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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1885.
GENT GRANTS ARMY.
TEE STITATION iEconroo 'INTERESTING.
I I ' Q O' AI
ENORMOUS DESERTIONS FROM THE
ENEMY..
THEE AVERAGE A THOUSAND A WEEK.
THEARIST IN THE HIGHEST SEIM rs
-53 , . ye,..)§eliool.— ,'.
fihreidsi Clorrespomienpe of The itrees.,l :
- 4:iirr.PeiriwaCii., Fob. 24,1686.
The situation here will apeedflibeceme interest-
Leg, if, ingeed, it ,he nobso ,alkiradw. Thirri t serints
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have alreildy possession—that the 40134,Wa15up3
received marching orders• day before yesterlsry4 lid
that 'yesterday the orders -Irma revolt`
hay tirellie Aleateforrhtliewever, we h NI
,
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'portoblatr pswansted4 Vis 14A.1 - . OarPa bad
Lt atr
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elY4lisappeared in thuw, g&t• be had
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~. yeend
4
=.drawri,np in, alle Of 4/~ Titileday after:
7274011 ,reports, seMiskierui as 4atey were rightly
liuto4 0011" , 01)10404 „ woe endow* - here for a
while.- TO Moab/ I, 4 „atipta on Wednesday, the
aianimeherY, OrWashingtoini birth, was.received as.
iprimf positivathat a battle was in progress, and the
!story of theevacnatiort of Petersburg was not per se
!unlikely, ler tht Movements of. Sherman in South
Oarolpa, and the' cooperating movements in North
Carolina, must have a shaping influence upon the
campaign in Virginia, if hot in a few days, why
then in a very few weeks. Still, except in the One
particular stated, the reports were , entirely without
foundation. They are probably& week or so in an
ticipation of the reality.
It seems to be an invariable custom of the cli
mate, in this latitude, that whenever the remotest
Idea of a move Is hinted at there shall be a heavy
storm. The rule has been applied yesterday and
to-day with telling effect. The rain has poured
down steadily, and the sky is as blank and colorless
ass vast elate. As for the roads, they have disap
peared, and only quagmires remain to mark where
they existed. • .
The subject, of desertion from the enemy is getting
to be rather Insipid as a matter of news. Nothing
lees than the desertion of an entire rebel corps
would create a marked sensation In the army.
Yesterday a hundred and flftpone rebels came Into
the 9th, 6th, and 2d Corps headqtartera, and the
day previously upwards of two hundred came into
the 2d Divlson of the 2d Oorps. At this rate Lee
will hade to keep "concentrating' , all the armies'
of the South in. Virginia, to balance the depletion.
And if he should succeed in concentrating the
armies; the question 'silks .whether he 'can as
readllyebncentrate bread and meat wherewith to
feed them. •
The estimate that fixes the rate of desertions from
the enemy at one thousand per week, along our
whole lint, Is not an Alaggerated one. Our soldiers,
observing this fact, and matrlfig for themselves the
Inevitable Intsfenbe that the end of the rebel...-
lion draweth nigh, are In the highest spirits ; and
mining officers high in rank bets have In several in
stances been made that the next Fourth of July
will witness a restored peace and a reunited
country/
ARMY OF THE JAMES.
"Al :wzglirilivi.logoa:4:4rpfA,poli4:4t;tl);•:4:4:l
RESULTS OF STARVATION AND BRUTAL
TREATMENT.
How the Bads Treat their Colored .Captives
TILE OFFICERS TRAMMING TARGET
ItHOOTING ON .TEEN
v;rir► h U jIiILII,I.i.a.ULUJII
GRAND REVIEW OF COLORED , TROOPS.
—Rollin.—
Special Correspoudente of The Frees.]
ARMY OP THIC
Beams RiosmoND, Feb. 22,1865
Yesterday was a day of deliverance to one hundred
and fifty officers and eleven hundred and eighty en
listed men from the prisons of the South, and the
terrible sufferings which depraved ingenuity could
accomplish. The hardships and. privations which
they have been foFced to - endure have partially pro.
dosed the effect *Mali was Intended. Dlseitios wait
manifest in their countenanoes—idlooy was evident
In their vacant and haggard staring, and death was
written upon many in characters of unmistakable
significance. With exultation those whose strength
had been sufficient to pass through the ordeal were
landed at _the Boulware wharf, and walked about
two miles to ,Varina, where they wore received on
our Es g•of-truce boat by Lieut. Col Wiumford.
These all bore evidence of having experienced the
very greatsst hardships, and looked as if considers,
ble time would be necessary, under the best sanitary
regulations, to restore them to a healthful and
vigorous aspect. Some were hatless, shoeless, and
almost clotheless, gathering their threaded garments
around - them as perfectly as possible to protect them
from the frosted influence of the morning. They
were all about half starved, and rushed for bard
tack wherever, our soldiers had the forethought to
remember their destitution.
These prisoners came through that part of the-
lines held by the 25th (colored) Corps, and were re
ceived and welcomed with loud and prolonged cheer
ing from the long line of troops, who crowded upon
the breastworks and other convenient posts to testi
fy their gratification at the return of these heroes.
One canal boat was towed down to Cox's Landing
by an insignificant steamer, about teapot power,
with our sick and wounded prisoners, from which.
they were conveyed to Yarina, about a mile distant,
in ambulance S.. Most of these suffering soldiers
presented a spectacle of mingled misery, destitu
tion, starvation, and horrible treatment. Offioers
and soldiers gathered around them, and in their
honest indignation asserted thatthe rebels wore not
entitled to• any oonsideratlon, nor should they
receive, after such Inhumanity, the treatment
due-to civilized nations. Some of the returned
prisoners remarked that they would much love to
have charge of rebels who have been captured, that
they might return to them in kind the bitter usage
to which they had been subjected. One said, : " I
used to treat them like Christiana, but now I should
net have any scruples, if I had them Under my au
thorny." The same one was. Interrogated, previ
ous to leaving Danville, by a Johnny, as to what he
would do'. with him should the " grayback" fall
into his hands. His reply was, "I would rob you,
kick you to the rear, and treat you afterwards with
the corresponding Indignities and sufferings to
which .I have been% subjected." Among these re
turned .prisonera is Major E. L. Brown, the pay
master, who was captured on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad last summer, with sixty thousand
dollars in greenbacks in his possession. The Major
has formerly lived in Harrisburg, but at present has
his residence in Lancaster, where his family hearth
will soon be cheered by hispresence,
From these prisoners I learned some melapiholy
facts. Our colored troops at Danville have not
only been forced to erect breastworks for the
cowardly rebels to skulk behind, but in several
oases they have been severely whipped, when It
pleased the Johnnies to administer such disgrace-
Ini castigation. Out of eightpthrea colored soldiers
who were captured last July and confined at Dan
ville, only five survive the barbarous treatment
which has been perpetrated upon them. In the
came Iltngth of time, four out of twenty-six only
have survived out of the 9th New Hampshire, and
thirty-five outer one hundred and six in the 9th
New York Heavy Artillery, From seven to - nine
bodies would be carried into the dead-house daily.
It was the custom to keep our men In the prisons
until they were so near dead that frequently, on
bringing them to the hospitals, they would not sur
vive twenty-four hours after. As a sanitary regula
tion of these rebel institutions, it is obligatory upon
patients to send out their clothing to be washed,
which, if it is the Comfortable uniform of our army
is never returned, but a suit of ragged gray Is sub
stituted instead. The hospital attendants, like all
the other inhabitants of rebeldom, have no compunc
tions In boldly robbing all the soldiers of the Union,
when powerless to defend themselves. Shortly after
the assortment of blankets and clothing, which was
recently forwarded to our prisoners, was distributed
to those in Danville, many of whom were still
misapplied, the hoepital attendants were heard plot
wig among themselves how to get some of those
from the prisons, who had been favored with these
comforts, into the hospital, where, under the regti
halm of sending all clothing out to be cleansed,
they could appropriate these articles to their Own
use.
One of the returned prisonerS Mural me that two
of our colored soldiers,who were captured about lan
July, were taken Into the woods by rebel officers,
and placed as targets, where with their pistols they
fired for their amusement and to improve their elm,
This terrible affair was told In the presence of some
of Brigadier General Birners fighting colored
troops, who reaffirmed their resolution to avenge
Fcrt Pillow and all other rebel atrocities. The ac
counts which theseprisoners bring of their suffering
and thrktreatment which they received fully con
firm ail previous information of rebel barbarity.
The only food they received was corn bread and
water, which may ha've been a little slower in its
progress than arsenic, but equally as sure in its re
suite. . The men affirm: that they have not tasted
meat for four months.
The news of the evacuation of Oharieston and the
occupahlon of Croltuithis vr j ae commemorated in this
army yeeterday by kitbag 41. Salute of, ono hundred
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1865.
gnu, and by p rotraoted cheering along the entire
ea.
To-day being Washington's birth-day, It will be
observed by ea abStenanee from all duties but MOM
which may be deemedneoessasy.
ARMY 01/ TIM JANBEI;
Esvoan Rioamown, Feb. 23, 1.865
The weather logradueJly moderating to a. summer
climate. The ground is sufficiently frosted daring
the night to enable persona to walk over It early in
the morning without encountering any mud, but as
soon as the sun comes forth we have the millfortane
to experience several inohes of disagreeable mire.
The warming infinenaea of advancing spring will
soon evaporate the muculent roads, and leave them
in a condition to favor the movements of any
military operations. The more genial atmosphere
is having a very pleasant effeet upon the various
commands In this army.
