THJS STEOBEIIrS,
PUBLIBESD DAILY, (SUNDAYS *X<?S?**w !
BY JOHN W. FOKKKY,
OFFICE So. 417 CHESTNUT STREET.
DAILY FREES,
■wanes Cx:(ts p* s Wki, rayr.blo to toe carrier
Hailed to Subtoribere out c! tae Citr at Six Donnas*
XX Auhsh. Fovr iioLLi-r.t vo* Eicht Mouths,
IMi Doi.i.xei por Six Mouths—invariably in ad
ansa for the time ordered,
TR.I-WKKKE.Sr PN.KBS,
Mailed to Suhsormera cut oi the G. tr r I Thkjix Don
kins fn Akhom, in adranoe.
SKA BATHING.
|§EA BATHING,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
TWO AND THREE-QUARTER HOURS
PROM PHILADELPHIA.
ATLANTIC CITY is nnsr conceded to be one of the
moot delightful se&-*ide resorts in tne world. Its bath
in* is nnsurpassed ; its beautiful unbroken beach
(nine mites in teogth) is unequalled bj any OH thi con
tinent, save that of Galveston ; its air is remarkable
for its dryness; its sailing and fishing faoihties areper
feot; its hotels are veil furnished, and as wed kept as
those of Newport or Saratoga, while its avenues and
walks are cleaner and broader than those of any other
sea-bathing place in the oountry.
Trains of the CAMDEN AND ATLANTIC RAIL
ROAD leave VINE-BTREKT WHARF Philadelphia,
daily* at IK A. M., and 4P- iVI. Retnminf > reaoh Phi
ladelphia at 9 A. M.* and 7:45 P. M. Fare, fI.BO
Round-trip tickets, good for three days, $3 50 Dis
ance, 50 miles. A telegraph extends the whole length
of the road. jilOtf
FOH CAPE MAY AND NSW
AISHnEYORK. TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS,
and AY*** a ; 9J4 n’alook A. M.
New York and Philadelphia Htearn Nn-viration Com
nany. Steamers DELAWARE, Captain Johnston, aid
BOSTON, CWain tinker, vld leave for CAPE MAY
and NEW YORK, from first v/harf below Spruce street,
evenr TUESDAY, THURSDAY* and SATURDAY,
at 9& A M.
Remming. leave York same days at 8 P. M.
Reluming* leave Cape Mar SUNDAYS. WEDNES
DAYS, and FRIDAY*, atB A» M.
Fare te Cape May, Carriage Hire included.-- $1 80
Fare to Cape May, S6&£on Tioketa. Carriage
Hire extra
Fare to New York, cabin - —8 00
Do. Do. Deck—— —. ISO
Steamers touoh at New Castle going and returning.
Freights for New York taken at low rates.
1 JAMES aMiDNRUIDE, Agent.
jyg-tm 314 and 316 Souiih BEL*WIflh Avenw.
- FUK CAPE MAY.-J-The
fl£BE*fiE£swift and comfortable Bay steamer
WASHINGTON,” Captain W. Whilldin,
leaves Arch-street wharf, for Cape May, every Mon
day* Wednesday, and Friday morning at 9* o oloek.
Returning, leaves the landing every Tuesday, 1 hurs
day, and Saturday morning at 8 o’clock.
Fare, carriage hire included. ——- -,.... 8150-
“ servant’s, carriage hire inoludad 1.35.
Freight taken at the usual low rates.
Stopping at New Castle going and returning.
jyA-tsel'*'
IZanHH FOR TEE .SEA-SHORE
wll* IH I|UU-nAMD!i3 AND ATLANTIC
RAILROAD.—On and alter MON DAY, Jana 17th, train,
wilt leave VINE-BTRJSET FERRY daily, (Sunday*
Bleep ed):
Mail train— —f A 7.. M,
Express train —~ iW ?. M,
Aocommodation—— . ------J?JR* - Yi -
RErURNING, LEAVES ATLANTIC:
Mail „ 4 45 P. M.
Express —— g IS A. M.
Accommodation——— —A. M.
Fare to Atlantic, 81.89; Round Trip tiohets, good for
delivered at COOPt:R*B POINT by
8 P. M. The Company wii not be responsible. lor any
goods until received and receipted ipr. by their Agent,
at the Point. JOW 8 IDiYAST,
i»i* *-f AreuL
COJHiRAISSItiJN KOS.'SKS.
gSVPLRY, HAZARD. & FUTUHINSON,
tea. us CEtiEvnes 8?..
COMMISSION KSKOHASTi?,
FOR IcKS SAAB OF
PHILADELPH l A ■ =VT &UE
cw>or>s.
BANKING,
BELMONT t GO.,
BANKERS.
50 WALL STREET NEW VORK.
Issue Letters of credit to travellers, A’l&iiabie is all
parts of .Europe, through tn* Mt-ssrs. Rothsohild of Pa
ns, London, Frankfort, Naples, Vienna, and their cor
respondent* fe»-Bm*
tOOKTNG G3.AtrSl5:S}-
|MMENSE REDUCTION IS
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS.
SiSGRAVINGB,
PICTURE AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES.
JAMES S. EARLE A SON,
816 CHESTNUT Street,
Announce the reduction of 25 per cent, in the prices in
all the manufactured stock of Loobine Glasses: also,
n Ensravinse, Picture a»;d Photograph Frames, Oil
Paintisss. Thelarcest and most elegant assortmentin
the oouatrr* A rare opportunity now offered to make
purobaaes in this line for each, at remarkably low prices,
EARLE’S GALLERIES,
jy*-tr 616 CfIISBTNUT STREET.
BUSINESS OAKiS*.
JOHN WELSH, PRACTICAL SLATE
ROOFER, THIRD Street and GERMANTOWN
Hoad* is prepared to put on tuaramotmt of Roofings on
the most moderate terra*# Will tuarantj to make
OTory bnildiac perfectly water-t-gb. Orders promptly
te tuyT- It
IL>AWfiQ3S & &WiiuLaQ£,
« SOOKBIKDB.W, _
fine. 5I« and 581 31£l?Q4t gtTOli
flnvst! ftaarkat &si4 Cfassfcmct *tra«i.
yfilkAlbJ'ibFjllJL „
JAWESIf. lAS. JA 2?lsJt9&»o*i
miLE MANUFACTORY.
X all HEW STREETS,
Files and Hun of evstr deeoriptien, an* teed
emalitr, made to order, at the a bore MttbluluMat,
WHOLESALE- and RETAIL,
It oanvfscturer’s prisr?.
•eeittinr dee*
apl-dSIP J. B. BM.TR.
IjT ASS AND COMFORT.
li A. THEOBALD ulca, Who eau please or nit
Such a person probably never wae bora. But thoie
who know when they are suited in BOOTS or SHOES
are invited to rive him a call, and thoee. who never
•ere su'fed before may be suitod now. He is at hia old
shut* Hilts POATF-R Street jaia am
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES.
Dissolution of partnership.—
The partnership heretofore existing between
SAMUELS. THOMPSON and SAMUEL H. JENKINS,
trader the firm oi THOMPSON fc JENKINS. ts tins
day dissolved by mutual consent. The business of the
late firm will be settled and wound up by Samuel S.
Thompson, at the store, No,* 04 ,
SAMUEL H. JENKINB.
Fhilada.. June 7th. 1831. )J*-d tf
Limited partnership notice.—
We the HDdersiened, residents of the oitjr of
Philadelphia, have enteied into a .Limited Partnership,
agreeably to *he provisions of the aat of Assembly of
the o* Pennsylvania, entitled An act
relative to limited partnership,” passed the twenty
first day of March. A. D. 18M, and the supplements
thereto; said partnership to be,cond»<oted under the
firm of r VETER O'* & BuuU£<j ;> for the purpose
of doing ana carrying on a wholesale wr n « and iijuor
businass in rhe city of PhiUdelph a. Jonathan Patter
son Jr . residing «o. IS 9 Girard avenue, and Edward
Boulton, residing No. ISW Wallace street, both of the
city of Philadelphia, are the General Partners. For
tuuato J. Fivueira, also of said city, is the Special
Partner, and h*s contributed to the common stoclr ot
said partnership the sum of forty thousand dollars.
Said partnership to commence on the first day of July,
A. D. one thousand eight hundred ana siaty-one, sm
to terminate on the fiist day of July, A. i). on© thou
«nd eieMbundrec and TT£RgON
EDWARD BOULTON,
General Partners.
FOKTUNATO J. FIGUKIRA,
Jyi-tutthUt Special Partner.
legal.
IN THE COURT OP COMMON PLEAS
FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF FHILA-
HARDING vs. PUSAN HARDING, in Di
voroe. March Term. IS6I. Ho. 48.
TO*IMa« HAftDJNG— t 4 ... .
Madam : Plea*e take notice that testimony will be
taken on the part of i.ibeUant on the twelfth day of
Aiieuetnext, before the examiner appointed hy the
■aid Court for that purpose, aeo. reft* at the office of
the undersigned, Ho. 114 H Btreet. at 4
o’clock F. XU. WALTER J auDut
jj» lht* Atto nej for Libellant.
REBECCA. A. ERWIH, Assignee, vs.
ANTHONY H MILLER. C. F. Vend. Exp,
June Term. 1861. No 21 SeMk vs BAMti. C. F.
Vend. Exp. June Term 1861. No. £2
The Auditor appointed to,* the court to diatnbuto the
proceeds or sale by the Sheriff. under the above writs,
of the following tea* estate, v»s j >ft that certain lot
or niece oi eround with tne three atory brick
or tenement thereon erected, situate on t-o east side
of Twelfth »trect, at the dial noo of rixtr-four loot
southward from the aoumside ol rhompßon st eet, in
thecitr of Philadelphia, containing m front or breadth
on sain Twelfth street sixteen feet, anj extending m
length or dept'i eastward uf that widih* aft right angles
with said l'wtlitb street, eightr-toree feet to a f-ur
foot wid- alley, le ding northward uto said lh* mpson
stieet. Bounded northward and southward by. ground
now or late of Thomas Dugan* eastward by sari alley
and westward b* saui Twelfth street; being the same
premises which Thomas Dux-n. deceased, by indenture
bearme cate the ele»eut*i day of December, 1862. ie -
ooruedinD-edßook T. H , N 0.67. page 338- eianted
unto the a*id Anthony H. Miller m fee, reserving
thereout a certain yearly r«nt, or onm W ywi
J *yabld h .If ycirly. on the first days of the n>nnrha of
anuau anu July, in every year, unto the said i nomas
Dugan, bv» he»rs a*.d aniens. „ , . ,
Also, all that cer ain otor pieoe of ground, with the
three-story brick messuateor tenement thereon erect
ed. situate on the east side of iweifth wirect. at the
distance of forty-eight feet southward from the
aide of Thompson sireat, m tin city of -mladelphia,
o » t lining, >n front or bread hon sa d Twelfth street,
sixteen feet, and extending iu length or depth east
ward of thv. width, at right ane es wirh saiu Twelfth
street, eighty th- ee feet to n. four- fo.»t wu.e iu le* leaaing
northward into inid I'hompson street Bounded no* th
ward and aourbward by sound now or late of I'homas
Dugan; eastward by eaid fo*.r f*ot wuie alley ; and
westward by *w*llih street aforesaid; being the same
premises which the a-.io i ft. m» Caiy.n, dcoe»«u , j
indenture dated the rlevenUi oat of ilecetiiber- lfts.
reoorded in Deed Book l. H., No. 67 page a«,
granted to the said t ninonj H. Millet in fee, reserving
lereouT a certain yearly ground rent or sum ol B<u.
