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JOINT CAPTURE AND SIGNAL DIsTANCE.-JUDGE
Belts in the United States District Court has
made decision in case of joint capture of prize,
which, as the first decision on question involv-
ing great number of cases, will be of interest to
all our naval officers.
The decision is in the case of the prize steamers
Anglia and Scotia-two vessels which were cap
tured in Bulls Bay by the U. S. Vessels Restless
and Flag, belonging to the blockading squadron
off Charleston. Of course, their claim to interest
in the prize is unquestioned. But the HOuSatonic
and Fianabeau, two other vessels of the blockadng
squadron off Charleston, which, at the time OF
the capture of the Scotia and anglia, were doing
duty in Mafit's channel, interposed claims before
the Prize Commissioners, insisting that they are
entitled to share in the distribution of the prizes
ON the plea, in the case of the Housatonic, that
she was in sight of the prize when captured, and
in the case of the Fldmbedu that she was in signal
distance of both captors at the same time. The
Commissioners reported adverse to the claims of
the Flambcau and Housatonic; and Judge Belts,
before whom this case was brought In appeal
affirms the decision of the Commissioners. dissa-
lowing the claims of the FldmJedu and HouSatonic.
The act Of Congress of July 18th, 1862, directs
that "When one or more vessels OF the navy
shall be within signal distance of another making
prize, all shall share in the prize. At the time
of the capture by the Restless and Flag in Bulls
Bay, the Flan,beau and Housatonic were stationed
at a distance of sixteen miles No signals were
seen by them from the capturing vessels at the
time of capture. Several witnesses, however,
expressed their opinion that the Flambeau acas
acithn siqpd distance while several other witness
es equally well situated to judge, expressed the
opinion that "neither the HouSatonic nor the
Flanbeau were [was] in sight OF signal distance
of the prizes or capturing vessels at the time of
the capture"
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ARMY PR1NT1YG.-The first introduction of the
Printing Press in the army was by Capt. H. Neff,
10th Regt Penn. Vols.,- ,-3 months subsequently
goth Penn. Vols.-3 years), April 18th, 1861.
This press printed little paper called the "Nat-
ional Guard" The press continued to follow this
regiment through all its marches and trials, up to
August, 1862, where, on General Pope's retreat,
for want of transportation to prevent its falling
into the hands of the rebels, it was destroyed.
In October following we hear of press in one
of the Massachusetts regiments in the Army of
the Potomac. A weekly paper, published, by
them, fell into our hands; further than this we
have no record.
When the Army of the Potomac moved on to
Manassas, Capt Irwin had press in operation at
the Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac.
This press, type, ETC., was buried on the PENN
sula in the seven days retreat
The first introduction of the press in the hospi-
tails was at this institution in October, 1862 al
though the publication of our paper did not begin
until Feb. 14th, following. The press is now in
operation in Carver Hospital, as well as many
others Printing is also carried on in the Navy to
considerable extent of late
The Flag Ship Minnesota, at Fortress Monroe,
the U. S. Bark Hannibal, off Charleston, and
probably others to US unknown. The 18th Penn.
Cavalry, at Yorktown publish paper called the
Cavalier" This paper has been in operation
over year.-Historical Magazine
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"A dispatch from Knoxville, Tenn, dated Nov.
18th, 1868, says that in therecent affair at Rod
gersville General Burnsides forces were over
whelmed by superior numbers.
General Burnside has taken over Is, 900 prison
ers since he came jpte Tennessee, independent Of
the garrison at Cumberland Gap, putting US far
ahead of the rebels
There are some indications of large forces of
the rebels coming against us, but we expect to
repel them.
: At Rodgersville ths, rebels captured about five
hundred men, four pieces of artillery, and thirty
six wagons.
The most of the men captured by the rebels
belonged to the Second Tennessee QoyaD regi-
ment, and over one hundred to the Seventeenth
Ohio
We hold from Washington, on the Tennessee
river, to Bulls Gap.
Rogersville, where the six hundred men and
four canon were captured by the rebels, is about
sixty miles from Knoxville. 1t has been erron-
eously stated to be but fifteen miles distant from
that place.-Herad, 18th.
