The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1864, Page 8

Pa 8 THE TAX, ON PRINTED BOOKS. easury Decis Impertant “Yamaeory Deranrwant, Ormce oF Irena: Revexos } P Wasimnctoy, Sept. 6, 1864 Whatever (be late Excise law maker © manufacture 7, & manufecture uMter wwternal revenue Fytte wm, whether it was ever before so reckoned oF Bol. Ww the pinty-fourth seetion of tbe ai booke are © assed er a manufacture, and @ tax of five por COLL BG” alopem ® inpeecd. Tt ie cuacted also in the same section 'th8 pon the arijclee, goods, wares snd merebandise beTeF Jafier men- tioned” (among which books are enumera® oq) +» + + sowhich shat! be produced apd sold, * * * ihereshali be levied. collected and paid the folowiwg guvec, to be pad by the producer of manufacturer .ereof”” and this produce? or mansf.ctarer, by the e@uly-third section, mus! pay (be doties assessed OR Whe'valme of bis goode, stwheiber wanu‘eclurea or prodaced for bimceif or for others” mu ike mekiug of Decks, prh€ert, binders aed pub Sishers afo fhe persons priveiptlly coweerned: and repre. sen intiv os of hose engaged Ya Ube several tranches of whe n ¢ Mosire to ROW BF Whas rule the manu- or nnsweréble to MWoegoversment for the tax is (0 neruvmed, We bav@ wadted (© Bear frem all wito wished to be heard bowre we shoukbgive @ur opipion except as to & few > eS which we ‘Were pressed with tome inapor- Lunity #3 dogdo early Altkeugl a book i@ a manufacture by the stamute, there 45 vo prevision making either tbe printer, the brader or Ybe peolisher in atl cases the manufecturer. Whetber he t4-s0 oF NOt must depend on circumstauces « Ve are told that sometimes the publishers owe sets of Bier ctype pier aud carry on the business et privting and vinting books, which they geil at their principal phere of busiwees temetimes cho printing is done by one party and the Wedihg by avotber under a contract with {be publisher, ibe paper te the printer aud ibe materials io binder, © tirm finds the materials, priots and S, and furnishes them atasiated price to another, who publishes and galls them. Sometimes @ publishing house furmebing the paper | tb Uhe printer to do the press work 1 sheets {rom the prinier, fold dor, and, when bound, the finisbed book ie returned io the publishers and sold by them. owe; mes a publishing bouse, having its only place of busines? in ove city, procures ite printiog apd binding her cities. under yarious arrangomeuts plator and copyrights and witb printers uders—baving ome kind of coutract as to one book 1 kind of contract as to apother book, and ent kind of contract ag to a third. isber Duys the paper, bas bis printing exe- rt a printing establishment ana bis binding -by vookbinders. Im some instances ibe shiect: go epr to the lithographer, apd {rom the ith ist, and from the colorist to the bind 'y to the publisher's place of busiuess, cm Of printers, owning @ set of siereolype plates, ayer, priut and bind the books, and (urnisb contract at @ stated price io @ publishing Publ shers own the stereotype plites: printers buy paper, piictond bind the booke, and deliver them for an ‘groed price to the owners of plates, in another case [be arrangement is the NCgpt that the pub- vo'the printers. pripting, stereotyp- snd binding, whoowork exclusively to order, aud wever sell or have any right to sell, aod yot-whose con- are as different as the persons with whom they Sometimes they set the type to be printed from as iype, sometimes make tbe stereotype pilates from the type. sometimes furnish the paper and do the presswork; semotimes do the presswork only on paper furpished to them ,.sometimes do the -Dinding only, aod sometimes execute ali the processes except stereotyping. An author or compiler owning the stereotype plates aud copyright contracts with a printer for the printing aud paper, and @ binder for the binding, and makes ar- Tepgements with booksellers tosell for him; or sends a pam bet, got up im tke same way aod treating some Subject of transient wterest, to -be distributed gratis Amroughout the country, direct from the printer’s or Dinder’s hands, to auybody that wil] assiet in the ‘tr.bution, laws, journals apd peri a me, ish it ra A printer contracts to print “docaments for a State; and to turnish them in sheets Dinder. who binds them for a certain price to be paid by the Stato, by which they are mever sold. but distributed Dy resviation of the legisiature to certain public officers without cort to then. F.equentty the publisher controls everytbing— the copyright, stereotype plates, farnishes paper for prioting and leather for binding, and the presswork 1s done according to bis ’ directions as to styic, time aed amount, and the bindiog in the game manver, toguit the geveral market or the Wanls or “taste of bis particular customers ‘These cues do not embrage all the varietice of arrange menis which re made among the perseus to (bts very imperiant species of manufacture, asd which -@re about o* nvmerous ag the elements which constitute them wil) atiow in combination, How are we to decide who js the manufacturer? Some publiehers ipsist very strougly that they are pot the manufacture: others argue that they are, Pripters geperaily ur fact rers, but not uni isinders. when they do nothing but bind, agree, 1 be. Weve, without dissent that they are pot manufacturers. Py the reventy ninth section, which relates to license, iby person who shail mapufacture by band or ma- ©bivery wuy goods, wares or mercbandise exceeding an- Bushy the sur of one thousand dollars, #bs!! be reyarded mavufscturer.”” So far as thin section goes, the person who visibly manipulates or works the materials 4a _be who is-reeponsible to the government. By tho eighty-second section every person, before com mening or continuing apy manuf.cture, sball furnish to Ube apgistant assessor a statement setting forth. among ‘other things. the places where the manovfacture is to be earrieg on and the principsb place of business for sules, the Dame of the mavofactured article, and the proposed ramet ior the same. If \he printer or binder ig the manufacturer the place ‘of mann frcture can be stated: but be bas no knowledge — Limeeif of the proposed market, for be bas nothing do with the sudes. He cannot thercfore make the full Statement required by the act. A pubiisber who depends on others to print and bind for ham, aud mereiy seils what they make, can state the propose market for bis product; but ag tie bes mo piace ‘of manufacture. he cannot properly be required to state dbat. [\isobviovue therefore, that this section bas but ‘& partia! applicati © te book making as 11 is usually coo- duoied iy. But to the Divety-third section @ provision occurs which bag an important bearing on all cases in which the final proguct i the result of the skill and isber bestowed by @ne person, or by several do sacosseion, on the material fara! by another; and (bis, tsken in copnection with the pinety- ufth section, furnishes a key jor the soiution of seve. Fa! of tne questions to which the complex varieties of re. dations between publishers and otber parties engage in ‘be book manufacture give rise. The ninety-third feciion requires that there shall be included in the asserrnent of a menufacturer the proceeds of bis business wi we up material furnisned ‘®y avother and of finishing work partially com. rieted for a to whom it is to be re ‘+erned when finiebed; apd the ninety Stith secu provides for the more complete finiebing ond flitting f ‘Gre of a manu‘acture already complete tor Pome purposes, aud cnacts “tuat the increasing of values in the inapper acoresaid shall be deemed mancfactaring,” and that any Dereon “‘encaged thereto shall be Imble to ail the pro. ‘visions of law [or the collection of ilerual duties