The Montreal witness, 5 août 1863, mercredi 5 août 1863

[" + COMMRCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL.XVIIL MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1863.No.62 THE GRAND TRUNK RAILRUAD AND THE CUAST.Greater facilities toreach the sea cost of Maine are offered this year by the Grand Trunk than ever before ; and this improvement seems 10 indicate, on the part of the management of the road, a desire to meet the wants and wishes of the pub.Last year there was but one train a-day to Portland, Unit recently (be journey took twenty-two hours, now, only sixteen.The forced stoppage over night at Island Pond used to be a great nuisance, especially for those travelling with their families, The traveller was never sure of s bed, could at best erjoy it but half lic, which will be hailed with satisfaction.this season there are two, of a pight; and had to submit to extortionate hotel charges.The Witness last summer echoed overs) complaints in reference to this difficulty, and now, it is gratifying to find is fully remedied, The trains go right through, have sleeping carn attached, and the etopping over night at Island Pond is entirely optional.I availed myself, in company with others, of miles in leng, where suri-batking can be en- these facilities for guing to the seaside, and having succeeded in reaching a fine location on the eoast of Maine, I would gladly impart the benefit of my reccot experience to those who intend to foliow the same line of travel.Acd firat, to prevent ail disappointment, I should state, that the system of letiing berths in the sleeping cars in very imperfect, or rather, that there is no system at all, everything being left to the discretion of s young conductor, and no certainty existing, before you start, that you can obtain sleeping accommodation at all.There is but one sleeping car attached to the train, and often (wice as many claimants fur berths as can be accommo dated, with no reliable rule by which to fix the precedence of a claim, unless it be by placing a piece of baggage or clothing on a seat.Even going very early before the departure of the train fails to secure a berth.Our litde party stepped into the sleeping car over twenty minutes before the time of leaving.and every seat scemed secured by a shawl, or a coat, or a bag, although the car was not a quarter full.We wera kindly advised by the inmates to proceed to another car, as all the seats were taken.We did not, however, for we suspected unfair play, and indeed it turned out afterwards that one gentleman, with his wife, three young children snd nurse, bad thus monopolized no less than sixteen seats.He claimed afterwards all the lower berths of those seats, and the conductor enforced bis claims to the manifest injustice of others, the more 80, as several ladies objected to take upper berths.Under the present arrangement, {he berths belong to the bold and the grasping, while the more quiet, respectable snd inoffensive travellers stand a good chance of sitting up all night in another car, end 1 was sorry to see several compelled to do so.\u2014 The Grand Trunk should at once remedy this defect, and introduce some system in the letting of berths.It can very easily bo done.Berths should be pumbered and secured when purcha, ing tickets at the office, so that one would know bo- fore geltiog in the cars whether he is to have sleeping accommodation or not.Every one should be entitled t> bave bis berth where he has bis seat, and uo one should be permitted, through the deposit of some rags, to monopolize more room than be can possibly occupy.Those who have never tried sleeping cars, need pot expect to find in them all the comforts of a bed.They offer you at best only the enjoyment of lying down st full length, and with your dress op, on a pretty tard sofa where you sre well shaken.But even thisin à long ride is an inestimable comfort, which ls purchased at the moderate expense of balfa-dollar, Sleep reduces the wearisome hours of & tedious journey, aod economy Is consulted by tous avoiding a stay ut the hotel.You reach the senside probably s Tide dull and tired from a broken and imperfect night's rest, but then you bave no duty before you; complete repose and idleness await you at the Atlantic shore, which is all the better enjoyed after à little fatigue.You reach Portland at 8 o'clock fn the morning, or at à in the afternoon, according as you lave taken the 4 or the 10 o'clock train in Montreal, and if you proceed in the direction of Bosto), you are just in time to take the care without stopping.And now to those who bave not yet selecteda spot on the coast, I will venture to impart some useful information.The most accessible apots for sea-batLing, as you reach Portland, are, undoubtedly, Peak\u2019s and Cushing's Islsnds.These are beautiful localities in the bay, opposite the city, and of easy access by a steam-ferry.The latter is quite & fashionable place, and ite splendid hotel, built by the Canadian enterprise of the gentleman who bas given his name to the island, 1s uorivalled.Although enjoying magnificent situstions, these two islands lack something that Le essential to che practised amateur of sea-bath- ing.They bave no besch nor surf worth men Portland je next establishment worthy ' of notice is Cottage, on Cape Elizabeth.The surroundis of this place are extremely\u2019 lurely and pictesque, it lies inside of the bsy, and all the shoing going in or out of port, | passes In full wr of the hotel, and close to shore, giving great amation to tbe landscape.At a short distances the southern side of the Cape, | and near the bt-bouses, is the Ocean House, | which is genclly well patronised by Canadians, The landlord, hom § have recently met, etates that although bas built large additions to his establishment;e bas bud to refuse or send away this season, Indreds of applicants.In both these establishents on Cape Elizabeth, there is but little beagand surf to be enjoyed.Preceedingirther south, if the traveller leaves the Boston cs at Oak Hill, the second station from Portlans a ride of three miles will bring him to the jaotic House, s charming spot, surrounded Ya beautiful grove of fra and ether stately trees, hile in front extends a busch two joyed in ita pfection.This lovely spot bas not been well pyonized by boarders, for the sole reason that ting a favorite resort of the citizens of Portland, rany used to ride there on Sabbath, and were enirtalned in the bouse.This year, all compaoy | refused admittance on Sunday ; and the rule, I wderstand, is strictly enforced.The proprietor deerves commendation avd encouragement forihis grent reform.He bas just en.Inrged his htise, and J bear has plenty of room for visitors.Two miletfarther from the Atlantic House, is Prouts Neck the spot which in preference to all others I havi selected for myself.It possesses more naturaladvantages than any other, but bas not yet becoue fashionable, and in this lies to my taste oneof ita excellencies.The spot is, as it were an igand far out at ses, and connected with the lan¢ by a Darrow neck of sand, It SIR WILLIAM LOGAN, The Canadian Illustrated News bas a very passable likeness of Sir William E.Logan, tbe director of the geological survey of Canads, subjoiniog the following sketches of bis life from Morgan's sketches of celebrated Onna- dians :\u2014 \u201cSir William Logan, the emioent and distin- geologist, and one of the most scientific men that Canada can boast of baving produced, is a Osnadian bred sod born.He first saw the light in Montreal Sn 1798.He pursued hls studies at the High Scbool, Edinburgh, Scotland, and graduated at the University of that city.In 1818 he entered the mercantile office of his uncle, Mr.Hart Logan, of London, and after à time became à partner in tbe firm.After returning to Canada for a short time, where bis attention was drawn to the geological characteristics of this country, he again crose- ed the Atlantic io 1829 and took up his residence in Swausea, South Wales, as manager of copper smelting and coal minlog operations, in which bis uncle was interested ; but he left this situation soon after the death of the Istter in 1838.During bis seven years\u2019 residence in South Wales, Mr.Logan devoted himself to the stady of the coal field of that region ; snd bis minute and accurate maps and sections were adopted by the ordnance geological survey, snd published by the government, under Sir Henry de )a Beche's superintendence.Ho was the first to demonstrate that the stratum of under clay, #8 it was called, which always underlies coal beds, was the soil in which the coal vegetation grew.In 1843 Sir William visited the cosl fields of Pennsylvania and Nova Scotis, and communicated several valuable memoirs on the subject to the Geological Society of London.At this time he began an examination of the older palmozoic rocks of Cansd: d the celebrated geological survey of Canads having been commenced, be was appointed and still continues at its head, à trust which sufficiently indicates the high opinion entertained of his great abilities snd attainments by the government.cers ba made by the owners of the Osnadian Mail line of steamers than beretofore, it will be long before the public confidence is restored to them; whilst the unparalleled disssters tbat have befallen their ships, must indict than can be just voysge from England to Canada.\u201d ¢ in- ary on the whole maritime trade of Co- ones, by keeplog up a bigber rate of iosursuce d by the true character of à MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.Ten Misswsirer\u2014Certain merchants of Bt Louis, and other Western cities, are sending committees to Washington to urge ihe immediate opening of the Mississippi River to general business wit as few restrictions as pi tle.Our St.Louis correspondent says : \u201cThere are two classes Who are at the head of this movement\u2014Copperheads and stenmboat owners.The latter ate governed by a desire to make money, snd the former by the same desire, coupled with a wish to help the rebels, who everywhere line the river banks.If the river is re-opened in defiance of Gen.Grant's wishes, the rebele will receive supplies which will epable them to prolong the war in the West.Powder, percussion caps, swords, quinine, medicines and clothing have undoubtedly been smuggled through our lines from points on the river north of Helens, at various times during the last year, In immense quantities.\u2014 The further the timit of navigation is extended, the greater the facilities for supplying the rebels.\u201d Conraiors ror New Veassip-cr-War\u2014The Navy-Department bas contracted with the following parties to build sn entirely new type of vessels-of-war.Tbe names of the ships I obtained at the department to-dsy.The following ia the list :\u2014 Builders, Where.Chester, Pa.Green Point.\u201c Bhamoken\u201d .1 Mobongo\u201d.