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the PACKET SNIP COLUMBIA.

case came up before United States Commissioner
Belts inIthe United States Commissioners Court on
Monday last which illustrates the fact that CAP
talns In the discharge Of their difficult and respon-
sible duties are too often held in remembrance for
seeming neglect while their heroic public services
are forgotten. 1t that the mate Of the packet
ship Columbia was brought before the Commissioner,
charged with iii treatment to q boy named Henry
Gunther, the last voyage Of the ship from Liver
pool. Whatever criminality may attach to the first
onlcer for his conduct in the matter the evidence
brought forward does not In any way criminate the
captain OF the ship or show that he
scented to the outragcs alleged to have been
committed by the mate. Nevertheless Cap
tain Robinson IL held In his own recognizance
to the charge being accessory to the death
of the boy Therefore, although Captain Robinson IL
gutless of crimnality In the matter, he Is, by his
connection with the case against the mate. held up
to public opprobrium, and consequently sufersIn tho
opinion OF his employers and the public generally.
During the terrible storm that swept the Atlantic In
January and February last the packet ship Column
bia. then, as now, commanded by Captain Henry
Robinson was In mid ocean for seventy three days
In gallant struggle with the elements There were
q NUMBER OF passengers from Liverpool on board.
and every one Of them fastened, when the ship
the public press their high admiration OF Captain
Robinson for his gallant and humane conduct to
passengers and crew during the terrible voyage from
I'm
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Toombes Of the South. The speeches Of
Howen Cobb and Robert Toombs at the late
seymour and Blair ratification meeting at At
lanta' Ca, which were fully reported in yes
terday mornings HERALD, must convince the
most unprejudiced that these ssblind leaders
of the blind" have not yet opened their eyes to
the real situation. They are like the Bour-
bons, who ''never forget and never learn"
Animated by the same old virulence with
which they have already ''fred the Southern
heart, they would fain perpetuate, notwith-
standing all their fine professions to the
contrary, the sectional animosities which
enkindled our late civil war. Surely
it is not in the multitude of such coun-
sellers as these that safety is to DO
found. 1t behooves the Northern leaders of the
democratic party to do all that in them lies to
neutralize the baleful influence of such cam
paign harangues as those which have been
applauded to the echo in recent democratic
ratification meetings at the South.
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Wall street spectators may make the most
of the illusion that another Southern rebellion
is imminent It is their nature to make the
most of all illusions that may overcloud the
public mind. The radicals may do all that
they can to provoke ga war of races" and
even renewal of the vain attempt on the part
of the Southern secessionists to overturn the
federal government. But there is no imme-
date danger of another fight. The Southern
people, exhausted by our late civil contest,
now ask with more earnestness than ever only
to be 'let alone" They would gladly surren-
der to political parties in the North the agita-
ton of all the questions involved In the ap-
preaching Presidential election. Their first
desire is to restore their fallen fortunes, and
to this end they are ready to sacrifice, in the
changed condition of things, their old preju-
dices against immigration from Europe and
even from the North. Nor are their former
recognized leaders less averse to a revival Of
the hostilities which during four years desc
lated the entire South. Wade Hampton, for
instance, strenuously denies both the express
Bulls WuiCu uc WAC IcpOItcu w uuNC iatciy
made and the Interpretation which was put
upon them by the Northern journals In one
of his recent speeches Wade Hampton says
that in conversation with General Robert E.
Lee in his retirement the Confederate chief
tain said to him, talking about the war, 81 did
only what / thought was right, and nothing
else Now that we have peace, l favor ODE
dience to the law and desire peace throughout
the land" Lee and Johnston and all the other
prominent officers of the late Confederate army
have concurred, in words and in conduct, in
this policy of peace ever since the conclusion
of the war. Mr.. Campbell, in his letter to the
Southern negroes, which was read at the con-
vention at Aiken, in Georgia, on the 4th inst,
expressed the universal sentiment of the South
ern whites -Four people fought the blue
coats for four years, and we had enough of it..
You may try it if you choose. shall not fight
them or you for my right to vote" Who, then,
is to renew the fight? Not the Northern
''copperheads, surely, although some of their
organs are "full Of sound and fury, signifying
nothing" Not the war democrats, who now
profess, at least to be anxiously eager for re-
Cancellation and peace. And finally, not the
radicals, who are fighting only for Office and
plumber There is ''no danger of fight" and
gold must fall.
