EVENING BULLETIN
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1864.
OUR GOLD AND , SIVVER CROPS.
An increased demand for an article always
'muses an inci eased production of it. This
is true of the commonest articles of daily use,
but it is also true of the precious metals.
There can be no doubt that the present high
'value of gold and silver, as_compared with
'United States currency, has led to new en
terprises in those parts of our country where
those metals are found. The population has
increased with great rapidity, and the nu-
Marone new gold and silver companies incor
porated in the different States are proofs of
the growing activity in the production of
the precious metals.
But a more striking proof is furnished by
the statistics of San Francisco. During the
3nonth of February last, the exports of trea-
Sure from that port reached the unprece
dented amouxtt , of $7,445,084. From Janu
ary Ist to March Ist, the exports amounted
to $12,381;989. At this rate, the exports of
gold and silver - from San Francisco, during
the year 1864, will amount to from seventy
to seventy-five millions of dollars. A large
portion of this will go to England, but thus
far fully one-half of it has come to New
York. We have no means of ascertaining
the amount of gold and silver mined in
Kansas, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and
other parts of our country ; but there can
be no doubt that it is greatly in excess of
the product of any former year.
. .
While our Government is incurring an
enormous debt, in the struggle to preserve
itself, it has done nothing by which its un
occupied gold and silver lands may be made
available in the future for paying off the
debt, or at least for paying the interest upon
it. There must be millions of acres of pub
lic lands in which gold, silver and other
valuable metals may be found. If certain
sections in every township were reserved
for the Government, which would hold them
till exploration should ascertain their value,
there would be a large revenue derived from
their sale at some future time. Or if in all
sales of lands supposed to contain either of
the precious metals, provision were made
for .the payment to the government of a
moderate "royalty," at least for a term of
years, a very handsome revenue would be
derived from this source, in a short time.
The time is not distant when, all our rich
mineral regions being developed, the annual
crops of gold and silver will amount to hun
dreds of millions of dollars. Nothing that
our country produces could so well bear
taxation as these two metals, and the sooner
some wise and judicious method is devised'
by which such a tax may be imposed and
collected, the better it will he for the future
credit of the government.
MARYLAND
In another column will be found a copy
of a correspondence between Major-General
Lewis- Wallace and Governor Bradford, of
Maryland, in regard to disloyal persons be
ing elected to the Constitutional Convention
or voting at the election for delegates to that
Convention, on next Wednesday. General
Wallace addresses the Governor, and fur
nishes him with official copies of papers, a
glance at which,
_he says, will doubtless
satisfy him that persons disloyal to the Go
vernment of the United States are candi
dates for the Constitutional Convention, the
election for which takes place on the 6th of
April, and * asks the Governor whether the
Legislature, in prescribing an oath of loy
alty to be administered to delegates before
taking their seats, did not also intend to
provide wmethod for the rejection at the
polls of disloyal men, and that the power,
amounting to judicial authority, with which
the judges of the election are clothed was
really the - mode adopted by the law-makers
for the accomplishment of that purpose; and
he asks the' Governor to give him his views
as to the extent of authority possessed by
the judges of the election, and especially as
to whether they have power to reject a vote
on account- of the disloyalty of the persons
offering it.
The reply- of Governor Bradford consists
mainly in a-review of the State laws on the
subject, which he considers comprehensive
enough. if .they are faithfully carried out.
He remarks , that the duty of judges of elec
tion is clearly defined. By the convention,
act it is provided that any judge of election
who shall refuse or neglect- to, perform any
of the duties required, of him by that act,
shall be liable to indictment for such offence,
and, upon conviction thereof,s - hall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and be sentenced
to a fine of not less than five hundred dol-.
lars, and to imprisonment in the jail of the
city or county where such offence may have
been committed, for a term of not less than
six months. This provision Gov. Bradford
considers sufficient to prevent disloyal men
from being allowed either to vote or to be
elected.
The importance of the election referred to
consists in the fact that the question of
Emancipation will be brought directly be
fore the people of the State by the Conven
tion, and all loyal men are determined that
Maryland . shallbe freed from the curse of
Slavery at the earliest possible moment. In
reference to the very general- feeling of the
true citizens of. Maryland on this question
Ex-Governor -Hicks writes.: "All should
be willing to make a sacrifice on the - altar of
our Union. What are men compared to
the great interests noer before ns ? Feel-
ing, all I do, that the interests of Maryland
and our dear:country at 'large, must be pro.