relaiing de manuiactarers.?” * The two sections serve to explain and exmewhat to modify aber provisions of the act re‘ating to the same subject, and t» show how the terms :‘masmu(ac- ture’ and manufecturer are to be understood when ay- plied to procésses conducted by several pacties, each jndependontly to produce an article for the ‘By # comparison of the several provisions re’erred to it af clear that a maoufactorer under the i the pergon bo makes an article of merchand'se, though he makes fer another and doer not sell. He is aigv a manufacturer who more completely finishes or fits for nge such articie, and whether be finishes it for another makes no ditierence as to the cature of bis§vecstion. A person who mereiy selie i D0t a mapufecturer. though be may the mafartais ¢aring the wh apd bave had the article made according t» his order and for bie special use. He must have a more intimate con. Section with the production than obtains ueder gach cir. eamstances to be able to aszesement as euch. if the mann’scture $s conducted ip such manner as maxer him the reepovsibie head or controlling operator, by whore means and innces the business t= cop Gucted, be fs to be beld asthe manufecturer, Bu: si an independent party intervenes between bim ana the operative, and produces, by bis own hands or machinery, goede, wares or merobandise reauy for the warke: dotervening party may be properly deemed and ee ihe manufacturer. While contracting parties, how ever, who work tor others, are in the general recognived ‘end treated as manufacturers, no mere employes of any | de are £0 ogerded, even in the mont distant way or | Fy the moet remote implication Bren «& coptracting party may occupy fuch reletious ‘ik the owner of the material as (o be substentially cor aly porposes of the contract an employe, and to be able © exercire no more will or contro! over the subjent ou which he expends his iabor or his skill thao if be were mired Dy the day or the month, To call bim @ pianuiac sorer would t and principal, operator and operative. and wo ind the " legal relations which obtain between Shove tbat direct end those that servo. He controle either absolutely or as a bail. jai or machinery may be neoded though bie band may be invisible process, ls responrivie for the product, and, law touebes |1 ’ Tuuet reepond. diMeulty unquestionably jn sr: dims or Gotnivig 4: ferences so as to fit re ob ove stostanoee: bit Uat govern come to be applied ames! vestions hited yng | be easily aonnered ‘There are classes Of cases Of book making tn whi’ it 2 BO diffieult to determine who are the maniiaoturers, ‘There wre rome cages that cannot be clescod. and che semponsi bility ef the parties interested cam be sacert ined st by inquiries made into the attending ciroumetencee Ube neseosor oF mesennor. \\ '® clear that the publiaher munt be held fo be the iscturet when owns the sterestype viates, aarries on the printing an@ binding of ine pied ‘wbicd Sap rekon and seite, And be must be held im the samo printe, inde. publiehee and geile, (hongR fe may BOK depen tocwn the copy: iplt or platen. Mboogh ‘urowhiog materials and 4 yplater, employe another perty, to print or blid ® book, Jed n@ ibe mavulaciurer, on the finished book, In renal be required to pay amount of ‘trom the owner owning copyright <2 commi#Gi°n OF > bat otber pariy m and required to pa geen care, if (be Kervtac dhe bax, He may collect: @f the ronseriai#, ow whieh remoine oy " the mane aeturor ti!) pa) alae: opt if the printing a d ¥ ON€ party and ho bindine by ep0: £ WAb& pub Isher firminn he materials, #04 (0 WHOM Hhe Roce Bre reHWened, dhe be to obliterate a! diatinctious between | r WEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1 -_—— | printer oymr as be mekce 1 mannfecturé. and the binder, ' go tar 7 ghe Huishes, may be asagesed, the one for the mau’ ured article and the other tor the increased vaiue er ated tho finishing. Mb we apparent ‘hel, Ste the whole artecle Is to and the maker apd tuisher may both UR A tay, one om tbe prntion ard vne on ihe fuk valio | Siler se totsoag, ie-xot int The increase of vaine | Dy finishing Bm article com in itself lor uses | for whtoh it would be otherwise unmiitted, or moe to | well Stred, is dectared the act to be a manufacture: and, f @ mavufecture, west ‘be separate aad distinct from Ueatof the articie th its anGnishod sate The exe mamu'acwre ends whea am article of commercial value and (tted for use is made: Uae other begins, with Lhe same artic e, where the Crst leaves it, and carries it forward ‘co a higher Tloish or prepares it 'or new uses, 1b is taxed to the bands of the first manufacturer because it is al- Teady merchantable or vendible, and may be used or sold w'bout further finiem. 1 is also taxed to the hands of | the finisher, because, rithough the identity of the artic | 1s preserved, ite valve, Huportance ¢r edauptability to | ts iweoneed by bie ekill or by bis added material a: | labor In the provisions of the act relatiag to segirs, & dis inction is drawn between a maker and @ manuvacturer ‘woe Certaio requisitions are nade apon the maker ‘who Works, on contract expressed or implied, upon wa. }4erial turmebed by the manuiacturer, and returns the waterie! to his employer m a form prepared for ea’e, The maker ie eet required to pay the tax; that fais on the manufactarer. But there is ho anulogous provision yn relation toV00ks, There Is bo distmotion dawn by | the law between he that makes, by printing aud binding, for ancther, and be thot makes, by printing and vind for bimgelf, ag to the name by which bis vocation sh. be degigneted. He is in each branch the manu‘acturer. Applying these obser vet ons Lo otbers o the several Closses of-cases already meutioned, it ecems that if @ publisher, though owning the copyright, the stereotype pletee, ana furtieting wie materials, employs a printer, on contract or commission, 19 primt aby book or maxa zine, puch printer, w chout other circumstances, may ve bela to be the Manulacturer, and required to pay thé tax on she vaue of ibe Unished book, in case the same bound and finished “by the pri Here the book taken ip the pager by the pier and comes from bis | hand a finished art Though made jor another, he ix, | under the cighty-third section, “the manufacturer or roducer thereo!:’ tor the product is the work of oi8 hand, and he is the directing ageut. Mf the printeg ts done by one party and binding by svother, under coptract with tbe publisher, ibe sheets | being put iato the form of a book betore going out of Khe | prpter’s hands, the printer may be assessed for the value of the printed sheets, andtte binder on the increared | value; for eadh bas made @ iviehed article capubie of be- ing ofed and of vaise in tue market. Where one firm finds the materials, prints and binds the books, and delivers them atastated price to another who pablishes and eelis them, the iormer firm is tho mavifacturer. Where a publishing house furnishes the paper, gon- tracting with a primer todo tho presswork, receives from his bunds the uufulded ebeets, solde and gends them to @ Binder, who binds and returns them to the p whom they are soid, the printer is not the mauulacturer. He b s made no ‘‘good#, wares or merch piete in tbemselyes and adapied to ue pable of belvg ‘more completely 6 or fitted for ure” The wrought material which be has turned ovt 1s nota book, but only uptinished parts of @ book It needs that the sheets should be folded aud put together it some way, by stitching, binding o: ovberwiee, in order to bea useful or merchantable arti- cic, ‘The biider who takes the incomplete work in ihe ole and puts jt ito @ finished condition for use or sale, may-cr may dot be the manu acturer, according to the relation Be sustains