The New-York Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1866, Page 2

MORAVIA. IFR AND TIMES T2 CITY AND SPIELRE —KNIGHTS O REAR AUSTER- LITZ—A } dont Buaw, Moravio As there wos nothing to detain we longer 1o of Nikolsburg, I retuned to the Moravian capital on the evouing of tho 18l Found the country roads eyery where «closely blocked etroating soldicrs ‘and army wagons; nlong tho railroad every house containing cholera patients. Tisiving throvgh & dreary stretch of forest to make a cut off, my ungaiuly Slawakian amused me with o pleasant sain of how he once carried a stranger through there who i od sudden who had au ‘imiense auount’ of -un-yn{h him—some $400—and which hie might Lave takon from him without the least diffict1ty if he bad only choson Lo, 1 was refreshing myself with a tasee of eoffee w! the Neuhauser when the {(Iu s and his train drove by to their former quarters in the & rei THE CITY AND THE SPIELBFRG. Brunn signifies & well; it is situated among hi tuo Schwarsa (or black creek) and is erowned, like so many other ancient Germau cities, by a famoushistorical strong Yol called the Spielberg. Many horrors are told of the Npieiberg, blubeard-stories, which have rendered the name wnong the peoples kind of synonym for wystery snd iolty. And what ie moro, they are founded on truth. & Spielberg was changed centuries ago from a Kutter loxs 10 an Austrian political prison. W hosocver of- fonded the State by confessing to stholieity of ideas was consigned to the tender m of its depths. Its s are immense, its aspect is blenk and forbidding, and §t has dark passages and mysterious chambers in its iu- trior, extending, according to popular tradition, as fur 33t ibe mountain underground as the castle-walls rise whove. I might tell you some of these ghostly stories, Tt iny space and time force me to submit them to your iwagination. #rom Our Speeial Corresp o vicinity THE PEOPLE. s which there is the Francisoerg, anotber beauti- 1 tion, which serves as & promenade, though its finast hights aro locked in by the walls of a convent. In tio garden the Bruuners sit moodily, talking cs in wodertones. I am really curions to know what is to ne of all this,” was a remark made to me often, and the ng of it was that no one beheved Austria would any peace then, A satirical monument (as I took “The Liberator of his Country "—one of the Haps- isting of & great massive stoue column, rests backs of four crushed lions, who are griuning in tho dust a8 if they were very much used to it. Brunn is full of cloth factor d the gools o very extensively to the United States. But wporatives are idle; the little elevation overl . depot like s quay is lined with crowds of expectant-looking, ushappy peoplo; some fierce; some giving passive, ex preasionless evidence of the worm of care, gazing at the #oldiers and passers, where there is nothing to be scen. Protestantism has been trodden ont long since in Mo- waviagexcepting a drop of Lutherauism in the capital. So ® visilor may see queor things in the streets in a religious way. One day I was astounded to see everybody round wno knooling rather suddenly into the dirt, sud, on looking for the center of this adoration, I saw nothing but an in- @ guificant, ordinary priest striding consequentially along writh some black crape at the end of a pole. Elsewhere on 0 sidewalk, 1 have soen a boy of 15 kneeling to a staring Runatic and receiving his blossing, which was given with a #lourish, 1o the suburbs, 1 saw a teamster halt, shove bis whip under his arm and walk up reverently to, and kies, & woid monument which did not appear to me to have auy ication of a religious character about it. On inq: wftorward, I learned that it marked the spot where crimi- xals were executod. Every house in Brunn is full of eoldiers, and the cholera s raging sadly. Out of a population of near 70,000, more auan 100 die daily, But the soldiers are Ferfeclly at home. uartored often upon the familios of the better classes, #hey enjoy the freedom of the house; but while they ro- @eive favors as their due. I must say to their credit that hey gonerally behave civilly, often try to mako thomselves mgrosable, tell stories, and carry themselves as to the * manor born.” It is in the cafes, however, where most lifo is scen. Prussian officers, with sharpened appetites aud powerful ‘Woioos, enjoy themselves and chat very much in the samo way that we have witnessed ut Washington, Louisville St. Louis; only perbaps moro quictly, and with less alry, since rank and birth often settle questions of that ot here without more ado. Individuals do not display Hemselves. . U Officers of every Tank are unassuming. Apparently ere is the best cood mature and freedom of intercourse tweom all, yet closer observation will show that there is & well defined line beyond which such intercourso does :ol me to extend itself. Only onco did I see rank bafiog itself and that was when Princo Keuss came pattling and banging with his sword into the dining-saioon wne day, bowing sercnely, and then looking sourly in m‘mo- gment of honors which were not paid him, @ represcuts one of the late little German principalities nd though not smart himself, was wise enough to let Prussia swallow his country on the conditiou that it hould swallow him along with it, and I judge that the rwy ‘doos not like the dose. 3 CHOLERA. F A remarkablo festure of the Prussian campaign is the coustant presence of pestilence in the camp, as if war had Hmeded its aid to decimate the land. Amud the hundreds hat are dyiog daily in Beeun and in the army, the end mes frequently at” throe to six hours’ notice ! Officers » heard spoken of as dead who last evening were kneiping @t the tavern in the merriest of fellowship. And 50 nt. that get cholera die. You would scarcely think, that the cholera raged rampant in Brunn from s be seen h;he nmr?u, ormum-nywhun. lrn &, Funerals are conducted very quictly. A causo Au&‘c‘x’::t in ordinary times to render :anm{s s silont as Sabbath, produces no perceptible effect in the co of & greater ill under which the country bodily uffors. Nobody thinks about the cholera; nobody fears t. Tho lazareitos are scettered over all parts of the town, rnd the Spiclberg has its share. People only half believe t to be au epidemic. ¢ On ou.;:un from anmw Brunn Ill.\m “b.dzi' oute ; my pitying syi ics were appealed to by the ‘wof s -lf'ovp h"fmxi'ufi who tnv:fed in the same upé with me, and sat on the seat facing me. He scemed fino-tempered fellow, but said little and looked sac moked, as I l.houg:t, ithout enjoying his cigar at all. t was cholera that had its grip on hiim! and the poor man ‘a3 left at 8 way station in charge of the military physi- ian, with prospects only too dark, if his looks augured rectly, of ever getting away from the place again. Red ine is the common preventive, beyond which little is hought to be nmuui exeept regularity and generous ood. 8o each of us had one bottle of Melnicke, and orrily enough we emptied them. It wonld Lave been quite as well if the Chinese cholera ad remained in China, but now that it is here we may as el talk about it. Thcx}r get blue, the face sallow, the yes fireless and the eyelids half close themselves languid- . Ask the patient whether he feels better, and he will quite likely to answer that be is doing very well. But t & cortain stage there will be terrible cramps and com- otions in the bowels which I cannot now describe for ant of adjectives. The best way of getting a graphic dea of it is to have the cholera—which statement rests on decided The ubumm"fim;nu fearlessly into the hospitals hard, and a great s:u they find to do. I should buting center is the railroad de- taysat home. The di lace—at present, indecd, at Bruun, and it is a busy p) , inde bout the only very lous'il shop in town. In their object in detail, e)a;nnninex organization does ‘materially from our Senitary Association—where it deserved, however, went straight to the mark whero t was due, and where the chiefs who won their laurels manfully, never went into demesaning conclave to mo- m distinetious to their favored few. One of these itters told me to-day that cholera patients migflht be ndled for weeks without darger of