\u201c Winnipce\u201d .H.Loring .This preference is, however, nothing more than he Is entitled to, considering the immense sacrifice which be has made to remain in, and confine his atudies to, » country endeared to him by all the ties of birth and station, Itisa well offers a grea; variety, combining the life of the farm with that of the seaside.We have here is in the possession of one single patrisrohel fawily, divided into three houses, aud receiving only a few quiet boarders.The place is, moreover, rich in histories) associations, having been the first point settled on this coast, in virlue of # royal patent granted in 1681 to Capt.Thomas Cammock, nepbew of the Earl of Warwick, It was then called Black Point, and served as a fort and refuge for all the population of the coast during the Indien wars, as it was eaey to bar the passage of the neck against the invaders.From my window I see Orchard Beach, three miles distant, snd at seven miles, in enother direction, the Pool, both favorite resorts, and visited every year by many Canadians.They are both reacted from the Saco station, where the traveller should leave the cars.The former of the two enjoys a magnificent beach with surf, but no boat can there effe:t a laodiog, and, therefore, visitors are deprived of the great advantages of eailing and fshiog, which can no-where be better enjoyed than at the Pool or Prout's Neck, The Pool, however, notwithstanding & good beach, is not without its drawbecks.It is rather isolated, be ing nine miles from the nearest railroad station, and is a barren sandy spot, without landscape, without sbade and without a tree.Orchard Beach, on the contrary, ia surrounded by very Bne woods.I ehould not close these practical hints for tourists, without ssying something of hotel charges.Of course, the more fashionable the place is, the more you are expected to pay.I have beard of ten dollurs a-week as tbe bighest charge in one of the islands opposite Portland, although I am assured that board can be obtained at Peal\u2019s Inland as low as five dollars a.weck.At the Ocean Ifouse and Orchard Beach, I am told that the fare is $8 a-week At the Atlantic House itis a dollar aday.At Prout's Neck #5 a-week.At the Pool there are four hotels, two of which charge $8, and the others $5, and even $4 e-week.These charges will be virtually much reduced, if the Canadian traveller, before leaving Montreal, will only call at an exchaogo broker, and buy, at a great diecount, Americas paper currency, with which to payall bis expenses after be has crossed the lines.PW.Sab Accipear.\u2014~On Wednesday sfternoon an accident took place at the lumber yard of Mr.J.M.Currier, N.P., whereby a man of the name of Leriere bad bis arms and breast-bone broken, and Lis body otherwise severely contused, The man had been building s pile of lumber on the edge ofu prominence, fronting on the Ottawa river, about 45 feet above the water level; the pile on which he stood waa about twenty-five feet high, making the distance from where he was to the bottom about seventy feet, He bad scarcely sompleted bis task when the pile on which he stood gave way, precipitating bim with it to the bottom.There is little hope of his re tioning, Proceeding towards Boston from the corery.\u2014Otlawa Union.fields, wands, rocks, high hinfs, beaches, surf and also still wager eating, and the whole place known fact that he has refused several offers from other governments for bis services, including Indis, where a princely fortune is to be msde by the geologist.In the course of his investigations upon the rocks of the Eastern Townships, which sre the eontinuation of those of Now England, Sir William bas shown tbat, so far from being, as had been supposed, primitive azoic rocke, they ase altered and chrys- tallised palæosoic strata; w fact, which, although suspected, bad pot bitherto been demons d, and which is the key to the geology of Nort! étern America.He found the rocks which form tbe L:.urentide and Adirondac mountains, previously regarded an unstratified, to be disturbed and altered sedimentary deposits of vast thickness, equal perbaps to all the hitherto known stratified rocks of the earth's crust.In 1851 Bir William represented Onnada at the Great Exhibition in London ; and had charge ofthe Canadian geological collection wbich bad been made by himself or under bis immediate direction.It wae exbibited with great skill and judgment, displaying to the best advantages the mineral resources of Canada.The Isbor of arrenging the specimens was very great, and so enthusinstic was he that frequently he sallied out at eight or ten in the morning, and would work for twelve hours without wait ing to take refreshment, He had the satisfaction of knowiog that kis countrymen appreciated bis services.Medals in profusion were allotted to Canada, and the Royal Society of London elected Mr.Logsa a Fellow, the highest at- itish sclentific distinction.He was also a commissioner from Canada at the In- dustrisl Exhibition at Paris io 1855, when he received from the imperial commission the grand gold medal of honor, snd was crested a night of the Legion of Honor.He received tbe honor of knighthood from the Queen's bands, in 1858; and in the same year was awarded by the Geological Society, of which he bas long been s member, the Wollaston Palladium meds), for bis pre-eminect services in geology.THE LOSS OF THE \u201c ANGLO-SAXON.\u201d The Newfoundland Royal Gazette of July tb, contains & minute of Council authorizing tte publication of the reports of Captain Orle- bar, RN, in charge of the Newfoundland Marine Survey, relative to the loss of the Montreal Ocean Steamabip \" Anglo-Saxon ,\u201d and the report itself.Captain Orlebar declares \u201ctbat with proper attention to the lead, the late fatal shipwreck could not have ocourred,\u201d that there waa \u2018a cove not more thag 300 yards from the wreck where probably the people might have been landed without much riek ;* and another \u201c\u2019cove not more than 4j cables to tbe northeast, which although a shoal, is always smooth enough to allow boats to land without diffi- eur The report closes with these significant words : \u201cThere are few coasts more safely approsch- le in foggy weather than the south-eastern t of Newfoundland, from Oape St.Mary to Cape Race, if the lend be used and the speed moderate.Soundings of moderats depth extend far off sll these beadlands, and the water shoals gradualiy to the shore.\u201cBut if vessels continue to be navigated In these waters, especially in foggy weather, without using the sounding lead, there is so much unoertalnty ia the set aod strength of the currents, that shipwrecks must occur, as they have occurred, with lamentable frequency, % And ualess » more careful selection of ofS.These vessels are to differ from everything at present io the navy.They will have no turrets.The bulls are to be entirely of iron, as, indeed, the beams and every chief portion of the crafis.Esch vessel is to have s double bow, éne forward and one aft, 80 that she can be steered backwards and forwards without turaing.The engines sre to be powerful ones, speed.The length of the hui! will be between 300 and 300 fest, and the beam proportionate.Mr.Wells anticipates a valuable fleet when these are completed, as they are given to responsible and successfol boilders.Mr.Steers, of New-York, Mr.Delano, the naval constructor there, and Mr.Cramp, of Philadelpbis, are also to build fasy veesels.\u2014 Leller from Waskington.Vicksnura.\u2014A horrible discovery has just been made on tbe rebel line of fortifications.Quite a number of men have been engaged in repairing the rebel fort that was blown up on the night of the 3rd inst, In the course of their operations they exhumed sixty or eighty bodies found buried io the ruins of the fort, h seems that while our miners were at work making an entry into the side of the hill that was crowned by de rebel fort, n strong working party of rebels were set to work sinking a counter mine within tbe fort.This party, coosisting, it Is said, of more than a hundred men, were in the rebel mine when ours exploded, and those of them who were pot killed outright were buried alive.Some of the exhumed bodies sre terribly lacerated and mangled, while others have nota mark or a bruise upon them.Two beads, one that of a negro, have been dug up.They v ere completely +0 vered from the bodies, the latter not having yet been found.The bodies ate found in almost every conceivable position\u2014some standing erect, others sitting or lying, and in one instance the body wes head downward as if it had bees caught in that posithon by the crumbling earth while falling esdl mg into tbe pit below.Fraranmizatiom \u2014AIÏI accounts agree that the federal and rebel forces at Port Hudson, immediately upon our occupation of the plac rojsed in the kindest possible manner, ap- py ntly forgetling entirely that they bad ever 0 arrayed in hostile columns.It was precisely thus, also, at Vicksburg, et Gettyabargh, and on every otber fleld where tbe mon have been brought together in the hush or at the else of conflict.Those persons who are fond of insisting that the people of the South and those of the North can never be reconciled or live together in peace when the war is done sud the spirit of rebellion is destroyed, will bardly find in faots like these we have cited à confirmation of their argument.\u2014 PAiludelphia Bulletin.Sue Foainve.\u2014We once saw in Theodore Parker's Library, baaging on tbe wall, » fra: autograph of Thomas Sims, the fugitive slave who was sent out of Massachusetts some years sgo with such emn mockery of justice \u2014leaving beblad bim, be went back to bis bonds, this relic from bis hand, and & shadow over the whole city ofBoston.Did any one at that time bazsrd & thought that Sims was like- Iy ever to seo a free city again 1 When (bat eame slave [ately escaped from Vicksburg and returned to Boston, the many congratulations and will be capable of attaining a bigh rate of was murdered.Roundsmen Guoner and Roberts, of the 29th precinct, have arrested Patrick Butler, who is charged with having aided the murder and hanging.errest is additional to those published iu the Times of yesterday for the same offence.The testimony is very conclusive that young Butler, not content with aiding i= killing Franklin, actually severed pieces of from the inanimate body, trampled them undec his feet, and then, io great glee, exhibited theas to bis comrades in crime.The officers who thus far have arrested parties charged with this horrible murder, are etill actively en; le searching for others, who are known to guilty either as principals, or as perpetrating the bor rible outrages at the time he was hung upon the Iamp-post.\u2014N.¥.Times, 3T¢A wit.Mreremious Disarrragance.\u2014We regret ta learn that William Harris, Esq., for many Jo Clerk of the Division Court at Iona, and .Justice of the Peace for the Couuty of Elgin, has been missing since Thursday morning last.On Wednesday his wife was buried, which ap to have n depressiog effect on him, aod this, it is presumed, prod aberration of mind.It is feared (hat the unfortunate gentleman has, whilst laboring under temporary insanity, committed suicide, though we sincerely trust that this supposition may prove erroneous.\u2014London Fres Press, Fatau Accinest sv Fire.\u2014On Thursday afternoon, 23rd inst, ea the children of Me, Keo Gordon, in this town, were at play, one of them struck a match snd ignited a pieco of rag, and then went for water to quench the fice, During his absence a younger brother, a child of 3§ years, attempted to tramp out the fire, when bis drees caught, and before it could be extinguished, the poor little fellow was so severely burned ox tho limbs and body, as to cause his death, he only surviving until Baturday evening.\u2014 Belleville Independent.Susererep Four PLav.