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supply, the real demand, and the compar
ative prices of other- articles of necessity,
in making the adjustment. We hjMieve
tiiat, tested by ibese staudards, the prices
.fixed are fair and just. * '
The Goverrvment does, not seiz» or im
press produce offered for sale at the prices
thus assessed. It is only that offered for
sale j»t higher prices that is seised, and’
this brings the policy of the, Government
in direct conflict with the selfish interests
of speculators and'extortionists. We be
lieve that all the practical evils of the sys
tem &re due to. their factious.opposition to
it for selfish and unworthy purposes.
The articles of which most -complaint is
made in this connection are bacon and
i,wheat or flour. Are not the prices at which
these articles.are assessed sufficiently re
munerative ? Bear, it in mind that no man.
is compdhd'to sell at these prices.; hels'on
Wells In the Deserts. -
The French are acquiring great influ
ence among the desert tribes of Algeria,' by
the useful European-arts, especially that
of boring for water. -Beneath certain sec
tions of the Great Desert there is eitlier.a
subterranean lake or river ; and this-has
been long known to the native Arabs,
among whom there are professiqnal well-
sinkers, who form a. numerous body en-
joying much Consideration; their work
being of a very dangeraui character.
They excavate in the ground, and when
t hey reach a certain depth they know by
the cob r of the soil if water is below. A
thin crust covers the' subterranean sureum,
and when it is brokeu the water in it rush
es up with the velocity of pretoleuin
in American *oiI wells. In the—south of
Algeria, the well sinkers, endeavor to find
a subterranean stream, which is sometimes
tapped at the depth, of about 550 # feet.
Colonel Dumas, of tho French army, thus
describes the modo o: excavating them :
“ The section is in a square form. One
workman alone works at it; add as he
advances, ho supports the 8ides with four
plamks of paimtree. By certain infallible
signs—for instance, when tho soil becomes
black and moist—he knows that he it?near
the spring. He then fills bis ears and
nostrils with wax, that he may not be suf
focated by the uprising deluge ot vjater,
and fastens a rope under his arms, hiving
previously arranged to be drawn up on a
given signal At the last stroke of the
pick, the water often rises so rapidly that
tho unhappy well-sinker is drawn up in
sensible. These inexhaustible springs are
the common property of the village’ which
has discovered them, and are conveyed to
the gardens in conduits of hollowed palm-
tree trunks. It is these springs which are
the foundation of the greater number of
oases of Sahara.” Iu 1858, when French,
conquests had extended to the .vast and
mysterious sblitudo called the Great
Desert, well-boring and einking appara
tus were introduced, and astonished the
Arabs by tJjeir.simpUcityand effective ness.
In five j-ears ending 1859—’60, fifty wells
have been opened ; o0,000 palms and 1,000
fru jt trees have been planted; many jaser
have Revived from the ruia caused by a
failure of springs,; and two villages have
been created in. the Desert; the total* ex
pense. not having been much, more than
£20,000 sterling, which has boom repaid by
taxes and voluntary contributions from.tho
Arabs. Col. Dumas observe^: “Such works
give us ten limes more influence than our
military victories. The. waters bubbling
up from theso borings aro generally charg
ed with sulphate of soda, magnesia, and
lime, either as a chloride or a sulphate,
which makes -them bitter and salt ; but the
A rabs are only too glad to have any kind
of water, and the palms and other vegeta
ble products of the Doaert thrive on’it.”
The borings of SidlSinmn andK'Sour pre
sent the curious phenomenon of live fish.
A parallel to this Case was reported by
. 1C
-ATHENS,
I
.. . _ . . «« ... t ,
\ }y forbidden to JelL&i higher rates.: Tf a
jjrodttcer has a'surgtas of diacpn .(*nd*Wl waB jbeinVpn^tt- ijif a' Syrian^ engfneor’
will nnt. RAlI if he nan.nfttA ia riof. -75 e«ntj»- n..ul : _u._ j»i. 7 -L' . «
will not sell if he has not,) is hot 75 cents:
per lb. just compensation for it?'. Was the
corn of whiciv he ,fattened his pork six;
scarce or valuable as to justify him. in de
manding more ?..- lleformerly sold bacon
at J 0’ t©!2 | cents per lb., when corn brought
75 cts. pr SI per bushel; .but now, when,
corn is not selling at more than three times
its usual cost before the war', he wants ten
or twenty times the old price for his bacon.