infection, and that ittor nurses are very seldom stricken down by it; t that the principal dugvr and common cause of infec- ion arises from visiting the same water-closet with a sick , whence the effluvium of the diseased person’s faces tes its kind like yeast. Io this way he for the ral prevalence of holera in certain houses, and the utter exemption of it in Doctors with whom [ have conversed here be- eve in the that cholera is nothing but a sudden tion of & microscopic plant of the simplest struc- ure known, like the green scum which forms on stagnant tor. This rudimentary v:ge ion consists of mingle ells, which proj te by ision, and when the cir- umstances are favorable with a rapidity quite extraordi- ary. Between this hypotbesisand the theory of fermenta- on of late years sei up by a leading French chemist,. here appears to be no substautial difference. Certalnly his v theory of fermentation is tangible aid com- rehonstble; which cannot be said of any explanations of hat process before attempted. It bas been iudorsed by mo of the best Gerwan chemists. I wentto Wischau, near Austerlitz, on Thursday, to Writness an umpromptu review of the 5th Army Corps, | E.ndar Steinmets, by the King and Crown Prince, with & umerous staff of officers, representing the two wrimics toly operating against Austria. It was r'ltv'.;tl’v and rainy- | ooking in the morning, but gaps soon opened overhead, | d the finest weather im: 'nl{no rendered everything fa- orable for an exkibition of the Prussian matericl and tac- ics in their best light. Crossing on my wa; the field of usterlitz, 1 bad an opportunity to recall the circum- tauces of the Dreikaiserschlacht, or battle of the three “mperors, as it is still called by the peo Early in the Buorning, & thick fog enveloping the groping arwies, which ituated on the opposite slopes of & gentle Lill, Napo- n and bis officers standing on the roof-sbaped mound wising out of the ravine to my left. 8 + Thessun breaks through, the fog lifts momentdrily.so ‘s to diselose the position of the Russians and Austrians, nd Napoleon eagerly exclaims, “ This is the sun of Aus- 1z It was fresh from this victory that Napoleon et to Nicholsburg, whore, it may Dot’ be teo late to snention, Austria once befors concluded an important viz: after the battle of the White Mounkain, at in 1620, which dethroned Frederick, the last of ians, and gave bis country to the Hapsburgs. be Austerlitz is one great wheat-field just mow, and the har- | Nosters have s wil R undemonstrative opposition. “®ho wgl of Steinmeta x:mbuceu two divisions, and jnmbers 30,000 mez. It was this body that did most of he hardest fighting on the Prussian side, and that tiret wzflnudmza to the Prussiaus, by gaining for them itlon of Nachod, Skalitz, and Jatomers. 1 found 6 Ninth Division numbenng 15,000, under Van Horn. read( engaged in maneuvering before the King as i @ in sight of the high hill on which they were. Atn of arranging ibe ehucks in regular dly reminds one of compauics and regi- more to rev NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, e ————————————————— T - ,00n chosen 88 tho ground for operations, horse flesh transformed it into areh A ross it past tbhe King, again to iheir former position stubhle field but 50me 6.cres ¢ fallow ground by snd £quaring b ‘Fhe lancers and Uhlans advanced in eolid succestive | 1anssos of O abreast, with epears erect, and the Prussian black and white colors fiuttering at every steff. In an old heriting vigor of miliary disciplino liko tho Prussian, symmetry and precision #ro an old story ; everything undor tLat” head was porfect, 88 & maticr of course. But what struck p. wmost favorably wes tho almost mathematical compre' “sion of the horses. It was intoresting to notice afterwa. what good understanding thero existed between man an. homse in the performance of such business s crossing & ditch. A horse gets iuto the habit of considering bis burden & part of himself, and standing arn the movements of horse end rider then become surprising. Iy nataral end easy. Concorning tho different kinds of K»Qn be described beyond the 18 o cavalry there is litt \nudsv crs of the Uhians ; otherwise tasscls and the like make about the pnly dllflln;xaclinn except in name, A great deal of comfort is sacrifioed to suow. ? Iuhno scen the original ¢f the fieres warrior with wrinkled and contorted brow, whose picture graces anti- quated wells occasionally. Moreover, I can testify to its fruth to pature—provided the tall shacko like a cast-iron stove-pipe be not omitted. As those poor fellows trot along under their hats you can 60 ihat "the stove-pipe or ot, 48 The case may be, which is intended to inspire awe, loes not oven sit firmly on the head, but being cllmpu‘ fast to the skin,obeys none the less the laws of momentum and inertia, and seeks its averages in swaying to andfro with the entire scalp. In wheeling 50 abresst around o corner it was noticeable that although individuals might appear a little higgledy-pigeledy, the mass cnmo always to the spot in the most precise manner. The artillery march- od six picces abreast, and the gunners walked'or ran; tho hind wheels of each soparate carriago moving so exactly even that I camo to the conelusion that cither horses or carriages must have been joined in somo way. Having disposcd thus ot the first 15,000, forming the inth Division, the King and suito rmla on a mile or iew tho Tenth, which consisted of 15,000 more, altogether infantry, under Witzlobon. On 8 miore level fild the troops ma.ched 200 abreast, in compact mass, and 8o “describe’” 8 roctanglo on the ground, which is called by them the * King's Parade.” Inside stood & fine band to furnish marching time; opposite to it tho King, end closo behind him some 60 officers ¢ - 1 three or four correspond- ents on horscback. Right ana left, toward the rear, hung littlo squadrons of metal-pottea knights, rather distantly but pictaresquely stationed, beside three or four royal lackeys in tall hats,and a royal equerry or “‘stable master,” in all the s:perbness of a Spanish general. The uniformity of movemeat was thorough, and the solid mnss of bayonets glittering in the sunshine & sight worth secing. Finally 50 deserving heroes were ealled out in line beforo the King to be rewarded with copper or silver crosses of morit. Throo capturod Austrian standards were displaycd by them. The King rode up to them and along their front, addressed & fow commonplace words of pruise, exauined one of the standards, and then rode off the field, followed by the generals, staff officors, corrospondents, motal-pot- ted knights, and lackeys. Half a dozen carriagoes without escort conveyed the King and great people back te Brunn. As for the soldiers they filod down into the valleys and meadows round about, and disappeared unaccountably; there were no signs of an encampment except a row of wagous bere and there. Tho mass of them diver bee-lines for surrounding villages, whore reguirirt dinners, under civilized roofs, awaited them. Steinmetz, the Commander of ‘his corps, has now the reputation of a * fighting gener.L.” He is & short, plump, roundbeaded, clean-looking old gontleman, with a perma- nently weathor-tanned faco and a white mustacho; wears Biis cap as ifit had boon pressed down over his eyos. The Prussion army possesses & peculinr trait of solidity, arising from tho charncter and physique of the individunls hailing from the sand plains ot North Germany, sized or tall, and compact; every one of them 18 o “knot.” Mentally thero is no lack of what tho Gerians call swing—of strong, healthy elasticity which we call “anap.” Tmet at tho review, Lammels of The London lins- trated News, and Dicey of The London Telegraph, besido another civilian whom they ccll | “ Professor;” a lively old gentleman with @ vory i ored slowched hat, who was said to bo a portrait painter o tho Royal fawmily. On tho way back I dinod at & roadside tavern, in com- oy with A well-informod Silesian medical officer, who understood Polish and Bohemian, and who waa somewhat acquainted with tho babits of tho Robemian gypsics. Ho dissented strongly from the position ef the writer in ““ The Atlantic Montbly * of last Fall, . imo time maintaining the