- t I'Al K MAY OCEAN XVAVK. WEDNESDAY. IKTOBEIt ll. 1865.

®bc ©trau Cape Island, Cape May County P If. J.. 8. p. MAGONAGLF-. Wetfiiewrlay. Oct. II. 1MKK

Out lit ml Capr nay fountr. A ■%* ofpbe "Stale requires lbe u>(Ucr«, j io addllioo to their usual duties, to taka a renins of their district* io each alternate j Dfth yesf after the government census.— Ton dale hat been performed, and reported * to the cl*rlu of tbe eoaotier, wbo report to tbe 8*cr*tarj of Stale. Tbe retera for Capo Ma; count; i» aa follows c — Toanibip. " 18G0. 1865. Upper . . 1,552 1,€»3 Ihnnir 1,558 l.«M .Middle . . .2,151 2,0781 Lower ..1.311 '1.335 Cape l.land ;.54 599 TTiao Applicant*' for Prntiont, Tbe number of applications for pension* rasde by widows and nrpbane of deceased soldiers reported npon favorably during tb* month of September is reported by j Copiaueioner Barrett at two tboq-aod and | V forty-one, with the rejection of one bun. red aad eleven applies iuna from.'tfio above , claii. Tbe namber of successful applies. | lions from invalids it retained at thirteen hundred and ninety-three, accom]ianied by the raJacljM .of two houdred and eight. Lett ts and cirealars of inquiry iuto cases to tbe nmonnt of aightaan tboVand four * hundred sod sixty bare also been dispatched . during the above ptriod. Tbe 1'ebsioo Bureau desires that it should be aoderstood among applicants for pension* whose claim* are bated apon loss of limbs that* tbair applications need not • be accompanied by certificate of sach loss, ] aaless especially called for, as tbe bureau learus from tbe records Mf tbe W ar Department such curtailment of limba as exists among men wbo bsve been discharged Irom service. The object of tbie notice is to advise sach applicant* that tbe eipeo** of obtaining certtficatu* of disablement i* noodles* io sahstatiliatfog their Clsims to I government bounty. Mew Jersey Oysters. The quality of New Jersey oysters ha* heen known to her people from time imme. morftl, but tlmir fame is still spreading.. . A Philadelphia [tkprr lie* discovered their • excellence, and disconVra* very eloquently thereon, I> seys Ibal the -#ae*k fl.v«.e»«J . bivelvet are found along the thtfirs of ; , Southern Jersey. The Morris f.'oves are not thb largest but the finest Savored oystore in the market. Morris Cove i* on the Delaware, commencing at Egg llarbor ; Light, nd extending six miles tr East Point Light, which l» at the roouih'of Morri* river. Tbo oysters here are "planted." | Tbe fresbneaa or sallnee* of the oyster de- i pends entirely npon tbe water in which it ia planted. Two objects are ia view in trtnapUnting tbe oyster— to have the tin", fvreot 'transplanting depots convenient to tha local trade, and to improve the oyster. Thoussnd* of bosbels of oysters are anoually brought to the Philadelphia market.; over tbe West Jersey Hail toad 'which is \ tbe only means of conveyance tbe oystermen have while navigation is closed, --pow to Obtain the Bodies of Deceased Soldier*. The following information relative to the procurement of bodies of deceased soldiers buried io government cemeteries, will undoubtedly prove of great benefit to tbe tbonMods bereaved by the war. Any persoo desirous or obtaining the body of a deceased friend or relative, must be prepared to make affidavit before a justice uf tlie peace or notary public to the effect Ibal be is duty authorised to receive said body, and at lbs same lime state the company and regimaat to which be . formerly belonged, j w All qfUOVH' should bunade at tbo of- ! flee of James M. Moore, asslstsni quarter- ; master, where a record is kept of a Urge portion of tbose who have fallen during tbe , vrar, their company, regiment, and rank, together with tbeir conjugal qpr-dit on, resideoce of widow or relatiee. caase of death nod exact locality of their graves. Tbe affidavit most be left at Captain Moore' office, where be will receive no order fur the exhuming • be body. Tha Uovernmaut makes no charge for furnishing all information relatiee to the interment or deceased soldier* , but after it has granted the uoces- : aary permission to exbuma tbeir bod.o , relinquishes all care and sopet vision, sod tbe corpoomust be taken from tbe cemetery by private cou Versace, and prepared for shipment to its destine) ion by tba same ■teens, it is essential that a body bo m prepared as to prevent soy aapieasaut odor, which can he done by' tne*n« ol disinfecting powder, or by sealing it in a toctallic or air-tight de-odoriatag case. — 7 realm Gazette. Rally I Rally ! ! Tha veteran wrtnnleers ou Cape Island and. in ita vicinity, who have been honorably dtechargad the servicu of the Uniteii Slate*, and wbo are interested in favor ol tbe movement now in progress lot the equalization of botroli. s, are requested to attend ibe meeting on tJalnrday evening. Oct. Mtb, at the C'ty Hull, Cape Island, for the pet pose ol ergeoiinig, aud ibue giving their weight an i sappurt inwetda lb* desired object. All Officers and men, without respect to I aaak, are rospectfoffy tnvtied. A foil at- j teodaaoe is required, as the election of j tba rriiuisite officera a ill be held.

