10tt55. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1861 Forayer float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before net With Freedom's soil beneath our test, And Freedom's banner streaming e'er us: FIRST Penn.—Flag Song; Notes on the Rebel lion ; The Late Colonel Kelley, of Virginia ; From Western Virginia; The Pay and Pension of Oar Volunteers ; The Shipment of Cotton; General War News; Vatnable Msp of the Seat of War, allowing parted' the States of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina, and also the Coast Line from Cape Henry to Fort Pickens, with the United States Blookading Fleet. Fovara Etas.— Military Correspondence; The Independent Ran gers and Captain McMullin ; General News ; The IL:tisag Corpus; Letter from Lanoaater ; Ararine Intelligence H bees Corpus Act. As Chief Justice Taney knows very well, what is now galled the Habeas Corpus Act did not become the law of England until the 26th of May, 1679. when Charles IL reluctanty gave it his formal Assent. No new right wall thereby given to subject or citizen, tor the principle was recognized by the Roman law, and Magna Charts had also conceded it to Englishmen, but, as Macaulay gays, ft it was inefficacious for want of a stringent system of procedure. What was needed was not a new right, but a prompt and searching remedy; and such a remedy the Habeas Corpus Act aupplied." Seldom did a Sovereign more reluctantly . give consent to a public measure. Nor would Ch rtes Stuart have given his, but under the pressure of circumstances. He WAS about ap pealing from Parliament to the People, on the subject of the succession to the crown, and dared not, at such a moment, reject a bill 80 justly popular. Charles, at that time, yie'ding to the anti-Catholic feeling of his subjects, and induced also by some affection for his offspring, was anxious to exclude his brother, the Dake of York, from the Crown. The King's son, by Lucy Walters, historically known as the Duke of Monmouth, was the person intended to supplant the King's brother, on the pretence that, a legal marriage had taken place between the parents. In spite of this, the Duke or York did succeed to the Crown, as James 11., and one of his earliest objects was to repeal the Habeas . Corpus Act, the most stringent curb that ever legislation Imposed upon ty ranny. He was itnable to effect this, nor was the operation of that statute suspended for even a single day during his reign. But, in 109, after the flight of James, and before William of Orange had been a month seated on the throne—in the very week that the first Mutiny Bill was passed, putting down all ap proach to a Standing Army—the British Par liament suspended the Habeas Corpus Act for some weeks. it was again suspended during this reign, in 106, on the discovery of a plat to assassinate William. On several subse cinent occasions this act has also been sus pended. Jarisconstilts have generally agreed that extraordinary means have been generally justified by extraordinary emergencies. Chief Justice '1 aneey says (ea- pane John 51.rriman) that er no power in England, short of that of Parliament, can suspend or autho• rite the suspension of the writ of habeas car pus." He adds : , te And if the President of the United states may suspend the writ, then the Constitution of the United States has eon ferred upon him more regal and absolute power over the liberty of the citizen than the people of England have thought it safe to entrust to the Crown—a power which the Queen of England cannot exercise at this day, and which could not have been lawfully exer cised by the sovereign even in the reign of Charles the First." The Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, as we'have seen, in Ha and in 1896 again, July 20, 1715, during the Rebellion in Scotland, which suspension was removed in the follow ing year; in October 1722, for twelve mouths, in belief that another invasion was purposed by the Pretender; in October 1745, for six months, on the second Scottish Rebellion ; in December 1777, (partially) ; in Ray 1794, when great sympathy was supposed to exist between the Liberals of England and the Jam.: bins of France; in December 1705 ; in April 14, 1801 when seditious meetings alarmed the Government; in Marcia 1814, when it was be lieved that an insurrection was about break ing out in London, and in Ireland, in 1848. It happens that, on each of these occasions, Par liament was in session, and therefore the sus pension of the Act was attended with no COL• elitutienal, nor even a technical difficulty. But it is not the law of England, nor can scarcely be the lair of the United States, that, as Chief Justice Taney declares, the Habeas Corpus Act can be suspended only by i egis. Wive enactment—by the Parliament in one country, by Congress in the other. We know very well what Madden, who wrote a cen. buy ago, has said on this point, and we quote it here, becau.se it is the ponndwork of what _liar:Mull and Story have said upon the point —Marshall, by the way, going no further than to say that the Constitution had declared et that the privilege of the writ of habeas carpus should nut be suspended, nnleas when, in cages of rebellion or invasion, the public safety might require it" Redoes not say whether, on such particular occasions, the suspension was to be cry Congress, or by the Executive. Sir William Blackstone, (I. 126,) speaking of the arrebt of a person and coefining him in prison s says 4.cd yet, sometimes, when the State is in real danger, even this may be a necessary measure But the happiness ot our Constitution is that it is not left to the executive power to determine when the danger of the estate is Si) great as to render this measure espeaient ; for it is the Parliament only, or isgislative power, that, whenever it see. 'roper can anihoine the Crown, by ativending tim kaiser,* corpus uot fora Short and limited time to imprison suspeeoid persons without giving any reason fur so doing; as the Senate of Rome was wont to have recourse to a dictator, a magistrate of absolute authority, when they jidged the its pnolso in any imminent danger. The decree of toe Sanate, which usually preeeded the nomination of this magistrate, • dent operant eon.tui a tie quid resp”bhca detrime.te e.or:sat.' was the smalls: cous.aram uttinus nereAbleatis. In like niennet rnl4 wain tit ex.reate emergency ; and In Ineie the illtioso 0. limn Ltd :tbetty for a while, in order to preserve it forever" This is positive enough, and we are not our. prised at Grimy - Joe r tice tame e falling back u r ea Blacastene. But lams suppose a case,. and seeethether • eiretumseaneee,anay not ac tually compel the habeas carpus act to be Ms. pented by other than legislative authority. The British Parliament usually is prorogued is August, nominally to a fixed 'day, some six weeks off. When that day arrives, Parlia ment is again prorogued for another term of several weeks, until, at last, it is finally pro rogued to a named day, if for the despatch Of business," at which time the Session actually commences. Suppose that, Parliament having been prorogued on the first day of August, until the fourteenth day of September, intelli gence reaches the Executive of a fearful rebel lion having suddenly broken out in Lanca shire. What must the Executive do, in such a terrific emergency ? Or, suppose that there is a French invasion, equally fearful, threaten ing, and unexpected, which sundry British snidects are believed to have counselled and aided ? In either case, a military force would be necessary to pat down the rebellion and drive beck the invasion. It would become actually necessary, perhaps, for the apprehen sion of certain parties in complicity with the rebels or the invAilere, as the case might be, to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, se - as to allow of their detention. It would be impos sible to wait, for six weeks, until Parliament could reassemble and give the necessary legis lative authorization. Surely, the Crown may issue a Proclamation (though some conetitit tional writers deny the light, which is also con_ trary to modern usage) summoning Parlaament to reassembl e before the appointed day. Yet even this might be too leto-.40r even a week's delay might be MiIIOUS, with instant danger on the wing. In such case, the Executive, act. mg with promptitude and courage, would give orders for the arrest and detection of the par ties in question, thus virtually suspending the H a b eas corpus idet; and who can doubt that, w h en Parliament met, it would willingly plum an Act of Indemnity to the Queen's advisers on that emergency ? We take it that, in like circumstances, in this country, if a suspected traitor were de tained in duresse, while rebellion was stirring in the land, the officer, be he military or civil, who so held him, even though Congress had not reassembled, would be held guiltless, even if twenty-nine Chief Justices proclaimed, as ex parte John Merriman, that he had violated the provisions of the Habeas Corpus Act. In a note upon Blackstone's account of the 'Ha beas Corpus Act, Judge Sharswood express ly states,• with Marshall, <q . t. is provided by the Constitution of the 'United States that the privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus sh%ll not be suspended unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safely may regnire ft." This, which is also the common sense of the case, would seem to settle the question very decidedly. fl harsorood's Comutenteries on the Laws of England (LiePlfleett CO.. pnlhilhers.) Vol. 1, p. Eio, Slavery and the War. Nominally, the Southern rebellion com menced, and its authors aimed at the de struction of this great Confederacy, for no better nor holier purpose than the extension, perpetuation, and protection of the institu tion of African slavery. In no other part.of the world had slaveholding ever prospered so well, and yielded with so small an