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resolution was adopted directing the Mayor to
convenoe the Board of Health for the purpose of
taking the necessary steps to have the streets
cleaned. The Comptroller submitted statement
of the disbursements made to the families of volun-
teers during the fortnight ending ON the I'd inst.
from which it appears that relief was afforded to
81 ,3O4 persons and the amount expended was
SOS ,48l. The balance Of the fund remaining unex-
pended on the above date was sl76,67O Al. Reso-
iutions of concurrence were adopted donating the
sum Of s5 900 TO the st. Joseph's Orphan Asylum,
and also 5000 TO the House of the Good Shep-
herd. After transacting large amount of routine
business the Board adjourned until Monday evening
next, at five O'Clock.
Tho stock market continues very active and there Is
check to the pending speculation but the realization
yesterday. Illinois Ccntrsi, Reading and Cumberland
each about FIVE per cent The OF the1narket
was other firm q shade lower than on Wednesday.
Money was easier Gold dull; at ave p N. Il was
worth 1so Exchange los for bankers bills
Tho breadstufs market depressed by the large ar
rivals yesterday Prices OF -four wore generally IOc,
wheat and oats 2c &c., and &c. ado. lower; sales
were a extensive scale. Less activity was dis
oernabIc In most kinds OF groceries and provisions and
in prccs whiskey cotton and tobacco wero dull and
heavy The freight marke, not acve but rates were
well supported. Tho changesin other commodities werc
unimportant. Auction saias OF teas and dry goods
CURED during the day, but were rather spritless.
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Arrival or the Twenty-eighth Regiment
81. n. q. ".

The twenty eghth regiment New York State volun.
teers, which raised Niagara county arrived in
this city at half past seven O'Clock last evening They
numbered about four hundred aud twenty men, and
came homo with their arms and equipmens They re.
NAMED at the Park Barracks night and will leave
for Albany this morning. Tho following are The officers
Colonei-E. y. Brown. Lieut.. Colonei-E. w. Cook
(now prsoner). Mayor. Fitzgerald. Surgeon
George JAWS Quar,errnaster--A. Y. sscune Comrany
A-rapt. C. s. KuIks. Company B-Capt X. W. Bueh.
Comnnny C--tieut ". N. Wicker. Company D-Capt l..
Tbsn,n Company E-Cspt W. Romlcy. Company -
Capt. 9. ". fern Company G-eapt. A. y. Judoct.
Company H-Capt. c. J, Ferry. Company l-Capt y. r.
Gold' Comp any K--Caps.S .. D. Adams.
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Major General Hunter writes 10 Governor Andrew,
under date Of Port Royal May letter strongly com.
plmeptsry OF the coored regiments In the service In his
department. lie speaks OF them hardy, brave, pa.
tont and obcdeu, and says that, with the bgaie of
liberated slaves already IN the field and few regiments
Of intelligent colorcd from the North would place
them In condition 10 make extensive ircurson upon
the land through the most densoy populated slave
region and from expedition OF this character be
doubts not that the beneficial results would arise
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= BARNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway-BAsy
BHOw, DC, al all hous--OLD HOUSE AT H0ME-SrERE0PTI
CON. Afternoon and Evening.
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BOwERY THEATRE. Bowery.-GUy MANNERINc-
KArHARIks AHD PE1RUcmo-MAGIc BARREL-FLYING
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The steamship Bohemian, from Liverpool on The soh
Of APRIL via londonderry the ist inst rssssd Father
Popt ro~teto Quebec, ~ four O'Clock this morning
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NEWSPAPERS IN THE ARMY.-The exclusion of
the New York newspapers from the Army of
the Potomac is one of the most transparent of
all the blunders Of our military authorities in
that quarter. To our intelligent, reading and
thinking soldiers their newspaper are almost as
much Of q necessity as their morning rations.
1t is great comfort to them TO read from day
to day all that is going on at home, and the
latest news from all our armies, including the
news Of their own achievements The news
paper thus brings all our armies and soldiers
together, and serves TO consolidate them in their
common cause Of the Union. It is therefore
not only exceedingly foolish, but positively
cruel, to deny the soldier his newspaper. The
addition to or subtraction from our circulation
Of a few hundred or few thousand papers Is a
matter of no Importance to the NEw YoRK
HERALD; but we do regard II as a matter Of suf-
fcient Importance where our faithful soldiers
are concerned to call for the special attention
Of President Lincoln to the subject. We hope,
accordingly, that be will, by some general or
der, secure TO the soldiers OF our various armies
the privilege of their newspapers against the
silly caprices Of laundering generals.
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frmer, and all qualities slightly higher on the I'd
of May. Breadstuffs were steady, with quiet
market. Provisions steady.
The New York herald., 1863-05-15

