THE PERTH COUNTY HERALD. assailed with "stones and sticks," it must have| Chief Engineer of the army comman-|at Conteras and Churubusco, August | 'The mode by which the light is produced been done by the boys of the village, for those | ded by General Wool in Mexico, and | 20, and Major for gallantry at Moline | is by the combustion of lime under the great gentlemen who were styled "Roughs," hare too} by his gallant conduct at, Cere Gordo||del Rey Sept. 8, 1847 ; distinguished heat catised by the flame of the mixed gases." hi ghidn-opinian-of, thémocieen a8 re cess! Churubusco, and Chapultepec, where himself at Chapultepec where he was A stream of common gas, which is used in-" A pic-nie party composed of the School Ohil-| "4 *0° much self-respect toengageinanysneh}). 4. severely wounded, won the | severely wounded ; becaine Captain | *¢*4 of pure hydrogen, is conducted through dren'atid inhabitants of) School 'Section No. 5, | Proceeding. From the style we should judge : . ] Bin 1d Pipe," ald' & biipply of 'oxygen is 'Bett Downie, under the superintendence of Mr. Wha.| the writer to be the 'Same who represented the brevets of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, | in December, 1852, and was appoint-| hee j aed p33 being attabhel te: cotrites , i and " é r . | ed. Pay: j aj : Ee 3 ley, the teacher, was held on Thursday, the 9th | Magistrates of West's Corners as fining a person Colonel In 1852 he was ap 'aymaster, with the rank.of Major, separate gas holders. These pipes termin- inst, in.a beautiful. grove situated a short dis-| for a case of assault and battery 25 cents and a| pointed Superintendent of the Military | J uly 19; 1858. He resigned his com- ate near' the lamp in oné single tube, where tance from the St. Mary's Road, on Mr. William | quart of whiskey, falsehood which was after-| Academy at West Point, and in 1855 mission June 1, 1861, and seventeen | (1). bases are' allowed to' mix in eieis ws Forat "Inielligence. pumie ty Belmbes #22" 30k -- Johnson's farm. The day was very fine, and 4 number of friends from Stratford, from other parts of Downie, and North and South Easthope, joimed the party. " The children belonging to the section assembled at the' School House at 12 o'clock, and, headed by their teacher, marched tothe place: selected for holding the Pic-nic. Swings were erected, and old'and young joined in, general amusements © till about... three o'clock, when Mr. Tucker and his juvenile choir from the Zorra Road, entertained them with a few very beautiful pieces of music ; after which the party assembled to enjoy the good things provided by the ladies for the occasion. The collation was composed of the various delica- cies of the season, and reflected great credit upon those who had prepared. it. After the party had enjoyed the collation they were again entertained with music by Mr. Tucker and his ehoir. Mr. Whaley then addressed the party briefly. Mr. McLean, teacher, being called upon spoke for some time on the general benefits of education, and concluded by referring to the noble Educational system which Canada pos- sessed, and condemned instrong terms the great efforts which were being made from time to time to destroy it. He referred to the Act of last Session, and shewed that it was the duty of every man interested in the prosperity of our national system of education to see that no more Acts tending to extend the Sectarian system be passed. The school children then recited seve- ral pieces in a manner which reflected great credit upon their teacher. Mr. Dent then ad- dressed the assemblage for a short time, refer- ring to the efficiency of our Educational system generally, and other matters of interst connect- ed therewith. He complimented Mr. Whaley on the efficiency displayed by his pupils, and concluded by referring to the various pleasures those present had enjoyed on the occasion. Three cheers were than given for the Queen-- three for the ladies, three for the teachers, Mr. Whaley and Mr. McLean, and three for Mr. Tucker and his young friends, whose singing had afforded so much pleasure during the day. All present appeared well pleased with the day's amusements. wards positively contradicted. In conclusion we should judge the writer of such slanders to be a young man destitute of all moral qualities, .ca- pable of saying or doing anything; in fact his head must be cottage shaped. Ion. West's Corners, July 7, 1863. The Essex Election, The Essex Record informs us, that at the adjourned declaration, after the Sheriff had refused to decide whether Mr. O'Connor or Mr. Rankin had the show of hands, Mr. O'Connor addressed the electors as follows: "Mr. O'Connor spoke a few min- utes. He said he was sorry to see that the sheriff had not the moral courage to declare either one or the other,--because certainly one of them must have a majority--but had made a special return, and left it in the hands of the House to decide who was the member. There were two ways of deciding the question--one was, that the House might pass a resolution seating one of the can- didates, the other was that it might order a scrutiny of votes. If the latter course were adopted, he pledged him- self to prove that he was the legally elected member by a majority of one hundred votes. If on the otherhand, the House was composed of a majority of Mr. Rankin's friends