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' THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1883,
Charleston.
Two years ago tlie eyes of the Republic
were fixed upon Charleston. The newspa
pers were feverish and excited; the corre
spondents were sending bewildering de
spatches, and brief phrases told of the move
ments of Beauheoaed and the Southern
soldiers. “ Companies were constantly
coming in and being .placed in position;
Beaukegaiw ' had. ordered out 5,000 men;
new batteries were being constructed; con
siderable activity is being manifested in mi
litary quarters; everything indicates that
matters are approaching a crisis.” The
reader of this journal, as be turned over its
pages on the morning of the.9th of April,
1801, would have found these sentences
printed in large type, and accompanied with
all possible typographical emphasis. The
country was then- in an agony of dread.
On. the busy ramparts of Fort Sumpter
0 f our country was •floating; and
■the eyes of rebel engineers .were train-.-
-ing the stolen guns of a Federal armory
upon its walls. Major Anderson was
vainly and anxiously looking for relief, and
the men under his commtmd - were mea
suring llieir ration sand wondering how long
they W onld last. In Virginia, the friends of
the TJnion were being deceived, and, while
such men .as Carlile and Summers were
begging for peace, Peyok aud Yancey
were endeavoring to fire the Southern heart,
and to precipitate the Southern rebellion by
firing on the unarmed gamsfln of Fort
Sumpter. In Washington, the Administra
tion of Mr. Lincoln was endeavoring to
retrieve tlic errors and crimes of the Admi
nistration that preceded- it-. In the North
there was a: divided sentiment; the Demo
cracy pleading against coercion; the Re
publicans opposing compromise ; the friends
of the Union weary with delays, and hoping
to escape from the dread future that opened
—rntrmtugiuy urine cuunny. hue~re be 11 id it
long-generated, deeply laid and threatening,
had taken possession of Charleston, and was
rapidly ripening into war.
Two years have passed, and w.e-approach
the anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumpter.
The eyes of the Republic arc again Centred
upon Charleston. Another spirit lives in
the hearts of those who unfold the news-
paper this morning, and look with eager
.ness for tlie latest news from South Caro
limu T.He intervening years are ages, and
. •w&loolt upon tlie morning when, with be--
' Wild ere cl eyes, we read the news of the
• attack upon our flag, as a terrible memory
of the past. Two years in blood have made
us a new people. Science has' followed in
the train of war, and the revolution in pub
lic opinion has been accompanied by revo
lutions in the ways and means of war.
Iron-clads succeed wooden walls, and guns
of inconceivable .calibre send destruction
and death many miles through the air.
When we compare the character of the
armament that follows Admiral Dupont’s
broad pennant with the small fleet of ves
sels that lay helpless beyond Charleston
har during the attack upon Port Sumpter,
we shall he able to estimate the vast pro
gress that has been made. The attack upon
Charleston will be in itself an experiment.
It will be the first struggle between the iron
and the granite—between movable iron-clad
steamers and stationary forts—all things
being even, and science being fully deve
loped;" If the iron-dad ships- of Admiral
Dupont succeed in evading the guns of
Port Sumpter, and silencing the guns of the
harbor batteries, it will change the face of
the earth, and revolutionize every known
system of war. England will be compelled
to start anew to gain, her ocean supremacy;
America will be the mistress of the seas.
These thoughts are suggested by the
despatches that have been coming for the
past few days in reference to ilie projected
attack upon Charleston. "We have had
rumors, and speculations, and preliminary
assaults. - Our iron-clads and transports
have been nursing themselves 'at Port
Royal, repairing the damages, strengthen
ing the weak parts, and availing themselves
of every improvement in science. The as
sault upon Fort McAllister was a great ex
perience, although in many respects a
failure; and while we were repulsed
from that stronghold, we probably learned
how to approach the greatest stronghold
of all. While our despatches are._n.at
definite enough„tp—-eii^ w o : ~-t£o"to under-
place, there is every
reason for supposing that the assault upon
the city has commenced. Tire latest advices
from our own correspondents justify us in
thinking that Hotter has landed on John’s
Island, and that D-upont has left Hilton
Head for Charleston Bay. Perhaps, as .we
write these lines, the-confiict is in progress.
It will he a terrible one; but, from the very
nature of the obstacles, short, quick,;‘aud
decisive. We do not underrate the magni
tude of our task. We know that no effort
has been spared to defend Charleston;
and being, as it is, the cradle .of re
bellion —the first city to raise the trai
tors’ flag—tlie darling metropolis of the
South—it will be defended with de
voted valor. All these things have been
considered by the leaders of-our forces;
and we know that they will not move until
they are prepared. We are confident that
‘Admiral Dupont will attempt nothing that
he cannot accomplish. The fall of Charles
ton will be a gratification to every loyal
heart. God speed the men who are to-day
defending and avenging the honor of this
Republic in. endeavoring to accomplish its
overthrow'!
Alas for Poland l
It is to lio feared that the insurrection, in
Poland has ended in.failure and defeat.
Every thing appeared to be favorable. It
was certain that the Russians had been- de
feated in several serious engagements. The
peasantry had sided with the nobles in this
-war of liberation. It was reported that the
Czar had sent special messengers to Lan
gibwicz, the Dictator, oifering favorable
terms, on condition that the contest should
cease, and that these oifers had been reject
ed. Next, and finally, comes the statement
that L angiewicz was confined in the fortress
of Cracow,.which means, we.: suppose, that
he had been defeated and had sought safety
in flight. Cracow is now possessed by Aus
tria, and therefore there need not be any
apprehension lor the patriot’s personal safe
ty. The Emperor Euancis Joseph is not
the man, we are sure, to betray this gallant
refugee who has thrown himself on the hos
pitality of Austria, The King of Prussia,
no doubt, would not scruple to deliver Lah-
GiEWiCZ up to the tender mercies of the
Czar. There is a hope, though remotely,
that the war ended, the Czar will grant free
institutions to Poland. We confess that
this is more than can be reasonably expect
ed from Russian impolicy.
LETTER PROM “OCCASIONAL.”
WAsinNGTOsr, April ; B, 1863,
llow many of the old-fashioned Demo
cracy of Pennsylvania, as they read over
the late election returns, and remember the
confident predictions that these popular
trials would result in an emphatic condem
nation of the General Administration and
the war, say to each other:, “.We might
have expected all this when the Democratic
organization fell into the hands of men all
the active years of whose life had been spent
in traducing its principles and its champi
ons ; and when, simultaneous with their as
sumption of tlie leadership of that organiza
tion, they, substituted new tests and new
principles for our old and cherished
doctrines, it ...was' natural that defeat, dis
grace, and , contempt should fall upon it.”
Such citizens have not forgotten, while Wil
liam B. Reed and others, now acknowledged
by the politicians as the chiefs of the De
mocracy, are declaiming against arbitrary
arrests, that that hitter and pestilent parti
san, when District Attorney for Philadel
phia, and for no other than a political pur
pose, seized the Keystone Club without
the color of law, including nearly forty per
son?, among them such present prominent
Democrats as Lewis C. Cassidy, Esq. ! This
Club had been organized, as you will re
member, for the purpose of carrying delegates
for certain persons who desired nomina
tions before the Democratic Convention;
and the arrest of its members was effected
by Deed’s order, simply because of bis ma
lignant hatred to the Democratic party.
Ton cannot. forge K , also, how he plumed ,
himself upon this valorous achievement.
He is the same man who, during the anti-
Masonic era, made speeches at Harrisburg
in favor of sending George M. Dallas, Fran- ■
cis 11. Sliunk, Josiali Randall, and Joseph
R. Chandler to prison for refusing to dis
close the secrets of Masonry; and, if I am
not mistaken, lie is the same who denounced
Mr. Dallas as “a hoary-headed Jacobin,
wliose gray bail's should have taught him
bettor Ilian to refuse answering the ques
tions put by a committee of the Legisla
ture.” If I misstate facts I am ready to
stand corrected ; but,. vividly remembering
those events as I do, and knowing how
deeply they impressed the Democratic
party, I cannot err in saying that William B.
'.Reed, at the period referred to, was the most
intolerant and proscriptive assailant, not
simply of many of the leading men in the
Democratic party, but of all who did not
subscribe to his peculiar opinions against
Masonry. The Democracy of the whole
State was so outraged by Mr. Reed’s con
duct at that time, that they laid up in their
’hearts more than, one vow to remember him
when the proper time arrived. ( There is at
least consistency in one who was an anti-
Mason, and who now coudemns the neces
sary arrest of suspected traitors and the
seizure of Secession clubs, and the suppres
sion of oath-bound Golden Circles. But
Reed cares as little about preserving his
consistency as he does about - saving,
his patriotism. He revels in liis new;
role precisely as if he-had always played
it. He rails at the Government and- its
measures at meetings-composed of some of
the very Democrats whom he was ready to,
throw into prison less than thirty years ago
for opinion’s sake 1 when,’in order to save
of riot and bloodshed, the Federal authori
ties deemitnecessary to arrest and confine the
miserable men who, while the public enemy,
are slaughtering our citizens, plot with this
enemy and assist them in their work of revo
lution, and carnage. W. B. Reed and his
associates are fired with a holy anger that
can only be appeased by the impeach
ment of the President and the recogni
tion of the Confederacy. Is it any wonder
that, with such examples before them,
genuine Democrats should revolt, or that
gray-beaded men, who have spent their
lives in faithful support of Democratic
principles, should reluse to follow such
reckless leaders through, such devious paths?
I repeat, that the elements that consum
mated the great victory in Rhode Island,
Hew Hampshire, and Connecticut, are at
work in every other quarter, and can no
more ho resisted or avoided than the air
we breathe and the light that shines from
heaven. I assert also, that there is not now
one acknowledged. living principle of the
old Democracy honestly maintained by its
present leaders. Not one. Who ever.heard
ot the apostles of the Democracy going down
upon their knees before the British minister,
and asking him to interfere in favoT of the
separation of these States ? Think of Geo.,
M. Dallas, old Henry Horn, Silas Wright,
William Allen, Thomas H. Benton, seeking
midnight interviews with a British plenipo
tentiary, while the Southern slaveholcling
cut-throats, with daggers drawn, were as
sailing the very life of the Republic, and im
ploring that haughty nobleman to induce
his monarch to send troops to aid these
cut-throats, and to overpower their own
neighbors and friends, fighting for the
flag of their country! The whole theory
of Democracy, in their clay, was that
the' strongest measures should be used
to save the Union. Our dead and gone
Democratic teachers never hesitated when
the responsibility had to he taken. Whether
it was Jackson, when lie defied the
edict of Judge Hall before the battle
of New Orleans, or removed the de
posits from the Bank of the United States;
or Van Buren, when he was clothed with
almost imperial power by the Democrats in
Congress in view of what was supposed to be
an impending foreign war ; or Polk, when lie
deemed the annexation of Texas essential to
the integrity and strength of the Union ;j»
even Buchananj WhnA’-et'n when he
„,.j i.icr iisscCiates at Ostend, deliberately as
serted that if Spain would not let us have
Cuba, wemiglit, on the principle of self-pre
servation, seize it by.force of arms;-—in all
these cases, not only were hold measureseon
sidered necessary and judicious, hut all pub
lic servants who resorted to them were re
membered as public benefactors. It would be
monstrous if the overwhelming logic’con
tained in these plain facts did not dispel the
prejudices even of the most obdurate parti
san ; and it is extraordinary that they have
not produced a more general conversion of
patriotic men. ’ Yetlefc us he satisfied. Truth
operates sometimes slowly, but always surely
and permanently. ■ It cures, when it does
cine, forever. Let us congratulate ourselves
that wc hear of no Republicans joining the
present Democratic party, while we know,
daily, that thousands and tens of thousands
of Democrats are leaving an organization so
foullj’’ perverted troni its original purposes
and principles. If we cannot induce all the
people to prefer country to party, we can at
least hold enough to the old flag to save the
Republic, even fox those who are ready to
consent to its annihilation. Occasional.
WASHIN GTON.
Special Despatches to “The Press.”
_ ' Washington, April S, 1863.
Another Report on the Conduct of the War. ‘
The remaining, report of the Committee on the
Conduct of the War haa been, printed, and will soon.
be given to the public. ' It is on the subject of the
battles of Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff, and the conduct
of;the Western or Missouri Department. The:
committee also, toclc testimony in relation to the
Hatterns Inlet, Port Royal, the Burnside, and Ac--
comae expeditions, the capture of New Orleans, the
invasion of New Mexico', &c.
