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Jackson had ridden forward on the turnpike to reconnoitre, and ascertain, if possible, in spite of the darkness of the night, the position of tie Federal lines. The moon shone, but it was struggling with a bank of olondsi and afforded but a dim light. From the gloomy thickets on each side of the turnpike, looking more wiered and sombre in (Be half-light, came the melancholly notes of the wbip-poonrill. "I think there must have been ten thousands-said flan. Oumarr, STtenrarff. Such was the scene amid which the events. now about to be narrated, took place. Jackson had advanced with some members of his staff, considerably beyond the building known as "Meizi Chancellor's," about a mile from Chanoel lorsville, and bad reached a point nearly opposite an old dismantled honse in the woods, near the road, whose shell-torn roff may still be seen, when he reined in his horse, and remaining perfectly qniet and motionless, listened intently for any indications of a movement in the Federal lines. They were scaroely two hundred yards in front of him, andseeingthe danger to whioh he exposed himself, one of his staff officers said, "General, don't you thick this is the wrong place for you ?" He replied quickly, almost impatiently, "The danger is all * over! the enemy is routed; go baok and tell A. P. Hill to press right on !" The aIuhmiI link tiait ontrnaln i^iunnatrpil vutvvt VVV^VWJ ??? ? wv??vv?j v?ww^|rv? V w when a snddea volley wm fired by the Confederate infantry in Jaokson's rear, and on the light of the road?evidently direoted upon him and his scoot. The origin of this fire has never been discovered, and after Jaokson's death there was Gttle disposition to investigate an occurrence which occasioned bitter distress on all, who, by aoy possibility, could have taken any part in it. It | is probable, however, that some movement of the Federal skirmishers had provoked the fire; if this is an error, the troops fired deliberately upon Jackson and bis party, under the impression that they were a body of Federal, cavalry reeonnoitering. It is said that the men had orders to open on any object in front, especially npon cavalry, and the absenoe of piokets or advanoe foroe of any kind on the Confederate side explains the rest. lTha~aM8lI IflTO jfmnrt jn oon. tact with cfiem; the Federal artilleryTfuHy commanding the position of the troops, was expeotea 10 open every ujuuicui, uuu vuc | men were just in that exoited condition which induces troops to fire at any and ev- j sry object they see. Whatever may have been the origin of! this volley, it came, and many of the staff and esoort were shot, and fell ftom their hones. Jaokson wheeled to the left and galloped into the woods to get oat of range of the ballets; bat he had not gone twenty stqps beyond the edge of the turnpike, in the thicket, when one of his brigades, drawn up withio thirty yards of him, fired a volley in their tarn, kneeling on the right knee, as the flash of the guns showed, as though, prepared to "guard againBt caval?? " Rn -TtflV*nrt nnn/)u1 in three places. He reoeived one ball in the sboalder joist, shattering the bone and severing the ohief artery?a second ball passed through the same arm between the elbow and.wrist, making its exit through the palm ? of. his right hand, about the middle, and passing through, broke two of the bones.? At the same moment when he was strook, holding his rein in his left hand, and the right was either raised in.the singular gesture habitual to him at times of excitement, or to protect his faoe from the boughs of the trees. His left band immediately dropped at hia side, and his horse, no longer controlled by the rein, and frightened at the firing, wheeled suddenly and ran from the fire in the direction of the Federal lioes. Jackson's helpless condition now exposed bim to a distressing aocident. His horse ran violently between two trees, from one of which a horizontal bongh extended, at about the height of bis head, to the other, and, as he passed between the trees, this bongh struck him iu the face, tore off his oap and threw him violently back on bis horse. The blow was so violent as nearly to unseat him, but it did not do so, and, rising ereet again, he caught the bridle with the broken and bleeding fingers of his right hand and succeeded jn turning his horse back into the turnpike. Here Uapt. Wiiboorn, of bis staff, succeeded in catching the reins and checking the animal, who was almost frantic with terror, and at the same, moment, when from loss of blood and exhalation, Jackson was about to fall from the saddle. The scene at this time was gloomy and depressing. Horses, mad with fright at the (dose firing, were seen running in every direction, some of them riderless, others defying control, and in the woods lay maoy dying and wouoded men. Jaokson's whole party? exoept Capt. Wilbourn and a member of the signal oorps, had been killed, wounded or dispersed. I'he man riding just