Yesterday being Washington's Birthday, and all
unnecessary labor being suspended in the Army of
the James, it was celebrated by a grand review of
the let Divialon,•26th (colored) Corps, under Brevet
Brigadier General A. G. Draper, by Major General
Godfrey. Weiteeir the commander of the corps. The
hour for the cerement" was 11. o'clock, but n lierne fif
teen minutes before the • time every regiment was in
place, awaiting the reviewing general. The divi:
Dion was =enamored into three aides of a square, as
none of the large fields in thin vicinity were Wl
dent to enable it to form a line of battle.' The
lengthenedllnes presented,qulte a martial appear
snap, not unraingled with animation. !The black
nell.iletes, though soiled by the miry state of the • 1
Itgentir t llre shining bayonets, Lb/glittering crosses,
the elettpped clothing, the aplendid banners;of new '
regiments, Itithont a blemish or a rent,.and the
perforated colors of yeteran commands which have
're,peived their,baptiera of fire, presented a' sPeetaele
or' dlelipline and military graikiteur *Wolf very
prep" excited the admiration 'or all Ofatietic end
kindled conscious pride;alopg the entire *le;
.The preparations Incident to the ceremonies were
all made by Ge'n. Draper, In that confident biliteasy
manner, which at once evinced hie caparaty for
manoeuvring a division. ' Be was well"ifolitel4eil
Col. Geo. 111. Bale, who commanded . the let bd.
gado, and Brevet Brig. Gen , Chain S. Bissell; who'
headed the P.a. brigade. Brig.' Gen. SeeryThomas, who marshaled the Ed brigade,did not get"
through without idunderhig. The respective staffs
of these officers were out in all the parapheenelleof
military display, and, beingmbunted upon pouncing
steeds, presented quite an imposing appearance.
At the exact, hour General Weitzel appoUred`
on the ground upon his grat war Charger, !Mewed'
by a large retinue of officers and orderlies. The
necessary formalities incident to the reception Of
the commanding general, were conducted by the
blasts from a bugle, sounded by General Draper he
person, who, in fact, dispensing with the services Of
the regimen, handsomely manoeuvred the' diiisloir
throughout the review by the sound of that rostra-'
Meet. As General Weitzel reviewed the re/Moffatt',
brigades, the bands of ere% Played 1, Hail to tlfe
Chief.". While the &Vision passed in review tale
marching was excellent, even the new regimeW:
doing as well as (maid be expeoted. While this Was
being done a haltitas caused on the right of tile`
line, which necessitated a; marking of time by trne•
of the regiments - in front of the reviewing Office,
which was well done—a movement which, simpletia
it may seem, is scarcely ever well executed
der similar circumstances. . ';
All the regiments did well on WOOOO6EOII, if Noma
misapprehensions in the 118th U. S. U. T. may bti
overlooked. No particular one can claim any supeo
for credit, either In bearing or evolutiOna, but At
must be confessed that the 43d U. S. C. T., recruited'
in Pennsylvania, attired in cleansed white leggings;
attracted a good deal of attention. The object' of
reviews on a large scale is to demonstrate whether
there is zutlloient discipline in the respective com
mands to induce the commanding general to tely
upon their obedience to all orders, and a prompt
execution of all plans. That fact was clearly mani
fest in the punctuality and address of the entire
division. A ready and cheerful compliance with all
orders le one of the chief characteristics of the co
lored soldiers, whether in camp or in the tietd.
Gen. WeNsices headquarters were illfamlnated
last night, in honor of the many victories which
have recently blessed the cause of the Union.
There was considerable cannonading in frau", of
Petersburg yesterday morning, but I haverot
learned that it was anything more than the general
Spirit of the complimentary exchange of civilities
which have so long been in practice before that oily.
The Capture of Cotton on the Red River.
The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says :—A case is now before the Su
preme Court of the United States, which promises
to settle a question of great IMPortatloo to the
Western gunboat fleet : whether the war ramekin
the ithssissippi river and its tributaries can, under
the prize laws capture cotton from plantations as a
naval prize . I t would certainly seem an unjust dis
erimination in favoref the gunboats inidagainiktlie
army, to hold that h — guitbold ofizer'oau
craft along the banks of the Mississippi, and load
her with cotton, which he may afterward nen and
Oall the proceeds , "prize money? while the army
may have to fight for a town containing half a mil
lion bales, and will not get a cent of the proceeds of
the fabric when sold.
Aa the Case I refer to, though not in itself involv
tog a. very large amount of cotton, necessarily oar.
rise with it the settlement of the whole question of
the legality of gunboat captures in the Southwest{
I think the following facts, extracted from the brief
prepared by the °Dense for the olaimant,H. M. Oor
wine, Esq., of Cincinnati, willrepay perusal :
"The cotton was the property of Mrs. Elizabeth
Alexander. It was seized by some of the naval force
in the lied River Expedition, commanded by Major
Generalsßan.ks, about the 27th of March, 186 e. It
was situated a mile or more book front the river
bank, and had to be hauled by teams that distance
for shipment in the boats of-the navy. The country
above and below the plantation of the claimant,
when the Cotton was ielzed, was talenpled by
the army of the United States, under the command
of General A. J. Smith, from ten to fourteen days
before the capture of the cotton was made. Fort De
Rump was captured on the 16th of March by these
land forces, and the naval fleet did not appear in
Red river so high up as the claimant's plantation
until as late as the 245th or 27th of Marsh. The ens.
my evacuated all that country, moving their forces
up Red river about one hundred and ten miles
below Shreveport, before General Smith appeared
at Alexandria. After the capture of Fort De Rus
so), there was no rebel army and no armed enemy
as low as Alexandria until after the 16th of April.
Oar forces held undisputed possession of the whole
Country up to that time. During the time we were
thus in possession, by order of Governor Hahn, of
Louisiana, an election took place for delegates to a
State Convention, which was afterward held.
Coming after the army had driven the enemy from
all that part of Louisiana, and had taken pos
session of it, so that her loyal citizens could hold a
_civil election, the flotilla, commanded by Com
modore Porter, which came there to assist General
Ranks in clearing out the rebel army, seized the
cotton of the claimant, and now Seeks to hold it as
a prise of war.' It further appears that Mrs. Alex
ander never rendered any voluntary aid of any
kind to the enemy, but uniformly rotated to
do so ; and never wavered in her fidelity to the Go
vernment of the United States. It farther appears
that the cotton in controversy was raised by the
claimant, on her own" plantation, whore it was found
by the captain ; none was sold, or offered to be sold
to the rebels ; but all efforts to induce her to sell to
them were successfully resisted by her ; also, that
after General Banns' forces took possession of that
country, the claimant took the oath of allegiance
to the Federal Government."
The "capture" was Made by the mosquito fleet,
and, as I have quoted from the record of the court,
the cotton was actually hauled on wagons more
than a mile- This adds to the farcical character of
the " prize."
I don't know what the lawyers will say about it,
but it seems to me that if it is legal for gunboats to
seize on all the cotton they find along the Xissis-
Opp!, the Western naval service affords a splendid
opening for a young man. Why stop at cotton
either 1 Why not seize and sell plantations and
houses, and horses and mules, and everything else 1
In short,. why not Cell an auction at onoe , sell the
States o f Louisiana, Arkaneas, Mississippi, and
Tennessee to the highest bidders, and divide the
proceeds among the gut:boatmen as prize money 1
Certainly the plantations are "captured" quite as
much as the cotton. It need to be said that to the
victors belong the spoils; but in this case it seems
that Gen. Smith and his soldiers did the" fighting,
and Commodore Porter and his men did the "cap
turing." If a decision is rendered that the facts I
have cited conttituto a lawful prizebase, I don't see
why one man oannot fro up to another, capture his
watch, and call it a prize 1
Garcons." riloOmmnso:—General PileMellen has,
we believe, left London for Paris, and those officers
who were desirous of showing any attention to him
In their power, as a mark of their appreciation of
his contents whilst they were visiting the camps un
der his command, have had no opportunity of doing
so. The General is now nearly ten years older, and
many years wiser, than when he wrote his remarks
on our army in the Crimea; and as he has come
over to study the progress of arms and military mat
ters in Europe, as well as for the private reasons of
which we regret to hear, he. will do well, perhaps,
to look a little closely into the system under which
a larger army than that of any Power in the world,
except perhaps Russia, is administered and ruled
by the Crown. Re will find a good deal to astonish
him when he has mastered the details of the elabo
rate machinery of Horse Guards. War Office, and
India Office, and studied the functions of. the Sove
reign, of the Parliament, and of the Commander-in-
Mier, and of the Secretary of War, and the Secre
tary for India, in relation to the soldier and to his
service. 'Whether he will admire it &Ilia more than
sso can predict. When the youthful captain of ens
enema was criticising our performances against
Russian earthworks, how little he dreamed that he
would be In less than a decade at the head of alarger
army than France or England or Russia had in the
deld in that peninsula, and that he would be treated
oy the exaggerated enthusiasm and hope of the
hour as the , ‘Young Napoleon," who was to crush
to the earth the tremendous revolt against the Ame
rican Union of so many sovereign States of America.
As little did be dream that-as Todleben could have
Imagined the fame he would aohteve in the city of
the Ohersonese when first he walked through its
streets without any consideration or authority or
reputation. If the American would ask the Russian
what he thinks of our army and military resources,
he will perhaps find that they are not so undeserving
of attention as he thought in 1850, and appears to
think in 1886.—British Arasy and Navy Gazette.
EENNOT OH THE LATH TRADE SALE OR THE DBY‘
GOODS lIIARILET.—A Boston paper says : "It la a
Mot, whiob, among the general public, has crested
some surprise, that dire c tly on the heels of the late
union victories, particularly of the fall of Columbia
and Charleston, the dry goode mat!t should have
been so well sustained . Private tel isms from Nev
York, received last evening, state t at trade in the
liteiT,ooll was brisk and pri ce s firmer, showing that
the late trade sale In this city had-eetablished a
basis of value for goods, and given to the market a
strength and tone which, for the last few months,
the mercantile community has been vainly seeking.