to the publisber. In most cases, Lapprehgnd, he ie not the manufacturer, but the pub- lisher is. 1 cuge the birder is the manufacturer, ‘he shail be assessed upon the salable value of the articles,” by section ninety-three, controls everything, owne mivst Of the material, and bas every part of the work done under euch arrangements a8 makes Lim the master of the whole businegs, from the setting of the type to the Jettering of the book. avd the Qnished article in delivered to him for sale. case, and i most cases of this variety, the publisher must be accouated the manufacturer. A publishing bouse baving its place of business in one city, and procuring printing and binding to be done for it WD other cities, under various arrangements with owners of plates, copyrichts, printing presses and bind- eries, the books being delivered to it aud eoid by it at its place of business, may be a manu: rer as w some books and not-a manufacturer as to others, depending on the nature of its arrangements with those that work for it. The agsessr or the assistant assessor must determine the responsibilities of tbe parties in such cases. it is easy, however, to see that the simplest mode of pro- ceeding would! be for the publisher to take out a manu- facturer’s !:ceuse, asgume the responsibility of the mapu- facture, and pay the tax, As but one tax cam be assessed, his coworkers in the production would then be relieved. Where the materia! belonging to a publisher ceasively through the bands of a printer, lithographer, colorist and binder, and reaches finally, before sale, the piace of business of the publisher, he may, doubtless, Daving @ manufsctarer’s license, be auth to ampome the manufacturer's ‘Durden of decision on the assestor or assietant asscrnor, who Will ascertain the reiations between the publisher aud the last worker through whore hance the materials de Printers who own pletes, buy paper, print and bind books, and furnish them to a publishing house, are manu- tacturers. The same fe the case where the publisher owns tne plates or paver, or both, and tbe printer pripte and binds the books, Sufficient bas been eaid, without going through the liet Of Cases suggested, to indicate the principles by which the manufacturer in cach case may be ceterm ined when the facts necessary to # decision appear, It ts apparent that it will comport with the conve- nience of trade for the pubiishor to take license and make retura as a mavnfacturer, soaé to reveve business from the complicated embarrassments to whicb {t would be subjected by obliging revenue officers to inquire inte the detsils respecting arrangemcnis be- tween the coworkers in the bookmaking pro. cess. He is usually the person under whose direc- tion and ‘or whose use the manufacture ‘s conducted, and his arrangements can be readily made so ae to render him the responsible party to whom government agents shou 4} tor returps.§) hose returns will, of course, be for the full value of the book when sold, and will Inciude ali that the printer or binder, or both t her, would be taxed for, in care returns shovid be made by them or either of them. ‘In the genera’, it is of no advantage to the public! that either the printer or the binder workivg on bis m teria! should be decided to be the manufacturer ; for such printer or binder hi lien op the manutactured articie, and may enforce that tien, by retalping tbe property. oF compel the owner by suit Wo reimburse bim for the tax paid. ‘The tax, whoover may be the manufacturer, must be taid on the actus! market value. The one bundred and seventy third section of the act requires that the duty imposed on bocks shall appiy to such as were manufactured or produced and not removed from tbe place of manutacture on the 30tn day of June last. All books, therefore. im the bands on that day of A printer or binder, being the manufacturer though not the publisher, are liabie to tbetax. she same is the cage With Dooks in the possersi0n of a publisher who is at the same time @monutacturer, and ties but one piace of businere where bis finiel and unfinished books | Were deposited. But when a pubjisber | printed and bound, either « . Comm theo ble piace of bugi ber py that place prior to June 30, they tax. removed to be The Harrisburg Un ‘® H® Recount Of the collision and burping of cars on (be Feuneyivanis Central on Wed. Deaduy !net, fn) The gaz suddenly eveaped took fi }, Which immediately comiuunicated with the rubbish, aud consumed every- thing together, Some forty human beings were covsumed with the baggage, or otherwise injured, The cbaried re- tains were gathered up the noxt morning and filed | Beven boxes. Une lady got ualf out of the rubbish, when ber thes took fire and she fell back euffocated. One d five ob!!dren, and a lady lost an a id not’loarn their names, ag they, with a number of wounded perrons, had becu removed before our arrival and sent to biladelphia, Uf the vast oumber burned to ashes with their bag gage, the onmes will probably never be known. Military buttons, watch cases and wheels, breastpins, copper and | silver coin, bair pins, penknives, with melted gold, and per of batf burned grecuback*, were found io the rabbi! Engine No. 131 was crashed to pieces, the smoke stack lying in one place, the wheels in another, and the tender i apotuer. kinds of rubbish seate, windows, doors, stoves, ventilators, beils aud lamps, wore macsed in one geveral coin, There were five care in the train, two were Jestroyed | utterly, and three were vot injured at ail, The fr. | cars were the ones that were destroyed. Jt is imponsibie to s4y who is fo blame for this disaster; but one thing ie certawly repreuensible, and that, 's, looking the doors of the night trains, and it is to be er bo permitted } traveling i | verting thet } | | ARIORST OF ALLFORD COUNTERYRITRA® —On Baturday ever- ag two men, giv g their names as Peter McMahon { Thomas Grant, both claiming to be from Ulster county, this Stato, entered the premises of James W. Keoney, No. oFeltom Market, where McMaton purchased a koife, in may mens for whiel be tendered a five dollar bill, pur- poi ting to be a gewuine leave of the New Ipawich Bak, of New FSiampabire. Not liking the appearaves of the bil) Mr. Keoney deolied taking it, when 3 ther money except Ofty vente in portal cur- or wards found @ one dollar bili, and = Ae the men were leaving the piace ofie Ohown , of Ube Bec precinct, appeared and «rrested both MeMabon and Grant, ith attempting to pare counterielt money, Yee prisoners were srsrched wt the | station boose, and on the person cf MoMabos waa fonnd | $134 in United stater legal tender and ether notes, and {in the porsession of ‘Seant the officer found oe ) #5 Dui on the New ipaice Bank, stmtlag to the one McMauon attempted t© pasa, foer connterfelt $2 bills en the Coro Exchange Bapk, of thin city, besides $112 Ip | good money. Ail the counterfeit notes were miserable intietions of (he geneine, apd peorly eaiculated, 10 ae otive. The prisoners were taken before Justice H: and cummitied to the Tombs for examination, ‘olaimm Bot io bare Known the character of the nove offered by MoMehon A Max Guor 6 4 Lacan Bern Fs00%,—AM alercation ocurred in the \eger beer saloon of Heary Bussiewan, He. 91 Bowery, stout four o'tlock yesterday sorting, Beveeen the proprinor end Daniel Vowel pertag tse of the quarrel 8 friemd of Powell drew a pistol Bee hxed, the ‘bait lodging $n Buesieman'n jeft arm, onveing AM fevers wound, Oilcer Maya, of tho ‘ienth Prvcinct, xtromied Vowel), who was tekon helere Justice Bhavdey an! Led to await an examination, The man who Mecharge'! ho pistol made Lie escape. Personal Inteitiqonce, Major General Jaceph Hower, Ge padior General Cutter, horidan's army: Urinedicr Genoray bite Henry Wor ten, of lowa: Bripadh.’ Genera’ Porphem and Brigadier General Jaekson Harta Rand, were wt ate Ant yontordoy, biisher, by | According to "ue of the exaimples given the publisher THE SOUTHERN M_LITARY PRISONS. po neaphf Han thee beat catgr yong th: Suffering of Var Suldiors. ln May Inst Dr Valentine Mott, Dr. EXterslie Wallace, Professor in J y ‘of Philadelphia, Dr. Ba- wad Delalield, Presidentof the New York College of Physician: J.'1. Ciwrk Hare; Rev. treadwell Walden, rector of St, Clement's church, Philadelphia, and Gouv- neur Morris Witkis, of New Yor! Committee of Inquiry by the U ‘States supstary Commission , to Investigate the reperts of suffering wbich had reuched the public from tbe prisovs ef the South and uinigh to our people and ibe world an authentic statement of (acte, This report has just been publisbod in a pamphlet, The fotiowiog is tbe substance of ihe sb ements giver by returved priscnere ~ TIBBY PASO} The rooms are ove hundred feet by forty. In six of thero twelve hundred United States ofl.cers, of all grades, for months, This pace ailowed them in whieh and take exerelse, ‘Ton fect by two claimed by each man for ali the purposes of liviog At oue time they were unt allowed benches or stoo!s, even to fold their blankets and eit npon them, bu to huddie lke siaves ia the middie passage? at an Gther oply a'luwed to make etoois out of the batrels and boxes they rece.ved from the North; at ail times over: Tun by vermin, in spite of constant abtutious, no cjetu blinkers ever being iseued by the rebels; ‘and Kivg down @t nigct, according to Libby phr: ‘wormed and Govetailed together hke figh in @ basket.” There were Uso stores aod coventy-five windows, all broken, and in winter the coki was intense, Evory prisoner cough from the” damp or cold. Ii was among the Were appointed a window, a rule extremely difficult to observe in tac crowded prisons of the South Often, by accident or un s nu officer Would Go Roar’ & window and be Tw the Pernberton buthtings near by, 4s fourteen shots wore fired in a single day, and very frequestiy a prisoner fet Killed of wounded. It became a matter ef sport to “kil! a Yankee.’ Once tue guard caught sight of Lieutenant Bammond’s hit through a boarded cuclesure, where there were no win dows, avd came within av inch of munéering nim | Major Durner, tbe keeper of Libby, remarked, “be boye are in waut Of practice.” ‘Tho seutry said™he had mace a bet Pe would Kill a d—d Yankee bevore be eam ol! guard.” Almost every prisover had suo au tneident to teil, Throughout the Southern prisov system it is a reg lar spert ty kil) Yonkees, ‘The goarés were never re proved for their willingness to comuit inarder The daily ration in to officers’ quarters of Libby pri £00 WA8 a Bmall loaf of ‘Dread, about ihe size of a inao’r fist, made of Indian mea! Sometimes it was made {om wheat flour, bot of vari it weighed a little ever balf a pound. Wi t weighing two ounces, & ; | “ have preferred the horee feet iu my father’s siable | The corn bread began to be of the roughest awd coars | description. Portions of the cob and nusk were of d ground in with the bard that the prisone: To ren- der the bread eatable they pra » and made mush opt of it, but the crust they could not grate, Now and then, alter jong intervals, often of many weeks, a little | meat was given them, perhaps two or three monthfuls. | Ata later period they received a pint of biack peas, with some vinegar, every week. 1bo pens were often full of worms, or mwaggote in a cbrysalis state, which, when they made soup, floated on the eurface. ‘Those who were entirely dependent on the prigon fare, And who bad no friends at the North to seud them boxes of food, began to eufler tho horrible ageoy of craving food, and feeling themselves day by day losing strength. Dreame and delueions began to distract their minds, |“! grew so foolish in my mind,” says Captain Cathoun, “tbat 1 used to blame mysol! for not eating more when at bom The subject Of food engrossed my whcle thonghte. But the moet unaccountable and shameful act of a)! wae yet tocome. Shortly after this ceuerai diminution of rations, in the month of January lagi, the boxes, which before bad been regularly delivered, aod im good order, were witbbeld, No reasop was given. Three hundred arrived every week, aud were received by Colovel Ould, Commissioner of Exchange; but, instead of being distri. Duted, were retained, and piled up in warehouses near by, and in full sigbt of the tantalized amd hungry cap- tives, 10 the number of threo thousand, at least. At length five or six were distributed during the week. Scores were stolen For offences. trivial or serious, prisoners were con- Bigned to cells beneath the prison, the walls of which ‘were damp, green and slimy. They were never warmed, and often so crowded that some were obliged to stand uj) ‘all night. Dead bodies, too, were pia in the cellar, ‘and very often were partly devoured by hoge, doge and rats. At the time of Kilpatrick’s raid some negroes. pointed to the cdliar: ‘‘ Dug big nole down dar, massa— torpedo in dar, sure |’ ‘ Shonid Kiipatrick succeed iu en- tering Richmond,” seid Richard Turner. ‘the prison anthor ities would biow up the prison and a) its inmates.”” “There if enough there to send every Yankee to hell,” Lieutenant Latouche was overbeard to say. ‘Turner him- seif said, ix the presence of colove! Farnamorth, io an- ; ®Werte the question, Was the prigon mined?” + Yes; | and I would have Diowp you al) to Hades before | would have suffered you to be reecued.’”’ Tb remark of Bishop Jones is corroborative as w as curious, in reply to the question ‘‘whether it was a Christian mode of warfere to blow up defencelese pri- sonere”’ ‘I suppoge the authorities are satiefied on that point, though ! do pot mean to justify it.” This passed comment. 11 is a 60 to remember that the inspector of tibby, Richard Turmer, was @ negro whipper by \ trade. 3 BELLE I8LR. Here {s an encloture variously estimated to be from three to six acrea in extent, eurrouuded by an earthwork About three feet bigh, with aditch on either side. The terior has something of the look of an encampment, a number ley tenis being set in rows, with ‘‘streete”’ between. These tent, rotten, torn, full of holes—poor shelter at any rate—sccommodated only a small propor | Uon. From ten to twelve thousand men have been im- prigoped in this small space at one time, turned into the epclowure, }ke 80 many cattle, to find what resting-piace they cou'd. Bo crowded were they that, at the least, ac- | cording to the estimated given them, there could | have been but a space two feet by seven, and, at the most, three feet by nine per man—bardly'a generous allotment even for a/*hospitable grave.” Some were 60 for(anate as to Ged shelter in the tents, bat even they were ofien wet with the rain, amd almost frozen when winter sect ip. Fvery day some places Were made vacant by diseases or by death, as some Were taken to the hospital, avd some to burial, But thonsands bad no tente, and vo shelter of any kind. Nothing wae provided for their accommedation. Lumber was plenty in a country of foreste, but not a cabin or shed was Built, or allowed to be butit. Here thousands Ube sand jor their bede and the eky tor their cove under fog, Taiz, cold, snow. hundreds bilan come, Mempb's, two or three inchee der deep on the ground in mes, aud flowed in masres upow the rapids on either side of the island. The 1nen resorted to every expedient to keep from periebing. Tbey loy iv the ditch, as the most pro. tected piace, heaped upon one snother and lying close together, ag one of them expreaeet, it, “ike bogs in win- ter,’ taking turns of to who should haye the outside of the row. Ip the morning, the row of tbe previous