— West Jrrsry Presbytery. | Tbe Presbytery of West Jersey met in j the first J'resbytrrian C batch, Bridolen. j ion Monday evening, last week, and was J r|>eBfd with » sermon by tbe Ker. Wm. ; i Brxee. of Haqjmonton, on "the nbBeetion ; i of C"iife*sin#Cbrist before men." Rnm. : j 10:. 10. Tbe Her. Mr. Challis, of I be West j ! Jersey Baptist Association, snd the Rer. | ! Mr. Hirkmsn, of the New Jersey Confer- I I enc*. snd the R#v. Jos. Btratt-n, of the j . I Presbytery or Nstchrc, were introduced to | - : ihf Presbytery, and uere inriird to sit a* i corresponding member*. On Tuesday after- ; Boon reports were heard as to tbe state of | I religion in the Churches. *Wr»e we're of an ; exceedingly encouraging character, show. ■ ing the erection of churches, tbe extinction of debt*, tbe increase of numbers snd ' ' interest in the prayer meetings, the enlarge- 1 1 , tneot of Sabbath .Schools, and tb revival f ! ; of religion in many pf the Churches. On | Tuesday evening an able and interesting : I ; discourse, un tbe history oj missionary effort io New Jersey, was delivered by ibV 1 ' | ltev. A. II. Brown. Oo Wednesday after- ! j noon Presbytery, by invitation of 'lie Prtn- j , j cipal, visited tbe West Jersey Academy, j I ; and spent an hour in singing,; prayer and | ; ...lig out uxheef Ii--W !• 'b» students. At : 4 o'clock a meeting ol the Sabbath Schools j | was held in the Church, wbeu the tcacbrraj I I aud children wero addressed by nnlMm | , of tbe Presbytery, and by the Rev. Daniel Stratloo, a native of this town, and a mem- , | her of the . resbyteriaii Sabbath fcbool. j , I Oo Wednesday evening a sermon was de- i livered by the Rev. Mr, titration, ol Salem. - 1 on good works us tbe duty uf Christians, j aud the necessary fruits of failb. ! A committee aa» appointed to organise i a church at Frsnklinvillu. At bis u«n request. -and with the reluc- . i tent assent of tbe cburcb at Woodbury, tbe . I pastoral relation net ween ibe Rev. Dr. 1 tiaird was dissolved. j The Presbytery paid a tribute of affec- ! ! tiouate respi-cl to the memory of Lbe Itev. j i Dr. Janvier, lately departed. The -Rev. Mr. Cultrell, of tbe PrusbyU- . , | r;uu and .Congregational Convention, of I Wisconsin, presented letters or admission 1 f i to this body, and after lbe customary ex- ; i .miuation was received. In view, of the encouraging indications in ' i tba Presbytery, special seasons wer.- set j apart to impforw :h« outpouring of tbe Holy ' i Spirit. The Presbyteryearo-s'.ly commended tbe : ! elevation aud tratuiog uf the Freednicn to I ! the support and sympathy of the Churches- ; ' i They called attention to lbe fact Ibal there |* an alarming decrease in the ifbm- . o»r of s»s-t<4sta» for tba miuisKy, uil st- ' j Imrinl the members of our Cburcbe* ttram their children to such habits snd ] tfew* witb regard to tbe arlf-drDiaL of the i ! t-'bMstian miniatrv, as shall lead them, in i ' >iew of these, to es'eem lbe reproach ol ' Christ reator riches than the ireasures of ! ! Ksypt. They exhorted lbe Churches to foruish so liberal a support to the ministry, 1 that the want of it shall no longer turn | | away the minds of our yonng men from this ' I service. They called opon all God's pwltplq under | their care, to offer up their aoiled aud for . vent prayer* for lbe uutversal outpouring ; j or God'* Spirit oo aar Cburcbe* and our,; . land, that ibe great baplisijt of blotwLl j Mirough which we bare passed may he loU j 1 lowed by a grealar ba,>li*n of the Holy : | Ubo*t.— IP. J. I'ionrer. — ' Mrriuo Slirrp. ! A leading feature io the -Michigan Slate Fair wn» tbe display of merino sheep. ■ Abonl six hundred of these enimals were ! . 