r ITT 7TT7 HYIEMIM(& t n 4 IJ l-J. VOL. XNo. 42 PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 18G8. DOUBLE SHE ETT II LIE Q CENTS. KjLMQ-SRAJPMo FIRST EDITION EUROPE. Mall DatcH to Autf. H, Great Uritain and Paraguay-Jeff. Davis iii Liverpool -The Con tinental Visit of Queen Victoria. Uf i stta Mi:, .. Ktn By later arrivals at the port of New York, wo have European minces to Aug. 8. ENGLAND. Effort! to Involve Great Britain with. The New York Hera M's correspondent, writing from London Aug. 6, says:- "Strenuous etlorts are being made by detents of Brazil in Loudon to involve this country in a war with Paraguay. The government, which at first refused to listen to these representations, has become more accessible recently on account of the iavor with which the idea of auother little war has been received by many politicians and a large portion of the press. Ho much capi tal for England and Knglishmen has been made out of the little affair iu Abvssinla that every body seems disposed to try on the same game In boutb America. Of course, the pretest lor In tervention will be the alleged illegal detention of British subjects by President Lopez. I believe that the Brazilian aeents, backed as they are by the press, will be successful. In that event it will be a question whether the United States ought not to inteifere on the side of Paraguay, or, in fact, to anticipate the Intervention of England." Jefferson DitIi 1st Liverpool. The Morning Slarof August 6, thus announces the arrival of Mr. Davis and his family; 'The celebrated President of the Confederate Govern ment during the American civil war Mr. Jeller Eon Duvls arrived at Liverpool with his family on Tuesday evening, in the Allan steamer Aus trian from Quebec. Mr. Medley, accompsuted by his carriage, aud several other carriages and their owners, including Mr. Medley, Jr., Mr. 1'rioleau, Mr. James ypeuce, and other well known friends of the Southern Government, were In attendance. The ex-Ptesidetit's pirty in cluded Mis. Jefferson Davis, Mr. Jefferson Davis, Jr , Mr. William Davis, Miss Margaret Davis, Miss V. A. Davis and servant; in their Taity was also included Dr. and Mrs. Kawson, Miss E. Rawson, and Mi.-s Mackenzie. Mr. Davis is a thin, wiry looking man, apparently about 65 years of ape. In features he is exceedingly like the photographs of him, which are well known In Kuiope as well as in America. He was dressed in a plain walking suit of gray jlaidinp, and, on the whole, seemed to be lively aud well satisfied, although he corn plained of being somewhat out of health. Mrs; Davis bas apparently a dash of the mulatto blood in her veins, her sons and daughters pre senting also similar peculiarities. "Mr, Davis and his lamily are staying at the Adelphl Hotel in strict privacy, and they will remain in Liver pool for a few days, to recruit from the fatigues of the voyage. Yesterday they remained in their apartments, where they were visited bv a number of American and English merchants.'' FRANCE. Radical Efforts In the Election Csmvstss. Gal'gnani's Messenger of August 8 says: The Pcja adverts to the great exertions male by the opposition to stir up political passions in the Jura with a view to promoting the success of M. Grevy's cai dida'esbip as a thorough going re publican. Such principles it declares to bo fatal and to be sedulously thrust aside. Will the electors of the Jura, the writer asks, allow themselves to be led away bv the efforts which are being made to work on them? Our adver saries appeared to be at first persuaded that such would be the case. At present they seem to be less sure of the victory. They ask themselves by what capitulation of con science M. Grevy, the incorruptible, the man of marble and 6teel, the republican of 1818, who had remained faithful to his ideas of that Jieriod, could take tbo oath of fidelity to the fropire and to the Emperor. M. Grevy for merly was for not having any sovereign not even a President of the Republic. He wanted a representative assembly, delegating the exe cutive power to a citizen of its choice, and re serving to itself the right of revoking him at will. Consequently M. Grevy has hitherto hesi tated to sign the formula ot the oath to bo taken by members of the legislative body. For him such an affirmation h not a vain formality; it is a serious matter. An oath to the empire is a conversion, and M. Grew has not cbauged his fiuih. Ho is a republican still, aud may die impinitent. Rochefort, Editor of the .anterne. On the 9th inst , the case of M. Rochefort, editor of the Lanterne, for an assault on M. Rochette, printer, came on belore the Correc tional Tribunal. Proof was given that the accuced. accompanied by two frieads, M. M. Einile Blavet and Victor Noir, went on the Kth of July last to the premises of the complainant, Boulevard Mont Parnasse, and after challeng ing him to fight a duel, which the other de clined, struck him a blow in the face with his band, and afterwards twice on the body with a cane. M. Rochelort disclaimed all idea of pre meditation, his only intention, he said, being to prevnet the publication of a second pamphlet against bira by M. Hocbette. The latter declared that he was not responsible for what was printed in his office, and that be Issued the pamphlets just as he would do the Lanterne if employed for the purpose. A witness came forward and deposed to having sold the cane to M. Rochefort, who observed, on taking it up, "This is iust what we want." The Court, considering that the assault was evidently with premeditation, sentenced M. Rochefort to four mouths' imprisonment, 200f. tine, and the costs. In another case, iu which M. Rochefort wai prosecuted for neglecting to insert in vhe Lanterne of tbo 2Mb of July a "communicated" note in contravention of