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Carlisle American Volunteer (Newspaper) - April 27, 1865, Carlisle, PennsylvaniaVol. 51. �?�7- Carlisle a. Thursday april 27, i no 46.american Volunteer. Publish by tear to thabar Morriso st John b. But Aton. Subs Tripti a a a tvo Tufts if paid a thin the be Jurj and two boy a a a a Abus it conts if not paid a Tibia Thoj tir. Tebei so to amp a will be rigidly and Irod Vety fist Fiaoo. A subscription la a cd tiny a a until All Vrr crr amp Gea Nurer paid unless at the option the edit tier.aorbntwlshekt8aco a Pai died by to be Lish arid io4 cooking a quare be inserted Oliree nos for $2.00� and Twenty Fevo cents for each . Tbs Ift i greater length m drop ton. Jod a Ninika such Ash amp and Billi to Sung balls pamphlets Blanfo labels amp a. &o., zoo Ute to Frith Goa Ray end at the Shorton to notice. A a i f. A. Beltzhoover attorney and counsellor a a Taw a Catli Subj pens a. Affine Southa Anover Street oppo alte Benta in store. A. By Spoo Ial arrangement we to the Patent office attends to scouring Patent rights. A Siept. 22, 1864-ly Jet rfcs Job. §iia�i.,, at to r Ney at Law. Carlisle trends to , and a collecting to. Soldier a pm a Efthima b�tmtie�,.<s�c egg a Floe so to a jux a Novor Street opposite Lent s store. A Bob 13, 1862. , a t t r a e t a t l a a office South Hanover Street in the room formerly Noc pied by a. Sharpo. Ii. St .1862�?9m. Samuel Hacsi , attorney at Law. Office wit judge Hepburn Easi main Street Carlisle. A aug. 6, 63�?ly. A ii. Newsham attorney at Law. Office with win. Ii. Miller esq., Southwest Corner a Hoover and Pomfret streets. Carlisle Deo. 22, 1802�?1?. Cuas. 13. A t t Orny at a a w. Office in Inhoff a Iii Wilg just opposite the Market Hou a. Carlisle March 13, ,. La j. W. Foulk attorney Law. A office with Jamos r. Smith Fesq Rheem s Hall. All business entrusted Ophir amp willbe prompt a attended to. A. Feb. 6.1863. Or Cleo. S. So a Rihms i from the Baltimore College dental Sirg office at the residence his my Tor East Louth Street three doors below Bedford. Carlisle Doc. 22,18�o2.iti. A Hermani at to net at Law. Office in Rhoemus Hall building in the rear the court House nest door to the i Herald Floe Carlisle a Fob. 4�elrvo/ Jan pics a. Dot mar attorney at Law. Carlisle a. A. Of Floe nest door to to aih�t4can printing Floe a few doors Wost Dunno pc a Hock april 14, 1864�?ly a . I a Loo ti8t, i per. To As removed from South Hanover Street to Wost Pomfret Street opposite the female High school a Uli Ile. 28, 1861.n e w s sews Nefs 1 a a a Sindich amp Miller Are Juat receiving at their new and cheap Stote the South East Cornor main Sirot Tea Elk first st apply offal and Winter goods to which Thoy invite the Spoo lol attention every person in want goods desirable for the present pud coming season. The Stock comprises 11 kinds and varieties Duess goods it toil Plain Black figured and Repp Silks Plain and figured coloured dream. Silks All Solors French Moronos. French Cashmere Plain and figured Coburg cloth All shades and Solors Blok and ool Rod Aljy a Odd Plain and figured All Wool Mous do la Ainest a nil Awo for radios and Phildren a i Drossos a Lohar Poppins a Lonuias american Dol Ainoa Oft oops Gingham a i �.0 v _ a a Titan. Eten lbs father the Day is done 1. A divinely Dies the Pun. _ to Avig the quiet Earth in pensive prayer. Slowly the Fields grow dim As thou with thought him now gone who All the Day a has shown so free and fair. A Hof amp a the night comes Down not like Ani Angels syrion a but Only gladness faded froth Thoft a in night 1 holy Calm arid deep i. A Balm for those who. Weep Spray Ling amid Earth a Yayoi Tiofio thy kindly grape. N 1 0 ii t att the Olty sleeps it a Only who Cetin drops with voices amp it. Into the list Ning night four Forth with Eek Seless a in Jet their awful Hyena. Quiet in Earth and sky i it a afar the old Hills lie. Asleep in floating Vapours swim a Jeneath the Moon by a my dind Over land and sea. \. Silence and deep repose i for nil Darth a weary Wobu and eare ans As an infants Bleep i. I Only Jwak a fixed weep till Morfe fee Gin. A Juk r a a a c cer. Nos Bombasino Quot Crapo Quot a i plaid Poppins Blok and purple plight a Cut to exc Tong Square and the Abbot shawls Loog and Square Blanket shawls Crape Voils Crapo i Fellars hand ker.hiof8, loves it Balmoral o., �?T a a 1�f boy amp . A _ Mack and coi Rod Olpt Fis Conoy Cassi a you Orr All grades and qual Tiu von tags Satti hats uni . Oas Pinsof Kentucky joans shirting flannels a Brno shirts and a wors a. Of. A. Special Arr a in my it made with a first class tailor to make no nothing at tory Short tic Roods Blo Obod find Unble Eathod in Skliris Ivory Quality sheeting muslims Pillow Caso muslims Linon and Cotton table diapers ticking Chooks st ipod Cotton shirting Donna is do mostly Gingham fico Toh Gingham sack flannel every color shirting flannels Pap tory and Shaker flannels for skirting Rod Pottow and Whito Wool flan hols Canton Eian nols Cali Coes ool ted Zambrio and paper Musli Rii drilling Nan keens and Many other goods in Ovey Day notions in great variety. Menus Hanover Buck gloves and gauntlets Berlin cloth Ringwood Cass Traore and Dogskin gloves ladies Kiu cloth for no silk. Lyrle Coad and Cotton gloves Afi Ull aaa Ortyl ont Potton and Wool hosiery for Mon ladies and Chu rentral moral Woolen Hose for radios aeissee.