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- 3 sTTT KTan1iiasST.@T6ats
ara many droU reports afoat about Wilson's
raofme ent. and sfin1n' of the genuine character
ss1se ss1yes ~ Amdne these i the fact that young
osrI ~ modest and attractiye ,sppearanae hi
sstt.ehe5hsraef s. n e ia to he regiment, and III a.
tsnieS Il ti,eir head m Quarters u thea nty I'D
= s Staten - fsian' @ She appears 10 be regularly
~ adontsd 95n as % a chid of the regiment. She has,
i a seems, - brother IN the 1aak., but, upon IN
4ul1y ~ 70 als nsue n1nntaared their narnes
sbe as IS to have B1oonsl dress, aad follow ths
CAMP 4no@ LIE pso,5+1t +o sntertain "a sarnest'
spia 1nr Ta'Gn "a sIo n,a5seWoy sentiment Of b.
nagpIant T enthusiasm as the more distinguish
e. ana = md appears to be as much re-
AssoclaIo1s -. Sa1 10y ~ monnar-N 1,nn.r
sPeetad IN enen lnnM-N ropgn manNe.N' p''s''
R,or AnoUT 4 F1Aa.-on Thursday, at
onacnap a rI4 y -tha cItixep. wanted to raise
soneoo so w5 the H. or1T ona in ffe toVn was In tbs
aas aaS, asa;o,, anH nf Amoa Dow. shoemaker, who
psSaSaa - fend Il He said Il svaa 7fuH: Of
hoias sSd n-ed ed rapaarIuK, A. delegation of
g.. l.. 1&,. Aad 11y,nn him and offer.
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DR. SWEETS NFALLIBz8 LIKIAKHT u pre-
pared fsosn the relpe of Dr. Stephen Sweet Of Coo
sac1tcnt the 1raAt bone setter and hrs teen ussd IN
~ pkzice for tho last tvent5 yeazs with tho most
sstHtshang anccez7 Al external remedy It il with
cat FfSa And Will kneytste pain more speedily than
my other preparasi5n. For al rheumatic and fef>
~oas Disorders II truly tntaasle asd ~ curative
h1< eare&. .Wounds spzs.ns Burns &c. its soothing
healing md powerful strengthening e1ea's
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xtvsn n Over four hunds certificates ot ~
Hatk1ha rra perfoz MED by 1t within ne lxse sHo
yaars 1t eat this fact. For sa.s BY ]. H 1oHNsoN.
Gene9x mt % ssats street Chicago, ind BY A1
Dss1esu noN1oWeoWIy
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CTATEMENT Of tho Condlt'3 u
NEEEA8TIEE aCTGAL INSURANCE Co.

,a xas ti.tyn.st day q December. 1851 mads 10 the
1ntitar of tie Eats of ul1nGts.
Tns name . .the company Is The AereaEtl9 Gq1tt
Insurance GomRsnZ. located et tne e7 u ae"; 1~9'
Tae smoans oi ia eaptts1 stock y SIX Egndred ~
F0cy8h Thousand FouF Hundred ooo0a an'
Fan xa eM hand Of In hands Il AXeaa
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DRECTURS: =,
THaxas NuvpnK Z, q. HAppEcE 9. B. FAEwEEfs
& W r v~nEn ] z HUTeFokp JAMES WAKp.
fE*TTHpTKR OEnI9aToH LUxT,J. EowARDs.
THON As CHURCH. President.
au un1nEN EacTatsry apa9 lW
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LATEST FROM TEXAS.

