®l)t Cjancastrt intelligencer ». gMPBEBQ»< PA., MAY 20. 1862. cOPikb i Umt ««irathori»d to contact for n» *< ?2“2 t .J3? * Aim No. 385 Bro*s*»y» »«? »* ■nmtlioibad to nodTo •drertUamenU fat The htida *'S9!?nS£BAMta ■«>,«*t *' B.fSn«retted Obesbrat Btreeto, Phllylerphlß,.b iiittortad.torocdw «ibscriptioM*iii ‘Jf'JJHSSfvIf ♦m« yT*r, *fc <mr lotraot x&tes. HlSTecsiptswill bo e®* North 6th street, Philadelphia. He r^^fawq^^mfmteandrobgcrfutionafor The Lancaster No,l Sconay 1 * Building. Court BL, Boat*®* il <nirifafch'<wlsea Agent for receiving advertisements, Ac. o "CT B r Xc'-A. Gh- How onr flag to dong to the wild winds ftw tot it float o’er onr lather land, And the goard of ita apotleas fame shall bo Golombla’s chosen band. - COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING. The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster county will meet at Shober’s Hotel, in this city, on WEDNKSD IT, tbe 28th lost, at 11 o'clock, A. M, for the purpose of firing the time ibr the assembling of a County Convention to •leot delegates to the Fourth of July State Convention. A general attendance is requested. p. Miami Hkilsb, Secretary. the war news. The main body of Gen. McClellan’s army was at Bottom’s Bridge, 15 miles from Richmond, at the latest accounts. Skirmishes had taken place daring the last week, and it had been ascertained that the Confederates are in heavy f.roe in front, and indications that they are gathering all their available men to dispute the passage to Richmond. The latest advices from Gen. Halleok’s army report that it was not expected Tuesday that an attack would be made for several days. The army is still reported to be advancing, but at a very slow rate. It is stated that Gen. Beauregard iB fortifying Grand Junction, evidently with the purpose of falling back to that place if he is defeated at Corinth. His forces are estimated at from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and seventy thousand. A dispatch from Gen. Wool states that the Federal troops have occupied Suffolk. This place is in Nansemond county, twenty-two miles southwest from Norfolk. It is the point of junotion of the Norfolk end Weldon and the Norfolk and Riohmond railroads. Gen. Wool, it is stated, makes frequent tripß to Norfolk, and Borne of the citizens of Norfolk, have in turn visited the Fortress. A renewal of the naval engagement at Fort Wright is expected. The Confederate fleet is believed to have been repaired and again in condition to fight. A tug made a reconnois sance of the position of the Federal fleet on Tuesday. The Confederate iron-clad ram was not sunk, as reported, but was damaged con siderably. A Southern account of the fight states that after an engagement of half an hour, their vessels retired uninjured. The loss was two killed and eight wounded. Another fight - is daily expected. A telegram to the Chicago Tribune, under .date of May sth, estimates the forces of Gen. Halleck between Pittsburg Landing and Cor inth at from ten to fifteen thousand cavalry, and one hundred thousand infantry, supported by over three hundred pieces of artillery. It is admitted, however, that a great deal of sickness prevails in the army, nearly nine thousand men, or not less than fifty from each regiment being either Bick in the hospital or unfit for duty. The battle of Shiloh is de clared to have been “ a surprise and defeat— a most terrible blow inflicted by the enemy from which that portion of our army engaged in it hfts not yet fully recovered.” The news in Washington, says the New York Express, is that the Confederates in front of McDowell are in such force that he cannot venture to attack them. The railroad from Aoquia Creek to Fredericksburg, which had been destroyed by the Confederates, is not completed, and supplies fur McDowell’scolumn can only reach him by wagons. No military permits are given to enter Fredericksburg. “ Indeed,” adds the Express, “ General McDowell does not feel certain of his position there.” DEATH OF GEN. WM. H. KEIM Gen. William H. Keim, late Surveyor Gen eral of this State, died of a combined attack of typhoid fever and dysentery at the Brady House, in Harrisburg, on Sunday last, in the 49th year of his age. Gen. Keim held the position of Major General of the Pennsylvania troops in the three months’ service, serving under Gen. Patterson Last fall he was ap pointed a Brigadier General by the President, which he accepted, and resigned the office of Surveyor General. He was present at the taking of Yorktown, and also at the battle of Williamsburg, but too ill to participate in the latter. His remains will be taken for inter ment to-day to Beading, of which city he was a native and citizen. DEATH OF MR. INGERSOLL. • Hon. Charles Jared Ingersoll died at his residence in Philadelphia, on Wednesday last, in the BQth year of his age. Mr. I. was eminent as a lawyer, a writer, and a Demo cratio politician. He was a member of Con gress from 1813 to 1815, and -again from 1841 to 1847. He also held the office of United States District Attorney during the latter part of President Madison’s Administration, and was likewise a leading and influential member of tbe Reform Convention to amend the Con st! Pennsylvania in 1837-8. DEATH OF REV. DR. BETHUNE. ■Rev. George W. Bethune, D. D., died at Florence on the 28th of April, aged 57 years. He visited the south of Europe on account of his health which had been declining for some time prior to his departure. As a scholar and pulpit orator he had but few equals and no superior, and bis death will bo severely felt in the Reformed Dutch Church with which he had been connected for. thirty-six years. GEN. M'CI.ELI.AN’S POSITION. On Sunday, General McClellan, with the main body of his army, was within fifteen miles of Biohmond, and stirring news may be expeoted any boor. GEHERAL HALLECK’S POSITION. General Pope’s Division of General Hal leck’sarmy was within three miles of Corinth • at/tSe latest accounts, and a battle was imminent. has postponed the considera tion of tbebanknipt law until December. It '■iijiJ't to mw' nigger ’:' in if.. VbICB IB BIGHT 1 John W. Forney says: «• Nothing that has been done by the Ad ministration nr by Congress [he dnn t say what they will do] can be cited to.ebow that the Republican party is in favor or emancipa ting the slaves oftheStmth.” Tiiiwwbs Steve**says; y:f ’“He would "reconstruct-the Union, d with freedom throughout its en9re bordered In other words, Mr. Stevens will only consent to o reconstruction of .the Union upon the condition that the fonr millions of slaves in the Southern States be at once tamed loose upon the community to eat up the substance of the white laboring men of the North. _ Now, it will be recollected that Thaddeos Stevens, from his position as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, is the Admin istration leader in the House of Representa tives, and is, virtually, the mouth piece of the Cabinet. It is, therefore, not difficult to de cide the’qaeetion at issue between Forney and himself. The one speaks by the book—the other publishes at random anything and everything that may best serve to throw dust in the eyes of the people, and thus screen his masters from the public odium which is fast settling down upon them. The one is honest in his declarations, and means exactly what he says—the other is dishonest, and means direotly the reverse of what he publishes. — The intelligent reader can very readily dis criminate between these two Abolition wor thies, as to which oC them is right. THF DEMOCRATIC address. Ti<J Democratic address, save the Patriot & Union, is a hard nut for the Republicans to crack. They show the strength of its impreg nable truths in their attempts to assail its supposed vulnerable points. The Philadelphia Press attempts to controvert the allegation that the “ Crittenden Compromise ” was s "tenuously and unanimously resisted and defeated by the Republican party, because it was inconsistent with the seotional dootrines of the Chicago platform ; and quotes at length from the speech of Andrew Johnson to shpw that on the 16th of January, 1861, when that measure was before the Senate, Mr. Clark, of New Hampshire, submitted an amendment intended to defeat the Compromise, that this amendment was adopted by a vote of 25 yeas to 23 nays, and that it was