> 4 THE WAB FOB x THE OMIOH FROM THE LOWER. MISSISSIPPI Cairo. March 18.—The steamer Continental has arrived with New Orleans advices to the 10th inst. She brings the 12'h Wisconsin and and 16th lowa regiments of veteran volunteers. The 12th Wisconsin has disembarked here. The other regiments go to St-. Louis without debarkation. An expedition, composed o three brigades, started from Vicksburg jus before the Continental left. The loth At ? Corps has also left for the South, bu r 4estination is unknown. Ge “ e ™ ~ . n ‘ Qtv, which followed Sherman’si expedition oq ) its return had returned to the interior; ,New its return, had rerm Memphis of tne Orleans papers of the iotu Th „ 16th inst., contain no news of interest. The Memphis Bullet™ says the .increased revenue tax of 2 cents per pound, wrth the amount of stock on hand and reported weakness in the northern market, has depressed cotton, the market closing last evening with a decline of "3c. on previous rates. ‘ No sales are reported, hut prices may be stated at 61c. for middling to strictly do. 62 a 63c for good middling. Large quantities of forage are doming into Cairo, beiDg inspected by government inspectors on account of adulteration and inferiority of quality. “ . The military authorities used every exertion to protect the voters. The hospital kteamer C. C. W ood, from Vicksburg and Memphis,arrived to-day with 349 sick and wounded troops. She left this morning for St. Louis. Eight men died on the way up—among them Julius Rea mer. of the 35th New Jersey volunteers, who was buried at Helena. The estimated forces of the enemy at the re cent fight at Yazoo City was 5,000, and 5 guns. Two stern-wheel boats were there, hut could render no service without endangering our forces. . ■ The Eighth Louisiana colored regiment lost 80 in killed, wounded and missing. The Ist Mississippi cavalry lost fifty in wounded. In all 9 out of 18 officers of the Bth Louisiana were found dead. , THE ARKANSAS ELECTION. Little Rock, March 18.—Partial election returns from eleven counties give more votes than the whole number required by the Presi dent’s proclamation to replace Arkansas in the Unioil. ' There are 43 counties to he heard from, which will give fully 5,000 more votes. The new state constitution framed by the late Con vention, was almost unanimously ratified, there being so far only 137 votes against it. Arkansas is thus declared a free State by the voluntary action of he own citizens. Governor Isaac Murphy and the whole State ticket is elected. Guerilla bands made violent threats, notwithstanding which the citizens were en thusiastic in their determination to vote the State hack into the Union, many going to the polls at the risk of their lives. ARREST OE REBEL RECRUITS AND RE CRUITING AGENTS. Cairo, March 18.—Several men were arrest ed' a few days since below Hickman, Ken tucky, for having, with others, organized them selves into companies for the avowed pur pose of entering the rebel service. A num ber of rebel sympathisers have recently been actively recruiting for the rebel army. Gue rilla hands have been formed by the citizens of several towns in Kentucky for the purpose of interrupting the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. REFUTATION OF A LIBELOUS REPORT' St. Louis, March 18.—A Washington spe cialty the New York Commercial, stating that the Military Committee of the Senate refused to recommend for promotion' Col. Sanderson, of the I3th Regulars, because of proof of his cowardice at' Chickamagua, was telegraphed West last night. Col. Sanderson is Provost Marshal of this Department, and as an act of justice to a deserving officer; Gen. Rosecrans authorizes the statement that he has no know ledge that such a charge was ever made, and if made, he believes it unfounded in truth, and that so far as his personal observation went, Sanderson conducted himself in such a maimer as to entitle him to special mention in his (Ro secrans’s) official report of the-battle of Chicka mauga. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, MarCh 18th, 1864.—Judge Kelley left for Philadelphia to-night, accom panied by Messrs. Garfield, Schenck and Spalding (Ohio), Kasson and Allison (Iowa), Kollins (llo.), Pike (Me.), Strouse (Pa.), Ambrose W. Clark (N. Y.), Norton (111.), Beaman (Mich), Brown (Wis.),Teaman (Ky.), Brandagee (Conn.), and Webster (Md.). Their intention is to -visit League Island to-morrow, and consider its position &s a site for the new. ironeclad navy yard. A special despatch from Culpeper Court House, says that the signal officers on Cedar Mountain report that yesterday the rebels, who have been in camp across the Rapidan all win ter, broke up their camp and set fire to their huts, marching off in the direction of the She nandoah Valley. It was not known whether this was merely a change of camp or the com mencement of an active campaign. The House Committee of Foreign Affairs have under consideration'Mesican affairs, and will.