1 exhibited. A correapoodent of the Chic*- , go IHhuM says : The rxbibition of Spanish merinoe* ha* , ; never been excelled. If eqoelcd in the [West; uml it shows a most enmmendable enterprise oo tbw pert of onr Western farniere, to introduce tbe production " of the ; very best wool tbml grows. When we stele that wilbio twelve months, as we are credi* | bly informed, as higb as $7,004 ho* been j paid for a eiugle Spanish wierioo beck, end ; . '{ id several iotat.ee* $3 (KM) 1*85.000. while , , a payment of SI,0*") '• ''ally occurrence. , { the people will readily underetaad lbe deep j iutereet which our leading farmer* lake in . . wool growing. Tbe coming year will da. , v— Ibp new and vast resources in tbi* branch , of domestic economy. — A Toronto pe|>er stale* that Benn-tt G. Bu ley, tbe rebel lake raider, wbo, at ' lbe head of a party of follow-cunspiravors, ' captured oo Lake Erie, la-l fall, tbe steamer 1 Pbilo Parson*, wnb tba deslgo of using ' i ber to effect tbr release of tbe label pris- | ; oner* on Johnson's l»land, end wbo re- ' ' cmlty etcape.l from the jail at Port Clin- j ion, Ohio, is now safely on his way to j Scotland, bi» native country. Barley, it] ' will be remembered, wet surrendered to our j ' government, nudes the Extradition treaty, ; by the Canadian juliiunnss. and, afi«t ' being brought across tbe border, «t< confinru first at "Detroit, and theo at Port ' Clinton. — In regard to freedmeo's affairs, one ! or the assistant commifsinner*, who na* I jaet compleiad a tror tbr> ogfc Wentern . AUbsrra, r- purls thai, the negro#* are in i lue main (nilaatrtou*ly at work, bot that I ilia crops are poor, and it is thought that - they will got he *afficienl to #o*laio tbe , population. The greater part of tbe inba. j bitaota are iedmpvsed to co-operaU with liw Freed met.'* Bureau officers, end refosw i : to caa*id«r tb# result of the war as decil ] »ive. It u declared that there it but lltlle i ' h-yaltv among tbw majority of tb* white*. > end thai they regard lb* oath of allegiance -!'*»• mjsthrry. to be broken whenever cou- ; p ; vei>i^nt, though returned' rebel soldiers are , gfantioiurd as axevptiuna in these reports.

Thing* in York. 1 j Nxw Yoxn, Oct. fob. 'S3. Das* Wat*. — The weather here for th* : •' ' i present is delightful, end tbe summer sp- h : pear* to have returned again in all it* ! " ' j brightness! t* If it were loth to leave o* »o u i *oon ; but how long it may r-tnain at this u ' i late period of the seas n is rather dubions. ' 1 For tbe pa*i week things brgsn to look as , " il an early winter bad set in— people were a ' ' *een wrapped op io their warm clolbiog, < ' { and tbose wbo were not provided for tbe cool *eatber, were busily making up bill* t'f j and hurry n g up their tailor* end milliner*. In fact, fall wealber announced lis appeari anew in *ob«r earnest, aud wav receive d h i New Yorkers to I'urs, mufflers, autumn bow, ti " | heavy overcoats, light uvrrtua!*, and no \ overcoat* at all. The unlucky class of in- . " i ilividwal* who sported these la-l, were hot ' very happy to uleel Old North Wind, aud ' ! hinted thai he waa a "bloler. " Aud they J1 ! j worn ab-nt right. Asa s|i«cimen of fall ^ ^ aeatbvr, Thursday will do very well io- j ; deeo. llow w»> it with you away d«*n . | tUer# iu Cape May ? Bui 1 suppose you " ' i have now, id hoiumou wilb us, this very* j ; welcome and uelighliul spell of pleasant 1 j J »eat ber. and theralora lorget all about the I j The principal new* items which for the " {'nonce encag the attentiolf uf the inliabi I j'tants uf 'Gotham,' may be aummed up in 1 i_ three distinct cla-ses — political, criminal. 1 I audtknauu-a!. In regar.l to tbe first, you - . j caniafflC# in thein to jour heart's c<>utv">. „ 1 auttAiM must be bard to please. if he can't I get sui'e-l. Con .'entioos were held daring c i tbe week at tbe Democrutic assembly rooms ' e ; at Mozart Hall, Sinclair House, and Tarn- | manj llall, for the purpo-e^l iJvti mg de- 0 _ | folates and candidate* for county offices. ' „ Not 'being one who lakr* any int-n-st tu ' lbe political affair, of thmopposiog factions " just now, forth* sate of ihoie who do. I 1 am sorry 1 can't inform them bow the elec- ' ; lion io this city or Stale shall turn out; ' ! but e».you liaqe enough of that kind of bu-i- e [ nets on hand jourv.vc, I silpjio-e it doe* 1 ,f • uot materially affect yon bow politics pro- 1 , | grass elsewhere, oral least fct:l tbe time | of electiou* is at band. i j There has been craat.nl here no little ex- i B j citement over tbe anticipate I developmenl s t t I inltbe celebrated Harris divorce case, wbicb v j. commenced on tbe 3rd inst., at New Lop. > | don. Conn. It is a double case — both hus- ' .