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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1862.
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procuring subscriptions to the citizens’ bounty
fluid, wo beg leave to announce that contribu
tioi s will be received at this office.
THE WAR
General Pope has taken the field in person,
and already we have indications of a grand move
ment, which cannot be long delayed. General
Sigel’s corps has been advaneed, and Gen. Banks'
army has been finally reviewed preparatory to
moving upon the enemy . Gen. Pope has made
.but one Bmull.mistake in bis military career. 1 . He
has a great’ prestige to sustain, and much is ex
pected of him and his army in the present cam
paign. . ‘
General Mitchell has arrived in Washington.
The charges preferred against him by one Colonel
Horton are all false, aud will be dismissed by the
War Department. Tho gallant “ star-gazing” stra
tegist will be appointed to an important command
in a few days. :
Our naval commanders in tho Mississippi are
confident that the rebel batteries at Vicksburg oan
be silenced at any time, bat troops are needed to
hold the place. ,:A heavy division is now on its wayi
thither, and stirring news may be looked for at any
inoinent. The fate of the rebel iren-clad gunboat
Arkansas is said to be sealed. We have no doubt
of it, for Earrsgnt knows how to ram her home as.
he did the Iron-olad gunboat Manassas below. Hew
Orleans.
The guerillawarfare in the West continues with
out any definite results Quite a desperate encoun
ter has recently taken place in Southwestern Mis
souri, between our forces, under Col. Guitar, and a
body of 900 guerillas, in which the latter wore to tally
' . routed with the loss of one hundred men killed and
wounded, a seotion of artillery, ammunition, &o ,
’and one'prisoner. Now, the question is, “will
■this man be hung if he be really a guerilla?” Even
these email victories should be vigorously followed
up, and an end put to this unrecognized mode of
warfare. ;
THE NEWS,
The second letter of Hon. Robert J. Walker,
upon the all-absorbing topios of the day, which we
publish this morning, will be read with interest.
A Meeting of officers will be held at Barr’s
Hotel, in Sixth street, below Chestnnt, relative to
enlistments for the old regiments. Enlisting for the
regiments now in the field is rather dull.
General Tope has taken the field, at the head
of the army of Virginia, and an important move
ment is looked for soon)
Letters of inquiry, relating te the pay of. sol
diers'in .’hospitals-ur on furlough, should be ad
dressed to the Paymaster General; relating to back
pay and $l9O bounty of deceased soldiers, to tho
Second Auditor; relating to pay of deceased team
sters, or other employees of the Quartermaster’s
Department, and for pay for horses killed or lost in
. thS'seryice, to the Third Auditor ; relating to tho
pay and bounty of persons in the marine or naval
service, to the Fourth Auditor; about soldiers in
the army, to the Adjutant General, ,
• News from Key West has bean received, under
date of the 20th.inst. The United States gunboat
Meroeditft had paptured a schooner, loaded with
cotton, trying to run the blockade near Bogue In
let, North Carolina.
From Richmond and Petersburg papers received
at this office, we have important advices up to the
25thinst. ■■
The hews from Mexico is unimportant. The
French army has been furmshed wiih fresh sup
plies. A quarrel had taken plaoe between three
Mexican generals, but the result will not bo of any
Importance.: ■
Extracts frbrii our New Orleans files, this morn
ing, are tp the 20th instant, and convey the in-'
telligeuoe that the oity is remarkably healthy and
quiet.
3. N. Brown, commander of the rebel ram
Arkansas,- wa« formerly a lieutenant in the Federal
navy, hut was permitted like others to join his
friends South.' He returned home, in the* frigate
Nißgara, and proclaimed strong Secession senti
ments, which so incensed a large class of oitizeni
in Boston, that it was (inly through tho interven
tion of the police that he escaped a mobbing at the
head of State street. He has made good his decla
ration of his purpose to “ return to his native State,
and fight under the Confederate flag.”.
An old colored woman, formerly a slave, is now
residing in Rahway, New Jersey. She was the
nurse pf Preston S. Brooks, and has a large family
of ohildren, all of them slaves, “ Massa Brooks”
she describes as a bad hoy, and a cruel man to his
people, whom he whipped terribly and fed in a
miserable manner. His brutality in childhood was
fairly parent to the ferooity of his manhood
Commodore FarrAgut is reported to be making
another out-off at Terrapin Neck. This point is
three-fourths of a mile across. The* cut-off com
mences at the head of Island No. 100, and termi
nates at the head of Island No 102. It is hopad
that the rush of water through this canal will tend
to make the current strong enough to wash but the
new Charnel cutting off Vicksburg,
The Republicans of the Fifth dulrict of lowa
have nominated John a: Hasson for Congress
Thomas H, Benton was his principal competitor!
Mr. Kasson proposes to resign the office of First
Assistant Postmaster General and stump the dis
trict, He is a Republican of Democratic proclivi
ties and the most uncompromising stamp.
“At a reoent war meeting in Bridgeport, Con
necticut, Elias Howe, the well-known sewing-ma
chine inventor, was present, and, after giving
$l,OOO to the fund, signed his name to the roil of.
volunteers, and announoed that he should not pro
cure a substitute, but go himself.*
The oity of Columbus, Ohio, having a population
of 20,000, has raised, by subscription, for tho new
levy, $32,500.
Qoykrnob Yates, of Illinois, has feued an or
der commanding all officers and privates of Illinois
regiments, who are now in the State without leave
ofabseDoe or furlough, and who are able to do so,
to return t« their regiments at onoe, under penalty
of being treated as deserters, • ,
The police of Baltimore yesterday took from
several of the stationery stores all the photographs
of Confederate officers, as well as several plates of
lithographs.
Dr. McGkeqor arrived in Washington,.yester
day aftornoon, from Salisbury, North Carolina.
He mossed with Colonel Corcoran during his im
prisonment at that place, and reports that the
colonel is in good health, but there is no immediate
prospeot of his release.
Yesterday afternoon, seventeen Confederate
prisoners ' arrived at the Camden-street depot,
Baltimore, from Harper’s Ferry and Winchester.
The Demooraoy of the Seventh district of In
diana have 1 nominated the Hon. D, W. Voorheos
fer Congress. ...
, The flnafioiai strategy of the New York brokers
succeeds as yet, and geld holds a premium of 115 a
llfii still. Silver is quoted at 112a116. United
States demand notes are worth 1071 at present.
The money market Is rather dull.
An Army Medical Board, composed of Surgeons
Brinton, Cly mer, and Assistant Surgeon Webster,
TJ. S. A., for the examination of brigade surgeons;
and staff and volunteer surgeons, and: assistant
surgeons, and contract physicians, is to be held in
Washington. 1 The examination is a thorough prac
tical one, both with regard to surgical operations
and bedside experience. It is calculated to test
the real knowledge of the candidate.
Burnside has been in New York for a day or
two past, travelling around incognito. He was re
cognized yesterday by one of his wounded soldiers,
and forced to make a speech on the sidewalk, which
he did in his usual happy manner, urging tho fiU
ing up of the regiments at present in the field;
We present today two interesting letters from
Fortress Monroe, one from Memphis, and another
from Vicksburg.
Moboak, the gnerilla, was at breakfast in Paris,
Ky., when Gen. Smith’s cavalry came dushing into
the town, and began shooting down tho horao
■thieves.., The bandit chieftain did not stop to
put off his slippers dr finish his meal, but/left in
liaste. ' . ‘
An Army Medioai Board, oomposed of Sargeonß
Biinton, Ciymer, and Assistant Surgeon Webster,
V. S. A., for the examination of brigade snrgeona,
and staff and volunteer surgeons, and assistant
surgeons, and contract physicians, is to be held in
this oity.
Hhe Hon. Robert J. Walker possosses
the remarkable faculty of exhausting every
subject upon which ha treats. Ho mas-
ters bis theme and consumes all opposition
wJWfc his arguments. With a wonderful me
mory, a profound knowledge of men and
Statesmanship, a familiar insight into the ways
of Government, and an experience of many
years in.positions responsible and exalted,
he also possesses a ripe scholarship, a keen
intellect, and that boldness of originality
:and conception which' is only an attribute of
.the first minds,. And although we have seen:
Hr. Walker in many glorious positions, and
have read many glorious and glowing thoughts
from hiS;,pen, we have never seen him to bot-
advantage than in the attitude he now as
sumes. A Senator from Mississippi, .and
a statesman of the Southern school, he
is ardently devoted to tho’ Union, which
another Senator from Mississippi is seek-
Ing to destroy, and has cast his lot' with the
Northern people in their war for constitu
tional liberty. He now appears before the
country as the exponent and defender of the
emancipation policy of the Administration,
sustaining it by a close and cogent system of
reasoning. In the' case of Maryland he de-.
monstrates as cleagiy as though it were a pro
blem in mathematics, bow Maryland might have
added to her power, her wealth, her prosperi
ty and her greatness, had she adopted tho
emancipation policy in the early p-irt of her
history; and furthermore, that great good
will yet flow from the adoption of such a po
licy. On ibis point, and on the other points
introduced, Mr. Walker’s letter is convinc
ing, and the truths he writes with so much
calmness arid force wilt be welcomed and
studied by the honest statesmen of the slave
States. ■ .'
We applaud the action of his Honor the
.Mayor in reference to the Concert Saloons.
As we understand the case, it seems that a
citizen of this city opened the Continental
Theatre—an establishment on Walnut street,
under the soft name of “ Music Hall”—or
ganized dramatic and musieal entertainments,
arranged attractive scenery, and opened a bar
for the sale of liquors, more particularly lager
beer. In order to enhance these attractions,
a number of young ladies.wera engaged to
minister to-the wants.: of the spectators by
carrying beverages from the bar to the con
sumer, and making themselves generally useful
and attractive. The attentions of these fe
males became so ostentatious and notorious
that the matter came to the knowledge of the'
Mayor, and, after hearing the matter, he de
cided that no more such enteitainments would
be permitted, and that the establishment
should be closed. . ,
Those of our readers who arc at all ac
quainted with our city customs will under
stand the nature of these entertainments.