-Ftowtunu-. Dren opera hoods All limb andycolpr.spair�. Suspenders Sontag hooped skirts. Bait Oral skirts umbrellas do., amp . ,. Also lust opening a completo Stook to anew it styles cloth 01oaks, and Blanket shawls carpets Oil cloths a at tongs window shades looking glasses 4o., 40. A a .1 a the Inq amp find advances we will constantly be Taft Kink additions to our Stock and will always end de Porto make our Stook the most Quot a an be found in . Foel Ingvor thankful to the Community for their kind and Liberal patronage so far extended to tho , we earnestly a Olio if a continuance the same. Please give a a a All before making your purchases a we Are always ready and willing to exhibit our goods and a an and will prove that to interest . Tiease do not forget that oar store is the it Ner direct la oppo eito Irvine s shoe store.,. Leidigh amp Miller. Carlisle sept. 15, 1864. 5 miss Blly Mousa Tfaye atrial incident. Some years ago the manager a a Well regulated theatre a somewhere along the line tho Erie canal engaged a Good looking and brisk Young body As a supernumerary a it happened that the Young lady in question had formerly Soffio Atod is a a hand Board a Nal boat a fact which she was extremely anxious to conceal. She evinced much anxiety to Rii Aster the details . Her newly chosen profession and soon exhibited a More to an Ordinary degree coif in Talent. She wis daily promoted and i d Tittio be catch i get Portil favorite with both tree manager Anil the Public. I one night she was Ann Ouritha tenppeaf1 Iti a favorite part and a Cotile Boatmen found their Way into tho pit near the hot lights anxious to see tho Rio i fat offs come dts Fine. The House Bias wed and after the subsidence the general applause which appearance one the Boatmen Jila Ned a my companion the shoulder a fed , expletive Oolf timed fetid Lobo heard Over half it the Househ it a i Bill. I Knopf that Gal a a a a pshaw in Eaid Bill dry up.�?T, f Blit in a did if i done to Knofe her Bill. Its sol Foj Leiha As Siire As you Fth she a Otto Fly i tins daughter that used to rub the Ioji Ifer a Polly and she used to it it sail with him.,a ,1 6�id Bill you re a tool and if you Dhu ii to Stop your infernal Clack Yolly la get put Oil. Sal Lukins 1 you know a sight if Yod thine that a her 1�?T _ Toril was silenced hut not evinced. He watched the not Esfi. Is All Jbf actin is with intense inter fit and Ere. Long broke out egah7a a i , Bill that she re i know Yori can to fool me a i Kriwow her too Well v let Bill who was a Good Dea Idle re Teci in the play a was out All Pat Ierio at Liis Poi Sist ent interruption tho part Tom a he gave him a tremendous nudge it in the ribs with his Elbow is an Emp natio hint for Hite to keep quiet. A a. Tom without minding tha. Adm Niiori said. A Yon just wait ill fix her keep your Oye ,. ,. A. ,. ,. Sure enough be did fix her. Atom Nims Opportunity when the act Russ Ivas deeply absorbed in her part he Sung oat in Quot a voice that rang galleries 1 Lowbridge 1 a a a a a a. From Force habit the actress instantly and involuntarily ducked her head to avoid the. Anticipated collision. Down. Name. The House with a perfect Thunder .applause it this a a palpable hit a High a boo which Toms voice would be he Ard As he returned Bill s Nurieh Iri the ribs with interest a did no to i Tell be old boy a i Knovis a twas her. Yogi would ii to fool tue Troe More lapse Yearb is not life. To eat and drink and Bleep j. To he exposed to darkness and the Light to Page a round in the Mill Habisc and turn the Shoei to make reason our bookkeeper and turn thought into Fin implement Trade this is not life. In All this but a Joor fraction the humanity is awakened and the ban otitis a Stitt a Lum her which Raake it most Worth while to live. Knowledge truth Levy Beauty go Olrik is a Faith along can give vitality to tho mechanism existence a the la a go fifth which vibrates through the Hewitt tho Tito that Fresho the dry waste with the fetus to that brings Ohof Hood Hackl the Falls the future near ,.th� doubt which makes us meditate free defer if his a. Ether feb us with Fey Story the hard Ahio that forces us to struggle the anxiety that ends in Trust Are the True nourishment our National being. A Bonds a mishaps a a Troy Alderman got married the other Day mid had rather a sad Tipsie his wedding tour. He was torn Days in getting to Buffalo account. the Snow i was in the airman hotel in that pity when it was burped Down and his Way toohioago.,was thrown Over an embankment Twenty feet High by a Railroad to rident badly and his new wife. The updo Are Ohio ago recovering from thou injuries and getting courage to try the return Quot there is this difference Between happiness and Wisdom he that thinks himself the happiest Man really is so bul he that thinks flip self the Wisest a a generally the greatest fool a a heroic Little girl the Vicks Birg Herald tho Seth relates the parties Lars us a Mast torrid crime perpetrated in that a Short time stride at about a 10 clock at bight two negroes went to the residence Harrity who is superintendent Dick a Christmans Plantation about 60 Miles above the pity the Mississippi Side the River and knocking at the door