Ja*able half >e-rly, on the first days o* the n.onrlis ol
anuaTj and July, in every year, to the said Thomas
Dugan, his heir* and assigns. ~A WII
wn. h 4.1 a first iieeuug at his offioa. Ho. T 0« WAL
NUT HtTeet.mtbecuy of oa.MONDAY,
the g’h day of August, JB6i. at 4 o'clock F. M.* when
and wh real-panics interested are required to upbear
aud make proof of their claims, or be d*barred from
shar>nt: in taiu fund. ED, WaLN.
i%2s tlißiu—st Aoditor,
TlJullOiSi: J BIDDERS tt‘>R FUKiNIftU
-1 V IHG ARMY BUfP, lES AftD MAT!* RT4LS.-
Iffioe of iK' Y CLOTHING AND fc.QUJ.PAGE,
oorner o ? and MhRUtiK S.reeis.—New
York, July 25* 1361,— My advertisement of the i?th in
stant lor Prop.sils for burnishing Army Puppies and
M teriels is so mod'tied as to r« ceive bids for any por
tion leas than oue-fourthol the number ot art olesad
v„fii*l liif. JJ H. WJJH ,CN,
ani-st Major and Q,naTtOimaater,
VOL. S—NO. 5.
OPPICKAA..
Proposals for army baggage
WAGONS-
4.tAXTXK&CABTKi Gsnbual’e Optics, *
WAgniNOTOH June 91.1M1. {
Proposal! are invited for the furnishing of Army Bar
mo Wagons
Proposals should state the prises at whioh thev can be
furnished at the plaoes of manufacture, or at New York,
Philadelphia* Baltimore. Washington, or Cincinnati*
as preferred by the bidders.
The number whioh can be made by any bidder within
one month alter receipt of the order* also the number
which he oan deliver within one week.
The Wagons must exactly onnform to the following
sp*oifiofttioi fl, and to the established patterns,
Six-mui* (covered > wagon*, of the sixe and descrip
tion as follows, to wit:
The front wheels to be three feet ten inobes high,
hubs ten inohes in diameter, and fourteen and a quar
ter inchi** long : bind wheels (out feat ten moh~f nit hi
buhl ten and a quarter moh6« in diameter, and fourteen
and a quarter inohes long ; folhns two and a half inches
wide and two and three-quarter inch*! deep:
cast iron pipe boxes twelve indies long, two and a bait
inches at the large end and one and seven-eighth* inoh
at small end; tire two and a half inohes wide b* five
eighths of an mob’h'ck. fastened wHi one screw bolt
ana cut in each fellie: hubs made of gum. the spokes
and falhe of the heat white oak, fro* from
wheel to ha*aa sand band and linchpin band two and
three-quarter inohes wide, of No 8 band iron, and two
driving bands—outside band *ne and a quarter inch
by one-quarter inch thick, inside band one inoh by
three-sixteenth* inch thiok; the hind wheels to be
made and boxed so that they will measure from the in
side of the tire to the large end of the box six and a half
inches, and front wheels six and one-eie hth inohes in a
parallel line, and each axle to be three feet eleven and
three-eighth inohes from the ou'side of one shoulder
washer to the outside of the tv her, so as to have the
wagons all to track five feet from centre to oentre of
the wheel*. Axletrees to be made of the best quality
refined American iron, two and a half inches equ&TO
at the flh-'ulder, taper dr down to one and a half inch in
the middle, with a seven-eighth* inoh kinr-bnithole in
eaoh axletree; wasirrs and linchpin* for each axletree;
size of hnchpins one inoh wide, of an inch
thick, with a hole in each end; a wooden »*ook four And
three-qnarter inohes wide and four inohes deep, fas
tened substantially to the axletree with clips on the ends
and with two bolts, six inohe« # from the middle, and
fastened to the hounds and bolster* (the bolster to be
fonr feet fire inohes long, five inches wide, and
three and a half inches deep,} with fouT half-inoh
bolts.
The tongue to be ten feet eight inches long, four
inohes wide, and three inohes thick at front enaof the
hounds, and two and a quarter inches wide by two and
thretrqnoner motion deep at the front end, and so nr
ramretf as to lift up, the frost end of it to hang within
two feet cf the ground when the wagon is standing at
rest on a level surface.
The front hounds-to be six feet two inches long,
three inohes thiok, and four inohes wide over axletree,
and to retain that width to the baok end of the tongue ;
jaws of the hounds one foot eight inohes long and three
inohes square at the front end, with a plate of iron two
and a half inches wide by three eighths of an inoh
thick, fastened on top of the honnds over the back end
of the tongue with one half-inoh screw bolt in eaoh
end, and a plate of iron of the tame size turned up at
each end one and a half inohes to c amp the front
hounds together, and fastened on the underside, and at
front cue of hounds, with half inoh screw bolt through
eaoh hound, a seven-eighth inch bolt through tongue
and honnds in the oentre of jaws, to secure the tongue
in the hounds; a plate of iron three inohes wide, one
quarter inch thiok and one foot eight inohes long,
secured on the inside of jaws of hounds with two rive s,
and a plate of same dimensions on each aide of the
tongue, where the tongue and hounds run together,
secured in like manner; a brace of seven-eighths of an
moh round iron to extend from under the front axle
tree, and take two bolts iu front part of the hounds,
same brace threa-quarters of an moh round to oontmue
to the baok part of the houuda, and to be fastened with
two bolts, one near the baok end of the hounds, and
one through the slider and hounds; a brace over front
bolster one and a halt inoh wide, one-quarter of an ineh
thick, with a bolt in emoh end to fasten it to the hounds;
the opening between the jaws of the hounds, to receive
the tongue, four and thre*-quarter in hes is front, and
fouT ana a half inohes at <he oaok part of the jaws.
The hind hounds four feet two inches long, two and
three quarter mohes th ok, and three inohes wide; jaws
one foot long where thev olasp the coupling pole; the
bolster four feet five inches long and five inches wide
bv three inohes deep, with steady iron two and a half
inches wide by one-half inch thiok turned up two and
a half mohes and fastened on each end with three
rivets; the bolster stocks ana hounds to be secured with
four half-inch screw bolts, and one half-inch screw bolt
through the coupling pole.
The coupling pole nine feet eight inohes long, three
inches deep, and tour and a half inohes wide at front
end, and two and three-quarter inobes wide at baok
end; distance from the oentre of king bolt hole to the
oentre of the baok axletree six feet one inoh. and from
the oentre of king bolt hole to the centi e of the mortice
in the hind end oT the pole eight feet nine inches; vine
bolt one and a quarter inohes disiMfor, of best refined
Iron, drawn down to seven-eighth* of SQ iSOh Where It
R asses through the iron axletree; iron plate six inohes
mr, three inches wide, ana one-eighth of an moh thick
on the doubletree ana tongue where they rub together,
iron plate one and a half by one-quarter of an moh on
the siidmc bar. fastened at each end by a s*rew bolt
through the hounds; front bolster to have plates above
and below eleven inches long, three and a half mohes
wide, and three-eighths of an inoh th>ek, corners
drawn out ana turned down on the sides of th#
bolster,- with a nail in each corner, and four coun
tersunk nails on top: two bands ns the hind hounds,
two and twe and a half lcehe# wide, of No. lub&nd
iron; the rnb plate OU too coupling polfl tO be eight
inches long one and three-quarters inohes wide, and
cue-quarter of an moh thiok. Doubletree three feet
feet ten inohes long, singletree two feet eigh. mohes
long, all well made ol hickory, with an iron ring and
clip at each end, the oentre olm to be well seonred; lead
bar and stretcher to be three leet two inohes long, two
and a quarter inohes wide, and one and a quarter inoh
thiok fead ba= R. stretcher*, and singletrees for six
mule team; the two singletrees for the lead mules to
have books in the middle to hook to the end of the fifth
sham, the wheel and middle pairs with open rings to
attach them to the doubletree and lead bar*
The fifth ehain 10 be ten feet long to the fork; the
fork one feet sen inches long, with the stretcher at
tached to spread the forks apart; the links or tbs dou
bletree. stay and tongue chains, three-e-gnths of an
ineh m diameter; >he forked chain seven-sixteenth
inoh in diameter; the fifth chain to be seven-sixteenth
ineh diameter to the fork; the fork to be five-sixteenth
inch diameter; the links of these and of the lock chains
to be not more than two and a quarter ivebes long
The body to be straight, three feet six inches wide*
two feet deep, cen feet l. ng at the bottom, ana tea feet
six inohes at th* top, sloping equally at eaoh end all in
the clear or mside; the bed pieces to be two anda half
inohes wide and three inches de*p; front pieces two
inohes deep by two and a half mohes wide; tai i pies#
two and a naif inches wide and three inches deep; and
four inohos deep in the middle to rest on (lie coupling
pole; tup rail one and a half in«\b thick by one anl
10V8D eighth ; lower rails one inch thick by
or?« and eighth inch wide; three studs and one
rail in front, with a seat on strap hintei to olose it up
as high as the aides; a box three feet fonr inches long,
the bottom five inches wide front side, nine and a half
inches deep, and eight and a half inch-- s at the top in
parallel line to the Daisy all in the oiear, to be sub
stantially fastened to the front end of the body,
to h*ve *-ti iron strap passing round each end. se
cured to the head pieoe and front rail by a nvet m
eaoh end of it passing through them, the lid to be
fastened to the front rail with two good st ep hinges, a
strap of five-eighth iron around the box a half moh from
th© op seise, and twoetr&ps »ame size on the lid near
tke front edge, to prevent the mules from eating the
boxes; to have a joint naso fastened to the middle of
the lid, with a good wooden oieat on the inside a strap
of iron on the centre of tho box with a staple p-ssing
through it* to fasten the lid to; e>ght stn <s and two
rails on eaoh sule tone bolster fastened to the body,
six inches deep and >our inches wide at king bolt hole,
iron rod in front and oentre, of eleven sixteenths of an
inch round iron, with a head on the top of rail and nut
on lower end; iron rod and brace behind, with shoulders
on top *»f tail pieoe. and nuts on the under side, and a
nut on top of rail, a p ate two and a half inohes wide,
of No Id band iron on tail piece, across the body; two
mortices m tail pieoe and hind bar two and a qnarter
inches wide and one inoh thiok. to reoeive pieces three
feet four inohes long, to be need as harness bearers;
four rivets through each side stud, and two rivets
through each front stnd* to secure the lining boards, to
be of ihe bear, quality iron, and riveted on a good bur;
one rivet through eaoh end oi the rails; floor
five-eighths of an inch, oak boards; sides five
eighths of an moh white pine, tail ooard three-quar
ters of an inch thiok,.of white pmo, to be well oleated
with five oak eieats riveted at each end through the
tail-board; an iron plate three feet eight inohes long*
two and a quarter inches wide, and three-eightns of an
inch thick on the Ur der side of the bed pieoe. to extend
from the hind end of the body to eight inohes in front
of the bind bolsters, to be fattened by the rod at the
end of the body- by the lateral rod and two three
eighths of on inch screw boite one at the forward end
01 the plate, and the other about eam-distant between
it and the lateral rod. A half inch round iron rod or
bolt to pass diagonally through the rails, between the
two hind studs to and through the bed pieoe and plate
under it, with a good head on the top and nut and screw
at the bottom, to be at the top one foot six inches from
inside of tail board, and on the bottom ten inohes from
the hind rod. An iron clamp two inohes wide, one
quarter of an inch thiok around the bed pieoe, the oen
tre bolt to whion the lock chain is attached passing
through it, to extend seven mohes on the inside of the
body, the end«,top, and bottom to be secured by two
three-eighths men screw bolts, the middle bar at the
ends to do flush with the bed pieoe on the lower side,
Two look chains secured to the oentre boit of the body,
one end eleven inches, the other two feet six inches long*
to be of thiee-erahins of an moh round iron; feed
trough to be four feet six inches long from out to out.