Arti cle 19 of the Decree ot the 19rh ot February, 1852, which requires the publication of such documents in the earliest number, the Tribunal, after hearing the explanations of the defendant, condemned him to pay a fine of 001'. Tb Visit or U,ue Victoria. r Galipnani's Messenger of Aug. 7, says; "The Queen ot ingland yesterday morning, on arrtv- ing in Paris by the Western Railway from Cher h iurt?. was as usual, in mourning, weariuar a b'ack satin dress, with a pardessus of similar material, fulling to the knee, and a black tulle bonnet. Her Majesty seemed in excellent health, but wus -.aid to be greatly fatigued by the iouinev. The Oueeu remalued all day ouictlv at home, but the two young Princess ami Prince Ltonold drove out. and visited various parts ot Paris. About three o'clock the EmnrpR. lookinff most charming, arrived at the Palace of the Eljsee, and after short delay, proceeded to the British Embassy to visit Queen Victoria. Her Majesty of England do-cended to the bottom ot tlie staircase to meet the Empress of the French and the two sovereigns kissed each other most aUectionuu Iv, her imperial Majesty also greet ing the two Princesses In a similar uiunner. The whole party then withdrew to the Queen's apartment, and reoanineu ior null an hour in frienoly converse. The Empress afterwards . l . 1, .. l.'l ... V ,urt i Dictation was that Queen Victoria would return the visit: but it appears that as her Majesty travelled incognita, etiquette wus opposed to such a return. Her Imperial Ma)esty remained at the fc.lt see until five, when she took her departure tor Fontainebleau. The Queen, after partaking about five o'clock of some refresh ments (tea, etc.), still remained without exer tion until a quarter to seven, when the depart ure took place. The hour was about 730 when the special train which conveyed the Queen ot England took its departure toward Switzerland. AUSTRIA. Thi Oirmii Rifle Association. The closing banquet in connection with the meeting of the German Rifle Association took place August 0. Baroa von Bcust was present and delivered a speech, In wh'ch be said th'it be had become a good Austrian, and had remained a good German, He laid stress upon the neces sity for the preservation of peace, which was the object of the policy he pursued, aud declared that Austria did not meddle in German affairs, and entertained no thoughts of a policy of re venge. Ho concluded by proposing the toa t, "Peace and reconciliation, the bais of progreis, the guardians of a healtay freedom, aud the pillars of order and security." THE SITUATION. A Review by Pater Cooper, Esq. Ilo Writs a Letter to Horatio Seymour, Demolishing tbe Hereslss of Tammany Hall. New York, Aurr.13, 18C8. To the Hon. Hora tio Seymour My Dear Sir: In the last letter I had the honor to address to you, I had the pleasure to thank jou lor the prompt .".nswer to a former letter, and for the assurance I received that "wo agreed in tbe end to be realized, namely, the restoration ot the Union, and the preservation , of the Constitution." You will recollect that I then stated that I was so deeply impressed with the absolute necessity of main taining tbe Union and the Constitution that I desired to see all the powers that God and nature had given to us brought into requisitiou to save our country from being dissevered, and made the sport of foreign and domestic Saracens. I leared then, as I fear now, the danger of our being drawn into error by men who have no faith in a real democratic form of government. In that letter I stated that I was then, and I have still continued to the 78th year of my age, to be a firm believer in a truly democratic repub lican form of Kovernniciit, I mean a government founded on those eternal principles of truth and justice which our fathers declared were self evident, namely: "That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these aie life, liberty, and the pursuit ol happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are in stituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." In the very first words of the Constitution, formed by our fathers, it is declared that "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a n ore perfect union, establish justice, Insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure tbe blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Con stitution for the United States of America." Our fathers in forming for us this Constitu tion, believed that they had embodied in the forms of law, the highest wisdom, virtue, and intelligence of a whole people. They meant to make the wisdom, the virtue, and the intelli gence of the people the means to insure all the blessings required to mako us a nation with all the powers necessary "to establish justice," and "to promote Ihc general welfare." To enable the people to do this in the most convenient manner, they declared in the first article of tbo Constitution that "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested iu a Con gress of the United States, which shall consist ot a Senate aud House of Representatives." They theu describe the mode and manner by which the people's representatives shall be chosen, who are to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into exe cution the powers ot Congress, and all other powers vested by the Constitution in the Gov ernment of the United Slates, or in any Depart ment thereof. Among these powers there is nothing plainer than the intention of the tramers of the Consti tution to vest in the people's representatives the right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus when ever in their judgmeut "the public safety may require it," to suppress itebellivu or repel in vasion. I have been led to address this letter to you as standing at the head