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BATUBDAY, JUNE 8, 1861
Ferever Beat that standard Sheet!
Where breathes the toe but tans before tel
With Freedom's son beneath sm feet,
And freedom's banner streaming o'er no!
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—Notes on the Rebellion; The American Flag;
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Beanregard.
We have not troubled ourselves with any
speculations on the death of General Blunts
quip, as we confess to have felt but little in
terest in the matter. The General belongs
to one of those wealthy Creole families of
the South who constitute a social aristocracy
of sugar, like the Virginia aristocracy of
oysters, or the Carolina aristocracy of cotton.
They speak miserable French, (or, as the
negroes call it, cc Gumbo Frencn,") sneer
at Bonapartism, and More the memory of
the Beennons, speculate in Degrees, detest
anything Yankee or Saxon, and claim an af.
finity with the Roman races of the world. In
tensely proud, and like all democratic aristoc
racies ignorant and opinionated, they look
upon themselves as the natural rnlers of the
Western hemisphere, and live in the hope of
the establishment of a Gallic empire on the
banks of the Mississippi, with a prince of Or
leans or Burgundy enthroned in New Orleans,
and a gay court flattering around him. The
present conspiracy seems to open up to them
a realization of these dreams, and they have
gone into it with enthusiasm. It is the only
enthusiasm, indeed, the French Creoles have
been known to exhibit since the English drove
them from Arcadia a hundred years ago.
They have never forgiven the BONAPARTES for
the transfer of Louisiana, and have obeyed the
Republic in a very sullen and discontented
manner ever since.
From • this race of men comes General
Baarrazassn. Be is a wealthy man by mar
riage, an educated man by the charity of the
Government, a popular man by accident, and
a proud man by instinct. He is said to have
distinguished himself in Mexico, although his
exploits only came to light ten years after the
war was over, and are vouched for by men who
Claim JEFFIRSON DAVIS as the conqueror of
Buena Vista, and General Twines the superior
of General .1 - Ammon. The most undoubted ex
ploit of his life was to fill the position of su
perintendent of the new Custom House at
New Orleans, and draw sixteen dollars a day
from the Government, in addition to his mili
tary salary. His achievements in Charleeton
are also in history, and no one will deny him
the ct glory" of the capture of Fort Sumpter.
On the 27th of May General BISATIRKGARD
Was in Charleston, and being about to depart
from the scene of his trials and triumphs, he
wrote a letter to one General MART/N, and
Lad it published in the newspapers. The let
ter bears every appearance of being genuine,
as far as the Charleston Courier is concerned,
as it comes to us in that newspaper. It Is
very brief, and reminds us of the schoolboy
who Tames the graveyard at midnight,
strengthening his courage by a desperate of
fort at whistling. He says he its not going to
Virginia, but g 4 elsewhere," and thither he
shall go, «not with Joy, but with the firm de.
termination to do more than his duty."
very safe thing for a military man to say, al
though extremely difficult for a civilian to un
derstand.
Among other noticeable things the General
abandons any hope of a triumph uat first,"
but, is very cc certain to triumph at last." This
would intimate that the General does not cal
elate on bombarding any more half-starved
garrisons, and evidently suggests to him that
his next interview with Colonel AirnSasom
will be under different circumstances, and
amid different surroundings, than when they
met as combatants in Charleston harbor. The
volunteers of the North are it disciplined
mercenaries," while the Southern soldiers are
a u gallant and free people," which means that
the cc gallant and free " warriors must be con
tent to do without their pay until Secretary
itisatrsoza negotiates another loan. He re
gards our soldiers as men "gathered together
hastily on a false pretence, and for an unholy
purpose, with an octogenarian at their head;"
and sagely concludes with the reflection that
none but 4 ‘ the demented can doubt the
issue." The phrase is a very good one, and
the epithet ebuld not be more appropriately
applied than to a pompons and well•paid
traitor, who calumniates the people of the
North who have educated and protected him,
and sneers at a General whom be would have
gladly welcomed as his commander, because
he has passed into the last years of a long and
honorable life without disgracing his manhood
and abandoning his flag.
The Attack upon Harper's Fem.
The loyal forces are closing around Harper's
Ferry with so much rapidity that its speedy
capture is a foregone conclusion. It appears
impossible that the traitors can resist the
overwhelming onset which is evidently in con
templation. We think our generals can, and
probably, will, soon place themselves in such
a commanding position that they can either
obtain it by a bold assault or, by cutting off
all supplies and communications, compel Gen.
Jonzson's command to flee or to surrender.
If the current reports about the scarcity of
food there are correct, after a few days of in
terruption of their usual facilities for obtaining
food they would be in a starving condition,
but it is possible that, foreseeing this danger,
strenuous efforts will be made to guard against
it by those who direct operations at Richmond,
and those in Baltimore and other parts of
• . .
Maryland who, strongly sympathi z i ng with the
Secession cause, have already rendered much
"aid and comfort" to the Harper's Ferry
forces.
On the operations against this point the
people of Pennsylvania naturally feel an in
tense interest for various reasons. It is brit a
short distance below our southern border, a
convenient station from which to make raids
into our State, if by any possibility the traitor
forces should be emboldened by any tempora
ry sueeesees, and much the most Northern
post that the traitors have presumed to defend
with any considerable body of men. H owever
treason may flourish; like a rank Weed in more
tropical climes, we can illy brook the spectacle
of beholding its defiant head reared almost
within sight of our mountain tops.
But, independent of this consideration, a
very large proportion of our own Pennsylva
nia volunteers are connected with the move
ment which will probably result in the Ilmt ex
tensive battle of the campaign, and even the
Ohio forces will be under the command
of one of our distinguished sons, General
m u o raza4 , 4 who has already deserved
ly attained a rank only second to that of
Gai ra l Scurf, and who is universally re
regarded as one of the beat officers in our ser
viCe. It would be a gratifying, and, to some
extent, a characteristic sequel to the ope n i ng
Incidents of this contest, if, after all, the
trouble' connected with the organization of
our forces and the delays which have appa
ready kept them, in some respects, in the
loseitgranad, they should win the first snb
stiendel glory in tbe battle for the Union,
and be among the first to achieve a victory
of so tangible, enduring, and substantial a
diumter, that in all future time, it would
stand out as a leading feature of this war.
A 00XPANT has bean orgtallzed at Augusta;
Geatibi, to manii!betiall printing ink on a Imp
slab.
•ie fThu is J•ff • :i u-
the Habeas Corpus Argument of Chief
Justice Taney.
' The following extract from the letter of the
great Virginia statesman, who maintained at
the period the extremest views of the inviola
ble character of the writ of habeas corpus,
will be read with interest at this time. It is
taken from his letter to J. B. COLVIN, written
September 10, 1810 :
"The question you propose, Whether tnroum
stances do not sometimes wear whioh make it a
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principle,authorities
d b i t s ly ty on i ci n o t iffi ne co l r e s of
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but someetanss embarrassing in practice. A
strict o bservance of the written laws is doubtlees
0716 f the high duties of a good citizen but it is
not the hig,hest. The laws of necessity, of calf
preservation,of saving our country when in dan
ger' are of higher obligation. To lose our country
by a scrupulous adherende to w ritten law, would
be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, proper
ty, and and all those who are enjoying them with
us; thus ohs-artily sacrificing Me end to the
means. When, in the battle of Germantown,
General Washington's army was annoyed from
Chew's hones, he did not hesitate to plant his can
non against it, although the property of a citizen
When he besieged Yorktown, he levelled the =-
barbs, feeling that the laws of property must be
postponed to the safety of the nation. While the
army was before York, the Governor of Virginia
took horses, carriages, provisions, and even men,
be fore*, to enable that army to stay together
till it could master the public enemy t and he was
justified, A ship at sea in distress for provisions,
meets another homing abundance, yet refusing a
supply; the law of self-preservation, authorises
the distressed to take a supply by force In all
these oases, the unwritten laws of necessity, of
self-preservation, and of the public safety, control
the written laws of invent. and tuum. Farther to
exemplify the principle, I will state an hypotheti
cal ease. Suppose it had been made known to the
Knontive of the Union in the autumn of 1805, that
we might have the Florides for a reasonable sum,
that that sum had not indeed been so appropriated
by law, but that Congress were to meet within three
weeks, and might appropriate it on the first or se
bond day of their session. Ought he, for se great
an advantage to his country, to have risked him
ielf by transcending the law and making the pur
abase ? The public advantage offered, in this sup•
oared osse, was indeed immense : but a reverence
for law, and the probability that the advantage
might still be legally accomplished by a delay of
only three weeks, were powerful reasons against
bezudingtne act. But suppose it foreseen that a
John Randolph would find means to protract the
proceeding on it by Congress, until the ongoing
spring, by which time new oiroumstanoes would
change the mind of the other party. Ought the
Executive, in that case, and with that foreknow.
led g e, to have secured the good to his oodetry, end
to have trusted to their justice fee the trangression
of the Jaw? I think he ought, and that the sot
would have been approved. After the affair of the
Chesapeake, we thought war a very possible re
wilt. Oar magazines were illy provided with some
necessary articles, nor had.any appropriations been
made for their purchase. We ventured, however,
to provide them '
and to place our country in seni
or ; and stating the use. to Congress, they sanc
tioned the eel.
