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VOMTMK 7. CAPE ISLAND. NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY. MAY S, 1S6-2. ' NUMBER 48 '

wcidewtb or out late trip. In traveling, If a person desires to see^em! learn about what they see, it is not policy to exercise a great degree of modesty or reticence. There are exception f to all rules, and although modesty and reticence are admired qualities, j generaUy speaking, yet there are times j when they may properly be laid asi^e, j boldness and iuqusitireness lake their j place. This is our opinion, howerer, j • ^and we usually exercise it. ALuib information gained by our late lrrp was • through inquisilirencss. A Boll Rl*n P mi boxer — We had no sooner taken oar seat in the cars at Washington, for Philadelphia, than in came a volunteer — representing by hit i dress a zoo zoo — who sat down, opposite us. A shrill toot, toot, toot, of the "iron-horse" gate us to understand that we were leaving in the rear, the great American Capital. Being a stranger 1 to all on board, we could not reconcile ; oureelf to n tut* of matrucss, and we shortly formed, the acquaintance ol this zouave, who proved to be a sergeant in the Brooklyn Fourteenth, from New j York. The reader no doubt reraem- „ hers how heroically this regiment per- 1 formed its doty in the bloody contest at Bull Run. It was jn the thickest of ^»the fight all day, and lost nearly 300, inkilled, wounded .and prisoners. This • sergeant was taken prisoner while fifty j of his company were charging upon rebel battery. „ He, and an old, silver- 1 haired soldier, were all ol the filly that j escaped uuha-med ; the remainder were cither killed or wcunded, and these two were captured. After the battle they were seut to Richmond, and deposited for cafe keeping in the fam'ous lolacco- j warehouse. We learned some iuterek- J ing facts connected with their confinement. He said the reporte given in ' the Northern papers, »f their shameful i treatment in prison, were not exaggerated. In the cell where he was kept there were over a hundred others. Same died of diseaie, and 7 were shot j , dead, by. the outside rebel guard, for lookjng-oat the iron grnies. One of • those shot was * Ellsworth Zouave, who had just written a letter to lita I j aistsr, and while standing near a window, reading Aiat he had written, a shot war fired and the ball split bis head open, and he fell back dead, grasping the letter to bhridql-eister. It was cer tain death to aland at the windows. Union ladies, the sergeant stated, weft very numerous in Richmoud nod, tltey died to testify their loyai-bearlcduess by sending delicacies to the . prisoners, and [ , L in'wtiting letters to them, containing important news, Ac. The manner . in «. ^Wi.tkg.fot these letters to the eol- ' diers was veiy ttgsnioui4 The ladies V got permission, from the authorities, to have a colored gent goto in the prison and sell the soldiers apples and different varieties of fruit. Inside of the applte letters werejinsertcd. The prisoners *^Sronid bay the apples, pay for .them, . but the vender would always return the money, under pretenr*. of giving change. This was dcne'tc miju'sa tbo guard. Tha fellows would -mi their apples . and find tha letters inside. When they were released from the prison, and wire going through the streets on their way to take a mat for Norfolk, the whole i -bard, numbering over four hundred, j gave three cheers for the Union, three) for the' Federal army, for President Lin- j coin, and for the ladies of Richmond, ; , and three greens for Jeff. Davis, the ; Southern Confederacy and the rebel , army. The three thousand rebel troop* then marching the prisoners to a boat, , < -look's! daggers, |bul dare mat harm a hair 1 , of th.ir heads." For four month* the * wik »f this sergeant thought her busrl»*d was killed in the battle of Ball « Ron. He wrqte ber letters but she never received there. He waseew on a forlough, tor 15 daya, lo aet! -bis friend*. He longed to meet tin traitor* again in •