of the Democratic party, a party with which 1 continued to uct so long as I believed it was laboring to promote the greatest good of our common country ; but when 1 be came convinced that the Democratic party, with which I hau been so long connected, was lending its power and influence to sustain men aud measures that had so lar perverted the Consti tution of our country as to deuy the rights of manhood to 4.000,1)00 or numan beings and wheu I saw that 1 was acting with a party which was lending lis intluenee to men una measures that were raising up in our country the vilest form of an aristocracy an aristocracy that claimed it as a right that "property should own labor," and claimed the right to mix their blood with the black race, and then sell their children to be enslaved with all their posterity, then I consider it my duty to my country to abandon a party that had abaudoned the great principles of truth and justice. What tongue can uescrioe tne oorrors oi a system that allowed a father to sell bis child, wno may nave nau seven-eigutns oi wntie uiouu in his veins, to a brutal master, who had the power to confine him on a plantation, under a more brutal overseer; perhaps a Northern man, with his conscience callous to every numan feeling, and whose principal recommendation might be that he could whip out oi tne unpro tected slave the greatest amount of labor 1 Thomas JeUerxon niieht well say. in viewot such a state ol things, "I tremble for my coun try when I remember that God is just." Jobu Wesley has well declared tnat sucn a system contains within iUelf the, sum of all villainy. The enormity of human slavery will appear from the following advertisement, copied from the Georgia Messenger: "Run Away My man Fountuiue; has holes In his ears, a scar ou the right side ol his forehead, bus been shot in tbe hind parts of his legs, is marked on his back with the whip. Apply to Robert Beasly, Macon." We might well have paid, in view ot a system that allowed such cruelty, as God Is just that tbe time must come when those great principles of our Declaration of Independence ihit de clsre "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain in alienable rights, that among those are life, lib eity, and the, pursuit of huppiuess," must be vindicated iu our own country. Allow mo to repeat what I said in my last letter, namely, that I, who seived my country In person aud by substitute from the commencement of the war with England to its close, feel that 1 have a right to plead wlih my countrymen ol every shade of political opinion, and to beseech them by every consideration that can move our innuiiood to consider carefully the dangers that threaten us as a nation. It has been to me for years a source of pro found regret to find so many of tho-fe whom I have esteemed and honored as frieuds taking part with end forming all kind of excuses for men who have done all that was possible) to destroy our union ot Stales; and now I regret to find those very friends calling themselves Demo crats, and at the same time, uniting with those who were leaders in the Rebellion, and striving to aid tbem to build up what they are pleased to call a White Man's Government," by which they mean to hold 4.000,000 of human beings under a bun or disqualification that will prove as destructive to their happiness as the slavery from which tbey have been delivered. 4 bave been at a loss to see bow a mind so elevated as yours could for a moment consider it possible for a democratic government to enact a course of class legislation that would make one law tor the white man aud auother for the black man. Join Stuart Mill has euid with great propriety "That there is no true democracy where large classes of a community are denied equality of political rights." He further declares that "Every Government which permanently divides tbe people into a governing part and a governed part is an aristocratic Government, by whatever name it may be called." 1 find that the very men who profess so much concern for the pre servation of the Constitution are now most earnestly laboring to make proselytes for a white man's government, which can only be bad by legislating for a class, thereby adopting a principle that in at war with the very letter and spirit of the Constitution which they pro fess so much to revere. Such a course is incon sistent as tbe profession and the practice ot President Johnson. He declared at one time that "treason against the Government is the highest crime that can be committed," and that those engaged In It "should suffr all Its penal ties." "Irea-on," he said, "must bo male odious, and traitors mu-t be punished and im poverished." He weut so far as to say, "They must not only be punished, but their social power must be destroyed; if no, they maintain an ascoud ancy, and may aeain become numerous cnoueh for treason to become respectable." He said, "After making treason odious, every Union man should be remunerated out of tbe pockets of those who bave Inflicted the great suffering on our country." He then said, "I hold it a solemn obligation, in every one of these States where the Rebel armies have been beaten back or expelled, I rare not how small the number of Union men may be, if enough to man tbe ship ot State, I hold it to be a high duty to protect and secure to them a republican form of gov ernment until they gam strength. Tbey niuit not be smothered by inches." In reference to a Convention to restore the States, he aked: Who shall restore them? Shall the rien who pave all their influence and means to destroy the Government? Are they to participate in the great work of reorganizing the Goverument, who brought this misery on the States y If this be so, then it is said In truth that all tbe precloiw blood of our brave