THE PRISM, PITILIERE) DAILY (SUNDAYS NZUSPTED). EY JOHN W. FORNEY, +Ol7lOl, No.lll SOUTH FOURTH BTRIUIT. TIER DAILY PRESS, Pivsan Orores IP= Wawa, payable to the Carrier c MAW to Baboarlbers out of the city at SEVEN DOLLAZN PIAANIFOIL; Thu DOLLARS AND FIFTY (NNW FOR SIX NONT7III OFR DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FM GENTS FOR Tartu )(oar's, lavartably la advance for the tins or dered. I /fir: advertisements Inserted at the anal rates. EY Una eon/Mote a Kure. THE TRIWEEKLY PRESS, Mailed to Babes:labor' oat of the city at FOUR DOLLAIIII PIS A3llllll la advance. t2:=l FIBBT NATIONAL BANS PHILADELPHIA. DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY FINANCIAL AGENT OP THE UNITED ISTATEEL 10-40 I.OAW. Ibis link has been sethortssmi and le LOW prUiNd Co realty. subsertptione to the NEW GOVERNMENT LOAN. This Loan, limed under antholity of an jet of Con. approved March 3, 1861. provides for the Issue of Two Hundred Millions of Dollars (Q 200400.030) United Mateo Bonds, redeemable after ten years, and payable forty years from date. IN MIN. dated Marsh 1, 1864. Marta' Interest at the rate of FIVE PEE CENT. Per Sulam IA COIN, payable semt•annually on All Bonds Dyer $lOO. and on Bonde of 11100 and leas, in tently. Subscribers will recall'. either Rorlaterod or Conrail Bonds as they may prefer Registered Bonds will be limped of the denominations of fifty dollars ($6O). one hundred dollar. ( 1 1100), Ave hundred dollars (VW). one thousand dollars. ($1,600), aye thousand dollars ($6,000). and ten thousand dollar' ($10,060), and Coupon Bonds of the denominations of ART dollars ($6O), one hundred dollars (SIM, Ave hunt• trod dollars (WO), and one thousand dollars ($1,000). INTEREST Rill eorattiense from data of subscription. or the teernail Interest from the let of 'larch can be paid in coin, or. until farther motley. in U • B. noise or. notes of National Banks, Mans ilfty Der Gent, to the amount for Pre- CITY SUM,. FREE FROM TAXATION, EON BILK IN BIIKEVTO SUIT PURCHASERS, BY DREXEL cfc CO. NEW LOAN. to 11. S. 10-40% JAI 00011 6 00. OflU 102 BAL3 TEI NEW GOVERNMENT LOAN. Nesrins Ply. Per Cent. Interest IN COIN. Bedeemable any time after Till MARS, at the plea , rare of.the Government, and payable FORTY irlid_BB after date. Both COUPONS and REGISTBRED BONDS ars tuned for this Loan, at tame denominations as the Jive-Twentlea. The interest on $6O and $lOO payable pearly, but all other denominations half 'emir. The IICS-1011Tlf BONDS aye dated Marais 1. 064. the half yearly . Interest falling due September I and March I of each year: Until. let September, the accrued interest from let Neigh, is required to be paid by purchasers la can, or. to legal currency, adding SO per mint. for Prominis, until further notlett.. All other Government BeimWes bought and sold. JAY COOKE 65 CO.. 5p5.11 114 SOUTH THIRD STRUT QPEOIAL NOTICE TO THE HOLD. no OF BbiLLI, 1%30 U. 8. TREASURY !TOTES. •SEVEN.THIRTY NOTES, of the denomination of 60e and Ms, can now be converted'in 80198 OF TIDfuLAN OF 1881. Of the flame dettomlnatfon. For information , at.pluathrfftee of. . ivmm South THIRD Strfat, Phila. THREE (8) BARB' SEVEN-PER. A- CENT. LOA'S OP THE BOROUGH OF SCRAN TON Lucerne county, Pennsylvania. Coupons pay. i able n the City of New York. The undersigned will receive p-opeaals until the TWENTIETH DAY OP JULY,lnstant, for the purchase of 315.0011 of the Bonds of the Borough of Scranton. lamed by virtue of a special Act of Assembly of the legislature of Penney) V 2 ia, entitled "Au act to autho rize the raising of money and payment of bonntled to Volunteers In the Borough of Scanlon, In the county of Interne." These Bonds draw . Interest at the rate of SEVEN PERCENT per annum, payable on the first day of JUNE and DECESIBER in oast year. In the City of hew York. The principal is reimbureable in throe years from the fast day of Juno, nu The bonds are exempt frotualt State and local taxa tion. A tax sufliclent to payone half the amount of the loan has been already levietivf Address J. C. PLATT, Treasurer, SCRANTON,_ La- Settle county, Pennsylvania .1. ROBINSON. THOEAS DICESON, J. C. PLATE , 1,9-lot Commisssioners of Bounty Fa ad, Scranton. COMMISSION DOUSES. HAZARD .& HirfaHlNgON, No. 112. CHESTNUT ST/M1 . 4 COMMISSION MERCHANTS, POE THE BALE OP rayl4-am] PHILADELPHIA-MOB GOODS STATIONERY & BLANK- s'uons. e•••••,...04.e.••••••••:"^" ww OOMPAITY DIREOTORYION caning a List of Companies. their Offices, Freilitertffs, Trealmrers.,and Secretailesi - We are also prepared to tarnish Sew Companies with _ • CERTIFICATES OF STOCK, TRANSFER . BOOK; ORDER OP TRANSFER, STOCK LEDGER, STOCK LEDGER BALANCES, REGISTER OF CAPITAL STOCK, DIVIDEND BOOK, BROKER'S PETTY LEDGER, ACCOUNT OF SALES, rood materials and at Low Prices. MOSS Sr, CO., NET ONES DRUG ROUSE. WRIGHT & SIDDALIs, so: ID KAMM STREET, Sstareea !=OJT and SECOND Street O. W. !MGM. DHUGGISTS, PHYSICIANS, AND GE* NgBAI. STOREKEEPERS Cali llnd it in establishment a Intl assortment of Imported and Domestic Drage. Popular Pa tent'Meclicines_. Paints, Coal Oil, Window Glass, 'Prescription Vials etc., at 0.13 low Pr/Maas geda, LILO; lisat•clase noOds can be cold. FINE ESSENTIAL OILS, por Confeitionovt, in full vitioty, and of UM Dent quality. Cochineal Bound Indio', Madder., Pot Ash. , Cndbear, Aih, Ahim. Op of Vitriol, Annat i to. Coppery, Itxtract of Lockwood, am., YOB DYERS' USE, Always on band at lowest net cash prices, ISULPHITE OF LIME, for keeping cider sweet ' s a perfectly harmless pre- Derain, pat up,. With full directions for nee, in . Paehree tioatataiaa auntie:it for one barrel. ' ' p romp t a ttention , ttlnii Quotations will be : farniiat wherg r uLt il at , or city poet will meet with IiVRIGHT et SIDDALL, . 1 . WHOLBSAIR DRUG WAREHOUSE, iN.13.9 MURK= Street, above FRONT. 414.thsta ROBBRT BRONMAKER & DO., N.E.Oorner of /OVUM and RAUB Streets, 771ILADELPErra, :011ESALE DRUGGISTS. ,OBTIREI AND DISALERS IN ►OREION AND DOMESTIO WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. 1111,17/1071J6L 1 41 0 S or u gAD Asp ZENO PAINTS, PUTTY, 4110 Aterltl - 101 TY(I CELMBILATRD Inutrica ZINO PAINTS. id and siminitmeri supplied at VIIIT LOW PRICES PR DASH, AMINET FURNITUriC ;T.NBT 11.5RNITIIRE AND BIL AED TABLES. MOORE ad CAMPION, No. 5461 SOIITII SECOND BTREET, L otion with their extensive Cabinet business, are anufaelnriog a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, td now on band s fall supply, finished with the & CiADIPIOn'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, are pronounced by all wbo have used them to rtOr SO en others. For the quality and finish of Abbe, the manufacturers refer to their name trona throughout the Union, who are familiar obtrudes of their work. apiQ•em G. BEDFORD WOULD xiattay urge that hti, old-established Real LASSt No. 1913 cAr...LowuuLL Street, and for the *Lie or purchase of property lacuna hones and ground rents, c. Send fel I y2-lre. .BXiES MIDDLETON, --- IR SECOND AND WI tol.ovP r' STßEET mEßCrtiri.*' PHILADXFAUIrd vota pdxobased and for Eta% • v 342111 I . E. W.4I.I.IRA.VEN, (SUCCESSOR TO W. R. CARRTL.) MASONIC HALL, no CHESTNUT STREET! WINDOW SHADES, - O.URTA.INS, MOSQUITO NETTINGS 171-If FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY. O. H. °LARS. President. Banners, Regimental and Company Flay, Words, Bashes, Belts, Passents, Epaulets, Hata, Caps. Can teems, Haversacks, Camp Bits, Field Glasses, Spurs, and eV iry thin g pertaining to the complete outfit or army and Navy Officers. EDWARD P. KELLY, Have *oW on land s somplets as3ortment 01 GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. IMPROVED PATTERN INEURT. WAXILAWIID TO FIT AND OIVS UTIMACTION. MADE BY JOHN C. NOB. 1 AND 8 NORTH SIXTH STRBRT, MAINDFACTURBE AND DBALBD Ift GENTLEKEN'S FINE DDRNISM3IG GOODS. MUM, ifIISLIN, and PLANIPEL SHIRTS and DRAWERS, COLLARS. STOCKS, TRAOTRIALLS 0 JIHIRTS, TIES, WRAPPERS, &a.. 80., aosnßy • -- oLoirEs. SCARFS susisrmrais j • HANDKEN.CHIEFR, SHOULDER BRACE% ks.. k. TINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY. ••• The subscribers would Invite attention to their IMPROVED CUT OF SfllhTS which they make a specialty la their bueiness. Also, sonotautly receiving NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR. J. W. SCOTT & CO., GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE. No. • Sl* CHESTNUT STREET Four doors below the Continental. ARCHER & REEVES, • WHOLESALE GRoclfis. No. 45 North WATER Street, and No. 46 Borth DILAWARE Avenue, Offer for sale, at the Lowest Market Prices, a large Mock of SHOdB, ' MOLASSES, COFFEE TEAS , SPICES, _ TOBACCO, And On:merles seneraltrienrernilT selected for the wintry trade. Sole Agents for the products of FITHIAN & POOII/Vir &utensil's Fruit Canning Fasten' at Bridgeton, N. J. ap2s.6in STATIONERS, 432 CHESTNUT Street r. H. BIDDLLL. . . . . . ' . - - • . , • . . . . , . . .• . 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IMIII IIIII .. •i i i,5.Z.06:: ,. ?. •-• • 4 ..••• -.. .„• • ../. ~. , ! 7.-- 411 " - ,:.:11-...,,...t...;.-‘,... 0 -4 , ..4...-- - :, A . t .., 4, 4. ..'• . .0 0 ...4*....-Itt ..- ir e -A pip , - -;____-. ..........: : :!h, ?,-_, ---=---..,---, ....: • .... - ___...... z ... • —...._ '. - Irr-,,‘,;;:1t . ,„..,,,:L PA . .i......k , ~,- ..., ....._ . ~.,._...„.. ...... . .. VOL. 7.-NO. 295. CERTAIN GOODS. ARMY GOODS. EVANS aro AEIASSAI&L, MILITARY FURNISHERS, 418 ARCH STREET, PHILA_DELPIILA A liberal discount allowed to the trade. Je9o-lm CLOTHING. JOHN KELLY; TAILORS, r(o. 512 CHESTNUT STREET; (JOESS' HOTEL.) LAI'S 1(2 SOUTH THIRD STIUSIM SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. &Olaf CONSTANTLY ON HAND, OP RIP OWN MANUPACTIZTER. Sold at reasonable pukes GROCERIES. iVrACKEREL, HERRING, 'SHAD, &o. bbls. Mass. Nos. 1,2, and 3 Meakerel,lat•• aught fat fla In aeaotted packages. 11,= bble. Skew Eastport, Fortune Bay, and Halifax Earring. • 2,600 boxes Lubec, Sealed, and No. 1 Hewing. bbls new Mess Shad. WO boxes Herkimer County Cheese. &a. In store and for male by MURPHY h KOONS, 1a1941 No. 140 NORTH WHARVES. P ICKLES. -100 BBLS. PICKLES, IN VINEGAR. 60 half Ws. llekles la Vinegar. Also, tbree•callon and live-gallon teas do. For sale by 11110 DES & WILLIAMS, tob2B 107 Sooth WATER Stre.et. S 11C0 TT aMAN & CO NO. 257 BROADWAY. NEW YORK., IMPORTERS OF MEN'S AI LADMS' GLOVES, GERMAN HD ENGLISH HOSIERY, MEN'S FTJRNISHING GOODS, LACES & DRESS TRIMMINGS, to which they INVITE THE WHOLESALE TRADE. jylo-Bm A CARD TO THE PUBLIC. CONGRESS SPRING. WATER DEPOT, 98 CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK. An attempt has been made to deceive the public by Persons offering what they call ' CONORESS WiTEE," rent fountains, and at-the prise of six (6) miaow . glass The wholesale price of the genuine CONGRESS WA TEL at New York, beteg abont 'Thicents per glass, the imposition of pretending to sell at retail at less than cost, and without allowance for freight, cartage, or breakage, is apparent; but their probable course has been to empty one bottle of genuine Congress Water Into a losibtain filedswith thereby shrietendiAs total contente. We have never sold CONGRESS _WATER in fountains, nor in vessels of any other description than ordinary. sized glass bottles. The cork of every bottle of the genuine is branded. And any without colianss those words and Jotters din the cork 0 w VATER. tan or bottler whether from foun• CLARKE'& WHITE, Proprietors of Congress Spring The following gentlemen are supplied by us regularly with genuine CONGRESS WATER in bottles, fresh from the Congress Spring: EROWN,'cor. Fifth and Chestnut sts. 0. S. HUBBELL, 1410 Chestnut st. J. C. TURNI"ENNY- dr. CO., 941 Spruce st. THOS. J, HUSBAND, ear. Thirdand Spruce sta. STEVENS CO., Continental Hotel. AMBROSE SMITH, Chestnut Bt. CHAS. ELLIS dt CO., Market WYETH BROS., Warnut st. WM. ELLIS ..1c CO., Chestnut et. jeialm CLARKE dt WHITE. T RE EXCELSIOR" HA:MS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. NONE OENUINE. UNLESS BRANDED J. R. N. J 3 CO., PIIIIKDA. EXCELSIOR." J. H. MICHENER Jc CO., GENERAL PROVISION DEALERS, AND CURERS OF THE CELEBRATED "10.XC'E."14Siila " SDOAR-CURED HANS, PrOe. 1415 and 114 North FRONT Street, Between Arch and Race streets, Philadelphia. The justly-celebrated " EiCELSIOR " HAMS are cared by J. H. hi. di Co. a style peculiar to them 'elm) expressly for ,FAMILY USE, are of delicious favor, free from the unpleasant taste of salt, and are Mt:Manned by epicures superior to any now offered for sale. . my2s-tuthsfut OLD WHISKY BBLS.