| battle. The Deserted Camps. — While out ; riding in Virginia, we uoticed that almost every hill bad been a camp ground , for regiments or brigades, bat which ' were then deserted. The tents of most , of the camps are still standing, while ; | their late occupants are in the grand er- ! my at, Yorktown. Not a soldier is seen | moving from tent to tent, and not a | sound was heard from a voice, bogie or j drum; and we could but think what a j,vaft difference there was between the - quietude of theso deserted camps than if they were all filled with troops bfeak- j ! fasting, and the "long-roll" should beat 1 and announce the surprise of. an enemy, ; as at Pittsburgh Landing. When the ; troops went to Yorktown they took with , i them o small, light tent, only capable of holding four persons. The tent is formed of four separate parts, and each solj dier carries a part. By doing this they (can encamp wherever they desire, and are snre of a covering. It also avoids , much trouble of moving and putting up i j large tents. ' Tub Sick and Wounded. — As we had . I been engaged, for some months, in getI ting articles for our army hospital*, we . | thought it proper lor us to visit one of I these hospital* and see such articles in use. The one visited was in the Patent Office building, Washington, where there j were about 200 sick and wounded. — I This hospital was quire comfortable compared with many others Tlie sick ; had small cots to lie on, and the bed* i looked clean and neat. We paused : through the different ward*, and by per- ; mission qi-th^ matrons wocoveracd with | the suffering! Among these sick sol- [ diers all kinds of diseases were repre: ! sen ted, atu^tliere were those wounded io i {almost every manner.' Some were becoming convalescent, while others had ! well nigh croaaed the river of death. — , There were many, as yonng, «ntid even i younger than we, and oilier* were aged, , being huabntrls and fathers. Thin, per- i haps, was the first time they had ever been sick, with no mother, wife, sister or daughter to stand beside their couch . | and attend lo their saffuring wants. — -The wounded patriots seemed to be suffering the most. There was one uiari wo saw, who wa* shot in his leg in n bet- , tie, in WestArn Virginia, lost Winter. — j He had suffered from bis wound, but on- j ; ly the dsy before we saw him did he ! ) hnve his leg amputated Out of all! those in the hospitals we never heard a j n.urraor — scarce a groan. They were j ; patient and cheerful, feeling that they j ' had' contracted disease*, or received wounds while doing service in a jjood | cause- and for a Union that " inttif and | .shall hi . preserve^. " In retiring from J "this scene of "the horrors of war," we ' had great, reason to feel repaid for every 1 moment previontly spent in obtainiug comforts for the sick and woanded. : Tub Coktsadands. — The happiest aet ; of beings that we saw while away, were the contrabands in Virginia, who had ; j either deserted from, or been deserted by, tbeirrebel masters. They related to | as the history of their thrnklrom, tpucli of which was interesting. A general question wbicb they asked, was, "Do j yon think, mas*a, that we will be put I , hack to slavery ?" Most of the officers, I in our army have these ebbny-bued individual* for servants. They are dressed < uniform, ond are prqjjder than most j 1 of our major-generals, ajid are comical i fellows. We saw wn officer's servant who bati got pay for his work. . j Hs said the money was the first be ever > owned, as his master never g»v« hia sieves money. With , tbo chink in hi* I pocket be felt richer than John Jacob Bow* days ag« -Flag-Officer Foote , i requested the Nary Department lo it- ; Here kim from active duty, accompany- • ing bit letter with the cenifioate af three

