THE PRFBS.
PUBLISHED DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,)
BT JOHN W. FOP.SIY,
OFFICE No. 41T CHESTNUT STREET.
DAILY PRESS,
Yweltk Cekts Tek We»x, yayablo to the Carrier.
Mailed to Subscriber!" on; of tin City at Six Dollars
Per Annex, Four Dollars ros Eight Jtosrna, Three
Dollars tor Sis Mosies—immiaby tn advance for
tbe time ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Hailed to Subscribers out of tbe City at Three Dol
lars Per Assom, in advance
SEA BATHING.
gEA BATHING.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
two AND THREE-QUARTER HOURS FROM
PHILADELPHIA.
ATLANTIC CITT is now conceded to be one of the
.most delightful Sea-side Resorts in the world. Its Bail)*
<BS *• unsurpassed j its beautiful unbroken .BeftOll (nine
miles In length) is unequalled by any on the continent,
dare that of Galveston; its air is remarkable for its dry*
-ness j its sailing and fishing facilities are perfect j its
hotels are well furnished, and as well kept Os those of
Newport or Saratoga, while its avenues and walks are
•cleaner and broader than those of any other Sea-Bathing
in the country.
Trains of the CAMDEN 1 AND ATLANTIC BAIL
SOAP leave VINE-STREET WHARF, Pldladelphia,
•daily, at 7# A. M. and 4P. M. Returning, reach Phila
delphia at 9A. M. and 7P. M. Fore, $l.BO.
Bonnd-Trip Tickets, good for Three Bays, $2.50. Dis
tance, 60 miles, A telegraph extends the whole length of
the Road. jplO-tf
SUMMER RESORTS.
T7AGLE HOTEL, ATLANTIC CITY,
J J (s now open with a
LARGE ADDITION OF BOOMS.
Board $7 per wools j Bathing dresses included,
aulo-lm
Light house cottage, AT
LANTIC CITY, the nearest House to the safest
•art of the beach, fa now open for the Season.
TERMS MODERATE.
KO LIQUORS SOLD ON THE PREMISES.
JONAH WOOTTQN,
Proprietor.
Tammany house, north ca-
BOLIKA ATKITUE, near the Depot. ATLANTIC
CITY.
The subscriber tabes pleasure in informing his former
patrons and the public that he hag reopened the above
House, where he will be happy to please all who may
favor him with a call.
ie36«om ELIAS CLEAVES. Proprietor.
QEA - BATHING.—THE UNITED
KJ STATES HOTEL, ATLANTIC, N. J., Is now open
for visitors. Tins is Hie largest and best-furnished Ho.
tel on the Island, and being conTenient to the beach,
and snrronnded by extensive and well-shaded grounds,
<s a desirable house for families. It is lighted with gas,
and well supplied with pun water. The Germania So
cietr w ill furnish the music for the season, la ears
atop at the door of the Hotel for the convenience of
guests. JEREMIAH McKIBBIN,
je 20-tf Proprietor.
CABINET FURNITUR:
/CABINET FURNITURE AND Dili
LIARD TABLES.
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 261 Sooth SECOND Street,
to connection with their extensive Cabinet Business are
cow manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES*
And have now on hand a full Sunnis’, finished with the
MOORE ft CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who have used them, to be
superior to ail others.
For the Quality and finish of these Tables the manu
facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the
ETnion, who are familiar with the character of their work.
anS5-6m
LOOKING GLASSES.
JMMENSE REDUCTION "
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PHOTOOBAIH FRAMES.
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
816 CHESTNUT STBEET,
Announce the reduction of 25 per cent, in the prices of all
Manufactured Stock of Looking Glasses; also, in
Engravings, Picture and Photograph Frames, Cfl Paint
tags. The largest and most elegant assortment in tlio
country. A rare opportunity is now offered to make purj
chases in this line For Cash, at remarkably Low Prices
EARLE’S GALLERIES,
jj-9-tf 816 CHESTNUT Street.
BUSINESS NOTIC:
E PETTIT, REAL ESTATE
. BEOKEB, and CONVEYANCES, No. 309
IFALNUT Street, first floor, back, Philadelphia.
’Will attend to the Purchase, Sale, and Exchange, of
Real Estate in the city and country. Money invested in
and procured on mortgages, ee2-tf
A CARD*—THE UNDERSIGNED,
late of the GIRARD HOUSE, Philadelphia, have
Ceased* for a term of years, WILLARD'S HOTEL, iu
Washington. They take this occasion to return to their
6ld friends and customers many thanks for past favors,
and beg to assure them that they will be most happy to
see them in their now quarters.
SIKES. CHADWICK, ft CO.
WiSHiKQTOS, July 16,1861. aifflS-Iy
TOHN WELSH, Practical SLATE
M BOOFER, THIRD Street and GERMANTOWN
Itoad, ia prepared to put on any.amount of BOOFIKG)
•n the most MODERATE TERMS. Will guaranty to
make every Building perfectly Water-tight.
tE?~ Orders promptly attended to.
TjIILE MANUFACTORY,
211 NEW STREET.
Files and Hasps of every description, and good quality,
to order, at the aboYe establishment.
WHOLESALE AND DETAIL,
at nranuTactrirer’s prices.
Becutting done in a superior manner.
apl-d6m J< B. SMITH-
TjIASE ANB COMFORT.
I*l A. THEOBALD asks, Who can please or suit
everybody 1 _
Snch a person probably never was born. But those
who know when they are suited ■in BOOTS or SHOES
are invited to give him a call, and those who never were
suited before may be suited now. He is at his Old Place,
SOS COATES Street jels-3m
Rh EVANS & WATSON’S
BSffl salamander safes.
STORE,
m CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
A large variety of FIRE-PROOF SAFES always
on band.
X.EGAL.
TN THE C OURT FOR
X THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADEL
PHIA.
Estate of JOHN B. KOONS.
The Auditor appointed tor the Court to audit, settle,
and adjust the account filed by Fred, Fairthome and
Fred, A. Koons, administrators of JOHN B. BOONS,
deceased, and to report distribution of the balance in the
hands of the accountants, gives notice to all parties in
terested in said that he will meet them for the
pnrpo*e of his appointment on TUESDAY, September
10th, 1801, at his Office, No. 258 South FIFTH Street,
Philadelphia, at 4 o’clock P. M.
auvO-fmwOt JOS. P. LOUGHEAD, Attorney.
PRESERVING JARS.
JjVRUIT CAN S AND JARS 1
IMMENSE 6TOCK SELLING OFF AT NOMINAL
FRIGES AT
»03.117 ana 119 SOUTH TENTH STREET.
The large wholesale stock of
ARTHUR’S
FRUIT CANS AND JARS,
Now Belling off at an
IMMENSE REDUCTION.
I am now selling off, at RETAIL, the entire stock of
the late firm of Arthur, Burnham, & Gilroy, N. E; cor
ner Tenth and George streets, consisting of
ARTHUR’S FRUIT CANS AN» JARS.
"OLD DOMINION”
COFFEE AND TEA POTS,
PRATT’S PELF. VENTILATING MILK PANS;
ATING BREAD AND CAKE
BOXES.
ICE CREAM FREEZERS, Ac.
W No such chimce as this will again occor lor get*
Hag the above well-known articles at a very lew price,
jyovi is the time for Housekeepers to secure a supply of
Fruit Jars for the season, at a small cost
CHARLES BURNHAM,
N. E. corner TENTH and GEORGE Streets, PUila,
auS-tlisnffin
Glass above,
GLASS BELOW,
GLASS ON ALL SIDES.
No dan» a r of being poisoned with Metal in using the
HARTELL JAR.
HARTELL & LETCHWOBTH,
aulQ-2ai Glass Warehouse, 13 N. FIFTH Street.
All persons putting up
FRUIT, &c», are especially invited to call and
examine the HARTELL JAB, recommended by Hr. At
tee. Prof. Booth, and others, and see Silver Medals and
First Premium Diplomas, which have never failed being
awarded when placed in competition with other Jars.
HARTELL A LETCHWORTH,
aulO-Cm Glass Warehouse, 13 N. FIFTH Street.
MEDICINAL.
Elixir propylamine,
, Tha Now Bemedy for
RHEUMATISM.
During the past year we have introduced to the notice
of the medical profession of this country the Purs Cry*-
talized Chloride of Propylamine, as a
REMEDY FOB RHEUMATISM;
and taring received from many sources* both from phy
sicians of the highest standing and from patients, the
MOST FLATTERING TESTIMONIALS
of tta real Talue In the treatment of this painful and ob
stinate disease* we are induced to present it to the publio
In a form BEADY FOB IMMEDIATE USE, which we
hope will commend itself to those who we suffering with
this afflicting complaint, and to the medical practitioner
who may feel disposed to test the powers of this Tain able
remedy
ELIXIR PROPYLAMINE, in the form above spokes
of, has recently been extensively experimented with in
the
PENNSYLVANIA. HOSPITAL,
And with MARKED SUCCESS, (as will appear frofi) the
published accounts in the medical journals).
AT" It is carefully put up ready for immediate nse%
with full directions, and can he obtained fiom all the
druggists at 75 cents per bottle, and at wholesale of
, BULLOCK Sc CRENSHAW,
Druggists and Manufacturing Chemists,
Philadelphia.
m»24-ly
F:ne shirt manufactory.—
J. W. SCOTT, * 814 CHESTNUT Street, a tow
doors below the “ Continental.” The attention of the
Wholesale Dealers is invited to Ids IMPROVED OUT
OF SHIRTS, of superior fit, make, and materia], on
band and made to Older it shortest notice* jed-tf
VOL. S.—NO. 32.
PROPOSALS.
P KOTOS ALSforARMY BAGGAGE
WAGONS.
Quarrruastir Grnbkal's orrior* >
__ , Washington, June 21,1851. >
Proposals are invited for the furnishing of Army Bag
gage Wagons.
Proposals should state the prices at which they can be
furnished at the place of manufacture! or at New York*
Philadelphia* Baltimore, Washington, or Cincinnati, aa
preferred by the bidders.
The number which can be modo by any bidder witliin
one month after receipt of the order, also the number
which he can deliver within ono week.