--50 AND 20 balt-bbls Prtro OLD RYE WHISKY. VA 'Ms Pure OLD MatiO.NOMIELA. For sale by ' E. P. brIDDLETON, 175-01 ,* S North FIR= kitreet. Cl? ) ,e V 1155. The Excitement in the City Abated— MtMary Preparat lone for Defence— Why-the Gunpowder Bridge was not Totally Dent royed--Witshiuglon News. C6Decial Correspondence of The Press.) BALTIMORE:, July 12. The military excitement continues, but Baltimore has become so thoroughly subdued to what it works in," and so accustomed to the daily necessity of peril, and withal the weather Is so-hot during the day that, excepting tho military feature, the city is • without unusual life, and slumbers nightly without alarm. The military authorities have been more anxious, and the real pulse of the city must be felt at headquarters. Yesterday rumors were rife around the office of the provost marshal and the command log general, but the intention of the rebels, as re gards Baltimore. Ss apparently unknown. A num ber of rebels have been captured in the city—one, gaunt, tall, innocent-looking boy, with a mine of concealed knowledge, which it was impossible to ox idate. Yesterday afternoon a private of an Ohio regi meet arrested a surly, bushy-headed, hangdog looking fellow on the charge of being a spy ; but the supposed culprit brought evidence that ho had been in the Government employ at Guy's house for a month past, and it Is not known what will be done with him. The natural suspicion that rebels have entered the city dressed in citizen's Olothos, and that certain virulent Seeeeslonists have held com munication with the enemy is genoralland well founded, as would appear, from the foregoing cases. Out-parties of the raiders or invaders have been within a mile or two o: the city. Yesterday near noon a party of amateur cavalrymen at Charles-avenue Market show-pound, riqt far beyond the suburbs, wore . set upon with whoop and yell by twenty troopers, who gobbled up, it is said, just ono more than their own number. There has been some rea son for apprehending that any moment the rebel cavalry, under leaders once better known in the neighborhood of Baltimore than anywhere else South, would stake a mad break through the city for the pure devilment of putting torch to one or • mannhouses, and for the chivalric luxury of having' It to brag eypr. The able portion of the loyal popula tion is thoroughly earnest, and aro doubtless ready to make any such adventure worse than running the gauntlet, if possible. More assurance prevails now than before. Riekett's command, the heroes of the battle at. the Monocacy, have arrived, and all the reliable forces are posted beyond the works, and picketing a considerable distance beyond the city. A gentleman who had charge of the Government property saved through his exertions from the raid on Frederick, thinks that there is no doubt the rebels Intend to reach near Baltimore in tome, the corps of 20,000 strong which we fought near Erode. rick being a detached force altogether from any other, and operating solely for the purpose, accord ing to every appearance. The battle at Illonocacy Was no doubt unusually severe, but it might have been less severe in results had our troops (6,500 in number) seized Urns to entrench themselves. The rebels nunueuvred end gained possession of a commanding hill, from which they raked our lines. Nothing could be braver than the con duct of Ricketts and his command, and the per3onal gallantry and earnestness of General Wallace is ' highly praised. Many of the hundred-days men were gallant, but broke. Glendenning's Illinois Cavalry, Ishii* I saw lying almost worn out with the terrible toll of the week past, have rendered the service of three times their number. They are but two hundred and fifty, veterans all, however, and have done, Miley], all the important and reli able work of scouring, &c. It is not strange that Governor Bradford's, Collector Corkren's, and many other dwellings very near:the city have been, burned, when the manageable force of cavalry Is so- small. These brave fellows were so worn out with their heavy work, that on coming Into the city on Sunday the horses, as often as the riders, gave way from exhaustion. The Infantry was no less worn down, and quite a number fell in. the tracks. However, the gallant garrison here is now as brisk and hearty as ever, and since the arrival of the ve teran Gen. E. 0. C. Ord, has the inspiration of three good commanding soldiers. Gen. Ord is cheerful of the future, and believes that Baltimore will do Its duty should the rebels try a nearer inspection of our fbrtifications. This is still a matter of doulit in the public mind. The burning of the Gunpowder-creek bridge of the Baltimore and Philadelphia road has chiefly earned. apprehensions for the safety of Baltimore... This damage was effected by Major er Colonel Harry 01.1reore, whose father, residing a little out or the suburbs, has been promptly put under arrest, having, it is understood, been• conversant with the designs of his son. The Gunpowder bridge could. have been burned ,between Sunday evening and Monday morning, had the rebels been as ready to. ,tear up rails as they were to drink whisky. The, whole of Gilmore's party (a battalion strong) stop ped at Townsontown, and without further ado pre- ceeded to get drunk, and then bask away their debauch. On Monday at eleven they stopped the train at Magnolia, about ono mile from Gun powder creek, tore up some of the track, left the pos sengers without any noted robbery, moved the Loco motive and cars on the .long bridge over the creek, and set the train and bridge on lire. Four Button cars, one passenger car, one Philadelphia baggage, and one. Camden and Amboy baggage car, and the locomotive, were destroyed. The mails were doubt less taken hold of, but 1 doubt If any extraordinary prize has fallen into the rebel hands,'unless It be Gen. Franklin, who, we hear, was for a surety a captured passenger on his way through to Wash ington. Gunboats were reported to have been in their way in time to prevent the accident to the bridge, hut arrived too late to frighten the rebels away. Men were urgently needed to protect the railroad bridge, but beyond a handful of men no such defence had been sent forward. Stirring news comes in from Washington. The city Is sustaining a siege, according to all accounts. The arrival there of the whole of Wright's corps Is reported. Lieutenant General A. P. Hill assails the capital, while Early and Brecklarldge are in our front. Passes arc stopped, and it. is next to impossible to reach Philadelphia, while the putting of the lines of the railroad to Washington is hourly expected. Baltimore and Washington are alike threatened with assault. Philadelphia should wake up. The rebels in force are supposed to be within about fifteen miles of the city, or hare been approaching Washington Junction, on the Baltimore and Ohio road, about nine miles. To that point is the tele graph intact. The management of the Baltimore and Ohio road, in these trying cireu mstances, merits the highest praise. Prescott Smith, ono Of the most accomplished railroad men in this country, is still running the trains with a daring and caution honor able to railroad enterprise at a time like this, and hls. shrewd experience of railroad matters assists the counsels of the military. Thanks are due to . ktr. Edward. Potts, secretary of tho master of traria ' perbition, for the Courteous manner in which in formation has been rendered to the press. The Rebel Advance on Washin^^ton—The Operations of last litiorlay—Sitirinisit lug on the Seventh-streei Road. The Washington Chronicle of Tneqday morning says : Visiting Tenallytown yesterday to ascertain the trutti of the various rumors respecting the rebel ad vance, me found that our cavalry, under command of IVlnior Fry; have been - stubbornly contesting their advance, retreating only when flanked by superior SARATOGA; , Jnly, 1669. Sunday afternoon they fought from 3 o'clock to fl P. AL, and were driven c haek but five mites. Yes terday, at the time of our visit, the rebate wore kept, at, bay two or three miles Out of Tennallytown. .flet Tenallytoen, as might beexpeeted, there was Form excitement, and every now and then a wouirded soldier was brought in. Several, whose names we are unable to learn, were said to - have been severely injured• the day ?revlous, and left at At the hotel at Tenallytown we found the follow ing wounded, viz.: Captain F. M. Plant, Company E, 2d New York Cavalry ; Lieutenant R. L. Fos, . 22d New York Cavalry ; Jacob Haines, 4th New York Cavalry ; John Gavindaw, Company E, stla New York Cavalry ; Graham G. Scott, Company DI, 6th Michigan Cavalry.; Frederick S. Robinson, Company 0, lst Connecticut Cavalry ; Peter Berry, Company .51, let Connecticut-Cavalry,, and John VainieVer, , sth New York Cavalry. The large clouds of dust arising beyond the rebel Fldnilish• line gave strong evidence of the move ment or considerable bodies of rebel troops. The rebel skirmishers hail a battery of 3-inch, rifles. A Ellen from 'one of them struck the house of Mr. Birch, out about two and a .nuarter. miles, on the Imolai.), setting it on fire. His son, a boy of about twelve years, 'escaped from it by jumping upon his father's horse and riding across the fields, the road being blocked by the lire of the rebels, The force In our front was estimated at several thousand. • Is .cousraisistr7 Tho President, accompanied by the Secretary of' War, encouraged our troops by their presence, and were loudly cheered. From Tenallytown we proceeded to Fort Stevens, formerly Fort Massachusetts, on the Seventh-street road, about live miles trom the city, and on the way passed large bodies of troops moving to meet the, invaders, who maintained U. strong skirmish line In Our hnimeillUte front. - About two o'clock there was some very severe skirmishing, the rebel sharpshooters, under cover of the Louses in the vicinity, 'haring,._ advanced to within thirty or forty rods or the fort. The 25th Ite- Itiment New York Cavalry, Commanded by Major McPherson, gallantly advanced" itS Skirmishers; dis mounted, and drove them from the Louses, which were then col - omitted to the names, as they obstruct ed the range ul the guns of the fort. Among the houses destroyed were Messrs. Rich ard Butts', Win. Boll's; .5. Melnicsney's, Shoemaker's. and the house occupied by the family of the Into Vt'in. M. Morrisoh. We also learn that some others have been burned by the opposing per- Oilier regiments arrived, and, by severe skirmish ing, cur nice, during the afternoon, forced the rebel lino back about halt a mile. A number wore wound ed, but we could learn the names only of George Etectu, Co. F, 25th Now York Cavalry, and Orderly Sergeant Henry Nofus, Co. E, 25th Now York Ca valry. Others were said to 00 upon the field, but could net be brought.ollin consequence of the close proximity of the rebel sharpshooters. Our soldiers seemed perfectly confident of their ability to roslet any attack that the rebels Might dare to make. Dr.