4 ti I f 5 $ FRIDAY, MAY 10. W6l *orever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before sa? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet. And Freedom's banner streaming seer "1 FORNEY'S CALIFORNIA PRESS will be reedy TO-Ditr. at 4 P. M. rime Six C'EXTe per copy in strong wrappers, and tamped. ready for medlar. Thus paper us pobtuthed expreladY for CALfrodrNIA. CIRCULATIOA, Alia contains a complete summary of what has trams tared in our City. State, and the Atlantic States, since the departure of the last steamer for Californm Robbery Legalized. Governor BROWN, of Georgia, is a repre sentative Secessionist. There is an individu ality about him which charms us. He is the ANACAARRIS CLOOTZ of the Southern Revolu tion, and is quite as fall of strange fancies and dangerous measures as was the Prussian baron. His career since the commencement of this contest lies been a career of sensations, and in this peculiar branch •of the business we think he has given his fellow-conspirators great cause for jealousy. His message to the Georgia Legislature secured him an edito rial in the London Times, and we doubt whe ther the eloquence of Mr. - YANCEY has ob tained even a notice. He declared war against the State of New York, seized the ships of its citizens, had columns of his cor respondence with Governor Monosnr pub liehed in the Northern papers, and would have done marvellous things if the Confede rate Government had not superseded him. The Governor was ambitious, too, and, we are told, had his agents at Montgomery for the purpose of pleading his noble qualities with a view to the Presidency • but the Congress could not share the Governor's appreciation of himself, and selected Mr. JEFFERSON Ha vre. This was a severe shock to the Go vernor, and he has been of a rather retiring disposition since. We certainly had no idea of disturbing the Governor in his seclusion, but he has made hie appearance again as the champion of the most dangerous and indefensible dogma that law as yet been advanced by the Rebels of the South. His proclamation we print elsewhere. It legalizes the repudiation of all debts owing to the people of the North by citizens of the State of Georgia, and furnishes many argu ments in favor of this high-handed and un justifiable proceeding. The preamble to his proclamation is extremely interesting as a specimen of Southern rhetoric. He gives the North a new name, and speaks of the Eastern, Middle, and Western States as cc that part of the bite United States of America known as the anti-slavery States," and declares that, in consequence of their eg oppressive and wicked conduct," war actually exists. In his cata logue of grievances, the people of Georgia are gravely told that ig property belonging to the citizens of the State of Georgia, when ever found within the anti-slavery States, is seized and forcibly taken from its owners." For these reasons, and many others equally as true, the Governor commands all the citi zens of Georgia who may be indebted to citi zens of the North, or any States of the United States, to abstain from the payment of those debts. Thhi epodes ef commercial dishonor and robbery is made to serve the, financial necessi ties of the Confederate States. All people of Georgia owing such money are directed to deposit it with the State Treasurer for the use of the Montgomery Government—the State to pay seven per cent. interest and return the money when the war is over. This financial palxiotic plan the Governor earnestly com mends to the people, as enabling them to per form a patriotic duty, and at the same time have "a safe investment and the highest security" for their stolen property. It is very evident to us that this plan of the Governor will be followed throughout the South. The banks of Georgia are already making collections for Northern houses and placing the proceeds to the credit of tbe State. The Rebels find themselves drifting into a war without money to pay its unavoidable ex penses ; with neither permanent revenue, nor hopes of ontaining any ; and they resort to robbery and repudiation. To be'sure, it is a system at variance with every consideration ct . honor and prudence ; were it otherwise, it would have no place in the plans of Secession. From this "wicked and oppressive Govern ment" they have actually stolen every musket, pound 'of powder or percussion cap, with which they are seeking to murder our citizens and dishonor our flag, and now they are try lag to steal every dollar. The fertile mind of Mr. &Emma invented a genteel phrase for this species of swindling, and defended it as a eg reversionary right," but the world, which is neither as considerate nor as delicate as the if Vice President," will call it by a harsher and a more appropriate name. There is nothing permanent in a rebellion like this. The leaders do not exhibit the simplest forethought. Everything is spas modic, delusive, uncertain, and temporary. They seem to think there is no to-morrow. What other communities reltictantly attempt as a last resort, they adopt as the first. In deed of seeking the friendship or the sympa thy of the civilized world, they take the course which will certainly prevent it. The most ma terial interests their people can possess are recklessly and irretrievably ruined. When a State thus deliberately repudiates its most sa cred obligations to one party, what confidence can it claim from another ? The example of Georgia—and it will, we think, very soon be that of the whole South—will forever close against them the coffers of every capitalist in the world. Of course, this will cause much distress among those in tne .North who are engaged in Southern trade, or have investments in the South. It is the duty of the General Govern ment to see that their interests are protected and their grievances redressed. The Govern =at should compel the payment of every dollar these people owe to our people, with interest upon the same, and we have no doubt that before this contest is at an end such a policy will be carried into effect. TVE I , OI4.OWENG patriotic letter of the Se cretary of the Ladies' Washington National Monument Society, at the city of Washington, will-be read with great pleasure by AP Who, feel an interest in the completion of that glorious work. It would be a shame if the American people did not step forward in this crisis and Contribute to the completion of the monu ment I Mss. ------, Ties rieeiamat of th e Ladies' Washington National monument soma, tor tae State tit Dun NADAX : Your letter of the 20th nit., in forming me of the transmission of $59.02 to the Tres serer of the Washington National Itionument Msoo atlon, has bean received. I was gratified to find that you rememhered and recalled with pleasure our old friendship, and grieve to think that a friendship begun in happier days. slumtd be renewed under olresunstanees so disastrons. Like you, I will not speak of politics ; but what bar/ the monument to the great founder of human liberty to do with politica? Ifis fame and name belong not to the North or the South, the East or the West, not to 0117 continent, but to th e world; and a monument to one born not for au age, but for all time" should be, and will be, a shrine to which every portion of our country, divi ded or united, may contribute, and at which every patriot may worship. The soil upon which it stands, selected by him self for the metropolis of the country which he founded, like the home in which he lived and died and is entombed, is neutral and holy ground, whore all discordant opinions should be forgotten —all enmities laid aside. I trust, therefore, that you will not Cease your exertions to aid in the erection of a memorial to the only man, of whom it can be truly said that his blameless life, and inestimable benefactions to the human race, have entitled him to a place in our hearts beyond that of all men in ancient or modern times. Very tray yours, do., Arms M. Cosnr, Secretary of the Ladies' Washington LZationai Monument Satiety. Err The communication signed se Ohio" will appear to-morrow. European Affairs. We have Intelligence from Europe as late as the 28th of April. American affairs were engrossing public attention to the exclusion of all matters of local interest. The intelli gence of the fall of Sumpter had been re ceived in London, creating a sensation among the people, and depressing English funds slightly. It is evident, from the :one of the London Times, that the people of England had not heard of the great uprising among the people of the North, and the determined stand of the Administration in relation to the rebellion. There had been a large decrease of bullion in the Banh of England. Our advices from Italy are obscure. The people appear to be turbulent and restless— the natural result of the sudden change from a despotism to a liberal monarchy. The Go• vernment was acting with firmness, and in many of the provinces had proclaimed martial law. French troops were being sent to Rome. This strikes us as rather singular, considering the position which LOUIS NAPOLSON wee said to be assuming on the vexed Roman question. It is difficult for us to divine the motives of the Emperor, and this latest move is charac teristically mysterious and embarrassing. The reconciliation between GARIBALDI, CavOua, and Opthenu had produced great eatlafaction throughout Italy, and will be hailed with pleasure by every lover of Italian liberty in America. GARIBALDI was about to return to Caprera from Turin. The troubles in Poland have assumed no new aspect. Russian troops were garrisoning the towns, and every prepa. ration had been made to preserve order. The Progrees of the War. The organization of the Northern regiments is rapidly progressing, and we shall shortly be able to place in the field an immense army of brave and determined men, who will be well drilled, well equipped, and weli armed. In