They appeal to prurient tastes, and foster ail
manner of immorality and crime. Young men,
about entering the world, and ambitions to
jemulate the dazzling wickedness of their se
niors ; boys, who have escaped from parental
discipline, and seek a place of amusement be
cause the features are abundant and the ad
mission cheap; romantic young men, whose
ideas of dramatic art are confined to blue fire
and loud noises, and who find wit and humor
in the incoherent rhymes of a performer in
charcoal ; men with unhappy homes, pick
pockets, gamblers, idlers; men with ,a visible
amount of leisure and no visible means of sup.
.port—all throng to these places to drink beer,
and smoke horrible cigars, and shout, with wild
and livid eyes, over obscene and disgusting ex
hibitions of human frailty. Boys of innocent
years, but covered with; guilt and misfortune;
homeless, wandering precocious boys assemble:
night, after night, and, after the performance
is over, sink away to sleep among chairs and
benches, 'reeking; smoke, the fumes of beer,
and the debris of tobacco. Added to this, we
have the awful degradation of womanhood de
veioped to an extent that makes us shudder.
Amid all these scenes of riot and debauchery,
girls of gentle yours, and fair to behold, at
tend to welcome new guests and entertain
those present; to submit to insult and scorn,
and words of infamy and shame. Long after
mifipigbt,. and far into the morning, these
orgies are maintained, and when our citizens
are quietly slumbering the highway echoes
with tho shouts of ribaldry, and red lan
terns flicker over the pavement;
That such scenes as tbeso have occurred in
our- city, and in other cities of the North,
we have been credibly informed, and do most
devoutly believe. The evidence submitted to
his Honor the Mayor, in the case before him,
was conclusive, and perfectly justified the de
cision he pronounced. There are to be no
more concert saloons, with liquors indiscrimi
nately sold, and pretty .waiter-girls jn attend
ance. The Mayor is imperative, and will see
Hs commands obeyed. We ace glad that
such is to be tlio case, and in tho name of the
community, we thank his Honor for having so
promptly interfered with these infamous pro
ceedings.
The startling dimensions being rapidly as
sumed by this guerilla warfare demand from ns
more than a passingriotice in the news-column.
In explanation of those petty descents, it is
Said that the breaking up of a hugearmy like
Beauregard’s necessitates the individual
efforts of small bands to obtain subsistence ;
that these attacks can always bo repelled by
the-inhabitants of the districts upon which
they are made, and that their-issues must
generally be more disastrous to the rebels than
to ourselves. We are no alarmists, and we do
not mean now to attract attention away from
the main strategic points of this war ; but a
correct understanding of these affairs, which
Seem to us of minor account, will have an
influence en the general conduct of the war.
It may be that they are not separate local
affections, but symptoms, ingeniously veiled,
of the great central disease that is draining
our life-blood; and, therefore, we insist upon
a rigorous analysis and fair adjudication of the
verdict that seems to be popular just now.
That opinion assumes, first, that Beaure
gard’s army is broken up. Granted ; but is
it so far shattered as to necessitate spreading
little dots of force, over wide areas ? It as
sumes, secondly, that the obtaining of com
missary stores is the cause of these forays.
Denied, point blank. It is an effect of the fo
ray, but the cause lies deeper—as deep as hate
ot hehrt and guile of head, and full stomachs
are only accessory to it. Thirdly, it assumes
that the resident population of a district can
always repel the rebel hordes suddenly hurled
upon them. Another obliteration o t facts for
the sake of comforting theories. The histori
cal record shows that they can do no such
thing—at least till the guerillas have effected
all their minor purposes. And, fourthly, the
prevalent idea puts the balance of injuries in
flicted on the wrong side.
Let us look at facts. A despatch from
Louisville, dated the 11th, was our first an
nouncement of any trouble in Kentucky:—
“ The 11th Michigan has just returned from a
three-days’ chase of Morgan.” Vastly satis
factory 1 The famed guerilla chief had dared
to show Ms head again in Kentucky ; but he
had been compelled to show the weakness of
his hand, for a single regiment had unsuccess
fully chased his runaway legs tor three days 1
A pleasant little expedition for these jolly
boys of Michigan!, An invigorating health
trip through the green valleys and wild-wooded
hills of Kentucky 1 A flying rebel renegade
in front of them, the glorious scenery of Ken
tucky around them; and United States stores
within them, they took a hard gallop of three
days, and cheaply vindicated their military
prowess. But, hold! The wires are thrilling
with some very different tale. From Tennes
see come bewildering tidings. Forrest is
near Murfreesboro’; bnt there is a stout Fede
ral force there, and the place will be held.
Alas, for the Michigan prestige! Two regi
ments of the comrades of the gay Kentucky
riders are taken prisoners, and their two generals
share their fate. Then is all Nashville in ter
rible alarm. The guerillas are reported at
various points committing all sorts of depre
dations. Reinforcements are vehemently called
for, and, arriving, are marched hither and
thither in tbe vain hope of confronting the
enemy.
Meanwhile, Morgan is making a still
more brilliant career. So swift, shrewd, and
stealthy are his movements that the mayor of
Cincinnati is appealed to simultaneously for
reinforcements from Louisville,” Lexington,
and Frankfort. Morgan is here ; Morgan is
there; Morgan is everywhere, except whero
a superior body of Federal troops happens
to be. He creates a wilder excitement,'amore
helpless tumult, than any of the war’s legiti
mate operations. In the three cities above
mentioned, and in all the adjacent towns,
business is suspended, martial law declared,
armed patrols of citizens compel every: one to
do military duty; in brief, the whole state of,
society is disorganized and the utmost feeling
of uncertainty and insecurity ; engendered.
The guerillas laugh in their sleeves, carry out
rapidly but systematically their pro arranged
plans, move upon and take Lawreneevillo,
Versailles, Hafrodsburg, Danville, Hender-,
son, Paris, Cyntbiana; barn bridges', tear up
railroads, blow up culverts,- destroy all valua
ble private property that Is large enough game,
cross to Newburg, Indiana, and having fur-'
nished themselves liberally with supplies,
horseg, and recruits, naske their way back into
Tennessee through Cumberland Gap—a good*
deal damaged in their homeward trip, but safe
in'the'main.
j But hardly were our; ears thoroughly con
futed with this multitudinous clamor, when still
other messages poured in from Northern Mis
souri to increase the hubbub. .There wore
irruptions of the guerilla barbarians there also,
and alarm was spread through ail these bor
ders. Now, there is one fact common to all
these forays, and it ought to explain their in
tent—their remarkable agreement in time:
they all commenced within the same twenty-four
hours. So far, we take it, were they from be
ing mere transitory impulses of cupidity or
reveDge. that they were legitimate parts of trie
plans and policies lying at the basis of the re
bellion, They were organized at Richmond,
and any man who can seein them nothing mors
than attempts to get supplies and men will
have to sharpen his military wits materially be
fore he can appreciate the unscrupulous mode
in which rebeidom is determined to push its
war to a successful close. With a universal con
scription act, what does the rebel Administra
tion care for the handful of men Morgan can
pick up in Kentucky ? With the vast fertile
fields of tbejfar South, of what account to it is
the little produce which Morgan can wring
from a few Kentucky farmers? There is,
indeed, a physical advantige thus gained,
though it is not booty : a thorough survey of
our forces, qnd revealment of our weak paints.
But what tb'e rebels chiefly seek, in such law
less attacks,! is a moral effect. These bandits
inspire terror through all the country upon
which they descend, and it is a fear that can
not be laid akide when Its immediate cause is
cancelled. It resolves, itself into a chronic
apprehension. It not only keeps man at
home, but it spires universal skepticism as to
our success. It creates a feeling-of vague
restlessness and uncertainty. Life and pro
perty are every instant exposed to peril; the
great United States has.possessed a country,
bntcannot afford decent protection to its loyal
inhabitants—men who have sacrificed every
thing t,o maintain their allegiance; is it .likely
that there wifi bo any very fierce gusts ot en
thnsiasm towards us? Is it not likely tbit
every spark of faith in ns will he utterly
quencbed ? Surely hero is a reward well
worth the rebels’venture.
flow can this thing ba. stopped? Directly,
not at all, or at best, but imperfectly by the
citizens of i,he places attacked.: Indirectly,
easily. A million of able-bodied men await
but our word to ally themselves with us bodily,
.as they are with us in heart. A magnificent
black blister as a counter irritant ! A gue
rilla power, such as the world hasPover seen I
One which, once fairly set in motion, would
call back not only the hordes that are desola
ting No> them homes, but divert the aims of
tile whole rebel arm. Will we use it? Or
'shall we go on for another year, paying bit
terly in blood for our culpable irresolution ?
- Shall we be content with general statements,
as to “the desirableness of using every means
that; will secure., our salvation,!’ and so- hum
bug ourselves into the belief that we are very
bold ? The causa is too great to permit such
iiamby-pambyism; the crisis is - too imminent
to let ns dawdle with geno-al terms. We want
specific measures of the boldest kind.. We must
save the State at any cost; swallow our pre
ridices; shut our hearts to the suggestions
ot the rebel devil in the shape of criminal
leniency, and; not only strike ourselves, but
make those strike whose future is as depend
ent on this struggle as our own ?
Early in September a ihoeting of the new
“ Holy Alliance” will take place, either at
Baden-Baden* or at Cologne. The high con
tracting parties on this occasion are AißXAN
der of Russia, William of Prussia, and Na
poleon of France. The compact is not an
original one. In 1815, after the second de
feat of Napoleon 1., the respective rulers of
Russia, Austria, and Prussia bound themselves
by oath to a conspiracy against the liberties of
Europe. Their nominal purpose was to regu
late the'States of Christendom on Christian
principles, but their seal purpose was to put
down Legitimacy and suppress : Liberalism
among the nations. ' . :
With three exceptions, most of the Eu
ropean Powers joined this un-Holy -League.
For obvious reasons, Turkey was not counted
in. Tho Pope (Pius VIL, a conscientious
man,) declined giving the sanction of bis ad
hesion to it. England declined any formal
consent to the principles of the Alliance, but
was moro or less friendly to them until, in
1822, when/ having become Foreign Minister
on the death of Lord Casilereagh, Mr. Can
ning repudiated the conspiracy, hot alone by
words, but by action, and soon; after threw
down the gauntlet, by recognizing the inde
pendence of the newly-formed South Ameri
can Republics. Byron, who hold democrttic
opinions, thongh himself one of the greatest
aristocrats of bis time, described the Holy-
Alliance as
An earthly trinity ! which wears the shape
Of Heaven’s, aa man’s is mimicked by tne ape,
. A plans unity ! in purpose one-
Tbrntlt three fools to a Napoleon.”