tne bottom and ends of oak* the sides of yellow pine,
to be eight inohes wide at bottom, twelve inches wide
at top, and eight and a half inches deep all in the dear,
well ironed* With a band of hoop-iron arouod the top*
one around eaoh end and three between the ends,
strong and suitable irons to fasten them on the tongue
when feeding: good strong chains to be attached to the
top rail oi the body* secured by a staple with a hook to
attach it to the trough. .Six bows of good ash. two
inches wide and one-half inoh thick, with three staples
lo confine the ridge pple to its place ; two staples on
the body, to seoure eaoh end of the bows; one ndge
Eole twelve feet long, one and thiee-quarter* inoh wide
y five-eighths of an inoh thick ; thefcover to be of the
first quality ootton duck. No. —fifteen feet Long ana
fllH6 ftfit 818 ht iUfthCS wide, made m the best manner,
with four hemp oorda on eaoh aide, and cue through
eaoh end to olose it at both ends; t«* o rings on each end
ef the body, to olose and secure the ends of the cover *
& staple in the lower rail* near the second stud from
eaoh end*toTasten the sideoords. The outside of the
body and feed trough to have two good ooats of white
lead, colored to a bine tint, the inside of them to have
two costa ef Venetian red paint; the running gear and
wheels to have two good ooats of Venetian red darkened
of a ohocolate color, the hub and fellies to be well
pitched, instead of painted, if required,
A tar-pot, an extra king bolt, and two extra single
trees to be furnished with eaoh wagon, the king bolt
and singletrees similar in all respects to those belong
ing to it.
£aoh side of the body of the wagon to be marked H.
8., and numbered as directed; all otner parts to be let*
tered U. 8.; the cover, feed box, bolts, linchpins, t&iv
pet- «nd harness bearers for each wagon to ue put ap
in a strong box*(cocperee) and the contents market
thereon.
It is to bo distinctly understood that the wagons are
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1861.
Journalism Abroad.
la this conntry, where almost every country
town baa at least one newspaper, the paucity
of such local organs of intelligence and opinion
in Earope can scarcely be realized. In Con
tinenui Earope, this may bo mainly accounted
tor by the restrictions upon the Liberty of the
Press. A newspaper proprietor bas no chance,
when a casual sentence in his journal may
cause him to be subjected to a State Prosecu
tion, if not to the immediate suppression of his
paper, the seizure of his type, and the literal
smasbing-np of his presses.
Another canse is to be found in the ne
farious Byatem which prevails in several coun
tries, bat invariably and extravagantly in
France, of not allowing any person to publish
a newspaper without lodging a very large snm,
by way of caution money, in the hands Of the
Government, out of which might be deducted
fines and costs in the event of legal prosecu
tion—the fact being that ninety-nine out of
one hnndred of these Government prosecu
tions end invariably, we had nearly written
inevitably, in the conviction of the accnsed.
It has often excited our wonder that with
the tetters upon the Press in France any people,
any people with money and brains, should run
the risk of publishing and editing newspapers
there.
The general poverty, as well as oi educa
tion, among the masses of European popula
tion is a third barrier to the extension of
journalism among them.
Lastly, whereas every man, and almost every
woman and child, in the United States, is a
politician, keenly alive to the influence oi
public events, oi personal actions, of party
principles, which make them turn to the news
papers for information, and to several news
papers, to learn all sides of a question, com
paratively few of the European masses are
interested in any politics whatever. The
working classes in most European countries
vegetate rather than live. Provided they ob
tain a sufficiency of coarse food and coarse
clothing, with an humble roof to cover them,
all is right with them. Wearied with bodily
fatigue from daily labor, they have neither
heart nor leisure for politics. Even if they
had, of what use can newspapers be to poor
people who cannot read ?
Hearly all tho restrictions on the public
press of Great Britain and Ireland have been
removed, and those which remain are nearly
nominaL When the stamp duty was levied
on newspapers, with a duty on advertisements
also, every registered newspaper proprietor or
publisher was obliged to give security, to a
small amount, for the regular payment of these
taxes. Inasmuch as no stamped paper was
issued until the duty was paid in advance, the
security thus entered into was simply a use
less matter of fmm.
With the advertisements it was different.
They were always issued on a month’s credit.
Until 1833, each advertisement, long or short,
paid a duty of 84 cents to the Bevenue, if pub
lished in England or Scotland, and of 60 cents,
if published in Ireland. In 1833, these im
posts were severally reduced to 36 and 24
cents. In 1853, these duties were abolished.
There was, up to. 1836, a stamp duty of seven
cents per sheet upon each British, and of fonr
cents upon each Irish newspaper. This was
reduced to a uniform tax of two cents, and it
was wholly abolished in 1855—except in cases
where, by choice, it was paid instead' of pos
tage. There are no revenue duties whatever
on British newspapers now—except three
cents per lb. on paper, and this will be wholly
removed in October, Tho establishment of
what is called «tho Cheap Press” immedi
ately followed the remission of. the two-cent
stamp-duty on newspapers.
In England, to this hour, newspaper pub
lishers give bonds foT payment of fine and costs,
in the event of being sued and convicted for
publishing blasphemous or seditious libels.
This is a brulumfulmen, inasmuch as, during
the last thirty years there have been two such
prosecutions—the True Sun, for repeating the
advice of the Attorney General (“plain Jock
Campbell,” lately Lord Chancellor,) not to pay
taxes until the Reiorm Bill wag passed, and ot
Cobbett’s Weekly Register ior recommending
laborers to destroy machinery—but in neither
case was a conviction arrived at.
The British press owes a great deal to the
late Lord Campbell. He it was who, about
seventeen years ago, carried a bill through
Parliament nullifying the old legal sophism,
«the greater the truth the greater the libel,”
and establishing the rule that, where the truth
was stated, no libel was committed. Owing to
this, the British press is more free than the
■American* Lord Campbell’s principle was
adopted, for a short time, in the law ot Penn
sylvania, but on the late revision of our sta
tutes it was abolished, and the old and unjust
principle re-established.
Exactly two hundred years ago, the first
newspaper, in the present single- Bbeet form,
appeared in England. It was The Public In*
telligencer, and was published by Sir Roger
L’Estrange, on August 31,1661. From the
time of Elisabeth there had been occasional
broadsheets of intelligence, especially during
the Great Rebellion,but this was the first con
tinuous newspaper. The London Gazette, of
which Dr. Stephenson informs ns there is a
complete file in the Library of Congress, com
menced in 1665. It first appeared at Oxford,
and was called the Oxford Gazette. The third
English newspaper, started immediately after
the abdication, or rather deposition, of James
11, in 1688, was The Orange Intelligencer. In
1696, there were nine weekly papers in Lon
don, and in 1709, in tha “ Augustan reign” of
Queen Anne, (commonly called Brandy Nan,
from her devotion to the product of Nantz
and Cognac,) their number was increased to
eighteen. The first daily paper, called the
London Courant, was established about this
time.
We row shall give the statistics of British
newspapers at the commencement of 1861.
The cheap press consists ef papers published
at one, two, four, or six cents, respectively,
and the high priced press of eight, ten, and
twelve cent paperß. The latter are some of the
weeklies (such as the Spectator , Saturday Re
view, and Otierver,) and that “ Thunderer,”
The Times, charges ten cents for each copy.
In London, the cheap papers number alto
gether 70; viz*, 12 published at 2d., 40 at Id.
(36 of which are local or district and suburb
an papers), and 10 at £d., which are also local
metropolitan papers. The rest—to the num
ber ot 146—are « high-priced” and “ interme
diate-price ” Journals, malting a total of 215.