- introduces resolutions in which they will reaffirm the Monroe doctrine. The Committee look upon the attempted occupation of Mexico as fraught with evil, and say that it should not be countenanced by the United States. The House Military Committee have adopted the Senate bill making a Board of Officers to examine paymasters, quartermasters and com missaries, with an amendment providing that the majority of the said Board shall be volun teer officers. The Senate in executive session went through - the entire calendar, confirming Gen, Birney as Major General. The President has ordered Generals Milroy and Stahl to Teport to General Sigel. General- Stahl will be Chief of Staff to General Sigel, and General Milroy will command a division. Averill will be Chief of Cavalry. A General Order issued to-day, by the War Department, changes the name of the Invalid Corps to the "V eteran Reserve Corps. Generals Wool, Humphreys, and Neal Dow were on the floor of the House to-day, and re ceived much attention from members. The House Committee on Commerce havu agreed upon, and authorized to be reported, when that shall be again called up, a joint reso lution authorizing and requiring the President to give notice to the Government of Great Britain that it is the wish and intention of the i Government of the United States to terminate the reciprocity treaty, made with Great Britain for the British provinces, at the expiration of' : ten years from the time the treaty went into operation, viz., September, 1854, to the end that_ the treaty may be abrogated as soon as it can be done under the provi thereof, unless a new convention” snail- before that time be concluded between the two Governments, by which the E r °h« 81 m,\ St n U be abro S ated or so modified as to be fatally satisfactory to both Govern ments,. and Jhp President is also authorized to appoint (pree Commissioners, by and with the advice andconsent of the-Senate, for the revt - sion of the treaty and to confer with other Com missioners duly authorized therefor,whenever it shallappear'to he the wish of the Governmen of Great Britain to negotiate a new treaty be tween the two Governments and the people of both countries, based upon the true principles of reciprocity, and for the removal of existing difficulties. ' , 6 Ajeport from Solicitor Whiting embodies the opinions of Caleb Cushing, Judge McLean. Crittenden, and Attorney-General Bates, to the effect that the title to Rock Island. Illinois, emains vested in the United States, excepting Ttni DAILY BVENINH BULLETIN i PHILADELPHIA. SATF? PAY. MARCH 19. TBTPT.E SHEET. 193 acres deeded by special act of Congress to Davenport & Soars, and 13 acres claimed- by the Rock island Railroad : Company, leaving 6CO acres still in the control of the War De- suggests the entire island may be taken by right of eminent domain, or by act of Congress, with 'suitable, appropriation for satisfaction of private rights invaded, if deemed necessary, for tli'e "location of an arsenal, and that civil and criminal jurisdiction may doubt less he obtained by an act of the Illinois Legis lature, in compensation for-the location of the woks: . The great ease of the brig Nardella et al., vs. Gray et al., will come np for argument be fore the Supreme Court on Monday, uponWoss writs of error, from the California Circuit Court. The action is ejectment, the heirs of Gray claiming ah immense amountof valuable land in the business part of San Francisco. Ten years ago the estate was appraised in the Probate Court there at $250,000, The litiga tion in regard to it has continued ten years. P. G- Galpin, of New York, will argue ,the case for the heirs, and James M. Carlisle, of Washington, for the present owners. The Senate, in Executive Session, to-day confirmed si veral hfindred promotions of offi cers of the regular army and navy. Among them were the following : In the Marine Corps—Captain Shuttleworth to be Major; Lieutenant Houston to be Captiin; Second Lieutenant Robert N. Ford to he First Lieutenant; Edward C. GabaDdeau, Israal H. Washhurne, Me.; Albert B. Young; Mass.; Frank D. Webster, N. H. and John AY. Haver stick, Pa., to he Second Lieutenants. Captain Winfield S. Hancock was confirmed as Quartermaster, with the rank of Major, vice Belger, removed. The following were confirmed as additional Paymasters: Benj. L. Hewitt, N. L. Yarnell, Robert J.Stevens, Pa.; W. D. Weller, Mass., Walter Evans, N. Y.; Robert H. Howell, N. J., and as Assistant Quartermasters, with the rank of Captain, A, J. McGinniglane, ’ John Power, Pa.; Joshua L. C. Ames, Mass.; C. M. Levi, N. Y.; Wm. Stanton, Ohio, (the last two in the regular army); Charles Green to be Cap tain in the Navy, and Asaph Hall, Mass., and Wm. Barkness; to be Professors of- Mathema tics in the Navy. John C. Gregg and Paul Wald, Hospital