The terms of the Holy Alliance, drawn up
by Alexander I. of Russia, and acceded to by
the sovereigns of Prussia and Austria, by an
; oath on the Gospel, particularly excluded, for
ever, the members df the, Bonaparte family
from all the thrones of Europe. 'ln 1821, tho
revolutions in Naples and Piedmont were nut
down by this Holy Alliance—whoso latest
action was to compel France to restore abso
lutism in Spain, in 1823. On the death of
Alexander in 1825, the Alliance expired of
inanition. That compact, entered into at a
time when France was prostrate at the feot of
the Allied sovereigns who had combined their
armies and money to overthrow the great Na
poleon, not only did not admit Of the compa
nionship of Louis the Eighteenth, but espe
cially placed the whole of Napoleon’s' family
under ban. Of the new alliance, formed by Na
poleon’s nephew, Emperor of the French, and,
in his way, as remarkable a man as his great
predecessor, the evident purpose is to place
Austria under ban. We have only to look at
foreign affairsto become aware of this. Russia,
which put down the Huugariau rebellion in
1849, and thereby saved the Austrian empire
from the loss of a large portioh of its territory,
naturally calculated, when France andEogland
commenced what is called the Crimean war, I
upon the support of Austria, or, at least; upon
its neutrality. Mike Prussia, which declined
to interfere, Austria played the ingrate, and,
though Ifer army did not join the combatants
in the Crimea, it occupied Waliachia and Mol
davia, which Russia had seized and surren
dered. Hence, Russia has a spite against
Austria. Besides, Russia has a deafre to
strengthen herself in the southeast of Effrope,
at the expense of Turkey, and the weakening
of Austria would certainly help to procure the
realization of that desire. Prussia,; heading
the Protestant, as Austria heads the Catholic
interest in Germany, has a determined and
intelligible purpose in depressing its rival, and
therefore has readily joined this league.
France has an object in doing something
which will show its influence in regulating the
affairs of Europe, and may perhaps desire to
punish'the scanty cordial! ty ’towards himself
which, at all times, Austria has exhibited.
Besides, there may be the ultimate hope of
gaining territory for France out of the weak
ness of Austria. ...
Tbe recognition of Italy by Russia and
Prussia has evidently been effected by the in
tervention ol Napoleon ; the restrictions im
posed on Victor Emmanuel as Jo non-inter
ference with Venetia and Rome are only
nominally stringent; Let Austria once be
involved in war, and who will answer for
Venetia and Rome, when Garibaldi claims
them as part and parcel of Italy 1 The recog
nition of Victor Emmanuel may be con
sidered as the first movement of the tripartite
alliance of France," Russia, ' and ’ Prussia:
Why should this have been done ? Because,
while It ostensibly secures Vonotia to Austria,
and Rome to the Pope, whom Austria espe
cially protects, it strengthens Victor Em
manuel and correspondingly weakens, and
annoys Francis Joseph, whom ho has de
prived of fertile Lombardy. The whole object
seems to be to level Austria down to the status
of a second-rate State.. Bankrupt and defence
less as she is, this can very readily be done.
Notwithstanding the demoralizing influence
which the rebellion has unquestionably exerted
upon the Southern mind, inthe seceded States,
there are still gratifying Indications that pro
bity and honor have not been entirely ex
tinguished 'by tho flood of treason in that sec
tion. Indeed, we ought not to forget that the
wholesale swindle of repudiation, which lost
at a blow over four hundred million dollars,
capital to Northern merchants, was the act of
rebellion in the aggregate, and not of indi
viduals. There is scarcely a day passes with
out bringing to us some intelligence showing
clearly that one of the first modes in which
the Unionists at tin/ South will make them
selves heard will be by paying their
Northern debts , as , soon as they have
guarantied to them the means of doing so in
safety. We see this in the daily remittances
of money now being received in Philadelphia,
and otter Northern cities, from the partially
liberated Border States; either in payment" of
old accounts, or accompanying orders for 1
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goods. Another equally effective, though'
more hazardous means employed for the safiie
end, is the shipment to the North of Southern
produce. A single commission .house, on
Chestnut street, received from* affirm in Ten
nessee, a few days since, one hundred and
thirty bales of cotton, with instructions to sell,
pay themselves out ot it, for merchandise
bought before the rebellion broke out, and re
tain the balance, (a handsome sum at the pre-i
sent high price of cotton,) subject to the order
of the consigners.
It is not to be expected thatthe latter form
of liquidating Northern obligations will betex
tensively resorted to very soon, for the two
fold reason that the cotton crop, for the most
part, has been destroyed, and the attempt to
ship North what remains is alike dangerous
to the cotton and those 'who ship it. Even
within ten miles of Memphis the cotton-burn
ers are said to have full sway. Binds of
these marauders make it their business to
prowl about tho country and ascertain,’by
stealth, who has any cotton on hand,
and whether its owners are willing to
sell. If they are, the torch is at once
applied, and theinjured owner may
think himself fortunate if ho. escapes a se
verer punishment for his willingness to sell
that which, under the rule of the would
be new Cotton Kingdom; dare only be burned
or held. Under these circumstances, the re
ceipt of cotton for a time, at least, must be
limited, much less, in fact, than' the demand
for current consumption; thongh it is not •
improbable that under the high prices at
which cotton now rules, and the still higher
prices which at .must attain, the quantity
stored by parties indebted to the North, will,
in due time, go far towards meeting their old
obligations, and, from’the indications above
referred to, it is not presuming too much
upon the honor of some, at least, who arejno w
apparently arrayed against us, to suppose
that it will in many cases be applied to that
object.
Tde Subscriptions to the Citizens’ Bounty
Fund continue to be made generally on a litferat
scale, though some few. of them are in afapunt
much below the expectations of the community.
All the subscriptions, however, that have bum
made so far, are purely voluntary. * The ; com.
rnittee, at their session yesterday, invired Ad
jutant General Russell and Colonel Ruff,
of U. S. A., to meet them to day. •It is
expected that the committee' will determine,
at its next meeting, the amount of b runty they
will distribute to each volunteer, and define
tbejr action generally. We learn that, for the
present, sub ward committees will not be .ap
pointed, as it is thought the fund can bo made
up to $600,000, speedily, by purely voluntary
contributions. We are glad to learn that the
committee have been furnished with thd cor
rect lists of the assessors of all the wards, and
know positively who are the solid men of
Philadelphia. )
The sympathizers with Secession and
Treason shrink with horror from all asso
ciation with the friends of the Union.
Nothing is so. contaminating in their eyes.
They have passed from the moderate stage ot
secretly expressing their views, .and now ap
pear in newspapers and declaim at public
dinners. The folio wing. card, publi shed as an
advertisement in one of yesterday’s .morning
papers, proves that Mr. Biddle,' if not of this
class of conscientious men, Is at least! most
anxious to prove that he does not belong to
those who support tho Governmentand°de
nqqnce the traitors. Other men niight al
low the mistake of using their names for
a great patriotic purpose, even if they did
not approve of some of the details, to pass un
noticed, especially in sad times like * these.
Not so Mr: Biddle. He is - resolved that,
whatever others may do, no such compliance
shall be charged to him.* -When Jefferson
Davis establishes his Southern Conihderacy,
arid opsns trade with the vanquished States of
the North, he will have no difficulty in finding
tb'e’men who ’stbod by bim in* his struggle,
against the Republic:
iSS* To the Editor of the Philahelphia In.
qujubr—Sir : X desire to 1 state, through your pa
per, that the use of-rny name as one of the officers
of the public meeting, held on Saturday, the 25th
instant,- was unauthorized.
Respectfully yours, . Geo. W. Biddle.
Philadelphia, 28th July, 1862. . • -
Our correspondent at
sends us a haridb.il which bad been gratui
tously thrown around the streets of Rich
mond, and Which he'obtained from a Union
soldier. It is dated Richmond, June 23d, 1862,
ai.d is signed ’“ B.) a Louisianian.” It is en
titled an “ Appeal to the North,” and is filled
with elaborate denunciation of the Govern
mtnt and our people. Its author is intensely
hitter upon Mr. Seward and Mr. Lincoln,
whom he accuses of a design npori the liber
ties of the country.* In doing so, its author
introduces an extract from a letter of our dis
tinguished townsman, : General Patterson,
which will show what that gentleman’s opinions
were at the time it was written, and how little j
they have been changed since:
For my part, Ido not think he will. True, the 1
“.wish may be father to. the thought,” on my part
f°r I freely; confers myself .a devoted lover of the
old Constitution arid Union, and unalterably opposed.-'
to monarchy and oppressiori ih anyshape or form.'
I tbink I see a trap set into which Seward and his*
whole clan will fail, and by which the liberties of the
Northern people may yet be: restored. General
Patteison, Cashing,’Dickinson, and hundreds of
Other Northern Democrats, are watching the trap,
and I shall be much mistaken if they do riot Patch
their game when it is sprung i * The following ex
tract from a letter to me, by General Patterson,
will no doubt strengthen;.my prediction. ;The letter
is dated:
. “Philadelphia, Maroh 6,1861.
“I hope, with yon, that onr national difficulties
will yet be amicably settled, and we be again united
in interest, friendship, and feelings, as in.the:olden
times of Jackson, Jefferson, and Washington. It
makes me sick to think of the condition of our
country, caused by unprincipled leaders on both
sides.. The masses are all right, and at the
NEXT ELECTION WE WILL PUT DOWN OUR ABOLITION
LEADERS SO LOW THAT RUT PEW WILL EVER BE
HEARD OF AGAIN. If I HAD THE POWER, I WOULD.
BARG EVERY VILLAIN OF.THEM FIFTY FEET HIGH
ER THAN lIAStAN WAS. ” .
