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n AMMONI) GAZ ETTE. 1-.- ITT ■ -- l1 Ir: - I TUESDAY AUGUST 4, 18CX_ Having disposed of our interest in the (hxgrre to Mr. (iKOHas EvKurrT, we cordially invite its patrons to extend to him the same hearty sup port which has heretofore been bestowed on us. With many thanks to the officers, soldiers and attendants for their kind we are vour obedient sen ants, ’ JOSIAH HOBBS k CO. — The Newft Charleston advices are up to Sunday week, and state that the bombardment of Fort Wagner was still going on, and every thing progressing favorably. Reinforce ments had reached Gen. Gilmore. The special of the New York Times tele graphs on Wednesday that the army of the Potomac now occupies practically the same line that it did two months ago, and that comparative inaction must necessarily follow the recent active movements. The cavalry is expected to do most of the fighting dur ing this month. The Eleventh Army Corps has been broken up, and the divisions placed in the other corps. Gen. Howard its Com mander, is now in command of the Second Corp®. Gen. Morgan and his whole force surren dered to Co). Shackleford last week, having been surrounded on a bluff from which there was no escape, but by cutting his way out. This being impossible, he consideredprudence the better part of valor, and surrendered. Partial navigation of the Mississippi river has commenced, and several boats have pas sed up and down from St. Louis and other places to New Orleans. Gen. Strong, who was wounded in the attack on Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor, died in New York on Thursday last. The draft was ordered in the District of Columbia, on Thursday. It will take every third man. The steamer John Brooks arrived on Friday morning, bringing down Brig. Gen. Giltffan Marston, recently assigned to the command of the military district of St. Ma ry’s county. He irks accompanied by a por tion of his command, the 2nd and 12th New Hampshire volunteers. The following are the lists of officers: Second regiment— Colonel, E. L. Bailey; Lt. Col., James W. Carr; Major 1 , S. P. Sayles; Adjutant, J. 1). Cooper; Quartermaster, J. A. Cook; Siirg., Jas. M. Merrow; Asst. Surg., Sylvanus Brintoh; Captains H. R. Richardson, David Steele, GcCrge W. Gordon, Joel N. Pat terson, George W, Gordon and George E. Sides; IstLts. H. H. Hay wood, A. G. Bra cey and C. H. Shute; 2d Lts.; S. S. Hay wood, George M. Shute, F. C. Waslev f E. G. Adams, H. H. Colcord, A. L. Wig gins, and three hundred and ten men. Twelfth regiment—Captain J. F. Langley, company F, commanding regiment; Captain T. E. Barker, company B, acting Lt. Col.; 11. Q. Seargent, 2d Lt. company B, acting Adjutant; Quartermaster) J; Wineh; Cap tains, Silas May, J. T. Smith; Ist Lts., W. 11. Fernaid and C. E. Bedee; 2d Lts;, A. W. Milikin, G. P. Dunn and J. A. Sanborn, and one hundred and ninety men. The General has established his head quarters in the large yellow cottage, near the grove. Captain C. H. Lawrence is on his staff as Asst. Adjt. General. The Brooks aLobrought down about one hundred and fifty rebel prisoners, who have been duly installed in the new camp. A largely increased number i> expected to ar rive io a short time. > The General has not published any orders as yet, and we are unable to state what clwnges, if any, will be made in the admin istrative departments of the Post. A New Arrangement.—The chartered steamer John A. Warner has been placed on the route between this place and Wash ington city, and will hereafter make regu lar trips, arriving here every other day.— This arrangement has been made for the benefit of Gen. Marston’s command, and an agent of the P. 0. Department has been placed on board, who will have charge of the mails. The agent informs us that let ters may be mailed at headquarters, up to nine o’clock on Wednesday morning, and that the mail bag will be closed every other morning after at that hour. This arrange ment has for a long time been needed, and is now rendered indispensable. Would it not be well to have the letters placed in the post-office, destined for the North, sent by this route instead of by the '‘one horse” overland route ? By this means the officers and men at the Point would be greatly ac commodated, and our worthy postmaster would not be deprived of what is his due. Let us hope that he may be duly authorized to carry into effect our suggestions. Thinking that it would be of interest to the most of our readers to learn the extent of the dan a c es sustained by the Gibbons family