adopted and the Crittenden Compromise thereby defeated be cause sis Southern Senators to wit: Benjamin, of Louisiana; Hemphill and Wigfall, of Texas; Iverson, of Georgia; Johnson, of Arkansas, and Slidell, of Louisiana, were present in the Senate and refused to record their votes. H. B. BWAKE, Chairman. This fact only gives additional emphasis to the address. It shows that the Republican Senators and the secession conspirators acted together and jointly defeated the Crittenden. Compromise. Every Republican Senator voted for Clark’s amendment, and its adoption was secured by the co operation and with the concurrence of the secessionists. This fact sustains what the Democrats have always alleged, that the country was precipitated into oivil war by the violence of Northern Abolitionists and Southern Secessionists, and that jointly tbuy awod botwoon the people and a compromise that would have been gladly accepted by the masses of both sections. BOW IT WORKS. “contrabands” versus white labor, The Norristown Register is reliably in formed that a person about ten miles from that place was recently offered eight hands at twenty five cents per day. They were of course “ contrabands,” and the person was urgod to take them in place of white hands in his employ. The Register truly remarks that this fact very clearly indicates the course the ‘■irrepressible conflict” will inevitably take, if the negrophilists succeed in their abolition emancipation schemes. It will be an “ irre pressible conflict ” with white labor, and the latter will be crushed out or reduced to a mere song. The negroes heretofore kept at and employed in the'South will be coming North, and they will be taking the places of the white laboring people. This is the truth of the matter. As it has been in the past, the different systems of labor have not been an tagonistic to each other, jiut on the other hand they have been protective of each other. The negroes at the South have been employed mostly in that kink of labor. Being employed then in a different kind of labor, and being in large numbers, a market was produoed at the South for the manufacturing products of the North that was highly projnotive of the interests of white labor here. As soon, how ever, as this condition of things is changed, wo have another change here. Instead of remaining where they have been advantage ously employed, the negroes come here, and we have the result above indicated. They come into contact with white labor, and as a result, as in the above instance, there are offers of labor at twenty five cents per day. Of how much interest abolitionism will be to the white laboring people of the country, each laboring man can determine for himself. Mr. Taylor, the New York Postmaster, an excellent officer and no politician, was removed a few weeks ago to make room for a Republi can politician named Wakeman. Mr. Taylor would not remove his subordinates and put Republican brawlers in their places; but it was known Wakeman would, and so Wakeman was appointed. He seems to have done his best to meet tbe requirements of our “ no party” rulers, but he could not accommodate all of his friends. Their importunities became so numerous and pressing that he posted notices outside his office door, and in other public places, of which the following is a copy: “ As there are already fifty applicants for each office within my gift, no more will be received.” The Administration must do something for these disappointed patriots. It can give them contracts, or make them Brigadier Generals or Paymasters. These are the common rewards for party service in these “ no party” times. Important Decision. —ln the U. S Circuit Court at Cincinnati, last year, the Grand Jury found an indictment for treason against James W. Chenowitb, for furnishing supplies and munitions of war to the rebels. At the session of the Court last week, Mr. C.’s counsel moved to quash the indiotmeut, on the ground that the first clause of sec. 2, art. 3, of the Constitution, whioh provides that treason shall consist only of levying war, refers to a rebellion, while the second clause, “oradheriDg to their In giving aid and comfort,” relates only to a publio war with a foreign enemy. Justice Swavne sus tained the motion and quashed the indictment. The steamship Jura from Liverpool May 1, via Londonderry May 2, beings important news, if true. The Paris correspondent of the' Independence Beige asserts in the most positive manner that the' projected intervention by France and England in American affairs is confirmed, and that the South will be required to guarantee the emancipation of her slaves. The same authority says that a seoret treaty exists between France and Spain providing for the early abolition of Slavery in Cuba. President Lincoln haß issued a Proclama tion relaxing the blookade of the ports of New Orleans, Beaniori and Port Royal, to take effect on the Ist proximo. ‘* NO PARTY.” FOREIGN INTERVENTION. OPENING FORTS OF ENTRY. 'WHi* i»-M»*ST r i**f»pi.nroV We begin to realis e hoik much has been lost to the Union cause by the bhangs of McClel lan's programme, after he reached thespaliiot: tsar.. The Boston Advertiser, a Republican pbper.preeents.thece.se clearly in the-follow ing ptgagraph: 0- Hew far the plan on which Gen. McClellan; has been oompelled to proceed in Vugini%;.is Inferior to that Winch he proposed toexecpte, la how shown bythe results. It is well known that the Generic proceeded to die peninsula; with the expectation that the naval forces would co-operate in both the York and James rivers, and that M’DawelFs army would also assist by catting off the retreat of the rebels. Some still affect to deny that any important change in the scheme was made; bot thatisa matter which does not .rest upon conjectureor upon any slender authority. The fact that a change, destructive of-the whole scheme of operations, was made is known and will one day. appear'in evidence satisfactory to every one. The result is, that instead of the capture of an entire army —a result which was morally certain under the original plan, so soon as the rebels Buffered themselves to he drawn into the peninsula— we have a pursuit, injurious to the enemy indeed, but not capable of being pushed to his aunihilatioD, .as under the original scheme.— The James river was not attempted by onr naval forces until, it is to be (eared, the attempt can become of little consequence. M’Dowell's army is lost for the general pur poses of the campaign, while Banks and Fremont are not in a position to supply the want, even if their slender forces and line of operation permitted. The Albany Argus remarks—M’Dowell’s army is lost to the campaign; and the rebel nrmy ia saved from capture. The infinite mis ohief of the interference iB hardly all embraced in this pregnant sentence. The rebel army in its retreat wastes the country it abandons, and destroys the property of the inhabitants. We lose this much ; and we lose all the time that the war is protracted by the retreating forces falling back to the mountain ranges of the gulf States. Long ago, we heard that M’Clellan had de posited with a confidential friend in Washing ton his policy of the whole war, so that if he should fall in battle, or be deposed by the Cabal at Washington, the means of vindicating his reputation would Be still left. The cam paign of the Mississippi, the coast expedition, and the capture of the forts, as well aB the campaign of Yorktown, were all laid out in advance, much as they have since eventuated in fact. M’Clellan may be compelled to have recourse to this statement, in order to vindicate the character of his strategy in one of its most critical and hazardous points. As it is, he and his army came within-an ace of destruc tion on Sunday, the 4th of May. The chapter is a curious and a novel one in American history, as all will admit when it is fully made known. SHAH PHILANTHROPY. Senator Sheehan, of Ohio, in a late speeoh on the everlasting negro question, makes the following candid admission as to the prejudice against the negro that exists among the peo ple he represents: “In the State where I live, we do not like negroes. We do not disguise our dislike. As my friend from Indiana (Mr. Wright) said yesterday, the whole people of the north-western Stales are, for reasons, whether correot