night was marked by the motionless forms of those “who were sleeping on in their last sleep”—frozen to death! Pvery day, dcring the wivter season, numbers were conveyed away stiff stark, baving fajien asleep in . Some of the men dug holes the 4 which to take refoge All through the night crowds of them were heard rupning up and down, to keep thomeelves from freezing, And thie fate threatened theta even more iban it would have threatened most men exposed to an equally severe temperature, even with such thin clotbipg and imaceqnate rhe'ter—for they we rving’ Roekiike y Lepecismene of which bave seen), meat often tainted and sugpiciourly like ma) meat, two or thi spoonfuls of rotten beave, soup. thin and briny, offen with wore flosting on the surface, | made up their food, None of these were given together, and the whole ration wae ever one-baif the tity, necesrary for bare life. Henr the words of the prise onerk:— “There was bo name for our honger’’ ‘I was bungry— pretty nearly starved to death.” “‘I waked up one night and found myself gnawing my coat sieevr “4 to dream of Laving something good to eat.’ 1 walked the slroete for many @ night: | could not sleep for hunger. st fleeh and strength for want of food.’ “if 1 wer t bere a week | could not tel! you nalf our suffering. ‘These sentences form the very poem of misery and storvation. “Lice were in all their quarters,’ Vermin and dirt evcrosted their bodies, They were sore with lying in | the sand. None—not oven the sufferers with diarrhea wore allowed to vieit the gipke during the night, and the morning the ground was covered and saturated with filth, The wells were taistec: the Air was filled with disguating ouorr, ° any wore taken sick daily. but were allowed to suffer for days before they were removed ¥o the hospitals, aud when this wer done, it was often #0 that the haif of ther died before reaching \t, or at the very moment i their names were being recorded. There wae a Rospita) tevt on the island, which was al- | ways fon of the sick. It bad po floor: the sick aud dying were aid ou straw, sod jogs were their only piliows ‘if you or maw ® horse dying,’ anid one, * wouldn't we put some straw ander bis head? W ‘deat bis head on a ing in his agony)” mne HOsrITALS. The hoepttals for our prisoners were virtually worse than the prisons themeelves, Dir. Ferguson testifies that while the wounded were under treatment the nouriab- ment and stimulation they received were not sufBcient to ‘ve them s proper chance for recovery, | sun surprised hat more do oot dit. Berlding and covering were very dirty and offessive. In three months, out of 2,800 = Henin, about 1,400 died. The horpiials were nothing eas than hospitats: for murder PBYSICAL CONDITION OF TUB *BURLS— 1 TRB RONTH. The investigations of rebel aod general testimony, conel PRISONS ‘The prisons committes, aud in the comeecti tbe nad accurate observations of 0 eral paces | ae Judge flare, We seed nat fey that oor ‘prisoners: ure weil, aud even tindiy and Gapefuliy treated ia ail the particubrs in which the repel antharitios aro ro barbar. ously cravl, The ranons ara beter nan tbese oeually givon to 0} soldiers, They hava room tO walk, to | Diay od ty live, Kore joiawarein dub @ pom moe wetance e FeQuiFed 10 de olnaNy, And tO ¥ iyo in tom healt, to ther c6n ‘Thie part of tine, The preoners io suas in the river, eules (hat uo prisoner shout go within Loree feet of the | of the co e's inquiry is full and conscientious, and | furnishes a strange and marvellous contrast to the treat- meat of our prisovere iu Richmond. We may accept the report as bistory. te AFFAIRS AT FORTRESS MONROE. fell into our hands near mention of arly fougut brewart succecded ; HOOKERS AND LRE'S FORCES, 864, kk, Beer F Sedge, nes AA Ag Up to the meeting of C Hooker baa made no Mr. Wm. H. Stiner's Despatches. | pent ag mgt ~ soo iv at aay from whieh wu spe Fonrauss Monnow, Sept. 20,2864. | proximation can # mai r 94 EXCHANGE OF THISONERS ae Sen's anMy, is apparently progressing very favorably. Yesterday see fd . ae, ad = tee aes tones Mujor Jobo E, Muiford, Assistant Commysisner of Fx: | Naw Youx Huxaic, March 26, 1864, estima” gente } change, 6lacied from bere for Varina, or Aiken's Landing, | “Southern History (Pollard’s) gives, < 50,000 with ene thousand privates and twenty-four officers, redo | oy oie pines nn any, prisoners, from Fort Deloware, for whom he will bring atbern Histore’ eo gat BOOM se ees ccs ones ee 160,800 bick a like sumver of Union pricopers. The provisioas of | New York Pub oh 8) ‘t86as gi sg “ne jes't0s the new cartel haye not as yet transpired: but it is save a... 8 Se of the nes hind the very best opportu. | + complelionexpreseed himself not only well ploxsed with | of ves: | the fastest gunboat aflo to avnonnes that Major General Butler, Comm sstoner of 20s for accepting Excbange, would accept of no terms except the moet Yon. [Thin paper ater orable to the government he represents, al . | portion or auc Tebe! Cove. | eo > ral Walker, exptured Jatt Jame, WDE Ags peen confined at the General Tiespi'al Binge thei, kbd become convaleecent, ‘Was eont UP yexerday, to be txcbanged for Gene: Baritet, Of the Ninth corps, captured op the GOUh of July cfter she expiceion of tha mine in frony of H Votereburg. lt is a sioguiar circumstatice thrt both sexe Are @ack minus a jog, General Waiker favieg terad an amputation shortly after his capture. Geperal eit had his woodeu Jeg fractured, and lost that, But trie onn be easily replaced and a mow one fitted, The lelier wos expected frem Kichmora some time ago w give bis testimony batore the court of inquiry, ef which Maver Geoeral Hancoek ix president, which is tevestigat- ing the facts conmected with tye disaster. Vhe court, howewr, having since adjournec, there will te no need jor euora! Bartete’s statement yn an official form, THK CONPITION OP THR GENERAL HOSIRTAL, of whieh Assistant Medical Director Dr. «ly SieClelian, SA surgeon in eburge, bas been critically ex wmuned into @y Brigadier General Goorge FP. Shepley, manding abe’ district of Kastern Vérgit General pepley epemrt several days in his inspection, and on ite of i Hs eniire Status, but iauded Dr, MeCbollan’s ability very ho highly, ®nd stated that Iu all his experience with tho 4 © army he‘had not come across eo'wel! reguiatet @ hospital as thatnenr Fortress Monroe. To-day Lieutenant Colonel | \uneo, Medios inspector of the United States army, is wakowg an official inspection of Dr. MeCletian’s hospitals, baying Completed n similar labor at the Balfour General Jlospita) at Vertamouth, of woich Dr. J. H. Frantz, | 1} U.S. 4.48 chief surgeon, APAIRS AE TER GOSPORT NAVY YARD have lately assumed a very jjvely aspect, The womer- coe vessels of this eqvadrow are apt to got out ef order, a Dg the nearest station tO the blockading , Any vessel heeding repairs .is gent there to be potin ship éhape, At thie moment there is a large fleet is waiting for repaire. Chief Fagineer John H. Le eupe powers to finish tho work required: but the facilities of- fered at this yard are so very !imited that aemal) shop Q) rat of Albert A. Nunes, i ing res! Trage ie data, aud there are many re: ures as neurest the true ones. the idea that any matorial ‘ngstveet’s army was transferred to the t nceliorsviilé. No euch theory is entertained io avy o™arter mow; but io the smoke of Wat disaster it WAS (Rooted. figures show where tho rebel pressure really #3, ad attest the good conduct of the soldiers and wollors ab Saiolk, veder the weightiest resporsibitities. The army should wo jonger be deprived of its honors fu rewards because of the unexpected reverse on tho apidan, Further detais cannoy be given without trenching pon th JOHN J. PECK, Major G Marrie Avena —Loweens —Un Mond: mm Bt official dvcuments. The allusions to Hooker's ope. a aro made vojely to shed proper light upon the campaigo, atd pot for the purpose of criticism. peral Y morning, September areb, by the Rev, <, ® Atwill, oun AWILL tO Many i, Crissy, daughter ef the late James Lowerre, ail of this city. Arwit.