The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 12, 1864, Page 1

awuiees. ‘ with ter's THIRTY-FIRAT VEA More ters The Latest By Telegraph to the NV. ¥. Sun. FARRAGUT'S OPERATIONS. Reported Capture of Mobile. GEN. SHERMAN SHELLING ATLANTA, ALL QUIET AT PETERSBURG. The Explosion at City Point. Boat Load of Ammunition Blowa Up FIFTY-THREE PERSONS KILLED. | One Hundred & Twenty-six Wounded. , IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. Denmark end Germany at Peace, Queen's Speech in Parliament. | | NEUTRALITY TO BE OBSERVED. &., = &e, &e. OFTICIAL DISPATCHES, War Department, Washington, Avg. 11, 9.30 P, M.—To Major Gen. Diz, New York.—No further tntelligewre bas been received from Mobile, except from deserters, who report the capture of the city, but nothing oficial. General Sherman reports al! we!!, and that be is knocking Atlanta with four and » balf inch | thelis, No movement has been made by our forces in font of Petersbury. General Sheridan has not been heard from to-day. Epwtn M. Bi awtos, Sccretary of Ware The Explosion at City Point. Great Desruction of Life and Properiy, Washington, Avg. 11,~A letter rom City Point, G@agod August 10th, ways: Abput 11 o'clock yesterday, & noise resembling | wounded have pot bean reported to the Depart- ment, The cause of the explosion has not heen as. certaitiad, t Bewin M. Stanton, Booretary of War, OMicial Report of the Moorrield Victory. The followlue dispateh, dared Cumberland, Awe, | Sth, confirins the reported ©) tory at Mooretiel 7 h | die. | wfirtns | Roorman i meeive | teont 5 The fo wiveh fally i this mornine; lowing laud Waited & Moorefiel, and Lattscked | ¢ | bin a deylicht seeteniay morning, con pletely | Pouting bis comm nd, capturing artiilers and | } 4M) prisoners, over ) bores and their equip | ments, three battle favy and a qnautity of «roall | ferme, Ther ber of the enemv's killed fe tne | kacwn, but tt ret ne. Gen, Jelineon wae | Capture’, with his ‘ pf ate, bus } they subsce scoped. Col. P terscofthe ote! Virvinis revel repiment, was mortally wounded, | M.Couslana « to the mountains, bee | Ty Was porsned towards Wanlenetills, Litk, ani op the North Rew » My command was ®) Weary with | eneum ered by the prisoner ured property that Dtbougetit fi best to bring them here My loss was 7 killed god 21 wounded, (Signed) Woward WOW. Avenir, Ir. padier General, The Stoneman Raid. Autbectic Details, Nasheitle, Aug. 11.—Information from Mariet- ts, 6th Inst, cives the particulars of Ste un" raid, On July vith, the Sth and 6tn Indiana Car. airy, and two weetions of the i4th Lodiaus Battery, bet out tor Macon, to relieve the Luion offeers iine Prisoned thore, The expetition arrived too late ; the rebels hed removed the officers to @ place of greater saiety. General McCook's force started at the mame time to effect a juuetion with General stoneman, bat were overtaken by an biiged to let Bte out. overpowering fore, and nan’ command cub its way The rebel# attacked them on Saturday daly 9b, and the eng night. surroun led, Gol, Adams finding resistance hopeless eseaped to Marietta, Gol, Capron, with his command, eer aped ons bat was again surrounded and bis men ent to pieces, The Sixth Indiana also cut throngh the enemy's ranks, hut were aynio attacked, Their fate ie un- scement laeted al { le nti! late at ug found them completely _NEW YORK FRIDAY, and deceit which have teen resorted to by Federal sconts ior enirapping British subjects into the United Slates army, and suggested that Govern- ment should exercise greater watehfalness and ep- enry in order to man practices, He moved for the production of Popers on the eubject, Mo Layard observed that Lord Howant hed done good service by the statement be had mado; but he did not see what the Government could do tore han reiterate the caution they bad given to emicranta, The Foretion Office had received heart- re ut Accounts of the sudferings of some of these er antsy and Lerd Lyons bad dore hia utmost to th the cases brought to his notice, but difi- oo Ces atood fn the wav, owing to the parties them- selves, We trusted that the American Government . che 4 the local suthoritiies woul & these wbuses t Mr. Londaay gave an appalling estimate of the Davee i do all they could to bomen Ibe canaed by the hopeless contost between the Narih and the South, Mr. PB. Teerlor took occasion fora some remarke of Lor FB. Howeard and Mr. Lindkey to speak in e