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Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-31
CLOTHING.

THEY MUST BE SOLD.
We will not carry them over
The great invention OF the age,
PALMERs sPoNGING MACHINE.
Every yard Of goods shrunk before making up.
Yet, notwithstanding the extra expense, we shall
continue to sell less than any other house In this
city.
SPRING ovERCoATs
CLOTHING
EVERY PATTERN AND STYLE.
GENTLEMENs FURNISHING GOODS
Of every description.
CUSTOM GOODS MADE TO ORDER.
Call and see samples before purchss ins elsewhere.
MILITARY CLOTHING.
We intend to keep on hand a good assortmen,
PEOPLES CLOTHING STORE,
]. Il. SMITH,
iSO SEVENTH STREET, opposite Post once.
Also, sIsrge RESERVE in the resS for the
JoBBING TRADE,
Al our wholes ale And Retail Mandatory in
Baltimore.
wSShingtonisnS visiting Baltimore will and /,
greatly to their advantage to call at
SMITH BROTHERS CO.,
20 West Baltimore street,
ms-H Baltimore, Md.
" SHALL WE SAY TIP
"DARE WE SAY ITm
"YES"
We will not be undersold by Smith or any one else.
WE HAVE GOT THEM.
We can sell them, and we will sell them.
WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL,
Undoubtedly owing to the fact that the public
have found out and appreciate our motto:
MANY SALES, BUT SMALL PRoFITsi
GENTLEMENs FURNISHING GOODS
AND CLOTHING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
DoYs' CLOTHING, AN ENDLESS VARIETY.
AT Isi SEVENTH STREET
ms-u J. BRUCE a co.
T a e "a19 0T h9N PRINTING
ESTABLISHED IN 1908.
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BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS,
Oil Ninth street, near PonnsyIvAniA Avenue,
WASHINGTON CITY,
Having greatly increased the facilities OF the
above Old Established Printing
House by an almost
ENTIRE RENEWAL OF MATERIAL
And III addition Of several Of the most improved
WERE EssEs,
Are prepared 10 execute every variety OF
LETTER-PREss PRINTING,
Prom
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PLAINsoR CoLoRED INK.
PRoMPTNEss AND DISPATCH
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| STEAMSHIPS
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Regular Sailing Days WEDNESDAYS and SAT-
| URDAYS, ct 10 q. M, from foot OF High street
Georgetown, and Pier IS, foot Of Wall street, Now
York.
For freight or passage apply to
| MORGAN & RH1NEHART, ARentu
foot Of High street, Georgetown, or
| JAMES HAND, Agent,
de2b-Sm III Wall street, New York
NHIEF QUARTERMAsTER's OF.
" FICE, DEPoT OF WAsHKGToE, WAsHIN0ToH,
d. e., January 4, 1854.
AlldeAlers IN Drugs, Hardware, Lumber, Leather,
| once Furniture, Harnens, and SAddlery, are re.
quested to send to this office, on the MONDAY OF
each week, sealed proposal or list IN duplicaie,
OF the articles they arc prepared to furnish TO this
Depot at short notice, with the price OF each
marked In plain figures, so that, In case the ext.
genoeh OF the service require IT, the article or ar.
Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-31

STE NJ SHIP LINE.
sEMl-WEEKLY BETWEEN NEW YORK, WASH.
INGToN AND GEORGETOWN, b. c.
STEAMSHIPS
BALTIMORE, EMPIRE,
6ALVOR, AND JAS. 3. GREEN,
Regular Sailing Days WEDNESDAYS and SAT-
URDAYs, at 10 q M, from foot Of High street,
Georgetown, and Pier IS, foot Of Wall street, Now
York
For freight or passage apply to
MORGAN q RH1NEHART, ARenth
foot Of High street, GEORGETOWN, or
JAMES HAND, Agent,
de2S-sm 1T Wall street, Now York
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
Extracts from Rebel Papers.

