(Continued fromfrst page.) there have been certified for railroad purposes, under the railroad grant acts of 1856, 1857, as fol lows To Minnesota, acres... " Michigan " Louisiana " Making in the aggregate, acres 1 021,4°3,77 No approvals were made during the quarter ending :loth September. 1891. The following is an exhibit of the Slates and the quantities of land under the several grants actually approved to each up to this date : lowa, same as instannualreport, acres...9,4 9 l,ra l fio Wisconsin, same as last annual re port, acres Minnesota, 308 871,00 acres of this approved since Int, report, acrea-• • Michigan, 462,950 acres of this ap proved since last report " ... 1,593,727,42 Florida, same as last report " 1.759,190,00 AIL: aba ma c; 1.868,275,00 Mississippi " EL cc '171,550,00 Louisiana, 76.560.45 acres of this ap pro.:Nl :in e ;set r 70 ,4 ! Peres.. .. 1 071105 15 .Mmakiog a total which has been ap proved and certified of acres 9093,497 7 77 The Commissioner is very elaborate in his dis -eussion of the question of minerals. No country on the globe can compare with this in the posses sion of mineral treasures everywhere developed as the administration of the land system advances over the broad surface of the public domain. Besides the precious metals, with quicksilver found in such abundance in California, which alone has yielded since the first gold discoveries over $600,000,000, we have regions rich in those mends in New Mexico, Nevada, Washington Territory, and Colo rado. Copper, tin, lead, anti coal, arc profusely distributed over the great valley of the Mississippi, and westward to the Pacific. In regard to the precious metals in California, New Mexico, IN - cpicla, Washington Territory. and Colorado, we have not such data as will enable this office to propose a properly guarded system by which the Government understandingly can dispose of auriferous, or of quicksilver lands, in a manner that would be just to _public and private in terests. It is, therefore, nvt now proposed to with draw them by legislation from the state of isolation from sale in which the law has placed them, or from being freely worked, as at present; yet in this trying conjuncture of public affairs, when multiplied demands upon the treasury weigh upon it with unprecedented pressure, it could not he deemed unreasonable, after the hundreds of millions of dollars allowed to be taken free of cost, if the Government should hereafter subject the product of such mines to a moderate seigniorage, which it Li believed would bear upon capital with out prejudice to the individual miner. In reference to lands embracing copper, tin, lead, iron, and coal, it is suggested that where ei ther mineral is the predominant element in the smallest legal subdivision, such tract shall be sub jected to public sale, according to the principles laid down in the acts of 1846 and 1847, with the qualifi cation that the uniform minimum shall be $2 50 per acre at the public sale ; that thereafter they shall be liable to private entry at same minimum, say for two years ; ober which they shall be liable to safe at the erdiaary minimum, but not subject to the declining process of the graduation law. In the geological reconnoissance of the late Dr. Evans in Oregon and Washington ; immense discoveries of coal fields in that region were made.. This great industrial agent is also distributed by the liberal hand of nature thee - eV:lout the gold. region. The recent discoveries of coal fields net far from San Francisco, and of that scarce and valuable metal—tin--but few mineiof the latter having been discovered, although known in the early history of man, yet which is sew found to exist in the sonth• western part of California, within thirty miles of the sea—furnish powerful incentives to capital, pro mising rich rewards to the enterprising. Instruc tions, by further legal enactment, would enable the Department to deal with these large and deli. cate interests more satisfactorily than can be done tinder existing laws. SYNOPSIS OF THE REPORT OF THE POST. MAsTIM, GENERAL. It appears that the whole number of post offices in the United Mates on the 30th of June, 1861, was 28,586 ; and that the entire number of cases acted upon during the mane peeled nits 10,638 4 including appointments made by the President of the United States. The whole number of appointments male by the Postmaster General, 0,215, and the number by the President during the same pe riod, 337. The aggregate earnings of the different transatlantic Stet - 1110ot , lines arming the year ending June 30, 1861, were 094887_61 The expenditures of the department in the fiscal year ending June 30, IE6I, :tmounted to $13,606,159 11. The expenditures were $14,874;772.39, showin# a de crease, in 1861, of 51,268,013.78. The gross revenue far the year 1861, including receipts from letter MTh:vs and front foreign postages, amounted to $8,349,296.40. The estimated deficiency of means for 1861, as present ed in the annual report front this Department, December 3, 1859, was $.5.953,424.04. Deduct the actual defi ciency, ,5,4,651,£.60.98, and there is an excess of estimated defielenty over actual deficiencies of 51,436,4b7.00, The revenue from all sources during the year 1.860, amounted to 59,218,067 43 The revenue from all sources during the year 1861, amounted to 9.019,296 40 Decrease of rorenue for 1801 The net proce,ds from post offices in the loyal States for the fiscal years ending June 10, 1860, 53,683,690.56, and in 1861, 4 53,801,487.08—5h0wing an increase in 1861, of $112,796.52. And in the disloyal States, in 1860, 5820,546.51, and In 1561, $017,100 10—thowinso decrease it. 188.1., of $142,_ 830.81. The decrease is 1861 front the net proceeds of 1860, in all the States, appears to se $30,043.29. Statement of dm receipts and expenditures of the dis loyal states, and amount alleged to !mane to contractors; also the amount actually pant to, contractors from July 1-.1/104.4e11irituA4 "`" 9,!2,4180,180 47 Total gross receipt. 