ot the Northern ¢ ment, which was rmnined, be suid, to put d the daveholding rebel Loni. Manners after a remark upon the tnap- Propriatencss of Mr. Taylorts speech, sugeested that sete woerdines uoght be given the humble emigrants t America by the Emigration Commita- sloners, 1 notion Was agreed to, after afew oleerva- y Lord ©. Howard in reply, On the 29th, in the House of Commons Lord Pal- mersion made sore explanations as to” the Danieh question, aud stated that the pegotations at Vien- na would be carried on solely between the bellig- erents, The English Government had no tnten- tion of interferiuy further, PAMLIAMENT PROBOUURD—THE QUREN'S Ertrca, The British Parhament has been prorogued till Ootober, with the fl'owing speech frotu the throne ; My Lords ant Gentlemen: re commanded by her majesty to r@eare you rther artter cen pariiament, and at the same tine to conver to vou her majesty'’s aeknowl- edyemenia for the zed aud assiduig b which hel yourselves e dischar ring the eato parliament now , lowe Her Myesty co atin t omani« ue te inform you that rev that the eudeavors which abe ert with the Enperor of the Freneby they made, the Enaperor of Russia and abe Klug of Sweden, to briny abouta reconciliation between the ¢ Denmark, were Gi tilities, which had been the pecottationgy were again ree sty truest however, that tbe ne- have been opened between the restore peace tothe north of Bu- ren rents ma. Her Majesty hav herself to the o the treaty dunder the addresses) neg P wers who were contr ry which the Tontan rer protectorate ot Great Hr the explosion of a magizue was heart at the | K!O8h to our informant, tueir contest te the anveration of tha republle to headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, and Gen. 8 man, Cola, Hedd'e and Butler, Ma- | the king in of Greece, an 1 the State ‘ : ian any mirmines were indnlved in as to the direction j dors Theropeon oud Soper, Capi's Whitman, Bilott Bow Is} hy bs fey iia. birder A bie from which it came, and its cause, Durlag the af | aud Finne,, Lieut's Anderson, Stanton, Angell | ngdom ot Greece ; and Hor Majesty trusts that ternoon word came iit a boat lowied with arom Lindaay, J Hubbard, Miller, Mramona aud | thes un 80 made will erty we ae Av ir re nee bition had exploded at City Point, causing a | Clegy are prisoners, Lieut, Chittenden waa killed, King rs y yi el ee Subjects oF tals majeeyy we fal loss of life and great destruction of property. ta Fitth Indians, lost fearfully Her Majects's relations with the Eroperor of Ou the correspondent of the Associated Press reach | Sul liens who escaped report that the rebels aur Sule eatin it c Wr a eee Sa lentes % sented to him utterly indescribable. Buillines bad Sel bealotn veta wath th auba while asleep. | the Luperor of Ausirig the Bucperorof the Frened, been demolished, tenta thrown down, and horses | Poe hth Indiana lost about 40 men, the K {Prins and the Empe killed tn every direction, The lepet building, jase | Later infortnation Is to the etlect that GolGeprony | saath Radles A te gt ae fiery completed, was a mass of riiny while the th severs! squads of bia men, fein Marietas. Thin | i . joeWallach.a and b ground, for bundreds of yardy was cov. | will reduce Gon, Btonenman's lowe to lesa than one | 34 aR Gas ty hast apres ered with property of every dewription | Mourns! . scciatinil Her Majesty deeply lamenta that the efw. war tn The dead and wounded hat been cxtr cated | From the Southwest, North Ameries baa not been brougle toa close, from the ruins and carried some distance back, the Meuphis, August 9, Genero! Smith's expedt- Her Majesty will continue to obasrve @ strict peu. former for burial and the latter to be sent to the howpitale. A boat loaded with aiuirounition of va. mous kinds was being unloaded by the nevroes of the Quartermaster's Department, nearly a hundred | to number, and the only theory aivanced asto the eanae of the calamity, is, that a shell must hove heen dropped by one of them, thus « the fire to the entire mass. The noise lasted about thirty esconda, as witnesses avy, and the chock was felt for slong distance. On the sideo* the road, in front of the landing, were located a nuniber of off- | ees aad stores, among them the Post Office and Adame’ Express Office, which were almost utterly ‘brown down, the large number of persons occtips - fng them miraculously escaped with bos alight In the rear of this is a