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WASHINGTON, Dec. lY.-Uaptain Seymore and
NJ. Adams messenger, arrived about midnight.
The President will send message to the SEN
ate On the subject Of our relations with Great
Britain which will be considered In Executive
session tomorrow. as
A rumor is aaoat that the Government has
decided to return Mason and Slidsll, but We are
satisfied this 10 untrue.
The African will carry 70 England despatch
from Lord Lyons containing little more than
the intelligence that he has received and deli
vered to the American Government bis instruc-
lions from the Foreign Office.
The Senate COMMITTEES on Foreign Affairs has
the question Of establishing diplomatic relations
With Liberia and Hayti under advisement and
will report fayorably Ct an early day.
About our Foresga Relations. ,t
WAsRMarox, Dec l9.-Capt Geo. Coad has
arrived here from Boston with dispatches from
the American Minister At London to Secretary
Seward The contents Of the dispatches brought
ilither BY the Queens messenger TO Lord Lyons
had not been communicated TO our Government
up to one O'Clock this afternoon.
An RngllsA Psiss OapssreA as savannah.
NKw YoRk, Dec l0.--Ths British ship Che
shire from Liverpool In attempting to run the
blockade at Savannah WAS captured by the gun.
boat Augusta, and has been sent here in charge
Of prize crew. Her cargo consists chiefly Of
Coffee, Salt and army blankets.
BAlrnoaz, Dec. 1.-THE Richmond Rxam.
ner Of 18th inst says We are assured that reso-
lutions have been introduced into Congress,
offering sympathy 70 the people Of Maryland,
and urging such . policy in The conduct Of the
war 10 70 open the way for her admission into
the Southern Oonfeasracy. -if sa
On N.tnrAav - tl,e Huntins (1ourt ant.,red
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DHAfEs or Iowa voLusfEERs The following
named Iowa Volunteers died in the Military
Hospitals Of S. Louis during the week ending
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The committee next devote themselves to the
subject Of the purchase Of arma The extra
ordinance made for them resulting from the con.
spiracy 70 overthrow the Union, has resulted in
an extraordinary expenditure and exposing the
cupidity Of large number of persons both in
England and America, and has opened . system
Of unprecedented speculation. The Govern.
meat has been the victim of more than one con.
spiracJ, and remarkable combinations have been
formed TO rob the Treasury. The profits from
the sale of arms to the Government have been
enormous, and realized, in many instances, even
BY our own citizens, through system of broker
age, % unprecedented and despetic, IS unfriendiy
70 the success and welfare of the nation % the
plottings Of . vuleure. The Government and the
several States entering the market in active and
direct competiton stimulated, it 10 true, to some
slight extent. BY the importation and manufac-
turs Of arms, but scarcely compromising for q
gesesAl ptD6igacy iatbe expenditure Of the pub
listreasury.
Il He COMMITTEES examined into the army sun
plies Of the Western Department especially and
have supplied the place Of contracts The com
mittee say the purchase of cattle there hasbeoaa
gross mismanagement, and in the purchase Of
horses and wagons in New York, the find great
.ifregulafity. 14 e Asfs y 49,
The committee also say that man by the name
dent, Was appointed Commissioner Of Public
ned capacity, but undinching integrity, and that
Wood. from bic own declaration, made himself an
instrument for plundering the Government
The committee, In the discharge Of their duty,
made report Of the facts to the Executive, bat
bslbss ~ s.tion NJ tahep, IN, Government
was fsIsassd '6y his resignation.
he committee next approaches the subject OF
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From the South.