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The TwENTY-NcH GUN-SEvESTY-Two TeNs OF
METAL AT ONE "HEAr."-The PHsburg Dispatch
of the 26th says:
We have already noticed the fact that prepara-
ations were progressing at the Fort Pitt Works, in
this city, for the manufacture of twenty ynch guns,
the lathe, patterns, &C., being in an advanced
condition. As the experiment Of manufacture
q gun of such calibre, however, is one of great
risk, it was determined to settle at least point
practically before attempting to mould the great
gun, by melting, at single heat, nearly the same
quantity of metal as would be required for the
twenty-inch. For this purpose, two guns We're
moulded Of the ffteen-inch navy pattern, and each
furnished with twelve-inch instead of fifteen
inch hollow core, making the rough weight of
each of the guns nearly as great as that of the
columblad fifteen inch. These moulds were
placed side by side in the pits of the foundry,
and on Saturday morning five of the furnaces in
the foundry were charged--three for the special
purpose of casting the great gun and two for the
ordinary work of the shop. The respective
weights of these charges will give some idea OF
the capacity of these enormous furnaces, being
thirty-four, nineteen nineteen, thirteen and eight
and half tons, an aggregate of nearly ninety
four tons, and far greater amount of metal, we
believe, than was ever reduced in furnaces In
single establishment in one day. Seventy-two
tons of this metal, being the charge of the
tuee NllSe 1uiuaceS, were designed lor tue CAST
ing of the experimental guns. The metal was
led from each of these furnaces to large pool
equi-distant from each of the moulds and commu-
nicating by two runners with the ''gates.
About one o'clock the three furnaces were tap
ped in quick succession, and in moment three
streams of molten iron went pouring into the
pool, from which, rs the metal rose to the level of
the openings, two fiery lines shot into each of the
moulds, The intense heat of the iron pouring
along these seven streams, with the molten mass
in the reservoir, seemed to have no extraordinary
effect on the workmen, who performed their &C
customed duties of skimming and clearing the
moulds with as much indifference as if the glowing
metal surrounding them and filling the air with
showers of sparks were harmless streams OF wa
ter. Familiarity with such situations is apt to
breed contempt of danger, but we believe that no
accident has ever yet occurred at the works an-
ring the operations of casting. Notwithstanding
the unusually risky character of the experiment
on Saturday everything passed off successfully
and the streams 'of hot metal and cold water,
crossing and interlacing on their way, poured into
the moulds without accident. The success OF the
experiment abundantly demonstrates the capacity
of the works for the manufacture OF guns OF
twenty-inch calibre.
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Old negro, slumbering. with his feet pointing
to a glimmering fire. Opens one eye, and gets
glimpse of them as they stand up in the obscu-
rity. Mistakes them for two little negroes, and
cries, "Gif fun fore mel" and relapses into
sleep After awhile opens the other eye, and still
seeing the intruders, says: "Gif fun fore me,
say; kick you in de fire if you don't; I will, 1
WILL shu'-" and again he snores. His dreams
not being pleasant he soon opens both eyes, and
still seeing the little pests, he draws up his foot
for the threatened kick, but is alarmed to see the
enemy advance upon him, and exclaims: 'What,
where you comm to, now! Humph! my own
foot, by golly!"
The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1863-11-28

The PRIvATEER GEORGIA AND THE REBEL HAMS
IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.-Nest Indian mali ad-
vices say the rebel privateer Georgia passed Eal-
mouth. Jamaica on the 18th Of September, under
full steam, and on the same evening she was De-
ieved to have captured steamer :,
There have been some little emotion IN naval
circles in England owing to q rumor that an at
tempt would be made to take out to sea by 1orce
the steam rams in the Mersey, Orders were re-
ceiyed at Plymouth to send vessel around to
Liverpool, and it was stated that, after some IN
decision and countermanding OF orders, the IRON
plated frigate Prince Consort had started 1or INV
erpool In the meantime another gunooat had
reached the Mersey, on the 2Sth, and was anchor
ed opposite Laird's yard, ready to start at mo-
ments notice.
The London Morning Star announces that the
French government has informed the Unlted
States Minister to France, Mr. Dayton, that the
authorization for the construction OF certain YES
sells Of war. now proved to be building in France
for the Confederates, and for certain cannon and
munitions of war for their armament, had been
withdrawn. and the parties engaged IN the busl-
ness had been warned of the danger OF prosecut1,
ing the work.
THE London Times publishes letter from MIR.
Spence, of Liverpool, which is Jubliant at the ex-
citing situation of affairs for the South, and asks
what more practical proofs needed of the absurd
itv of the scheme of conquest than that cotton
was quoted at ninty-two cents in New York eight
cen months after the occupation OF New orleans.
The London Times editorial on Mr.. Lairds re-
cent IS speech says if no more can be said for the
suspected rams than Laird has now said for the
Alabama it feels sure the public will approve the
otion of the government in OBTAINING them.