• band mid wife suiug for divorce. As the > j newspapers iu getforal slate, tbe evidence c | taken allows the public "to take glimpses t t j into. Fashionable Life iu tbe "Nutmeg^ i . | .Stale.' " It is bard to judge barsblv of a . > nimian, hut from 4 be fact* wUieb h.vewl- j y „ ready been made known by the evidences I i i ; given by three of tb» principal wetnesses, • * (be most anprajudic. d will confess that the i b j conduct of Mrs. Harris has been most im- -,'t l j pro ept" to say the least of it. j , f | To rellkre m some dvgree lbe monotony ; i 9 °f bearing or seeing nothing else bot poll- a ,*j ties, trials, theatricals,* and so forth, we i have had the pleasure of n visit from an ( , ! embassy of rKslingai-hed Orientals, who j have landed in.our city. They come from r the distant country called Tunis, situate in . Northern Africa ; but they Uo uot present j i tne appearance of Africans in the general j r.; »«n-e of lbe term. Having extended this I .goiter already beyond it* intended limits, J ( sl.ell merely *Ule that lbe object of their i mi*.ion I* to pay their devoirs to I'tealffvat i j ! Johnson, aud tender the couuratulat ous uf t . their country on the sficcessful tcrmiualiou ■ of the laie rebellion. r , Tbe Fetiiaus are still bard at Work, bat ; j frout what 1 can learn, the exciting arid i momentous events transpiring in Ireland! i have thrown a considerable dampening on , , ■ the efforis ot souie of the circle* io this | * i city. The Grand Central Council held a r ^ i meeting last week el the Aslor House, and . | It ia understood they inteud railing e »pe- . " j ciai congress of -he enure order, in tbi* " j country, to couveu* et Pfoladrlpbin, on | ] .Monday, the lGth or Oolober. " j Having nlbd* my dibul, I hope the read- ; I i ef» of the ilvSijjjjII ovrrlo-.k any lav k ol ( interuM m the mutc, a* Hkeiy iii>y , ■*; may again beer foom *W *>g*. ' 1 fifth Avenue. ' ri There ere forty-uve block* oo Fifth Ave- 1 - nue, aid three hundred and 'forty residen' 1 II ces ; iwitb tba irXCvpliuo ol some cheep end ] old-msbluoed sbabtle* far up toward tbe ' ' panfl. there is ool a house on the entire are- I 1 nue'lbat coil Irs* than ffll'.'.tHKl. Tbe aver- ' age cost ol these bouses is 838,005, Oltvl lbe 1 ' average rents ol th*m, when there are any 1 to rent' is 83,004. Tbe averaged cost of a : * i foroisbed boueu on lbe avenue is $400 a 1 mouth, by wbicb yon can see that a ludg. ] I * ; iug alone in ibis infaut quarter of Uaubat- ; 1 * 1 tan, i* not Ira from 85,000 a sear. To keep [ j hoese in lbe averaged way, on tbe avenue, 1 ] will cost 813.000. and Ibis is th* interest of r | upward uf 8200,000 at 6 per cent., bnt at ; ' I the ordinary Americau interest is wen as ! i *" "mficb" 4t 8135,00 0. The hou*e of A. T. i Stowart. jun going up, will cost when com- , plated, $800,000. It is boilt of tbe purest native marble, and be* a frost uf niaety , * leet, a depth of two hundred feel, and its , 1 architecture ia of the purest classical , n "American." Tbe present residence ol , " Mr. Et'-wart, immediately opposite, is forty , 1 by ooe hundred feel, and wHl rent 'for $3, ' 500. ' A lew doors from Stewart's new ( * estsblisbmenl and on the same side of lbs.1 k ay, lies the reaidens* of .William B. 1 b Asior, of spacious and subsUnstal brick, 1 * trunuird with brown stone. Thif boose ' j cost $60,000, afld looks Aator like, plain ' * '.and eminently respectable. Mr. Astor is 1 ! tb* r*«t **Utw *iog ol New York, as Mr. * : Stewart M tbe mercantile dictator. , 1 1 ■ j — Tbe Republicans at Newark have i i. nominated Mr. Thos. B. 1'edtLe for Mayor. < ,

PERSONAL. — General Woods, commanding in Alaunder orders from Ueoera' Thome', sihpended Bishop AV'ilmer, sod closed i 'all the Episcopal churches in that Stale ' until they "shall give evidence uf a loyal • and pstriotic spirit." * — Tbo Ciocionati Commercial denies ; . that the railroad' disaster in Indiana last week was an attempt tu kill Uooerai Grant. An exadithati. n proved ibat the lock w»s ' out of the. switch, and lb* pin thrown (lbe ; conductor on Geo. Grant's speci-l train, ■ say*) ten leet front tbe switch target. j — Rohert E. Lee bus quietly taken op , quarters ia Lexington, Vs., the ecene ol his lutere labors a* President elect of j : Wavhingtun t'ollvge. i — Among' the prominent men now confined at Furl Pulaski are Governor .Magratb.of Souib Can.lioa j O. A. Traubolm, ; ; iaie Secretary of the Treasury ol tbe de- 1 lunct Confederacy ; Secretary Seddun. ! Judge Cuuipbrll, General lletCer, aud — General Frank Blair ha« heen assigned j ■ to the cuinuuiiid uf ,4 he cavalry iu the De- . pertmeJl of Missouri, lie temporarily com- ^ «h- ' tejieriment during .he u...