WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, ISi5.
{"newspaper_name": "The New York herald.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2563, "word_count": 464, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9599000215530396], "ccnet_perplexity": [1461.0], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Msceilaneous-AssaWt aud Battery, &c.


we have the pleasure 10 inform you that Father
Rltche has got back safe and sound, and gay as
lark. We suppose he has fixed every thing
straight IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. peaker-Printer-
and so forth But ii Father Ritchie shouldn't re,
the prIntieg Oh! pshaw beg you wouldn't men
non H.


-dppr'pos des bottles, which, being interpreted into
the Cht,dalc, signltirh appropos Of the printing
We are desired by Messrs. Fisk and Heiss TO con-
tradlct the report IN late volunteer letter 10 the
Herald, that there has been any talk looking to
compromise between the officers (or the conduc-
tors thereby OF the Union and U s. Journal on the
subject ot the printing. There has BEEN as we n re
informed by both the gentlemen aforesaid, no pro-
position OF the kind lntlmated, at all, at ALL


shortly after separating from Mr. Hess on the
Avenue this morning, We met the correspondent of
the Charleston Mercury, coming from the opposite
direction. There was large abrasion on the neck
OF the correspondent, as II from the blow of a rough
instrument OF some sort. We INQUIRED the cause
OF the wound, wnen he deposed substantially as fol-
lows: that between ten and twelve o'clock 10 day
he went up TO the CHion office 10 settle for his half
years subscription to the paper-that while waiting
al the desk OF the counting room for his recent Mr.
John r Helss, one OF the proprletors OF the Union
entered al the door behind, and struck him on the
back OF the neck with stick, following up the blow
with various ornamental epithets of destruction
and ordering the intruder out of the Office We
are a man of peace-owe no man any i'll will but
we do say that II Mr.. Helss had assailed us as he
did our peaceabe contemporary, there would have
been fight of the worst kind in the Union office
this morning.


We suppose the offence to Mr. lIeiss grew out of
certain late structures upon the organ by the Charles
ton Mercury


The prospect of war with Great Britain is assum-
ing Its due Importance here as the absorbing aues-
tlon before the next Congress.


We are all pleased in Washington to hear of the
election of Geo. Sykes of n J , to the House. He
as an excellent and upright man


We are informed that trial was made with Lo
pers propeller IN the Potomac, few days ago, and
that after getting under way, the momentum Of the
vessel appeared to average full two knots an hour
all told II this be the case, Loper's propeller is not
the article 49,
The city is as dull as at mdslrnmer Stranoers
are still holding back passing through