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THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1865
FORNEY'S WAR PRESS.
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June 15, 1565, is now out, and copies can be had at
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type) it contains news of surpassing interest. A
'fun account of the execution, at Washin;,ton. of
1 he
sour conspirators; Atzerott's confession : a 10241.1rf
f the first and present Atlantic telegraphic under
taking, and a complete list of all Peniriylvanhi sol
diers who died at A-nth:ray-ovine. the cause and
time of their decease, mother of grave, etc., are
among the contents of this number. The following
is a list of contents:
I. POETRY.—The old rsnlin — llYmn Of Faith—
Alle Sorelle.
Key; or, A Night in the
IL STORY.—Thc Lost
Cathedral Library.
EDITOEIALs.-3fr. Stanton — A Liberal DoIII.
liation — The Growth and 31anufactnre of Wool—The
Fate of the Assassins—Punishment of Treason and
Conspiracy —Womanhood and. Crime-Our Two
-Leaders—Our Sisters of Mercy—LincOin Monument
Fund.
IV "OCCASIONAL. "—Five Letters from "Ocea
nional."
V. THE CONSPIRACY.—FuII account of the Exe
cution of the four Conspirators—Confession of At
serid t—Sketehes of the Assassins.
VI. TIIE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—History of
the first and present undertaking.
VII. CORRESPONDENCE. Country Rambles—
" Letter from "Graybeard."
STARTLING-CALAMITIES. — Burning of a
packet ship—Terrible tornado in Wisconsin.
HORRORS OF ANDERSON VILLE. Com
plete list of Pennsylvanians who died there.
X. MI:3OEL LANE 0 IT S.—Curious Chapter of
Crimes—The Death-warrant of two Philadelphia
Murderers signed—lnteresting from Utah—The con
dition of the crops throughout the country—Sketch
41).1 - a 'Passenger Railway Trip.
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DITTIES ON EXPORTS.
It was lately stated, in a magazine arti
cle, by Mr. FREDERICK A. CON - KLING, that
41 in 1860, the year next preceding the re
bellion, the quantity of cotton exported
from the United States, according to the
returns of the Treasury Department,
amounted to 1,'767,686,338 pounds, averag
ing in value 10.85 cents per powid, which
is equal to the sum of $191,800,555. An
export duty upon this quantity of five cents
per pound, which the American staple can
'ihly bear amounts to $88,384,316—a
the as-steadily applied, adequate to cancel
' wit hin tNThrbdiedebt, as officially stated,
tion." It'will b e - s iiii3v., &resent genera
before our production of cotton
that of 1860, but it may be taken 41 ;
granted that, from this time, there will
be a revivid of the cotton-trade, and the
more so because it is DOW gel
acknowled l i
M far
at the cotto grown in India is • tk
rior to that w 'eh was produced i i ,
.a :
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southern States. ~, Capital and ec.aPn'e
Au - ill naturally units in producin: the sup
ply, seeing that prices' and mans will in
evitably increase.
The proposition to impose exoart (hales,
With a view of oigma---ing the national
revenue, abolishitra many small but vexa
tious items of laternal Taxation, and even
of finally liquidating that National mill
stone, the 3,000 Millions . Debt, has repeat
edly been made, but has invariably been
Illet With the reply, "The Constitution ex
pressly forbids any tax or duty being laid
upon exports." In the North American
- Review, just published, is an article, by
Mr. SIDNEr G. FISHER, entitled " Duties
on Exports," .which strongly denies that
such duties are unconstitutional. Mr.
FISHER goes in for a tax upon exports of
our own
growth and manufacture, more
especially of raw material ; "a tax on
these," he says, "would be paid by the
foreign consumer. A moderate tax would
scarcely check expnrtation ; and one that
Lars this effect would, by lowering the price
at home, encourage our
tures." This is very true. At pre
sent, by way of encouraging (?) r our
own manufactures, of enabling us to wear
our own calicoes and muslins t instead
of giving Manchester a profit on manufactu
ring oar cotton, we have one tax on the raw
]material and another tax upon the home
manufacturedarticle. Meantime, with great
liberality, while we tax the cotton worked
1m by our native industry and capital, we
levy no duty upon the cotton which is sent
abroad, to come back in a manufaitured
state, and drive our own goods out of the
market. Thus we give a bonus to foreign
ers, which, we dare say, they accept, with
a derisive smile at our folly.
The Constitution says: " No tax or duty
shall be laid on articles exported from any
state." It was held by Chancellor KENT,
Mr. Justice STORY, and that eminent juris
consult, Dr. WILLIAM RAWLE, that this
prohibits Congress from imposing any tax
on any exports; and there is no doubt that
this certainly was the intention of the ma
jority of the Convention which made the
Constitution. It was, in fact, one of seve
ral concessions to the Southern States.
Mr. FISHER says: "The South got the=
slave
slave trade, but only for twenty years; it
got slavery; it got the representation .of
three-ffilhs of the slaves,' and it got the pro
hibition of a tax on exports." The pro
hibition, carried by a majority of the Con
vention, has ever since tied up the hands
of Congress, and now withholds, in the
nation's need, a large portion of thenation's
resources. It seems intolerable that ex
ports, which can very well hear a reasona
ble tax (really to be paid by the foreign
purchaser,) should be exempt. Whether
this exemption is constitutional, or, we
should rather say, just, has never been
tried, for no tax upon exports has Yet been
imposed ; but there is a general impression
that exports ought to be taxed, and it can
not be contended, for a moment, that the
_producers of the exports would pay the
tax. It would go into the gross payment
for the articles, by the purchasers.
Mr. FISTIER suggests that the clause in
the Constitution may be read as prohibiting
the putting a duty upon articles imported
from any one State ; that is, of singling out
Pennsylvania for an export tax on coal,
Iron, or petroleum, or any other State for
any of her peculiar productions. But he
also suggests that the tax on exports might
be made general in all the United States.
At any rate, the difficulty can be got rid of
by altering the Constitution. "This," he
says, " is difficult and cumbersome, and
not always possible." Moreover, it might
occupy some time. Mr. FISHER suggests
that the people, in 1787, adopted the Con
stitution " as they understood it, and we
are at liberty to interpret it as we under
stand it," and that "we are not bound by
their circumstances or their opinions, but
are entitled to put such a construction upon
3t as may suit our circumstances anti
accord also with its letter and spirit." In
England, where the Constitution is un
written, it has an elasticity which admits
of gradual change, by circumstance and
progress ; but with us, who have a writ
ten Constitution, such, if .desirable, would
be very difficult. There is no reason upon
earth, however, why exports should not
be taxed—for the impost would be paid by
the foreign purchaser.
There is a way of getting the money with
out violating the letter of the Constitution—
say that a duty of five cents per pound were
laid upon all cotton put up into bales for
the market, domestic or foreign, and that
a drawback of the whole five cents a
pound were allowed on what was retained
for home consumption. The balance, sold
to the foreigner, would have paid the tax
previous to becoming an export. •
It is expected, in Europe, that Congress
w ill levy export duties, and it is contended
that whatever duty we lay upon cotton will
serve as a protective bonus to all other cot
ton-growing countries. The question was
discussed very closely in the Times as far
back as May 24th, and it was there said
6 , We must bear in mind that they [the
Americans] have other exports they can
afford to tax heavily—say, tobacco and pe
troleum—ma& they are not likly to commit
commercial suicide by laying all the taxa-.
tion on cotton. Taking their cotton ex
ports at 3,000,000 bales of 440 lbs., a duty of
gtl. (two cents) per pound would yield
£11,000,001) sterling."t 1
t_t
e SiIDIC writer
mentioned the probability of eight cents per
pound being levied ; though that amount,
be argued, would so much raise the price of
cotton that the demand for American would
not be extensive. A duty_ of five cents per
pound would not be much objected to in
England, while the necessity for our raising
a large revenue is well understood. The
question is—how to impose the duty.
ENGINES OF WAR.
A paragraph lately went the round of the
English newspapers, and has also been co
pied by the American press, to the effect
that an invention had been made in France,
and exclusively secured for the French
navy, by which even iron-clad ships of war
could instantly be destroyed. It was stated,
with due particularity of detail, that the
Prefet of Toulon had blown up a small ves
sel from the shore, by electricity, without
touching it, and that the process, which pos
sessed unerring and fatal powers of destruc
tion, was applicable far out at sea. It was
argued that this would insure maritime
peace, inasmuch as no ship of war could re
sist the destroyer. Of course, there would
be no safety for the twenty-six iron-plated
ships which England now has afloat, nor
for the six additional which she is building.
In the Corps Legislatif, of Paris, the other
day, when this matter was mentioned, it
was officially , explained that it was not new.
It is called a submarine torpedo ; was in
vented (?) by Vice Admiral DE CHA
BA-IS-WES, Maritime Prefet of Toulon, and
consists of a water-tight receiver, contain
big from sixteen to eighteen pounds of pow
der, so arranged as easily to attach itself to
the keels of vessels in their submerged part,
and then be fired by an electrical apparatus.
Something like it was used by the Rus
sians at Cronstadt, in 180, and has also
been applied in this country during the late
war. One of the Southern torpedoes, which
so greatly injured our navy, would be worth
a dozen of the articles of destruction used at
Toulon.
Much more dangerous, if all accounts be
true, is the new steam-ram called the Tareau,
lately constructed and launched at Toulon.
It is said to be an iron fortress, navigated
by steam, drawing little water, and there
fore well adapted for coast service, yet
capable of going to sea, and with such tre
mendous power that her sharp metallic
prow, a stupendous battering-ram, can be
driven, at the speed of twelve or four%e r
miles an hour, by five hundred hopt e , sse l,
of steam, right into any 0 1) . 13 0 5 . f splitting
with a certainty (it is hoMiliately sinking
her in 'Mehl, and e!,,its. She is to carry
1 --r into the"ocean can discharge a ball
a single gun.umdred pounds.
weighing important discovery, if not ex-
Anted, is said to have been made by
GALE, an eleCtrician, residing at Ports
mouth, England, of a process by which
gunpowder can be rendered non-explosive,
and its combustible properties restored,
when required. The WestArn Morning
News assures us that " The discovery pos
sesses every element of an important
and, practical invention. The process is
simple and effective. It cannot injure the
powder. The cost is very small, and it has
the advantage of being readily applied. In
five minutes "a barrel of powder can be made
non-explosive, and in another five minutes
it can be restored to its original condition.