1.241,220 05 Excess of expenditures over receipts $2,457,930 42 Amount alleged to I,e due to cord actors for transportatior An ouni &di:tally paid for traustortation_ Leaving amount alleged to be duo and un- $812,575 49 The estimate of the total expenditures for 1.603 is coutewhat lees than those of previous years, heretofore submitted. This difference arises from the fact that only partial estimates are tootle fur the cost of postal service in States where it i, now suspended. The Itippropriation for deficiencies in 1862 was Ss,_ 391,150.63, while the amount estimated to be requird from the 3 rem,nry, for 1563, is $3,615,000. who's number of ordinary dead letters received and examined during the year was about zooo,ctoo. The number of these letters containing money, which were registered and scot out during the year ending June 20, )S6l, was 10,580. The number or dead letters returned unopened to fo reign countries during the fiscal year was U 1,147, which, added to the number of domestic lettere (BASSO) aunt Out as above, gives the whole number cent out front the Dead Letter office for the year, 215,033. The result of successful investigation in 7,560 cases confirms the past experience of the Department that the failure of a letter to reach its destination is, in the vast majority of the fault alone of the writer or 'leader. Out of the above TAW valuable dead letters, 3,095 were directed to the wrong office, 467 were imperfectly ad dressed, 612 were directed to transient persons, 257 to parties who had changed their residences, b2l were ad dressed to fictitious persona or firms, 113 were uncalled for, 10 without any direadm 2,130 were nut mailed for want of postage clauses, 79 were mis-sent, and, for the failure of postmasters to deliver, 133 no satisfactory rea won was assigned. The Department, therefore, can math' be held responsible for the non-delivery of but 212 of these lettere. Muth other rainablo data is given on this subject, and it is worthy of remark that out of 76,i69 letters, before alluded to, originating in the loyal States, and addressed to residents of disloyal States, 40,000 could not be re turned, either because the signature of the writer was incomplete, or because the letter contained no clue to his residence. The experience of the Department allows that a large 'proportion of domestic letters, written by educated persons - , and particularly by women, are defi cient in one or both of these respects. In view of these and other facts, the Postmaster General suggests that valuable dead letters, when re turned to their owners, should be charged with treble the ordinary rate of postagei comprising one t.atk fop return transportation to the Dead Letter office, one rate for registration there, and one rate for return tran.sperta. Lion to the writers or owners. A treaty with Mexico has been concluded, awaiting the ratification by Mexico, establishing a common inter national rate of twenty-fire relate on tatters, with ether useful .trovilions. The Postmaster General has accepted the offer made in 1857 by Great ttritain, for a reduction of the inler national rate beta een the two countries from twenty-four to twelve cents, which, however, has not yet none into operation, as it awaits the response of the British office. --- • • • The above abstract presents merely a few of the points of the impsrtant report. The Postmaster General gives at length his reasons for the change of contracts for disloyalty. Not only was it umiak, he aitYs, to entrust the transportation of the mails to a person who refused or fatted to recognize the sanctity of an oath, but to continue payment of public money to the enemies of the Government and their allies was to give direct aid and eomfortto treason in arms. We could not thus permit this branch of the Government to con tribute to its own overthrow. The Poetnuterter General also gives his reasons for ex cluding disloyalpublicatiuns from the mails. To await the results of slowjudicial prosecution was to allow crime to be consummated, with the expectation of subsequent punishment, inetead of preventing its accomplishment, by prompt and direct interference. Of the cases pre sented for his action, upon the principles which he names, he has, by order, excluded from the mails twelve of these treasonable publieations of which several had been previously presented by the Grand Jury a, incen diary and hostile to constitutional authority. While the Postmaster General did not claim the autho rity to suppress any newspaper, however disloyal and treasonable its eontente, the Department could not he called upon to give them cironlation. It could not, and would not, interfere with the freedom secured by law ; but it caul,L and did, obstruct the dissemmination of that license which was without the pa'e of the consti tution and law, The mails otitaldidimd bF #lle Vititoti States Government could not, upon anyknown principlee of law or public right, be used for its destruction. As well could the tenmein carrier be required to transport a machine designed for the destruction of the vehicles con veying it, or on innkeeper be compelled to entertain a traveller whom he knew to be intouding to commit a rob