Massachusetts Weekly Spy, 1863-04-22

a 36, according to grade; pins 1 cent, needles 5 cents; darning needles 25 cents; box of matches 75 cents to 81: gold is at 85 25 pre premium, - mium, premium, and United States treasury notes are worth 83 25, and everybody is glad to get them. The New York Ledger, on the authority of Mr. A. T. Stewart, the well known dry goods dealer, denies the current reports that be had bought up great quantities of cotton goods and stored them away, and that he had cleared the Boston market of butter for the purpose of shipping it to Europe to pay for goods. He is heartily opposed to all such operations. Gen. Foster Relieved I TROOPS AND SUPPLIES HAVE SUCCEEDED IN REACHING HIM. Fortress Monroe, April 16. - A dispatch from Gen. Palmer to Maj. Gen. Dix, just re received, - ceived, received, states that Gen. Foster has been re relieved. - lieved. relieved. A steamer with a regiment and sup supplies - plies supplies of provisions and ammunition, succeeded in running the batteries on the Pamlico river, and reached the wharf at Washington on the 14th. About tbe Income Tax. Washington, April 15. - The commission commissioner - er commissioner of internal revenue has just issued the fol following - lowing following regulations for the assessment of the income tax: - The assessor and assistant as assessors - sessors assessors of each collection district will assess the income tSx on the first day of May next upon every person residing within the district liable thereto. Each person will be required to return his total ineome, so far specifying the sources from which it is derived as to ena enable - ble enable the assistant. assessor to decide wliat de deductions - ductions deductions shall be made therefrom. Persons whose income does not exceed the sum of 810,000, and who reside in the United States, will be subject to a duty of 3 per cent on such portion thereof as is liable to taxa taxation - tion taxation ; provided, however, that upon the in income - come income derived from interest upon notes, bonds, or other securities of the United States, a duty of 1 1-2 per cent will be levied. Persons whose incomes exceed 810,000 will be subject to a duty of 5 per cent on the portion thereof sub subject - ject subject to taxation; provided, however, that upon the ineome derived from interest upon notes, bonds, or other securities of the United States, a duty of 1 1-2 per cent will be levied. Citizens of the United States residing abroad and not in the employment of the gov government - ernment government of the United States, will be subject to a duty of 5 per cent on the ineome of any property, securities, or stocks, owned in the United States, and not exempted from the in ineome - eome ineome tax; provided, however, that upon the income derived from the interest upon notes, bonds, or otiier securities of the United States, a duty of 1 1-2 per cent will be levied. Every furmer or planter will be required to make returns of the value of the produce of his farm or plantation, without deduction for tiie labor or services of himself and his family, or for any portion of such produce consumed by himself and family. The following deductions will be made from the aggregate income of eacli person, aud the tax wi'l he assessed upon the remain remainder, - der, remainder, viz : the state and national taxes assess assessed - ed assessed in the calendar year preceding this assess assessment, - ment, assessment, to wit: from January Ist, 1862, to De December - cember December 31st, 1862, inclusive of the assess assessments - ments assessments on salaries of officers or payments to persons in tiie service or employment of the United States, from which a deduction of three per cent, lias been made by the disburs disbursing - ing disbursing officer of the government. Interest or dividends ot sfpek, capital, or deposits in any bank, trust company, or saving institutions, insurance, bridge, express, steamboat, terry boat, railroad company, or corporation, from which interest or dividends a duty of three per cent, shall have been deducted by the officers of such companies, corporations, or associa associations, - tions, associations, interest from any bonds, or oth other - er other evidences of indebtedness of any railroad company or other corporation, from which a duty of 3 per cent, shall have been deducted by the officers ot. sutfh compa company - ny company or corporation; and receipts derived from advertisements on which a duty shall have been assessed and paid; also the sum of 8600 except in those eases where the whole or any part of said 8600 shall have been deduct ed from the salaries or pay of officers or persons in the service or employment of. the United States ; the amount actually paid for the rent of every dwelling, or estate which is the resi residence - dence residence of the persons assessed, and the amount paid by any farmer or planter for hired labor and necessary repairs upon his farm or plan plantation, - tation, plantation, including the subsistence of the la laborers. - borers. laborers. Whenever the total income "of any person exceeds ten thousand dollars, and deductions are made therefrom upon the grouud that a portion of such income has been subject to a three per cent duty upon dividends or interest paid by companies, corporations or associa associations, - tions, associations, as before enumerated, such person will be subject to a tax of two per cent additional upon so much of his income as may have been previously subjected to a duty of three per cent by the officers ot the company, corpora corporations - tions corporations or associations before named. Guardians and trustees, whether such trus trustees - tees trustees are so by virtue of their office as execu executors, - tors, executors, administrators, or other judiciary capac capacity, - ity, capacity, are required to make a return ot the in income - come income belonging to minors or other persons, which may be held in trust as aforesaid, and the income tax will be assessed upon the amount returned, after deducting such sums as are aforesaid from income tax as aforesaid, provided that the exemption of 8600 under section 90 of the excise shall not be allowed in account of any minor, or any other bene beneficiary - ficiary beneficiary of a trust, except upon a statement of the guardian or trustee, made under oath, that the minor or beneficiary has no other income from which said amount of S6OO may be ex exempted - empted exempted and deducted. When persons liable to assessments shall neglect or refuse to make the lists required by law, or when the lists made and tendered by such persons shall not be accepted by the assessors or assistant assessors as just and prompt, it shall be the duty of each assessor or assistant assessor to make lists for such persons according to the best information he can obtain. Persons so assessed may take oath or affirmation as to amount of income and of deductions theretrom, agreeably to sec section - tion section 93. Persons receiving rent may