or not, opposed to having any negroes among them ; and that principle or prejudice has been en grafted in the legislation of nearly all the north western States.” Now, what a oonfession of groBS inconsis tency—what an exposure of the sham philan thropy of Black Republicanism, do these few words convey ! Here is a party whioh had its origin in sectional hatred; whioh carried that hatred to such an extreme that civil war was the bloody fruit.,; which would abolish the State Governments of the South, and reduce them to the dependent condition of Territories; which would discard the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, and make the mere will of an accidental Congressional majority the absolute power; all for the sake of giving freedom to-the slaves ; while, at the very same time, one of its prominent representatives, in his place in the Senate, publicly declares that they are unfit for freedom , and that the very people for whom he speaks, have practically so deoided, by passing laws to keep these slaves, when liberated, out of the’ free States that they inhabit! Were the arrant hypoc risy ond monstrous imposture of Abolition Republicanism ever more glaringly exposed ? LO] the: POOR NEGRO! The New York Atlas of Saturday has the following pointed remarks : - The partiality of tbe Republican politicians for the colored race is truly wonderful, and their benevolence towards old darkies and nigger babies iB extremely marvellous, when we consider how many poor white families are suffering from penury and neglect, while those upon whom they depend are fighting the bat tles of the Union. “ Contrabands”—runaway negroes—from all parts of Virginia and Mary land, continue to poor into Washington at the rate of 200 a day—most of them old and decrepit, sick, lame and blind, all of whom are welcomed, fed and clothed by the govern ment, drawing—without work—such rations as many a poor soldier’s family would be glad to receive. If negroes are thus fed from the publio orib, while leading a life of idleness, tbe people naturally inquire why poor white people cannot receive like favore. If govern ment rations are supplied to runaway negroes and vagabond negro women and children, why not in like manner feed the women and children of those white soldiers who are starving here in New York ? There are now upwards of 3,000 worthless negroes in Wash-, ington drawing rations whioh oost the govern ment 31 cents each per day, and it is calcula ted that the number will be swelled to 20,000 within three months. To feed this army of black vagrants at the rate of 31 cents a day will eoßt over two and a half millions of dollars a year, to say nothing of rent for lodgings, bedding, medicines, attendance, clothing, eto. For all this, the Northern laborers and me chanics are to be taxed, while the wives and children of New York soldiers are left to suffer and starve 1 A Washington correspondent suggests that tbe poor women who have been vainly clam oring around tbe City Hall for money to buy bread, should paint themselves and their babies black, and go to Washington, where, under the present arrangements of the government, they will be entitled to draw daily rations worth thirty-one cents. It will he of no use, however, for them to go, unless they present a black face to the dispensing commissary, who has no authority to feed white people, however mnch they may be suffering. Isn’t this a strange freak for a white man’s govern ment ? It is demonstrated that the cost of the rations dispensed to idle negroes at Fort Monroe, Port Royal and Washington city, would soon pay up the arrearages due to all our soldiers, and supply their families with bread for months. Why not stop this feeding of lazy negroes, and devote the money now expended npdn them to the feeling of poor Boldiers’ wives and ohildren ? Why is it that a lazy negro can be fed and clothed from the publio treasury, while while sufferers are left to starve ? DECLINE IN TRADE. A copy of the New Orleans Price Current, embracing a summary of tho year’s business ending March 1, 1862, has been sent to the Navy Department by one of the officers of the Gulf Squadron. It appears from this journal that tho exports of ootton from New Orleans for the past year have been eleven thousand bales, against one and a half million bales the previous' year. The exports from all the Southern ports have been only thirteen thou sand bales, against more than two millions the previous year. Exports of tobacco from New Orleans nothing, against seventeen thou sand hogshead last year. Imports—Specie, nothing, against twelve million dollars the previous year; coffee three hundred' bags, Againet two hundred andfifty thousand bags; salt, nothing, against five hundred thousand sacks. . --UUv . Mrimnms twf^wcira mmKftLIURT gIETIOI. . Sonke of Cabl Schurz’s countrymen have been epeafciog in no very complimentary terms of bis desertion of bis diplomatic post, and bis acceptance of a Brigadier General ship. This censure of hiB : r pondfect whose good opinion, be seems entitled to, has induced gihnmz letter in vindication of 'fosses that bis motives far enteripfftije oiray 'were purely partisan. He says: “ Yon will probably have read the attacks which different Republican journals have published against me on account of my prospective entrance into the army. Can .these people, then.-not see *bo tives upon which this step is based? It is an evil-threatening fact that ' the army is iti the hands of the pro slavery elements. It is also certain that the army will throw a heavy weight in the scaler by/'solving some, of the burning questions ot our time. Could our friends not comprehend that the anti slavery mixing in the ahny'(or the introduction of the Abolition element into the army) is the more necessary, the more the military problem approaches its solution ? Have none of the gentlemen thought of it, that I make, a great sacrifice in exchanging a more considerable civil position for an inconsiderable military one, in order to serve a cause which is com mon to us all ?' Why attack me for taking a step in which I should have been more sup ported by all who entertain political views identical with mine, than in any other ?” Schubz entertains the idea that the Gov ernment should be reconstructed on a new basis, with the military as the ruling potfer in it. Schitrz is an agitator and revolutionist* He was that at home; he is the same here.— A diplomatic position, he knows, may be speedily terminated, and is not one to allow its possessor to take advantage of circumstan ces at home which'may endanger the Govern ment. Position in the army is altogether different. It is, in a measure, permanent, of the highest respectability, and, in case of convulsions, opens the way to preferment an<J greater distinction. In his New York Cooper Institnte speech of March 6, 1862, he said: “The old Union, as we have known it, is already gone. If Jeff. Davis would come to morrow and give up his sword to President Lincoln, and all the rebel armies were captured in one day, and forced to do penance in sack cloth and ashes at the foot of Capitol Hill, the old Union would not be restored.” He, then, enters the army to take part—military part— in “ solving some of the burning questions of our time,” and in erecting a new government on the rains of the old Union. And he thinks his presence in the army “ is the more neces sary the mor6 the military problem approaches its solution.” BONAPARTE AND THR RAPIDITY OF HIS MOVE 818 NTS. In 1797 a part of Napoleon’s army left Verona, after the battle of St. Michael’s, on the 13th of January, marched all night rn Bisoli, fought in the mountains on the 14tb, returned to Mantua on the 15th, defeated the army of Bovera on tho morning of the 26th— having in less than four days marehed one hundred and fifty miles, fought three battles, and oaptured more than twenty thousand prisoners. In 1808, the advanced posts of Napoleon's army pursued Sir John Moore’s army at the rate of twenty-five miles a day, in the midst of winter. Napoleon transported an army of fifty thousand men from Madrid to Astorga with nearly the same rapidity, marching through deep snows, aoross high mountains and rivers swollen by the winter rains. In 1812, Clausel, after almost unheard of efforts at the battle of Salainance, retreated forty miles in a little more than twelve hours. In 1814, Napoleon marched at the rate of I thirty miles a day, besides fighting a battle every twenty-four hours. On his return from Elba, his guards marched fifty miles the first day after landing. They marched six hundred miles to Paris in less than twenty days. As regards supplies for an army, Napoleon says : “ Experience has proved that an army ought to carry with it a month’s provisions, ten days’ food being carried by the men and baggage horses, and a supply for twenty days by the train wagons, so that at least 480 1 wagons would be required for an army of 400 000 men.” He estimatod that an army ' of 100,000 men in position will require the 1 daily arrival of from four to five hundred wagon loads of provisions. A Neqro Rebellion Threatened.