So with , wheat-: -it cannot bo pretended
that the.cqst of production has been so
much increased as to justify mOre than
three .or, four ti mes the old prices.
It is, true that the producer of wheat or
bacon has to pay increased prices foh what
he may have to buy- Bat the policy 6f
the Government is aimed ht the restriction
of the prices., ofthose articles off commerce,
feet of a foe who will spurn your sul
and despise your cowardice, -i
(Official) W. J. HARDEE,
Lieutenant-General.
P. B. Roy, A. A. General.
flreek Flw^!.v: - ( "ipiv - is -
In recent Northern accounts of the siege
of Charleston, we find frequent mention
.-caade of throwing shells into the city Charg
ed with the destructive and- abominable
compound called Greek lire.” Jtis doubt
less an imitation of this famous cbmpfl^i-
tion, the receipt for which has Mien lost "to'
mankind for hundreds of yoars. Scientific
-men of modern limes are by po means
agreed as to the ingredients used in -thv
.his It
manufacture of this wild fire, and while ,
some announce one thing and some anoth
er, as forming a constituent part, all are
at a loss to form tho grand aggregate, au<f
aroJeftAq TOnjectiire. , , im, i.nimMin
Wddjire,- or Greek fire as it i^ called, enemy, and .to abandojaed his works with-
'V- ^ An Anecdote of Gen. Ewell, ......
In the cotirso of the address by&Overnor
Smith on Saturday night last, he told the
foftowing aiiecqote of Gen. Ewell..
-^vDuring tbjfe' hero Jackson’s lifetime, Gen.
Ewell was wont to remark that Jackson
ycquldpfaying-rund be o»ould do'tho
swearing, alia that-the two *
whip the dovifi Aflei; Genen
a %, the light-of tiie gospel shed its be-
' njgn influerii^pver lust spirit, and he be-
chrit^ian. Under the influence of
thid hew feeqng, he found Gi^epemy heavi- *
ly ontrenclied- at Winchester:. He Enid
that be felt averse to eixposing his poor
boys” to the deadly slaughter certain to
result from an attack on the works 1 . He
retired to hi.* tent, an<)C there spent a time
1“ 'pTOyer, bir tho thorn?'.of Gra^. U
seemed then ( said "he tifW wards--Ao Gen.
Smith, as if a sudden fear got hold of' the
unam tr n •> rl k a - A L?_ » ' T»
Printin'
a large -
cessfuj iny<
in cheiai'
such a manner that, when
pressed upon the
un ;
the most, sub-;
, has suebevded
ulp during the
iug paper, in
S im-
types, the
u ^ i. - , a fight. hand of God was visible
named Callancius, who first applied.it m fo this.
the sea fight, under Gonsiantino,' against
tho Sai*acens, in the Hellespont^ and with
such effect that he burnt the "whole fleet in
which'were thirty thousand men. It is a
kind qf artificial or fictitious hro, whicih
burnaunder water, and that, it is said; With
greater violenco than out of it. Its com
position fs supposed to be of 8uljphur, nap-
-tba, pitch; gum and. bitumeh, and is- only
oxtinguishable by vinegar, mftced with
sand and.urino, or by covering it with
rawhides. Its motion or tendency is said
'Ho, bu contrary to that of natural tire, al
ways following,the direction in whjiib itl
is* thrown, whether downwards, mdcwisb
or otherwise. For the annoyance of ,tlin.
euemy the Greeks employed it with equal
L - soa and land, in batteries or "in
as well his own, and if he.wants to.get. the | sieges. It was^either pouted. frOm the
just relative price.for his own produce, his ramparts in large boifors, or launched in
true and most? patriotic ebursd.is to stand re d h0..b«ils-of iron, or darted in arrows
it ip. bringing . nr javelin’s twistfirl rrtnnd with fliiv' arvrf
by the Government and aid it in, bringing
down the price-of what he has -jto buy.
The policy of the governmeht cannot be
made to operate sQ.as.tb reduce tbe price of
what each man has ti> fitly, .and allow
him to get whatever* he may .ciioose to'
demand for what he. has to sell. Tbe
schedule, we repeat,- has -been adjusted
with a view to fair relative values as well
as cost of.production, and its efficiency and
the equity of its operation. depends upon
the co-operation of all its classes in carry
ing ft out. As fongas it is authorized by
law, such opposition as ts now rife m the
country is factious and mischievous.—Col.
Enq. ■_
lleut. Sen. Hardee.