outlay of capital, labor, or skill, on the part of slave owners such magnificent rewards as in the slave States of this Confederacy. The Ame rican Union had been, up to the time when this contest commenced, the very paradise of the gc masters" of the negroes, and nowhere else, at any period of the world's history, had their Gg rights " and interests, as they them selves understand and assert them, been more scrupulously protected and more resolutely enforced. Having every guara ',tee that any slaveholding community ever possessed, they have made the slaveholding interest a pretext for an effort to grasp at some imaginary good or immunity beyond all this ; and now what are they apparently about to obtain as the re sult of this struggle 1 They have Rimed a war upon the loyal citizens of our country sorely against the will of the latter, but one which, since it bus been commenced, we are prepared to prosecute With a degree of en. ergy and determination unexampled in our vast history; and as one of its inevitable re. suite, however humanely and carefully we may conduct it, greater damage must ensue to the institution of slavery, even in the etrug gles of a single year, than the agitation of -&bolitionists could have accomplished in many centuries. !Taking advantage at the disorders of the times, the slaves along the northern ftontiers of the slave States are atmeonding in great numbers. Thus, the out posts of tae institution are rapidly losing their slave population, and as our army advances into the disloyal portions of Virginia slaves flock by hundreds into our camps, and, under the recent decision of General BUTLER, they are, for the time being, held as ec property " contraband of . war, and their owners ad monished that, if they are unwilling to take an oath of allegiance to obey the Constitution and laws of the United States, they must not expect to be benefited by the fugitive-slave law. Hundreds, meanwhile, are no doubt sent off for safe.keeping to the Cotton States, where the slave population, e'en now, in many dis. tricts far exceeds that of the whites, and wherever they go they will carry with them intelligence of the advance of our troops and prove dangerous inciters to insurrectionary movements, which have alreadi * become alarmingly frequent. While on the Northern frontiers they run away, where this mode of escape is less available there is a growing tendency to revolt. Presently, it is by no means improbable that, through the scarcity el money and the strictness of the blockade, there will, in many quarters, be a scar •fty of food and an absence of many of the comforts which the people of the South have heretofore eapyed, and at which the slaves have obtained a fair share. Any unusual privations which may be imposed upon them will necessarily add to their discontent and their desire to nd themselves of the yoke which they have so long borne. If the martial portion of the white population is hurried into_the service of the traitor army, it will beacasce2 lei to prevent insubordination among the negroes; and' the vague hopes of frftdom 'Which have been inspired hi iheir hearts, added to the ap parent opportunities for obtaining it which are now afforded, and the discomforts to which they will be subjected, must inevitably lead to numerous ontbreake, that will at least keep the whites in a constant state of terror and alarm. Meanwhile, the great fundamental basis which has given such , apparent prosperity to Ameri can slavery—the monopoly of a great portion et the supply of cotton required in England and by the manufacturers of the Northern States-- will be more seriously injured and undermined by the Secession movement than by any other event which could possibly have happened. It will put forward at least tan, if not twenty years, the development of all the other cotton regions which have recently obtained consi derable attention, and in which the growth of this valuable article has rapidly increased. The railroads in India, when finished, will enable that country to furnish a very large proportion of the Cotton needed for England. They have long languished for want of sufficient capital to complete them. It will now be speedily forthcoming; and for every dollar spent in Great Britain for Genie derate bonds, there will be tens of thousands expended to assist the construction of avenues from the seaboard to the heart of Southern Asia, and in so stimulating the cotton pro duct of other countries that British manufac turers may hereafter be enabled to dispense entirely with the product§ of the haughty and rebellious Gulf States. The leaders of that region imagined that any interruption of the supplies of their famous staple would necessarily involve the irre trievable ruin of the leading manufacturing and commercial interests of England and America. Bat the Indications are that they will themselves be the greatest sufferers; and while no little inconvenience maybe caused, for the present ; by the difficulty of obtaining American cotton, it is probable that our cot ton growing interests will forever be seriously crippled, if not in a great measure destroyed. The fate of King Cotton may be like that of the dog who died, when the man he bit speedily recovered. Thus, on every hand, the institution of slavery, in a war nominally waged for its be nefit, is seriously damaged. Even if the phan tasy of Southern independence could be reur - tue - c - ouns — woura - no - ae me wawa - iu adverse and hotelle - natienalities that none of the dreams of conquest and expansion which its champions have revelled in Mild be yea:fined. But this is utterly , out of the -question; and as the forces of our army, close around the rebellions States, those only who fly to the A.merleau standard for protection, and rely, as in days of yore, upon the authori ties of the nation, and its Constitution and laws for guarantees for their personal and pe cuniary salvation, will be enabled to escape the injurious and fatal consequences of the rash and traitorous deeds of the Secession leaders. Military -Publications. THE SEAT OF WAR.--WO have received from James B. Earle .k Bon, ilheitnnt strut, a large map of the Beat of War, exquisitely printed in colors, entitled " Bird's Eye •View of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, end the District of Colum bia," published by W. &thane, New York. It elm bears the Imprint of Paris and London publishers. This is the most complete and sAsourate map of the Beat of War yet published, with the highways as Well AS the railway. marked. upon it. Commenoing above Mason and Dixon's line, it lnolades Phila delphia, West Chester, York, Chemberaburg, Uniontown, and Bliz tbeth on the Ohio, and giros all the territory down to North Carolina, as Jar as Albermarle Sound. It also, in miniature, gives all of the United States—fully from North to Booth, and to she West as lar as Wlisoonsin, lowa, ' Miasouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, It also dig• tinguishes the blockaded places. Whoever desires to kw up with the achievements of our gallant troops in this eampaign, can do so by properly " posting up," on this map, what is dorm. Atm , racy clearness, and delisaoy of exeoution char aontelac fish tee map. There seems to be no end of Zonave's Drill Books. Bare, published by King A Baird, is another, with thirty ilinstratlons showing the Pronoh Bayonet rizaroho, or bkiriniatier'e Drill, as need by Colonel Blieworth'a Zsuaves. There is, also, a portrait of Ellsworth, with the facet biography of him we have yet raid Lippinoott A Co. have publuds-d, ht a neat and portable pocket voting's, (pp. 450,) handsomely and strongly bound in cloth, the whole ot the United States Infantry and Rifle Taoties, prepared under the direction of the War Department. and authorized and adopted by the Seoretary Lf War, a month age. It le crowded with neat illustration.' and is a very complete military estdrum an panto' handy and low-priced. d's-Eye Vie f the Seat o ar. We have procured, at considerable expense, and publish an our first page, an interesting birtPs•eye view of the seat of war, which will assistour readers very materially in !Cretin a proper idea of the relative position of the importaut points embraced in all the great military operations now in progress on the Atlantic slope. After the outbreak at Balti more the first great object was to open a channel of communication between Washing ton and the loyal North, which was first ellected by landing at Annapolis troops who were despatched there in steamboats from Perryville, and by sea via tho Chesapeake Bay from New York. Then, the railroad track from ArmaFode to the Junction had to bogy paired and strictly guarded. Presently our troops poured in in great numbers to the Federal capital, the Relay House was taken possession of, Baltimore was overawed, the bridges on the Philadelphia and Wilmington, awl the Baltimore and Susquehanna roads were rebuilt, and all open hostility to our soldiers along the various direct routes from Wash ington to Pennsylvania was checked. Having rendered the capital impregnable, the basis was at once laid for extensive offensive operations against the traitors. General Britten was despatChed to Fortress Monroe and vicinity, and he is now actively engaged in directing operations in that quarter. Alexandria was seised, and Arlington fleignts occupied and strongly fortified. Recently a erdash" has been made upon Fairfax Court House ; and at /101280008 Junction, which lies but a short distance beyond, a large force of the traitors is stationed, who will probably soon be at tacked. Another place of great interest is Etarpr•r's Ferry, against which an advance is anticipated from Pennsylvania, as well as from the West, with the command under Gen. ideCtermaar. The map shows, in the distance, Richmond, and the various approaches to it by sea and land, as well as Wilmington, N. C., Charles ton, Savannah, Key