The minnows ot the halfpenny press do not
seem to have extended themselves beyond the
metropolis. In the southern and eastern
counties, out of 129 papers, 80 are those ot
the cheap press, and include 11 of the old
journals which were formerly published at the
higher prices. In the western counties, where
the newspaper family numbers together 92,
63 are “cheap” papers, and comprise 13
which, having been established prior to the
abolition of the penny stamp-duty in 1865,
had existed at the higher prices until the
penny papers sprang into existence. In the
eight counties of the Oxford Circuit, viz.,
Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Staf
fordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Mon
monthßbire, and Gloucestershire, where the
newspapers number 92, those ot the cheap
press are 63 in number, and include 15 which
were formerly established at the higher prices.
In the six midland connties, where there; are
77 newspapers, 54, including 21 of the old
newspaper family existing prior to 1855, are
cheap papers. In the two great counties ol
Lancaster aud fork, out of 294 papers 12
only are of the high-price rank; while in the
other five northern counties the nnmber ot
high-priced papers is 22; the cheap papers
being 26. Of the total number of cheap pa-
pers (186) in these seven counties, 92 have
been brought into existence since 1856, and
44 are old papera which were formerly pub-
PHILADELPHIA. TUESDAY* AUGUST 6, 1861.
lished at the high prices, but aTO now reduced
to the prices of the cheap press, viz., Id. or
2d.‘ In Wales, as in the English provincial
counties, the number of cheap papers "really
preponderates, there being in the Principality
16 cheap papers, 8 high priced, and 6 of Inter
mediate price. The result oi the above enu
meration is, that in England and Wales, while
the number oi cheap papers is 460, that oi the
high-priced journals is 262; tbe number of
intermediate-price papers being 116, and that
of the 460 cheap papers now existing in Eng
land and Wales 104 are old journals, which
were formerly published at tbe high prices.
In Scotland the cheap papers number alto
gether seventy-five, of which forty, three are
published at Id., twelve at l|d., twenty at 2d.
The cheap press in Scotland comprises thirty
two of the old papers, which were formerly
published at the higher prices, and became
cheap papers on the abolition of the Stamp
Duty, in 1865. Tbe number oi “ intermediate
priced” journals—viz: those published at
2|d. —are seven; the “high-priced” being
tbose above 2|d., are fitty; making, with'
seven papers published ‘'gratis,” as adver
tising sheets, a total ef one hundred &Hd thirty
nine.
In Ireland the number oi ebeap papers is
thirty, comprising thirteen published at Id.
three at ljd., and fourteen at 2d. Of these!
thirty, eleven are old papers, iormerly pub-,
lished at the higher prices. Tho “ intermedi
ate-priced” papers number only lour, while
the “high-priced” journals have a greater as
cendency in regard to numbers, there being
eighty-two, comprising all that are published
at and above 3d. In Ireland the “ gratis” ad-,
vertising publications are six in number.
In the Channel Islands the newspapers,
thirteen in number, are all cheap ones except
two, which are «intermediate-priced” jour
n&ls. i
Thus, It will be seen tbat in the United
Kingdom and the Channel Islands, the num
ber of cheap papers at the beginning of the'
present year, was 565, of which 147 are old
papers that have, since the abolition of the'
stamp duty in 1855, reduced their prices to a
level with the young cheap press. These
enumerations show also the number of higb
priced and intermediate price journals
throughout the kingdom,viz: 402 high-priced
and 126 intermediate; together with 13
“gratis” advertising publications in Scot
land and Ireland. To show the vast increase
of British newspapers since the abolition oi
stamp and advertisement duties, we shall
throw onr statement into a tabular torm, show
ing the number of newspapers published,'at
certain periods, in the different places:
1782 1790. 1821. 1824. 1861
la England 50 60 135 138 460
“Ireland 8 27 31 82 122
“ Scotland. 27 56 58 ISO
“ Channel Islands.o 0 6 6 13
Total 61 114 228 232 731
This is indeed a very great increase, but what
a contrast does it present to onr numerous and
far-extending press in the United States! The
British and tho American population are much
the same in number, as shown by tho recent
Census in each country. Wo have no means
of even approximating to the number of Ame
rican newspapers, but there mast be over
3,000 —at leaßt quadruple the number pub
lished in the'British islands.;
The causes of this are several. John Bull
and his cousins Fat and Sandy have not the
avidity for news and for politics which so
eminently distinguishes Brother Jonathan.
Next, when every newspapor was sold fov
fourteen cents, it was ont of the poor man’s
power to purchase It, and if he wished to read
it, he went to his favorite public-house, where,'
paying fonr. cents for a glass of ale, the pe
rusal ot the newspaper was thrown into -him
gratis. He has not yet contrived to get rid of
this habit, though newspapers have been
brought so much within bis reach that he can
have two for the price of one half pint of ale.
Lastly, the number of persons who can read is
considerably fewer in the United Kingdom
than in the United States. Thirty years ago
no more than $150,000 was voted by Parlis
ment for education In Great Britain and Ire
land, whereas the sum of $4,000,000 has juit
been voted for tbe same purpose. It wtl
be some years, however, before “ tho rising
generation” will exhibit, in manhood, tie
advantages of this increased culture. At pre
sent, the Americans are far better educates
tban the English, and have an immense su
periority in the number ot newspapers.
American Tract Society.
From Mr. H. N. Thessell, distriot secretary,
at the Depository of the Pennsylvania Branch,
929 Chestnut atreet, we have received some of the
publications of the American Tract Society, whose
headquarters are ISO Nassau strait, New Tork.
We seldom see any of these productions—the ex
ception being when olerical or lay friends of onn
send ns copies of their own oompositions; but we
have reason to know that some of the best talent
in the country is engaged in the sendee of the sor
oiety, which also avails itself of snoh foreign pub
lioations as come within its plans.
For example, in a twenty five cents volume,
neatly printed and bound, we have “The Young
Man from Home,” by the late Rev. John Angetl
James, an English clergyman of high ability and
oharaeter. This, by one of the most practical and
hast prosy and prcaohiog of all modern oleriaal
writers, has done immense good across the Atianj
tic, and has been translated into Frenoh and
Herman. Here, too, is an abridgement of the Lift
of that Christian Warrior, the late Sir Henry
Havelock, by the Rev. William Brook,—a reoord
whioh ought to be especially oiranlated at this
crisis, for it shows tha perfeot compatibility ot
being a good Christian as well as a good soldier.
The life of snoh a man, simply told as it is here,
is worth a hundred ranting, roaring, scolding
aarmona.
Another of these books, entitled “ The Blat
Flag,” illnstrates the life of “ those that go down
to the sea in ships, that do business in great wa
ters.” Here the hero is a New England boy
well brought up, who has seen “ the works of the
Lord, and his wonders in the deepand is the
means, by his Christian preoept and example, ol
showing to several the evil of their ways. It is a
truthful story, well told.
lisstly, in a neat case, we hare “ The Soldier’*
Pooket Library,” oentaining twenty-five neat);
bound publications, moral and religious, lor $2
Ws most uy that this cheapness is wonderful,
It is a pity, we are oompeiied to add, that the
hymns and other sacred lyrics quoted in these littls
books have not boon better seleoted. Here, for ex
ample, from Sr. Alexander’s <* Sinners weloome to
Christ,” Is a chorus:
Halleluj ih to the Lamb,
Who has purchased our pardon ;
We’U praise him again
When we pass over Jordan..
It would be difficult to find two worse rhymes than
pardon and Jordan. In one of these little vol
umes, containing "Boldiers’ Hymns,” we find
scores of bad rhymes; for example, coast and
tossed , where, to make the latter rhyme, it should
be pronounced toast; come and gloom ; cross and
cause ; flood and Ood; Lord and word, where,
to make the rhyme, we shcnld read ward; on and
crown; began and down; and all these in nina
hymns!
With this drawback, we can fully commend tha
publications of the American Tract Society.
Secession Babbaritieb—Two Inmaniani
Huaa by Hebels.—The .Lafayette (Ind.) Courisi
rtmarks: A son of Elijah Thomas, wed and fa
vorably known iu this oity and vicinity, having
resided here f*r a number of years, arrived from
Missouri a few days since, and states that about
two weeks ago his father and eldest brother wera
taken from the family residence, on the line of th)
Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad, in North Mi*
souri, and hung upon a troe by a party of Missouri
Secessionist Mr. Thomas visited this oity in Ma]
laat, and after returning home he hoisted the start
and stripes on his house-top. The next day i
straggling band of rebels came along and threaten*
ed his life and those of his family it be did nai
take it down. The flag was taken down, and a
fow day. afearward. auotb.r party oame up to tht
house aod asked Mr. Thomas if bo was too ma £
who reoently raised the Federal flag on bis pro l
mises. He replied in the affirmative, and they
seised him and bis eldest son, took them to tht
woods, and hung them on the same tree. ’
Promotion of Beauregard. —On Tuesday,
in executive cession of tho Confederate Congiessj
President Davis sent in a aommnnioatien norni*
Dating G T B.aoregardto the rank of full “ genoj
ral ” in the Confederate army, In whiob nomination
Congress unanimously concurred. The propel
official tula of this rank, according to the act d
Congress organising the army, approved May 16
1861, is simply “ general,” instead ef « bngadM
general;” the former denomination being tht
highest military grade known to the Confederate
States. The commission of Gen Beauregard la t
date from iho 21st ol July, 1861, the date of th l
victory ef Mmiomhi
Suppression of Insurrection'
SPEECH OP HON. E. D. BAKER,
OP OFBOOIt
In the United States Senate, August 1,1661.
The Senate having under consideration the bill
to suppress insurrection end sedition, and for other
purposes,
Hr. Bakes said:
Mr. President, it has not been my fortnno to par
ticipate in at any length, indeed, not to hear very
mash of, th* discussion which has bscn going on—
more, I think. In the hands of thi Senator from
Kentucky than anybody else—npon all the propo
sitions oonneoted with this war; and, as I really
feel aB sinoerelv as he oan an earnest desire to pre
serve the Constitution of the United States for
everybody, Bouth as well as North, t have listened
for some tittle time past to what he has said with
an earnest desire to apprehend the point of his
objection to this particular bill. And now—waiv
ing what I think is the elegant but loose declama
tion in wbioh be ohooses to indnlge—l would pro
pose, with my habitual respeot for him, (for nobody
is more courteous and more gentlemanly,) to ask
him if ho will be kind enough to tell me what
single particular provision there is in this bill
„whim Is in violation of the Constitution of the
United States, whioh I have sworn to support— one
distinct, single proposition in the bill.
Mr EBECKItIIUDGB I will state, in general
terms, that every one of them is, in my opinion;
flagrantly so, unless it may be the last I will send
the Senator the bill, and he may comment on the
eections
Mr. Bakxb. Piok out that one whioh is in your
judgment most clearly so.