We have seen gunpowder subjected to this
process, and stirred with a red-hot poker
without au explosion. If a shell burst in a
store filled with the prepared powder it
would not fire it. The process can be
readily applied to the largest or smallest
quantities, and it does not require any cum
bersome apparatus. The invention will
solve the serious difficulty which has been
felt as to the storage of powder in time of
peace; and in war it will avert the danger
which now arises from the necessity of
fighting in the neighborhood of an explo-
Qivematerial." If this discovery has been
made, it is atm- nrtyou-arairtynantl Vtr
modern times, and a real boon to humanity.
Of Course, the details of the process will be
made public.
IT IS CONTENDED by a writer in the
North Arzerita'n Review that the prohibi
tion of duties on exports, contained in our
Constitution, is not absolute, and that it
may be construed to mean merely that the
products of no One State shall be taxed ex
clusively. It is barely possible, but not
probable, that this intrepretation would be
sustained by our judicial tribunals. This
whole question deserves, and will doubt
less receive, the serious consideration of
Congress at the approaching session. If
our Government has not the power, in
some shape common to the Governments
of all other countries, it should seek to ac
quire it as speedily as possible, that our
tax-payers may obtain the much needed
relief which a duty on exports could readi
ly afford, and that a new impetus may be
given to American cotton manufactures, by
the incidental protection that would result
from a judicious export duty on cotton.
LETTER FRONI "OCCASIONAL:,
WASHINGTON, July 12, 1865
You may secure the exact measure of the
patriotism of the men who assert that the
rebellion is at an end, by the aid of the fact
that without the war power and the suspen
sion of the writ of habeas corpus, Jefferson
Davis and the other conspirators against
the lives and liberties of the people could
not be held in the strong arms of a military
fort, but would be consigned to a county
prison, probably at Richmond, Virginia,
or Jackson, Mississippi, to all practi
cal intents free and forgiven, to go
and to do as he pleased. You will per
ceive, at a glance, how deeply inter
ested the detected conspirators are in the
declaration by the President of such a
policy as would enable them to resort to
the civil courts for trial; to set at defiance
his entire system of reconstruction ; to re
store slavery wider the old State laws, and
tore-establish a system nearly as defective
as that which has just been destroyed.
The moment, therefore, the President
withdravirs the machinery by which he is
enabled to confine traitors and to punish
them ; to enforce the laws of Congress in
the different seceded States, and to sustain
his provisional governors; the power to
restore the Union on the right basis is
lost, never to be. regained. Remember
that there is not a single Southern State
that was carried out of the Union by fraud
in 1860-61, that is entirely back in its former
position ; and also, that not one of these
States can be permanently fixed in its
former sphere without the strong arm of the
National Government, backed by the army
and the navy, and assisted by the authority
conferred upon the President in the act of
Congress of March, 1863, in which he is
empowered to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus, and to keep it suspended as long as
the rebellion shall continue. How extraor
dinary, in view of these plain facts, that
there should be a clamor against military
courts, and for the immediate re-estab
lishment of what is called the " civil
authority,'' by the very men who
are struck with terror lest President
Johnson should permit or encourage the
G
original conspirators against the overn
ment to return to the Union and be re
stored to their scats in Congress, there to
form a party 'which is ultimately to defeat
the Republimns or Unionists, and to give
the power .and the patronage of the Fede
ral Government to the so-called Democra
tic party ! Even in the face of this demand
on the one hand and complaint on the
other, the men who make both know well
that the only process by which the traitors
Can be put back into Congress, an d
by which Jefferson Davis can es _
cape just punishment of his infamous
crimes, and by which, if you please, slave
ry in a new and odious form may be rein
augurated in the South, is to take from the
President that war power by means of
which we have been enabled to conduct
She struggle with so much vigor.
OCCASIONAL.
THE NiTlo2C—ln our notice, yesterday, of
}ils new and able weekly journal, we omitted
14 mentionthat Mr. T. 11. Pugh, corner of Sixth
and chestnut streets, sole agent in Philadel
];liia,Will receive subscriptions, and supply
ills Paper to all concerned.
- JEFF DAVIS.
His Present Condition—A Rebel Sol-.
dier's Solicitude for him—How he
wanted to Help him.
A special despatch from Washington to tke
New York Tribune says:
A gentleman just from Fortress Monroe re
ports the health of Jeff Davis much better
than it has been at any time during his in
carceration. His meals are sent direct from
the table of Dr. Craven, his attendant physi
cian, by his daughter, and by her delivered to
the officer having immediate charge over hint.
The Doctor is keeping an accurate journal of
his professional interviews with Dir. Davis,
which will hereafter throw some interesting
rays of light on the imprisonment of the arch
traitor.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed
to his Excellency President Davis, and recent
ly received by the commandant at the For
tress :
'Mr DEAR OLD FRIEND: YOU must by this
time be nearly out of money. I send you the
enclosed. Take it, and pay your fare to hell
with it..
The enclosure consisted of $l5 in Confederate
money. The writer of the letter is an ex-
soldier, and if slightly heartless and atrifle
profane; his letter serves to show the feelings
of thousands of J. D. 78 dimes and victims.
The report that Jeff Davis and C. C. Clay
would be tried by Military commission does
not seem to be without confirmation. it is
said on good authority that at least one of the
members of the former court has received an
order assigning him as one of the new com
mission.
Exploded Ideas.
From a long editorial in the Norfolk (Va.)
Post of July 10th, headed "Exploded Ideas,"
we make the following extracts
SUMO fawning sycophant, or adept in the
art of flattery writing in the Richmond Re
public, has revived that old, wornout, and most
. disgusting cant about the superiority of the
people of Virginia—wain:dug that they are
much better than their equals, and are en
titled to more consideration than their fellow
citizens of other sections. With all due re
spect to this individual from abroad, who ap
pears so auxlcms to become a toady, and in
gratiate himself into the favor of a few vain,
brainless, and unthinking young men and
effete old fogies, who still cling to the idea
that the soil df Virginia was first peopled by
demigods, while the other States composing
the Union owed their settlement to an inferior
race of mortals, we beg to say that we differ
with him entirely. When he calls men who
have come into this State, who have crossed
the imaginary , line which divides Virginia
from Maryland, Pennsylvania, or Ohio, aliens,
we tell him plainly and emphatically that we
do not view it irk that light. We look upon
these States as forming one common country,
and do not believe that a State line makes any
difference in the feelings, opinions, com
ploxion havenitelligence, or blood, of the people.
We no doubt we have as geed men in
Virginia as:there are to be found in Maine la
Texas; but there are no better men, apih.„,..
more of them, than any other StateSad-his
ngVweilth pre
' duce. The several States,if we li
p t 7 0 y 0
e a d r aright, were
from the's w a e me tli s i e n u lr fffile ; that is, in a
eisely the same kind of v * * *
general way. * . the duty of every fair-
We think it ought tQ.i. of his country to en
minded man and.Z„ these heretical and per
deavor to eradtherthan foster and encourage
nieions idefrpeople of this Commonwealth.
them as we view the matter, are as
The Ville people of any other State t but they
gond° better. We have been much. among
.Deui, an Our travels through the country have
extended from Maine to Texas, and from the
Pacific to the Atlantic, and we confess to our
inability , to perceive the least difference in
the habits, custems, manners, intellectual
acquirements, personal appearance , _ patriot
ism, or bravery of the Virginians when com
pared with the people of any other portion of
the country—North, East, South, or West. We
forget ; there is one slight difference, and that
consists in their inordinate vanity—a weak
ness which, we regret to say, has made them
the butt for the scoffs and jeers of the world.
It is not the fault of the thinking portion of
the people that whenever the higb.-sounding
Phrase " I am a Virginian" is used it is met
with an ill-concealed smile by natives of other
States, and subjects the party using it to ridi
cule. Why is this so? .It iS not the ease in re
gard to any other State. A man may say lie is
a Texan, a New Yorker, a Louisianian, or a
Vermonter, and the announcement calls forth
no remark front those to whom it is addressed.
* * * * * * *
If we would avoid unpleasant truths, we
should not challenge criticism. In . other
words, when we live in glass houses we must
be careful how we throw stones. We repeat,
for the benefit of Hie Richmond scribe, that
the people of this country are one in nature,
enename,and one in destiny, as they are one
m birth, rank, station., and condition.
There are different grades in society every
where, and the aristocrat of Virginia finds Ins
counterpart in the aristocrat of Massaehn
setts—which State, by the by, is very badly
afflicted with the same disease which has be
come chronic here. The "white trash" ot Vir
ginia and Tennessee and the white trash of
New York and Pennsylvania are as near
alike as two peas—except that the school
master has been a little more liberal in his
attempts to beat a tew ideas into the dud
heads of the latter—but that don't change the
nature of the men. The exotic writer in the
Repubtic has much to say about Northern men,
and calls them aliens, and objects to their
taking part in the politics of the sacred State
of Virginia. We know of no Northern man in
this country, or aliens, except alien enemies,
who, by - their acts, have disqualified them
selves iron taking part in the politics of the
country. Every American, no matter from
what portion of the country he may come, has
an inherent and inalienable right to express
his Views, with regard to the policy of
the country, and take an active interest
in whatever political issues may arise.
The accidents of birth have nothing to
do with it, provided he be a citizen of
the United States. His home for the time
lwAgjsa go place where he is' upposed to act
he be a Virginian inVeasYWilniirWr i o9s--
sylvanian in Virginia. Whoever'heard of an
objection being urged against a man in any
other State of this Union—against his political
rights or advancement because' he happened
to lie a native of Virginia? A 5 she claims to
be the mother of States, of course every State
must be filled with her sons. Why, the
people of Kansas might with equal pro
priety object to a man because he came
from Ohio or lowa—for the reason, forsooth,
that they are old Kansans, s and the new
comer is an alien! Alien to what? To the coun
try, or to the State of Virginia! If a citizen
of the one, he cannot be an alien to the other.