bery in hie home.) , lie finds these flews supported by the high autherity of the late Chief Just' 'se Story, of the Supreme Court of the United States, Wiletn opinion he quotes. TRE QrARTERMASTER GENERAL Of the Slate of Pennsylvania acknowledgoa to hale receive{l for the Yoluldeers at Camp Curtin the following num. From tipper f trausburg and vicinity, Franklin coun ty, Mr. Wm. J.3lcClellen, 6 parrs woolen socks; Rev. Geo. R. Zaeharies, 1 pair; Swum"! Lohman, Jr., 1 pair; Mies Harriet - Grainer, 2 pairs; Mrs. Catharine Stake, 1 Pair ; Meg. Mari' Maier., I pals; Mr& Jana Keay 3 pairs; Mrs. Adaline Ramsay, 1 pair; Miss Rebecca Retrial, 1 pair ; Mrs. Smith Gullinger, 1 pair; Miss Mary Gilmore, 1 pair; Miss Eliza Whoops, Mrs. Mary Andrew, Mrs. Eliza Ramsey, Mrs. Sarah E. Carbaugh, Mrs. Catharine Cummings, Mrs. Martha A. McClellen, Mrs. Catharine Foaltz, )47. Mary Frret, Mre. Westhafer Mrs. Swan B. Logan, NrO. f!. Britton, Mrs. Mary E. Wei-t, each one pair ti.e nal socks; Mrs. Elizabeth. Ka', 2 pairs; Mrs. Mary Fora, Mrs. Catharine Winsvisst, Mrs. Leah !Urbane!, Mrs. Yount, each one pair; Miss Mar tha Patton, 3 pairs; Miss Margaret Yea, 2 pairs; Mrs_ Bum Kife, 3 pairs; r& Willanin% Ilituvr, 4 pairs; Mrs. Elizabeth een - man, 2 pairs; Mrs. Elizabeth Leh. man! 2 pairs; Miss Enbecca Rachtal, Miss Junietta .1. Ramsey, and Ni.s Caroline fligner, each one pair; 12 pairs; maim scalis and 12 pairs tine carpet mrsr-li,es. from Miss M 11 cs, ,!e. iy 1832 Spruce street, u; 10 pairs woolen racks from two lalies of German 1t.,. . fo r med songregaihm !,f fllomihersburg, And 2 blankets from a lady of rame congregation, for hospital us!!; 4 pairs srcolen rrirlia from Christian Musser, .Tint; its county; from It. I. Dr. Hay, of Harrisburg, 18 niz'ut shifts for bosw.-- - ''amp Curtin,' tismittt.ti piles woolen socks, fro-. Mrs. lower Allen township, Cnthberland County; 12 pairs woolen socks, from ;sirs. John lloopor, 3502 Locust street, Philsdolithia. Tut BODY 'IDENTIFIED. —The body of the o t -Idier i wide], arrived at the Pennsylvania Railroad di pit on itionerty, hen heeii reartgaigad as that of Patrick McLaughlin. He was a member of the McClellan (Thirty-eighth) Regiment, Colonel Wood commanding. When the regiment broke camp at Huntingdon, ne- Larghlin left jaet prerions to the striking of the tents. end wee won after found upon the ritilf9ad track in a mangled condition. Arrangements were made for the interment of the deceased at Harrisburg, and the ship ment of the body to th.s city was entirely unauthorized. The remains ate alleged to have been carried away by a Road of drunken soldiers, who resorted in consequence of an unfounded ruvrt at the breaking out of the email• pox at Camp Curtin. Officers ;we now in the city for the k nrpme ot looking up Mete deeertera. I THE CAPACITY OF THE FAIRMOUNT WATER W o n xs ,,...Th e extension to these works should have been completed two months ago ; but it has ; unfortunately been delayed by a variety of circum stances—the chief difficulty being to have the ma chinery prepared is time. A portion of it, it will be recollected, was destroyed some weeks ago by 11,6 boiler exp'adon at Messrs. L P. Morris it Co.'s works. The destroyed castings, however, have been replaced, and all the machinery is now in po• sition in the structure. 308,871,90 636,061,42 76,560,45 The erection of the roof has consequently been dethmebeell, and will bo completed in attest or two. It consists of wrought-iron girders in connection with a series of brick arches, which latter are compactly cemented together, and, having a rise of but eight or ten inches, are perfectly secure. The girders are supported by six iron columns, arranged along the centre . of the building. The channels formed at the abutments of the arches, extending north and south, are filled in with the spoils of stone 1180 d in building the walls Over the whole sur face a uniform layer of cement le :Tread, upon which a stratum of gravel it next 41eFe.iteri. Trio flag-sdates are being cut to the required shape, and as soon as they are sot the promenade will be finished. In dimensions it will be 113 feet by eighty-five, and will be surrounded by a neat mar. ble balustrade. 211,063,00 890,71p,90 . _ Much has been said of the capacity of the new works, but its real extent is comprehended by com paratively few. The old water-works have nine wheels, whose aggregate discharging capacity is 11,4)110,000 gallons per twenty-four hours. All of them are of course stopped at high tide, and during freshets. The new works have but three wheels, while their discharging capacity per twenty-four hours will teach 15,000,000 gallons. A million gallons of water make an almost in conceivable volume; and yet, we are informed by Chief Birkenbine, that at the recent burning of St. Paul's Church, in Christian street, over a million gallons of water were poured upon the thanes fifteen fire-plugs beipg open two and half hours, and thirteen steam add four hand-engines being in service. In the effort to extinguish the dames which destroyed the Craig Mills, a few weeks since, two and a quarter million gallons of water were consented, twenty•eight plugs being open three and a half hours. Hence, it may readily be perceived that there are abundant means of con suming the twenty-nine million gallons of water which are hereafter to be pumped into the Fair mount reservoir The new and handsome tower, built in the Nor man style of architecture, into which the three 30- inch mains first conduct the water, that it may be discharged into the basin, is seventy feet high, and will be surmounted by an ornamental summer house provided with MIS Or public accommoda tion. Being situated immed ately opposite the principal avenue common to the two parks, a most beautiful view of both will be obtainable from its summit. The steep declivity immediately met of the tower is being sloped, at an angle of about 45 degrees, and willbe emitted. The work of filling it in is one entailing considerable personal risk to the laborers, as it overhangs a rocky cavern per haps fifty feet deep, which alone remains to mark the site of a former quarry. The plot of ground fronting the main entrance to the tower is being graded, considerable filling in being also here re• quired. MATTHIIB AT THE NAVY YAR.D.