the South they are equally active and energetic. In fact, for the moment nearly their whole population appears to be in an almost frantic state of excitement, and every man is com pelled to bear arms, whether he favors or op poses their cause. It is, of course, impossi ble, in a protracted war, for any nation to send forth to battle her whole able-bodied male population ; and. those countries can boot maintain a contest where the important indus trial pursuits of peace are vigorously prose cuted, and means thus acquired for paying the enormous expenses which are rendered neces sary. In this important requisite, as well as in our superiority in wealth, numbers, naval strength, credit, and resources, we have an overwhelming advantage over our antagonists.. While our armies are being fitted out in vast numbers, a general sense of peaceful security pervades our whole people, and they retire to their conches at night with no dread of a servile insurrection, no fears of an invasion, and no-doubts of the complete triumph of the national cause. While hundreds of thousands of volunteers freely tender their services to the Govern ment, and are anxious to do their full duty in defending it, an immense population is left be hind, usefully employed, which will keep our treasury full, and supply every national want. THE DEBATE in OUT City Councils yesterday assures us that the members of that body are anxious to do everything in their power for the comfort of the volunteers arriving in this city. The ordinance of Mr. LYND was eini. neatly proper under the circumstances, and we only regret that it did not pass the Select branch. The view of the case presented by Mr. Caassos when speaking of the Ohio troops was sensible and just. Even it the statements of Mr. HARPER in relation to the commanders of these troops were true, we do not see that they relieve the city from the censure which has been placed upon it. It is the duty of the city to see that every arrangement 18 made for the comfort of those who come to it in the service of the Republic, and our municipal ru lers owe it to their constituents that these ar rangements are made. THE uttxuntryr exhibited by our legisla tors at Harrisburg is one of the moat grati fying proofs of the patriotic feeling now per vadbag the State of Pennsylvania. The House of Representatives yesterday, by a unanimous vote, passed a hill creating a loan of three millions of dollars. l his is for the purpose of raising fifteen regiments for the service of the State in addition to those required by the. General Government. This will raise the number of regiments contributed by Penn sylvan% to flfty-flve. It is understood that these additional regiments will go Into camp for instruction in accordance with the pro visions of a bill we published some days since, and hold themselves ready tor any demand of the General Government. Ws EXPECT important intelligence from Harper's Pony. It is said the force of Bocce sionlats now there numbers six thousand. A regiment of Kentuckians had arrived. The Secessionists had crossed the Potomac, and were entrenching themselves on the Maryland side of that river, in anticipation of an attack trom the United States forces. It is probable that the Brat duty of the Northern troops will be the recapture of the Government property at this 'place, and as the destination of most of the regiments which have loft here is unknown, we may expect, in a few days, to hear of their being on the Virginia border. WE HATE HEARD nothing definite from the regiment of Philadelphia volunteers which left here on Tuesday morning under com mand of Colonel PArrnasos. We have ades patch from Baltimore, which mentions the arrival of two thousand troops from Perry. vile at Locust Point. We suppose the Phi. ladolphia regiment was among the number. It is not known whether they proceeded to Washington or stopped at the Relay Rouse. A subsequent despatch confirms our suppo sition as to the arrival of the Philadelphia vo. funteers at Locust Point. Their destination is, however, unknown. • WASIUNGTON CORIMPONMOE Letter from "s Occasional." (Correspondence of The Press.] WAsHoGros, May 9, 1861 Already the hostile newspapers are beginning to talk of the next Presidential elation, and to eng geet selfish motives as the causes prompting many of the prominent men in their devotion to the Re public. Where they cannot find fault, they insinn ate and suspect. Some of the ready writers of the late Breckinridge journals in the free States are oeginniog to talk of the dangers of a military des potbm, and, in a newspaper nod before me, I per ceive a long article dedicated to the idea that out of this struggle must arise a candidate for the Pre 'Menu, who will absorb the rights of the people, and establish a Government of foree-_—in fact, making the laurels to be won in the prepent con- ' filet so strong a title to the possession of supe rior power, as to obliterate all aspirants in private life, and to make the Government itself a sort of copy of the French empire under Na poleon. These are the means need by the enemies of the country to divide its friends. Wherever you observe theories like these, rest assured that those who suggest them are opposed to_the_preeent noble attitude of the people of the loyal State" of the traton. After all, is not thli Idea of the ambition of successful soldiers a mise rable fallacy? The first President of the 'United States was George Wallington, who won his lau rels in the tented field, and the next greatest An . drew Jackson, another hero, and yet what two Administrations have refleeted more lustre upon our name? It cannot be doubted that if Gen. liar limo or Gen Taylor had lived, the fact that both bad distinguished themselves by opposing the ene mies of the country, would not have rendered their Adthinistratious unworthy , of respect when com pared with the Administrations of most of their predecessors. At no period in our history bait our national character been so degraded awunder that eminent civilian, James Buchanan. It seems to me that the profession of arms inspires a man with patriotism, teaches hint the value of truth, de prives him of selfishness, and induces hint to des plea a coward, a liar, and a mercenary. I am sick of these constant references to the failures of governments dead and gone. Is it in rea son that beoauee the liberties of the people of the ancient republics perished under the rale of brutal military despots, that we may not set a new example to coming generations on these shores, by proving that a soldier may preside over our destinies, and dispense-blessings and benefits instead of curses? A new light ha" beamed open our people. We have discovered that our public *pinion is not weikened, but rather strengthened, by an admixtruro of the martial spirit ; and we are now realising that, if this Government of ours is to succeed, it will only be when the edicts of the people, fairly expressed, are backed up by the strong arm of the Government, aided by a power ful army and navy. It is true, the mere politi clans may not like to see their trade of . seeking and amusing office superseded by our gallant sol diers and seamen ; but may not the people, in the long run, be aided? There may be many candle dates for the Presidency among thole who are a seietteg the Government in its present peril. I have heard the name of the young Governot of Rhode Island, Kr. Sprague, suggested; sad more than one observer of his disinterested an a lt d r ne trthoas been dictatedtiootionbasremwairtt a remarked a th in s g t le a e ll ye tti t a o t th h e e h highest position in the gift of the people. Major Anderson, the silent and unostentatious Seidler, is another of those who have been named in the same connection, and doubtless there are many un fledged candidates among the thousands now ready to defend the flag of the country. And what if it is so? No harm can come to the Ameri can people if any one of these brave men should be sleeted President of the United States in INC Jefferson Davis and all his school have been preaching for years against the horrors of a mili tary rale, and yet their whole enterprise depends upon the butt that they protege to be better fight- Mg men than the Northern people. The Southern country J/1 to-day a mere reflex of those nations that are oppressed by successful soldier!. For my own part, I am glad that the tempting prise of the Preeldeney Is held out to all Who are ambition!, of distinction in elk great straggle. It will nerve them to f allowed exertions end to renewed awl- . floes, and if we can emerge from it with an eatab. Celled Government, able to protect and perpetuate itself, it matters not to me whether Captain Gene ral Smith or General John Brown fills the place now ocoupied by his Excelleney Abraham Lin ooln, of Springfield, Illinois. What eighte and novelties you , who live in the great cities are deprived of ! If you were here in Waehington, you would not hunger for the opera, or the theatre, for every day some new spectacle is presented. You have bad your excitements— indeed, such as we have not felt. Your multitudes of people, after being patriotically insane for seve ral weeks, have subsided into that dreadful calm whioh shows the sincerity and determination of the first impulse, while we, in this ten-miles square, have preserved the even tenor of our way, more than once doubtful whether we would be permitted to leave it alive, and whether we would ever see again our dear friends at a distance. Bat if you could walk out with me this bright May afternoon I would show you a spectacle that would far surpass those you have lately been en joying.. We have here the peculiar representa tives of the martial American character. The quiet Yankee element, the impetuous rowdy ele ment, the rugged and resolute Western element, the sedate and prudent middle State element, and the