West, Fort Pickens, and all the important towns l in the vicinity of Fort ress Monroe. If no unexpected reverse occurs, Virginia will henceforth be the great battle-ground of the present campaign and Many of the towns on the map , will be endowed with unusual interest. We therefore append the following description of some of them : The city of Norfolk is on the right bank of Elizabeth river. just below the confinenee of its two branches, eight miles from hampton Roads. end thirty two miles from the ocean. It contains a United States navy yard. in which is-a dry dock, oonetrnoted of hewn granite, which cost $974 438 PlO Difenal Swamp canal comets Chesapeake b 47 with Albemarle sound, and opens an extensive water communication with Norfolk to the South fee population of the city is about 80 000 " Lynchbore is situated 118 miles west of Rich mond, and 101 from Washmaton, on tbe south bank of James river, at the janodon of the Peden burg and Lynchburg Railroad with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad It has a variety of manu• reaming establishments, such as cotton and to. tame factories, and an iron foundry The city enjoys many natural advantages for military de fence, and the climate is quite healthy. At pre .eat, a military oolumn of rebels is concentrated at this point, awaiting orders from headquarters m.....v.onnts say there are fully 25, 000 men at that point. - tr.......icksburg la situated on the right bank of the Rappahatmook river, at the head of tide water, one hundred and ten miles above the Chesapeake, and on the Riohmond, Fredericksburg. and Poto mac Railroad, sixty mess from the former place. Ind seventy miles from Washington The papule eon of the city is between six and eight thousand Fredericksburg enjoys good natural fat:Midas for military defence, from its contiguity to the Poto mad, and is how being used as the'coneenirating point for a large body of rebel troops. It is on a line of railroad hailing to Washington Frede ricksburg, Richmond, Lynchburg, and Petersburg compose a Tiv:drilater4l of no mean military sig nificance; ire =pomace has already been Rpm elated by the rebel oblefs Petersburg is a port of entry, on the south bank of the Appomattox river, twelve miles above its entrance into James river, at City Feint The illy contains about 'l5 000 inhabitants. It has good railroad facilities to Washington, which is one hundred and forty miles distant. Yorktown is a port of spiry, one hundred and eighty Ore miles from Richmond. It is a small village, and memorable as the plaoe where Lord Cornwallis surrendered the British army to (len Washington, October 19, 1781, which event termi nated the Revolutionary War. It derives import ance at the present Vine from the fact that the Southern rebel founts aro establishing a camp mere, apparently to counter any land movement of United States troops from Fortress Monroe, which is seventeen and a half miles distant. It is not unlikely that, from present appearances, a se cond battle of Yorktown may be fought Witiohester, is the capital V Frederick county, Virginia It'is one hundred and fifty miles north northwest of Richmond, and seventyame miles f) '0 Winchester and Potomac Railroad, thirty miles long, connecting with the Baltimore and Ohio Reilroad at Harper's Ferry, and it has a number of turnpike roads radiating in all dim dons. *doh attract a huge amount of trade and travel. Population in MD, 4,000. Colonel Kelley. The joy carried by the intelligence of the victory achieved by our brave troops at Philippi (or. Philippa) will be considerably increased by the announcement that the report of the death of the gallant Colonel KELLEY was untrue. He was badly, but it is believed not dangerously, wounded, and there are very fair prospects of his recovery. A yirgmian by ,birth, he was well known and highly es teemed by many friends in this city, who came acquainted with him daring his resi dence here as agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and our whole community will be rejoiced to learn that a long and brilliant ca reer may yet await him. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDEN OE Letter from 44 40ocasional. 17 Worreerondence of The Frage I Wesumormr, Jane 4. 1861 The order of General Cameron, Secretary of War, announoing the death of Stephen A. Douglas awl awarding public honors to his memory, has been read with delight by patriotic men of all par. ties, and will be responded to with, alacrity by,the t•oops to morrow. This prompt anti eirquent re e wsnition of the illustrious statesmen of Illinois—of his patriotic and self-sacrificing charaoter—is one of t cheering evidences that the Administra.ion of Linooln realizes the fact that, of the many thousands now rallied under the AMSPIOAII flag, a large proportion are Detnooratswho sympathised with Judge Douglas in his great political oam - Deigns, and is resolved to give credit to all those erSo are now engssed in repelling the treacherous assaults of the Dieunionists. It is believed that Judge Douglas, although possessed of a large es. tete, Lea not lefi any oonahlarable fortune to Ms young widow and the two boys of hie first marriage His open-banded generosity, his readiness to serve others, his utter contempt for every money meting ao l e t ue, and the splendid hoopttalities be dispensed daring his residence here and in Illinois, added to those anaemia reverses which prostrated so many men during the lest four years, dissipated his wealth, whioh, under other oiroumetanoes, zing by men of more selfish instinots, might have been vastly enhatioed. The prompt and patriotio movement of General Cameron in honor of Judge Douglas was epieey followed by Secretary Seward. who, early this morning. began to crape the State Department, thus showing a generous rivalry between members ..f Ur. Liu' coin's_ Administration. • ind+ed, no event eine° the - death - or nutty Clay. has affected the people here to eneb an extent ae the death of Judge Douglas. He bad ever been a arm and eitteete Meta of the Dletriet of ColarsEta. and to his eacrtione ere due many of tho„Anest improvements whish adorn it - Thit ilsgs upon _public end privitelmildings, as well as these of the several regiments whteh have heard the sad ti dings, are lying at half-mast. The sorrow is general and profound, and will, I have no doubt, manlfeat itself publiolp when his remains obeli reach this city for burled. " t uoh honors Ilium to her hero paid. And peaceful slept the mighty Rector's shade.' No labor that can be imposed, no inelemency of the weather, aerate to Aitipen the ardor and en thaolaem of the regular and volunteer soldiery en camped here and upon the various surrounding heights. When detailed for muting service, or to capture an outpost, they rush to arms with joy and are envied by those who have to remain behind Entrenchments for miles, upon the Virginia aide and elsewhere, commanding all the approaches of toe enemy, have been thrown up In one abort week; and armed and put in a perfect condition of efficiency. Yesterday, a rumor got abroad that there would be a night movement of the troops, and the soldiers were wild with delight In the ex. potation " of ' a battle. There was, 'however, no such movement: This morning, while deploring the fall of the gallant Colonel Kelley, one of the most influential and respectable Manses of Western Virginia, the grand army of the Union is jcbilant over the vic tory which the foram under his cora PA Ira so bril liantly won, and, rejAse that he lived to learn of the defeat and total rout of the rebels. Undying glory to those who die for their country ! I am i nformed l V th at , W d m ie . : ° e l t em F a l n o ' re o n f ca l° , b lii a o n u o th n Carolina, on the '24t of May last. Occesioiren. We save a largo batch of London illustrated publications from Mr. Upham, newspaper agent, 310 Chelteut. street. These are the Illustrated London News, with numerous Anzerioan illustra tions, illustrated News of the World, Reynolds' Newspaper, Reynolds' Miscellany, London. Jounurt, and Punch The last publication is now being reissued, in indents', at half the original price, with a key to the events satirised or nom mooted on. An entire year of Punch, cloth gilt, le pobitabed avers , other month at three dollars; to be had of Mr. 'Upham, publishera' agent in , thie city. Weida° have two new anti secession enve lope., which Mr. Upham. his Jest brought oat. THE PRESS. - PHILM)ELPHIA; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1861 LATEST NEWS By Telegraph to The Press. Special Despatches to The Press Westil 4.05, June 4, 1861. Jeff. Davis will Head the Troops at High official authority aesurec ua that Jilin'. DAVIS anticipates the litet eanguinary °millet to be at Harper's Ferry. We are informed that he will head the troops in person. lam no prophet, bat will say that if be is there at a oontett, he will be made's prisoner or fall on the field, Looking into the Franking System. The attention of the Posttnaster General has been called to the fact that an enormous amount of mail matter is passing through the post ogn ij o bearing the frank of XI G.'s, but evidently no t signed by them. Ile orders postmasters to .1 ay. rest" this and other abuses of the franking system. The inualeipal eleotion yesterday passed oir very quietly. The vote was not large. The "Imam ditlonal Union " men, with probably one exoep• tion, were all elected. The Children in Concert. The children give a grand Juvenile concert et the Smithsonian this evening. It is a very pretty entertainment. More Military Organizations. Oar oitizen.s have done themselves credit in tneir readiness to defend the capital, or, if required, to resist the enemy ebewbere. Captain Jenne E STZWART, of this city, has Jost organised a nom pony of one hundred men for salve service, who are now ready to resist any invasion of the city. or to move beyond it, if necessary, and who desire no pay or emolument for their services. When the three months have expired for which many of the companies were enlisted and sworn in a reorganisation of the District militia will be effected. The original organisations will be dis. banded, and those who wish to enlist for the war will be consolidated into regiment& Numbering the Troops. Tbe latest reports give the number of troops of the ao•eaned Confederacy' at Fairfax Court House to be only 200; at Centreville, 1,000; at Lee's Fairfax Station. 