soldiers aud officers will have been lost, and all our battlc-tielda will have been made memo rable in vain." He then asked, "Why all this carnage?" and said "it was that treason ml?ht be put down and traitors punished." He said "traitors should take a back seat iu the work of restoration." He said 1 the traitor has ceased to be a citizen and in forming rebellion has be come a public enemy and has lost his right to vote wlih loyal men." He said that the great plantations of the trai tors "must be seized aud divided into small farms, and sold to honest, industrious men;" nlo, "the day for protecting tbo land and negroes of these authors ot rebellion is past." To cup the climax of inconsistency with all that he bas since done aud tried to accomplish, he said that be had been deeply puiued by some things that had come under his observation. He said: "We get men in command who, under the influence of flattery, fawning, and caressing, grant protection to rich truuors, while tbe poor Union man stands out in the cold." He went on and said that '"traitors can get lucrative em ployment while loyal men are pushed aside." He said in relation to reconstructing the Southern Sta es, that "We must not bo in too much of a hurry. It is belter to let them recon struct themselves, than to force them into it." But as soon as he became President we find him hurrying reconstruction on a plan or policy of his own, aud resisting, with all tse power he possessed, the mild measures prepared by Con gress, and iutended to enable the Kebel States to reconstruct themselves with the least possible difficulty or delay. It is difficult for one to imagine how any honest, intelligent man can join with President Johnson, and cbarce tbe malority of Congress with lelng a class of radicals and traitors, "hanging on the skirts of a Government which tbey are trying to destroy." It has been equally difficult for me to form an apology for such unreasonable charges as I find in your speeches and iu tbe speeches of others claiming to be Democrats against an administration' that has had to contend with every form of difficulty and misrepresentation that the ingenuity ot those who were in Rebel lion agaitst the Government, and of all those who were in sympathy with them, could invent. I regret to flud in several of your speeches that you make no allowance for the extraordinary and trying ciicumstanccs tbroueh which the Government was compelled to pass circum stances that would have made It wise and pro per to have raised money by forced loans it no other means could have been found to save the nation's life. You have said truly in your late speech that the Republican party "denounces all forms of repudiation as a national crime." You then try to throw on that party the odium of a deliberate design to repudiate tbe national debt. Tbe re pudiation of the national debt is oue of the last acts that theRepuDlican party will ever tolerate or allow. I bave been pained to find in your several speeches a course of reasoning that is tcuaing to revive the rebellious spirit throughout our Southern States a course of reasoning that has already won for ou tbe enthusiastic support of tbo;e who were most prominent in the Rebe'lion, and of all who are in sympathy with them throughout our country. Ism sorry to see in your speeches an effort to prejudice the laboring population with the statement that the Government Is introducing a system of unjust and unequal taxation. It Is certain that our Government could never stand in tbe presence of such laws as prevailed throughout the Southern States before the Rebellion; laws that made it a crime to "un bind the leavy burden, and let tbe captive go free;" laws that made It a crime to teach a poor helpless slave to read and write, fearing that a knowledge of the Declaration ot Independence, that declares the inalienable right of every man to his life, his liberty, and tbe pursuit of happiness, would make him unwilling longer to remain a slave. To tulle of such a system and such laws as bave prevailed at the South beiug democratic, is to talk of a living body without an animating spirit. The Cincinnati uatno'ic leregrapn, tne official organ of the Catholic Church in the West, has said, with great propriety, that "the interest of humanity aud the welfare of white labor, in paiticular, are involved in the question of slavery more tban any other, and it is the duty of men to prepaie their miids conscientiously tbat they may, as far as possible, maintain what is best lor Ibe people. Every one acknowledges that slavery is an evil. No man who is free would ever consent to be a slave. It is abhorrent to his nature. No man can allege any right to reduce a human being to that miserable con lition. It is detestable to mind aud heart. And moreover he who reduces a tree man to slavery is excom municated by tbe Catholic Church. Slavery was tbe cause of our national troubles. It was for slavery that the war was commenced, and tbe blood of the brave men who bave fallen on both sides bus been shed by this insatiate mon ster. Tbo hope of its restoration Is not abau doned. There are multitudes of men who would love to see it iu the ascendant as it was before." Never were truer words said tan that "Slavery was the cause of our national trouble." Notwithstanding all the misery that slavery and the war have brought on our country, let us assure all who took part In the Rebellion tbat we intend to do them all tbe good we can. We iuteud to secure for them and lor ourselves the constitutional guaranty ot a republican form of goverument. which is the greatest earmiy uiess in!? our nation can nossess. It has been with more than ordinary 6orrow that I And among the errors of your late speech other grave chaises against tne itepuoncan