Mr. BnECKiHRiDsn. They are all, in my opi
nion, so equally atrooious that I dislike to discri
minate I will send the Senator the bill, and I
tell him that every section, except the last, in my
opinion, violates the Constitution of tho United
States, and of that last section I express' no
opinion.
Mr. Bakbb. I had hoped that that respectful
suggestion to the Senator would enable him to
point out to mo one in his judgment, most clearly
so, for they are not all alike—they are not equally
atrocious
Mr. Bbeckinridge. Very nearly. There are
ten of them. The Senator ann seleot whioh he
pleases.
Mr Bakbr. Let me try then, if I most gene
ralise as the Senator does, to see if I can get the
scope and meaning cf this bill. It is a bill pro
Tiding that the President of the United States
: may declare, by proclamation, in a oertain given
state of fact, oertain territory within the United
states to be in aoonditlon of insurrection and war;
whioh proclamation shall be extensively published
within the distriot to whioh it related. That is
the first preposition. I ask him if thaf'la uncon
stitutional? t hat is a plain question. Jsitnn
oonstitntional to give power to the President to
declare a portion of the territory of the United
States in a state of insnrrootion or rebellion ? He
will not dare to say it is.
Mr. Bbbckisbidsi Mr. President, the Se
nator from Oregon is a very adroit debater, and
he disoovers, of oonrae, the great advantage be
would have if I were to allow him, occupying tbs
Door, to ask me a series of questions, and ihen
have his own oritioisms msdo on them. When
he has olosed his speech, if I deem it neoessary,
I may make some reply. At present, however, I
will answer that question. The State of Illinois,
I bslieve, is a military distriot; the State of Kcn
tnoky is a military distriot. In my judgment, the
President has no authority, and, in my judgment,
Congress has no right to oonfer upon the Presi
dent authority to deoiare a State in a condition of
inrurreetion or rebellion.
Mr. Hakims. In the first plaoo, the bill doss not
say a word about States. Tbat is the first answer
- Mr. Bkbckinbidss. Does not the Senator know,
in foot, that those States compose military dis
triota ? It might as well have said 11 States ”as to
deearibe what is a State .
Mr. Bakeb. I do; and that is the reason why I
suggest to the honorable Senator that this criticism
abont States does not mean anything at all. That
is tho vory point. Tba abjection certainly ought
not to be tbat he oan declare a part of a State in
insurreotion and not the whole of it In point of
fact, the Constitution of the United Sta*es, and tha
Congress of the United States acting upon it, are
net treating of States, but of the territory aom
prising the United States ; and I submit onoe
more to his better judgment that it cannot be un
constitutional to allow Ihe President to deolare a
county or a part of aoounty, or a town or a part of
a town, or part of a State, or the whole of a State,
or two States, or five States, in a condition cf in
surrection, if in his judgment that be the foot.
That is not wrong
In tbe next place, it provides that that being so,
tha military aojnmander in that district may make
and publish suoh police rules and reguiations as
he may deem necessary to suppress the rebillion
and restore order, and preserve the lives and pro
perty of eitisens. I submit to him, if the Presi
dent of the United States has power, or ought to
have power, to suppress insurrection and rebel
lion; is there < any better way to do it, or is there
any other ? Tho gentleman says, do it by the civil
power. Look at the faot The civil power is
utterly overwhelmed ; the eonrts are closed; the
jadges banished Is the President not to execute
the law ? Is be to do it in person, or by his mili
tary commanders? Are they to do it with regu
lation, or without it ? That is the only question.
Mr President, the honorable Senator savs there
is a state of war. The Senator from Vermont
agrees with him; or rather, he agrees with the
Senator from Vermont in that. What then?
There is a state of public war; none the less war
because it Is urged from the other side; not the
less war beoauie it is unjust; not the less war be
cause it is a war of Insurrection and rebellion. It
is still war; and lam willing to say it is public
war—public as contradistinguished fram private
war. What then? Shall we oarry that war on?
Is it his duty as a Senator to carry it on? If so,
bow? By armies, under command; by military
organization and authority, advancing to suppress
insurrection and rebellion. Is that wrong ? Is
tint nceonstitutional 7 Are we not bound to do,
with whoever levies war against us, as we would
do if he was a foreigner ? There is no distinction
as to the mods of carrying on war; we carry on
war against an advancing army jest tha same,
whether it he from Russia or from ciouth Carolina.
Will the honorable Senator tell me it is onr duty to
stayhere, within fifteen miles of the enemy seek
ing, to advance upon us every hour, and talk about
nice questions of constitutional construction, as to
whether it is war or merely insurrection ? No, sir.
It is our duty to advance, if we can, to aupprets
insurrection; to put down rebellion; to dissipate
the rising; to scatter the enemy; and when we
have done so, to preserve, in the terms of the bill,
the liberty, lives, and property of the people of the
country, by just and fair polios regulations. I ask
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lane), when we
took Monterey, did we not do it there ? When we
took Hexioo, did we not do it there ? Is it not a
part, a neoessary, an indispensable part of war
itself, that there shall be military regulations over
the country conquered and held ? Is that uncon
stitutional ?
I think it was a mere play of words that the
Senator indulged in when he attempted to answer
the Senator from New York I did not under
stand the Senator from New York to mean any
thing else substantially but this, that the Consti
tution deals generally with a state of peace, and
that when war is deolared it leaves the condition
of pnblio affairs to bo determined by the law of
war, in the country where the war exists. It is
tine that the Constitution of the United States
does adopt the laws of war as a part of the instru
ment itself during the oontinnanoe of war. The
Constitution does not provide that spies shall be
hong Isitnnoonstitntionaltohangaspy? There
is no provision for it In terms in the Constitution;
bat nobody denies the right, the power, the just
iae. Why ? Because it is part of the law of war.
Tho Constitution doss not provide for the exchange
of prisoners; yet it may be done under the law of
war. Indeed the Constitution does not provide
that a prisoner may be tskon at all; yet hiß oap
tivity is perfectly just and constitutional. It seems
to me that the Senator does not, will not, take that
view of tho subject.
Again, sir, when a military commander ad
vances, as I trust, it there are no more anexpeoted
great reverses, he will advance, through Virginia,
and ooenpies the country, there, perhaps, as here,
the civil law may be silent; there, perhaps, the
oivil officers may flee, os oars have been compelled
to flee. What then? If the civil law is silent, who
shall oontrol and regulate the oorquered district?
who bnt the military oommander? As the Senator
from Illinois has well said, shall it be dona by re
gulation or without regnlation ? Shall the general,
or the eolonel, or the oaptaln be supreme, or shall
he be regulated and ordered by the President of
the United States ? That is the sole question. The
Senator has put It well
I agree that wa ought to do all we can to limit,
to re train, to fetter the abuse of military power.
Bayonets are at best illogical arguments. lam
not willing, except as a oase of sheerest necessity,
ever to permit a military oommander to exeroise
authority over life, liberty, and property Bnt,
air, it is part of the law of war; yon oannot carry
in the rear of y our army yonr oonrts; yon oannot
organise juries; yon oannot have trials according
to the forms and oertmonislof the common law
•mid the clangor of arms, and somebody must on
ferae police regulations in a conquered or occupied
district I ask the Senator from Kentucky again,
respectfully, is that unconstitutional; or if, in tho
nature of war, It must exist, even if there be no
law passed by ns to allow it, is it unconstitutional
to regulate it ? That is the question, to which Ido
not think be will make a dear and distinot reply.
Now, sir, I have shown him two sections of the
bill, which I do not thiDk he will repeat earnestly
are unoonstitutionai Ido not think that he will
seriously deny that it is perfectly constitutional to
limit, to regulate, to oontrol, at the same time to
eonfer and restrain authority in the bands of mili
tary oommanders. I think it is wiso and judicious
to reghlate it by virtue of powers to ba placed in
the hands of the President by law.
Now, a few words, and a few only, aB to the
Senator’s predictions. The Senator from Ken
tacky stands up boro in a manly way in opposi
tion to what be sees is the overwhelming senti
ment of the Senate, and utters reproof, maledta
tion, and prediction combined Well, sir, it is
not every prediction that is prophecy. It is the
easiest thing in the world to do; there is nothing
e&eler, «o»pt to bo mistaken when we have pre
dated- I confess, Mr President, that I would
not have predicted three weeks ago the disasters
whioh have overtaken our aims; and Ido not
think (if I were to prediot now) that six months
henoe the Senator will indulge in the same tone of
prediotion whioh is his favorite key now I wonld
ask him what woo'd you have usjdo now—u Con
federate army within twenty mites of us, advan
cing, or threatening to advance, to overwhelm jour
(Government; to shake the pillars of the Union;
to bring it around your head, if you stay here, in
ruina ? Are we to stop and talk about an uprising
sentiment in the North against the war ? Are we
to prediot evil, and retire from what we prediot 1
Is it not the manly part to go on as we have be
gnn, to raise money, and levy armies, to organise
them, to prepare to advance; when we do advance,
to regulate that advance by all the laws and regu
lations that civilisation and humanity will allow
in time of battleT Can wa do anything more ?To
talk about us stopping, is idle; wa will never stop.
Will the Benator yield to rebellion ? Will he
shrink from armed insurrection ? Will his State
justify it ? Will its hotter public opinion allow it ?
Shall we send a flag of truce? What would be
have? Or would be oondnot this war so feebly,
that the whole world would smile at us in deri
■ion ? What would be have ? These speeches of
bis, sown broadcast over the land, what olear, dis
tine t meaning have they ? Are they not intended
for disorganisation in onr very midst? Are they
not intended to dnll onr weapons ? Aro they not
intended to destroy our seal ? Are they not in
tended to animate onr enemies ? Sir, are they not
words of brilliant, polished treason, even in the
very Capitol of the Confederacy ? [Manifestations
of applause in the galleries.]
The Presiding Officer, (Mr. Anthony in the
chair ) 0 'dor!
Mr Bases What would have been thought if,
in another Capitol, in another Repnbllo, in a yet
more martial age, a Senator as grave, not more
olrquent or digoified than the Senator from Ken
tucky, yet witu the Roman purple flying over his
shoulders, had risen in his place, surrounded by
alt the illustrations of Roman glory, and deolared
that advasoing Hannibal was just, and that Car
thage ought to be dealt with lu terms of peace ?
What would have been thought if, after the battle
of Cannes, a Senator there had risen in his pb'OO
and' denounced every levy of the Roman people,
every expenditure of its treasury, and every ap
peal to the old reoelleotioas and the old glories?