r.
NEw York Dec. IA private letter from
Beaufort says the stone feet sailed from Savan-
ahn for Charleston in company with man-of-
war. The ships we're to be sunk in Charleston
harbor Saturday last.
Tybee Island is occupied by 1000 men who
are to throw up batteries for use against Fort
Pulaski If necessary.
The sloop Of war Savannah and three or four
gunboats were of fybee.
The steamer Baltic, with 1000 troops, left
Port Royal for Fernandina, Florida, With the
Bienville and another gunboats. The fortifica-
tons there consisted Of = battery Of FIVE guns,
manned by 200 or 800 men. Il 10 thought it
will fall into our hands after brief struggle.
BALTIMORE, Dec. live can learn nothing
confrmatory Of the reported occupation Of f.
Pulaski BY the Federal troops. The report was
stated to have been given BY . passenger on the
Old Point boat, and the rumor 10 probably un-
'ounded.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 17.--The gunboat Connec.
ticut, from Galveston, Nov. goth, Southwest
Pass on Dec. lst, Ship Island Dec. I'd, Mobile
Bar and Fort Pickens Dec. Sd, Key West Dec
10th, Tybee 18th, and Fort Monroe 10th, has
arrived All of the crew of the blocks
squadron we're we'll.
The ship-of.war Richmond WAS at Key West
repairing damages. -!
The Connecticut brings the crew of the cap.
tured pirate, Royal Yacht, and captured steam.
ers Anna and Henry Lewis. The Connecticut
also brings, a. prisoner, marine, vhs A.
tempted to desert from Ship Island. Also Is
OF Billy Wilson's Zouavcs and number Of reg.
ulars from Fort Pickens
Nothing now had taken place at Fort Pickens
A detachment of troops from Port Royal bad
landed at Tybee.
The Connecticut brings no report Of the
evacuation of Fort Pulaski BY the Federal
troops. The report from Fort Monroe l. there.
fore untrue.
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Z @ From Keatu&ky. p
LorlsvlLLE, Dec. ls.-The recent Mumfords
vile engagement, considering the disproportica
of the numbers, presents the most brilliant Fed
ersl victory yet achieved. A few companies ol
about $50 men Of Wellchs Regiment, led By
Lieut.. Col. Van Weber drove back over 5000
rebels, cavalry, artillery and infantry. They
were first attacked by regiment Of Texan cav.
airy, whom they repulsed and followed, when
they we're drawn into an ambush and fred Al
from all sides BY the rebel infantry. The Fed.
erals returned the FIRE vigorously and stood theil
ground until the rebels fell back, leaving al
their dead and most Of their wounded on the
field. US
No reinforcement reached Van Webers com.
mand, as reported yesteday, until after the en-.
gamcnt was over. Stones Louisville battery
supported the Federals from the north side OF
Green river, firing At very long range from
rifed cannon. Four other companies were on
the south side of the river, but engaged as pick.
cts mile and a quarter distant from the action.
Among the Fejerals killed we're Lieut. Socks,
of Cincinnati, who killed three men with two
revolvers, but was finally killed receiving nine
bullets from the Rebels, Henry laser, Richard
Webey, Fred. Schoombros, Peter Smith, all Of
Cincinnati. Smiths remains 60 to Cincinnati
led beside Col. Trevy. Wounded unknown. II
is supposed large Federal forces buried their
dead. Rebel horses were found dead on the
field and three rebels were taken prisoners.
Parties just arrived from the scene, report that
yesterday and to-day, sixty more dead and woun.
ded Rebels were found in the bushes. The Fed
eral loss is one killed on the spot seven mortal
ly and twelve otherwise wounded Ofthose NOR
tally wounded, four heve since died.. The rebels
lost Colonel, Captain and Lieutenant. g
The Federal forces on the south side OF Green
river are considerably exaggerated, but the re-
port Of q general crossing ofthe Federals south
ward Yesterday is denied and would probably
nat take place till Green river bridge, on which
o large force is engaged in reconstructing.
The rebels sent q flag Of truce to-day asking
permission to inter their alleged unburied dead.
Somerset boat Waseon way bill OF 18th, says
Zollcoaer with 1000 men had crossed Cumber-
land river, and we're intrenching.
The 2lst Ohio and I'd East Tennessee had ar.
rived there, making force about equal to Zol.
H. 81 u u
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28
Such is life, my boy.