*nv of General Pupa in lb« .-or ih west. — Tne Free Ma*on»of South Carolina ] : bating appi'intrd H»nry Buitt, of Ncwlwrry, »» State delegate to the N" tonal j mLmjii be would eddeavor Io <iu nil he | . could to aid in the re.-lonttiun of fraternal : levin. g belwcvii the Nottli and Soytli. j j — G»n Sherman left St. Uui* lately oo j j division, and with a view to ratting down ; thu force* and mustering out a* many men a« the exigqpcieS of the Indian service permil. It is generally behaved in miiiuiy circles-thai but a small force will be trace*, sury to' protect our Xorthv»" rn, frontier, Ceiitrated llieru will be spevdilj^Pb'peuMXl S with. : — Robert K. Lee, cx-General-in Cbief of i the rebel armies, was installed as President ! giola, on Inst Monday. The ceremonfo* j ol a very uoo*tentationa characters in . ! coiup,:kace with General U'. retfiiest, : ! uected with and taking an interest iu tbe college, wbo desired to havu the install-- j attended witb constdurablu pomp and : j display. — Tbu Boston Traveler of tbo ."»tb saytj ; : j The Hon. A. H. Sraphttmrr* Ttttw ticcupy- f f tog tbu room at Fort Warren known us "the headquarters," and appear* to be en- ' joying better health than heretofore. Ha j <take* hi* avcu-tomed afternoon walk, and i J to enjoy it. There are oo in lima- , j lions frout Washington that be is - tu be 1 speedily released. I — Genera) Grant's longest «p»ech was : delivered on bts recent visit to Halavia, ! ! Ubto (bis birthplace). It warms follow*:— j hullo and (lentlrmen of llrou u County:— \ ' You art. all aware Ibal 'l am uot in tbu . iJiabit of making speeches. I am glad that ; nejer learned to make speeches when 1 , ; was young, and now 1 am old I have no desire ! i b- gin* 1 bad tathcr slatl out in any. j thing than V 0'»king n speech. And now. i ! ladies and g 'tilleitran, 1 can only say to you j j Ibat it affords me very much plen.ure to 1 get back to Brush couuty, where uiy boy- i , hood was spent. Eqttnlizntioii of noimtir*. Soldier*' Cuuveotioil, similar to the I i uiq» held iu this city sqtlie day* ago. »a* i j held" rt DoyleStoaQ, Bucks Co., Pa., on j •••'idler* prevent. Among the rrsulutitinr'j i adopted were the lolluwiug: Retuh-eii. That as late soldiers of the r.-- j j public, we here renew and derlare our at- ^ j tacbmeiit in oqr common country ; tlmt we j rlrad our blood and gave our services "to j :_d*f*iid *ud maintain tbe supteamry of the i I Constiiutiuu aod to preserve tbe Unt»n i ■that the araa-d in-urgejits having laid down | ■ tbeir arm*, aud the rebellion been entirelv ! : overthrown, we de-ire to see the Union j >j restored at the eurlie t possible day. ] Ktudctd, That we believe the soldier* i witu enlisted :n 18CI and 1862, when the j j government appeared to be on the uvo u: j ! dissolotion. and wbo entered lbe s*rvire from a feeling of devotion to tbe country. : are .airly entitled to sohb additional bounty j , as will mak"-tbe amount tbey receive equal . • Ibat paid tbo*# who entered at a later ! period ; and >~.ui Senator* and Reprnu-nta-i lives iu Cougrest ure requested Ifi advocate i 1 th* passage of a law that will equalize lbe ; bounties accordingly. . ] A resiilntton was also adopted recom- . ' ntvndiog that the movrntvnl Ihi made gene- i t u I tbroegboat the rftate, as folio wet J j Itenilrtil, 'lliat the returned soldier* in ' i every rounty in lb* Slate are hereby re- ( ! quested to bold conventions tc take action apon the cqualizition of tbe bounties of lb* ! enlisted man of 1861 ami -'£2. aod we urge ; ' tb* propiiely of holding^ State Conten- 1 j lion to give additional strength to the j movement.— TraXon American. j' — yiteWirx trial boa now been going] on since the 26tb of August. One bqndred j Vaud twenty-five Witnesses were examined ' \ for tb* prosecution, tbeir examination* oc- : j copying twonty-three days, and lb* record 1 of tbeir testimony filling nearly three thou- ! rand foolscap pages. Tbe com for the d.eleuca was opened on tbe 26th oil., and tbus far seventeen witnesses, uut of woe hundred and six subpccaied, hare been examined, and filty -five altogether have reported Ibem- ; selves.