— ln a lecture delivered in Trenton, New Jersey i recently, by tho negro, John S. Reck—the speaker used the following language : “ Wo have a friend in President Lincoln ; he is striving to free our raoe ; and in Fremont, who will be his successor, We will find one who is firm to our cause. “ It is well for us that North and South are fighting with each other. After they have fought long and weakened their powers, we will riso up and say to Mr. white man giat we have power to defend ourselves. Cameron, because he sought to abolish slavery, had his head cut off. and that of a hanker placed in its stead. This country is trying to untie the knot that will soon be out (meaning slavery.) If this country should be entangled with a foreign power, we, my people, would be a suitable ally with a foreign power, as we know the geography of the country, and could lead the army to the most prominent positions, and thereby free ourselves and be elevated to an equality with other races.” . Tbe general tendenoy of tho lecture was to instil into the minds of his people rebellion, and have them prepared for risjog up atsome proper time and unite with another power and be elevated to an equality with the whites, and have tho rights of suffrage as they have. At tho close of the leoture three persons, citi zens of Trenton, made up a purse of money and gave it to the speaker. Destruction of Property. —The telegraph from Louisville reports the following : “ Two thoroughly reliable gentlemen, (Ken tuckians,) who have just arrived from New Orleans, represent that ail along the Missis sippi from Memphis to Now Orleans, there is one general bonfire of property, particularly cotton, of which 11,700 bales were burned at New Orleans. . At Memphis, sugar and molasses in large quantities are on tho bluffs ready to be rolled down into file river, and all the cotton is ready to bo fired on the approach of the federal fleet. The people of the river towns are retreating inward, and destroying property along all the tributaries of tho Mississippi, tho planters in many cases applying the torch to thoir own ootton. The rebel government also has boats run ning up the river destroying the cotton.— Among tbe great number of planters, only one was found who objeoted to the burning of his ootton." ' Another account states tbe amonDt of cotton burnt at New Orleans and -Baton Rouge and on ship board, at 32 000 bales. The “Nigger” in the West.— lt is'stated that eleven Illinois regiments have voted on the new Constitution of that State, and of the whole number of votes oast there were only 60 against it. This Constitution denies the negro the right of emigrating to, of citizenship in, tbe'State. The vote of these gallant soldiers is a significant indication of their views in regard to “ negro equality,” which seems to. be the ohief aim of the radical section of the Republican party. Caught. —When President Lincoln was in Congress he introduced a bill to abolish slave. ry in the District of Oolumbin, and Senator Wright of ladiana, keeping his own seoret, introduced the same bill into tbe Senate, as a substitute forthe one whioh has jnst passed that body. The Republican majority theta at oncaoondemned it as not orthodox—not ones mistrusting it waa tfca jrorfc of the'Rrasijlent’s own hands. . . LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Military Matters.—At the anneal eleo tSoa for cffloere of the Indepeodeut Grew, bald at their Argiory, on the evening of the 5Jh fauLj the following per sons were elected: Captain- George L.Boyle, c ‘--Jlitldeutenant—DrJohnt*« r Ati®e> J*-» \ y v\ "J Anthony Leebkr,< , ■2d 2d ..?'“•«* -VSeqj&miQ F.Baer*- ■-* ;,'sa v* “ > GsrMdns CUrkina, ~%lh \ “ A. ; v Geonp g. Brody- , - woyt • 2d “ Thomas Fairer, Sd “ James MaeGoolgle, 4th u Stephen A. MeOonomy. Secretary—J. B-Markley. Treasurer—H L Ztbn. , Captain MoGalla declined a re-election. He was an ef ficient and esteemed commander. At a subsequent meet ing of the. Greys, a series of camnUmeDtary resolutions 'were passed, returning thanks to CapL McO. for the seal and efficiency he displayed in the organisation a °d 00 ®* mud of the eompaby.'i .We congratulate onr most excel lent friend Botu on bis promotion. No man in the com pany la better fitted for the poet or more deserving of pro motion. Success attend him. ' The Feodblea are how officered as follows: Captain—Emten Franklin Ist Lieutenant—Jobp I. Hartman, ... 2d' a '' “ James P. Dyrert, 213 d “ JohnT.MaeGonigle. Orderly Sergeant—Henry B. {Haymaker, .2d u Samuel W. Rowe, 3d “ Henry 0 Biggs,. 4»h “ Daniel H. Heitshu; Quartermaster Sergeant—David Bair, Jr let Corporal—Andrew McGinnis, 2d' u Samuel 0. Steigcrwalt, Sd “ James Redreeker, 4th u Benjamin Conn. Secretary—Edwin E- Bnyder. Treasurer—Andrew HrQlonls, Surgeon—Dr. Henry Carpenter. The Fendblee have adopted anew and temporary uni form,consisting of dark bine blouse, dark pants and fatigue cap, which makes a very pretty appearance. They, have also organised a Drum .Corps, con slating of *lgbt drummer hoys. This splendid’body of ciMren soldiery Is now stronger than ever it was, numbering fully one hundred active members. The military spirit, although the war is still progressing, has not been suffered to die out In our midst. We have as fine a battalion of b''ldler* as are to be fonod anywhere In the Stats, viz: Fencibles, Oapt. Frank tnr: Jackson Rifles, Lieut John Bess; Independent Greys, Capt Botu; Ar tillery Cadets, Capt Yorao. Another Soldier Gone.—Mr. Williah L. Gunnion. a-member of the Jackson Rifles, and a volunteer ia the three months’ service, died, from slckne** contracted in the campaign, at his father's residence. in South Queen street, on y**terday week. He was burled with military honors, on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Woodward Hill, detachments of the Jackson Rlfl»s, Independent Greys and Artillery Cadets participating. He was also an active member of the American Fire Company. No. 5, who like wise attended the fonerai. He was a yonng man of quiet, unobtrusive disposition, and much esteemed by his com rades. “Peace to his ashes” Editorial Visitor.—Wa bad a visit on Saturday evening from our frieod Decker?. of the Ch&m berrburg Valley Spirit, one of the soundest, most whole some and orthodox Democratic journals in the State Dicker? is an abl<t and fesrleas writer, and is a sore thorn in the side of Black PembHrenisai in the Cnmbertand Talley. We are always (1 d to see our editorial brethren from other parts of the State. For The Intelligencer. THE ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO THE DEMOCRACY ..OF THE U* STATES* Messrs Editors: There bos no address, communication, or publication appeared since tho commencement of our National difficulties, the perusal of which has given more profound B*ti>»factlon to your correspondent than the one published in yonr last issue, bearing the title which beads this communication. It is a paper which should have long since been issued, and a position which our glorious old party should tong since have taken. It contains the old, standard doctrines , of our long-cherished faith. It reiterates the true political ; science of onr Republican institutions, and restores the landmarks of our old party organization which, to the in finite regret of the Democratic masses of the country. Were so much obscured as to be almost obliterated. Although 1 there is scarcely one point more decidedly preferable than K another in this admirable address, yet there is none an- | perlor