moted by the destruction of slavery, I am
decidedly in favor of emancipation, with
compensation by the Government. True it
is that the war cannot cease, nor the resto
ration of the Union be.effected,until slavery
is wiped from the land. Then let it come,
and come soon, even if it must be with or
without remuneration." The grand council
of the Union Leagues of the State has also
issued an address s4veeatius a system of
THE DAILY "FVF WING I3trul'usT PHILADELPHIA; SATURDAY; A PRIL 2; 1864.---TRIPLE FH ET T:
immediate Emancipation, and sending forth
the following resolutions :
"Resolved, That the origin and progress of
the rebellion leave ao room to doubt that the
institution of slavery has become an instrument
in the hands of traitors to build up an oligarchy
and an aristocracy bn the ruins of Republican
liberty ; that its continued existence is incom
patible with the maintenance of Republican
forms rof government in the United States;
that the Emancipation Proclamation of the
President ought to be made law by Congress,
and, in fact, by all the power placed by Con
gress in the hande of the President; that traitors
have no right to enforce the obedience of
slaves; and that, against traitors in arpas, the
President should use all men, white or black,
in such way as they can be most useful, and to
the extent to which they can be used, whether
it be•to handle a spade or shoulder a musket.
"Resolved, That the safety and interest of
the State of Maryland, and especially of her
white laboring people, require that slavery
should cease to be recognized by - the law of
Maryland.”
Maryland has made rapid and glorious
progress towards freedom since the war
began, and we chronicle every movement in
that direction with joy. At the election
nest week we anticipate a triumphant
verdict in favor of immediate emancipation.
PASSENGER RAILWAY IMPOSITIONS
We have on more than one occasion
called attention to the imposition practised
by theniajority, if not all, of the Passenger
Railway Companies, in permitting their
agents, for whese acts of course they are
responsible, to incommode the passengers
by overcrowding the cars. It was under
stood that these lines of railway were estab
lished for the convenience of the public, but
under the existing system neither conveni
ence nor comfort are experienced bthe un
fortunate individuals who enter the car, ex
cept so far as the saving of time is con
cerned.
In conductor's parlance, "We are never
full, sir. There is always room for one
more," and the result is apparent in the
crushed bonnets, rumpled skirts and soiled
boots of the passengers as they emerge from
the crowded interior of the vehicle. A
patron of one of these lines naturally ex
pects to receive a quid pro quo, but a ride
under such circumstances can scarcely be
considered a quid for the five cent quo de
posited in the wallet of the conductor.
A night or two since a conductor of a
car, every seat of' which was filled, every
foot of standing room occupied, and the
rear platform uncomfortably full, persisted in
remaining at the corner of Ninth and Chest
nut streets, soliciting the patronage of the
throng which at that time was wending its
way from the Walnut Street Theitre. This
is only one instance of an imposition which
may be witnessed. throughout the day and
evening, upon almost every railway in the
city.
There is also another consideration which
must not be forgotten. In a crowded car
there are naturally all kinds of people, and
with so many representatives of mortality,
there must be necessarily some whose pre
sence does not add to the purity of 'the at
mosphere.- Indeed only within a few days,
one of the occupants o 1 a car was just re
covering from the small-pox, and doubtless
if the physical condition of all who pa
tronize the lines was examined by a physi
cian, it would be discovered that the health
of a large number is scarcely of that
character which would warrant such close
contact.
It is surely time that the dvil was abated,
and if the companies have not that regard
for the public weal and convenience which
should induce them to fill their cars only to
their proper capacity, the Legislature should
enact such a law as will compel—them to
do so.
COPPERHEAD TRIBULATIONS
The Copperheads are in great tribulation.
The war has weeded out from the Demo
cratic party all truly patriotic intelligent
men who were capable of understanding the
great principles involved in practical Seces
sion and the attack upon Sumter; and the
genuine old Democrats who loved country
better than party, and who are too intelli
gent to be deluded by a mere sham, are now
to be found .acting with such leaders as
Benjamin F. Butler. The bogus Demo
cracy, who belong to the Reed, Wood,
Vallandigham and Woodward school, and
who helped to bring on the war by eating
Southern dirt—are anxious to grovel still
further, and to eat more dirt, not only from
force of habit, but also that "thrift may
follow fawning." This latest bolus of dirt
which some of our Northern patriots are
eager to swallow, is Peace upon any terms,
which cry a Richmond editor endorses, by
declaring faz...peace upon any terms which
will permit of General. Lee's dictating a
treaty to the despised "mudsills" in Faneuil
Hall. But the Copperheads are in great
tribulation. Upon counting noses, their
unprincipled leaders and their deluded
rank-in-file,who cling to the name of Demo
cracy even though it is a mere rotten carcase,
with the barest show of wholesome vitality
—find themselves in a sad minority, and
they are driven to desperate expedients.
