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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1861
EXTRACT FROM THE EAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.—“ The conspiracy
to break np the Union is a fact now known to
alii Armies are ho ins raised, and war levied
to accomplish it* There can be but two sides
to the controversy* Every man must be on the
aide of the United States or against it. There
can he no neutrals in this war. There can be
none hnt patriots and traitors. ’ ’
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A Breckinridge Editor on his Knees.
When a man’s position needs explanation
he n>«st not I>C surprised if his attitude is mis
understood, and so when Mr. J. Lawrence
Getz complains at The Press for ranking
liis Bending newspaper with the Secession
journals, he forgets that the fault is his own,
and none of ours. The very fact that Mr.
Getz elaborates his opinions so carefully gives
us cause to suspect tlieir soundness, for any
citizen who cannot testify his fealty to the
Union at this time in a sentence, must justly
submit to have that fealty questioned.
AVe accept the repentance of Mr. Getz,
however, and while it is not too lute, the (act
that II onus ox's newspaper was suppressed the
week before, leads us to suppose that his con
trition is the result of circumstances over
wbieh he has no control. It is uot many days
since our Beading editor was busily employed
at other matters than writing penitential
epistles. He had an opportunity of proving
his position which would have''rendered letter
writing unnecessary, which, had lie been really
with us, lie is too shrewd a man to have
overlooked. When Mr. Ancona came homo
from W ashington, and asked to be en
dorsed by the Democracy of Berks, Mr.
Getz volunteered bis services to assist in the
endorsement. He complimented him in liis
paper, advocated liis course in the Convention,
and was instrumental in having resolutions
passed entirely endorsing Mr. Ancona's per
formances in tlie House. And yet what does
this practical illustration of the feelings of Mr.
Getz signify? Mr. Ancona had rendered
himself odious in the House. He supported
the Administration reluctantly, and labored for
every opportunity to oppose it openly. He
voted for Valt.aniuc.haji as Speaker, thereby
showing his willingness to place in the chair of
the House the particular friend of Breckin
ridge, the companion and defender of May,
the bitter assailant of the Administration, the
theme of the Mew Orleans Picayune's compli
ments, and tin- man whoso words are quoted
abroad to-day to (lie shame of our country.
In the very few opportunities which presented
themselves this Representative was among the
most recreant. Mr. Ancona showed very de
cidedly liis “ sympathy for Southern traitors,”
and Mr. Getz quite as decidedly his sympathy
for Mr. Ancona, llencc our criticisms upon
liis conduct.
Mr. Getz goes out of his way to assail the
Douglas Democracy, and to stiow how the
platform of Mr. Breckinridge was as much a
Union platform as tiiat of Mr. Douglas. We
must certainly compliment his ingenuity, even
at tllC expense of his candor, for certainly no
candid Ilian could invent such an argument as
tiiat of Mr. Gf.tz. 11c knows very well that
every element of the Breckinridge party was a
disunion element. He secs how it was no
thing more than a great conspiracy. He can
trace that conspiracy step by step from the
Leconvpton fraud down to the division of the
Democratic party. Ho one knows better than
Mr. Getz, for the road is a familiar one to him.
He was in the counsels of the Breckinridge
Democracy; lie was their ally, their friend,
their Bcpresentative; lie enjoyed their confi
dence and tlieir bounty; lie assisted them to
break up tlie Democratic party, and Only With
drew liis assistance when lie found them openly
engaged in breaking up the Union. Through
the day of treason ho was guilty until the last
hour, and *)iad but few minutes left when lie
made his hurried repentance. There is a
shamelessness, therefore, in liis argument
against Sir. Douglas, which is unjust to his
memory and the labors of his life. To invite
a parallel between Mr. Douglas and Mr.
Breckinridge is most unfortunate lbv .Mr.
Getz. The deceased Senator followed his
principles, and they led him to the high table
lands of Union and loyally. Mr. Breckin
ridge lias followed liis principles, and where
have they led him ?
Tiiat the present position of Mr. Breckin
ridge causes Mr. Getz “ deep regret,” and
that liis confidence in liis attachment to the
Union is shaken,” wc arc very thankful. This
penitential attitude of Mr. Getz is a iicalfliy
sign. It is certainly a novel and perhaps a
disagreeable necessity, and as lie has many
things to answer for, we implore him to “ cry
aloud and spare not.” It is a good tiling to
know that lie supports tlie Administration even
in guarded phrases, and - with many reserva
tions and qualifications. His proposition of
“ counsel and co-operation” is so exceedingly
harmless and unmeaning tiiat-we must indulge
him in nursing it. He will find that the
“ measures which would strengthen tlie hands
of Crittenden, Andrew Johnson, and IIolt”
arc tlie excellent measures being devised by
McClellan on tlio Potomac, FrEMONT Oil tlie
Mississippi, and Wool at Fortress Monroe.
"What lie means by giving “ power to turn the
misled people of the South away from then
rebel leaders ” we can scarcely see. If lie
thinks tins can be done by permitting the
Government to go on as it has begun, very
well: but if he intends to resurrect any old
Breckinridge platform, .or obsolete proposals
for the surrender of northern honor, as
measures of compromise, then he is as bad as
ever, and his repentance will scarcely be worth
the paper upon which it is written.
Tlie Revival of Business.
Notwithstanding Uk: shock to which the bu
f-iiicss interests of the country were stili.iecteil
by the .sudden outbreak of a gigantic wav, the
disruption of many important 'commercial con
nections that followed that event, and the
absorption of the energies of the nation, to a
great extent, in the existing contest, there are
still indications of renewed activity at no dis
tant day in many important industrial pursuits.
There is a buoyancy about the American cha
racter, which cannot, under any circumstances,
be entirely suppressed; and, however dark
may be the ] respects which at any particular
period surround them, nr however serious may
be the embarrassments with which they are
threatened, they still carve out new paths to
triumph and success through channels which
the people of other countries would never
dream of opening. Thu history of Europe
shows that it has sometimes happened that at
the very period when some nations tire most
busily engaged in expensive and destruc
tive foreign wars, their manufacturing,
agricultural, and commercial interests were
most energetically and profitably developed.
We can scarcely hope for a similar result
in our country while the rebellion is unsub
dued, but it is not unreasonable to expect an
approximation to it. For the present, the
great agricultural interest, upon which all
others are, to a considerable extent, depend
ent, is industriously engaged in preparing for
market the immense crops with which our
thrillers have been blessed. Of the manufac
lurers, not a few are kept very busy in fur
bishing the immense quantities of goods of
various kinds that the great increase of our
army lias rendered necessary, while others,
■will find ample employment in renewing the
.Stocks that have been nearly exhausted by the
stoppage of many establishments lor a long
period, and in supplying the wants which, in '
peace Or b ar, exist among our immense popu
lation. ,
It is true that the merchants and capitalists
who have been largely engaged in Southern
trade have suffered terribly, as well as those
who are closely connected with or dependent
upon them. Those, too, whose business lias
consisted in manufacturing or supplying arti
cles that may be considered miportluities, and
that in times of pecuniary distress can, witli
©ilt anv great inconvenience, be dispensed with,
cannot expect to speedily re-establish their old
prosperitv. But with plenty of profitable
employment left for our farmers, for
many' of our manufacturers, for some
of ouv merchants, and even for a portion
of those engaged in foreign commerce,
we have still a foundation for enterprises that
trill profitably and usefully employ a large por.
tion of the American people. It is. of course,
evident, tiiat in a time of war, when our na
tional expenditures attain tlieir highest limit,
ami when the greatest derangement of our in
dustrial system exists, it is particularly desi
rable that as strenuous an effort as possible
should be made by all loyal citizens who are
not actually engaged in the war, to employ
themselves as usefully ns possible in peaceful
pursuits, so that while our soldiers are battling
for the Union on the tented field, their labors
may be sufficiently productive to furnish the
national armies with food, clothing, equip
ments, superior munitions of war, and to
maintain the credit of our Government
by furnishing tangible evidence of their
ability to siipx'lv sufficient revenue to dis
charge its financial obligations. Many men
who arc now idle because they cannot find em
ployment in the pursuits to which they have
heretofore been devoted could, by proper ex
ertion, discover new spheres of usefulness;
and the natural tendency to make such efforts,
which exists among our people, together with
the other influences to which we have referred,
will, if no unforeseen calamity occurs, tend to
product? tiiat general restoration of business
activitv which is so eminently desirable, alike
to those who have entered inio the military
service of onr country, and to those who are
still devoted to the arts of peace.
Pennsylvania and her Custom - House
Cities—Her Kail Line to the Lakes.
Unity in purpose and co-operation in action
are essential to the success of broad plans
and achievement of grand results. The
union of Erie city and Philadelphia, by rail,
lias been a standing object with many inte
rests in this State since tlie incorporation of
tlie Philadelphia and Erie Bailroad Company,
on tlie 3d of April, 1337. True, very much
work lias been done upon the route of tlie
road; link after link has been opened, each
one, of course, narrowing tlie gap remaining
unfilled; still, the work is unfinished, and is
unfitted to realize the expectations of the in
vestors in the shares and loans of the com
pany owning it, because its termini are sun
dered l>y the non-completion of its middle
division, and no through traffic can pass over
it. At last, however, hope of final success is
kindled by a project to lease the roail to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and borrow
the credit of that company to raise means to
fill out the gap remaining iu (lie iron lino.