identity of the (iypsios with the Bohemians, and se- connting for them as seattered, and for soveral centurics unwashed Hussites. The Polish and Bohemian languages are so much alike that the Polish Prassiaus find no diffi- culty in talking with the Czeks; they are both languaces relatod to tho German. But the Hungarien isquite diffor- ent, and belongs to the Semitic languages, ! i nearer related to tho Jewish; gypsies resembl these. In Bohem elsewhere, the gypsies are nomads, and sleep in tho dirt from choico, sie Llacker than the Bo bewiaus, and go nearly aaked. A TRIP TO_COLORADO. ING THE ROCZY MOUNTAINS. rrowpondent. CrarraL CrrY, June €, 1866 Golden City enjoys the distisc ion of being the capita of Colorado Territory. That is, the Legislature regularly meets there, but adjourns to Denver before transacting any other business, Tho populatio.s is not more than 300 or 400, and the place has & quist and rather forlorn appear- ance at present. It posscsies, nevertheless several sub- stantial stores, 8 school-house, two flour-mills (Clear Croek furnishing excellent water-power), and & manufactory of | fire-brick. From this time forward it will rise iu Importance. The discovary of coalis of scateely less consequence | to this region then that of gold and silver. Gen. Picrce, Surveyor of Colorado, informs me that the coal-fields of the Rocky Mountains will ‘probably prove to be swong the largest in the world. Along the Fastern base of the | VIL—ENT From Our Spocial & distance of 300 mil aud the indications continue through Montana. I saw, 40 miles east of Denver, smong | the Platte Hills, a bold out-ctop of coal, projecting two | or three feet sbove the earth, Further in the mountain, the Albertine, or oil-bearing coal, yieliing 104 gallons to the tun, has been discovered. Thbe supply of fuel for the Pacific Railroad, and for all smelting ud manufacturing purposes, is therefore assured for centuries to come. 1 visited the veins of fire-ciny aud cosl, which are found | in conjunction, within half a mile of Golden City. The clay is found in large beds of & chocolate color and greasy texture. Two horizontal shafts Lave been opened iuto the side of the hill, and the carts are loaded directly at their mouths. The clay is first burned, then ground, after which it is molded and preseed into the requisite forms. Although the business is in its very commencement, enough has been done to assure its entire success. The proprietors have already commenced "o msnufacture of tiles for roofing, which, I suspect, wik. cre long come into general use. The cosl, commencing at the surfees with a streak of | “color” (as the miners say of gold), broadens so rapidly that at the depth of 25 feet I found & vertical stratum 14 feet in breadth. 1f it continues to inerense at the same rate for 100 feet further, the immense supply may ecasily be imsgined. This Rocky Mountain coal, 1 understand, is always found in vertical seams, while the bitnminous coal along the Smoky Hill Fork is disposed in horizontel strata. The valley of the Platte, after leaviug the rolling country at the base of the mountains, appears to lie bee tween the two formations. The examiration, however, is so superficial that nothing very positave can yet be ase serted. Coal is beginning to be forud sbundantly in Southern Kansas, and it is possible that the gaps between the beds already discovered may yet be filled up. Standiog on this great bed of coal and fire-clay, at | Golden City, I looked eastward across ihe creck, and saw @ ridge of limestone rock, snd the indications of a quarry which has just been opened. My com; arions pointed ont 1o me the location of beds of the finest iron ore, el within the radius of a mile. The iron is’ said to be of unusually fine quality. Mr. Loveland of this place has proposed to erect 8 rolling-mill, and menufacture rails for the Pacitie Company, enabling them to commenee the roud castwerd from the base of the mourtzing, to meet the branches #tarting from Omaba and Wyzidotte, Considenng that all the requisite heavy machinery must be freighted across from the Missouri River, this woudd seein, at first sight, to e & bazardous enterprise; but, on the other hand, the saving in the cost of transporting rails for the re od would be so immense, that I cannot pronounce the plan un- reasongble. It is quite certain thatell the rails for the | central division of the road must be manufactared Lere | and in Nevada. ‘There will, in time, be arailroad from the miuing re- [ gions on the upper waters of Clear Creck to Golden City; and mavy of the companies will then find it to ther ad- vantege to establish their smelting woiks at the latter place. Let noone be deceived Ly present indi The quiet of Golden City will not endure much longer, and the day may not be fur off when the smokes from its tall chimneys, rising up bebind Teble Mouxntwn, will be | | seen ot Denver. 1 only with that the vulg:r, snobbish ' custom of attaching ¢ City” to every place of more than three houses, could be etopped. From Jilinois to Cali- fornia it bas become & general nuisance, telling ouly of | swagger and want of taste, not of growth, Why not cull | it ¢ Goldenport” (as it will Lecome @ sort of harbor to 1 which tho ores will be shipped), or aay ot.crsituplenamo 1 | In the Russian langusge, 1Wo ubnecessary acoents usurp oue-seventh of the typography; and in Calorado, if one talks much about the mining towns, ho must add one- ile distance the geometrical masses in juomin, :»dn the sky, formed & protly picture -p:fil;‘;ec:mf a4 four or flve columns of infau woved in difforent duyctigny dowa the A try soparatcd | - 107" seventh to his speech, in repeating the weeloss word, T pev ",’Lll R iy 4ns a0t set or range, brown coal of excellent quality Las been found for | ¥ lvlfl pointed ont to me a tree, to which some of them hed Lung & iexican, last weck, on account of an attempted assault upon taken from t) remwaining M fellowship w | Affiirs of this kind make an nnpleasant impreasion. The | the State of Texas. Xch Les. p . sury here, and it noema toexist by victua of w lingering | Bt S0 o, ploce o isgislation that ever tasto for rude and violent justice. = 1 found_si) table, at Cheney's Hotol, addrossed a limited sudiones in the evening, and took the coach for this morning, st 10 @’clock. The new road, Crook _cafion, has been made impassable by floods, the old road, Bome miles further castward, i3 now used. Tt pierces the first renge of the Rocky Mouutans by the s small stream, at the mouth whereof are four or five log houses, stylod Gate City! The defile is very nar- canion of row, abrupt, and with such the rond secms to disappear every moment. Huge masses may know thoir foolings I send_you somo oxtraots of of dark red and purple rock topple on either sido; thore is | lottors written by them the Rebel Governor K. R. littlo timber to be ecen, but a profusion of wild X . wd ourrants, and ' bush rosembling the 5 | “McCulioch writes from Houston under dato of May 15, %f the brook is crowded with young cotton-woods nd | 1862, as fotlows: box-elders, in tho shadc va which new varieties of wild | the laws of the Xth wera atill more vindic ws will bo show by the following acts: An Act to amend “an Aot to define aud punish sodition.” ete, Xth Log. Gen'l Laws, p. 20, ‘An Aot to preseribe the punishment for encouraging deser- tion from t¢ Army and Navy of the Confederate Siates, or two ladies of the place. The eriminal was he Fheril"s hands and lynched; sand the fow exican residents, who appear to have bad no ith bim, are ordered to leave tho place. tute book. 1t makes it misyrision my one not to fnform on aud demounce any 1t denounces the punishment of the Pepiten. ATy upon any one meintaining allegiance to the Uniied Stales or denying that bis allegiance was due to this State. Tlreso laws wore exccuted with the same spirit of forocity that enacted thom, and under their operation over 1,000 Union men wero in various ways . Mot of these marders occurred in Northern and Woatern Texas, tho formor distriot_under command of Brig.-Gon. H. E. McCulloch, the latter under Brig.