The Wagons must exactly conform to the following
specifications, and to tho established patterns.
glx-mule (covered) wagons, of the sfee and description
ob foilowe, to wit;
The front wheels to be three feet ten inches high, hubs
ten inches in diameter, and fourteen and a quarter inches
long; hind wheels four feet ten inchos high, hubs ten and
a quarter inches in diameter, and fourteen and a quar
ter inches long; fellies two and a half inches wide
and two and three-quarter inches deep; cast iron pipe
boxes twelve inches long, two and a half inches at the
large end and ono and seven-eighths inch at small end:
tire two and ft half inchos wide by five-eighths of an inch
thick, fastened with one screw bolt and nut in each fellies
hubs made of gum, the spokes andfeUie of the best white
oak, free from defects: each wheel to have a sand band and
linchpin band two and three-quarter Inches wide, of No. 8
band Iron, and two driving bands—outside band one and
a quarter inch by one-quarter inch thick, inside band one
inch by three-sixteenths in thickness; the hind wheels to
be made and boxed so that they will measure from the in
side of the tire to the large end of the box six and a half
Inches, and front wheels BiX and one-eighth inchos in a
parallel line* and each axle to bo three feet eleven and
three-eighth inches from tho outside of one shoulder
washer to the outside of the other, se as to have the
wagons all to track five feet from centre to centro of the
wheels. Axletrees to be made of the best quality refined
American iron, two and a half inches square at the
shoulder, tapering down to one and a half inch in the
middle, with $ seven-eighths inch king-bolt hole in each
axletree; washers and linchpins for each axletree; size of
linchpins one inch wide, three-eighths of an inch thick*
with a hole in each end; a wooden stock four and three
quarter inches wide and four inches deep fastened sub
stantially to the axlctree with clips on the ends and with
two bolts, six inches from the middle, and fastened to the
hounds and bolster, (the bolster to be four feet five inches
long, five inches wide, and three and a half deep.) with
four half-inch bolts,
The tongno to be ten fleet eight inches long, four Inches
wide and three inches thick at front end of the hounds,
and two and a quarter inches wide by two and three-
Quarter inches deep at the front end, and so arranged as
to lift tip, the front end of it to hang within two feet of
the ground when the wagon is standing at rest on a level
surface.
The front hounds to be six feet two inches long,
three inches thick, and four inches wide over ftxletree,
*ndto retain that width to the back end of the tongue!
jaws of the hounds one foot eight inches long and three
inches square at the front end, with a plate of iron two
and a half inches wide by three eighths of an inch
thick, fastened on top of the hounds over the back end
of the tongue with one half-inch screw bolt in each
end, and a plate of iron of the same size turned up at
each end one and a half inches to damp the front
hounds together, and fastened on the under side, and at
front end of hounds, with half inch screw bolt through
each hound, a seven-eighth inch bolt through tongue
I and hounds in the centre of jaws, to secure the tongue
| in the hounds | a plate of iron three inches wide, one
quarter inch thick, and one foot eight inches long,
secured on the inside of jaws of hounds with two rivets,
and a plate of the same dimensions on each side of the
tongue, where the tongue and hounds run together*
secured in like manner; a brace of seven-eighths of an
Inch round iron to extend from under the front axle
tree, and take two bolts in front part of the hounds,
same brace tiiree-quarters of an inch round to continue
to the back part of the hounds, and to be fastened with
two bolts, one near the hack end of the bounds, and
one through the slider and hounds; a brace over front
bolster one and a half inch wide, one-quftrfor of (in inch
thick, with a tott m each end to fasten it to the bounds *
the opening between the jaws of the hounds, to receive
the tongue, and four and three-quarter inches r» front,
a half inches at the back part of the jaws.
The hind hounds four feet two inches long, two and
three quarter inches thick, and three inches wide: jaws
one foot long where they clasp the coupling pole; the
holster four feet five inches long* and five inches wide,
by three Inches deep, with Bteady iron two and ft half
inches wide, by one-half inch thick, turned up two and
ahalf , inc hes and fastened on each end with three riveter
the bolster stockß and hounds to be secured with four
half-inch screw bolts, and one half-inch screw bolt
through the coupling pole.
The coupling pole nine feet eight inches long, three
Inches deep, and four and a half inches wide at front
enfi, anfl two ana tliree-auarter Inches wMe at back and;
distance from tho centre of king bolt hole to the centre
of the back axletree six feet one inch, and from the cen.
tre of kingbolt hole to the centre of the mortice in the
hind end of the pole eight feet nine inches; king bolt one
and a quarter inches diameter, of best refined iron, drawn
down to seven-eighths of an inch where it passes through
the iron axletree; iron plate six inches long, three inches
wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick on the doubletree
and tongue where they rub together; iron plate one and
a half by one-quarter of an inch on the sliding bftr* fas
tened at each end by a screw bolt through the hounds •
front bolster to have plates above and below eleven
inches long, three and a half inches wide, and three
eighths of an inch thick, corners drawn out and turned
down on the sides of the bolster, with a nail in each cor
ner, and four countersunk nails on top; two bands on
the hind hounds, two and two and a half inches wide, of
No. 10 band iron; the rub plate on the coupling pole to
be eight inches long* one and three-quarters iftCheswide,
and one quarter of an inch thick. Doubletree three feet
ten inches long, singletree two feet eight inches long, all
well made of hickory, with an iron ring and clip at each
end, the centre clip to be well secured; lead bar and
stretcher to be three feet two inches long, two and a
quarter inches wide, and one and a quarter inch thick.
Lead bars, stretchers, and singletrees for six-mule team :
the two singletrees for the lead mules to have hooks in
the middle to hook to the end of the fifth chain, the wheel
and middle pairs with open rings to attach them to the
doubletree and lead bar
The fifth chain to be ton feet long to the fork; the fork
one foot ten inches long, with the stretcher attached to
spread the forks apart: the links of the doubletree, stay,
and tongue chains, three-eighths of an inch in diame
ter; the forked chain seven-sixteenth inch in diameter;
the fifth chain to be eeven-Bixtcenth inch diameter to
jhft ft>rk: the fork to be fiTe-dxtcciith inch diameter i tho
iinks of these and «»r ti, e lor.fc chains to be not m©**© than
two.and a quarter inches long.
The body to be etraight, three feet six inches wide, two
feet deep, ten feet long at the bottom, and ten feet six
inches at the top, sloping equally at each end all in the
clear or inside; the bed pieceß to be two and a half inches
wide, and three inches deep; front pieces two inches deep
by two and a half inches wide; tail piece two and a half
Inches wide and three incites deep; and four inches deep'
In the middle to rest on the coupling pole; top rail one
and a half inch thick by one and seven-eighth inch wide;
lower rails one inch thick by one and seven-eighth inch
wide; three studs and one rail in front, with a seat on
strap hinges to close it up os high as the sides; a box
three feet four inches long, the bottom five inches wide
front side, nine and a half inches deep, and eight and a
half incheß at the top in parallel line to the body all in
the clear, to be substantially fastened to the front end of
the body* to have an iron strap passing round each end,
secured to the bead piece and front rad by a Tivet in
each end of it passing through them, the lid to be
fastened to the front rail with two good strap hinges, a
strap of five-eighth iron around the box a half inch from
the top edge, and two straps same size on the’lid near
the front edge, to prevent the mules from eating the
boxes; to have a joint hasp fastened to the middle of
the lid, w ith a good wooden cleat on the inside, a strap
of iron on the centre of the box with a staple passing
through it, to fasten the lid to; eight etnds and two
rails on each side: one bolster fastened to the body,
six inches deep ana four inches wide at king bolthole,
iron rod in front and centre, of eleven-sixteenths of an
inch round iron, with a head on the top of rail and nut
on lower end; iron rod and brace behind, with shoulders
on top of tall piece, and nuts on the under side, and a
nut on top of rail; a plate two and a half inches wide,
Of No. 10 band iron on tail piece, across tho body; two
mortices Tn tan piece, and hmd bar two and a quarter
Inches wide and one inch thick, to receive pieces three
feet four inches long, to be used as harness bearers;
four rivets through each side stud, and two rivets
through each front stud, to secure the lining boards, to
be of the best quality iron, and riveted on a good bur;
one rivet through each end of the rails; floor five*
eighths of an inch oak boards • sides five-eighths of
an inch white pine, tail board three-quarters of an
Inch thick, of white pine, to be well cleated with five
oak cleats riveted at each end through the tail-board:
an iron plate three feet eight incheß long, two and
a quarter inches wide, and three-eighths of an inch
thick on the under side of the bed-piece, to extend from
the hind end of the body to eight inches in front of the
bind bolsters, to be fastened by the rod at the end of
the body, by the lateral rod and two three-eighths
of an inch screw bolts, one at the forward end of the
plate, and the other about equi-dißtant betecn it and
the lateral rod. A half-inch round Iron rod or bolt
to pass diagonally through the rails, between the two
hind studs to and through the hed-picce and plate under
It, with a good head on the top and nut and screw at
the bottom, to be at the top one foot six inches from
Inside of tail-board, and on the bottom ten inches from
the bind rod. An iron clamp two inches wide, one
quarter of an inch thick around the bed-piece, the cen
tre bolt to which the lock chain is attached passing
through it, to extend seven inches on the inside of the
body, the ends, top, and bottom to be secured by two
three-eighths inch screw bolts, the middle bar at the
ends to be flußhwith the bed-piece on the lower side.
Two lock chains secured to the centre bolt of the body
one end eleven inches, tho other two feet bix Inchos
long, to be of three-eighths of an inch round iron; foed
trough to be four feet six incheß long from out to out,
the bottom and ends of oak, the sides of yellow pine, to
be eight inches wide at bottom, twelve inches aide at
top, and eighty and a half inches deep all in the clear,
well ironed, with a band of hoop-iron around the top,
on© around each end and tlurce between the ends, strong
and suitable Irons to fasten them on the tob&ue when
feeding; good strong chains to be attached to the top
rail of the body, secured by a staple with a hook to at
tach it to the trough. Six bows of good ash, two inches
wide and one-half inch thick, with three staples to
confine the ridge pole to its place; two staples on the
body, to secure each one of the bows; one ridge pole
twelve feet long, one and three-quarters inches wide by
five-eighths of an inch thick; the cover to be of the
first duality cotton duck No. —* fifteen feet long and
nine feet eight inches Wide, mode in the best manner,
i with four hemp cords on each side, and one through each
| end to close it at both ends; two rings on each end of
1 the body, to Close and secure the ends of the cover; a
staple in the lower rail, near the second stud from each
end, to fasten the Bide cordß. The outside of the body
and feed trough to have two good coats of wlute lead,
colored to a blue tint, tho inside of them to have two
coatß of Venetian red paint; tha running gear and
wheels to have two good coats of Venetian red darkened
of a chocolate color, the hub and fellies to be well
pitched, instead of painted, if required.
A tar-pot, an extra king bolt, and two extra Bingle
| trees to be furnished with each wagon, the king bolt
I and singletrees similar in all respects to those belonging
j to it.
Each sid* 6t the bddy Af tke wagen to be marked TJ.
8., and numbered &b directed; all other parts to bo let
tered U. s.; the cover, feed box, bolts, linchpins, tar
pot, and harness bearers for each wagon to be put up
in a strong box, (coopered,) and the contents marked
thereon.
It is to be distinctly understood that the wagons are
to be so constructed tbat tho several parts of any one
wagon will agree and exactly fit those of any other, so
sb to require no numbering or arranging for putting
together, and all the material used for their construction
to be of tho best quality; all the wood thoroughly sea
soned, and the work in all its parts faithfully executed
in the best workmanlike manner.
The work may be inspected from time to time as it
progresses by an Officer or agent of the Quartermaster’s
Deportment, and none of it shall be painted until it shall
have been inspected and approved by said officer or
agent authorized to inspect it. When finished, pointed,
and accepted by an officer or agent of the Quartermas
ter’s Department, and delivered as herein agreed, they
■ball be paid for. M. 0. MEIGS,
je2s-tf Quartermaster General U. 8.