aristocratic Seventh Regiment element, all ex hibit themselves in their ehataeterietie way—the one ambitious to excel in sobriety and decorum, the other In noise and confusion, the next in her culean demonstrations, and the last in evidences of gentility and high breeding. They furnish a dramatic illustration of American life, and are an unfailing source of interest to the observer. Letter front 46 Asa Trenchard." Correspondence of The Press.] WASIIIINGTOI CITY: May 10, 1861. Qics vivo ta ? It is the voice of the sentinel. lie is a tall, grim guardsman, with heavy mous tsche, an eye like Mari, and a nose half as'long as his bayonet; he carries a fisroe-looking carbine, which he levels at you until you may see a church yard lull of ghosts down its throat, gar: viva 4e ? He doesn't exactly say those words, but that is their purport, and it brings you to the right-about just as though you were a spinning top. Are you , a man of mettle ? Did you ever run a Sicilian nobleman through the body whilst on your travels? Have you heard lions roar? No? Then halt for your life. These sentries, with their cut•and thrust carbines, and their double-barrelled swords, are terrible fellows to a poor, weak, lone wayfarer; besides, the infernal guns go off sometimes of thei r own heads. Presto ! before you know whether your tout is your own, or whether you stand on your head or your heels, you are precipitated, is is Yancey, into the other world, with an ounce of lead in your brain, among ghouls and goblins, satyrs and Batons, demons and devils, of all shapes, sizes, sorts and conditions, Ugh those blood thirsty firearms, it makes. y blood curdle to think of them. Odds, tombatones—" sacred to the me mory of"—how can all of us be heroes? Let Major Anderson have all, the glory, say I. Gads life'. I'm content to be a plain, civil spoken indi vidual, getting all I can get, and seeing aloan see I don't like powder in my liquor. I prefer brandy straight. This military cooking, blood in your coffee, brimstone over your beefsteak, cap boxes for cups and bayonets for forks, don't snit me any way. Qus vsele la? It is just where the road winds ever the College hill. Three of us, borrowing a little courage from each other's bravado, have ventured out to get a sight of Camp Cameron by night. The sky is over cast with black clouds, floating about over-head, like marching battalions. Now and then a cluster of stars glimmer through and light np the gloom of the late hour, for just as we were brought to a stand the far-off Treasury bells strike nine of their harsh, unnatural notes, Lord help them ! " Qui viva is ?" ig A friend—friends," the boldest of us replies. Give the countersign." "The Union." g , Pam ' friends," and the grim, gaunt sentry, with his fierce moustache, hia eye like Mare, and his infernal carbine, moodily passes on kin round, whilst we slowly ascend the hill - it is very dark. On either Me of the road, black with mire from recent mine, and oozing, up through its clay soil little pools, like clotted blood, clumps of trees, casting out their shadows, almost meet in the oentre. Behind us we have left a potters. field; full et yawning graves, and mattered with whitening cattle bones; before as we behold groups of mouldering walls, as frightful and ghastly as the broken grave-stones and rotting skeletons. Pre sently the college looms up, where a few wan lights, feebly struggling through musty window-panes, indicate the peaceful student still tolling over the lamp-scented volume, perchance with weary eyes and haggard cheek; through the trees beyond, the more remote buildings are all an-lighted, peering above the crown of the MU, like scare•orowe in a farmer's field; and just opposite, hid from, us by an intervening declivity and fencing, we MOO the lurid smoke of the eamp.fires of the Seventh, wind ing up over the white tents, which are soon to break upon our half-startled, half-delighted vision, as we gain the summit. There they are, long rows of them—so many and So now to nil, as to appear at first for all the world like a big circus tent. But the eye ex pands and the tents separate, as the flags over each, fanning the smoke upward, proclaim the stars and stripes still there. There they are, their white folds reflecting , back the light of the blazing faggots, and illuminating the whole plain. The panorama thus disclosed the rows of burning heaps, sparkling with flame and jolly as the merry hoes which they reveal around them—some of them eating and some of them drinking; some of them story-telling and some of them song-singing—the long line of *amps dotting the level award, es& entrance bristling with stacked arms, and each tent surmounted by the red, white, and blue ; the distant pacing sentinels, with sombre-hued faces painted by the red glare of the cedar logs ; the lowering clouds, flecked with patches of azure, and the surrounding groves, pierced with flickering light, keep the eye and heart fluttering together. But let us draw a little nearer. From the top of the college-gate we can look directly over the fence into the field, see and hear everything that passes. Reporters must not be too jealous of their digni ty. A gate-post may not be a post of honor, but it may be made a post of profit. Are not they a jolly set of blades, though? - Think of Mickey Free and Fred Power, Major Monsoon and O'Shaughnessy—here they are, come to life again. That handsome young captain, with the light, sparkling eye, is Charley ley himself. The days of the Peninsula said the bivouac rise up out of the post before. Rear them, too ! There's a.olear voice, rolling oat " Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." Away down under the hillock, a crowd are elmunting .Tatrider's new an them, "God Save our President." MOM us, that great-bearded chap, that wears the heavy hat, and carries the terrific axe, and is called the pio neer, has thrown aside the lion's skin, and appears a veritable " Snug the joiner," foi he joins the gay group next to us, and a snug time they are having. What is it he is saying? They are going to have a song ! An original song, too. " It's jests bit of a thing that a body may sing, to set us a-going," says the disrobed pioneer. " I got it up today. Yon won't be critical, you know. Tee musio of it Is the Old Irish Gentleman,' and I'll call it THE BALLAD OF THE SEVENTH." Come , listen to my sto-y, 3e so - diers. one and all ; I'll tell you of the troubles that to us did befall ; ger I'm one a many in roar Gallant band That has been at the merci of the folks in Maryland. We leftthe girls behind us one week aro to-day. And from old New York barb rwe sadly sal ed sway ; Onr hearts were all behind us—our stomachs looked enbad, And thousht of pork and Magna. on which they would be fed. We sailed from Philadelphia, on next day afternoon, And soon our hopes or slory went up in a balloon ; Our Insions of all comfort were won a perfect wreck Our roof it was the heavens—our couch it was the deck Ship-biscuit and tough hog-meat were rations for us all The quality was tamable, the quantity was AMMO ; Thewater-cask, it soon run short ; we could not get a Inv And all the bore aboard our craft did very soon dry up Amayolis we reached at last—Wan on s Monday night; The boys. like Mose, of Bowery fame, were oiling for &fiat; And toiled, and titads and huntry, they marohen up to the Fort. And thought that soldtering, after all, was sot mu& easy.. snort. We started next for Waphington, and walked the Bounty'', (Oar: &Loh a God-forsaken country we ne'er had seen be• fore; We soon had reached the Jenetion. and felt each per foct bun, That we looked ahead to WaShiestoll, sad minted An. anvils. And now we are in Washington. Upon Meridian hill. Adored by all the girl. from the" Grounds" to Pierce's Lthll, And thu You may MY upon, wherever we may bee Our motto is 4 * Oar Country, our God and Liberty." Before he had conoluded—and he sang remark ably. veg.—quite a little conoonree had collected, who loudly joined in the applause. We on the tt post" joined especially in the encore, where upon a sentry came over our way and requested us, with the oompliments of Major whom we THE PRESS.-PHLIADELPHIA, FRIDAY. MAY 10, 1801. knew, and who it seems had recognised us, to make the party comfortable by ourpresenoe. Gratified with the consideration paid us we obeyed, became in time courageous, tilted loudly, swore some regi. mental Baths, and before;we bad quitted the place had even gone so far as:to pipe a atm! db, these soldiers! don't trust : yourseivea with ithemeforif, they don't shoot yen, they; are sure to make yon-so drunk you won't be able twiny you're sober in a week. Sad dogs, the dogs of war—and ne sadder ones than the dashing, slashing, brilliant blades of the far-famous Seventh Regiment—long life t it_ and good luck to boot. AllA Tamscamto. LATEST NEWS. By Telegraph to The Pram PROM WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to " The Press.' WasaraaTon, May 9, 1881, The West Wing of Wilattrd , s Hotel de - stroyed by Fire. Willard's Hotel narrowly escaped this miming from destruction. At 4° l 4:flock the bells awoke Mar claims from their slumbers. On going to my win. dow, I sew a thick, compact volame of smoke rising in the direction of the President's Mansion. lielow me, ow the Avenue, like a dark eloud;:movieg at rapid rate, I could just recognize, in the dim' light of returning day, a company of New York Firemen Zottaves. • I imieediately° followed them up the .Avenue, and on the way ascertained that the fire was In Willard's Hotel. Stepping 'out upon the middle of the - Avenue, I could, though still a.long distance off, see the flames darting out from ,the front windows of the first, second, and third stories. A nearer approach to the prearilses enabled me to see that the main building was yet uninjured, and that the fire was spreading xapidly in'the exten sive, west wing