" To prooeed to the conspiracy of Burr, and parti
cularly to General Wilk ineon'a situation in Hew Or
leans. In judging this case, we are bound to con-,
eider the state of the information, correct and in
correct, which he then poeseesed. He expected
Burr and his band from above, a British fleet from
below, and he knew there wag a formidable con
spiracy within the city. Under these oiroumetaneeS,
was hejuetillable, let, in seizing - notorious con
spirators ? On tbls there can be but two opinions ;
one, of the 6reilty and their accomplices; the
other, that of all honest wen. 21. In sending
theta to the seat of government, when the written
taw gave them a right to trial in the territory ?
The danger of their rescue, of their oontinning
their inaoninatione, the tardiness and weaknese of
the law, apathy of the judges, active patronage of
the whole tribe of lawyers, unknown disposition of
the juries, and hourly expectation of the enemy,
salvation of the city, and-of the Union itself,
*blob would have been convulsed to He centre,
bad that conspiracy succeeded; all these consti
tuted a law of necessity and self presertation.
and rendered the salus pofrulz supreme over the
written late. The officer who is called to ant on
this superior grotind, does, indeed. risk himself on
the justice of the controlling powers of the Condi
tution,. and his station makes it hie duty to them'
that risk. Bat those controlling powers, and his
fellow-oitizens generally, are bound to judge so
cording to the inroametanoee under which he acted.
They are not to transfer the informative of this place
or moment to the time and piece of his action ; but
to put themselves into his Situation. We know
here that them never was danger of a British fleet
from below, and that Burr's band was crushed be
fore it reached the Mississippi. But General Wilk
inson's information was very different, and be
could actors no other.
" From these examples and principles, you may
see what I think on the question proposed. They do
not go to the ease of persons charged with petty &i
-sles, where consequences aro trifling, and time al
lowed for a legal coarse, nor to authorise them to
_take such cams out of the written law. In these,
ha example of overleaping the law is of greater
evil than a strict adherence to its imperfect pro
visions. It ie incumbent on those only who accept
-nf great charges, to risk themselves on groat ec
melons, when the safety of the nation, or some of
its very high interests are at stake. An officer is
bound to obey orders ; yet he would be a bad one
who should do le in oases for which they were not
intended, and which involved the most important
consequences. The line of discrimination between
cases may be difficult; bat the good officer is
bound to draw it at his own peril, and throw him
self on the justice-of his country and the rectitude
of his motives.
"I have indulged freer mews on this question.,
On your assurances that they are for your own eye
only, :and that they will not get into the hands of
newewriters."
The following facts shed light npon the views
here expressed by JEFFERSON. Wuarntsox
reached New Orleans November 25, 1806.
CLAIBORNE, Governor of Orleans Territory,
.re
ceived from General ANDREW JACKSON a let
tor dated November 12, in which occur the
words : to Defend your city as well against
interne/ enemies as external. I fear you will
meet an attack from a quarter you do not at
present expect. You have enemies within your
own city that may try to subvert your Govern
ment, and try to separate it from the Union.
I fear there are plans inimical to the Union.
love my country and Government. I will die
in the lent ditih before I would MS the Union
disunited." Dr. BoLl.mari, who had COMmn
nicated with WILKXRSON as an avowed emis
sary of Erns, and SWARTWOur, and OGDEN,
who were active 111 the conspiracy, were placed
under military arrest. BM:taxmen immediately
brought before a judge of the Supreme Court
by a writ of habeas corpus, and Wrfarresoft
returned to the writ, that what he had done
had been necessary for the safety of the city ,
and that he should continue to arrest danger
one persons. He sent BOLLMANN and SWART.
worr to Washington by Bea t , Some other ar
rests took place, and sharp contents arose be
tween the commander-in-cbtef and certain
judges ; they attempting to discharge the pri
soners on habeas corpus, and he resisting their
Interference, and in one instance placing in
confinement, not only the counsel for the pri
goner, but the judge who issued the process.
" Altogether." says &UDALL ; from whose ad
mirable life of JEFFERSON we derive the facts
we are stating, , " the scene was much like one
witnessed a few years later in tbe same city,
when the officer placing himself in conflict
with the civil laws was General ANDREW JACK.
SON." JarressoN sustained Thistason in his
course, and in a special message (January 22,
1807,) expressly endorsed his action in send
ing the prisoners to Washington, on the
ground " that an impartial trial could not be
expected during the present agitation of New
Orleans." Congress was far more alarmed
tban JEFFERSON was. " The members were
fired by au apparent attempt, coming from the
judiciary itself, to prevent the confinement of
men charged with a dangerous violation of the
laws." GILES, of Virginia, and Swan - of
Mai-eland, formed two-thirds of that committee
of the Senate which almost immediately re
ported a bill suspending the operation of the
writ of habeas corpus for three months, in
cases of arrest for treason, or for other acts
endangering the peace of the Vaited Btates,
and the bill passed the same day. Before the
House acted, however, the evidence became
ampler, and proved that the danger which in the
judgment of all would have justified the sus
pension did not exist, and the bill was reject
ed. BOLLMANN and Swenrworrr were brought
before Chief Jastice Mansnete early in Fe
bruary, on the writ of habeas corpus, and
were discharged from custody. After their
release, JEFFERSON declared that these men,
it conclusive evidence should be found, could
be arrested again "if it should be worth
while." He did not concur in the Chief Jus
tice's view of the law, and afterwards claimed
that if that officer's decision was correct, and
if such jadicial interference as With/maw re
sisted was proper before the executive
officers, of the Government could possibly gs
ther the testimony concerning the parti
culars of a distant conspiracy, it was out of
the question to attempt to preeent the enlarge
ment of any detected traitor who was diethelied
either to fly or to return to the execution of his
designs.
Our readers will notice bow 00110 are the
parallels with our own times anggeeted in the
facts and in Jarreasoe's opinions. The views
expressed in his letter are the more striking
because they'exprems his mature jadgraeut, a
judgment in conflict with his early and crude
views. In 1787, writing from Paris, he ob
jected to the Constitution that it bid not a bill
or rights, providing among other thing, for
" the eternal and unremitting force of the ha.
beaa corpus laws." In the same spirit he
wrote in 1788, but, conscious of the danger in
volved in his own extreme view, he proposes
to allow during insurrection.-and rebellion,
&sty that the Government,shall act on "less
probable testimony than in other cases;" and,
macondly, that a man acquitted may be " re
taken and retried," which ie, to say the least,
aa dampening AR Wheaton of legal rights - as is
the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.
We See bow - experience d change his mode of
thinking. His views have special weight just
now, as those of the greatest statesman or the
South, whose tendencies were all fitainht con
solidation and executive strength in the Go
vernment. - '
An article in ono of the papers of our city
says, that in ig January, 1807, as president ho
(Jamison) asked Congress to suspend the
habeas corpus, and they refused it. He did
not himself." The writer gives no atithotity
for this very conflised and inaccurate state
ment, nor could ho have found one. jarrau
son did not ask or wish Congress to suspend
the habeas corpus. He said not a word to
them on the subject of suspending it. He
justified `ir traixsou in his coarse because ho
believed that, with his imperfect information,
the General did his duty ; but JEFFERSON him
self, as we have said, bad no great fears of the
success of the conspiracy. When the Senate
passed, unanimously, we believe, the bill to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus for a limited
time in certain cases (Jan. 23d), and three
days after it was communicated to the House
(Jan. 2Gth) it was there rejected, largely on
the ground that, fn the judgment of the Presf
dent, Mere Was no neeesstly for it ; or as BAR.
*ELL, who made the first speech upon it, after
quoting the words of JEFFERSON'S Message,
expresses it, because "the President evi
dently holds out the idea that the correct and
proper mode of proceeding can be had ender
the existing laws of the - United States."
A full account of the action of bOth rtouses
will be found in the Debates and Proceedings
of Congress : Ninth Congress,second session,
columns 4.1 and 402-421. he resolution of
Mr. Ream, at a later period, to make further
provision to secure the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus, a resolution which was inimical
in its purpose toward JEFFERSON and Wilma
soN Was, after a long and able debate, indefi
nitely postponed.
Gems from Our Eught.h Fi es.
The London Saturday Review, of May 25th,
thinks Mr. CASSIUS M. CLAY has a double
right to attention when he appeals to English
attention on the American crisis. an Mr. CLAY
is a citizen of a slave State. He is the son of
the celebrated orator who averted secession
forty years ago by negotiating the Missouri
Compromise."
Pena of the same date 'distinguishes itself
by displaying. a high appreciation of the
moral questions involved in our contest. In
an "Ode to the North and South," it says;
I , 0 Jonathan and Jefferson
.(?)
Come listen to my song;
I Garet deolde, my word upon,
Which of you is most wrong.
I do declare I am afraid
To my whioh wore° believes;
The North, imposing bonds on Trade,
Or South, that Man eualaves."
We are not sure that we would be seriously
provoked if our pious English friends should
declare the Morrill tarif bill to be worse than
the slave trade. We hope the ac London Cheri
vari " will not give itself ranch trouble in
making up its mind.