steep bank covered rolorcd laborers and their fnmi\ies. Shells and wot of every kind struck this bank in a perfect ower, while the ground in the vicinity is exemal- by covered with all kinds of stores. A large pum- ber of old saddies and pieces of harness ure among the debris. A boat lu i with stores lying along- ede enother ont, was torn to pieces @ lurve por- tion of it being raised completely out of the water, end thrown throug! the store-house on the dock, Captain Benedict aud Captain Amer of the Corninis- sary Department, were in Ue biuiding st the time, end were buried beneath the ruins. After consid. erable labor they were extricated trom thelr peri+ eus situation, 1 er ot them being Jutally injured, thouch « yood deal bruised, A number of laalies of colored persona have been found besides those above mentioned, and tuere are sixteen io the Post Hospital, while otpers ere weattered tu dierent loonlties. Pwenty-uve colored men, more or lows wounded, were taken to the Colored Genera, Hosp ual, where several amp - tations were periortoni, F ve shells peseed through the Sanitary Cojimlaeion bork bub fortunately no emeon it wus. Tris Lelleved that many Spdies were blown into the river, which will never we recovered, Capt, Behu Marshal, who Was sitthuy ou Wie topo) r ver, under # fy, woes lifted wp aud thrown ad ten or twelve pround bim, but strange to ea, esse! Without « mrutch, The lose of property ts uot own, but it will prove to be very large, The coth New York wolunteers lose 6 killed and 17 wounded, The boat Lewis caught fire, when a wrecking tug ran ashore, apd extending her bose, threw six streams on the fre, putting out the flames, and thus saving a large mount of ammunition. 6EZOOND DISPATCH, Washington, Avg. 11-10 F. M.—To Maj.Gen. Dix, New York; A dispateb from Gen, Grant, Just received, reporte the onsualtien by the explosion of the amraunilion barge at Cy Point, on the Oth, as follows; K Ued—Twelve enlieted men, two eitl wens (employees; ; one citizen {not employed by the Governmont); and thirty-cight colored labor- @r, Wounded—Three commissioned officers, four qplisted meu, fifteen citizens ‘employees’, sad dighty-six colored laborers. Besides these, there were eighteen others wounded, soldiers and citl- ties, not belonging about the wharf, The damage to the property was large, but I have not the mesns wf reporting it, The names of the piled end ony Provost ace feet, receiving © shower ¢ uomiunicating | on its summit,and oocupie icbiefly by the | sells lone, Ite destina is unknown Lat Vicks pera! Shermor ral Slocum ha fered to report te burg, an The district of V | Genera! Waskburne, who sow coutrols the river keburg ‘ea been arelgrod te from Cairo | The report frow the Gulf Department is that all ie quiet there aud on the White River. The rebels | in the trans-Mississ ppi Department are trying t } cross the Missins! py General Dick Ta . and com. | rornds in place of General §. 1D, Les, who is now at | ylor is at Merid ‘ | thas hitherto been scantily Mrnisned, Atlanta The revolt of certwin tribes in New Zealand has | | not yet been quelled, but it ts satisfactory to her | an Majesty to know that @ large portion of the nar Indi Hostilities. tive population of those islonus have taken no incrensing. part in this revolt | Om Piha ‘Trenbles ven sod we 1 I: has teen a souree of much gratifcation to ber | tha City, Ag. 11,—Hoetile marauding Indians | Majesty to observe the rupd development of the intest the whole line from Fort Kearney to South | resources of ber Bast India possessions and the Pass, 0 dimance 0° 500 miles and daly commit | Zou sl contentment of the people wuabiiing those | hos created in some of bas to srreat extent abated and ber Ma esty truste trality between the ata friendly r igerenta, and would rejol peilLution bewween the contend- . men of the House of Commonas testy coromonnds us to convey te vou her owledgrments for the liberal aipplies ou have yratted for the service of the press and towards the permanent delance of ber siadockyards god arsenals, My Lorde und Ger teamen: Her Macesty hos olserved with aatigfaetion that the disuress which the civil war ta North America the maonfiacturiug districts or M worm ack whieb 5 ent ve M that increased supplies ofthe raw material of in- dustry may be excracted from counires by which exteunive regions. , DOW outrages, makin. forays on stock and burning j trains, A ereat number of travellers are now | Atenping at Fort Kearney for protection, and wait. | ¢forertos. Wie Indians, in beods of frow 10 to | 100 men, with celerity, and poskessune # thorough | knowledve of the countrs, elude pursuit, The televraph Tne le sill in good order, uotwithstand- ing these troubles, | | Deaver City, Aud. 10.