—Winrins —On Thureday, September 15, ia the ‘hurch of the Holy Commuuion, Bleomfetd, Wiscousin, y the Rev Wm. after, Rev Rieep—Nunes.—On Thursday, uygne, Usmow Riko, MIA JANS, eldest daughter ad Fourtl ged 16 years, month ani atives apd frionds are reepecttuliy invited to at tond the funeral, from tho residence hiending engineer, is exerting all bis | street, between Third September 22 days. tb avenues, with E . arwmi, Assistant Minister of St. Luke's church, New York,to Mary, e' est daughter of Wm. H. Whiting, of Oakhurst, Wrs- consi at the Church of St. Francis Xavier, by the Rev, Father De + tO MARY Catmanaye, dapghter jy all Of this city, y morning, September i. J. aad Sarah Jace { her parents, 128th ut fur. 3) afternoon, at four o'clock. aes ) papers please copy. North would be able ito turn out more work nxenp.—On Sanday, September 25, after a short ip a ebovier space of time. Among the ships | iljncsa, Joun FREDERIC, ‘only son of George and Louisa at Goeport awaiting repair are ome of the | Parnard, aged 8 years and 11 months. crack vessels of the Bavy—the doubic ender Osceolu, Commander Jobo M. B. Clity: the famous Buta, Lieuten- ant Commander Aomer C. Biake, which was considered by Mr, Welles); Monitors Ca- nonicue, Captain Parrott, and Saugus; gunboat Gettys- urg, ientenant RA. Larson; Aries, Captain Weiles; ‘alypeo, Acting Magter Stewart: Crusader, Acting Voluu- teor Lievtenavt Peter Hayes: Tristam sbandy, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Fd. F. Pevens, aud a oumber of others. IDE UNITED STATES GURBOAT GLAUCUS, Commander ©). JI. B. Oaldwell, arrived to day from Nor- folk. Making the run in cne hour. The distauce is sftcon miles. She lett at Lalf-past twelve o’cluck, and anchored off Fortrese Monroe at half-past one o’clock. It fe claimed she would bave made the run in even better time bad she been 1m better trim. Commander Caidwel! is the gentleman who commanded the gunbost, in the early part of the war, which de- stroyed the ovgtructiong and cut away the chain betweon o Forts Jackson and. £t. Philip, previous to tho | attend the funeral, f 2 capture of New Orleans. This’ was acc-mplished eee under | a Deavy. opens fire from the two forts, | o'clock. ovly four bundred yards distant, thus opening Baewne.: the gate for the whole fleet to pags up the river, the same | Fort Washington, on Saturda: thing having been repedtediy but unsuccessfully at- tempted by the celebrated operators. On the fol- Jowing night Commander Caldwell went up in an opeo Dont, and successtully sounded ‘datween the two forts |. Without being discovered, and on his returp made the signa) previous!y agreed upon between Commander Cald- ‘well aud Admiral Farragut, which resulted in the great- eat naval combat known to the civilized world, and iu which the Old Salamander gained a wor!d- wide reputation as tbe greatest nara! in of modern times. Com- mander Caldwell afterwards apd for # long time was jo command of the celebrated ironciad ram Feeex, which cb ap inary repatation for the mary brilliant deeds she has performed eince the breaking out of the rebellion: ae Preset! officers atieched to the Glauc 78 — Commander—C. BB, Caldwell. Tieu'nan'—A. P. Suel). Paymester—W. J. Doodiess, ‘Surgeoa—Scollav Parker sy asia 1. ipseo, William Henderson and F. W. jowne. Enginecros—Firet Avsietant, Jobn Tallon, Second Assist- ante, J. D. Newton and James Gordon: Third Assistants, are ae fol- str Ire invited t Invited to attend the funera St. George’s church, Flushing, this Monday, at twelve Ferry boats leave James slip and Thirty: fourth street, Painful iliness, Many The relatives law, No, 306 aad 2t The relatives und friends of the family are respectfully Buoomer.—On Friday, September 23, Wa. Lucas Boomer, in the 62d year of his age. Notice of fanera! in o-morrow’s paper. Philadetp ia papers please copy. Baapion.-—On Friday, September of ber con, George Bradish, at Ba: Mrs. Li caetia BRapisn, relict of G ‘Tetb year of Ler de, Fi attend the funeral, from the residence of bis Parents, Myrtle avenue, near Broadway, Brooklyn, on Tuesday afternoon. at one o'clock Heyry 23, at the residence Fiashing, L. 3.5 ‘ge Bradish, io the her friends ey relatives, and thoce of her son, are Pook a er Brapex.—Gn 21 years. ‘The frienda of the family are rive at elev et Sunday, 'Soptember 0 A. , without further notice, at . M. 25, Gronce Brapen, ttully invited to ital, Fifty-fourth reet and Fifth avenue, this (Monday) morning, at ten —At the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 7, September 24, Wat. H. H The friends and relatives are invited to attend the Cowsx.—On Sund: funeral, at the above place, on Tuesday afternoon, at ‘three o'clock. Trains leave (hambers street at une P. M » September 25, after a long and JWRN, aged 60 years. ives and friends of the family are requested idence to aitend the funeral, from the (ng at tae ocloak to précecd te tbe Cemetery ot more e._ o’clook, to to etery ol the Hoy Grose, Flatbush. 7 of her son-in. CyassEx.—Op Friday, September-23, Mrs A. Axx Cus The ranges will take Cassy.—On Saturday, eet, Epwarp Cassy, @ nai ee! aged 37 years. Dana —On Saturday, September Winuax Srermex Dana, only son of Wm. relict of Edward Uiassen, aged 82 years, 1 place at her late residenco, 102 Oolumbia street, thie Monday, at i2 o'clock September 24, at 614 Grand tive of Tulla, county Clare, friends and acquaintances of the family are respect fully requested te atiend the futerat DOOD, at one o’clcok, from his late re Limerick and Clare papers pleace copy, 24, month }, this (Monday) after- ‘sidence, of dysentery, ae orem ees peak and W. B. Bagley. B. Dana, aged 8 years and 8 m: nts. junner—Williat LordaD. iat! tri Master's Mate—Reuven T. Ryder and Charles W. | ane Green riends of the family are invited to per. Captain's Clerk—¥F. Hi, Price. Paynasier’s Cleh—Wm. RK. Derrickeon. Foutness Moynon, Sept. 22, 1864. THE FURNED #TORKSMIP BLANDIT WINE, The actus! joes by the destruction of this memorable ‘vesee) falls fer short of the frst eetimate. When every- rr take pla —The funeral cen, on Tuesday mornii o'clock, from No. 86 West Eleventh street. Dr. ervices of Eowaro Droxr will ce this (Monday) morning, at toa o'clock, at No. 15 Morris place, West Forty-second street. » at nine Dorr —At her late residence, 465 Forty second street, ghter of W The rolati thing was 10 cirorder and confusion noone could mako | "OK at Newark, N. apy positive caiculation on the amount of damage done by | tember 24, Fanmim ivfant the conflagration. Some wiseacres placed the figures as | Carrie T. F: jon five buDdrea thousand dollars, and, in fact,! bad ap idea that seven or eight hundred thou- sand dollars was rather a fair average. Yesterday, how- ever,! learned, on official authority, that the total loas to Stores amounts to @ fraction over one hundred and eighty thoueand dollars, and that to tbe vessel trifling in com- parison. The Brandywine was ao old bulk, and fit for no other than receiving service, When the Navy Depart- ment Selected her as a storevhip they made a great mis Stores should never be kept on shipboard if shore ities cam be had, especially wheo the storesbip bas likewise to serve as a recely- ing rendezvous. The loss of the vessel was severely fe't by the small gnnboath depending upon her for aupplies; but Paymaster Washington Irving, naval torekeeper for the North Atlantic bloekading squadron, bas a large row of Coe warehouses at the Gosport Navy Yara fitted up for hie stock, and wil Eres, apy ores on Woard of another reesei, should one be sent here replace the Brandywine. ‘THE BYUINOCTIAL STORM, terday afternoon a sbower of rain inaugurated the sem!