§ORIPTION OF Tim 510113111311. BY AN ,BYE-WIT An eye-witness, vim watched the skirmish opera 7 tion in front of Fort Stevens, formorly Massache• peas, out via tho sovont•s(reot, Nutt for peyoral THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1804 BALTIMORE. WASHINOTON. I'Mr. , PILF.SIbKNT VISITS Tlfr. IoTiONT SKIMUSEING BEFORE FORT STEVENS PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1864. hours yesterday afternoon, furnishes us the follow ing facts: A number of houses in the vicinity of the fort were burned in order to prevent their being used as rebel defences. Tho house near by the fort was do stnaynd bat our Informant ensconced himself In a shod from which he had a clear view of illhat was going on. Our skirmishers were thrown out from the tort, and gradually compelled the enemy to fall back. Their skirmish lino was very heavy, and kept up a brisk fire, especially from the under growth on the right of the road beyond the toll-gate and the house nearby, which was fairly alice with rebels. Two of our men were brought in dead, and seve ral wounded, and our fire evidently told severely on 'them, es be saw quite a number of them drop. The air was filled with the odntlnuous popping of guns, and balls whistled in Inconvenient proximity. Largo bodies of rebels were visible In the road in the vicinity of F. P. 131ftir's gateway, about two miles distant, and they were evidently Air force, though ho could discover no batteries. There was one sharpshooter who was in the ad vance of our skirmishers; screened by the fence corner and the slight rise aground, who was par ticularly active and did effective execution ; ho be longed to the District, but our Informant did not learn his name. Our mon displayed great coolness and manifested the utmost confidence. ' - Towards six o'clock the veterans from the l'Figlat ing Sixth" began to deploy as skirmishers, and soon the rebels commenced falling hack ; and before he loft, which was not long after, they had been driven from their position and tercelflack a mile and a half from the front, In the vicinftylrof Silver Spring, the residence of Dir. Blair. The rebels could not stand their dashing, continuous are. They know them of old, and they gave way, as they have often done before. . A few shell wore discharged at Inter vals from Stevens and the adjoining forte, bait they were not returned. A \WIT. TO WITHIN TWO HUNDRED AND PIETY YARDS OP THE REBEL LINES-AVIIAT WAS At about eight o'clock last night the present writer set out from Washington proper with a cost proton du voyage, for the purpose or seeing and re porting all that was to bo seen and heard a few miles out Seventh street, whore the fighting' be , tween our forces and the rebels was understood to bo in progress. The atmosphere at • that time was cool and balmy, alter the heat and burden of the day, and within the city the usual, and by no means decreased string of loiterers and promenaders was enjoying Itself With all its accustomed serenity. For the first two or three miles of the routo the equipages which continually passed •us wore more suggestive of plc-nies and other parties of pleasure than of excursions made for the purpose of gratify log a terrible and important curiosity. Approach ing the first toll-gate, however, matters 'assumed a Inure involved and agitated appearance. Men were present there who had been driven in from their homes, and who had lett all their valuables behind. Along - the fences lighted candles wore stuck, and in aunt of the houses household groups were pre paring a domestic barricade, packing up furniture and loading muskets. Along the road wagon after wagon, filled' with furniture and all household utensils, begin to move, families trudging behind, or accommodating them selves as hest they can amongst the baggage. Bon fires, &Om time to time, flash and glow along the roadside, and fields filled with baggage-wagons suggest the deadly purse in connection with which they arc there: front time to time the dust blows in thin cloudit, and after a while, having passed squads of soldiers and any number of solitary horsemen, you aro snddenly brought to by senti nel, who declares that .by no manner of means can you be allowed at present to proceed further, be you who you may. Having remained in this predicament for half an hour, you aro permitted to proceed upon your er rand but not without first remarking the number of burning houses around. The station at which the sentinel Is lodged is 'oss' Tavern. Butz's place has been burned, and like huge bonfires, other buildings are burning in its vicinity. Pickets are posted one mile and a quarter ahead. The shooting began between eight and nine yesterday morning, and, being continued, our pickets had a rough time in getting in. As you proceed, fresh accumula tions of cavalry beset- the road. And fet the scene is so peaceful-looking, and serene withal, that it is almost impossible to Comprehend .it as ono of conflagration and blood. The moonlight just as silvery flecks the leafy foam of the green forest, the summer air Just as murmuringly modulates its voice as though the times were these of peace, and the past one Of untroubled delight. The sentry passed, the moonlit road . becomes every moment more animated. Bodies of cavalry and infantryare moving along it, lights flame in the distance, tintl.at last it is not only the flash you see, but the whizzing of the ball you hear, and you are told, with the re bels only two hundred and fifty yards in advance, that you cannot proceed further, and that you aro very fortunate It' you get back without a bullet through YOU. All this happening in the dreamy hare of moon light, It Is a matter. of sheer impossibility fur the practical reader to realise that rho audacious rebels were last night in close proximity to him, and that by an hour's ride he might hear their bullets whis tling about his ears. Those of one men who have been wounded have been kindly cared for. Indeed, the last man to whom we spoke, near a moonlit bevy of Unison soldiers, had just killed and roasted a chicken or two with which to tempt the palate of some wounded brethren. 'To-day will evoke something nett in this phase of the rebellion. But, whatever the future may de velop, no greater strength and valor will be evinced, than aro waiting for their opportunity to-day. Historic Lessons. Just Italia century ago a hostile fleet appeared in Chesapeake Dlg and landed on the.Paturont a couple or brigades, which random vigorous mesh on the Federal metropolis. They were confronted at Bladensburg by a hastily collected Union force, mainly composed of lUarytand militia, which ought to have arrested their progress, but served rather to accelerate it. The British speedily etiased the shin tered remains into Washington, which they soon • left behind in a wild, mad mirror life. Theßritish pursued no further, but burning, the public edldcea and stores, with the establishment of the Govern ment printers, returned to their ships as intrrietily as they came. 'rhermext mule an attempt on Bal timore, but were repulsed, and their commander slain. They then took themselves off, and made no further serious eemonstration In that quarter. We had then been more than two years at war, with checkered fortunes, on the whole, with in different success. We lutrlcommenced thestruggle utterly unprepared : and under indifferent military leaders. The Government, it was generally felt, had not evinced decided - rigor and energy in the prosecution of the struggle. The public expectation had nut been fulfilled by its progress. rho people had, In large measure, become dishertrtaned and inert. A powerful and native party clamored loud ly for peace—peane on may terms. A. separation of 'certain disaffected States from the Union was loudly demanded. The country seemed on the brink of dis soldition or ruin. Its credit was at a low ebb, and its currency rapidly depcaciating. Government obli gations, drawing twelve per cent. interest, were sold at a heavy discount, though paid for in the depre ciated paper 01 insolvent banks. On every side, dis content, discouragement, and apathy, wore mani fested, and the final catastrophe seemed Imminent. The raid On Washington changed all this as if by magic. The Opposition increasingly denounced the incompetency, imbecility, and Impotence of the Ad ministration, clamoring loudly for peace; but the people did not respond. They may have blamed or pitied their rulers ; but they rallied for the salva tion of their Government. Porthivith, unwonted triumph began to gild their banners. A formidable British expedition, under Sir George Provost, was arrested at Platteburg, the co-operating fleet de stroyed: and the land iorce hurled back into Canada defeated and shattered. Blow after blow, well aimed, went home to the vitals of th 3 enemy, until, at New Orleans, a few months afterward, the con test was closed by a fearful and sanguinary British defeat, and pence once more gladdened our exulting countrymen. And nothing had so much contributed to revive our national spirit, and thus insure these great successes, as that very raid on Washington which was fondly expected to hasten and confirm our national overthrow. For years we have been hoping that the rebels would assail Washington City.. Their Secretary of War threatened its capture directly after the redue. tion of Fort Sumpter. They might easily have taken it the day after their initial triumph at Bull Run. They ought to have assaulted it directly after their victory over Pope on nearly the same ground. At last—three years after they should have dono it— they-have made theirrush on the • Federal Capital. We rejoice at this • for, whatever the ilVeitlill,te re sult we are sere that theultimate consequences can, not fall to conduce to a conclusive National tri umph.