These are days of admonition. And as
some of the patty leaders in this vicinity are
making themselves busy to prevent loyal men
from enlisting in the army of the United
States, it may be well enough to remind them
that there is an act, passed by the Legislature
of Pennsylvania, on the 18th of April; 1861,
of which the following is Section I. We un
derstand that some of these partisans have
latterly been very industrious, in telling per
sons willing to enter the service, “that it
would be better for them not to do so, because
this is an Abolition intended for the sub
jugation of our Southern friends
Section 1. That if any person or persons,be
.longing to or fesiaingwithin ibis State, and under
th e protection of its laws, shall take a . commission
or commissions from any person, State, or States
or other, tbe enemies of the State, or of the United
States of America, or wbo shall levy war against
this State or government thereof, or knowingly or
willingly shall aid or assist any enemies in open
war .against this Stato or tbe,; United' States, by'
joining their armies, or by enlisting, or proenring, ■
or persuading others to enlist for that -purpose; or
by furnishing such enemies with arms or ammuni
tion, or any other articles for their aid and ostnfori,
or by carrying on a traitorous correspondence with
them, or shall form, or bo in ahymtso concerned in
forming, any combination, or plot, or conspiracy,
for betraying' this State or tho United States of
America into the bands or powor of any foreign
enemy, or any organized or pretended Government
engaged in resisting the laws of the United States,
OU shall give or send any intelligence to the ene
mies of tbo State or of the United States of Ameri
ca, or shall, with intent to oppose, prevent, or sub
vert tho Government of this State or of the United
States ,‘endeavor to persuade any person or per
sons from entering the;service of this s State or
of the Thiited States, or from joining any vo*
Inntee.r.. company- or association of , t/iis’States
’ about-being mustered into service, or shall use
arts threats or persuasions, or offer iiny bribed or
hold out any hope, of reward, with like intent to
induce any person or persons to abandon said
service, or withdraw from any volunteer compa
ny or association already. organized under the
la ws of this Commonwealth for mat purpose; every
person so offending, and being legally convictod
thereof, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and
Bball he sentenced to undergo solitary impHson
mentin the penitentiary, at-hard labor, for a
term.net.exceeding ten years and be fined in a
sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or both,
at the discretion of the; court: Provided, That
this act shall not prohibit any citizen from taking
or receiving any civil commissions for the aoknow;
ledgment of deeds and other instruments of writing.
Review of Gen. Ban Its' Army.
Little Washington, Va., July 29.—A grand
review of Gen. Banks’army corps took place to
day, two miles from town. The weather was fine.
Several hours were occupied in field. evolutions
and manoeuvres by divisions ; The whole review
was creditable to thevarious commanders, but
showed the necessity of more frequent drills en,
masse. The magnificent artillery arm elicited
warm applauso from all observers. Tho recent re
moval of tho camps to a more favorable ground
has benefited tbo health of .the troops.
There has been considerable mortality.and sick
ness in the 60th New York Regiment. The other
regiments are improving in their sanitary condi
tion.
. There is no news from the front of the lines
to-day.
We invite attention to the advertisement of
“Enterprise,” under Wants, in The Press of this
morning. The opportunity offered is a desirable
LETTER FROM “ OCCASIONAL.’'
"Washington, July 20,18G2.
The venerable A. B. Johnson, of Utica,
New .York, has for many years been a re
spected and influential member of the Demo
cratic party, and, in a late communication in
favor of prosecuting the war, he utters the
following significant and thoughtful sentiment:
s“ The South would have neve? hazarded rebel
lion if they had expected an undivided North.”
There is so much philosophy in this remark
that Y : 'deem;; this a-proper occasion, to reeaii
attention to the record of those
who are now engaged in a system, the main
Object of which is to divide the free people
of the:free States into factions, iri ordei
to encourage the rebels and to prepare the
way for a disgraceful peace. The Secret of
the opposition of these men to the present
'war is to ho found in the hope they entertain
ol.bi-ing able: to create such dissensions in
every community as will, embarrass, the Go
jV.ernment and assist the common enemy. Let
me go back to the evening of Wednesday, of
January 16,1861, and to the meeting hold on
that evening at National Hall, in tho city of
Philadelphia. At the time ‘this inhering was
held, the loyal people of the whole country
were watching with intense solicitude the
movementtj, of the traitors, and were pre
paring to cbeckmate them. It , would ba
nnjqst to reveal the names of all the politi
cians who took part ia this demonstration, for
several of: theiri subsequently repented their
action and Sre now to be found cordially co
operating with the friends of the Administra-'
tion and the war. Those who remain impeni
tent, and continue to insist upon the doctrines
then and thcro. laid down, while they deserve
the credit for consistency, deserve; also, the
credit of being once more made known to the
public. Now, as than, they are engaged in
itbe bad,work of dividing the loyal people of
■Pennsylvania. I will not, however, brake*
them; objects of public scorn. The commu
nity cannot have forgotten tho spirit ihat ani
mated them on the occasion referred to. The
following resolution was among those adopted*
at the meeting of the 16th of January, 1861;
• llef-olvtd, I cat in ;.tio deliberate judgment of the :
Dembcratsy of Philadelphia, aod, 8u tar ns we know
>ic, of-Pennsyivariia, the dissolution of the Union,
-byi the’separation of the wfiolo South, a result
we : shall most sineerely!iament,vi«»v rekdM this ■
Oommonwealth i -tO / a large extent, fro nr the bonds *
,u-hzrh npto- connect her ‘with tlie ,Coo.federuov. -
except so far as, for temporary iibnveateace., she
-chooses to * submit to them, and: would authorize *
ana require her eitizous, through a'Oouvention to
bo assembled for that purpose, to 'determine with
whom her lot should, be; cast, whether' with- the
North and East, whose, fanaticism, has precipi
tated this misery’upon its. or with bur brethren of
-the. South. whose wrongs we feel as oar' own, or
whether, Pennsylvania should stand by leersUf,
as. a distinct community, ready, when occasion
oflire. to bind together the broken Union, and re
sume her place of loyalty aid devotion.
This resolution, offered, advocated, and
adopted by what was called a “Democratic
’mooring,” is to-day the gospel of the men now
arrayed against,the Administration and the
war,in the State of Pennsylvania. Their ob
ject is, if possible,* to seduce Pennsylvania
from her allegiance to the Union, to add her
to the seceded States, or to make her the
agent of a disgraceful peace. The leaders in
this National Hall meeting, with several ho
norable exceptions, are still toiling to divide
the American people, in order to accomplish
any one of these results. ,- ; If they cannot in
duce her to join bands with the seceded South,
they,may ot least,'so' they believe; induce her
to be the first to compel the Government to
y ield to the dernands of the seceded South. If
we go back and remember that at the time this
resolution was parsed, several of Mr. Bucha
riau’s Cabinet were engaged in a series of almost
public preparations tor tho war that followed
his retirement from the Presidency, we shall
Jjo, startled; atrthe audacity which located upon
any. portion of the people of the free States the
responsibility ,of secession. But this emotion'
will subside before the indignation which must
fire every honest heart that the men guilty of
'this assumption in January of 1861 should now
maintain, by. ail their acts, almost precisely
the same position they occupied at, that time.
It is true, they conceal their puiqmses; they
do not speak as loudly nor as strongly as they
spoke at National Hail, but they continue, so
far as their personal safety will allow them to
do so, to act out the doctrine set forlh in this
resolution. Occasionally they are betrayed
into an utterance of it at a private military
banquet, and,, .as Anthony Trollope in his
“ Noitii America ”_saTB. they_dq;not .hesitata
to.express it at social dinners. Occasional.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to “ The Press.”
Washington, July 29, -1882.
The Capture of the British Iron-Steamer
T übal Gaia
Captain David Porter, of the United States
pavy, whosesignal services in the lower Mississippi
have rendered him so conspicuous, reached Wash
ington yesterday, having sailed with his ship, the
Ootorara, from New Orleans on the 17th instant.
She came into Hampton Roads, whence’she imme
diately proceeded to this city.
* AiiSordiag to uaptain Porter’s report to the
Navy Department, ho captured on the 24th instant,
after an exeiting chase,' the British iron screw-
Btesiner Tubal Cain, in latitude 31 deg. 51 min.
north; longitude 78 deg. 23 min. west. She was
then - steering northwest by north for the port of
Charleston.
She-sailed from Nassau,;N. P., on Sunday, the
20th of July, in company with (wo other steamers,
all loaded with arms and munitions of war, and, if
not intercepted, tho others are by this time safe in
port; The evidence against the Tubal Cain is vory
clear, the fact that she is loaded with munitions of
war, and was steering for Charleston, being sufft
cient to condemn her.
There is, however, much other corroborative evi
denoe that her errand was to run tbo blockade,
the had not broken hulk since leaving Europe in
April last, and had been waiting for a month at
Nassau to run tho blockade. Her cargo is very
valuable, being, It is understood, almost entirely of
arms and munitions of war. Tho captain tried, du
ring tho chase, to rid her of tho saltpetre she car
ried , but was taken with thirty tons of it still oh'
board. ' Capt. Porter sent hex to New Yorker
condemnation.
Arrests for Disloyalty.
The police and military authorities have made
several; arrests yesterday and to day, of persons
whowero freely uttering disloyal sentiments. They
were promptly confined in the military prison, .
The Gunboat Fleet.
Capt. Davin Porter is still in Washington, but
will soon return to take; command of part of the
gunboat fleet in James river.
General Pope’Takes the Field.
Major General Pope and staff left their head
quarters at the corner of Eighteenth and G streets,
this morning, for the command of the Army of Vir
ginia in the field. Their headquarters,’ for a time,
will probably be at Warrenton, Va.- They pro
ceeded by rail. Generals Burnside and Frank
lin, it is understood, have also returned to the
Army of the Potomac.
Dismissed Army Officers.
The; following officers have been dismissed from
the service: Captain Samuel L.- Harrison, 9sth
Regiment New York Volunteers; Captain John C.
Thompson, 104th Regiment New York Volunteers;
Second Lieutenant Eldridoe Green, 31st New
York Volunteers ; First, lieutenant Enoch C.
Cloud, 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Our Sea-Coast Defences.
Gon. Totxen, Chief of the Corps of Engineers,
is about 1 to make -an inspection of the military
works on seaboard. -
Washington Gives 850,000 for a >Hegi-
The City Counoils of Washington have passed
an act giving fiFty thousand dollars bounty money,
to aid in raising anothor regiment of volunteers
here.