\u2014Tle Stratford Beacos eays thot a report is in circulation in Fullarton, that Miss Cole, ddugbter of Me.Cole, on lot No.10 in the Tth concession, has come 10 her death by foul play.It is said that poison bad becæ administered by seme one for the purpose of procuring an abortion.An lnquest bas been de- wanded.Escarep raox JaiL.\u2014The Hamilton Spactator slates that o colored man named Johnston, confined for stabbing, escaped out of jail on Monday afternoon, and bas not since been heard of.It seems be was in the yard, sud whilo the gate was open, took advantage of tho inattention of the turnkey and rkedaddled.Row ar Coruinawoon, C.W.\u2014Whila the Tenth Roysl excursionists were at Collingwood, C.W., they got juto a disturbance with the nes groes, in which, Meado, a colored waitor, wag seriously injured.\u2014 The Hamilton Evewing Times of the 99th ult.gives tho history of nlady who hes been playing the confidence game in that city pretty successfully.She would probably have reaped » larger harvest than sho did, had sho not visited a gentleman who had previously made hee acquaintance under similar circumstences, aod who sdvised her seriously to take her departure or the consequences of remaining.She made her appearance in Hamilton with a little and told a long story full of sensation paragrapl of her husband deserting her and five small chil dren, &o., and made a desl of money by it.She operated exteoslvely in New York State and Canada in 1869 and 1860.\u2014 The Toronto Globe contains the following political information :\u2014It is understood that the reports obtalned by Mr.Howland on tbe condition and management of the leading Custom-houses, are now engaging the attention of the Govorn- ment.The adoption of those reports will lead toa large saving of expenditure, and greater efficiency in the collection of tho revenues, The officers of the House are preparing for the Session.\u2014 The Perth Oounty Herald informs us thet on the evening of Fridsy, the 24th inst.the large steam fluvring mills in tho village of Shek- speare, were completely destroye 4 fre.hey belonged to Messrs.Mcintosh & Helmer, were valued at about $9,500, and insured for $7,000.From the same authority we learn that during the night of Thursday, the 23rd inst, the barn of Mr.Counter, Townline, containing à quantity of hay, threshing machine, &c., was de- atroyed by fire.It Is sup) to be the work of an incendiary, And also, that on Tuesday night, the Stet just, the property known aa the Nichburg Milla, were destroyed by fire, The property, we beliove, as valucd at $8,000, was insured.Report says the Hon, C.L.Vallandigh the slavocracy sympathizer, is to be an invit fon and speaker at tho great Tor Ps x \u2018elland, on the 20th inst.\u2014 Ozford Reformer, \u2014 A rumor prevails to the effect that Johm O'Rourke, butcher, Shakespesre, waa beaten and robbed by John Burns, in Detroit, on Thursday last.It is said that the parties had been drinking together, sud that Duras followed /)\u2019Rourk atruck Lim with a bludgeon, and robbed him p 31,000.\u2014#.Horwoxs.\u2014~Nine hundred of these deluded creatures passed through this place on Saturday \u2018which be r.oeived amounted simost to à publi: reception, More recently still, he was lifted to an equality of honor with the sons of Edwards Everette, being drafted Into the service of the United States.The Good Cause ls moving forward, like the giant with the seven-leagued boots lo the fairy tale [\u2014N, ¥.Independent, Fignoisg CausLeY,\u2014The colored man who was murdered and subsequently bung to 6 lamp- t on the cerner of 7th avenue and 28th street, uring the riots of last week, has been fully identified, His name was Abraham Franklin, aged 33 yours.Ho resided ope block, below where be evening, en route for Salt Lake Valley.\u201425, \u2014 The Bowmanville Salesman states that the dwelling of Mr.James Hewitson, an{s- killen, was recently brokea loto and $109 stolen therefrom.\u2014 On the 26th ult, Mrs.Connoway, of Sber- brooke, whose husband was lately killed while in the net of coupling cars loaded with timber, eut her throat witb s rexor, severing the wind pipe.\u2014 In consequence of the scarcity of coal off at the spriogs, the Hamilton Spectator says, the price has advanced to 40 cents per gallom, tp 490 THE MONTREAL WITNESS, Avdust 5, 1808.i i ly abandoned thei F MEXICO, | resources of our countrymen in their own Contemporary Press.: et hr brian Tom: sod they al hen boc ces the Poutoko and THE FRENOH soma determined will, such the obstacles which By the multitude of thy merchandise they [gave information of what they had seen.(From N.F.) the enemy will bave to overcome before he FROM FRANCE.(From Pariz Correspondence N.Y.Tribune.) Pars, July 10, 1868, The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, who, you may have observed, seems aftener well informed and less apt to drown Ais little information of what is said and done ea euch occasions in a ses of bis own conjec- ures, reports that the Emperor and his Cabi- mtare in agreement on foreign policy, as Shey were not before the recent change in dhe Ministry.He reports that the conclusion ome (0, or rather the provisional decision asserted, in regard to Russo-Polish and American affairs, was that the French Gov- emument would act in barmony with Eog- And.Asto Poland he reports: \u201cIf En, land draws the sword, France will not hesi- tte an instant.As to America: \u201cThe French Government will continue to bar- monize its policy with that of Ecgland.\u2014 The Emperor, however, will not take the lead.\u201d That is, will not take the officially open lead again as be bas twice done.That he is de- mirious of speedier action\u2014as he long has Deta\u2014tLun the English Goveroment is wil- to undertake; tbat the desire is known made known to the English Government constantly, are I believe facts undoubted his side of the water.The editorial writers for the Morning Jeet should not be confounded with its Paris Correspondent\u2014at least not for their esrrectness of information or for aversion to seusation writing.It is these last who have Aately asserted that \u201cnot one sixpence has Been raised by taxes towards meeting the expenses of our war ;\" that \u201c not one charge of inhumanity has been brought agaiost any of the Southern Generals;\u201d that \u201cit is deubtful whether the United States\u2019 soldjers, @pondam slaves, are entitled to demand the Seatment of prisoners of war;\u201d \u201cstrictly Whey might be considered bound by virtue of their servile status to espouse their masters\u2019 œnuse, and liable to be treated as deserters #r aiding the opponents of those to whom Be owe obedience!\u201d The worat of these aed simi articles in the Post, and other ke spirited journals of London and Paris, is not the falsity of thew but the grains of truth in them.Nothing can justify their authors: but unhappily we help to justify tbe credulity of their readers.tit is false that we have not paid a sixpence of taxes toward meeting war expenses, is plain that we have not paid en: ugh six- nses.If it is false that no charge of imhumanity bas been brought against South- en leaders, it is lamentably true that such Pages reston our Northern troops, But the burning of Jacksonville by our troops despite the orders of their officers, of Darien im accordance with the orders of the United States, docs not merely Jersuads the readers ef French and English Government journals % believe anything and everything which their editors and American correspondents state of Federal barbarity.It tends to persuade thoughtful men that (he party which sesorts to such means of success is grown desperate of success by means of fair warfare.They say every wantonly burned town isa formidable frontier ost between OC.S.A.and U.8.À.; nothing but the ghost of the Anton is like to rise from their ashes.If fouthern town-burning is authorized by our @overument as a retaliation on the Southern @orvernment for its equally savage treatment and tbreatened treatment of our black soldiers aod their white officers, then they say this argues moral and logical weakness in our Government, which applies the penalties of fe terrihle, but in extreme Cases just, ler 2alionis to the innocent in preference to the guilty, or at best to the third cousingin-law mstead of to the cousius german of the guilty.Æetsliate the murder of United States\u2019 soldiers by judicial murder of C.8.A.soldiers, atid not by burning out the mothers and ehildren of these last from unprotected, mfely burnable homes.But the mischief of mach acts does not stop with the abstract feelings and opinions which they excite and give base to in European minda, Such acts Btrengthen the credit of the C.8.A.with European capitalists who hold Confederate abe to pay, and build and furnish and ight Confederate war-vessels and blockade menners.They strengthen the passionate argument of bucks and Lindasys and Gregorys, and the weight of the Boberer expression of opinion of Gladstone and his Kind; they gratily the sternly determined friends of the South here, whose chiefest dread now is that Pennsylvania towns may be Burned by undisciplined Soutbern trog That Lee would be stupid enough to order mach conflagration \u2014a possibly irritant blister- Plaster to the lethargic North\u2014no one sup- Pose I know stern, thorough-going Union.ts, both American and European, who hope that he or his troops may be so misled.iotlem, would apring immortal from the ey fancy that a Phoenix vigor, a fire-tried flames.And so some hope that Lee's tem- aod partial success in the loyal () Bates will shock the careless and reckless and unfortunately * prosperous\u201d population the Northern snd Eastern States to action, and even Manhattan isle out of its impropriety.Your reporter Is not a prophet, as other men of America are.If be were, Cas- mandra's would be bis ungrateful role.But she lato Ezekiel was and yet is\u2014 Americans Reeling as much apparently, and being ap- ly as heedless of bis words, as ever ws were.\u2018 With the wisdom and\u2019 with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee vicbeg, and hast gotten gold and silver into iby treasures.7 thy great wisdom and by thy trafic bast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches.Z%er¢fore thus saith tho Lord God: Decauso thou hast set thine heart as the Baartol Gud, behold, therefore, 1 will bring strangers upua thee, the terrible of the nagions; aud they shall draw their swords Ne bave filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned.Thou hast thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffle: therefore will rin forth J fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thes,\u201d Is this only true of Sundays, when Wall street is deserted, and shops are shut, and maoufac- tories are silent, per force?grown all false and forgotten, Monday morning, when ma terial profits, and god Mammon, and_\u201c unex- amples prosperity that astonishes Europe,\u201d hold supreme sway again! ; The saddest ofall the sad reading furnished by the files of American newspapers, brought by last steamer yesterday, is in that excellent journal, the New York Independent.