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VOL. XI.

CAPE ISLAND. CAPE MAY COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20. 1S66.

NO. 14.

frlrri" iorfnt. Sheridan') Ride. ■r t. nciu»*»* na. kVp tram tbe South at bf»«k o I amy. Bringing lo Wlaeftettev (mt dim my. The affrighted »lr with * shudder Dire, Uk» a herald In bttte t a lha rhlefiala't door, Thr terrible grumble and ramble and roar, Trtlia* tba baft la waa no oo-r mora. And Sheridan waa twratj mllra away. ADd wider atll! three billow, of war Thuodrtad along Um horiton'a bar. And louder yat Into Wtaehet'er rolled Tbe war of that red ere uncontrolled. Making the Moon of the 1 learner cold, Aa be thought o 1 1 be atak* in that Brry fray, A ad Shrrtdaa twenty mllra away. But there'# a road from tvinrhratrr town. A good.,broed highway lewdtog down ; And the*, thiough the Xu#h of the morning light. A a toad, aa Mark «a the etrnfl of nlghl, W*ase«at*|MMU with eagle flight; Aa If ha knew the terrible need. He etretrkfd away with hie utmnat tpred ) Hill, roar and fell, but hla bearl waa ga> , With Iheridan Bftara ml lea away. ■Ull sprung from tboae awift hoot thundering South, . j The dual, like the amokr from tlw cannon', mouth, Or the trail of a eomrt .weeping f.ater ami Deter. Foreboding Id Ualtora tbe doom of disaster ; The heart of tba Bleed and Ibe heart of the matter Warn but ting like prlanurtunaanultlng their walla, I w Impatient lo be wh're Hie battlefield Callai Faery oerre of the charger waa etraiaeJ to foil play, I Wltb iheridan only ten mllra away. Vafim bit aparalag tret, the road Like an nrrao flying helore the win It And UM ateed like a bark fed with furnaer Ira, gweapt on, wllb hit wild eye. full of flrr. Hut, tot he la caring Ma keart'a daalra ; lit la anuang the amoke of Ibe roaring fray, - With Sheridan only Sra milea away. The Srat thai the Dermal aaw were the grnupa Or atragglera and then The retreating troop^i— What waa done— what to do— a glance told him both • Then alrlklnr hla apurei with a terrible oath, He flatbed down the line "mid a .form of hurra.. And the w.rg of retreat checked tu ruurae there beemuae ' Tbe tight of the matter compelled It to pauae. Wltb Dam and with dual Ihe Maek eharger wu gray By the Saab of bit eye, and hla red ntnlrUa* play, He teemed to tog whole great army lo may ; •' I bate brought you iheridan all th- w «y From Wineheater down to save the day!" j t HurTah, hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah, hurrah for hgrte and man ! ' And w**ea their atatuea are placed on hlgu Under tha dome of thr Union thy, The A meet can Sold ten' Temple of Fame, There with the gloretua geoeral'a name Be It aald to lettera both bold and brlgh} i " lm la tbe ateod thai aaved the day From WlnrbMter— twenty mile* away \"J - - ' ..V 1

$cLri trailing. — 1 > The .late Nairn,! Xrhonl tr.v Rourflinc Arrangement Tbe gr#atc«t difficult; whirh institn- ' lions of tills kind have hsd lo contend | witfi is ihst of board Although the | tnilion it frse, bring prod ed for lay tin' i munificence of the 8'*tt». jet lite nikin I item of rzpen>e, ihe honnl. remain.; and | during the tail few years thia hem ha* : been stoadily incrca.ing in six*, until at length it threatened srrioosly to ember- | rasa the operations of our 8iate School. ; * The corfent charge f.tr board ia Trenton, i at the beginning of the last school year, i was $5 a week, nor trus it«nlway* easy j to obtain board, on any terms, in quarter* suitable to tbe want* of the pupils J At this rate of lidng, the con of the school yssr (40 week*,) to the Normal J School popil would he $200. laoiden- >- ' tal and traveling expenses, with a very i moderate allowance for dress, woulo swell the snm to $300, and this doubled > for the two years, would m^e the Nor- ■ maf .School courts cost