No Fosses.
Genoral Pope has given orders that no passes be
furnished any one to go within tho lines of his
army, except on official business:
Returned.
Major General Mitchell returned to-day from
Now York. He bas not been assigned to any com
mand, eo far asis yet known.
Miscellaneous.
Lost night, in accordance with orders given to
General Whipple, to prevent any persons from
taking goods from Alexandria across Gen. Pope’s
lines, ten wagons; drawn by twenty horses and
heavily , laden with market supplies, bread, oloth
mg, shoes,; &o;, belonging to sutlers and others,
I were seized near Falls Churoh and this morning
i brought to. Washington, together- with the ’ fifteen
persons having the property in ohargo. The men
were released by the Military Governor with' an
impressive admonition.
All the rebel prisoners in tho Old Capitol, about
- a hundred and fifty In number, will be released to
• morrow and transported to Fortress Monroe for ex
change. About an equal number of persons, in
cluding rebel prisoners and deserters and stragglers j
from our army, have been brought to the oity from
various locations, principally from Fredericksburg,
j The ; Navy Departinent has received a report
from .Lieutenant Rogers, commanding .the United
States steamer Huntsville, dated July 16, otl’ A be
en Island, stating that be fell in with the British
schooner Agnes, of Nassau, from Harbor Island,
as;her oommander.says, loaded wilh-60 -bales of
ootton and 40 barrels of rosin. ' : ,
Finding on the Agnes no olearaneo, charter, log-
book, or other documentary proof of property,
lieutenant Rogers detained her ag a prizej’ and
wnt hep to Key West,fur adjudication.
FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
Hi! AB QUARTERS OP TUB An»V OP THE POTOMAC,
, July 29,1302.
Dr. Wilhanis,-wili» Las lieen-a prisoner at Sa?is
bury, H. U., for several months, and who arrival
here on Saturday, haying been unoooditionntly r'o
leasedirftates that for ten days- after the battles in
front of Richmond, a, thousand .rebel troops passed
through that town daily on their way to Kiohmond
and more were on their way. The D .etor’s win
dow overlooked the railroad and depot, giving
him a good opportunity of ascertaining what was
going on. These troops came from James Island
and eastern Georgia. : •
■ Among other facts ascertained by the Doctor was
that eleven thousand troops, were at Charlottes
ville waiting, transportation ’ to. ißichmond; .’'that
thirty thousand conscripts had been raised in each
of the States of Tennessee and Georgia Binee the
9th of July , and a proportionate number in the
other extreme Southern States. Ha heard the ad
jutant of Colonel Goodwin, who commands the
H> oBt at Salisbury, and' who had just corao from
Richmond, stato that the adjutant of General Hill
told him that the rebels bad oue hundred and
seventy-three thousand troops. engaged in the hit
tie of seven days. Dr. Williams was accompanied
by Dr. Stone, who was taken prisoner at Buirßauj
and who corroborates the statement so far as re
lates to the movement of troops on their way up to
Richmond. ..They passed long trains of empty oars
on their way South.
If these statements are true, and there is every
reason to believe.thatthey are, it shows that the
rebels are staking their all in this State, by ooa- 1
centrating within its borders an overwhelming
force.
General MoClellan spent the entire day, yester
day, in visiting the different hospitals, speaking
words of encouragement to the sick and wounded,
and seeing that their wants are properly adminis
tered to..
The boats, to-day, brought down 495 wounded,
from Richmond, leaving about 700 yet to come.
From P’oriree* Monroe.
Fortress Monroe, July 28.—Some days ago, as
was reported, ! learned that there waa a largo rebel
force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery being con
centrated in the neighborhood of Petersburg, and
along the banks of tho James river, between the
junction of tho Appomattox and James rivers and
Richmond.
,0b Friday, the 26th, when the Union prisoners
w ere being conveyed from Richmond to City
Point, at every side-track and turnout they passed
trains of cars laden with rebel troops headed to
ward Richmond, and some robe! officers offered as
an apology for bringing down our prisoners on freight
bars, that they wore using all thoir passenger bars in
moving troops to roinforoe Jackson. It is most pos
tiMe that this was all a movement intended to dis
guise tho foot that the rebels are now in strong forces
between Richmond and the Appamattox river, and
still collecting forces and sending them in that di
rection, and what strengthens this opinion is the
pains taken to inform our prisoners and officers in
charge that the movepoont of troops was a rein
forcement to General Stonewall Jackson, and that
no one knew where ho was, but they knew how to
reach him with reinforcements.
' Mail steamer arrived this P, M. from Harrison’s
Landing, but brings no news.
FROM MEMPHIS.
- Memphis, July 26.—Communication with the
Horth is very irregular at. present, in consequence
cf all tho. steamboats having been pressed into ser
vice for the use of General Curtis’army About
260’eitizens lef t yesterday, some going North.
Orders have been issued opening Memphis to
trade with the surround mg country, under certain
restrictions. Persons will have -free intercourse
without papers or any hindrance save the right of
examination, and oven search, when an officer may
judge proper. 'V '
Generals Hurlburt and Smith's divisions are ap
.pointed, for guard duty. Parties endeavoring to
leave the city, except by the roads specified in the
order; will be arrested and imprisoned. _ ’
‘ The commanding general has issued an order
prohibiting speculators from paying specie for the
products of tho Tebei States. When treasury notes
are reftised, the parties so refusing will bo arrested
and such Of their crops as is hot neoded for the sub
srstenoe 'of their families be seized and sold by the!
Government Quartermaster, Speculators pay in w
spbcib, in violation of this order, will bo arrested
and sent North, and tbo property so purchased be
seized for the benefit of tho Government.
The War In the West—The-Rebels fteco-
vcimg tlieir lost Ground.
‘ Cairo, July 28 —A skirmish took place at Boli
var, Tennessee, between our foreos stationed there
and .a body of ,rebels yesterday. No particulars
have yet been received". :
—. It. is_Terorted that :mir forces have evacuated
Grand Junction, and the place is now occupied by
the rebels.
The rebels have possesion of almost all that
portion of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
between Memphis and Corinth,
The steamer City of Alton, on her way from
Memphis, was fired into twice yesterday, just be- ,<
fore reaching Columbus.
CmcAGO, July 28. —A- special despatch to the
Times, from Cairo, says the rebels have taken
possession of Humboldt, ana now hold the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad at that place. They have torn
up the track some ten or twelve miles.
Defeat of a Party of Rebels
Jefferson Citt, July 29.—Colonel Guitar, of
the 9ih Missouri Regiment, reinforced by Lieut.
Colopel Shaffer, and Major Cloppeo, of Morrill’s
Horse, and Major Caldwell, of the Sd lowa Ca
valry , '6so' strong, was attacked at Moore’s Mills,
seven miles east of Fulton, yesterday, by a party
of rebels under Porter and Cobb, 900 strong. After
fighting till after 4 o’clock, P. M., the rebels were;
completely routed, with a loss of ; from 75 to 100
killed and wounded, mid one taken prisoner.
; Colonel Guitar reports a loss of 45 killed and
wounded. Ho captured the enemy’s guns, ammu
nition, baggage, &0., in profusion. The; offices
and men behaved splendidly. Cobb is reported to
have been killed. Col. Guitar resumed the pur
suit last night, and will follow-them closely.
From . Kentucky.
Louisville, -July 28.— Three reverend rebels,
Elliott-, Fort, and Baldwin, of Nashvitio, who were
sent by Governor Jobnspn to Gen. Boyle, arrived
here this evening, and were committed to jail.
They will bo sent to the Indiana penitentiary to
morrow. _ ,
Col, Bollott, with 209 recruits for Morgan, from
Owen county, is reported as having passed through
Flat Book, Bourbon county, going South.
Gen. W. T. Sherman has issued orders that no
more gold shall be paid for cotton; and vendors re
fusing the current funds of the place shall: forfeit
half their cotton.
From. Gen. Pope’s Army.
Waterloo, July 29.—Scouting parties who have
juet -returned report occasional skirmishing ; with
the enemy near Orange Court House, but without
definite results.
Ewell is reported to be -in force from, Orange
Court House through Gordonsville'to Stanoards
ville. - His troops are estimated at from 20,009 to
30,900. This force, however, does not secure the
enemy’s safety.
The Recent Engagement with the -Ram
Arkansas— Serious charge Against a JNa
val Officer.
; Chicago, July 28.— A speoial despatch to tho
Times, from Memphis, says: Capt. Gwinn, of the
gunboat Tyler, reports 8 killed and 10 wounded on
his hoat during the’late engagement with'the ram
Arkansas. He accuses Lieut. Hunter, command
ing the Qucon of tho West, with behaving in a most
cowardly manner, having mado no effort whatever
to bring his vessel into action. The officers of tho
Lancaster say the Queen of the West.was the first
boat that discovered the Arkansas, and ran for pro
tection to the fieet, without firing a gun, and-in
disobedience to this signals to come to the aid of tho
Carondolet, while the latter was engaged at oloso
quarters with tho Arkansas.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Repaired.
Cairo, July 29—A despatch received at head
quarters to-day says that tho Mobile and Ohio Rail
road is again in running order, the rebels having
done but little damage to it.
Arrest of an Indian Agent
Omaha, ST. T,, July 29 —H. W. Dupuy, lato
agent for the ShawnpeLlndians, has been arrested
by the United. States Marshal of Nebraska, on a
charge of embezzling the public money.
Riot In New Brunswick.
DESTRUCTION OF A UNION NEWSPAPER,
Calais,-Me.; July 29—The' office of the St. Brobs
Herald, in St. Stephens, N. IL, wes again visited by a
mob, last night.. The work of destruction this time was
complete. Jlostjjf the type was pl*d and the press in
jured, and much of ihe materia! scattered outside ot the
bitildisß, and.thrown jute the river. .. . . .. . .*
TbefTeroldis tbe only paper in New Brunswick that
has supported the Union cause, and hence the’wrath of
the provincials agatnstit.;Tlie publication of the Herald
will be delayed for several weeks in consequence. ■
Arrival of Prizes at lioston.