Has he not the same interest in the govern
ment of the State of Virginia that those born
on her soil have? In electing members of Con
gress and Senators, do the people and Legisla
ture of Virginia elect them merely to repre
sent their own particular interests, or do they
elect them to represent the interests of the
entire country? We have always supposed
that they were the representatives of the coun
try, and not of any particular State, section
or party—and as such we think they are
paid their mileage 'and per diem out of
the public treasury at NVashington ; and
as such they vote on all questions in
volving the interests of the whole country,
and direct our foreign and domestic policy.
* * * * Then, again, we come to the State
government, in which it is alleged these aliens
are taking too nnich interest. What is this
terrible State government? Little more than
- an expensive luxury—and which the people
would not miss were it abolished entirely, to
gether with all the State lines—leaving us to
get along with our county and municipal or
ganizations, and saving an immense amount
of taxation to support its costly. machin
ery. However, we don't object to the State
government, and are willing that it should
be continued, as some kind of organiza
tion may be necessary ; but we do object to
the writer in the Republic objecting to a
number of gentlemen in Alexandria criti
cising the action of the Governor, because, as
lie says, they are aliens, nd were not fortu
nate enough to be born in Virginia. Perhaps
the two hundred thousand American soldiers
whose ntouldering bodies enrich the "sacred
soil' , from Washington to Richmond, were
aliens too, and they should not be permitted .
to have a further voice in the restoration of a
loyal government in Virginia. .In his opinion,
the men who sought to destroy what these men
laid clown their lives to defend, must alone be
heard, while the representatives of the 'dead.,
who fell at Manassas are declared alione, and
arc told they have no right to a voice in the
work of restoring the South to the Union and
to loyalty.
Trinity Church, New York.
CURIOUS FACTS CONNECTED WITH. IT-THE VAST
AMOUNT OF PROPERTY IT OWNS, YET. IS POOR.
The history of the real estate transactions of
the Trinity Church corporation, says a New
York journal, would make an interesting and
readable volume, extending from the days of
King William the Third and Queen Anne to
the present day. The land owned by Trinity
was in the time of William known as the
King's Farm, and the endowment was made
for the purpose of providing for the Church of
England in New York. The estate originally
consisted of two thousand and sixty-eight MS,
Of Which, since the year 1745, three hundred
and eighteen lots have been given away, six
hundred and ninety-one remain, and one thou
sand and flfty-nine have been sold. The six hun
dred and ninety-one lots now owned by Trinity,
which are all occupied by various buildings,
are located in Barclay street Broadway, Bar
row street, Broome street, Clarkson street,
Charlton street Clark street, Chambers street,
Canal street, besbrosses street, Dominick
street, Fulton street, Greenwich street, Hant.
ersley street, Harrison street; King street,
Morton street, Murray street, Renwick street,
Reade street, Spring street, Sullivan street,
Varick street Vestry street,yesey street, Van
dam street, Watts street, Washington street,
and Warren street. Nearly all the leases of
the lots in these streets, which were made
before the Revolution, will expire in a few
years, and revert back to the corporation. It
is estimated that the property of Trinity will
then be worth more than twenty-live millions
of dollars. It cannot be saidto be badly stricken
with poverty if this valuation approximates
near the truth, But the Corporation has on
several occasions found it hard to make both
ends meet at the cud of a year. According to
the testimony of General Dix, ex-Gover
nor Bradish, R. B. Minter,,, and others,.her
expenditures exceeded her income at various
times by from nine thousand two hundred and
twenty-six dollars and ninety-four cents to
lifts - one thousand three hundred and sixty
eight dollars and forty-six cents. At one time
it was proposed that the property be so dis
posed of as to provide for the various Episco
pal churches of the city which might be in
need ; but the bill, after a passage in the
Senate, met with a negative at the bands of
the Assembly, and the matter was dropped.
Notwithstanding the miles of real estate under
the control of the corporation, the church is
said to be poor ; and, in support of the fact, it
is stated that bills for ringing the bells of
Trinity on national festivals have been pre
sented to the Common Council, and that part
of the old graveyard in Hudson street, between
Clarkson and Leroy streets, belonging to Trini
ty, is to be sold.
Mr. Actor's lease, obtained in 1767, expires on
the Ist of May, 1a66, and the property will go
hack to Trinity. He had three hundred and
thirty-six lots at the low price of seventy-five
cents each. The lots are situated in Charlton
street, King street, Hudson street, Windom.
Street, Damersley street, Varick street, Green
wich street, and Spring Street. Mr. Astor pays
Trinity church two hundred and sixty-nine
dollars per annum for all the lots,being seven
ty-five cents for each. If we estimate the
rental from each building on these lots, at the
low average of live hundred dollars, the fortu
nate leaseholder must receive, on an invested
capital of two hundred and sixty-nine dollars,
an income of one hundred and sixty-eight
thousand dollars per annum. Some of the
ban dinASS, however, are let at higher rates. At
least, Mr. Astor is no loser by the contract.
A JOKE. UPON BRITISH OPPICER.S.—At the
Richmond celebration of the Fourth, a Joke
was perpetrated by the humane and gallant
Miss Surgeon Walker.
Among the visitors at the late rebel capital,
were the officers of the British gunboat Styx.'
Miss Walker, M: llonistaking them for °Mears
of our own navy invited them to a seat on the
platform. The English officers accepted, and
when they were comfortably seated, miss
Surg_don , "Walker arose, and read with good
erapllasi§ and discretion t the "Declaration of
The cancers of- the , Styx.
" corn. They patiently listened
ac
kr t n o na t ° l e T l e r t d h tig a ee r i g lte e he s e. against George 111. They never
heard them before in so conspicuous a position
enunciated by a fah! lady.
PRESS.-plittAwlyiTlA,_ VITIRSD*Y, w . J 13, ,1865.,
PASSENGEITIAILVAY TRIPS--NO. IV.
SPRUCE AND PINE STREETS
THE HEADQUARTERS OF LAFAYETTE
Horrible and Astounding Harder—ln-
THE SHERIFF'S FOSSE COMITATUS
PROGRESS OP INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
We have directed our attention to several
railway lines extending to the beautiful sec
tion of rural magnificence iu the northwestern
part of Ph iladelphia,;to-day we desire to intro
duce the Spruce and Pine-street line, that con
nects the - Merchants , Exchange with Gray's
Ferry on the Schuylkill, in the southwest part
of our city, that has an interesting history
ancient and modern. The ears, starting from
the Exchange, proceed down Dock street,
over immense subterranean structures that
drain a large part of Philadelphia; thence
down Second street, passing a number of
houses of Revolutionary history, then turning
into Pine street, pursue a „westerly. course.
The first object of especial interest that at
tracts attention, is
ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CREECH EDIFICE,
with ground extending from Third to Fourth
street. This building is venerated by ago.
It stood in its primitive condition until about
twenty-three years since, when a brick tower,
and tall spiry and a cross were erected on its
west end. A clime of bells in the tower ring
the people to this elinrch on Sabbath days.
The blank wall which encloses the building
and its grave-yard, is not very high, yet it has
altitude enough to prevent a direct view of the
tombs and monuments within.
OLD PIliErSTEEs mr C/lIISCIC.
This building,...erits an admirable appear-
Alice w i m p- row of fluted columns. It is also
one or —o oldest churches of the rresbyte,-
.. i . r .m OUT city, it being the third one of this
erected within the boundaries of Phila
delphia. The front is on a line with the street,
and is almost surrounded by a burial ground,
with iron railing enclosure on Pine street.
A line front view of this old and substantial
building is obtained as the car passes along- the
route. There is no long, blank wall here to dis.
gust the eye and shut out the beauty of the
edifice. A few years since a private subscrip•
tion was made for the purpose of removing a
great portion of the blank wall on Pine street
and substituting an iron railing and base in its
place. It wouldhe a great improvement if the
railing extended around the entire structure.
The splendid building appropriated to the
instruction of the deaf and dumb will attract
more than ordinary attention, as the car
crosses Broad street. It is a fine, large edifice,
with plain massive columns, the front being
enclosed with an ornamental iron railing.
The Church Home, a very pretty brick build
ing, comes next in the order of especial atten
tion. It is located at Twenty-second and Pine
streets. This institution is one of the noble
charities for which Philadelphia is proverbial.
This may be considered an Episcopal Home
for Children. It was founded in the year 1855.
Its projectors organized the institution be
cause they thought that every Christian con
gregation should find a comfortable home for
the children of the poor of their number. The
inmates generally •attend St. Marks Church.
The Home has accommodations for about fifty
children. The Right Reverend Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese is, by virtue of his official
position, President of the Home.
There is nothing more to particularlyattraet
the attention until reaching Gray's Ferry road,
upon which there is a double track extending
to the Arsenal.
This beautiful, well constructed, and hand
somely arranged, palatial residence for old
sailors is worth a 'visit. The grounds extend
to the. Schuylkill. They are laid out in a spiel],
did style—the nicely gravelled walks being
shaded with ornamental trees that scarcely
admit the radiance of the sun. Flowers exotic
and indigenous here greet the eye, and fill
the air with sweet perfume, transporting the
visitor on the wings of ideality to the banks of
the Guadalquiver, that catch the spicy gales of
Andalusia. Each old Jack tar here is a eking
in his palace, with no entangling, alliances or
perplexities to distract his mind. It IS a home
that kings, queens, dukes, and nobles general
ly might envy. The old salts who And an abid
ing place here, spend the morning and noon
of their existence in the service of "Uncle
Sam," and now, in the evening of their life, the
.venci4l.9 "old fellow" exhibits his gratitude
to tid;ni in the- of a palace of comfort,
.p.eolo, and plenty, Th. -
sitors at all seasonable hours. It is a place
that every respectable citizen, tourist, and
stranger should visit. We hear much of the
beauty of Fairmount, its adjoining parks, Sic.,
but little is ever heard of the handsome and
attractive dominions of the General Govern
ment, that remain in the shades of retirement
on the banks of the Schuylkill, some live miles
above its mouth.
Just below , the Asylum, will be found. the
United States Arsenal, guarded by a portion
of the 185th Regiment P. V. This establish
ment is simply a vast business place. It is not
remarkable for any particular beauty. It is so
well and generally known that further note is
Unnecessary.