Sir, a Senator, himself learned far more than my
self in SUoh lore, (Mr. Fessenden), tells me, in a
voice that I am giad is audible, that he would have
been hurled from the Tarpeian rook It is a grand
commentary upon the American Constitution that
we permit these words to be uttered. I ask the
Senator to recollect, too, what, save to send aid
and comfort to the enemy, do these predictions of
his amunot to ? Every word thus ottered falls as
a note of inspiration upon every Confederate ear.
Every sound thus uttered is a word (and falling from
his lips, a mighty word) of kindling and triumph to
a toe that determines to advanee. For me, I have
no such word as a Senator to utter. For me, amid
temporary defeat, disaster, disgrace, it seems that
my duty calls me to attar another word, and that
word is, bold, sadden, forward, determined war,
according to the laws of war, by armies, by mili
tary commanders clothed with full power, ad
vanning with all the past glories of the Republie
urging them on to oonquesc.
I do not stop to consider whether it issnbjuga
tion or not. Ic is oompulsory obedisnoo, net to my
will; end not to yours, sir; not to the will of any
one man; not to the will of any one State; but
compulsory obcdlenoo to the Constitution of the
whole oountry. The Senator obose the other day
again and again to animadvert on a single expres
sion in a little speeoh which I delivered before the
Benate, in whioh I took ceoaslon to say that if the
people of the rebellious States would not govern
themselves as States they ought to be governed' as
Territories’ The Senator knew full well, then, for
: I explained twice—he knows foil well now—that
on this side ef the Chamber; nay, in this whale
Chamber; nay, in this whale North and West;
nay, in all the loyal States in all their breadth,
there is not a man among nB who dreams of caus
ing any* man in the South to submit to any rule,
either as to life, liberty, or property, that we our
selves do not willingly agree to yield to Did he
over think of that ? Subjugation for what? When
we antj agate South Carolina, what shall we do ?
We Shill compel its obedience to the Constitution
of the United States; that is all. Why play upon
words? We do not mean, we have never said,
any more If it be slavery that men sbonld obey
the Constitution their fathers fought for, Ist it be
so If it be freedom, it is freedom equally for
them and for ns. We propose to subjugate rebel
lion into loyalty; we propose to subjugate insur
rection into peace; we propose to sntjugate con
federate anaroby into oonstitutional Union liberty
The Senator well hnows that we propose no more.
I atk him, I appeal to his better judgment now,
what does he imagine we intend to do, if fortu
nately we oonquer Tennessee or Sonth Carolina—
call it “ oonquer,” if you will, sir—what do we
propose to do? They will have their oourts still;
they will have their ballot boxes still; they will
have their elections still; they will have their rep
resehtatives upon this floor still; they will have
taxation and representation still; they will have
the writ of habeas corpus still; they will have every
privilege they ever had and ail we desire When
the Confederate armies are scattered; when their
leaden are banished from power; when the peo
ple return to a late repentant sense of the wrong
they have done to a Government they never felt
but in benignancy and blessing, then the Consti
tution made for all will be felt by all, like the de
scending rains from heaven which bless all alike.
Is that subjugation ? To restore what was, as it
was, for the benefit of the whole oountry and ot
the whole human raoe, is ail wo desire and all we
ean have.
Gentlemen talk about tba Northeast. I appeal
to Senators from tbo Northeast, is there a man in
all poor States who advances npon the Booth with
an; other idea bpt to restore the Constitution of
the United States in its' spirit and its snit;; I
never beard that one. I believe no man indulges
in an; dream of infliotiog there an; wrong to pub-
Ue liberty; and I respectfully tell the Senator from
Kentnak; that he persistent!;, earnestly, I will
not Bay willfully, misrepresents the sentiment at
the North and West when he attempts to teaoh
these dootrines to the Confederates of the South.
Sir, while I am predieting, 1 will tell you an
other thing This threat about money and msn
amounts to nothing. Some of the States whioh
have been named in that oonneetion, I know well.
I know, as my friend from Illinois will bsar me
wi'neas, his own State, very well. lam sure that
no temporary defeat, no momentary disaster, will
swerve that State either from its allegiance to the
Union, or from its determination to preserve it
It is sot with ns a question of money or of blood;
It is a question Involving considerations higher
than these When tba Senator from Kentucky
speaks of the Pacific, 1 see another distinguished
friend from Illinois, sow worthily representing
one of the States on the Pacific (Mr MeDongsti)
who will bear me witness that I know that State
too, well. I take the liberty—l know I but utter
his sentiments in advance—j doing with him, to
say that that State, quoting trom the passage the
gentleman himself hue quoted, will be true to the
Union to the last of her blood and her treasure.
There may be there some disaffected; the-e may
be some few men there who would “ rather rale
in hell than serve in heaven." There are suoh
men everywhere. There are a few men there
who have left the South for the good of the
South; who an perverse, violent, destructive, re
volutionary, ana opposed to social order. A few,
but a very few, thus formed and thus nurtured, in
California and in Oregon, both persistently en
deavor to create and maintain mischief; but the
great portion of nnr population are loyal to the
core, and in every obord of their hearts. They are
offering through me—more to their own Senators
every day from California, and, indeed, from Ore
gon—to add to the legions of this country, by the
hundred and the thousand. They are willing to
come thousands of miles with their arms on their
shoulders, at their own expense, to share with the
beat offering of their heart’s blood in the great
Btrugglo of eonstitntional liberty. I tell the Sena
tor that his prediotions, sometimes for the South,
sometimes for the middle States, sometimes for the
Northeast, and then wandering away in airy vi
sions out to tbo far Pacific, about tMt dread of our
people, as toT loss of bloud and treaanre, provoking
them to disloyalty, are false in sentiment, false in
fact, and false in loyalty. The Senator from K n
tncky is mistaken in them all Five hundred mil
lion dollars! What then? Gnat Britain gave
more than two thousand million in the great battle
for constitutional liberty, wbiob she lod atone
time almost single-handed against the world. Five
hundred thousand men! What then? We have
them; they are oars; they are the children of the
oountry. They belong to the whole country; they
are onr sons, our kinsmen; and there are many
of us who will give them all up before we will
abate one word of our just demand, or retreat
one inoh from the line wbiob divides right from
wrong.
Sir, it is not a question of men or money in that
sense. All the money, all the men, are, in our
judgment, well bestowed in snoh a cause. When
we give them we know their valoe. Knowing
their valne well, we give them with the more pride
and the more joy. Sir, how ean we retieat?
Sir, how can we make peace? Who shall treat?
What commissioners? Who would go? Upon
what terms ? Where is to be your boundary line ?
Where the end of the principles we shall nave to
give np? What will become of constitutional go
vernment? What will become ol publio liberty ?
What of past glories? What of future hopes?
Shall we sink Into tba insignificance of tbe grave—
a degraded, defeated, emasculated people, fright- j
ened by the results of one battle, and soared at
tbe visions raised by tbe imagination of the Be- j
nator from Kentuoky npon this floor ? No, sir; a
thousand times, no, sirWe will rally—if, in*
deed, onr words he neoessary—we will rally the
people, the loyal people, of the whole oonntry.
They will pour forth their treasure, their money,
their men, without stint, without measure. The
most peaoeable man in this body may stamp his
foot npon this Benate Chamber floor, as of old a
warrior and a Senator did, and from that single
tramp there will spring forth armed legions. Shall
one battle determine the fate of empire, or a
dozen ? the loss of one thousand msn or twenty
thousand, or $lOO 000,000 or $000,000,000 ? Ia a
year’s peaoe, or ten years, at most, of peaceful
progress, we can restore them all. There will be
some graves reeking with blood, watered by the
tears of sffeatien Thera will be some privation;
there will be some loss of loxnry ; there will be
somewhat more need for labor to prooure the ne
cessaries of life. When that is said, all Is said.
If we have the oountry, the whole oonntry, the
Union, the Constitution, flee Government—with
these there will retnrn all the blessings of well
ordered civilization; tbe path of the oountry will
be a career of greatness and of glory snoh as, in
tbe olden time, our fathers saw in the dim visions
of years yet to oome, and snoh as would have been
oars now, to-day, if had not been for the treason
for whioh the Senator too often seeks to apologize.
Brigadier General Samuel F. Heintzel
man is a native of Pennsylvania and entered the
West Point Academy in 1822 He was breveted
second lieutenant July 1,1827, in the Third in
fantry, and transferred to the tieoond infantry in
1827 Maroh 1838 he was promoted to a first lien
tenano;, and noted as assistant commissary of sub
sistence to April,,lB3# In Jnly, 1838. Lieut. Heint
selmen was appointed assistant quartermssier,
with the rank of captain. In June, 1846 he relin
quished bis staff appointment, OntbeDih of Oc
tober, 1847, Captain Bein'ttvlman was breveted
major lor gallant and meritorious conduct in the
battle of Hnsmantla, Mexiae. A short time after
Major Heintzefman was appointed colonel, and in
the last oampaign he commanded a division of
thirteen regiments, among them tha New York
Fire Zouaves, and Hayne’s riflsd siege gun. Col.
Deintzelman was wounded at the battle of Bull
Bun, but not mortally He has proved himself
a thorough going saldler, and is highly respected
by ail his acquaintances.
Ex-President Tiler.—Ex- President Tyler
(member of Coogress) has been detained at his es
tate in Charles City eountj, by illness. We are
glad to hear, however, that he is convalescent,
and although In bad when tha news was read to
him of the glorious victory achieved by our troops
on the fiald of Manassas, ha called for champagne,
and made his family and friends drink the health
of outgenerals.— Richmond Enquirer.
TWO CENTS.
Inaugural of Gov. Gamble, of Missouri.