The Mobile Register says': We are safe
the country will share with ue the satisfac
tion caused by the perusal of the following
official anouncement of Gen. Hardee. It
lifts a weight of anxiety from the public
mind, and removes the chief obstacle in tbe
way pf a reconstruction of the brave ar
mies that fought at Vicksburg and Port
Hudson. - ,
We trustc that the. effect of this very
earnest and eloquent addres will be, upon
the. soldiers of those ai'mies, all" that the
magic, of its spirit and its subject demands:
Never has the caus? stood so much in need
of-men in tbe field,-and at no; former pe
riod in. the war have opr soldiers had the
twsurance that their blows could be deliv
ered witk.Buch feeling effect lipon the ene
my, and With such hopeful results of .
peace. If our men will it,-the enemy can
bo thoroughly beaten in the opening cam-
or javelins, twisted round with flax and
tow-which bad deeply imbibed the influm '
mable oil; sometimes it was; deposited wi
fire ships and was most eommd/ilj' bfown
through long tubes of copper, which were
placed on the prow of a galley,juid’funci-
fiilly shaped into the mouthAoi -«ava§e hmT
bideous monsters that seemed to Vomit
ing army- jneieat now win- give jutncom
all he can dolto maintafn his power* and.
his bend at'Vioine. There is everything to
call our bfovdboys “ once more to breach.”
W o hay e not a doubt or misgiving that one
more brave and consentaaeous-puU, a pull
with a. will, and altogether, i will ond the
war And give hs liberty and independence:
. V ENTFBPjtisu, Miss., Aug.- 28y 1862.-
B*ji(tho direction’of the President of the.
Confederate States, I assume command of
the - purOled prisoners of'Mississippi, Ar
kansas? Missouri, Texas and Louisiana,
recently fojrniiiig A part of Lhe garrison of
Vicksburg and Port Hudson. . ^- >'
I nouid desire no treater honor than the
px-opose to extend these wells into the De
sert, so s**to unite the rich oases of-Tmat
—on the route to Timbuctoo—with Alge
ria, and thus direct the stream of overland
commerce into its ancient channel by Al
geria. '**•:' v *7-f’ v - i - : ’•
- M |, ^ “ ' .
The Impressment and Prices.
The argument .is made through they ress
that it is the policy of iheGdyernme»; r i’.x
assessing the prices ot-country product . ^ ,...
and iinpressingthem for public use if i hpy-| there rttw*. '.To- ihotje-preseiit at-
arsoffered at higher priot^Vtiiat .tunkes- 'tko roilnails no wprd is needed. Their'
tiod even oMheirOnemies
' The place of rendezvous;for all paroled
prisOners frora the above named States is
changed from Demopolis, Ala., to Enter
prise, Miss.
Iu anticipation of an early. exchange,
the work.bf reorganization will, proceed
with energy. The.trobps must he organ
ized and. prepax;ed td take tlie field, when
the .excha'hge is effected: All officers add
men must beC. at their posts:
streams of liquid and consuming fit-e. . Su b
sequently to the year 660, about which
time it Was first used, it was ph ,divers oc-
casionstipplied with signal advantage^ and
what is remarkable is, that tbe Greeks
were so happy as to keep the secret ofthe*
composition to themselves, though their
gallieB and artillery wore sometimes foaii*
ed to the Romans. Up to ttie year 960*
no other nation knew the secret. Even
at the end of the 11th century, tbe Pisans;
to whom every scienc£«nd every art were
familiar, suffered the effects without un
derstanding the secret of the Grqek fire. .
It was at length either discovered or
stolen by the Mahometans, and in the pariy;
wars of .Syria and Egypt, they.rctdrted an
' invention contrived against the.msoiy^j. on
the-heads of the Christians. In the'siege
of Damietta, under St. Louis, the fire was
thrown out of a kind of mortfiir, and some
times shot with an odd'kind of cross how.
In his “ Historie de St. Louis,” Joinvillo
says that which was shot from tho -mortar-
came flying through the air likeA winjgedp
•long tail dragon, about the thickness of. ft
hogshead, with the report of thundqx^an}!,
SlVelocIty of lightning, and thre' darkness of
night was ditspelledVy its deadly illumina-
The Governor then - remarked to his
aiidicnce, we have in Ewell a fit succoasor
;to the lamented Jacksp!), a prixying and a
fighting mau:—Lynchburg Republican.