in importance than the broad and decided position I in favor of maintaining our party organization. We have ! never as a party been guilty of a single act deserving more | direct censure than that of yielding our organization, even in the most unimportant political contests. It was yield ing principle for expediency, and was ever fraught wifh more iojary and danger to the party than any good that baa ever resulted from it. It has opened the door to those who were weak in the faith, and beou the means of the alienation of many etroDg men, whoso principles never would have weakened and broken had cot tho vascillaUng surges of the party snapped their tension and destroyed that adhesion which is ever necessary to control the m inertia In the higher and more important campaigns. Party spirit is ever present in the political affairs of every government, whether in a perfect Despotism or in a prrffrct Republic. In the former It la suppressed; In the latter It should be as free as the air we breathe. The feel ings, principles and prejudices of men will flow on, and whether obliged to sink to a deep andcr-current, or allowed a free, open expression, they will group together, ever af flllatiog with congenial elements, and adhering to the cul minating power of their unrerpective and peculiar growth. They adopt the principle of organization instinctively, aud thus are formed into parties, the province and prcoltar tendency of which must be to seek out and develop the true science of government. If the party is founded upon juKti e and the elements of inherent conservatism, such as i the Democratic party has been, it will retail the power of self-preservation. But, if it is founded upon principles of selfish sectionalism and a false, fanatical morality, such as ♦ho Republican partj for instance, it must soon die and become forever extinct—for it «rves no good nnrnosb. and its very triumphs are the vehlrl-s ofitsownspeady d-etruc tioo. If it ia a well conducted, vigorous and complete or- ganizvlm, it will subserve the parposee for which it was intended; bat if it yields lothoselfi h clamor of “no party” for the sake of a faleo patriotism, such ns we experienced last fall, a conglomeration of uncongenial spirits and prin ciples are thrown together, with some third-rate daily to lead, and tho campaign becomes more animated than a true partizan spit it conld make it, and is more meanly contested, bemuse it is not a contest of principle, bat must from the nature of things become personal and abusive. But why thould the Democratic party break down its organization, and surrender all its time honored and con serve tivo principles? We are answered, our country before party ; sink all party lines and feelings fpr the good of the Country snd the Union. This i* truly U noble object for every earthly sacrifice. There Is, I am very certain, no Democrat living who would not prefer hie country to the simple organization of his party, for this is all that is asked. But how is the surrendering of the Democratic party organization to save the country aud restore onr shattered Union ? I can very well imagine bow the break ing up of the Republican ptrty might h«lp to accomplish that ranch desired end, since Its existence caused the trouble. Bnt hew it Is possible forthls object to be effected by the breaking np of a party whose very lite has been the vital energy of tho Government ever since its foundation has not yet been demonstrated, even by those who are the loudest in their demands for the sacrifice. Who is io < ffer the alternative, or by what system of political leger demain can the tmf'vrtnnate condlloo of the country at the present time be improved, or changed, even were we to discard oar princliles and organization, and perform the odions and disgusting task of getting Into the «me bed with a Republican or an Abolitionist ? There was a time when such a sacrifice upon the part of the Republican members of Congress could have restored the original status of the Government, re-united the < la ments of discord, and smoothed tho asperities and malig nities of tho bitter fends engendered by the advent of a Sectional party to power; bnt the sentiment prevailed there, which was offered by the representative of our own district, viz: that he would ‘‘rather seo tho Union shat tered to a thousand pieces than to back down one inch from bis party platform!” In that fatal res-lve upon the part of men in whose hands the life of the ccnntry reposed, we have an Instance of party rancor so malignant as to disgust the better portion of their own supporters, and torn the tide of pnbllc sentiment against the men whose bands are red with the bloOd of a Nation whose equal ho world has never seen, and whose shattered fragments will at some future day visit them with a fearful destruction. The assiduity and labor of the Democracy for the adoption of the Crittenden Resolutions, in the last Congress, will fill the brightest page of our hittory, and give in the fu ture an immortality of glory to the party that was, at the proper time, willing to sacrifice its all fbr the common good, and the restoration of that fraternal harmony and fellow ship between the North and the South, which now, alas, oniy serves to widen the breach and render the restoration of the Union as it teas almost a hopeless Impossibility. If the party at that auspicious period would have been as earnest as it now appears to bo for the obliteration of all-patty lines and distinctions, this fatal war would not now be drenching our onco happy land in the blood of a fraternal carnage. The restoration of the Union must be effected by a fos tering influence upon the embers of the Union sentiment S mth, faint as they are, as well as by tho stern mandates of the laws, and the yet more terrlblo arbitrament of the sword. There mn6t be an earnest, spootaneonsoutflowing of a National conservatism, ever against a miserable, mor bid. sectional individualism. The offt-nslvo element must be obliterated in the North, before the conservative ele ment can predominate in the South. There moat be a breaking down of a factions sectionalism both North and Sooth, and the gradual but certain growth ot Nationalism, tf we would have the authority of the Government respect ed, ti e affections of the people onU-ited, tho consent ot tho gi-vorned given, and the fraternal bonds of the Union again restored Can this be effected by the disbanding of tho Democratic party, and surrendering all its conserva tism to the peculiar dogmas of tho domioant party ? Is it reasonable to suppose that tho body politic can live with a cankering nicer down deep in its very vitals? If, there fore, the conotry is to ba saved and the Union restored as it was, &Dd the yielding of any party organization is to help accomplish that much desired object, is it not patent th-t it must be the organization of the Republican party as tbe only offensive and destructive element? Push forward the Address, then, all ye leaders and editors. It strikes the key-note which will give the conotry step again to the music of the Union, the Constitution and tbe equality of tho Slates. Be equal at least with tbe senti ments of tho people, and use your well-favored powers in disseminating doctrines so well calculated to ralso to hope fulness the now desponding spirits of the masses. Victories cn tbe battle field are but triumphs after all of brute fotce, : and will serve bnt a temporary purpose. Bnt victories over tho stubborn prejudices of tho public mind are tri umphs of affection ever hatred, of troth and jnstiee over error and corraptlon, of the higher and nobler powers of tho heart over the lower and baser passions of men, and must through the inflnence of a Divine agency be abiding and eternal. Observer. THE EDITORS’ BOOK TABLE. PETERSON’S LADIES’ NATIONAL MAGAZINE.—Tbe June number is before us, as usual, rich in embellishment*, and in prose and poetry not to be excelled. “The Pinch of Snuff,” and “ Colored Plate of Fashions,” are faultless la every roapect. In addition, there are no less than 65 wood engravings, representing the latest styles of Ladies and Children’s Dresses, Needle Work, Ac., Ac. Terms of the Magazine, only $t a yeartn advance. GODEY'S LADY’S BOOK for Jane, is on onr table. The double extension Fashion Piste cannot be excelled, con taining five figures, also a plate representing children’s fashions. There are two beautiful pictures, “ Sitting for a Portrait,” and “ Catching Birds with Fresh Salt” The reading matter is very interesting. There are foar pages of redpes which are almost invaloable to the housekeeper. Bend for Godey at once. Terms, one copy $3.00. Address L. A Godey, Philadelphia. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW for April, (American Edition, by Leonard Beott A Co., New York,) has been re ceived. The following is tho, table of contents of the present number of this standard Quarterly: I—The My thology of Polynesia; 2—Endowed Schools; 3 German Life during the lost Two Centuries; 4—Mrs. Delany; 6 Cesar’s Campaigns in Gaol; 6—The Life cf J. M. Turner; 7— I The Fathers of Greek Philosophy; B—Portraits of my Acquaintance's; 9—France and Napoleon III; 10—Lord BUnley; 12—Contemporary Literature, under which head are embraced a number of criticisms and reviews on the writings of come of the ablest writer* in Europe. The “ LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.” (American re* print) for April has the following table of contents, vis: 1. Dorset; 2. Bymuology; 3. State and Prospects of Turkey; 4. Training of tho Clergy; 5. Life of Turner; 6. The Eastern Archipelago; 7. Bt&nhope’e Life of Pitt; 8. The Herrimac and the Monitor. . Pardoned.— Governor Curtin has pardoned Messrs. Oswald, Eberly and Kauffman, who were convicted at the iast Court of Cumber land county, for the false imprisonment of John. fender the’ pretence'that he had exswseed:»eoeaBionsympathieB.'BythiB pardon* the defendants arfrMUared of the $2O fine, bat not the oostt. •; . WAR NRW*. From A Bcpulae. v^ ( r - WASHCtotoN, May 17. The following despatching been received it the War Department:. • __ ' t^n-,Wnxiuiaaimo. May 17. <■: -i&iheMoiu Edwin.* Hfeafen, Secretary o/ TFar; The. jpmborts Galana, Mbu»oivAls«Pok- Naugatuck and Port Bbyalw** repuiaedthaaiFort Darling, seven milesbelow Richmond;yesterday. AYpfertion of them have returned to Jamestown IslanA iMwrthlß place, in the James river. Tjenj- Port Royal, sent overland 'low in boring the dead which he'bronght down with hluu Seventeen bodies have been interred on the banks of the river, and then are more wounded on board. iDchdlngJJwt Morris Mmselfi The 100-Donnd guu exploded at the first fire. (Sijrned) DAVID CAMPBELL, Colonel of the Fifth Cavalry. By authority of Gen. G. B. McClellan. Dispatoh from Gem McClellan* Washikqt jS, Hay 18. The following dispatch has been received at the War Department: _ . HiUMHJ&fcfttS Attr? ox thbPotomac, > Wans Housx. May 17 1862,10:30, p. m j 2b Hon. K M. Stanton, Secretary of War: A eomhloed naval and army expedition, under Captain Murray. U. 8 N., with troops and artillery under Major Willard and Avres. of the army, went some twenty five miles up the Pamnnky to-day, aid forced the rebels to destroy two steamers and some twenty schooners. The expedition was admirably managed and all concerned de serve great credit. We have advanced considerably to day. The roads are improving. (Signed.) Gsonas B HgClsuan. Major General Commanding. A Silly Abolition Order; The following silly and mischievous Abolition order by Gen. Hooter, of the Department of the Bontb, was Issued from his headquarters at Hilton Head, Sooth Carolina, on the 9th instant: „ . Hsadquartbrs, Dbp&xtmest op tbs Pouts, \ Huron Head; 8 O, May 9,186*2. / Gebxbal Orders, No. 11.—The thiee Btates of Georgia, Florida and Bonth Carolina, comprising tho Military De partment of the Sooth, having dellberately doelared them eelves no longer nnder the protection or the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the said United States, it became a military necessity to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25tb day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons In these three States, Georgia, Florida and Boutb Carolina, heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever free. [Official.] DAVID HUNTER, Major General Commanding. Ed. W. Smith. Acting Assistant Adjutant General. The Protest of the French Naval Com mandant at New Orleans* It will be recollected that the first confederate account 'of the capture of New Orleans stated that the commandant of a French man-of war protested against a shelling of the city within a specified time. The New Orleans Delta, of May Ist. contains the proclamation in full, as follows: Ommander of Die United States Squadron, now in the Port * of Pic to Orleans: Sir: gent by my Government to protect the persons and property of its citizens, who are here to the number of thirty thousand, I regret to learn at this moment that you have accorded a delay of 48 hours for tho evacuation of the eity by the women and children. I venture to observe to you that this short delay is ridiculous; and, in the name of my Government, I.oppose It. If it is your resolution to bombard the city, do it; but I wish tustate that yon will have to acconnt for this barbarous act to the Power which I represent. In any.event, I demand sixty days for the evacuation. Bt CLOUET, Commandant of the steamer Milan, opposite the City of New Orleans. Heintzelman at Williamsburg* A letter dated Barkhamsville, Va.. eighteen miles north of Williamsburg, Hiv 10th. to the N. V. Tribune* says: “ Here we got the first Northern newspaper which pro- | fosses to publish accounts from the ground of the recent ! battle near Williamsburg. It Is astonishing that even American history can bo written so falsely and so uojaßtly. The reader of the reports would certainly suppose that Gen Hancock's fight ou our right was the. principal battle. How easy It is to correct this error. Hancock had only between twenty and thirty killed and wonnded, and only four regiments engaged. His affdr was bats skirmish. On the left, Heintzelman was compelled to fight a great battle of vastly more consequence than Bull Run, and be won it, too. He had seventeen regiments in it from first to last—twelve of Broker’s and five of Kearney’s; and his 1083 in killed, wounded and missing was two thousand and forty six I I have told the story of this bloody battle that the con l age of our men enabled fight for six hours against tho oddß of three to one. and against other and greater odds than disciplined troops ever before encountered. And wider and wider spreads the opinion through the army every hour that it only needed that Snmcer should have spared Heintzelman a third or a half his force standirg Idle in the woods, only a mile off, to have enabled him to crush the enemy right at Williamsburg, and bave taken or dispersed the great force which we may sow have to fight again on Sunday in the Chickahomlny swamp.” New Orleans. Tbe Charleston Mercury is informed by a gentleman who remained in New Orleans nntM after its surrender, that in addition to the cotton, all the tobacco (not the property of foreigners) was destroyed. This informant says nothing about tbe specie in the banks. lie says that tbe sngar and molasses were not destroyed. General Butler’s proclamation, declaring martial law, prohibits the collection of ait taxes except for sanitary purposes, or to light the streets. He suspends the criminal jurisdiction of the civil courts, leaving to them the cogniz ance of minor criminal cases, and of all Baits between individuals. He permits, as a matter of present necessity, the circulation of Confederate notes, but advises people not to take them. SfeDowell’s Work. Jlnch surprise has been expressed that Gen. McDowell with his splendid armv of 50,000 men has not advanced to co-operate with Gen. McClellan in his plan of capturing the rebel army and occupying Richmond. The telegraph gives an explanation. It seems that he has been engaged in what the abolition leaders seem to regard as a more im portant work. Resting his great army on tbe north side of the Rappahanock, near Fredericksburg, the telegraph' says be la engaged in “ organizing the loyal blacks as fast as they arrive, into companies and squads, commanded by the most intelligent men of their own color, and establish ing a line of promotion by which they may. If industrious, attain to the same pny as an oTdin&rv field laborer. The pr<ce given them at first ranges from 25 to 40 cents per day, with one day’s rations and clothing.” The