The State Iman and Philadelphia "Caps-
tftl e
The following artiele, from the North American
Of yesterday, on thin enbjeCit, speaks so near our
own sentiments that we copy it in full, with this
additional observation, or rather question, to the
capitalists and property holders of Philadelphia:
Of what service will all your wealth and property
be to you, if we shalt have no Government to
protect you rn it And how can that Govern
ment, under which you have been so long pro
tected, be sustained against the treason and rebel.
lion which is now rife in the land? Only by fight
ing for zt! Bat you are not asked to do the
fighting; you are not asked to leave your homes
and brave the dangers of the field, for there are
hundreds of thousands ready and willing to do it,
and hate done it, and you ere only asked to loan a
portion of your means to the State, at six per cent.
interest, to onaldelt to meet the expenses of those
who have gone to fight for your homes and your
Womb!. Shame upon the men of tooalth who
will not ei,rdtally respond to thus call of has
Stale and country
TO CAtITALISTS—THE STATE LOAN.
In times of peril, when the stability of our in
stitutions, and indeed the very existence of our
Government are threatened, as they now are, there
Is no class of ()Wagon who are not bound by every
sense of slaty, and every principle of right and
justice, to aid in one tray or another in sustaining
and protecting the government, and upholding
the Constitution and the laws Beptislaily are
these duties incumbent won the citizens of a Re
public, those who , have lived under- and enjoyed
the blessings of free institutions, and we are proud
at this time to have it in our power to to say, that
never in the history of any nation bee there been
manifested such a prompt and unanimous uprising
of a people in defence of their liberties , and their
wintry, no has been witnessed in the last six
weeks in our land. The hardy yeomanry of the
nation, by handreda of thousands. have some for
ward and are offering their lives upon the altar of
their country in obedience to its call, and are lite
rally begging for the privilbgh of being allowed to
ambit in crushing out the rtbellion which has
reared its bloody Iront in our midst.
Bat in an hour of peril like this there aro °there
who have duties to perform besides those who are
willing to peril their lives upon the battle field, and
those other classes of citizens are the capitalists—
the men of wealth taxi:inseams—thugs who have made
that wealth undo r the protection of this Government
and its laws, and in the maintwanee of which is
their only continbed proteotion and safety. That
Government is no* appealing to them, not to give,
but to loan to it a portion of their meant to meet the
expenses which must =wearily be incurred in an
emergeney like this. And shall that appeal be in
vain? Never let it be so recorded! Never let the
future historian of our country have it in hie power
to record that diegraw against the citizens of the
old Commonwealth of Penneylvania. Never let it
be said that, while the yeomanry of the State were
flocking by thane:ludo to the flag of their country in
tte hour of danger, the eapitaliets and men of
wealth refused to do their part and their duty in
this hour of trial. Our State is now asking them
to loan it a portion of their means to enable it to
protect their own homes and &whim and to Sus
tain the Government tinder whioh they have been
so long and so abundantly blessed and protected,
and let not that appeal be in vain. Rather let the
offers be double and treble the amount required er
asked for, and each a manifestation of loyalty arid
patriotism upon the p , art of our Orisons will do
mach to sustain the " Government and strengthen
the hands of ant brave and loyal men in, the hour
of conflict, while it will at the same time paralyze
the arm •• of our traitorous foe. Come forward,
then, you aspitalietil and moneyed men of Penn.
sylvatua, and do your duty towards sustaining
tno Government and atren,gthening the arms of
our noble volunteers who have left their homes
and gone out upon the tented Sold to brave Ile
dangers and sustain the flag of our glorious Re
public.
Woodruff's Patent Portable Barometer.
Considering the great value and convenience of
the Barometer, especially. in a climate as pro
verbially variable as ours, it Is surprising that its
Introduction has not became more general. Every
public institution, and almost every well-regu
lated family,bas its thermometer, and yet the
Barometer is of much more importance in immoral
particulars. Whilst the former notes the current
temperature of the atmosphere, the latter unveils
the future and enables us to prepare for the me
teorological changes indicated. It may fairly be
presumed, however, that a chief hindrance to the
more popular use of the Barometer, or " Weather-
Glass," as it is known in Europe, hitherto, has
been its unpopular price, and its non-adaptation as
a portable instrument.
Both these objects have been effectually overcome
in a Barometer Invented within the past year by
Mr. Woodruff, a practical meteorologist, for many
years the " observer" in that department in the
Smithsonian Institute. We had yesterday an op
portunity of thoroughly inspecting this new porta
ble Barometer, and are compelled to award to it
several deoided advantages over others that we
have seen. In the first place, its low price-being
sold at from eight to twelve dollars—recommends
it. It is, moreover, conveniently portable, and
will bear the greatest amount of exposure without
injury. Its cistern is manurial, and its construe
don simple. Being beautifully finished, it: is at
once useful and ornamental. Besides being an ac
curate fastleater of the weather, It is supplied with
a Vernier goal°, index, and thermometer. The su
periority of this instrument has been flatteringly
acknowledged by a number of agricultural MAO
ties in various parts of the Union. The agent for
its sale in this city is Mr. Samuel B. Seaman, No.
139 South Eighth street, whose advertisement will
be found elsewhere.
PICTORAL PUBLICATIONS.—FrOM Mr. Callender
newspaper agent, corner of Third and Walnut
streets, we have The .illustrated London News,
of May 25, with numerous engraringe of American
asehery, and the Illustrated News of the World,
of same date, with portrait on steel as supple
ment. We also have the forthcoming number of
the Now Yorh• Illustrated New t with numerous
engravings of the war, among which a two•
page picture of the marsh of the troops down
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, previous to
their going into Virginia, figures largely indeed_
Dr On and after Monday, June 10, the trains
on the Pennsylvania Railroad wilt leave as follows :
for Pittsburg, mail train at 7 30 A. M., feat line at
11 20 A. M., and through exprem at 10.15. P. M ;
and the accommodation trains as follows Harris
burg aooommodation at 230 P. M., Lancaster
Andromeda - lion at 4P. M., Parkaabarg train at
5 40 P M., West Chaster No 1 at 815 A. M , No.
2 at 12 noon. Passengers for West Chester will
also go by Harrisburg acoommodation at 230, and
by Lancaster accommodation at 4'o'olooh P. M.
PgREMPTORY &MIS Rem, EISTATII 11ia ntwr.---
See Thomas a Bona' pamphlet catalogues, Issued
ta.dsp, for Tomato nest. _Rightpropertiie, Amen
of toJoteh aae peremptory :rates.
New "fork Nineteenth in Washington.
Wderfureroar, Sane 7.--The New York Nine
teenth Regiaient arr iv ed her e th is afternoon, and
were quartered la the city.
THE PRESS.-PHI L DELPHIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1861
VirASHINOTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from 4 I een‘tonaL,"
(Correspondents of The Pies J
WAsEiNerroN, June 7, lea
- •
Shall we have a short weir or a long war? Thin
le the question. Shall thehlow be a sudden and it
crushing one, or shall we resor t to a Mow, torturing
process. In all chiles th subject of discussion is,
whether the Contest shall laminate within a ievr
weeks, or be protracted through long years. It
is contended that gatheling an overwhelmi ng
force, and throwing it lite a thimderbolt noon
the traitors, is the best wOr to vindicate the goad
cause, to strengthen the alnatitution, and to per.
petuate the Union. My opinion io clearly In favor
of a short and decisive solpion of the great pro.
blem. It is very true thatwe can afford to wait ;
that the Government is strong ; and that, even in
Its passive attitude, locking upon the traitors me.
nacingly, and gathering slowly its full force, it
may starve and , eubdue them. It is also true the
free States have so many materiel elements of
prosperity among themselies, that they can on.
dare whike the cotton an the tobacco Btatefi
languish and die. Bat th longer our difficulties
remain unsettled, or the m e steadily a 001101Wdro
battle is pushed off, the re danger there la of
factionsin the loyal Stet , and the more proba
bility of involving oiviliz Borope in our own
quarrels, and so extending the conflict to other
nations. Of course, ho ever S this struggle
ends, it must be in theertion and triumph
of free institutions, and in . the defeat and
extinction of the whole system of Slavery.
Jefferson Davis is, this da a far snore e ffi cient
Abolitionist than ever Wit dome was, or Garli
ir
eon and Wendell Phillips's are ; and the men
who obey his commands an repeat his arguments
are unconsciously doing theork of the very ene
mies they profess to belt e they are opposing.
i 1
Bat yet, this aspiring eerp t of slavery retains
enough vitality and viruspoison the healthy
sections of the Union, an to awaken against
the Government jealousies nd resentments that
may fatally display th ews veil, unless the whale'
power of the Republic is seedily called forth to
l le
put an end to this strife. I • .
We should recollect that, iwing to the advance.
merit of the human race id arts and sciences, all
recent wars have been briel bloody, and decisive.
Improvements alike in the oonracy, the rapidity,
and greater range of eve rl kind of firearm, are
only so many arguments inf
avor of a speedy ter
urination of every difforeme between eivilirea
nations. Thus, the brimeait war, terrible while it
lasted, was concluded in; ay comparatively abort
period, and thus, too, the great Italian campaign
of Louis Napoleon, which, (with all its startling
Incidents and consequencls, thrilled the whole
,world, and added to the ages of history some of
its hardest- contested and at sanguinary battlead
*is in nothing more re rkable than in the i-h
-pidity of the movements f the combatants and
in the suddenness of Its (do OCCIAgIONAL.
