We learn that on Saturday the boys of the 65th at Henderson raised a beautiful hickory flag staff 100 feet high, and hoisted to its peak, amid shouts and cheers, a splendid silk flag 24 feet long.
As the proud banner arose and kissed the breeze, Major Brown, of the 65th, addressed the crowd in words of loftiest patriotism and most thrilling eloquence, inspiring every heart to a more stern resolve to crush this wicked and causeless rebellion.
A few days ago two gentlemen—one from Glasgow and the other from Paisley—appeared at the Police Office, at Edinburgh, and stated that a variety of books, shawls, &c. had disappeared…
On the recent visit of the United States steamer Vanderbilt to the port of Kingston, Jamaica, her officers were insulted by having rebel songs bawled in their ears and were…
On Saturday intelligence of the loss by fire of the ship Georgia, of Newcastle, an Indiaman, Captain Mitchell, bound to London, was received by the underwriters at Lloyd’s, attended with a deplorable sacrifice of human life. This ship was between 800 and 900 tons burden, and was valued at 7000£, being splendidly fitted up for the accommodation of passengers. She had a rich cargo on board, consisting of jewellery, merchandise, and other valuable property, which perished with the vessel; a loss in total of nearly 20,000£.
The unfortunate event occurred on the morning of the 1st of last month, while on her passage to England from Calcutta, which place she left in the early part of February. From the accounts brought over by the ship Thomas Sparks, from China, which arrived off Dartmouth on Friday morning, it appears, that early on the morning mentioned, the “watch” on deck, when the vessel was in latitude 30 south and longitude 36 cast, off Madagascar, discovered a strong smell of burning about the ship; he aroused the commander, Captain Mitchell, and the rest of the ship’s crew, and a strict search was determined upon.
Carl Dunrud to Exchange Ten Gallon Hat For Parkha; To Lasso Musk Oxen
NEW YORK, May 22.-(AP)-Carl Dunrud, famous Yellowstone national park ranger, is going to exchange his ten gallon hat for a fur parkha, his Mexican heeled boots for snowshoes and Invade the sub-Polar regions to try to lasso musk oxen and walrus.
The cowpuncher who has a national reputation for throwing and tying steers, will sail with the American Museum of National History Greenland expedition early in June.
Luxor, Upper Egypt, March 21.—From Assuan to Luxor is 126 miles and Col. Roosevelt and his family covered this distance today in the regular express, arriving here early in the afternoon. From Luxor to Cairo is 454 miles, and the ex-President will reach the Egyptian capital Thursday. There a state carriage will be in waiting, so that Col. Roosevelt may visit the Khedive at the Abdin palace. The Khedive will return the call in person. This will be the first occasion on which the ruler has so honored a private citizen.
On arrival at Luxor today the distinguished Americans were greeted by a great number of fellow citizens, many American tourists having waited at this place to see the former President. Col. Roosevelt held a reception this afternoon at the Winter Place hotel.
Washington, May 21.—(AP)—The Vermont “maple sugar special,” a train carrying four cars displaying Vermont products, including 25,000 pounds of maple sugar, arrived here tonight.
St. Louis, May 21, 1563. Sixteen rebels from Marmaduke's command, who recently intercepted the mail from Lebanon to Marshfield, and stole its contents, which, fortunately, were not very valuable. They…
CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 5.—A Turkish steamer is daily expected from Beyrout with eight Druse chieftains, recently arrested by order of the Seraskier, at Beteddin, near Deir el Kamr. The cause of their arrest is thus accounted for.
In order to insure the tranquillity of the Lebanon, and to prevent a renewal of the sanguinary struggles that have so repeatedly broken out between the Maronites and Druses, and, above all, to check the audacity and unprovoked aggressions of the latter upon the Christians, it has been held advisable by the Porte to disarm both tribes, as far as such disarmament was practicable. But the people, encouraged by their sheiks, refused to comply, and these sheiks, especially those arrested, menaced the Turkish authorities with a general revolt of all their clans, should forcible measures be adopted to produce submission.
We are enabled, through the courtesy of Mr. Waghorn, to present our readers with a detail of his route from India to England; and as the subject involves considerations of vast importance to this country as well as to Europe generally, we have selected it for illustration in our present number. This gentleman has now long been known to the world as the indefatigable and persevering author of the overland route to India. Brought up from an early age in the pilot service of the East India Company, and having distinguished himself in the Arracan expedition, he was in the year 1827 recommended by Lord Combermere to the Court of Directors, as a proper person to open steam intercourse between this country and India. To this he devoted himself; and in 1829 his views had attracted so much public attention, that he was selected by the Company to take out despatches, and report upon the route by the Red Sea. For his successful accomplishment of this duty, he received, on his arrival at Bombay, the thanks of the Governor General in council; and the circumstance of his having proceeded down the Red Sea in an open boat, when disappointed of his steamer, the Enterprise, at Suez, was particularly adverted to, as indicating the zeal with which he had applied himself to the service of the public. Since the year 1831, the endeavours of this gentleman to accomplish his object, by the formation of establishments in Egypt, for the passage of mails and passengers, have been unceasing, and are at length crowned with perfect success. Upon one occasion, in the year 1836, it is recollected that he succeeded in getting a mail from Bombay to London within 60 days, and the rapidity of his method so impressed the public, the Government, and the Board of Directors, with the advantages to be derived from his line of route, that steamers were forthwith placed at his disposal for facilitating his plans; and so successfully had he availed himself of the resources opened to him, as well by the patronage of the Government at home, as by his personal intimacy with Mehemet Ali, that the Indian mail of July 1841 passed from the post-office of London to the post-office of Bombay in 30 days and 10 hours. There can be no question that this gentleman is eminently entitled to the gratitude of his country, or, we may justly say, of all Europe, for the genius, zeal, and self-devotion by which he has so materially shortened the distance between two points of the globe, so important and so essential to the welfare of each other.