physicians, that his leg was] so mncb | < swollen in consequence of hia wound a; !J 1 Fort Henry, that he rcquircdrest. Tlje j 1 Department appreciating the incdima-:' ' hie valne of Com. Foote to the service, ' 1 ' has declined to accede, to Ids request, ( 1 bnt has ordered Capt. Charles" Hi Davis. ' . : whom Cora. Foote has several Jirnqp in- , * dicated as the successor whom he would i 1 choose, immediately upon the conclusion i ' of his present labors as President of the ' ' r Board, charged with the duty of exam- : ' 1 ing the Stevens Battery, to report to ' ! Flag- Officer Foote for doty. Coin. ' J 1 Foote can thus, by making Ckpl.fDaxJs j ( ' , second in command, be relieved from - , 1 'arduous physical labor, and at the same j - time reuin a general supervision of the s ! operations which are to drive thlj rebels j j 1 -from the Mississippi Volley, r - NOBLE CONDUCT. Our readers will remember the upset- ' ting of a boat and the drowning of a number of soldiers of a Pennsylvania j regiment, which took -(^ce-not long : ' • since, on the Shcnu^ndrah' 'river, Vs. 1 We append an account belbw, from the j Philadelphia Press, of the noblo con I diict, in tha'. disastor of a Mr. Charles ■ ' II. Hand, who has relations and many friends in this county; ' - "We learn that among the number of on- i ( furtunale soldiers of Col. Boblen't rvgi ( . meat, who wero in the scow that was . twain pad in the Shenandoah, wns Sergeant . i Ciiaries 11. Hand. Company K. * f llii< The river was much swollen, .owing to n 1 heavy freshet, and the current wax very ' ( strong.. The scow was jrivampid «•»!> - to , - too many of the wen being iu the >•.>*-. . i ' which, a» the cnrreiitxitrack it, cau«e>l it to , swag down. 'I'lie soldier*,- becoming fright. ( ened, rushed aft, which completed the di<- ' aster. Sergeant Hand threw off'ln* coat ( aud sword, and, with Captain Wyck and . Sergeant Tiedemano, jumpsd^irerboard.— ( | Instead of striking out Tor bit own eafcty. . a* all were by this tim-i doing, he swam ( around the scene of di*a*ter{ encoaqsgiug > the timid and giving- instructions to those I, who cuuld nolswiui bow to save themselves. ' | ! Seeing one inan sink, be inlSediately dived • , end brought him up, *<vain with biiA to a ( •tamp in the river, and told, him lo hold oh | 1 until help came. Another sinking man. was rescued by hint in the tame manner;- lie ^ "then sought In* own safety. by*«imiuing to ( the shore, which he reached in an aliuojt l exhausted condition. Mr Hand i* a Philudelphian, nod a son of the late Joseph i ; Hand, shipping merchant. He gave. np a 1 , j lucrative position, at tho first call or the j President, joined Col. Frank Patterson's j Seventeenth Regiment, and. after serving ! j for three month', -he a/Ain^ entered l{»o »irl I vice of hi* eountry. Col. iiohlen, in a let- { ter to a friend in this city, says : "Tell ! j Head's frieuds he it safe." . THE MORMONS.- , j There are symptoms of renewed .trouble with those troublesome people, the j j ' Mormons. Brighnm Young, who bo* .rectHly been ineugjirate^ governor of : i i Deseret, has been making a speed to | 1 the Mormon priesthood, deefhring that j they (the Mormons) arc not going to be j satisfied with a mere pre-emption right on the soil in this territory, ^knd i , I Brigham's organ, the Deseret News, . I ! quite as emphatically declares that I "The people have drclared their aver- , sion to colonial servitude, tyranny and i ! oppression, and that they wish to sn|rer- ; I . sede the territorial forwof government, , to which they have submitted for nearly : t j tweire years, to a State government of ; ( their own formation, in accordance with the ptinciplea of the Constitution of I their common country, to wbid they L are so much attached." I DEPTH O/ PLANTIHO CORN. j 1 A communication which we find in the I . ; Germaotown 7 tUfritpk girts the following . taggev lions and facts, respiting the prop- , er depth for planting corn .- ( Cover the eoro carefully, and never mor* j 1 tboo from (fix and a half lo two inches , ' , deep. If. plan tod deeper than this, it will ; be iong»r coming np. aod after it come* op it will grew very well until it is threu : i j or few lashes high, when H will remain . stationary for tin dap or two weeks. By ' examining we will tad that tho Krsi joint ' j, the eariaee , of _lho toll, alio : : that tho roots are decay inf. while new .

