, and ia action they sre closed with wrought iron covers, which are securely fastened from below. The deaalights in the deck which light up the lower dock are also fitted with covers, and tasten ia the same manner ‘aa the hatch covers. ‘The plating on the deck is composed of two plates, one and « quarter inch in thickness, rendoring it bomb. proof. The turret is tweaty-two foot ia diameter aud nine feet ja height. It is coustructed of eleven thickuosses of one-inch iruu, and is pierced for two guns, which stand parallel with each other ia the turret. Tho ptlothouse is Placed oa top of the turret, and is eight inches in thick- nowm, ix foot in diamotor and atx feet in height, It is pierced wilh eigbt lookout holes, a0 that overy part of the horizon is visible, cach bole covering about forty dogrees of it. By means of heavy pioces of wrought iron, each wougDing upwards of six thousand pounds, the ports aro closed ap unmediately after the recoil of the gua One man can readily open and close these ponderous port stoppers. The mechanism for working this gun, both by compressing and to ron it oat, it isnot proper to give; but suffice it to say three men can readily run out or in that monster fifteon-inch gun, which weighs 42,200 pounds. The English wore obliged to abandon the une of thoir fourteen ton gun, because they con id not got men enough in the cupola ¢o work it ‘The top of the turret is (Famed over with heavy rafters of wrought iron, upon which are Inid bars resemb ling failroad tron, and these are covered with wrought iroo plates, perforated with holes, to allow a free circulation of fresh air through the vessel. ‘The ventilation of the Tecumseh wi!l be up to the stand. ard of advancement thus far made. She wili have two biowers, and the air conducted to all parta of the vessel in tubes. She will bave two of Martin's boilers and two direct acting engines of forty-eight inch eylinder, two feet stroke, capable of giving ber a speed of at least ten Knots pet boor. Her cabin and wardroomes are fitted up im & tasteful manner, and now the vemsel is comple, with the exception of ber turret and smokepipe, which ‘will be pat on in « fow days, when she will be turned over to the Navy Department, fully equipped (excepting guns, ammunition, coal, &o.) for active serve. The work of construeiang this vessel bas been pushed forward with great energy. Her battery is to consist of a fifteen joch gum aad « three bundred-pounder rifle. Mr. Secor har two other iron-olads im course of construction, ove of which will be launched in about three weeks, and tho otber about « moat after. While writing of this subject we deem it a good oppor tunity tespeak of an invention by which ome of the greatest drawbacks to asvigating iron-clads has b- overcome. We refer to the steering compass, All Kuts of experiments have been tried, and many of them bave failed totally, Magnets have been pissed in dierent loalities, Dut the magnetism i# not constant ether direction oF degree, and jast in propor tion as the changes oocur just 20 (he menos to counteract th infuenos are fale ‘The motion of the vousel im @ violemt soa often gives & dea! of trouble, a* the compass card oscillates so mach that it is almost impowsible to tell where the needle really pointing. The Buresa of Ordnance and Hydrography have atop te! Ritebie’s standard compass for the une of the ron clei | ‘and Une one placed upon the Labigh gare ie ty sleort tra! | exonllent satisfaction ‘We have taken ome pains to obtains correct derriy ton of this valuable instrament, whieh I¢ to me applied lo | all (he iron ships of the navy. in this compar © needles are enclowed im 8 tube of cylinder wih two iste rei arms, forming four cylieders. meeting together Tight angler, perforated Umrough the middie, but air (ch The weight is equal to the volume of liquid displaces © © sequently it would oeither rise mor fall. Within (he per foration is a fsmal gumbal ring, which attaches (he cylinders to a shaft of aris, allowing (ree motion in every direction, yet when the aeedie turns or