[From the-Bhiladilphia Pross.] - feji
- 7 1'merson Etheridge.; -
MEMpms^jR.1 ly t5,—rlt will bo rhmem-
-bored that Emersqii -Etheridge, is one. bf
-tho most noted^ politicians in this ; State,
and, as a’stump, speaker, he has but few
superiors among the Tennesseans. In con-
aideratioo qf these qualities, the committee
- invesled'with-the powajitAo invite speakers
to the 6th of Juno eeletxratioiV in this city,
extbbded ar* invjtatiop to Mr, Etherid^.
He replied textile chairman of the commit
tee, Tome,ny,*lo the ef&ct that, the meet
ing a Dlf 'its object were humbugs. This
drew ajiptejarqm Mr. TVIb .'-which' ho set
.up his shortcomings, ,'piolitical and social,
to Jh'e public gaze, in anything but com
mendatory fanguageio Mr. Ei "’Mr. Tome-
ny has received' the' following reply^ '
New York,June; 25th.—Tomeny: You-
are a cpntepi])tibl6 little puppy. The'day
will, come when you will crawL'in. your
hole 'aiid phfl ih the hole after you. You:
are “ cutting a figure” about Memphis now,
but will be ealled to account. You aro'an
unprincipled Hcainp L You have the lmpu-
tton.
the art of war and tlxe history of mankind,;
In the-manuscripts of an ancient author, ,
the composition of tbi&fire is described as
being forlned by mixing over-, a fire, the
charcoal of willow,'.nijtre, brandy, rosin,
sulphur, pitch and camphor.
,^Of whatever it maybe composed, Tt fs;
one of the most deBtructivo ageats of-.vrar-
fare knownjn ancient, or modern -times,
jind; whi|e we know that the Yankees hiiVc
not'possession of the lost secret?, they
yet form a compound whpse effects
be-di-eaded in a city* j ,-V - ih? ;
provisions so scarce and dear, and a xiery
plausible clamor against the jastieq arid
-policy ot impressment Is based -uponVithis
low, ive aro not the advocates of fot-
prossmeni or arhitary prfoeSj and think
-they can only,be justified ih tfie proopre-
.spent ©^supplies for the absolute nocfjsai-
t»ea of the public service. But we are'. bp-
poned to tbe offering of factious oppo-
sitjon .totbe measures of .the Government
daily answers are-buttered In the maul
toixoyof<fo^And.hortor.yMahy ire? bbsep^
They 'rauHtVej^iir at-once -to the post of
duty. The appeals that meet u^.x>n «very
side arethe strbqgbs.t that inidiy stge have
stirred'the h umiin. heart. . j ; I A. , f j
Soldiers! L.ook at.your country—tho
earth .ravaged.—property carx-ied away or
disappearing a ilimes ana ash os—tin.* peo-
arc the
specu
the i
prtiuBment. ; ..A > >,
Are; ‘^
.rei
, -ho negroes arrayed in
,e whites'—druel indignities
i women and children. Des-
rks the path of our il
-. •• Woe to tho eonqu
hour of his country’B
would compound i'or the
robbed ol a II that makes
tolofabfo.^^3j
Fellow soldiers ! There is hut one - p
to follow. It loads to the camp. Como
3 r our colors and staml beside j-our eor
rades, who, with heroic constaneyj, a
he enemy. ‘Choose now
the gforj’ of succes ldlly deihndip_
| an unit entitles you to the name of men.
and Lhe infamy ol cree} ing abjectly to tin
“TheSmith3.”— John Smith—plain John
Smith—is not very high soundingLVit'dqda
hot suggest aristocracy; it is not the name
of any hero in die away nofolk, and yet is;
good, Strong and ■ honest. Transfen)e.(l ; Ao
othpf languages it seems to climb the 1 ad
der of respoctabilily. Thus in Latin ft %
Johannes Smith us; the Italian' smoothes'
: it off into Giovanni Smith; the Splniai’.de^
render it Juan Smithus; the Dfttcft^an .
iiidopts it as Hans Schmidt; the French?