Boston, ’July 29.—The gunboat Huntsville has aWived
from Soy West, oil the 24tli, with'a steamer and schooner
in tow, both-having cargoes ofcottou.. ; ; L
A later rsport. froin. the same officer, dated July 21st,
states that he had captured the rebel steamer Reliance,
just out from Cohay Bar, Georgia, and pound to Nassau
t ..with a cargo consisting of 243 bales of Sea Island cotton.
Tie Reliance wes’commanded by Lieut; Gladding,'for
merly of Ihe United States navy and'revenue service, and
since;lhe rebellion, in command of the schooner Parlia
, ment, in which he several times rau the blockade. Liout,.
Rogers towed tho Beliauce to Key West.
How they Treat Secessionists;in Boston,
, BostosV July 29,™&n. individual,.last evening, who
was advocating Jrff Davis and chivalry, was ducked in
the ftog pond on the Common.
Markets.
Bai.tluoiie, July 29 —Flour in active demand, with a
scarce supply. Wheat steady but active, and white ad
vanced lc; yellow unchanged. Whisky dull at 31c Pro.
vlsinnß qulot at t?U.l2js tor mess, and 89 for prime.
Bnrnaide in Setr York.
HE GOES AROUND INCOG—Iit B RECOGNITION—-RE.
- CAPTION—SPEECH ON THE SIDEWALK, AT TUB
TOST OFFICE, AO.
„ ... , , New York, July 29.
uenerai Burnside, who has been in town incognito for
a day or two. mede ihie norm an unexpected public ap
,B “ “b® ll “triaae to th# luinols
Kailr ° a ' l cfflve, in Nssboh street, opposite ibo
post office. He wore bis uniform and was immediately
’ ", " owd f '“' bercd before he could get a
out of Ida carriage, and the General was almost lifted oat
■■° r aatbrndesac admirers, Tfiih much
buTldi 11 ’ h<> treatKl through tho crowd and entered the
At ter remaining, about, half .an - hour sttendiw to prl
▼at« tm#TDeßB, Gen Bcrmeid'e reappeared, but eeeld not
reach t.hf- carriage , The tDEbusiastic crowd iuoistad
the Genera# thereupon re-entered the
ooUfce and went to the second-etoryoulccmjyovwthe
ln}i ,iewof crowd, which Oy this time
bad hlkd the street from Cedar to Liberty street, had
gushed one upon the roof of tbe poet offioe, and blockaded
ali the wiiidows, ia ; the vicinity. General Burnside ni
utovedhisfiat, And, when order was restored, wade then
remarks:.. ..
BURItSItOB’S SPEECH.
“Mr Emends : Tbe enthusiastic welcome you have
extended to me has quire taken me abaca. I expected
to come berequieUyand go away without making any
excitemtnt. hut the kind interest yon take in tna aivea
T ‘ m wili “ lBl> t » k « Boms interest iu what
•» 11 ft this : That all is goikg mu it
lhr ' old regiments.: [Voics— ‘ They
fct.all ee tilled up.’J tnie is the Host advice I have to
nm.v ii, °* [J f-Siments. So many mon have
bo many times predicted that me of the end or tbs rebel
lion, and been mistaken, that I wilt not do bo now- but
be. wry Mior, if the old regtaieuts are’fllled
’’ l ' ’ JOU for tbo kind reception yon have given
4metSg‘r»mong?, h ° ra 82 “ n *1“
bußihess, and^il^etnrn
- locks well and hearty, aud eeeuis to be in excellent
spirits, and cannot but be gratified with the impromptu
demonstration he was honored with iu New fork. P U
T H E. CITY.
The Thermometer-
a i i ßl^£ 9 ’ I 8- I : JULT 29 < Uffit '
77 ' TO* 3 «a H 8 i;“- nM - Sp.h.
*‘ 85 88 I 74 80 90k
. WIND. '
SE by B. BW. 6by E. (8. Sby W. 8.
The Volunteer
The following is'a list of the i
b iday at Independeace' If all
G M. Bickting & Co BIOOKb-airipA 50n.... too
!!urlc y I" Wm. ioo
Clwrles 8u5an........ 200 Ohas. Wi5ter.......... i M
FneH* Lehman....... ioo p, c. E • ... ino
Th, mas Bald win So Obas. M. Wagner';;, »0
Ws Traqnalr....... ioo Edwin W. Payne AOo! V
Mies Beppio W., twelve John if. Long . inn
J ears ... 12 Joauej, Bcattergosii,”&
Miss JBary W., ten " 00....' ail*
Je5r50id............ TO Goo. B-Hormstflad...'; :i wo
yeSoir ■ ,eiEht iv.-B-TiNH.,™*..::;;
0ja.....g Clark A
Ma & ter Will.o W., four T0ang.......... & 600
year50d.....,.;,.;. 6 h, Vaasaat.. iuq
? e S r> „® tn x 8 *"-• —SOG R. ... So
-60 Robt. Coburn & Soo.V. 4GO
Lttberroan, & <J°. 60t- W'llifam BuckueU;.... 1.000
J OQ Joa. Gilliagbam,....,, ’iqo
S h t a* ■••*••• 366 OnioD 1 Mutual- Iptm
to" . 160 ranee C0... 4 ,1 000
T R’f£ r f^ r " "'*■ ‘ 0. 8 Junnoy & C 0.... 'IOO
L ?! & F.8ran5;....1"
75 Ohas, lOO
d. Ulareiice Cresson... .60 tismbert 5acbH........ 2
W H aIT w’• •• ' f J* 1 ® WeWli 37, Uathc- '
« w-W, Allen.. 6m rme Bfreet.' ion
Thomas Singer....... 100 Fred’k Elassold 50
Boart^T^Eols 1 : 0 aubßCr “’ ti » na "««4 « th.
Macalester.. . .$l,OOO W. H. Newbold, Son,
H: Weiner...... .... -200 & Aertscn....... ' 600
.lose),), p ir ~t 100 Powers * Weighimau 1,000
'Si^ ; 3v T °?—. J«l W. B. Scbively...... 100 .
Tlvut lu-rfy .... 100 George Mitchell,...,, 100
Fredk. 8r0wn.....,,,. iOO Clonrad & Serriil ‘ 200
a 6ti 160 Jimathan Patteraod., r 200
Arthur R1tc11ie....... .10(1 (lex, WbitemanACox' 300
Jhb. u. Band & C 0... 1,000 li. Geiger «'*•
John Baird .w..... 600 H; Geiger
Mu? plijf & AHison ... J,OOO Samuel G0rga5....... 250
l)r. D. Jayne &-6oa.,*l;{tflo George W- Tdland " 100
wain LeMuinp, <S Co &G 0 81ibsT.V..,w ’ 600
J. W: Evefuiaii &'Co. ;200 Jacob P. Junes..;;". 1 000
.?««*» Belmutb 300 J»cob.B. Mirchhi;". ’2OO
Jchr- E Genld.loo Charles Per0t....,,,. 100
Eflam hn-kpat.ick .. - 250 Sami. b. Sbober TOO
Tob.es Wssnerv..... 900 Slrs. S, E. Shober—. 100
Chss. W. pcnltney... fOO Jehu Bs Sbober, Jr .. 50
.S.r-'Hntebintjin...;... 300 Wm. Rowlaod « (Jo.. 500
Kdain M. Lewis 060 John 100
llissßthecca Gratz.. 150 Harvey Fill.y.; . rnn
Bsnmel Bradford 100 Ohas. J.'Biddle.. 60
Guptain R. If. if.ran, James ABiddle’ - ■ 50
ibtp Westmcrfland. 100 Robert K. Neff 250
Horace Moses. 100 Western B*bk..”".\,iMo
- S. Earle & Son.. 100 North American Iu- ’
V - 190 T , Bn r«‘ cB,,o ®P«iy..-2,600
A portion of .the wotk-.. Deiawara Sfutualln- -
toe cauiage snrance Oompaoy.i 2.600
factory of G. Tf. A. J. Lewis..-6^
wefrOD.. . 81 Yerree & Blitcliell.... 500
Received on Tuesday.;July 29th......../.. «37 02S
Total received to close'of Tue5day.....»j..... ..$226 781
We have received, the following communication, in
which a very liberal proposition is mado: '
To tie Editor of The Press ;
It 3 on will have tbe kindness, through your very valu
able paper, to inform persons about to enlist iu tho ser
vice of onr beloved country, of a proposiuon I have to
make, I will feel much obliged.
I will give, in addition to the .bountiesnow offered by
the Government, Slate, andpity, the sum of too doliare
each, tor ten ablß-bodied.and healthy men, that will ret
port themselves to Lient. Joseph Reed, of Ooinpahy G,
Cel. Morebeao’e lOßih Regiment Pennsylvsnia Volun
tews, now at Harrison’s Landing, Va; and will, during
their absence give my medidal: services to their respec
tive families, and;such medicines' as may be required,
free of charge. I.will be pleased to meet snob persons at
my rdfico, NO.-ISB South Second streer, from 2 to 3, and
6 to 8 P.M. THOMAS S. REED. M, D„
5 783 South Second street. '
The New Monitor.—-The work on the
New Monitor, the keel of which was laid a short time ago
at Jersey City, is being rapidly pushed forward. Near
the upper end of the yard in which she ir bulluijg, a row
of. piles, five feet ..apart,, for mingV circle of twenty-two
test in diameter, have been driven Jo vn to tbs so'id
rock, as the foundation-fop: a platform; which the"
turret of Hi battery is to bo coaitrnct«i. A short dis
tance from ihis another lot of piles have been driven, on
which a platform is erected'for the finildingof tbe pUot
house and smoke stack. Both of these platformr wfil be
cncloted and lighted,, so that tbe woik can be carried on
by night as well sa day.
The yard is tour buodred aud twenty feet in length by
one hundnd ai d ninety feet wide, and is entirely en
closed by a high board fence, within which no one will
be peimiited without a pass from thesuperintendent
On the south aide of the yard has been erected a one
storyirame building, four hundred feet in leogth and
thirty feet deep, which is to be devoted to machinery,
furnaces for btatirg iron, and the blacksmith shop.