Those of our citizens familiar with the
general appearance of this locality a few years
back, will be astounded at the alterations and
vast improvements which have taken place,
and others still progressing. On the northern
part of the Arsenal the great Pennsylvania
Railroad sweeps along, the connection to the
west side of the Schuylkill being by a hand
some and substantial bridge, and as pretty a
piece of circular trestle-work as can be found
in the country. This whole arrangement is a
splendid specimen of civil engineering. The
scenery on the western side of the river is diver
sified, and of great natural beauty. The exten
sive "paupers' palace," the shady Woodland
Cemetery just south of it, are objects that will
attract especial attention. Over this bridge,
and thence to the very heart of business in
Philadelphia, immense trains of cars pass,
bringing the rich productions of the Great
West. As we write this a long train of the
Union line, laden with farm produce from the
lake region, is thundering across the bridge.
Close cars filled with butter and eggs, open
cars filled with refined petroleum, other cars
crammed withproduce generally, that add ac
tivity to business, pass the Schuylkill, and
speed their way towards the Delaware. Such
an internal improvement is of inestimable
value. It connects the benevolent, charitable,
and patriotic city of Philadelphia—where all
Union soldiers have ever found a home in its
Cooper Shop and Union Refreshment Saloons—
to the vast lakes and prairies, and hills of
wealth in the western country. To accom
plish all this, it was necessary to excavate
rocks that once east their craggy shadows in
the placid waters of the "Sans
Souci" is no more. Several years since this
once splendid rural retreat was removed from
its rocky foundation, to make way for the
onward march of improvement. - The railroad
here is simply a link in the great iron chain
that binds Philadelphia to the five Northwest
ern States. In a few years—now that domestic
hostilities have ceased, and tranquillity is
about to throw its peaceful mantle on the
shoulders of the nation—an incalculable
amount of cereals and other produce from the
hardy Northwest will be diverted from the
great water communication of the Mississippi
to the Delaware, within a Ave or six-hours
trip to the Atlantic Ocean. So much for
enterprise; so much for the indomitable per
severance of men of capital; so much for
the mechanical genius and labor of the
hard-listed sons of toil. Who can estimate the
vast magnitude of business that must in
crease in the no distant future 4 Philadelphia,
in this particular, will have no rival. Instead
of one, there will be many steamship lines -
connecting the Old World with the New,
through the medium of the City of Brotherly
Love. But we let this train of thought pass
with the train of cars. Here let us say that
the passenger, desiring to go to Wars Ferry
Bridge, will find a one-horse car, omnibus
size, in readiness every thirty minutes, or.
oftener if an emergency requires it. The dia.
tance from the Arsenal to the bridge is about
half a mile. In its course, it sweeps along al
most parallel with the Philadelphia, Wilming
ton, and Baltimore rail track—an institution
that will be ever held in grateful memory by
the patriots of the North, for the admirable
and enengetic•manner it was used by its Presi
dent, Samuel M. Felton, in 'forwarding troops
to defend the capital.
The western part of the bridge that spanned
the Schuylkill at this point, was accidentally
destroyed by lire a year or so ago, the roof
igniting from the sparks of a locomotive. A
new bridge has been erected in the place of
the old one, and it is so far completed that the
trains are continually crossing it. It is a splen
did structure of iron and timber, resting on
seven piers of dressed stone. The visitor to
this section will observe an'old, yellow frame
house, located a short distance from the line
of the ferry road. This house was reported
about twenty-two years ago, as being the scene
of a
MOST HORMIDLE AND ASTOUNDING MURoutc,
and the excitement attending it increased to
an alarming extent for three or four days,
when the agent of the property called upon
the Sheriff of the county for avow contitatus to
Protect the place and its surroundings from
the crowds of people who congregated there.
This house was one of the most beautiful pri•
vate residences in the southwestern section of
Philadelphia. Its gardens were valuable, with
fruit-trees of almost every kind. Black and
white mulberry, several specimens of pears,
apples, quinces, cherries, plums, green gages,
apr i cots R ua pesehes were carefully cult'.
-vated. A portion of the territory was arrayed
in the choicest specimens of floral creation:
The house itself, although simply fraine,
erected on brick piers, evinced a considerable
degree 04' taste in the arrangement of its pro•
tense Excitement.
BY "a 11178."
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM
THE CHURCH HOME
IMBIEEM
. . . , . . . ,
portions. Its origin : owner had vacated it,
and it stood idle for • everal years. One day,
in the fall of 11513, a dog grit into thu, house,
but could not readily get out again. It was
supposed that a dompay have been slammed
to by-the animal, rosining through the rooms,
and his only means of egress was through a
window and Venetivn shutter of the second
story. The canine, lrobably half starved, in
attempting to breal through the sash, cut
himself on the glass, tad was forced back. In
so doing, his blood; as sprinkled over the
floor, on the (loot, gad upon a bedstead and
Sacking bottom. wi dog, finally, effected his
escape through the tindow, tearing away, in
his mad efforts to r ain his liberty, enough
slats in the shuttert allow him to go through.
This story was seiz upon by a sensational
reporter, and a tale f horror was published
in a paper in those ( ys known as the Ameri
can Advocate. The c mmunity was startled.
Great crowds of pe de congregated on the
corner of Third and oek streets ; extras were
Issued. The Pubiie edger, and its then rival,
the Daily gun, were c sidered " slow coaches."
The American Advo to was the only paper
that had the news, it advance of all competi
tion. The reporter vas a pretty fast young
man, and bad, what as known in those days
as a hard cheek. Tli fertility of his youthful
.„,3
imagination enable( im to spin out a " yarn,"
on any horrible s eet, to any extent re
quired. The points • sunned by the genius of
the reporter, in reg d to the dog story, were
these
The fors ren mansion.
laidni it revelry.
Astound kg disclosures.
A most II rible tragedy.
The victim obably a female.
A bed-rOOM li a slaughter-house.
A dilapidated bm et found in the eater_
Blood stain:. pon the bonnet..
Bloody hair I the window sash.
The bloody and ..ken window shutter.
The excite 'at increasing.
Where : the police?
The people d' for the dead body.
The myster • ore deeply dark.
Trees and s bbery destroyed.
Arrival of the sh'ill's posse comitatus.
The ghost o ray's Ferry road.
The final: ads in mystery.
The above were t principal points chosen,
upon which the rep ter dilated to the extent
of seven columns o gate type, in one edition
of the paper, and was found necessary tO•
Issue thousands of 'ans. The excitement
was kept up for tl - e days. There were no
omnibuses running •. the scene of murder ;
the Baltimore Rai ad track was not then
laid, and thousand.... f people wended their
way through the he of the sun of sultry Sep
ternher afternoons. he house was sacked ;
excavations were rde in vain for the dead
body ; the blood w examined by a friend of
the reporter ; it wa I ronounced human ; the
people became high incensed, and threaten
ed to burn the hoes: the people of the Neck
were excited upon eading the detailed ac
counts of this most ysterious, shocking, and
horrible tragedy. F ally the Sheriff was ap
plied to by the agent of the owner
of the place, and posse of men were
sent to the infecte district to preserve
the property from ther destruction. The
genius of the repor r loathed to give up so
exciting a subject; •. d after the authorities
had made a proper • . stigation of the Whole
affair, and pronounc it a "hoax," he intro
&lced to the public t . story of the Ghost on
Gray's Ferry road— headless woman, with
white sheet, standin: on the porch of the M
ated house. But th , ory was soon forgotten.
The then beautiful g wilds have given way to
the ravages of time. he house is torn almost
down; and, wherece was a pretty flower
I
garden, is now the s' of a coal-oil refinery in
process of erection. few of the fruit trees
still remain, but thes nust necessarily fall, to
make room for bus" ss improvements. It is
stated, upon good au ority, that to the author
of the above exciti hoax,'is attributed the
more recent story the "gum man," that
gave rise to more or ss newspaper comment
and general conver ion, two or three years
ago.
oB LAVAYETTE.
the above place may be
with gable-end front
, and presenting a heavy
base to match. In the
the shade of two very
sycamore trees. This
HEADQIIKAT
Not far distant fr.
seen a brick dwell
ing towards the ro
raking cornice, wit
afternoon it catch.
large and handso
afayette , s headquarters
to Philadelphia,- in the
. It was in this house
any plans to aid Wash
he brightest Jewel from
ritain. The edifice is by
1 - nports with the style of
undred years ago. As an
house was General
1.1j)011 his first visi
American Revoluti
where he suggested
ington in plucking
the crown of Great
no means ugly. It
architecture of one
ossessing historical in-
ancient landmark
photographed
terest, it ought to b
'tly erected. &depot, front
-1 and Twenty-third street,
ear, on the trip from
the depot on Twenty-
The companyree
ing on Twenty-seco
below Spruce. T
Gray's Ferry, eut:,
third street; and .re`a change of cars be
come necessary if : . erson is in a hurry. There
Is no delay in the ovement. One tap of a
,i,;,,,,,, , ,,,m,,.a0.idm .;p r efereme 1-... ... -ovanbling
ce, .
whistle, off the starts, and curves into
Spruce street. H e let us remark that for
several squares th yelling houses are erected
in a style of prize y magnificence, similar in
their appearance o the pretty mansions on
West Green stre . There are quite a num
ber of houses of similar character being
erected in this be tiful part of Philadelphia.
At Seventeenth steer, the imposing edifice,
known as the - 1 ,
WEST STEI.IOEI"REET CHURCH,
Of the Presbyterian denomination, rears its
lofty spires; seeming.it penetrates the ceru
lean arch of the unive e: It is a magnificent
structure, graceful in i proportions; its front
being embellished wit handsome designs, in
perfect harmony wit the sacred object for
which the building w erected. This is one
of the choice section of the city that Phila
delphia/IS may refer to with pride. Nor far
distant is located Eitnhouse Square, one of
the prettiest public picks in our City.
Further down SprinE street are rows of pret
ty, commodious buillings, some of them being
erected on the site owe occupied by the Alms
house, known in yeinsiagone as the "Better
in, House: , We welkmmember, in the days of
our boyhood, standitg in front of the Alms_
hciuse, eontemplatiM'lthe amount of power
necessary to turn leadmill upon which a
number of lazy, good{ r-nothing paupers were
at work grinding out corn for the inmates of
the institution—an irvention that would be
profitable if introdued in the paupers' palace
at Blockley.
HOLY TRHITY CHURCH.