the pupil tha ' snm* of $600 It needs no demonstration to prove that the great mass of those . for whom the bencfiu of ihe inatitntlon were designed, and not in circnrottanccs to meet such en outlay as this in 1 tbeir preliminary training. The Trnsteea fdt, therefore, that some ! ' > remedy fur this sure of things must h« pro tided. Accordingly in September, j 1 1864. with tbe knoaledge and sanction j I of tbe Board, but at tba risk of "a few | 1 benevolent individuals, a suitable build- | 1 leg, far-' erlj occupied by one of the j ' k Professor*, and directly opposite the ' k school, Wat secured and fitted np ai • : ® boardiug-buuac f or thr exclusive use of j ' the female pupils and uachera of the j ' institution. By having a largetiutnber j ' ^ together, so that- provisions may to ' bought at wb-ltiaale prkws. and . by | 1 charging tbe boarders only ibe bare cost, j it was found that a comforiab'e and j ! pleasant borne might he provided foi I ' them, even daring tba high war prices [ of th* last year, at the ' very moderate t cxprn.v ».f $3 AO e ae. lt, including wash- 1 , ing, fuel, light(&e. During the coming , . season it i* expected the rate will fee re- j < f duffed to $8. perhaps even to • lrs< ! 1 nam. Knconragad by the auceeea of tbi. ' experimswt, the friaad* of the aeboc! ' bare deter uiited to enlarge the aceom- ' % ■odolloao, to es to receive all the femair • ! pepils- end teacher*, txcept. there# who ! | L. ^ " .

I srs re.idents of Trenton -They err ■ j prompted- to tbis raeasore also by thr 1 fact that parents often and very proper- j j ly am rrluetant to send their daogbtera (o a distant town to attend school, onj less there is some adrquatc guaranty for ( an efficient supervision and protection ; lout of school hours. Young ladies, j 1 away from home, and boarding promis- ^ ' eitooily through a large town, are ex- j 1 posed to many social temptations, and 1 i ofteo lose in consequence moch>*alaabte \ | time, even when they do not form unde- | sirsble arqoaintances, or fall into worse • I evils The plan now adopted contem- j | platra-'first, »ueh an enlarg«ment of the ; ' present botrdlng house as to enable it j "j to arcoiri todale all the Icmal pupil* and j I teachers, and secondly, a rvguiaiion rr- 1 quiring them all tu live there, except . those who are residents of Trenton, and , ,, ! those who from special circumstaners . may be permitted tu board else* here ) ' The present building ad'ommoiU'c* ■ . thirty. With the enlargement, it will | accommodate ov»r a hundred. ' The ; , ' same gentlemen wh>> purehased and fit* | ted up tho present building, have orga- ! nized themselves into a "Normal School | Hoarding H"ose Association," under, a , < charter grant-.) for thia purpose by the - . \ last I. eg* slat nr.-, and have generously ! undertaken t-i build and Cornish ihe rX- ' ; tension, on the gu .rainy of the Tru«t»e« j ' \ tlrat the building shall be occupi d on j , ihe pi in proposed. ' Althuugh the prevent armgem-n , , pr -eidH. fur the accommodation of only ; , ' ! the female pupils, yet it* lieuvfita accrue 1 , j in almost equal ratio to the male pnpila j I ' who Jioard elsowher*. Tie price of : ■ living in the ordinary boarding houses 1 : iiegvn to come down, as soon as the ' ! Normal Hall went into operation. It 1 | is obvious that, while 'be majority ol ' ' the pnpli* Can live in thia house with , , w eo.t of $3 a week, the rate elsewbcrcannot be maintained much bryond , lib.i j. There can be li'tle doubt that the 1 i operation of this plan will Ire, in a very ' ; short time, to double the at'eudanre ' : upon school. The Trnstve* and the ' f iendi of the school regard it ns the | most important movement for the in'ti . lotion that has bean made aince the v ri- \ ( 1 1 gioal foundation of the achool. r sr Tbe New