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i a Jlr JULY 3. EDE LIB ERA H. 107 SHALL SUCH THINGS BE? -r soldiers gradually icnetrate tlie interior of i-. loltl they Hv "I'l" iiwiwiunauy 10 oething of vrorkings of the po- Institution. An omoer irom amonogo, now in 10 sLlral army, rvevntly found and cnt homo, for nnrCtion of a from Ihe r-c tw.low.

It npiH-ars to be a record of the tmii- '1 inflietod lwo months, in 1847. lor r.nfr. which "re set forth with some nnrtic- rveonl. we lcrn ucii-ripttn Bltri J' tlu sc tlavca wtri wliimu'i) these slaves wvrc iniqum Hcrfi the rtcoru inril 2 Whipped Adam for cuttinjr cotto Nat for thinning cotton ton too wide. 21, 23, 1 Adalinc nil Chaney for being hvhiiKl Jim for mashing down cotton on row Ix-lund him.

r.Miier lor leaving ciuiit out in yard ti let it cry. 25, Patrick, Frank, Adam nnd Na- tlia'i, tor disobeying orders giv en tlironsih Dick. Dick lor allowing the hands to leave grass without reporting thorn Adalinc tor being slow getting 28, 23, 30, out of quarter. Daniel for not having the cobs taken out of horses trough. Sandv lor not fetching the salt to me before giving it to the horses.

Jim for getting behind with bis row. M7 1, Anna, Hannah, Sarah, Jim nnd Jane, fir not thinning corn rijjlit 1. 8. 3, 6, 10, 13. 14.

15. 17, 18, 20, 21, Clem for being too long thinning one row ot corn. Isaac for not setting up'the corn. Wallis for leaving suckers on corn Esther for not being out ot quar ters quick enough. Jo-, Clem, and Sandy, for not cleaning cotton close.

Adaline, tor being last one out with row. Nat for leaving pusley in cotton drill. Jim for being behind with row. Esther for leaving grass in cotton. lVggy lor not hoeing as much cane as she ought to, last week.

Jack for letting his horse run away. Tolly for not hoeing faster. Martha, Esther, and Sarah, for jawing about row, while 1 was gone. Tolly for not bandling her hoe faster. Chronicle.

A FRESH REVELATION OF HORRORS By way of illustrating the degree of brutality which flawy has developed among the whites in the South, we append the following extract from a letter in the 'ew York Time, recounting what was told by the refugees from Mrs. Gillespie's estate on the Black Hirer The treatment of the slaves, they say, lias been growing worse and worse for the last six or seven years. Flogging with a leather strap on the naked body is common; also, paddling the body with a handsaw until the skin is a mass of blisters, and then breaking the blisters with the teeth of the saw. They have "very often" seen slaves stretched out upon the ground with hands and feet held down by fellow-ilares, or lashed to stakes driven into the ground, for brniig." Handfuls of dry corn husks are then the burning embers are whipped off with a stick so as to fall in showers of live sparks upon the naked hack. This is continued until the victim is covered with Misters.

If, in his writhings of torture the litre gets his hands free to brush off the fire, the burning brand is applied to them. Another method of punishment, which is inflicted for the higher order of crime, such as running away, or other refractory conduct, is to dig a hole in the ground large enough for the slave to squat or lie down in. The victim is then stripped naked and placed in the hole, and a covering or grating of green ticks is laid over the opening. Upon this a quick 8re it built, and the live embers 'silted though upon the naked flesh of the slave, until his body is blistered and swollen almost to bursting. With just enough of life to enable him to crawl, the slave is then allowed toreeover from his wouuds if he can, or to end his sufferings by death.

"Charley Sloo" and Overton," two hands, were both murdered by these cruel tortures. Sloo was whipped to death, dying under the infliction, or soon after punishment. "Overton" was laid naked upon bit face and burned as above described, so that the cords of bis legs and the muscles of his back refused longer to perform their offices. He was, nevertheless, forced into the field to labor, but being crippled, was inable to move quick enough to suit Jeeins so one day, in a fit of passion, he struck him on the head with a heavy stick, and killed him. "Tom" had the consumption, but was forced to work in the cotton-field.

One night lie was missing from his cabin. Two days afterward, his body was fcnnd in the field, where he had fallen and died, on his way home. "The poor old slave had gone to rest." Edmund, belonging on the widow Gillespie's plantation, has been a witness of or knowing to several cases of punishment by the burning process. Two of these were of girls belonging to the widow in New Orleans, and the others occurred on her island plantation," before referred to. America, wife of Essex, neof the women in the party, related to me the particulars of one case, as follows There was a middle- aged woman in the family, named Margaret, who had" nursing child.

Mrs. Gillespie ordered Margaret to wean the child. The babe was weakly, and Margaret did not wish to do so. Mrs. G.

told her that she would examine her breast the next Monday, and, if he found any milk in it, she would punish her severely. Monday came round, and on that day Mar-pret's stent was to spin eighteen broaches spools but she did not finish it. At night, the promised examination took place, and the breast of Margaret gave but too convincing proof that, in obedience to the learnings ot a mother's heart, she had spurned the threat of the inhuman mistress. Mrs. G.

then ordered the handsaw, the leather strap, and a wash bowl of ater. The woman was laid ujon her face, her clothes stripped up to around her neck, and Becky "Jane were called to hold her hands and feet. Mrs. Gillespie then paddled her with the hand saw, itting composedly in a chair over her tictim. After striking some one hundred blows, she changed to the eof the leather strap, which she would dip into the uh-bowl in order to give it greater power of torture.

Under this infliction, the screams of the woman died away to a faint moan, but the "sound of the whip "continued till nearly 11 o'clock. "Jane" was then ordered to bring the hot tongs, the woman was turned over upon her back, and Airs. Gillespie attempted to grap the woman's nipples with the htal-d implement. The writhings of the mother, however, foiled her purpose but between the breasts, the kin and flesh were horribly burned. During this terrible infliction, Jeems came out fni room and remonstrated with his mother tor "ming the nigger so." lie "did not wish them PnnUhed in that way." Her answer was.