Internal Revenue Decisions.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de
cided that oil manufactured without distillation*
from paraffine and benzole, will be subject to a duty
of three per centum ad valorem. Coal illuminating
oil, manufactured by the distillation orredistillation
of benzole, paraffine, or other bituminous substances,
is subject to a duty of ten cents per gallon.
Tile d ? Utassy Court Martial.
Generals Barry and Hartsukt have been re
lieved from duty on the d’Utassy court martial,
and Generals Worrell and Cadwalader ap
pointed in their places. . \
Marriage of the Spanish Secretary ot *
legation.
Sefior Prado, first secretary of the Spanish lega
tion, has been appointed by that Government charge
d’affaires to Quito. He was married to-day to a
daughter of the Brazilian minister.
The Charleston Expedition.
Letters have been received from-officers attached
to the Charleston Expedition, written on the eve of
the departure of the fleet, expressing themselves
confident of success, and saying that such is the fge
neral feeling among both officers and men attached
to the fleet.
The Government has not yet received any infor
mation regarding events in that quarter.
Embezzlement in the Army—Disappear
ance of a Quartermaster with $20,000.
[Special Despatch to The Press. 3
Washington, April B.— An officer in the Quar
termaster’s Department has recently absconded with
a large amount of public funds, intended for the sth
Corps. He was last seen in. Washington on the 16th
ult.j when he called upon Riggs & Co., to cash a
check for some $20,000. The money was paid in
small noteß. Leaving his uniform at his hotel, he
took the cars for Baltimore, where he was seen in
company with several U. S. army officers. He was
traced to New York, thence to Troy, and at length
to Toronto, Canada. -
The officer is one in whom the greatest confidence
was reposed by all who knew him. He is an elderly
man, and has a family living in Massachusetts, It
is said that he left behind him, in the army, his
photograph and all his private papers, besides about
$4OO of his own money. Large sums were entrusted
to him by personal friends, who have received evi
dence that, their money was used according to direc
tions given. > r
: The general opinion is that the delinquent, while
in liquor, cither lost a portion of the money at the
ganiing-iablcor had it stolen, from him, and fearing
the consequence*, took flight. There can be no
doubt of his ultimate capture.
THE ATTACK UPON CHARLESTON.
Bomljarclnient iix Progress.
rebel solicitude for the result.
Telegrams Awaited' with Anxiety*
No Details Received.
The Richmond Sftitincl, of the 7th, has the follow
ing significant paragraph : «* On yesterday morning
eight monitors and iron-clads were off the bar
at Charleston, The . brief but significant tele
grams, which were received early in the day,
and are published elsewhere, tell of their
work. The long-expected collision, has pro
bably come off" ere this. The Btonn so long
prepared for Charleston has burst at last. V' e shall
publish the results ak we learn them. We await the
issue with buoyant hope, but not without the solici
tude which the importance of the struggle warrants.
May Heaven shield Charleston from all the rage of
her enemies and purs!”
THE ATTACK ON CHARLESTON.
Chablestox, April 6.—lmportant movements
are talcing place here, but for military reasons no
particulars can yet be telegraphed.
GBEAT BREAD RIOT IN RICHMOND.
Rebel Newspaper Accounts of the Affair.
PREV I O U S REP OR T S CO NFIRWI E D
THE OUTBREAK A GENERAL ONE.
Wliat tlie .Southern, tallies Did.
Southern papers received in this city last night
contain the following meagre, but significant de
tails of the late great bread riot in Richmond:
THE NEWS SUPPRESSED.
The Sentinel, in speaking of this riot, alludes to
the fact that all the papers had, after consultation,
concluded at that time’ not to mention the matter.
THE LATEST DETAILS.
The Sentinel, 'editorially, refers in ambiguous terms
to a riot which took place in Richmond on last
Thursday, which was.of such magnitude as to cause
the affair to be suppressed from publication. From
the article referred to it appears that the city was
for a time at the control of a lawless mob of men
and women, "■ for the ostensible purpose of saving
themselves from starvation by.breaking into stores,
bakeries, Ac.
The movement was headed by a female who, the
Sentinel says, was above want, and the whole jiffair_
was simply to igb_and fancy
stores suffered as much as those containing the
necessaries of life. The movement appeared to have
resulted from the high prices of goods generally.
THE RICHMOND MARKETS—STARVATION
PRICES,
Riobaiond, April 6.—Apples are quoted at $5O
per barrel; Butter is in demand at $3 per pound;
Bacon (round) $1.40 ; Hams 45 cents; Brandy
$22@24 per gallon. Corn scarce at $7.50 per
bushel. The Meal market is bare at sB@lo per
bushel; Candles $2.50@3 per pound; Coffee $4<7D
4.50 per pound ; Flour $31@36 per barrel, according
to the grade; Sole Leather $3.50@3.75 per pound;
Upper Leather $0@5.50 ;• Sugar $1.20@t.30; Whisky
: $22@30 per gallon ; Gold and Sterling Exchange 350
(7D400 per cent, premium, with little doing.
Virginia sixeß, 113 and interest; North Carolina
(old), 170@175; do., (new eights), 150. Confederate
fifteen-miliion loan (coupons), 135@134; do. do. (re
gistered), 120. Bank of Virginia (last sales) at 80;
Bank of the Commonwealth, 115; Farmer^ 5 Bank,lls.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Grand Review of a Large Portion of this
Army—General Hooker and his Marshals
Present.
Headquarters or the Army of the Potomac,
April B.—A review of a portion of the army took
placcto-day, on the plain in the rear of Falmouth.
General Hooker and his corps commanders, with
their respective staffs, were present. The scene
presented was undoubtedly, one of the finest military
pageants ever witnessed on this continent.
DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA.
News from Port Royal—Sailing of Contra
bands for Washington— An Expedition
from Vorktown-The Chesapeake Tele
graph Cable—The Rebel Capital to be Re
moved to Chattanooga, «fce.
Fortress Monroe, April 7.—The steamer S. R.
Spaulding arrived here last evening from Hilton.
Head, and reports that our fleet had all sailed from,
that point for Charleston when she left.
The flag’of-trucejboat Columbia left, to-day, for
City Point with 865 rebel prisoners for exchange.
The steamboat Sylvan Shore sailed for Washing
ton, this forenoon, loaded with contrabands.
An expedition was sent out from Yorktown this
mornings the result of which will probably be made
known to-morrow.
The telegraph cable between here and Cherrystone
was interrupted by the storm last Saturday. It wiU
he repaired as soon ns the weather permits.
The hark Edisfco will sail this afternoon.
Gen. Keyes visited Suffolk yesterday, and met
with a very hearty reception from Gen. Peck,
A rebel cavalryman, who deserted from the rebel
army on the Blackwater, and came into Norfolk
yesterday, says the Confederates are making ar
rangements to remove their capital' from Richmond
to Chattanooga, Tenn., the scarcity of provisions
and forage being the principal cause for this change.
STATES IN REBELLION.
Poverty of Sulws«**«Hie Among the Rebels—
Eracnjitioa of Jacksonville—Rebel Ac-
count, '
CJNcirTNATi, April B.—The Committee of Safety of
.jMoitiie have ascertained that, exclusive of army
stores, there is equivalent to eight thousand seven
hundred barrels of flour in that city, estimating rice
as flour. The Shelbyville R«bcZ concludes there is
yet enough subsistence'to last till harvest. It de
nounces those who conceal provisions with terrible
vehemence aa enemies of the Confederacy.
The Charleston Mercury says the Yankees evacu
ated Jacksonville, .Florida, with all their Btolen pro
perty, just before the rebels, under Gen. - Finnegan,
got ready to attack tbem: r
THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE SOUTHERN
PAPERS.
'■ Headquarters Army of the Potomac, April
B,lB63.—Richmond papers of yesterday (the 7th
inst.) have been "received.;
The niain sentiment which is expressed by them
is an exhortation to the people of the South to raise
articles for food instead of cotton.
They contain the following despatches
TENNESSEE.
. Chattanooga, April 4. —There is no additional
hews from the front thiß evening.
Skirmishes with the enemy’s pickets are of daily
occurrence, but a general engagement is not consi
dered imminent.
MISSISSIPPI—REPORTS ABOUT GENERAL
BANKS.
Jackson, Miss., April 4.— Reports from Port
Hudson state that General Banks has fallen back.
One division of his army is at Baton Rouge, and
the remainder down the river.
Senatobia, Miss., April 4.— Richardson’s gue
rillas fought a regiment of the enemy a-t Somerville,
killing and wounding eighty.
It is Btated that five thousand troops recently left
Memphis, ostensibly for Vicksburg, but after night
they went North.
THE OPENING OF THE YAZOO.
The Richmond Leader of the 7th contains a lead
ing editorial setting forth the obstacles which pre
sent themselves in the way of: opening a route inland
to the Yazoo, above Haines’Bluff."
THE VIRGINIA LE&ISLATURE.
Before the adjournment of the Virginia Legisla
ture a resolution was passed appealing to every:
farmer to raise provisions beyond the usual amount,
and enjoining frugality on the people in the use of
food. '•
THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
The Legislature of Texas has, passed a bill as
suming its proportion of the indebtedness of the
Confederate Government. They intend passing a
bill to repeal the stay law of the State.
FROM VICKSBURG.
Vicksburg, April 4.—Everything is quiet to
night. But few boats are in Bight.
There is nothing new from the Yazoo.
A flag of truce was sent down to-day by the ene
my. • Its object has not been made public.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Mobile Register of the 29th records the fact
that a body of Union troops penetrated Poncha
toula and dispersed a body of rebels there.
■ The banks of Savannah had joined in a loan,
without interest, to relieve the suffering of the
poor of that city.
DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
G«n. Roster Surrounded at Little Wash
ington—A Tliree-Duys* Battle—His Posi
tion Strong, and Reinforcements on the
Way—The Navy to Assist,
The following news haa been received by the New
York E&pl-eSS, from* passengers by the Ellen Terry,
arrived yesterday in New York:
On the 25th ult. General Foster,.with a portion of
Spinola’s and Prince’s brigades, comprising the
Pennsylvania regiments :of Cola. McKibbin, Dyer,,
Bear, the 12th New York, the 157t1i New York, and
the Ist North Carolina Volunteers, started for. Little
Washington, on the junction of the Tar and Pam
lico rivers, where they entrenched themselves. - In
the : meantime, Ihe rebels erected a very powerful
battery, on Swan Point, some, five miles - below
Washington, which commands the channel, which
at that point is very narrow and runs close in shore.
Gen. Magruder, with some 6,000 rebels, attacked
Poster’s position lrom the land side, and thus com
pletely surrounded him.
This must have occurred on Tuesday or Wednes
day of last week, for: the cannonading was heard
quite plainly at Newbem on the Ist, 2d, and 3d. -
The aforesaid battery is erected oij a very high
bluff, and no vessel can approach to Washington
nearer than eight miles ; still the’lolst Pennsyl
vania and a Massachusetts-Regiment were sent on
IfridajL from Newbern to General Foster, but it is
doubtful whetberthey will reach him. There is,
however, no anticipation of a disaster,' as General
Foster is thought to be sufficiently strongly en
trenched to hold out for at least a fortnight, by
which time the blockade will be raised by the navy.
The town of Newbera is well protected by Forts
Andeison and Spinola, the former on the Neuse and.
the latter on theßouth side of the Trent rivers. The
latter is garrisoned by the 168th Pennsylvania Vo
lunteers, (drafted men.) ,
Previous to the erection of the rebel batteries, it
is reported, Gen. Foster had sent for naval rein
forcements. It was also expected that troops would
be sent from Suffolk.
Washington, April B.— An who arrived
here to-day from the North Carolina coast, says it
was believed among our forces there (the informa"
tion coming from what was believed a-reliable,
source), that Gen. Longatreet some time ago made
application to Jeff Davis for 60,000 troopß, for the
purpose of clearing Albemarle Sound of the Union
forces, and was informed that he could have 30,000
from the Army of the Rappahannock, but must ob
tain the remainder of that number from Gov. Vance,
of North Carolina. It is further reported that one
of the Kills ifl in command. When this information
reached Fortress Monroe, several days ago, assist
ancc was sent from that point to our forces. ,
, THE PRESS—PHILADELPHIA. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1863.
ONE OF THE PERSONS TO BE HUNG.