300, and at Manassas Junc tion, from 4 000 to 5 000. Administering tke Oath at the Navy Yesterday and this morning the oath of alle giance eras administered to the employees in the Navy Yard. In only one or two unimportant In stanoss was it refused. The death of Senator Tiousizes is felt here as an irreparable national loss. Never, in the course of his political career, has he had so large a circle of friends and admirers in Washington as 114 his death. The Cabinet in Session. A protracted EMI= of the Cabinet was hold to-day. Ihe'President entertains the foreign ministers and inembers of his Cabinet to-night, with the la dies of their respective families. Troops Going into Virginia Two eompanies of the New York Twelfth Rae meet were ordered from their encampment in Franklin square to Arlington Heights this-fore.. noon. Other troops have orders to be ready to march, and it is understood that Virginia tertheir destination. A gentleman connected with the Government, jest returned from the Indian country, reports very unfavorably on tha ants of many of the In dian agents. Incumbents go out poor and soon become rich. He recommends a thorough re orgenination of the system of Indian agencies, or a stoppage of annuities. I will give you particu lars to-morrow. In many oases, Om money - gent out for the Indians is applied for the , purpose of helping along the secession movement. The or4ere leaned from the War Department relative to the death of Judge Donnas will be generally observed among the troops and through out the 'city. Appointments by the Presid.ent. The following appointments have been °Tidally annonnoed this morning JANIS WATSON WIER, of New York, to beenvo,y, extraordinary and =Udder plenipotentiari oi the United States to Brazil. Tnost,is If NstLoon, of Indiana, to be envoy ex t aseins ssas e t d . „ 'minister pienipotentlayt of the Amex A Dourest, of lres+—.4 , 4c - ster resident of the United Btetes to Bogota. (*emelt E. Wxsa, of Merylind, to be ooesul of the United States at Amsterdam. TIMOTHT O. Eltrtk r Of Vermont, to be consul of the United States at 0 tease.. CHABLZS L. Bansraca t ofhilssonti, to be email of the United States at Zarioh, JOHN 0. ARNOLD, of Illinois, to ba ooneal of the 'United States at St. Peters'burg. Joss H Parans, - of Sofith Carolina, to be con sul of the 'United otatee at tunic Haulm W. LORD, of Michigan,te be consul of the United States at Manchester. . • ,Tosgra A. Nusas, of California, fo be °warner dial agent of the United Stator at Ids PAZ, /dower California. 1 46 The Campbell's are onting. , ' At two o'clock this morning, ta Righlandens arrived, and marched through th entire length of the city, their fine band p!ayin " The Camp bell's are Coming," with fins rife t. They went 1 r directly to Georgetown College, here they are titutitsfod for the present. Ab3ttt we hundred of them are in Right - Aid costume. I ' -The First Maine Regiment. The Met Regiment was the mond to arrive from Maine In Washington. They readied the City at three o'clock yesterday, and went into quarters on Pennsylvania and l/tariand avenues, near the Capital building. This le a datiookibt regiment—every man glowing with health and robustness. ' ' Movements of • Troops at Washington ad Lem. Towers and his battalion:of District of Columbia volunteers left here to-day provisioned for ten days. They took the route of the canal towards the Chain bridge, - seven ignites above Georgetown. Maps Jewell's batfeti* or Diet r io volunteers, similarly provisioned, m 7 to -night in another direction. ._ - • The sth New .York regiment which, inoe the ad vance into Virginia, has been:matt° two mites d beyond Albright! heights, returned ' the city to tigy, having bean relieved by anotheniegiment. Arrivals from Philadeitia. Willard's —D. L. Tringley, W. A Baldwin, T. Thorne, J W Johnson, E N. W lit, T. W. Pane, A C. Gibson, Thomas Miles, WI M Cramp, T lii Hall, J Riddle, E. M. Hophiss,lJames Bow yer, M_ Campbell, H. Price. JCrrkwood's --S: Ovenshine, O. P. Andrew, W. IL Moore, E Emits. Nottonot --- , flange C. Lnohy, S. Leon, W. H. Witte, Louie Boyer, Merles Bailor, M. F. Medlar, Charles S. Leader, D. MeLea. Brown's.--J. Cadisery, Jr , J. P. anichieton Dr A. P. Panni‘akar, Prank elenon. (Despatches to the Amooottea Press.] From % aplitiugtoti. LIETTIIR FROM 001,111. DORM WASHINGTON. Jana 4.--4ommodure liaa 1, In a latter to the Seeretary of the Navy, fain on board the ship Cyane, at Acapulco, May Ma, sitar re ferring to the treason which has heeitsaijfe In the navy, sap ; • - ' - " I deem it but just to those I have tile honor to command. to remark that they are lollnd true to their oath and duty, and deeply em pathise wi.k the amvesobsont As an ev.denoe oe deep- Boated love of our common country in hearts of all Americana abroad, it may inlet you to know, that among the" thousand now among to and from California in the mail stammers,* sooner does one of dose vessels outer tide port;' a her crowd of passengers catok fall view of t> Stars and Stripes which float at the Cyan'., pe , than oheer after cheer eimultaneously bursts fo from the lips'of every soul on board, with an trent enthumaem, which tells how S=urly emoted is the love ofeouniry." The flags are at half meat to day as a nark of respect to the late benator Beagles, and !be State , Detarhacht bandit* is draped In moursuskB. The report that troops near CinciOnad, al a Kentucky brigade, are ordered to Louisville, is without foundation. Mr. Haetado, the New tiretumnan oeunaiMigiter tt adjobt the Auterioan claims, was to-day formsUy presented to the President by the Secretary of State. General Leavenworth, of Near l'ork, the commissioner on the part of thie Government, fa now here. These gentlemen will soon open the heartens of the commission. CINCIANATX, June 4.-00 one( Kelley, who was wounded at the swim with the rebels at la not dud, as was reported Loft night. Re fee severely wounded in the bree,t with a ball, which has since been extracted, and there are hopes of his recovery. Funeral, of Senator Douglas. °IMAGO June 4 —The funeral of the late Sena• tor Douglas is to take plaoe at 10 o'clock on Fri., day next. The Chicago Tribune, of the morning, decimal, is favor of a Douglas Democrat for the vsotney the Unite 4 States Senate, and toga Goy, Yates to utske such a seleotion, laying that it becomes the ittpublioarts now to prove their faith in the *maul. mity of the North by this recognition of the pa triotism ttA4llity of their former aotageniets. Corvette, Jane 4.-3 D Pally, a member of tbe Legislature from Williaman county ) has been er rooted at Carbondale ) for treason, by order of Oen. Frontier, and Will be sent to , dpringaeld for trial. It is believed that ample evidence exists for hie ouviotiou, PROM WASHINGTON. Harper's Ferry. Our Municipal Election. Judge Don Alas. Diplomatic Dinner. Robbery of the Indians. Honors to the Dead. Colonel .Kellvy Nat Dead. Arrest to, Treason. FROM WILLIAMSPORT. Union Nen Flying from Virginia. ONE SHOT AS A SPE NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS BALTIMOI:r t June 4.—A special despatch to the Amertran. from Williamsport says it is estimated that one Virginian was killed and one badly wounded during the attempt to oarry or the ferry haat on Saturday night. Thirty.two Union men, from Berkeley, fled to Williamsport today to escape being pressed into the rebel army, leaving their wives, ehildren, and property behind. A number have alto arrived at Hancock from Martinsburg. , The excitement against the rebel ~..Virginians is intense, and the people are arming in anticipation of a regular bor dor fight. The rebel pickets are ,stationed all along the Potomac.. A Union man of Berkeley, charged with being a spy, was shot on Saturday. CHAUBISRBBUJIG, Jane 4.—Colonel Sly tam nomi nated by the Secessionists of Allegheny, Frederic*, and Washington societies, Maryland, yesterday, for Congress. He says the time is too short to stump the dietrlot, which Is considered equivalent to an acknowledgment of a defeat. The Union candidate speaks at Hagerstown to day. The mail was seized by the rebels at Martins burg yesterday. The commander of the rebels posted opposite Williameport offered the company of Home Guards there to withdraw the pickets on both sided of the river, pledging his honor that no attempt would be made by his command to carry off the ferry-boat. The proposition was accepted. SOUTHERN NEWS. Capture of Prizes by the IN 8. Fleet a the Belize. THE BLOCKADE ENFORCED The Rebel Troops Leaving Pensacola NO FIGHT FOR TEE PRESENT Lonovium, June 4 —The New Orleans Peony y,no of the alet o ult. received here, Bays that the V, 8 steamer Brooklyn had captured the bark .T Spearing, from Rio Janeiro bound to New Orleans with a Cargo of coffee - valued at $120,000. Sic wag gent to Key Watt. The New Orleans authorities are perplexed re 'plating the disposal of the free negfbes captured on board the vessels taken by privateer's. The Pica,yunc, of the let, saps that the ehipe Bremen and Everhard, from Bremen, and the steamer Gen Minrnson, from /hyena, have been ordered away from Pees POutre by the U. B. steamer Brooklyn. The steamer ratolcatan captured the Mary Clinton, from Charleston to New Orleans, off the Pass, on the 3 let ult., with a full cargo .of rice, pees, etc. Gen. Twigga has been put in command of the Military Department of Louisiana. - 'The Montgomery (Ma.) Post, of the 31st nit aays that a portion of the Confederate troops have been ordered away from Penaftooia t there being little apprehensions of a fight there at present. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER BORUSSIA Haw Yeas., June 4.—The steamer Dorusss'a has arrived, bringing Liverpool &airless of the 22d uit.. Italy wants a loin of 500,000 000 frame from France. Doubts are entertained of the, loan being negotiated. as the pew kingdom is not soknowlegod while the French troops remain in Rome. The whole of the 'Faction squadron has left for Syria to bring back the anny'of emanation. Raegary is ready to bear the common burdens of the state and negotiate with the Council of the Austrian Empire, A portion of the Russian troops have been with drawn from the squares of Warsaw. limitation, May 21 —.The salsa of cotton to day have been 15,000 Wee, oloning with an At[canning tendency and an improved demand. The Manchester market la dull. The weather has been favorable for the °roils, end the market for breadstuff's is dull. Prices are slishrly lesser. Provisions are &math% Lnanon May 21—Console 9li•a9ld for money, and 911 91f for amount. The demand for money in the discount market ID moderate at six per cent American securities are dull. Illinois Central Railroad hal declined. * I Steamer Hibernia off Pa,ther Point PARLIAMENT REASSEMBLED The London Thes,ea Sir. Seward's Letter. PATECIIR PO/15T, June 4.—The steamer Ihdernia has peeled this pottit on her way to Quebec. She left Liverpool on the afternoon of the 231 nit.,-and Londonderry on the evening of Friday, the 24th. The steamer Doliemzezn arrived at Liverpool on the morning of the 231 ult., and the Bremen. at Southampton the same morning. ENGLAND Parliament reassembled on the evening of the 23d alt. The liquuth-llungarian note cue was being again. argued in the Court of Chancery. The London B ard of Uoderwritera has fixed the war rater on American machat six to eight gni- The London Post, the Ministerial organ, says that if the Ministers are defeated on Mr. New gate's proposition, they will dissolve Parliament. The London 'Amiss publishes the first part of a lengthy communication on the cause of the Amer'. Gan war, and has a strong editorial on Mr. Rew ard's letter to the Amerioan ambassador to Franc', which, it says, sounds very much like an insult s aria Acliowales bL prophetical idea The French ambassador to London has returned from Peris, and it is reported withinstruotione of a conciliatory character, The Aziezioan question is the paramount tore of newspaper di6ozusaion. Canine M. Clay's setter attraota ooneiderable attention. The, rumor le repeated that vestal, are going out of Liverpool to engage in privateering:, At tho London &dingo the fends ant stagnant and the ftuatuations alight. In the discount mar ket the supply of money has somewhat improved, but nothing has been done, better than 6 per amt. The weekly court of bank directors broke up on Thursday without altering the bank minimum. FRANCE. In the Chamber of Deputies the Opposition pro pose a material reduction is the Budget. The Council of the &ate refuse to accept of any modification, and a warm discussion is expected. Prime Napoleon has been elected Grand Muter of Free Masons, vine Murat, deceased. Tee Bonne was flat on the 221 ult. TEE LATEST VIA LuELOADEEV.Y. DWG/U . 430k May 24.—Tho eteasaor Adriatic ar rived at Galway to-day in Siva days and a hal trout bt. Johns. L.0.111562t, May It —The or =Atka to-day Witt &reamed, end Et amine would have to'be submit ted to to effaot solos, owing to the fine weather and largo arrivals ITALY Prince (Aegean hue reached Turin. Martino, the new Governor of Naples, bits Muted a proclamation expressing the Intention to govern with energy. primping improvements in the potato service, end fulling on the country for its support. A. petition, signed by ten thousand Romans, to Napoleon, praying for the withdrawal of the Eyebolt troops, has balm Belli to Perim. Order bee beau restored at Niko, notwitbetelld leg the snots or 1110 retigicus dieonesions. Nineteen Venetian de - pales have been named ad members of the lieloherath of Yeneths, heretofore sturcpresented Gen, Santana continue in command of the military at Jan Domingo. RIIN9ARY The collection of taxes by the military haa been suspended, the Diet guarantying the amount due till the question of the taxes la settled. itij3l3LA. Penes Orloff, the President of the Connell Ministers, is dead. T RKE The international ministers bad their first meat ng at Me French Embassy on the 21st nit INDIA AND ChINA The India and China mail relished Malta on the 21st ult., but the partioulara had not been received at Loudon by telegraph. Commercial Intelligence. [The weekly report of the Cotton and Breadstuffe mar eta k cve barn received. LIVERPOOL, May IL ' eel m ; Pork steady Paean gz e i l r i m a ,, L ; d4ll l 4l%ali t o u n t a i. barely Iniontained ; Lard null, at ra °noon —Pot or inlet, at Sae ederatre Peale quiet at 3:1. ; t 10811) aptly.. at a deplitui tor a 1 coati tiea—Bales Ude Weds 94 on t. a ape and to airtve; nerantitia ataaoy. at die adages t Sugar heavy; Coffee nil; 1t ice LoY.Dori, ['car td.—Breadvtutra dooliring hnear qu . e t ;, °i lea toot act; Tea ate, y ; Rice ; al low woody. 3r, 588 ; Linaecil .29, US ; crams Turpen tine steady. ut 50a Googols are airoted at 91.3L89114 for money, tail dCfm 91Y fir account: ')he roonYy market to wrobalwr.d. Illnpie Cen tral BWlrcau, elet4o iiieeonro, trio Railroad, 20%021 • ttiew York centrat ;CT. • From MePlndrla. ALI4ANDRIA, dune 4 visit to the clamps this even ing indicates no prospeot of en immediate move, though the troops an in readiness for it, if roquired, It a mOineatla notice. The important foitifications on Shuter's Rill have programed so as to show the impregnable character intended by the designer, Lieutenant G W. Snyder, late cZ Fort Sumpter. The bastion is alums completed, as is oleo the western side. Two hundred and fifty laborers are constantly at work. melded by detachments of soldiers. It will require another was k to complete IL The Zanotti' lump, whioh has been located w i l hin the enclosure, wee removed today to a grove near the Reservoir. If the army should be moved, they ezpeot to 9 „,,,,,,rater a. tormldabte feete at the Mat:Wilms rail road junction for the preservation of the only means or oormeorloo for the rekels between Har per's Ferry and Richmond. Arrival of the Prince Albert. NNW Yong, June 4.—The steamer Prtneo Al bet has artived. liar dates have been anticipated FROM LOUISVILLE lUnion Tunny, in Kentucky and Ten 111611806. Messrs. Crittenden and Mallory for Congress ILL HEALTH OF COL. ANDERSON Louravmai, June 4.—The Border State Con vention, at Frankfort, adjoarned yesterday sure din, after adopting National ■nd State addressee. Union flags are constantly raising in this city amid great enthusiasm. To-day they are flying at ballmest, In consequence of the death of Senator Douglas. Mr. grittenden consents to run for Congress in the Lexington diitrlet. Mr. Mallory was nominated by acclamation for the Seventh district at Lagrange yesterday. Immense quantities of provisions are going day and night to Shepherdspille, eighteen miles south of Louisville, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, thence to be sent South, if the transmis sion South is not interdicted. The Journal is . informed Chet there are two thalami Elva hundred soldiers at Cony Truro dale, near Riohland, two miles from the Kentucky line, and the same number at Camp;Cheathem, near Springfield, Tennessee. The measles is very prevalent among them. Tao wane paper says that Well-attended VlllOl l meeting were held privately in Nashville on Battu% day, notwithstanding the suppression of the Union sentiment there by the Seoesaionists Manual labor is stagnant at Nashville, and there is at least 5,000 unemployed negroes in the oity. The Louisville Journal. in an editorial, says that Col. Anderson will take no military com mand there, but will go to the mountains of Penn sylvania, on account of failing health. - - From Havana. 6finanna Olnanicf. /GRUM AIatOWID TO Mali MOBIL! HARBOR Nary ORLsarts, June 3 —The steamer General lifiramon has been allowed to enter the harbor of M. bile, furnishing dates from Havana to the 28:bult. Business at Havana was dull, and pagers were languid. United States vowels are at a discount in the freight market. The Spantab troops are beginning to return here from San Domingo. Some of the oldest Spanish houses are suspend ing payment. Sterling exchange eics per ocnt. premium. Bills on New York 2i-.4 nor cent. discount. [As the steamer General Aliramon plies toNew Orleans, it is evident from the above despots& that the blockade is being enforced at the month of the Mississippi ' 'From Fort.ress Monroe- FOBTRZBEI Itloslloll (via Baltimore), ALI/0 3 -- Only some fifty men of the Naval Brigade are to return to new York today in, the steamer Coatzacoalcos. The others will remain for one week as citizens, laboring for their rations, cud not no a nalittaq organization, Colonel Bartlett is much better, and goes to Wash in . ton to-night with several of his officers. This lathe_ beat that can be done for them It is b e . tiered bore that the brigade was ordered back to New York, partially on amount of a mirunder. Brawling between the President and the Secretary of War. The President is said to have accepted the brigade without consiiiting with Mr. Cameron. The steam-tuft Yankee left for Norfolk this morning with a Hag of truce. Heavy firing from Bewall'a POLSt was heard as she passed there. The steamer Combrnigo arrived this morning from Boston. Collisions at Sea. Flaw Yoatt, June 4.—The schooner Vgdia Ann May, from Cardenas reports having been um into in let. 34, long. 76, by an unknown United States steamer, and wart damaged in her spars and sails. The sohooner Medora, from New York for Port land. wax sunk by a oellirioa on the 21 matt. with the schooner Tarquin, off Old Field Point. The orew were saved. Sailing of Transports. tiltw You, Jane 4.