demanded admittance. at once opened the door when they demanded his Money and pistols. He replied he had neither but had scarcely spoke when he was fired Fey both the ruffians the shots striking him in the Hack tho neck and completely paralysing him. Passing Over what they supposed to be his dead body they entered the House murdered its. Harrity and two. Children and shot through the shoulder a Little girl she fell and though enduring intense pain she feigned death so Well that tho inhuman monster really thought Feer dead and proceeded with their we irk plunder without noticing Hor further. After plundering the House everything variable that they could Larrv off they set fire to it fend went away. The Dittle girl thus wounded arid alone in the burning building gut few aged going to her father who was dying hear the door with desperate courage and strength if managed to a drag him outside the House into the Yard the rain Chiefe Risafi tailing. Revived him and with the a ask in la Noo his Little daughter fee managed to Brawl to in ont hopi so. The Little girl than returned the tho House to attempt to get h Mot her from the she failed to Aero plish her object though her severely burned Side leaves evidence the heroic Devotion with which she Stop a Glt a to Rescue the do cd body heh Mot Fiefe returning to her father she Little fire and sat Wyto High by his aids nhe conversed with her until a Denyl Irvil when to use her own pitiful . And she Thuu Ghl to was dead. When Daylight Goaltie the p , wounded she was by the assassins built and by the flames made her Way to the Horese a neighbor Distant and related the horrible Story. This gentleman got others his neighbors and proceeded la the scene murder and arson. Mrs. Gay Ritya a body was. Not entirely Quot a ensured and was Fiken from the turn s Ana buried with those her Hubband. The bodies the a Hilda in had been entirely consumed. From the Little girls description the murderers the officers a gunboat near the place were the opinion that they were two deserters front tile vessel. Eff eco to much Abin the system. A there Are Many persons in the world who thinking Theofi Elvis either too thin Oro Ornu Lene to Accord with their Beau Ideal symmetry and Beauty fee son Are constantly exercising their Millas evil in a View increasing diminishing their. Rotun Dity a fid in Many cases a it a lying remedies for their Eup posed defects a which eventually destroy their health., Young ladies full habit feeling further innovation up Tiro system their slow to Resart to copious and constant draughts Seidu rated liquors without reflecting that they impair and in faint arrest the operation the digestive organs when taken beyond a certain Point. Then in tho vulgar notion unhappily too fondly relied that vinegar helps to Down any alarming obesity and Tufit la does who dread the appearance in their Graceful outline in Cirves Phil Moness exp finding into fat May arrest so dreadful a result by Liberal rotations vinegar but this can Only to accomplished at the far Mere dreadful expense health. The amount noid which will keep them thin will destroy their Jedi festive Powers. Portal gives a ease which should fee a warning. I. Am Quot a few fears ago a lady a in easy Oire pm st Nicosi enjoying Good health she was very plump a Fie i Good appetite and a complexion with roses and a a polished Ivory groundwork. She Feegan to look Pumi Pepsh with so a Pinion Mother was very fat and she was afraid becoming like her. Accordingly she consulted a woman who advised her to drink a Glass Viri Egar Dull the Young indy flawed tho a Virit Jinnu her plumpness diminished. She Feas Deli gifted with the Experiment she soon by go fifa experience tho effects. A cough Nofiu a Low fever came with a difficulty breathing her. Body became Lerin and wasted a Way swelling her lower. Limbs and feel succeeded and a diarrhoea terminated he a a now p ob8essea Large manufactories machinery a a pm Cisily for line a for steam engines and flute years for Iron ships. So much has the car after Trish woolens lately risen that fee tween 1851 and 1s63 the a lumber tit Chi increased from nine to forty three nearly tour Hundred and sixty three per sent. The Cotton Mills in Ireland since the american War have Fereen applied to the manufacture flax and the Irish poplin Trade has greatly revival but by far the Moat important Branch Lif Irish manufacture is the Linen Trade. In 1864 there were in Ireland seventy four spinning Mills with six Hundred and fifty thousand six Hundred Rind thirty eight spindles and there was a similar increase in Power loom factories. Ten years ago there were seventeen thousand persons employed in Trade Belfast while in the present year to Berk were Twenty five thousand there has been an enormous in Rense in flax cultivation the total value the a crop the present year being to less than three million nine a Dyfed and mighty nine pounds. The total Valenc Lih ofes exported from the United Kin Riam has in Fere used from five millions one vivid re a and Iris to thousand three Hundred arid forty seven i funds in 18611. Tonight millions four Hundred and sixty nine thousand and thirty six pounds in 1863. The ski an indicator the weather. The Ozior the sky at particular Tillies. Affords wonderful