l,eennr1ure Of q. g. Troops Marrow
EscaUe Of Gov. HousSon.-moreF Forts;
Endered.-EpiscoPaI Convention. :.
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~ Joliet and wilmington 9seonm5dauo3 Ea7a
Chicago 1t 80 p Il daily sexce7s HIndAy}. erz,Ts It
80 L.
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SDMEEtTIONS-.ASC Che1pR with IosAl.puss r9EA
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asIesbalg sna 5 Bu5li3xto7 ~ 8tooai9st2a *,tH 1G
6eset estern Railroad or uiaata for .Jaazan1ssla
Naples and Qeiaey. A. 81 !5n NH EaGHe fsetl::ad
Laxazton, IndcpscGencc, Ea1s4s City a.d Lsn-en
vc:ta, &ita North M1ssour1 Ra.1tpai f;r st. Et*.s
G.dson and e. Joser. and VIII 4rsn Ao1ueatn EA:E
7oad fur Pilot Knob sad Southern Missouri wits ss4l
zoad Line OF Steamer on tas M.ssisa:ppt Rytz III
Aenpsiz, V1ckshurx aa3 Sew Jrlexra.
For through tickets ar,Iy at eis CcfneAn7's 0E.car
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B CUHVWCIaB &estl1HUuT.-.~I4H
immense -esriy sale Of Lxox's KA1aAukox, and fhs
ssoussnds os tessim to HI ezrusnae received
from Ill clsassa Of eoeet prors It 70 b The nnsst
preparation for the Hsar sver mado No uns desiring
sAse head Of Hasr should Ill to xxa It sold eyes1-
~n1N3u,
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Police teIftgeuce,

AkEEsr OF ALLEGED CousrsRFnrERs --Iaformstion was
received at the Police Headquarters saturday evening
that gang Of counterfeitsrs engaged in flooding
the city with bogus three dollar bills purpor,ing 10 be
genuine issues Of the Hampton Bank, at Newcastle In
this State Tie captains of each precinct informed
of the fact by Telegraph, and through them
the merchants then In their ~tores Fortunately this
information spread before the el.ers had
fairly commenced business, thus saving many from
being victmi2ed. few o. the counterfeit notes. how
ever, were passei or Late at night James Rogan and
Charles Hogan, both yonng meo, offered OF
the spurious bills 10 Casper SchDsdcr, OF No.
lse Bowery, in paymsn: foI segays; bus of course
he refused to take it, 80 ofIlcer had previously
Informed him OF the character OF the money Mr. schnei
der engaged the attention Of the young men and sent for
officer in few minutes detectives Bsnne aud Sease
arrived and on making themselves known the suspected
parties, who bad taken back the counterfeit BILL attempt.
ed to destroy IT, They thwarted in their purpose and
artsted. Justice Osborn before whom they were taken
committed them TO the fombs for examination.
The Fourth ward poce arrested Henry Hunter VIM.
Crosby and Frarcs Murrin for passing the counterfeit
bills in question and they locked up for hearing.
The paper on which the bills arc printed bad and they
are poorly calculated to deceive.
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THE, NEWS

The steamship Etna, which left Liverpool on
the 10th, and Queenstown on the Goth OF June, is
now due at this port, with news from Europe four
Halifax. The Galway steamer Parana was to
have left for st. Johns, Newfoundland, and Boston
on the 18th of June. If she sailed from Galway
on that day she should have been heard from at
st. JOINS before this.
The remains of Captain Ward, killed on board
the gunboat Freedom, in the late action at Ma.
thias Point, left Philadelphia in the six O'Clock
train last evening, and reached Jersey City after
midnight. The remains will lie on board the North
\ Carolina until four o'clock to-day, and all due
honors will be paid 10 the memery Of the deceased
hero.
Our correspondent at Nankin China, writing
on the ISSb of April, says -" The steamer Fire
Dart Captain II. W. johnson, arrived here this
day from Shanghai, bound to Hankow all we'll,
having full cargo and passengers on board. We
End the navigation Of the river very good, except
at the entrance plenty of water, but narrow chan.
mel We proceed in few days up to Hankow,
Worn which place will write you more fully, as [
write in haste to save the mail by gunboat
NO off to Shanghae. The Fire Dart is the first
gong \eamer ever up the YaDgtsze" Our cor
1Fe1 also states that the Fire Dart, and
.e'pouuen Hw York built steamers, possess
-ne O'nei Qges over all others in the Chinese
HUi WV GU e1y TO their great speed, light
M way oNine ch city and accommodations for
tle comfort Of passed.
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New York, Monday, July A, 1861.
THE SITUATION.