LATEST \ NEWS
y Telegraph ti the rress,
FROM WAS
Special Despatches
It is rumored that the War
°aired information to-day tha,
been centred at Manassas Jun
Harper's Ferry, Richmond,
BEAURBEFARD 113 at their head(
• living, he is undoubtedly by t is time in Virginia,
and in no part of the State is ie more likely to be
•than at the Junction. He nuy have gathered up
and mobilised a few thousandiroops in his recent
tour through the South,- and trought them on with
him but no combined effort mid concentrate any
snob number at the Junoticu Without the fact
being known. Again, Hoff* requires a large
concentration of their forces, hrhere they homily
anticipate a movement on the ilrt of Can. Ernms.
Promoted.
Lieut. W. 0. WBST, United pates navy, in com
mand of the steamer Battsmore, during her Ber
ries on the Potomac, baa bee.f ordered to the fri
gate St. Lawrence, at New To*. Lieut. WLST is
very justly held in high esteem by those under
him in the steamer Balt:more.
The New York A eventy.Rrst Regiment.
A detachment of this regime* was on board the
Anaeostut during the engageniontiat Acqula creek.
The commander, Lient. N. Corpse, in an official
note to Commodore Damanasi of the navy yard,
compliments those men very strongly, end be says :
"As soldiery, gentlemen, or boatmen, they do
honor to their immediate oomManding officer, and
to the Seventy-first regiment." j
Departure ot Troops Irom Washington
—Fears of an attack' on Arlington
He!ghts.
Five companies of the 33 United States Infantry,
via Company B, Captain .tinstranau ; Company
D, Lieut. liilt.t. comittanding; Company G, Lieut.
Brinntatts commanding;;Company Captain
SIIKSIDAN ' and Company K, Captain SYKES, SO
oompanivdby a baud numbering twenty- fire pions,
with eleven heavily-loaded baggage wagons, left
their barracks in the First wart, at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, and marched to the :railroad depot,
where they , took passage, so the men said, for,
Chanabersbarg. This movement, in conneetion
with the concentration of troops at that point, is
regarded as indioative of immediate designs by the
Government with reference to, the stronghold of
the enemy at Harper's Ferry.
Company F, of the 4th United States Artillery,
loft the arsenal this afternoon, by rail, for Calibre
barracks. Their place'at the arsenal was relieved
by Company D, 2d Artillery, which arrived here a
few wcoks ago from North Carolina.
The works opposite Georgetown, west of Aiding;
ton Heights, are being rapidly and effectually
strengthened by the United States forces there.
Thirty-six guns have been mounted on the embank;
bent. The troops are in °notation of an attack
upon - their line by the rebel !bra& from Manassas
Junction.
Good, tor a Soldier's. Wife.
The ladies of the Keystone State aro up to the
Smell. A woman in the interior of Pennsylvania,
the wife of a soldier now here, who, hearing of
the shameful manner in which the troops from that
State have been treated, went to the portrait of a
hiih public funotionary, somewhat implicated,
which was hanging on the wall of her room, and
shivered the affair with a blow from her fist. The
husband of this woman had written to her that,
owing to the shame he felt at being in the service
of the great Keystone, he thought some of pro-
curing * discharge, and going home. She replied,
" , Don't you do it ; you would he disgraced.
would rather go South to the battle-field, and
gather up your bones'." He dtdn't go.
Post Office an Camp.
Quite a heavy mail of letters and papers passes
to and from each oamp daily An insight into
the poet offioe in wimp is artineing. There IA a drat
tartly to some extent in them all. I will briefly
describe , the camp post oMee. There is a wall
conducted one in the damp of the iourtli llegiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers, under :,the chairs Of
Chaplain McDaniel. Ills marqutse is the 'head
quarters of the P. 0. department. An armouries.
merit is posted in front, that, 4, Mail opens at 11
A. M. Closes at 6P. M." Peering the guard at
the door of the tent, and entering ) by invitation of
the courteous postmaster, there is very little of the
ornamental to attract attention. The useful pre.
veils. There Is a primitive contrivance to answer
the purpose of a writing desk. Upon this are lying
■ lot of letters just handed in to:go North, collected
by an authorized person in each company, and by
him oarrfed to the regimental postmaster, who
examinee the matter and depoetts it in the bag for
Washington Poet Office. Bat the excitement com
mences when the mail arrives from the North.
About 10 A. M. no one in camp is more in demand
than the postmaster. The intereetinoreeisee when
he appears within the lines in charge . of a well
filled mail bag. Oh, " the himei and fears, the joys
and griefs, that are bound up in that matter•of feat
affair, the mail bag ! The . mail, bag Is taken into
the poet office, while the anxious crowd await out
side. There is a box divided-Into • twelve apatt
ments, ten of which are marked far the respective
companies of the reglminte, from A to It—one of
the remaining species is for the staff, the other for
miscellaneous purposes. The Jotters are dis
tributed into the company boxes, end the mail
Office is opened. The company memengere nail
oat their company letter, receive what M for them,
and go on their way rejoicing. There is a very
lug* correspondence carried on by the soldiers,
and hundreds of letters go out of camp daily.
The Diplomettto .Dinner.
The following are the names of the guests who
were present at the diplomatic dinner at the Ex
ecutive Mansion Secretary Seward; Lord Lyon%
minister from England ; M. Mercier, minister
from France ; Baron de Stoeckl, minister from
Russia; Chevalier Bahamian, minister from Aus
tria; Senor Tamara, minister from Spain ; Serer
Lisboa, minister from Brasil; Chevalier Bertinat
ti, minister from Sardinia ; Senor Molina, minister
from Costa Rioa ; M Von Limburg, minister from
the Netherlands; W. de Itawdoff, charge 4raruiros
from Denmark ; Senor R. Pambo, secretary of lega
tion from New Granada; Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Se
ward, Madame Stoeckl, Mine. Gerolt, Mine Lisboa,
Mine. bleroter, Male. Limburg, Mr!, Dunlap,
Mrs. Grinisley, Mies Gerolt, Miss Lisboa, Miss D.
Gerolt; also, 1' W. Seward, Assistant flearetary
of State; Dr Wallace, paymaster in the navy;
mid Pdeurr. Nioolay and /loges, private seinen
ries to toe President. It was a very briillant.af
fair throughout.
Seeretary Seivard 7 s Entertainmento.
At that of last ,evening, ' a number of foreign
ministers and prominent gentlemen were present.
The army and navy were largely repremmted.
Th e adoptions from the newly-arrived
.regiments
were full. 'These enterialmnenhi are vary plea
sant, and quite Maar. :
4TON
" The Press."
wron, Jana 7
Sensation R
it apartment hae re
-60.000 troops have
'lion, gathered from
and that General
If BEAVBEGARD 18
The Pennsylvania Fifth Regiment.
This regiment, stationed at Aleiandria, is *ln.
Ain gulden opinions. The activity and seal of the
°Moors and men are testified to by their comrades
of other regiments, and by the loyal ()Rheas whose
interests they so fs,ithfully guard, A few lore
ago, a squad of the Fifth "captured" three hundred
barrels of flour at the mills near Alexandria, and
another squad discovered Concealed in thb woods
near the teesbdrg road, a ton of lead, near which
Was the mattress and blankete of . the 6eoeseloniste
guarding it.
I am requested to acknowledge, on behalf of this
regiment, a valuable present of towels, procured
by Mrs. Edtratt (widow of the late Mr. BAILEY,
Of the Arittional Era), from the ladies of Brook=
lyn, N. Y. Such gifts are highly prized by the
men, as much on account of the kind attention
which their presentation exhibits, as for the use
fulness of the ankles themselves.
Suppressing Information.
A demand has been made upon the Government
here to suppress the publication of the movements
of our troops. The 'far Department will secede
to no such policy. It is well enough for the
weaker party to comma' their weakness, but the
irery fact of our superior strength ought to be
known, because, when known, it will have a salu
tary influence in restoring confidence in the minds
of the thousands of Union men in the South, and
give them hope, while it will paralyze the efforts
of the enemy JCPP. Dsvis''speeoh at Richmond
clearly indicated that a forlorn hope had already
depressed Ms , spirits. Re is sick. His men are
deserting the ranks daily; and declare that they
are miserably fed and "worse clothed. Re - is
already compelled to dli up the ranks of his stars
ing army by drafting, while the trouble with the
War Department here is to say "No " to the
thousands who are daily pressing regiment. of
volunteers into the army. Let the world know
this by a free publication of the faota.
Diisconnting Soldiers' Claims
eon:plaints have been made liy the volunteers
in-some of the regiments now . quartered here that
certain officers, whose names I will withhold for
the present, buy up the claims of their men at a
discount of twenty to thirty per oent., necessity
Compelling the men to submit to the impoiition.
Il this be true, some system should be adopted to
prevent the continuance of so creel a practice upon
our brave volunteers.
Coloneley of the 79th Regiment.
Yesterday, Listitenant 00loitel StioIOTT, 00M
mending the Vith, (Highlandets,) authoriied Gen.
