THE Intilj-Citnite jHTliam w. holden, EDITOR AND PBOPK1ETOB. TERMS OF THE STANDARD. The term of the Standard n U follows: Semi-Weekly, six months, 7 Weekly paper, six months, rfvertiuieuta iuserted at three dollars per square often a, .. . ; Mjt nn A r.l I f for each less, tor ntsv inw, ----- - The Very large circulation of the ubseiaent insertion. i .-li -At..m tn .HvertisiD?. Standard renders 11 a va.uao.e - ent by Express at our risk. "rAIEIGH: FRIDAY. AUG. 12. 18C4. The North-Carolina Standard. i am neither dismayed nor depressed by the . I f the party will be more necessary in the "S I in the past Principle, and not.expe TZT J retofore, as it will be f !L and when I Mow principle, I have no h o'express at defeat so far aslam personally TeeZlTL would not have exalted over any TneTf had been successful. I will never, in any event humiliate myself at the footstool ot the Destructiveparty.orfusewiththatparty. Nothing shall separate me from Conservative principles or from the Conservative party, for . it ia my firm belief that it is the only party that can heal the bleeding wounds of the Constitution, protect and preserve the liberty of the citizen, and secure to the country an honorable and lasting peace. I hold the sword in one hand and the olive branch in the other," the sword for the Destructives, and the ollfe branch for all good and true Conservatives. It would be the height of vanity and arrogance in .. .me that citizens professing to be Conser JJ1G IV - 3 vatives who did not vote for me are not good Conservatives, however mucn i may regre. tuC recent union at the ballot-box of the Destructives and of many tried Conservatives. It thall not be my fault if this union is continued and perpetu ated. If it should be, the Conservative party will be swallowed up and lost; but if every true Con servative, forgetting the past, and impressed alone with the importance of maintaining his principles in their purity, will dissolve this union, and resolve to have no political affiliation or correspondence of any kind with the Destructives, and will so act on all occasions, whether as a representative of the people or as a citizen, as to put the Destructives outside the pale of his associations, the great Con servative party wjll be restored to its former integrity and strength, and will be enabled here after, as heretofore, to confer upon the country all those benefits and blessings which it was- hoped would flow from it when it was formed and organized. I am a friend to both the Confederate and State governments, and because I am, I am anxious to see them ably and honestly administered. The besl friend to the Confederate government is he whn submits to its authority, and labors to confine it to its constitutional limitations ; and the worst enemy to the government, to the South, and to the cause of liberty, is he who seeks to exalt that government above the State?, to'enlarge its powers, and to ren .der the judiciary, the freedom of the press, and the freedom and purity of the ballot-box dependent on the mere will of those who have been called to administer its affairs. No personal antipathy to those who may conduct, the governments will in fluence my judgment as to the measures they may suggest or adopt I shall judge all measures on their merits, without regard to those who may recommend or advocate them. I have already given proof, by my advocacy of Mr. Badger's nomi nation for the Convention in Wake County, jn February, 1861, and by my vote for Mr. Graham for President of that body in May, 1861, when there had been no personal intercouse between us for the space of eighteen years, that I am not to be influenced in my course as a public man by private, or selfish, or personal considerations. With regard to the prosecution of the war and negotiations for peace, my views have undergone no change. It is no$ true that I have counseled the withdrawal of North-Carolina from the Confederacy, or the submission of the State to federal authority, or the reconstruction of the federal Union. On the contrary, I have uniformly maintained, as I do now, that the war must be prosecuted in self-defence, but that at the same time the President, the Congress, the Governors of the States, and the States them selves should resort to every means in their power to obtain an armistice, so as to transfer the great questions in dispute between the two sections from the smoke of the battle-field to the calm, clear at mosphere of reason and diplomacy in the civil coun cils, where alone, in the end, those questions must be settled. My views are embodied in tbe follow ing resolutions introduced in the House of Repre sentatives at the last session, by the Hon. J. T. Leach, of this State, and laid oa the table by that body : "Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate Slates, That the delegations from each State, acting in its sovereign and independent character, for the purpose of adding moral to our physical force, and placing ourselves properly before the civilized world, do most earnestly appeal to the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to ap point commissioners whose duty it shall be to pro fuse au armistice ot ninety days to the proper au thorities of the federal government, preliminary to negotiations for peace upon State sovereignty and independence, and that said commissioners shall re port in writing to the President the answer received from the federal government upon the subject fieSOlted. That shmilri tha nMia malrino nnv.i f