York "Herald's" eor , rrsponrfent. writing from Sonth Caro- , j Una, say.; — ( , "While the men arc inclined to trcst i the Yankees, both soldier* and civilians, 1 , with every courtesy, th# ladies are not * | so bending. They have no lure for the . ^ j old (lag, and unlike their msl# relatives, j • whom interest compels to treat their j , conquerors elaflly °~tney take advantag*- , j of tbeir sex- and give every slight pos.i- t i ble to those who have been luy.l. It is, : c : among them, considered a crime even to r I look npun a Yankee, ai d, as a conse- 1 queue#, they either travel with thlek. ' | impenetrable veils, or else carry en«r. ' ; moui fans with which to eclipse their j face* upoif the approach of one of these ( > obnoxiutu individuals." The same wr ier, speaking of Skrr- > j man's march, says : — t "To a stranger sltiting-thi* lectfon of j * the country, Sherman would undoubted- ' 1 ly appear as an ogre or one of thh bad s j giant* of juvsnif# memory. If anything f ' it out of the u total course, Sherman i. ; J 'responsible therefor Families that nc i j i ver owned a pteca of silverware in thefr l-c j lives are accustomed to excuse the com i.v | putiiioo spoons they place on the Utile ! | remarking that when Shirman went j I through be carried off all their silver ] „ i A litila inquiry into most of ti es* case, j 0 j would coovince tbe most skeptical thai j a ! Sherman or any cf his army — not even i I j excepting tho-'btnamers'— had not been i " | within fifty miles of th* locality they I " Were thus charged with having robbed • h i While I am s . ti.fi ed from own observa* 1 ' ! tlon that Shrrmmn's march a a* a march j g j i.f devastation, jet not one-qnart* r, jier- j n | onr-olghlb, the damage waa done j r try Ma ttrtt tsctar/vd.^' - j „ — — . ! ii i Aa Alexandria letter to tha Doiton A-U < V | irrtU.r, dated July t", aayt;— ■■Th# chol. \ „ jsra bat&Abnott entirety .litappeared. Jn ! d , Alaxan^^^in the 24lh, only tig dealh. j h j sr r» r»port»d, ami allbouab lha nam tor j a yesterday was Bvr, it it belierad that there ! h j la no luitbrr occasion for alarm, as tha j o j mortality for a whole wark La* toen 1ms j * J than half that of a single day ahao the j V | diseasa was raging, la Cairo th# oamtor j w j of deaths from cholera raporl-d oa th> [ I ; 25th Was only twtoty.fivr. A t Tantah and | b ' tpt g tto dHmoM has caasrd>n axltL" ' ti

r I From Hit "Dtlly" Win t The Last Exritcmrnt. Prior to th# inaaguraiioo of ih* gr#tt Am#rjran r#h#llion, mtrina and railroad • disasters, destructive fires, murders, fraads, rohberiet, and political -wrangles in the f legitlative hall* aod oo the slump afforded l j mailer for the press, and fond and excite* , riienl for tbe reader. Paring tbe existence . - of the war, every ilem of tha character we have mentioned, tank into insisnifirenre j J before the ail-import set and all-alitortfing ! new4 of th# doings of our army. The death of Colonel Ellsworth, defeat al Big Bethel, Bull Run rererte, appoint n^ent of General ' McClellan' to command lha army of the Potomac; battle of Wilson's Creak ami • d -atli of |f enetal Lyon; sieire or Lexinrton. Mo.; disaster at Bail's Bluff; deparlura of I j lha Burueide expedilino for North Caro- ! liitafamata ofv^jrit Donaldeon, eeacuajs** of I'iii.barr Land. ' ' mg; surrender «f Island No. 10; torremler ' or New Orleans, apd McClellan baltles on i the Peninsula, were among the great event! ; I that occurred daring tha early part of the ! rebellion, and filled the land .with excite* j lusot. Ilnnuied#. yea ihoutan-U. of occur- ; j r-ncet, "josl at momorabl# «hcceed-d. Ma- ; nil# and inland diualeri. fi'-a, fraud#, rob- i h-fiet ami luordert «-re c mliiueil in these. i»M that new#pa|rore would not be worth j leading any mure, and for a time they wen* ! purchased, anil