STATE. ITEMS.' — Tbe Demncrati^pf Gloucester county j ' bsvo nominated Thorns* Reeve* for Sber.ff, - L and Mitkle C. Paul for Assembiy in tb* j P . 1st dutrici. i ll ; — The. Dsmoeretlc <7ity Convention of j New ark, bare nominated Eiiphalet C. Smith I • • 1 as their candidate for Mayor in the routing ' I : charter election- '' ; — Tae Rev. Thomas Roberts, it highly ! | uttermed clurgymaO of R»d Bank, died j h j at his reaidehtw at thaLfi)aca on lbe 23J ! o I ult., at the rip) age of eighty-two year*. h I — The corn crop tbi* year is the heaviest ; ever raised in New Jersey; Tbi* .is th- o case generally, so that lbe corn crop uf the ti country will mure than supply any supposed' a i deficiency in lh« wb-al crop. j> i — A day or two since we noticed two " j barrels oTwplemhd sweet potatoes, oh their way from this couuty tu \Vt»con»ifl. Tfiey i this place. These marahiulh potatoes were ' * raised by l*aac VV. l'edrtck. who cannot be I. i excelled lit lat»tog sweet potatoes.— llVif r I j Jersey J'lontcr. ' - ' U ■ At the Burlington cunnty Court, wbicb ' " Ifoaa just closed, tbe Grand Jury found 52 jAlUa.' 01 tbu number 43 were disposed ut I . 1 to U,e Slate I'nxHi. 'l>« c were fur ! * . j manslaughter, on. for fo.gery, two for eon- ■ H I j cealtbg and one- lor attempt tu . a - '• commit a rape. c ' — A Reverend in Uott.A county, recently « > I united a happy young couple in the bund. . « I of. wedluckT aud alter the ceremony aud j ' ccOgratqlallup* were over be wa* bunded a ! v t final lltlle sealed cli*» lope bbicll he slipped I , i tut'., hi. vest pocket.* Tb next day. happen- * , ] ,„g to feel il still litem, he look It out and > . ! o, ened it. wl.en to his surprise a thousand « ■ ] dollar greenback was revealed. ' : — The Republican county convention of ' Cumberland county, was h Id in tbe Town ' Hell io Mtllville. ou Wednesday 1th inst. ] ' The following Humiliations were made;— j 1 Senate. — 1'iovtdmee Lqdlara. Assembly. l*t District— Robert Moore. ; ! f 2d dwt.ici— Jsbrat 11. Nixon. ' Sheriff.— Cfenrles S. Wutson. -. Th« cnnventlun was atidrossed l»y Hon. | • ! John T. Nixon and Col. liar ken. „f East jj » ; Tenr.i'S'oe. • : -A letter from Licet. Col. Moore. »f ] ' I .be 34th N. J.. Acting I'rufosl Marshaf ; ® General »l Montgomery, Ala., says that j " tbu idea that the regiment will return buttle i ' soon, as ban been published, is fallirtous, | i ll ha* been distributed ovor eleven different ] : I counties, and buVxpressus the' belief ibat • i+Jh"?"fegImehIA'lTl'1l(it R-vurB B8BW l»»rti " next" Spring. This will bu desponding I • news for those families who have been unx- • j iously expecting thu early return ot the I regiment. • | -Tbw Board of Trustee, of I'Huerlun j i in view uf the resignation uf I'rofreerr j ■ ' George M. tiiger, tendeiing him the thanks ' ' . of the board for hi* longi fail hfol and valu- | i - ! able services to.tbe college ; also request- j • - I ing him to continue hi* connection witb the i t « j college under the title of Emrttos I'rofe*. I I ! sor of the Latin L'.ngoage and lateral ore. ! < I J .nd to retain tit oversight of the triennial I » | Catalogue and supet intend its publication, t i | — One of the fine*t piece* of mechanism jj . i that attracted the attention of kba pcopUfj • ultha Fair on Thursday last was a balteaux. j ; clinker built, leu feel long, two atid a half j | bfty pdund*. It wa» elegantly Oiusbod, j ' brans screwed, splendidly inlaid with vari- i 1 on* kind* or wood and, very finely polished • ' f-fcoG varnished. . Tbw builder was Mr. Mich- | I uel Meyer*, and deserves great crmlit for ''( the product inn or *uch a 6ne|y wrought | | an tele, in which h« ba«. shown sucb great j - art and skill.