the federal government accede to the proposition lor an armistice of ninety days, the President be requested lo convene the Congress of the Confederal'-! states for the purpose of appointing commis sioners, by and with the advice and consent of the senate ; and that he also be requested to notify the Executives of the several States of the fact, and ask their cooperation by appointing commissioners, either by the Legislature or Convention, to co-op-. rat.e w'th lne commissioners appointed by the PreM th" tA ne80ti!tte with commissioners appointed by e federal government upon such terms of peace s will be consistent with the honor, dignity and independence of the States, and compatible with we safety of our social and political rights. Mohed, That in maintaining the rights guar anteed to us by the blood and treasure of our Rev wutionary fathers, and dearest at all times to frec "n. we desire to be let alone wo ask no man's J, Perty--we fight not for conquest, but for our tv . lnoependence ot the states, our equali- Vl OUr civil and i-ollnln.... l;kiKi to b v"' nat 6uc!l turns of peace as are agreed ,i T'hecornmissifir.ers ought to be endorsed by r ! r tes'dcrit and Sem-te, and submitted to the peo f' tor their ratiacati. n or rejection." i's my firm conviction that if the views which Mvanced in the Standard in July, 1863, on the ject 0f peace, had been adopted and carried out, . Mn"Stice would have been ohtinr1 and .doners from the tn ..; a i.. acd when the Congress hat assembled in Rich- Moot Vol. XXX. No. 23. mond; and it ia also my firm conviction that if the foregoing resolutions had been adopted by. the Congress at its last session, measures wonld at this time have been in progress tending to a final and satisfactory settlement of the questions at issue be tween the North and South. But if these efforts had been made and had failed, we should have been no weaker either in moral or in physical resources' at home, while abroad, among the people of Europe and of jthe North, we should have gained great moral power by the exhibition on our part of an earnest disposition to stsy the effusion of blood, and to terminate this awful conflict in accordance with those principles of reason, and justice which reflect lustre on civilized, Christian nations. " We might then have hoped that the people of the North, giving heed to this appeal, and anxious as they must be for peace, would have risen up at the polls and defeated Ml'. Lincoln's re election in November next, and thus have paved the way for a settlement of our difficulties by the Conservative men of the two sections. As it is, with the temper which seems to govern the rulers of the two sections, I cin per ceive no reasonable ground for hoping that Mr. Lin coln will be defeated, or that the war will cease until the South shall have conquered the North, or the North the South. We are not fighting for con quest, and we should not incur the risk of being con quered by the North without putting forth every effort meanwhile to terminate the struggle by ne gotiations. The Standard will continue to be devoted to the rights of the people and to tbe independence and sovereignty of the States. It will maintain the integrity and independence of the judiciary, the freedom of the press and of speech, and the free dom and purity of the ballot-box, without which our present struggles will be in vain, and our free forms of government an empty mockery. It will insist on a strict construction of the Confed erate Constitution, and on a searching but not un generous scrutiny of the acts of our rulers. It will inflexibly oppose any and every attempt to render the civil authority subordinate to the military pow er. And it will oppose, at all times and every where, with the utmost earnestness to the last moment, all attempts to subvert our present form of government and to establish a dictatorship or monarchy on its ruins. As the elections are now over, and as the Stand ard will be relieved for some time to come of the pressure of matter purely political in its character, I will endeavor to render it a more welcome and en tertaining vehicle of news, literature and science. I trust my friends will exert themselves somewhat to increase the circulation of the paper. With many, many heartfelt thanks to my friends and patrons, I am Very Respectfully, W. W. HOLDEN. Election Returns. Orange. Serwte, John Berry, 826. Commons, Samuel F. Phillips, 927, William N. Patterson 780, Sheriff, R. M. Jones 652, IL B. Guthrie 623. Person. Senate, Ghas. S. Winstead 393, James Holeman818, Walker 106. Commons, John W. Cunningham 651, John D. Wilkerson 109. Sher iff; W. H. Smith. Alexander. A. IL Bogle elected to the Senate from this district, and Dr. J. M. Carson re-elected to the Commons from Alexander. Franklin. Wash. Harris re elected to the Sen ate, and W. K. Davis elected to the Commons. Rutherford, Polk and Cleazeland. Senate, Cleaveland, Dr. W. R. Miller, 902, Col. 0. L. Har ris 88. Rutherford, Miller 706, Harris 677. Polk not heard from. Miller elected. Commons, Ruth' erford, Carson 721, A. R. Bryan 703, Carpenter 600, McCurry 474. Sampson. Senate, William Kirby 460, Thos. I. Faison 383, Ward 225. Commons, Powell 825, Murphy 486, Lassiter 331, Giddens 195, Cooper 184. Washington. Jesse Stubbs elected to the Sen ate from Washington and Martin, and Maj. L C. Latham to the Commons from Washington. Moore and Montgomery. Senate, Moore, Dr. J. M. Crump 545, Thomas J. Bright 457. Mont gomery not heard from. Commons, Moore, Elam