This is one of the Old temples of worship
erected several g,eneiations ago, when black
headed bricks weriOn demand. They are
hard and water-proofi The church is attached
to the Catholic den6nination, is located at
Sixth street, and it his an interesting history.
Of late years it was the subject of considerable
litigation, and so lateas 1819 or 1850, a riot took
place among certain members relative to the
POSSession of the proilrty. At a later period
the roof was entire; i destroyed by fire, and
the interior of the clifieh, solemn, grand, and
imposing as it was, wis greatly damaged. The
fire was occasioned 1 a piece of fireworks
known as a "doubleibeaded dutchman , fall
ing on the roof near tie northeast angle of the
building. It burnt trough the shingles, and
the flames spread in Ric loft to a considerable
extent before the smike was observed curling
out beneath the eave4.l When the flames haat,
through the roof thi !combustion was very
rapid. A new roof wsi speedily constructed,
and since that time t] congregation have had
nothing to mar the haltnony of their religious
devotions.
PRESBYTEIIIAN CHURCH.
The Sixth-street I cSbyterian Church, lo
cated on the north si of Spruce, below Sixth
street, soon passes in the panoramic view. It
recesses some twent feet from the street-line.
It is a plain brick edi e. The front enclosure
consists of a base witit ) iron railing.
• BAPTIST cumicii.
The Fourth Baptist; Church, a modernized
Structure, will please the eye of the observant
spectator. It is looat i id on the south side Of
Spruce street, above purth:
ANOTHER PRESUPTEHIAN CHURCH,
The Eighth Presbyterian Church on Spruce
street, above Third, lies a Revolutionary his
tory. It was known for many years as the blue
stocking Presbyterian. Church. It was here
that the Rev. Wm. 1. hicCalla, a Kentuckian
by birth, challengedka.rehhishop Hughes and
other distinguished ,relates to a theological
discussion, that cal= very near ending in a
riot. In the ReVOlutfonary period, this church
building was used by the British for their
wounded who fell in the battle of German.
. ,
IZENINACENORS.
The car now turns Into Third street, a sec
tion of Philadelphia thathas a very interest
ing history. The whole of the space bounded
by Third and Fourth streets, Wil alley
and Spruce street, belonged anterior, and
subsequent to the Revolution, to Mr. Thomas
Willing anti Mr, WilliaM Bingham, who were
related by marriage ties. The old residence
of Mr. W. was pulled down a few years since,
and in its place , a monumental pile of
handsome architecture has been erected,
as the °Mee Of the great Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, the most extensive and
enterprising organization of the hind in the
country. The Bingham mansion was built
after the model of the palatial abiding place
of the Duke of Manchester, London. It was
located about forty feet from the street line,
was three stories in elevation, and had a circu
lar carriage drive in front of it. The grounds
a ttached to the mansion covered nearly three
,scree, diversified with walks, Stattlary, &O.
The building was noted for self-sustaining,
pure white marble stairways. Mrs. Bingham
wa s a daughter of Mr. Willing. She was re
puted to be the handsomest lady residing in
Philadelphia in her time. About twenty or
twenty live years ago, the mansion was do
roycd by lire. It was kept asp public place
;)y a Mr. Head, and was known simply as the
" Mansion House."
A building on the same site, known as the
Washington Hall, was erected a few years
since.
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The venerable churcliknown as St. Paul's was
erected many 3 - ears ago, and some time before
Third stleet was reduced. to its present grade.
Consequently, a part of the foundation walls
aboVe the • level of the street. The emelt.
:tire of this edifice consists of a stone base and
I:rcttiriron railing. This passed, the car sweeps
into Want Arcot, and halts near the eastera
front of the Merchants' Exchange,a pretty mar..
ble building, erected, we believe s in tile year
lfitt. Thus we close our trip on this road. We
may say that a number of now and beautiful
oars have been introduced by this company.
STATE ITEMS.
The act.of the Legislature authorizing the
building; Colebrookdate Railroad, pro
vides that it shall commence at or near Potts
town, and extend to Boyertown, with the right
to make a farther extension, from
any point
on said railroad, in order to connect with the
East Pennsylvania Railroad, in the county of
Becks; and also to make a branch to connect
with
e t a ]. i v e r
t c a a l t s a t s o n c u k q i u s t m an:l ooo F , o n g e e a ls r y iy il a l i e } R of ai w lr h o i a c t h i :
we understand, has been. taken, the Philadel
phia and Reading Railroad Company owning
a considerable portion.
—ln Reading, on the sth instant, a Mr. Her
man Sticker, a respectable citizen, went into
a drug store, bought a quantity of hashish,
and immediately swallowed it. The druggist
urged him to take an emetic, or he would die.
He said that was what he wanted, and refused
to take an antidote. It seems that he was
overcome by despondency and grief. By the
efforts of the druggist and a physician, how
ever, his life was saved.
Last Wednesday, a man named David Hei
ler was arrested in Sharrisburg, Allegheny
county, on charge of bigamy. While the offi
cer was taking him across the river, Heiler in
sisted on rowing the boat in the wrong direc
tion, and a scuffle ensued. The two grabbed
each other, and fell out of the boat. The offi
cer was the best swimmer, . and got into the
boat. The other was nearly drowned before
he could be recovered.
The 100. th Pennsylvania Regiment (Round
heads) has been ordered to Harrisburg, where
it will do guard and other duty in connection
with the final discharge of returning troops.
• - -
The next term of court for Montgomery
county will commence on Monday, the 21st of
August. Court will continue one week, and
only criminal cases 'will be tried.
A distillery in Bridgwater, Beaver county,
was seized last week by a Unified StateS reve
nue collector, Tor alleged fraud in making re
turns.
—llysentevy prevails to a considerable ex
tent in West Chester and Chester county, both
among adults and children. Many cases have
proved fatal.
There is a proposition under discussion
among the prominent colored men of Penn
sylvania, to hold a National Convention in
Harrisburg.
The State railroads did not reduce their
coal freights, last week, as they were expected
to, and are said to have postponed the matter
indefinitely.
The assessed valuation of the real and per
sonal property in Chester county amounts
to $27,N18,000.
Vegetables are scarce in Titusville.
HONE ITERM.
-- We know of many instances of young ,
dies performing daring feats of swimming in
our waters, says the Cape May Wave, but we
are now called upon to notice the most re
markable ease. Two misses, aged thirteen and
fifteen, guests of Mr. X. C. Little, at the Ocean
House Steamboat Landing, while bathing the
other day, went to the outer end of the wharf,
and, jumping- off, they swain merrily to the
shore. The distance from the wharf to the
water, and from where they plunged in to the
shore, is so great that we never considered that
any lady had the courage to put her tender
life in such a perilous condition. Few men
would accept a challenge to perform this feat.
A negro was arrested last week, near For
tress Monroe, charged with stealing two thou
sand dollars from a book-keeper. He denied
his guilt. He was tied up by the thumbs;
when,in his torture, he admitted he bad stolen
the money, and said if his thumbs were un
tied, he would show where he had hid it. He
was securely haneuffed,. and started with an
officer to find the money. While crossing Mill
Creek bridge, the negrce handcuffed as he was,
bounded over the parapet into the water be
low, With his hands shackled, he sank at
once, and rose no more. Whether guilty or in
nocent, mortal judges can never decide.
-A delegation of five'lndians from each
of these tribes—the. Cherokees, Choctaws,
Creeks, Camanches, Chickasaws, Caddoes,
Cheyennes, 'Seminoles, Osages, Lipans, Kio
was, Araphoes, Northern Osages, and Ana
docsees—are on their way . to Washington, to
have an interview with the President. It is
proposed to erect tents fOr their reception.
Some wags at Saratoga rigged up a man to
personate General Grant and suffered the in
telligence to leak out that the Lieutenant-
General was to arrive by train on the afternoon
of the 4th. A vast crowdgathered at the Opera
House to bear the man who never makes a
speech. After staying about, for a while the
crowd suddenly lett that part of the town.
The Portage (Lake Superior) Mining Ga
zette says that paper pipes, six inches in di
ameter, aro used an the Pewabie copper-mine
to convey air from one portion of the mine to
the other. The pipe is six inches inside di
ameter. The paper pipes are quite strong, and
can be joined perfectly air-tight by a strap of
canvas and a coating of tar.
A writer in Georgia describes a Govern
ment tannery, grinding bark by no power visi
ble at first, or suspected. The machinery is
run by an underground creek—a great curiosi
ty. There are several similar streams in that
region, soft limestone beingfavorable to sinks
and submarine channels.
A woman was hung on Boston Common
about seventy years ago. Her crime consisted
of snatching
a bonnet, and reticule from a
lady, on one of the streets leading from Fort
MIL She was indicted for highway robbery,
was convicted, and suffered the extreme pe
nalty of the law.
An immense grain elevator is going . up at
St. Louis, to cost. 5450,000. It will contain one
hundred bins, with It capacity Of ten thousand
bushels each, and accommodate forty thou
sand barrels of rolling freight.
A number of the Brooklyn friends of Miss
the contralto, have made up and pre
sented her with a purse of $2,200, to enable her
to study a year in - Italy under an eminent pro
fessor. • -
_ - -&-taan at Taunton, Mass., who received a
sunstroke a week ago, and has since been con..
lined to his bed, has been gradually growing
deaf, and is now unable to hear the loudest
sounds.
—A young and handsome woman of Vin
cennes, Ind., forged her uncle's name and Ob
tained fifty dollars worth of dry goods. She
avoided arrest bye rapid movementeastward.
Au k agricultnral soeietyoffered.a premium
for the best essay on. irrigation. By mistake
it was printed irritation, whereupon an honest
former sent his wife.
—lt is a curious fact that President John
son was married at Greenville, Tennessee, by
plorcleeal Lincoln, Esq., a distant relative of
the late President.
The income of John Roe; pork.packer, at
St. Louis, is V 71,000. The income of Ames St
Brother, pork packers and provision dealers,
is over *700,000.
Two new papers commence their existence
in the far West this month—one at Silver City,
Idaho, and the other at Susanville, California.
With their nice little fire-crackers some
festive lads burnt up the Congregational
church at Woodstock, Conn.
Governor Pierpont is expected shortly in
Norfolk, Virginia, where be will, doubtless,.bc
well received.