They cannot endure the war, for that would
make them Republicans in fact, and sup
porters of the genuine Democratic party of
the day. They cannot generally and openly
oppose the war (although they do so meas
urably and covertly) for that would ruin
their hopes with the army, which they are
endeavoring to propitiate by setting up for
the Presidency a candidate who has no other
claim for favorable consideration than an
imaginary popularity with the soldiers in thO
field. To continue the advocacy of Slavery
as "an incalculable blessing" would be to
vindicate the notorious cause and object of
the rebellion, andto oppose it would be to
give up the last distinctive plank in the mod
em Locofoco platform as built to support
such patriots as James - Buchanan and
Franklin Pierce.: The Democratic ship of
party has lost its compass, and it is sailing
on towards the Chicago Convention guided
by such conflicting and distracting beacon
lights as hatred of the war and pretended
love for tilt soldiers engaged in it; devotion
to the South and opposition to the rebellion;
dislike of Slavery as the cause of .the war,
and tenderness towards it as a special Dem
ocratic institution ; devotion to the Union
and the-Constitution, and bitter opposition
to all who are engaged in upholding them,
and to all material means for vindicating
them. With such conflicting and distracting
objects to steer for, and with such men as
Witte, Reed,-Wood and Vallandigham at
the helm—if the crazy craft is not run upon
the rocks of defeat, and totally wrecked in
November next, we are blind as to thesigns
of the times, and ignorant of ,the laws of
cause and effect. Heaven speed the consum
mation.
WHITE BASH AT A DISCOUNT.
Secesh is a strangely inconsistant institu- .
tion. In his intense advocacy of Slavery,
and of its divine right to rule the nation,
and failing to rule it, split it to pieces—he
hag been induced to- say some . very tart.
things concerning people who do not con
sider SlaVery an incalculable blessing"
which should be encouraged and extended.
He has called them Black Republicans"
and "Nigger Worshippers," and the north
ern wearers - of southern collars have taken
up the stale cry and every one who does not
believe in the patent democracy of the day
haS been visited with these opprobious
names. Some facts have come to light
during the progress of the rebellion which
serve to show the devotion of the South to
poor white men whose real interests lie in
freedom and in genuine practical democracy,
and its attention to the colored individual
when the pocket of the owner is concerned.
It is an old story of how poor white
men are dragged into the rebel army
by the sweeping conscription, while their
families at home are compelled to, suffer bit
terly through the scarcity caused by the
wickedness of the rebel leaders. But it is
not so generally known that scores of thou
; sands of slaves are also conscripted, or -im
' pressed, which . amounts to precisely the
same thing, and that these black men are
performing important military service for
therebels. The white man who takes up
the musket, either - voluntarily or upon com-.
pulsion, receives eleven dollars a month ;
while .the owner of the black chatt who
works. in the entrenchments ives
rebel wagon, receives f five dollars a
month for the use of his thews and sinews.
The United States Government pays the
white soldier who is in the Army of the
Union thirteen dollars per month for his
services ; while it' allows the colored war
rior but eight- dollars for the same period.
This is not fair play . ; but the fact is as we
.have stated, nevertheless. Nor it- seems
that the rebel leaders, consider the black
man a little more than four times more
valuable than the white soldier; while our
4 , abolition administration," as the Copper
heads delight to call it, fixes the value of
the services 'of the white man at fully sixty
per cent. more than those of the . black sol-_
dier. Who is the Nigger-worshipper?
BOTRqTY-JIIMPEREI
The Bounty-Jumpers,as the class of indi
viduals are called who rob the government
by enlisting in a particular regiment, and
then after receiving the bounty,desert, are
becoming more and more numerous as the
rebellion progresses. Harrisburg is at the
present time their principal rendezvous, and
thither are they conveyed, in almost every
train that leaves the depots at Philadelphia
and New York. Many of them require no
other inducement than the gratification of
their own villainous desires, but hundreds
enrolLtheir names under the promptings of
men no less mercenary and dishonorable
than themselves, who promise a large sum
for their temporary services, and Insure
that they shall return to their homes soon
after the bounty is received. It is rumored
that individuals in ;this city have entered
so extensively into the business that
they are rapidly accumulating fortunes
from the profits of their villainy, but so
carefully and shrewdly do they conceal
their participation that it is impossible to
detect them. A more vigilant guard over
the jumpers, and severe punishment of their
abettors when discovered, will alone termi
nate the evil, and leniency should be dis
pensed with whenever the former are recap
tured and the latter detected.
AN APPEAL FOR THE GREAT FAIR.
We call special attention to the appeal of
the Committee on Dry Goods of the great
Central Fair, which will be found in to
day's paper. They ask contributions from
all the wholesale dry goods merchants in.
the State in terms which cannot fail to be
effective in touching every pk?tic 'and
generous heart. The •Committee is one of
the strongest ever appointed for any object
in this city, as will be seen by a glance at
their names. They expect to,excel in their
work the New York Committee of the same
branch of`business, which raised 8100,000
for the Fair in that city; and we have no
doubt but that they will succeed in their
most sanguine expectations. The Commit
tee on "Hats, Caps and Furs" also present°
their appeal in our advertising columns to.