Chaplains; Maunsell B. Field, N. Y., confirmed as additional Secretaries of the Treasury'; ex-Congressman John F. Potter, Wis., Direct Tax Commissioner for Florida; L. V. Provost, Md., Consul at Guayaquil; Wm.B. Byers, Deputy Postmaster at Denver City, Colorado. Colonel Taylor, Chief of Staff, at the head quarters of the Department of Washington, to-day addressed a letter to Corporal Trayner, of the Ist Michigan Cavalry, saying the Major- General commanding desires me to thank you for the gallant and soldierly conduct by which you liberated yonrself and comrades while disarmed and in the hands of armed guerillas. The same manly spirit and action shown by you, if manifested by your comrades, would rid the department of the predatory hands calling themselves Confederate soldiers. This refers to an occurrence of Wednesday. Traynors and a companion were cftptured near Munson’s Hill by four guerillas, and were taken to the woods. Watching their opportunity, they seized the guns of the two guards, shot both of them and escaped. One of the slain was a Rebel Lieutenant. A letter from the army of the Potomac says a very large number of persons attended the celebration of St. Patrick’s day, yesterday, among whom were many women from AYash ington. This will he the last festival the latter will have the privilege of attending, as they were to-day ordered to leave the army-. During the horse-racing, owing to a collision, Captain Holart was thrown irorn his horse and slightly injured. His horse was killed. There have been rumors of a rebel raid by Stuart from the direction of Fredericksburg, but nothing of a reliable character is known concerning it. XXXVIIITH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION Washington, March 1-, 1861. Senate.—Mr. Collamer called up the House bill to provide for carrying the mails to foreign ports, and tor other purposes, as reported from Senate committee, with amendments, which was passed. The Senate amendments repeal the act of August, 1802, authorizing the conveyance of letters otherwise than in the mails, except mo ney letters and accompanying packages. And also refuse to extend the pre-paid letter postage rates over the overland route to California, to bona-fide subscribers of.newspapers. Mr. Morgan presented a petition of citizens of Brooklyn, New York, asking that the lands of rebels may be confiscated, and divided into parcels of one hundred and sixty acres, for dis tribution among soldiers and other men. Re ferred. llr. Grimes’s resolution to amend the rules of the Senate, so as to require that all action upon nominations shall be made in open Senate was referred to the Judiciary Committee, Mr.’Wilson called up the Senate bill to pro mote enlistments, hi 3 amendment as a "substi tute for the bill Being in order. This amendment provides for the freedom of the wile and children of the slave recruit, in the first section. The second section authorizes the Commissioners in Slave States, appointed under the act of Congress of 1863, to award to loyal owners of said wives and children a just compensation. Mr. W ilson said it was becoming evident that negroes would not enlist unless they knew that protection would be afforded their families. He read letters to show that in Missouri the secession masters of slaves mustered into our service, as a measure of retaliation, were com mitting the most unheard of cruelties towards their families, selling them in most eases into slavery. Mr. Wilkinson moved to strike out the se cond section. Mr. Pomeroy thought it was a late day to say that there was nothing due to the slave. The Chairman of Indian Affairs brings in bills' to set up the Indians in their new condition. Here is a class who have rendered the whites service all their life long. Why should they not he set up m their new line ? He proposed to amend the second section of Mr. Wilson’s amendment, by providing that the commission ers shall be authorized to settle the account be tween .every such person made free, and his or her loyal owners, and award to each party such just compensation as may be found duo. Mr. Sumner said the main proposition was to strike down slavery whereverNvp found it. It would take a long to carry the constitu tional proposition before Congress and the Leg islatures of the country. Let us not postpone this matter under the delusion that it can only be done by a constitutional amendment. ■ Mr; Wilson also hoped the bill would not be postponed a day. We wanted soldiers at this time, and to_get them is .costing the country about nine hundred dollars each. Here was a way to promote enlistments, by saying to every' loyal slave that his wife and child shonid ba free from the moment of his enlistment. With what grace could we ask men to enlist in our army when the moment theTr backs are turned from their homes their wives and children-may be sold into the most abject slavery by their