À 6\u201d wofully ecstatic prose dithyrambus on our Northern commercial, financial, and in-all- kinds material prosperity, and the yet mad der inference, by way of moral, that therefore we shall, as well as should, overcome the South.When will the blind author (let bim pardon the hostile criticism of this fellow-feeling, counter-thinking reporter) and kis blind readers let the money-changers\u2019 and merchants\u2019 scales, the almighty dollar and dead man\u2019s penny, fall from their eyes ?\u2014 Was our late whole people ever s0 \u2018 prosperous\u201d as on April Fools\u2019-day, 1861?Where are We now?And what has prosperity had to do in the way of ébstaclo to our coming ?In the three modern revolutions whose bis- tory we are best acquainted with\u2014the Dutch Colonial against Spain, the American Colonial against Britain, the French social #nd national against the past centuries and all Europe arrayed in hostility\u2014was it the \u2018materially prosperous\u201d party that won?Material resources are good things in their way, but their development for individual merchants, manufaeturers, farmers, &e., is the constricting, smothering envelope of patriotic activity.The materially fortunate individual trusts to fortune to do as well for the nation as it deceptively and temporarily does for him; he may give freely of his greenback abundance to hire defenders, but to front with his own body, yet more with his soul and roused intelligence, its first, his consequent, dangers?The presently-profi- table scales of the merchant and money- changer, the blinding corpse dollars and pennies are on his eyes so that he does aot see the dangers.There never was readier sale of cashmeres at Stewart's, of diamonds at Tiffaoy\u2019s, therefore we are prosperous! How different the prophet Ezekiel saw, and Gen.Lee does.NEW ZEALAND\u2014MURDERS AND THREATENED HOSTILITIES, Both the correspondence and the summary of news of the Southern Crom of the 20th of April state that the worst features of the Waikato intelligence are confirmed :\u2014 \u201cRewi and Kingi have returned to the Waikato, where t vi are actively engaged in organizing armed opposition to law and order.Their followers have gone to the south, to the number of several hundreds, \u2014 some say 200, others 300, and others, again, state that Rewi started at the head of 500.We do not therefore know the exact numbers, but our information leads us to conclude that 300 isabout the truth.The native educational and industrial establishment at Te Awawmutu has been broken up, and the European women and children have aiready come to town, The missionaries most likely will como in ; in fact, it is only a question of events, as news may come any moment of an outbreak at Taranaki, when it would not be safe to remain unprotected among the Waikatos.The natives are in a state of unbridled anarchy.There is no controlling power to check them ; and, such being the case, One can readily perceive the difficulties that surround the movement for reinstating theTaranaki settlers on their former holdings.The professions of friendship which Thompson and some other chiefs make are of little use ; and we see no probable end to the present slate of things unless British law and authority are established throughout the island, or until the natives shall bave ceased to exercise any political influence owing to their natural decrease.\u201d The Taranaki Herald of May 8 contains details of the barbarous murders of two officers and six soldiers by the Maories, in the neighbourhood of New Plymouth, of which we published a telegraphic account a few daysago.The affair was causing great excitement in the colony, as the natives had no special hostility to the parties murdered, but formed an ambuscade beside the highway to Tataraimaka block, with the view of murdering tbe first Europeans that passed.There was also a great deal of discontent with the Governor on account of his not having taken precautions, after warnin, which he had received of à similar ambus the previous week, and the menacing attitude of the natives, who threaten a general resumption of hostilities, \u2014a menace confirmed by the announcement that the Upper Waikatos bad driven off all the Europeans, According to the account in the Herald (which says the day of the murder will ong be remembered as Tuesday the 27th Marc 1860, when five settlers were shot down and tomehawked in à similar manner) the party murdered belonged to the 87th regiment, and were on thoir way from Tataraimaka to New Plymouth, when they were waglaid on the beach near Wairau, between the Oakurs river end Tataraimake.The affair is thus described :\u2014 \u201c A party of the commissariat transport corps, with two drays and twelve bullocks, with supplies, were on their way to Tatar- aimaka, and having crossed the Oakurs river, beard the report of a volley of small aims, and saw the smoke of the pieces some half a mile before them.They saw that à party of soldiers, and two horsemen (who proved to be officers) wercattacked, and some of them defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of aptain Short, with a party of thirty men only, from the redoubt at Poutoko, were the first to arrive at the spot, followed short afterwards by Colonel Warre, and it was their mournful tagk to gather the bodies of the following officers and men savagely mur- Sored : Assistant Surge W.A.Hope, M.B.; Lieutenant T.HL Tragett, 57th regiment ; Colour-Serjeant Samuel Ellers, 57th regiment; Serjeant Samuel Hill, Private Kelly, Private John Figon, Private Bartholomew Carter, Private W.Banks.They were on their way, on military duty, to town from Tataraimaks, and apparently bad been shot down without a moment's notice.The bodies were all horribly mutilated, and those of the officers stripped of nearly all their clothes.One of the drays was found where the escort had left it, but the other had been driven off, which contained a quantity of flour, potatoes, and groceries.The other dray was subsequently seen being driven up to Kaitake, on the spur of the ranges.Dr.Hope's horse had galloped towards town and was caught by the escort.This fearful tragedy cast a deep gloom over the whole settlement.Dr.Hope was rising in his profession, and bad only lately received a staff appointment.Lieutenant Tragett was a B.A., and the only son, we belicve, of the Rey.T.H.Tragett, of Romsey, Hampshire, England.\u2018This gentleman was a great favourite with the regiment, and his untimely and fearful end is deeply and poignantly felt by his brother officers.The two serjeants and the privates were good and gallant men, and their loss will be no less felt by their comrades ; one who knew them well said\u2014* There were not six better men in the regiment.Serjeant Ellers was the senior colour-serjeant in the regiment, and Kelly bad five medals.\u201d The news quickly reached New Plymouth, and immediately precautions were taken for the security of the inhabitants: \u2014\" Alarm guns were fired, and messengers were des: patched to bring all at work on farms into town.The militia was called out, and about 200 volunteers and militia told off for night duty.No farther hostile incident, however, bad taken place up till the 8th of May.A deputation of settlers had waited on the native minister, Mr, Bell, urging him to forbid all inlercourse with the natives.The natives accounted for the murders by saying that the southern natives having found that Waireka and I'atarsimaks had been occupied by troops in spite of their word that it should not be, waited in vain for signs from the tribe, till being whakems (ashamed), they determined to begin themselves.There was again a report that the bulk of the natives would not assist them, but consider their proceedings kohuree, i.c., murder.Theonly wilitary movement was on the 5th, when the troops marched to Oakura, and took u a position where they were constructing a \u201cTo revel in the halls of - Montezumss\u201d was once as good 8 \u201ccry\u201d; Mr.Tadpole could have wighed.What wt], however, was never very ch © can ui- derstand the \u201cfurious Franhd fiery Hun\u201d of antiquity, not acquaintedith short com- umons and cager for \u2018*booty À beauty,\u201d desiring to revel in the halls ofe Caesars; but for a civilized people, with mre labor-saving machinery, larger crops, ne books, good dwellings, and diffusive coorts than any other in history, to brave ttvomito of Vera Cruz, and the torrid heats ghe roads to the Mexican Capital, was in theeth of our ns- tional experiences, and taug us the depths of Northern Demagogism aithe possibilities can subdue us.We have lost Vicksburg and Port Hudson.wi Jit i ose Charleston, Savanna! obile, hoes ton\u2014all our scaports, What of that?we ask sgain.What of that?Suppose we ming- « Wliat though the field be lost?All is notlost! The unconquerable will, Aod study of revenge, immortal bate, And courage never to submit or yield\u2014 AU these remain.\u201d These we would still have, though everything material were gone.But we are reduced to no such straits, \u2014 Ou the contrary, we speak the solemn truth when we declare that in our opinion our situs- tion, although it is one which calls for the of elavebolding ag: partitions of Mexican terri intended to barbarize with ions weaker neighbors, Well\u2014the balls we: captured, and surrendered back to their orers, the Slave Democracy being content wh some heavy , which they an bondage\u2014 utmost exertion, go far from being desperate, is not even gloomy.The enemy has taken Vicksburg and Port Hudson.Does he open the navigation of the river thereby?Notat all, as we showed the other day, and we think showed satisfactorily.On the other hand, be weakens himself by the garrisons he is Pp appropriation of the country being a foregono though, as it proved, the acleotsl discover: of the gold mines, drawing saany thousan of freemen to the Pacific, pvented that\u2014 free California being permitd in reward for the Pugitive-Slave law, Nothing more appeared merficially to fol: low the Mexican war, exce a erop of military candidates for Presider including Gen.Pierce.But that vein beg exhausted, a civil candidate for,Presidenfound it necessary to announce that be wi ready to make war on Cuba if she did not nock for admission into the Union.This Id man, of the lower deep, having completl his term, the all-creation annexationists gw weary of alliance with (he North, and at loose\u2014their programme being a SouthernEmpire to extend into South America.It is the grand and never.marying boast of the South that she has contrled the politics of this country, and, by virte of her forecast in council, shaped its destin.But these far-seeing men forgot one thig in aonexing the best Pacific region of Mgico, and then seceding from the Union, an: threatening to absorb \u201ctheir Southern nethbors.They omitted to bear in mind that \u2018urope was disposed to lot the American Sathern Repub- lies alone if we set the examje; but if we raised an Attila like shout, inuded à republican State and spied out at ome tbe fatness and feebleness of the land, Exope will come in and take our leavings\u2014an the Munroc doctrine would become an obolete idea.God confounds the mere politiciar\u2014eveu though bora in South Carolina.The power to make war or conclude peme fell into the bands of one man in Frane bent on cresting a dynasty by the only means whereby dynasties can be made.So, when occasion could be manufactured, a war was made by him on Mexico; the capture, sibjugation, and conclusion.The Slave Democracy wade the redoubt.