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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-19

GREAT TRUNK LINE I
FROM Pu1LADEL 'BIA TO THE INTERIOR o.
PFNNSYLVANIA, THE SCHUYLkILL, SUb-
f'ocTIFaANEA' CUMBERLAND, AND
WYOMING VALLEY,
NORTH, NORTHWEST, AND THE cAEADI

PASSENGER TRAINS
Leave the Company's Depot, at THIRTEENTH Az
CALIOwHIl.L Streets, Philadelphia, at the IolowDl
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-19
THE RIM on sPRGNKLNG

The Queen then walked through the crowd to
the door, with a nicely curved bulls horn IN her
left hand. 1t was filed with water, which she
sprnkIed with the other hand on the company
rigbt and left, and, proceeding outside the door,
dispensed the same boon 70 the multitude there.
understood this did not represent any purihca-
ton, bat a promise Of rain throughout the year
now begun.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

GOVERNMENT SEIZURE OF THE IDAHO STEAM
PACKETs.-The Idaho Steam Packet Company
of this city have received information that
the steamer Gutter, belonging to that corpor-
alton, which was lately seized by the military
authorities at some point on the Missouri,
between Sioux City and Fort Randall, has
been released and allowed to proceed upon
her voyage, at the same time taking with her
the passengers and freight of her consort,
the ChlPpeara Falls, which was seized and is
still held by the military of that region
The conditions of the crafts release are,
that as soon as she shall have fulfilled her
contract with the passengers, and landed
them at the ports designated, she is to be
placed at the disposal of the government for
the transportation of troops in that vicinity;
thus enabling the company to fully carry out
all requirements made by it with passengers
without further delay.-Nilseaakee News
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

WESTERN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GRIMES,
of Iowa, made a speech in the Senate the
other day, in which he called on the West to
bring side by side the wool grower and wool
manufacturer. He startled some New Eng
land men by the statement that the West al
ready had 479 wooden mills, to ass in the
East, and he predicted that the cloth manu-
featuring empire would be in the Upper Mis-
sissippi Valley. He showed that France,
with denser population than ours, kept eight
millions more sheep than we; pronounced
the American Merino the best cloth-making
sheep in the world and called on his western
countrymen to establish and pursue an agri-
cultural policy that should enrich the soil
while clothing the world, instead of wearing
out the soil by raising wheat to feed the
world.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

WISCONSIN OFFICERS WoUNDED.-The aruy
correspondent of the Philadelphia Inq'ira
reports that Capt j. III. Cook and Lieut.. B.
F. Cram, of the 9Th regiment were WOUNDED
in the battle of Cold Harbor on THURSDAY
last. Capt. Cook is reported with a flesh
wound in the thigh, while Lieut.. Cram is re-
ported, in one place, as wounded in the thigh,
and in another place as wounded in the foot
In list OF casualties of Fridays battles, in
the Herald, we find the names of Adutant
B. D. Atwe1l Of the Both and Lit. Skinner Of
Co. 1, also of the seth, as wounded, the foEn.
er in the shoulder
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15
Col. LYos.-A Bridgeport, ALA. Ietts

COL LTos.-A Bridgeport, Gala, letts.
in the Louisville Journal says:
Colonel Lyon, of the 18th Wisconsin,
present commander Of the post, a very eff
ent and gentlemany officer, and one rsa
much liked by everybody. Colonel Lyon pc;
sesses the singular faculty of imaginin!
himself an officer in command of the pO;5
and not little god with shoulder straps
For this reason all his intercourse with the
world at large is characterized by common
sense, which is saying good deal
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15
rHE LErr-HANcock,s CORES