Nashville Again. Tt is not strange that the friends of ffee rebels in Rumps insist that our blockade is inefficient, when the steamer Nashville finds it so, easy to run in and out of blockaded ports. It w«s known that she was off the coast watching an opportunity to slip in. with a large cargo of arms and inanitions; yet no precaution seems to have been taken to prevent it, and accordingly we bear that she anived st Wilmington, April 2*\ with 18.000 stand of arms and 100 toDS of powder. It 1b stated that in runolog in she got aground on the bar and remained so two days, daring which time a portion of her cargo was taken oat by other boats. Where, dating all this time and while alt this was going on, were our vigilant and efficient blockaders ? Further from New Orleans* Additional details of the victory at New Orleans show that hundreds of rebels were killed or barned up in their; vessel a; two batteries near the city silenced; two heavy field works, nine miles above the city, cap+ttred; a new rim, called the Mississippi, mounting twenty suns, burned by the enemy; another ram, called the Anglo-Norman, also horned: the floating battery sunk at Algiers; Forts Jackson and St Philip captured by General Butler and bis troops; the floating battery Louisiana blown up, and forts Livingston and Pike abandoned by the enemy. The Battle at West Point* Va. Fortress Monroe, May 8. By the steamer from Yorktown I learn that Gen. Mc- Clellan bad advanced twelve miles beyond Williamsburg, and has had several Bkirmishes with the enemy renting them with heavy loss. The embarkation of troops for West Point is progresing with great rapidity. A heavy battle took place on Wednesday afternoon, be tween the troops of General Franklin and General Sedg wick and tbe rebels under General Lee, who were endeavor ing to make their way to Richmond. It is said to have been tbe severest battle on the Peninsula. Tho rebels were driven back towards the forces under Gen. Johnston.on the Chickabominy. The whole number cf Federals killed and wounded was 860. The enemy was driven back by onr gun-boats, with great slaughter. They bad not less than 30,000 men, while our whole force at the time was not over 20,000, only that number having landed. Had it not been for the gun-boats, onr troops would have been defeated. AS INFAMOUS AVOWAL. The Toledo Blade admits that tho passage of tho Crittenden Compromise by the last Congress would have preserved the peace of the country and maintained the Union intact, bat avows that the Republicans' could not support that Compromise because it would have been “ buying off tho Sonth with new concessions,” to have done which, says the Blade, would have been degrading to Repub licans, &c. This is a precious confession, truly! The Republican leaders refused to pass the Crittenden Compromise, hot beoause its terms were unfair or unjust to either section of the Union ; not because it conceded to the South more than she was entitled to nnder the Constitution—but simply beoause it con flicted with the dootrines of the Chicago Platform, and to yield one jot or tittle of that platform would have “ degraded tbe Republican party.” Had the Crittenden Compromise been adopted, we would not to day have a dissevered Union and a oivil war. But tbe Republican leaders could not afford the sacrifice. They said, let dissolution come; —the country may go to the devil—but the Chicago platform, that “ holy of holies,” must be preserved. —North West. U nconstit utional Legislahon. —Prof. Par ker, Republican, of Massachusetts, has a dear vision and sees the difficulty in which his party is entangling itselE He writes to the Boston Journal os follows : To the Editor of the Boston Journal: Dear Sir : Will you permit me to say that the sooner the Republican party cuts itself loose from all unconstitutional projects (wheth er they relate to emancipation by proclama tion, oonqueriug States and holding them as territories, confiscation without trial, or any other measure not warranted by tbe Constitu tion,)'the sooner it will begin to provide for its own salvation.' Very trulv yonrs, JOEL PARKER. Cambridge, May 5,1862. THE ARMY APPROPRIATION. The army bili which passed the House to day, appropriates $421,000,000 for the year ending with June, 1863. Besides this $208,- 000,000 have been voted during the present sessioh for current Army expenses and de ficiencies for the present fiscal year. Mr. Calvert offered the following: Provided, That no portion of the appropria tion in this bill shall- be applied to keeping, supporting, or equipping negroes or fugitive slaves for service in the army of the United States. ... Mr. Calvert’s proposition was rejected. Terrible Fire ok Lobs Island.— On Friday week a fire broke out near Stony Brook, li.X, wMca spread over an area of at least •j. x l7's? n S l nd antes, principally in the town of Brook Havwi, awl destroyed pibperty estimated,;* aboot »»»“««»" or dollars, ft was eansed by the borolng off of a lot on tho farm of Mr. Joel I*. &■ Bmhb; »J*» winds blow some «p*ikalnto thi wood>>- wWi yk* Jedlatelytook fl^Thetraokot'h*” p^*« r **}P° lasalfi to St mUe* to fafo!* Wide/: FHOWCWBU COBBEim^Uai. "■■■-" ~ Praaronm. M., 14th, tm. Mans Bpctois: Was they erst each an avalanche of good news as has been poured upon us from all parts ot the field of battle daring the pest ,we*b'or.two? Everything certainly goes protOßTO^ilxtnajftl'iKveh L the cavils of (ha u on to Rlchmonff” ianidtoß;'tkw2>nBhed aa the glorious Mo- Glell&n goes thundering alobgim bis triumphant Way. By the way, did yon see Greeley’s white'feather on Monday? McClellan lus conquered rveuhim? He says that tbe move ments on the peninsula have been characterized by. pm* denoflj, fortboughtand true military ngagty, and that hie pursuit cif.(he rebel*-that is rto say the manner of hie pursuit (wwquote only from memory) Is worthy of loudest praise. SAnd this ftp nr the McClellanhating Greeley. And then. th*vote of.fheipks called fbc by tbat other fimatto, Xevpjoy, in the 'Mouse 1 Truly'thowprld does move. We, individually, shall have to look out for some fault in Me* Qellan. IVwill never do. We can’t he on the same tide with OreeT*?».no how. Can’t think of such a thing. We wish that Horace had been blown up in the Merrlmao; U would have saved us a world of uneasiness. The arrivals of prize vessels at oar wharves are very nup erons now, amounting to tome twenty or thirty per week, including eteamets, ships, schooners, etc. Tbs capture of so many ports and forts along the ooast Is haring the effect to make the blockade at the remaining opening! more effective than heretofore, and it will soon be impossi ble to get a rebel vessel in cr oat anywhere Booth rf J* ney. Charleston and Wilmington are the two worst points left, bat their days are numbered. Even Fort Sumter cannot resist the Monitor, Galena and the grand New Ironsides launched hereon Saturday, when they are ready to co operate in the attack. In fact running the blockade ”la nearly placed oat Apropos of tbe New Ironsides, Saturday here was a gala day when the splendid monster was let down into her ap propriate element. The eight was one worth seeing, with the thnn«ands upon thousands of human beings who thronged every spot In the vicinity and crowded every deck, vessel, soil boat, and piece of rigging out in tbe river. But you will have read tbe parti u'ars “Old ” Ironsides Stewart did the christening beautifully, tbe old hero re calling the days when he did battle against the wooden walla of England. The New Ironsides la a 860 J tons steamer, and will be ready for sea by .the fourth of Jnly. She Is the that lion vessel of onr navy built to compete with the famous Warrior of Knglaud and La Glrire of France. May she live to sink them both, especially the former.