Texas Refugees Taken from Mexican Soil
ami Forced Back to a Rebel State-
Capture of a Federal Schooner,
<fcc.,
New York, April B.—' The steamer Honduras ar
rived at New Orleans previous to the departure of
the stepmer Columbia, from the Rio Grande, with
2CO Texas refugees.
On the 16th of March a rebel force of 160 men
crossed into Mexico at the mouth of the river and
captured Colonel E. J. Davis, of the Ist Texas Ca
valry, and Captain Montgomery, of the same regi
ment. The Mexican authorities demanded their re
lease, and Colonel Davis waß given up, as werealso
three Boldiers who were taken at the same time..
Captain Montgomery was retained, and private ad
vices say that he will lie hanged by the rebels;
which report will undoubtedly prove true. Both
Colonel Davis and Captain Montgomery were taken
from the bouse of the Mexican commandant. :
Three other officers nArrowly escaped from the
hands of the rebels, and,\with a half dozen Mexi
cans, succeeded in driving fifty of the rebels and
wounding three or four, Tw» or three of
the latter died from the effects of the wounds.
The United States bark! Arthur two shells
into the rebel quarters on the night df the 25th of
March. | . , j
The rebel Captain Benatides had ale» crossed into
Mexico, and burned a town near Guerjero.
The rebel authorities were evidentlj|in a state of
great alarm lest these acts, in violatioqof neutrality,
should involve them in hostility with 1 texico. Their
troops are now concentrated near the mouth of the
Bio Grande. \
An American schooner, the vessel abd cargo -being
valued at $25,000, was captured “by tie rebels 'near
the Bio Grande. ' /
The New Orleans .Era says: tl (jurjnformant saw
attain of 600 carts of cotton on tie -fay to Browns
ville, Texas. These loads avera* sfc bales each.”
Governor Lubbock, of Texas, ! to the
Legislature of that State, decline a re-election, say
ing he wishes to take a more act r e part in the war.
Some people affirm that he wi l pave the Confede
racy as soon as his term of office xpires. He states
in his message that Texas hp furnished 87,000
troops for the rebel army, and tip conscription law,
which has been adopted by the legislature, will add
27 OOOthereto. .Under this law lhece;are no exemp
tions. Every man that can Stai#upowhi.rfeelrwUl
be forced into the army. .jV' ,
Ktost of the refugees who camWollSew Orleans in
the steamer Honduras have eitoted in CoL Davis’
regiment, and seventyfiv.-deseffers from the rebel
0 Co likewise.
There were eighty vessels at thesiouth of,ihe Rio
Grande, hailing fronTall parts of jhe world.
REBEL ISVASIOS OF MEXICO.
TWO' AMERICANS KIDNAPPED.
DEPARTMENT OP liffi GULF.
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Hcliel Evacuation of Port tiujsou not Con
firmed—Capture of tlie ttr.'' S. Gunboat
Diaua-The Killed and tmudcd.
Nbw York, April B.~The atsmshtp Columbia,
from New Orleans on the Ist, via Havana on the 4th
inst., arrived at this port this evening.
There is no confirmation of tie report that the
rebels are evacuating Port Hudson. :
TheXJ- S. gunboat Diana hadjbeen. captured by
the rebels, at Pattersonville, ijanCaptaia Peterson
was killed; Lieut. Allen, of Gfenejal Weitzel’s staff,
wounded and taken Master’s Mate Dolli
ver killed; Boatswain’s Matp Munford killed; .Capt,
Jewett, or the 168th New York sjgiment, wounded;
Lieut. Ball, of the Diana, wjmnjipd; Lieut. Prances,
ofthe 12th Connecticut, morlall^founded.
The soldiers aboard the Capt. Jewett’s
company, of the 168th New Yoi£, and,Co. ~K of the
12th Connecticut Regiment. Yinefcy-nine of our
men were paroled by the rebels. jV -*-• •
ARMY OF TRE CUMBERLAND.
Tlic Rebels Poorly SuppliW.—A. Capture by
"Wilder’s Brigade—Gen. moved
on. Green Springs— Military Changes- at
Q,nict i»| Pront—A Suc
cessful Expedition. |\
Cincinnati, April B.— A apeaal despatch from
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to the jcommercial says, a
batch of rebel papers had been received there, which
aie filled with tirades againßt contractors and grief
over the shortness of supplies.V;.-.’
Mubfreesbobo, April 7.—"Wilderis mounted bri
gade captured twenty-nine rebels- between Lebanon
and Home yesterday. General Mitchell moved upon
Green Springs, east of Nashville, with small force.
He killed five rebels, wounded a and cap
tured eighteen.
Louisville, April B.—Colonel O. H. Moore, of
the 25th Michigan Regiment, hag" been appointed
provost marshal of Louisville, -Jvice Lieutenant
Colonel Selby Harney, who takes command of the
34th Kentucky Begiment. >
Major Allen succeeds Major Chas. T. Lamed as
chief paymaster of the Army of the Cumberland.
Nashville, April S.—A smalb expedition, sent
out by General Mitchell, encountered a party of
rebels at Ashland, Tenn., and captured four men
and twelve horseß. "V-v-v
All is quiet between Nashville ami Clarksville.
ARMY OF Till* MISSISSIPPI.
A Terrible Storm—New Rebel Batteries—
The Ram Swltzei’iautl—Gunboat Expedi
tion—A Fight Expected at Yazoo Pass—
Col. Dickey Resigned. '
Cincinnati, April S.—Advices from the Missis
sippi to the Ist instant have beensreceived.
They report that a terrible storin'hadprerailed in
the vicinity of Greenwood, • tearing trees
roptp, rip-mniißhina l and - udUiing four sol
oiers of the 47th Indiana BegiinentJ and wounding
two others. - ■ ,a* :
The rebels are. building batteries in the Yazoo
Pass, three miles from Greenwood;
The ram Switzerland has been repaired from the
injuries she received in passing',the batteries at
Vicksburg, and has been sent up, the river. The
rebels are constructing a fleet-of cotton-protected
gunboats, at Shreveport. *
An expedition of gunboats went up the Yazoo on
the Ist instant. ~
Twenty-two hundred bales of. Government; cotton*
anived at Cairo yesterday."”
The forces up Yazoo Paaß have been reinforced,
and the movement now seems more hopeful. A
light was'momentarily expected. All was quiet at
Vicksburg.
■ Col. Dickey, Gen. Grant’s chief of cavalry, has
resigned.
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Major Ransom’s Fight with t-lie Guerillas
—Official Despatch.
Washington, April B.—The following despatch
has been received at headquarteis:
St. Louis, April 7,1863.
filajov General H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief:
• General Blunt telegraphs from Leavenworth as
follows: Major Ransom, of the 6th Kansas Regi
ment, informs me that he has destroyed Hicks’ band
of guerillas, in Jackson county, Missouri, killing
seventeen, and hanging two who were engaged in
the robbery of the Sam Gaty. ’He aleo recovered
some of the contrabands and captured twenty-one
of the bushwhackers’. horses, and seven guerilla
camps, with all their equipage, ammunition, &c.
S. B. CURTIS, Major General.
The Pacific Coast,
San Francisco, April 7.—The ship Compeer sail
ed for Liverpool to-day with a cargo of breadatuflb.
Acapulco advices to March 28th state that 2,000
bales of cotton are there awaiting shipment to New"
York by the California steamer, and it was expect
ed that a atill larger quantity would soon .be due
from the interior.
No later news has been received from the city of
Mexico.
* The party raising the treasure from the wreck of
the Golden Gate have suspended their operations,
on account of the loss of their apparatus, by the
capsizing ofthe.boat which contained it. They have
not secured much treasure since the previous. ac)f
vices. - w
An order haß been issued requiririgall the treasure
heretofore saved to be paid into court here on Fri
day, unless cause can be Bhown why it should hot. *
Gen, Shields is in Nevada Territory. He is sup
posed to be the senatorial candidate when that
Territory becomes a State.
From Havana.
New York, April 8. —The advices from, Havana,
which date to the 4th inst, contain no later news
from Mexico.
The U. S. Bteamer Vanderbilt was at Havana.
The Somora Bailed on the 3d. The English steamer
Dolphin, captured on March 25th, off Porto Rico, by
the U. S. steamer Wachusett, arrived at Havana, in
a leaking condition, in charge of a prize crew. She
was repaired, and had sailed for Key West. The
Dolphin iB the vessel that was leaving Liverpool as
the George'Griswold arrived at 'that port, with food
for the English poor. .
Several Email rebel veßßels, loaded with cotton,
had arrived at Havana.. *
• The Havana sugar market was tame, with offers
at 5K@6 reals for No. 12 clayed. A few lots sold as
There were no sales of. Muscovado.
Molasses, reals for clayed. No Bales of Musco
vado. The stock of fpgars in port amounted to
280, CGO boxe§, ■ . .
From Newberu.
New York, April \The steamer Ellen S. Ter
ry, from Newbem on the Ist instant, arrived at this
port to-day. She brings the mails and 200 passen
gers, among whom is the secretary to Governor
Stanley, Colonel'Jack, Captain Mays, of Pennsyl
vania regiments, and others.
From h T ew Orleans.
New York, April 8.-—The steamer Crescent, from
New Orleans on the 20th, arrived at this port this
morning. Among her passengers is Col. Holabird,
of Gen. Banks’ staff.
From Xaguayra.
New York, Aprils.—Advices from Laguayra to
the 16th ultimo state that the bark .Tohn Bolton,
from Philadelphia, had just arrived at that port.
Arrest of the Adams Express Robbers.
Baltimore, April B.—The efforts to recover the
$97,000 in Government securities, which'were stolen
from the Bate of Adams Express Company, near Bal
timore, on the 18th ult., have been most successful.
All the parties, nine in number, have been arrested,
and ffre now confined in Fort McHenry. AH of the
securities, excepting $5,000. worth, were recovered,
either fibm the persons of the thieves or the places
where they concealed them. Great credit is due-for
thiß detection of the criminals, and the recovery of
the money, to Allen Pinkerton, of the Chicago De
tective (Agency, under' whose direction the investi
gation has been conducted.
The Sloop Delaware Ashore.
Boston, April 8 —The Bloop Delaware is ashore
at Peaked Hill bar, and bottom up. All hands have
been lost.
The Hrig Deacon Abandoned.
. Boston, April B—The steamtug Walpole, with
the dismasted brig Deacon in tow, was abandoned
off Chincot’s Ledge last night. The crew were
saved, but nothing has been heard of the brig. -
Capture of the Schooner Clara.
New York, April B.—The schooner Clara was
captured oft* Mobile bar, on the 25th ult,, by the
gunboat Kanawha.
Arrival of Cotton from Havre.
New York, April B.—The British steamer Colt
arrived from Havre to-day, with; 674 bales of cotton.
„ Ship News.
: New York, April B.— Arrived, brig Harriet, from
Sisal; schr Ellicott, from New Orleans. Below,
ships ,Seth. 7 Sprague, from; Antwerp ; Sebastopol,
from New Orleans; Conqueror, and'bark Zephyr,
from Messina. 1 ' '
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THE ELECTIONS.
Cincinnati - , April B.— The entire Union ticket
was elected in this city on Monday by an average
majority of 1,200. The Democrats elect six coun*
oilmen and the Unionists fourteen. The Union ma
jority in the new Council (including those holding
over) is eleven. The total vote of the city was
25,000.
Missouri.
St, Louts, April B.— The official returns give
Chauncey J. Filley (Radical) for mayor 2,647 ma
jority over Oliver D, Filley (Conservative), and
1,865 over Joseph O’Neill (Democrat). The com
bined Radical and Conservative Emancipation votes
give a majority of over the Democratic vote.
The entire Radical ticket received about the same
majority- as Chauncey J. Filley.
New York.
Geneva, April B.*— The Democrats elected their
town officers yesterday.
Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, April B.— The returns indicate the
election of Judge Oottren (Democrat) to the su
preme bench.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Harrisburg, April 8,1863.
SENATE. •
• The Senate was called to order at 10 o’cioclc by the
.Speaker. '
Mppsrs. DONOVAN and GLATZ presented petitions
from -Germantown in. favor of dummy engines on the
German own road. . „
Mr. LOWRY, from the Committee on Federal Rela
tions, reported the House hill declaring the 22d of Fc
niary, and such days as the President of the United
Stales shall, by proclamation, fix as days of general
thanksgiving, public holidays, which was taken up and
passtd finally.