their rolnrfms, thnnah well tilled With matter the', before the war, would litre been considered exceidinwl^ jmieretiing. were ectun-d and pronounced ! very jejuiiv. There was uo report of j i finely coote-ied battles, of the lost of I thou#andi (if heave' soldiert; of a glnrinu# ; victory or alerhuog defeat; of Ibe capture of a blockade-runner, or of a devaxaluig j raid. No, nothing of this kind. But ioou tho murder of-onr loved President, and tho ' attempted wholatala ataassinaliim of lead- j rog men, threw ibo country in a whii puol - : of exciteiueul, and Salialed the appetite of [ lha reading public, allbon.h it »a« Tuod of i a sad and eickeinng nature. Tbe ,-urvuil of : tho murdeier#. tiro capiure of Boolb, (lin j trial of the conspirators and tbe banging ' I ol* iba same, tba capture and incarceration i of Uavis, I e laving of tba Atlantic Cable, and lha heavy robberies and ' defalcation# ! ill New York came in Iboir order, nil or j which learned a, interval. Thw Isei a*. : citenivnt »n the lupia is the tiial of Wirx. ' by . miliiaiy cuinmisaion at W-ahingion. ; llo was airaign-d before the Commieaio'll last M goUy. and charges and •(■ecificstions piefer red again«l him. T«o cbvrgvs are I preferred, as fidlowa; , Ckargt Wl— Malicieo#ly. wilfully, nnd traitorously, and in-aid nf lha then exitilng relmllion against ihe United Stale# of America, on or before th« 6>»t day of March, I A. D. 11*1^ and on .liver* other days, betli "day and tha 10th day of April, ; j Ib6f>, combining, conlederalliiL'. and con- ' logether, with R.ibl, K. Lor, Jas.' A.SedJon. John 11. Wmderi Lucius I) I Northrop, Richard B. Wiuder. It. R. .Ste- | venaon Moore, nnd others unknown, to in.* • jure ibn health, end dvsiroy1 ibe Uvea of soldier* in ihe military service ol lha United Stairs, Tuvn. held, and being prisoners ot war witbiu the lines of the itf caliedConSlates, and in ibe military prisons • thereof, to tbe end, and thai the armie* of ihe United States might be weakened and j impaired, in viulatioo of tbu lews aod curCkafife 2. — Murder, nnd in violation ot the laws and cuatome of war. . The specification# SfConipsi.jing the] charge* are inleresiiug, nnd should he read : by Ihe world. Wits'* crime l» of the Ueep- ; dye. far more wicked than lb# crime of ; late assassins sad conspirators. Tbou- ' lilHi Of noble and,*valisui (oils of Anieii- ' ca were murdered fit the hands of this in- I scoundrel and IraHor. and be will ' undoubtedly nroai with speedy justice- j j From ti-e insertion of certaio names in the j ! charge wa are led to suppose thai tbay le0 | ► .will also be tried io the anme manner. Druth of Jasper Harding. j | Mod -ay morning lust, the announcement j of III# death of Mr. Jasper Harding filled j i hearts with sadness. But a few dais | wa met him at ilia Columbia House. ; j had com# to l.'ape May for the benefit j ol" hi* fa-t-fsiling health, and at th# time i j saw him W# bad not the least idea tha' I | numb-red day* oo earth were so soon j j In end. Few men in I'blladeiplue were i j mora wideiy known or commanded m.-r- 1 I general resp-ct. Ambition nod et-rgy ; j marker) his early lite. Al Ihs age of eight- i | een, be commenced the pahliCsMon of the j j Old I'eiin-ytvania /nyuu-vr, end o-.otinuerl j ! il* pnhl'i a'lon tip to 1840, when hit son, - | Wllitam W. Harding, "lock charge of lite J j office, nnd issued the p»p»r >* Ihe Ft.ila- | delphia Inquirer. As editor of the Inquirrr i was known lo iboasandt outside oi PliilI adelphie. A* far hack as we ran remember ' ha* been an annua] summer visitor t- | watering pla'e; nnd is therefor* peri tonally known to moat of our |wop!r. j While lha old Mansion Hoa«a stood, he : a guest of "Uacla Smilh" Ladiain. j Ha died at lha age of M«y— il, *nvinf torn i the seme year that George WashingI disc.