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Egyptian Difficulties The Real Cure.


Our special correspondent in Egypt as our
readers have observed, has given us full and
detailed accounts of the difficulties which the
Viceroy seeks to remove from his present
relations with foreigners. It has long been
notorious that Egypt was an omniunn gatserum
cluded, and that the manner in which the
difficulties constantly arising among the various
nationalities and between foreigners and natives
were settled was roundabout and clumsy in the
last degree The present Viceroy has made
an attempt to grapple with the difficulty, and
in order, if possible, to have the difficulty
removed, and the dignity of his government
more completely reorganized, has made a
proposal to all the great Powers. His pro-
posal has many points which entitle it to
respectful consideration. A common central
court such as the Viceroy recommends, in
which all questions as between foreigners
and all questions as between foreigners and
natives should be finally settled, feasible
enough from the viceroy's own point of view,
would, unless all we know of that country
is to GO for nothing. be the ruin Of
Egypt. II could only have the effect Of
exposing the iniquties Of Egyptian rule to
the eyes Of the civilized world. Directly
such court is established Egypt will become
another Mexico, only infinitely worse. There
is but one cure for Egypt, and that is for Eng
land to take her in charge, viceroy, Pachas,
harems and all that belongs to her. This will
give Egypt peace, Egyptians justice and the
valley of the Nile its proper place in the esti-
nation Of the nations. To this plan France
cannot consent unless England consents to
allow her to annex Spain to Portugal. The
question becomes sharp, but it has only one
proper solution, and that Is he solution We
propose. It is for England and France to
come to an arrangement. We tell them what
they ought to do. If they do 1t not the blame
will be all their own.
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Poor Pierce and silly Seymour.

The South seems likely to 60 with rush
for Seymour, and the reason is that the repub-
lcan policy has been made 80 clear by
Congress and the reconstructors that it is
impossible to disguise it, especially in that
most offensive point, negro suffrage. On the
other hand there is everything to hope from
the democrats, and the Southern people readily
believe that they will have the sympathy of
the leaders of that party. In all the Southern
States we shall see very nearly what we have
just seen in Kentucky, and as the democrats
will certainly divide the North there Is the
highest probability that sweeping success in
the South will give them the country. 1t may
therefore be as it was in 1852 when the South
elected poor Pierce-elected him to do it's little
political chores and completely used him up
before they were done. In the election OF
poor Pierce the democracy gave itself an evil
blow. 1t abandoned the policy of standing by
principles or men, and gave the shadow Of
Office to poor tool merely that it might abuse
the power of that Office to contemplate pur-
poses From Pierce it went down to Buchanan,
and from Buchanan to the dogs. Now we are
to see nearly the same fact with silly Seymour
in the place of poor Pierce. The South will
elect him and use him up, and with him use
up again the chance of the democracy. Sey-
mour's administration will be mere pander-
ing to the Southern radicals, and this will
develop in the North again a new hostility,
and the event will be that on Seymour's heels
tLaro will coma in nj administra tiOn that will
intensity all the bitterness Of the Northern re-
construction of Southern States. So dema-
goguery paves the way for tyranny.
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what they require, On the one hand while his
memories of the glories of his line-of Abra-
ham, Of Isaac, of Joseph and of David-ele-
vate him in sentiment far above the descend
ants Of the Conqueror, who follow him, and
leave him the only suitable dynastic com
panion for the sovereign.