revolvon the shalt most also Wurn, Al the lower end of the shaft, and « tached io the same way by a gumbal ring, i the end which is formed of & hollow ring of abort vertical cylin der, om the outer edgeol whieh i paiated (he waual oad) Da! divivions, Thia a ale exactly balanced by the \qab! ‘The shaft is formed of @ thin air tignt tobe Thos when iminarned jo the Hadid, which i water and aleobe) ty Prevent fremzing the while weight « buoped ip bh) Me Hqrid, and, aa Ab needie amd card are attached | (oe ants, when coe mower Of Course ibe other (o.0w8 The outer case is of brass, aad forms ® cylinder inches io diameter, This i sarmounted at the tor by | 0 globe mgh) jeohes te diameter, fo (hie gives are ibe | needs, while the OP fiader, which 6 seven (ont a wash | eleven and passes into thy piloth ya top of the turrets Aix | inches, Where the card is located dirccly ucder the eye | of the helmem co | ‘The day i not far distant whon we shail bave an irom clad navy which in al) its dota will Bo socond to none avd as cach Obsiwcle arises the fortile brats of Captain Ertosson avd bis assistants flod some remedy for it, The value Of this compass arrangement i imeatewiad'e, and it adds another trophy to tho scientific attainments o Amer iva, THE AMERICAN WEST INDIA COMPANY. * tor the West sand Brarii—The History of the Rise and Prog of the Company— Departure of the Pioneer steamer of tho Line, &e., d&e. The Amorican Wost India Company's steamer Tubal Cain, Captain A. P, Foster, satied on Saturday afternoon 00 the first trip ovor the route, Sho took out a fall cargo, &@ largo number of paasongors aud a heavy mail for the Woot India Islands and the northern porta of the Brazils. ‘Tho history of this line, which, though in its infanoy, promises to be ono of great service and importance to us 8 well 48 (9 ths people of the Woat Indios, is intercat- % The present company commouced their qperations Movombor last by ostablishing a tine of packet Were betwoon this port and St. Domingo City. By attentio, * 424 courtony the lino thus oatablishod began to develop h 2C, 40d it was found thes spring that the ia- creasing do, ©%4s of the public required that the company should put st, M2°T# On the route. Tho schooners bad ran with no my. % Tesularity and delivered thoir cargoos tp good time and ‘a excellent order, and business grow 60 on their bands, thy %"™PBY wore encouraged and ro- solved 40 purchaso a a: \' l484 steamor for the agcommo- dation of their patrons. ‘This purchass dovelom, : eteam communication a com be made with the porta of other ports of South Aumerh moans save a distance of on The how Mall Factii tho idoa that with rection might and could Vonomuola, Brazil and 4, and by this ‘© seven thousand ors and the mails, miles in the transportation of parsong, °" that by other lines alroady ostat, ‘shed the Wind ward Islands and Surioam could be reachsa from New York. ina fow s vot with the On ali hands the company a Promises, aad the pooplo of ta? POT to be visited wore dolighted at the idea of a reg, AF and constant line of steamers To accomplish the ends looked for the compamyy™!F chased the Clyde built steamer Tubal Cain, which m captured, in attempting to run tho blockade, by the United States gunboat Octorara, They have apent about twenty thousand doliers in fitting hor up in ofogant atyio aa a swift passenger and freignt boat. Yestorday whow ‘wo wont on board wo wore aurpriaed at tho change mado in bor since xo was in the hands of her {ormor owners A largo and beautifully ventilated cabin bas beea built on her main deck, th miwarks coming up about half {0 give it a doubie protection nally it ta Otted up in the moat approved manner, com- bining comfort with elegance. One might almost’ envy any one who 1s to make a trip inhor. Iuevery part of the ship can be seen that the company are desirous to pro vide for the comfort of their passengers. in the selec- tioa of @ captain oven great caro has beon taken, and A. P. Fostor, #9 long and favorably known with Maitland, Phoipa & Uo., is in charge of the ship. As for