—N. Y. Tribune. • Experiences on the Captured Philadel• phis Train. To the Editor of The Press : Stn: It may be interesting to the readers of your paper to learn something of the particulars concern mg the capture of - the trains of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad on Monday morning by the rebels. The writer being one of the "captured party," can speak advisedly on the sub ject. Our train loft Washington Olty at 7.30 A. M. on Monday, arriving at Baltimore about 0 o'clock, at which place a large number of passengers, many of whom were ladles, came aboard the train. Leav ing Baltimore about 10 o'clock we proceeded to and crossed the Gunpowder river in which we saw the gunboat Juniata, mounted with one gun, lying near by, as a passenger informed mo, for the purpose of " guarding . the bridge." After crossing, the river and passing the "station house," whore all ap t . peered quiet as nixie], we proceeded about a quarter of a mile to where the railroad makes a curve, soon after passing which, the passengers observed a fire' ahead 01 us, somewhere between a half and three quarters of a mile distant, the railroad track being straight from the curve In question to the "Magnolia Station." After passing perhaps three-' fburths the !Bataan-from where the are was plainly • td be Seen, to where it was, wo observed perhaps ten or fifteen armed men come out of the bushes, after which the brakes were put. on, anti the cars stopped immediately. Rad the brakes been put on and the engine reversed when the fire was first aeon, the train could have been run back before coming within gunshot of the robbers. The tire alluded to was caused by the burning of the train which had lett Baltimore two hours before. The smoke War plainly to be seen from the steamboat and house at the Gunpowder Bridge, yet, strange to say, no sig nal was made by eithermvarning the train of danger' ahead. The night previous fifty-olght men had ar rived and pitched their tents at the bridge, on the north side of the river, and they, taking the alarm,. were kindly taken on board.the Juniata. The 'nest ludicrous part of the affair was, that those fifty-, 'eight soldierS, sent from Wilmiegton M. guard the bridge,. ran away as soon as possible after the rebels. arrived in the neighborhood; and on the writer ask fug ono of the robbers if they expected to burn the bridge over the Gunpowder, he replied : " We shall not go down Mar, but Will set fire to your train and Start it oil In that direction, and we think it will set ,tits to the bridge (which it did most effectually), as we don't want to got. into a fight with the Yankee- Soldiers stationed /hay." And they did not go there: The tents of the "Yankee soldier!'" were still stand leg.when we arrived et the river in the evening,just as theyhad been loft. These fifty-eight mon should be looked after by the authorities who sent them there. They could have saved our train from destruetion bad they Acme their duty. There were not "Ofeisixty men engaged in cepturingand destroying.onr train; and at nu time ware there over sixty 'rebels insight alter we arrived and _were captured... The Telegraph says "the citizens were courteously treated ;" and so. far as actual Injury of person is concerned, they wore; but while a part of the rob bers wore engaged In doing the polite to the robed women whittle, others were robbing citizens' tiunks. One lady lost all her clothing, jewelry, and a set of . dianionds worth 52,000. She subsequently recovered a tine velvet cloak which a rebel had presented to one of the reholwothen. Speaking of the rebel women,it does seem strange that they should bo allowed to run at large In our country. They openly shared thereontents of their lunch-baskets and brandy-bottles with these ban- dittl, and oven gave them keepsakes, together with their addresses; and one of these actually assisted in hunting out the trunks of our soldiers, and distri buting their clothes among her friends, the rebels. ]n fact, they seemed to particularly enjoy the whole affair ; and these same women are . now being enter tained in your beet hotels in the most obsequious uininter. A ih r issTExtu • - . PRILADELPIITA, July 13, 1861 EXTUAORIYINARY TIMIIMTL—A lot of choice. tim ber, such as - We sometimes "read of," but seldom Fee, has been lying at the Michigan Control dock, Detroit, awaiting shipment. it Is principally black walnut, and was cut In the vlciniay of Dowaglao. Ono of the sticks is 67 inehes square, and a number of others are very nearly equal In size. Owing to tho formidable size of the trees, wood-chopperalong hesi tated about going In,” but finally, under the tempta tion, we. suppose, of tto " high price of g n id,7 the monarchs of the forest wore laid low. They afford a fair example of what Michigan can do in the way of DatiTe prodUCLlOns. Will there be War? From tlie London Times, June 27.] The question, divested of the obscuring circum stances which months of discussion and passionate recrimination have thrown round It, is simply this: Is England hound by positive stipulations, or morally, or in honor, to go to war with Prussia and Austria for the purpose of driving their troops from Schleswig, or from that part of it which lies north of tho line of the Seidel, or from that part of IL which we may.concelve that an arbitrator would have awarded to Denmark If such a. mode of settling the dispute had been adoptall ,In thus putting tho question, ire dismiss, as unnecessary, to be discussed, the consideration whether the eoveranee of smiles wi and Holstein, or any part. of them, from Denmark would be so injurious to ourselves that wo ought to enter into continental , witr to. avert it, for no reasonable man can imagine that it will make the smallest dillerenee to .T.Mgland, or to any State in Europe, if Schleswig be added to the Confedera tiou as Holstein was ot.lf the two bo governed with or without political connection with Copen hagen. Whether there bean sAugustenburg Or a Olecksburg on the throne, — the inhabitants will breed their cattle,,and we atoll buy them'; their nuttiest wants in the way of, manufactures will be equally supplied by English'exporters ; and they will keep the• even tenorof ; their ,way pretty meek .as they have done before, - In their sequestered corner of Europe. " The German Confederation, with all its theatrical enthusiasm, the Prussian State, with all its propensitiesliofiillltary domineering, arc notilangerouk to the wkld., The would-be Musco vite policy of Merlin Is alreak imitation, and need frighten no one, fch , bah prussia, 'and her sister °Bender Austria orb fatmOrddikely to lose Uteri to gain, to be the viettmaViart _the spoliators for the. next ten years. SO' far from seeing with terror the addition of Schleswig tee-the Confederation, it will not we believe, give the slightest uneasiness to ordinary 'Englishmen. The Material Interest, there fore, of England in tbe - •campaign which was to begin yesterday' is abiolutely nothing. 'However much we may syuipathtse with '.Denmark, and re gret the violence anti colatourpt for public lawshown by her adversaries, it eighs make no difference to us how the campaign enditprovlded that, it is confined to the mainland., . . . Such befog the state of affairs, wehnve been called ' upon to mediate, In cofijunctlon with France and /tussle, between - the contending parties, with the view of bringineteein to terms. We have found Prussia overbearing, and' Denmark obstinate. We have failed ideally [nous endeavors to snake peace, and have earned the usual reward- of mediators— the hostility of. hoth the combatants. What, then, remains to bo clonal When a man, sees a tight be. Wean two others so unequally matched In also and strength' as to leave no doubt as to the result, his any. impuige is to interfere on behalf of the weaker side. He does not, however, rush precipitately Into the conflict, but endeavors to separate the combatants and learn the douse of the quarrel. Ills interest In the affair is greatly strengthened if he tindaShat both parties are not very distantly,.related 'to himself. Hader these circumstances what can ho do better than try to pacify .the goiabatants, and Induce each of them CO abate seeigelot or his pretensions I Should one, however prErfe obstinate and the other over:' bearing, and.betb. :agree In refusing his mediation;, what can ho do' but retire from the thankless' office of peacemaker, and leave them to fight it out. by themselves I.' De may feel, Indeed, that the cause of the weaker side ought injustice to prevail ; but, unless he -Is: armed willt• legal authority, he will probably anitain froth any further-Interference, and content ithnself with' takin'g' any precautions that may be.necessary to prevent the stronger side from abusing his victory, ills ntrunient: - Wo'have not disguised our opinion that:Germany is pursuing' a selfish and unscrupulous.. Hey, which may one day recoil upon herself lott lon:r sta she Osborn; from acts which would threw- - the of this coun try, we do not preten4q6liaie*any right to control her conduct. We do go,to war for an idea. We t o do not say that-there y.nakte.eireuesstances un der which the , mere co ado' of a national wrong would demand the liaterforencltra other nations to redress it. 'lint theseit 're otemdkns whop the ambi tion of some pOweritiPStaliWinvolves a common dagger, and eosistitutether a eanunon enemy. Such cannot be said to be thaense lathe present instance. Ills the Interest. oft Europe tluit - Germany should ~be strengthened raddir than weakened : and though we deplore her Internal divisfOrts, and aro disgusted with her arrogant treatment.ora weak though pug nacious neighbor, we should feel a state of hostility between us to be le,ealamlty which nothing but the most paramount necessity would warrant us In incurring. The only reason,enovhich could induce us to accept the alternat of war is, that we are In p e sonic way bound to enmark, and must consequent ly give its Government armed assistance, or violate international obligations. which should be sacred: We think thistiLtite moat scrupulous examination of what has passed both in former years, and since the death of the late Bing of Denmark, will fail to show any obligation of this . kind. It seems to us clear that the people of this coantry are per fectly masters of their Own policy, and entitled to consider their own honor and interests in the course they may take. .It certainly cannot be said that any claim' to assistance can be founded on the treaty of ISt& , It contained no guarantee, and only bound us, in common with other "Euro peen Powers, to respect the t}lucksburg Sueee3- sten whenever It should accrue. But do the re cent negotiations give the Danes a better claim i We think not. It there were any casual words which at the begizufirtrof the dispute may have Inspired the DaneYwith false hopes, they have long since been neutralised by the prudent advice which our Government has tendered them, and by the warnings which It has continually urged upon them during the progress of the struggle that mediation and peaceful good offices were the limit of the assistance it could afford. Certainly, In advising the retiree:tent/from Holstein, the repeal of the Patentorlfrarelrrfed of the November Con 'stitution, andrinaLlytiwurrender of the part of Schleswig moth or the rfewerke, the British Go vercuteut rattier indlegiteCto the Danes Its belief in their helplessness than held out to s thein a hope that their arms would be aldrid:lsy those atingland. The protocols of the Coffee tie' , anti the (ensuing de; . 