.day, and we cannot doubt but that it will
meet with a most liberal response.
DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN.
We regret to announce the death, at his
residence in this city, of Mr: John T. Smith,
one of our most enterprising and influential
citizens. He was connected with the old
corporation of the Northern Liberties for
a long period, nine years of which he
was President of the Board of Commissisners
of the District. He was a member of the
TWenty-eighth Congress, representing the
then Third Congressional District. He was
elected President Of the Kensington, Bank
in 1852, but resigned on account of ill
health, in March, 1863. He was for a
number of years a member of the Board of
Guardians of the Poor and Board of Prison
Inspectors, and he also held other offices of
trust and honor. in his death the, commu
nity suffers a loss which will long be felt.
THE HEART OF THE PEOPLE
The objects and aims of the Sanitary
Commission commend themselves directly to
the great heart of the people. This has
been • shown in other Cities where Fairs•in
aid of its funds -have been held, and where
dearly-cherished objects have been cheer
fully parted with by those who had no
more intrinsically valuable sacrifices to lay
upon the altar of patriotism and humanity.
The publication• of the receipts of contribu
tions to our own great Sanitary Fair have
already been commenced, and the record
shows how the heart of the people has been
touched and how it is throbbing responsive
to the holy objects of the Commission. The
large subscriptions of corporations and of
wealthy citizens are creditable and satisfac
tory ;. but the most toucbing contributions
are those of the widow who gives her mite
in aid of the good cause, and of the poor
over-worked and under-paid sewing girl
who gladly appropriates the fruits of a day's
toil to the same object.
While these small but precious gifts are
pouring into the treasury of the Fair, the
men who are swindling the government out
of thousands, and who are damaging the
efficiency of the army and the navy by their
rascally practices—the gamblers in gold
who are injuring the public credit that they
may grow rich ; and the whole tribe of
public plunderers and Lords of Shoddy,
keep their pockets tightly buttoned, and
turn a deaf ear to the calls of patriotism,
the voice of justice or the gentle pleadings
of humanity. If the whole of this greedy
huckstering pack was weighed in the balance,
the mite of a widow who has a son in the
army," or fifty cents, the day's earnings
of a poor sewing girl," thrown into the
opposite scale, would make Shoddy kick the
beam.
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Among the gallant patriots who fell in front
of Vicksburg, in May last, was Capt. Crawford
Washington, a native of Virginia, but a citizen
of Pennsylvania, and a brother-in-law of Gen.
Crawford, of the Pennsylvania Reserves. He
was one of the bravest officers of the 13th Uni
ted States Infantry, and his brother officers of
the Ist Battalion have determined to erect a
handsome monument on the spot where he fell.
Gen. Sherman has also borne testimony to his
valor and worth by naming the hill upon which
he received his mortal wound, Mount Washing
ton. The 13th Infantry has been awarded EL
rare honor in the history of the war. At the
close of Gen. Grant's operations in the Valley
Valley of the Mississippi, a board of officers was
ordered to receive and examine all claims and
award all honors won during the campaign;
and it unanimously awarded to the Ist Bat
talion, of the 13th Infantry—the battalion com
manded by Capt. Washington—the following
inscriptions on its standard : "Chickasaw
Bayou, Arkansas Post, Champion Hills, First at
Vicksburg, Jackson." In making this award,
the Board says, in its report, it "finds the 13th
United States Infantry entitled to the first
honor. at Vicksburg, having in a body planted
and maintained its colors on the parapet with a
loss of 43 3-10 per cent., including its gallant
commander, Washington, who died at the para
pet. Its conduct and loss, the Board, after a
careful examination, believes, unequaled in the
army, and respectfully asks the General Cora:
raanding the Department to allow it the in
scription awarded."
DELAWARE AND THE SANITA.RT FAIR.-It has
been settled that Delaware is to have her own
department in the Fair Building, to be managed
by committees appointed by Governor Cannon.
Delawarians seem resolved to do something for
our noble armies that will be creditable to their
'oyalty and liberality. They have now made
t a point of honor to contribute as largely to
the general fund as the people of any other
State in proportion to their population. Gov.
Cannon encourages this generous spirit, by his
admirable address to loyal Delawarians, and
announces the appointment of Executive Com
mittees at Philadelphia; to co-operate with
home committees appointed by him. The
effort is to be made to raise the Delaware fund
to an amount equal to ono dollar for every in
habitant of the State ! This is a bold under
taking, and if accomplished, we fear that Dela
ware will take the lead of both Pennsylvania
and New Jersey in a great work, which has
been inspired by humanity and patriotism.