—The siesmero Jas. Adger and Alabama, with troops, sailed for Fortress Mon roe ibis afternoon. The steamer State of Georgia, took on board the Tenth New Yotk Regiment of Z mares, Colonel MaCherney, this afternoon, and will *ail te•night for Fortreas Montoe. Camp'Washington. .Riumr, Juts 4 —Thus aomputegirom Rud ing arrived at Camp ,Washington this evening, making eighteen companies now here. There are ample aoommodatione for an many more. The oarperdara are engaged in *rooting quarters. All are well in eater, Respect to the Memory of Senator Douglas. New YORK, Jane 4 —The innumerable lags about our city are displayed at half mast to-day, in respect to the memory of the late Stephen A. Douglas. The Rebels in Tennessee. . CHICAGO, June 4.—The Trtbune's Cairo sor respondent days that there are 5,00 robol-tivors 0,4 trhioll Oity, Tennessee. another regiment having -^ P , thurt-- Ten thouserajtm_W die at Mom —loos C" -- tirmhUT to arrive at Union City on anday. The Ferry Boat at Havre-de-Grace. There is no truth whatever in the report In the New York inners of to-day that the steam ferry boat Maryland, belonging to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, had been seismal by the government, and that the trains were not running. dlt the trains are run ning regularly and make their accustomed good time. Affairs in Virginia. The Washington Mar, of last evening, has the following items about the state of affairs in Vie- A letter from Maillealle ilunctlosi NM that peel lion is now impregnable. • The Norfolk Argus, of the 30th nit, entwine the following items : We learn that two companies from Baltimore Arrived at Suffolk yesterday by the N. and P. road. Work at the yard goes bravely on. The splendid first-oleos steam-frigate Merrimac has been railed, and the beau:lfni sloops-of war Doiphin and Ger mantown will soon be afloat. We learn that six or Sayan tons or powder sank in the Iliterrinicie have been saved in a good condition. Five twelve-pound Dahlgren bronse howitzers hal been Baked up at the navy yard in , good con dition Of _President Davis' movements the Examiner says: President Davie, accompanied brtiovernor Floyd and Colonel WigfaH, visited the stamp yes. terday. Re had been preceded by Gov Letoher. When the party areived, he inspeeted the Talinelk see regiment, at present.stationed there, and made an impressive address to it. A letter from Manassas, dated the 30 1 .11, says all were alive there, anticipating order+, lament upon Alexandria. Alt the Richmond papers refuse to notice the arrival of troops, or to state the number at different points. Gen. Waiter Gwyn, late of --Virginia, has been appointed by Goy Bilis briga dier general of the array of North Carolina. Can. tivryn left itileigh flunday morning last to make reconnoissance of the defences on' the coast of that State. • . The Dispatch recommends that the Texan Ran gers, who have recently arrived in Virginia, ahould be detailed for duty on the borders of Ohlo and Pennsylvania. Governor Letcher has issued a proclamation pro hibiting, on account of the blockade, the exporta tion of prevision of any deasrlptlon. Captain Avis, John Brown's jailor,_ie the cam mender of a company in charge of the hospital near Harper's Ferry • Oa Tuesday last a meeting of superintendents Of the different railroad:, in Virginia was held al Riobmoed. Nine roadir were represented. and a new time table for the running of passenger trains between Richmond. and Manassas Junction was agreed upon. A resolution was adopted requiring the different companies to erect lines of telegraph along their respective roads. The brother of Jackson is announced to be near Alexandria, with his wife, picking of from two to five Northern soldiers daily, The Dispatch of the 31st reports that it has re mitred information that a son of the law partner of the president of the Loudon and Hampshire Railway had been Arrested by the South Carolina volunteers and 'hung as a spy Upon his person, onnooaltd in his cost collar, When arrested, were a map of Harper'a Ferry, and a manuscript em bodying the writer's ideu in regard to the eras live force and disposition of troops at the Ferry, and the but mode for the Federal forme to pursue to insure moons The Alabama Rangere, at Riehmond, are armed with Missiegippi rifle; and bowie knives. Ti■ LAST BOMBARDMENT AT Acqurik carrK. - we and the following particulars of this affair in the Washington Star of last evening : U. 8. Serener( PAWNZI, Jane 1, 1861. Editor Star: At noon to day the Pawnee and Pheaa.a.a PreeborSt. Sk66d in townras the steamboat landing at Acquis Creek. When about two miles Off a battery opened upon the Pa 1101366 with two titled cannon, and a heavy gun, supposed to be a 69 pounder. The two steamers stood as near as the shoal water would permit, and opened upon the battery, the Pawnee with her Dahlgren gone, and the Freeborn with two heavy 32-pounders The distance at first was 2,000 yards, but Captain Rowan, finding that his shells could do little hum at that clistanoo, pushed the Pawnee In till she touched in , he mud at 1 700 yards, and showered the ebella upon the battery As soon as the fight commenced, the enemy set fire to the railroad bridge, stbteb hall been oommod, We /nuked toe depot to pieces, and denied the Ofirtb about the ears of the men in the battery ; but the rifled guns were too well protected to be injured •t such a distance, and we have not men enough for a boat attnek. The Pawnee was Amok several times with rifted shot, but only four struck her hull. Commander Rowan and one or the men were slightly woruded by eplinteri. The -Freihorri wee /truck three tames, and had bcr port wheel-40m a little in• jured. No one wee butt on board. The enemy paid their compliments par.bularly to the Paret 7t6f, firing almost all their shot at her. The rifled gnus were well served by the enemy. Nearly every shot was a good line shot, hut they gene rally flew high, mining the hull and elating we up aloft. The fight continued, with intermisolons. until near 5 o'uloot P Al , when the falling tide com pelled us to heal off. after expending all our !hell fused for long ranges. The practice was excellent. The men are well drilled, and seamed to regard dm action sea frolic, laughing at the sharp whletling of the rifled shot that flew about us, and damning the " eceessors " cordially for getting into molt an inaccessible plane They oan only be dialodged by landing a Party of men and attacking the battery in the rear. We eannot tell what lrjary was dons to the enemy, but if not well protectedbytheLr earth. Welke they matt have atffered We tumid see them running from their guns when oar lire was hottest, to the great glee of our men. The Pawnee will remain for a few days to guard the river, while the .I+caborro and Anarostta return to Washington. The /atter . rowel but one 32 pounder, and fired only a few shots for the mike of having a hand In the action. The Sevanty-drst odkboard are always ready for work. THE CITY. Military M,„,vements and Excite ment - about Town. Yesterday, at noon, the 01130 of throe BAtimo roans, charged with burning bridges on the North ern Central Road, and arrested by the troops un der oommand of General Kelm, ems up before Judge Cad waleder, in the United Slates District Court. George 11. Williams, Esq., of Baltimore, the prinoipal ocuneel for the alleged bridge burners, was not precept, the reason alleged for his absence being the fear of personal vioieneo tram a mob. The beet possible refutation to this reflection upon the fair fame of Philadelphia was given by the scene in and about the court room. Although it was not known that Mr. Williams wee not present, the attendance at the court room was slender, and the persons present were gene rally manibets of the bar and other highly raffles. table and well known citizens. There was not the slightest indication of angry feeling among the gentlemen present in the court room, or of disor derly intention; while no persons whatever were glitnered in the streets in the vicinity, At the headquarters of Colonel Small's regiment the men who were a bugbear to Mr. Williams were amusing themselves in their usual ways, apparently entirely oblivious of the existence of Mr. W., end perfectly indifferent as to his whereabouts. Al we have already Mated, 12 o'clock had been fixed for the return of the writ, hut Deputy Mar shal Sharkey, to whom the duty of serving it bad been entrusted, had not arrived in this city. Mr. Wharton introduced the subject to the attention of the 001Irt, and said be had received, just before coming to court, a /otter from Mr Williams, hie colleague, containing the information that, by or dere from the War Department, the petitioners had been discharged, and that they were at home, in Maryland. Judge Oadwalader, in reply, said that, Wesel Mr Wharton called the case up for somepurpose, he had nothing before the court, and the judge then added : "Bat I do not see Mr Williams here. Is there any reason why he is absent ? n Mr Wharton stated that it was his painful duty to say th at there was a reason why Mr. Williams was detained at Baltimore. Mr Williams was in thii city on Saturday, attending to this ease. On Sunday afternoon he Came to Mr -Wharton's house and presented him a , paper which had been placed in his (Mr Wharton s) posseasion by the propels tor of the hotel where he was stopping That pa per contained an editorial call upon the members of Oitl. Frnoll'a regiment to attend here on tbi' day at 12 &Meek, with ropes. -foti the purpose cf hanging Mr. Williams, from Beltimoee, who was stated to have been one of a mob who had as saulted that regiment while attemping a passage through Baltimore. Mr. Williams was not dis posed to take any notice of this newspaper article, but he had-received information- from an anony. mous source which he could not disregard. That information