—To correct probable | gusappresensiong jn regard to the marety of travel | | ou the overland route it is proper to say tint ale | thoueh the Indian been very te Inte in attaeiiny armed trains 9 emigrants tuable to delend thon ag yet, been no attack by known, unen th f nbleeome mueloriny there b for 4 f ve | both wove, The vr a | st Aton son ond ¢ * | rutaf the over ‘ kK | crunett 2 eon ' Pheeved that our tro po uw se dietribuued | along the route sati@ls toy i i} - | From Europe, | ‘Two Days’ Luuer News, | New York, Aum le-ihe Conard tes ahiy | Porsla brings news fror rojpet 1 | ‘Tor Paris Parkar, u munces the Melasion Gi peace berweeu Gerueuy and Done ark, The terme are unkuown | In the Houce of Com: vw the s46h July, Mr, | Layard, | y ty a question by Mr, Kinglake, enumerated Wose portions of the stuies and Lertie tories of Mexico which have been ful jected by the army of the French, and those which bave not yes acknowledged the authority of theinvader, The | polley of England, he said, had been to recognize | the de facto goverument, the condition being that | the government shouli be in possession of the cepi- | tal, The Archduke Maxim'liun wus at present in possession of the Cily of Mexico, and slso of & cons ricersble portion af the terr'tory, and ber Maesty's Government Bad int mato. to the G vernment of tte Emperor ot the French, that woen the Arch+ duke sould be in Mexiee, and hud noufiod the tet yr powers, it wus thar intention 9 the een io recognize bim, They would not wait Auopt that course uniil the main portion - the Boles ant Territories still under the sway of residen % were i 2 ° ty of the Archduke. within the suthori Lord E. Howard called attention to the subject of emigration to the United States, in reference to the prolangation of the war reging in that country, ond be compleined of the organised sysvom of (reus thope diated fler Majesty has given her cordial assent to many meartues of public usefulness, the result ot your labors during the sees.on Dow brought to ae ™. The act for extending to women and children voved In variona trades the regulatona ap nernl, will tead matere th wathor r the act ior 7 wrant oof nent aouideies, wil encourage butyus ol prudence t rmieana of securely lavesting ihe results of ther indostr Vue ot tor authori. ug @ further advauce for ¥ log dhe distreaa in a means of worn Inany works of tourked impartauce for the I hea The ¢ nereused facilities for the con- striction of raitwace « |) diminieh the expen at bt upon the ecteurion of these Loportaut | eaftortodtober M ee th rhoet partfelt | wt to cboervett cera) well-being aud entment whieh prevail throug her doin itis s wd to retaack the prowres#ve Increase ana de- Velopmout @f the ne J or gourom ana to find that, >. providing for the pub wer teen shble to make | ho maveral di Le texation of the eounl Od nturoine to ¥ oa you will still bave img } ly @hpecially uhected with she liukiug kwetner o the several laces of the inity,abd ner Moyesty fervently Drays thatthe blessing of Almighty God may ate tend your exertions and jruide thet to the object of her Mujesty’s constunt policitude, de Wellare and Lapp.oess of her peopie, LEBEL PILATES, ETC. French journals continue to assert that « fight will soon take place in the waters of the English Caannel, between Federaj and rebel cruisers. The Vier, of Cherbourg, seys; Three Federa) and four Confederate war ships bave lately been seen in the Channel. The Foceral s).)ps are the Keursarge, the Sacremento aud the Nugura, Tue Con‘elerates are the (eorgin, the Tl rida, the new Alabama and the General Lee, Fe us Ostend, we hear of two other Coufederste war veasels, * hich have just been signailed, These are the Paul Jones Can omsmous nase) aad the Butier- ‘ys The London Auw®? amp Navy Gazwrrs thinks that the Confederates, in their late raid, might have taken Baltimore or Weshiagtan, or both, sod that they have lost a golden moment. In regerd to an alleged contemplated movement bu the party of action ip Italy, the Momus Pest ey AUGUST. 