Nashville wants to know whether the city
is still under martial law, or whether civil law
be restored.
The Richmond negroes are growing more
and more troublesome, and riots among them
are feared:
The Jersey City Common Council will re
sign. The dead lock frustrated all business.
The printer's strike in Detroit was unsue
eessfnl. The - Union there is dissolved.
Two-thirds of the Catawba; grape crop has
been destroyed by rot.
The new opera house at Saratoga was in
augurated Monday night.
Tlieje is a soldier in Norfolk, Virginia,
over seven feet four inches tall.
Stuart the alleged.murderer of the Joyce
children, will not be tried for - some time.
Gold mining in Vermont averages about
four dollars per day.
The foxes are killing off the poultry in
Connecticut.
The poisoned cheese case, in Cincinnati,
is creating great excitement.
A new daily paper has beenlstarted at Sara
toga, New York.
Nebraska City is the laxgost town in Ne
braska Territory.
Sickness is greatly increasing in Rich
mond.
Cholera is making its appearande in Chi
cago.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
—lt is said, writes the Liverpool Mercury,
that between.lB63 and 1864, twenty-eight years,
73,355 persons emigrated to America from Nor
way. This emigration first became consider
able in 1849, and it reached its maximum in
4861. Two-thirds of these emigrants went to
Canada, the rest to the United States. From
1820 to 1860, 5,530 persons went from Denmark
to America; and from 1851 to 1860, no fewer
than 14,865 left Sweden for the same destina
tion. It is believed that this emigration has
been the result not so much of poverty as of
religious excitement. It is noted that a large
number of the emigrants were Quakers, Mor
mons, or members of other peculiar sects mud
that nearly all the emigrants from Denmark
were converts to Mormonism.
The' health of the Archduke Rodolph, the
heir apparent to the Austrian throne, is im
proving. Instead of taking four or five lessons
a daT, tbc child now does nothing but Plan
and drive about on a donkey-cart, employ
ments which seem to be more to lds ta3te than
the learning of languages.
The friends of the United States in Lyons,
France, have opened subscription lists for the
purpose of raising money for the manufacture
of a deg of 'honor, to be presented to this
country in memory of President Lincoln. The
subscriptions liavb been fixed at two cents
each.
The Emperor of the French is going to
give the Parisians something novel in the sol
dier way to play with. The idea struck him
while he was hi Algiers that he would have a
regiment or two of blacks or the most inky
color that could lie found, and all to match.
•
—A congress of German schoolmasters
opened the first week in June at Leipsic.
About two thousand five hundred were pre
sent, and, during several days, discussed a
number of questions concerning primary in
struction.
Adah Isaacs Menken Heenan Morrison
Sullivan Sayers, %e., it M said, is to build a
new theatre, next autumn, in London, pro
vided she can spare time Irma her matrimo
nial engagements yet unfilled.
Portugal is about to send to Mexico a mi
nister, one Viscount Sodomayer, who will con
vey to the Emperor Maximilian the three mi
litary orders of Portugal, and to his wife the
Order of Saint Isabella.
The original estimate of the " New Houses
of Parliament," not yet completed was seven
hundred and fifty thousand pounds; the cost
SO tar has been close upon three million
pounds.
The Royal Society of England is to print a
catalogue of 180,000 papers and articles in all
the leading transactions and journals of the
present century. It is done at Government
expense.,
Sothern is said to be as big a snob in
London as any of those he nihnies on the stage.
His servants, footmen and lacqueys, arc as
nobby as any in Hyde Park.
The weather is dry and hot in Scotland to
an unprecedented degree, the mountain
streams are drying up, and the sportsmen aro
in despair: .
In the newest. and most elegant hotel in
London, a bedroom may be obtained for
eighteen pence per night.
The Duke of St. Albans 'will shortly be
united to in chrietolther, a lovely heiress of
greet Wealth.
The latest mentioned bonnet worn by
Eugenie was white tulle, pulTed and adorned
with two yellow roses. ,
Ninety millions tons of coal are annually
brought to the surface in the eolleries of
England.
Thereis a parrot in France which is known:
to be sixty-five years old, and is believed to be
at least, seventy. . .
Blondin is performing most Wonderful
feats in Paris, and attracts immense crowds.
One swoop of the cholera in Turkey carried
otf fortysix thousand people. •
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OININCIAL AND COVNEROAL.
The stock market was inactive yesterday,
with the exception of Reading, which con,
tinneB eXCited, and prices advanced 1. About
5,500 shares sold at from WA up to 51, closing
at 50%. Pennsylvania Railroad sold at 57, an
advance of %; North Pennsylvania at 2/, and
Camden and Amboy art-129, an advance of %,
54% was bid for ; 24%" for Catawissa.
preferred ; 22 fOr Philadelphia and Erie; 55 for
Norristown ;68 for Lehigh Valley 12 for Catil
wissa common, and 28 for Little Schuylkill.
City passenger railway Shares are without
change. Race and Vine sold at 10, and Reston
villa at /O. 20 was bid for Thirteenth and Fif
teenth, and ny r , for Lombard and South, In
Government bondstbere is no material change
to notice. 6.20 s sold at 10514; ese 1881 at 107,
and 10.40 s at 97 1 4 99% was bid for 7.305. City
loans are in better demand, but prices have
fallen off, with sales of the new issue at
92@92 1 %---the former rate a decline of 1 1 4,.
Bank shares are firmly held. Mechanics' sold
at 29, and Girard at 51%; 130 was bid for Phila.
delphia ;116 for Farmers' and Mechanics'; 70
for Tradesmen'a ; 57 for City; 36% for ConsolF•
dation ; . and 57 for Corn Exchange. Canal
shares are in better demand, and prices have
advanced, with sales of Wyoming Canal to
notice at 65, an advance of 2%; Delaware Divi
sion at 32; Schuylkill Navigation preferred at
20 . ; and Lehigh Navigation at 55 1 4, an advance
of %. 20% was bid for Schuylkill Navigation,
common, 122 for Morris Canal preferred, and
7% for Susquehanna Canal. Coal Oil shares, as
we have noticed for sometime past, continues
very dull and depressed, with sales of Dal zell
at 3%@3%; Franklin at 1; McClintock at I'm ;
Mingo at 2 ; Caldwell at 2; and Walnut Island
at %. 10 was bid fin: Maple Shade; 3 for Junc
tion ; 1% for Corn Planter; and % for Big
Tank.
Gold was more active yeoterdan and prices
advanced 2 per cent.
The following were the quotations yester
day, at the hours named:
10 A. X . 140
11 A. X • . ~ 141
11
P.
. M . 141
. 111
141411 P,
3 P X 4,
4 P. M 141
The demand for the 7-30 notes continues
strong in all directions, and in the absence of
other employment for capital, are taken by
parties generally using their money for specu
lation. The labors of Mr. Jay Cooke have been
so successful that over one hundred million of
these notes are in the hands of the people.
The aubßeriptions continue to Increase, and
yesterday reached the enormous sum of *6,110,•
200.
The subscriptions to the 7-30 loan received
by Jay Cooke yesterday amount to $6,110,200,
including one of $1,000,000 from the First Na
tional Bank' New York; one of $513,600 . Irons
the Ninth National Bank, New York; one of
$300,000 from the Tenth National Bank, New
York; one of $lOO,OOO from the First National
Bank, Boston; one of $300,000 from the Second
National Bank, Boston; one of $lOO,OOO from
the First National Bank, Portland; one of $lOO,-
000 from the First National Bank, Albany; one
of $130,000 from the Second National Bank, Chi
cago ; one of $145,000 from the First National
Bank, Bridgeport; one of $200,000 from Vey
milye & Co., New York; one of $150,000 from
Henry Clews & Co., New York. There were
4,278 individual subscriptions of $50(43100 each.
The Pacific Railroad is extending eastward
from the shores of the great ocean from which
it receive its name, as fast as enteprise, energy,
money, and the combined labor of two thou
sand live hundred able-bodied men can force
it. The road bed is now being constructed
through the mountains of Placer county, Cali
fornia, and the locomotive has already reached
a point forty-three miles from Sacramento,
which is one thousand eight hundred feet
above the sea. By September 1 the rails will
he laid to illinoistown.
A letter from Altenct, near Hamburg, Ger
many, dated June 24, - isrz, as published in the
Evening Post, refers to American securities
abroad thus:
, .
It is highly gratifying to observe here a
daily increase in the price and popularity of
our stocks. While all other securities are de
predating, only United States stocks seem to
gain ground. The largest amount of business
done in those securities hitherto was last
week, one person having bought the enormous
amount of five hundred thousand dollars for
himself, beside being a permanent holder to
the amount of two hundred thousand dollars.
The price on Thursday was the highest yet
reached being 73 ; they are now at 70, standmg
firm. Large investments are made in these
stocks, and a very good reason for it, as at pre
sent rates they will pay about eight per cent.
interest, a price not to be had in any other
equally safe investment.
The Germans are a thrifty and a safe calcu
lating people, ever choosing the safest and best
markets for their products, whether money or
goods, and they seem to bo, now the war is
perfectly satisfied to deposit their savings in
American securities. Money islvery plentiful
in Europe—never more so than at this moment
—and at such low rates it is no :wonder our
bonds are so inviting. With the war over at
home, and no difficulties in the way abroad, it
iS onlya wonder that the gold premium should
keep up so high as at this moment, as every
body knows there is no actual cause for it. 2he
best and staunchest men here think the gold premi
um will decline, and that by October or Christmas
United States stocks will rise to par.
Tim Toircio Mode llaS the following. addition.
al particulars of the recent important railway
consolidation from that city to the Mississippi .
river, heretofore but 'briefly referred to:
"We have already announced the organiza
tion of this corporation, being a consolidation
of the following companies, to wit: The Tole
do ajld Wabash. company, from Toledo to the
Illinois State tine ; the treat Western, from
State line to river at Meredosia • the
Toledo and Quincy, from Ideredosia to Camp
Point; and the Illinois and Southern lowa,
from Clayton (on the Toledo and Quincy) to
Hamiton, opposite Keokuk. This consolida
tion of these companies went into effect on
the Ist inst., and the onerous work of arrang
ing and systematizing the operations of the
new organization is betn , " pushed forward
with all the energy and for which its eel
cersnre tlistinguislied. It may be some days
before all the details of the new arrangement
are reduced to complete order, but the delay
will not seriously embarrass the traffic of the
line.