FOr the "Deity Wsve." Cape May Improvements. It 1.— * KkW 1IOTKL. d A !t t^p'.gh ibe sen-un of 1S65 is not yet s, clonnd, but every hrftel it open nnd doing ie t flounsbtng hosintee, yet enough it known d of the restlit to furnish Hems for a few res' fl>ctiots ofl the duty, that devoltet upon •e Cape Islaojl in preparing fur the sunnier o' e 1866. Tba hotels, from the highest to the >e low'eat, have heen crowded to tbalr utmost g capacity at tioo* during the .rnsoq, and h hud lhars barn accommodation* fur tw-> I, thousand mora visitor* it would not have il exceeded th* uuu-brr that left the l-land, e ; or wevu prevented from coming, in contrd j qoenc# or th# Well-known fact lhal the lti. | I aod wat "crowded." The first improveif j mwtil, tbereiore, thai tuggevl# i» more k j hoiel room. If the ptoyeclegllmpruvemen' I. [of Mr. c.ke. to enlarge Congress Hail,. to I. carr.ed out. it will bu a great benefit to lb« r | Island. Bui lomhlhing el.# ir needed. A n ! Urge, firsUclasa new hotel is needed. One 1 1 io which nil the modaru improvements will e | to introduced, from cellar tu garivi. Bell# | are needed in each room, gn» should lake •- ! tho place of the caudle nulenUce, a coove- ; nience on "each Boor u# aio d the necetsity I. j of going from the roof to the ground floor . | in ibe d-vl of mgbt io obey ihe deii ao-l# . | of natui. ; hot and cold baibs should be b j provided for those who cannot viand, or do | all, wa'er should be intruriueui! into the , j rooms. Tie latter could he done Ly either ^ forcing w-it-r by hjdrkuli: pressure into I pipe. .... the roof, or by formation of' a f water company nnd con.truct.oo of a reser. . j voir. The hotels woul-i, doubtless, find it io their Interest Io p.., a wa.er rrni at - thej Uo in w ineir gas rent. A hoirl .uel> i as thi. Would not injure t s '•uame-e of Ihe 9 other fiisl-clatt houses. Il would, on Ihe - - contrary, i-oild up the p'acn by increasilig I the ltd x of vi-iiurs. Nor are il.ese notion, f t.. II. rididMed a* high Sounding, t ape f I -land, by claiming to rival Sureio.-u, Nee. , will only cease lo tie ridiculous, when He i class establishments of llto*e fashionable haunts, li w»- a uiafvr of common report ; . thi» sumio.-r, l- at u New York Company : f had purchased Ibe Atlantic llou«e pioper- . ly — theexait prjca Wat ever, mentioned — . und thut the Cap«_Wa. t,> Mtva n new first- . class hotel. The oi ly In n, l„ti<m for the i report • as, I but a gentleman from B .hi- > more— not New York— had examine i ihe . I hotel and offered $75,000 for it. which was j refused by the , roprietor*. Th#«lte it. of ; ] course, a very good one, hut il i> by no ' . means the only one. Back of Congree* . Hall there it a lot rnnniug from ihe corner oppo.it* Mr. Page's cottaga down the . beach, where formerly the gu-tla of . the Mount A'ernon Hotel bulheii. I"fi# bathing ' . gronad i« .excellent, nnd tho p..rch of the _■ prc)K>*ed hotel would be as m ar Ihe beach aa that of tho Atlantic. It. addi' inn, tbe house might- be bail! sy that l"-th sides j .I would lave mjhtiii room., an advantage r which