J. Harrington 559, T. W. Ritter 495. Commons, Montgomery, Jordan 293, Davis 256. Chowan, and Gates. M. L Eure elected to the Senate, and L. C. Benbury to the Commons from Chowan. Burke, McDowell and Caldwell. Senate, Gen. S. F. Patterson. Burke, Commons, J. J. Erwin. Caldwell, Commons, Mr. Isbell. Yadkin. Senate, CoL W. H. A. Speer 454. Commons, A. C. Cowles 741. Sheriff, Speer 664 Greene and Lenoir. Senate, Greene, Edward Patrick 242, J. P. Speight 141. Lenoir, Patrick 75, Speight 615. Majority for Speight 439. Commons, Greene, H. H. Best 219, Freeman 158. Commons, Lenoir, Allen W. Wooten 401, W. W. Dunn 202. Sheriff, Fields 434, Pope 159. Hash. Senate, Taylor 412, Jenkins 321. Com mons, Lewis 357, A vent 318, Matthews 46. Sheriff, Cooper 276, Morgan 225, Barnes 128. Onslow. Senate, Sanders 260, J. F.. Murrill 151, J. H. Foy 125. Commons, A. J. Murrill 852, Porter 207. Sheriff, E. Murrill, Jr. 440. CoL L. C. Edwards, of Granville, has been 'ap pointed a member of the Literary Board of this State, in place of Rev. W. E Pell, resigned. Relief for Petersburg. Many of the citizens of Petersburg, driven from their homes by the mer ciless shelling of the enemy, are encamped in the neighborhood of the city, out of reach of the enemy's puns, but cut off from supplies of all kinds. Their condition is a sad one indeed, and appeals forcibly to the citizens of other more favored sections of the Confederacy. In relieving the wants of other per sons thus situated, in contributing of their means to aid the government in this deadly struggle, and in ministering to the wants of our sick and wounded soldiers whom the fortunes ' of war had thrown among them, the citizens of Petersburg have been exceedingly liberal. They should not be left to suf fer without aid or' sympathy in this season of sore trial. Contributions in money sent to P. F. Pescud in this city, or to the Bank of Petersburg now loca ted in this city, or to R. Ragland, Petersburg, will be appropriated as directed. Dr. Hawkins, President of the Raleigh and Gaston R. R. will furnish a car to convey supplies of clothing and food, if a' sufli cient quantity is sent in to justify it Bib. Eecor. The Pacha of Egypt has lost a daughter aged fif teen, who was betrothed to one of His Highness' s aid-de-camps. Since her death the Viceroy has not left his residence at Ghise, and receives no one. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNES WAR NEWS. We make some extracts from the Sentinel below, and otherpapers. Mobile seems at present the principal point Of interest The news .from that quarter is unpleasant Mobile, August 7. Friday night Lieut Col. Williams, commanding Fort Powell, evacuated and blew up the Fort The enemy yesterday and to day are shelling Fort Gaines. Tbe people of Mobile are all ready for the fray. . Great confidence pre vails. The people are satisfied with the conduct of Buchanan, Murphy and Burnett, of the Nary. SECOND DISPATCH. Mobile, August 8. I am painfully humiliated to announce the shameful surrender of Fort Gaines at half past nine o'clodk this morning, by CoL Charles Anderson, of the 21st Alabama. This powerful work was provisioned for six months and had a garrison df six hundred men. He communicated with the enemy's fleet by flag of truce without the sanction of Gen. Page. Page en quired by signal what his purpose was and received no answer. His attention was attracted by signal guns. Page repeatedly telegraphed " Hold on to your Fort" The same night Page visited Fort Gaines and found Anderson on board the Yankee fleet, arranging the terms of capitulation. Page left a peremptory order for Anderson, on his return, not to surrender, and relieving him of his command. Although Fort Morgan signaled this morning, no answer was received, except the hoisting of a Yan kee flag over the ramparts. Anderson's conduct is officially pronounced inexplicable and shamefuL . . Mobile bay is an estuary, or more properly, the mouth of the Alabama and Apalache river's. It is 80 miles long opening into the Gulf. of Mexico by two channels one, the eastern and main ship chan nel, drawing 18 feet water, and the other, or wes tern channel, only 6 or 6 feet Between the two channels is Dauphin island, upon which Fort Gaines is located, bearing upon the main channel. Fort Morgan is opposite Fort Gaines upon a narrow neck of main land running out some distance be tween the Gulf and Bay. The main channel is not more than two or three miles wide, and vessels are forced to run very near both these forts. The bay is on an average 12 miles broad and filled with ob structions of various kinds, and although 17 of the enemy's vessels have succeeded in passing Fort Morgan and perhaps the same number are beyond Fort Gaines also, nevertheless the vessels will have to pass all obstructions and another bar at the head of the bay, besides encountering works of great defensive strength. Mobile itself is situated at the head of the bay at the immediate mouth of the Alabama, and 80 miles from the outer forts. With in Mobile bay is another smaller bay, called Bon Secours. Vessels drawing more than 8 feet water cannot traverse the main bay, nor approach the city. Choctaw Point is a point of land about a mile be low the city extending into the bay. There are sev eral little villages upon its shores the principal of them, Alabama City is on the Eastern side. Dog river nearly opposite is a small stream, entering from the west The bay itself is pear shaped. These are the chief peculiarties of this now inter