JUST RECEIVED, per “Annie Kim
. ball,” from Liverpool, llandor, Weaver, & Xu>
der's preparations:
25 lbs. Extract Aconiti, in 1 lb. jars.
25 lbs. Extract Hyoscyaanl, in 1 lb; jara.
50 lbs. Extract Belladonna, In 1 lb. jars.
100 lbs. Extract Taraxad, in 1 lb. jara.
60 lbs. Yin Hal Oolcliici, in 1 lb. bottles.
100 lbs. 01. Succinl Beet., in 1 lb. bottles.
tOO lbs. Calomel, In 1 lb. bottles.
600 lbs. Pil Hydrarg., In 1 lb. jars.
WETHEBILL ft BROTHER,
mbs *7 and 43 North SECOND Street.
riOTTOITSAIL DUCK and CAN
\_J VAB, of all numbers and brands.
Baton's Dock Awning Twills, of all description!, for
Tents, Awnings, Trunk!, and Wagon Covers.
* Also, Paper Manufacturer! 1 .DrierFelte, from Ito 8
feetwide. Ta^ull^i^SaU Twme, Ac.
108 JOBBB Alter.
Best quality roofing slate
always on hand and for Sale at Union Wharf, 1451
BEACH Street, Kensington. _ T. THOMAS,
myl-jy Jl7 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia
PROPOSALS.
Navy Department,
Bureau of Yards and Dock*) Sep, 4,1661.
SEALED PROPOSALS FOR EACH
class separately, endorsed « Proposals for Class No.
(name the class), for the navy yard at (name the yard),”
will be received ut this office until noon on the 2d day of
October next, for furnishing and delivering at the several
navy yards named the materials and articles embraced
in printed schedules, u-liioh will be furnished on appli
cation, And sent by mall, if so requested, to persons de
siring to offer to contract for any or all of thr classes
named therein, by the commandants of the several navy
yards, for the classes for the yards uiuler their command,
or by the navy agent nearest thereto, or by the bureau
for any or all the yards.
To prevent confusion and mistakes in scaling the of-
Sirs, 510 Md Will b& i'SeeireJ tekick contains clashes far
V/itft one yard in one envelope ; and each indi
vidual of a firm must sign the bid and contract.
Bidders are hereby cautioned and particularly notified
that their offers must be in tho form hereinafter pro
scribed, and be mailed in time to reach their destination
before the time expires for receiving them; no bid will
be considered which shall be received after the period
staled, and no allowance will be made for failures of
(he mail.
To guard against offers being opened before the time
appointed, bidders are requested to endorse on the en
velope above the address, and draw n line under the en
dorsement, thus:
“ I‘roposals for Class Ifo. (name the class) for the
D’ary Yard at (itante the yard.)”
To the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Washington, D. C.
Form of Offer.
(Here dote the vffer.)
I, (here msert the name or names composing the firm,)
of (name the town,) iu the State of, (name the Statejj
hereby offer furnish, under your advertisement dated
(date of Advertisement,) and subject to all the require
ments of the same, and of the printed schedule to which
it refers, all the articles embraced in Class Xo. (name the
class) for the navy yard at (name the yard,) according to
said schedule, via: (here past* on the printed ctass from
the schedule, and opposite each nrtirle set the price and
carry out the amount in the columns for dollars and cents,
and foot up the aggregate amount of the bid for the
class,) amounting to (here write tho amount in words.)
I propose ns luy agent (here name the agent, if one is
required by the schedule) for the supply under the classes
miscellaneous, by a non-resident of the place of delivery;
and should my offer be accepted, I request the contract
may be prepared and rent to the navy agent at (name tho
agency) fur signatures and certificate.
(Here the bidder and each member of the firm to sign.)
Form- of Guarantee.
The undersigned (name of guarantor) of (name the town,)
and State of (iirunc the State,) and (name of second
guarantor, Ac.,) hereby undertake that the above named
(name the bithli-r or bidders) will, U' lus [or their) Otter
US above l»G UJ'ieptci!, enter into contract with the L”nsr<-4
States within fifteen duy» after the dnte of notice through
the post ottice of the ucceptuncc of his [or their] offer be
fore mentioned.
Witness: (Signature of guarantors.)
I certify that the above named (heremime the guaran
tors) are known tome to be good and responsible guaran
tors in-this case. (Signature.)
To be signed by the district judge* district attorney,
collector, navy agent, or some pmwm known to the bu
rnt! to bo responsible.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.
Class No. 6, "White pine, spruce, juniper, and cypress;
class Ko. 9. Gravel and sand; class No. 11, Iron, iron
nails,- and spikes j class No. 12. Steel; Hass No. 14. Files;
class N0.,16. Ship chandlery; class No. 17. Hardware;
class NOriSr Stationery; class No. 23. Hefting, packing,
Alld No. 28. Aufiors.
BOSTON.
Classic. 1. Bricks ; class No. 2. Stone ; class No. 3.
Yellow p4ne timber ; class No. 5. Oak am? bard wood
timber and' lumber ; class No. 6. Whit© pin<e r spruce,
juniper, and cypress f class No. 7. Lime, hair, and plas
ter; class No-8. Cement \ class No. 9. Gravel and sand ;
class No, 11,1r0n,-iron e-pfhea, and nails; class- No. 12.
Steel; clssis JFa.l3. ; tlixsp No. IS. l*Air4?f oil?,
and glass : c t*ss No-Ir- Nsnlwnre.
NEW YORK.
Class No. 1. Birfeks ;• chweNo. 3. Yellow pine timber:
class No. 4. Yrifc»v pine lumber; class No. 5. Oak anu
hard wood ; class No.- 6.- White pine, spruce, cypress,
nndjaniper; clu?*3-Nb.-7. Limc r Imir, and plaster: class
No. 8. Cement; etas? No* & Gtjvtcl and Band ; class No.
10. felftte; N®, 11, Iron, iron eplkce, mid nailb ,
class No. 13. Pig-iron ;• claes No.- 35, Paints, oils, and
glass ; class No. W- Ship- cfiaintfFery ; class No. 17.
Hardware ; class No.- 23- Belting, packing, and hose ;:
class No. 25. Iron wwk r &c-
POIH AD ELPSIA.
Class No. 3. Yellow pine timber f class No. 5. Oak and ;
bard wood ; class No- 6. White pine, spruce, juniper,
and cypress; class No.- 11. Irony iron spikes, and
naib; class No, 14, Filraf class No.-17.- Hardware; class
No. 23. Belting, packing* and hose-; class No. 26.
Augers.
WASHINGTON.
Class No. 1. Bricks; class N0..5. Oafcand hardwood;
class No. 6. White pine, spruce, juniper, and cypress;
clasaNo.il. Iron, iron spikes, and nails f class No. 12.
Steely class No. 14. Files; clftis- No. l<st Paints, oils, and
glass;* class No. 16. Ship chandlery; class So. 17. Hard
ware;- class No. 24. Sperm and lut>ilcatfos oils; class
Nj~ 27. Anthracite coal-; ©lass No. S - Ktumiacus
Cumberland coal. ‘
The schedule will state the times within which articles
will*be required to be delivered;*-and where the printed
schedule is not used, the periods stated in it for delive
ries must be copied in the bids. All the articles which
may be contracted for must be delivered at such place or
placeg, including drnyage and cartage to the place where
used within the navy yards, respectively, for which the
oflor is made, aa may bo divested by the commanding
officer thereof; and, all other things being equal, prefe
rence will be given to American manufacture. No arti
cle will be received after the expiration of the period
specified in the schedules for the completion of deliveries,
unless specially authorized by the Department. In com
puting the classes, the price stated- in the column of
prices will be the standard, and the aggregate of the
will be carried out according to-the prices stated.
It is to be provided in the contract, and to be distinctly
understood by the bidders, that the amount and number
of articles enumerated in classes-headed 4 ‘-Miscellaneous ”
are specified as the probable quantity which, may be re
quired, na well as to fix data for determining the lowest
bid; but the contractor is to furnish more or less of the
said enumerated articles, and in such quantities, and at
such, times r as the bitreau oreotnntamctktn t 7>tay re-qujtx y
sueh increase,- however* not to- exceed ono half. e>( the
quantities stated (tu±d i-cquhdtioad Seht llirouph th*- post
office Khnll bo deomed sufficient notice) during the fiscal
year ending 30th June, 1882: and whether Hie quantities
required be more or less thou those specified, the prices
shall remain the same*
All the articles under the contract must be of tl* best
quality, delivered in good order, free of all and every
charge or expense to tlic Government, and subject to- the
inspection, count, weight, or measurement of the said
navy yard, and be in »!t ryept-ris satisfactory to- the- com-*
m&ndant thereof. Bidders are referred to the yard for
plans, specifications, orsamptes, rind any furtlier descrip
tion of the articles. When bidders shall be in doubt as
to the precise articles named in tltc schedule, they will
apply to the commanding officer of the navy yard* and not
to employees for description of the article or articles in
doubt, which information the said officer will giro in
writing. Contractorsforclasscshcaded “Miscellaneous,”
who do not reside near the place where the articles are to
bo dollvovod, will l>o ro)alre<l to taame, In ihc-ir propo
sals, an agent at the city or principal place near tlie
yard of delivery, who may be called upon to deliver ar
ticles, without delay, when they shall be required.
Approved sureties, in the full amount of the contract,
will be required, and twenty per centum as additional
security deducted from each payment until the contract
shall have been completed or cancelled, unless otherwiso
authorized by the Department. On classes of articles
headed tt Miscellaneous,” to be delivered as required
during the fiscal year, the twenty per centum retained
may, at the discretion of the commandant, be paid quar
terly on the. first of January, April, July, and October,
when the deliveries have been satisfactory* and the
balance (eighty per cent.) will be paid by the respective
navy agents within thirty days after the presentation of
bills, in triplicate, duly vouched and approved.
No part of the per centum reserved is to he paid until
all the rejected articles offered under the contract shall
have been removed from the yard, unless specially au
thorized by the Department,
It will be stipulated in the contract that if default
shall be made by the parties of the first part in deliver
ing all or any of the articles mentioned in any class bid
for, of the quality and at the times and places above pro
vided, then, and in that case, the said parties will forfeit
and pay to the United States a sum of money not to
exceed twice the amount of such class; which maybe
recovered, from'time'to time, according to the act of
Congress in that case provided, approved March 3,1843.
The sureties must sign the contract, and their respon
sibility be certified to by a navy agent, collector, district
attorney, or some other person satisfactorily known to
the bureau.
II is to be provided in the contract that the bureau
shall have the power of annulling the contract, without
loss or damage to the Government, in case Congress shall
not have made sufficient appropriations for the article s
named, or for the completion of works estimated for, and
on which this advertisement is based, and shall also have
the power to increase or diminish tho quantities named in
the classes not headed « Miscellaneous” in the schedule,
twenty-five per centum.