of. the hotel.. It originate 4 in Owan's gentlemen's furnishing store, in theiSs; meat of the west wing, and - had-worked well up into the third and fourth stories before fire wa r covered. The first engine that' reached the spot was drawn by the Newark (N. J ) firemen, betting ing to the New Jersey regiments. The citizen iire,„ men followed with another engine, whiehAekteve York Zonaves immediately manned. The Zouaves still remaining in their quarters could no longer be restrained. The sentinels left their poste, and rushed from the doors of the Capitol. The regiment followed, with the permission of -their officers, given when they could no longer'restrain* the determination of the men to go, though they were not then aware of the extent of the fire. On their way up the Avenue 'they found one of the engine houses near the Central market still nn-_ opened. They forced thedeer, and put the tub" up the Avenue, at a rate that made the few native firemen who began to gather on the Avenue feel that they were superseded. Bithe time the-se cond instalment of Zouaves reached the hotel, the front of °wines store was burnt out, and the lire was gaining headway rapidly in , the upper stories, which were occupied as bed-rooms of the hotel. Men with earpet-bags were emerging in rapi d _ nue cession fro the hotel, furniture from the fromwine was carried out from the rear, and the hotel was Invaded •by firemen. The New York boys, to gain a rapid ascent to the top of the - building, called for ladders, but there were none on the ground, and no appearance of any coming.' They sprang to the windows of the telegraph office, between the burning atom and the main entrance to the hotel ; from the window they , raised mem ben of the company on their shoulders to the next window, and theme they continued from window to window until the top of the building was gained —an adventure worthy of great commendation, as it was accomplished only through heroic daring and effort.. Hose pipe was immediately handed up, and water applied to the flames, which had then broken out on the roof of the wing. More ' engines arrived. The New Jersey and New York men worked heroically, and a prospect of saving the main building began to be realised. The New York firemen and your correspondent among the first of them, gained the summit of the main building, from which we could look down upon the roof of the wing, then - nearly- all covered with flames and burning rapidly. The covering of, the roof was a composition of tar, Ac., which fed the fire, and increased the amount of flame, rising up toward the fiat roof of the_main building, which wM also covered with a similar material, but thickly eovered with gravel. Orders' were given from the roof far water. The h• • " Gould not reach to the height required ; neither could the best engine throw up a stream. The Zoutives immediately formed in rinse down through the several stories, to the hydrants in:the lower stories of the building, and seizing lambing-pane,, basins, and whatever vessels they could find-in the daterted bedrooms, they passed water from hand to hand up to the roof, which they thus succeeded in kMplug wet, while firebrands were falling thick' and fast among them. Duringthis time the 'testi playing of water on the fire in the front-part of the wing kept the' Mates subdued. - Tbe fire .worked back in the wing, which was_ mventy-five feet. deep, until it wee ounplemly burnt-out -boot fro • to rear , leaving nothing but tha;:wsillt.' , fol, exertzens and excellent manageintnit of the Zou-' awes, it was, however, confined to that locality. and the main building was saved wholly through their exertions. Occes 'ORAL Appreolating their noble' exertions, Mr. Wm- YARD mime out, when ell d • ngerof the main buil& ing was over, and in - a neat speeoh to the New York and New Jersey firemen, acknowledged their noble conduct, and invited them all In to breakfast: Their captains, in a few words, told them to advance in order, and after -partakidg of, refreshments, report themseivea at quarters. Ina ehort time they were 'seen returning the engines,' and proceeding to their quarters in an orderly and unostentatious meaner. That the 'laving of the hotel ores due to the Zotravea and New Jersey firemen, there is not a doubt. The wind, though not strong, WM blowing direotly upon the hotel, and so intone° was the heat that the windows on that aide of the main bolding could o h o ea ul t d . not be, approached Witlio"ut'auffering fro m biltnnonat's drug store, the telegraph erase, end BistioP's periodiaal store—all between the en• trance to WILLARD'S and Ownst's Store, where the lire originated—were injured by water, and the goods nearly all destroyed... . The fire is supposed to bave bees the work of An incendiary. We have no eteam•fire engines ; and the ordinary. engines in the city appear not to be well mental, The New. York boya complained that they would not discharge freely—that the tub wee easily tilled but not so easily discharged. Thin, probably, was owing to the imperial' forms, which they applied to them, demanding a dlicharge beyond their capa city. It is quite evident that the steam engines are much needed. The city is not mate now without them; and Ulm hoped' that the antboritlea will it once make a purohale of two or three of those ins- , perior engines built in your city—the best, accord• ing to the experience of the New York Zonaves, built in the world. After the fire was subdued; Idojor- ditrutasott appeared at one of the windows of Willard's Hotel. He was immediately recognised, and three hearty cheers went up for the gallant hero of Sumpter, ?which he politely acknowledged ty a graceful bow to the " boys:" A, rival ot the Fourth Pennsylvania Re- gluier/S. Last evening the Fourth Penn4liratile. Regiment arrived via Annapolis, and were Astartered in the Assembly Rooms, on Louisiana avenue. They nave been three weelts on the route, and have done good service at- Annapolis, where alterations on the railway and improvements are going on whieh require the labor of large numbers of men. There are ten companies in the regiment, and between 800 and 900 men, under the following officers Colonel—Jose F. HAHYRANNT. Lieutenant Coionel—EnwanD SCHALL. Major—EDWIN BONALL. Sergeant Mejor--Mtax Maroarr. Captains—BoLvort, T A I.L OR, OffAHMALINB, COOK, Doom, AMYX, Scasim, ArautnetroD,Banoxs, SHYDKR. Instructions to Mr. AdamSi ===Ms=l oratory of State to inducts hint to 'consent to the publioation of his instroodons to Mr. Adame, United States minister to the Court of St. James,: but he declines. The recently-published letter; to .Mr. Dayton is well understood to be an Index to the entire European correspondences. The temper,. spirit, and purpose have, been the same in Oil oases from the beginning of the Administration. It is understood that the Government has re.„ oeived from Mr. Dallas the minutes of his in terview with her Majesty's Minister of Foreign Affairs, and on these the instructions to Mr. Adams are predicated. The result of a careful inquiry justifies the assertion that there is no indieation or prospect of the recognition of the Confederate States by any of the foreign Powers against the protest of the Administration. Mr. Preston's next despatches from Spain, in reply to a demand for explanations relative to the annexation of San - Domingo, and also about the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, are looked for with mob interest. Kr, g ra t a is a Kentuckian ; is loyal, and is understood to be acting in such a manner as to meet the appro bation of the Administration. All the foreign ministers are anxiously making daily inquiries about the application Of the block ade but not a word of complaint has been made by any of them. The Lady Volunteer Nurses. Hundreds of ladles, of various parts of the coun try, and evidently, as appears from their letters, of character and refinement, and aotuated by me. tives of charity and patriotism, have offered their services to the War Department as„ nurses, eto., and those of a number of them have been accepted. It may be of interest to such volunteers to learn that letters on this subject' referied to the Acting Burgeon, Gen. Woid, who will direct the proper answers. Resignation of Judge Searbury. A report prevails that Judge Scanarray, of the Court of Clans, hie resigned. UoJaetiliable Homicide. At Ohms o'clock last evening, one of our °Menu was allot, en the Avenue, opposite the National Hotel. The lad, Jona it -.noway"), belongs to the DietropUtan Rifles, (Dlstrlot and, .for some• misdemeanor, .be and some comrades Were arrested by lour policeman, who were . on , their way with- them tolthe -guard house , when ts Ho.anso eluded their hold, and dodged behind a carriage in front of the hotel. In an instant a pistol wee fired by one of the polioemen, supposed to bis NOranne, who, for some time, eluded detec tion, or be would probably have been disposed of by the military as summarily as be disposed of poor ROWAstro. The other three offieers gave themselves up, and Henna, was soon after brought to the guard-house, where the four were confined for examination., Arrivals, ALe., at the Navy Yard,. There are daily arrivals of ateamera and pro pellers at the navy yard with troops, horses, hay, ammunition, and military and naval stores. The steamer Roanoke, with infantry and sappers and miners from Massachusetts, has just discharged her freight of military stores. The steamer Pl'ala delphio has returned from a cruise down the river, bringing from Annapolis a portion of the Seventy first --regiment. .The large steamer Cambridge, from Boston, carrying seventy-two men and armed with Awo rifled cannon and two heavy columblads, Isjosisiinfiel. She is laden with army stores from Boston, and colambiade and shell from Fort Mon roe.