nortv. You suv it has adooted "a policy of hate. of waste, and of military despotism," in all of which jou are as much in error as wnen you state that tbe Republican party has expended $600,000,000 of tbe taxes drawn from the people oi this country "to uphold a despotic military ftiithoritv. and to crush out the life of the States." The facts as shown by Mr. Blaine iu Congress are tbat only a very small part of tbe amouut you name was expended iu wuiuUlning tun suthoiity of the Government over the Rebel States. Let ns unite to frown down that spirit of rebellion tbat found encouragenent in the Democratic Convention tbat met in Ch'caro, when it virtually recognized tbe principle of secession and disunion as an established lact, bv I imposing "a cessation of hostilities" and a call or a Convention of all the States to meet in their sovereign capacity and deliberate with men who were then in active rebe.llon, putting forth alt their cflorts to overthrow tbe Govern ment by force. You charge the Republican party with "pro posing to deprive the people ot tne South of their right to vote lor Presidential Electors." You theu miy that "the firt bold steos are taken to destroy the right of suffrage." Tnls reason ing is unaccountable in view ol the lact that the Republican party has been constantly making efforts to extend the elective franchise on a principle of equal rights to every man without regard to coun ry, caste, or color. Nothing could bo more unfair than your charge that the Republican party Intends that "there shall be no peace or order at the South save that which is made by arbltiary power." I will close this long letter by saying that I be lieve it would be tbe proudest day of your life if 1 could persuade you to unite with all who are laboring to secure a purely Demociatie Republi can administration ot our State and General Government. For one, I des re to do what I can to secure peace and pro-perlty to a country which in the course ot nature I must soon leave, but with an ardent deBire that it may forever remain a glorious Union of States, where good ness and greatness shall be the motto and inspi ration of ihepeopleB, 1 remain very respectfully, Peter Coor-ER. FINANCE AND COMMERCE. OWtlCB Or THE KVK.SINO Tt.FOBAT'H, Wtdnesday, August l'J, 1868. J There is more demand for money, call loans, rule at 6a0 per cent. First-class commercial paper rauges from Ca8 per cent, per annum. 1 he stock market opened very dull this mom; ing, and prices were nusettlcd and lower. Government securities declined 4ai per cent. 112$ was bid tor (is of 1881; 108 for 10 40s; 108J for 1864 6 20s: 113 for 18G2 5-20i; 110J lor 18G5 5 20s; 107 for July, 1805 5 20s; and 107 j for 18G7 6-20s. City loans were unchanged; the new issue sold at 103.. Railroad shares were the most active on the list. Reading sold at 44i44j. a decline of ; Pennsylvania Railroad at 63Jfi.r34, a slight de cline: Lehigh Valley at 54icr54, no chaDge; M ir chill at 50. no change: and Catawissa pre ferred at 32ifii32i, no change. 08 was bid lor NorrUtown, and 334 fr North Pennsylvania. City Pas.seneer Unilroad shares were dull. Thirteenth and Fifteenth sold at 15, no change. 30 was bid for Fifth and Sixth, and 70 for Tenth and Eleventh. Bank shares were in good demand for invest ment at full prices, but we hear of no sale. 240 was bid for North America; 60 for Commer cial: 31 lor Mechanics'; 10G for South warlc; 115 for Kensington; 08 for Penn Township; 61 tor Girard; 87 for Western; 314 for Manufacturers'; 73 J for City; 44 for Consolidation; and 62 for Commonwealth. In Canal shares there was very little move ment. Lcbigh Navigation sold at 20(20j, a decline ot 4, and Susquehanna Cannl at 14, no change; 9j was bid for Schuylkill Navigation Common; l&i for preferred do. ; 70 for Morris Caual preferred, and 32 lor Wyoming Valley Canal. PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAT Reported, by De Baven fe Hro No. 40 S. Third street XTKisT BOKU 120000 A mo old HXi 200eti.Leh N.......eo. tntf luujliy ss, Kvw 103', 1 100 do......B0 2U'i fiooo du.New.ls.103'4! '00 do.um tlfiOO N Pa 7s c SO I 100 do S10. f auw u a vo cu...M,w OOTB 1UU HQ IUWU XI N.U. VI i OOlHMMMWN H - . do. ....-, do'f.s8wn. 44t do.tt.s&wn. 44'i do.......bcSi 41'i dOin 41 do....nMM...44 81 do 44 81 do Is..h5 44M do.60UoIO. 4IJ, do. 810. 41 '4 do..........t8. 44 V The following are this morning's gold and foreign quotations, reported by Whelen Bro thers, Gold, Stock, and Exchange Brokers, No. jus a. inira street: 10-00 A. 10 03 1015 ' 10-23 ' 10-35 ' 10-40 ' 10-51 ' 10-65 1102 ' M. 1451 11-15 A. M 145 145 145t 11-20 " . 1458111 22 " . 146A! 11-29 " . 145jll-40 " . 145 145 145 1454 11-60 145 lib l 1454 145 144 11-55 11- 66 12- 06 1454 145j 145i 1454 P. U. 11-07 12-30 Foreign Exchange on London: 60 days, looi ai09i; 3 days, 10!U)0i. On Paris: 60 days, 61. 17i&5f. 164; 3 days, 5f. 155f. 13. Messrs. De Haven A Brother. No. 40 8outh Third street, report the following rates of ex change to-day at 3 P. M. : U. 8. 6s of 1881. 113 J ll)J;do. 1862, 1123-3112; do.. 1804, 10840 108; do., 1805, lioayuoj; do., 1805, new, 107r2 1073; do., 18C7, new, 107(1074; do.,18G8, 107J 107i; do., 6s, 10-40s, 107J(108J; Due Com pound Interest Notes, 1194; do., September, 1865, 118i; do. October, 1865, 118. Gold, 144 (2145J. Silver, 137 139, Messrs. Jay Cooke A Go. qnote Govern ment securities, etc., as follows: U. 8. 6s. ol 1881, 1134(731134; old 5-20s, 112A(f5113; nw 6-20s, 1804. 1084(2(1084 ; do., 1865, 11 U'tib 111 ; 5-208. July, 1074107; do., 1867, 1071074; do., 1868, 107 107J; 10-408,10831084. Gold, 145. Messrs. William Painter & Co., bankers, No. 36 S. Third street, report the following rates of exchange to-day at 13 o'clock: United States 6s. 1881, 113i'ail34; D. 8. 