esting sheet of water. Official Account of the Mine. . Headquarters, &c, August 6th. Gtneral 8. Cooper, A. and L General : An experimental mfne was fired successfully last night, in front of Gracie's line. The enemy ap peared much alarmed. All quiet to-day. G. T. Beauregard, General From the Peninsula. We learn from the Peninsula that Grant is re moving all the Federal forces from Yorktown and Williamsburg. It is said that Hancock, in the affair of the 80th ol July lost very heavily. Great numbers of sick and wounded are collect ed at City Point Great activity prevails in the enemy's shipping in the James river ; and it is believed Grant is sen ding troops to Washington, as a large number of transports are passing down the river. From East Tennessee. Private accounts from East Tennessee,, represent the conntry between Bristol and Knoxville-to be in a deplorable condition. Deserters from both ar mies, and desperadoes of every kind, are indiscrim inately robbing and murdering the helpless citizens,fJ both Uuion and Confederate, the notorious Kjrjii being the chief actor in most of the notorious cases committed. From the Taller. Tt was reported on the street yesterday that General Early had again defeated the enemy near Winchester. Nothing is more probable, though we were unable to trace the rumor to any authentic source. That onr victorious forces are entirely able to hold the Valley from which they have driven the enemy, we have no doubt The news from that quarter will be looked for with great interest, as the last accounts represented the enemy, thirty-five thousand strong, marching to attack General Early. Sentinel. From the United States. , Pittsburg, Aug. 5. A dispatch has. been receiv ed here, Etating that an engagement was fought yesterday, at 4 P. M., with the raiders, at New Creek, on tbe Baltimore and Ohio railroad, twelve miles east of Piedmont, towards Cumberland. The fight was desperate. Pittsburg, Aug. 5. Gen. Eelley telegraphs of ficially to this city : "My forces repalsed the ene inji yesterday at New Creek, under McCausland and Bradley Johnson. The enemy attacked our post to day at 3 o'clock P. M. The fight continued until late in the evening. The enemy then retreat ed leaving their killed and wounded. " Their loss was severe. Ours light not exceed ng 25 killed and 50 wounded. The garrison made a gallant resistance." Gov. Curtain has called for thirty thousad mi litia. In his proclamation he says : " I cannot too earnestly urge upon the people of this State the necessity for the immediate presence of this force." Gen. Couch has issued an appeal to the people of Pennsylvania. He, urges them to prepare them selves for defence, to put their guns in order, get in the cover of their cornfields, forests, buildings, &c, as a rebel raid is not impossible at any time during the summer. Habrisburg, Aug. 5. Five messengers from Gen. Averill have reached McConnelsville, and re port that the rebels, three thousand strong, were crossing the Potomac at Hancock. They further state, that our pickets were being driven in towards Cumberland. Later. Intelligence,, just received, confirms the fact that the rebels occupied Hagerstown in force, at nine o'clock this morning. The greatest consternation once more prevails -along the Southern portion, of the Cumberland Valley. The "farmers are hurrying from their homes with their stock, and the population in gen eral is panic stricken by this sudden, and to them unexpected, occupation by the rebels. Later from Europe. . The Saxia, with dates to the 26th ult, has ar rived. Cotton was unchanged. Breadstuff's de clining. " Lord Palmerston, in the House of Commons, in response' to an inquiry whether England intended acting in concert with other European powers, in endeavoring to bring about a suspension of hostili ties in America, stated that he' thought no advan tage was to be gained by meddling. The Bank of England has reduced its rate of discount to seven, per cent It is reported that Mr. Slidell is on a visit to the Emperor Napoleon. The Alexandria Gazette of the 1st says : The differences of opinion between the leading dem ocrats of the North, which bare heretofore divided DAY, " AUG. 17, 1864. them into "War" and "Peace Democrats," seems to be vanishing. The New York World (war) says : "The new President to be nominated at Chicago and elected in November, must be a man ready and willing to meet any and every overture for peace, a man who shall represent truly the dignity and power of the nation, and who will not be unwilling even to tender an armistice suggesting.a National Convention of all the States." The New York News (peace) agrees to this, saying: "The peace Democracy will endorse a nomination that faithful ly represents the sentiment here stated. They are willing to trust to the good sense and patriotism of the people for the realization of a definite Peace as the sequel 'of an Armistice and National Conven tion." It thus seems likely that "an armistice suggest ing a National . Convention of all the States," will be the main feature of the platform of principles to be put forth by the Democratic Convention which is to assemble at Chicago on the 29th of August Georgia. ' During the late raids through Georgia the Yan kees threatened both Macon and Milledgeville. Gov. Brown promptly retained the State militia at the former place and dispatched also a' sufficient force to the defence of the latter, notwithstanding a re ception by him of a request from Gen. Hood to for ward on the militia