RECISTF3I OF FARMS, &C.—We are in receip
of a "Register of Farms, Country Seats, Mills,"
&c., for sale or rent in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, and also a Register of the same descrip
tion of property for sale in Delaware and
Maryland. It is published by Geo. N. Town
send & Co., at their Real Estate and Convey
ancing Office, No. 1233, South Fourth street.
THE PRESIDENT OF. SELECT COUNCIL, JaMyS
Lynd, Esq., sends -us a. communication in re
ference to an editorial with the caption of
"More Mischievous Legislation," published on
Thursday. It will be found in another column.
THE KNICKERBOCKER KITCHEN.-0110 of the
most interesting features of the coming fair in
New York will be the Knickerbocker Kitchen,
to be in the building on Union Square. It
consists of a large hall Nal°, with a deep fire
place at one end, with the broad chimney-place
of a century ago. Over which is the mantle
shelf, on which are to be placed old delf-ware,
brought over from Holland by our ancestors,
and collected from the few old homesteads left
along the Hudson, or relics furnished by their
descendants left in New York. An old clock
that belonged to Hon. Herman Knickerbocker,
of Schaghticoke, has been sent down the river
for the occasion. Mrs. Judge Roosvelt is the
chairman of a committee of ladies chosen for
the purity of their Dutch blood, to arrange the
affair: Mrs. A. S. Clayton, Miss Susan Benson,
Miss -Anna Van Buren, firs. Alfred Schemer
horn, Mrs. P. Van_Rensselaer, Miss Kate
131eckman, Mrs. Egbert L. iriele, Mrs. Judge
Roosvelt, constitute the committee. The
kitchen is to provide the public during the Fair
with home-made lunches and teas, and all
kinds of old-fashioned home-made bread, cakes
and pies. The guests are to be waited on by
old New York Knickerbocker negresses, with
their tidy aprons and bandana handkerchiefs.
Uncle Tom, with whitened locks and his violin,
-will enliven the chimney corner, and the little
darkies will sit on the ample hearth in the blaze
of the buinieg logs as in the days gone by.
THE celebrated races horse "Highlander"
died very suddenly near, ,Nashville a few days
glace.
ALLEGED "MTSCHIENOUS LEGISLATION-"---A
STATEMEIg.
- To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin: In
your article of yesterday, under the caption,
“More Mischlevons Legislation," you have un
intentionally dobe Injustice to Senator Nichols
and to the members of City Councils, who are
almost unanimous in favor of the legislation
alluded to. The veto power vested in the
Mayor by the 21st section of the act of 18:55
was never exercised until last week - , although
the expediency of its exercise was probably no
greater then than it bas been at any other time
since the passage of said act.
But without consuming my time or your
space by an argument in detail, I submit to you
a copy of the memorandum, signed by those
members of Council who could be conveniently
consulted, being about two-thirds of the whole
number. This contains in a succinct tom
most of the-reasons upon which, the repealing
act was applied for, and the action of the
Senators and Representatives from P hiladelphis
was based upon this document.
“Pmrarintrnr,s, March 24, 1861.—We. the
undersigned, members of the City Councils of
the City of Philadelphia, unite in urging the
propriety of the repeal of so much of the 2lst
section;of the Act of Assembly of April 21st,
1855, as gives the force of an absoluk prolobt
tion to the veto of the Mayor of the said city,
and submit the following reasons:
First—That it is an unprecedented extension
of the veto power and must have been origi
nally enacted through inadvertence.
“Second—That it makes the gayor the abso
lute judge of what is can adequate provision for
the ordinary and necessary expenses of the
city, etc." when the act of consuhriatiun
plainly provides that the Councils shall pass
tie general as well as the other appropriation
bills, and therefore determine that question.
Thirdly—That said absolute veto power, in
the hands of" a corrupt officer, might furnish
opportunity to the City Executive for corrup
tion of extraordinary magnitude, as the mere
threat of its exercise,wohld extort large sums of
money in all those cases where important
public improvements promote the interests of
individual citizens.
.Fourthly—That the recent exercises of said
power by the Mayor has seriously interfered
with and must, if persisted in, entirely pre
clude many improvements of the utmost im
portance to the City of Philadelphia.
