The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1861-07-17
General gGelvs.
THE principal employment of rebe

The Secessionlsts have slready Ia
ken fifty one ships, the value Of which
with cargoes, must be at least SO 900,
600.
The Directors Of the Central r. r.
Company of New Jersey have declar-
ed a quarterly dividend Of two and-a-
half per cent.
Nor aware of the blockade, Ca plain
johnson, Of the German bark Miord,
attempted, few weeks ago, to enter
Charleston, and was fred into This
so frightened him that he never re-
covered the shock, and a week after
the occurrence died.
A LADY in Rochester sent. dress
to dyer, with instructions to dye it
some colors that would not run The
patriotic dyer returned the dress COW
cred all over with the colors Of the
American Unions
PATRICK Doyle, young man, nine
teen years of age, died on Tuesday, at
the New York Hospital, from the ef-
fsets of a pistol sho3 wound 10 the
side, inflicted on the evening of the
4th instant, by VIM Atty, lad.
ELLswoRTH's death was as much
deplored in California as in the East
ern States. On receipt of the news
at Sacramento, the flags vera placed
at half mas, and the FIRE companies
resolved to.wear a badge of mourning
FOR thirty days.
A privateer, the jeff Davis, sup
posed to be the former brig Echo. is
doing an extensive business, having
captured several vessels off the Allan
tic coast, one Of them as far North as
100 miles from Nantucket Shoals.
An Internal machine has been dis
covered in ST. Louis by the police.
1t consists Of quality of bed cord
wound tightly around a ball of Irvine
with fuse inserted. Inside the Irvine
were found two hundred and fifteen
bullets, eight stones and two pounds
Of powder.
THE DOUGLAS FUND ASSOCIATION
At meeting Of this Association held
in Washington City on the 2lst nit,
the following Committee was appoin-
ted for New Jersey Hon. Robert j.
Walker, Hon. G. B. Adrain, Martin
Ryerson, V. Dalrymple, Ingham Co.
ryell, Rodman NJ. Price, Gov. Olden,
Theodore Frelinghuysen, Benjamin
Williamson, Charles D. Hineline, Gen.
Runyon.
ADVERTISING IN LONDON Some
idea of the extent of newspaper adyer-
tising in London may be had from the
following item of news by late arri-
val:
The London Times, of the 21st ulti-
NO, published three full sheets of eight
pages each-in all twenty four pages !
The impression is said to contain four
thousand advertisements of oil lengths,
and is the largest production that has
ever issued from the daily press.
BEAR-KILLERs FOR THE SOUTHERN
MY,-Capt McCrea, formerly of
South Carolina, is now raising force
of two hundred men, in the wilds Of
Arkansas, for the purpose of joining
Ben. NcCnlloch's Rangers. One of
the conditions of their enlistment is
that each recruit shall be single
man. Another condition is, that no
man shall be admitted into the compa-
ny who cannot prove, by disinteres. ed
witnesses, that he has killed his bear
with his knife.
POISONED BY sIcE CREAM. The
Roman Catholic Sabbath School, of
Taunton, had a picnic on Thursday,
at Myrickville, and quite number
who ate ice cream have since shown
symptoms like those exhibited by per-
sons poisoned with arsenic. One ply
stefan has visited ten Of these sufferers
in one house. They have all been ia
ken with vomiting, and with many
there has been a swelling of the face
such as would be likely to result from
the action of arsenic. Fall River
Neq0s.
It is very we'll known that railroad
conductors, when the train stops at
station, seldom call out the name of
the station, and when they do they
rarely pronounce 50 that it can be I'M
derstood. To remedy this, on the
Edinburg and Glasgow Railroad, at
every station, they have starting or
parrot trained, so that, whenever a
train stops, it commences calling ont
the name, and continues to scream it
out until the train starts.
"A GRADUATE AT WEST POINT. 49,
The first graduate in the first exam
lining class at West Point, last week,
was poor Irish boy, named Peter
o Rourke, who at the age Of sixt cen
years did not know his lettres. This