5-20s, 1862, 112I1124;do 1864, 10841084; do., 18(i5, HOAeilOj; do. Julv, 1865, 107i1074; do. July, 18Gf, 10CJfai07; 18G8, 106J107; 6s, 10-40s 10rj 118. Compound Interest Notes, past due, 119-4(; September, li65, 1184(81184: (Mober. 1805. 1181184. U.S. Paeitic R. R. Currency Bouds, 101$102. Gold, 145JS1454. riilladclphlu Trade Report. Wednesday, August 19. The Flour Market continues dull, and only a few hundred barrels were taken at 87508-25 for superfine; tS509 for extra; $9 501160 for Northwestern extra family; 1 10 12 50 for Pennsylvania and Ohio do. da; and 813H for fancy brands, aooording to quality. Rye Flour is wanted at 19 50 ft barrel, nothing doing in Corn Meal. There is bo activity in Wheat, and no de mand except for good and prime lots, which are relatively scarce; sales of new red at $2 30 for fair, up to 2 60 lor strictly choice. Hye Is unchanged; sales of 1000 bushels Western and Pennsylvania at 81 C5 lor new, and 81 70 lor old. Corn is quiet and weak; sales -of yellow at $ 1'25 (a, 2i, and Western mixed at $1 23. Oats are dull and drooping: sales of 6000 buahels Western at 70(75o., and 600 bufbels Houtheru at 05o. No change to notice in Hurley or Malt. Uara is steady, with sales of No. 1 Quercitron atSdOton. , , ..... Wblsky is in good demand, with salts at 70o. t! gallon in bond. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. UNITED (STATES DI-T1UOT COURT Judge Cadwalader. Ttiln ruoruiuf tbe Court wet at 11 ' o'clock, aud Ibe following cnm were disponed of: The Uolied Htatt v. ttplrlis and oilier property, Willleiu Fount olklmtnU Ad Information fur for fellurv. Verdict, bj ngreemenc. for ibe Uoveromeut as to property pprUf d l iti'Ai 40, aud lor the claim ant as iu ibe residue of tbe goods the subject ol pro cedure. Tbe Unltvd Btat es vs. Spirits aud other property, ()' rge W. Huby olainicut. an luformalloQ for tor failure. Verdict, by aureeraeut. for Ibe Uoveromeut as to goods vaiued at (6182118, and, as to tbe residue, for ibe claimant. ... ... in auotner oise having thesameclatmant, averdlot was reudered hi Iavor of tbe Uoveruiuaui for all tbe goods. Tbe United Rtates X. 8plr!U, etc., Adam K, Bort ner clalinaut. Verdlc', by agreement, lor tbe Govern ment as to goods appraised at IWll'lS, aud lor lite claimant as to the reeidue, t,i(H) bell M 6s, '82....... 70 6 10 sri Fen Da H 6.1 '4 too 100 do . 810. M'a 2 loo do ...sio. 6:i s 2 do ....... 6,S 100 irosh Len v K .......... 6, 211 48 61 loo 131 do .Is. biK 100 l(,0 do..... M 64'i 2( 0 6Sh Mlnelilll 85. 66 100 100 sbHiMq Cut 14 100 60 an Lull IN a v. 20 100 SECOND EDITION LATEST BY TELEGRAPE Reorganization of the Wash ington Firo Department Naval Orders. A Shocking Tragedy in Indiana. Financial and Commorclal Kt., Kte Ktc, EU4 t.t Kts. FROM WASHINGTON. Vh Firs Department Reorganized. Despatch to the Associated Press. WAsn ington, Aug. 19. The Board of Fire Commissioners have reorganized the Fire Do partment. It is composed of white men. The blacks who were employed on the coming in of the present city administration, have been dis missed. Naval Order. The order transferring First Lieutenant H. C Cochrane, D S. Marine Corps, from the Constella tion to the New Hampshire, at Norfolk, Va., has been revoked, and he will report at Mare Island Navy Yard, Call'ornia, for duty on the Baranac, vice First Lieutenant C. II. Daniel, resigned. The resignation of First Lieutenant Frank L. Church, United States Marino Corps, has been accepted. Second Lieutenant John II. Sherburne, United States Marine Corps, has been ordered to the Powhatan, on tho South Pacific Squadron. FROM CHICAGO. General Logan's Appointments A. RmN road. Calamity. Special Despatch to The Evening Telegraph. Chicago, Aug. 19. General John T. Lagan Is in town. He is preparing to enter upon an active canvas ot tbe State. He will make his first speech at Morris, 111., on tho 1st of September. An accident occurred to the construction train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad on Council Hill, this morning, resulting in the instant death of two men, named Thomas Boylo and Michael Nylin, and the wounding of twelve or fiftjen others, three of whom will die. Tho disaster was caused by a car loaded with iron getting under way down grade with no one to break it up. It came into collision with the construction train, throwing thirty men upon it with a terrible crash. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Supposed Harder of tte Captain of a Schooner. Fortress Monroe, Aug. 19. The body of Captain Adam Dennis, who commanded a small schooner called tbe Belle Fanny, was picked np on Thursday last in the Chowan river, near Colerain,N.C.,with his throat cut from ear to ear. The Captain had been in the habit of trading between Norfolk and tbe Chowan river. He cleared his vessel from Norfolk on Wednesday last with an assorted cargo of goods, valued at $3C0, which ho intended to dispose of to the farmers for a return cargo of produce. He had also about his person some $600 in curroncy. When he left the city he was accompanied by a young man about eighteen years of age, who subsequently left the vessel at Elizabeth city. A strange man, whose name has not been ascer tained, was shipped at Elizabeth city to supply the place vacated, and suspicion points to him as the guilty party. When the body was found there was a heavy axe tied to it for the purpose of sinking it. The sehooner was found in Wlchucon creek, which empties into the Chowan liver a few miles above Coleraln. Detectives Tyler and Merchant, of Norfolk, have been en gaged to ferret out the murderer or mur lertrs. The Captain's body will be brought to Nortollc for burial by his friends. FROM INDIANA. A Horrible) M urder 1st Terra Hauts. Special Despatch to the Evening Telegraph. Indianapolis, Aug. 19. During the progress