\u201d Private letters which we have received corroborate the above account, aud represent tho excitement among the New Plymouth settlers as even greater than appears from the newspaper reports, One of these letters dated 9th May, states that the inquest was then over, and that ail the evidence tended to show the remissness of the authorities in not giving proper warning to tbe military and settlers of previous ambushes.The jury's verdict was to the effect that the deceased persons \u201c were cruelly and barbarously murdered on the public highway,\u201d &c.; and to this was appended the following rider :\u2014*The jury are of opinion, from the evidence presented to them, that though the Government were in possession of information showing the dangerous state of the road to Tatarai- maks, owing to the threatened recommencement of hostilities; sufficient precautions were not taken to guard agsinst such murderous attacks from the natives of the disaffected district, which there seems to bave been greatreason for some time past to dread.\u201d One of the acts of the Governor since the above laughter haa been severely criticised in the colony.A week after that event Sir G.Grey issued a proclamation by which the Government renounced its claims to the tract of land at Waitara known as Teira's Block, which was the occasion, if not the cause, of the last war.Many colonists, far from blaming Sir George Grey for taking this step, believe that it will prove to be a measure of good policy by contenting à numerous portion of the natives, and separating their interests from the interests of those whom the Governor is about to call to account.The private letters state that General Cameron is to prosecute the war with vigour, All the available British troops are to be concentrated in Taranaki, and the militia and volunteers have been called out for active service.The province of Taranaki is in à state of siege ; and all Europeans living outside the blockhouses have abandoned their farms, and are now within the lines, Our latest advices from Auckland are to the 12th of May.They state that the Governor bas confiscated the land upon which the murders were committed, and that a detachment of the 70th, from Otago, 320 men of the 40th, and 600 men of the 12th regs.were under orders for Taranaki.The * Eclipse\u201d left Auckland on the 6th, with 200 men of the 40th and 50 of the 70th regiments.On the 11th the schooner Mavis, full of Maories, left Auckland.The natires gave ironical cheers as they passed the wharf and the \u201c Caroline\u201d gunboat, Vessels bave been despatched to remove the settlers from Raglan, f necessary ; and the militia enrolment was going on vigorously.~\u2014=We learn that the body of Mr, Homère Ver- ret, of thls city, supposed to have been drowned by falling from one of the Montreal steamers, Inst week, and to whom reference was made io 6 recent issue, was found on en island vear path straight, and ne did bat follow in their footsteps.The news from Mexico today is of the utmost gravity.The Austrion Arch-Duke Maximilian i8 invited\u2014the whole business having been privately rehearsed\u2014to become Emperor; or, in default, Louis Napoleon will be asked to assume the Mexican purple, And then !\u2014Nemesis will answer the rest in due time.\u201cNO CAUSE FOR DESPONDENCY.\" This is the title to an article, in the Richmond Dispatch of July 17, which we append, It will be observed that the quotation from Milton's \u201c Paradise Lost,\u201d is the language of Satan, The historical parallel suggested is very striking : ** While Paul Jones, in the wretched old bulk of an Indiaman sn bundred years old (the \u201cBon Homme Richard\") was eogaged in desperate conflict with the ** Serapis,\u201d s new English frigate of the firat class, just out of port\u2014after a single broadside had riddled er 50 completely that he was compelled to lash ber to the Englishman to avoid siokin \u2014when nearly all bis guns had burst an balf his crew had fallen\u2014a momentary cesss- tion of firing induced his adversary to hail him and inquire if he had struck.* We have uot begun to fight,\u2019 was the laconic and pithy reply, aud after two hours more of mortal combat he had the proud satisfaction of walk ing the Englishman\u2019s deck, s victor under circumstances so desperate that at one time there appeared no chance of escape.Such is the reward of valor when allied to coustan- cy, and directed by an indomitable will.Lincoln, Seward, Halleck and the whole Yankee press ave bugging themselves in the delusion that they already see the end of the war, and that that end is, to us, the death of our liberty, and the beginning of an intermi- niable servitude.To their taunts and sneers we reply, in the defiant language of Paul Jones, \u2018 We have not yet begun to fight'\u2014 They think they-have seen pitched fields, but the hottest of those they have seen are, to those which must come, but as the freshness of an April morning to the fiery breath of the dog daya\u2014but as the snow upon the side of Hecla to the whirling guif of dame within\u2014 but as December to June\u2014butas an ice house to à furnace heated an hundred fold.The South bas never yet put forth itastrength to ball its extent, furious as bas been the, war in which it has been engaged, mighty as hate been its siruggles, lorious as bave been its victories, unpar feted 88 hag been the result.What we have done is scarcely & typo of what we can do.The present situation far from being desperate is only trying enough to induce new energy in the contest, to call for new exertions and new vacnide to remind our people of the nature of the conflict, and the object of the e:.em , to brin out our wholo strength, and to pi the worl see of what we are capable, While the Yankees think they bave subjugated us by taking Vicksburg, we repeat in the language of Paul Jones, * We have not begun toh he! obliged to put in those places and he strengthens our atmies by returning those garrisons which have been s0 long sbiut up there.He would do tie same thing by taking Charleston, Savannah and Mobile.Having no longer any detached ports to defend, our army could then complete the policy of concentration, which, but partially pursued, has already been attended with such memorable results.\u201c Retiring to the interior as he advances, we shall weaken him, and strengthen ourselves with every step that he lakes in leaving his base of operations.We have made our calculations long ago thatall the towns within reach of the enemy's navy would fall; and giving them, for the sake of argument, up to him, we conceive that we are more able to beat him without them than with them.Let it not be forgotten, in the mean time, that we have a powerful army\u2014an army tbat bas never been beaten, with a general\u201d at its bend who may rank with the most renowned leaders of who:n history makes mention.Let the despondin,; think on these facts, and tell us what there is gloomy in our situation.For our part, we see nothing whatever.Wo may be called upon to destroy more cotton and tobacco to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy; but, in our opinion, this would not be the worst thing the Government could do, even of its own free will.It would recall the minds of thousands from the pursuit of wealth to the defense of the country, and that would be a positive gain.\u201d DISTURBANCES IN BELFAST, There were some disturbances in Bellust on Monday and Tueedsy.A large number of persons left Belfast early on Monday morning for Lisburn and other places.Near Ballinabisch ahaut 40 Orange lodges were assembled, and at Halfpenny Gate about 30 more, many of the men wearing sashes and orange lilies.They separated into pic-nic parties ; bo iddresses were delivered, no one was drunk, snd all was peaceable and orderly till they came back to Belfust.On passing through ove of the Roman Catholic districts, they were assaulted with stones, and some of the Orangemen and the police were injured.The rioters found refuge in the bouses of the district.The windows of some of Lhe Protestauts were also smashed.The rioting was renewed on Tuesday night, notwithstanding the precautions taken by the magistrates.Orders were given that all the public-houses in the disturbed dis trict of the town shruld be closed at half past five o'clock.Nearly 400 policemen were on duty, posted in places where their services were most likely to be required ; but Mill Street and Castle Street were early occupied by the Roman Catholic party of the belligerents, and they knocked down and kicked any of * the enemy\u201d who bsp- pened to stray in among them.À soiree was being held in the Orange Hall, College Street, and towards this the mob rushed, but they were stopped by tbe police.Thus baulked, they commenced to break the windows in a number of Protestant houses in Queen Street.Mr.Taylor was struck with a stick on tbe bead, and Mr.Orme with a stone on the face.These two gentlemen are magistrates.The Orangemen retaliated by breaking the windows of Roman Catholics, and among those whom they visited in this way was the Kev.Dr.Dorrian.They aleo broke the windows in the house of the proprictors of the Northern Whig.The factions continued to smash the windows of their political and religious antagonists in various directions, and in one instance they would bave wreaked their vengeance on one another, if a strong body of police had not rushed in between them.A considerable number of arrests were made, and about twelve o'clock the streets were cleared, and the police were permitted to return to their barracks, The disturbances of Monday and Tuesday were almost lulled on Wednesday evening.About eight o'clock a severe battle would have taken place between the Pound and Durham street mobs, but for the timely interference of the Hed who, with fixed Dayonets, dispersed the different mobe.Ad ten o'clock the residence of the editor of the Ulster Observer, and the Roman Catholic organ in Athol Place, was visited by the mob, and the windows dashed in by large pariog-stones.Early in the evening a great crowd numbering many thousands, congregated at Carlisle Circus, where the Rev, Grattan Guinness was to hold an open- air service, and where the Rev.Hugh Hannah, Presbyterian clergyman, was to have repelled berges brought a t Protestantism by Mr.Guinness some time ago.The Mayor, how: er issued orders, aud would not allow either of the reverend gentlemen to preach.At twelve o'clock the streets were perfectly clear, and it is to be hoped the disturbances are at an end.\u2014 Belfast Northern Whig, 144A inst, \u2014 A Jew, in Viotoris, V.L, after Mr, Taylor's Bible-mesting, sent the following to the Yicto- ria Chronfele:\u2014\"' An Israelite, not to be outdone in catholicity, respectfally tenders s subscription ( through this office) of fre dollars to the fond of the British and Fureign Bible So- oiety.