behind Jaekson had bis horse killed ; a courier near was woanded, and his horse ran into the Federal lines ; Lieut. Morrison, aid>de-camp, threw himself from bis nnditlA. *nH Kin hflm fell dead a moment afterward; Captain Howard was wounded and earned by bis bone in the Federal camp; Captain Leigh bad bis horse shot under bin > Captain Forbes was killed, and Captain Boawell, Jackson's Chief Engineer, was shot through the heart, and bis dead body carried by his frightened horse into the lines of the enemy, near at band. Suoh was the result of the causeless fire. Jt had oeased ns suddenly as it had begun, \ a and the position in the road which Jackson now occupied was the same from whioh he had been driven. Captain Wilbourn, who, with Mr. Wynn, of the Signal Corps, was all that was left of the party, notioes a singular circnmstanoe whioh attracted his attention at this moment The tftrnpike was utterly deserted, with the exoeption of himself, his oompanion and Jaokson; bnt in the skirting of the fhieket on the left he observed some one sitting on his horse, by the side of the wood, ooolly looking on, motionless and silent. The unknown individual was olad in a dark dress, which strongly resembled the Federal uniform ; but it seemed impossible that he could have penetrated to that spot without being discovered, Captain Wilbourn directed bim to "ride up there, and see what troops those were"?the then who had fired on Jackson - ? * .t J* ?when the stranger slowly roae in tne direction pointed oat, hut never returned with any answer. Who that silent personage was is left to oonjecture. % ? - 4a>i ? The Fashions. On this subject, so important to the ladies, we find the following in a late New York Herald: Plain silks are always elegant, and stripeB and small brocaded patterns very desirable. Changeable silks are still to be seez^ though not so fashionable as formerly. Dresses en suite?that is, the dress, under skirt and basqae of the same color and material?are the newest style and the highest fashion just now* The trimmings are diverse, oomplioated and profase, sometimes in good taste, but more often in direot opposition to it. They consist of velvet, ribbon, laoe, silk fringe, braid and the lateBt novelty, gold and silver oord. Cord is also osed of other oolors to match the dress, where gold oord is not desirable or suitable. By the way, gold enters very m'uoh into trimmings of all kinds this season. It mingles with the flowers in?the bonnets, it dangles from the veils, it glitters among the embroidery, and even in rioh collars of point lace we see it. Sashes are very popular, and form a very important item in trimming. Those tride ungainly belts that no lady could wear with impunity, has disappeared, and in their stead we have belts of a moderate width, fastened with clasps or buckles. THE CORSAGE. Pointed waists are still in fashion, with one or more points at front, back or over the sides.' Tho round waist is again working its way into favor, and the "Bolero" and other jaoket shapes hold their ground against all competition. Long coat tails are still worn; so also is the deep square has THE SLEXVX. Id view of tbe many different styles of sleeve that we may seleot from, it would be well to bear these few words of warning in mind: The wide flowing sleeve of former days and the voluminous undemleeve are no longer to be seen. The revolution of time has brought us almost to tbe opposite ex-. treme. Sleeves are worn now almost tight to tbe arm, barely leaving spaoe for a close fitting undersleeve. Sleeves half tight to the elbow, and trimmed with an oval tab on tbe back, or with puffings at the top. and bottom of the Bleeve, are maoh worn, as is also the funnel shape, the Cara, &o. Caps are almost universally worn, and formed in all sorts of shapes, epaujetts, points and medallions' being the favorites. THE SKIBT. The amplitude of the shirt is not in the least diminished, and its length is rather increased. The universal practice of looping up the dress in the street was likely at first thought to lead to the erroneous im- , pression that economy was the objeot, and therefore prompt measures were taken to squelch out suoh a derogatory idea. The jupe (it would be profanity to call these elegant articles petticoats) is often made of the same material as the dress, more fully trimmed and more elaborately ornamented, fluted, braided, scolloped ahd corded than any dress, and finished in the most expensive style. In the skirt, as in the other portions of the dress, profuse trimming Is the rule. It is sometimes carried round the bottom of the skirt, and sometimes extends up eaoh seam. It is arranged in tabs of lozenges, or laid on in bias fold; in faot, every conceivable form that trimming can be made to assume, and in every available spot where | triiuuitug uttu bo placod, wc find it. Fluting is now generally oonfined to the underskirt. Designs embroidered with, siik or hreid. and interanersed with sold or Steel beads, will be. io