-Gen. H. P. Bos. That mple but clcan quartars, and an excellent ghce yeaterday pllowing € don turns that for a space 0 onght not to be idle, and extraordinary efforts shoull bo made to closs this war during this season, “Cireat activity flowers grow luxuriantly, 1 hailed the Alpine harebell a8 ot an old friend, and inhaled the delicious perfumo blown | may mako it & more bloody war; but even u'th'-‘l":":‘ - I: fromclumps of mountain roses. The wild hop-vine was le'::'r e b’lb;lulf. lcdl;:fi o :‘i:‘l'h{ d.l asane 4 e mr; e o b PP:":: spreading ita srms over tho rock, in liou of | BUGIGHL n&n up to it and conquor MZ every M‘i.l; e 8u) E 208 8308 Afker £20 o threo miles the pass became brodor and | 308 mAKS the Cebie itence, Sankivesy » straighter, and we could look up to the crost of the mouo- "This man commandod tho Robels at Millikon's Bond, tains. It was dismal to seo how much of tho pine foreats, | ung'you will recollect that our officors chiarged that ho with which tho steops were clothed, have been wantonly | hyng gome prisoners of the colored regiments during the or carelessly dectroyed by fire, The rock now appoared (0 be a kind of which gavo the sconory somothing of the character of the Appenines, 1 did not find, as I expected, much vegetation. The dry soil, the hof, cloudless sk: Europe, rath of the Enst. We followed this cafion for some eight or ten miles, oc- tho battle, which so infurated the colored That defeated him. He donios the ;mo;u that they trumedd.nnd ing, 1 am informe d lll;f-e gvi( to his confrere, tho Governor of San Antonio, ander date of October 9, 1862, as follows: My DEAR Sti: The mail of yeaterday, in addition to tho news from Galveston, brought atches from Richmond to [ ebert. concerning his act proclaimiog martial law and ing Confederate notes a legal tendor. ' You will receive of both, and will agree with me that they leave no al- gueiss, gray, with pale orange oxydations, the baro massos of rock, the dusty road, and overhead, all suggest Southern or than Switzerland or our wountain regions o ranche, patronized mill, or ta casionally passin, By tho frsigntors. wo' reached Guy's b, whero | ternative but to recall b inmations, 1 roally sm gorry the road crosses the divide, and were requested by the [ by Vo) -"t'-gr"'":h:“';wl;;gnd .mkzrml;,;:-m driver o climb to the sumumit on foot. Tt was but half o | for bis Ereet Slatance F00 L 0 ittie e g 14 4 silo of rather breathlcss walking in tho thin air, and wo yoer.f : Lo 7o s r 3 Dbyytho orders or vagaries of thoss who can have no idea of ex ooking o deep, pine-clad | jsiing matters in Texas. The General induced to issus #t00d upon a narrow ercst, overl valloy in the heart of the mountains, of the second range rose against the sky, small snowy noither large nor dense, were still untouched, and multh- tudes of silvery aspens were minflod with the pines. The descent looked dangerou: with locked teams with was greencr biy level bot House where dinner awaited us. The dark summits | the orders he did upon representations o to him by your- self, myself and many othor promivent oitizens of Texas. If be had aoted s most of the peoylo acouse bim of doing, that is of caring but little for the people of his command o of their wel- fare, be would not have bosn stbjeot o to the mortification ho to-day foels, for be would not have listened to the suggestions of those who knew or ought to have koown the 08 of the State, but confined to his military duties, kopt free from the censure of the War Department. As it is, be to you on this subject. w ln’flnnjn dllchI:"“M and only one peak was visiblo. Horo the forests, although sly steop; but our driver, wheels, went down on a trot, passing two ox- wonderful skill. The valloy 'wn now entered and fresher than the first, and with s tolers- tom, along which we bowled to the Michigan Aun excellent meal, at $1 50. The water was unsurpassed in coolness and agroo- 1 i) o g g gyt R ) ey " law will surely take the place of mart and porbaps ma, The road now gradually swerved to the left, rising to | ¥ Wi SEFEE tHke 06 Bt ey} T .bo&'oun,- another divi burst upon us. to & hight of 14, rently closo at hand, although they wero still fiftecu mi Our own elevation above the sea could not have than 8,000 feot, distant con loss fully cool, pr Inckod was f; noi yet found. We descended from this erest into a deep glen, the rides of which wore better wooded. a grazing-ranche or sawmill, and the road was filled with heavy froight teama. we suddenly emorged Here couumenced, at once, The preceipitol with the holes whafts, the swift waters of the stream had the hue of “talings,” and presently tho smoke from tho smelting works of the Lyms Company began to cloud the pure mountain air, Crock, mining. frocke Beyond th with houses, road disclosés & church porch headland wh Clear Creck. ed 0 -1 il © work, with its hotels, stores, livery stalles and crowded dwell- ing-houses. roing i throy ants. cafion, omplo roomn and support themselves. falls down the defile over a wond crfully bliez Guanajus Hero Lleave you, 8,500 feot above the sca THE NAVASOTA CONVENTION—FALSKIOOD OF #19 A8 SERTIONS—RECORD OF TEXAN LAWS—SYSTEMATIC PERSECUTION AND MOB LAW—CORDITION OF THE STATE Cortespondsnce of The N . ¥. Tribu The N tion, to bo held at Phil passed the following Resolved, T that a plot and conspiracy are on foot, and beiug carried out by the Radiea this State to the To represest ¢ ernment of the United Stat A vindictive and vic herents 1o the And as unjust sud oppressive toward 4 attr dividing it ¥ invokes the lustice to them, to give no eredence to the Radicals, und s 1 am ono of that proscribod class, 1 pro 10 the people of the North some evidence of the ** fulse- hoods” of this Conventio nt facts rees, The eviden being carried Radicals tion ¢ iin in Se) this State and the whole South, which they certainly bave s much right to do as the Conservatives Lave 1o send delegates to the Copperhead convocation in August. When Union 1o auswer to say defume the sists in the ac 1t these Couservatives are not hostile to the Constita- tion and Governwent of the United State, why is it that their journals are duily filled with the wmost losthsome abuse of ever) Exccutive. theme of abu the Kebellion is politically snd socially ostracised, an open threats climes more congenial than that afforded in” Texas. recent election i & crowning evidence of th Throckmorton, a Brigad y I8 Governor; Jones, Col Governor; Robards, Royston aad Walton, Mu- spint. servi is Liouf ors in the Rebel servie Treasurer and Attorn defaulter, is Cormiss ialature i composed { Rebel officers sented in th to appropri dierer 1 of the Ul to reconstr upor motion Convention t the oath 1o and various ¢ fncts are al s of the pe ;. sentw public opt and Governm 1 shall quof : ! or not th Northern eit. during the late war, viz: Black Hawk ans Dbut all threo places form in reality one continuous town, more than two miles long and with over 6, ‘The houses are jammed into the nanv pevent the restoration of harmony and good order to obtain political rul choice and will bat we inyoke the peop) candor and Justice, to give no crede ds duly calevlated to mislcad them, to wrong promote deeper w: ament of unjust political power. Such is the resolution, which I give shall sdduce will be drawn entirely from Rebel pe de, wheneo the splendors of the snowy range wond wodges of rock and snow, soaring ,000 feot, glittered in the clear sky, appa- cerning this when you wero bere, 1f you have the power I know you have the nerve to use it; but I am doubtful of the power. Gov. Moore of Louisiana proolaimed martial law, and P‘m might follow hlfi mple. If you cannot write me atonce will then endeavorto organize secret socleties in all the coun- ties, sitply for & genoral superveillance ovor poasons passing f & police naturs, with no was thin, but wonder- Lo only thing the sceno Tho aro and transparent. resh mountan turf—s feature which | have | Politiosl or revolutionary objocts, and in the mean time hold the troops ready for domestic as well as foreign foes Hero I think I may close tho testimony on this point, and claim that [ havo proven that the Navasota Convontion was guilty of an atrocious calumny whon it charged the Radicals with *falsehood” in stating that the popll of this State wore ‘“vindictive and violent toward Northern citizens and adberents to the Foderal Union duringthe late Here and thore we passed wo' miles of rapid desceut, and upon the cafion of North Clear the indications of #ides of the cafion wero d dirt-piles of oxperimental w When Gov. Hamilton organized the courts last year over fiso bundred true bills wors found ngainst partios who had been ou,.v: 1 the murder of Union citizens during the war, but when the reconstruction convention met the members determined that theso men should not be punishod for their crimes, so they passod an ordinance “That no person shall be sued in any civil action, nor prosscuted in criminal proceeding, for oron account of auy soizure, sale, impressment or m’“? to person or property, or othor act dono since the second day of Febru- ary, A. 1), 1861, by virtuo or in pursusnce of military or civil autbority given by the Confederato States Govern- ment, or by this State, or in pursusnce of orders given by ang person vested with such authority.” 