12, > 1864, suthoritatively states that Garibakii peraonally aloof from it, but bas exercimed hie tn ——- | fuence to moderate the enthusiasm uf: bis follows | ence, yut down auch tlegal and inhu- | ore Relative to the clominy of the Protestant aateb- Nehmentsin Constantingple it Le stated that the | Bible and the American Missionary Boct@ier wore | reepened, in consequence of protesta adresse yo | the Porte by the English and American Aumbasss. | dors et Constantinople. | Recruiting rnd Boating ot Poughkeepesic. | Poughkeepsie, Aug. M1. Recruiting Tweilth Congresdousl Distr ot is brisk and the ea: taenta are There is le activity shown in procuring subetituts, Quote of the town of Armenia is nearly tilled wha three-veura men, and tt will probably be ahe baa- ner town of the district. The crews of the Pittsburg four-ovred bell boat and the New York four<mred shall boat, together with the crew of the Poughkeepsie bowl, are now in this city preparing for the great race whieh is to come off on the Hhidsen, opposite to this t wns on Tuesday and Thursday of next week, é¢sch tor PSAULnY As the contestants are all fret class Powerty the affair excites coosiderabla interest, News Items. (Dy Telegraph to the Mew York Sun.) hereasing. vleo conaider. Oe Taner more of the Western greenback counter- feiters have arrived in Washington, and been oom - mitted to the Old Capite! Prison, &. 1. Conny, of Vermont, was yesterday sword In, at Washington, as Register of the Treasury, in place of L. EB. Chittenden, resigned. Tn amount of anbscriptions to the 7-80 loan, re- ported at the Treasury Department, yestertay, amonnt to nearty balfa million dollars, Tur Britich ship William, from Maneanfls, in | going up Tosten barber, vesterday, ran ore on Deer Toland, where ehe remoina ina bad pomition, | Bhe has a canzo of pelin-leaf, molaaes, dar, | Tur thertnometer at noon yesterday, at Whah- | ington, indicated 96° in the shade, and 12° jn thesun, A heavy thunder shower occurred at half-past sewen in the even ng. Tax present called session of the Pennev? vania Leitslature will end before the 28th inst., when the | previonsly adjourned cession will commenen, The members were on @ visit to the ruing of Clarmnbers- burg, vestarday. Sivew demerters from the Army of the otomar, found juilty of desertion ant sentenced tobe shot, have had their seotences commuted to confinement on the Dry Tortugas, and throe others, for rtmnilar offences, bave been sentenced to hard labor else. where, | Tar decision of Act ing Commisatoner Rona, (that 7.20 Treaanry notes are linblo to taxation, [applies only to banks that he'd them #8 a part of their capital stock, The Tet metion Tean pote ag well aa bonds, from State and tounicgpal taxation, | A erre ! ment, | the Unit | Exprea¢ ernment Act expreeite exempts att t storter, ferot Gorn the War Depart. call oficers in the miliury tes to render every facility b tmpantes as may be charged by the Gov- New York with the del vary sary forme and blanks required to secure the votes to # of neces. | of so) here of that State fn the field, with @ view to tho blonke being delivered with the least practica. | bie delay. General Intelligence. (By Mail w the New York Sun.) Jessy Linp's husband bas bseome a London ed- | itor, |. Exerunest for these bard times is the name of a §. Louis iri—-Grinn & Birrett t Movasses in reaching California from the Sand- | wich Islands, The value of the early missionary enterpriv there thus comes back to us with profit in our need, | Str Reneny Pees save that the farmers of Ireland | flove 214,000,000 aterling in banks, anc, despite a!l | that baw lately been said and written, there are abundent evidences of the growing prosperity of the country, fax British Board of Trade retarns show the exe forthe six mouths ending Jun to have the f £78, sterli an fue of over £ H,000 upon the corresponding id hast veur. Tar Great Havtern, which cost #5,000,000, baa Doen soul tor 125,000, which sum will not be suffice eut te pay olf preforment ereditore and her ex. penses, Than it aeetog sbatonr Monitors are not the ouly exatanle Hier (uy oeemn orchiterwure | Tes Moston Pores: a that here te no truth in the report thot Mr. incon ts abe preclaration to whom it tay ¢ revels not te approach within L inptun, A DOWN ens e wind blew bh warning vo miles of Wasb- tor said he waa tn a boat when but he wasn't at all asrined, | cote had bis life neured, and “ Le pever bad guvthing happew ty Liu by whieh he could make | any