"-They oo't mind me, and 1 will do with them as I please wu a long time in recovering from her ouods. Kie Ann, who was child's nurse, was upon one occasion, lo find and bring home a lit- by named Tommy, whom bis father had taken wn town with him alter breakfast. The child had lelt at Mrs. Turner's, a "grass-widow," living in v.mp rvet, below Julia. It was found after a second and brought home.

Mrs. G. accused Rose of trying to find the boy at first. She ordered her to be crossed and tied over her head she was apon her back on the floor, her hands secured th balusters, and her feet to the extension table. thi position, her eron was exposed, the poker B-d in the stove, and to make the punishment the humiliating as well as most acute, the hot instru-nt waa applied to ii most tender irt of her hodij.

oiie tlin i i i i i uitosyncracy seemed to be a favorite method bvture with the widow. America, who saw and re-p hVe fatu to the writer, in the presence of several "tr fellow Uves, suffered a similar punishment on P'antatiuii only a months since. She is "'irm, ar( ky mistake, sewed in two sleeves Mrs. daughter's dress the wrong way. For offence, she was bid ujioti a board upon a ladder, rt''n'l and feet secured, and a leather strap and --kl tightly fastened around her stomach and going the Udder.

Hav ing previously placed the tongs fire, she ordered theiu brought, and began Polling her about the thighs, abdomen, and other JV til they were baked and stiff. This secica refined torture seemed to be a favorite one with licr. another occasion, "America" says she was a "yellow cowhide" until her flesh to feel the blows. Mrs. G.

then brought a bot-J7? "No. 0." and with a small sponge wet the lacer-J Prts with the fiery liquid, causing the most in-e toruin. she ever experienced. Edmund, Essex, r1 1'' rest assert that it was a very common thing ahed hy force to the bed-room or the 0rTjrron of Madame, for punishment. She would jJY him undress, and with her own hands apply until she became exhausted HORRIBLE BARBARITY OF HIXDMAN.

lnUMN; refined fiendis'hness of the treatment that the Lnion nun at the South receive from meir rebel enemies, is ummrpasoed in any story of barbarous ge. At Little Rock. Arkansas, lived a numerous body of Union men. praying for a sight of the old flag and the day of deliverance, as none ever prnyrd save the men of Leyden. They met nightly in cellars Jad their secret grips and passwords and with all the heroism of martvrs, bore suspicion, taunts, threats and violence, unflinching in their resolution never to enter the rebel ranks alive.

When ilindmati occupied Little Rock in force, twentv-seven the men were arrested ami imprisoned on suspicion their worst enemy accused them of no overt act against the re bid government. One day their wives, ehihlren, parents, brothers and sisters were invited by llindman's order to come and visit them. Their dungeon doors were opened, ami arm arnr with their rejoicing families, they wi re suflered tor wander, under guard, about the town and in the fields. The bright sunlight ami sweet air of una unwonted freedom intoxicated them into credulity. They and the dear ones from whom Ihev had beetr so long sundered were felicitating themselves with the hope of permanent liberty, and fancied that the liger Ilindman had forgotten hi taste for blood.

Just at the limits of the town, the officer in command bade the families of the suspects halt and marching those twenty seven brave men out of the very arms ol love, ranged them in an open lot before a file of riflemen, and there shot all of them to death in plain sight of their shrieking households It is stated among the men, based on the authority of some of the men who have deserted, that some of the poor negroes who were made prisoners in the first fight were tied up, and the rebel soldiers amused themselves by probing them with their bayonets, wounding and cruelly maltreating them, and subjecting them to every indignity. All of which is in perfect keeping with the threats held out, and in accordance with the practice of a Christian civilized warfare," as understood by the Southern chivalry. But for all such atrocities there is a day of reckoning. Our men are exasperated beyond all conception, and if they do not, whenever they get into Tort Hudson, give these semi-savages one of their own lessons, we shall indeed be disappointed. Irny corr.

near Port Hudsjn. HANG THE DUTCH SOLDIERS! Of late, in all battles and in all recent incursions made by Federal cavalry, we have found the great mass of Northern soldiers to consist of Dutchmen. The plundering thieves captured by Forrest, who stole half the jewelry and watches in a dozen eounties of Alabama, were immaculate Dutchmen. The national odor of Dutchmen, as distinctive of the race as that which, constantly ascending to Heaven, has distended the nostrils of the negro, is as unmistakable as that peculiar to a pole-cat, an old pipe, or a lager-beer saloon. Crimes, thefts, and insults to the women of the South, invariably mark the course of these stinking bodies of animated sour-krout.

Rosecrans, himself, is an unmixed Dutchman, an accursed race which has overrun the vast districts of the country of the Northwest. It happens that we entertain a greater degree of respect for an Ethiopian in the ranks of-the Northern armies than for an odiferous Dutchman, who can have no possible interest in this revolution. Why not hang every Dutchman captured? We will hereafter hanq, or shoot, or imprison fur life, alt white men taken in command of negroes, and enslave the neijroes tttemselces. 1 lus is not too harsh. No human being will assert the contrary.

Why, then, should we not hang a Dutchman, who deserves iittinilelu less of our sympathy than JSnmlio The live masses of beer, krout. tobacco and rotten cheese, winch, on two legs and four, on foot and mounted, go prowling through the South, should le used to manure the sandii plains and barren hillsides of Alabama, Teumssee and (ieorgia. believer a Dutch regiment adorns the limbs of a Southern forest, daring cavalry raids into the South shall cease. I'jesideiit Davis need not be specially consulted nnd if an accident of this sort should occur to a plundering band like that captured by J-orrest, we are not inclined to believe that our President would be greatly disgusted. Knoxville Ilea- isler, June 12.

THE CURIOSITIES OF SLAVERY. The present cruel war is opening up to the world a knowledge of the interior of the South nnd its institutions. To thousands of people in the North, the interior of the Southern States is as much a terra ncognita as the interior of unexplored Africa. We are learning, just now, its social features, at a rapid rate. There is a Southern slave in this city, whose character and history are interesting, and who, tonight, will deliver an address in the Lombard Street Wesley church.