deduct therefrom the amount paid for neeessary re repairs, - pairs, repairs, insurance, and interest on incumbran incumbrances - ces incumbrances upon such rented property. The cost of new structures or improvements to buildings shall not be deducted from income. The tax must be levied on all dividends de declared - clared declared prior to Sept. Ist, 1862, and upon six hundred dollars of all salaries of officers or payments to persons in civil, military, na naval, - val, naval, ar other service of the United States, for services rendered prioi to the said date, as such dividends and proportions of salaries were not subject to deduction or assessment. Interest derived from or due by trust compa companies, - nies, companies, savings institutions, insurance, bridge, ex express, - press, express, steamboat, ferry boat and railroad com companies,corporations - panies,corporations companies,corporations or associations,prior to the same date, must also be taxed. Interest paid by him on incumbrances upon the dwelling house or estate in which the assessed person resides, may be deducted from income; also his pay payments - ments payments for necessary repairs. Farm produce which the producer had on hand on the 31st day ot December, 1862, must be appraised at its marketable value on that day. The income tax shall be included in the annual list, and appeals and other proceedings held as provided by law. From Washington. Washington, April 14. - The government is making preparations for a draft to fill np the old regiments depleted by the casualties of the service. New York will be among the first states to be-ealled upon for fresli troops. The navy department lias received official information ol the following captures: The L. I. Sargent, from Galveston bound to Hon Honduras - duras Honduras with five bales of cotton, captured by the gunboat Kittaning off Galveston bar; the J. M. Chapman on tiie 15th of March by boats of the U. S. ship Cyane, in the harbor of San Francisco, under circumstances showing that she was disguised to prey upon our commerce; the sloop Ranger, of Clay's landing, Suwanee. river, by the fort Henry's armed boats. Her cargo consisted of salt, dry goods, gunpow gunpowder, - der, gunpowder, &e. Also the schooner Anna, of Nassau, while endeavoring to evade the blockade off the mouth of the Suwanee river. She had an assorted cargo. The commissioner of internal revenue has decided that sails, tents, shade awnings, and bags, when manufactured by persons who own the material, are subject to a duty of three per cent, ad valorem. Whenever the cloth or materials used in the man-

doubtless to prevent any movement upon his post in that state. A letter from New Orleans says General Banks is fortifying all the approaches to the city strongly. The enemy are believed to have 75,000 men, who can be concentrated near the at twelve hours' notice. A letter Baltimore American dated off Charleston bar the 10th, says it is now un understood - derstood understood that the entire iron-clad fleet will be sent to the Mississippi. It also says that the use of one of Ericsson's torpedo rafts and shells would have swept away one hundred feet of the rebel obstructions, and the city would have been at our mercy. Also, that some of the commanders of the iron-clads say the walls of Sumter were crushed, and express the opinion that in three hours more the fort would have been compelled to sur surrender. - render. surrender. Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania has sug suggested - gested suggested to the president a plan of garrisoning the defences of Washington with militia, that the veteran soldiers may be spared for more important duties in the field. He has offered to forward to Washington 20,000 militia, and asked that about 6,000 volunteers, who have had the necessary experience, be distributed among the militia to render the latter force equivalent, for all practical purposes, to the same number of volunteers sent to the field. We are informed that Lieut. W. L. Whea Wheaton, - ton, Wheaton, of our city, aide to Gen. Palmer at New Newbern, - bern, Newbern, was sent as bearer of dispatches to Gen. Foster. The undertaking was most hazard hazardous, - ous, hazardous, the enemy having planted batteries in Pamlico river to prevent reinforcements or supplies from teaching Little Washington - Washingtonwiiere wiiere Washingtonwiiere Gen. surrounded, and the river being means of co imunication with him. Lieut. Wheaton started on a small steamer, and on approaching the batteries, he took a smaller boat and succeeded in reaching Gen. Foster, executed his mission successful successfully, - ly, successfully, and re.jrned to Newbern after two day* of imminent peril. - Providence Press. MISCELLANEOUS. The safe of the paymaster of the navy yard at Brooklyn was broken open, between Satur Saturday - day Saturday night and Monday morning, aud robbed of from 8120,000 to $140,000. Thirteen colored seamen were washed over overboard - board overboard and lost from the packet ship Tuscaro Tuscarora, - ra, Tuscarora, while on her last passage from Liverpool to New York. . The court circles and the "quality" general generally - ly generally are in a prodigious ferment because the Duke of Wellington introduced a returned convict at the Prince of Wales' levee. The "juke" was imposed upon by a polished ruf ruffian. - fian. ruffian. Elizabeth Cndv Stanton, in behalf of the woman's central committee ot New York, has issued a call for a "meeting of the loyal wo women - men women of the nation," at the Church of the Pu Puritans - ritans Puritans in New York, on the 14th of May next. The following note was deposited in the contribution box at Plymouth church, Brook Brooklyn, - lyn, Brooklyn, Sunday evening, which the pastor read : "I am an Kiiglisluimn: the superintendent of an anti-slavery school. 1 have stood up during the whole service, and no one has been polite enough to oiler me a seat. Vet I enclose a half sovereign." Without changing a muscle of his face, and with the utmost gravity, Mr. lleeeher pro proceeded - ceeded proceeded to say : "Hereafter I wish my congre congregation - gation congregation and the ushers to understand, when they see an Englishman standing in the crowd who has been the superintendent of an anti antislavery - slavery antislavery sabbath school, and who has a half sovereign ill his pocket, they must give him a seat instantly." Died at St. Germain, recently, Mr. Edward Hughes liall Hughes, who long resided in that suburban retreat. In tiie days ot George IV, Ball Hughes - or Golden Ball as lie was called - was one of the leading dandies of a period which immediately followed that of Beau Brunimcll. Ball Hughes figured in the best society of London, among whom his for fortune - tune fortune and favorable personal appearance made him a welcome guest. One evening at the Italian opera the audience were disappointed at the non-appearance of tiie celebrated dancer of the day, Mdlle. Mcrcandotti, who had very unexpectedly become the wife of Ball Hughes. They