1 bates wilt,,we believe, thit;whatevoist iner blots may lie hit in the act• or a long n ti I . Bon. the nation will be found to have contra ,41.'np,„ such obligations as can notke it • neeeetery r ter honor tdabendon a:peutrallty whieketyperienee has shown to be wise.' t # - t. . ',.r. , - . Tho House o Minions. [Prom the.Lendon 'r The decorous reciery which the press Is ac eustotsed to aniintalu - cis to the appearance of the House of Cleo:Mona derlng.,the delivery of lengthy harangues IS sometimes rendered of no avail by the indiscretion of inetviduell.members. So long as a speech is reported with interjected breaks of 1 . hear ~ and "laughter," She confiding public Is apt to be lieve that the benches Ore all full, the house closely . parked, and that the 'speaker Is addressing a.'nu. menus and atteatiye audience. If army time the house should be...counted out," the faithful consti tuents can only account for so unlikely an occur rence as the non-attendance{ of forty tnekbers out of six hundredand fifty-six . by a strong suspicion that some strange machinery was put in motion by. the Government to produce a desired effect. It does, however, so happen that some of the most spirited and determined Contests, especially upon Irish questions, take place in very thin houses. Al though there are 4 hundred Irish members of the House of Commons, it will Sometimes occur that a debate which draws forth an immense amount of excitement cannot draw together an audience of twenty Irish and English members to listen to It; and speeches which are thought to express the very throes and spasms 01 Ireland's agony can hardly attract or detain half a dozen oilier representatives to emphasize the points with their cheers. FRENCH Ortmox or our: FIOIITINO.—In tho leading articles of the French press the greatest astonishment- Is expressed at the Immense number of forces engaged, as well as the courage and en durance displayed by both sides. The .reneral tone of these articles may be learned from &e following eXt met from La Prease: The two groat parties in America which have been contending ter throe consecutive years for Union or Seco...Sion have at last. succeeded in at tracting thenniveratil attention of the Old World by the magnitude of their struggle, which surpasses anything that history has made us acquainted with. Xerxes and Darius had under their command lark armies, but never did their troops contend for an %Mire week, without giving signs of exhaustion and discouragement., We have examples of battles Mating three days, but in no cage have battles endured longer than that time without the combatants having changed .their position. Either one side or the other has re -In:tined master of the field by the flight or destruc tion of.its enemy. It has. Wien to the lot of the United States to give to the world this spectacle, as if to.prove that In war, as well as in other respects, she takes_the lead. " • • Whatever may be the result of this contest, ft leave behind it a memorable proof of the in domitable courage - of the Americans. No longer ran the absurd, reproach be raised against the Northern armLthat it is composed of mercenaries. /Mercenaries *Vet light battles lasting an entire week. • • s,:s„ . . • APPEAL 13 'XICOLTOAT: STSTERTTOOD.—"The Suporioress o a Sisterhood of St. Joseph," a so ciety in connect — ion with the Established Church, in iletter to ftielkfornino Post, makes an urgent rpaanni Jet assiStanoe. .The Superioress says : ', We luive.n housekst Telington-3 Ockbly.eresecut, City ipatlwbure'Senteist women and children, bout boys , and git i orphans and foundlings, are re ceived. A sidle is 'placed in the recess of the porch, in whie,h*the wretched women may place their Infants, as offtlin Continent, and by ringing a bell inform - the .eleferi that another soul claims their ' care. We .by this menus, to lessen la some tuMtsufe the. 'yolting ' crime of child-murder. At .fil‘iseick .w re. a email house, containing a ly- I t f, , ing-lu ward rivromen who have alien for the first time, and a laundry; to give employment to ourout es tit fetnaleiV Tlie Stidetf of St. Joseph is at pro sent small,d few inew the privations we have undergone rlpg the last few months. Now wo zi aro trinkin :progress, and now friends daily come forward to t. p us, but, alas, we have bitter ene mies and is,;. back debt; and though we are now paying offyeekly Instalments of our debt, which will soon byrithiS means be liquidated, religiousani. rens bas urged one of our,oreditors to put an cxocu ;don in ourhouse at Chiswick; thinking to do a good work by extinguishinga. society of 'Sisters of Mercy.' They have...seized possession' of our laundry, and so deprived us the means of gaining a living for our .podr wornenotzal have been prevented our sending :our tins rot , the broken victuals we weekly collect from the liousea of the-rich, and on which we live. £lOO will let - tis freeiand allow our work to go on ; will you, therefore, Insert this letter, and I doubt not our Master willput it Into the hearts of sumo of your our; to aid usl" Tit 1.: KING Or OBERON AND TAP. 0 eNTENARI AN.— The correspondent of the Daily News, describing the recent tour of King George of Greece '.through his dominions, mentions a very Interesting incident whirls occurred• at the villlnge of Akhlndo-Kambo. The villaArs did all in their power to make the few hours of his Majesty's stay pass agreeably. The restivitles, ,, "" got up d Pimprooiste, cunoluilod with the national • donee, in#which men, women, and children,: joined heartily. At this moment the 'KM Sppreached an old man, who was (lanc ing Mr Mra etordinary virallty, and asked his age.lThe oldlnan replied, "Only ono hundred and ten, ere," taking oft his cap; and: his hair,. thick and Iprig, and o 1 snowy whiteness, flowed down his 'shoulders. The , Hing inquired miler his health and could not forbear admiring the snowy hair of Sucheitraordinery length and whiteness. "Sire," said the old Man, . " I still retain all my facul ties, "Ilnd what a : happiness ! the Lord has 'spared - me to look upon your angel face." The Mug took the cap Tram tho centenarian's hand, and put It , on his aged head, patting him at the same time on he shoulder. This action moved the old man 4.9 tears. He caught the king's hand, kissed it repeatedly, and said, " May the Lord, sire, cucoll the yen:Minder' of my days and add them to ' Yotir precious - life." "And mine," "and mine," . was repeated by all around. And thou loud shouts of "Long, live OUT own Basilan," " Long IWO our most beloved Basilea," rose upon all sides, and were returned by the mountain echoes until the en tire atmosphere Was made vocal with the sounds. Ircarrwrous SWilintat.-4,. few days since a woman entered a grocery store In this city and called for a pound of coffee, which, when put up, she threw into en earthen jar whioh she carried in her apron. Upon looking for her money, she could not and it, and npologizingly stated that aim had left her pocket book at home. She would leave the jar containing the coffee for a low minutes, however, and return with the money and pay the' bill. After waiting a reasonable length of time the proprietor looked into the jar, when, to his astonishment, he discovered that it bad no bottom I' The ooffoo had of course dropped Into her apron and boon carried away. It Is needless to state that site did not return and re ticent the jar,—Newark Adverl:4er, CALIFORNIA. Robberies of Treosnre—ltinssnere by In- SAN FIIATICIACO, July 11.—SInco the late robbery of Wells, Fargo, & Uo•'s Express, on the Washoo ronto, when *21,000 was taken, several other robbe ries of llko character have takon place at other points in the Sate. It. largo portion of the treasuro just. stolen, which was hoary silver bullion, has been found whore the highwaymen buried it. General McDowell has ordered a detachment of troops for the protection of the mail route between Sacramento and Virginia City. Tho depression In mining stocks continues, and bids 'fair to last a consldernblo time. Tho paying mines of Weihoe are retrenching. The fooling In favor of more economy gains ground. The steamer Pacific, from Oregon and British Columbia, with 9 , 250,000 in gold, has arrived. Tho mining operations are reported favornblo. The massacre of twenty-two whites by Indians in Quesnilla county is reported. 1.177011 TS TO COMPLETX TIER OANANCITE--113517E 0? vsoiyns IN NEVADA. SA;f liter's:2mm July 12.—Tho Supervisors kayo paffiled an ordinance pledging the faith of the city for the payment of $OO,OOO in gold to such citizens as will nilvance it, to linden the compidtion of the moni tor Camonetie. The contractors say they will be gin putting her together immediately, and recall theirproposed abandonment of the contract. The Nevada Constitutignal Convention has adopted a section authorizing the Issue of bonds at the rate of *50,000 per mile, In aid of the Pacific Rnilroad, within tho limit of the Stato—tha wholo amourit. not to exceed *3,000,000. Arrived, ship White Swallow, from Now York. Sailed, ship Chapman, lbr Callao. Receipts of bullion since July Ist, *1,600,000. Small demand for exchange, and the money Mar ket Is easy. • NEW TORE OHL NEW YORK, July 1311364 (Special Correspondence of The Preb.s HAYOR GUNTHER PROTESTING The excitement in this city, incident upon the re bel raid on the North; teems to increase rather than to abate. While' the. militia regiments are prepa ring to hurry on to the defence of threatened points, Mayor Gunther adds to the teviwish feeling of the people, by seladinkte General Sandford his protest against any,fc 'nil& emasculation of the city, by for wardipktinF, troops against the enemy. He sue. ,pectsP2o.4l2zorking classes, disgusted with the Apictiiitlr%fi - biir currency, may rise in their ab ....ltinde;lrtivor so to ameliorate their circum stittices„bya neral spoliation of the well-to-do, that the, sin • the gold-gamblers may be averted frotifiliffir. Oillders at:least. This protest could le not' IliivV•l3otilirfore thoionghly ill-timed. The working clke t sbsts a botlYAre , far from harboring any such sinisifis,intentions i,but.H•the Mayor un wittingly allowsjiimielf to ct ttm.partof Mephisto pheles, E tandin..ir at iggieelawf.'aiiil suggesting the evil, there Is ,no telliiigl'erltiV titEoilingoznont the disaftected few may dertver. fiern;fhinr. This is a poor febrifuge to administer, ,Iwhen th e, , fever I s . already at. its height. . .. ' ..• ...4 , - C a l 1.ai *C .." .. " ti In answer to this protest, orie in S , t • l.!ti h t s made a reply, somewhat 'caustic VI. 1 . 1 . r which ho alleges that no more thou thirty-fiyo lien. Bred men are required for Governmental purmet, , while twelve regiments are retained. What, then, , the player intends by the publication of this protest . it is hard to understand. Perhaps he may littio• some undiscovorable object in view, as possibly had Governor Seymour when he observed signs of . .a. servant-girl insurrection. "A mad world, my Inas,: tors." - Reference has previously boon made to the crowd ed state of our bonded warehenses. It is an observe. bin fact that this plethora daily increases rather than diminishes. Present proprietors are hiring extra buildings, when they are enabled so to do. The stores are literally crammed. In some instances work proceeds by night and by day; with scarcely an intermission. "Merchants seem determined not to pay duties while gold remains at - its present enor mous quotation, preferring to wait and run tho c h an c e s of a decline. Should this state of things continue, the revenue department will find itself. seriously incommoded for lack of the requisite ware housing room. Another meeting on behalf of the political candi date of the ladies—the gentleman who parts his hair t'in the middle—was held ih Dr. Ulteover's Church on Monday evening. The proceedings were eminently respectable, and the old criticisms upon Mr. Lincoln's course of action were indulged in. It was certainly a pretty meeting, and its tone was highly. fluttering to that dear, good man who parts his hair lu the middle. It is vaguely hinted that the buntinv of the bola Potter and the Camden. and Amboy ploy, afid , the eoriseque4'4ntarruptlon.'nf ofkoNtheMfifi ,-Thies of communication between, 74/1 - 9giftwAiia.