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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