- Under the influence of so much good uewa the stork market is tremendously inflated. U S. 6*a are up to 106% and Treasury Seven thirties which one month ago were down to ninety five to-day sold at 107 All others are in proportion, and the investments are larger than ever before known in the history of the city. Literary matters are at a low ebb. moat of the new books bring confined to the always active firm of Tleknor A Fields, with a few from Harpers, and PQtnam, and two from onr friend and fa low citizen. Geo. W. Childs. Llttell gives a very good number of the Living Age for next week, May l?th, containing a continuation of the new story by the author of Adam Bede, a fine review of Praed', from Temple Bar,an Interesting paper by Sir George Lewis, from Fraser, etc. The Age grows riper every week of Its life. A now novel by the author of East Lynne will be a wel come annruncement to thousands who have read that charging story. Messrs. T B Peteraon A Brothers publish tho new.story, which Is ealled “ The Tslo of Domestic Life?’ and aireadv, in a few days from the day of publication, it has gone into a fourth edition. Although a Rometimo writer for tbe Engllah periodicals It was not un til she wrote East Lynne that Mrs. Wood,like Lord Byron, found herself suddenly famous of a fine morning, but now she may write as many novels as she pleases and she will find a delighted public for them all. The Chaunings is an oxcellent story. A beautiful volume is jost Issued from tbe press of Tick nor A Fields, containing a fair sample of the genius and eloquence Of the famed English Opium Eater. Under the title, “Beauties. Selected From the Writings of Thomas Da Qaiocey,” th§ American ed tor of bis works, Jas T. Fields, Esq, here presents us with a brilliant succession of those flashes of wit, learning and eloquence which scintillate so prominently in the writings of the great dreamer. The volume Is not a mere collection of excerpts or short paragraphs, but whole aketches and essays are extracted from De Qutncey’s writings, and as they are ar ranged in consecutive order they furnish a connected view of the author’s mind. la the part devoted to his early ll r e are given the beautiful essays on Childhood, tho Run away, the Priory, Home. etc. His celebrated Virion of Sadden Death is "included among the Dreams. The Spanish Nun, and the Easedale Romance, are among tho Narratives and Essays; and there are ten of his splendid critiques on distinguished men. The vclume is one of the most satisfac tory we have ever read. Messrs. Tlcknor A Fields could not have made a more welcome announcement than when they gave notice of tbfir intention-to continue the publlcaii nof Lockhart’s Life of Scott— suspended by the war. Accordingly we now have volumes 3 and 4, opening with Sir Walter’s memora ble quarrel with bis publishers. and. continuing down to the building of Abbotsford. This noble biography Is the finest in the language, and (ho Household edition, now to be continued without Interruption, will be the most desir able of the many editions published. We snail have more to say c ncerniflg’it in our next. In’these volumes are a fine steel copy of Chantry’s bust of Sir Walter, and a splendid portrait of Scott’s mother.' We are glad to say that tbe difficulty at the New York Custom House, whlih d nrg d the serving of the Engli-h Ecrlodicals for a w*ek or two. is now settl'd, and that eaotifhl publication, Once a-Week, comes along more smiling than over. A new story by Datton i- jast began, and we see that the aathcr of East Lyure is under lined. Messrs. Wlllmei A Rogers are the agents. Commodore Gleason's lloc-of battle ship, yclept tbe Liter ary Companion, still sails woekly out of Boston harbor, welt freighted with tho beautiful and good. It continues to be one of the most popular of the Boston weeklies, and all wo have lo say is long live the Commodore; long may he wave. U. DEPLORiBLF. AOCIDRNT-.FIVE SIS TERS DROWNED. About one o’clock, yesterday, William Ward, son of Mr. D. Ward, fisherman, em barked in a sail boat for a cruise on the bay, accompanied by bis five sisters. The eldest girl was about thirteen years of age, and the youngest only four. After sailing up and down the bay for an hour or so, William, who was steering the boat with an oar, to put it on another tack. He sat upon the gnnwale in order that he might have a greater purchase over-the oar, when the sail suddenly flapped against the mast, and the.boat capsized. All who were on board instantly fell into the water. Toe boy made every effort to save his Bisters, and to right the boat? After consid erable effort he succeeded in getting the boat on her keel again, and when the two eldest of his Bisters came to the surface he managed to get them into the boat, which was half filled with water. When about to get on board himself, the wind again caught the sail of the boat, and, in an instant, Bhe was capsized a seoond time, and the poor girls, along with the lad who bad acted so manfully, were again battling for their lives in the water. He made another attempt to save them, but they sunk before his eyes to rise no more in life. The boy, although much exhausted, succeeded in getting hold of the'boat which was being driven hither and thither by the wind and waves, and shouted lustily for assistance. His father’s house is. situated about a thousand yards from where the accident occurred. His painful cries for assistance were not heard by the inmates in the father's hot, but a young man named Earnest had observed the accident from the Esplanade and put off in a : boat to render assistance. He fortunately succeeded in rescuing the lad in a very ex : hausted state, and conveyed him to his father's . dwelling. “The grief of the parents mav be imagined when they learned the melaqcholy { intelligence that their five daughters, who had left them in health a short time before, had ’ all met a watery grave. —Toronto (Canada) i Globe, 12 th inst. Washington, May 15. Extravagance. —The following appropria tions have been made by the present Congress, for convenience and luxuries at the President’s mansion To furnish the house, last session, $20,000 Additional. Jthis session, 11,00Q._ To introduce Potomac water, 4000 For Painting, 5 000 For Plate and Gas Fitting, 2 913 To furnish the house, thirty-one thousand dollars have been appropriated in less than nine months. For plate— including “ gold spoons,” doubtless—at least two thousand dol lars. At a time like tbe present, when the country is groaning under a load of debt and embarrassment, and when enormous taxes are coming upon the people to makegood not only "the just contracts of the Government, but the millions of dollars that have been stolen by contractors or lobby agents, suoh extravagance as that pointed out above is not only simply reckless, it is criminal. THE LEVELING PROCESS. The Washington correspondent of the Bos-, ton Journal asserts that 50,000. muskets and gay Zouave uniforms are being prepared for as many negroes, whot are to be drilled, equip ped, and mustered into the service of the United States. Secretary Welles has issued an order requiring flag officers to enlist those “ persons known as ‘ contrabands ’ * * * * freely in the Navy,” and recommends their employment “ in every department of a Bhip.” So it appears the leveling process has commenced in earnest,—and first . with the soldiers. But the distinction, and tbe most favorable one is, that these negroes are not to be placed in any dangerous place where they may be shot; they are to man the forts evac uated by tbe enemy; to have all the comforts of a well ordered garrison, while their less valued white “ brothers in arms,” are to brave the dangers and suffer the privations of tbe field. Abolitionism in Congress.— Mr. Vdorhees, on the floor of the House in Congress a few dayß since, said, in regard to Abolitionism: “Why comes it here now ? It never was a friend to the Union, and it is not so to day.— It never wanted a Union with Slave States, or a fellowship with slaveowners, and aoea_not now. It is at war with the Constitution; it is au enemy to the Government; it is the .twin monster to the doctrine of secession, and like the withered and hateful hags oh the blasted heath of Sootland. the two together concocted the holl broth of the present oivil War. 'Let the spi' it of tbe Union, born of the'Constitu tion, rise up between them libe a brightangel and banish them forever. Then will the na tion renew its mighty youth, and go on. again in its swift flight of prosperity find renown. Then will' -*• kindred and qduhfryinen ” dnee more assemble; under the same flag, and obey ing the command of the Prince of' Peace, “ love one another.” • ; itinTiijj;ijiii|"iliinWnt ijirffal law in New Orlpena.; C limr il .'SStbaiJiKs $42,913
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