The event will prove that the late sale has been
111ricalculable benefit tollioston, as well, too, In its
social es In its commercial relations, for it has at•
treated to us a great number of eminent merohants
who, if they speak Sincerely, will be glad to visit
Boston again, not for business merely, but to enjoy
her hospitality and become better acquainted with
her Institutions."
/INTEBXBTING TaoPHv.—The Bureau of Military
Statistics. at Albany, Y., on Monday received
from Major General Butterfield the flag of the 10th
Regiment New York Volunteers. This Hag wag
captured from the 10th in the Virginia campaign
of 18612, and recaptured by General Slooutn's
column of Major General Sherman's army at the
capital on the meant march through Georgia. The
banner is mach worn, the lower part being torn
into shreds, portions of which are gone. The spear
bee the mark of a shot, and the flag of several.
...Twice atrophy, no Goa:talon interest is attaolted to
tbialipasziOr,
CHARLESTON,
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE
OCCUPATION.
CONDITION OF THE CITY.
THE EIRE AND TEE EXPLOSION.
THE FEELING AMONG THE CITIZENS
VFW milie(the following extracts from a letter to
the dielzurati Commercial, dated Caarleaton, Fe
bruary 18 9 ,
Laataight, about midnight, General Gilmore left
Hilton Head on his flag-steamer, the W. W. Colt,
and ; was i.permitted to accompany him, my desire
to do so being doubly strong from a conviction that
the Crisis about Charleston was fast ripening. The
General Save orders to run to Bull's Bay, which Is
about twetity.flve miles north of Charleston, and the
immediate base of operations for a force of Gli-
Miare's troops under the command of GeneralPottOr.
i ' er describing the approach to Charleston and
placing of the flag do Sumpter by Capt. Bragg,
, correspondent proceeds: .
A t. the eye did not dwell long upon !no- network
correspondent
,0 • eferbes which line both shores of the harbor
labors Fort Sumpter, or on the burning wreck; of a
gebel tug,. beached above Moultrie. It wandered
'bank to the city lying quiet, and, save the column
Of spr,ike, lifeless, in the calm afternoon sunshine,
a • il itn ti t ro ° w r s of horses . ela
ellirditilgr:OLVZ
, from a distance , reminded one vividly, in ml
turd,. of New York, from a like lookout, which,
is Charleston, as I need hardly say, is compactly
ton orriarrow strip at the confluence of two
re. We soon passed the obstructions whith r so
FSS we could see, are simply piles driven par
ly emcee the harbor a mile from the city,
ri ample room left in the channel remaining
a to admit two or three ships abreast. We saw
flag—a small one—fluttering from the Cupola of
e old post office. At one or the piers were two of
ur smaller this ; at another, one of oar W h i-draft
nboats, and at anchor, a short distance from the
pok, was Admiral Dahlgren's flag-boat. The Colt,
he fifth vessel to reach Charleston;sw unit' beside a,
essay old pier, to reach which tint, two of the Wit
ears oK the Colt had a playful scuffle, the result_ of
which verified the maxim that the battle is not al-
Ways to the strong. The motley crowd of some hun
dred on the pier to which the tugs were fastened,
seeing a handsome transport land with its two large
t,.
white stars on a field of blue, fiyingiat the jack-statf,
deserted the Mile orbits and the Admiral, and
-rapidly made a detour to the pier at which we
rode. A lot of urchins is worn out rebel
jackets, were the skirmishers ; then negroes,
of. both sexes, who rushed to shake hands
with such of tire crew as were already ashore;
then ten or fifteen stragglers, all Irish or Ger
mano from the rebel army, who - had hidden to
fall into our hands, and looked on without
demonstration; and, lastly, a squad of five young
ladies, of German extraction, pretty well dressed
for Charleston, twenty per cent. of the five being
r . rosy plump, good-looking and, all not in the least
• afraid of the Yankees. In all, General Gilmore's
committee of reception numbered barely one hun
dred, and was composed as I have stated. Along
the whole line of piers not another soul was visible,
save a Jew of our colored soldiers. The streets down
which we dould look were deserted, not a Mote or a
i vehible In sight. No smoke arose from the chimneys, no blinds were thrown open. Btit the piers told the
most eloquent tale of decay. They were crazy, no
glected, and afsorry tomb-stone to departed traffic.
on none of them was there the Slightest evidence
that any commerce had been carried on there in the
memory of man. The piles were awry, the planking
warped and diEmantlea, and in places removed alto
' gather. Even the rings worn on the stanchions b •
the old-time cables were no longer visible. Arotta.
the plies, and for a short distance out in the harbor,
floated plots of half-consumed cotton, sent nearer
shore by every impulse of the flood-tide, and not at
all detracting from thecspect of commercial ruin,
That portion of Charleston subject to the Swamp-
Angel's favors lay opposite where - we were moored,
and it waanot necessary to stir from the deolx of the
Colt to see a fair specimen of the have() occasioned
by them.
General Gilmore sent for General Sehimmelp
fennig, who was the first general officer to arrive
in.the city, and from him he obtained the facts of
the occupation. The evacuation was first dis
covered at Fort Moultrie, which was found de
sorted early in the morning. The
smoke from the
upper end of the city (which was caused by the
conflifygration of about six thousand bales of cotton
piled in the yard adjoining the Wilmington depot)
had already set the garrisons on Morris and.
• James Islands on the qui vane, and skirmish
ers went forward at an early hour, on the latter
Island, toward and Into . Fort Johnson, which was,
of bourse, deserted. Some delay occurred In get
ting small boats ready, which, however, was at
length accomplished, and the boats filled with both
white and colored troops, the whole under com
mand of Lieut. Col. A. G. Bennett, of the 21st U.
S. Colored Troops. The boats first pushed over to
Sumpter, end found that empty ; they then headed
towards Charleston, for which the crews pulled
heartily. At half-past eleven the boats grated on
the beach at Charleston, and Lieutenant Colonel
Bennett was the first to jump ashore, though his
) detachment closely contested
the
honor with him.
Very few citizens were on the piers while our boats
*ekeapproaching, and no demonstration followed
the landing. .Mayor Meßetli was close at hand,
who made the usual plea 'for protection of life and
property.
The rear guard of the enemy, which had lingered
to pillage rather than serve any military purpose,
did not leave the outskirts until half past eleven ;
and it does not seem to have been their design to
molest our occupation of Charleston, even with a
small force.
General Schimmelpfennig arrived ahortly after,
and took command of the olty. Admiral Dahlgren
arrived In hie flauboat Philadelphia, about two - P.
Al , and it was nearly three when the boat of Gene
ral Gilmore touched the wharf.
General Sohimmelpfennig reported that the num.
ber of guns, In all, that'fell into our hands, would
foot up nearly two hundred ; all of which were
spiked, but very few dismounted. The guns are
mostly heavy, and a number of them are of English
manufacture.
The utter nerYeleseness of the people who remain
ed was a matter for curious yeroark. They did not
appear pr e par e d pin about the matter, and seemed
so woll pp for it that th took the apoach
of our boats, and the landing, se a matter of course.
The first landing was witnessed by jut Such a
crowd as to numbers and composition , as firked on
the p ier when General Gilmore landed.
A dreadful calamity occurred at the Wilmington
depot, in which a quantity of commissary Stores had
been loft, and which a motley crowd of poor people
—men, women and children, were appropriating.
While the depot was orowded by these pillagers, a
quantity of powder in it was ignited in an unac
countable way, blowing the building to piedes,
killing and wounding a large number. Some of the
citizens with whom I convened estimated the
number at two or three hundred, which possibly is
exaggerated. The Wilmington depot Is In the up
per part of the city, and General Gilmore's visit
was so brief, hardly an hour In duration, that I had
no opportunity to visit the scene of disaster. It
was this explosion that we had witnessed at Bull's
Bay.
I descended from the Colt and engaged In conver;
ration with three deserters. The spokesman of the
party was a deserter from the Palmetto State, one
of the rebel iron. clads in Charleston -harbor. The
fleet, consisting of the Chicora, four guns, the Pal
metto State, lour guns, and the Charleston, sift
guns, was run a short distance up Ashley river and
there destroyed, early in the morning. Beauregard,
the report ran, had evacuated Charleston for the
purpose of concentrating to give Sherman battle,
and it was the impression that one of the greatest
battles of the war would be fought somewhere In
South Carolina, provided Sherman did not speedily
retreats his ste'. These men had heard nothing of
reinforcements arriving from Lee's army, and they
were of the opinion that by the time Hardee and
Beauregard concentrated, Sherman would have his
hands full.
I singled out, in the crowd on the pier, a man
whom, I judged from dress and appearance, to,have
not much in common with the poor people around
him. He Informed me that he had secreted, in his
store and dwelling-house, about two hundred bales
of cotton and over seventy-five thousand dollars'
worth of tobacco.
This gentleman informed me that after the cap
ture of Savannah the people of Charleston con
sidered the fall of their own city as a thing 11000 M.
plished. For a month, in reality, the process of
evacuation bad been going on. Citizens sent oft
their valuables and famines, under one pretext or
another, always receiving with virtuous indigna
tion any hint that connected their departure with a
military crisis. And so, some went to Columbia,,
1101E0 to North Carolina , some to Richmond.
During four or five days preceding the evacuation
the mask was thrown off. Sherman's daring was
terrifying, and his slate of speed, per diem, not the
modest average day's march through Georgia. The
mantle ofdir i :ty fell on the sham, and the skedad
dle (I don't e the word, but it is good enough for
Charleston), rapidly culminated.
The roads to Wilmington, being the only ones not
tapped by Sherman, were thronged.