Hancock held the left of the whole line of
battle; and his three div sions, Barlow held
the extreme left of the army, that of GibboD
drawn the right of Barlow'S vbi1a
Birney's division was held in reserve. of the
four brigad,S of BarlOw's division. BrooLs had
the left and Miles the right-each brigade In.
double line of battle. Smith, comnIandiug
the Irish Brigade, placed in support.
The lettwas protected by refusing 1.-THE Sd
brigade being disposed so as TO cover that
flank.
The formation of Gibbons division ~, m,
right of Barlow similar TvIer's brir,da
(heavy artillery holding the right. smith,
the centre and Owens the left2NeKean in
rear of Tyler's centre, in two lines On Ham
cocks line there were but few places where
artillery could be used with effect.
Barlow had directed that his attacking
brigade should, previously TO the assault. be
moved ont, and formed Just in rear of the
picket line. From this point they advanced
for half mile through the woods and over
open intervals, under severe fire, square I'D
to the enemy works The portion of his
front where the right Of Miles brigade Joined
WIN the Icit OF brooks--the same bricades
that so brilliantly carried the lannon's sSl:an+
il the line of Spottsylva in -
similar splendid coup here they got over and
INTO The enemys parapet, capturing his ems
ttour light l2-pounders,) his colors and Ave
or SIX hundred prisoners, about 500 of whom
were secured by promptly passing them To
the rear The storming column, in fact wtra
just turning the enemy's guns on the retreat
ing rebels, when powerful reiEforeements from
the second rebel line appeared advancing.
The first rebel line was held bv Rreckin-
ridges troops ana was carried, but Lee is too
good.a General to leave point so important
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

IMPORTANT IN REGARD TO SUBSTITUTES
Solicitor WHITING interprets the Draft law to
permit persons liable to service to furnish
substitutes in advance of the draft and, al
so, that the substitute may report at any rem
devious, in or out of the State where the
principal resides. So that person living in
New york may procure a substitute in Louisi-
ana or Tennessee.
Thus if any person feels uneasy in regard
to the draft all he has to do is to procure a
substitute and have him mustered into the
service. This will exempt the person who
furnishes the substitute and relieve his mind
of all anxiety 'for three years or the war;"
and, in case he is not drafted he will still have
the pleasant reflection to console him that he
has done something for his country.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENTS JEFF. Do0i
and Coz. Va'ace.-The Petersburg (Va.) Regis
ter and other Southern papers publish an in
teresting correspondence between Governor
VANCE, of North Carolina, and JEFF. DAVIS.
The Governor writes that latter a careful
consideration of all the sources of discomfort
in North Carolina" he thinks cit will be i'm
possible to remove il" unless the Confeder-
ate authorities will make some effort at nego-
tiation with the enemy. JEFF. DAVIS replies
that he has made three such attempts with
no avail; that the only terms to be obtained
are unconditional submission, and therefore
the South must fight it out. He tells the
Governor, also, that he is very much afraid
that g bad men" in North Carolina will at
tempt to inaugurate movements (which must
be considered as equivalent to aid and COM
fort to the enemy" These admissions are
quite significant as to the state of public feel
ing in North Carolina.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

W By evidence which the bitterest rebel
cannot dispute, an official return of Rich
mond hospital, the brutal treatment of our
prisoners in that city is proved. During the
first three months of the present year fifty
per cent of the prisoners in that hospital
died, and their deaths were from diseases
which starvation invariably produces.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

BRIaADER-GESERAL WILLIoH was not, as 8
first reported, MORALLY wounded in the oas
tie of Resacca, Georgia, but has arrived !.
Louisville route for home. He was stfu'.
by masket ball, which entered the from y. =
the right side, and came out in the VicihlE
of the SPINE
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

SECRETARY CHASE CAUGHT NAPpIYG.--Soms
light-footed and light-fngered thief entered
Secretary CHAsE's house, on Tuesday night
and found his way to Mr.. Grasses bei-chanf
bea, and took his gold watch and pocket-booA-
containing about $40, and made his escaFs
without disturbing the Secretary, who wa
sound asleep,
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