'io Convention also passed an opdinance satting apart » magnificent school fund, and providing for setting apart @ portion of all future taxes for educational purposes and said fund and the incomo derived therefrom shall bo & porpetual fund exclusively for the education of all the white scholastic inhabitants of this State.” laws no oxemption is made to taxing negroes, but his [oint, which s alrady thickly studded [ 18 called Lymssillo, o sudden furn in the ow of Black Hawk, with its charming od above the town, on the extremity of the hich saparates (irv*;.u? Guleh' from that of Weat_once entered o busy, noisy, thickly- jou. Tho puff of steam, the dull’ thump of s, and all the other sounds of machinery at ho air; tho road bocame & continuous ateeet, (luleh, we slowly mountod nto Grogo: :{ Mountain City to this place; 000 1uhabit bed of the < ol pay revenuo to the rchool fund, but no part thereof can il g L ST (e DAt 20 to the education of & bick seholar. 18 not this 7 A% | “unjust aud oppressive toward the froedmen in our coossion of dams. fiace, strongly rosemi surroundings widat 1 speak not of personal violence-and injustice which they daily and hourly encountor, but here is » groat official wrong done by the State. The Legislaturo has not yet actod upon the ibject of the freedmen, but from the material composing thit body, it roquires no o foretell an attempt to practically resnstave them. W hat becomes of the deolaration of the Ni vasota Con- soryatives that these clisrges aro Boverally aud collective- Iy false and malicious, mado solely for political objects, to inflamo aud embitter tho North against Texas 1" Does | not the proofs offered clearly conviet them of the very crimes they charge upon tho Radicals. Nothing can equal the impudence of & ist but his mendacity. They are legitimato sons of their father, the devile the first seces- sionist and the father of lies. Ab to the charge that the Radicals only seck the * at. tainment of unjust political power,” I will only remind thein that it was Mr. Jobuson who said “that in the work of reconstruction Rebels and traitors must take & back seat,” Until the loyal men of the South control the destinies of these States there can be no harmonious re- union with the loyal people of the nation, and this they understand 08 well as we do; and the Radicals of Toxas nre perfectly willing for the loyal peopls of the nation to decide whetlier or not this would be an * iniquitous at- tatnment of unjust political power.” — LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE, el —inas NEW-YORK YACHT SQUADRON—YACHTS BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON. From Our Specia. Correspondeat. curious aud original » 11 its position and BT TEXA e OF UNION MEN—THE BLACK PLAG Avsmix, Texas, Aug. 12 1866, sota Convention, a political assemblago of alias Kobels, vn(‘r‘ri:.y couvened Iul‘l'hll pur- ting delegates to Copperhead Conven- e ofatih i on the 1ith of t4is mouth, among other resolutions stakeable evidence is before this body hat ub 1s of Texan. to falsify and defame tho peogle of sple of the Northern States 0 ax hiostile 1o the Constitution asd Gov Foderal Union duriog are soverally and ecllectively fulso and (ur]]mhm al objects, to ioflame aud em t Texas, od powor in defiance of the of the people of tho State. f the Norin, in the apirit of or confidence Lo false. ve. and to seotionsl i1l feeling for the iniguitous of the great Newrost, Aug. 17, 1868, There are chords in the human heart which only & yacht can touch, If, then, I have water on the brain, lot it be attributed to the New-York Yacht Squadron which came into port yestorday afternoon. It was no such day as that of last year when, one by one, the yachts hove in sight, looking at a few miles distance like a flock of huge sca- gulls, skimming the watter with wings wide-spread. It waes a charming picture to sec them enter the harbor, sin- glo file, with all sail set, a gloriously departing sun dipping its colors an a salute, to which they responded with the canno; At but hearty vo One by one they tripped w2 ull decked out in their best clothics, rounded “and chored, until the harbor was alive with excitemont. ‘esterdny there was no such spectacle. A stift norther sent cold shivers over land and sea, until the waves, fear- g to cateh cola, put on their white sail-boats higged the shore, and row-boats refused to leave their moorings. The fleet, therefore, entered in a straggling mauner, hours apart, the Calypso amd Magic gotting ashore in the barbor. But Newport saw another sight, When'the sun set and the moon shove bright. The hearts of the wind gods softened. Mischief enough had been done, and so a change came o’e. the spirit of the waters, The norther dicd away, the sea smoothed out all its wrinkles and smiled its fairest; moonbeains cemo tri ping along, makiog brilliant reflections on_ the faces into which they gazed, and then there were held high festival in good old Newport harbor. Suil-boats innumerable o out to bid the squadron welcome, row-boats glided to and 1ro Like water-snakes— ** Cannon to right of us, . Connon to left of us, Cannon behind us, Volleyed and thundered. Rockets durted upward, and, crossing each trimmed the sky with ribbons, while fire- overy description illuminited the about the water like hoge fire-flies. modore McVie with popular while un absurd little steamer, Jeannetto—a good-sized plaything for a big boy, fog like o cigar stuck perpendicularly in an ash holder— puffed and steamed, sereamed and wriggled in and out, portion of the Seventh Regiment band being on board, aud playing gallops which & couple at the steru attempted to execite in 8 space about the size of an aldermanic soup- le, and mado one think of it is truo—the liveliest uld not worry anything afloat into a sem- erhatim, only As the Couvent pint of eandor and uto appropriate head people of the North, in to | resent wnd in doing 80, 1shall ouly they at least caunot dispute, for the whi B 1ce of & “*plot and conspiracy on foot and out by the Radicals” 1x simply the fact that of this State intend to send Delegates to the of Sonthern Union wen to be held iu Phila- ptember, to truly represent the cond.tion ofy men quote historieal and official facts, it is that they are trying “to falsify and people of this State.” The defumation con- ts themselve y departmient of the CGiovernment excopt the Not only is the Government s coustant se, but every man who was loyal to qululm1 d are on tho increase that they *mast seck The disloyal ~Genernl in the Kebel )1 of & Rebel regiment, | other, are respectively Controlles neral; while Crosby, a public of the Land Oftice.” The Leg- ept the 12 Union members) of The first bill pre- on Monday last, was sdon legs for Teehel sol- the Gevernment avention t tho State, o of that body, of 0. M. Roberts, President of the protended bt passed the ordinance of Secession, 0 tuke upport the Constitution of the Unjted States, other disloyal aeta of that body, but these v knowa to your readers, ‘Thua the official cople show that the disloyal press truly repre- ion, whieh is "h-mhfu(ulhu Coustitution nt of the United States.” to the eaptions of ‘somo laws passed by the during the Rebellion, to sbow whether were “vindietive and violeut toward the Foderal Union A band on Com- s yacht Magic made the air echo igher or lower grade s blanes of them; there was no San Marco gleaming in the distane from 1 nor were thero winged lions keeping s look-out ; the music did not remind one of the Austrian which it is sad to contess are wonderfully fino— o will hear now that she is Italian; there s, but there was a something, lot it quor, and so dismissed—that brought City of the Sea, and made one feel far It was the night par oxcellence ‘wero no Venet be calied o s ne back the bosutif: awny from New-England. izens and adherents of An Act to ded; 1 punish sedition, and te prevent the | of the season, and realized the poetry of lifo ou the ocean dangurs whith ey Erioe dhors Sorsone diaavpte tn 1he Biats, | srudet whed thosts oo 3 J TXE S agislatare, Devernt Lt-ll, ave, when she ul.