was confirmed, he having been tracked during the day, and be beeeme satisfied that an attempt would be made on his life, and, after con sultation with Mr. Wharton, he expressed his in tention to leave the city and allow the case to rest with Mr. Wharton, and he started for home on Sunday evening On Sunday he drew up a card while- in the office of Mr. Wharton, for publics. tion. Mr. Williams did not know of the mob In Baltimore, and his only egenoy was to give assist anus to two of the Massachusetts soldiers who were wounded. Ile was not aware of the fact that Col. Smell's regiment bad visited Baltimore until informed of it by Mr. Wharton. _ District Attorney Coffey said he was sorry Mr. Williams was not present. He had mistaken the feelings and habits of the people of Philadelphia, who obey the laws of the land. Intlge ()sawsMar now stated that be had no doubt that if the aubjeet had been mentioned to him, Mr. Williams would harts been safe, because an order would have been made to the marshal to see that his officers protected bin in the discharge of his duty to hie silent. The views of the District . Attorney that Mr. Williams would have received no injury or Inconvenience in Philadelphia were probably correct, but a gentleman of another dia. mid coming to this court as counsel was entitled to protection as an officer of the court. If the facts had been brought to the attention of the court, the judge would have made an order which would have enabled the marshal to summon the military and civil aid. ~ This ended the case, and, the small etwerublsge present dispersed after quietly laughing with one another M the ridiculous position in which they had been placed as citizens .deolrous of applying Lynch law to any one. - 111130TLIM COD pIUtVII. The troops at Camp Washington are well lodged, and have an abundance of excellent food. The men are cheerful and contented. the frieno of the 1 2 14Pilfeda Of who have joined volonel asker'a California Begi ment will be glad to know that the " bop" are all in oomfortable quarters at Fort Schuyler, eitu ated at the head of Long Island sound, fourteen miles from New York city, They sleep in tents within the weal of the fort, said tents being named " The - Eureka," "The Continental," " The Rome for Friendless Children," &o. The rations are excellent, and the only ones in the hospital are reOrritts, who indulge too freely in olams The men bathe and vaali ilkialt water, which is all around them, and they are much pleased with their quarters, their uniforms, and their eel care. A New Tork regiment 18 also quartered at Fort Schuyler, and the coldiers are being actively drilled. TEM 'ILENBUItteIiOR ILIPLIIS This oompany have been accepted and sworn in by Capt. A J. Cohen, hiepeotor, and Col. J. S Watson, eomenissary. The-appearance of the oom ray in uniform wet highly commended by the cii . rrmaf tholmittee for D;:e=. :eau yro -...aer; Voi. Wm. Bradford and Daniel M Fox, Of Baled Council. The patriotic addresses by them gentlemen were loudly cheered, and the ceremony concluded by the Meennerohor singing the Star-Spangied Banner, and several other beau tiful songs, antler the direction of Adolph .Birg feld, leader of the society. SWORD. DSISSNTATION Company A, formerly Second Scott Legion regl merit, have been mastered into service. and expect to leave for camp in a. few days. The °Ewers of this company are: Captain, Casper Martino - first lieutenant, Jas M Rice; second liontenant:ll. C. Meeser. The officers have all sena service in the Mexican war. Last evening the ladies of the Twentieth ward met at the house of Mrs Kelly, Temth street, above Girard avenue, and presented Captain Martino with a handsome sword. The sword was presented by Mrs. Kelly, io an appro. palate speech, which was replied to by the reci pient. ll= • The Cameron Guards, under the command cf Col. nosefield, meet four times a week at Cowen Hall, for , drill and for the perms of enrolling new members. The Guards will give a handsome en tertainment and comfort, on Saturday, at the above place, and we command them to the patronage of the public. DISPAIITIfIar OF TR.OOPS Mx companies of the Reserve Volunteers, com manded by T. F. B lapper, John 11. Taggart, John Clark, John Baltoonewald, Richard Wool worth, and Lieut, James B. Baker, will proceed. to Easton this morntng.i The companies will form at tibie eicleck, on the seeale eta. of Girard avenue, right resting on Eighth street. Thep will take the oars at Master-street station at 10 o'clock, The men will "receive their arms and equipments at Easton. ROHM GUARDS A company was organized in the Fourteenth ward styling themselves the "Naylor Guards." After the adorlon of s constitution and by bufe, the president itieorge J. Nailer, Illy ,) made some Wetted rema.ks, thanking the corps for the honor conferred, trnadzig that the name which they bad adopted by acclamation would never be tarnished, after which the Ownpstur portvok of Dome refresh. mower. EN OLD SIGN RENEWED Theiron sign representing the battle between the frigatea Constitution,Gyane, and Levant ; haefor Many 'sera lorned. the front of the timed rendezvous, in Front street, below Spruce, has been newly painted, and yesterday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, wise again put in its place A camber of the old aealnert AMU Clio Mlliral Asylum were present. RIFLICS FOR THE VOLT.INTRIRS Yesterday afternoon &ye wagon-loads of rifles were twee from the Frankford arsenal and brought, to the city. 'limy are intended for our volunteers., MEETING IN BEHALF OF TUE iND/ANS.—Yes. Wiley afternoon Mr John &run andrersed a nutaticr of persons at Washington Hall, on Baring Garden street, in relation to the condition of the After a few remarks by Mr. Beeson a ottairman and secretary wore nominated , and the business of the meeting proceeded with. The following rem lotions relative to the mission were presented and adopted ; Whereas, There is reason to believe that our frAlier Wien have been outraged to exasnera. fon by speculators and traders, who are now using falsehood and deception to inveigle them into the unholy war againstour Government; therefore. Resolved, That we heartily approve of the efforts Of John lieeEon in bringing befurci the public the facts of the condition and treatment of the Indians Resolved, That MUDS be adopted to convey to the Indian tribes, and to the white settlers on the frontier, a preper expression of the sympathy of MD people AEA atrieritrnent, lAA the au:mar:moo of redress and protection in the erjoyment of their just rights. _Resolved, That a committee of three he ap• pointed and invested with the power of adding to the reatabor, for the purpose of proporlog a plan, and for calling a future meeting or meetings, to carry the foregoing into effect as early as practi cable. ' • Accordingly, three ladies were chosen by Mr. ROlllllOl4 and ems and place of meeting appointed for the dirourtion and arrangement of future union. THE JOHN Tnuers.—This submerged vessel has not yet been raised, and her spars, that have now a sorry, weather.beaten guise, still lift them selves above the surface. The excitement Attending the wreak has long subsided, and a bare corporal'e guard of speatatort visit the spat daily; to witness the dote, libtAithh hie MAE conVl4ll olitevedorei and others, in futile efforts to lilt the hulk. A 'simper or trio are moored alongside, and a itrge wooden slur has been projeoted betwrou two yeasole The, plan of workigi hes not been det tidied, and the sunitzter will probably 'skims the tattered mute still breasting the - waters: Mean time, the drowned stewards bcdy has not been found. Parttime he ruts among the water-legged timbers, wondering at the men in armor that come and go about him, yet are powerless to see or to resurrect him. DAmoratonS FLAOs.—A lady of known Pa' trietlem, whio hes done good service in sawing and contributing forthe Volunteers, visited her cone ti7 place in Byberry, some days ago, when the farmer, in honor of her arrival, ran up 4843 °Fyn the barn. Said • flag hod been made some years ago for the children, and, to etionomiso material and pinches, contained but three , stripes and a short dooms of stars. Some of the neighbors be• held the trl striped colors and at once gave the alarm. In a short time an exalted orowd from all the oountry around approached the , place, brand• hihing weapons of every description, threatening to barn clown the tnilidlegs. They - tools the strange farmer to mean seoession. It was prompt ly removed, and the crowd invited in to en sztetn pose oollation. Tor Strap ltsuntsw--in two weeks, or Ism the Delaware shad Altheriel wi l cram opera tions for the season. It is computed that sin hun dred thousand shad have been taken from the De'ewer* dame the seeetes opened. Thousands of them have been tent to various palate, Boat and West. The salt water fisheries will.shortly-be pro. dimity', aid we may look for trout, ma WM, *to. UP AHD DOWN TM: DLL\ ermtE, __ Tim ars to the summer resorts, up and down t h en' now making regular tript— ~. tin' or,o qui as Trenton ; and below, is E',ult.w., .1.4.: 4 , • ''' 4 l. .&.•.o. wore, (... w ,', The BuriiviktiA . .l :4,,a n,dz iitowni,,, , ,, „. ing no duily large partien of eeeree.-,fi,C,C,4',Y. pass the hest of the day iu thr..-e p'err,tri• • i r ' l4 l and return when the Fun is down, Ittid th, t : ''N air pure and exhilarating. At Bridelburg, ItivergidO, Toymad,o„ . n. , are row Louts to hire, end wee erruni,r,i-0.,1 be seen at all hnurs venturing Cnlt 111.04 th-8i.,k:,,' of the waters. .t. AEA, CRUSHED TO DEATIE.— 011 Mmi, ternoon a man from Montgome r y , onty , im s , ,;., self down upon a pile of lumber, in tha f11, 2t .`q.. • Toot. lb , Messrs Beggs lc Itlwland, in Fr.)nt m. qp-, t Callowhill. The pile fell over and he Wm 1, 5 ;:, amon g the heavy Pl" 1" Iril'n tle'imoi''' wee found that be was dead. 