favor this winter, and on bear; material will be both elegant and effective. Cord is also in high favor, and where properly used is stylish and distingue i looking. BONNETS. | Crowns have oome in again, but not so the capes; these are replaced by a straight, ungraceful band, which seems rather a prolongation of the crown than a cape. The crowns are generally stiff and flat; bat soft orowns have also made their appearance; but these, instead of drooping as formerly, rise above the level of the ^>rim in full, ereot puffs. The front is close and round, resembling the old cottage in shape, but not in size. ' The trimming is oonflned almost exclusively to the top of the bonnet, and affects ereot stateliness rather than careless grace; and it most be oonfessed there is something very sfiking and attractive in its elegant though unyielding formality? This style of trimming is in such strong contrast with the pendant sprays, floating mWKama on/) v?ns\Tii rt HMWU? W4Wj#iug iuauuoiD ui bUO IWM season that it is quite a relief to the eyes, fatigued with endless repetition of the one idea. Flowers, berries, sprays and grasses enter into the trimmings, and gold in every form, form delicate ohainwork, glittering fringe and tiny ooin to burnished butterflies, with outspread wings, lends its own pecu? liar lustre. Lace is also much used iu ] trimming, and oatrioh and marabout feath- i ere are frequently seen enbanoing the beau- j ty and adding to the eleganoe of the tout \ ensemble. Veils of tulle and Chantilly are i attaohed to the left side of the bonnet, im- < parting to it an airy grace and oostly ele- i ganoe that add wonderfully to its attractions. ] ?? ?? i Bich Men of N. York?How they Work. ] No bank clerk on the salary of a thous- i and dollars a year goes to his bank as regu- i larly, or worksas many hours, as Win. B. As tor; who counts up his 340,000,000.? ' His little one-story office, a step or two from i Broadway, on Prince street, with its iron j bars, makine it resemble a police prison, is the den where he performs tie daily toil, 1 and oat of his wealth and labor gets only bis victuals and olotbes. He attends personally to all bis bnsiness, knows every dol- < lar of rent or income that is to become due, 1 pays out every dollar, makes his entries in ; bis own band, and obliges his subordinates | to come to him for information, while he i does not go to them. He generally oomes down in the omnibus at an early hour in the I day and remains olosely absorbed in busi- i ness until five o'olook. He rarely takes i exercise, and finds his pleasure in the closest attention to business. A friend of mine i rode to Washington with him in the same : car from New York. He neither jjpoke nor got out of his seat, and hardly moved, from i Jersey City to Washington. He usually i leaves bis office at five o'olock, and walks slowly up Broadway to Lafayette plaoe.? He is over six feet high, heavily built, with a decided German look, small hazy eyes, as i if he was half asleep, head round as a pumpkin, and about as destitute of hair ? He is exceedingly, hospitable, and in the "season" gives a dinner to his friends weekly, at whioh the riohest viands ou services i of gold and silver are presented by liveried servants to his guests. Commodore Vanderbilt never worked harder in his life, never worked more hours than now. He has a confidential olerk, who works like a pack horse, and has been in his employ for thirty years. Besides this, Vanderbilt does his own business, makes and executes his own oontraets, and this, with the business he doe* on twenty millions, is no small toil. The Commodore onoa rJrwron tn bin hnirinAM TAcrnlftrlr fiverv day, and can be found at oertain hours.? His only recreation?euohre and fast horses. Moses Taylor, whose dividends from coal stock alone this year reeohed the pretty little sum of a million of dollars, began business in New Fork when he was sixteen . years of age, kept his own books with his own hands, and has done so ever since.? His library, in his own honse on Fifth avenno in n rAimlftr wnrlr.qhnn nicht. be brings up bis own business with his own hand. His vast business as trustee is kept by himself. He makes all the original entries of sort and kind, and goes to his office for no information, and be knows just bow things must be there to be right And > should every reoord kept by his book-keepers and olerks be destroyed, it would make i do difference with him, for be has the orig- i inal in his own hand. Many merchants j spend the afternoon in riding, or in gabies, or in the excitement of the evening stock board; but Mr. Taylor finds his recreation in a bath, a good dinner, a comfortable siesta, and an evening devoted to work. I New York Cor. Boston Journal. i j From ill# Nashville Republican Banner, Sept. 98th. j A Strange Statement?How William L. j Yancey met His Death. As yoa enter the cemetery at Montgome- I ry, and turn to the right, you will perceive 1 a oolonade of maple trees leading off