>rge Saunders, in a letter to the London
,ies that Laird's rams have anything to
'Nc ,utract for furnishing vessels to the
r,,sS 5d., and contends that his contract
L. ~ nth the c.. "hable, it simply covering
ebel government zen neutral anu '0u'n'
8 perfectly unimpea>
nail steamers to run bet"~
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The BROAD ARRow.-Many have doubtless in
quired the significance of 'sthe broad arrow"
which has been put upon the rebel rams. 1t in
dicatcs possession by Her Majesty. The broad
arrow is government mark somewhat in the
shape of an arrow head, which is stamped, cut,
or otherwise fixed on all solid materials used in
her Majesty's ships or dockyards, in order to pre-
vent embezzlement of royal stores. The mark
was assumed at the time Of the Edwards (when
the arrow was considered the most powerful
weapon of attack as Distinguishing the property
of the king. To be found in possession OF any
property thus marked is criminal offence pun
ishable with heavy fine,
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TINTED STATES ARMY AND NAVY NIGHT COMPASS
u es Patented May 9th, 1862 The advantages of these
over others in that they can be read
distinctly at night without the aid of an artificial light
For accommodating the position of the enemy, night
movements &c where light dare not be used without
running the greatest danger, they are invaluable.
Used BY Major Generals Mcclellan, Hooker Burnside,
Hunter Pope Major Meyers, Chief of Signal Department
and others Every officer and Soldier should have one.
PRICE SC, 81, So, 81 80, So, and 81 25.
For sale by
JOSEPH Il SEARS
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"Good morning Mr.. Henpeck, have you any
daughters that would make good type settlers p
"Not exactly but have wife that would make
first-rate deril."
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TUST RECEIVED AT THE NEW STORE, UNION
Square, next the Post Office large lot Of Stationary,
Books Sc in part as follows:
Army Regulations 1863. Yiele's Hand Book
Webb's Pay Digest. Monroe Comp Drill
OrdronauI Hints, Schak's Campaigns,
Manual. &" Art Of War.
Gilmore's Lines, &c. Tauberts Field Artillery.
Quartermaster's Manual Halleck's Art and Science
Benet's Court Martial. Estyan's War Pictures.
Casey's Tactics. vols. Szabads Modern War.
Rarra du Pared Coppe's Battalion Drill.
Cullums Military Bridges. Instructions Field Artillery.
Barrett's Naval Gunnery. Company Clerk.
Tottens Naval Text Book. Shoulder Straps, Novel
Roberts Hand Book. SCOTS Military Dictionary.
eyy's Rules &c. Ruling Pens.
Pocket Albums i Bivouae of the Battle field
Neck Ties Life on Georgia Plantation .
Handkerchies, hemmed. Webster Dictionary.
Currency Holders Social condluon OF the En-
Mathematical instruments. glsh people.
Ink, black, red, carmine, &c.
Pens steel and gold in great variety,
|, Blank books in great variety,
WATERS sealing wax, law seals, &c-,
Mucilage, court plaster lemon acid, &C.,
Penknives, pocket books, purses,
Portfolios. bill books, etc.
Pencils, Canyons etc., OF various coors
Lava lockwood matchsafes, tobacco boxes, bags, &C.,
Novels song,bocks hand books OF various kinds aId
most ofthe late publications of the day.
Maps of Cha reston harbor and vicinity and ofSavans
nah river
ALSO fine lot Of Military books Of late issues the
best selection ever brought here
Pipes briarwood china gutta percha Meerschaum.
Together with stock Of Stationery, &c.
Photographs printed expressly for US by Anthony Of
Mai Generals Gilmore, Strong, Hunter, and Michel
JOSEPH Il. SEARS.
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nR W. N WALSH, Office No. s3, Suffers Row. full
IL supply of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines.
August 49, 1s63.-tf
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TUST RECEIVED AT THE NEW STORE, UNION
Square, next the Post Office large lot Of Stationary,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-07

blank range of the most numerous and now
erful batteries that ever yet have been used in
a single engagement. We have good reason.
too, to believe our guns will be managed with
admirable tact and precision. The more i'm
portant batteries are manned by the South
Carolina regulars, for whom the credit is
claimed, and think justly, OF being the most
expert and practical heavy artillerists in the
confederate army. The forts arc Will officer
ed, and Gen. Ripley, who has made the study
OF heavy ordnance specially for years, and
whose excellence in that particular branch of
military knowledge is an admitted fact, will
himself lake command of fort Sumter as soon
as the enemy makes his appearance
1t is scarcely possible that any floating thing
can breast unframed the concentrated storm
OF heavy metal from the guns of Sumter,
Moultrie and Battery Bee, the three principal
works commanding the throat of the harbor.