- Bhe brought lour companies; of the Massa chusetts-Third and Four4h regiments from Boston le Fort Monroe. -Her commander reports having sten no batteries or hostile demonstrations along t'ae river. During the last twenty-four hours the steamers Pocahontas, Catiline, Arttson, Chesapeake, Robert Leslie, Anacostia, Balti more, and Wide-Awake have gone down the -Potomac from the navy yard. Nearly all of these steamers:brought stoma and ammunition on their iaward trip. A /sting Train:with Stores, &c, —A:"train of twenty can came in from Baltimore, with Mores - for the troops. Business is being re- Snag between that - city and Washington. Mail eemmunioation is also established from Washing ton, through Baltimare;to Philadelphia and the North. New York Twelfth Regiment. This fine regiment have gone into their new quarters, in twenty-tiro new buildings put up for :officers and men, on Franklin Square. The ra pidity with which the GoVernment is providing accommodations for' the troops is, indeed, a cause of surprise and praise. The New Ye*. Firemen as Zuuaves The New York Zonaves have given no cause of complaint since Saturday. They have conducted themselves with - great regularity. Lieut. Cot. rAttartan, of the Seventh New York regiment, has been appointed second in command of the New York Zonaves, and from his large experience, firm ness, and decision, is admirably adapted for the post. Major Anderson at 66 Camp Cameron." While the New York Seventh were going through Weir exercises in dress parade, Tnesdey afternoon, ithey were nonored *With st.visit front Major Aw ,nansset. wait received with' militaiy honors, end expressed himself much pleaded with the regi ment. Yesterday, the Beeretaz7 of War was present during their afternoon parade. ' Artillery and Battalion Practice. The Rhode Island Artillery have commenced practice in firing, on the Monument grounds. The lltlassaohnsetts Fifth have selected the same plate f.ir practice in battalion maccouvre. There is daily practice on Capitol Hill by the New York Emma and other regiments, each Tieing with the other in efficiency. Every company in the city is daily en gagedin.military drill; and when we remember that not. a few of the, regiments were made up hastily - from raw recruits, it is conceded, by ea. ports,, that their protiolerary is highly creditable alike to themen and their Officers. Virginians untting the Wires—Alex-, andria The telegraph wires between Alexandria and Waehington have been out and carried away from the Long Bridge down to Alexandria. The Zonaves had received orders to go to Alexandria and take possession of the custom house and Federal pro perty at that place. - Tha fire caused some delay, but they will go down without doubt and be put on gaud over all the 'United States property there. " The New York Tire_ &waves. 1/. ELLSWORTH'S 'regiment .of Zousves will, , to• orrow, encamp on the grounds of the Govern ment Insane Asylum, on the heights overlooking the -Potomac. Their popular: commander speaks in commendation of their general oonduot and im proved discipline. Nut morn than six or ten of •thelintire number have been deemed unworthy of soldierly association. Brevet Brigadier Generals. The President has conferred on Colonel TKO. 'lll.ll and Manortntn the braved title of Brigadier General. -The former is 'Adjatant General, and the latter commandant of the Military Depart . meat of Washington.. Appointments iti* the President. the' PniOdefit has milde the following appoint. manta ---: Isx - ns C. thou, surviior of the CIIBtOMEI at Cairo, Illinois;, 'J. C. Bevaiw„postmaater at Chicopee; Wx H. DZOOSTA, postmacter at Charlestown, Massacihnsetts; JAIStEg LANCASTEIR, postmaster at Burlington, New Jersey. United States Trappe Landed at La■ !' east Point, -fialtimoie. BALTINORX, May 9 . —4.1,11171)111.1 steam transports &dm Perrysville landed about . 2,000 troops at Lo east Feint this afternoon, at' which plane they took the ears for the Relay Rouse. Loisast Point is on the south side of the harbor, in that portion of the eitknown as Federal Hill, about a mile above McHenry.. The presence of the troops was Viewed with eatisfaction by ; the residents of the vicinity, and there were no irutioations or hostility. It is net known whether they proceeded to Wash ington or stopped at the Relay House. & company of eight volunteers from this city passed through Frederick this evening on their way to Harper's Ferry. BALTIMORE, May 9 —Five steamers handed the troops at Locust Point today. They comprised the First Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, under Col. Patterson; the Texas Regulars, andAbermatt's battery. llinon in Western Virginia. A PAST DAY OBSERVED-UNION SERMONS WHEELING, May 9.—To-day was strictly ob• served as a day of fasting and prayer, and patri otic sermons were delivered in nine out of the twelve churches in the city. In the Methodist Church, the pulpit was decorated with the Stare and Stripes. The Rev. Mr. Smith delivered an address worthy of a patriot. He said that he twofold hold no fellowship with traitors, and that if there were Secessionists in his congregation he wanted them to leave. Other clergymen prayed that the rebels might be subdued, or wiped from the farce of the earth. One volunteer company was sworn into the ser vice of the 'United States, and others will take the oath to-morrow. Kentucky Legislature. Lovramt,a, May 9.—The House of Repmenta , tives, yesterday, by a vote of 76 to 7, passed a radolution asking the Governor to oommnnioate tie, names of the agents employed to purohase Mitts, and, if received, what disposition has been me l ds of them. `ln the Senate, Mr. Simpson introduced a resoln• tion; which lies over, requesting the Governor to issue a proclamation forthwith prohibiting the pas sing of armed men from Tennessee or elsewhere through Kentuoky for the purpose of attacking Ga# l e• • The Armee of Kentucky Louravius, May 9—A conference was held• yesterday at Frankfort between Governor Magof- An, J. O. Breekieridge, and K. Hawes, of the one part, and ex-Benators Crittenden and Dixon and judgeYlohobu, of the other. It was agreed to recommend the Legislature to make an appropria tion for arming Kentucky under the direction of a military commission composed of the Governor, tho Inspector General, and another person to be .eeleotisl by the Unionists. It is supposed that 113,900,000 will be required to arm the State. Moveinents of Transports New Warr, May ft.—The steamer Empsre City, witb * .four hundred and forty recruits for tbo Tairteenth New York Regiment and provisions,' sailed for Washington, his afternoon. The steamship Matanzas, with provisions and a oompany of the Seventh New York liniment, sails to-morrow morning. The - steamer Delairuare, with provisions and cannon, sailed this evening for the Philadelphia liar yard- The Fourteenth Brooklyn Regiment has been ordered to Washington, and the eteamsbip Kedar has been °bartered ti ohm theta thither. The Southern Congress. Draw Ottumwa, May 9.—The Congress at Mont 'ombry has been mostly in secret session to•dsy. tt to understood that Congress is engaged in sr isogon:eras for the vigorous and successful prose cution of the war, placing the Confederacy in the best possible condition of defence. It is also un derstood, contrary to what was generally sup posed, that the Confederacy has control of suffi cient arms, ordnance. and ammunition of every description, to put into the fold 100,000 Inn for a year's campaign. southern News via Harrisburg. Houniaauso, May P.—An officer arrived at the Chambersburg amp, bringe intelligeuoe that the Virginians had Seised, on Tuesday ramming, the heights en the Maryland side of the Potomac, at flarper'it Ferry, and were engaged in fortifying Vie number of r Virginia troops is said to be nearly 8 000; the !Ores having been increased by I,2oo,K.entuckians. roar companies of United dtates cavalry, which m arehed from Carlisle Barracks' on Monday, passed unmolested through Maryland; and have mated Gen. Bootre Huai. Maryland REPORT OF TIM OOMMITTEM oA FIXERAL /MLA- Summons, May 9 —Tbe Legislature, in amnion at Frederiek, did nothing of importance to-day. The Committee on Federal Relations made a long •rePort,.pronouneing the war waged by the Govern ment against the Confederated States as nitoonati- Wiens!, repugnant to civilization and sound pO. Bey ; a subversion of the free principles on which the Union was founded ; that whilst the people of Maryland recognize the obligations of the State as a member of the Union to submit, in good faith, to the exercise of all legal and consti tutional powers of the General Government, and to pin es one man In fighting its au thorized battles, they do reverence, nevertheless, the great American principles of self-govern ment, and sympathizing deeply with their South ern brethren, in their noble and manly determi nation to defend the same. The resolution reported by the committee pro_ tests against the war upon the Confederated States, and announces a resolute determination to have no part or lot directly or indireotly in its execution; that Maryland earnestly and anxiously desires the restoration of peace, and implores the President to aocept the olive branch held out by the Confede rated States, whose President has over arid over again deolexed that they seek only self-defenom and to be let alone ; that Maryland desires a peaceful recognition of the independenee of the Con federated States, end hereby gives her cordial assent thereto as a member of the Union ; that the preeent occupation of Maryland for such pur poses is a flagrant violation of the Constitution, and the State hereby protests against the seam, at the same time calling on all good oitizens to abstain from all violent, unlawful interference or every sort with the troops in transit through our territory or quartered amongst us. The last resolution says that, under. existing eiroumatanoes, it le inexpedient to call a sovereign • Convention, or