one* are being thrown out , from thh > I joint ; these new noota requirn some ten or I fifteeg days for thdir complelo formation, j ! am) during this time the plant remain* j stationary as far as groirth is eoocerned. As soon as the new roots ara fully formed ■j the old ones will untirei^- disappear, and - - the growth will proceed as ussul. From j the actual experiments with grains taken ' i i from \ho samo rnr and samo part of the i < I have arrived at th>- foQstwing result ; i 1 t Corn- planted one inch deep eautn np in ! « ! eight days ; thht planted one and a half | ' inches deep required nine and a half days ; ' that two iuches di'op, ten jlay* ; two and ii i < I half inches 'deep, eleven and a quarter days; < three inches deep, twelvo days ; three and | ; half inches deep, thiMecn day* ; four | ' j iuches deep, fourteen and'a half day*; five | ' ; and a half inches deep, eighteen days ; six | ' deep, twenty^ine days. Tho last i 1 j lot came up nnd grew nntil about threu j ] inches high, wltvn it remained stationary j I i for a long time aud finally died.BIT ABTUOlUTr. LAWS OF NlSyV JERSEY. A further Huppleineht to an act entitled - "An'at^ for the pnni«Hment-,of crime.," ; approved April sixteenth, one thousand ( T eight hnndred und forty-«ix. ; I • 1. Bo it enacted by tho fieiiate'ulid Urn- , ela! Assembly of the Statu ol New Jersey, : | | That if any person or body enrpornte, sliail j , ! Utter und publish as of value, any bank ! | I bill or'nole, ssxitcd by any bankrupt, broken i ; ' and insolvent ban!;, knowing the mmnto.iio ) , |,of no vulue. .ho Shalt bo gifiUy of a niisde- | ( i tinn, by a line aot mnrn than three hundred . , 1 dollar*, or imprisonment ut Itaril labor ii • | j more thoh tlireo years, or both, it the di*. : , 'i. And be it enactvd. That if any p . on i j shall forge, nltft or counterfeit or cause, j counsel or procure, to bo forged, altered or counterfeited, Willi intent to defraud any > - ' person or body corporate, any o nine or re quest ia writing for tho giving of crtdit to j any person in such order or request in wri. | | ting named or referred tn ; nnd if^iny por ' son shall utter and publish n* true, with ; such fraudulent intunl as aforesnid, nny such ' forced, altered or counterfeited order or request in writing, knowing the saino to Ihi forged, altered or roonterfeltnd, be, she or j ; they shall lie guilty of a high misdemeanor. \ 1 and, on being thereof 'convicted, shall pe panidhOtl by finevir. iinprisoiiumnt, or bath, | as directed in the fofty<Clgh^i nectibii of ' the act to which till' is a supplement. 2. And lie it or. acted. That this act shall ■/ ' take effect immediately. Approved, March 3. 18C2» A further supplement to the act entitled ' ! ",-An act lo regulate elections," appi oved April sixteenth, one thousand eight bttnj dred nnd forty-six. * ^ 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and .lienI oral Assembly of tho State of Now Jnrsey, I 'that for the purpose of electing members on the Hquse of Representatives nf the • United Stalss, this state shall be divided j ioi-o five diatricts. aa follows j Tile co-JntieS of -Caps May, Cumberland, j . .Salem, Klrwcester, Atlantic apd Camden, ! TrtlttTOiniTOCT-affR-bw-MilW-'sKw -ds*, itrict. ' . s j The. counties ef Hqylington, Monmouth, | - Ocean ulid Mercer shall compose and be called "the second district." ' The £ounti«* of Hunlerdan, Warren, I Somerset, Union and Middlesex, shall com* pone and be called "the third district." i The counties of Sussex. Morris. Passaic, j Bergen, und all tha county of Essex, except i the city of Newark, shall ronrposo and be '' called "the fourth district.'' j Tho county of Hudson and the eitv of ( Newark shall compose and be called "the fifth district," each of which districts shall elect one person to represent ibis state id the lloute of Rapremmiaiires of the United State* ; which election shall be held on ■ the Taosday after the first Monday ia Nov. ; ember next, and in each second year there. { after. j 2. Aod be it enacted. That the supple. I mont, approved February nineteenth, one ! thousand eight hundred and fifly.lwe, .bo i aud the temo is brruby repealed. 'I , .Approved, March 28, 1862. A further supplement to the act entitled ' 1 ; "An aet culminating courts lur the trial of sreal! cwuses," approved April six-" leenlh, one thousand eight hundred aud J ferty six . 1 1. Be it enacted bythe benqti and Gcnj oriil Ak.inibly of thuKteU uf New Jersey. J