every hottl-kec, er will appre. iulr. This peculiar ndtantag# happens from Ihe , batch, changing its course and sloping off . towards the liahthoutr. One porch would , h.iva an open tiew down the coast towaids : |- Poverty Beach, Willi- the Oiher would hsv# ' | ibe broad expanse of the Del-ware Bay, with lha Breakwater^ ""V^leulopen and IIS ; many I ghlt to caz- upon. This lot could- . be uhtaiued at n reasonable figure, aod if , the' project has not lallvo through it was ■ '■ seen designed to timid sncll i fiorel Iherecrn. I | A charter wa# obtained from the Legislature and architectural plans drafted. Any . information upon tbe subject would to ! : interesting at tba prevent moment. Mo i much upou Ibe subject of raorr hotel loom. .'Il it to t>e hoped that capitalist* can ie# ,- j the sncceSsloi future of Capu May a* clearly as those who have waited the completion of the railroad to rvwltae their pr. dic- | uwff. J.T. Q. j Atlantic Cable. | In no artlne on the Atlantic Cable, that , I appeared io our eolumus a few ilaya ago. I we made u»e of Ibe following language in i ! speaking of it* failure. "The matter is in ! tne baud of paitie* that are bound to sue- . j ceud, apd succeed they will, evetuually." , j Mince that «»s written we haw received i new. 'from Europe which confirms our *x- , pretsion io reference lo tba determinaiiou , j of ibe Atlau'ic Telegraph t'ooipaoy lo ellablitb ll.rir soblnarine line under the Sea. I A special Miestitlg^of lbvpShare-holdera had hevD told, and it waa resolved to cunvert , lha preference shares into coiieolroatso eight per cent, pisfvrential slock, and to ! issue addiiiooal cnpiial to tba extant o> eighty thof -and pounds llerting, to compile the present cab.e and construct sad lay down a second. W it b a* there is not a . shadow of doubt but tbul.Ta time, and paib p«*t ao di-iont day. those .whajflasire may bay# tbu privilege of sending uiess*- , get io Europe's shores U rough tha Atlai- ] , tic cable. At ia«t sdvicea the Great K»»tera ^au not rstnrned tu England. Wa bopu toon to record tor arrival, aiui the completion . of arrangements for grappling again for the iiiiepbariadwra.

Tbe Woru-Out Fount of Type. I'm sitting tt my desk. George ; B-lor# me sn the floor, , There i.rs . wara-o.it fount Of tjpa, ' t Full vareuqr rhoutond n-ore i _ And man- months hsv# [»«!. Ceorgs. * ktx* lh»r wrre hright snJ new. n A ml many sra the tale- they've told— The ftlte. the strange, the true. Their beauty hat til gone, George, " Yon sc sorely low mty tract, ,1 Upon the snowy medium, ' The likeness ot their tare, e Ther.mtad me of a tntn. George. Whoa# m..rnoIUfsw-s full •' Of promise, hut f evening's close, W's* desoiate aod dull. e Ot murder In tin- midnlg^linur. Of wai, ulle many « • speck i" 1, Ot ships that, tot sway s< sea, Oft'Ifltderies ofstcnv, ^ "in fafoo* rroiw of cor ton i •• ' .. O! riots, dorlt fought ; e 'Of thieves w.th booty caughl. 