II lull, .... Dollibi I'll Broil Ill'll 1 * hi PollabB roR Six Months—lnvariably in afi- % •■• I “°* for y,J S ; l xßUWElXtlf PRESS, ~ ~" J - ■ - - "- - : -■ - ' " ' ! i"~ ''" *' ' L-_J _f_.JU! -. .„_.i... s J^2£SX2: m ' m “ m ‘’~ YOL. S.—NO. 204. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1868, TWO CENTS. CLOTHHIG. JEWELRY, Re. *** i w was introduced to the members by 1 in Washington In the early case slavery was re- AND NEW PRICES L 1 1 tll 1 llLU “ nivmmu. Sixty-seventh Ohio—Michael Martin, Jacob the nresident of iherh.n,u. i ‘; ■ " . garded by our fathers only as an existing fact; and „ „„„ „„ TT .„ . , f , , Wolfe. the president of the Chamber, and then addressed . The, following is .a condensed report of Senator it is only as an existing fact that it cln now bo It having been next to an impossibility, hereto- wiT, 1- ,, yOU Ca " ,Uy nr 0110 ortheful- The Weather at Old Pa.atTl.e Rei.ei« Mount Twenty-ninth Ohio—An unknown man T 8 ' ~ Sumner’s speech, delivered in the United States regarded by us in the present case ; nor is there sore to obtain OOSTOMER-MADB CLOTHING, Sets o.' Silver Plated Tea Spoons. ***£ ' •» EZ&Ito ion “ 81,0113,1 SEES t •at MODERATE PRICES, and finding that many “ Troops-Tlic Rebels Admit a Loss ol 700 at Twenty-seventh Ohio-Isaac Jackson, died of fo- Epeeoh. I have been aooustomed for thirty-five «,Va.K,T" „ ! ' - . invoked for the captives in eur own streets. n! ' ' “ “ “ NApkln ninja. Fontr-Ess MoNnou, March 30,1852. initials are supposed to be T. A. W.; Wallaoe Col- years past f could hardly speak above a whisper, I enslaved raod, and will be reeogniaed m history aa cully, they exhsLt the 4 whio ß «bjcet, If slavery be REALLY REASONABLE PRICES, we have, at .< •< .< Butter Knives. Another day of mud The weather for a fow turn - can now make myself heard at the distance of a few 2!], 0 i v, f . t!l0 1 tf ‘ 11^ h ? ) L f ci Y. l ' 2 , atlon . ~A t ! l unconstitutional in the national capital, and if it a,.,™..*..*, .f .« vu. jw- a—*»-i, »j ~ K Bu “’ wi, “ ,i “ sssjsjsa.'K ‘j t a 3S»a?&J!is tsx. sss,"™,"® '"ifKaris’S: r. ;rr r, ::“" *—• ar*'*«*— art«a»»sassSß: . * _ _ r Cream . MsimtiwuMAmMifi* an iinnamiiiv tKifir tt€inbor of Company C, rebel Twenty-first \ir- In addition to my other sufferings, I have been body can read that slaves were once sold m the bears which Senators have invoked for all miißb r«« MEIsT, in wbioh the prominent features are, “ « Oftalor, a condition closely resembhog an unuaually thick ■ * incarocrated in a damp, gloomy.jail, shut oat from OfKtfwe, bfcdcath the eyes of the govereign that they are bugbears. all mu* aw Ist. Fine and Medium Materials, made up in ** “ Walter. iness of bean porridge. Har yas enaoious as o previous to the foregoing deaths our loss stood c . frest alr and free exercise, for three months, without'confessing the scandal to religion, If I have seemed to dwell on details, it is because •fl«f “ “ Goblet. mud of the city of hacks, it is quite as unpleasant, - -■ A . A A s , ...° , . °r This has been hard on me, who was always acous- audnobody now hear that slaves are sold m the they furnished at each stege instruction and sun ifirst-class styles; „ « Drinking Cup. and is voted a nuisance by all. 10d, killed and died of wounds ; 44L wounded, and tomed to jump higher, fill flatter, and Zalf f •t? sh l D f io ?’ be neath the eyes of the porf. If I have occupied time in a curious pasaage 2d. Unexceptionable Fitting Garments; “ **■ Sugar Biftor. aya ago i learned from some contrabands 24 miBSlDg ' only a fow ot tae detailed regimental louder than any other man in Tennessee, [cheers,] • ft t-* ** wlt “ out^ onf ® 9slß g the.scandal to liberal of history, it is because it was more apt than cu -3d Prices PAR LOWER THAN HAS nppw Gold Plated Vest Chain, all sixes. +>int -_ mn ; n that the rebels had eota, el particular reports have been ns yet received, owing to the always saying what I pleased, going where E L D -fr- “ ODB ‘ or sa^e ofjußtice let the scandal rious, while it afforded ar'mirror.in which we can see “ <• hat camc.u, that the rebels had got R part.cular d , stMoe and tho soattered Maiden of the rcffimant* and comjpg when I pleased, for throe ourseWf?, Of mree, l Korn to argue tho obvious HjLSTOMAEY ; „ „ N k „ „ „ lung gun, rifled, which they were going to mount, _ , .. ... ' months I have been kept in close confinement, and ®ST J ta is question taore were truth that tho slaves here are as much entitled to 4th. A corps of the most oelebrated cutters in “ « Chatelaine “ “ It appears that it has been set up on Sewall’s Point, Three or four days will elapse before a full list of the only favor allowed me was that my little son <-•—r- :: :: : “ u- rre .Ma.i ¥ . arur*ir4'fc»sja:ts--sj sgwSftaaftassssi.w n3»jSs^^sssafwtfe 'Cmporlcd and detnesLic fabrics from the New York I 11 11 Brwittk Pl», 11 u I mile from Uio wharf. The fearful were apprehen- wounded herd, in connection with tho modiCftl di- such food to his dog. My food was prepared by my pTst®xrij&6®,:CCUld , fifl4 r 6 .-and Philadelphia markets, suitable for Coats, Pants. u 11 Ear Rine9 ’ “ u sive that Old Point was to bo immediately shelled rector, Wm. S. King, of the Fifth army corps. wife, and was brought to me by my little son in a Therefore, it was always will recognize their manhood; and if authority be , xr . , . _ “ (( Pin ami Drops, all sizes. out hut. Iha ahnlis»u» Hid nnf taka nlana The rahnia Notwithstanding the great scaroity at first of tin, little basket. lDSisted that petitions against its existence at the needed,youwillfinditintheexampleofWasliing* and csts, always on hand. „ « studs and Buttons,« “ have no iruns to throw shells to Old mockery, and hardware, for hospital purposes, the ... Th ®°® C£rs to charge used to take this basket, 'h°t to be received; that it ton, who did not hesitate to employ a golden key to ESP A visit is aolioitcd. ! “ “ Solitary sio.vo Button, all dm Uave no guns Iar 0 e enough to throw sUclls to Old defioi h . be = t „ J- Kfl lift off the napkin, examine between tbo plataa and waa unoonaututioiml to touch it even here within open the bouse of bondage. i ii n BosaM Studs “ “ loint. 7 S pp ed. watch till my movemente to see that some little bit £hc®?ojuBlYC jurisdltitiou of Congress; and that if Let this bill passi and the first practical triumph WAW AM ATTITR J& TJUmW ' u u FinaorKin.s’ « n During (he trial of tho Greek fire bombshell from The wounded are now contained in two hospitals, of paper containing information from my friends 11 *efe touched it should he only under the auspices or freedom, fur which good men have longed, dying \V dXIXdVLU AJAJUXT. at ix, j tl „ pencils ° ’ “ “ tho Hip llaps, the other day, the rebels sent their and are under the immediate charge of Dr. H. was not eonoealed in the basket, and when I hud wUtMetghbwing Statesof Virginia and Maryland, without the right—for which a wholo generation MERCHANT TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS, , “ “ Pen wit'., Pouch Ouse. compliments in the shape of an eight-inch shell, W medical director of General Shields’ di- hate P n“-!-“n lri.!t h b™™i2V“?y “OAK HALL,” Ac' ™ en All^cS,d* wSr R ranSd' , MreD»’ !’ hlo^ f£, ' in *J| e watcr about one hundred yards Tls '« n - only information I obtained was from my little son, be individual Senators, the will be banished from the national capital This r, „ r,,, .......TJ-B n. I rated!’'lVe k Urge assortment fr °“ Rap !; About two hundred and thirty siok and wounded who would whisper to me that a fight had occurred af.?.! a°t ” l d ,' The rl * ht of P e ; metropolis, whioh bears a venerated name, will be S. £ cor. SIKTH and MARKET graph Albums, Mantel Clocks, Travelling flags, and The Richmond Engnirttr.) of Thursday, says that have been seat to Frederick, and sixty rebel I here, or an engagement there, but no details what- titi*®-, Vindicated by. the matchless perseverance of purified; ita evil spirit will be cast out; itashame mh27-tf I Hold Jewelry, which we are closing oIT at coat. The at- tho loss on their siifo. at tho hat.tla of Winrhnator wounded have been taken from the hospital and ever were given me, for the; charged that in the .. n " U !? C J Adams, ia now beyond question, and will be removed; its society will be refined: its \ tention of the trade respectfully solicited. between six and seven hundred It consoles pieced in the houses of their friends, on parole, to d**” o6 of Governor Johnson andflorace Maynard, P r°." er ° f C ° n ? res3 is hardly less courts will be improved; its revolting ordinances MILLINERY GOODS. j D. W. CL AUK’S was Detween six ana seven nundred. it consoles P _ r reeoverv to th en.ar^est eo mm» d that I was at the bottom of the conspiracy and the doobt - 'ft is enourfi to say on this point will be swept away, and its loyalty will be secured. — I ’, r , „ ltee,f aDd 1110 Public, however, by saying that tho f e P or ‘> cn t “ eir rec overy, to the n.arest command- leadlng gpirit opposU j on t 0 the Southern Con- S at l{ . Cor, B rcs3 cannot abolish slavery here, then If you are not moved by justice to tho slave, then g. pi) T M n. 1 vAxj DOLLAJv hTOKB, ] oss of the u Hessians ” was fully twelve hundred. iDg olncer. fcderacy. there is no power any where to abolish it here, and act for your own good and in self-defence If you H&f »iA*A Ai Vt Igh/ UO2 CHICSTNUT Street. It conbiined no other news. Our wounded are generally reported as doing I, however, entered into a learned diplomatic thiawroDg win always, immortal as the hesitate to pass this bill for the blaokg, then pai it „„„„ , There is no other news All is dull Othello’s well. They number about three hundred. correspondence with a little miserable Jew, named U “J! , 1 .f 11 ' ' , . . for the whites. Nothing is clearer than that the M BERN HEIM DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. mere no otner news. Ait is dun. uthoilo s The statement that Maior Perkins of General J“ d »h P. Benjamin, the so-called Secretary of War But as the moment of justice approaches, we are degradation of slavery affccta tho master as much AVA. ASXL.Xii’V CIJI.AIVI.. occupation’s almost gone. the statement tnat major Berxms.ot General 0 f the bogus Confederacy. In that correspondence called to meet a different objection. It is urged as The slave, while recent evente testify that where Nn 128 PDKIITVTIT fITRFPT 'XfEW SPRING IMPORTATIONS JJ nnks staff, was >namly instrumental in planning I have tho vanity to believe that I got o r * hat since there can be no such thing as property in slavery exists there treason lurks, does not r * l «».ed. THE ifIUNEY JHARKET. TBADE. And for Sale bv seventy-five thousand, but forty thousand is doubt- rendered great aid to Col. Kimball and was in the I declined to notice the warrant. This officer, a Testimony and eloquence have been accumulated Puiladei.hiia, March 31. 1802 _ _ less nearer correct. Beauregard is in oommand. hottest of the fight. He has just been informed of little upstart named James C. Ramsev seized mion against slavery,tout on this occasion I shall confine r e».i u « .. tv 4 Xl _ „‘, PRICES LOW. , , n „,n, n ,™ „„„ He sent out several regiments yesterday to take a and acquitted of the charge of cowardice instituted me, and sweanng'to his own warrantythe perjured mjselfpjecwely to the, argument againstitsreoogni- , Stat '..'““J?” r‘i! C “„ r , C . Ce ?, 8 ? ¥ at S '" c .^ mii24.2m DB COURSETj LAFOUKGADIi, & CO. position six miles nearer our linos. Our saouts bv (he late Gtn Lanier villain, that I had oommitted treason uj> P iait tho twn at the national capital; nor shall I wander into Board to- day,state nves mi on j,,City loans felt t 9 9ih • niliOO-lm have returned from within the rebel lines at Purdy ~ , ’ , ' . State of Tennessee in writing a certain editorial *^ e a ' 9onss i° n °f other questions which are only for the new issue and oox for the old; Pennsylvania -,■l r\nr\ 1 Ol*fY : thismoming. But two rebel regiments were there, Uur cavalr yi too 4?! Drought in two guerillas which was published in the Knoxville Whig and distantly connected with it. At some other time Railroad stock recovered the recent decline, and sold at I SlhA oxitinw. I SL/ 1 OftfY o p T -VT VL "I with a section of artillery and two companies of from Hampshire, one ot whom belonged to Sheets' which, mark you, was printed May 24 one rntjnth thfl great ..question of emancipation in the States 45k, and Reading Kailroad stock gained a. AUVWi IXh/ 10 * INh A Mississippi cavalry. They have no intention of mounted militia. before the ordinance of secession was passed and 111 be properly considered, together with that Tlie market was very dull, but closed firm. . i> « jvtxtl’VQS tTSX I * * making a stand there, and are at that point simply The following is a complete list of the killed and Tennessee had passed into the Southern ’Con- : 1 th ° Se , nat | e oondly, shall money be paid toseoureits Commercial 1,776,000 j 1.660.00 U 233, 000; 233,000 QTT Wi; 4UB Mill IVPPY G-OOD 5 ? i The rebels have force at luca, and other points First Lieutenant Thomas Starchman ■ Sermanta go up to Judge Humphrey, at the court houso, and abolition. Mechanise’ J’mJ’S??! ?s?’™ 5 I 231,800 bILKo, AND JULLLiNijHI GUUDS. We inTito tjjg Attention of the trade to a full line of on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. A eou- Edwin Swain and Frederick Fasi-’ Corn orals you can talle oath of allegiance to the Southern i lb H-true. there can-be no such thing as property LSS"'"" 1 ’?I',’?9 0 ! I ’®°* ,ooo | |S}’222; 5?1'99? 1 BLACK and OTHMR STAPLk SILKS rier etarted from our headquarters, two daysago, HenfyTssi ciss Lsw Ham? Gutf'ill JeSa 0 Confederacy.” I turned round to him at this in- 1 ‘lf PMtWffl®l9 recognized anywhere, KinmOßtia'"' seo’els! ers’lss l W'Wi TUertlianti ana Milliners win tied an admirable aasurt- ; BLAbK AJNH U4IIKH maple silks, across the country to Buell’s advanee. We stili Awards Wm lV Sands Thos Aikbs aiidl Josenh proposition. “ Sir,” said I, “ before I will i S lB “stame of the Influence of custom. peTn iei'S SM.’wr! iis’iP nient of the above Goods, of the newest styles, at low i As also a great variety of await the return of transports from Paducah. Re- Cord - Privates Patrick Maloney jaoob Caust take theoath of allegiance to the Southern Confe- ! Slavery was then deseribed in its l essential charac- Western... 1,600, 699! 1,514,321 i 408/21:1 407J5-2 Saurrs nsd are invited to call and examine i NEW STYLES OF DRESS GOOD 3, bel gunboats are in this neighborhood. The Dim- James Craig Daniel McDougall (’Sliehtlvl John d «racy, to obtain my freedom, I willrot in jail with I t6r >. af afive-hended barbansm, having its origin Man A Mech.. 1,257,200 1,237,695 f 150,960; 150,755 figures, nsd are invited to call ana examine. , 7, r ,„ , _, .„„ L mn . t i«r is said to be coming down towards Pittsburg, w Cletahton MZrPhilin ( LfS JohS disease, or die with old age. Nay, more-I deny ' 8 . 01 ] ? r . e , a - 80n 9 r - na .ture, or justice or goodness, but Commerce 666,435 606.31)5! 168,221 •|»-“WELX, BOUGHT 13 HALF SOLD.” Bought for cash, and which will be offered on th most landing occasionally. She keeps at a respectful Nolen Wm Frank James GoodaH James Hunter 1 that you have a Government; I deny that you are : ““.P 1 ? “ force,anil nothing else. The force which Girard— ; 2,0i2.836 2,076,919 i 381,872 349,581 *fa Ycrablo terms. fe2s-3m di.o.tance. however- PtOlCDj IQ. rruuX, Janies UooaaU,_da|l€S ilUDtOr, authorized to adminiatep tI»P narti ,a T e 'y. m n«*t°nal. Its com Exchange 636,’000 Bklooo mM 109 OOT XUV/W. AUUW. I company, in one of the Purdy regiments, thirty- Onc-hundrcd-and-tonth Pennsylvania—Wm H and von and lon the top of it. [Great cheering.] My M gUed - by .