exasperated masters 1 This should be corrected by the passage of the bill at once. As to the matter of dollars' and cents, which had been urged as an objection, he had no idea that the aveiage value of these. slaves-, would be two hundred dollars. Mr. Conness asked if they would hot be worth less after a. while ? He did not approve of the idea of the government rushing into tie market to buy shares when they were high. It was bad economy. ■ ; - Mr., Wilson replied, that while the Senator was waiting lor the price to fall, the mania waiting to have his wife and children protected, that he may enter the service of the country, and the country is going to ruin for the want of soldiers. The enlistment of colored men were decreasing on this very account. Mr. Wilkinson did not want this Government to become the purchaser of slaves. We had already gone too far in the way of acknowledg ing property in slaves. AYe already pay three hundred dollars lor the slave recruit, and now we propose to .pay; for his wife and children. Allowing these to be four, with the money we pay to the recruit himself, they would cost the ■ Government about nineteen hundred dollars. These persons owed service to the Govern ment, and we had no more obligation to protect their families than -jwe had the families of loyal white men who have entered the service, fie was in favor of freeing the wives and children without-compensation to masters. Ho believed the bill should be postponed, as it involved millions of dollars outlay to no practical purpose. Mr. Lane (Kansas) thought the bill should pass immediately, or we would stop enlisting colored men. altogether. The proposition that we should take these men into the service, without securing freedom to their wives and children, was absurd and inhuman. He would vote against giving their masters one cent of compensation. Mr. Brown did not think we should hesitate in this matter while the wives and children of the brave men who are sacrificing their lives for the country are being sold into bondage. This was a scene too disgraceful to be tolerated foramouient. AYe can’t accomplish what we want by the proposed constitutional amend ments; why then raise technical objections when these gross outrages are being perpe trated every day before our eyes? Mr. Sherman said there was no guarantee that this bill would effect the object desired. The system iu this bill is detective and imprac ticable, as he iiad heretofore shown, because of the peculiar domestic relations of these people, and especially the relation of marriage. There were insuperable obstacles to carrying out the provision to free the wives and children of these slaves, as they were bound to each other by ties not recoguiztd by us. Let ns destroy the institution by such constitutional amend ments as those proposed by Mr. Henderson, so that Courts nor lawyers can find fault with our action. He wanted to do this work in an effec tive way, under a general system based upon constitutional amendments. Mr. Grimes thought the marriage relation did legally- exist among the colored slaves of the South. He confirmed the statements of Mr. AYilson as to the wives and children of Gave recruits being sold in Missouri and elsewhere, and could pro duce a hundred letters to prove it. He hoped that it would pass, and that we would not wait for the tardy passage of a constitutional enact ment. There was nor would be no more im portant measure than this, and it was our impe rative duty to pass it at once. Mr. AVilson did not believe the value of these slaves would average one hundred dollars. If we passed the amendments to the Constitution, we will have to get three-fourths of the S tates in favor of it, if, indeed, it would pass the other House, and tor thirty years he had not seen more devotion to the idol of slavery than in this session of the House. The only security we had for the accomplishment of the end was to take the occasion by the hand. He would be willing to free the wives and children of slave recruits, and leave the question ol com pensation to the future. A message was received announcing the non concurrence of the House in the Senate’s amendments to the bill to provide ior the car rying of the mails, and asking a committee of conference, and the Chair was authorized to appoint such a committee. Mr. Conness moved to recommit the enlist ment hill. Mr. Doolittle said there were one thousand of these colored soldiers in Delaware, six thou sand in Indiana, ten thousand in Kentucky, and ten thousand in Missouri, ox twenty-seven thousand in these loyy Stated. The passage of this bill would afltwTBT,UOO persons. These, at the lowest figure, would cost $8,000,000. He believed that the proposed amendments to the Constitution would prevail, and that it would settle this whole question beyond change —beyond the legislative, executive find judi cial departments of the