Thus will tlie road to Eric be completed, and
co-operation between the two companies be
secured. To this community this is a para
mount desideratum; and yet it is no more
than was originally contemplated in tlie act of
incorporation of each one of tlie two compa
nies, parties in the present negotiation ; for
Die Pennsylvania Railroad Company wore au
thorized to build a branch to Erie, and the
Philadelphia and Eric Bailroad Company
were given authority, in tlieir origuiai
charter, to extend a branch to Pittsburg.
Tlie original proposition, therefore, was
to have the roads leading to Pittsburg
and Erie operated hv one company. And
this idea was founded ill an appreciation of
Die benefits resulting from harmony of action
and identity of interest among tlie custom
house cities of tlie State and the carriers be
tween them. Pittsburg has its Ohio-river
navigation, and Erie city lias its lake naviga-
j tion. The first is available throughout the
j Mississippi valley; tlie latter is available
j throughout the group of lakes. Each city,
i consequently, has its independent water eom
, miiiiication with Die country beyond, so that
there is no opportunity for competition be
tween their water routes. On the contrary,
: these separated water routes tend to the ad
vantage of each city, in giving to the rail lines
i terminating in them the advantage of water
< rates from and to remote points in the West
and Southwest, in addition to facilities de
rived from rail connections, forming a part of
i the net-work of iron which is outspread over
: the “Western country.
j The competition between the Atlantic trunk
!. lines reaching from tlie seaport cities to the in
terior, has already inflicted immense losses on
' tlieir owners, without any equivalent public
| gain or commercial advantage to cither tlie
; East or the West. And inasmuch as the union
of Die three ports of Pennsylvania, at tlie ter
mini of one efficient operating organization,
would exterminate the possibility of rivalry
and competition, leaving to the railroad men
filling its offices no other duty save those which
i pertain to Die euro of a legitimate traffic, and
• the practice of a desirable economy, it results
• that the common interests of all would he best
, protected and promoted by a friendly under
standing.
Competing lines south of Pittsburg and
: north of Erie admonisli Erie, Pittsburg, and
Philadelphia Of the necessity of united action
and joint defence against rivals outside the
State, whose aim is the control of interior
trade, and its transportation to the sea across
■Maryland or Hew Vork.
In this view of the interests of Erie and
Pittsburg, tlie proposed lease of the Philadel
phia lllld Eric ltuilroud Company, by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, assumes a vast
importance, because its proposed term being
for 999 years, its consequences for good will be
lasting to the three cities and the whole State.
"With its trunk resting on tide-water and its
prongs forking from the Susquehanna to Pitts
burg and Erie, (the last prong being licit! un
der lease,) the Pennsylvania Bailroad Com
pany would concentrate a lake trade at Erie, like
its river trade at Pittsburg, whilst exchanging
at both cities travel and traffic with connecting
lines reaching on farther into the interior coun
try. Unquestionably tlie proposition contains
the best plan for Die completion of tho Phila
delphia and Erie Railroad, and for its efficient
use after its completion. Hence we arc glad
to know that the policy of the proposition is
approved by all who weigh its mutual ndvan
: tages with thoughts single to interests within
Die State. In the particular details the public
Imre less interest, for tlie reason Dlilt minute
and specific details come more especially within
the prerogatives of the Boards of Directors
conducting Die negotiation, who arc responsi
ble for their official acts.
The public, moreover, whilst approving tho
policy of tlie pending lease, which includes a
loan of credit by tlie Pennsylvania Railroad
Company to the Philadelphia and Erie Rail
road Company, as well as an agreement to ope
rate tlie road after its completion, seem anx
ious that the contract should be closed and
sealed, so that they may be gladdened with
the assurance tiiat not only is the Philadelphia
and Erie Railroad to he completed at an early
day, but tiiat, after completion, it is to be ope
rated m harmony with the route to Pittsburg.
Then between Erie and Philadelphia, as now
between Pittsburg and Philadelphia, there will
he established a cheap and expeditious commu
nication, and between Philadelphia and the
lar northwest via Eric city, as now between
Philadelphia and Die far IVeSt via Pittsburg,
there will be established a trade which will
grow and prosper with the growth of the
Northwest country, and also with its acquaint
ance with the resources and facilities enjoyed !
at this port on the seaboard. !
The State’s Magazine
Near Point Breeze, on the Schuylkill, a lit
tie before you come upon Laflerty’s celebrated
hostclrie, stands a small, substantial building,
known as “ The State’s Magazine.” It was so
located for the safety of the city and neigh
borhood. Therein are contained about six
thousand kegs of powder, of twenty-five
pounds-each,'-with one hundred and fifty
thousand rounds of cartridges, belonging to the
Nome Guard, under the command of General
Pi.f.asonton. It may be asked, what is the
defence of this Magazine ? IVe reply, it sim
ply consists of Major James Davenport,' Su
perintendent, and two policemen. The Maga
zine, as numerous visitors to Point Breeze
Park must have noticed, is an edifice standing
bare in an open field, fit the war of 1812
this very magazine was defended by one hun
dred men.
Wo simply slate this fact, and ask whether
ihc magazine ought not have an additional
defence. First, is. the isolation of the ma
gazine, by surrounding it' with a stout stone
wall, at least eight feet high, instead of the
present board-fence,'sufficient for the enemy?
Next, does it not require a great augmentation
of tlic force now available to- defend it ?—when
traitors are abounding in quarters least sus
pected. Major Rvmrnjtr has till? strongest
claim to have ids position well supported.
Labce Positive Sack ok Boots, Shoes, Bro
; cans, Ac.—Tho early attention of purchasers i 3
requested to the large peremptory sale of boots,
shoes, brogans, travelling-bags, *<=•! embracing
' samples of 1,1100 packages of fresh prime goods of
| city and Eastern manufacture. Also, army camp
i shoos. To be sold this (Tuesday) morning by
Myers, Claghorn, A Co., auctioneers, 232 and 231
Market street, commencing at tea o'clock.
Turpentine mid Cotton.
One of the natural effects of tlie wav and the
suspension of trade between the North and
South, is the stimulation of tlie inventive ge
nius of our country to discover, as far AH pos
sible, substitutes for articles which wo have
hitherto obtained from Seccssia. One of the
staples of North Carolina is spirits of tur
pentino. Tlie value of this article heretofore
annually produced in that State has amounted
to more than $14,000,000, and it was thus evi
dciltly an extremely important element of her
commercial importance. It lm» recently been
stated that, so liir as the purposes to .which
largo quantities of it are applied by painters are
concerned, one of Die ingredients of Die coal
oil of Pennsylvania can be profitably and ad
vimtageously used. • A very strong confirma
tion of tins opinion will be found in a commu
nication from Dr. David Jayne, that we pub
lish Diis morning. His knowledge and expe
rience as a druggist, and as an extensive
builder, give great value to his judgment on
tliis question, and virtually settlo it. It is de
sirable that the importance of this matter may
he fully impressed upon those who arc con
nected with the management of the oil wells
of our State, so Duit, if possible, a new ele
ment of our wealth may be developed. The
resin and turpentine produced by North Caro
lina have heretofore been not only extensively
used in all portions of our country, hut they
have been exported to nearly every other civil
ized nation on Die globe—tbo total value of Die
foreign exports in svino yearn amounting to
several millions of dollars.
We also notice that, at several points
throughout the North, companies are being
formed for the manufacture of goods out of
flax, prepared in a superior way; and, if the
high price of cotton continues, it is probable
that the efforts which have long been made, to
render this materia!, either by itself or in com
bination with other substances, a desirable sub
stitute for cotton, may eventually be crowned
with complete success. Numerous processes
have already been devised for making a spe
cies of flax-cotton, as it is termed, which very
closely resembles cotton, and the stimulus
which will now he given to inventive genius
for the further'improvement of these devices
Will, very probably, lead to important results.
This idea is by no means a novel one, and on
many occasions it has met with a very marked
degree of encouragement. Tlie chief reason
why it has not been brought to a com
plete state of perfection has, apparently,
been the ease with which supplies of cotton
have hitherto been obtained. The subject is
one of great moment, not only to our manu
facturers but to our farmers, and it is possible
that the high price of cotton produced by the
present rebellion may result in new arrange
ments that will supply the former, at low cost,
with a superior material, and enable tlie latter
to profitably diversify their industry by the cul
tivation of large quantities of flax and hemp.
By M. Clossen’s process, patented in 18-30,
a flax cotton was prepared from flax hemp and
other vegetable fibres which very neariv rc
scmblva the fibre of the cotton plant, and in
1775 a flax cotton was made of refuse flax and
hemp by Lady Moira with the aid of T. B.
Bailey, of Hope, near Manchester, which was
manufactured into good articles of wearing
apparel. Various attempts were made in Ger
many before the close of tlie last century to ma
nufacture flax cotton, anil although It is said that
excellent goods were made from that material
which could not be distinguished from those
manufactured with ordinary cotton, established
cotton manufacturers, not unnaturally, dis
played a strong prejudice against the new ma
terial and prevented its introduction into gene
ral use. Des Cuasmes said, in 1799, that ho
had seen flax cotton which so closely resem
bled ordinary cotton, that if the staple was cut
before it was carded it could not be distin
guished from cotton, cither when in its raw
state, or when manufactured.