—At the pre sent time the force of workmen "employed at our navy yard revile§ about 2,600 men. The work of building and repairing vessels is en much hurried that a number of the employees work at night time, gas having recently been introduced into the different departments. Work is also carried on on Sundays and other holidays. Orders have been received to build another vessel of the same size and model as the Juniata, and the belief is that a second one will he ordered. The Vanla/a Ia rmst Mina p'.etion, and, if her machinery is ready at the time she is finished, the vessel will be launched within seventy days after the laying of the keel. Yestrniay morning the United States flag steamship Hartford arrivcil at the powder magazine and proceeded to unload her powder preparatory to coming up to the yard. The Hartford arrived opposite New Castle on Monday night, from the Cape of Good Slope. She sailed from Boston in June, IMO, and arrived at Hong Kong in October. While there, she went up the Yang-tan kiang ricer about seven hundred miles, visiting Pekin and other cities. She left the Cape of Good lope oa the 7th of September, and had a stormy passage from Ber muda. The Har tford is aboilt 9,000 tons, and her arma ment consists of 16 9-inch Dahigren guns. Sho has bean constantly cruising about the coast of China, and while there Captain Frederic Engle was sent out to take charge of the squadron. He returned with the Hartford. The following is a complete list of her officers : Flag officer, Frederic Engle; captain, Chas, Lown des; lieutenants, 'Edward A. Barnet, Julian Myers, Richard L. Law, Alexander M. De time, W. T. Glasse% D. A. Forrest; sailing nui,fer, Edward Lea; fleet sur geon, B, li, Tinder ; passed assistant surgeon, S. F. Cowes; assistant surgeon, Ed. F. Corson ; paymaster, John D. Gibson; thug officer's secretary, Charles A. Downes; captain of marines, Addison Garland; lieu tenant of marines, Lucien L. Dawson; chief engineer, Andrew Lawton ; first assistant engineers, F. C. Dade, W. S. Stamm, Alex. Greer; third assistant engineers, W. W, Hopper. Fred. Dobbs, Sydney Albert, F. A. R. George; captain's clerk, John W. North; paymaster's clerk, Benj. F. Roberts; midshipmen, G. C. Reuney, A. S. Mackenzie, S. D. Greene, C. IL Swasey ; boatswain, John Burrows; gunner, A. F. Thompson; sailmaker, Jahn A. Birdsall; carpenter, C, Yrr, llubbitt• On the pasiage home the captain's clerk, Mr. Hail, a native of Baltimore, died. Two of the seamen fell over heard, about five days ago, and were lost. The cruise of the ship is up, and the crew will be paid off. The men are in good health s and have bad a pros perous voyage. The vessel, lareing been on a long cruise, will receive a complete overhauling. Her repairs will be commenced at once 4tl The following named officers have reported for duty on the sloop-of-war Brooklyn: Cram Rowan, lieutenant, 13. B. Lowrie; -chief engineer, Wm. B. Brooks; first as- W§totit uo, B. eiutggning sound assistant dO, Janlei Atkins, A. V. Fraiser ; third do, Jost ph Morgan, Jacob Bright, B. B. Clemens;midshipman 11. S. Grafton; master's mate, J Stafford; ; acting master's mates, Henry Bartlett, 11. C. Leslie, Allen K. Droyes; Enilmaker‘ Jacob orncerTin JTie steamer heyslone State, now undur sailing ordere: Commander, W.' Lerm ; lieutenant, L. Iloward Kawman first assistant engineer, Jesse Davis; second do., A. K. El don es, George Bennie; third do., Jas Doran, Wm. F. Wart:auto.: assistant surgeon, J. 0. Barrett; acting raymaster, 'J. S. Stinson; acting master's mates, John Mut phy, E. S. Lowe, C. A. Petit.; gunner, John G. Fos- The derdination of the Kgystene Stale is not known. She will probably sail to-day. The following-named officers have reported for duty on the steamer Mystic: Commander, L. Arnold; first lieu tenant, B. H. Farunahar; acting masters, Rolando Cof fin, Samuel D. Header, H. N. Dlackision; acting mas ter's males, G, D. Durand, Win, B. Morton, Joel* B. Swett: second assistant engineer, John B. Lowell; third do., H. F. Lovarie, G. W. Shank, John D. A. Allen, Jr. ; assistant surgeon, Wm. F. Brown. The Mystic is tarter sailing orders and will leave in a day or two. The following officers have reported themselves fur duty on the Sloop-of-war Tuscarora Commander A. 11. Craven; First Lieutenant M. F. Jones; Second Assist ant Engineers William A. Latimer, Isaac T. Finney; Third do, B. A. Delius, W. B. Habershat; Acting Master's Mates, William B. Arrants, Gideon J. Conklyn ; Master's Mates A. F. Miller, Robert E. Stevens, Hi. data Hickery, "Mph E. Stonard, D. IL Cowell. ' ;135,637 12 2,30,061 63 The gunboat Adolph Ilugel ie being COUTerted into a homb-catch. Sh« will bo ready to sail in a few' days. The work of repairing the St. Louis is being pushed ra pidly forward, and the vessel wilt be ready for sea in two weeks. Yesterday, the following additional officers reported thenrseivrs for duty : T. G. brown, as third assistant en eh..eek far the Delaware, George Riley, as al await master's mate—no vessel yeti William B. Stoddard and Sylvester Mattison, acting master's mates of the Kitta- The gunboats Tahoma, James 8. Chambers, Joseph L Darig, and Kiffatiny are exyecting to leave daily. The ilissahickon has gone to parts unknown. The fol lowing is a list of the onicersot the [laSea, which is also ready to sail: Lieutenant commanding, C. H. B. Colwell; lieuten ant Geo. Bacon; acting masters, Edmund Jones,.Amos Joburon, Albert Cook; acting master's mates, Neil Alexander, W, E. Bridge, B. 1. Caswell; semd as sistant engineer, J. H. Morrison . 