The furnaces for heating the iron pieporatory to
pretsing it to the navired shape are built 0! fire-brick,
and are twenty-four feet long and forty-two laches wide
iDside; they ai e capable of receiving plates twenty feet
in length by forty-two inches in ; width,- and will heat six
plates at a time in twenty minutes. Nearthe furnSesS
ftfi jmm§pßP past iron benoiog block, having the cur-
Tafure the plaits are retiiired to havewhtn cold, by
which they wit) be preised into prope< shape.
AH the machines oro; to be driven by a forty-horse- ;
power steam w gine, supplied with two tubular
With a view to economy, the boilers are so located aad
arranged as io take their heat from the furnace. Bach
machine is provided with a crane for moving tbe im
rneDFe iron sheets, weighing from fifteen hundred to
eighteen hundred jouods each. :
In the blacksmith shop are erected ten Improved forges,
four Jeet in diameter. Thy furnaces are surrounded with
all the appurtenances required in their use. ' :
After the plates have been roiled, planed, and trimmed,
. they will be placed in the furnace, and, after betas heats.',
tsken to.the bending block, in which they wIH-be pressed
to tie required shape. They wifi then be removed to the
■punching and drilling machines, where they will he fiddly
prepared for tho vessel.
Care of our Sick and Wounded.—
The Traut-it Belief Association, organized for tho pur
pees of aiding the sick and'wouuded soldiers on their ar
mal, solicit, assistant* in money, food, and clothing,
such as fruits, jollies, vegetables, handkerchiefs, stock-*
lugs, shirts, slippers, cushions, or any articles of doth
«:*» oM or new. Contributions, which will be judiciously
disti lbuted by the Ladies’ Committee,'may be sent to
the depot of the Association, care of Mr. Westcott, HaU
of theKortbern Liberty Fire Company, southwest corner
of Front and Green : streets The ladies of Nazareth,
Northampton county, Pa , have sent to this city the fol
low tog ■ Darned articles, which were sent through Mr.
Gforge Keck, to the Hospital at Seventh and Catharine
streets, on Saturday last:
1 blankt-t, 2 .comfort, 3 pillows. 47 pillow cases, 24
sheets, 94 shirts, 8 pairs drawers, 32 pairs pantaloons, 30
vestß 7 pairs stockings, 38 do. Bocks, 3 wrap
pers, 203 pocket handkerchiefs 32 neck do.. 42 towels, l
pair slipper?, 1 pair shoes, 1 box lint, 3 bottles wine, 15
quarts currant jelly, lot of dried apples and cherries, 1
pound farina. 1 pouid corn starch, 1 pound Castile
soap, 200 pounds borne-made soap.
t The patriotic ladies of Bath. Northampton county, Pa.,
also sent a box. a short time since, containing the follow
ing articles, which waß sent through Mr George Keck to
the hospital at Twenty fourth and South streets:
11< handkerchiefs, 55 pairs pantaloons,. 50 shirts, 20
towels. 9 coats, 4 pairs stockings, 2 pairß slippers, 6 W.
rags, 13 ehetts, 27 quarts jelly, 2 bottles wine, crackers,
tea, ana other small articles. >
. Another Concert Saloon in Trou-
afternooui Win.' Wolf'was arraigned
btfore Mayor Henry,' at the Central Police Station,
charged with maintaining a ;place for theatrical repre
sentation at a ball called Continental Music Hall, without
a license j and slfo with, .notorious : acts of indecency,
tending to debauch the morals or manners of the people:
also, with tbe sale of liquors without a license.
Befoi e the commencement of the case; the Mayor plated
that this 01 rest had been made at his own instance,'on
complaint of citizens. The charges made are misdo
tteanors, tf pTOven.'
David Henderson, one of the high constables,'testified
that he had a knowledge of theatrical representations
being canried on at-this'place;" he was there on Monday
evening,' and icenery was used; be called upon the Oity?
Treasurer and learned that the defendant hadnot taken
out a licenee; there are some fifteen or twenty girls em
ployed at the place, in serving liquor among the audience;
’ the conduct ot these girls is rather rude; some of them
lave tended in-aaoh places before;’ their manners are
very familiar with all they come in contact with. ...
Detective Carlih testified that theatrical scenery was
used in the place; be also saw liquor sold there to minors ;
the girls in attendance are immoral; he saw them tat
ting on tbe men’s laps. This evidence was also cor
roborated by High Constable Clark.
9he cate here closed, and the defendant was held in
the sum of SLCOO to answer the charges preferred agalost
him. the .Mayor ; further ; said ho should givo ordors
that the place be kept closed until a license was procured,
•and even. then thewateer-girls and the sale of liquors
must be dispensed with.
A Fuggestion Relative to Re-
CEUITING.-—A military officer sends ns a communica
tion, in which be makes a suggestion relative to recruit
ing, &c.' Besays:-o :-..j
„;“A large amount of money has been subperibed by our
patriotic.citizens and corporations, as a bounty for those'
who are willing to volunteer in the defence of onr Union.
There men cannot be recruited without officers, and offi
cers cannot orgabize regiments a>d recruit men without
subjecting themselves to many incidental expenses. Many
,pi the officers, who are now devoting time and labor in
recruiting regiment?, unfortunately are In want of means
to enable them successfully and speedily to accomplish
their, purpose. Theiefore, 2- would suggest that a por
tion of; the money already, subscribed-by citizens and
corporations should be appropriated, to each regiment
oiganized, or being organized, to : Qefrav ihe expenses
necessarily incurred by the officers in the formation of
tlieir regiments (say $6OO to $l,OOO to each regiment).
If refibei ts are not formed and lewuits called for, the
Bums already sub*cnbod will not hoof the use, from the
face that no one will be entitled to any bounty, l ’
jThis suggestion is worthy of consideration.
Illegal Use of Postage Stamps.—
The removal of postage old letters and can
celling from them the defacing.,marks .placed thereon, is
carried on to*a great extent. Congress, at its lato ses
sion, passed an act in relation to the fraudulent use of
pottage stamps, which provides, “ that any person who
shall wilfully remove tjr cauiw. to be; removed from any
postage stamp ot stamped envelope the cancelling or de
facing marks thereon. wiih the intent to use tha same,*
or cause the iiio of the same the second time, or shall
knowingly or wil’hlty seli or ’ buy' such washed or : re
stored stamps, dr oiferi the :same for sale, or give or ox
pcse the same to any person for use, or knoadngly use
the earned dr prepare thie: same with intent for tho second
une thereof, such 1 person shall, upon' conviction
tberfof. btf~adjudf ed guilty, of felony, shtOnbe punl&bei
by imprlsdiiment exceeding three or.by fine
not exceeding one thousand: .bothdmpri
eenment and,fine..ao aforesaid and one-half of such fine,
t whon cotJectedf ehall be paid to.- tbe There
fore, thdaorngaged in this illegal busioesa had bettor
beware, or they may have to pay mote than they would
if they had purchased their stamps,
■ Cuktom-House Meeting.—A meetmir
! ef tbe Oastom-JJatiM wm held tmmt
day afternoon, at the Custom- Houst? , ' ’ >Br
, ” r - Nicholson waa called to the chair, Snd Mr. HubbeH
appointed secretary. - '
• Bounty Fund
subscriptions received yes.
An Tmprgyement. — The old sonare
»t Prawkford road ami Laurel street, Konslogtou, wto
be enlarged by tbe addition of a lot of gmacd wnich was
fcrnierlygoccupied by an old dilapidated market ehed,
wmeb waa a disgrace to tbe neighborhood. The plot
of ground is to b- enclosed with a neat iron railing. Tho
ground will be godded, and otherwifeo improved. This
plftce is well known as Shacfcamaxon square, but has
bf6n aiwayt, neglected by the city authorities, and has
been med as a drying^place for' all the washerwomen in.
tbe iseignborbood. The wooden rai ins was nearly aU
carried off at the time this much* called for improvement
was commenced. It was through the exertions of Sir.
Fc x, chairman of the Oommitt*e on Oicv Proaartv in
Cotmcil,, tint this change was mide. 7 ’ m
Drowning Cases.— Thomas Slater,
aged /eleven j ears, wsb drowned, on Monday afternoon.
* Pond, at Twentieth and Wharton streets. Eia body
wsß recovered soon afterwards, had the coroner held au
nqueetin tbecaße. The deceased resided oa Marriott
street, between Font th and Fifth.
Joeeph Hbi le, a lad fourteen years of age, was arrested
on Monday, and taken bbfore Alderman Pancoait, upon
the charge of having pushed or taken a boy into the
Schuylkill, near tbe Wire Bridge, on the Bsh instant.
The latter w»b drowned. Hoyle 'waa held to bailfora
further hem ii,*g,
The body of the boy found in the Te’aware, on Sun
day last, has been identified as that of WiilUm Conner,
who was In a boat which was run down hr a steam tug
last week, as already published ia The Press, Conner
resided at No. 27 Senate street
Sale of Beal Estate, Stocks, &a.
—Messrs. M, Thomas 4 Son* sold at the Exchange yea
terday the following stocks and real estate—viz:
3 shares Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Land and Building
Association, 5240—5720. .
Three-story buck dwelling, Eighth street, north of
Poplar, .26 by 114 feet*-S|B.ooo.
Two neat, modern three* story brick dwellings, south
Third streer, between Federal and Wharton—subject to
a yearly ground rent of 537.50
Two story brick dwelling,■sBo Lombard street, IS by
78 feet—Bl,7oo.
Thtee-story brick dwelling, No. 806 Erie street, 18 by
64 feet—anbject to a yearly ground rent of 821—81,790,
Enthusiastic War Meeting.—A
large aiid enthuaia'stic meeting of ibe Gray Eeserves waa
field. last evening, at Sauaom street HaU.. Mr :..OeWe
Bnlceu was called to the chair, assisted fir a number of
;T>ce presidents and eecreiariea. A series of reso’utlbus
were adopted, calling upon the young men of the city to
enlu»fc at once. ' Sir; John D. Watson made a speech of
some length, which was loudly applauded. He paid a
high tribute to Col. P. Q. EHmaker, and appealed to all
who bad no ties to keep them home, who have no one to
depend upon them, to go aad enlist, and save the city of
Philadelphia from the disgrace of a draft. The Rev.
Kingpu n Goddard and others|followed, and the meeting
then adjourned. .
After tbe . meeting a subscription wag taken up, and
the amount pledged was $1,200.