5Ve are aware that these experiments have
uniformly been abandoned hitherto before their
complete success was practically demonstrated,
but now a powerful new motive is given to all
manufacturing nations, and particularly to the
people of the loyal States of this Union, to
render themselves as independent as possible
of tlie whims, freaks, and exactions of the
haughty King Cotton, who assumes despotic
powers.
If the wav continues for any considerable
period of time, and the cotton crop of the
South is rendered unavailable to the civilized
world, a substitute for the products of tlie
G ulf States must and will he found in some
way. The three directions in which it will be
looked for will be, first, the development of
new cotton-growing regions elsewhere; se
cond, the discovery of improved methods of
treating the valuable fibre of other plants,
such as flax, hemp. See. ; or third, Such . a
modification of our habits, and of tlie opera
tions of our woollen manufactories, as will
supply tlie market with a large quantity of
woollen (or mixed silk and woollen) goods of
various kinds, that, to a great extent, will
take the place of those heretofore manufac
tured wholly from cotton.
We arc not quite so badly off in Die nine
teenth century as to have our whole existence
dependent upon a single thread—of cotton.
Wo uvo certain Dial, independent of that sub
stance, silk, wool, flax, and hemp, in some
shape or other, can supply us with our neces
sary clothing; and if supplies of cotton from
the South, or from some other quarter of the
world, are not forthcoming in due season, tlie
inevitable result must be tiiat manufactures of
oilier fabrics will he devised, and so adapted
to Die public taste that eventually the pro
ducts of the cotton districts of our country will
be dispensed with without auv serious incon
venience.
Homage Aux Dames.
We are gratified to find that so respectable a
paper as the Evening Bulletin endorses onr
idea of the foolish toadyism of Die wife of our
Chief Magistrate at Long Branch. It says:
“It is a lamentable thing that because a lady
happens to be the wife of the Chief Magistrate of
the nation, she should not be Safe from vulgar ob
servation and public comment. Tile circumstance
that she is the President’s wife should not deprive
her of the right to gentlemanly treatment. But
the leading New York journals have set all tlieir
puck of puppies on her, and from the moment of
her arrival ill that city, she has not hail the liberty,
tlie security, the privacy, and the respect that
are accorded, in most civilized places, to tllC
humblest woman in tlie land. She could not stir
out of tier hotel, while in New York, without
having her movements, her looks, and her dress
described as minutely as if she were n prize
fighter, a foreign dauseuso, or a condemned con
vict on the wny to execution. If she had com
mitted the vilest crimes, she could not have been
treated with greater contumely. Spies were sent
with tier to tell how she behaved on the jeurncy to
Lung Branch, and other spies we're in waiting for
her Diere when she arrived. From tiiat moment
she has been subjected to tho most cruel espionage,
and .“lie must bo excessively disgusted with (he
treatment she is receiving at the hands of tho
merciless, reporters of tlio papefs that presume to
call themselves tho leading journals of America,
and that arc received in Europe as fair illus
trations of American civilization and refine
ment. If tho chief editors of the New York papers,
that haTe thus grossly abused the President’s wife,
have any sense of decency remaining, they will di
rect those whom they employ to desist from tho
vile work they are engaged in. If they have a
spark of loyalty or of national pride, they will
order that Mrs. Lincoln bo treated in their columns
like a lady, and not like an outcast. Every word
of Die fulsome praise that they lavish on her looks,
her language, her dress, and her manners, is in
sulting, and wc do not soc why it would not bo well
to call in the aid of tlio United States marshal, to
warn, if not to restrain, the indecencies that tlio
New York nowspnpor Jenkinses are daily commit
ting.”
The New Vork Daily News again Seized.
At an early hour yesterday morning Marshal
Murray despatched a force of deputy marshals to
the office of the American Express Company, where
ho had understood a large edition of disloyal news
papers had been lodged, for transmission by express.
The officers seized Six packages of the Dally News
of yesterday morning's edition, They were direct
ed to the following persons: One very large packag 0
to A. Gunter, Louisville, Kentucky; a second, not
quite so Targe, to J. 11. Barnwell, of the same
place; a smaller one to Daring A Dickens, and
another to M. W. Barr, also of Louisville; a largo
package to Gray A Crawford, St, Louis, Missouri,
and a small one to C. C. Woolworth, of St, Joseph,
Missouri.
There were evidently a large number of smallor
packages made np in each of them; and the par
ties addressed were only to act as distributing
agents.
Tie publishers of the Daily Nms, finding them
selves excluded fromthePost Office, Adams Express
and Ross A Touaey’s agencies, had endeavored to
employ the American Express Company, which
they supposed was not watched.
Exgmsh PicToitiAi.s.— Prom Mr. S. C. Upham,
310 Chestnut street, wa have the following London
pictorials of August 10th: Punch, with some racy
pictorial hits; th o Illustrated Times, which al
ways has some superlative wood-engravings; tho
Illustrated London News, crowded with archseo
logioal views, and tho Illustrated News of the
World, with the best portrait of Queen Victoria,
ns she is, ever published. lYe also have from Mr.
Vpham a variety of new National Envelopes, some
of them printed in seven colors, by Mr. Ketteriinus,
and all of them very good.
THE PBESS.—PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1881.
Tue fact may have escaped our readers, but
nevertheless we have seen it crowded away
among a number of items relative to the
weather, tlie crops, and serious accidents, that
Mr. Boiikrt Tyler has hern appointed a
“Register of the Treasury,” in Richmond,
Virginia. We congratulate Virginia upon
having received our distinguished townsman,
and onr distinguished townsman upon having
received a position of honor, although we are
sorry to say there is not much prospect of its
becoming one of profit. Still it is an office,
and office is a groat tiling for a Tyler. He
will have a splendid opportunity for develop
ing Dio peculiar qualities of his genius iu the
town of Richmond. It was always of the
gloomy cast, and lie can certainly find many
congenial spirits in these gloomy circles. We
don’t know what he will do, however, about
his dear friends, tlie Irish, as tiiat gallant peo
ple, and the olijcct of so much solicitude to
our ex-eminent townsman during Die days
when O'Connell wanted Repeal and the Ty
lers wanted office, arc, very unfortunately for
him, to be found on tho wrong side. But,
nevertheless, we shall hear from him again,
for Tyler is irrepressible and determined to
make a sensation.
Farewell to Robert Tyler ! We shall sadly
miss him in Pennsylvania. Never more shall
his clarion voice he heard in defence of “ Old
Virginia.” Never more will the silver strains
of liis eloquence fall upon enwrapt and listening
conventions as lie dwells upon National De
mocracy and Stale Bights. Never more shall
Wf hear him from Die hustings ami Die tavern
door gallantly defending the rights of adopted
citizens, and mingling his tears with those of
oppressed Ireland. Never more shall wo have
Diose delightful and piquant biographical
sketches of (lie Tyler family, Irom the unpro
nounceable Indian who was the first, down to
the ex-President, who was the last of liis race.
!Sever more shall we read those -logical, con
stitutional, and transcendental epistles which
were Die daily delight of nervous and wakeful
readers of the late lamented Pennsylvanian.
From ruining an honest Democracy, he goes to
register a penniless treasury. After dwelling
upon' the beauties of Virginia in Philadelphia,
lie goes to dwell among the beauties of Vir
ginia in Richmond—-to soothe tlie sad hours of
Ids inconsolable fat he,-, and to drink cham
pagne with him over the victory of Manassas. •
Still Philadelphia can spare Mr. Tyler, nor
are we quite clear about recommending the
Mayor to suggest a day of fasting and prayer.
His journey to Richmond was one of tlie best,
because one of tho most consistent, acts of
his life. He was reluctant to leave, we are
convinced, principally because there was such
a difference between the pecuniary promises
of the South and the performances of the
North. But still he is with those whom lie
can appreciate. A traitor and a rebel, he is at
home with traitors and rebels. Are there not
others hero who might properly follow Mr.
Tylku’s example?
LETTER FROM “OCCASIONAL.”
The arrest of Mayor Berret has created a
good deal of apprehension in certain quarters.
He had considerable influence because of his
official position; and for years past was the inti
mate of many of those who led in the Secession
movement. He was one of the most strenuous
of the Breckinridge uisorgauizers, and one of
the most decided of the opponents of Douglas.
Extremely fond of oflice, his strong proclivi
ties for the traitors may be appreciated when,
notwithstanding his possession of the mayor
alty, he refused to take the oath as a member
of Dm now Board appointed to organize
and control the Metropolitan Police, of
which Board Congress makes tlie Mayor an
ex officio member. The idea that the Chief
Magistrate of tho city of “Washington should
not be willing to take any oath to support the
Government, was itself a good reason for de
posing such a man from office, even if other
offences could not he proved against him.