'third do., John Borthwick, J. H. Benktrt, Truman Jones: acting pay master, A. J. Pritchard; assistant surgeon, Heber Smith. For duty on board the gunboat Sciota, the following named officers have reported: lieutenant, commanding, Edward Donaldson first lieutenant, H. A. Adams . ; se cond assistant engineer, C. B. Be Voila th , r&jalalgtarit engineers, A. B. Price, M. H. Quig,E. Curtis; acting master's mates, Sig. J. Hazazer, Joh IL Fields, G. C. Taylor, John Staples. ee THE BATTLE OF TUE r BILLET"--A MONT:- MENT To its L'AVOTED—Td-morrow a monument will be raised in the suburban village of Hatboro, in commemo. ration of the famous "Battle of the Billet," which was here fought. According to the biographer of Major Andre, eighty Americans were killed in action, while Colonel Davis' history of the battle - fixes the total num ber of our killed and 'wounded at *kitty-flea. Our forces were commanded by General Lacey, who willingly of fered his life on the altar of his country. With a view to the commemoration of that event, the Legislature incorporated an association, known as the Hatboro Monument Association, for the purpon or erect. ing the monument. Bnbacriptions to tno amount of *SOO were raised, and the monument at once ordered from a prominent firm of this city. It is of fine Italian marble, and twenty.six feet high. It bears suitable inscriptions and mottoes artistically lettered, and will be enclosed with a neat and handsome iron railing. The village or Matboro, we may add, is one of the meat thriving and attractive on Old York road—thanks to the fertility of its soil, and advantageous location. It contains seventy private residences, and about live hundred in habitants. There are also a number of prominent public edifices--among others, a Methodist Episcopal and Bap - Vet church, an academy, a library containing 7,000 yo. lumps, three stores, and two hotels. The far-rained Peri nypack creek skirts the village, and upon its banks stand a mmiber of flour mills, which Yorward a considerable portion of their produce to the city markets. • The ceremonies will commence at ten o'clock this morn ing, and will contest of appropri Ste addresses by well known speakers of promineece, and the diseatiego of 11K, cerlent music. The programme will cloAc with an oration by Rev. J. Bellville, at 2 o'clock P. M. An Interesting occasion it will undoubtedly prove. EXCITEMENT IN WILMINGTON—UNL .IWFUL 4Eirt: ICE OF An3t3.—Soma, exelk.eint..nit boo been skated in Wilmington by the seizure of a quantity of State arms, by a company ef regulars. Messrs. Charles M. Allmond and Janice M. Watson being the bondsmen for the arms, have forwarded the following petition to the LegislatUre Th. subscribers, citizens of Wilmington, respectfully represent, that on or about the twelfth day of February last, they gave bond to the State of Delaware in ac cordance with the provisions of its laws, for two erass . six pound cannon, with certain equipments, and fifty short range rißes and equipments. These cannon and ritteA were used by Company 11, Light Artillery, or which Charles M. Allmond was duly commissioned first Beaten-. ant), in a commodious buildingatthe corner of Front and Tatnall streets, for the purpose of drilling said company, every member of which was a loyal citizen, and most of whom had taken - the usual oath, as prescribed by the Mayor, "to sustain the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the state of Delaware, and obey the orders of the Mayor." On tie night of the 14th or morning of the 15th instant, a company ofUnited States soldiers, who we understand represented themselves to be a detachment from General Lockwood's brigade, en tered the drill room of the aforesaid building, broke open the door and window of the Armory, and took therefrom the cannon, rineS, edttiptitantg, N., as MB AS a drumand life, which drum and rife were the private property of the captain of the company. It is meet for us here to state, that if Lieutenant Rigby., who we have since understood was in command of the detachment, had produced its an order from General Lockwood, for said arms, we would havo thrown no obstacle in hi/ war, tint gl yen them up, mii:er mote, t—therrby cirwth3g ue, ,c 1 ...., gym. tiwiga ion to the State. Any resistance an hetiere would have been improper, and only increased the already un necessary and too violent excitement in the neighbor hood. .These firma became the property Of the State, by vir tu, of an act entitkal Oct making provision for arming and equipping Me tehote Lodi of the militia of the United States," paned by Congress, April 21, 1. 