to him immediately. The re sult sustained the judgment of Gov. Brown, for Ma con was attacked by a large force of the raiders and repulsed by the militia. Most of the raiders have been captured or dispers ed in Georgia. Latest NewsFrom Petersburg. Petersburg, Aug. 10. The explosion (?) of yes terday is still unexplained. The enemy aro still contracting iheir lines on our right (their left,) and receding from the direction of. the Weldon railroad and3l.owing themselves in diminished force. Every' thing indicates that the enemy are throwing them selves on the defensive. Little or no sharpsbooting and scarcely any artillery or mortar firing to-day. The Express of the 9th says : " There seems to be little doubt that Grant is moving large bodies of his troops cautiously and quietly from our front Where he is sending them, we of course do not know, but they leave City Point in transports and go down the river. His steamers, loaded with troops, have been seen within the last two days moving oft He will probably endeavor to head Early off, and stop the career of that Confederate General, in bis wild crusade through the Valley and into. Maryland and Penn sylvania. The shelling of the city has ceased either for want of ammunition, or because the enemy has be come tired of a practice so cruel and diabolical, or because the heavy guns with which he has been wont to greet us daily, have been removed from their positions. The latter reasoii is more probably tbe true one, for we cannot think of the Yankees as being out of ammunition, or tired of a barbarous practice. It is believed that they are engaged in moving their heavy artillery." Most of the Northern papers charge Grant's late failure to the cowardice of the negro troops. A Washington correspondent says : "The wounded officers that Lave arrived here from Petersburg claim that the explosion of tbe mine was a complete success, and our failure to ac complish the object in view was owing to the bad conduct of the negro troops. After capturing and holding for some time the first line of rebel breast works, a division of the Ninth corps, which is com posed of colored troops, were ordered to charge, but, being exposed to an enfilading fire, they broke and ran, and pitched pell mell into tbe supports, causing considerable confusion. Tbe rebels, taking advan tage of this, poured grape and canister in upon our forces with terrible effect" Grant is still supposed to be mining at several points, but is being closely watched by bur Generals. From Mobile. Mobile, Aug. 9. Last night a soldier's train ran into a land slide between Pollard and Montgomery and killed 12 and wounded 57 of the 1st Mississip pi battalion artillery. Last night two white men and one negro, were arrested for cutting the wires. Some Federal vessels are crossing into the bay. The garrison in Fort Morgan are in fine spirits. Otherwise all quiet below. There is nothing later from this point, although heavy fighting is still going on and tie result is ia doubt From Georgia. Atlanta, Aug. 9. Last night and this morning passed without any demonstration on the part of the enemy. Some few shells are still thrown into the city without doing any damage. The enemy evince no disposition to extend their right further, which rests near the Cambleton road. A Captain and Lieutenant, from McCook's raiders, who de serted from our army last winter, were captured yesterday. . Gen. Henry R. Jackson has gone to Atlanta with orders to take command made vacant in the army of Tennessee by the death of Brigadier General C. H. Stevens. - ' A Northern telegram dated Nashville, the th, sajs: " Gen. McCook, supposed to have been captured near Newnan, has come in with 120 of his men ; 500 had previously arrived at Marietta, as reported. He was successful in breaking the Ms. con road, aud capturing and destroying a wagon and railroad train. He captured 72 officers and 85 men, but was obliged to let them go. His safe return, with so many of his men, reduces his loss very materially.- More will probably yet come in." ' Later from the North. Richmond, Aug. 10. Flag of truce boat arrived at Varina last night, bringing thirty Surgeons and two Chaplains. V The Baltimore American of the 9th says advices from the upper Potomac represent that the rebels have again left Maryland. The retreat is said to have been made with great haste, tbe movement of the Federal forces on the South side c f the Potomac threatening their rear. The main rebel force under Early is reported retreating on Winchester. . Sheri dan has been temporarily placed in command'of the department of the Shenandoah Valley. It is re ported that Averill overtook the rebels, under Mc Causland, at Moorefield, Sunday, attacked them and captured all their artillery and five hundred prison ers. ' The American is much elated by this news and the reports from Mobile. Nothing important from Grant Both armies are engaged in strength ening their defensive works. Telegram from Fort Smith cla'ming a victory over the Confederates under Cooper and Standwaite of the 3lst ultimo. European advices tfnimportant, Confederate Loan active at improving rates. Latesfgold quotation in New York 257. . Garibaldi has been chosen Grand Master of the Free Masons in Italy. As an evidence of Gen. Hood's determination to increase the strength and efficiency of the army, L was shown to day an order just issued from head quarters, requiring all able bodied men in the dif ferent departments to report at once to the front, and requiring,, whenever