But strange disease had certainly FLAP
ped its dark wings DER our camp" as medi
cal Jurisprudence remarks, and yesterday
morning it broke out dreadfully. Seventy
five privates were suddenly taken sick at
their stpmachs, and, ,hreww up breast tworks
all around the camp; eighteen officers be
came retched, and threw up their commits
sions; and one corporal who had promised
to do sentry duty, threw up his engagement
Even our brigadier general, at the house
which he occupies as his head quartors, be-
came violently i'll and threw up the window.
The medical staff mm.diately addressed
memorial to the Commander of the Divi
sion, wherein they stated that unless the
Oath was administered to meq as before,
they couldn't depend on their allegiance
The colonel of Regiment Three added note
to the effect, that since he had quit taking
the Oath, he had perceived a marked de-
crease in his affection for the Union, and had
to get three strong men to hold hint lest he
should desert to the enemy in his deirum
don't know what will happen my boy
if this sort Of thing goes en- much longer.
One of our captains attempted to drink some
clear water last night, and it actually made
him seasick. The men complain that the
Oath is administered to every rebel they
catch, while they themselves cant ge, drop.
Besides, the rebels don't mind the Oath a
bit, because, they say it is not at all binding
believe them, my boy.
| captured live contrabSpd the other day
and was much surprised to find how much
the slaves know. He repeated the Consti'
tuition, the Declaration of Independence, and
Greeley's Last Letter, explained to me the
policy of England in this war, and made
a diagram showing the positions of General
Patterson and general debility when the
late battle was fought. | asked him why he
ran away from his master; and he said it
was because his master wanted him to in
dorse some Confederate State Bonds !
shall treat him very kindly, my boy, and let
him wash my shirts as soon as get any.
Yours, confscatingly,
ORPHEus G. kERH.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

The WAY THE REBELS Cor THEIR INFoR
MATIoN.-The rebels at Manassas we're not
satisfied with the comparatively slow process
of obtaining news Of our movements bv
mails, IMPRESS or couriers, but arranged a
way as to be in instant communication with
the headquarters of the department of the
Potomac. We have been shown piece of.
insulated copper wire, which we were
assured is portion of line found between
Arlington and Centreville. The coating is
of the color of dry leaves, and at casual
glance, the wire would be mistaken for
dead limb 1t was traced running through
the trees and along the ground, until it was
found wound about tree, and connecting
with one of our lines. By this means TIE
rebels knew everything that was transmitted
to and from our army.
" Y Tr;huoo
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

DROWNED AT Seal is a subject Of re-
mark that great number Of seamen have
been lost Agerbosrd from vessels coming
around the Horn this season, than during
any like period since the California clipper
feet was inaugurated. The ship Phantom,
which arrived recently from New York re-
ports the loss of John Lassee and Frank
George, who fell overheard off Staten Land.
Staten Land is the first land sighted on near
ing Cape Horn from the Atlantic.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

Fremont's Proclamation.
DEPARTMENT OF THE WEST,
St. LOUIS. AuU. 80.


Circumstances, in my judgment of suffi-
cent urgency, render it necessary that the
commanding General of this Department
power of this State. IN ogder therefore, to
suppress disorder, to maintain, as far as is
now practicable, the public peace, and to
give security and protection to the persons
and property Of loyal citizens, do hereby
extend and declare established Martial Law
throughout the State o. Missouri The
lines of the army of occupation in this
State are for the present declared to extend
from Leayenworth, by way of the posts Of
Jefferson City, Roa and Ironton, to Cape
Girarleau, on the Missis ,ippi river All per
sons who shall be taken with arms in their
hands within these lines, shall be tried hy
court martial, and if found guilty will be shot
The property, real person, of all persons in
the State of Missouri who shall take up
arms against the United States, or who shall
be proven to have taken active part with
their enemies in the field, is declared to be
coniiscated to the public. Their slaves if
they have any are decla,ed freemen. All
persons who shall be proven to have destroy,
ed, after the publication of this order, any
railroad tracks, bridges or telegraphs, shall
suffer the extreme penalty of the law. All
persops engaged in reasonable corresponds
ence, in giving or procuring aid to the en-
emies Of the United States; in exciting tur
moi, and disturbing the public tranquility,
by creating and circulating false reports and
ncendiary documents, are in their own in
terest warned that they are exposing them
selves to sudden and severe punishment
All persons who have been led estray from
their allegiance are requested to return forth
with to their homes, and any such absentees,
without sufficient cansc, will be held pre-
sumplive evidence against them.
The Object of this proclamation is to
place in the hands of the military authori-
ties to give instant effect, and to supply such
but it is not intended to suspend the ordin
ance Of tribunals of the country where the
law will be administered hy the civil officers
in the usual manner, and with their custom
ary authority. The commanding General
will labor vieiIantly for the public welfare,
and in his efforts for their safety, hopes to
obtain not only acquiescepre, bat the active
support of the people of the country.
Signed J. C. FREMONT
OFFICE PRovosr MARSHALL.
ST.. LOUIS, Aug. 3Oth.
All persons are hereby forbidden to'pass
beyond the lines of the city and county Of
St Louis without first obtaining a special
permit. All ferry, steamboat and railroad
agents, and all other carriers of passengers
are hereby forbidden to sell or transfer any
tickets emitting the holder to 60 beyond the
limits of this county, or to carry or allow
to be carried any person not exhibiting n
permit from this office.
(Signedi ]. G. McKINSTRY.
Major y. S. A., Provost Marshal.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

OFFICE PROvosT MARSHALL. ]
Sr. LOUIS, Aug. 3Oth.
Beavers.