Cadwalader Grays This old and
popular company, commanded by Captain John T. D.'-yle,
is again open for recruits. Capt. Doyle has had abund
ant experience, ana is deservedly popular with his men.
We understand the company goes in the old 17tb or Ist
Artillery. This is one of the comp-mits formerly in
Frauk; Patterson’s regiment. The present colonel is
Gideon Clatk, an experiroced officer, and withal a gen
tleman. Capt. Doyle is fenwwn to us as poegeasiug every
rtqotsite of an officer. We wish him success in his pre-
can softly and cheerfully recom
mend him to those desiring to enlist.
•Fxpected Arrival of Paroled
PBISOKEB3.—The steamer Commodore is expected to
arrived here today with a lot of sick and wounded pri
soners bn board. Among those on the steamer will also
be a number of wounded paroled prisoners, manrof
whom are Pbiiadetphiauß.
Tbe Government transport Daniel Webster is also ex
pected to ai rive at this p -rt to-day, with a lot of sick and
Wi unded. . They will be distributed in the different hos
pitals, from which numbers are daily discharged and sent
back to their respective regiments.
Anderson Troop.—Many of om- ieaS
era wHI, no dcubr, recollect the “ Anderson Troop,*’ aa
independent cavalry company and General Buell’s body
guard. Its thoroughness in drill-aid fine personnel has
gained for the Keystone State the official acknowledg
ment of having raised “ the best cavalry company in tho
United States service.” The Secretary of War has ac
ceded to General Buell’s request, that the Troop may be
increasfd 10 a battAlion, ana we are informed that an
officer wit! soon be in this city to recruit.
Democratic State Central Com-
MiTTEE.—A meeting of the Democratic State Central
Committee was held last evening, in this city, but, as the
proceedings were privately conducted, we are unable to
state what took place. A number of notorious Demo
cratic politicians were noticed aboa* town yesterday. It
is said that the committee will make arrangements to
hold a peace meeting, which will be addressed by Yal
lapdigham. Ben Wood, and others of the same category.
It is also their intention to hold peace meetings all over
the State.
Attempted Burglary.—At an early
hour yesterday morning, a man named Anthony O’Kaue
was causht in the act of breaking into a htm?e on Kich
mond street, in the Nineteenth ward. He had removed
biß boots, clambered over a fence, thence up an arbor mi
to ashed, and was about entering one of. the windows
when discovered. Tbe'accused was committed for a fur*
ther hearing. ' .
Birthday of .<« Old Ironsides.”—;
Commodore Charles Stewart, of the United States navy,
who bad. command of the Old Ironsides,' and who per
formed the crirfmany of christening tho “New Iron
sides” built in Kensington, computed his eighty fourth
birth-day ob Monday last."- Ho -was born in this city oa
July 28, 1778,.the month after the British- army evacu
ated Philadelphia; yet he is said to be as active, blithe,
and cheerful as a man of forty.
Assault Upon a Woman—Tester
day morning a man, named James Downs, was -before
Aldotman Moore upon the charge of having assaulted a
woman with a bottle on Monday afternoon, at Swanson
and Cathanue streets. He is alleged to have struck her
upon tbe bead, inflicting quite a serious wound. Downs
waß committed to answer.
Violation of an Ordinance.—Mrs.
Brnonan was yesterday held, by Alderman Oglo to an
swer the charge of selling liquor without a license. She
keepß a small fruit stand in front of tbe Guard House In
Second street, above Walnut, and drove a profitable bu
siness by passisg mineral water bottles Glled with rum
through the iron railings to the soldiers within. She was
also held to answer tbe charge of maintaining a nui
sance in the form of a sidewalk stand.
Meeting of Military Officers.—
A meeting of all the military officers now fn this city
will be held this evening, at Barr’s Hotel, for the pur-:
pose of adopting some plan by which recruiting may he r
more ‘ hritkly carried on. The meeting is an important
one.
—A detachment of two hundred and fifty United States
sailors, from the receiving ship North Carolina, now sta
tioned nt New TqjJc, have arrived in. this city. They
will form the crew of the New Ironsides, which will soon
be ready for sea.
To Leave To- day. The Sanitary
Commission’s steamer Spaulding will not leave until
noon to •day. Vegetables for the sick ani wounded caa
he sent to her until that time;. , .
Approval of Important Bills.
Mayor Henry has approved and signed the bill appropri
ating $500,0C0 for -bounties for volunteers, and also the
'ordinance donating Hunting Park to the Government for
hospital purposes.
Appointment. Robert R. Corson,
Kfr., has been, appointed bv Governor Andrew to be
agent of Massachusetts at Philadelphia, for tbe care and
relief c f our sirk and wounded soldiera. His office is. at
233 Walnut street.. * ; ■;:
Fonor to the Dead—Minute Gunsl
—At noon .yoßterd&y,.minute. guns were fired from-the ,
na-\y ?or<i, In ration of tbe death of Hoa. Mar
tin Van Boren, ex-President of the United States; . V
New Wheat is arriving in the markets
' autie freely, and selling atfromsl SO to $1.33 per bushel.
The crop this year of Pennsylvania is an unusually heavy,
one. . *
Died from His Injuries.— John Way,
the led who fell from the roof of his father’s house, on.
Sunday, while flying a kite, has died from his injuries.
' A Decline —Within the last two
days cotton has declined from one to two cents pep
pound. *
Arrival of the Steamer State of
MAlNE—Yesterday afternoon, ab'out six o'clock, the
steamer State of Maine arrived at Oaitowhiil-elreet wharf
from Fortress Monroe, wbfeh place she left oa the 27f1«
itifnant, with three hundred aud fifty sick aud wouuded
on board. On her way np to this city, ehe etoptpwi at
Oherter, where all the soldiere except ninety were landed
and conveyed to the hospitals at that place. These ninety
were brought to this city, and taken to the hospital at
Broad and Cherry streets A full list of those on boanA
was published in The Press of yesterday. The appear
once of the Stato of Maine censed an immense crowd to
congregate aronr.d the wharf. The new ambulance of
the Northern Liberty Hose Comp.ny, drawn by four
horses, was for tbe first time pat in nse, Owingto its
tBrS" 86 * IOT ’ tbo remoTal of the men wasgreatly faeUl-
AU those on board the State of Maine were rolnwmf
prisoners. The men state that tbo rebels take ereat car®
?^^^“ re r Slreh cf °™-B»Mie re ,sarerenS a 1«
’ woond * or dieease oomraote lin filthy
dais’ fiih^befor^Rter' 0 5 6pttIreli dnrin S *>» seven
aayg tight before Richmond, and were confiued ini th»
ThB >' wereobllgTOtoHy
on damp fioorf } and sufTered znany indicnitfai AntirAiv
S»mie?^ I rte> h^| W< m I[lr6Bted ia lh » most shamrfij
S otsiixre On the passage np from
Forlress Monroe *ne of rhe uofortnnate fellows br«ith!il
hie lfißt. His body was left at Chester. reathed
Th " ohalrman mated the object of the meeang to be
Hi f * ™ l>B ? ri l ,tl on to the citizens’ bounty fund.
jvLtSS’ 1 1 .V th ?! ■** ptrtionlarly the doty of moss
ratpteyai by the Government to aid in putting down
ifloe- who wonid destroy ft. . *
Mr W. B . Thomas Collector of the Port, made a few
rsmarkß, slating the objscisnf tbe fond abom to be rai tsd.
AH pfraous employed by ibe Goveruraent in clv'l canaci-
Hes ard exempt from mliitarydutb 8a and. itisuarticnlarlr
tb* rr enty to subscribe to the bounty fund. If cber »-
rtoeW socc.wi, cttslom-bboses, offlq,s, state and
municipal, will all be abolished. As a member of toe
Corn Exchange Association, he had’aUeady subscribed,
bnt wonM not let th at fact deter him Irom a-S
adding his name to tbe list about to be opened. He
c“ strvit * a i" » military capacity to tho
. Governor and Secretary cf State; T
n,vne,S°te“ D ’ W S’? resolved that the secretary be In
°Pa? Jists for fbe Bnbscrjplion: after wMcb
tbe meeting adjourned. ’ i u
Ik-poris were made from the weighfirs. laborers, and
farnSsbed 8 * BtatiniS thftt they tla ° Bubacribtd as per lists
Way Massachusetts Looks
AF i'EB HEfi SOLDJE BB.—On the arrival of tbe
Spaulding la** Saturday, a private la 00. D, fifth Misaa
chusette B«ginient died. The State agent of M*«saebtt-
Tl* \ n , tb J 8 t Clty ’ who on board boou after her
bo^ y Jf akeri to tbe Government under.
r V Mr -, fla J I V wl L° haB an order f, o m tbe “Hons of
? ew Poilsdelphia to embalm the body of
every E*s‘exn man who dits in tbia c»ty The a«ient
wrote to the Poeimaster at liawrence, Maw., where thta
8 fa waB ,^ lvjn S- stating that tbe body waa here
and ashirg what disposition to make of It. This
letter vas mailed on Saturday at one o’clock: on w«n
-«a» a »!* CIi ™ C n lockj lhe toilowing telegraph wag received;
“ itobt K. l-orsoD, ir.ihtary agent for the State of Mags.:
V * Uave body properly prepared sent on immediately
by. express to the care of tbe city.” 7
Rtir«l OCl3 !» fair n however, that aaveral other
States have df-puted Mr. Oorson their agent—tnns eeca
ring tbe utmost eare for thoir dead, and comfort for their
sick and wounded, i ...
. Children’s little girls of
the Nimb School Section are, holding a fair for the sale
of nsefnl and fancy articles, at Mr. Wro. J Yoans’a
large etoie-r- om, No 43 North Seventh street, below
-Areh—the proceeds to be appropriated to the comfort of
onr brave tick and wounded soldiers. The room is beau
tifully decorated, and ibe tables filled with useful and
fancy articles (contributtd by the children and their
friends), which ate disposed of by conrteoni yonnz
Tbß fal / will open from
'J Ts'i • , 10 every ««* week, and m tho
3 ihnics ig. *« Bielp us to comfort thone who
hßve tbcur lives to protect us,” we hope their caU
will be liberally responded to by the charitably disposed,
either m contributions or purcha-es.
The Crew of the New Ironsides.