Good. Guidance. A nut Only does a Rosy sri set presage Good Merither and a buddy Sunset bad Eather fib there Are other tints which speak with equal clearness and accuracy. A Fet ight yellow sky in the evening indicates wind a Pale a yellow wet a Neutral Gray Leolor constitutes a favourable sign in tho evening and an unfavourable one in the morning. The a Lorida Are again fell in themselves.1, Are soft undefined and Lull feathery the weather will be Fine a if their edges ire hard Sharp and definite i will he speak Irig any Gnu sisal hues be Token wind rain while the Inore Deli ate and. fair a outlier. These Aro simple Nix Ima and Yeti so simple that v the it Britten Bofird Trade has thought fit to publish them for the us seafaring american. A. A -. Quot re a r be a a to a person should b a just before he is generous. Gerard i will a late number .the North american Jle View contains an interesting Artripe Ste Phon Girard and his College Iri which the following graphic account is give Iofe what took place when has will was Lead. The fio Opie Philadelphia will be amused to earn How his a a affectionate relatives received that he a Given his estate to tree Orphalee and poor rather than to them int. A Quot death having dissolved the powerful spell a Rill serice which few men had Power to resist it was to be seen Bow far his will to Ould fee rib eyed now that fee was no longer Able personally to enforce it. To fes old Man Lay dead in his House in water Street. While the Public out doors were curious enough to learn what he had with his Rico Neil there Ensia smaller number within the House the Kindred the deceased in whom this e curiosity raged they invaded the Oell Rirs tha House by bring Iii rip Bolties the old Marius Thoi co wind and Kep tnp a continual Ronso. Sir round pm Dearie who had Beni present at Feath and re my ii Neil his funeral they demanded to know if there was a will. To silence their indecent clamor he told them that there was and that he was one the executors tin hearing this their desires to learn its contents vote in fury. In vain the exp tutors reminded them that decency required that the will should not be opened until after their Pherril. They. Even threatened Legal proceedings if the will wrist not immediately produced i and at length to avoid a Public Scandale tho executors Roii seated to have it read. These relatives being Assen bled in a parlor the House in which the Bod the Benefactor Lay. Tho will was taken from the Iron Safe by one the executors. A Quot when he opened it and wrist about to be Gin to read he changed to look Over the top the document at the company seated be Foto him. No artist that Ever yield a Brush coins depot the passion curiosity the frenzy expectation expressed in the group Pallia Fries. Ever individual among them expected to leave the apartment the conscious possessor millions for no one had dreamed the probability his leaving the bulk his estate to the publio.1 they had Ever heard his saying that no one should be a gentleman upon his Money they had forgotten disbelieved it. The opening paragraphs the will All tended to confirm their Hopes Bince the bequests to existing institutions Fedoro . Email amount. Brit the Reader by Iofi fen phed the. Pert the will which Assi Grifiin to ladles aria gentlemen pres. Ent such trifling sums is five thousand dollars ten Tiriris Trifi tier into thousand and he arrived eve a Long at the sections which disposed a a Elliot in i Fop the Benefit great cities and poor children some them made not the Slig Lithul Rit tempt to conceal their Digap Poirot Merit Rind disgust. Men were there who had Marii fid with a View to Fearo the wealth Girard ii a had Beon writing years for his. Depth women were there we lipid looked to that event As the beginning enjoyment life. The imagination i the Reader Mist Supply the do tails i Esefene Hicri we Rij ight think dishonoured hib Fean nature if we could believe that human nature was meant to be subject to such a a rat a Adt Iii the a drinking cellar Chestnut Street ribose twelfth the other night a terrier started a rat. The rat dashed Orit the the Steps to the Street and then straight across. A lady was walking Bijj. Slip was just in front if the Chestnut Street theatre when the rat ran lip. The Steps the cellar the opposite Side the Street. The rat was running for his life the dog in Pursuit him was running for a Good Dinder. The rat Wheir about a dozen lengths ahead sprang up Ozithe lady a dress ran up under her Vioak and Hestlow close up Rind fir her sleeve. The lady shrieked with horror and dismay. So piercing was he cry Thrift Ai gentleman run hurriedly to Lief Relief. She pointed to her Arr isaid Quot Airilin my sleeve a and again a Aid Utt Orence to a piercing shriek. The gon Leman boldly grasped the Protu Terenee made squeeze. A left eve us Eze never yet was made upon a Jem riri by n first Eltriss bar tender. The through the intervening clothing into the gentleman a hand with a painful by Crispini incision., the grip upon the beast however was too his life was err Shefl out he dropped to the ground and the lady Siok faint unutterably horrified declining further assistance wended her writ . eloquently says i cannot believe that Earth is to pan a abiding place it cannot be that our life