Her name is Oneda E. Duliois. She is aFtench was the bond-thrall of her own uncle in Southern Alabama. She escaped from bondage, and was educated at Oberlin, Ohio, and for three years past has been in Hayti. The subject of her lecture will be a description of life in that country.

That she is a most accomplished dark," there can be no doubt. That her history is a veritable one, is equally certain. Despite the opportunities of travel she has enjoyed, she still declares there is no place so prolific in happiness as her former home in Alabama. Her statements but verify what we everywhere see indicated that if the Africans were freed from slavery, the South would be the place they would select for their homes. Miss Dubois is, beyond all question, a talented woman.

She wants to establish a girls' school in Gonaives, Hayti, and has just commenced a lecturing tour for that purpose. We are inclined to believe she will appropriate the money she gains to its avowed purpose. At any rate, her descriptions of life on the plantations will be worth the price of admittance. The amount of "knocking down indulged in by philanthropic lecturers is so extensive, that people are growing distrustful of all such enterprises. We are of opinion that this female African is a conscientious woman.

Philadelphia Dial. A Diabolical Outrage. Several days since three negroes a man and his wife and her brother made their escape from Shelby county, and arriving in this city, crossed the river and entered Illinois, intending to make their way to Quincy. When about ten miles out, they were confronted by two white men, one of whom presented a double barrelled shot gun at their breasts, and commanded them to rnn. The woman's brother accordingly started to run, when the white scoundrels fired at him, and he was seen to fall.

The villain then turned, and discharged the other barrel at the husband, who was carrying' in his' arms an infant two months old. The scattering shot wounded both the father and child, striking the latter in the shoulders and neck, the former in the neck and leg. These fiends then ordered thei at once to return to Missouri. Though severely wounded, the man and his wife made their way back to Douglasville, (opposite this city.) where they were projierly taken care of, and the wounds dressed. The other negro has not been heard from, and it was supposed he was killed.

The wounds of the father and child, though serious, are not likely to prove fatal. Hannibal Courier, Jay t50. A Fearful Record. An army officer writes from Louisiana to the Boston Transcript, that the camps of the Black regiments in Gen. Banks's army are models of neatness and order, and that but one man in the whole command has been punished for misconduct.

Never were men seen to fight with more courage and devotion than these raw recruits; He adds Every man presenting himself to be recruited strips to the skin, to bj surveyed by the surgeon. We do not accept one-half that offer. On Tuesday, out of H'J. only 33 tere accepted. I have directed my surgeons to keep accurate lists of the causes of rejection.

They report to me that wt one in fifteen is frte from marls of seuere lashing. More than one half are rejected because of disability arising from lashing with whips and the biting of dogs on their calces and thighs. It is frightful. Hundreds of them have welts on their backs as large as one of your largest fingers. I intend to have these memoranda collected and published with certificates of surgeons." In the assault on Sunday, the rebels held their fire until our troops came within about 50 or CO feet, when they ioured a deadly fire into iur ranks.

It was here, while quite close, that (Jen. Paine was wounded by a bullet in the leg, just below the knee, and fell down under shelter ot a small tree, at the base ot a little knoll or rise in the ground. Here he lay from six in the morning until halt past seven in the evening, our men being shot down one after the other as they went to irv ami bring him off. 1 am told that not less than JO of our brave fellows fell while on their errand of rcy. First, two men went with a stretcher to bring him to the van.

Just as they reached the wounded man bullet, with deadly aim, from a rebel sharpshooter, lays one of theiu a corpse at the feet of the Colonel. Another brave rushes up to lend a hand, only to share the same fate and so on. until it seems hopeless. For a time it is relinquished, when it is suggested the wounded officer must need water. At once there is a man who undertakes the dangerous task.

He erawls on his face with a canteen of water, almost reaches the sjKit, is within arm's length, and raises himself up to pass the canteen to Col. l'np. when, alas a rebel bullet passes through his head, kilting hint instantly. On one occasion, three men out of four with a litter were killed dead. This is indeed horrible enough but worse than this, the cowardly rebels actually shot at and killed our helpless ami wounded men as they laid on the ground The statement comes to me in so many shape, is vouched for by offices as well as wounded men, that there is not to my mind a shadow of doubt oq the subject.

A ry con: at Hudson. GEN. ULLMAN'S ORDER. Head Quarters, Ullmax, I New Orleans, June 10, 1S03. General Order.

No. 7. 1. The late deplorable accident In the 21 U. S.

occurring from the negligent handling of fire arms, admonishes the General Commanding that it is his duty to issue this order. These accidents have been so frequent in the army, that the usual plea of thoughtlessness shall, in this command, no longer avail. No officer or soldier has a right to be ignorant of the danper to others, as well as tofcim-selt, trifling with a loaded weapon. Negligence in such cases is culpability. In the armies ot other nations, nearly the same punishment is nieteil out to him who injures his fellow-soldier with a fire arm by negligence as by design.

It is just. commanding officer of a regiment, battalion or detachment, is therefore directed report to these headquarters every such instance, in order that the proper action may be taken thereon. II. The General Commanding brings to the particular notice of the officers of this command, that they are eni'si'ed bv the orders of the Government in a special, peculiar and difficult service. They have been selected as possessing qualities which, it is supposed, eminently qualify them for this duty, namely accurate knowledge of the drill, long exjterienee in the field, patience, diligence and patriotism.

They will find the constant exercise of all these qualities necessary. You are brought into contact with a race, who, having lived in an abnormal condition all the days of their lives, are now suddenly elevated into leing soldiers of the United States, fighting against their oppressors, as well tor their own liberties as for the integrity of the Republic. They are to be molded by you into drilled and well disciplined troops. You cannot display too much wisdom in your conduct, both as regards yourselves and them. Let the law of kindness be your guide.

Thus acting, you will soon obtain their confidence. You wili find them docile, impressionable, fully imbued with the spirit of subordination, (one of the highest attributes of a soldier,) possessed of a deep appreciation of kindly treatment, and of keen perceptions, which enables them quickly to discover any flaw in the conduct of superiors. You have the materials, crude though they now may be, but perfectly malleable, to make the best of soldii-rs. It remains with you to say whether such shall be the result. Perform your duty conscientiously, and our beloved and once happy country will not only have a body of soldiers who will enthusiastically aid her in fighting her bnttles.but she will also have the proud satisfaction of knowing that she has, at least, taken a practical step toward the elevation of a hitherto degraded and oppressed race.

