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SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1862.
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Ws 11/tVE every confidence in the Secretary
of the Treasury, and, net Withstanding the
panic which has beon created by his demand
for authority to issue an additional one hun
dred and fifty millions of treasury notes, we
believe that the motives which prompted the
requisition are as patriotic as the result will
be gratifying. The passage of the bill autho
rizing this issue by the House of Representa
tives, on Tuesday last, by so large a vote, was
an emphatic affirmation of the justice of his
course. The issue, as we understand it, is not
an absolute increase in the aggregate paper cir
culation of the country. These notes will either
be absorbed by the called-loan deposits with
Government, thus forming the basis of the re
demption of ordinary bank circulation, or they
will take the place of this circulation to the
extent of the excess of the supply over the
demand ; for it must be remembered that a
superior circulation always drives out an infe
rior one. The additional treasury notes are
expected, by the Secretary, to produce two
jiealtby results: thy will revolutionize the
system of Governmeut credits, making the ab
sorption of the time loans at par a voluntary
and rapid process; and by furnishing the coun
try wltti a uniform Currency, they will equalize
the rates of exchange, and facilitate the ope
rations of commerce between all sections;
and this is expected to he, accomplished
without an undue inflation of the currency.
In the State of Illinois the collapse of the
banks Etat summer wiped out of oxistence, at
a fair estimate, eighteen millions of depreciated
currency, and the vote of that Stale st the late
election, where the people decidod by an im
mense re njority practically in favor of the legal
tender - notes of the Government of the United
States, is but one of the many evidences of
the porilluity of the financial policy of
Mr. CHASE. In the spin ebensions which have
been excited -by the s ockjob tors • and
others, we should not shut from sight the fact
that there is an immense vacuum which must
be filled by a suitable national currency. The
Rebellion his, for instance, wholly or partially
annihi'ated the paper currency of eleven
States, and as they are bcougLit back to obe
dience they will eagerly receive and circu
late the money Weed by the parent-Govern
went. The objection that so large an issue of
paper money will advance the rates of coin to
'a
point far above the commercial average be
tween nations, is rather au argument in favor .
of than against the issue, since the excess of .
the premium will practically be so much add
ed to the tariff on im oats, thus causing the
diminution of those imports which are now
the main cause of the drain of specie. One
of the most truthful arguments disproving the
clamors and predictions of the Jeremiatus who
are note laMenting over what they conceive to
be the prospect of bankruptcy resulting from
an inflated circulation, is the following article,
taken from the New Yolk Tribune, of the 18th
of Junc4
11 Is a tree y security worthless simply beoauso
it 'may no convenient or possible for the Go
vernment'., eetzi tt upon demand by a specie
pa) meat? ri London Times, teat amiable men
tor of all creation, says that it ls. Now, in 1816, at
the close of the continental wars, the Bank of Eng
land had in circulation £5 notes to the value of
£18,021.230, and small notes to the value of .89.001,-
400 ; and yet,froin 1813 to 1816 imitative, only about
half a million sterling bud been coined at the bank.
That institution suspended epecic payments. having
just before been paying in &simians, in 1790. It
was upon the verge of bankruptcy when kir. Pitt's
orderin-council game to its relief. This order
was sanctioned by Parliament ; the notes of
the bunk were practically made a legal ten
der, and the bank was not legally obliged to pay
another chilling in specie until 1819, during which
period war expenditures had gone •up to ono
hundred and thirty nii.tiont annually in 1815.
All this time, a perst., by the came of Napo
leon Boeaparto was impatiently waiting for
Bank of Bi.gland . notes to be worth no more
than the atsignort of the Convention were in his
boyhoud. The illoatteser talked than of the Eng
lish as the Tames talks now of the- Ameri
cans. When' Nepoloou himself exploded, the
old lady's five-pound notes wore received with jay
by all oh ncould get them. It is ituomer curious
fact, that from -1792 to 1.816 the British revenue
was ttil,led, the exports . iu spite of the war, more
than doubled, and the imports increased a half.
England, according to all the logic of 'Dm London
Times, should bavo gene commercially to perdi
tion. With a natural perversity, abe insisted upon
being prosperous.
What does all this prove? That a nation should
nottlletsly run in debt, and recklessly expand its
paper currency? Not at all. But it does mean,
in our nate, as it meant in the ease of England,
that, when the very existence of the Government
is at stake, no must draw upon our future resources,
and that there is not only uo danger of insolvency
in so doing, but no hope of anyone) , in doing other
wise. It must bo pretty plain to the mosteuperrioiel
thinker that it its bitter for the Government to be
!sustained, owing five hundred millions, then for it
to fall into beggarly and bankrupt ruin, owing only
one hundred millions. There can be no analogy
instituted between an individual and a government.
Generally, a man who owes more than he can pay
bad better go into insolvency, give up what he has,
and solace his creditors by declaring a dividend.
But Governments cannot atop without bringing so-
Met, to the curse of anisreby. Governments, by
the Imy nature of their monetary transmitter/a,
claim long credits, and are obliged, in self-defense,
to draw, to case of sudden emergency, upon the
faturo. .There is no injustice in this. If our de
scendants lire to reap certain great advantages,
why should they not boar their portion of the
burdens?.
" Twu things go to make up the value of a paper
dollar—the good faith and the ability to pay of
those who issue It. Where these are present, for
'all the purys ma of an internal currency. .paper is
as good as gold. Rig political stability, to all eases,
that gives value. Gold, without any Government,
would hardly be worth any more to nu American eiti
sten than the iron coin of Sparta; because gold which
cannot be safely invested is of no more value than
paper. Look,for instance. at these miracles of firma.
Mel ingenuity which are called • tioufoderate notes.'
They represent anarchy, nod anarchy only; and
even Secession traders shun them as if they were
infected. Of course, those who - issue them howl
with rage, and pass laws or issue proclamations
which they fondly hope will give a value to Martial
rags. Tbo Atlanta (Oa.) Confederacy, May 30, le
for bangitg those who retiree to receive them in
payment of debt. It will nut do The more they
bang the smaller will be the value of their shin- .
plasters. The scheme was tried upon a large male,
long ago, in France, and it was a perfect failure.
Old and young, gentle and simple, men and wo
men, went cheerfully to the guillotine, rather
than take assignats. Bakers and butchers hold on
to their loaves and joints until the last, moment,
and rush mounted the suaillild, no doubt with a
sense of relief, Beggars turned up their sharp
noses when the notes were offered them. 'lf
you present them,' wrote a Clever English lady,
'with assignats, they refuse, saying: We have
enough of this sorry paper—lt is bread we want'
—and eo went blithely to execution. The sage
of The Atlanta Confederacy may 'draw a les
sen from these historical facts if fie ever reads
history, whist' is doubtful. The assignats were
worth nothing, because the Government had no
value ; the Confederate notes are worth nothing,
for the same reason. What made a Bank
.of
England note, even In times when the windows of
George l ll.'s . coach' were broken by the mob,
worth a batful of French assigna.ta? Perhaps
The London Time, oau teit us? It certainly
drew splendid deductions from the oircumetanoe ut
the time of it.
't Thus far, the United States occupy substantial
ly the position of England during the Bcinaparte
ware. Our commerce, with the exception of the
cotton-carrying trade, has not been materially im
paired. Our agricultural production has not been
diminished,Our great mineral resources are quite
independent of the rebellion. The pursuits of indus
try have net been neglected. The spirit of the people
shows the popular confidence in a triumphant termi
nation of our difficulties. This is a feeling which is
fur more likely to continue than to diminish;
- becaute it is a general conviction that the Govern
ment, being very much in debt, will never be out
of it should the rebellion triumph. We believe that
• tith,Aeapitalist expressed the universal feeling
who WA upon making a large loan to the United
States : e are to conquer, Isbell be paid ; if we
are to be conq d, I have no use for money.'
For our part, weba no forebodings. We are strong,
not merely in our material, but in our moral re•
soureee; we have an Immense and intelligent, and
industrious population ; we have not, and are .not
likely to have, any tnreign complications ; we have
institutions—political and social—to which we are
fondly attached ; we have wealth.arel snored tradi
tions, and a good cause upon our side; and as a
stout heart and a produotive people sustained Eog
latd during the darkest days which she has seen
ekee those of the Stuarts, so will they sustain as
until our skies are once more clear, and these ter
rible storms have abated." .
IT WOULD SEEM from the following extract
from the army correspondence' of the New
York Times,. dated June 18, that the straw
bats and linen pantaloons, for which Mr. Cam
limos was so roundly abused, are coming into
nee during the warm weather, and that even
tfie commander-in-chief condescends to wear
them:
"Instead of cold, rainy weather, we now hove a
burring August run. The roads are fast drying up,
and the water in the Chickalmminy river and swamp
is going down rapidly. Whatever fun may have
been bad at the expense of that famousliatehase
of straw hats and linen pantaloons for the army
last summer, I can assure you I see many of the
officers and men wearing the former ; and they are
right in making themselves es comfortable as pos
sible. Indeed, only yesterday, I saw onr com
mander, Little Mao,' ride by with a common
blue flannel blouse, snotreaottr soldiers wear, and
a straw hat upon his head,f.Fbioh I wished heartily
had been upon my own. - He was scareely'recog
nimble, and I judge was thus travelling in cog. to
avoid the lusty ohaers which always greet his ap
pearance among our soldiers. He was not accom
panied by the long tail (cavalry) that others gene
rally sport, even when going only frorifone head
quarters to another."
WLIEN-Braorr wrote that nothing was im
mutable except mutate lity, he only mitre
tersely expressed the pith of the ethical poet's
couplet—
t• Men change with fortune, manners change with
clime,, lh
Twill with books, end principles with Hikes."
.Exactly half a century ago, iIENRTBROTIOE
AM, then entering into public life, was the
champion of the United States. Ile had hi:ea
two years in Parliament. NAPOLEON'S Berlin
Decree of 1806 purposed to blockade Englani,
to prohibit British goods horn being received
on the continent of Europa, seize such goads'
wherever found, and exclude all vessels that
had touched at British ports. Six weeks later,
the British Cabinet., in retaliation, issued the
first of the notorious Orders in Council, which
'went to prohibit American vessels from carry
ing British goods from one part of Europe to the
other—thus violating neutral rights, injuring
American commerce, and tending to involve
England in a quarrel with the United States.
To reduce the case into a sentence, we may
state that because NAPOLEON had said that
no vessel should touch a British port and
then enter a French one, or one under French
control, the English Orders in Council said
that no vessel of any nation should enter any
such port unless she had first touched at some
port .of Great Britain. NAPOLEON wished to
blockade the British Isles, and England wished
blockade Europe !