Disraeli champions the Church against
foreign and domestic conspirators" Just now |;
but should he find that million of new voters,
most of whom do not care for or know of
Church, and feel no interest in its sustentation,
he is really the only man in Britain who can
afford to ''let it go" without experiencing
religious melancholy and ct the same time
stand proof against the anathemas of the
clergy. The Premier indeed intimates in his
speech at the Mansion House, published in
our columns, that the British constitution can
and will be adapted to the popular will
The House of Commons, which is now mort
bund, had one hundred and thirty-eight changes
of members-eighty new and fifty re-
elected Yet we have seen that the infusion
produced no perceptible alteration in its tone,
and general election ''pipelaid' very con-
siderably by Mr.. Disraeli may actually turn
the vote of the new House in his favor; GER
tainly will if he make his ''bid" on the ''neces-
sity" of Church disendowment both in Ireland
and England
Should Mr. Disraeli attempt to sustain the
Church Ireland will roll up a very heavy anti
Ministerial majority. On such a platform he
would scarcely secure twenty votes of the one
hundred and five sent to the House of Com
mons from the island. AS close ecclesiasti-
cal corporation, and as if in Arrangement of
many prosecutions for conscience sake, sus-
tanned by the Irish during three hundred
years, the Catholic hierarchy and clergy of Ire
land will go to the ''polls' determined to swim,
and eighty-fve members from the Green Isle,
acting in solid phalanx and in sympathy with
their programme, may really constitute the
''balance of power party in the British Par
Lament. 1t would be an extraordinary phase
in British politics if this renovated Irish Par
liamentary legion treated the Church question
in such form as that their co-legislators from
Britain would vote a repeal of the Act of
Union, if only to get rid of them, their Church,
their speeches and their applications for place.
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THE FRuIrloN OF New ENGLAND Policy.

THE FRUITIoN OF NEW ENGLAND POLICY
New England has no doubt done much for this
country. But New England is New England
no more. She has abandoned her ancient
principles, and the natural tendency of New
England principles is seen in the recent row at
Worcester. The young men of Yale and Har
ward are the latest development Of New Eng
land, and the latest manifestations of the
''hopefuls" of Yale and Harvard were wit
messed on the streets of Worcester.
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TUMULT IN PARIs.-In Paris yesterday the
students assembled in large numbers near the
Sorbonne and created ''tumult." They were
dispersed by the police, the officers making
several arrests. Tumults in Paris are always
ominous of change and the interference of the
police or military with the assemblages dan
gerous at all times. ''God protect France!"
is the timely aspiration of Napoleon.
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It is doubtful whether the horses on the turf
politicians at the hotels are the smartest. The
politicians, who have the largest game to play,
appear to be combining the tricks Of their
profession with the festivities of the hour
The friends of the rival candidates for the guber-
material democratic nomination-Hoffman and
Murphy-are vieing with each other in the
splendor and extravaganza of their game and
ish dinners at the lake. Who can furnish the
most costly delicacies and let fly the largest
quantity Of champagne appears to regard the
chances of the man he backs as the best in the
field. John Morrissey, who Is Henry c.
Murphy's hacker and is ready to bet on him,
entertained the Senator from Brooklyn sumptu-
ously at Moons rustic and expensive retreat
on the lake shore on Sunday. There was
choice company present. and the occasion
afforded Hon. John Morrissey an opportunity
of declaring in a neat speech that, although he
was q friend of Hoffman the Mayor, be was
decidedly opposed to Hoffman for Governor.
and that he would relieve him from the
incubus Of his patronage, which some people
said was drag upon the last democratic
candidate for Governor, by going II strong for
his other friend, Murphy. There seems to be
an under current of revolution in the metro
politan democratic ranks. Whether II is the
result of the lmpid waters Of Saratoga, or the
excitement Of the race course, or the effect of
game dinners at Moons it is hard to say but
several quondam friends are evidently at
loggerheads, and we suppose we must wait till
the hot season ends before things settle down.
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GENERAL oRpERs-No. 80.

VICKsBUR0, Miss, August =, 1858.
l. The State OF Arkansas having complied with the
come imperative In that state and In compliance
with General orders No. 55, current series, Head
quarters OF the Army the State OF Arkansas Is at
tacned TO the Department Of louisiana headquarters
at New orleans, La. The commanding officer
the troops In that state Will report by letter TO the
headquarters OF that department for Instructions
II. The Sub District Of Mississippi as organize
ton ls discontinued. and the records pertaining
Military District.
Ill Brevet Colonel J. r. Tourteotte, captain
Twenty.eighth infantry, Is relieved from duty a.
Acting Assistant Inspector General at Headquarters
OF hts present leave OF absence rejoin his proper
station.