through the sacking of their house by the mob during the late riots th New York, we publish the following, written by Mr. Gibbons himself, from the New York Evening Post:— “No person was in the house at the time of the assault. Seeing no appearances of the mob in the immediate vicinity) I had walked over to Broadway to get an even ing paper. On my return homeward, in about forty minutes, I found that the house had been broken open, fifed in several places, and was already half sacked. It was in the hands of a thousand thieves. I passed in and up stairs to see whether any thing could be done to clear them out, but found it impossible, and retired. The low er doors and windows were all broken in, and all the interior rooms and closet doors, with two or three exceptions. Everything portable was carried oft’— beds, bedding, all the bureau drawers and the lighter bureaus, tables, and even the grate pansand last kitchen pot. Of tWenty five hundred volumes, the accumulation of thirty years, not a single book was left in the house. Of the furniture that was too heavy to carry off, one small piece only was left unmutilated by axes. Nearly all the glass and much of the sash work was de stroyed. The stair banisters and marble mantles were chopped down. All the gas fixtures were twisted off, and most of the water faucets. The Croton pipe was pound ed up in the to cut of the water, that the fire might not be extinguished, and but for the neighbors, who, at the peril of life, brought in buckets from their own houses, the place would have been burned. A piano was broken into fragments, and even sliding doors pulled out and their panels split.-2 The lower parU of several heavy bureaus, and portions of several bedsteads and tables were left in the house, and nothing more,” Local Items, In 'accordance with the Proclamation of the President, appointing Thursday next as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to God for the recent victories attending our arms, the Chaplain of this hospital, Rev. J. A. Spooner, has appointed services at the chapel at ten o’clock A. M. of that day. ■ • During the past week forty-nine patients have been returned to duty, one discharged from service, one died in hospital, and one on furlough, and three admitted,— remaining in hospital, eleven hundred and ninety.— We are again unable to publish alisfof the names of those returned to duty. We are authorized tb state that, as Thursday next has been set apart by the President as a day cf thanksgiving and prayer, the Surgeon in charge has ordered that on the above named day there shall be no labor performed in this hospital, that is not strictly necessary. Inspection call will be sounded at the same hour as on Sunday, ■ —— Miss D. L. Dix, the general head of the lady nurses in the V. 8. Hospitals, arrived at the Point on Tuesday evening last, on board the steamer Key Port. While here she made the complete round of the hospi tal, visiting and inspecting every ward.— She left on Thursday in the steamer Express, to return to Washington. ' ——<<.■—— —. Arrivals. —Geo. McC. Miller, Asst. Surg. V. S. V., and W. W. Bidlack, L. Shaney and Henry Smith, Act. Asst. Sutgs. U. S. A., assigned to duty in this hospital, by order of the Medical Director of this Department, arrived on Sunday evening in the Steamer Philadelphia, from Baltimore. Another, who has been assigned to duty here, also, is yet to arrive. Departure.—On the arrival of the steamer Key Port, on Tuesday evening last, quite a large crowd had gathered to bid farewell to many of the ladies; who have for some time past helped to make the Point seem as if in the pale of civilization, which without their society would appear far otherwise, and we should soon degene rate into savages, or something equally as bad. Some eight or ten ladies in all took passage for Baltimore on the Key Port, and we learn there are quite a number yet to go, but when we can not say. Arrivals —Steamer Juniata, on Friday morning, from Washington, with Quarter master’s stores for the rebel depot. On the same morning steamer John Brooks, from Washington, bringing Gen. Marston and staff; the 2d and 12th regiments N H. Vol’s, and about one hundred and thirty-six rebel prisoners. On Sunday morning propoller James Jerome, from Baltimore, with one hundred tons of ice for the hospital. On Sunday evening the steamer Philadelphia, from Baltimore, with Commissary stores. She was five days making the trip down, tome of her machinery having given out. Also on the same evening, steamer John A. Warner from Washington.