speed, the Tubal Cain is @ fast vonsel,or sho would not have Leon used for a blockade runnor, She isa three masted pro poller and can mako hor twolve knota with can, bo goes (rom here to Bermuda, St. Jouns, Mayaguer, Porto Kico, St. Thomas and St Domingo Cuy. AUSt. Domingo City the company have their hoadquar (ors, and the steamer is loadet with the cotton, woods and minerals of that rich island, aud returne, lonching at the above enumerated ta, © Now York. The valuo and importance of this new line is incaloulable, aa it oon pects un with the Woat India Islands with more regularity than wo have ever been bofore, and at the satne time it will have an effect upon our commorce hithorto unknown. In about three weeks tho company will have anvthor wtoamer on the line, and theo we shall havo & vensol every twenty days to and from the islands party of invited guosts woat down the bay on the Tubal Cain Beturday afternoon to bid her good speed. A collation was served up on board, and the party re- turned test eveming in the teader to the Cuswwm House. Paovowt MaRsnat Gunna 's Ovric Wastimorom, Sept. 10, 1865. } Sm—I reply to your communication of the 7tm inst. Lam directed by the Provost Marsha! Gonoral to say that you wore authorized to receive commutative mouey frum ‘any person who may be drafted in the Fifth Vougressional district, New York. You are, therefore, the only authy- rized receiver for that district, aud should anvounce the fact, in order that all drafted perrons in your district de- tiring to pay commutation money may cail upon you and do #0, Reoeivers are not required to go beyoud their din- trict to receive commutation money. Should any person desire to pay commutation money to @ receiver for an- other district than that in which ho was drafted, the re- ceiver may accept the money, provided the person draft. ed cannot conveuleatly pay it to the receiver for the dix trict in which he was drafted. Very respectfully, 8. F. CHALFIN, Assistant Adjutant General, In charge Disbursing Hranoh. To Josurv Hoxm, Eaq., Receiver Commutation Mouey, Fifth district, New York. The Commutation Money. Was Darsutucet, Coromers' Ieranserixa Mapicat Casn.—A rare inetanes of tonacity of life came under the notice of Coroner Wildey on Satur day. A young man named William Vinley, it appears, died at his residence, No. 103 Kast Twontieth street, from the effects of a stab in tne heart, received four days pro viously, at the hands of some person unknown. A post- mortem examination of the body, made by Drs. Boum ‘and Blaisdell, revealed « plenomevon in surgery, and rendered the — bit? interesting one ina hey cal point of view. wound, it appears, penetrated breast, botwoen ibe Bfur aod sixth ribs, extended to te beart and passed through both ventricles. Tho septum wen also punctured, a04 the pericardium or sack which encloses the heart was filied with with c.agu'ated bivo! Under ordinary circamstances & wound of this nature would be apt do canse almost tostant death; but in this cane it will be observed the vietim lived nearly four days. puch ime! ances: tenacity of ie are exceedingly exche 8 deal of carionity g008 among medical men. The case of Bill Poole, who lived ten days with a boilet imbedded in his heart, and that of the Italian at the New York Houpital, who bad beeo dis char, cured but died from the effects of the wound « fow days afterwards, were looked upyo #8 moat remark. adle canes. In l'oole’s cane the septum alone waa injured, which accounts for hie baving survived so long. The Italian war similarly wounded, aud bad jt not been for some improdence on his part after be had been 4 charged (rom thé hospital, be probably would have been alive today. Finley * case is still more remarkable, bowever, from the fact of both veutricies being cut as well aa the dm oor No clue be obtained to the identity of the person who inflicted the fatal wound, and the (orover was com pelled to adjourn the joquést until Wednesday, with the boj@ of tnrowing some additwoal hgbt upou the matter. Sonnes Deara oe Tenery Cavacn.