Now York. Friday, May Is, 1868.
The New York herald., 1863-05-15

The TRIBUNE THROWING HOOKER AND STONE
MAN OvERBoARD-The Tribune Of yesterday
again throws Hooker overbcard'as as failure
says be has not advanced since he retreated,
with larger army than the enemy after losing
seventeen thousand men. The Tribune is equal
ly severe against Stoneman, and contends that
he accomplished little or nothing, having scarce
ly damaged Lees principal line of communica-
ton at all, and certainly not interrupting it for
twcnty-forr hours. As to the false stockjob-
bing reports of the advance OF Hooker, the Tri-
bune traces them to the Philadelphia papers.
But our amiable contemporary might go a little
further south, aud find the true source of these
reports in the War Department.
, 1863-05-23
We'll Meet Again.

"Well meet again !"-the parting hour
Hath many a charm to lure
Its memories have a winning power,
An influence chaste and pure,
That in the heart of hearts survive,
When joys and hopes are vain
But none these few short words outlive,
"Well meet again"
"Well meet again l"-how sweet the sound
When fond affection binds
In traversing life's weary round,
The lonely pilgrim finds
A bliss where all was grief before,
A Joy where all was pain,
When memory calls to him once more,
"Well meet again."
"We'll meet again "-thou noble one
That round my heart has cast
A halo when all else is gone,
Will cling unto the last =
Know that each fiber of the breast
Echoes this sweet refrain,
When the soul seeks its final rest,
"We'll meet again."
"We'll meet again !"-if not on earth,
Oh, look above and see
The spirit that around my hearth
Would chime sweet melody;
OF all thou vast or art to me,
Therell be this holy strain
To bear my spirit back to thee,
"Well meet again !"
, 1863-05-23
NO. %.

"PAsTEBoARD PATRIOTS Almost ey-
cry community is cursed with class of
men, Just now, that cannot be better de-
scribed than by the heading Of this article
| The Chicago Post describes them as fol-
lows:-
'He is the most belligerent demonstra-
tive of beings. He is continually wanting
to hurt somebody, and wanting that every
body should know and believe it. He is
for fght-not that he is very apt TO enlist,
unless in the 'Home-guard' but whenever
there is enlisting to be done his voice is to
be heard above all other voices in urging
others to do so. If the emergency is great
or the dang er imminent, he gets terribly
excited about it. He rushes around fran
tically, uses terrific words and gesticula-
tions in an alarming manner; he express
es vehement desire to rip and slash
things he blows like a thunder gust he
prances and kicks up like an unruly mule
on railroad; he snorts like a steam-engina;
he gets red in his face like boiled lobster;
he roars, and,bellows, and paws the ground
with much wrath he gnashes his teeth,
and shakes his fist at the enemy-six or
seven hundred miles off; he expresses a
willingness to cut the throats of any num-
Der of traitors, and wants to know why
other folks don't do it; he is turbulent;
he wants 'muss' in which somebody or
anybody Except himsef) shall get bro
ken head he exhorts somebody to borrow
a meat-axe, and to spare none of them,
males or females; he insists upon demol-
ishing things at a single blow, like quack
medicine advertisement, and gives full par
ticulars how to do it, Notwithstanding
his terrible habits he is not formidable or
dangerous object. He is careful to keep
in the rear, where in case of retreat he will
be sure to reach place of safety in the
advance"
, 1863-05-23

RAISING COTTON AND ToBAcCo.- -Thepresent
unprecedented prices of cotton and tobacco are
having the effect of stimulating efforts to produce
both staples in regions where they were never
grown before. A number Of farmers Of St.
Louis county are prsparirg this year to plant
both cotton and tobacco. The business will be
little awkward at first, and the quality Of the
crops produced may be inferior; but when it is re-
fected that anything in the shape of cotton is
worth Is GEMS pound, and the poorest kinds
tobacco are selling for twenty dollars per hun
dred, it will be re ady seen that the enterprise
will be highly remuneralive. An acre of St.
Louis county land will yield four hundred pounds
Of cotton worth at Is cents pound $780,; or sew
en- hundred pounds of tobacco. at 20 cents a
pound, $40.
There will be respectable cotton crop raised.
this year in Southern Illinois, as nearly evey farm
er, who is prepared for it, will plant several acres
There were lllinoisans in this city last week, en-
deavorng to hire fifty negroes for cotton raising
st. Louis .Nel0S.
, 1863-05-23
Proverbs of the billings Family.