\" \u2014 The steam fire engine experiments io London bave been concluded.The Amest:sos falled.The Mapbattan, it is ssid, bad been too much injurad by & previous accident fur a Sorel. Aveusr 5, 1868.DEATH OF HON.J.CRITTENDEN, (From Chicago Tribnne.) The telegraph brings us the informatio {hat Hon.n , fort, Ky., on Sunday morning, the 2ôth i of genoral debility.7 5, 26th inst, obn Jay Critienden was born in Wood- ford county, Ky., about the year 1785.He commenced life as 8 lawyer in Hopkinsville, but soon removed to Frankfort, where he eg.tablished a large practice.In 1816 be was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives, of which he was for sevaral years Speaker.He took bis seat in the United States Senate December 1st, 1817, his term commencing st the same date with the Presidential term of Monroe, whom he supported.From 1819 to 1835 Mr.Crittenden practised law at Frankfort, Adams nominated him Judge of the United States Supreme Court in 1828, but the Senate refused to confirm bim, and Mr, McLoan was put in hig place.In 1885 he was again chosen United States Sen ator, served a full term, aod was re-elected, but resigned in 1841, haviog accepted the Attorney GenerslsLip under Harrison.On September 11th, of the same year, be tendered bis resignation to Tyler, aud was immediately elected to the Senate for the residue of Clay's term, and'was re-ele-ted for a full term from March 4:h, 1848.In 1848 he was elected Governor of Kentucky by the Whi He was Attorney General in\u201d Fillmore's Cubinet from 1850 (ill the accession of Pierce.In 1854 he undertook the defense in the memoreble Ward case \u2014the murder of Prof.Butler in his school at Louisville, He had previously becn reelected to the United States Senate fur a term which expired in 1861.Among the measures which he favored were the tariff'of 1842, (ue United States Bank, and the smallest ratio of representation in the 1842 apportionment.He opposed the tariff] great instrumintality for g ohn J.Crittenden died at Frank.| THE MONTREAL WITNESS.BRITISAND FOREIGN NEWS.Inzen Prestentan Gesenau AsseusLy.\u2014 At tbe meet of the General Assembly Intely, the Wm, Johnston read the report op Sabth observance.In Scotland, by reason of + Forbes Mackenzie Act, the public housegemained closed during the abbath day ;ut in England they remained open during t} greater portion of it, and plrasurescursions were very numerous.\u2019Îhe rert referred to the Hollywood trains.On Siday, no less than ten trains left Belfast, id a like number returned from | {ollywo¢ The committee also reported havirg remonmted with the ownersof the Baryur boat,.nd endeavoured by all the men 18 in theidower to dissuade them from conticuing th Sunday passenger traffic, R.v.Mr.Rent! read à very satisfactory report of the pgress of temperance, especially as regaled the efforts of the Irish Temperance Ligue in and around Belfast.The report sted that never was the cause of temperancen 80 hopeful a state ag now, and thats leg umber of the ministry had joined that cate, The only suggestion that he (Rev.Mr.Entoul) would make was, that » Sabbath schyl be set apart for the advocacy of the teperance cause by the ministers of the Assemtr, Rev.L Perkely, in moving the adoption dthe report, said the Church bad rapidly pigressed in this cause since the year 1809, The report wae adopted.Missions rorse Jews.\u2014The Rev.B.W.Wright, an Enlish clergyman one of adepu- tation to Cana, lately preached a sermon on Missions tothe Jews, in the Charch of the RedeemerNew York.We condense from the Church Jurnala report of the discourse.The London beiety for Propagating Christianity amongthe Jews was established between forty ad fifty years ago, and is now s .It has grown of 1846 the Sub-Treasury system, Calhoun\u2019s| to count its onverts by bundreds, if not by bill empowering ; ostmasters to take from the thousands, aul become a center of light and mail documents hostile to slavery, the remis.|2alvation to thyusands of Jews in various parts sion of General Jackson's fine, the annexation of the earth.It has missionary stations in of Texas, the wilitary occupation of Yucatan, most of the plncipal European cities, and in the admisarcn of Kansas under the Topeka [parts of Asis «nd in the Holy Land.Mr.Constitutin: in 1856, and under the Lecomp-| Wright foundin Berlin upwards of 2000 con- ton Constitution in 1858.At the opening of | Verts, some the secaud session of the Thirty-Sixth Con-| Prof.Stahel and Neander.them distinguisbed men, as In Poland, he fro Dec.3d, 1860, during the debate on the found about J00 converts.In the Duchy of resident's Message, he offered the well known Posen bi: had on various occasions geen from * Compromise Measures\u201d as a sop to the half| 800 to 500 Jiwa in a Christian Church, hear- b fledged rebels.Mr, Crittenden, on account of ers of the Gepel of Christ, Austria is a field his age was called the patriarch of the Senate.of these missovary operations.Mr, Wright le was n calm, plished speaker, rarely |has also visitd Jerusalem, Anglican Bisbop- descending to personalities, or allowing hime ric, where the work is in favorable progress.self to becowne acrimonious, and withal was aD excellent debater.En his political life, be was the idol of the Whigs, and enjoyed the favors of the Kentucky branch of that party to an almost unlimited extent, which favors He has seen the mission to the Felaska Jews in Abyssinia, where thirty bad been lately baptized, is a Hebrew Christian School, the foundation stone of which was laid by the late Duke of In Bethnal Green, London, there he rewarded by a studijus devotion to their Kent, the father of Queen Victoria.In this interests.During the past two years, he has school upwasds of 700 Jews have been bap- not taken an active part upon the question of tized.Mr.Wright urged the AmericanChurch the rebellion pro or con, his interest seemingly having subsided with the rejection of his compromise measures.His conservatism had 80 restrained him that the presest aze was far in his advance in the great march of human progress, and it may bave been this fact, coupled with his reticence, that gave rise to the suspicion that his affinities were with the rebels.It is certain, however, that all his plans and measures were devised for the pre- servativo of the Union, aithough at the cost of national honor and buwan liberty.His speech upon the acceptance of hig re-romina- tion to Congress, last spring, indicated a change in his conservative views, and was more outspoken for a vigorous prosecution of the war than any of his former enunciations.MORE BALLOON EXPERIMENTS.Mr.Glaisher has been taking another ari al flight, We wish he may not do it too often.He has already attained to great fame, and be had better stop before be lose a valuable life.The account is Tey minute.\u2014 Amidst many things thrilling and curious, we have the following facts :\u2014 4 Whilst passing from Brighton to Ohicbes- ter, without any sense of motion ourselves, at an elevation of leas than 2,000 feet, over so beautiful a country, in sll respects like Devon- shire, with ite fine parks of forest trees, noblemen\u2019s mansions, and all tbe features of rural landscape, 8 moving panorama in fact, of grest extent, appearing in quick enc on, like a fairy scene, was moat evjoyable d I must confess it was wih some regret that we were compelled to conclude this ecrial voyage.« Tbe currents of ait on this occasion were temarksble, There was Do transition state from one to the uiber; the stratum of air mor- ing from tbe North must bave been in contact with that from the esst.After peariog Hors- bam, the porth wind must bave been compounded with rome weat\u2014tbat is, st heights exceeding 5,000 feet, which was lost on falling below thie beigbt, fr then for a timo we were moving towaris Woribing.When nesc (be South coast, 1be smoke was frequently moving in à different direction to that of tbe ballcon ; at Arundel it was moviog in the opposite direction.It was this state of uncertainty which prevented ud from prasiog to the Isle of Wight, ns I very much wisbed to have some observations oo the sea.At the Observatory, Greenwich, the borisonts] movement of the air between the hours of five and ofue was at a rate less than two miles an hour, whilst during 32 bours the balloon bad passed over between sixty and It is very evident that our struments on the earth do vot gi of indieu- tlon of the real velocity of the air.similar result was shown last year in Mr.Cozwell' rapid journey from Winchester of seventy mile In sisty-five minutes, whilst the anvmometer st Greenwich registered fourteen miles ooly, and every occasion oo which the actual motion of the air has been measured by the balloon, it bas been a multiple of tbat determined by Tostru- ments.Tbe difference between the two is so large that it seems scarcely to be accounted for by the andulatory nature of tbe surface of tbe land, aud implies thst our bltberto estimated velocities of the alr are erroneous.\u201d mvanty mile, = The re pamenger steamers between proceed in, order of the Governor of Singapor rties left tbe church and deceased returned ome.Mrs.Walker went towards bis room in order to persuade him to eat something.On ber way ske noticed a quantity of blood on the stairs and landing, which she traced iato the bed-room, and discovered that deceased bad inflicted a frightful wound upon his throat.After much struggling, Mrs.Walker succeeded in getting the razor f:om bim, and deceased was eventually conveyed to St.Thomas\u2019 Hospital, where he ex- ired on (he morning of Friday last.Deceased Bad been addicted to habits of iutemper- ance, and had consequently suffered from several attacks of delirium {remens.He had, however, latterly refrained, declating that he intended to reform ; but notwithstandiug, he was attacked in the cburck with another fit of delirium tremens, under the influence of which he committed the Paper.Exaxcizated SLavEs.\u2014The following estract from letter from Boston, dated the 8th of June, in somewhat touching I could maki ur beart glow with tales of the emancipated slaves.A son of one of the best families in Bostcn was murdered in cold blood by a band of rebel guerillas.The body, when recovered, was brought to New Orleans, and the freed nogroes for three days heaped the room where it lay with Bowers, literally draping the walls with garlands, and weaving a tapestry of roses and jesssmine to make a shrine for their deliverer.The grandest and purest laurels, surely, these ever won by Christian warrior.The young man was one of a family of re brothers, all in the Beld, and now the second of the five who las fallen.\" \u2014Cor.Kuglish Paper.Tas Roursir Forornizs,\u2014The great Roupell forgery case is once more brought before the public, the convicts brother, heir-at-law, having brought an action of ejectment againet the party now in possession of the Great Warley estate in Essex, the trial of which began at Chelmaford, The self-accused forger, William Roupell, was again brought into the witness box, and once more coolly rchearscd bis villanies.ile was not dressed in tbe prison garb, but she large beard and moustache be exhibited on the last occasion when he was examined had been coolness and self-pussession.The convict coolly swears that the signature of bis father to the the estate was a forgery committed by himseil, The ples of the defendants is, that the deed of gift which Roupeli says be forged was real, \u2014that he is not à forger, but « perjurer, and that he bad the right to part with the estate they sought from im.San Dsara or ax Dokx or Haxiztox.