inoury nd SPN TINGE of greatly troubled, eff. ab our ney ys that ‘t ftue Union marae bard” pon thera throughout she at coula they get rid of it they would such abort work of tue Yankees #» would db bhe wor) 1,” send th robbery counwitted by the rebel snd Was at ar + oreo tnan alice rier Bultuore, Where a ? devouret one eamdred gale shouts Waiting for rll rr ms of that seasonabie article, % Spoons, Apviews from Tur!) report tue surrender of the my ol tue Bey, without an engagement, to the a The latter declarea thelr desire to ree main taithiul to the Bey, their only wish being mhe dismissal ot the ministry 4nd the abolition of this upjust tax, It ia stated em goed autbosity, that when Gen, Howard was tendered the command of McPherson's Arm, by Shertman, be declineal it, Subsequently he informed Sherman that {f the Presideat and Gen, Grant were plewsed to assigu bim the position, he sbould not refuse, Tor Construction Corps of the United States mil- itary railroads has jnosi sorompllehed & great feal. The railroad bridge over the Caatthoocbie, seven hundred sod @xty feet long and ninety feet high, destroyed by the rebels in their retreat, was rebuilt in four and a bali days’ work, and the cars rag on Friday last to within three rales of Allanta, A FAMILY in Chicago lost deughter of 17 years of age, abont two months ago, ey could obtain no clue to her wrereabouts, The other night 4 hearse was driven to the door, a coffin was taken out and placed tn the hall, with the nimple remark, “There is your daughter.” Accompanying the was the keeper of @ house af if]-fame. bs, | Yoon Tuceday. She was only 15 sod marriod, in thin | SE ttea by w rebel soldier, picked u 1 The Pp ih Ho by have heard @lxewhere for the past threa ot four mouths money.’ Hseems thet the Army ct the Teunesses has been paid off, or partially oy at Lhe + Wotlk the Army cf Miaim ppi (General A Youne wormn named Lizzie shot her- self through the heart in the village of Cornell, Noy — - —————wt ' ‘KE ORR CENT_(s GOLD CENTS IN CURRPSCT.” <P nee onty holde | tt her Wisband having entiated and felled te ances Fespond. with her, she wok up with enother, fina! became remorvelul, and pu an end to bee Nort Poeling well the other day, seve 80 ¢s~ change, we turnet our attention to poetry Peteesburg, and here in the result : favs U. 8, Grant to Rh. B. Lew You say I wbant, I say Danes. Tove tollowing isa copy ol @ vote, ‘ed oin trent of Atlanta Thin tnor be nuy lat | { eeakinnt. Tin woine beel to the front. Behreew my ¢ luck the front bea come tome, Wore et h face getttog Lurt there dally, Whe knows? Order nea metellic cotua and sa iced | juleps A MXGULAR cose of mudden madness occurred the vther day oo (he tein between Albway and Spr bee fleld. A well drmased Trib woran, while quely seated tn the cary broane no mving manian sod Pellet the other pawsenyers with a gold watchs Dearly choked @ suum. bes, and performed o her She wae recured with disieal- tyy and ber pockets were found full of gold cotty watches, jowelry aud groeubacks, i Tar Moutgpomery Apverriere congratulates the ontederaey on the aevession of Googe A. Trane holm, of CRorlestou, to the Secretary sh vw the Treasury + He was born, cays the Apvanriers, in Charleston, and has long stood nt baad of the huanciers apa meorchanta of that » hie inember of the firm of Fraver & Co. that bas oon thore largely coucerne( than any other in blockade running, is aaid to be very wealthy. Wn pleasent pranks, AN Atlanta correspondent of a relel paper enve@ “T hear up tn this region une same ol ery thet T ri *s old corps) is eight months beluud, Tt le aot understa i by what hoons “in one portion of the arw y tn the Weet ix peid and the other not, and, vethe men need their money very greeilys yO’ ‘may imagine there is some prumbling.”” Ab tho season Is now at band for these pesta, the ante, housewlves and others who are oubled wih them may probably use ihe followin vantage: Procure al it well and prose itary, Which w quile agen then sprinkle ov It some ine w bt Se place it near where the ants are troublesome. Ther Will soon collect upon the aporge and take up mbeuwr abode i the cella, Lt in only necessary to dip tue sponge fo scalding water, which will wash ro out dead by the tens of thousands, Puton m ougar, and aot the trap fora new haul, This pro- cen trap to od- fponve, wa eave Lhe cel! ll soon clear bie house of every ant, Ix the depth of lant winter, while in the vallee of he Shenandoah, the rebel Gen, Fits Hugh Leo with @ superior forces lay for some time near he lines of the Uriah Brivade, and Col. Mulligan hou» ly expected an attack, At last be roceived @ cam- munication trom Lee to the eflect that on acaound ofthe cold weather Leo bad determined not to inake the attack, To thie the brave Mulligan Cd in aubetance a6 follows: 'M) i Ley with the aseurence that he can be ac dated with ® warm fire whenever he } ' { chooses," Sawes. 