is cast few by the Ocean eternity to float a moment upon its Waves and then sink into nothingness el80, Why is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like Angels from our hearts Are forever marching about unsatisfied Why is it that Clouds Roriie Over with a Beauty that is riot Earth and then pass off and leave us to Muse upon their fax Rod Why is it the tithe stars who hold their festivals around the Rind night Thrope Are so t above the grasp oar limited Faoiz Illies forever mrio King us with their unapproachable glory f and finally Why is it that Bright forms human Beauty Are presented to our View and then taken from us leaving the thousand streams our affection to Floe Bank in Alpine torrents upon our hearts we Are born for a higher destiny then that Earth there is a realm where a Rainbow never fades where the st ivs will fee spread Bot Ore us like islands that slumber Ife tho one and and. Where the beings that pass he foes us like shadows will stay in our Prebe Boe salutary i was u Young Man there lived in ring neighbor Rhood a Farmer who was usually reported to be a very Liberal Man and uncommonly upright dealings. When he had any the products his farm to Dis Fedose be made it an invariable Rale Toke Good measure rather More than would by required Hiiri. One his friends Obser Virnig Hito frequently doing so questioned him a to Why he did it. He tcjid1 him he Gaffe Jjohn. Muriph and said it would be car his disadvantage now dear cannot ret up to rectify a a think this the to is but one journey through life. Quoit a a a person who dined Iri company with. Or. Johnson Onde Avord to make his court to him by laughing i moderately at everything he said. The doctor Here it for borne time with philosophical indifference but the impertinent a a a becoming intolerable. 4< Prii i said is tha Piatt Zjr i i Hope i have no said anything that you Orin comprehend.�?�. Flirt details the capture Ilich mond. A. A correspondent the world writing froth tho Spottswood hotel Richmond 6th inst., gives Many write Robt g facts. Beginning with an account the last Battle at pet is Burg he says. F. The various devices inventions a Njohn could economize men had All been a tried. Earthworks forts abates Chevaux. De Frise felines canals and so had All open applied fen our Side and to these the rebels added torpedoes for the purpose relieving As a Fey men As possible for the decisive struggle whenever it should take began the contest. The beg roads pro hunted much fighting beyond heavy skirmishing wednesday . Sho rid Iiri was confronted by the whole Wride hah Ipton cavalry and under Mabone infantry. The result was that a up Friday Sheridan after some opposition had Cut his Way. To the Railroad and the . On i storm Rind intense darkness the rebel pickets urged no doubt by the imminence a struggle ran into their forts reporting an attack Nhi Feli spreading along the line soon extended along both lines around Petersburg. The Annfa adding was furious and seen in the the Blok storm was one the most awfully grand Serines imaginable. The fire was kept up from the forts for some hours when both sides finding that the imaginary foe made no impression concluding their in Feridy respectively repulsed. No very great Iri jury loss was sustained but it gave Rise to an impression Iri Richmond and also in new York we Jud Gri that there had been a great Battle with terrible Slaughter. ,. Tin saturday morn Irig the lines driving been closed up the preparations for a Gerit ral Boulb ardent and storming having been second fifth sixth ninth and Twenty fourth corps were held in readiness to Force their Way through any portion thrill lines which might develop a promising weakness. The attack was ordered and Gnu Rifet y met and after varying fortunes our slice is seemed to be doubtful the left Lii Itil Sheridan a cavalry climbing Over three successive Lino newly thrown no 1ti Trench if chs were enabled to surround a division More tho enemy and thus enable the Tif tips in the Vii rity hatchery Orrin to bag about two thousand prisoners who surrendered without unusual presents a wretched appearance. The e writer followed into the pity a few hours after its occupation to find almost Evely House closed Many them shot through by Sii oils Many others in ruins. This stores wore empty and closed. The streets were crowded with the inhabitants and Olla soldiers now streaming in at nil Points. The inhabitants consisted principally negroes whom there were vat numbers a few Able bodied Blacks arid a great Many Depre pid and aged. Tho works around. Petersburg Are very Strong and shown Beaver like Industry combined with great skill Rind dating. On the West and South the town the yellow Sand lists a ctflo8sal worm eater appearance. Each fort 1ms very commodious Fomb proofs and Little eaves for the gunners. The space Iri i evening Between the two lines which in Somo pieces is not More than two Hundred feet is dotted with Little circular pits with n so Ertain Earth in which thre pickets either Side kept up a constant Fri silage. The Che Aux de Frise the rebels is if the old Sotto a pipe log Twenty thirty feet Long into which at right angles sharpened stakes about eight feet Long which. When in single double rows Aro a terrible obstruction to a charge. In