What these other offences may ho I do not
know; but it is shrewdly surmised that the
treasonable sympathizers here have been hold
ing secret meetings at his residence. His po
lice force was so far suspected that Congress
was compelled to organize a new and more
loyal corps. Mr. Berret has always been iden
tified with that pompous aristocracy which is
so peculiar to Virginia. His most intimate
friends were Senators Mason, Hunter, and
Toombs. IBs residence was the rendezvous
of tlie extreme Southern men, and there is
very little doubt that since this insurrection
has been inaugurated he has been either open
ly in correspondence with Beauregard and liis
. army, or has connived at the intercourse which
lias been existing between "Washington and
Virginia• Many of Mr. Berrct’s most confi
dential friends hold responsible positions in
the Confederate army. And so, taking all
these things together, there can he no doubt
that the arrest of the Mayor lias been one of
its best and most necessary measures.
I have no patience at all with Diose who call
this contest a Blade Republican war. Who
ever makes this charge must be set down as an
enemy. To consider tliis war as a partisan is
to consider Die Government as a mere party.
When a person 'spenks of this contest as a mere
Black Republican contest, and the Adminis
tration as a Black Republican Administration,
I set him down as an enemy. For what is tho
Administration but tlie emblem of Govern
ment, the type of tlie Union, tlie custodian of
Die Constitution ? If you abandon Dio Admi
nistration, where are you going to go ? What
other flag can a citizen follow ? We want to
make an efficient wav. and that war can only
be made by a united Government, supported
by a united people. Those who antagonize
the Administration now realty antagonize the
conn try. When Mr. Lincoln or his Cabinet
commit any wrong Dier will be denounced by
the people—but tlie denunciation will not
come from reluctant, sullen, lialt-hcarted
Union men. The people who have so gene
rously supported him when right, will not he
sitate to oppose liim when wrong.
The recent intelligence from California ren
ders the I’acific coast an object of much in
terest at tliis time. This has been the theatre
Of ceaseless intrigue on the part of tlie Seces
sionists who cluster around tlio golden shores
of Die Pacific. California has always dazzled i
Die eyes of the South, and its statesmen have j
been zealous in their endeavors to obtain pos- j
session of it. To this end they have been i
laboring for tlie past ton years by demoralizing j
the political sentiment of tlie people. So far j
as California lias been represented, it lias
almost always been with the ultra South.
There have been a few gallant and glorious
exceptions, like Broderick, Fremont, and Mc-
Kibbin, but in Die persons of such men as
G win, Weller, and Scott, she lias been con
stantly degraded to the service of the Southern i
conspirators. Senator McDoagnl is still here, I
and, as a friend and follower Of the lamented j
Douglas, is warmly and unhesitatingly for the j
Administration. He thinks that California is ;
safe, hut Dint tin; Secessionists, although over- [
awed by public sentiment, mill cherish the j
dream of u Pacific Republic. Tlie military j
power is in the hands of such gallant soldiers
as Sumner, Carlton, and West, and we need
have no fear of treason making any progress
within the reach of their swards.
The Democratic Senator tom New Jersey,
John B. Thomson, has tnkeii open ground in
opposition to Nnar and his tribe of Breckin
ridge Secessionists. Whatever the course of
Senator Thomson may have been heretofore
on questions relating to the policy of thecoun- j
try, ids attitude in the present crisis is most j
gratifying. Tlie Senator is earnest in support j
of the war measures of Die Administration, and j
liis course in tlie recent session of the Senate j
looked consistently to the accomplishment j
of the most vigorous war measures. i
Sale tO-iuy—Stocks and Real Estate, at twelve
o’clock, noon, at the Exchange. Seo Thomas A
Sons’ advertisements and pamphlet catalogues.
Arrests ix New Jersey.—The Newark (N.
J.) Mercury of yesterday morning says: Deputy
Marshal Benjamin, of this city, on Saturday arrested
at Rahway Mr. 1 Phineas F. Frazeo, a curriagemnnu
faeturer but lately returned from Charleston, South
Carolina. Mr: Frazee, it is said, has# son in the
rebel army, and wo are told that evidence is not
wanting to jusify tho Government in making this
arrest. Mr, Fljas® o was;brought to this city on
Saturday, and permitted to visit Ms frionda in Rah;
way yesterday attended by the marshal. An ex*
animation of the prisoner will bo had this morning
at ten o’clocV 1 , and if tho ovidcnco proves sufficient
to hold him,pe will bo sent to Fort Lafayette.
TWO individuals wore arrested at Trenton, on
Saturday, chaiged with being Seoession spies. They
underwent a /private examination, tho result of
which had m transpired when our informant left
there. /
Washington, Aug. 29.
Occasional.
LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON,
ELECTION OF A NEW MAYOR.
SEIZURE OF THE CRAFT ON THE POTOMAC,
Commander Porter’s Self-Vindication.
THE COMMAND OF THE NAVAL FORCES OF THE WEST.
ALL THE MILITARY POSITIONS FILLED.
Pensioners Must Take the Oath of Loyalty.
Colonel McCunn Acquitted.
FORTRESS MONROE AFFAIRS
PREPARATIONS FOR A NAVAL EXPEDITION.
MOVEMENTS OF THE REBELS IN MISSOURI.
Special Despatches to “The Press.”
Washington, August 26,1861.
Arrest of Mrs. Ilassler.
Mrs. llassler has been superintending a South
ern mail which was sent forward “underground”
about once a week. She lias bestowed very special
attention upon tho rebel prisoners here. Her name
is announced among tlioso arrested on Saturday.
&110 is a very determined woman, and is safe only
when she ennnot libto her liberty. All of those
arrested have been recipients of public patronage,
and ninny of them to a very largo extent.
The War Department,
Tho prossuro of business in the War Department
is very great, and is apparently increasing. It was
difficult to-day to get within ten feet of the Secre
tary’s office door, so great was the pressure.
Tho President Among the Troops.
Tbo President is out to-day among tho troops.
He is accompanied in his cavriago by Secrotary
Seward.
Mrs. Ginn.
It is reported tiiat tlie wife of Senator G wrx was
arrested, on Saturday, by tho Provost Marshal,
charged with disloyalty and aiding tlio robot army.
Tho Pi 'ovost Mnrshal counsels soerocy in his office,
jmd it is difficult lo obtain facts- More arrests nro
to be made.
The Baltimore Papers.
General Dix has requested the Baltimore papers
to refrain from the publication of military intelli
goneo. They will comply with his wishes. There
is some Apprehension that the Sun and two othor
papers will be suppressed.
The Proposed Division of Virginia.
The Into Union Convention in Western Virginia
passed an ordinance to divido the State, subjoct to
tho vote of the pcoplo yet to be taken. The new
State will include thirty-nine counties, with the
following population:
lognn county 4,B3Bißnrbour 8,959
Wyoming 2,865 i Upshur 7,292
Raleigh 3,367| Harrison 13,790
Boyette s,997jLcwis 7,999
Nicholas 4,626 1 Braxton 4,992
Webster 1,555jC1ay 1,787
Randolph 4.99o|Kanawha 14,575
Tucker .1.,428j800ne 4,840
l’rcston 15,312 j Wayne........... 6,747
Monongalia 13,048; Cabell 8,020
Minion 12,72111’utnam 6,301
Taylor 7.463| Mason 9,185
Jackson 8,300 Wood 11,016
Roanoke B,o4BjPleasants 2,945
Calhoun 2,so2iTylcr 0,517
Wirt 3.7sl.jD"oddridgc 5,203
Gilmer 3.759 Wetzel 0,703
Ritchie 6,B47{Marshall 13,091
Ohio 22,422; Hancock
lirookc 0,494;
Total population 231,730
Tlic population of Virginia is 1.503,799, including
495,826 slaves. There are, perhaps, 10,000 slaves
in the Union counties proposed to be set off in a new
State.
The Ordnance Department.
Brevet Brigadier (ipnoi’al ltil'EEr Jills IICMI pro
moted to a full brigadier general under the Into law
of Congress, and made Chief of tho Ordnance De
partment ; Major SrjtisoTOJf is promoted to tho
rank of colonel; Majors (Ikohok D. Ramsey and
William Mayxadier are promoted to lieutenant
colonels; and Captains Wn.i.UM A. TItOItN'TO.V.
Rouf.ht 11. K. WniTEi.F.Y, Peter V. Hao-neb,
and Robebt A. Waixvricut arc promoted to
majors
General Weightman.
General llansox Wf.igiitjian, killed at the bat
tle of Wilson’s creek, was formerly a delegate to
Congress from Kew Mexico. Ilia father is a resi
dent of Washington. and was at one time its mayor.
Bladcnsbnrg Disloyal.
I am informed, on good authority, that a com
pony of rebels arc daily in the socret exorcise of mi
litary drill in Blndcnsburg, anticipating ‘he arrival
of the rebel anny en route to Washington.
The Potomac Flotilla.
Tho steam or Powhatan is to he detached from
the fleet on tho Potomac for a few days, to have
her boilers cleansed.
There are two more a!earner? at tho navy yard—
the Agars and the Edwin Form/. They were
purchased in Baltimore. They will each receive a
howitzer on board, and wilt be used in running up
the bays and creeks along the river, in search of
boats aud oilier conveyances used by the enemy in
crossing the river.
There arc now fifteen steamers in tho flotilla.
Commander Porter, of the St. Mary’s.