The Richmond Dispatch of June contains
an article relative 10 Gen. Grants tactics which,
while evidently intended to rdicue and defame
that officer, betrays clearly the fears of the wri-
ter as to what may befall him ut the hands OF
our leader. The following paragraph is so alb
surd and mendacous that we give it as a sam
pie of the rest
"The Confederacy has great cause to con-
gratulate itself upon the choice Lincoln has
made of Lieutenant General. They desire
TO see this war brought TO an end, and Grant
between Richmond and Spottsylvania been 100
miles greater we are disposed to think he would
have reached the end Of his journey with moi
more than 100 men,"
The same paper elsewhere speaks in the fol-
lowing manner as to what may happen in the
vicinity of Richmond
"The storm of battle which ragged so furious.
ly last week in the immediate vicinity Of Rich
mond has been succeeded by comparative
calm, and matters are now almost as quiet as
when the contending armies were seventy miles
away. Grant has evidently become tired Of
'butting against the rebel Notifications, and
what he failed to effect by brute force he now
essays to accomplish by strategy. Consequently
we find him stealthily moving away from oul
'front.', and sliding down the south side OF the
Chickahominy, endeayoring, il possible, to
reach the James, with view of cooperating
with Butler, who is still pent up between thai
river and the Appomattox. The uncommon
stiffness that pervaded along the lines yester-
day has given rise 10 the belief that the Yam
KEGS were engaged in burying their dead--s
privilege which they asked of Gen. Lee under
flag oftruce.
Notwithstanding the generally received
opinion TO the contrary, it may be that Grant
VIII again offer battle on the memorable scert
OF Cool Arbor He measured strength with
the Confederates there last week, and failed, i
is true but as it amounted to only check
with heavy loss of his numbers, he had thu
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
For The PheRir.
THE SAILORS SUPERSTITION.
BY TRAXUS.
NO. ~.

NO. ~.
A shark following ship, the sailor deems
sure sign that some one is to die. have often
noticed this strange coincidence, for l can call
it nothing else, and believe never knew it TO
fail of fulilment. This may seem strange, yet
think the fact, that whenever any one is very
sick, sailors have come 10 look constantly for
the "death shark" makes it more than probable
that their anxious fears lead then TO mistake
different sharks for one and the same. Perhaps
one of the most solemn things in the sailors
eventful life, is to see day by day the languor
of approaching death creeping over ship
mates frame, and to notice the ever following
shark, prophetic of his doom, slowly and stead
lily holding its course in the ships wake. Its
dingy back shows through the blue waters by
day, and a fiery trail reveals IFS presence by
night as the phosphoric spray flies from his
swift fins. A fitting emblem of remorse!
Sea weeds getting on the hying-jib, is con-
sidered bad omen. | am of the opinion it is,
since a ship must be very pluuging and dan
gerous one TO so settle by the head as to take
up sea weed on the jib-boom. The wandering
albatross is an omen of sadness and want at
home, and many an old salt feels his heart grow
sad as he sees the bird mournfuly flap its wings
in the storm. think this must have been the
result os those nobler feelings of pity and af-
fection which the human heart instinctively feels
for anything harmless, lone and mournful and
as father who finds little lamb chilled and
dying in the pasture, carries it folded to his
heart, and without knowing why, thinks with
sadness Of some favorite child,-so the sailor,
seeing the strange, mournful bird, instinc,vely
couples it in thought with loved ones far away.
The sailor fully believes in the Flying Dutch
man, and very naturally, since he is not sup
posed 10 know any other explanation of that
strange phenomena of ocean, clouds and sky,
which mirrors before him ship, perhaps 800
miles away, so that it seems sailing like ghost
over the ocean, perfec, in all its outlines, every
sail set and rope in its place, with the men
moving about life like natural, and thus awful
in mystery crossing, perhaps, the very deck on
which he stands.
The sea serpent is another. This has been
often seen, but seldom found to he anything
but huge sea 'ceed.
The white whale, "moby deck,' comes in fol
its believers. This is monster that smashes
every ship or boat it meets. Probably the crea'
ture of frightened, imaginative whalers.
"The death watch" or the mystic bells, call
ing the dying sailor to the upper deck of Gods
ark, is one of the strange, wild and poetic no.
tons of the sailors gloomiest hours. In JUS
tice to this, must give it more than brie
notice, and will leave it for the next chapter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
PUNCH.
improvement. in Fire-Arm..