Persons whose offers shall be accepted will be notified
by letter through tho post office, which notice shall be
considered sufficient; and if they do not enter into con
txact for the supplies specified within fifteen days from
the date of notice from the bureau of the acceptance of
their hid, a contract will be made with some other person
or persons, and the guarantors of such defaulting bidders
will be held responsible for all delinquencies.
Alt oflere not made in strict wnformity with this ad«
vertisement Will, at the option of tho bureau, be rejected.
Those only whoso offers may be accepted will bo noti
fied, and contracts wIU bo ready for execution as soon
thereafter as may bo practicable. ses-4w
TLLINOIS STATE FAIR-
X This Great Fair, which offera twenty-five thousand
dollars In premiums, will be held at Chicago, and com
mence on MONDAY, the 9th of September, and continue
through the week. Two hundred acres of magnificent
prairie ground is appropriated to its use, and the fitting
up and preparations in every department are correspond
ingly superior, and in every respect most admirable and
complete.
No entry fee is charged in any department, and com
jK-titiOn is open to the world l
The railroads or Illinois transport to and from the
Fair all articles or animals for exhibition free of charge,
ami visitors at excursion rates.
Without interfering with, there will be added to the
Exhibition, A Grand National Test of Fire Arms , aud
display of military goods.
All trials of fire arms will be conducted at stated hours
each dny, under tho superintendence of Colonel Samuel
A, Duchniatitcr, bo as not to interrupt or interfere with
the Exhibition in the Rings, and may be safely witnessed
by the entire mass of visitors in attendance, and from an
immense covered amphitheatre, capable of seating thirty
thousand persons. An elegant stand of colors will be
awarded to the best drilled company of Infantry.
Sixty Rings of horses, and Fifty Rings of cattle, will
compete for the premium*.
The large means employed, and the talents tvh<l energy
put in requisition to make the best us© of them, abun
dantly warrants the assertion, that this will not only
prove the most useful, but most magnificent Agricultural
Fair ever held in the United States, and if bo, the best
ever hold in the world.
It will have visitors from the great Atlantic cities, and
from Europe. And it will have a class of visitors to
whom it will afford equal pleasure from the Farms and
tYorKsliops of tlio Great YVosL 804-3 t
■\TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
JL> that a Circuit Court of the United States of tho
Eastern District of Pennsylvania will bo held at tho
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, on MONDAY, the 7th
day of October next, at 11 o’clock A. for the trial
Olid information filed l.v GEORGE A. COFFEY, Esq.,
Attorney of the United States for said District, against
the weekly newspaper called tho Christian Observer;
also, certain property, including paper, type, printing
materials, account books, iron safe, and fixtures used in
printing and publishing the said newspaper, the said
paper being seized as being used and employed, &c., with
the intent of aiding, abetting, and promoting insurrec
tion and resistance to the laws of tho United States, &c.,
mid praying that the pome may be condemned and con
fiscated according to the act of Congress in such case
made end provided. WILLIAM MILL WARD,
Sept. 3,1801. [ses-3t] U. S. Marshal.
Philadelphia terra-cotta
WORKS.
Office and Warerooms, 1010 CHESTNUT Street
Ornamental Chimney Tops.
Garden Vases and Statuary,
r Encaustic Flooring Tile*
Architectural Ornaments.
Ventilating and Smoke Flues.
Ridge Tile and Sanitary Ware.
Steam-pressed Drain Pipe.
Water Pipe, warranted to ■tend pressure,
cheap and durable.
The Trade supplied, on Liberal Terms.
Illustrated Catalogues sent by mail, on
application by letter. „ A HAEBISOIf .
m h2T.tr 1010 CHE3TNPT Street.
XTTQAD —500 lbs. for sale by
VV WETHERILL ft BBOTHEB,
|«ll 47 and tt Hortit SECOND Street.
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1861.
%\\t firm.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1861.
“ On the Banks of that Lone River,”
An odd caption for a local item, wo confess, but
the sweet English ballad's name is nevertheless
quite appropriate to our subject.
For the last thirty *r forty years, perhaps, a
quiet, shady lane bos cosily stretched itself along
the west bank of the Sohuyydll river, from the
Wire Bridge past Market street. • Beginning no
where in particular, and as though by the merest
accident in the world, leading shiftlessly along to
almost any indefinite locality, and ending in the
same incomprehensible way—without an apparent
purpose in life, any more thai to drag out a fetter
ed existence, like the “ Father of the Marshalsea,”
and, moreover, blocked up by short-sighted art into
a mere ravine that Nature had too much judgment
to hollow out for it—it has come to be looked upon
as a sort of topographical nonentity, as a foundling
thnt has never awakened to the shame of its own
paternity, and that has never been taken kindly by
the hand, and taught to look back with a fond re
gret to the brightest days of its existence.
Thus for nigh half a century it has stretched itself
along the river's edge on sunny days, and watched
its face reflected in a thousand rippling circles for
every pebble cast into the water: and in all that
half a century it has been wandering by the water
side without a name ' —at least without a name in
the city's official nomenclature of highways and by
ways.
People have called it the river road, because it
has wound along the river's brink so many passing
years without straying after fresh fields and greener
pastures; and some, in their self-complacence,
have called it the “lonesome road,” because they
could never muster the courage to travel it by sun
light, or moonlight, or twilight. While others,
more courageous, and probably more resthetical,
and certainly owning property in “the village,”
have christened it the “romantic road.” And
others still, whose sordid eyes can never sec the
dulcc for the utile, have bestowed upon it the un
musical appellation of the “ short cut, ”
But the sordid are often their own unwitting
satirists. So, the corpulent, nnd the asthmatic,
and they that are wont to groan under heavy mar
keting of a Saturday, hare never found it a particle
shorter than other routes of less pretensions; not a
bit shorter on summer days, when the river is only
a band of geld between two slopes of green, and
when every atom of dust by the wayside is gasping
and panting for a breath of life; not a bit shorter
in winter time, when every blast of Old Boreas
comes sweeping down from its northern fastness
like a eharge of the First City Troop: not a bit
shorter than pther routes, in fact, bmuse of its
serpentine course, and because of a certain air it
has of hairing just stepped out for an evening
ramble, and of having been charmed away to self
forgetfulness by the water-lilies, and the freeb hay
scent, and the voices of the rustling corn. Here,
then, for an apostrophe:
11 The veined wind-flower in the somhre wood,
Thought-breeding pansies- in the sunlight glowing,
Or red-cloaked lilies iu the meadows growing.
Best image thee, in every changing mood!”
Half way down the road you come to an old
atone bridge that once had a wooden coping, no
doubt, for vestiges of it still remain; but every
one who ever went that way, and sat awhile fo
rest himself, was wont, it seems, to carve his initials
there. So the coping has crumbled and shrunk
away, and the name of many a one who years
ago was laid beneath the Eod, has been overgrown
with the ivy-green. Bist the lapse of time has not
crumbled the marble -lab get in the staunch-built
masonry. The strange, old-fashioned letters that
sprawled into existence a good long life ago
from the point of the sculptor's chisel, have
managed to sprawl along Time’s highway ever
since, unscathed, and smile at you thus, with a
world of memories in their eyes;
COUNTY BEUBK
19 38.
Beneath the bridge a streamlet used to come
down to the river every day from Pbwclton, but its
visits have ceased long since, and tradition is silent
as to the cause. Its bed is sere and trackless now,
but when the brown-faced autumn comes the wi
thered leaves shall gather there, and rustle sadly
with the paseing winds.
Though but a brief half mile in length, and
sweeping through dangerous gravel pits, the Bone
gome I*ane 1$ still m the prime ef beauty, and f?UU
B Study IW TPTCio-eg-Matnra, in tier.. picturesque-
and startling moods. TVhere foot-walks ought't«
be there are ridges of grassy knolls, that the roam
ing cattle have almost shorn of their growth of
greenness by constant croppings; and out of the
knolls start tall cedars, and oaks, and sapling wil
lows. As for the main roadway, it has taken a
most novel and unjustifiable method of getting toils
journey’s end—a method of hills and hollows that
may be pleasant enough to the eye in a sketch, but
is apt to startle a stranger with the notion that the
lane has come to an untimely end, in a clump of
poplars or a wooded farm.
None but vagrants ever seem to frequent the
lonesome lane, and they always seem to be seated
upon the grassy knolls, untying bundles of clothes
in their laps, or else have their eyes bent indus
triously on the water; always seem to start mys
teriously at the sound of a foot-fall near them;
always seem, from the look of their bleared and
blood-shot eyes, to have a weighty secret, which
they arc anxious to keep concealed from you. Some
times a stray pedler crosses the threshold of tfffeir
haunts, and seats himself upon a knoll; but it is
only that he may wipe his face, and unsling his
pack for a moment’s rest, and a moment’s breath of
the grateful air. He is always a languid, care
worn, weary man, with a furrowed brow and un
shorn chin, and a'lustreless eye that tells the tale
of a purposeless, withered life. After a lapse of
time that has brought no rest, his staff i 3 taken up
again, and the weary tramp resumed, till he sinks
from view in a hollow of the road. His moment’s
rest was a thought of his fatherland.
Beyond the willows and the gnarled oak-branches
that out up the face of the moon so oddly, lie the
broad green marshes by the river. In the braTe
days of old when freshets were not a nine days’
wonder, the bosom of the marshes would often be
covered with canal-boats, and the subsiding waters
would leave them there to pcriEh in their ignominy.
Several of these boats are still to be seen thus im
bedded in the smiling but treacherous mead out of
reach from the land-side, and unfit for service on
the water. In the morning’s sunehiue their dis
mantled hulks loom out of the river-mists, with a
strange reminiscence of a mindful scene in “ Great
Expectations.” As far as vivid scenery can go,
here may we view tho faithful counterpart of its
opening Chapter; and only a few weeks since, the
graveyard, too, was here, as though to complete
the picture.
All day long the voices of the marsh keep up a
tuneful melody. All day long the grasshopper
rings the “Siege of Belile,” or something else as
monotonous, but fifty per cent, more endurable.