Talleyrand was one day leaving eor. ..
Gil of ministers when he met courtler u
tinguished for his imprudent gossiplns
Well, NJ. LIE Prince" he cried, what -
passed in council to-day ?" "Four hou''
have passed." replied the prince grNeiy'
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15
er than in Illinois. Every new conner must

er than in Illinois. Every new conner must
get acclimated.
Can white men live and work in that eli
mate? The answer is, they can. Full nine
tenths of the stevedores, draymen and labor
ers OF New Orleans, who do the hardest work
in the open air, are white. Nearly every
plantation has more or less whites upon it,
who toll in the sun as much as the negro.
Nearly the whole soil was cleared by the Ia
Dor of white men, and it is idle to talk about
negroes standing the climate better than
whites. The darkey was used because
slave, and not because white men could not
work-because his labor cost nothing, and
theirs did.
As soon as by confscations or sales,
chance is opened to buy lands, the white men
will vindicate themselves as against the ne
gro. At present vast plantations absorb the
State; the late occupant, perhaps, amusing
his leisure hours a guerrilla, or in firing
upon unarmed passengers upon the steamers
going by. Confscations only reach the
evil, and these necessary to the future of
the State. How long are they to be de- layed?
This article is too long, and / rest here.
1t will be like me TO say more at some other
time. H. A
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

REBEL FINANCIAL MEANs.-Secretary Mem
minser IN his communication May goth to the
rebel Senate, admits that :" the whole amount
derived from taxes during the presunt wear
will afford no aid in paying the current ex-
penditures of the government He gravely
adds that he regards this as /" an imperfect
feature in the tax bill" He then proposes
that they "resort to a specie basis for all z,asr-
chases and improvements as being "more ac-
ceptable to the government and the owner"
HIS mode Of 8 resorting TO specie basis" is
10 steal what the rebels want, wherever they
can find it, AID leaving with the viotimized
parties certificates, payable tsco years after
peace, in specie.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

SOUTH AMERICAN AFtLIRS- Var befueeu
Ter" and Spal1s.-The Ocean Queen from As
pinwaH on the Goth ult., brings important in
telhgence from the Pacific coast of South
America, in reference to the effect of the re-
cent proceedings OF the Spanish Admiral and
Commissioner IN commencing war on Peru,
by the seizure of the Chincha Islands and
the attempt TO seize the vessels of her navy
in the port of Callao. The indignation and
excitement were very great throughout all
the republics of South America. and mass
meetings had been held, at which the people.
III enthusiastic terms, declared their inten-
ton 70 aid the Peruvians with both men and
money IN resentIng the insult and outrage of
tbs Spanish officials In Peru itself yolun-
teering for the military service was occuny-
ing the attention of the people to the exelu-
sion Of almost every other matter. Men
were rushing into the ranks with great en-
s.luslas-l, ami it was expected that in short
time the Peruvian army would number one
hundred thousand men. The government of
Chill had voted Ave millions of dollars and
offered the services of its naval vessels in
aid OF the government of Peru. Senor
Mazarrdo, the late Spanish Commissioner To
Peru, and v no was associated with the Srsn-
ish Admiral (Pinzon) in the commission of
the outrages, had resigned his position and
left for Spain. During his STAY in Panama
~ Tpttte Tor nome, a mob collected and march
cd to the residence of the French Consul,
where It was supposed he was staying. Not
nndlns Senior Mazarrdo there, they offered
insults to the Consul, and were guilty of dis
orderly acts, which viii no doubt lead to a
can Tor reparation from the Emperor Napole-
on upon the government of Columbia. Ma
zarrdo was obliged TO leave Panama secretly
and was followed to Aspinwall by the svn,pa
thIzerS with Peru, but escaped from his pur-
suers by taking refuge on board the English
mail steamer for ST. Thomas
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15
Shocking Catastrophe near Newborn, n. Co..
Forty New York Soldiers Instantly Killed.
OUTPOSTS, CAMP CLASES,