Commander Porter, who was recently deprived
of his command of the sloop-of-war St. Mary's, on
suspicion of disloyalty to the Government, has vo
luntarily returned to Washington. lie, to-day, it
is understood, presented to the Navy Department
an elaborate document with proofs in refutation
of the charges, showing that forgery has been re
sorted to for the purpose of injuring and dishonoring
him.
The Quartermaster's Department.
The results of General Mews’ administration of
the quartermaster's department arc astonishing.
The very large number of wagons, horses, mulos,
and immense amounts of equipage and other army
supplies, afford direct evidence of his vigor and
efficiency. The soldiers on both sides of the Poto
mac are not only promptly hut satisfactorily fur
nished with everything necessary for their military
as well as domestic wants, and this attention to
theirinterests lint largely contributed to the pre
sent fine and improving condition of the troops.
Hirer Craft Seized,
All the large craft, schooners and sloops, small
row-boats and skills, on the Potomac river, have
been taken possession of by the Government au
thority. This may be a matter of precaution t
prevent communication between the Maryland and
Virginia shores.
Pensioners to Take the Oath of Loyalty.
Orders were forwarded to-day to tho United
States pension agents to administer the oath of
allegianoe to the United States, prescribed by the
late law of Congress, to all persons drawing pen
sions.
A Commander for the Western (itmhoals.
Captain Foote has been ordered to the command
of tho United States naval forces in the Western
waters, viz: on the Missouri, Mississippi, aud Ohio
rivers.
Mayor of Washington Elected.
Ruiiak]) Waleach. Ksq., was this afternoon
elected mayor of Washington by the City Councils,
to supply the vacancy occasioned by Mr. B«n
-iuit’s involuntary absence. He was forthwith in
stalled.
Disloyalists Sent to Fort Lafayette.
The Navy Department Ims a prompt method of
dealing with disloyalists. In addition to tho simi
lar ensos recently mentioned, A. D. Wharton, a
midshipman on board the tendered Ids
resignation, but he was dismissed from tho service
and sent to Fort Lafayette.
Several soldiers claiming to be British subjects,
and so represented through Lord Lyons, have been
discharged from the army-
All the Military Positions Filled.
It is needless to crowd tho Secretary of War by
further applications for military appointments, as
there are no vacancies, except such as have been
reserved for meritorious non-commissioned officers
and privates.
Official.
I)KPAK7.>iiJiVr op State,
Washington, August 24, 1863.
The following decree by the President of Mexico,
declaring the port of Towula, situated on tho Pacific
coast of the State of Chiapas, open to tho commerce
of foreign countries, has been received at this Lc
purtmeut from tb« United States Consul at Ta
basco :
Decree issued by D resident Ileuito of
In virtue of the Authority in in© vested, I have
decreed the following :
Article one : The port of Tonala, in the Stttto of
Chiapas, on the Pacific coast, is hereby made a port
of entry, and is opened to foreign and coastwise
Commerce.
Wbcreupon, I order the same to be published,
made known, and carried into effect.
(liven at the Palace of the .Federal Government,
Mexico, April 24,1861. Benito Juahez.
To Bon Jose Maria Mata, Secretary of tho Trea
sury.
Arrivals from Pennsylvania. -
Willard's—' Chns. Fletcher, J. Rico, Joseph F.
Tobias, W. H. Butler, E. Tracy, L. N. Wagner,
Chas. W. Matthews, J. Painter, C. P. Markle,
Thomas Bell, Ed. McPherson, J. L. Sadler.
ICtrfcuMotVs— AY. F. Murray, J. D. Harris.
A Liverpool Vessel Chased.
Nkw Youk, Aug. 26.— Tho ship ifniverse, which
arrived at this port this evening, from Liverpool,
reports that on 'August 16th, when In latitude 43
deg. 20 min., longitude && deg. 30 nun., she was
chased by a low, rakish, full-rigged brig, evidently
a brig-of-war. She finally passed her a quarter of
a mile ahead, running off to the southeast.
Safety of the Steamer Etna.
Riviere pe Lori*, Aiig- 26.— Tho ship Powerful,
for Quebec, arrived hero this afternoon, bringing a
feir of the passengers of the steamship lima, tho
detention of which bud given rise to fears for her
safety.
Tho Power/ul reports that the Tima broke the
ernnlc of her shaft on tho 7th inst. She WO3 boarded
by tli cPowerfnl on the llth,inlat.49deg. 14min.,
tong. 38 deg. 53 min. The steamor was in order,
but her machinery completely stopped, and sho
was obliged to put back for Queenstown, under sail
for repairs.
New Yoiik, Aug. 20.—A despatch to the agents
of tho steamship lino gives tho following names of
the passengers of the steamer Etna, who arrived in
the Powerful , viz: Messrs. Bent, Livingston,
Hark, Gardner, and Duclos.
The despatch is signed by John G. Dolo, the Now
York agent of the lino, who was aboard of tho
steamer.
Tho Etna was in lat. 48 deg. 58 min., long. 42
deg. 34 min., when she broke the crank of bet
shaft. Her passengers were all well when tho ship
Powerful left her.
From Missouri.
MOVEMENTS OF TIIF. REBELS
Ibonton, Mo., August 24.— Reports received
here to day give tho information tlint General Har
dee’s forces are withdrawing From Greenville, to
wards Hooves’ Ferry, where they are fortifying
their position to some extent, and also to Priton’s
station, nearer the Arkansas lino.
This seems to confirm the previous report, that
tho eastern division of tho rebels were hastening to
join General I’illow. A strong body of General
Thompson’s forces are reported to hare occupied
Benta, eight miles back of tho town of Commerce,
where they aro throwing up fortifications.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
[liy l*ony llxproas.]
St. Joseph, Mo., August 26.—Tho pony express
has been abandoned between St. Joseph nnd a sta
tion 110 miles west. Letters will be obliged to go
by stage from here to reach tho pony at that start
ing point.
Outer Station* op tiie Pacific Tei.egrapii
Company, 95 miles west of Fort Kearney.— The
California pony express passed here at 1." o’clock
this afternoon with the following intelligence:
The 1,500 men from California to serve on the
plains are rapidly organizing. Nino companies of
infantry have already reported to Gen. Sumner,
and 1,500 cavalry are nearly all accepted.
These troops are evidently being organized to a
much better basis than many other volunteers re
cruited for the war as regards the qualifications of
officers, the physical and moral standing of the
mon, and the equipment of tho cavalry with Go
vernment horses. Saddles and bridles have already
been provided for through General Sumner, who
has assumed the responsibility. Tho entire force
will be provided with tho well-made and substan
tial clothing that the regular troops are entitled to.
There have been a targe number of rumors afioat
In reference to the movements of Gen. A. S. John
son, late in command of the Pacific division, but
the San Francisco morning Californian pronounces
all of them untrue. It seems that Johnson started
from Los Angeles with a company ostensibly for tho
destination of Texas. After they left Los Angeles,
a disagreement occurred, and they divided. Gen.
Johnson returned to this city and took passage for
the East on the steamer; and a portion of the ori
ginal party under command of a resident of Los
Angeles nnd a well-known citizen of the State pro
ceeded into Mexico. Tho reports that Gen. John
son had arrived in Virginia, and that ho had ac
cepted the command of tho Into Gen. Garnett, are
incorrect. Our informant is of the most reliable
character.
The ship ISpeei/rce/l'brmgs Honolulu papers of July
22, five days later. Tho news is unimportant.
Sierra Nevada dates are to the 7th of August. On
the 6th the steamer Coribhee blew up above tho
Rapids, on Frazer river, and the captain and six
men were killed, while many of the passengers are
missing.
The Oregon papers state that the emigration
from Northern California to the Noz-perco mines
continues. Tho news is still favorable from that
mining district. The Indians will not permit the
miners to occupy some of the land, and troublo is
feared to result.
Sam Francisco Markets.—The markots are
about tho same as when last reported. In the job
bing trade there is a reasonable demand from the
country. There appears to be a greater firmness
in tho Provision market generally, with sales ef
Butter to extent at hardening prices. Candle 3
are firmer.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.—Arrive! 14tli, at San
Francis™—ship Speedwell, from Honolulu; 16th Herald
of the Morning, from New York, steamer Uncle Sam,
from Panama. Sailed 16th, hark Louise, loth ship
Summer Cluuili for Sidney.
Honorable Acquit tal of Colonel McCuna.
■Washington, August 26.—Colonel McCunnhas
been honorably acquitted of the charges preferred
against him at tho recent court martini held in
Alexandria. The scene in his regiment on the an
nouncement of this fact was of the most enthusiastic
description.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
THE STEAMER HIBERNIA OFF FATHER POINT,
Father Point, Aug. 26. —The stenmer Hiber
nia passed hero this afternoon, with Liverpool
dates to the 16th inst.
The steamer City of Washington sailed for
New York on the 14th, with £5,000 in specie, and
the Teutonia, from Southampton, had about
£7,000. ;
The steamship Great Eastern arrived at Liver
pool on tho 15th inst.
The steamship If civ York arrived out on tho
•16tb.
The ship S/tjfoU‘ armed at Plymouth with
£4-2,000 in gold.