-annual equinoctial storm, whieh at thie moment is still raging. be wind is the vortbeast. Thus far the water has not risen B8¥ond the usual height, and everything bids {mir that the storm wil! deal gently with us and tke shipping. ry to The Siege of Suffeta—Chanceliorsvilie. 70 THE EDITOR OP TRE HBRALD. Naw Yonx, Sept. 20, 1864. aged 32 Salterville, N. J.. this Hig remains wi}! be taken to Greenwood Ce: Michae) and Kate Louisa ‘The friends of Her (riends and acqu: brother, aged 2y Foos- On sunday, Sept, 25, ears, 2 months and New York, after a short illness, Orartia Apa Derr, eldest ‘m. Parker, aged 28 yaurs es and friends of the family are invited to attend the funera), this (Monday) a:ternoon, at two on Saturday, Sep- H. and J, daugbter of James itzgerald, aged 1 year, 3 months aod 17 days. Sept. 25, Joux Fos, of consumption, days. The friends of the family are invited to attend the fu- Hare —On Sanday, Sept. 26, K. Hale, ‘The funeral will take place fi Haarvey.—On Sund.y, Iness, Many liarvry, wi low of aged i ATy, infant James neral, trom the residence of his mother, Salter’s lane, day (Monday), at twelve o’olock M. metery. daughter of year apd 7 mouthe, from the residence Darents, Seventy-ninth street, between Fourth snd Fifth avenues, this (Morday) afternoon, at one o'clock. hs family are invited to attend, 26, after a lingering jarvey, aged 72 tances. and also those of her Micbae! Smith, and those of her son inlaw, Peter Simmons, and also James Welsh, of her july it 22, after a sbort ilinees, Natmasser DP. Jaxes, tormerly of Northampton, Mase , aged 36 years and | month. Kxnnicax.—On Subday, September 25, aftor a short iI Her friends and acquaintat ness, Buncer, wi’e of James Kerrigan, a native of the parish of Baltieadare, county Sligo, Ireland, »ged 40 vears. are invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 295 Mulberry street, on Tuesday aiternoon. at une o'cloc! McKuxsa—On Sunday. September 25, Jaurs McKkexsa, ear! ‘The irionds and ives of bis parevts, Patrick and Catheriae McKenna, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from No 26 Madison street, to Calvary Cemetery, The truth of history and justice to the little army of | this (Monday) afternoon, at two o'c'ock. Suffolk demand that 1 rbould place this paper before tbe |, MANHR-— Tnomss Mana, non of, Wilanyeland, wil readivg world, through the medinm of your colui be buried from lence, 448 Green CAMPAIGN OF 1863. “The Southern Hietory’’ bas the following on the cam paige in April, 1863, which locates the position of Lieut. General Lougetrect, viz: Now ibey (the revels) confronted Ra nock, and hovered upon his to the Jetomac, wiiile another portion of our rear, and quite upon the the enemy from the ia flank, within strik- ing dieta: forces man flank of Norfotk. Longtircet bad been promised sixty thousand men for bie spring work, and was ready about the last of March to open ibe campaign for the recovery of Southeast Vir- nia. He ordered Hill and Pettigrew to make a serios of demonstrations at Newbern, Little Washington aed other points !n North Carolina, with the design of causing troops to be sent from Norfolk, Fortress Monroe and other Et ‘almost int Yocalities. In comtequomee 1 was ordered, on the Lorbot | 4 MCGOVERN. 00 April, to despatch a considerable portion of my force to Genera! Foster. Longstreet, advieed of the order and suc- cess of bis feinis, crossed the Blackwat day advatoed, with about twenty. upon Suffolk. On the 16th of April fointe upon Little Wasbington ana gent those troops to He followed soon after with the remainder of bis commend. The rebel force in North Carolina was estimated by General roster as very large. apd, in my judgment, fer above the retl rambors, If his estimates wore correct, thew there must bave beea with F. treet after the concentration more than fifty thousand mes. Probably forty thousand js @ safe eetimate; end he had associated with Bim each able West Pointers as J ieutenant Generals Hill, Hood and Andersen French, Garnett, &e, Pe rr of tl 16th of ye reflected the Confederate expectations jn regard to Longstreet’s army in the following: manded at such by, A eet, may be defect + rederieksburg. by anc an offer ns Lovgat to attend the fuvera), from the No. 31 Weat Warren street, South Brooklyn, thie ( afternoon, at half past two o'clock. Michael dicLaughii the funeral, from hi op Tuesday. en ae A. M repose 1s soul, from one o'clock. to attend the funeral, residence, 80 Leary st two o'clock. this (Monday) afternoon, at two o'viock. ted to attend, y , September 25, Davin, the young. est son of Richard‘and Mary Murpby, aged 2 years, 1 mooth and 25 days. Fhe trionas The relatives avd friends of the family are requested residence of his Monday} McLavomix.—On Sunday, September 25, Berxarp ‘The relatives and friends, an cGovERN.—O0 are bane meaky J i jate rex ), No. His remains will bo taken to the Trans- figuration church, corner of Mott and Park streets, at where high mass will be read for the thence to Calvary Cemetery, at Saturday, September 24, the beloved , aged 31 years, MoLavenn, in the 67th year of bis ago. 1d those of his ited to 55 Baxter attend street, ‘The friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited Wexjord, Ireland, The friends aud ee en of beng SS a] fully invited to att ‘uneral, from residence, No, $3 North Fourth street, this Creer aiternoon, st haif-pars two o'clock. Her remains will interred in Calvery Cemetery. Navin.On Sunday, September 25, of Daniel pete he native of Kings county, ears. and qoqusintances are respectfully jav ited to atteud the funeral, Tneaday witerooon, two fa {rom 672 Second ton, "fier frig street, Ourocn.—On Saturday moro on v enue, to the depot in September 24, Joan Cisoe, pane 46 years, 4 months and 14 days. The ives ed wife of ‘hee hick will take place from her inte eet, this (Monday) Her remains will be convey: Neweonr.—In Williamaburg, on, Saturday, 24, Haxxan Newrors, the belov port, in the 46th year of her age, a native of the county of afternoon, at ed to Flatbush are re- late Mre. Nevin, relict and friends of tbe family are respecttw'y invited to attend the fuperal, (rom bis late theran Cometery,, 1.. J., this (Monday) after: residence, Lu- noon, at three O’Cosnms.—On Sanday, September 26, Caantas O'Con- 56 years. latives of the family are respectfully mite ft y from his ine residence, 231 (tonday) afternoon, at one Martiead, on Ta » an event ie ecarcely within the conge of probability, Jo spite of (he high hopes of the Benth the siege was | Orch, Gaga}, etvor los ca a ee ee KBLL, & Dative of the pariab of Lromine, county Cork, vii Ireland, aged The frends invited to attend ‘uperal, (rom aan this eutul » | oO . ol Rovempber 2 Post. the Relay House and Buffolk campaign September 20, Jone Lorr, VU wae dari, giao alone. ¢ paraiiel campaige ef Lon, ey made Rin coup mi * hance) ye but jackeow, while Grant had te 0 wi reas ‘The offective fodern! force wb the enteet wan nearly fourteen'ibourand, wih taree small wooden gunboats, ‘This was distriboted on Hiner of about two've miles in Oxtend. No deat wns ocpervenced by our arma. RAPP AW ANNOEN. During tho presence of Lengaiveet's wing at Sato ik, Tea, with J ckfon's wioy, was confronted by Weoarmy Hooker, Horker wos vavined of overy change tn my front, ond neared that! wenld bh ld Langetreet sa long on ponsible iM order that he mignt destroy Leo, He wan urged jo strike Beforo wid Could We Rank ty the Rapinn, Por’ fn divhlon oF A portion of jened Loe in TrapLen of Ww te dead 10 @, ¢ ob MB HO. tor his servants and horse \ Ninety-thira regiment N. The realizes and Be ee pers . ion Ho it iy vied to attend (he funeral, from the resident Ki ‘West Tenth sireet, this (Monday) aftern: Quicuxy.