'At dreamt, unknown, and there was nothing o nut 1 ;1 ' 1 1! lead to big identification. It 'nal theughl 1 0, 1, had opine to Philadelphia to jr,in Cut Ei,a , ,t regiment, but It did nut Finney:F. thnt +nay or,'' recruits at the armory knew hip', The 0 ` 4 took Amp of the body crestr UNITED STA.TE3 MINT.— Tim SODS have been di.mharged by Mr, 13.. 11, 1 , , , Ptr. the respect;ve po4tiong named ia the krir,t: r smiths—Andrew Lawrence Guy ate.Keeper—Joh n H pieZ.4,llt, aeor g e Shaw. Charles 0' Dinnell Lab Carrigan. Watottoaen—rhos. trer—b ej McLaughlin, Bernard Farrel. itnuott-Fie Vanhorn, James Boyd, John Nlitebeti, , 4 :1 bat, Genrge Ramer, We:_ Mint) . m.,; , 1 4 Tatiob MoL De,l, ,sta: l ° - Moogan, John Crosby, Timothy llama,' Selfridge, Wm Sweeny, Henry !Arlie wo ' , tors—George Surname, John 'Nembutal. IN wean - ray, Joseph Sixty, Carpentete—w a, 1 4 1 Jeffries, John Ruder, FINAL 11EXRING.—Yeatellby arterlloins liam Oliver, charged with remain; a pick pr,k; had a final bearing before Alderman 'Eichler . " Matthew McCabe testified that, while Hisao, at Twelfth and Locust streets, two moo com e t " While OLIO placed his bands on witloope thooldir the other picked hie pooket. The wheels etl, zoi : ed to arrest the man who picked his poo tt hie companion rescued him. Another witoose was examined, sad ideu t ia,, (Myer as the one who reeved the thief. ' ()liver was held in St,SOU for hie apr4 t r anee court. fi A DISORDERLY PARTY. ---011 MOlld):14)! a disturbance occurred at Clinton and Dewitt/Ith Seventeenth ward, among Fl party or bi a th, oe. cer Mointt, while attempting to make as arras wee badly beaten. The following nalusd note. were taken into custody: James Linteb o ",, , mad Maria Freeman, Daniel Lin...thesis. NI-cy I , D ) Thomas Williams, and Aaron Congo y. firtrdiv • the prisoners were all cinnaluitted to seiner a: rt court by Alderman Shoemaliar. PRIVATE KANUFACTURIES OF MUtdiEli .ts; ltirmos —The military peco-eitiee 1113 d gejj egtjra of the time, have made great demand for moat 1&5, of war. A. number of our manufactories, ob„;1, now lie idle, are preparing to alter machinery std enter at once upon the making of tleQ l ets ol4 rifles The firm of Jenka kCo, of Bridedurg. a re now perfecting tboir nia9blltry, with t:hit 6bj , tt view and expect, by the lot of July, to tomcat weekly ten thouoand Enfield rides With the laten impravemento. SUICIDE.—An 14n/iP9SVD map, flood ahMll . I . years. committed suicide on lt.islissp night h ) shooting himself with a pistol on the run .11,, t; above Callowhill street. After shootirg bitteelf he reeled and fell overboard Tna body hut no. je , 09 6 4 reg9vorsd, The ['missend was genteelly diet sad sad lett Me wig lying on the wharf. DEAD BODY FOUND.—Yesterclay Inornitgst SA early hour the dead body of au infant re i found in a bandbox at Twelfth 01,1 ez:1101, streets. The body was taken in charge by rite ooroner. To CoarstErroz 01 uAnous.-11 the Wehliw should prove favorable to-day the cetw e b er , will ootameuao the work of dostruntitin en el in , muzzled canines. ARILESTED.—The driver or a wagon, 111Ic: John ltiohioL wall arrested at Fourth Btreeta, on Monday, upon the charge of mohaio over a man and breaking his leg He ins bald f , ,r a farther bearing by Alderman Buller. ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING - - reStrit.lav ahrr• noon a man named John Ittrely was aconlancatti shot with a revolver at the Summit Home, Kingsessing, Twenty-fourth ward, and Oita a zbr: time afterward. The coroner will invaitiage ta 7 6806. By an announcement elsewhere it wdi seen that WILL ft. Crowell Rig , has been eleetei to the secretaryship of the Ptnnsylvaula Piro h suranee Company, (No, MD Wainut 2tf Bet, is place of Beaton Smith, deceased. We etngrato late this old and popular company upon having called SO competent and malted a to,r, to tat important post. Mr. Crowell is well known to the mercantile community, (having been engaged is mercantile affairs a number of year,;,) and bee boon during tho loot seven years nonneoted with the inotitniton of zritosr Messrs. Callender 4. Co.. newspaper agents, stoner of Third and Walnut, we Bare fho Inv..trated Nerew of May with tuppiomeat portrait, on to cf Mr. II Wegter, lease and manager of the Adelphi Than Lon don. SALE TESS MORNING-81625M Vitn V. , :et, marble monumenta ; .ko. Set Thomas t !Rm . al vertisement. FINANCIAL AND VOADIERCIAL. The ftleney Market. PritneohbralA, Juno 4, 1661, The (1 outrage upon business" passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania last winter, in the shape of a law relative to brokers nod pirate bankers, Which Governor Curtin himself err flounced infamous, but which became a Ivy in eOll , sequence of his not having returned it with hie potions within three days after the coaimence• merit= of the aenaion, on April :ill, 80, begins In receive the attention of members of the Stick Board. The following is a copy of the bill ; Be it enacted, That every stock broker, billy broker, exchange broker. real•estale broker, and private banker in this Commonwealth on or before the first Monday in December our, and on or before the same day in each year there• after, make a written return, under with or If. firmation. to the Auditor General of this Com monwealth, in which return he shall exbibit end set forth the full amount of his receipts from c - al• missions, discounts, abatements, allowances, and all other profits arising from his businese donne the year ending the thirtieth day cf November preceding the date of such annual return, end shall forthwith pay into the State Treasury tree per osmium upon the aggregate amount cutlass! in molt return for the use of the Coottnonweeith. all revenues derived from this souroe ore }way appropriated to the sinking fond, to be opplist, under the direotion of the commissione thereol, to the payment of the interest. and redaction r.! the prineiPal, ur the pliblio debt, iP like manner rs other revenues appropriatel to that fund STs sac. 2. That every stock broker, bill broker, exchange broker, real-estate brolcer, sod private banker in thin Commonwealth, whether the busi• nem be conducted by an indiviival, or more lb" one person in partnership, shell, within three months after the passage of this act, ant all cabers who shall hereafter engage in such busiteit in nu Commonasalth, esiehid silly days alter they 011IIV menee the same, make a report to the Alba General in writing, and under oath or thirrtation, eating forth the name of the person so ecorloStd l, if an individual, or, if apartnership, the came= of all the individuals comp o sing the same, owl its t ame of the firm, the looation or place where such In/linen is transacted, and the amount of Moat invested therein, if any. 6311 :3 That any deck broker, bill Wh et ' exchange broker, rea'-estate broker, or private banker in this Commonwealth, who shall neglect or refuse to make the return and report required by the first and second sections of this act, shit, fir every such neglect or refusal, he subjea t ' penalty of one thousand dollars, which pee B h7 shall be collected on en account nettled by the sr .untant officers as taxes on bark dividends are now settled end collected, and shall not be r t..eved from pa ing the amount which he it linbir to PP • to the Commonwealth, under -kite provisions 0. •IV first section of this act, On Recount of his haritg been required and compelled to pay the said penalty. Sac, 4. That all brokers and private basher' shall be compelled to psy Itemise, as heretofore, addition to the amounts which they Shell he re quired to pay under the provisions of this KR- Many of the members of the Board of Brave have under consideration the propriety of isms`" tog their organisation to New Jersey, to avoid the operation of this outrageous law. Every year, for a long time past, some movement hes been lssJa at Harrisburg providing for some Rind of spegisl taxation of the capital used by private bankere and brokers, and as regularly comes down a feeler from the third house the borers end lobby Men , to inow "what are the merits of the till," or "how much they may ascertain," or, in language, bow much money the brokers will con• tribute to have this outside influence exerted to prevent the passage of such a law, The brok2r , be it told to their honor and credit, have bly refused to pay money to these oorruptiouists. Now, the bill above copied has been allowed to be• come a law s "ni t if it is 001111titildatili denims of capital will be driven away from car law-ridden State to New York, after the other millions that have already been feat by End' enactments to swell the wealth and business of our rival oily. There are some good reasons why the Moberg should give up their licenses and trawler tivtir Board to Camden. In New Jersey the law make , no diffwenee between stocks and other suajtots of purchase and sale, as is the case here, but storks rewy be bee s ist oa oredit in tiao .zame mithi.er that anything else can be bought on credit, and seat sale is held there to lie leghl. The expenses of the Board in Camden would be light, and so ward those of the individual members, not obliged te pay a heavy sum for a Hamm, as in Pennsylvania , We shall have more to say upon this law and its Operation hereafter. Many of our readers are irquiring, Rad others doubdeas, will be glad to know, what action the underwriters in the commercial cities of the North are taking concerning the risk et Capture by pti , vetoers of the Southern Confederacy. The usual marine policies contain no provisions which would exempt the underwriters from liability to the poll - ay-holders for foorerising from vortutd or de , tuition of insured vessels and cargoes by Jefferson piratei, and the underwriters, therefore, insert a clause in their policies cepeolaily intended to clear them from suell liability This clause in New York reads as folloan ; te Warranted free from °lain) for lose or damage
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