• may hilve been the work .4: mite of tile. • ar..oo"sitinists Whose lteadguartUare'Vflihi . City.:•:,,,4ll6re'seems to• be. no partichiniiiitS4o4: crediting Such suspie;ons, ; ,Nothing remains et, the boat Chit a shabby skeleton of machinery. and nbit of brostn-looking woOdWork. The pier it elf is eon summtdown to the stones, and is burned completely through in one place, so as to disconnect ono ex tremity from the other. Nu "cleaner sweep" has peen made bye tire in many year', The whole eon-. cern is literally used up. • ARRIVAL OF 012. T. SMITH AT NEW YORK The steam transport John Rice has arrived front Fortress 'Monroe. She has on board Gen. "Bald" Smith and his staff. The transport A.tlantle, from Hampton Roads, with TOO 00: and wounded men, has also arrived here. " THE STKA3IER AUSTRALASIAN SIIINALLEO. The steamer Australasian, with later advices from Liverpool, has been signalled below. MOVY.MR.NTB Of MR. FESSENDEN NO arrangement has yet been made by Secretary Fessenden for a loan, but It is probable he will get 140,000,000 from the banks. MAILS FOR wAsninnor:. A special mall left to-night fur Washington, by the revenue cutter Wyandotte. PERSONAL. The creditable feat of Lieut. Col. Bailey, in effecting the release of Admiral Porter's gunboats from their dangerous position in, Red river, was al most equalled a few days later in the construction by Lieut. Col. Charles G. Sawtelle, of the Quarter master's Department, of a steam-pontoon bridge over the Atchafalaya riven-. Col. Viwtelle had ar rived but the day before from Brownsville, Texas, and rep . orted to Gen. Banks, by his special order, to take charge ofthe water transportation for that army. He found It pressed by the enemy and delayed by the necessity of crossing the river, here about four hun dred yards wide, having no pontoons and no means of construction suited to the cirdumstances. To attempt to' transfer the] army by ferriage to the east bank would have resulted in great delay, and in the loss of such of the train as could not readily be transhipped. Colonel Sawtelli proceeded at once to the construction of a bridge, for which the steamers of his department were to be used as pon toons. The boats (twenty-one large Mississippi steamers) were moved up under steam, and dropped anchors side by side, in such manner as to form a line with their heads to tho stream, and over their bows as they Jay . thus a substantial bridge was rapidly constrdcted, upon which the troops crossed with their trains. of wagons, horses, and artillery. The applause of the army has unanimous, and hearty congratulations poured In uiNott l :Coonel Sawtelle, and it is pleasant to know that•hli'merlt is promptly recognized by General Canby; who has tendered to him the appointment of chief quarter toaster of the department. • A recent foreign arrival brings us intelligence of the death, at New Brighton, England, of George Lance, an English painter, accomplished in various branches of his art.. He has been before the public since Isss as an exhibitor in the Royal Academy. He restored Volasquez's Boar Hunt, in the National Gallery, In a manner which has elicited Much conflicting criticism. As a painter of fruit 'pieces, however, Lance won hls most extended re putation. Antique cupS, vases, fish, fruit, and flowers, were grouped on his canvas in the most gorgeous confusion, though every individual article was painted with the most minute and scrupulous exactness. Mr. Lance was sixty-two years old at the time of his death. Visitors abroad may sco some of his works at the Vernon, and others at tho National Gallery, though his choicest productions are chiefly in private hands. - -A correspondent of the Boston Transcript c all attention to some facts about Mr. Lowellyn, the surgeon of the Alabana, contradicting the pathetic stories of the English papers concerning that person age. The writer says: “The English papers have a heroic tale of an English - surgeon, son of a parson, who nobly refused a place in a boat at the risk to the wounded in tt, and finally went down with the ship. But the fact is, this same noble young surgeon was brought a prisoner on board the Kearsarge, where he was ordered to assist in dressing the wounds of his comrades, but was so frightened and shaky that he could do nothing, and was finally ordered to stand aside, and at length sent below to change his shirt as somebody was good enough to load him -11iaretzek Is to produce next season, in the place of Milo Sulzer, a now contralto, a resident of New York, who has never yot appeared on the stage. She is singing at present in the choir of a Roman Catholic church in that city, and will make her operatic debut as the Gilley, in " Trovatoro.)) John U. Heenan Was seriously injured• by a railway accident In 'England recently. He jumped from the train at the moment of a collision, fell heavily, injured his spine„and has since suffered from a succession of tits. TER Metropolitan Record has a totter from a Ken tucky sympathizer, who declares that the "Demo crats" of that State will support for President no other than an • unconditional "Peace" man—not even McClellan—adding that "It Is the Peace party whioh Is to carry US out of those troubles nest November. We are willing to support Vit11111)(1101am or Thomas H. Seymour for the Presidency, and wo will not vote for any man' who is not for peace, If needs be, based on the recog nition of the independence of the Southern States. This may sound like treason to that delectable Matt tution known as the Union League, but suoh aro the principles of the Democracy of this State." We believe that is true, so far as It regards "the principles of tho Democracy" of Kentucky, and only {lrbil to add, that if that Democracy had power to elect our nextPresiclent—as, happily, it has not—Ms name would'be a eff Davis. - • TRU Whoaling Daily Register has been Suppressed by Oenoral Hunter. The propriotorti MP, bgon WI" prisvued, THREE CENTS. EUROPE. Arrival of the Ailfartlifißitlil. kixw YORK, July 13.—The steadier Australasian arrived at this port to-day from Liverpool on the 2d, Via Queenstown on the 3d instant. I=! LONDON, July 3.—The meeting at Lord Sails burrs, onitlonday, will, it is Bald, be composed of members of the House of Lords. They will decide on the course to be pursued in regard to the Danish question and the vote of censure. • On Monday night, in lien of the second paragraph of Disraeli% motion, Mr. Ncwgate will move to sub mit to her Majesty, as the opinion of the House, that the Independence of Den Mark and the posses sion of the kingdom on the terms proposed by the representatives of the central Powers shall be guaranteed. IVILICCX OP A STEAMER Tho steamer Labuan, front Liverpool for SL Petersburg, with a load or cotton, was wrecked on the Hebritlo, involving a loss of nearly ElOO,OOO. TILE DANISH LOSS AT ALBAN. LONDON, July 3.—Jutland has been placed under the Prussian administration. The loss of the DRABS at, bison was 2,500 to 3,000, most Of whom were killed, including 81 officers. . rM=IMM=WM=TMIIMrrIUIn7/31 Mr. Dayton, the American Minister, has been feasting Captain Winslow and the officers of the 'Reemerge. A letter tn the Indcpendance Beige says that tyro (lays alter the defeat of the Alabama an Iron-plated vessel built at 13ortleaux left there with a slow of succeeding the Alabama, and avenging her destruc tion. PROSECUTION OP A REBEL AGENT. The British Government were prosecuting an other. man, In Liverpool, for enlisting men to serve on rebel cruisers. DRPEAT OR TrrE GOVRIntIf'RNT IN rAnLIA.NENT In the House of Commons the Government has been defeated by a majority of two, In the rejection of the religious test at Oxiord. There - is much spe culation as to the result of Disraeli's motion of censure, and Kinglake's amendment expressing satisfaction at the avoldancetof war. The :Waste riallsts calculate on at least 20 majority, but it Is reported nevertheless that the Government will dissolve Parliament. Some explanations have been given as to the concentration of troops at Montreal and Quebec, and the ministry have under conside ration the fortifications of Quebec. THE HOLY ALLIANCE. The Morning Post publishes diplomatic docu ments confirming the Met that the holy alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia will be consum mated. • The Bank of France has lost 3,000,000 f. In specle during the week. Tan DA211611. WAR The Danish Minister of Marine announces that the iron-clod Rolf Korake, although hotly engaged at A loan, was but slightly Injured. A ship-of-war and three gunboats escaped frotn.Alson sound, but two mall vends were blown up to prevent capture. ==! Captain Semmes has taken a temporary residence at Mil!brook, about three miles from Southampton. His first lieutenant, 111 r. Kell, resides with him. The captain's hand lagettinghettm, and his general health is improvhig. Thebfileeta , brew..tit the Alabama lancilar§mlkaraphcm.mraf t iffei.j:miket: 29th dlt: ~- • , • ' (041.14 :te iktattaallitit .A 4 ameerii - eivhdp, Loy th ru to w -y t i c ht. Docoo k ay,,, vch Qi ooosoqpqqtlV egosfa'aitig made ralsitideii: Cap e.ll- Semmes. a, 4 3 liT u t i 0.14 IL ; first lieutenant ilArthueSieqbalt,..Tr.T. leeco ieulenant; X. How-61,1,11i5t ILoaterault ' ma Hu (1. Bulloek, acting Master ;11: At alittllt;' iiildtblpenan ;, E. N. ,Anderson, ditto s 41 . 4 1 ,8ALep,• ,^thitdYrsWant'vengineer C ecirge - T: 'F ulham, Inds .ter'soriatity James' Evans, dittcr;'llltialrileillnior; littto l; J. S. _chrs.der, .ditto : .W.. Smith, l'bea pi isin'e• - clera - ;' T. OIL' Cudilp, g•tinnCr.• • Mr: 5.041i01116.Ate United Stetea;consut at, mar., fregille§, Ims,_addresiecl a letter to the Segiaphore j . con trsalditiziettsthlkeept ttattjblYnkl 'that the R'earearge wow Anoreetemtiraemed q than.the Lama; and that; In Taccthe /Varsdrire carried 22 guns, and the' Alabanr.le - Ancindtng theAme- - rice!' consul the Alabama:l cartlet i l eigtd. guns, and• the Kertrearge seven.' The Semaphore farther as serted that the crew of the Alabama, being aectLs tented to board her antagonists, would have infant bly captured the Nearenrge if they could have air' preached her. To tlds the consul answers: It is possible; but the Alabama's action' with the Rear serge was her first and last meeting with a Fede ral ship-of-war. The French marine painter, Gudin. has received a commission from Mr. Dayton for, the execution of the liearsarge's accurate reproduction on a large canvas, intended to commemorate the - late naval encounter. The Paris correspondent of the Daily :Yaws says "It is not true, as reported by the Temps; that Capt. Semmes is in Paris, but it is said that he has sent for most ofbis officers to wire them Instructions for the armament of a new Alabama, of which he proposes .shortly to take command. La France, which seems to have received special information about .this new Ship, says that she is a small beautifully-formed cor vette, iron-plated inside, and provided with powerful artillery. Captain Semmes has ordered three pivot guns capable of throwing hollow projectiles of 170, and solid projectiles of 720 English pounds. Hot' crow, which in the old Alabama consisted of 142 men, is to be augmented to 172. La France says that ' these details are poSitlve. , It does not know in what port the new ship will be armed, but it be lieves, that no surveillance can prevent it from putting to sea:" GE?IERAII NEWS. To AsiznicA.