James Lynd, Alex. J. Harper,
Andrew Zane, Jr., F. A. Wolbert,
Joseph Manuel, Amos Briegs,
Joshua Spering, Jno. Q. Adams,
Wm. M. Uhler, M. D., Juo. Eckstein,
C. E. 'Kemeny, M. D., H. 0. Oram,
Geo. F. Omerly, Wilson Kerr,
Henry . Davis, Enoch Taylor,
Geo. Inman Riche, Win. S. :-tokeley,
Peter V. Weaver, R. H. Gm;
James. Armstrong, Isaaz. Snlaer,
E C. Pauling, Jno. W. Everman,
Jas. L. Barron, James Barrett,
Win. Harris, Jr., Jno. IL Crawford,
Frs. P. Nicho'pon, Jas. T. Vanktrk,
Jno. Q. Ginnodo, Henry W. Gray,
Henry Marcus, Jos. H. Biiliugton,
Peter McElroy, R M. Evans,
Wm. Loughlin, Geo. W. Aregood,
Owen Lamb, Patrick Shern,
Jas. G. Peale, Jno. B. Haines, M. D.
Henry 0. Harrison,
You will perceive that the repeal of only a
small portion of the twenty-first section is de
sired, and that the really meritorious part of it
remains intact. •It will still be the duty or the
Mayor to withold bis signature from all the
appropriations mentioned in the section, and
no- such appropriations can become valid unless
two-thirds of Councils shall deem it a proper
expenditure. The checks and restraints, usual
in the cities and States of the Union. upon the
expenditure of public moneys will still remain,
and the Mayor will still possess a veto power as
great as that of the President of the United
States, the Governor of the State, or any other
executive throughout the land, and there is no
good reason why he should possess any greater
power. Respectfully yours,
JAMES LIND.
A NATAI. FIGUT P FLOSPECT.-0 EIS cor
respondent at Fortress Monroe wrote a few
days ago, that intelligence had reached that
place that the new rebel ram Richmond, or
"Merrimac No. 2," is now completed and is
-preparing to make a raid upon our. iron-clads
in Hampton Roads. If this be true the Spring
campaign is likely to open with anotLer grand
naval contest on that already historic . ground.
The sudden departure from this port of the
two-turreted monitor Onondaga, whose des
tination is said to be Fortress Monroe, was
doubtless caused by rumor above mentioned.
The officers of the Onondaga are confident that
she will be a match for any ram that rebeldom
has been able to construct, and it i 8 to be
hoped she will reach the battle-ground in time
to prevent the havoc among our fleet which
was made by the old Merrimac previous to the
arrival of our first Monitor.—N. Y. Commercial
-advertiser, april Ist.
ATTEMPT TO THROW A TRAIN OFF THE TRACE.
—A man, giving his name as Francis S. Wal
ton, was brought to this city and lodged in the
Eastern District Station yesterda", on the
charge of having placed iron bars across the
track of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad, near Stemmer's Run, with
the design of throwing the passenger train off
the track. He was observed in the act by Mr.
Janies W. Bristor, of Philadelphia, who re
monstrated with him respecting the fiendish
character of the attempt. but he persisted. Mr.
Bristor removed the obstructions a short time
before the passenger train from Philadelphia
reached the spot, and on its coming . up hAd it
stopped. He arrested Bristor and gave him
over in charge of the conductor of the trait to
bring to this city.—Baliimore 27ner!cati of yes
terday.
MarrAnT PARADE.—General Dix has issued
the following - order :
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OP TllE EAST,
NEW YORK Girl - , March 31,18114,--The 4th of
April having been designated for the opening
of the Metropolitan Fair, the Major-General
commanding directs, as an acknowledgment of
the noble efforts tile ladies of New York are
making to provide for the comfort of our sick
and wounded soldiers, that the troops in the
service of the United States, in the city and
harbor of New York, commanded by Brigadier
General Stannard, be paraded and reviewed in
connection with the Ist division of 'the New
York State National Guard, commanded by
Major-General Sandford. * •
By command of Major-General Dix.
CHARLES TEMPLE Drx,
Major and Aid-de-Camp, Acting Assistant
Adjutant-General.
EXPLOSION OP A TORPEDO AT TUE WASIIECO
ICE NATE Yaru).—On Thursday afternoon, a
volunteer surgeon went to the ordnance office
of the Washington Navy Yard to exhibit a tor
pedo, of which he claims to be the inventor,
when finding that some alterations were neces
sary to ensure its success, ho was directed to
the plumbers' department, where Mr. Harley
T. Hicks was set to work upon it, and while in
the act of applying the solder ' the torpedo,
- which was ascertained a ft erwards to be filled
with chloride of potash and nitric acid, ex
ploded. Mr. Hicks's arm, face, and neck were
badly burned, and the inventar was also b,idly
burned about the face. Some of the work
men bad their clothes scorched.
Two Maw. Krusn.- 7 -Nathan Sugar and
Thornai Bullock, whilst sinking a shaft at
Moselem Ore Mines of Messrs. Hunter & Pea
cock, in Berks county,' on Wednesday night,
were killed. It appears one of the buelets
unhooked and fell down the shaft, killing the
two unfortunate men. Sugar wa9 instantly
killed, Bu!loch lived about 13 minutes after
being taken out.