the pity there Are a neb also in imitation those it viols Borg. In Riby judgment the defences Petersburg Are not As Strong is those viols Borg but course they have been defended by a far larger a. Pay. We captured about thirty heavy guns a spiked in the forts Many Thorn filled Rind great calibre. A great Many the wounded Rise a a till in the houses and hospitals be terse ring and hut few surgeons to attend rail Road which had been torn up fora few Miles was immediately put in re pair and by thursday it was expected to be running ill to the pity. The few Small schooners Ana boats which were at the docks were nil scuttled. In fact it was very evident that the ethels had married off destroyed everything which could be any value to us. The enemy had blown up the famous Virginia at Drury a Bluff and her Iron sides Are now visible. Tho Fredericksburg lies near her arid the new Iron Olad the is a Hove a new trim the stocks beef Rioh Friend was also fired and is burning to this hour. The rebels had a powerful Stone Blo Okido at fort Darling Iri front which Are a numbers torpedoes some them aired filled up containing 1,900 Totts captured also the David Carrier Williria Allison Banner and another Small transport. Thus perishes the last the formidable ironclads which the con fed Rala have built but which have have had a singular fatality ill Luek. With this course followed the abandonment the Howlett House Battery also a Trifel Quot and the line works bet Fien the jct it a a Taatto a Richmond. A Fife three Tromer Idous explosions before Daylight monday morning had prep re a every one for the evaluation Richmond. Sortie Krutz s cavalry first entered the mounted and were Mot by deputation citizens with mayor Mso who the pity might be Quot honorable surrendered As the retreating rebels were More to be feared than the open a a the Guidon the cavalry were placed tho Capitol about 8 look. About half past six pm look the last train the a fussed the Dany Ilori. Railroad Bridge As troops were sighting tie City fro Rii the Hills. John c. Breckinridge who had remained behind to Saper intend the Fei irk Jestrow Etin was among the la st to leave his assist Entson this work were general Ewell and major bios Turner Libby . Governor half an hour earlier a canal boat the transportation horse Vehip la a. Having been a . I. A. Laboratory fend the freight depot the Danville Road was fired a about Ait look several the citizens protesting at the time that1 it would cause immense loss to private individuals. 1 an Appeal was Adrito Breckinridge by the suggestion Ewell Iwho dered the throb to be applied and then left. The rattle the locomotive would he head the Bridge As cur troops entered the heart tho pity. Awful cqnflao.r4ti.,. ,. A the firemen. And soldiers negroes a who were prom Toda us urged by tree few White officers made in effectual endeavours to Sheok the fire but seesried is impotent As if they had been directed against Vesuvius the Large Milia Haxall amp. Crenshaw went a8 Well is adj. The warehouses and near the a anal. Fein Street was re ached and for a time it see ined As if the Spottswood would up. People were afraid to enter it but its proprietor by strenuous efforts saved it Down main Street and up tree West Side the Capitol Square it caught the Ivor department buildings arid the quartermasters offices though it is Stit posed this May have been fired independently As Lori be lords papers were hauled Cut into the Street and burned Treasury building strangely Seq Tigh escaped being a Stone Structure with metallic roof though the three for blocks it a a a vast mass Blok Fei Iris. The fire swept Down six blocks maid Street Froin the Cit Pitol so rinse. Of tho River Bank everything for a full mile in fast the fire died out for the a Rifle contiguous fuel. The sight Mon Driy bight from the Heights above was terrific and a lowing the failing Walls Rind Orick Ling flames gave every hour a fresh impetus to the burning mass. A _ tiie Day add wednesday evenings the View from gamblers. Hill look Rig Over the River Fri Wohld sri Genii a a so flare mile Black arid smoking ruins. The three Bridges to Rose tie James one them a costly and magnificent Structure the Petersburg Bridge Siirid to have Robt Over a million . Dollars were burned. Two three Large Mills in Manchester opposite the Navy Yard and the whole the heart the City has destroyed. The loss Mist amount to thirty millions dollars in Gold. The Ballard House and Exchange hotel were saved. The most the Banks Rind one Huron were consumed though there was probably Little specie in the vaults. It is computed that one thousand five Hundred it by Iliad Iris were destroyed and forty blocks. Scenes to sult. In the spread the fire there was much pillaging. The poorer lasses women who had Long Felt tho pangs fam Ine now found their Opportunity wreaking i 8unpressed-vengeance against the speculators and Oxton toners. Tho negroes caught the infection and stores were broken into and for a few hours the Feilest Beenes Dis order pro failed. It Bho Tild be mentioned that sunday evening a committee citizens headed by the civil authorities seeing the Fate before them very wisely concluded to destroy All the liquor before tho entry our troops accordingly All the Deposit Rios were visited