--ThOetnigration from nelq:Aeneilea Oita •,trigyvelous. The sfeath ripe rurruit . Whetwe isystbikm . sitts,,.-dy s e • Ailed to ' oteMstfruc;. • W , ltellevethis ac oiMnta reeeifed, this.• • • • .isretipolOtianiships conveying Passenge America I.4.4LChout .preee dent, and sometimes all the avallibles4i44n is taken up for;sis or eight weeks In advance. Irfailtington • telegreios state that the State Department has ad vices lions Europe that upwards of ten thousand Swiss emigrants are now at Wavro and other Euro. perm ports, awaiting passage to thitidoUnt. Nnin bets of Irish immigrants have been .ptitOng into IS - CM" York during the past year at the rate, of seve ral thousands per' week, and the ery. ft r" still they. come.t' War has no horrors for iliese enterprising and brave men, and some of themyain the army as soon as they set afoot on American soil. while others replace those laborers who have fallen in battle since this war commenced. For this reason they usually come to the West, as this part of the coun try feels more than any other the depopulating etlects of war, being the most thinly populated, and more devoted to farming and manufacturing than the Eastern States. Truly at this rate, and if im migration continues long after the war is completed, we can be able to replace in a short time our farmers and manufacturers, who are now 80 scarce. A PLUG-UGLY AMBASSADOR TO EUROPE.—We are inclined to think that the rowdies of New York have not fully determined to get, up, this summer, an Insurrection, as Judge PacCium salledfer - F,urope on Saturday last. A„ptuty of ?friendst , aodompa nied him to the steamer, drank Ids healthipude ETeeches to him, andoireW friiM brie the anncnincoft meat that "while atirond he pledged himself to take . every occasion to represent the true cause of this terrible war, and to•ydace the fearful-responsibility where it truly belonged, to the abolition fanatics of the North.” The Nei , York 'Commercial Advertiser hns the following remarks on the antecedentsof this ornament of the bench: "Lest some benighted European might not be aware of the existence of such is man as Judge MeCunn; we will state for his Information that at the breaking out of the rebellion he held the office of city judge in this city—a position corresponding with that of a London police magistrate—and that his martial and patriotic heart became fired in the cause of the Union to such a dog - ree that he raised and equipped (as ho claimed, at his own expense) the 37th Regiment New York Volunteers, which he commanded for about nine months, when he left the army in compliance with a not very polite note from General Gcorge 11. McClellan, in which the finding of a court martial was endorsed, and the aforesaid McCann was dismissed the service for 'conduct un becoming an officer and a gentleman." THE hInNicAN Annv.—The latmerad of Vienna gives the following estimate of the regular troops at the disposal of the Emperor of Mexico: The corps will cOmpriSe in all about 8,000 men, distribu ted as follows: three battalions of light infantry, a regiment of lancers, a regiment or hussars, two batteries of eight pieces of rifled artillery, a compa ny of engineers, and a company Of pioucors. The officers and soldiers are enlisted for six years. The officers will probably have permission to. return with their rank after a certain time, to the Austrian army. The private soldiers will receive 2.3 rioritm, and the non-commissioned officers 25 to 50, accord ing to their rank. Alter six years the officers and non-commissioned officers can continue to serve, or can be sent gratuitously back to. Europe, or perhaps they may receive lands and means of sustaining themselves instead. LOCOMOTIVE Exrtoston.—We learn from. the Dunkirk Union that a locomotive upon the Erie Railway exploded her boiler near Hornellsvillo, on Sunday lest r dram killing William IL Post, en gineer, and ram Bradleyaireman, and erushingthe arm of Mat. Phelps, conductor, who happened to be upon the tender.. The train (a freight) was in mo tion at the time the explosion occurred. The loco motive was literally torn to pieces. The-remains of Mr. Post, as well as those of Mr. Bradley, were brought to this village for.burial. A BRAvit ENollotert.—A gentleman just return ed from a trip to the West informs us, that while on a train some thirty miles from Chicago, the en gineer, on approaohing a bridge, dlatievered a child struggling in the water. With most heroic courage be instantly gave the signal for stopping the train, then running at a speed of thirty-five miles pa hour, and jumped f'rom the locomotive into the Water, Vi'ben the train had stopped the _brave...fellow had rescued the child and was climbing up the bank of the river with-It in his arms.- The naixteif this bravo engineer is Charles N. Thompson, and he is a native of Taunton, Mass. - Tun •Exiscrrnta Spans, just captured . * the Flo rida, was not burneth- , -The rebel officers said . they considered her too valuable for that. It is supposed they will take her to-some Bermuda or European port, and have heralded out as a privateer, or at tempt to run her into'some Southern. pore The Electric , Spark is a rely fast vessel, and If she does become a privateer will become quite as dangerous as the defunct Alabama. Tux custom-house officers of San Franoisco htwo diedoverod a very Ingenious Chinese trick; which led to - the seizure of a'let of smuggled opium. Among a cargo mere 400 :tabs imvoiced.Ua. eggs, value stated at one dollar each. The eggs were coated with a peculiar kind of varnish to preserve them. One of the officers; in examining the eggs, scraped off a little varnish and disclosed - a metallic case, egg-shaped, filled with opium. Each metallic egg is worth 4300. There was a thousand of them. . A Tits made from a plant known at Garracenia. Purpuro, or more familiarly Ladies' Saddle or Water Cup, has been used in the Massaolausetts State Almshouse with singular success in the treatment of entall-poi. in the almshouse Of. Troy similar success was met with. Tm Course IIoAT RACE AT PI Trani:Md.—Ward, his brother and his backer, have arrived In that city, and on Tuesday laat,in company with Hamill, made a thorough examination of the water. The choice was moue above Monongahela .dam, between the dam and Glenwood. The water is smooth and un ruffled. .The attendant betting on the result of the race is very spirited, and about evenly distributed between the two men. There will be a magnificent view of the entire course from the high ground skirting the, river, and if the traok, if WO may use the term, can only be clear for the contesting boats, a brilliant contest may bo expected. This will be the most difficult part of the Job, but we doubt not the friends of the parties will have ample arrange ments for carrying It properly into elect. IlAnvav's theory of the circulation of the blood, or rather the cause of thecirculation, is begin ning to be disputed ; for blushing, sudden paleness of the face, fleshings and chilliness of the body fro. ouently occur without any disturbance or modifi cation of the heart's action. The steady movement of the blood in the capillaries, the circulation through the liver without the intervention of any 'emulsive force, the fact that after death the arte ries are usually found empty,' among - other . things, cannot be accounted for on the hypothesis that the heart Is the solo mover of the blood. The now theory is that the action is a chemical one. MR. WILLIAM SWINTON, of the NOW York Times, and Mr. Rent, of the New York Times, Intve been sent out of the lines of the army by General Illoatto. Sher Iwo orders not to returlt, WHIM WAR PRESS, (PUBLISHED 117FIRKLY.) Teri Wart Pelee will be sent to subscribers by Oi ........ ....... (per annum In aGrance ). at 55 0505 T:re ft e ll Teu copies 15 00 Larger Clubs than To gill be ehr.rgo4l4: Ike lam rate, 111.50 per cop.,. The money must atmays accompany the order, a nd . in no trurtance can these ternte drotatafiortt. althea afford eery tittle more than eke cost of pater. air. Postmasters are ragweed to eel as gents fag Toe WAIL Parse. .Wir To the getter-ate of the Club of tea or twenty. as exb:a copy of the Paper *lll be &pm. The Pirate Piersllii: CA7TAIN (MAHAN% ACCOUNT Or TflS cerivais OH MK ELELITRI 0 8 Captain John 0. Clraham, of tholintuirner Electric . Spark, ghee the following account of thenapture of tlit'Vessel, on the 10th inst., by the prate Florida On Sunday last, at 1 o'clock P. 154, when off Cap?' Henlopen, bearing northwest bynorth, and. Mlles distant, we sighted a ear on the starbsard bow which aftenrards proved 0o be' the Florida: When within three miles of us stlerholsted the British flag. Wo answered by runniss up the stars and stripes. She neared U 8 rapidly, :sod when. within I,299.yards she hauled down the Britat flag, hoisted that of the rebel Confederacy, and Bred rifle shot across our bows. It did no diAmatmand we continaed'rapidly on our course, when she 'fired ' another shet, which crossed our stern. As we stinheld on, the Florida tired a. Wilnl !tot, which passed over us amidahlps, - nbdut mbl way be , twcen the smoke-stack and the mainnihst. I tizen ordered the engine to be stopped, and our colors to be lowered. .he Florida Immediately sent stboar:d a boat's crew azalea officer, who proved to beldent: Stone. lie ordered me on board the Florida, witts the ship's papers. I at once complied, and reaching the deck of the privateer was asked by.' Captain Morris where I sailed from, and to what" port 1 was bound 1 I answered from New York to New Orleans. He then asked for my papers, which. I handed to him. After looking them through, ho ordered me to return to my own ship, and transfer my passengers and mew to the British schooner Lane, which he had boarded that day at noon. The captain of the Lane at first refused to take us, as his vessel was loaded with fruit, but Capt. Mor ris finally struck a bargain with him by which he agreed .to take us to New York for $720 in gold, Which sum he received In th2o gold pieces. lied the Florida captured us on our last trip, she would have found us a very valuable prise as we had on board 4.200,000 In treasure. But this time the only money we hod on board was 92,600 In greenbacks in Ada ins Express Company's safe. Several of the crow of the kleetric Spark found old acquaintances among the men on board the Florida. The Electric Spark is a new ship, RA tons bur den, built and owned in Philadelphia by messrs...l. Taylor & Co., and was valued at 4,175,000. We sailed last Saturday for New Orleans, with a cargo of dry goods, boots and shoes, butter, cheese, &c., worth at least $ 600,000 . Unless recaptured by our cruisers ? the Electric Spark will undoubtedly be turned into a privateer, as the rebel officers de clared that she was too valuable to be burned. She is admirably adapted to this buslneso, being strongly built, and a very fast sailer. On the trip out she labored under the disadvantage of being tried under a new trim, which reduced her rate of speed about three knots an hour. LITERiTIIRE AND ART. Two NATIONAL AOADERIP.A.