That if either party from an appeal to tha I court for the trial of small causes shall doj sire to produce upon the trial thereof, in "I I the court of common plea*, any witness or < witnesses not produced or sworn in the court below, or any documentary evidence I not offer«ixjrqdmitied--ra-Uie conrt below, | j the said/Jfarty t^ell be'nl liberty to do so, 1 and the sam^shall bex^dinitted by the court, if olhchai-.e legal and competent ; I provided, thiitMinc^urP-ed/ommon plea* shall be sa'mfie l tliJLt said . evidoncn not withheld on the trial below (or a»y i unfair or fraudulent purpose ; and prnvi- • j tied, that the party first offering such new I 1 evidence shall have given the opposite 1 party or ht» attorney twenty days' notice H ! thereof in writing , setting forth the sub.* j stance of sach evidence and the *narnc* 'of I the witnesses intended to lie produced at | the trial of the appeal. 3. Aod be it enacted. That lllis act shall take effect immediately. | Approved March 28th, 1862. y 1 A.Tnrther suppiemect to the net cnltied I "An act to authorize the business of I banking,'' approved Febrnary twenty, sos u nth, one thousand eight hundred and 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the Statu of New Jeriey, so muib of (be ast entitled "An act authorize the business of banking." np* : proved February twenty-seventh, one thouI sand eight hundred and tifty-lwo, and u | farther supplement thereto, approved March fifth, one thoasaud -eight hundred and fifty-two, aod a", further supplement .thereto, approved. .March eighteenth, one < thousand eight hundred and Hfty.eight, as > -iuthor,i/.cd the deposit with tUo Statu treasurer, as a' basis for banking, of the state st. ic|ks of 'Virginia, Nbrth Carolina. | Teanttsee ami l.n-miuna, bo and .tbo samo ! is hereby repealed. 2. And lie it enacted, That] nothing in thia act contained shall be so construed us ) to in any way change, impair or invalida^o ! any of the state stocks mentioned in tho . / first section of tlii« act, which have already depistlM with Iba Stale treasurer a* a basts Wr ttBHsing M aforesaid. 3. And bo it-onacjed. That this act shall . take .-ffuct imniediutoly. Approved March 2.illi, 1862. I j j€n Arrxai. run East Tennesme — . A jitter rccei veil at Washington from j a gentlemen 'high ip authority, in Teni nrssee, contains the (Jllowing ■: "Buy tn the Postmaster 'General that ; we are succeeding beyond o*r moslsanj guine expectations. As soon as the reb- | ol uriny is driven beyond the limits of j Tennessee tho State will stand for the Union by an overwhelming majority. I hope jhc governmeut will be impressed, with the absolute necessity of the army ' entering East Tennessee. Thay arc | murdering and plundering oar people by1 thousands. Their nets of inhumanity and Barbarity ore withoot parallel. " — I Tim tetter condndes — "Great God ! is- ! there no ralicf for that people !" A certain witneaa iu an as saalt and bat • I heifiV witu) tlqiy tu» n consideraljy :n giving In* account of lliu . i affair. After relating how Dennis came to him and "truck him ho proceeded : . "So yrr honor, 1 just hauled off and wiped bis jaw. Jait then his dog came ■ along and 1 hit him agin." - % "Hit the dogf* I'm "No. yer honor, bit Hennis. And thou h .1 np with-a stun and tlirowed it at him, andi rolled him over and over." « "Threw a»ton« at Dennis)" "At the dog. yer honor. And he got np. and hit nu> agin." "The dog r "No, Dennis And wid tl)at he stack his tail between hia lugs and ran off" ^ "Dennis !" "No, tho dog. And then hu cum hack at me aq«l got me dowu and pounded me yer honor." '"The dug came back at you T" i "No. Detuiis, yer honor, and bo isn't hurt ' any at alL" ' ••Who isn't hurt f "Tho dog, yor honor." I "That will do." aai.l the court. "Wa [ have had euoagh of yoaand the dog. ritcp i .lown." J- WALl. ?.vr"HK. ; T~v A VM> CI. ARK would nw.wrteily loforoi «hc J LllWoM Cat* loland »w! vlcUlf. that he .III • luike a Stock of Mf.U Fap«r for vati at 1-AfE tfl-AND, , e .rl» la thr ownrh ot JSoj . The )>la» Sua tin* o«l».;:Hr aiuK-uiKOl in tU> , • April p. is«;.-H. ... .