\u2014The end death of the Duke of Hamilton will excite painful sensations in many quarters.The Duke was atthe Duchess of Bucclouoh\u2019s concert in Lon: don on Thursday nigüt, and went over to Puris on the following day.He had been dining with some friends, and, it i« ssid here, drinking rather freely, and on leaving he missed his footing, day about mid-day.to follow the example of her sister,Church in England, in thisregard.Hestated that it was in the beginning of the French Revolutior, when Europe was shaken tu tbe center, that a few men commenced this work, and he re- rded this as one of the reasons why Eng- and was brought safely through tbe storm.They shall prosper that love Jerusalem.\u2014 Bpiscopal Recorder.Socrs Arrican Missions.\u2014We learn by advices from the Cape that the Bishop of Cape Town with Bishop Tozer and some members of the Zambesi Mission had arrived out.The clergy presented av address to Bishop Gray, from which it would seem to be their intention to proceed against Bishop Colenso.A public meeting was held to receive Bishop Tozer and his companions in the Mission to South Central Africa, and wish them God speed in their undertaking.The Governor presided.In speakiag of the projected mission to Ma r, Bishop Gray said that be had suggested that Mr.Ellis should be the bishop and head of the mission.\u2014 Evangelical Christendom.The directors of the Norwegian Missionary So ciety have expressed a desire to commence an independent mission in Madagascar, if the project should commend itself to their brethren of the London Society, whom they request to point out a guitable spot for the purpose, but without whose approval they would abandon their intention.They have been assured i the Loudon directors that, pes they propose, their agents will cordially welcowed and readily assisted to the utmost, Ssam=8ie J.Hey in the House of Com- mous, called attention to the attack on Trin- anu, si à tosn belonging to the kingdom of which on the i:th of November, 1852, was bombarded by a British war steamer by e\u2014an act which be characterised as cruel and illegal Le prefaced his mation for papers by an exposition of a romemhat complicated passage in Malay politics connected with the history of the chief whose residence at Trivganu was the primary cause of the attack.Sir ¢.Wood reid he bad not received all the official papers relating to the transaction, which, he admitted, sppesred to be of e questionable cliaracter, but he thought it would not be fair to express a decided opinion without knowing more upoa the subject.He was ready to give the papers, Mr.Liddell sod Lord Naws denounced the act, and the latter aug.gested that orders should be sent out to prevent these unauthorized wars, Ba Teamiwation or à Webnine.\u2014Briston was the scene of confusion and eurprite on Tues- traveller, sged only twenty-nine.From the evidenos of Mrs, Csroline Walker and other witnesses, it appeared that Monday, the sth July, wes fixed for the marrluge of deceased with a young lady with whom he had been long acquainted.The letter, with deceased and friends, accordingly attended St Mark's Church, Ken.singtou, où the morning of that day ; but before the murlage ceremony bad ball gone through, it was interrupted by the decessed being rud- denly seised with o ft, which rendered bim for some (ime unconscious, and tbe Rev.Mivister having declined to proceed further that day on ger Boston aod Portland, go thoroughly armed to protect them sgainst privateers.the ground that deceased was not then in 6 fit state 10 enter into the solems engagement, the day morning from the suicide of a commercial PO! Douglas, arrived in time to tee bis father alive.tious consequences on her bealth.Hzro Worsnie 1x EnoLasn.\u2014Certain enthu ment to * Btonewsll\u201d Jackson, form better purpose.They exemplify the lives aud the liberties of millions of bis fellow.creatures! Had he been embarked agains We care not what nen may say of his piety ; i British Standard.An Esvnaonnisant Casn.\u2014Vice-Chancello Stuart presided in the Vi private, in which a noble Lord was the defendant, esrly à annuity to the plaintiff and to her four children, to compel him to perform his agreement.\u2014Xng.lish Paper.Tortus oF 4 Britis Sosszer at Coxrd, aot join the Confederate army.ssid Mr.Belaham's of a similar kind.have occutred.not occur again, thus in bis seventy-fiith year.m-nagement of their affaire.war of the United States on the ship \u201c M and Jessie In British waters, whether a report that the blockading squadron at Chal running the blockade was true, -ell confirmed the account given by Lord Allie of the attack on the Margaret and Jessie,\u201d and stated that an foquiry was going on into the case, with a view, if justified by the evidence, of demanding re; on.In regerd to she rumor concerning the intentions of tbe block ading squadron be bad no information, but could not suppore it to be true.ExtessivE Painoas a7 Dansta\u2014The Daily Telogr aph says, the great Dansig firm of Behrens Lord Rns.act which terminated I bis death.\u2014London P removed.He gave his evidence with the utmost deed of gift by which he came into posession of fell down the steps, and pitched on his head.From thatinjury be never rallied, and died yester- His son, the Marquis of The Duchess is in a very de icate state, sud this startling bereavement, it is feared, may bave se- siastic Englishmen are intent on raising 8 monu- We do think they might spare their pains, and save their money fatuation of mankind in idolising power, regardless of the cause in which it is extended.Let it never be forgotten that Jackson's object was to found an empire on the souls and tbe bodies, the slavery, and exerted his great gifts in the defence and establishment of freedom, we should have thought very differently of him.But we hold herc-worsbip of Lbis description in sbhorrence.was but purblind and doubtful piety at best.\u2014 ancellor\u2019s Court oo Thursday, and was engeged during the greater portion of the day in hearing a case in and a young lady, whom be bad seduced at the of fourteen yoars, was tho plaintiff.The defendant had agreed, in consideration of past cobabitalion, to pay to certain trustees an who were all born before the plaintiff had enter.cd on ber twenticth year.He bad discontinued to pay his annuity, and this was an application xaares.\u2014Mr, Blake asked in Parlisment what had been done in reference to tbe cape of Mr.Belsham, 8 British subject, who bad been ill- treated lu tbe Southern S'ates becanse he would Mr.Leyard had been brought under the notice of the Confederate Goreroment by Mr.More, the British consul at Richmond.Nr.Belsbam bad been exposed to tortars to compel bim to take service in the army, and the Goreroment bad had numerous complaints The Confederate authorities had expressed regret tbat thes cares should He boped such things woald Duarn or BaiLiz George Watson or Anza.pesn.\u2014Tho Aberdeen Fres Press records the death of this respected citizen In the middle of July.Mr.Watson was born in 1788, and was He bad held al.mit ofl the offices of the incorporations, and for many Fears took an active Interest in the Firixa of A Sie 1x Baitism Warens.\u2014 Lord Airtie asked Lord Russel, in the House of Lords, #bether he bad received any official re rt of the alledged attack made bya whip of irgaret He also aked ston bad determined to sink ships \u2014 Brothers has failed, an evert causing considera\u201d bla commotion at the Berlin and Steuin Exchanges The Habilities seem to amount to rather more than £200,0 ¢.The aseeta are not yet ascertained.The immediate cause of the failure is found in the firm hiviog bought and paid for about £50,000 wo: 1k of corn in Poland, which remains undelivered owing to the disturbed state of the ocuntry.Russia's Rrrptr.\u2014The Russian reply to the French note on the Polish question was yesterday communicated to the Yrench Government.La France says, the reply is marked by a strong spirit of conciliation, and that Russia adheres in principle to the well-known six polots.Bhe also accepts the conference, but thinks it would be desirable to embrace other questions affecting the ace of Europe, in addition to that of Poland.instead of an armistice, she is said to Jropose an amnesty to all who may choose to lay down thelr arms.The reply to our Government will likely reach London to-day.\u2014 Edinburgh Witness, July 18th, Tus Cirt MissoNARIES 4KD THEIM COUNTRY Tair\u2014On Wedneeday weck, the London City Missionaries wera entertained for their annual holiday, by Me, T.Fowell Buxton, in bis beautiful grounds at Leytocstone.About 360 of them arrived by special train at eleven a.m, The morning was spent in athletic exercises, which wade it abundundy apparent that the boy was still io the man.Diuuer was provided at one o'clock, The afternoon was devoted to quiet re creation, and at five p.m.nll were again assembled in the marquee on the lawn for tes.\u2014Knglish Poper.Poutrioat.Pesaomine ix IraLy.\u2014The Opin ions of Turin states that a priest, named Don Awmbrogio, is sow preaching In tbe public thoroughfares of that city against the vices of the clergy and the alliance of religion with despotism.The Capitular Vicar of Turin bas in consequence issued à circular to his clergy, recommending them to impress upon the faithful the daty of avoiding the declamations of the sid priest, and being carefal not to buy his writings.This circalar bas produced the effect of \u201cmaterially increasing the audience of the streot-prescher.A Bissor 1N TrovaLe.\u2014We have had more than enough of ecclesiastical litigation of late.One auit, of which the Bishop of Oxford's friend, the Bishop of Cape Town, was the occasion, bas just issued in the discomfiture of that usurping and troublesome Prelate.The Bishop of Cape Town assumed 8 right to sentence to suspension and deprivation a clergyman who lad declined to attend bie Diocesan Synod, and publish notices of ita meetings.But this arbitrary sentence hax been declared illegal by Her Majesty's Committee of Privy Council, and the sonteuce has been set aside, whilst the usurping Bisbup bas been condemned to pay the costs of tho appeal.This is an important decision, and cos which will Lot only abate the domineering claims of Bishop Gray, but also operate as » warning to Bishop Fulford, ! \u2014 deeply regret the losses to which it was sabe jected, including the wounding and capture of he gallant Colonel Shaw.But it nobiy bore the brunt of the fight, avd did itsshare towards winning the victory.Thus far, iodesd, the colored troops in the service bave amply vindicated their bravery and good soldiership, And it is worthy of note that already three classes of solored men bave been tried in the ordeal and not found wanting, vis: the regular * contra bands,\" at Milliken's Bend, where they have said to have out-fought their officers ; the free negroes of the South, at Port Hudson, and the free negroes of the North, including, doubtless, à (eur escaped slaves of some years at Chatles- ton.Inall these \u201c paditions in Mont gomery\u2019s and Higginson's ex] only behaved well for raw Forme ty) au that could bave been expected of them\u2014bet fought with unusual bravery and tenacity.The bearing of (his experience on the future needs 10 comment.Frox Havana.