to take any measures for organi zing the militia • Secession V0111E106%4 Leaving Mary. 11.turietons, May IL—Bradley Johnson, a promi• neat Secessionist, has left Frederick, with some eight others; and it is supposed their destination is Harper'', Perry A considerable number have also left this city in companies, going across the Country in the direction of Harper'a Ferry. It is said that not less than three hundred have gone from this oily. FREDERICK, Md., May 9—Two companies of volunteers for the Secession army, from Baltimore, comprising an aggregate of 65 men, passed through here about 10 o clock this morning, on their way to Virginia. They were under the command of Captains Wetmore and Price, and were unarmed. They stopped at Liberty last night. Their approach created an alarm here, and the Home Guard was under arms all night for the pro. teotion of property. They marched through the city protected by General Shriver and the sheriff Their sorry, tattered condition excited ridionle rather than indignation. Arraval of Transports from Fort ' Monroe. Naw Toni, May 9 —The transport steamships Baltic and Kedar have arrived. The latter brings as passengers, from Fortress Monroe, Col -Dim mick's family, and several ladies and children of the other (Moen The troops there were prepared for any emergency. The United States sloop-of-war Cumberland was lying off the fort. The steamer Quaker Ctry was blockading Cape Henry. It was reported that the Virgiziens were fitting out the steamers Yoikunon and Jamestown., for the purpose of running the blockade at the month of the. James river, where the steamer Mantled& is stationed. Batteries aye said to be treating on . Curley island and at Norfolk Point. The report that 5 000 Seca/sionista are stationed opposite Fortress Monroe is unfounded. A Secession flag is still flung at Hampton. The Kedar also brought one of the wounded of the Sixth Illassachneetts regiment, and several soldiers diaoharged on aooount of siokness Capt Blake, of the Navel Sohool, and his family, are also passengers. Itioveineut et Troops. Ravramn, Vt., May 9.—The Vermont regiment of 850 men left ta•day for the seat of war. They will arrive in NeW.York at a late hoar to-night. Nay TORN, May 9 —4oo.men, the reserve of the Thirteenth Regiment, sailed in the steamer Em pire' City to-day for Annapolis or Washhigtm. The steam gun-boat Huntsville has left for Washington. Southern Military Movements. HARRISBURG, May 9.—A Government agent rest from this point, who has been through South Caro- lina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky, telegraphs that be will be in Harrisburg at 3 o'olock tomorrow morning. He reports that there are 25,000 Secession troops within a radios of fifty miles of Richmond, and shout 15,000 in Tennessee and Kentucky, whose destination is supposed to be Cairo. Railroad Accident. DunnQine, lowa, May 9 —As a train on the Du buque and Western Railroad was backing up from Apainacm to Springville, this morning, the rear freight oar ran off the track, throwing Mr. Cum• mange, the conductor, and Mr. Smith, the engineer, who were on the top of the car, to the ground. The oar passed over them, killing both. A man named Winslow was also seriously injured. Steamer Grai Eagle Sunk. Davitarpottv, rowsi; May 9.--The steamer Gray Eagle, while passing through the drew of the rillroad bridge, struck the pier, on the larboard Ade, nutting the boat In two She stink homed. qtely, and - the boat and cargo are a total lose. -It is said that no lives were lost; but it is thought that several persons were drowned. The Snootiug Case at Washington. THE POLICE OFFICZR COMMITTED Wastmvarolt, May o.—An examination, to-day, resulted in the commitment of the night•policensan Evans, for killing Mr. Howard, one of the Distriot of Columbia volunteers, a bzief account of width occurrence was telegraphed last mght. The testi. mony belbre the coroner proved that the killtng was altogether deliberate, and without canoe. /1 was probably owing to General Mansfield'a prompt action that a serious dot did not occur, on the part of the indignant troops, against the police. The Vamp at Cairo CHICAGO, May 0 —l5l en O. ern en of military experi ence, who have been for some days at Cairo, say that no apprehension need be entertained- for the safety of that place, as all that is required to ren der it impregnable, against any forge that can be sent against it, is heavy ordnenee, which is mo mentarily expected to arrive. There - are now five distinct batteries, having a sweep of three miles on the Mississippi, and two miles on the Ohio river. The heavy ordnance. when it arrives, will be planted so as to command Bird Point, on the Nis aouri side, which Is the only practicable side for batteries to operate against Cairo. The Blockade of the Potomac. BRTBONTIOX OF TEN BRIT sextraz, TARBOX AT XAMPTOR. Raw Tons, May .9.—The 'acliooner Gorda lirt, arrived from Baltimore, reports speaking tho sloop of-war Pocahontas on the 4th instant, which was keeping up the blockade of the Potomac,. A - schooner arrived from James River, Virginia, reports that the ship Samuel Tarbox., which ar rived at Hampton Boade on the 4th instant for or dere, had been detained by the Secessionists TWO DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. The Steamship Africa at New York. Ntsw YORK, May 9 —The royal mail steamship Airsee arrived at this port at noon.. Bar adviesii, via Queenstown, are to the 28th ult. The Africa brings £2 300 in Equate. She passed the steamer America, bound to Liverpool, on the 2Stb ult. The foreign political news is unimportant. The opening of hostilities in America engroesed public; attention. Affairs in Poland are = =changed. The built in the Bank of England had de creased .t 15,000 during the work. THE LATEST. Ltsiseroor., Anril 28 —The inenrreeticnary movements in the Neapolitan provinces are spread ing, and martial law has been proclaimed in Abrussa end other places. Military executions have taken plum at Verona. The Italian soldiers have been repulsed atillm tefiede. There have been disturbances by the Ga. rihaldians at ()ours* 'Reinforcements are de- manded from Turin. The *mini' of Rome h being relieved by other French troop. The inhabitants of Roselle having offered resist awe to the soldiers, they set tire to their houses, and 'the mountaineers being exasperated have joined the hands of OBBA.T BRITAIN. Losnos, April 2E3.-=The conservatives have re solved to strenuously oppose Mr. Gladstone's budget. The Fort Sumpter 'Mr has created conside rable sensation, and depressed the English funds slightly. • The London Times considers it inexplemble, and says that many a bar-room diffieulty has won stoned more bloodshed. The steamer Great Eastern was in the hands of the sheriff, under execution for Scott Russell's olelm. She area still advertised to pail on the let of May, and the company had offered to deposit the amount claimed, in order that the ship should be released till the difficulties are finally adjusted. FRANCE. Choutootanocto confirm tbo atatemoot that the Primeh troops will emanate Syria about the Sib of "Jona. The Bourse on the 26th was animated, and hither. Rallies 68£ 65e. The difficulties of the Greek houses at Mar seilles were being adjusted by the co-operation of the banks of France and England. - The perfect reeonelliation between Garibaldi, Cavonr, and Ciaidini has given great satisfaetion. Garibaldi has left Turin, and after spending a few days with the Marquis di Pallaireni will proceed direct to Capron. DENMARK.. The Government has released the sailors re cently called out. provided they do not go beyOnd the roach of recall ac the shortest notice. RUSSIA Affairs at Warsaw continua unchanged. All the towns in Poland are occupied by troops. Commercial Intelligence. ()NEON.Mo"ii Y MARRIVT-9eturdey evening.— Money was in more /lammed, to. d im . corrals elms at 91%89 X. HAVRE (OTT() • MARKET—Wedneaday.—The market of dull and prmes west. /few Orleans bar 99 . Pelee of the week, T.OOO bales. htook port, VO One baler LIVERPOOL RICRADSTEFFS MARRET.—The weather be. been favorab'e for the mope Flour dell; 9.00‘1111q119 pomi9M. Wheat quiet. Corn dull an d tree! Mitred : mixed Skalds fd. LAWS PKOVI9IOII MAR ICRT.—Beef steedY. Pork steady. Beam - must. but rather firmer. Lard dull. Tallow firmer. -1 Zot Ashes Arm at ns 6 dONVI 6 Pearls fine at EU. LIVeRPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—ttusar firm, but (dome quiet. - quiet. Nies quiet. and Suet lower. Rosin firm. and 'Weakened Seed on • infer or qualities ‘• sates at 4s.lodeffs. Turpentine Sonia firm at mitt Sde Meals kl to arrive. _ ifATIssT. _ Ams t e t v . o r w r i Mpril 27.—elalsp of Gotten to - day-10.004 • Lar.'sdatiiir..°ol:fr°4l7 4 4=; ', and '1 " , • borrpop A ril p r.