All day long the locusts are whispering secrets in
the cover of the grass. All day long the old-fash
ioned frog is croaking an autobiography—which
frogs on other lonesome roads never so mueh as
think of doing. If his croakings were only more
intelligible, or the English language more pronounce
able and primitive, he would teU you, hew in days
of yore, the Schuylkill Banger made his haunts in
these old hulks and marshes—and how the prowess
of his deeds made godly people tremble—and how
the mysteries of strange men’s bodies, found float
ing lifeless among the tall green reeds, remained
forever unravelled—and hOW ghosts from Potter's
Field were seen to patrol the lonesome road on
moonless nights, so that it fell into disrepute, and
was ever after shunned. But Potter’s Field has
been removed along with its ghostly phantoms, and
tho Schuylkill Ranger has gone to the tomb of the
Capulets. _
And th» little birds, too, have a tale of their
lives to twitter, had we but time to stay and listen,
for it is here that the city’s younger sons and
would-be sportsmen most do congregate, when the
Shooting season comes. What matter if most of
them cannot handle a gun? They have accom
plished much to be already so well acquainted with
the lingual requisites of their calling. It is much
to be able to speak flippantly of “mashes” for
“marshes,” and “patridges” for “partridges,”
without a blush mounting to their ermine cheeks—
much to be able to use the feline particle “ cat
ridge” in place of the honest substantive their
grandsires used in ’76. Sportsmen are such apa
culiar class of beings, and must be indulged in
as sharp-defined characteristics as the featherless
fledglings that they prey upon. Tho slaughter of
tho innocents has made their natures imperious,
And there are tuneful voices in the lonesome lane
by night . The tremulous chirp of the cricket, who,
like Widow Machreo’s kettle, “ rings songs full of
melody”—the call of the locust to hia comrades —
the unearthly hoot of the sereech-owl, and anon
the dull flapping of his wings—the plash of an oar.
from out the darkness of the water, as though an
Indian were paddling down the stream in his birch
canoe —the winding note of the boatman’s horn, to
which the distance lends a mournful cadence —the
steady roar of the waters of the dam; —those are the
voices of the lane after nightfall; and never—even
in the gloom of midnight—is nature wholly voice
less, though it is held by Barry Cornwall that
“ All things that live nnfl arc, love quiet hours—’’
But the lonesome lane (how cheerless the allitera
tion!) Li fast being shorn of its primal romance.
,j,he green meads and marshes are gradually yield-
ing to tliftt foremost law of organic nature—ilie law
of change—of which the poet hath truly said:
“'Tin writ in the sl;y, ’tin writ on tlie deep,
’Tie writ on the graves where our fathers sleep.”
Out to the furthermost verge of the verdure, the
new wharves of the Pennsylvania Railroad are now
being extended, and the Vandal spirit of progress
is wedding itself to new piles of brick and mortar
at every turn of tho road.
Still the Swiss cottage built back among the
trees will always have a redeeming beauty, for
each sterile feature of the landscape, and still more
the associations connected with the Fair grounds
Just opposite, will always lead a brightening aspect
to the spot, though every sylvan charm should fade
with the dying years. Nearly all the agricultural
fairs of the city and State societies have been held
on this very site. Here was given birth an impetus
to the Commonwealth's inventive skill and indus
trial interests, which the nation's crisis may check
but cannot overthrow. Here were the' trials of
speed between highborn Etook, that stirred the
blood of thefancy" men like rich old wino—here
mammoth beets and golden pumpkins smiled for
days at a time on village matrons and the country
folk—and here the panorama of human life passed
swiftly down to the valley and shadow of Time.
American Affairs in .Europe.
MR. ROEBUCK, M. P., HAKES A SPEECH.
At a public dinner, given to Iton. Mr. Roebuck..
Member of Parliament for Sheffield, that remarka
ble gentleman expatiated'very freely on foreign
affairs, He was very loving towards France and
Louis Napoleon, but towards Brother Jonathan he
was something else, as will be seen by the extract
from his speech below:
He had now travelled over Europe, and for a few
moments would croes the Atlantic, and would ask
what should be the condupt of Englishmen with re
gard to the great eentest going on m America; He
owned that with regard to that country his early
anticipations had been shaken. He believed in the
gTeat men—the Washingtons, the Jeffersons, and
ethers of past times [hear, hear], and that there
was about to be shown to mankind a new era in
the government of man—that this people, instruct
ed and well-to-do in the world—many of them
men of rank—would have governed themselves
as men ought to do. He had been miserably dis
appointed [Hear.] If wc were to say to an Ame
rican, “lVe give you every virtue under Hen-,
ven, we believe you to be the greatest people on
the earth, but still it seems to me you don’t speak
English as it Bhould bo spoken—this you speak
through the nose”—[laughter] —Are and fury will
be the answer. He will eay, with a mighty indig
nation. “Sir, I grant you the imputation that
we snuffle in our speech.” [laughter,] and then all
we have stated on behalf of this nation will be for
got, because we had said that they snuffled in
their speech. [Oh!] That, unfortunately, he (Mr.
Roebuck) believed to bo a true statement of
the present case. The unspeakable audacity,' the
overhearing insolence of Americans [hear! hear!]
had withdrawn from them all sympathy on the
part of the people of England. [Hear! hear!]
looking at the great contest now going on, was
there a man in this country who aid not in his
heart desire that the slave might bo free ? [Hear,
hear.] These are with the North, our commercial
interests are with the South, but still we have acted
throughout with complete neutrality, and what has
been the consequence? We have been visited with
abuse as was never before heaped upon us, and we
have borne it with a magnanimity and carelessness
which showed our superiority. We must still,
however, pursue our course of strict neutrality
with regard to the affair. Our hearts and our
wishes were with the oppressed. After further
remarks upon the slave question, Mr. Roebuck
resumed his seat amid great applause.
A Spanish General’s View of the Union
’ Army.
General Sana, a Spanish officer, who was men
tioned in Mr. Bussell’s last letter as on a visit to
the troops at Washington, has written a letter to
the Diana J)e la Marina , of Havana. It will
be seen the letter was written only a few days after
the battle of Manassas, and when the army was in
its worst condition. If the General should visit the
camps at . this moment, he would find them very
much changed from what he last saw them. He
says:
• It is necessary to see this place to be convinced
of what is occurring, and to form an idea of what
kind of an affair an army is composed of men with
out any military habits, and led by officers—-chiefs
and generals—for the most part devoid of the know
ledge necessary. Excepting the war material in
the transportation department, such as wagons, gun
carriages, ambulances, Ac., which is magnificent,
all else is a confusion of ill-clad men, without any
military instruction, and, what is worse, without
trying to acquire it, according to appearances, Since
daring the time I remained there I have seen them
pass days and nights in the camps without doing
anything, with the exception of battalion drill for a
short while in the morning, and again in the eve
ning. As far as I have been able to observe, they
have no large fields for manoeuvring or target ex
ercises, which surprises me, since I know the fond
ness they have for it in this country. Nothing im
pheises yon that there are seventy thousand men in
the neighborhood preparing for war. Silence and
tronqulilMy the city and camps, neither
more nor less than if everything were
state.
For all I hare searched, I hare not succeeded in
finding either cavalry or artillery. True, the latter
they abandoned on the Bull Run field of battle, and
the former they have never had except in compara
tivcly insignificant numbers. What they have is
draught cattle such as I have never seen anywhere;
the harness and gun carriages are all bran-new,
since they lost those they previously had in the bat
tle, and that, too, in great numbers, as every one
says.
Certainly, all that money can procure is had here
in abundance; but there are things which cannot
be improvised. Hence it is that, according to my
opinion, thfsfgentry will he beaten as often as they
go into battle—at least for the present.
Nothing of all that is said by the Southernpapers
on the result of the battle is exaggerated. Here it
is known perfectly well that the Federalists, besides
having run away helter-skelter, lost about 19,000
muskets, seventy odd cannon, (!) all their wagons
and provisions, field train, tents, and a great part
of their knapsacks. It is only necessary to take a
peep at an encampment to notice that not one of
these latter is to be seen. Tho soldiers use no more
clothing nor uniform than what we understand by
barrack dress, and their olothes are so clumsily
worn, dirty and motley, that it is necessary to see
to believe. Beards and long hair are also very
much in fashion. I wonder if they imagine the
enemy will be frightened by showing them dishe
velled heads and dirty, hairy face 3.
The Loss of the Privateer Jeff. Davis.
Tke Richmond Enquirer has the following ac
count from one of the crew of the privateer Jeff.
Davis, lately wrecked, from which we extract the
following:
“ When about eight hundred miles east of Cape
Florida they came in contact with the ship John
Crawford, Captain Edge, from Philadelphia, bound
to Ivey West, with arms and coal for tho United
States forces. She was found to draw twenty-two
feet of water, and could not possibly be brought in.
The officers and crew, numbering in alt twenty-two
persons, were taken on board the privateer, the
vessel fired and holes bored in her sides and bottom.
This was about 4 o’clock in the morning, and by
food daylight the ship was wrapped in flames, going
own shortly afterwards. II was found impossible
to secure any of the arms, as they were stowed un
der the coal.
“ They then turned their oourse, with a light
wind, for St.'Augustine, Florida. Upon nearing
the coast the wind increased, until finally it blew a
perfect gale. The vessel had crossed the Gulf safe
ly, and on Friday night, tho 15th, they hove to, and
found themselves in sixteen fathoms water. At
daylight land was discovered and a clear coast.
They were then about ten miles south of Matanzas!
Squared away and made for St. Augustine bar.
Found the tide too low upon their arrival, and
Stood off. The captain hoisted the Confederate
flag at the fore-topgallant mast and fired a gun as
a signal for a pilot. Three attempts were made to
get into the harbor, but it was found they could not
weather it. The vessel kept working up to the
windward through the night, and at daylight they
discovered themselves ten miles from the bar. The
flag was again hoisted, and a pilot was observed
coming towards the brig and giving the usual sig
nals.
“ In attempting to cross the bar, however, the
brig grounded on the North Breakers. This was
about half past six o’clock Sunday morning, the
17th instant. A small boat was sent ashore with
Dr. Babcock and Lieutenant Baya, and the prison
ers landed. The officers and crew of the privateer
then went ashore, and were greeted with the most
enthusiastic demonstrations by tho inhabitants.
About half past nine two light-boats went off to the
brig, along with Captain Coxetter and other officers.
The star-hoard guns were thrown overboard to
lighten the vessel, in order to clear her decks of
water,, and save as much as possible of the supplies
on board 'tho brig. Every effort was made to saye
every thing then on board, but it was supposed that
the guns thrown overboard stove her in and caused
her to bilge. The light-boats, however, were filled
with a large amount of provisions and baggage, and
finally succeeded in saving all the small-arms on
board. About two o’clock all hands had left and
were conveyed to St. Augustine. The brig is a
total loss. B"t a small pioee of her bow was re.
maining on Thursday morning, and it was then
thought that she would go to pieces before day
light.”
Commodore Stringham Serenaded.
Commodore Stringhnm was serenaded at his home
in Brooklyn. New York, on Wednesday evening.
In response to the compliment he said:
“ Citizens, Neighbors, and Friends : I can
not express in words the appreciation I have of the
feelings you have manifested on this occasion [Ap
plause.] You must not expect a speech from a
sailor who hBS never been in the habit of talking to
an audience, except on the quarter-deck of a man
of-war. [Great cheering.] I have sailed under
the glorious old Btars and stripes for fifty years,
and when I fight again, I hope It will be still under
that noble old banner, to which the gentleman
who preceded me has alluded. [Applause.] _That
is the glorious old banner of our oountry,_and our
country will even yet bo represented by its starry
folds. But, I must say that they have compliment
ed me very highly this evening. I know it is be
cause I am the representative of those gallant offi
cers and men who served with mo, and took port
in the action at Hatteraa. [Applause.] It waß
owiDg to their co-operation that success was
achieved, and I shall bear the news of this appre
ciation to them. I accept your welcome zn their
hehalf, and greet you to the hospitalities of my
house. [Cheers, amid which the commodore re
tired.j” _
Peter Mclnnis. one of the oldest settlers at
Kouchibougac, N. died at that place on the 21st
ultimo, at the advanced age of da® hundred sad
three years.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
REBEL Accounts OF THEIR HATTERAS DEFEAT.