\u2014The steamship '* Roanoke,\u201d Capt.Drew, from Havans, July 29, with suger, tobscco, and pi ra to Ludiam, Heinoken & Co., arrived on Mondey morning.Just as the steamer ** Roanoke\u201d was about to leave the Bay of Havana, a great smoke was seen in the direction of Reglas, evidently proceeding from an es tensive conflagration.Barges, boats and steamers were scen crossing from the city luaded with troops aud men.As the ** Roanoke\u201d got under weigh a clear view was obtained of the burning scene.The fire bud taken in the extensive macens or warehouses of Messre.Fesser, situated on the Reglas wharf This immense range of warehouses consists of about 50 buildings, divided midway by a street, and the Station- house of the Reglus and Mantanzas Railroad The fire hed commenced in the fifth building ef the range, and under the influence of à stroug east wind, bad already rapidly consumed 16 buildings, and there appeared no prospects of arresting the flames befdre reaching the street aod the railroad.\u2014N.¥.Tribune.Tas Resa PRooRaNNE IN TEE LATE [Nve- siom.\u2014The defeat of the Rebel plans by the repulse of Lee's Army at Gettysburg, muat be peculistly sanoyiog to thems when they call to mind the splendid programme they had marked out Gen.Ewell when be first entered Gettye- burg with the part of Lee's army under his command, addressed them in the hearing of two very higbly respectable citizens of that place, ss follows, or to this ¢foct:e\u2014 \u201c Boys we have & small job on band\u2014abors half & day's work, to whip that drankeæ Huoker's army.Then burrab! boys, we will take Harrisburg, Laocaster, Baltimore and Wesbiogtoo.Philad«lphfa will be our headquarters, and the people there must psy us the expenses of this war, which will make the Quakers howl.If they will not we will set fire to the four corners of the cy and bara it te ashes\u201d This, thy Philadelphia Bulletin posi tively declares, jé no invention, It is givenom the testimony of two gentlemen of the very aud the other Canadian Bishops, who bave been running in the same arbitrary line \u2014 Zondun Record.\u2014 Lieuteoant Jackson bas been sentenced to four years\u2019 penal servitude\u2014not for life, as was said for cauring the death of Munnoo Khan, his the rolls of the Engineers.placed in Westminster Abbey, and a subscription is on foot in tke county of Radnor to erect a more eonapicuvus monument to his memory.AMERICAN NEWS, it ter Democrat unravels the mystery of an old it States army, now stationed at Portamouth.About two years ago & man named McPherson, « stranger in tbe city, unexpectedly disappeared from the Osborne Louse, and was not afterwards seen.He had upon his person the sum of $1,400 in gold, and circumetances attending his dirsappearsnca led to the belief that he had been robbed and thrown into the river.This suspicion was partially conûrmed severn) wonths afterward, on the discovery of a body in the river nt Cha:loite, wbich had marks of resemblance to the misting man.But no trace could bo obtained of his murderer, Yesterday, however, we received a letter, ou above stated, from a United Btates officer at Portsmouth, N.IL, contaiviag luquiry re apecting the said murder, and giving the name of a young man formerly of (his city, but more receutly employed in the Gosport Navy Yard, sod who had confessed to the writer of having commit ted & murder in Rochester about the time indicated as when McPherson disappeared :\u2014* This young man acts as though crazy, by spells, and whe be speaks of killiog this man, he gets into a perfect frenzy aud cannot stand still, snd his countenance changes, in 4 meuner thal is startling.I cannot sce what object he would have In falsifying, but of ona thing I am ratisBed, he jeu grew rascul® At the time rhis letter was written, the fellow had ran away from Portsmouth, after cheut- ing his landlord and several other persons of whoin he b orrowed money.The rames vf the pse ties will be given to the propor authorities here, who will probally take measurca for the arrest ol the suspected criminal.\u201d VaLLARDI®HAK AND VICKSBURG.\u2014 The Chicsgo Tribune pub'ishes an intercepted letter, dated near Shelby ville, Tennessee, from L B.McFarland, an officer in Gen, Bragg's arwy.which contains the following important confession of Me, Vallandigbem: \u201cIn my humble opinion, this feat of Grant's ia going Lo Jackson, 60 far from Vicksburg, and cutting of re-enforcemente for thet garrison, preventing the accumulation of en y within striking distance of tbe place\u2014 then suddenly stiacking Vicksbueg\u2014to take it either by assault or siege, before a force could be brought to turn for à rescue, be it a success or defeat, [8 the most brilliant campaign the enemy bave yet planned during the wer \u2014 The fate of the whole North depends upon the fall of that place, Every exertion will used to that elfiot.If defeated, the war will end.If suceessful, not until 1be end of the present A\u2018minietration.Vallandigham said, wben here, that bis election depended upon tbe fate ot Vickeburg.\" Oun Coroumo Tnoore st ORiRLmsTON.\u2014 The friends of the 54th Masachusette regiment cannot bat feel proud of the splendid Sghiln dons by it on James\u2019 Island, although they w r s ; servant, by Soggiog.Tbe court martial fouod him guilty of culpable bomicide, aud he has been sent to Bombay, bis name being struck off) \u2014 À bust of the late Sir G.C.Lewis is to be An Ocp Kratant UnsaykLtxp.\u2014The Roches- Rochester murder, as follows :\u2014** It is seldom that the old proverbs is 60 strikingly verified as in tbe instance which we have to relate, on the authority of a Lieutenant in the United highest standing in Gettysburg.Mzerines 18 W asuineron.\u2014Rev, Dr.Masse, senior member of a deputulion representing four thousand English clergymen, delivered an address at the West Presbyterian Church, in this city, this evening.He states that, in company witk Lord Lyons and Secretary Seward, Le waited upon the President yesterday, who received him with great cordiality.The President expressed great gratification at certain portions of the ed- ress, The large audience this evening frequently applauded the address, aud paiticulaly the anti-slavery part of it, aud ihe allusions to Presi dent Lincoln.Rev.De.Sumdeslind made the address in respouse, on bebalt of the clergy of Wa-hiagton, au address so strongly anti-slavery in tone, that the mujoiity of the cleigy cither refused, or were unable, from want of time, wo sign.\u2014 Washington Corr spandent Tribune, TeeriseE Event 1x Nonre CaroLima \u2014The cortespondence of the New York Fferaid, describing the late cavalry raid under Geo.Potter, from Newbern, N.O, to Rock Mount und Tam boro, and the destruction vf a vast amuuat of rebel property at the former, und of the bridge at the latter place, states that the order to firs the bridge was given too sosn, À large nom- ber of contrabauds had just got over, many were still on the bridge, and many were on the otber side, all esger to join our column aoû Bee from their masters in Dixie, e of our own men were also on the other side, but, with a few exceplious, they contrived to make their pe.When the tmrolog bridge fell it is d it carried into the stream below, or con sumed io the vain ¢ furl to extricate themenlves, between five aud six bundred pour negroes, Eunsritures FRuM Cawapa.\u2014 The Doston Herald anys that large numbers of Cavadians, aod men fran the provinces, have arrived there withis the past three days, to offer themnclves as substitutes to persona conecripted, and it is said that the ourber arrived will much pore than offset those whose nawes have been draws and whe foolishly ran away.Droram or D.D.\u2014The American University of Princeton, Now Jersey, has cuuferred the boporary degree of doctor of divinity ou the Rev.Charles J.Brown of New Foch Free Church, Edinburgh.\u2014 À truin of truck-cars onthe Pennuslvania road, faden with petroleum, was ignited by a wpark from the locomotive [ret Thur-day night, near Kittsaoning Pointe In à few vinuley four cars were in Hames, The heat of the fire vas se intense and consuming that the c1oes ties of the track on which the cats stood, and «to of the track adjoining, were burned through, and the rails so warped at to render it dificult for trainy to pass.Tho axles of the cars were melted down until they almost touched tha _road-bed, nod the wheels were hent inward.The foliage of the trees was burned off and shrivelled for a distance of Afty fet on either side of the track \u2014 The ship *Leonids,\u201d Capt.Wood, from Montevideo, which arrived at New York on Monday last, bad ou board #8 cargo one buudred and nizty-Bre mules, sll in fine condition, Laving lost only six during & passago of fify-s-von days, This, wa believe, is the only cargo of mules ever brought into New York from Montevideo.\u2014~ Frum tho Detroit Adeertis r wo learn that on.the morning of Sabbath, the 26th instuat, a mysterious shooting affair occurred in hat ; lace.Two brothers were returning bome fiom a ax, both in state of intoxication, when a pistol wag discharged by ao unkgown band, ai the more sober of the two, the contents taking effect in hig bend.Tho men had 8 narrow cacape (row doatly but is cot serfously hart, it een ws rg nc! course of construction, rarvin 480 to 1,544 1008 burden, , varying fromg \u2014 sy tm 492 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.AvousT 5, 1863.Special from the Seat of Government te the Montreal Witness.) The Government will proceed against defaule- ing Municipalities for the Municipal Loan ¥uad, Crown Seigniories and Quebec Fire Loan Arrears, in botheections of the Province, action to be no sham.Deputations of the Quebec Bar waited on Attorney-General Dorion Jesterday, complaining of the inefBeieney of Chief Justice Bowen, now in his 84th year, and covsequently unfitted to perform his duties.The Indian difficulties cul- inating in Giblard's death, relative to fish.lg matters, which were properly under his wontrol, aided by a writ of power of the Algoma Judicial District and Judge Prince, is still a mat- ver for Algoms tes to dispose of.The aid of the Volunteer a is offered to maintain the wpremacy of the law.The Official Casstte 0-day contains new Commissioners of the Peace dir the Districts of Montreal and Quebec, and sme contiguous Districts, Benjamin Lyman wa today gazetted Warden of the Trinity House, Montreal, = THE VITESNESS.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, AUG.5, 1863.Tux Recattons or Bairais wrta Tus U.8.~The cordial reception given in Bermuda to the Florida,\u201d after burning so many American ves- nels, will, we fear, lead to trouble.The position taken by Britain from the beginning, of according 0 doth sides belligerent rights, probably necessitated the admission of tbe \u201cFlorida\u201d to certain privileges ; but these ought, we thick, in such a case, to have been limited to the lotter of inter- assionai law.To extend these privileges volun- tardy, and accord au entbuslastie welcome to à aruiser which bas just been burning many Ame- sean veseels, stows a spirit which the American aation will devply resent, Some of the New York papers say, that American ships of-war will desieoy, if they cap, these pirates, as they call sher\u2014even in Brilish barbors, and let Britain æail the act war, if it chooses; and this, we ink, from the present temper of the American People, no empty menace.Their commerce is ow suffering nearly as much ns it could in a war with England, whilst their bands are tied dom retaliation ; and they tbiok tbat British osmuetce will be as vulnersble to cruisers fitted ost in America, es American commerce has been 5e aruisers Âtted out in Britain.Bhould such «