to a quiet glen. Beyond is a grassy knoll, and leaving this to the left you will approaoh a pleasant level of greensward. Here you will he tempted to pause before a plain slab of white marble of the most humble description. It bears a single inscription : "William L. Yancey." His last words were j "Put me out of sigL t," and it is said that he was constantly muttering, toward his latter end, those lines of Pope ; "Let me live unseen, unknown, And unlamentedletme die. Nor mound, nor monument, uor stone,. Tell where I lie." _ His death was quiet and painless, after a year .of acute physical and mental suffering. n 1 e ne was a ainut uuuruuiuau , a ujuu ui ^uiet i manners; a handsome declaimer, and a fair i scholar. He was never wealthy, and it is c understood that he left his family without e au independence. . 1 The time has come when the circumstances of his last illness and death, with the ocoa- i sion which suddenly convulsed a frame from ] perfect health into a mere wreok and shadow, f may be mentioned as a historical fact.? e William L. Yancey came .to his end by i violenoe. It was .toward the olose of the e second session of the first Confederate Cob- s gress that he broke from the counsels and \ influence of Mr. Davis, and became, with 1 Mr. Henry S. Foote, a leader of the 1 opposition. Mr. Ben. Hill, a Senator from i Georg^i, had likewise changed his front, 1 and was remarkable for the earnestness, t personal interest and persistency with which t be sustained the measure? of an administra- i tion to wbioh bis allegiance had been given ] but late in the day. Mr. Yancey, it will t be remembered, had returned from an i unsuccessful mission to Europe, and was s representing Alabama k? the Confederate j Senate. . t The question of a navy was under dis- t oussion in secret session. The debate j ranged beyond the parliamentary limits, and Messrs. Yancey and Hill became animated a over tlje abstract dootrine of State rights s and the divinity of slavery. High words z passed, and finally the'lie was given by Mr. g Hill. Mr. Yancey leaped forward, and as s he aimed a blow at his adversary, was caught t in the arms of the latter and violently 1 thrown back over 8 desk: Mr. Hill is a t man of wonderful muscular development. 1 Mr. Yanoey was never very heavy, though 1 lithe and active. Id the fall hit spine was' seriously injured, and when the bystanders rushed upon the two and dragged the one from the other, the great Urometer lay unconscious upon the floor, with a little triokle of blood oozing from hie lips. .He was serried to his hotel; a vote of seoresy was passed, and the enoounter hushed up. No one in itichmond exoept that body of men knew of the circumstance for six months after. Meanwhile the victim did not recover. He drooped from day to day. He became listless, hopeless and vacant. He was transferred to his own home, where his convulsions ceased a few weeks before his death, whiohwas tranquil and calm. The Opening in the South for Northern Farmers. Two ideas constitute a largo pert of the editorial capital of the Southern press. The urot 10 tunc* iruuo ibia/ioio mu wuiiuimvi^ perform out-door toil in the cotton and auger States, and the aeeond is that Southern men should not be hasty in selling their plantations under the discouragement whioh they encounter in view of the abolition of slavery. The Shreveport (Louisiana) News says: Many a man, without reflection, and in a fit of despair, is ready to sell his land for a pittance, upon the ground that it will be measurably worthless for long years to come, as free negroes oannot be made to work, and no other laborers will come in tt> supply their plaoes. We say to such don't be hasty; keep your land if possible; if you have good land and a plenty of it, you have a sure and certain fortune. Things are now at their worst; many have no hope in the future, and speak of leaving the country even if they have to make a sacrifice of their lands to get away. This is all wrong, and you will acknowledge this yourself ? Some of the negroes will work as well as ever; in truth, they must be made to work, if they refuse to go at it voluntarily, for people cannot be supported without work; then the value of our Southern crops will draw to the oountry enterprising laboring men from every.quarter of the world. And this will soon begin to work, and the result will be apparent in the increased production and in an enhanced value of landedprop erty. Id regard to the oiroomstanoes wbioh should enoourage farmers to take advantage of the good bargains that are thus offered, we quote from another editorial of the Newt: For some-years to oome our orops will be comparatively smaH, but even these small orops will bring into the oountry a very large amountof cJBffi, as prioea will continue to be large so leng as there if $ deficiency in the yield. A crop of 1,000,000 bales at 30 cents will bring as muoh money as 4,000,000 bales at the average price of former years. Bnt the change in onr