III. The General Commanding learns that the malignant enemies of the Union and the people of the United States are busily engaged in endeavoring to persuade the colored population of the South, that if they recruit ns soldiers in the armies of the Republic, they will, at the close of the war, be returned to slavery by the Government. It is to be expected, in this unholy war between truth and falsehood humanity and oppression justice and injustice freedom and slavery regulated liberty and unrestricted despotism, that the atrocious instigators of this foul and unnatural rebellion, togeth er with their secret aiders and sympathisers, who have the oath of allegiance on their lips and treason in their hearts, should, to sustain themselves, resort to every device which the arch enemy of mankind sug gests to their willing minds. This is one of those devices. Let not the colored men of the South be deceived by anything that may be said by those who are at once their anil the Union's foes.

The General Commanding, therefore, directs his officers, of all grades, to assure every colored man whom they recruit, that if he shall, by virtue of the authority 'delegated to the General, be regularly enlisted into the service of the United States, and shall hear himself as a true and faitM'ul soldier until the end of the term of his enlistment, he has the sacred honor of the United States pledged, that the whole power of this Government, moral and physical, shall be exerted to secure to him and his posterity for ever, the inestimable blessings of freedom. It is not in the power of the General Government, under the Constitution, to remand a single human being, once freed, to slavery, "otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." Besides, this war, in its consequences, has reached a point beyond the power of man. The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were thei greatest practical Abolitionists this nation has produced. The decree went forth from that hour, that slavery should quickly cease to exist on this North American continent.

Come, then, colored men of the South, enlist in the armies of the United States Your brethren at Port Hudson have shown to the world that they can and will fight, and have displayed as dauntless courage as ever illuminated a battle-field. Emulate their noble example, and fight under the glorious banner of the Republic, which will be to you, in the great future, as it has been in the past to millions of the white race, the symbol of every temporal blessing. Truth, justice and God are on our side. They will prevail. By command of DANIEL ULLMAN, commanding.

Moses C. Bbows, Assistant Adjutant General. ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE. A meeting of colored people was held at Franklin Hall to commence the formation of a negro regiment. The meeting was very full, the hall crowded.

The members behaved with dignity and decorum, and were enthusiastic to a degree. The morning papers give reports of the proceedings. What they do not state, however, is that at the close of the meeting the negroes moved to their Institute, in Lombard street, in a body. There they were joined by their band of brass instruments, and with reinforcements amounting to a thousand men, with drum and fife, they marched out to West Locust street, where they serenaded Miss Annie Dickinson, their female advocate, Rev. J.

Walter Jackson, and Judge Kelly, who had spoken at the meeting. Next they went to the house of the Mayor, then to that of the poet-patriot, Mr. George H. Boker lastly, to that of Capt. Babe, who took the colored company to Harrisburg.

To each they expressed their gratitude for past kindness by a serenade. The concourse was orderly, yet enthusiastic. They appeared to appreciate what the speakers of the evening had told them that unless they now took up arms and fought, they did not deserve franchisement. The resolutions adopted at their meeting breathed a forgiving and Christian spirit. There is a certain degree of pathos in the resolution That we, the colored people of Philadelphia, throwing aside the unpleasant memories of the past, looking only to the future, and asking merely the same guaranties, the same open field and fair play that are given to our white fellow countrymen, desire here and now to ex press our willingness and readiness to come forward to the defence ot our imperilled country." We are glad to know that a hundred colored volunteers, from the little town of West Chester alone, will arrive in camp to day.

Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Wagner, of the eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, a gallant officer, whom a painful wound received in action temporarily disables, has been appointed to take charge of the camp. The locale is at Chelton Hills, on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, and the tents will be drawn for erection to-day. The selection is one of the most pleasant and comfortable ever made in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Colonel Wagner expects to receive a detachment of colored troops from Christiana to day, who, with the men of this city who returned from Harrisburg, whither they had gone in response to the Governor's call, will be mustered in, and taken to camp, before this evening. It should be credited to these, that twenty-five thousand of their race are now marshaled in the armies of the Union; that, in the second invasion of Pennsylvania, the colored company of ninety men, raised in six hours, was the jirst to move from the city for the defence of our State capital, and that three full companies of eighty men each volunteered for the same purpose, in less than twenty-four hours.

The spirit of the colored people is up. The prejudice of the army against them is wearing away. Their bravery at Port Hudson and Milliken's bend is beyond all praise. The Democratic we observe, gives no report of their meeting, and makes no mention that a camp has been established for their reception. Philadelphia Dial.

ESf" Forty vessels were destroyed off Cape Sable by the Rebel privateers within the last few days. A Brunswick ship was also captured, but bonded, and the crews of the other vessels were put on board her. Five vessels left the Brooklyn Navy-Yard on Saturday tolook for the pirates. General Huuter, it is understood, is to be sent to the South-west to superintend the raising of negro regiments, in place of General Thomas, returned to duty elsewhere. 537 Not less than eighteen thousand freedmen have been organized as a working or fighting force in the Department of the South by Gen.

Saxton. 2" Mr. John Bright has again been speaking on American affairs in Parliament, arguing that freedom in the South will increase the production of cotton. Louisville, June 28. To-day'a Nashville Union reports that one division of the Federal army captured 3000 rebels on Saturday, when going through Hoover's 'Gap.

There are uo futher particulars. About fifty iron-clads of the Monitor type are constructed or in process of construction. FiFTT-riTFit Reo't Massachusetts (Colored) Volunteers. The following commissions have been issued to this Regiment Serg't Robert James Hamilton, of Springfield, (34th Reg't.) to be Captain; Private George M. Woodward, of Worcester, (41th Reg't M.

V. to be 1st Private Win. D. Crane, ol Boston, (44th.) lo be 1st L't; Dor nee Messenger, of Peterboro', N. to be 2d L't; George Thompson Garrison, of Boston, to be 2d Lieut.