¥ r ‘ S ha3e ’ CBion 485 ’ 000 607 > 000 ' 73 >°°° 7a «°°° Virnmy jb. nA dv TVT T. TT AT,T,OWF.TiTi &Go four had deserted, and twenty more were eager to Kechersne-eer 7 That little valley, forty miles wide and about ta tiiq Senate, and Horaoe Mann, in the House, ———: WOOD 05 LAKY, ;M. Li. ±1 ALiLiU W BiLilJ DC LiO., do the same. Kocheispe.ger. sixty miles lone, ofwhioh Knoxville is tho audit follows from the principles declared by Juiige Total 28,350,615 27,831,333,5,915,5355,884,314 —— The weather to-day ts pamfully gloomy; tho is full of such Union men andwcmcn. Whoni McßjUn, that in the absence of any power in t£e nsrosiva. maouLAnoN.- (SuccAnaoH t* Lincoln, Wood. * Nichols,) 333 MARKET And 3* NOBTH FOURTH STS., Gen. Cuitis at Keitsville - His Retrograde rain is falling and freezing on everything. Tha came away, the jail of Knoxville was fall of Union Constitution, it cannot exist, ati respiration oannat Bancs. , from Pea Ridge. first thunder-storm occurred to-night. men. I was there in jail when they took my com- *?-a This was ap- Mar. 24. j March 31. Mar. 24. Mar. 31. nSo. T 25 CHESTNUT STBISBT, Wholesale Dealer, in Aftersubsisting for weeks in the very camps General Shields’wound continues to improve. ‘SSZ JJ%.. a &P c £Zl -Mbu iMM&i. Washington was Philadelphia,.. ; SILKS AND FANCY DRY GOODS, where Pr.ce and McCulloch had maintained them \A/Arl>Tfl dr in A sawlhem gTout, witatheMaokpoXeoffinsani as, the nationtd capital. For a lolg time, S SS S Idavo now in Store a complete stock i armies for nearly a year, Gen. Curtis has fallen TH6WAKIN rLOKIPA. the soldiers would turn round, and pointingto th ore was hesitation between the banks of the Dela- CoJSlwctal.... LOM 000, LOOs’oOOi 103 000 106 000 ; Have open a large fftriely of/reaWy-tWyorleJ back frohi l’ca Hiflgo to KeitStrllle, (M 0.,) fifteen Brownldw, would say, ’’You will swing next.” W9JO, the Susqurflftlinfl, and the Potomaa. Th 6 Mechamca 1 ,.*. 814,460 silljosi "kfl'afla 102A75 OF miles distant, his forago having been exhausted. A A NAVAL ACTION AT MOSQUITO INLET. My reply was, “lam ready to ho hung, and all I ‘‘compromise/ ourriedby N. Liberties.... 1,113.000 1,104,000 77, 000 09,000 i ljWisj SI Si f+df) I . i At. ~, 4" wunt is oso hour Htidfip tho mllowa t,n 952 70,690 76*395 I retrograde movement, however uncongenial it may digree oftheaemen” eaUofffl » to the pe- territory which now.cdnsfltu.es the District of Co- Kensington..., etsjal eoslssii 1i2,685 i^mo RTF AW AND MITiLINERY GOODS !To which, with a handsome assortments have been to his troops, was, therefore, prudent Washington, March 31.—The gunboat Bien- I expected to be hung, and had made ud mv iumh’a, and Congress, in 1801, proceeded to declare Penn Townßbip 643,104' 637,165| 122.298 129, 068 BLACK AND FANCY SILKS, SSSITa'SaSr. TZ »IS S wa.aanuHn.nua SHAWLS. MANTILLAS, Am.' ■ ' J” S= *F A 1 KjF gS SSStSSS ; mereuu says. of my companions, A. C. Hawn—the eallant Hawn bleed with slavery, .exoept for two generations; yet Consolidation.. 269,036, 276,463:184,633 187,349 -»■ { „vit* tho attention of the ' WHTTF. GOODS- Price hns been largely reinforced since tho battle one of the most moral and nDrhrht men in W it-is-.hy.virtue hf^-these previsions that slaves are City 473,861 j 472,094 103,004 123,300 -So v*Bb they respectfully invite tho.attentionof the , WTllllb UVWIAO, at Poa Ridge, and thobest-informed military men villowith awifo andtwolmaFli still held at the national capital. Even if they ex- Commonwealth. 205,042! 206.334] 112.278 m’sss former jatrona Of the house find the trade generally, ; EMBROIDERIES here think his forae is felly up to 40,000. Four to Whu»aT?ih£^“rtmarlf^l a j tend bejoni two generations, they are flagrintly P>«W, 365.000/ 80,000 112,003 ■earis-em i Wred meDi from north of Mis^ur , bui one hour’s noticeto prepareMmself He tlii Yienatitution. Congress oaS Dnlon MMOPj 246,000| 102,000 117,00 a -A 53T>TJTNrn -i nun i And other goods In their line, thoy Invite the attention passed within six miles of this place to roinforce for a minister of one of the ohnrohes in Knoxville ST 561 ™?® ?° powers except m oonformity with the Total 17,066,267' 17,024,193 2.707.804 2904 54” BatlvlNtx. J Wrv / •of city and country dealers. mh4-tf Price, only three days before the battle of Pea to be sent for, but the reply of the jailer was • “No Constitution. ItSexclußirejunsdiotioniscmtrolled —— —~ LUU/Vs > Ridge. d—d traitor in the South has the right to be prayed and limited by the Constitution, out of which it i 3 The aggregates compare with those of preceding state- RIBBONS, MILLINERY. ; yAHD.GILLMORE.ACa, ® 717,"!”"' JfSSSiJtSSa stsaw GOODS. • 1 ROSENHEIM. BROOKS, & Go., 431 MARKET STREET, gsftva now frpen—and to which daily additions are made— ■their ÜBUAL HANDSOME VARIETY RIBBONS. SONNET MATERIALS, FLOWERS, RUOHES, 6TRATT ANJ) FANCY BONNETS, MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S HATS, FLATS, SHAKER HOODS, ani ALL OTHER ARTICLES IN THE MILLINERY LINE, -Which will be offered at the LOWEST MARKET PRICEB. 'The attention of the trade is respectfully invited. Particular attention given to filling oruers. mhlo-2m PjIHOMAS KENNEDY & BRO., 729 CHESTNUT Street, below Eighth. A Cholca Stock of SPRING MILLINERY GOODS, mhlS-Sm] AT LOW PKI-’JES. LOOKING GLASSES. JAMES 8. EARLE & SON, MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS LOOKING GLASSES. OIL PAINTINGS, TINE ENGRAVINGS, -PICTURE AND PORTRAIT fRAMIg, PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES, .PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, OAHTE-DE-VISITE PORTRAITS, EARLE’S GALLERIES. 818 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. JIATS AND CAPS. IQ£9 SPRING STOCK IQ£O AOU/V. COMPLETE. AOU/Wa C. 11. GARDEN & Co., Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in BATS, CAPS, AND FURS: STRAW GOODS. FANCY SILK AND STRAW BONNETS, Artificial Flowers,'Ruclieg, Feathers, Ac., 80. 000 and 602 MAKKET Street, S. W. comer o SIXTH Street. t&~ A large and complete Block. The best terms and tfthe lowest prices. Gash and prompt “ time buyers** are particularly invited to examine our stock. mb 1.2 m UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS. H. RICHARDSON TIAS KBMOVED TO 000 MARKET STBEET, Southwest corner of Fifth, And offers a beautiful assortment of UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, TENTS, AND C^NES, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. mh2B-St WATCHES, JEWELRY, &C. Afresh assortment.at lesi THAN TOBUBB PBIOES. „„„ PARR A BROTHER, Importer*, 824 CHESTNUT street, below Fourth. mh9o-tf Kerosene lamps, whole sale DEPOT AND MANUFACTORY, No, 111 South SECOND Street) below Chestnut, and No. 1 CAS TER Street, Philadelphia. In consequence of new im provement! in machinery and increased facilities for manufacturing, we are prepared to furuiah the trade with LAMPS and lamp-trimmings of every description at •greatly reduced prices* COUNTRY MERCHANTS are invited to examine onr stock which consists of new styles and patterns of lamps, and all articles pertaining to the tmaineas, as low as can be purchased elsewhere. mhB.lm*lp M. B- DYOTT. LARD AND GREASE.