The American Embargo and Non-Importa
tion Acts which followed virtually suspended
all commerce between Great Britain and the
United Slates, and led to the war of 1812-14,
which BnovenAst says, in the Preface to his
Speeches, (edition of 18570 t , was terminated
by a most inglorious expedition to Washing
ton, and a most unfortunate one to New Or
leans, leading to the injury of our [the British]
character in the one, and the tarnishing of
our military fame in the other.",
In 1808, HENRY Hemp:mast, then aged thir
ty; was employed by the merchants and manu
facturers of London, Hull, Manchester, and
Liverpool to appear as their counsel before
the bars of both Houses of Parliament, against
the orders in Council and the American Em-'
bargo. His efforts failed in all points, except
that the ability he displayed, the libaral princi
flea he avowed, and the popularity he ob
tained, induced a Whig borough-monger to
return him to Parliament as member for Camel
ford. He again brought forward the injustice,
especially to the United States, of the assault
on American commerce, and, ably assisted by
Mr. BARING ' (afterwards Lord ASHBURTON ' )
who was connected by marriage and property
with this country, made out so strong a case,
by evidence, the hearing of which lasted seven
weeks, that finally he made a motion in the
Commons (June 10, 1812) that the Prince Re
gent should be called upon to recall the ob
noxious orders. The result was that the Co- :
vernment gave in, and declared that they had.
advised this recall. Too late! for almost
while BROUGHAM was speaking, America Ind
been compelled to declare war against Eng
land.
In those days 'HENRY Baonansm could re
commend.any sacrifice, except of honor, for
the purpose of concilialing the United States,
tbcn very greatly weaker, than now--in popu
lation, in wealth, in natural produce, in mane
factures, in science, in art, in all that enhances
the value of mortal life. Then, he could pro
test against the perpetual English jealousy of
America. Now, fifty years after date, Lord
liaounnett, speaking on Social Science, de
clares that the tendency of Democracy is
always peaceful, that the tendency of Monarchy
is always warlike, and that, our just war, to
preserve the Union which has made us a groat
nation, is a war waged cc by the whole people,
frantic with mutual hatred, filled with a thirst
of vengeance only tobe slaked by each other's
slaughter." These be strange words from
BitououAti, • the great constitutional writer,
jurist,tand orator ! Is our battle for Freedom
awbit more ccfrantic " than was fought in
1.688-9, to rescue England from kingly tyranny?
• It may bejthe duty of a lawyer, where speak
ing as a mere advocate, to take BELIAL for his
exemplar and try to c , mike the worse appear,
the better reason." But, as one or the great
est men of his time and country—for HENRY
BROUGHAM is as multo-minded aslwas FRANCIS
BACON—nothing should have interfered with
bis expression of the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. Lord Baotionear,
as President of the Social Science Association,
not only abused America and the Artuiricans,
in the words above quoted, but to)k great
credit to England for having, at great loss to
lnrsclf, so well maintained neutrality, In the
war between the North and the South, be
tween Union and Secession, between loyalty
and treason. Neutrality was proclaimed, as
in Queen VicroarA's name, but neutrality was
violated by many of Vivroate's "loving sub
jects," with silent permisaion from VICTOR/AA
own Ministers. Lords RUSIELL and Fermat!,
now are accountable for the harboring of the
War-steamer Nashville at Southampton, for
weeks, after she bad committed the piratical
gel of assaulting, plundering, and burning the
Harvey Birch at sea, and capturing her officers
and crew, and all this without having even such
a flimsy pretext as a letter of marque. These
two English Ministers, after VICTOLUeB last
proclamation, allowed the Sumpter to lie at
Gibraltar for weeks, under the protection of
the British batteries there.
If Bsorcuam, in his old age, has thus played
traitor to the generous opinions of his early
manhood, there is yet another English states
man,t RICHARD COBDEN, the Father of Free
Trade, who speaks differently of this country,
which he first visited some thirty years ago,
and last travelled through in 1858-59. In the
recent debate In the h. nglish House of Com
mons; on a vote of want of confidence in the
Palmerston Ministry, Mr.OOIID6N took occa
sion to give his personal opinion respecting
the great contest in which the United States
are now engaged. .He said :
, t I don't think the strength of a nation depends •
upon its armaments so much as upon -its resonrees,
and I deny the doctrine of my right hon. friend
that it Is necessary; in order to impress your policy
or your counsels - upon the rest of the world, that
you should always present yourselves in the atti
tude of armed men. Look at what is now going on
beyond the Atlantic. Complaints used to be rife
that America was very overbearing in her foreign
policy. [Dear.]' Very well; but bear in mind
that America was not armed. She bad but 14,000
or 15,000 soldiers, and she never would have a Meet.
During the last ten years she has not had a jine-of
battle ship in commission—certainly not more than
one ; and 1 ask, if America played the bully, as
you assert she did, without arms, what imposed her
will on the rest of the world? The answer is, un
doubtedly, because you gave her credit for having
vast resources beh i nd leer, which were not neces
acuity displayed in a state of armed defiance.
Illearl What has been the result of the present
deplorable war in America? Yon have :men the
country manifesting a power such as I have no he
sitation In saying no nation of the same population
ever manifested in the same time. I Clear, hear.]
No country in Europe; possessing 20,000,000 of
people,. could show the resources in men, money,
and e quipments which the Confederate States of
America have done during the last twelve months.
Taking the whole 'country together, with a popula
tion'of about 30,000.000. it has kept 1,000.000 awn
as arms ; and has supplied 144Pete$ no 901 r (fin
ever was supplied before. [Hear, hear.] Why
was this? Simply because the Americans had not
exhausted themselves previously by high taxation.
[A laugh, and cheers.] . They were a prospeirons
people; their wages and profits were high because
their taxation was low, and as they were earetin,„ -,,
twice as Watcle as the people in Europe when the
war broke out, they had but to restrsct themselves
to half of theer usual enjoyments in order to
find means for carrying on hostelities. - (Rear,
hear.l"
Of course, such a statement was gall and
wormwood to all who seek to reconcile
their Aboli'idn with their Secession princi
ples—such as PALMERSTON, BaouoaAat, and
Museum,. Such a statement, too, which no
one attempted to deny or remark, would have
weight, when it was borne in mind that for one
shilling; of the cost of the great war now in
progress here, we havOnot begged, borrowed,
or stolen one dollar from Europe, in any form
or under any pretest. This fact of itself
should have been remembered by Lord
BROUGHAM. We lament, for his own sake,
that the veteran should conclude his course
by throwing a slur upon a people of whose
rights he was the fearless champion, half a
century ago.
THE TWO most unpopular men f4th the
Brechinridgers at the present writing tire Wm.
G. BnownoW and BENJAMIN V. BUTLER.
They are horrified at the rough and outspoken
manner with which these candid rafrioiri treat
the friends of the sympathizers with treason
in the rebel army; Mr. BROWNLOW is "vul
gar" and "illiterate," and BUTLER is a
"brute" and a cc tyrant." The organ of ea•
President BUCHANAN calls BaownLow an
"Abolition fool," and the Albany Argus de
nounces BUTLER'S order No. 18 with exces
sive'bitterness. The classics most acceptable
to these delicate 'crities are undoubtedly the
classics of BRanaEcArtri and BRECRINRIDOE,
and the sermons most delightful to their
leisure hours are the sermons of LONOSTREET,
who preaches . and fights against the Union
amid a torrent of oaths and imprecations. We
w( uld advise Messrs. Bnowstiw end llludisit
to mend their manners it they would Ofsrain
the approval ß oLthe men who. can see nothing
right in the cause 'of their 'Country, 'arid
nothing wrong in the cause"; treason.
LETTER FROM - ':IOCC-AilitliCikii."'
WASUINOTON, Juno 27;1862.
Is this indeed a just cause for which We'are
contending? Are we quite sure that reason
and right are on our side? For, if all that we
claim for our country and against her enemies
is true, then we should be irresistible against
a world in arms. And yet . England and
France, so far at least as the rulers aro con
cerned, are stubbornly arrayed against us. A
bitter antagonism is still maintained in the
South, and thousands of disloyal men in the
free States sympathize with this antagonism.
We have yielded everything but honor to our
foreign assailants. To avoid a war we sur
rendered Slidell ,and . -Mason. To prove our
title to the namlrOf a free people we hive
abolished slavery in the District of Columbia,
and agreed to a new treaty for the prohibition
of the slave trade. Our representatives abroad
have been diligent in their efforts to enlighten
the civilized world as to the causes of the pre
sent war, and no step has been taken in
regard to other nations, that has not been
marked by prudence, forbearance, and mode
ration. To our domestic enemies we have
proffered peace on condition of submission to
the Constitution: In response to their insults
and outrages we have exhibited humanity
and magnanimity. To the men who sympa
thize d with tho traitors the Administration
has displayed an indulgent and generous po
licy, protecting them in the midst of their In
trigues, and even retaining many of them in
places of honor, trust, and emolument. In a
word, the principles involved in this struggle
are the most sacred and indestructible that
ever appealed to the human heart. They in.
volve the happiness of all the people on this
continent, and of many millions in other coun
tries. They concern the religious, moral, and
political welfare of all the children of men.
Whether in regard to commerce, or govern
ment, or. society, they ought to awaken the ac
tive interest and earnest co-operation of every
system that pretends - to recognize the Chris
tian faith. Why, then, aro we *so persistently
and cruelly embarrassed, misrepresented, and
denounced? There is but one answer to this
question. We are fighting for a Democracy.
Those who assail ns are fighting for an aristo
cracy. This is the motive that stimulates
them to so blind and unreasoning a hatred of
the United States. The rebellion is an aris
tocracy.. Its sympathizers are aristocrats, and
our foreign adversaries are monarchists. The
Louisville Courier, the accepted organ of J ohn
C. Breckini idge, removed from Louisville, first
to Bowling Green, then to Nashville, lately
stated the case with great candor in the fol
lowing article
cc This has been called a fratricidal war by some,
by others an irrepressible conflict between freedom
and slavery. We respectfully take issue with
the authors of both these-ideas. We aro not the
brothers of the Yankees, nod the slavery question
is merely the pretext, not the cause, of toe war.
The true irrepressible oot.niot lies fundamen
tally in -the hereditary hostility, the sacred ani
uiesity,-the eternal antagonism, between the two
races engaged.
t• The Norman cavalier oannot brook tbo vulgar
familiarity of the Saxon Yankee, while the , latter
Is continually devising some plan to bring down
his aristocratic neighbor to his own detested level.
Thus was the oonteet waged in the old United •
, States. So long es Dickinson doughfaces were
to be bought, and Cochrane cowards to be fright
ened, so long was the Union tolerable to Southern
men; but when, owing to divisions in our ranks,
the Yankee hirelings placed one of their own
spawn over us, political connection became noon
durable, and separation necessary to preserve our
self-respect. "
"As our Norman friends in England, always a
minority, have ruled their Saxon countrymen in poli
tical vassalage pp to the present day, so have we, the
slave oligarchs, governed the Yankees till within a
twelvemonth. We framed the Constitution, for se
venty years moulded the policy of the Government,
and placed our own men, or • Northern men with
Southern principles' in power."