} are not Wt.l and se iuu‘do not tlow, An Act 10 exclude from office, serving on Juries, taking or * Now Agimur Tumidis Velis.” bolding prope 0 eript o euemy, or in anywise give them ald and co: s Organized in 1544, 1ncorporated in 1865, the New-York Yacht Club is an Lonor to America, A’club which bins for its purpose the eucouraging of * yacht building and naval arelitecture, and the cultivation of naval science,” deserves hearty applanse from the hands of the public. rty, and from the right of #drage, ll persons . leave our country 1o avoid the wervic neral Lawn, pp. 12, 13 ish persous wh Aaws of the Couf tea, hot can be done by usin grace and speed the beautiful wey to definy (ho expenses fn. | | Amorica” Lus long sinco slown our Euglish cousing, and e oy Beig Gen, Hudsow, | Bow our Jonathianic bosoms would heave with prido could Ly 3 roops. IXth T, I | wo point 10 a fleet of Americas a8 the private property of his act was to pay the expenscs of the wob that hung | Private gentleman, in which to do their Summer visitin | all over the world | Composed of 280 mombers, the Club [ Uuion men i 2 historieal f This act reads vice versa, ¥ hereas, that a secret organization fu the County of C ing countier, erument; and whereas, the Texas Stat t Brigado, aid Bricede; crasfied, and therefore, & 1 nob. ¥ speak of the Do they w progess | Ruell wos 1 Cooke County and Nortbern Texus, it being act that 32 men were hung upon one tree. very much like the Navasota yesolutions, or The act is prefced by & whereas, as follows : About the Ist of October, 1562, it bacame kvown Cooke and adjoin- ng for its objcot the overthrow of this liov- ops, of the Twenty: en, Wm, Hudgon of L been effoctually fon of the State, vow numbers 41 yachts, all of which are schooners, with xception of 11 sloops and one steamer; but of these, one compose the present squadron now lying in the Officers of the Clnb are elected aunually, all voting being done by representatives of yachts, each yacht being eu- titlod 1o ouo vote only. Any person is eligible to member- slip, which depends upon election by ballot, & quorum rnn»n.‘um[; of representatives from soven achts, and two black balls signifying defeat. ~ Kach member on his elec- tion pays the sum nrflll, which includes his dues for the current year. T'wenty dollars is the amount of eaoh subsoquent annual paymont. Among honorary members aro enrolled tho § ho Navy, Admiral of Now- York Stati I ham, the Princo of logislation of gho TXth Togislaturo, but { Walos, Lol Ty Commojpe were called ot by Bi and whereas, said pebellic 'barmony Ts restored in that "Lt the sum of €4,500 be s, Larmouy was restored ! st “restoration of be can 1o restoie hi y by the Cooke County and look- | (McVieker) is assistod in command by & Vice-Commodoro (Alexander M , and a Rear-Commodore (Ansomn Livingston). Mta takes placo overy year in Juno, the distan e bout 40 milos, and & raco comes of during the fortn ght's orules, whon tho squadron is under tho Commodoro's orders. DANGERS OF THE DEEP. E Gentlomen sailors, however, are not a8 arulein & high stato of discipline, and 0~ not wlways obey their Comaio- doro with the alacrity ole. .ved in the Government perv- in the mouth of Aug- ice. A fortnight of tiony ust, too, is dur-nco‘:‘::‘hlch y somo i3 tolerated ra- ther than approved of. :’n‘id in this fortnight mu:gr:::fi are Mhfimmnu ; met, nennhdm hearts, and looked boldly in the face with steady eyes and unflinching muscles, 0 path of duty is one ‘of "thorns, but the squadron kicks nat against the piicks. Hair- breedth are the escapes of 8 vnyng:im Now London, New Bodford and parts siwailarly sitia in New England, on const that atern roc! where the breaking wayes dashod lliqh as they did wlien the l’nlfiflm Fathers landed from the * Mayflower.”” 1t is quite readful to think of our hts doing what the * Mayflower did—actuslly puu{l.:lnm Plymouth ! I-I:‘:ully hazardous is the to Martha's Vincyard, which tlicy freque y for the purposo of undergoing a change of heart by expe- riencing roligion at cawp-meeting. By this masterly stroke it will be seen that the Commodore has evety re- g’d for tho spiritual welfuro of s fleet. Yet, would you lieve it, though some yachts return. from this. locality woaring a subdued look, duc pmh-hll o half rations, ete. —tho nocessary corollorios of seid change ot heart—most of them remain obdurate and persist in laying up treasures of champagne and chicke:son ice! Alas forthe perversity of humanity 1 A HARD TAGK VERSUS SPRING ONWICKENS. Tnspite of the above-named adventures by flood, 1 munst stll porsist in asking whero is Lord Dufferin? There is no roason why the squadron should not distinguish itself bj doing something worthy of sarors and staunch craft. I8 thero no one among us to into high or low lati- tudes, and disprove by any amount of ** pluck” the witty but slighting comments of lookers-on who wonder whethor any of the yachts were ever out of sight of land, and toll of how, on one occasion, if not more, the entire squadron was fn distrossand put into tho nearest port for red peoper? Now I beliove this to be slander, though there is not much hard-tack, junk and duff consumed on board these plea- suro boats. The appointments of the cuisine are sumptu- ous. There aro more Spring chickens than salt horse, more hampers of wine than vulgar grog,” and people who do not own yackts, but would if they could, pour but the vials of their wrath on the offenders that do. They lfl{‘l fellow fecliug makes vne wondrous kind; perhaps this i tho reason why you sud I disbelieve in tho red fi;zwr and would not refuse a good dinner on rd o yaoht if wo wore invited. Wo rd cooking a8 an art, and having faith in Savarin and Monsiour Blot, had much rather eat good things than bad. Man hass soul, wo know, and bis spiritnal element is potent, but for all that thero is no denying the fact that man is a slave to his stomach. Give even » J'urner his choice between a Iandsoape aad Southdown mutton, and how much will be loft of the mutton 1 Onc ¢~ draw upon the imagination for a landscape, bet wh s the 1magination power- ful enough to create & teg of mutton done to tun? G. H. Lowoes has somewhers writien in an article on the fanctioas of the heart aad brain that in order to feel one must feod, the action of the brain depending on thoe quality and g f food consumed. A true t, therefore, stand, in of his digestive organs. mnk vorse and the dolicaci s of the season areintimately counected. Therofore, we solemuly belicve in eating aud drinking, particularly in the region of salt water, who.e phosphorus makes br: ps av i appetites ‘‘at one foll swoop,” and we are qu te y to on our gentlemen sailors, 87 ‘ng they are no worr ~ than oursAves Only it really wouid creditable if, with the fesst and flow of soul, thero were a little more roughiog. LORD DUPPERIN TO THE RESCUR. ‘Won't some yseht cover ite :f with glory by going + Tarroway, To Narroway, over the faem," or to the West Indios, or to the South Pole? How hon- orable would such a oruise be if the yscht were command- od by its ownor! thi. is e aspiration beyond the of realization; for though yachters are su to “know thoe ropes,” many sdvance the opinion that in so- tivo sorvico they would bo equal tolittle boyoud * splici the main-brace " It is said t ey go through this nau! exorcise 