departed for the conti continent, - nent, continent, and from that time the Golden Ball was heard of no more in the circles of fashion in me going largely into the cultivating of the'heet, with especial view to the manufacture of sugar. One Ger German - man German firm has established it refinery at Chats Chatswortli, - wortli, Chatswortli, and will have fifteen hundred acres under cultivation for this single crop. Lieut. Col. Kimball of the Hawkins Zouaves, reported killed, was shot by Gen. Corcoran tfnder the following circumstances : Colonel Kimball had command of the outer picket guard, and during the evening Gen. Corcoran approached the post and was properly chal challenged. - lenged. challenged. Instead of giving the countersign Gen. C. simply said, "I am Gen. Corcoran." Under the circumstances, with a rebel force in close proximity, an enemy might have said the same thing, and Col. Kimball refused to let Gen. Corcoran pass without the proper word. Gen. C. attempted to ride on, when his bridle was seized by Col. K. In the ex excitement - citement excitement of the niomentvGen. Corcoran drew a pistol and fired the fatal shot. There is deep feeling on the subject, and Gen. Corco Corcoran - ran Corcoran is generally censured for his hasty act. Ten English lads at school in Bonn, sent the following congratulatory lines to Windsor castle by telegraph, on the occasion of the Prince's wedding - in return for which the Prince and Princess asked for them u holi holiday - day holiday : - "Ten loyal English boys in Bonn Call ne'er restrain thei'r heart's desire, To send their future king and queen Their wishes with their hearts therein. That beat for them till they expire " Maj. Gen. Neal Dow lias been fined in the district court of New Orleans $1454 81 and costs, for allowing a party of his brigade to "confiscate" certain property on a plantation in that vicinity, without sufficient militajy reasons. The death of the Rev. James Means of Dor Dorchester - chester Dorchester is announced. He went to Newbern as chaplain of the Academy Green hospital; becoming soon after interested in contrabands he was appointed their superintendent, and labored for their welfare diligently and with much much success. Three weeks ago Gov. Stanley commissioned him as captain. The constitutionality of the "black laws" of Illinois is to be tested in the courts. The law forbids colored people from coining into the state, and in case of violatien the offend offenders - ers offenders are sold at auction for a term of years. They really authorize a modified form of slavery, under the pretence of suppressing vagabondism. The grand fancy ball given at Paris by the Austrian ambassador had the spacious rooms ot the palace lined with blue satin, tufted with hundreds of thousands of white came camelias. - lias. camelias. The rebel mail bags recently seized reveal sad stories of high prices and extravagance at Petersburg. Calico dresses cost $36; ordi ordinary - nary ordinary merino or silk $100; white cottons $3; bonnets SSO; gaiters S2O. "There was a wedding next door to us," says one of the let letters, - ters, letters, "which five hundred people attended, and where all liquors were abundant, and champagne and other wines flowing like wa water. - ter. water. Everything elegant. The oranges at the wedding cost $1 50 a piece; and every everything - thing everything was as plentiful as of old. The whole of the wedding paraphernalia and supper must have cost- $20.000 or more." The casualties at the bombardment of fort Sumter, as reported by the rebels, consist of one drummer boy killed, and five men wounded, two of them severely, the others slightly. One man was killed in fort Moul Moultrie - trie Moultrie by falling from a flagstaff. Six men sta stationed - tioned stationed at battery Wagner were wounded, three of them fatally. "Fort Sumter was hit thirty-four times, but received no damage," say the rebel reporters. On Tuesday last a family whose house, -just outside the li. es of our army at Suffolk, had been burned, sought safety by fleeing to our troops. They were pursued by a rebel squad, who ordered them to haU, and then fjred upon them, killing the mother, but without arresting their flight. The father took up the dead body of his wife, and with his children arrived safe but broken-hearted in the federal camp. Mr. Gabriel Franchere, one of those sent out by Mr. Astor in the famous Astoria expe expedition, - dition, expedition, and the last survivor of that party, ex expired - pired expired at St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 13th inst. Mr. Franchere was born in Montreal, Cana Canada, - da, Canada, in 1796, which place he left in 1815, to make the overland trip, which is so beauti beautifully - fully beautifully narrated by Washington Irving. It is stated that whole pages of his own nar narrative - rative narrative were copied word for word in Irving's work. Richmond markets - Apples S6O per barrel; butter in demand at $3; bacon, round, $140; hams~si4i>; bjajidy $22 a 24 per gallon; corn scarce at 87 s(* er bushel; meal, market bare at 83 a 810 pefefcushel; candles 8250 a 3 per pound; coffeels4 a 4 50 per pound; flour 831

Later from Europe. Halifax, April 16. - The Arabia, from Liv Liverpool - erpool Liverpool April 4, via Queenstown the 6th, ar» rived this evening. She has 184 passenger* for Halifax, 136 of them emigrants sent oat by Miss Coutts, and 63 for Boston. Further particulars of the destruction b J the Florida of the Star of Peace and the schooner Adelbarran are furnished by the Kunnymede, which brought 11 of the crew to Greenock. The Star of Peace was bound from Calcutta to Boston with a general cargo, and was encountered, lat. 15 lon. 52, and burnt. The Adelbarran, from New York for Maranham, was burnt on the 18th ult., in lat. 33.20 lon 39.44. A heavy collapse in the confederate ' loan occurred in London on the 2d, owing to th* suspension of J. B. Spence of Liverpool, in the grain trade. Spence was supposed to bo the confederate financial agent, but he proved not to be the same person, nor connected with him except by family ties. Neverthe Nevertheless, - less, Nevertheless, the loan closed on the 2d at 2 1-2 to 1 1-1 discount. The New York correspondents of the Time* and Daily News, both expatiate on the in increasing - creasing increasing irritation against England, on account of the fitting out of confederate vessels, and the possible adoption of retaliatory measure*. The Times sees something to hope for in America, from the inauguration of Union leagues in the north, and the increasing demand among the republicans for the res restoration - toration restoration of the union at any price. Thn Times European sympathy has withhold simply because it was perceived that the whole southern people were in earn earnest - est earnest about independence, while it was not ap apparent - parent apparent that any considerable part of the northern people were in earnest about eman emancipation. - cipation. emancipation. The British man-of-war Orpheus has been