In the gobd old days of the Democracy, our
slogan in every political battle was c , the
greatest good to the greatest number." Catch
ing inspiration from the teachings of defforson,
we were radicals in every reform. Every State
constitution was changed to make it more libe
ral. The Executive viaa'shorn of the. appoint--
ing power in order that the people might elect
their own officers. Hostility to the Bank of
the United States grew out of a conscientious
dislike of monopolies. Popular education was
among the main articles of our creed.' When
Dorr,sought to overturn the old Rhode Island
charter, it was the Democracy that ra'lied
around him. • When Wm. Leggett raised the
cry of tc equal rights'iiin his - great Piatudealer,
be did •it in the name of Democracy. Demo
cracy limited the likt tenures ofthejn4ges of our
courts to a term of years. This experience in
duced hundreds of thousands of men in the
Democratic ranks to oppose anti-Masonry in
1830, for its alleged interference with individual
righta, and to oppose Know-Nothingism or
Americanism in 1844-'54; to champion free
trade as expounded by Robert J. Walker,
and to take enthusiastic ground for every
great public measure that contemplated
the encouragement of emigration and the
expansion of the Batiomil empire. Is 4 pas
sible; with this record . , spread all over the
pages of history, that the American Demo
cracy only falter when, in the course of things,
the palladium of our hopes, the bulwark of our
liberties, the fortress of individual and - general
rights—the American Union—is in peril from
thousands of ungrateful and merciless fats?
Have they ao changed that they forget all the
pest that is worth remembering, and reject the
ennobling issues of the present, in order to en
courage end assist the embattled hordes of
Secession and treason? Let tho coming elec
tions answer the question!
The uneasiness which has lately prevailed
in relation to, operations in the valley of Vir:
ginia is rapidly giVing way to settled confi
dence. Major General Pope is now in com
mand in that quarter. The corps of Fremont,
Banks, and McDowell have been missed and
placed under his direction. This will dime
pate the apprehensions of many who believed
that, as long as the different columns in the
valley were left unorganized and demmillized,
the danger to the capital, from a sudden at
tack, would be great. It is estimated that.
Gen. Pope will be at the head of over seventy
tb ousand well-trained troops, and that with these
be can successfully contend against Jackson,
and bold any force in check that might be sent
forward to threaten Waahidgton city. He is a
bold, well-seasoned, and thorqugh soldier, and
with his experience in the West, and his
knowledge of the public wants and expecta
tions in this quarter, be ought to vitalize the
campaign in the valley, and turn the tide in
our favor. We now hold an immense tract of
country in middle Virginia, and with this ad
vantage ought successfully to expose and op
pose every aggressive movement. One theory
is that the defeat of the rebels before Rich
mond, or their evacuation of that city, may
• """:114te them to ti Butldert advance upon
Washington'; but' we are prepareu ibis
wilting for everything. Last week's gloom
has passed away, and we now anticipate vic
tory, and nothing but victory.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.—From T. B. Pugh,
corner of Siith and Chestnut, "Abel Drake's
Wife," by John Saunders, being No. 221 of Har
per's Library of Select Novels. From W. B. Zie
ber, the London Art Journal for June, with steel
engravings from pictures by Turner and Webster :
a superior number of a superior publication. From
T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Harper's Magazine
for July, really a splendid number; "Hans of
Iceland," by Victor Hugo; and "Abel Drake's
Wife," by John Saunders.
,ENGLIBH / . .17STRATBD IPAPERS.-Frol2l Mr. S.
C. Upham, 401*Sheatnnt street, we have the Illus
trated London Neins and Illustrated News of the
World of June 14, pith the usual number and va
riety of engravings.
Mn. WILLIAM QETTY, agent for the Northeri
Assurance Company, No. 425 Chestnut street, has
become the agent also of three well-known New
York fire insurance companies—the " Continen
tal," "Arctic," and "Niagara." In addition to
the highly favorable character of thesis companies,
as it floated in their statements, published else
where, th e y have long enjoyed the reputation
among our merciaii sf being sillind and•reliablc.
We invite especial attentiftli to the charaoter of the
"reference" list, which 'embraCklai as will be seen,
several of the most prominent firma and busincsg
men in this city.
SURGEONS FOR THE ARMY. —A further can toeing
made for Burgeons at the seat of war, we are pletated
to learn that Drs. Stees, Shelmerdino, and others}
from the.old district of Spring Garden, have volun
teered their services. They are all physicians of
the first class, and leave a large and lucrative
practice for that meritorious and patriotic purpose.
SALE OF PAINTINGS TO-DAY.—We remind our
readers of the sale of valuable oil paintings and
statuary, to. take place this morning at 10 o'olook,
at No. 708 Chestnut street, T. Birch & Bon,
auctioneers.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA;,, : SATURDAY. JUNE 28, 1862.
FROM. WAISMI . Di G.to
Special Despalch to "The Press."
iWASH/NOTOJT. Jane 27, 1882
War Intelligence—All Quiet.
As ter as heard from to ibiy, at the War Department,
ell was quiet in every direcon.
le
liiniatlen from the S henandoah Valley, received
from other that, official +man, leads to the belief that
JAOKSON . 9 rebel troops have not in force returned from
the point at which they yore last men by our troops.
The stories concerning him are vartons, and among them
is ore that be Is repairing
. demages, and prepatiug to
seize the wheat and rye crops of the Talley, which are
represented to be good. The mortis about the enemy
occupying the country between Idansessa and Strends
bu'g in any form are mitre°. There 1211 r, however,
be rebel pickets at the settlements het otefore temporarily
eccntied by our troops.
Members of Congress Not Allowed to Ob
tain Contracts and Offices for a Consi-
d e ration
The ft flowing bill passed the Senate to-day : That any
member of Congress, membere of the Cabinet, or any of-
Scar of the Government of,the United States, who ehtill,
directly or indirectly, take, receive, or agree to receive,
any money, property, or other valuable consideration
whatsoever, from any person or persons, for procuring,
or aiding to procure, any contract, office, or place, from
the Government of the United States, or any department
Mersa, or from any officer of the United States, for any
person or persons whalsoever, t , shall, for every such
offence, bo liable to indictment ea for a , misdemea
nor, in any court of the United &stet havingjnrisdiction
thereof, end ou conviction thereof, sball pay; a flue of not
exceeding ten thousand dolare, and suffer imprisonment
in the penitentiary not exceeding two years, at the dis
cretion of the court to tug the same; and every such
contract or agreement, as aforesaid, shall moreover be
absolutely null and void ; and any member of Congress
cr officer of the United States convicted, as aforesaid,
shall, moreover, be ditqualiiied from holding any office
of honor, profit, or bust under the Government of the
United States.
National Foundry on the Ohio
Benette SHERMAN introcfncod a bill, today, providing
for a national foundry in the Bonging Book Iron and
Coal district, noon the Ohio river, Ohio, between the
junction of tho Big Sandy and &iota rivers with the
It appropriates Ave hundred rhotliitand dollars for the
fabrication of cannon, projectiles, and castiugs required
for military purposes. The site is to be determined-by
three di dotereated practical iron mestere and two com
petent ordnance officers, to constitute a board, whose
cloths eball be to locate the site and establish the foun
dry, to be approved by the Secretary of War. Twenty
thousand' dollars is appropriated for the commission or
board. The President is authorized.to appetut a super
intendent, who is to select the workmen, etc.
Case of Ben Wood.
Considerable evidence has been taken before the Judi
ciary Committee in the rasa of emu Wool). It is Intl
mafed that the fact of big Into spsech having been sent
eouth is fully established, besides other revelations
equally important. The . eammittee will bo able to royort
in a line day s.
The treaty made through Minister CORWIN, : loaning
811,000,000 to Mexico, bee, it. is nnderstood, been sent
into the Senate by the Preeident. The delay fiCtlia pre-
Potation of this treaty bee, it is thought, been owing to
the reluctanee of the President to submit a project so
directly at variance'with the recent astir!a of the beast!
upon the subject of !Mexican affairs,lwhile, at the same
time, be has probably net felt willing to withhold it from
their action, should a disposition exist to change our line
of peho. and take a direct part in the affairs of itlextcs,
to which this treaty, according to report, would com
mit los
Alter the adjournment ofthe House, the following no
tice was read frem the clerk's desk- •' A meeting of
the conservative members who are in favor of prose
cuting the war for the Union, cud in favor of male
taiting the Constitution, and opposed to the seditious
and deitructive schemes of the Abolitionists, is celled to
meet in the Bow.° of Repreteutatives to-morrow, Satur
day. at f o'clock P. M. By order of the committee."
hir. YESCENDEN, towards the close of rho proceedings
of the Senate to-day, urged prompt action upon the
measures pending, acid stated, if tide course should not
be pursued, that body might be left without a sthorum.
He mentioned. in Me connection, that Senators were el
reedy leasing the city, and that one from California and
another from fdinnesota had departed. He alluded to
Senators LATHAM and RICE.
Senator Loos, of Kansas, remarked that he, too, was
resirous of an early return to that State, but would
remain to vote on the coerfiecation bill, which ie now be
fore that body.
In the Bowe, the number necessary to constants a
quorum is obtained without regard to the non-repre
senttd States, put, in the tionate : .a majority of Senators
from the thirty-four - States is necessary for that purpose;
in other words, thirty-five mcmbera. The entire numbs
of elected Senators on the roll of that body is forty.nine,
including the name of Mr. Jongaos, of Tennessee.
Parson BaowNLow was among the visitera to Congress
to-day, and tho object of marked attentions from the
members.
The statement that the Pennsylvania Association for
the relief of our rick and wounded soldiers has done little
or nothing is meet unjust to the gentlemen connected
with the movement, rind why it should have been pub
lished is incomprrlienrible. Their organization is the
poet perfect in Washington. Its committees are active
and untiring. AU fhe hospitals here have been regu
larly visited, and every attention shown to oar brave
boys. This morning three of their number go to tho
bead of 11.1cCuna.sx's army, to await the coming battle
and provide for the wants of our wounded men, and it is
proposed to send several others to the column of General
POET, in the valley. As soon' ae the committees report
DUMB will he emp!oled to aid in the good work. Every
liar subscribed to this eneigetic association will be well
and wisely emplol ed.
IMPORTANT ARMY ORDER.
General Fremont Relieved from
WasuntoroN, Jnno '27.—Tho following order was ta
nned to•disy :
Order Relieving General Fremont from
Major, General John 0 Fremont, having reauested to
be relieved from the command of the firat army corps of
the army of Virginia, because, as he says, the nositioa
aisigned him by the appointment of Major General Pope,
as Ccmmander•in• Chief of the army of Virginia, ii)
enb
o,dioate and inferior to those heretofore hold by him,
and to remain in the anbordinate command now astigned
mould, as he says, largely reduce his rank and considers
lion in the eervice—
It is ordered by the President that Major General John
0. Fri moot be relieved from his command.
See , nd. That Brigadier General Rufus Ring be, and
is hereby, appointed to the command of the first army
corps of Smarmy of Virginia, in place of Gen. Fremont,
relkred. EDWIN M. STANTON, •
Secretary of War.
FROM MEMPHIS.
RAILROAD OPERATIONS
THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
BRAGG AND PILLOW, WITH 30,000
REBELS, AT VICKSBURG.
itisurnis, Juno 25.—The railroad from Columbus,
Eentucky, to Ude city, is now in 'operation, and in a
day or two there will be a railroad communication to
Corinth, end from there to Huntsville, Alabama.