—C,opeoln ° 93,if.OPJfi for money and WKICIT3 for amount, PENESTLVARLS. LEGISLATURE. BPEOIAL SESSION. BAREIBIIITRO, May 9, 1851. SENATE The Senate wee celled to order at 11 o'el.lok by the SPNAKER BILLII IA maci Mr. Onynan, joint resolution relative to pro curing standards for the several Pennsylvania re giments in rervioo, or to be hereafter Galled into service. HILLS COSSIDEARD Mr. FussEr moved to resume the oonaideration of an ant to provide stationery and postage for the soldiers of this State drafted into the service of the United States, which was agreed to, and the bill passed Mr. Baraion called up joint resolution to admit the Jefferson Riflemen, of Virginia, into camp in Pennsylvania, which passed finally. Mr. PRNNET. from the Judiciary Committee, reported back the stay law, which, on motion, was taken up, and debated upon various amendments until the adjournment. AFTERNOON SESSION The consideration of the stay law was resumed, and much discussion was had upon it. It was finally amended by striking out the pro. visions prohibiting the sale of collatorala, and pro viding that the security that may be given may be real or personal estate. The bill prohibits the issue of execution for interest on judgments of less than five hundred dollars. This does not apply to widows, orphans, and minors, nor does the aot apply to debts °entree:6d after its passage. Some other amendments were made, and the bill then passed finally. Adjourned. BOLTS Speaker Davis o►lled the Rouse to order at ten o'clock. The reading of the journal wee dispensed with. MILLS ream Mr. Beim milled up the act to authorize the Commissioners of Schuylkill county to appropriate $3O 000 for the support of the families of volunteers in that county. Mr. Cahn made an explanation, showing the necessity fora law of this kind in Ochuylkili county. The bill was passed. RILPORT FROM TILL MILITARY COIIMITTRS Mr. SIELTZSIt reported, with Et negative recom mendation„ the joint resolution providing for a school for mstruotion in military taotios. VETO 2,16861.1.0 E. The teenage of the Governor vetoing the bill for the construction of a bridge over the Schuylkill at South street was called up On motion, the fur ther consideration of the veto was postponed until after the loan bill was disposed of. • , The act to create a loan, and provide for arming the skate, was resumed. Before the adjonrnment last night, Mr. Cora.me offered an amendment to provide for a Board of bupply, to be hereinafter provided for, which Board is to be chosen by both Houses in Joint convention. It gave rice to a spi rited discussion. The vote being taken, the amendment was pawed—yeas 43, nays 40. The question this morning was on the amendment of idr Abbott, as Yellows : Sac. 6. That a Board of Supply Commissioners, consisting of four competent persons, shall be cho sen by the Senate and House of Representatives, in joint convention, whose duty it shall be to re ceive and open all 'proposals for Banned invited or advertised for by the Departments of the Adjutant General, Quartermaster General, and Commissary General, and, after careful examination, to award the contract, or contracts, to the lowest respondbie bidder And it shall be the farther duty of said commissioners to receive from the contracting parties all etippliee in fulfilment of contracts; to examine the same, and, if approved. to pass the same over to the Department of th, Quartermaster General, taking his receipt for the same, and De partment of the Adjutant General, the Commissary General, taking the receipt of the proper officer therefor. Sze 7. The Board of Supply Commissioners shell keep a record of all their business trims° thins in if book or books adapted to the purpoSe, which reoords shall be the property of the State, and the apartments dedeated for the use of the Military Bureau shall be jointly occupied by the Board of Supply Commissioners for the transaction of their business, and the said commissioners shall each be allowed and paid for compensation one thousand dollars from the time of their appoint, ment until the 10th day of January, A. D 1862, at which time their term of office shall cease and de termine, and a new election take place as in the case of those whose term of office thus expires These amendments were debated at length by Messrs. Williams, Collins, Abbott, Ball, Butler of Crawford, and others. The amendment was not agreed to—yeas. 39, nays 48 Mr. ABBOTT offered the following amendment to the 9th smitten "That a Board of Inspectors, consisting of throe competent persons, shall be chosen by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives in joint convention, whose duty it shall be to inspect and pus upon the standard quality of all supplies furnished by contractors to the Department of the Adjutant General, Quartermaster General, and Commissary General, and no supplies shall be paid for the whole or in part, unless approved by said board." Agreed to—yeas 47, nays 37. Several other amendments were proposed and discussed mail the a journment. AFTERNOON EU ORM The House renamed the consideration of the military loan bill. Mr. Laransramo moved as amendment appro priating $lO,OOO for a secret service hind, which wee adopted. Mr. Berm moved an amandnient providing for the payment of a pension of eight dollars per month to the widows and minor children of sol diem who may die after being mastered into rev. The amendment was adopted. Mr. Betz moved a further amendment, autho rizing Attorney Generals who may volunteer to appoint deputies, which was adopted. Several other amendments wars proposed, dis cussed and rejetded. The bill heretofore introchmed for raising fifteen new regiments as a reserve volunteer corps, was proposed and ow:opted IS an amendment to the loan bill. Several other amendments were made, and the bill as amended then passed finally by a unanimous vote. Adjourned. Legislative Items. RUIBIEBURO, May 9.—The Hone peered by a unanimous vote the bill creating the $3,000,000 loan, which raine fifteen regiments beyond both the requisitions of the President, making a total of fifty-five regimente. Ninety-two member. out of the one hundred were present. The act for the immediate relief of the volun teers now in service, and to pay the bills contract ed before the Quartermaster's department wu or ganized, hew passed both Houses and been signed by the Governor. A fine-looking company has arrived from Clear field county. A eon of the Governor le a ileum. nant In the company. Faon FORT WASHINOTON.—The following letter, which has the true ring in it, is front a late employee in the type foundry of Messrs. L. John son Jc Co., addressed to his comrades in that er tshlishment NOWT WABILINGTON, Md., May 6, 1861. DIAR Boys : Received your letter Saturday evening. We received order. on Tuesday to leave for this place. The Secession .camps were going to tete this night before last, bat failed to at tempt it. We work night and day, cutting down trees, digging trenches, mounting guns, &a. We have but two batteries can't:aged, but they's!. grape and eanhter, and elan sweep into eternity soy storming party that can be sent to take us. Our principal defense will- be our en barbells or upper guns. We have room for ninety, but only fifteen are mounted. Major Haskins, the com mander, say. he never, saw one company do as much work in aa abort a time as oure has done. Be says, " If you can light as well as you can work, boy., lam perfectly satisfied." We have no paper, pens, or ink here for our own use. There is a store here, from which we could get the ne• ee series, if we had the meccas. If any one about the Arm has an extra gold dollar, or Iwo, they would be welcome visitors here. Pennsylvania bank notes are not saleable here. We eat pork and crackers still, and never get a sight of &plate, knife, or fork. Are not allowed to visit Washing. ton, (16 miles from here.) not even the °Mears. Expect an attack tomight, but /believe the cow ardly whelps will not undertake to storm us. Eleven thousand Secessionists are encamped about nine miles from here. We may have a fight ; if So, you will hear from me, or about me. I send this enclosed in another letter, as I have no stamps—neither have I the means to procure one. We are all in good health, and waling to see them take down our glorious old Sag. They must first annihilate our company—then—the paper is full Write instantly, and send papers as often at roe cble. My love to all in the building. Plow tel Mr. Meek. Use I was delighted w hear that there were 'tavern' brave pouts In Ids eqiploy. if I had been there, I know I would-bate* shared in his joyous feelings..received the—pipel; and read the presentation speech. We are not yet supplied with our clothing nor blankets, and still Bleep on the bare floor. Our supplies have not yet reached no; but whether they reach no or not, we will still "heap step to the music of the Union." L T. B. Slam of J B. Belhointer, Washington, D. C. After listening to the reading of this latter, the employees of L Johnson It Co. immediately oon tributed $ll, which has been forwarded tc their companion through Adams' Sxprese Company. Pardon Cesce.—John McCormick and Chas. Beekman were committed, yesterday morning, by Alderman Dallas, upon the charge of larceny. John McKnight and John MoGegen ware commit ted, by Alderman Lents. to answer the larceny of, a lot of rage, Edward France, residing at No. 125 Gothic street, was held, by Alderman thrift, )0 answer the charge of beating and threatening the life of his wile. • PIOKING POCKETS.—Daritig the raising of a flag on the aohool-house, at Eighth and Fitzwater streets, on Wednesday afternoon, a man rem .4 Jonas Tool wog arrested. for ptoking pockets. Re was taken before Alderman Dallas, and oommitted to answer. TEE GREAT EASTILIM is hourly expoated to ar• rive at New York. She sails, on her return voy age to Liverpool, on the 25th instant. For several day', during her stay at the port of New York, she will be open for exhibition. SALN TO-DAY.--Brrimaivx STOCK or FINN WiNCII AND LIQUORS of a wholesale house declin ing badness, No. 607 Market street. See Thozuss & Sons' catalogues and advertisements. STOCKS AND RIM EBTATN—Tarlday . VOA at the Exchange. See advertisements. Pamptlet cetalognes to-morrow. To &mew TILOS LID MILLISIBS -N. F. Pan- Coast, auctioneer, 431 Chestnut street, will sell. this morning at 10 o'olook, 200 oases dedrablo styles straw bonnets, hate, .to., 00 cartons rib bons, dm. Exrasse r 0 Babrimoan —Adam,' Boren Company give notice that they are running their express through to Baltimore via Perryville daily. Goods will be received until 8 P Id. They are charging their regular rates. SALM or Puirarusat; Ple* , 05, ac.