Nv. second Lieutenant Nathaniel Wolfe, Thirty.
fourth infantry Is relieved from duty as acting AS
sistant Adjutant General on the stan Of the Com
manding General. and will report for duty at the
station OF his company.
v. The following officers are announced as on the
stan OF the Commanding General:-Brevet MAJOR
John Tyler, First Lieutenant Forty-third infantry:
Acting Assistant Adjutan General; First Lieutenant
William Atwood Nineteenth infantry, Acting Assist
ant Adjuant General; Brevet Major 8. G. Greene,
Captain Twenty.fourth infantry, Acting As s
Judge Advocate United States Army, Judge
Advocates second Lieutenant William II. french,
!r Nineteenth Infantry ASSISTANT SuuSSS
Advocate; Brevet Colonel j. @. Chandler, maJor anu
master; Brevet MAJOR j. @. Crane, Captain ana ION.
missary OF Subsistence United states Army, Chei
Commissary OF Subsistence; Brevet Colone, =.
swift Surgeon United states Army, Meunca prec-
Army Disbursing Reconstrucuon funu; Ss Spsu
James Myers, Ordnance Department united states
Army, Chief ordnance Ofncer.
AVIAN q. GILLIAN, Brevet Major General.
wM ATWOOD, First Lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry
Acting Assistant Adutant GENERA
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The Diniculty in Louisiana.

The application of Governor Warmoth for
a reinforcement of federal troops to suppress
the reported violence and murders in Louisiana
in a very prompt and efficient manner. The
Governor is informed through an official order
to General Buchanan of the constitutional
powers vested in the President in case that any
instruction or domestic violence should place
the State government in peril. The constitu-
ton is very clear upon this point that the
United States shall guarantee to every State a
republican form Of government and protect oil
the States against invasion or insurrection If
called on by the Legislature, or, it that body
the militia to protect that State, and it is
further provided by acts Of Congress that the
President may use the land and naval forces of
the United States for this purpose. General
Buchanan being so instructed by an order from
General Grant can have no difficulty in de-
Gliding what his duty Is in the premises, be-
cause he is admonished that he must use his
own judgment in ascertaining whether there is
really any necessity for the exercise of mill
tary authority in the State Of Louisiana and
communicate the facts by telegraph to the
President, and then act in accordance with in
structions from the War Department. The
difficulty complained of in Louisiana, which
would seem to be greatly exaggerated by the
radical Governor, can be easily disposed Of in
legal and proper fashion. If there be indeed
any danger to the stability Of the State govern
mcnt it can be obviated by obeying the instruc-
tons from the War Department, and no doubt
the commanding general at New Orleans will
see that his orders from headquarters are faith
fully fulfilled
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Mr.. CoNKLING ON REoREANT REPUBLICANS
Mr.. Conkling was particularly savage in his
speech, delivered at Dodworth Hall, Monday
night, on the ''recreant republicans in Con-
gress, meaning particularly Thad Stevens,
Ben Butler and others, who we're in favor Of
paying the bondholders in greenbacks. He
chewed over with a great deal Of gusto old
Thad's remarks about the 'bloated specula-
tors" grasping bondholders, and so forth, all
of which shows the radicals are anything but
a happy and harmonious family. Well, this Is
a very good state of things for the country.
The more these radicals pitch into and venti-
late each other the more the truth will come
out, and the people be able to Judge Of the
unftness Of such incompetent representatives
IL remain In Congress.
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CAMPAIGN HARANGUEs. -We have charac-
terized according TO Its deserts the narrow
minded twaddling Of the Tildens and Buffers
Of the North, but we are almost at loss for
expressions sufficiently strong to do justice to
the inenabe inappropriateness and sbsurdity
of the campaign hsrangues Of the Gobbs and
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TINE FOURTH MILITARY DISTRICT.

The following order has been issued by General
Gilem commanding the Fourth Military District. In
compliance with the order recently issued from tho
war Department.
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HENRTCO COUNTY AND THE CHE
sAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

The County Court Of Henrico ordered
on Saturday that polls be opened on the
2lst February at the different places here
tofore used for voting in the county fol
the purpose Of ascertaining the sense q
the voters upon the question Of Q
subscription of $4,000 to the preferred
eight per cent. stock of the Chesa.
peake and Ohio Railroad Company, said
polls to be. taken in conformity with Gene.