and they seated him by resolution, he would contest the seat--not on one ground as on a former occasion but on three grounds : first, want of qualification : because Mr. Rankin's qualification was now in no better condition than it was at the last election: second, on the ground of the grossest and most bare-faced bribery and_ corruption, and that not only on the part of his relieved from that duty and promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Cav- alry, He was made Colonel of the Ist. Cavalry on March 16, 1861, and in April resigned his commission and joined the Southern Confederacy. Three days before this he was ap- pointed commander of the military and naval forces of Virginia, and on May 10th, he received the commission of Major-General of the Confederate States...This-was shortly followed by his promotion to General of the regular army. His first active operations were in the western part of the State, where, on Oct. 3rd, 1861, he was de- feated by Gen. J. J. Reynolds at the battle of-Greenbriar. He subsequently took command of the Department of the South Atlantic Coast. After Gen. Johnston was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, Lee was placed at the head of the Confederate forces defending the Con- federate capitol, and led them through the remainder of the Chickahominy campaign. He conducted the attack upon General Pope's "Army of Virginia" in August, and after driving it back to Washington, crossed the Potomac into Md., near Leesburg, Sept. 4th, 5th, and 6th, at the head of a large force, and occupied Frederick. Defeated by McClellan in the battle of Antietam, he retired again into Virginia, and took up his position at Fredericksburg. His carreer on the Rappahannock, in the encounters with Burnside, with days after commanded as a Brigadier- General of the Confederatet roops in the battle of Blackburn Ford. He was in the battles of the Chickahom- iny campaign ; led an army corps in Lee's invasion of Maryland, and in December commanded tbe left wing in the battle of Fredericksburg- Be- fore Hooker attacked, Longstreet was sent down to the Blackwater, but re- turued in. time to reinforce Lee. GEN. A. P. HILL. Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill, of the Confederate army, was born in Vir- ginia about 1828 ; gradulated at West Point in 1847, and appointed a brevet 2nd Lieut in the Ist artillery ; became 2nd. Lieut. Aug. 26, 1847 ; Ist Lieut. in Sept. 1851, and assistant in the coast survey in Nov, 1855; resigned his commission March Ist, 1861; en- tered the service of Virginia, and _be- came Colonel of the 3rd regiment; commanded a brigade near Romney June 19, 1861; was soon after made a Brigadier-General in the Confeder- ate army, and in the campaign of the Chickahominy led the attack on the national forces at Mechanicsville, which began the seven day's fighting between that place and Harrison's Landing. In the advance of Lee into Maryland, he commanded an army corps, and was present at the siege of Harper's Ferry, which was surrender- ed to him Sept. 16, 1862. He has since figured prominently with Lee His present rank is that of Major- A Royal Reproof to Kings. less influence through a curved jet, to what may be called the wick of the lamp, which is simply a lump of lime held in close proximity to the mouth of the curved tube bya piece of metal. In lighiting the lamp, the first step is to direct the 'stream of hydrogen upon the lime, it is lighted and gives forth a small flame of pale In a few seconds after, this pale color gives place to a deep red, caused by the combustion of the metal calcium in the lime, under the great heat of the hydro- When tlie lime is in this state the oxygen is turned on, and instantly the bright white light is produced, which will continue as long'as the wick remains uncon- sumed. The supply of lime is kept up by the action of simple clock-work machinery, which{raises the material as it burns down, at a rate of speed varying according to the progress of the combustion. There is noth- ing of an expensive character about the light, and with any ordinary care it may be used with perfect safety--London Observer. Can any good come'out of Denmark ? No country in Europe a year ago was less esteemed in diplomatic circles, or counted in the affairs of Hurope. Every German sneered, and all the little Princelets of the Confederation endeavoured to keep alive the pretensions set up by Prussia in the matter of the Duchy of Denmark was, months ago, the object of the lecturing pen of Earl Russell, and when Danes and Englishmen were beginning to think of cementing new ties and indulging in re- -- collections of a common ancestry, the sharp pen of the Foreign Secretary inflicted a few even a few General. stinging sentences upon the Government of Denmark. Denmark, however, is not so -- ; : : despicable after all. Of no account in mander-in-chief of the Confederate} John A. Early, a General in the ser-| giplomacy, and but little regarded amongst armies, and has personal command of | vice of the Confederate States, born in | the Sovereign families, the Danes are yet Virginia about 1818; graduated at|able to boast that the Hldest Son of West Point in 1837; was appointed | England sought his spouse amongst them, friends, but he would prove many | Hooker, and the subsequent events is cases where the candidate