Bills Considered, &.c.
The bill authorizing the Governor to purchase five
acres of ground in the vicinity of Harrisburg for the
erection of a magazine, and to remove the combustiblo
material from the arsenal, came up in order, and passed
on leave given, introduced a hill to
secure Second street, in Philadelphia, as a public high
way; also, si-supplement to the Germantown' Passenger
Railway Company; also, a bill to incorporate the Phila
delphia School-house building Association.
Mr-TURBELL called up the bill empowering school
directors to select sites for school houses, which was dis
cussed. and negatived.
Mr. STARK called up Senate bill No. 456, a supple
ment to the act rolati -e to decedents’ estates, which
passed to third reading. . -
Mr. CONNELL called up thebill to prevent frauds upon
travellers, which, after a brief discussion, was nega.-
Mr. LOWRY, on leave given, introduced a bill to
enable citizens of this Commonwealth in the military
and i aval service to vote.
On motion of Mr. SEIVRILL, the Senate resumed the
consideration of tbebill to prevent the obstruction ot;
croisingsby locomotive engines and cats, wluch was
ducussfd and postponed for the present,
Mr. STINE introduced a bill to incorporate the Penn
sylvania. Peat Company. • , ,
r Mr.-CONNELL called up the bill to punifli the fraudu
lent receiving of money on deposit, which passed finally.
Mr. WHITE called up tho supplement to the act of
)£G2, to provide for the adjudication and payment of
certain military claims, which, after discussion, was
postponed for the present- ;
Adjourned until afternoon.
' . AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate met at. 3 o’clock.
Mr. CONNELL called up the bill to provide for the
payment of troops of the Reserve Brigade, Ist Division
of Peuusvlvania Militia, for services rendered in quell -
ing the riot in Schuylkill county, which passed second
reading and was laid over.
Mr. CONNELL called up the bill to authorize the
trustees of William Y'oung’s burial ground to exchange
and sell certain parts thereof, which passed finally.
Mr. RIPG WAY called up House bill 727, to incorpo
rate the Connecting Railroad Company, which passed'
finally. • -
Mr. BOUND called up the’‘Rouse bill incorporating a
company to construct a boom in the Susquehanna river
at Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, which was discussed
in Committee of the Whole, and passed committee.
Adjourned untiLcvening. -
HOUSE.
EVENING SESSION.
Tuesday, April 7.
The bill for the renewal of the Northern Liberties Bank
charier for five years being before the House, and the
question being on an amendment of Mr. HOPKINS- of
Philadelphia, requiring said bank to coine under the free
banking law;
Mr. COCtißANsaid that, while the free banking law
might operate vellin the interiorof the State, it would
not do for-Philadelphia. Tii the country, the notehold
ers required security, while in the city the depositors
more particularly demauded that their interests should
beprotccted. The condition of the Northern Liberties
Back was such that it held 62K in gold for every $1 of
its issue. Id addition to this, it held $1,100,000 in Go*
vei nmnut and State securities.
Mr. CIIABIPNEYS defended the present system, and
declared that while stocks were so inilated, no institu
tions would he started under the law. The banks
had paid the interest on the State debt.
Mr. HOPKINS, of Philadelphia, said that it was true
that they had .paid the interest, but not until the State
had given them a bonus for gold and silver.
Mr. VINCENT argued at length in favor of the free
banking law, stating that it.vas impossible to make an
overissue, ox to perpetrate any.such fraud as led to the
rnin of the Lancaster Bank. It was true that the clear
ing-house system in New York and Philadelphia was a
slight cheek, but this was not the case with country in
stitutions. A bank was like a roan, showing no visible
evidence of death until the destroyer was actually upon
it. Who managed banks? A few individuals. The free
law obliged these managers to.confine their issue to a
legitimate exient. No one supposed that old institutions,
with special charters, would wish to come under a more
responsible position to the community ; but the Legisla
ture had a duty to perform to the community, and not to
the hankers. ’ : ‘
On the amendment of Mr Hopkins, of Philadelphia,
the vote was SB noes to 35 ayes. The Philadelphians
voted as follows: """ f
Ayes— Barger, Hopkins, Josephs, Kern?, Leo, Moore,
Pancoast, and McManus.
Noes—Cochran. Foster, Scnofield, Sutphin. _
Voting— Ludlow, Quigley,. Smith, Young, and
The yeas and ra vs were called by Messrs. HOPKINS
and MOOSE, on suspending the rules to pass the bill to
a third reading, and the'morion was lost; so the bill
was laid over. ' ■ , " , . ~
Mr SCHOFIELD read an act relative to cleaning the
streets in Philadelphia, which was referred to a com
mittee of the Philadelphia members.
An act legulating places of public amusement in Phi
ladelphia was considered, and afterwards postponed for
the present.
An act for the grading of Woodland street, m tho
Twenty-fourth ward, passed.,
Mr. McMANUS moved to reconsider the vote by which
“An act to prevent the fraudulent crossing of bridges”
was defeated on Monday. Agreed to, ana the bill was
reconsidered and passed. •
An act to authorize the Philadelphia and Brio Railroad
to construct a branch road from some point in Warren
county to the mouth of Oil creek, in the county of Ve
nango.
Mr. JOHNSON opposed this hill. The route .was not
sufficiently limited. The design was to obtain access to
New York via Erie- . . • .
Mr. BROWN,'of Warren, also opposed the bill. There
was no public necessity for this act. -
Mr. SHANNON suggested that if there was any danger
of the oil trade being diverted-‘to New York, the be&t
plan was to bring the oil and thus insure
f— J • Mate.
Mr.-VINCENT said that'tbe "fear oi tlie «ontlemau
(Mr. Johnson) that the oil'trade would be diverted to
New York by the new route was groundless. Besides,
it came wiili bad grace from the gentleman, through
whose own county (Crawford) was a six-feet gauge
• road, the Atlantic and Great Western, (alius Air-tight
and Great Windy,) leading directly to tlic city of New
York. This road, however, was now an accomplished
fact. Mr. Vincent continued, and strenuously urged
the passage of his bill.
Mr. BROWN, of Warren, said that for over twenty
years the Sunbury and Erie Railroad had been talked
of, but was not yet completed. He would .suggest that
the their‘math, line .before expanding
money for branches..
: The bill wasdost by a vote of 20 ayes to 72 noes.
Adjourned.
_ 7 MORNING SESSION.
Aprils.
Mr. Speaker. CESSNA called the House to order at 9>£
O'clock this morning.
Mr. lIARYEY ottered a resolution to the effect that,
during the Jt-maining sessions of this House, no member
shall be at liberty to speak., more than five minutes at a
time. .. - ,
On the motion of Mr. GROSS, the time for speaking
on general questions was extended to ten minutes.. And
On motion of Mr. VINCENT, the resolution was further
amended by adding thereto “ except on joint reso
lutions on the state of the country. ” And
On motion of Mr. BROWN, of Warren, the words
“and twenty minutes at a time shall be allowed each,
gentleman on the act to erect the new county of Madi
son” were added. The resolution, as amended was
finally adopted.
* ‘ An act to incorporate the Iron and Coal Bridge Com
pany of Montgomery county” passed finally.
“ Supplement to the act incoiporating the borough of
Brihleiiem” passed finally. ' t ' -
“An act to incorporate the Atlantic Navigation Com
pany”— a corny any empowered to build and own steamers
for the transportation of passeusrers, mails, and mer
chandise, on Delaware .Bay and tiibutaries, and the
Atlantic Ocean—passed finally.
Mr. GROSE read, in place, “An act incoiporating the
GrainElevntor Company,' s of Pittsburg. ” -Rulesuspend-'
ed. Passed fiually.
Mr. KAJNE(in place), “Supplement to the act incor
porating the Pittsburg and Connellsville Railroad Com
pany. ” Passed finally.
Mr. BARGER (in place), a supplement to the act to
encourage manufacturing operations, in tlie State of
Pennsylvania laid on the table.
Mr. COCHRAN (in .place), an act to prevent street
peddling by young female*, ir ’the streets of the city of
Philadelphia. (This bill authorizes the arrest of all
females,under the age of 18 years, found peddling on the
streets of Philadelphia.) ‘
Mr. COCEPiAltoiioved a suspension of the orders, to
allow the consideration‘of this bill.
Not agreed to.
Mr. McMUßTßlEoffered the following resolution:
2iesolxtd % -.That-the Clerk of the Hoose be authorized to
purchase postage stamps for letters and fdocumeuts, and
furnish them to the members until the close of this ses
sion aid pay for them out of the contingent fund. Agreed,
to.
Mri. SMITH, of Philadelphia, in place, an; act to incor
porate the Manaj’unk and Roxboro’ Water Company.
Passed finally.
Mr. DELIiONE, in place, an act to.incorporate the
York, Hanover, and Maryland Line Railroad Company,
(connecting between Columbia, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and Hanover, in York county—l 3 miles in
length.)~
Mr. DELLONB moved to suspend the orders to con
sider the bill. Agreed to. . - r . -
Mr. C ; >CHRAN moved to postpone the consideration of
the bill for the present. Not agreed to.
The bill was then read a second time and laid over for
third reading.
Mr. BENEDICT offered the followingjoint resolution:
Whereas, The House of Representatives have directed
tlieir clerk to purchase stamps to. be put, upon the letters
and documents until the close of the present sessiou, to
be paid for out of a contingent fund: therefore,
Section l.Beit enacted, &c., That the State Treasurer
be authorized and directed to pay tne said clerk as a con
tingent fund so much money as may be necessary for the
purchase of said stamps.
The bill passed finally..
Mv. SHANNON called up an act to enable the county
of Allegheny to compromise with its bond-holders.
Passed finally. ■ r ; : ;r
-. Senate bill, entitled “An act relating to corporations
for manufacturing purposes in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, ” considered. ; - *;•
Mr.. SHANNON stated that this bill was originally
framed for the county.of Allegheny; but had beeu unani
mously amended so as to' include the whole Common
wealtlnh its provisions.
Mr. TRIMMER was opposed to the principle contained
in this bill, that of del or a tins power to one man. It did
hot suit the mining districts. He was opposed to any
corporation holding large bodies of.land
Messrs. McMurtrie, Brown of Mercer, Coleman, Bene
dict, Vincent; and others spoke in favor of tlie bill, and
Messrs, Noinian, Labar, .Brown of Northumberland,
Gra'FeK fthd oibers spoke against it, as inapplicable
iheir counties. ' ‘
; Passed finally. ...
Mr. HOPKINS, of Washington, offered a resolution
asking the.Benate to return to the House .‘‘An’act for the
payment of the Board of Military Claims;passed a few
days ago, that it might bo reconsidered in the House; as
lie had since, learned that the original duties of the Board
bad ceased,-and therefore great additional pay for duties
they now perform was wrong.
■ The resolution'was discussed at length by Messrs.
Shannon, Brown of Mercer, Smith of Chester, Cochran,
and others, in opposition, when the resolution pissed.
Mr. YOONG (City Passenger Railways) reported, as
committed, “A supplement to the act incorporating the
Dclaware-couhty Passenger Railway.”
AdjourDtd until half past 2 o’clock P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION;
House mot at o’clock P. M,
Gen* Ciuncion and F. S. Senatorsliip.
Mr. PERSHING, from the committoe appointed to in.
v? stigato into allegations of attempted fraud and corrup
tion in the election of United States Senator, in the ab
.sence of the chairman of the committee, Mr... Wake-,
field, snhmitted to the House their report,'-which re
cites the evidence of J. T Boyer, Dr. Early, Mr. Gra
ber, and others, and concludes by expressing an opinion
of the guilt of General Cameron. -• • . . v •„
'Mr. BROWN, of "Warren,' stated that there would be a
minority report from the committee; that the minority of:
■ the committee had been denied access to the evidence be-'
> fore the committee. ' • '
-Mr. B ARGERdenied.tliat tlic.gentleman had been de-,
nied access to tlie evidenco.l : ' : T'i. !.
;3>lr. BROWN, of Nortljuniberland, offered the follow
ing amendment to the-resdlution of the committee for
dbebarge: ' T
■ 'Resolved, That tlio Governor be instructed to insti
.'tilth: criminal : prosecntions against. Simon Cameron,.
. "William'Bi-obst, John J.. Patterson, and Henry* Tho
mas;." -• .
After a long and excited discussion, in. which the
friendsof the" minority claimed that the report should
not be adopted:until-tlie :repert of the minority had becn
lienrd, . ; - '
':Mr. BROWN withdrew his amendment.