it can be done, the heads of departments to perform their own clerical labor, and when that is impracticable, the employment of men unfit for the field. This order is directed not only to Quartermasters, Commissaries, Com mandants of Posts, Provost Marshals and Surgeons, but also to the Generals. Enforced, as 1 have as surance he intends it shall be, it will bring several thousand additional men to the field.. It will be received with great satisfaction our gallant men pow confronting the enemy, and I trust will not meet the displeasure even of those upon whom it is intended to operate. The sentiment behind the army should contribute to its enforcement. Cor reupcs.ice Griffin Rebel. Whole Number 1526. Thk Dyihg Mozart. Wolfgang Mozart, the great German composer, died at Vienna in the year 1791. There is something beautiful and touching in the circumstances of his death. His sweetest song was the last he sung the Requiem. He had been em ployed upon this exquisite piece for several weeks, his soul filled with inspirations of richest melody, and already claiming kindred with immortality. After giving it its last touch, and breathing into it that undying spirit of song which was to consecrate it through all time, as his "cygnean strain," he fell into a gentle and quiet slumber. At length the light footsteps of his daughter Emilie awoke him. "Come hithdr," said he, "my Emilie my task is done the Requiem my Requiem is finished." "Say not so, dear father," said the gentle girl, in terrupting him, as tears stood in her eyes. "You must be better you look better, for even now your cheek has a glow upon it I am sure we will nurse you well again let me bring you something re freshing." "Do not deceive yourself, my love," said the dying father, " this wasted form can never be restored by human aid. From heaven's mercy alone do 1 look for aid, in this my dying hour. You spoke of refreshment, my Emilie take these my last notes sit down to my piano here sing with them the hymn of your sainted mother let me once more hear those tones which have been so long my solacement and delight" Emilie obeyed, and with a voice enriched with tenderest emotion, sung the following stanzas : Spirit I thy labor is o'er I Thy term of probation is run. Thy steps are now bound for the Untrodden shore, And the race of immortals begun. . Spirit! look not on the strife, - Or the pleasures of earth with regret Pause not on the threshold ot limitless life, To mourn for the day that is set Spirit! no fetters can bind. No wicked haie power to molest ; There the weary like thee the" wretched shall find A haven, a mansion of rest Spirit! bow brightts the mad For which tbou art now on the win(f, - Thy home it will be, with thy Saviour aud God, Their loud hallelujah to sing. As she concluded, she dwelt for a moment upon the low melancholy notes of the piece, and then turning from tbe instrument looked in bilence for the approving smile of her father. It was the still passionless smile which the rapturous and joyous spirit left with the seal of death upon those fea tures. Napoleon too Cautious to be Poisoned. A Paris letter writer tells tbe followine : . I was in a circle, a few days back, composed of ootn native French and newly arrived Parisians. At last the conversation turned upon the Emperor, and the late arrivals were full of marvellous stories of attempts upon the Emperor's life. One " yarn" tan as follows : A beautiful young Italian girl was requested to maKe mm a arms, which she did. As it accident ally, in receiving the goblet, he contrived to drop into it a small knife with which he had been toying, as he sat The knife almost immediately turned black from the presence of some poison which the ltanan nas dropped into the beverage probably as a "flavor." She was quietly sent back to the Or leanist tribe, whence she came, disgraced. Another damsel offered Napoleon the larger piece of an apple, which she cut before his eyes, and while in conversation with him. (She was French, and a privileged member in the household.) With true politeness he requested an exchange, he to eat the smaller piece, and she the other. The lady demur red ; she could not each so much. He seized both pieces and bowingly retired. Next day the lady consented to " waste her sweetness on the desert air," of a convent, where she can reflect that the very first trouble which arose in the world, in the year one, came from Eve offering Adam an apple not fit for his mastication at that time. Thornton, the Missouri Guerilla. The Thorn ton who figures so conspicuously just now in the dispatches as a guerilla chief in Upper Missouri, is personally known to' a good many people in this vicinity. He graduated at Bethany College ia 1853, and he was then, as he is now, a sort of fire eating guerilla. He is a brother-in-law of the no ted Colonel Doniphan, of Missouri, who figured conspicuously in the Chihmbua expedition during the Mexican war. . He was known at Bethany, as be is now in the newspapers, by tbe name of " Coori" Thornton, and was regarded as ah eccen tric desperado, his chief delight apparently,, Jaeing to wear tall boot legs outside of his pants, with a bowie knife stuck inside, and to use the biggest and oddest words he could glean from the dictionary. He was a quiet, moody, pale faced fellow, who drank a good deal of whiskey at times, and had very few companions. He was a tolerable sort of student, and not without intellectual ambition. Wheeling Intelligencer, July 20. Traitors in Richmond. The