Besu'rono, on behalf of the regiment, to tender to
Semis CAMERON (brOkher of the Secretary of
'War) the colons:4oz LI that duo regiment. Vol.
OAMIBRON is recognized as the obief of the " Oa
meronlan Clan" in this wintry, and as the regi
lent is of that clan, and the men wear the Came:
intim plaid, the appointment of Col. 06317,R0N ii
pooullarly appropriate. .The Moen and men nun.
nimously urge Col C to socipt, though, fully ap;
preciatLug the high oompliMent paid to him, he is
not yet prepared to signify his aceeptanCe. Ha
visits the regiment at the Georgetown College to
day, whore he will ba reoeived with all the honor.,
and probably make an address to the brave eons
of oil Scotia.
Letters. -
Stixnebody said In The Pres.'s that the Fourth
•
Pennsylvania Regiment hid gone to Alexandria;
and many of their letters from home are 'conse
quently addressed to that eity, mnoh-to the teem-
Venteme and annoyance of the soldiers. This
regiment is enbampbd in the suburimpf the oily.
The Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment is in Alekl.
andria. .
All letters for soldiera who came to Washington
should be• addressed. to Washington poet oOioe,
Arrangements are made here to forward all letters
to whatever place those to Whom they may be
addreesed have been ordered.
Engines Coming Forward.
The Government have re:eived another instal
ment of three engines for the Alexandria and
Orange Railway. Tha road has been repaired, and
in a few days there will be front
_ trains running fro
Alexandria Tip to the tong Bridge. The railway
On this aide, front the tong Bridge through tho
city to the Baltimore road, is nearly completed,
and will greatly facilitate the transportation of
troops and stores.
Important Despatches.
The steamer Mount Vernon left yesterday, with
importaLt despatches for Fortress Monroe. Way
thing Indicates an early movement at Norfolk.
Respect to the Memory of Senator
Douglas.
The President received no vishore to-day, and
not onlythe Government departments but the mu
nicipal °Wes and public schools were closed, in
respect to the memory of Senator Donglas:
Personal.
Capt. CEIESTER 3 " a tall grenadier," six feet
three in his stockings, from Pittsburg, (tame on
here to tender his company of Scotch volunteers to
the Government, having failed to get in under the
btate requisition. This could not be done, hut the
captain'amilitary, experience and fine soldier-like
bearing were promptlY recognized by the Presi
dent and Seoretary of War, who commissioned him
a captain in the regular service,
The lion. G. R. SMITE, who has been here for
the last week, devoting his time and means to the
volunteers of his State, returned home to-day.
Quite a number of Pennsylvaniene, inoluding sore
ral members of the Legislature, and preexistent
citizens of Philadelphia, are now here, all anions
to do the bett they can to ameliorate the condition
of the Pennsevania volunteers.
Where is Ipeanyeigarstl
At Memphis----itlehtnand—aad' Mamma Jane.
Van at the lame time JEFF know, ie Met,
but where is Bastraziaaa ?
Stoppage or the Matti.
Hundreds of letters are deposited daily in the
Washington post office for the South, which re-
main as dead mail matter.
Wagons and Ambulances.
Thirty ierge wagons and thirty amlialanooe kave
arrived from New York.
The Extra Seitsioh.
At C.'a are. already uniting in considerable
numbers.
Storm:
We have had a oold, forty-eight-hour storm:
The tented soldiers have been tionelderably moist
ened, but they consider it 411 in the contract. To
them it ie unpleasant, however, to wake to In the
morning and find themselves in a miniature pond
of Water. " They say they have caught more colds
than rebels during the past two dap'.
Miscellane ens
Lisnionatte Simmons, jones, and Cash have
been promoteitto captaincies in the marine corps.
The Third Maine Regiment arrived here this
evening
The prospect - of batter weather cheers the sol
diers, and increases the excitement for some for
ward movement; but up to tide hour (le A. M.)
there is no news of any.
It is said that the government does net approve
of CABSIIIS M. CLavis defence of Abe United Estates
in the London Times. 'tie regarded as a violation
of a law forbidding ministers or commis from
making any rublfeations on political affairs. • ,
Nem its aaidi to have been reoeived that the
Government of rruesta her received favorably our
protein against a reaognition of, the Southern Con
redersoy: - '
In the late affair at Aoilnia ()reek, it Is serer
.
tained that the rebels lost twenty killed. In the
affair at Pairfai:Clourt House it is now •said that
not lets then ten were killed.
The ten new regiments for the regular emir are
nearly organized. and the offioere wall Boon be an
nounced. They have been eeleoted in proportion
from, all the loyal States.
Arrival, from Philadelphia.
Wtllard's—J.l7. Parker, H. J. Hawker, F. W
Boaker, O. D. Marion, W. Myrna; A. Herron.
Kirkloood'S—W. B. Reaney,,li. B. Maim
W. F. Dennis. •
Brown's--J. Basinger, S: W. Showaker, W. P
Latham.
A Rebel Catsup Dispersed in Kentucky.
Cam°, June 7.—Glen. Prentiss - having learned
that tome Kentucky Becessioniats bad established
a camp at Elliott'? Mills, Kentucky, ten miles from
hero, sent two companies to that plane; but white
they arrived, the;eneMyhati fled.
Colonel Wyoliffe, who represents Kentucky is a
semi-efftoial capacity, visited Gen. Prentiss yester
day, for the purpoie of protesting againet this In
vasion of Kentucky nil. Gen. Prentiss ehowed
several letters from the western part of the State,
askiogproteetion from rothanism, and deelared that
It was his intention to send imps in whatever
direction and upon such era as his Government or.
dered-
Icreel
Blanohard, another Secession itympathiser
Living near . Oarbbudale, has been arrested and cent
to Springfield to be tried for treason.
Movement of the Chambereburg Diva.
CoAxggßlSstraG, ;UDC 7.—The First Brigade
merehed southward from here this morning. It
consisted of Ave companies of the Second Cavalry,
including the Pint City Troop: twe oompanies of
artillery acting as infantry, commanded by Capt.
Doubleday ; one company of regular infantry ;
the Sixth Regiment, .Col. Nagle ; the Twenty first
Regiment, Col. Valiant, and the Twenty-third
Regiment, Col. Dorn all eommanded by Cal.
Geo. H. Thomas.
The bilged, wee accompanied by a large.ntun
bar of baggage wagons, but they were insufficient
in numbers, it requiring eighteen to each regi
ment.
Latest from Missouri.
Sv. LOUIS, Jima 7.-.. General loon him autho
rized the formed= of s Rome Guard in Benton
county., for the proteetion of persona and proPerty.
'Union men in that seition say that three bun.
Bred din & o f arm, and twelve thousand MASI of
fixed ammunition, for the:use of the llome_Orptrd
of Hannibal, arrived there from Bt. Louis on Wed
ista!ds7-
Colonel Brownstein denies having resigned the
oommand of his regiment of Missouri velustsors.
FROM WILLI aMSPORT
Rebel Companies at Harper's Fern
Disbanded.
Zi*XYM.EROITS DEeIratTIONS.
Abduction of Two linton Bop.,
Wil-
BALTIr.ORS, Juno 7.—A 001700poudent from
Bomar's', who hes shoin Weis& to be a most
careful and truthful man, states, under date of tide
morning, that a number of the Virginia companies
at Harper's Ferry have been disbanded, and that
most of the soldiers that went from Berkeley here
returned to their homes. A deserter, who had
just arrived at Williamsport, dedlared that the
desertions have reduced some of the companies to
about one-half of their original number
Two bop of Williamsport, about seventeen years
of age, were this morning Judi:mod to arose the
river by two men, representing themselves as
tnton men desiring to escape' The moment the
oys crossed thó ri+or, their boat was stated by
htddest Rolatere arid broken to pieces. The boys
ware then carried off to the rebel camp.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ARNE ARRIVED IN KENTUCKY Y/LON TIMBRASISR—
TER BLOCRAOR OF. THE MISSISSIPPI—RXTRASIVZ
COW/ANIS NEAR NATCHEZ—STEAM= AIRTIRTUAC
READY FOR SEA—DRAR PROVISIONS AT RAMPIIIR
07.11ARANOR OP BRITISH SHIPS AT 3toßrim.
Lonthvrraas, aerie 9.—The .Towrorri says that a
Virgo quantity of army have been secretly brought
into Kentuoky from Tennessee by the Seces
sionists.
'The New Orleans Pzcervi.ne, of Ute 4th inatarit t
map that the Mexham ealmener Brilltante bag
been ordered off by the United Sham steamer
Brooktipt.
The brig Creole has been seised and sort North
by the BtooNytt.
The British, French, Spanish, and Bremen ann
eals at New Orleans, and M. Barnette, the Vreneh
agent, had an interview with the commander of
the Brooklyn respecting the blockade.
A destructive crevasse on the Louisiana side of
the itississippl, near katobet, bad taken place. It
was faro hundred and tiny feet wide and ten feet
deep.
A Norfolk deepatoh to the Adania Confidaracy
says that the steamer Merrimac had been raised.
The meohinary was found uninjured, end elle was
reported as ready for lea on Friday hit.
The ilhatleston Courtei of the 4th mays that the
Minnesota was the only vesselioff that port.
The Memphis papers are wining the attention of
the vigilanee committee to the high prices for pro•
vhdone charged by the dealers there.