These industrious little creatures are still
to be found on the San Joaquin, though by
no means in as great numbers as in former
days. They live back from the river among
,ules and flags and about smal il lakes, and
their houses are great curiosites. They are
built with pillars and rafters, very scientific
cally, anl are covered with mud. AS their
families increase, the roof is raised to ac'
commodato the new corners, and the walls
built up to meet it. They always have a
passage from their houses to the river, bor-
ing hole through bank where the land
for several feet in, is much higher than that
where they live. The river works through
these holes and cuts sloughs which are call
ed beaver sloughs The male and female
always 60 to the river together, and if one
gets into trouble, the other helps him or
her out, or run for help. Beaver traps are
placed just under water where they come to
the river. They are not unlike an ordinary
fox trap, and are chained to the brink. No
bait is put upon them, but the trapper
merely trusts to the creature "putting his
foot in it" by accident. Sometimes if the
beaver does not drown too quick, his com
munity save him by eating off his imprisoned
leg. II is seldom that lazy beaver is seem
Work like beaver" is proverh but
those who have watched them, say that once
in while there is an instance, and that the
culprit is brought out and soundly beaten
by committee. The farmers on the San
Joaquin, and we suppose elsewhere on riv-
ers, have plan when they wish to raise up
land which is lower than the river at high
water, to run the river over it, and the
stream leaves its sediment, which in some
cases amounts to two or three feet of soil in
year. The beavers by cutting these
sloughs through the banks, have in the
course of years raised up many acres far
more effectualy than the hand Of man
could have done it. The above is told US by
the farmers who occupy the land thus raised,
and we have no reason to doubt i. There
are beaver houses we are told, within less
than tiye miles of town:
San Joaquin Republican.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

"India, my boy" said an Irishman to a
frien an his arrival at Calcutta, "is jist
the finest climate under the sun; but a lot
Of young fellows come out here, and they
ate and the dhrink, and they dhrink and they
die; and thin they write home to their
friends pack o lies an say its the climate
as has kilt thm."
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

A SuLrANs "NIEcE"--It has been men
toned in the Evening Post that court poll
cy requires chat all children who may com
nit the mistake of getting born to reign
ing Sultan's brother TO be cho ked off imme-
diately. A day or two after his accession,
however, Abdul Aziz presented to his Minis
ter as his heir, fine little fellow of five
years old, who had been brought up in his
harem in girls clothes, as niece Of Abdul
Mediid.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

FERnETs.-The Stockton Republican says:
"Mr. Atkinson exhibits at the race track, in
cage, thirteen of these beautiful, little
creatures. They are very great curiosity.
They were imported from Ohio and are Of
the English breed. Mr.. A. not long since
lost quite large one by allowing it to 60
into a squirrel hole. Not returning, he
du5 down and found it dead, with twelve
dead squirrels around it. The little fellow
fought like tiger, but the enemy were too
numerous for him."
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

The Oregon Union published at Corvallis,
says an effort is about to be made to get up
company to erect Woolen Mandatory
in that county. Our Oregon neighbors are
erecting woolen factories in different parts
of that State. In this respect they are in
advance of California ''' i
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

81 say, boy, is there anything to shoot
about here? inquired sportsman Of boy
he met
"We!l," was the reply, nothing just
about here; but the schoolmaster is down
the hill yonder-you can pop him over"
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

"WHo BEeINNED THIS ERE WAR9'-An
outraged parent had jerked his provoking
son across his knee, and was operating on
the exposed portion of the urchin's person
with great vehemence, when the young one
dug into the eparental leg With his venomous
little teeth ">
"Hel's hames!-what are you bitin' fora"
swell, dad, who beginned this ERE warp
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

Close of a Remarkable Career.