late system will necessitate a corresponding ohange in our planting operations. Great plantations will disappear altogether, at least for many years to oome, as do prudent man will risk a large crop until labor is more abundant and more certain than at present. A man will never risk a heavy crop of sugar or ootton unless he is perfeotly certain of his labor for the whole year, and this h6 oannot be under existing circumstances. For a time, and until labor is more oertain and abundant, all our farms will be small, but they will be. better cultivated, and altogether Detter attended to than-at present. Families will settle for life, as going* in to the woods to open a plantation trill be a very serious affair, when most of ;he worxlfm fcsTC ifi be done bjr one, or at. least by only a few persons. - Muscular Christianity. a good stohy of bishop selwyn. In the autumn of 1857, I spent a few lays in a country parsonage. On the Sanlay morning, at breakfast, the pastor's rife reoeived a letter, which he tittering ;old ns must be a tit-bit. "Ha, Unrile," sxclaimed she, "here are olerioal doings jxaotly to yoor taste." The Writer, a lady d a distant country, narrated mat tnere nao ately come into -the next pariah a vicar?-a rery fine young man, who at school had no luperior either in Greek, or in boxing, and vho at the university won honors for his ilassios and-ailver cups for his boating.? 2S nao bsgiuiiiDg hi Esmcst the work of in evangelist among a long-negleoted, vinous, and brutal people. He had* a plan ind a will; but many worthy folk were 'earing that his zeal was without knowledge ?or wisdom, at any rate. One of his first neasures was to open a school in a remote >?rt of the parish and get the room licensed or week-day preaobing. But aH'thfedrunkirds rose against sueh unheard of prooeedngs. They would run after him, oursing ind hooting, and discharging vollies of sods ind other missiles, finding remonstrance rain, he adopted another coarse on the iVednesday evening in the week before I leard the story.- ^Making a stand in the niddle of the road, at the entranoe of the lamlet, just as the storm arose, and looking he savages in the face, he addressed them bus, iu a firm, quiet voice) which oomn&uded their attention :*"My good fellows [ have borne this patiently for some time, >ut I must put a stop to it; and m do it d your own way. Choose yoor beat men, md we'll fight it oat If I beat, you'll rive op, you know." They looked at him inbelievingiy; bat throwing bis coat on a )ush, he added; imj in earnest} send' roar man." The ruffians laid their heads together; mi then a burly giant stepped forth and tripped, and made a furious dash at his everend challenger, who parried the unikillfnl blows and played with them a few eeonds. But, then, a fist was planted in he peasant's chest, and he lay at full ength on the ground. Quickly gathering jimeelf up, however, he skulked away to lis companions. "Now send yoor next >est and I'll go through the lot of you.1'? Again they drew their head* together, and' another threw down hie jacket; going'to work with more eaotiotti energy. Bat at oaoe a rtomaeher itretohed himon the road. "Your next/' Onoe more a conglomerate of, dense pates, was formed. "Bill) thee teok him/' Bill eye4 the hero askance and shook his head?"Thee, Jim; take th' parsona shake more decided, and a stiff "Nay, nay f Tse see the hong fast^" And now the first one who was vanquished stood forward, and like a brave man, called oat, "I say, parson, ye're a rare yoapg an, ye ar. Fse tell thed what, we are going to hear thee preyoh." And they all followed him along the little street, said the writer, and heard the Word quietly, adding, it remains to be seen what will become of the fight What did come of it ? I heard a long time afterward, that from that day the men doffed their hate, and tie women curt eried, and the children looked awe-strioken, when they met or passed him; that the oh arch and schools were filled; that the beer houses were nearly all ohut- up; and. that a great moral and religions reformation was in progress. That, gentleman. had previously been the instrument of alike ohange in an equally demoralised parish. I may add, that a few years back he was deemed the fittest clergyman in the church to go out as bishop to a scene of great personal danger in a heathen country.?Cor. Manchester Examiner. Comical Law Suit?Throe Justices in Trouble. From time immemorial the populace have loved to circulate anecdotes at the expense of those very- useful officers denominated Justices of the Peaoe.' Probably the most humorous book in the world would oontain all the jokes, stories and bonmots connnctel with the administration-of the law in mag* . > uumuas UUIUOB. A friend related to us recently a diverting story of the very great perplexity in whioh three worthy old Justices of Hamilton were entangled by the misehievotfs sophistry of two wily old lawyers of the same oonnty. A worthless fellow was arraigned before the Justices