The ship Hermitage, from Liverpool for Buenos
Ayers, put into Cape de Verde very leaky.
The ship Spread Eagle was a total wreck off
Bassein, June 17; crew saved.
GREAT BRITAIN.
At a general meeting of the Galway Steamship
Company the report ot* tho directors was adopted,
and it was resolved to issue stock increasing the
nominal capital from £500,000 to £1,000,000.
Tho Austrian archduke, Maximilian, on visiting
Southampton in relation to the projected Austrian
Steamship Company, made a speech, in which he
predicted closer sympathies commercially and poli*
tically between Englund and Austria.
Mr. Bochuck also made a speech, extolling tho
Constitutional efforts of the Emperor of Austria.
The marriage contract between the Princess
Alice and Prince Leopold, of Hesse, was signed
at Osborne on tho 14th.
The weather in England was again unsettled,
and there was considerable ram in some pans.
The London Times' city article again expati
ates on the financial difficulties accumulating
against tllC American Government, and says that
tlic most earnest wish of the frSomlg of America
must be that the difficulties thus in sight may ac
cumulate with sufficient rapidity to bring tlio North
and South to reason.
FRANCE.
There is a vaguo report of a growing coolness be
tween France and Austria, bearing an ominous re
semblance to that which preceded the war. Prineo
Mctteriiicli had taken leave of tho Emperor, nod
the latter had gone to the Chalons camp. (Jouaral
Fanti had also left Paris, and was en route for the
Chalons camp.
The Monileitr officially confirms the appoint
ment of Bcncdctti as Minister to Italy.
PRUSSIA
The Indeycndauceßelgc says that the first act
of tho new Prussian Ministry will be the recogni
tion of the Kingdom of Italy.
AUSTRIA.
The Emperor received the address of the Hun
garian Diet on the 14th hist., and replied to it by a
speech in general terms. The dissolution of the
Diet is regarded as almost certain.
POLAND.
An important popular demonstration occurred at
Lublin on the 12th iust. The military commander,
however, by his energetic action, suppressed a con
flict without any more serious consequences than
that a certain number of persons wero wounded.
| The following is a copy of the despatch sent out
by the steamer of Washington :]
ENGLAND.
The English papers are daily engrossed with the
American question
The London Globe denies by authority the state
ment that Admiral Milne has reported the blockade
of the Southern porta ineffective, and says that no
general report on the subject has beeu officially re
ceived.
The London T/w«-sin an editorial shows the
financial difficulties which tho Washington Govern
ment will hare to encounter.
The Times also publishes another letter from
Mr. Russell, which is generally discouraging for
the North. . '' , .
The King of Sweden lias arrived in hngltttw QU ft
Vioit to tho Queen.
Catharine Jlayes, the singer, is dead.
Tho special agents of the Cotton Supply Associa
tion had reached Egypt, and were to have nu inter
view with the Viceroy on tho subject of cotton cul
tivation. , .•' , ■ •
Tho weather in England- .lad been hot! find tho
harvest was making great progress. ItfliQ Was,
however, falling when the steamer left Liverpool.
FRANCE.
Another controversy had sprung up between
France and Switzerland relative to She arrost of a
French subject on disputed- territory. # .
The harvest in Franeo.wns progressing satisfac
torily, but. the wheat crop-will be cteftotoiU*
Tliere are again indications of a solution of the
Roman question. It is rumored that a mixed
Italian and French garrison will soon occupy
Rome.
Baron Rieasoli, in a- diplomatic- circular, ex
presses the belief that Europe will soon be per
suaded of tho right of Italy to enlm* tho Italian
territory.
Frincc Chigo has been appointed Papal Nuneio
at Paris. . . .
The Neapolitan reaction is diminklring.
AUSTRIA.
The position of Austria and Hungary was daily
becoming more alarming.
Tho upper house off the Hungarian Diet adopted
by acclamation M. B«ak’s address*.
INDIA.
The Bombay maikof July 13 bc& been received.
The Calcutta mail »f July o, Sh&ogb* o lo June 19,
and Melbourne to .June 25. had been telegraphed,
and was due in England on the 15th.
Heavy rains woe taking p&ace all over India,
and there were complaints *£ damage to the in
digo.
TURKEY.
Omar Pasha kftfi bOCP ordwicd to act against the
Montenegrins,
Tho fall of the Minister of Finance was expected.
CHINA.
Tho United States steamer Hartford had re
turned to Hong Kong. Officer Lanly had organized
tho expedition up the Yangtse, and made ar
rangements with the Nankin rebels for tho protec
tion &£ American property. The and
Da cot oh were also, at Hong Kong. The JoA»
Adams was at Suato-w.
The first toas from Hankow had reached Strong
bae. The rates fbr tho new teas at Foochow con
tinued extreme, and were relatively much inferior
to the previous crop.
The resolution of tho British Government rela
tive to privateers, was expected to materially re
move the objections to shipping from Indiu by Arne
tican towels,
Commercial Intelligence.
[nv tite innKJt.vr.t.]
LIVERPOOL COTTON MAKKKT, Aro. 15.—Tlie
Cotton market is inactive; tin* salee have been small.
THE LATEST—(Via Derry, Ainj. 16.)—The Kales of
tlio week amount to 4G,000 halep. wul the market Muses
quiet hut bteHdy, with a decline ot » 6 ‘ G?.l-l6d on the week,
CllieJly on the fair an<i mi-Wlim? quiiliUos. The to
PjK-r'itlator.-t to ii/iOO bale?!, and to (‘XpoflffS
5,500 halos. The pales of to-day (I’nJny) are OdtHililteil
at 10,000 hahs, inciudim; *l,OOO hales to speculators and
exporters, at the following (authorized ) quotations:
Pair. Middling.
New Orleans B%
Mobiles 8^
Uplands 8#
The stock in port amount* to 944*000 bales, including
600,000 bates of American.
UVKKPOOL BREADSTUFF* MAKKKT.—Messrs.
, I*.n'’ll/11 1 *. n ' ’ll/ 11 * ivpm t a ilerUiiv in Flunr or Ql; nah-*
ut <M. NVW UitlS B and d*-
clinod Th-.t Western Hold nt 13s: Ked Southern,
Western, 12s; White Southern, VUw
* i »oa i‘4n 1 nV‘ rK,,t waft H-*l; Yellow Mixed trero
quoted fit 30*030* Gd, ana White at 31*»33s Gil.
LIVERPOOL PROVISIONS MAKKKT.—Messrs.
Richardson, Spence, A To., Bigjand, Athyn, Co., ami
other authorities, report Roof quiet, hut steady* Pork
henry; Huron quiet; Lard very dull at 48s*59s‘ Tal
low Itjw *till a declining tendency,
LIVERPOOL PJIOW'CB MARKET—Rosin lnstead}-
nt 7b for common; Spirits of Turpentine .i u n ftt Gli .
Ashes quiet at 30.1 6d for both Pots and Peart*; Suqtu*
quiet I»ut steady ; Rice sternly : CoiTeo inactive.
LONDON M A UKETS. Messrs. Barings report
Breadsufls witli a downward tendency. Sugar steady.
Coffee linn. Tea steady. Rice Ann. Tnllow flat at 40s.
TIIK LATKST—VIA DERRY.
LONDON MONKY MAIIKKT, August lfl.—Consols
Ora qiinled at for money. The bullion in the
Bank of England has increased £287,000 during tho
week.
AMI-miCAN fSKOUnrriEft, Thui-aJay—The quota
tiuns nre ns follows;
Illinois Control Railroad per cent. disc.
3’lrie Railroad 24tfr24,i$
New York. Central 60i»7Q «
Fikijat, August IG.—Sales have been effected at the
following quotations:
Illinois Central .13# percent. diV.
Krie Railroad 24j* -
LiVKurnoi,, August IG.—Breadstuff* continue to de
cline, particularly on the supi-rior qualities,
Pitirisioiis generally nre dull.
From Louisville,
discontinuance op t;ie .southern* •letter ex-
PRESSAOF.—UKBEL RUMORS
Louisville. August 26. —Tho Adams Express
Ccinpuny having discontinued the sending of letters
to the South, thoso now received and arriving from
the North will be returned to the senders.
A flng ’was presented to-day. nt Camp f *Joc
Ilolt-** to Rousseau’s brigade, entitled the Louis
ville Legion.*’ by the citizen?, of Louisville. There
Trot? on immense concourse in attendance.
The Memphis Appeal says it Is informed that
General Lee had completely surrounded General
ftusenernna in Western Virginia, and would proba
bly capture him.
The Knoxville Register say 3: *•' Congressman
Nelson is so scared that he wont answer, and he
will have to visit Richmond again before getting all
right.’ 5
Tlio Atlanta IGn.) Confederacy insists that land
lords must reduce their rents, as business is stag
nant anil property largely depreciated.
The Richmond Dispnirh says Kanawha valley is
worth a military expedition, ou account of its salt
alone.
The Mobile Register, of the 23d, strongly urges,
that tho South should not let the bonds of the new
Confederacy sink below par in any part of tho
Southern Confederacy, and asks tho Mobile mer
chants to take them at par as a duty.