raj Order No. 80, of General Schofeld. Il
the required number of voters shall de-
clare in favor Of the subscription, no part
thereof shall be paid or bonds issued
therefor unless S4,950,0G0 of additional
stock shall be subscribed by responsible
parties other than the county Of Henrico ;
or unless the Virginia Central Railroad
Company shall enter into an agreement or
contract with the Covington and Ohio Rail
road Commissioners for the construction
of the railroad from Covington to the Ohio
river; and unless, for this purpose, if me-
cessary, their whole property shall be
mortgaged nor until the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company shall bind them
selves, by bonds, to be prescribed by the
County Court Of this county, to construct
what is called the "short track" between
Charlottesville and Richmond as soon as
the railroad is finished to the Ohio river;
and provided further, that the subscrip-
tion of stock hereby authorized shall be
paid by bonds bearing eight per cent. in
terest, at no greater discount than ten per
cent, and redeemable at such time as the
County Court of this county may deter
mine, not exceeding thirty years from the
date of this issue.
COMMISSIONERS AND CONDUCTORS.
DISTRICT No. 1.--SueeneyS.-T. l..
Lyme, conductor; Mitchell Fussel, J. L..
Johnson, Daniel B. Jordan, John K. Fus-
sci, commissioners.
Huqhes's. s.-John 81. Mckenzie, con-
ductor; John n. Davis, Winston Jordan,
T. 7. Duke, Norman Smith, B. W. Roper,
commissioners.
DISTRICT No. 2.-Eacho's.- J.
Carter, conductor; Williamson Allen,
Mitchell Allen, John n. Doggett, Edward
F. Gathright, Thomas Binford, commisslo-
ners.
Courthouse.-Hugh Il. Watt, conductor; ;
George W. Barker, F. L. Swift, Joseph G.
Redwood, E. G. Pleasants, G. H. Lieber,
comm issioners.
DISTRICT No 3.-Dickman's.-J. G. Bur-
ton, conductor G. S. Delaplane, G. G..
Carter, NJ. Beazley, N. F. Bowe, L. S.
Irvine, commissioners.
Hungary.-John D. Shepherd, conduct
or e; B. E. Anderson, John Walker, Thomas
Boudar, John W. Tignor, M. NJ. Courtney,
commissioners.
DISTRICT No. 4.-Erip Shades.-William
NJ. McGruder, conductor John Jones, B.
NJ. Leake, RS. Elicit, Charles Cottrell,
T. E. Nuckos, commissioners.
ANeyS.-T. H. Grafton, conductor +; L..
W. T. Wickham, B. W. Green, Jr., John
F. Wrenn, John A. Hutcheson, James Pat
terson, commissioners.
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Two BALLS MEETING IN THE ARA
day of two ago we published an extract
from a Georgia paper giving the facts con-
corning the meeting of two balls-one from
q Mimic musket and the other from Bel
gian rifle-during the siege Of Vicksburg.
The Georgia editor thought it the only
case of the kind ever heard Of. He was
mistaken. Mr.. W. Brandt, gentleman
formerly in the Ordnance Department Of
the Confederate States, called at this office
Saturday, and exhibited two balls, which,
after similar embrace in mid-air, never
again parted. One came from Federal
Sharpe's rife and the otherfrom Confede-
rate Mimic musket. They were fred on the
battlefield of Spotsylvania Courthouse IN
the spring Of 1864. The Yankee struck
the Confederate ball upon the side, hrmiy
imbedded itself in it, and then drove it
into sand bank, where the twain were
found, and as yet no one has been able to
separate them. After the battle, the curl
osity was picked up by an ordnance officer,
who gave it to M. Brandt. The appear.
ance of the balls precludes the idea that
the Mimic was at rest when struck, for
| one side is not at ali fattened, as would
then have been the case.
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MAYORS CoURT-MAYoR MAYO PRE-
s1D1NG-SATURDAY MoRNING.-Jack Will
son (negro), charged with stealing and
carrying away lot of coal from S. H.
Hawes, was discharged, in the absence of
evidence sufficient to convict him.
John Straughan and Henry Murray
UNITED States soldiers) charged with fight
ing in the bar-room of John Clarke and
assaulting Frank Holtz, were sent to the
Libby.
William Taylor, Edmund Tyler, and
William MeelSins negro boys), charged
with stealing coat valued at fifteen dol
lars from D. Henshell, were sent to Jail.
John Lewis negro boy), charged with
stealing plank from the fence of Charles
Y. Morriss, was discharged, it appearing
that he was ordered by some responsible
person to do it.
John U. Weaver (negro), charged with
stealing seven-pound weight from Robert
A. Kent, was set back.