for a preliminary examination on the oharge of perjury. Judge Keith appeared for the _ prosecution, and Levi Trewhitt for the defendant; both old, able and adroit lawyers, who were as familiar with all the sharp tarns of the law as Paul Morpby is with the combinations of the ohess board.. Judge Keith objected to one of the justices on the ground that he wag warmly prejudiced in favor of the defendant, and would therefore not do justice to the State. His objection was nevertheless overruled. Nothing disoouraged, the prosecution tried a new taok, and bad the obnoxious justice subpoenaed as a witness for the State ! The remaining two jostioes hemmed and hawed for some time, bot finally oame to the oonclusion that Judge Keith had the right to subpoena any witness he choose. As soon as the motion was granted, the prosecutor demanded that the witness be sent out of the room during the examination, which was granted also. Mr. Trewhitt was not to be outwitted in this manner, so he instantly moved a subpoena for the other two jostioes as witnesses on bis side, wbioh the accomodating magistmton oNnfml Marina in litrn manntf their predecessor had dooe) from the room. Here was a nice state of affairs, the 'quires all out of the room, and nobody present except the defendant, two lawyers and a witness or two. It was, however, exactly what Trewhitt wanted, for he stepped to his client and whispered in bis ear, "Now, slip out of doors gud run, you rascal, as fast as your legs can take you, and never show your face here again." The fellow complied, and when the three justioea returned Trewhitt ooolly told them that his client had cleared himself.?Nashville Press. The Monitors At Best-Repose of the Iron-Clads. In the Boston Journal of the 22d io this sketch of a navy in ordinary: "The navy department has seleoted a snog harbor in the "Tear of Leagns Island on the Delaware river, as a sort of home or hospital for the iron olads now happily discharged from service. Here the old thanderers, their stormy oontests over, will lie oheek by jowl, and whisper strange stories cf the battles they have been in. Their very names will be' saggestive of great eontests, and their battered sides and indented smokestacks hint at the cost that sabdaed the rebellion. "More than fifty of these hoge monsters, more, docile than the elephants of Hannibal, are now at anchor below the navy yard at Philadelphia. There is the captured At lanta, wmon was to orusn toe Union navy, and was long the boast of Savannah. Side by side doze the Modoo and Nanbno, eaoh with-terrible torpedoes affixed ready to blo w op an intruder. The Nah&nt, covered all over with mementos of McAllister, Sumter, Morris Island and Fort Wagner, keeps a grim old eye on the Atlanta, at whose capture she was present.. She is Boston bnilt, and good for another warHere is the Canonioos, one of the assailants of Fort Fisher, and the splendid Monadnook, impregnable as the granite hill from which she is named. The Oatskill, also honorable with soars, and the Passaio, which looks like a veteran of a hundred wan, rent, seamed and indented, still looks ugly to the enemies of the Union at borne or abroad- Then there are trim, dapper vessels, fresh and new, with the jaunty air . of volunteen who have seen, smajl service ' and received fat bounties. They hare their reoord yet to make, and yet it is to be hoped they will find their work accomplished by 1 lying there lb the harbor as a terror to all ! evil-comers. They are-the bull dogs which Uncle Sam has chained and moasled in his j yard, but which any prowling marauder on i the premises will find possessed of a fine set i of teeth and powerful Jaws. "Let them lie there,, and let them be j * * sorupnlonsly kept in order. Th&coontry can bare no better guaranty for the civility of foreign nations and the peace of the world, than this same veteran corps of home guards. It may never be necessary to use them?we hope it never will?but once being bnilt, there is satisfaction in.knowing that we have them, or at least so many .as ; may be- required for the defence of oar harbors and ooaats." Tirp "R a tr a/i-po AD mira Orrnrvs i rw Tm au? xia t nvias a ?jb vauxuitta ux J.&ALT, CONSTANTINOPLE AND BARCELONA. ?A dispatch received from the United States Consul at Brindisi, Italy, dated Augnat 30th, says the Asiatio cholera had made its appeaianoe on the Adriatie coast of the Italian peninsula, and at the time of writing the dispatch, seemed' to be spread* ing in all directions. Anoona was the first place to feel the fatal effeota of this terrible scourge, and the deaths for a long time averaged one hundred per day; but it had apparently .spent its force there, only some twenty new oaa^i being-reported daily. It ' next broke out in San Severe, a place of some eighteen thousand inhabitants. The deaths average sixty per day, and the disease is still raging fearfully there. A few oases of the cholera have been at Poggia, and some also in every plaoe between Brindisi