Enough rolling stock has been secured to commence
operations.
Over 1,600 persons have taken the oath of allegiance
sines the occupation of this city. Mayor Park and Al
dermen Robb:mon, Tilgeree, and Purlbra have taken the
oath, but the remainder of the board bold back.
All is quiet at Corinth. That point will be gerrisoned
by - two divielons, and it is reported that General Bane,*
will return to St. Louis very soon.
Cen. Lew. Wallace and staff left here yesterday to visit
their homes.
General McClernand's division is still at Jackson,
Tennessee.
A fleet of steamers, - w•illftiupplies fpr.General Curtis'
army, bee arrived, and will be escorted up the White
river, Arkansas, by a strong guard. •
General Bragg was, to take copmend, at 'Vicksburg,
on the 18th inst. It. ht reported that tbire aro now 30,000
rebel troops at Vicksburg, under Generale Bragg and
General Saltyler Hamilton bait rosigned on accognt
111 betllb 1 illt gil l be elcc9 by 99:Etgr;0 aia
AFFAIRS AT V/CKSBURG.
REBEL DETERMINATION TO DIE IN THE LAST DITCH.
OCOASIONAL.
Threatened Bombardment of Rodney.
B110(1111S. June 27.=—The Grenada - Appeai•eaya that
Ticireburg will be held at all eacrificee, and that all Man
ama batente have been sent away. .
The Vick ebtirg Citizen eaye that the rebel force at
Lupello bee been greatly increased and their camp Much
improved.
The Citizen publisheS 6 letter from the llentstdint
commending the United States gunboat Union to the
authorities of Rodr ey, warniug them that if the Federal
transports were fired upon, from the batteries erected at or
near that point, the same punishment will be visited upon
the town as the city of Grand Gulf received. Tcfarbich
General Leval replied that hie batteries are located at
the best point, and that be than Bre whenever he please_•.
It is now stated that General Rosecraus takes corn
nand of General Pope's corps d'armee instead of Gene
ral Hamilton's division.
War in Arkansas.
Migaipmg, dune 25.—The Little Rock Democrat 'apt
there ere now in Arkanessfromlo,ooo to 12,000 Federate,
scattered over a large extent of country. The largest
body, numbering from - 6,00 to 0,000, are in the vicinity
of Beltsville. The latest advices are to the erect that
they'had crossed the White river and were retreating.to
verde ifissourj.
/76tV YOAK i June 2f .--The Nowbern Progress . , of the
21st, reports tb, rebels at Kinston and Cioldeborougla
living on half nations, and frequently deserting. Their
force is small.
The rebel picirdto .ltad burnt Tuscarora, and destroyed.
a Portion of the rafirolt is reported that MOM,
rs.: •
villa by the accidental explm.
rebels were killed at Fisher
ion of a shell, which had
teen thrown by ono of our stus..'tiaia, which did not buret
at the time it was Bred. •
[Tuscarora, named In this deepato:,, is a station on the
railroad to Goldsborough, eleven mile.;
from 'Newborn.
Yingstot m 11
a 3 miles from Newborn .11d
Goldeliorough
69.1
•
•
The Gtnitioat Seminole at New Y0....k.
Maw Toni. Jmoe 2T.—The United 'States sunh,l".s , P;
Seminole has ealrgred from Fortress Monros.•
Miscellaneous
his Command, •
his Command
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASCIINGTON, D. C., --
June 27, 1862.
From North Carolina.
IMFORTANT FROM SOUTIHAROLINA.
NRAR FRONT ROYAL, Juno 23.—Reconnolasances of
Friday and Baturdai bring Intelligence that the enemy
had not any force In this valley lower than Lnray. Con
traband° and Union citizens agree that Ewell, and pro
bably Jackson, were at and around Luray at that time;
and some stated that Jackeon bad sent South for rein
forcements. Per contra, others Mato that he had crossed
the Blue Ridge, but could net assert whether he was to
move up or down.
One reconnoissance proceeded by way of Milford to
Weehibgtou, and thence to Sperry vllle, Here it was
learned that a company of rebel cavalry had gone north
with the avowed intention of striking the railroad at
some weak point, and pu`ting a etop to our trains. Oa
their return they twice repulsed small bodies of rebel
_ sovelry and drove them into the mountains towards
Luray.
DEATH OF COLONEL FERRY.
ARRIVAL OF THEIRIOSSON.
THE BATTLE AT' CHARLESTON.
REPULSE OF THE UNION FORCES.
Heavy Loss in Killed and Wounded
ARRIVAL OF GEN. BENHAM AND STAFF AT NEW YORK.
flaw Your. Juno 2T.—The steamship Philadelphia has
arrivcd from Beaufort, and the Ericcaon from Key
West, with dates to the 18th, and froin Port Boysl to
the 23d. The latter brings 181 passengers, including
General Denham and chaff, and fifty-seven . soldiers
Ivounded in the late engagement on James Island, near
Oharlreton.
She account of the fight copied from the Charte3ton
paper's le correct. The United States troops, under Gen.
Benham, mado on attack, ut 4 o'clock on the morning of
the 161 h Met , and were repulsed, after four hours' h..rd
fighting, with a lose ol 888 killed, wounded, and milidog.
The Michigan Bth had but 250 men left at roll call The
New York 70th also suffered eeverely. The Union troops
were'obliged to retreat under cover of the gunboats.
Col. Perry, of the 18th New York Volunteers, died at
Fort Pulaski, June 18th, of apoplexy.
Gen. Brannen, from Rey West, was expected daily at
Port Royal.
The 1T1C133012 landed the 7th New Ilampeliire, six com
panies of the Dili New York, and four companiee of the
let Regular Artillery, at Port Royal.
Details of the Battle on James Island—
Gen. Benham Under Arrest.
NEW' a YORK J J une 27.—The . sty York Express lays
1 -
that Gen:-Bentuun is understood to be under arrest, with
ordivs to report to Washington. It is stated that Qen.
'Hunter 11,11 James Island on the 12th, leaving Gen. Ben
ham in command, with orders to mako no advance to
wards Charleston without reinforcements or further
orders.
It was reported by deserters that the whole rebel force
at Eacessiormille Ira" but two battalions, with six guns
mounted, and seven more ready for we.
The reconnoiseaoce was made onthe 16th. General
Stevens, with 4,000 men, was to make the attack at day
break, while General Wright and Colonel Williams, with
3,000 more, were to support him. Somehow, the
_move
ment was delayed an hour, and, as our troops marched
up through a plain field in broad daylight, they were
met by a mut (totems fire of grape and esuistor. Two
regiments only reached thefrout, and were much cut up—
nowt ly, the fhb Michigan and 79th New York. The 26th
Massachusetts broke and scattered, and the 46th New
*York did little better. The first two regiutecita drove
the gunners from the guns, at d eomo oven penetrated the
works, but, other regiments failing to support them, they
had to retire after holding the battery twenty minutes.
In the meantime Col. Williams coming to their support,
Was separated by a marsh from the fort, and exposed to
a severe crossfire from some rebel guns to the woods fits
troops, Coneloting of the 3d Now Hampshire mid 3d Rhode
Island itegunents, fought nobly, end mot with con.ide
rable lose.
For three quarters of an hour not a gun was fired
from the fort, and the prompt: presence of a tow hundred
seu would have carried it i but they were not there, and
Our troops bad to retire.. Another SIMOTILIS cuiftrms the
above to the main, but states that the ➢fassechufetts
Regiment did well Our loss is given at 94 killed, 369
wounded, and 124 miming.
Our. camp is now within range of the Ere of our gun
k ats, at.d iu tee COLlOitiolL ., Entrenchments are being
thrown tip while wo await reinforcements.
Gi neral Brannanis troops to -the number of 2.000, hal
arrived from Bey West at James' Island; bat oar forced
mast be largely reinforced before operations can be re
sumed.
lite rebels are constantly receiving additional troop 3,
and preparations for the defence of Charleston are being
eXt(TISiNtly made.
A letter from 'Beaufort states the loss of the Third New
Dernrebire at 6 killed and wouudtd, and of the Eighth
Dlichigan, SOO.
The fame letter asserts that Com. Dupont says he can
take Charleston with fire good gunboats. Re will run
by Fort Sumpter and the other fortification. without a
loss of more than two of his boats, end with the others
chill the city. .•
A letter from an officer of the 48th N. Y. Regiment
gives the aggregate looses es follows:
Ruled. Wounded. Miming.
. 8 41 . 24
00 40
. 5 14 18
.13 75 2
189
28th klaosocbusetti.
79th New York....
46th_ New
7th Connecticut
7th and Bth Michigan, total,
Total lode, 677, in killed, wounded, and missing.
A partial hat of the cadualtied includes the following in
the 100th Pennolvania:
Company Olaffey, Sergeant John Elliott"
Foal. E. Sewall. and Caleb Joseph, wounded.
Company B—Robert B. Heed. wounded; Corpoials
John S. Watson and Wm. A. Anderson. killed ; Hugh
Yrttl , k Dander, John 0. Moore, John F.W alum,
Thos. E. Miles, and Henry Heileman, wounded.
Company E—Augustus Bead, killed; Corporal Wm.
Harlan, Ooiporal Nathan Offett, George 'Mont , umery.
John S. Barber, George Maxwell, John S. Dick, Samuel
George, and Jesse B. Shaner, wounded. •
Company F—Corporal James S. Patterson, killed;
David Herbert, wounded.
Company G--Saranel B. Campbell au! Geo. W. Wasba
bough, V.' 0171 C th.d.
Company H—George Whitstone and Chas. H. Stans
bury, wounded.
Company li—Thos. Gorman, killed ; First Lieutenant
Jae. _Windt I, wt unded.
Company L- -Second Lieutenant Samuel Morrow,
; First Lieutenant John P. Blair, Sergeant Henry
G. liobineou, Bobert Davie, wounded
Company td —Thos. Eba, David Meredith, and Peter
Harrison, killed; Thoinas Williams, wounded.
[Coireopondonco of the New York Express.]
• Pont ROYAL. 8. 0., Jane 23.
Having got access to some facts regardiug the opera
done of our troops on Jamie Island, and the reconnois
tam- or battle of Secessionville, I will give them to you.
She brat idea or an advance on Ohorleston originated
with Gen. Benham, (who bas been the working m on here
since March,) some two months ago ; and lus lutetium)
was to concentrate his troops, and make a dash across
James 'eland from the Stone river, some tine morning,
seise Fort Johnson, and get .11.3111M111X1 of oh-ideate°.
After a while General Hunter adopted the plan, and
directed it should be undertaken. But "delays are dan
gerous," and it to happened that when it was under
taken so ninny of our steamshipa had been taken away
from here, that t h ere was a failure of transportation, and
the troops, instead of rendezvousing together on the 34 of
June, did not all strive till the 9th. Had they all been
there on the 3d, the wcrk could have been done in 48
beery, but rho delays enabled the enemy to send fur re
inforetmente, and to strengthen old torts, mat build
new ones.