5 ' of land-slldrt and of wsir'—poulv : 1 1 ^tKgtan't twrat |sitrUss.i * I ° ArS'lroMdr'/onT' 2'lHdJcr J j They're told ot «.f a nation, Geor #. '* ' "ki bt0 ' i - I |,l A7to'|wle fluvw's°b«7ufh£,a e • I rant prelrtjd^lo a-Mion half • MTo-0Ih''rIgri'<-l sn..J'tcara'" t"."UhV Yd ftl'Mully trey record kept C I Uf f ast ■•-.'vdlng > ear# ! The Season of 1SS9. # i A-« th# pre#cnt season is rinwiug. t > | " -re apporiunr. We nay safely Vtwir : ' I that the tuccess of C-.pr May, f-r I8C5. i > ' stand* unparalleled There hue# I crn " I mure people here, and more tnnnsy lias torn spent ill. I II ever hrf re. For tit-ar ' J | four week* our in>t-iw wrre crowded, | . ! while In f-rmer year# they were filled I ,, about fi'tocii days — seldom' over two # | w.cks. A* yet. »> have not footed up 'f i ihe total number nf arriva's, but wc feci 0 t safe in rstimaline tlie nunilnr at br- * 1 tween thirty and fony thousand; p. rbaps, nearer forty than Unity We i ^ havtrat eii il publishrd tlrat th. re have I e 1 been forty thousand strangers ut S»ru- I K toga SprUgs tbis year Tory have not ! h outnumbered us much We made a »e- ' # riiius minUke, the other day, in esiimnl- | « - fog the lorg-st number of people thai j r ; hate been on the Island wt any onu time 1 this fiU muter, at five thousand. We j g. i have siuce given tbe matter some attrti- I j lion, Xt'd arc now ass^rd that on the ! s ! night of the Urand H ill there were eight ! • 'thousand people here. There are Com- ' > i lurtabic Bccomniodations for about seven . 'thousand tea hundred strangers, inclading th# ottaget that are rented i Business men of Cape IsfaMl have found ' ( , this a season of great profit. Certain If j the* have made money, audt of course, y | they anticipate increased patronage *n- « f other year This they will recti ve. if •' j the expend soute of the mony they hsve '• made in making improvements. With * all necessary improvements added, we ' j may increase our accommudoiinn* fit | th# rate cf Gfirtn hundred a year, and j there is no donbt but thai tbe Island j will be just a* crowded as it hai been [ this reason. John Bell. i. A lsffi hitter of Guv. Brownlow, nfTaitn jtesarr, says of John Bell : L hare had a long interview with John ' Bell. He i. ran years older, in appearance, d Ihac when the war began. Hi* t-etli - are on', and that affert* hie apsech. Ill# « hair and whi*k*£a are "*#'>^r*y, an ' he l» !* very much stooped, and Yean# upon hia staff # lik# an old man. is axp-cted to do. I J treated h;m very knnlly. Hsi talks very 1 Ireoly about Ihh ret>ellinn, and id oppoaiit .linn to U- Jie says the asdassioni#!# in th' n rj-uth are all hin*tie« without any lucid, ta4 t-rvaD— that is to sty, they ate craxy all - lha tiuro. I beliuvw-it is a principle in law, d 'hat if a lun'atio hat# lucid interval# •> * t'Yne#, hw is rvsjmnstble fur acts pvrpetratad - in .those interval*. And miufical writer* e t.y that lunatics without lucidlnurvals are - incurable, -. • | I arroatp«nisd th# old gentleman to the headquarters of General Thomas, and aftsr ' a short but agrauahl# intern# « with th# a General, w# went tft the offlca of the Pro- > voet Marshal General, where the old gen- » 1 1-Dian took th* amn-sty oath, and plaesd himself right on the record.