of a Democratic meeting at Harmony station, Clay county, near Terre Haute, last night, Dan iel Deitz, a butcher residing at that place, cut his wife's throat from ear to ear, severlug her wind-pipe. Every person being at the speaking, she was not discovered for twenty mluutes. Frederick Deitz, her brother-in-law, happening to go into the room, saw her, and Immediately gave the alarm. Tha speaker ceased speaking immediately, and all armed themselves to hunt the murderer, After committing the deed, be started to tho switch, calling for William Dicklus, a man whom he had a grudge against, and it is generally supposed he wanted to Injure him, as he had tho butcher knife, some eigh teen Inches long, with which he bad cut his wife's throat, still In his hands. He is still at large, THE E UR OPE AN MARKETS. This Morning's Quotations, By Atlantic Cable. London, August 19 A. M. Consols, for money 99, and for account 94. V. 8. Five-twenties, 71; Erie Railroad, 31; Illinois Central, 90J. Frankfort, August 19 A. M. United States bonds, 794a79j. Liverpool, August 19 A. M. Cotton steady. The sales to-day are estimated at 10,000 bales, Breadstuffs ate dull and unchanged. Naval stores, provisions, aud produce are un changed. London, August 19 A, M. Sugar marke heavy and weak. AriTWBRPi August 19 A. M. Petroleum, 62f. 50c. Tbls Afternoon's Quotations. London, Aug. 19-P. M.-U. S..5-20s, 71j ; Illinois Central, 914. Liverpool, Aug. 19 P. M. Cotton steady. Cheese declined to 60s. Lard flat and declined to 60s. 6d. Bacon advanced to C2s. Pork firm. , 0thr i tides unchanged. FINANCIAL ITEMS. xly r;r,l,.0,,, H,a, rf9r,l, "Mon.y oo ii I limes easy at i per cent, on Ooreri ments. and 4(45 per ceuk on misoellanro is epcurlilev wiib tbe msjorl'y of new buslues at tbe blglient rate At tbe close there was a mark-d Improreiiient for money at 6 peroeni. "Hienlrg eicbarge Is weak, wt'h sates at 109V for flrt-clss blue, W e quote:-London, SO data, lo'ra liSK: Londlon, sight, icvVlot;,: London, prima commercial, loV'IO taris, long, B17Hr)-u'4; Pails, short. 6 15,uU3V; Antwerp, S-IHiv5 17S; Swiss, fi'c4raB 17Hi Hsiiiourt, Ba;is: Arnutrdaui, 41(,",: Frankfort, 40,T,ui,41; Bremen, 7',(7,,i Ber lin. 71,7I,V "The decline In express stocks. which teems strange to some outside liriders. Is sutceuilbie of easy expla nstlon. Kerore tbe war, tbe entire capital of the ex press comnanlrs was five millions, end dlrld uds of 10(VI6 per rent, were rnrnt-d. Mince Iben. the) storks have been watered, aud rival companies have bren admitted to a share ot the business, so that the present caplial In 'f,(H,o.(KKl, mu. h more ihsu seven times Ibe actial casn lnves'Pd. ll-fore tbe war railway manageis were identiaed with the eiprai companies, and ibe Utter e"Joye special advan tages lor the carriage of goods and parcels. Mow, tbe rallwavs are alruunt all at war with the expresses, and tne rates charged for transportation leave no margin for rrom Most of the leading roads aim to do tbflr own express business. Of late, too, the robbing of exprrsa niwsc ugers aeeuia to bave become a regular business so niucu so Ibat no month passes witbi.ut some express safe b ing rotbjrt ot hpsvy amonnts of currency, and It would seem io be the Interest of tbe express companies 10 abaLdnn the tiannportst'on of money hliuerio the most lucrative brai cb of their bOnlneMS. Tneae res ents seem to bave led nearly all the old expressmen to sell ont their strcks. Mne-tenths of the certifi cates of express stock a (I nut In Wall street, are In the name of olllce boys; boldeis of express stocks are liable for losses lo double tbe amount of their hold Irgs. aud do one can tell when at asiensment of 10 or 20 per ceul. may be levied on Adams or Merchants Vniou. It is Instructive. In view of the gradual tightening: of the money marlot, and tbe prospect of a general 4iut qui ptut among tbe holders of railway stocks, to compare present prices wlih those tbat ruled In! the Spring of 1867. To make the comparison faithful, we and to the present prices the dividend Just de clared. Tbe table is anggettlve: jAnowatT PrttrtU Advanee. Stocks. mark Xfua. nn'r. New York Central........ 4 180 SJ8-0O KemliPK 91 8ji 4150 Michigan Boulhern...... 64 88 84 19 Pittsburg 65 7,'i 82-50 Kock lslaud.................... 85 !i 109 h-SO 'ort Wayne 8'4 lor 17-75 Hi. Paul 4 IO; 2t0 Wabash 87 Mi 13 50 Northwestern. ................. 80 81 61 CO New Preferred .......,.. s" 81 24 00 The New York Timrs of to-day say: "The Money Mantel was more active to-day, and rates, though not quotably higher, were firmer. Call loans ranged from 4(r)S per cent., with rather more doing ai ibe higher figure, which Is now tbe fixed price with stveral city aaoks. Prime discounts were current to a moderate extent at 6V07 per cent, per annum. The banks were mure prudent In their deal ings In produce paper. Many ot tde banking Institu tions wtre preparing for an enlarged flow of currency to the Interior, during tbe current and the coming weeks. One city bank expected to remit about a mil linn before Saturday evening next Tbe Ui lied States rjub-Treanory closed tbe day with cash balances, amounting to (83.698 427, on receipts ef $3 27,677," Of tbe weather and crop prospects abroad, the Mark Lane Exprrss 01 August 3, remarks: "Tbe weather during the put month bas been nn precedeuteUly bot, and almost of a tropical charac ter, bcarcely any ralu hB fallen lu any part of the country , and general complaint of the loug-contlnued drought continues 10 reach us from all quarters. Tbe country lor tbe most pait presnt9 a scorched and blasted appearance, and great evil Is resulting from tbe prevalent scarcity of water. The brilliant weather ha, however, had a inwt favorable Influ ence on the wheat crop, and bas brougbt It loan early and