Don swap with yer relashuIs unless yu
ken afford to give them the big eend of the
traid.
Marry young, and if circumstances re-
quire it, often.
If you kant git gud clothes and edica-
tion too, git the clothes.
Say how are ye, to everybody.
Kultivate modasty, but mind and keep
a good stock of impotence on hand.
If yu are angry never get beat
Bee charitable, three cent pieces war
made purpose.
Don't take emmy bodys advice but your
owne.
1t costs more to bolry than it dos to buy
If man fatters yu, yu ken kalkerlate
that he is a roge, or yure a fule.
Kepe both ize open, but don't see morn
half yu notis.
When yu pra, pra rite at the sentre of
the mark
Don't mortif the flesh tu much, 'twant
the sores on Lossarus that sent him into
heaven.
If yu ich for fame, go inter grave yard
and skrach yerself agin a tune stun.
Beggars don't have to advertise for run
away dogs.
'Tis a long lain that never turns and
It's good mill that always dus
Yung man be more anxus about the
pedigre yur goin tn leave than ye are about
the wun somebody is goin to leave yu.
Sin is like weeds self some, and sure to
KUN.
Natur is natur, yu kant alter the krook
of dogs tale much, and preserve the
length Of it.
/ wud say tu all yung men, go in, and
tn all the old fellers, kun out.
About as sure a wa to git rich, as emmy
no of, is tu git inter debt fur a hundred
thousand dollars, and then 60 tn work and
pay oph the det.
, 1863-05-23

WHAT I HAVE NEVER KNOWN An
exchange says this
have never known poor man 70 OBJ
tain a premium at fair where there was o.
rich man to compete with him.
have never known a naturally dishon-
est man to become morally honest by be-
coming member of any church.
have never known a minister to be
called from a high to low salary.
have never known a really poor man
elevated to an important Office, let his in
tellect be ever so brilliant.
have never known a man to be respect
ed because he was poor.
/ have never known a rich man but what
was respected on account of his riches.
have never known a Temperance, or
any other Society, to make an example, for
neglect of duty, by ousting a rich man
when there was a poor cuss unfortunately
liable.
1t is almost sin to be poor. D-n
poor man.
, 1863-05-23


THE CoNscRIPTIoN AcT.-The New
York Times has the following in reference
to this law:
The law does not fix $500 as the sum
that any one must pay in order to obtain
exemption from the draft. 1t gives to the
Secretary of War discretionary power to
fix the sum which shall buy exemption in
each individual case, but in no case shall
over $500 be demanded. The Secretary
may require of rich man $500 for exemp-
ton, and he may let a poor man of-one
who deserves exemption for reasons Of sick
ness and helplessness of his amily-for The
sum of SO, if he will. The language OF the
law is this: THAT any person drafted and
notified to appear as aforesaid may, on CT
before the day fixed for his appearance,
furnish an acceptable substitute to take his
place in the draft, or he may pay to such
person as the Secretary of War may au-
thorize to receive it, such sum, not exceed
ing $500, as the Secretary may determine,
for the procuration Of such substitute
A CONDEscENDING DARKEY "A mill
tary officer wished to compliment negro
by drinking with him. "Well, captain"
replied Cuff, Else very dry, so 1 won't be
ugly about it. Some niggas is too proud
to drink with a milishy ossifer, but think
a milishy ossifer, when sober, is just as
good as nigga-specially if the nigga is
dry"
, 1863-05-23