The Mobile Re„,easies says that the steamer Wa
ite towed the British ships PerthAtri and Nrant
ley Moor to Nei or the let inst., and MC port and
hey of Mobile was then clear. •
AFFAIRS AT HARPER'S PERRY.
EiECESAIOX
'Pnaminrcx, jun* 6.—An intelligent gentleman
from Harper's Parry to-day reports that Jeff.
Davis was expected there to-morrow, to complete
the state of preparations for an attack, which is
tagerly expected. He represents that indications
are not at ail favorable for an evacuation. New
troops are constantly arriving. Fifteen tatiared
reached there last night from the interior of Vir
ginia.
Provisions were abundant, and the men cheerful.
The strictest disolpline Is maintained.
Our informant was not allowed to speak to the
soldiers etoePt in the presence of officers.
.
• 813 or eight
_Welters from Chimbonburg
reached Harper's Ferry, today, and seismal came
yesterday. They represent that there are 14,000
Federal troops at the former place.
Movement towards Harper's Ferry.
HAGIBSTOWN, June 7.—The advance brigade of
Federal troops, under General Thomas, reaohed
Greencastle, thirteen miles south of Chambersburg,
to , day; This column expecte to reach this place
tomorrow night, and four brigades are to , be
pushed forward in rapid succession. The advanoe
Column Will probably encamp at the fair grounds,
one mile below here, on the Williamsport road,
Another column will be pushed fotvrard for the
South.
Everything locks decisive action on the line of
the Potomac, near Harper's Ferry. The rebel
pickets still ocoupy the position opposite Williams
port. The news from the Ferry to day is, that the
rebels have the likepherdstown bridge mined, and
ready to blow up at a moment's notice.
Another Report from Harper's Ferry.
BALTIMORE, *TORO 7.—A Baltimore deserter from
Harper's Ferry has just arrived here. He repre
sents a deplorable state of affairs there. He says
there is no diseipline, the men only half armed,
and that food is only obtained by soramble, fight,
or foraging. Half of the force are watching the
opportunity to desert, and he ridicules the idea of
their being in condition to repel the force now
approaching from Chanibersbnrg. He thinks that
secession has played out in that part of Virginia,
mil that the place will be evacuated.
From Alexandria and the Potomac
River.
ALakezenata, Juno 2. -- The United States
steamer/is/knee arrived off our barber about noon
to-day, and transferred the lieutenant commend•
leg to a Washlngten steamboat. He reports from
Fort Washington that four slaves sought refege
there from Virginia, who state the rebels at
Aoquia Creek have so far used only rifled field
pieces, which. they have used at various pointa,
changing them seeerding to the fire of the United
States vessels. They have not yet used their bat
tery of four 32-pounders, which is masked behind
the old Ash house and beyond the range of the
vassals' mane.
A yawl boat, whlohliad been used for carrying
letters between Maryland and Virginia, baa been
captured.
The clasped nogrocw bad ben engaged In tbrott•
ins up the parapet at the Creek.
From the oonfldenoe expressed by the Inhabi
tants there Is not much fear of an attack from the
rebels at present.
There la not muob doubt about Gen. Beauregard
being at Manumit Station.
A private meeting of union mete, about thirty-
Ave in number, was held last night at the Mar
shall Haase which was addressed by W C. Parsons,
of Washin gton. To-day .forty-eight.tinion men
met at the same place, and nominated Henry P.
Martin and James P. Close as delegates to the
Union Convention at Wheeling. The leaden in
this movement expect to receive seventy five sig
natures to the addres s to the Convention.
The Michigan Regimental Band is now sere
'lading Col. Heistsleman.
A flag brought from Texas by the Third Regular
Infantry will be hoisted to-morrow ever the rail
road depot. A general jollification is expected.
The provost marshal, Capt. Medlar, has recalled
his prohibition of any newspaper publication, and
the first number will appear on Monday.
It is reported that the Union and rebel pickets
are gradually approaching each other on the Fair
fax road.
Late and Interesting from Fortress
Monroe.
BALTLYOU., June 7.—The steamer Adelaide,
from Fort Monroe, brings advises from that all-
Important position up to last
The steamer Alabama had arrived there with
the Ninth New York (Zonave) Reglement, Colonel
Hawkins commanding. They , proceeded at once
to Newport News. Another regiment was hourly
Impeded.
The nava brigade of Oolonel Bartlett was feat
diminishing. Two hundred had gone to New
ICA, NW Deady WI msay More have enlisted In
other regiments. Those who refused to labor have
been sent to the Rip Rape. Captain -Merrill, of
one of the companies of the brigade, come up on
the Melcode and , proceeded to Waillbliton, to
represent to the authorities there the forlorn con
dition of the men.
The Quaker City had captured a valuable prize,
and the Harriet Lane also neared a mall sloop
on Wednudsy night.
A steamer from Norfolk, with a flag of trace,
brought to Old Point one hundred and fifty of the
refugee ladies and children, who say many more
are coming.
Villa Margaritte, the crammer residence of ex-
President Tyler, neer Old Point, is now a:mooted
by Federal troops.
An Important military movement, it was un
derstood, woe about to be executed when the
steamer left Norfolk.
A regiment from Elmira arrived here this morn
ing and left for Wa■hington.
The New Jersei Troops and their
Equipments.
Tnuttrorr June 7.—The three new regiments
called for from this State are now onommpod at
Camp Olden, three miles from this city, awaiting
proper arms and equipments prior to their de•
pasture for the meet of war. The clothing will be
provided next week. The Governor has oontraoted
for the alteration of three thousand flint-look
mnakets, to render them affective.
It is the dears of the department here that the
troops shall not leave until they are fully provided
with orverything necessary for the campaign.
iddidonal ground for another camp Tau been
militated which will give better oppOrtniiitimi for
regimental drills. The troops era being drilled
many hours each day, and are becoming pleased
with camp life. They are in good health.
Nave! Movements.'
NNW Yong, June 7.—Tbe U. B. oloop-ot war
Irandatia milled from the lower bay this after
noon.
Bossos,-.Tone 7.—The V. S. steam frigate Colo.
rode Wail this afternoon.
The Big Gun Union Bunk in a Dam-
more Dock.
Berazirons, Jane 7.—The big gun Union,
broagilt bore from ritirintri, destined for Fortress
Monroe, broke the timbers little bolas
rolled ow board 'a venni for transportation, mall
now lies is twilee feet V water, la the dock.
THE CITY.
THE BEIM:IRE OF .TKLEGRANIS.
Mineral Exposures! and Fears.
The student of Biblloal literature well reteem
bars the emotions whiola attended his first perusal
of the sixth chapter of Revelation.
The opening of the book Bested with seven eeale,
and the dread and terror which tongued thereon,
dad actual °underpart in the opening of the
seized telegrams, and the 4m:nguent shuddering
and fear of gUilty abettors of troilism.
The Divine writer might have lived in Men
times, and penned his sublime epistle from the
scenes attendant upon a certain examination, to
War in a fed days, Pt the office of the United
!hates Marshal.
As, one after one, the seals of theee fled dam
menu shall be broken, and the functionaries
thereover presiding shall say, it Come and see "
the •, rich men, and the chief captains, and the
ntighty lilen, shall hide themselves in the dens end
in the rooks of the eountaine
And say to the mountains and rooks, fall on
us, and hide to from the face of him that sitteth
the throne !"
It is probable that the known results of such cx.
=illation will be but a fraotioa of exposures not
less valid, but having little to do with the oriels o
the times, and the purpoS6S for whieh the tele.
grams were seized.
Should it fail to the fortunes of a ohronieler to
Vltneas such eliminations, how apt the theme for
ttchapter or a volume
Not Asmodetts, peering through the Sloe of a
city upon the uneonsdious housebolda helow, had
till avenue so broad to the rottenness of repute. ,
Utak, the fickle - nese of fortune, or the vanity of be.
man virtue_
To see plainly the coneequences of such exit
inination, the full uses of the telegraph must be
understood. It has become, in our time as neces
sitous as the Mail, or eyen speech iteo/1. It is not
employed by the busineai world alone, but by an
:ens of every rank and profession. As swift as
speech, it is scarcely leas of a necessity, and upon
its sieotrio wires the rarest swats gilds on no se
enrely as if whiepered from lips Mears, or wrapped
in the recesses of the staunchest mail bag.
The operators. in time, become mental automa
tons, who read, transfer, and Me ; but are content
with knowing the letter of the 'beldam and are
ignorant of its spirit, or, if cognizant, forgetful in
an instant.
Not so with the telegram flies! Day after day,
week after week, year after year, the solemn or
trivial secrete of the telegraph (doe are bundled
together and laid carefully away.
The traitor who informed conspirators Ira a die=
font notion tit the movements of his COUZitry l o
armies; the holiest corporation that winged the
secret of its rottenness to distant agencies ; the
bankrupt merchant, that still maintained his ere , '
dit at home, but overreached his sreditoie
prompt consultation with the wires; the hypoorito
that made his assignation in remote cities and still
walked uprightly in the , eyes of men—all these
did not know, or knowing, forgot, that, line by
line, these despatches were treasnred, and that the
day was to come, when the law, like a faloon, would
pounce open them, and bring to light all written
bibles and treacheries, villainies and frauds.