One OF the most marked developments made
by the war is the great superiority in range and
accuracy Of the new rihed guns over the old re-
gulation muskets and srtilery. A battle is
now getting to be very deadly affair. Form
ery two bodies of troops might meet and bang
away at each other for hours without killing
more Than a handful of men. 1t is related that
at the battle Of Salamanca, for instance, no
more than eight thousand men were put hors
de combat although three million five hundred
thousand cartridges were fired, together with
six thousand cannon balls, to say nothing of
cavalry and infantry charges, so that only one
shot in four hundred and thirty took effect. An
officer engaged at Waterloo has stated that he
could not see more than three or four saddles
emptied by the fire of one side of square of
British infantry upon body of French cavalry
close TO them. Compare these aborlive per-
formances with the deadly fire of our troops in
that little affair at GAINESVILLE, Florida, on the
14,h ult. Forty-nine Of our men, armed with
the new repeating Spencer rife, withstood the
charge of one hundred rebel cavalry, putting
more than forty of them hors de eombdl. As
the rebels were leaping the breastwork of cot
ton bales the Federals poured in seven-fold
volley, every man firing seven shots in rapid
succession when the astonished troops wheel.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES. The Charles
ton papers compai1 of the scarcity and inferior
quality of articles of southern manufacture.
The Charleston Courier is published on small,
dingy half-sheets, showing the state of paper
manufacture in the South. The Courier COM
plains that the gass-factories not long ago des-
cribed in such glorious terms, do not make
themselves seen or heard from. Pottery-ware
too, is nowhere. Matches are so poorly made
that il is necessary TO use up a half-box in
search of light. Some good mechanic or de.
signer should tftri his attention tb the manu-
facture of agricultural implements for supply
of which they have generally depended upon
the Yankees; the prices of all kinds of oil are
"dscreditaby high y and the supplies small
The Courier says, with, truth, "No people can
or should expect TO maintain independence by
military achievements alone, and without eff rt,
at selfreliance, and supply in some of the art,
of common use and demand in commerce and
manufactures"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

THE FoRTIFIcATIoNs OF RICHMoND.-The
Tribune correspondent, familiar with Richmond
describes the powerful Notifications defending
it on the east and south as follows:
Looking to the southeast we find Fort Jack
son, near Fair Oaks, about three and half
miles from the city, between the New Bridge
road and York River railroad. Then comes
Fort Johnson, just below the Chickahominy,
in the neighborhood OF mile from the Me-
chanicsville pike. This fort commands the
Mechanicsyille bridge, and, in fact, all the
bridges and fords between it and New bridge
Two miles and a half from the city, and about
midway between the Virginia Central railroad
and Mechaniesvlle pike, is the "Malakof,"
bearing on the Meehanicksyile bridge and
Wikinson's or railroad bridge and will, in lact,
sweep all that part Of the Chickahominy be-
tween the points named. Alisut two and three
quarter miles from the city, nearly midway of
the Meadow bridge road and the Brook run
pike, situated on a high hill, is Fort Beaure-
gard, commanding the Brook run pike and
Meadow bridge road. A mile and hafn ad-
vance Of it is a great redoubt bearing on the
Meadow bridge over Brook run and all inter-
mediate points on the stream. Three aud half
miles from the city, between the Brook run
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

DEATH OF LAWRENCE NJ. KEITT. The pa
pers record the death of another of the leaders
of the rebellion, Keitt, who will be remembered
as the companion of Preston Brooks in his os-
sault upou Sumner. He was colonel of the Goth
South Carolina regiment, and fell in one OF the
fights near Richmond, "pierced through the
lungs by hireling bullet" He was a very fair
specimen of the 'chivary" of the South. OF a
wealthy family, he received an expensive edu-
cation, graduated at the South Carolina Uni
versity, and travelled abroad. But the withering
influences of Slavery overpowered all good in
fuences of schools and training, and he became
10 use sa,irically the words of the Richmond
Examiner, "a fit type and model of the Palmet-
to State" hiding, under the aspect of gentle
man, the rowdy, bully, and assassin that he fna-
lly showed himself to be. One by one the au-
thors of the rebellion are leaving the scere,
which their perfdy has desecrated, and will soon
be remembered only as types of degenerate
people, the curse of whose guilt fell alike on
slaves and on masters, equally degrading BOTH
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