CoLoRED MEN TO BE DRAFTED The
following is from the Washington cores
pondence of the World:
It is reported in official circles that the
first draft in the North will be from the
free negro population. All the able-bod-
led colored men between twenty and thirty
five years of age, are to be taken to fill up
the ranks Of the various negro brigades
now under way This has been decided
upon, it is reported, at the instigation Of
Gov Andrew, who is furious at the free ne
groes fo1 their backwardness in coming to
fight for their race. There are not enough
of negroes to be had within our present
army lines to garrison the sea-coast, as gov
ernment designs, by this class of troops,
and the imprcssment of The northern ne
groes would immediately add about 10000
effective men o the black army. Radicals
and Democrats here are both agreed as TO
the proprety Of trying a conseription
among the blacks first
, 1863-05-23

ADAPTING THEMSELVES TO CIRCUMsTAN-
CEs.-A spruce young couple visited Sac
ramento recently to make some purchases.
They applied at hotel for lodgings, but
we're told that the rooms were full except
a small one with a single-bed. This em5ar-
rassed them for a while, but after whisper
ing an earnest consultation, these young
Californians told the landlord they would
take the room, as they thought they could
''adapt themselves to Circumstances" They
went Immediately to clergyman and had
the nuptual knot tied, and then returned to
their room at the hotel From the joyous
look of both when they came down to
breakfast next morning, it was eviden:
that they we're well satisfied with their new
formed relation.
, 1863-05-23

Indiscriminating eulogy and indiscrimi-
nate invective are equally good-both good
for nothing.
, 1863-05-23

"AlIss Brown, I have been to learn how to tell
fortunes" said young fellow to a young lady
O" Just give me your hand, If you please"
La, Mr.. White how sudden you are Well,
20 ask my pa"
, 1863-05-23

CowABDs die many times before their
deaths: the valiant never taste of death but
once.
, 1863-05-23

A PROUD parson and his man, riding over
common saw a shepherd with a new coat on,
tending his flock. The parson asked him, in a
very naughty tone, who gave him that coat.
"The same that clothed you-the parish" said
the shepherd The parson, netled at this, rode
on a little way, murmuring, and bade his man 60
back and ask the shepherd if he would come and
live with him, for he wanted fool. The groom
went accordingly to the shepherd, delivered his
message, and concluded, as he was ordered, that
his master wanted fool. "Why, are you going
away, then?" said the shepherd. NO." answered
the other ''Then," said the shepherd ,you may
tell your master that his living cannot maintain
three Of u.s.
CHILDREN ask some funny questions
sometimes A little fellow came home
from Sunday School one day, and meeting
his mother, the following dialogue took
place -
Mamma -
"Well, my dear"
The preacher says people are all made
of dust"
eyes, my dear, so the Bible says"
'And are white people made of dust
too ~
Eyes"
"Well, then, 1 suppose the colored peo-
pie are made of coal dust, amt they ~
, 1863-05-23

A GREEDY COMPOSER. - Handel, whose
divine composition seems to have proceeded
from a heart glowing with the fire of a
seraph, was, Notwithstanding, what some
would call rather gross mortal, since he
placed no small happiness in good eating
and drinking Having received a present
of dozen of superior champagne, he
thought the quantity too small to present to
his friends, and therefore reserved the
nectar for private use. Sometime after,
when party was dining with him, he long
ed for glass of his choice champagne. but
could not easily think Of a device for
leaving the company. On sudden he as
sumed nusing attitude, and striking his
forehead with his forefnger, exclaimed
81 have got one toughtr' (meaning
thought.) The company imagining that
be had gone to commit to paper some
divine idea, saw him depart with silent ad-
miration He returned to his friends, and
very soon had second, third and fourth
''tought A wag, suspecting the frequen-
cy Of St. Cecla's visits, followed Handel
to an adjoining room, saw him enter a
closet, embrace his beloved champagne,
and swallow repeated doses The discov-
ery communicated infinite mirth to the
company, and Handels fought became
proverbial,
, 1863-05-23

AN ExHUMED City.-A most singular
discovery has been made on the French
coast near the mouth of the Garonne A
town has been discovered buried in the
sand, and a church has already been ex-
tracted from the sani. Its original shows
it to have been built toward the close of
the Roman Empne, but changes made in it
had given it the appearance of an edifce Of
mixed style in which Gothic architecture
has usurped the place of the Roman The
original paintings, its admirable sculptured
choir and Roman capitals, are adorned with
profuse ornaments which are attracting num-
bers of visitors This temple is all that re-
mains of these cities described by Pliny
and Strabe; the Gulf Of Glscony abounds
in ruins Of these ancient cities. 1t has been
1900 years since Novigamus, the cid capi-
tai ofMedeck, which was a very celebrated
city when dhe Romans were masters of
Gaul, was buried under the ocean; Of all
that tract of territory the Roche du Cor
donon alone is visible. The remains of
Romans roads, the site of Jupiter's Temple
the yestigea of Spanish Moors, and the
roads to Eleanor de Guyenne, have been
rescued from the sands in the neighborhood
of the long buried city of Soulac. No
where have the erosions of thu ocean been
greater than on the coast Of Gascony.
, 1863-05-23