21 Lieut. Chas. E. Grant, of Boston, to be Captain Private Frank Goodwinnf Boston, (44th.) to be 1st Lieut. 2d Lieut.

Harrison Holt, of Andover, In be 1st Lieut. 2d Lieut, Charles P. Bowditch. of Boston, to be 1st Lieutenant; 2d Lieut. Edward S.

Slimpson, of Salem, to be 1st rtiratp James Ii. Thurber, of Plymouth, (13th.) to be 2d Sergeant Wyllys Gannett, of St. Louis, (24th.) to be 2-1 Lieut. Corporal William II. Torrey, of Fox borough, (24th.) to be 2d Wm.

I). Crane, of Boston, (44th,) to be Captain John Gordon, (24th.) to be Captain Den nis il. Jones, of Boston, (44th.) to be 1st Lieut. 21 Lieut. Wm.

H. Torrey, of Foxborough, to be 1st Lieut. 2d Lieut. Wyll Gannett, of St. Louis, to bo 1st Lieut.

2d Lieut. Robert James, of Newport, Rhode Island, to be 1st Lieut. John O. Mowry, of Athol, (27th.) to Ve 2d Joseph T.Nichols, of ltoyalston, Joth,) to be 2d Lieut. One Nicholas Saib, a sergeant in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts volunteers, has a curious and romantic history, which the Boston Transcript thus records: He is an intelligent-looking negro, perfectly black, modest ami gentlemanly in his bearing, and remarkable alike for his experiences and his culture.

As we understood his story, as he told it in a brief interview. he is a native of Central Africa, born in the neighborhood of Timbuctoo. In some way he was inveigled into slavery to a party of Arabs, and found his way. first to Egypt, and "from thence to Turkey. After a while he reached St- Petersburg, was converted to Christianity, and baptized as a member of thi Greek Church, dropping the name of Mohammed, and taking that of Nicholas.

He is now a Protestant, he says emphatically. From St. Petersburg he went to Germany, and entered the service of a Hollander, with whom he came to this country, and settled in Detroit. He enlisted because all his folks seemed to be doing Saib speaks five languages, and can read and write three or four of them. His French is quite Parisian and his Italian correct.

He gives an entertaining description of his native region, the employment of its inhabitants, and their maners and customs. They are generally Mohammedans. Were it not for his color and position, Saib would pass anywhere for a person of no small acquisitions. As it is, no one can see or talk with hi in without being most favorably impressed with his deportment and intelligence. He is one, but not the only one, of the persons of African descent in camp at Readville, whose acquisitions and behavior go far to dispel ignorant and vulgar prejudices against the colored race." Death of Rear-Admiral Foote.

The illness of Rear-Admiral Foote, in which the public' have taken so deep an interest for more than a week past, was brought to a fatal termination on Friday evening, June 26, at the Astor House, in New York. The veteran commander had" recently been ordered to relieve Admiral Du Pont in the command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and was preparing for his departure on that service when he was attacked with the illness which has ended his valuable life. Few officers, either in the navy or army of the United States, have signalized themselves by such a stern and uncompromising devotion to duty, such ardent patriotism, such heroic courage, and such an admirable combination of the most beautiful virtues of private life. His loss will be deeply and painfully felt in the present crisis of our national affairs, while it has sent a pang of unusual grief throughout a wide circle of devoted relatives and friends. Rear-Admiral Andrew Hull Foote was born in New-Haven, September 12, 180G, having nearly completed his fifty -seventh year at the time of his death.

He was the son of the late Hon. Samuel A. Foote, formerly Governor of Connecticut, and a Senator in Congress, where in 1830 he offered the resolution on the Public Lands, which gave rise to the celebrated debate on Nullification between Daniel Webster and Robert Y. Hayne. The Attack at Charleston.

The evidence multiplies that we came very near taking Fort Sumter in the attack in April. Intelligence has been received from one who has been in the fort since the attack. He says that the wall on the north-eastern face is cracked from top to bottom that the last shots went through the wall, clear across the area to the opposite walls that on the morning after the fight, pieces of canvas were placed over the breaches to hide them from our sight; that the officer in command telegraphed to Beauregard during the engagement that he would be compelled to surrender. A portion of this is corroborative of the testimony of Capt. Ammen, who was confiJent that his last shots went completely through the wall.

It was apparent to all of us who watched that fight, that after the first half hour the fire of the fort perceptibly slackened, and almost ceased on the north-eastern face. Admiral DuPont evidently lost a golden opportunity, when he decided not to renew the attack on the following day. The Great Catalrt Fight. In the great cavalry fight on the Rappahannock, the Federal loss foots up 031 killed, wounded and missing. The number of killed does not exceed 100, and less than 100 are missing as prisoners.

The loss in horses amounts to 1,545 head. The rebel loss as nearly as can be ascertained was 1,200 killed and wounded, and 200 prisoners. Their loss of horses was in proportion. It was a most desperate fight, but notwithstanding the check given to the rebels, it did not prevent them from pursuing their contemplated raid, for within three days thereafter they crossed the Potomac, and marched into Pennsylvania. Rebel Outrage ix Portland Harbor.

The war on the ocean has been marked by a most audacious enterprise, on the part of the rebels, the scene being Portland harbor. They, attempted to get possession of the revenue cutter Caleb Cushing, on Friday night, and succeeded in cutting her out, putting her crew in irons, and running her out to sea. She was followed, however, promptly, by the steamers Chesa-r peake and Forest City, armed and manned by the citizens of Portland, who no sooner learned that the revenue cutter had been abducted by the rebels than they determined to recover her, at all hazards. They pursued and came up with the Caleb Cushing twelve miles down the bay, and proceeded to board her, when the rebels abandoned her, and made in their boats for a schooner close by, blowing up the Cushing at the same time. The schooner was the fishing boat Archer, which the rebels had seized some days ago, and transferred the officers and crew of the privateer Tacony to her.