Etaminer insists that there are traitors in high, places in that city. We hav'nt the slightest doubt of it, and hope they will be detected and punished. The Examiner says: There can no longer exist a doubt that we have traitors in some of our high places. The assign ment of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, to the command of our armies in Northern Virginia, and the removal to that quarter of a large body of his veteran troops, was not known in this city beyond the circle of the initiated of the War office. Yet we see the whole of our plans, as regards our campaign of invasion, spread before the world in the columns of the New York Herald. It behooves the authorities to- probe. this matter to the bottom, and discover and punish tbe traitor. We have no doubt but Bennett's gold unlocks all the important secrets of our government and thus becomes the means of frustrating some of the plans of our Generals. It is very well known that the " detectives" of the various departments at Rich mond, including the war office, are men of desper ate characters, geneially gamblers, pugilists and the like. Cases that occasionally come before tbe Po lice Court one of them no longer than last week, prove this. But who is to blame for all this and ,who is to reform existing abuses 7 ' We don't know. Progress. ' ThePrince Del Drago recently found some beau tiful ancient mosaic pavement on one of .his estates in the country, and he has just now exhumed from the cellar of his palace, in Rome, an exquisite statu ette of Venus, minus the head and arms, unfortun ately, but perfectly beautiful as to. the body and lower limbs. It is about three feet high. What's tub Difference ? A friend inquired of us "what's the difference between a government contractor and a government chaplain ?" Not im mediately seeing the point, he replied, " One prays for the government' and the other preys upon it !" We caved in and left Squibs. Montgomery Mail. Franklin, hearing the remark that what was lost on earth went tothe moon, asserted that there must be a great deal of good advice accumulated there.' There is Corn in toe Old Land Yet A corres pondent writing to the Mobile Register, says : "I have passed through the biggest cornfield I ever saw. It stretches from Demopolis to Selma, and for miles it really does seem to be one vast cornfield. There is yet an abundance of old corn all through the country, and I doubt if it can all be gotten, away in time to make room for a new crop." A subscription opened in Denmark for the widows, orphans and. wounded of the war, produced in a single dv at Copenhagen alone upwards of 300, 000f. The King put his name do.wn.fpr, 12,0 QUI. a year during a period of ten ye.SJ - The End or the War. We are asked fifty times a day, more or less, when we think the war will end. As we have no right to think, in the absence of data to think upon, we are sometimes at a loss for. an answer. However, for the information of ' those who are particularly inquisitive and anx ious upon the subject, we will relate a dream that a friend of ours had upon the duration of the Wir. which may throw some light upon the subject He dreamed that he awoke from a dream of fifty years, and found himself upon the south bank of the Rap idan. He saw at a tittle distance from the spot where he awoke a Corporal with 17 men and a wheelbarrow. He approached and asked the Cor poral what this little gathering inecnt . "This," replied the Corporal, " is the Army of Northern Vir ginia." " W here ate the Yankees ? " inquired our friend. " They are on the other side of the river," replied the CorporaL "They have the advantage of us in numbers and transportation as they have 21 men and two wheelbarrows but we expect to get the advantage in position, will whip them, and then the war will end." As this is tbe best and all the information we have about the probable duration of the war, we ive it free gratis for nothing at alL Abingdon Virginian. Quinine as an Antidote to Malaria. From an . article In the Confederate States Medical Journal, by Dr. Samuel Logan, on the prophylactic effects of Quinine in Malarious localities, we copy the fol lowing summing up of results. The Quinine was administered in four grain doses, daily, morning or evening : Total number who took no quinine, 230: had fever, 184 ; ratio per 1,000 of fever cases to patients, 582.60, or 1 in every 1 71 patients ; ratio per 1,000 of severe cases to total cases, 218 48, or 1 in every 819 cases. Total number who took quinine irregularly, 246 ; had fever, 96 ; ratio per 1,000 of fever cases to pa tients, 890 24, or 1 in every 256 patients ; ratio per 1,000 of severe cases to total cases, 291 66, or 1 in every 8 71 cases. Total number who took quinine regularly, 506; had fever, 98 ; ratio per 1,000 of fever cases to pa tients, 193 67, or 1 in every 5 16 patients ; ratio per 1,000 of severe cases to total cases, 326 53, or 1 in every 8.06 cases. Teaching Children Rhymes. Some one, in urg ing upon parents the duty of teaching the children spiritual songs and hymns, very appropriately re marks that " there is a chord in every human soul which is touched by poetry ;" hence the magical power of ballads, national songs, and religious hymns. Listen to tbe snatches of popular ditties which you hear in the street from passers by, after ' you have gone to bed, and you will own that metre and music have avenues to human souls, and, con sequently, that they should be largely employed in religion. 