It bas been reserved to our day to see this
se sure, and Philadelphia, in common with the
Cities of the North, wit:mewed, a few weeks ago,
the appearance of the united &atm Attorney
and the Dietriot Marshals, in the leading telegraph
Offices, armed with power from Washington to lay
hold upon all that bad, in any way, passed over
the wires, einoe the Presidential election.
The suspected ()floes in this city were located in
Third street below Chestnut, and at the Conti
nental Hotel.
At the latter, befog a branch °dee, few tele
grams were seized ; bat in the rooms of the Arne
than Talegraph Company, a furniture car load o
despatebes were bound and taken away.
The entire lot now lie at the rooms of the United
Ststes Marshal, in Fifth street, beldw Chestnut,
and are contained in eight of the largest mail bags,
looked and fully Bemired.
The opening of the Nelda will owns in the latter
part of this week, when, in the presence of a sp.-
oial deputy from the Administration, the United
States District Attorney, Mr. Coffey, the United
States Marshal, Wm. Millward, and ail the deputy
marshals, each mail-bag will be emptied of its
contents, and one by one each message, of what
ever oharaoter and degree, read and rectorded.
The messages not direotly relating to the oriels
of the times will he returned, but all that in any
way affect the purposes and objects of the seizure
will be carefully interpreted and trend to their
guilty authors.
In New York and Washington, the business of
opening, recording, and reading is already being
rapidly advanced.
At the latter city, the fact has already leaked
out that a minister to a European court and a eor
revenant of Repallaan party newspapers—
whose position as a correspondent at Washington
gave him rare opportunities to become acquainted
with the plans of Government—was, at the same
time, betraying the Republic, and giving aid and
comfort to its enemies.
This discovery is but the prelude to a host of
others, already rumored, that will cast disgraee
upon thresholds already profaned, and make work
for the scaffold
Let not the abettors of treason trust to the shal
low right of the law in this matter, for omniscience
cannot be blind, and the Government that was
trusting, and slow to suspicion, is now fully awake
to the charades of its enemied, and es gulch to
punish as to discover.
When the inveatigation is over, and the secrets
.of the seals are all revealed, will it not be found
that some who even now fatten upon the Govern
ment were the agencies of its peril, and perhaps
overthrow ?
The munitions of war in the hands of the rebels
came from the North ; many of them were covertly
furnished after the President's proclamation was
issued ; and, it is darkly mentioned, not all
the gunpowder and the cannon, the gnis-earrlages
and the camp equipage, which clustered around
Fort Sumpter, and now lay heaped in the trenches
of Manassas GaP and liarpor'e Ferry, wore shipped
from cities other than Philadelphia.
If such he, hCw shall patriotism grow indignant
and treason tremble ? What shall be the doom of
those who supplied powder and ball to 'slaughter
the soldiers of the Republic?
All these speculations will be attended to by the
Government, when the telegraph documents gyre
up their secrets Till then—a short period—let
good °Risme wait and oonspiretory fear.
But the secrete of the seized telegrams do not
all refer to our national troubles. They touch
other than national sins. Individuals who have
not the will and the power to !militate treason,
have made use of the wares to abet private or
social vice.
The marshals have been repeatedly asked by
nervous people : " Don't you really Intend to pub
lish the despatehes?"
" That," say the officials, " the Government is
to determine "
"Yon don't believe that they will take notice
of little peoulations, do you ?"
"Can't say. Highly probable!"
"Oh !" rejoins the questioner, with a pale face
and unsteady gait, "don't let 'em do it. VII be
ruined ; I will' My business arrangements will ,
be exposed; my reputation won't be worth a
Gent. i shall have my wife, and ereditors, and
neighbors reviling me ; and had rather out my
throat than live to see it'."
This trepidation is not 66nlitied to a chtss ; It
extends from the deepest to the uppermoet stra
trim. Parties of the highest moral ohsraoter will
be found to have indulged in lottery gambling.
Political wimpulling will And developments to its
Most seoret matters, and petty vices of every de
seription will he all exposed In turn.
It is as well to say, after this catalOguing of
terrors, that private messages will not be exposed,
and national secrets alone investigated and pushed
to punfshment.
Ithe Marshal and the United States Attorney go
to Washington on Tuesday on business connected
with the opening of the despatehes.
INSPECTION OP lINCEIIITS FOR mune mugs'
The inepeotion of volunteer. for the three years'
service is more rigidly conducted then those who
merely volunteered for a few month. No more re.
°mite aro Dow accepted unless they offer their stir
vise. during the whole war. When the mon are to
be inspected, they are marched into the building
where a formidable body of experienced surgeons
are in attendance, who proceed at once to examine
the physical staining of the candidates for martial
gory. Pod" or Bee are totem into a rem at Wily
and examined in turn. A pencil mark at 4 feet 5
inches is placed upon the door jamb, to which the
reernit le eo•ducted, and if his stature readies
above that figure, he is told to walk into another
room. Those below that mark are rejected. Thera
who pass thus far, pass into another room, and di
vest themselves of all their clothing. The Bargees
then enters and the recruit is subjected to a most
rigid examination. His feel ere carefully exami
ned, and If there are bunions on them he is re
jected. His limbs and teeth are al so carefully
looked at, and if be bears about his body the
slightest trace of disease he is rejected. Qood eye
eight is indlipenitahle. After being IMO examined
he is masher into another room where the oath of
allealanee is administered.
The whole of the medical arrangements us un
der the supervision of Surgeon esooral Hen. H.
Smith. The madinal staff oxidate of Dr, Hazy W,
Birkey, Dr. Joseph Hopkinson, Dr. Thom. B.
Road, Dr. D Hays Agnew, Dr. Chas. S Watts,
Dr. S W. liewboase, Dr. Yarrow, and Dr. Thom.
Newbold. Ali of these are skilful and learned
man and well qualified for the work before them.
They have been engaged in the inapootion of men
during the whole of the week, and the work will
last for some time.
0 AMON LIGHT atTAEG lIGGEITIOnr
At R meeting of the Pint Basjuicals, gaperou
/alight Guard, of this city, Major - 0' co. P McLean
was unanimously elected colonel. Major Me-
Lean j _ is at present stationed at Camp Oadwala
tier, Baltimore. Ha has been long and favorably
known as a strict disciplinarian, both in this city
and Now York.
The Cameron Light Guard is gaining strength
daily, with every marmoset seen being metered
into active service for three years
in a few days the Gaud wilt open their head
quarters on Chestnut linnet.
TAE INDEPENDENT BANGERS—A progelx,
THE LAMES OP CIiAM AIRBPIAG . F igV
By the kiodneee of Lewis O. Cuddy, E e
have received the following correg n d ezi ` t i PIN
tween Captain and the ladies of et
tre
boreberit
CHallintaStitran Jane ; Iti6l.
CAPreirl DlCMUbblit—Plify Dana Si. :
plasm , Lad a lot of havelooltd for your
from the ladies of Oisamberiburg, with therrts.4'
wishes and ardbut prityers for yew brut, o '.r.
ant safety. allonet
Q tit yotirdelvea like rata
" Let True
this in
be our and keeP Your Ow 4 v? dry).
motto, la God is our 1;:r.
Yours, traly, G ut.
In behalf of the 141
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HIADQUARTEntI, iNDRPVIO/131 .41411114
CilearnaßaßUßO, Jane 5, 1851
W. (h. Rnien, —DRoir Sir :Uo bent)l of
oodtpcny i I beg leave to return to you, and th i .,./4
you to the ladies of Chatobersburg, the veri Ni
care thanks of my Alms and men for the 41:
U
ful havetooks which they had the kind gen3id '-
ral to send us through you. They ar e tot 'rt•
beautifully made, bur are composed rr ihp;Vl
material. This present but eonfirms our .tat
oelled Ideas of the hospitality and generoo7:
the ladies, and your very neat and pretty t wr
We
will endeavor to so " gift" onrselret st thElsi
this gift a_g_d the fair donors Anil new t b b di
grimed. We will let our aotioto dealero, mi t t
than words, how well this promise bo
Truly yours, Witaa,ke M e m ultr ia
Captain Independent, p.
In a Wide reefaived recently by a
tain McMullin 'Attlee that, from all that he 4.
4.
heard, himself and oleo arc to be triad. u.
the deg whioh has heretehre Zed him hum et
r,
and die. Keay a brave fellow that. left home c
him will never return; but the peril r{ h ol
i m
overreaches all individual danger which. tY 4
gars know
COL gals.forra's crttrrewi QUAIIIIR Resorts?