the supreme verdict of the people. The amend ment offered by Mr. Henderson, a Senator from a slave State, embodying the regeneration which all these States are to undergo, sup ported in the committee and in the Senate by the bold speeches of the Senator froth Mary land, and by the judgment of the country, will not be, in the language of Mr. Sumner, an at tempt, but a reality, and that reality shall re store the hope of the country. The bill att'ects loyal States at the very time they are perfecting measures of emancipation, and the very fact of holding out this promised compensation wilj cause these people to op pose the action of their conventions. In the language of Mr. Conness, “Why purchase them now, when their price'is decreasing ?” Mr. Carlilo would wish to have the bill re ferred to the Judiciary Committee. He would call the attention of its friends to the extent of power involved in it. Granting the power to conscript colored men who were slaves, he asked, where do yon get the power to take his wile and child from their master without tho consent of the master? In reference to the question of ntairiage among Southern slaves, though there was not what might be called a proper marriage under the law, there would be no difficulty in the‘Southern States in ascer taining those who bore the relation of wives and children to slave recruits. Mr. Clark said that wo might just as well discuss the question here, as he knew of no more important business before tho Senate for action,and whatever might be that Committee’s action, it would he criticized on this floor. He certainly thought it more important than the fugitive slave bill, which the Senator from Massachusetts was so anxious to have passed, since no one wanted to render up a fugitive Mr Howard hoped the bill would not go to the Judiciary Committee. There could be no doubt ol the power of the Government to en list persons known as slaves. This had been proven by our former acts. They are persons owing allegiance in the same sense as whites. If they had a. right to employ them they had the right to make tbe act effective, and, if so, to remove any obstacles, even to the extent of freeing their wives and children. Mr. Fessenden was in doubt,at first, whether it was right to take persons of this description, but he had become convinced that the Govern ment had the. right to use all reasonable powers to secure its salvation. We decide not only upon the law but upon the necessity which causes the law. He should vote for the amendment. As for the question of compensation, the Government could take property for public uses. The moral and constitutional obligations is that they should pay for it, but not at the time. There fore we may take the property, because there is no such, thing as making the Government pay, as its obligation allows its own time and mode of payment. ’ v ; ■ . . ■ . The further consideration, of the bill was postponed. The Senate went into Executive session, and soon after adjourned till Monday, r , House— -Mr. Julian (Ind.) introduced a sub stitute for the bill heretofore reported by him from the Committee on Public Lands, extend ing the principles of The homestead-law to per sons in the naval and military service on con fi.-catrd and forfeited lands. Mr. Julian argued that our public lands have practically ceased to he a source of revenue, and spoke of the bene .1 cent and important national results of the 1 omestt ad, principle already initiated. This lad been justly styled the “slaveholders’ re bellion^” and it was besides a landholders 1 re- • hellion. We have taken measures for the chastisement of traitors and the punishment of treason by the confiscation of their lauds under the rights of war. For the traitors the Con stitution has ceased'to cxia.t. They are ene mies of the United States,aud as a consequence public enemies. The rights of war aud the rights of peace cannot exist at the same time. As to the rebels, the Constitution has nothing to do with them, unless we choose to apply its principles to them as citizens. He repeated that the rebels are belligerents, and we should deal with them as a conquered people, simply under the laws of war, untram meled by the Constitution. It was a war-of subjugation. Onr triumph is not as near at hand as some suppose. The rebels will resist to the death and we must employ all our wea pons to suppress them. We must take away the fee-simple of the lapd from the rebels and totally confiscate it; and he was advised that the President is prepared to aid them ip such a measure. Should Congress and the Courts stand in the way, the wrath of the people will consume those who fail to execute the national will. We must fight with hard and heavy blows, and will certainly win. Unless the forfeited and confiscated lands be disposed of as the hill provides, they will fall into the hands of specu lators and become a frightful