good maturity. Cu'.ilng commenced early In the mouth In the southern dl.su lets; by tbe second or third week the naivest was almost general, and. as we write, tbe malority of tbe crop has been well got in; only tbe scarcity of lanor has retarded the harvest operations In some dl'trlcta. Tbe dry weather bas enabled farmers to secu e their crops la excellent condiMon, and lb out-turn Is every where favorably spoken of the weights per bUHhel varying from sixty-two to sixty-six poands. At a rule tbe quality is excellent especially 01 those sam ples grown lu heavy lands, altnough some ol the par cels irom tbe light and gravelly soils are somewhat shrivelled from tho excessive beat, having been foiced Into too early maturity. Taking Into aoconnt tbe large extra breadth ol wbe t sown, and the heavy yhld per acre when compared with last year, tbe total crop will be much lu exc. ss of that of 1867. Barley will apparently turn out mncb better than was ex pected, although some of Ibe accounts a-e very dis coursing. We hav seen some good yields of oats, bot Ibe crop generally Is balow an average. Tbeyleld or beans and peas will scsrceiy be equal to last year Karely have harvest operations commenced at so early a date as at the present time, or been oonduoted ouoer such favorable auspices. "Compared with tbe general rnn of seasons, wheat cutting commenced luliy a month earlier than usual and tbe crop bas been can led wltn much greater rapidity. Tbe recent calculations as to the probable amount of wbeat required to be Imported will be con siderably thrown out. In consequence of tbe very early appearance of the new wheats. Tbe stocks of Old wheat, however, are very light, and a considera ble portion of any surplus that may accrue from tbls r resent harvest will easi'y be taken up in replenish ng tbem. Tbe sale for wheal bas been very inactive and tbe trade bas been In a most uncertain s ate ai usual at barvest lime, when the out-turn ot the cross Is much disputed. Matters have operated with ex treme caution, and only to sunply immediate wants The general tendency of prices has theref -iie been downward. The first tew parcels of new wbeat ex blbl'ed at Mark 1 ane, however, changed bands at extreme rate-; but on the arrival of further samples factors were more moderate in trelr demands and accepted considerably less money." "iJLTEST 811irFIN(B jJiTELLIttOCET" For additional Marine News see Inside-Page. POKT OF FHlLal)EI.PmA...B.H,HH.AijatJaT l9 STATU OF THIBMOMkTKB AT TBI XVXUflHS) Mrs. saiFH owriom. T A. U..M.M......7711 A. M...... 8IP.M......85 OLKARF.D THIS MORNING. Bteamablp Utility. Fargo, Providence U.a.8tetsonnn, Brig Kllen P. Htewarl, Holland, Gibraltar for order: Workman A Co. Bcbr North Pacific, Errlcsson, Warren, B. I.. Q. n. Morris. ' Bcbr Westmoreland, Bice, Providence, Westmore land Coal Co. wo Bcbr A. B. Cain, Simpson, Jacksonville, K. A. Bonder BcbrM. A.Loughery, Loughery, Georgetown. Penn Uas Coal C". u Bcbr M. M. Weaver, Weaver, Boston, Caldwell, dor- ScbrLaura. Coombs. Portsmouth, Bcott.Walter ft rvi Bcbr Kmellne Halgbt, Avery, Proviucelown. do Bcbr Charlotte bbaw, Beeves, Weymouth, Blaklaton OraeO A Co. ' Bcbr 8. H Bbarp, Webb, Roxbury, ab Bfr K. C. Blddle. McCue. New York.W. P. Clyde 4 Co. Tua Thus. Jefferson, Allen, for Baltimore, with a tow of bargee, W. P. Clyde & Co. ARRIVED THIS MORNING. Barque Bea Kagle, Howes, 10 days from Turk's Islana. wltb salt 10 Wm, Bumm x Bon vessel J, Tbos. Wattson A Sons. . j . Bchr J. I. Wortb ngtod. Terry, 3 days from New Yoik, wltb salt to Win, Bumm fc Bon. DW BcnrHaitle Sampson, Blake, from New York, in ballast to Warreu A Oregg. tacnr Kxobange, Jacksou. 4 days from. Pooomoke River. Md wltb lumber to Collins A Co. Bcbr W. A. Crocker, Baxter, I rum Boston. Bcbr M. M. Weaver, Weaver, from Boston, Bcbr C. K Caratatra. Price, from Boston. Bcbr John Hi roup, Crawford, from Boston. tschr North PacHlc, Krlcsaoo. Irom balem. Bcbr H. L Blatghl, Wllleila, from Haoo. Bcbr Potomac, Kldrldge. from Ueorgetown. Bchr J. 'J ruman, Ullibs, from New Bedford, Bchr J. J. Little, Little, irom Fall River. Bchr Lanra. Coombs, from call K'ver. fcchr J. Crockford, Brlgg", from Fall River. Bcbr M. A. Lougbery, Lougbery, from Ne Haven, Bchr U Bhow. heeves, from Lynn. Bcbr H, N. Miller, Miller, Irom Portsmouth. Bleamer J. B. Bbrlver, Dennis, la hours from Bal timore, with nidse. to A. Groves, Jr. Bteamer A. C. Bllmers, Knox, 24 hoars from New York, wlih mdse. to W. P. Clyde A Co. Tug Tbos. Jefferson, Allen, Irom Baltimore, with a tow Si barges to W. P. Clyde A Co. Correspondence of the PhtUutelphta Exchange. Lbwkm Del Aug. 17. Barque etavanuah, from Phi Udelphla for Nevis, and Volunteer, do. lor blbrallar, went to sea this mornlug. Barques John JCIIIs, tor Antwerp-" Abble N. Franklin, tor Trieste; and brig Fmma (i, for Harbados. remain at the Bieakwater. fchr Adolpb llugel left the Breakwater to day tor P am Iss A. M -Two barqn-s are now passing In thlc'ap... bound .0 WUPSn lapjetRa, MEMORANDA. Steamship Brunette, Uowe, hence, at New York yesterday. fjBY TEXaeBAPK.T NW YOKKi Aog. 19 Arrived, steamship Baxonla. FouTEKHa Momkok, Aug. l. Ibe U. B. sioop-oi. war Portsmouth passed uo to day lor Norfolk, August 19 -Pllot boat Btarkey report pawed In the Capes lor Balllmore:-Barque Bea Gem. tram New Oatia Knir baraue Cape la. from Breuiea; brig iSfrom Mayajue and brig KasM. from Bosto,!. lathe Bosi-Brlg Liaaleltllnbult, tor Barbados. DOMESTIC PORTS. Kbw Yobs-, Aug. la. Arrlvad, snip Artist, Bergeal, ftBmrqUeCc!c7itta, B.lldlo. from Liverpool. SI2ue Akershus, Mailing, from Hamburg. Bar.iue Minna, Btumkel, from Bremen. Barque Pallas, Myerdlerk, from Bremen. Brla Kllvey, Jtdward, from Port Talbot. Bug Q.Utwm livDvaald, 'row. Hamburg,
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