: Mi-,ROWLAND moved that 10,000 copies of the report
of the majority be printed in English, and" 2,000 in Ger
ih»D, for tlie use of the House. . . ;
Mr. BROWN, of Warren, moved to amend the motion
ol Mr. Rowland, by inserting ‘‘and the report of,the
minority,” which was declared out of order," inasmuch
as there bad asypt been no minority report.
;Tbe motion of Mr. Rowland was agreed to.
Paynu'nt In Lieu of Service in the Army,
;Mr. SMITH,;of -Ohestf r, called-up tin act for tlie pay
ment of money (SS00) in lieu of military service by those
who conscinntiously scruple to bear anus.
.This bill is the same as that reported from the com
n)itte*kyesterday. . ....
Mr. BECK moved to amend by striking out “three
hundred dollars ” as the price of exemption on account
of confcientious scruples, and insert “five hundred
dollars ”
}Mr. BENEDICT moved to amend the amendment by
atriMny out#3ooand'insprting;sl»2, just^one'sear’s pay*
at $ll per month: ‘ \ .... . ~ . ... „
•Mi- VINCENT spoke m opposition to the imposition.of
a’fine in'-atldition-to the penalty imposed'by the con
scription act itself. ,
4* i . *■ •
Mr. SHANNON spoke at length against the passage of
the act Congress hud already passed a Uunscnpiion,
act, which would meet all of the future. The pre
sent bill was fraintd to meet the exigencies of the past.
It imposed a certain penalty for past actions,• ana
smacked of the ex wont fordo. ...
Mr. LABAR argued in favor of the highest peesuty.,
He said that in lib county there were more conscientious
sen: pies men than in any other county; but he did wot
believe that it was-truo religion that induced, them to.
swear their conscientious scruples against hearing arms.
H was cowardice, and he find no respect for those men.
Mr. KAINE said that the Constitution had provided
for this caso, and that wo bad a right to fix a fine.
Mr. SHANNON followed in jeply, again pronouncing
the pretent hill an facta act. Ho said that grunt
caution should be used in the passage of acts in relation
to this matter.
Mr. 3,U1>1.0W did not agree with Mr. Labar.
Mr. SjiITH, of Chester, replied to the speech of Mr.
Labar with somesoverity. .
Pending this discussion tho llouso adjourned.
The Recent Canvass’for Senator.
UP OUT PE THE COMAHTTm: AnrOlNTF.n TO fifVKSTKJ ATK
CEUTA I N CHAROKS IN KRFKRHNC: I? TO Till* RECENT CAN-
VASS F<llt I'NITKII STATIC SENATOR,
The commiiteo appointed-under tho- rosolntion of tho
20tb Jauuary last, to inquire wliother unlawful menus
were employed to secure the election of a United'States
Senator, with authority to send for persons ana papers,
beg leave to offer the following report:
That they have hold forty-three sessions since that
time and examined thirty witnesses.
The first witnots wsis T. dolf. -Royer.
(He testified precisely as ho wrote in bis letter pub
lished after the election.)
Nosv, if this statement of'Mr. Boyer is true; there
can he no doubt about the employment of uulawful
means to secure the election of General Simon Cameron
to the Senate of tho United Stales. But the committee
had other testimony lxroro them in regard to tho trans
actions related by Or- Boyer; and it becomes necessary,
in the Right of tbatte&limouy, to examine Iris claims to
truthfulness.
That, there wore, within a f*w days previous to the
Senatorial election, repeated interviews between. Mr.
Brobst and Mr. Boyer cannot be doubted, because they
not only both testily to this fact, hut their testimony- is
covroboratediby that of Capt. Chrib.man, Dr. Early,
Michael I\. Dover, aiid Mr. Vaughan. They also agree
in regard to the piivato interviews had between Dr.
Boyer and Gen. Camcron-flLsl al tiro State Capital Bank,
and aftcnvaidH at Or. Boyer’Krooin, in rim Pennsylvania
House; and in this they are sustained by the lustirhony
of Capl. Chr tznmn, Dr. Early. and Mr. Vaughan. They
agree, moreover, as to tho arrangements and prepara
tions which were made to visit Oen Cameron at Iris own
house at Ihc request of Mr. Hrotai; and as to the fad
that such preparations were nUide, W 0 have the testi
mony of Dr. burly. ' , .. , ..
There is also a marked agreement between the
mony of Dr. Boycrand that of John J. Patterson. I’hey
both testily that they met in Harrisburg on the Ur) day
immediately preceding tiie Senatorial election; that they
-went lo Reading on the afternoon of that day on the Le
banon Valley cars, and that General Carnoron was on
tho Kiune nain; that arrangements were there made be
tween'Mr. Fkricraon and Dr. Boj er to moot Ucueral
Cameron at,the house of bls.sou, .1. I>. Cameron, on the
next evening; that they met according to appoint .:q£nt,
and thai on tbo follow ing Tuesday morning, thh day or
the Senatorial election, Dr. Boyer, at the rerj cost Of Mr,
Patterson, went to Fattornon f H room, in Herr’s Hotel,
where he found General Cameron, and afterwards met
Dr. Fuller, -
These arc only a few of the numerous points of coin
cidtnue between the testimony of Dr. Boyer and that of
Messrs. Brobst and Patterson: Indeed, there is almost
a perfect agreement between them, except in regard to
tho alleged monoy transactions. It must be evident to
■oveiv one that, in the interviews wbiclrMr. Brobst and
%- Patterson had with' Dr. Boyer, their only object
was to influence hirn, by some means or other, to vote
for General Cameron for United States Senator. IJnt by
what means did they attempt to accompHsh this object?
Here the testimony oi tlie.se three witnesses involve* a
dirret contradiction. Dr. asserts that Mr. Brolxt
told hlji) he was authoi izod by General Cameron toolfer
five thousand dollars fov a vote, which Mr. Brobst de
nies, and that General Camoronnnd Mr. Patterson po3i
.tively agreed to give him twenty thousand dollars, and
finally, twenty-five thousand dollars, in order to secure
his vote for Simon Cameron, which is emphatically de
nied by Mr- Patterson. Wo are, therefore, bound to
conclude either that the statements of Dr. Boyer, oo the
one hand, or those of Mr. Patterson and Mr. Brobst on
the other, in regard to the pecuniary considerations, are
downright and deliberate falsehoods.
M( n always act from motives, ft is, therefore, legiti
mate to inquire what motive could have inllnenced Dr.
Boyer in this single case, while all the'other leading
features of his statement are shown'to hear false testi
mony ? It could not have been fear, for surely lie had
no more to fear from telling tho truth ihan from a de
claiarion offal ■eliood. It could not have been the hope
of gain, for it is impossible for any one to see how he
could have expected any benefit from the utterance of
any such, false statement. Nor could he have been
actuated by a malevolent or revengeful feeling, fov there
is no evidence of th e existence of any such fueling on the
part of Dr, Boyer against General Cameron or any of his
lnertis. Moreover, to suppose any man could falsely
and knowingly charge upon his fellow-mau, without
frome stroug motive, a crime which wonid forever blast
the reputation of its perpetrator in the community, and
then call upon God in the most solemn.manner, in at
tesiaiion of the truthfulness of his charge, would be to
aicribe to him an unaccountable degree of moral de
pravity. .
Heic another question will naturalLy arioe. Can any
motive be discovered on the part of. Messrs. Brobst and
Patterson which might incline either of them to a deniaL
of tbc truth,.in regard to this money transaction ? The
answer is easy. If this feature of the statement of Mr.
Boyer be fc-ue, they have both been guilty of attempting
to bribe a member of this Legislature, which is, under
our laws, a high misdemeanor, subjecting the offenders
to a severe penalty, _
Bui who does not know that the fear of exposure and
punishment and of the odium that muss necessarily re
sult from the commission of such a crime would be one
of the strongest motives to impel men to falsehood, it
is not reasonable to expect men to criminate ihemseives.
Let us look at this testimony from another stand-point.
Truth is always consistent with itself. The statement
of Mr. Boyer is a plain, straightforward, circumstantial,
and natural story of such events as might occur, and
"bears upon the face of it no apparent discrepancy. It is
corroborated in neaiiy all its leading details by the testi
mony of Messrs. Brobst and Patterson, and in several
particulars by that of Captaiu Cliritzman, Dr; Early, Mr.
Vaughan, Michael K. Boyer, and Dr. Fallcr, all of
which mav bo seen by a reference to the testimony of
these gentlemen, herewith submitted. But now let us
take a brief survey of the statements of Messrs. Brobst
and Patterson. , .
Mr. Brobst met General Cameron some weeks before
the meeting of the Legislature, but no - conversation
pafscil between them iu regard to the election of a United
St» tes Senator. Subsequently, without any request from
any one, and of his own accord; he came to Harrisburg,
went the same evening to see General Cameron, and
offered him his services, without being asked to do so,
to secure his election to tho Senate of the United States.
He again returned to Harrisburg, stopped at Herr’s
Hotel, "but soon removed to the Pennsylvania House,
where Dr Boyer had liis room.
He there met with Dr. Boyer, and had repeated inter
views with him; invited Boyer to ‘go with him to Geu.
Cameron’s house; provided horses and carriages on two
occasions to convey him there; vtsited the General three
or four times at his residence; became the medium of
communication between him and Boy*r, and made the
arrangements lor several-meetings between them. All this
was done by Mr. Brobst, be it remembered, ac con
siderable cost both of time and money, and without any
arrangement whatevor with Gen. Cameron, or anybody
else, by which he was to be reimbursed. This is 2>ossi
bles but is it at all ’prohahle ?
But again: Mr. Brobst is positively indicated, as other
testimony than that of Dr. Boyer proves, in alleged
bribery.
Mr. John Hancock testifies that Mr. Brobst told him
he had the authority of General Cameron to use money
to secure liis election, and that anj r arrangement he might
make, within treasonable amount, would be immedi
ately complied with by GeneralCameron.'
The testimony'of Michael Boyer on this subject, that
Mr. Brobst told him he was authorized to offpr ten thou
sand dollars, is also an evidence that Mr. Brobst told Mr.
Potteiger, a member of the House, that if he would vote
for General Cameron he could make au independent for
tune : that he would guaranty to him five thousand dol
lars in hand, and a position worth-forty thousand dol
-Jf-wn ihatit he wou\d-name.a day he would bring Geu.
Cameron down to Berks county to-w«.ice a final bargain
on that; he had better lei party go to the devuy «.«,d make
his money.
The testimony of John .T. Patterson, as already inti
mated, corroborates that of Mr. Boyer in nearly every
point. .They agree, as to their trip; to Reading on the
Lebanon Valley Railroad; their interviews oh the cars;
their arrangementto meet Gen. Cameron at the house of
his sou. previous to the Senatorial election; a meeting,
amp ding to this arrangement, io have an interview be
tween Gen. CameroD, Dr. Boyer, and Senator Falter, in
Mr. Patterson’s room in Herrs Hotel. But Mr. Patter
son denies most emphatically that he or Gen. Cameron
offered. Dr. Boyer mouey T or anything else as a means of
inducing him to vote for Cameron; This, whether true
ox false in itself, is'what might be expected under the
circumstances, according to the statement of Dr. Boyer.
What Mr. Patterson said, ho would testify, if the in
vestigation should be instituted.' .
There were other statements in the testimohy'of Mr.
Patterson that are worthy of consideration. Hesays he
came to Harrisburg at the requestor suggestion ofno'one.
That be arrived lierclon the Sth of January, between five
and six o’clock in the afternoon. That after supper he
met General Cameronby accident at the Post Office, and
was informed by him there that he was not a candidate
for United States Senator. On the next day he soughtau
interview with Dr. Boyer, in order to ascertain whether
he really intended to vote for General Cameron. That
after having some conversation with Dr. Boyer, on
their way to Reading,, he had no faith iu him, and
concluded that he would advise Goneml Cameron
not to tiust him, and that General Cameron
said he would have nothing to do with him. Still, how
ever, as the testimony of Dr. Boyer and Mr. Patterson
shows, they persisted in t olding interviews with Dr.
Boyer, in order to secure his vote for General Cameron.
All this service Mr. Patterson performed without
fee or reward from any one. There is one other point"
iu Mr. Patterson’s testimony that may be noticed. He
says that lie was present during the whole time of the
interview between Senator Fuller, General Cameron,
and Dr. Boyer, at liis own room in Herr’s Hotel. : Ac
cordingly.Jie relates in his testimony, the conversation
which took place between the parties on that occasion.