—SO tier** jrinw 60 tierca Wilt* OreiM, 4>troet bon the'Waet, end In store. Torialeby MUBPHT A SOOHB, Ss. US HOSTH WHAB-TM. Nos. 61V CHESTNUT and 614 JAYNE Streets. Have now open their SPRING IMPORTATION OF SILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE GOODS, LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, &o. Bought in Europe, by one of the Ann. To which the attention or the trade is particularly in- Tited. fe2l-2m IMPORTATIONS. HOSIERY, GLOVES.; GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS, WHITE GOODS, AND EMBROIDERIES. THOS. MELL.OR & Co., mlil9*Sm 40 and 48 North THIRD Street JELLING OFF. WHOLESALE STOCK AT RETAIL. SILK YESTING3, formerly $3.00, now $2.00. MAESEILLES, $1.50, now $l.OO. CASSIMEBES for men’s wear, and_ladiea f Cloaks, 25 per cent, under former prices, &c,, &Ce A. H. GIBBS, mh26-lm 631 MARKET STREET, Up stairs. MOLTEN, & WOODRUFF, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF SILKS AND FANCY GOODS, No. 831 MARKET STREET, Are now opening and daily receiving a new and CHOICE STOCK or SILKS, DRESS GOODS, WHITE GOODS and EMBROIDERIES, SHAWLS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, MITTS, 40. They respectfully call the attention of buyers gene vcDr- mh2s-ln] 1862. 1862. ABBOTT. JOHNES, & CO.. 537 MARKET STREET, Have now open an ontiiely new and attractive stock In ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND AMERICAN DRESS GOODS, Also, a full assortment in WHITE GOODS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, SHAWLS, &c., &0., To which they invite the attention of the trade. mh24-tap3o gPRING STOCK SILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS. A. W. LITTLE & Co, mfain-tt No. 323 MARKET ST. OA CWT. CHOICE WHITE RYE t-V J mt received and for side at No. 812 SPRING GARDEN Street. tnh26-t? A large train of ammunition left here last night for the column, urgent despatches having been Bent by Gon. Cnrtls for it. Three pieees of artillorj, which had been partially disabled in the Pea Ridge fight, and had been sent here to be repaired, were ordered back immediately, and were sent, although they had not been in Springfield an hour. One of the pieces of artillery sent here for repair had a ball from the gun of the enemy a,trike it di rcotly in the muzzle. The ball penetrated seine six inches. Our gun was a rifled one, and of a smaller calibre than the ball unceremoniously thrust into it. This might be called a centre shot, and equal to Davy Crockett's best. One of our boys was, in the heart of the fight, wounded in bothfeet by a cannon ball. Our forces having fallen hack, his Irißh wit was brought into play. Seeing a big Secesh coming by, he presented his musket, made the fellow surrender, shoulder him, and, in this position, he rode into our lines, where he delivered Mr. Butternut over os a pri soner. [For The Press.] Permit me to correct, in The Press, the state ment in the money article of Saturday’s Now York Tribune, that “ the eighty-nine thousand psunds, in gold sight-sterling bills on London, sold by Mr. Cisco, was a balance which had been over-remitted by the Government for the purchase of arms,” Ac. This amount was the unexpended balance of a credit for eight hundred thousand dollars, remitted in October last, for the purchase of army cloths, Ac.; and I trust the Boston Board of Trade, which made so much stir about the Quartermaster’s De partment having sent abroad for such suppling, [|}9 particulars of which tako up so large a part of their annual report in January, will now feel relieved on learning that less than half the credit was expend ed. And any contractors fer army cloths who felt aggrieved by such interference with their then hoped-for prices, and who “ now learn that what was purchased has been oondemned and is to be sold at anotion,” can be fully advised of the value of the goods on application to the Quartermaster’s Department at New York or Washington. The business was undertaken solely as a duty, from which, at the time, there seemed no escape. Contracts for over 700,000 yards of cloths had been thrown up, and all the exertions of the de partments in Washington, Philadelphia, and New York had failed to procure sufficient material for winter ciothing in the country. General McClellan, on the 14th October, wrote an earnest and anxious note to General Meigs, in refer ence to the suffering then reported to him, by the troops in the mountain regions, for want of over coats and blankets, on which the decision was in stantly made to go abroad and do all that could be rightly done to procure supplies wherever they could be had. That but a portion of the original order was purchased has since been approved, it needing only time and experience to produce at home all that our great army requires, and of satis factory quality and price. G. P. S. Philadelphia, March 31. Internal Commercial Intercourse. The following is a copy of the modifications qf the rnles and regulations prescribed by the Secre tary of the Treasury, on the 4th instant, governing the trade between the loyal States and those portions of the insurrectionary section of the eountry now under control of the United States forces. The changes are material, and of great value to the business community: Treasury Department March 29, 1862. Fit. : It is desirable to remove, as far as may properly be done, the restiictionß upon commercial intercourse be tween the loyal States and those States and parts of States heretofore declared by proclamation of the President to be in insurrection, and which may resume and maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be occupied and controlled by the forces of the United States engaged in the dispersion of the insurgents. The rules and regulations governing internal com merce, heretolore proscribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, are, therefore, hereby so far modified as to au thorise the respective surveyors of tho customs at the porta of Pittsburg, Whoding, Cincinnati, Madison, Lou isville, Now Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, and Bt. Louis to issue permits for the transportation of mer chandise, and for tho exchange of the same for money or products of such States and parts of States, upon appli cation being made to them respectively, if satisfied of the loyalty and gcod faith of the applicant, and upon the lliing of an allidavit, proporiy executed, that tho permit so applied for shall not, If granted, be used so as to give, In any way, any aid, comfort, information, or encourage ment to persons iu insurrection against the Government of the United States, or under insurrectionary control and direction. You will hereafter cease collecting any per centage or fees for permitting the transit aud exchange of merchan dise between tho citizens of loyal States aud loyal citi zens of insurrectionary sections of the country occupied or controlled by the forces of the United Statos, other than tbeuiual charge of twenty cents for each permit so granted; ami yon will make no charge for permits for merchandise forwarded from any plueo In a loyal Stit6 to another in the same, or other like State, ner exercise any supervision over the trade'between such States, ex cept such as may be necessary to pievont supplies of any deecriptiou being furnished to insurgents. It is furthermore directed tt at no permits be granted for Any articles forbidden by tbA Military authorities to be transported into the territory occupied by the forceß of tho United States. Parties, therefore, desiring licenses and permits for commercial trade under the rnles and regulations, as herein modified, will hereafter make their application direct to the proper surveyor, and not to tho Secretary of the Tieiaun. 