The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-18 00:00:00

The Confederates in Pennsylvania.

While in Chambersburg the rebel officers and
soldiers passed round from one store to another and
purchased whatever they desired, paying for flat
same in rebel scrip. Sometimes a private would
come along who would take many things he did
not pay for, but on the whole the rebels behaved
themselves very well in this respect. They paid
liberally for what they got, and the storekeepers
did not fail to ask almost enormous prices for their
goods. The drug stores were made to suffer the
heaviest, in that the rebels laid in a good stock of
drugs and artic;es of medicine found at such places.
In consequence of the many payments in rebel scrip,
the towd is more than pleasantly supplied with
this Southern money. General Jenkins was very
courteous to all who approached him. One lady
asked the General to permit her to keep her ne-
groes,
and he granted her request immediately,
giving her a written order to that effect. While
walking along (for he was in the habit of conversing
with the inmates of one house or another, seeing
them on the stoops), he turned to some ladies, re-
marking, " Well, ladies, I suppose we are very
unwelcome visitors here ?" The reply was, "So far
you have behaved yourself very
said the General, " our intention is to do so to the
best of our ability." The Franklin-house is the

,argent hotel in th;town. Hero the rebel officers

(or a large portion of them) came to take their
meals. They were very polite when at table, dis-
cussed the war,:&c., with much warmth, argument,
and sophistry, but always held they were sure to
come out first best. Some of them ate voraciously,
and when they were doing so attributed it to
the healthful Effect of the valley air, remarking
that they had come North for the health of the
Confederacy of which they were a part. They did
not all of them pay their hotel bills. The ladies
did not eppear to be much alarmed at the presence
of so many unwelcome visitors. Undoubtedly they
were fearful all the time; but still they exhibited a
bold front. When passing along the streets many
of the rebele, privates and officers, would stop and
converse v't ith a party of ladies sitting on the stoops.
Chen it
was that much spiritedconversation ensued.
the ladies called them rebels, end gave them their
opinion of such people in very plain terms. The
soldiers did not seem to be at all annoyed by this ;
in fact, they rather appeared to like it. In turn,
ast muchbeSto was possible for words
the rebels were no; slow to give the Yankees about
In all their conversations the
rebels spoke confidently of their ultimate success.
They held they lied whipped the Yankees all along
on southern soil, and now they were going to do it
on a Northern one. All the time they were at Chem-
ivcootind
them. In
as it
bersburg they talked loudly and largely, but from
their actions every one could easily see they were
much alarmed at the precariousness of their posi-
tion, They were on the qui vive night and day to
ewaTsnik
elyetviyetro be assailed at any e under the impression
that we had a large armed force in the valley, and
that theirn attack.
front
mo-
ment. 'For this reason a portion of their command
rpelan
was constantly kept in line of battle towards Har-
risburg. As the rebel column was leaving town,
on, of the citizens fired at and wounded one of the
soldiers. The citizens immediately deprecated the
act. They looked upon it as a very cowardly one,
and a useless and ungenerous one too. The rebels
had behaved themselves unusually well for soldiers
and the people would not have been surprised had
a squadron returned and set fire to the whole town
The firing was at the hands of an irresponsible per-
son, and those who had property at stake did not
like it at all.—New .Fork World Correspondence.

ABOLITION OF METROPOLITAN TURNPIKES.—
The Metropolis Turnpike-roads Act Amendment
Bill was read a third time in the House of Lords on Thurs-
day night. The great metropolitan benefit conferred by this
act is the removal on and from July, 1864, of 25 toll-gates,
and 56 side-bars and the setting free from toll-gate obstruc-
tion of about 51 miles of road on the Middlesex (north) side
of the Thames. The gates and bars so to be removed on
July 1 are:—Fulham—Walham-green, Earl's-court, and all
gates and side bars in the district ; Kensington—Hammer-
smith, Notting-hill, and all gates and side-bats in Kensing-
ton and 11 ammersmith ; Harrow-road, Kilburn, and all gates
and side bars; Camden-tow, —King's-road-gate, High-
street, Chalk-farm, Haverstock-hill, and all gates and side-
bars; Camden-road—Brecknock- gate, and all gates and side-
bars in Camden-road, &c.; Kentish Town—gates in road and
all gates and side-bars near, and at Gloucester-place, etc.;
Holloway-road and all gates and side-bars; Islington and
all gates and side bars ; Bails Pond and all gates and side-
bars; Kingsland-road—Cambridge-heath, Hackney, and
all gates and side-bars in Hackney, Clapham, and Stoke
Newington ; Twickenham and Teddington, all gates and
bars; and the City road Gate, and all gates and side-bars.
Since the proceedings to effect the removal of metropolitan
gates and bars commenced in 1856, eight years ago, the sub-
ject has been incessantly pressed by the Toll Reform Com-
mittee and their parliamentary agent, Mr. J. E Bradfield,
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notices in Parliament. A committee of the House of Com- 1
this year the above are the results.
IRE NEW ZEALAND CHIEFS SCARED BY A SLOW
WORM.—Mr. Bucktand mentions in the Field hie
recent reception of the New Zealand Chiefs. In despite of
philological difficulties, he managt d to get on with them
very well, and according to his account they managed to
consume eighteen pounds of roasted beef. Our scientific
friend, however, frightened them not a little by introduc-
ing to their notice a specimen of the harmless British
' slow-worm. New-Zealand, it appears, can boast of some
very venomous specimens of the reptile tribe, and directly
the chiefs caught sight of Mr. Backland'a slow-worm a
genets' stampede ensued: the braves fled into the garden,
and even made an ineffectual attempt to scale the surround-
1, walls. Eventually, however, they were pacified, re-
turned to smoke the calumet of peace, and visited the Zoolo-
gicalG-Edeanrtsiett. under the able guidance of Mr. Bucklaud
and Mrs