monopoly. The alternative is presented and pressed to a speed * decision. The estates divided into farms would attract the settlement of loyal men. Slavery destroyed root and branch, the soil would be tilled by free men, bringing forth great individual and national wealth, and ex - endiug the blessings of civilization and Cbris ianity. This measure was demanded by hu manity and patriotism, to place the republic on he basis of justice and equal rights. No question was taken on the bill. Mr. Bennett (Colorado) introduced a bill in relation to the mines and minerals in the public domain, which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. It recognizes the right of loyal citizens' to mine upon the public domain of the United States; recognizes the local laws of the mining districts; restricts a person from holding more than one claim of each class of the different kinds of mines, to wit: one lode, one placer, and one water claim, within each district; requires a permit from the United States collector to work a claim, for which he must pay dollars for the first year, and afterwards an increased sum per annum, and on the failure to pay it forfeit the claim to the Government. In short, it licenses under the direction of the Treasury Depart ment and the General Land Office, the work ing of the gold, silver and copper mines of the United States. The House next passed to the consideration -4>f the Senate bill, to facilitate entries under the Homestead bill of 1802. Mr. Holman (Ind.) offered an amendment in effect relieving any person in the military or ■naval employment who has served not less than three months from paying the required ten dollar entry fee. He could see no justice in the argument of his.colleague, Mr. Julian, to give lands to freedmen who have not raised their hands to suppress the rebellion, while men, who have made sacrifices and entered the service from patriotic motives, are required to pay a stipulated fee. The restrictions should not be imposed on soldiers: Mr. Julian said the adoption of his colleagues amendment proposed a departure from the Homestead policy, which looked to the settle ment and improvement of the land. He would not enter upon the discussion of the African topic with his collcague- Messrs. Higbee and Driggs also opposed Mr. Holman’s amendment, the former saying, if the gentleman wanted to help the soldiers’ let him do so in some other bilL Mr. Holman’s amendment was rejected by four majority, and the bill passed. It provides for facilitating entries by soldiers under tho Homestead law, enabling them to take oath before military officers, instead of before laud officers, etc. Mr. Smith (Ky.)~from the special committee on the subject, made a favorable report on paying Gales it Seaton for certain volumes o! Congressional annals and debates, claimed to be delivered before the resolution authorizing the supply was repealed. During the debate, Mr. Windom said the amount involved was $25,000. He read from the testimony to show that while he did not charge that Gales & Seaton had anything to do n directing improper influences upon the House, there were lobby ageuts at work trying to force the resolution through, and that appa rently fifteen hundred dollars was floating as ucentive to action. Tho book-keeper of the National Intelligencer, however, testified that he had never made such proposition to the lobbyists. Mr. Spaulding spoke about tho value of the books, which contained the history or Congress from 1789 to 1815, and gave facts of the trans action. Mr. James C. Allen would not support the appropriation to an original proposition, but, considering all the circumstances, tho money ought to be paid. The House in good faith ought to fulfil its part of the contract. After further debate, tho whole subject was tabled—o 7 against 50. The House, at 5.15 P. M., adjourned. BURNING OF A CHURCH. Elmira, March 18. —The New Presbyterian Church in which the Sanitary Fair was being held was burned, this evening, with all its con tents. It is feared that some visitors to the fair perished in the (lames. The church was valued at $3.3,000, and Was insured for SIO,OJO. ELECTION IN HUNTINGDON. Ih'.vrjNGDON, Pa., March 18.—After a warm contest forjudge of elections, school directors, justice of the peace, &c., the Democrats were deleated to-day by 10 majority. They had wotlted secretly throughout, and expected by such means to succeed. DEPARTURE OF TROOPS. New York, March 18.—The 14th New Hampshire regiment left to-day for New Or leans. The 11th Indiana was reviewed by the city government this afternoon, and will leave lor their homes to-morrow. UNION VICTORY IN ERIE. Erie, Pa., March 18.