Governor Gamble, of Missouri, on being inaugu
rated, delivered an address) of which tho follow
ing Is the eonolusion:
When I undertake to assume this office, I eonld
give you, gentlemen of the Convention, no better
idea Of my devotion to what I believe to be the
interest of the State, than Ido now, tf yon could
only understand tbo reluotance with whioh I ao
oept the election with whioh yon are pleased to
honoT me. But yet, gentlemen, with all that has
bean said of the good result to be aeeomplished by
me, it is utterly impossible th-it any one man oan
pacify the troubled waters of the State; that any
one man oan still the oommotlon now running
throughout our borders. Ho man oan do It
You, »■ you go forth to mingle with your fel
low oitirons throughout the laud, look baok upon
this election as an experiment that is about to be
tried to endeavor to paoify this oommunity, and
restore peace and harmony to the State It Is an
experiment by those whose interests are with your
interests, and -who are bound to do all in their
power to effect this pacifieation of the State. It
may be we have not adopted the best plan or the
best mode of securing the ohjeot whioh we desire,
bnt we have done what seemed to us, in our
mature judgment, best oaloolated to accomplish
it And now, gentlemen, when you go forth
to mingle with your fellow citizens, it must de
pend upon you what shall be the result of the
experiment If you desiro the pease of the
State—if you earnestly desire it, then give this
experiment a fair trial, give it a foil opportunity
of developing all its powers - f restoring poses. 1 I
ask of yon—l have a right to ask of every mem>
her of this Convention that he and I should so aot
together as will redound to the common good of
our State. I feel I have a right to ask that
when you have by your voice plaoed me in such a
position, that you shall unite with me' your efforts
and v ioe instead of endeavoring to prevent the
result we all desire. Unite all your efforts so that
the good whioh is desired may be accomplished.
With that, and with the blessings oF that Provi
donee which iutes OTsr all affairs, public and pri
vate, we may accomplish this end for whioh we
have labored, and whioh shall cause all the inhabi
tantg of the State to rejoice. -
Gentlemen ef the Convention, what is that we
are now threatened with ? We apprehend that
we may soon be in that condition of anaroby
in whioh a man, when he goes to bed with his
family at night, does not know wae'hor he shall
ever rise again, or whether his house shall re
main intact until morning. That is the kind oi
danger, not merely a war hr ween different di
visions of the State, but a war botween Deign
bors, so that when a man meets those with whom
he has associated from ehlldhood. he begins to
feel that they are his enemies. We must avoid
that. It is terrible. The . cones of the Breach
Revelation may be enacted in every quarter of
our State if-we do not Buoceed to avoiding that
kind of war. We oan do it if we are in
earnest, and endeavor with all our power. So
far as I am oonoerned, I assure you that it shall
be the very highest objeot—the sole aim of every
official aot of mine—to make sure that the people
of the State of Missouri oan worship their God to
gethor, eaoh feeling that the man who sits in the
same pew with him, beoause be differs with him
on political questions, Is not his ensmy; that they
may attend the same communion and go to the
same heaven. I wish for every citizen of the State
of Missouri that when he meets his !ellow-man con
fidecce in him may be restored, and confidence in
the whole society restored, and that there shall be
conversations upon other subjects than those of
blood and slaughter; that there shall be something
bettor than this endeavor to enoouTage hostility to
persons who entertain different political opinions,
and something more and better than a desire to
produce ir jiry to those who may differ from them.
Geutl.mtD, if you will unite with me, and carry
home this purpose to carry it out faitDfhUy, Hiuch
oan be accomplished, and much good oan be done;
and I am persuaded that eaoh one of you will feel
that it is bis duty, his individual duty, for iu this
oase it is the duty of every American citizen to do
all he oan for tbe welfare of tbe State. I have
made no elaborate preparations to make an ad
dress to yon on this occasion, but I have come now
to' express to you my earnest desire that we shall
be found so operating for that same oommon good
in whioh eaoh ou. of us is rqually interested; that,
although differing as to modes and schemes, we
ehall be found united in the great work of pacifi
cation.
The Federal Prisoners at Richmond.
A letter to tho Memphis Appeal says: I went
yesterday into one of the military prisons, where
some 450 of those taken at Manassas are kept in
confinement, and held quite a free and eisy ooa
versation with several of the number. Every va
riety of tone, from that of insolent dtfi tnoo to that
of penitent sorrow, was manifested br the priso
ners. Every class of life was represented among
them except that of the pseudo money aristooraoy
of the large cities I saw a fine-looking boy of
sixteen, well grown, high-spirited, from Maassohu
setts; he came, he said, to defend the oapital, and
bad no idea of oming into Virginia Another
young fellow told us they had not expeoted to en
counter any serious resistance, beoause they were
sure the strong Union party of the State would
rise up everywhere to join them as they advanced!
Beauregard would certainly fell bach, they thought,
before such a powerful army as that of MeDowelt’c,
Several deolared that it they ever oould get home,
safe and sound, they would see liinooln dee dee’d
before they would ever fight against the South
again. Parts of three or four regiments assert they
were forced into tho fight, for their term of enlist
ment had expired on the 19th of July, and they
would have gone back North, only the officers would
not Ist them i ff. Upon one point they wero una
nimous. The oolumn of McDowell had no officers fit
to command; it would ho absolutely necessary to
get some. Doubtless this is true, but officers, like
noble trees, ate not grown in a month or a year.
One of the prisoners, Hen. A W. Ely, member of
Congress from the western part of tbe State of New
York, (whom the authorities, with a mereiful con
sideration for the refinement of his Congressional
manners, had oansed to be removed from toe soci
ety of Ellsworth’s u Pet Lambs,” to another apart
ment,) complained very mnoh of the hard
ship of his lot He was a non-combatant ;be
had nothing whatever to do with the fight;
ha only came out from Washington to look on. as
he would have oome to a raoe between Lady Suffolk
and Flora Temple, or a mill between Morrissey
and Heenan He came in a buggy; so he had in
tended to retnin, only the Centreville fete ckam
petre folks, in their hasty retreat, had driven their
carriage over tbe shafts of his vehiolo and broken
them off. Ha had, therefore, been “ took” at a
disadvantage It was absurd to oonsider him ” a
prisoner of war,” since war was something he had
no knowledge of, and took no part in. Certainly,
a less belligerent-looking person than the Hon- A
W. Ely, it would be difficult to find
A good deal of solicitation was tried yesterday
upon the President to obtain the discharge of
Messrs Harvey Magraw and Arnold Harris, who
were arrested the day after the battle on the plains
of Manassas, and broogbt to Richmond, bnt he
very speedily set the applicants for their enlarge
ment at rest, by declaring that they should remain
prisoners during tbe continuance of tho war.
Tbe Coast Defences ol the South.
The Charleston Mercury publishes a series of
articles tonebing the coast defences of the rebel
States Its attention has been attracted to tbo
subject by reason of the large orders reoently is
sued by the United Slates Government for light
draught gun boats It expects to see, somewhere in
October or November, United States war-vessels in
force along tho Southern ooast, and anticipates that
the first point of our Government will be to take
Charleston, which will be a base of operations for
an advance into the interior. “A dash at Fore
Sumpter some dark night might nnlook the bar
bnr. and open the State to future invasion ” The
Mercury of July 11th admonishes South Carolina
to prepare for the onoounter, and adds:
If, by a coup lie mam, this summer, Stringham
oould retake Sumpter, the aff-iir wonld be easy
If not, the plan of Scott will probably be that of
Great Britain daring the Bevolution Having felt
the difficulties of a direot demonstration npon
Charleston through its commercial gates, the ene
my will probably attempt to land his forces south
of them, at North Edisto, Port Boyal, or Beaufort.
Beaufort and Binffcon would afford him points
d’appui , whether the objeot aimed at be Charles
ton or Savannah; and Blaffton oould be resohed
easily from Beaufort, that plaae being once in pos
session of the enemy.
Ia assailing Vera Cruz, Scott’s first landing was
upon the island of Lobos, thir’y miles from the
>oiut to bo stricken. The Mexicans did not at
iempt to oppose his landing We shall probably
do better. But, assuming that he attempts to de
bark some 20 000 soldiers at Port Boyal or Beau
fort, by light draught vessels, iron-olad gunboats,
armed with 15 inch oolumbiads, and transports,
covered by small war steamers, what are our pie
parations 7
We have been working some, we know; we have
gome Strong batteries at essential points; and we
have planted les kuttres de I’enfer at eligible
points; but we havo entirely too fow artilieris's
now, and will need large forces ready by fall. We
earnestly call pnblio attention to this matter
We aie, too, for making aurc in another matter.
Oar batteries on land should be seoonded, we
venture to suggest, by water batteries Every one
of our broad inlets should have its marine battery
Occupying the narrow gorges, eoverod by the land
batteries, covering them in tarn, we might
make ourselves secure by this process. We
abonld put in requisition every harbor steamer,
every sloop ana schooner, every pilot boat
that will oarry a gun; and, do more. We
should prooeed to frame any nnmber of raft or
floating batteries, suoh as will some easy to
onr hands, and each as will be effioient in our
hands. These batteries may be made in a few
days, and may be made almost shot and shell
proof A raft battery, in shallow and smooth
water, is superior to any gun- boat or transport that
ever floated; will oarry more guns, and is less
penetrable by shot, and more steady' under fire
Suppose you take an ordinary “ bull ” of ranging
timber. Lay the logs in alternate and orossed
layers, six feet deep. Bolt all the points of in
tersection with iron. Leave spaces between the
seoiions large enough to take in a bale of
hay or a tight bonnd water-cask; or, if you
choose, employ India rnbbor sacks inflated
When yon have got the proper depth for pur
ehase, with water, floor over with threo-iueh
plank; root with ranging timber and iron, after
the plan of the iron battery on Morris Island
A forty foot raft thus planned will oarry tiro
or three forty-two pounders. Sides and rear may
be enclosed with shutters of iron, or opined at
pleasure, to be used in deftnoe against an enemy
in small boats Pierced with holes, for musketry,
the shutters may be let down or raised, accord
ing to circumstances, on the Bides and rear.
Two or ten of those batteries may be bolted
together, if desired. Ten of them with two
gnns each, or evea five, would demolish the
Walash or any tteztner now blockading .any
Southern pert from Wilmington to New Orleans.
And these rafts, two or four, may be carried out to
sea by the most ordinary river s earner, and made
to oooupy any position in respect to the vesssl
they would asßail They might be hooked to
gather, having two fronts to the Bteamer, while
their sides, with iron shutters pierced for mns
ketry, wonld settlo the account with small boats
They would be as hermetioally sealed, thUi 00D
etruoted, as the back of a box terrapin. We Shall
resume the subject In future oolumns.
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CALIFORNIA Fllll.
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•lessen
Tbe Late Bishop Bowman.
IFrom tha Erenin* Bulletin.]
Xuo intelligence of tbo sudden deoease of the
Jit. Rev. Bamuel Bowman, D. D, Assistant
Bishop of the Episcopal Church, in the Diocese
of Peussylvnnia, has been reocived with pro*
found sorrow, not only in his own ehnreh, hnt
among all in the oommnnity who were aoqnainted
with him. He died on Saturday morning, while
on hia way from Pittsburg to Butler, intending
to prooeed thenoc to the extreme northwestern
oounties of the State.