8, BovruanD, agent of the Adame Exe press Couspany at Perce Haute, Todiausy fomeme vieide tm big room by shooting binneelf throu the head with a pistol, Heleit a letter which gays 9 iquor has ruined me as well os th ut T bave tried hard to quit, but Rad i ime poss ble todos, I bave drank nothing this even. ing and am perfectly calm, Dhave no vnkind word or feelties towards any one. ‘That curse of all evil grave, woo mighs beve yed the confidence and po- nity. My poor farully | O God ‘ ny or Write of orto them, My just aud merciful God deal rrespondent of» Richmond pue otacoslons Ja regard a ele by the exploaian af the only mine shat the doe this enetay are preparivg, I bave other cvideuce besides LOCAL NEWS. NEW YORK AND TLE VICINIDY, Tur Cuever PeLvows' Cuup,--hverg soung wan Who powsesaen # pow above buttous Jeairew to be considerad a clever fellow, aut al- though it does not follow that every indyvidus! bs comes 4 clever fellow by virtue a bis rneoviation with other clever fellowa it moy be aeaiined that he will become imbned with many of shor: attrt- Dutes that are porsewed by the gentler whe be- lon? t the Clever Follows’ Club, ‘Vo be conadered a clever fellow jnnplies wo many conditious! a) rac@ y tow fudi Lhope the nert J time they atteropt to spring one we will be bester ' oulis of the fight are now better Known, Our wil foot up about 1.800, as teUows: Mahomet divi+ killad and wounded, about 450; Elliots’s Bens Carolus brigade, which wae a salieut When Sake: wounded, Ransom Clinzman aud Wise, who were under heavy artillery firing, leoe about 800 billed operts at leust ther officers no stated y A conresronpest of the Mobile Anvrntrase thas comments et whisky drinking’? in the rebel artev at Alanta: One thing is very evident, however. We're tay close to Atlanta, ond tbere are far ber many grog shope there, & julep or + tal tailia nota goo. thing to have somnetiines but the mean liquor there ie very hard to swa'low, and very hard sw navigate under ster it ia ewallowed, Lhave tried ae teddy bere, and only one, and [ do not think I will ever try amether tilthi« “crue! waris over.’ But you would be arinking going on au Atlanta, Tau sure the Gen- the extntol i, though douvken en ere daly broug it to him T learn, and stat to she guard. artules wre ao near, people prefer to retain «|! thelr origive! aig and habite of life, and renounce those narrow, sordid, one-sided views of Lurosa natmre that induce them viduals aro so constituted that they can becatae cleveg fellows ; and it Is refreshing to me) ¢ the ae. associated themselves tovether for the express pur: \ poss of carrying out, on an enlarged plan, the view, some years ago a clib was organized, s constitution and by-laws sdopted, officers Lie property purchased that has gimce Lees appropriated exclusively to the objects of the Club ville, Staten Islond, aud there, under the oves-baug: ing branches of # magnificent old elm, the clever wherein they pursue individual or congregutec happiness, sccording to the bent of their incluw they bave e rule, permitting esch member to tvits five friends to ebsre during the summer eran the mine ; the ptatements of the prsoners, wrepured for tiem than we were betore, The t~- sion (Sunder’s, Matone's and Wright's plosion occurred, losses about 306 in ketl end wounded, The euemy coptured seme 300 uncer flag of truce.’* I do pot incen to sy that astonished at the nusnber of bers and the amount of eral commanding: the poe’ has very litle ides of boum, It ought to be stopped catirely while the human sellishiooms, in rreierence to charciag eels to decline fellowship with othere, V quaintance of sixty or more individuals wow have | principles of clever fellowship. With this olject te appointed, money collected and guite A pleasant encampinent bas Deen taken at duttcn fellows have crected tLeir cottage und outbuildings tions. fo entirely clever are these idllowe tha SContimuad onto saan)