DACHELOR CREEk, n. ", May II. \
At 4 o'clock Yesterday afternoon, on the
arrival of the train at this station from New
bern, a terrible explosion attended the re-
moval of four torpedoes from the car to the
platform. Forty odd soldiers anG negroes
were blown into eternity in an Instant while
between twenty and thirty persons white and
black, were wounded in a manner frightful to
behold.
The train which left Newbern at three
o'clock in the afternoon, brought to the out
posts the remaining four of thirteen torpe-
does, of monstrous weight and proportions
intended to complete the blockade of the
Neuse river, in the direction Of Kingston
The last of the four was about reaching the
station platform, when an accidental blow
from log of wood striking the cap, explod-
ed the torpedo. The conclusion was so great
that the three followed on the explosion OF
the first, and so quick as to make one mighty
report, Ike the crash of thousand pieces of
artillery fired simultaneously.
The disaster was one of the most appalling
and heart-rending that has happened in this
country in series of years. Soldiers whose
gallantry has been displayed on battle fields,
and whose eagerness to hear the news from
their brave comrades in Virginia had brought
them clustering around the station, were hur-
led, mangled and torn, into eternity in mo-
ment's time. Heads, bodies and limbs were
scattered for a quarter of mile around, and
in many instances it was found impossible to
recognize the unfortunate victims The sig
nal tower and a commissary building twenty
feet by eighty feet, built of logs, were thrown
into the air distance of eight hundred feet
and strewed the country for distance around
with fragments.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

THE REBEL RAMs.-From Europe we have
the intelligence that the Laird rams have
finally been disposed of by being sold to the
British government. Thus ends matter
which has for long month occupied as large a
share in public attention as the Danish war
or French intervention in Mexico The re-
suit is, that, although the United States were
beaten in law they triumphed in fact; for--the
British government, finding that they could
not retain these rams by law, disposed of
them by purchase, and are now taking steps
to so amend their neutrality laws as to pre-
vent the recurrence of similar operations
1t is probable that although it may have
been intended to do strict justice in the mat
ter, England was assisted in this decision by
the knowledge that, in case of war between
herself and some other power, American pri-
vateers would collect ample compensation
for the damage which has been inflicted upon
our commerce by Confederate cruisers.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

Is There are all sorts of reports concern.
ing the whereabouts of Gen. A. J. Sx1rB's
forces \ dispatch dated Helena, Ark, June
oth, says thai Gen. A. j. SMTH's feet of
transports arrived there the day before. It
Is generally. supposed this veteran corps will
be used TO reinforce GRANT.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

U 1t is stated that the total number of
men engaged in the naval service of he
United States a. sesmen, is 1900.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

A preachers word should be law only
when it is gospel.
He who doesn't love garden will never
be in Paradise.
Shave yourself. Better pull your own
nose than have it pulled by another.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15
OPERATIONS ON THE RIGHT AND RIGHT-CENTRE
WARREN AND BURNSIDE

Operations along the fronts of Warren and
burnside were of an Importance quite subor-
dInate to that of operations on the left. No
results were achieved except the carrying of
the line of rifle-pits occupied by the rebel
skirmishers. The Fifth and Ninth Corps no
where struck the enemy's main work. Burn
side kept up furious cannonade for some
hours but it was nothing ct preterea
nhL. From the tenor of one of Burnside's
morning dispatches, 1t was at one time hoped
that he would be able to turn the enemv's
left; but this hope also was doomed to disap-
pOintment.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15
The Arpuelles Case.