—The Union candidate for Mayor was elected to-day by 336 majority. COAL STATEMENT. The following is the amount of coal shipped over the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad for the week ending Thursday, March 17, tail, ami since Jan. 1, together with corresponding period last year: . S eell, Previously. Total. Tons. Tons. Tonß. tS64 6,672 60,628 67,300 1863 6,009 49,071 - fijJuSO Increase 1,663 14,557 13 220 The following iB the, amount of coal transported on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad durine the' three days ending March 17, 1864: b From Port Carbon . » Pottsville.:.; Auburn I’?!* ol « Port Clinton:;.'.-........... 8 687 Is “ Harrisburg and Dauphin.... ’ 14,3 on Total anthraoite Coal Tor week 5570. i 3 Harrisburg, total Bituminous ooal : 4j096 l : Total of all kinds for week. . .1.. • bo <», Previously this year. .V,......: 6m’|s ?2 to 55$® Decrease GK&A’JSu XniiN.— ftus. w auu ad ol snpe< nor quality, for sale by i£sE?a * felo-tf FROTHING-HaM & WELLS. v SPECIAL NOTICES. THE TWENTY-SECOND WARD LL3 BOUNTY Ft KD COMMITTEE are re. quested to meet at the LEAGUE HOUSE, Ger mai-tpwn; on MONDAY EVENING, the a Let, at eight o’ clock P. M. A full attendance is desired. T. O. HENRY, President. W. E. Stohe, Secretary. mhiB-3ts FOURTEENTH WARD “THE NV LL3 TION’S CALL IS OUR OWN.”—An adjourned stated meeting of the citizens of the Fourteenth, Ward, irrespective of party, will be held at SPRING GARUEN HALL, on SAT UR. DAY EVENING NEXT, March 19th, in order to close np the business under previous calls. The Treasnrer desires to make a final statement of bis accounts at that meeting, and tuerefore ear nestly leqnests that the Chairmen of the several Pre-met Committees will furnish him with their final reports immediate!;. • The catl just issued for an additional 200,000 men will require the most energetic efforts on onr part —if wt would AVOID THE DRaFT. Measures for raising trie quota of the Ward by Voluntary Enlistments will be discussed, and, to please ail nterested, let aU such attend. mh!B-3t WM. B. THOMAS, Chairman. NOTICE—The subscr.bers to the stock LL3 oYthe ‘-NEW LONDON COPPER COM PANY,” oi Frederick county, Marylaud, are hereby notified that the.ir subscriptions will be due .nd payable at the office of MATTHEW T MIL- I Eft & CCT-, No. 45 South’THIRD street, on the 22d ins ant. A B. MILLER, Treasnrer. Philadelphia, March 10, 1861. mhl7t2f> THIRD NATIONAL BANK OF Ptli _k_3 LADELPHIA. —Capital *loo,ooo—Privi iiged to increase to Ssoo,ooo— Philadelphia, March 12th, 1864. The 1 HIED NATIONAL BANK will open on MONDAY, 14th inst., for business, on tile Son'll west corner MARKET Street and PENN Square, wheie all banking business will be transacted the same as in other city Banks. The location is a very desirable one and central for ail merchants and others doing business in the western parts of the city. Collections will be made on all accessible points, on the most favorable terms; and the interests and n-quirem- nts of the customers of the Bank, will have careful and prompt attention mhl2-iSt« R. GLENDINNING, Cashier. SOUTH CLIFFMINING COMPANY US The FIRST MEETING of the SOUTH CLIFF MINING COMPANY OS’ MICHIGAN, under its axtclesof Association, will be held on the 3-itb of March, 1864, at 11 o’clock, A. M., at the office of No. 411 (Second story) WALNUT street, Philadelphia. WATERMAN PALMER, Pittsburgh, WM A. RHODES, Philadelphia, Two o! the Associates of said Corporation. PuiLADEiTUiA, March sth, ISSL mh3 15t* PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 12, 1861 LvJj NOTICE.—The first meeting of the Corpo rators o: the MOHAWK MINING COMPANY OP MICHIGAN, under its Articles of Associa tion, will be held, at 326 WALNUT Street, Phila delphia, on MONDAY, 2Sih inst. at 4. P. M. WM. HENRY TROTTER, JACOB P. JONES, mhl2»C?v] Two of the Associates of said Coro’n. PHILADELPHIA, Mauch 12, 1564. Js3 NOTICE.—The first meeting of the Corpo rators of the WINNEBAGO MINING COM PANY OF MICHIGAN, under its articles of association will be held at 326 WALNUT street, Philadelphia, on MONDAY, SS’h inst.. at 4 P.M. W. P. JENKS, mhl2-Ufs EDWARD SALES, Two of the Associates of said corporation. fyr==* UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN OOM IL3 MISSION.—‘SUMMARY TO JANUARY L, 1564. Work now in Progress in the Army at Rest— Christian Commission Stations largely increased In Number—The Work Abundantly Prospered— Many more Stations needed to meet the wants of the Army—Unprecedented Call for Delegates and Supplies—Preparations for the Coming Campaign, with its’Movements and Battles. The Christian Commisiion depends mainly upon direct contributions, and must not be forgotten by Loyal Christian People. INCREASING WANTS DEMAND IN CREASED LIBERALITY. P Receipts ot Money^Stores, Ac., to January l, ISM, Si, 145,003 &4. " Number of Boxes of Stores, Ac., shipped to the field or distributed at home, 16,330. Numb*r of Delegates sent, 1,563. Copies of Scriptures distributed, 568,275; Hymn and Psalm Books, 502,556; Knapsack Hooks, 1,370, - 345: Library Books, 43,163: Pamphlets, 155.145; Religious Newspapers, 