The troops around Washington continue to pre-
serve the status quo. With the exception of the
arrival of three or four more regiments from the
North, nothing Of any importance has taken place
there. Seventy thousand men are now within q
few hours march of each other, near the federal
capital.
Il is confidently stated that General Scott does
no. contemplate sny forward movement until he
has his whole army in readiness and then, that
he will order grand general movement, simdlta.
neously, of the entire Union forces from Fortress
Monroe TO the Mississippi. Should this prove true,
the world will behold grand military spectacle,
rarely, if ever, Witnessed in the history even of
the greatest wars on record, and the fortunes of
the present conflict will undoubtedly be decided
by the utter extpguishment OF the rebels at all
points.
intelligence has just reached Washington, and
is credited by many there, that in consequence of
the difference Ct opinion existing between JEFF.
the policy upon which the war shall be conducted,
General Lee has resigned his command in the
rebel army 1t is said that letters have been re-
ceiyed from General Lee by some of his old asso-
ciates which confirm this rumor
Another skirmish took place yesterday morning
between the rebel scouts near Shutters Hill and
the pickets of the Fourth Pennsylvania regiment,
in which one of the Pennsylvania men was killed
and one wounded. The rebels, after dischsrging
their fire, ran off Repforcements arrived from
the Union lines, but their assistance was not
needed. This appears to be the only affair which
disturbed the monotony of the encamped army on
the Potomac within the past twenty-foar hours.
The defences of cur own harbor form no insig-
nihcant feature in the present critical condition of
affairs, and we have therefore prepared an accu-
rate map of ali the points of defence commanding
the entrance to New York, by the Narrows AID
BIZ the Sound, which we publish to-day, together
with very full description of the Notifications,
their availability in case Of attack, the character
of the different structures, and the number and
calibre of the guns mounted upon each
II is said that the delay in occupying Harper's
Ferry by the army under General Patterson, arises
from the fact that the government does not con
slider the occu patton Of that point matter o.
necessity under existing circumstances; the evac
nation by the rebels being no doubt considered as
absolute and fnal and the position being entirely
in the hands of the Uuion forces, though not &C
tually held by garrison.
Reports from Fort Pickens all indicate the iaten
ton Of The rebels to abandon an attack upon tina
position 1t is quite probable that they find AM
attempt upon the fort just now would be idle, ant
ii may be that the presence Of the troops who have
been so long beleaguering it is absolutely needle,
in Virginia.
Everything in Baltimore continues quiet though
an undercurrent Of excitement is naturally running
through the public mind there, under the new con
dition Of affairs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

The Hon. BEN. WOODS CONFERENCE
Hon. Ben. Wood called most important con-
House last week, where they eat for an entire
day with closed doors. They excluded the
public and the reporters. Notwithstanding this
extraordinary and mysterious council, we have
not heard that there was any decrease in the
number Of volunteers Offering themselves for
The war nor 90 we observe any change in The
public mind as to the continuation of the war
What the effect would have been If the Conven-
ton had sat with open doors it il impossible
for US 10 tell,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

An EXAMPLE FOR NEw YoRx-The contrast
between the volunteer regiments sent to the
seat Of war from Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire, and those which start from New York, is
very remarkable. The New England reei
ments 60 fully and excellently armed and
equipped, and are provided with everything
necessary for their comfort and convenience
from Bibles, baggage wagons and hospital am
balances, to pals, kettles shovels aud picks
Our regiments, On the contrary, start half
clothed, wearing basted uniforms and wooden
soled shoes; armed with inferior muskets, or
with 10 muskets at all; without wagons and
with no conveyance for the sick and wounded
and, in most cases, without match to light, or
kettle TO swing over camp fire. The result
Of this difference in the equipment Of the regi.
merts is that the New Eng land boys 60 to work
umesi lately upon their arrival at the seat of
sar, ard are ready to advance at an hours no.
tce, While our regiments are engaged, for a
week or two, in procuring necessar,es which
.houid have been farrished tue N here TIE Ill.
innate consequence OF Oil THE is that We have
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Personal Inteilfgercs.