wrecked on New Zealand; 180 officers and men were drowned; 70 were saved. Affairs in Poland were again threatening. The insurrection was increasing. It had bro broken - ken broken out in the department of Poneiwix Swalo. The peasants, nobility, and middle classes, have joined en masse. The Russian troops are at Mernel and Riga. The news that the Warsaw committee had ordered the insurgents to lay down their arms is pro pronounced - nounced pronounced unfounded. Langiewicz was con conveyed - veyed conveyed from Cracow into Moravia. The London Daily News publishes a mani manifesto - festo manifesto of the Polish insurgents which occupies seven columns. Lnpicnzskelate, a chief among the Circas Circassians, - sians, Circassians, had landed in Courland with a well of officered - ficered officered force. Russia was bringing transports to Dantzic for the Vistula. The Swedish government had laid an em embargo - bargo embargo on an English steamer at Malmo, which - was carrying a Polish detachment from Eng England - land England for Poland. ./ BV THE KANGAROO. The following is a portion of the Kanga Kangaroo's - roo's Kangaroo's despatches: ( The Times has an editorial on the seizure of the steamer Petcrhofl, -contending that it was unjustified. It say:, it is not as a mere act of judgment, right'jr wrong, that the capture of the Peterhofl is to be regarded, hut as au expression of the policy pursued by the par particular - ticular particular government. If a Spanish or Aus Austrian - trian Austrian officer had made a mistake with a British merchantman, nobody would ever dream of anticipating mischief from the occurrence; but the federal government is now advancing extraordinary pretensions by the select agen agency - cy agency of an officer whose conduct has already been condemned. The seizure of the Peter Peterhoff, - hoff, Peterhoff, whatever it may be, is not a natural error of a person inexperienced in public life; it is a deliberate attempt to extend and magnify the powers of the blockade; nor is it indeed the first step of the federals in this direction; they have already almost blockaded certain ports of our own in their eagerness to inter intercept - cept intercept traffic between these ports and others, and at last they have gone the length of espying inchoate adventures in this country, quitting their own construction on mercantile specu speculations, - lations, speculations, proscribing ships before hand by name, and seizing them without reference to destination or cargo, whenever they can be be pounced upon at sea. We have no doubt, in short, that Wilkes carried pre precise - cise precise instructions to capture She Peterhofl. We believe also tiiat she may be'-tgleased after more or less detention and tion, perhaps, will be paid on demand. The'-s federals find their own recompense in the command acquired over the commerce of the seas, and the alarm communicated to traders, but it can hardly be denied that such proceed proceedings - ings proceedings call for serious attention on the part at our government. The Times has a characteristic review at the volume of diplomatic correspondence tor the last year, published by the United States government. It eulogizes Mr. Adams, and says his dispatches are the best in the whole collection, being straightforward and business like. In the estimation of tiie Times, Mr. Dayton shows ability, but is rude and rough compared with Mr. Adams, while Mottley, Cassius M. Clay, and Mr. Cameron, "display the most amusing egotism." Seward "is tainted with his false proprieties and asser assertions, - tions, assertions, and Ills coarse manner of putting them." The Greek national assembly, after pro proclaiming - claiming proclaiming prince William of Denmark king, appointed a committee to goto Copenhagen to offer him the crown in the name of the Greek nation. THE LATEST NEWS. Cracow, April 4. - The insurrection in the government of Kowni is increasing. Ponsi Ponsioniz - oniz Ponsioniz has been taken by the insurgents. They have also captured Rodom, which was evacu evacuated - ated evacuated by Gen. Alzowkz, and seized the public treasury of that town. London, April 4 - Evening. - The confed confederate - erate confederate loan has had a further decline to 2 3-4 a 2 1-2 discount. The Liverpool Albion publishes a letter from a foreign officer to the owners of the Magicienne, which was seized by a federal cruiser but liberated by the prize court, stat stating - ing stating that the English minister at Washington will be instructed to apply to the government of the United States for full compensation to the parties interested. Tl>e Legislature. Tuesday, April 14. - Among other bills re* ported in the house was one in aid of families of conscripts, making the same provision as for families of volunteers; also a bill estab establishing - lishing establishing a freight horse railroad connecting several of the depots in Boston. On motion of Mr. Johnson of Oxford, the house reconsidered the appropriation of a suns for the benefit of the agricultural board, pay paying - ing paying the expenses of Mr. Secretary Flint, ad delegate to the agricultural convention at Hamburg, and the expenses of a special meet- . ing of the board at Springfield in December next - an instance of very donfetfulf economy. The Shelburne Falls raijgoad Bill was dto dtocussed - cussed dtocussed by Messrs. Harris and Hdpkins, and passed to be engra»«4d. The Troy and Greenfield railroad was laid over, as also a bill making important changes in the'law of fire insurance. Most of the session was occupied by a dis discussion - cussion discussion of the appropriation tc meet the ex expenses - penses expenses of the cattle commissioners. One thousand dollars was allowed, instead of four. The senate went through its orders, and then heard Messrs. Tucker, Swan, Dean, and Chamberlain, on the metropolitan police bill, the further consideration of wbicli was then assigned to Thursday at 3 o'clock. Frizes for Reading. - We are gratified to learn that a gentlemen of Boston has made a donation of two thousand dollars to Harvard College, to be expended in prizes and other otherwise - wise otherwise to promote improvement in the impor important - tant important art of reading among the students. About sixty students are in traiuing for the prizes whicli are to be awarded on the 13th of June next for excellence in the reading aloud of English prffse. Two prizes of 920 each and three of 915 are proposed for seniorsOOiV two of 815 each and three of 813 each for freshmen The instructor in elocution give* additional exercises to those Who desire it. The prizes next year will he doabled in vain*. - Bouton Daily Advertietr. Popular Feeling for Fremont. - General Fremont came very near being a victim toth*. popular enthusiasm be creates, on the after afternoon - noon afternoon of the great .Sumter meeting. When leaving the stand he was instantly surround-, ed by a large crowd which had improvised-'* platform for the purpose of carrying him around the square. With great effort and th* assistance of the police, lie was able to extri extricate - cate extricate himself from the throng ar,d* reach hit home in Fourth avenue. In response to the acclamations of the people, he then mads a few remarks, when they departed with time times three. - Neva York Evening Foot