—Mr. Insac Seymour, President of the Bank of North America, dropped dead at Trinity chares yesterday morving. General Dir, who was sitting in the seat behind deceased, noticed that be was growing faint, and had bim removed to the vestry room, where he ex in afew momenta afterwards Mrs. Yeymour and were in the pew with de- es eer ee Seeeeee Pe eee ome lamity. Deceased was & vostryman the chureh, aad wan about seventy yearn of age, Coroner Wildey beld an inquest upon the remains = Verdict—' Death from disease of the beart."’ Fouxp Daowwen.—An unknown man, about thiny years of age, was found drowned at the foot of Tenth street, Fast river, yesterday. Decoased bad been in the Wer about two weeks. A begro, named Nethaniet Phillis, was found Boating io the water at the foot of Vosey street. Corvser Naumann held sn tnqueet. Laat ing our Iaraelitiah citizens commenced the cotebrati Uber New Year, known in their ancient language as Roxb- ‘clock In the evening the several ype | chy were crowded by devon wor Fic’toual prayere wore ssid, Dut ns vermons were precel ed Aa stated in the Aamatp of yorterday, the serv icee ‘will Laat for two days—to day and to-morrow Twa Sraampost Naw Wortn.—The steamboat New World having been diemantied of her boilers and engines, will probably be parehased by the goveroment for a floating bospitel For such & purpowe she would be well adapted. as the could with ease acoommiate {lero baw dred sek and wounded. Amacit.—On satarday night, between the hours of ive o'clock, Mr. Kae, of the at Bootie, sow tying at Jersey City, wae moet brute treated in Brosdway by four men, whe knoeked hum down and rifled his pockets of al) (he caeb (9 lie power H00, and left him iusensibie on the growsd Diseases of the Nervow New and 1e indie Lreatnens ‘ard Ase ®! aaten oo sent coectatign Philadephia we Ord Hyperion FY herr vee Biertric Hew Be convinced Wo BOGULE. Boon Tr Abdom spplied at 46 Pulton trent b: bia ery where porter we. alien tae WADE 4 FORD er of Hatr and 1 Werday et Mair Dye, HI, Tatmatiae! ond i" Patent Hate riper. Grea! indneemeges ew SET Br et way, New Tork re 500, Hair Dye- Rieck a The beat ond cheapest im ne eoMd oy Doe! 6 Dey were Cristadoro’s fair Dye. Preseeniine nod Wig tepet whelensie end reel NO 6 Astor Heres Tee dye agutied by SiN Arnie “s 5 * wep | ae oA TR ERE ETT na MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. | MISCELLANEOUS. » ~ } ASOT Rw Gkiar & | tho mail steamebip Chamoion, Captca Wilaoa, wilt ANOTHER GE OP CORR loave this port at neon to-day for Aapimwad A MAN RAINED Ab ti Wink . Prom ree | The msiis for Central America and the South Paciiie A MAN RAISED As IT WERE PROM THE | will close at hall past ten o'clock tbs morning A MAN tater in . ,* v * Pin pee rat The New Yous Hi kaanp—Bdition for the Pacttio-—will bo tH Se | published at half past aino o'ciock ais morning, and COusUMPTIY En, READ THI wil! contain —Important Dev vm our Special War BKKVTION RRAD THI Correspondents in Charteston Harbor, giving Details of ‘ae the Movemeate of our Army and Naval Poreas, and of the |s 4id Success of General Gillinore's Operations ; BY DR 8 fand important accounts of the Movemonts of tho Armios | gyiy turaenity Ueet w of Goucrals Rosecrans and Burnside in the Souchwost, re | very severe co d, which momme sulting 19 the liberation of Tennewsee from Rebel rule; | 2Par Wy your, wnbl wraut she te of The Latest Nows from Moade’s Army in Virginia, Inte resting tho Kevollod Staton, Late aad Important Nows from Europe, and reports of all terest ing eventa of the past ten days Single copios, w wrappers 10 64 a“ ready for mailing, six conta. | MAILS FOR EUROPE, Tho Cunard mail steamship Afrioa, Captain Stono, will leave Banton oa Wednesday for Liverpool ‘Tho mails for Rurope will close in this city at a quarter | Past one and at half-pist fio o'clock to-morrow after. | aoon, to go by railroad | ecribable. Not being able ta get to see Dr. & rooms in Bond street, New York, L sent him wo piled that {mame neler, 0 know » real aatoniah published at oloven o'clock to-morrow morning, | ‘and