DRAWING AN ENEMY's FiRE.-A comespon-
dent of the Philadelphia Enquirer, writing from
Gen. "Baldy" Smiths headquarters, says:
A few days ago our men were much annoyed
by arebel sharpshooter, con :ealed in the brush.
wood. After he had wounded several OF our
men. various attempts were made 10 get shot
at MIN, without effect. At last the gallant old
Colonel hit upon the following ingenious,
though rather dangerous experiment, of entic-
ing the rebel out of his concealment.
Boys" says he, coolly, "look out where the
smoke comes from, for as soon as the Southern
traitor sees me he will let fly ~
Getting deliberately from the rifle pit where
he had been watching operations, the Colonel
walked few PAGES, and calmly seated himself
upon stump. Scarcely had he done so before
bang went the rifle, and Minnie ball flew past
in too close proximity to be agreeable but, ere
the smoke had cleared away, half-ad dozen bullets
had penetrated the spot where the rebel lay,
and in few moments after, his body, reeking
with gore, was dragged from its hiding place
having received not less than three bullets
through it.
On seeing the body, the Colonel exclaimed,
"There, boys, did not tell you could draw
his fire.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

SuIcIDE.-It has long been our rule not 10
publish cases of suicide, having once observed
tha, ONE published case in this vicinity was
speedily followed by two or three more cases.
We relax the rule in behalf of JOHN C.. FIRE.
MONT, as his is the most extraordinary case on
record and will in all future time be a warning
To- men who shall be tempted TO sacrifice patri-
otism to personal ambition and spite.
Orr readers have already had Fremonts let
ter Of acceptance, and we refer them to it for
the details of the lamentable affair." When
John Z. Fremont resigned -lIis commission a,
Major General in the army of the United Sta
ter for the purpose of accepting nomination
for the Presidency, on the express condition
that he is TO run against Abraham Lincoln and
nobody else, he turned his sword from the re-
bells to use it against the commander.in- chic
OF the loyal army of the country. What if every
other officer and soldier in the army should
initiate that example The rebels could in nc
other way win so cheap end so complete tri
umph; ard BY that token we count Fremont a,
felo de Sc.
American people can tolerate personal am.
bitiun when it seeks its ends by patriotic prin.
ciples and brave and glorious deeds they ad
mire the self-sacrificing hero or statesman, and
never tail to give him just reward but the
public man, in cabinet or camp, who refuses
in time of war to serve his country in any po.
sition, however exalted or humble, and seeks
to distract 1t by factions engender ed in disap
pointed personal ambition or personal spite
will also find just reward in the contempt o.
all loyal men. Fremont is evidently playing
for the nomination at Chicago and We should
rejoice to see the copperheads put them selves
under his lead. But they are too shrewd fol
that. They wont run dead man, if they car
find live one.-IPaltons Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

THE FREEDMAN's CAMP IN ALABAMA. Flv,
thousand incopacitated blacks, mostly old men
women and children--the nble-bodied men be-
ing in the ormy--are now organized in camps
on deserted plantations in Northern Alabama,
under the superintendent of Lieut.. Joseph II.
Harris of Illinois. About 2000 acres are under
cultivation-lO0O devoted to cotton, the rest to
grain and vegetables. Every branch OF indus.
try of colony is in operation. There are saw
mills, gristmills, blacksmith, cabinet, carpenter,
shoe, tailor, dressmaker shops, &c, Every
thing is carried on in the most systematic man.
ner, and the negrco- 90 industrious and am.
bilious, performing ther duties faithfully, with.
out whip or driver, kick or curse. At 6rst
government assistance was needed to carry on
the enterprise, but it has now not only become
self.sIpporting, but fund is accumulating
with which new camps may be set in operation
as the army advances. es.-BoSton journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
For the PhGnir.
THREE FADED FLOWERS.
ny D. oILBERT DEXTER.

The flowers that bloom in summer time,
:. Are chilled by winters breath;
But colder blast than winter brings
HATH paied thy gems in death.
a sterner hand hath stllled the hearts
That unto thine had grown.
And colder arms hath clasp'd the gems
That slept within thine own.
Three little lights have passed away
. Three little flowers that blossomed fair
Three little gems that checrd your hearts
. And made sweet sunshine there.
Three voices lost, that round thy hearth
Rang forth in childish gee-
lhree steps, that round thy sunny home
Kept time so light and free.
Three voices mute, twice three eyes closed,
Ihat woke thy hearts with cheer;
They sweetly slumber side by side,
Three household angels dear.
OH it was hard to lay them there,
Where storms may beat and frown,
Where fleecy snow-ilakes rise and fall,
While wintry gales sweep down.
Oh! it's not there, not there they rest
Amid yon silence deep!
Not where The icy gales go by,
Nor where the storms may weep-
But in yon lairer, holier land,
Afar from death and pain
Three jewels rest from sorrows blight
Free from all earthly stain.
Then weep no more for three in Heaven,
They only bossomed here
That the fairest hoest bloom might be
Beyond this sinful sphere.
Then weep no more, those gone before,
From the woe of earthly blight
Thou hast tic to bind thee now,
To the world of love and light.
Wilmington, ", FeJ'y, 1864.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