A shit mish was had on the 4th, in which we lost some
twenty men taken prieotere, and In turn captured neveral
and took a battery of four gnat. On the 9th we bad two
camps on the . ) jeer, one about two miles above the other;
Gen. Steven' commanding at one, Geu. Wright at the
oder ' Gene, Hunter atd Benham both being preeeot.
On the 10th a renonnoissance in force was ...dared for
the morning of the 11th, for the purpose of advancing our
picket Bat a, and* epecially attacking and taking an aarttnn
tort which the rebels bad erected at a place carted SeCee
glow/ills, Phyla guns threw their shahs into our'camps,
and even into the river where the gunboats were
while they w ere beyond our range.
On the afternoon of the 10th, however, the rebel.
aliavked General Wright's pickets, and were repulsed
with Leavy lose, our hoes being. very slight. The troops
being exhausted, the reconnoissance for the neat Ms,
was postponed, and some heavy gong having arrived, ft
was proposed to put them in battery in advance of Gliae
rid Stevens , camp and try their effect upon the rebel
fort before renewing the project of are assault. This
was accordingly done.
All ibis was dons and ordered while General Hunter
wee present and commanding.
On the 12th General hunter went away, leaving Gene
ral Belau= in command. and ordering that •• no advance
should be made on Charleston, nor any attack on Fort
Johnson, without reinforctments' or further orders,"
but that the camps 'Mould be made "secure and en
trenched."
The battery produced no effect upon tho rebel fort, and
as ita shells and shot commanded our position aced
rendered our camps insecure, it became necesaary to re
cur again to the old plan of the reconuotatance, and to
attempt to reduce it by assault.
It was reported by deserters, and the report has been
since confirmed, that the whole rebel force at Secession-
Title was but two battalions, with tin guns 'mounted
and ay.:: more ready for use. The fort was not even
on the route to Charleston or Fort Johnson, andit was
deemed not only a necessary, but a comparatively easy
job to take it.
'e reconnoissance was therefore ordered for the 16th,
and es the rebels bad bad a week to strengthen. the num
ber of troops was increased. Gen. Stovem, with about
four thousand men, was to make the attack at daybreak,
while Goo. Wright and Col. Williams, with throe thou
sand more, were to come up on the left to frotact. and
,•suppott him.
emehow, the movement wee delayed an hour, andge
our troop. rustled cm in a plain tield they were in broad:
day, and were met by a murderous fire of grape and ca..
Meter. ..
Two regiments only reached the front, ranch cut up,
the Bth Michigan and 78th Now York (Highlanders)
• The 28th Massachusetts broke and scattered, while the -
.80t13 Now 'York did little better. • The fleet two drive the,
• • their, gums. home mounted tbe parapet,
ar.d some even penetrated •
the wora,'wt, we moor regi
ments, there being two besides those named, not rushing
tip to their rapport, they were obliged to retire, after
'basing really held it for nearly twenty met utee.
•. Meantime Colonel Williams bad been ordered to rein
force General ttevene, but inetead of joining him on the
right as was expected, be led his party route) to the right
to the other Bide of the fort, when ho was separated from
it by a marsh, and was exposed to a severe cross-fire
from some rebel guns in the woods on the left. His
troop% the Bd. New Hampshire and 3d Rhode Island,
'fought nobly, and met with considerable loss. For
three•quartere of en hour not a gun was fired from the,
fort, and those who reached it cmlcur in saying that the
imeenr,.t presence of a few hundred men would have car
-sled it, but they wet e not there at the juncture, and alter
the troopil Talked it was not deemed judicionf Again, in
brood day, to egattult .upon what might have
then been a reinforced did:el': •
That the fort was not taken was Only immense some, if
not many, of our troops were not tl,t4 to that sort of
thing.
General Benham bee been blamed, but We Cannot see
why. Big plan was good, and, had It been etrletly car
ried out, it wou'd have succeeded. The failure cannot
be attributed to him. In making the attack he wormy.
canted out the policy of General Hamer, as ho supposed,
ard obeyed both a military necessity and Gen. Minter's
written order when ho eought to provide a secure en
trenched comp by reducing a fort or battery which com
manded the position of bid camp on the Stoop, and
threatened to drive him from the only firm land path to
Cherierton whrn the time should arrive for au advance
on that pestilent city.
One lose wee about 100 killed and 500 wounded and
micatng. She love of the enemy, as. reported by contra
beetle and otherwise, wee aboat equal to our own.
Arrival of the Sioop-ofWar Seminole,
from NUrfolk.
The sloop-of-war Seminole, Commander William Smith,
turived at New York 3eetorday Morniog from Norfolk
and Fortress 'Monroe. She left Norfolk. on the 24th
UAL The city had remained perfectly quiet after the
declaration of miu tial law by Gen. Tiede.
The Seminole has returned tor repairs. She has bsen
in cox:minutely over two years, and, at the opening of the
war, ens ordered home from the Brazil coast, where she
had been a ulsing for three years and was-sent on the
blockading service. Beeldea the battle of Port Royal,
ebe has been in several severe engagements. The time
of most of the crew having espied. the ship will proba
bly be put out of commlseion.
On her peewee from Hampton Roads to this port, at
eight A id. 26th, the Seminole passed the sanitary ship
Daniel Webster, bound South.
Rebel Guerillas in Missouri
Unease°, June 27.—A special despatch to the Journal,
from Quincy, says that the guerilla parties which have
been feinting all the winter In Northealtern Missouri
are now in an effectiie shape. They are well armed,
having a number of small cannon, ands number .about
seven hundred. A part of this. gang attacked a email
tort, of United Ptates troops on Wednesday, near Mon
ttietllo,*killing eight and wounding a number. The loss
4:iffered by the guerillas wee not known.
FROM THE ARMY IN VIRGINIA.
Generals Fremont and Banks had a conference near
Middletown, on Friday. Tho former's headquarters were
at Strasburg on Saturday..
It is understood that the trains on tho Manassas road
ill not proceed further up than White Plains atter to
day.
The town of Front Royal and the surrounding valley
are almost depopulated, except by defenceless women and
chileren, and the ripening grain crops must evidently be
lost far want of harvesters.
The fact that our retreating army was frequently fired
upon from houses in Winchester, and in some caves by
females, is attested by V officers and soldiers of General
Willimna' division. Several or thole shot. are alleged to
have been fatal.
The following , promotions have taken place in the
Fifth Connecticut 'Volunteere: Colonel, George D. Chap
man; Liniment Colonel, henry Stone ; hiejor,
E. F. Blake.
General George H. Gordon, }Me of the 24 blassachn.
Bens, has been ordered to the command of the Third Bri
gade of General Willietns' Division, which Ito, as colonel,
commended at the battle of Winchester. General George
3. Grt eve has boon ordered to report to Washington for
other duty.
California Union Convention.
PAN Irasatoisco, June 72 —The Union Convention,
Called by the Republican State Central Committee, met
at Sacramento on the 17th, and nominated John Swett,
of San Francisco, as their candidate for superintendent
of public instruction. No other State officer is to be
timed this I ear,
The interest centres in tho choice of members of the
Legislature, which wiil elect a United States Senator.
The Union Democrats will Emmert. their candidates by
the State Cent! al Committee. They will melte vigorous
ettorts to secure the control of the nett Legislator°. The
Drecklnridgo Democrats propose to &motion their °ma
nia mon.
BAN FRANCISCO, June 22—Arrived 15tb, ebip Nary
L. Burton, from New York ; lath, steamer Golden Age,
frouiPanema. Baited 16th; fillip Rambler, for Boron ;
APterion, for New York ; 20th, doittire, Nl* Callao;
glsr, Rate Hooper, for Hong Kong, J. D. Dlmmtcic, for
Callao.
SAN FRANCISCO, JUDO 23.—The Milted Statoe steamer
NY3 ontlnearllcd to-day for Manila.
The eteenur Golden Ago Railed for Panama, carrying
170 paisengcra and 5420,000 In treaaure for Sew Xork,
and 5W0,000 for England. .
FROII OREGON-A FRESHET
Advices from Oregon to the 12th state that another
great freshet is doing serious damage to the valley par
tions of tbst State. The business portion of Portland
was Mandated. Crowds of miners had oommenced re
turning from Salmon river, representing that the di,triot
was of limited extent, and overcrowded. The total num
ber emigrated from British Columbia and . California is
estimated at 20,000 since the year commenced.
Arrest of A Rebel 1411SiC Seller.
ST. LOUIS, June 27.-11essra.tmor do Weber, eaten-
SIVO LIMBIC (waters and publishers, were arrested to-day
by the provost marshal and committed to the inhiteri
prison, and the establishment closed, for selling Secession
MUTH CONGIIESS-FIEST SESSION,
WASRLiGTON, June 27
SENATE.
New York Canals.
Mr. ROWIC (Rep.). of Wieconelu, presented a memo
rial from cititena of Wiecoasin iu favor of the enlarge
ment of the Oswego and Erie canal.
Public Printing.
Mr. ANTHONY (Rep ), of Rhode Island, from the
Committee on Printing, repotted a bill authorizing the
Superintendent of public printing, under the direction of
the Joie Committee on Printing, to print and sell for
coot balk documents which may have boon ordered by
the Department/. Passed.
Holt and Owen's Report
PO's ELL (Dem.), of Kentucky, called op the
relegation directing the Secretary of War to transmit to
the Senate the report of Joseph Holt and R. , bert Dale
Owen. He ssid that ho understood the report exposed
the yrosseet frauds on the Government, and he wanted
It 'printed, so that it might go betore the Government.
Mr. ANTHONY mowed to amend the regulation so al
to reque:st the President. it it be not incompatible with
the public interests, to transmit the said report, Sc. The
amendment was adoptid—Yeas 25, pays 14—and the re
solution then passed.
A National Foundry.
Mr. SHERMAN (Rep ), 01 Ohio, introduced a bill to
establish a national foundry In the Hanging Rock iron
and coal region, Oblo, between the Big dandy, &iota,
ard Obio'rivers. Referred to the Clommittee on Military
Affairs.
Government Contracts.
On motion of fir. POWELL (Dem ),the bill to prevent
menthe:a of Conere.se or onlJers of the Governmeot from
taking ally consideration for procuring contracts, office,
or place under the Government, was tabeu uo. The bill
provides, that any member of Congress, or officer of the
Government, who shall commit such an offence, shall be
liable to indictment for misimmewnor in onto°, and, if con
victed, suffer a fine net exceeding Hto.ooo , anti as im
prisonment not exceeding two years, and be afterwards
dirqualitled from holding ,ffice under the United States.
It also pi °video that the contracts made in such came
shall be void, at the option °tithe President.
TBUIiIbULL (Rep.), of Illinois, said the Clam
mittee on the Judiciary bad made the bill stronger than
the original bill. They bad heard that there mute cases
of officers of the Government who had used the Ind:mune
of their poelltion for reward, and .he thought, nude, the
circumstances, there could be no 'objection to L116'6111.