Tire military evacuation commenced in earnest
about three days before General Sherman cap
tured Columbia. Militia was thrown over into
the forts, and the regular troops withdrawn and sent
to Wilmington. The Firemen's Brigade, number
ing three or four hundred men, was sent to James
Island. All thiellime General Gilmore was worrying
thorn at half a dozen different points. General
Hatch, with his coast division, was making mischief
south of the pity, at Combahee river. General
Potter, with a strong detachment, made the enemy
uneasily anxious concerning Bull's Bay, north of
the city. General Sotsimmelpfennig seemed big with
disquietude on James Island. Alf those operations
by forces of unknown strength, with Sherman very
decidedly In the rear, hastened matters sensibly
during the last days of Charleston under Confede
rate rule. Confusion became apparent. When the
operations at Bull's Bay began the Firemen's
Brigade was ordered from James Island to that re
gion. They refused to run with the military ma
chine any longer. They swore they wouldn't go to
Bull's Bay, and they didn't. They would have
been arrested, but nobody had time to do I .
I walked down the pier Into the streets, and
glanced up and down them, my time being too brief
even for a berried stroll. The interior streets, like
those on the quay, are dead. Charleston Is the
deadest Southern city I have ever seen since the
rebellion commenced. Savannah is a. Paradise be
side it. Debris from shells lies in the streets whore
it fell. Every scar where a fragment had struck
le as visible as the day on which It was made. Tire
lower third of the city was an infected distriot. No
one dared sleep there, and even when the guns at
Morris bland were silent, men walked with accele
rated gait and their ears pricked. The damage to
Atlanta from shells lainoonsiderable beside that to
Charleston.
Before leaving, the enemy fired several arsenals,
workshops, and storehonees, and probably some
twenty or thirty houses in all have been, and will
be, destroyed. The fires have all gone down, at the
moment I (dose this letter, save in one pia:co, and
there It Is growing smaller fast.
Ere I have walked far from the 'Pier, the whistle
of the Colt ES on d a , and I am compelled to retrace
my steps. Before we run far we plak,ilp Captain
Bragg, just returned from an errand that willlutve
a place in history. He had found in Sumpter nine
guns (four Columblade and five howitzers), an old,
torn rebel flag, and a oat with six kittens. His cox
swain attempted to bring away the maternal oat,
but she fought and scratched and bit so furiously
that he was glad, to drop her before he reached the
boat. She bad evidently a fondness for theplaoe,
which had more charms for her than a glided re
treat and petted-mioe at Barnum's. We may ex
pect to. hear, howeVer, that this cat will be over
come by some Yamree trick, and that her progeny
are tenderly preserved us relics. Like the bite of
rope that choked somh monstrous malefactor,
which would, If combined, give olothes-line enough
to hold the wash of the largestrhospital, so the ori
ginal Sumpter oats will shortly be numerous, and
the original Sumpter kittens multitudinous.
Down the channel we run with a full head of
steam past the forts, with the old flag waving softly
over them ; past the basin' of debris Called Sumpter;
past the monitors, with their rnet, hulks and slug
gish dip, their long, long occupation gone ; past our
Olen dearly won and now useless forts on Morris
Island ; through the fleet. who can hardly realise
that no more blookadere will steal over the bar un•
der Moultrie, out to where the steamship Fulton
bnyWing O MOM, waiting to °fury North de
spatokell. Hurriedly I give the last stroke of the
ppen to these " Falidetalls of the capture of Charles
ton,” get my despatehes on the Fulton, and grow
eldivious Over everything pertaining to the Pali
'metto City in the Stealing consciousness that 'hare
not dined. J. NV: X.
MEMPUMS.
IMPORTANT ORDERS OP ADUFERAL RORIIIRTS-4TA.
TIM OP REFORMED SECESSIONISTS.
MEDIPHIB, Feb. 23.—A1l is quiet In our lines.
There are no rebels within miles of the city.
The trade Stores Outside the line, owned by men.
chants of this city, were recently closed by the mili
tary authorities, and the goods confiscated.
General Roberts, commending this departinent,
has Issued two orders. One of them, NC. 16, im
poses very heavY penalties off certain Parties de
signated as "recognized enemies of the Govern
meat." The other order, No. 18, considers the find
ing of bills of indiotmertt by the Grand Jury, against
certain persons who have acCepted 'the President's
Proclamation, as erroneous. It announces the in
tention of the mtlitary authorities • to view all per
sons complying with the requirements of the Pro
olamation of Ausiesty,"Cf December, 1663, and keep
ing them in good faith, es fully pardoned of crimes
of conspiracy, treason, and, rebellion against the
Federal Government, and as not liable for trial
;therefor by any tribunal, civil or military.
lIIVIIIth CONGRESS-4;mnd Nessiou.
WAIMIXOTON. Feb. 25, 1355
SENATE.
suNterou ]PROM WPRT VIROrPti.
Mr. VAIN WILIHrit, of Vest Virginia, presented the
credentials of Wakeman P. Willey, Etanator elect from
Weet Virginia, from the 6th of March. 1861, for the
,term of elx years, which were read and Med.
NAVAL 416)01 ADVOCATE.:
Tie bill to create the oftlee of Boncitor and Judge Ad
vocate of the NRVY Department.was taken.up.
' MY TRUMBULL, of Illinois, evoke agalnet it, and
Mr. GRIMES, of lows, explained De provisions and ad
vocated it ass neoessity,_afoer wh:ch it was puma.
Mr. COLL AMER. of Vermont. called up the 'Renee
eolation to authorize Wm. E1..r0 well to paint a plc
tore for the Capitol at a cost nogto exceed 1126.030.
bIIMNEB, of Massacausette, was sorry to feel
compelled to °nose this ;measure. There was a time
to weep and a time to laugh, and atime to patronise the
flue arts. This was ne time to expend $15.000 for the
porchase'of & picture. The public debt was &Puma
lating. oar eroldiets were unpaid. and our spleens were
being taxed to the utmost to suet* tie Government is .
itostiogglir with rebellion. -
Pearling the Consideration of this ernestion the morn•
lag hour expired.
MIL=!
. .
lift.• CHANDLER . , fro Committee OZECOMISISTC%
reported the House bill top vide that in the )1/168.511te.
meat of-the tonnage of ship-store rooms and packing
rooter. above lower deck ehallnot be included. Passed.
ItICOESS
Mr. FOSTER. of Connec lent, moved that the Senate.
take a recess at half vast four until five o'clock P. 111.,
tle evening session to be devoted to the consideration
of the bankrupt bill. . -
Mr.'llll/MBI:ILLIvas opposed to the motion:because
he wished to prees the lonnuana question to a vote as
coon as possitde. , Me asked for a division of, the ones-
Hon before the Senate; Brat. on taking the recess, and
then on making the bankrupt bill the spacial order.
The motion to take a recess prevailed.
SPEOIAL ORDIR.
The question on cooking the bookrack bill the mitosis'
order war decided in the negative—Teas 17, nali kt.
LOITIBIABTA.
The joint• resolution recognizing the State Govern
ment of Louisiana was then taken up.
BUDIZIEB, of Maseachnsette, offered the follow
ing, ea a surbett , nte for the resolution of the Indiefary
Committee, which wee ordered to. be printed.
Received, That It is the duty of the United States. at
the earldom practicable moment consistent with the
common defame and the general. welfare, to re-esta
blish, by act of Oongrem, republican governments in
those States where loyal governmenti, have been vaca
ted by the' existing-rebellion, and thee. to the fall ex-•
tent of their powers, fulfil the requirement of the Con
stitution that the United States dull guarantee to every
State in this Untonli republican form of government.
ReBo /yea. That this Important duty le imposed by the
Constitution, In express terms, on the United States, and
not on individuals. or classes of individuals. or any
military commander or executive officer ' and cannot be
entrusted to any such penises, acting, it may bs, to an
oligarchical class. and in disregard or large numbers of
Joys' people; but it must be performed by the United
States, represented by the President and both Houses of
Congreee, acting for the Whole people. thereof.
Beselvfd, That in determining the extent of this
duty. and in the absence of any precise definition of the
term "republican farm of government," Me cannot err
. when called to perform thle guarantee under the
onstitypion, we adopt the self-evident truth of the
Declaration of independence ale our authoritative rale,-
end insist that in every re.estabitshed stets the consent
of the governed aball be the only foundation of govern
went, and all men shall be equal before the law. •
Resolved, That, independent of the Declaration of in
depentbree, It le plain that any duty imposed by the
Constitution must , be
_performed In conformity with
justice and ragmen, and 5, the light of exieting fame;
that, therefore, in the performance of this guarantee.
there can be no power ander the COnstitntiOn to dis
franchise loyal people, or to recognize any sash die
ftanebbsement, eepecially when it may head over the
loyal .resiority to the Government of the dis:oyal ml
nority, nor can there be any power under tee Contd.
Whin to discriminate in favor or the rebellion by ad•
milting to the electoral franchise rebels who have for
totted all rights, and by excluding loyal permute .who
have never forfeited any right.
Reeolved, That- the United States, now called at a
crisis of history, to perform this gtfaratitee, will fall in
duty under the Constitution should they allow the re
eetabliihment of any State Government with Out making
Proper safeguard for the rights of all the citizens, elms,
daily without making' it impossible for rebels now In
arum against the Rational Government to trample upon
the rights of those who are now fighting the bettlee of
the Union.
Ecsoteed. That the path of junkie° is also the Path of
Peace, and that for the sake of peace it is better to obey
the Cr natitutzon, and ant in conformity with its require.
meets in the pserfoi mane of the guarantee to re es
tablish State Goyernments in the consent of the go
verned, and, the equality of all persons before tele law,
to the end that the foundations thereof may be perma
nent, and that no loyal meioritles;nay be again over
thrownor ruled by any 0111(140/110
12egotatd, That a Government founded on military
Power, or having its origin in military orders, cannot be
a republican form of government, according to the re•
quirement of the Constitution, &c. • that its recognition
will be contrary not only to the anstEntion. but also
to that essential principle of our Government which, in
the leagues° of Jefferson, "(establishes the supremacy
of the civil over the military authority. "
Mr. -HOWARD, of Michigan? spoke at length against
the proposition of the Judiciary Committee, arguing
that the State Government of Louisiana was the Go
vernment of but a fraction of the people of Met State.
and would not exist if not euetalned by military power,
Mr. JOHNSON, of Maryland, took the floor at the
conclusion of Mr Howard's speech, and delivered a
lengthy address in favor of the resolution as .1t came
from the Committee on the Jc:dtolary. At ball past four
the Senate took recess
EVENING SESSION.