THE entire population of Germany, in
Guiding the Austrian and Prussian German
Territories, is 45,OOO,OOO souls, of which
100000 are of the Jewish faith.
, 1863-05-23

YOUTHFUL minds, like the plant wax, are
susceptible of the most lasting Impressions;
and the good or evil bias then received
is seldom if ever, eradicated.
, 1863-05-23

The SIZE OF 'MERIKY. The strong
figure of speech with which Corney illus
trates the great size of America, has also
nit at the Scotch, which they will relish as
we'll as they do Punch.
where did bacca come from?' inquired
Mary.
why from 'Meriky,' where else, replied
Corney, that sent us the first petaty.-
Long life to it for both, say ?
What short Of place is that wonder?'
'Meriky? They tell me it's mighty size
able, Moll, darlin I'm told that you might
roll England through it, and it would
hardly make dint in the ground There's
fresh water ocean inside of it that you
may drown Ireland in, and save Father
Matthew a wonderful sight of trouble; an
as for Scotland, you might stick it in cor
ner of one Of their forests, an you d never
be able to find it except it might be by the
smell of the whisky
IDLERs.-There are too many people
who are too indolent to work themselves,
while they are loafng about to see others
that are industrious and at work will stop
and talk to them by the hour for no other
ostensible purpose but to prevent them
from working. Such persons have a very
limited idea of the value Of time; if none
to them, it is surely to others. Such
facts should be remembered
THE entire population of Germany, in
Guiding the Austrian and Prussian German
Territories, is 45,OOO,OOO souls, of which
100000 are of the Jewish faith.
LIGHTNING.-A new article of gin is
manufactured in New York that must be
kept in bottles. It will eat out of barrels
in fifteen minutes.
, 1863-05-23

LIGHTNING.-A new article of gin is
in New York that must be
kept in bottles. It will eat out of barrels
in fifteen minutes
, 1863-05-23

THE purity of moral habits is of very
little use to a man unless it is accompanied
with that frmness that enables him to act
up to what he may think right, in spite Of
solicitations to the contrary.
, 1863-05-23

THE FEELING AT THE SOUTH.-The
Richmond Enquirer comes to the conclu-
sion that another year of war at least is be-
fore the South, and perhaps more. They
must either fight or submit. There is no
hope either from foreign intervention, the
lack of cotton or the hoped-for friendship
of the Northwest. The Yankees, in the
opinion of the editor, are Just beginning to
fight, and in few weeks time even that
eloquent friend of the South, Vallandig-
ham, whose great speech is flying over the
Confederacy in pamphlets and newspapers,
will stand where Van Buren stands now,
and will be clamoring for war to the knife.
In this view of the case the editor says
owe are going to have great campaign
the greatest of all and the army wants
every soldier. The country must and will
sustain and arm them. If high spirit and
honor do not impel stragglers to return
to their duty, let public opinion do it. Let
the women present crochet needles to all
laggards at home, as they formerly served
distafs to the too patient gentlemen of
France. The crisis is upon US. The sun
rises high, and spring breezes are making
favorable and verdant baltle-helds, and
with firm earth beneath for the hoofs of
cavalry and the wheels of artillery, the bat
tie buds and will blow ere long. War is in
season peace IS out Of order.
THE REBELS ARMING THEIR SLAVES.
The Nashville Union, Of April oath quotes
from the Atlanta Georgia. InteAigencer
and Contederacy, the following passage,
urging upon the rebel commanders the ne
cessity Of arming the slaves:
We must eight the devil with fire." by
arming our negroes to fight the Yankees.
There is no doubt that in Georgia alone we
could pick up ten thousand negroes that
would rejoice in meeting fifteen thousand
Yankees in deadly conflict. We would be
willing almost to risk the fate of the South
upon such an encounter in an open field.
, 1863-05-23

How TO meet bankrupt-Take no note Of
him.