— Dridytlon Chronicle. -j ' --The f..|h.w.ng ticket was oonirutefl by ' j the Detfidcroitc conWntion at May's Land- I " | It .Sea F. Mudd.-n, oM'aotenon for Sen--*! II Charles Herman, of Egg Harbor City.: I for member of the Assembly. II \Villiam Lttk'er of Egg Harbor township. | j for t.'ounty Clerk. • J nines L. sell. Ryan Adams and Robert ej Walker for Coronets. On motion it was e ' Rout red, That Timothy Henderson, the '• present iucjinbunt of tbu office of Sheriff, )' be continued. '' | —Tbo largest attendance thai ever took r j place at one of our annual Fairs, or upon j any other occasion in Mount Holly, wqg on Tuesday itud Wednesday last 3d and 4tb 0 j inst. The tickets sold amounted to nearly ! 85,110 It, Irotn which it may be iufered that '* i at least 25,000 persons were present. The <• I Stuck, Agricultural and Horticultural pro4jl»Gi»«JIS. „»W(L. gapu'u^lurad arfjcle*, 4^»n ! gather with lbe ladies, mad* a tnosl cieuit- '. able display. Long trams of cars front n Fea.herlun, Yincetoan aud Barltngioti a arrived and departed hourly and trail. hout- .. j ly during tbe two days crowded witb pasi- | seogera. — JfstMl Hotly Herald. | j 1 — Admiral Bell, commandant of tbe ] ] Brooklyn Navy Yard, bus .issued au order B j giving notice that lie will n.K tolerate tb* j custom wbicb ha* heretofore prevailed of j levying taxes on ibejaoxAnten of the yVrd i for political purpose*, and all such moneys ,1 i already obtained frc^n employes anjl iu lbe j. i hand* of maslcr workmen mnil be returned < to tba persons from whom il was procured. „ i Hereof er auy on* conneotwd with tha e»,j tabiishment who participates in this offence ^ ! will render blm*elf liable- to discharge, and party cotnmillaemau will not bealloacd to ; visit the yard to make collections.

GENERAL NEWS. | —Tbo s\»um frigate Nesbaqfiny, tbe largsst retail ever launched in Philadelphia, was launched Thursday altVruouD, uth inst. — Five thousand eight hundred boles tif •ottuu were destroyed by fire in Mobile, on' Thursday night aud Friday uiurutug. »Tba is over a ui.llruu dollar*. — Balltmure has expended 89.400,000 on Druid Hill Park. Property in th* vtel-' n.ty <>f lbe park has increased to value oua par cent' iu utneyaart. * — Every county in Gouueclicot except gave a majority ugsiu.I tb* cuustitutu- ' at ih# election uu Mun.lay'.' Tba total ma. .jority agaiust tt tu the iyute is over *ix . thausaliJ. J — During the li>cal .year enJiti. Juue 34, 1865, the uuuiirar of uead letter' returned tu the Dead Letter Office in Washington wu» a little under 4,4IHI,(i00. Tlraae con- ' cles uf value. Ooe million tbrau hundred of these letters were returned tu — The North Carolina Reconstruction - fo eu in sesslwt. four* days, and has yet done tetday principally engaged tu a ilracpasiou a* ly t, nether tin y suould declare tbe sirce.riou ut'tlnatira noil nod void or formally repeal it ; but uo Volu on the que*. — Au eclipse ..f the sun will take place on Thursday. October I'd, aud will be visi- ^ t.le in several ol the Lulled Stairs. At "tbe lime ol lira ubcuiuiluu the sun will bu near lbe earth, while the moon will bu • at it* greatest dt.tunre, and hence tbe upparent diameter of tb* union will be much less t Iran that ut lbe sun, and the uuddia of the frog Oil usually, great. — Iu the Convention of the Episcopal Church in.. Philadelphia la*t week, ^ele- : »,alc» from 'North Carolina, tbu second ■>uutlteiu Stale to bu represented, made | tbeir