pike and the Richmond, and Frederioksb sbnrc
railroad, on an eminence, stands Fort Lee. com,
manding both these tboroughfares for lone
distance, and commanding as well Brook run
bridge and two fords on the Deep run. Within
and without and between these forts are Others
on smaller scale and in addition TO this, the
intervals are inclosed by heavy curtains and
ramparls from eighty 30 ninety feat in thick
ness. In front Of the forts and ramparts are
bitches twenty.eight feet in width, and twenty
two feet deep, In which are constructed Carnot
walls Of the most ingenious character.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

ANDREW JOHNSON, the new candidate for
Vice President, was born in Raleigh, N. c., in
1908, and is consequently fhy-six years Of age.
In early life he was not favored with the advan
tages Of school education, but applied himself
faithfully 10 lis trade as a tailor employing the
intervals of rest in useful study In 1926 he
removed TO the Western States, and in 1885
was chosen to the Legislature ofTennessee. He
repeatedly served in that body in after years,
and finally rose TO the position of Governor,
Representative in Congress and United States
Senator from Tennessee. He supported the
Breckinrfdge ticket in 1860 but was one of the
earliest in his section TO spouse the Union
cause, and has been one . the frmest and
most steadfast supporters ofthe administration
in its conduct of the war; His name will add
great strength TO the Lincoln ticket
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW REPEALED. I'll,

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW REPEALED. The
House of Representatives, Monday, passed the
bill repeating the fugitive slave law by a vote of
eighty two to fifty-eight. The bill had already
passed the Senate, and now only awaits the sig
nature of the president tc become effectua.
Viewed in all its aspects the fugitive slave law
was probably the worst law ever enacted by the
American Congress. There is no light in which
il can be made TO appear justifable. 1t was an
act of unmingled baseness and cruelty. 1t as
sailed the conscience and insulted the pride of
halt the people in the country, who protested,
but were compelled to submit to the humia-
tion. This was one. of many causes which
quickened the public sentiment of the free sta
ties to sense of the atrocity of slavery and aid
ed in concentrating and organizing it into a
formidable, and ultimately triumphant political
form. The repeal of the law marks an impor-
tant step in the progress of legislation upon
the subject of slavery. 1t anticipates but a lit
tie the passage of that crowning act of justice
and national union by which slavery will be
made impossible under the federal constitution.
Spy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
Mnximilian's Arrival at Mexico.

The arrival of the new emperor and empress
of Mexico at Vera Cruz on the 2Sth ult., Is an
nounced. A salute of l0l guns was fired, and
the keys of the city presented to them when
they disembarked on the 10Th, and they immed-
lately started inland toward the capital. On the
way to Vera Cruz Macmillan stopped at Mar
Unique and released l5 political prisoners who
had been confined there by Marshal Forey, and
paid their passage to Vera Cruz. Among other
prisoners who remained he distributed some
$400.
Several battles are reported to have taken
place recently, in most of which the French
seem to have been the gamers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
BRATTLEBORO, VT: JUNE "a, 1864

duties, appear most conspicuous. How should
you like to see tall, lank, .straight-hared
Carolinian wearing cockney hat, the brim
pinned up on one side, and oranamented with
a rude effort to initiate in needlework the pal
metto or South Carolina cabbage tree, march
ing along under guard of three blacks, who oc-
casionally accelerate his reluctant pace with
such incentives as, March along dar, massa
no struggling to de rear close up dar, sar p
1t is one of the most amusing spectoces which
we have the pleasure of witnessing in the ar
my and the situation is singularly suggestive Of
the propriely and fitness of things"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24

Our CoLoRED SOLDIERS. A correspondent
of the Tribune with the Potomac army speaks
in the highest terms of the morale of the colo
red troops which have come under his obserya-
ton, noting especially their uniform habits of
ueatness, their soldierly bearing, their unvary-
ing promptness and general fidelity. He sta
ties, however, that there is one branch of SER
vice in which these men are peculiarly service
able and most ittingly employed 1t is when
guarding prisoners captured from the enemy.
He says:
"Then their vigilance and fsithfulness, and
the heartineSs with which they perform their