Ifiattotis it out into Jean Stneets-; and 'the
-Russian sneezes and barks Jouloff Smil-.
toweki. When. John Smith gets‘into Alfo
tea trade at Canton he becomes Jahoo
Shimmit; if he clambers ivbout Mounts
Jf^rkthelcefanderis 1 say he is JahneSii^jh^ j
Sort; if he trades among the Tuw:iii:oras'he H
' comes Ton Qua Smittia; in Poland -'he
khown as Ivan Schmittiweiskif .eliQU.itl
ider among the Welsh'
iy talk of Jihon Schmidd ;
to Mexico lie is booked as Jo
if of classic turn, he liugers
ruins, he turns to Ion Smik
Turkey he is utterly disguised ai
./.The lighting- of Paris by
denco to talk, about the ‘(galling,tyranny”
you were under, before v t.he damned AbolF
tionists (like yourself) took Memphis. The
people" the're knew no'thing Of oppression
and “ tyranny” until the “ Northern vah-
is measured by doFlava-and ceftl^. Hojr
much didyou make on sugar? r ,Oh, you
stiftriip, I would like to get a fair chance
atyoti. vr - ’ — - E. Ethk&idoe:
Graftino,—An interesting discovery
has lately beo.a made with regard to .graft
ing frui t trees. Instead of thb uSuftl meth
od a sl'P is taken frpm the tree,, wliich it
is desired to propagate anew, and planted
in a potkto, se that ft couple of inchfes of
the slip remains visible. It soon takes root,
dovelopes itself, and ftriafly becomes , a
handsome tree, bearing fine -fruit. The
method was discovered tn France..
...A progressive little ..boy. wa? sitting
on. the floor, €®cfiing everything around
him—he spelt his hat, hjs cap and his bail;
and his dog and his coat, and getting low
er down ho spelt his sobks with thrde.let
ters, s-o x. vtsJ
A ljsteher aivid to. him ‘“Eddy, th^t aint
the Way^'to speH : aocks.^..'^ He 1
with indignant surprise, and satd, ^ w«jR’
^if s o-x don’t spoil socks, what do‘it spellt’
At J
While the papers throughout the Confed
eracy are publishing the patrioticahd dig
nified. appeals of Preside tit Davis and Gen.
iee, jtialhng uponAlP soldiers . and others
wh<r aught to hern the army to' rally to
'the-standaiM ocHbe conniafy, there,are- jyo-
per8 and politicuins tohei found whto are
exerting all their influence to render these
nugatory, forqach,df any, must,be the ef-
fect.of their studied attavk> upon President’
- Dftvik- and ^thbA^Donfedjsrate* 'authorities,
wftce) ff tiiey «ifecCed’ T ficr’tSUibir ‘fmpMriug
confidence In tiio. objects of Lhcir' attacks,
or depriving them of the public respectp
it is evident thiii tbey thus far weaken the
force of their appeals made for the salvation r
'Hfitiie Confederate cause. They* as much
as say—“President Davis calls for a grand
rally. Now, \ye toll yob. that? President
Davis is nfi wrohg, -He iB of littie or
account, a.bigoted,, obstinate, wrong-head
ed mail, wiio will ruin tliei country, and-is
aboat^aB’bhd its "Abe Dineoln:” Is not
this epoouraging the people! Evidently
designed to stiniulate tiiem to action^- ev-
iclen tlyjcajbulateil-to askitrt. the^PresidS^rt.^
, ap'd Strengthen his proclamations and lap-
z-over-. : th6 .left. Why, look at ; the
Does not anybody see its drift’
' * I v ' ** lurks behind-?
l>
Whatis'tho
Tiie-throg'i^
is stated, is to be entrusted lo
bran, who has invent
it which is equal to 2,240 jets
ridan was uever without
?er failed to extricate hi
in any emergency. At.:
where he was once on a
maiden lady dosirod Lo
in a walk. He excused l
l account ot the badne
She soon afterwards,
ted him in an attempt
her. *• Well,” she se.id,
up.” “ Why, yes,” tic ;
ias cleared up ououg
deli for twor”
as your.
Jefferson
appoint-
im-
ard
und tho
r human
tQ -
•'air criticism,
nsurc of what
jht, but the (lu
te denubcia-
of a patriot.