1 here is reason to believe that versified truth has peculiar lorce upon the commond mind, as it is certain that it affords aid to the memory. Luther and the other reformers felt this, and hence arose the wonderfully rich collection of hymns in the German language, to which there is perhaps, nothing comparable on earth. To this stock Luth er himself contributed mucfau. Ha was aided by Hans Sachs, the poetical shoemaker. In a later period came Paul Gerhardt, the greatest hymn writer of Germany, if not of the world. Wherever there are pious Ormans- you find them with - their beloved hymn books ; and, from frequent use they generally know great numbers of these hymns by heart It is an error to confine children to the learning of children's hymns, because when they become older these will have lost much of their fitness. Why should wo not fill our children's minds with the choicest evangelical hymns in the language? These they will remember after we aro dead and gone. They should not merely be learned once and then left for others, but repeated again and again, and sung over in order to nx them in the memory, and to lay a basis for lasting associa tions. The old words and the old tune come back to us with indescribable tenderness. Let tbe pious mother, when causing her boy to learn some sacred song, say to herself, " Perhaps, years hence, my son will remember the saying truth of this hymn, as having been taught by bis mother'-' Cotton as a Substitute fob Lint. Dr. Nolt, of Mobile, recommends cotton as a substitute for lint, in hospitals for tbe following reasons: 1. Its abundance, cheapness, and general, dissem ination. 2. Its value in padding splints, where there are fractures to be treated. '3. Cotton has always been used as a soothing dressing to burns, when the inflamation is of the highest possible grade. 4. I have used for' twenty years on dressing stumps, wounds of all kinds, including gun-shot, cotton and lint, indiscriminately, and could never sea any. difference, where both articles were good. 5. Buggrave, Surgeon to the King of Belgium, has written a volume on the advantages of cotton dressings, and other surgeons in Europe reoom mend it 6. Under the name of 'patent lint, surgeons hare been using, for many years, a kind of flimsy cotton flannel, which is nothing but cotton ; and the pro fession has, therefore, fully sanctioned its use. When I was' Medical Director of Gen. Bragg' s army, at Corinth, I had the hospitals freely sup plied with cotton ; and after the battle of Shiloh, it was almost entirely substituted for lint, and an swered all the indications. With the exception of Dr. Stone, of New Orleans, I believe I have done more operative surgery during the last thirty years, than any man South of the Potomac; and my experience is too conclusive, to my own mind at least, as to the value of cotton. I do not hesitate to say that I would prefer really well made, fine charplu tor general use as a dressing if I could get it in abundance, but the cotton answers so well that it is ridiculous to keep our ladies wast ing their time in scraping lint Most of the lint sent to the army is very coarse, and far inferior to good cotton. There arc certain ideas which seize on the world and which cannot be eradicated ; such as bleeding after concussions, putting irritating substances into fresh cuts to make them heal ; tieing up the wool on a negro's head to draw his palate up, &e. So is the prejudice about cotton, which I hope you may do much towards eradicating. Suells. The following from the Richmond Sentinel should prove a warning to those who are in the habit of handling shells, or other explosive niissiles with which daily familiarity' renders carelesss: Some old shells believed to be empty, which had , been sent to Bradley's Foundry, in Winchester, to be cleaned up, were being taken out of a wagon by some negroes. Several little white boys were play ing about tbe wagon, and persisted in handling the shells though repeatedly driven off. While the wagon was being unloaded a shell which turned out to be loaded exploded on being thrown in tbe pile already collected on the ground. Instantly fifteen or twenty shells in the pile also exploded, causing the report to be beard in tho city, and kill ing almost instantly five negro men and three whit boys. The victims of this sad tragedy were horribly mutilated. One of the boys and two of the negroes were literally blown to pieces. The fragments of shell flew far and wide through the town of Manchester, strikinga number of houses and producing a great excitement It is surprising, . t;Anlnr tha nnmhpr nf npranna mnviner about vuiioiuvi - - i' - - -- o the streets, that the casualties were not more nu merous. The lojiidry where the accident occurred is but a short distance from the cotton factory. A l-JWI! uicuuug av a . the Council to appropriate 1575,000 to aid in filling the quota of the borough with volunteers, A Great Cheese Region. At a Conrentioaheld, at Rome, Oneida county, N. Y.. representativea were present from sixty-four cheese factories, which em ployed 83,670. cows. Of these cheese factories, 31 were in Oneid; county. The others were in Herklra&r, Chateiooe vid Courlland. counties. Tbe . . . - . f .- i t.. whtch'h'as .1 V cc-w&'Mu ose in New Woodstock, which has Vi' V. 'Taare were nine private dairies reprcsent-.-l, vllih have together 416 ebwev'Tb system of'm.nufacturing cheese upon .a combined plan and cn a large scale is one of recent origin, and ibis lit shows it ha absorbed the daly interest vf that region.