will contain the {atest and fuljeat dotails, (rom our Special Correspondents, of the progress of ty Sioge of Charleston: particulars of tho advance of tho | {rei ved" Armies of Generals Rossorans and Burnsite, and tho | fegeel erpeerignen i capture of Chattanooga and Kooxvilio; Nowa Crom tho | att eusid hare cial mtho mate death claw Army of tho Potomac; Late Nows from Havana and f Brin Moxico, and a variety of other intresting mattor Singto copies, in weappors, ready for muiling, cents. Sampson Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Mill, London, England, will receive subscriptions aad advertisements for tho Naw Yore Huai earls the medicine was ry. 183. Thad an extra ter. a full pint at a tue, phon T wie agin surprinnd to fad tbe Arg quantity of throws) the pigh on for four days and night Cie me very much About bie bat of clotted blood This conuinpe YY 1, which conypued confess slaFmed adn OMotal Drawla Co.'s Kentuor: 1d Mingourt Biale Lotiariag ¢ KaNTOCKY, HxrRs OLass O51—Hope 12, LAI. "\atelliaence b 60, 63, 29. 24. 4. 40, TH, 30, 43, 17, 44 at paul tote bases é Kewrvowr, CLass 432—Bepi. 12, 1363. Sd 33, 46, 8, 38, 72, 44, 13, 25, 15, 50, 45, 30, 17, | with a better 78, GY, 40 dette bed’ grre.peate alone a Shout Clewulars seat eae of oharan, by a tiring olthoe 19 twelve pounds ta fesh ond atifl galaing, audcan weik miles MURRAY, KDDY & 00. without feeling much fat Cevingwn, Ky.. vf Bt. Louls, Mo t advise all (home whe have of thelr Ay OMctal Deawings of the Shelby College Lotiory of Kent: - “it - Karna On. 3, 22, 46, 17, 42, . Chana 542—Rept, 12, 1863, nge or liver bein ad partake of hie y it be Woo late, mt. 8, I, » 49, 15, 48, 31, 59. fone good liag, them perfect cure. Do not be nf ener In making & r 2,7. 35, 10, 62, 70, 68, 7H, 73, 20, 1, 42, 9, 56. like hundreds betore youmwalt until death bas the pre emt. Ci cular secnt by eddrose nenes, for then neither Dr Schenck nor any other docter “foun 4, MORRIS & CO. 19. Wiz South Fourth stewot, Wile Covington, Ky. | he pionne " SO eres verse with any one suffering from this 4 consumption N¢ Omer1v! Drawtenve of Library Asso- ciation Condy Any 's Lottery of Koninexy. IExTRA Ulead YT —Sept. 12, 1963. We. th painted with NG Mattisun loted as he states in his ce undersigned citizens of Wiilia 4 know hi ticate, We alna k 59, L4, 62 46, 21, 72, GI, 39, 64, 4, 29, 62 2. | ned De. Bo bon k's medicines, and have every. reancn anv S0%—Bept 12, 1463, pouaee (hat ty (ile medicine be owes the preservation of bie rman Gilchrist corner Forth H.C Boswell, 124 Grand street. dev Henry de A atree!, draggin aC. Phi ret RANCK, . Manaqors, Covington, Ky pall Legatized Lottertes. Wall atweet, room Mo. & North atreeu: th atront Nioth aod Fourth atreete: Jobe G. Tilley, 214 Fourth street, engines REMPMBER DR KCHENCK oan only be found rome, Mo 32 Hond street, New Yo % Cashed in All Legalized Lott Toformation given, JONKTH BATES, Broker, 1 Wal street, rvom No. 1, New York. New ‘and Choice Card Photegraphs— Wholesale and retail, at GEO. P. ROLLOBON & 00'S, Photograph Pubitahors, 132 Nassau street ry CONKAD FOX, Bo, Sl Hareiay street, bi York cur B. holemale agent for Army and Navy Picture Gallery.— Cartes de Visite 5 ty, qummtity. Geren St LOtmies bee pesectes, mmr. Se (ODI KOVENOCK’ next visit to Boatow will beon CATE 4 Turetay, the Fa and y inciaat Hie a Dying No. 486 oliviel No 10 | rotons avert. ree. Gartrewie cleaned tS ideale Hf ODCOAINE t Prevonte the Mair a 8 Prom gtan ita Heald h roman ite (row mp wentet on Fi 1 8 00 ae past ore oy finer talleee. Mighty coon BURWETT SY OOOOAINE Oculiste and Opticians, 600)6 Broadway, opposite Ben’ at mt and Powerful Day and Night double Perspective Giasses, for the field, sea, oper tourteu’ 7 Compact, portauie and beet, pve + aasrtanen BEMMO st Tantra OculitOptician, 600% Broadway, Lafarge house, BUBMEET OOOO MES a : BURNETT S COOOATN HE { Premium Nila peosra@ tne ing Machines. —Footes patent Umbrelia Look Kiands, COCOA (W%6 Broadway. to the Nair _ OCORISR ‘The Cele! 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