ufacture of the above enumerated articles shall have been imported or shall have been subject to and paid a duty under tne excise law, and the party manufacturing such arti article - cle article is not the owner of the materials, tiie ar articles - ticles articles so manufactured, are exempt from duty. Washington, April 15. - The five per cent, temporary loan authorized by congress is near nearly - ly nearly taken. Those who desire to avail them themselves - selves themselves of the advantages offered by it must therefore make their deposits forthwith. Interesting from Fort Monroe. Fort Monroe, April 14. - Maj. Gen. Dix returned to this department last evening, much to the gratification of the officers mail mailaging - aging mailaging the affairs here in his absence. The general left for Suffolk this morning at 10 o'clock. The enemy in force are in close proximity to our lines at Suffolk, but no gen general - eral general engagement is anticipated unless the at attack - tack attack is made by the Union forces, which is more than probable. In regard to the affairs at Williamsburg, the Yorktown Cavalier of to-day says : - "Gov. Wise has commenced intrenching the other side of Williamsburg. He has or orders - ders orders to take fort Magruder at all hazards, and as he is afraid to m-ike an assault, he has re resorted - sorted resorted to digging.- Our troops are in full spirits." Rebel prisoners say there was to be a sim simultaneous - ultaneous simultaneous Attack upon Washington, N. C., Suffolk, Va., Gloucester Point, and Williams Williamsburg - burg Williamsburg or fort Magruder. The attack on Glou Gloucester - cester Gloucester Point was to have been made by Gen. Fitzbugh 'Lee. These plans nave probably been somewhat interfered with by the recon reconnoissanee - noissanee reconnoissanee of the fourth Delaware regiment and the Union gunboats up the York river. The Richmond Sentinel of April 10th has the following from the Charleston Mercury : "The government powder works at Augusta, Ga., when completed, will be the largest in the world. They are now superior to any known, and the powder is equal to the best Yankee or European standard." Fort Monroe, April 16. - The enemy are still investing Suffolk; but nothing of impor importance - tance importance has transpired there to-day. "The Richmond Sentinel has this : - "Charleston, -April 12. - The entire iron ironclad - clad ironclad fleet departed at 3.40 and 4 o'clock to today - day today for the south. The impression prevails here, however, that they will soon return to renew the attack." Blockade Banner Destroyed. Washington, April 15. - Richmond papers of the 14th contain the following: - Charleston, April 12. - The steamer Ston Stonewall - ewall Stonewall Jackson, formerly the Leopard, while at attempting - tempting attempting to run into thin harbor, was hotly chased by half a dozen blockaders, which fired at her. She received several shots through her hull. Captain Black, finding it impossi impossible - ble impossible to escape, run the steamer on the beach and burned her. The crew and passengers took to the boats and have arrived here. Lit Little - tle Little was saved except the mails and the passen passengers' - gers' passengers' effects. The steamer burned to the wa water's - ter's water's edge, in sight of the Yankees. Her car cargo - go cargo consisted of several pieces of field artil artillery, - lery, artillery, 200 barrels of saltpetre, 4000 army slices, and a large assortment of merchandise. The Discipline tor Traitors. Indianapolis, Ind., April 14. - Gen. Burn Burnside's - side's Burnside's order relative to sending domestic trai traitors - tors traitors beyond the federal lines, and to protec protection - tion protection to Union men, is well received in Indian Indianapolis, - apolis, Indianapolis, as it confirms the previous action of Gen. Carrington. A Union man, driven from home because accused of reporting a Knight of the Golden Circle to the commander of the district, was sent back to-day with officers, in instructed - structed instructed to-rely on civil authorities, but, if not protected, the offenders are to be dealt with under the order. The California Battalion. New York, April 15. - The California bat battalion - talion battalion were visited to-day by large numbers of citizens. The sons of Massachusetts met at the Astor House, formed an escort, and pro proceeded - ceeded proceeded to the quarters of the battalion, where Gen. Nye made a welcoming speech, to which Major Thompson responded. The column was then reviewed by mayor Opdyke and the city government. Subsequently, headed by their escort, with Grafula's band, the Califor Californians - nians Californians marched to Union square, returning down Broadway to the boat. Their march was an ovation, the large buildings of Tiffany & Co., Ball & Black, and E. N. Haughwout k Co., being profusely decorated with flags and streamers. The building of the latter was literally covered with flags, and two hundred workmen added their cheers to those of the populace. The New England rooms also were decorated, and the fair daughters of New England waved greetings to the brave Californians, while a salute was fired from the roof of the building. During the stay of the Californians, Col. Stetson of the Astor House made the officers and their wives his guests. The battalion will reach Readville early to tomorrow - morrow tomorrow Nvwa from the Isthmus. New York, April 14. - Advices per Ocean Queen state that the troubles between Mos Mosquera - quera Mosquera and Meto and the state of Bolivia are settled, and the republic is quiet. A project was before the convention to make Panama the capital of the general government instead of Bogota, but it will probably fail. Advices from Central America say Carrera is trying to get up another Guatamalian army to in invade - vade invade Salvador. The British minister to Central America, and United States minister to Honduras, are trying to bring about an amicable settlement. It is feared the presi president - dent president of Salvador will send an army of inva invasion - sion invasion to Nicaragua, to assist Jerez in deposing Martinez. Gen. San Roman, president of Peru, is dangerously ill. From California*. San Francisco, April 14. - The legislature has passed a law authorizing tiie California volunteers serving in Utah and New Mexico to vote for state officers at the general elec election. - tion. election. The Union committee have called a con convention, - vention, convention, to assemble at Sacramento on tiie 17th of June, to nominate candidates for su supreme - preme supreme court judges, three members of con congress, - gress, congress, and state officers, who, according to the amended constitution, v>ll hereafter hold