Jb earing that the latter vessel was doomed lo be captured, as she was so closely surrounded by the Federal vessels in pursuit of her, the rebels burnt the Tacony, and no doubt calculated on supplying her place by cutting out some United States vessel in one of our Northern harbors. The Caleb Cushing was selected for this purpose with what success, we have seen. When the Caleb Cushing was set on fire, the rebels, and the original crew of the cutter, put off in their boats. They were all captured, however, and brought back to Portland. Mr.

Conway in England. A meeting was to be held at the London Tavern on the 16th, at which Mr. Bright was to preside, and Mr. Conway was to speak in answer to Mr. Roebuck's recognition speech, which he had already noticed in the Star.

We hear, in a roundabout way, that at this meeting Mr. Conway will be urged to make some proposals to the Confederate Commissioners on the subject of Emancipation. We cannot believe that any of our English friends, however unacquainted with the state of feeling here, can have persuaded him to such a course. Certainly, neither the Commonwealth nor any of the anti-slavery men in this country would for a moment sanction any proposition looking to a recognition of the Confederacy, or its very obnoxious minister in England. Nor has Mr.

Conway any authority (unless it be from the State Department) from any person in America, to enter into any conference whatever with any representative of the South, save in the way of public discussion, or to make any offers of any kind to any person whatsoeverf on any of the questions of the day. Commonwealth of 26lA ult. A Picture for the Times. Harper's Weekly, of this week, contains three remarkable portraits ot the same person. They represent Sergeant Gordon, of the Second Louisiana Native Guards, first as he came into camp after wandering for a week through a Louisiana swamp, chased for two days by bloodhounds, and shot at by his master and other rebels.

The next figure is from a daguerreotype, taken of the man's back when he was stripped in the recruiting-office to be examined by the surgeon. It shows his back to be a mass of scars, the marks of former whippings. It is a horrible sight. The last picture represents him in his uniform, as sergeant in the Second Louisiana regiment, with his musket in bis hand. He fought gallantly at Port Hudson, and none the less, we can believe, for the cruel scars which reminded him of the tender mercies of the "master race." The chief correspondent in Washington of the New York Herald has been dismissed from a third-class clerkship.

Secretary Chase summoned him to ptesul to the charge of opposition to the Government. His plea was, I have hot opposed you, but I have opposed the Administration." The Secretary 1 am part of the Administration, and do not need your services longer." Rebel Strategt. The advance of the rebels into Pennsylvania, and the movement on Washington or Baltimore, have been so sudden and unexpected, that the West is filled with astonishment and the East with panic. The irruption of the plundering hordes into the Keystone State preceded even rumor of the approach of danger. The blow came before the report.

Chambersburg was sacked before its citizens knew they were in danger. While all ryes were looking towards Vlcksburg as the scene of colossal struggle, and every steamer was rushing down the crowded full of reinforcements, to repel the hundred thousand rebels supposed to be inarching under Johnston, to raise the siege and crush Grant, the stunning new falls upon the ears of the public, that one hundred thousand rebels are sweeping across Maryland, into the heart of Pennsylvania, and surging up to the very intrench-ments around the National Capital. It seems now as if the rebel chiefs had completely out generaled our military men, and stolen a march upon us. The drainage of troops from the East and centre, and their concentration away down South at Vicks-burg, created an opportunity to strike a blow on the Potomac, which the rebels were not slow to improve. We venture the opinion that the two divisions of Bragg' army, reported to have gone to Vlcksburg, are with Lee, near Washington, and the column from Mobile that started from the same place is in Pennsylvania, under Ewell and Lmigstrect.

There has been a swift and general concentration of all the troops the rebels could rake and scrape, for the purpose of the assault on Washington, and the raid into Pennsylvania. While our government was energetically engaged in strengthening Grant, they receive a sudden blow between the eyes at Washington, and a dig in the ribs at Harrisburg. The attack is made when the Potomac army is weaker than it has been at any time since Bull Run, two years ago. Twenty-five thousand soldiers whose term of service had expired, have gone home an equal number the rebels ladieve have gone to Vicksburg; add to this the Ifeavy loss at the recent battles of Cbancellorsville and, Fredericksburg, and the reason is seen for the unlooked-for crossing of the Potomac, and rush into Pennsylvania, and at Washington, of the rebel army. The Rebel Invasion.

A Harrisburg letter in the Philadelphia Press says "A gentleman from Carlisle says that the people are generally quiet and 'resigned to the which they look for as a foregone conclusion at any moment. Everything movable has been taken to Harrisburg that is considered of any great value to the rebels. Many persons arrived from the country about New-ville ami Carlisle, complaining bitterly of the sad fate accorded to them, of being compelled tb leave their hitherto qniet homes at this times, when the fields are white for the harvest, and the barns are empty to receive the products of the earth, so bountifully blessed by a kind Providence. These people meet with but I little sympathy in Harrisburg, and pass on in the jour-Piney up the Lebanon valley with sorrowing hearts." The Harrisburg Union of Thursday says I "The whole country this side of Chambersburg seemed to be on the move, yesterday. The valley was filled with fugitives of all classes, conditions, ages, sexes and colors, fleeing before the advancing like buffalo before a prairie fire.

The scenes of a week ago were re-enacted. Negroes on foot and in wagons, carrying with them their only stock and store; farmers with their horses, household goods and families; sorrowful men hastening away from fields whitening for the sickle, and meadows waiting for the scythe. All these came crowding down the valley in dusty caravans, pressing over the bridge and through our towns into the peaceful country beyond." Baltimore, June 23. The American has the following from York, Pa. The rebels were in full occupation yesterday.

It is estimated that the full force in the county was not less than 10,000. Gen. Early had his headquarters in York, with 3000 men and 7 pieces of artillery. Gen. Gordon was encamped outside of the town yesterday, with 2500 men and 7 pieces of artillery.

The rebels yesterday demanded of the town authorities the following contributions in United States Treasury notes. 200 barrels of flour, 40,000 pounds fresh beef, 30,000 bushels corn, 1000 pairs of shoes, 1000 pairs of stockings, and 1000 coats and caps, besides various other articles amounting in value to not less than 150,000. The delivery of the money and these stores were required at noon to-day, or in case of failure the rebels would help themselves, and the people were notified that they must take the con sequences. Harrisburg, June 28, 6 P. M.