1 109, the third section of which reads as follow.: That alt the arum procured in virtue of this act !than be trans initttil to the several States composing thie Union, and Terrinniets theme" i 4a .e.eh State anti Territory, re. neetively, in proportion to the munber of effective militia in tacit State and Territory, owl by each State alai Tannery to be diatribetet, t Th.. 011 , !11 and Tetzitory, under such rules awl regulations as shall be by law prescribed by the Legislature of each &Me and Territory." iSee U. S. Statutes at Large, vol.;page 400.) .A few months since, as before stated, in accordance with the law of the State of Delaware, as prescribed or suggested by the act of the Federal Government, the arms in question became the property of Company B, Deinifftle Light Artillery. upon bond and security being given, in the name of the - Dtqte, by en *Ahee . of said company, for their safe return in proper order and con dition, when said company, or six mouths thereafter, shell not contain at least twenty privates, upon the order of the. Governor, and in failure thereof the onto. , giving Leed Jodi L. liable thereon. (See chapter la, Be. vier d Code.) This property, however, has been taken fr ent said comiany in the manner and by the authority cited awl, under such circumstances, simple justice to 116 seems to demand that our bond tee .1,0 State et,onli be cancelled, r.r the guns. ke , returned in its good order and conititiott its when taken. THE CITY. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, lf(1. • THE NEXT ICE CROT.---We have every rea son to anticipat/I an unusually large ice cropthis season. Observing farmers in various parts of the State predict an unusually severe winter. Their predictions are based On several premonitory omens, such as the oarly Hight of birds southward, and the eatro thickening of the corn. husks, which they assert to be infallible. The ice-dent en ate accordingly making preparations to accommodate a bountiful harvest The quantity of ice likely to be Consumed by the military hospitals of the city, however, will monopolize notch of the supply, and prices will therefore he as hiab, if hot higher than in previouq Years. A number ()four Stlbseritiors, residing in the ru ral sections, have eenseuneltillt built small ice-homes on their own premiss. The plan of construction best to pursue is firm . to set a row oi upright poets, one foot front the inner side of a building, and two rows a font apart for th,, Ales 6f the Min, the enclosure being eight or ten feet square. Cover these with rough boards or slabs, and fill the intervening space with spent tan bath. Lay do en a loose floor, and cover a foot deep with straw. When lee is formed, select that which is puro, clear. and hard cut it into piccea of such shape that it will pack thatch., anti then build it tip so that it may he - six,inclies distant7frum the sides of the structure. The space left vacant is next to be filled with sawdust. Then cover the top with sawdust to the depth of a font, and up to the reef with etraw. Packed iu title way, the ice will keep. REPotti or Tilt: Ai.c.halt delegation accompanying the remains of Terence Bellew lllcllfaims to Ireland, have returned a report of the manner in which that deity was fulfilled, to the Phi ladelphia Committee. They Di:NM:NEN: Your lelegution having finally discharg ed their trust and committed to the bosom of his native earth the relics of the martyred. exile, which constituted their sacred charge, and being about to separate., beg leave to report briefly: The ewiiahse of llfellfanus ; on nulling the shorei of his native land, were deposited in the Catholic Church of site Diocese of Cloyne, where the solemn tervice of the Catholic Church was performed by direction of the Right Rev. Doctor Keane, the Bishop of the Diocese. Your delegation have the happiness to report to yen that than the time they left the shores of America until the remains were deposited in alumevin, no Inoldent 66 curred and no word was spoken that was not in accord with the sacredness of their• trust. The utmost unanimi ty prevailed among themselves, and between them and the committees or Cork stud Dublin. They were received With Chtlifiallifill rftlYwhere, and the most fervid assn rames of sympathy were expressed to them hy delega tions from most of the cities of Ireland, as well as from some of those of nEgland and Scotland. THE NEcEserrr or A HousE or CORRECTION. —Thy prison records show that during the coldest month of the sinter season,Fehrtntry, the number cr commit ments is very perceptibly diminished, the vagrants pre ferring the better fare, warmer shelter, and more palatial appointments of the Almshouse. As soon as the weather begins to moderate they aro content to return to the prose of prison-life for variety'a sake. From April the number grethially increases until July, The necessity of still further accommodations for these shiftless creatures once more suggests the advantages of a house of correction, and it is a matter of surprise to us that such an institu tion was not established long ago. There were 1,072 pri soners received in the untried department of the County Prison during November, and 978 discharged during the same period. By a comparison of the prisms record for November with that of October, it will be seen that them was a falling off of 184 during last month; and a falling off of 812 as compared with the corresponding month of 18E0. INJUSTICE TO A 000 D OFFICER.--WC are as sured that the item in our local column yesterday, rela tive to the contract for making police overcoats, was altogether unjust, so far es the chief of police or any of his force was concerned. The °dicers of the municipal police bare been donated $5O each, in addition to their salaries, to procure uniforms. They halo submitted with ranch ram: twice to be linifottiti4l at all, and the erns ciency of the system requiring such procedure, the mayor has been compelled to insist upon a systematic and re gular enforcement of hie design. There has been no pe culation of any kind, we are informed, and, for the money, the new overcoats will he all that can be desired. We are pleased to do justice to the chief in this respect, for he has carefully abstained, since the period et his inauguration, from any complicity in pecuniary matters. PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS.—The United &ides District Court, Judge Cadwallader, was in session yek.itrioy morning, but transacted no businew of import ance. The District Court, in Banc, Judges Sharswood and Stroud, was engaged with the now trial motton list in first calling. The Court of Common Pleas, Judges Thompson and Allison, was engaged on a s'ltnilar The Court of Quarter Sessions, Judge Allison, disposed of a few prison cases of no special interost. In order to allow the Grand Jury time to provide business, and to prevent the attondanee by the petit jurors for an hour only in a day, the court diticluvruci the petit jurors until Thursday, at which time there will be business enough to licep the court going. MILITARY FUNERAL OF A FATHER AND SON. —On the 26th ult. Mr. James Milli, an esteemed member o f the First California Bogintent, died at the Itegtmentat HOSpitul, ill Maryland, in ilto 2011, year of his age. tin Sunday, the Ist inst., his father, Mr. John Mills, a mem ber of Colonel Geary's regiment, alto departed this life. Yesterday afternoon, at one the funeral of both father and son took place front their former residence, 1034 Parker st-eet, above Washington avenue. It was attradtcl the_ . relatives and friends by the In dependence Lodge, Ao. 13, A. P. A., and by members of Col. Wistar's and Geary's regiments. The interment took place at Mount Moriah Cemetery. Row IMPROVEMENTS.—ProposaIs will be received et the office of the City Commissioner until Monday neat, for the removal a£ the gherifl's Otileo to that lately occupied by the Recorder of Deeds, including such alterations as will be necessary; also, for the re moval of the office of the Court of Quarter Scissions to that now need by the Sheriff. Proposals are likewise tOlifllrd for the eolggeotent of the District Court room by the addition of the present office of the Court of Quarter Sessions. The work is required to be done in a plain and substantial manner, and, as far as Practicable, the old material will be re-employed. BOARD OF Ex.A.MINEI2.S.—The Board for the examination of applicants for admission to the bar, for December and March terms, was yesterday appointed by tLe courts, and consists of the following gentlemen of the bar : Eli E. Price, chairman; T. Alta:flout Phillips, John Mclntyre, Edwin T. Chase, Dorid Pant Brown, Jr., Ilenry J. lung, Nathan It. Shaepless, John. A. Clark, and Pierce Archer, Jr., secretary, NEW S 00T. Forfar iN• ine new public school building, which is in course of erection at West Chester, is now under roof, and presents an imposing aspect. It has two stories, each tburteea feet high, and its ground tlimonsiohi are eightg-t14.5 feet by - seventy. 'The drawings were furnished by Richard A. Gilpin, F. q. The building is to accommodate four hundred children. THE FBILADELPIIIA AND ERIE RAILROAD-- . WORK COsimsNOß D.—We learn that a corps of engineers is now in the vicinity of Buena Vista (Elk county) ready to commence operations upon the read. Colonel S. K. Lawret.ce is at the head of the corps. The work must be completes) million year from the date of contract. PICKPOCKETS Off TOE Qui VirE.—During the rash at the Academy of Music Monday evening, the pick pockets were on hand, but they were checkmated by the presence of an efficient force of detectives.. The latter succeeded iu « running off" about fourteen of the ras filiS, The Iletv cletective organization works smoothly. ST. Plart.'s Cat:amt.—Before the ashes of St. Paul's Church had ceased to smoke. the work of re• constructing the sacred edifice was commenced. The re moval of the ruins will necessarily consume much time, but no unnecemary delay will be brooked. The amount collected on Stitukty last in aid of the building fund reached *4,500. ENCLOSING THE PARADE GROUND.—The Commissioner of City Property is having the parade ground. in the First ward enclosed with a paling fence. Wooden trunks bap been Isid to portifilly tiregn the ground, and a large number of loads of dirt placed in the low portions of the ground. TELEGRAPH OFFICE REHM - ED.—The Sus quehanna River North and West Branch Telegraph ComPam' hate remitted their office front the Fachauge to the Philadelphia, Reading, and Pottsville Telegraph Office, second story of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Building, 227 South Fourth street. PAINFUL ACCIDENT.--011 Monday afternoon , a man named Arthur Daley, agai slxteyeAE, Ybgliiing in Ilnneock street, above Oxford, was run over, at Second and Oxford streets, by a member of Colonel Rush's ca valry, and severely injured. lie was conveyed to his residence. • .14tw Pammas.