But the testimony of Senator Fuller is that Mr. Patter
son was not in the room while he was there. Here,then,
is a fiat contiadiction between these two witnesses; but
tl e committee have no doubt, from the evidence before
them, and from all the circumstances of the case,-that
the testimony of Senator Fuller is literally true.
It appears from the testimony before tho committee,
that there were other members of the Legislature besides
Dr. Boyer to whom offers of money and place were
made to induce them to vote for Siooon Cameron for
United States Senator. Those who /would como to an
enlightened judgment in regard to: this question may
consult the testimony of Messrs. Graber, Wolf. Thomas,
and Hammer. •
Mr. Graber testifies that: Mr. Henry Thomas, at hiß
own house, and in a private interview betweeu them,
urged him to vote for General Cameron for United States
Senator, and asked Mr. Graberto make his own figures
if he could do anything: He, moreover, insisted that Mr.
Graber should go with him at a late hour of the night to
sec Gen. Camnonat his own house, and proposed to take
him in his carriage, "but Mr. Graber did not consent to
any of these proposals. ,
Mr. "Wolf’s testimony is that Mr. Henry Thomas said
to him, “Go for General Cameron and you shall he well
Baid; state how much you will take to vote for General
ameron; put down the .figures.” It is also in evidence
that Air John T. Hammer told Mr. Wolf that lie could ,
make Slo.COOby voting for 'General Cameron, and agaiu
that he (Mr. Wolf) could make a lice thing of it. .
The report concludes with the assertion that if the
testimony' of these men is true then General Cameron
and those already implicated are Quilty.
The testimony in this case, as taken before the com
mittee, is very voluminous, occupying over 132 pages of
large bill paper. ;
Academy of Music.—The opera last night was
"Hoberto il Diavolo.”. Cordierj Lorini, Brignoli,
Susini, Lotti, and Barilli were the singers. The
ballet arrangements were as much beneath notice as
the ballet-master who designed them. Madame
Marzetti was' scarcely acceptable. The house
was good, though somewhat exclusive, and the
applause was aB restricted as the numbers;
The only genuine enthusiasm was that exci
ted by M’lle Gordier, This’lady possesses the im
mense advantage of youth. This freshens\ her
voice and feature, form and gesture. Her vocaliza
tion is delicate and sweet, soft and downy, as the
bloom of a peach, or the tint of an apricot. Atthe
close of the third-act she was recalled with ah
abandon of enthusiasm. Lorini performed her part
veiy well, but with a slowness which looked some
what Jjke nonchalance. §till. she is a good singer,
and, geneivtiiy* A Sofreos flotress. "^ r hat can
be said of Brignoli 1 Beyond his singing,
he deserves not a single word of praise. His
Voice is now in its early ripeness. What will he do
when it falls into the Eere and yellow leaf, and
When, to prop it up, he has : not-left hint even the
very little action he now exhibits? He mhv sing
like an angel, but he acts very much like au idiot,
Susini is always! conscientious, and was so on this
occasion. This excellent performer unites the ad
vantages of musical and dramatic education. Lotti,.
on: this occasion, made the most of what lie did,
'which was not much. In this work of Meyerbeer,
the'Sonority of the orchestration was, as is very
evident, thoroughly attended to. This developed
instrumentation was well conducted and displayed
on this occasion. .. ; !
To-night will be the Third opera night. Italian
and French opera are announced. Kellogg in “La
Figlia del Keggiinento,” and Cordier in “Les Noces
de .TeaDnette,” and a “ Grand Ballet,” are on the
bills. We are sure that, in the main, the operatic
part, at least, will be thoroughly attended to.
Large Positive Sale of Dry Goods, &c.—The
early particular r attention. of .dealere.is requested to
the extensive' and valuable assortment of British,
: French, German, and American dry goods, twine,
&c., Ac., embracing. about 860 packages, and lots,
many .in entire packages, of desirable Btaple and
a fancy articles in cottons, linens, worsteds, woolen,
and silks, to be peremptorily sold by catalogue, on
•'four months’.credit, commencing this morning at 10
o’clock, to be continued without intermission all
- day and part of the. evening, by John R Myers & CD.,
auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street.
Auction Notice—Sale of Boots“akd Shoes.
The attention of buyers is called to the large and
attractive sale of 1,000 cases bootß, shoes, brogans,
balworals, Btc., to be sold by catalogue, this morn
ingy by Philip Ford & Co., auctioneers, at their
store, Nos. 525 Market and 522 Commerce street,
commencing at 10 o’clock precisely.
' Such miciu nuns of the Union League as intend
visiting New York to attend tbe Grand Sumpter
Celebration, on the 11th April, will please notify the
Committee at the League House on or before Fri
day, IS M,
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Pmi.ABEJ.FniA, April 8, 1853.
Gold vra9 very much excited to-day, aud the price
fluctuated from ISO down to 144. rallying in the afternoon
up to 147&. The fall was attributed to the succofs of the
Administration party in Connecticut, and 6ho anticipated
fall of Charleston; but the rise*in the afternoon was
caused by the appearance of the “shorts' 1 in »tron? force,
and by their demands driving the market up. Govern
ment securities continue to comwaud the favor of the
people; and were strong to-day.
Surely the day is come for the Copperhead class in the
North to drag their heads in shame* The unequi vocal
political success of the friends of the Union, cast and
west, must he a terrible blow to them, while the prodi
gious stride* taken by our financial system towards the
vory heart of the people must give the death wound to
all their hopes. It is with more than common cheerful
ness that we announce the fact that to-day one and a
half million of dollars currency were turned into the
five-twenty loan, at the ofiiee-of Jay Cooke & 00., one
tli'vd of the subscriptions coming from the covin try west
of (ho Alleghanies.
The Stock market was'somewhat nervous to-day, hut
was without essential change in prices. Governments
wore steady. State fives fell >£; old City sixe3 were in
strong demand at I05l£@106; Pennsylvania Railroad Ist
mortgage declined 1; 2d do. rose 1>£;• Reading sixes were
all better; Philadelphia and Erie sixes sold at!o4; Har
risburg sixes at 112; Lehigh Valley sixes at 312; North
Pennsylvania tens sold at llo;To9was bid for Elmira
sevens;?!# for Schuylkill Navigation sixes.
There was considerable excitement in- Catawissa Rail
road shams, which opened at 23#, declined to 23>£, and
clomd at 2#a; Philadelphia and Erie also fluctuated be-:
tween closing at the latter; Little Schuylkill
rose }.<•, Reading was steady at Elrn-ira at S3—the
preferred at .02; Miuchill declined Harrisburg was
steady at t'o%; rose to 67; Camden and
Amboy sold at 1G8; Long Island fell nff2rll:j£ was bid
for North Pennsylvania. Passenger vail ways-were in-;
native but Heady; Thirteenth and Fifteenth sold at 37;
lUOgo-avenue at 18>£; tlie others were steady
Morris Canal preferred rose X; Schuylkill Navigaiion
Hold at 7*4; the preferred at 17; 56 was bid for Lehigh
Navigation; 41# for the sc;ip;.Susquehanna, .Canal sold
stt7; Mechanics’ Bank at 27; Western at6s; New Cr»ek
Coal at %. The market closed steady, $24,000 in bonds,
and 2,810 shares changing hands.
Drexol & Co. quote:
UnfUnTHUitoH Bond*, 1881; . 104#@105J<
United Stalca Certificate of Indebtedness... ... par@lo2*£
United State* 7 .'MO Note*.... IMUfyIQMf
{taurigrniitHt&rH’ Vouchers iK®2Kd.
Order* for Certificate# of Indebtedness....... 1 ®lHd.
Gold (unsettled).* . 45 {&4Sp.
Demand Note# (rjuftyttled)... -W
O’tsi tf ficHHtt) of l ri'WUfjj .......... «.{)8
The following I* the atrifcemeut of coal tranKporUd
over the* Hazleton Railroad, for the v/oefc eiollnjc April
4,18(53:
* Week, TVeviona. Total,
a Took. Curt. Ton*. Cwt. Ton**. Owt
Hazleton MlnA...- 9,7 ft 19 m.\m m ,*»,7oi Ifi
Cranberry..... ~ «XK» 18,070 J 8 05
Hiowoml . -1,007 14 - W*€«s 10 -11,100 04
listKt Hu car Loaf 2,113 07 2M73 J - • SfcJKtf 1/5
Council fUdgc v.m is 23,7'',v 03 27,617 01
lilooiit Pleasant.. 9,1/310*/
1,072 14; 13,740 ft 11,813
mm 15,2*711 l&'ft&T:
- Wf:). ffi J£*fig|
fiarMub ..
'4,min is Yi
v> t V7i m z&m m
ComsHpundinsf period
last y*ar I%(M 07 M,«510 m*Pfc fig
1nertfme............. m Vi ifJ/Ml (fi 3& r miB
’} he New Tork Eventr>yPort a! to-day says;
The two ffrftfltt topic* of diamsAloo in V/&U fjfrfs
inornfDK are—flr»c, whether wo Wight to expect#.tight
money market a« the r**alt of the present and prrwptyj-'
tive operation* of the Treasury: and second]?',whether
tb« legislation which appears likely to he adooted in
Albany against speculation in gold is likely to bare a
psrjnruient effect of diminishing the premium on the
precious metals.
-There is con*iderable diversity of opinion on both
these topics. But all the more judicious authorities re*
pard with grave apprehension the mischievous operatiou,
both on the Price of gold and on the interest of capital,
of any additional legal-tender notes being put in circula
tion. The report that tln.se notes now amonnt to 350
millions of dollars, and are being increased, though un
official, and probably incorrect, is causing some alarm
in the absence of official contutdlctiou.
Gold is again, lower to-day. The uncertainty how
much of the present premium is due to the depreciation
of the currency, and will therefore defy legislation, and
liow much is the simple result of speculation, and is
therefore liable to be at any moment extinguished by the
arrest ofits cause, spreads a general distrust among the
speculators,-while the difficulty of carrying gold gives to
prices?, downward tendency - which-might soon be acce
lerated to a panic.
The price at the first session closed at 146J£. Early
this morning 149?£ was paid, which was about last .even
ing*# loves- quotation. As we go to press, the register
stands fir tbs moment at 143^.
The market opened heavily, and, with occasional ex
ceptions, the want of animation which we remarked
yesterday was, if possible, more decided and general.
The following table exhibits the chief movements of
the market, as compared with the latest prices of last
evening
"Wed. To.. Adv. Dec.
U.'S.-6s» 1881,res.. 1W34 1M34 . 34
0.8.65* 1881, cou 104% 105 ... ■ h
U. S 7 3-10 p. c. T. N. .105 105V4 ...... b
IT.S. 1 yearCertif gold..100)4 100)4 ... .
American gold 14534 150)4 5
Tennessee 6s. 6034 61 .. >
Missouri 6a 6034 . 60>4 ••
Pacific Mail ...}S9 190 • « v 1
N.Y. Central 114% 11614 •• 1*
Erie....*-. 76)4 763*.: .. 3
Erie preferred....•••»••* 96)4 9634 ♦. 3
Hudsoaßiver 105 10G34 ... 13
Har1em.................. 4734 51 .. 33
Harlem preferred.. S 3 8234 •• ‘ 3
Mich. Central ....100* 101 .. 3
Mich. Southern 59 60 . .. f 1,
Mich. So. guar 9934 101 . 13
Illinois Central scp 6734 S9_ .. I?
Clev. and Pittsburg.... 6534 63>4 •• l
Galena 92 ,9334 «• . 1?
Clev. and Toledo. . 9634 : 9634 ..
Chicago} and Bock Isld. S9J4 -.SO • • ]
Port Wayne....*........ 57% 65% .. 1
Quicksilver Co.. 40)4 40, • • .3
Gen.ral Amer. Transit. 3634 39 .. 23
Phila. Stock Exchi
[Reported by S.E. Slatatake
FIRST ]
10 CatawKpref- 23%
50 do 23%
]CO do 23%
,ICO do .b 5 25%
ICO do . 860 23%
100 do 23%
20 Lehigh Scrip. 4li
15 do.. ... 41%
10 Elmira R prf. 52
50 Lit Schuyl E....... 4G
46 Phil a k Erie P. 43
5 Ridge Avenue R... 35%
50 SchyNavpref 1’
50 do. b3O 17%
BETWEEN
6 Morris Cnl pref.. • .135% |
SECOND
500 City 65.. .-106
2400 d0...' 105%
500 do 105%
500 „da- 106
15(0 do 105%
2SOO do 106
30C0 US7-30TrNtshlk.