CLAIM DOE VAMAGISS,
ttr. 11117tDR1011.6, of Indiana. called up a reaoluticat
to pay Cobb & Co., of Indiana, for several barge loads
of bay 'destroyed by military authority during the
to moss
Morgan
the ,to o
privererevnt Morgan from using the barges
r. 13.111aMeN, of Ohio, said this was only one of a
thousand claims of a similar kind which citizens of
Ohio and other. States might press before the climate.
There bad been hundreds of horses taken from the
zeople during that raid, and it would be unjust to take
np this single care without providing for thousands of
others which the Government was not prepared to
adjust.
Alr. TRUMBULL was of the same opinion with Mr.
Sherman.
-
Mr FOSTER moved to refer the MG to the Court of
LOUISIANA.
Mr. PlitliBITLL moved to postpone the above subject
and take up the Louisiana question, and the motion
prevailed.
StillNßli offered an amendment to the resolution
of the JUdIChItYCOZOIOntaIi, SI follows: Provided that
this shall not take effect except upon the fundamental
condition that within the State there shall be no denial
of the electoral franchise, or of any other rights on ac
count of color or race, but all persons shall be equal be
fore the law, and the Legislature of the State by a
solemn public act shall declare the assent of the State to
this lundemedtel condition, and shall transmit to the
President of the United States an authentic copy of such
went whenever the same ebail be adopted, opm the
receipt whereof he 'ball by proclamation announce the
fact, whereupon and without any further proceedings
on the part of Congress tble joint resolution shall take
effect.
Mr.. SURVEIL Upon that I call the yeas and nays.
Mr. llllNDithilob, of Missouri I move to amend the
amendment by i nserting after the word " as the
weeds • or rex. [Laughter.
POMIKOY, of Kansas, as interrupted in some
remarks by Mr. Sanlebury, of Delaware, who said that
-at the last election the people of Delaware had tvote
between bayonets. were compelled-to Be out at aght.
were pursued into the swamps, and pereesuted in every
conceivable manner. The Democrats of Delaware bore
all this enietly, willing to await the verdict of public
opinion.
Mr. POMEROY, of Kansas, said ho was glad to find
a Senator whose experience at the polls was sometbleg
like hie. He remembered very well when a man
couldn't
_set a vote in hie Territory (Kansas) without
going to the polls betwsen two revoivere. You had to
swear to support not only the Conatitution of the United
Stater, but th e Lecompton Constitution and the fugitive
day, law. Ton bad to swear never to write, publish,
or circulate anything declaring that slavery did not
exist there by law. You had to do all this, and pay a
dollar to the sheriff. before YOU could Le: near the bal
lot box [Laughter.)
Mr. 13ADLSBORT said b e en bad been in public llfe at
that time he would have in favor of submitting the
State Constitution to the people.
Mr. LANE. of Kansas, said he remembered when yon
had to swear to support the laws of the State of Missou
ri, passed and repassed
Mr. JOHNSON, of Maryland, in replying to Mr. Sum
ner, said there was a bill before the Senate to incorpo
rate a hotel company. Mr Sumner ought to put a pro•
vision in it that no antes should be excluded on account
of color.
Mr. SUMNER. Will you vote for it ?
Mr. JOHNSON. leo; and I don't think the Senator
ft om Massachusetts thought he would vote for each a
propoeiti , n
Mr. OhIILILE took the Boor in opposition to the reso_
intion. In the course of his remarks he was asked a
question In regard to the loyally of the Government of
W est Virginia, and he replied that it he bad tne means
of supporting his family Without the three thousand a
year he received as Senator be would have resigned was seat on the very day that the State of West Virginia was
recognized by the bangle..
IMPUBAL TO PORTPONL
Mr. WADE, of Ohio, *CIO o'clock P.M., moved to
Postpone the farther consideration of this subject natil
the not Monday in December next, and upon this de
manded the leas and nays.
The question was decided In the netatlie by the fol.
lowing vote:
YEAS.
Davie,
Hendricks,
Howard,
Powell,
NAYS
Brown,
Duckalew,
Cathie,
Chandler,
Bowe, Ramsay.
Johnson, Ten Byok,
Lane ( indbina), Trumbull,
Lane (gantme),
Morgan,
Pomeroy,
OR TO ADJOURN.
The Senate refused to adjourn by a trots of 12 golf , .
OR TO TADLN.
Clark,
Dixon,
Doolittle,
Poster,
Harlan,
Henderson.
Mr. HOWARD moved to lay the subject on the table,
which was negatived by yeas 12, nays 18, being the
SWIM as recorded above, with the addition of Mr. Mc-
Dougall in the negative.
Mr. SUMNER spoke of the importance of-the subject
before the Renate and the propriety of PostIRIEDIE It He
would regard the pll/141[8 of the resolution of the *judi
ciary Committee as the 801 l Run of the Administration.
He moved that the Senate adjouni.and on that question
demanded tae 741118 and nays
It was negatived by a vote of yeas 12. nays 18
Mr. TRUMBULL asensed Mr Sumner of attempting to
browbeat and defeat the purpose of a majority of the
Senate by dilatory motions.
Mr SUOINE.R dented that be had attempted to brow
beat the majority. He felt judged I. employing &Lithe
instruments in the arsenal of parliamentary law in de
feating the measure. It was a mistake for Mr. Trumbull
to suppose he could pule this resolution to night. Par.
ilementary law was against him.
Mr McDOUGALL. of California, said that if
vole
bliity and wisdom were one. Mr. Sumner would be the
wisest man in the world.
Mr. DAVIS moved a call of the Senate, Whisk was
not ordered, and at 10.401'. M..
Mr. istrittliEß moved that the Senate adjourn. and
Mr. CHANDLER demanded the yeas and nays. The
motion was nwtived oy a vote of yeas 8, nays 19.
Mr. GRAZIDLRE, of Michigan, moved to postpone
this subject until next Saturday at twelve o'clock, and
make it the special order for that time
'the CHAIR. It is not in order to make a spacial order
for the next Congress.
Mr. CHANDLER. Then I will leave off the special
order and move to postpone it.
Mr. WADE demanded the yeas and nays.
Mr. SAULSBURY. of Delaware. said he had been ac
cused of co operating with Mr. Sumner and the Jadicicla
on this question. It was true. because ha believed the
radicals were right. He was co.operating with them
to defeat this measure.
Mx. RIDDLE, of Delaware. moved that the Senate
adiour TßU n. _
Mr. MBULL was wilting to adjourn If then could
bean understanding that this resolution would be taken
up on Monday at one o'clock.
Mr. SUMMER said Mr. Trumbnll's course reminded
hint of the threat of en English officer to oram the stamp
act down th• throats of the American people. He (Mr.
Trumbull) seemed determined to. cram the resolution
down the throats of the Senate.
Mr. DOOLITTLE. of W 11001181.21, wished the whole
country could witness the Mione in the Senate to-night-
Yive membere. who usually' supported the Administra
tion, were oallts4w1;1104 9ppoettlon to defeat Ftie wUI
of eighteen whohad always yottd with the Admintstra•
lion This was an act of detonation.
This Sex ate, at 11.46 P. E.. adjourned.
ROUSE Ot 11FX/28E1 , er/en* IN,
The Holm parsed a •611.1 appropriattag fifteen thou•
rand dollars as tr deronity to Ambrose Morrison for his
real estate In Nashville. taken by the military autho
rities its DOCOMATY 101' the defence of that city. A pro
viso le aprended that this relief is not tb be conablered a
precedent for other similar claims. •
The Howse posy* a bill for the extenftribn Co Josiah
Coreiang of a patent for an Improvement lo coat
crimps, and' laid ort the. table a bill to extend Jacobs'
patent for drawing tree nails or wooden Nabs wade of
locust wood Th fastening ship timbers.
The Annie Om& a resolution providing for &Intl*
one hundred arM twenty Rye thousand °pities* of the
report of the kirks. Hurst Dep_ariment for 11C4 for dis
tribution by members of the Mute. and Aftiven thouv
sand copies for the nee of the Commissioner.
APPROPIZIAT/Olf TO 11 - 188017 EL
The Senate bill appropriating four millions dollars to
roimburee hilsscifrYfor moneys expended for the 'Jelled
States Wee re:erred to the Oomtattloo of the Whole on
the state of the Union:
BPLUITIICKFT OP ISES2II. PRISONER/I.
Yr. PINS. of Mottle, offered a resolution directing
the Secretary of 'War to inform the Rouse whether any
rebel prisoners at Boek inland. Illinois. have been en
listed into our service, and credited to the quotas of one
or more. t Wee If so, how many have enlisted, and
whether any of the said prisoners are still under guard
at Bock Island.
. .
Mr. WILSON, of lowa, suggested that the inquiry be
roads pliers].
Mr. PIKS bed no objection to this.
Mr. 01146019 asked' whether bounties had been Paid
to snob prisoners.
Mr. PINE replied be understood that bounties bad
bean paid to men who are still under guard,
The resolution, having been made general in its seope
of inquiry, Wag passed.
PASSES TO COLORED PERSONS.
Mr. 13011115Cff, of Ohio, offered a resolution, which
was passed, directing the Secretary of War to Inform
the Rouse whether an order has been issued prohibiting
persons of color from leaving the District or Columbia
without a paw. and if so, whether the wild order or re •
a olatioa is still Worcs, and in that care the Secretary
of War furnish a copy of the order to the Howie, with
aw explanation or reason for making the distinction.