and Bari. . The United States Consul at Constantinople, writing to this department under date of AugustJSO, reports that the ravages of cholera in that, place have almost entirely ceased. If the steadily increasing define continues, it is confidently believed that the city will be free from the scourge in ten days. The official report show the number of deaths from this disease from noon of the 25th to noon of the 26th to have been fifty-two ; from noon of the 26th to noon of the 27th, twenty-six; from noon of the 27th to noon .of the 28th, forty-three. A dispatch from the same source, dated Semtember 4, says "that the last offioial return; show the number of deaths the preceding day to have been but fifteen. It is estimated by physicians and others that the number of viotims of this scourge in Constantinople and vioinity will be found to *be not less than fifty thousand. The Consul at Baroelona, under date of September 9, reports the total number of /laaflta af fTiaf v>To aa tlin Q1 of A mm uvuvuu h? vunv j^javra uvui vuo vuv Vi Aug* to Semptember 9, inclusive to be two hundred and seventeen. Gen. Howard to the Freedmen.? Major General Howard, the Superintendent of the Freed men's Bureau, visited Lynchburg, Ya., recently. He had an interview with the City Council in the morning, and at night addressed the colored people. He told them of the vice of idleness and the importance .Of wbrk. He alluded to the fallacious idea which some entertained that the lands of the South would be parceled among them by the Government at Christmas. The idea,-he told ]_ ?'.L t ? J tucuj) UN uowutjf wiuiuut 1UHUU*UUU| IUU to discard it from their minds. The Government had no lands to give; it had no right to take tlfcem from their owners, and it woold not be best if it had the right; and that if lands' were given them now their want of experience in managing for themselves and laok of means, they would not find it to their advantage, ana would most probably soon be oheated out of them by sharpen. The best thing for them now was to work for others faithfully, learn experienoe, be Industrious and economical, and try to save enough from their wages .to buy themselves homes after awhile. He urged them to educate their children and bring them up to oorreot and useful lives. The General alluded to (be pernicious advioe which had been given to them by misohievous persons?suoh as: "if a white man poshes you off the sidewalk, push him off too; if he strikes you, strike him back again," etc.* This, said the General, is all wrong. They must remember not to violate the teaohine of the blessed Saviour of whom they had been hearing, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he was smitten on one cheek, turned the other. That meek and gentle example of their great ""Master was worthy of their oonstant imitation. Listen not to the wicked oonnsels of bad men; they would only do them harm. He assured them that-the Government would proteot them, and that their rights would be res* peoted. * \ A Prince in a "Fix."?Madame de Stael's daughter, the Baroness de Broglie, was an AztmnrJinitn henntw TTar Mitrms bad made suoh an. impression on Prinos Talleyrand that in oontempIatiUg them he was often deficient in hie attentions to her highly gifted, mother. One day, being on a party of pleasure on the water, she endeavored to oonfoand him, and pat the question : "If our vessel were to be wrecked by a storm, which of as would you strive to save first, me or my daughter ?" "Madame," instantly replied Talleyrand, "with the many talents and acquirements you possess, it would be an affrontto you to suppose that yon cannot swim. I should therefore deem it my duty to save the baroness first" ?? ?> Ex-Confederate Officers North.-* A letter from New York says: "It is astonishing to see the Jheility with which some of oar Southern countrymen, up to their eyes and ears in the reoent rebellion, are betaking themselves to occupations to which they had previously been entircT strangers. A Mississippian, who aoted as an aid to* General Pembertpn, at the seige of Yicksbutg, has opened a broker's office in Hanover street, and is out in a card soliciting especially the patronage of his New Orleans, Mobile and Texas friends. A little farther down'the same street, on the other side of the way, an ex-xebel captain, who served under Ewell, is filling a snbordinate olerkship ip a cotton broker's counting-room. One of Gen. Lee's staff is negotiating for the lease of a drinking , > m' y ?m t %? saloQD and ten-pin alley on Broad way, near ? has gone into the wholesale prodaee basiiness at Washington. Market In Bond street there are at least three large boarding . houses which are kept by the widows of rebel officers who. fell in battle in the GaroUnas. In the Eighth avenue near Sixteenth, street, a pardoned ex-elerk in the rebel 3 Treasury Department is selling cigars, and -m* within a stone'fl throw of his shop iS a rebel naval officer who led the memorhble iiwsvh on the Harriet Lane at Galveston. In the newspaper offices, likewise, may be found sundry persons who this time last ye&r were "firing the Southern heart" General Beaursoard.