'h o% Bn.: the D, tz-h‘n:;nwhh‘u 0 own s ol to heavy soes, an er have & Gomforaple berth 1n New rbor than be stified_and starvod at the Ocean House, why shouldn’t he? Why should ho ba badgored into doing the Lord Dufferin if he isu’t & Lot Dufforin? Aye ‘here’s tho rub. American vanity, if not honor, Americ .a musclo, * that enltivation of navpl science,” for wh'* . the Yacht Club sprang into bng, demanded that « Lord Dufferin should be Iorlhmminq. Let him be o dered, and the American market wil u?plv the domand. With his protty little schooner yacht ** Foam,” of uly 85 tuns, old measure- ment, bis Eaglish lordship made & journey of 6,000 miles, visitod Iceland, pushed into the 1nterior, turned geysers into camp-kettles, studied Ice.andic hitorature while cut- ting through seas of ice, penctrated even to Jan Mayen, o g Tow have lived to tell of seeing: in spite of sailors’ adyi believed he could get to Spitzbergen—and thero, landing almost at its 108t northerly extremity, ing thsroby within 100 miles na far north as any ship ever succeedod in gotting. Think, too, of how he shot & Polar bear, and dressed the sbip “in joints,” and then camo homo aud wrote & manly, entertaining book about what he had sccomplished. \'-nllz; verily, this thing wust bs done by ouo of us. Let Now-York Yacht Clubs wonder on't. ‘‘THR ALIOR." Yot while I, an amphibious animal with only one foot the water—the other being firmly planted on my nati heath (though my name is not bieGregor)—am sighing over opportunities thet remain without an embrace, the good news comes of how the “Alice” of Boston, belonging to the New-York Squadron, has crossed tho Atlantic in 19 days! Isit not a mistake to call her measurement 27 tuns? She was said to measure 58 tuns, but whether the one or the other, it was a brave undortaking, and the two young men on board for whom the voyage was , were fo be congratulated that lh? were not contont to merely chassoz up and down Long Island Sound and Ni nsett Bay. Let the “Alice” compete with the yachts of English build, let ber but win a race and she will have done more for the glory of her Club than all the rest of the Squadron combined. " 8till we have not attained the Lord Dufferin. He took command end went into remote seas. The “Alice,” too, is shorn of a portion of her laurels now we know that the * Red, White and Blue,"” of only fwo and a half tuns, has made the same punfe with equal safety ! In Mother Goose, it was four men of (iotham who went to seain a bowl. Inthis instance it is only two, but their bowl is stronger, 8o their story will be longer. After such -: u![;loll, can the Bquadron be rontent to longer hug the shore in ive WHAT'S IN 7 AME? ‘There is & vast deal of poetry a.d sense, or the reverse, in the names of things; particuiarly of Yachts, and it seems somewhat strange toat the Club does not sit in *judgment on the name of every new vessel admitted to the squadron. At present it is in s falr way of getting into difficulty. It may be pleasant and sentimental to christen one’s yacht after some fair dame, but it is not very nice to_have s * Juniata,” *Julia” and ** Juliot” in fhe same fleet. It wonld certainly be more euphonious were wowen remembered in fitting names of their own selection, Sentiment and reason might in this way be combined. Then if greater honor would be done them, why not cultivate art_as well as naval science, and lot such men a8 Quiney Ward execute in bronze the fair face of her whose name the yacht would celebrate, and mount it as the figure-head snd presiding deity over wind and wave? Lord Dufferiui—nous revenous tonjours @ nos montous—did well when he named his “Foam,” and placed the Jady of Dhis co at the bows, having no less s man than Marochetti t@’ do the subject a8 much justice as cor1d be done it in material hardy enough to brave salt water. It was a_pretty ides, and one that inspired verses *“ to ihe figure-head of the Foam.” If my eyes have served me right, there is not a tigure-head in the'entire New-York Squadron—a singular oversight, where no uqflus has been spared to make evory appointment complet ‘I'iere are nawmen in the fleet, Rowever, that, by grace and association, are suj tive of the sea. The Rambler, Fleetwing, Restless, L'"irondello, Wave, and Seadrift aro_exceedingly appro whilg the Idler is quite true to its baptism; whercas Fleur de Lis has no place on salt water; Alarm is excessively uncomfortable snd disquieting, particularly in hot weather, and Phantom is di eeably suggestive of the Flying Dutchman and Day Locker. When thoasaids of dollars are ex- pended on such o tloating palace o yacht, it were well 10 give due thought to the name by which it will beknown for good or evil. And that it is o easy work, those who have exercised their brains in this direction will boldly and feclingly assert. MISSOU prtag e LABOR AND PROSPECTS OF THE FARMER. From Ous Owa Corrmepondent. OuEGos, Hour Couty, Mo., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 3850, Labor, ceaseless and untiring labor, has wrought a wonderful change in the aspect of affairs in North-West Mis- wourd in the fow months that bave intervened siuce the sup- pression of the Rebellion, Never,before, in this country, bave men so faithfully discharged their obligations to the soil oa during the past and prosent yoar, I bave recently visited 11 of the 14 counties which compose the VIIth Missouri Con- gressional District, aud find a condition of prosperity in esch that I little suspected. I am satisfied that an equal or greater sumber of acres are now in cultivation than ever before, not- withstanding the immease labor of refencing and fixing things upon almost every farm before work ¢-uld be done on the soil. Miles of new fancing have been dove. dilapidated houses made habitable, and everywhero busy bands have been engaged iu wiping out the evidenoes—tho scars of war. Dawe Nature, too, bas been in lz«p‘llwfll mood, and such crops of oats, Spring wheat, Winter wheat, barley and rye bave not before, i maty & long year, rewarded the tc -, - Corn looks promis. ing. Insomo locations it is Just now a .ittle diy, perhaps, but as yol the symptoms are by no means alarming. ‘Lo apple orop is good.” Pear trees aro breaking down with their loads of fruit. The Concord grape is well loaded and hoalthy (all othor varieties o'.snul are a failure), and plums oveu are well loaded. Why should not this country rq,mm | THE TURF. | —— TROT AT GREENWICH, CONN. \'outeflll{.qmte an_exciting contest togk place at fob Between P, B, Van ule, e8q's b, g. Glutton or' ‘eruston’s r. m. Mossbunker, ‘The trot took place on the rond, to wagon, the distance oeing 1} miles, the stakes 8500 Couslderable interest Wi.s manitested in the raco, whioh was won, after a sbarp wohtest, by Glatton—time, 510, The race was witaessed 'y a large number of persor, 1 and e usidgrable syme of motey ohapged haads 03 the % et l ARMY GAZETTE. By - MUSTERED OUT AND HONORABLY DISCHARGED, Commissaries of Subsistence, Volunteers, Col, George D. Harringtov, Captains Georgs J. Trumball, ang Demar M. Alexander, Aucust 21, Assistant Quartermasters of Volanteers, Captaing John J MeDermid, George P, 424 Toomea xk Wilson, Aguss 21 %nm mem B ddition master Usited ey ;l',.'ue( 7 States Voluaters, Brevet Col. William J. 81 ,sn’. T. am J. Sloan, 3 as obief medioal offioer &t New York City. 5 Arny, to dup Hospltal Stoward Gecrml"mv 8. A the Department of W aehington, and ordsred i o '.'.': Medical Director, Department of the Missouri, ment to duty. DISCHARGED. Hospital Steward Francis L. Eston, U. 8, Army, INTERPERENCE WITH ELECTION IN ARIZONA. GeNERAL ORDERS, No. 35.—It Las been stated that porseng connected with the military service have used their positieg to Interfors with, or to endeavor to control, tho cleotions {a Arizona, ‘Witbont, in any way, designing to confirm that or to consider anything in connection with it except the ble bad effect which the mero sccusation, if uunoticed producs, it i bareby made the duty of offcers of the amay. 1§ Arizona to see that those connected with their commands ary not suffered to use their positions in counection with the Tee ritorial elections, or do anything concerning them bat T4 thetr Fgit £0 o oy of whlch right %4 1t pointed by the oivil sutbority are to be the " By command of MAJOR GENERAL . com R. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant General. DEATH OF LIEUT.COL. PLYMPTON, HEAUQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TRXAS, GALVESTON, TEXAS, Aug. 11, 1566, Gexural OrDEEs No. 27.—I¢ is with much regret thaside o Saf - L. Fiymptan, eh 14-CoL D W W m| 3 A .| 1st Ba 113'5. R"lflu&m Army, Com: ttalion, 100k place ot an eal [y hour this mming. tod_at_West Point in 1347, Col, Plymfwn gradua! Lis regiment, the 7¢th Infautry, tben com: Dy bis father, at the City of Mexico, Aftor the Mexicaa War, b served with his regiment in the Indian Tl'rnmg. and eom. minded a_battalion of it at the battle of Val Verde New. Mexioo. For zallant conduct in this e: t he the brevet of Lieut. Col. U. 8. Army. Magor of the 17th U, 8, Infantry in 1563, .';!m"d "q‘ih ‘lh "flb-:“wn bt C. M. WHITTRLARY, oommand of -Gren, . C. H. '3 4 <L vt. Col., Ase't Adji, Gen, ————— NAVY GAZETTE. —— [By Telegrapn.] DETACHED. August 13—Commodore J. B. Marchaud, from datp at the Navy.Yard, Philadelphia oa tho 3ist inst., s3d wailing orders. Cap. 7. W, A. Nickolson, from the command of the sfousee Mohongo, on the reporting of his relicf, and oidered North, Capt. S, D. Treuohard. from daty at the Navy-Yurd, New. ‘ork, on the 31st inst,, and waiting orders. Commander . Jouott, trom duty at tho Kavel Res. dezvous, Poiladelpbis, and ordered to duty st the Navy-Yarg New-York. Comma James A. Geer, from duty at the Naval Aced. ember 10 vext, and ordered to commasd the emy on stoamer Mohon, mmander B P. Williams, (rom duty at the Naval Res dezvous at anlnnm ? ‘: n}mm au'nd :«“u‘::' ;Mm;‘ Commandes J. ford, from duty ary- outb, N. H., on the 3lst instant, and ordered to com er Resaon. Commander Bancroft Gherardi, from daty in the dre ic Office, on the 3lst instant, and ordered to duty the Nuval Rendezvous, Philadelphia. ORDEEED. August 18 —Commander Thomas C. Harrla to duty af the Navy-¥ard, Philadelphia, Pa.; Lieut. Clarles A, Babcoek to duty st the Navy-Yard. Portsmouth, N. H. st 1A B August 13.—Ac i HONORALLY DISCHARGED. Augast 18.—Acting Second Assistant Englaser Reubss Riley from August 20. THE PACIFIC. SINKING OF A BRITISH SHIP—ONR HUNDRED AND FORTY- FOUR PASSENGERS DROWNED. e . Sax Francisco, August 2, 1968, The British ship Fairlight, Capt. Bush, from Hong Kong, bound to Sau Franciso, was wrecked near Islsad Chung-Hian ow June 12; 143 Chiness gers and one ropean were drowned, The ship broke up six bours -~ to send after the wrecked crew. srikiog, and nothing was ssved. Tho Government bad te rs of July 3 say the English commerolel o but the - on the Govers: s 1 Unif u - g *"and Teportod that the Tmperialits phin, off Chinita Poiat, sad stole #2000, iy L Gy Ly Ry - absence of the Governor-Genersl, scized the persons of the Treasurer, and tried to force tem to aad food. pa; great numbers of the gentry and mandarins to commit suicide (o prove thele loyaity, Great distress previ the ailed "n heat l‘lml:(LbllL the chief articles of diet, were 8t 70 taels per pic Tt was reportod that a largs body of Rabeis had penstratel into the vicinit bears of the salt districta. of Chinkang, ia It is feared that thé American schooner Golden lost about June 12, between Tamar and Amoy. A Durango letter of July 24 sistes thai the Frecch received orders to evacuate San Slvador. The evacuation Darango was to commence on Aug. 16. Offors had been made to retalu the French soldiers fn the service of Maximilisa by inducing them to redniist in beb talions,each battalion to consist of 200 French and 600 Mexicaas, This would secure the services of 13.000 foreiguers for the Mexican Empire, ‘The bark Gen. Pike, from the Ochotsk Sea, r!mfii fol- lowing ;. Ship Emily &5 bbls. oil; ship Roman, 1,100 bbis. ol!; bark Wiiliam Gi 1,000 bbls. oll. — Fortress Monroe. RUMORS CONCERNING THE RELRASE OF JEFP. DAVIS. . FoTuEss MONRoR, Saturday, August 25 1860, The impression is steadily eud surely g:la groand bere that Jeff. Davis will Soon be released long imprisonment, The improssion, bowever, ii must be - membered, is not produced by suy action that has as yet bess taken by the Goveroment that could be considered as pre liminary to his release, v any information received from any suthoritative source, but is merely the result of opinioss frequently expressed by those most competant to know. 1t is well known that strengous have lately in Washington and frequent interviows soug! Johnson, though in & more quiet manner than formerly, Charles O'Conor and many of Davis's warmest frie: purpose of making & conditional parole for him upon ground of continued ill-hoalth. The tremeudous presstre ‘Which bas been brought to bear upon Prosident Johuson and the inspiration aud confidence Le seceived through the pre; ceedings of the convention recently held ia Philsdelphis, it i thought has at least forced him {o yield, aad that he. ahorily grant Davis & rnh on aboat the ssme terms & Clewent C. Clay received. Mrs. Davis, since her retorn from Canads, seems more bopeful. Davis's physician states bis patiet’s bealid is ot se precarious as bis friends represent. = Co. C, 12tb U, 8 Infantry, left to-Qay for Washiogton, te join the rest of NEW-JERSEY NEWS. pesmpeteisi . ATTEMPT 70 TAKE Livs.—A man pamed Luke Daley, 50 years of age, arrested by officer Kecn, was taken b fore Acting Recorder Cutter of Jersey City yesterday -::; in e O RS 8 mnl been substantiated the sccused was beld to bail i Prize Fionrise.—On Saturday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, a party of young roughs belonging in the Sixik ‘Ward, Jersoy City, engeged in a prize fight at the upper end of Hamilton-square. Officer French arrested one of the pris- cipals, named Michael Bennet, 19 years of age, and yesterday worning on being taken before the Recorder, be was beid ‘bail to appear for trial. —— A YournsvL Taigr.—A boy named John Darley, 13 years of age, was taken before the Racorder in Jersey City yesterday morniog. and committed for triel o3 & charge baving stolen, at various times cigars from the store of T. H Biorwma, No, 32 Coles st., valued in all at $60. it SqUARE LoAFERS.—Two young men named Mi- chael J. Toomey and James Casey, arcested by officers 0'Coas noland French, wero taken befors the Recorder yesterdafy uduct, st Hawiltos morping, cbarged with disorderly b]n;m. Jersey City. Tbey were reqaived to pay & fine of $14 each. A Ser1ovs RALRoAD AccivEsT—ONE MAx Kirisp | AND SEVERAL INJURED. A werious accident ocourred os 158 sportation Compasy terday mord: i fireor road of the New-Jersay Ratlroad and L) infl. beyond New-Brunswick, about § o Ing (Monday), by whick the conductor was K aix laborers were seriously injured. Ahe freight train wes backing down for the purposs of loading on some timber, wheg cow unobserved ran out of some bushes upon the taack o 3 was struck by the rear car tarowing the train off of the treel The conductor, Mr. De Hari, was almost instantly kitked Do five or six laborers are reported seriously lujoved. Mr. Hart, who has been in the employ of the Company for the 20 years, and waus bighly respected, Jeives a wile snd three Clildren residlug st New Bruuswick o mourn bis watis end. A SuGGESTION FOR THE PARES EX Beckwith, United States Commissioner at I'uris, stroogly urges that prominent among the American features of the Paris Genoral Exposition iu 1607 should be & model scbook house, with all its modern appliances, school books aud -rz: ratas, and with teachers and scholars, sont over for the PR poso. The salid wen of Ne & might easily .-vmmw:‘ sum suflicent fo pay the expense of such a rejieseaisih The followiug is an extract from tue lotter of Mr. B«l'_l v T regret that none of our peopls have hiad the enterprise to get '.p 8 model district school, wilh 4. Intelligert report on i1y orpZasiod and opration, showlng how well i v adspted to the Phytenl b d {ntellectual traiuing and well belng of yosu peoje, i atltls of out sebools roughout e Unitad Bates, pF i ve prasentad & proper r iow @9 elass of prises, whers distinetion is most ot N (o) have secured an award Uist i mouey value =y {lo .y enes The axvanse. olue the erest bonor of 4% O crrioN.— M