The resolution was adopted.
_ .
Mr. MAIMOM inquired of the gentleman from Ohio
when the Committee. on Military Attain intend making
a report on the subject of the Old Capitol Prison.
Mr. 80BEtt CH replied that the committee were now
engaged In the examination of the teitimony. which
cloeed yeater4*7.
- - -
The House mowed the conaideratien of the amen•
&dory enrolment bill
Mr. KERItAIi, of New York, offered an amendment
providing that hereafter the quotas shall se near as
poseiblesbe la proportion to the popniation of the State.
The present /system /ad to the greatest favoritiam and
abuse.
Mr. BOEBECE opposed the amendment. and said if
adopted be would.moce to include ladies in the draft.
Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio.. opposed Kr. Herman's
amendment se [mind
nTBEGE. of New- York, said that the gentleman
from Ohio (Mr. Bchenek ) ought to &Invest him colleague
(Mr Roman), instead of eadmayoring to throw - chile - ate
on the amendment.
The question was taken on Mr:. Bentan's amend
ment. and was disagreed to-7 eta 91, nays 91.
Mr. BLAIBIL of Maine, offered an amendment that
any pitman who has been or may be drafted for one
Tear. who farniehes an acceptable enbetitute for three
ears, slat,' be exempted from draft for that period.
Persona puttir g in substitutes for three years were ex
empted for only one year.
The amendment wan agreed to.
Mr. SCHIONCK offered an amendment, that where it
iv shown that a principal ham wilfully at in an impro
per substitute, the principal shall take hijs
Mr. hTBVENB opposed the amendment, regarding it
In subs - ance the saute as was rejected by the Hons.)
I.stetday. The Board of Enrolment examile all sub
stitutes., and.their determination should be conclusive
Mr. THAT ER, of Pennsylvania. also opposed the
amendment.
•
Mr. SODENCK said it was different from the amend
meat rejected yesterday, and expressed his stumble
that the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr Thayer),
who was a good lawyer. should take the ground that,
so far as the Government is concerned, it Should not be
relieved. even against fraud.
Mr. THAYER. replied that nothing was more eophis-
Deal than the view of the gentleman concerning his
temarks. Such a construction Gould exist only in the
fertile brain of the gentleman.
Mr. ODELL saw no reason for enacting a new law.
es there was already provision for guarding against the
evils which the amendment proposed to remedy. But
apartfromthis,theTtntm t:oitl:atheft
ofresgnsibi , firo r h g yr z eitt : t r e
DM who puts a substitute
Be notised with disap•
probation some remarks made by Mr. Schenck refit 00dag
OD the majority of the Democratic side.
Mr. rittlißEGlC rose and repeated what he did say:
that the majority on that aide voted against all amend
ments, and wruld vote against the bill itself. They did
not want a draft.
Mt ELDRIDGE naked whether that was the only
imputation the gentleman omit on the Democratic
party.:
Mr. SCREECH" replied the gentleman would ascerlain
from Die reported remarks.
Mr. ODELL. resuming. remarked that the gentleman
not onlyid. the mai °rite of the Democratic members
.would YM needn't the b4l.betthat they had arrayed
themselves against the Government with almost a united
front. . _ .
Mr. SCHENCK. I did eay so, and say so yet.
Mr. KALBFLBISCH. of New York, rising excitedly,
crird ont to Air. Scbenck, •It Is false, and I'll tell the
gentleman so here or elsewhere."
When the contusion had somewhat subsided Mr.
ODBLL reserved. saying, it was not the first time the
gentleman from Ohio bad used such language against
the patty with which he acted.
Mr. SCHANCK, in his seat. Better get out of bsd
company.
Mr. ODBLL again protested against such language
applied to the party with which he acted. It wag not
correct in fait, and be objected to it for further reason
that it was giving aid and comfort to the enemy. ra
voice—' What's true. "1 Wien such language reached
the other side the inference would be that this country
to divided.
Mr. SCHANCK in his oeat.remarked, " Not ranch."
Mr ODBLL said the language of the gentleman Im.
plied that more than one- half of the Democrats were
enemies of the Government. Now he wanted no such
record to go forth to the enemies of the country, and he
had nohesitancy In saying that the Democratic party
from the beginning of the war bad been earnestly so
licitous to pat down the rebellion He hoped such
strictures bad been uttered here for the last time
alter further debate. the pending amendment was so
amended as to require the principal to be notified in
ease of • 'discovery of non compar , menus, or other in
competent person being placed in the army as a substi
tate, and holding the principal. Tr e principal, how
ever, is not to be held liable for his enter-Unto anises
notice be served to the parts within thirty days after
the substitute has been mustered into the service. "
Without further consideration of the subject, the
House adjourned.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Saturday was the liveliest day at the Stock Board that
We have noticed for many months. The fever for oil
stocks has again broken out to an extent that casts
former experience entirely in the shade. One or -two
lucky oil "strikes" in the Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia region have put new life into the stocks that have
dragged their slow length along for months past, and
we are again visited with an avalanche .of new comers
*for public favor. AB will be seen by our list of sales,
nothing else scarcely was tolerated but the oils, and the
bulk of the transactions is beyond precedent. The
2110/1•7 market is easy, a circumstance which materially
keeps alive the Fremont speculative spirit of the stock
market. The favorable news constantly pouring in
uponms from all parts of the military horizon also tends
to predispose buyers to hopefulness. and with this feel
ie g they enter the market, not counting risks or cost, and
confident only of gain and success. The gold market
has been somewhat excited during the week, in con
sequence of the continued successes of our armies in
South Carolina. So far as gold is concerned, the pro
bability is strongly in favor of a lower range of prices,
irrespective of political or military events, and from
purely commercial causes. The spring imports of fo
reign commodities will be a mere bagatelle, aa compared
with those of former memoirs, while at the same time
our exports of domestic produce are steadily on the in
crease, thus turning the balance of trade in our favor,
and checking the outflow of specie. The large quantity
of Savannah cotton just arrived at New York, and soon
to be sold on account of whom it may concern, will also
meetly be shipped to Liverpool and converted into ex
change, to be drawn against by importets. Hence,
with no. demand for gold for export, and very little for
customs, it will evidently be impossible to maintain
present quotations, with fair sanest to the Federal
arms, either with or without speculative dealings.
Government loans were rather weak on Saturday—a
consequence, probably, of so mush capital being di
rected towards epesniations in other fields,. The 13818
sold at 110 X, a decline of yi ; the 6.235 were steady at
MX, and the 10.43 s at 10 . 2 X. There was nothing said
in City or State securities, and there was no demand
whatever for Company bonds. The railway share list
was also weak, with very limited sales ; Pannylvania
Railroad declined. X and Norzistowif Railroad 34 ;
Reading closed steady at 67. The low-priced stocks are
now most in favor. There was considerable activity
In the Coal stooks, with sales of Green Mountain at 4;
Sw stare Falls at GX ; Consumers' Mutual at 11X, and
Locust Mountain at 10. The demand for Bank stocks
wee active, and there was a good business doing ; the
sales included Philadelphia Bank at 140; Manufacturers
and Methanica' at 31% ; Commercial at 62 ; Kensington
at 87X, and Bank of Penn Township at 46. Among the
new and astir* oil stocks were William Penn, which
fold up to 6 ; Sugar Dale, which advanced to 7, and
Adamantine, which sold at 14 ; Cherry Run advanced
; Sugar Creek remained at 164.; Noble and Deliunater
advanced X.
The folloiring were the quotations of gold at the hours
named;
10 A. M.... ******** •••••• ***** ••••••••••••••••••129M
10X A. M 41.1. • • **NO .
12 M. • 0.0•101.0•41...•••• ••se • ••••••••• 1481 1
2 P. 11.............................m........•198).
S P. M •••....... ************ .....199%
33i P. St..—..— i...........• i••••••••••••••• 109,44
4 P. 11••••••• ••••••••.• ••••••••.......199".4
Drexel 11 Co. Quetta •
New
tinned States Beesle,ENl ill:
New U . 8. certificates et ladelbtedatas ...... Ng OM
Quartermasters' V0nek5r5......................... 939 E 9.0.'i
Gold 399 100
Sterling Szelissuse..•••••••. ..21434 ISK
Five-twenty Bode ........••..... ******* 130 @MX
The subscriptions to the 740 loan received by Jay
Cooke on Saturday amounted to $0,602,660. including
one of $600,000 from Philadelphia, and one of $122,800
from Chicago. The subscriptions for the week ending
the 26th lent. amount to $27,142.150 Since February let
1068.132.000 have been disposed of, leaving $190,000,000
unsold.
Government is desirous of :sedating the issue of
gold- bearing bonds as much as possible, and, there
fore, ft 'prefers to dispose of 740 bolds. which have but
a short time to run, at the expiration of which it will
be able to avail Itself of the state of the money market,
then, no doubt,-to be in a much better conditioa for the
negotiation of great loans than it is now. These bonds
have lege than three years to run, &albs) , are redeema
ble in August, 1687, in greenbacks i or. if the holder pre
fer it, they gm be exchanged for United States 5-30
bonds, which Dear interest at the rate of six per
cent., payable, both principal and interest, In gold.