3,316,250; Pages of Tracts, 22, 930,455 t Silent Comforters, 4,115. The United States Christian Commission has seized the present golden opportunity of rest for the Army to extend its w for the good of the Soldiers. STATIONS have been multiplied, each with its chapel and store tents, free writing tables, and clothing, comforts and reading matter for gra tuitous distribution. VOLUNTARY DELEGATES, in numbers greater than ever before, have been sent to preach the Gospel at the slat:ons aud in regiments, bat teries and camps without Chaplains, distribute reading matter and stores, and labor for the good of the Soldiers. A PERSIA KENT FIELD AGENCY has been sufficiently extended to establish stations and superintend the work. THE BLESSING OF GOD rests signally on all pans of the work. Many thousands have been cheered, benefited and saved. Still a large part of the Aymy remains unreached, and double the number, jboth of stations and delegates, are needed to meet the urgent demand tonhem. The Cliristian Commission offers the people a perfectly reliable and wonderfully economical channel to reach theentire army in ail its vanous fields. The money given goes in full measure, in benefits for body and soul, directly to the Soldiers; and stores also, immediately from the hands of delegates from home, who add words and deeds of kit dness to the gifts when bestowed. Let the people give ihe Money and Stores, and th** work will be done. The large corps of Delegates now in the field wiil serve as a grand corps of relief when the armies shall move and battles be fought, and the greater their number the more prompt and effec tive will be the relief they shall render. Let not the present work languish. Wait not for the cry ol the wounded and dying before pro viding relief. tjend now and send abundantly both money and stores, and the soldiers’ blessing shall be upon yon. Send money to JOSEPH PATTERSON, Tres surer, at Western Bank, and stores io GEORGE H. STUART, Chaitman Christ.an Cimmissmn, No. 13 BANK street, Philadelphia. W. E Bo.uiu.mak, Secretary mhS-if* United States C. G. v==> Or FIDE CITY BOUNTY FUND COM LLs MISSION, No. 412 PRUNE Street, Phila .leiphia, December 19, Jcf>3. The Commission for the ayment of the Oity Bonnty are now prepared to receive and adjust the claims of all new recruits In old regiments. Vntil farther notice, the Commission will sit daily Irom 3 to 5 P. M. Bounties will be paid to those only whose names •ire borne on rolls furnished to the Commission by the Assistant Provost Marshal-General, or the United States Mustering Officer for Philadelphia, Claimants for the bounty must be vouched for oy a responsible United States Officer. Officers will bring their men to the office in squads for the purpose. In a few days notice will be given when and how recruits in new organisations and veterans re-en listing in the field can receive their bonnty. Bv older of the Commission. jav ti SAMUEL G. DAWSON. Secretary. iy=?=* PHILADELPHIA AND READING- Hot Railroad Company, Office 227 South Fourth Septembers, 1863. DIVIDEND NOTICE.—The following named persons are entitled to a Dividend on the common sU»ck of this Company. The residence of several of them is unknown, and it is therefore necessary that the Certificates of Stock should be presented on calling for the Dividend. S. BRADFORD, Treasurer. ■ STOCKHOLDERS’ NAMES. Timothy C. Boyls,. Henry B. Sherer, S. Lancaster, Andrew Turner, John Mclntyre, Mrs. Rebecca Ulrich. Benjamin F. Newport, fe26-tfs r v-w=» NOTICE.—The first meeting of the cor. UjJ poratnrs ot the SIOUX Mi NINO- OO.U -f-iKY • F MICHIGAN, under its articles of asso iation, will be held at No. 326 WALNUT street, Philadelphia, on MONDAY, tie 28th day of March, inst., at i o’ clock 1\ M mhl2-X4ts' Two of tlie associates of said corporation. TREASURY DEPARTMENT —Oppioe op Comptroller op the Currency, Washington, Feb. 26th, 1864. Whereas , By satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear that the Fourth Naiional Bank of Philadelphia, in the eounty of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylva nia, has been duly organized under and according to the requirements of the act of Congress, entitled ‘ an act to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States stocks, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof, ** ap proved February 25th, ISU3, and has complied with all the provisions of said act required to oe complied with before commencing the business u B Now,therefore, X, Hneh McCnlloch, Comptrol -S-r of the Currency, do hereby certify that cents. New Books issued every week, and for sale,, either wholesale of retail, at the Publishing and. Bookselling Uon»p of T. B. PETERSON A BRO THERS, Philadelphia. Orders solicited from Booksellers, News Agents, Sutlers, Canvassers, and others, in. want of good an d fast- selliug Books. 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