office four years, except judges, who hold office ten years. The Union democratic party is taking steps to call a convention to nominate a state ticket. Rebel Hone Stealers Beaten. Cairo, April 14. - The rebels in the vicini vicinity - ty vicinity of fort Donelson have been gathering all the horses fit for cavalry service. To put a stop to this, Gen. Rosecrans has ordered all the good horses in the neighborhood to be taken by the federal forces. While engaged in tliis duty, seventy men, on Friday last, met about the same number of rebels. A skir skirmish - mish skirmish ensued, in which twenty-one of the lat latter - ter latter were taken prisoners, including Major Blandin and two captains. Railroad Bisaster. Albany, April 14. - An accident occurred to the Central railroad train due here at 7.30 this evening. While coming on the down grade, just west of the Dudley observatory, two or three passenger cars were thrown off the track, owing to the expansion of the rails. Twelve passengers were injured, none fatally. Their names are as follows : - T. I). Wright of Williamstown, Oswego couitty, head cut and face bruised: Hamlet Dixon, volunteer, nose cut and knee bruised; Chas. E. Myrtle, Newcastle, Me., temple cut; Lyman Mudge, New York, head slightly bruised; Wm. P. Williams, Utica, cut over the eye; H. R. Town, Kingston, C. W., head cut; one gentleman, name unknown, injury slight; Mrs. Oliveßeufield of Yorkville, Onei Oneida - da Oneida county, Mrs. Rosella Beaurers of Utica, Mrs. Susan Avery of Cornwall Bridge, Conn , and one lady, name unknown, were slightly injured. Item*. Philadelphia, April 14. - The safe of the Reading Railway company at Reading was robbed last night of 810,060 in money. G-ird & Gilmore's store, on Chestnut street, above 6th, in this city, was entered last night and robbed of 94000 worth of goods. New York, April 15. - A letter lrom Hali Halifax - fax Halifax dated April 10 states that 860,000 of the confederate loan was put up at auction there that day at 60 cents on a dollar, but found no bidders and was withdrawn. Providence, April 16. - Hon. William H. Cranston was to-day re-elected mayor of Newport by 570 majority. The contest was not political.' Rahway, N. J., April 14. - Thomas J. Lee, Union, was elected mayor of Rahway yester yesterday, - day, yesterday, by 100'majority. The whole Union city ticket was elected by a majority of about 45.

Irish Soldier. 1 ' "1:* k e the following 11 r written by asol asol - - asol belonging to Gen. ->- *-_ After speaking of the prob prob - - prob ->- Hfn advance of the army of the Po - of another battle with the rebels, : Hooker is a war god in himself, and it Hnight belaid of him as the first Napoleon said of Drewent at the battle of Marengo, that "his element is smoke." Hooker knows no such thing as fiifu;; and I trust that ho will be as pru prudent - dent prudent os be i»'to?ve. But the army of the Poto Potomac - mac Potomac will movithis time without that bravest soldier that ijftr lived, old Sumner - America's Murat in a charge, and her Ney in the hourj of peril. He will never lead the ninth army corps again-qfr with the Irish brigade make the rebels JSel'and change front, as at Malvern Hill. "I perceive that some of the young men ot the north have of late taken a particular liking to tbe British provinces; that the hegira has already commenced. It appears that Canada is the Mec Mecca - ca Mecca of all the cowarJs in the free stales; and that tbe pilgrims are arriving there not by hundreds but by thousands. Men who leave their country in the hour of her need, to save themselves, are not worthy tbe name of men. Their names should be handed down to posterity, covered with such infamy as belongs to Benediet Arnold. The congress of the United States should pass a law disfranchising such renegades forever." After saying that he is not an "abolition "abolitionist," - ist," "abolitionist," and that he detests "Calhoun democrats" and copperheads of the north," he adds : "But I am for saving the Union.no matter what amount of blood and treasure it may cost. If Jeff. Davis and bis admirers wish to try tbe ot a separate government they can pack up their traps and start for Baffin's bay, or some unclaimed region towards the north pole, and settle there at a safe distance from these states. Two governments must never be tol tolerated - erated tolerated in these states. Army after army may be disbauded or destroyed, but the sword will never seek the scabbard until ilia flag of the Union is placed over every city and stronghold front the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande, and .from the Atlantic to the Pacific. If we suffer this republic to go to pieces, the whole civilized world in all fut..re time will curse us; the spirits of our dead braves, along the Potomac, the Pe Peninsula, - ninsula, Peninsula, the Rappahannock and the Mississippi, will curse us; our children who would have to fight the battle over again, will curse us. Shall we desene this? Or shall we he hailed to the end of time as faithful defenders and preservers of the best form of government that God ever gave to man ?" Affairs in Charleston Harbor. At the date of the last reports from Charles Charleston, - ton, Charleston, (last Saturday, April 11,) our iron fleet was still at anchor within the bar. Report says, the attack was to be renewed. Of course a renewal of the attack depends on the success of admiral Dupont, and his officers in devising means to remove the obstructions in the channel. A correspondent of the New York Times gives the following graphic ac account - count account of the attack on the forts, and of the encounter of the iron-clads with the obstruc obstructions - tions obstructions which stopped their progress towards the city: - "Slowly the leading vessel, followed by the other eight iron-clads, moves up the main ship channel - the shore of Morris Island, against which front our point ot view they rest, forming a fixed point, by .which we progress of the fleet. The first battery to whose lire it «iii be exposed is fort Wagcner, and one fixes his ejb on it and on the Weehawken, approaching nearer and nearer, for the fleet will there undergo its first fiery baptism. Now tliet]_^j^^^Bto^toilliin ,'' ses across 1 conies up,* same silent reception; nnd so on, one by one, till, with the Keokuk, the whole nine file by without a single shot from this seemingly formidable work. "Meantime, while the fleet is passing Wag Wagoner - oner Wagoner unmolested, the leading vessel has come up with the next rebel work - -battery Bee. The satnq silent reception for Iter; the same silent reception for the whole fleet? What is the meaning of this? The enemy is obviously holding back his fire unlit he can deliver it with the greatest possible effect- The line lias now passed across the front of-Morris Isl Island - and Island and rounds to make the entrance of the harbor, coming up within the circle of the file of fort Sumter and the batteries on Sulli Sullivan's - van's Sullivan's Island. The suspense becomes painful.

