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T? v ? . The following interesting account of a new bullet invented by Brig.-Gen. B. S. Eobekts, we copy from the Army ami Xavy Journal: "This new projectile, invente 1 and perfected by General Robekts, has been tested in a aeries of experiments by order of the Ordnance Department, nuder the diiection of Major Kingsbury, if the Ordnance Corp* We are able to announce the complete success of this most important invention that must materially change the prevailing system in our armies, of using, almost exclusively. the Minie ball for rifle ordnance. The invention consists in sncb a construction of a bullet to be used in smooth-bored guns of all calibre, as to close all windage and to propel the bullet point forward without tumbling, and to give flight to it of equal range with the flight of the niiuie ball from rifled aim. It is used with or withont buckshot in all smoth-borcd anus, and is equal in all respects to the Minie ball when used in lifled guns. Thus it answers all the purposes of the conical projectiles and rifled muskets ; and, more ihrn this, is equally destructive when single in smoothc-bores, and with buckshot must become the most destructive projectile vet perfected in all the improvcincLt j in the science of projectiles made during the past ten ( years. When buckshot are used with General ltonrniTs' projectiles, those small but efficient aids in destruotivencss aro thrown two, three, and four hundred yards effectively, while the ball fired with these goes on its fatal errand from 800 to 1,000 yards. The precision of fire seems to equal that of the Minie balls from rifles. The fact that an elongated "cupped cylinder convex bnllet" has been constructed that closes all windage and flies point foremost its entire range, without tumbling, without the rotary motion that bears up the Miuie ball, is a new and startling announcement ; but the accomplishment is a fact which can be no longer gaiusaved. The report iff Major Kingsbury will, doubtless, announce this to the world officially. We may add that General Kobfbts is now perfecting his patented "breach-loader" for rifled arms, so as to secure the rapid loading and firing of his ball and buckshot cartridge from a breech-loading smooth-bowil musket." Home Testimony Against the Rebel Cabinet. ?Xe 10 If.f/V, Stii. The Richmond Whig of the Hd instant tells tales out of school in the following plain fashion: " With no other motive or thought than to advance the public interest we would again respectfully suggest to the President, the advantage of reconstructing his Cabinet and calling to his aid the very ablest intellects of the country. The burdens and responsibilities of his post are too great for any man to bear. He has use for all the assistance it is possible to command. We have a Department of State that has not been able in nearly three years to establish relations with any ~a Twflrtonmr T^nnnWmnnf fhnf in keep its finances from running to rain: a War Department in the hands of a chief whoso whole studies and course of life have been purely and peculiarly civic; a Navy Department without a navy; a Post Office Department with a very shackling system of mails; a Department of Justice va?ant * The business of each Department, separately, shows the want of more masterly hands, and the united powers of their chiefs in Cabinet council (if councils are ever held) fail to supply the quantum of wisdom the country needs. Wc are getting to deep waters, and a feeling of dread is shaking the souls of the people. There is nothing the President can do that will so animate the hearts and stimulate their confidence in an affection for him, as the calling to his side (as his daily advisers) of a Cabinet of the wisest, truest and most experienced men in the country, regardless of what may have been their former political sissoeiations. The time is propitious, the occasion i urgent, antl the people unanimously expectant. For his own continued capacity for usefulness and future fame, as well as on account of the sorely necessitous and exigent condition of the country, we earnestly press the recommendation." The Handwriting ox toe Watx.?The Richmond Whig confesses in so many words " that the South will bo overrun, seems now not impossible." j It adds, "Our way is exceedingly dark at this time." It should be 44 dark " and hard, for it is 1 44 the way of transgressors." 