A & 0.105%
2000 d0....b1k A&0.105X
3 Cataß prf... 23%
ICO <10............560 23%
3CO do .23%
50 d 0......... 23%
50 Scbuy Nav 7%
1000 Lehigh Val 6s. ....112
10 Phila&Eß 42
AFTER 1
50 Phila & Erie R..b5 41%l
1000 Phi)acStErie6s...-104 i
50 Reading R 44 7-161
CLOSING PRIC
Bid. Asked.
UStecpa ’51....1M% 105
U S 7.30 Db1k...105 . 105%
-Americas G01d..146 148
Phila 6s old 108 108%
Do new. ;....109X 110
Alle co 6s R 67 f 9
Penna Cs. ..102 102
Readingß 44% 44%
Do bds’SO-.IOS 110.
Do bds’7o..lo4K 105.
Do bds’B6. 103% 104
Pennaß 67 . 67%
Do Ist aids. .113 . 115
. Do - 2dm 6a'. .108% 109
Morris Canal.... 64 65
Do prfd 10s .135 IS6
Do 6s ’76
Do 2dmtg.. .. ..
Susa Canal
Do 6s
Scbnyl Nav..... 7% 7%
Do prfd..... 17 17%
. Do 65’82.... 71% 72
Elmira R 3S 30
Do prfd..... 52 52%
Do 7e ’73....109 110
Do 10s .74% 76
N Penna B 11% 11%
Do 6s 89% 90
Do 10s 109 110
Phila. Ger&Nor. 66 £7%
Lehigh Valß...
Do bd# 312*1
Philadelphia Markets*
April S—Evening.
The Flour market continues du.ll; and prices are un
changed. Sales comprise about 1, OOQ bbls City Mills ex
tra and extra family on terms kept secret, including 300.
libls of the latter, good Ohio, at &7.50 bbl. The sales to
the retailers and bakers are limited, rauging at from.SS
@6.25 for superfine, 56.50@7 for extra, $7.25@7.75 for ex
tra family, arid SS@S.SO ft bbl for fancy lots, according to
quality. Rye Flour is selling at bbl. Corn Meal
is unchanged. We quote Pennsylvania at $4, and Bran
dywine at $4.50 V>bl.
GRAlN.—There'is very little demand for Wheat, and
the receipts are light; sales comprise about 4,000 bushels
at 167@165c for Pennsylvania red, arid white at from 175 c
to 185 c bushel. Rye is scarce, with sales of 2,000
bushels Pennsylvania at 110 c Corn is iu de
mand, with sales of 12,000 bushels at 89c for prime yel
low, and 02c bushel for white. - Oats are in good re
quest, with sales of Pennsylvania at SQ@S2e, weight..
Barley—3,ooo bushels Western Barley are reported on
terms kept private.
BARK.—lOhhds Ist No. 1 Quercitron are reported, at
ton. -
COTTON.—The market is very dull, and there is little
or nothing doing, in the way of sales. We quote mid
dlings at 70c lb, cash. .
GROCERIES.—The market is firm, with sales of 500
Lhds Luba fctigar at i-Üb, and 160 bags of Rio
Coiibe. at from *29%@3*2c Ih.
PROVISIONS.—Mess Pork is without change, with
small sales Lard is selling in a small way
at 11%@11%c lb in bbls and tierces.
SEEDS. —There is very little demand for Clover, with
sales of 200 bus at $5.62% bus for prime. Timothy sells
in a small wa3 r at-;52@2.50, and Flaxseed
bushel. -
WIIISKY is lineettled: bbls selling in a small way at
46@450 for bbls, imd.4-5c.38 gallon for drudge.
The following are the receipts of flour and grain at thi*
port to-day: - .
Flour.. 4 . * ' .l,Ssohbls.
Wheat S,s4obua.
Corn.. .....18,1100 .bus,
Oats ............13,650 bua..
New Yoi\k Markets of Yesterday.
Asriiis.—'Tlie''market is quiet and steady, with sales of
25 bbls at SS@S 25.f0r Pots and $9 for Pearls. .
■ Brkads'iuw-s. —The market for State and Western.
Plour is dull, heavy, and 10@15c lower.
; The sales are 7,900 bbl.s at $6.20@6.n0 for superftne
State: $675®6.90f0i extra State*,S6 15@6.5f) for super
fine Michigan, Indiana, lowa, Ohio; &c.; $6.70©7:10 for
extra do., including shipping brands of round-hoop
Ohio, at 57.2(Xm7.35, and trade brands at $7.40®5.60.
South Sin rloxtr is dull and lower.; The sales are GOO
bbls at $7.15@7.G0 for superfine Baltimore, and
for extra do,;. , , , : , ;
Canadian Flour is dull, and 10c lower. The sales are
4CO bbls at -$6.£t(f7G.95 for common, aud $7@S.5O for good
to choice extra.
Rye Flour is quiet at si@o.2o for tne range ot fine aud
superfine. '
i Corn Meal is quiet and unchanged; we quoto Jersey at
$4.15; Brandywine $4.70; puncheons 422.00.r_ :
Wleat is dull, and nominally 1 to 2c lower at $1.40®
1.60 for Chicago Spring; $l. for Milwaukee Club;
Sl.tl6@l.OT for Amber Iowa; $1.70® 1.72 tor \vihtei\red
Veslern, ft»dsl.7e@l.7s’for.amber Michigan. -
Rye is dull a£ #l.QC@].OG.' _ ' - - . '
Barley is dull #1.43(3)1.60.
Oats are quiet: at :82@S5e foT Jersey, and S4@S7c for
Canada. Western, and state' .
Corn is heavy, am*! to 2c lower; the sales are 50,000
bushels at £S@9O for sound Western mixed, and SO@SS
for unsound do. ~,
; Whisky.—The market is dull and lower; sales 400 bbls
at4s)£@46c for State and yv f estern.
CHICAGO, BREADSTUFFS MARKET, April 6.
Fi.ouu.—Received, 2,(J6s“bbls> Marked quiet and ne
glected. Spring extras' are held at 53.25@6,.and
extras at $6.75@7.&0. • Sales were, 100 bbls choice winter
extras at $7.60. , " . , ,
.Wheat.— Received. hu. Market ■'s^^VrFnnn
Sales were, 2,C00 bu No 2 red (4c s tol .'‘^ e .) at 1 t v§A
Viu Ko 1 spring (2c storage) at 21: 400 bn
1,200 bn do (3c storage) at $1.18; bu do (4c forage)
fttS\.l9K: 20,«»bu doatSl.l?; f’J“ n &s. d S in a ?
400 bu No 2 spring (2c sinrage) at 800 bu do at
51.07: l.rOObu do (4c storage) at 41. 06% , 6,M0 bn do at
(fei or* 19 nen Un Hn ht x) (V>h>; 2,000 on do at 5>1.03.
-Sived, 15,« bu. Market %®Ko Writer.
Kfllo, o' POO bu river white mixed afloat at ole; 20,000 bu
inixed corn in store (4c storage) at 4Sc; 10,000 bn- do at
47Kc- 75 COO bu do at S7)4c; 7,600 do (2c storage) at 50c:
jJSo.’lm do W 49>4c; SOO bU: rejected corn' in store 02c
sl o ?S'il?e 4 cri™a. 9,019 bus. Market firm. and active,
at full prices; sales were 4,500 bus No. 1, ru store..(2c
stranger) at 59c; 25,000 bus do at cSJsc; 1.000 bus do at
68*4c’c.ooobns do at 5Sc; 45,000 bus do (4c.storage) at
; 10.0C0 bus do at 56Kc: 20, OOP bus do at t)6c. ; ..
LOUISVILLE TOBACCO’ MAKKET, April 4.—There.
hasbeen during the week some advance mpuces, with
more activity among buyers. ... .
Sales to-day IS7 libds. as tollows: 1 at bS, 2atja |)at r
: fcio 2S ftt’&ll at 5>12.17 at $33, 14 at 4*14,17 at &15, 2A
at Sliiolt *IL Alls. 4 at 2 «t *&..* «i
, &•)•) a'at $23. iat *24.69, and lat *2o & 100 103.
BOSTON MARKETS, April 7. Conx EXGHAXCiE. —The
since Yesterday have been V 226 bbls Flour. 2,173
bu^Oa!™ Pdtwo do Shorts. ' The’market for ( l?lonr
continues very quiet, misprices are about nominal. We
nrrtp Western superflTie'ftt $6.'75; common extras at s7®
7 os-medium do. ats7.6o@S; and,good and choice, iu
• eluding 6 favorite brands bt. Louis. at& 50® 10. bbL
southern Flour ish quiet, r and: prices ;are nominal. ;In
Corn the s»«es have been small at SS@93c for Western;
yikivod as to quality, an<l,9.)<i@sl 1? bushel -for Western
■ and Southern yellow. Oats are bteady at Bo@S2c bus^
for Northern and Canada. Kye, $1.09®1.10. Short* Mi)
I‘inc Feed at ©&1, and Middlings at s3ston.
is selling at for Prime;%lo
(3»10 75 for Mess, and 517.50®15. SO for Clear, cash. Ifefif
rau"es fg-rn 512.501514.50 ® hoi for Eastern and Wests™.
Lard, in Kb!s and tierces, and 12c in kegs: -and
Smoked flame, 9#@loc ?. m, cash. In Uniter and Cheese
the sales hare been confined to smalllots.
Markets hy Telegraph,
BALTHKOItST, April B.— Flour is dull and nominal.
Wheat steady? receipts light. Com dull s white
9*2(§>93c; yellow 93@96c. Whisky dull at 48&c.
-Cincinnati, April B. —Flour dull, and oilered at
$5.6f1@5.70, without finding buyers. WhUky is
quoted at 44c - . There is nothing doing in the Pro*
vision market. Gold and demand notes quoted 40
per cent, premium.
PHILADELPHIA BOARD OP TRADE.
EDMUND A SOUDER, >
GEORGE L. BCJZBY, ICowcittm op tecs Most*.
EDWARD C. BIDDLE,»
AT TECB M3SUOH ANTS* RXCHANIJB, PHILADELPHIA.
Ship Robert Cushman. Otie.-" ....Liverpool, soon
Ship Catharine, Freeman »- Liverpool, soon
lange Sale*, April 8«
ss, Philadelphia Excnange.]
BOARD.
9 Cam k Am R. 168
300 City 6s new* •• • •... .109%
*25 Reading R.... 44%
2000 Reading Bs 5 56......105 '
500 do .....103%
3013th k lotli-stR... 37
50 do.. bls 37 .
1000 DS6s r SI ...105
8 Penna R 66%
210 d 0........ .67
2 Minehill R......... 56
500 N Penna 10s 110
50 Schuy Nav 7%
13 Harrisburgß 66%-
f BOARDS.
11000 City6s 105
BOARD.
50 Phila & Erie...b3o 42
5 do. .....A.. 42
-25 do 41*
100. Schuy Nav prf..b3o 17%
50 Ridge Avenue IS%
200 New Creek %
1000 Harrisburg6s 112
97 Western Bk..2dys 65
20 MinehiLLß. 55*
1000 Reading 6s ’44 109
100 Susq Cnl.. 7
1100 Penna 5s .101*
20 Elmira R prf. 62
13 Mechanics’ 8k..b5 27
10 ARDS.
- 50 Lit Schuy R 46%
200 do 46%
JES—STEADY.
Bid. Askfiri.
Catawissaß-...'. 7% 7%
Do prfd 23% 2-%
Beaver Mead R.. 67% 70
Minehillß.*..... 55. ;56
Harrisburgß .»
Wilmingtonß... .. . -
Lehigh Nav 65.. ..
Do shares. • 56 57
Do: scrip.... 41% 42
Cam&Amhß....l6B ..
Phila & Erie 65..m3% 104%
Sun k Erie 7s
L Islandß-...... 34 37
Do - bd5.....» .. 10S
Delaware Div 44
Do bds...
Spruce-street 8.. 15% 16%
Chestnut-st R 58
Arch-streetß.... 2S 25%
Race-street R ...TO 11
Tenth-stTeet R.. 41 43
Thirteenth-st B. 37 3S
W Phila R. 66 ...