From Camp Point to Quincy the Toledo, Wa
bash, and Western Railway runs on the track
of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy road,
in common with that company, and at Quincy
connects directly with the Hannibal and
Joseph road to the Missouri river. At Keokuk
connection is made with the Keokuk and Des
Moines road.
It is expected that an improved running
connection will very soon be secured with the
Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis road, at Spring
field, whereby traffic between Toledo and St.
Louis will be greatly facilitated. The di*
tame between the two points by this route is
only 4.58 miles, being 67 miles shorter than any
other.
The distances from Toledo 'to the connect
ing points on the Mississippi river are as fol
lows :
Toledo to Keokuk.
Toledo to Quincy..
Toledo to St. Louis
The following is a statement of coal tran
sported on the Delaware and Hudson Canal
for the week ending July Bth, and for the sea
son
• • • •
.Week. Season.
Delaware and Hudson Canal C0..24,69S 324,5 M
Pennsylvania Coal Company 240 17,010
Total tons
For the same period last year:
Delaware and Hudson Canal C0...24,018 330,100
Pennsylvania Coal Company 18,761 170,044
Total tons
The following is the usual monthly state
molt Of the Hon. Wm. H.. Ramsey, Rank Comp.._
troller of Wisconsin, giving the condition of
e banks of that State on tale Ist of July :
The circulation has been decreased
during the last month... $240,380 00
The whole amount of circulation outstand-
ing is:
Par banks
Banks wincling up
Total
Secured as follows
Wisconsin (i 5.........
United States Ss
Indiana Ss
Treasury notes...—.
Coin
T0ta1...............
The earnings of the Chicago and North
western Railway for the first week in July
were as follows
1865.
1864.
Increase $44,554
•
Drexel & CO, quote;
'New 'United States Bonds, lost 10S14 107,4 1
~ ~ ••• new our, or indbtis.... ow 98.%
66 66 . 6 old core of itidbt's 9934 10U
73-10 notes, old 99X 100
Quartermasters , vouchers 9534 97i¢
Orders for certificates of Indebtedness.— 9854. 9914
G01d14054 141i4
Sterling E , xchange 153;4 155
5-20 bond, Old 105;44 Law
new 101 , 4©105
10-10897; , 441 98
Sales of Stocks, July 19.
THE PUBLIC BOARD. ,
100 T/ITT bionle'd..blo 3.94 1100 Junetioll MO 3
SECOND CALL.
500 Densmore "4'1200 Winfield • g
27 Tilton Coal '5 200 Atlas .31
400 Walnut Island.... 69 MO Drinkard a15...b30 44
100 do .430 69 100 do " 1)10 44
100 do 1)30 09'.34 100 Dalzell 55 M
100 Win Penn 131 200 El Dorado 5.4
SALES AT REGULAR, BOARD OP BROKERS.
Reported by Hewes, Miller, & Co., 50 South Third Si.
FIRST BOARD.
2000 IT S6s '81..eh.cp.107 1 Z 1 Reading R 50%
2000 II S 5-20 Rds..cp•losi4 1100 do 50%
1000 IT 1110-40 Rds.cp• 97% , 100 do...sswn&int. 50%
40 Penni' It 571290 do 50.).
100 Race & Vine-st 1100 do ell. 50%
R sswn. 10 1200 do 91s-00.50-31
5 Mechanics , 8k... 29 100 do 810. 5076
20 Delaware Div ... 32 100 du.....55wn&1ut.50-1-1
100 Reading R...b15. 50%000 do' 50%
100 do 1)15. 50341 50 Dalzell 3%
50 do 50A , ...IV do 3%
100 do 50% 100 o 3,46
100 do 1115. 50% 100 Franlin On I
100 do ell. 50% 100 McClintock 0i1,.. 1%
100 do 50% 400 Mingo Oil 2
16 do ..... Its ..t rs. 50%.5M1 do. 2
BETWEEN BOARDS.
1100 City& now 5e..% 20 Wrom Val Canal 55
300 Reading It I ts.b3o 50% 100 Schttyl Nay pref. 20
15 do 50% 10001.1 S6s 1 88 1 ..e0up.107
:100 do 8 30 so% 12000 US 5-20 b sswit r. 10514
100 do SOdys 5154 350 do c0up.1044
400 do l o t s so% 100 Hestonville R..— 15
100 do east) 50% 100 do 1130 15
100 do bs&lnt 50% 200 00 WO 15
100 do 030 50% 100 dv 1474
100 do 1160 50% 4 POlllitil It 57
100 do sswn 1074 100 N Penns. It ..rush 2.4
100 do b 5 507 s 500 Tarr Farm 1
100 do s 5 50% 300 •do 1
200 do sal lots 5034 100 St Nicholas 011.. 1
100 do 910 50.5.1 22 Girard Bank...bs 51%
SECOND BOARD.
110110110.5-20 bs Its ep.10534 5000 Union Can bds 11.5 19
IMO Cltv 6s new 92% 1000 Penna. It Ist m0r.103
11.300 ilo 92% 3 Cam St Am It2ds-129
1000 fin . ........ .... 92X 1000 Caldwell
2900 410 lots MI 600 Walnut Island Its z g
MX/ do.. municipal 102
.A_PTER .1
400 Walnut Island.bs ,
_45
100 Reading R.slOwn 50%
lei do .... . . .....sl5 50%
leo do s3O 50.56'
100 do s3O 5045'
SALES AT 9
100 Reading It .. ._ ~ 50%
20)0 do . . . Idiclin 5034
ICOOTIOnesY .
. s
Oil .69.
100 Reading It 1/5 504 E
500 Dalzell 011 3%
100 Rending R..... s3O 5014'
24 LehighNav stock 56%
700 liestonville 12.1)30 15
10005-20 s .smalLcoup.lo434'
HE CLOSE.
200 ROading R MOB
bo Pemiti, is
300,111ing0.... • 2
800 Reading It ....boo 51.
The New York Post of yesterday says
Gold is more active, and has received an up.,
ward impulse from . the news by the Persia.
The opening price was tw o and the lowest
140 1 // s . The principal transactions have been at
140%@140 1 %. At the close 141% was bid. The
loan market is well supplied at 46'5 per cent.
Before the first Higdon there was consider
able excitement in Erie and Michigan South
ern, but little business In other stocks. Brie
opened at 81, closing at 72%; Rock Island was
.quoted at 100 , 4; Reading at 100%
The following quotations were made at the
board, as coMpared with Tuesday:
Wed. Tues. Ad,. Dee,
U 8 65,, coupon, 1881 107% 107 3
.
U 5 5.20 coupons 10544 105% ;i
..
U 85.20 coupons, new 105 . WS%
11 S 10.40' coupons 97% 97% .. i
Tennessee 6s - 72 71% ',.
blissou ri W. ~• .. . 72 72
Atlantic 15814 MK 1
..
New York Centro 96 90.
Erie 7914 80 i!
Erie Preferred 57 875 C .. i 7
Hudson River • 110 X 11.0 .. t„!
Re ad ing..... 1W 99 14' '.
After the board the market was better. Ne w
York Central closed at 264, Erie at 80 1 4, Real'.
ing at 102, Michigan Southern at 674ifilinois
Central at 188. At the one o'clock call Eri e
fell off to 79%, the rest of the market being
fairly sustained in the face of an increasing
disposition to sell. Later, Erie sold at 7%
J 111.17 /2--Eyonin g.
The Flour market is rather more active, and
holders are firmer in their views. About 2,001
bbls sold, in lots, at $7.50@7.75 for extra family
Including 1,100 bbls Broad-street Mills extra',
en private terms. The retailers and laiket,,
are buying at from 66@0.5e 0 f0r suPerill‘e,Vimg
7 for extra, $7.500/8.25 for extra family, and sln
10 ift bbl for fancy lots, as to quality. ny e
Flour and Corn Meal continue dull at former
rates.
is firmly held, and the SMICA
are in a small way only at +L65941.70 for good
prime reds—the latter rate an advance—and
white at from $1.8061.001ff bu, as to quality,
Rye is better ; 2,500 bus sold at 82@s5c bu.
Corn is scarce, and prices have advanced ;
small sales of prime yellow are making at Wig/
95e 99 bu. Oats are without change 5,000 bus
Pennsylvania sold at 88c bu.
BARK.—First No. 1 Quereitron is in steady
demand, with sales of 80 hogsheads at $32.50
99 ton.
COTTON.—Prices have again- advanced, and
there is more doing in the may of sales; about
3.50 URI OS of middlings have been disposed of
at 5507 e /9 IL Cash.
GROOEBIIO3.--Sugar is without change; 250
hogsheads Cuba sold at from 11W212 1 /0 99 B.
Coffee is firmly held, but we hear of no sales.
PETROLEUM is firmly held, with sales of about
1,500 hbls to notice at 336 , 83tte for crude, 52@rgle
for refined in bond, and 726 1 75 Vg
e allon for free,
as to quality.
HAv.—Baled is selling at 9201§22 /9 ton.
NAVAL STORES are firmer. Small sales of
Rosin are reported at $8(010 bbl, as to
quality.
Psovisions.—The stooks are light, and the
market firm .at an advance. Small sales of
Mess Pork are making at 928 bbl. Bacon
Rams are selling, in a small way, at 28c 'ft lb for
fancy bagged. - Green Meats are scarce and
prices better. Pickled Hams sell at 22e, and
salt Shoulders at 15e /9 m. Lard is firmer;
sales of tierce are making at 20,§2.010
WBlSKT.—Prices are firm, but there is very
little doing in the way of salmi, Small lots are
reported at $2.1.242.14 IR gallon, for Pennsylva
nia and Western bbls.
The following are the receipts of Flour and
Grain at this port today:
Flour..
Wheat,
Corn...
Oats..