himself] ¢. niliar to every reader. He is com- had paid money for votes ; and third, : The semi-Annual Examination of the pupils | OM the ground that the poll books attending the School taught by Mr. P. McLean, showed a majority in his (Mr. Gore of Downie, took place on Wednesday, the | O?Connor's) favor. And as on a| the army of north-eastern Virginia. lst ult. There were present, besides the Trus- former occasion, he would bring his School Examination and Pic-nic. GEN. EARLY. tees of the School, a large number of the parents and others interested in the cause of Education. The result of the examination was highly satis- factory. The pupils acquitted themselves cred- itably in the different subjects in which they were examined, and shewed by their exemplary conduct the careful training to which they had been subjected. The singing of several choice selections of music by the children under the leadership of their music teacher, Mr. Tucker, was also much admired. The proceedings were brought to a close on the following day with a Pic-nic, in the beautiful grove on the farm of Samuel Monteith, Esq. Upwards of 300 persons were present, all of whom seemed highly delight- ed with the day's amusements and festivities. ComMUNICATED. Correspondence, PPPDP PLL LDL LS ew To the Editor of the Perth County Herald. " Slander cannot make the subject of it either better or worse: it may represent us ina false light, or place a likeness of us in a bad one, but we are the same. Not so with the slanderer, for ealumny always makes the calumniator worse, but the calumniated never."---Lacon. Colton never penned a truer sentiment, and never were a people worse calumniated than are the people of Mornington in general, and the people of West's Corners in particular, This vile slanderer finds an outlet to his spleen through the columns of the Stratford Beacon. In the issue of that paper of the 26th of June, we find this concealed scribbler representing theConser- vatives of West's Corners on their return from Stratford, as making " wanton assaults on the dwellings of their neighbors." We emphatically deny the charge; it is false! ratsE! The wri- ter says there were three waggon loads of we opponent out of the House. If, how- ever, a majority of his own friends were in the House, and they saw fit to seat him, and Mr. Rankin's friends sought to contest his seat, he defied them to unseat him." The Essex Election. The following is the list of votes polled at the recent election, as count- ed on the different poll books, 27th June, 1863: O'Connor. Rankin. Anderson ...+++- 95 44 Amherstburg, .... 177 93 Colchester, ....-- 159 109 Gosfield, .....+-+ 88 192 Malden, «...00s6. 115 54 Maidston -, «+++. 100 87 Mersea, ...secees 38 207 Sandwich West,.. 65 110 do, Mast, i> sincin. AD? 126 do Town, .-- 47 54 Windsor, Ist Ward, 18 44 do 2nd Ward,. 88 66 do 3rd Ward, . 17 3 Rochester. ...++-+- 73 63 Tilbury West,...- 55 49 1302 1301 Mr. O'Connor's majority, one. --Record. Chief Commanders of the Con- federate Army. As many of our readers will be GENERAL EWELL. Richard Stoddart Ewell, a general in the service of the Confederate States, was born in the District of Columbia about 1820, graduated at West Point in 1840, and was appoint- ed a brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the Ist Dragoons ; became a Ist Lieutenant in 1845; and breveted a Captain for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco August 20, 1847; became a Captain in 1849; distinguished himself in a battle with the Apaches in New Mexico, June 27, 1857; resigned his commission in the U.S. Army May 7, 1861, entered the Confederate service, was appointed Brigadier-General ; took part in the battle at Blackburn's Ford, July 18, 1861, and was at Bull Run, but did not take an active part in the battle. He was subsequently promoted to a Major General, and appointed to the command of a corps of the Army of Virginia.-- lle accompanied Lee in his move- ments against Pope in the latter part of August, 1862, and on the 27th was defeated by Hooker at Kettle Run, near Manassas Junction, with considerable loss. He took part in the battles fought near Bull Run, a 2nd Licut. in the Ist artillery ; was transferred to the 2nd artillery in July, 1838, and resigned in the same month to study law and practice itin Virgin- ia, where he became a member of the Legislature. He was Major of a re- giment of Virginia volunteers in the Mexican war from January, 1847, to August, 1848, After the breaking out of the civil war in 1861, he enter- ed the army of Virginia; became a Colonel, and commanded at the battle of Bull Run. His arrival upon the field at a critical period of the day contributed greatly to give the victory to the confederates, and was regarded as very creditable to him.--American Paper. Application ofthe Lime Light. For some evenings past the completed por- tion of the Westminster bridge has been lighted by the new lime light, and has pre- sented a brilliant appearance. There are ten lights on the bridge--about one-third of the number of old gas lights. The light is of a pure white color and of dazzling brilliancy, making all the old gas burners in the proximity appear as dull as though they were burning in the bright sun- light of noonday. It was to this description and that Greece also came to beg one of their Princes to accept her Crown. Grecks sent a deputation of their foremost men to Copenhagen to tender the bauble to Prince Wilhelm, and they were received in "solemn audience" by the King of Den- mark, whose nephew their country had chosen for their King. We do not care to praise Prince Wilhelm, because he is yeta yery young man, and it is, therefore, only in the language of hope that the Greeks can express their feelings ; but Englishmen will be readily disposed to join heartily in the wish that the young King may rule in a just and constitutional manner. 