ANIISAMENTS.
Tax Bram: Panonemn will be given this-atter
neon and evening at Concert Hall.
SINNoNS„ TRW. ILLUSIONIST, opens at Colleen
Ball on Monday next.'
Tun Milnyriaime, at the Eleventh Street Opera
llonse. present one of their best Saturday night
bills this evening. -
ATioser, HALL.—The Circus 'will be crowded
this eirenteg, as the programme is a very lively
and st , racitire one. -
•
Tut: Anon.—Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams
close their engagement this evening, ftli apPearing
six dirent parts in ' , All laallovr Eve,' "'Yankee
COTITIEUip,'" and "The Omnibus." On Monday
'limes ale" will be produced, and . Mrs. John.
Drew wilt appEar. -
Tun Onizsravr. —At the matinee this afternoon,
anehoL , - wi.l -be played, with Miss Cecile
ush as. the heroine. This evening "The Octo
roon" will be repeated, with all its gorgeous
BCPnery, floe music and unapproachable cast:
:those who wish good seats must go early both this
afternoon and this evening.
Ms. S. C. :Dußois (late of the Chestnut Street
Theatre). is about to give a series of performances
in sec eral of the inland cities of this State With
Dramatic Combination . Be intends to adhere
and willappropriate
.szti oz.; v to the moral (Dame,
e night's. proceeds at each place he visits tothe
widows -and orphans of deceased soldiers. We
ven , h Mr. Dußois success, and congratulate the.
ppopie of the inland cities on the prospect of en.
the excellent entertainment the - Combine.
will give them. They commence in Potts.
on Thursday next
Tun Watroor.—A. large audience attended the
last evening and were fully compensated.
by the exquisite acting of Miss Laura Keene as
acr ei, the Beeper, and her very lively imperso.•
Vi..1017t of Widow Cheetly, In .-The Soldier'e-
Into ght-r In the first piece"she was well sup.
porlecl i.y Mr. Lyon, whose corporal Patrick wee
1:-..rtiingiy true. Mr. Levick, Mr. Peters, ffir
Wrighl and - Mr. Bane.* d.d justice to their parte
and Mrs Terill, a pleasing actress, with Niel'
ood, who acted the discreet but indulgent mother
with discriminate judgment, also played with
great spirit.- In the second piece - the cast waif!.
equally good, and, in addition, Mr Bascomb
dre.,.ed and aetea the part. of brolherto the soldier's
da nover with' his usual taste and neatness.
hroughent the performance Miss Keene carried.
with her the sympathies of the audience. Whether
in her patherc or merry moods, tears, smiles and
hearty - laughter made the land applause - of the
sp.e:e...or_, seem genuine. The same charming bill
w.ll fro renewed this evening. .-
Ma. Wotrsonn a OLAteICAI. Sous. - -The
fonrh of the series of classical soirbes, under the
dire,' on of Mr. Carl Wolfsohn, will be given at
the Foyer of the Academy, on Tuesday evening
he programme is en unusually rich and.
int , resting one, and will doubtless act-apt a large .
audience.
LARGE POSITIVE SALE NEXT WEEK OF
ISCELLANEOI7B GOODS.
John B. Myers & Co., Auctioneers, Nos. 232
and :al Market street, will next week hold the
foiloWing sales, by catalogue, on. Four Months''
Credit and pun for cash, viz:
MoNusT, April 4—About 525 lots French; swiss,.
German and British Dry Goods, in Wors.
Woolens, Linens and Cottons, in great
variety of Dress Goods, Veils, Sid Gloves, - Surt-
Urnbrvitas, Paris Corsets, &b.
TussnAy, April s—About 1,100 packages Boot",
Shoes, Army Goods. A general assortment of
prime goods, of city and Eastern manufacture.
THURSDAY April 7—About 775 packages and
lots of American, British, French. and German.
Dry Goods. /cc., including a large line'of gentle'
Fbrah-bing Goods, in great variety.
'FRIDAY, April B—An assortment of .Carpels,
Canton Dlattings, &a.
AT PRIVATE SALE—A valuable Country Seat
and Farm, comprising about 200 acres of well
cultivated land, with large dwelling and out
bouse E. situated near the town of Newark,
State of Delaware: the Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Wilmington Railroad being contiguous:
REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE.