The rebels are within three miles, and are throwing shells. Our troops are within the intrencqments, and will make a bold stand. A despatch dated in the field four and a half miles east of Carlisle, says "A large amount of quarter master stores leu into the hands of the rebels. About 6000 rebel cavalry are in Carlisle." A Lancaster despatch says the bridge over the Sus quehanna at Columbia is thronged all day by fugi tives fleeing before the rebel advance. 1 he bridge preparetl for destruction, if a rebel raid on Lancaster is attempted.

Harrisburg, June 28, 8 P. M. The bridge over the Susquehanna, at Columbia, is in flames. Baltimore, June 27. Information was received at about 5 o'clock this afternoon from Glen Rock that the rebels were then at Hanover Junction, tearing up the 1 1 road track.

Philadelphia, June 28. The excitement in this citv is intense. 1 lord street is thronged with people, awaiting the news. The merchants have resolved to close their stores and recruit a regiment immediately. The Union League have also started in the matter.

he Corn Exchange Guard have a recruiting party marching through the streets. Norristown, June 28. The manufacturers have determined to close their works until the rebels are driven from the State, and have raised 10,000 to pay the wages of all who volunteer, during their absence. Five hundred men will leave for Harrisburg, in the morning. New York, June 28.

A special despatch to the Herald from Harrisburg says "At 9 this morning the enemy demanded the surrender of Mechanicsburg, which was complied with. Our cavalry retreated in good order. The enemy pulled down the United States flag, and raised the rebel colors. Most of the people had left the place. The enemy captured several thousand dollars worth of property belonging to the government, at Kingston.

The enemy's cavalry were abreast of Shin IL iremanstown, at noon. arrisburg, June ITJ. Information was re ceived by the authorities this morning, which they consider perfectly reliable, that 37,000 rebel troops had passed through Chambersburg up to Saturday, together with 104 pieces of artillery. Gen. Lee was at Chambersburg with his staff, on Saturday.

It is said that 150 colored men were captured by the rebel army at Edwards' Ferry, together with 15 barges loaded with Government stores. The barges were burned with most of their valuable contents, consisting of rations of all kinds. One of our scouts was killed at Gettysburg, and several were taken prisoners. Information has been received that the rebels ran all the cars off the track at the Rock Creek bridge, and set them on fire. The rebels appeared this morning at an early hour four miles beyond Marriottsville, and tore up the track.

About 11 o'clock another small force of rebels appeared at Sykesville, thirty-one miles from Baltimore, and destroyed the railroad track. The whole rebel army, except Stuart, is now in Pennsylvania. The rebel officers say they are determined to make Pennsylvania their future battle-field. It is estimated that the loss now sustained, and that which will be necessarily sustained hereafter, even under the most favorable circumstances, by the people of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the rebel invasion, will amount to fifty millions of dollars. New York, une 27.

The Herald's New Orleans letter states that our loss in the repulse on the 14th, at Port Hudson, was 700 killed and wounded. Among the killed are CoL Halcorab, of the 1st Louisiana (white) regiment; Col. Bryant, 175th New York; Capt. Uurlburt, 91st New York Lieut. Hutchinson, 75tli New York.

Among the wounded. Gen. Paine, in leg, severely Col. Smith, 114th New York, mortally Col. Curray, 123d New York, severely, in both arms Lieut.

Col. Babcock, 75th New York, in leg, slight; Capt. Savory, 75th New York, arm, slight; Lieut. Thurbur, 75tli New York, knee, slight; Lieut. Crocker, 75th New York, arm, slight.

These are but few of the injured. The authorities refuse to give any list of killed and wounded. The enemy's loss was not one-fourth of ours. It is thought that Gen. Paine' leg will not have to be amputated.

Colonel Curray says Port Hudson is one of the strongest places in the world. He describes the works as follows First, an abattis offelled trees for at least a hundred yards, then a ditch forty feet wide, with from four to six feet of water in it, then a glacis about twenty feet high, sloping gradually to the parapet, on which is a protection for sharpshooters. Behind this, say one hundred yards, is another line of works, on which heavy and field artillery are mounted. The correspondent of the Herald thinks that the only way the will be taken will be by starving out the garrison. George A.

the death of George Alexander Otis was announced in the Daily Advertiser yesterday. He died at his residence in this city on Tuesday last, the 23d at the advanced age of 81 years and 10 months. He has long been knowjn in this community as a gentleman of extensive liter -ary attainments. He was a son of Dr. Ephraisn and Sarah (Harris) Otis, and was born in Scituate 29th August, 1781.

His father was a graduate of Harvard College in 1756. was a surgeon in the French War, and settled in Scituate, where bis practice was very extensive. Mr. Otis was for some years a merchant in this city; first, alone, but in 1806 he became partner with Barney Smith, a very wealthy gentleman, whose daughter he had married. Thi partnership continued about five years.

Mr. Otis afterwards went to Earope, where he remained several year. He acquired a knowledge of several modern languages, was also fa miliar with the Latin and Greek tongues, and translated a considerable portion of Cicero's letters but was best known as the translator from the Italian of Botta's History of the War of American Independence. Mr. Smith, the father-in-law of Mr.

Otis, died 2d July, 1828; and through his wife Mr. Otis came into possession of a very large property, oince that time lie has not been in active business, but has devoted himself to taking care of his estate and literary studies. He had eisht children, five sons and three daughters. Two of his sons, George Alexander and Edmund Burk. graduated at Harvard College respectively in 1821 and 1842.

His wife survives him. Bottom Day Adcertiser of 24A mlt. C7 NOSES Tbkir SiG.itriCAXcc Illastrmted with engravings of Roman, Grecian, Indian, Negro, Celestial, Aquelioe, Turn-up, and Pug Nosca, with ta Character re vealed by each. Eres blue, black, or gray. Lira tain and pale, or full and red, prim or pouting, scolding or lov.

ing. Mourn large or small. Hair light or dark, coarse or fine, straight or early. Cmmks thin or plamp, pale or colored. Tseth Regular or irregular.

as- large or small. Neck long or short. Skis rough or smooth. All to be amply illustrated with engraving. The walk, talk, laugh and voice, all Indicate character.