Nor can the peril of running the gauntlet be
diminished by any attempt to pass under the
cover of darkness, as has been the case at
Vicksburg and New Orleans. So tortuous
and intricate is the channel leading to the forts,
that the most experienced pilots of the harbor
would not venture to bring in a vessel by
night, under the conditions which the enemy
cannot escape, namely, without a light or a
landmark to guide the way. Even when
the blockade running vessels leave the
harbor, it is always necessary to aid
their exit by previously arranged lights
(shaded) and by signals, so that it
is reasonably certain that the attack
ing iron clads must either enter in open day,
or incur the immense hazard of getting
aground upon one of the most treacherous
bars on the southern coast, which seldom
yields a vessel once it has grasped the keel
But if, perchance, despite of may channel,
multiplied torpedoes, and the combined bat
terieS of the forts, some of the nine monitors
should chance to get into port, they would
still have to encounter a concentrated fire
from other batteries, which, as the northern
papers have learned from contrabands, cline
the shores Of the interior of the harbor."
And then will come the ''tug of war; which
will determine the possession of the honored
old city.
The captured gunboat Isaac P. Smith, now
called the Stone, has been repaired, and is now
in good fighting trim. She will be the flag
ship of Commodore Ingraham.
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of the senate, shall appoint solicitor or agent
learned in the Spanish language and law, on
the part of the United States, whose duty it
shall be to prosecute before the joint commits
sion, in the city of Lima, the claims of citi-
zens of the United States embraced in the
stipulations of said convention.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that
the president, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the senate, shall appoint a secretary
to the said commissioners on behalf of the
United States, versed in the English and
Spanish languages.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that the
compensation of the respective officers for
whose appointment provision is made in this
act shall be as follows To the commission
ers, in full for their services, four thousand
five hundred dollars each; TO the solicitor or
agent, four thousand five hundred dollars, in
full for his services. And the said commits
sioners and agent shall also be allowed, in
communication of travelling and all other per-
sonal expenses, ten dollars a day for the time
actually and necessarily occupied in going
from the places of their residence to
Lima and returning home, under the
provisions of the convention. To the
secretary of the commissioners on the
part of the United States there shall be paid
two thousand dollars, in full for his services,
and the same amount in communication of all
travelling and other personal expenses as is
provided in the case of the commissioners
and solicitor. And the sums necessary to
pay the foregoing salaries and expenses, as
well as the share of the contingent expenses
of the commission on the part of the United
States, and of the compensation of the UNI
pire chosen under the convention, are hereby
appropriated out of any money in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated.
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, that the
said commissioners on the part of the United
States, in conjunction with the commissioners
on the part of Peru, shall be and they are
hereby authorized to make all needful rules
and regulations for conducting the business of
the said commission, such rules and regula-
lions not contravening the constitution of the
United States, the provisions of this act or
the stipulations of the said convention.
Sect. s. And be it further enacted, that the
secretary OF state is hereby authorized and
required to transmit to the said commission
ers such papers or records relating to the
said commission as he may deem proper, or
as may be called for by the said commission
ers, and at the close of the commission, and
OF the duties of the umpire, all the records,
documents, and all other papers which have
been presented on behalf of the claimants,
citizens of the United States, shall be return
ed to the department of state or be deposited
in the legation OF the United States at Lima,
as the president may direct.
Approved, March 3, 1868.
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Approved, March 3, 1868.
1PuBLIC-Nn. sol

PUBLIC-No. 50.
AN ACT to incorporate the institution for the
education of colored youth in the District of
Columbia.
BE it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled that Henry Addi
son, John G. Underwood, George G.. Abbott,
William II. Claiming, Nancy Nj. johnson,
of the District OF Columbia, and Myrtelll
Miner, of California, and their associates and
successors, are hereby constituted and declar-
ed to be body polite and corporate, by the
name and title of ''The institution tor the ed
ucation of colored youth" to be located in the
District of Columbia; the objects of which
institution are to educate and improve the
moral and intellectual condition of such of the
cOlored youth of the nation as may be placed
under its care and influence, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession, with power
to sue and be sued, to plead and be implicated
in any court of the United States, to collect
subscriptions, make bylaws, rules, and regu.
lations, as may be needful for the government
of said institution, and the same to alter,
amend, and abrogate at pleasure; to have
common seal, the same to break, alter, and
renew at will to appoint such officers as may
be required for the management of the insti-
tuition, and to assign them their duties, and
generally to provide for the transaction of all
business appertaining to said institution. And
the by laws, rules, and regulations which may
be so adopted, shall be as valid as if they were
made part of this act Provided they shall
not be inconsistent herewith, nor repugnant
to the laws of the District of Columbia.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that
said corporation may have, hold, and receive,
for the purposes of said institution and for no
other, real, personal, and mixed estate, by
purchase, gift, or devise, not to exceed one
hundred thousand dollars; to use, lease, sell,
or convey the same for the purposes and ben
eft of said institution; may appoint such
teachers as may be necessary and fix their
compensation.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that
said corporation shall not be engaged in any
banking or commercial business, nor shall it
issue any note, check, or other evidence of
debt intended to be used as circulation; and
congress may have the right to alter or repeal
this act at any time hereafter.
Approved, March 3, 1868.