Do bonds... ..
Green-street R.. 42% 43
Do - bonds... ..
Second-streetß.. . 85
Do bonds
Fifth-street 8... 61% 62
Do bonds... ..
! Girard College R *2B 29
I Seventeenth- st R 11% 12
I Little Schnrlß-. 40 46%
LETTER BAGS
Bark Cora Linn, (Br) KiHam**-*-
Bark Guiding Star, Bearse
Bark Florence Cli iproan, Jones . • •
Brig South Boston, Lane *
MARINIS INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF RmX.APEI.ymA, April 9, 1863,
SUN RISES
HIGH WATER.
.5 32-SUN SETS.
= „ ARRIVED.
Steamship Suwanee, Sims, 2days.from Alexandria, in
bal la* tto A J Buckner. At 7A M yesterday, offthe Buoy
on the Bi own, saw ship Lancaster, from Liverpool, get
ting under way; hark Oak, from Boston, was olf the
Brandywine Light, coming up; brig.l \V Sawyer, from
Jleppina, was above the Brandywine, coming up: a wchr
with bowsprit eongwwas at the Cross Ledge: schr Ver
milion, dismasted, was off Reedy Island ur-tow of aa
other schooner; bark Goodspeed, hence for Loadoa
derry, parted anchors during the gale on Saturday nigHa,
BDd went to sea with her pilot, Mr Wm Eldrldge.—Re
ported by Edw Maull, uilot.
Steamship Norman, Baker, —hours from Boston,with
mdse ard passenger* to Henry Winsor «fc Co.
Brig Chesapeake, Wyman, 4 days from New York,
id ballast to E A Souder & Co.
Brig Wm Mason, Hatch, 6 days from.- New York, in.
ballast to J E Bazley & Co.
Sebr Mary Clark, Howard, 3 days from Newburvpori,
with mdse to Curtis & Kirgbt.
Schr Austin, Parsons, 3 days from New York, with,
mdse to David Cooper.
Schr Essex, Post, from N York, with mdse to cantaia.
Schr Garland, .Norton, from New York, in. ballast to
captain. ‘ ‘
Schr Clayton & Louber.-uvTacks&u, T day from St
George. Del, with ‘corn. to.Jas Barret Sc Son.
Schr H barratt, Deuby, 1 day from Smyrna, Del, with,
corn to'Jus Barra tt & Soil
fclir Governor, Chase, 4 days from New York, with,
mdse to Crowell & Collins.
Schr Little Rock, Bowen, 5 days from Alexandria, in
ballast to A G Cattell & Co.
Schr White Hock, Elwoed, 5 days from-Alexandria, in
ballast to A G Cattell Sc Co.
Schr Liberty, Johnson, 2days from Indian Diver, with
corn to J»k L Bow ley & Co.
Schr A y Howe, CoL.on. from Alexandria.
ktthr Addte M Blackman. from-New York.
Schr Alien Downing Rice, from Maurice River.
Schr Borrows t), fft ark, from Norfolk.
y.U'AUtt T Bristol, Chartfrs, %\ hour* from New York,
vrhii twit* to vs yfshfit'r
3'yts/iZfii, htmtt.fjtijn New York,
wbfc rt.fi--' i'< Wtr» xf
4 -mr yevxr X C h-t^k> v with mol asses.
is sbuv6*y-& to caplain,. as
fepovte#..
and two brigs
•Wer/i'paiesed ve'sfevit^'lts. Jhw 1/ay, olf Liston's,
CLEANED.
Bark Aftme C Norton, Price, Pori Royal, Hunter, Nor
t/iTY &■ Cb.
BftrSr A Thompson- Key West. H A Adams.
Ketch Commerce, Barnes, Jlayagner, J Mason & Co.
Brig A C Merryman, Gray, Bath, (not asbefore) D S
Stetson & Co
Scbr Nuioero Uno, (Br) Ryder,.Havana, do
SehrW L Springs, Adams, Tortusan, do
Schr Garland, Norton, Boston, Hammett, Van Dusea
&• Lochroau.
Schr -Tomes Satterthwaite, Maloy, Boston, Hunter,
Norton & Co.
Schr J B Bleecker, Edwards, Fortress Monroe, Ord
nance Department.
Schr Mary & Frances, McDonnel, Washington,R Jones.
Schr Essex. Post, New York. L Audenried & Co.
Schr J Guthrie, Richardson, -Baltimore, C F Norton
& Co.
Schr White Rock. Chase, Alexandria, A G Cattell & Co.
Sehr A F Howe. Colsonrßoston, J B. Henry.
Schr Jas Barratt, Nickerson, Boston-, Noble, Caldwell
& Co.
Scbr War Steed, Cash, Bosten, do
Schr Kate Carlton, Bowdin. Boston, JE Baxley & Co.
Schr Addie M Hines, Blackman, New York, Gastaer,
St'clcney & Wellington'
Schr A Downing, Rice, Pawtucket, Repplier & Bio.
Schr Burrows C, Clark. Port Royal. Tvler, Stone & Co.
Ftr Beaufort, Ogden, Alexandria. T Webster, Jr.
Str Ann Eliza, Richards. New York. W P Clvde.
Sirß Willing, Dade, Baltimore, A Groves, Jr..
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchange.)
NEW YORK, AprilS.
The schr John Somers, from Philadelphia, with coal
for Gloucester, Mass, went ashore on Sandy Hook Bar
last night, and immediately filled.
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchange.)
LEwES. Del. April 7. -
The brig Vesta, from Cnba for Boston, bound to New
York, two brigs, andsome twenty schooners, are in the
Roadstead at anchor. The steamer Sarah, from Phila
delphia, is alongside thesteamer Patroon, taking goods
out of her. The deserters CLOL soldiers) remain, here,
closely guarded. Wind NE. _
Yours,-&c, AARON MARSHALL.
(Correspondence of The Press.)
, READING, April 6.
The following boats from the Union Canal passed into
the Schuylkill Canal to-day, hound to Philadelphia,
lauen arid consigned as follows:
J & b Richirds, flour to cautain: American Eagle, rail
road sills to captain; White Squall, iron ore to B B Tho
mas: Dr A Albright, lime to Elias Reber; American
Eagle, railroad sills to Reading Railroad Co; Swatara,
iron ore to B B Thomas.
MEMORANDA
Marshman, hence, arrived afc
Steamship Continental,
New York 7th inst.
Ship Saranak, Rowland, lienee for Liverpool, was
spokenb t ins£, lat 40 25, long 6517.
• Bark Fannie, Herrick, cleared at New York 7th inst.
for Philadelphia.
Brig Venus, (Br) Taylor, hence for London, put into
Fayal llili uit. with loss of spars and sails, arid with
rudder damaged.
SclirsD H Rills. Rich. Smith Tuttle. Rich, Fair Wind.
Smith, and Emblem, Doane, hence, arrived at Boston
7th inst.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The Pollock Rip light Vessel has gone from her sta
tion. She will he replaced as soon as possible, of which
due notice will be given.
By order of the Lighthouse Board,
JOHN MARSTON, CaptUSN,
Lighthouse Inspector, Second District.
Boston, April 6.1563. '. .
C ITT ITEMS.
Iter... 8., ,W. HuTisit’s 'Lecture this
Evewixg.—Our readers should not forget that the
Rev. E. W. Hutter’s lecture on “ The City of Wash- -
irgton and its Public Men 55 will be delivered at
Musical Pund Hall this (Thursday) evening, at S
o’clock. This will be the third of the series now
being delivered in this city under the auspices of
the Lutheran Board of Publication, and will no
doubt attract a very large audience, as the subject
is one of general interest, and peculiarly adapted to
Mr. Hutter’s powers as a lecturer.
Upholstery.— The only successful up
holstering establishment, the dsyß of .our. old
favorites, Cowperthwaite & Christie, is that-of the
new West-End Upholstery store ohW. Henry'Pat
ten, 1408. Chestnut street. Pure materials,'‘good :
workmen, and prompt personal attention,»is se
curing Dir. Patten a very large Bhare of firßt-clasa
•business. ap9-6t
Portraits of Distinguished Men.—
Messrs. Broadbent &Co. 5 Nos. 912,914, and 616 Chest
nut street, have probably taken pictures from life, of
more distinguished public men than any other Pho
tographic firm in the Union. Many of these are in
the style, and are much sought after for
the Album, of which they have also a superior as
sortment. -Their colored cartes are exquisite speci
mens of art, and are now being largely ordered, and
the same is true of their large pictures, finished in
crayon, India ink, water and oil colors.
Messes. Chables Oakfobd & Son’3
11 Opening” of Fancy Goods for Ladies and Children,
which is to take place at the elegant warerooms,
under the Continental Hotel to-day, will he a great
success.
Fine English Pickles and Sauces.—
Those of our readers who desire the best and most
popular brands of English Pickles and Sauces, will
find them in greatest excellence and in every variety
at the popular grocery store at Arch and Tenth,
streets, late C. H. Mattson’s.
Military Goods. — Army and iNavy offi
cers will find the best stock of goods necessary for
their equipment ; at Charles Oakford & Son’s, under
the Continental Hotel.
“ The Delaware County American, 17
at Chester, Pa., is one of the best country adver
tising mediums in the State. Address the publisher,
2). A. Vernon.
A Fact,—Dean, 335 Chestnut street, sells
the best Cigars forthe price in this city. He -im
ports or manufactures his cigars, and sells at whole
sale and retail, and receives 'Wilmington' and all
other small notes at par.
. Bboitn’s Bp.onciiial Thocnrs, when
allowed to dissolve in the mouth, have a direct in
fluence to the affected parts; thei soothing effect to
the mucous lining of the, windpipe allays pulmonary
irritation, and gives relief in coughs, cold 3, and the
various throat affections to which public speakers
and singers are liable.
Toggery and Science.—The following
scientific description of a lady’s dress was furnished
by an unsuccessful applicant for a position as civil
engineer» “ Conical base equal to seven-tenthathe
axis—four vaulted zones equidistant on the planes
of the sides—cone, truncated one nodule from' theo
retical apex, with a warped surface placed diagonal
ly upon the parabola of truncation, intersected by
the quadrant of a sphere, and it again by irregulfjT
polygonal planes of half the diameter of the sphere,
Eloping downwards in the angle of the cosine of a
figure.” To describe the elegance of a full suit for
the male sex it ,would only be necessary to say that
it came from, the Brown-Stone Clothing Hall of
Bockhill &• Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut
Street, above Sixth.
Bread [Riot in Richmond,*— I Three tliou;
sand women broke into the Government and other
stores in Richmond on last Thursday, beingimpelled
by Starvation, and helped theraselveß to flour, cloth
ing, and whatever else they wanted. Our women,
though not the wives and daughters of “the chi
valry, 55 are too well-bread to get up riots, and ifthey :
seize upon of ike army it will be when our
menreturn as victors from the battle-tields of
the SoutbV The clothing they need is not foundin'
Government stores, and their husbands and sons are
already as well provided for as they desire, in this
city at least, by Charles Stokes & Co.’s “ one-price,” ~
under the “ Continental.”
Essay on Man : :
At ten, a child; at twenty, wild;
A.t thiriy, tame, if ever :
At forty, wise; at fifty, rich;
At sixty, good, or never.
With a wardrobe well filled with the fashionable
and_ seasonable Clothing of the; make of Granville
Stokes, No. 609 Chestnut street. •'
The undersigned Raving purcliascd tiie
entile stock of Silver-Plated AVaie and House
furnishing Goods of the late firm of E. W. Carryl &
Co., will hereafter conduct the business at the old
stand, No. 715 Cheßtnut street, and respectfully
solicits a continuance of the patronage heretofore
extended to the late firm. The stock will be sold
very cheap for cash to close the business.
apB*4t ¥ji[ E. Nbwhall. •
Bedding -of every description, of the
purest materials, at W. Henry Patten’s New West
End Store, 1403 Cheßtnut street. ap9*6t
OLd Furniture reupliostered, mended,
varnished, and made to look equal to new. Persona
haying fine old furniture may send it to this esta
blishment with confidence, as I make this a special
branch of roy and none'but the beat work
men are allowed to work on. old furniture at W.,
Henry •Patten’s West End Upholstering Store, ..1403.
Chestnut street; ap9*6b
•Liverpool, soon
..Liverpool, soon
..Liverpool, soon
.Barbadoes, soon