Great Awakening at Dartmouth. - The editor of the Congregationalist threw a shell into Dartmouth college last week, taking ef effect, - fect, effect, happily not fatal, upon the president, Dr Lord. The old doctor writes three columns and a half to the Boston Courier about it - a longer letter than the late lamented Rev. Ho Homer - mer Homer Wilbur was known to have written in his palmiest and most productive days. Though ordinarily composed, and reticent, and sleepy, the doctor is susceptible to outside influences, and any violentconcussion makes him exceed exceedingly - ingly exceedingly verbose. In this letter he developes anew his pet theory that God curs'eii the Afri Africans - cans Africans because Ham didn't do as he ought to, and that if the slaves don't like it they must blame Ham, and not the superior white race, to whom God gave pre-eminence at the same time because they were docile and obedient On tins theory, of course, it is downright sac sacrilege - rilege sacrilege and impiety to disturb the social re relation - lation relation of masters and slaves now, and the government has rnn up a fearful score of ac accountability - countability accountability in this line, in its sinful efforts to suppress the rebellion. The doctor gives full rein to his logic, and, of course, sets his face straight against the administration and the war: or to use one of his amiable expressions, "having spent his youtli and age in his loved Jerusalem, his consecrated Zion, he is not going out now to worship 'calves' at Dan and Bethel," - which, we suppose, is the antedilu antediluvian - vian antediluvian way of saying, the government may go to the deuce. General Xews Summary'. BOSTON AND VICINITY. The supreme court now sitting in Boston has just made an important decision in a will case. Audrew Thorndike, who died in 1854, was'possessed of the sum of $20,000, willed to him by his father. The money was placed in trust, the income to be paid to Mr. Thorn Thorndike - dike Thorndike during life, and the principal to be di divided - vided divided among his heirs at his death. When that event occurred, Israel Thorndike, one of the brothers of the deceased, entered a suit as heir to recover his share of the $20,000 and its accumulations. This suit was contes contested - ted contested by Andreas and Anna L. Thorndike, chil children - dren children of the deceased by'Katherine Thorn Thorndike, - dike, Thorndike, a German woman with whom he entered into a civil contract of marriage at Frankfort Frankforton-the - on-the- Frankforton-the Maine, before the U. S. consul, and with whom he lived as his wife, acknowledg acknowledging - ing acknowledging the children as his up to the time of his death. The validity of such marriages under the laws of Frankfort is doubtful - two doc doctors - tors doctors of law in that city consulted on the point declaring the marriage a valid one, and two others asserting that it was not. The validity of the claim depending on the validity of the - marriage, the court took up the question, de- elaborate opinion, that the mar marriagew - riagew marriagew as troversy,' now amounts to about $30,000, belongs to Andreas and Anna L. Thorndike, as the children and lawful heirs of Andreev Thorndike. U. S. collector Goodrich acknowledges the receipt through the post office from some un unknown - known unknown person, the sum of $293, said to be "due the United States treasury," and also $2.50, which also "belongs to the United States." Both sums are to be placed to the credit of the United States. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. Dr. J. C. Ayer, the famous medicine man in Lowell, owns a larger proportion of the New York Tribune than any other person; which may account for the Tribune's taking up the side of the doctor in his fight with some of the family management of the Lowell fac factories. - tories. factories. - NORFOLK COUNTY. Josiah Quincy, Sr., has given three hun hundred - dred hundred dollars in aid of the fund for making the Neponset and Braintree bridge free from tolls. The Quincy Patriot says, in acknowledging the gift: - "His name was borne upon the pe petition - tition petition for the charter, dated Jan. 21, 1800, and he was one of the corporators named in the act. Sixty-three years have passed away, and the name of this venerable man, the sole survivor on the roll of associates in the origi original - nal original enterprise, stands first upon the list to today, - day, today, ready, now as ever, with liberal and gen generous - erous generous subscription, to aid the endowments to public uses."