Mr. HALE (Rep.), of New • Hampshire,. thought the
bill did not go tar enough. He had heard and believed
that certain heads of departuiente had flied 'heir Places
for the gros,est favoritism, and in some cams had ordered
contracts to be given directly to their fire? dea. lie
would mike it a penal offence for beads of departments,
or those under them, to enter into contracts with their
*special favorites.
Mr. TRUMBULL moved to amend, so as to make the
bill apply to those who, for any reward, munososstion,
or conoideration, chilli give any contract, office, or placo.
• The amendment was adopted, and the bill passed.
Reorgantzation of the Navy Department.
➢lr. HALE, of New Hampshire, from the committee
of conference on the bill for the retmganizistion of the
Navy Department, made a repot t, which was agreed to.
Confiscation Bill
The confl.ention bill WWI then taken up
Ir. COWAN (Rep ), of Penusylveuie, proceeded to
'eek, at length, against the bill from the House, which,
he contended, was impracticable, and utterly impossibm
to be put hi operation.
Idr. SUMNER (Rep.), of blassachnsstts, spoke in
favor of the house bills, contending that they were en
tirely free from all constitutional objections. They were
just as constitutional as the Constitution itself. They
only form a part of the means for suppressing the rebel
lion. The war wirers of Congress were clearly derived
from the Constitution, and Cong-eta haa a perfect rigat
to exercise war powers. He protested earnestly against
the absurd and tyrannical doctrine that ail tha war
powers' were centred in the President, and against any
ant/nit to foist such an unconstitutional doctrine into
the Constitution. He contended at length that confisca
tion slid liberation were among the war powers of Con
gress, bud be had more hope from liberation than from
cdnthcation.
The discussion wee continued by Messrs. Browning,
Howard. and Trumbull.
Messrs. SAULSBURY and BENNFDY declared that
though they might vote for amendments to the House
bill, yet they were opposed
to all confiscation bills, and
should vote against their pass4ge.
Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep ), of Illinois, said if a negro
struck up a bayonet aimed by a traitor at hit son or
bt other he would say God speed to the negro. tie would
not aim the slave iu insurrection against his matter at
home ; but If that master came forth to shoot down the
soldbre of his `.tact, or his country he would put arnia in
the hands at the slave, and bid him shoot the traitor.
Be would nee all means to suppress the rebellion. He
utterly repudiated this doctrine of the President'', supe
riority over Congress and everything else ' and he was
oppoted to the appointing of Governors ofdtates by the
President as advocated by the Senator from Connemicnt
(Br. Dixon).. The President has no power to create the
°Mee, and no right to appoint such officers without the
advice and contest of the Senate ;. but it was not pre
teethed there woe 5D7 law for the appointment of Gover
nor Stanley, and such appointment was never sent to
the Senate.
Nr DIXON (Rep.), at some length, jnetlfled the
action of ihe Preahleot, and after further diecuetnon, the
Benate adjourned.
HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES.
Indemnity to Loyalists.
The Rouse resumrd the consideration • of the bill
providing for the indemnity of losses of property-sus
tatted by loyal citizens from the movements of United
States troops.
111 r. NOBLL (U ), of Alussouri, in the course of bis
TC.DifIl kg said, that any man who opposed the settlement
of the se claims, merely because they would impose a
burd• n on the Government, was unfit to be a represen
tative of the people. The journals would show that the
claims of wealthy and influential men have generally
met with the most, auccei.a in Congress. Thousands of
citizens are innocent eutferers from the army. They have
been reduced almost to starvation, and their hotline have
bran desolated. If there wee net the justice sod magus.
nimily here to movide for such a class it would boa burn
ing eliame forever.
The mowing hour having expired, - the subject was
passed over.
Indian Trust Funds. ,
11r. VDWARDS (Rep ), of New Hampshire, from the
ilonnuittee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill relating to
the uutt lands of the lodinn tnbos, invested by the Go
t natant in the Ste beads abstracted from the Interior:
Deptuttrer4
provide" that the Government shall credit the In
diana with the amount originally invested for them in the
bonds, and pay the interest thereon hereafter at the rate
of Ave par cent.
The Tariff Bill.
the House then went into aomtnittee of the Whole on
the state or the Union on the tariff bill.
Mr. ELIJAH WARD (limn.), of Now York, ineffectu
ally Fought to amend the clause imposing additional
dwies ou de'sinee, so as to reduce them to ten per am
bum. It was the duty of Cougresa to make the taxee fall
as Iliad/ as possible. Instead of increasing, the revs.
nue from the promied ra es, the effect would be to pro
hibit their importation, tb nit destroying the revenue and
producing complete reversion of public sentiment. He
elw unsuccesefully moved to reduce the proposed duty
on all motile, tares of cotton, etc.
Mr. MALLORY (II ), of Kentucky, offered an amend
ment that all hemp or preparations of hi nip for use in the
navy shell be of American manufacture. He maintained
the importance of this cremation, both as a protection
to our own production, and to 'render us independent of
foreign . conntiles in the event of war. •
Mr. MORRILL (Rep.), of Vermont, said he would co
operate with the gentlimen if he would move the amend
ment to the confiscation bill. •
Mr. MALLORY had no "objection. to hanging Aboli
tionists and Seceseionfsts with American rope, if they
preferred D.
Mr. LOVEJOY (Rep.), of Illinois, remarked that
there was not an Abolitionist who is a traitor to be
hung.
Mr. SHELLABARGER (Rep ), of Ohio, offered a pro
viso that, if the erticlecan be obtained of as good quality.
end at as low a price.
With this addition, Mr. Mallory's amendment was
afottcd.
Among other amendinents adopted were the following:
On acorn coffee, dandelion root, and other articles used
as a substitute for coffee, not otherwise provided for, four
cents per pound. The tonnage duty to take effect on the
let of January next.
Other amendments were made. All the dutiable mt.
lions of the bill were acted neon, leaving only the two
last ones for future consideration, when the committee
rose.
Arrest for Contempt.
Mr. 818 GUAM (Bey.), of Ohio, from the Committee
on the Judiciary, reported a resolution, which wits adopt
ed, ordering the arrest of Michael C. Murphy, of New
Yolk, to be brought hither to answer to the House far
contempt, be bating relused to obey the enjimena for hie
atmearance before the committee in the cage or Hon.
Bei jcmin Wood.
The Rouse then adjourned tgl Monday.
From Fortress Monroe
Ilavrixong, Jaoo 27 —Tbe Old Point boat arrival
this morning, but the letters contain no news additional
to that yak], has already been telegraphed.
Markets.
BALTIWORK ' June 2T.—Flour dull. Wheat dull. Corn
steely. Rreadvmmion ; Yonne) tvanfa 720. Oate
Provisions qidet. Lard firm. Whisky quiet at 81m
813( c. Coffee advanced X coot; sales at 21x c. Tobacco
in good demand. ~
Alabariialtems.
From thelret onwberr..of ManleTille (A 1..) R -
veittei we tike the felloi log Items :
iIBADQUARTERS 01/ Tile U. 8. Fences, .
. .111DDLN TWINS/ MR AND NOBTlieelt ALA.,
CAMC TAYLOR, flautevllle. June 9, 1862.
To protect the cotton pleniers fn Northern Alabama and
Middle Tennessee froin Imposition, ft is hereby ordered:
That all persons elegising to engage in the business of
purchasing cotton, shall tires obtain a permit from tbnoo
headmen] tore.
These who attempt to purchase cotton without this
permit will be promptly arrested by military commander
in Northern Alaoatua.
Lily order of 0. M. MITCHELL,
Major General Ottentnonding.
B. BIRCH, A. D. C.
The Bth Drigadei Col. Turchin, recently marched 200
miles in ten days over one ot the roughen of roads. Un
der the command of General Negley they exchaoged a
few shots with the rebels at Chattanooga, then returned
to their old quarkrs at Fayetteville and Winchester.
The Bth Is composed of a hardy set of men, and ever
reedy when ditty calls."
Several thousand bales of cotton havo passed through
here this week on their way Forth. GREEN BACK is
KING!
It afforde ns pleasure to chronicle the safe arrival of
Major General Mitchell's family. Lieutenant Edward
Mitchell, With a detachment front Capt. Abbott's splen
did company of the 841 Onto Regiment, nadir the coal
mend of Lieutenant Read, was their escort from Elk
river; Lieutenant Mitchell reports the canner). Perfect
ly quiet around Pulankl, and thinks gunrilladom about
played out in that vicinity. •
The sayteg that "Mitchell is lucky". has pasted into •
proverb. Why is he lucky t The question ie eadl7 an
swered. Be sever lone en advantage, but succeeully
follows it up. lie never despair., or nutters, what in
turned an insurmountable military object" to oppose
him. .beither he nor bin men Idle away their time. Dis
tance from all enemy brings no lack of minter, watch
fuluees. Deuce he is never taken by surprise. His orders
are promptly given and an promptly obey ed., No waiting for
reticles or camp equipage. No roads impassable or mmus
tame too high for his men. They rueb an readily into a
burning Midge an o'er the pleasant road. They drag a
cannon screen the mountain or swamp es cheerfudv as
earning the tuueket. The late heavy march of the Bth
Brigade, under Turcbin, on to Obottanoogv, alluded to
elsewhere, it. a tangible proof of Ms ran of luck.
A general's character for succms does not depeud so
much upon what hi called good luck, as the mutual coati
dehce el Whig between the general commanding and his
troops. Their confidence in hie ability to command, his
confidence in their discipline and bravery.
Will nut our Oily Council take some ~ t ope toward
cleaning the gutters'near the aid e. walks The dear young
ladies of Buntavilli get their clippers muddy in attempt
ing to go round the antra and stripes. Better pass ander,
lattice.
Execution of the Begro Hawkins
. The tiegro William Henry Ilswitlne, who wee con
victed of the murder of Captain W. H. Main% of the
ship Lamergier, on the 29th day of September last, wan
executed at the Tomba, in New York city, et twenty-dye
minutcs past one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
William Henry Hawkins wet apparently a full
hloodcd negro, thirty-Wre years of age, and born in Pr.>.
vidence, Ittiode Island. In early fife he was engaged in
farm laner, but he afterwards followed the sea. He Is
unusually intelligent and ambitious for ono of hie race,
and during several yi eon held the position of steward in
Eastern towns, in Pew York, and on shipboard. He
was never married, and had nu near relations except a
brother and sister.
In bepterober of last7esr Ilswkins became steward of
the ship Lamereter. which was to proceed from London
to Callao. On the 28th Captain William H. Adams, of
the ship, having previonely found fault with his perform
ance of hie duty as a steward, threw a decanter at him
and amid. hint with a bela.,ing pin.
This occurred hi the morning and a quarrel to•k place
at noon, when dinner was served. Hawkins made seve
ral threats against the captain's life. Very early next
morning he borrowed a hatchetfrem the carpenter of the
ship, with which, he sent, to open a box of eggs ; and at
seven o'clock the captain was found in his roam with his
skull cleaved and dying.
Beni: ins was arrested on suspicion of /teeing commit
ted the murder. The ship wee taken back to London,
erd, on the requisitiou of the American °onset, he, with
some of the. crew as witnesses, was sent to this country
for trial. Be was convicted of the crime in the 'United
Stan ■ Cirrult Court, New York city, and on the 7th of
April was sentenced to be huog.