All the papers on file in the Secretary OF
States Office respecting the ARGUELLEs case
were transmitted by the President to the Sem
ate on the 1st, together with letter of Sec
rotary SEWARD in which he says: -.
by the act of Congress of May Is, 1920,
the African Slave trade is declared to be pi-
racy and by the treaty of lS42 with Great
Britain, it is stipulated that they will invite
and urge upon all Powers the propriety and
duty of effectually at once and forever clos
ing all African slave markets"
The Secretary then goes to state that
there being no treaty of extradition between
the United States and SPAIN nor any act of
Congress directing how fugitives in the Span
ish dominions shall be delivered up, the ex-
tradition in the ARGUELLEs case is understood
by the State Department to have been made
in virtue of the law of nations and the Con-
stitution of the United States Although
there is a conflict of authorities concerning
the expediency of exercising comfy toward
a foreign Government, by surrendering at it's
request one of its own subjects charged with
the commission of crime within its territory :;
and although it may be conceded that there
IL ~ HdlioHdl OUllSdtiOn 10 make Such sur
render upon a demand therefor, unless it is
acknowledged by treaty or statute, yet ma
ton is never bound to furnish asylum to dan
gerous criminals who are offenders against the
hurla', race; and it is believed that if in any
case the comfy could, with propriety, be
practiced, the one which is understood to
have called forth the reso,o ton of inquiry of
the Senate furnished a just occasion for it,,
exercise.
1t may be fairly presumed that the circum-
stance which gives poignancy to the grief of
the Copperheads over the surrender of AR
GUELLEs is the fact that he had been engaged
In encouraging the slave trade, and thus con-
tributingt to the advancement of Democratic
principles in the world. A pirate by the law
of nations, guilty of the most monstrous OF
crimes, Tie Copperhead Democracy. seek to
place him in the same category with refugees
from mere political prescription, with the
Kossuths, Mazzinis, and Hugos, exiled by
tyranny on account of their devotion to hui
man freedom The efforts to excite public in
dlgnation against the Administration for the
surrender of this felon will fail Our country
Is the refuge of the oppressed; her broad
9gis will be thrown over al who fly from the
prosecutions and pains of despotic power
but she does not aspire to become the asylum
of pirates, murderers and man-thieves.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

Q n u tTtIl. D3L:
dispatches have been received from G en-. Gram.
headquarters to-day, but they report only certsir
changes in the disposition of Corps and conte,
plated operations. They state that everythinr i.
going on well.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

dispatch from Gen. Sherman, dated at moan
to-day at Ackworth, says: I" am now on the rail.
road at Ackworth Station, and have full possession
forward to within six miles of Marietta All Is
WE'LL
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-15

Inc Chief Quartermaster Of the Army repor,,
from personal inspection OF the new Depot At
WHITE House thatit is in eff cient state an
needful supplies are on hand, and the wagons eas
~ transport them to the army. The wounded ar
being broughrin and transports are not DELAYED q.
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-19

A special to the Herald, dated Headquarters
Army of the Potomac. May lS. says:
Yesterday the third division of the 9th corps.
commanded by BiTney, WAS ordered to fall back
from its position OH the right flank OF OUT line,
and had scarcely left his vOsiticl when the enc
my took advantage of the occurrence, aud moved
with the apparent intention OF occupying the al
vantage of the position vacated by our men.
Birney was ordered back 10 his position, which
he regained after short encounter. with the loss
of l45 men killed and wounded.
About O'Clock. P NJ to day, our batteries
threw few shells into the Woods and fired
them
NEw \ ork, Nav lS-The World announces
on It's Bulletin Board. that the prncla nation pub
lished by il, signed by Abraham Lincoln Is
hoax anu fraud
Special say there is nothing important from the
front
Bo'h armies appear to be getting ready for fur
ther operations.
General Mcdonald leaves TO day for San Fran
cisco
The Associated Press have received dispatch
from the Secretary OF State, saving that the pa
per purpOrtiug to be the Presidents Procama-
ton. is Al absolute forgery, no such has been is
sued or proposed TO be issued.
A dispatch To Geu DIX from the Secretary of
War saws:
We have no report Of operations since my last.
Grants last dispatch said the roads were improv
ing, aud he designed TO move against the enemy
without delay.
1t is the design of the government to keep the
national forces until the rebellion is overthrown.
and to provide against any reduction when the
service of the leo days men is out, draft to ill
their places, &c will be ordered, TO take place
on the LIST OF July. by which time new enroll
ments will be completed. No order is Yet is
sued.