Tho Richmond correspondent of the Memphis
Appeal says that French agents were in that city
buying tobacco, and that this fact is significant of
the future purposes of the French Government.
Bossenu's brigade, which had boon ordered to
repair to St. Louis. has received a counter order,
and will remain at Camp Joe Holt for the present.
From Fortress Monroe.
Fortress Monroe, Aug. 25, via Baltimore.—
The formidable preparations for some time making
here for a naval expedition are about completed,
but, notwithstanding tho rumors that prevail, its
destination is a profound secret.
Lieutenant Crosby returned last night from his
third expedition to the eastern shores of Virginia.
He went off Tangier Sound and brought back a
prize schooner.
General Wool spent part of to-day at Newport
News.
Brigadier General Phelps will probably remain
in command of that post.
The Confederates will hereafter find it very diffi
cult to communicate with Fortress Monroe by means
of spies. No person is allowed to visit Camp Hamil
ton without a special pass from the commanding
general or provost marshal.
A slight difficulty occurred yesterday between one
of the released rebel prisoners and a volunteer offi
cer. The rebel captain refused the loyal officer a
light for his cigar, on the ground that he did not
consider our volunteer officers gentlemon. His de
fenceless situation alone saved him from punish
ment for the insult.
The Honduras steamer Eso/er, from New York,
and intended to run between Truxilla and Havana,
has put into the Hoads for a harbor.
Murder of .Union Men in Kentucky.
Cincinnati, August 26. —A Union man named
Moore was killed and another named Neil was mor
tally wounded on Sunday afternoon by a gang of
five Secessionists, at Shotwell Toll Gate. Kentucky,
seven miles from Covington. Both men were
stubbed in tho back. A party of Union men ha ve
gone in pursuii of the murderers, who-have fled to
wards the Tennessee line.
A Secessionist Receives Notice to Quit,
Scranton, Pa., Aug. 26. —Wm. Halsey, hailing
from Ithaca, was compelled to leave the town to-day
or accept the alternative of being rode out on a
rail, lie had endeavored to induce parties to
take the New York I)ay Pooh and Uttered tile
rankest treason.
The Privateer Jeff Davis.
New York, Aug. 26.— The brig Atm Lovett , at
Yarmouth, Nova Scolin, was boarded on the 9th
inst., in lat. 29 deg. 45 min., long. 07 deg., by the
Privateer Jeff Duvis, but released after a brief
examination of her papers.
The U. S. Gunboat K* 3J. Forbes.
Bostox, Aug. 20.— The United State? gunboat li.
B. Forbes sailed lust evening for the Potomac.
Naval Adairs,
New York, August 20.—The United States sloop
of-wior Vandal ia was spoken on the 15th, off Port
Royal.
The Stcaiuer City of Washington off
Cape Race.
St. Jojixs. N. F.j Aug. 24.—The stenmer City
of Washington passed Cape Race on Friday af
ternoon.
[The advices by the City of Washington have
been anticipated by the later dates brought by the
Hibernian from Father Point.]
New York Rank Statement.
New York, August 20. —The bank statement for
the week ending on'Saturday'shows—
Increase of loans.
PciTt’SiSl* of jipeciu
PmctLso of cimdutiiui
liicriMisc of deposits 2G,40i»,999
The large increase in loans aml deposits arc the
result of tho Government negotiation.
Refunding the State Expenditures,
New Yoiik. Aug. 26. —The Evening. Post
states that the Government has refunded to Illinois
40 per cent, of tho expenditure of the State in fit
ting out volunteers, which gives the State $1,100,-
009.
AiTtlir# in ami arouml Washington.
(From the IVashhiston Star of last evenliig.]
AX ALARM.
About 11 o'clock A. M. yesterday, a countryman
came into one of the camps on the other side of the
river, aud spread a report alleging the approach of
Beauregard's army in considerable force. The
troops there were very generally turned out and
prepared to receive the enemy, and information
was promptly sent-.to''.headquarters here ; resulting
in the instant summoning of all officers to their
posts who were at church, or elsewhere not imme
diately with their respective commands. Tho oc
currence is worthy of notice, in so far as it demon
strated the great improvement in the condition of
the army on this side of the Potomac that has lately
been achieved. A month ago, four times the num
ber of officer?, in proportion to the force now here,
would have boon found absent from 1110 if posts, And
it would have been found impossible to hunt them
up speedily. Now, however*, no officer loaves his
post except with written “ leave/* and after taking
due care to leave directions where he is to be found
instantly, if required*
A .MARK’S NE9T.
On Saturday last a train of one hundred and two
wagons loaded wsth tents (that hwl never been un
baled) reached this city, from the column of Mnj.
Gen. Banks. Their appenrunoc on Pennsylvania
avenue gave ri«* to stories representing the army of
Gen. B. «s being in full and hasty retreat on Wash
ington! Secessionist?, of course, started them, and
glftly rolled them over their tongues to all who
would listen to them.
The truth is, there* had been forwarded to Gen.
Banks a large surphis-of tents, which had never
been-used, and they were accordingly forwarded
by him to this point. That'* all there is in the «p
penrancc of the largo baggage train from the upper
Potomac on Pennsylvania avenue on Saturday last.
MORE PICKET' (ICARUS . MUIIPEP.ED-.
Ne.vr Bailey’s <?ross Roads, Alexandria
county, Vn.s Aug. 26 —I hear that two members of
a rojniuont were killed (shot) last
niglit while doing picket duty on the Lou.loiiti and
Hampshire Railroad, -about a mile frum Bailey‘s
Cross Roads, towards Alexandria. I have not. yet
learned-.their names, and have barely time to notify
you by this opportunity of their murder.
A MOVEMENT OF TUB KSHT
It is *3 longer to bo doubted Hint tho gradual
concentration of troops in and about Lecsfenrg
grows out of the withdrawal of almost the entire
force of Beauregard and Johnson from points higher
up the river. In all, the force at Leesburg on
Thursday last was probably in tho neighborhood of
12.000 sarong. The movement of/Ho column of
Gen. Basks, down to the month of, the Monoency,
seems to ha vo been.tho natural result of this change
in the petition of the opposing force.
OF A t-HAI'I.A.I.V
Rev. Jno..M. Gwcn, chaplain o£ the Tenth Penn*
sylvania Regiment. (Col. McCalvert,) was arrested
on Satuiday’by Detectives Allen and Rusher, at tho
instance off Mr- Clephano, tho- city postmaster.
The reverend'gentleman acted. it sooms, us postmas
ter of IBp regiment, and is charged with opening
letters, a ad abstracting money belonging to mem
bers of the regiment, and other persons. Ho had
the confidence and respect cl the entire regiment,
and they were astounded at his arrest, lie is a
minister of suren years standing, ami has a wife
and twd children at his homo in Pennsylvania. lie
was, after examination loforo Justice-Bonn,. com
mitted to jail.
The officer; it seems. In following the clue to ob
tain evidence sufficient io justify Mr.. Green’s arrest,
permitted him to get life mail Saturday at the Wash-
Mgtoji office, then fulHwcd and arrested fc&n on tho
Tennallytown road from Georgetown, He was
placed in custody of Officer Rusher, while Postmas
ter Clephane and Officer Allen proceeded to the camp
of tho regiment, near Tonnnltytown, and mado a
search of tho trunks of tho prisoner. Tho prisoner
denied having any letters tin his person, but upon
being searched 3ome were found directed to other
regiments than tho Tenth. also directed to
other regiments wero f<m«d in hi- 1 ? mail bag; and
others opened wero ibuml i» bis trunks at the
enmp. , . ,
He was brought to Washington and earned to the
county jail, ho* waiving an examination until ho
could obtain counsel, but Justtco Donn, tho exa
mining magistrate, requiring ovidoneo sufficient to
commit. Postmaster Clephano testified that tho
mails of tho Tonth Pennsylvania Regiment wore
regularlv given to tho prisoner; the mtui being
missed, Mr. Green wns watched, and some enve
lopes of letters were found iu a privy in George
town, where the prisoner had been on his way t»
the camp of his regiment. Some of them were di
rected to other regiments There is an amount ef
money missing, how much is not ascertained.
ARRESTS IN OEOROKTOWN.
Wchear that J. >Y. Nankins, of Georgetown,
was arrested on Saturday for disloyalty; and Mr.
J. Grimes, a merchant of that city, yesterday, oa
the same charge.
tug oath of Ar.uEnrANCB.
The oath of allegiance will bo administered to till
hired men in tho quartermaster's department to
day. It is rumored that quite a number wilt re
fuso to take ‘ it, particularly the Baltimoreans,
nmongst whom are some who it is suspected took
part in the 19th of April riot.
Col. John Piekell, a West Point graduate, lias
been appointed colonel of the Now York Thirteenth
regiment.
Several Alexandrians are in town who have not
been able to return home, for the reason that they
cannot get any one to vouoh for them, and in con
sequence aro unablo to obtain passes. Some of
these sworo roundly a day or two since that they
would not take any oath, thoy would stay hero till
dooins-day first; but the same parties aro nows*
anxious to get buck to old Virginia’s shore that
they will take the oath readily, but that, it seems,
is not sufficient.
THE CITY.
The History of a Traitor.