—This morn at 10 o'eloak, at the *notion store, No. 914 Chestnut street, will be meld a large assortment of superior honeehold furniture, piano fortes, vases, 40. THE CITf. Philadelphia's Position as a Tratuit City. MORE TROOPS AND SUPPLIES Volunteer Sketches The position of Philadelphia, in these earring times, is a matter of remark. The nearest Nam; ern city to the seat of rebellion, and directl y the line of the way to the capital and th a twit cities of the South, it bids fair to occupy a very prominent place in the mind of the nation , dt tr i a ,. the months or years that may be woapled iygneli ing the treason, and hanging ur slaying its Indere and its armies. At present, there is no safe route to kya il bi ngt6, but through Philadelphia; for in this city court?" the leading railway lines of the northeast, ar i d the approachea to Washington on the west are held Ly the traitors. Here, then, must collect the Weer. o f N ew England, of New York, and m the greet Weak, that go to the relief of the capital; gad e," Is probable that the resources of the Beitimnro road will not avail for 'he hill requirements.' transportation, A CAMP IN . TITS VICINITY Or 14111LADELPHIA Should be established at (woe, supplied with oh, quite provisions and quarters, and mega the great Northern depot tar men and arms. Oar re. glments could there be held in the meantime, h e . tween the mustering into service and the fall equi p . ping, So that full freedom in a great city need met demoralize them ; and the rquadrons from abroad, likewise, that are compelled to halt over night the city, may be at once marched to the encamp. meat, and be fed and quartered. The ditigracefal reception of the Ohio reglmente should be an evidence of the necessity for a 0 04 of this kind. We know of no better Ow f 6? „ encampment than Suffolk Park, which is a t enough removed from the city to insure the midi• viand attention of men to military daty, end pc,2 sassing picturesque and healthy ahareeterirticE a high order. TEE ILL FED OEIO RIGIMINTS Were scattered through the city yesterday, and were remarked everywhere by their great black overcoats. They also roamed all along the Dotty road, between town and their ostensible qui t t,„ at Suffolk Park. Several wagon loads of prorl• stone were sent down to them yesterday raorslog The men were treated with mush horpitahri by citizens. . The regiment" were thne brought to the oily i se the quartermaster here had no °Solid matte M their coming, no provieion whatever CM made for them. Daring Wednesday evemog a number of promi• neat citizens represented the cane to the State agent, at the Girard House. Mr. Martin did 00t hesitate, but, sating with his usnalpromptnea sod decision, threw open the doom of the Girard, lighted np the halls and chambers, and made in• dant preparations for getting the men their sup. pers. In a few moments mapper tickets, good 6 I the neighboring restaurants, were premed, Ind all the soldiers who applied, or were sent to the Girard, were given a meal and a place to eat TEE WEST CIIESTER swimmers Have not received their uniforms as yet. 4 10 . tormaeter Hay, of the Eleventh, has been iu town some days to hurry the clothing eontreeton, t u t certain regiments at York are now being provided for, and the Ninth and Hleventh regiments mut wait until next week for their quota ofjackete sod muekets. The quartermaster of the Eleventh me yesterday presented with a revolver and dirt knife by W. Van Oaten, Req lITIFFOLK PARK About 1,400 troops were quartered at this pee hat evening. They were well fed, but the!: qui tors were only partially adequate to shelter them and some slept last night in neighboring barns MOVEMENTS OF NIMADELFIffik TROOPS There have been no movements of Philadelphia troops southwest sine, the departure of the Pin t Artillery regiment, Wednesday. The other rest. manta, that have been preparing for a start, ars in momentary expectation of receiving marching or• dere i but, eo far, these orders have not been given They will probably slit within a day or two. Company A, Captain Tonrison, and Company Captain Yeager, of the Scott Legion Regiment. have been detailed for duty at Fort Delaware end Fort Mifflin. They went down the river yesterday afternoon. ?MILD LIMIT arrzaa Colonel G. de Korponay's Third Light Bide ite. giment has been accepted by the Gorerner, and seven companies of the regiment were impeded on Wednesday coraniag, as follows : Company A, Capt. P. L Smith. 44 B, 4, B. Id. Woodward D, 44 G. A. Woodward " F. " N. Fay. 44 K, " John Finale. 44 B, 44 Pranceln. " Q," Oro, s The remaining °capsules were Inopeotn jei terday, and the offieen' eommiesioni will bin immediately, and the regiment will be moan. into Berrie. forthwith. A PETLADZLPRIA Rzermswe anon.vrio Doi Joshua T. Owen's regiment 'of infantry, odutmonly known as the Irish brigade, marehed Bestowrille, in the Twenty-fourth ward, yesterday morning, where they will be encamped. The regiment formed on Broad etreat before marching westward. They *Urinated a great orowd of spec' tatorc STRANG/NS IN TOWN Captain Rogers Jones, late commander of the Federal foroes at Harper's Ferry, who so wisely and gallantly conducted the retreat from that post after destroying all the public, property which he wm able to burn in the limited time afforded, &mired In this city on Wednesday evening, from Harrisburg. He stopped at the La Pierre Hoare a short time, and went through towards Washington during the night. General Harney reached the city yesterday fon Washington. Be came in eompany with Senator Bsker of Oregon. The General put up at the Continental, and left again in the afternoon for Missouri. PRZSBMITATION. Yesterday afternoon Daniel Dougherty, Eel r presented to the sergeants of the Independent Bangers four beautiful swords. The names of the Jorge-mitt are Win.: B. Logue, Edward Your, Toomas Haffey, and N. V. B. Stafford. Theism& were received by Charles W. Brook, Esq. 81116117 FARADIC Last evening a portion of Colonel rtgi meat made a inmost parade, asoompanied by a fire band of musk). STRAY SOLDISRS d great excitement was (mused about the city, last evening, by squads of the Ohio regllonAl headed by a corporal, marching around the Weill in sure& of the different etray members of the oom• piny, Some were found in taverns, others st places of amusement. they all having deserted they miserable quarters at Suffolk Park. LOOAN SWAZI Mayor Henry has granted the use of Logan Elmo to the Philadelphia Light Guard regiment* drill ground. They will have a regimental drill ll this morning at 9 o'oloek. The equate bite been named Camp Cadwalader, in honor of Gen. Georg* 044walader. Nem Fogs asontintra TO 001111. A detachment of fifty recruits for the Seventh Regiment engineer corps left the regimental er. more, New York, yesterday morning, at 01 0 o'clock, en route for Washington, passing dome this ally These recruits have, within the pail ten days, fully equipped themselves at their olml expense. The detaabment Is composed of atom' bets of the Brit New York families, who will co dwibt give a good acoount of themselves. Oil hundred and thirty recruits tendered their ser vices for active duty, but only fifty were nomplod for the present. Theme troops will do duty . 4 sir gineen and artillerists alternately, or as the no" senates of the company may require. Toe reserve of the Thirteenth (Brooklyn) rep meld, copulating of about four hundred men, al• pentad to have been " off to the wen" at en silly hour yesterday morning; but although they were under marching orders, the day wore Whoa/. away without their having been pus in a meteor mcblllsation. Some of the men *remit fully equiPl yet, and hence the delay. The eommendmg • our positively states they will take their depertars by rail to Perryvdle, and thence by Annapolis. They probably paned through the city last night. Contrary to general expectation, the Second ree• ment, Colonel Tompkins, received no Ordell iot ° steamer to depart far Washington on Wednesday it supposed that the Second would leave at 2 &aloe: yesterday afternoon, but up to 6 ning no order for their departure was int4_ General Sandford says that the regimect :xi!! probably leave Friday, at the iartheel , T"" o'clock last to o regiments will all pan through this oity, LW OHIO VOLVATIER Writes in testimony of the patriotism and geilbr u city of Will. btruthers, Big , of Market street Yesterday he must have entertained about foa l hundred of the Ohio troOpi who have DOI WO FM; vided for, many of them not having tasted foaa sines the day before. This morning Mr Simmons, of COl9lOOO COLD. oil, taken care of one hundred of the Ohio Ina st lt , e residence, North Broad street. FLAG SAISENG IN TB!. rovPvn WAEG• The flag, originally from Springfield, that waved during te campaign of lilhOoln en. a Douglas, and in the recent struggle for the P no' deny for Lincoln, preeented by T. W. Bork John D. Hardy, was thrown to the brae s . font bit store, northweet corner of Fourth and Yent streets, yesterday afternoon. AA MODEM% A night or two time a gentleman a —A- 1, 414 , gave an entertainment to some friends of his, the Scott Legion Regiment, of this otty, WAS whom was a sergeant of one of the comy.nies. Just before 'saving the supper table, and P',ICT thr wbolo party bad snug the Stav-opeoe.,es ner n la fall shortie, this man arose. of l h ed bon bands on the head of the little deugli r o —a beautifnl *Mid, eight years of," se _ en d klublg her as the tears down bill oh* , ha , be laid child, Oa pray for the sold' i „ o w h en at dg you pray !" Thos. who °V.erved it were ale si t.o ue footed to tears. Mow littiv o d o t h e people ail; elate the warm and heref. ot h eat , s that but JO bosoms of the men okifortgb exterior who stem% , are so ofinolvoostnd now boldly stePPIINJ a f l a y to bear the bordo,w, an d b ent o f the day, AV down their list". in deems of our countrTl Iwrzuswitino wins OFFICSILS. — A 05 ' ao l giving the name of Edward Dasher, was 11 “,,pcsi In Third street, above George, on Wedne-4 , 7L the ohm. of interfering with offitters of 0 01 '1 . t , discharge of their duties. He was ootataiwen. answer: "
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