1 am, yery respectfullyy 8 P. CHASE, Secretory of the Trmsurr. Fvjch T. Carson, Surveyor of Customs, Clackmati, Ohio. . She brings the bodies of Captail Budd, of the Penguin, and of Captain Mather, who were both killed at Mosquito Inlet. Whence Bienville left, the general impression was But the people of Florida were returning to their Uyatiy, and the rebel troops had either all left or were making their way to other Southern States. The only place where any formidable opposition to the United States forces was made was at Mos quito Inlet* and that only on the shall boats sent from the Penguin and Henry Andrew. Eight of our force were killed and wounded.! The extent of the casualties on the rebel side yas not ascer tained. ' Another Account Washington', March 31.—The gunboat Bien ville, Captain Steedman, arrived at, this city lost night at seven o’clock, direct from St. Augustine, Florida, bringing the battalion of marines, Major Reynolds. On Friday, the 21st instant, Comnodore Dupont, having received from the mayor and inhabitants of St. Augustine an invitation to take possession of that place, several gunboats, with battalion of marines, proceeded down and cane to off the harbor, where they found that Captlin Doughty, of the Wabash, had taken quiet postession of the place, with his marines and somi volunteer sol diers, under General Sherman.: The volunteers had possession of the fort and tie marine guard wero quartered in tho town. i The battalion of marines under-Maj. Reynolds, having no further service in that (uarter, were or dered to Washington. They left jin the Bienville on Tuesday last, came direct, andanived here last night. i The gunboat brought the bodiesof Acting Lieu tenant Budd, commanding the Peiguin, and Capt. Matthews, of the Mary Andrew, jeha wore killed at Mosquito Inlet, eixty miles beloir St. Augustine, while on a reconnoitring oxpeditioi.np the inlet. Another Skirmish in Missouri. St, Levis, March ?!,—lnformation has bees received at headquarters that a detachment of the First lowa cavalry, under Captain Thompson, overtook a guerilla band of rebels, aider command of Colonel Parker, on the night of [he 28th, about ten milts west of Warreasburg, ! Fifteen rebels were killed and tw)nty-five taken prisoners. : Among the latter are Colonel Parfer and Captain Walton. Our loss was two killid and several wounded. : ’ From Fortress Monroe. Fortress ’ Monroe, March 30.—Thi weather is unpleasant and rainy. The steamer King Philip arrived from Wash ington this afternoon with Vleo Pffeldent Hamlin, the Senate Committee on Naval Amirs, and seve ral other Senators, Representatives, and invited guests. , ; Tho party will return to morrow- There is ne news of importance, ’ The War on the Tennesiee River—No Further Movement of Gur Troops. - St. Loos, March 31. —There Is no news of im portance from the Tennessee rivir. It is not ex pected that aetive operations in'that quarter will commence until the arrival of General Buell’s army, unless our forces are attacked by Beaure gard. j The Pennsylvania Regiments in General Buell's Army; A Nashville correspondent, willing to the Cin cinnati Commercial, says: 1 By the way, it is generally understood, though not officially promulgated, that the reserve of the army, now marching into Alabama, will be a newly created division, under aommand »f Brigadier Ge neral Negley, at present commanding the Seventh Brigade. This brigade was foruerly in General McCook’s division, being with Rofse&u aud Johns ton’S brigade, but General Buell, vlthdrew General Negley’g command from the Secpnd Division. I think, but do not know positively, that thiß was done at General Negley ’srequest-pa natural conse quence of his peculiar character. | General Negley was ordered to remain in camp at Nashville when MuCwk mmd, and bus sis?* p««|» "porting tq Ge neral Buell. To his command, I fndersiana, three regiments have been added—two being of cavalry and one ef artillery—Colonel James Bamett, of the First Ohio Cavalry, commanding the latter, and one of the cavalry regiments bemg under Colonel . Wynkoop, of Pennsylvania, It il understood here that other regiments of infantry are to be added to this force. General Negley raised the first Penn sylvania brigade for the three-months service, and was with Patterson in Maryland and Virginia. He came into Kentucky in November last, when crazy Sherman vesignod. He is a pmotioal man, who takes great pride in his command. I saw General Buell inspect his brigade at Camp Wood, and that close observing and critical officer passed the entire line without finding fault with any soldier or officer. General Buell seldom compliments, General Neg ley was shrewd enough to understand his silence as a very great compliment. One of the arguments influencing General Buell to place General Negley in charge of the city has been the earnestly ex pressed desires of the suburban residents of Nash ville, vrhe reside near his present camp. Fast Day in Maine.— Governor Washburu has appointed Thursday, the 10th of April, for a fast ay in Maine. Just as they were about te launch Hawn into eternity, the chaplain said, “This poor unfortunate man desires to say that he was led into committing the acts for which he is now to atone with his life, by the Union men, and he ia really an object of Hawn rose, and in stentorian voice replied, “ I desire to say that every word that man has said is false. I am the identical man that put the torch to the timbers of that bridge, and I am ready to swing for it- -Hang me as soon as you can.” He said he would do it again if he knew this was to be his fate for it. The jails in the South are literally full of Union men, many of them taken from East Tennessee. Never was a people so broken down. The Govern ment owes it to the people, if they never go any where else, to take carb of East Tennessee. They have stood firm. There are no Union presses left in the South, and not a Union editor but one, and that is myself. They have all been bought up. They offered me large sums of money, but my reply was, u Thy money perish with thee. I will see you to the devil first.” They took my paper, my press, and my type, and gave me notice that I should not publish any more papers. X took the advice of my friends and my family, and stopped the Whig. It was the only timejin my life that I ever gave in, for, like Collins’ ram, I always had a head of my own. [Laughter.] And this was not all. An Alabama regiment came along one Sabbath day and stole from me my only nigger, a young roan of whom X thought very muchi I might hare espootod this from the North, era army if £ had believed ail that was said of it, but I did not expect that the chivalry and flower of the South would be guilty of such an act, after all their boasting. I tell you to-day, upon the honor of a man, that the Southern army and ita hangers-on have stolen more negroes in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky during the past six months, than the Abolitionists have enticed or aided away in the last forty yearß, end to-day, so help me God '■ one-half the soldiers in the South never owned a slave or were ever re lated by the ties of oonaanguinity with anyone that ever did. [Cheers. 1 They are the offscourings of the lowest order of society, the meanest set of cowards on the face of the earth. Look how they fled at Fishing Creek, and everywhere else when the Union army got after them. This is my first effort at speaking in four months, and I find that I am getting hoarse and must stop.’ Thank God! I can now see daylight. This wickad rebellion'is about played out; atl that is needed’to finish the work is “a 'little more grape, Captain ftagg” Kent from Cumberland Gap—Two Skir- mishes near that Place, A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial , writing from camp, near Baxboursville, Knox coun ty, Ky., March 23d, says ; On the 13th instant, the Second Tennessee Regi ment, one company from the Forty-ninth Indiana, and one from the First Tennessee, together with eighty-six of Colonel Mnndy’s cavalry, started on gp expedition into East Tennessee. We travelled four days and nights, through rain and mod, and over mountains, until we arrived at a valley called Powell’s Valley. Our march would have been muoh easier if the small gaps and passes in the mountains were not blockaded. The infantry crossed a point in the Cumberland mountains near Big Creek Gap, which most people thought it im possible to climb ; but it was accomplished at night We came on the enemy very suddenly, and sur rounded them almost before they were aware of it. When they flaw ua they did not know who wo wore, it being quite early in the morning, and especially as they believed it impassible for any Yankoes to reach them—feeling confident that they had a com plete blockade in operation on their northern boundary. There were in the vicinity of Big Creek Gap 400 rebel cavalry, and at Jacksboro’—a town five miles distant—2oo mere. The attack was first made on the foroe at Big Creek, who immediately fled, leaving clothing, horses, arms, etc., behind. They were in the act of cooking breakfast, to which we helped ourselves. Fifteen rebels were killed, and fourteen taken prisoners; we also took sixty horses, a lot of mules, tents, Bhot.guns, sabres, ana several wagons. Gur cavalry was not in this fight, having been separated from the infantry, but came up just as the fight was over, and immediately started for Jacksboro’, and there dispersed the gang of Be; cesh cavalry, killing a rebel, of some note in East ern Kentucky, named James Gibson, and taking prisoner one of their oaptains. On the 21st, an expedition, comprising almost the entire brigade, started towards Cumberland Gap. To-day the boys returned, and state that there was considerable cannonading on both sides. Tho enemy had ene thiriy-fts-eeunder, which was silenced by the second shot from our small Parrot guns. Their shells exploded before they reaohed us, and their shot fell short. Our infiintry had soareely an opportunity of doing anything. Our shot and shell fell within their breastworks, and made them scatter for a short time. Sixteen of the enemy were killed, and how many wounded un known. Nobody wus hurt on our side. The enemy have been reinforced, it. is said, both in troops and cannon. This attack, our boys say, was not made with the intention of taking the Gap. Thz half-brother of Gen. Zollicoffer, confined among the rebel prisoners at Terre Haute, died oh Monday morning of last week. •' Now, looking at the Constitution, -we shall find, first, ‘ that there aro no words authorizing Congress to ..establish or recognise slavory; and, secondly, that thcr.q are positive words which prohibit Con gress from the exercise of any such power. The argument, therefore, - is two-fold: first, from the ab sence of authority; 'and, secondly, from positive prohibition. A barbarism like slavery can have no support except in positive, unambiguous words. There is no power in the Constitution to make a king or to make a slave, and the absence of all such power is hardly more olear in one case than the other.. -But, if there be no such power, then alt aets of Congress-sustaining slavery at the national capital must be unconstitutional and void Nobody can show a phrase or word in the Constitution giving the power. If you find it there, it is simply because yon make the Constitution a reflect of yourself. But, if there were doubt on this point, the pro hibitions of the Constitution would settlo the ques tion, among which is this: <* No person shall be de prived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Every person now detained as a slavehere is detained in violation of this prohibi tion. A court, properly impartial and ready to assume that just responsibility which dignifies ju dicial tribunals, would at once declare slavery im possible here, and set every slave free. The two cases are parallel. In the British case of the So merset, 10,000 were setfree, while here it will only he 3,000.. But since the courts will not do this work, it roust bo attempted 'by Congress. If from the former, it would be the triumph of the magistrate— if from the latter, of the statesman. But shall Congress vote money ? I do not hesitate; and there are two prevailing reasons—first, if not a. partnership, there is at least a oemplioity on the part of Congress in slavery here, through which the whole.country has become responsible; and second ly, it is the gentlest,..quietest, and surest way, and therefore'the most practical. As there is noreason of policy adverse to such appropriation, so there is no objection in the Constitution. Congress may create freemen here, although it may not oreata slaves. ■ But I prefer to consider the money which we vote, not as compensation, but as ransom. From time immemorial every government has under taken to ransom its subjects from captivity. Un happily, in our history yro have had occasion to do this, with the sanction And co-operation of the best names in our history. Even in our colonial days, our own white people were enslaved by the Barbary States. Algiers was the chief seiit'bf this enormity, which found the Same apologies set up for slavery here. It was even Mid that the stavea in Algiers were well fed, much better than the free Christians there, and that some became, indifferent to freedom. In unfolding stOFy > .I,shall exhibit the direct and constant intervention of Congress for the ransom of elnvciibut thp story itself is an argument against slavey, Oqifeffertaahd anxieties began immedi ately after the establishment of our independence. AS bur'power seemed inadequate to compel the liberation of these people it was attempted by ran som: -But at first our Government offered only $2OO a head, less then is proposed in the present bill for the .redemption of sfaves at the national capital. I’otilicps were presented to Congress for the cap . tiyes, snd several interesting reports wore made by the Secretary of State, in which he said that it was regarded as important that, “in the first instance of redemption by tll£ die. Baltimore exchange dis. Conntry funds -•#©?£ dis. American gold ltf«l % prm. Drexel & Co. will cash the coupons of the 7 3-10 Trea sury notes due Ist of April Amount of grain measured for tho Port of Philadel phia during the quarter ending March 31st: Corn ......... 373,900 bushels. Wheat 337,482 “ Oats 139,843 “ Bye 23,376 “ 8ar1ey..,....., 5,538 “ Seeds 40 “ Malt 1,424 “ Beans. 25 “ Salt 6,711 “ Total* imitkiiiiiiiiiiiii »692|138 ft Messrs. Imlay A Bicknell report the circulation of an altered ton*dollar note, purporting to be the true issue of tbeCorn Exchange Bank, of this city; it is altered from a genuine 1. Vignette, oval portrait of General Scott, 10 on each upper corner; on lower left, female with sheaf and sicklo; on lower right, female with basket of frait. Wo hear much adverse comment upon the action of the Board of Trade on tho subject of a universal bankrupt law, taken at their meeting on Friday evophig, in adopt ing a roemoiial to be sent to Congress recommending the committal of tho subject to a commission that shall sit during tho receßS of Congress. The objection to this pro posal is founded upon the delay that would arise from its adoption. Many well-matured and feasible plans for a universal bankrupt law have been prepared, and there Menu no need ot further delay in the passage of some one of them. Mr. Edwin James, the celebrated English lawyer, re cently published a statement embodying all the requi sites for such a law found requisite in English practice, and a very elaborate bill is bofore Congress, which, in nearly all ita provisions, seems to give general satisfac tion. We cannot see any good