From the various Southern exchanges that have
reached us, we clip the following accounts of our
~a ~ c ras victory. The Raleigh (Ji. C.) Standard
of Saturday says: 11 On Tuesday last, Gov. Clark
received a despatch from General Huger, at Nor
folk, stating that two steam frigates, eight armed
vessels, with other small craft, had left Old Point
on Monday, and steered South. The impression
was they designed an attack upon our coast: Gov
Clark at once ordered tho Seventh Regiment of
State troops, commanded by Colonel Campbell, ta
Newbern. On Wednesday, a despatch was re
ceived via Newbern, that the fleot had anchored off
Fort Hatteras.
On Thursday afternoon an intense feeling wa3
created here by the additional announcement that
I ort Hattera3 had been captured by the Nationals
—that the guns of tho fort were silenced at an ear
ly period of the day. Wo had nineteen cannon
mounted at that point, with about 500 troops. The
forye of the Rationale is varieuely estimated at from.
4,000 to 8,000. We doubt if they had more than
4,000, if that, os more could not well have been
spared from Old Point.
The Raleigh Register, of the same day, has the
following :
Oapt. Gates, of the schooner Isabella Ellis,
reached Newbern on Thursday last, having left
Hatteras on Wednesday at 12 o’clock M., and ■ re
ports that when he left the Nationalists were Lom
bardihg Fort Hatteras, the fort not responding after
the expiration of about ten minutes. Capt. G.
further stated that he heard from a pilot who was
moving his family from the island, that on the pre
vious night, (Tuesday,) the enemy had landed a
large force between Cape Hatteras and the fort.
The following is the number of the National fleet
seen off the Cape: 8 steamships of war, 1 sailing
frigate, 3 steam gun-boats, 3 barks, supposed to be
transports; 9 long launches or surf-b*ats.
Under this state of affairs, we feel warranted in
entertaining the most serious apprehensions for the
safety of Newbern, Washington, and in fact the en
tire. coast. Col. Campbell's regiment, recently
,stationed at Graham, and originally destined for
Virginia,, was sent toNewborn oh Wednesday, The ‘
Charlotte Artillery left their camp here on Thurs
day for the same destination. ThqjVilmington Ar
tillery, now jit Camp Boylan, and .under marching
orders for Virginia, have been detained here'untU
it can be ascertained if their services are needed on
the coast.
Since the above was writ tee, we have learned
that Commodore Barron, Captain and Lieut. Sin
clair, with the steamer Whitlow, and Capt. Brad
ford. have been captured by the Nationals.
Friday, 11 o’clock A. M.
A despatch to Gov. Clarke has just been read in
the House of Commons, conveying the intelligence
of the surrender of our troops at Ilatteras to the
Nationals. Among those surrendered was Colonel
■Martin, brother of Adjutant General Martin. For
the sake of the credit of the State, we forbear to
desoribe the effect which this despatch produced on
the House.
The Newbern Progress of Friday has the fol
lowing:
Fort Hatteras was surrendered to the National
authorities about eleven o'clock on yesterday,
Thursday.
The steamer Winslow, which left there soon
after the surrender on yesterday, arrived here
about ten o'clock last night.
She brought up five wounded men and one dead
body. From Lieut. Citizen, of Capt. Lamb’s com
pany, who escaped and came up, we gathered the
following particulars :
The national steamers, eleven in number, com
menced the bombardment on Wednesday, and the
forts. Clark imd Hatteras, returned the fire. It
was kept up until dark, with but little lees on our
side. On yesterday morning the conflict Was re
newed. and continued until about eleven o'clock,
when, after a desperate resistance, our forces were
compelled to surrender, and the whole garrison are
now held as prisoners, save a few who escaped.
The Goldsborough Tribune of the 30th issues an
extra from.which we extract:
The attack was made on Wednesday morning at
.8 o’clock, and kept up til! 11 o’clock A. M., on
Thursday. Eleven of the enemy’s vessels were en
gaged in the bombardment. Fort Clark was cap
tured first, and l'ort Hatteras at the time named
above, as that of the close of the cannonade. From
600 to 800 prisoners were taken by the enemy.
Among them are Colonel Martin, Major Andrews,
and Commodore Barron, son of the celebrated com
modore of that name. Some eight or ten escaped.
Qf the killed and wounded we hure no account at
this time, but expect further details before we put
this extra to press.
The Wilmington Journal, of Friday afternoon,
has the following:
“An official despatch, received this morning
from Newbern, via Goldsborough, says that Hatte
ras Battery, and 535 of our men, including Capt.
Bradford and Com. Barron, hare been taken pri
soners by the National fleet. ”
The Raleigh correspondent ef the Petersburg
Express, of the 2d inst., says: “The news from
our coast of yesterday and to-day is of a very sad
character. Our eoaat is certainly in possession of
the Yankees. They entered Hatteras Inlet on
yesterday and took possession of our batteries and
men there. From accounts, I suppose their en.
trance was effected with very little trouble. Wo
had- only one regiment, consisting of 800 men, sta
tioned there and at Ocracoke Inlet. This was the
Seventh Regiment North Carolina Volunteers. Its
field officers were W. F. Martin, colonel; Geo. W.
Johnston, lieutenant colonel; 11. A. Gilliam, major.
The entire regiment, with the officers, were taken
prisoners by the 1 ankees.
The Yankee force consisted of sixteen war ves
sels, among them'two very large ones. They stood
out and bomimraeu uur natreries ai pLansnre and
our guns not being able to reach a hull of the’fleet:
Our men being few, our guns small, and our ammu
nition scarce, all that could be done was to sur
render,
What does the entrance of the Yankees Into our
waters amount to ? It amounts to this: The whole
of the eastern part of the State is now exposed to
the ravages of the merciless vandals. Newbern,
Washington, Plymouth, Edenton, Hertford, Eliza
beth City, are all now exposed, besides tho whole
of the adjacent country.
The strength of the Yankee force already landed
is not definitely known. It is supposed to be about
8,000 men. Our State is now plunged into a great
deal of trouble, which certainly could have been
avoided had the proper steps been taken.
Females are leaving the eastern part of the State
rapidly, and coming here and going elsewhere.
There is great agitation now throughout the State,
as far as the news has reached.
On Saturday, a reporter of the Express had a
conversation with two wounded soldiers who were
present at the bombardment, and gleaned the follow
ing:
On Thursday morning early, the enemy’s power
ful guns opened fire at Port Hatteras, the war ships
keeping out at a distance almost entirely beyond
the reach of our guns. This they were enabled to
do by means of their 64-pounders, while the largest
guns at Hatteraa were only 32-pounders.
It is stated that one of the national steamers be
came a little bold and ventured within the range
of our guns. A well-directed shot was immediately
fired, which struck a small boat hanging from the
davits on her forward quarter, and knocked it into
fragments. Another shot speedily followed from
Hattcras, which struck the hull of the steamer fair
and square, producing an opening which was dis
tinctly visible from the fort. This was more than
the national craft had bargained for, and she in
stantly directed her bow to seaward, and made for
deeper water.
About eleven o’clock our magazine was exploded
by a shell from the enemy, which scattered death
and destruction all around. It is to this unfortu
nate and unexpected casualty that the capture of
the fort is attributed, and not to a lack of ammuni
tion, as has been erroneously stated. By this ex
plosion, the great majority of the deaths on our
side were effected. The wounded were speedily
hurried to the Winslow, and the steamer sent off
to prevent her falling into the hands of the enemy.
All accounts agree that the Yankee soldiers now
quartered on Hatteraa Island will have a most un
pleasant situation, if they can be confined to that
locality. It is a dreary, barren spot, composed
chiefly of sand. During the latter summer and
early fall months, it abounds with mosquitos, re
markable alike for size and bloodthirstiness, and
daring the winter the winds from Old Neptune
sweep across the island with a fury and keenness
against which the thickest of garments offer but
poor and inadequate protection. Another insur
mountable obstacle is the entire absence of fresh
water, so important for drinking and culinary pur
poses. Every drop used by our troops has been
carried from Nowhere, a source to which the Yan
kees cannot possibly resort.
A gentleman now in this city, who visited Port
Hatteras last Tuesday, two weeks since, informs us
that it was scientifically arranged and substantially
built. The timbers used were of the most massive
and dnrable kind, and the whole was covered with
earth to the thickness of twelve or more laches,
and then turfed, the grass being already verdant
and luxurious. The same gentleman informs us
that there was an abundance of ammunition—pow
der, shell, and solid shot—and that the mngazine,
located between the fort and the shelter in the rear,
was considered by skilful engineers as bomb-proof.
If this be so, the wounded soldiers may have been
mistaken ns to the explosion of the magazine.
VALI.ANDIGIIAM IX A SCItArE.
In Dayton, Ohio, a few days since, Vallandigham,
the traitor, was presented with a little hill of fifty
five cents for whisky, by one Sol. Herschelrode,
grocer. Yal. attempted to repudiate, and even in
timated to the grocer’s face that he was a scoun
drel. Sol. demurred. Val. drew a six-shooter to
enforce the allegation. Sol. drew another six
shooter. Val. thereupon counted himself out in
stantcr, and retreated to a millinery establishment,
where he concealed himself until his foe had retired,
go says tho Dayton Journal,
now irkmont's uiioci.ajiatiox is iiechived is
KENTUCKY
Tho Louisville Democrat says:
‘‘The right to confiscate is undoubted, but the
policy is more than questionable. The negro ques
tion i 9 too irritating a wound to be touched by such
an unskilful hand as that of Fremont.
“ It is a pnrt, however, of the fortunes of war.
When tho negro property of Union men is confis
cated by Secessionists, we can expect nothing else
than that the generals of the United States army
should feel at liberty to do the same. It does not
affect the Union feeling either one way or the other
in this State, and is rather regarded as an act to be
expected in war than commended.”
FROM RIt’IIMOXD.
The Richmond Dispatch of the 29th says :
At last accounts that have reached us Gen. Lee
was, with a part of tho force under his command,
not far from Iluttonsville, in Randolph county. The
enemy, or part of the force under Uosecrans, was
between him and that town, the distance between
the camps of the opposing forces being eight or ten
miles. Up to that time Gen. Lee had moved steadi
ly, and the enemy had been receding before him
after he had passed a defensible point on tho line
between Pocahontas and Randolph. It will be re
membered that llosccrans endeavored to get posses
sion of that point when he heard of the approach of
our army; but Gen. Lee got ahead of him, and oc
cupied it but a little while before he oould reaoh it.
HEALTH OP TIIK GEORGIA TROOPS IS VIRGINIA,
A letter from Monterey, Ya., to the Atlanta (Ga.)
Confederacy , says that of the 4,500 Georgia sol
diers in that "place, under the command of General
Jackson, two die daily, usually from too typhoid
TWO CENTS.
fever. Vet the Georgians, according to the writer
of the Tetter, do not suffer so much from sickness
as the Virginia troops. The same letter states the
number of rebel- troops In Western Virginia as 18,.