advantage sought t6 be oblained, ja .Uhe
discarding ©! ink and rollers, aud’by rCtvo-
tionizingprinting machinery and prioting
from a continuous roll of. paper, will be-
nominal in comparison to the requirements
of the present day. Cleanliness in ’ the
printing office-Would thus become prover
bial, and. the timo novv >iva3?^din making
and distributing the rollers obviated. We
have beed a8si8thigthis gentleman ik some
parts of-his experiments, but further in--
formation is wifhhdld,r.at
until letters patent shall be obtJ
London Typographical Advertiser.,
own revest,
_ are making prepa
rations to promote the discovery of con
gealed remams of mammoth animals in 'Si
beria. .Jt is ‘stated that during, the last
two centuries at least .20,000. mammoths,
washed out-of the jeei and soil iu ' whtah
they were imbedded, by the action of the
spring floods. "Tho tusks :only r have been
preserved fdir their commercial; value in
ivory. An effort is nbw to he made for •
the discovery and preservation of one of
these cnrfiiisses as perfect and entire as
possible, as it' fs,-considered' that micro
scopic investigation of tne contents Of its
stomach might *.hrc>w a powerful light on
a host Of geological and physiological pfo-' "
bleniB. * —>v
Ohejing Instructions.
One night when the Yankee* fleet, thir
teen in number, wefo apparently pre
paring to attack FortB Morgan and Gaiues,
in May, 1862, we wore, on a detachment
formed: .to Avatch at ..the guns of Fort
Gaines ; and tbe sentinels were all ordered,
that if they saw any ■“light,” no matter in
what direction, theyshould call the Corpor
al of the Guard, to have tlte fact, reported
at headquarters--f - + . r-.. ' - V; «j' > *
About 4 o’clock, A-M-,' the sentinel on
the wharf, Post No. 7, we believe, was
hoard bellowing **. Corporal o^ the Guard,
Post No. 7/ y which was duly echoed by in
termediate sentinels; Now, it is a half-
mile to the end of that wharf—add rather *
sandy walking. But the wide awake Cor
poral who was full of business and rm-
>ytance, thought nothing, of it. in view .
at he should be a hero iu the’morning,
uckling pii‘Li&sword^(ba is an aftfllerist)
he hastily repaired to the“ tip f end” of the
wharf, where the following conversation
ensued : . --
Corporal-—‘(What are"' yAu hollering
about ? u ;
Sentinel—“Dld’nt you* inslcuct us to
call you if we saw a .‘light V” -,
Corp.—“ Qf course ; but I don’t see any
" light-’
Sen—“T do, tboughr’”
Corp: (‘excited)—-“Where, wbferc?”
Seu.-(pointing to'the> east)—^-There, to-
theoast—‘Daylightf . r j?
That Corporal got ; back to r .quarteri»
quicker, than lio eame out—and” he did’n l;
Report, tp headquarters' ttarthe?.—MobiLi
Advertiser. - J . %
^Evacuation of Mwrls Islan'O;
To,sum up the events throuj^'which wo
have jost passed, Bjfciitery . Wagner'has:
been subjected d'urihg.;lhaj^t 'tiiree day si
and pights to the mosLterrific.firq ahy.
earthwork has uffforgbiie. ih all the annals: •
of Warfare. Thb immepse desciSifili ng force
of the, enormous "jParrott arid.mortar'shollji: "
of the enemy had nearly lWid**tiie wood
work of-the-bombproofs osrtiifoty bare, and
had displaced tho sand tb so gre^ka' degree
that the sally-ports are almost" entiroly
Blocked up. - Tbe paroilels of the enemy
yesterday aftdrnooD had beeii; j/usbed up
to thor Veiy mouth ' 6T Hattery- Wagner,
and it was.no longer possibloto.diBtHignish-
our ^reJrom. that of thei eoefoy; During
the oritU’e aiternoon the eriemV shelled the •
s in the rear of Battery® Wsgj.er *
ere Our Wounded lav) very vigorously.
of the difficulties of ■ odmmun ication wi th
CummingkPoint, thelirqfoBsibilftyoflongJ
er holding Morris:Island;bocarne.appafeiH,-
and it w:i 5 det<^mihed jdiat strenuous ef
forts should be*m;idd'at once to release'the
brave garrison Of the- rslknd, -wfip seemed
to be almost in tbe.eneiuy’s, grasp. This
desirable result was accOraplisbed with
the most commendable promptitude an
saccessri^^T^^,.* •*'
At six Pfolock yesterday afternoon, tin
orders fop evamialion were delivered to
jn
carofull
son.- TbO _
had held the foe
ted, fired -ft
were dismo
dered wort
rations be
embarkation
the bravo men
barges, we
they iiad hellj,
evacuation,'*
Du ring
not idle.
on'the
made
a'tteries
re bu-
wore
et Joha-
weeks
Idshot^
pieces
P811-
prepq-
ork of
arid
men.
ana ul...—-
one. conta
men, pas
blesseu, iur
poor.
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