—Mr. Sumner, on the 30th of June, introduced a bill In the Senate of , the United States, which, by unanimous consent, was read twice and ordered to be printed, for the creation of two bodies corporate, one the National Academy of Art and Literature, and the other the • National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. • Each of these academies is to consist of no mon: - than fifty ordinary members, of whom sot more . than ten shall be eledted in any one year, and no nomination for any kind of inetaberahip• is to:be i : acted upon until after it has been before the Acade my for one year. . , The following is the bill : . , Be it enacted by Me Senate and House of Repe:eserstft Cl tires of the United States of America, in pagreil cut,. ~ sembled, That S. Austin Allitfone, r iniattiViimihr' ' • William C. Bryant, - _,,lye r ..y.tt ' ..3:. erlink.B- . - (March' Nerii-Yerlr ; Geer , W '-'. e;E. _lei' eve York; jill • - sing", , r •'''f'....•• '' z. Dwight,.. , . to ? , AN '' ttif •Ha . . re . -•',. ‘ • sachimetts; llSeti f i r e ar t giiv.l l plveh, W.• 1-104.,.. , Ml-4W , L. , _6ll allow, hlassabhti- , IMF JemeldleDeqpildiHaiseek aketts ; George £' rz ' r•- tirsh:"Veffriont - • Hiram Powers, Ohio; William ,W. Storyehielestellissettl; * GeorgeTicknor, Massa- :4 c chusette; Henry T..l'uckernian,leew York - Golipe-, 10, yerphirrekrieWW" Torii ; Williem D. Whitney, . Cpnnecticut • John ,G, Whittler, .Massachusetts; . :joseple•B.'.Worceeter Massachusetts; thiiir'assb. ' '' Mates and successors ' duly chosen, are hereby de- - clared"to he a body-corporate for the study and cul tivation of the Ancient pad languages, let ters and the tuff; by the name of the 'National . Academy of Literature and Art{ -.: . . • SEc. "2. And be it further enacted, That George Banctolt, New York; Henry:Ward Beecher, New -York • Horace Finney , Pennsylvania; Robert J. ,rneriamidge, liehtucky ; Edward • Everett, Mae- ' sachutetts ; Themes Ewing, Ohio • Henry W. "iffalleck, Alcny of the United Stat e n, California ;' ' Stipule G. Howe, Massachusetts . ; Charles King.. New York ; Francis LieberiNew York ; j . : Lab- ' nap ,Illotley, Massachusetts - John G. Palfrey, Mas sachusetts : Wendell Phillips, Mass. ; Alonzo PO:- ter, Penna.; Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts: Henry D. Smith, New York ,•',Tared Sparks, Missachu setts ;, Robert J. Walker, District of Columbia; Francis Wayland, Rhode .Island ; Theo. D. Wool sey, Connecticut, their associates and successors duly chosen, are hereby declared to be a body cor porate for the study and cultivation of history, and the sciences which concern morals and government, .by the name of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. St:c. 3. And be it further enacted, That cachet these national academies shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, of whom not more than ten shall be elected in any one cear • that nominations shall be made and elections held 'at the regular an- - nual meeting only, and no nomination for any kind of membership shall be acted upon until it shall have been before the academy for one year, and shall hare - been considered by a committee. SRC.-3. ,ind be it further enacted, That each of these national academies shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, by laws, and rules and regulations; to fill all vacan cies created lgditath,esesl;gnation, or otherwise ; to .procide_for a electibn of fort tn ign_and deestki • . , member:, cha t nuunser-aban - IM a quorum, the di vision into classes and all other matters needful or - usual in anch institutions, and to report the eameloi Congress. . . • Sac. 5. And be. it further enacted, That each of ' these national academies shall nohlan =Mimi hitiet-•• 7.; hig at'such place in the United States „as maybe: desiginited,aud wheinvenTherete reisitested liy.iine A ;. department:lig . ..the Gevernment.,.. shall investigate,. ~ -. extunieerfa, lthrreOnmahn'ilifitilijitSt - Iwlthin their. • reSPectii . e.prtivinces, il.being understood that the • actual expense thereof, if any; may be paid ' from -' • • appropriations which shall be made for the pur pose, but the academies shall receive no compensa tion whatever for any services to the Government of the United States. •- ". TRH LATE GEORGE P.;.,Mottere.—The following interesting reminiscences --of , General George P. . Morris are given by the New York correspondent of the Boston Post: • • . "For his song, ' Origin of Yankee Doodle,' Gen. Morris originally received twenty-five dollars. bat such has been its success in reaching the 'national. heart, that when Its author wished to incor porate it into his book, of collected poems, the publisher of the song : demanded fifteen hundred dollars for the permissierf. Atwell of old, _ens of our shrewdest music publisher% offered one thousand dollars for 'My Mother's Bible' after' it ' had been two years before the public under the. imprint of a rival house: Fifty, one hundred, and even five hundred dollars have been paid to Mete& for single compositions, and for years almost any of his songs have been considered cheap at any price. Of ' Woodman, Spare that Tree' millions of; °Copies; have been sold,, and this . Song n its time has been prominent on the prograni i mes, or hidden as a tit-bit in the repertoire of every vocalist of note. Malibran, Russell, Braham, Sinclair. Phillips, Horn,Pearma.n, ; Dempster, and Anna - Bishop; have made %Mortis' songs features in their musical entertainments, - both here and in Europe. 'My Mother's Bible, - " We were Boys Together,' 'Boatman Haste,' 'Near the Lake,' ' Cottager's. Welcome,' 'Songs of Home,' and a catalogue of two hundred others, all popular, are universal. Belie set same twenty-five . of these songs to appropriate symphonies.. Sir John Stephenson, Sir Henry Bishop and many others, have also arranged sweet melodies which, with the words, have become almost as universal as the lan guage of love. And, apropos of this last thought,. how many fond but bashful lovers have, by the aid of Morris' songs. given bold and_blissful .utteranee to their hearts ffirobbingsl • "Morris, too, was the first song-writer who negro melodies from the plantation to the - ' parlor and thus popularized this now famous min strelsy. 'Long time ago,' and 'Through the Streets of New York City,' were the earnest and most sue-. eessful fruits of these attempts at musical trunsibr 'nation- He was,-moreover, something , besides a 'song writer. As a dramatist he . was successful enough to get thirty-fire hundred dollars, in 182 r, for his 'Briar Cliff,' and for the libretto of an opera, 'The Maid of Saxony.' he was paid twenty-five hun dred dollars in 1842. His collected prose tales droll ' lated to the extent of twenty-five thousand copies, and his collected poems have also had largo and probtable.currency. Ho once told me that he had received ten thousand dollars from the sales of the poems, which is . abundant evidence .of their.popu larity." OP:R OP TRACEETt.kT'S CHAnAcritice:nv Amt. CA.—A prominent historical character in _the Inns cents on which Thackeray founded his story, "Denis Duval," is Henry Lutterloh, a man who was instru mental in hiring German troops for the British ser vice. A correspondent of the Post. sends the follow ix g account of Linterloh's career in this country : NEW rotr, duly 8, rest.,. To the Editors of the Evening Post: The "Henry Lutterloh" mentioned in vour paper of this evening subsequently came to this country . and offered his set vices in a military capacity to the Continental Congress. In hiapotition he states that he had been the "resident" of one of the Ger . man princes in. London, epd had, I think, been ill treated by the British CM - ernment. His petition can be found in the "American Annals." Ile was not appointed, but, I, believe, subsequently 'had a command. Ile had previously been .eugr.ged in sonic way with the negotiations • between England and petty German princes for troops. 1 have not my papers at hand, or I would tell you more about him. Probably our fellow-ellizen, the able biographer of Steuben and DeKalb, will be able to do so. Yours, E. R., .1 a.• POTE'A Wonwe.—The long-promised edition of the "WorksofAlexander Popo,.with a new Life, Introduction, and Notes," by the Rev. Whitherell Elwle,late editor Of the-Quarterly Review, is an nonneedhyldurray op Lqndon as nearly ready. It will include thernieterials collected by the late Mr. Croker, and allihelnetest °tithe . previous editors, which arifilluktrative of the text. The .correspon donee Willeoreprkelabout:loo.3etters, which .have never hitherto' b•mn collected, and .of these, nearly Smears antlredy pear,' and Minted for. the first. time. To the prose.works will. be Added , the anecdotes of Pope, and-'the ' ' tibtirda• Of-his 'Obnversation, which have been ',reserved .ny Spence -and others. The poetical works Will Contain the. impublished satire °nein) Duke of Marlboreugh, and ,many new lines I and various readings derived -from the original manuscripts which were, presented by Pope to his friend Richardson- Bovine Aivr.—A, case was lately tried in London which may interest artists. Ono of the .fraternity • was engaged by Mr. J. li. Lord, a showman,- tct paint a series of pictures to illustrate an. exhibition to be called "The Canoe, the -Rifle, and the Ake." The pictures were note painted within the time . : agreed, and thence the - lawsuit. •In the course of the examination the following-amusing letter, re r ,.:, ferring to the "sensation eictrae”..af the Villas,,. was road: " 1 8 ST. ElitOrtoWe Vll.Teaft•Titigl evening. o my De.,,e hi n. Lerrew : r546011.-:4'444 Matzen to coax Mr. Mason to change die.'alest , ceweinto a meet rabid, ferocious, terrible billh..-.1. 4amei. been. thinking it Over Mice I was with yen ; alglleta, con vlnced the bull, and nothing but the bull, vtia beef foetus! for sensation purposes ; glaring eyeadileted nostrils, knees bent, a regular hair-steed-on-end kind of a beast. There is a. domestic mildness about the bovine female that savors of dairy merathan de sert. Do then oblige me, and make hex- into a Boa Taurinus. Pray accuse; great haste ~_•• and believe um, Yours truly, Joan. .b... LORD." Tux King of Sweden, who is a membet of a soci ety of engravers in Paris, has lately scat to them a. very splendid line engraving, ishich.ho executed In. his leisure moments. Petissisa's memoirs will, oiler being Officially cleansed from all disagreeable mat ter, appear limier the title of "Memoirs et Souvenirs par un Mart chat de France." The Duchess is said to nicely° a pension of 20,000 francs. ' IliANzosir, the celebrated author of the.Promesst Sposi, has been lately visiting 'Florence, where he. received the most nattering, attentions. -. M. re: LANARTPRE la about to publish a complete collection of his politica speeoketi and pamphlets. from 1834 to 1881.. . M. ReNAN, it is Said, la engaged in writing a pamt phlet entitled "Ida Situation. " . _..... _— IT Is SAID that ex-President lames Buohanau contributed VO and his autograph to the Pittsburg Sanitary Fair. , ills aid and oomfort, given five years ago to tho °newly, IS POW 6 1 Yeit t° IN' 4 6 04 t• g4ange, WT.
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