and the liquors were emptied into the gutters. The flight Jeef Davis. The despatch sent by Leo sunday from Petersburg and which re ached president drives while in Church sunday was the signal Lor a grand exodus his wife left wednesday previous it is said for Galveston. He sent Over to . Hoge whose Sermon be had been listening to a Small note by the Black sexton.1 the latter receiving it changed the course his remarks and said it the last time he should address them and hastily conducted the Sor Vico the Rost tho Day Iio spent with his secretaries in packing up his his House was left otherwise in the usual order a White housekeeper being found in charge by Pur people. He took the train at half past six in the evening. Nota Ril Tieb. Governor Smith extra Billy left his wife a very excellent lady by the Way behind. Mrs Gen. Leo has Boon an invalid for some Timo and Oey a pied a very a modest mansion beyond that the vice president. A guard was immediately placed at the House for her Protection and she was treated with becoming Courtesy. Stephens occupied a House the opposite Corner from Davis 6ut has Nof been living in it for some time. Edward a. Pollard whom general Butler says is not exchanged was at the Spottswood House wednes Driy opening the Only two foreign flags which we saw exhibited wore tho French Tri color and the Spanish. Or. Edmund a. Paul the French Consul took occasion to Call upon Gen. Weitzel Early to express his hops that Protection would be extended to his person and property. Judge Capri poll Orco the United states supremo Bench and More recently the Peony co in i s s to Llera was one the inst important personages left behind. A a number the More prominent and wealthy citizens have left for Europe including judge Bledsoe arid John r. Thompso next wednesday morning judge tramp Bell paid a visit to general we Itzel while we wor6 present. After some conversation he expressed a desire to see president Lincoln to ask him if some Way could not he found in the present attitude affairs to Eon Ludo a peace. Go Nero Woitzel promptly waited the Predi Dent with him. The result is not officially Mado known but i express its substance a when i say that the president received and informed him that he had no objection to allowing him to go to Davis so soon As it was Safe to do so hut. That he had no Mossage to seed the subject until he Row Eifu a one from Davis Leo. Tho judge returned Rind it i said among the citizens that he a to reach Davis when a the intermediate territory is knife to travel through. A. A. I a a a i a news wafers. In a a. A. Of. The five newspapers Richmond three have been destroyed by the fire the whig and sen Linal alone remain. The latter has been confiscated by the government arid the. Whig is iss Najj is an evening Papet by the former proprietor William. Ira Smith who announces in his Salut Atory tuesday that it will be devoted to the cause the Union and will bring to its control one Virginia a noblest sons by. Which to suppose John Miuor Botta is i Rient. Tho whig a Vas Thomast Peeper to Auoe Umb to tho secession furore aged . Smith then sold it rather than Lori . To a a Richmond Affer its oaf turn. Spottswood House Richmond Van a thursday april 6.�?the in Ore l look around Here the More a Ara satisfied that is. Finally and a feet Felly burst rip. Both the news from the front a rid the vestiges left behind hers hear indications. That ithe blow which has j fest fallen hat a Ferrien expected to pome Foi sometime but Camp at last in a Way trip re Sodden �rr�8sing than any Fere amed . A Fermat Many circumstances come to Light which show that both the government officials and shrewd parties outside have been converting property and conveying effects to Safo distances for a Long Many the most wealthy people Rioh Morid and Virginia have been going to end to Aroh Ivos Bave been shipped South and scattered and by amp in various places throughout Georgia North Carolina South Carolina arid Virginia. Two months ago tho Sentinel the official Organ the government had removed its Back files and spare material to South Catolina. Where , part it was cafe to fed by ser Man. The Treasury a been sent for a month Back. Fur Lier tap pop a that tho policy tho govern Pierit Trade through our lines feral vew a a not but within two months has been Suddy Ril hang . In a single Day .2d february think fresh orders were iss feed to Accel it Rill Quot offers and sell al to tho govern ment for tho Coin it furling Exon age. V the Law Pisa de by cd no told to. Raise suripli�b1 for tho army by Coin. the kneads the state Banks. Davis family has few in Rife to off and though it is spread about the the opus e Are left in usual order it is so Only to the Eye the pc visual Bop Over. The stir Ion to scrutiny fails to find Ariy those valuable papers records . Which a oust naturally belong to so Rihl a place arid ski ohm Aro portable in their nature. A pianos st us ties carpets Mittons furniture Are there course but nothing touch value which could have been trikes Quot off. Alex. H. Stevens two months since and loft Quot fori the Fri governor Billy Smith is a offi Cyril who his in Leno dark and he had Timo to Crarry off hide his most valuable goods. A a Quot -1 a i May add that ceh Airi ill natured secessionist