Those who shall Invest in this loan wilt obtain
for their money onward of one-fifth above the com
mon rate of interest, and the privilege of convert.
the a short-time loan into a much longer onB, the Inte
rest o f which will be paid in specie. Nor need it be ap
orshended that there will be any difficulty is making
the conversion in 1887. Our debt is destined to exist for
many year., and Government will then be glad to make
the conversion provided for, while at the same time it
will be ready to pay the debt.lf the ereditof sSonld pre
far that node of settlement. Few creditors, however.
we believe, will be itnitons for Deviant In 1867; as by
that time the war synths over, and 1. old ars of Government
sixes will be receiving at least ten per cant for their
Money, supposing them to subscribe to the 1.31). loan
now. This loan, or the amount of it yebOn sale, is
only $120,000.000, and those who desire to get hold of
any portion of it should, apply soon, as it will all be
taken at an early day. The successes which, Generale
Sherman andShomse are speedily to win will canes it
to be in great demand. It Is necessary that Govern
ment should have money, and in large enantities, in or
dri7 that all elating against itmay beproperly met land it
is taking the proper course to make its faith good by in
area sin g taxation. Already there has been brought before
Conyers propositions, sure Mb* adopted, oath as pro
mire to 'merges.) the national revenue very erseatialll.
This cannot fail to add to it:bowel th of the public stooks.
and to render them a more than usually eligible form of
investment The property of the country is rapidly OA
the there's., and its industry and enterprise are obtain.
tag new modes—se 1n the petroleum business for ex
ample—which are teem eminently favorable to the pub'
lit cii,aftoy, as payment of national dohs is simply a
Question of ability in all cease tinder such arrange
ment. as have bean made. it cannot be doubted that the
7.30 loan will be all taken. seeing how safe It le to take
It and how sure the taking of it to to be a source of pro
fit to the takere. Wltlt lir, J 64 Cooks to magi the
Riddle.
Sumner.
Wade.
Wright.
FOUR CENTS.
TIEN OLD CAPITOL PRISON.
==!
WIELN2 WatiaL 1Plie1013;3.
{rusid.faum WitEKLY.
TEM WAS PRIM RIR b» sent to eabearibK. by
m (pea ash= I* advance) at. - _ %B R.
nrse 6 oo
Vies sopess r .....efeeeed 5«... 8 09
ree IsoMobrik,......4lool l l;...itriti VI 90
Larger Chi s Ikea 4110 1 114 at Ow 111180
"lc 11. tio eer nom
She money mast aim are aecompaser die order, an*
tw na instance can these terms be Ysteidillted inn*. 64
they afford very little more Man the cost ctf warms'.
air Postmasters ant regulated. to est am agents t
rizs Was Peres.
To the getter-np of the Club of ten or twenty. sol
adriltd/ow or ths PANS will be etTE,
enterprise a eauxot fail, ash the I ,
oan p e Fair comple -
glow will be seStefactory to ill rewties.
This President Yeiroloam Coaireav propose to organ•
ire w tromparry to , develop the beds or Co* widett they
hair/ didorfered on Oar land&
licfonnitkm.h at been received that a dowieg well hen
ben 61=0 on the California or Ancluis river, Wirt,
wanly, NirestkWa. The 60w is Wheeled at 2to bbla per
day, with a Mali part of water This will sloye
tereethig to holitiertrof oil prevertt jAthat Sealant of the
country. -7'
The Milking of winrge lfowialgcviall on the Big Bally,
near tholeindis'otaltereseaoron ComPani,his excited
the hohliof Oi that elbcit T and we , are informed that las
officals wild soon Mose titetr,s übscrtiption books. bat few
shame remainingialsotkkftet
Oor cottematitleilos Mill
, p,ntinne no - be looked Into'
with the gia# iniereetri* gold operators and pur
chasers of Merl' ./.." 'WOW' bloke are. 11 is said, soon
coming Into gransads. ardermax ie expected to give as
far more from the, V ranchiNle dfaatict. In fast, cotton
is found thicker than contralfando wherever our as
my marches. Ina EioutherctrrestMin to have burned a
deal of their eta db in their spachia, bat a very little
on their pl mitatioun. Large tiessiMatreighta have also
reached us ncentl7 Mon California.
A petition is now before Conglesz: nuseented in behalf
of the family of Oblate Charles tgoodyesr, praying for
a further extension of the soleteetsci patent right for'
vulcanizing India rubber. The wounds on. which thlw
extension Is asked ate - bat the inventor devoted t wen
'.ty-seven.years to the Investigation orthe properties or
India rubber. during varbstalme hinraderthe vain ibis
dlaoovery from which the usitior paborthe India mar
bar goods manufactured twthetivilized world is at pre
sent lona ded. The bneltess 'eninloYa. in the United
States alone, about fifty tbousand persons; and yields
an annual revenue to the &Sven:Tient, terdatiss and
taxes, of about three. quariciffe - or a million of dollars.
While greeting this vast amilm'portgut bgebese. ths
inventor was involved in im."-terse expenses in defend
ing Me rights against Infringer:tent and' in &calving the
materiel to new WNW. in cola - salience of there heavy
expenditures, this public benefactor' bersuto ember
based in besiness, and died timoicnr.t. leaving a wife
and six ebildren" without nieexurc f support.. Eis heirs
repreeent that it was his devotion to the development
of his discovery, from which the pablie - are deriving
great advantagep. that prevented hie regptngthe-pecn
ntary reward which the patent lawqras deslasedto se
cure to inventors.
The values of three articles to Peasterrivalla for the
year 1864. were as follows:
Coal
Petroleum • 00000 0000000 ••••••••••
Iron
Total. ,
And the intarralrevenue tat in the theretoraent:
on C0a1.... •••••••••• .• .. 11487.102 61
On Iron 1,046,017 00
On Petrol.= a 2,141.8.6 01
•
Total $3616.786 as
The "Keystone State " is WIWI base fan empire of
mineral and agricultural Wealth. In this respect ate
hes no peer in the Union
Sales of S
THE OPEN 6
41 1 0 Cant & Ana '70...10M.
600 Atlas 144
200 d0...1..4..4 144
100 d 0...... 1.44
100 do -1.44
ICO 1.44 ,
WO do
100 Corn o
P1ant0r....... . 5%
0 d
100 Cherry Ban.-- 3011
160 Keystone 011 2%,
100 . ... 7
KO WPa 011 ME. •gi
100 Roy a 1011.......... 1.8
1%
100 Walnut Island.... 2%
100 02m enn tat-- n.
1000
100 Tionta 341
Hay' es 8
s Palm. blO. 1
1000 E 02 a 1...... 1% •
600 goes ...... • .blO. 2
600 Keystone 011...... 2%
600 Warrant!. 9N I
1000 1% ,
100 Laotian.. ..... sss. 2
100 Atlas . 1.44
100 adsioantine.—_ 11 801
200 No perlor DM 2%
Reported by Hewett. Miner
, & Ob., No. 60 S. Thin! at
BOARDS.
11161'01111
660 Sugar Dal 6—- lots 6'
600 d 0.... b3O trg
110 do b 6 6
aCO do 6
100 d0...--....b30-
60 o —.. 634
SCO Jun d ction - Oil—lots '
60 do 633
FIRST li
NO US 6•20501d.c0up.111 1
600 do-..01d ..reg.llo i
WO City tki °id 1460 its 91 I
3013) Cam &A mt 66. '89.104
8600 II 8 118405., •cottp.l
NOO do . •oash lin 65.101
11:41 d0,......e0rip.11125
100 do- eonp.lo6
22 Penns R.. ..... lots 6 1 %,
100 do b3O %
8 Norristown R. 66
100 Reading /1 67
1(0 do. -.45 57
9 Minebili E..
-. . 6734
610 Catawisaa R. •Icits 12
200 d 0... • cash. Prf 30%
7 Scb Nay Pref.. 33
. 260 do roi; Xi%
1(0 do ... ..... ...s6 .49;,,
200 do -...830 ssy,
200 d 0.... ..... -WO 33%
200 Swatara Falls- -8%
200 ed.* ---- -,••• 85 6%
IS Locust Monatab .. 60
600 Atlas -... lots 144
10 Con Eat Coal Co.. 2134
130 Corn Planter...... 6%
100 Caldwell ......»» 7' ,
100 d 0... 75:
ZOO do ......... ..... y34'
460 Ad amantlne. • •lots 12%
300 do- e6wn-lots 12. g
200 Cow Cheek-dots LBl
360 DADA} Oil --- lots EX
100 finger Creek • •easb 16%
BETWEEN
640 Nollarath.... lots. 434.
WO William Penn 011 394
600 do. --...... M. 4 f
WM Ma go ... •b 6 814'
MO do.---..b30. 8 69
200 do 9 69,
NO Sugar Dale - b 5); 63(
226 do tots %
100 do b 6 lots. . 634:
900 d 0.....«... lota 6341
100 d0..........b30. 5%
6(0 Junction.••••.l 60. 1234
ZOO do lots 210. 6
• 1 do bd. 6%
2r o o o
do .......1),20. 6%
600 • do- . .... ...blO. 614
No Franklin-- • - 244
9:0 do- iota 234
nodo ..... .....26. 3
BO Adamantine Oil. 121;
' SECOND
10 Philad a 8ank....140
200 tiwatara Pall. a 5. 534
210 Green Idotutt'a 116 4
10i o
13%
340
Adamantine a 13%
3(0 d 0...• ..... . lots 13141
NO d 0... ...... 1,30. 1334
200 Atlas..
• .... 1g
240 Sugar Da1e.....:.. 634
NO d0.......b6 lots. ag
100 do-• ..el lote. 6
NCO Royal ' Petro lots. 131'
- 110 Sugar Creek.. b3O 168
.400 Sxcelsior......tots
100 • do- cash Lk
100 Story Porto • •••• • 21.16
do • 2
34
100 Sugar Dale —cash 614
100 do 6%
I 200 do ~.
.....830 By
2000 Royal Pat b 301.56
'2400 do .--....10ts
&XI do • b 5 15
1450 Junction --lets 64 -
300 do 430 5%.