appearance, a delegation from 'Texas Iravtug be. n iidantted on (be previous day. Propositions to reference to diocesan ^cnanges and resolutions of respect tor tbo ! memory of lira deceased members of tbo church of dlstiction were presented ; but uo . business of iutporlauco was transacted. . — An ektotprising individual in O^io , tecentiy .proposed to photograph tbe interior of lira Mammoth cave io Kentucky ; by the aid uf powerful chemical lights ; but ! a greater tb.ro he is already at work un a ' ! mure d.fitewlv Itr-k— tramrrij ,'pbtitograpbttI|f 1 the chtltnbera uf the Great Jf-yVamid iu Egypt. "The first . jl those1 pictures, taken with w taagneviBD )igln, by Professor E. I'lOZZI bu.Jtll, bae.t baeu exhibited in Eng. ] land, u wakening utoch curiosity aud won- ! dor. — Governor Pi.rpnf, of Yi'rginia, in a letter which Ira bus written relative to tbo ; ineligibility of candidates for Congress in ] ti.al Statu wbu, in coU'equrnco of tbeir ciiniirctu.n.with the rebvlltuti, cannot coo- ' scrantiousiy lake tbu oath prescribed for : .-very member before being admitted to tbo (four of (giber house, sava:— "HA ir not ' the appearance of persistent and continued rebellion f»r o.ea to run for Congress who by tbe law' uf Cultures* cuuuot take tbeir SPECIAL NOTICES. . JOHN II. IIITTJIAL Altoruty-al-Eaw, Jk«t»l» r, i .\au.i..cr, a.-.d Solicitor In t liant-t-rj . f.VI'K MAT COURT UOCSS. KKW JKIlSbV. ( ITIZLNS OE ( APE MA* ! t RI:AOI II i:\tr • AND REPLKCTIt! lirii'rrloii' Seprr"^l#rl,ill*,.*isB!i.— \v .11 .-.raie iiuas roe U>)--We i"*<b suit up the Sew «li'r to Derate t's IVilnl and Tsakfiua VV.' lis VI' » splrudld ...urtra. ut n( Storklax Yam, I *11 Sire* end eoinr* ; \ cry benvy SaUnelts: heaey 'j -I. uoiU TwilW Cb.lb.wltl orak* good bucking ' Costs. Over Cost-, kr ; Tip Top CIsnuA lor Shirts, rust will krep qui North C**r siorati. TVs ran re. cutnaM ug then- l«».d. a* l- lns mul* tnlhr old t«h- , , ,n. ,UT) ie-jusl tu please our old Cape May trtend. VV i* wi|| rxchsnsf all these cooda for Wool, ut *! Caii. Tlriilg|.es*M'ik;m.raT»HI»-l«iaT3r Wont, la cash, by our Agents. Wm, Rosa. .Court Hnu«r. or Joseph Crr.se, Cold spring kM>. r a j. uu nuis. WllttKERS! WHISKER*! Do you want VVhtskA* er Mualaebaat Our Cro- ! Hon Cauipound will turre rhem to grow on (be smoothest lac# or chin, or batr oabaU heads In six ' weeks. Prtre.4100. Sen! I'J mall any wbeie, closely ai sled, on receipt ot price. ldS3"JT Address. Warner A Co., Brooklyn, New York. DEAFNESS, BLINDNESS AND CATARItll, 'pr j , ISAAC.*, ucultst snd Aurlsl. (formerly of Ley dew ; Holland?} So. it* PINE street. Philadelphia. Teslp ! u.onlals ft.ia the most tollable sourer* In the Clljr snd Count!) can be arm at his Office. Tne medicsl ' f.eulty are tnvltel Io actomimny their palleuls. as 1 tie has no terrors to hU practice. ARTIFICIAL • LYE* inserted without pain. No chsTga made for ^ exsinlnallnn. "TI piivp,- J wit.IIAMli.-M Cm# Island. vptaabaT «s«. ■ .laute, wtfrsd^thaa. Williams, aged eighlaao pop ROAK— Al Green Creek, «ep«ember kind, James 1 S,, ttifanl ran of Lewis snd Sophia Ross, aged slx- , teen niuntbs. They igrre lovely la life, snd In death were not NEW advertisements , "a TW LEASE, Y^OR s term iM years, a Lot ot laud slfoste at the ' 1' corner of tmiifo* langrcss ms., near Tltxs*' ' mSSSf.A^ JEXXX M. Mil TIL ' UXOR ICRBW RTXS, I » T reduredgul.ea, to ' Nails': "iMssi mid 'trim* Hooks. Knobs, fct , Sls|des , and «sy Nails lor hesr-y lookias flstsss. For bu | U> TRCHAN4XHAW, ILKBPY IIUH, ' 1 bed, can nod -Night Bolts walrlsad to meet thai want , U TRUMAN h SHAWfo J