000, and snys that they will soon surrouMi General
Bosecrans.
RErOUT OF* the wanAssas battle.
The Richmond nxteh states that up tfcvMbn--
day neither Johngtsm nee Beauregard hail made
any report of the battle of Manassas, though one
was expected from them in the course of a few
days.
The Parrott gun takema* the battle of Manasmr
is stated by the Dispatch to be at Acquia Creefe-
UELEASBD Off PAROLE.
The New Orleans Picaptasc states that the rebels
have released on parole the Vnionprisonerstaken
at Fort Fillmore and elsewhere in Texas.
GROWING AIsAIT3iEI>,
The Memphis Appeal calls upon the Atlantic and
Gulf States of the Confederacy to increase their
coast defences, urging that those States are now ut
terly defenceless on their coasts, and dally exposed
to attacks from the Fedora! Government-
AN ARMORY AT AUGUSTA.
The Augusta., (Ga.) Constitutionalist under
stands that a Confederate armory is to be established
near that city. The manufacture of cannon is now
going on there at a very rapid rate, and. as soon as
the necessary arrangements can be made, the ma
nufacture of the small arms will be commenced.
WAR NEWS.
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS AND TIIK WAR.
The Boston Post, the leading Democratic journal
of New England, asks:
“ Cannot Massachusetts throw off her old narrow
jealousies and prejudices, and come forth in a free,,
i frank, patriotic spirit, and exhibit but one purpose
in its political movements now—namely, a determi
nation to maintain the Government, the Constitu
tion, the Union ?
TIIE NEW JERSEY BRIGADE
Says the Newark Advertiser, “ Gen. Kearney is
rapidly improving the condition of the New Jersey-
Brigade, and inspiring confidence among the men,
in whose welfare he shows so much interest, lie
has- now in course of construction several ovens of
iron and brick, from which he expects to servo all
the'regiments daily with fine fresh bread. Hois
also erecting a slaughter-house, from which fresh
beef-will be-issued to the men.”
THE OFFICERS OF THE .R, B, FORBES ARRESTED.
The steamer Jl. Is. -Period,-purchased for agon
beat by the Government-, arrived at the Washing
ton navy yard on Wednesday afternoon from For
tier* Monroe. Her captain, first and second mates,
boatswain, and carpenter were immediately arrest
ed by order of the Navy Department, and put in
double irons. It is believed their arrest bas grown
out of their reckless conduct from the time of the
boat leaving Boston.
FROM BENTON, MO.
The Missouri Democrat of the 3d says: Wchave
direct advices from Jeff. Thompson’s camp at Ben
ton. Our informant learned there that Thompson's
farces were about to fail bach on Sikeston, The
heavy baggago of the rebels at Benton and other
points was being hastily returned to New Madrid.
The forces were to attempt to effect a union at
Sikeston, where a stand was contemplated against
Prentiss. Pillow’s troops, including Hardee’s and
Thompson’s columns, amount to about 30,000 men.
rI(EHTIBS MARCHING OS SIKESTOK.
Gen. Prentiss was at White Water, or White
Hirer, and marching on to Sikeston, eager to give
the enemy battle, and is to be reinforced at Jack
son by Smith's American Zouaves, and Marsh's Illi
nois regiment.
SAD AFFAIR OS IRE KANAWHA
The Cincinnati Times of the 3d inst. cays ;
For a day or two rumors have been prevalent
that J. B. Gibbs, of this city, formerly Post Com
missary at Camp Dennison, but now located on the
Kanawha, had shot and killed Sergeant Joyce, of
the Second Kentucky Begimont. The rumors have
been confirmed. Gibbs was arrested, and is ROW
stroDgly guarded.
The correct statement of the affair is that Joyce
and a number of meD, who had just returned from
a tedious scout, were ordered to work on the en
trenchments. They refused, and, during the dis
pute which followed, Gibbs drew a pistol and de
liberately murdered the sergeant.
DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR IN INDIANA.
We learn from the IndianapolU'sf«f«te/. of the
30th, that on the 28th ultimo a crowd of Indiana
troops made an attack on a house of unenviable re
putation, in that city, and after putting the inmates
to flight, began the work of demolition. Feather
beds were ripped open, queensware was smashed,
and carpets, tables, looking-glasses, bureaus, and
the like, torn and splintered into fragments. At
one time the house was fired, but citizens on the
ground, fearful of danger to adjoining property,
succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The affair
originated in the refusal of the proprietress of the
house to perm it one of the troops to enter it.
BRIGADIER GENERAL NELSON,
Who is now in command of our troops at “ Camp
Dickinson,’’ Garrard county, Kentucky, is a na
tive of Mason county, Kentucky, where his father
was long established as a physician. Gen. Nelson
has been in the naval service for more than twenty
yenrs. He has a full knowledge of military tac
tics, as it is a branch thoroughlj- taught in the na
val school, as well as at West Point.
FROM NEOSHO, IfISSQI'RI.
Holla. Sept. 2.— Two men from Neosho reached
here to-night. They report that there were no
Southern troops in Newton county, but everything
had been eaten up and cleaned out. A Secession
flag bad floated in Neosho since the 4th of July.
Jasper they met an advanced
guard of McCuUoch’s forces, apuut sho strong At
Mount Vernon, Lawrence county, 3,000 Arkansas
and Texas troops, under McCulloch and Churchill,
were passed. They were told that McCulloch was
along, and were shown his horse. They heard it'
reported in Springfield that Rains was encamped
forty miles this side of Port Scott; that the Confe
derates had a skirmish with the Jawhawkers, and
lost one man, and that Price had moved on Bolivar.
Eight hundred of Mcßride’s men had been en
camped for two weeks around Woynesville, but
left on Saturday morning for Lina creek, where it
was rumored 200 Union troops had arrived.
surit-ise or the home ccards at uexxett's
MILL, MO.
Neosho, Sept. 2. —A report was brought here
last evening, by three cavalrymen belonging to
Capt. McFall’s company, that a party or Home
Guards near the headwaters of the Meramec had
been attacked and routed with great slaughter.
The report was confirmed by the arrival, late in
the evening, of Lieutenant Chandler, the comman
der of the Home Guards. The attack was made
after dark, Saturday evening, at a place called
“ Bennett’s Mill,” which was occupied by about 70
Home Guards, and the surprise was complete. The
Secessionists numbered from 400 to 500, and it is
supposed by people here, were commanded by
Schnnbles. Three of the Home Guards were cer
tainly killed, besides some of the pickets, bat how
many more was not known, as the escape was sud
den.
Lieut. Chandler was wounded in the arm, but
had the satisfaction of killing the man who wounded
him, The lieutenant came twenty-five miles on
foot to this place, with three of his companions.
Bennett’s Mill is about that distance from Kolia, in
a southeast direction, and about the same distance
from Cuba station. It is a half dezen miles east
of Salem, and in Dent county.
The night before the attack, the Home Guards,
with three of Capt. McFall's men, had taken eigh
teen prisoners and killed two of the rebels. These
prisoners were liberated by the dispersion of the
Home Guards at Bennett’s mill. One hundred ca
valry, under Captains McFall and Bowen, have
gone down to the scene of the fight.
rliOM caiWFona county, mo.
Stephen Lunsford was taken by five Secessionists
on Monday night, about fouT miles from Bourbon
Station, and suspended by the neck with a grape
vine. The outlaws, supposing him dead, then left
him; but he revived, cut himself loose, and made
his escape.
THE TRAITOR BARRON,
A circumstance baa transpired which places the
conduct of Commodore Barron in a most atrocious
light. It is stated that he actually gave orders that
the light on Cape Hatteras should be extinguished,
thus luring innocent merchant vessels to destruc
tion. The order bookof Major Andrews, command
ing at Fort Hatteras, proves his guilt completely.
AID TO FREMONT.
William Dorsheimer, of Buffalo, has been ap
pointed aid to General Fremont, with a commission
of major in the regular army. He will act as mili
tary secretary.
WHO HOISTED TnE FLAG OX FORT CLARK?
Commodore Stringham has made a supple
mentary report, in which be says; ”1 venture to
relate two incidents. The raising of the United
States flag upon Fort Clark I have mentioned, and
that it was a deed of noble daring was apparent to
friends and enemies. It was done by a sailor from
the Pawnee, one of the few from that vessel out of
their ship, their boat having been swamped in land
ing treeps. The “ Minnesotians” yet talk of J. D.
Kraigbaum and his gun-sponge. He accidentally
dropped overboard his sponge, and instantly
jumped after it, grasped it, swam up to the port,
and was helped in by his comrades. When asked
by his officer why he did so rash an act, ho re
plied that he 1 did not want his gun to be dis
graced.’ ”
CAL'l'Um: OF ItEDEL EMISSARIES.
The Washington correspondent of the Tribune
says: On Wednesday morning a detachment of
Fire Zouaves captured four rebel emissaries, six
miles below the East Branch. Some important let
ters were found on their persons.
TUB PATRIOTIC SHOEMAKER.
The first treasury note issued will be to tho pa
triotic Massachusetts shoemaker, whose letter, ac
companying a remittance of §lOO, which ho ten
dered to the Government for ten years without
interest, was published a few days ago.
RECOVERED FROM HIS WOUNDS.
Col. Gilinan Marston, of New Hampshire, has so
far recovered from the wound he received at Bull
Run, that he will leave Exeter for the seat of war
in a few days.
OUB ARMY IX WESTERN VIRGINIA.
The Clarksburg correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, of the 4th inst., says:
Wise and Floyd co-operating, and With their
forces hut a short distance apart, are attempting to
force their way into the Ranawha Valley; Lee,
with a well-appointed column, which has lately
been reoeiving considerable - reinforcements, is
threatening the region of tho Cheat Mountain Gaps;
and still further north the posts at New Creek are
threatened. Thus along the whole extent of our
lines tho storm is threatening to break.
A correspondent of the Wheeling Intelligencer
says:
Gen. Rosccrass and his aids are active in stop
ping the rat-holes, hut it would not be proper to
tell your readers what movements they are mak
ing.
THE “PEACE” WSTVRBANCE AT INDIANAPOLIS.
The Indianapolis Journal thus alludes to the
disturbance in that City 6h Saturday last. A peace
meeting, it seems, had been called, and was being
addressed by a Secessionist named Walpole. Thebe'
were n good many soldiers in the meeting, and Vaey
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Tsi Wxkkit Pkess.
bore his outrageosutreinoD till they could eland it
no longer, and they mode a break for him. The
disturbance ought not to' baTe occurred, and but
for Mr. Walpole’s intemperate and insane raving
against the Government and the war, it would not
have occurred. A small crowd of a hundred or two
soldiers then went round to-Uto- house* of Mr. Wal
pole, Mr. Bingham, Mr. Bfeateb*, Hr. Fierce, and
Mr. Elder, prominent SecewfeniWe,. to make them
toke the oath of loyalty to tlw Government, At
Mr. Fierce s and Mr. Beach’s th* Governor hap
pened to see the crowd, and through hisinduence
they made no disturbance at those- places, but all
the rest were made to take the oath
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Philadelphia, Sept. &, HHH,
giinte fiS'Wcjs freely offered at the Stock Board
to-day, and fefl’ off j in eeaeeqjucnce. City &»
maintained previous quotations. The shares of the
CamdeD and'Amboy Raiboad Company, the Penn
sylvania Railroad* Company,. Whehilt, Sharer
Meadow, Norristowa) and- Lehigh' Valley were all
steady, and the Lehigh' Navigation' Company stock
advanced!. Reading Reilrofsi l shares sold *t IT},
and closed weak.