'The King of Denmark, in the course of the ceremonies, uttered some remarkable sen- tences in the form of advice to his nephew. | "Before you leave this spot I give you this | heartfelt and well-meant advice. your endeavor to gain and preserve the love of the people. Without boasting, I speak from experience when I say that in this consists the true happiness of a King; adhere firmly to the Constitution of the country ; strive constantly to procure its recognition ; watch that it be kept intact. If you make this your rule, you and your people will prosper." These are noble words, and they are the more welcome because they come from a source whence we did not expect them. Just now, when Royalty seems to treat) The Let it be | Aug 28-30, and also in the succeeding of light that Professor Farraday Yeferred Constitutional Goverment as a mere form, Maryland campaign, in the course of | shen he stated it was so intense that it eisai it is refreshing to find at least one King bold which he was severely wounded, and | }. distinctly seen at a distance of ninety-five and generous enough to utter words calcul- obliged for a time to retire from duty. | miles, and the correctness of this statement ated to reassure the friends of Constitutional He figured prominently on the Rappa- | was verified during the ordinance survey of | freedom. The King of Denmark spoke to his hannock, and on the fall of Stonewall | Scotland, when one of these lights, placed at nephew, but he spoke at the King of Prussia ; and William of Prussia, if he will roughs---wrong again ; there were only two, and | interested in knowing something about among them were ladies, and instead of remain-| the chief Confederate Commanders ing on the street as stated, they = went direct who are now taking such & prominent to their several homes. We can give the names part mee great struggle going és Se the American Republic, we give a short sketch of a few of them below: of those roughs, and will do so if the writer of : the above slander will publish his; and we are satisfied their character, to say the least, will compare favorably with that of their libeller, or those with whom he is connected. We are fur- ther told that Mr. Fox had reason to expect vio- lence would be resorted to, and closed his store. Why did Mr. Fox expect violence would be done to his place in particular? Did Mr. Fox or the members of his establishment say that they would pervert truth, misrepresent facts, and state falsehoods if they could only make a vote for Mr. Macfarlane ! or what did the members of that famous establishment do, or say, more than the other Grits of West's Corners, that they in particular expected violence from the hands of the " Tory Loyalists?" If Mr. Fox's store was GEN. LEE, THE GENERAL-IN-CHIEF. Robert Edmund Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army of Virginia, was born in Virginia about 1808. He is a son of Gen. Henry Lee, and was graduated at West Point, second in his class, in 1827, and commissioned Se- cond Lieutenant of Engineers. _ He was assistant astronomer for fixing the boundary between Ohio and Michigan in 1835; promoted to First Lieutenant in 1836, and Captain in 1838; was Jackson stepped into his shoes. GEN. LONGSTREET. Gen. James Longstreet, of the Con- federate army, was born in South Carolina in 1823. He graduated at West Point in 1842, and appointed brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th in- fantry; became 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th infantry, March 4, 1845, and 1st Lieutenant Feb. 23rd, 1847; was regimental adjutant from 1847 to 1849; | was brevetted Captain for gallantry OE ET RM ae aT a ee a station mark on the top of Ben Lomond, was distinctly seen at the Koock Layd, be- tween ninety and one hundred miles distant. A single jet of the lime light of medium size is equivalent to forty argand, or eighty fishtail gas burners, or to four hundred wax candles, and its intensity and brilliancy may be increased by augmenting the quantity of gases. As compared with the illuminating power of common gas, a single jet consum- ing four feet of the mixed gases of hydrogen and oxygen, is said to be equal, in illumin- ating power, to that obtained from four hun- dred feet of ordinary gas. neither listen to the voices of his people, nor the dictates of reason, may perhaps stop to ponder upon the words which come from a prother King. Itis true that Denmark is not one of the Great Powers, and is not en- titled to be heard when Europe is supposed to meet to decide the fate of peoples ; but the "gti]l small voice of conscience' may be prompted to speech, even bya hint from the Throne of despised Denmark. The King of Prussia required to be spoken at boldly, and only a King could be the speaker ; and, of all countries, Denmark only had the King ;