reason for further post ponement of this important measure, and we believe it may be as well passed at this session as at any future time. Every year of enforced inaction on the part of in telligent business men is so much lost from thoir span of life, and insures a corresponding loss to lh& g&fioral wel fare. There is little prospect that the deliberations of a committee during the recess would prove any less ob jectionable than the plans for such laws already pro posed, and the subject is not such a new one that it needs bo thought over so much longer. Wo beliove that a committee, composed of two or throe active merchants in either of the great cities, and two of tl oir late asso ciates now bankrupted, could frame a billin a few hours that would meet all therequlrementß of the case. One of our merchants, whose name is widely and honorably known In tho land, sends us, In the followingcdfiifilllftlCO tiou, a plain, common-sense view of this subject: A GENERAL BANKRUPT LAW. Editor P«es*j< : Considering thenumberof petltlonspre sented in Congress and the urgent need of the measure, onn very naturally wonders why there hae been no action taken towards tho passage or a general bankrupt law. The long delay with regari to action in this matter seems to indicate that Congress is not fully aware of the necessity demanding such a law. For want of it, large numbers of those who have heretofore been considered honest oDergotic business men, are rendered alike use* less to their families and to commercial enterprise These men ore not to for inability to meet de trends upon them. Their condition is not of their-own choosing, and they cannot be held responsible for tho great convnlaion in our country which has swept away their all. They were not ruined by a panic, nor yet by t-peculatlon; but. pursuing their ueu®J mode of me *can• tile operations, they were suddenly sFrnck down by the pome, terrible power thai has, for the time, stopped the progress of the wholo country. Wo submit that it is not right that they should be former dsbarcod from pursuing THE WAR PRESS. Tf! WM PMB9 wiu bfi MDt to mbncrtben br mtO (per unnm ta tlnace) at §3,o# ThreeOoplea 11 11 , f,09 fin “ « “ S.M Ten « « 13. M I*"*?, 9lnU will be itmned *t the hdio rate, tfau ; So coulee will cote *24; BOtoplu will com MO; eiul It# copiee #l2O. Far a Olnb of Twenty-one or over, we will eend m Xztra Cop j to the getter-np of the Olnb. w Foetnutere ore Ewineated to wet M Agnb r«o Tn Wn Puss. Vf AdYertleementc lnaerted at the anal ratal. ■# Unea conetitate a atnara. their accustomed occupations, those Tor which tholr Isifßtß sre pncullarlF adsplflli DhMmi the caUmitr bar tircu so general In Its effects, that even if peac* were restored, businras could not be restored to it* wonted prosperity without such a law. There is plenty of business talent now lying idle, which might be employed in contributing to the common promwrily; and, n» <■ Ihoye fs a figure !?ft to till mim who huye tin Tirtue to repent and tlio energy to atone”**- evtn if aonu* of those who are now disabled hare tied their own hands—still, Congress ougot to pa9B a bank rupt law for the benefit of iho business community at larA'o. Its good effects would soon be felt by both debtor and creditor; for, in addition to the creditor losing liie money, he also loses the custom of his debfor. Slid fbff ©v P «re of properly ]obc tbrir tenants! Tho pissagfl or this law, owing 10 the exigencies of the times, is loudly demanded, ns, followed up from its beginning to its end, the welfare and prosperity of tlio bueiuesH community ft closely connectej with the welfare of the whole country. J. M, The annual report of the Illinois Central Railway Company is a very interesting paper; The favorable condition of your property In tho oarly months of last year arose largely from the through traffic with tho South. The result of the completion of the connecting lines with Mobile and Now Orleani, during the previous year, gave promise of a surplus bo yond the interest of the debt, to provide » dividend on the (hare capital. The not profits of the first quarter's Iraffle $964,- 718 96; the. lend sates and collections were alike satisfac tory, aad wo felt justified in the belief that the diffi culties which had attended our enterprise had been sur mounted. These expectations were disappointed by the exteDßion of the Southern dilliculties to tho Middle States. The Government placed a force at Cairo in April. Communication with tho South being prohibited, our through business was cut off—the freight traffic at Cairo, from $117,000 per month tho first four months, decrease! to $103,122 18 for tho eight months following. Our In terests suffered both in the loss of business, (the trans portation to Cairo having fallon off from 92,000 tons in the first four Brant))!) to 20,000 tons in ih last eight months*) and in tbo lack of ability of the farmers upon our line to meet their engagements, in consequence of the loss of their usual market. Our line fur 259 miles south of the Terre Haute and Alton road is now mainly of use for the transportation of Covernmout troops and stores, and must remain bo ontii the settlement of our fiatfoAM tionbb jj. With the very abundant harvest of wheat and corn, the local traffic of our line north of tho point named would have supported the entire road, with ordinary market prices for the products of the country, but tho supine crops of tli© Northwest were thrown on to tho lakes: the supply of vessels and canal boats was inadequate to tbo sudden unexampled demand for transportation, which consequently rose rapidly in Price, and reduced the net price of his products to the Illinois farmer, to so low a point as to leave no margin for profit. The hank issues in this State were largely basod upon the securities of the Southern States. The overthrow of this currency caused the withdrawal of $12,000 000 of p*per in circulation, with ?rent los? to tJjp hpHen?, thus adding to the general confusion, caused by the unex pected war, which bastrantferred In Illinois atone 65,000 men to warlike purposes from the ordinary occupations of civil life. In this stato of things, our first effort was to reduce the expenses; secondly, to secure grain from the purchasers offends, in payment of th&fe oohU&otd, .The working expenses, from the Ist of January to the Ist of July, were $817,89n m ; from the Ist of July to the 31st of December, $687,063.01: the expenditures on capi tal account, including $64,437.62 for oue engine ami rixty.three curs, constructed early in the year, are $206,397,31, We have e»»lyaei»d fop tw& irbh bridges, io ho do livered this year, and shall construct a now bridge at Chicago, but the entire expenso for capital account should not exceed $150,000, and the working expense $1,450,000. Receipts of grain for lands were commenced in August, and i,8e0,000 bushels of corn wore delivered and shipped Ihiwifili to Nw YMk fop @slfi —tH# first shipments at a small profit. The great advance in lake and canal freights not only cut off this profit, but will produce a loss, which, however, will be compensated in some measure by the purchase of the construction bonds at a discount. We are now taking corn in the ear, and hava already 300,000 bushels stored near Chicago. From 16,00016 15,000 bushels ar*- sent in daily and this ap pears to be the most practical method in these hard times Tor the Western farmer of mr-oiiug his desire to pay his debts, and securing to the company partial payments of tho large amouut of notes it has on hand. The road forwarded last year fifty per cent more grain than in 1860, and five times as much os the total of 1955, Fifteen millions of bushels in twelve months in tha most striking