BnEADSTePFS.—The market for State and
Western Flour is Sc better and quiet; sales
0,500 bbls at $5,90@6 for superfine State, $5.65(1
8.75 for extra State, 8i11.80@6.85 for choice do.,
*5.55@e for superfine Western, $0.65@6.85 for
common to medium extra Western, $6.80@7 for
common to good shipping brands extra round
hoop Ohio. Canadian Flour is 5c better ; sales
550 MS at $6.00(§6.75 for common, and 326.80@f155
for good to choice extra. Southern Flour is
firmer ; sales 600 bbls at d 7 7.75 for common,
and 57.85(4111.60 for fancy and . extra. Wheat is
dull, and I@2e lower; sales 49,000 bushels at
$1.38@1.40 for amber Milwaukee, $1.60@1.65 for
winter red Western, and e1.70@1.72 for amber
Michigan. Itye is quiet. Marley is dull. Bar
ley Malt is quiet. Data are dull, and 2c lower,
at 65 for Western. The Corn market is dull,
and 2c lower • sales 50000 bushels at 700180 c for
unsound, and 82@ 82 fOr Sound mixed estem
PROVISIONS.—The pork market is lower; sales
9,000 bbls at $27.25Q27.62 for new nteSS, *25@2.5.50
for 83-4 do, cash and regular way; $19@19.50 for
prime, and $21.50@i21.75 for prime mess. The
beef market is dull ; sales 400 bbls at about pre
vious prices. Beef hams are quiet. Cut meats
are steady ; sales 400 pkgs at 12©14e for shoul
ders, and 18@2le for hams. The lard market is
steady; sales 1,200 ibis at 16 1 /a2O l / 2 e.
WHISKY is steady, with sales of 15 bbls West
ern at 8+2.05.. . .
TALLOIv is quiet ; sales 60,000 ihs at 1094a11/e. ramonTs.—To Liverpool 7,000 bushels corn at
3341, and 100 tons mahogany at 20s.
Pittsburg Petroleum Market, July 11.
.tusineo in the oil way was moderately ac
tive. Prices for all descriptions were uniform ;
crude ranging from 2142114 e, without pack
ages, and 20@26 1 ,0, packages included.
Cnuns OIL.— he market remains steady
with a fair demand for home purposes and for
export. Among the sales were 100 bbls at Ole,
packages returned; 700 bbls F. 0. B. at No,
packages included ; 100 bbls prime at 20 1 4 c,
bids included; 100 bbls do on same terms
and conditions ; 600 bbls F. 0. B. GO bbls taken
from wharf, 26e ackages included, and 54 bbls
of Duck Creek 'Oi p l at 4525 per bbl.
REFINED OlL.—The market yesterday pre
sented no particular change; there was a good
deal of negotiation that resulted in but few
sales L - what may result from what took place
may ill out another report. The only opera
tions closed were 1,200 bbls bonded delivered
in Philadelphia at once at 52y 2 ; 1,000 bbls do
same conditions, 52e ; 500 bbls bonded for Au•
gust delivery on the spot, 47e.
Louisville Tobacco Market, July 10.
The sales of the week have amounted to
1,091 hluls, with rejections of the prices bid on
166 hhds. The aggregate sales for the month
of June were 6,938 hlids against 9,737 hhds the
same time last year, being a falling off of 2,799
hhds. The sales from November 1, 1861 . , to
June 30, have been 24,197 against 43469
hhds for the same period last year, making a
decrease in the eighth month, as compared
with last year, of 20,972 lihds. The market to
day manifested some depression, and prices,
owing to the low grades offered; 'were less.
The break amounted to 191 hhds, 'with rejec
tion of bids on 38 hhds. Sales 9 hhds trash at
$2.2003.95; 31 factory lugs at $404.90; 32 at ag.
5.90; 10 do common lugs, $146.70; 8 do heavy
do *7@7.85; 9 at sB@B.Bo • 1 do common leaf,
40.405 11 at *10010.75; 13 at $11611.75; 7 do heavy
do, *12612,50; 11 at $1403.76 ; 8 at $14018.755 8
at $141@16.75; 7 at W 610.75 0 at *i2@17.75; 6
good to line leaf at $ 18@1835; 2at $15419.75; 2
at *20@20.75; Oat $22.25@22.75; 1 at *23.25; 1 at
*24.25.
Markets by Telegraph.
.—F
BALTIMOIO, July 12lour closed at an ad-
Vallee, of ke for high grades interior very
heavy. Wheat firm; sales of a,OOO bus Pennsyl
vania red at *LK Corn dull, and no solos.
Provisions quiet and advancing. Sugar alma.
Whisky firm at 1t2.11@2.12 for Western,
CINCUMATT, July 12.—Flour more active and
higher.. Whisky steady at $2.05. ' Provisions
firmer ; Mess Pork $26.
Cmcwoo, July 12.—ylour quiet. Wheat dull;
sales of No. 1 at $1.11@1.14, closing at $1.11@1.12;
No. 2at 9814@97c. Corn active at 57c for No. 1,
and 55c for No. 2. Oats dull at 41@1134c.
Freights advanced %e. Wheat B%c to Buffalo.
Ilighwines unchanged.
5
Rece 6 ipts. 'Shipments.
Flour ,500 1,00
Wheat 45,000 21,000
Corn 174,000 • 83,000
Oats 45,000 28,000
...475 miles
...489 miles
—458 miles
LETTER BAGS
At the Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia.
Brig Anna (Br), Morrow St Thomas soon
Brig S V MOrnOlc, Noradn.... ..... Havana soon
PHILADELPHIA 13 ARD OF TB/BE.
THORNTON BROWN, •
EDWARD LAFOURCADE , }dom. OF THE MONTH.
HENRY LEWIS.
24,938 341,542
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, July 13.
Strx RlB/0
//W8 WATER...
Bark Paramount, Deshon, 10 days from Ma
tanzas, with molasses to John MA.9011. 2t Co.
Brig E P Swett, Chadbourne; 12 days front
Pensacola, in ballast to Workman & Co.
Schr Lamartine,Baiggs,lB clays from St John,
B, with lumber to Gaskill Galvin.
Saw Cora, Kelly 11 days from Portland, with
lictu/ings to Isaac Hough Sr. Co.
Schr Neptune, Malan, 4 days from Hartford,
in ballast to captain.
Schr John Dorrance, Hewitt, 4 days from
Providence, in ballast to captain.
Schr K V Edwards, Allen, 4 days from Fall
River, in ballast to L Audenried & Co.
Schr W Collyer, Taylor 5 days from Provi
dence, in ballast to captain.
Schr J D McCarty, Youn from Boston, in
ballast to Blakiston, araff, & Co.
Sehr Caroline, Fox, 3 days from NOW rork,
with salt cake to Baugh & Son.
Schr Thos Holcomb, Godfrey, 7 days from
Key West, in ballast to Peter Wright & Sons.
Schr C L Vandervoort, Parker, 7 days from
Boston, with mdse to captain.
Schr F A Sawyer, Keen, 10 days from Calais,
with lumber to Trum Son, & Co.
Schr Mary Farrow, Corson 12 days from Ban
gor, Me, with lumber to captain.
Soler Mechanic, Myers 1 day from Odessa.
Del, with grain to Jas L bewiey & Co.
$352,680 09
119,450 03
45112,130 00
.$299,600 00
. 22,000 00
. 7,000 00
$328,000 00
. 159,537 15
. 8,356 33
4008,495 48
$143,381
108,827
Cleared.
Bark Chevalier, Bruce, Hamburg.
Brig Saint Welch, Hoecker, Port Spain.
Brig P It Curtis, Atherton, Portland.
Brig Jas Davis, Clough, Bath.
T
Brig Daniel Boone, ucker, Portland.
Schr Hannah, Wall, Plymouth, Mass.
Schr Mary Tice, Tice, Norfolk, Va.
Schr John Dorrance, Hewitt, Providence.
Sehr Kate V Edwards, Allen, Providence.
Schr Grace Watson Nickerson, Providence
Schr Win Collyer, Taylor, Providence.
Schr A E Martin, Brower, Boston.
Schr 2' 111: Wheaton, Somers, Boston.
Schr I) McCarthy, Young, Boston.
Sew North Pacific, Webb Norfolk.
Schr Ellen Perkins, Perkins Boston.
Boston.
SchrWhite Squall, Adams,
Schr W G Bartlett, Connelly.
Schr Win Kennedy, Christy, Georgetown.
Steamer J S Shrive; Dennis; Baltimore.
Shi Odessa, Nichols, cleared at Bangor Bth hist, for Searsport,to finish loading for Buenos
Brig Peerless (Br,) Perm forthis port in two
days, was at Mayaguez, PR, 22d ult.
Brig Shibboleth, •fohnseri, from Warren for
this port sailed from Newport kith inst.
Brig Olive, Harrington, hence at Boston on
TUesd ay.
Sehr Geo T Adams, Fisk, hence at Baltimore
on Tuesday.
Sehr R G 'Porter, Crowell, sailed from Provi
dence 10th lust for this port.
Sehr Amos Falkenhurg, Sipple, sailed from
East Greenwich 10th inst for this port.
sebr Salmon Washburn°, Thrasher, home at
Dighton 10th inst.
Sehr Palos, Davis, hence at Now Bedford
10th inst.
Marine MinceUMW.
Captain Metcalf of brig thlogiphorouBwllloll
put into New York 10th inst for supplies, re
port that while Vin o ."' at Tonala, Mexico, the
former Captain, Reuben Card, together with
four of the crew, were drowned by the upset
ting of their boat while returning from sur
veying a wreck on the coast. (The O. sailed
again_ on Tuesday , for Falmouth, Eng.)
Ship Carrier Dove, Andrews, at New York on
Tuesday from Shields, has a cargo of 2,06 ti tons
coal.
QUAitAIITINU NOTICK.—Pilote will observe
that, during the time the Hospital Ship is at
anchor in the lower bay, all vessels arriving
from the following ports will be boarded in
the Lower Quarantine; viz.: Key West, Nassau,
Ni', all the ports in the Gulf of Mexico, all the
West India ports south of 24 degrees north lath
tudthe Spanieh Nein, North/ern Brazil, and
the nest Coast of Africa.
JOHN SIVINHURN, Health Officer.
Health Office, Quarantine, K., July 11,1885. ,
Philadelphia Markets.
New York Markets, July la.
4 49 I BUN SiTS
Arrived.
Memoranda.
Notice to Mariners.
1,650 bbls
10,200 bus.
2,600 bus.
3,700 bus.
NEEMINI