—On Saturday, Sortomber 24, A dative of Temshoe, Qreens county, o'oloel 08 OF brother tn-law, om ber jury © Company D, M., in the 86th sear of leo tile mom. ‘om pany No.4, Ro, 71 at one Many Queurr, Lind, ‘The funeral will take place from her Inte ree'dence, 41 Bewvran,—At Dobb's Ferry, N. Clarkeon street, (bis (Monday) afternoon, at tw o’cloek, , on Friday, Septem. Faascxs M., wile of Chas. Schipper and Vaughter Of the Inio John Boreon Ihe friowmle of tho omily ore invited to attend the ik, The romaine fon ral from theresdenes of %, Taylor, Lobb's Ferry, this Monday) & Lernoun, at ove o'oloc! iiieeeal ——— taken to White Plaivs for interment, ‘Train leaves Hud- sn River Ean depot, Chambers streci, at balf-pest ren A. M. ongeutur.—Afler @ long and severe illness, of consump- tion, Tuomas SKeLLy, @ native of New York, aged ears. wae can in te areca 0 al two o'clock, frem his late residence, 286 East stevexg —Og Sunday, ber 25, of wounds re- ceived Bt Toe baine 0) te Wildoraees,” May” by Canis Sergeant Company B, Eixty six! New Yor Volunteer, ‘Therelatives and friends of the family are most re- spectiuily invited to atteud the funeral, from bie late residence, 337 East Ninth street, on Tuesday afternoon, at balf-past one o'clock, SHaNNow.—On Sunday, September 26, CaTuaRine Suan- NON, ‘n the Ham yeeeof har - a ‘The relatives and friends Yiost réspectfuily invit to attend the funeral, t's (Mouday) ‘aiternooneat, balt- past one o’clock, from her ate residence, No. 22 Vande- ‘wate: streot, and from thence to Calvary Cemetery. St Lepor’.—On Sundry, September 25, after @ loug pg hn illness, Zactakias Bt, Lepasa, in the 23d year of his age. ‘the {riends of ihe family are respectfully invited to at- tend the funeral, trom bis late residence, Nu, § Hague strect, this (Monday) afternoon, at two o’ciock. The re- mains will be taken to Cavalry Conetery for interment. Sligo (Ireland) papers please popy. Woontry,—aAt the Pensacola Hospital, om friday, cep. tomber 2, Geonae A. Wooi.ay, late of Jersey City, in the 23th year of hisage. Woon.—On Sxturday, September 24, Wiulam a. Woon aged 46 years, Vormont papers please copy. Wrsigrvint —in Brookiyn, on Saturday, September 24, Renkooa. wife of 'ames Westervelt ‘Tho fneral will take place this (honday). one o'clock, from the residence of her Cox, 48 Stanton street, Rrookiya, Woom.—At Greenpoint, on afternoon, at rother, J. S. 23 days, imiiy ure respectfully ’ The relatives a Tiends of the invited ty attend the funeral, bis (Monday) afternoon, ad two o’elock, from the residence of bis grandmotber, Mra. Joun A. Boutelle, Colyer street, east of Kckford, Green- point, reste, On Sanday, September 18, in the z4th year of bis a. Ihe body will be taken 10 St. .odrew’s church, Duane- sireot, at bine o'clock, this (Monday) morning, when solems requiem mess will be oifered up for the repoze of his sout, The relatives aud ‘ricnds of the family are Mest respectfully invited to attend. The funeral wil? take place this (Monday) arter.con, at two o’c! from the church. Jans, Waser, re forwarded by every steamer in the rs for or from Liver:o adian line, whieh or frem the Contin -Southamypton,. @.Laverpool New York New York HAVANA, NASSAU, N. P., KINGSTON, JA,, AND NEW ‘ ORLRANR. yeOR Rastau any Havaxa—Steamship Corsten, from New an of mm KINGSTON, J—Bteamshiv Montezuma, frem Rew Yorb For Havana—Steamship Eng e. from New York Sept 28. Steamship Laberty, from New York Oct |. Steamship Columbia. from New York, Oct 5. OnE NEW OuUEAxs—Steamship Yazoo, from New York —. al Pr Btommaisip Emily 1 Souder, from New York Bept 28 Steamship Morning Star, from New York, Oet 1. Steamship Champiee. from New Yor Oct 5, B.eamsbip Suevo Nada, from New York Oct& — %& Steamship Evening Star. from New York, Oct 15. Steamamp Ariel, from New York Oct 19, Stoamehip George Cromwell, from New York Oct 8 SPECIAL NOTIOR. All letters and packages inte the New Yous Ht Ali fetters anud packages intended: far BRALD “Port of Now York, September 95, 1864. ‘VED ARRI eat gonboat Tisiphone, Capt de Marivault, New Orleans, 9 . Steamship Thames (U 8 tranaport), Arey, Fortress Mon- Toe, to US Quartermaster: ‘Sicamahip Tiilic (U 8 transport), Bowne, Fortress Mon- Poe, 32 hours, to US Quartermaster. . Schr Jane Fish, Harris, Cala Bent Montrose, Banter, Calaer'S) dase Schr M H Ready Read, Boston. ‘BEI Bark Geo Marenand (Pru: Also one bark. Wind at sunset NW. eburday morning, was Hows’ Back by her coset rllot | Assisinnce: was sent io her 0 servicesiof a Hell Gate pilot were refused. wii probably come off with damage on the next high tide, OUMRIMNDAL Rockland Astb int. from the yard of Robs rockett, a schoons tons, cal jompeon . he isowted tn ockiand, and will be commanded by Cape 001 jn ; 17th fast, from the yard of Messrs C'S Pen- ary Emma. of about 1100 tone, to be commanded by Capt H A Patten, The tol! table aives a harbors. of New York. Bos summary of the ress bef 2 ton, Philadelphia. Bai’ ne sot Bow Orienne, of the latest accounts from each of those ports:— Netice to Mariners. TEMPORARY FIXED LIGHT AT MOMILE POINT, ALATAMA, Orr VGATHOUSR BRGNKERE, ) Srv ann Orn Dieter New Opixans. Sept) 1868. * A Fixed it of the sixth order has been tem. Tliy at Mobile Point on the sovshwest bastion of Fort omgai, near te old Heliihouse at am elevation of SbOut 38 feet above the level of the ses. ¥ i = ing of September 2, 1864, and will Herecfune be ited an to sunrise, until tha tower can be. re- vacad by one of the fourth order. Sand Teland, Ala. and a ‘Ligit will shortly be estabiiabed o and dive wotice given of ita exhibition. ; ‘ BY order oF Ine MO RONZANO. Acting LM Bogineer. NOUIH AND LOWESTOFT SANDE. as ciuaner ce’ placein thoes Base . , ahaa oe Base, ovauneing changes in the buoyage thereof will be forth Feot ‘The North Scroby Buoy will be moved 10 the northward Uke South Corton Buoy will be moved te the southward 4 “"The South Corton Spit Buoy will be moved to the sovtn- Fixe Southiveat Corton Spit Buoy will be moved ina 8 56 B The Iloim Elbow Baoy wil! be moved to the eastward ove- Maths Rant Holm Buoy will be moved to the eagtwand three cai "The Raat fetm F aieriete Boos, ert 4_ marked Holm ‘cabl ce_trom the ‘A new Buoy, striped black and white, ‘beart Hote’ toon nd the Gresnt Heim Hook Buey’ wilt phe Routh Tolm Bury will be moved to the southward 2 we East Newcome Buoy will be moved to the southward in a 8 ERE eA Barnard Buoy wit be moved. tn a. by BM au 'd the tight porary Fixe ny a bles, and welll be ie Bouts toner Marnard i ONR E direction 4 cables. This ‘be colored red, an: marked “Routh Barnard,” and the stattand bail om it wil! write Gorehits ey will De removed, and a now biey, 0, binok, and My shay Lae z ihe Position of the Covehiiie juoy, and inarked “Inver e? pink And. while and marked «ee ee AEN ad aa OE W tection, ¢ ; bles from the North Bat “The mark en and rings of the ‘eo when placed will be a reer (BE BRRTHON, Secretary Aig onxe, PR, Set 6—No Am vessel io pert. Axmarcan, Orr Patunn Pe arr 2% Montreal, at Deal; he. re Aw! nT.) ‘or! bey Eleciric, Ame! sa. town, and & Jacobs, »! fi teonae nie ark ne ties 1. ne, Wopt il, Surinam, at 4 ipbta Rept re aiselecna, B'b Bheyaras i Livcrpoe merican Ports. & arr ache eat irks Harricen Leib, and ; Derk Lady Bute. steamer © a Wiain, viene i din (Are, Stews, easBETRIE ce Maa” fh tate pid steamship Saxom, Matthews, owt Ma keri Brace, Seoniuegens vat. Al Neat Psat ity Wmper. Bots ; Stritor, Mawnrds, Bain; OM Penn, ‘Boston | Henry. Dobby ‘ps 23—Arr steamer Potom ara iy sata wr eanen ane a ETS Basia Lou's, Naeh, Rook'and (or NYore.