400 .....b6 5.1(
100 Soh 011 Creek..... 3
40 0 do .1,341 2
3
WO Keystone Oil 44
300 LoKan Oil lots ;4'
400 Maalintock 0111te 611
DM Wm Pftm.,•ll,Bo
100 Murakeny 5
. 25 01111 k & 0 5.44
100 do• . .b 6 5%
MHO Olmste ad lots 3
200 PhDs 4 0110 k. -Ms 1%
500
MO Sherman —.. 1 31
.70 do .............. llg
700 do —sawn—lots 1.4 z
200 Royer di Marshall 4
100 'Tarr Homestead— 5%
100 Union Petroleum
pep Upper Illgeonomy.. • ly
.0 4 1 200 Two Mile Ban.-- 1
4 1i
'BEN BOARDS:
• 100 Adamantine awn
100 do —.. 13
lit/ do awn. 14
10 Bank Penn Twat. 43
200 80 Bich Oil. lotm9 348
, 100 d ..... Dm. 43,g
' 7,0 do lots 95,i'
IMO Royal Oil 1,8
100 Atlas 144
600 do ...... /ots 1,4(
10 Remington Bank- 11734
10 Commercial Bank 82
12 Man 8: Ifett's.Bk. 313‘
10) Drinkard 011—.6. %
600 11 6a
100 Caldwell 011--.. 736
MO d 0.... ...... lots 8
2800,etty Bs old Ye etre. a
2000 *lugs co Map se. We'
100 Story Farm -.2 148
100 St Melt 011—.08. 4
100 do .• • • —.. •
200 Btu Teak 2
lteElheny --7
••••
0(2)
100 Caldwell 1‘
2.0 Jabal.= OH 63‘
603 Wm ralia•-•••D011i.
100 Eureka 1.3‘
800 do ........ ...... 2
1200 Szoolaion... --.• 1%
;06.111)11..
200 Julietlox 011 b3O. 5
400 do. .„ . ........ 6
100 Upper ............ 2
200 Pope Farm
200 MoClintook....b6. 6.
300 'Keystone 011-106. 2X
Readg B WO. 67
Mt0g0.... SK
200 Atlea . 1 1 i
WO St Ntel; ...... ;AZ 41,-
1 100 Adamantine idyls. 16
MO do 14
i nns CLOSE.
AFTER
3003 TTSl64O,be 1014..102g
1000 Curette.-- .....
SOO do lots 2
WO Sugar Da1e........ 6M
103 do—bfikint aftr
Monday. 6'
60 Sugar Creek.-- 16
100 Fold Nay Prof b 5. 39
ttO lfit
400 Praaktin—•—lots•
600 Royal Petro..lota 1M
260d0.... .. Kling /M
NO do Idyl. 1M
SALES AT T
600 17 13 5-MM 116%
600 do 1107 e
MOO Stoig Centre.— 63(
210 Wm. Penn 5
tOO do ..........lota 5
600 d0..•.10te—b93 6M
500 do -- lota
OM norm= 131
100 00 Re 'do .....b5 67 ading S 7
1
800 KeTatotieoll...-4••23‘
100 Noble .4 Del 7
200 Suiar Da1e—...36 631
100 do .... /5 67
r 4
400 do
680 d0.....10t5—b30 7 I
NM Winfield Oil.--. 1311
IMO Eureka 011.1te•b90 2
100 do ... 2
1000 Eureka 190
100 Bibberd 2
103 St NicboLas-- 4.31
ICO Dahell 9
siso do 9
200 Boss 0i1..........1%
103 Continental 134
100 Corn Planter—. 531 c
-200 Cow Creek •
100 Dunkard Oil—. ti
100. Dalzell 9 ~
100 do ....... 9
200 Excelsior 08..—.. 1%
500 d 0.... lots I%
200 Etbert Oil 2%
500 Franklin 'MO 3
100 Franklin Oil-- 2%
0410 • do -.........10ts
200 NcEli alb 2.35
Philadelphia Iltarketa.
• FRandAirg 26—Breniht.
The demand for *lour continues limited, and holders
are free sellers at about former rates. Salo comprise
LlTObbla extra family at from SIL WM* bbl for good
and choice. The retailers and bakers are baying in a
small way at from $2.26@9. 76.f0r superfine ; $lO 115@l0.
76 for extra; sll@l2 for extra family ; and $l2 MOB V
bbl for fancy brands., according to quality • R7B Flour
is selling. in. a small way at, from 88.60g9 76 $1 bbL
Corn Meal continues very ode, and prices are without.
change.
OBAlN.—)led whit continues scarce and in good•
demand at 260@d66c P bushel. White Is dull and
quoted at 200113200 e '4I bushel; the latter rate for prime
Kentucky Js eis selling in a small way , at from 170
14177 c Vhf bushel. Cora continues dull. and prices are
rather lower, with sales of about 2,,t CO bushels at MY:
0160 a *bushel for prime yellow in the cars. Oats Sr.
in demand, and prices rather, better, with sales at 9110
96c P bushel.
Stir . —Baled la selling arfs3oosll P ton.
let
BA No.I is In
Querdtron the on. ion
ornothing doing.
offered at s4o* s
COTTON. —Holders Sr. Arm in their views. butthere
is very littie doing la the way of salee. Middlings ars
quoted at WON c
°BOCK/11E8.-2am d Coffee continue veryqedet
at about former rates, b utwe bear of nosslas of. either
worthy of notice.
IKON. Metal continues dull. £nthrtta Is
lectured s42@g2 IRtw, f change hree mintleara
ron te Without
. Mann
PBTROLKIJAI.—The receipts and stocks continue very
light, as we hare noticed for come time _past,. end, the
market is dull and unsettled. We quota Crude at dffi>dle:
refined, in bond, at 67(468c and free at from 87/4.90c
galley, as to quality.
bEßDB.—Fiezeeed is mailing at $3 60@3.65, P hn. and
Timothy at front $6 iscogo *.bn Clovereeed continues
In good demand. with setae of MO bus at fr0m...514 600
16.16 P 64 Me, the latter rate for prime. "
PROVlSlosB.—Pricas are steady, but there is very
little doing is the way of sales. Mass Pork is quoted
*87032 -*bid ;_areased Bogs are selling at from sld@l6
the KO e. Bacon Hams are without change ,• mesa
sales are making at from 20;424q IV lb for : nista stud
Misr canvassed; 200 packages pickled Hams sold at
2030 PI. Lard is quoted at 43;0124e fi-tblor barrels
and tierces Eggs are selling at fik4a2c.. 'fidcwo,
WHISKY. —There is very little doing in the way of
sales, and the market continues dull; small lots of
Pso asylvania and Western bbla are resorted al from
73( (Una *gallon.
The following are the receipts of -Pima and Grain at
this port today :
bbha
hue.
Corn— —.3 WO bee. g
Z,MO ba •
Boston. Marketa,-Nah. 26.
nora.—The 11110111$8 since yesterday here been 718
Wm the market ialeteady with a moderate demand;
sales of Western . imperffne at 119.7.:00O, 90 ; common ex
tra„ $lO 70@l1; medium do.. ig . .11 MO/Llot good and
choice do , Wen 7 01 bbl.
GRAIN. — Phu receipts since festerdas , bays been 4, 873
bushels Corn. 2.513 do. Oats. Coin is tall;, sales of
new Southern Fellow at 81 88 0 190 • old do. do. $l.Ol
®2 05;, new Western mixed. $l.lO @ t bushel . O at. arm
to fair demand • males of Northern and Oansdn. at Onecia
*lilt bushel. Bye is dull at ;lig* bushel. Shorts a
Nagai at SHIPS; Flee Feed, 01800,50; nds,(4
70 In ton.
Pitoyisions —Part le In moderate demand; sales of
prima at wagrmems, 385(440„ War. *COW bbl,
club. Beef is in Isl. }Kneed; sales of ast.tern an
o
Western MOSS and extra mese at trousobbi. Gish.
Lard Is in moderate dessiad,; sales in Obis cash es 1P
ib, cull. Hams are selling at 210/1c 11 fb .
ritteburl au amiiket, Feb. 25.
We have nothing new to -note in regard to the oil
trade. The stock, of crude being about seheteeee, we
have no sales to note, A few hundred barrels in the
hands of refiners is all that remains: whether this will
bs disposed or renewed will be an lifter consideration.
The Allegheny remains closed, which prevents our
dealers front receiving a supply of crude Priam in oar
market bays undergone bur little change: the nominal
rate. were 55040 c, without and with packages. Re
fined—The steak on hand is being daily redacted: 3e.
salea were principally lots of fire so ten barrels, with
boocasino hundred barrel lot freet. We emote
ded nominally at 81(1033c, and 121#193c ria'
The decline ut gold has unsettled the martet. Napa's
was aleady, with a fair inquiry lubricating oils wore
demand, with regular sates at precious WWII.
Creme —We did not learn of one tranascrion The
stock on band Is very light at present
RUINED. —There is some lnquiry daring the p few
days, and number of I.* ihrukstrd hAttlia. h ut thin
tame wen witkhold,
• 0.69.821.028
• - 46.913.430
••• 34.781:093
6171,610.965
ks—Feb
K BOARD_
801)
100 inaction b 301:
100 Caldwell bl 6. •
1(00 W
Ch
8s
1000 Crescen City. • •• • •••
100 Caldwell
100 do
I® Oherry Etna
100 Dalzell •
100 Bxceleior .....
1(00 Eureka • 1
600 do —.• 8%
2(0 Organic —... 1
1® do .
aao oOrSt Oh Run bi 5K .
100 Sheri:nen. . • 131
103 Schityl & 011
300 2
-00) do 2
20 Walnut Bottom-- 36 .
1(0 Egbert— . ....•
103 Logan '66
1211 131;
100 Atlas 1- 44
100 Wm Penn..-- —43 i
100 • do
60 .Tanction Cu - .634
41.0 hfoßtrath..... 4
,11
1:90
......
.400 &dam antine...lota
203 Franklin
600 Wm Penn.... 4