44 Grant's goal," it adds, 44 is Atlanta, lie will bo there before Christmas, ana nan ujp couon remaining m uie i Confederacy will be in bis hands or destroyed, | nnless a trnlv great general and a great army are placed athwart his path within three weeks." Bat, alas, for the poor Whig. The rebels have 110 "great army," left in that quarter, and their " great generals," Bragg, >anson and Hardee, have already been whippeu by the "Yankees" again and again. The language of the Whig is the language of despair, so thinly disguised that it c. mot bo mistaken. Bn.vga Done For.?General Grant has given tho finishing blow to Be.. Go, who has been superseded by Hardee. Bragg has been an unlucky braggart from the beginning of the war. "When he planted his batteries at Fensaeola for the reduction of Fori Pickens, he declared that, regardless of expense, men or gun-powder, Pickets should be reduced to the rebel Hag. But instead of taking Pickens, he was compelled to clear out otTensacola, and abandon the town and its defences to "the Yankees." Bragg, with a considerable army, next invaded Kentucky, and from the centre of that State issued a darning proclamation to the people of the Northwestern States to join his victorious banner aud the Southern Confederacy; but his onward march to Perryville was turned into a disgraceful flight over the mountains of Kentucky into Tennessee. Next he undertook an advance upon Nashville, but was met half way by Bosecraus, and sent ofi' again, soundly thrashed for his presumption. Next he was turned out of his fortifications at Tnllahoma and Shelbyville, driven over the Tennessee river, turned out of Chattanooga, and pursued into the plains of Georgia, 'iliere Generals Longstreet and 1). II. Hill, with their veteran legions from Virginia, and twenty thousand cnniinct tr? his rescue. Bract? VJCUl^Kt AUUAiM^ , r#w wheeled about to destroy the Union army; but he oniy succeeded in pushing it back into a position from which it has recoiled with the most disastrousconsequences to Bragg himself. And this is the end of Bragg. He may now be put in the same catalogue with such specimens of Southern invincibility as General Floyd, General Wiso, General Pillow, Humphrey Marshal and Jo. Johnson.?X. Y. World. " A private letter from an officer in Grant's army relates an incident among the rebel prisoners ; "A big lot of graybacks were brought in and halted right in front of where I stay. I went to the door and heard the different squads hallooing for their regiment: ' Where's the Thirty-fourth Alabama?' 'Is the Tenth Georgia here? 'Is there any South Carolina regiment in that crowd? The last question was politely answered by a big graybaek: ' 1)?n your South Carolina regiments; if it hadn't been for you we wouldn't be here."' Another of his stories is of an old lady, at " tine > honso Braercr had Lis headquarters. She "" "x'"" * ~ uu . said: " Before yon all edtaie up here, I asked Gen. Bragg, 'What are you going to do with mo, Gentral?' Ee says to me, 'Lord! Madam, tlio Yankees will never dare to come hero.' 'And,' she added with a blubber, it was not fifteen minutes till you were all around! " This reminds us of a story told by Colonel Kinsman, of General Butler's stall*, of one of his negro guide, who said, to the great amusement of the troops : " Master said you was whipped every time ; but you corned nearer and nearer, and here you be." Curiosity Gratified.?During the sitting of a county court, not long ago, in Connecticut, on a very cold evening, a crowd of lawyers had collected around the open fire that blazed cheerfully on th? health in the bar-room, when a traveller entered benumbed with cold, no one moved to give mm a place to warm his shins, so he leaned against the wall in the back part of the room. At last a smart young limb of the law addressed him, when the following dialogue took place. " You look like a traveler?'' " Wall, I suppose I am?I am come from Wisconsin a foot, at any rate ?" " Wisconsin ? What a distance to come on one pair of legs." "Wall I done it any how." "I say, did you ever pass through h?1 in your travels? " Yes sir, I have been through the outskirts?" "I thought likely. Well, what are the customs there ? Some of us would like to know." "Oh, you'll find them very much as they are in this place; the lawyers sit nearest the tire." St.ibvation Parties in* Hichmond. ?A young j Lilly in ltichmond, writing to her friends in Balti- j more, says that the gayetics of society in that! city consist chiefly of what are called ' starvation parties," at which people meet in each other's houses and have music and dancing, but nothing to eat or drink. The fair writer attends these p;irties twice a week, and she avers that they have j a great deal of fun but no supper. She speaks i of meeting a gentleman from England, whose name was Capt. Coffee, at a Starvation Party, ami every time his name was pronounced it inaue her mouth water. Alas for the fashionable society of Richmond! Even "Old Dick's" (Dick llaslcins) punchbowl, t'.iafc was wont to cheer all comers, with its generous beverage is empty! Item?tlie yonng lady referred to, mentions having pnrchasek a straw bonnet the other day for one hundred and twenty-five dollars. I Increase of Soldiers' Pay.?The