a re question Irig the taste and the propriety tho expected Visi t mrs. Lincoln mrs. General Urrih Ferid mrs. General weit Sci. In hastening to pc buy tho executive mansion As something trip Petty fori the representatives a great Natita suppressing an insurrection1 there is a grand Tush Dignin Turies from the North among them Are Many ladies Ouri soldiers particularly appreciate and Delight in these junk eting parties who at the Berils a great Slaughter us parties pleasure. A. The contrast this crowd writ redressed strangers in the pity with the seedy shabby and forlorn appearance tie inhabitants is indeed very strange. Almost All Are the men and women meanly dressed. The Money which they Hadjin such. Vast sums is worthless Fanny them not having where a with to buy a loaf. Are regarded by them with More appreciative difference than by ris. They Are considered almost As Good As Gold. Little boys Are peddling tobacco in tho streets in the Hope. buying some found in the Sutler so stores which Thore arc three four already opened. It is evident that tie River Railroad must be opened Japy position will Pant to leave and go North. The fat including the new Groes Courso Irist be fed. The negroes Are surprising their roasters and mistresses by announcing to them their Freedom. Many them Are running off into Camp. I hear one soap in which a negro who escaped from Rich Trion into our lines sometime ago and was enlisted into our corps do Riqui has his return sent word to his master that he will a a shoot him i do not think however there will be much danger from this source. A after to first alarm danger in Trepl Dation has passed the citizens seem to to rather glad. Pfc your Advent. They live Sinif feed and Eri defered so much have been so icing under a galling military Rule endured High prices lived the verge famine that when once their person Are Safe Rind their physical condition bettered Thoy begin to be by reconciled to their Fate independently . This there is a Strong disposition to. Give up the confederacy As a lamentable failure. Those who have led in this matter feel very Serosa Tivo and sore they have been plunged into a very humiliating position. They a Are it the mercy a conquering enemy. They do not yet profess to by willing loyalists. Thev Arees a miss ionis the Jund acknowledge the fact with More fran Knees fan one could expert take pleasure . Verily the old Dominion in restored. A the women Are nearly All dressed in mourning. Sad Haile beep ithe ravages death in Virginia. Yeats Day i visited the cemetery and the vast Yoeu pied for it has been enlarged to Neriliz twice its size contains sixty thousand Dzinow Graves Ila rely a any Tomb stories have born erected during the last four Yenry. A Ever ii Jie Grava sex president Tyler unmarked by anything hut inscription. There Are some four private tombs. Here rite the Rito Hieb the Faulkner the Leto Hery wises and a hum dred a others besides Monroe Madison and others Quot National celebrity surrounded. By lots new Oarth. It was so Aid that general a. P. Hill fear privately interred Here yes Rife Beautiful spot and perhaps the most populous City a the. Dead in the South. A what sight arid tears have been lavished upon it a its inhabitants rest after life s fitful fever they sleep Well. Domestic try Ason foreign malice nothing Oan Toulon them further. A a. The Rii Orit remarkable object in the pity is the Capitol and its Square which is very Fine the building is not imposing according to our ideas by must Hare been so in its time. So principal attraction is an equestrian Tus Washington Serpio size in the Centra Topf. The Yard surrounded at the base by those prominent virginians Henry mar shall Jefferson two pedestals a re vacant which we suppose it was Ali Pinedo sign to place the statues Stonewall Jackson and Robert e. Lee. It is now., doubted if. That selection is made. General Scott s May perhaps Grace one theoc instead. There Are some persons in the pity who think that mrs. Gen. Lee is not to sick that she could not Liasjo travelled had it been her husbands desire a do so certainly do Olio Kueiyu feet tar Thap Tjho the necessity precautions for the future a and i have it Ori ex-cell3nt pm Hority Tomt h6 wrote to her a a riot to be Alf Fermond that a to pried Orion be with her a whether this Means through the. Force arms negotiations i cannot consider Rit All doubtful. A a a a Safiy tho famous Cominolo Ohio Osceola was1 buried in fort Moultrie Charleston Harbor. A a press Porres Onderik Feriozi t6eeritlyi Visi Odthe place writes a a a inside fort Moultrie is Osceola a Grove a Plain a Jeff Marble with an Iron Raiff not a a a a re third go. Around it had been a rocked to a a be id Lair shells hut not had1 . At a a a lipped the Flowers around a Hia Grove. Thai inscription if was Quot to memory Oft Osceola Indian chieftain died in Moultrie 1838.�?T�?� a a xes tho a a Oid Oah has been found at last. Hero Vista in the person Joseph Orelo a Ira is Dent a Vii Sonsin Anji a is Hundri a fend to flirty Nina years old As the record his baptism in the Pathol to Chi re hat. Detroit where to Wab born it a said shows. A 1 a a a d a in -. It Light infantry movement. Agitating a Era la with a baby in it

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