-?For so quiet V and unobtrnsive a citizen, General Beauregard is made by the Northern juuaalMff appear iaj uv tua muab rwutjsa aau peruuwu spirit and most ubiquitous personage of this remarkable era. A while ago we had the general in some Northern city, about to take passage foe foreign hade. Again, we heard ^if him as actually in Franca solicit- sting a general's commission in the amy of the Emperor. The very latest bulletin, however, which appeared in the papers- en Sunday last, plaoed him in Mexico, by invitation of Emperor Maximilian, to tajce 0 command of the armies of "the imperial t. persuasion?' What was our apprise, after reading these authentio accounts of General . Beauregard's movements, to meet him yesterday on the street, looking as innooent, and indifferent to these serious dispositions of his person, without his will and oottsent, as a lamb regards the preparations of the butcher to serve him np for the market.? There may be a General Beauregard in New York, Paris and Mexioo, but the real rimon *2 pare general, who is[known inthis State as the man who figured rather eonapicnonsly somtj months ago at Petersburg, and previously at Charleston, Corinth, Manassas, etc., is now a sedate, qoiet citizen aod civilian in Us native city, who has no idea of laving his country, and will remain here to meet all the responsibilities and discharge all the duties of a citizen.? New Orleans Picayune, 7ih. w? ?A? Important Order from the State Department.?Secretary Seward is engaged in making an analysis of the claims due to the oitizens of the United Safes against foreign Governments, and has published a formal notice inviting parties having claims dot founded, on contracts, which may have originated since -Febuary 8th, 1865, to forward without delay to the State Department statements of (he same, under oath, aooompanied by proper proof. Under this comprehensive notice merchants and ship owners Who have suffered ( from the depredations committed hy the Alabama, Sumter, Shenandoah, and other , ' British?Rebel pi rates, can make and Bubm i t their olftims tn the !sts?A T)anar?manfcAn?l ? ? ? oar Government will ask compensation for the same from the British Government.? Damages committed on our frontier by'Rebel raitta from Canada, also^oome under this head, and sufferers will have an opportunity of presenting their chums of indemnity. The Secretary, of State is devoting considerable attention to this matter, and will puisne it vigorously to the settlement. Letter prom Gun. I^?Tbe Petewburg Index publishes the following extract from a private letter of Gen. Lee. It is good counsel: "It should be the object of all io avoid controversy, to allay passion, give free soope to reason and every Vindly feeling. By doing this,' and encouraging our citizens to engage in the duties of life with ail their heart and mind, with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past) or fears of the faiure, our country will not only be restored In material prosperity, but will be advanced in science, in virtue, and religion. Wishing you every success, I am most "truly yours, R. E. L**.? An Arabian's Notion op Religion. ?"What will you ao on coming into God's presence for judgment after so graceless a life?" said I one day to a .spirited young Shcrarat, whose long, matted love-looks, and some pretensions to dandihood?* ir.the desert has- its dandies loo~*mid all hi i ragged accoutrements, accorded very well with his conversation, whioh was by no meuis of the most edifying description/' "What' will we do?" was his unhesitating answer, "Why, we will go up to God and salute him, and if He (roves hospitable (give us meat and tobacco) we will stay with Him; if otherwise, we will mount oar bosses and ride off.?PdtgravJi Central and Eastern Arabia. * A Cheerful Report.?In the release of certain rebel sympathizers in Missouri, on condition of residing outside the State. they were required to report to the Provost Marshal weekly. One of them reoenly re- ported in the following cheerful strain: To the Provost Marshal, Department of Missouri. Dear sir : I em alive tad kicking. 1. am at work on a farm four miles North-east of Quinsy, Illinois, at the rate of $25 a month, payable in greenbacks. I am at . work for a fine old gentleman, and lie base charming daughter. I love her and she loves me, so by the next time I "report" I shall probably tell you how I hate made it. A Thoughtful Husband.~A married lady, wfco was in the habit of spading moat of her time in the Bocietyof hp neighbora, and was therefore newIy*l?rays^out when her husband returned fcoweyiiappened one day to be suddenly-Wfchfr ill, and sent her hnsband in great haatfrfcrn physician. The husband ran ashtftt distance, but suddenly returned, anxwnslj exclaiming, "My dear, where shall I find you when I come back." ? #