Bishop Bowman was a native of Wilkesbarre,
and was born in 1800. He was educated for the
bar, but. soon after admission, turned his attention
to the study of divinity, and was ordained a dea
con, by Bisbop White, in the year 1823 Is the
following year he was ordained a priest Immedi
ately after he was ordained a deacon, he took
charge of 6t. John’s Church, Piqua, Lancaster
ccusty. In October, 1825, be beaamo reetor of
Trinity Cbnrob, Easton, devoting Uso a portion of
bis time to an infant congregation at Allentown.
In 1828, he was called to St. James’ Church, Lan
caster, and continued there for thirty years, only
giving it up when he waa elected Assistant Bishop
of. Pennsylvania, in 1858 Probably no minister
was ever more beloved by a congregation than be
was
In 1848, Dr Bowman was eheted Bishop of tba
Diooese of Indiana, but he declined it, preferring
to remain with bis. congregation. Tha iailing
health of Bishop Potter mfenttbg him &om at
tending to tilths iNasu labored hia dSoteie,
the convention of ihaebureh, ha M»y, 1858 deter
mined to elect an Assistant Bisbop On the 28th
of the month, on the sixteenth ballot, Dr. Bow
man was elected, hi* principal competitor having
been Rev A H. Vinton, D. D Although Dr.
B .wman was voted for by the High Church party,
he has never been regarded ns an ultra man, and
he was beloved and respeored by ail in the oburoh.
He was consecrated August 25 b, 1858, so that he
filled bis sacred office less than three years.
A* Bishop Potter’s health has muoh improved
lately, it is probable that no action upon eicotiug
another Assistant Bishop will be taken before the
annual meeting of tbo Convention of the diocese,
next May
GENERAL NEWS.
General Pillow’s army is made up of a
portion of the Union City, the Randolph, and the
Memphis troops, and is from twelve to twenty
thousand strong They are well supplied With
cannon, field pieces, end siege guns, Jeff Thomp
son, now in eotnmand of Watkins’ old force, had
moved the encampment from Bloomfield to within
eight miles of Charleston, and ab-ut eighteen miles
from our lines Part cf Pillow’s oommand num
bering some three thousand, are up on the Cape
.Girardeau road, between Madrid and Charleston.
The rebels have, i • fact, taken military' pnsses-ion
of the road through West Prairie, from New Ma
drid to Cape Girardeau, and are evidently pre
paring for an attack upon Bird's Point or Cape Gi
rardeau However, everything is in a masterly
state of preparation, both at Camp Defiance and at
Bi'd’a Point, for the fight.
Brigadier General John Pope —The ap
pointment of John P-pa as Brigadier General bas
been confirmed by the Senate. He is a pa ir* of
Kentucky and graduated at West Point l& 1838 j
was breveted first lieutenant in the topograputoal
engineers in July, 1842 ; was also breveted first
lieutenant for gallant and meritorious eondoot at
Monterey, and afterwards breveted captain for
his gallantry at tha battle of Buena Vista, where be
received the special commendation of bis superior
officers He is stationed in Missouri, and has
oommand cf an important division. His move
ments thus far show that he is worthy of the trnst
placed in him
Brio. Gem. David Hunter is a native of
the Dißtrietof Columbia, and graduated from the
Military Aoadewy at West Point in September,
1818. July 1 1822, he was appointed seoond lieu
tenant in the Filth infantry, and first lieutenant in
June, 1823. Ia March, 1833. he was appointed
captain in the First dragoons, and on the 4tb of
July, 1836, he resigned his commission in 'be
army, having removed to Illinois From 1831 to
1841 Captain Hunter was temeerary paymaster,
at-.d on the 14th cf March, 1842, he received the
full appointment ef paymaster. In the advance
into Virginia Col Hunter commanded a division,
and at the baftle of Bull Rub he was severely
wounded.
Brigadier General William Benjamin
Franklin is a native of Pennsylvania, sd- en
tered the Military Academy as a cadet in 1839.
July 1, 1843 he was breveted seoond li-utenant < f
topographical engineers, and on the 231 of Feb
ruary, 1347, be received the brevet ot first lieu
tenant, lor gallant and meritorious oonduot in the
battle of Buena Vista. H- was subaequ-n'iy Aotlrg
Assietsnt Professor of Natural Ph losophy at the
Military Aoademy from July, 1848. 'o 1-50 He
was a’so for a short time cn detached se.vioe In
New Yotk, haviae bern promoted to a colonelcy.
At the battle of Bull Run Colonel Franklin com
manded a brigade
Accounts from the West represent the corn
and other orops m good condition, and prom sing
an abundant yield The wheat has been all h*r
voeted, and tba ssme may he mid of rye, cats. and
barley, and tbo orop of each Is fully up to tha
average. Owing to the amount of grain left ever
from last year, we shall have an unusually l°rge
surplus this fall for exportation In New York
and the Eastern States tba growing orop;—pota
toes and corn—are suffering from tha drought, and
unless speedily relieved some damage must ensue.
Up to the present time the prospeot for an abun
dant yield has been good
Gen, Butler is so much in earnest in bis
seal for tne promotion of temperance and discipline
in the forces under his command, that he not only
staves the whisky barrels and drives the grog
se’ling Butlers out of camp, but be insists upon bis
offi-ers pledging themselves not to touch the per
nioious oup, and, by way of example, banishes it
from hia own quarters. The demoralising vffeets
of free drinking upon his soldiers have admonished
him that he must take measures accordingly.
They Dislike the Chinese. —A secret soci
ety has been termed in San Frsneieoo for the pur
pose ef abolishing (he coolie Bystem. The rules cf
the order compel memhers to dispense with all
artioles of ooolie msnufaoture, and to ase every
ezertion to abolish ooolie labor Already ih» or
ganization numbers about 2 000, and it is rapidly
spreading in irfluence and membership L dges
will be established in different parts of the States
as soon as arrangements can be made.
The name of Captain Ayres, who com
manded Sherman’s bat ery at Ball Rnn. has re
peatedly bsen published amotg lists cf killed end
wonndid. notwithstanding be oame out of the bat
tle perftofly safe and tonsd
It has also been reported that the rebels eap
tured Sherman’s battery, while the truth ia that
Captain Ayres not only brought from the field
every one of his own guns but two others that
he found on his wey abandoned by their proper
guardians —IV. Y Tribune
A Soldier his own Surgeon. —A soldier
stepped up to one of the officers of the Fifth Maine
Regiment gs they were leaving the field of battle,
an<l requested him to lend him his knife An or
dinary pooket knife was given the aoidier, when
he sat down at the side of the road, pulled up bis
Santaloona, and ios'antly dug a musket ball out of
s leg, theu jumped up and resumed bis march.
Ihe War Feeling in lowa.— A private let
ter dated at Fort Madison, lowa, 26tb July, lays:
|- We are having accessions by thousands to our
population from Missouri and other Southern States.
Our whole State is in a blaze on aoconnt of tbe de
feat at Manassas It is another Sumpter for the
traitors. lowa has sent seven regiments, and four
more are gathering. She can send one hundred
thousand men, and will do it if neoessary ”
Tub Reoimbkt of Captain Montgomery,
the man who figured so conspicuously curing the
border*tnffian troubles in K-insss, has finally been
nous'ered into service It is known as the Third
Volunteer Begimcnt of Kansas, and is composed of
two companies of aavslr;, one oompany of artil
lery, and i our of infantry. A nephew of Louie
Kossuth is the adjutant
Walter Norris, sod of the late ox-Senator
Norris, of New Hampshire, was killed at 801 l
Bun. He was a member of the Branregard Biflef,
and for many years a clerk in the Post Office .De
partment, ami resigned his plaoe to enter the
Southern army —JV V Sun
THE LARGEST amount of bullion ever re
ceived, at one time, in the Branob Mint in Bsn
Frsnoieoo, was deposit'd on the 31 of July
The aggregate was over 26 000 ounoes in gold and
silver, valned at $4BB 000 This is a good begin
ning for the new Administration
Arms Captured.— lt is stated by the At
lanta Commonwealth, that President Davis tele
graphed from Manassas as follows, to Col. Walton
Eaton, of a Georgia regimes’:
Come on. We have takes 22 000 stand of arms!
The Governor of Missouri. —Hon. Clai
borne F Jaokson, Governor ot Missouri; also,
Gen D R. Atohison, Dr. B. P Moore, W. 8 Jaok
son, of the same Mate, and Col. Cooke, of Knox
ville, Tennessee, have arrived at Richmond
Fatal Accident.—A man named F. Corry,
aged 45 years, a native of Massachusetts, fell tram
a swinging soaffold, while paintiog a house on the
Baud Hills, Augusta, Ua , on tha 17th ultimo, and
was instantly killed
Geo. R. C. Todd, brother-in-law of Mrs.
Lincoln, was arrested iu Richmond, on the 23a for
using incendiary lsnruage, but on being taken 10-
fore the mayor was released, the oharge not being
sustained
Major Slemmsr. —It is stated that the
Douglas Brigade, Illinois, has teviud the gallant
M> jor Blemmer to become Its oommander, and that
he has consented to do so, If the proposal mee’l
the approbation of the United Slates Government
Bkigham Toung has thrown off bis alle
giauco to the United States Government, and de
clared the independence of the Territory The
Mormons wen arming in every direction, to main
tain 'heir independence at all basarda.
Pennsylvania Mail Messengers. —At Can
ton, Pa , Samuel Owen is designated by the de
partment from Ist August. At Equlnuok, Pa.,
Israel Soudder, Jr., in plaoe of A. Colder, to con
vey the mail six times a week.
Is tub C- S. court, at New Orleans, tho
judge has condemned all the vessels seised by
their prirateors, not heretofore notioed, as legal
priz-a.
The first company oi regulars formed under
the new law has been enlisted in Rhode Island by
Captain Boss, of the Fourteenth Infantry
Tux Fire Zouaves are caged at Richmond
in a factory with bare through whioh the people
stare at them as a curiosity.
Mns. Elizabeth Wright, of Little ROCK,
has tubtoribwl the amount i f tourhundrad bale! of
cotton to the Confederate loan.
The New York Republican State Commit
'ee have been called to meet to-day in the city of
Albany. *
Discharged.—Jesse T. Higgins, of Pootes
ville, Md , who was recently arrested by Federal
troops, has been honorably diiohafgtd.
Mr. Jacob H. Miller, one of the oldest
eitisans of Beading, Pa., died last weak.
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