A correspondent Of the London Times
gives the following particulars OF the extra
ordinary career Of an aged woman named
ed Barnes, who is now in state of desttu-
ton, and in whose case the Rev. Arthur r.
Godson, No. 4, DevQnshire street, Portland
Place. w., has interested himself. "Sheri'
dan knew her as child and persuaded her
father to apprentice her, at the age of four
teen, to Mrs Jordan, who trained her as
Little Pickle" in The Spoiled Child, and
other minor characters. At sixteen she
married John Simoeds; seaman of the
CaVoden, AID accompanied him to the West
Indies, under Sir Edward Pelow, OLord Ex-
mouth.) She was with her husband in the
Mars, at Trafag gar, and assisted in the last
offices to Captain Duff, who was killed early
in the action. Her husband himself was
killed later in the day, leaving her with four
sons. In 1908 she married Henry Bevan,
soldier in the Forty second, and went with
the regiment to the PeninsuIar, where she
again became mother. This child was
killed in her arms during the retreat on
Corunna, and her husband fell at the cele-
brated charge Of the Fiftieth and Forty sec
ond which drove the French from the field
She attended on Sir John Moore during his
last moments, and was present at his funeral.
Here Captain Murray was so struck with her
youth and distress that he told her if ever
she was in difficulties to apply to him; and
he kept his promise to assist her until his
disease in l848, since which time she has
been triendless AFter leaving the Peninsula
she became lady's maid to Mrs Smith, wife
of the English ambassador at Constantine
pe on their way there the women were ia.
ken prisoners in Italy. The mistress esca-
ped with very mild form Of bondage, but
Murat sent the maid TO the hvlks at Touton
for six months. Of her four sons by the
first marriage, two were killed in the Queen
| Chorlotte at A giers; the third fell, in the
Twenty ythird Regiment, in one of Lord
Coughs actions in India; and the fourth in
the Eleventh Hussars, in the cavalry charge
at Balaklava. BY her third husband, who is
also dead, she has had three sons and a
daughter. OF tnes, the eldest was lost
overheard from Lord Proby's frigate, off
Malta; the second and third in q collery, on
their way from Shields; and the daug ghter
died in the service Of an English lady in the
South of Franco"
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

Big ToMANo.-A man in E Dorado coun.
ty has raised tomato this season, measuring
seventeen inches. good measure, in circurs
ference.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

RoBBINe BLIND MOTHER OF HER You've.
A Chileno was arrested at San Andreas
last week for robbing native California
woman, who is blind, Of her two children.
The sightless mother raised an outcry when
she discovered her great loss, and pursuit
of the kidnapper resulted in his arrest and
Imprisonment, and restoration of the chill
dren.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

GREAT RIvER.-Admiral Hope, of the
British Navy, has succeeded in ascending
the great river of China, Yang tse, to a dis
tance of SO nauica miles from its mouth,
without any accident and it was stated that
it was nav gable for l27 miles further up,
making in all 727 miles, or about s42 stat
ute miles from the sea. The Yang tse,
therefore, although it be, in point Of navi-
cation, neither the Mississippi or the St.
LAWRENCE, FAY exqels the Ganges, the Rhine
and the Danube; it is is indeed, the finest
navigable river Of the Old World.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

The Grass Valley National affords the
comfortable intelligence that the X. G. C.'s
have concluded not to take the State this
year. 1t might add that since the election
there has been no sale of arms by the San
Francisco old junk men, to the seceshers,
neither by the hardy miners. Moreover the
San Francisco Supervisors don't have to
watch Fort Acatraz at night to prevent
some secesh carrying it off under his arm;
and the Sacramento Onion discovers no
more desperate green ribbon seceshers in
that city, and that it is asscertained that Jack
Hayes is digging potatoes on his ranch in
Alameda and not drilling 200 desperadoes
in Los Angeles Several other matters too
trifing to mention, have also been discovered,
among which is, that the Repubs. have got
us all by the wool just now
San Joaquin Republican.
The Placer herald., 1861-09-28

A CURIOUS WAY OF GETTING REsTED.-It
is a custom in Berwckshire, England, among
women workers in the field, when their backs
became much tired by bowing low down
while singing turnips with short handled
hoes, to lie down with their faces to the
ground, allowing others to step across the
lower part of their backs on the lumbar re-
gion, with one foot, several times, until the
pain and fatigue is removed Burton, in his
"First Footsteps in East Africa" narrates a
very similar custome Of females who lead
the camels, who, on feeling fatgued, "lie at
full length, prone, standing upon each Others
back, trampling and kneading with their
toes and rise like giants refreshed. The
custom is called 'fogsi' in Africa, in our
country it is Strengthening the back"
Notes and Queries.