Lieutenant Maury, Of Washington C A. Mies, Of Buff
ialo George Fife, OF New York. aud g. hassacar OF
Montreal, are stopping ct the Laarge House
Hon G. W. Walton, of Maine; Captala Westcott OF
Eewburyport Mas Licuten ants Henry C. Fisher, and
G. Colgate, Of the United States Navy stopping
,he Astor Hcuee.
G. Nathan Of Montreal; a. James and wife, OF Balti-
more D. Rogers, Of California John A. Lay, Of s..
Louis; A. Hunter, OF Louisviue N. Tevis of Phladel
phia, and Os.tsnder OF st. Louis arc stopping at the
Metropolitan Hotel.
Governor Weller, Of California Colonel Samuel Colt, of
Huntsville, Ala ; f, W Grcgor of the West Indies
Auasa Parker, Of Albany j. Caracas OF Chile John
D. Coe OF England, and O. Mdan, of Paris stopping
81 the St Nicholas Hotel
Governor McGHl OF Washington Territory, has issued
proclamation calling all the citizens capable OF bear
g arms to organizes themselves into militia companies,
that they be ready TO assist the federal govern
mehl In maintaining the integrity Of the Territory
csIl hes heen heaed 10 Cslifosas for UnlGn state
Convention, for The purpose OK ignoring party organz1
tpr Most OF the prominent pscers Of TIC Safe favor
the ucvenent
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MASKED BATTERIES When Norfolk was lost
to the government two thousand five hundred
pieces of artillery were lost with it-a larger
number thar the fest Napoleon Captured
during his ertre cs.Apsign5 These are for
the most part gus Of heavy caltbre, AMI many
Of them rifed cannon. TIE rebels have dis
tributed probably Thousand Of them ali over
tie South, where they are now planted in
uasksd batteries to harass the troops Of the
government wherever they meet TEEN. l.
addition to these the rebels possess al the pre-.
cent time not less than two thousand oauuou, II
we include those stolen from the forts which
they seized, and the number since mauufao
tured at tie Tredesar Works in Richmond
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

FOURTH July GRAFTON BY Ron EowAen Evspvrr
By special invitation Of many Of our leading ci.izeus
the hon Edward Everett will deliver an address at the
Academy Of Music on the Fourth of July at three o'clock
p NJ, tak!ng for bis subject "rhe Great ssues Now Bs
fore the Country" The high character and gift Of the
orator in connection with the subject. which sill Our cN
gems Interested In render it useless for 10 to assert
that It will be rare treat.
The band Of tho Seventh regiment win do escort duty
on the occasion, and the seect choir from the Ius,itu
ton Of the Blind, led by Prof S. susar, will sing sMy
Country lis Of Thee, and "hs Star scsngea Banner"
also the "Army Hymn, by O. ". Holmes The proceeds
will be devoted to the relief the families Of the New
YORK volunteers II being for this worthy object we
have not the least doubt that TIE receipts will be larger
than ever before known on similar occasions; at least
such should be the result
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

The summer vacation OF the law courts has aou mall
commenced, though summer itself is as ysa urcer-
tain. With the exception Of specsl tsrns os thu So
preme, Superior and Common Pleas Courts. vrv uyl,
business win be transacted in the State courts.
The federal courts will however, have q G, ns,dsra,a
quantity OF business growing out BIO ex ing stat. q,
affairs The prize which have eccupes one Of t,oo
courts for some days past VAL continue h the all abssh
ag topic Of legal dsquieiion for months to come The
blockade, the prvatesrs and tho say traders VII ON.
gross for some time the especial attention OF the able
United States Dstrias Attorney and his assistants.
Tie General Tern OF the Superior Court hae bean
tended to the 1Ssh Of July, aad the Special Terra will be
held Throughout lae month.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

end id other foandsies all over tae South, a. u
leaving nfteen hundred guns IL Norfolk.
How long these guns are tc be permitted TO
remain In Norfolk ia a question Of tins, and
now much longer the rebels are to continue
constructing masked batteries is G. mere ques.
ton Of time also.
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Tho Fourth Of july,
GENERAL ORDER.

HEADQUARTERS THIRD EIGIxxrr HUssiss.1
CuAHEsLAND, Nd June 81, 1851
ibis regiment will parade In full sumn or uniform On
Thursday, the Fourth day Of July proximo to comeo
rate cur national Independence The assenbIv will be
within Madison Park, at six O'Clock A. NJ By order OF
8 BROOKE P0sLEY,
Colonel commanding Third regiment, Hussars
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

The ARMY OF THE UNroN.-According tc The
statement of Secretary Cameron there is in the
field, in the service of the United States govern.
ment, an army Of 100000 men-more- than
three times as many as the great CAB
tain, Napoleon, commanded at the battles
of Austerlitz, Wagram or Marengo. This
immense army has been improvised within
ten weeks-since the 18th of Aprils
and with the exception of the troops in Missouri,
and those few engaged in the skirmishes at
Philhppa, Romnay and few other points, the
men have been doing nothing but drilling and,
training. In that time they have acquired q.
soldiers experience in everything except &C.
tual warfare, and they seem to be az far from
that as ever.
With such en- army as this, well drilled es, the
men mustbe ere this time, and composed, asthey
are, of splendid fighting material, acting in
conjunction with our naval fotilla, Canada
could be annexed and the Spanish forces riven
out of ST Domingo in less than three reonths.
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discomfort and dIsy
auo none In those ird
Will the Miljfsrv !