We may know an honest face from a dishonest one, and we will show how. Besides the above, we bare to treat on Ethmologt, or tbe Natural History of Man of Physiol ogy-, and the Laws of Life and Health of Phtsiooxomt, or Signs of Character, and how to read them of Ph sexology, the Philosophy of Mind and of Psychology, the Science of tbe Soul. Max, with reference to all his relations of life, social, intellectual, and spiritual, and what each can do best, wilt be elueidated in the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED. New volume commences Jnly 1st. A handsome quarto month ly, at only $1 50 a year.

Sample numbers, 15 cents. Please address FOWLER AND WELLS, 508 Broadway, New York. THE "PECULIAR INSTITUTION" ILLUSTRATED. We have a photographic likeness of a Louisiana slave's back, taken five or six months after a terrible scourging, and exhibiting from the shoulders to the waist great welts and furrows raised or gouged by the 'lash, fanning cross-. wise and lengthwise the victim himself presenting a noble countenance and fine physique.

"This card photo, graph," says the New York Independent, "should be multiplied by one hundred thousand, and scattered over the States. It tells the story in a way that even Mrs. Stow cannot approach, because it tells the story to the eye." Price IS cents. Sent by mail, by enclosing postage Seven copies for one duller, or $1,50 per dosen. Address Editor or tb Libbrator, Boston, Mass.

A PICTURE FOR THE TIMES. For sale by R. F. a llctt, at the Anti-Slavery 221 Washington Street, a well-executed photograph a remarkable drawing by Mr. CaaLroif, one of our resident artists, called Watch-Meeting, Dec 31, 1863 Waiting for the Hour" representing a scene way down South In Dixie," on last New Year's Ere, where some thirty or forty slav? seem to be waiting with great anxiety the hour- which, by President Lincoln's proclamation of the 22d of September, shall make them henceforth and for ever free." Large vise, suitable for framing, $2.00.

Second size, $1.00. Card photograph, 25 cents. SUMMER EXCURSION. The Parkbr Fraternity and the Twesty-Eiohth Cox- grkoatiokal Society will make their Annual Bummer Excursion on Wednesday, July 8, 'visiting Bancroft's Grove, Reading. Cars will leave the Mrine Railroad Station, 1 1 ay market Square, at 9 o'clock, returning at 6 1-2 o'clock.

Accommodation trains will also leave at o'clock. Tickets adults, 50 cents, children, 25 cents may be had at the depot on the morning of the excursion, or previously of the Committee of Arrangements of the Fraternity. All friends of these Societies, and of Progress and Free dom, are invited to join in the excursion. 37 MERCY B. JACKSON, M.

has removed to 62 Dover street. Particular attention paid to Diseases of Women and Children. References Luther Clark, M. David Thayer, M. D.

Office hours from 2 to 4. P. M. AARON M. POWELTj will speak la Cheshire, (Mass.) on Sunday, Jnly 5.

DIED Inhis city, June 16th, Robert Catrap, aged 31 years. June 21st, Lorekzo F. Crcckehdale, aged 16 years. EDWAED M. DAVIS, STOCK EXCHANGE BROKER, Mo.

39 SOUTH THIRD 8THEET, (secoxd floor,) PHILADELPHIA, I HAVE this day openod an office for the transaction of a general EXCHANGE and BANKING BUSINESS. and the sale of Honda and other Securities on Commission. Particular attention will be riven to Government Seen- rities, as the most reliablo investments. Bonds and Stocks in general will be bought and sold. Dividends, Interests and Coupons will be collected and remitted.

Railroad, City, County and Township Bonds negotiated. Quartermaster's Vouchers and Yearly Certificates bought ana sola. Interest allowed on Deposits, and Loans negotiated. Special Collections made. Coin and Currency bought.

I', a foreign Exchange sold. As I have a prompt and reliable correspondent in New York, connected with the Broker's Board, I can execute orders there with dispatch. Any business entrusted to me will be attended to promptly and faithfully. E. M.

DAVIS, I Secoxd Floor, 39 South Third PhiladelphU, Piw. Philadelphia, April 1st, 1863. 5Qf? The principal on these Bonds can be claim- ed April 30th, 1882, bat is payable at the option of the Government any time mter April 30th, 1867. They draw interest ia Gold, semi-annually, at the rata of 6 per cent, per annum, payable May 1st and November 1st of each year, at the Mint ia Philadelphia. The principal is also payable in UoliL They can now, and until July lt, be bad for legal tender notes at par, thus making Green-backs draw interest in gold, and securing the prin- cipal in gold also.

Interest begins the day the money is paid. The Bonds can be had Registered," or with Coupons." The first are drawn to tbe order of the buyer, ihe interest can only be collected by the person wboa name is in the bond, or by attorney. For safety, tha name and residence are registered in Washington and at tha Mint. There is a power of transfer" on tha back of each bond, to enable the origioal buyer to oonvev it. Tha Registered," for permanent investments, are preferred.

ine toupon joonas are arawn to Dearer, and have at-tached to each of them a small Coupon" or check asea tks Treasury of the United States, parable to bearer for mc i amount of interest due from the day of issue ap to the 1st of November, 1881. Tbe last payment of- interest. May 1st, MM, is paid witb the principal when the bond ia sur rendered. Br an act of Conirress. thev are not taxable.

and no tax can be collected from the holder of them except cider the law creating aa inoom tax. Aay person owning $10,000 or nnder will not have any tax to pay on the prin-. cipal or interest, provided the parties hare no ether income. am authorized, and ikoll be glad npplif tknt Bond at far to the pnrchasei, until July 1st, 1863, my comnussum coming from another source. i Look carefully over your fames soma.

time nas at par those that are equal to gold. They can easily be distinguished from the others, as they hav printed on tbe face Payable on Demand." They were is sued before the general suspension of specie payments, and as Government takes them for duties oq foreign. Imports, they will bring as much as gold in the market. There are several millions still unredeemed They cannot be reissued. My business is exclusively on Commission.

All orders entrusted to me will be attended to promptly and faith fully. Any inquiries answered. M. 23 tJl No. A3 South Third Phdaislpki.

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