/Jenkins at first steadily denied the correctness of the
decision of the jury, aid stated that he wee the victim of
false. swearing and of circumstances. The proof against
bim was all circumstantial, but was deemed via siroug to
admit of doubt that he was tho guilty man. &111 be
claimed that an officer on hoard the Lemergier bad taken
advantage of circumstances which were against him (the
negro) to gratify a personal spit•, and had succeeded in
getting him connected in a manner which made it impos
sible to obtain a reversal of the Judgment.
The evidence. it is proper to say, was all against this
bepotbeele. Ilawkine, within a few weeks past, has de
clined to say definitely either that ho did or dil not com
mit the murder.
Ilawkies employed his last hours principally in re
ligious conversation with inioistere of the Gospel, and in
writing letters to his friends and acquaintances.
An hour before the time appointed for the execution
he talked with much fluency, and without the least sign
of nervoueness. Ele spoke wholly of religions matters,
end the minietere who wore present afterwards expressed
their surprise at his knowledge of theological matters. In
the words of one of them. e• he needed neither instrno-
Um' boy advice, but was fully scotnisaut of his circum
stances, and confident of the future."
Atone o'clock the marshal, who was guided by respect
to the arrang.-thents for the final scene by the advice of
the recognized spiritual advh.er of. the condemned, hit.
Garrett, proceeded with one of his deputies to the recap-
bon roam
Dawkins expressed his readiness, and without the ex
hibition of any fear or even tremulousness, toot hie place
between the officers of the law who supported him, and
proceeded around the prison yard to the southeastern di
vision, where the gallows wee erected..
The prisoner wee conducted to the chair under the fa
tal rope, and the marshal, in a low and trembling voice,
reed the death warrant and order of execution.
The roerthel then asked the prisoner whether he had
anything to say.
Amidst a studlid silence he delivered a speech.
The marshal and everybody around the unhappy man
were dimply affected.
The primmer then took leave of the marshal, and Rev.
Mr. Garrett offered a fervent prayer to the Throne of
Grace, concluding with the benediction.
The pnroner repented, in a loud voice, the Lord'.
Prayer, and piayed for the rulers of the country, the
army and navy, and liar suppression of the rebellion.
Every eye was now turned to the gallows and the hu
man !tom which so soon was to be hurled Into eternity.
At 22 minutes alter 1 o'clock the marshal drew his sword,
mune it thiough the air, a dull sound was heard from
inside the executioner's box, and in lees than a swayed
the body of William Henry aswititie was dangling in the
air, and the etentwill of tte law was obeyed.
GENERAL NEWS.
A QUESTION FOR "CONSERVATIVE" NEWS
PAPENS.—Yon are ferecotc,telling ue, gentlemen of the
self-14110 "conservative" ores!, thot the Government
wnet put down this rebellion according to tbe Constitu
tion. Now, we assert that no measure, no policy necet•
miry to put down the rebellion can be contrary to the
Conptitution. • Suppose, now, that you should discover
that itie imporaibio to crush out the rebellion by the
toms of The Conetitution, according to your interpreta
tion, would you be for letting the rebellion take its course
in that. event, and submitting to its oppression ?—Nash
unit Union.
FRENCH FIIIIIGGLERS.—A. novel way of emunelion
is monied in the French papers. A watchmaker of
Alencen having lately offered some Swiss watches. at ex
ceeding low. prices, was asked how he could aftwd to
sell them so cheap. rm Oh. that is simple enough," he re
plied j mr I twilight them .of a wild-beast showman who
lied just tome from Switzerland." Before leaving Ge
ne•m, 11, bought a quantity of watches, which he con
cealed under the litter of his lion's cage. It is hardly
neceemnry to mention that the endom-lconse officers at
the ft smiler aid not venture to search there for con
traband goods.
A LARGE FUNERAL —Captain Halley, second offi
cer in command at the attack on the forms below New
Orleans, is now stationed at Sackett's Harbor, in place
of Lavelrtte, ordered to active duty. In reply to a '
querdien as to what were his feelings when he bore the
demand for surrender ashore, in the face of an enraged
Populaceare raid lie simply thought rr if he supplied a
corpse for a funeral; be would have fifteen thoneand
dead Secessioniets for company."
A IiIAT AL OFFICER CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.
—William 0. Ross. a master in the vary '
was arrested
in New York on Sunday, on complaint of - Henry B.
Smith,.of Portland, Me., who alleges that the accused
married Ids Meter, Elizabeth S. Smith, while he had
another wife living. BAPS Is a native of Maine.
ANOTHER GENERAL BUTLER.— A. shrewd old .
Brush, of New Orleans, thus excused himself for taking
the oath of allegiance: The of allegiance is like a
contract of marriage—it is binding only while both par.
bee live. Now • the Confederate Government. so far as
Ode city is concerned, is stone dead and, therefore, oar
contract with it is at the end.
CELESTIAL WISDOM.—The Chinese have a curious
nomeuclature for the different periods of life. To each
dccaoe they apple some special designation, thus: the
age of 10 is called the Opening Degree: 20. Youth Ex
pired ; 30, Strength and Marriage; 40, Officially Apt•
50, Ever Knowing; 60, Cycle Olosirg; 70, Bare Bird of
Age; 00, Rusty Viewer ; 90, Delayed; 100,,Age's Ex
tremity.
A 'VALUABLE CONTRABAND.—& - negro was
standing on the railroad at , Lake Village, N. H on
Monday, acid was fitruck by the cow•catcheronti knocked
off the track. it wee anppoe d be wig killed, lint on
being taken up, he declared himaelf worth two dead
men, and n arched away whistling.
•
WESTWARD BO!—Six thousand teams; comprisiog
the overloud emigrant train to the rocciac, crossed the
Omaha ricer, at Omaha, Behr:mita Territory, on the
16th inst.
The number of emigrants for this season may be eett
mated by age one day's work.
A BIIICIDB.—In London, the day after the Derby, a
respectable man deliberately lay 'down on the tarot,
before a wagon, and his heed was crushed flat, killing
him on tliimmot. in his peclicis were found the names
of the winner, and other horses of the'day.
D OF A WREToll.—Ohristophor Boultou was
hung at Catharines, Catada, on the 11th iost., for the
worth rof bin wife. He ended a drtinken frolic by &un
plug his wife to pieces with an axe, and his worthless life
was ',tiled by a noose. Ho formerly lived in 'Philadel
phia, and married his wife here.
V ESTEIttI RIVERS.—The water in Skunk river,
Chicano, does credit to its name. The Journal says
it smells to heaven," and that if any means could be
desired to torn that water down the filiasiatippi rigor, it
.would end the rebellion in thirty daps. A pestilence is
close at hand."' •
'VERMONT POLITICS.—The man who act 3 as ON
Breeliinrldge party in Vermont le going
to °I Q.? al Cou
seetion of himself lu July. Last
.?;•er tie 'Was dii•ided On
leesi inols„.", Lai ;Jo nopee k agree this time, and present
an unbroken front to the enemy.
SOLD 0137.—Tb0 Crescent newspaper establishment
at New Orleans as recently sold at auction by order of
General Butler. It brought $3,200, and Was bought by
Jncob Barlar.
EFFECTS OF THE WAR.—The Charleston Mercury,
of the 7th, announces its intention of henceforth printing
only on ahslf sheet. It acknowledges tho lose of nearly
2,000 enbintibere.
YEW POEit gew pat roads
in California,e observe one t• from Chin) fd Hihnbug
Valley." note ought to be a large mall on that route.
leiter•Carrying in Kensington.
To the Editor of The Press:
- SIR : Since the abolishing of the Kensington Post
Office. the residents of . that district have bean
greatly annoyed by the impertinence of some of the
carriers of the United' States Bab-Post Office, in
Third street, near Girard avenue. A short time
since a young man, named Henry Vanderslice,
called at the dwelling of an old resident in that
neighborhood with a foreign letter, upon which
there were due twenty-four cents for postage. Ha
ving no silver to present to him,the lady of the
bones offered him pennies, which he refused to take.
He then entered the house, and walked up and,
down the room, using insulting and blasphemous
language, till she was obliged to send to a neigh
boring store, and exchange the pennies for silver.
He then swore that he would not bring another let.
ter to the house, On Thursday he informed her
that there was a letter in the office directed to her
residence, and said she might go and get it. We
bopt our worthy postmaster will examine into this
ma.tter, and disraia the insulting carrier.
I enclose you my card, as the assurance of my
responsibility for this statement. '
.1 remain, sir, your obedient servant, C.
AUCTION NOTICE--SILLE OF Boors AND SHOES.—
The attention' of buyers is called to the large and
attractive sale of one thousand oases boots, shoes,
brogans, gaiters, ties, .to., to be sold by catalogue,
on Monday morning, June 30,• at 10 o'clook pre
cisely, by Philip Ford l Co., auctioneers, at their
store, No. 525 Market, and 525 Commerce street.
WALNUT-STREIT THEATRE—LAST NIGHT OF Miss
JULIA D.u.r.—This evening is the last of 'tho en
gagement of this talented American comic actress,.
and the loot • opportunity the public of her na•
tive 'city will have of witneming her Inimitable deli.
neationo of Yankee eccentricities for tome time to
come. We trust, and have no doubt but that she will,
have a largo valedictory aud i ence, not only as a well•won
. tribute to the talent the has displayed, but on account
of the excellence of the farewell bill she presents lac a
partirg souvenir.
CITY ITEMS.
A Swoon's'. IstvzsmoN.-11 is seldom
that an} new invention wins its way Into nolsersal favor
with the public so speedily, or effectually, as the cele
brated Gat Clotanming Cooking Stoves and Ranges, In
vented, patented, manufactured, and sold by Mr. James
Spear at his warerooms in this city, No. .1116 Market
street. the popularity of than, groat domestic improve
manta is growing from day to day, and it is 1:13 exaggera
tion to say that they bare secured a permaneut foothold
in evert quarter of the globe. Passing hit wareroonm
yesterday, on Markot street, above Eleventh, we were
surprised to find his pavement and the adjoining ooeo
thickly lined with boxes reedy for shipment to distant
parts, and concluded in a moment that his fell businotto
to the made bad already commenced. Bat in this we
were ndsteken. All the Stoves and Ranges there, packed
for delivery, we learned, upon Inquiry, had been sold to
private individuals, and tt is a significant fact, that with
all Mr. Spear'e superior ami, extensive facilities for
manufacturing, lie has hitherto been unable to do any
more than meet the demands of the people, although her
be has been repeatedly urged to furnish them for tho
bulemile trade. The unparalleled satisfaction given or
Diu Stoves and Ranges Las secured for them thin euviablo
pr....eminence. No private duelling or pu'rlic edifice, re•
attiring cooking to be done, can be mild to be complete
without tide admirable culinary appendage, a Spear Stove
or kartge ; and accordingly we hod that soiree!) , a lath
lonnble dwelliug le erected in this city, or a cottige or
country seat io the rural dirtricts, without their being
introduced. Their shipment to remote sections, and risen
to foreign lands, almost to the exclusion of even other
Style of btovo or Range, is a high compliment to their in
ventor and patentee. Nor can we conclude tole DOUG.
without etatlug another significant fact, that baa come to
our notice. The box-makers of title city bay that Mr.
