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and one Presbyterian church--have been taken possession of by the Government for hospitals. Three at least, of the four have the reputation of being semi rebel. Rumor says that this movement was used by recent imaginary disasters in the Shenandoah Valley; but, in fact, it was determined upon some time ago A dispatch from Fremont says all is quiet in the Shenandoah Valley. British vessels about to run the blockade. Boston, Friday, June 13. --The Hun. Albert Carrier, of Newburyport, passenger by the Africa, informs the "Traveller," that two steamers were about to leave Queenstown for Nassau, with the intention of running the southern blockade. One was the Julia Usber 467 tons, filled with 1,000 bbls. of powder, in the night time. The second, 800 to 1,000 tons, reached Queenstown, May 31. loaded with arms and stores. The inhabitants of Queenstown state that two other vessels sailed running the blockade. Mr. Carrier states that in England there is a genera
ty of the meagre telegraphic dispatch hurried across the continent. It is sincerely to be hoped the particulars to come hereafter will mitigate the severity of the present verdict. Sickness caused from "Exposure to a draft." The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald says it never knew it so sickly before at Newburyport as it is now. The disease affects only males between the ages of 18 and 45. The cases are very distressing. Several have occurred where men have nearly lost their sight; they sNewburyport as it is now. The disease affects only males between the ages of 18 and 45. The cases are very distressing. Several have occurred where men have nearly lost their sight; they say that bad as they hate the Confederates, they could not see one across the street, and spectacles are in demand. Some are badly ruptured, but were never troubled by it till last week; and others are lame. This disease affects the mind as well as the body. They see war in a different light than formerly, and some of the foremost Abolitionists begin to think that they would be willing to abandon the negro if the war could only be closed at once. This is a terrible disease and widely spread.
dministration. Every prudent man for utter of the country if we have year as the last. Yet, we have the floating expedients, the same stationery . It is not that the control the military affairs of the army in their beliefs and sympathies. is a match for the health of a of good blood. The South is . It is the North, that . They have who knew how to control difficulties — to . Richmond An opinion from Massachusetts about Lincoln's proclamation. The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald (Republican) has an article, written before the issue of Lincoln's proclamation, on the propriety of issuing such a document and its probable effect. It says: that objection to such a policy is that it would be a operative. How is it possible to reach the population designed to be effected by it? A proclamation is a simple piece of paper, and in it would answer the same purpose if it was a blank paper cast upon the winds as it would with any word that might be writt
thinking of the strange neutrality that works only against one side, and that, perhaps, the weaker. About 11 o'clock we crossed the bar and ran out to sea, the lights on Sambro and the opposite point visible on either hand. In two hours time we were far from land. Saturday, 20th.--Clear and calm. Sea smooth. We run due east for several hours until well off the coast, then turned direct for Wilmington. In the evening, captured schooner Roan, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, from Newburyport to Long Bay, Cape Breton, for a cargo of coal. The prisoners, stores and nautical instruments were taken, and the vessel fired. This ends our second week out. [Third Week.] Sunday, 21st. --A quiet day. Prayers were read at 10 o'clock by Captain Wood, the whole ship's crew being assembled on the quarter-deck. Two men and a boy were found stowed away on board, and put to work. No sail in sight to-day. Monday, 22d.--Rain fell in torrents this morning, and there was
That wonderful Newburyport (hode Island) man keeps up his cold bathing. Runs ten miles, jumps into the surf off Plum island, and then runs home, every morning. His health is perfect, and his name is Smith.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cushing, mother of Hon. Caleb Cushing, died at her residence in Newburyport, on Thursday morning, of pneumonia.
from Hood. General Thomas says, in his official report, that from September 7th to January 20th, five and a half months, his captures numbered about 13,189 men, including seven general and 1,000 other officers, and 72 pieces of artillery. Over 2,000 deserters were received, and a great deal of valuable ammunition and other war material was captured. Our own losses of all sorts are under 10,000. Miscellaneous. The decline in gold seems to affect manufacturing interests. In Newburyport, on Monday, the directors of the Globe mill voted to suspend work for one month; and the Bartlett directors voted to suspend one-half their work. The Legislature of Michigan has passed a joint resolution to submit to the people, at the fall election of 1866, an amendment to the Constitution to allow negroes to vote. Key West correspondence gives an account of an unsuccessful expedition which started from there about the last of February to release about three thousand Union pris
C. C. Dame, of Newburyport, has been elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; General William Sutton, Senior Grand Warden; Wyzeman Marshall, Junior Grand Warden; John McClellan, Grand Treasurer; and Charles W. Moore, Grand Recording Secretary. Pius IX. recently alighted from his carriage in the Piazza del Popolo, and traversed on foot the whole length of the Corso, the Broadway of Rome. The old men remarked that they had never seen a Pope on foot in the Corso before. A company has been organized in Spain for the purpose of laying a submarine telegraph cable between Cuba and the United States. Paris trade suffered to the amount of one hundred million of francs by the cholera panic. Gold closed in New York on Saturday at 146⅜
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