The opening ofi'a subscription'bookfor the national
loan at the bankingbouseef J«y Cooke & Co., prove?
quite a convenience. Ate in-New York, the sub*
scriptions received are mode by nf!) classes of the
people—from those whose whole- means compass
only a single fifty-dollar loan bill t»' the- Capitalists,
who put down their names- fee ten. to. twenty thou
sand dollars. The popularity off the national loau r
as a safe and profitable investment,- in secured, and
every day will now increase the oagemess-to-parti
cipute in the loan.
At Chicago, according to- the Tribime of that
city yesterday, there was-a<gp6d I [eupp|y of Eastern
exchange, and the market! was dull at par to
-1 per cent, premium. On the street, it was, in
some instances, very difficult! to’ sell' exchange at
par. and in order to get currency shippers-had to
sell their paper at jaj off. Geld continues in good
demand at fat per cent, premium fee currency.
Within the past two or tiuso days. there' hare
been received in this city large-quantities- of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania currency, mid we have
also seen some “free Indiaaw” aifibai. Again
we caution our readers to beware of this- stuff.
It is dangerous to the touch, and the- only proper
manner to treat it Is to send it hade whence it
came.
Yesterday's Cincinnati Gazette says:
Money matters were very quiet to-day, and we
have not a single new feature to. notice. The de
mand for Exchange was less active, and rates- are
unchanged. But little doing in Treaeary notes,
which are rather scarce. Wo quote at STUBS.
There was more inquiry for gold, but rates are
without change. We quote :
Buying.
New York... par®
Boston. par®
rnilndc-1phia...............par®
Balihwr?» f .. mm.immim
G0U1......,,
The St. Louis Democrat, of Monday, says:
There was no change in the market to-day over
yesterday, and dullness continues to rule the hoar.
There was some discussion in the exchange market
•n the probable effect of Major Fritnont's
proclamation on funds, hat we could not learn that
any particular scare was raised, and the market
closed heavy as usunl, at 6 per cent, premium, for
sight exchange on New York over Missouri funds,
and gold 7 to 7} Treasury notes are hi active
demand, hut we could not hear of any one who was
offering them. The fact is, the people are just
waking up to the fact that Government securities
are the very best there are going, and, as the nation
is full of idle money, no better market can bo
'found for it than the national excheauer.
The Baltimore America?? , of this morning, says:
“ The stock market to-day was rather inactive,
and but few sales took place at the board. All of
the dividend-paying securities, however, continue
pretty firm. There was no inquiry for State Loans,
but for city there was a Tery good demand. For
the lonnof 1875 880 was bid, but none offered ■ for
1886 580.25 was asked, and for 1890 $90.59 was bid,
$Bl asked. For bank stocks there was but little
demand.”
At Boston, the Traveller Eays: Money is steadi
ly getting to be more and more abundant, day by day,
bhdihfckeH endorsed notes and acceptances are
scarce in the open market, at 54 per cent. The
banks are discounting liberally at six. Sterling ex
change at from 107 to 107}, prevents any exports of
specie, and gold keep 3 constantly coming in, from
the rations sources of Eupply, There is more coin
and bullion in the country now, than there ever
was before, and it is sure to be largely increased.
There is more activity, nud a general improvement
in most kinds of business.
The following is the shipment of coat by the Bar
clay Railroad and Coal Company, for the week end
ing "August 81,1861.......1.538 06
Previous ehipinehts 24,85& 05
Amount for the season. 28,307 05
Same time last year. 18,954 1$
Increase......
The following is the statement of coal transported
over (he Hazleton Railroad, for the week ending
Aug. 31,1861:
Week. Previous. Total.
Tons. Civt. Tons. Cut. Tous. Gwt.
Hazleton Mines. 3,307 19 80,994 00 84,301 19
Cranberry 1,618 05 52,147 02 53,765 07
Diamond 1,243 01 16,285 16 17,528 IT
East Sugar Loaf, 3,044 17 80,361 12 83,406 00
Couneil Ridge... 2,052 07 68,290 OS 70,342 15
Mount Pleasant,, 4,810 10 4,840 10
EbtTTnkj,, ....... 080 1Z 5,804 02 8,184 14
Harlcigli 1,010 04 39,729 05 41,404 09
Milnesville 750 10 6,358 10 7,109 09
Jeildo 3,024 00 62,555 01 65,579 01
.17,390 13 417,372 12 434,700 0T
.14,09 S 06 421,093 05 430,190 11
T0ta1...,
Last year..
Increase.,,..., 3,298 09
Decrease.,,,,, ~,, .. 3, 1 22 is 424 04
The New York Evening Post says of stocks and
money matters in that city to-day :
The feature of the day is the great animation and
firmness in Government securities. Ali the issues
arc in strong demand and close much higher. The
sixes of 1881 sold freely at 90. The six per oent.
notes touched 985. For the fives of 1871801 is bid.
The share list is also very firm, especially the
Western stocks, which are actiro at a rise of jal
per cent. Galena, after the Board, was 06} bid.
Rock Island sold at 43. Toledo leaves off at 30
a3OJ.
The weakest of the railroad shares are New York
Central, Erie, and Hudson, these being pressed for
sale under the severe competition which is going
on for westward-bound freight. We hear of some
very low figures named. First-class freight has
been carried by roil to St. Louis at the rate of CO
cents per 100 lbs. New York Central closes at 731
a73s.
There was a further advance in Missouri sixes,
with large sales; over $lOO,OOO were taken at 43ia
435. Tennessees were without change, selling at
43J, the price of yesterday. For the other South
ern bonds there was more inquiry, with less on tho
market.
The subscriptions for 7.30 Treasury notes conti
nue veiy active, though the amount taken this
morning fe hot sc large as in the early part of yes
terday. The new arrangement with the bonks will
somewhat lessen the labor of the Assistant Trea
surer.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sales,
September 5,1551,
Exported BY S. E. Slaymaeer, Philadelphia Exchange,
FIRST BOARD.
4700 Pcrnia 5s 74
3000 do 74
2000 do 74
6 Norristown 8..«.48j£
50 Bead It.ft&wn&int.l7£
50 . do,..fiOwuOiinttlti*
10001‘enna R 2d mort.BS
1000 do., ..2d mort.SS
1000 d 0.... 2d mort. 88
10 Bk N
2 Bk of N Amcrica.lo4
06 Lehigh Navttß.bs.49K
1000 Lehigh Val 05... .01
7 BOARDS.
6000 City 65.. . .New. ..94
1500 do New... 94
1000 K Pennn 6s 54
4(0 Prana 55... 74jf
2000 do. 74k
£OOO .to .T4*
500 do 7414
2000 do 74
3000. do 74
200. do 74
100 do 74
500 do 74
309 do 74
BETWEE2
590 city os
) BOARD.
10 Bk N- Liberties.. .49 W
2000 C & Am 6s 1875.. .83
2500 do.. loans 1864,92
1500 Harrisburg R Cs. .92
13000 Fenna R latiu bD» ,94
BOARDS.
| 200 do ',.97
SECOND
599 Teima 5s 74
0 Bcnv Meadow.... 57F
12 Green .0 Coates R. 14
SOO Sell Nnv 6s 1882. .03Jj
1960 City Os. .New.2d6.94
AFTER
0 Ciim & Amb R. ..112%
1000 Norristown It G5,.97
CLOSING PRICES—STEADY,
Bid. Ask .
Phila 6s int off. 87 87 5;
Pliila 6s It » 87 87 %
PllUu Os N•• 83# 84
PennaSs....... 73)4 74
Beading B 17 Oil 17fl
Beading Bds ’7O 84# 85
B’dgM6s’Bo’43 89 90
Bead M 65’86.. 72 72#
Penna K....... 377 s 67#
P.IIHi. JiWm Ca 88
MoveiH Cl Con.. 35
Moms Cl Prof. •• MB
Bch Nut 68 ? 82.. 63)i
Bch Kay Imp 6s 75 . •
ScUNav Stock. 4 6
Sch NavPref... 11
Elmira R Prof. 9 lib
Long Island R, 9% idri
Leh Cl & Nav.. 49* 6Q»
Leh Cl A N Scrp 341 f S&
NPeuuaß 4# &K
N Penna B 65.. 54 55
NPennoßlOs. 72 74
Catawissa Pref. 6lf; 6
FrkfdASouthß .. ' ZT)£
2dA3dBtsß.3. 3&.X 4i
WPlllUk hkd HT
Spruco A Pine.. ‘."tt B
Green A Coates 15
Chestnut & WaL J 6
Fbiladelplua Markets
September j—ETerdnf,
Flovii.—The market continues dull* and the toittiry
for both export ami home use islira'iYid; the only waloa
reported are 1,000 bids Ohio extra family, and 500 bbU
extra on private terms. Small sale* to supply tko trado
arc making at from $4.50 to $5 bbl for Western amt
city fresh-ground superfine, ,2&®&.5Q fur extras, and
soid->s up to $7 tor extra fnrjiiiyand fancy lots* as to
quality. Bye Flour is steady at $2.75®3 bbl, and
Pennsylvania Corn Meal at $2.80 V bbl.
Wheat.—There is a t?A r amount offering at yeiter
day’s quotations; soles 10,000 bus at $1.10®1.15 for
damp and prime Soutlir/rn red, aurtSl.lOal.l-for good
Pennsylvania do, inclu ding 2,000 bus Kentucky white
at $1.25, aud 1,000 bu> Southern do $1.21. Ityo sella on
arrivul at 54®56c for.'uew.and Cocfor old. Corn—There
is rather more offering; of 3,000 bus prime yellow
at 55®&0c, mid scjno fair quality at Mo» „ ,
Oats arc in Tibcd demand, amt 7,000 busu fair and
prime new Del aware sold at 28®29c; 400 bush old and
new mixed o‘x SOc, nnd 700 bush old Pennu. at S2J(c.
600 bush Barley sold on private terms. ‘
Baiik Quercitron is wanted. 10 birds Ist ho. 1 sold
Bt Cor is very little doing, owing to tbs
firmness of holders, and prices continue very high.
I'irociiltiJJS ami Pnovisioss aro unchanged, and there
iS very intlc doing in cither. Small saWs 9? sh*gar writ
Coffee at former rates.
YViiisky is held firmly, with sales of 400 bbls Ohio at
18©i8Xc; Pennsylvania do, at 17# ©lBc, and Drudge at
l7#c W gallon.
Selling.
Praia.
prem.
X mm,
prom,
prom'.
pram
X prom.
... 7,412 0T
Bid Atk*