Spear consumes more boxes, for packing for shipment,
than all other etove•makere in tho city combined
act, Mr. Skear's tradb, atone, affords almost constant
employment for two of our principal box-making oats-
blinbmebte. 'We adrift° all who may be in want of a
Stove or Range to examine Mr. Spear's stock before pur-
HELP FOR VIE SICK AND WOIINDSD SOL
DIER/I.—l he Christian Commission have, during the Pro
kept week., hugely reinforced their deputation laboring at
Fortress Monroe, 'Yorktown, and elsewhere in IldeCtel
lan's army. Several more have Volunteered to co next
week without remuneration for their services, only asking
that their expenses may bo paid. These delegates attend
personally to the distribution of all articled eoutriboted•
Tbo demand for laborers is on the lacrosse, and the
Commission would be Iliad to bend many more. It at!-
peels with confidence to the Christian public for funds
to ray tbo expense of such laborers, and for purchasing
articles which aro urgently needed. Any contribution
of articles tent to the Young Men's Cbrfitian Association,
1009 aLd 1001 Chestnut street, or of money Bens to George
Stuart, 13 Bank street, will be gratefolly received.
RESUMED 1113 BUSINESS.—Many of our read
era are aware that Mr. John Patterson, of this city--who,
by the way, deserves the triple epithet of useful citizen,
intehigeut man, and good mechanic—wee among the first
men in Philadelphia to take an active interest in the mi
litary hospitals of the city. Ho was, in fast, a pioneer in
the movement, and for many weeks his vigilance and
Christian sympathy exerted in the inetihation at Broad
and Cherry turtele, endeared him to all the suffering in
mates ard madu him a favorite with all who had 0:C1141011L
to visit the hospital. During this interval his trade,
that of General Honte Painting, was abandoned, and now
that he hue reasoned his occupation, at 11133 Spruce
street, we take pleasure in bespeaking for him a !inertia
patronage at the hands of our citizens. Bets prompt
and efficient in hie buaineas, and having suffend some
what through his self-vacrificing devotion to the wants
of the suffering, it will be a graceful act on the part of
the public to remember him in dispensing their favors in
bin department of business.
ALBUMS FOR WAR VIEWS.--Messrs. Wm.
S. & Alf, ed Mat lien, No. 806 Cheetnut street, as will be
rein from their advertisement in another column, have
meta want in the Photograph Aiburu—of which they are
among the lergeet manufacturers in this conntry—which
the public will not fail to appreciate. It will be recol
lected that the receptaclee in all Albums made hereto
fore have been vertical, a style which is exactly suited
for the reception of portraits, but which has been found
ill adapted for views of all itinds, having more width than
length. The Messrs. fdailitle'lave, therefore, in view of
this want, brought out - it/I . ' Album, the receptacles in
which are ip the form of a horizontal oval, exactly suited
for views of the war, groups of statuary, landscapes, co
pies of fine paintings, he., which in the other style of
Album, if inserted at all, would look awkwardly and out
of place. Thant now Albums are offered with one, two,
nine, and tour "frames" on a page, in twenty-fire dif
ferent sizes and styles, varying in price from 62.50 to
616. Eecb Album is furnished with a title. pace and
index, printed in gold.
C A D PIIOTOOHAFFIS OF DISTrIiGIIISII6D
ti Fitissna "—Mr. F. Gukknnst, Noe. 704 and 706
Arai street, the most euccesstnl carte-de-visite Photo
grapher in this country, bee added to hie chalet col
lection of distil:T[ll.MA neraonages, for the Album, a
number of the most eminent members of the Society of
Friends+, living and deceased ; among which we hare ex
amined with great •asnre those of George Fox, nes
nicks, George Truman, Lucretia alott, John Jackson,
Rachel Moore, Joseph John Gurney, the cel, brated sag
iieh Philanthropist, and his no-leas celebrated sitter,
- Elizabeth Fry ; also, the widow of J. J. Gurney, who,
still liniba, is a slater to Dr. Kirkbride, of Weet Phila
delphia.
Finz-WonKs ron THE Fonarn.—We in
vite attention to the attractive Fire. Wotke announoe
men t of Metiers. E Whitman & Co , in another column
of our paper tbis morning. This firm, (which has lately
removed from gecond and Chestnut, to Chestnut street.
below Fonith, next door to Adams' Express,) hee long
had the reputanon of offering to the. public the f oast
Mock of Fire-Works especially adapted for the Fourth of
July, in this city. Besides keeping Works of a superior
Quality, and lulling them at unusually moderate prices,
their 'present stock is choice and rich in variety. Among
the: Items in their stock that era attracting most atten
tion, and that will have an immense sale, we may name
their French, American, and Chinese skyrockets, Ro
man candler, colored stars, wheels, flyers, rosettes, Art.
men's torches, torpedoes, and fancy pieces of every de,
seri piton.
AUTHORITIES HAVE DECLARED, cl'hat taste
in dress is ecarcoty lees a natural gift than portions'
beauty." It is also universally conceded that the ItAT is
the tnoet exareeeive feature in the w make•up " of a
weil• dressed mon ; therefore, choose a hat of becoming
form and proportions. Gentlemen of taste will find their
wants met in the best style at WARnurroN's, No. Oa
Chestnut street,
THE BEST PORTABLE LIGItT Of this Or an
other age, we are free to say, is the popular Lamp for
burning Kerosene Oil, manufactured and sold in endless
variety by Messrs Witters & 00., of this city, at their
4' Light Emporium," No. 35 North Eighth etreet, corner
of Filbert. These lamps are decidedly the safest, most
ornamental, convenient, and economical of any in no,
and ebould be generally adopted
FINE MESS M_ACKEDEL,t—Mr. C. 1.1. Mattson,
dealer in fine groceries, Arch and Tenth streets, has now
on hand a very choice article of Mess Mackerel, put up
in small packages to suit consumer.; also, One Sardines,
and all the dried, smoked, and OPICed deb in season.
CLOTHING, AND MONEY SAVED.—WC make
no extravagant statements, lint honestly assure all in
Want of superior clothing, well male, and fashionable
style, that we can sell at as low prices as any store in
Philadelphia. Call, examine, and test our declaration.
Extensive stock always on hand. Grigg & Van Gunton,
704 Market street.
.A POrE FOR SkaEssrA.—The armies of Gone
rale Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, have been consoli
dated, and General Pope has been pet in command of the
whole. It IS probable, therefore, that there will soon be
a Pope in Richmond, to take tho place of their monk
President. " Little Mac" and Pope make a strong teem,
and when they go in civilians' harness they always pro
cure the latter at the Brown Stone (Nothing Hall of
Hockbitt & Wilson, Nos. Kt and 605 Chestnut street,
above Sixth.
NOT A BAD SUBSTITUTE.—WO see by the
Richmond papers that sabstitates in the rebel army cost
log from seventeen to twenty-fire dodsre, are very apt to
skedaddle on the first opportunity, leaving the party
hiring him under the necessity of procuring another for
the first roll call We could suggest a plan, we think . ,
that wonldbe effectual and cheap: Let the party, after
being drafted, refuse to go; in the meantime tali, the
money necessary for a substitute, and purchase a com
plete snit of clothing from Stokes' one price," under
the Continental, and when the officer comes after him he
will not know him, neither will his most intimate friends.
otxs oa MULTITUDE.—We mention, for
the bent fit of the foi signer, who ie mast( ring th. intric t
ees of our language in respect to nouns of multitude,
that a flock of girls is celled a bevy, and a bevy of wolves
is called a pack, and a pack of thieves is called a yang,
and a gang of angels is called a hoot, and a boat of Or
poises is called a shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes is called
a. herd, and g bard of children is called a troop, and a
troop of partridges is called a covey, and a covey of
beauties is called a galaxy, provided. said coveys are
deemed in the handsome and fashionable clothing manu
factured at the palatial emporium of Granville Stokes,
No. tO9 Chestnut street, where the largest and cheapest
assortment of summer garments in the country are on
band.
THOSE WIIO DESIRE genuine cc Congress
Water," from the Ceugrese Spring, Saratoga, will do
well to oh erre the advertisement of the proprietors or
the spring In oar columns.
BATHING ROBES for ladies' and gents', at
Sloan's, 506 Market street, Philadelphia. Please give me
a call. De2B-_t*) Join P. Steals.
BELEHOLD'S UNIVERBAILY APPROVED RE-'
sisnr.—Compoand Extract Rocha cures diseases of the
bladder, kidneys, gravel, dropsy, weakness, tc. Read
.
the advertisement. in another coinmn. jed.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Ifir SEE F 01312TH PAGE
• Scbr Fanny, Mayhow, 5 days from Newborn, NC, in
ballast to captain.
Schr Fern erls Friend, Callon'', 3 days from Choptank
Aver, with bark to J IV Bacon.
Scbr Colector, Bounds, 3 days from Nanticoke River,
Dcl, wilb lumber to J W Bacon.
Schr W Saulsbury, Amason, 6 days from Boston, in
ballast to captain.
Behr Peeabectas, Berry, 5 days from Boston, with
rodeo to ,Twella & Co.
Schr Silver Magnet, Perry, 8 days from Boston. with
Ice to Kennedy, Stairs & Co.
Scbr 0 Looser. Lawe, 6 day, from Boston, in ballast to
Noble, Caldwell & Co.
Behr J Grierson' Harding,B days from Gloucester, with
mdse to Crowell & Coffins.
Behr Farmer, Williams. 1 day from Milford, Del, with
corn to Jae fisrratt a Son.
Steamer Vulcan, Morrison, 23 hours from Now York,
with mdse to W /11 Baird & Co.
OLE&BED
Br bark Thomas, Peterson; Cardenas, S & W Welsh.
Bchr C Lauer, Lawe. Potneett, Noble, Caldwell & Co.
Bar Silver Magnet, Perry, Cambridgeport, do
Bohr 11W Godfrey, Weeks ' Chelsea, J B Henry.
Bohr Helen, Godwin, Yorktown, Ye. C H Cummings.
Bohr Sapho, Smith, Washington, DO, II 0 Lancaster
& CO.
Bcbr Clara Ann, McGarity, Waabingtoth captain.
Sir B Willing, Claypool.), Baltimore, A Groaes, Jr.
1111t1d0RANDA.
Berk Libra, (Dutch) for New York and Philadelphia,
was at Rotterdam 9th inst.
Behr George Fetes, Niokerson, for Philadelphia, Balled
from Providence 26th lost
Bar Corer)°, Carr, hence for Boston, galled from New
port 26th Met
Bohr Circe It Yickerr. Babbitt, salted fpom Newport
29th inet for Philadelphia.
Behr Vigilant Bonaire, for Now York or Philadelphia.
wee at Newport 26th Inst.