. ^ . S Cholera In Kurope. ' If w# may take the European pre#* a* a criterion, *e should say that thera is a great constrrnatioa in Europe, tot fenr of the spread of a desth-cslling cholera. Some weeks ago. It appeared in Africa, on tbe coast of the Red 8#n, >md took it's course etttwardly across ihe sea ifito Arabia. . It it now movlaf westward, and has reached Italy and Turkey. The wealthy of Constantinople ..re fleeing from their homes. At An# conn. Italy, thirty #f.jor persons wrra ! dying daily of this d seats. It Is now making havoc in many purit »f England \ with the cattle, and the English people •re f.ightenrd, list it should soon show , 'to#. If among, the inhabitants. We . scarce expect to hear of it* sweeping Europe as with a besom of destruction, | for the simple reason that the sanitary condition of that country is not at bad n* ii is usually, when epidemic* rage fearfully, and fill hundreds of thousand* of new. made graves, iii a brief specs of : tune. Where it first made it* appearance, little is said of It now, and w* are led to conclude that it was of short duration. All Europe was plunged in a #iat# of fuveriah cx itement. when the Russian plague appeared, hut it did not have a very terrifying result Our own country is ripe for *n epidemic. and we are living in exp etaiioa of seeing onr land made to wail aver the people. Never was the sanitary condition of _«ny country io a worse aUte than the United Slates at the preaent time. It is all the natural result of a Ling and Moody war. The imparities of hut' I#- fields, camps, and hospitals, have fill# d the atmosphere wi'h that which engender* epidemic*. During th* past few months, w« have conversed I with many eminent physicians, all of whom ga>e it as their opinion, that, more than likely, vrs should be visited with a di#eiise that wnnld ravage the homes of tans of thonsand*. God for- ^ /hid that our expectations should b* rar j al'trd 1 ■ Schooner n'rrrkrd-CrrwSaved i and Landed at Cope May. i KarlyW dnesday morning w# ohsarved a , schooner in di«tre*i off Cap- May. We j looked through Mr. Glosaer'a telescope, from th- lawn nf Congress Hall, and plainly saw men in her rigging, signaling for help. No assistance was rendered tham until Mr. Andrew Reeve# and John G. • Ware, keepers of th# G-rernment life. - boat at the steamboat landing, with t np. l tain Micajah'Mnith, Captain Hewitt, Mr. | Little and oijier*. went out about one . o'clock in the afternoon and took the crew [ j off rafefy. While w- nee pei ntng thi#, tha | crear are in our office, Irotn whom wa I cat iu-r the following tacts ; The tchonner : Bohemia, of 1'hiladelphia, curama-ided by "j Captain Bradley, war hound from New York lo Philadelphia, lad-a with staves, t In the storm which prevailed Tuesday . evening, a portion of ker anil* wars blown , ' nw.iy, and sb# sprang a tank. White enileavoring to tnske her way into Iba hay, at shunt two o'clock Wednesday morning, -he grounded on Great Hboal*. Tha crew j took to tha rigging, aod from early mora r until noon,. they signaled ia every postibte . way, wbtlc vessel#, on lbs Henlopaa aids, - within a few miles of tb* wreck, paid no / f attention to tbeir calls; and had it not e been for the timely and noble help of tho , parties named, they woold have certainly B perished. The vessel and cargo will be a t total lost. The Trial of Wtrz ' Tuesday morning tbs court io which ■ Win is being tried reassembled. Jndgo Hughe*, th# detendant't counsel, argued to quash tba chargae and tpecificationa. Hi* argument was "that tb*y warn too ' general and uncertain, and that tb* offence* charged were cngnixable in civil and not i military court*." I bis wa* oven uled, when , tb- Juiig- -Advocate suggested Ural tb« I c 'Urt adjourn. After a abort dabnta. and ■ an objection on the part of Judge Hegbee • i tore wa* an ndjuornmaoi, end the prieoof er was remanded tu the Old Gapitoi. The I public are somewhat mystified, ns oo ax. pla^jaton ho* toen giveo ae a rewoo for aa . .cljoafta&et. — A sheriff was once atked to »* 1 w, it against a (J i«k#r. On arriving s4 hie iron to h# taw lha Quekei'a wife, who,. it i reply in the inqairy whether her huabaod I waa at home, aald ha was, at tba same tin. a . requested him to be seated, aod her hus- . hand w.iuld speedily tee him.' The officer -ailed patiently for some time, when tho > fair Quakeress coming into tbe mom, bo ■ reminded bar of her promise that bo might t-e her bu#l>ard. Nay, frien.l, 1 promised . ■ >at b- would sae the*. He has Stan thee. . He did not like shy looks; therefore bo I avoided the#, and hsth departed from tho bonae hy snot tor path."