bill to increase the pay of the army provides for fixing it at the following rates per month for subordinate olficcrs and privates:?Sergeant Majors of Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, $'25; Quartermasters Sergeants of Cavalry, $25; of Artillery and Infantry, $21; First Sergeants of Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, $23; Sergeants of Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, $20; Sergeants of Ordnance, Sappers and Miners and Foniooneers, $35 ; Corporals, $18 ; Privates, $1G; Corporals ot Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, *10; Chief buglers of Cavalry, $25; Buglers, $18 ; Farriers and Blacksmiths of Cavalyy, and Artificers of Artillery, $20; Principal Musicians of Artillery and Infantry, $25; Musicians of Artillery and Infantry and Musiciuis of Sappers, Miners and l'ontooneers, $10. ?Captain George T. Emmons has been relieved as Fleet Captain of the South Atlantic Squadron. Admiral DahJgren's Still' now consists of the following olScers ;?Captain J. M. Bradford. Fleet Captain and Chief of Staff; Captain Amnion, Chief of Hydrography ; Lieutenant Moreau. Forrest, Chief of Ordnance ; Paymaster Bradford, Fleet Paymaster ; Surgeon Johnson, Fleet Surgeon ; C'nief Engineer Danby, Fleet Engineer; Lieutenant Commander Phythian, Assistant to Chief of Staff; Ensigns Johnson and Bartlett, Flag Ensigns ; Acting Assistant Master Dnhlgren, Aid to Admiral; Ensign Poor, Naval Signal Oih cer ; Lieutenant Fanner, Army Signal Officer. ?Sever.ty thousand bales of cotton (a hundred kilos each) have been raised in Italy theA present year. ADVERTISEMENTS. A. L. STIMSON, AUCTIONEER FOR THE DEPARTMENT, Address Adams Express Office, Hilton Head. 111 A C. FEAIHE R,? Military and Naval Photographic Gallery, 10 1-2 Sutler's liovr, Port Royal, S. C. Aug. 12, tf. If ETALL1C COFFINS, for sale by IfX C. W. Dennis & Co., No. 4, Sutler's hour DR. W. M. WALSH, Office No. 13, Sutler's Row. A lu.l supply of Drugs, Chemicals ami Patent Medicines. August "JO, l8G3.-tf UST RECEIVED AT THE NEW STOKE, U.MUN Square, neat to the Post Office a large lot of Atabouaty Books, Ac., in part as follows : Arniy Regulations, 18G3. Yielle's Hand Book. Webb's Pay Digest. Monroe C'owp. Drill. Ordronaux Hints, Sclialk's Campaigns, ? Manual. " Art of War. ^ Gillmore's Limes, kc. Taubert's Field Artillery. Quartermaster's Manual. Halleck's Art aud Science. Benet's Court Martial. . Estvan's War Pictures. Casey's Tactics. 3 vols. Szabads Modern War. Barra du Parcq. Coppe's Battaliion Drill. Cullum's Military Bridges. Instructions Field Artillery. Earrctt's Naval Gunnery. Company Clerk. Tottens Naval Text Book. Shoulder Straps, a NoveL ItODcns iiiiiju ouuiw yicuuiiarj. Levy's Pules .Vc. Killing l'eus. Pocket Albums. Bivouac of the Battle fl eld. Neck Ties, Life 011 a Georgia P aula ion, Haiidkercliies, hemmed. Webster Dictionary. Currency Holders. bocial condition of the EuMatheinatical instruments. glish people. Ink, black, red, carmine, &c. Pens, steel and gold in great variety, Blank books, in gn at variety, Wafers, sealing wax, law seals, Arc-, Mucilage, court plaster, lemon acid, Ac., Penknives, pocket books, purses, Portfolios, bill books, etc. pencils, cjayons, etc., of various colors Lava, boxwood match safes, tobacco boxes, bags, .to., Novels, song-books, hand books of various kinds an 1 most ottlie late publications of the day. Maps of Clia rleston harbor and vicinity, and ofSav in* uah river ALSO, a nue lot oi aiuimry dooks oi laic issues? ino best selection ever brought here. Pipes, briarwood, china, gntta perch a, Meerschaum. Together with a new stock of Stationer}*, Ac. Photographs printed expressly for us by Anthony oi Maj. Gcnerais Gillinore, btroug, Hunter, and Mi eheli. JOSEPH H. SEARS. UNITED .STATES ARMY AND NAVY NIGHT COMPASS, eg. Patented May Gth, 180*2. The advantages of these Compasses over all others 111 use are, that they can be rojd distinctly at night, without the aid of an artificial light. Eor ri eoiiuoiteriug the position of the enemy, night movements, Ac., where a light dure not be used without running the greatest danger, they are invaluable. Used by Major Generals McClellan, Hooker, Burn side, Hunter, Pope; Major Meyers, Chief of Signal Department, and others. Every Oftieer and Soldier should have one. Pnici:: fG, $4, 83, $2 50, $2, and $1 25. For sale by JOSEPIJ IT. SKATWL IJIJ3E UE>. aHJL.EU<Aa iltAL?y tAliitna.? No. 3, EastHonston St., (one door East of Broadway) N, Y. (Above- the St. Nicholas Hotel.) Htaihyiarif.ru in .Veto York, of the Oflicers'of Hilton Hea/I. Ale, Wines, Braudies, Whisky and Segars, of the choicest character. The current army intelligence, Ac. Near all the places of public amusements, and the most popular place hi the city of military resort. COL. J AS. L. FRAZEB, (late 47th Rcgt) Ang. 32 tf Manager.