proof of the rapid development of tha prairies; and now, with the necessities growing out of the war, sorghum (or Chinese sugar cane) is successfully cultivated; some 1,500,000 gallons of molasses were pro duced last year; and the cultivation of cotton in South ern Illinois will lie resumed# if seed can bo The culture of col ton was not abandoned in this State until the prico of upland declined below ton cents per pound; at this price ills generally believed that itoan be grown profitably, and to a large extent. Throe fourths of the citizens of Southern Illinois originated from the Soufhern States, and are familiar with its out turf. The Agricultural Department of the General flo. vernment has taken steps to secure a supply of seed. Illinois has eight or ten millions acres of land, with tha climate of Virginia and Kentucky, and will furnish# should the national troubles continue, large Bupplies of tobacco, beside other semi-tropical products. At no pe riod has this State occupied so prominent a position in tlio public mind, its immense shipments of grain, cattle# and provisions, controlling the prices in the Eastern mar kets. Even during these winter months, the sate of cat tle, provisions, etc , are said to exceed one million dol lars per week. Tho troubles and losses incident to tha war must turn the attention more directly to thes# cheap and fertile lands, and concentrate population upon them. . It would be unjust to the distant owners of this pro perty to shrink from an expression of apprehension in regard to the income of this year, especially from passen ger traffic, so long &b the Southern insurrection con tinues. The gross passenger receipts in 1861, were only $661,392.72 being less than the receipts of 1855, and $451,609 less than the receipts of 1856. The War Department Ims agreed to allow the actuaf expense of transporting troops, but the major part of this service, 9207,128 64, performed in 1861, is still unpaid. The first quarter will show a large decrease la freight earnings, for there is no way to recover the loss of busi ness at Cairo, aud while our communications with the South are cut off, we cannot (scape the inevitable cease iiucßces of loan and unceitaiutY. The unexpected intervention of special causes has Ar rested tho prosperity of tho company at a moment when it seemed upon the most secure footing. It is beyond in dividual power to re-establish it until the relations with the Bouth Are renewed, or until higher prices for the produce of the country place our farmers in better cir cumstances* Tbo construction bond debt has been reduced by can celing $340,000 during 1861 to $14,913,500. The amount of land notes on hand is $11,993,668.50, and there art 1,358,549 Acres of land still unsold. The general balance shoet is as follows : Permanent expenditures 027,492,039 12 Interest account. mnun $6,425,498 40 Less avail of interest fund.. 1,447,132 IS— 4,978,366 22 Working stock of supplies * 438,103 6$ Miscellaneous assets, N. Y.. $442,900 63 Mißcell’ouß assets, Chicago. 101,665 02— 544,565 66 Total Capital 5t0ck.............. $15,329,995 w Funded debt *. Construction bonds* due April 1. ’75....... $14,913,500 Optional rlglit bonds, due February 20, *6B Eisht percent, bonds due Marchl f *65 326,000 Construction bonds canceled by Land Do* partment collections Free land bonds canceled by Land Pepart ment collections to June 1, ’59 Net floating liabilities,,., Total $33,504,023 U CAPITAL STOCK. Of the 255 000 sharesl79,4s4 have been issued represented by 87,633 shares of $lOO paid $8,703,300 87,798 ** » 30 « 7,023,840 4.033 « !! 85 M 311,354 170.464 « $16,120 t 008 Prom vblch deduct amount carried to inter* cstfundin 1951. Net balance at credit as shown in genera' bal sue? 939,091 INTEREST ACCOUNT. IntereßT in general account S 44,458 11 Losb on sterling exchange 7,950 58 Interest on debentures 2,953 20 Interest on optional right bonds 2,590 0# Interest on 8 percent, bonds 25,278 44 Construction bonds, coupons of .April anil October Interest on full-paid stock.., Total $1,429,284 Tt Add balance at debit of tlie account in taat report* uiauiuiititiiiitiiiiiitiiiin 4,896,218 68 Total amount of debit aB shown in general balance sheet Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sales* March 31. [Reported by S. E. Bi.aymakku, FUila. Exehango.l .600 City 6s new 96* 16 Penna 8...,* 46* 1600 do new 96* 8 do 45* 100 do 90* 2 do 45* 1000 Philo A Erie 6a.. 80* 20 Far & Moch 13k.. . 60* 2000 Penna sa,... cash 83* 1 do 50* 1000 N Penna6i.B6nn 67 9 Oat fi Diofmuwi 6* ICOO Lehigh Yal 6s... 97 12 do 6* BETWEEN BOARDS. 2 Consolidation Ilk, 20 I 9 Far &■ Mecha Dk.. 50* 6CO City 6 90* 40 Race & Vino C & P 46 'BKOOND BOABD. 6(00 Wilm B6s 100 100 L Island 8...b5 12* 100 LoWgb Sarecrip 30 1000 Pena»Ue«6 B ....lofr f 40 do ...36 15 Man & Mohsßk. 22* 500 Lehigh Ga Loan.loo* 1000 Reading 0a ’70... 90* 7 Morris Cnl prf. .111* 1000 Penna cp 6s 99* 500 NPa R 10s bcp. .00 1000 Gam AAm Os >76 91* 100 Beading R.b6 21 1.10 1000 do 91* " 60 do .... .b 0 21 1.10 100 City os new 96* CLdStNSPBIfIBS-.FHiM. Bid. Asked. Bid. ASJeid. US 6a’Bl 93* 93,* Elmiraßprf... 15* 16 U STr7B-10 N 99* 100 Elmira 7s ’73... 73* 74* Philada 6s 90* 91 Long laid 8.... 12* 18 Philada 6e new, 90 90* Lehigh Cl A Nav 50* SI rennaaßiuiin 83 80* Led ANaracp 38 M* Beading B 21 21* N Penna R 7 7* Bead m6s ’80*43 94 95* N Penna R 65.. 67 67* Road bds 1879.. 90* 90* N Penna B 10s. 83 84 Bead ml 6s 1880 76* 77* Cat B Con 1* 2 Penna B 45* 45* Gatawiasaprf... 6* 6* Penna E letm 6*loo 100* Frk & Sthwk B. 43 47 Penna R 2dm 6s 94 WjJ 800 & Tbd-ei B. 54* 88 Morris Cnl con.. 40 41 Race «kVine«stß 6 6 Morris Cnl prf. .111* 112 West Pblla 8... 53 55 Bch Nay Stock.. 3* 5 Spruce & Pine.. 9* 10 fich NaT prf.... 11 11* Green & Coates. 22* 22* Sch Nav fie ’82.. 62 _ 65 Chest & Walnut 30 31 E1m1ra8,,,,,,, 7* $ Attb gtroei,.,. 18 15* Reading closes dull.,...*..**»****»,. ».21021 l.ie ritiladrlpliia Markets. M-uicn 31—Evening. The Flour Market is dull to- day; there is some little demand for shipment, bat Layers and sellers are apart fa their viewsi A few small lots only have bean taken br the trade at 8505.12* for super* 85 31* ©5 56 for ex tra*, 85-02* a 5.87 for extra family, and 8600.50 for fancy brands, as to quality, ltye Flour Is unchanged, with light offerings and sales at 83.25 bbl. Corn Sica! continues dull, and Penna is offered at 82.75, with* out finding buyora. Wheat —There Is more offering, and the market la dull and unsettled; about 11,000 bus have been taken, mostly prime Penna redß for shipment, at 31.3001. 31, In cluding several lots afloat on private terms, and white at $1.57a1.4G. Rye is uncharged 5 Penna selling at 70© in store* Corn continues m good doniirod; about 10,908 bus sold at 64c for Southern yellow, and 55c lor prime Penna round do ailoat. Oats are dull and unsaleable at 35o36cfcr Penna. Barley is scarce and firm at previous quotations. Bauk is firm at 838.50 ton for first No. 1 Quer citron. CottoK— Thy lUmand la limited, and the markat vary dull at previous quotations. Gkockki es and Puuvisioxs.—There is very little move ment in either and no alteration iu prices. The lattor. however, are held with more firmness. 6fedc. —The offerings of Clovereeed are light and. prius steady. Sales of 250 bushels &t 85.12* 05 28 bushel. WmsKT.—The market is rather more active. 100 bble sold at 24024*, and drudge at 22*c gallon, now held higher. Tub Memphis Avalaveke, of the ldth, save Ge neral Lee hag. teen appointed Commsnaer.iß- Cbief of the Confederate army The report that the appointment had boon conferred s» Beauregard is untrue. ... 833,504,023 74 33,000 * i 5,277,500 09 2,086,590 99 138,000 00 172,926 74 1,026,987 59 319,061 89 .30,425,493 49