Yesterday morning’s telegraph gave the names of
five commissioned officers who threw up their posi
tions in the navy of the United States when the
frigate Congress arrived at the Boston navy yard.
The first name was that of Captain Robert Tonsil!,
whose history is fnmilinr with many residents of
Philadelphia, to whom the tidings of his disloyalty
wore an evidence of the basest ingratitudo towarl
a country which made nnd maintained him, From
a citizen acquainted with the singular career of
this man we obtained tho following particulars of
his life and services:
Robert Tonrill was born in Prince William coun
ty, Virginia, between Manassas Junction and
Mount Vernon. Of exceedingly humble parentage,
he exhibited in boyhood such remarkable ambition
and restlessness thnt ho ran away from home at the
age of sixteen nnd enlisted iu the United States ma
lino corps. His intelligence was above thfi average
of common soldiers, nnd this, combined with ,unu
sual quickness nnd intrepidity, made him at once
the praise and the censure of the commissioned offi
cers. In a short time he was raised to the rank of
a sergeant of marines, tho highest non-commissioned,
office which can be held in the service. Hi 3 conduct
in this new position was marked by the same por
scverance and a determination which raised him
from the place of n private. In fact, his spirited
behavior brought upon him the enmity of many
scions of rank, and. on one occasion when lying iu
Hampton Roads in tho ship North Carolina, ha
was ordered to be tied up and flogged. Young
Tansill. however, seized a musket ana swore, rather
than to submit to such an indignity, to shoot down
any man who should lay hands upon him.
In 1836 his term of enlistment expired, and ha
was about to retire from the service. Commander
Ballard, who understood his talents and spirit, pre
vailed upon him to re-enlist, with the promise that ha
would Shortly obtain him a commission ia the marine
service. In 1837. accordingly, he received a second
lieutenancy, and was soon ordered away to Florida,
where he acted ns lieutenant commanding of what
was called tho I: Mosquito Squadron,” a fleet »f
small vessels that ran up the inlets and bayous along
the const to co-operate with the land forces in sub
jugating the Scminoles.
A Lieutenant McLaughlin soon took precedence
of Tansill in this service, and ho was of disposition
extremely tyrannical nnd overbearing. It was his
delight to tyrannize over the marines, and one »f
that corps, nnmed Pierrcpont, having committed
some slight offence, McLaughlin had him tied up
and flogged so unmercifully that he afterward died.
Lieutenant Tansill determined to make thi3 matter
public, which ho did through the columns of a small
paper published in St. Augusiina, Florida, For
this, among other things, charges were preferred t*
Secretary of War John Bell, and Tansill's trial
canio off at the Philadelphia Navy Yard He had
denied his signature in the paper aforesaid, and foe
this was convicted of unofficer-like conduct, nnd pre
varication, and sentenced to half-pay and suspen
sion from the marine corps for three years.
lie nt once proceeded to Virginia, svhere he mae
ried Miss Weens, the daughter of an obscure
Methodist clergyman. Ho then opened a military
school at Washington, and contrived to support
himself and family until his term of suspension had
expired. lie was reinstated during John Tyler's
Administration, and promoted to a first lieutenancy,
being immediately ordered to the Pacific, whore,
in conjunction with the land forces under Colonels
Fremont ami Kearney, he kept in check the Cali
fornians and the Mexicans, nnd assisted to secure
that large extent of territory to the Federal Go
vernment.
In 1848, he was left in command of a small fort at
Guaymas, where, in the absence of the main body
of tho army, he was attacked by an immense forca
of Mexicans and Indians, whom he gallantly re
pulsed with but little loss. For this conduct ha
was breveted a captain of marines, and shortly
afterwards given a full captaincy.
Henceforward his career wns peaceful. He par
ticipated in the Japau expedition, nnd when tha
Paraguay expedition was organized, he was mala
commander of the marine force, HU appointment
to this place was severely criticised, and the fact
thnt he was raised from a common soldier urged
against his promotion. His valor and talents were
too well known, however, to mar his prospects, and
the appointment was not altered. Latterly ho was
ordered off iu the CongrcM to tho Brazil coast, and
when the war broke out his friends were sanguine
that he at least would stand by the flag under
which he hud fought so long, nnd by the Govern
ment that had educated, protected, and raised him
to rank nnd honor. These high hopes were pros
trated when, on the arrival of the Congress til Bos
ton, his name appeared among tho first to forsako
Ills flag, find throw up liis commisaion. No greater
ingratitude this war has yet exhibited, for most ot'
those who have proved traitors and perjurers
were of wealth and note in the beginning.
But Tansill was poor, obscure, nnd on adven
turer. After thirty years of maintenance, having
grown fat upon the"charity of the Government, ho
resigned his flag when menaced and imperilled, and
basely endeavors to proffer llis services to SWOrtt
enemies nnd traitors. Sucll llfiSO llcft'OlioD, we aro
glad to see, has been promptly punished, nnl
Tansill has been arrested and confined iu Fort
Hamilton, in New York.
His brother, Grnmlison S. Tansill, was n second
sergeant in the United States Second Bragojus in
tho Florida war. afterwards a sergeant hi tho
Marino Corps under Major Twiggs, who fell nr
Chcpultepee. "Whether or not this latter Tansill
has descried his colors WO do not know, At ail
events, it is of little consequence.
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31,712
Democratic Delegate Elections,—Yes
terday the Democratic party held their delegate
elections in the city, in accordance with the follow
ing resolution adopted at n recent meeting of tho
Democratic City Executive Committee :
liesvlved, By tho Democratic City Executive
Committee, That the Democratic citizens residing
In each election division in the several wards of tho
city of Philadelphia arc recommended to meat ftt
the places provided for holding elections, on the
fourth Monday in August next, aud elect one per
son to serve ns judge, two porous to serve ns in
spectors. and three persons to serve as members of
the executive committee, in and for said election
division, for one yenr from the day of their elec
tion.
The Democratic citizens rending in each election
division shall also, nt tho same timo anil place, elect
one delegate to represent paid division in County,
one in City, one in Judicial, throe in Ward, two in
Representative, and (in the Third Senatorial Dis
trict only) one in Scnaiorial Convention. Tho
tiehets voted shall he headed on the outside re
spectively : —Officers of Election, Executive Com
mittee, County Delegate, City Dclcgato, Judicial
Delegate, Ward Delegates. Representative Dele
gates and Seualorial Delegates.
The election of all tho foregoing delegates shall
be conducted by tho officers of elections elected in
the several election divisions on the fourth Monday
of August last, or their proper successors, and shall
be held, both as to tho enrollment of voters, tho
time of opening and closing the polls, the place oi
election, tho method of organization of the severs
conventions, and. in all other respects not horeii
mentioned, ill strict conformity with the rules adopt
cd for the government of the Dcureemtic party
July 9th. IMS.
In accordance with rule twenty-second, it 1
hereby ordered that the City Delegates’ 1 shal
meet in City Convention on the Tuesday next sue
ceeding their election, at 10 o’clock A. M., at San
soin-street Fifth ward, and, after being dul.
organized, proceed to nominate candidates in thi
usual order.
Hearing op a Ski kssionist. —Yesterday, a,
noon. Samuel Eakcn, who was arrested upon the
charge of buying goods with tho intention of taking
them South, had a hearing before United State
Commissioner Hear.lett. Tlie prisoner, in a rathe
insolent manner, declined any counsel, saying i
was no use. Deputy Sharkey testified to having
arrested Eakcn in Third street, below Queen, and
on searching his house in Palmer street, found
among other articles, nn order on a Southern rail
road to pass the prisoner and such men as he chost
to take with him at the expense of the C. S. A. 11l
found two rolls of lino telegraph wire, @l,OlO in gold
box of tools, and a number of bills for goods bough
in this city.
Wm. Vnnsyckcl tvns sworn, and testified that h
worked at float's shop in Richmond; loft there oi
the fill of July last; was inspector of sewing
machines for Sloat. The prisoner worked at silver
plating in the same establishment. Mr. S. had
contract for altering 5,(W0 guns for the C, S. A
from flint to percussion locks. 110 had a man i
his employ, named Dcbow, engaged in making a
infernal machine Sloat had a contract for magic
twelve telegraph instruments for the Souther
army, lie receives a salary of §2,500 as suporin
tendent for tho Union Manufacturing Company c
Richmond. It was understood that if he succewp
in altering the 5,000 muskets within a certain titan
he was to have 30,000 more to alter. The work o
the telegraph machines was finally ahandcnedi fo
the want of fine wire—the same as found in th
possession of the prisoner,
D. R. Walker, assistant superintendent of. th
police and fire-alarm telegraph of this city, tostific
that the’wire found in tho possession of Ejikt
was tho same us used in making telegraph instri
uents.
A. B. Campbell vrns sworn, and testified that
had known the prisoner for many years. I’ivod
ago IIC told 111? lie had just returned from ltiohmo
and that bo intended to go bnck immediately,
had bought a quantity of books to take hack w
him. lie said no would rather work in the Noi
huthe had left in order to avoid starvation.
Several letters were shown from George B. §1
to the prisoner, asking him to engage certain ex
ricncert workmen to go down to Rlohmond.
Tho prisoner was committed far a further he
ing on Monday noat.
APPOINTED