Thontab it Sons have added to their private sale
advertisement a number of desirable properties,
including several of the most valuable estates 'Or
C/vstnut street and other first-rate locations. See
eighth page to day's Butrarrire,
kucnoN NOTICE—SALE OF BOOTS AND
We would call the attention of buyers to the
large and attractive sale of 1,000 cases Boots,
Sloes, Brogans, Baltaorals, Gaiters. &c., to be
acid by catalogue, for cash, on Monday morning,-
April 4, at 10 o'clock precisely, by Philip Ford. ,
& Co , Auctioneers, at their store, Nos. 5
Market and 5..2.9. Commerce streets. •
THOMAS & SONS' SALES MONDAY AND
TUESDAY.
fIONDAY—ELEGANT GERM AN - TOWN RES . /DRUM
AND ruNtrunE, on the premises. East Walnut
lane, commencingpunctually at 11 o'clock. One - ,
of .he handsomest residences in. Germantown.
The sale wia be absolute. See handbills ansi.
ctualogues.
F,urntture, Tuesday, 1110 Chestnut street.
ENAL ESTATE AND STOCE,S. Tuesday, at the-
Exchange. including first-class : Bank and other -
Stc.eks. See advertisements and pamphlet cata
logues issued to-day.
LARGE PEREII/P.TOIGY SALES EXTRA VAIIIABLD
FINAL ESTATE - 13th IDST...--o.lle Of the largest sales,-
Ibis season, and comprising some of the most
'Valuable property—Coar. LANDS, COUNTRY
:RATS, ELEGANT AN AO PL./DT CITY DWELLING%
by urt of Chpbans' Court, Executors, Trustees,
Assignees and others, to be sold peremptorily.
See advertisements, auction head, and for Coat
Lards. Chef tout street Store, &c., last page yes
terday's Er.I.LNTIN. -
How THEY TREATED COPPERHEADS 131 1775.
—ln looking over a sermon, the other thy,
says the Lebanon Courier, preached by Rev.
Dr. Schruucke; we found a letter introduced
n the sermon, written by Rev. Dr. Helmuth,
an old Lutheran father, dated February 25th,
1775, in which that old divine, in speqking of
the ardor of our fathers in the Revolution says:.
“The whole population from New England to
Georgia is of oue mind, and determined to risk
life and all things in defence of liberty. The
few who think differently are not permitted to
utter their sentiments."
SALE OF VALUABLE IRON IVOiLK9_.-IVTB. M.
Watts, E q., has disposed of the Pine Grove
"Iran Works," situated in Penn township,
Cumberland county, to Jay Cooke & Co.,
Philadelphia, for the sum of two hundred and
thirty-five thousand dollars. These Iron
Works are among the most valuable in the-
State, and are well worth the purchase money.
Thos. A. Scott, Esq., of the Pennsylvania,
Railroad, is ate of the parties to the purchase,
in connection with Jay Cooke & Co.—Harris—
burg Telegraph.
A MAGNIFICENT DONATION AND COMPLIMENT
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA. YACHT.
Crxn.- 7 -The proprietors and guests of the Con
tir.cntal Hotel started the first subscription for
I the three prizes to be presented to the runnings
yachts in the first Grand Annual Regatta,
- which will take place on 'the 2d !Tuesday in
T
Jure. The -subscriptions muted to One
hundred and fifty-five dollars. Tile prizes will be
of silver, appropriately and beautifully de
signed, and will cost not less tlian $5OO. The
order wasgiven to Messrs. Lado'mus & Co.
i
FEDERAL HILL DisArrEertnm.—Every heavy'
rain wbieh falls in this city helps to wash away -
Federal Hill, upon whose crowning summits e,
very formidable fort has been erected, occupied
by a half regiment of artillery. The hills which.
frontupon Hughes street are gradually tumbling,
down on the roadside, and the bed of the street
is so much obstructed as to be well nigh int
passoble. Already the abettis in some of the
angles of the ramparts are undermined to such,
an extent asto p.reate doubts of their permanew
cy.—Baltimot+American.
FITTING TRIIIIITE.—The employes and °l=-
leers of the Michigan Southern Railroad Com—
pany have united in purchasing a monument to
be erected at Adrian in memory of the late John .,
D. Campbell, former Superintendent of_ the:
road. The monument is to cost $2,000. It is:
to be exceedingly tasteful, being a shaft twenty •
feet in height of pure marble. The tablet base
is to bear the name and inscription With then
symbolic addition of a T rail in bas-relief as its. •
ornamentation. '
Wan Drc.vs.—Wild ducks are said to be ast
I-abundant now in Middle and Back rivers,.
Maryland, as at any time during. the fall and_
winter. The ducks are now in fine condition,
and a number of persons have gone to the pro—
minent points to enjoy - the pleasure of a day't
shooting. Ordinarily the ducks leave thek
waters of the Chesapeake about the first of
...April, but they are unusually plenty at thif<•
time.
To WASIIINGTON.—The 12th Regiment Ve.
teran Reserve 'Corps, stationed at Elmira, has
been oidered to report at Washington.A