--During the past month there were 116 permits taken out for the erection of buildings. The number of permits in November of the previous year was 135. rouacat, AND COMMERCIAL. THE MONEY MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, December 3,1881. The expected receipt of the President's message in the course of the day had a tendency to suspend opera. tions in a measure at the first meeting of the. Stock Board today, and for some securities the prices were ra ther lower. The purcheeee of hears, who were short, and the tone of the massage, gave a slight impetus to stocks in New York, which had the effect of stiffening matters up a little, later in the day, and the market gene rally was stronger at the cloee than at the opening. in Shp money marlmi Ramo is no alteration, and aft, change can hardly be expected until we have more dect ded political results from the operatione of the war. The following is the coal tonnage of the Shamokin Talley and Pottsville Railroad Company For week ending. Nov. 33 Baum time last year Increage . . .... . . ... .1,892 10 20,828 08 Philadelphia Sleek Exchange Sales, December 3,188 L REPORTED ET S. E. SLAYMAIER I Philadelphia Exchange. FIRST BOARD 1000 renna R 2il niort 85 4ea R 2d-r4s R.___` 46% 25 Cam &Am R 120 1000 Lehigh Nav 98% 5 do 120 Jl5O do 98% 13 do 120 50 Reading R...a5 171-16' 2 do 120 50 do . . . 17 1461 1 do 120 Popa .... 87%1 10 do 120 22 Spruce rine B . $.4 0 do 190 10 N Liberty Gas.... 30 200 City Os New CA-I'. 9031 10 Western Bank.... 60 SECOND BOARD. 100 Reading R 17 1-1611000 Pa Coup ea s 5 96 50 do 17 1.101 100 Lehigh Valley... 51 50 ... .17 1-161 10 11 Liberty. Gas_ SO 100 do .171-16'25000 Glee' &Dlahog 75 , 50 d0.......17 1-16[1000 Restonville It 7s. 25 23 do._ ....„ ,b 5 171 i e 25 Race al Vine C&P 4 2000 L Island It 63.... 78 I CLOSING PRIOES—STEADY. SAC Ask. Phila 8/........83% .. Phlla 63 B 833 Phlla Bs new... 903( . Penns 53 7834 . 79 Beadingß .....17 1-16 17% Reeding Bde :70 82,,44 at R'dg M 61'80 '4B 92 92 Read MBl 'BB.. 72% 73% Penn& It 37% 37% Penns B 2dm 63 1141( 85 Morrie Cl Con.. 85 36 Norris 01 Prof.loB% Sch NAY 63'92,. 32 tch. Nay. ime Sch Nay Stock BchNav Pre!' 3 5 1 11 110 Philadelphia Markets. The Flour market is tineliangtql, the demand both for export and home use being limited; 1,000 bids Western extra sold at f 6 .62X, and a few small lots to supply the trade at from $5.37X to $5.50 for superfine, $5.62X gi3.75 for .-.tray, 05.87ge6.2.5 for family, and 80,5007 per bbl for fancy brands, as in quality. /Lye Flour is in request at $ , 4 per I.lsl, COM Me:11 i+ Mit little inquired for, and Pennsylvania is held at $2.57 15 per MIL WitgAr.—lliere it a Steady - demand and prices are well maintained, 'with sales of 9,000 bus In lots at 1340136 c for fair to good and prime WeSterll 60 Pennsylvania red, 139 c for Southern do anent, and /41ND145c for Penn- sylvatiia white, in store. Itye is in request, with sales of 1,500 bus, mostlrat 70e. Corn is firmer, with small re. ceipts and sales of old yellow at 63c afloat. New is dull, and 1;200 bus sold at 50c. Oats are unchanged ; sales of 4,000 bus at 400 for Delaware adeati 894 ElSie fdr Pennsylvania in store. Barley is in demand at me. llane.,--lst No. 1 Quercitron is in steady demand at $28.50 per ton.- Corron.—The market is firm and rather more doing 41 the WAY 066 101 . , GROCERIES AND Ptiorrstoitg.-9rateti in Itemnillenutling in either. Coffee fanning at advancod,prices. Scans.--The market is aria ; 350 bus Clover sold at 84.500 , 4.75, and 200 bus Flarseed at $1.9561.98 per bit. WHISKY is in better demand; 200 bbls @hie sold at 21c, Pennsylvania do at 20Nc, end drudge at 19)020c per Weak. Tear. Tons. Cwt. Tone. Cwt. .6,718 Q 3 220,873 14 .4,825 ra- 194,045 11 1 Beaver Meadow R 59 Ask. ON 65 10,V 9 333 E 6 .ii 57 Elmira it Prof. 9 Elmira Ta '73. 63 Long Island R. Leh Cl Nay.. 48X Leh Cl & N Scrp 33 N Penne R..... 5 If P 99114 R Be.. 5 6 N renna /Os ... 70 Catawlsea Pref. .. Frkfd & South B 36 2d & 3d eta R. 3. 46 EVine-staß 4 f t :Wt. - us • OOKS, LAW AND. MISOELL.A ADriteit .e Pine. 8 "4 5 8 1 .,4 4 B vought, SWd, 4an+3 Green et Coates 16 IT . changed, at the lIIILABELPII/4-HANK.BOOR Girard College.. 10 ; STORE, No. 419 CHESTNUT Street. Librarian at si distance purchased. Those having Books to sell, if at a distance, will state their names, Area, bindings dates, editions, prices,. and oonditione. WANTED—Books printed by gowign Franklin, as well as early Rooks printed in and upon America. Autograph Letters acd Portraits purchased. Pamphlet Laws of Pcmneyivania for sale. Cataloguea, in press, sent free. Libraries; ap. praised by ffe26-tfl JOHN CAMPBELL. Dmentuva B—Evening, YBILADELPIIIA BOARD Or TRADE. ISRAEL MORRIS, TBOS. RIMBF.R, COMMITTNII OP TIM MONTI JOSEPH C. GRUBB, LETTER BARS At the Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia Ship Brazil, Blair Liverpool, soon Ship '/.erect, McGonagle Londonderry, soon Ship Bolyhead, Cole Liverpool, soon Ship Crimea, Peabody I ivorpont, Roma Rack trims Daßelt MI Latltlayra, 110011 Bark A Itle'Neil, Somers .. Glasgow, Boon Bark Clarence, (Br) Armstrong... Belfast, Ireland, soon Bark American, Christian Barhadoex, soon. Brig Pioneer, (Br) Byron ...Belfast, Ireland, so on kick New iiiiTser, Vannemall Havana, Soon Schr Luna, (Br) Wilson. Port Spain, Triolaid, 11666 MARINE INTELLIGENCE. FORT OF PHILADELPHIA, Dry, 41/S6/, BUN RISES 7 22 I SUN SETS .4 35 MOH WATER ..419 .&1;BIN ED Vria 'Torno It. Fi clays Trnni 11 v r , inti inht to I) envlm.ll &Mr Wm ( arroll, Chipman, ft (lays from Nor Y o rk, with md:a• to 1) Cooper. Schr .1 V Waglington. Chaprami, 4 days fro n Demon, with Bale to Crowell & Sehr Maryland, Knight, 4 days from Baltimore, with mdse to Vito Horn, Woodworth k Co. Scltr Lotus, Clark, 5 days front Uhl Point, Va, in bal last to J E Sneer- Schr ElllllY ' Thompson, 7 days from Stamford, Me, With fire bricks to captain. bchr 11 Dlackma ,, , (loaly, 5 ilttsfo Win Fortress Moo, roe, in ballast to captain. Seim T P McColleY, Carter, 1 day from Camden, Del, with oats to Jas Darratt S, Son. Schr 1 - ming Awricm, Toft, 1 day from Port Deposit, 11 MI uhout to .Tae L BewleY & Co. . _ kin' Mary, Ttioliorda, 1 day from Qmmion, Del, with oata to Jug L Bowiny