This regiment, üblob is daily expecting et ad"
to be mustered into the Boiled States serriet.l4'
into quarters in the Government buildings, gh ee :
nut below Fifth, es soon as they arc netted b y cc
Small's regiment. The Guards are rapidly
up their ranks and will muster with the kill set
plemeilt of 151. men to each company. Tt e too.
ral armories ale /rightly crowded, end caters nod
men are struggling to make the regiment q u i
any now in the service. to
THIRD NUMB lIPAIIMS3T,
About two o'clock yesterday this regiment at.
rived in this city, on their way to Washin ton
The morning being a dell one, the crowd we e lei
great, but the soldiers were treated to bread apj
coffee, as is the custom of the citizens of the d e ,
aced ward, to serve those who are on the Way to
Duey. The regiment is composed of etelwen
looking men, with tread shoulders sod rugged
looks. They are mostly !rum Kennahoes, end
have been ergaged hz the lumbezing business, led
are used to damping out in the woode--j ust
men for campaign life Their term of enlietweet
is for three years The uniform muske t of grey
fatigle Cap, gray pante and coat. They Ir t
armed with the Improved Springfield Alin.
keti. The men have been harried on eo rapidly
that they have not had mash sleep for three dip,
but exp ressed themselves as feeling ii
ageter Laving performed their ablutions is
the pond near the depot at Broad end note, A
find band accompanies the teniment Abell 04 7 ,1
several airs While waiting. The men nog Bop
peculiar to their character. The favor*
Country 'Us of Thee" . was sung and hummed by
large number. They are provided with th e ,
days' rations, have complete camp equipege sad
forty horses along ;. the regiment hamhere t t e b een
I,ooomen, and filled twenty oars. A l arge height
train with the !equipage preceded the cm with
the troops. Owing to the six o'olook freight trek
behind time the regiment did not leave the ilrowl•
street depot till after seven c'crock.
The following Is a list of the rAcere Cclort
0 0. Howard, late Professor of llletlierattice and
Artillery Triodes, 'Arcot Poldt, who reaped hi
position there in order to assume cowman,/ of the
regiment; Lieutenant Colonel, J B Tacker; kip
jar, Henry Staples; quartermaster, W D Riley;
equtant,• B Bart; surgeon, Palmer; Ar.
decant Surgeon, P. H. Setobell ; Sergeant
J- H. Plaisted Captains—Oompan A, B. Ste.
yer ; Company B, R. Batchelder; Cemp6o7
Jarvis; Company D, A. T. Simon; Ccal
sonny B, C Savage; Company F, B. Reek; Cot.
party H„W S. Heath; Company I, ---Lektorta;
Company X, Strout; Company 9, -- Sue,
line.
The men were all in excellent spirit end mint
to get to Virginia. The only thing that appillitC4
to trouble them was the prospect of hot weather.
A WITILADELPRIA 'VOLUNTEER DROWNED.
Mr. James Hamilton, Jr , belonging to the Se
tional guards Refitment, now located at Comp
Pennsylvania, Baltimore, was drowned n: , si the
camp on the 31st ult. He had been slok for sernal
days in the hospital. Ey some means begot awry
from the camp, and nothing more was heard of
him until his dead body was found in the Patapsco
river. The body of the doomed fist brought to
thin oily on Thursday, night, by Lieut. Frank 3
Johnson. and taken to the residetam of his family,
No. 1810 Filbert street. His funeral took place
yesterday afternoon, and the Infantry cape or
tional Guards, and 81. John's lodge, No. 115, h.
Y M., participated in the funeral ceremonies.
BROWNNLL IN TOWN
Mr. Brownell, the Fireman Howl, who that
Jaakeon ' the murderer of Bilsworth, puma
throughthe city, on hit way to Now York, yeller.
day morning. Hereto! other dims and CM
from New York regiments came an the trek' from
the South and prooeeded at once to New York.
During the stay of Brownell in town he was an
objeat of much attention. He wag beset by a con
stant crowd in the °treats, and was anthesiesW
pally cheered.
DiTARTITRI OP TROOPS.
The companies of Captain Cbspines. Captain
Martino, Captain John H. Taggart, and Cape&
Peal!, met yesterday afternoon In Ititpeedenee
Pcooro from whence thoy asorehtd w the perm ,
nylvania depot, and took the care for Camp
They are to be attached to Col Tappet's reticent.
'ey were accepted under the /State nquitition
under the three-million loan bill
SWORD piasszliTATioN
On Thursday evening, at the First Preatittnet
Church, in Kensington, two swords were punted
to officers, in presence of a crowded angora.
The reeipiente were Captain Ttomas Bringtett
and Fitat Lieutenant Kite, of Company B, 61.
earner's Guards. Rev J. Lightbarn, Mr. J. N.
iloohersperger, Mr. A. Zane, .1 r Mr. A P. him
Mr. G J. Hamilton, Mr. John F -her, and other,
participated in the interesting exercises of tie
occasion.
COL. BMW RIGINENT,
Col Stem' regiment is progreesing finely. Tiro
more companies are wanted. We understand, hem
good authority, that they will be mustered 'moths
United Staten aervioe as noon as the complement is
MI. Their headquarters is at the S. E. earner of
Twelfth and Spring Garden streets.
CONCERT. BY THE HARR/SON FEMALE GRAN.
WAR SCHOOL IN AID OP TEE AMERICAN RIMERS. —
Tao pupils of the lIIETIBOR female GrammtulSoncoi
of the 17th emotion will give a grand coma at the
Mechanics' Rail, Fourth and George dtreeul en
Monday evening neat at S o'elook, in aid of the
Amortises Rangers. This concert having emanated
with the scholars under the auspices and avant.
lion of their enthusiestia and patriotic whet.
the performancee will he principally by them -
The proceeds are intended to be applied to th
purchase of underclothing for the regiment, and
other necessaries essential to their health and ton'
fort during the campaign in which they have To-
lunteerea their services in defence of the meat
less institutions of our government, end the pens
Jai, of our glorious Union.
The scholars antiolpate that their elf iits affil be
prope nix appreciated in witnessing a large attend•
lane° of their patriotic friends on this wagon
to
ambit them In this laudable antorptioi•
TIIE VERDlOT.—Yesterday morning the in•
quest on the body of Charles Russell, colored, who
died at the hospital from the etimPa of a stab re.
&teed by a knife in the hands of Ww. ByL l e tt it
Twelfth and Market streets,was resumed. Wm. lib
eon wee examined, but his statement only conobo•
rates the fasts published in the Press of yesterday.
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict It MOOS+
awe with the Mots as stated. Hazlett wee eOlll.
milted to await a trial at oourt,
Tug FLOWER QvlEN.—This very novel and
benntiful operatic apeotaole was presented at the
.A.oademy of Maude on Thursday, and met with
divided and merited moon 6) grea t wIE
the favor it obtained that a large number of the
anaemic have urgently requested repetition'
Thle, we learn, the scholars of the school hire
complied with, and it will be again presented se
Tneeday evening next, at which time ore Mate
thine who love a rich musical treat to attend.
SHOCKING ActorDENT.—Yesterday a painter
named Tboznel Forbes,
aged thirty-eight y e w!.
wh le engaged In parttion the restdebee of Mr
Tbomae, postmaster in Wert Philadelphia, fdl
from the soofftld, embed Ida right leg, broke her
left leg, end also his jew bone. He wet picked tiP
in an insensible condition and conveyed to the
heepltal. The right lag wee so badly Injured II
render amputation necessary.
A TRIP TO Mittman:tn.—The Nations
Barge Cluh, or this city, intend pulling their ale•
gant barite Web* to Wlhalite.% an Teeldtr
morning next. They ars a fine body of young
men, and we hope they
may meet with a hearty
reception from their Wilmington friends We
notion among the crew the skilled memo ,
J. B Muter and B J. Woodward, who are among
the most expert bargeman of oar acquaintance.
STEREOSCOPICON AND THE REDELLION. — D a Y
after day audiences, afternoon and evening, levee
the Assembly Buildings altar spending pleilist/Y
a eouple of hours in looking at, from well selected
stand-points the most noted plsoee of interest to
this and the Old World ; and atter witnessing
vivid representations on oanvae, and with drum' ,
trumpets, cannon, eto., the battles and ineldents
of the Crimean war. An exhibition will be rv:
this afternoon especially for families and lad: 6l,
when beautiful statuary and landsoapee will b e
shown.
Kamen:HT& Miscture.—Wm. Bafly and Ju
seph Dickson were *riveted and taken before Ald.
Haines, yesterday, upon the charge of lames, and
malicious mischief at a house in Pearl street. They
were held to answer.
Anassran.—Yesterday morning, '
Reisinger was before Ald Raines, having be
aneatial at wing Tbtlama stre et° lT N
the &Urge ot & alma, lie wap
trial.
Lour_ Bor.—A boy who gives the name 0
Afitboll,TNlekom, ea ts out Og lean , hi°
at the i i 4e4 distriot tion prows for three diff
Be was found wandering about the street. lost.
Praw.—Tho alarm of fire about 11 o'clock
last evening
of
caused by the bursting of th e 41
goods store of P, R. Crawford at No 60 Poplar
moot The damage amounted to About $lOO.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Chattels
fetid Ralf Rates-
HARRISBURG, JUDI'', —A gram error her Cm , '
into some of the Philadelphia papers coixteralog
the railroad contracts with the Sotto of Pen° ll.
Tanis. It is alleged that the charters requite do!
roads to carry troops mad musittiond of war at bah
rater
This question was fully diseneted by the NO
road Convention. The only charter sontwol o f
nosh a provision was that of the Yeeeeldv" ati°
Railroad. The language of their charter is,
repel invasion ;" BO that even that one is de
bateable.
The railroad representatives folly discussed tilt
matter. and endaratoed that no looount !Pid be
paid until their abater had bees *ramie ed
an
this subject.