! Will the Military !
,'hese fscss Let the a
take a trip to this city al
Ne~ England regiments ony
They viii see what our regiSl
aDa are Dos-a1d may learn /
New EATland's example for the b
York.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

SPANISH ADEsICNs IN AMERIcA.-We
day pablrh. ID Translation of al
Gle from the Cyo8icd de IT,bos Wa
OF Madrid, re@,ectiag the colonizing nj
of spain in the New World. In
article it ~ ope'ly ayewed that the desig
Spain is not ONLY to retain her hold of
Domingo, but to am ex Hsyti and proceed W
the work Of rational aggrandizeL,ent all oy]
: the Wesslndies and c. ntral and South America
Specializing upoH'the consequences ct this ap
greesive line of ce,dua& the journal referred to
says:-
In regard to diplomatic complications. t,uv NM.
SeNner DC expected nor feared One nation aIoos woud
ses.c Ose y, 1DS 70 prevent spain from esasng pos
% 70 Son time probably. dspAs to ,e any cpp1ss
s,os the ciya war whica hos broken ousin the fernsr
conederacS or the United States and it, division lat,
two confederaces Of the and 3 ntiern
rtna' Spssass5tr AeOapenm ~ at WdsSsss1
think Of Hew trvsa aoqSisasons al soeU =, AZ N, sc
xae, rendering in,poteM % Yrsoes Elrrsean wotseSs
ing from dearorig to oaasss Moss o,usr - ~ 49,
alcnies on TIE req coniinent ~ WOW
This defiant tone is admitted to procea1
from the knowledge of our domestic troubles.
and 1t is the dusyof the government ~ Wash
Ington to resent the insult with all pre- IN ,titude
We must let Spain see that we have the power
to control her a. we'll as orr own rebels. II
would be well, however, for North and South
to combine in sweeping the Spanish power
from American waters, and, at the same time.
in Wrestling her North American possessions
from the grasp of England. There would be
something more profitable than civil war in
this. We should become reconciled among
ourselves, recover our prestige, and extend
our territory indefinitely. But in any case we
shall have the power to restore the indepen
dence Of st. Domingo, and to put an enc to
Spanish donineering in this hemisphere.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-01

Three months ago some Of our most radi-
cal republican party journals, the New York
Tribune at the head of them, pleaded earnestly
from day to day in favor of quietly permitting
the revolted States to try the experiment of an
Independent government. AT that time, we
suspect, there was voice or two in the Cab-
net Of which the Tribune was but the echo.
Some such influences may still be felt by the
administration. At all events, we know that
England, in the matter of this war, occupies
towards our government very offensive and
rnenaciug attitude. We know, too, that the
annexation of Canada has long been favorite
idea with Mr., Seward, and We know that Spain
in her project of Selling free Dominica and
turning it over to her system Of African sla-
very, and in her designs upon Mexico, has
given strong cause Of displeasure to our anti
slavery Cabinet. Linking all these things to-
gether, we are free to say that our recent pro-
position for an armistice with the South, and a
compromise, including q warlike coalition for
the employment Of our Northern and Southern
armies against England and Spain, ia Canada
and Mexico, does not appear to be on impossi.
bility.
That the hope Of a compromise lies at the
bottom of this otherwise inexpnca6le inactivity
Of our armies we have reason to believe; and
what better way can there be FOR the settlement
Of our domestic troubles than warlile union
for the expansion Of our territories and our
power, North and South, against our European
commercial rivals and enemies, constantly H.
triguing for our destruction and the control Of
this contine It? Peace or war, the Fourth Of
July will doubtless lift the veil which now
hangs between us and the administration, and
the goth OF July may, perhaps, bring us some
astonishing oveltures Of peace.