| The Tories Then and Now. According to the copperheads it is "tyran "tyranny" - ny" "tyranny" to use force against the destroyers of the republic, and "foul tyranny" to arrest or re restrain - strain restrain the northern friends and abettors of the fi rebels. Tlieir theory of liberty assumes that they have a right to jdot and conspire against the government and in *id of the rebels to whatever extent they please, without being called to account for doing so. The .tories of tbe old revolution were men of similar theory with a-komewhat more plausible though cqual- reason. A note'! . -aitor of thafftfay** addressing the patriots who fought and won in that struggle, spoke in behalf of liis plotting fraternity of vipers as follows : "You are promised liberty by the leaders of your affairs, but is there an individual in the enjoyment of it saving your oppressors? Who among you dare speak or write wliat he thinks against the tyranny which has robbed you of your property, imprisoned your sons, dragged you to the field of battle, and is daily deluging your country with your blood." This is so like the copperhead utterances of our time that it might easily be mistaken for a paragraph in some speech of Vallandig Vallandigham, - ham, Vallandigham, Fernando Wood, or some leading man manager - ager manager of the late copperhead state convention in Connecticut. The old tories who have re reappeared - appeared reappeared in these men, were hostile and ma malignant - lignant malignant towards the patriots of the revolution, and they fled to the British when it became unsafe for them to remain at home. And they found it unsafe to stay among patri- SliHP(oi>.no patriotic community would toler tolerate - ate tolerate them. Our copperheads, who never de denounce - nounce denounce and oppose the great crime against the nation of which tiie rebel leaders are guilty, direct their malignant hostility against the government, and against those who sus sustain - tain sustain it most faithfully; and instead of that "tyranny" about which they talk so auda audaciously, - ciously, audaciously, jke government has treated them forbearance at which history ' \ leading purpose of the chief men among called "copperheads." most of !*'-*.*'';Hfre also "Knights of the Troklen Cir Cirto - to Cirto suppress the federal government HHHkiblUh the secession conspiracy on its followers do not all mean led to act with them through the influence ot old partisan prej prejleading - leading prejleading copperheads the govt-n-'o- 11 -IC-', ao. have anywhere within our lines? The War Committee's Report. We have received several letters in regard to the report of the committee on the conduct of the war. This report is not yet printed. The committee's summary of its contents has appeared in several of the newspapers. The complete document gives a full report of the evidence taken, and when.that comes the people can read it, making their own com comments - ments comments and forming their own conclusions. The report of the testimony gives, not wliat the committee say. but was sworn to by a great number of witnesses, including Gen. McClellan and most of the prominent officers of the army of tiie Potomac. The facts brought to light by this testimony speak for themselves, and it will be seen whether the committee's account of them is correct. Those whose incompre incomprehensible - hensible incomprehensible condition of mind moves them to disregard these facts, assail the report, and denounce the committee without regard to truth or reason, should for their own sakes pay some regard to propriety. It is certainly desirable to read carefully the reported testi testimony - mony testimony before undertaking to criticise it, and before making too much haste to denounce the committee for what was said by so many wikffgwes. We counsel all such unhappy per - to remember that the maddest prejudice can neither suppress control their influence, and also that its demonstrations will always fail to endow stu stupidity - pidity stupidity with the brilliancy and power of genius. We understand that the report, when printed, will be distributed by members of the last con congress. - gress. congress.

RHODE ISLAND. One of the most diabolical associations has recently been discovered in our city that we have heard of. It is a club of young men, who assemble weekly to frolic, dressed in fe female - male female apparel, and in costly and elegant dress dresses, - es, dresses, the materials of which they steal wherever they can find them. Costly silks, muslins, and jewelry, have been purloined in prolus prolusion. - ion. prolusion. The clerks that belonged to them, it is said, made a point to rob their masters. Two or three of them have been apprehended and are in prison. Several of them are of very respectable families, and none have the temp temptation - tation temptation of poverty. - Providence Post. Tlie large building in Warren known as the "Young Ladies' Seminary" was destroyed by fire, early Thursday morning, with all its contents. The house of Capt. Wm. Martin, immediately opposite, took fire shortly after, and was completely destroyed. The semina seminary - ry seminary was not occupied, but it was used the pre previous - vious previous evening for a gathering of the Baptist society, and it is probable the fire took from the furnace. The building was partially de destroyed - stroyed destroyed by fire on the 18th of April last year, and was afterwards put in complete repair. The seminary building was insured at the fol following - lowing following Providt nee offices for $2500 each : - Hope, Roger W'illiams, Merchants, and Equi Equitable. - table. Equitable. The furniture was insured at the American office for SSOOO, and at the Wash Washington - ington Washington office for S3OOO. Mr. Alvan Buffing Buffington - ton Buffington lost his pocket book in the excitement, containing S6OO. His house, which was sev several - eral several times on fire, narrowly escaped destruc destruction - tion. destruction - Providence Press. PERSONAL. Miss Lizzie Parker, who has been singing in California during the past fifteen months with brilliant success, returned to her home in Massachusetts by the last steamer. Samuel Coihath, brother of senator Henry Wilson, who has a place at the national capi capital, - tal, capital, Washington, is now lying at the point of death. Rev. Charles Spear, tlie well-known Uni Universalist - versalist Universalist clergyman and advocate of criminal reform, died in Washington, Monday, at the age of 58 years. He was at the time of his deatli filling Jhe post of hospital chaplain. Rev. Mr. Van Meter, known to some of our citizens as a very successful solicitor of char charities, - ities, charities, has been arraigned in New York for sending a boy named' Crocker to Illinois in violation of a previous agreement with tlie lad's father. It is thought that speaker Callicot of the New York assembly will be reported pure of tlie charges of bribery; but the investigation has not been such as a man conscious of his integrity ought to have chosen for his vindi vindication. - cation. vindication. Bettinti the tenor, was married on the 16th ult., in Paris, to Trebelli, the contralta. - Guiccioli, Byron's old mistress, is writing the Childe's life. She is 60yeais old, married, and thinks she has beauty yet. WAR ITEMS. The Richmond Dispatch of tlie 10th admits a bad defeat of Gen. Pegram in Kentucky, and says the rebel loss was heavy, and that, after a severe hand-to-hand fight of several hours, the rebels gave up the unequal contest and fell back, the enemy not pursuing. The Dispatch also says Gen. Rosecrans has sent five regiments of infantry to Kentucky, anJ has ordered all the cavalry from that state to his army at Murfreesboro', and is moving his troops on his left of Our right,